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"Spanish ship hits only rock in middle of 106.4 million kilometre² ocean"
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The Scottish islet of Rockall is the world's most pointless island, so much in fact that the British Ordnance Survey downgraded it from an island to an islet in March 1996. Rockall was only discovered on the 7th June, 1995 when a small portion of the Tartan Army became lost in fog on their way to the Faroe Islands to watch the first ever match played between the two sides at Toftir (see photo). On their return voyage however, the British Government refused to believe that such an island (or islet) existed until it was finally discovered on Google Earth in 2001.
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Rockall is located around 229.1 statute miles west of the Western Isles, Scotland and somewhere further out to sea than the floating iceberg of St Kilda. The islet's name is thought to be derived from the Gaelic name Sgeir Rocail, although it almost certainly derived from the anglicised name Fuck All due to it's tiny size and incredible remoteness. Rockall is famous around the world for being the world's last explored island, so late than man had even walked on Mars before the famous Saltire was drilled into the hard rock built from granite. Geologists believe that Rockall may in fact be the tip of a large super volcano, one of several which can be found along the margins of the Rockall Trough.
Rockall currently only covers a smal area of 570 m², although it was formerly an island the size of St Kilda as part a small archipaelago before the majority of the island was destroyed during NATO bombing, the islet being the only remaining rock. At present, it is loaned out to NATO on a peppercorn rent who may take great pleasure in bombing the shit out of it, just like they currently do at Cape Wrath, Durness on the Scottish Mainland. It is also thought that several of the local seabirds (the puffin inparticular) also suffer from anthrax contamination from previous tests. It also currently acts as a dumping ground for nuclear waste which is sent out to see from the Dounreay power station in Caithness.
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It is believed that a small community once lived on the islet due to a large sculture of a head which has since been bought and relocated to Easter Island to make space for the thousands of seabirds which now inhabit the islet. The only other documented expedition was in 1686. This famous voyage involved a Spanish merchant ship which was bound for the New World with a valuable cargo of 250 Spaniards looking to start a new life in pastures new. However, it all ended in tragedy. With Rockall being the only bit of rock found between the nearest bit Scottish mainland and Canada and the entire Atlantic Ocean to sail across, you would imagine that all they had to do was avoid a 570 m² bit of rock somewhere in the middle. So in typical Spanish tradition, what do they do? That's right... hit it!
edit Politics
The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland have both agreed to ignore Rockall. Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister claims that it does not exist, mainly down to the fact that it doesn't help either Scotland or the UK win any waters to drill for oil or water. Denmark were once thought to be interested in claiming it as part of the Faroes but realised that with 23 tonnes of bird shit to clean up every day, it would not have been economically viable to undertake such a takeover. Iceland have also prevoiusly put forward a takeover proposal as the Icelandic government wish to add this to their collection of other useless rocks scattered around.
edit Anthem
Rockall has an anthem. You will a lot of sea birds screaming and the slap of waves hitting it to be in the right mood to sing this.
Oh the empire is finished no foreign lands to seize So the greedy eyes of England are looking towards the seas Two hundred miles from Donegal, there's a place that's called Rockall And the groping hands of Whitehall are grabbing at its walls Oh rock on Rockall, you'll never fall to Britain's greedy hands Or you'll meet the same resistance that you did in many lands May the seagulls rise and pluck your eyes and the water crush your shell, And the natural gas will burn your ass and blow you all to hell. For this rock is part of Ireland, 'cos it' s written in folklore That Fionn MacCumhaill took a sod of grass and he threw it to the fore, Then he tossed a pebble across the sea, where ever it did fall, For the sod became the Isle of Man and the pebble's called Rockall. Now the seas will not be silent, while Britannia grabs the waves And remember that the Irish will no longer be your slaves, And remember that Britannia, well, - she rules the waves no more So keep your hands off Rockall - it's Irish to the core.


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Death in Venice
Author | Thomas Mann |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Genre | Novella |
Publisher | S. Fischer Verlag |
Publication date
1912 |
Published in English
1924 (periodical), 1925 (book) |
Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann, first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig.[1] The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer finds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile, Venice, and finally, the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being first the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus.
The boy in the story (Tadzio) is based on a boy (Władzio or Tadzio, nicknames for the Polish name Władysław or Tadeusz respectively) Mann had seen during a visit to Venice in 1911.
- Plot summary 1
- Origins 2
- Allusions 3
- The real Tadzio 4
- Translations 5
- Adaptations 6
- See also 7
- References 8
- Notes 9
- External links 10
Plot summary
The main character is Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author in his early fifties who has recently been ennobled in honor of his artistic achievement (thus acquiring the aristocratic "von" in his name). He is a man dedicated to his art, disciplined and ascetic to the point of severity, who was widowed at a young age. As the story opens, he is strolling outside a cemetery and sees a coarse-looking red-haired foreigner who stares back at him belligerently. Aschenbach walks away, embarrassed but curiously stimulated. He has a vision of a primordial swamp-wilderness, fertile, exotic and full of lurking danger. Soon afterwards, he resolves to take a holiday.
After a false start in traveling to Pula on the Austro-Hungarian coast, Aschenbach realizes he "was meant" to go to Venice and takes a suite in the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido island. While shipbound and en route to the island he sees an elderly man, in company with a group of high-spirited youths, who has tried hard to create the illusion of his own youth with a wig, false teeth, makeup, and foppish attire. Aschenbach turns away in disgust. Soon afterwards he has a disturbing encounter with an unlicensed gondolier—another red-haired, skull-faced foreigner—who repeats "I can row you well" when Aschenbach orders him to return to the wharf.
Aschenbach checks into his hotel, where at dinner he sees an aristocratic Polish family at a nearby table. Among them is an adolescent boy of about fourteen years in a sailor suit. Aschenbach, startled, realizes that the boy is supremely beautiful, like a Greek sculpture. His older sisters, by contrast, are so severely dressed that they look like nuns. Later, after spying the boy and his family at a beach, Aschenbach overhears the lad's name, Tadzio, and conceives what he first interprets as an uplifting, artistic interest.
