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Highlights of OnRecruit DiRect 2018
12 December 2018 /in Engagement /by Naila
The event kicked off with a welcome speech by Rene, who took the audience on a trip down memory lane, sharing the very first message he received from OnRecruit founder, Rob Nijssen, 8 years ago, inviting him to be a part of the team. Fast forward to today, OnRecruit hosted their very first annual conference, featuring some important names in the industry who shared their views about the future of technology and recruitment. The conference was aptly kicked off with the team's self-created music video, "Gold Mine". This video and the conference were a celebration of OnRecruit's 2018 innovation, as well as the amount that the business has grown and team success we've achieved thus far.
Hung Lee got the ball rolling. His presentation focused on how recruitment is changing in the context of new technology available to us today. He claimed that recruitment is like a game, and he invented the acronym SMASH – Sourcing, Messaging, Assessment, Scheduling, Hiring. "In recruitment, we SMASH it." Today, there are so many tools that help recruiters in every stage of SMASH. Technology will help many recruiters to free up so much of their time. But, the key question was: What to do with all that free time? His recommendation is that recruiters should shift their focus to more value-adding activities, practically changing their roles: Building an audience, becoming storytellers, being candidate champions. Technology equips recruiters to now build better human connection with candidates and be more visible. "Visibility is one of the key success factors in the future".
This was followed by Loraine Nijhuis, a digital and technology expert at Green Orange. Loraine drew comparisons between recruiters and marketers, and how the candidate journey is very much alike to the customer journey, except for a difference in input and output. Ultimately, she claims that the combination of data and human touch are the key to success.
300 hires per year and no recruiters? One of OnRecruit's star customers and the talent acquisition manager at Fabory, Arjan Spies, brought this dream to reality, inspiring the audience with his success story. Taking a relatable approach, Arjan shared not only the shiny celebrations, but also the challenges and pitfalls he faced along the way and how he overcame them. Collecting data and looking at how it can be used has helped Fabory eliminate their need for internal recruiters and help from third parties, speeding up their time to hire, and hiring 80% of their candidates using their own channels.
Bringing black fedora hats back in style, Bill Boorman made his way to the stage defining "A new kind of good". Interpreting data from the past may induce a biased view on what used to be good: Using old and biased data, you would probably find that 'most qualified' applicants are highly educated white men. "Organizations have been built on biases. Use data to build a new matching selection machine based on something different, that would give us new outputs". Boorman also challenged the well-established importance of employer branding: Candidates are now shifting their focus from employer brand towards job brand. Candidates are choosing towards specific roles and what they entail, and only once they find an interesting role, does employer branding come into play.
The speaker lineup ended on a high note with Dirk Meeuws, OnRecruit's CTO and COO, with his very personal talk. Dirk earned his degree in aerospace engineering from TU Delft. With his background, he made the seemingly unlikely connection between rocket science and recruitment: both involve the combination of data, making people's life easier, and providing business intelligence. He then went on to explain how OnRecruit, as a recruitment enablement platform, has taken on these learnings in its product and service offering that can, and will, help you and others improve recruitment.
Ultimately, technology will not wipe out the role of recruiters, but it does lead to a change of skillset that recruiters need to adopt. There are things that any type of technology, AI or automation cannot replace perfectly: Human touch.
The conference was completed with a graceful rhythmic gymnastics' performance. The gymnasts from RGC Eleganza are coached by OnRecruit's very own Barbara van Ravesteijn Ors, customer success manager. No conference would be complete without an entertaining and gezellige 'borrel', allowing the guests to mingle, catch up and network with old and new friends, as well as strengthening and forge business relationships.
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France 2016 - Vernon & Rommel's HQ
A platoon of the 4th Wilts. heads out across the Seine into battle under a covering smoke screen at Vernon - 25th August 1944
This week JJ's Wargames has relocated to France as I look forward to celebrating my birthday this Wednesday with Carolyn and Will who has joined us on his return journey back from Thailand where he has spent the last few weeks having fun with his brother before returning to university next month.
We have rented a pretty little house near to Versailles and as well as taking in the palace and the great restaurants of Paris are checking out some of the other interesting places to visit on this side of Paris.
On Monday we drove out to Giverny on the River Seine ostensibly to visit Claude Monet's gardens where the famous Lilly on the pond pictures were inspired and it was while planning that trip that I realised the village was close to not only Vernon but also La Roche Guyon.
So I managed to get permission from the CEO of JJ's Wargames to include the other two venues into the day's agenda.
For those not so familiar with the significance of these two places, Vernon is the scene of Operation Neptune, the assault crossing of the River Seine carried out by the men of the 43rd Wessex Division in August 1944 and the Château at La Roche Guyon is the former headquarters of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and German Army Group B during the build up to the invasion of France in 1944.
The map shows the close proximity of Vernon and La Roche Guyon handily positioned either side of Giverny
I first became familiar with Operation Neptune when I read Ken Ford's excellent book about it back in the late eighties and I still have the first edition from 1988 on the book shelf. There is a link below that gives a review of its content using accounts from veterans still alive at the time of publication.
I think assault river crossings are some of the most difficult and interesting military operations to study from Hannibal making his way through the Alps, to Wellesley's attack on Marshal Soult at Oporto in 1809, covered in some detail on this blog with the game of the battle. Perhaps one of the most audacious river assaults was led by Major Julian Cook of the US 3/504th PIR in their daring boat crossing across the River Waal to help capture the Nijmegan bridge made famous in the film "A Bridge too Far".
By the 22nd August 1944 the fighting in the Falaise pocket and the Battle of Normandy was over with the surviving German units in head-long retreat to the opposite bank of the River Seine and with the allies in hot pursuit,
The US 79th Division were already up to the Seine and advancing on Paris and the British XXX Corps were moving up towards Vernon with the XII Corps to their left.
The Divisional insignia of the "Fighting Wessex Wyverns" of 43rd Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_(Wessex)_Infantry_Division
General Brian Horrocks commanding XXX Corps had already determined to lead his drive over the Seine with two armoured divisions, Guards and 11th supported by 50th Division, whilst detailing the 43rd Division under Major General Ivor Thomas, to facilitate their progress with an assault on the crossing point at Vernon, to establish a bridgehead to allow the advance to continue.
Our Lady Collegiate Church, Vernon. Seventy-two years after the battle as seen below. The vehicle have changed a bit.
The assault was planned for the 25th August 1944 with the initial attack to be made by the three battalions (4th Somerset, 4th and 5th Wiltshire Regiments) of 129 Brigade, reinforced by a battalion (1st Worcestershire Regiment) from 214 Brigade using storm boats as seen in the header picture and DUKW amphibious trucks.
The opposition facing the British assault troops was an ad-hoc kampfegruppe from the 148th Grenadier Regiment with about 250 men positioned in the hamlet of Vernonnet on the opposite bank and another 250 men further along the bank at Giverny.
The German defenders were well dug in and ensconced in the buildings that dotted the opposite bank armed principally with light machine-guns, mortars and 20mm auto-cannon positioned on the high-ground that oversees the river at this point.
The view of the German positions with the road leading along the opposite bank to the right of picture towards Giverny
The first boats carrying the first two battalions (4th Somersets and 5th Wilts) set out at 19.00 on the evening of the 25th August. Their attack was preceded by an artillery barrage at 18.45 on the heights and support fire from machine guns and tanks with 4.2" mortars laying smoke to cover the run in.
Many of the first wave boats and DUKWs were caught up in the shallows and grounded with their occupants caught in whithering machine-gun fire and it took the follow up waves taking advantage of gathering darkness and access to and via the partially destroyed bridge to get on to the opposite bank and clear the buildings in Vernonnet.
