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Part of a photo story I did on Ben Debayle, a candidate running for student body president at Texas A&M.
To see the audio slideshow I did for the story please to go www.fotofogg.com/ben
Re-enactor at Crich Tramway Museum's 1940's event 2022 standing in front of a Royale Drophead 4.2 motor car.
The Royale Drophead is fitted with a Jaguar Straight-Six 4.2 litre engine and built in the vintage style of elegance, together with stunning looks. XFD 285 was actually built in 1980.
Photo - Crich Tramway Museum's 1940's Weekend event, 2022.
The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct, built by the Midland Railway, is 28 miles (45 km) north-west of Skipton and 26 miles (42 km) south-east of Kendal. It is a Grade II* listed structure. Ribblehead Viaduct is the longest and the third tallest structure on the Settle–Carlisle line.
The viaduct was designed by John Sydney Crossley, chief engineer of the Midland Railway, who was responsible for the design and construction of all major structures along the line. The viaduct was necessitated by the challenging terrain of the route. Construction began in late 1869. It necessitated a large workforce, up to 2,300 men, most of whom lived in shanty towns set up near its base. Over 100 men lost their lives during its construction. The Settle to Carlisle line was the last main railway in Britain to be constructed primarily with manual labour.
By the end of 1874, the last stone of the structure had been laid; on 1 May 1876, the Settle–Carlisle line was opened for passenger services. During the 1980s, British Rail proposed closing the line. In 1989, after lobbying by the public against closure, it was announced that the line would be retained. Since the 1980s, the viaduct has had multiple repairs and restorations and the lines relaid as a single track. The land underneath and around the viaduct is a scheduled ancient monument; the remains of the construction camp and navvy settlements (Batty Wife Hole, Sebastopol, and Belgravia) are located there.
In the 1860s, the Midland Railway, keen to capitalise on the growth in rail traffic between England and Scotland, proposed building a line between Settle and Carlisle. The line was intended to join the Midland line between Skipton and Carnforth to the city of Carlisle. On 16 July 1866, the Midland Railway (Settle to Carlisle) Act was passed by Parliament, authorising the company "to construct Railways from Settle to Hawes, Appleby, and Carlisle; and for other Purposes".
After the Act passed, the Midland Railway came to an agreement with the London & North Western Railway, to run services on the LNWR line via Shap. The company applied for a bill of abandonment for its original plan but Parliament rejected the bill on 16 April 1869 and the Midland Railway was compelled to build the Settle to Carlisle line.
The line passed through difficult terrain that necessitated building several substantial structures. The company's chief engineer, John Sydney Crossley and its general manager, James Joseph Allport, surveyed the line. Crossley was responsible for the design and construction of the major works, including Ribblehead Viaduct.
On 6 November 1869, a contract to construct the Settle Junction (SD813606) to Dent Head Viaduct section including Ribblehead Viaduct was awarded to contractor John Ashwell. The estimated cost was £343,318 and completion was expected by May 1873. Work commenced at the southern end of the 72-mile (116 km) line.
By July 1870, work had started on the foundations for Ribblehead Viaduct. On 12 October 1870, contractor's agent William Henry Ashwell laid the first stone. Financial difficulties came to greatly trouble John Ashwell; on 26 October 1871, his contract was cancelled by mutual agreement. From this date, the viaduct was constructed by the Midland Railway who worked on a semi-contractual basis overseen by William Ashwell.
The viaduct was built by a workforce of up to 2,300 men. They lived, often with their families, in temporary camps, named Batty Wife Hole, Sebastopol, and Belgravia on adjacent land. More than a hundred workers lost their lives in construction-related accidents, fighting, or from outbreaks of smallpox. According to Church of England records, there are around 200 burials of men, women, and children in the graveyard at Chapel-le-Dale and the church has a memorial to the railway workers.
In December 1872, the design for Ribblehead Viaduct was changed from 18 arches to 24, each spanning 45 feet (13.7 m). By August 1874, the arches had been keyed and the last stone was laid by the end of the year. A single track was laid over the viaduct and on 6 September 1874 the first train carrying passengers was hauled across by the locomotive Diamond. On 3 August 1875, the viaduct was opened for freight traffic and on 1 May 1876, the whole line opened for passenger services, following approval by Colonel F. H. Rich from the Board of Trade.
