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Merging Horus upgrade for Italy's Artesuono studiosNEWS
Artesuono, one of Italy's best-known facilities for recording jazz and acoustic music, has taken delivery of a Merging Technologies Horus networked audio interface.
VIDEO: A tour of Dean St. StudiosNEWS
API sister title Audio Media has uploaded a video tour of London-based Dean St. Studios to its YouTube channel.
STUDIO SPOTLIGHT: Price Studios, LondonNEWS
Our Studio Spotlight for July, in association with AllStudios, focuses on Price Studios of London.
Scrub supplies Soundminer, Pro Tools updates for MolinareNEWS
HHB's post production division, Scrub, has supplied Molinare Post Production with major upgrades to its audio dubbing theatres.
Miloco introduces Sleeper Sounds, Mushroom StudiosNEWS
Miloco has added London-based Sleeper Sound and Italy's Mushroom Studio to its roster.
Leading German broadcaster upgrades with AvidNEWS
One of Germany's top public broadcasters, Hessischer Rundfunk, has chosen to power its post-production workflow with Avid systems.
Real World Studios upgrades to Pro Tools HDX and version 11 softwareNEWS
Scrub, HHB Communications' subsidiary, has supplied top UK recording facility Real World Studios with upgrades to Avid Pro Tools HDX and version 11 software.
Medusa Recording Institute opening in Ohio next monthNEWS
The new Medusa Recording Institute in Youngstown, Ohio will open its doors to students in January with an Audient ASP8024 at its core.
French firm equips Dolby Atmos mixing stage with Meyer systemNEWS
Dubbing Brothers, a leading French post-production centre, has installed a Meyer Sound system in its newly upgraded Dolby Atmos mixing facility.
Two more London studios added to Miloco rosterNEWS
Miloco has partnered with two more UK recording facilities, Clapham-based Ilkatron Studios and Westpoint Studios in West London.
'Elysium' score recorded at Abbey Road StudiosNEWS
Avid's Pro Tools|HDX system was used to produce the score for the hit film Elysium, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and mixed at Clearstory Sound.
IBC 2013: HHB to present new radio solutions areaNEWS
HHB Communications will make several new announcements at IBC 2013, where it is exhibiting alongside TC Electronic, Dynaudio Professional and Mogami Cables.
Munro Acoustics designs Dolby Atmos studio for Luxembourg-based firmNEWS
Munro Acoustics has built a major new studio, equipped with Dolby Atmos audio system, for Philophon Post Production Studios in Luxembourg.
Mogami now "the cable of choice for pro studios," says HHBNEWS
Mogami has become a leading pro cable brand across Europe – adopted by engineers, systems integrators and musicians alike – according to UK distributor HHB.
HHB supplies audio equipment for new Essex studioNEWS
HHB Communications has provided The Backstage Centre with enough audio gear for a new "state-of-the-art" 48-channel recording studio.


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Definitions for picayuneˌpɪk iˈyun, ˌpɪk ə-
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word picayune
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pic•a•yuneˌpɪk iˈyun, ˌpɪk ə-(adj.)pic`a•yun′ish.
of little value or account; small; trifling.
Category: Informal
petty, carping, or prejudiced.
Category: Informal
(n.)(formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real.
Category: Numismatics
any small coin, as a five-cent piece.
Category: Numismatics
an insignificant person or thing.
Category: Informal
Origin of picayune:
1780–90; < Oc picaioun small copper coin
Princeton's WordNet
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial(adj)
(informal) small and of little importance
"a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit.
A five-cent piece.
Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune.
Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish;
something not worth arguing about.
an argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue at hand or does not change a primary supposition, outcome, postulate, premise, conclusion, hypothesis, judgment or recommendation;
small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.
Webster Dictionary
a small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit
A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, meaning "small coin". By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value". Aside from being used in Spanish territories, the picayune and other Spanish currency was used throughout the colonial U.S.. Spanish dollars were made legal tender in the United States by an act on February 9, 1793 until it was demonetized on February 21, 1857. The coin's name first appeared in Florida and Louisiana where its value was worth approximately six and a quarter cents, and whose name was sometimes used in place of the U.S. nickel. A newspaper published in the New Orleans market, the Times-Picayune, is named after the picayune.
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Kelly Wright donated an organ to a stranger. Now, she may be in trouble.
The telephone call that will reveal what the rest of Kelly Wright's life will become is minutes, maybe hours, away.
She waves it off.
She does not, more to the point, grasp even a smidgen of the irony of it all; of how the much-hailed donor of a kidney to a man on the other side of the continent, a man she did not know, might soon find herself in desperate need of the same kindness.
"I'm not worried. It is what it is. What am I going to do? Worry will not change anything," she said, looking away, as if she had told me her hair stylist had given her a bad permanent.
"It's a fluke, that's all."
You may remember Wright. It was in April of last year that, after posting the offer on Facebook and other social media, that she donated a kidney to a 51-year-old, Boston-area man, who was weeks from death if a donor could not be found.
She just did it. I have been over it with her too many times to count. She "just wanted to" is the best explanation I've ever received.
Now, nearly a year later, I fully understand it. It is just who Wright is, or as she once put it, she's "a big sucker" for lost causes.
Last October, I wrote about her again, this time after she plucked from the street a homeless, 84-year-old man, Don Kovach.
She got him washed, clothed, fed, housed.
She just wanted to, she told me at the time.
A few weeks later she stood at Kovach's hospital bedside with the man's family, which she also had found, and which would bury Kovach.
Without Wright, he probably would have ended up in a pauper's grave.
She is 45 years old now, a mother of two and a veterinarian who owns the Cat Clinic of Orange County in Costa Mesa.
I met her there the other afternoon. She initially thought I had come to ask her about her latest human rescue, Arthur, a 58-year-old, illiterate homeless man who at one point began living behind the Dumpster out back.
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Sauze d'Oulx Travel Guide
Sauze d'Oulx Ski Resort
- Nearest town: Cesana Torinese
- Resort Altitude (metres): 1510m
- Ski Season: December - April
- Mountain Range: The Alps
- Number of Lifts: 92
- Highest Lift (metres): 2800m
- Lowest Lift (metres): 1350m
- Number of Slopes: 146
- Snowboarding: yes
- Cross Country (km): 8km
Sauze d'Oulx Ski Information
General information
There are a number of nearby attractions to keep you busy on the days that you don't feel like hitting the slopes. A good place to start off sightseeing is the Church of St John the Baptist, which dates back to 1532 and has a beautiful Romanesque clock tower. Other sights worth checking out include the Sauze d'Oulx fountain that was built in the 16th century, and the Sant'Antonio Abate Chapel, which dates back to the 14th century.
- Languages: Croatian
- Temperatures: 4°C
- Driving: Drivers drive on the right-hand side of the road
- Emergency contact numbers: Police: 112
- Population: 1050
- Religion: 84% Roman Catholic
Apres Ski in Sauze d'Oulx is very lively with a great party atmosphere. There a a few nightclubs and many bars to choose from if you feel like having a party after a days skiing. There are also a number of excellent food that serve a wide range of cuisine, from traditional Italian to Mexican. Other activities on offer include a bowling alley; an ice rink; and a sauna and hot tub.
Sauze d'Oulx is one of the biggest resorts in the Milky Way, and has access to almost 400km of runs. The majority of the runs are best suited for intermediates, with only a few runs for beginners and experts have to do some travelling to get to some more challenging terrain. Snow boarders will have a great time with the big pistes and good off-pistes. The Apres Ski in Sauze d'Oulux is very lively, and has a great nightlife with many possibilities. This is a great place to go if you want ot party, have some fun and do some skiing.
