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|December 24
Editor says, what if King John had been raised in France by his mother? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1166, on this day the future Angevin Emperor John Lackland was born to Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Birth of John LacklandShortly after his birth, John and his sister Joan were taken to Poitiers, the capital of Aquitaine. This relocation was calculated to win over the support of the French nobility, because from this city, Henry's heirs would rule a collection of states that stretched from the Pyrenees to Ireland. But ironically, the circumstances behind his ascension to the throne were caused not by the Acquitaine Inheritance but were entirely due to a rebellion of the English nobility. And the central issue of the revolt was that Henry II believed the Plantagenets were French Lords that happened to be Kings of England.
From his late teenage years, his elder brother Richard had commanded the armies of their father Henry II. As King, he led the Third Crusade in the Holy Land. Inevitably, this overseas military focus created a vacuum of power at home that was filled by domestic plotting. Richard was forced to return home where we was killed in a full-scale baronial revolt. Having spent only six months of his rule in England, he was widely considered in want of sympathy, or even consideration, for his people. This reckless monarch was succeeded by John, a hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Era: 10th to 16th Centuries Source: Wikipedia Labels: King John, Henry II, Eleanor of Acquataine, Britain, Angevin.
Editor says, in reality John was passed from Eleanor into the care of a wet nurse shortly after his birth (a traditional practice for medieval noble families). Eleanor then left for Poitiers, the capital of Aquitaine. These contemporary references from Stubbs and Bradbury are intended to re-evaluate the traditional view of John as the villian of the piece. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if pacifists (and not Mr Churchill) had stopped the cavalry? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1981, speaking live from the Republic of Australia on this day for "Countdown '81" the English musician Jona Lewie led worldwide tributes to the brave servicemen and women who triggered a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas of 1914. Watch the Youtube Clip of "Please Mr Churchill stop the Cavalry"
Lest We ForgetThey warily crossed the no-man's land they had been fighting over, exchanged drink, food and small gifts; they even played football together.
When they were ordered to begin fighting by their superiors, they refused; their rebellion spread across the lines until a great pacifist movement toppled the governments of all the European powers fighting in the war, replacing them with worker's councils committed to peace and brotherhood.
Watch the Youtube Clip of "Play the Pipes of Peace"
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Editor says, in this post we revisit an original idea proposed by Robbie Taylor. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Brezhnev had ordered a Christmas stand down in Afghanistan? muses Jeff Provine on the This Day in Alternate History web site.Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1979, on this day USSR Premier Leonid Brezhnev ordered a stand down of Soviet Forces operating in Afghanistan.
Brezhnev Orders Stand Down in Afghanistan After enjoying a dominant position in international diplomacy over the United States, the latter 1970s carried a decline for the Soviet Union. Nixon had opened US relations with Communist China and ended American involvement in the Vietnam War that had nearly torn the country apart. In 1979, Egypt and Israel had reached a peace agreement hosted by the US. Iraq, too, had fallen away from Soviet dependence when it began purchasing Italian and French weapons. Farther east, however, things were looking up for the Soviet Union: Iran had overthrown its US-backed Shah and American-Afghani relations had all but ended after their ambassador was killed during an assault against the militants who had kidnapped him.
With waning influence in the western Middle East, the Soviets looked to a goal dating back over a century in the Great Game, political one-uppings with the British Empire in an attempt to hold all of Central Asia under a sphere of influence. Always looking for warm-water ports, the Russians had long desired to add Iran to their empire. Even if possible, it would be a long-term goal, and more immediate were the goings-on in Afghanistan.
In 1973, former Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan overthrew the king in the coup known as the Saur Revolution and would be overthrown himself five years later by the army and the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Forced modernization and violent purges of factionalism caused a great deal of turmoil, but the government was Soviet-supported, even signing a treaty that outlined rights for calling upon the Soviet Union for military support. As the unrest broke into full-fledged civil war and half of Afghanistan's army deserted or joined the opposing Mujahideen, President Amin and the PDPA asked for Soviet help, first with helicopter support in June, then rifle divisions in July, and increasingly through December when Brezhnev gave orders prepping for deployment of Russian troops.
His plans changed immediately, however, after a leaked, and possibly false, note from US President Carter's national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski read, "We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam War". Brezhnev did not make the note public, but it did alter his opinion on Afghanistan's significance. President Amin had already been straying from Soviet loyalty, and his purges had killed numerous supporters of Russia. Brezhnev decided that the Afghanis would lie in the graves they dug for themselves rather than support them.
The diplomatic shift was handled carefully. The PDPA cried out as abandoned, but Brezhnev remained firm and offered advisers and the use of training facilities. Amin and his government attempted to appeal to China and Pakistan, that latter of which did send troops to defend Pakistani nationals, but it was too little and too late. His government collapsed in 1980, the same year as the successful Olympics in Moscow. Sending food and medical supplies to the new nation, Brezhnev managed to gain a foothold in diplomacy there, opening up relations that would later lead to heavy Russian economic influence.
With the 1980s, international significance returned to the USSR. Using Afghanistan as leverage, the Russians were able to convince Carter and the US Senate to ratify the SALT II nuclear weapons manufacture treaty. The Iran-Iraq War saw another leap forward as the American-supported Saddam Hussein began a long stalemate as the two nations brutalized one another beginning in 1980. The USSR secretly afforded the Iranians weapons, keeping the war going and ultimately drawing in beleaguered American action to contain the altercation.
By the time the war ended, the Americans were war-weary in the Middle East. Saddam's invasion of Kuwait prompted action from the UN Security Council, and the USSR led action by securing northern Iraq. Citing defense of the Kurdish people, the Soviets refused to pull out much as they had done in Eastern Europe after World War II, and the US saw a new wave of the Cold War begin in the Middle East. Using Afghanistan as a model, the USSR would also later see Iran become an economic satellite, cutting the Middle East in half.
CIA actions in Pakistan and beyond the Sandy Curtain encouraged insurgence, finding a new balance between the world's two superpowers. USSR influence continues to push eastward with increased Socialist activity in India, where many political commentators speculate we may see another Korea in coming decades of the Cold War.
Story Tags Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Jeff Provine Blog Era: Cold War Source: Jeff Provine's Blog Labels: Afghanistan, Brezhnev, Soviet Union, USSR, Iran.
Editor says, in reality Brezhnev ordered the USSR's 40th Army into Afghanistan. Over the next decade, the Soviets would fight a never-ending war against guerilla soldiers who disappeared among the mountains and caves after devastating attacks. The war would drain the Soviet Union of military might and public support, ultimately contributing to its fall and the end of the Cold War in 1991. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if the Nazis had used their secret weapons? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1939, with Nazi UFOs poised to wipe out the Eastern European and Western Russian populations of the Soviet Union, a new and insidious force emerged in "the Bloodlands" of their future battlefield: the enemy that Hitler had always imagined - the Greater Zionist Resistance (GZR).