The view to the left of the German held back with less oversight from high ground behind but with a small island separating the two banks that obstructed an easy landing for the British troops
As soon as the battle commenced on the opposite bank, the Royal Engineers were attempting to move materials into position to start the construction of the pontoon crossing, however their first ambitious attempts were driven back by a hail of well directed mortar and auto-cannon fire.
The memorial to the British troops involved in the assault, on the position of the Engineer laid pontoon bridge seen below with 'Monty' crossing in the wake of his army.
The battle to consolidate and expand the bridgehead would continue through the 26th and 27th of August with the men of the 43rd Division having to resist several counterattacks supported by Tiger tanks and the order "last man, last round" issued to emphasise the need to resist the enemy at all cost.
Monty crossing the Seine at Vernon on the 1st September 1944, the bridge being anchored to the tree in the background
As the battle raged on the opposite bank the Royal Engineers worked tirelessly under sniper fire to erect the first light bridge and on the 26th August one of three bridges was up soon followed by a heavier model on the 27th and a second added by the 29th, with some vehicles ferried across in between to support the battle ashore.
"NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SHERWOOD RANGERS YEOMANRY, ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS,
In honoured remembrance of all our comrades and of the townsfolk of Vernon, who gave their lives in the
Battle for Liberation of the Town, August 1944. They died that we might live."
"On the 25th August 1944, the 43rd Wessex Division liberated Vernon and crossed the River Seine under the fire of German units dug in on the prominent hills of the eastern bank. The infantry supported by four armoured regiments fought during three days to repulse the enemy. The crossing was achieved by the use of floating bridges built by the Royal Engineers.
From this initial bridgehead the 30th Corps led the advance towards Belgium. The British troops suffered 550 casualties in this operation."
The modern day buildings below the white cliff mark the position of a rather troublesome machine gun bunker that caused the assault infantry a lot of difficulty
The 17th century mill building on the remains of the old bridge leading out to the small island
The Chateau des Tourelles was a fortress designed to guard the access to the old medieval bridge
The 28th of August was the end of the battle as the defenders awoke to another hot sunny day, but the din of battle replaced by an eerie silence announcing the German defenders had pulled out leaving behind the odd sniper or two who were quickly neutralised by midday and the pursuit phase by XXX Corps could commence.
The building was badly damaged in 1944 and the extent of the which can be seen by the new build masonry that repaired the damage
More than 700 allied tanks would use the bridges at Vernon and on the 3rd and 4th of September British troops having crossed there liberated Brussels in Belgium, and my old Dad was one of them, just turned twenty on the 17th of August, having made the crossing at Vernon and taken part in the "Swan" or drive up to the Belgian capital with Guards Armoured Division, rounding up surrendering German troops as they went. On the 18th September he was in Eindhoven on the road to Arnhem as pictured in my post below.
http://jjwargames.blogspot.fr/2013/09/today-in-1944-monday-september-18th.html
The small arms damage on the original stonework suggests that the Château was a point of resistance during the battle in 1944
I have obviously summarised the battle for the Vernon bridgehead, but if you would like to know more about the planning and detail of Operation Neptune I can highly recommend Ken Ford's book which is a really good read and I have also posted some really good links below that also give great background to this battle.
I would like to have a go at re-fighting parts of this battle that raged over three days and I think a good set of company level rules like IABSM would be excellent to use for it - ah yet another project to think about! There is nothing quite like walking the ground to inspire thoughts of future games.
The next part of our trip up the Seine was to stop for lunch at La Roche Guyon and visit the former headquarters building of Army Group B and its very famous commander Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
The Château of La Roche was first established in the 12th century as a castle tower atop the chalk cliffs with accommodation and other galleries tunnelled out in the chalk below. The building was further developed overtime into a fortified manor perfectly positioned to guard the crossing over the Seine.
The Château went through a further period of development from a medieval fortified house into an 18th century Château with a wing attached to the older structure and a corridor constructed through the extremely thick walls, which can be seen as you step through from the original building to the later creation.
Whilst walking through the large salon rooms now devoid of their period furniture it was not hard to imagine the babble of conversation as Rommel and Spiedel tried to win round Von Rundsteadt to the idea of fighting the allies on the beaches rather than run the gauntlet of allied air power to bring up the Panzer reserves.
Rommel and von Rundstedt at La Roche Guyon
The Château was always modestly arranged during Rommel's stay, with no garish red banner swastika flags draped about, so beloved in war movies.
Rommel set up his headquarters here in February 1944 and it was here that a certain British Commando referred to as Lieutenant George Lane, although I think that might be a false name, was brought in May of 1944 after being captured taking samples off the beaches being looked at as potential landing areas for D Day.
The bore samples were all part of the learning that had developed as the allies developed their amphibious landing capabilities and became aware of understanding how suitable the beaches would be to taking tanks and allowing them to traverse the sand without risk of bogging.
It was on one of these reconnaissance missions that Lane had been captured and driven in the back of a truck, not knowing his fate, as Hitler had ordered that all British commandos should be shot when captured.
Perhaps it was in the room above that Lane was taken to meet with the Field Marshal who he described as most courteous and friendly, rising to greet the British officer with a handshake as he entered the room.
Spiedel, Rommel's Chief of Staff (centre left), Rommel and von Rundstedt discuss business.
The wall tapestries can still be seen in this room but sadly I discovered this picture after my visit
and I didn't photograph this room!
The two men chatted over tea with the aid of an interpreter with Rommel soon realising that he would get no useful information from the prisoner and bringing the meeting to a close, but assuring Lane that no harm would come to him while a prisoner.
By the time Lane managed to get information about the location of Rommel's HQ to the allied command via French Resistance contacts, it was mid July and Rommel was on his way back to Germany following his wounding in an allied air attack.
The Field Marshall would soon be dead at his own hand to secure the safety of his family and staff and thus avoiding an embarrassing trial by the Nazi state, following his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler that month.
The view out across the Seine valley from the top of the Château
There is much debate about Rommel's relationship with Hitler and the Nazi's and a feeling that over time he came to understand the corrupting and vicious nature of the regime he served.
What ever his political leanings, I think he was very much admired and respected by the British soldiers who faced him in North Africa, Italy and North East Europe and perhaps it should be left to Churchill to have the last word.
"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general"
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/h_vernon
http://vernon-visite.org/rgb3/seine1944.shtml
http://ww2today.com/28-august-1944-over-the-seine-and-push-on
http://giverny.org/vernon/history/libegb.htm
http://www.historyofwar.org/bookpage/ford_seine_1944.html
Labels: France 2016, JJ's Wargames, WWII
Spanish 2nd Cavalry Division - Army of Estremadura
The Almanza Dragoon Regiment, one of the units that was part of the
Spanish 2nd Cavalry Division
It was way way back in February last year when I sat down to map out the plans for the Spanish forces that will feature in my Talavera project and precisely those parts of the Army of Estremadura that became involved in the combat on the British end of the Allied line.
http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-army-of-estremadura-at-talavera-1809.html
As the build up of the project was all about creating smaller scenarios that would facilitate games with the collection as it grew, I started with General Portago's 3rd Division that was significantly engaged in the afternoon of the 28th July by General Laval's German Division and became a major part of the "Attack on the Pajar Vergara" the last game of which featured at this year's Legionary Show in Exeter and appeared in Miniature Wargames Magazine the following month.
http://jjwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/spanish-3rd-division-talavera.html
The map illustrates the position of the northern valley forces (left) and the Spanish forces deployed to support the
Cerro de Medellin
With the completion of the British and French orders of battle it now just remains to complete the Spanish forces that deployed to the left flank of the Allied line that hot July afternoon in 1809 to bolster Wellesley's defences in the northern valley and resist any assault on the key Cerro de Medellin hill feature that anchored the whole Allied position.
