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East end of St Mary Magdalene, Croome d'Abitot, a splendid 18th century Gothick church designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown as part of his work for nearby Croome Court.
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Aerial view of Ditchingham Hall - grade 1 listed building in Norfolk. Classical style country house built for the Reverend John Bedingfield in about 1715. Set in around 2,000 acres of parkland landscaped by Capability Brown.
Partly used as a USAAF hospital in WW2.
Norfolk aerial image
This is St Mary Magdalene church which was designed by the renowned 18th century landscape gardener Capability Brown. The church is owned and managed by The Churches Conservation Trust and not the National Trust.
The church is located in Croome Park which is owned by the National Trust. Croome is in Severn Stoke near Pershore in Worcestershire.
The polarising filter worked well here.
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: Assault during an exercise at São Vicente, Cape Verde.
Incredibly rare shots of a wolverine were taken by photographer Sam Hobson on the Sony RX10 III, which features an extended 600mm super-telephoto zoom lens and silent shutter capability, to ensure the endangered animal was not disturbed
Vanbrugh's bridge spanning Lancelot "Capability" Brown's lake at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.
Col. Matthew Tedesco, Training and Doctrine Command Capability Manager for Global Ballistic Missile Defense, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Future Warfare Center, retires from the military June 5, 2019, at the Von Braun III auditorium on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Tedesco retires with 28 years of service.
A charming visit to this imposing Jacobean mansion, not far from Cambridge. Shame that English Heritage do not allow photography in the main house, but you get the idea.
Landscaping by Capability Brown.
Terraced garden and landscape park, c.75ha. The park 1767-68 by Capability Brown for Sir Caesar Hawkins who was George III’s surgeon
Development of an environmental prediction capability will require incorpo-ration of additional components of the Earth System beyond the physical climate system. The core elements and expertise needed in this regard include atmospheric general circu-lation models, ocean circulation models, land surface models, interactive vegetation models, marine ecosystem models, atmospheric chemistry models, global carbon cycle models, assimilation techniques for atmosphere-ocean-land, population dynamics, crop models, and infectious disease models, to name a few. The challenge now is to bring these core elements together within a common infrastructure and with a central focus on sub-seasonal to decadal prediction of the Earth System in the broadest sense. Further-more, the prospect of Earth System prediction has unique policy relevance at both the national and international levels.
Antonio J. Busalacchi is President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Re-search (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to his appointment at UCAR, he was the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor, Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), and Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Florida State University in 1982 and began his professional career that year at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. He has studied tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system. His research on climate variability and predictability has sup-ported a range of international and national research programs dealing with global change and climate, particularly as affected by the oceans. He previously served as a UCAR Board of Trustees member. Among his awards and honors, in 1991, Busalacchi was the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award. In 1999, he was awarded the NASA/Goddard Excellence in Outreach Award and the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2006, he was the AMS Walter Orr Roberts Interdisciplinary Science Lecturer and in 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown demolished a medieval church when designing the grounds at Compton Verney and built this one in the 1770s. It fell into disrepair and has been recently renovated.
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Jennings and Senior Airman David Poynter, 169th Civil Engineer Squadron heavy equipment operators, place poured concrete into a repaired section of runway 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 simulates the rapid repair of a battle damaged runway. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Jim St.Clair, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs)
USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25)
The Cobra Judy Replacement program successfully achieved initial operational capability, March 31, providing the United States high-quality, dual-band radar data in support of ballistic missile treaty verification worldwide.
The U.S. Air Force now assumes operations and sustainment responsibilities for the vessel.
“We’re very excited to achieve initial operational capability,” said Capt. Roderick Wester, Cobra Judy Replacement major program manager, Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS). “This critical milestone is a testament to years of dedicated work from the government- industry team. Cobra Judy Replacement, with its advanced radar suite, will provide enhanced operational capabilities for decades.”
The program includes USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM 25) and its mission equipment, which consists of integrated S- and X-band active electronically scanned radar antennas. Built by VT Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the ship will replace USNS Observation Island (T-AGM 23).
PEO IWS, an affiliated program executive office of the Naval Sea Systems Command, manages surface ship and submarine combat technologies and systems and coordinates the U.S. Navy enterprise solutions across ship platforms.