The Rise of the GZRFirst proposed at the Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests held in Dresden, Germany in 1882, this paramilitary unit was secrely formed by the Jewish officers of the NKVD that had sown the seeds of anti-semitism during Stalin's purges.
And their orders to shoot political dissidents in advance of the Nazi invasion was all but certain to make willing executioners of the German-friendly elements of the gentile population who would welcome the invaders as liberators. Instead, they would form a "stay behind" organization that would prevent such an alliance from ever forming.
But the mad aspirations of Hitler's mind had expanded with the successful development of super-weaponry. A grander vision had now taken the place of the "lebensraum" dreams he penned as a political prisoner in "Mein Kampf". And as events turned out, Nazi inhumanity extended to Slavs as well, and Hitler made unnecessary enemies of the people of the occupied territories which he planned to completely depopulate. Because the Aryan race and their alien allies would be more faithfully served by robots instead of the Slavs.
As the troop formations of the Red Army were swept away, the Wehrmacht raced towards Moscow and a bloody siege of street-to-to-street facing that would last for six months. The GZR would score early successes by creating havoc in the German supply chain. By the end of 1940, Ribbentrop and Molotov would sit down to negotiate a ceasefire that would enable both nations to team up against the GZR which was by now a putative authority, the new masters of "the Bloodlands".
A rather different timeline for the origination of the GZR was proposed in Robbie Taylor's excellent novella Protocols of the Elders of Zion, gotta love it.
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Editor says, in Timothy Snyder's excellent book of the same name, he proposes that Stalin's purges began after 1933 in paralell with Hitler's own evil excesses. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, What if Huey Long shaped his own socialist agenda by ruthlessly exploiting the Business Plot?
In 1933, the six-month power struggle that had grid-locked the executive branch of the federal government ended with the widely anticipated dismissal of the Attorney General, Huey Pierce Long on Christmas Eve. Less than three years later, "the Kingfish"would die a tragic and mysterious death at the age of just forty-two.Payback for the Straight-shooters
In July the Justice Department issued federal warrants ordering the arrest of the former governor of New York Al Smith and also Irenee du Pont, a chemical industrialist.
Charged with un-American Activities, zealous departmental officials alleged that Smith and du Pont were the financial and organizational backbone of the so-called business plot. The central piece of evidence for such a conspiracy was a sworn deposition presented to Long by the retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler. "Old Gimlet Eye" claimied to have been offered the all-powerful Cabinet position of Secretary of General Affairs. Such an appointment of super-secretary would of course have reduced the role of President to a figure head, placing the control of the administration firmly in the hands of the military-industrial complex.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had little cause to doubt either Smedley or Long. Both men were principled lone-wolf individuals of long standing profession who had built untarnished reputations for honesty.
A decade before, it was the case of Cumberland Tel & Tel Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission, 260 U.S. 212 that had delivered Long to the national stage. Chief Justice William Howard Taft described Long as one of the best legal minds he had ever encountered after he successfully argued the case on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922.
Yet Long's desire for justice had a strong social dimension, declaring proudly that he never took a case against a poor man. Following in the foot-steps of his Revolutionary ancestor Richard Vince, Long was expelled aged just fifteen for petitioning to fire the school principal. Despite winning a debating scholarship, he was too poor to finance textbooks and forced to turn down his place at Louisiana State University. Finally after taking the bar after just one year at the University of Oklahoma School of Law, Long spent a decade in private practice representing small plaintiffs against large businesses, including workers' compensation cases.
Intimately involved with workers' compensation cases himself, Smedley Darlington Butler shared two common traits with Long. A high achiever, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. History by the time of his death (in his book My First Days in the White House, Long stated that, if elected to the presidency, he would name Butler as his Secretary of War). Also a man of the people, Butler addressed the Bonus Army in 1932, backing their demands for the immediate payment of bonuses due them according to the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. Days later, their tent camps would be destroyed by US Army cavalry troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.
In the 1932 election both Butler and Long had supported Roosevelt, yet FDR was right to sense that both men had moved away from him. President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not want to pay the bonus, instead issuing an executive order allowing the enrollment of 25,000 veterans in the Civilian Conservation Corps for work in forests. Realising that both Long and Butler were disimpressed with this watered-down compromise measure, the President feared that the pair would mount their own business counter-coup, going much further than FDR's own plans for a New Deal. An an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve System, Long was privately advocating a new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on large corporations and individuals of great wealth to curb the poverty and crime resulting from the Great Depression.
Yet Long would not live to implement these plans. Running on the "Every Man a King" platform in the 1936 election with Butler as his running mate, Long was shot dead at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.
His last words were reportedly, "God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do". Until his own death in 1940, Butler would allege that fellow serviceman Douglas MacArthur organised the assassination, a central charge in his explosive post-election book, War Is a Racket.
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Editor says, Mr Eric Oppen suggested the idea that Huey Long might exploit both ends against each other in the Business Plot, and Mr Robbie Taylor was of a similar mind. We therefore propelled Long into a more central position in the drama, illustrating the odd paralells between both men from strong religious family backgrounds. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
|New York
In 1960, on this day the New York Philharmonic held a special Christmas Eve benefit concert for workers involved in New York City's post-hurricane recovery efforts.
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In 1970, reports of the death of guerrilla leader and Fidel Castro are proven false when the deposed Cuban president makes a daring public appearance in Camaguey, capital of the Cuban province of the same name.
"I don't care how many sp*c-monkey villagers you have to kill," he screams at Cuban occupation commander Gen. Westmoreland over the phone. "I want Castro dead, do you hear me! For real, this time!".
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In 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. Its forces will overthrow the independent but pro-Soviet government in Kabul and replacing it with a puppet regime under Babrak Karmal. A U.S. response is not long in coming. Its public face is presented in the form of a strong condemnation of the Soviet action in the United Nations. Privately, President Kennedy confers with the governments of several nations, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, regarding the provision of support to anti-Soviet elements inside Afghanistan. Kennedy opposes directly involving the U.S. military, but is willing to employ the CIA to help funnel material support to anti-Soviet fighters.
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In 1962, more than 1,000 servicemen from the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba returned to the United States in time for Christmas. A rapturous crowd of 10,000 Cuban exiles greeted each new arrival at the Dinner Key Auditorium, on the outskirts of Miami. Police and army cordons could barely restrain the mass of cheering, flag-waving people as they surged towards the buses bringing the prisoners back. US President Richard M Nixon congratulated the men on a job well done. Also present for the speech were former President Dwight D Eisenhower, and Richard Mervin Bissell Jr., director of Operation Zapata, the CIA's codename for the operation.
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|Lord Lucan
In 1974, former UK Lord Lucan was found living under a false name in Australia after apparently faking his own death. He was detained under an immigration law by Melbourne police at the seaside resort of St Kilda, where he told officers his name was Donald Clive Mildoon. He is due to appear before a magistrate on Boxing Day and it is thought he is being held for entering the country with a false passport. Lord Lucan, 49, was feared drowned after vanishing on a business trip to Miami Beach on 20 November. He vanished while swimming in the sea and there was no trace of him but for the pile of clothes he left behind on the beach.