These forces consisted of General Bassecourt's 5th Infantry Division of mainly Spanish line infantry and Marines and General Albuquerque's 2nd Cavalry Division that swung in behind the British cavalry under Generals Anson and Fane (see the map above).
Luis Alejandro de Bassecourt commanding the
Spanish 5th Infantry Division
5th Division: Major-General Bassecourt - Source Oman
Real Marina (Royal Marines), lst Infantry Regiment (2 Battalions)
3/Africa Infantry Regiment
Murcia Infantry Regiment (2)
l/Reyna Infantry Regiment
Provincial de Siguenza (Militia) (l)
José María de la Cueva, 14th Duke of Albuquerque and
commander of the Spanish 2nd Cavalry Division at Talavera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_María_de_la_Cueva,_14th_Duke_of_Albuquerque
2nd Division: Lieutenant-General Duquede Albuquerque - Source Oman
Carabineros Reales (l Squadron)
lst Hussars of Estremadura
2nd Hussars of Estremadura
Carabineros Reales
As covered in the post about the Army of Estremadura as a whole, it was, following the Spanish defeat at the Battle of Medellin in March 1809, truly remarkable that the Army of Estremadura was still in existence.
Infante Heavy Cavalry Regiment
The aspect of that previous defeat was the need to rebuild the force from the cadres of the survivors which meant that many untried and poorly trained recruits were now in the ranks of both the infantry and cavalry.
Pavia Regiment of Dragoons
The Spanish infantry could be forgiven for having little faith in their cavalry to support them following their poor performance at Medellin which had caused them to suffer the casualties they did. However it must also be remembered that the only successful cavalry charge made at Talavera was by the El Rey Cavalry in support of Portago's infantry around the Pajar redoubt.
Battle of Medellín 28th March 1809
Alcantara Heavy Cavalry Regiment
With regard to researching the strengths of the various regiments in Albuquerque's division, it is very difficult to pin down any reliable source and I have found several contradictory guesstimates from various sources.
So what can be said about the cavalry arm in General Cuesta's army at Talavera with any degree of certainty other than the units recorded on the order of battle, and even on that point I have found some digression.
Most of the sources seem to determine the total amount of cavalry in the two Spanish divisions as numbering around 6-7,000 men and horses. Some of the units were regiments in name only with units such as the Carabineros Reales only fielding one squadron and the two regiments of Estremaduran Hussars reported to have had variously 4-6 squadrons.
Even the look of these units has to speculative given the state of Spanish arms and supplies at this time and the losses suffered in March at Medellin.
Estremaduran Hussars
I therefore have decided to make my own educated guesstimate based on the sources available and have decided to work on the basis of the 2nd Cavalry Division numbering some 2,500 men allowing for 3,500 men with the 1st Cavalry Division and leaning towards the smaller total of cavalry at 6,000 men.
This total number of 2,500 men is split between effectively five full regiments or twenty squadrons and has the Estremaduran Hussars amalgamated into one unit of four squadrons and sees the squadron of Carabineros Reales being attached out to the other regiments of dragoons and heavies at a generic four squadrons. This plan effectively has an average squadron strength of about 125 men each which looks about right.
These five regiments are pictured here in this post and will form the basis of the look of my units given all the caveats on precisely how reliable that look is.
Several sources suggest the single four gun horse battery that was with Cuesta's army was also attached to the 2nd Cavalry Division when it was detached to Wellesley's left flank, being positioned alongside the Spanish half battery of 12 lbrs on the Cerro de Medellin with the British guns, and so I will add the Spanish gun teams at a later stage for completeness.
Spanish Horse Artillery
So there is the plan for the next few months starting with these five regiments of Spanish cavalry and initially with the Estremaduran Hussars. As in previous projects I will share the information I have gathered on each unit as we go, so I hope you will find it interesting to look at the individual Spanish regiments in detail.
References consulted for this post
Talavera, Wellington's First Victory in Spain - Andrew W Field
Great Battles in History Refought - Talavera, Partidge & Oliver
Talavera 1809, Wellington's Lightning Strike into Spain - Chartrand & Turner (Osprey Campaign)
Sir Charles Oman - History of the Peninsular War.
Labels: JJ's Wargames, Napoleonics, Spanish, Talavera
Virginia Regiment - French Indian War
George Washington in the uniform of Colonel the Virginia Regiment - 1772
The Virginia Regiment was raised in 1754 initially under the command of Colonel Joshua Fry, a soldier, surveyor and mapmaker, and a 'West-countryman' having been born in Crewekerne, Somerset. He was and is most famous for his collaboration in producing a map of the state of Virginia in 1752.
Joshua Fry
Colonel Fry was on his way to attack the French Fort Duquense when he fell from his horse, which led to his untimely death in May 1754.
He was succeeded by the then Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, who would, as well of a spot of soldiering, later go on to have an interesting career in politics!
Virginia Militiaman 1755 -62, Gerry Embleton
The Virginia Regiment may well have not been as well uniformed as the figures presented and certainly in the early years of the regiment only the officers would have been so, with many of the men operating in civilian dress mixed occasionally with items of regimental items.
That said there are many references to the red waistcoats and blue-red faced jackets having been established by 1755. Although it seems that Washington and many of his officers may have dispensed with their 'regimentals' when joining General Edward Braddock on his ill-fated expedition that year, preferring to wear linen hunting shirts as illustrated by the man in Gerry Embleton's classic illustration.
Braddock Expedition
The Virginia Regiment bears the distinction as being the first all-colonial professional military force, distinctive from other local militias raised at the time for practising regular drill and wearing a standard uniform.
This regiment heralded the early attempts to professionalise the colonial militia in support of the regulars and laid the foundation of Virginia line regiments that were formed in 1775 at the start of the American War of Independence.
Actions participated in include Jumonville Glen, Fort Necessity, Braddock's Column and the Forbes Expedition.
Map to illustrate the key area of operations for the Viriginia Regiment along the border territory with Ohio Country
Battle of Jumonville Glen
Battle of Fort Necessity
John Forbes (British Army officer)
The figures presented are a twenty six figure project I have painted as part of Steve M's growing collection of 28mm French Indian War figures and are from the Galloping Major range of figures which with the 'heroic' 28mm size are an absolute joy to paint and made a nice break in between finishing my AB 18mm French before starting the Spanish.
I think given the descriptions of the look of the regiment when on campaign I would be inclined to mix in few hunting shirt types to represent the officers and newer recruits.
Steve and I play-tested Sharp Practice II a few weeks ago and I know he is looking at creating some sabot bases so we can more easily organise trained units such as these into formation groups as per the rules.
Sharp Practice II - First Date with a New Lady
I am looking forward to seeing these chaps out on the table.
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http://www.gallopingmajorwargames.com
Virginia Regiment
Next up a review of the Spanish 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of Estremadura at Talavera
Labels: JJ's Wargames, Muskets and Tomahawks
Regimental Museums in Winchester - with Steve M
Rifleman Harris
Editor's Note - I am really keen that JJ's Wargames should have lots of interesting historical and military related posts that inform our hobby. This past year I have had several posts from my old pal "Mr Steve" who has covered some excellent book reviews and trips to various events and places that have added greatly to the variety and content on the blog.
It thus gives me great pleasure to introduce the first post from another good friend, "Steve M" who has contributed regularly to the blog behind the scenes so to speak with his participation in many of the games featured here and he brings his interest and insights in different aspects and periods within the hobby that will add yet more interesting content to JJ's.
What follows is Steve's report on several Regimental Museums visited interspersed with pictures from the trip.
