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Rifle Volunteers
Relics of the Norfolk Light Horse
"The mounted Volunteers, who mustered very strongly on this occasion were conspicuous in their scarlet coats and showy helmets…" The Norfolk Chronicle, 14th March, 1863.
Caption reads: "Review of the Norfolk Volunteers on Mousehold Heath…". The Norfolk Light Horse are mounted wearing white plumes left and right of the engraving.
During my visit to the Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry Collection at Muckleburgh in 2017, I discovered something that would have been very easy to overlook. In a case very high up on a wall, almost touching the ceiling was this:
The nearby ceiling light reflects off the glass case and from the floor the sign inside was barely visible to the (shorter than average height) visitor, but thanks to holding my camera high up to take the photo, I could confirm that it reads "Norfolk Light Horse Volunteers". It contains a Full Dress sabretache and a pouch.
Nothing particularly remarkable here, perhaps. The reason I'm posting about this obscure object is because I've been lately furthering my knowledge of Victorian military volunteers by reading W.Y. Carman's "Light Horse and Mounted Rifle Volunteers 1860-1901". This is an interesting guide to the short-lived phenomenon of Victorian mounted volunteers; not part of the yeomanry as such, but an adjunct to the wider Rifle Volunteer Movement which began in 1859. In 1862, it is thought that approximately 1218 mounted volunteers comprised up to 28 troops of both Light Horse and Mounted Rifles. By 1881, the demands, costs and complexities of maintaining these forces had seen them dwindle away, leaving only 5 units remaining totalling 530 men.
The Norfolk Light Horse, whose sabretache was up on the wall in the Muckleburgh Collection, lasted only 5 years, forming in September 1862 but disappearing well before the end of the decade (August 1867). They had their genesis in the newly formed Norfolk Mounted Rifles and, after evolving into a Light Horse formation, went on to number up to 60 men in total.
"The uniform consists of a scarlet tunic with blue facings, white cross belt, white breeches, and Napoleon boots, the head dress is a busby with blue bag ; the forage cap is blue trimmed with white. A number of the troop have daily appeared in the city during the week, on their way to drill ; they are exceedingly well mounted and certainly present a very imposing appearance… The Norfolk Chronicle, 6th April, 1861.
Initially wearing the busby described above, this troop soon adopted a dark blue / black dragoon helmet with a white plume and an unusual triangular leopardskin patch on the front. By 1863, although still wearing the red tunic, the white breeches had gone and the men are depicted wearing blue overalls with side stripes.
Contemporary prints of the Norfolk Light Horse from W.Y. Carman's "Light Horse and Mounted Rifle Volunteers".
The painting below dates from 1862 and depicts the local 1st City of Norwich Rifle Volunteers in their grey uniforms but also shows some men of the "Norwich Light Horse Volunteers" (as they were known locally for a while), easily noticeable in their scarlet-coloured undress uniforms. Officers Captain Gurney and Cornet Grimmer are said to be amongst them. It's a nice scene and great impression of volunteer soldiering in the Victorian era.
Claude Nursey, "Officers of the 1st City of Norwich Rifle Volunteers, with Their Captain Henry Staniforth Patteson, on the Rifle Range, Mousehold Heath"; © Norfolk Museums Service.
Particularly interesting to me is the view in the background of a rifle range, a topic I posted on back in 2017. The backstop, the targets and the flag can all be made out and also a very high second embankment on the hillside above, no doubt to stop badly aimed rounds from ricocheting up high off the rising ground. I think it's also just possible to see the rest of the red-coated Light Horse troop mounted on the hill in the far distant skyline.
The rifle range on Mousehold Health, Norwich. © Norfolk Museums Service.
Mousehold Heath seemed to be a popular location for activities relating to Norfolk volunteer activity, so it's perhaps no surprise to discover pictorial evidence of a rifle range. Part of this heath still exists today, albeit surrounded by new development on the outskirts of Norwich. The area is the opposite side of the city centre to where I used to live, so I am not particularly familiar with it. I wonder if there's evidence of the range still to be found there?
© Norfolk Museums Service.
In it's brief existence, the Norfolk Light Horse played a colourful part in a number of local events and occasions. The Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry describes something of the unit's brief existence, including the review on Mousehold Heath seen in the newspaper illustration at the top of this post and reported enthusiastically by the local paper. Examples of their appearances at local events include;
1861 – (As the 'Norwich Mounted Rifle Volunteers'), a volunteer review at Holkham Park.
1862 – A volunteer fete at Crown Point.
1863 – A 'grand military parade' in Norwich in celebration of the marriage of the Prince of Wales.
1863 – Annual volunteer review at Mousehold Heath.
1864 – A volunteer review at Gunton Park, notably with the "band of the 1st Norwich Light Horse" in attendance.
1866 – Escort duty for the Prince of Princess of Wales visiting Norwich – particularly prestigious for the NLHV as the King's Dragoon Guards were reduced to merely lining the streets!
The Chronicle's reports on such occasions could be warmly evocative:
'The 1st Norwich Light Horse, commanded by Capt Hay Gurney, marched with the Lancers from the Cavalry Barracks… As soon as the cavalry had reached Tombland, the other troops fell in and the entire body moved off amid the cheers of the spectators, who by this time were numerous… Every window was filled with lookers on, for the most part ladies, whose bright smiles and cheerful faces, betokened the delight they took in the spectacle." The Norfolk Chronicle, 14th March, 1863.
Returning to the sabretache and pouch I'd seen in the Muckleburgh collection, I wonder whether W.Y. Carman had access to these original objects when he published the book in 1991. In the passage on the Norfolk Light Horse, he writes;
"A Full Dress sabretache is known. It measured 10 and a half inches high and 9 and a quarter inches at the base. The ground was bright blue or ultramarine with silver lace around the sides and base showing a red outer edge. The regulation crown was set over a 'VR' cypher and a three-part scroll. The latter was of red cloth and had silver letters and edging, reading 'Norfolk / Light / Horse'. W.Y. Carman
A drawing of the sabretache reproduced in W.Y. Carman's book, presumably the author's own work. There are notable differences (the shape, the dimensions reported, the crown appears larger and filled with a cream colour in reality, etc.) but is otherwise broadly similar. From W.Y. Carman,"Light Horse and Mounted Rifle Volunteers".
Smith and Harris' "The Yeomanry Cavalry of Norfolk", gives the dimensions as below, distinctly different to Carman's measurements, and are surprised by the sabretache being the "smallest on record" with a pouch for holding papers, maps, etc as broad as the sabretache. This is perhaps explained by the sabretache being of such small dimensions whilst the need for a pouch large enough to provide utility still remained.
"The sabretache is of particular interest as it is the smallest specimen on record, the width of no more than 7 inches at the top and 8 inches at the bottom, overall depth 9 inches…strangely the pouch is almost as broad as the sabretache." Smith and Harris.
The clear differences in dimensions, not to say other minor differences in the size and shape of the crown, cypher and other details, make me wonder if they really aren't two completely different sabretaches. I feel the shape of Carman's 'tache further confirms this suspicion.
Carman also describes the pouch:
At the same time a Full Dress pouch was seen, the flap being black velvet edged with silver lace and the embroidered crown with a crimson lining was over N L H V in silver letters. The precise date of these items is not known. Another pouch had an ultramarine flap." W.Y. Carman
"NLHV"; another drawing, this time of the Full Dress pouch and clearly the same as that held in the Muckleburgh case. The crown is noticeably larger on the Muckleburgh example than in the watercolour. From W.Y. Carman,"Light Horse and Mounted Rifle Volunteers".
Military artist Bob Marrion probably got a first-hand look at the Muckleburgh sabretache (even though his illustration was published around the same time as Carman's work) as his sabretache on the cover of Vol.12 of the Uniforms of the British Yeomanry Force book seems to match the one in the collection very closely.
Detail of the cover of Vol.12: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Norfolk. Illustration by R.J. Marrion.
So, the items I saw in the Muckleburgh Collection in 2017 are either;
different to the ones written about by W.Y. Carman
or the pouch and sabretache which he reports as 'last seen in 1958' are one and the same with the Muckleburgh Collection's and must have somehow resurfaced to find their way there.
Either way, it's a shame that these relics, some of the few remaining items relating to the existence of this short-lived local mounted force, should be positioned so discreetly in the collection. Over 150 years ago, that humble sabretache would have once been a small part of the grand reviews and colourful parades which brought pleasure to many across the county.
The Royal carriages, escorted by a detachment of the Norwich Light Horse, appeared in sight. The autumnal tints of the trees, the bright uniforms of the Volunteers, the genial sunshine, and the hill and dale of the road, these with the long train of carriages contributed to form a delightful picture…" The Norfolk Chronicle, 3rd November, 1866.