Soon the hot, humid weather begins to affect Aschenbach's health, and he decides to leave early and move to a more salubrious location. On the morning of his planned departure, he sees Tadzio again, and a powerful feeling of regret sweeps over him. When he reaches the railway station and discovers his trunk has been misdirected, he pretends to be angry, but is really overjoyed; he decides to remain in Venice and wait for his lost luggage. He happily returns to the hotel and thinks no more of leaving.
Over the next days and weeks, Aschenbach's interest in the beautiful boy develops into an obsession. He watches him constantly and secretly follows him around Venice. One evening, the boy directs a charming smile at him, looking, Aschenbach thinks, like Narcissus smiling at his own reflection. Disconcerted, Aschenbach rushes outside, and in the empty garden whispers aloud, "I love you!"
Aschenbach next takes a trip into the city of Venice, where he sees a few discreetly worded notices from the Health Department warning of an unspecified contagion and advising people to avoid eating shellfish. He smells an unfamiliar strong odour everywhere, later realising it is disinfectant. However, the authorities adamantly deny that the contagion is serious and tourists continue to wander round the city, oblivious. Aschenbach at first ignores the danger because it somehow pleases him to think that the city's disease is akin to his own hidden, corrupting passion for the boy. During this period, a third red-haired and disreputable-looking man crosses Aschenbach's path; this one belongs to a troupe of street singers who entertain at the hotel one night. Aschenbach listens entranced to songs that, in his former life, he would have despised – all the while stealing glances at Tadzio, who is leaning on a nearby parapet in a classically beautiful pose. The boy eventually returns Aschenbach's glances, and, though the moment is brief, it instills in the writer a sense that the attraction may be mutual.
Next, Aschenbach rallies his self-respect and decides to discover the reason for the health notices posted in the city. After being repeatedly assured that the sirocco is the only health risk, he finds a British travel agent who reluctantly admits that there is a serious cholera epidemic in Venice. Aschenbach considers warning Tadzio's mother of the danger; however, he decides not to, knowing that if he does, Tadzio will leave the hotel and be lost to him.
One night, a dream filled with orgiastic Dionysian imagery reveals to him the sexual nature of his feelings for Tadzio. Afterwards, he begins staring at the boy so openly and following him so persistently that Aschenbach feels the boy's guardians have finally noticed, and they take to warning Tadzio whenever he approaches too near the strange, solitary man. But Aschenbach's feelings, though passionately intense, remain unvoiced; he never touches Tadzio, or even speaks to him; and while there is some indication that Tadzio is aware of his admiration, the two exchange nothing more than the occasional surreptitious glance.
Aschenbach begins to fret about his aging face and body. In an attempt to look more attractive, he visits the hotel's barber shop almost daily, where the barber eventually persuades him to have his hair dyed and his face painted to look more youthful. The result is a fairly close approximation to the old man on the ship who had so appalled Aschenbach. Freshly dyed and rouged, he again shadows Tadzio through Venice in the oppressive heat. He loses sight of the boy in the heart of the city; then, exhausted and thirsty, he buys and eats some over-ripe strawberries and rests in an abandoned square, contemplating the Platonic ideal of beauty amidst the ruins of his own once-formidable dignity.
A few days later, Aschenbach goes to the lobby in his hotel, feeling ill and weak, and discovers that the Polish family plan to leave after lunch. He goes down to the beach to his usual deck chair. Tadzio is there, unsupervised for once, and accompanied by an older boy, Jasiu. A fight breaks out between the two boys, and Tadzio is quickly bested; afterward, he angrily leaves his companion and wades over to Aschenbach's part of the beach, where he stands for a moment looking out to sea; then turns halfway around to look at his admirer. To Aschenbach, it is as if the boy is beckoning to him: he tries to rise and follow, only to collapse sideways into his chair.
His body is discovered a few minutes later.
Mann's original intention was to write about "passion as confusion and degradation", after having been fascinated by the true story of Goethe's love for 18-year-old Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow, which had led Goethe to write his Marienbad Elegy.[2] The May 1911 death of composer Gustav Mahler in Vienna and Mann's interest in the boy Władzio during summer 1911 vacation in Venice (more below) were additional experiences occupying his thoughts. He used the story to illuminate certain convictions about the relationship between life and mind, with Aschenbach representing the intellectual. Mann was also influenced by Sigmund Freud and his views on dreams, as well as by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who had visited Venice several times.
The novella is rife with allusions from antiquity forward, especially to Greek antiquity and to German works (literary, art-historical, musical, visual) from the eighteenth century on.
One important framework of references points to Greek mythology; Aschenbach's Venice seems populated by the gods. By dedicating himself to Apollo, whom Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy took to represent restraint, form and the intellect, Aschenbach has denied the power of Dionysus, Nietzsche's god of unreason and of passion – a voluntary act of what Freud would call "suppression". Dionysus seems to have followed Aschenbach to Venice with the intent of destroying him: the red-haired man who keeps crossing von Aschenbach's path, in the guise of different characters, could be a figure of Silenus, Dionysus's mythological chief disciple. In the Benjamin Britten opera these characters (the traveller, the gondolier, the leading player and the voice of Dionysus) are played by the same baritone singer, who also plays the hotel manager, the barber and the old man on the Vaporetto. The trope of placing classical deities in contemporary settings was popular at the time when Mann was writing Death in Venice: in England, at almost the same time, E. M. Forster was at work on an entire short-story collection based on this premise. The idea of the opposition of the Apollonian and Dionysian was first proposed by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy and was also a popular motif of the time.
Aschenbach's name and character may be inspired by the homosexual German poet August von Platen-Hallermünde, whose poems about Venice are alluded to in the novella and who, like Aschenbach, died of cholera on an Italian island, (the character's first name is virtually an anagram of August). The character's last name may be derived from von Platen's birthplace, Ansbach. However, it has another clear significance: Aschenbach literally means "ash brook". The novella's physical description of Aschenbach was based on a photograph of the composer Gustav Mahler.[3] Mahler had made a strong personal impression on Mann when they met in Munich and Mann was shocked by the news of Mahler's death in Vienna. Mann applied Mahler's first name and facial appearance to Aschenbach but did not talk about it in public.[3] (The soundtrack of the film based on the novella made use of Mahler's compositions, particularly the "Adagietto" 4th movement from the Symphony No. 5).