Winchester Regimental Museums – Part 1
Having being advised by JJ that I missed the opportunity to become a 'roving reporter' when not taking any pictures on a visit to 'The Rifles (Berkshire & Wiltshire) Museum' in Salisbury earlier in the year; I hoped to redeem myself on a recent trip to Winchester in Hampshire, where I visited five military museums in a day!
The Wardrobe - Home of the Infantry Regiments of Berkshire & Wiltshire
I only took pictures in three, for various reasons. One didn't allow it, which was strange considering all the others did, and the other was quite small, of less interest to me, and I was running out of space on my memory card!!
Private 60th Royal American Regiment c1758
I have a keen interest in military history, as most wargamers probably do, but I've always had a particular interest in the individual Regiments of the British army; their history, traditions, battle honours (a whole history in itself! – see 'Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies'-
Anthony Baker, 1986), nicknames and amalgamations.
If you're interested in that kind of thing, I would recommended 'A companion to the British Army 1660-1983', David Ascoli, 1983. Clearly a bit out of date now, but good to have as a reference if you
want to know the process of amalgamation for your local, or favourite Regiment and their 'precedence' when on parade. Now is not the time to do a full review, but as the author points out,
'this is neither a history of the British Army, nor a chronicle of battles and campaigns' (p11). As an
aside, if anyone knows of a good book which guides you through the amalgamations from 1983 onwards, I'd be interested.
General Wolfe's original sash from Quebec
Back to my visit, how did I end up in Winchester? I'd found a really useful website when searching
for local Regimental Museums,
http://www.armymuseums.org.uk/
and as mentioned had tied in a visit to the museum to Salisbury following a trip to the Chalke Valley history festival. The website enables you to search by geographic area, so pulling up the South West; I found that there were five military museums in Winchester. So following a planned weekend in Essex with my sister, I set off to Winchester for a stopover on the way back to Devon, and I wasn't disappointed!
Jacket of Lt. Colonel Hunt 52nd Light Infantry - Peninsular War
There are five museums located in Peninsula Barracks, Romsey Rd. 'Horsepower' The Museum of the Kings Royal Hussars; The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum; The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum; The Gurkha Museum and The Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps. Of the five, four are in a stone's throw of each other (that's 'very close' to any overseas readers!), the Hussar's and the Gurkhas being accessed through the same main door! The Hampshire's is a short walk. There were steps on the route I took, but I think there's an alternative.
Light Infantry Officers Pattern Sword.
Lt. Dawson 52nd Light Infantry, died
of his wounds at Waterloo
Cost wise, the Adjutant General's is free, being housed in the on-site cafe. This is not unrealistic,
considering the size of the museum ('museum' being rather a grand description!). The Hampshire's
is also free, but there is a drum for donations, and I duly obliged. The Green Jackets and Gurkhas are
£4 each, but if you 'gift aid' in the Green Jackets you get 12 months free return visits. The entry into
the Hussars cost £2.
On the day, I arrived around 10.30. Parking is limited, but free, I got a visitors pass from the Green
Jackets museum. The barracks is close to the town centre, so if you have to park further away it's not
too far. I went round in the following order; Green Jackets, a good hour if not hour and a half; coffee
and cake in the cafe followed by the Adjutant General's Corps, 15-20 minutes. A 5 minute walk to the Hampshire's, about 30-40 minutes in there, back to the Hussars, about 30 minutes in there, across to the Gurkha's, around 40 minutes in there. I finished around 3.30, but timings are very approximate,
as I wasn't keeping a close eye. It would certainly be easier to spend longer in most of them.
Officers jacket, 5th Battalion, 60th Regiment (Rifles)
What follows is a quick summary of each of my visits, with photos, which are clearly not up to
standard of JJ! I was using a Sony 'Cyber-shot', which only has six mega pixels! However, what it does have is the ability to adjust settings to a far greater degree than my phone camera. On the camera most looked ok after some experimentation, but some were disappointing when transferred to the laptop!
The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum
http://www.rgjmuseum.co.uk/
'Tracing the history of the 43rd & 52nd, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; the 60th Rifles, The Kings Royal rifle Corps and the 95th Rifles, The Rifle Brigade, who, in 1966 merged to form The Royal Green Jackets, which in 2007 became part of today's Regiment, 'The Rifles' (from the museum leaflet).
Original jacket of Lt. Walter Clarke, 2nd Battalion, 95th Rifles c1814
There's a great 'Regimental family tree' at the entrance, which is vaguely apparent in one of the
pictures, unfortunately my 'close up' was unusable!
But I did find one here
http://www.greenjackets-net.org.uk/assoc_new/regtl_history/rgj_tree.htm
Outside the front of the museum is a statue of Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton.
Commander of the 52nd Light Infantry at Waterloo, credited with a deceive contribution to the
defeat of the Old Guard (or winning the battle, depending on your view!)
This was the best visit for me, tracing the history of the Regiments from the French & Indian Wars,
when the 60th was raised, through Waterloo, the Indian Mutiny, the Boer War, WW1, WW2 up to
the present day, where there is a small part of the museum dedicated to 'The Rifles'. Currently (until
11th September) there is also a special exhibition comparing Waterloo with the first day of the Somme; weapons, rations, medical facilities etc.
The 'Nock' gun made famous in the Sharpe TV series
There's an opportunity to handle replicas of the Baker rifle and the Brown Bess musket, the Baker in
particular is a bit of a weight!
The model dedicated to 'Rifleman Harris' is quite impressive (see the header to this post - Ed)
Clip from the Sharpe TV series with left Captain "Sweet" William Fredrickson, 60th Rifles played by Philip Whitchurch,
Richard Sharpe played of course by Sean Bean and Sergeant Patrick Harper seen here with his 'Nock' played by
Daragh O'Malley
Of particular note is the Waterloo diorama of over 21,000 model figures, with commentary, sound
and light effects. There is a picture on the museum website (mine failed!)
There are some other very nice dioramas, including the storming of the Kashmir gate, Dehli, 1857
during the Indian mutiny, and the taking of Pegasus Bridge during the D Day landings. Unfortunately
neither of my pictures came out very well!
Snipe 1 - 1942
What is very good at both the 'Snipe' and Pegasus Bridge display's, are extracts of recorded interviews with the participants, including Major John Howard who led the attack on the bridge. One of my favourites was an extract from a Lt Smith at the bridge, who describes how a German threw a stick grenade at him. "When it went off 'I had holes in my uniform, but not my body, so I shot him!"
I hope the pictures give you a flavour of the visit, but I don't feel they do justice to what, in my
opinion, is a very good Regimental Museum.
This is a really useful link for tracing back the formation and history of the Royal Green Jackets and its founding Regiments.
http://www.egframes.co.uk/cdRGJ1.htm
An excellent reference for the complete story of the Rifles is 'The Rifles chronology 1865-2013'
compiled by Col Ted Shields MBE
http://riflesmuseum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Rifles_Chronology_1685-2012_Edn2.pdf
It was then time for 'coffee & cake', with only a short walk to the 'Cafe Peninsula' and the
'Guardroom Museum', which houses the Museum of the Adjutant General's Corps (AGC).
'From the Army's Pay Department to the Women's Royal Army Corps and the current Corps' role
supporting the British Army of today, the Guardroom Museum provides a fascinating insight into the
Army's administrative services' (taken from 'Winchester's Military Museums' leaflet).
A nice little museum (so small it doesn't have its own website, the Corps was only formed in 1992),
without being of major interest to me in particular. I saved the space of my memory card in here, so
no pictures, but I did find an interesting little snippet about the Women's Royal Army Corps Band,
formed in 1949. For forty-five years, until 1994, they were the first and only all female band in the British Army. Well I found it interesting!
More information on the AGC can be found here;
http://www.army.mod.uk/agc/23202.aspx
Next up, unless this is my first & last entry as a roving reporter??! The Royal Hampshire's, the Royal
Hussars and the Gurkhas.