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The Worlds Wildest Potato Chip Flavors
Its hard to imagine, but there was once a time when sour cream and onion-flavored potato chips were considered outrageous. Weve come so far in just a few years, though, as companies have released chips flavored with everything from dill pickle to chocolate marshmallow, with varying degrees of success. We rounded up some of the wildest potato chip flavors ever released.
Satisfy your salty snack craving with these crunchy chips .
By Dan Myers
Lays Natural and Cool Kiwi
Remember when kiwis were all the rage? We thought that hand cream was the farthest the hard-to-peel fruit would go, but apparently not.
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April 18th is Poem in Your Pocket Day!
By Kathryn Houk On April 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In News & Events, Outside News & Events
In celebration of National Poetry month, the Academy of American Poets is celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 18th.
HHSL is getting into the spirit with a poetry contest on our Facebook page! Here are the details:
- Post an original, 12 line or less poem (haikus are great options!) about life on the Boston Campus in response to our Facebook post before 5pm on April 18th
- Please include your email address!
- A winner will be chosen and contacted via email on Friday the 19th
- Winner gets to check out 2 overnight books from the library
- The winner will also have their poem featured on our blog and Facebook pages
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Cheap Food
Telegraph | News | Earl's heir protests at 'killer' supermarkets
The stepson of the musician Jools Holland is being prosecuted for breaching planning laws by covering the front of his inherited house with a giant banner decrying supermarkets.
Fred Lambton, the 20-year-old grandson of the former Tory minister Lord Lambton, put a banner measuring 20ft by 17ft across his three-storey Grade II listed town house in King's Road, Chelsea.
Mr Lambton, whose grandfather was a minister in Edward Heath's government until he resigned in 1973 over a sex scandal, describes himself as a full-time environmental campaigner.
He is using the banner, which reads "Boycott supermarkets. They're killing Britain", to publicise his website, ethicalnetwork.org.
Mr Lambton, the heir to the Earldom of Durham, said: "I have been learning more and more about supermarkets since I left school. They treat farmers like dirt and put independent shops out of business.
Interestingly in these celeb worshipping days that to The Telegraph being the step son of a popular musician is higher in importance than being the Heir to an Earldom..
Putting my farming hat on it is nice to know he worries about us horny handed sons of the soil and the sometimes rotten deal we get from the near monopolistic buyers of the supermarkets. But I suggest in the bigger scheme of things providing good cheap food to the millions means for the country as a whole they are doing more good than a wealthy young environmental campaigner, my guess is that if you have inherited a listed town house on the King's Road then you don't have to pick through the Value range to afford the weekly shop.
There are a lot of good reasons to "shop locally" but the initiative shouldn't be hijacked to just mean buy expensive "craft" foods directly from small organic producers.


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Vt. Senate committee zeroes in on tax changes
Updated On: Apr 23 2013 04:57:13 PM EDT
A committee of the Vermont Senate this week is continuing to plow through the details of a wide-ranging tax bill that could limit the home mortgage interest deduction for state income taxes.
But another tax break looks likely to be preserved. Senator Bob Hartwell, a Bennington County Democrat, broke a tie straw vote in the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to keep the state tax credits available to investors in the Vermont Higher Education Investment Program.
Committee Chairman Tim Ashe says he expects the committee will be looking to raise $10 million in higher taxes.
Items under consideration include a 3 percent tax on break-open betting tickets and expanding the sales tax to cover bottled water.
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Editor says, what if Harold Wilson really a spy and this disclosure destroyed the careers of the politburo? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1980, on this day Leonid Brezhnev, CPSU general secretary since 1964, died of heart failure at the age of 73; he was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who'd been chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet at the time of Brezhnev's death.
Death of Leonid BrezhnevIn Chernenko's first official act as Soviet premier the new CPSU First Secretary declared martial law in Moscow, Kiev, and Leningrad in an effort to quell the civil unrest which had been racking those cities -- and much of the rest of the Soviet Union as well --for months. But in hindsight the martial law declaration would prove to be a case of closing and locking the barn door after the horses had already run away. Demonstrations demanding political liberalization and reform would only become more frequent during Chernenko's first months as Soviet leader, and some of the more radical anti-government factions incited riots just to spite him.
A new post from the Necessary Evil Thread by Chris OakleyAnd things would only get worse for Chernenko; on the same day he officially assumed the post of CPSU general secretary East Germany and Hungary confirmed they would not be participating in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Two weeks after that announcement, the Czech ambassador in Moscow told Chernenko that Czechoslovakia was also withdrawing from the 1980 Summer Games. On the heels of this stunning decision then-U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance sent a memo to President Jimmy Carter asserting that both the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact were in the first stages of their ultimate collapse; the memo concluded with the prediction the Soviet Union would break up within the next 3-5 years.
While not entirely convinced of the validity of Vance's argument, Carter nonetheless gave the State Department the green light to begin updating its European policies to prepare for life in a post-Cold War world. He also instructed his Director of Central Intelligence, Stansfield Turner, to step up CIA surveillance activities inside the Soviet Union to look for signs of how far and how rapidly that country's internal disintegration was progressing.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Necessary Evil Source: New Statesman Magazine Labels: Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, Russia, Communism.
Editor says, what if the Union set up rules for the streadmission? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1863, the Republican Congress passed the National Reconciliation Act and Abraham Lincoln signed the same at a festive event that Friday evening.
The Scrooge Contribution Part VIThe Act set up standards by which a State could seek readmission of their Senators and Representatives to the United States Congress. In the interim until an "ironclad" oath of fidelity was recorded in favor of the Union by two-thirds of the State's residents, a Governor would be appointed by the President to act in the State's interests under close US Congressional supervision.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Pacific and Dixie Source: Wikipedia Labels: John A Macdonald, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Confederacy, Lord Palmerston.
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Editor says, what if Poland went pre-emptive in 1935 asks Stan Brin? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1935, Polish forces crossed the German frontier in Poleranian and Silesia, and reached the Oder and Neisse rivers within a week. East Prussia was occupied within four days.
War Against Hitler by Stan Brin"This is a war against Hitler", Polish radio declared, "not against Germany. We will withdraw the moment that Hitler and his henchmen are in our hands" . Ten days after the outbreak of the war, Polish troops captured Frankfurt and spread across eastern Germany, virtually unopposed. Everywhere they went, they hanged captured nazi party members. French troops stationed in the Rhineland swept into Saxony and southern Germany. French and Polish forces met at the Elbe on March 1. Two days later, Hitler, Himmler, Goering, and the rest of the nazi leadership arrived at the Swiss border seeking asylem. After threats from the French, the Swiss returned Hitler and his party to German territory.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Alternate Nations Source: Wikipedia Labels: Occult, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Barbarossa, Soviet Union.
In 1942, a TWA DC-3 passenger plane en route to Los Angeles from Indiana crashed, killing all aboard.
|Carole Lombard
At the last minute, however, the actress, a believer in numerology who had been spooked by the recurrence of the number 3 in the planned trip (she was 33, there were three in her party and the aircraft was designated Flight No. 3), agreed to let her press agent settle the matter by flipping a coin. As a result of the coin toss, Lombard returned home by train.
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On this day in 1972, the Dallas Cowboys suffered their second Super Bowl defeat in franchise history as they were blown out by the Miami Dolphins 27-3.
