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British bomber aircraft 1930–1939, World War II British bombers, Handley Page aircraft
Handley Page Hampden
HP.52 Hampden
No. 455 Squadron (RAAF) Hampden
Medium bomber
Handley Page
Gustav Lachmann
Primary users
Royal Canadian Air Force Soviet Naval Aviation Royal Australian Air Force
Number built
[2][3]Hampden Mk IThe Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a British twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force serving in the Second World War. With the Whitley and Wellington, the Hampden bore the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and the first 1,000-plane raid on Cologne. The newest of the three medium bombers, the Hampden, known as the "Flying Suitcase" because of its cramped crew conditions,[1] was still unsuited to the modern air war and, after operating mainly at night, it was retired from Bomber Command service in late 1942.
[hide] *1 Design and development
2 Operational history
4 Operators
4.1 H.P. Hampden
4.2 H.P. Hereford
5 Survivors
6 The Hampden in popular culture
7 Specifications (Hampden Mk I)
Design and development Edit
Handley Page designed the Hampden to the same specification as the Wellington (Air Ministry Specification B.9/32) for a twin-engined day bomber. One prototype HP.52 was ordered which first flew on 21 June 1936. The first production batch of 180 Mk I Hampdens was built to a production Specification 30/36 with the first aircraft flying on 24 May 1938. Lady Katharine Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Viscountess Hampden, christened the first flight at Radlett aerodrome in 1938. [2] The Hampden's cockpitThe Mk I had a crew of four: pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio operator and rear gunner. Conceived as a fast, manoeuvrable, "fighting bomber", the Hampden had a fixed .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine gun in the forward fuselage. To avoid the weight penalties of powered-turrets, the Hampden had a curved Perspex nose fitted with a manual .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K gun and two more single .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K installations in the rear upper and lower positions. The layout was similar to the all-guns-forward cockpits introduced about the same time in the Luftwaffe's own medium bombers, notably the Dornier Do 17. The guns were thoroughly inadequate for defence, consequently, by 1940, the single guns had been replaced by twin Vickers K guns.
The Hampden used a stressed skin design reinforced with a mixture of bent and extruded sections with the wing having a single main spar. Construction was from sections prefabricated then joined. The fuselage was in three major sections - front, centre and rear. The centre and rear sections were themselves made of two halves. This meant the sections could be fitted out in part in better working conditions before assembly. In a similar way, the wings were made up of three large units: centre section, port outer wing and starboard outer wing, which were in turn subdivided.[3]
A total of 1,430 Hampdens were built: 500 by Handley Page, 770 by English Electric at Samlesbury in Lancashire; and in 1940–41, 160 in Canada by the Canadian Associated Aircraft consortium (although some were retained in Canada, 84 were shipped by sea to the United Kingdom).
Operational history Edit
[4][5]Scale comparison diagram of the trio of British twin-engined medium bombers at the outbreak of the Second World War; the Hampden (yellow), the Vickers Wellington (blue) and the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (pink)No. 49 Squadron received the first Hampdens in September 1938. By the end of 1938 both 49 and 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton had re-equipped.
A total of 226 Hampdens were in service with eight squadrons by the start of the Second World War. Despite its speed and agility, in operational use, the Hampden was no match for Luftwaffe fighters. Consequently, its career as a day bomber was brief, but Hampdens continued to operate at night on bombing raids over Germany, and mine-laying (code-named "gardening") in the North Sea and the French Atlantic ports.
Flight Lieutenant Rod Learoyd of 49 Squadron was awarded the Victoria Cross for the attack that he led on the Dortmund-Ems aqueduct on 12 August 1940.[4] Sergeant John Hannah was the wireless operator/air gunner of an 83 Squadron Hampden; he was awarded the Victoria Cross on 15 September 1940 when he fought the flames of the burning aircraft, allowing the pilot to return it to base.[4]
Almost half of the Hampdens built, 714, were lost on operations, taking with them 1,077 crew killed and another 739 missing. German flak accounted for 108; one became the victim of a German barrage balloon; 263 Hampdens crashed because of "a variety of causes," and 214 others were classed as "missing." Luftwaffe pilots claimed 128 Hampdens, shooting down 92 at night.[5] Guy Gibson spent most of the first two years of his wartime service flying Hampdens, and his book Enemy Coast Ahead gives a strong flavour of the trials and tribulations of taking these aircraft into action.
After being withdrawn from Bomber Command in 1942, it operated with RAF Coastal Command through 1943 as a long-range torpedo bomber, (the Hampden TB Mk I with a Mk XII torpedo in an open bomb bay and a single 500 lb (230 kg) bomb under each wing) and as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. No. 144 Squadron RAF and No. 455 Squadron RAAF were involved in the escort of Arctic Convoy PQ-18 operating from Soviet airbases and left their 23 aircraft in the USSR afterward. These were then used by the 3rd Squadron of the 24 MTAP (Anti-shipping Wing) of the Soviet Navy until at least 1943.[6] The Hampden was also used by the RCAF and the RNZAF.
The Hampden in RCAF service included the 160 examples manufactured in Canada by the Victory Aircraft consortium. Of the total built, 84 were shipped by sea to Great Britain, while the remainder came to Patricia Bay (Victoria Airport) B.C., to set up No.32 OTU (RAF) used for bombing and gunnery training. Typical exercises at 32 OTU consisted of patrolling up the West Coast of Vancouver Island at night or flying out into the Pacific to a navigational map coordinate, often in adverse and unforecast inclement weather. Due to heavy attrition from accidents, about 200 "war weary" Hampdens were later flown from the U.K. to Pat Bay as replacements.[7]
The Hampden was powered by two 980 hp (730 kW) Bristol Pegasus XVIII nine-cylinder radial engines. A Mk II variant was developed as the HP.62 by converting two Hampdens to use the 1,000 hp (750 kW) Wright Cyclone engine in 1940 but no more was done of the project.
Interest in the HP.52 by the Swedish for placing a potential order led to the HP.53 prototype, which was subsequently used as a testbed for a pair of 1,000 hp (750 kW) Napier Dagger VIII 24-cylinder H-block air-cooled inline engines.
In 1936, the RAF ordered 150 Dagger-engined Hampdens as the Hereford. Problems with engine cooling resulted in most of those built (by Short & Harland) being re-engined as Hampdens. The surviving Herefords served in training units only.
Operators Edit
H.P. Hampden Edit
No. 455 Squadron RAAF Used between July 1941 and December 1943, Codeletters UB
No. 408 (Goose) Squadron RCAF Used between July 1941 and September 1942, Codeletters EQ
No. 415 (Swordfish) Squadron RCAF Used between February 1942 and November 1943, Codeletters GX
No. 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron RCAF Used between December 1941 and August 1942, Codeletters PT
No. 32 Operational Training Unit RCAF Used between May 1942 and February 1944, Codeletters DK, LB, OP and RO
Royal New Zealand Air Force
No. 489 Squadron RNZAF Used between February 1942 and November 1943, Codeletters XA
Soviet Naval Aviation
No. 24 MTAP
Swedish Air Force
Reconnaissance Wing F 11 based at Nyköping operated a single HP.52 for evaluation under designation P 5. After the war, the aircraft was sold to SAAB where it was operated for testing avionics.