Steve M
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The Division of Family Resources (DFR) is responsible for establishing eligibility for Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP - food assistance) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF - cash assistance) benefits. The division also manages the timely and accurate delivery of SNAP and TANF benefits.
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Q: How to solve a difference equation? So I have the difference equation $4y_{k+1} = 2y_k$.
I need to solve this equation, first with the initial condition $y_0 = 0$ and then with the initial condition $y_0 = 2$.
The professor wrote on the answer sheet that applying iteratively the recurrence relation it is easy to check that:
$y_k= (1/2)^k y_0 $.
Since I missed the lecture where he explained this, can somebody explain how to come about with this question?
I imagine that once I get the equation, then the initial condition $y_0 = 0$ gives us the particular solution $y_k = 0$. Thus the other initial condition $y_0 = 2$ is verified by the solution $y_k = 2(1/2)^k$.
Any help on how to get to the equation $y_k= (1/2)^k y_0$ will be appreciated.

A: $$y_{k+1}=\frac12y_k$$ so that
$$y_{1}=\frac12y_0$$
and
$$y_{2}=\frac12 y_1=\frac1{2^2}y_0$$
and
$$y_{3}=\frac12 y_2=\frac1{2^3}y_0$$
$$\cdots$$

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Revenues of US$100m or more are expected to be generated this year by the Sri Lankan boating industry representing a growth of 3% or more on 2017, according to a Eurasia Review report.
The national strategy for the Sri Lanka boating industry anticipates that by 2020 revenues will grow to US$250m. This has been stated by Gamini B Herath, managing director of the Boat Building Technology Improvement Institute Sri Lanka. He was speaking at a press conference to announce the 2018 Boat Show and Festival due to be held later this year.
Malik Samarawickrama, Sri Lanka's minister of Development Strategies and International Trade, explained to the press conference that the government is establishing boating facilities in the Koggala and Mirissa areas to further expand activities in the sector.
The sixth edition of the Sri Lanka Boat Show will be held on October 26-28, 2018 at the Galle Yacht Marina of the Port of Galle. This event is being organised by the Boat Building Technology Development Institute and Sri Lanka Export Development Board in association with the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, Ministry of Industry and Commerce and Ministry of Ports and Shipping.
With Sri Lanka's boating industry and marine tourism set to expand, the show is seen as the ideal opportunity to showcase the country's capabilities in recreational boating and yachting, nautical tourism, boat building and related services for exports and local markets. Room for some 60 internal stands and 20 exterior slots. Developing previous events, the organisers are hoping to attract exhibitors from such as India, Singapore, Seychelles, the Maldives, South Korea, Belgium, the Middle East, Germany, Netherlands and the UK as well as domestic businesses.
The show organisers hope to use the event to attract the country's younger generation both to boating and to also get them to consider the sector as a career opportunity. The show will apart from yachts and boats, also focus on water sports, sailing schools and clubs and nautical tourism.


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I scrubbed and hosed off the tent canvas and the trailer cover. It's tough stuff to remove so the tent doesn't look much different. The cover came up a treat and the door mat is a lot less dusty also.
We did a quick shopping trip into Newman and then returned for lunch before mounting an expedition to the top of Mt Nameless. It was an easy but steep drive open to 4x4 vehicles only. The extensive panoramas gained in all directions from the top were well worth it. There was a cleaning frenzy during the late afternoon. I did the inside of the vehicle while Amanda did boxes. All very good. The sky is overcast again so I'm expecting rain overnight.


A few months ago my mom texted me a photo that she had just taken to see if I would be able to print it for her on burlap or anything.
I took one look at the picture and was truly amazed at the pure beauty of it. Right there is the clouds was an angel.
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If you're like me, you probably have a love-hate relationship with your computer. On the one hand, it can sometimes drive you crazy. On the other hand, it allows you to do things you couldn't easily do otherwise. For example, in less than a second you can convert a positive image to a negative one. And after you've done that, you'll be able to use your negative image in many different ways to help students overcome their reluctance to write.
For example, you could combine your image(s) with a poem to stimulate group discussion that will lead to written assignments. You could ask your students to write about one or more of the dreams they may have had. You could encourage them to speculate as to the meaning of dreams. Or you could simply show them a "dream" photo linked to an appropriate poem and allow them to write whatever comes to mind.
"I am you," she said.
And who you want to be."
Then surely I am you."
Valerie Reimers is a Professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Oklahoma State University. Reimers has developed an assignment that asks her students to discover convergences between visual images and verbal texts as they create both. First, she directs them to create photographs and, without looking at them, immediately write journal entries describing what they saw and hoped to capture in the photos. "In this way," she writes, "the students connect seeing with writing."
For the third and final part of the assignment, Reimers requires the students to submit a portfolio consisting of three sets of photos and written entries for evaluation and to share with their classmates. "Doing well on this assignment," she concludes, "doesn't depend on photographic skills. Rather, it depends on the careful choosing of subjects and the effort put into writing about them."
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In the Humanities Division at Fullerton College, Fullerton, California, Bruce Henderson uses iconic photos created by photojournalists during the Vietnam War to stimulate students' thinking and writing. "One of the images I present is the image of a Buddhist monk who has set himself on fire at a Saigon intersection," he writes. "This leads to a discussion about the nature and effectiveness of protest, as well as to an inquiry into the situation(s) about which the monks were protesting." Henderson also uses the iconic photo of the national police chief of South Vietnam executing a bound "suspect" during the Tet offensive, as well as the unforgettable photo of a naked girl fleeing her napalmed village to stimulate discussion and writing in his classes.
Mary Lang is an Instructor in the English and Humanities Division at Wharton County Junior College, Richmond, Texas. Lang directs her students to bring in 3-5 photographs from magazines. Then she asks them to choose a photo and use it to write a narrative or a series of narratives based on the image they have chosen. Occasionally, instead of asking the students to choose a photo, Lang creates a lottery in which the students "win" photos other than those they have selected themselves. "This has worked very well," she writes. Lang indicates that she uses this technique to encourage students to write not only narratives, but also other forms of writing. "For example," she concludes, "I've found that it works very well as a journal assignment."
In her classes at California State University at Monterey Bay and at Cabrillo College, Barbara Raney directs her students to read Richard Rodriguez' essay about a photo display in San Francisco. "In this essay," she writes, "Rodriguez asserts that anyone with a camera can create meaningful images." Then Raney shows the students photos of her grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives and asks them to write memoirs based on photos of their own relatives. "The students do a good job of speculating about how/why their subjects changed since the photographs were taken," she reports.
Sometimes you don't need a written prompt to trigger ideas that lead to written compositions. Here's an example of how a member of a senior citizen's writers' group responded to the photo shown here.
"This photo took me back to the days when my kids and I would spend hours searching for sharks' teeth along the sandy shores of Jacksonville Beach in Florida, or back to any number of beach memories that are strung throughout my early years. How well I remember other days in Atlantic City when they had a horse that jumped off the Steel Pier. But that was years ago."


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Q: How to override a default header defined in Razor _Layout page So I'm working on a .NET MVC web application and I'd like to have a consistent header among all pages on the site except for the landing page, where I'd like to include a sign in and registration option in the header of the page. Any ideas how to disable the default header in _Layout and instead render a separate partial view? As of now it stacks the _Layout header above my custom header. Any help is appreciated!

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I'd like to have a consistent header among all pages on the site except for the landing page, where I'd like to include a sign in and registration option in the header of the page.

You can try to replace the header in _Layout.cshtml with a sign in and registration option.
