amstel brewery ( dutch : amstelbrouwerij , [ ˈɑmstəlbrʌwəˌrɛi̯ ] ) is a dutch brewery founded in 1870 on the mauritskade in amsterdam , netherlands .

it was taken over by heineken international in 1968 , and the brewing plant closed down in 1982 , with production moving to the main heineken plant at zoeterwoude .

amstel brewery

have done for years . and grolsch . there is no amstel brewery anymore . it ' s made at the heineken brewery in zouterwoude
in also recommend brewery ' t ij and am not aware of an amstel tour . . .
while amstel was mostly an amsterdam beer , in 1883 amstel started exporting their lager to great britain and indonesia . with their massive growth , amstel opened the amstel bavarian beer brewery as a joint stock company in 1892 . by the time 1926 rolled around , amstel beer was a third of all of dutch beer exports .
review is truncated since i believe the recipe is pretty much the same for greek amstel as for dutch amstel .
. the amstel brewery was closed in 1982 and demolished in 1985 . not a trace of it remains . where is amstel brewed - in zoeterwoude and den bosch .
amstel beer is made in amsterdam , holland . the amstel brewery opened on june 11 , 1870 . the beer was named after the amstel river , which the brewery used as a refrigeration source to keep the beers cold . two years after opening , amstel beer production had increased and grew out of being able to use the amstel river . the brewery had to start putting ice from the canals into double - walled cellars to keep the beer cold .
in 1870 , charles de pesters and johannes van marwijk kooy established the amstel brewery on the mauritskade in amsterdam .
the successor to the fiddler and firkin brewery , which closed in 1999 . the brewery and the
according to the amstel website , amstel beer is pure - filtered which creates a full - strength beer without the calories and carbohydrates .
in 1941 , amstel joined forces with heineken and purchased another brewery . unfortunately that brewery was not as successful as the first two and shut down in 1961 . amstel was first to export dutch beer in the can . from there on , amstel opened more and more breweries : jordon , the antillean brewery in curacao , then puerto rico and greece .
brewery in germnay , but they plan to open their own brewery in the hengelo area sometime in 2008 .
in 1968 , amstel and heineken merged and up until the early 1980s amstel beer was brewed in the mauritskade . since this merger , amstel continues to be an important corporate brand and sales have continued to increase exponentially . the brand amstel awareness and the achievements continue to be supported by important , national and international , sponsored events .
yes , heinie owns amstel . . thats why we cant get amstel in the states , only amstel light . . heineiken doesnt want amstel to steal sales away from big green . . amstel , imho , taste much better than heineken . . . . and also , to the op , neither are brewed in amsterdam . . the heineken brewery is just a tourist attraction . . the original , original heineken brewery is next to the die port van cleve hotel on nz voorburgwal . . throwing a little trivia out there . . .
end of the 1960s , a cosy evening at home with friends and an amstel beer .
heineken bought amstel in 1968 . four years later , the original amstel brewery in amsterdam shut down . production was moved to zoeterwoude where the main heineken plant is . the original brewery was torn down , but the administration building was saved . it has since become apart of the hogeschool van amsterdam , the largest hogeschool in amsterdam .
these beer tours take you beyond the mainstream of heineken and amstel . they stress that they are
they bought up and quickly closed the tiny kroon brewery a few years back . more worryingly , they own holland ' s only trappist brewery ,
no amstel tour to speak of . honestly i would visit the ij brewery not far from artis zoo . there is a few threads here if you use the search .
during the first world war , the amstel company was in a state of turmoil . an ever - increasing shortage of raw materials during the war years resulted in the halt of amstel beer export . the competitor , the van vollenhoven beer brewery , the largest exporter of dutch beers had also the same troubles . in 1941 , both heineken and amstel formed a joint venture to buy the van vollenhoven brewery and prevent it from coming into german hands .
dark bock . seasonal - autumn . slightly weaker version of amstel bock . pretty good . sleutel is named after a dordrecht brewery closed by heineken in 1968 . no longer brewed .
going to be in amsterdam next week , was considering a brewery tour . have seen a lot about the heineken experience , but haven ' t seen so much about amstel , do they have brewery / tour also ? can anyone recommend one over the other ?
brewers : discover our brewer resources here . are you affiliated with this brewery ?
part of mahou - san miguel . supposedly the second largest brewery in europe .
. the malt is provided by local farmers with whom the brewery has contracts .
just to add even more trivia ; the greek brewed amstel is reckoned to be better than the dutch ; the uk brewed amstel is thin tasteless rubbish , but some bars sale netherland brewed grolsch with the ceramic cap .
after the second world war , the dutch consumption of beer declined . this was due to the increasing popularity of soft drinks and the relative good value of jenevers . as a result , amstel saw the opportunity for a cheaper beer : amstel oud bruin ( brown beer ) . this sweeter beer was liked particularly by women in the south of holland . also with the declining sales in holland , amstel decided to restore its export position . up until the 1951s , amstel had the advantage over the german breweries as the latter were not allowed to export . however , amstel decided to brew locally overseas . this resulted in 1955 in the first overseas brewery : the surinam brewery in paramaribo with the famous parbo beer .
amstel remains as a brand and seems to get the slightly better beers of the heineken range . amstel herftsbock is the best bottom - fermented beer produced in holland . you really should try it if you get the chance .
amstel was the favourite beer for many amsterdammers . in 1907 , the brewery bought its first truck to deliver beer barrels in the amsterdam area . outside amsterdam , fewer customers made the step to amstel beer however , with the take - over of small breweries and the sales outlets the company blossomed and grew .
independent brewery . it also has breweries in madrid and valencia . bought from heineken .
have now been split into separate businesses . the brewery re - opened in 2001 .
the amstel brewery was founded on june 11 , 1870 , in amsterdam by charles de pesters and johannes van marwijk kooy . they named it after the amstel river , which was instrumental in the brewery’s first innovation , as ice from the river controlled the temperature of the brewing process , making it possible to produce a consistently superb pilsner . adding more time to the brewing process also played a key role in enabling them to create the highest quality beer , featuring a perfect balance of taste and refreshment . in 1872 , the first barrels of amstel beer were delivered in amsterdam . thanks to its rich character and taste it became an overnight success , going on to win numerous prestigious awards at beer festivals . in 1883 , it was time for the world to discover amstel and thus , the first exported barrels of amstel were shipped to great britain and indonesia . by 1915 , the production of amstel had increased twenty - fold and in 1926 , amstel represented a third of all exported dutch beer . today , amstel is synonymous with pure ingredients and excellent quality and has become a part of the everyday fun , friendship , and socializing that people share in more than a hundred countries .
in the mid 1950s , the dutch beer consumption rose again partly thanks to the very successful collective beer advertising “the beer is best again” . in addition , the amstel logo was restyled and the importance of advertising recognized . the circular red and white amstel logo resulted in a powerful and very recognizable company logo . amstel continued to use the power of advertising for local and export markets .
pieter groenhuizen ( 1889 - 1972 ) was the amstel agent in baarn . agents were the “eyes and ears” of the brewery . they maintained contacts with the bar owners . they often had a bottling plant or bar as well .
beer and lemonade bottling from the agent t . jonker in heusden , around 1915 . in this photograph , you can see how the fliptop and marble stopper bottles are filled with amstel beer . the boy sitting on the crate is busy sticking amstel labels on the bottles .
yazan karadsheh fills a glass with whiskey ale in his brewery ' s taproom in fuhais , jordan .
