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With Annual Leave required to be used by the end of the year I found myself off for a week before the kids holidays! Mountains I thought, the long range forecasts had predicted a likelihood of high pressure on the build up to Christmas – excellent – or so I thought. With this being Scotland the models soon changed and the predicted high pressure was now due to move away from Tuesday introducing some spicy low pressure systems to rattle Scotland and the North West! Plans changed, up until Tuesday the forecast was ok – quite benign weather albeit mild and a little muggy….
The chance of cloud free Munros was around 20% with summit winds of around 20-30mph- time to bag some Corbetts…
A few years prior I had headed to the three Munros to the north of Glen Dessary with a summit camp on Garbh Chioch Mor, my only previous visit along Loch Arkaig. I had looked at the Corbetts here a few times but never ended up hiking in the location. With the winds a little high on the tops I decided I would look at a road/loch side camp and use this as a base for a couple of days hiking.
05.30am and I was up – the alarm wasn’t set until 06.50 but as is often the case I woke and thought I’d get going. The route I had planned would mean a possible decent in darkness so I was glad of the earlier start! 2.5 hrs later and I was happy to see my researched camp spot had no campers – maybe not a surprise given it’s the middle of December! I parked up and stuck the tent up and was away by 09.45am. After the warmth of the car I was taking my time up the hill. The forecast suggested the clag may move later in the day and so I headed straight from the camp site up the southern slopes of Mhurlagain. I soon hit the clag and got progressively damper in the fine Scottish mizzle! Once on the ridge the walking was relatively easy going albeit a little squidgy.
1 hour and 45 minutes later I was on the summit looking at the grey inside view of a cloud. The only wind was really on the summit but I didn’t hang around as I was aware the sunset was about 15.30. Compass out and I was off descending towards the bealach between the two hills. It didn’t take long to reach it and my expected views never materialised, the clag had dropped and the little rain continued. Up to Fraoch Bheinn and the microspikes came on and steep ground crossed as I made a bee line for the summit not wanting to waste time. I sat on the summit and I could have been on Mhurlagain again, the views identical- The Grey! Off again and I decided my ascent route was a little too steep for a descent so I headed down the southern ridge a distance before tracking south east towards the lochside camp.
At around 350metres the views returned as I ducked under the cloud, always a nice feeling- the light rain wasn’t however!
With microspikes doing their job perfectly I was back at camp for around 14.30.
Although wild camping is usually the preference, this road side camping has its advantages. 10 minutes after arriving I was out of my damp (read soaked to the skin) clothes and warming nicely in the car. The hassle of inflating the ground mat was a joy in comparison to summit camps and tea and coffee were made in a leisurely manner!
A few hours were spent in the warmth of the car reading maps and routes for tomorrows adventure – a hike up The Corbett Sgurr Cos na Breacgd-laoidh. Hopefully the weather gods smile and I get some views tomorrow…
Sgurr Cos na Breachd-laoigh
Nearly 12 hours kip- unheard of in all my days sleeping in a tent, but head was down at 19.00hrs and I didn’t rise until 07.30 the next morning! Could have been the comfy pillow I brought and dry set of clothes – an advantage of road side camping as opposed to wild camping maybe? Anyway, even though I had a long lye, it was still very dark when I emerged from the tent. I soon set about taking it down and headed to the car to get a brew on and get ready for the day ahead.
The weather was worse than yesterday with rain falling and the clag right down, so I decided to get the waterproofs on from the start. A short drive up to the new ? car park at the end of the road and I was soon on my way, tucking in right and heading down the beautiful and remote feeling Glen Dessary. The mood was atmospheric with low cloud and mists hugging the hillside and deer appearing here there and everywhere? Not sure they would have been so brave a few months ago!;)
My marker for the hill was the amazing Dessary Lodge. Now this really was a 007 style house and reminded me of the one that was blown to pieces in the recent film.
Onwards I headed up trackless terrain – the rain still falling but the grey atmosphere did stir te Scottishness inside! Again, as on the previous day, I was soon inside the cloud but today the wind was stronger and rain heavier, but the Goretex was doing a grand job. A few ups , and then a few false summits, but I finally reached the top, confirmed with a quick ViewRanger check. It wasn’t weather for hanging around so turned on mu heals after taking a bearing- ten came back down he way I came, sticking to the western side of the ridge to take in the sketchy views in to upper Glen Dessary….
Then , about 40 minutes after leaving the top, the rain stopped, cloud lifted and sun came out! The views were amazing, my only regret was that I hadn’t been an hour or so behind schedule! With a extra bit of energy the blue skies brought I was soon tracking back down Glen Dessary , and then finally back at the car ready for the long drive home. A fine way to spend two das
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Tactical shooting requires agile and adaptive thinkers able to handle the challenges of full spectrum operations in an era of persistent conflict. To meet this requirement, TAPS delivers a comprehensive, systematic, progressive Train-the-Trainer shooting program focused on fundamental mastery and built for Law Enforcement officers, military personal, and qualified civilians. Designed for leaders and trainers, the TAPS course also applies to the patrol-level officer, basic level Soldiers, and civilian self & home defense minded shooters. The approach to instruction is through coaching and mentorship and both demonstrates and transfers a training method that is safe, effective, combat relevant, and encourages a continuous thought process that demands accountability. Training is conducted on the range and focuses on advanced refinement of the basic fundamentals of marksmanship as applied to the primary and secondary weapons systems. Utilizing a building block learning model, TAPS combines the pressures and dynamics of competitive shooting and tactical application. While course of instruction is on the firing range, the TAPS training approach also translates into training venues outside the range.
Course Outline:
The 2-day course offering provides the following training and instruction:
- Lecture on proper weapons handling and safety
- Refresh the fundamentals and grouping exercises
- Conduct a diagnostic course of fire
- Conduct a discussion on the importance of performing a focal shift during training and avoiding mundane drills that do not encourage a thought process
- Other topics covered and practiced are; grouping exercises with both primary and secondary weapon systems, target discrimination, use of barricades, movement, close quarter battle techniques, immediate action drills, ballistics 101, transitions, magazine changes
- Escalation of training and intensity will vary depending on number of students and their skill level though the core of the course will always remain the same
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Eden Camp Modern History Museum is a large Second World War-related museum near Malton in North Yorkshire in England.
It occupies a former Second World War prisoner-of-war camp of 33 huts. After the prisoners left, the camp was used for storage and then abandoned. Its grounds then became overgrown. As the museum was being set up, much clearing, as well as repair and renovation of the buildings, was required.
One of its buildings contains three human torpedoes and a "Sleeping Beauty" Motorised Submersible Canoe.The museum has fully restored a Super Sherman (M50) to its original working classic, amongst many other military vehicles which are now on display in the Heritage Hall - a new purpose built events & exhibition centre.
The museum also has a reproduction V1.
Original Use
Early 1942: The War Office identified and requisitioned the site from Fitzwilliam Estates. Tents were established inside a barbed wire enclosure.
Mid-1943: By then a permanent camp was completed and the first Italian prisoners of war were moved in.
End of 1943: By then the Italian prisoners of war were moved out.
Early 1944: The camp provided accommodation for Polish forces amassed in the North Yorkshire area in preparation for an invasion of Europe.
Mid-1944: By then the first German prisoners of war arrived at Eden Camp.
Early 1949: The last German prisoner of war left the camp.
1950 to 1955: Eden Camp was used as an agricultural holiday camp where guests paid for board and lodgings to work on local farms. School children stayed at Eden Camp during school holidays to learn more about the countryside and agriculture. 1952: It was used as a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries depot.
1955: The site was returned to Fitzwilliam Estates who leased it to Headley Wise and Sons who owned Malton Minerals. The huts were used for drying and storing grain and rearing pheasants on grain.
1985: Stan Johnson bought the site intending to set up a potato crisp factory. But three Italian ex-Eden Camp prisoners of war approached him seeking permission to look around the camp, and thus the idea of preserving the camp and opening it as a museum was born. By then the site had become severely overgrown with wild vegetation, which had to be cleared.
Museum Use
21 March 1987: Eden Camp Museum opened to the public. It is billed as the world's first Modern History Theme Museum and ten huts were used for display.
1990: Hut 24, the first of a series of five huts designated to display the military and political events worldwide between 1919 and 1945, opened.
1992: Eden Camp won the Yorkshire Tourist Board's 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' and came second in the England for Excellence English Tourist Board's Awards for Tourism.
1995: The last remaining empty hut opened and was dedicated to coincide with the 50th Anniversary VE Day celebrations. The museum also won its second Yorkshire Tourist Board 'Tourism for All' award.
1996: It won the award again.
1998: Eden Camp won the Yorkshire Tourist Board's 'Visitor Attraction of the Year' award.
1999: Hut 13 opened to cover military conflicts which British Commonwealth forces have been involved in since the end of the Second World War up to the present day.
2000: Hut 11 opened to include the events of the First World War.
2001: Eden Camp was voted runner up attraction to the London Eye by the readers of Group Travel Organiser magazine.
8 November 2002: Prince Philip visited the museum.
2002: Start of refurbishment of Hut 10, which now houses a comprehensive collection of P.O.W artefacts
2006: Medal Room set up.
2009: Completion of redevelopment of Hut 22, Forces Reunion, where hundreds of photos of personnel can be seen.
2021: Eden Camp announce redevelopment of Hut 5's Blitz Experience, by Technically Creative.
2022: Following closures during the pandemic, the museum invested approximately a quarter of a million pounds into refurbishing in the camp. New rooves, doors and windows were installed on the 80 year old building, the front of site was re-landscaped, and the museum launched its Green Policy with an aim to become Carbon Neutral by 2030. Multiple wild flower sites were sewn across the site, and a new toilet block with self sufficient solar panels was erected. In addition the Museum replaced the Diesel Generator with a new electricity cable reducing the annual carbon footprint by over 77%!
April 2022: The new BLITZ EXPERIENCE was launched, creating a interactive and fully immersive experience by using historic artefacts and modern technology. The new Heritage Hall was also launched to house the restored military vehicles on site. This Hall also doubles as a wedding and events space available to hire. It is complete with stage, bar and full AV equipment.
