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Claremont estate
The first house on the Claremont estate was built in 1708 by Sir John Vanbrugh, the Restoration playwright and architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, for his own use. This "very small box", as he described it, stood on the level ground in front of the present mansion. At the same time, he built the stables and the walled gardens, also probably White Cottage, which is now the Sixth Form Centre of Claremont Fan Court School.
In 1714, he sold the house to the wealthy Whig politician Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare, who later became Duke of Newcastle and served twice as Prime Minister. The earl commissioned Vanbrugh to add two great wings to the house and to build a fortress-like turret on an adjoining knoll. From this so-called "prospect-house", or belvedere, he and his guests could admire the views of the Surrey countryside as they took refreshments and played hazard, a popular dice game.
In the clear eighteenth-century air it was apparently possible to see Windsor Castle and St Paul's Cathedral. The Earl of Clare named his country seat Clare-mount, later contracted to Claremont. The two lodges at the Copsem Lane entrance were added at this time.
Landscape garden
Main article: Claremont Landscape Garden
Claremont landscape garden is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th century layout. The extensive landscaped grounds of Claremont represents the work of some of the best known landscape gardeners, Charles Bridgeman, Capability Brown, William Kent (with Thomas Greening) and Sir John Vanbrugh.[2]
Work on the gardens began around 1715 and, by 1727, they were described as "the noblest of any in Europe". Within the grounds, overlooking the lake, is an unusual turfed amphitheatre.
A feature in the grounds is the Belvedere Tower, designed by Vanbrugh for the Duke of Newcastle. The tower is unusual in that, what appear to be windows, are actually bricks painted black and white. It is now owned by Claremont Fan Court School, which is situated alongside the gardens.
In 1949, the landscape garden was donated to the National Trust for stewardship and protection. A restoration programme was launched in 1975 following a significant donation by the Slater Foundation. The garden is Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[3]
Capability Brown's mansion, built for Lord Clive of India
The Duke of Newcastle died in 1768 and, in 1769, his widow sold the estate to Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, founder of Britain's Indian Empire. Although the great house was then little more than fifty years old, it was aesthetically and politically out of fashion. Lord Clive decided to demolish the house and commissioned Capability Brown to build the present Palladian mansion on higher and dryer ground. Brown, more accomplished as a landscape designer than an architect, took on his future son-in-law Henry Holland as a junior partner owing to the scale of the project. John Soane (later Sir John Soane) was employed in Holland's office at this time and worked on the project as a draftsman and junior designer.[4] Holland's interiors for Claremont owe much to the contemporary work of Robert Adam.
Lord Clive, by now a rich Nabob, is reputed to have spent over £100,000 on rebuilding the house and the complete remodelling of the celebrated pleasure ground. However, Lord Clive ended up never living at the property, as he died in 1774—the year that the house was completed. The estate then passed through a rapid succession of owners; first being sold "for not more than one third of what the house and alterations had cost"[5] to Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway, and then to George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, and finally to Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford.[6]
A large map entitled "Claremont Palace", situated in what is called "Clive's room" inside the mansion, shows the mansion and its surrounding grounds; giving a detailed overview of the campus. The map likely dates back to the 1860s, when the mansion was frequently occupied by Queen Victoria (thus it having been christened "palace"). However, the exact date is still unknown. The relief in Claremont's front pediment is of Clive's coat of arms impaled with that of Maskelyne, his wife's family.
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U.S. Army photos by Douglas Fraser
Exercise tests emergency response capability
By Cpl. Han, Jae-ho
CAMP HUMPHREYS — Flames dance from a crashed helicopter as casualties cry for help, while rescuers and medical personnel speed to the scene to give aid.
This fictional scenario was part of the annual Full Scale Exercise, held here June 20-22.
The exercise served to evaluate emergency response abilities on post.
Notional incidents included an aircraft crash, a shooter at the commissary and a hostage at the Super Gym.
“This is an annual exercise required by the Department of Defense. Planning for this exercise began six months prior,” said Peter Park, installation emergency manger at the Directorate of Planning, Training, Mobilization and Security. Park served as exercise coordinator.
As part of the exercise, garrison tenant units and city agencies provided support and responded to various scenarios. Units involved included the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3-2 General Support Aviation Battalion, the Directorate of Emergency Services and Pyeongtaek city emergency services.
“This exercise was very realistic and it required patience from everyone involved, including dependents and civilians,” Park said. “This year’s exercise was very successful and defined our capability. It was an upgrade from last year and critical capabilities of the garrison were evaluated. I want to thank Douglas Fraser, the Antiterrorist Officer and co-lead planner for this exercise, for his support as well.”
The Walled Garden is certainly the largest example in Leeds and provides a stunning array of plants set in a traditional red brick boundary. Home to five of the eleven National Collections held by Leeds City Council, including Delphinium, Phlox, Aster, Chrysanthemum and Solenostemon, the gardens also present an extensive Rose Garden, originating from around 1923, and is bounded by magnificent Herbaceous Borders, some 800yards in length.
Temple Newsam is one of the great historic estates in England. Set within over 1500 acres of parkland, woodland and farmland landscaped by Capability Brown in the 18th century, it is a magnificent Tudor–Jacobean mansion. Famous as the birthplace of Lord Darnley and home to the Ingram family for over 300 years, the mansion houses rich collections of works of art. The garden is renowned for its Rhododendron and Azalea walk and features the National Plant Collections of Delphinium, Phlox and Aster novi–belgii. Europe's largest working Rare Breeds Farm, with over 400 animals, is set within the original estate Home Farm.
Information from the Temple Newsam website.
DPAC and TUC Disabled Workers block Tottenham Court Road - London 22.05.2013
Activists from DPAC and disabled workers attending the TUC Disabled Workers Conference blocked Tottenham Court Road in Central London for an hour and a half as they protested loudly against punitive government cuts to disability benefits and services which is impacting disastrously - and already fatally - on our most vulnerable citizens.
**From the DPAC website **
On the day of the success of the High Court ruling ruling against the Work Capability Assessment, activists from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and disabled workers attending the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Disabled Workers Conference blocked Tottenham Court Road in an unprecedented act of solidarity.
This Government has repeatedly used the language of division, trying to divide workers and claimants, public and private sectors workers, non-disabled and disabled people. Today we strike back as one, united voice.
The Cuts imposed by the ConDem Government under the cloak of ‘Austerity’ impact on disabled people in every area of life. The scrapping of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the Independent Living Fund (ILF) will tens of thousands of disabled workers, and will force many of them out of their jobs. Hundreds of thousands of disabled people both receive and deliver public services as workers in Public Service Departments, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Sector. ILF and DLA play critical roles in maintaining people in these jobs. The 1% uplift limit on Benefits, Universal Credit and the Bedroom Tax will impact on many disabled people both in and out of work.
The removal of many of our basic rights affect not just disabled people, but all of us. For example, the removal of Legal Aid for medical negligence claims comes at the same time as every single contract within the Health Service is open to tender by private companies. This has serious and significant implications for each and every one of us who make up the 99%.
But not everyone is being hit by austerity. While multi-nationals like Atos and Capita make fortunes, tax avoidance and evasion to the tune of tens of billions goes uncollected. The wealthiest 1000 UK residents increased their wealth by some 35 billion last year while disabled people and the poorest members of society were pushed into poverty and despair as the targets of brutal cuts.
Disabled activists have led the fightback against this Government since the beginning, and today disabled activists and workers lead the way again in the first joint, co-ordinated direct action by campaigners and unions on the streets of the U.K.
Shabnam O Saughnessy from DPAC said: "We are delighted to be joined on the streets today by our union comrades. This represents the first steps towards uniting resistance from communities and workplaces. It dispels the myth of disabled people as scroungers and workshy. We are not some separate group of others, we are your friends and neighbours, we work alongside you. Many millions of disabled people are being affected by cuts, and today is about getting our voices heard."
Mandy Hudson, co-chair of the TUC disabled workers committee said: "Trade unionists would like to send a clear message to this government that trade unions, workers and grass roots disabled groups stand together against the onslaught of vicious cuts rained down upon us by the Condems."
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DPAC & UK Uncut protest against benefit cuts at DWP - 31.08.2012
Following their earlier joint protest that morning at the Euston headquarters of ATOS Origin - the French IT company which has sponsored the paralympics, despite its role in forcing tens of thousands of severely sick and disabled people off their life-saving benefits after declaring them "Fit for Work" following the seriously flawed Work Capability Assessment stipulated by the Dept. fo0r Work and Pensions (DWP), DPAC and UK Uncut activists descended on the Westminster headquarters of the DWP and protested outside.
Several activists managed to get inside the entrance foyer of the government building, which was the trigger for a short-but-overly-aggressive encounter with a large number of Territorial Support Group police who waded into the disabled and able-bodied protesters to force them away from the front of the building which houses the offices of Secretary for State for Work and Pensions Ian Duncan Smith and Minister for Disabled People Maria Miller.
During the quite unnecessary action against the peaceful protesters - several in wheelchairs - one disabled man was thrown out of his wheelchair to the ground, breaking his shoulder. Another man's motorised wheelchair was broken in the fracas, and one man was arrested.
Some of the protesters managed to speak to Maria Miller, MP, and told her to her facve how much misery and human despair her department's policies of demonisation of the disabled - portraying them publicly as workshy scroungers and benefits cheats, even though Disability Benefit fraud is extremely small, only 0.4% of the overall benefits budget, despite frequent, outrageous lies peddled by the DWP and minister Ian Duncan Smith as it behaves no better than the German government in the years running up to World War II as they turn the public against the very weakest, most vulnerable members of the British population, blaming disabled people for the country's economic misery - cause by corrupt bankers.
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U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 4-118th Combined Arms Battalion, South Carolina National Guard, conduct capability demonstrations for families, employers and future recruits at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, July 24, 2021. The Soldiers highlighted live-fire artillery demonstrations on M1A1 Abrams tanks, M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and various weapons systems. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kimberly D. Calkins, South Carolina National Guard).
MISSION:
Protects ground forces and critical assets at all echelons from advanced aircraft, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles.
DESCRIPTION:
The PAC-3 MSE program is an air-defense, guided missile system with long-range, medium- to high-altitude, all-weather capabilities designed to kill Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBMs), cruise missiles, and advanced aircraft. The combat element of the PATRIOT missile system is the fire unit, which consists of a phased array Radar Set (RS), an Engagement Control Station (ECS), a battery command post, an electric power plant, an antenna mast group, a communications relay group, and Launching Stations (LS) with missiles.
The RS provides the tactical functions of airspace surveillance, target detection, identification, classification, tracking, missile guidance, and engagement support. The ECS provides command and control. The LS provides the platform for the PAC-3 MSE missile, which is sealed in canisters that serve as shipping containers and launch tubes.
The PAC-3 MSE missile uses hit-to-kill technology for greater lethality against TBMs armed with weapons of mass destruction. The PAC-3 MSE represents the next generation PAC-3 missile providing expanded battlespace performance against evolving threats. The PAC-3 MSE improves upon current PAC-3 Cost Reduction Initiative (CRI) missile capability with a higher performance solid rocket motor, modified lethality enhancer, more responsive control surfaces, upgraded guidance software, and insensitive munitions improvements.
The PAC-3 MSE incorporates a logistical flexibility over that of PAC-3 CRI through a modular single canister. The PAC-3 MSE single canisters will be kitted as a two-pack for both the shipping and tactical configuration. Additionally, the PAC-3 MSE single-pack canister design modularity enables field replacement of spent/failed missile(s). There will be no anticipated increase in PATRIOT operations or maintenance personnel as a result of integrating the PAC-3 MSE enhancements into PATRIOT.
PATRIOT’s fast-reaction capability, high firepower, ability to track numerous targets simultaneously, joint interoperability, and ability to operate in a severe electronic countermeasure environment make it the Army’s premier air defense system.
Read more at asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/ms-pac-3_mse/
170808-N-KB401-544 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 8, 2017) Left to right, Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), Royal Norwegian Navy frigate Helge Ingstad (F 313), Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), and guided-missile destroyer US Donald Cook (DDG 75) sail in formation for a photo exercise during exercise Saxon Warrior 2017, Aug.8. Saxon Warrior is a United States and United Kingdom co-hosted carrier strike group exercise that demonstrates interoperability and capability to respond to crises and deter potential threats. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael B. Zingaro/Released)
(OCT. 24, 2014) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Quincey Salyer, assigned to the Black Knights of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 154, from Chelsea, Okla., installs a practice ordnance on a F/A-18F Super Hornet on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz, along with Canadian, Japanese and other U.S. ships are underway conducting a task group exercise (TGEX) to train units that will deploy independently. TGEX improves cooperation, readiness and the capability to respond quickly in various situations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Shauna C. Sowersby/Released)
Burghley House near Stamford, England was built between 1558-87 for Sir William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer and chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Cecil family still effectively own the house and park, although it is now run by a charitable trust. The park around the house was improved by Capability Brown in the late 1700s, and includes a large lake, some 26 acres in area. The house is Grade I listed, and the gardens and parkland are Grade II listed with the latter being the home to the famous annual Burghley Horse Trials.