Ribblehead Viaduct is 440 yards (400 m) long, and 104 feet (32 m) above the valley floor at its highest point, it was designed to carry a pair of tracks aligned over the sleeper walls. The viaduct has 24 arches of 45 feet (14 m) span, the foundations of which are 25 feet (7.6 m) deep. The piers are tapered, roughly 13 feet (4 m) across at the base and 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 m) thick near the arches and have loosely-packed rubble-filled cores. Every sixth pier is 50 per cent thicker, a mitigating measure against collapse should any of the piers fail. The north end is 13 feet (4 m) higher in elevation than the south, a gradient of 1:100.
The viaduct is faced with limestone masonry set in hydraulic lime mortar and the near-semicircular arches are red brick, constructed in five separate rings, with stone voussoirs. Sleeper walls rise from the arches to support the stone slabs of the viaduct's deck and hollow spandrels support plain solid parapet walls. In total, 1.5 million bricks were used; some of the limestone blocks weigh eight tons.
Ribblehead Viaduct is 980 feet (300 m) above sea level on moorland exposed to the prevailing westerly wind. Its height, from foundation to rails is 55 yards (50.3 m). It is 442.7 yards (404.8 m) long on a lateral curve with a radius of 0.85 miles (1.37 km).
The viaduct is the longest structure on the Settle–Carlisle Railway which has two taller viaducts, Smardale Viaduct at 131 feet (40 m) near Crosby Garrett, and Arten Gill at 117 feet (36 m). Ribblehead railway station is less than half a mile to the south and to the north is Blea Moor Tunnel, the longest on the line, near the foot of Whernside.
During 1964, several Humber cars were blown off their wagons while being carried over the viaduct on a freight train.
By 1980, the viaduct was in disrepair and many of its piers had been weakened by water ingress. Between 1981 and 1984, repairs were undertaken as a cost of roughly £100,000. Repairs included strengthening the piers by the addition of steel rails and concrete cladding. For safety reasons, the line was reduced to single track across the viaduct to avoid the simultaneous loading from two trains crossing and a 20mph speed limit was imposed. During 1988, minor repairs were carried out and trial bores were made into several piers. In 1989, a waterproof membrane was installed.
In the 1980s, British Rail proposed closing the line, citing the high cost of repairs to its major structures. Vigorous campaigning by the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line, formed during 1981, garnered and mobilised public support against the plan. In 1989, the line was saved from closure. According to Michael Portillo, who took the decision in his capacity as Minister of State for Transport, the economic arguments for closing it had been weakened by a spike in passenger numbers, and further studies by engineers had determined that restoration work would not be nearly as costly as estimated.
In November 1988, Ribblehead Viaduct was Grade II* listed. The surrounding land where the remains of its construction camps are located has been recognised as a scheduled monument.
Between 1990 and 1992, Ribblehead Viaduct underwent major restoration. Between September 1999 and March 2001, a programme of improvements was implemented involving renewal of track, replacement of ballast and the installation of new drainage. Restoration has allowed for increased levels of freight traffic assuring the line's viability.
The Settle–Carlisle Line is one of three north–south main lines, along with the West Coast Main Line through Penrith and the East Coast Main Line via Newcastle. During 2016, the line carried seven passenger trains from Leeds to Carlisle per day in each direction, and long-distance excursions, many hauled by preserved steam locomotives.
Regular heavy freight trains use the route avoiding congestion on the West Coast Main Line. Timber trains, and stone from Ingleton quarry, pass over the viaduct when they depart from the yard opposite Ribblehead railway station. The stone from Ingleton is ferried to the terminal at Ribblehead by road. Limestone aggregate trains from Arcow quarry sidings (near Horton-in-Ribblesdale) run to various stone terminals in the Leeds and Manchester areas on different days – these trains reverse in the goods loop at Blea Moor signal box because the connection from the quarry sidings faces north.
Major restoration work started in November 2020 as a £2.1 million project to re-point mortar joints and replace broken stones got underway. Network Rail released a timelapse video of the works in June 2021.
Building the viaduct was the inspiration behind the ITV period drama series Jericho. The viaduct appears in the 1970 film No Blade of Grass and also in the 2012 film Sightseers. A number of other films and television programmes have also included the viaduct.
North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England. It borders County Durham to the north, the North Sea to the east, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south-east, South Yorkshire to the south, West Yorkshire to the south-west, and Cumbria and Lancashire to the west. Northallerton is the county town.
The county is the largest in England by land area, at 9,020 km2 (3,480 sq mi), and has a population of 1,158,816. The largest settlements are Middlesbrough (174,700) in the north-east and the city of York (152,841) in the south. Middlesbrough is part of the Teesside built-up area, which extends into County Durham and has a total population of 376,663. The remainder of the county is rural, and the largest towns are Harrogate (73,576) and Scarborough (61,749). For local government purposes the county comprises four unitary authority areas — York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and North Yorkshire — and part of a fifth, Stockton-on-Tees.