January 2023: Eden Camp has acquired its ceremony license to hold Wedding ceremonies as well as receptions from
January 2023. There are multiple huts available under the license and all packages are bespoke to each booking.
Malton is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town has a population measured for both the civil parish and the electoral ward at the 2011 Census as 4,888.
The town is located to the north of the River Derwent which forms the historic boundary between the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire.
Until 2023 the town was part of the Ryedale district and was the location of the headquarters of the district council.
Facing Malton on the other side of the Derwent is Norton. The Karro Food Group (formerly known as Malton Bacon Factory), Malton bus station and Malton railway station are located in Norton-on-Derwent.
Malton is the local area's commercial and retail centre. In the town centre there are small traditional independent shops and high street names. The market place has recently become a meeting area with a number of coffee bars and cafés opening all day to complement the public houses.
Malton has been described as "the food capital of Yorkshire", and was voted one of the best places to live in Britain by The Sunday Times in both the 2017 and 2018 lists.
Malton was named the dog-friendliest town in the UK at the annual Dog Friendly Awards, in association with the Kennel Club in 2018/19. In 2020 Malton was named as one of the most dog-friendly staycation spots in the UK and the best in Yorkshire.
A seven foot long british oak canoe was found on the farm of Mr Hebden Flowers of South Holme in 1869. The relic was taken to Malton, being intended for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's museum.
The earliest established building at Malton comes from the late first century AD when a Roman auxiliary fort was established, probably c. 71 AD under the governor Petilius Cerialis around the same time as Eboracum, although it has been suggested that both sites may be slightly earlier. The site was established on the north bank of the River Derwent. A large civilian settlement developed opposite the fort, on the south of the river at Norton. A single Roman cavalry unit, the Ala Gallorum Picentiana is recorded from the site.Derventio the romans left in 429AD when the empire collapsed
The site remained occupied (and subject to continued development) throughout the four centuries of Roman occupation in Britain, particularly in the Trajanic, Severan, Constantian and Theodosian periods and is notable for the manufacture of jet jewellery at the site as well as a single unique inscription identifying a goldsmith shop.
There was some form of settlement in New Malton by 1138 and Old Malton was probably also founded in the 1100s; a Gilbertine monastery was built between 1147 and 1154 in Old Malton, while the monastic church was probably built around 1180. The first reference to a market in New Malton was in a 1283 document, indicating that craftsmen and others, such as butchers, were selling their wares.
Earlier, in the 11th century, a wooden Norman castle, Malton Castle, was built in what is now Castle Garden. This was rebuilt in stone by Eustace de Vescy (1169-1216) by the time Richard the Lionheart visited the castle in 1189. Other visitors included Edward II, in 1307 and Robert the Bruce in 1322. The great house subsequently became ruined.
The castle site was inherited by Lord William Eure (c. 1483–1548) in 1544, when he was also made a baron.[note 1] In 1569 Ralph Eure built a new house on the castle site and in 1602, the house was rebuilt in much grander style. This was a spectacular property and it was described by the diarist and gunpowder plotter Sir Henry Slingsby as the rival of many other great houses, including that at Audley End.
The house was subsequently demolished in 1674 and the stones divided between two sisters, Mary (who married into the Palmes family) and Margaret Eure. (The site is now Castle Garden.) They had quarrelled over their inheritance and the demolition was the settlement ordered by Sheriff Henry Marwood. The Old Lodge Hotel is the remaining fragment of the original Jacobean "prodigy house" and its size hints at the grandeur of the complete structure.
According to contemporary archives, during the 18th century attention was paid to improving the facilities for traders in Malton, in particular for the numerous butchers.
Malton Town Hall was first used as a butter market, butter being the main marketable product for many farmers of the day. The town hall was extended and changed at various intervals over the years.
The town's Shambles, currently opposite Malton Town Hall, used to be located on the north side of St Michael's Church, which still stands in the centre of the Market Place. The Talbot Hotel, still standing and renovated, dates back to the early 17th century and may contain remnants of the medieval town wall. It was initially used as a hunting lodge and became an inn in 1740; it was also a coach stop. The property, with its associated buildings in Talbot Yard, is now Grade II listed. In the Victorian era, it was known as Kimberley's Hotel.
A sure sign of a town 'up and coming' was the advertisement of a 'light coach, setting out from Leeds to Scarborough returning to Malton to dine.'
In the last year of the 18th century, there was a famine in the area, and a soup kitchen was set up in a brew house in the town. The Earl Fitzwilliam of the time subscribed to a fund, which helped provide 'good strong soup' for the hungry poor.
In 1801 the population of Old and New Malton numbered 3,788. The workhouse contained 15 elderly people and 17 children.
In 1809 Malton's Talbot Hotel was extended and modernised with a third floor being added and new stables being constructed across the road from the hotel.
The town's Assembly Rooms were opened in 1814, a place in which 'polite society' could mingle. An 1833 Gazeteer stated that New Malton did a great deal of trade in coal, corn, butter, etc. There were two churches, four meeting houses for "dissenters", a free school and a national school. A bridge connected this town to Old Malton. Several schools or academies were operating by the 1820s, on a fee basis.
According to the 1840 edition of White’s Gazetteer, Malton's "town and suburbs have much improved during the last twenty years, by the erection of houses; and gas works were constructed in 1832." The streets of Malton were lit with gas for the first time on 12 November 1832; the first electric light was lit in 1893, powered by a dynamo, in a single location. By 1867, the Malton Waterworks was supplying residents with water.
By 1835, medical care was being provided at The Dispensary on Saville Street; this was a predecessor of the Malton Cottage Hospital which would not open until August 1905, funded by donations and a subscription. As late as 1841, dental care was provided by barbers; a Mr. Moseley was a prominent "surgeon-dentist".
Newspapers were well established in 1855, when the tax on newspapers was repealed. The Malton Messenger and The Malton & Norton Gazette were both weekly publications.
In 1856, the town was policed by the North Riding, with four men and a superintendent. Thomas Wilson was the Chief Police Officer. The Malton Town Gaol had been opened decades earlier. Work on new police house started in October 1893. By 1881, the Malton Fire Brigade, was operating with a steam engine.
In 1881, the population of Old and New Malton totalled 8,750 persons. Newer industries in New Malton included iron and brass foundries.
The development of the local railway network flourished during the mid-1800s – the York to Scarborough railway opened in 1845 and the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway opened in 1853. The Malton railway station is now Grade II listed (since 1986).
During the early 1900s, electricity was installed in much of the town. Before the Second World War, several buildings were erected, including the Court House, Cottage Hospital and Police Station. The town was bombed during the war.
The navigation capacity on the Derwent was one of the earliest in Britain to be significantly improved around 1725, enabling extensive barge traffic to transport goods and produce.
The navigation continued to compete with the railway, having been extended as far as Yedingham after 1810. The river's use as a highway declined only after it was bought by the Railway itself and cheaper coal began to arrive by rail, while river maintenance was deliberately neglected.
In Medieval times, Malton was briefly a parliamentary borough in the 13th century, and again from 1640 to 1885; the borough was sometimes referred to as 'New Malton'. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1868, among them the political philosopher Edmund Burke, and by one member from 1868 to 1885.
North Yorkshire Council is the local authority.
The current Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton (since 2015) is Kevin Hollinrake of the Conservative Party.
The Fitzwilliam family has been important in the history of Malton for centuries, and its descendants, as the Fitzwilliam Malton Estate, own much of the commercial area in and around the town. In 1713 The Hon Thomas Watson-Wentworth (father of the 1st Earl of Malton and Marquess of Rockingham) purchased the Manor of Malton, beginning a long association between the town and the Wentworth, Watson-Wentworth, Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, and Naylor-Leyland families. A book detailing the history since 1713 was published in 2013, written by Norman Maitland, entitled 300 years of continuity and change: families and business in Malton from the 18th century to the present.
Attractions in modern Malton include the signposted remains of the Roman fort at 'Orchard Fields', and Malton Priory a Gilbertine priory. Eden Camp, a military themed museum, is located just outside the town. Malton Museum is located at the Subscription Rooms in Yorkersgate. The town has an independent cinema (The Palace Cinema), which also houses a shopping mall, a theatre (The Milton Rooms) and independent retailers, high street shops, cafés, public houses and restaurants. Malton’s independent microbrewery, Brass Castle Brewery, hosts an annual spring 'BEERTOWN' festival at the town's Milton Rooms. Brass Castle brew their full range of vegan and gluten-free beers in the centre of Malton, including the 2015 UK Supreme Champion Cask Beer: ‘Burnout’. A second microbrewery company in the town is Malton Brewery, which is known for a Yorkshire Pudding Beer produced at Cropton Brewery. Malton Brewery itself is one of Britain’s smallest, located in a listed building at Navigation Wharf.
Both towns are known in connection with Charles Dickens, who made regular visits to the area to see his friend Charles Smithson. Dickens did not write A Christmas Carol while staying in Malton, but was inspired by some of the buildings in the town. There have been recent revivals of Dickens-related festivals. Malton and the neighbouring village of Old Malton provide the settings for the collection of stories told in the book, All is Bright - A Yorkshire Lad's Christmas by Dave Preston.
In September 2013 Ryedale District Council issued their Local Plan Strategy. The current Local Plan, produced in September 2013, supports Malton (together with Norton, its twin town on the south side of the river Derwent) as Ryedale District's Principal Town. The Local Plan sees Malton's historic town centre as the thriving and attractive cultural and economic heart of the area. During the Plan's period until 2027, Malton and Norton will be the focus for the majority of any new development and growth including new housing, employment and retail units. The Local Plan establishes a level of housebuilding of 200 units per annum for the whole district in order to deliver at least 3,000 (net) new homes over the period of 2012 to 2027. Approximately 50% of the planned supply – around 1,500 new homes - will be directed to Malton and Norton. A further plan for employment land is proposed for Malton. Of the 37 hectares of employment land required to meet the needs of the district until 2027, approximately 80% will be allocated towards Malton and Norton. For retail development the plan reflects Malton's role as the main retail centre serving Ryedale, and will direct most new retail and other town centre uses to Malton in order to support and promote its role as a shopping, employment, leisure and cultural centre for Ryedale.