Press Release, May 2, 2014; Image: Wikimedia
Development of an environmental prediction capability will require incorpo-ration of additional components of the Earth System beyond the physical climate system. The core elements and expertise needed in this regard include atmospheric general circu-lation models, ocean circulation models, land surface models, interactive vegetation models, marine ecosystem models, atmospheric chemistry models, global carbon cycle models, assimilation techniques for atmosphere-ocean-land, population dynamics, crop models, and infectious disease models, to name a few. The challenge now is to bring these core elements together within a common infrastructure and with a central focus on sub-seasonal to decadal prediction of the Earth System in the broadest sense. Further-more, the prospect of Earth System prediction has unique policy relevance at both the national and international levels.
Antonio J. Busalacchi is President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Re-search (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to his appointment at UCAR, he was the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor, Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), and Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Florida State University in 1982 and began his professional career that year at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. He has studied tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system. His research on climate variability and predictability has sup-ported a range of international and national research programs dealing with global change and climate, particularly as affected by the oceans. He previously served as a UCAR Board of Trustees member. Among his awards and honors, in 1991, Busalacchi was the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award. In 1999, he was awarded the NASA/Goddard Excellence in Outreach Award and the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2006, he was the AMS Walter Orr Roberts Interdisciplinary Science Lecturer and in 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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)
Incredibly rare shots of a wolverine were taken by photographer Sam Hobson on the Sony RX10 III, which features an extended 600mm super-telephoto zoom lens and silent shutter capability, to ensure the endangered animal was not disturbed
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Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
SAC 03
United States Air Force
RIAT Fairford
Departure
Operator: NATO Strategic Airlift Capability
Aircraft: Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
Registration: 02
C/n: 50211/F210/SAC2
Location: Gilze-Rijen Air Base (GLZ/EHGR)
Date: 7-9-2016
Previously: 08-0002
Col. Matthew Tedesco, Training and Doctrine Command Capability Manager for Global Ballistic Missile Defense, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Future Warfare Center, retires from the military June 5, 2019, at the Von Braun III auditorium on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Tedesco retires with 28 years of service.
“I remember the first time I realized
how lacking I was in Negative Capability.”
Billy Collins, Aimless Love. New York: Random House, 2013. page 217.
The Postcard
An early image of the Great Vine at Hampton Court Palace on a postally unused postcard which was published by H. M. Office of Works.
The Great Vine at Hampton Court
The Great Vine is believed to be the oldest and largest vine in the world.
It was planted in 1768 by the garden designer Capability Brown, and was originally a small cutting taken from Valentine's Park in Essex, which no longer survives.
It is the most famous grape vine in existence, and over the centuries millions of people have come to have a look at it.
It is 36.5m (120 feet) long, and the trunk has a girth of 80 inches.
It produces between 500 and 700 pounds of sweet dessert grapes each year.
Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles (19 kilometres) southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.
The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief minister of Henry VIII. In 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the cardinal gave the palace to the king to mitigate his disgrace.
The palace went on to become one of Henry's most favoured residences; soon after acquiring the property, he arranged for it to be enlarged so that it might more easily accommodate his sizeable retinue of courtiers. The palace is currently (2023) in the possession of King Charles III and the Crown.
In the following century, King William III's massive rebuilding and expansion work, which was intended to rival the Palace of Versailles, destroyed much of the Tudor palace. His work ceased in 1694, leaving the palace in two distinct contrasting architectural styles, domestic Tudor and Baroque.
While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings.
King George II was the last monarch to reside in the palace.
Today, the palace is open to the public and is a major tourist attraction, easily reached by train from Waterloo station in central London, and served by Hampton Court railway station in East Molesey.
The structure and grounds are cared for by an independent charity, Historic Royal Palaces, which receives no funding from the Government or the Crown.
The palace displays many works of art from the Royal Collection.
Apart from the palace itself and its gardens, other points of interest for visitors include the celebrated maze, the historic royal tennis court, and the huge grape vine.
The palace's Home Park is the site of the annual Hampton Court Palace Festival and Hampton Court Garden Festival.
View from Croome Court on a winter's day. Lawrence "Capabiilty" Brown had the church moved to its present site...
Capability-Driven Defence Research and Innovation Conference, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, March 26th, 2019.