Postscript! – Also high up on the same wall as the Norfolk Light Horse sabretache was another but from a different yeomanry regiment which has also thrown up something of interest. More on that in another post…
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TYPES OF VOLUNTEER & YEOMANRY (1902) #24
From the cigarette card set "Types of Volunteer and Yeomanry", issued by W H & J Woods Ltd of Preston in 1902.
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Northampton's Abington Park Museum: Day Trip #16
I fulfilled a long-standing intention to visit a military collection which, geographically, isn't all that far away from me but which nonetheless I'd been unable to get to. It is a military collection housed within the Abington Park Museum in Northampton. Entry is free for visitors, entry times being restricted to afternoons on 4 days a week. It brings together collections relating to:
The Northamptonshire Regiment and its preceding regiments;
48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot,
58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot,
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry, militia and local volunteer units.
In 1970, the Northamptonshire Regiment collection was moved to Abington Park Museum having been previously based at various barracks in and around Northampton.
I have to now admit that in an act of total incompetence I forgot to put a memory card into my digital camera before leaving! All of which meant relying mostly upon my phone's camera, which is far from the best device for taking decent images. Furthermore, I then later located my missing memory card in my trouser pocket on returning home. Early senility or stupidity?! Nonetheless, I managed to photograph some interesting exhibits, particularly ones relating to that great personal interest of mine – the yeomanry, which I will mostly concentrate on for the purposes of this post.
The Northamptonshire Yeomanry
On locating the military collection in the building, I was soon greeted by the sight of the distinctive uniform of the early Northamptonshire Yeomanry which was first formed in 1794. An example of their ancient Tarleton helmet was on display, looking pretty good for its age (over 200 years old), save for the threadbare comb which had retained a few tufts of its former glory, much like the balding pate of a very old man. The turban was a bright green (to match the uniform's jacket) with brass chains holding it in place. The words "Northampton" and "Yeomanry" appeared in brass plaques on either side of the crest.
The jacket was green with buff facings. On the shoulders were some distinctive shoulder scales, of a type which I'd previously modelled for the Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum figures a couple of years back.
It's a very distinctive colour (akin to the Norfolk Rangers I mentioned recently) and a pleasing design, which was of course entirely the point, it being important that the Northamptonshire Yeomanry looked impressive. A framed contemporary illustration accompanied the display, not very expertly reproduced below;
Blurry phone camera… A print of a Northants yeomen, c.1790s.
Already in my possession prior to the visit was a book on the Northamptonshire Yeomanry; "Yeomen of England" by Ken Tout. It is a warm and lively account of the regiment told by one of its former soldiers. In it, Mr Tout recounts how "one great attraction in [yeomanry] recruitment was the colourful, even gaudy design of the uniform of a troop or a regiment, and poets were already at work writing patriotic songs." One such early song in 1794 praises the uniform of the newly formed Brackley Troop, part of the NY;
British Yeomen, valiant Yeomen, brave Yeomen for ever
Green coats faced with black and in each hat a feather
The waistcoats are buff and their trousers are leather
With broadswords and pistols and hearts without fear
Great Jove must be pleased when these Yeomen appear
They were obviously proud of their green uniforms, although I should have thought that 'sabres' would have a better substitute for the word 'broadswords' which would have been impractical to wield on a horse! There was no sign of the feather mentioned in the lyrics but a plume was commonly used with Tarleton helmets so it may have simply gone the way of the balding fur crest.
For the great smartness of their first green uniform, the regiment originally had to thank the affluent Earl Spencer whose influence with the King enabled him to secure the use of the King's emblem, white horse of Hanover, one of only 4 regiments to be so honoured.
Embroidered badge of the Northants Yeomanry with white horse emblem.
There was another uniform on display which I initially took to being an Northamptonshire Regiment infantry officer from the early half of the 19th century. I couldn't spot an explanatory label and in my limited time in the museum I didn't go back to confirm. However, Ken Tout's book suggests that this uniform would have been similar to the mid-19th century Northamptonshire Yeomanry's uniform. In 1844, the regiment escorted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Tout describes their dress;
"It was an opportunity for the yeomen to don their finery. immaculate scarlet tunics with dark blue facing. gold epaulettes and plentiful gold lace, and the riders' heights enhanced by their bell-top shakos."
On my hurried exit from the museum, I noticed that the final room of the collection housed a wonderful display of model soldiers from the local Northants Military Modelling Club. There were lots of terrific models on display, mostly I'd say 54mm scale, of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry through the ages both mounted and dismounted. One of these looked much like the above Ken Tout description of the Victorian escort, though my blurry phone camera ran out of storage and I ran out of time before I could attempt a photo. Prior to that, I did however discover a curious object stuck randomly underneath a table – it was a section of what appear to be bathroom tiles which had carefully been removed intact. On the times, illustrations of Northants yeomen through the ages on them! I presume some individual had hand-painted them. I think they're terrific, one of those nice eccentric discoveries that make visiting a museum so enjoyable.
Now that's my kind of bathroom design, (although possibly not my wife's)! The 'scarlet tunic' mentioned in Tout's book seems to be shown above (right on bottom row). Curse my blurry camera as the accompanying written descriptions which would have confirmed all aren't readable. The green uniform seen earlier seems to be top right and the 1910-era version mounted in the middle. If we're to assume they're all Northamptonshire Yeomen, then it's possible they also adopted an extravagant hussar style uniform, seen top left. If so, I assume this was approximately from some time between the 1850s up to 1873 (the year of temporary disbandment).
Tout's excellent account also describes in detail the nature of the protective formation required by the Northamptonshire Yeomanry to guard the royal carriage from any threat. The fine and glittering sight of the scarlet-coated procession was commemorated in some spirited poetry by a local 17-year old girl, reproduced in the book:-
On Market Hill our great Yeomanry stood
To guard Queen Victoria to Weedon in the Wood
While through the High Street to Ket'ring she rides
With a thousand spectators arrayed on both sides
The Yeomanry in the Northamptonshire existed until the final troop (The Royal Kettering) was disbanded in 1873. As the Anglo-Boer War came to a conclusion, Northamptonshire, which had been without a Yeomanry regiment ever since, had a new regiment established, the Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry.
The Full Dress uniform was in the style of Dragoons and is described in "Yeomen of England" by Tout as being;
"…dark blue, with light blue facings and a white metal helmet with a light-blue and white plume. "
The uniform fitting that description was displayed in the collection (see above). It is a 1910 Full Dress tunic and Field Service cap belonging to the then commander of the regiment, Col. H Wickham. The PAOY website has some information on the Service Dress uniform of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry:
The first [Service Dress] uniform of the new regiment was of regulation drab, or khaki, with pale blue collar, cuffs and piping up back, sleeves and down the front of the jacket. Shoulder chains with brass lettering NIY. The Regimental badge, as worn on the collar, side-cap, peaked cap etc., was the "galloping white horse": the badge used as the centre piece of Maltese Cross on the Shakos of the 1830-45 period.
The emblem of that Hanoverian horse could be seen clearly on the two later NY uniforms were also on display including this below. It is also prominent on the collar of this corporal of the NY. This tunic dates from 1902-1908 and was displayed alongside a pillbox cap. Note the shoulder chains on blue cloth backing.
Again, the Hanover horse appears – on the Full Dress helmet in a dramatic sunburst design…
…and finally on the front of the Field Service cap, below:
Most pleasing to me about this dragoon-style uniform and helmet was the attractive and unusual colour of the facings. Referred to by Tout and the PAOY website as being 'light-blue', this is described as being "Cornflower Blue" according to the "The Yeomanry Force at the 1911 Coronation" authors Robert J Smith and Ronald G Harris. Not only does it appear on the sleeves and collar of the tunic, but it can also be seen on both the cap and the helmet. The cap has this colour piped around the brim and also in a band around the middle. Other ranks apparently just had the band without the piping.
Two depictions of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry around the time of the coronation by R.J. Marrion and E.A. Campbell.
The helmet has a falling white over cornflower blue plume on a silver helmet, as can be seen below:
Full Dress helmets: Other Ranks (left) and Officers (right)
On the eight-pointed star, the garter inscription surrounding the Hanoverian horse says "Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry", which was the name of the regiment on it's 1902 reincarnation. In 1907, it became simply known as the "Northamptonshire Yeomanry" following the Haldane reforms.
The difference between the two examples of helmets relating to the officers and ranks seems remarkably slight. The plumes have been tied back to better reveal helmet details.
