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What could have been without the Anglo Boer War
December 18, 2012 in Uncategorized
Extract from the new eBook from Andrew Barlow: South African Illusions and Delusions
What Could Have Been?
After Britain occupied the Cape in 1806, there were clashes and resistance between the Afrikaners and the British. Attempts by the British, especially by Lord Charles Somerset, to anglicise the Afrikaners, failed. When religious ministers for the Afrikaners could no longer be obtained from the Netherlands (due to the annexation) he imported Scottish Ministers. At the time it was customary for ministers of religion to be paid by the government. This was only to change some time later. Dr. Andrew Murray is the best known of them. The Scottish ministers performed their duties faithfully and served their congregations well. They remained true to their origins but were dedicated ministers of religion who are still revered in the history of the Afrikaners. All of them became fluent in Afrikaans and Dutch – Dutch was still the written language and the language of religion for the Afrikaners. An Afrikaans translation of the Bible appeared for the first time in 1923.
The British established governmental organs in many towns; built schools and appointed trained teachers and appointed magistrates. The changes did not take place without resistance. The Afrikaners in the area surrounding Graaff Reinet were the most unruly of all. While the colony was still a Netherlands possession, they regarded themselves as independent. When the British took over the resistance was merely increased. As already mentioned the "rebellion" of Slachtersnek occurred in that area. In the main, however, the English and Afrikaners got on increasingly well with each other and progress took place in many fields.
The only real problem was the continuing and serious conflict on the Eastern Border. The main objections to British rule were the emancipation of the slaves and judicial equality of all persons. These have been dealt with. After the recalcitrant persons had left the Cape Colony the remaining Afrikaners and English were reconciled increasingly. The Afrikaners became progressive, often well educated and often wealthy and settled. Their leaders were sober, intelligent and educated persons. Their power grew with little resistance and unpleasantness.
They also experienced a growing need to have their language recognised together with English as an official language. They succeeded to a large degree in this. Afrikaans instead of Dutch also became more and more important to them. The First Language Movement originated there. It is important to note that F.W.Reitz, who lived in Cape Town, when he was invested as State President of the Free State was shocked to find that the investiture was conducted in high flying Dutch while he had expected this to be in Afrikaans. He was not fluent in high Dutch. He remarked on this after the ceremony and was then told that they reserve High Dutch only for State occasions! In the two republics where the Afrikaners ruled themselves they were more than fifty years behind their compatriots in the Cape Colony in the recognition and use of Afrikaans. However, it is often stated as the main justification of the South African War that it made the Afrikaners conscious of their national identity and fused them into a nation. Again, a consideration of the facts will immediately make clear the invalidity of that statement. The Afrikaners in the Cape Colony had advanced very far beyond both republics in the use and development and recognition of Afrikaans and in their Afrikaans nationalism. They were a solid, unified cultural and political bloc. There are Afrikaans writers who dispute this and allege a secret odious complot between the leaders of the Afrikaner Bond and certain English leaders such as Rhodes, to undermine Afrikaans and the Afrikaners. This is simply either a distortion or a deliberate misinterpretation of the facts.
The Afrikaners in the Cape held the balance of the political power. W.P. Schreiner the son of a German missionary and an English mother was English speaking and was the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. He became Prime Minister with the support of the Afrikanerbond under Jan Hofmeyer – Onze Jan. The Afrikaners in the colony were therefore overall a contented, responsible people with a rosy future. This must be borne in mind when the period of James Barry Munnik Hertzog is dealt with.
In the Free State matters were developing on a similar basis although not at the same pace as in the Cape Colony. The two groups there experienced few problems and lived in harmony. The republic was well governed from the start. The only problem arose during the short period when Pretorius of the Transvaal tried to sit on two chairs at the same time, because he wanted to unite the two republics – and this at a time when the Transvaal was torn asunder with civil strife and had various States President and Commandants-General. The problems – for the Free State passed away quickly and left no permanent scars.
Had the South African War not taken place matters in the Free State would have progressed very much as they had in the Cape Colony.
In the Transvaal the position was quite different. There were at many places a significant English population where as in Heidelberg, the two groups also lived in increasing harmony and mutual appreciation. Details of this can be found inter alia in Heidelbergers of the Boer War by Ian Uys.
Emotions before, during and after the Anglo-Boer War ran high between both sides. In spite of this there were numerous incidents which showed that the English speaking people and the Afrikaners could, if this had after the war been pursued properly, as Louis Botha and Jan Smuts attempted incompetently, have lived and worked in great harmony to build this country into a prosperous and stable one. Most of the English speaking people at Heidelberg (T) remained neutral and did not assist the Boers. On the other hand they neither assisted the British. However, when the British forces occupied Heidelberg and the surrounding area, the British military authorities persecuted many of the English speaking people on totally false and spurious allegations of co-operating with the Boers. Some of them were interned and others were imprisoned. There were as usual the injustices caused by the avarice and unscrupulousness of individuals. A British commander who was stationed at Heidelberg wanted the home of a prominent English family as his headquarters. In order to achieve this he had the husband interned and imprisoned at Cape Town and the wife banned to Cape Town on completely false and unfounded charges of conspiring with the Boers.
On the other hand during the period when the Republican Government still controlled the Transvaal and while the commandos had several resounding successes the English people in the towns were not molested nor ill treated.
A few, because they considered themselves to be Transvaal citizens, joined the Transvaal forces such as Commandant Mears of Heidelberg and Cheere Emmet of Boksburg. Emmet was Louis Botha's brother in law and rose to the rank of general. Both were among the most competent of the officers on the Transvaal side. Mears was a disciplinarian who did not brook any indiscipline or unwillingness to fight. He used the sjambok to inspire his burghers with both. On occasion Louis Botha remonstrated with him about this and Mears then threatened to take his commando to the Free State and to fight there. He was then left in peace. (Christiaan de Wet also used the sjambok as an effective disciplinarian).
Milner took over the government of the two new colonies and imported a number of brilliant and enthusiastic young men to assist him. They came to be known rather derisively as "Milner's Kindergarten." His ideal was to forge the whole of South Africa into an English speaking colony. The Afrikaners had to become Englishmen – after all the Anglo-Saxon race was the best race in the world and they were fit, able and destined to rule the world.
Much of what Milner intended and attempted to achieve was admirable. The Kruger National Park was but an idea in a law passed by the Transvaal Volksraad under Kruger. It had, however in the Treaty of Vereeniging been stipulated that the laws of the Transvaal would be carried out and enforced. He then appointed Colonel Stevenson-Hamilton to carry out the provisions of the act and the Kruger National Park became a reality.
The reconciliation of the disparate factions in the Afrikaner people had to be achieved. The enmity between the Bitterenders and the "Handsuppers" and "Joiners" had to be resolved. This had to be done, not to consolidate the Afrikaners but to remove the enmity in their ranks which was a stumbling block for Milner in the achievement of his greater ideal. The adults could not be anglicised but if they could be reconciled their children could be turned into English men and women.
The Commissioners at all the various centres had to report regularly on the progress that had been made in this. The commissioner at Pietersburg on occasion reported that the enmity there was still very deep and alive and gave as an example the incident when a Bitterender had at a meeting called a Joiner a donnerse bliksem. This he said was apparently a very serious insult although the literal meaning was merely thunder and lightning.
He took measures to protect the impoverished burghers from being exploited by traders and others.
However, like Sir Charles Somerset, his actions to anglicise had exactly the opposite effect. Dutch was relegated to the position where for all practical purposes it was not taught in the schools. Except for this the schools which were established under his rule were in the circumstances of a high quality. In the Free State general James Barry Munnik Hertzog, a man who is not credited with real abilities as a statesman by the Afrikaners, thwarted Milner. In the Transvaal Smuts as minister of Education toed the Milner line. Private schools were established where the Afrikaans youth was taught in their "language" – which was not Afrikaans but Dutch.
Homo sapiens is the only animal which does not learn from experience. If the British Government had considered and analysed the previous attempts, particularly by Lord Charles Somerset to anglicise the Afrikaners, they would have realised that Milner was probably the most unsuitable person to be appointed to South Africa.