› uac and heineken sign a contract for incorporation of nigerian brewery limited in lagos . ( november )
and those running the de keyzer brewery museum . they plan to recreate more historic maastricht beer styles .
business seems good for this amstel brewery , which is actually owned by heineken , but local tastes must be closely watched . many local draft accounts are finding that they can ' t even sell a 30 liter keg while it ' s fresh and they are now removing their fancy dutch ceramic taps . amstel light and amstel donker ( dark ) must still be imported from the netherlands . while the brown bottles used are routinely recycled by everyone on the island , the cruise - ship industry demands green non - recyclable bottles . it seems that they have no problem disposing of the empties ! amstel has become an integral part of the community throughout the netherlands antilles and countries such as curaçao have found that strictly enforcing their minimum drinking age of 14 helps keep the amstel / community relationship a healthy and positive one .
originally posted by nothoppy1 just found out they brew different beers then the ones they mass market here in the states . anyone have any idea why their full catalog isn’t on the shelves here in the states ? anyone have any idea what they taste like ? amstel bock is the best traditional bottom - fermented bock brewed in holland . i think it´s the best beer brewed by heineken . amstel 1870 is a better quality pils that is ok i suppose . it´s better than the standard amstel and heineken pils . amstel gold is a strong lager much loved by alcoholics .
while amsterdam cafes , beer houses and restaurants remained the most important market for amstel beer , sales opportunities expanded outside amsterdam parallel with the development of the railway network . agents along the railway worked hard to interest the innkeepers for amstel beer . virtually all these agents were also active as bottlers .
› president obasanjo commissions ama brewery ( october ) › nigerian breweries resumes export of its products › total production management ( tpm ) programme is introduced in lagos and ibadan breweries after it was first introduced in ama brewery .
› amstel malta is introduced ( november ) ; › nigerian breweries establishes a n100 million education trust fund for active participation in the funding of education .
here we have listed the best brewery tours and the best beer tours in amsterdam . ( updated march 2015 )
› first bottle of star lager rolls off the aba plant . ( may ) nigerian brewery limited becomes nigerian breweries limited
› the new bottling line at ibadan brewery is commissioned ; nigerian breweries team wins the heineken world’s business challenge award .
. . . . beer is the drink of choice . home to heineken and amstel , amsterdam has been a centre for european beer since the 15th century .
the brewery was founded on june 11 , 1870 in amsterdam and named after the amstel river , the waters of which also served for refrigeration . by 1872 , amstel was annually producing 10 , 000 hectoliters . for the purpose of storing the beer , winter ice from canals was kept in special double - walled cellars . originally , the beer was mostly drank in amsterdam . from 1883 , it was also exported to great britain and indonesia .
› nigerian breweries obtains a franchise from schweppes international to bottle its wide range of products ; › kaduna brewery is commissioned .
› ama brewery produces its first heineken beer in small 33cl . bottles . ( june ) › the large heineken 60cl . bottle is introduced . › amstel malta box office reality show is introduced . › the national reading competition begins in about 20 , 000 schools nationwide . ( september )
a tiny brewery with no distribution - if you want to try their beer , you have to go and fetch it yourself .
bij amstel brouwen we al bijna 145 jaar geweldig bier , in uiteenlopende varianten voor verschillende seizoenen en speciale gelegenheden . bier om samen iets te vieren of ergens bij stil te staan , om met elkaar bij te praten of juist lol te trappen . amstel bier wordt sinds 1870 met liefde gebrouwen voor al die onvergetelijke momenten in het leven . show less
, a brewery left untouched since its closure in 1970 . i ' ve been very impressed with the two beers produced so far .
tiny brewery with a very poor reputation for qualty . every one of their beers i have tasted was infected . avoid like the plague .
the distinctive , golden amstel ® beer with its mildly bitter taste and excellent quality has become well known around the world . - al sinds 1870 wordt amstel pilsener volmout gebrouwen met natuurlijke ingrediënten . het resultaat is een helder goudgeel bier met een volle , toegankelijke smaak en een stevige schuimkraag . het perfecte bier om te delen met vrienden . - amstel 100 % malta es el inicio de todo , nuestro máximo motivo de orgullo . originaria de ámsterdam , su receta hecha únicamente con ingredientes naturales se mantiene intacta desde 1870 , conservando la tradición de los maestros cerveceros . show less
carakale ' s black banner , featuring an endangered caracal with the jordanian royal crown atop its head , hangs over the brewery floor in fuhais , jordan .
while in greece with my family a few years back , i drank amstel the entire month i was there . it was summer and the local restaurants kept the amstel very cold . i quite enjoyed it and look forward to drinking it again on my next trip . i had it in both bottles & cans and found both very similar . the cans were nice to pack for the beach and enjoy on those hot days .
the new kid on the block was established in 2002 . this is a brewery with a difference . it has a social agenda as the prael provides work for people with social problems . these people often find it hard to find work elsewhere . over the years the brewery has grown and expanded to a popular local hangout .
from left to right , carakale ' s blonde ale , winter ale , pale ale and whiskey ale set atop the bar in the brewery ' s upstairs taproom .
bottom - fermented stout . named after an amsterdam brewery bought by heineken in 1941 and closed in 1960 . bitterness 33 ebu , colour 180 ebc . no longer brewed .
contract brewer . founded by louis moritz who was born in pfaffenhoffen in alsace in 1830 . the brewery stopped brewing in the 1970 ' s . it started getting beers brewed in the
a brewery attached to one of holland ' s top beer pubs . it uses an installation bought second hand from brouwerij de leckere . the beers are only available at the pub .
dark bock . seasonal - autumn . the same beer as sleutel bock . hooiberg is named after heineken ' s first brewery on the nieuwezijds voorburgwal in amsterdam . no longer brewed .
t he challenge , quench the thirsts of hundreds of thousands of caribbean islanders . the obstacle , no drinkable ground water . the solution , let them drink seawater . but first desalinate it and use it to brew amstel lager beer . the amstel brewery in curaçao ' s capital city of willemstad claims to be the only brewery in the world using 100 percent of its water distilled from seawater . located on emanapadie boulevard on the shores of one of willemstad ' s many inland bays , the towering grain elevators and outdoor storage tanks look right at home in this industrial neighborhood only a few kilometers away from the american fast food joints serving up the finished product . formal tours are given for tourists every tuesday and thursday while locals get to visit on wednesdays , phone 612944 for information . be there no later than 9 : 30 or you won ' t get past the gate guard . groups of up to 75 are common and the languages of dutch , english , papiamento , and spanish are accommodated . after viewing a slightly outdated videotape while sipping coffee , tea or amstel lager the guides split the group by language and head off .
verifying this listing took some digging . because the beer ' s label lists the website as
urltoken
i was skeptical this was brewed by athenian and figured this listing was unnecessary and these reviews should be moved to the main amstel page , but i did some research and i ' ve since come around . here ' s what i ' ve come up with for the two people who give a shit : amstel was bought by heineken way back when , and heineken owns athenian according to wikipedia . athenian ( with plants in athens and thessaloniki ) brews this amstel exclusively for the greek market . i ' d put this in line with the different per - country guinness listings , but it ' s obviously contracted to athenian by heineken . so do with that what you will .
they currently brew their beers at de proefbrouwerij in lochristi in belgium . the intention is to have their own brewery at some point in the future ( that ' s what they all say ) .
originally posted by nothoppy1 just found out they brew different beers then the ones they mass market here in the states . anyone have any idea why their full catalog isn’t on the shelves here in the states ? well , who is
they
? there is no
amstel brewery
or
bass brewing co .