It has emerged he then left the country the following day and travelled between Singapore, Denmark and the Lebanon before returning to Australia around 10 December. Melbourne police's 'dog squad', so called because they hunt in packs, had placed Mr Stonehouse under surveillance from 10 December after a tip-off from overseas. There are unconfirmed reports they believed him to be the missing Lord Lucan who disappeared after his children's nanny was found dead. The re-emergence of the Lord,on the other side of the world has stunned Parliament and his colleagues at Westminster. A Whitehall source said his future in the House of Lords was uncertain but it is too early in the proceedings to comment on whether he could be expelled.
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In 1942, German scientist Werner von Braun tests the world's first surface-to-surface missile at Peenemunde.
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Editor says, what if the Referendum result produced a nationalist backlash? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
On this day extraordinary events would take place at Westminster which would see the Government of Prime Minister David Cameron become untenable. After a Petition to recall the House of Commons, organised by the Scottish National Party MPs, was presented to the Speaker John Bercow the day before, the Speaker believed he had no other choice than to call for such an emergency sitting of the House.
Scotland Under Fire 15This decision was immediately challenged by the Prime Minister, who claimed that only he had the power to call for such a sitting of the House of Commons, and yet after several rounds of arguments over the Constitutional position over the matter, Bercow remained resolved and confirmed to the media and MPs that the emergency sitting would indeed take place the following day.
The mood in the Chamber was foul as the Members entered. Even before Bercow could open proceedings, abuse between several Members had already started. Bercow had to warn the Members to behave or he would expel them from the Chamber. But that hardly made an impact as things only got suddenly worse when he invited, instead of the Prime Minister to open proceedings, the Leader of the SNP Angus Robertson to do the honours. It took over five minutes, before the House finally came to order, so that Robertson could begin his speech.
Robertson's long speech, which was made even longer due to constant interjections that saw two Conservative and one Unionist MPs expelled from the Chamber, detailed all the failings of the Scotland Emergency to date and climaxed with a call for a vote of no confidence in the Government.
Again the House erupted in chaos as Members shouted and screamed for ten minutes before order could once more be established.
Needless to say Cameron, and his supporters, hit back hard refuting everything which Robertson had said, but for every supporter of Cameron there was just as many who were highly critical of his performance. The Speaker allowed the debate to take several hours, partly because of the constant calls for order, yet finally Bercow called for the vote which Cameron feared. Although he believed he could count on the Conservatives, the Democratic Unionist Party, and a few others, the Liberal Democrats were now an unknown political entity ever since they voted en masse against him in respect to the Scotland Emergency Bill.
And Cameron was right to be concerned about the Liberal Democrats. Their leader Nick Clegg, who ironically was also Deputy Prime Minister, had already distanced himself from Cameron and had become highly critical, since the Scotland Emergency Bill defeat, over the Government's policy of military intervention in Scotland. Whilst this was a massive breach of the Constitutional Convention of Cabinet Government, Cameron resisted the urge to fire Clegg as he needed the support of the Liberal Democrats to maintain Government. But now that the no confidence motion was before the Commons, it became clear that the Liberal Democratic Party had withdrawn that support by voting in favour of the motion.
In the aftermath of losing the confidence of the House, Cameron was forced to submit his resignation to the Queen. The Leader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband was then invited to organise a caretaker government until elections could be called, which was easier said than done as Miliband inherited a huge political disaster with a country essentially at war with itself.
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Editor says, what if Marcel Proust was a literary failure? muse Robbie Taylor. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1912, the Nouvelle Revue Francaise rejects A la Recherche du Temps Perdu ("Remembrance of Things Past" or more literally, "In Search of Lost Time"), an abysmally awful novel by Marcel Proust. Confined to his cork-lined bedroom, he had slept during the day and worked tirelessly at night to complete it.
In Search of Lost TimeMany of its ideas, motifs, and scenes were foreshadowed in Phis unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil (1896-99), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve (1908-09).
But other leading editors also turned down the manuscript which had been offered in longhand. And so instead he published the work himself in 1913, but after it met with little success, he committed suicide in his small apartment in Paris, France. The work has since been viewed with a less harsh eye, but it has still never garnered much critical acclaim.
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Editor says, "In Search of Lost Time" is considered the definitive modern novel by many scholars. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Napoleon had invaded Russia after his conquest of Western Europe was complete? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1777, on this day future Tsar Alexander I of Russia was born in the capital city of Saint Petersburg. He succeeded to the throne on 24 March 1801,and was crowned in the Kremlin on 15 September of that year. Unfortunately for Alexander I, his ill-fated reign occurred at the same time as the rise to power of his nemesis, the magnificent Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Birth of the ill-fated Tsar Alexander I of RussiaAutocrat and "Jacobin", man of the world and mystic, Alexander appeared to his contemporaries as a riddle which each read according to his own temperament. Napoleon Bonaparte thought him a "shifty Byzantine", and called him the Talma of the North, as ready to play any conspicuous part. To Metternich he was a madman to be humoured. Castlereagh, writing of him to Lord Liverpool, gives him credit for "grand qualities", but adds that he is "suspicious and undecided"; and to Jefferson he was a man of estimable character, disposed to do good, and expected to diffuse through the mass of the Russian people "a sense of their natural rights".
Six years into his reign he was comprehensively defeated by the French in Poland, deciding to sign the Treaty of Tilsit. This agreement included a binding commitment to not trade with England, such that the French and Russians were thus allied at the time. But in 1811, Tsar Alexander started to break the agreement.
Napoleon and his advisers considered attacking Russia to reinforce the treaty. Napoleon saw that his army far outnumbered the Russian army, but fearing the harsh Russian lands he had the good sense to realize that if Russia attacked him, he would face no real threat. Nevertheless he dispatched one of his advisers to gather information about the Russian lands from people who had travelled there. Until then, Napoleon decided not to leave his Grande Armee idle, so he captured the rest of Europe, the relatively weak Ottoman empire to the south-east with the spotted remains of the Byzantine. After completing this campaign, Napoleon decided to move his capital to a new city he founded in Switzerland called Nepola, to control Europe from its center. When Napoleon was finally ready to punish Russia for breaking the treaty of Tilsit in the early spring of 1813, he had conquered all of Europe barring Russia.
Although Napoleon barely won the battle south of Moscow by coordinating his troops, he was well placed to return to Moscow with Tsar Alexander to sign a peace treaty, agreeing that Napoleon may claim the western area of Russia around Finland, including Saint Petersburg, and that Russia become an ally of the French again. Before Napoleon returned, he ensured that the newspapers herald his victory in Russia well.
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Editor says, what if King Arthur had survived the Battle of Camlann? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 517 AD, on this day, the Romano-Celtic High King of Britain Arthur Pendragon defeated Mordred's rebel forces at the Battle of Camlann.