There is a striking resemblance in one particular aspect between Rhodes, Milner and Hitler. All three were men in a desperate hurry. All three of them had a burning desire to see their ambitions realised fully within their own life times. Rhodes, Chamberlain and Milner wanted the British Empire to be expanded to encompass most of the world. Rhodes wanted this to start at the Cape and progress from there to Cairo – but with Rhodes acknowledged as the main architect of this – and very quickly. Chamberlain did not like the idea of Rhodes having the desire to be the main architect and was willing to let matters develop "of their own accord and more or less in their own time" towards that end, with the Colonial office of which he was the Secretary, as the main architect. Milner had a similar ambition to that of Rhodes and with Rhodes, after the Jameson Raid, out of the picture, took over. He was in many ways, especially in his personal life, a frustrated man. He would not, like Chamberlain wait until Kruger died or retired and a progressive government in the Transvaal took over, as in all probability it would have, but was determined to find or invent a casus belli to force matters to a head and to incorporate both republics in the British Empire. Hitler wanted to see his ambitions in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union realised in his own lifetime.
There had been strong opposition in Britain to Milner's appointment, and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had asked for his recall. Eventually on the 2nd April 1905 Milner left – a disillusioned man. He had come up against the stone wall of indestructible nationalism. It is possible to subjugate a nation and to incorporate it into the empire of the victorious country. There are certain unalterable requirements for this to succeed. If the soul of the nation is sought to be destroyed that nation will oppose the conqueror with all the means at its disposable. Any nation's language is one of its most important possessions. It is, probably invariably, the one characteristic which more than anything else makes it a nation. At the peace conference in Pretoria Milner and General James Barry Munnik Hertzog clashed. When article 5 of the treaty, the article dealing with language rights, was being discussed Milner in reply to Hertzog said that he wanted only one language in South Africa. Herztog replied that that was what he wanted. They were not talking about the same language. Milner wanted the Afrikaners to become English. This desire of many British rulers in this country has probably done more than anything else to antagonise even the most moderate Afrikaners.
If there had been no deliberate attempt after the war to anglicise the Afrikaners, reconciliation between them and the English speaking people would quite possibly have been achieved to a very large extent. The atrocities committed by the British; the concentration camps, the rape, murder and pillage committed on a large scale by them, the permitting and even encouraging the black populations in several areas and of those black men in their employ to also commit these atrocities; might have become somewhat more dim in their memories. This would only have occurred if the government by the British after the war was in every sense a benevolent one towards them.
This was not so. Their language was suppressed. Their country had been wantonly destroyed. Their children, especially their children, had been killed in their camps. They were in a far worse position then than their forebears had been when they had trekked in their wagons with their possessions from the Cape into the Free State and the Transvaal. Their forbears had hacked out of the country a stable civilisation, in a country where nothing like that had existed before. They returned after the war to black burnt ruins where there was nothing but desolation and the putrid smell of death; penniless and in poverty.
The British Government had agreed to the paltry sum of three million pounds to put them back on their feet. Most of this went to the traitors – even then in drips and drabs, given reluctantly and grudgingly.
If, in view of the Afrikaners' ability to forgive and forget, the leaders on both sides had made a concerted effort to mould the two groups into a South African nation with the retention of their separate identities, the country and its peoples would have benefited tremendously. Botha and Smuts, especially Smuts after the death of Botha in 1919, emphasised the English interest to the almost total non-recognition of the Afrikaner interest. The English speaking political leaders made no attempt to further any real co-operation.
In the Free State Hertzog mobilized the Afrikaners and fought the English education system tooth and nail. After self government was granted to the Free State, after Milner had left, he introduced an education system that put Dutch on a par with English. In the Transvaal Smuts, after self government was granted, became the minister for education. At first sight this might seem a strange port folio for a man like Smuts. If what he had done before, if what has been set out about him before is borne in mind, it fits in well with his overall strategy. He had nestled into the niche which he had prepared all along. Whichever way the war went, Smuts would emerge victorious. He would take over where Milner had left off. He would make the Afrikaner children and the subsequent Afrikaner generations English. His education policy was directed to this end.
Botha genuinely desired to reconcile the two groups but he was out of his depth. It was a difficult task and with Smuts at his side an impossible one. Botha had come out of the war with a well deserved reputation as an extremely capable general. He had a great following due to this. His party's resounding victory at the first election was proof of this.
The English speaking section of the Transvaal made his work no easier. The animosity towards the Afrikaners was intense. The feeling that England's – not Britain's – interests were paramount was uppermost in their minds. The Afrikaners were barred from all but the most menial and unskilled employment.
The conditions which developed in the Cape Colony and the Free State could have occurred in the Transvaal only if an informed, intelligent person such as Piet Joubert had been State President and not Paul Kruger.
Had Piet Joubert been State President the South African War would not have taken place. The governments of Natal, the Cape Colony and the Free State agreed with the British government that the territories in South Africa should unite in a political and economic unit. The most important uncertainty was whether this should be by means of a federation or con federation of states. For any informed, intelligent person the necessity of this would have been clear.
If this had happened, as it inevitably must have happened once Paul Kruger was no longer the President, Smuts would not have been one of the main actors on the political stage. His divisive and therefore destructive role would not have been in the script.
A system was evolving in the Cape Colony and Natal which to the incalculable harm of the country was destroyed by the South African War – in 1910 with unification. In these two colonies any person could, if he complied with certain requirements, obtain the right to vote. The requirements had mainly to do with a certain measure of literacy and income. A natural development thereof would eventually have led to a peaceful and generally accepted solution of the colour problem.
In order to obtain the co-operation of the black people in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, the British government had promised that they would be granted political rights similar to those pertaining in the Cape Colony. This promise was not kept. It was deferred until self government was to be granted. When the four colonies, as they then were, were united in 1910 the matter was not dealt with. It was left to be dealt with by the Union Government. In 1906 chief Segale of the Kgatla tribe reported that he had found that extreme disillusionment existed among the black people in the Transvaal because of the non-fulfilment of British promises and that if war between the Boers and the British were then to break out then the black people would support the Boers as their treatment under the Boers had been better than under the British. To these indispensable allies of the British in the war, allies without whose assistance they could not have fought that war, the British, the English as the world in general refers to them, were the perfidious Albion of the French or the promiscuous Hussy of the Russians.
This deliberate neglect, the disregard of a serious undertaking and pledge, was as so often in the history of the British Empire made in order to achieve an immediate advantage. The advantage in this case being to be rid of the responsibility for the governing of the colonies. The material benefit to the Empire of the Witwatersrand gold had been assured. The ideal of the expansion of the empire had been secured. The politicians and the Randlords greed had been satisfied.
Milner had in mind for South Africa a great preponderance, a tremendous majority of Britons to make sure that the British would permanently be in control of the country. To this end a mass emigration of Britons to South Africa would have to take place. The British Government did not succeed in this; immigrants arrived here only in small insignificant numbers. The reason was that the British people had no wish to immigrate to a country beset with a "Native Problem" which could only become more serious as time went on. They went to places like Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States in great numbers.
Without the South African War the Afrikaners in the Free State and the Transvaal would not have lost l3,6% of their population – 28000 deaths in the concentration camps and 6000 deaths on the battle fields.
The Afrikaners' entry into the trade and industrial sectors would not have taken place with the animosity and opposition of the English with which it had to cope until well into the second half of the twentieth century.
The deep seated resentment, resistance and soul destroying frustration of being prohibited from following any occupation which was the lot of other races for decades would not have taken place. The country was known to be rich in minerals. Industrial development would have taken place rapidly in spite of the rabid jingo opposition to such progress. South Africa would quite possibly have surpassed Australia in this respect. This development allied with the liberal policy of the Cape and to a lesser extent that of Natal would have ensured that the political integration of the various people would have followed a course whereby most of the major problems would have been solved almost unnoticed.
The country would have progressed unstoppably much further in all spheres of trade and industry as is at present the case.