The centre of the county contains a wide plain, called the Vale of Mowbray in the north and Vale of York in the south. The North York Moors lie to the east, and south of them the Vale of Pickering is separated from the main plain by the Howardian Hills. The west of the county contains the Yorkshire Dales, an extensive upland area which contains the source of the River Ouse/Ure and many of its tributaries, which together drain most of the county. The Dales also contain the county's highest point, Whernside, at 2,415 feet (736 m).
North Yorkshire non-metropolitan and ceremonial county was formed on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972. It covered most of the North Riding of Yorkshire, as well as northern parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, northern and eastern East Riding of Yorkshire and the former county borough of York. Northallerton, as the former county town for the North Riding, became North Yorkshire's county town. In 1993 the county was placed wholly within the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
Some areas which were part of the former North Riding were in the county of Cleveland for twenty-two years (from 1974 to 1996) and were placed in the North East region from 1993. On 1 April 1996, these areas (Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton borough south of the River Tees) became part of the ceremonial county as separate unitary authorities. These areas remain within the North East England region.
Also on 1 April 1996, the City of York non-metropolitan district and parts of the non-metropolitan county (Haxby and nearby rural areas) became the City of York unitary authority.
On 1 April 2023, the non-metropolitan county became a unitary authority. This abolished eight councils and extended the powers of the county council to act as a district council.
The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority held its first meeting on 22 January 2024, assumed its powers on 1 February 2024 and the first mayor is to be elected in May 2024.
The geology of North Yorkshire is closely reflected in its landscape. Within the county are the North York Moors and most of the Yorkshire Dales, two of eleven areas in England and Wales to be designated national parks. Between the North York Moors in the east and the Pennine Hills. The highest point is Whernside, on the Cumbrian border, at 2,415 feet (736 m). A distinctive hill to the far north east of the county is Roseberry Topping.
North Yorkshire contains several major rivers. The River Tees is the most northerly, forming part of the border between North Yorkshire and County Durham in its lower reaches and flowing east through Teesdale before reaching the North Sea near Redcar. The Yorkshire Dales are the source of many of the county's major rivers, including the Aire, Lune, Ribble, Swale, Ure, and Wharfe.[10] The Aire, Swale, and Wharfe are tributaries of the Ure/Ouse, which at 208 km (129 mi) long is the sixth-longest river in the United Kingdom. The river is called the Ure until it meets Ouse Gill beck just below the village of Great Ouseburn, where it becomes the Ouse and flows south before exiting the county near Goole and entering the Humber estuary. The North York Moors are the catchment for a number of rivers: the Leven which flows north into the Tees between Yarm and Ingleby Barwick; the Esk flows east directly into the North Sea at Whitby as well as the Rye (which later becomes the Derwent at Malton) flows south into the River Ouse at Goole.
North Yorkshire contains a small section of green belt in the south of the county, which surrounds the neighbouring metropolitan area of Leeds along the North and West Yorkshire borders. It extends to the east to cover small communities such as Huby, Kirkby Overblow, and Follifoot before covering the gap between the towns of Harrogate and Knaresborough, helping to keep those towns separate.
The belt adjoins the southernmost part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the Nidderdale AONB. It extends into the western area of Selby district, reaching as far as Tadcaster and Balne. The belt was first drawn up from the 1950s.
The city of York has an independent surrounding belt area affording protections to several outlying settlements such as Haxby and Dunnington, and it too extends into the surrounding districts.
North Yorkshire has a temperate oceanic climate, like most of the UK. There are large climate variations within the county. The upper Pennines border on a Subarctic climate. The Vale of Mowbray has an almost Semi-arid climate. Overall, with the county being situated in the east, it receives below-average rainfall for the UK. Inside North Yorkshire, the upper Dales of the Pennines are one of the wettest parts of England, where in contrast the driest parts of the Vale of Mowbray are some of the driest areas in the UK.
Summer temperatures are above average, at 22 °C. Highs can regularly reach up to 28 °C, with over 30 °C reached in heat waves. Winter temperatures are below average, with average lows of 1 °C. Snow and Fog can be expected depending on location. The North York Moors and Pennines have snow lying for an average of between 45 and 75 days per year. Sunshine is most plentiful on the coast, receiving an average of 1,650 hours a year. It reduces further west in the county, with the Pennines receiving 1,250 hours a year.