anymore . the amstel brewery and brands were bought by heineken in the 60’s , and the us importer at the time , van munching , didn’t want to compete with it’s self . when
light / lite
beers became popular , many brewers didn’t want to cannibalize their own brands and attempted to launch a different branded beer in the
light
segment ( even a - b tried that early on with natural light before bud light ) - and heineken used the
amstel
brand for it’s entry in the
light beer
segment in the us . ( since then , of course , van munching is gone and heineken controls us imports , and has introduced
heineken light
) . bass was split up , with coors owning the brewery and inbev owning the brand , so you’d have to ask why inbev ( which doesn’t brew bass , but has it contract - brewed ) chooses to make a different product for the home market than for their export market . when they do admit to such a thing , most brewers will say they change the recipe to fit local tastes .
blond ale . brewed in the oranjeboom brewery in breda between 1987 and 1993 , when it was dropped in favour of palm . interbrew has given de beyerd the original yeast and permission to use the name .
a micro that produces quite commercial beers . they have had a habit of filtering some of their weaker beers , something that i have always thought a pretty pointless thing for a new small brewery to do .
an independent lager brewery with an extensive range of products . i ' ve never been too impressed with their bottom - fermenting beers . there are some good ones amongst the newer range of top - fermenting beers .
this brewery has lived an exciting life in the last couple of decades . as part of verenigde bierbrouwerijen ( oranjeboom ) it was threatened with closure , before a mangement buyout in 1981 . there was a clause in the agreement which prevented them from brewing bottom - fermented beer and they developed a range of belgian - style ales . oranjeboom later bought the brewery back to get hold of its speciality brands , before selling it on to
it has a beautiful location in the centre of amersfoort ' s old town . there is a small brewery tap , where there are a couple of tables crammed in between the front door and all the brewing equipment .
the gradual paring down of brand ' s bottled range is a cause for concern . after all , this is how it started with de ridder . next thing you know , the brewery is gone . what is it with multinational companies - why can ' t they help ruining any decent brewery they get their hands on ? surely they bought brand for its good selection of bottom - fermenting beers ? now heineken have turned it into another pils factory .
in 1989 , but still run pretty much independently . all the beers still come its own brewery in the south of holland and it retains its own house style . heineken have shown some degree of commitment to keeping the plant open . after a serious fire in the late 1990 ' s , considerable sums of money were invested to rebuild the brewery . but then again , you can never be sure with these multinationals , as the people at ridder recently discovered .
bartenders at the six bars where carakale is on tap say the beers have a devoted following among american and european expats , but that most locals still prefer more familiar brews . at café de paris , a dimly - lit bar lofted above a supermarket in the jabal al - weibdeh neighborhood of amman , bartender peter qaldas says he loves carakale and tries to promote it to customers but that a lot more beer still flows through the amstel tap each night . as if on cue , a jordanian couple approaches the bar and orders a pitcher of what they call “the normal beer” — amstel . “you can’t compare 25 years to two , ” qaldas says .
golden ale . first brewed in 1991 at the breda brewery of oranjeboom . it moved to arcen in 1994 . pear and herbal aroma ; sweetish taste with fruit aromas ; bitterish finish with raisin and peach aromas . a fruity but quite bland beer .
all the while , that light bulb continued to flicker in his head . one day , his father and soon - to - be funder , marwan , called to ask if karadsheh was ready to return home and start a brewery of his own . “i asked him if he was ready to spend some cash , ” karadsheh said . with his father’s support , karadsheh returned to jordan in 2009 to found carakale , naming his brewery after the endangered desert lynx — or caracal — that is indigenous to jordan .
bavaria is the largest independent brewery in holland and concentrates unashamedly on the bottom end of the market . the low quality raw materials they use are easy to spot in the taste of the beers . tasting their beers is enough to make you appreciate heineken .
saison . a recreation of a beer from maastricht ' s de keyzer brewery , which closed in 1970 . it originated in a belgian subsidiary of de keyzer ( which is how come a dutch brewery was brewing such a belgian style ) . biscuit , toffee , spice , grass and hop aromas ; bitter / sweetish taste with biscuit and honey aromas ; bitter finish with caramel , honey , cream and hop aromas . a good bittersweet beer that tastes like a pale ale . a welcome addition to the dutch beer world .
even though interbrew did choose it before the much larger oranjeboom as its dutch lager brewery , i can ' t see it having much of a long - term future . the gigantic interbrew pils factory in leuven is only a short lorry drive away , after all .
back at carakale , karadsheh ' s committed benefactor , marwan , stops by the taproom to gush about what his son and $ 3 million have built . “now we just need the business , ” he says . the younger karadsheh knows expats alone won’t help the brewery stay afloat — he needs to ramp up sales soon . with the brewery operating well under its 10 - million - liter annual capacity , he is considering exporting to the u . s . or the u . k . “that’s my survival instinct , ” he says .
karadsheh already has some pioneering craft brewers rooting for him to succeed . steve hindy , the founder of brooklyn brewery , is among them . as a foreign correspondent for the associated press in beirut and cairo in the 1970s , hindy first got hooked on home - brewed beer made by diplomats and other westerners living in those cities , and he brought his passion home to new york . today , brooklyn brewery is one of the biggest craft breweries in the world , exporting what was once a hometown brew as far away as australia and brazil .
in addition to their own crappy brands , they also contract brew low - quality beers sold under supermarket names . i ' ve never had a beer from this brewery that wasn ' t total crap . take my advice ; don ' t waste your time trying their beers .
amber lager . horrible pasteurised boiled sweet aromas coupled with pear drops . far too sweet and totally revolting . insipid bottom - fermented beer supposedly in the de koninck / palm niche . it ' s been moved to the la trappe brewery so perhaps it is now top - fermented .
the big attraction in town is the heineken experience . established in 1864 by the then 22 year old gerard heineken , heineken is now the third largest beer company in the world . the tour takes place on the location of the brewery that was first constructed in 1867 . this building produced beer until 1988 .
irish - style ale . biscuit , malt , cabbage and dusty aroma ; sweetish taste with biscuit and malt aromas ; bitter finish with hop , tobacco and smoke aromas . nothing like as bad as i had expected - only the aroma was a bit off . tastes like there ' s some roasted malt in there . the label is extremely vague about where it ' s really brewed .
traded by murphy brewery , amsterdam
it says . i can ' t say i ' ve ever noticed a brewery of that name in amsterdam . it ' s actually brewed in one of heineken ' s giant dutch lager plants .
› nigerian breweries becomes a subsidiary of heineken . › heineken takes over control of nigerian breweries ; › maltina with pineapple is launched ( july ) ; wins for the second time , the africa beer award . › foundation stone of ama brewery is laid by governor chimaroke nnamani , in umuzeani vilage , udi local governement area of enugu state . ( april )
pils . good smell of aroma hops and a pleasant spiciness in the finish . only spoilt by a tad too much sweetness and slightly too prominent butter . the best mass - produced dutch pils by a mile . bitterness 30 ebu . unfortunately , since the move to the new brewery the beer has been pasteurised . more than 90 % of grolsch beer sold in holland is their pils .
fuhais , jordan — yazan karadsheh begins every tour of the sprawling warehouse that houses carakale brewery with a little history lesson . though the modern middle east is not exactly known for its drinking culture , the location he has chosen to brew his craft ales — a plot of land carved into the rolling hills of the jordan valley — is not so far from where mankind’s obsession with beer was born .
the idea raised eyebrows from the beginning . drinking , while commonplace among karadsheh ' s christian minority community , is still somewhat stigmatized in jordan . carakale ' s first choice for a location , just outside the capital city of amman , fell through after the conservative owner found out he intended to build a brewery there . it took three years to find and develop another location , down a winding mountain road from the christian town of fuhais .