Modris Eksteins notes the similarities between Aschenbach and the Russian choreographer Sergei Diaghilev, writing that, even though the two never met, "Diaghilev knew Mann's story well. He gave copies of it to his intimates." Diaghilev would often stay at the same hotel as Aschenbach, the Grand Hotel des Bains, and take his young, male lovers there. Eventually, like Aschenbach, Diaghilev died in Venice.[4]
The real Tadzio
Mann's wife Katia (in a 1974 book) recalls that the idea for the story came during an actual holiday in Venice (staying at the Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido), which she and Thomas took in the summer of 1911:
- All the details of the story, beginning with the man at the cemetery, are taken from experience ... In the dining-room, on the very first day, we saw the Polish family, which looked exactly the way my husband described them: the girls were dressed rather stiffly and severely, and the very charming, beautiful boy of about 13 was wearing a sailor suit with an open collar and very pretty lacings. He caught my husband's attention immediately. This boy was tremendously attractive, and my husband was always watching him with his companions on the beach. He didn't pursue him through all of Venice—that he didn't do—but the boy did fascinate him, and he thought of him often ... I still remember that my uncle, Privy Counsellor Friedberg, a famous professor of canon law in Leipzig, was outraged: "What a story! And a married man with a family!"[5]
The boy who inspired "Tadzio" was Baron Władysław Moes, whose first name was usually shortened as Władzio or just Adzio. This story was uncovered by Thomas Mann's translator, Andrzej Dołęgowski, around 1964, and was published in the German press in 1965. Some sources report that Moes himself did not learn of the connection until he saw the 1971 film version of the novel.
Władysław Moes was born on November 17, 1900 in Wierbka, the second son and fourth child of Baron Aleksander Juliusz Moes. He was aged 10 when he was in Venice, significantly younger than Tadzio in the novella. Baron Moes died on December 17, 1986 in Warsaw and is interred at the Powązki Cemetery there. He was the subject of a biography, The Real Tadzio (Short Books, 2001) by Gilbert Adair.
The novella was probably first published in English in periodical form in The Dial in 1924 over three issues (vol. LXXVI, March to May, issues # 3–5, Camden, NJ, USA), as per an advertisement by Peter Ellis (Bookseller, London, UK) for sale of a copy of those issues (www.abebooks.com, viewed Feb 2, 2011).
It was first published in book form in English in 1925 as Death in Venice and Other Stories, translated by Kenneth Burke. W. H. Auden called it the definitive translation.
A new translation was published in 2005 by Michael Henry Heim which won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize.
- A film of Death in Venice starring Dirk Bogarde was made by Luchino Visconti in 1971.
- Benjamin Britten transformed Death in Venice into an opera, his last, in 1973.
- The novella was also dramatised by Peter Wolf for BBC Radio 3 in 1997.[6]
- It was made into a ballet by John Neumeier for his Hamburg Ballet company in December 2003.[7]
See also
- Love and Death on Long Island (novel), 1990 novella by Gilbert Adair and a pastiche/homage to Mann's Death in Venice
- Love and Death on Long Island (1997) starring John Hurt as a middle-aged writer who becomes obsessed with a young actor portrayed by Jason Priestley, based on Gilbert Adair's book.
- "Grey Gardens", song on Rufus Wainwright's 2001 album Poses
- "I Just Want To See The Boy Happy", on Morrissey's 2006 album Ringleader of the Tormentors
- "Death in Venice" is the name of a cocktail invented by the British travel writer Robin Saikia, author of The Venice Lido. T
- 'Ganymede', a short story by Daphne Du Maurier, about an Englishman's longing for a young boy in Venice, with tragic consequences. Published in 1959 as one of a collection of eight short stories in The Breaking Point (anthology).
- Frank Donald Hirschbach, The Arrow and the Lyre: A Study of the Role of Love in the Works of Thomas Mann (The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1955), passim (but especially the section "The Loves of Two Artists: Tonio Kröger and Death in Venice", op. cit., pp. 14ff.).
- T.J. Reed, Death in Venice: Making and Unmaking a Master. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.
- Lee Slochower, "The Name of Tadzio in Der Tod in Venedig", German Quarterly, vol. 35, No. 1 (January 1962).
- David Luke: "Thomas Mann's Iridescent Interweaving (1988)", in: Death in Venice: Thomas Mann. A New Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. Translated and edited by Clayton Koelb, New York, London 1994.
- Seong Joo Lee: "The Reception of the Odyssey in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice", in: Germanic Notes and Reviews, Vol. 42, No. 2, Greenville SC, GNR 2011.
- Ehrhard Bahr: "Der Tod in Venedig, Erläuterungen und Dokumente." Reclam, Stuttgart 1991.
- ^ Image of the first edition
- ^ Letter to Carl Maria Weber dated July 4, 1920. In: Thomas Mann: Briefe I: 1889–1936, ed. Erika Mann. Fischer 1979. p. 176f.
- ^ a b Letter to Wolfgang Born dated March 18, 1921. In: Thomas Mann: Briefe I: 1889–1936, ed. Erika Mann. Fischer 1979. p. 185.
- ^ Eksteins, Rites of Spring, p. 2-3
- ^ Katia Mann, Unwritten Memories
- ^ Death in VenicePeter Wolf:
- ^ Biography of John Neumeier on Hamburg Ballet website
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- Death in Venice in original German with English Translation
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some good SF websites:
www.sfstation.com citysearch.sanfrancisco.com www.sfgate.com SF Station has sections for entertainment, festivals, shopping, etc. and links to other venues, museums, stores. SFgate is the official website for the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner newspapers. They have info on events, news and weather. San Francisco never really gets *hot* or *cold*. The hottest months of the year are August, September and October (where it gets into the 80s-90s). Gets chilly at night, so the best advice I can give you is layer. I usually wear cute t-shirts and tanks over a cardigan or blazer, jeans or skirts and heels. SF has a reputation for not being very dressy; people wear flip flops and birkenstocks ALOT. It tends to be much warmer in the East Bay than in the city, so be aware of that if you are planning on going out in the city. The summer is a great time to be in SF. There are tons of festivals and concerts, like street fairs and jazz fests. |
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it doesn't get too cold in castro valley. if you get closer to the bay, it does get colder but cv is more inland. mission is the area for the hipsters where you hear chains clinging and clanging all day long. but it is a great area like faust said. definitely check out the noe and castro. you'll love sf, it's got the city feel and the laid back beauty. i love it, i grew up in it!