Below: the "Cornflower Blue" is evident on the collars and cuffs as well as the plumes:
Below: close up on the arrow pickers and chain on the officers pouch belt. Note the horse motif appears on the buttons as well.
The most complete collection of NY uniforms came unexpectedly towards the end of the collection. I've mentioned in the final room was a sizeable collection of mostly 54mm scale models of the regiment in a wide variety of guises. Close up pictures weren't really possible but I managed to take a couple of a figure I recognised as already being in my collection, ready to paint. I suppose it highly likely that I'll try and reproduce the 1910 NY Full Dress using my own figure to match the one below!
Apologies for blurry image – see earlier comments!
The Militia:
I was surprised to learn recently that I have a personal connection with the Northamptonshire Militia going back to a relative who served sometime around the 1770s. This chap had the memorable surname Aldwincle (no, I don't share this unusual surname) and he would have likely been compelled to serve in the force by ballot. This means of selection was not unsurprisingly often deeply unpopular with the mostly reluctant working class men who served in the Militia's ranks, and so it may have been with Great, Great, Great Great Grandad Aldwincle.
Thomas Rowlandson's "Review of the Northamptonshire Militia at Brackley", 1807. From Wikimedia Commons.
It was particularly pleasing to see some items relating to the same period and regiment in which my ancestor served. The drum below was presented to the Northamptonshire Militia by Lord Viscount Althorp on the 1st September 1779. So, I feel a sense of connection as it is entirely feasible that my relative would have known and indeed heard this drum. He would also have quite probably having been in attendance during its presentation to the regiment on that day.
Northamptonshire Militia Drum dating from 1779.
Another, larger, militia drum was also on display. This bass drum was presented to the regiment while it was on service in Dublin in 1854, probably taking on duties that other regular infantry would have been doing were they not off serving in the Crimean War. It's a beautiful object, richly decorated and emblazoned with not only the name of the regiment but also of the name of the drum's benefactor, the regiment's own Lt-Colonel Lord Burghley.
With rich colonels such as Lord Burghley, one might expect militia officers to display some ostentation and these 1855 shoulder epaulettes provide some evidence of that. There's a hunting horn symbol in the wreath, a sign of light infantry.
The Volunteer Corps:
The Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers were represented by a grey uniform of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. The name dates it from being after the 1881 Childers Reforms which merged the existing 48th and 58th line regiments into a single Northamptonshire Regiment, also attaching the local volunteer corps and militia as additional battalions.
With its grey uniform and red piping, and Home Service Pattern helmet, it looks much like the Cheshire Greys Rifle Volunteers that I modelled in 28mm scale last year.
Finally, it was interesting to see displayed a cymbal which had been presented in 1876 to the band of the 2nd Northamptonshire Rifle Volunteers, demonstrating that military bands could be as much a feature of the Rifle Volunteers as any other force in the British Army.
A Cymbal from the Rifle Volunteers
And very briefly, The Regulars!
Finally, although my greatest interest these days is on the volunteers, a very brief word on the Regulars. The Northamptonshire Regiment was formed out of the amalgamation of two pre-existing line regiments, the 48th and 58th regiments. It served in a number of theatres including New Zealand, a number of exhibits from which were displayed. There were some interesting watercolours and artworks around the walls, although the artists themselves seemed to be largely unknown.
Some uniforms of a type similar to those depicted above could be found around the museum.
They were lots of very interesting items on display, but some of my favourites included some extravagant 1832 epaulettes from an officer of the 58th Foot and a Pickelhaube and bugle, trophies from the Great War, Pickelhaube war booty always being a popular choice for many British regiments it seems.
Footnote:
Being a collection housed as a part of a wider museum, the Northamptonshire Regimental Collection inevitably suffers from the lack of focus that that entails. To enter into the collection, for example, I walked past a room inexplicably containing a large painting and am Egyptian sarcophagus! When compared to some other more dedicated military museums, the Northants collection felt a little lost and unloved.
At the time of writing, the Northamptonshire County Council has been in the news recently for being the first (of many?) to go effectively bankrupt. In such circumstances, with public services being pared down to a statutory minimum, culture and the arts could suffer greatly in favour of more immediately essential services. The fate of the Regimental Collection of Northampton in such circumstances remains to be seen.
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Citizen Soldiers of Salop: Day Trip #13 (Part 2 – Volunteers and Militia)
Continuing my report on the Shropshire Regimental Museum, in this second part I'll be now looking at the local Rifle Volunteers, the Shropshire Volunteer Artillery and the Shropshire Militia.
Most of the artefacts relating to these local military units of Shropshire were based in the imposing Great Hall of the castle.
The Rifle Volunteers:
"The Rifle Contest, Wimbledon, 1864". Lithograph after A. Hunt.
One of the most pleasing finds was the above print of a Rifle Volunteer competition in the 1860s. Regular visitors to Suburban Militarism may recall that last year I embarked on a project to model four separate Victorian Rifle Volunteer Corps (the Cheshire Greys, the Robin Hood Rifles, the 3rd London Rifle Volunteers and the Post Office Rifles). During this time, one of the things I researched was what a volunteer rifle range might look like. The above print (click here for a larger image) of Wimbledon Common illustrates many of the features I was speculating about at the time, including:
The rifle butts – seen in the distance with markers, backstops and a flag flying to indicate direction and warn of the range being in use. The men engaged in shooting appear to screened off, presumably to limit accusations of being distracted!
A vibrant social scene where differently uniformed corps would intermingle (note the different kepis, forage caps, kilts and at least one busby). The competition is well attended with many ladies and children being eagerly entertained by the rifle volunteers.
A nice vignette of a successful rifleman being carried aloft by jubilant comrades after his marksmanship has won his corps glory.
For those taking part in such competitions, success could earn the eternal gratitude of one's officer and comrades, not to say acquire a little local celebrity. So it was for Sergeant Roberts of the 12th (Wem) Rifle Volunteer Corps whose performance at said Wimbledon Common earned him the epithet "The Champion Shot of England"! It also engendered this effusive 'illuminated address' by his grateful Captain and colleagues:
"This is indeed a proud day for your comrades in the Corps…"
A little further on in the museum, I found an example of what might lie in store for those riflemen who did not pay sufficient "strict attention to drill and rifle practice" with as much diligence as Sgt. Roberts – namely, a wooden spoon! This was "probably a booby prize for the worst shot" in the 2nd Shropshire Rifle Volunteers…
Another of the museum's fine manikin displays portrayed two local volunteer troops of the Victorian era; specifically men from the two Volunteer Battalions of the Shropshire Regiment. The 2nd Volunteer Battalion wore a grey uniform with black crossbelts and facings. His marksman's badge of crossed rifles can be seen above his left cuff. His weapon is a Snider-Enfield.
Colour Sergeant, 2nd Volunteer Batt. KSLI, c.1890.
The 1st Volunteer Battalion was represented by its preceding formation, the 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. The uniform dates from the 1880s, around the time of the Childers Reforms which first linked the Rifle Volunteer Corps more closely with the county infantry regiments. The 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps wore scarlet tunics and white facings, therefore looking much like the regulars.
Officer, 1st Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, c.1880s
It was great to see county volunteer forces so carefully and skilfully depicted in this display by the Shropshire Regimental Museum. Rifle Volunteers may not have seen any active service prior to the Anglo-Boer War, but they were a significant part of the military and social history of Shropshire.
Two shakos belonging to Rifle Volunteers from the 1860s.
In the display below of the local Administrative Battalions, the 'drab' dress of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion was complemented by dark green braid and black facings and crossbelts. The 1860s shako features a hunting horn badge with the number 48 (being the order of precedence for the Shropshire Rifle Volunteers). Post-1880, both Volunteer Battalions have adopted the dark green Full-Dress helmets. The other ranks uniform to the left is awash with medals, proficiency stars, etc.
Like the yeomanry, bandsmen would have been a part of self-respective Rifle Volunteer Corps. I spotted this large drum belonging to the second corps below:
Drum of the Second Shropshire Rifle Volunteers
The Shropshire Militia:
The national Militia force expanded during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars but, by the time of their conclusion, a single regiment of Shropshire Militia existed. The established system of maintaining the Militia by local ballot was unpopular, poorly enforced and numbers were in decline.
Militia cap badges, 1870 forage cap and a "tobacco jar" presented to the 54th Shropshire Regiment Militia. Presumably, the officers had exclusive use of this…
In 1852, service in the Militia became voluntary – closer to the TA of today. The attraction of experiencing army life and wearing the smart uniform must have been attractive to many. Particularly so, as the uniform was very similar to the regulars of the time.
Militia officer's 1855-68 pattern tunic and 1869-78 pattern shako. Facings are green.