The enmity between Boer and Brit which still bedevils the relations between the two groups would not have existed. The Afrikaners in the Cape Colony had a greater consciousness of identity than those in the Free State and Transvaal. The progress in the Cape Colony would inevitably have spread to the two republics.
The South African War was disastrous in several ways. If the route which Gladstone preferred had been followed this would not have been the case. As mentioned earlier the Cape, Natal and the Free State were in agreement that some kind of union, whether a federation or a con federation of states, was necessary. Many Transvalers were also in favour of this. The schemes of Milner, Rhodes, Chamberlain and several others wrecked this possibility. The evil that men do live after them.
It destroyed the British Empire. After the humiliations which British arms had suffered repeatedly at the hands of a few untrained farmers, after almost half a million men were unable to subjugate a handful of men who were still fighting, very few if any countries took the British seriously as a military power. India in particular, the Crown jewel in the Empire, began to realise that it could look forward to throwing off that yoke – other possessions woke to the same fact.
The dream of Milner, Rhodes and Chamberlain of an Empire ruled by the Anglo-Saxon English, the people of destiny, assisted by the white Anglo-Saxons of the colonies, would rule the world and would take the non-white colonies under their collective wings was a shattered dream.
The material loss of the war to Britain was severe – it cost more than two hundred million pounds – a colossal sum in those days. But much more than this was the loss of international prestige. The pursuit of the ideal to extend the empire to cover most of the planet lost impetus – it came to almost a standstill. The Great War, the First World War, was due to a power struggle between Britain and Germany. The assassination at Sarajevo was merely the spark in the powder keg. If the South African War had been avoided Britain's prestige and the fear in which it was held by the other powers would not have been diminished. It is a real possibility that war between Britain and Germany would then not have taken place.
If the First World War had not taken place the Second World War would not have taken place. That conflict, taking everything into account would, if any war had broken out, have been confined to the Pacific Ocean area. (The war in the West in fact persuaded Japan that it could attack and seize areas rich in raw material in the Far East with impunity and at one tremendous blow cripple the United States of America to such an extent that it could not wage war against Japan effectively) Europe and Russia would not have been involved – Hitler could in the circumstances which then obtained not have arisen as the trumpet call to arms for the German people to set right the injustices of the treaty of Versailles as that treaty would not have existed. There would have been no Treaty of Versailles. Hitler with his dream of acquiring lebensraum eastwards would not have been on any political front or horizon.
Stalin might not have been obsessed with the arms race. The Soviet Union might possibly have progressed far more peacefully and with far greater material benefits to its people. The communist ideal of a communist world might, however, have necessitated a war against that state. Such a war would not have had the devastating and ruinous effect which the Second World War had.
A federation of the South African states was rendered impossible. The union of only the Cape, Natal, the Transvaal and the Free State made this impossible. This was to the detriment of the territory.
Enmity between the Afrikaners and the English would not be eliminated in a hundred years. There is still a great deal of that.
The Afrikaners would not have lost a major portion of their people. Recovery of this loss has been impossible.
The balance sheet of that war shows only losses. Even the mining magnates were losers. Their gains, if the war had not taken place, would have been greater.
There are better ways than war to solve differences and problems.
Like the Transvaal which had the men with the intelligence and the knowledge and the vision to lead it into its industrial revolution after the discovery of gold but who were brushed aside by its people and a militant ignorant narrow minded incompetent man placed at its helm, Britain had its men of vision who also were brushed aside and it had militant, self-seeking, narrow minded men at its helm. Gladstone and his supporters could have taken Britain and its empire to greater heights – peacefully and successfully."


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I've long thought of Denver as being the Rodney Dangerfield of American cities, because we just can't get no respect. But ever since the Democrats announced they would hold their national convention in town, those of us who live here are starting to feel more like Sally Field, because it seems that they like us, they really like us.
As for myself, I've liked Denver since I got here in the early 1980s, just in time to see the oil bust, a mythical period when the price of oil tanked, believe it or not, and brought Denver to its knees. In spite of these hard times, Denver was then what it has seemingly always been: a town, as Andy Warhol described it, that was full of "cute boys" and "kooky girls." And from my vantage point, little has changed.
With the world's mass media coming to town, we need to gird ourselves for the onslaught of know-it-alls who will whisk in for a few days, only to come to definitive conclusions about our beloved city that will mostly be wrong but will nonetheless be broadcast to a wide audience that will take these fables at face value. A good example is an August 10 description of Denver from the New York Times that read: "...you can see from one end to another, it's that flat..." Wouldn't it be fun to watch the author, Eric Wilson, driving through town in the snow this winter? Flat enough for you, Eric?
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Given the predictable onslaught of misinformation, I thought it might be interesting to think about what Denver means to me through one of the lenses I wear, which is to say from the perspective of architecture.
As longtime readers of this column know, I think buildings express a narrative that can be used to read a city's history. Denver is thus an open book, and its architecture reveals a place that has welcomed experimentation, fulfilled the ethos of the New West, and at the same time held onto its Wild West past, at least for marketing reasons.
Although I don't live downtown, I love it because of my interest in architecture. Nowhere in Colorado or the neighboring states is there such a concentration of significant buildings and complexes, historic, modern and contemporary.
And you can count on DNC reports to focus on downtown as well — first on the 1999 Pepsi Center, by Chris Carver for HOK Sports, where the main part of the convention is being held, and then on the 2001 Invesco Field at Mile High, by Fentress Bradburn Architects, where Barack Obama will make his acceptance speech.
These structures make points about Denver that are absolutely true. We're a sports-crazy town, and obviously we're not afraid to build dazzling, neomodernist structures to host our teams — even if we'll tear them down in a few decades.
You can also count on reporters, delegates and campaign workers descending on LoDo, since that's where all the bars are. I can take or leave the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field, but LoDo is something we should all treasure. Many of the marvelous old brick buildings exemplify the most sophisticated styles of their era, like the 1909 prairie-style Rockmount Ranch Wear building by William Ellsworth Fisher.
These stately edifices collectively tell the story of how the railroad made Denver what it was, because before they were occupied by nightclubs, restaurants or lofts, they served as distribution warehouses for marketable stuff coming in and out of the Rockies.
There are also great new structures, none greater than David Adjaye's functionalist Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, from 2007, at 15th and Delgany streets. As an aside, the neighborhood today would be nothing but parking lots if not for the efforts of former Mayor Federico Peña, a national Barack Obama co-chair, who shoved preservation down the throats of the building owners when he was in office; for that I will always respect him.
Though the sports palaces and LoDo are true-blue exemplars of our city, for my money there's no place that says Denver quite as clearly as the Civic Center and its environs. The Civic Center will definitely catch the eyes of the media, and not only because it may see a protest or two, but because it makes such a great backdrop for a TV stand-up.
It is in this relatively tight space, just a few square blocks in area, where much of the city's governmental and cultural infrastructure is located. These notable buildings, set cheek by jowl, are arranged around a beautiful jewel-like park or just beyond it. And because they were built over time, you can use them to follow the course of American architecture from the late nineteenth to the early 21st centuries.
The park in the middle of the Civic Center is based on a neoclassical plan that featured the involvement of a number of significant landscape planners. But the way it is now can mostly be traced back to Edward H. Bennett. In 1917, Bennett needed to accommodate existing elements, including the 1904 Colorado State Capitol Building, by Elijah Myers and Frank Edbrooke, and the 1906 U.S. Mint, by James Knox Taylor. The park itself, however, was a blank slate, and Bennett determined its symmetrical plan and identified sites for future buildings — in particular, the elegant Denver City and County Building, which was designed by a consortium of Denver architects in the 1930s. The monumental building defines the west side of the park and works like a bookend for the Capitol on the east.


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I had to share with you these fun Christmas rudolph cookies. All you need is a cookie, piped chocolate, a red candy sweet such as a Skittle or M&M, and a tiny amount of sugar glue. They are so simple, but look so effective!