And if you want landing page don't include the header,you can create a _Layout1.cshtml without the header,and set it as the Layout of landing page.Add the following code to landing page can set the Layout of it.
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The trial of three Lebanese accused of belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist group, and in ration the Kano arm find,
ended yesterday with a Federal High Court in Abuja jailing one of them for life.
Talal Ahmad Roda, who was arrested in the Kano house where the ammunition was found, got life to imprisonment having been found guilty of conspiracy.
Mustapha Fawaz, owner of Abuja-based Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park, both companies and the second accused person, Abdallah Thahini were freed.
Justice Ademola Adeniyi, in a judgment yesterday, held that the prosecution failed to provide concrete evidence linking them with terrorism.
The Federal Government had on July 29 arraigned that three men and the companies on a 16-count charge of terrorism.
While Roda was convicted on counts 8 and 9 relating to conspiracy, Fawaz, his companies and Thahini were acquitted on all the counts.
Justice Adeniyi held that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubts that the discharged persons are terrorists.
The judge was of the opinion that since the Hezbollah military group was not labelled a terrorist group under any Nigerian law, the court could not hold otherwise.
Justice Adeniyi observed that some aspects of the investigation were not properly conducted.
The judge also also observed that the prosecution failed by the evidence brought before the court to establish a case of terrorism against the accused persons.
He held that the prosecution was wrong by not producing before the court either the ammunition recovered from No 3, Gaiya Road, Kano or the photographer who took pictures of the ammunition.
The judge further held that the prosecution could have, as an alternative, applied to have the court visit the Kano house and see the ammunition.
Justice Adeniyi was of the opinion that the failure by the prosecution to take any of the above steps makes the the photo evidence of the ammunition tendered inadmissible.
The judge also noted that the witness brought by the prosecution who conducted the search confessed that he was neither a forensic or ballistic expert.
While the judge was about to sentence Roda, defence lawyer, Ahmed Raji (SAN), pleaded him to be lenient and temper justice with mercy.
He said the convict co-orperated with the security agencies all through the trial and that he has lived his entire life in Nigeria.
Prosecution lawyer, Simon Egede, said though he shared the sentiment of the defence lawyer, the law must take its course, no matter what happened.
He said that the punishment for conspiracy is life imprisonment and he urged the court to follow the law in making its pronouncement.
The judge rose for about 45 minutes and when he resumed sitting announced the sentencing of the third accused person (Roda) to life imprisonment.
Justice Adeniyi held that the terrorism law, under which he was charged, provides for life imprisonment on conviction for conspiracy, and that the court has no discretion to vary it.
"I have listened to the allocutus of the defence counsel on the issue of sentencing.
"After I have read one or two authorities as to the provision where the accused was charged, it does not give room for judicial discretion.
"I, thereby, sentence the third accused person to life imprisonment on Counts 8 and 9 and both terms are to run concurrently".
The judge ordered that both Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park be unsealed with immediate effect.
He added that the 61,170 US dollars seized from the second accused person (Thahini) be returned to him.
The judge also directed that all personal properties seized from the discharged persons and their relatives be returned to them forthwith.
Amigo Supermarket
Islamabad High Court
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Mustapha Fawaz
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Description This is Larkin Bradford's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Bradford, a 52-year-old Tennessee native, states that he has lived in Missouri for 18 years and manifested his loyalty during the war by ""attending to my own business and letting everything else alone."" Bradford declares that he cannot recall his feelings about the Federal defeat at Bull Run in 1861, and describes the question as ""irrelevant."" The oath is No. 179 in a bound volume.


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Though UK moviegoers saw Legend back in early September, today U.S. audiences are finally getting a chance to see the crime biopic of London's notorious Kray twins starring Tom Hardy in dual roles as gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. The film has received a fair amount of praise, particular for Hardy since he had to basically work twice as much in this movie than he normally has to.
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Service of thanksgiving for Bishop Michael
Close to 1,000 people are expected to visit Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 13 June at 4.30pm, to give thanks for Bishop Michael Perham's ministry as Bishop of Gloucester.
Guests will include church-goers from every area of Gloucestershire, up to 100 visitors from outside the Diocese of Gloucester, as well as many well-known local civic and business leaders. All are invited to worship together and enjoy a drinks reception afterwards.
Bishop Michael says he is looking forward to having a chance to thank all the people he has worked with in the last ten years at the service. He said: "It will be a great occasion and will give real closure after a difficult year."
The service marks the end of Bishop Michael's ten year ministry in the Diocese of Gloucester. During his time in office, Bishop Michael was involved with a number of charities, including GARAS, GEAR, Cheltenham YMCA, the Star College and Emmaus.
Whilst in office, Bishop Michael had a significant impact on the national Church. He joined the House of Lords in 2009 and was Chair of the Society for the Promoting of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) from 2007 to 2011. One of his interests is liturgy and he was part of the group that put together the Common Worship service used in many Anglican Churches today. Bishop Michael was a member of the Crown Nominations Committee that chose the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
He has been a long standing supporter of women bishops and welcomed the appointment of Rachel Treweek as his successor in a BBC Radio Gloucestershire interview with Steve Kitchen.
He said of Rachel: "I have huge respect for her. I think she'll be a gracious bishop. I think Gloucester is really lucky to get her and I think she is really lucky to be going to Gloucester. I am very thrilled about it. I think it's really important that the Church of England goes on holding together people who are enthusiastic about women and those who find it more difficult. But I'm delighted that Gloucester is the kind of place where people recognise that the ministry of a talented and able woman as bishop would be really welcomed and acceptable."
Bishop Michael retired in November 2014 and has since moved to Somerset with his wife Alison. He continues to minister to his local community in his role as a Retired Bishop.
Bishop Michael will be on BBC Radio Gloucestershire on Sunday between 8.10am and 8.40am.
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Maghreb, The
The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa comprising the plains and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The term sometimes includes Libya and/or Mauritania and in ancient times also encompassed Moorish Spain.
See: The Atlas Mountains
Tagged Algeria, Atlas Mountains, Libya, Maghreb, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
Fauna of Atlantis
The Fauna of Atlantis as described by Plato has done little to pinpoint its location and is clearly a subject for further investigation. However, pinpointing is the wrong word since Atlantis stretched from North Africa as far north as central Italy, so there is probably a wide geographical spread to the fauna noted by Plato.
In Critias he refers to 'flocks' (111c) implying sheep and/or goats; bees (111c), elephants (114e); horses (117b); bulls (119d). He also mentions sable clothing (120b) but these were possibly imported.
The most problematic of these is the reference to elephants, a term that could be loosely applied to a number of related species including mastodons, mammoths, the Indian, the African and dwarf elephants. The habitat of the latter diminutive creatures stretched from Siberia as far south as the equator. The remains of dwarf elephants have been found on the islands of the Mediterranean from Sardinia to Cyprus.
Pygmy elephant is the term applied to some species found today in parts of Asia and Africa. However 'pygmy' or 'dwarf' elephants could hardly be described as "largest and most voracious" of animals (Critias 115a).
However, there is general acceptance that the North African Elephant inhabited the Atlas Mountains until they became extinct in Roman times(b)(e). Atlantis sceptic, Ronald H. Fritze, an Atlantis sceptic, acknowledges[709.25] the existence of elephants in North Africa until the Romans.
The species of elephant used by Hannibal has been a source of debate for years(c). The Numidians of North Africa (202 BC–46 BC) also used local elephants in warfare (d). It would seem to me that the North African Elephant, rather than the Asian or African species, would have been more suited to the trek across the Alps. Needless to say the Atlas Mountains were part of the Atlantean sphere of influence (Timaeus 25a-b).
Eckart Kahlhofer believes that the elephants referred to by Plato were in fact deer, claiming that a scribal error resulted in the Greek word elaphos (deer) being transcribed as elephas (elephant).