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On this day in 1983, the WWF held its first annual Royal Rumble PPV special at the Rosemont Horizon near Chicago. In the main event, 'Psycho' Tommy Rich won the WWF world heavyweight championship from Bob Backlund using a modified sleeper hold Rich dubbed the Straitjacket; Backlund, seriously injured both physically and psychologically during this bout, left the WWF shortly after his defeat and wouldn't compete in the ring again for more than eight years.
|Bob Backlund
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On this day in 1948, Seattle society matron Ellen Rimbauer mysteriously disappeared while walking through the gardens of the mansion that had been her home since 1909.
|Rose Red
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|US President
In 1991, Operation Desert Wind ends; Operation Desert Blaze begins, as air war is stepped up dramatically with the use of f-15 Eagle fighters against Iraqi troops inside Kuwait. The following day, Iraq will attack Israel with Scud missiles.
|Jack Kemp
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Editor says, what if MLK had been brought down by the FBI? we muse in this dystopia. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
Born on this day in Atlanta, Georgia, disgraced Civil Rights leader Michael King (his father had seriously considered changing his name in honour of German reformer Martin Luther).
FBI outs Michael KingA popular civil rights activist, he emerged as a major leadership figure during the Montgomery Riots of 1955 which were sparked by the imprisonment of forty-two year old seamstress Rosa Parks for resisting bus segregation. Thereafter he devoted his time to non-violent civil disobedience activities culminating in an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962. The law enforcement agencies hadn't pursued one individual with such unrelenting doggedness since Eliot Ness brought down Al Capone, and in a mirror image of that remarkable case, a like-mind nemesis ensnared the "criminal" in a well-laid out trap.
Of course FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knew that King was associated with the Communist Party, had indeed categorized him as "the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country" shortly after the outbreak of the Montgomery Riots. But there was another side to his charm and it was through surveillance that the discovering of his philandering, a continuous stream of his extramarital affairs with Southern belles that exposed King before he could be awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize at which point it would be too late to stop him. Ironically, John F. Kennedy, who via his brother Robert, had approved the wire-tap of King's home and private office, won the Prize for his controversial decision to withdraw US troops from Vietnam. Soon enough he figured, those troops would be needed south of the Mason-Dixon line, and so indeed it proved.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Era: Cold War Source: Wikipedia Labels: Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, America, Africa, Civil Disobedience.
Editor says, content has been re-purposed from several articles - Jeff Provine's December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks Riot Begins, Wikipedia and Huffington Post. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Napoleon had been born in the Americas? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1815, on this fateful day in New Orleans, Napoleon Bonaparte's Creole militia ran up the flag of the Republic of Louisiana as Major General Jackson's defeated army fled from the city.
American Napoleon 2
By Ed, Brian Hartman & Scott PalterThe secession was orchestrated by the incomparable British General Arthur Wellesley whose strategic goal was to force a victory in the so-called War of 1812. Of course the British had never accepted the Louisiana Purchase, and to prevent a reversion of the British protectorate, Wellesley would remain in the city to act as a quasi Governor General.
Some unusual drivers were at work. Jackson had expected Louisiana to be occupied rather than seized, but the British had lost their appetite for taking direct control of large contested American territories. Instead, they could unsettle the United States by operating through a protectorate. And Napoleon, as a US citizen, was an unlikely revolutionary. However beneath his diminutive size, the "Little Corporal" in the mostly Anglo Federal army had been overlooked for promotion on too many occasions. And so he now set about realizing his ultimate dream of become First Citizen of Louisiana, L'Emperor in all but name.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Era: Napoleonic War Source: Wikipedia Labels: New Orleans, Napoleon, America, Louisiana, France.
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Editor says, what if Gustav Streseman had lived to stop Hitler's Rise to Power (but with disasterous consequences)? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1933, the Nazi Party put in a desperately weak performance at the Lippe-Detmold state election due almost entirely to the active opposition of Gustav Streseman.
The Plot Against Germany 3Prior to his retirement on health grounds in 1929 [1], he was widely recognized as the Weimar Republic's Greatest Statesman. And he had promised to use his retirement [2] in order to prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler who he had identified as Germany's most dangerous man.
Sure enough as he had anticipated the result at Lippe-Detmold was an unmitigated electoral disaster for Hitler whose Nazi Party had been rapidly overtaken in national popularity by the Communist Party. He had hoped that a particularly strong local showing might encourage President Hindenburg to offer him the Chancellorship. But despite determined attempts to coerce the vote he had been discredited by Streseman's strong voice of reasoned authority. Instead, von Papen stayed in office until Hindenburg's death eighteen months later. This extension of Chancellorship required the signing of an emergency decree by the President which lapsed with his death. And of course the failure of the right to coalesce around a single strong authority figure was the primary reason of the election of Chancellor Ernst Thälmann. The secondary cause was the Soviet Forces threatening to invade Eastern Germany. And the third reason, was the fracture in the Nazi Party itself To be continued in Part 3.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Chancellor Ernst Thalmann Era: Dark Valley Source: Wikipedia Labels: Adolf Hitler, Nazi, Communist, Germany, Munich.
Editor says, in this article we build upon an idea from Jeff Provine and also diverge from Chris Oakley's thread Comrade Hitler: The Rise and Fall of an Infamous Marxist Icon. [1] In our timeline, he died of as stroke aged fifty-one just a week before the Wall Street Crash. [2] According to his own statements in 1929. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Gerry Ford had been assassinated in 1975? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1976, on this day Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald R. Ford (pictured).
Sentencing of Sara Jane MooreThe security forces had proven powerless to protect Ford whose luck had finally run out on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
Just seventeen days earlier Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had pointed a gun at the President, and just the day before the assassination Moore had actually been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge but was released from arrest. The police confiscated her .44 caliber pistol and 113 rounds of ammunition. And in a separate incident earlier in the year, she had been evaluated by the Secret Service who had mistakenly decided that she presented no danger to the President.
Ten months later, the new President, Nelson Rockefeller, and his Vice President George H.W. Bush narrowly won the General Election. This Republican victory was made possible by the candidate's distance from the controversial decision to pardon Richard Nixon. But soon enough Rockefeller and Bush took some deeply controversial decisions of their own, choosing to back the Shah of Iran, deciding against a full reconciliation with Saudi Arabia and also approving the introduction of National Health Insurance.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Conspiracy Theories Era: Cold War Source: Wikipedia Labels: Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Aliens, Conspiracy, War on Terror.
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Editor says, what if the Sparticists had overthrown the Weimar Republic? muses Jeff Provine on This Day in Alternate History Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1919, after a humiliating outcry condemning the use of paramilitary soldiers, President Friedrich Ebert was forced to step down and the united workers of Germany created a new, socialist government. It was another phase in what would be a tumultuous decade for what had been the proud and powerful German Empire.
Spartacist Uprising Overthrows Weimar Republic Following the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Kaiser and his generals had great hope for the winter campaigns. The people of Germany had suffered through the Turnip Winter of 1916-17, eating vegetables usually fit only for livestock. It seemed the chance to turn the war around as hundreds of thousands of troops came home from the eastern front and were re-trained with new "storm-trooper" tactics that were designed to break the trench-warfare stalemate before the American soldiers arrived. Unfortunately, the strategy failed in 1918, and Americans began pouring onto the battlefield at a rate of ten thousand a day. Amid the depressed morale of the people and soldiers, orders went out to launch the fleet for a final fight with the Royal Navy, and the sailors refused. The October mutiny spread into outright revolution, and the Kaiser abdicated along with the rest of Germany royalty, which handed control of the state over to the Social Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, the Independent Social Democratic Party (USDP) broke away from the SDP with stronger demands for worker's rights and an overall socialist state. It was joined by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) led by the "Spartacist" Karl Liebknecht, newly released from prison, and Rosa Luxemburg, whose ideals would form many of the economic policies of the party. The last chancellor of the Empire, Friedrich Ebert, held his power through popularity with the SDP and was elected president in the carefully timed elections in late 1918. For a time, the USDP worked in an uneasy alliance with the SDP, both wary of the Freikorps, a name dating back to voluntary guerilla soldiers against Napoleon and now meaning paramilitary groups made primarily of retiring soldiers who held very right-wing ideals.