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photo by Roland Bello
Makes 4 to 6 servings
active time
40 min
total time
1 hr
- About 8 cups vegetable oil
- 2 pounds medium baking (russet) potatoes, peeled
- Equipment: a deep-fat thermometer; an adjustable-blade slicer fitted with french fry or large (1/4-inch) julienne blade
- Accompaniment: mayonnaise
Heat 1 1/2 inches oil to 325°F in a 5-quart heavy pot over medium heat. While oil is heating, cut potatoes with slicer into 1/4-inch sticks.
Fry potatoes in 5 batches for 1 1/2 minutes per batch (potatoes will not be golden) and transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. (Return oil to 325°F between batches.)
Heat oil to 350°F. Refry potatoes in 5 batches until golden and crisp, about 5 minutes per batch, and transfer to clean paper towels to drain. (Return oil to 350°F between batches.)
Season fries with salt.
Cooks notes: If you dont have an adjustable- blade slicer, you can slice the potatoes with a knife lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices, then cut into 1/4-inch sticks.
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recipe at a glance
type: Kid-Friendly, Traditional, Quick & Easy,
main ingredients: Potato
cuisine: European
dietary considerations: Vegetarian
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Here's a special Story Time Saturdays reading in honor of The Husband's birthday. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the video quality sucks on this one, but that's probably because Birthday Boy himself was the one manning my camera. Ah well, close your eyes and imagine I'm reading you a bed time story, too.
Hit send. Hit send. Hit send.
It's the twitter mantra of the brave who have made it to the land of The End on their respective projects. There's plenty of talk of nerves and sweaty palms and hyperventilation and total and absolute fear. I've heard it can be paralyzing, that fear. I've even seen ongoing twitter conversations in which one writer would be cheered on by a cast of supportive friends until they finally ignored the nerves just long enough to HIT SEND.
And then the twittersphere erupts in silent cheers and exclamation points of happiness.
So I was a little surprised when I realized how easy it actually is to Hit Send. I haven't had one nerve go haywire or had to wipe a sweaty brow. I've just, quite simply, hit send. And it isn't until the response appears in the inbox that the nerves hit, the palms get sweaty, and the hyperventilating begins because it is at that very moment that I have lost all control over what will come to be.
Hitting Send doesn't scare me. But I'll be honest. There are plenty of nerves, two very sweaty palms, and some slight hyperventilating going on as I click the email open to see what's in store.
There's a certain writer who's memoirs I used to devour. Each and every book made me feel like I was having a conversation with a really good girlfriend…with toe-nail painting and glasses of wine and the gab-fest spanning into the wee hours of the morning.
And when I found this writer on twitter, I went all fan-girl and followed. Fast. But I didn't send a tweet right away. I didn't want to seem desperate, you now.
Instead, I waited for one of her tweets to come across that seemed a natural for a response from a fan. I wasn't too surprised when I didn't get an immediate tweet back. I have 2 thousand followers. She has, um, way more than that. But I still had hope since I saw plenty of interaction with other fans. Maybe I just hadn't said anything interesting yet.
So I tried again.
And again.
And again.
Coincidentally, I had just purchased one of this writer's books. I had made it to the second chapter in the book right around the time I started talking to myself on twitter, and found myself wanting to pick up the book less and less with each ignored tweet.
Granted, the account may be manned by an assistant. Or maybe my stuff just isn't being seen for some reason. God knows how many tweets this writer has coming in any given moment from adoring fans. But no matter how I rationalized not being acknowledged, I was still finding myself less and less interested in reading that book.
It took a conversation with TBFF Juliette for me to figure out why. I was rambling, like I usually do, about Stuff that Doesn't Matter, including this very topic, when I suddenly had an epiphany. (That automatically made this a blog post because I don't have those very often.)
"I know I'm not famous or anything, but I see her interact with other regular people." I said. "But she writes memoir! That alone is like being allowed to peek inside her head. And not even getting a single "hi" or even a "thanks for the tweet!" makes me feel like she doesn't want me there."
"Makes sense," Juliette said.
"It does?" I was stunned I said something that qualified. "Wait! It does! If she was writing fiction, I wouldn't be nearly as annoyed. Fiction writers create worlds, but they don't take you inside their own. And to me, it only makes sense to try and interact fully, if interacting at all, to make sure fans feel like that world is accessible. Instead of welcome, I feel like I'm eavesdropping on a private conversation with the rest of the world every time I try to open that book back up."
It has come to my attention that for some totally jacked up reason, my blog is having a problem with Safari browser users. In short, if you use Safari and try to leave a comment — you ain't gonna get anywhere.
Firefox seems to work great and I haven't heard of any other complaints yet from Totally Confused Readers. So I'm not really sure what to do. My Totally Awesome Tech Guy is addressing the issue as he has time, but for now, I'd like to ask readers who can't comment to email me at AspiringMama (at) Gmail (dot) com. I might even find a spare second to post the comment for you.
That's the Public Service Announcement for the day. I have an Agent Search to dive back into.


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Tomorrow morning, BioWare and publisher Infogrames will announce the development of a second expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights. The first one,
GameSpot: We weren't surprised by your announcement of the Shadows of Undrentide expansion for Neverwinter Nights. But we're a bit confused about why you would announce another, unnamed expansion at the same time. Can you enlighten us?
Ray Muzyka: Like our publisher Infogrames, at BioWare we have long-term plans to support our Neverwinter fan community with the BioWare Live/Community Team, and the two expansion packs we've announced are part of this plan. The first expansion pack is being developed in collaboration with another developer (FloodGate), and we have also been working on an expansion pack that is in development solely at BioWare, planned for release months after the FloodGate expansion. We wanted to let our fans know about both expansions at the same time because the features of both are very cool. We're excited about both expansions, and we wanted to let our fans know about the long-term plans for the franchise.
GS: So, how come you don't have a name for the project yet? What are you calling it internally?
Greg Zeschuk: We do have some ideas for names of our upcoming expansion, but the reason we haven't disclosed anything yet on the name is we have yet to settle on one. We have a very tricky name for the internal expansion pack--for now, we're calling it XP2! We like it because it sounds high-tech and mysterious.
GS: Will players be able to import their high-level Neverwinter Nights characters into the game, or will they start over with a new character in the expansion? Will the hireling system remain as is, or will players have control over more characters this time around? Will the character level cap be raised? What can we expect in the way of new skills, feats, or even character classes? What kind of new monsters will we be up against? What kind of new loot or new magic can we expect to run into?
GZ: The best way for us to answer this big bunch of questions with regard to XP2 is to say that the D&D 3rd Edition rules are exceptionally broad, with a huge amount of potential content that we can access in both the first and the second expansion packs. We're watching the various message boards and online polls on feats, classes, and skills, and we're choosing new content based both on the desire of the fans and the technical feasibility of the features. We've got some big plans we're putting into action with these two expansions that we'll detail further in the coming months.
A few specifics to mention include some of the improvements to the henchman system--we're working on improving henchman AI, as well as giving the player control of the henchman inventory. The first expansion pack will be similar to the original Neverwinter Nights where the player will have one henchman accompanying them on the journey, though we have an additional goal of making the henchman much more interactive, and we're exploring the possibility of having more than one henchman in the second expansion pack. BioWare's upcoming Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic will feature an expanded party system, as will the new PC intellectual property we're currently working on, but not yet talking about.
With regard to the new monsters, they can best be described as "bigger and scarier!" As Ray mentions above, we are able to pull out all the stops in our expansions and sequels as the designers have greater skill and experience they can apply to creating new content. Not only will the monsters in this second expansion pack be bigger and cooler, but they will also be considerably smarter as we have plenty of time to design new and powerful AI systems for creatures and enemies to use.
GS: Neverwinter Nights was a lengthy game, and you've said that the Shadows of Undrentide expansion will have a 30-hour campaign. That's a lot of Neverwinter Nights, so what's this second expansion going to do that will pull players back into the game for yet another go?
RM: The first expansion pack is mainly focused on providing an exciting new storyline as well as a number of new monsters, new skills, feats, and spells, and some new background tiles. Because we have more time to work on the second expansion pack, it is a bit more ambitious in terms of the scope of the new programming features, art, and design. We're planning some very cool features that will take us more time to develop--things like supporting higher-level characters and supporting a very cool area of the Forgotten Realms that our fans have been asking us to put in the game.