No. 7 Squadron RAF - April 1939 to April 1940, Codeletters LT (pre-War) and MG (Wartime)
No. 44 Squadron RAF - February 1939 and December 1941, Codeletters JW (pre-War) and KM (Wartime)
No. 49 Squadron RAF - October 1938 and April 1942, Codeletters XU (pre-War) and EA (Wartime)
No. 50 Squadron RAF - December 1938 and April 1942, Codeletters QX (pre-War) and VN (Wartime)
No. 61 Squadron RAF - February 1939 and October 1941, Codeletters LS (pre-War) and QR (Wartime)
No. 76 Squadron RAF - March 1939 and April 1940, Codeletters NM (pre-War) and MP (Wartime)
No. 83 Squadron RAF - November 1938 and January 1942, Codeletters QQ (pre-War) and OL (Wartime)
No. 97 Squadron RAF - July/August 1941, Squadron code OF
No. 106 Squadron RAF - March 1939 to March 1942, Codeletters XS (pre-War) and ZN (Wartime)
No. 144 Squadron RAF - March 1939 to October 1942, Codeletters NV (pre-War) and PL (Wartime)
No. 185 Squadron RAF - June 1939 to April 1940, Codeletters ZM (pre-War) and GL (Wartime)
No. 207 Squadron RAF - July/August 1941, Squadron Code EM
No. 517 Squadron RAF - August to November 1943,
No. 519 Squadron RAF - August to November 1943, Codeletters Z9
No. 521 Squadron RAF - September to December 1943, Codeletters 5O
No. 5 (C)OTU RAF Used between July 1942 and September 1943, Only individual Codeletters and numbers
No. 14 Operational Training Unit Used between 5 May 1940 and December 1942, Codeletters AM, GL and VB
No. 16 Operational Training Unit Used between 18 April 1940 and September 1942, Codeletters GA, JS and XG
No. 25 Operational Training Unit Used between February and December 1941, Codeletters ZP
No. 1401 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at RAF Bircham Newton/RAF Docking
No. 1402 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Aldergrove
No. 1403 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Gosport/Bircham Newton/Gibraltar
No. 1404 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at St. Eval
No. 1406 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Wick
No. 1407 (Meteorological) Flight RAF at Reykjavik
H.P. Hereford Edit
No. 185 Squadron RAF at Cottesmore used in April 1940.
No. 14 Operational Training Unit at Cottesmore used from April 1940.
No. 16 Operational Training Unit at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, used from 7 May 1940.
Torpedo Development Unit at Gosport operated one aircraft.
Survivors Edit
[6][7]Hampden P5436 at the Canadian Museum of Flight at Langley, British Columbia c.2006No Hampdens remain in flying condition today, although two wrecks are in the process of being restored:
Hampden I P1344
Recovered from a crash-site in Russia in 1991, the aircraft is being reconstructed at the Michael Beetham Conservation Centre at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. During the Second World War, it served with No. 144 Squadron RAF, part of Coastal Command. In September 1942, the squadron was transferred to the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia to help protect the Arctic convoys. While in transit over Finland, P1344 accidentally flew close by a German airfield and was shot down by two scrambled Messerschmitt Bf 109s. It crashed in a wooded area of the Kola Peninsula, three crew members were killed and two taken prisoner. After its recovery by another party, the RAF Museum gained ownership of the aircraft in 1992.[8]
Hampden, P5436
This aircraft has been reconstructed largely from parts of the last Canadian-built example, ditched on a training flight in November 1942 when the pilot lost control after a practice torpedo drop. The remains were recovered from 600 ft of water in Saanich Inlet on Vancouver Island in 1989. Along with recovered components from two other Hampden crashes in Canada, as of 2007, the reconstruction was about 97 per cent complete. The aircraft was to become the showpiece exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Flight at Langley, British Columbia, in the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver.
In January 2009, a heavy snowfall snapped off the aircraft's left wing. Despite the efforts of Museum staff to clear the accumulating snow, the wing's internal structure failed and the wing separated from the fuselage, falling on to a display case containing one of the aircraft's original engines. The wing suffered considerable damage and there was additional damage to the tail and propeller.[9] The wing had largely been restored using wood parts because most of the metal parts of the wing structure had been eroded, so it did not possess the structural integrity of the original aircraft. The museum is currently seeking donations to repair the aircraft.[10]As of 2011, the repair includes the mating of the wing and propeller to the fuselage and engine. [11]
The Wings Aviation Museum in the United Kingdom owns the wings and tail of "P1273"; the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre is currently restoring the forward fuselage of AE436. Both of these were also 144 Squadron aircraft, lost during the transfer to Russia. The former, "P1273" was shot down by mistake by Soviet fighters over Petsamo. The latter was lost over Sweden, its remains discovered in a remote region by hikers in 1976.[12]
The Hampden in popular culture Edit
The HP Hampden had a featured role in the Big Blockade (1941) starring Michael Rennie, a Second World War propaganda film showing "blockade" bombing and its effects on the German war industry.[13]
The trials of flying Hampdens in the early years of the Second World War are also described in the 2002 book Damned Good Show by Derek Robinson.
There is also an issue of the comic Combat which focuses around a Hampden and its crew.
Specifications (Hampden Mk I) Edit
[8][9]3-view projection of the Hampden Mark I, with inset detail of the Dagger-engined Hereford Mark I
Data from[citation needed]
Length: 53 ft 7 in (16.33 m)
Wingspan: 69 ft 2 in (21.08 m)
Height: 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m)
Wing area: 688 ft² (63.9 m²)
Empty weight: 11,780 lb (5,344 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,756 lb (8,508 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder radial engine, 980 hp (730 kW) each
Maximum speed: 265 mph (410 km/h) at 15,500 ft (4,724 m)
Range: 1,095 mi (1,762 km)
Service ceiling: 19,000 ft (5,790 m)
Rate of climb: 980 ft/min (300 m/min)
Wing loading: 27.3 lb/ft² (133 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.104 hp/lb (0.172 kW/kg)
Guns: 4-6 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine guns: one flexible and one fixed in the nose, one or two each in dorsal and ventral positions
Bombs: 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) bombs or 1 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo or mines
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Five things you probably didn't know about Liverpool's opponents Ludogorets
We try to shed some light on unknown Bulgarian side, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad or Ludogorets as they are more simply known ahead of their match against Liverpool at Anfield on tonight.
1. They get their name from the region in which Razgrad is located – the Ludogorie region (meaning "region of wild forests") of north-eastern Bulgaria. So basically, Liverpool are playing Wild Forests FC.
2. As an entity, they were only formed back in 2001 and were promoted to the Bulgarian top flight in the 2010/11 season. In the three seasons they have been in the top flight, they have won the league each time.
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3. Last season they reached the last 16 of the Europa League, finishing top of their group containing teams such as PSV Eindhoven and Dinamo Zagreb. They knocked out Italian giants Lazio in the last 32 before succumbing to Valencia in the next round.
4. They are bank-rolled by Bulgarian businessman Kiril Domuschiev who took over in 2010 and since then, they have known nothing other than utter domestic dominance.
5. Ludogorets' play their home matches at the Ludogorets Arena (pic above) in Razgrad, a stadium with a capacity of only 8,000 seats. It's not deemed suitable for the group games so they will play their home games in the national stadium in Sofia.
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The minister of transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi on Saturday said that 2019 general election will be All Progressives Congress, APC'S last battle, saying that if APC loses in the election, they will come back and rest.
"The 2019 elections, especially the governorship, are our last battle. If we win, we will take over Rivers State. If we lose in the election, we will go home and rest," Amaechi said.