When Ebert fired the Chief of Police for Berlin for not using force against strikers during the Christmas troubles, KPD and USDP began a new revolution, forming a "Revolution Committee" on January 5, 1919, that called for a general strike to show support. More than 500,000 workers in Berlin flooded the streets, and the city shut down. After the initial success, however, the Committee began to falter. No one was able to agree on whether to negotiate with Ebert or began an armed revolt to topple him. Liebknecht and other KPD members worked to gain the support of the Volksmarine who had initially begun revolution the October before as well as the army regiments. Most of the soldiers, however, had either given up their posts or sworn loyalties to the present government.
Seeing the failure to bring real soldiers onto their side and the meager arms taken up by the workers that would have been soundly defeated if Ebert's government cracked down, a new plan was determined. Just as the KPD and USDP were about to break their Committee on January 8, a flyer was discovered telling that Ebert had made a call for the Freikorps to "take revenge" on the leftists that had lost the war for them. Outrage was shared among the leaders, and Luxemburg suggested the outrage could be spread to the rest of the country. Using expert propaganda as had been perfected over the course of the Great War, the workers were persuaded to put away their weapons and Ebert was portrayed as a backstabber who called up brutes while promising to meet for deliberations (an image of the French turning away the 1916 German offer of armistice just before the bloody Battle of Verdun). When the Freikorps attacked on January 12, the workers refused to fight back and were easily defeated. However, as propaganda of the atrocities by the paramilitary flooded the country, outrage turned public support to the socialists. Freikorps members were pelted with clods of earth in the streets, symbolizing their loss of ground during the fighting, and Ebert was blamed for the deaths of over 100 workers as the strike continued.
Under public pressure, Ebert and his government left Berlin and new elections were held. The united USDP and KPD won overwhelmingly, and their representatives attended the Treaty of Versailles that summer. The resulting treaty would be viewed with great suspicion by the Americans, whose Senate soundly rejected it, and the Germans took it as a solid display that the communists had sold out their country. The Allied blockade had stood for months after the armistice, and more Germans than ever had died of malnutrition, which was also blamed on the communists. While France rested on its laurels, Americans fearful of the expansion of communism called for occupation of Germany to settle the matter there as only a Red Scare could overcome the sense of non-interventionism.
When the Socialist government collapsed in March of 1920 in yet another wave of revolution under Kapp and Lüttwitz, a coalition army marched into Germany aiding the institutions established by and the return of a limited monarchy under Wilhelm III (who famously declared the War "the most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of modern times" as Crown Prince). The international soldiers were begrudgingly hosted as they kept the peace and supported the flow of aid, particularly money under the Dawes Plan of 1921, which not only stymied potential hyperinflation with capital investment but also tied together the two nations' economies and political theories. After the Great Crash, the monarchy and its vibrant Chancellor Adolph Hitler were blamed for mismanagement, and Germany fell into a civil war that would later return the Republic.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Jeff Provine Blog Era: Dark Valley Source: Jeff Provine's Blog Labels: Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert, Sparticist, Kaiser, Germany.
Editor says, in reality there was no plan to oust Ebert peacefully. The workers attempted to fight the Freikorps only briefly before surrender. In 1920, Ebert would use the workers? general strike to thwart the Kapp Putsch, and the Weimar Republic would continue through foreign aid until the Great Depression brought on hopes of genuine prosperity through fascism. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if (triple POD) Henry VIII had been killed in his jousting accident while still married to his first wife Catherine of Aragon because son Henry Junior had survived childhood? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1536, on this day the forty-four year old King of England, Henry VIII was killed in a jousting accident at Greenwich Palace.
Defender of the Faith
By Ed & Scott PalterTudor, in full armour, was thrown from his horse, itself armoured, which then directly fell on top of him.
At the appex of his powers, a great "Defender of the Faith" had been taken from Catholic England. And the unfortunate timing of this appalling tragedy meant that his sickly twenty-five year old son, Prince Henry, Duke of Cornwall would prematurely inherit a divided nation locked in a schismatic power struggle with the Protestant faction.
Lacking his father's huge popularity in the country, he was quite unable to exercise anything like the same vice-like grip over this struggle - even on his own court. With the country disintegrating fast, he desperately needed the support of a willing Catholic ally.
Enter Philip II, King of Spain, who agreed to marry Henry IX's thirty-seven year old sister Mary in 1544. The forging of this alliance required a grand bargain that would ultimately cause a long-term, global shift of alignment of the Great Powers. For his wars against the France, and to save a huge cost to His Majesty's Treasury, Britain willingly agreed to cede Calais to Philip. But this trade-off was not quite enough, and Spain insisted on a deal-breaker. With Henry's support, Philip claimed all of the Americas except Brazil, bar Canada which the English now began to settle by lawful possession.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Generals Era: 10th to 16th Centuries Source: Wikipedia Labels: Henry VIII, Tudor, Jousting, Greenwich Palace, Premature Death.
Editor says, in this post we change a single POD on the Discussion BoardsWhat if Henry VIII of England had died after falling from his horse in January 1536 into a double POD (the continued marriage to Catherine is justified by the survival of their son Henry). In reality Henry VIII survived the accident but was fundamentally changed by the serious injuries he endured. The Independent newspaper reports ~ He became estranged from the second of his six wives, Anne Boleyn - the king, once sporty and generous, became cruel, vicious and paranoid, his subjects began talking about him in a new way, and the turnover of his wives speeded up. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, in Robbie Taylor's most excellent novella "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" neo-Nazis in 1968 travel back through time to create the enemy they had always imagined. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1919, on this day the ring leaders of the Spartacist uprising Rosa Luxemburg (pictured) and Karl Liebknecht were taken into custody by Captain Waldemar Pabst the Commander of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision in Berlin.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Prison BreakForced into using a brutal paramilitary organisation in order to crush the left-wing revolution Social Democratic leader Friedrich Ebert was fully aware that he had issued the Freikorps Officers with a death warrant.
Following a brief but extremely violent episode of questioning by Kapitänleutnant Horst von Pflugk-Harttung, Pabst issued his own orders for the ring-leaders to be executed and then thrown into the Landwehr Canal by Lieutenant Hermann Souchon.
But destiny played an unexpected hand when Souchon and his subordinate Otto Runge were over-powered by mysterious assailents who were able to pull off a remarkably daring prison break. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were awoken by Astrid Pflaume who explained that their rescuers were members of the Greater Zionist Resistance.
It turned out that the leader of the GZR had some radically different ideas about the direction of post-war Europe, and before nightfall, Luxemburg had shaken her long-standing conviction that the national development of capitalism would automatically resolve all national questions.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Protocols Era: Dark Valley Source: Wikipedia Labels: Rosa Luxemberg, New Reich, Greater Zionist Resistance, African-Semitic Resistance, Karl Liebknecht.