Malton holds a market every Saturday, and a farmers' market once every month. The town has a war memorial and several historical churches (Norton-on-Derwent also holds large church buildings). The town is served by Malton railway station. The livestock market, currently situated on the edge of the town centre will be relocated to a site close to Eden Camp once construction work there is complete.
Malton is the middle-ground between York, Pickering (access to the North York Moors and also a terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway), Scarborough, Filey and Whitby. The route of The White Rose Way, a long-distance walk from Leeds to Scarborough, North Yorkshire also passes through Malton.
Malton and Norton are significant for their horse racing connections and have a number of training stables in the vicinity. The Malton Stables Open Day, held in August 2013, showcased 19 trainer stables. Writer Norman Maitland describes the history of horse racing as "being in the blood in this part of Yorkshire for generations..." with meetings being advertised as early as 1692. The Malton Races were run on Langton Wolds, between 1692 and 1861.
Malton is also used to flooding, with notable floods in 1999, 2000, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021.
The 'We Love Malton' campaign was launched in March 2009. It aimed to reinvigorate the town of Malton as a 'Food Lovers' destination and raise its appeal with both residents and tourists. The 2015 festival included special guest chef Rosemary Shrager. The Festival for 2018 took place on 27 and 28 May. A harvest festival was also scheduled for 8 September. By 2017, the town was considered to be the food capital of Yorkshire. Malton is also well located for visiting the North York Moors and the seaside towns of Whitby, Scarborough and Bridlington.
Formed in 2011, Malton CIC benefits the area with donations to local organisations, including Ryedale Book Festival. The CIC also finances and provides two hours free parking in Malton's Market Place. It helps organise and fund Malton Food Lovers Festival and the Malton Monthly Food Markets.
Malton's churches include St Michael's Anglican church and Ss Leonard & Mary Catholic church. Preliminary work has commenced at the Methodist Wesley Centre which aims to repurpose the centre for use as a community hub alongside its purpose as a place of worship.
There are two secondary schools in Malton and Norton, Malton School, founded in 1547, and Norton College. Primary education is provided by St Mary's RC Primary School, Norton Community Primary School and Malton Community Primary School. The nearest independent school is Terrington Hall Prep School.
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Oliver's Mount TV transmitters. BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees is also received in the town from the Bilsdale TV transmitter.
Malton's local radio stations are BBC Radio York, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire and Coast & County Radio.
The local newspapers that cover the town are The York Press and Gazette & Herald.
As with the rest of the British Isles and Yorkshire, Malton possesses a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest Met Office weather station for which records are available is High Mowthorpe, about 6 miles (10 km) east of the town centre. Due to its lower elevation, the town centre is likely to be marginally warmer than High Mowthorpe throughout the year.
Malton railway station is a stop on the York-Scarborough line. TransPennine Express operates hourly trains in each direction between Scarborough and York; alternate services continue on to Leeds and Manchester Piccadilly. With a change at York, it is possible to reach London Kings Cross in around two and a half hours; a journey to Leeds takes around 50 minutes.
There are long-term aspirations to reopen the former railway between Malton and Pickering; this would provide services to Whitby over a distance of 32 miles (51 km).
Malton is bypassed by the A64, which runs between Leeds, York and Scarborough; there is a junction at the A169 to Pickering and Whitby.
Malton's main bus routes are run by Yorkshire Coastliner, a division of the Transdev Blazefield bus group; services link the town with Leeds, York, Whitby and Scarborough. Ryedale Community Transport operate regular services to Pickering, Castle Howard and Hovingham.
Notable people from Malton
Alan Brown – racing driver
Edmund Carter – cricketer
Adrian Dalby – cricketer
Brian Dutton – English professional football coach and former player
Simon Dyson – golfer
Terry Dyson – professional football player
Tim Easterby – racehorse trainer. Easterby's training stables Habton Grange are near Malton
Edgar Firth – cricketer
Scott Garnham – actor
Charles Hall – New Zealand politician
Francis Jackson – organist and composer
Richard Leonard MSP – Leader of the Scottish Labour Party (2017-2021)
James Martin – TV chef
Leo Sheffield – singer and actor
Jon Sleightholme – former England Rugby Union international
John Smith – author of Fruits and Farinacea and Principles and Practice of Vegetarian Cookery, an ovo-lacto vegetarian cookbook.
Ryan Swain – TV & Radio Presenter & DJ
Alfred Tinsley – cricketer
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In response to the Congressional budget debacle which proved that DC is but a colony -- prone to being singled out unlike any other city in the country -- a number of activists, elected officials, and general citizens came out in force upon the grounds of Capitol Hill.
The crowd first formed on the sidewalk, but after some opening remarks by elected officials and activists: they quickly spilled into the street. The Capitol Police had been on hand & I'd thought it amusing that a couple were taking photos & videos... it wasn't until I saw the wristbands come out when I realised these weren't officers enjoying the moment; they were recording evidence.
With many minutes of warning, large portions of the group shifted over the sidewalk; whilst a core of dedicated supporters -- including our Mayor, a number of councilmembers, and members of DC Vote -- remained behind to block the roadway. The officers began to surround the group & repeated their warnings to get back on the sidewalk or face arrest.
Now in all fairness to the Capitol Police: they were doing their job. They were quite courteous about it & the protest was similarly jubilant right back. One woman was first to be bound, soon followed by several other activists. Then came Muriel Bowser: first councilmember to be arrested.
In general, I tend to dislike political grandstanding... but this was different. If our council was being arrested by our own police, I'd think it a cheesy photo op... but now our locally-elected officials were being arrested by the very forces we were out to protest: the Feds. This wasn't a mere photo op arrest; this was actually a legitimate arrest... the kind of thing that goes on your record; the kind of thing you spent a night in jail for.
Now granted, I don't expect anyone will be in jail longer than tomorrow; I'd be surprised if any were still locked up by midnight tonight. But it was Councilmember Bowser's arrest which really hit a moment... you could see the look on her face was of some worried concern: someone who had never been arrested before & didn't show up here today expecting to be arrested. As she was placed into the police van: her look of concern changed to a bit more worry. I mean this as no knock against Councilmember Bowser's committment; rather I felt it really help to humanise the entire event. It made me respect her all the more.
Yvette Alexander stood right beside us for quite some time, complicated in that she didn't have her ID on her. While it was entertaining to see our top officials being frisked, it was also quite entertaining that our easily-recognisable councilmember needed her ID... prompting a standerby to call one of her staffers with the best introduction I've ever heard over a phone: "Hi, your councilmember has been arrested." Also, kudos to Councilmember Alexander for going to jail in high heels!
There is a lot I can complain about with the council in general; and certainly with individual councilmembers & even the mayor. Heck, that's what politicians are for: you're not supposed to always like them. But this was an opportunity to set aside some of those issues (frankly, I'd say DC was glad to have a unifying moment after the past couple weeks) and cheer on our own brothers & sisters as they stood up in support of our rights.
It was certainly a proud moment to be a DC resident and a fine boost to our collective esteem after several weeks of turmoil within our local & federal levels of government. It's aggravating that my support for small & local government is inhibited by those in Congress whom advocate small & local government. If I wanted to live in a colony, I'd have moved to Williamsburg.
Sacher cake
180 years is the Sachertorte old. It belongs so inextricably to Vienna as St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Vienna Boys' Choir. The chocolate cake with apricot jam and chocolate icing is probably the most famous cake in the world and in Austria a national institution. The secret of its pleasant taste lies in the simplicity of its composition and the perfect proportions of its ingredients. The original recipe by the Hotel Sacher is kept like a state secret. Currently, every year are produced around 300,000 original Sacher cakes by the Hotel Sacher. And because this is partly performed by hand, for this 21 pastry chefs and 25 packers are required. According to Adam Riese, representing about 40 pies per day and confectioner. The consumption of apricot jam alone lies by 70 tons per year.
The history of the Sacher Torte began in 1832 when Prince Metternich for the wedding of a friend of his, a painter, ordered his court kitchen to create a special dessert for his celebrity guests. "But that he did not bring shame on me, tonight!" the prince is supposed to have said to his head cook. Because this one but became ill (some sources say that he had shirked his responsibility), the last person in charge remained the 16-year-old pastry apprentice Franz Sacher (1816-1907).
So Franz Sacher invented the forerunner of future Sachertorte. Both the prince and his guests were wowed by the result. As trained cook, Franz Sacher after a few years of professional experience made himself independent and worked for the time being in Bratislava and then for a time on Danube ships between Vienna and Budapest. In 1848, he returned to Vienna and opened here a deli. Soon the chocolate cake of Franz Sacher became a bestseller.
Really famous became the Sachertorte only by Sacher's son Eduard Sacher (1843-1892) who during his training at the kuk Court Sugar Bakery Demel completed the indivual preparation of the pie in the form as we known it today. The Sachertorte was initially offered as an Original Sacher-Torte at Demel and later also in the by Eduard Sacher in the year 1876 founded Hotel. Decisive for the success of the hotel was Anna Sacher (1859-1930), the widow of Eduard Sacher, an energetic woman who not only smoked cigars but also knew how to inspire Vienna's "High Society" for herself and her hotel.
After the death of Anna Sacher and the bankruptcy of the hotel in 1934, the latter was sold and Eduard's son bearer of the same forename remained only the recipe of the Original Sacher-Torte, which he transferred to the Patisserie Demel.
Sachertorte
1938 saw the first disagreement with the new owners of the hotel who introduced the street sale of Sacher-Torte and had registered the designation of "Original Sacher-Torte" as a trademark. Thereupon, flared up between the pastry shop Demel and the Hotel Sacher a dispute over the right to the name.
In the decades ongoing lawsuits, also the authenticity of the individual preparation was a central point, namely the question whether the mandatory layer of apricot jam only should be spread under the chocolate icing (standpoint of Patisserie Demel) or if there had to be a second one in the middle of the cake (point of view of Hotel Sacher), and whether margarine should be mixed.
The famous journalist and writer Friedrich Torberg, who was a regular guest both in Demel as well at the Hotel Sacher, testified in court that the Sachertorte during the lifetime of Anna Sacher certainly not had a jam layer in the middle.