The county borders multiple counties and districts:
County Durham's County Durham, Darlington, Stockton (north Tees) and Hartlepool;
East Riding of Yorkshire's East Riding of Yorkshire;
South Yorkshire's City of Doncaster;
West Yorkshire's City of Wakefield, City of Leeds and City of Bradford;
Lancashire's City of Lancaster, Ribble Valley and Pendle
Cumbria's Westmorland and Furness.
The City of York Council and North Yorkshire Council formed the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority in February 2024. The elections for the first directly-elected mayor will take place in May 2024. Both North Yorkshire Council and the combined authority are governed from County Hall, Northallerton.
The Tees Valley Combined Authority was formed in 2016 by five unitary authorities; Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland Borough both of North Yorkshire, Stockton-on-Tees Borough (Uniquely for England, split between North Yorkshire and County Durham), Hartlepool Borough and Darlington Borough of County Durham.
In large areas of North Yorkshire, agriculture is the primary source of employment. Approximately 85% of the county is considered to be "rural or super sparse".
Other sectors in 2019 included some manufacturing, the provision of accommodation and meals (primarily for tourists) which accounted for 19 per cent of all jobs. Food manufacturing employed 11 per cent of workers. A few people are involved in forestry and fishing in 2019. The average weekly earnings in 2018 were £531. Some 15% of workers declared themselves as self-employed. One report in late 2020 stated that "North Yorkshire has a relatively healthy and diverse economy which largely mirrors the national picture in terms of productivity and jobs.
Mineral extraction and power generation are also sectors of the economy, as is high technology.
Tourism is a significant contributor to the economy. A study of visitors between 2013 and 2015 indicated that the Borough of Scarborough, including Filey, Whitby and parts of the North York Moors National Park, received 1.4m trips per year on average. A 2016 report by the National Park, states the park area gets 7.93 million visitors annually, generating £647 million and supporting 10,900 full-time equivalent jobs.
The Yorkshire Dales have also attracted many visitors. In 2016, there were 3.8 million visits to the National Park including 0.48 million who stayed at least one night. The parks service estimates that this contributed £252 million to the economy and provided 3,583 full-time equivalent jobs. The wider Yorkshire Dales area received 9.7 million visitors who contributed £644 million to the economy. The North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales are among England's best known destinations.
York is a popular tourist destination. A 2014 report, based on 2012 data, stated that York alone receives 6.9 million visitors annually; they contribute £564 million to the economy and support over 19,000 jobs. In the 2017 Condé Nast Traveller survey of readers, York rated 12th among The 15 Best Cities in the UK for visitors. In a 2020 Condé Nast Traveller report, York rated as the sixth best among ten "urban destinations [in the UK] that scored the highest marks when it comes to ... nightlife, restaurants and friendliness".
During February 2020 to January 2021, the average property in North Yorkshire county sold for £240,000, up by £8100 over the previous 12 months. By comparison, the average for England and Wales was £314,000. In certain communities of North Yorkshire, however, house prices were higher than average for the county, as of early 2021: Harrogate (average value: £376,195), Knaresborough (£375,625), Tadcaster (£314,278), Leyburn (£309,165) and Ripon (£299,998), for example.
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added for North Yorkshire at current basic prices with figures in millions of British pounds sterling.
Unemployment in the county was traditionally low in recent years, but the lockdowns and travel restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative effect on the economy during much of 2020 and into 2021. The UK government said in early February 2021 that it was planning "unprecedented levels of support to help businesses [in the UK] survive the crisis". A report published on 1 March 2021 stated that the unemployment rate in North Yorkshire had "risen to the highest level in nearly 5 years – with under 25s often bearing the worst of job losses".
York experienced high unemployment during lockdown periods. One analysis (by the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership) predicted in August 2020 that "as many as 13,835 jobs in York will be lost in the scenario considered most likely, taking the city's unemployment rate to 14.5%". Some critics claimed that part of the problem was caused by "over-reliance on the booming tourism industry at the expense of a long-term economic plan". A report in mid June 2020 stated that unemployment had risen 114 per cent over the previous year because of restrictions imposed as a result of the pandemic.
Tourism in the county was expected to increase after the restrictions imposed due the pandemic are relaxed. One reason for the expected increase is the airing of All Creatures Great and Small, a TV series about the vet James Herriot, based on a successful series of books; it was largely filmed within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The show aired in the UK in September 2020 and in the US in early 2021. One source stated that visits to Yorkshire websites had increased significantly by late September 2020.