Editor says, Wikipedia reports ~ in response to the uprising, Social Democratic leader Friedrich Ebert ordered the Freikorps to destroy the left-wing revolution. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were captured in Berlin on 15 January 1919 by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision. Its commander, Captain Waldemar Pabst (1880-1970), along with Horst von Pflugk-Harttung questioned them violently and then gave the order to execute them. Luxemburg was knocked down with a rifle butt by Otto Runge (1875-1945), then shot in the head by lieutenant Hermann Souchon (1894-1982); her body was flung into Berlin's Landwehr Canal. In the Tiergarten Karl Liebknecht was shot and his body, without a name, brought to a morgue.
Extracts from "The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg" edited by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis, and Annelies Laschitza and translated by George Shriver (Verso, 2011) Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Otto Kahn had funded Robert H. Goddard's research on reaching extreme altitudes? muses Thomas Wm. Hamilton on the Changing the Times web site. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1920, on this day the New York Times congratulated Robert H. Goddard (pictured) and the Smithsonian on the successful research, but gently reproves Goddard for thinking too small in suggesting hitting the Moon with blasting powder..
AD ASTRA by Thomas Wm. HamiltonAs World War I raged in Europe for three years, the United States was quietly taking steps to prepare itself for entry into the war, despite Woodrow Wilson's running on a slogan of "He Kept Us Out Of It". One of these preparations involved trying to learn more about the meteorology of that portion of the atmosphere used by the primitive airplanes of the day-roughly 3000 to 6000 feet. The Smithsonian Institution had a War Department contract for this research, carefully disguised. The Smithsonian subcontracted with Robert H. Goddard.
Robert Goddard was a professor of engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Long interested in space travel from having read Jules Verne as a child, Goodard built and tested rockets from near his home. The Smithsonian's contract paid for developing rockets which would carry meteorological equipment, to be recovered and provide the desired atmospheric measurements.
One clause of the contract, enthusiastically supported by Goddard, had the Smithsonian paying to publish a report of Goddard's work and findings a year after the war ended. Thus it was in November 1919, a 68 page pamphlet written by Goddard was issued by the Smithsonian, under the title "On A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes".
Most of the pamphlet was taken up with a description of the rockets (all solid fuel), equipment, and discoveries. However, on the next to last page an eight line paragraph mentioned that if the rocket fired long enough and hard enough, it could reach the Moon, and if the meteorological equipment were replaced by blasting powder, anyone looking at the Moon at the moment of arrival would see a flash of light.
The New York Times apparently got hold of a copy of the pamphlet, and in January published a short piece on its editorial page denouncing both Goddard and the Smithsonian for being ignorant of the facts "ladled out in our schools every day", that space is empty, and therefore rockets can't work outside the atmosphere because they have nothing to push against. (To be fair to the Times, they did retract this drivelling nonsense--on July 21, 1969.)
But what if the editorial writer were not a fool? The editorial actually hurt Goddard, in that it discouraged future funding to some extent. Goddard was not stopped: he went on the invent the first liquid fueled rocket on 1926, and the bazooka in time for use in World War 2. He died of cancer as the war ended, but his widow over twenty years later won a patent infringement law suit against the government for rocket design features in the Atlas and other rockets, getting a settlement of millions of dollars. But better funding might have had an impact.
A republished story from Thomas Wm. HamiltonJanuary 1920: The NY Times congratulates Goddard and the Smithsonian on the successful research, but gently reproves Goddard for thinking too small in suggesting hitting the Moon with blasting powder. "The French have their Mr. Verne sending his countrymen to the Moon, and our British cousins have Mr. Wells sending adventurers there. Perhaps it would not have been amiss for Prof. Goddard to have suggested, in the brief mention in his monograph, the possibility of Americans someday raising the stars and stripes on our celestial neighbor".
March 1920: Inspired by the Times' editorial, Henry Ford and Otto Herman Kahn separately contact Goddard and inquire as to his future plans. Goddard explains he can no longer static test or launch rockets anywhere near his home in Worcester due to complaints by neighbors and the fire department, but plans to do his work from property his wife recently inherited at White Sands, New Mexico. Travel related expenses will of course slow his work.
May 1920: Ford, a noted anti-semite, offers to fund all Goddard's travel expenses, but will not co-operate in any way with anything Kahn proposes. Kahn quietly suggests to Goddard that he will fund engineering research in return for recognition if Goddard is successful.
August 1924: Moving ahead at a good rate, Goddard successfully launches the world's first liquid fueled rocket at White Sands, using a suggestion from Kahn that fuel from on board storage cool the feed lines into the burning chamber. Ford is so offended that he drops all support of Goddard, who switches to driving an Oldsmobile. They later use the association in their advertising with references to their cars as "rocket 24".
September 1932: Despite Kahn's death, and the Great Depression, Goddard has put together enough money to build the first manned rocket. It flies eight miles, and the pilot actually survives.
Feb. 1937: The Army Air Corps begins building rocket planes.
Dec. 7, 1941: The Japanese Imperial Navy assault on Pearl Harbor begins at 7:50 AM. By 8:40 AM, American rocket plans from Inyoken Army Air Base in southern California arrive and within twenty minutes the entire Japaese fleet is sunk. The following day most of Tokyo is flattened by rocket bombs. Japan surrenders unconditionally on January 1, 1942.
January 2, 1942: United States orders the Third Reich to cease all military operations. Hitler makes three hour speech with spittle dripping from his mouth, referring to President Roosevelt as "Rosenstein", Americans as '"juedische schweinhunden", and rockets as Jewish-subhuman terror weapons. He orders everyone in Germany working on rocket weapons shot as Jewish spies and traitors. Two days later Berlin, Dresden, and Frankfurt are flattened.
July 4, 1945: Goddard, although suffering from cancer, lands the first manned rocket on the Moon. He quotes from a New York Times editorial of a quarter century earlier as he raises the stars and stripes.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Jeff Provine Blog Source: Changing the Times Labels: Otto Kahn , Robert H. Goddard, Space Travel, Extreme Altitudes, NASA.
Editor says, what if Hillary Clinton had won in 2008? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 2009, disregarding his qualifications, experience or expertise for the role of Attorney General, the Senate Judiciary Committee raised a series of probing questions about the nominee's personal relationship with the President-elect Mrs Hillary Clinton at the confirmation hearings for Vincent Walker Foster, Jr held on this day in Washington, DC.
Vast right-wing Conspiracy, ReduxAs a principal of the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, Foster had overcome the reluctance of other partners to hire a woman by appointing Hillary Rodham in 1974. A close working relationship would develop causing Clinton to describe Foster as "one of the best lawyers I've ever known", comparing him in style and substance to Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch role in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
In 1992, Foster was persuaded to join the Clinton Administration receiving the appointment of Deputy White House counsel. As he had feared, the move from Arkansas to Washington was an unhappy one. And on July 20th, the critical event occured which was now endangering his appointment as Attorney General. Because members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had been informed that Foster attempted suicide because Hillary tried to break off her alleged affair with him.
This charge was dismissed by Clinton as the unmistakeable return of the right-wing conspiracy that had troubled her husband's two terms in office.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Alternate Nations Era: Post Coldwar Source: Wikipedia Labels: Vincent Foster, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Presidency.
Editor says, what if the shock ending to the Book of Eli was leaked during production and an alternative ending had to be shot? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 2010, the Hughes' brother's post-apocalyptic movie "The Book of Eli" premiered in cinemas across North America. Set in the year 2043, Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actor Denzel Washington stars as the mysterious travelling crossing America with the last iPod and only copy of the Bible to have survived an apocalyptic event which took place some thirty years earlier.