More details on the features of the second expansion pack will be revealed a bit later in development. For now, we're focusing on the first expansion pack in terms of what we're discussing, but we did want our fans to know that even more features are planned for the second expansion and that it will be a worthy addition to the Neverwinter lineup. Naturally, we're excited to see how FloodGate's design will play out in the first expansion pack, Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide, and we'll do our very best to compete with them to make a great storyline for the second expansion as well.
GS: Thanks for your time.


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Hi everybody,
I am new to gardening and New England and the forums. I planted tomatoes into containers (with a commercial potting mix) the week before Memorial Day. Everything was going well until the past week of 50 degree days and nonstop rain showers-I was horrified to see my plants' leaves covered in tiny black spots yesterday. I've purchased one of the copper-containing fungicides to apply today, but I was wondering if these plants are goners? I hate to lose them, especially since the seedlings survived a 12 hour drive. Hopefully this photo shows up-any thoughts are appreciated!
Here is a link that might be useful: http://s1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh607/Epeegardener/
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Now there are leaves curling on the smallest plants too. So sad. :-( |
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The Light and How to Swing It: A week of tantalizing Mists information {WoW}
Mar 27th 2012 9:42AM I casually glanced at the paladin information and remain unexcited--not because I don't like new expansions and change, but because I've played paladin as main since a month after TBC and the following inevitably happens:
1) Anything about Cata paladin that worked (the few that did) will be unnecessarily reworked. (Blizzard's motto: "If it ain't broke for paladin, go ahead and fix it, anyway.")
2) Anything cool you see in Beta will mysteriously disappear without explanation.
3) Alternatively, anything healing seen as slightly more OP than shaman or priest will be nerfed. Anything ret seen as slightly more OP than rogue or warrior will be nerfed. Prot will be made more difficult.
4) Mathematical rule: As the release date approaches, the number of paladin changes + how deeply those changes are made will accelerate on a curve until if graphed, the line shoots straight up to the moon.
5) One week after release, just as paladin settle in and begin learning their class (again!), a major nerf will come as the result of players in PvP QQ'ing about paladin. This will affect not only PvP but paladins' ability to raid.
I tank and heal IN SPITE of Ghostcrawler & Co., not BECAUSE of Ghostcrawler & Co.
Breakfast Topic: 'Every female WoW player has healed at least once' {WoW}
Mar 12th 2012 6:34PM My guildmaster is a woman. She does DPS (DPSes? DPS's? more graceful, plz thx) on warlock and tanks on paladin. About 1/2 of our members are women. I can think of only a single healer among them, and even then, as an off-spec, and even THEN, she does it only when dragged, kicking and screaming (10-person progression fights lacking third healer).
I have a lot of female friends in WoW. I mean, a lot. The healers among them are triple threats: they DPS, tank and heal because doing all three across different characters is fun and challenging. The best player I know has 8 (soon to be 9) well-geared max-level characters, considers herself (huntress) DPS first and foremost, and druid healer/dps second. She also has downed every boss in the game, has insane achievement score, is wealthy, knows every class, every spec, every dungeon, every boss, every zone. She is a walking WoWpedia.
Come to think of it, most of my female WoW friends want to blow some sh*t up, and they scare me a little.
Blue Posts: Remember that MoP talents are not 100% done {WoW}
Feb 11th 2012 10:37AM Please keep using variations of "Zarhym as a judge" images. You haven't beaten it to death like "Deathwing word balloon" or Ghostcrawler "To the ground!" yet.
The Queue: Are we still having this conversation? {WoW}
Dec 2nd 2011 11:44AM "Are you going to rest all of your opinions about hot dogs on the fact that Takeru Kobayashi ate a bunch of them before you did?"
Bad analogy. But, okay, let's go along with it. If you were standing next to Kobayashi, shoving hot dogs in your face as quickly as you could because you were in a hot-dog eating contest with him, then yes, the hot-dog eating contest would be over. QED.
Also, one of my pet peeves is when people write about their pet peeves.
The strange world of the NDA {WoW}
Nov 26th 2011 12:18AM Mathew McCurley wrote:
"...[Y]ou're probably not going to get sent to prison over leaking information from the recent closed beta of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Your account will get banned or suspended, you'll probably be on the Bioware hit list for the rest of your life, or the Cupertino police department will break down your door and search your house, but the ramifications are not the "lock you away" type..."
I would certainly hope not, considering the following:
[Posted 11/18/2011:]
"As of now, the non disclosure portion of our Game Testing Agreement is officially lifted. While all players must still accept the Game Testing Agreement, from this point on testers may now freely talk about their experiences this past weekend in the game, as well as post screenshots and gameplay videos of their testing experiences. We encourage you to come join us on the official Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ Forums to share your experiences!
[snipped some stuff about copying stuff from their forums]
"May the Force be with you!
"Greg Zeschuk
VP, Electronic Arts, BioWare Austin, General Manager"
5 reasons you should love Cataclysm {WoW}
Nov 23rd 2011 8:54PM Upvoted Glaras. I agree that "apologist" and "cheerleader" are the two words that I think when I run across Ms. Stickney's posts. Stick about 3/4 of the current staff (and two obnoxious frequent commenters) into that group.
5 reasons you should love Cataclysm {WoW}
Nov 22nd 2011 9:08AM Out of five features: two that made me shrug (lore and the 1-60 revamp), one was fine (but that we've begged Blizzard for since TBC--flying in Old World), and--here's the kicker--two that most players haven't even seen yet (transmog/void storage).
Instead of "why we should love Cata," I think this just emphasizes how underwhelming it's been.
Writing this while I download SWTOR to do my beta testing. That says something, too.
The Queue: Is Jaina going to keep the peace? {WoW}
Nov 3rd 2011 2:17PM Yes, it's like the whole world (of Warcraft) has forgotten about patch 4.3. I think with the announcement of MoP, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that our long (inter)national nightmare known as Cataclysm is almost over. That's how bad Cataclysm was--Blizzard said, "Panda monks!" and the fanbase said, "Hooray!"
Having said that, I can't WAIT to kill Jaina...and I'm Alliance. I'm looking forward to it like an early Christmas.
BlizzCon 2011: Pet battles introduced in Pandaria {WoW}
Oct 21st 2011 6:52PM Well done. I never actually lol at anything, but that got to me. And whenever I think about it--like I am now--it makes me laugh all over again. Thanks!
BlizzCon 2011: Pet battles introduced in Pandaria {WoW}
Oct 21st 2011 6:35PM That was supposed to read "called 'Team Rocket'" but curses, I was foiled by formatting.


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Yawn. We've known about this for a month.
No, that's a lie. We've known about this for, oh, two years, yet now Chargers owner Dean Spanos has finally displayed some grasp of logic, ending the employment of both his head coach and general manager.
Norv Turner and A.J. Smith are gone, and an era of mismanagement in all phases of the Chargers' football operations is over.
Their fates in San Diego will always be tied, as both the front office decisions and on-field tomfoolery played equal parts in the absence of playoff football for the Chargers over the past three years. For Turner, an offensive-minded coach has the decline of Philip Rivers now on his résumé, though perhaps that was part coaching negiligence, and simple regression from a veteran quarterback who's beginning to resemble, say, Carson Palmer. Deep balls mean so very little when they're consistently thrown after awful, rookie-level bad decisions.
But in-game collapses throughout the past few seasons have now became numerous and legendary. One such collapse is a fluke, but several mistakes that become the difference between watching and playing in January begin to reflect back on the head coach, and his inability to be a leader of men.
Nothing about that skill can be quantified, except in the form of wins and losses. A year ago the Chargers started their season with only one loss over their first five games. Then when mid-October hit and pressure began to mount, the wilting started. They lost six straight games, and four of those games were decided by a touchdown or less. That legacy continued this year, with the Chargers entering October with a 3-1 record, and then losing seven of their next eight games.