In 1881, as part of sweeping reforms, the Shropshire Militia came under the newly established King's Shropshire Light Infantry regiment and was designated the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, K.S.L.I. At the same time, control of the Militia was taken from the Lord Lieutenant and appointments and training came under the War Office instead.
The Shropshire Artillery Volunteer Corps
To support the large number of Rifle Volunteer Corps being established in 1860, the importance of mounted infantry and artillery formations to support them was recognised. This wasn't always easy to achieve as horses and cannons are more complex and expensive formations to maintain. Nevertheless, in Shropshire, the 9th (Shrewsbury) Rifle Volunteer Corps was converted to the Shropshire Artillery Volunteers in July 1860. Initially, there were a formation of 'heavy artillery' and performed exercises at Long Mynd, an area of heath and moor in the Shropshire Hills. The site of the battery and magazine is still apparently identifiable even today.
The Shropshire Artillery Volunteers with their 32 pounder guns at Long Mynd. In the foreground, civilians (men, women and a child) have come to watch proceedings.
The museum had a number of objects relating to this formation including this Full-Dress pouch:
Richly embroidered 1st SAV Officer's Full Dress pouch
The Full-Dress uniform of a sergeant of the Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery could be seen in its entirety (below). The Shropshire RHA was formed in 1908 as a consequence of the formation of the new Territorial Force. They were one of only six volunteer corps to be designated as being prestigious Horse Artillery.
Below is a portrait held in the museum of the first commander of the Shropshire Artillery Volunteers, Colonel William Field, wearing a fur busby with white plume. In the distant background can be just about seen some gun limbers and horses. The town of Shrewsbury is in the distance. His fine grey charger also featured in the museum. Following its demise, the beloved animal had its hoof converted into an inkwell, now in display!
1864 portrait of Col. Field of the 1st Shropshire Administrative Brigade, Volunteer Artillery beside his favourite grey charger.
To encourage proficiency, prizes were awarded to provide an incentive, a common enough concept for volunteer forces. For the SAV, the winning battery each year would take the "Skill at Arms' trophy shown below. An image of an artillery team in action can be seen embossed on the front.
The Full-Dress headgear of the 1st Shropshire Artillery Volunteers in the 19th century was this shako. Note the metal ball instead of a spike at the top the helmet, and also the artillery piece appearing under the Royal Coat of Arms.
1st Shropshire Artillery Volunteers shako
Complimenting last year's purchase of the book "Riflemen, Form!" on the Victorian Rifle Volunteer movement, I bought a copy of "A History of the Shropshire Artillery Volunteer Corps", a newly published and detailed account by Derek Harrison, available in the museum shop online. Perfect bed-time reading for me there!
A (thankfully) short, final post on this exhaustive report to come, in which I include some personal thoughts about the museum.
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The Post Office Rifles in Egypt
The fourth and final group of Victorian Rifle Volunteers is now completed. The group are depicted in the hot sands of Kassassin, Egypt in 1882. It was here that the Post Office Rifles (known officially as the Army Post Office Corps or APOC) came under fire from Colonel Urabi's Egyptian army (see my previous post on this). I know that they took no casualties and am assuming for the purposes of this project that they actually returned fire.
In my little diorama, the men of the Post Office Rifles have formed a firing line, variously loading, firing or assessing their shots under the instruction of an officer.
I've added a few arid looking plants to the sand and rocks. Given the hot and dusty conditions, I've dry-brushed some of the desert onto their puttees and trousers to make them look suitably campaign-weary.
Ah, those puttees… As mentioned in a previous post, I rashly began painting them with Indian army style puttees rather than selecting figures with leather gaiters, which is what they would have worn. Never mind, putting puttees aside, I still think it gives a nice impression of these men taking part in the 1882 Egyptian campaign.
I took some time playing around with the white foreign service pattern helmets. Too much shading and the white helmet looks unnatural; too little shading and it looks too bright. After some last-minute tinkering, I think they look satisfactory.
Artist's impression of the PO Rifles in Egypt.
That's all from my Victorian Rifle Volunteers project; for the foreseeable future at least. Next up on the Suburban Militarism "To Do" list are a number of possible figures. The ongoing Napoleonic Cavalry Project has been in hiatus since July and I'm about ready to tackle another regiment.
But creeping quickly up on us all, of course, is Christmas and with that in mind I've some more figures under way for what has been something of a seasonal tradition at Suburban Militarism – Christmas Soldiers! More about this soon.
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The Postman Always Shoots Twice
My fourth, and for now last, group in my series of Victorian Rifle Volunteers I can now reveal will be the 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, more famously known as "The Post Office Rifles".
1930s cigarette card by Players depicting the PO Rifles in Egypt.
In 1860, the Civil Service Rifles (aka 21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps) contained a number of companies consisting exclusively of General Post Office workers. Seven years later, over 1000 of these GPO men volunteered for service as Special Constables in response to terrorist acts by the so-called Fenians (Irish Nationalists). Once the threat had subsided, these men went on to form a new separate corps, the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (Post Office Rifles), later being renumbered as the 24th. They wore dark grey uniforms with scarlet facings.
The so-called 'Midnight Charge' by the Life Guards at Kassassin, 28th August 1882.
In 1882, a group of over 100 men of the GPO serving with the 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers volunteered for active service in Egypt with General Wolseley's army. The intention was that the army could make use of their postal and telegraph expertise in the course of communication duties. They were duly formed as the Army Post Office Corps (APOC) by Queen Victoria's Royal Warrant on the 22nd July 1882.
The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, 1882.
During their service in Egypt, they became notable for being the first men of the rifle volunteer movement to see action and win a battle honour (Egypt 1882). They came under fire during the action at Kassassin, taking no casualties. This battle was a skirmish prior to the main action at Tel-el-Kebir where the Egyptian army under Col. Urabi was defeated by Wolseley. I found a contemporary poem on the skirmish at Kassassin, from which this extract below gives a sense of the hardships experienced by these volunteers.
RAINED on all day by the sun,
Beating through helmet and head,
Through to the brain.
Inactive, no water, no bread,
We had stood on the desolate plain
Till evening shades drew on amain;
And we thought that our day's work was done,
When, lo! it had only begun.
Extract from the poem "At Kassassin" by Arthur Clark Kennedy, 1891.
After the war, their service was considered a great success, General Wolseley stating that
"The formation of a purely military postal department has been a tried for the first time in this war. It has been very successful… I have much pleasure in bringing to the notice of the Secretary of State the admirable manner in which the Post Office Corps discharged its duties in Egypt …Their services have been so valuable that I hope a similar corps may be employed on any future occasion…"
The Gordon Relief Expedition in 1885 saw the next active service of the corps and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 being the subsequent venture. But it is the Kassassin incident during the Egyptian campaign which I intend my figures to depict.
Now I come to admit to what can only be described as something of a figure modelling gaffe! Let me explain…
So far as I can tell, the PO Rifles should be depicting wearing leather gaiters on their lower legs. I have figures a plenty I could have used for these but, inexplicably, the Perry Miniatures figures that (for some reason) I chose to begin painting wear puttees instead. Below left shows the figures with gaiters and right with puttees.
Puttees were in use at this time by some British forces but almost certainly not by the PO Rifles. After some consideration however, I'm ploughing on with them regardless rather than abandoning them for figures with gaiters. Ultimately, I just really like these figures and poses, so Post Office Rifles with puttees it is. Who knows, maybe they did actually wear them?
And anyway; as I always say, 'my figures – my rules'!!!
The figures are already approaching completion so expect an update on progress soon.