Battle of CamlannThe "Strife of Camlann" was a bitter feud which had begun (as usual) with an act of selfish disloyalty. Because in a bid to gain the High Kingship for himself, his former lieutenant had reneged upon Arthur's trust, striking a bargain with the Saxon invaders instead of defending the northern marches of the Kingdom.
To bait Arthur, Mordred had raided the Court, throwing his wife Gwenhwyfar to the ground and beating her. Fought upon a site of his choosing (pictured), the crooked bank of a river by Hadrian's wall, both armies suffered devastating casualties. At the last, Arthur managed to run Mordred through, narrowly avoding a sword thrust that would almost certain have killed him.
But the bloodbath had fatally weakened the Britons who were easily overcome by the Saxon invaders that Arthur had kept at bay for twenty years. Forced into exile on the Isle of Apples, and his sword Excalibur thrown back into the Lake, he was unable to mount a comeback despite speculation that persisted years after his death.
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Editor says, what if the Americas had been reconquered by Old Europe? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1865, Chancellor Bismarck's arrival in a steam-powered exo-skeleton
upstaged the dirigibles carrying mustachio-twirling German diplomats
and monocled English & French civil servants to the Colonial
Conference in New Amsterdam. Which was to say nothing of the majestic dapperness of the Russian contingent. The Dutch of course were already there. An episode from the Steampunk America thread.
Steampunk America
Part 1 by Ed & Jared MyersAlmost inevitably, the "Scramble for America" had created a large number of boundary issues between the European Colonies. Perhaps the most pressing of which was navigation of the Mississippi River, an issue that affected the co-existence of Spain, England and France. Also required was a common approach to liquidating Lee's rebels who were believed to be holed up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia refusing to accept the dissolution of the Union.
But the remainder were in broad agreement that a growth spurt in the European Industrial Revolution spelled domination of the Americas for the forseeable future. Because during the last decade, neo-colonials had reversed the American revolution and re-created a patchwork of assorted states ruled by European Governors. Nothing less than an all-out invasion of the USA by Russia, France, Spain, Britain, Prussia, and the Dutch Republic.
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Editor says, what if the wealthiest 1% were locked in their own argument about the growing difference in wealth with the rest of the US population? Part 2. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 2011, Occupy Apple Campus was electrified by the unexpected arrival of a new protestor: Steve Jobs.
Occupy Apple Campus 2
By Ed and Robbie TaylorA near-miraculous temporary recovery from pancreatic cancer had forced the co-founder of Apple to completely re-evaluate many of his core beliefs. After his retirement on medical grounds, he appeared on a number of television and radio interviews, expressing increasingly maverick opinions. This quaint controversy only led to a complete break with the company when he remorsefully admitted to the "soft-bullying" of his subordinates. In a cruel self-parody of his former self, he joked "Thats the most stupid thing I have ever heard!" to express his profound regrets over his business decision to outsource the manufacturing of Apple products to China. That judgement in particular had defined his demonized status an an enemy of the American working man.
Of course Jobs biggest regret of all was delaying medical treatment in 2004 when his medium-term survival prospects were far better. Because he had recently discovered that the cancer was back and he only had months to live. He immediately announced his desire to use the remaining time he had left to become a friend of the American worker. And even though he was a marketing genius, he expressed doubt that he could actually pull off such a complete rebadge. But then he received the fateful call from US blue-collar labour advocate George Lucas inviting him to join the protest in Cupertino. It was a home-spun truism that was driving the campaign of Democrat Presidential front-runner Charlie Bucket with his key platform message - "one day, things will change, and probably when you least expect it". Watch Cheer up Charlie on Youtube!
This article is part of the Blue Collar Fightback thread.
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Editor says, in this post we explore some of the controversial ideas raised in Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street in which the businessman suggests that the protestors are occupying the wrong location and their anger is being mis-directed. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if Vincent van Gogh really had murdered Paul Gauguin? muses Jeff Provine on the This Day in Alternate History web site.Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1888, on this day the troubled life of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh took its most dreadful turn as he murdered his roommate and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin.
Van Gogh Murders Gauguin Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, and suffered a lifetime of mental illness, most based in anxiety and magnified by poor nutrition and alcohol. He described his youth as "gloomy and cold and sterile" in a later letter to his brother Theo. Boarding school troubled him as a student, prompting him to leave abruptly. His uncle managed to find him a position as an art dealer, bringing van Gogh to London where he fell in love with his landlady's daughter. She rejected him, and he fled to Paris, where he lost his job after voicing his opinions that art was not to be treated as a commodity.
After stints as a minister's assistant, bookshop worker, and missionary, in 1880, he decided to become an artist in pursuit of God's service. His early work while in the Netherlands was notoriously dark and somber, such as The Potato Eaters with its ugly portrayal of genuine peasants. In 1886, he moved to Paris to study art further, moving in with his younger brother Theo, who had always supported Vincent financially and emotionally despite, or because of, his worries about Vincent's mental health.
Van Gogh's work brightened, and Theo used his art-dealer connections to introduce him to many other artists whose work helped to influence van Gogh's growing styles. After some 200 paintings and two years imbibing and smoking too much, van Gogh sought to leave the city in pursuit of a dream of an artists' colony. He settled in Arles in the south of France, much to the chagrin of locals and, after ten months, persuaded his friend Paul Gauguin to join him.
Gauguin, five years van Gogh's senior, was a man of experimentation and a leader in the Symbolist movement. He held some Peruvian blood and had lived in South America in his youth. After serving in the French Navy, marrying a Danish woman, and beginning a career as a stockbroker, he quit it all in 1885 to paint full time. Gauguin had met van Gogh in 1887, and the two shared similar experiences with depression. In October of 1888, he moved to stay with van Gogh in his famed Yellow House in Arles, beginning a nine-week deterioration of their friendship that would lead into an altercation where van Gogh slashed Gauguin's throat with a razor.
According to interviews, van Gogh immediately regretted his action and attempted to save Gauguin by gingerly holding his throat, but the latter bled to death. Neighbors were roused by van Gogh carrying Gauguin's body into the street and screaming for the police to arrest a murderer. Van Gogh was indeed arrested and sentenced to death, though his brother Theo successfully campaigned (and bribed) for Vincent to be placed permanently into a mental institution. There van Gogh was allowed to paint and was studied by eminent psychiatrists.
Great shock was raised in Paris, London, and Brussels at word of the Murderer-Artist, and galleries were filled with his works, instantly in demand and expensive. Van Gogh had achieved fame, but he remained in horrid mental condition at the guilt of murder. When his brother died in 1891 of syphilis's dementia paralytica (believed from over-celebration at his newfound wealth), Vincent stopped painting and became increasingly suicidal, famously stabbing out his left eye with a paintbrush. After months of interrupted attempts, van Gogh hanged himself by his own shirt.