He made the call during a reception organised for him as grand patron of Ikwerre Youth Movement (IYM) in Rivers state on Saturday.
Amaechi who was a former governor of Rivers state advised that nobody should challenge the outcome of the election nor fight, noting that President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to ensure a peaceful election devoid of any electoral malpractices.
In his words "The 2019 elections, especially the governorship, are our last battle. If we win, we will take over Rivers State. If we lose in the election, we will go home and rest.
"We will not impose any candidate. Anybody who will go for any position, like chairmanship, should go for primaries. Anybody who wins will be the party's candidate.
"The President said that there would be no rigging during the 2019 elections. It is to our advantage.
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Biodegradation of [S,S]-EDDS acid was shown to be rapid and complete in a sludge-amended soil, with ThOD reaching 99% within a 28-day exposure period (Schowanek et al. 1997).
In a soil die-away test, mineralisation of radiolabelled [S,S]-EDDS in sludge-amended soil was rapid and complete in 28 days, with a calculated half-life of 2.5 days, suggesting that biodegradation also occurs under realistic environmental conditions (Jaworska et al. 1999).
According to a published study, 14C-labelled [S,S]-EDDS acid was incubated at a concentration of 1 mg/kg with sludge-amended soil from a corn field in Phoenixville, PA, USA. The objective was to mimic the introduction of chemicals into soil on sludge. Based on ThOD calculations, mineralization was rapid and complete within a 28-day period, therefore biodegradation of [S,S]-EDDS acid was considered to be rapid and complete under these conditions (Schowanek et al. 1997).
In a soil die-away test, mineralisation of radiolabelled [S,S]-EDDS in sludge-amended soil was rapid and complete in 28 days, with a calculated half-life of 2.5 days, suggesting that biodegradation also occurrs under realistic environmental conditions (Jaworska et al. 1999).


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The Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, based at Stanford's Hoover Institution, has released its list of the best and worst developments of 2010 for K-12 education. Now is your chance to vote on which events you think were the two best and the two worst of the year.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog was originally a game character and hero in many games created by Sega for the Sega Genesis. Artist Naoto Oshima, designer Hirokazu Yasuhara and programmer Yuji Naka are credited with the creation of Sonic, the blue anthropomorphic hedgehog, who can run faster than the speed of sound. That is one of the major factors of the games, in case you didn't know.
Sonic was created when the time came for Sega to get a new mascot, as Alex Kidd, a monkey boy with over-sized ears, was getting a little old. At first, Sonic, or "Mr. Needlemouse", as he was known in concept stage, wasn't the only character to be considered as the new mascot, but obviously he won out.
He had competition for the mascot position from the likes of Mighty the Armadillo and Ristar, which you probably haven't heard of, which shows just how much more popular Sonic became than those games. The color of Sonic was chosen to coincide with Sega's cobalt blue logo.
Upon the first inception of Sonic, a team comprised of fifteen people worked on it, with the soundtrack being composed by Masato Nakamura from the band Dreams Come True. In a joint venture, Sega went on to sponsor one of the band's tours. In return for this, Sega was allowed to paint Sonic on the band's bus, and hand out flyers and other promotional media before concerts, as well as play game footage on the stage before concerts.
Throughout the years, Sonic has remained the same character, but has a different look and feel to him depending on the designers and artists on the "Sonic Team", as they call themselves, at the time. Sonic's original presentation, designed by Ohshima, was very short, childlike, had short quills, and had a round body. Artwork using Ohshima's design was drawn by Akira Wantabe and was used on the package artwork for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Many games following this original game also used similar designs. Starting with Sonic Adventure in 1998, Sonic was redesigned by Yuji Uekawa and now appeared as a taller hedgehog with longer legs and a less spherical body, longer and more drooping spikes, and green-colored eyes. More, but less noticeable changes to Sonic's design have been made in many of the following games.
Spin-off media such as cartoons, flash games, and the like all use the basic designs that were used by the "Sonic Team" designers, but they also have their own unique look and feel to them.
Sonic's debut came in 1991 with the release of the platform game Sonic the Hedgehog, which is also referred to as Sonic 1, for the Sega Genesis. This game also featured Sonic's nemesis, Dr. Robotnik, who was renamed Dr. Eggman after a while. Next in the long line of Sonic games, came Sonic 2, which introduced Sonic's Super Sonic form and his soon to be signature Spin Dash. Sonic's sidekick, the lovable character known as Tails, was also introduced in this game. Sonic 2 was released in 1992. A year later, came Sonic CD, which introduced Amy Rose, Sonic's girlfriend, and Metal Sonic, Sonic's future counterpart.
This installment of the Sonic series involved Sonic traveling through time in order to save the world. Both Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and its sequel Sonic & Knuckles, were both released the following year in 1994. In Sonic 3, Sonic and Tails once again had to fight the evil Dr. Robotnik, and in Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic had to battle against Knuckles the Echidna, who had been tricked by Dr. Robotnik into fighting Sonic in the first place.
Next came many minor games which seem to foretell the end of the Sonic era, with releases such as Sonic Chaos, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Blast, and Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure. Next, though, the "Sonic Team" got back in the saddle and produced another major Sonic game, this one being Sonic Adventure, which was release in 1998.
This is the first game that had a full voice over for Sonic, and was also the first time in the western releases that Dr. Robotnik was called Dr. Eggman. The next game didn't come until 2001, and it was Sonic Adventure 2. In Sonic Adventure 2, you play as Sonic who has been mistaken for a new military enemy called Shadow, who incidentally, does look a lot like Sonic, except for the color. It's probably because the fact that they are both hedgehogs, but I could be wrong, though.
After this game, Sonic made his move to the Nintendo handheld devices with the releases of Sonic Advance in 2001, and Sonic Advance 2 in 2002. After this, game Sonic Heroes for the Game Cube, which had Sonic, Shadow, Tails, and other characters teaming up to fight against a new Metal Sonic, whom has betrayed his master. After Sonic Heroes, we see the little blue hedgehog return the Game Boys with the releases of Sonic Advance 3 in 2004, and Sonic Rush in 2005. 2006 found Sonic in the underwater city of Soleanna, where he has to rescue Princess Elise from Dr. Eggman while avoiding Silver the Hedgehog, his newest nemesis.
In the next year, we got another installment of Sonic in Game Boy with Sonic Rush Adventure, we also got a more of an RPG look at Sonic with Sonic and the Secret Rings, where he helped a ring genie to collect the seven world rings and defeat the evil Erazor Djinn.
Sonic has also been made into many television series. Four out of five of these series have been released in the USA. The series names were Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, which featured lessons for kids, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Underground, and Sonic X. In the first two series, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog, Jaleel White was the voice of Sonic. He has also appeared many times in the printed media front, as well as the visual media front. Sonic's first appearance was in a promo comic in Disney Adventures magazine.
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The Sonic the Hedgehog series is the second longest running licensed comic series in the history of American comic books to Marvel's Conan. Two comic books in France have also been published; they were called Sonic Adventures, and Sonic manga has also been released in Japan. Apart from traditional print, and visual media, Sonic has also been featured in loads of flash games, ranging from re-makes of the 2D plat former style, to RPGs, and everything in around and in between.