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The Book of Eli premieresIn the original screen play, Eli meets the archetypal "devil in the desert" who seeks the use the "Book of Eli" as a weapon to expand his power base out of the one horse town he runs as Mayor. Carnegie, played by Gary Oldman, succeeds in shooting Eli and seizing the Bible, only to discover it is written in brail and Eli is in fact blind. Nevertheless, Eli manages to reach his sanctuary, where he dictates the Bible to a printer played by Malcolm McDowell, thus enabling the scriptures to be recovered for another generation.
Trouble was that the final scene was leaked during post production and an alternative ending filmed, in which Eli actually dies, but McDowell finds the Bible stored as an audio book on his iPod.
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Editor says, The possibility of this ATL will clearly trouble some readers. Therefore I am putting the metajustification in one place at the beginning instead of scattered through the text. Historically Hitler had a complete breakdown after the three armies outside Berlin disobeyed his orders to commit suicide by fighting their way back into the doomed city instead of cutting their way to the American lines and relative freedom. I simply move this event from late April 1945 to mid January. I make the precipitating events the failure in the Ardennes coupled with the collapse of the Vistula front before the legions on Zhukov and Konev. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1945, Goring was historically worse than useless through this period. Dissipation from drugs, excess weight and sheer funk made him just another toady in a Red Queen's court of utter loons. However, between his capture in May of 1945 and his trial at Nuremberg, he lost the excess weight, kicked his drug habits and snapped out of his funk. Alone among the major defendants, he was lucid and unrepentant. I have moved the trigger event from his capture to the July Plot of 1944. He is the least unlikely of the inner circle to make into a responsible leader.
To the Lair of The Fascist Beast by Scott PalterFinally, I take the Goebbels' myth of the National Redoubt and move it from its absurd alpine locale to the correct place for a true twilight of the gods, Fortress Berlin.
Our first historical change is that Goring sees and responds to the handwriting on the wall after the failure of the July Bomb Plot. Historically none of the Nazi leaders or senior generals realistically faced up to the mess they had created. They simply refused to deal with a situation where they couldn't win and also couldn't hope for negotiations that would leave them with some gains, some power or even their lives. To make this work we will have Goring face reality. He will need most of the remainder of 1944 to recover his health and some measure of influence. So by mid-January he has recovered equality with Bormann, Himmler, and Goebbels at Hitler's Court. He has diligently worked at mobilizing Air Force manpower for the final battles. He has not thrown away the last air units in a suicide offensive against the Americans, Operation Bodenplatt.
His analysis of the situation for Germany and the Nazis will be ultra realistic:
1. The war is lost. There will be no miracle of the House of Brandenburg. The only questions are how fast Germany falls. The difference will be measured in months, not years. Germany may live past May 8,1945. Germany will not live into 1946.
2. The Nazi leadership will all die. There will be no last minute deals. The only question is the legend they will leave behind.
3. The only outside chance of negotiations does not lie with the West. Regardless of how much Germany batters the West, they will not leave the war at this late stage. However, there is an outside remote chance to play on Stalin's paranoia by appearing to have done a deal with the West. Stalin dealt with the Nazis once. If faced with a tacit Nazi - Western Alliance it is vaguely possible he may deal again. If not it is better for the image to go down defending Europe from godless Tartar - Jewish Bolshevism.
Goring sees Hitler collapse on being informed of the Russian breakouts across the Vistula. He has been reestablishing his contacts among the Berlin Gestapo which he helped create in 1933. He has gained access to their extensive wiretaps by using his authority as Deputy Fuhrer to get passes for Berlin Gestapo families to be relocated to safe small towns in South Germany. He goes to Himmler and Goebbels with proof of Bormann's plots. In 24 hours a 2nd Night of the long Knives is organized. Bormann, Fegelein, Kaltnbrunner and the bulk of the Gauleiters are rounded up. Hitler's physicians are replaced by new ones from the Air Force who take him off the insane program of quack remedies and amphetamines he was on, giving him vitamins and tranquilizers instead. He is given faked evidence of a plot by Bormann to sell him to the allies. The new junta takes over in his place, leaving the sedated Fuhrer to contemplate his final testament and collaborate with Goebbels on propaganda speeches. A good double is retained for public appearances at briefings and public meetings around Berlin. The split of powers is as follows.
1. Goebbels gets custody of the Fuhrer and control over the actual Bunker. He can compose the final speeches and be with his Fuhrer.
2. Himmler is made Reichsprotector of Scandinavia (occupied Denmark and Norway). He also is made Deputy Fuhrer for North Germany and Foreign Minister. Essentially he gives over command of the police and Waffen SS outside his zone in return for a fiefdom and permission to conduct negotiations with the West. He is also left with a few dozen U-Boats to flee to Argentina if all else fails.
3. Goring takes the Party Ministry from the dead Bormann. He takes control of OKH from Keitel and Jodl. He takes the job of War Minister back from Hitler. He gets the Interior Ministry from Himmler, plus command of all SS and other party paramilitaries outside Himmler's zone which is bounded at Hamburg and Kiel. He is made deputy commander-in-chief of the Army under Adolph. Essentially he gets the government, military and the war. What he does with it will be detailed below. Guderian is his military deputy as head of OKH. Speer is his civilian deputy as a deputy Chancellor.
The first problems concern the collapsing northern half of the Eastern Front.
1. Immediate orders are given for mass evacuation from Poland and Silesia back to the Oder. The priority is troops and supplies first, civilians second. Stop lines are set up on the Oder to pull all troops and all civilians capable of fighting or labor service out of the retreating treks without regard to family structure or compassion. The Oder and Berlin will be Germany's final fortress.
2. Unlike in OTL, no other cities are declared fortresses. Where garrisons are cut off they can be left to die but none are intentionally sacrificed.
3. Civilian mobilization of the Landwehr is taken out of the hands of the party and put in the hands of the SS in the East and of Speer's people in the West. There will be a final callup of everyone capable of resistance or labor.
4. Instead of massacres and treks to nowhere, the foreign POW's, forced laborers, and camp prisoners in the path of the Russians will simply be dumped unless truly capable of forced labor on arrival. In other words only healthy male East Europeans will be herded to the Oder. The rest are just a logistical burden on the advancing Russians. However a few SS special commandos will murder several tens of thousands of captured Allied airmen. They will use Russian uniforms and fire Russian bullets. They will be sure to leave survivors to spread ill will between the allies. There will be no attempt to blow up the camps or hide the evidence. The propaganda line is to glory in what was done. The Nazis had tried to cleanse Europe of the Jewish infection and the Bolshevik one as well. Why should they hide their great deed?
5. The Army and Corps HQ radio stations in the West were left intact. Even without knowing about Ultra, it was a standard ploy to move units out from under an HQ to confuse the enemy. Given the German habit of frequent rotation of formations into and out of the line, this would not arouse much comment. The West was also likely to be cautious after the twin attacks in the Ardennes and Alsace. However the staffs and troops of the Fifth Panzer Army, Sixth Panzer Army and First Parachute Armies were in fact pulled out of the line and sent to safeguard Berlin. Fifth Panzer Army gets renamed Eleventh Army. Sixth Panzer Army gets renamed Third Army. First Parachute Army gets renamed Fifth Army. By early February they will all be on the Oder.