The East Coast Main Line (ECML) bisects the county stopping at Northallerton,Thirsk and York. Passenger service companies in the area are London North Eastern Railway, Northern Rail, TransPennine Express and Grand Central.
LNER and Grand Central operate services to the capital on the ECML, Leeds Branch Line and the Northallerton–Eaglescliffe Line. LNER stop at York, Northallerton and on to County Durham or spur over to the Tees Valley Line for Thornaby and Middlesbrough. The operator also branch before the county for Leeds and run to Harrogate and Skipton. Grand Central stop at York, Thirsk Northallerton and Eaglescliffe then over to the Durham Coast Line in County Durham.
Northern operates the remaining lines in the county, including commuter services on the Harrogate Line, Airedale Line and York & Selby Lines, of which the former two are covered by the Metro ticketing area. Remaining branch lines operated by Northern include the Yorkshire Coast Line from Scarborough to Hull, York–Scarborough line via Malton, the Hull to York Line via Selby, the Tees Valley Line from Darlington to Saltburn via Middlesbrough and the Esk Valley Line from Middlesbrough to Whitby. Last but certainly not least, the Settle-Carlisle Line runs through the west of the county, with services again operated by Northern.
The county suffered badly under the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. Places such as Richmond, Ripon, Tadcaster, Helmsley, Pickering and the Wensleydale communities lost their passenger services. Notable lines closed were the Scarborough and Whitby Railway, Malton and Driffield Railway and the secondary main line between Northallerton and Harrogate via Ripon.
Heritage railways within North Yorkshire include: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, between Pickering and Grosmont, which opened in 1973; the Derwent Valley Light Railway near York; and the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. The Wensleydale Railway, which started operating in 2003, runs services between Leeming Bar and Redmire along a former freight-only line. The medium-term aim is to operate into Northallerton station on the ECML, once an agreement can be reached with Network Rail. In the longer term, the aim is to reinstate the full line west via Hawes to Garsdale on the Settle-Carlisle line.
York railway station is the largest station in the county, with 11 platforms and is a major tourist attraction in its own right. The station is immediately adjacent to the National Railway Museum.
The main road through the county is the north–south A1(M), which has gradually been upgraded in sections to motorway status since the early 1990s. The only other motorways within the county are the short A66(M) near Darlington and a small stretch of the M62 motorway close to Eggborough. The other nationally maintained trunk routes are the A168/A19, A64, A66 and A174.
Long-distance coach services are operated by National Express and Megabus. Local bus service operators include Arriva Yorkshire, Stagecoach, Harrogate Bus Company, The Keighley Bus Company, Scarborough & District (East Yorkshire), Yorkshire Coastliner, First York and the local Dales & District.
There are no major airports in the county itself, but nearby airports include Teesside International (Darlington), Newcastle and Leeds Bradford.
The main campus of Teesside University is in Middlesbrough, while York contains the main campuses of the University of York and York St John University. There are also two secondary campuses in the county: CU Scarborough, a campus of Coventry University, and Queen's Campus, Durham University in Thornaby-on-Tees.
Colleges
Middlesbrough College's sixth-form
Askham Bryan College of agriculture, Askham Bryan and Middlesbrough
Craven College, Skipton
Middlesbrough College
The Northern School of Art, Middlesbrough
Prior Pursglove College
Redcar & Cleveland College
Scarborough Sixth Form College
Scarborough TEC
Selby College
Stockton Riverside College, Thornaby
York College
Places of interest
Ampleforth College
Beningbrough Hall –
Black Sheep Brewery
Bolton Castle –
Brimham Rocks –
Castle Howard and the Howardian Hills –
Catterick Garrison
Cleveland Hills
Drax Power Station
Duncombe Park – stately home
Eden Camp Museum –
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway –
Eston Nab
Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo –
Helmsley Castle –
Ingleborough Cave – show cave
John Smith's Brewery
Jorvik Viking Centre –
Lightwater Valley –
Lund's Tower
Malham Cove
Middleham Castle –
Mother Shipton's Cave –
National Railway Museum –
North Yorkshire Moors Railway –
Ormesby Hall – Palladian Mansion
Richmond Castle –
Ripley Castle – Stately home and historic village
Riverside Stadium
Samuel Smith's Brewery
Shandy Hall – stately home
Skipton Castle –
Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications –
Studley Royal Park –
Stump Cross Caverns – show cave
Tees Transporter Bridge
Theakston Brewery
Thornborough Henges
Wainman's Pinnacle
Wharram Percy
York Castle Museum –
Yorkshire Air Museum –
The Yorkshire Arboretum
In partnership with our workshop manager Clay he had been tinkering with the model digitally to perfect a design that could actually be built. Clay had to mastermind a skeleton to hold the model up and a system of counterbalances to make sure it could stand.