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'Before Boas' by Han F. Vermeulen
March 27, 2017 / Justin E. H. Smith / 2 Comments
Han F. Vermeulen. Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment. 746pp., illus., notes, refs. cited, index. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. $75 (hardcover)
You will not find much curiosity among the Norse settlers in Greenland to observe, describe, and understand the clothing, tools, rituals, and legends of the skraelings. This derogatory term for the Greenlandic Inuit practically bracketed curiosity, signaled that there was nothing there to learn at all, but only a people to be feared and, one hoped, defeated. This has been the default stance toward other peoples, particularly peoples at an apparently lower stage of social and technical development, throughout most of human history, with classic works such as Tacitus's Germania, in which the northern heathen tribes are described in some detail, standing more as an exception than a rule.
Attention will become focused however in the epoch of early modern globalization, as the more astute missionaries come to appreciate the need to know the beliefs of the people they encounter, if there is to be any hope to convince them to change these beliefs. But while there are many clear-cut cases of proto-ethnography, reaching back to antiquity, scholars have been unable to agree as to when exactly this scholarly discipline sensu stricto emerges. In Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment, Han F. Vermeulen makes a comprehensive and fully convincing case that the site of ethnography's first appearance was Russia in the 18th century.
More precisely, it was the interest of mostly German and Russified German historians and naturalists to epistemically absorb the far northern and eastern territories incorporated into the Russian Empire beginning with the conquest of the Khanate of Sibir in the 1580s, and to do so by identifying and classifying the natural diversity in these territories of resources, plants, animals, and, indeed, of people. More precisely still, this scientific undertaking may be understood, without exaggeration, as a sort of 'applied Leibnizianism.' That is, over the decades following his death, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's (1646-1716) abstract philosophical vision of a world of 'diversity compensated by unity' developed into a concrete program for advancing the sciences in the Russian Empire. In its philosophical essence this program might be thought of as a 'rationalist empiricism': we know on a priori grounds that the human species is a unity, and that the order of nature is a unity, and the more we penetrate into the apparent diversity of nature and of cultures, the more this unity reveals itself.
Leibniz himself worked hard to apply his philosophical vision in the Russian Empire. From the late 1690s until his death he maintained a busy correspondence with Peter the Great and with a number of his councillors, seeking to help the tsar to cultivate the natural sciences beyond the art of shipbuilding in which he, Peter, had an intense personal interest, and to better govern his vast empires by better knowing the cultures it contained. In 1712 Leibniz himself is made a privy councillor to the tsar, with the express charge of "contribut[ing] to the advancement of the mathematical and other sciences, and to be of service to the investigation of history."[1] This latter undertaking includes for Leibniz both natural and civil history, which are part of a common project not in that they both investigate the past, as we tend to think of history today, but in that they are both concerned with res singulares, singular things, such as this or that particular plant or this or that garment of Samoyed clothing, rather than with the eternal laws of nature.
Prior to his death in 1716, Leibniz had also laid out a plan for the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, to be officially founded in 1724. The Academy would be the home base for many of the naturalist-explorers involved in the First and Second Kamchatka Expeditions (1725-1730, 1733-1743). It was on the second and vastly larger of these expeditions that applied Leibnizianism truly began to bear fruit, and that ethnography emerged as a distinct science. In the New Essays on Human Understanding of 1704, Leibniz had argued that the languages of the world are the true repositories of cultural wealth and tradition, and thus that oral cultures, too, have their own great literatures that will keep us busy long after the textual cultures of the world have been exhaustively studied.
In letters to Peter's councillors from the same period, Leibniz advanced a technique for collecting language samples, as one might collect plants by pressing them into a book: "I have long wished to have specimina linguarum that are in the Tsar's territory," he writes to a certain Lubenetskii c. 1705, "and of those bordering it, in particular I would like to have the Our Father written with interlinear translations."[2] This precise request would be carried out, as Vermeulen shows, in Kamchatka in the 1730s, by such figures as Daniel Gottlieb Messerchmidt, Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg, Vasilii Tatishchev, Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer, and Gerhard Friedrich Müller.
It was the last of these men, Vermeulen thinks, who did the most to expand and enrich Leibniz's ethnolinguistic project, with his own project of Völker-Beschreibung ('description of peoples'). Müller's approach was "systematic and exhaustive" (168). It included both external, visible features of culture such as dress, and internal features such as beliefs and lore. It also, importantly, involved both a field-work component as well as an archival and library-based one, in which the researcher places their field-work data within a comparative context that includes other cultures of the world. As Müller writes in 1740, one must "'present all peoples as interconnected. The advantage is that, because in many respects many people are so much alike, repetitions can be avoided and their similarities and differences become clearer than when each people would be described individually'" (170).
Vermeulen goes on to describe ethnographic research in other parts of the world, by figures more familiar than Müller and the others, such as Alexander von Humboldt, and indeed Franz Boas himself. But it is clear that for Vermeulen, rightly, the most important moment in the birth of modern ethnography is the flurry of activity in the Russian Far East of the 1730s, carried out under the banner of Leibnizianism. If this great and important work is to be criticized, it is perhaps to the extent that the political dimension of knowledge programs, such as that carried out in Kamchatka, is not emphasized nearly as much as the scientific dimension. It seems reasonable to suppose that these two are always perfectly intertwined: to come to dominate a territory is, in no small part, to come to know it, and to be able to represent it, cartographically, zoologically, botanically, and ethnographically is to come to know what special sort of administration is best adapted to the local lay of the land. In this respect, the scientific knowledge project of the 1730s in Kamchatka seems rather more continuous than discontinuous with, say, Jesuit proto-ethnography in New France in the previous century. And when we perceive this continuity, we might reasonably wonder about the very possibility of positing a precise moment for the birth of ethnography. But there is no question that Vermeulen has achieved something monumental in this work, by tracing the particular shape that modern ethnography would take to the knowledge project that German historians and naturalists brought with them to the remotest corners of Russia at the height of the Enlightenment.
[1] See 'Der zarische Erlass über die Aufnahme Leibniz's in den russischen Dienst,' in Leibniz in seinen Beziehungen zu Russland und Peter dem Grossen, ed. V. I. Guerrier (St. Petersburg and Leipzig: Commissionäre der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1873), 269-70.
[2] G. W. Leibniz, Sbornik pisem i memorialov Leïbnitsa otnosyashchikhsya k Rossii i Petru Velikomu, ed. V. I. Guerrier (St. Petersburg: 1873), 51.
Justin E. H. Smith: contributions / website / jehsmith@gmail.com / Département Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
Alice Kehoe
Excellent review of an important book. The last paragraph here is particularly worth pondering.
Han F. Vermeulen
Many thanks for endorsing my book and its central conclusion that ethnography was first practiced as a comprehensive and systematic "description of peoples" in Siberia, Northern Asia, during the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. While most scholars involved in the Second Kamchatka Expedition never made it to Kamchatka in the Russian Far East, much research was done in Western, Central, and Eastern Siberia which resulted in many such descriptions. However, there is no evidence that these texts were ever used by the Russian administrators, who weren't happy with the explorers and their critical attitude anyway. For this reason, the political dimension of the expedition cannot be fully outlined until more research has been conducted in Russian archives. By contrast, the scientific dimension stands out in the recent publications of Gerhard Friedrich Müller, who addressed a scholarly audience in aiming at what he in 1744-45 called a "most general description of peoples of the earth."
Justin E. H. Smith, "'Before Boas' by Han F. Vermeulen," History of Anthropology Newsletter 41 (2017): https://histanthro.org/reviews/before-boas/.