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Growers in the Wimmera are hoping for good rainfall this weekend to provide a boost for winter crops after weeks of dry conditions. Light falls over the last week have kept conditions ticking over, for Rupanyup grower, Peter Teasdale. Forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology have rain starting in the Wimmera on Friday and continuing throughout the weekend, with the possibility of thunderstorms on Saturday. "The crops are up and running, but we don't have a lot of stored moisture, we didn't get a lot of rain, like some of the others," Mr Teasdale said. "We are hoping for some good winter and spring falls." But he cast doubt on predictions of a bumper harvest, and Bureau of Meteorology forecasts. "Anything beyond a seven-day forecast isn't worth looking at," he said. OTHER NEWS: "We'd certainly like to see some good inch rainfall events, we need one of them, at least every month, until the crop has finished." Mr Teasdale said he was growing a mixture of canola, wheat, barley, lentils and chickpeas on 1750 hectares. Faba beans had also been included in the rotation this year, as he said he expected prices to be on a par with other pulses. "We have a few paddocks now, that are more suited to beans, and the market has been comparable to lentils and chickpeas, with the tariff situation that's going on," he said. Mr Teasdale said the biggest issue was a good finish to the season, with no frosts in October and November. "That seems to be the tricky bit," he said. Narelle Drage, who is north east of Warracknabeal, said the rain had been patchy. The Drage's are growing wheat, barley, canola and field peas. "We need a really good drink, soon - although, right now, we are going along quite well," Ms Drage said. "This weekend would be great." OTHER NEWS: A new Horsham nurse and a prostate cancer plea - over 50, get checked Brian Barry junior, at Manangatang, said his property received between 50-100 millimetres in April, but only light falls since. "We are pretty keen to see rain, the ground is drying off," Mr Barry said. "April was alright, but very variable." He said the drier conditions came on the back of a relatively dry summer. "They were enough to have to spray, but not enough to put any subsoil moisture away." He said after the last two seasons, he'd be happy to get an average return on his wheat and barley. "The earlier sown crops look good, but the later crops, on the heavier ground, are really struggling. "Fingers crossed it's a wet spring." Ryan Milgate, east of Minyip, said his property had been quite dry, since the start of May. "We have had 19mm for May and we have had maybe 10mm that we might have stuck together for June," Mr Milgate said. "It's still looking fantastic, but we had eight frosts in nine days - that's slowed things down a bit. "It's making herbicide application a bit tricky, and slowing things up, but it's not doing any yield damage." Mr Milgate said he was hoping for an average harvest, but there was potential for it to go better, if the rain came. "We probably need an inch or so, for June,and another inch or two in July," he said. He's planted canola, wheat, barley and lentils and was growing hay.
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Wimmera farmers looking for good rain to boost winter crop prospects
MORE RAIN: Wimmera grower Peter Teasdale is hoping for regular falls in the coming months.
Growers in the Wimmera are hoping for good rainfall this weekend to provide a boost for winter crops after weeks of dry conditions.
Light falls over the last week have kept conditions ticking over, for Rupanyup grower, Peter Teasdale.
Forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology have rain starting in the Wimmera on Friday and continuing throughout the weekend, with the possibility of thunderstorms on Saturday.
"The crops are up and running, but we don't have a lot of stored moisture, we didn't get a lot of rain, like some of the others," Mr Teasdale said.
"We are hoping for some good winter and spring falls."
But he cast doubt on predictions of a bumper harvest, and Bureau of Meteorology forecasts.
"Anything beyond a seven-day forecast isn't worth looking at," he said.
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"We'd certainly like to see some good inch rainfall events, we need one of them, at least every month, until the crop has finished."
Mr Teasdale said he was growing a mixture of canola, wheat, barley, lentils and chickpeas on 1750 hectares.
Faba beans had also been included in the rotation this year, as he said he expected prices to be on a par with other pulses.
"We have a few paddocks now, that are more suited to beans, and the market has been comparable to lentils and chickpeas, with the tariff situation that's going on," he said.
Mr Teasdale said the biggest issue was a good finish to the season, with no frosts in October and November.
"That seems to be the tricky bit," he said.
We are pretty keen to see rain, the ground is drying off.
Brian Barry junior
Narelle Drage, who is north east of Warracknabeal, said the rain had been patchy.
The Drage's are growing wheat, barley, canola and field peas.
"We need a really good drink, soon - although, right now, we are going along quite well," Ms Drage said.
"This weekend would be great."
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Brian Barry junior, at Manangatang, said his property received between 50-100 millimetres in April, but only light falls since.
"We are pretty keen to see rain, the ground is drying off," Mr Barry said. "April was alright, but very variable."
He said the drier conditions came on the back of a relatively dry summer.
"They were enough to have to spray, but not enough to put any subsoil moisture away."
He said after the last two seasons, he'd be happy to get an average return on his wheat and barley.
"The earlier sown crops look good, but the later crops, on the heavier ground, are really struggling.
"Fingers crossed it's a wet spring."
Ryan Milgate, east of Minyip, said his property had been quite dry, since the start of May.
"We have had 19mm for May and we have had maybe 10mm that we might have stuck together for June," Mr Milgate said.
"It's still looking fantastic, but we had eight frosts in nine days - that's slowed things down a bit.
"It's making herbicide application a bit tricky, and slowing things up, but it's not doing any yield damage."
Mr Milgate said he was hoping for an average harvest, but there was potential for it to go better, if the rain came.
"We probably need an inch or so, for June,and another inch or two in July," he said.
He's planted canola, wheat, barley and lentils and was growing hay.
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Q: Query SQL retornar registros somente depois de 2 dias anteriores a hoje Galera, como sou novato em SQL, preciso de uma ajuda. Preciso trazer apenas os registros que não houveram movimentações há mais de dois dias.
A query abaixo está trazendo todos sem essa condição. Até fiz um teste utilizando o datediff, mas não sei ao certo se era isso mesmo.
Trazendo todos os registros essa condição
Qtde    Data
5000    18-07-2017
5001    18-07-2017
5002    25-07-2017

Porém, era para trazer somente os do dia 18, pois está há mais de 2 dias em relação a data de hoje. Abaixo é a query que tentei fazer.
SELECT DISTINCT
S.SolID AS [Qtde - Chamados em Pausa],
MAX(CONVERT(DATE,T.TraData,103))
FROM Solicitacao S
LEFT JOIN Usuario U ON U.UsuID = S.UsuIDResponsavel
LEFT JOIN Tramite T ON T.SolID = S.SolID
WHERE S.VencimentoPausado = 1 AND
      T.TraData < DATEDIFF ( DAY ,2, getdate())
group by s.SolID

A: tente o seguinte código, veja se funciona porque fiz às cegas já que não coloca a estrutura das tabelas e não tenho como testar aqui:
SELECT
S.SolID,
T.TraData
FROM Solicitacao S
INNER JOIN Tramite T on T.SolID = S.SolID and
                    T.TraID = (SELECT TOP 1
                                X.TraID
                               FROM Tramite X
                               WHERE X.SolID = S.SolID ORDER BY X.TraData DESC)
WHERE S.VencimentoPausado = 1 AND
      cast(T.TraData as date) <= cast(DATEADD(day,-2,getdate()) as date)

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How to ensure a safe school year for Michigan's transgender kids | Opinion
More than 80% of transgender youth feel unsafe at at school. School leaders have the power to change that.
How to ensure a safe school year for Michigan's transgender kids | Opinion More than 80% of transgender youth feel unsafe at at school. School leaders have the power to change that. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2xRbGLt
Sarah Tchoryk Published 6:01 a.m. ET Sept. 7, 2017
Desk in a classroom.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
This week, our two youngest children boarded the bus for the first day of school. My husband, Pete, and I waved good-bye through the school bus window, and hoped that this school year will be as good as the last. That their school will continue to be a safe place where they feel comfortable being their authentic selves.
As a teacher myself for more than 20 years, I know these are the hopes of most parents. Our desires as parents and our children's essential needs are universally felt despite the diversity of our families and our children. That is why I am so confused and heartbroken by the controversy surrounding transgender children. My son Jacq is transgender; assigned female at birth, but asserting insistently, consistently and persistently that he was a boy as soon as he could speak. After educating ourselves as parents through reading and visits with mental health professionals, Jacq socially transitioned to live as a boy at age 4.
Sarah Tchoryk (Photo: Courtesy of Tchoryk)
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The August before Jacq began kindergarten, Pete and I met with our school's principal, Craig McCalla, whose life's work is creating a school environment where all students feel safe. McCalla worked with us to ensure that Jacq's essential needs would be met, so he could focus on learning and developing lasting friendships. With such caring and inclusive educators, it's no surprise Jacq loves school and is thriving academically and socially.
Unfortunately, not all transgender kids have quiet heroes disguised as principals leading their schools — a heartbreaking 82% of transgender youth feel unsafe at school, and with good reason. Michigan's LGBT students are surrounded by homophobic language and transgender slurs on a daily basis, often from the very teachers charged with educating them. Nearly all transgender youth have been verbally harassed at school, over half have been physically harassed (pushed or shoved), and 26% have been physically assaulted (punch, kicked, or harmed with a weapon).
With this painful reality, it is no surprise that transgender students are more likely to miss school, be less academically successful and have lower academic aspirations than their peers. Students whose main concern is maintaining their safety while at school simply cannot focus on learning. Safety is a prerequisite for learning.
The daunting challenges of school, often coupled with lack of parental and/or community support can lead to depression, anxiety, self-harm and all too frequently, suicide.
The realities for transgender students may seem bleak, but they don't have to be.