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
ROME, NY (5/23/17) - Pilots from the NUAIR Alliance test unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in preparation for an upcoming Technology Capability Level (TCL) flight test demonstration in conjunction with NASA and four other FAA UAS Test Sites taking place June 6, 2017. The test will focus on beyond visual line-of-sight operations in sparsely populated areas.
From the sand dunes of Essaouira to the peaks of the Atlas Mountains, the all-new Range Rover demonstrates its full breadth of capability in Morocco.
From the sand dunes of Essaouira to the peaks of the Atlas Mountains, the all-new Range Rover demonstrates its full breadth of capability in Morocco.
A visit to Berrington Hall near Leominster in Herefordshire.The dome was being restored so part of the building was under scaffolding inside and out (including up the main staircase).
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building that Henry Holland designed in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837), and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill, which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters that are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall, which was subject to extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Berrington had been in the possession of the Cornewall family since 1386, but was sold in 1775 to Thomas Harley, a banker and government contractor who in 1767 had been Lord Mayor of London. He commissioned the rebuilding in 1778-1781 of the present Berrington Hall in place of the previous old house. He made it available to his daughter Anne and her new husband George Rodney, the son of Admiral Rodney. After Harley's death the house descended in the Rodney family for 95 years.
In 1901 the Manchester businessman Frederick Cawley MP, later Baron Cawley, purchased the estate. In 1957 the 3rd Lord Cawley transferred it to the Treasury, which passed in on to the National Trust. Lady Crawley was allowed to remain in occupation until her death in 1978.
It was classified as a Grade I listed building in 1959.
Grade I Listed Building
Berrington Hall and Adjoining Outbuildings
Listing Text
EYE, MORETON &
SO 56 SW ASHTON CP
7/2 Berrington Hall and
adjoining outbuildings
11.6.59
GV I
Country house. 1778 - 1781 by Henry Holland for Thomas Harley. Alterations
of c1890 - 1900 involved the addition of a tower at the rear of the house,
this was removed in 1968 and the pediment to this face was reinstated. Set
in parkland laid out by Capability Brown. Brick core, faced with sandstone
ashlar with dressings of the same material, hipped Welsh slate roofs.
Rectangular plan main house with central entrance and stairwell, axial
stacks. Main entrance faces south-west, quadrant walls connect the main
block with the three outbuildings which form a courtyard to the rear (these
adjoining walls have been altered and one has been removed). Main house:
two storeys, attics and basements, south-west entrance front: seven bays
with plinth, dentilled cornice, blocking course and balustraded parapet,
steps up to central projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico; frieze is decorated
only to central part by a floral type design which replaces the original one
of putti, ox heads and garlands, pediment has a lunette window. Dormer windows
to attics with glazing bar sash windows, glazing bar sash windows to first
floor with semi-circular heads and decorative glazing to those flanking the
portico. Square-headed glazing bar sash windows to ground floor, the semi-
circular headed basement windows have rusticated surrounds. Central tall
and narrow semi-circular headed doorway with panelled door has keystone
depicting Roman head flanked by narrow side lights with reliefs depicting
urns above. The north-west front is of five bays with a pediment over the
central three bays. The north-east front to the courtyard entrance is of
2:3:2 bays with central pedimented slightly forward break, semi-circular
headed glazing bar sash windows to upper floor, square-headed windows to
ground floor with central three openings set in semi-circular headed surrounds,
right-hand opening now forms a doorway and has a six-panelled door. The out-
buildings enclosing the courtyard are of two storeys. The range to the north-
east is of nine bays with central pedimented archway flanked by pairs of Doric
pilasters, clock face in pediment, string course to flanking bays with 6-pane
square-headed windows to upper floor and semi-circular headed windows with
decorative glazing to ground floor. The ranges enclosing the courtyard to
the north-west and south-east are also of nine bays, each with similar windows
to the upper and lower floors, the central window to each range having a moulded
architrave, semi-circular headed window and doorway openings to ground floors.
To the outer walls of these flanking ranges (ie facing the gardens) are central
niches with coffered semi-domes with ball cresting above. The south-western
ends of both ranges have a blank semi-circular headed arch flanked by oculi.
Interior: the main house retains many of its original features on both main
floors, with decorative surrounds to doorways, decorative plastered ceilings
and marble fireplaces. The entrance hall has trophies in roundels above the
doors and a central circular ceiling panel is carried to the corners on spandrels,
pedimented surround to doorway opposite the entrance; polychrome marble patterned
floor. The Drawing Room retains original elaborate pelmets above the three
windows, marble fireplace with caryatids and griffon frieze. Delicately patterned
ceiling with painted roundels depicting scenes and characters from classical
mythology and with putti and sea horses; entwined roundels to outer border
which flank central theme. The boudoir has an alcove with segmental arch and
a screen of two blue scagliola columns. The Dining Room has a good marble
fireplace with carved panels to the jambs, decorative plastered and painted
ceiling with central painted roundel and swagged and wreathed plastered
surround. Pedimented bookcases to the library with continuous "greekkey"
type frieze. Decorative painted panels to ceiling depicting authors from
Chaucer to Addison. Central staircase hall is lit by delicately iron ribbed
glass domed lantern, opposite the staircase is a coffered archway; staircase
and landings carried on screens of scagliola columns, decorative dolphin
frieze to the entablature. The staircase has bronze lyre-shaped balustrading.
The outbuilding to the north-west formed the laundry and retains many of its
fittings. A tiled dairy has been restored in the south-east range and the
north-east range contains part stabling. (National Trust, 1986, Berrington Hall:
BoE, p 72).
Listing NGR: SO5093063660
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Heading out of the house after a look around into the courtyard.
NHA TRANG, Vietnam (May 24, 2018) - Rear Adm. Don Gabrielson, Commander, Task Force 73, and Capt. Chris Sharman, Naval Attaché U.S. Embassy Hanoi, meet with the Vietnamese soldiers and the local community during an engineering capability at Ninh Binh Primary School in support of Pacific Partnership 2018 (PP18). PP18's mission is to work collectively with host and partner nations to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increased stability and security in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships across the Indo-Pacific Region. Pacific Partnership, now in its 13th iteration, is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher A. Veloicaza) 180524-N-FV739-442
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We decided to go for a city break rather than sun in Tenerife again this September. Other than a few days in the North East we haven’t been away since last March and wanted a change and hopefully some sun. The problem is getting flights from the north of England to the places we want to go to. We chose Valencia as we could fly from East Midlands – which was still a pain to get to as it involved the most notorious stretch of the M1 at five in the morning. In the end we had a fairly good journey, the new Ryanair business class pre-booked scheme worked quite well and bang on time as usual. It was dull when we landed with storms forecast all week, the sky was bright grey – the kiss of death to the photography I had in mind. I was full of cold and wishing I was at work. It did rain but it was overnight on our first night and didn’t affect us. There has been a drought for eleven months apparently and it rained on our first day there! The forecast storms didn’t materialise in Valencia but they got it elsewhere.
Over the course of a Monday to Sunday week we covered 75 miles on foot and saw most of the best of Valencia – The City of Bell Towers. The Old City covers a pretty large area in a very confusing layout. There was a lot of referring to maps – even compass readings! – a first in a city for us. The problem with photography in Valencia is that most of the famous and attractive building are closely built around, some have poor quality housing built on to them. Most photographs have to be taken from an extreme angle looking up. There are no high points as it is pan flat, there are a small number of buildings where you can pay to go up on to the roof for a better view and we went up them – more than once!
The modern buildings of The City of Arts and Sciences – ( Ciutat de Las Arts I de les Ciencies ) are what the city has more recently become famous for, with tourists arriving by the coachload all day until late at night. They must be photographed millions of times a month. We went during the day and stayed till dark one evening, I gave it my best shot but a first time visit is always a compromise between ambition and realism, time dictates that we have to move on to the next destination. I travelled with a full size tripod – another first – I forgot to take it with me to TCoAaS! so It was time to wind up the ISO, again! Needless to say I never used the tripod.
On a day when rain was forecast but it stayed fine, albeit a bit dull, we went to the Bioparc north west of the city, a zoo by another name. There are many claims made for this place, were you can appear to walk alongside some very large animals, including, elephants, lions, giraffe, rhino, gorillas and many types of monkey to name a few. It is laid out in different geographical regions and there is very little between you and the animals, in some cases there is nothing, you enter the enclosure through a double door arrangement and the monkeys are around you. It gets rave reviews and we stayed for most of the day. The animals it has to be said gave the appearance of extreme boredom and frustration and I felt quite sorry for them.
The course of The River Turia was altered after a major flood in the 50’s. The new river runs west of the city flanked by a motorway. The old river, which is massive, deep and very wide between ancient walls, I can’t imagine how it flooded, has been turned into a park that is five miles long. There is an athletics track, football pitches, cycle paths, restaurants, numerous kids parks, ponds, fountains, loads of bridges, historic and modern. At the western end closest to the sea sits The City of Arts and Sciences – in the river bed. Where it meets the sea there is Valencia’s urban Formula One racetrack finishing in the massive marina built for The Americas Cup. The race track is in use as roadways complete with fully removable street furniture, kerbs, bollards, lights, islands and crossings, everything is just sat on the surface ready to be moved.
We found the beach almost by accident, we were desperate for food after putting in a lot of miles and the afternoon was ticking by. What a beach, 100’s of metres wide and stretching as far as the eye could see with a massive promenade. The hard thing was choosing, out of the dozens of restaurants, all next door to each other, all serving traditional Paella – rabbit and chicken – as well as seafood, we don’t eat seafood and it constituted 90% of the menu in most places. Every restaurant does a fixed price dish of the day, with a few choices, three courses and a drink. Some times this was our only meal besides making the most of the continental breakfast at the hotel. We had a fair few bar stops with the local wine being cheap and pleasant it would have been a shame not to, there would have been a one woman riot – or strike!
On our final day, a Sunday, we were out of bed and down for breakfast at 7.45 as usual, the place was deserted barring a waiter. We walked out of the door at 8.30 – in to the middle of a mass road race with many thousands of runners, one of a series that take place in Valencia – apparently! We struggled to find out the distance, possibly 10km. The finish was just around the corner so off we went with the camera gear, taking photos of random runners and groups. There was a TV crew filming it and some local celebrity (I think) commentating. Next we came across some sort of wandering religious and musical event. Some sort of ritual was played out over the course of Sunday morning in various locations, it involved catholic priests and religious buildings and another film crew. The Catholic tourists and locals were filling the (many) churches for Sunday mass. Amongst all of this we had seen men walking around in Arab style dress – the ones in black looked like the ones from ISIS currently beheading people – all carrying guns. A bit disconcerting. We assumed that there had been some sort of battle enactment. We were wrong, it hadn’t happened yet. A while later, about 11.30 we could hear banging, fireworks? No it was our friends with the guns. We were caught up in total mayhem, around 60 men randomly firing muskets with some sort of blank rounds, the noise, smoke and flames from the muzzles were incredible. We were about to climb the Torres de Serranos which is where, unbeknown to us, the grand, and deafening, finale was going to be. We could feel the blast in our faces on top of the tower. Yet again there was a film camera in attendance. I couldn’t get close ups but I got a good overview and shot my first video with the 5D, my first in 5 years of owning a DLSR with the capability. I usually use my phone ( I used my phone as well). Later in the day there was a bullfight taking place, the ring was almost next to our hotel, in the end we had other things to do and gave it a miss, it was certainly a busy Sunday in the city centre, whether it’s the norm or not I don’t know.
There is a tram system in Valencia but it goes from the port area into the newer part of the city on the north side, it wouldn’t be feasible to serve the historic old city really. A quick internet search told me that there are 55,000 university students in the city, a pretty big number. I think a lot of the campus is on the north side and served by the tram although there is a massive fleet of buses as well. There is a massive, very impressive market building , with 100’s of stalls that would make a photo project on its own, beautiful on the inside and out but very difficult to get decent photos of the exterior other than detail shots owing to the closeness of other buildings and the sheer size of it. Across town, another market has been beautifully renovated and is full of bars and restaurants and a bit of a destination in its own right.
A downside was the all too typical shafting by the taxi drivers who use every trick in the book to side step the official tariffs and rob you. The taxi from the airport had a “broken” meter and on the way home we were driven 22 km instead of the nine that is the actual distance. Some of them seem to view tourists as cash cows to be robbed at all costs. I emailed the Marriot hotel as they ordered the taxi, needless to say no answer from Marriot – they’ve had their money. We didn’t get the rip off treatment in the bars etc. that we experienced in Rome, prices are very fair on most things, certainly considering the city location.
All in all we had a good trip and can highly recommend Valencia.
Closer look at the F-22 Raptor .....