Ryan really wanted the model to stand out, so he built it using a stark arctic camouflage pattern. The pattern was made up of light gray, dark gray, white and dark blue, with occasional black highlights. This made building it actually very difficult and much more time consuming!
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger talks tacktics with his players. Arsenal training pre Champions League match against Schalke 04, 18/9/2001, Shenley, Hertfordshire, 14/9/2001. Credit : Stuart MacFarlane / Arsenal Football Club..
66769 'League Managers Association' cuts across Cambridgeshire countryside at Turves on Tuesday 13th August 2024. The Class 66 locomotive, celebrating the partnership between GB Railfreight, Prostate Cancer UK and the League Managers Association, heads the 4E21 Felixstowe North to Tinsley Yard intermodal. (Photo taken with pole)
They have a passion for space and are some of the best engineers anywhere, conducting flight operations for exploration, technology and Earth missions worth billions of euros. Above all, ESA’s flight directors and spacecraft operations managers are team leaders, working to motivate people and manage complex systems on the cutting edge of exploration.
This photo, taken 2 November, shows 25 of the 40 spacecraft operations managers and flight directors assigned to missions this year. Those not present were away on duty travel, working off site or overseeing live operations or simulation training.
At the moment, ESA’s control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is seeing a historically intense pace of flight operations. There are four training campaigns in progress for Galileo-11/12, LISA Pathfinder, Sentinel-3A and ExoMars to prepare teams for upcoming launches, while flight operations for 15 satellites plus three more controlled from ESA’s Redu Centre in Belgium continue.
The launch and operation of any ESA mission requires a multidisciplinary ‘team of teams’ working across the agency and supported by industry and academia. However, it is the spacecraft operations manager, the ubiquitous SOM, who is immediately responsible for day-to-day flight activities, planning and execution, and for solving the myriad problems that inevitably arise when complex satellites voyage into space.
An SOM is assigned to each current and upcoming ESA mission, and his/her first task is to build the Flight Control Team, comprising spacecraft engineers and technicians who specialise in each of the mission’s technical areas, including attitude and orbit control, power and thermal and onboard computer systems.
The Flight Control Teams are supported by experts working in areas such as flight dynamics, software and ground tracking stations.
Teams are multidisciplinary and multicultural, and provide oversight for their missions 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
In the photo
Back row, from left: Marcus Kirsch (Xmm Newton), Hervé Côme (Galileo), Kim Nergaard (Meteron), David Evans (OPS-SAT), Bruno Sousa (Cluster), Juan Piñeiro (Aeolus), Richard Southworth (Integral), Isabel Rojo (Seosat), Daniel Mesples (Sentinel-5P), Paolo Ferri (Head of Mission Operations), Franco Marchese (Sentinel-2), Tiago Loureiro (ExoMars/Rover 2018), Ignacio Tanco (Solar Orbiter), Christoph Steiger (GOCE), Paul Steele (Meteron), Peter Schmitz (ExoMars/TGO 2016), Elia Maestroni (Cryosat).
Between the rows: Adam Williams (Venus Express), Sylvain Lodiot (Rosetta)
Front row: Micha Schmidt (Euclid), Frank Diekmann (Swarm), Andrea Accomazzo (Head of Solar & Planetary Missions, JUICE), Pier P Emanuelli (Head of EO Missions), José Morales (Sentinel-3), David Milligan (Gaia)
Absent: Andreas Rudolph (astronomy & fundamental physics division head), Benoit Demelenne (Probas), Danilo Liberatore (Galileo), Elsa Montagnon (BepiColombo), Etienne Tilmans (Probas), Ian Harrison (LISA Pathfinder), Ian Shurmer (Sentinel-1), Liviu Stefanov (Galileo), Michael Schmidt (Head of Studies & Special Projects), Michel Denis (Mars Express), Nic Mardle (EarthCARE, BioMass), Richard Lumb (Galileo), Sandro Matussi (Galileo), Steve Foley (MSG-4), Nigel Head (MSG-4)
More information
ESA’s operations managers: the ‘Right Stuff’
Ground segment: preparing for launch
Credit: ESA/J. Mai - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Mashrabiya is the Arabic term for a traditional latticed sunshade. But for the Al Bahr towers in Abu Dhabi, global architecture firm Aedas have created a super-size version fit for a skyscraper.