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The print edition of Volume 3, Issue 1 is now available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. In this issue, Lieutenant Colonel Eric Merriam, Assistant Professor of Law at the United States Air Force Academy, analyzes how the laws governing biological weapons apply to non-state actors; Professor Ronald Sievert from the University of Texas School of Law advocates for rewriting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; and Christopher Donesa, former Chief Counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, provides insight into the hotly-debated Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. This issue also contains two notes by Mason students: Stacy Allen analyzes a key case shaping the military's handling of sexual assault, and Melissa Burgess comments on laws preventing the reimportation of American military firearms. Each copy is only $12.95 and eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime.
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Stacy M. Allen, Note, Special Victim's Privileges: How Judicial Activism and a Court's Expansive Application of Law Made for a Good Result, 3 Nat'l Sec. L.J. 128 (2014).
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On a recent trip to Mexico, while testing a couple of new lure designs (an excuse to go marlin and tuna fishing), we experimented with trolling speeds while watching BFD plunger lures work. I asked El Capitan Luis of The Blue Marlin to kick up the speed so we could determine the Knots at which our lures started to look like a school of flying fish behind the boat, like most other lures I have fished with would do.
El Capitan and first mate Salvador (and me) were amazed that they were not skipping across the surface at that speed. The first thing I thought about was talking to Ed about this. It was an interesting lunch.
I showed Ed the "12kt. video" and asked him why these things would work at that fast speed? Ed took the 12" Plunger head in his hands, rolled it around on the table and watched it turn belly down – top up. Then Ed looked at the oval saddles, set it back down and said "the ballast obviously helps keep it upright and the ovals provide stability." Good enough for me. We did the ovals for silhouette purposes and just got lucky on the hydrodynamic stability ovals provide.
That isn't in the budget, Ed!
That isn't in the budget either, Ed.
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The issue of the introduction of the Coronavirus entering the WC arena is a quickly developing topic, especially so in the Healthcare Industry.
There are no cases as of yet on the Virus itself, but the attached cases serve as useful guides as to where the WCAB may go.
Essentially, Valley Fever/Coccidiomycosis was found to exist on an industrial basis in two Panel Decisions from the WCAB (Cruz and Abernathy).
The third case, Kane, Canelo and Temple (INA) vs. WCAB (Baker) is a DCA decision from 1976 confirmed a WCAB decision finding that a legal secretary's death from pneumonia secondary to influenza was compensable where the evidence showed that there were wide variations of temperature in the employee's work environment and she missed many days of work because of colds and that she was more susceptible to colds than other employees because of myasthenia gravis, having a cold on the last day of work and the cold having lowered her resistance to influenza.
OSHA has deemed the 2019 coronavirus a recordable illness when infection occurs on the job.
An Employer may provide general information to employees to let them know that someone is infected with the Virus to allow employees to monitor themselves. HIPPA applies to the identity of the Infected employee.
The following excerpt from an article co-authored by one of my colleagues at Bradford & Barthel, John Kamin has some additional helpful information relative to healthcare workers:
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Therefore, the factual investigation should focus on whether there were protocols to avoid infection and whether there were lapses. If there are no lapses in protocols to avoid infection, the defense against those claims becomes stronger.
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As I continue to quietly work in the background on my new upcoming books, I've struggled a lot with terminologies in which people use 'diplomacy' and 'international relations' so interchangeably. The more I discuss with my fellow practitioners, the more I realise that very few people seem to differentiate the two term as absolute without clinging on to academic theories that overlap one another.
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Wee eggplants and squash were this week's CSA standouts.
The blue ribbons in this week's sharebox were actually purple: Six perfect, wee eggplants.
I dispatched three of them straight away Monday night (a Meatless Monday), sauteéing a quick pasta topping that included onions, patty-pan squash, Malabar spinach, and a confetti of cherry tomatoes, all from this week's share.
The remainder I earmarked for a kitchen-sink caponata, the versatile, sweet-and-sour, Sicilian salad to which you can add just about anything, it seems, as long as you start with eggplant and celery. In late summer (is it really late summer already?), I like to keep a jar handy to spoon over toasts, toss with pasta, or dress up a cheese board. There's no need to can it, even; thanks to a hefty spike of vinegar, it'll last for nearly a month in the refrigerator.
Late summers, I keep a jar of sweet-tangy caponata in the fridge to top off bruschetta and dress up pasta.
Using Urban Vegan's recipe as a base (find Dynise's wonderful cookbook here), on the rainy first day of August, I made the first small batch of the season.
In addition to the stock eggplant and celery, in went a rogue patty pan (it had hidden among the spinach), a handful of olives – black and green – that were leftover from a party a few weeks ago, the remnant half of a huge sweet onion I'd used in Monday's pasta, and carefully carved hunks of my first three heirloom tomatoes. Robins had pierced the formerly perfect globes in exactly three spots each, but I was able to salvage about half of each fruit.
If you're using more mature eggplants that are likely to have some of the fruit's stereotypical bitterness, you may want to "degorge" it before you dice. Simply slice it into rounds, sprinkle in some salt, and let it drain in a colander for 20-30 minutes. Rinse it well, pat it dry with a paper towel, and dice it to match the size of your other ingredients.
The little guys I had weren't bitter at all (as I learned Monday night), so I skipped that step.
Coat the bottom of a large saucepan or medium Dutch oven with olive oil. Heat the oil over medium heat. Add the onions, celery, and garlic. Sauté for about 5 minutes, until fragrant and soft.
Add the red pepper; cook 5 minutes more. Add the raisins, olives, and applesauce; let it go for another 5 minutes.
Add everything else. Stir it through well, bring to a simmer, cover, and stew for 30-40 minutes, until everything is quite soft. Remove the lid and reduce the liquid to get the consistency you like. Taste, and adjust the seasoning.
Serve hot over pasta or rice, or at room temperature over toasted bread or as a condiment. Will keep in the refrigerator for 3-4 weeks.
I just made some of this using Mario Batali's recipe – it has cinnamon and some currants. It was very interesting.
Did you like it, Tammy? I used to add cinnamon (so Sicilian!), but have fallen out of the habit. Most recipes also call for capers, but I'm not a fan, so I leave those out, too.
I did. It had a bit of kick but others didn't like it so much.


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Kim Stringfellow: Greetings from the Salton Sea
October 30, 2017 John Bailey, ASC
Bonhomie and "Greetings" may once have been well meant for visitors to California's Salton Sea. But even before the 2005 publication of Kim Stringfellow's book about the sea's unfortunate and malodorous history, her study's subtitle was more apt: "Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape."
The disaster that is today's Salton Sea is one of the most dire tales in all of American ecology, a mixture of greed, hubris, arrogance toward the natural order and — in its most positive spin — a simple utopian vision blinded by naïve faith that man could solve his own miscreant behavior through legislative mandate.
Photo by Kim Stringfellow
Stringfellow's book is partly a history of the Salton Sink and the accidental creation of its sea in the early 20th century. She documents not only the erratic course of the Colorado River that fed it, but also the even more erratic attempts by man to turn the sea into a boating, fishing and golfing paradise, a working man's Riviera close to the Mexican border. Like much of the California lower desert, this area was once covered in water, and embedded sea-fossil remains attest to its watery prehistory, when it was an extension of the Gulf of California, much of it several hundred feet below sea level.
In the first section of her book, Stringfellow locates the Salton Sea's geography:
The briny waters cover approximately 360-370 square miles … Located approximately 120 miles east of San Diego and 30 miles north of the Mexican/Californian border, the sea is about 35 miles long and 15 miles wide … and an average depth of 29.9 feet. Summer ambient temperatures often exceed 115 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average annual rainfall is less than 3 inches.