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- The F-22 has a significant capability to attack surface targets. In the air-to-ground configuration the aircraft can carry two 1,000-pound GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munitions internally and will use on-board avionics for navigation and weapons delivery support. In the future air-to-ground capability will be enhanced with the addition of an upgraded radar and up to eight small diameter bombs. The Raptor will also carry two AIM-120s and two AIM-9s in the air-to-ground configuration.
- A combination of sensor capability, integrated avionics, situational awareness, and weapons provides first-kill opportunity against threats. The F-22 possesses a sophisticated sensor suite allowing the pilot to track, identify, shoot and kill air-to-air threats before being detected. Significant advances in cockpit design and sensor fusion improve the pilot's situational awareness. In the air-to-air configuration the Raptor carries six AIM-120 AMRAAMs and two AIM-9 Sidewinders.
- The F-22 engines produce more thrust than any current fighter engine. The combination of sleek aerodynamic design and increased thrust allows the F-22 to cruise at supersonic air speeds (greater than 1.5 Mach) without using afterburner -- a characteristic known as super cruise. Super cruise greatly expands the F-22 's operating envelope in both speed and range over current fighters, which must use fuel-consuming afterburner to operate at supersonic speeds.
- The sophisticated F-22 aerodesign, advanced flight controls, thrust vectoring, and high thrust-to-weight ratio provide the capability to outmaneuver all current and projected aircraft. The F-22 design has been extensively tested and refined aerodynamically during the development process.
- The F-22's characteristics provide a synergistic effect ensuring F-22A lethality against all advanced air threats. The combination of stealth, integrated avionics and supercruise drastically shrinks surface-to-air missile engagement envelopes and minimizes enemy capabilities to track and engage the F-22. The combination of reduced observability and supercruise accentuates the advantage of surprise in a tactical environment.
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General characteristics :-
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- Primary function: air dominance, multi-role fighter.
- Contractor: Lockheed-Martin, Boeing.
- Power plant: two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines with afterburners and two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles.
- Thrust: 35,000-pound class (each engine).
- Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches (13.6 meters).
- Length: 62 feet, 1 inch (18.9 meters).
- Height: 16 feet, 8 inches (5.1 meters).
- Weight: 43,340 pounds (19,700 kilograms).
- Maximum takeoff weight: 83,500 pounds (38,000 kilograms).
- Fuel capacity: internal: 18,000 pounds (8,200 kilograms); with 2 external wing fuel tanks: 26,000 pounds (11,900 kilograms).
- Payload: same as armament air-to-air or air-to-ground loadouts; with or without two external wing fuel tanks.
- Speed: mach two class with supercruise capability.
- Range: more than 1,850 miles ferry range with two external wing fuel tanks (1,600 nautical miles).
- Ceiling: above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers).
- Armament: one M61A2 20-millimeter cannon with 480 rounds, internal side weapon bays carriage of two AIM-9 infrared (heat seeking) air-to-air missiles and internal main weapon bays carriage of six AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-air loadout) or two 1,000-pound GBU-32 JDAMs and two AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-ground loadout).
- Crew: one .
- Unit cost: $143 million .
- Initial operating capability: December 2005 .
- Inventory: total force, 183 .
While the F-16A had proven a success, its lack of long-range missile and true all-weather capability hampered it, especially in projected combat against the Warsaw Pact over Central Europe. General Dynamics began work on the upgraded F-16C/D version, with the first Block 25 F-16C flying in June 1984 and entering USAF service that September.
Externally, the only ways to tell apart the F-16C from the F-16A is the slightly enlarged base of the tail and a UHF radio antenna at the base of the tail. The intake is also slightly larger, though later marks of the F-16A also have this feature. Internally, however, the F-16C is a significantly different aircraft. The earlier APG-66 radar was replaced by the APG-68 multimode radar used by the F/A-18, which gave the F-16C the same capability to switch between ground-attack and dogfight mode and vastly improved all-weather capability. Cockpit layout was also changed in response to pilots’ requests, with a larger Heads-Up Display and movement of the radar display to eye level rather than between the pilot’s legs on the F-16A. The F-16C would also have the capability to carry the AIM-120 AMRAAM, though it would not be until 1992 that the missile entered service. Other small upgrades were made throughout the design, including the engine.
The Block 25 initial production was superseded by the Block 30 F-16C in 1987, which gave it better navigation systems, and the capability to carry the either the General Electric F110 or the Pratt and Whitney F100 turbofan. The Block 40/42 “Night Falcon” followed in 1988, equipped with LANTIRN night attack pods, followed by the Block 50/52, which was a dedicated Wild Weasel variant. In USAF service, the latter are semi-officially known as F-16CG and F-16CJ variants.
The F-16C had replaced the F-16A in nearly all overseas USAF units by the First Gulf War in 1991, and as a result, the aircraft was among the first deployed to the theater in August 1990. During the war, the F-16C was used mainly in ground attack and strike sorties, due to delays in the AIM-120, but it performed superbly in this role. USAF F-16s finally scored kills in the F-16C, beginning in 1992, when an Iraqi MiG-23 was shot down over the southern no-fly zone; the victory was also the first with the AMRAAM. Four Serbian G-4 Super Galebs were shot down over Bosnia in 1994. F-16Cs had replaced the F-16A entirely in regular and Reserve USAF service by 1997, and further service was seen over Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya by 2012. Subsequent upgrades to USAF F-16Cs with GPS allow them to carry advanced precision weapons such as JSOW and JDAM.
Whatever the variant, the F-16 is today the most prolific combat aircraft in existence, with 28 nations operating the type (17 of which operate F-16Cs). Over 4450 have been built, with more in production; the F-16C is also license-produced by Turkey and South Korea. It also forms the basis for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter for Japan, though the F-2 is significantly different, with a longer nose and larger wing. Though the USAF projects that the F-16C will be replaced by the F-35 beginning in 2020, it will likely remain in service for a very long time.
I don't know if the Thunderbirds intended this to form a heart in the sky, but it's a neat picture. This is actually a few seconds after the team completed a rolling diamond climb, with one of the solo aircraft coming up behind and then racing to meet the diamond at the bottom. It could be deliberate, as the Red Arrows do a heart formation (complete with arrow splitting the heart). This picture was taken at the Wings Over the Falls airshow in Great Falls, MT in July 2017.
SEA OF JAPAN (Aug. 12, 2020) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Eric Hayford, left, from Akron, Ohio, collects sealed COVID-19 test samples aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18). New Orleans, part of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners, and serves as a ready response force to defend security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kelby Sanders)
Operator: NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
Aircraft: Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
Registration: 03
C/n: 50212/F211/SAC3
Location: Eindhoven Airport (EIN/EHEH)
Date: 6-8-2020
Previously: 08-0003
Temple Newsam is a 15th centuryTudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, famous as the birthplace of Lord Darnley, the ill-fated husband of Mary, Queen of Scots and with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown.
The manor of Newsam was owned by the Knights Templar in the 12th century before the estate passed to the Darcy family, and Thomas, Lord Darcy built the first manor house here in about 1500. One wing of Darcy's original manor survives as the central block of the current house.
Darcy was executed for treason for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1537and his lands were seized by the crown. Henry VIII gave Newsam to the Countess of Lennox, and her son, Henry, Lord Darnley was born and raised here. After Darnley's murder, Elizabeth I seized the estate, and the house languished in a state of neglect until 1622 when it was purchased by Sir Arthur Ingram. Ingram tore down much of the earlier manor house and built two large new wings to form the basis of the house we see today.
In 1758 Charles, 9th Lord Irwin, married a rich heiress and used her money to transform the interior of Temple Newsam and fill it with a collection of fine art including Old Master works. They hired James Wyatt to build a grand staircase, and Capability Brown to create the landscape garden that surrounds the house.
The house was the home of the Ingram family for over 300 years until 1922 when Lord Halifax sold the park and house to Leeds Corporation for a nominal sum, placing covenants over them to ensure their preservation for the future. The house and estate are now owned by Leeds City Council and open to the public.
JAKARTA, INDONESIA (Aug. 10, 2018) Cmdr. Robert Tryon, commanding officer of Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47), sits with Marine Lt. Colonel Ryan Hatfield, Commander of Troops of Combat Logistics Batallion 13, and Indonesian Navy leadership at the arrival ceremony for Cooperation And Readiness Afloat Training (CARAT) 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. CARAT Indonesia, in its 24th iteration, is designed to enhance information sharing and coordination, build mutual warfighting capability and support long-term regional cooperation enabling both partner armed forces to operate effectively together as a unified maritime force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Reymundo A. Villegas III)
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
Grey Hawk - Mach 8-10 - 7th / 8th Gen Hypersonic Super Fighter Aircraft, IO Aircraft www.ioaircraft.com
New peek, very little is posted or public. Grey Hawk - Mach 8-10 Hypersonic 7th/8th Gen Super Fighter. This is not a graphics design, but ready to be built this moment. Heavy CFD, Design Work, Systems, etc.
All technologies developed and refined. Can out maneuver an F22 or SU-35 all day long subsonically, and no missile on earth could catch it. Lots of details omitted intentionally, but even internal payload capacity is double the F-22 Raptor. - www.ioaircraft.com/hypersonic.php
Length: 60'
Span: 30'
Engines: 2 U-TBCC (Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle)
2 360° Thrust Vectoring Center Turbines
Fuel: Kero / Hydrogen
Payload: Up to 4 2,000 LBS JDAM's Internally
Up to 6 2,000 LBS JDAM's Externally
Range: 5,000nm + Aerial Refueling Capable
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Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle. Current technologies and what Lockheed is trying to force on the Dept of Defense, for that low speed Mach 5 plane DOD gave them $1 billion to build and would disintegrate above Mach 5, is TBCC. 2 separate propulsion systems in the same airframe, which requires TWICE the airframe space to use.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle is 1 propulsion system cutting that airframe deficit in half, and also able to operate above Mach 10 up to Mach 15 in atmosphere, and a simple nozzle modification allows for outside atmosphere rocket mode, ie orbital capable.
Additionally, Reaction Engines maximum air breather mode is Mach 4.5, above that it will explode in flight from internal pressures are too high to operate. Thus, must switch to non air breather rocket mode to operate in atmosphere in hypersonic velocities. Which as a result, makes it not feasible for anything practical. It also takes an immense amount of fuel to function.
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Advanced Additive Manufacturing for Hypersonic Aircraft
Utilizing new methods of fabrication and construction, make it possible to use additive manufacturing, dramatically reducing the time and costs of producing hypersonic platforms from missiles, aircraft, and space capable craft. Instead of aircraft being produced in piece, then bolted together; small platforms can be produced as a single unit and large platforms can be produces in large section and mated without bolting. These techniques include using exotic materials and advanced assembly processes, with an end result of streamlining the production costs and time for hypersonic aircraft; reducing months of assembly to weeks. Overall, this process greatly reduced the cost for producing hypersonic platforms. Even to such an extent that a Hellfire missile costs apx $100,000 but by utilizing our technologies, replacing it with a Mach 8-10 hypersonic missile of our physics/engineering and that missile would cost roughly $75,000 each delivered.
Materials used for these manufacturing processes are not disclosed, but overall, provides a foundation for extremely high stresses and thermodynamics, ideal for hypersonic platforms. This specific methodology and materials applications is many decades ahead of all known programs. Even to the extend of normalized space flight and re-entry, without concern of thermodynamic failure.
*Note, most entities that are experimenting with additive manufacturing for hypersonic aircraft, this makes it mainstream and standardized processes, which also applies for mass production.
What would normally be measured in years and perhaps a decade to go from drawing board to test flights, is reduced to singular months and ready for production within a year maximum.
Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle (U-TBCC)
To date, the closest that NASA and industry have achieved for turbine based aircraft to fly at hypersonic velocities is by mounting a turbine into an aircraft and sharing the inlet with a scramjet or rocket based motor. Reaction Engines Sabre is not able to achieve hypersonic velocities and can only transition into a non air breathing rocket for beyond Mach 4.5
However, utilizing Unified Turbine Based Combine Cycle also known as U-TBCC, the two separate platforms are able to share a common inlet and the dual mode ramjet/scramjet is contained within the engine itself, which allows for a much smaller airframe footprint, thus engingeers are able to then design much higher performance aerial platforms for hypersonic flight, including the ability for constructing true single stage to orbit aircraft by utilizing a modification/version that allows for transition to outside atmosphere propulsion without any other propulsion platforms within the aircraft. By transitioning and developing aircraft to use Unified Turbine Based Combined Cycle, this propulsion system opens up new options to replace that airframe deficit for increased fuel capacity and/or payload.
Enhanced Dynamic Cavitation
Dramatically Increasing the efficiency of fuel air mixture for combustion processes at hypersonic velocities within scramjet propulsion platforms. The aspects of these processes are non disclosable.
Dynamic Scramjet Ignition Processes
For optimal scramjet ignition, a process known as Self Start is sought after, but in many cases if the platform becomes out of attitude, the scramjet will ignite. We have already solved this problem which as a result, a scramjet propulsion system can ignite at lower velocities, high velocities, at optimal attitude or not optimal attitude. It doesn't matter, it will ignite anyways at the proper point for maximum thrust capabilities at hypersonic velocities.