The legal wrangling extended through all instances. In 1963, finally, an agreement was reached out of court, as the Supreme Court Solomon-like differentiated between "real" and "original-cake": The Sacher Torte of Hotel Sacher from then on is allowed to display a round seal with the label "Original Sacher-Torte" while Demel a triangular seal "Eduard-Sacher-Torte" shows. Both Sacher cakes differ mainly by their jam layers. The Hotel Sacher-variant has two jam layers below the chocolate coating and in the center of the pie while the Demel version has only a jam layer below the chocolate coating.
Preparation
But Viennese people can be very rebellious when the authority wants to dictate them something. They have taken sides and vote with their feet by going to "Demel". Their Sacher-Torte is already referred to as the "real Sacher-Torte" in the vernacular.
The individual preparation of the "Original Sacher-Torte" is held by Hotel Sacher strictly under wraps. All the hotel's pastry chefs have signed that they do not pass on the recipe and are also not entitled to use it further on if they were to leave the company once. They assume liability. The products which are used to prepare the cake are created exclusively for the Hotel Sacher. The secret of the Sachertorte is not so much stuck in the ingredients but in the chocolate glaze, consisting of three special types of chocolate which are produced by various manufacturers especially for the Hotel Sacher, the exact mixing ratio being known only by Sacher-confectioners.
The fact that this recipe for success has found imitators, was to be expected. Everywhere in the world, is a chocolate cake that has been coated with one or more layers of apricot jam and covered with chocolate, called "Sachertorte". In Austria, but the lawmakers are more accurate. The term "Original Sacher-Torte" is a registered trademark that may be used exclusively by the Vienna Hotel Sacher. The term "Sachertorte" alone, but has now become a generic term which may be used for products which are produced according to the laid down in the Austrian Food Codex specifications.
Sachertorte
180 Jahre ist die Sachertorte alt. Sie gehört so untrennbar zu Wien wie der Stephansdom und die Wiener Sängerknaben. Die Schokoladentorte mit Marillenmarmelade und Schokoladenglasur ist vermutlich die berühm-tes-te Torte der Welt und in Österreich eine nationale Institution. Das Ge-heimnis ihres Wohlgeschmacks liegt in der Einfachheit ihrer Komposition und den perfekten Verhältnissen ihrer Zu-ta-ten. Das Originalrezept wird vom Hotel Sacher streng geheim gehalten. Zurzeit werden vom Hotel Sacher jedes Jahr etwa 300.000 Original-Sachertorten hergestellt. Und weil dies teilweise in Handarbeit ge-schieht, werden dafür 21 Konditoren und 25 Verpacker benötigt. Laut Adam Riese entspricht dies etwa 40 Torten pro Tag und Konditor. Allein der Verbrauch an Marillenmarmelade liegt bei 70 Tonnen pro Jahr.
Die Geschichte der Sachertorte begann im Jahr 1832, als Fürst Metternich zur Hochzeit eines befreundeten Malers seine Hofküche beauftragte, für seine prominenten Gäste ein besonderes Dessert zu erschaffen. "Dass er mir aber keine Schand’ macht, heut Abend!" soll der Fürst zu seinem Chefkoch gesagt haben. Weil dieser aber krank wurde (manche Quellen behaupten, er habe sich vor der Verantwortung gedrückt), blieb die Aufgabe am 16-jährigen Kon-ditorlehrling Franz Sacher (1816–1907) hängen.
Foto von David Monniaux (GNU-Lizenz für freie Dokumentation)
So erfand Franz Sacher die Vorläuferin der zukünftigen Sachertorte. Sowohl der Fürst als auch seine Gäste waren vom Ergebnis hingerissen. Als aus-ge-lern-ter Koch machte sich Franz Sacher nach einigen Jahren Berufserfahrung selb-ständig und arbeitete zu-nächst in Pressburg und dann eine Zeit lang auf Do-nau-schiffen zwischen Wien und Budapest. 1848 kehrte er zurück nach Wien und eröffnete hier einen Feinkostladen. Bald wurde die Schokoladetorte des Franz Sacher ein Verkaufsschlager.
Wirklich bekannt wurde die Sachertorte erst durch Sachers Sohn Eduard Sacher (1843–1892), der während seiner Ausbildung beim k.u.k. Hof-zu-cker-bäcker Demel die Rezeptur der Torte in ihrer heute bekannten Form vollendete. Die Sachertorte wurde zunächst als Original Sacher-Torte beim Demel und erst später auch im von Eduard 1876 gegründeten Hotel Sacher angeboten. Entscheidend für den Erfolg des Hotels war Anna Sacher (1859-1930), die Witwe von Eduard Sacher, eine energische Frau, die nicht nur Zigarre rauchte, sondern auch Wiens "High Society" für sich und ihr Hotel zu begeistern wusste.
Nach dem Tod von Anna Sacher und dem Kon-kurs des Hotels im Jahr 1934, wurde letzteres verkauft und Eduards gleich-na-mi-gem Sohn blieb nur noch das Rezept der Original Sacher-Torte, das er der Konditorei Demel übertrug.
Sachertorte
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1938 kam es zu ersten Meinungsverschiedenheiten mit den neuen Besitzern des Hotels, die den Straßenverkauf der Sacher-Torte einführten und die Be-zeich-nung "Original Sacher-Torte" als Markenzeichen eintragen ließen. Da-rauf-hin entbrannte zwischen der Konditorei Demel und dem Hotel Sacher ein Streit um das Recht auf diesen Namen.
In den jahrzehntelang anhaltenden Prozessen ging es auch um die Echtheit der Rezeptur, nämlich darum, ob die obligatorische Schicht Marillen-Mar-me-la-de nur unter die Schokoladenglasur (Standpunkt der Konditorei Demel) ge-hö-re, oder ob es eine zweite in der Mitte der Torte (Standpunkt des Hotel Sa-cher) geben müsse, und ob Margarine beigemischt werden dürfe.
Der berühmte Journalist und Schriftsteller Friedrich Torberg, der sowohl im Demel als auch im Hotel Sacher Stammgast war, bezeugte vor Gericht, dass zu Anna Sachers Lebzeiten die Sacher-Tor-te keinesfalls eine Marme-la-den-schicht in der Mitter gehabt habe.
Die gerichtlichen Auseinandersetzungen erstreckten sich durch alle Instanzen. 1963 einigte man sich schließlich außergerichtlich, als das oberste Gericht sa-lo-monisch zwischen "echter" und "Original"-Torte differenzierte: Die Sa-cher-tor-te vom Hotel Sacher [] darf von da an ein rundes Siegel mit der Auf-schrift "Original Sacher-Torte" führen, während der Demel [] ein dreieckiges Siegel mit der Aufschrift "Eduard-Sa-cher-Torte" führt. Die beiden Sachertorten unterscheiden sich vor allem durch ihre Marmeladenschichten. Die Hotel-Sa-cher-Variante weist zwei Mar-me-la-den-schich-ten auf, unterhalb der Kuvertüre und in der Mitte der Torte, während die Demel-Version nur eine Marme-la-den-schicht unterhalb der Kuvertüre aufweist.
Zubereitung
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Aber die Wiener können sehr widerspenstig sein, wenn die Obrigkeit ihnen etwas vorschreiben will. Sie haben Partei ergriffen und stimmen mit den Fü-ßen ab, indem sie zum "Demel" gehen. Deren Sacher-Torte wird im Volks-mund längst als die "Echte Sacher-Torte" bezeichnet.
Die Rezeptur der "Original Sacher-Torte" wird vom Hotel Sacher streng unter Verschluss gehalten. Alle Konditoren des Hotels haben unterschrieben, dass sie das Rezept nicht weitergeben und auch nicht weiter verwenden dürfen, falls sie den Betrieb einmal verlassen sollten. Sie haften dafür. Die Produkte, die zur Herstellung der Torte verwendet werden, werden exklusiv für das Hotel Sacher erstellt. Das Geheimnis der Sachertorte soll nicht so sehr in den Zutaten stecken, sondern in der Schokoladenglasur, die aus drei besonderen Schokoladensorten bestehen, die von unterschiedlichen Herstellern extra für das Hotel Sacher produziert werden, wobei das genaue Mischverhältnis nur den Sacher-Konditoren bekannt ist.
Dass dieses Erfolgsrezept Nachahmer gefunden hat, war zu erwarten. Überall auf der Welt wird eine Schokoladetorte, die in einer oder mehre-ren Schichten mit Marillen-Mar-me-la-de bestrichen und mit Schoko-la-de über-zo-gen worden ist, "Sachertorte" genannt. In Österreich nimmt es der Gesetz-ge-ber aber ge-nau-er. Die Bezeichnung "Ori-gi-nal Sacher-Torte" ist ein ge-schütztes Marken-zei-chen, das ausschließlich vom Wiener Hotel Sacher ver-wen-det werden darf. Der Begriff "Sachertorte" allein, ist ber mittlerweile ein Gattungsbegriff ge-worden, der für Produkte verwendet werden darf, die nach den im Öster-rei-chi-schen Lebensmittelkodex festgehaltenen Angaben hergestellt werden.
3D
Serves 35
This cake requires that the order is finalized and paid in full at least 10 days in advance of the date required.
The Big Lunch held on Vicarage Road in Croydon. A bucking bronco, bouncy castle, zumba class, Irish Dancers and a steel band, 1st June 2014
Zara Mitchen on the bucking bronco
Photography by Fergus Burnett
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At just after midnight on Friday 13 January, 2017, the LAFD responded to a reported traffic collision in the 4900 block of N Cahuenga Bl. Firefighters found two car collision with one adult female patient requiring extrication.
LAFD Incident: 011317-0019
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Required group shot. I tried to get them to get a little closer together, but like kids, they just don't listen! ;)
Best viewed larger on black, just click the pic!