Research shows enacting practices like those outlined in the Michigan State Board's Guidelines for Safe and Supportive Learning Environment for LGBQT Students can reduce incidences of bullying and harassment, allowing all students to thrive. These practices include anti-bullying policies which specifically name sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. They include enacting policies that allow students to use bathrooms and facilities that match their gender identity. Best practice also encourages the creation of affirming student clubs like Gay Straight Alliances. Another integral component in creating safe and affirming schools is providing professional development for educators on creating inclusive environments for LGBTQ students.
And guess what? These inclusive policies not only benefit students who identify as LGBTQ, they have been shown to reduce bullying for all students. When parents and educators prioritize the value of diversity, our children and our students follow our lead. As we prepare for another school year, we must remember that the need to be valued for what makes each individual unique is a universal need our children share. Our differences are the common thread that unites us and collectively make us stronger.
Sarah Tchoryk is an elementary school instructional coach. She lives in Dexter with her husband, Pete, and their children.
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Q: On Linux, mounting network drives depending on the network profile In Linux, is there a way to automatically mount different network filers depending on depending on the network profile?
I have a laptop that moves from place to place and would like to mount or not mount different drives depending on where I am.  Each location has a different network profile.  If I'm at home DHCP would hand me an IP that's in my home range either on WiFi or ethernet.  If I'm at work, DHCP would give me a another range.  Depending on the network's profile, I want to mount different filers.
Is there something that already exists that accomplishes this?

A: As far as I see the only solution is to make your own start-up script which will mount whatever you need depending on your network settings.

A: This one-liner gives you a list of IP addresses currently in use on your machine; use that in a script to determine your location and run mounts as needed:
$ ifconfig | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | sed s/addr://
192.168.0.2


If you remember a few weeks ago, we talked about a few steps in my due diligence process for researching potential short investments.
DDI, could you please discuss more post-reorg securities? Distressed debt has risks for small investors given the complexity of the negotiations, the lack of liquidity, and the potential for hold-outs form large holders.
However, I imagine post-reorg securities are more simpler in the analysis but they are also not easy to find (sometimes they are not even on the databases) There must be some bargains.
How would you go about finding post-reorg securities? Is there a particular SEC filling to find them?
I believe Joel Greenblatt also mention significant opportunities exist in post-reorg securities in his book "You can be a stock market genius". Can't wait to hear from DDI your comment on how to find and evaluate these securities.
Let me start off by saying great blog, it's nice to see live case studies of the distressed investing process.
With regards to a table like this I would recommend not reading too much into it. Unfortunately there are 3 problems with this table that I've detailed below.
First off this table appears to be an aggregation, so for example the NTM P/E is the sum of the market values for each company in the sector divided by the sum of the earnings of the companies...this means that 1 or 2 companies can massively alter the sector level valuation. In the case of consumer discretionaries think GM and Ford. Regardless of what S&P may think, this aggregation method is incorrect...a better method would show the median values for the companies in the sector, thus eliminating this outlier effect.
Secondly, this is a point in time observation that doesn't show any history. Some sectors will always appear expensive (or cheap) on a given metric. An example would be Dividend Yield (not on this chart), which would likely be very low for Tech companies but much higher for Utilities or Health Care...not just today, but for long periods of time and this table can't capture that relationship.
Finally, not so much a problem but more something that would be nice to have would be to see the metric relative to the market back in time as this would also tell you something.


double room with separate bathroom, consisting of a shower, toilet and bidet.
double room with separate bathroom, consisting of a shower and toilet.
double room with separate bathroom, consisting of a bath and toilet.
This room is situated in the main house.
Apartement "Michelangelo" is a self catering apartment for 4 persons, consisting of a living room with fully fitted kitchen with stove, oven, dishwasher, refrigerator/freezer, microwave, electric kettle and coffee maker. Two bedrooms, one with a double bed and one with a double bunk. Bathroom consisting of a shower, toilet and bidet.
Apartement "Rafaël" is a self catering apartment for 2 persons, consisting of a living room with fully fitted kitchen with stove, oven, dishwasher, refrigerator/freezer, microwave, electric kettle and coffee maker. One bedroom with a double bed. Complete separate bathroom consisting of a shower, toilet and bidet.
For the apartments during the High Season: Reservations only from Saturday to Saturday.
The published prices are incl. gas, water and consumption of electricity.
Except. are any heating costs.
(1 kitchen towel, 1 kitchen tea towel, 1 work cloth and 1 sponge): € 4,50.
Final cleaning (only for the apartments): (€ 40,00 Rafaël apartment and € 50,- Michelangelo apartment).
High chair and cot are available for children.
B&B Villa Pellegrino is a totally smokefree zone.
For the apartment Rafaël and Michelangelo and Dante Alighieri Room possibility to hire a safe € 1,50 a day and € 10,- escrow.
Use of washing machine € 6,00 incl. detergents.
Said information and prices are with all reserve of type errors.


The sugar industry in the province, which dates back to Spanish colonial times, provides business and employment to thousands of people, including some 8,000 planters. These planters harvest tons of sugarcane from vast tracts of mostly prime land (32,779 hectares as of 2001). They bring the produce to the province's three (3) privately-owned sugar mills, namely: Central Azucarera de Bais (CAB) in Bais City, Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corporation (URSUMCO) in Manjuyod, and Herminio Teves and Company Inc. (HTCI) in Sta. Catalina.
The first two cover the northern mill district, while the third covers the southern mill district. Together, these mills can process about 19,000 metric tons (MT) of cane daily. For crop year 2000-2001, the centrals produced 3,090,705 LKG (50-kg bags) sugar out of 1,702,220 MT of sugarcane. While sugar has traditionally been exported, it is now being sold in the domestic market. Blackstrap molasses, however, continues to be exported to such countries as Indonesia and Japan.
In terms of coverage area, the coconut industry is the largest in the province. Coconut is planted province-wide. Overall, the area planted to coconut has reached 143,394 hectares (from about 42,400 hectares in 1990), constituting about 10 per cent of the total land area.
However, declining farm productivity and widespread cutting of coconut trees for lumber have adversely affected copra production. From 54,810 MT in 1990, copra output level fell to 18,444 MT in 2001. There were several coconut processing plants established in the province,but only one (1)—the Dumaguete Coconut Oil Mills Inc.
The growing of mango (primarily the carabao or tu-ud variety) has become popular in the province due to the fruit's high value and export potential. In 2002, the total area planted to mango stood at 2,706.50 hectares, equivalent to 270,670 trees. However, only 94,029 of the treeswere bearing, yielding a total 32,910 MT of mango, or an average of 350 kilograms fruit per tree. Mango production is expected to increase in the coming years since there were then about 159,534 non-bearing trees and 17,087newly planted trees.
At present, only the Sibulan-based Orient Foods Industries Corporation (OFIC) processes mango for export. The OFIC produces dehydrated mango and other fruit products. Some planters sell fresh mangoes to the export market.
The province produces a wide variety of fruits. Based on government findings, the top 10 fruit trees, in order of quantity, are as follows: guava (568,685 trees in 2,689 hectares), jackfruit (274,181 trees in 1,392 hectares), mango (270,650 trees in 2,706.5 hectares), papaya (244,893 trees in 395.34 hectares), sineguelas (70,373 treesin 692 hectares),avocado (53,044 trees in 564 hectares), star apple (51,375 in 670 hectares), soursop or guyabano (27,959 trees), duhat (25,741 trees) and lanzones (22,519 trees). Fruit trees also planted in the province but numbering less than 20,000 each are: rambutan, lemon, oranges, breadfruit, pummelo, tamarind and balimbing. Also, the province produces, on average, about 2.4 metric tons of banana per hectare per year.
These cereals are the basic food staples of Negros Oriental. Palay (rice grain) production in 2001 reached 58,984 metric tons out of an area of 21,210 hectares. This translates to an average yield of 2.78 metric tons per hectare, equivalent to 55.6 cavans ( 50-kilogram sacks). About 82 percent of the harvest came from irrigated fields with a combined area of 16,255 hectares. Rainfed areas (4,955 hectares) accounted for the remaining 18 percent of total output. The average yield from irrigated rice lands was 2.99 MT per hectare, compared to 2.09 MT per hectare for rainfed areas. Corn production in 2001 reached 60,352 MT. With total corn area of 87,210 hectares, this meant an average yield of 0.68 metric tons per hectare. More than 95 per cent of the output (57,575 metric tons) was of the white corn variety.