The shock increased throughout Europe's artistic circles, and the new reaction was that the post-Impressionist style was too much for the human mind. It became unpopular among the wealthy to pay artists to paint unrealistically, just as one would not pay to see dogs fight. Underground galleries continued to show lesser known artistic experiments, but New Realism dominated the art world until the horrors of World War I gave a new call for escapism. Haunting Abstractionism and Surrealism of the Mad Generation exploded across Europe and North America in the 1920s and '30s, which itself would ultimately fall as the pendulum of taste swept back toward realistic depictions in art for the next twenty years.
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Editor says, in reality van Gogh only threatened Gauguin with the razor. He panicked at his actions and fled to a local brothel, where he famously cut off the lobe of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute. Gauguin never saw van Gogh again, instead going about finding his "tropical paradise" and pioneering Primitivism. Van Gogh would spend the rest of his life in and out of hospitals while also painting some of his best known works such as Starry Night. He went for a walk in a field on July 27, 1890, and shot himself in the chest. Editorial comments are entered in [light green] typeface.
Editor says, what if the Confederacy exhorted their lofty war airms in the aftermath of a victory at Gettysburg? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
In 1864, the Confederate House followed the CS Senate and two-thirds the Confederate States in passage of the Emancipation Amendment, which repealed every endorsement of slavery in the Confederate Constitution and established a prohibition against slavery or any sort of involuntary bondage.
Gettysburg Prayer Part Two by Raymond SpeerThe celebration of the Greatest Christmas Present continued in every Confederate State well into the new year of 1865, (Winston S. Churchill's Commentary, 1933.)
When the Confederate Congress returned to session, there were eight different bills of impeachment on file at the House Judiciary Committee to the effect that President Davis ought to be removed from office. It was pointed out that the president had disparaged the guarantees of slavery written into the CSA Constitution, and one complaint went to the core of the issue and declared Davis had gone insane for love of the Negro.
News of the Gettysburg Prayer were passed off as inconsequential by radical Republicans like Thaddeus Stevens, who grumbled that Southerners could admit that they were defeated and be rid of slavery without arguing the issue among themselves. The Lincolns held a reception for General Grant, who was cheered on the assumption that he would soon take the battle to Lee. But every federal general was either dead (like Hancock) or in a Richmond jail like George Meade (whose nerves were shattered), so it was no easy matter to get a new federal Army ready to try to defeat Lee.
Around Washington DC went higher walls, deeper trenches, new artillery batteries and even telegraph lines to the new entrenchments. Though Lee have famously replenished his artillery by seizure of the heavy guns of the Army of the Potomac, Lee was hardly disposed to strike the fortress that was Washington and so quiet returned to the East theatre of the War.
At the next big battle between the Union and the Confederacy, Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, the South had reinforced its Western Army with Longstreet's Corps which featured Hood's Texas division and Pickett's Virginians. The men of Hood and Pickett co-operated and broke the position of Union General Thomas, putting out of commission the Army that Grant had great plans for.
The British Cabinet voted to offer the two sides in America the services of the British Foreign Officer as mediators to end the ongoing War. Made in the first week of October 1863, the British offer to act as a mediator was rejected by Abraham Lincoln two weeks later even as Davis accepted the proposal. The "People's Militia of New York, the ruffians and hooligans who had dominated the streets in most parts of the metropolis since the Gettysburg-caused shortage of Union regular troops, took up arms again when Lincoln spurned a peace conference and were reduced in urban combat by Yankee arms which encircled the city.
Adroit maneuvers by General Jackson's infantry and General Stuart's horse soldiers permitted the Confederacy to exploit eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey from their base in central Pennsylvania. While Grant used his talents and men to suppress rioters block by bloody block, Lee waited on the strategic periphery of New York, certain that his foe could not take any substantive maneuver against the Army of Northern Virginia.
The great successes of the winter of '63 and '64 were Stuart's rescue of 4,000 prisoners of war from a camp in the far north, and Jackson's candy raid, when Jackson's men had brought to the South so much in the way of supplies that many of the wagons were hauling candy!
Given time illuminated by victories, support grew for implementation of emancipation. Foes of Davis forced votes in Congress on the issue. The Senate gave an emancipation amendment majority support and the House was ten votes shy of a majority, but no one could argue that there was no reasonable support for the deal.
Negroes in gray uniforms were usually in garrisons in Confederate territory and public opinion was galvanized around Christmas when black Confederates near Trenton, New Jersey, atacked and ran off an equal number of federal white troops, who began reciting the Gettysburg Prayer on the field of battle.
In spite of everything, given the size of the Union's edge over the Confederacy in population and in productive capabity, the South still stared defeat in the face at the beginning of 1864.
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In 2001, for the second time this Christmas week, President Gore appears on nationwide television. In somber tones, he informs his audience that the Taliban government of Afghanistan has refused to comply with his demands.Final Warning by Eric Lipps
"Therefore", he continues, "in accordance with my responsibilities as President of the United States, I have decided to act, as I promised the American people I would do. I do not consider myself at liberty to divulge what measures are planned. I am sure that those who have made themselves the enemies of this nation are listening tonight along with the American people, and I do not intend to give them advance notice of our strategy. To the extent that our actions may involve the nation of Afghanistan, I again warn Kabul: do not attempt to obstruct our efforts to locate, capture and bring to justice the murderers of September 11. Any such action will be taken as indicating that the government of Afghanistan sides with the murderers, and we will respond accordingly. One final note, again to Kabul: we have chosen at this time not to sever relations with the government of Afghanistan, because despite its non-cooperation we do not now consider it an enemy of the United States. But if any action is taken against our embassy in Kabul, or against its personnel, by the Afghan government or anyone else, we shall consider ourselves to be at war not only with the terrorists of Al Qaeda but with the government of Afghanistan. We shall not allow our concern for the welfare of our diplomatic personnel to be used against us. There shall be no repetition of the nightmare of Iran".
The President's words are, if anything, even more controversial than those of two nights earlier. Many people had expected him to let his 48-hour deadline pass without comment, and without action, while he kept on pleading with Kabul for aid in rooting out Al Qaeda. His words this evening suggest he is not interested in further diplomatic maneuvering, but do not--quite--amount to a statement that he will use military force.
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On this day in 1973, the Cowboys' season came to a shockingly early end as the Los Angeles Rams jumped out to a 14-3 first half lead and went on a 37-20 upset victory in the 1973 NFC divisional playoffs. The Rams subsequently beat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC championship game to clinch their first Super Bowl appearance in franchise history.
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On this day in 1944, the last German occupation troops in Norway left for home; the next day, Norwegian King Haakon V would return to Oslo after over four years in exile.
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On this day in 1972, the Dallas Cowboys beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-28 in the 1972 NFL divisional playoffs.
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The University of Oldenburg in Germany and UMUC recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding that offers a doctoral option to a small selection of Master of Distance Education and E-Learning (MDE) graduates.
Accepted candidates will enroll at The Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. They would receive a PhD upon completion of the doctoral option, awarded by the university's School of Education and Social Sciences.