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Beef Balls Italiano
2 slices rye or whole wheat bread, crumbled 1/2 cup hot milk
1 egg
1 pound ground beef
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons parsley flakes
2 (10 1/2 ounce) cans tomato soup, undiluted
1/2 cup wine
1 teaspoon whole oregano
1 teas
Combine bread, milk, egg, ground beef, garlic salt, pepper, and parsley flakes in a large bowl.
Work mixture well with hands; shape into 10 to 12 large meatballs.
Place in shallow 2-quart baking dish.
Combine soup, wine, oregano, fennel, and thyme; pour o
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Hilarious but scary especially the thought of water snakes!!However you all look very happy at the end of the dayxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shaken By Jungle Storm
Trip Start
Sep 05, 2010
Trip End
Aug 21, 2011
The free breakfast was a winner and we fuelled up for the big adventure with a choice of pancakes, muesli or a fry-up. Despite this we also bought copious snacks and drinks to keep us going for the long 4 hours we would spend away from civilisation. (Giles is nearly as worried as me about being stuck without food.) The 10 minute long-boat journey to the caves was fantastic. Gliding through the thick forest with towering mountains before us, I think we all felt pretty glad we'd opted to come here. A quick stop en route to visit a local handicrafts market was pretty painless. Mikey and I added to our collection of rubbish bracelets and we also managed to pick up some incredibly expensive and thoughtful gifts for our Williams Road buddies. They are going to be blown away by them.
Arriving at the caves did not disappoint either. The Cave of the Winds was full of amazingly intricate rock formations and happily nothing else – not a bat/leech/spider to be seen. Clearwater cave was equally impressive although due to heavy rainfall, our guide said it should be called Muddywater cave today. He also pointed out the aptly named 'One Leaf Plant' which is endemic to Mulu. There's something incredible about a plant only growing on one place in the world. Cave exploring was sweaty work and once out we decided to brave swimming in the pool at the entrance despite the less than crystal clear water. It was freezing but very refreshing and the rest of the group decided to man-up and join us.
Then it was back in the boat to head home for some well-earned lunch. First we had to check into the dorm though and all I can say is that it doesn't look like the picture on their website! We took the last beds available and tried to make ourselves comfortable in the damp shabby surroundings. All four of us had finally run out of clothes to wear and had to do some washing which made Mikey have a massive strop. He's got far too used to paying someone else to do our dirty work. He consented to wash 3 pair of pants incredibly slowly, whingeing throughout so that I had to do the rest! Anyway, Lunch cheered us all up, especially as Charlotte was feeling better again and back to eating. Mikey went boring with a sandwich and chips but the rest of us ordered some delicious Malaysian dishes, Giles braving the tofu in his chicken and veg noodles and me eating yet more tiny fish.
We then decided it was time to get back out there in the jungle and visit the Tree Top Tower to try and see some birds or maybe even mammals. Halfway along the 1km walkway the torrential rain began. We sheltered under a tarpaulin for a quarter of an hour before deciding that it might well continue for 4 hours and so we should make a run back for the hostel. Mikey and I had very sensibly brought the laptop with us, so he had to strip off and wrap up the non-waterproof rucksack in his clothes before we all waddled in our slippy flip-flops as fast as we could back to the dorm. Laptop stashed, we decided that as we were already soaked we might as well head back out and then possibly be in the tower when the rain stopped and the animals all came out.
Now, I've always thought that us Bosham folk we were pretty hard-core. We swim in the sea all year round and like to laugh at the Londoners who come down and flip out about freezing sewage filled water, mud, crabs, jellyfish and dogs who have rolled in fox poo/cuttlefish guts. Today however showed that we are in fact completely pathetic and ill-equipped for the outdoor life. An enormous clap of thunder, immediately over our heads sent us into complete panic. Charlotte and I grabbed each other, crouching down as if somehow the lightning then wouldn't find us. Giles made a dash for the tower which had finally come into view, only stopping when it became apparent that it was entirely made of metal and therefore probably not the best place to shelter with a thunderstorm literally overhead. It was definitely time to abandon ship.
At this point however pandemonium broke out as Mikey found a leech on his flip-flop, screamed and kicked it off into the jungle, further terrifying the rest of us. We all began running (as fast as is possible on a slippy boardwalk in a torrential downpour). Mikey then yelled to me that I had one on my leg!!! I remained completely calm and in control as he swiped it off and we ran on. Before coming to Borneo, Giles was reliably informed by the great naturalist and adventure explorer, Steve Sumner, that leeches can only get you if you stand still. Therefore since we've been here he's kept up an uncharacteristically swift pace and encouraged us to do the same. A German man who had been sheltering under a tarpaulin at the turn off to the Tree Tower must have thought we were complete lunatics as we ran screaming round the corner swatting at our legs, Charlotte and I still cringing in case we were hit by lightning as well as leeches, Giles yelling "Keep going, Keep going!!", Mikey limping with one shoe in his hand.
Back in the relative safety of the hostel we calmed down and in the harsh strip lighting of the dorm Mikey admitted that the leeches were not 100% confirmed sightings and could possibly have been very scary leaves. Never mind, we all agreed it was better to be safe than sorry and having had enough creepy crawly action for one day headed to the caf� for nature video watching, beers, cards, and yet more food.
Action adventure would not leave us alone however and in the caf� we were attacked by a mouse–sized flying beetle and I had to take cover under the table. Luckily the bat video from earlier had explained that the bats flying into your hair and biting you was a complete myth so I managed to remain calm as 3 circled overhead. The praying mantis in the girl's toilets was pretty scary though and it even tried to take Giles on when he got too close.