Hydrogen vs Kerosene Fuel Sources
Kerosene is an easy fuel to work with, and most western nations developing scramjet platforms use Kerosene for that fact. However, while kerosene has better thermal properties then Hydrogen, Hydrogen is a far superior fuel source in scramjet propulsion flight, do it having a much higher efficiency capability. Because of this aspect, in conjunction with our developments, it allows for a MUCH increased fuel to air mixture, combustion, thrust; and ability for higher speeds; instead of very low hypersonic velocities in the Mach 5-6 range. Instead, Mach 8-10 range, while we have begun developing hypersonic capabilities to exceed 15 in atmosphere within less then 5 years.
Conforming High Pressure Tank Technology for CNG and H2.
As most know in hypersonics, Hydrogen is a superior fuel source, but due to the storage abilities, can only be stored in cylinders thus much less fuel supply. Not anymore, we developed conforming high pressure storage technology for use in aerospace, automotive sectors, maritime, etc; which means any overall shape required for 8,000+ PSI CNG or Hydrogen. For hypersonic platforms, this means the ability to store a much larger volume of hydrogen vs cylinders.
As an example, X-43 flown by Nasa which flew at Mach 9.97. The fuel source was Hydrogen, which is extremely more volatile and combustible then kerosene (JP-7), via a cylinder in the main body. If it had used our technology, that entire section of the airframe would had been an 8,000 PSI H2 tank, which would had yielded 5-6 times the capacity. While the X-43 flew 11 seconds under power at Mach 9.97, at 6 times the fuel capacity would had yielded apx 66 seconds of fuel under power at Mach 9.97. If it had flew slower, around Mach 6, same principles applied would had yielded apx 500 seconds of fuel supply under power (slower speeds required less energy to maintain).
Enhanced Fuel Mixture During Shock Train Interaction
Normally, fuel injection is conducted at the correct insertion point within the shock train for maximum burn/combustion. Our methodologies differ, since almost half the fuel injection is conducted PRE shock train within the isolator, so at the point of isolator injection the fuel enhances the combustion process, which then requires less fuel injection to reach the same level of thrust capabilities.
Improved Bow Shock Interaction
Smoother interaction at hypersonic velocities and mitigating heat/stresses for beyond Mach 6 thermodynamics, which extraordinarily improves Type 3, 4, and 5 shock interaction.
6,000+ Fahrenheit Thermal Resistance
To date, the maximum thermal resistance was tested at AFRL in the spring of 2018, which resulted in a 3,200F thermal resistance for a short duration. This technology, allows for normalized hypersonic thermal resistance of 3,000-3,500F sustained, and up to 6,500F resistance for short endurance, ie 90 seconds or less. 10-20 minute resistance estimate approximately 4,500F +/- 200F.
*** This technology advancement also applies to Aerospike rocket engines, in which it is common for Aerospike's to exceed 4,500-5,000F temperatures, which results in the melting of the reversed bell housing. That melting no longer ocurrs, providing for stable combustion to ocurr for the entire flight envelope
Scramjet Propulsion Side Wall Cooling
With old technologies, side wall cooling is required for hypersonic flight and scramjet propulsion systems, otherwise the isolator and combustion regions of a scramjet would melt, even using advanced ablatives and ceramics, due to their inability to cope with very high temperatures. Using technology we have developed for very high thermodynamics and high stresses, side wall cooling is no longer required, thus removing that variable from the design process and focusing on improved ignition processes and increasing net thrust values.
Lower Threshold for Hypersonic Ignition
Active and adaptive flight dynamics, resulting in the ability for scramjet ignition at a much lower velocity, ie within ramjet envelope, between Mach 2-4, and seamless transition from supersonic to hypersonic flight, ie supersonic ramjet (scramjet). This active and dynamic aspect, has a wide variety of parameters for many flight dynamics, velocities, and altitudes; which means platforms no longer need to be engineered for specific altitude ranges or preset velocities, but those parameters can then be selected during launch configuration and are able to adapt actively in flight.
Dramatically Improved Maneuvering Capabilities at Hypersonic Velocities
Hypersonic vehicles, like their less technologically advanced brethren, use large actuator and the developers hope those controls surfaces do not disintegrate in flight. In reality, it is like rolling the dice, they may or may not survive, hence another reason why the attempt to keep velocities to Mach 6 or below. We have shrunken down control actuators while almost doubling torque and response capabilities specifically for hypersonic dynamics and extreme stresses involved, which makes it possible for maximum input authority for Mach 10 and beyond.
Paradigm Shift in Control Surface Methodologies, Increasing Control Authority (Internal Mechanical Applications)
To date, most control surfaces for hypersonic missile platforms still use fins, similar to lower speed conventional missiles, and some using ducted fins. This is mostly due to lack of comprehension of hypersonic velocities in their own favor. Instead, the body itself incorporates those control surfaces, greatly enhancing the airframe strength, opening up more space for hardware and fuel capacity; while simultaneously enhancing the platforms maneuvering capabilities.
A scramjet missile can then fly like conventional missile platforms, and not straight and level at high altitudes, losing velocity on it's decent trajectory to target. Another added benefit to this aspect, is the ability to extend range greatly, so if anyone elses hypersonic missile platform were developed for 400 mile range, falling out of the sky due to lack of glide capabilities; our platforms can easily reach 600+ miles, with minimal glide deceleration.
DOE officials including Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm broke ground on October 25, 2022, for the Stable Isotope Production and Research Center, a facility that is key to a drive to bring production of enriched stable isotopes back to the United States.The Secretary was accompanied by DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine Richmond and Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe.
Earlier, Sec. Granholm visited residents and officials with Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation at Western Heights to discuss an energy efficiency project in which ORNL will demonstrate modular overclad panels in eight to 12 single-family attached public housing homes and one commercial building.
Sec. Granholm also met with union workers constructing ORNL’s Translational Research Capability.
DPAC & UK Uncut hold ATOS Closing Ceremony - 31.08.2012
As the Grand Finale to a week-long national campaign of protests against French IT company ATOS Origin and its spinoff ATOS Healthcare which carries out the much-criticised Wirk Capability Assessments on behalf of the DWP, which has seen tens of thousands of severely sick and disabled people declared to be "Fit for Work" and thrown off their disability benefits, several hundred activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), WinVisible, Disabled Activists' Network, UK Uncut, Right to Work Campaign, Unite the Union, the GMB Union, Occupy London and the National UNion of Students descended on ATOS' London headquarters to carry out what they had billed as the "ATOS Closing Ceremony" - a reference to ATOS' hugely derided sponsorship of the Paralympic Games which is, say the activists, an act of spectatular cynicism by a corporation which is currently contracted by the Cameron government to the tune of £100 million to conduct the much-feared medical assessments without any reference whatsoever to peoples' medical notes of histories.
For two hours the crowd chanted slogans, listened to oral testimonies from people whose lives have been badly affected by ATOS decisions, heard accounts of people driven into such despair by dealing with ATOS that they have comitted suicide, and also heard many accounts of seriously ill people thrown off their benefits by ATOS who have been forced to look for work - having been declared fit for work - and who have died shortly afterwards. The list of people irreperably harmed by ATOS' computer-driven tick-box assessment which cannot possibly take into account the huge range of physical and mental disabilities seems endless.
Following some dogged Freedom of Information requests by two Daily Mirror journalists earlier this year it is now known that an average of 32 sickness or disability benefit claimnants who have been thrown off their benefits by the DWP following an ATOS zero-point rating and placed in the Work-Related Activity Group or who have been put on Jobseeker's Allowance have died shortly afterwards. In many instances relatives of the deceased have claimed that the stress of being treated in such an inhumane way by ATOS contributed to their deaths.
During the protest at Triton Square the 500-strong crowd were entertained by a street theatre performance which saw a fraudulent "ATOS Miracle Cure" booth set up. The "ATOS Reverend" would lay hands on a disabled person and tell them that "by the power of ATOS you are no longer disabled", and sent them through the ATOS Miracle Cure arch, but sadly once through the arch the disabled people realised they had been tricked and they were still, of course, disabled... but worse was to come, as each disabled person was then confronted by an "ATOS Doctor" who stated that because they were now officially no longer disabled and were fit for work they could now be assigned to do their dream jobs, to which end the phoney doctor handed each person a sheet of paper on which was written "100 meter runner", "Bar Tender", "Mountain Climber" and other completely unsuitable job titles.
At around 2:30pm a section of the crowd took off and headed for Westminster where they picketed outside the Department for Work and Pensions, during which an over-agressive action by the police resulted in a disabled man's shoulder being broken as he was knocked off his wheelchair when police shoved protesters into him.
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DPAC & UK Uncut hold ATOS Closing Ceremony - 31.08.2012
As the Grand Finale to a week-long national campaign of protests against French IT company ATOS Origin and its spinoff ATOS Healthcare which carries out the much-criticised Wirk Capability Assessments on behalf of the DWP, which has seen tens of thousands of severely sick and disabled people declared to be "Fit for Work" and thrown off their disability benefits, several hundred activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), WinVisible, Disabled Activists' Network, UK Uncut, Right to Work Campaign, Unite the Union, the GMB Union, Occupy London and the National UNion of Students descended on ATOS' London headquarters to carry out what they had billed as the "ATOS Closing Ceremony" - a reference to ATOS' hugely derided sponsorship of the Paralympic Games which is, say the activists, an act of spectatular cynicism by a corporation which is currently contracted by the Cameron government to the tune of £100 million to conduct the much-feared medical assessments without any reference whatsoever to peoples' medical notes of histories.
For two hours the crowd chanted slogans, listened to oral testimonies from people whose lives have been badly affected by ATOS decisions, heard accounts of people driven into such despair by dealing with ATOS that they have comitted suicide, and also heard many accounts of seriously ill people thrown off their benefits by ATOS who have been forced to look for work - having been declared fit for work - and who have died shortly afterwards. The list of people irreperably harmed by ATOS' computer-driven tick-box assessment which cannot possibly take into account the huge range of physical and mental disabilities seems endless.
Following some dogged Freedom of Information requests by two Daily Mirror journalists earlier this year it is now known that an average of 32 sickness or disability benefit claimnants who have been thrown off their benefits by the DWP following an ATOS zero-point rating and placed in the Work-Related Activity Group or who have been put on Jobseeker's Allowance have died shortly afterwards. In many instances relatives of the deceased have claimed that the stress of being treated in such an inhumane way by ATOS contributed to their deaths.
During the protest at Triton Square the 500-strong crowd were entertained by a street theatre performance which saw a fraudulent "ATOS Miracle Cure" booth set up. The "ATOS Reverend" would lay hands on a disabled person and tell them that "by the power of ATOS you are no longer disabled", and sent them through the ATOS Miracle Cure arch, but sadly once through the arch the disabled people realised they had been tricked and they were still, of course, disabled... but worse was to come, as each disabled person was then confronted by an "ATOS Doctor" who stated that because they were now officially no longer disabled and were fit for work they could now be assigned to do their dream jobs, to which end the phoney doctor handed each person a sheet of paper on which was written "100 meter runner", "Bar Tender", "Mountain Climber" and other completely unsuitable job titles.
At around 2:30pm a section of the crowd took off and headed for Westminster where they picketed outside the Department for Work and Pensions, during which an over-agressive action by the police resulted in a disabled man's shoulder being broken as he was knocked off his wheelchair when police shoved protesters into him.
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The AMISOM Force Commander, Lieutenant General Jim Owoyesigire, speaks to his fellow commanders, as well as commanders in the SNA, during a capability assessment meeting held in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 14 April 2018. AMISOM Photo
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
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International Convention on the use of outer space as well as the Charter of the United Nations in the peace, in accordance with the relevant provisions of international conventions, the global number of projects related to the transfer of space technology. Transfer for the world, those who have a certain economic strength and technological capability of industrial and commercial enterprises, R & D units can apply for transfer and the transferee. Technology projects listed were all inventions, may apply for international patents after. Technical project a high-end cutting-edge technology, related technologies within a certain time confidential category. Patented formula provides transfer class technical drawings, countries in the world patent text templates available. Know-how and core technologies. English or other languages in electronic and paper version of each. Generally based International Science and Technology General English language. Transfer need the signing of a technology transfer agreement or contract. Technical entry fee: $ 1.25 million contract after the signing of the agreement or after the delivery of technology transfer, 35% -45% margin delivery, all the balance paid after three months. Trading currencies in US dollars or other common international currency. Taxes handled in accordance with relevant regulations. Any breach caused by the other party no reason to compensate losses of 55% -78% of the total value of technology projects, special cases listed, the two sides can agree otherwise related provisions shall not be paid. Technology projects for peaceful purposes should not be in violation of the relevant provisions of the United Nations and the peaceful uses of outer regulations. Specific transfer fee may be appropriate preferential transferor our best. Transfer to provide technical advisory services, technical consulting fees of $ 550,000 for individual major projects of $ 1.55 million. After the transfer of technology ownership belongs to the transferee, the subsequent patent being fully attributed to the transferee, the transferor have no quarrel. Transfer agreement or contract in English, French, Russian and other languages signed into force after signing. General contact e-mail-based, e-commerce, international courier or fax if necessary. BIS account and notice. Further notice, unless.