This curve used to be a decent shot in the summer, but now it looks like it'll be a winter only shot! CN train M303, Wabamun Alberta
In camp at Kill Devil Hills, the Wright Brothers endured weeks of delays caused by broken propeller shafts during engine tests. After the shafts were replaced (requiring two trips back to Dayton), Wilbur won a coin toss and made a three-second flight attempt on December 14, 1903, stalling after takeoff and causing minor damage to the Flyer. (Because December 13, 1903, was a Sunday, the brothers did not make any attempts that day, even though the weather was good.) In a message to their family, Wilbur referred to the trial as having "only partial success", stating "the power is ample, and but for a trifling error due to lack of experience with this machine and this method of starting, the machine would undoubtedly have flown beautifully."
Following repairs, the Wrights finally took to the air on December 17, 1903, making two flights each from level ground into a freezing headwind gusting to 27 miles per hour (43 km/h). The first flight, by Orville at 10:35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph. The next two flights covered approximately 175 and 200 feet (53 and 61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively. Their altitude was about 10 feet (3.0 m) above the ground. The following is Orville Wright's account of the final flight of the day:
Wilbur started the fourth and last flight at just about 12 o'clock. The first few hundred feet were up and down, as before, but by the time three hundred ft had been covered, the machine was under much better control. The course for the next four or five hundred feet had but little undulation. However, when out about eight hundred feet the machine began pitching again, and, in one of its darts downward, struck the ground. The distance over the ground was measured to be 852 feet; the time of the flight was 59 seconds. The frame supporting the front rudder was badly broken, but the main part of the machine was not injured at all. We estimated that the machine could be put in condition for flight again in about a day or two.
Five people witnessed the flights: Adam Etheridge, John T. Daniels (who snapped the famous "first flight" photo using Orville's pre-positioned camera) and Will Dough, all of the U.S. government coastal lifesaving crew; area businessman W.C. Brinkley; and Johnny Moore, a teenaged boy who lived in the area. After the men hauled the Flyer back from its fourth flight, a powerful gust of wind flipped it over several times, despite the crew's attempt to hold it down. Severely damaged, the airplane never flew again. The brothers shipped it home, and years later Orville restored it, lending it to several U.S. locations for display, then to a British museum, before it was finally installed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 1948, its current residence.
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No More Required
One thing I learned when I was 8-years-old,
There is nothing, nothing, so wonderful,
Or beautiful, that it escapes awful
Laughing crowds and certain destruction. Pulled,
Smashed, torn apart, my carefully shoveled
Snow hut lay in ruins six times at school
Before my eyes were opened to the playful
Mob which tore it to pieces. I'd been lulled
Into a foolish expectation that
What I'd built on the playground was through when
Left on the playground, and would stand intact.
So, I was not ready for the rat pack's
Hooting dance of joy over the ruins.
Shall I create now when they can come at?
Mormonspeak for non-menbers: "Utah Mormons" are paranoid. For good reason. Many are descended from 1830 group that were harassed out of their homes NY. 1837 Burned out of OH had Exterminating Order issued against them by Gov. of MO, 1845 burned out of IL 1846, 1857 (declared in rebellion by US Congressman furious Brigham Young refused to sign a 50% of everything you develop is mine 1846 contract guarenteed to keep the US army off your back). 1857 army sent by US govt. while Mormons living 800 miles away from any neighbors, Women disenfranchised 1870's ballot box and statehood denied, 1865-80's polygamy battles property seized again,...1990 protesters shouting 'sluts' at bridal parties* as they came out of Temple Square *, 2000 Temple Plaza not seized in exchange for large extortion payment because anit-Mormon protests were not allowed private property access. 2010.... etc.
Mormons are not allowed to fight back.
If you do not want to join The Church, but do want to make friends, date, or with extreme cases have your kids play with a reluctant UT Mormon you must tell them you mean no harm a few times before they will believe you. It is far more common for a non-member to be insulted by the outsider-be-wary-doesn't-have-our-standards attitude than make several attempts to bridge it. The attitude may be light or very deep. But every time a UT Mormon sees how happy a non-member is over bad news for the Church , or a ''S.L. UT'' T-shirt they will circle the wagons tighter.
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*practice ended only after Salt Lake non-Mormon Church pastors, bishops, and priests condemned it as ''going too far''.
The grand park is one of the rare preserved Baroque gardens in Germany. Unfortunately, in November all the beautiful flora is done for the season. The Palace Garden is also the home of a 300-year-old tree that has survived several lightning strikes.
Schleißheim Palace
Oberschleißheim, Germany
The last five months (May-September 2023) required me to move a lot for a variety of professional and personal reasons. It was the first time in several years that I entered airplanes without carrying my DSLR camera. This resulted in me tinkering and thinking with my mobile phone camera, surpassing my snobbish attitude towards it as means of photographic expression. Visiting an old favourite antique store of mine, I was exposed to wallet-sized black and white pictures, very fashionable in the 1920s-1960s. Phenomenologically, I thought, these little pictures carried significance similar to the one carried by the myriads of photos nowadays stored on mobile phones. I tried to combine the sensory experience of black and white with the ease of mobile phone shooting, itself resembling certain types of pinhole cameras. Themes are the same as in my earlier photography: decayed and rusty patterns of disintegration, emptiness of spaces, outlier figures of the everyday, street signs and letters, nonhuman friends, naturecultures, and psychopolitically haunted scenes. Places include: Canada (Toronto), Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Alonnisos, Aghia, Larissa, Eleftheroupoli, Kavala), Scotland (Edinburgh), England (Manchester), France (Paris), Belgium (Brussels).
[Update] I have continued collecting such images throughout 2024. New places visited: Dublin, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Copenhagen, London, Stirling, Peebles, Amsterdam, Dundee, Madrid.
Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Rockefeller Apartments, built in 1935_37 and designed by the firm of Harrison & FouiIhoux, are a major example of the International Style. Commissioned by John D. Rockefeller,Jr. , and Nelson Rockefeller, they represent Wallace K. Harrison's first independent foray into contemporary architecture as well as his first of many collaborations with Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. Rockefeller Apartments changed the current standards in apartment house planning, giving 15 percent more space to light and air than required by the building codes Other apartment house plans sought only to provide the maximum number of livable and rentable rooms using every available inch.
These two buildings, designed as a unit, are a major and early example in this country of an architecture that synthesized the new currents in Europe, the functional and biological aesthetic, new building techniques, and the concern for public housing, propounded by Le Corbusier, J.J. Oud, and Otto Haesler, among others. This commission offered Harrison the opportunity to present an architectural expression particular to his own time. In their simplicity, use of industrial materials, smooth wall surfaces, and especially their fenestration these buildings are undeniably characteristic of the International Style. As such, Rockefeller Apartments occupy a place in the continuity of significant urban work in this city, in this country and in this century.
Rockefeller Apartments were not the family's first housing venture. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had sponsored workers' housing in Bayonne, New Jersey, and the Bronx in the early 'twenties, as well as apartment buildings in Harlem, Tarrytown and Cleveland. Andrew J. Thomas , designer of these housing project , had attracted Rockefeller's attention when he publicized his goal of rebuilding New York City, block by block, to wipe out the congestion of slum buildings. The Thomas Garden Apartments at 840 Grand Concourse in the Bronx was the first Rockefeller project. Called the first garden apartments, this five- and six-story complex occupies but 46 percent of the five-acre site.* Harlem's Dunbar Apartments .
ln 1927 the firm became Hood, Godley & Foui lhoux when Howells retired; Frederick Godley came to run the business, and Fouilhoux was made a partner. Following Howell's retirement, the firm underwent a radical change in design philosophy. The expressive mass of the earlier buildings was shaved to the very piers and spandrels, and these in contrasting polychrome stone or "brick revetment. The vertical emphasis of the Daily News Building and *the horizontal banding of the Beaux-Arts Apartments were achieved in this "manner. The shift in design from heavy modelling techniques to thinner surfaces and horizontal lines was complete with the McGraw-Hill * Building . Of these three the structural frame is most apparent, the wall surface appears thinnest, the sense of volume contained is most prevalent, and Ithe polychromy most resolved in the McGraw-Hill Building.
The design of Rockefeller Apartments proceeded through several stages. The first was an ordinary thirteen-story apartment block with setbacks at floors ten, twelve, and thirteen. By contrast the facades of Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux's Beaux-Arts Apartments seven years earlier are more exciting. Though the Beaux-Arts do not share a block-through site, both they and Rockefeller Apartments were conceived as pairs and parallel. The initial apartment design for Rockefeller Apartments is followed by a plan neatly drawn in pencil on overlay paper. On the right the floor plan is brought forward with square porches, one per apartment, cut into the corners.
Though more familiar, a quite different pattern occurs on the left. There is no projection, only two rounded bows, again one per apartment, side by side and flanked by internal balconies. |n the last plan, a blueprint all the internal porches are eliminated and the projection on the right has been replaced by two more rounded bows. The internal arrangement was used from the second to the eighth floors. In its design phases Rockefeller Apartments went from a remarkably conventional thirteen story apartment block to an entirely new plan and aesthetic.
Rockefeller Apartments were not only a product of Harrison's assimilated Functionalist vocabulary, the new school buildings of Haesler and others, Kocher and Frey's "Aluminaire House," or any lessons he had taken from Hood, but also may be seen as a textbook example of what has come to be called the International Style. The exhibition in 1932 at the new Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Architecture," curated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, synthesized for others what Harrison, consciously or unconsciously, must have known already. Not only was the European Functionalist trend recognized as a definite style, its architectural characteristics were identified. The three basic principles, architecture as volume, regularity in architecture, and the avoidance of applied decoration, and their dependent corollaries became dogma,. Nor were these the first declarations to affirm a new architecture. In his amplification of the proceedings of the first International Congress of Modern Architecture at Chateau de Sarraz in Switzerland, Andre Lurcat listed major concerns discussed: housing, new monuments, new techniques, standardizat ion , and new architectural elements. Of the new elements, pilotis, terraces, windows, color and electric lighting, he felt constrained to treat windows at some length.
The effect that Hitchcock and Johnson's stringent codification of Lurcat's first CIAM summary had upon Harrison can be judged in terms of the architecture of Rockefeller Apartments. The neutral tone and even bond of the twelve-inch bricks and the carefully scaled fenestration placed on the external edge of the wall preserve the continuity of the enclosed screen wall surface.' Nor do the vertical bows interrupt or dominate this continuity. These extended and orient the internal spaces toward more light and air. Their shape and location are in response to this function.