6. The command of the Western front is given to Manstein. He is told to withdraw in stages across the Rhine abandoning the Colmar Pocket, the Rhineland, the Palatinate, the Saar, the Eiffel, and Holland. Basically his mission is to screen Ike so it looks like an Allied push instead of German flight. His divisions from the Alsace offensive and another ten halfway decent ones are sent to Hungary to replace the SS and other units sent in OTL. In its place he is given the final dregs and Landwehr plus Hitler Youth. He loses all his major armored formations, all his artillery above division level and most of his good manpower. He gets jokes like the 9th Parachute Division (Air Force service personnel with no ground training) and the 4th Marine Division (navy base personnel with no ground training) that in OTL were used to defend Berlin. He will have 100 ?divisions' and more ration strength than Rundstedt and Model did in OTL. He will not lose Remagen to a botched bridge off a retreat. He will burden Ike with some twelve million Dutch and German civilians (the old, the young, the infirm and those cunning enough to escape the press gangs) to feed. His ?front' will be hasty trenches with no combat power. Ike will be up to the Rhine by mid - end February but only Patton will have a bridgehead. There will have been no slog to the Rhine but many more useless mouths to feed. He will probably be even more cautious as it will appear to him as if he is confronting a sensible German defense of a major river instead of them pissing away a major part of their forces west of the river as they did in OTL.
7. Kesselring will similarly be told to thin out his front by 50% while preparing for a staged withdrawal to the Alps. He's to take what labor he can easily pressgang but not get tied down in protracted antipartisan operations. The Salo people can come if they want or not - no one in Berlin really cares. The line of defense is to be the Adige (South Tyrol) and the Veneto. He is also to start sending two divisions a week to Hungary.
8. Budapest is basically abandoned. There will be no more relief attempts. Model will be pulled out of the West in February to manage the withdrawal from Hungary and Croatia. The retreat on and past Vienna will go as it did historically except that the Germans will do a much better job of getting sympathetic Yugoslavs out ahead of Tito.
9. Heinrici will be given Schroner's job covering Moravia but will have his armored reserves cut in half and his supplies mostly sucked into the new Berlin fortress. If he loses a few Carpathian towns ahead of schedule who cares.
10. The Army Group in Courtland will be evacuated over a six-week period from mid-January to the end of February. The two armies will go to the lower Oder. The civilians will be dumped on Denmark and North Germany.
11. There is no way to avert the disaster of East Prussia. However every effort will be made to mitigate it. The civilians will be shuttled out until the Reds cut the lower Vistula escape route. The troops and civilians will then be sea lifted out in March. The losses will still be extreme and the atrocities by the advancing Reds innumerable. However, most of the civilians and the bulk of the Army Group will be lifted out in February and March. Add 10K more dead to the sea disasters and distribute as in 10 above.
12. Hauser will be given the Stargard operation instead of the idiot Himmler. He will have more tanks, more men, and the best SS Panzer divisions. He will put an even bigger scare in Stalin. He will shield the evacuation of the transOder region.
13. Student, Steiner, Wencks and Guderian will get the joy of preparing the Oder and Berlin defenses. Berlin will be stripped of nonessential civilians. It will have a million healthy young people digging trenches and preparing the city for a siege with extremely competent professional supervision. It will have enough home guards to man the successive lines of defense. A few veterans and a mass of pressganged kids are good enough to hold their ground and die. It will have the vast bulk of the armor, artillery and supplies remaining to Germany. The stage will be set for Armageddon.
So by the end of March Stalin will be having fits. The West will have taken most of northern Italy (up to the line Balzano - Venice) and be across the Rhine virtually everywhere, while he is fighting major battles for tiny villages in Pomerania and Moravia. He will also have taken more losses to accomplish what he did, taxing his manpower reserves even more than historically (in OTL recaptured POW's and German camp prisoners were used to boost the line strength for the final months of 1945). By slighting his more southern fronts, he will still be ready to attack by April 16th. Let the fun begin.
The Germans will have noted the preattack preparations. That night before the barrage commenced they struck. Using the carefully horded remains of Goring's Air Force and the few remaining uncaptured air bases bases wave after wave of German planes came low over the East bank of the Oder. They dropped no bombs. Instead, at tree top height they sprayed nerve gas on the 2.5 million men; 41,600 guns; and 6,250 AFV's arrayed for the attack. It was pure murder. One hundred thousand Red soldiers died. Another two hundred thousand were put out of action. Konev was seriously inconvenienced. Zhukov was stopped cold before the Seelow Heights.
Stalin ordered retaliation. Red Army war gas stocks were rushed to the front, disrupting the attack plans further by hopelessly snarling the elaborately planned logistics. The attack on Zhukov's front was suspended. The full weight of the Russian effort would be made to support Konev's breakin (it was a breakthrough in OTL but with the gas I am presuming he will be inconvenienced).
Stalin's bigger problem was what to do with his Western allies. Ike basically stops on the Elbe as in OTL. Only this time there is no effort made to defend it. Himmler has a rump army in North Germany and Denmark. Manstein with Speer sent to be his civilian deputy has a screen in front of Ike's troops from the Harz Mountains to the Upper Rhine. Stalin does NOT want to share the prize of Berlin with the West. However, practically speaking this means bleeding the Red Army while the West watches. Stalin will have heard of Himmler's approaches to the West through the Swedish Count Bernadotte. Uncle Joe was not a man who needed much to fuel his paranoia. He will pour everything he has into the one great push on Berlin.
He will meet a carefully prepared German fortress, a Kursk in reverse. A million armed men including the best the Reich had left, all its supplies and most of its heavy weapons with another million press ganged laborers who in a pinch are reserve cannon fodder. Even reinforced by half of Zhukov's armies Konev will crawl towards Berlin hemorrhaging casualties. Hausser and Guderian will trade one for one on 15 year old pressganged HJ's for Red Army frontnik's. The tradeoff against trained soldiers will be 4-1. In the end, the Red Army will grind to a halt elsewhere as 4 million of the 7 million men will be fed through the one sector. Two million will fall to seal the city by mid-May and finally uncork Zhukov. Another million will fall through the five weeks of the siege.
The German air attacks will only stop when Patton overruns their last airfields in Bohemia. Essentially the West will have ended its war the 2nd week of May when they overrun Denmark and Bohemia-Moravia. With his peace plans exposed for the joke they always were, Himmler and Doenitz will lead a caravan of higher Nazis to Argentina and exile. Once they leave Norway, the German garrison commander will surrender to the British and Swedes (who is this TL enter the war the first week of May). Trieste, Fiume and all of Slovenia will be occupied by the West.
The final Gotterdamnrung will take place in the last week of June. Across an urban hellscape of 24 hour combat from one mined and fortified ruin to the next, only with gas attacks by both sides for added horror, the final hundred thousand survivors will die defending the government district of Central Berlin. Goring will add one last atrocity. He will leave in the rubble ahead of his final line as much radiological waste as the German nuclear program was capable of creating and proudly announce it to the world. Hitler and Goebbels will die by their own hands in the Bunker. Goring will go down fighting, side by side with the Hitler double defending the bunker complex in the wreckage of the old Prussian war ministry. A final breakout commando of Russian speaking SS led by Otto Skorzeny and the Flemish SS Leader Leon Degrelle will exfiltrate the pocket with the two talismans, the recovered skulls of Goring and the man believed to have been Hitler. They will lead a few tattered survivors and the two holy icons to the last two U-Boats waiting off the Baltic Coast. The last transmitter will broadcast Hitler's Final Testament, a screed of hatred to the world coupled with a nihilistic boasting of how only the true European crusaders had the moral courage to act against the diseases that ravaged Europe. It will be a hymn to the Aryan Race, the Great PanEuropean Anti-Bolshevik Crusade and the nihilistic vigor of Nazi biological racism. It will accurately predict the coming Cold War and blame the gutless European masses and the decadent West for bringing Stalin's horrors to Europe's heart. It will scream that history will absolve and honor their memory, including their final sacrifices. The signoff will be the music of last act of Gotterdamnrung followed by the Valkerie thyme.