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transfert de technologie spatiale, aux clients du monde entier
Convention internationale sur l'utilisation de l'espace, ainsi que la Charte des Nations Unies dans la paix, conformément aux dispositions pertinentes des conventions internationales, le nombre global de projets liés au transfert de la technologie spatiale. Transfert pour le monde, ceux qui ont une certaine force économique et la capacité technologique des entreprises industrielles et commerciales, des unités de R & D peuvent demander le transfert et le cessionnaire. les projets technologiques énumérés étaient toutes les inventions, peuvent demander des brevets internationaux après. projet technique une pointe haut de gamme la technologie, les technologies connexes dans un certain temps la catégorie confidentielle. formule brevetée fournit des dessins techniques de classe de transfert, les pays dans les modèles de texte de brevet mondial disponibles. savoir-faire et technologies de base d'autres langues dans la version électronique et papier de chacun. ou en anglais. généralement . sur la base internationale de la science et de la technologie générale en langue anglaise transfert besoin de la signature d'un accord de transfert de technologie ou d'un contrat d'entrée technique frais :. contrat de 1,25 million $ après la signature de l'accord ou après la livraison du transfert de technologie, 35% livraison de marge -45% , tout le solde payé après trois mois. la négociation de devises en dollars américains ou autre monnaie internationale commune. taxes traitées conformément à la réglementation pertinente. tout manquement causé par l'autre partie aucune raison pour compenser les pertes de 55% -78% de la valeur totale des projets de technologie, des cas particuliers énumérés, les deux parties peuvent convenir des dispositions autrement connexes ne sont pas rémunérés. les projets technologiques à des fins pacifiques ne devraient pas être en violation des dispositions pertinentes de l'Organisation des Nations Unies et les utilisations pacifiques de réglementations externes. frais de transfert spécifique peut être cédant préférentiel approprié de notre mieux. transfert à fournir des services consultatifs techniques, les frais de consultation technique de $ 550,000 pour les grands projets individuels de 1,55 million $. Après le transfert de propriété de la technologie appartient au cessionnaire, le brevet ultérieur étant entièrement attribué au cessionnaire , le cédant a aucune querelle. transfert accord ou contrat en anglais, français, russe et d'autres langues signé en vigueur après la signature. Renseignements généraux sur la base e-mail, e-commerce, courrier ou fax international si nécessaire. BIS et compte préavis. En outre avis, à moins.
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Передача Космические технологии, клиентам по всему миру
Международная конвенция об использовании космического пространства, а также Устава Организации Объединенных Наций, в мире, в соответствии с соответствующими положениями международных конвенций, глобального ряда проектов, связанных с передачей космической техники. Трансфер для мира, те, которые имеют определенную экономическую мощь и технологические возможности промышленных и коммерческих предприятий, подразделений R & D могут применяться для передачи и правопреемника. проекты технологии перечислены были все изобретения, могут применяться для международных патентов после. Технический проект высокого класса ультрасовременная технологии, соответствующие технологии в течение определенного времени конфиденциальной категории. Патентованная формула обеспечивает технические чертежи класса передачи, страны в мире патент текстовых шаблонов, доступных. ноу-хау и основные технологии. английский или другие языки в электронном и бумажном варианте каждого из них. Вообще . на базе Международного научно-технического Общий английский язык перевод нужно подписание соглашения о передаче технологии или на договорной плату Техническое :. въездной контракта $ 1,25 млн после подписания договора или после доставки трансфера технологий, 35% -45% маржа доставки , все остаток выплачивается через три месяца. Торговые валюты в долларах США или другой единой международной валюты. Налоги обработаны в соответствии с соответствующими правилами. Любое нарушение, вызванное другой стороной никаких причин, чтобы компенсировать потери 55% -78% от общей стоимости технологических проектов, специальные случаи, перечисленные, обе стороны могут прийти к согласию в противном случае соответствующие положения не должны быть оплачены. Технологические проекты в мирных целях не должно быть в нарушение соответствующих положений Организации Объединенных Наций и мирного использования внешних правил. Удельная плата за перевод может быть целесообразным льготное поклажедатель наше самое лучшее. Перенесите оказывать технические консультационные услуги, технические консультационные сборы в размере $ 550 000 для отдельных крупных проектов $ 1,55 млн. После того, как передача права собственности технологии принадлежит к правопреемнику, последующий заявка на патент была в полной мере отнести к приобретателю , поклажедатель не ссорились. Перенесите соглашение или договор на английском, французском, русском и других языках подписали в силу после его подписания. Общий контактный адрес электронной почты на основе, электронной коммерции, международного курьера или по факсу, если это необходимо. счет BIS и не извещение. Далее обратите внимание, если.
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Женева, Швейцария
Weltraumtechnologietransfer, um Kunden in aller Welt
Internationale Übereinkommen über die Nutzung des Weltraums sowie der Charta der Vereinten Nationen in den Frieden, die im Einklang mit den einschlägigen Bestimmungen der internationalen Übereinkommen, die weltweite Anzahl von Projekten auf den Transfer von Raumfahrttechnik zusammen. Bringen Sie für die Welt, diejenigen, die eine gewisse wirtschaftliche Stärke haben und die technologischen Möglichkeiten von industriellen und kommerziellen Unternehmen, F & E-Einheiten können für die Übertragung und den Erwerber gelten. Technologieprojekte aufgeführt waren alle Erfindungen, nachdem für internationale Patente gelten. Technische Projekt ein High-End-Spitzen Technologie, verwandte Technologien innerhalb einer bestimmten Zeit vertrauliche Kategorie. die patentierte Formel Transfer Klasse technische Zeichnungen, Länder in der Welt Patenttextvorlagen zur Verfügung. das Know-how und Kerntechnologien. Englisch oder anderen Sprachen in elektronischer und Papierversion von jedem zur Verfügung stellt. im Allgemeinen . ansässigen international Science and Technology Englischsprachübertragung benötigen die Unterzeichnung eines Technologietransfer-Vereinbarung oder Vertragsgebühr Technische Eintrag :. $ 1.250.000 Vertrag nach der Unterzeichnung des Vertrags oder nach der Lieferung von Technologietransfer, 35% -45% Marge Lieferung , die ganze Bilanz nach drei Monaten. der Handel mit Devisen in US-Dollar oder andere gemeinsame internationale Währung bezahlt. behandelt Steuern in Übereinstimmung mit den einschlägigen Vorschriften. Gibt es von der anderen Partei keinen Grund zu kompensieren Verluste von 55% -78% des Gesamtwerts verursacht Verletzung von Technologieprojekten aufgeführten Sonderfällen können die beiden Seiten sind sich einig anderweitig damit zusammenhängenden Bestimmungen nicht bezahlt werden. Technologieprojekte für friedliche Zwecke nicht unter Verstoß gegen die einschlägigen Bestimmungen der Vereinten Nationen und der friedlichen Nutzung der äußeren Vorschriften. Spezifische Ablösesumme sein sollte sein kann, unsere besten geeignete Vorzugstragenden. technische Beratung bieten Transfer, technische Beratungskosten von $ 550.000 für einzelne Großprojekte von $ 1.550.000. nach dem Transfer von Technologie Eigentum auf den Erwerber gehört, wobei das nachfolgende Patent vollständig auf den Erwerber zurück , der Veräußerer keinen Streit haben. Abtretungsvertrag oder Vertrag in Englisch, Französisch, Russisch und andere Sprachen unterzeichnet in Kraft nach der Unterzeichnung. Allgemeine Kontakt-E-Mail-basierte E-Commerce, internationale Kurier oder Fax, falls erforderlich. BIS-Konto und Bekanntmachung. Weitere Mitteilung, es sei denn.
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Genf, Schweiz
transferencia de tecnología espacial, a los clientes en todo el mundo
Convención Internacional sobre la utilización del espacio ultraterrestre, así como la Carta de las Naciones Unidas en la paz, de conformidad con las disposiciones pertinentes de los convenios internacionales, el número total de proyectos relacionados con la transferencia de la tecnología espacial. Transfer para el mundo, los que tienen una cierta fuerza económica y la capacidad tecnológica de las empresas industriales y comerciales, unidades de I + D pueden solicitar la transferencia y el cesionario. proyectos de tecnología de la lista eran todas las invenciones, pueden solicitar patentes internacionales después. proyecto técnico de última generación de alta gama la tecnología, las tecnologías relacionadas dentro de un cierto tiempo de la categoría confidencial. fórmula patentada proporciona dibujos técnicos de clase, la transferencia de los países en las plantillas de texto patente mundial disponibles. know-how y tecnologías básicas. inglés u otros idiomas en versión electrónica y en papel de cada uno. en general . transferencia idioma Internacional de Ciencia y tecnología Inglés general basada necesita la firma de un acuerdo de transferencia de tecnología o contrato de cuota de entrada técnica :. contrato de $ 1.25 millones de dólares tras la firma del acuerdo o después de la entrega de la transferencia de tecnología, el 35% -45% de margen de entrega , todo el saldo pagado después de tres meses. el mercado de divisas en dólares estadounidenses u otra moneda internacional común. impuestos manipulados de acuerdo con las regulaciones pertinentes. Cualquier incumplimiento causado por la otra parte hay razón para compensar las pérdidas de 55% -78% del valor total de proyectos de tecnología, los casos especiales que se enumeran, las dos partes se ponen de acuerdo, no se pagarán disposiciones de otra manera relacionados. proyectos de tecnología con fines pacíficos no deben estar en violación de las disposiciones pertinentes de las Naciones Unidas y los usos pacíficos de regulaciones externas. tasa de transferencia específica puede ser cedente preferente adecuado lo mejor posible. Transfer para proporcionar servicios de asesoramiento técnico, honorarios de consultoría técnica de $ 550.000 grandes proyectos individuales de $ 1.55 millones de dólares. Después de la transferencia de propiedad de la tecnología pertenece al cesionario, la patente posterior está totalmente atribuye al cesionario , el cedente tiene nada en contra. Transfer acuerdo o contrato de Inglés, francés, ruso y otros idiomas firmado en vigor después de la firma., el comercio electrónico de contacto general de correo basados en correo, mensajería o fax internacional si es necesario. BPI y cuenta previo aviso. Las notificaciones futuras, a menos.
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Ginebra, Suiza
世界中のお客様への宇宙技術移転、
国際条約、宇宙技術の移転に関連したプロジェクトのグローバルな数の関連規定に従い、宇宙空間だけでなく、安心して国連憲章の使用に関する国際条約は、世界のためにそれらを転送します誰が一定の経済力と産業および商業企業の技術力を持って、R＆Dユニットは、転送および譲受人を申請することができます。技術プロジェクトリストされたすべての発明、後に国際特許を申請することができます。技術的なプロジェクトハイエンドの最先端技術、特許取得済みの式が使用可能な世界特許テキストテンプレートで転送クラスの技術的な図面、国を提供して機密カテゴリ。一定時間内に関連する技術。一般ノウハウとコア技術。英語または各電子と紙のバージョンで他の言語。 。ベースの国際科学技術全般英語の転送は、技術移転契約または契約のテクニカル入場料:.契約の締結後、または技術移転の配信後に$ 1.25百万の契約を締結、35％-45％のマージンの配信を必要とします、3ヶ月後に支払われるすべてのバランス。取引通貨米ドルまたは他の一般的な国際通貨インチの関連法規に従って処理税。任意の違反は、他の当事者によって合計値の55％-78％の損失を補償する理由が発生することはありません技術プロジェクト、記載された特別な例、双方が支払われないものとそうでない場合は、関連規定に同意することができます。平和目的のための技術プロジェクトは、国連と外側規制の平和利用の関連規定に違反してはならない。具体的な振込手数料適切な優先譲渡最善をすることができる。技術的な助言サービス、$ 1.55百万ドルの個々の主要なプロジェクトのための$ 55万技術コンサルティング料を提供するために転送します。技術の所有権の移転は、譲受人に属した後、後続の特許は完全に譲受人に帰属されています、譲渡は一切けんかを持っていません。英語、フランス語契約または契約を転送し、ロシアおよび他の言語が必要な場合。一般的な連絡先の電子メールベース、電子商取引、国際宅配便またはファックスに署名した後力に署名した。BISアカウントをと予告。さらに、通知、しない限り。
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ジュネーブ、スイス
trasferimento di tecnologia spaziale, a clienti in tutto il mondo
Convenzione internazionale sulla uso dello spazio esterno, nonché la Carta delle Nazioni Unite nella pace, in conformità alle pertinenti norme delle convenzioni internazionali, il numero globale di progetti relativi al trasferimento di tecnologia spaziale. Di trasferimento per il mondo, quelli che hanno una certa forza economica e la capacità tecnologica delle imprese industriali e commerciali, unità di R & S può applicare per il trasferimento e il cessionario. progetti tecnologici elencati erano tutte le invenzioni, possono applicare per brevetti internazionali dopo. progetto tecnico un high-end all'avanguardia la tecnologia, tecnologie legate entro un certo periodo di tempo categoria riservate. formula brevettata offre disegni tecnici di classe trasferimento, paesi nei modelli di testo brevetto mondiale disponibili. know-how e tecnologie di base. inglese o altre lingue in versione elettronica e carta di ogni. Generalmente . a base internazionale di scienza e tecnologia generale della lingua inglese transfer bisogno della firma di un accordo di trasferimento di tecnologia o di un contratto quota di iscrizione tecnico :. $ 1,25 milioni dollari contratto dopo la firma del contratto o dopo la consegna del trasferimento tecnologico, il 35% -45% di consegna del margine , tutto il saldo versato dopo tre mesi. valute di negoziazione in dollari USA o altra valuta internazionale comune. Tasse trattati in conformità con le normative in materia. Qualsiasi violazione causata dalla controparte alcun motivo per compensare le perdite del 55% -78% del valore totale di progetti tecnologici, casi particolari elencati, le due parti possono concordano disposizioni altrimenti connessi non sono versate. progetti di tecnologia per scopi pacifici non dovrebbero essere in violazione delle disposizioni pertinenti delle Nazioni Unite e degli usi pacifici regolamenti esterni. Riscatto specifico può essere opportuno cedente preferenziale del nostro meglio. trasferimento a fornire servizi di consulenza tecnica, spese di consulenza tecnica di $ 550.000 per i singoli grandi progetti di $ 1.55 milioni di dollari. Dopo il trasferimento della proprietà di tecnologia appartiene al cessionario, il successivo brevetto pienamente attribuito al cessionario , il cedente non hanno litigio. Trasferimento accordo o contratto in inglese, francese, russo e altre lingue firmato in vigore dopo la firma. Contatto generale e-mail-based, e-commerce, corriere internazionale o fax, se necessario. conto BIS e preavviso. a nuovo avviso, a meno che non.