She then recounts in detail the successive waves of human political "folly" that turned this once promising desert paradise into a hellhole of chemical waste. As if it were already not apocalyptic enough, Stringfellow, an eco-photographer who has closely studied and recorded with her camera the systematic abuse of many desert lands, includes a record of how meg-agra fertilizer farming and irrigation-water runoff in the nearby Imperial Valley created ever higher levels of salinity in the Salton Sea.
Many species of non-native sport fish introduced to lure tourists were sickened, infected with botulism and died by the millions; many were consumed by dozens of native and migrating birds that then also died. An ever-expanding cycle of species death year after year made the stench in the oppressive summer heat a sickening reality, a trail of stink wafting sometimes as far to the north as the lush golf courses of Palm Desert.
When Stringfellow first drove to the Salton Sea in 1995, this eco-disaster was in full "bloom." For the next decade, she traveled there often, photographing and talking to citizens of the nearby communities of Niland and Bombay Beach (which are little more than outcroppings along the eastern shore), as well as photographing the largely abandoned homes and resort structures along the once promising north shore. The brilliant eco-writer Rebecca Solnit describes the Salton Sea as "a strange mix of debris and sublimity that Kim Stringfellow's pictures and history portray compellingly."
Most of the rest of Stringfellow's modest-sized book moves beyond history and geography to include saturated color photographs in double-page spreads, powerful visual documentation of the scorched and chemically raped land, fetid waters and collapsed buildings, the abandoned dreams of domesticity and commerce.
Nor does she fail to pay attention to the maverick human desert rats who came to the Salton Sea in more promising times. Many were stuck there when their property values plummeted year after year; they knew they would never sell their homes or land for a price that would enable them to live out their lives in other modest communities, like Desert Hot Springs.
Photos by Kim Stringfellow
Some were dyed-in-the-wool die-hards who found a sort of quasi-spiritual redemption in the sere, burning heat of this lunarscape desert — just as mystics and prophets have for millennia. One of these was the aptly named Leonard Knight, who was often seen around the community of Niland. He was a folk artist who spent his life much like Simon Rodia of Watts Towers fame: constructing a personal monument. Knight's edifice is made not of steel, concrete and shards of glass, but of adobe, built berm-like against a 50-foot hill. He covered the massive earthwork with whatever brilliantly colored house paints he could find or obtain through friends and visitors. Knight called his artwork "Salvation Mountain."
It is a testament to his faith in a benign deity of love. During temperate times of the year, he had dozens of daily visitors. Knight lived close to his mountain. A friend, Bob, described it this way:
Leonard's 'house' of 26 years, is built on the back of an old 1939 White fire truck decorated as ornately as his mountain. He has no electricity, gas, running water, phone, heating, air conditioning or any of the other things that so many of us take for granted. He is also one the happiest men I know.
Stringfellow made several photos of Knight, his home and his work.
Leonard Knight (Photos by Kim Stringfellow)
Stringfellow's artful photographs call to mind the work of several other Western photographers who have documented the rape of the West by industry, government and the military. One thinks especially of Richard Misrach and his work on the Nevada bombing range of Bravo 20.
Intent on finding more about the boondoggle of the Salton Sea, and keenly recalling Marisa Silver's brilliant novel The God of War, about the Ramirez family living in a trailer at the Salton Sea, I found a one-hour documentary about the land and its people. Produced by KQED, it is titled Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea. This quirky documentary not only uses archival footage to parallel Stringfellow's historical essay, but also concentrates on a number of colorful local residents and business owners who are struggling day by day to keep their families and homes together. One of the documentary's highlights is a visit to Knight and his "Salvation Mountain," where we see him mixing straw and earth in a wheelbarrow (at 34:00). This modest but absorbing film was made in 2004 and was directed, photographed and edited by Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer. Its off-the-wall, outré credentials are firmly established in narration by the inimitable John Waters.
A footnote to the film and to Stringfellow's work is the fate of the optimistic Knight.
A 2015 documentary by Andrew Blake Doyle, Leonard Knight: A Man and His Mountain, records Knight's 30-year mission to proclaim "Love," starting with a failed effort to launch a hot-air balloon emblazoned with his mantra, "God Is Love."
In December 2011 Knight, then 80 and suffering from dementia, was moved to a long-term care facility in El Cajon. He died there on Feb. 10, 2014 — a few days before Valentine's Day. The film ends with his funeral and memorial service at the mountain. Despite ongoing curating by friends, the fate of his artwork, like the fate of the Salton Sea, is darkly uncertain.
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The following list includes books recommended by members of the Spiritual Care Committee as resources for individuals, small group studies, and local churches.
Borg wants to show us, as today's thinking Christians, how to discover a life of faith by reconceptualizing familiar beliefs. Being born again, for example, has nothing to do with fundamentalism, but is a call to radical personal transformation. Talking about the kingdom of God does not mean that you are fighting against secularism, but that you have committed your life to the divine values of justice and love. And living the true Christian way is essentially about opening one's heart—to God, and to others. Above all else, Borg believes with passion and conviction that living the Christian life still makes sense.
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures.
Philip Gulley invites us into a bracing encounter with the rich truths of Quakerism—a centuries-old spiritual tradition that provides not only a foundation of faith but also vision for making the world more just, loving, and peaceable by our presence.
In Living the Quaker Way, Gulley shows how Quaker values provide real solutions to many of our most pressing contemporary challenges. We not only come to a deeper appreciation of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, and equality, we see how embracing these virtues will radically transform us and our world.
Living the Quaker Way includes a 30-day spiritual practice that applies the Quaker tradition of Queries.
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin.
In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society. He speaks candidly to Christians—particularly white Christians—urging them to cross a new bridge toward racial justice and healing.
Forty-four percent of Americans will go through a major faith transition in their lives. And now, with church attendance on the decline and increasing cultural independence from Christian social norms, this trend has reached a tipping point: the fastest growing religion in America is "none."


At long last the Hollies are performing at my home town of Milton Keynes. This will be the first UK leg of the 50th Anniversary Tour. The lads played at this venue at the start of the century when the late great Carl Wayne was lead vocalist and, hopefully, this might be a regular stop for them.
As soon as I got to the theatre I went to the merchandise counter to buy the latest tour book and had a few words with Rob Haywood and agreed to send in my old concert reviews as some were missing from the web-site.
It was then time to find our seats so with my wife, daughter and her fiancé with his parents we soon settled down for the start of the show. The lighting soon picked out the lads from the darkness, as they were all wearing black clothing, and as the stage came into the full light they got straight into CURLY BILLY. Peter was very energetic in getting the audience to get into "hand warming mode" and this led into I CAN'T LET GO followed by JENNIFER ECCLES although in his enthusiasm he did have to stop the microphone from crashing to the floor so top marks to him. He has certainly made his name as an excellent front man.
YES I WILL was next and then ON A CAROUSEL was accompanied by some superb lighting effects giving the illusion of a Carousel ride – well done to the lighting techies.
Peter then came back for what he said was a song written by a local lad (he teased) called Bruce Springsteen so we were treated to a very powerful rendition of SANDY.
Then it was time for Steve to take centre stage to give his version of KING MIDAS with Ray and Tony providing harmony backing.
Tony then said they would do a number which was way back from the early 60s days but it gave them a Number One in Scandinavia – home of ex 70s front man Mikael Rickfors – VERY LAST DAY is a typical Hollies sing a long number and in complete contrast this was followed by EMOTIONS which was recorded only a few years ago.