“it started with civilization itself , ” says karadsheh , the 30 - year - old owner of carakale , jordan’s first craft brewery , to a group of american visitors one recent afternoon . beer ' s invention by the sumerians over 5 , 000 years ago , he says , has been linked to the dawn of agriculture and the development of a numerical system , both of which allowed its large - scale production . later , the pharaohs of egypt had references to beer inscribed on the walls of their tombs and pyramids .
after a brief stint working for halliburton in the oil fields of wyoming , karadsheh returned to boulder where he landed a job at a home - brewing supply store . one of his customers , who happened to be craft brewing pioneer charlie papazian , suggested he apply for the master brewing program at the university of california - davis . after completing the 18 - week program , he earned his stripes working at boulder’s upslope brewery , where he helped develop a dunkelweizen recipe that won a bronze medal at the great american beer festival in 2009 .
fifteen minutes flying time west of curaçao lies the island of aruba , formerly part of the netherlands antilles but now a member of the dutch caribbean . while the americanized resort hotels are all bragging about their bud , coors , and miller light beer selections it ' s still possible to locate beers with flavor on the island . attached to the roma di notte restaurant at palm beach 17a is the colosseum garden restaurant & sports bar , telephone 65163 . resisting the temptation to order a 7 ounce can of bud or even a similar - sized draft amstel you have the opportunity to taste a malty löwenbräu hell from münchen , no longer imported into the u . s . thanks to miller brewing company . the colorful label of ancla cerveza premium boldly proclaims
aruba
and touts sailing ships , a setting sun and the native divi divi tree but the fine print reveals
producido por cervecería ancla s . a . , columbia .
the light gold color seems innocuous enough but the sharp hop flavor is a bit unexpected for the accompanying light body and the slightly coarse finish takes a bit of getting used to . the flavors of this 4 . 8 % abv beer make it stand out from the light beer crowd while the ancla drink coasters stand out for their great graphics which even include the phone and fax number of the brewery . too bad these foam coasters are non - absorbent and generally useless .
wearing jeans and a bright blue polo shirt , karadsheh narrates this history with a glass of his signature whiskey ale in one hand , the massive silver tankards where it was brewed towering behind him . raised in jordan , he says he was first “hazed and infused” into the culture of craft beer while an electrical engineering student at the university of colorado , in boulder . leafing through a world beer atlas in a barnes and noble bookstore one day , he noticed that the beer he grew up drinking and always thought of as local — the mass - produced lager amstel , which has had a franchise factory in jordan — was , in fact , dutch . “that was the day i found out jordan didn ' t have a real beer , ” he says . “a light bulb sparked in my head . ”
heineken is the second largest ( it could be third or fourth largest now - these takeovers are going so fast a poor boy can ' t keep up ) brewing company in the world . it has two breweries of its own in holland ( den bosch and zoeterwoude ) but closed its original amsterdam brewery in the late 1980 ' s . with the exception of the uk , all the heineken sold throughout the world is brewed in holland . 7 million hl are exported to the usa alone ( that ' s more than the total exports to the states of all the german breweries put together ! ) .
although amstel lager dominates the beer scene of the dutch caribbean there are a few hidden treasures and a few best left buried . at the downtown terrace restaurant , gomez plaza in willemstad , telephone 616722 , you can find a bottled beer menu with 15 choices ranging from buckler na beer to bellevue kriek , gueze and grand cru at $ 8 a bottle . the cristal from cervecería backus y jackson , lima , peru was a hazy light gold with a very thin body and a very light hop flavor and aftertaste . the bavaria pilsner beer from bierbrouwerij lieshout holland tasted like a heineken lager clone but much sweeter . the bavaria 8 . 6 , 8 . 6 % alcohol by volume ( abv ) , came in tiny 25cl . ( 9 oz . ) bottles and was labeled
super strength dutch lager
and had a freshness date one month away . the clarity was abysmal with the hazy amber color clouded by serious floating particles . the intense malty aroma was accompanied by a medium body and an alcoholic sweet flavor . with beer prices starting at 4 . 50 naf ( approx . $ 2 . 50 ) this might not be the ideal happy hour spot but the two dozen outdoor tables in the heart of the punda shopping district make it a great place to people watch while enjoying a non - light beer .
the classic copper vessels have been replaced by four 6000 gallon stainless steel tanks , two mash , one lauter and one boil . the lager malt is imported from germany , belgium , france and great britain . the special rice comes from surinam while the hop extract is from hungary . the corporate yeast strain is dutch and the caramel syrup american . the process starts with the malt bouncing back and forth between the two mash tuns . rather than being the dutch version of decoction mashing this step is required to incorporate the rice starches produced in the second mash tun , since rice makes up 30 % of the grain bill . the hop extract is added during the five hour boil while the caramel syrup addition is required for the final golden color . when the non - alcoholic malta is brewed the recipe gets sugar from the dominican republic and a lot more caramel syrup . the wort chiller uses only water and the fermenters get a blast of oxygen to get things going . the co2 produced is scrubbed and used later in the kegging operation . two weeks of lagering takes place in the outdoor storage tanks . the 125 employees run the brewhouse in three shifts and the bottling line in two . the bottling line now cranks out a maximum of 54 , 000 bottles per hour . the shocking news is that the bottles hold but 9 ounces ! the official excuse for this is that the previously used 12 ounce bottles allowed the beer to become warm while being served and for some reason customers failed to appreciate their beer as much when warm . funny , i ' ve never heard of any full - flavored beers having this problem . from ground level of the brewery you can pass below the brewhouse and fermenters and walk amid the fixed and flexible plumbing . some portions of the floor drain better than others and the smell of caustic solution can get overpowering during cleaning operations . employment opportunities abound in the brewing process , assembling the cardboard containers for the cases of tiny bottles keeps three people busy all day . outside , a hopper containing spent grains stands ready for local farmers who buy it for cattle feed . a diesel generator is sometimes called upon to provide backup power for critical processes while waste water receives treatment before being passed on from the local holding pond to the nearby bay .
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scott wilson group plc was a global integrated design and engineering consultancy with its headquarters in the united kingdom .

founded as a civil engineering firm in 1951 , the company broadened its range of services through acquisitions .

scott wilson offered consultancy and professional services in the railways , buildings and infrastructure , environment and natural resources and roads sectors , and at its peak employed 5,500 people in 80 offices worldwide .

scott wilson became a public limited company in 2006 , and in 2010 was purchased by the american firm urs corporation .

in 2014 , yet another american firm aecom purchased urs corporation .

therefore , scottwilson is now part of aecom .