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Ginevra, Svizzera
DPAC & UK Uncut hold ATOS Closing Ceremony - 31.08.2012
As the Grand Finale to a week-long national campaign of protests against French IT company ATOS Origin and its spinoff ATOS Healthcare which carries out the much-criticised Wirk Capability Assessments on behalf of the DWP, which has seen tens of thousands of severely sick and disabled people declared to be "Fit for Work" and thrown off their disability benefits, several hundred activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), WinVisible, Disabled Activists' Network, UK Uncut, Right to Work Campaign, Unite the Union, the GMB Union, Occupy London and the National UNion of Students descended on ATOS' London headquarters to carry out what they had billed as the "ATOS Closing Ceremony" - a reference to ATOS' hugely derided sponsorship of the Paralympic Games which is, say the activists, an act of spectatular cynicism by a corporation which is currently contracted by the Cameron government to the tune of £100 million to conduct the much-feared medical assessments without any reference whatsoever to peoples' medical notes of histories.
For two hours the crowd chanted slogans, listened to oral testimonies from people whose lives have been badly affected by ATOS decisions, heard accounts of people driven into such despair by dealing with ATOS that they have comitted suicide, and also heard many accounts of seriously ill people thrown off their benefits by ATOS who have been forced to look for work - having been declared fit for work - and who have died shortly afterwards. The list of people irreperably harmed by ATOS' computer-driven tick-box assessment which cannot possibly take into account the huge range of physical and mental disabilities seems endless.
Following some dogged Freedom of Information requests by two Daily Mirror journalists earlier this year it is now known that an average of 32 sickness or disability benefit claimnants who have been thrown off their benefits by the DWP following an ATOS zero-point rating and placed in the Work-Related Activity Group or who have been put on Jobseeker's Allowance have died shortly afterwards. In many instances relatives of the deceased have claimed that the stress of being treated in such an inhumane way by ATOS contributed to their deaths.
During the protest at Triton Square the 500-strong crowd were entertained by a street theatre performance which saw a fraudulent "ATOS Miracle Cure" booth set up. The "ATOS Reverend" would lay hands on a disabled person and tell them that "by the power of ATOS you are no longer disabled", and sent them through the ATOS Miracle Cure arch, but sadly once through the arch the disabled people realised they had been tricked and they were still, of course, disabled... but worse was to come, as each disabled person was then confronted by an "ATOS Doctor" who stated that because they were now officially no longer disabled and were fit for work they could now be assigned to do their dream jobs, to which end the phoney doctor handed each person a sheet of paper on which was written "100 meter runner", "Bar Tender", "Mountain Climber" and other completely unsuitable job titles.
At around 2:30pm a section of the crowd took off and headed for Westminster where they picketed outside the Department for Work and Pensions, during which an over-agressive action by the police resulted in a disabled man's shoulder being broken as he was knocked off his wheelchair when police shoved protesters into him.
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A visit to Berrington Hall near Leominster in Herefordshire.The dome was being restored so part of the building was under scaffolding inside and out (including up the main staircase).
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building that Henry Holland designed in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837), and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill, which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters that are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall, which was subject to extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Berrington had been in the possession of the Cornewall family since 1386, but was sold in 1775 to Thomas Harley, a banker and government contractor who in 1767 had been Lord Mayor of London. He commissioned the rebuilding in 1778-1781 of the present Berrington Hall in place of the previous old house. He made it available to his daughter Anne and her new husband George Rodney, the son of Admiral Rodney. After Harley's death the house descended in the Rodney family for 95 years.
In 1901 the Manchester businessman Frederick Cawley MP, later Baron Cawley, purchased the estate. In 1957 the 3rd Lord Cawley transferred it to the Treasury, which passed in on to the National Trust. Lady Crawley was allowed to remain in occupation until her death in 1978.
It was classified as a Grade I listed building in 1959.
Grade I Listed Building
Berrington Hall and Adjoining Outbuildings
Listing Text
EYE, MORETON &
SO 56 SW ASHTON CP
7/2 Berrington Hall and
adjoining outbuildings
11.6.59
GV I
Country house. 1778 - 1781 by Henry Holland for Thomas Harley. Alterations
of c1890 - 1900 involved the addition of a tower at the rear of the house,
this was removed in 1968 and the pediment to this face was reinstated. Set
in parkland laid out by Capability Brown. Brick core, faced with sandstone
ashlar with dressings of the same material, hipped Welsh slate roofs.
Rectangular plan main house with central entrance and stairwell, axial
stacks. Main entrance faces south-west, quadrant walls connect the main
block with the three outbuildings which form a courtyard to the rear (these
adjoining walls have been altered and one has been removed). Main house:
two storeys, attics and basements, south-west entrance front: seven bays
with plinth, dentilled cornice, blocking course and balustraded parapet,
steps up to central projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico; frieze is decorated
only to central part by a floral type design which replaces the original one
of putti, ox heads and garlands, pediment has a lunette window. Dormer windows
to attics with glazing bar sash windows, glazing bar sash windows to first
floor with semi-circular heads and decorative glazing to those flanking the
portico. Square-headed glazing bar sash windows to ground floor, the semi-
circular headed basement windows have rusticated surrounds. Central tall
and narrow semi-circular headed doorway with panelled door has keystone
depicting Roman head flanked by narrow side lights with reliefs depicting
urns above. The north-west front is of five bays with a pediment over the
central three bays. The north-east front to the courtyard entrance is of
2:3:2 bays with central pedimented slightly forward break, semi-circular
headed glazing bar sash windows to upper floor, square-headed windows to
ground floor with central three openings set in semi-circular headed surrounds,
right-hand opening now forms a doorway and has a six-panelled door. The out-
buildings enclosing the courtyard are of two storeys. The range to the north-
east is of nine bays with central pedimented archway flanked by pairs of Doric
pilasters, clock face in pediment, string course to flanking bays with 6-pane
square-headed windows to upper floor and semi-circular headed windows with
decorative glazing to ground floor. The ranges enclosing the courtyard to
the north-west and south-east are also of nine bays, each with similar windows
to the upper and lower floors, the central window to each range having a moulded
architrave, semi-circular headed window and doorway openings to ground floors.
To the outer walls of these flanking ranges (ie facing the gardens) are central
niches with coffered semi-domes with ball cresting above. The south-western
ends of both ranges have a blank semi-circular headed arch flanked by oculi.
Interior: the main house retains many of its original features on both main
floors, with decorative surrounds to doorways, decorative plastered ceilings
and marble fireplaces. The entrance hall has trophies in roundels above the
doors and a central circular ceiling panel is carried to the corners on spandrels,
pedimented surround to doorway opposite the entrance; polychrome marble patterned
floor. The Drawing Room retains original elaborate pelmets above the three
windows, marble fireplace with caryatids and griffon frieze. Delicately patterned
ceiling with painted roundels depicting scenes and characters from classical
mythology and with putti and sea horses; entwined roundels to outer border
which flank central theme. The boudoir has an alcove with segmental arch and
a screen of two blue scagliola columns. The Dining Room has a good marble
fireplace with carved panels to the jambs, decorative plastered and painted
ceiling with central painted roundel and swagged and wreathed plastered
surround. Pedimented bookcases to the library with continuous "greekkey"
type frieze. Decorative painted panels to ceiling depicting authors from
Chaucer to Addison. Central staircase hall is lit by delicately iron ribbed
glass domed lantern, opposite the staircase is a coffered archway; staircase
and landings carried on screens of scagliola columns, decorative dolphin
frieze to the entablature. The staircase has bronze lyre-shaped balustrading.
The outbuilding to the north-west formed the laundry and retains many of its
fittings. A tiled dairy has been restored in the south-east range and the
north-east range contains part stabling. (National Trust, 1986, Berrington Hall:
BoE, p 72).
Listing NGR: SO5093063660
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
These courtyard views from inside of the hall.
From rooms on the upper floor.