Students whose research proposals are accepted would begin their research immediately. After a candidate contacts Dr. Hülsmann, C3L will negotiate with potential supervisors—tenured professors of Oldenburg's School of Education and Social Sciences—to find one who can take on a doctoral candidate. Because of the limited number of doctoral supervisors, some good research proposals might be rejected.
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A titular see in the province of Osrhoene, suffragan of Edessa. The "Notitia" of Anastasius, in the sixth century, still mentions this see as being in that province and in the Patriarchate of Antioch ("Echos d'Orient", Paris, 1907, 145). Procopius ("De Ædificiis", II, 9) says that Justinian rebuilt its walls. At least seven bishops are known from the fourth to the sixth century, the first of whom, Eustathius, was in correspondence with St. Basil (Lequien, "Oriens Christ.", II, 983-86). The city, which was destroyed, has not been rediscovered; but it is thought to have been located near the Euphrates and Europos or Djerabis.
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The cycling season in Colorado is just around the corner, and cyclists in the Castle Pines community can look forward to a wide variety of trails, paths, and organized riding events to enjoy all summer.
For road cyclists, Castle Pines offers easy access to a variety of paved trail systems, as well as great roads with wide shoulders or bike lanes.
The C-470 bike trail system is a concrete path that runs alongside the highway from Parker to Golden and is easily accessed from Castle Pines. The C-470 bike trail also intersects other popular trail systems like the Cherry Creek Trail, the Highline Canal Trail, and the South Platte River Trail.
For mountain bikers who want to ride close to home, there are some great new trail options. Extensions to the Douglas County East-West Trail are near completion and add some 12 miles of additional dirt trails running from Red Stone Park in Highlands Ranch to Rock Canyon High School, by way of Daniel's Park.
The East-West trail offers challenging climbs, high speed descents, and lots of rolling hills for mountain bikers to enjoy. Castle Pines residents can access the East-West trail from Coyote Ridge Park, Griggs Road, or Rocky Heights Middle School. The East-West Trail also interconnects with several other public trail systems in Highlands Ranch and Lone Tree.
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Grey's Anatomy Review: Welcome to Grey-Sloan Memorialby Courtney Morrison at . Comments
I'm not sure how, after nine seasons, even the most simplest of things on this show, can tug on those heartstrings.
Grey's Anatomy aired "Idle Hands" this week, an episode that focused on sad patients, changes to the hospital and ultimately what happens when you stop moving forward. Let's break down the installment...
This Sucks, And We Don't Say Sucks. Meredith worked on a teacher who finds out she has terminal cancer. Seriously, when the students came to visit her, I couldn't help but tear up. Really, such a sucky situation.
The highlight of the cases was Alex and his young cancer patient. The jokes they played on Jo's boyfriend were hilarious. Jenny Talia anyone? Too bad the OBGYN didn't think so. Looks like the competition is heating up for Ms. Wilson.
Derek and Ross worked on a young girl with a brain trauma, which gave Ross the opportunity to deliver a perfect line: "I'm Derek Shepherd. It's a beautiful day to save lives."
Nailed it!
Let's Go To The Carnival. April talked to anyone who would listen about her wanting to sleep with Matthew and his wanting to wait.
Is there a better spouse to have than Callie Torres? I don't think so. This is a character that has grown in such a tremendous way and she is someone you want to root for all of the time. I can remember early on when she was Callie O'Malley. We have come a long way, huh?
He Or She? In the worlds cutest competition, no one even compares to Der and Mer. They started off super adorable with Derek talking to Mer's belly. It only got better when we found out that IT'S A BOY!! Meredith and Derek are having a baby boy. I haven't been this excited for a fake character's pregnancy in a long time! Kinda sad but kinda funny at the same time. Who else is with me?
Side Notes:
- A big shout out to Jessica Capshaw, who has played the character of Arizona perfectly all season. She is dealing with such a tremendous trauma and Capshaw makes it effortless looking. Definitely one of the bright spots of Grey's Anatomy Season 9.
- Meredith was on her game in this episode, dropping hilarious lines about her pregnancy left and right. Always good to bring the laughs, Grey.
- The interns, Jackson and Owen were right. The Lodux does look like a ton of fun!
- Who else loves the new name of the hospital? Grey-Sloan Memorial has a pretty awesome ring to it.
Overall, a really enjoyable hour. Laughs, tears, and exciting news. Pretty much everything we love in an episode of Grey's Anatomy. What did you think, TV Fanatics? Did you like "Idle Hands?"
Sound off below and let us know what you thought. Is Alex now ready to admit and fight for Jo? How excited are you for Derek and Meredith? And check back later in the week for our Grey's Anatomy Round Table.
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The female cancer patient teacher - terminal- was not liza weils. I looked at her photo deffinatley not her - does anyone know her name.
@PJ I was thinking Mark Alexander Shepherd.
But the surgeon making her think she could join in on his trial while all he was doing was pitching her. In the end she showed him who was the boss !!!
April, go get some already, stop pretending !
I want more episodes like this one !!!!!!
I LOVED that episode OMG ! It reminded me of the old days !! Brilliant Calzona, Callie U ROCK !!!!! Arizona, damn she has been great this season !
Bailey made me laugh, having to ask her "babies" for help ! When she talked to the bay I was laughing even harder !
Webber and Karev, SERIOUSLY !!! They were just hilarious, the way Webber bolted in the end was just funny. But the guy was not happy, and the way he talked about Jo, so RUDE !!! grrrrrr, go on Karev, make him hit the dust ! lol
MerDer moments, sweet ! They're having a boy !!! Mer was just excellent with her 3 legs, 2 heads, but I guess she was really scared.
Crowen, looooooove them ! Owen with his new toy, just hilarious as all the interns were ddying to try it, but didn't get a chance, until the end. Mousey, big LOL, Jackson was funny too, reminded me of Owen and Der new chief no time to cut somebody lol.
Cris just plain funny, hey, she's the boss ! That Chow, how dare he do something so cool looooool. But the surgeon making her think she could join in on his trial while all he was doing was pitching her. In the end she showed him who was the boss !!!
April, go get some already, stop pretending !
I want more episodes like this one !!!!!!
The baby should be named after Derek's father.
Baby's name Christopher Mark Richard. Christopher, Derek's middle name and close to Cristina who will be godmother, Mark for Mark, and Richard, Derek's mentor and father figure to Meredith. Way to come back Arizona and cudos to Callie for her patience.
Totally agree about Jessica Capshaw! Bravo! Arizona is my fav!
the episode was amazing, absolutely loved the CALZONA scenes, those girls are pure GOLD!!! so sweet, so tender, so loving, so beautiful, so sexy, they rock...Jessica and Sarah are so perfect together, the xray room scene and the sexy scene at the end...so hot, hot, hot, Callie is the perfect spouse,she is ace, CALZONA have been through so much,they are outstanding,the chemistry between them is unbeatable..thank you Sarah and Jessica for your amazing performances...you rock
Great show. Alex will get Jo. Did anyone notice all the interns were there except Stephanie? I hope she is gone. Baby Boy will not be named a girls name, Alexandra. Most likely after Dereks murdered father. Great job on this one Shonda.