Smith's role was one of neglect, and disregarding core needs. We can continue ranting about Rivers' regression or Turner's inability to maintain composure in his team throughout an entire season. But key personnel pieces were missing, and what's most discouraging is that they were allowed to walk.
Darren Sproles has 2,224 total yards over the past two seasons with 17 touchdowns in New Orleans after leaving San Diego as a free agent. Had Sproles been retained, those numbers would have provided some mighty fine support for Ryan Mathews. And more importantly, depth when Mathews inevitably breaks.
Then there's Vincent Jackson. He was allowed to walk after his relationship with Smith soured in 2010 during his bitter contract standoff that resulted in a rare regular-season holdout, and 11 missed games. Jackson left for Tampa last summer, and all he did there was finish this season with a career high 1,384 receiving yards. What was Rivers left with? The failed Robert Meachem experiment, and an aging and decaying Antonio Gates. Yes, Danario Alexander eventually arrived at mid season, but his splash was delayed due to well known injury problems.
As much as Turner has failed as the central figure of a coaching staff, he still has a brilliant offensive mind, and given the growing list of openings he'll have no problem finding gainful employment as a coordinator in the very near future. But Smith is and will remain a cancerous castoff.


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Moving violations, that is, breaking the law while driving your car is very serious when it comes to violating the laws relating to school buses.
According to Captain Gerald Netherland, Special Operations Division of the Chesterfield County Police, the violation and its fines can be substantial.
"According to Section 46.2-859 of the Code of Virginia, a driver who violates a law involving a school bus is charged with reckless driving," Capt. Netherland said. But he said it's not just the fine for the violation or the reckless driving citation on your record, there are serious repercussions if someone is hurt.
Netherland said that to his knowledge no one has been hurt by this type of infraction.
Consider four children standing in their parent's driveway waiting for the school bus. As the bus approaches drivers can see the buses amber lights breaking through the early morning light. The amber warning light, as the bus slows, switches to red, alerting drivers that the bus has stopped when the door is opened. A signal arm swings from the side of the bus further indicating that school children will be entering or exiting the bus.
A car races by the bus in the opposite direction. The road has a turning lane between the two major lanes and the driver either doesn't know that by law that he should stop, he thinks he can weave around the kids if they run out or he just doesn't care.
The traffic law states that if a bus stops to load or unload children, traffic behind the bus and oncoming traffic must stop, no matter how many lanes or turning lanes the road has. According to the law, the only time a car can pass a bus without stopping is if there is a physical barrier between the operator of the car and the stopped bus.
Tom and Ruth Tennille have seen cars passing the bus that picks up their grandchildren and a neighbor's children and it scares them to death, they say.
Mr. Tennille witnessed his grandson exit the bus one afternoon. On the bus driver's side a car had properly come to a stop. A young lady in an SUV approached but wasn't paying attention, although going the speed limit she was headed for the rear end of the car stopped at the bus. According to Tennille the driver had three choices: rear end the car in front of her, drive into the ditch or drive through the turning lane between the car in front of her and the bus.
"After passing between the stopped car and the bus, the SUV came to a stop about 250 feet down the road and sat there for [a number of minutes] … very upset and holding up traffic," Tennille said. "We too were very upset and angry… That's when we started calling Chesterfield Police."
The police department assigned two officers to sit at the bus stop when they had time. Eight citations have been issued since Officers Fisher and Hayes have been watching the bus load and unload.
Officer Fisher said he saw "violations the first week of school," he continued. "This is not a local problem, this is countywide."
Two years ago, Governor Bob McDonnell signed a bill that increased the penalty for motorists who illegally pass school buses.
"The foremost obligation of government is public safety, and protecting our younger citizens so that they may focus on their education is a moral obligation of all Virginians," Gov. McDonnell said.
Tennille said that just the presence of the police officers watching out for the school children has made a difference and has also slowed down speeders. "Some of us on Centralia Road want to have the speed limit lowered to 35 mph on Centralia Road from Chester to Chalkley Road," Tennille said.
The bus drivers are not the problem, "We have three or four great drivers – the safety issues we have here are with the unconcerned motorist and not the school system or our bus stop location," Tennille said. "If you break a very noble and important law and put some child in danger, that's your reckless decision, and hopefully you won't have to suffer the consequences. We pray that no child is ever hurt while going to and from school." Tennille said.


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A while back a member posted their concern regarding AVG Mail Scanner no longer being compatible with Thunderbird Mail. I'm sorry I don't remember who it was. I paid interest in the thread as I too had the same concern, and unfortunately no one was able to resolve it.
I have now found the work-around if anyone still needs it. DA |
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It appears the member requiring this information has not been present. I've got it on record if and when it comes up again, and it will from what I read. DA |
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Cairo Historical Society
Welcome to the Cairo Historical Society website!
Cairo Hometown Heroes Banner Program
The Cairo Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the Town of Cairo's rich historical past and providing opportunities for the public to learn about their heritage. The Cairo Historical Society was founded in 2007 with 10 enthusiastic members.
Current Board of Directors: John Kargoe, President; John
Gallagher, Treasurer; Sylvia Hasenkopf, Vice President and Secretary, Hillary
Higgins, Vice President.
Trustees: Robert Hempstead, Linda Larsen, John Kargoe, Ann Clapper, Ron
Hasenkopf, Gail Kargoe, Robert Uzzilia
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The Cairo Historical Society invites you to join us and help support historical programs and preservation efforts. Your membership contribution is tax deductible:
Member - $20
Family (2 or more residing at the same address) - $25
Business $50
Sponsor - $100 - $249
Benefactor - $250+
Send your cheque to:
Cairo Historical Society
P.O. Box 803
Cairo, NY
We thank you for your generous support!
The Cairo Historical Society will hold their monthly meeting on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00pm at the Cairo Public Library in the Community Room, unless otherwise posted.
The monthly meeting dates
for 2014 are as follows:
January 16
February 20
March 20
April 17 - Our annual meeting
May 15
June 19
July 17
August 21
September 18
October 16
November 20
December 18 - Our Christmas Party
Everyone is welcome! Meetings are used to discuss new projects, updates on existing projects and present new items of interest. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Town of Cairo and its rich history.
Minutes of Meetings:
Do you want to know what we discuss and the status of projects underway? Check back here on a monthly basis. Meeting minutes will be posted for everyone to review.
2014 Projects:
1. Digitize the Cairo Cemetery
2. Lay the Cairo Railroad Track
3. The Town of Cairo Hometown Heroes Book - Launch May 2015
4. Solmon/Earle Cemetery Remediation
2014 Calendar of Events: More Events Coming Soon
A Victorian Tea with Charles L. Beach - the Proprietor of the Catskill Mountain House
January 18, 2014
Gallagher's Banquet Hall, 513 Main St., Cairo, NY
2:00pm -5:00pm
Join Joe Capobianco, as he transforms himself into Charles L. Beach, the man
behind the success of the Catskill Mountain House, America's first resort
hotel, which catered to famed actors and actresses, business tycoons,
Presidents and Royalty. A Victorian Tea will also be served. Menu as
A variety of teas
accompanied by
Finger Sandwiches
Cucumber and Herb Cream Cheese on French Bread
Chicken Salad on Baby Croissant
Ham & Baby Dill Pickle on Rye Cocktail Bread
with your choice of
Apricot, Blueberry and Peach Preserves
Chocolate & Butter Cookies
$5 Admission charge
State of the Union Dinner
February 15,
Masonic Hall, Main St. Cairo
4:30pm to 7:30pm
Tickets are $18pp and $10 for children 10 and under
Choice roast beef or ham, with homemade mashed potatoes, gravy, silvered
almond green beans, honey glazed carrots, salad, roll, slice of pie, coffee,
tea or soda
Historical Society Annual Meeting
April 17, 2014
7:00pm, Cairo Public Library, Railroad Ave, Cairo, NY
Community Band
May 18, 2014
3:00pm, Gallagher's Banquet Hall, 513 Main St., Cairo, NY
Under the direction of Ann Clapper, the Coxsackie-Athens Band will play a program to be announced soon.
This event is sponsored by the Cairo Historical Society.
