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Soldiers from the Camp Pendleton-based Troop C, 2nd Squadron, 183rd Cavalry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team conduct live fire training June 18, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va. Col. John M. Epperly, commander of the 116th, visited the training and emphasized the importance of safety with temperatures reaching nearly 100 degrees. The cavalry Soldiers executed an area reconnaissance to determine enemy location and capabilities, then engaged the objective with live fire, including mortars. The training is part of the 10-day eXportable Combat Training Capability rotation designed to train and validate platoons on tasks that support offensive and defensive operations under daylight and hours of limited visibility. Units will concentrate on training selected mission essential tasks in a realistic field environment to refocus junior leaders on tactical field craft. The Army National Guard’s XCTC program provides an experience similar to a Combat Training Center to Guard Soldiers at a home station training center, minimizing cost and time away from home and jobs. XCTC is an instrumented field training exercise designed to certify unit proficiency in coordination with First Army. (Photo Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)

Compton Verney House is an 18th century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire, England, which has been converted into the Compton Verney Art Gallery. It is an award-winning art gallery and is set in 120 acres of spectacular 'Capability' Brown parkland and children's playground.

 

U.S. Navy engineers from Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 133, Gulfport, Mississippi, fill in an excavated hole during an Expedient and Expeditionary Airfield Damage Repair (E-ADR) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, April 22, 2021. The demonstration field tests the “just enough, just-in-time” repair capability on a decommissioned runway at McEntire Joint National Guard Base. The Department of Defense’s E-ADR concept uses local materials and minimal personnel and equipment in order to expedite a temporary runway repair. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Jim St.Clair, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)

This magnificent informal landscape garden was laid out in the 18th century by 'Capability' Brown and further developed in the early years of the 20th century by its owner, Arthur G. Soames. The original four lakes form the centrepiece. There are dramatic shows of daffodils and bluebells in spring, and the rhododendrons and azaleas are spectacular in early summer. Autumn brings stunning colours from the many rare trees and shrubs, and winter walks can be enjoyed in this garden for all seasons. Visitors can now also explore South Park, 107 hectares (265 acres) of historic parkland, with stunning views.

Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski speaks during the Air Force Rapid Capability Development panel.

View of the Blenheim cascade in poor light, but justified by the amount of water coming over!

The cascade was created by 'Capability Brown' the celebrated English landscape gardner, as part of a comprehensive remodelling of the grounds in the 1770's. Blenheim is regarded by many as his grandest work. The Cascade is at the end of the dam that creates the lake, which took two years to fill after construction. There isn't normally a lot of water as the Glyme, which feeds the lake, is only a small river, however the design of the cascade is such that it maximises the effect of the limited amount of water available.

 

For all my other Blenheim photos see

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Left to right: Gen. Stephen Wilson, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch Jr., Lt. Gen.Jerry Harris Jr., and James Geurts on the Air Force Rapid Capability Development panel wait for questions from the audience.

The old church was demolished on a site some five hundred yards from the new chapel on the rise. The old family vault remains the family monuments and glass were removed to Brown's new chapel. Sadly the glass is no more at Compton Verney and the chapel is not open to the public at the moment.

Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.

Compton Verney House, the present mansion, was built by George Verney, twelfth Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1714. In 1780, the fourteenth Earl employed Robert Adam for the purpose of carrying out major extensions to the manor. The grounds were landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown who constructed two lakes almost a mile long from a number of smaller pools. The house was bought in 1993 in a run-down state by Littlewoods millionaire Sir Peter Moores, and restored into an art gallery capable of hosting international exhibitions.

   

A visit to Charlecote Park for an afternoon visit to this National Trust property in Warwickshire. Near Stratford-upon-Avon. A deer park with a country house in the middle of it.

  

Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.

 

The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.

 

Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.

 

From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.

 

In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.

 

The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).

 

Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from who's extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.

 

From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.

  

Charlecote Park House is a Grade I Listed Building

 

Charlecote Park

  

Listing Text

  

CHARLECOTE

 

SP2556 CHARLECOTE PARK

1901-1/10/19 Charlecote Park

06/02/52

(Formerly Listed as:

Charlecote Park House)

 

GV I

 

Formerly known as: Charlecote Hall.