Yellow corn, which is primarily used for feeds, made up the remaining 2,777 metric tons, or 4.6 per cent of the total harvest for 2001. The widespread cultivation of rice and corn has resulted in the proliferation of downstream enteprises in the province. As of August 2003, there were a total of 1,695 retailers, 15 wholesalers, 235 wholesalers/retailers, 102 rice mills (combined capacity of 1,002 bags), 84 corn mills (785 bags total capacity), and 208 warehouses (301,867 bags total capacity). Negros Oriental is a transshipment point for cereals coming from Luzon, Mindanao and the neighboring Visayan provinces.
Negros Oriental is a traditional supplier of abaca fibers, or the so-called Manila hemp. There are 19 abaca-growing municipalities and cities in the province. However, some 94 percent of the total output comes from just five (5) towns—Valencia, Sibulan, San Jose, Pamplona and Amlan. Valencia is the top producer of "bitool" (the local term for abaca fiber from laob variety classified as excellent grade fiber). Bitool is the preferred fiber utilized for handloom weaving and fibercraft manufacturing, so it is higher priced than abaca loose fiber (ungraded/unclassified abaca fibers, usually traded in all-in basis). As of 2001, the local abaca industry provided livelihood to 1,685 abaca farmers cultivating a total area of 2,295.5 hectares of abaca; a number of strippers, who extract the fibers by hand; 24 duly-accredited abaca fiber traders; 10 abaca fiber processors (including four (4) fibercraft enterprises and 10 loomweaving centers with 123 weavers); and 315 abaca fiber knotters. Aside from abaca, the province also supplies other natural fibers such as salago and cotton. Annual salago production in the province is estimated at 60 MT; the fibers are exported mainly to Japan. Cotton is presently grown in about 333 hectares, which comprise just 1 percent of the potential cotton areas. Most of the cotton is grown in Bayawan City.
In 2001, the total area planted to vegetables in the province reached 1,456.0 hectares, with a combined yield of 7,102 metric tons. About 54 per cent of this area was planted to cabbage, cauliflower, pechay and other leafy vegetables. Vegetable farming for tomato, broccoli, cauliflower, and pechay has been a priority target of the Integrated Pest Management Program using trichogramma and diadegma as natural pest controls.
Locally grown rootcrops include mainly sweet potato, cassava, yam and taro. However, almost 80 per cent of the estimated 4,010 hectares of rootcrop farms is planted to sweet potato and cassava. In 1999, the quantity of cassava and sweet potato produced amounted to 5,712.2 MT and 2,024.7 MT respectively.Mongo, beans and peanuts are also grown in about 4,000 hectares in the province, but only as temporary crops, or as alternate or mixed crops in the rain-fed white and yellow corn farms.
Beans grown in the province include string beans, bush beans, soya beans, kentucky beans and lima beans. Total production of beans is 869.47 metric tons.
Other crops grown in the province include high-value crops with export potential, such as cacao and coffee. Cacao is locally grown in five varieties: native, Red Creolio, Green Podded, Brazilian Red, and Green Podded. Total cacao production in 1999, out of 102 hectares, was 53.698 metric tons. Coffee is planted in about 994 hectares, mostly in Canlaon City. The most commonly grown variety is Robusta, followed by Arabica. Coffee harvested in 1999 from about 538 hectares totaled 17.073 MT.


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Associated Capital Group (AC) has the following price history information. Looking back at AC historical stock prices for the last five trading days, on January 10, 2022, AC opened at $43.00, traded as high as $43.50 and as low as $42.61, and closed at $43.50. Trading volume was a total of 5.80K shares. On January 11, 2022, AC opened at $43.50, traded as high as $45.53 and as low as $43.25, and closed at $45.53. Trading volume was a total of 3.60K shares. On January 12, 2022, AC opened at $45.37, traded as high as $46.20 and as low as $44.70, and closed at $44.72. Trading volume was a total of 5.50K shares. On January 13, 2022, AC opened at $45.00, traded as high as $46.16 and as low as $45.00, and closed at $45.09. Trading volume was a total of 2.10K shares. On January 14, 2022, AC opened at $46.60, traded as high as $46.60 and as low as $44.67, and closed at $45.80. Trading volume was a total of 2.40K shares.
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Assessment of dietary isoflavone intake among middle-aged Chinese men.
We evaluated the reproducibility and validity of the FFQ used in the Shanghai Men's Health Study (SMHS) for assessing dietary isoflavone intake, using multiple 24-h dietary recalls (24-HDR) and urinary isoflavones as the reference criteria, with data from the dietary validation study of the SMHS. A total of 196 study subjects completed the 24-HDR and 2 FFQ and donated a quarterly spot urine sample during the 1-y study period. Levels of urinary isoflavones were measured in a random sample of 48 study participants. The correlation coefficient between the 2 FFQ administered 1 y apart was 0.50 for soy protein intake and ranged from 0.50 to 0.51 for isoflavone intake. The correlations of isoflavone intake from the second FFQ with those from the multiple 24-HDR ranged from 0.38 (genistein) to 0.44 (glycitein), and the correlations with urinary isoflavone levels were 0.48 for total isoflavones, 0.44 for daidzein, 0.42 for genistein, and 0.54 for glycitein. The intraclass correlation coefficients for the 4 spot urine samples were 0.36, 0.42, and 0.40 for daidzein, genistein, and glycitein, respectively, and 0.62, 0.68, and 0.55 for their metabolic products equol, dihydrodaidzein, and O-desmethylangolensin, respectively. These results suggest that the SMHS FFQ can reliably and accurately measure usual intake of isoflavones, and that the levels of isoflavones in urine samples are relatively stable among men in Shanghai.
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We're excited to announce the following climbing and adventure grants are now open for applications, meaning we're awarding over $40,000 to climbers and backcountry snowboarders in the next few months!
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The Jones Backcountry Adventure Grant & the Jones Live Like Liz Award support splitboarding expeditions with strong exploratory and adventure components. The project objective may focus on a single descent/summit or a tour/traverse of a region. Each grant recipient will receive a $1,500 cash award plus a Jones splitboard, skins and backcountry touring backpack.
The Jones Live Like Liz Award is open only to our female riders, while the Jones Backcountry Adventure Grant is open to all AAC members. Open through November 30th—learn more & apply.
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Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport (IATA: PAT, ICAO: VEPT), also known as Jaiprakash Narayan Airport, Patna is an airport located 5 kilometers (2.7 NM) southwest of Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar in India. According to the statistics released by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the agency responsible for the airport, it is the 21st busiest airport in India, and domestic traffic is growing rapidly.
It is classified as a Restricted International Airport by AAI. Due to a lot of development work in Bihar, the AAI has planned to open a new International airport in Bihta near Patna. More Info About the Airport.
Currently there are 5 airlines operate scheduled services in Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport (Patna Airport) which is Air India, IndiGo, Go Air, Jet Airways and Spicejet.
You can check the flight schedule for your flight at the Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport on the official Airports Authority of India (AAI) website. Nevertheless, the flight schedule update here is provided only for your references and subjected to last minute changes.
Passengers arriving at / departing from Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport have a choice of public transport available. There are taxis, of course, but there are also bus routes taking visitors to / from the capital city.
Patna Airport ensures a convenient journey to the passengers by offering them a number of facilities. The airport provides luggage trolleys to carry the baggage conveniently.
There are three terminals in Patna Airport. Terminal 1 is for domestic operations and has direct flights from major cities of India. Terminal 2 is for international flights but not operational right now. There is a cargo terminal used for private jets and cargo services.
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A tale of two headsets: Hands-on with the HTC Vive XR Elite and Magic Leap 2 at CES 2023
SanaHale January 8, 2023 6 min read
The ephemerality of virtual and augmented reality matches the ubiquity of the technology at CES 2023.
Honestly, it feels a bit like the mid-1990s, when every tech company had an internet strategy. Almost everyone these days has a way to superimpose images in the real world or immerse you in a fantasy world.
The driving force behind this is hardware, and CES 2023 is packed with it. There's a lot on the floor — so many AR glasses companies aren't afraid to jump into the risky breach that once swallowed Google Glass.
But the real leaders are Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. While the once-secret and now newly-opened Magic Leap encouraged everyone through a series of corporate scenarios in the metaverse space's showroom, Meta and Vive were offering an invite-only demo of their latest device in a nearby hotel ballroom.
(Image source: Future)
I started with a visit to Magic Leap, where I met corporate CTO Julie Larson Green, a retired Microsoft Windows legend who was helping guide Magic Leap's transformation from an inscrutable, promising wunderkind to a practical tool for industry and factories. And purposeful AR headsets, disaster response, and more.
As we talked about Magic Leap's early promises in a packed booth, Green told me, "It's still early days for the technology, and the consumer scenarios aren't as clear."
Enterprise is another matter. Industries, factories, even medical institutions, "they're used to wearing things on their faces."