Photo credit: AGERPRES FOTO / Simion Mechno
When she is not strutting around her house half naked, she wears tight, gold pants.
- For my zine, "Negative Capability".
The Column of Victory
Started five years after Marlborough's death, the Column of Victory was completed in 1730 at a cost of £3,000. The height of this Doric column, surmounted by eagles is 40 metres, including the lead statue of the Duke by the otherwise unknown craftsman, Robert Pit.
Many designs and proposals were put forward for the monument and at one time an obelisk, standing halfway along the Great Avenue was planned but a column was decided upon and its current position at the entrance of the Great Avenue was finally chosen by the Duchess.
From the Blenheim Palace home page: "Blenheim Palace, home to 11th Duke of Marlborough and the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, offers a memorable day out.
Set in 2100 acres of beautiful parkland landscaped by ‘Capability’ Brown, the exquisite Baroque Palace is surrounded by sweeping lawns, formal gardens and the magnificent Lake.
Inside, the scale of the Palace is beautifully balanced by the intricate detail and delicacy of the carvings, the hand painted ceilings and the amazing porcelain collections, tapestries and paintings displayed in each room.
Situated in Woodstock, just 8 miles from Oxford, the Palace was created a World Heritage site in 1987.
DPAC activists protest at High Courts as legality of Work Capability Assessment is challenged - London, 29.06.2012
Disability rights activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), the Mental Health Resistance Network, WinVisible and Single Mothers Self Defence held a static demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice, where the legality of the right-wing David Cameron government's much-hated Work Capability Assessment is being challenged by a group of community lawyers.
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A walk around Minterne Gardens in Dorset.
The garden walk is about 1 mile in a horseshoe shape.
You can take different paths on the last leg of the walk, we went on the upper path.
Flowers
Information below from leaflet from Minterne Gardens:
The Minterne Valley, landscapped in the manner of Capability Brown in the 18th century, has been the home of the Churchill and Digby families for 350 years. The gardens are laid out in a horseshoe below Minterne House, with a chain of small lakes, waterfalls and streams. They contain an important collection of Himalayan Rhodocdendrons and Azaleas, with Spring bulbs, Cherries, Maples and many fine and rare trees; the garden is noted for its Autumn colouring.
Of particular note are the large plants of Magnolia Campbellii which flower in March and April, together with a profusion of spring bulbs. Many flowering cherries were brought from Japan in 1920 and the Pieris Forrestii with their brilliant scarlet shoots, originally came from Wakehurst. A very fine collection of Davidia Involucrata (the pocket handkerchief tree) produce striking bracts in late May and early June, when the streams are lined with primulas, astilbes and other water plants.
Col. Matthew Tedesco, Training and Doctrine Command Capability Manager for Global Ballistic Missile Defense, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Future Warfare Center, retires from the military June 5, 2019, at the Von Braun III auditorium on Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Tedesco retires with 28 years of service.
Development of an environmental prediction capability will require incorpo-ration of additional components of the Earth System beyond the physical climate system. The core elements and expertise needed in this regard include atmospheric general circu-lation models, ocean circulation models, land surface models, interactive vegetation models, marine ecosystem models, atmospheric chemistry models, global carbon cycle models, assimilation techniques for atmosphere-ocean-land, population dynamics, crop models, and infectious disease models, to name a few. The challenge now is to bring these core elements together within a common infrastructure and with a central focus on sub-seasonal to decadal prediction of the Earth System in the broadest sense. Further-more, the prospect of Earth System prediction has unique policy relevance at both the national and international levels.
Antonio J. Busalacchi is President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Re-search (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to his appointment at UCAR, he was the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor, Director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), and Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Florida State University in 1982 and began his professional career that year at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. He has studied tropical ocean circulation and its role in the coupled climate system. His research on climate variability and predictability has sup-ported a range of international and national research programs dealing with global change and climate, particularly as affected by the oceans. He previously served as a UCAR Board of Trustees member. Among his awards and honors, in 1991, Busalacchi was the recipient of the Arthur S. Flemming Award. In 1999, he was awarded the NASA/Goddard Excellence in Outreach Award and the Presidential Rank Meritorious Executive Award. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2006, he was the AMS Walter Orr Roberts Interdisciplinary Science Lecturer and in 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.