Country house. Begun 1558; extended C19. Partly restored and

extended, including east range, 1829-34 by CS Smith;

north-east wing rebuilt and south wing extended 1847-67 by

John Gibson. For George and Mary Elizabeth Lucy.

MATERIALS: brick, that remaining from original building has

diapering in vitrified headers, but much has been replaced in

C19; ashlar dressings; tile roof with brick stacks with

octagonal ashlar shafts and caps.

PLAN: U-plan facing east, with later west range and south

wing.

EXTERIOR: east entrance front of 2 storeys with attic;

3-window range with long gabled projecting wings. Ashlar

plinth, continuous drip courses and coped gables with finials,

sections of strapwork balustrading between gables; quoins.

2-storey ashlar porch has round-headed entrance with flanking

pairs of Ionic pilasters and entablature, round-headed

entrance has panelled jambs, impost course and arch with lion

mask to key and 2 voussoirs, strapwork spandrels and stained

glass to fanlight over paired 4-panel doors; first floor has

Arms of Elizabeth I below projecting ovolo-moulded

cross-mullion window, with flanking pairs of Composite

detached columns; top balustrade with symmetrical balusters

supports Catherine wheel and heraldic beasts holding spears;

original diapered brick to returns.

3-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor to left,

that to first floor with strapwork apron. Large canted bay

window to right of 1:3:1 transomed lights with pierced

rosettes to parapet modelled on that to gatehouse (qv) and

flanked by cross-mullioned windows, all with moulded reveals

and small-paned sashes; C19 gables have 3-light

ovolo-mullioned windows with leaded glazing.

Wings similar, with 2 gables to 5-window inner returns,

ovolo-moulded cross-mullioned windows. Wing to south has much

diaper brickwork and stair window with strapwork apron.

East gable ends have 2-storey canted bay windows dated 1852 to

strapwork panels with Lucy Arms between 1:3:1-light transomed

windows; 3-light attic windows, that to north has patch of

reconstructed diaper brickwork to left.

Octagonal stair turrets to outer angles with 2-light windows,

top entablatures and ogival caps with wind vanes, that to

south mostly original, that to north with round-headed

entrance with enriched key block over studded plank door.

North side has turret to each end, that to west is wholly C19;

3 gables with external stacks with clustered shafts between;

cross-mullioned windows and 3-light transomed stair window on

strapwork apron; 2-light single-chamfered mullioned windows to

turrets.

Single-storey east range of blue brick has 2 bay windows with

octagonal pinnacles with pepper-pot finials and arcaded

balustrades over 1:4:1-light transomed windows; central panel

with Lucy Arms in strapwork setting has date 1833; coped

parapet with 3 gables with lights; returns similar with

3-light transomed windows.

Range behind has 3 renewed central gables and 2 lateral stacks

each with 6 shafts; gable to each end, that to south over

Tudor-arched verandah with arcaded balustrade to central arch

and above, entrance behind arch to left with half-glazed door,

blocked arch to right; first floor with cross-mullioned window

and blocked window, turret to right is wholly C19. South

return has cross-mullioned window to each floor and external

stack with clustered shafts.

South-west wing of 2 storeys; west side is a 7-window range;

recessed block to north end has window to each floor, the next

4 windows between octagonal pinnacles; gabled end breaks

forward under gable with turret to angle; rosette balustrade;

stacks have diagonal brick shafts, gable has lozenge with Lucy

Arms impaling Williams Arms (for Mary Elizabeth Lucy).

Cross-mullioned windows, but 2 southern ground-floor windows

are 3-light and transomed.

South end 4-window range between turrets has cross-mullioned

windows, but each end of first floor has bracketed oriel with

strapwork apron with Lucy/Williams Arms in lozenge and dated

1866, rosette balustrade with to each end a gable with 2-light

single-chamfered mullioned window with label, and 3 similar

windows to each turret, one to each floor.

East side has 3-window range with recessed range to right.

South end has Tudor-arched entrance and 3-light transomed

window, cross-mullioned window and 3-light transomed window to

first floor and gable with lozenge to south end; gable to

full-height kitchen to north has octagonal pinnacles flanking

4-light transomed window and gable above with square panel

with Lucy/Williams Arms to shield; recessed part to north has

loggia with entrance and flanking windows, to left a

single-storey re-entrant block with cross-mullioned windows;

first floor has 5 small sashed windows. South side of

south-east wing has varied brickwork with mullioned and

transomed windows, 2 external stacks and 2 gables with 3-light

windows.