Croome Court is a mid 18th century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by an extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and was Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the internal rooms of the mansion were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust who operate it, along with the surrounding parkland, as a tourist attraction. The National Trust own the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
Location[edit]
Croome Court is located near to Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire,[1] near Pirton, Worcestershire.[2] The wider estate was established on lands that were once part of the royal forest of Horewell.[3] Traces of these older landscapes, such as unimproved commons and ancient woodlands, can be found across the former Croome Estate.[4]
House[edit]
Croome Court South Portico
History[edit]
The foundations and core of Croome Court, including the central chimney stack structure, date back to the early 1640s.[5] Substantial changes to this early house were made by Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry.[6]
In 1751, George Coventry, the 6th Earl, inherited the estate, along with the existing Jacobean house. He commissioned Lancelot "Capability" Brown, with the assistance of Sanderson Miller, to redesign the house and estate.[7][1] It was Brown's "first flight into the realms of architecture" and a "rare example of his architectural work",[8] and it is an important and seminal work.[9] It was built between 1751 and 1752, and it and Hagley Hall are considered to be the finest examples of Neo-Palladian architecture in Worcestershire. Notable Neo-Palladian features incorporated into Croome Court include the plain exterior and the corner towers with pyramidal roofs (a feature first used by Inigo Jones in the design of Wilton House in Wiltshire).[1] Robert Adam worked on the interior of the building from 1760 onwards.[10]
The house has been visited by George III,[2][11] as well as Queen Victoria[7] during summers when she was a child, and George V (then Duke of York).[11]
A jam factory was built by the 9th Earl of Coventry, near to Pershore railway station, in about 1880, to provide a market for Vale of Evesham fruit growers in times of surplus. Although the Croome connection with jam making had ceased, during the First World War, the building was leased by the Croome Estate Trust to the Huddersfield Fruit Preserving Company as a pulping station.[12]
The First World War deeply affected Croome, with many local casualties, although the house was not requisitioned for the war effort. This is possibly because it was the home of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, who needed a residence for his many official engagements.[13]
During the Second World War Croome Court was requisitioned by the Ministry of Works and leased for a year to the Dutch Government as a possible refuge for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; to escape the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. However, evidence shows that they stayed two weeks at the most, perhaps because of the noise and fear created by the proximity of Defford Aerodrome. They later emigrated to Canada.[14]
In 1948 the Croome Estate Trust sold the Court, along with 38 acres (15 ha) of land, to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, and the mansion became St Joseph's Special School, which was run by nuns[15] from 1950[11] until 1979.[15]
The house was listed on 11 August 1952; it is currently Grade I listed.[10]
In 1979 the hall was taken over by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement), who used it as their UK headquarters and a training college[16] called Chaitanya College,[15] run by 25 members of the movement.[16] During their tenure they repainted the Dining Room.[17] In 1984 they had to leave the estate for financial reasons. They held a festival at the hall in 2011.[16]
From 1984 onwards various owners tried to use the property as a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; and a hotel and golf course,[15] before once more becoming a private family home,[2][15] with outbuildings converted to private houses.[15]
The house was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, a registered charity,[18] in October 2007,[19] and it is now managed by the National Trust as a tourist attraction. It opened to the public in September 2009, at which point six of the rooms had restored, costing £400,000, including the Saloon. It was estimated that another £4 million[2][20] to £4.8 million would be needed to restore the entire building. Fundraising activities for the restoration included a 2011 raffle for a Morgan sports car organised by Lord and Lady Flight. After the restoration is complete, a 999-year lease on the building will be granted to the National Trust.[21] An oral history project to record recollections about Croome was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.[15] As of 2009, the service wing was empty and in need of substantial repair.[22]
Exterior[edit]
The mansion is faced with Bath stone,[7] limestone ashlar, and has both north and south facing fronts. It has a basement and two stories, with three stories in the end pavilions. A slate roof, with pyramid roofs over the corner towers, tops the building, along with three pair-linked chimneys along the axis of the house.[10]
Both fronts have 11 bays, split into three central sets of three each, and one additional bay each side. The north face has a pedimented centre, with two balustraded staircases leading to a Roman Doric doorcase. The south face has a projecting Ionic tetrastyle portico and Venetian windows. It has a broad staircase, with cast stone sphinxes on each side, leading to a south door topped with a cornice on consoles. The wings have modillion cornice and balustrade.[10]
A two-story L-shaped service wing is attached to the east side of the mansion. It is made of red brick and stone, with slate roofs.[10] It was designed by Capability Brown in 1751-2.[22] On the far side of the service wing, a wall connects it to a stable court.[10]
Interior[edit]
The interior of the house was designed partially by Capability Brown, with plasterwork by G. Vassalli, and partially by Robert Adam, with plasterwork by J. Rose Jr. It has a central spine corridor. A stone staircase, with iron balusters, is at the east end.[10]
The entrance hall is on the north side of the building, and has four fluted Doric columns, along with moulded doorcases. To the east of the entrance hall is the dining room, which has a plaster ceiling and cornice, while to the west is a billiard room, featuring fielded panelling, a plaster cornice, and a rococo fireplace. The three rooms were probably decorated around 1758-59 by Capability Brown.[10] The dining room was vibrantly repainted by the Hare Krishnas in the 1970s-80s.[17]
The central room on the south side is a saloon, probably by Brown and Vassalli. It has an elaborate ceiling, with three panels, deep coving, and a cornice, along with two Ionic fireplaces, and Palladian doorcases.[10] George III was entertained by George Coventry, the 6th Earl, in the house's Saloon.[2] A drawing room is to the west of the saloon, and features rococo plasterwork and a marble fireplace.[10]
To the east of the saloon is the Tapestry Room.[10] This was designed in 1763-71, based on a design by Robert Adam, and contained tapestries and furniture covers possibly designed by Jacques Germain Soufflot, and made by Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins.[23] Around 1902 the ninth Earl sold the tapestries and seating to a Parisian dealer. In 1949 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation purchased the ceiling, floor, mantlepiece, chair rails, doors and the door surrounds, which were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1958. In 1959 the Kress Foundation also helped the Metropolitan Museum acquire the chair and sofa frames, which they recovered using the original tapestry seats.[7][23] A copy of the ceiling was installed in place of the original.[10] As of 2016, the room is displayed as it would have looked after the tapestries had been sold, with a jug and ewer on display as the only original decoration of the room that remains in it. The adjacent library room is used to explain what happened to the tapestry room;[17] the former library was designed by Adam, and was dismantled except for the marble fireplace.[10]
At the west side of the building is a long gallery,[10] which was designed by Robert Adam and installed between 1761 and 1766. It is the best preserved of the original interior (little of the rest has survived in situ).[1] It has an octagonal panelled ceiling, and plaster reliefs of griffins. A half-hexagonal bay faces the garden. The room also contains a marble caryatid fireplace designed by J Wilton.[10] As of 2016, modern sculptures are displayed in empty niches along the Long Gallery
wikipedia
Croome Court is a mid 18th century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by an extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for George Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, and was Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the internal rooms of the mansion were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust who operate it, along with the surrounding parkland, as a tourist attraction. The National Trust own the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
Location[edit]
Croome Court is located near to Croome D'Abitot, in Worcestershire,[1] near Pirton, Worcestershire.[2] The wider estate was established on lands that were once part of the royal forest of Horewell.[3] Traces of these older landscapes, such as unimproved commons and ancient woodlands, can be found across the former Croome Estate.[4]
House[edit]
Croome Court South Portico
History[edit]
The foundations and core of Croome Court, including the central chimney stack structure, date back to the early 1640s.[5] Substantial changes to this early house were made by Gilbert Coventry, 4th Earl of Coventry.[6]
In 1751, George Coventry, the 6th Earl, inherited the estate, along with the existing Jacobean house. He commissioned Lancelot "Capability" Brown, with the assistance of Sanderson Miller, to redesign the house and estate.[7][1] It was Brown's "first flight into the realms of architecture" and a "rare example of his architectural work",[8] and it is an important and seminal work.[9] It was built between 1751 and 1752, and it and Hagley Hall are considered to be the finest examples of Neo-Palladian architecture in Worcestershire. Notable Neo-Palladian features incorporated into Croome Court include the plain exterior and the corner towers with pyramidal roofs (a feature first used by Inigo Jones in the design of Wilton House in Wiltshire).[1] Robert Adam worked on the interior of the building from 1760 onwards.[10]
The house has been visited by George III,[2][11] as well as Queen Victoria[7] during summers when she was a child, and George V (then Duke of York).[11]
A jam factory was built by the 9th Earl of Coventry, near to Pershore railway station, in about 1880, to provide a market for Vale of Evesham fruit growers in times of surplus. Although the Croome connection with jam making had ceased, during the First World War, the building was leased by the Croome Estate Trust to the Huddersfield Fruit Preserving Company as a pulping station.[12]
The First World War deeply affected Croome, with many local casualties, although the house was not requisitioned for the war effort. This is possibly because it was the home of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, who needed a residence for his many official engagements.[13]
During the Second World War Croome Court was requisitioned by the Ministry of Works and leased for a year to the Dutch Government as a possible refuge for Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; to escape the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. However, evidence shows that they stayed two weeks at the most, perhaps because of the noise and fear created by the proximity of Defford Aerodrome. They later emigrated to Canada.[14]
In 1948 the Croome Estate Trust sold the Court, along with 38 acres (15 ha) of land, to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, and the mansion became St Joseph's Special School, which was run by nuns[15] from 1950[11] until 1979.[15]
The house was listed on 11 August 1952; it is currently Grade I listed.[10]
In 1979 the hall was taken over by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement), who used it as their UK headquarters and a training college[16] called Chaitanya College,[15] run by 25 members of the movement.[16] During their tenure they repainted the Dining Room.[17] In 1984 they had to leave the estate for financial reasons. They held a festival at the hall in 2011.[16]
From 1984 onwards various owners tried to use the property as a training centre; apartments; a restaurant and conference centre; and a hotel and golf course,[15] before once more becoming a private family home,[2][15] with outbuildings converted to private houses.[15]
The house was purchased by the Croome Heritage Trust, a registered charity,[18] in October 2007,[19] and it is now managed by the National Trust as a tourist attraction. It opened to the public in September 2009, at which point six of the rooms had restored, costing £400,000, including the Saloon. It was estimated that another £4 million[2][20] to £4.8 million would be needed to restore the entire building. Fundraising activities for the restoration included a 2011 raffle for a Morgan sports car organised by Lord and Lady Flight. After the restoration is complete, a 999-year lease on the building will be granted to the National Trust.[21] An oral history project to record recollections about Croome was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.[15] As of 2009, the service wing was empty and in need of substantial repair.[22]
Exterior[edit]
The mansion is faced with Bath stone,[7] limestone ashlar, and has both north and south facing fronts. It has a basement and two stories, with three stories in the end pavilions. A slate roof, with pyramid roofs over the corner towers, tops the building, along with three pair-linked chimneys along the axis of the house.[10]
Both fronts have 11 bays, split into three central sets of three each, and one additional bay each side. The north face has a pedimented centre, with two balustraded staircases leading to a Roman Doric doorcase. The south face has a projecting Ionic tetrastyle portico and Venetian windows. It has a broad staircase, with cast stone sphinxes on each side, leading to a south door topped with a cornice on consoles. The wings have modillion cornice and balustrade.[10]
A two-story L-shaped service wing is attached to the east side of the mansion. It is made of red brick and stone, with slate roofs.[10] It was designed by Capability Brown in 1751-2.[22] On the far side of the service wing, a wall connects it to a stable court.[10]
Interior[edit]
The interior of the house was designed partially by Capability Brown, with plasterwork by G. Vassalli, and partially by Robert Adam, with plasterwork by J. Rose Jr. It has a central spine corridor. A stone staircase, with iron balusters, is at the east end.[10]
The entrance hall is on the north side of the building, and has four fluted Doric columns, along with moulded doorcases. To the east of the entrance hall is the dining room, which has a plaster ceiling and cornice, while to the west is a billiard room, featuring fielded panelling, a plaster cornice, and a rococo fireplace. The three rooms were probably decorated around 1758-59 by Capability Brown.[10] The dining room was vibrantly repainted by the Hare Krishnas in the 1970s-80s.[17]
The central room on the south side is a saloon, probably by Brown and Vassalli. It has an elaborate ceiling, with three panels, deep coving, and a cornice, along with two Ionic fireplaces, and Palladian doorcases.[10] George III was entertained by George Coventry, the 6th Earl, in the house's Saloon.[2] A drawing room is to the west of the saloon, and features rococo plasterwork and a marble fireplace.[10]
To the east of the saloon is the Tapestry Room.[10] This was designed in 1763-71, based on a design by Robert Adam, and contained tapestries and furniture covers possibly designed by Jacques Germain Soufflot, and made by Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins.[23] Around 1902 the ninth Earl sold the tapestries and seating to a Parisian dealer. In 1949 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation purchased the ceiling, floor, mantlepiece, chair rails, doors and the door surrounds, which were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1958. In 1959 the Kress Foundation also helped the Metropolitan Museum acquire the chair and sofa frames, which they recovered using the original tapestry seats.[7][23] A copy of the ceiling was installed in place of the original.[10] As of 2016, the room is displayed as it would have looked after the tapestries had been sold, with a jug and ewer on display as the only original decoration of the room that remains in it. The adjacent library room is used to explain what happened to the tapestry room;[17] the former library was designed by Adam, and was dismantled except for the marble fireplace.[10]
At the west side of the building is a long gallery,[10] which was designed by Robert Adam and installed between 1761 and 1766. It is the best preserved of the original interior (little of the rest has survived in situ).[1] It has an octagonal panelled ceiling, and plaster reliefs of griffins. A half-hexagonal bay faces the garden. The room also contains a marble caryatid fireplace designed by J Wilton.[10] As of 2016, modern sculptures are displayed in empty niches along the Long Gallery
wikipedia
A late April 2019 visit to Croome in Worcestershire, the estate is now run by the National Trust. Croome Park is quite big, and you can walk around the grounds and see the various landmarks there.
Croome Court is a mid-18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by extensive landscaped parkland at Croome D'Abitot, near Pershore in south Worcestershire, England. The mansion and park were designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for the 6th Earl of Coventry, and were Brown's first landscape design and first major architectural project. Some of the mansion's rooms were designed by Robert Adam.
The mansion house is owned by Croome Heritage Trust, and is leased to the National Trust which operates it as a tourist attraction. The National Trust owns the surrounding parkland, which is also open to the public.
Croome Court is a Grade I listed building.
Listing Text
SO 84 SE CROOME D'ABITOT CROOME COURT
3/12 Croome Court
(formerly listed as
Croome Court with Stables,
11.8.52 Garden Room or Temple,
Principal Lodge, Lodge on
west, and Panorama)
GV I
Country House 1751-2 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with advice from Sanderson
Miller. Interior work from 1760 by Robert Adam. Built for 6th Earl of
Coventry. Limestone ashlar Palladian mansion with principal North and South
fronts of 11 bays. Basement and 2 storeys with 3 storey end pavilions. Slate
roofs, pyramidal over corner towers and 3 paired axial chimneys, pair linked
by arches. 1-3-3-3-1 division with pedimented centre to North and fine pro-
jecting Ionic tetrastyle portico to South. Modillion cornice and balustrade to
flanking wings. Moulded window architraves enriched with flat cornices on
ground floor main range, pediments to North front pavilions and Venetian win-
dows to South front pavilions. Roman Doric curved pediment doorcase to North
front, flat cornice on consoles over South door. Chamfered quoins to project-
ing centre and to end pavilions. Fine 2 armed balustraded stair to North door
and broad straight flight up to South door flanked by cast stone sphinxes.