R. Cedric Leonard has written an interesting paper(a) on the early domestication of animals and its possible connection with Atlantis.
*(a) https://web.archive.org/web/20161210225952/https://www.atlantisquest.com/Taming.html*
(b) https://interesting-africa-facts.com/Africa-Landforms/Atlas-Mountains-Facts.html
(c) https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/18/science/the-mystery-of-hannibal-s-elephants.html
(d) https://nabataea.net/elephants.html
(e) https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2014/08/137456/5-animals-that-once-roamed-morocco-but-no-longer-exist/
Tagged Atlas Mountains, dwarf elephant, Eckart Kahlhofer, elephants, fauna, North African Elephant, R. Cedric Leonard, Ronald H. Fritze
Meropes
Meropes, according to Ignatius Donnelly, was the name applied by the classical writer Theopompus to the inhabitants of Atlantis. This reference is to be found in the works of Aelian (Bk III, Chap. XVIII) that in fact does not mention Atlantis but refers to a huge distant continent that may in fact, as some speculate, have been an early reference to America. Peter James also supports[047.293] this view of Meropes being 'an oblique reference to Atlantis' .
The Greek historian Strabo wrote (Book VII) of an island with an advanced culture called Meropis and its inhabitants Meropes. He also supported the reality of Plato's Atlantis story.
Jean Gattefossé contended that the Atlas Mountains of North Africa were also known as the Meros. He believed that these mountains had previously bounded a large inland sea that has been referred to as both the Meropic and Atlantic Sea.
*Frank Joseph has speculated that "Merope was probably the name of an allied kingdom or colony of the Atlantean Empire in coastal North Africa, perhaps, occupying the southern half of present-day Morocco" [104.186].
In 1898, the American novelist, H.H. Buckman (1858-1914), published Merope or The Destruction of Atlantis [1557], which uses a fictional account of the final days of Atlantis as a backdrop to what is classified by some to be an early example of science fiction.*
Meropes is also an ancient name for the inhabitants of the Greek island of Kos.
Tagged Aelian, America, Atlas Mountains, Frank Joseph, H.H. Buckman, Ignatius Donnelly, Jean Gattefosse, Kos, Peter James, Strabo, Theopompus
Delisle de Sales, Jean-Baptiste Izouard
Jean-Baptiste Izouard Delisle de Sales (1741-1816) was a French philosopher who ventured into the dangerous waters of speculative atlantology with the idea that Atlantis had been originally situated in the Caucasus. In volume 3[1013] of his multi-volume work, Histoire nouvelle de tous les peuples du monde ou Histoire des homes, he hypothesized that following a catastrophic flood in that region, refugees migrated east and west. Some ended up in the Atlas Mountains from where they got their name. Delisle de Sales believed that the Atlantis of Plato was situated between Italy and Carthage. This view was a consequence of identifying Homer's Ogygia, the island of Calypso, with Atlantis. He then assumed that Sardinia was a remnant of this island.This led to his identification of the Gulf of Tunis as the location of the Pillars of Heracles. The original French text of Book III, which relates to Atlantis can be read online(a).
*Jason Colavito has translated a relevant section of volume IV of Histoire Philosophique du Monde Primitif? [1669].*
Delisle de Sales, writing in the 18th century cited an anonymous source who placed Atlantis in Taprobane, considered at the time to be a reference to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), not Dhani Irwanto's Indonesian Kilmantan.
Michael Hissmann (1752-1784) who translated the first book of Delisle de Sales' Histoire into German added his own commentary that supported an Atlantic location for Atlantis.
It is worth noting that Delisle de Sales included Fabre d'Olivet, the occultist, in his social circle.
(a) https://books.google.ie/books?id=NatGgw0_gBoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Histoire++nouvelle+de+tous+les+peuples+du+monde+ou+Histoire+des+homes&source=bl&ots=6U1LrS9FGJ&sig=nWR6&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Histoire%20%20nouvelle%20de%20tous%20les%20peuples%20du%20monde%20ou%20Histoire%20des%20homes&f=false
Tagged Atlantis, Atlas Mountains, Calypso, Carthage, Caucasus, Delisle de Sales, Dhani Irwanto, Gulf of Tunis, Jason Colavito, Jean-Baptiste Izouard Delisle de Sales, Michael Hissmann, Ogygia, Pillars of Heracles, Plato, Sardinia
Cro-Magnon Man
Cro–Magnon Man, who emerged around 37,000 years ago, is often described as having a dome-shaped cranium and broad forehead and a brain capacity of 1,600 cc, which is greater than modern man. His skull has thick eyebrow projections and a bony protrusion at the back that is characteristic of both Neanderthal man and Homo erectus. Blavatsky(c), Sepehr(d) along with a number of investigators(e) have suggested that they may have been the original Atlanteans. They have pointed to the physical traits listed above together with blood grouping and linguistic similarities to be found in the same regions of Western Europe and North Africa.
Robert John Langdon also claims that "Cro-Magnon/Atlanteans colonised America" based on a study of blood group distribution(b).>R. Cedric Leonard is another supporter of the idea of Cro-Magnons in America(h), citing the work of Dennis Stanford & Bruce Bradley [1516].<
Physical anthropology has identified the modern remnants of Cro-Magnon Man in the Berbers and Tuaregs of North Africa, the Basques of Northern Spain together with small population pockets in the Dordogne Valley and Brittany in France. The highest incidence of Rhesus-negative blood in the world is to be found among the Basques. Similar high levels of Rhesus-negative blood are to be found among the inhabitants of the Canaries and the Atlas Mountains of Morocco; areas where Cro-Magnons lived. This fact is seen as evidence for claiming that the Basques are directly descended from Cro-Magnon Man.
On the basis of skull shape, William Howells[268] and Bertil Lundman[269] have supported this view. The regions that were home to Cro-Magnon Man, in Upper Paleolithic times, were comparable with those occupied by their latter-day successors such as the now extinct Guanches of the Canaries and the Basques.
R. Cedric Leonard is probably the best known modern proponent of the Atlantean Cro-Magnon idea(f), he refers to the work of Oliviera Martins[270], who in the 1930's, pointed out that many of the Cro-Magnon people have given themselves distinguishing names with the suffix 'tani' from the Mauritani of North Africa to the Bretani of Brittany and Britain. Leonard also insists that an analysis of the languages of these groups of people points to a relationship with each other, while being quite different to the other languages of Europe or the Near East. He thinks that it is quite possible that these ancient languages date back to the cultures of the Ice Age. Leonard also refers to what he calls "an anomalous Cro-Magnon/Atlantis outpost" in northern Palestine(a).
Alexander Marshack (1918-2004) was an American journalist turned archaeologist, who, in the 1970's, offered evidence[1633] that markings on a number of bones from the Upper Paleolithic were used as lunar calendars to mark the passage of time. Similar markings have been identified on the painted walls of the famous Cro-Magnon Lascaux caves in France(g).
This combination of date, geographical spread, language and physical similarities offers a reasonable basis for postulating the idea of a coherent civilisation along the European and North African Atlantic seaboards and in the Atlantic itself, at the end of the last Ice Age that could be accommodated by one interpretation of Plato's Atlantis. Lewis Spence was a supporter of this possibility.