INTERIOR: great hall remodelled by Willement with wood-grained

plaster ceiling with 4-centred ribs and Tudor rose bosses;

armorial glass attributed to Eiffler, restored and extended by

Willement; wainscoting and panelled doors; ashlar fireplace

with paired reeded pilasters and strapwork to entablature, and

fire-dogs; white and pink marble floor, Italian, 1845.

Dining room and library in west wing have rich wood panelling

by JM Willcox of Warwick and strapwork cornices, and strapwork

ceilings with pendants; wallpaper by Willement; dining room

has richly carved buffet, 1858, by Willcox and simple coloured

marble fireplace, the latter with bookshelves and fireplace

with paired pilasters and motto to frieze of fireplace, paired

columns and strapwork frieze to overmantel with armorial

bearings; painted arabesques to shutter backs.

Main staircase, c1700, but probably extensively reconstructed

in C19, open-well with cut string, 3 twisted balusters to a

tread, carved tread ends and ramped handrail;

bolection-moulded panelling in 2 heights, the upper panels and

panelled ceiling probably C19.

Morning room to south of hall has Willement decoration: white

marble Tudor-arched fireplace with cusped panels; plaster

ceiling with bands.

Ebony bedroom, originally billiard room, and drawing room to

north-east wing have 1856 scheme with cornices and

Jacobean-style plaster ceilings; white marble C18-style

fireplaces, that to Ebony Bedroom with Italian inserts with

Lucy crest. Drawing room has gilded and painted cornice and

ceiling, and large pier glasses.

Rooms to first floor originally guest bedrooms: doors with

egg-and-dart and eared architraves; C18-style fireplaces, that

to end room, originally Ebony Bedroom, has wood Rococo-style

fireplace with Chinoiserie panel; 1950s stair to attic.

South-east wing has c1700 stair, probably altered in C19, with

symmetrical balusters with acanthus, closed string; first

floor has wall and ceiling paintings: land and sea battle

scenes painted on canvas, male and female grisaille busts.

First floor has to west the Green Room, with Willement

wallpaper and simple Tudor-arched fireplace with

wallpaper-covered chimney board; adjacent room has marble

fireplace.

Death Room and its dressing room to east end have wallpaper of

gold motifs on white, painted 6-panel doors and architraves,

papier-mache ceilings; bedroom has fireplace with marble

architrave. Adjacent room has bolection-moulded panelling with

c1700 Dutch embossed leather. Stair to attic has c1700

balusters with club-form on acorn. Attics over great hall and

north-east and south-east wings have lime-ash floors and

servants' rooms, each with small annex and corner fireplace;

some bells.

South wing has kitchen with high ceiling and 2

segmental-arched recesses for C19 ranges; Tudor-arched recess

with latticed chamber for smoked meats over door.

Servants' hall has dark marble bolection-moulded fireplace and

cornice; scullery has bread oven, small range, pump and former

south window retaining glass.

First floor has to south end a pair of rooms added for Mary

Elizabeth Lucy in her widowhood; bedroom to east with deep

coved cornice and Adam-style fireplace, sitting room to west

similar, with gold on white wallpaper, white marble fireplace

with painted glass armorial panels and 1830s-40s carpet; door

to spiral timber turret staircase.

Nursery has fireplace with faceted panels and C19 Delft tiles;

probably 1920s wallpaper.

Other rooms with similar fireplaces and coloured glazed tiles.

While dating back to the C16, the house is one of the best

examples of the early C19 Elizabethan Revival style. Property

of National Trust.

(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:

Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 227-9; The National Trust

Guide to Charlecote Park: 1991-; Wainwright C: The Romantic

Interior).

 

Listing NGR: SP2590656425

 

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.

  

From the garden that is the Parterre.