While Harrison may have drawn on other sources, too, there are at least three references to Haesler's work at the Rockefeller Apartments. Among architects and planners attracted to the Neue Sachlichkeit Haesler, whose schools Harrison had published, was universally admired. His legacy, the housing communities or Sledlungen, the very essence of the new aesthetic , stand in another country.sut three examples of Haesler's work were included in the Museum's exhibition, the catalogue, and book. Lewis Mumford praised Haesler's Georgsgarten Siadlung for its unity and consistency in street and house plans and architectural design.
Haesler's Siedlungen all were laid out in regular and parallel rows of dwelling units or Zeilenbau, a pattern favored by German housing reformers. The site between West 54th and 55th Streets, a relatively cramped urban space of 125 by 200 feet, lent itself to the Zeilenbau model. Though he could have used the U or H models, Harrison chose his parallel configuration for it was the most beneficial orientation for light and air and left a garden approximately 60 feet deep.
Hitchcock and Johnson's second principle, regularity, permits vertical elements when function requires it. Vertical facade elements, either containing stairs or windows can be seen at Georgsgarten in Celle and Rothenberg, in Kassel .
His reputation in this country was eclipsed by the attention given his contemporaries, the individualists within the new architecture cited earlier.
Indeed, the two-story window elements at Georgsgarten are of particular interest. They are glazed only on the two adjacent sides oriented south and west, creating a sense of privacy and admitting abundant light. In his Friedrich Ebert Schule project, the one Harrison introduced in School Buildings..., Haesler enlarged this concept of partially fenestrated bays into the row of seven, round classrooms, each glazed four-fifths way round. The vertical window elements at Georgsgarten, rounded five years later in the Luckenwalde school project, appear as the four vertical, cylindrical bows Harrison projected from the West 54th Street facade and the two on the West 55th Street facade of the Rockefeller Apartments. Though here only two-thirds of their circumference is glazed, Harrison faced three of these openings away from each other to ensure the privacy Haesler had created at Georgsgarten.
As their third principle Hitchcock and Johnson advocated the absence of ornament, but encouraged the development of standardized window detail suitable to mechanical production, creating both an economic and aesthetic solution. They noted that the excellence of an American factory building is largely that of its metal sashes.
Haesler's windows were generally simple, standardized, steel components. However, from their arrangements in the windows of the Teacher's Residence at Celle, it is apparent that the pattern of steel mull ions and muntins is a significant aesthetic feature. Though the irregular grid arrangement is dictated by function, it suggests both contained volume and human scale. Harrison's window detailing of the Rockefeller Apartments is one of the buildings' most significant features. While the steel transoms, casements, and ventilation hoppers subdivide window space, all with specific functions , their repetition creates the consistency and consequent unity 'necessary, and their pattern provides the only indication of the human dimensions this new aesthetic permitted. These window components are unalterable evidence of the buildings' architectural style.
It has been pointed out that the broken silhouette of these apartment buildings, with their symmetrically setback penthouses, terraces, and tall chimneys, is hardly pure Haesler, who consistently adhered to flat roofs with uninterrupted roof copings for his Siedlungen.As far as is known Haesler was not called upon to execute a housing project within a tight urban matrix. Furthermore, Harrison's sources were as broad as the international representation within CIAM. He had it all to draw upon. Hood's terminal signage on the McGraw-Hill Building would have inspired him as much as the work of such Frenchmen as Lurcat or Roux-Spitz.
In his autobiography Haesler recalled hating his narrow, dark, urban upbringing and how he came to believe in light-filled dwelling spaces. As a consequence he formulated his biologische Aesthetjk. In the "Modern Architecture" exhibition catalogue , Lewis Mumford paraphrased Haesler: shelter for such basics as hygiene and sanitation, rest and sleep, nutrition, recreation, reproduction , sunlight and air. That his Siedlungen placed him in the history of architecture pleased him very much for they were financed through Socialist government programs. "If you think I had obtained my commissions in the 'twenties and 'thirties because I was a Modern architect, you are mistaken. I obtained my commissions because I was twenty-five percent cheaper than all the others and for that reason only did 1 build modern." Though this might have been heresy to Lurcat, neither Mumford nor Harrison needed to know it to appreciate Haesler's architectural solutions.
By contrast, and as ironically, Rockefeller Apartments had been commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Nelson Rockefeller to provide accommodation near Rockefeller Center for the well-to-do executives and professionals employed in Midtown Manhattan. In their design Rockefeller Apartments displayed the concern for light and air that could be found neither in the typical Park Avenue apartment block nor in tenements of the Lower East Side.
The two buildings of the Rockefeller Apartments are located at 17 West 54th Street and 24 West 55th Street; each has a major facade which is a variant of the other. Each is an eleven-story block with a dramatic symmetrical cresting silhouette—setback penthouses with French doors opening onto terraces flanked by tall chimneys. But they differ in the number and height of the vertical cylindrical bows and in the orientation of these bows' glazed surfaces.
The 54th Street elevation has four of these vertical elements, two of ten stories bracketing two of eleven, each projecting from the main plane of the facade. The fenestration at each floor--six casements and transoms — in each of these juxtaposed cylinders modestly faces in opposite directions, east and west. On the main plane of the facade the fenestration at each floor is three casements with transoms above and ventilation hoppers below, except between each pair of cylinders where the casements are smaller and paired.
The 55th Street elevation, a variation of that on 54th Street, has only two vertical bows, each nine stories, which flank the main eleven-story portion of the facade which projects forward. The curved sides of this portion echo the inner cylinders on 54th Street. Here the fenestration—also six casements and transoms at each floor—of the curved surfaces faces in similar directions, east and east, west and west. Window units like those on 54th Street are arranged in groups of three paired on the flat portions of the facade. The difference in compass directions accounts for the difference in facade design. The 54th Street facade faces south and enjoys the full circuit of the sun all year round. The 55th Street facade faces north and at our latitude seldom receives full sunlight except in the early morning and late afternoon.
The structural steel skeleton frame of these buildings is enclosed by a smooth, tawny-colored brick surface made uniform by using regular twelve-inch bricks laid in mortar of approximately the same color and with thin joints. There are no deep reveals creating holes in the wall. All of the steel casement windows are placed on the outer edge of the bond to ensure the continuity of the wall surface. The only adornment is the shadow cast by the unconventional vertical bows, simple and eloquent testimony to their volume. But this is an unconventional building, responding to the biological aesthetic articulated by Haesler as well as conveying the moral integrity of the revolutionary International Style.
On 55th Street the centrally-placed entrance with its paired doors and a light fixture between the doors is both indicated and protected by a cantilevered metal canopy. Behind the flashing on the canopy are flanges with sliding hooks on each of the three sides. Canvas weather curtains once hung from these. The address of the building, executed in sans-serif aluminum characters, projects above the end of the canopy. Freestanding poured concrete planters flank the doorway. On 54th Street the ground floor bows contain professional offices. On 55th Street the ground floor incorporates storefronts, planned from the beginning to offer tenant services. The main entrance treatment is similar to that on 54th Street, except that light fixtures flank the paired doors, and there are no planters.
- From the 1984 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Day 2 of The Indy KA500 and After a Fantastic First Day of Racing and Celebrations now is where the Real Hard Work Begins as The Entire Field of 46 KA'S were in the Garages with Drivers Teams and Engineers at The Ready as they were about to tackle 8 Hours of the Indy Circuit.
With an 8 Hour Race anything can Happen and with such a Large Field of Cars a lot of Overtakes and Careful Navigation will be Required to Ensure Victory.
With The Start of The Race About to get underway Its Time to See Who will be able to Hold out the Longest and Take the Title of IndyKa500 Endurance Champion for 2021.
Hour 1 (11:04AM)
As The Field of 46 KA'S Completed the Formation Lap and Slowly made their way Towards the Start Finish Straight The Lights went Green and at Exactly 11:04AM the Race Had Begun.
Racing Down Towards Paddock Hill Bend it was The KA of Team (IP Racing's Adam Blair Scott Parkin Oliver Wilmot and Mark Witherington) Who took the Lead Followed Closely by Team (Octane Junkies Adam Smith Martyn Smith and Bazza Ward) in Second Place and Team (Alex Read Motorsport's Chris Reade Sam Luke's Carlito Miracco and Luke Read) in Third Place as they Thundered Up the Hill Towards The Tops of Druids and Back Down Again through Bottom Bend where Team (Ferguson Motorsport's Damon Astin Billy Ferguson Joe Ferguson and Daniel Ferguson) took the Lead from (Octane Junkies) before Flying Around The Track to Complete Lap 1 of 500.
As The Cars came Round Paddock for The Second Time The KA of (Ferguson Motorsport) Now Leads by a Heathy Margin While Further Back (IP Racing) and (Octane Junkies) Have A Fantastic Scrap over Second Place with The Two of Them Swapping The Lead Over and Over again. Car Number 55 of (Al Most Racers Alistair Hardie Alistair McDonald Lee Conway and Will Denny) was Seen Getting Air of The Inside Curb on the Exit of Paddock Hill Bend making for a Spectacular Sight.
Hour 2 (11:54AM)
Hour 2 and All 46 KA'S are Still Alive and Well with Each Driver Pushing Hard to Maintain their Advantage as the Tyres Begin to Warm Up and Start to Grip the Track More.
KA Number 56 Team (Hard And Enthusiastic Martyn Dilworth Mark Figes and Mike Hickey) are Locked in a Tight Battle at The Top of Paddock Hill Bend with KA Number 27 Team (Semprini Racing's Jeremy Evans James Hart Phil Hart and William Puttergill) as they Fight it Out Between the Two Cars for a Position.
Further Down the Field KA Number 23 Team (Kastrol's Michael Keegan Tim Keegan and David Murfitt) is Having its Own Battle with KA Number 4 of Team (Alex Read Motorsport) as The Two Teams Have a Go at One Another Thought the Course of The Lap trying Hard to Hold onto that Position they Worked so Hard for.