The Cairo Line of the CMRR - with
Roger Liller
September 26, 2014
3:00pm Cairo Library Community Room
Following the commemoration of the Cairo Line tracks
Rails to the Catskills
November 8, 2014
2pm, Cairo Public Library, Community Room
Rails to the Catskills is a
history of the dynamic railroad industry in the Catskills of New York State.
Catskill railroads have roots in the canals of the 1820's and the post Civil
War boom.
The film explores:
For Love of Trains
Canajoharie & Catskill Railroad
Before Railroads - the D&H Canal
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad
Electric Trolleys
Ulster & Delaware Railroad
Catskill Mountain Railway/Otis Elevating Railway
Wallkill Valley Railroad
West Shore Railroad
Delaware & Ulster Railroad
Catskill Mountain Railroad
Rails & Trails Conflict
Rails to the Catskills uses original footage, contemporary and vintage photographs, postcards, rare films, railfan-movies, newspapers, and historic archives.
Cairo Historical Society Christmas Party
December 18, 2014
7:00pm, Cairo Public Library, Railroad Ave, Cairo, NY
Items for Sale
Mail your cheque to:
Cairo Historical Society
PO Box 803
Cairo, NY
Local pick up can be arranged at the Cairo Town Hall on Main St. Cairo.
For more information call Sylvia Hasenkopf 518/821-3752 or email her at email@example.com
All proceeds go to supporting the Cairo Historical Society's projects.
Our Books on Local History:
1. Portrait of the Past - A photographic journey into Cairo's Past. $15.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling
2. Legs Diamond, Gangster by Patrick E. Downey - Brand New in 2012 - This extremely well researched book on the legendary "Legs Diamond" is a must read. Hard to put down with many new, previously unpublished facts about his life and times. $19.95 plus $3.25 shipping and handling
3. Historic Places in Greene County by the Greene County Historical Society - This truly amazing hardcover book has 276 pages of breathtaking historic images and contemporary photos of historic places and homes in Greene County. Each designated site has detailed histories. Published by Flint Mine Press. The book is 9 inches by 12 inches. Price $49.95 plus $4.00 shipping and handling.
4. May God in His Mercy Spare our Lives, the Civil War Letters and Diary of Eseck G. Wilber, 120th NYV, this book captures the Civil War exploits of Eseck G. Wilber, who was just 21 when he volunteered for the Union Army in August of 1862. He was full of youthful arrogance and pride which slowly eroded as disease, hunger and death surrounded him. Eseck was at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg before he was captured by the Rebels at James City, Va and sent to Libby Prison. Moved to Pemberton, then Belle Isle and finally Andersonville, GA, Eseck saw first hand the deprivations of his fellow soldiers. Eseck's 80 letters and his diary tell the tale of his military exploits and his incarceration by the South. $24.99 plus $3.25 shipping and handling.
Our DVD's on Local History:
William Kennedy's Prohibition Story - New in 2011 - Master storyteller and Pulitzer Prize winning author William Kennedy recounts the fascinating and violent exploits of gangster-bootlegger Jack "Legs" Diamond during the Prohibition Era. $19.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.
The New York Capitol Fire - New in 2011 - On the morning of March 29th 1911 a massive fire ripped through the New York State Capitol - a building that had taken 30 years to complete. This documentary incorporates stunning photographic images, dramatic reenactments and interviews to unravel the mysteries of the fire's origin, spread and aftermath. Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 shipping and handling.
Sweet Violets - New in 2012 - The surprising story of the Violet Capital of the World - Rhinebeck, New York. Sweet Violets tells the forgotten story of the violet industry in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. The documentary includes interviews with historians and violet growers, along with rare film footage, vintage photographs, 19th century music, postcards, poetry and art. Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 shipping and handling.
Catskill Mountain House and the World Around - New in 2010. Tobe Carey's masterful documentary of the Catskill Mountain House and its impact on local and national history. A must see for local history enthusiasts! Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 for shipping and handling.
Deep Water: Building the Catskill Water System - Deep Water chronicles the true story of the building of the Catskill Water System that feeds New York City's insatiable thirst for clean water. It is the tale of heroism and heartbreak, political maneuvering, lost villages, brilliant engineering and the power struggle between New York City and the Catskills. Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 shipping and handling.
Greene County, USA - Greene County, USA chronicles the growth of this unique county and the great number of "historic firsts" made by its inhabitants. From early flint mines of prehistoric times to the tensions of the Revolutionary War that resulted in kidnappings and murder, to Greene County inventions of national importance, this documentary will educate, entertain and delight audiences of all ages. Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 shipping and handling.
Rails to the Catskills
is a history of the dynamic railroad industry in the Catskills of New York
State. Catskill railroads have roots in the canals of the 1820's and the
post Civil War boom.
The film explores:
For Love of Trains
Canajoharie & Catskill Railroad
Before Railroads - the D&H Canal
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad
Electric Trolleys
Ulster & Delaware Railroad
Catskill Mountain Railway/Otis Elevating Railway
Wallkill Valley Railroad
West Shore Railroad
Delaware & Ulster Railroad
Catskill Mountain Railroad
Rails & Trails Conflict
Rails to the Catskills uses original footage, contemporary and vintage photographs, postcards, rare films, railfan-movies, newspapers, and historic archives. Cost is $19.95 and $3.00 shipping and handling.
Other items on Local History:
The Cairo Historical Society's first Cairo Herald 2011, a four page re-creation of Cairo's own newspaper. Articles, pictures and advertisements are from the Prohibition Era. Cost is $2.00 for local pickup and $3.00 to mail. A collector's item.
The 8 page second edition of the Cairo Herald 2012 is now available for sale. Chock full of entertaining tidbits, newspaper articles, advertising and pictures from Cairo's Prohibition Era. Cost is $2.00 for local pickup and $3.00 to mail. A collector's item.
The Cairo Herald 2013 is also an 8 page edition and is jammed full of stories, advertising and pictures of the Town of Cairo in the 1920's Cost is $2.00 for local pickup and $3.00 to mail.
Editions 2011, 2012, 2013 for $5.00 local pickup and $6.50 to mail.
Get your own Temperance and TommyGuns T-Shirt. Black with white lettering and white with black lettering. Sizes M, L, XL, XXL. $15.00 each tshirt plus shipping. Above is the logo which appears on the back of the Tshirt. The front has a Cairo, NY on the left breast area.
Town of Cairo Blanket Throw - A beautiful 50 inch by 70 inch blanket throw. Ideal for covering up while watching TV or reading. Manufactured in the USA. Depicted on the throw are iconic scenes from the Town of Cairo - the WW 1 Memorial fountain in Town, the Almshouse, the Greene County Fairgrounds, Shingle Kill Falls and Grist mill and many others. A must have! Cost is $55 plus $12.00 shipping.
Town of Cairo Baseball Cap - In six different colors - blue, green, brown, black, white and wheat. Only $15 per hat plus $4.00 shipping. Pick up available at the Cairo Town Hall.


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Every sports fan has "that game." The lucky few of us have more than one "that game." I live in Toronto so I only have one. Thankfully, my "that game" is the shared by almost the entirety of Canada. I am speaking, of course, about the 2010 Gold Medal game between Canada and The United States. Three years ago today the game was played. Three years ago today I became a Sidney Crosby fan. I remember…most of it. A lot of people point to game 2 of the 1987 Canada Cup as the greatest hockey game ever played. I get that but I've watched that game recently and, with some distance and hindsight, I can pretty safely say that 2010 topped it. Maybe it's the being there aspect but, for my money, there has never been a greater game than the one that was played on February 28, 2010.
Archive for the 'General Awesomeness' Category
Looking back at the 2010 Gold Medal game
Posted by Jake Goldsbie under General Awesomeness, olympics, One Man's Opinion on Feb 28, 2013
Mic'd Up: Listen to Zac Rinaldo tell Phil Kessel he's going to take his head off
Posted by Justin Bourne under General Awesomeness, Mic'd Up on Feb 26, 2013
I know his type – the tough guy who tells you every game just how DEAD he's going to make you – and grew to find them hilarious. Your best bet is to ignore them, but I think Phil Kessel went with a sharp "No you're not" retort. GOT 'IM.