Each of the 25-storey towers are clad in a secondary skin made up of 1,000 Teflon-coated fibreglass mesh parasols secured by an aluminium frame. As the Sun passes, the parasols open and close, controlled by a master central computer.
Abu Dhabi's sunny weather is fairly predictable, but if a dust storm arises an anemometer will detect increased wind speeds and override the system.
The towers require less tinted glass than its neighbours, meaning less internal lighting and less energy use. Who said old-fashioned methods aren't efficient?
The Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, (CTBUH) Chicago, USA has awarded the Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi (Head-quarters of Abu Dhabi Investment Council and Hilal Bank), the 2012 prestigious award for Innovation to the association of Diar Consult with the international team of Aedas Architects, Arup Engineering and Mace International Project Managers. This unique development is currently in the process of completion and handing-over.
For further details on the features, merits and previous recipients of this annual award, please click on the link below.
www.ctbuh.org/Awards/AllPastWinners/12_AlBahar/tabid/3362...
Anlaby Station.
White settlement in the Kapunda district began with the arrival of Frederick Hansborough Dutton and his brother Francis and his station manager Alexander Buchanan in 1839. A third brother William was also involved with the property. They squatted on land along the Light River and established Anlaby station. When Special Surveys were available in 1840 they paid £4,000 for the Light River Special Survey. They were then able to select the best 4,000 acres( land had to be at least £1 per acre) and the government had 11,000 acres of land to put up for public auction. They leased additional land from 1842. Frederick moved to Melbourne and his brother Francis took over the property with his other brother William Hampden Dutton. It was Francis in 1842 who discovered some copper on the run. William died early in 1849 and Francis became the main proprietor of Anlaby but his brother Frederick maintained a financial interest in the run. When the bachelor Frederick died in 1890 he left Anlaby to one of the sons of his brother William, not Francis.
Anlaby Station was located on a spring and named after a village in Yorkshire. It was near the Stock Travelling Route from NSW that was used to drove sheep and cattle and eventually horses down into SA along the Murray River and then across into the Adelaide Hills. By 1842 Duttons had 9,750 sheep, the largest flock in the state. During the 1840s and 1850s wool brought premier prices in England as it was desperately needed to supply the booming mills of the Industrial Revolution. These high prices made Duttons extremely wealthy. By 1851 Francis Dutton had taken out more leases on land that stretched as far as Eudunda and Robertstown. The property had increased to 70,000 acres (28,328 ha) of freehold land and the first 10,000 sheep had been increased to 60,000 sheep. He employed 20 men and their families on the property including some Chinese shepherds. For much of the time Francis lived in England and his brother Frederick lived on the property with the manager Buchanan. Duttons also participated in the Mt Remarkable Special Survey and the Kapunda copper mine.
The Anlaby homestead was built in 1840, extended in the 1850s and then again in 1908 and 1928. The writer Geoffrey Dutton was the last of the family to live there until the property was sold during 1977. At some stage various members of the British royal family have stayed there.
The gardens were a special feature of the homestead and in the early 20th century 14 full time gardeners were employed. They tended rose beds, conservatories, garden beds and croquet greens and tennis courts. The homestead complex included stables, coach house, blacksmith’s shop, offices and workers’ cottages.
As closer settlement encroached on Anlaby Dutton bought up freehold land to create his huge estate. The 70,000 acres of land included some of the best well watered and fertile soil in the state. It stretched 10 miles by 14 miles. Dutton was usually referred to as Squire Dutton. Like the English gentry the Duttons were major benefactors of Kapunda and a gift of £2,500 was given to start the Kapunda hospital fund and £500 was given for Dutton Park. Although the estate escaped the effects of the 1869 Strangways Closer Settlement Act it did not escape the 1905 Closer Settlement Act. The government resumed 24,000 acres of Anlaby at that time and put it up for public auction. A further 7,000 acres were resumed and sold in 1911, and more was resumed after World War One.