(a) https://www.atlantisquest.com/Outpost.html (offline March 2018) See Archive 2260
(b) https://www.the-stonehenge-enigma.info/2012/04/cro-magnonatlanteans-colonised-america.html
(c) https://www.blavatsky.net/index.php/37-topics/atlantis/343-cro-magnon-man-and-atlantis
(d) https://atlanteangardens.blogspot.ie/2014/04/the-cro-magnon-invasions.html
(e) https://differentpast.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/cro-magnon-and-atlantis/
(f) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Atlantis_und_der_Cro-Magnon-Mensch
(g) https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/975360.stm
>(h) https://web.archive.org/web/20161126063206/https://www.atlantisquest.com/America.html<
Tagged Alexander Marshack, Atlas Mountains, Basques, Berbers, Bertil Lundman, Brittany, Canaries, Cro-Magnon, Guanches, Helena Blavatsky, Mauritani, Morocco, Neanderthals, North Africa, Oliviera Martins, Palestine, R. Cedric Leonard, Robert John Langdon, Robert Sepehr, William Howells
The Atlas Mountains stretch for over 1,500 miles across the Maghreb of North-West Africa, from Morocco through Algeria to Tunisia. The origin of the name is unclear but seems to be generally accepted as having been named after the Titan.
Herodotus states (The Histories, Book IV. 42-43) that the inhabitants of ancient Mauretania (modern Morocco) were known as Atlantes and took their name from the nearby mount Atlas. Jean Gattefosse believed that the Atlas Mountains were also known as the Meros and that a large inland sea bounded by the range had been known as both the Meropic and the Atlantic Sea. Furthermore, he contended that Nysa had been a seaport on this inland sea.
*The Maghreb, or parts of it, have been identified as the location of Atlantis by a number of commentators. One, Ulrich Hofmann concluded his presentation to the 2005 Atlantis Conference with the comment that "based on Plato's detailed description it can be concluded that Atlantis was most likely identical with the Maghreb."[629.377] Furthermore, he has proposed that the Algerian Chott-el-Hodna has a ring structure deserving investigation.*
To add a little bit of confusion to the subject, the writer Paul Dunbavin declared[099] that Atlas was a name applied by ancient writers to a number of mountains.
Tagged Algeria, Atlantes, Atlas Mountains, Jean Gattefosse, Maghreb, Morocco, Paul Dunbavin, Tunisia
Gabés, Gulf of
Gulf of Gabés on the eastern coast of Tunisia was formerly known as Syrtis Minor. Today is contains the Tunisian oil reserves and has the distinction of having one of the few significant tidal ranges (max. 8 feet) in the Mediterranean, which exposes extensive sandbanks at low tides(b).
Roudaire's proposed channels marked in blue
Inland from the Gulf are the salt marshes or chotts that originally constituted an inland sea, possibly Lake Tritonis, connected with the Mediterranean but due to a seismic upheaval a ridge was created separating them from the outer sea. A comparable event was the 2011 Fukushima earthquake which moved the seafloor 16 meters vertically and 50 metres laterally(a).
In the 19th century François Roudaire proposed the cutting of a channel from the Gulf of Gabés to the chotts, recreating the former inland sea(c).
His plan was supported by Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), who developed the Suez Canal. However, when Roudaire surveyed the chott nearest the sea, Chott el-Djerid, he discovered that it was in fact lying significantly above sea level. This forced him to revise the scale of the plan, which in turn began the erosion of support for the project, which was eventually abandoned.
It is interesting that the idea of creating a vast inland sea in the Sahara has been been raised again(d) in the context of the current climate change, which, if unchecked, will raise sea levels dramatically. The objective of this new inland sea would be to partly offset this sea level rise.
Férréol Butavand was one of the first to locate Atlantis in the Gulf of Gabés[205]. In 1929 Dr. Paul Borchardt, the German geographer, claimed to have located Atlantis between the chotts and the Gulf. Dr. Anton Mifsud has drawn attention[209] to the writings of the Greek author, Palefatus of Paros, who stated (cap. 32) that the Columns of Heracles were located close to the island of Kerkenna at the western end of Syrtis Minor.
Alberto Arecchi has built on the earlier work of Butavand and places Atlantis firmly in the Gulf(e) when sea levels were much lower as a result of an isthmus separating Eastern from Western Mediterranean.
George Sarantitis delivered three papers to the 2008 Atlantis Conference also locating the Pillars of Heracles in the Gulf of Gabés, which led to the 'Atlantic Sea in modern Tunisia and Algeria, south of the Atlas Mountains and the site of Atlantis.
*(a)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/japan-earthquake-moves-seafloor/*
(b) https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulf-of-Gabes
(c) https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/617-the-sahara-sea-a-french-mirage-in-north-africa
(d) Emancipatory Oceanic Macro-engineering Richard B. Cathcart (See Archive 5079)
*(e) https://ancientpatriarchs.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/backward-to-atlantis-an-extraordinary-trip-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-world/*
Tagged 2008 Atlantis Conference, Alberto Arecchi, Algeria, Anton Mifsud, Atlas Mountains, Chott el-Djerid, chotts, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Férréol Butavand, François Roudaire, George Sarantitis, Gulf of Gabes, Lake Tritonis, Paul Borchardt, Pillars of Heracles, Syrtis Minor, Tunisia
Baër, Carl Friedrich
Carl Friedrich Baër was Swedish, but lived in Paris where he was pastor at the Lutheran chapel in the Swedish embassy (1742-1784). He believed that Plato's Atlantis story was a corruption of Bible history and that in fact Atlantis was located in the Holy Land. He went further and attempted to link the twelve tribes of Israel with the ten kings of the Atlantean federation. On one of the maps in his book, first published in 1762[140], he placed the Atlas Mountains in modern Yemen and has the Red Sea named as Mare Atlanticum, presaging the more recent work of Jaime Manuschevich. Furthermore, Baër links the destruction of Atlantis with the biblical story of the demise of Sodom and Gomorrah.
His book, in French, can now be read or downloaded online(a).
(a) https://archive.org/details/essaihistoriquee00baer
Tagged Atlas Mountains, Holy Land, Jaime Manuschevich, Red Sea, Sodom and Gomorrah


I was curious if anyone here has tried one of those digital refractometer and what their experience with it was if they have. The reason I ask, is because I don't think I'd be able to use the traditional refractometers because, my vision is pretty bad, even with corrective help.
Also aside from the refactometer what other instrament would anyone suggest to go along with the refractometer, to help in identifying colored stones. In other words, if y'all could only choose 2 pieces of equipment to use, to identify colored stones, which 2 would y'all choose. Or, is it impossible, to use just 2 instruments to help identify stones. I do posses a stereo microscope and good digital scales. So, what 2 other things would best help me toward identifying colored gemstones?
Thanks for any, and all suggestions and/ or information y'all can help me with.
I've owned both an analog and a digital refractometer and they both have their place. I prefer the digital for most of my checks. Mine is the Presidium model. With the digital, there is calibrations you need to do once in a while so you need to keep a few known stones on hand. If you live anywhere near York, PA, USA we could meet and you could try mine out. You'll never identify all your stones with just two tools, but you can get a lot of them. Since you have a scale, it can be used for specific gravity tests without buying more equipment. I think most of the other tools may also be hard to use with eyesight issues. Spectrometers and Dichroscopes both have you looking through small tubes. A UV flashlight is a cheap investment that can help ID too. You can find them under $5 on ebay.
Perhaps a polorscope also.All require you to look,thats what I.D. is all about.
I'm 62 with vision issues.
The GIA duplex refractometer … is big and bright and easy to read.
Jeff wildman in Oregon custom makes these, and the display is large and easy to read.
I sold the kruss and the gem-eye because I couldn't see it.
Every piece of equipment is essential to gem ID… but your refractometer and your ability to read it is your #1 test.
I bought the electronic versions… 2 of them, in fact…too much room for error.
Buy a good refractometer and take the time to become skilled.
weak tests are under 1.6 like between Beryll and Quarz here you will loose controle it´s not exact enough.
… the meter is working for over 2 Yeras without any problems i can fully recomend it from1.6.