Green encouraged me to wear the newest headset, the Magic Leap 2, which is 50 percent lighter and smaller than the original headset. It also has a powerful new custom AMD SoC.
Unlike the new HTC Vive XR Elite and Meta Quest Pro, the Magic Leap 2 maintains a svelte profile by putting the battery and processor in a separate puck that hangs from a belt. This has the effect of making the headband lightweight and very comfortable to wear. This also means you will have a cable running from the puck to your head, I could feel the puck in my hip.
Look, I'm wearing Magic Leap 2! (Image source: Future)
As promised, the Magic Leap 2 headset is comfortable to wear. I tried a scene where I was standing in a replica of the Hoover Dam and we were juggling our emergency breaks in response to the explosion. The graphics were good, and the -70-degree field of view meant the slightly cartoony dam seemed to be right around me. Using the controllers, I placed police cars and police officers around the virtual landscape. All the while, I can still see my real world.
Larson said Magic Leap is working with NVIDIA on its "Omniverse" concept, but buzzwords aside, the partnership could help bring ray-tracing support to headsets.
While the original Magic Leap was often discussed in a quiet, awe-filled tone, and only a select few saw the demos in person, this version of the company and its new leadership is all about practicality. From my experience, I think they're grabbing the useful part, and even at $3,299, it might have a chance in the enterprise.
Where Magic Leap trades off its wizard mantle for a suit, HTC is at the forefront of delivering immersive and augmented experiences for everyone.
It's been a while since I've worn a Vive VR headset. The original device I tried was VR-only and required beacons placed around the room to know where you were; the HTC Vive XR Elite is completely self-contained. It's also been redesigned to be lighter and support AR and VR.
HTC set up six experiences for me to try, but first I had to get used to the new headgear, which now looks more like goggles attached to a padded headband. You screw it onto your head with a big knob on the back. As with the Magic Leap headset, I had to take off my glasses to use it. The HTC Vive XR Elite has small dials around the lenses that let you adjust the focus, and you can slide the eyepieces out or in to match your own interpupillary distance. In the display, you'll see a green grid visual to help you position your shots correctly.
None of this is difficult or takes more than a moment. To further support the headset, there is a thin rubber band on top of your head. I found the fit to be very comfortable.
These demos do an excellent job of highlighting the specs and features of the HTC Vive XR Elite.
I took this photo of the Maestro by holding my iPhone in front of an HTC Vive XR Elite lens. The band hates me. (Image source: Future)
I use the included dual controllers and both hands to interact with the game. In an event called Maestro where I conduct an orchestra, I hold a remote in one hand, which I use to hold, tap, and wave a virtual baton. My other hand is free and I use it to point to the various parts of the orchestra in the queue. I was surprised to find that the Vive XR Elite recognized the movements of all five fingers on my free hand. I'm sure the four cameras and 3D depth sensor play a role here.
I played a game called Hubris, and the most notable thing about the game was that the system could intuitively read my swimming, grabbing, and climbing moves.
All AR enemies appear to come from AR holes in real walls. (Image source: Future)
In AR, I played Yuki, a game where aliens emerge from holes in the wall. I did my best to shoot them all down with one hand, because the other hand in the game was inexplicably useless. The mixed reality effects are quite compelling.
I also use Gesture AR to paint in three dimensions, much like Tilt Brush.
I can kayak…at least in VR. (Image source: Future)
My favorite is kayaking. For the experience, they sat me in a chair, handed me a real kayak paddle with trackers attached near each yellow paddle, and let me paddle. Again, the effects and motion capture made me feel like I could kayak in the real world.
Part of the reason everything looks so good is the HTC Vive XR Elite's single-eye 2K LCD screen. It also gets points for having an excellent pass-through camera, which helps make AR experiences even more engaging.
I'm celebrating my HTC Vive XR Elite experience. (Image source: Future)
After two hours, the battery life was surprisingly good, but I'm even more impressed that the battery is hot-swappable. When you pull it, the device stays on because there is a small 10-minute backup battery in the system.
When the system goes on sale in February for $1,099, it'll beat its closest competitor, the Meta Quest Pro, by a few hundred dollars, but then the system has a lovely charging dock and remote that's no longer needed LED ring around.
Look, I'm not ready to say the Metaverse is a thing, but VR and AR are making substantial leaps every year, if not every six months. Hardware keeps getting lighter and more powerful, and software keeps delivering compelling, immersive experiences.
Come to think of it, we haven't even seen Apple's secret yet.
See all of TechRadar's CES 2023 coverage. We bring you all the big tech news and launches, from 8K TVs and foldable displays to new phones, laptops and smart home devices.
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Wetangula Finally Agrees To Attend Atwoli's Rally, Plans To Storm Out With OKA Supporters
The Western region supremacy matrix has taken a new shape after the defiant Bungoma senator Moses Wetangula who had earlier on boycotted Atwoli's Luhya unity rally in Bukhungu Stadium has finally agreed to attend.
According to Standard, Moses Wetangula seeks to teach COTU Secretary General Francis Atwoli a lesson by pointing at the real Luhya leaders who have allegedly been tested, tried and recognized by Mulembe nation.
Wetangula hinted that he will not hesitate when given an opportunity to address the masses. He revealed that he will expose Atwoli badly as a plan of teaching him a lesson to desist from pointing blame finger at One Kenya Alliance (OKA) partners from Western region.
He also averred to storm out of the rally after his speech with thousands of One Kenya Alliance hardliners to showcase how Amani National Congress (ANC) party and Ford Kenya Party have lengthened the roots in the region.
"I would speak and move out with the masses after the speech just to show who is in control of the people of Western," the standard quoted Moses Wetangula.
Earlier on, during the Vihiga Cultural Festival at Mbale Municipal Ground, Wetangula and Mudavadi had indicated that they will boycott the rally owing to the allegations that they were not consulted before planning for such a mega rally in Mulembe nation.
Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi, on the other hand, has remained unpredictable on whether he will attend or not despite being invited by trade unionist Francis Atwoli.
Kakamega Senator Cleophas Malala had also vowed to disrupt the rally as he insisted that Atwoli and Raila ought to seek permission from Musalia Mudavadi (Perceived Luhya Kingpin) before allowing them to hold a rally in his (Malala) territory.
"I have heard you (Mudavadi) saying that you will not attend the meeting. You all know that Kakamega is my territory. I want to tell the organizers of the said meeting that they must seek Mudavadi's permission or else their meeting will not happen. But because Mudavadi has not given me a nod to allow them to convene their forum, I have officially called it off and no such meeting will happen at the Bukhungu Stadium on the 31st of December," Malala said on 26th December 2021
Malala Finally Reveals Mudavadi's Secret Plans Join DP Ruto's UDA Ahead of 2022 Poll
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Issued 1869, Germany by Stieler.
Uncommon mid-19th antique engraved map. With original hand color.
Transitional issue of this map, this state displaying the large inset map of Algeria lower left, a tiny vignette diagram comparing mountain heights on the continent & region and a color key listing colonial power possessions.
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Q. How can I minimize my pet's stress and the expense of a groom?
coat down to the skin.
3. Exercise and potty your dog before your appointment.
4. Don't worry! Dogs are perceptive and pick up on their owners feelings.
Q. How much does a groom cost?
A. Prices vary by breed, size, type and length of haircut, and condition the pet's coat.
Call or stop by for an estimate.
Q. How long does a groom take?
bath dogs take 2-3 hours and full grooms take 3 hours.
Q. How often should I get my dog groomed/nails trimmed?
A. Between 4-8 weeks is recommended for most dogs.
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prebooking and standing appointments upon request.
Q. My dog's nails are over grown and/or I'm afraid to cut them myself. What do I do?
weeks apart maybe necessary to reduce the length of the blood vessels in the nails.


Many a times when you shut down your PC, it asks via a prompt that some programs are running and they needed to be closed before shutting down Your PC. If you choose to shutdown your PC even after that, then You can do that. Its an important and useful feature, so that you do not shutdown your PC without saving your work.
But, what if you want to shutdown without this prompt message every time. Here is a tweak for Disabling Shutdown anyway prompt message.
1 – Press Windows key + R together on your Keyboard.
2 – Now, Type Regedit in it to open registry editor.
3 – Now, browse to the following path in registry editor.
4 – Now, in the right side just do a right click anywhere and create a New – > String Value.
5 – Name this String AutoEndTasks.
6 – Now, double click on AutoEndTasks and Put Value Data as 1.
7 – Now, Press Ok, Close Registry editor.
8 – Now, Reboot your PC.
Thats it, Now you have disabled Shutdown anyway prompt.