scott wilson group

urs corporation today announced that the company has completed its acquisition of scott wilson group .
scott wilson piésold has a shared history with knight piésold . in early 2000 , knight piésold’s ashford operations in the united kingdom broke away from the international knight piésold group , but retained its zambian interest . the scott wilson group acquired knight piésold ashford and operated its office in kitwe as scott wilson piésold . urs corporation subsequently purchased scott wilson piésold .
urs corporation has completed its acquisition of scott wilson group plc , the london - based infrastructure engineering and construction company .
after an inspection of the site by scott , evans and wilson , unloading began immediately . in wilson’s words ,
roger knipe is a structural engineer for scott wilson group plc , a global integrated design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments .
last night geoff french , scott wilson ' s chairman , reaffirmed the recommendation of the urs bid .
the increased offer provides a compelling opportunity for scott wilson shareholders to realise a significant premium in cash , and reflects the underlying value of scott wilson .
scott wilson mozambique lda ( swmoz ) is an independent multi - disciplinary organisation , operating within the sadc region , providing a comprehensive range of development consultancy services . the firm comprises locally owned and managed organisations with operating offices in mozambique , malawi and zimbabwe . scott wilson mozambique lda was part of scott wilson international , a global consultancy providing an integrated range of planning , environmental , social , and engineering and management services in all fields of development . in september 2010 scott wilson group plc was acquired by urs corporation together with its former scott wilson operations .
under the terms of the transaction , scott wilson shareholders will receive 290p in cash for each scott wilson share . the total equity value paid by urs for all outstanding shares equals approximately £218m .
former scott wilson group chief executive of scott wilson hugh blackwood has joined urs as a vice president of urs corporation and senior vice president of international operations . he will oversee urs’s infrastructure & environment business for the u . k . / ireland , europe , middle east , india and china .
under the terms of the agreement , shareholders of scott wilson will receive 210 pence in cash for each scott wilson share , which values the entire issued and to be issued share capital at approximately £161 million , or approximately $ 242 million .
scott , wilson , and bowers perished just 11 miles from one ton depot , itself about 150 miles from hut point .
“from today , scott wilson becomes part of urs corporation . our employees will be able to participate in larger and more complex projects . ”
dc advisory partners ( lead ) and citi acted as financial advisors to urs and cooley llp and ashurst llp served as urs’ legal counsel . greenhill & co . international llp and brewin dolphin acted as financial advisors to scott wilson and mayer brown served as scott wilson’s legal counsel .
with headquarters in the uk , the group has a worldwide network of 80 offices and over 6 , 000 employees .
scott wilson offer strategic consultancy and multi - disciplinary professional services in the railways , buildings & infrastructure , environment & natural resources and roads sectors .
scott wilson’s 5 , 500 staff formally joined the ranks of us giant urs corporation last friday when the firm completed its acquisition of the uk business .
mr . koffel continued : “scott wilson’s market sectors are also well aligned with urs’ existing focus . in addition to its strong infrastructure practice , scott wilson is well positioned in the environment and natural resources sectors , including the nuclear power market , which is a key area of strength for urs . ”
upon completion of the transaction , it is intended that hugh blackwood , group chief executive of scott wilson , will join urs’ management committee and will oversee from london the combined international operations for u . k . / ireland , europe , middle east , india , and china . it is also intended that other members of scott wilson’s executive management team will have roles with urs . these will be finalized following closure of the transaction .
last season , a group of pittsburgh penguins rookies , known affectionately as the baby pens , made names for themselves in the final regular - season push for the playoffs and cemented their place in history by hoisting the stanley cup . one of those skaters might have gotten lost in the mix after an injury ended his season early . but the fact is , scott wilson could be the biggest scoring threat of the group .
urs corporation sam ramraj , 415 - 774 - 2700 vice president , investor relations or sard verbinnen & co hugh burns / briana kelly / meghan stafford 212 - 687 - 8080 or citigate dewe rogerson , london patrick donovan / grant ringshaw / toby mountford + 44 ( 0 ) 207 638 9571 or scott wilson group plc . hugh blackwood , + 44 ( 0 ) 207 798 5187 group chief executive or sean cummins , + 44 ( 0 ) 207 798 5245 group finance director or financial dynamics charles armitstead , + 44 ( 0 ) 207 269 7275
in the company’s 2010 fiscal year , which ended on may 2 , 2010 , scott wilson had revenues of approximately £340m and net income of £13 . 6m .
urs said that acquisition of scott wilson , which is a key contractor on london ' s crossrail project , would expand its operations in the uk and overseas .
) - - urs corporation ( nyse : urs ) and scott wilson group plc . ( lse : swg ) , the u . k . - based integrated design and infrastructure engineering consultancy , today announced the terms of a recommended offer for urs to acquire scott wilson . the proposed acquisition , which has been unanimously recommended by the board of scott wilson , will significantly expand urs’ infrastructure capabilities in the united kingdom across a range of long - term growth markets , including rail and transit , transportation infrastructure , and ports and harbors . the proposed acquisition also will enhance urs’ worldwide capabilities outside of the u . k . upon completion of the transaction , urs will have an expanded global presence to support the extensive global client base of the combined group .
construction and services group kier has reported an 8 % increase in underlying revenue in its half - year results up to december 2017 .
only two years would pass before scott’s hut at cape evans was again occupied .
in connection with the completion of the transaction , scott wilson’s shares have ceased to trade on the london stock exchange as of the close of trading on september 8 .
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what is it about ? the haunted pasts of a group of transient housemates , including a conjurer , a craftsman and a young musician .
hugh blackwood , former group chief executive of scott wilson , has joined urs as a vice president of urs corporation and senior vice president , international operations . he will oversee from london urs ' infrastructure & environment business for the u . k . / ireland , europe , middle east , india and china .
what is it about ? a group of taxi drivers facing strained family relationships , romantic woes , violence and economic ills in their gentrifying neighborhood .
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cubicles with bunks were built around the perimeter of the wardroom . scott’s ‘den’ was partially enclosed by a timber partition ; it contained his bed , chart table , and bookshelves for the expedition library . adjacent to scott was the alcove occupied by lieutenant evans and wilson .
one final duty remained : a large cross of jarrah with carved inscription was erected on observation hill above hut point to the memory of scott , wilson , bowers , oates and evans .
captain scott ' s birthday dinner , 6 june 1911 . left to right : atkinson , oates ( standing ) , meares , cherry - garrard , taylor , nelson , evans , scott , wilson , simpson , bowers , gran ( standing ) , wright , debenham and day .
“with scott wilson’s technical depth and talented team of professionals around the globe , urs is well positioned to support public and private sector clients worldwide on their largest and most complex infrastructure assignments . ”
the closing of the acquisition follows approval of the transaction by scott wilson’s shareholders on july 30 , 2010 , subsequent court approval in the u . k . , and regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions .
ryle was joined in his experimental programme by paul scott and donald wilson from the radio astronomy group and by alan metherell from laboratory astrophysics group , as well as by a number of research students and post - docs . the main thrust of the research was to achieve efficiencies as close as possible to the theoretical maximum of 59 % and to understand all the technical and materials issues which went along with the new concepts . the programme was prescient and successful , well ahead of the time when wind turbines became commercially viable .
l . scott caldwell and angela bassett in a scene from “joe turner’s come and gone . ”
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december 15 , 2014 , kitwe , zambia – knight piésold has concluded an agreement with urs corporation ( now aecom ) to take over scott wilson piésold , strengthening its presence in zambia and southern africa .
geoff french , chairman of scott wilson , said , “in an increasingly global marketplace , the board believes that a combination with urs will significantly enhance scott wilson’s business opportunities and represents a compelling proposition for our shareholders , clients and employees . this offer reflects the underlying value of scott wilson’s business and provides our shareholders with an opportunity to realise that value in cash today . in addition , as part of an enlarged and global group , our employees will be able to participate in larger and more complex projects , as well as benefit from further investment in new areas of expertise . we are extremely excited about our future with urs and look forward to providing our clients with access to an enlarged global footprint and an ability to service their needs across a wider range of services and sectors . ”
on monday afternoon chm became scott wilson ' s biggest shareholder when it bought a 12 . 97 per cent stake in the group at 245p a share , hours after urs ' s first offer of 210p a share had been recommended to shareholders . chm is now likely to sell its stake to urs in a move that could net it a £4m profit in less than a week .
urs last night won the takeover battle for the engineering consultancy scott wilson , raising its bid to 290p a share , which adds up to the second biggest premium paid for a uk company in the last decade .