Tony then changed instrument to "the sparkly thing" as Peter calls the Danelectro Sitar and with the superb keyboard arrangement from Ian we had the mesmerising intro to THE BABY and then the final song of the first half was another variation of LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW with, once again, some very intricate and speedy lead playing from Tony and Steve which was well worth the applause to end Set One.
I'M ALIVE, their UK Number One from 1965, opened Set Two. By this time the lads were dressed in very colourful casual attire and SORRY SUZANNE and BUS STOP got the audience into singing mode once again.
Tony then introduced another Scandinavian hit from the archive library which was the folky type ballad of STEWBALL the racehorse.
Bobby then descended from his drum throne – even as the elder statesman of the band he makes the percussion side of music look so easy and effortless so it's no wonder he has been held with the highest regard from a lot of his contemporaries over the years.
He introduced I CAN'T TELL THE BOTTOM FROM THE TOP as the solo spot for Peter. This song highlighted not only Peter's guitar playing techniques but showed how he can transpose an arrangement to suit his style and he has proved himself to be a very versatile vocalist.
Peter then stated that The Hollies is not about one voice but a combination of many as demonstrated by the trio of Ray, Steve and Tony singing a medley of LISTEN TO ME, HERE I GO AGAIN and GASOLENE ALLEY BRED.
After this Peter came back for centre stage and virtually chased Ray back to his rear stage perch and then we had another song from the recent Staying Power album WEAKNESS.
With JUST ONE LOOK Ian was invited to come down to centre stage to play the – Lead Tambourine – as Peter put it much to the amusement of the audience and this was followed by STAY and LONG COOL WOMAN.
Next it was time to "really get your singing voice" according to Peter with the up tempo CARRIE ANNE and another superb fast fingered solo from Tony.
Then we came to what Peter described as the highlight of the show as Tony changed instrument to the banjo for what has become his trademark long intro to STOP STOP STOP with Ian coming down to the stage for a wander around but this time playing the squeeze box.
HE AIN'T HEAVY, the Hollies anthem, as stated by Peter, was next and then with reference to the 50 years of touring by Tony and Bobby he reckoned that Tony had played a few guitar licks in that time – none more so than the memorable intro to THE AIR THAT I BREATHE which brought the evening's concert to a truly wonderful ending and certainly kicked off the Anniversary tour with a bang.
The traditional LET LOVE PASS closed the evening so here's wishing and hoping you lads carry on forever – CHEERS.
I took my brother in-law to his first concert at the Anvil in Basingstoke. We went to the merchandise counter and purchased the new tour book and to save time ordered out interval drinks.
Once in our seats we waited for the intro music then one by one the lads came on stage.
Soon we were rocking to CURLY BILLY and Peter got us in the mood with a cracking start on vocals.
Soon I CANT LET GO then JENNIFER ECCLES followed with Peter saying "hello Basingstoke" and saying how they like to play at the Anvil.
YES I WILL came next followed by a great version of ON A CAROUSEL.
Then Peter told us about THEN NOW ALWAYS saying it was a reference to the days before The Hollies when Tony and Bobby were together in The Dolphins. He then handed over to Tony to take the lead vocals.
PETER came on back and amused every one with a tease about Bruce Springsteen then he showed what a great voice he has with a cracking version of SANDY.
Next it was Steve's turn to tell us it's KING MIDAS with backing by RAY and TONY.
TONY then told us they would do a real oldie - it was VERY LAST DAY.
This was followed by EMOTIONS from staying power from just 6 years ago.
Then it was time for fireworks with TONY taking to his guitar/sitar and with IAN doing a fantastic arrangement we had THE BABY. Following the long introduction PETER got into action showing what a superb frontman he has turned out to be. Having seen Allan Clarke a few times, PETER has given the band the same sound on harmonies.
Then came LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW with "Mr Nimble Fingers" TONY working his magic to finish the 1st half.
The lads left to a resounding applause and we made our way to the bar for our interval drinks. Soon it was time to get back into our seats.
Soon the lads where back looking casual having been in dark clothing in the 1st half.
The second half opened up with I'M ALIVE from the 60s then my youngest daughters song, SORRY SUZANNE (her name) followed by BUS STOP. By now we were all in a singing mood.
Tony said next up was another hit from Scandinavia, a great song called STEWBALL.
"SIR" Bobby then came down to introduce Peter to sing and play guitar to his arrangement of I CANT TELL THE BOTTOM FROM THE TOP. What a front man he is, guitar in hand he nailed it. A great reception from the crowd.
Peter then said The Hollies were not about one voice but a combination of voices and he left the stage to Ray, Tony and Steve who began a medley of songs, LISTEN TO ME, HERE I GO AGAIN and GASOLENE ALLEY BRED.
A great reception for the three of them with Steve and Rays voices coming through strong.
Peter came back and made a reference again to STAYING POWER with WEAKNESS. His voice is so powerful on this great track.
JUST ONE LOOK was next with Ian coming off his perch to play "lead tambourine".
Soon it came to STAY, a number that Brian May has said has a great intro and riff.
Then Peter said the next song was a number 1 in America, LONG COOL WOMAN. Another great reception.
Peter then said here is CARRIE ANNE with another solo from Tony.
Then another highlight, Tony taking to the banjo with a long intro to STOP STOP STOP. Ian this time came down to the front with his squeeze box, coming over to one of the boxes in the corner.
My brother in-law was singing away by now.
Soon it was time for the final songs. The Hollies anthem was next, with Peter saying a reference to 50 years, followed by HE AINT HEAVY.
The lads took to the front, but wait, those who go to see The Hollies know it's not over yet. Time for THE AIR THAT I BREATH.
A great reception from everyone before the last song with Steve, Ray, Peter and Tony singing LET LOVE PASS from the Staying Power album.
"SIR" Bobby then thanked everyone for coming and the lads left to a great reception.
Roll on Liverpool and Edinburgh. My brother in-law was very happy as we made our way to the station and back to Southampton.


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Guide Me Reviews: Tour the Three Cities in a totally unique way with the Rolling Geeks!
Rolling through the city!
Kristina Cassar Dowling
The Three Cities are pretty much paradise if you ask me... there's something about the way the sunlight hits the bastions and the glistening surface of the sea directly beneath the fortified walls that just takes your breath away.
The Three Cities are at the top of Malta's 'must see' places to visit; primarily because this is one of the oldest inhabited parts of Malta, as well as the location that was chosen by the Order of the Knights of St John as their headquarters upon their arrival in Malta. With so much history and so much to see, how could you ever discover all there is to know about this fascinating place if you have only allocated one day to the area?
We've discovered just the thing!
Finding all the hidden gems, beautiful architecture and quaint medieval streets when visiting a new city is difficult, but the Rolling Geeks Tours have figured it all out so you don't have to! The process is easy, the experience is so much fun and the results are magical, all highlights of The Three Cities and much more are revealed in an unmissable two and a half hour adventure. But how?
A fleet of 10 fully electric cars, specifically chosen for their silent engines, zero-emission, compact bodies and fun-filled features; scurry through the old streets of Birgu, Isla and Bormla, even venturing off to Kalkara and Smart City, to reveal Malta's authentic beauty and history in a completely original way.
The process is simple; book yourself a Rolling Geek, head to Birgu waterfront for a briefing with the friendly staff at the office, hop into a car and off you go! The cars can carry up to four passengers at a time, but the 10 vehicles available make corporate or group activities a brilliant option too!