Callie FINALLY got some!!! Patience is an understatement! I'm so happy they finally have moved on to intimacy. I agree that Callie is the BEST spouse ever. She is amazing in so many ways. She still saw Arizona as hot even though Arizona didnt agree. Calzona 4 EVER!!!
Jessica is awesome. But Sara has always been my favorite. She is so beautiful and amazingly talented.


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Five Guys opening is like "a cow fart," and Southern Hospitality owner fights FiDi residents for a liquor license, in today's neighborhood food news.
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The rides at Coney are reportedly dangerous, Malcolm Gladwell buys up more of the West Village, and a little person gets caught big pimpin' in Bed-Stuy. Ho-hum, just the start of another week in our daily boroughs report.
Asiate chef brings dumplings and shaved ice to Carroll Gardens, and a Shake Shack versus West Coast burger comparison.
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The writer disses Norman Foster on the Upper East Side, erotic yet "tender" art is nixed in the South Bronx, and more Ikea mania, in our hump-day boroughs report.
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ScarJo buys a Sutton Place postwar, Billyburg and Greenpoint wait for their parks, and guilty liberal Slopies' rage toward Greenpeace panhandlers finally boils over. That and more in today's boroughs report.
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Regular Hours: Mon-Sun 9am-8pm.
Crawl Hours: Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun 9am-8pm.
Come to Twisted and experience, first-hand, our carefully compiled selection of wonderful yarns, which includes (among many others) indie dyers like Blue Moon Fiber Arts, The Plucky Knitter, Knitted Wit, Hazel Knits, Three Fates, and Blissful Knits. Grab a hot cup of tea and knit on our comfy couches, surrounded by Imperial Stock Ranch, Quince & Co., Madelinetosh, Malabrigo, Swans Island, Brown Sheep Company, and Lang (again, among others). Visit us on the Rose City Yarn Crawl and see what all the fuss is about!
Thursday, February 27th:
- 12noon-4pm – JamPDX Trunk Show. Check out beautiful, locally-made ceramics from JamPDX. JamPDX girls, Jenn and Megan, will show you their hand-thrown and painted yarn bowls, the best coffee/tea mugs you've ever used, as well as other gorgeous hand-made ceramics.
- 12noon-4pm – Imperial Stock Ranch Trunk Show. Meet Jeanne Carver, the force behind Imperial Stock Ranch and Imperial Yarn. Check out garments from Imperial Yarn's newest collection and find out for yourself what a gem this Oregon company is all about.
Friday, February 28th: 12noon-4pm – Blue Moon Trunk Show. Once in a Blue Moon do you get an opportunity to discuss color with the Queen, Tina Newton from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. She'll be at Twisted, along with a plethora of garments and inspiration.
Saturday, March 1st: 9am-8pm – Spotlight on some very Twisted kits. Let us do the shopping for you – we'll have oodles of ready-to-grab kits put together for your crafting pleasure.
Sunday, March 2nd: 12noon-3pm. Knitted Wit Trunk Show. Join Lorajean Kelley and little Frances Jean of Knitted Wit for a color exploration. Oodles of garments will be on display for your end-of-the-crawl-weekend inspiration.
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Twisted's neighborhood, Sullivan's Gulch, is named after Timothy Sullivan, who was a world-class traveler until settling in Portland, building his homestead, and inspiring a neighborhood to be named after him. He met his wife, Margaret, in Tasmania in 1841. This shawlette seems the kind of thing a globe-trotting, practical 1800s woman would throw on to head out to tend to the chickens.
|Sullivan's Spring Shawlette (crochet)
by Shannon Squire
Sullivan's Spring was located near Timothy and Margaret's cabin and became a popular site for picnickers. A mural depicting this bucolic scene appears on the outside back wall of the pub at 1700 NE Broadway. This granny circle crocheted shawlette would be the perfect thing to throw on when heading for a picnic in your favorite Portland neighborhood.
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A big problem for computer technicians is trying to reproduce the error that the client is encountering. If we don't know exactly what they did to cause it, it is hard to track down the problem. This is where an application built into Windows 7 called "Problem Step Recorder" can help.
Windows 7 Problem Step Recorder will record the steps that either you or your client take that will eventually result in a certain computer problem. Once you have finished recording the steps, it outputs each step as a screenshot and puts them in an MHT document (webpage). It will also include a text only description of the steps down the bottom of the page. It will then place all the contents of this recording into a ZIP file so that it can be easily emailed.
You could also use this application to create a step-by-step guide for your client on how to do a certain tasks like burn a CD, get pictures off the digital camera and more.
To use it, Goto Start "Menu > Run" and type: psr
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Trophy List
Criterion Games' Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit has already started its Public Beta test in preparation for its commercial launch on November 16. After playing a few hours with the beta version, a friend sent me this list of trophy awards for this game.