when captain robert falcon scott embarked on his second and last expedition in 1910 he was already a famous antarctic explorer .
tony awards six nominations , with l . scott caldwell winning best featured actress for her performance as the boardinghouse’s proprietress .
the addition of scott wilson expands urs’s international presence by adding a network of 80 offices around the world , including offices in key regional centers such as london , hong kong , new delhi , warsaw and dubai , and more than 5 , 500 employees .
the winning bid from the san francisco - based engineer comes at a massive 233 per cent premium to scott wilson ' s closing share price of 87p on 4 june , the last trading day before it confirmed that it was in talks about a takeover .
wilson adds scoring depth to an already loaded offense . with five goals in his last 12 games with the penguins , and the longest goal - scoring streak by a rookie since jordan staal in 2007 , wilson has provided a glimpse of the play he’s capable of .
by april , the rest of the party realised that some adversity must have befallen scott . on 10 april tryggve gran wrote :
finally , the second long winter ended and , on 14 october , search parties set out to look for scott and his team . early in the morning of 12 november , a search party located the tent containing the bodies of scott , wilson and bowers . the tent was collapsed over the top of their frozen bodies , and a large snow cairn built and marked with a cross made from tryggve gran’s ski .
during the winter , there were special occasions when elaborate dinners were held . these included scott’s birthday on 6 june about which he wrote :
“our asset is entirely flesh and blood , and the way you grow is with new people , ” says urs chairman and chief executive martin koffel speaking on monday , the first day of his ownership of uk consultant scott wilson . “and our measure of success is service jobs added . ”
the transaction is not expected to have a significant impact on urs’s fiscal year 2010 results , but the company expects that it will be accretive to earnings per share in fiscal year 2011 on a gaap basis . scott wilson’s operations will be incorporated into the infrastructure & environment business segment of urs .
however , another blizzard swept in keeping the three remaining men in their tent from 21 march onwards . scott’s last diary entry is dated 29 march :
aside from reaching the pole , a comprehensive scientific programme was planned . dr edward wilson was appointed senior scientist and he assembled a competent group of professionals for the shore party with fields including , meteorology , magnetism , glaciology , geology , marine biology and cartography . the terra nova , built as a whaler in dundee and used as the relief ship on the national antarctic expedition , was selected as the expedition’s vessel .
the addition of scott wilson expands the urs international presence by adding a network of 80 offices around the world , including offices in key regional centres such as london , hong kong , new delhi , warsaw and dubai , and the addition of more than 5 , 500 employees . in the uk , the combination of scott wilson with the existing urs operations will create a business with infrastructure expertise across a range of attractive long - term markets , including rail and transit , roads and bridges , and ports and harbors . current major contracts include the uk crossrail project and thames tideway tunnel in the uk . urs also is the lead partner in the nuclear management partners consortium , which is responsible for managing and operating decommissioning activities at the sellafield nuclear site in cumbria in north west england . with the completion of the scott wilson transaction , urs also will add significant international projects outside of the uk , including the delhi - mumbai industrial corridor development in india , haramain high speed rail in saudi arabia , and mtr shatin to central link in hong kong .
’s 10 - play cycle about african - american lives in the 20th century to reach broadway . wilson , who died in 2005 , wrote plays with many storytelling elements in common —
when further devlopments did take place , a route via the gorge and tebay was proposed and surveyed . however , local protests led the ministry of transport to consult scott wilson kirkpatrick & partners in 1959
to consider all possible and practical alternative routes between the end of the lancaster by - pass and penrith , and recommend the one to adopt
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the cavendish radio astronomy group had little further involvement with the cosmic background radiation , until determined efforts were made to measure temperature fluctuations in the spatial distribution of the radiation and the detection of decrements in its radiation temperature due to the sunyaev - zeldovich effect in the directions of clusters of galaxies .
now wilson has his sights set on playing nhl playoff hockey on that same ice . we caught up with the 24 - year - old left winger before the pens’ final preseason game .
in 1965 , the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered more or less by accident by arno penzias and robert wilson . penzias and wilson had joined the bell telephone laboratories in the early 1960s and had the responsibility of calibrating the antenna for use at these frequencies , for which they had access to a 7 . 35 cm cooled maser receiver . wherever they pointed the telescope on the sky , they found an excess antenna temperature , which could not be accounted for by noise sources in the telescope or receiver system . there remained about 3 . 5 ±1 k excess noise contribution . at almost exactly the same time , robert dicke’s group in princeton were preparing exactly the same type of experiment to detect the cooled remnant of the big bang . within a few months , the princeton group had measured a background temperature of 3 . 0 ± 0 . 5 k at a wavelength of 3 . 2 cm , confirming the black - body nature of the background in the raleigh - jeans region of the spectrum .
the acquisition of scott wilson opens the door to numerous new opportunities for urs in major international infrastructure markets ,
said martin koffel , chairman and chief executive officer of urs .
urs now is among the top ten uk engineering firms by revenue , with capabilities in critical infrastructure markets , including transit , high speed rail , roads and bridges , airports , and ports and harbors . we also have expanded our capabilities in other key geographies outside of the uk and continental europe , such as china and india , two of the fastest growing economies in the world . with scott wilson ' s technical depth and talented team of professionals around the globe , urs is well positioned to support public and private sector clients worldwide on their largest and most complex infrastructure assignments .
what is it about ? the remembrances and reckonings of former slaves , including the otherworldly aunt ester who , at almost three centuries old , is a recurring character , often unseen , in wilson’s plays .
the various teams relayed supplies and laid depots , progressively turning back to leave the polar party on their own . on 4 january 1912 , the last support party of lieutenant evans , lashly and crean turned back . when the time came for scott to select the party for the final push to the pole he relied on edward wilson , who had accompanied him on his first journey south , along with lawrence oates , edgar evans and henry bowers . ( the pros and cons of scott’s decision to take five men to the pole , rather than four , as planned , has long been debated . )
scott wilson has more than 5 , 500 employees and a network of 80 offices around the world , including offices in key regional centers such as london , hong kong , new delhi , warsaw and dubai . in the company’s 2010 fiscal year , which ended on may 2 , 2010 , scott wilson had revenues of approximately £340 million and net income of £13 . 6 million , which equates to approximately $ 510 million and $ 20 . 4 million , respectively . 1 approximately 72 % of the company’s fiscal 2010 revenues came from the u . k . and ireland , with the balance originating in asia pacific ( 12 % ) , europe ( 9 % ) , middle east ( 4 % ) and india ( 3 % ) . the company’s order book was £244 million , or $ 366 million , at the end of its 2010 fiscal year .
martin m . koffel , chairman and chief executive officer of urs , said , “the proposed acquisition of scott wilson is a compelling transaction for urs and an important step forward in our strategy to expand our capabilities in the u . k . infrastructure market and in other key regions around the world . upon completion of this transaction , we expect urs would be among the top ten u . k . engineering firms by revenue , with the added scale and expertise to perform some of the largest and most complex infrastructure assignments in the country . outside of the u . k . , scott wilson’s offices in warsaw , hong kong , new delhi and dubai provide a strong complement to urs’ locations in frankfurt , paris , madrid , milan , shanghai , sydney and toronto , further expanding our geographic footprint and ability to support public and private sector clients worldwide . ”
critics were mostly united in celebratory praise for wilson — one of the few black playwrights to be produced on broadway — even as they criticized his work for being dramaturgically cluttered , overly wordy or for taking magically ungrounded detours .
upon returning from the antarctic in 1904 , scott wrote his account of the expedition the voyage of the discovery , before returning to the british navy . he was promoted to captain and married kathleen bruce in 1908 .