If you're sceptical about losing your way, have no worries! A GPS guides you along a pre-determined route and the smart system on board is equipped with an audio guide available in eight languages, (English, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Mandarin, Spanish and Russian), supplying you with plenty of information on its historical and cultural worth, amazing! The vigilant team keep an eye on you from the office, ready to assist if necessary, while you take in the sights at your own pace. There is also ample time to stop for photos or a drink at one of the numerous open-air cafes with their gorgeous views.
The most fascinating thing about the Rolling Geeks' concept is that it capitalises on the general idea of a 'tour' and makes it fun, easy and comfortable… not to mention exciting. As a local who loves the area and visits frequently, my experience of the tour was eye-opening. I discovered a few quirky places that I didn't know about, saw things from a completely new angle and enjoyed one of Malta's most historically important areas, all in two and a half hours. If that's not luxury, I really don't know what is!
The tour is suitable for all ages, although the driver has to be 21 and hold a driver's licence. The selfie feature in the cars add to the fun and makes for a nice souvenir of the tour, combined with all the great memories of the day you rolled with the Geeks!
Alan Carville
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Balancing the Virtual Load
IT managers deploying virtual servers use a mix of physical and virtual load balancers to manage network traffic.
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The Reach of Virtualization
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As computer hardware becomes increasingly more powerful, organizations are reaping huge cost and energy savings from replacing physical machines with virtual ones.
But whether you're replacing several physical servers with virtual machines running on a single host, streaming virtualized desktops to thin clients, or delivering virtual applications, if you don't balance the load on your resources your entire network can come screeching to a halt.
Think of load balancers as traffic cops, says Lew Smith, director of business development and virtualization solutions for consultant Interphase Systems. The devices keep the bits flowing smoothly to optimize performance, manage resources and ensure redundancy.
"Without load balancing, you'll get networking bottlenecks and reduced performance from apps," says Smith. "It's like comparing a five-lane highway to a two-lane road. Both can handle the same number of cars, but the two-lane road will take a lot longer."
Like the machines themselves, load balancing can be physical or virtual. Smith says most enterprises deploying virtualized environments use a combination of both: dedicated hardware appliances to manage data traffic coming in from the Internet or across internal networks, plus load balancing software to route data efficiently between physical layers and virtual ones.
When Georgia's Fulton County moved to virtual servers in 2007, it replaced its worn-out WinTel servers with Fujitsu Primergy Blades running VMware ESX and relied on VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) to intelligently manage the load.
"VMware's load balancing gives a lot of flexibility," says Keith Dickie, assistant director of the Fulton County Department of Information Technology.
"We can tell it to segregate virtual servers so they're never on the same blade, and how aggressive to be in migrating virtual machines to new hosts," he says. "If we have a server running 10 virtual machines and need to bring it down for maintenance, DRS can simply find the blades that have the most resources and spin up new VMs automatically."
Server virtualization has been so successful, says CTO Jay Terrell, that Fulton County is embarking on a desktop virtualization proof of concept -- replacing the 700 public-facing computers in the county library system with thin clients, and streaming the operating system and apps to each via VMware.
When the county rolls out the system, it will rely on DRS to ensure consistent performance across each of the county's 34 libraries.
"Not all of our libraries are sized the same," he adds. "Large concentrations of our 700 machines are in the central and regional libraries. With load balancing we can ensure that people who use the small community branches get the same the level of performance everyone else gets."
650%: Anticipated growth in enterprise data over the next five years
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As ISP for the state of Delaware, the Delaware Department of Technology and Information couldn't afford to let web traffic demands overwhelm the 25 agencies and 19 school districts it serves. So when DTI looked to replace its aging load balancers, it opted for Cisco's Application Control Engine (ACE) module. In concert with Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches and VMware ESX, the ACE's virtual architecture allows seamless data exchange across virtual machines on the network.
"All web traffic and browsing for the state agencies goes through ACE," says Scott Huffman, DTI telecommunications tech. "It load balances a set of proxies and then sends them out to the Internet."
The ACE solution was also less expensive, took up less rack space, offered greater redundancy and had much more resiliency, says Huffman. For example, if Microsoft Exchange failed with DTI's previous solution, it took the department at least 30 minutes to restore e-mail service. Now, with ACE and Cisco's Global Site Selector load balancing appliance, DTI can achieve almost instantaneous failover with no interruption of service.
"It was a pleasant surprise to discover how much easier the ACE interface was to interact with than our previous solution," he says. "We appreciated the ability that it gave us to manage different roles and to ultimately allow our other agencies to manage for themselves."
Lifting the Load
Here are three tips for managing load balancers in a virtual environment.
Think big picture. Load balancing needs to happen everywhere bits flow -- across internal networks, between applications, between physical and virtual layers and from storage to memory and back. Always provide at minimum one level of high availability and redundancy at every layer.
Measure twice, architect once. Monitor how data flows across your physical environment before you implement a virtual one so you can allocate enough resources for peak traffic needs. Without sound data, captured over a period of time, it's nearly impossible to architect a solution that can handle peaks and valleys of performance intelligently.
Choose the right level of automation. If you have sudden spikes in demand -- such as "boot storms" when team members log on at the same time each morning -- set your virtual infrastructure to intelligently seek out resources and scale as needed. Otherwise, opt for a more balanced setting or even manual override.
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Q: can I automatically disconnect bluetooth devices on sleep We use a Belkin SongStream BT to play music on a stereo via BlueTooth.
I'd like our various devices to automatically disconnect before they go to sleep.
Alternatively, the Belkin device could drop the connection once the device goes away or it could allow new devices to connect even if there was another connection previously. The device doesn't do either though and I don't think I can configure it to.
However, shouldn't it be possible to have a MacBook automatically disconnect before sleep?
As it stands now, the LED stays on at night and I have to unplug/replug the cable to be able to connect when my girlfriend takes her connected laptop to work.
It would also be sufficient to turn off Bluetooth on sleep, since I don't use a Keyboard/Mouse that needs to be able to wake the computer.

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Leah Remini Continues Mission to Expose Church of Scientology, Wants to Sue the Organization
By Us Weekly Staff
Leah Remini is serious about taking down the Church of Scientology. Since premiering in 2016, her Emmy-winning docuseries, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath has been on a mission to expose the organization. And now, the former Scientologist, 49, wants to sue the church, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
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"There are multiple lawsuits — one having to do with children who were allegedly physically, mentally and sexually assaulted while in Scientology," says a source close to the star, "and another regarding adults who've allegedly been harassed due to the policies of Scientology."
However, a spokeswoman for the church calls the claims "false and unfounded" and says there's "no credible evidence supporting the allegations."
Leah Remini arrives at The Alliance For Women In Media Foundation's 44th Annual Gracie Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 21, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Morgan Lieberman/FilmMagic
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As Us previously reported in July, the Kevin Can Wait actress was considering taking the Church to court because they're allegedly on a crusade to cancel her A&E show. "There's been no announcement about another season," the source said. "She's met with lawyers, as she's considering taking legal action. She alleges she's been spied on and followed by people working on behalf of the church."
Celebs Fight Back on Social Media
The organization also denied such claims. "In Remini's mind, this is some kind of conspiracy against her," a spokeswoman told Us at the time. "Remini's publicity stunt is as stupid now as it was then, just like all of her other conspiracy theories."
For more on Remini's possible legal action against the Church of Scientology, watch the video above and pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands now!