Another Battle at Paddock is the KA Number 3 of Team (Wingdat Racing's Andy Chapman Jonathan Barret and Wayne Jackson) Having to Fend off The KA Number 16 of Team (M and D Racing's Alex Martin Daniel Martin Tony Perfect and Mathew Rowling) as they Also were Looking to be in an Intense Battle Thought the Lap with Many Other Teams and Drivers Now Settling into a Rhythm. at The Endo f The Second Hour The KA't Mobile Number 49 of Team (LDR Performance Tuning's David Bywater Adrian Clarke Andy Grear Hardy and Sammy Bryan) is Seen Making its way Through Paddock Hill Bend and Through the Gravel Trap but Manages to Get Out Unaided and Safely.
At 12:12PM a Huge and Very Loud Crash is Heard at The Bottom of Paddock Hill Bend and Seen Rowling Through The Gravel Trap and Ending up on its Wheels is the KA Number 3 of Team (Windgat Racing) Bringing out the First Safety Car of The Endurance Race. Lucky The Driver was Fine and After a Few Minutes Due to The Recovery Taking Place they Are Back out in the Race But with a Lot of Catching Up to do.
Hour 3 (13:08PM)
With the Safety Car Now in the Race gets Back Underway and Already each Driver was Pushing Even Harder trying to either Create a Gap or Make Up for Lost Time Due to The Safety Car Intervention.
At The Top of Paddock Hill Bend a Fierce Battle is Taking Place Between the Two Teams of KA Number 13 and KA Number 155 Team (Deranged Motorsport's Jason Pelosi Josh Larkin and Alex Kelby) and Team (JRS's Nick Walker Alex Day and William Foster) as they Duel Thought the Whole of Paddock Hill Bend Starting at The Top and Still Keeping the Fight Going Right Up towards Druids in The End Deranged Motorsport Wins Out and Takes The Position Away from JRS.
At 13:24PM The Fighting Between each Team Continues at The Top of Paddock Hill Bend which is Proving to be the Best Overtaking Area as Each Car has Only 73 Break Horse Power so Carrying as Much Speed as Possible from the Main Straight Towards Paddock is Essential for a Successful Overtake.
Team (Piston Heads Peter Dignan Oliver Lewis Benjamin Lowden and Sam Sheehan) Battles it out with Team (LDR Performance Tuning's Laurence Davey Mike Paul James Parker and Glen Copeland) as The Two Cars Do Battle for All to See with Team LDR Taking The Position Away.
At 13:39PM A Set of 4 KA's are Seen Fighting Their Way up Towards Druids with All Four Teams not Giving up the Fight as they Swap Positions Relentlessly with not One Driver Willing to Give Up his Position.
The 98 55 53 and 13 All Really Having a Good Go at One Another Thought their Fight. As The Sun Starts its Slow Dissent Down Over The Hills and Valleys that Surround The Circuit Bottom Bend was Providing Some More Opportunities for Drivers to do Battle with One Another. A Four way Fight Between KA's Number 56 51 44 and 64 was Occurring with Number 56 Holding Strong at The Front of This Fight and Leading them on Towards Clearways.
Finally at 13:48PM An Epic Battle Between KA's Number 64 and 44 was Witnessed Through Bottom Bend with The Likes of The Number 64 Bouncing a Wheel Into The Air as The Car Took the Tight Racing Line making for an Amazing Picture and a Superb bit of Car Control To Keep that KA Pointing The Right Way.
Hour 4 (14:02PM)
The Fourth Hour and Pit Stops and Driver Changes were Imminent with Many Teams Choosing to Go into The Pits to Change Both Drivers and Top Up the Fuel as Well as Change Tyres if Necessary. Every Team was Running to a Different Strategy Depending Upon the Amount of Drivers they Had with Teams of Four Drivers Taking 2 Hours in the Car Each While Teams of Three or Less would Have to Take on Longer Stints of 3 To Maybe Even 4 Hours in the Car Hoping that Having to do Fewer Driver Changes would Mean they could make Up The Difference on Track.
Back on The Track at 14:02PM More Battles were Commencing Through Pilgrims Drop With KA's Number 81 Team (GM Performance's Gary Mitchell and Ian Mitchell) Going Head to Head with KA Number 46 Team (JDC Motorsport's Stu Neal Andy Gaugler and Simon Walker Hensell) with The KA of GM Performance Narrowly Taking The Place From JDC Motorsport on the Run towards Clearways.
At 14:20PM a Fantastic Battle Between KA Number's 18 100 127 3 55 and 115 was Seen as they Powered their Way onto Clearways with 155 Leading Followed by 55 and 3 127 100 and 18 All Slowly Gaining Ground to the Two Leading KA's at The Front of This Train.
Shortly After This Train of Cars Came Through Another Train of 5 KA's was not Far Behind this Time Being Lead by Number 13 Deranged Motorsport with 131 (Team Viking's Mark Holme Harry Nunn and Nick Nunn) Then came Number 4 Alex Read Motorsport with 98 Piston Heads and 41 (Rowe Rage Motorsport's Alex Butler Greg Caswell Jason Handcock and Sam Rowe) As they All Fought Hard to Catch One Another Thought their Fight.
KA's Number 98 4 and 64 were Also Seen at 14:48PM Having a Really Good Three Way Fight with 64 and 98 Side by Side down Pilgrims Drop with The Number 4 Car Closing Fast.
At 14:54PM A Final Battle was Seen on the Run Up Towards Clearways with The KA's of Number 60 (Powerflex's David Power Paul Cowland and Dom David) Battling Hard with KA's Number 7 (G and B Finch's Joe Bragg Lee Finch Steve Finch Benjamin Smith and Arthur Thurtle) and Number 127 (Fat Boys Racing's Charlie Jackson and Matt Pinny) with The Number 7 KA Leading The Trio On Towards Clearways as The Sun Began to Set.
Hour 5 (15:25PM)
The Fith Hour and a Swarm of KA's were Seen Storming Down the Main Straight towards Paddock Hill Bend with the Number 131 Car of (Team Viking) in the Lead by Some Distance Followed by Number 64 125 18 81 and 155 as they All Made their Way Towards Paddock for another Chance at an Overtake.
Another Battle Followed Closely Behind with KA Numbers 11 18 49 and 111 All Fighting as Well in order to Maintain or Improve their Positions as The Race Went on.
At 15:28PM The Safety Car was Out again While Another KA Somewhere on Track was Being Recovered and The Leading car Number 36 IP Racing's (Adam Blair Scott Parkin Oliver Wilmot and Mark Witherington's Lead Evaporates as the Field is Once again Bunched up.
Behind Them are KA's Number 44 (Mini Challenges Max Coates Dominic Wheatley Lewis Saunders and Dan Zelos) Looking to Make a More Once the Safety Car Period Ends The 14 of (Frugal Racing) and 51 of (Barwell Autosport's Taylor Norton Kamran Tunio Ryan Brinsted and Kester Cook) Also Looking to Take the Lead of This Endurance Race.
At 15:36PM The Car that Had Caused The Safety Car was Seen Being Recovered into the Outer Garage Area where cars are Held Before the Start of Each Race. KA Number 46 (JDC Motorsport) Had Made Contact Somewhere on the Circuit and Looked to Have a Broken Front Left Steering Arm with the Wheel Being Completely Bend Backwards into The Car with the Car Heading Back to the Garage for Repairs Before Rendering The Race Quite a Few Laps Down.
15:38PM and The Two KA's of Positive Motorsport's Andrew Rogerson Samuel Rendon and Ryan Frith Battle it Out with Number 13 Deranged Motorsport Through Westfield Towards Dingle dell with The Number 13 Beautifully Sweeping Around the Outside to Take The Position Away.
Another Battle was Seen at 15:38PM with (Alex Read Motorsport) Number 4 Battling Number 64 (Auto Teach Motorsport's Reece Kellow Andrew Howell Luca Ataccini Anzanello and Megan) through Westfields Side by Side on Towards Dingle dell.
Finally at 15:57PM Another KA Had Fallen Victim to an Issue with the Number 23 Car of (PSR's Carl Beresford Russel Danzey Tom Gilbert and Jack Wood) Being Taken on the Back of the Recovery Truck to The Garages for Repairs Before Going back Out into The Race as Night Began to Fall Upon The Indy Circuit.
Hour 6 (16:15PM)
As The Light Slowly began to Fade Away from the Indy Circuit Many Drivers were Now starting to use their Headlights as The Lighting Conditions got Darker and Darker as Time went by.
At 16:15PM A Massive Group of Cars came Flying Down Through Paddock Hill Bend with KA Number 55 Al Most Racers on the Inside Line 127 Fat Boys Racing on the Middle Line and 39 Kameleon Racing's Chris Bright Richard Cox Steve Goldsmith and Leigh Youles Michael on the Outside Line as they Fought their way Through the Bend and Up Towards Druids.
At 16:21PM Piston Heads Racing KA Number 98 was Seen Leading another Group of Cars Through Paddock Hill Bend with Numbers 41 52 33 and 2 All Fighting for Places as they Came Towards Paddock Hill Bend.
16:24PM and The Paddock Hill Bend Gravel Trap Claims Another Victim This Time the Number 131 KA of Team Viking Had Ended up Taking a Trip Through it Before a Half Spin Left Him Facing the Marshalls Post Opposite before Returning to the Track after Losing a Few Places. Recovery Teams set to work Once Again with The Safety Car Being Called into Action for The Third Time.
16:40PM and at The Top of Paddock Hill Bend a Three way Fight Becomes a Two Way Fight as The Number 127 KA of Fat Boys Racing Goes for a Spin after Trying to Get a Run on the Number 19 KA of LDR Performance Tuning with The Number 14 Car of Frugal Racing Just Narrowly Missing The Spinning Car.
16:42PM and a Final Intense Battle Between the Number 44 KA and The Number 1 KA of Burton Power Racing's Andy Burton Kyle Sagar Tom Valentine and Sammy Venables as They Fight Hard to try and Take that Position away from Mini Challenge to Round off The 6th Hour.
Hour 7 (16:50PM)
The Seventh Hour and at The Bottom of Surtees a Massive Crash is Heard as The KA's of Number 42 The K Teams (Paul Simmons Edward Simmons Glen Woodbridge Damo) is Seen Running off Track with Number 13 Deranged Motorsport Onto The Grass and Number 81 GM Performance Being Spun Out Trying to Avoid The Carnage in Front. All Drivers Okay and They Get back on Track and Continue on As Day Turns into Night.