INTERIOR partly Brown with plasterwork by G Vassalli, partly Robert Adam with
plaster by J Rose Jr. 2 Adam rooms removed to New York and London. Spine
corridor with stone stair at East end with moulded underside and iron balu-
strade. NORTH SIDE: Entrance hall with 4 fluted Doric columns and Palladian
moulded doorcases, to East, dining-room with plaster cornice and ceiling,
original pelmets, to West, billiard-room with fielded panelling, plaster cor-
nice and rococo fireplace. These rooms, probably decorated c.1758-9, probably
by Brown. SOUTH SIDE: Fine central Saloon with elaborate deep coved ceiling
with 3 embellished panels and rich cornice, fine Palladian doorcases and 2
marble Ionic columned fireplaces. Room probably by Brown and Vassalli. To
East former tapestry room now dismantled; ceiling a copy of original by R Adam
and J Rose. Beyond, former library by R Adam, largely dismantled; marble fire-
place. To West, drawing-room with shallow rococo-style plaster and marble
fireplace. At WEST END, Gallery by R Adam 1764, with half-hexagonal bay to
garden, elaborate octagonal panelled ceiling by J Rose, plaster reliefs of
griffins, painted grisaille panels and marble caryatid fireplace by J Wilton.
Attached at East end, SERVICE WING: L plan, red brick and stone with slate
hipped roofs. 2 storey. Stone plinth, band, moulded eaves cornice and
Chamfered quoins. Glazing bar sash windows with gauged brick heads. Red brick
wall joins service wing to stable court beyond: 2 rusticated stone gate piers,
one still with ball finial. CL 10.4.1915. A T Bolton: The architecture of
R and J Adam 1922. D Stroud: Capability Brown 1975. G Bead: Decorative
Plasterwork 1975. R Adam and Croome Court Connoisseur October 1953.
Listing NGR: SO8849444596
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
This view from the other side of the Croome River. Was after crossing the Chinese Bridge, and heading towards the Lake. The Croome River is man made.
Air National Guard aeromedical evacuation teams from multiple units along with members of the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service Department simulate unloading patients from a C-130 Hercules from the 130th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard during PATRIOT South 19 in Birmingham, Ala., Mar. 7, 2019. PATRIOT South 19 is an annual, accredited Joint National Training Capability exercise that provides a simulated natural disaster environment for units to test their response and capabilities to conduct domestic operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Wendy Kuhn)
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Broadway Tower was inspired by the famous Capability Brown and completed in 1799 from designs by the renowned architect James Wyatt. It was built for the Earl of Coventry as a folly to his Springhill Estate and dedicated to his wife Peggy.
Legend has it Broadway Tower was used as a signalling tower between Springhill Estate and Croome Court near Worcester, which can be seen from the roof platform.
Many famous people have had association with Broadway Tower, including Sir Thomas Phillips and the pre-Raphaelite artists William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rosetti.
Broadway Tower is open to the public allowing you to travel into the past of this important building and visit the viewing platform constituting the highest point in the Cotswolds at 1089 feet or 331.6 metres altitude.
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Broadway Tower is a folly located on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill. Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level. The tower itself stands 55 feet (17 metres) high.
The "Saxon" tower was designed by James Wyatt in 1794 to resemble a mock castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1799. The tower was built on a "beacon" hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered if a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester - approximately 22 miles (35 km) away - and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. The beacon could be seen clearly.
Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who rented it together in the 1880s.
Today, the tower is a tourist attraction and the centre of a country park with various exhibitions open to the public at a fee as well as a gift shop. The place is on the Cotswold Way and can be reached by following the Cotswold Way from the A44 road at Fish Hill, or by a steep climb out of Broadway village. Near the tower is a memorial to the crew of an A.W.38 Whitley bomber that crashed there during a training mission in June 1943.
Corsham Court is an English country house in a park designed by Capability Brown. It is in the town of Corsham, 3 miles (5 km) west of Chippenham, Wiltshire, and is notable for its fine art collection, based on the nucleus of paintings inherited in 1757 by Paul Methuen from his uncle, Sir Paul Methuen, the diplomat. It is currently the home of the present Baron Methuen, James Methuen-Campbell, the eighth generation of the Methuens to live there.
Early history
Corsham was a royal manor in the days of the Saxon kings, reputed to have been a seat of Ethelred the Unready. After William the Conqueror, the manor continued to be passed down through the generations in the royal family. It often formed part of the dower of the Queens of England during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, becoming known as Corsham Reginae. During the 16th century, the manor went to two of Henry VIII's wives, namely Catherine of Aragon until 1536, and Katherine Parr until 1548.
During the reign of Elizabeth I the estate passed out of the royal family; the present house was built in 1582 by Thomas Smythe. The owner of Corsham Court in the mid-seventeenth century was the commander of the Parliamentarian New Model Army in Wiltshire; his wife, Lady Margaret Hungerford, built what came to be known as the Hungerford Almshouses in the centre of town.
An entrance archway was built to the south of the house c. 1700–20. The arch, in baroque style. is flanked by massive ashlar piers with ball finials.[3]
Methuen family
The house was bought in 1745 by Sir Paul Methuen for his cousin, also named Paul Methuen, whose grandson became Baron Methuen. The house remains the seat of the Methuen family.
In 1761–64, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was commissioned to redesign and enlarge the house and landscape the park.[4] Brown set the style of the present-day building by retaining the Elizabethan stables, the Riding School,[3] and the great gabled front to the house, which he doubled in depth and provided gabled wings at either end of the house, creating the Picture Gallery and State Rooms in the east wing and a library and new kitchens in the west wing. The Picture Gallery was designed as a triple cube and has a coffered plasterwork ceiling over a high cove stuccoed in scrolls, designed by Brown[5] and carried out by Thomas Stocking of Bristol (1763–66). The Long Gallery contains Italian Old Masters, with a notable marquetry commode and matching pair of candlestands by John Cobb (1772) and four pier glasses designed by Robert Adam (1770).
File:Corsham Court about 1880
Capability Brown also worked as a landscape architect for his commission at Corsham.[6] His 1761 plan for laying out the park separated it from the pleasure grounds using a ha-ha (sunken fence) so that the view from the house would not be obstructed. Brown planned to enlarge the fish ponds to create a lake and constructed an orangery (neither of which survive) and built a Gothic Bath House (which does survive).[7] He created a "Great Walk" stretching for a mile through clumps of trees. An ornamental arch was built so that the family and their guests could walk underneath the public right of way without having to cross it. Brown also planted screens of trees around the park to obscure roads and fields beyond, making the view more arcadian. The layout of grounds and gardens by Brown represents his most important commission after Blenheim Palace.[8]
In 1795, Paul Cobb Methuen commissioned Humphry Repton to complete the landscape, left unfinished at Brown's death with the lake still to be completed, and in 1796 commissioned John Nash to completely remodel the north façade in Strawberry Hill Gothic style, beating the experienced James Wyatt for the commission. Nash further embellished other areas of Brown's external building works, including Brown's Gothic Bath House in the North Avenue, as well as reorganising the internal layout to form a grand hall and a library, at the centre of which is the large library table associated with a payment to Thomas Chippendale's partner Haig, in 1779.[9] By 1808 much of Nash's work was replaced with a more solid structure, when it was discovered that he had used unseasoned timber in beams and joists; all of Nash's work at Corsham save the library was destroyed when it was remodelled by Thomas Bellamy (1798–1876) in 1844–49[4][10] during the ownership by Paul Methuen, 1st Baron Methuen, who was Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and Wiltshire North.
The Sham Ruin
Brown planned to include a 50,000 m2 lake. This lake, however, was not completed until some forty years later, by Repton, who formed his long working relationship with Nash at Corsham Court. They laid out avenues and planted the specimen trees, including American oaks, Quercus coccinea and Q phellos, and the magnificent oriental plane. The grounds also incorporate a folly ruin, built by Nash c. 1797, incorporating some medieval stonework and some material from the eighteenth-century Bath House built by Brown.[11]
In 1960, the house and the Bath House were recorded as Grade I listed[12][7] and the ensemble of stables, riding school and entrance arch as Grade II*.[3] The park was recorded as Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in 1987. Wikipedia
Undergraduate students (l-r) Ryan Kallabis, Kristine Co and Evan Logoluso attend class in the Stauffer Science Lecture Hall. The hall includes lectern-supported rooms and auditoria with full technological capability. Photo by: Philip Channing.
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A visit to Berrington Hall near Leominster in Herefordshire.The dome was being restored so part of the building was under scaffolding inside and out (including up the main staircase).
Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.
It is a neoclassical country house building that Henry Holland designed in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837), and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill, which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters that are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.
Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall, which was subject to extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Berrington had been in the possession of the Cornewall family since 1386, but was sold in 1775 to Thomas Harley, a banker and government contractor who in 1767 had been Lord Mayor of London. He commissioned the rebuilding in 1778-1781 of the present Berrington Hall in place of the previous old house. He made it available to his daughter Anne and her new husband George Rodney, the son of Admiral Rodney. After Harley's death the house descended in the Rodney family for 95 years.
In 1901 the Manchester businessman Frederick Cawley MP, later Baron Cawley, purchased the estate. In 1957 the 3rd Lord Cawley transferred it to the Treasury, which passed in on to the National Trust. Lady Crawley was allowed to remain in occupation until her death in 1978.
It was classified as a Grade I listed building in 1959.
Grade I Listed Building
Berrington Hall and Adjoining Outbuildings
Listing Text
EYE, MORETON &
SO 56 SW ASHTON CP
7/2 Berrington Hall and
adjoining outbuildings
11.6.59
GV I
Country house. 1778 - 1781 by Henry Holland for Thomas Harley. Alterations
of c1890 - 1900 involved the addition of a tower at the rear of the house,
this was removed in 1968 and the pediment to this face was reinstated. Set
in parkland laid out by Capability Brown. Brick core, faced with sandstone
ashlar with dressings of the same material, hipped Welsh slate roofs.
Rectangular plan main house with central entrance and stairwell, axial
stacks. Main entrance faces south-west, quadrant walls connect the main
block with the three outbuildings which form a courtyard to the rear (these
adjoining walls have been altered and one has been removed). Main house:
two storeys, attics and basements, south-west entrance front: seven bays
with plinth, dentilled cornice, blocking course and balustraded parapet,
steps up to central projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico; frieze is decorated
only to central part by a floral type design which replaces the original one
of putti, ox heads and garlands, pediment has a lunette window. Dormer windows
to attics with glazing bar sash windows, glazing bar sash windows to first
floor with semi-circular heads and decorative glazing to those flanking the
portico. Square-headed glazing bar sash windows to ground floor, the semi-
circular headed basement windows have rusticated surrounds. Central tall
and narrow semi-circular headed doorway with panelled door has keystone
depicting Roman head flanked by narrow side lights with reliefs depicting
urns above. The north-west front is of five bays with a pediment over the
central three bays. The north-east front to the courtyard entrance is of
2:3:2 bays with central pedimented slightly forward break, semi-circular
headed glazing bar sash windows to upper floor, square-headed windows to
ground floor with central three openings set in semi-circular headed surrounds,
right-hand opening now forms a doorway and has a six-panelled door. The out-
buildings enclosing the courtyard are of two storeys. The range to the north-
east is of nine bays with central pedimented archway flanked by pairs of Doric
pilasters, clock face in pediment, string course to flanking bays with 6-pane
square-headed windows to upper floor and semi-circular headed windows with
decorative glazing to ground floor. The ranges enclosing the courtyard to
the north-west and south-east are also of nine bays, each with similar windows
to the upper and lower floors, the central window to each range having a moulded
architrave, semi-circular headed window and doorway openings to ground floors.
To the outer walls of these flanking ranges (ie facing the gardens) are central
niches with coffered semi-domes with ball cresting above. The south-western
ends of both ranges have a blank semi-circular headed arch flanked by oculi.
Interior: the main house retains many of its original features on both main
floors, with decorative surrounds to doorways, decorative plastered ceilings
and marble fireplaces. The entrance hall has trophies in roundels above the
doors and a central circular ceiling panel is carried to the corners on spandrels,
pedimented surround to doorway opposite the entrance; polychrome marble patterned
floor. The Drawing Room retains original elaborate pelmets above the three
windows, marble fireplace with caryatids and griffon frieze. Delicately patterned
ceiling with painted roundels depicting scenes and characters from classical
mythology and with putti and sea horses; entwined roundels to outer border
which flank central theme. The boudoir has an alcove with segmental arch and
a screen of two blue scagliola columns. The Dining Room has a good marble
fireplace with carved panels to the jambs, decorative plastered and painted
ceiling with central painted roundel and swagged and wreathed plastered
surround. Pedimented bookcases to the library with continuous "greekkey"
type frieze. Decorative painted panels to ceiling depicting authors from
Chaucer to Addison. Central staircase hall is lit by delicately iron ribbed
glass domed lantern, opposite the staircase is a coffered archway; staircase
and landings carried on screens of scagliola columns, decorative dolphin
frieze to the entablature. The staircase has bronze lyre-shaped balustrading.
The outbuilding to the north-west formed the laundry and retains many of its
fittings. A tiled dairy has been restored in the south-east range and the
north-east range contains part stabling. (National Trust, 1986, Berrington Hall:
BoE, p 72).
Listing NGR: SO5093063660
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Views from the courtyard.
central lamppost