Back in the dorm, it was no better and a mass of small insects were happily swooping around bumping into the strip lights and then dive bombing down. We grimly got into our damp beds, Char and I opting to put up mosquito nets although as the other 13 people in the room hadn't it seemed a bit extreme.
An hour later, Mikey had got into my bed due to mosquito attack, and we were trying to sleep in the sweaty air-con-less heat when we were once more assaulted. This time it was the scariest insect I've ever seen. Yet another rodent sized flying beetle, this one with enormous pincers, dive bombed us and latched on to the net, clearly intending to chop through and kill us. We tried to stay safe in the net for a while as he made repeated sorties, but then decided he wasn't going anywhere and needed to be exterminated. Out of the net we calmed down and managed to usher him out of the window. It didn't make for a restful night however as we lay waiting for another to appear or attack Giles who was very vulnerable without a net! I'm really not sure how everyone else in the dorm manages to remain completely oblivious to all of the insect life and general squalor, but we're getting out of here in the morning!


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This is your resource to discuss support topics with your peers, and learn from each other.
Good investigating! Could you try a custom script to see what is getting sent down to the device?
You could also try pushing a bunch of differently formatted messages from the DebugPortal to see what happens. Perhaps there is a character combination being sent in the message that does not agree with the device.
Yes. I've been running the same script for several days, always getting 1001 from PPG. Here what it's sending to the device. I'm pasting complete content as sent to the PPG, marking bold the push message content which reachs the BB.
8900: Still working fine...
9810: Not even an error message in the demo app log. Some network activity is shown (arrows) but for shorter than before. The 4.6 app works even worse than 5.0 version.
About the DebugPortal, I'm trying random text strings for the push content, like "a", "q", "qw", "adfadfds"
I don't think that's an issue.
Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE pap PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD PAP 2.1//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/pap_2.1
<push-message push-id="1342733040.1273" deliver-before-timestamp="2012-07-19T21:29:00Z" source-reference="2690-............"><address address-value="push_all"/><quality-of-service delivery-method="unconfirmed"/>
Content-Type: text/plain
Push-Message-ID: 1342733040.1273
{'type':'alert','content':'This is a test'}
So far, I think there is some good material to work on. Below is a resume of what we've seen lately. I think it's important to remark that
- Every piece of software has been taken from the SDK
- Two devices with same app behave differently
- RIM built apps get push messages flawlessly
- System initially works, then fails after a while
5.0 API: Status suddenly changes to INACTIVE at PPG. App returns ACTIVE locally.
4.3+ API: Getting "Failed to read push message, caused by null" at demo app log
Hoping a prompt and definitive response, in order to keep insisting with the push API or looking for an alternative.
It would be also good if you can present a working 3rd party example from the App World to add a new variable in my tests.
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4.3+ API: Getting "Failed to read push message, caused by null" at demo app log
What line is throwing this? Debugging would be a great way to get more info on what is occurring and see the full trace.
PushLib43.java, lines 180-184 . Throwing an exception with little descriptive null message.
I've attached file from the Push API SDK.
while( running ) {
try {
Object o = socket.acceptAndOpen();
conn = (HttpServerConnection) o;
inputStream = conn.openInputStream();
pushInputStream = new MDSPushInputStream( conn, inputStream );
PushMessageReader.process( pushInputStream, conn );
} catch( Exception e ) {
if( running ) {
Logger.warn( "Failed to read push message, caused by " + e.getMessage() );
running = false;
} finally {
PushUtils.close( conn, pushInputStream, null );
4 lines are throwing an exception? Could you dig down to see the exact line throwing the message? You should also be able to discern the actual line causing the issue as well (examine the data it is receiving).
I don't think 4 lines can throw an exception at the same time. I also think BB OS should now throw Exceptions with null messages. What do you think?
Before continuing debugging RIM's own software. Can you confirm the 5.0 demo will work providing I find the exact problem on the 4.3 demo ?
I do not intend to use the 4.3 API.
It *should* work. In the world of dev, nothing is guaranteed, but it seems there are a few issues you ae seeing:
1) De-registration from the PPG
2) The NULL exception
This will at least let us find the root cause of #2
No, only one line of code can throw an exception, I was confused because you said 4 lines were throwing it . Once you debug and examine the reason for the exception being thrown it should make much more sense why it is being thrown as "null".
Garett, I really appreciate your continued replies, as it seems this is not a trivial issue. But let's not steer too much away from the original problem.
I started testing 4.3 version because you told me to do so and I'm willing to help. But the 4.3 API is not an option for me because you have to leave the app running in background.
Let's focus on 5.0 . Is there any additional testing I can perform in order to know the exact cause of sudden PPG de-registration?
Additionally, can you provide a 3rd party example to add in my tests?
As I stated in my last email there are really 2 issues, the 4.3 APIs provide a better portal to troubleshooting issue #2, which is why I am asking you to debug to find the root cause which may help with understanding why you ae seeing the issue with the 5.0 APIs.
I don't have a list of apps that use these APIs, the apps are submitted as COD files and releasing which apps use which APIs would not be good for IP. I would suggest posting it as a general question to the community.


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Two Sandy Hook parents express gratitude through activism
Updated 11:06 pm, Wednesday, June 12, 2013
NEWTOWN -- One Sandy Hook third-grader doesn't watch television or look at newspapers, and he steers clear of remotely violent video games.
Yet he did ask for a toy Nerf gun for Christmas.
Erin Nikitchyuk, the mother of the child known to family and friends as "Bear,'' said her son's response to surviving gunshots fired near where he and a Sandy Hook Elementary School classmate were standing on Dec. 14 is a sometimes unpredictable work in progress.
It has been six months since Erin and Andrei Nikitchyuk arrived at the Sandy Hook fire station and were reunited with their youngest child, who narrowly escaped becoming a victim.
Bear is a little boy who likes to play Legos and eat sprinkle doughnuts. He is also a child who was trapped by, and then spared, a shooting rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
"The kids said they couldn't move,'' his mother recently recalled of how her son and a girl classmate were assigned to deliver the attendance and the lunch counts to the side-by-side office and cafeteria. "They talked about metal balls rolling at their feet.''