17:02PM and a Top of Druids The Ka's of Number 72 Misty Racings (Adam Bonham and Simon Bonham) are Fighting Hard to Keep their Position from the Number 49 Car of LDR Performance Tuning as well as Number 7 of G and B Finch Trying to Find a Way Through on the Outside of Druids. The 98 of Piston Heads is also Closing in by This Stage with Headlights A Blaze.
17:05PM and Coming Towards Druids is a Sea of KA's All With Headlights A Blaze as they Fight for Positions Cars Number 60 3 19 and 39 All in Different Positions and Yet Still Fighting to try and Gain an Advantage that Could Swine this Endurance Race in Any of the Teams Favours. Further Back 127 and 140 Are Doing Battle on the Run Up Towards Druids.
17:09PM Once Again Another Battle at Druids This Time its The Trio of Number 127 36 and 60 That are All Trying to Better One Another in their Attempt to Gain a Place with Number 36 IP Racing Leading The Way.
17:14PM One Final Battle is Seen Coming Up towards Druids with The Number's 18 44 55 and 2 Fighting it Out Number 2 Kastrol's Has The Lead of This Group of Cars with Blazing Bright Headlights to Aid the Drivers Around The Circuit.
17:27PM and Now Darkness was Everywhere Making Visibility Very Difficult and Yet this did not Stop the Likes of Cars Number 128 JTR's Eliot Mason Nick Tandy David Mason and James Rhodes from Battling with Car Number 16 M and D Racing's Alex Martin Daniel Martin Tony Perfect and Mathew Rowling. In a Daring Move in the Pitch Black Darkness The Two Cars Go Side by Side Trying to Gain One over The Other Before JTR's Takes The Inside Line and The Position.
17:30PM Another Daring Battle is Captured Between The Number 180 Car of (Shine Auto motive's Colin French Mathew Eldridge and Wayne Clelland) and Number 44 (Mini Challenge's Max Coates Dominic Whitely Lewis Saunders and Dan Zelos) Defending The Outside Line as Best as they Can but Ultimately Shine Automotive Makes their way Through.
17:51PM A KA is Seen Flying Down Through The Bottom of Druids and into a Cloud of Dust Caused by Another KA Going off The KA is Just Barely Visible Showing The Dangers of what can Happen at Night When Visibility Becomes Low or Obstructed. Other KA's Soon Followed Through the Dust Cloud as Well with Many Backing off Slightly In case a Car was Stuck out on The Track but Thankfully All was Good as Hour 7 Ended.
Hour 8 (17:56PM) (THE FINAL HOUR)
The FINAL Hour of The 8 Hour Indy KA 500 and With Every Driver Now Getting into a Rhythm it was Up to Each Teams Last Driver to Strap in and Go for it to the Checkered Flag. However not All had gone to Plan for every Driver as The Number 29 KA of LDR Performance Tuning Found Out Slipping into the Gravel and Costing Them a Ridge Back to the Pits for Repairs with Less than 1 Hour to go.
18:00PM and The Number 2 KA of Kastrol's was Captured Racing Through Paddock Hill Bend During The Night Pushing Incredibly Hard to Ensure a Good Top 25 Finnish in the Points with Headlights Illuminating their way Around Paddock Hill Bend as The Car Flew Through The Bend.
18:30PM The Safety Car was Out for The Last Time During The Race and was Captured Leading a whole Train of KA's Through Pilgrims Drop and Onto Clearways with Each Driver Poised and Ready to Get Going Once the Safety Car Had Come In.
19:07PM An Amazing Sight to Behold with Just 15 Minutes Left on the Clock a Huge Rush of KA's Flooded their way Down The Main Straight and Past The Start Finnish Straight with Headlights on Full Beam to Aid in Visibility. The Number 8 KA Leads The way in This Group of Cars with The Number 18 CHR Hoonikan Car of Stratton MacKay Dave Mayer and Paul Robson Closing in Behind.
19:09PM And The Green Flag is Dropped for The Final Time as The Safety Car Comes into the Pitlane All 44 Remaining KA's Race Towards Druids with the Field so Bunched up this is Anyone's Race to both Win or Lose at This Stage.
The Number 42 KA of The K Teams Paul Simmons Edward Simmons and Glen Woodbridge Damo takes off Leading from Number 20 A Reeve's Motorsport Aron Reeve Stuart Lane and Andy Godfrey while The Number 127 of Fat Boys Racing Chases Them Down into a Nail Biting Finnish at The Centre of The Field.
19:13PM A Group of Six KA's are Captured Having an Intense Battle with Only 5 Minutes Left to Run The Likes of KA Number 127 36 and 128 All Putting Up One Hell of a Good Fight in The Closing Stages of The Endurance Race with Some Drives Having Driven for 4 Hours Straight.
19:21PM and after 8 Hours of Continuous Racing and 5 KA's Out of The Race The Checkered Flag was Ready and Waiting as The Number 81 KA of GM Performance's Gary Mitchell and Ian Mitchell Takes the Victory at The 2021 8 Hour Indy Car 500!!!! Followed Closely by The Number 72 Car Misty Racing's Adam Bonham and Simon Bonham in Second Place with KA Number 14 Frugal Racing's Jim McDougal Callum McDougal Mike Marais and Leon Bidgeway Taking Third Place.
A Huge Congratulations to The Overall Top Three Winners and to All of the other Teams and Competitors for Showing some Incredible Racing To End of The 2021 Motorsport Season. From
Historic Formula 1 to Classic Touring Cars To The Indy KA 500 This Season Has been One of The Best to Date.
See You All Again Next Year Where We Will do it All Over Again.
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The Great Egret is a large bird with all-white plumage that can reach one meter in height, weigh up to 950 grams (2.1 lb) and a wingspan of 220 to 265 cm. It is thus only slightly smaller than the Great Blue or Grey Heron (A. cinerea). Apart from size, the Great Egret can be distinguished from other white egrets by its yellow bill and black legs and feet, though the bill may become darker and the lower legs lighter in the breeding season. In breeding plumage, delicate ornamental feathers are borne on the back. Males and females are identical in appearance; juveniles look like non-breeding adults. It is a common species, usually easily seen. It has a slow flight, with its neck retracted. This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes, ibises and spoonbills, which extend their necks in flight.
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Latvian Health Minister Juris Bārzdiņš: Nordic Walking does not require much, but it definitely provides good results!
In this article Latvian Health Minister Juris Bārzdiņš talks about his Nordic Walking experiences - from the beginnings of his Nordic Walking hikes to the benefits brought about by Nordic Walking.
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Latvian Health Minister Juris Bārzdiņš: Nordic Walking does not require much, but it definitely provides good results!
We live at the seaside near Riga (the capital of Latvia), and our family have always loved walking by the sea. During simple walks, however, both our speed and the physical load seemed too low. So in order to make our walks more sporty, I and my wife decided to try Nordic Walking.
We started at the end of 2009. We tried it, we liked it and during our first attempt at Nordic Walking we walked from Vaivari to Ragaciems. Of course, for several days after the first time I certainly knew that I had been active! However, the next weekend I was ready to do some more Nordic Walking.
We are not serious or professional sportsmen in our family. We are more disposed towards ensuring general healthiness. I use a stepping machine for fifteen minutes in the mornings and in summer I go cycling and sailing whenever possible. My newly discovered Nordic Walking interest gave me an opportunity to do something sporty in the open air, irrespective of the weather conditions.
During the first few Nordic Walking expeditions we walked in the snow – last year there was snow on the ground until April. But the weather became warmer and warmer and while walking on the beach we began to notice some amber. We met other Nordic Walkers more frequently as well. So we kept up our exercise in this fashion, breathing fresh air and observing how spring was blossoming after the winter.
We saw Chinese mitten crabs at the seaside in summer. If the sum total of kilometres covered during our Nordic Walking sessions were to be counted, by the beginning of summer we could have made a journey from Vaivari to Kolka (around 100 km).
Sometimes I went out for a walk together with my wife, sometimes with the children (who are aged eleven and sixteen) and the dog. It is a great pleasure that we can get as far as twenty kilometres during a walk. It is important that parents conduct their sporting activities along with their children, otherwise the next generation may become even more sedentary than we are. This is an area in which I can remember my parents with a good word – there was no Nordic Walking then, but we did go trekking and skiing, and participated in boat trips.
When talking about the technique of Nordic Walking, I must note that I believe that the motions involved, the walking rhythm, are all given to us by nature and we do them automatically. The poles allow more involvement of the upper body and arms in the walking process and you can feel that all of your body is working.
Sometimes, when we do not meet any Nordic Walkers at the beach, the prints of their poles are still visible in the sand. It soon becomes obvious that somebody else does their Nordic Walking here. You are not alone.
It would be great if doctors prescribed not only medicines, but recommended various health promoting and sports-orientated activities. Nordic Walking poles are not expensive. There are plenty of groups and instructors, and different Nordic Walking events are held regularly. Nordic Walking is accessible. Nordic Walking is a series of natural movements which load the body safely and efficiently. Many of doctors do Nordic Walking. I recommend Nordic Walking both as a doctor and based on my personal experience – it does not require much, but it definitely provides good results.
I believe the values of human life need to be changed. People often find it important to dress trendy, to purchase luxury cars, and some people just... spend their time in shopping centres, but this is not enough to ensure a good quality of life. Will you be able to enjoy life if your health is poor due to your own negligence?
It is more important to do something good for your health, to be fit and in a good mood and to be able to spend time well with the people who are close to you. Everybody is responsible for their own health. I recommend Nordic Walking as one of the healthiest kinds of sporting activities, and one which provides joy in all seasons.
I wish you all good health and the joy that is achieved through an active and healthy lifestyle!
And let us encourage everyone who has not tried Nordic Walking. Go ahead and try it!
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Veselības ministrs Juris Bārzdiņš: nūjošana neprasa daudz, bet sniedz tiešām labus rezultātus!
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Министр здравоохранения Юрис Барздиньш: северная ходьба много не требует, но даёт действительно хороший результат!
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