the sydney group led by bernard mills was carrying out similar radio surveys of the southern sky at about the same time with the mills cross and they found that the source counts could be represented by the relation n ( ≥ s ) ∝ s −1 . 65 , which they argued was not significantly different from the expectation of uniform world models . in 1957 mills and bruce slee stated :
in 1939 , martin ryle joined ratcliffe’s ionospheric research group at the cavendish laboratory . on the outbreak of the second world war , ratcliffe joined the air ministry research establishment , later to become the telecommunications research establishment ( tre ) , and ryle followed in may 1940 . ratcliffe supervised the activities of martin ryle , bernard lovell and antony hewish , later to become the leaders of uk radio astronomy .
with the return of the sun , spring sledging began . during september , the team had established a telephone link between cape evans and hut point , laying bare aluminium wire across the sea - ice . on 6 october , scott wrote :
during my time at university i was sponsored by a local firm of architects and consulting engineers , ferguson mcilveen , and spent summers and my sandwich year working for them . this gave me great experience , not just in technical design work , but also the commercial and professional aspects of the industry , such as consultant’s fees , construction contracts and costs . i returned to ferguson mcilveen in 2006 as a graduate , and shortly after this the firm was acquired by scott wilson , one of the larger international consulting firms .
the penguins drafted wilson in the seventh round of the 2011 draft . he went on to play at the collegiate level for the university of massachusetts - lowell , where he earned recognition and several awards . named the 2012 hockey east rookie of the year after averaging 1 . 5 points per game as a freshman , wilson , as a sophomore , was instrumental in getting his team to the frozen four — the first appearance ever of u - mass lowell in college hockey’s national title tournament . that tournament , coincidentally , was played here in pittsburgh .
just 18 months before scott’s second expedition departed , shackleton had turned back only 97 miles south of the pole . aware of how close shackleton had come to snatching what he regarded as his trophy , scott planned his british antarctic expedition 1910–13 meticulously . it was to be the pinnacle of edwardian exploration with the attainment of the geographical south pole for britain being the ultimate goal . today , the legend of that expedition continues to echo down the years , a bittersweet epic of triumph and tragedy immortalised forever in the history of human endeavour and exploration .
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what our critic said “‘fences’ leaves no doubt that mr . wilson is a major writer , combining a poet’s ear for vernacular with a robust sense of humor ( political and sexual ) , a sure instinct for crackling dramatic incident and a passionate commitment to a great subject . ” — frank rich [ read the review ]
scott , himself , was preoccupied with planning the coming journey to the pole , while wilson completed magnificent watercolour paintings . in late june - early august , accompanied by bowers and cherry - garrard , wilson also led the epic winter journey to cape crozier . that journey , chronicled so eloquently by apsley cherry - garrard in his book the worst journey in the world saw the three men brave 24 - hour darkness and temperatures as low as –59ºc as they battled their way to cape crozier to gather emperor penguin eggs . they were permanently frozen and the temperatures got so cold that the men’s teeth cracked in their mouths and they “were beginning to think of death as their friend” . somehow , they survived the loss of their tent in a blizzard at cape crozier by huddling in a roofless rock igloo . they later miraculously found the tent and were able to embark on the 70 mile journey back to cape evans , where they stumbled into the hut virtually unrecognisable after their ordeal .
over a twenty - five - year period starting in about 1950 , ryle and his colleagues developed a series of radio interferometers of increasing complexity and ingenuity that made it possible to carry out surveys of the sky and unravel the structures and nature of the radio sources . this program involved a great deal of innovative electronics , such as the phase - switching interferometer , which enabled the full amplitude and phase information to be recovered . the practical development of aperture synthesis was a virtuoso technical achievement that involved a considerable team of researchers and support staff . ryle put together a tightly knit group of physicists , including francis graham - smith , antony hewish , john baldwin , john shakeshaft , bruce elsmore , peter scheuer , paul scott and sidney kenderdine , as well as a strong support team of technicians and research students , many of whom were later to become leaders in radio astrophysics .
what our critic said “rough in finish and unresolved at the final curtain , ‘two trains running’ captures a racially divided country as it came apart . that mr . wilson’s history bleeds so seamlessly into the present is testimony to the fact that the bringing together of that america is a drama yet to unfold . ” — frank rich [ read the review ]
with spring came the start of the journey to the pole and the team employed motor sledges , ponies and dogs to haul the sledges and set up supply caches . the first to begin sledging operations was the motor party , which scott dispatched on 24 october with the two motor sledges . he followed with a larger party and 10 ponies on 31 october , the same day the dog teams were dispatched . each method of hauling proved to have its limitations , and when each reached their limit , the expedition resorted to the british standby advocated as the most reliable by scott : manhauling . this involved teams of four men together , harnessed and pulling a loaded sledge .
the cavendish laboratory had already made major contributions to radio studies of the ionosphere through appleton’s pioneering researches and had a large body of experience relevant to the radar programme . ratcliffe returned to cambridge and ryle soon joined him . ryle preferred to carry out research on the extraterrestrial radio signals which had been discovered during the war rather than ionospheric research . ratcliffe split the radio group into two parts , the radio ionosphere section , which continued radio studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere , while ryle became head of the radio astronomy section , a discipline which barely existed at the time .
what our critic said “mr . wilson’s play is a mixture of the well - made naturalistic boardinghouse drama and the mystical , non - western theater of ritual and metaphor . in ‘joe turner , ’ the clash between the american and the african shakes white and black theatergoers as violently as it has shaken the history we’ve all shared . ” — frank rich [ read the review ]
the gently sloping ground of this narrow volcanic neck of land with the ramparts of mount erebus rising behind and mcmurdo sound in front proved ideal for establishing his base . originally discovered during scott’s national antarctic expedition 1901–04 , the area was named for the large number of skuas that flocked there , but scott renamed it cape evans after the expedition’s second - in - command , lieutenant edward ‘teddy’ evans . a short distance inland is a large lake named skua lake , while to the east the ground rises to form the ramp and beyond , glaciated slopes rise toward the summit of mount erebus . from the hut site there are fine views east over mcmurdo sound to the trans - antarctic mountains and south to the dellbridge islands .
what our critic said “here’s a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the american theater once was ( before amplified glitz became dominant ) , and still is when the muses can be heard through the din . not since mr . wilson’s own ‘two trains running’ and tony kushner’s ‘angels in america’ has broadway seemed quite so alive . ” — vincent canby [ read the review ]
the cavendish group had had a long involvement with studies of the diffuse background radiation . john shakeshaft and timothy howell took up the challenge of attempting to measure the low frequency , long wavelength spectrum tail of the apparently thermal emission of the cosmic background radiation at 1 . 4 ghz . they concluded that the background radiation had radiation temperature 2 . 8 ± 0 . 6 k . they followed this up with even more challenging measurements at 610 and 408 mhz , with the result that their measurements were consistent with the presence of a background component of emission with radiation temperature 3 . 7 ± 1 . 2 k between 408 and 610 mhz .
earlier in march , cherry - garrard and demetri headed south to meet the polar party , but continued bad weather and blizzards prevented their efforts and they turned back having waited for scott and his team at one ton depot for six days . the failure to reach the stricken polar party was something that was to weigh heavily on cherry - garrard for the rest of his days .