The exact details of what happened and what the two youngsters witnessed that morning remain murky. All Erin said she knows for certain is that shots were fired around the two children and second-grade teacher Abbey Clement grabbed them to safety.
How the children managed not to be spotted by gunman Adam Lanza or were led toward Clements' classroom, is still a mystery, Erin said. She surmised that when Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach charged at Lanza they distracted the gunman.
"I'm not sure what they did or didn't witness, and it's not all that important to me,'' Erin said.
What is important to her and her family is to make sure their son's childhood is kept intact and to show proper respect to those who will forever be in mourning for their lost children.
`I had a duty'
To help their son, beyond letting him live as normal a life as possible, the Nikitchyuks enrolled him in art therapy and "all things considered, he's doing pretty well,'' his mother said. To help others, they have joined with the Newtown Action Alliance to fight for gun-control legislation.
"I felt I had a duty,'' Erin said of stepping into activism after an adulthood of eschewing all things political. "I felt there were families who wanted to take action but were too engulfed in their grief to stand up, and as someone whose child was spared, I felt I could go out and give a voice to them.''
The Newtown Action Alliance provided her a venue. Erin is the head of the organization's social media campaigns; her husband, Andrei, handles research. Her daughters have also participated in some of the gun-prevention rallies, including the March on Washington and another event in Harlem.
"It's definitely helped with healing,'' said Ellie, a high school freshman who is a member of the Junior Alliance and attended the PeaceJam conference in April.
It was actually Andrei who first stepped up to the activist podium.
"I was shocked by what happened at my son's school, and the media was covering the emotional reaction of people in the community, but no one was talking about the causes or the environment we're living in that is becoming more and more dangerous every day,'' said Andrei, who works in corporate finance.
He made his first trip to Washington, D.C., to talk about gun reform four days after the shooting. He has since testified at a number of other hearings, including the state Capitol.
Erin works part-time in digital media for the Taunton Press in Newtown. The family has lived in Newtown for nine years.
"I remember hearing of Columbine and Virginia Tech, and I felt for them, but I didn't do anything because I was not political, Andrei said. "But now my only compass for voting for politicians is their position on gun crime -- what are they doing about gun crime and gun violence in this society."
Protecting Bear
The only one in their family who wants to avoid the protests and activism is Bear; he did some early events but now shies away.
So the family walks a fine line. They respect Bear's wishes as much as possible -- he does not want to talk with them about the shooting, nor answer questions about it -- while working to make a difference, Erin said.
She said she is still a bit puzzled about his toy gun request. The boy clearly saw no connection to the school shooting, but, she explained, in Newtown toy guns are not a suitable present.
Andrei said he thinks about his son's survival every day. And though they protect Bear as much as possible, anytime he hears about the Sandy Hook shooting he becomes sad, his father said. At one rally, Andrei said he spoke with an Oregon woman who survived a shooting when she was his son's age "and she carries the burden to this day.''
"When she was younger, she didn't feel it that much. She was distracted. But as she grew up she became more aware of the experience, and that shaped her life,'' he said.
The Nikitchyuks both are relieved that the state General Assembly passed legislation at the session's end to prevent the release of crime photos or 911 tapes that could trigger the whole ordeal again.
"That would be horrendous,'' he said.
For her part, Erin is as interested in the mental health component of this issue as she is gun reform.
"This tragedy didn't start when (Lanza) picked up a gun,'' but rather with a lack of support that brought him to a place where he felt he needed "to take his rage out on us,'' she said.
Healing in different ways
With the approach of summer, Erin said she expects new challenges will arise.
"We have some rocky roads in front of us,'' she said.
The key will be for community members to stay engaged with one another, and not allow the "culture of kindness and generosity'' that has emerged to erode.
The week after the shooting, Erin and the children attended the wake for victim Catherine Hubbard, whose older brother is in Bear's Cub Scout troop.
The line was long, the weather cold, and Bear's coat was still inside the Sandy Hook School. Yet the only complaints she heard uttered were from a woman standing behind them who she soon ascertained didn't even know the Hubbard family.
Angered by the intrusion, Erin said she scolded the woman, telling her that if she did not know Catherine, a little girl with copper-penny hair "who was just the most beautiful child," she was just a grief gawker who had no business there.
Such unwelcome visitors, and the hordes of media from everywhere, one reporter so bold as to knock on her door one morning before breakfast, was why her initial reaction to the tragedy was to stay behind closed doors.
"We don't all have to like each, or agree with each other, but we can all respect one another,'' Erin said. "We're all going to heal at different paces and in different ways.''


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The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades PreK-2 | 2nd Edition
A Guide to Teaching, Second Edition
AUTHOR: Fountas, Irene C. and Pinnell, Gay Su
PUBLISHER: Heinemann
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Where other assessment and benchmark systems leave you wondering "Now what?" Fountas and Pinnell have provided a link from assessment to instruction via proven classroom practices such as guided reading and read aloud.
This book contains seven continua. Each continuum focuses on an area of the language arts curriculum. Six continua provide grade level expectations and are designed for planning group instruction. The seventh, the Guided Reading continuum, is organized by Fountas and Pinnell level from A to Z and correlates directly with the Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System levels.
The continua provide specific descriptions of the texts that students read, listen to, write, and perform. In addition, each continuum lists specific behaviors and understandings that are required at each level for students to demonstrate thinking within, beyond, and about the text. These behaviors and understandings describe what students will be expected to do in order to effectively read and understand the text.
As the world of literacy changes, we also see some important changes in the acquisition of literacy across grade levels. The second edition of The Continuum of Literacy Learning has been adjusted to reflect those changes.
First, the preschools of today are different from those of five years ago; so a Pre-Kindergarten set of continua has been added to the Pre-K -8 and Pre-K-2 versions of this book. This Pre-Kindergarten continuum does not represent "moving" the first grade curriculum down. Instead, it presents a rich array of understandings relative to oral language, story telling, and playful print awareness to provide a strong foundation for Kindergarten learning.