Linda's scary smart. She's great with numbers. One of the many reasons I hired her to be my fight manager. Before we followed the drugs and weapons shipment to the slaughterhouse, she did some number crunching. She estimated on her own from various statistics that out of the $312 billion dollars worth of cargo that went through Gotham's ports last year, 1/6 of that amount is contraband. That's a shitload of illegal freight going through just one city. With numbers like that you can bet there's scumfucks hanging around the port watching and managing their forbidden fruits at all times. It's why Linda and I followed the first shipment back to the Slaughterhouse and not cut it short at the port. The guys sending it would still be there long after we'd be done at the slaughterhouse anyway. When I snuck back into Port Addams I was proven right. Next to some wooden crates and a large shipping container there were two morons wearing the colors (or lack of, I guess) of Bane's crew looking out into the ocean. Both carrying AUGs as well just like the guys back at the Slaughterhouse. I had my scumbags. They were talking to eachother, though. I came here to get info, maybe they'll spill it without me having rip it out of them like I originally intended.
"Pinche Cristo....this cold makes me miss home even more. Is it always like this up here?"
"It's only winter. Have you never experienced winter?"
"No. I never asked to, either. Damn this city."
"You won't have to suffer long, brother. Bird will get what he's looking for quickly."
"Are you sure? I can't believe Bird of all people is leading us to war with....those psicópatas..."
"Do you doubt him? That's a mistake, brother."
"Bird, the same man who wastes hours tending to pigeons while we risk our lives to get some extra pesos for our families?
'That Bird is long gone, brother. Ever since Bane's death he's transformed in more ways than you can imagine."
"What do you mean? That armor he wears now?"
"It's more than just armor. It gives him strength like you couldn't possibly imagine. More than even Bane could imagine."
"Impossible. Nothing can outmatch Bane's strength."
"Have you seen what that armor is capable of?"
"No, but--"
"I have. Back in Peña Duro. He used it to punish a traitor. Bane's skin would crawl at the sight of what Bird did that day."
"Really? That bad?"
"The psicópatas would've been envious. And I know you've seen their work, brother."
'Regrettably...."
Interesting....The guy to the left seems to know alot, though. Better keep him breathing. The other guy....well, I haven't used an explosive blade in a bit....
The chemical/oil products tanker, Vacamonte [IMO 9402691] undertaking sea trials at the Fremantle Harbour before heading out to the Cockburn Sounds Trails Area on October 1, 2015. She was turned in the port and then headed out to sea before turning and coming back into the port where she turned again before heading to Cockburn Sounds. MarineTraffic.com shows she did a lot of circle work out in the Cockburn Sounds before eventually returning to Fremantle Harbour later in the day.
IMO: 9402691
NAME OF SHIP: Vacamonte
CALL SIGN: 3FAN2
MMSI: 373151000
Gross Tonnage: 3,953
DWT: 6,891
Built: 2011
Flag: Panama
Ship Manager: VT Vacamonte Inc
Goole 31 July 2015
Built in 1986 by SW Ferus Smit BV, Westerbroek (yard no. 242) as WILLY for C.V. Evert Bays of Texel (Wagenborg Shipping BV, managers). Sold in 2002 to C.V. Scheepvaartonderneming Anna (Holwerda Ship Management BV, managers) and renamed ANNA. Sold in 2004 to Aggregate Carriers Ltd and renamed CHRISTINE Y under Bahamas registry. Sold in 2009 to Cy Shipping Ltd of Rochester (Armac Shipping Services Ltd,managers). Sold in 2011 to Faversham Ships Ltd and changed to Barbados registry, still under Armac management.
Sold in 2015 to Christine Maritime SA (Sky Mare Navigation Co, managers) and renamed CHRISTINE under Liberian flag.
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Staying true to the spirit of the Lego Movie, this is a battle-ready alt build/remix of the 70804 Ice Cream Machine. It uses almost all of the pieces from the original set (including the parts used to make the included micro manager).
I think it's a lot more deadly than the airplane alt build they show in the movie!
The mech has a cannon in it's right hand, and a sword in the left. If you look at the fingers, you can see that... sacrifices were made to defend Bricksburg.
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Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, left, and NASA astronaut Suni Williams are seen as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 1:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 3, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Williams is scheduled to fly aboard Starliner’s first crew rotation mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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Built in 1900, this was the site managers office and the place that men would queue on pay day. It is a lightweight construction, wooden frame and foundations with brick infill. The wooden frame and foundations would allow the building to be jacked up should the ground subside which is a massive problem in and around Northwich and quite a lot of Cheshire. Salt has been produced in the county as long as man has been about. The Romans improved the technique, salt was a vaulable commodity. The three Cheshire 'wiches', Nantwich, Middlewich and Northwich were all salt producing towns. Salt production is still carried out in Middlewhich and Northwich but Winsford. Considering I've lived most of my life in Cheshire, it's only now I realise just how much of the landscape I live in has been and continues to be shaped by salt production.
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