the terra nova left london on 1 june 1910 , but scott travelled later by fast steamer to cape town where he joined the ship before it departed for melbourne on 2 september . whilst in melbourne he received news that was to distress him deeply . the veteran norwegian polar explorer roald amundsen had been planning an expedition to reach the north pole but was thwarted by news that the american , robert peary , had reached the pole on 6 april 1909 . undeterred , amundsen simply switched his goal to the other end of the planet , pointing the fram to antarctica and the south pole . he left norway on 6 june 1910 keeping his intentions secret even from most of his crew until he reached madeira where he sent this telegram to scott : “beg leave to inform you fram proceeding antarctic . amundsen” .
what our critic said “‘the piano lesson’ is joyously an african - american play : it has its own spacious poetry , its own sharp angle on a nation’s history , its own metaphorical idea of drama and its own palpable ghosts that roar right through the upstairs window of the household where the action unfolds . like other wilson plays , ‘the piano lesson’ seems to sing even when it is talking . but it isn’t all of america that is singing . — frank rich [ read the review ]
what our critic said “‘gem’ has passages of transporting beauty . but it is the first of mr . wilson’s dramas to lack people whose flesh feels as palpable as your own . the characters in ‘gem , ’ who include a former slave who is some 280 years old , are not exactly cardboard . they are more like pieces of parchment on which legends of the past and maps to the future have been drawn in swooping strokes of ink . ” — ben brantley [ read the review ]
what our critic said “this play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims — and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates . harrowing as ‘ma rainey’s’ can be , it is also funny , salty , carnal and lyrical . like his real - life heroine , the legendary singer gertrude ( ma ) rainey , mr . wilson articulates a legacy of unspeakable agony and rage in a spellbinding voice . ” — frank rich [ read the review ]
scott worked hard not to convey his concern at amundsen’s plans to his men and continued preparations for the expedition as they sailed to new zealand . terra nova finally set off from lyttelton on 29 november 1910 , taking on coal in port chalmers before departing south . on board was a vast quantity of stores including 162 carcasses of mutton and three carcasses of beef , cheese and butter obtained in new zealand , and an impressive array of equipment representing the latest technology of the day .
thirteen men settled down for the second winter . lieutenant evans had been invalided home on the terra nova with scurvy , and dr atkinson took over as leader . there were two new men , archer and williamson , the others remaining being cherry - garrard , crean , debenham , demetri , gran , hooper , keohane , lashly , nelson and wright . with scott and his four companions missing , presumed dead , and the fate of the six men of the northern party unknown , their mood was sombre .
a further dinner was held on 22 june when mid - winter was celebrated with seal soup , roast beef with yorkshire pudding , fried potatoes and brussel sprouts followed by flaming plum - pudding , excellent mince pies , and a dainty savoury of anchovy and cod’s roe . that winter , a third edition of the south polar times was produced ; two had been produced on scott’s first expedition in 1902 and 1903 . it was filled with whimsical writings , some scientific reports and an account of the mid - winter journey to cape crozier .
the expedition got off to a rough start . shortly after the terra nova left new zealand she was hit by a storm which nearly sank her . arriving at ross island in january 1911 , a landing was made at cape crozier but the idea of setting up the base here was abandoned . thick sea - ice prevented the vessel getting through to the old discovery hut on hut point , near the present - day united states mcmurdo station , so , on 4 january , scott landed some 25 kilometres north at the ‘skuary’ to investigate establishing his winter quarters there .
in 1954 , hewish had remarked in his notebooks that , if the angular sizes of the radio sources were small enough , they would illuminate the solar corona with a coherent radio signal and so give rise to rapid time variations in their intensities . by 1964 , a number of radio quasars were known and some of these radio sources had small angular sizes . with paul scott and derek wills , hewish showed that the radio scintillations were due to the scattering of the radio waves by inhomogeneities in the ionised plasma flowing out from the sun , what is known as the solar wind .
the terra nova then returned to cape evans , and proceeded on to cape adare where the northern party was unloaded on 18 february 1911 ; it then sailed for new zealand . this party , led by victor campbell and including levick , priestley , abbott , browning and dickason , built a hut and wintered at cape adare , carrying out limited scientific work . of the other field parties , the western party and those laying depots for the next season’s journey to the pole , all returned to cape evans between 13 april and 13 may 1911 . having departed shortly after the hut was constructed , wilson remarked on his return :
by noon of the first day all the horses , dogs , a tent , emergency rations and two of the motor tractors were unloaded . for the rest of the day , there was a continual procession of men and ponies with sledges and by midnight most of the hut was ashore and the hut ‘scantlings’ erected . a large tent was erected for the work party and construction of the hut began in earnest . on 8 january , however , the third motor tractor was lost through the sea - ice . two days later , as construction of the hut continued on a foundation of coarse grey scoria just a few metres from the sea , scott noted :
the return home as recounted in scott’s diary makes a haunting tale – a desperate run of incredible cold , barely sighted depots and slow starvation . a concussed and delirious evans , who had fallen badly near the bottom of the beardmore glacier on the trek home , died on 17 february . a month later , oates was in such bad shape that he prayed upon retiring to his sleeping bag that he not wake up . the next morning , deeply disappointed to find himself still amongst the living , oates walked out of the tent during a raging blizzard . his parting words “i am just going outside and may be some time” – still resound as a reminder of the ultimate selfless gesture , sacrificing himself in the hope that his companions would make better speed without him .
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the most topograpically difficult section of the m6 motorway is the stretch that runs through the cumbrian mountains . and the most spectacular part of the route is the natural gorge of the river lune , which lies south of junction 38 . within a 4km length of roadway , there are eight underbridges to the motorway and three bridges for the diverted a685 .
the gorge route has been well used since roman times , when it connected the headquarters of the roman army garrison on hadrian ' s wall at carlisle to the legionary fortress at chester . joseph locke also chose it in the 19th century as the route for the lancaster & carlisle railway . the mountains form an east - west barrier and the lune gorge is an obvious north - south access way — other routes would require tunnelling or viaducts , whether for railways or roads .
a route for what we now know as the m6 was included in the national system of motorways proposed by the institution of highway engineers in 1936 . a similar route was proposed by the county surveyors ' society in 1938 . world war ii put any further developments on hold for nearly two decades .
three potential routes were identified : the direct route , the killington route and the lune valley route . after consideration the killington route , which followed the lune gorge , was selected , principally because it did not require tunnelling and was less expensive .
construction was divided into five contracts , with the lune gorge contract having a ten - month lead time over the others owing to the major structures and large amount of rock excavation required . tenders were called in october 1966 and construction began in october 1967 .
extensive use was made of computers in calculating the alignments of the carriageways and the geometry of the intersections , and computer printout was used in the contract documents for the first time in england .
the m6 is fitted into the landscape by stepping the carriageways for 4km south of killington , and for 5 . 6km through the lune gorge , with a maximum vertical separation of 9 . 1m . north of tebay , the carriageways are separated for 7 . 2km where the motorway crossed the summit . the maximum separation is 24 . 4m .
surface water and sub - soil drainage are dealt with separately , the former using specially designed channel sections with slotted steel covers . follwoing a site trial , the embankments were laid in layers 2 . 6m thick separated by drainage layers to make use of wet material .
the a685 ( kendal to tebay ) had to be diverted uphill onto an excavated ledge formed by pre - splitting the rock . a pre - constructed haul road was used to provide site access , and the previously little - known technique of rock bolting was used to stabilise the cuttings . some 750 , 000 cubic metres of rock had to be excavated . the adjacent west coast main line railway was protected by a temporary safety fence of anti - submarine netting — after testing with a ' runaway ' d6 tractor .
the m6 ( lancaster to penrith ) has a maximum elevation of 316m and dual three - lane carriageways with hard shoulders and flexible surfacing . it opened on 23rd october 1970 , and cost of £11 . 7m to construct .
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