The basic detailed descriptions of behaviors and understandings to notice, teach, and support for grades K through 8 remain the same; but in this new edition of the seven continua, we have added new challenges such as the effective processing of graphic texts and novels. We have also examined carefully the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) framework for 2009-2010 and made changes in some of the ways behaviors and understandings are expressed. Additionally, we have strengthened the expectation to recognize and effectively process genres that are embedded within other genres (hybrid texts--for example a letter, diary entries, or newspaper articles within fictional narratives).
The continuum has also been adjusted in response to current research as well as to a great deal of information related to the implementation of assessment in schools. Finally, the continuum has a new design that makes it easier to read and interpret.
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Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
- Yield
- Serves 2 with leftovers
- 1/4 cup unsulfured molasses
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
- 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons finely grated peeled fresh gingerroot
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Accompaniments if desired
- caramelized pears
- vanilla ice cream
- For caramelized pears
- 2 medium firm-ripe pears
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons Cognac or other brandy
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- Caramelize pears:
- Peel pears and cut each pear lengthwise into 6 wedges, discarding cores. In a bowl toss pears with lemon juice. In a heavy skillet just large enough to hold pears in one layer melt butter over moderate heat and cook pears, shaking skillet, 3 minutes. Sprinkle pears with sugar and cook, shaking skillet and turning pears, until sugar is melted and pears are tender. Transfer pears with a slotted spoon to bowl.
- Boil sugar mixture remaining in skillet stirring occasionally and swirling skillet until it begins to turn a golden caramel. Remove skillet from heat and carefully add water, brandy, and cream. Return skillet to heat and simmer sauce, stirring until smooth and thickened slightly. Return pears to skillet and cook until heated through.
- Serve pears and sauce with ice cream.
- Make cake:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour an 8-inch square baking pan.
- In a bowl whisk together molasses, sour cream, butter, brown sugar, egg, gingerroot, and zest until smooth and sift in flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir batter until just combined and spread evenly in baking pan. Bake cake in middle of oven until a tester comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and turn out onto rack.
- Server cake with caramelized pears and ice cream.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1143
- Carbohydrates162 g(54%)
- Fat52 g(80%)
- Protein12 g(24%)
- Saturated Fat31 g(156%)
- Sodium696 mg(29%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber8 g(30%)
- Monounsaturated Fat14 g
- Cholesterol230 mg(77%)


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Live-Blogging The Second Inauguration Of Barack Obama — 12 pm. Well either Kelly Clarkson was way off or her mike was. But the speech instantly removed any awkwardness that lingered. If you have long believed, as I have, that this man could easily become the liberal Reagan by the end …
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Where's Mitt? In warm, sunny California — It's chilly on the Capitol steps today, but that's no problem for Mitt Romney. — The former Republican presidential contender is spending Inauguration Day at his home in La Jolla, Calif., where it's sunny with a forecasted high of 73 degrees.
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First Term: Obama Increased Debt $50,521 Per Household; More Than First 42 Presidents in 53 Terms Combined
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Obama Takes One Last Look At Inauguration Crowd: 'I'll Never See This Again' — Departing the West Front of the U.S. Capitol after delivering his second inaugural address on Monday, President Obama wanted to take one last glance of the hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered to celebrate his second term.
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Obama's Second Term Not Really Up to Him — There is nothing quite like a presidential inauguration to bring to full bloom the cult of the presidency. We fuss over the pageantry and the ritual and the First Lady's attire like the tittering royal subjects we fought a war to stop being.
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The Big Deal — On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, an exuberant Vice President Biden famously pronounced the reform a "big something deal" — except that he didn't use the word "something." And he was right. — In fact, I'd suggest using this phrase to describe the Obama administration as a whole.
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Republicans: Obama should have reached out more in address — Republicans lawmakers criticized President Obama's inaugural address Monday, saying he failed to reach out to their party. — "I would have liked to have seen some outreach," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential race.
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Now the good news. This column was the first to smell rotten eggs in the Bush economic team. I opined that Lawrence Lindsey ought to be canned and Paul O'Neill should be dumped as early as April 2 and July 23, 2001. I kept up the pressure, calling Bush's economic team the "soft underbelly" of his Administration days before the sacking. What tripped the alarm? O'Neill, mostly. He ran
This same view was embraced by John Connally when he ran for President in 1980, spending $13 million and roping exactly one delegate to the Republican Convention. Main Street preferred Ronald Reagan. And what Main Street wants now is Reagan redux: less regulation–desperately needed in telecom–and tax cuts of the kind you can bank on for a decade, not a quarter.
Another you-read-it-here-first: In January I wrote that Carly Fiorina would defy the odds, win the Hewlett-Packard-Compaq merger fight and go on to make it work. She has.
Irony: Fiorina's mud fight with Walter Hewlett was the best thing that could have happened to this rookie CEO. It accelerated her education and toughened her up. Nobody questions Fiorina's guts or experience today. The tussle added three months to the merger schedule–a drag at the time, but as HP insiders now say, it gave them breathing room to sort out operational details.
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I spent a few weeks in July and August flying around the U.S. in my Cessna Skyhawk. Most of you liked those columns, although some found them self-indulgent. I enjoyed writing every one and will add more in 2003, Steve willing.
As I learned during these hops across America during a very shaky summer, our economy was in better shape than most thought–underperforming, yes, but okay. New York and Silicon Valley were staggering, but the "red states" were pumping merrily along. Wall Street and Stephen Roach grimly awaited a consumer falloff and a double-dip recession. But I agreed with the University of North Carolina economist James Smith. He said the economy would grow by just under 4% in the second half.
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What's ahead in 2003? Too much depends on Washington, I hate to say. Tax cuts, tort reform and telecom deregulation–if passed–would set off a capital spending boom to shame the 1990s. Timidity, on the other hand, will boost the odds that we'll go the way of Europe. China will then take our place–not in 2003, of course. But if President Bush doesn't use his political capital to drive home some big reforms soon, prepare for a long slide.
Can John Snow, the Treasury Secretary nominee, get the job done? He will sell the President's program better than O'Neill did. But that just reinforces the cold fact that success or failure depends on the President. At some point George Bush will have to say "no" to the next dumb Karl Rove idea. Remember, it was political mastermind Rove who whispered for steel import quotas in 2001 (pandering to Pennsylvania and West Virginia). It was Rove who urged the shameful $180 billion farm subsidy (to help Jim Thune unseat Tim Johnson in South Dakota–which didn't happen). Damaging stuff.