I know, I know the intense experience of frantic car chases will be enough reward for you but it's always nice to have something to show for our video gaming time. Here's a comprehensive list of Trophies in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit…
- Settling the Score – Select a Friend Autolog Recommendation and beat it
- Graffiti – Create a 'New Post' or 'Write a Reply' on the Wall
- Share the Dream – Share a Dreamshot to the Wall
- Socialite – Have 5 or more NFS Friends
- Gotcha! – Bust a Racer
- Officer – Reach rank (3) Officer as a Cop
- Patrolman – Reach rank (5) Patrolman as a Cop
- Trooper – Reach rank (8) Trooper as a Cop
- Sergeant – Reach rank (11) Sergeant as a Cop
- Lieutenant – Reach rank (14) Lieutenant as a Cop
- Undercover – Reach rank (17) Undercover as a Cop
- Captain – Reach rank (18) Captain as a Cop
- Pursuit Agent – Reach rank (19) Pursuit Agent as a Cop
- Chase – Play 10 Online Hot Pursuits as a Cop
- Bounty Hunter – Play 10 Online Interceptors as a Cop
- Vengeance is Mine – Wreck a Cop
- Suspect – Reach wanted level (2) Suspect as a Racer
- Target – Reach wanted level (4) Target as a Racer
- Felon – Reach wanted level (6) Felon as a Racer
- Offender – Reach wanted level (8) Offender as a Racer
- Outlaw – Reach wanted level (11) Outlaw as a Racer
- Wanted – Reach wanted level (14) Wanted as a Racer
- Fugitive – Reach wanted level (17) Fugitive as a Racer
- Notorious – Reach wanted level (19) Notorious as a Racer
- Festival of Speed – Play 10 Online Races
- Race – Play 10 Online Hot Pursuits as a Racer
- Escapologist – Play 10 Online Interceptors as a Racer
- Burnout – Fill the Nitrous bar then use it all in one go without hitting anything
- Wall of Steel – Deploy a Road Block which then gets hit by a Racer
- Shock to the System – Get a hit with an EMP
- Hit Confirmed – Get a hit with a Spike Strip
- Aerial Assistance – Call in a helicopter which then hits a Racer with a Spike Strip
- Denied – First Jammer use that affects a Cop
- In the Zone – Use a full Turbo without hitting anything
- Eye of the Needle – As a Racer, drive through an undamaged Road Block without hitting it
- Share the Joy – Dreamshot a BMW and share it with your Friends
- Shaken, Not Stirred – Win any Hot Pursuit in an Aston Martin
- Wet in the Vette – Drive any Corvette in the wet
- Ultimate Enforcer – Reach rank (20) Ultimate Enforcer as a Cop
- Most Wanted – Reach wanted level (20) Most Wanted as a Racer
- Power Spike – Spike strip a car that is targeting you with an EMP
- Imprezive – Accumulate 2,000 yds of drift in a single event using the Subaru Impreza WRX STI
- Flight of the Bumblebee – Win the 'Muscle Reflex' race in a Bee Yellow Chevrolet Camaro SS
- Godzilla – Get any medal in 'Run to the Hills' driving the Nissan GT-R SpecV without using any weapons
- Iron Man – Get Distinction in a Hot Pursuit, Interceptor and Rapid Response using the Audi R8
- Electrically Charged – Bust the 918 Spyder using an EMP in 'Porsche Patrol'
- Snakebite in Black – Spike a cop while driving a Black Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR or Ford Shelby GT500 Supersnake
- Midnight Cowboy – Dreamshot a Midnight Blue Metallic Ford GT at night in the desert
- True Blue – Earn a Distinction in every single-player Cop mission
- Golddigger – Earn a Gold Medal in every single-player Racer event
- NFS Hot Pursuit Elite – Awarded for successfully collecting all Need For Speed Hot Pursuit trophies
If you don't have the enthusiasm to count them all, there are 51 of those Trophies you should aspire for. The Platinum Trophy is the ultimate reward, you only receive it once you have all the 50 Trophies. I think I can get them all in 3 weeks time. How about you?


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EXETER—Last Thursday evening, the Exeter Town Council held a special public hearing on its proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year and it appears that every member of the public that attended seemed to support the proposal as written.
So, at the very least, three local residents are on board so far.
In what was supposed to be the first step towards answering any and all budget-related questions before next month's Financial Town Meeting, the Exeter Town Council discussed to a largely empty room the reasoning behind a proposal that calls for an increase of $328,980, or 2.68 percent, to a budget of just over $12.6 million for the 2011-2012 year.
The majority of that proposal, as explained Thursday, is Exeter's contribution to the school district budget—a total of $10,365,920, or 82.2 percent of every tax dollar spent. Apart from a $285,000 increase for the first of three years of planned improvements to roads around town, there's not much of a difference from the 2010-2011 budget.
Thursday's public hearing, a 35-minute affair, covered some of the more glaring items in the proposed budget.
First was discussion on a planned 439 percent increase in funds for the transfer station.
Local resident Harry Armen questioned why there was such a dramatic increase in funding for that line item this year. The proposed budget calls for a $76,282.41 increase over last year.
Town Council Vice President William Monahan answered Armen's question, explaining that the increase to a total of $93,647 came about because last year the town used previously accumulated funds to run the transfer station. Now, he said, those funds are gone and, short of raising sticker fees from $75 to $168, the town simply doesn't have enough money to run it as currently budgeted.
The next item discussed was the lack of funding for state police protection for the town of Exeter.
At a recent Town Council meeting, two officers from the state police were on hand to discuss the possibility of the state police expanding their presence in Exeter.
"They wanted to open a dialogue since it failed before," said councilman Calvin Ellis.
The problem was, they lacked any specific information as to what the extra protection would mean. In previous proposals, the state police have offered to staff one to three dedicated officers to the region but had no specifics as to what it would cost to do today.
So, in creating this year's budget, the council left funds for increased state police protection out.
Since the state police are sworn to protect Exeter, the real question is whether or not the citizens of Exeter have a desire to pay for additional protection.
"I think that we ought to pay some kind of compensation but one trooper isn't going to cover the town of Exeter," Ellis said. "Neither will a 10-12 person force like West Greenwich has. If given the option, I would rather have state troopers (but) we need the figure."
Town council assistant Ken Findlay emphasized Thursday that just because there's a 2.67 percent increase in the tax levy on the books in this budget proposal, that doesn't necessarily mean there will be an increase in the amount of taxes Exeter residents pay.
With an increase in the amount of tangible taxes collected, and the tax roll not due to be certified until June, there's still time for figures to change and tax rates to go up or down, based on the amount of revenue collected.
Rounding out the discussions Thursday were questions about the proposed Capital Improvement on roads and discussions about the town's contribution to retirement funds and proposed three-percent salary increase for employees.
The big question regarding the project to fix town roads was where the money was coming from.
The proposed budget by the council calls for $285,000 for the first of a three-year project, but $175,000 of those funds are slated to come from a surplus the town collected from funds given by FEMA after last year's flooding.
Because public works employees factored in repairs during their normal hours, it saved the town a substantial amount of money.
Now those funds will be used to repair/maintain some of the most damaged roads in Exeter as part of a public works project.
Both Ellis and Findlay explained Thursday that this proposal, the sixth draft overall, is an attempt at keeping costs down as much as possible and being as conservative as possible with expected revenues.
One way that has worked, the council explained, was that the town's employees are all part of a retirement fund where Exeter contributes five percent of what employees make into an account for their future use upon retirement. This fund is separate from any state pension plan and ensures the town has no long-term liabilities in that regard.
At the same time, the council says it's important to treat the town's employees fairly and that's why a three-percent salary increase is being proposed in this year's budget.
"In just about every category we're the lowest paid in the state and a three-percent increase won't even make it close to the next lowest paid," Ellis said. "No one seems to focus on the fact that our staff is underpaid and my hope is we don't lose good staff members to higher paying positions."
The Exeter Town Council will meet on May 25 to adopt the 2011-2012 proposed budget. Members of the public will then get their chance to vote on the proposal, line by line, at the Town Financial Meeting next month.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WVLT) — Plans have been announced for Tennessee and Virginia Tech to play their 2016 game at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Track and officials from both universities formally announced the plans Monday for the "Battle of Bristol" during a news conference. The game scheduled for Sept. 10, 2016 will be a national showcase for both programs that could set an NCAA single-game attendance record at the 52-year-old racetrack.
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Virginia Tech athletic director says the game is "a reality that's as big as anything that's happened in the world of football."
Bristol's speedway can hold around 160,000 fans. The speedway sits nearly halfway between the campuses of the two schools, off Interstate 81 in Tennessee. The NCAA-recognized attendance record for college football of 115,109 was set last month at Michigan Stadium for Michigan-Notre Dame.
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