CORAL SEA (July 21, 2021) An F-35B Lightning fighter aircraft from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit lands on the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) during Exercise Talisman Sabre 21. Talisman Sabre 21, the ninth iteration and conducted since 2005, occurs biennially across Northern Australia. Australian, U.S. and other multinational partner forces use Talisman Sabre to enhance interoperability by training in complex, multi-domain operations scenarios that address the full range of Indo-Pacific security concerts. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan D. Berlier)

EU Dr of Military Planning and Concept Capability (DMPCC) visits Rwanda Security Forces HQs | Cabo Delgado, 15 February 2023

A visit to Charlecote Park for an afternoon visit to this National Trust property in Warwickshire. Near Stratford-upon-Avon. A deer park with a country house in the middle of it.

  

Charlecote Park (grid reference SP263564) is a grand 16th-century country house, surrounded by its own deer park, on the banks of the River Avon near Wellesbourne, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 5.5 miles (9 km) south of Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It has been administered by the National Trust since 1946 and is open to the public. It is a Grade I listed building.

 

The Lucy family owned the land since 1247. Charlecote Park was built in 1558 by Sir Thomas Lucy, and Queen Elizabeth I stayed in the room that is now the drawing room. Although the general outline of the Elizabethan house remains, nowadays it is in fact mostly Victorian. Successive generations of the Lucy family had modified Charlecote Park over the centuries, but in 1823, George Hammond Lucy (High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1831) inherited the house and set about recreating the house in its original style.

 

Charlecote Park covers 185 acres (75 ha), backing on to the River Avon. William Shakespeare has been alleged to have poached rabbits and deer in the park as a young man and been brought before magistrates as a result.

 

From 1605 to 1640 the house was organised by Sir Thomas Lucy. He had twelve children with Lady Alice Lucy who ran the house after he died. She was known for her piety and distributing alms to the poor each Christmas. Her eldest three sons inherited the house in turn and it then fell to her grandchild Sir Davenport Lucy.

 

In the Tudor great hall, the 1680 painting Charlecote Park by Sir Godfrey Kneller, is said to be one of the earliest depictions of a black presence in the West Midlands (excluding Roman legionnaires). The painting, of Captain Thomas Lucy, shows a black boy in the background dressed in a blue livery coat and red stockings and wearing a gleaming, metal collar around his neck. The National Trust's Charlecote brochure describes the boy as a "black page boy". In 1735 a black child called Philip Lucy was baptised at Charlecote.

 

The lands immediately adjoining the house were further landscaped by Capability Brown in about 1760. This resulted in Charlecote becoming a hostelry destination for notable tourists to Stratford from the late 17th to mid-18th century, including Washington Irving (1818), Sir Walter Scott (1828) and Nathaniel Hawthorn (c 1850).

 

Charlecote was inherited in 1823 by George Hammond Lucy (d 1845), who married Mary Elizabeth Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, from who's extensive diaries the current "behind the scenes of Victorian Charlecote" are based upon. GH Lucy's second son Henry inherited the estate from his elder brother in 1847. After the deaths of both Mary Elizabeth and Henry in 1890, the house was rented out by Henry's eldest daughter and heiress, Ada Christina (d 1943). She had married Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, (d 1944), a line of the Fairfax Baronets, who on marriage assumed the name Fairfax-Lucy.

 

From this point onwards, the family began selling off parts of the outlying estate to fund their extensive lifestyle, and post-World War II in 1946, Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy, who had inherited the residual estate from his mother Ada, presented Charlecote to the National Trust in-lieu of death duties. Sir Montgomerie was succeeded in 1965 by his brother, Sir Brian, whose wife, Lady Alice, researched the history of Charlecote, and assisted the National Trust with the restoration of the house.

  

Deer seen in the Front Park at Charlecote Park. At one point saw the deer running across the Main Drive (too fast to get photos of them).

Created in the style of Capability Brown, that great designer, whose forte was creating “natural” landscapes, the park has broad vistas of parkland, bounded by extensive plantings of a variety of deciduous trees, including redwoods, sycamore, cherry, yew and plane. Coppices of beech, oak, chestnuts and lime dot the open parkland.

Water is an important element in the creation of such settings and the estate was fortunate in that the Awbeg River flowed through it and was diverted to form lakes, cascades and ponds, greatly enhancing the beauty of the setting. And, of course, where you have waterways, you must have bridges and there are a few delightful arched stone bridges framed by abundant foliage

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Petworth Park is a 700 acre deer park, landscaped by 'Capability Brown', painted by Turner ...and photographed by me :-)

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On April 25, 2014, Dr. Rongping Mu, the director-general of Institute of Policy and Management of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the director of the CAS Center for Innovation and Development, provided an analysis on the evolution of the national innovation system in China, the innovation capacity of Chinese enterprises, the policy framework for firms’ innovation capability building, and the future trend of innovation management in enterprises.