There is no final German surrender. Every German and allied person trapped in the fortress is killed by the enraged Russians. The remaining civilians in the Russian zones of Germany and Austria will be carted off to Siberia never to return. There will be no West Germany as Germany will never be forgiven for the final atrocities. There will be no Potsdam conference. The Cold War begins on the ruins of the old war as Stalin will never believe that there was no secret deal. Stalin keeps his allied prisoners (Beria will return some after Stalin's death in 1953). Stalin keeps every inch of soil he holds including Norwegian Lapland and half of Iran. The Soviet Blitz against Japan will be a smaller offensive. Again, Stalin will keep everything he conquers including all of Manchuria, North China and Inner Mongolia. However, Japan will still hold most of Korea when it surrenders after the 3rd A bomb hits Yawata. Hitler's revenge will be a rump Germany under permanent Allied occupation and an Eastern Europe directly annexed by Stalin (Tito dies at the hands of a Soviet hit squad just before the incorporation of Yugoslavia and Albania). Soviet Europe will be both Communized and Russified. The old nations will die ethnically and culturally. The Greek Reds will be forced back into the Soviet lines in Macedonia. The fascist beast will have been slain in its lair.
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On this day in 1969, Apollo 4 was launched from Cape Canaveral on the so-called 'dress rehearsal' mission in which docking and undocking techniques would be practiced in preparation for the Apollo 5 lunar landing attempt scheduled to take place in July.
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In 1972, closing arguments were made in the trial of Dmitri Kaprinsky, alias D.B. Cooper.
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Editor says, what if Britain had kept New York for itself? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1784, in a bitter-sweet moment the Continental Congress ratified the Second Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence but acquiescing to the British retention of the former royal provinces of New York and New Jersey re-organized into a City State. An article from the New York City State thread.
Ratification of the Second Treaty of ParisIt was little more than a double twist of fate, or rather two separate miracles the saved the Loyalist community: the extinguishing of a near-catastrophic fire in 1776 and then the recent extraction of the British Army from Yorktown.
Logic aside, patriot anger finally boiled over in 1813 when Yankee army engineers landed on Bedlow's Island on a revenge mission to destroy the Statue of Britannia, that hated symbol of imperial power in Upper New York Bay. But to their immense anger and frustration it would be a brief occupation because they were forced to withdraw under the obligations of the Treaty of Ghent. However before they left, General Jackson delivered a powerful "Dream that Never Dies" speech [1]. The loyalists were left in absolutely no doubt that the Americans considered the possession of the New York City State. "Unfinished business leftover from the American Revolution by an accident of history".
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In 1847, on this day fighting of the Mexican-American War in Alta California was brought to a peaceful conclusion by the Treaty of Cahuenga.
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Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in Alta CaliforniaNot a formal treaty between nations but rather an informal agreement between rival military forces in which the Californios gave up fighting, it was drafted in English and Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, Los Angeles in the Bear Republic of California.
The Bear Flag Revolt itself was instigated mainly by Anglo-American settlers in the area, and the Californios, for the most part, opposed to any sort of revolt, preferring to stay with Mexico. However the unexpected outcome of the war the Californios, Anglo-Americans, and Native Americans in the area of Alta California uniting together in a multi-ethnic nation. However their independence would only last until the discovery of gold, a bitter sweet development which brought the young nation into the orbit of several foreign powers, eventually becoming a Russian Client State for almost a century.
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Editor says, what if Ahmad Shah Durrani had lost the Battle of Panipat? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1761, on this day a coalition army of Afghan (Durrani) and their Indian Muslim allies was defeated by a northern expeditionary force of the Maratha Confederacy equipped with French-supplied artillery and cavalry in an epic battle fought at Panipat (Haryana State, India) sixty miles north of Delhi.
Battle of PanipatAhmad Shah Abdali, the founder of the Durrani Empire had been unwilling to allow the Maratha Confederacy to gain territory from the decline of the Mughal Empire. And further northward expansion would inevitably lead to a clash between the two belligerents. Instead, he decided to pre-empt this future conflict: in 1759, he raised an army from the Pashtun tribes and made several gains against the smaller garrisons.
His chief opponent was Malharrao Holkar who gathered an army of between 70,000-100,000 troops with which the Marathas had ransacked the Mughal capital of Delhi. And crucially, he took the time to supplement this force with allies. There followed a series of skirmishes along the banks of the river Yamuna at Karnal and Kunjpura which eventually turned into a two-month-long siege led by Abdali against the Marathas.
Between 60,000-70,000 soldiers were killed in fighting, while numbers of the injured and prisoners taken vary considerably. The result of the last major battle between indigenous South Asian military powers was a further expansion of the Maratha advances in the North. Because soon enough the Marathas would have to deal with an insidious new enemy, the British Empire.
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Halfpenny opened the scoring after less than a minute as Pierrick Gunther was penalised for failing to release and the Blues stretched their lead to eight points midway through the half as the full-back scampered into the corner.
Sam Warburton flung the ball out from a retreating scrum but Owen Williams hit a sublime line off Jamie Roberts to slice through the defence. He evaded Palisson before drawing Mermoz to put Halfpenny away.
But Toulon instantly responded, winning the ball from the restart as Chris Masoe bounced away Roberts and the ball was recycled for Wilkinson to send Wulf over the whitewash.
Wilkinson slotted the conversion and within minutes Toulon surged in front. After opting to kick to the corner they launched a rolling maul, Cardiff initially held them at bay but following several forward drives, Chiocci burrowed over.
Toulon were relentless in their assault and following another forwards' charge the ball was spread blind for Orioli to dive over.
It took Toulon just four minutes of the second half to clinch the bonus point as the ball was spread through the hands and Delon Armitage threaded through a grubber kick that Mermoz collected to score.
Bastareaud offloaded to Palisson, who danced past Halfpenny to score Toulon's fifth and Bastareaud was next to cross the whitewash after bulldozing over following a neat switch with Wulf.
Steffon Armitage then made the initial inroads for Fresia to power over for number seven.
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In our experience it is bad enough trying to get him to do the compulsory team sports in school. There is no way on earth we would get him to take part in team sports voluntarily. It's just too hard and there's no pleasure in it all for him.
I would ask yourself what it is you are trying to achieve? If it is the exercising aspect, as your neuropsych and others have pointed out, there are far better, easier ways for your DS to exercise.
|Sat, 08-28-2010 - 10:29pm
We've done karate with my son (ADHD, ODD, and we suspect Aspergers). It's been amazing for him - across the board. He is able to do things (focus, mainly) that a year ago he could not. His program works on social skills, and his whole life, really, and like I said is amazing. Oh, and he is sooooo physically fit right now, it's kind of funny. I joke with my hubby that I'd need to get into shape in order to take karate.
We've thought about swimming, too. He does so much better (mentally, sensory wise) when he swims every day. He doesn't need melatonin to sleep, does better without his other meds, when he gets into the water on a regular basis. It doesn't happen here in the winter, because there just isn't anywhere local to take him to swim.


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