By the way: please don't get too sensitive about this ("But head shots!"). Hockey's a tough game, and attempts at intimidation are a real thing. They aren't going anywhere.
(Stick-tap to @BroadStreetHockey for the clip)
Jonathan Drouin is basically just messing with people now
Posted by Justin Bourne under General Awesomeness, Hockey Vids on Feb 24, 2013
The goal above (versus Bathurst) reminds of the stuff The Professor used to do on the And1 Mixtape Tour – juke someone, flat beat them, then head back to where they started because, whatever, I can do that whenever I want. Those kids he's up against just aren't in his league.
(Stick-tap to @ScotiaFlamesFan) Read the rest of this entry »
Ryan Miller absolutely robs James Neal
Posted by Darren Kritzer under General Awesomeness on Feb 17, 2013
Sabres goalie Ryan Miller kept the score tied at three late in the third period against the Penguins after absolutely robbing James Neal of his 12th goal on Hockey Day in America.
Neal was on the receiving end of a beautiful pass from Sidney Crosby, but Miller read the play perfectly and makes an incredible glove save.
File this NHL '94 chair mat under "want"
Posted by Justin Bourne under General Awesomeness, Hey Sweet on Feb 15, 2013
So, this NHL '94 chair mat is just about the coolest thing ever, right? What better way to let people know that you're both into sports and a vidiot. They're not available yet, but it sounds like they could be in the not-too-distant future. Check out DavesGeekyIdeas.com to stay up on the news.
(Stick-tap to bleedinblueblog, davesgeekyideas.com)
Thomas Greiss has an awesome new mask
Posted by Darren Kritzer under General Awesomeness on Feb 14, 2013
San Jose Sharks goalie Thomas Greiss unveiled his new look mask today, and boy is it ever awesome!
Thomas Greiss has a pretty badass new mask #SJSharks twitter.com/KKurzCSN/statu…
— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzCSN) February 14, 2013
Here's an actual video of an actual ref actually fighting an actual player in Russia
Posted by Justin Bourne under Buzz, General Awesomeness, Hockey Vids on Feb 11, 2013
Dated February 4th, all I can tell you is that it's from a game in Russia, and the way the ref takes off his bucket as if to say "Welp, this is happening" is amazing.


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Baltimore Man Sentenced for Distributing Child Pornography on the Internet
Was on Juvenile Probation for Possession of Child Pornography While Distributing Additional 15,000 Files of Child Pornography
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Levi Peterson, age 22, of Baltimore today to six years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
According to his guilty plea, in June and November 2005, an undercover FBI agent in New York noticed that an individual using the nickname jboy was advertising F-Serve access to his computer. The F-Serve contained subdirectories and files that suggested that the F-Serve contained pornographic images of boys under 16 years old. On both occasions, the agent accessed the individual's F-Serve, which was located in Maryland, and downloaded images documenting the sexual abuse of minor children. The agent determined that as of November 2005, the F-Serve used by the individual had distributed over 15,000 files.
Peterson's residence was searched on February 23, 2006. Over 2,000 images of child pornography were found on his computer, including images documenting the sexual abuse of children under 12 years old, and depictions of minors engaged in sadistic and masochistic conduct. A compact disk was also seized containing 4,500 images of child pornography. During the search of his residence, Peterson told agents that his previous collection of child pornography was seized during a search of his home in 2003. As a result of the 2003 search, Peterson had pleaded guilty in juvenile court in Maryland to possession of child pornography and was on juvenile probation in 2005 and 2006.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. Details about Maryland's program are available at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/md/Safe-Childhood/index.html.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their investigative work. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Tonya Kelly Kowitz, who prosecuted the case.


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The Statue of Liberty is Kaput! Good enough relief pitching and some really not so hot at bats from the bottom of the American batting order ends the World Baseball Classic for the host country. Behind the unbelieveable pitching of Nelson Figueroa, Puerto Rico hangs on to beat the US 4-3.
It doesn't take much in short tournament. A lack of timely hits at the wrong time — any time, really — and suddenly the big bad Americans are heading home.
A game that featured the apparently tournament-mandated handful of bunts, some head-scratching managerial choices, one of the most egregious stolen base attempts of the year and far too many bad at bats for most US fans liking, team USA could not come back against J.C. Romero and a handful of minor league relief pitchers.
They tried, they rallied late but now the final four is set. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic will play for the first seed in Pool 2 and the right to face the Netherlands, while the loser gets Japan.
Another tight game, though one that seemed more about failure than success compared to last night's triumph. The Puerto Rican pitchers kept the US off-balance, changing speeds from "slow" to "slower" until their "please don't murder this ball, Giancarlo" prayers were answered. Andy Gonzalez delivered the big blow, a two-run double off Vinnie Pestano in the sixth inning which proved to be the difference.
Credit where it is due: Nelson Figueroa pitched a brilliant game, working the corners of the plate with aplomb, making the most of his "limited" arsenal of pitches. As Ben Badler notes on twitter, Figueroa pitched 60 innings of winter ball this year so he isn't exactly shaking off the rust like some pitchers.
Nelson Figueroa in last two WBCs: 17.1 IP, 2 ER.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) March 16, 2013
The former Met went six strong, allowing just two hits and a single walk with two strikeouts. He threw right up to the 80 threshold and looked good doing it. The parade of Puerto Rican relievers didn't inspire a great deal of confidence though they did the job, allowing three runs with a four run lead isn't failing now is it??
If fingers must point, why not pick on Adam Jones and Shane Victorino at the bottom of the American lineup? The two outfielders (though Victorino DH'd tonight) combined to go 0-8 with four strikeouts, included making two quick outs in the ninth inning against platoon-heavy former Phillies reliever J.C. Romero.
So the tournament must press on without the hosts. Will interest wane now that the US are out? Depends on where you live. This event was designed to grow the game internationally and it appears to be succeeding. Having the US of A in the mix keeps the domestic sports networks interested but there is still great entertainment ahead when the tournament shifts to San Francisco.
Hopefully, no time or brainpower is spent wondering where it all went wrong for the USA. They lost three games in this tournament by a total of six runs. That's it – but that's all it takes.
They were beaten by a bad pitcher who had it all working for him in a big moment. Would Mike Trout have turned in a better AB than Adam Jones in the ninth inning? Probably, but who cares?
Puerto Rican fans don't. They're celebrating a trip to the semi finals. The ownership of the San Francisco Giants might care a little bit.
They are now faced with selling tickets to three games without the biggest draw. The good old dynamic pricing structure looks like it might offer some hot, real-time bargains.
This is how the tickets were priced earlier this week, after the US beat Puerto Rico the first time and looked like a semi final lock.
And here is what they look like now. Quite the difference. They're basically giving them away at this point!
Tickets for the final game going for less than half price just two days later? Some brave baseball fan is going to get quite the show at a very reasonable price, that much appears clear.


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He wore a fine tweed sport coat, a neutral shirt, a muted blue-green tie. But you should pay the most attention to Mike Bellotti's choice of footwear.
It's the size 12½ Bragano loafers, crafted in Italy (but purchased, it's important to know, at the Nike store), that best illustrate Bellotti's new lot in life.
If Oregon's about-to-be athletic director had his druthers, he and Chip Kelly would not have worn ties Saturday morning. This was a special occasion. Or else they'd have taken questions while wearing golf shirts and shorts.
And no one who's spent any time at the Casanova Center would have been surprised if Bellotti had shown up in flip-flops.
But for Bellotti, those days are over.
The retiring football coach spoke convincingly about how he looks forward to stepping away from the constant demands — "24/7/365," he called the lifestyle — and spending more time with family.
Kelly noted Bellotti would only be "a hop, skip and a jump" away, and Bellotti suggested the distance was "a short 9-iron." Which makes you wonder just how much free time he thinks he's going to have, and how he'll fill his schedule in the other corner of the Cas Center.
"I don't have a next opponent," he said happily.
Except he does. A bunch of them. Click here for the complete column.