BUJUMBURA AIRFIELD, Burundi - Burundian Defense Forces soldiers hand load materiel during a deployment capability assessment at Bujumbura Military Airfield December 15, 2010. The findings are being used to design a lesson plan for an African Deployment Assistance Partnership Team. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Gordon Christensen)

  

Harewood House, near Leeds, West Yorkshire.

 

Harewood House is a Grade 1 Country House near Leeds in West Yorkshire.

 

It was designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam and built between 1759 and 1771 for wealthy plantation and slave owner Edwin Lascelles - the 1st Baron Harewood, and is still home to the Lascelles family.

 

The 1000 acre grounds were designed by Capability Brown.

 

The house is one of the ten 'Treasure Houses of England'.

Steadfast Jaguar 06 is designed to demonstrate the capability of the NATO Response Force and prove its viability, outside the normal geographic area of influence of alliance countries.

 

Both distance and environment were the driving factors for the selection of the exercise location; the kind offer of the Government of Cape Verde made it possible. Steadfast Jaguar 06 main took place between June 15 to 28, followed by the re-deployment of faces back to Europe in July.

 

Photo: NATO Secretary General Mr Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at press conference, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde. In the background General James L. Jones at the time Supreme Allied Commander Europe

Kentucky National Guard Soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Regiment and Arkansas National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 1036th Engineer Company, 875th Engineer Battalion breach and assault an objective on the Infantry Platoon Battle Course July 23, 2019, during the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team eXportable Combat Training Capability Rotation 19-4 at Fort Pickett, Virginia. Read more about the XCTC at go.usa.gov/xyPx6. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Jeff Clements)

The Light Capability Rough Terrain Forklift (LCRTF) is a C-130 and CH-47 sling load transportable, 5,000-pound capacity, variable-reach, rough-terrain forklift with fork tine oscillation and side-shift cab controls.

 

Read more at asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/cs-css-light-capability-rough-terrain-forklift-lcrtf/.

Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the information technology and communication sections of the Virginia National Guard joint staff and Army Guard staff train on the Joint Incident Site Communications Capability July 13, 2016, in Onancock, Virginia. The JISCC is an advanced communications system that can be rapidly deployed to an incident location and uses secure satellite connections to provide the Guard and first responders with high speed internet, voice-over-IP telephones and high frequency radio communications. The training also provided an opportunity to build relationships with local emergency services managers and help them learn more about the capabilities the Guard can provide if there was an incident that degraded normal communication systems. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)

Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.

Compton Verney House, the present mansion, was built by George Verney, twelfth Lord Willoughby de Broke in 1714. In 1780, the fourteenth Earl employed Robert Adam for the purpose of carrying out major extensions to the manor. The grounds were landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown who constructed two lakes almost a mile long from a number of smaller pools. The house was bought in 1993 in a run-down state by Littlewoods millionaire Sir Peter Moores, and restored into an art gallery capable of hosting international exhibitions.

   

Disability rights activists from DPAC, WinVisible and the Mental Health Resistance Network held a vigil outside the Royal Courts of Justice where the legality of the Cameron government's Work Capability Assessment as it is being applied to those with mental illnesses is being challenged by a group of community lawyers.

Multinational soldiers from KFOR Regional Command - East secured a helicopter landing zone and conducted slingload operations in the vicinity of Kleçke, Kosovo demonstrating interoperability of forces in the KFOR area of operations. Operation Amber Castle is being conducted to showcase the joint capability and multinational interoperability of KFOR RC-East's commitment to providing a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for the people and institutions of Kosovo. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Young, RC-East Public Affairs)

Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Airmen assigned to the 192nd Fighter Wing practice setting up the Joint Incident Site Communication Capability system and perform operational checks on equipment Sept. 13, 2018, in Sandston, Virginia. The team is on standby prepared to provide communications support in the event of connectivity loss due to Hurricane Florence. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Kellyann Elish)

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