As for technology, I see a modest bump in IT spending. Today's CIO salutes his CFO, the house Scrooge who demands quick and accountable IT returns. I wish CFOs would go back to designing synthetic leases, or whatever it is they do, and leave tech spending to nuts like us. But that isn't going to happen. As long as C-suite conservatism holds sway, stable giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Cisco and Dell will hold the commanding heights. Everybody else will have to learn to fight like Navy Seals.
We could see big changes in the way tech products are priced in 2003, as vendors bow to the CFO. Mighty
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Some of you may remember a story published a few years ago, about my Godson, Seth Bergmann, who saved his grandfather's life by running several blocks and getting help.
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After several failed promises to take him shopping (myself included), he told his mother he wanted to go shopping with his birthday money – grocery shopping.
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Nice article, brings back, many goods times – the Dairy Queen-remember the crowds and ah yes the drive in-going as a little kid in your pajamas. Thanks for your articles.
By Linda Emley
This story is one of the cool things I found in the Richmond News from the spring of 1957.
On April 12, the newspaper reported on Professor Singer, the hypnotist, coming to Richmond. "Horizontal-Hypnotized. Professor George Singer, a professional hypnotist, maintains hypnotic pressure on Miss Helen Creekmore as her inert body is placed in a bed in the window of Blair's Wednesday afternoon. Miss Brenda Clark and Miss Nora Payne, hospital aids, assist Professor Singer. The demonstration of hypnosis at Blair's preceded a full show Wednesday night at the Richmond High School auditorium, sponsored jointly by Blair's and the Richmond Junior Chamber of Commerce."
The story and a picture appeared on the front page of the paper. There was another picture on page 4 and its caption said, "Miss Helen Creekmore nods and closes her eyes as Professor George Singer, hypnotist, lulls her into a hypnotic trance in a demonstration at Blair's Wednesday afternoon."
It looks like Blair's store got its money's worth for its ad because it got wonderful coverage from the Richmond News.
On the same front page April 12, we found out who the first guest was at the new Rose Court Motel. "… J.D. Rector, an irrigation engineer from Hutchison, Kansas, registers Tuesday night as the first guest of Richmond's first motel, the Rose Court on Highway 13 near the 10-13 intersection. Mrs. Nora Delaporte, operator of the motel, holds Mr. Rector's key, as he signs the register. Open house at the motel will be held April 28."
We all know that Richmond had several hotels before the Rose Court came to town, so what is the difference between a hotel and a motel? Today there really isn't any, but in the 1950s, a motel was a hotel that provided parking. You could drive your car up to the motel door, so the Rose Court really was the first one in Richmond and some guy from Kansas was the first guest.
I wanted to know what kind of open house they had on April 28, but after checking the April 29 and May 1 newspaper, I didn't find a story, so I guess we will just have to assume that nothing earth shattering happened at the open house.
The Farris Theater was playing Bill Haley's Comets in "Don't Knock the Rock" and Freddie Bell in "Rumble in the Docks." That was the schedule for Friday and Saturday only. On Sunday and Monday, you could watch Henry Fonda in "War and Peace." We can't leave out the Highway 13 Drive-In Theater. On Friday and Saturday they were playing "The Return of Jack Slade" and "Cult Cobra" as a double feature. On Sunday and Monday, you could see "Fox Fire," starring Jane Russell, and a bonus of eight cartoons. Like many others around town, I have fond memories of trips to the Farris and the Highway 13 Drive- In. It's nice that the Farris is still around for us to enjoy with our children and grandchildren. The Drive-In will live on in our memories of the good-old days.
The old newspapers are always full of interesting facts about business around town. I enjoyed the following one that helped clear up a few details about two of the local ice cream shops many of us remember. This was in the April 15, 1957 paper: "Bar, Not Queen. The announcement of the opening Saturday of the Dairy Queen, Highway 13, advertised in the News Friday should have read Dairy Bar. The Dairy Queen, a trade name, is operated by Mr. and Mrs. George Winders, Institute and Main Street. The Dairy Bar, a block south of the 10-13 intersection, will be operated by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ray Woods, Excelsior Springs."
The local grocery stores were busy trying to keep your business. Jim Johnston's Super Market was the local "United Supers" store. "Switch to United Supers and Save! We give Pioneer Savings Stamps. Gov't. State Assistance and we pay cab fare one way on all orders of $10 or more. Payroll Checks Cashed Free. Saturday 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Open Late Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Free Cotton Candy Friday afternoon and Saturday."
This ad had a Libby's Green Thumb Sale where you could get four cans of fruit cocktail, five bottles of catsup or eight cans of corn for $1. Round Steak was 59 cents a pound and you could get four pounds of hamburger for $1. A half-gallon of ice cream was 69 cents.
A few weeks later, the April 26 Richmond News had a story about a local girl that many of us know. "Richmond Student On Anniversary Television Hour. Miss Billie Stoenner, Richmond, will participate in the golden anniversary celebration of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music Saturday night. The Program will be televised at 9 p.m. on Channel 9. This will be an hour-long program, with Jim Lantz as narrator. Miss Stoenner, vocalist, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W.G. Stoenner."
And as Walter Cronkite always said, "And that's the way it is" in 1957 Richmond.
There are many more treasures in the pages of our old newspapers. If you find yourself with a little extra time, come on out to the Ray County Museum and we'll be glad to show you our old newspapers. Pick a year and soon you will go back in time as you enjoy the world as we knew it then.
You can write Linda at email@example.com. Ray County Historical Museum is open Wednesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Nice article, brings back, many goods times – the Dairy Queen-remember the crowds and ah yes the drive in-going as a little kid in your pajamas. Thanks for your articles.
Hi Steve. I love our history and it's nice to know when someone else is enjoying it too. Let me know if you have any stories you want me to research and write about. Thanks, Linda
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The habits of highly deceptive media: decoding spin and lies in mainstream newsMedia critic Norman Solomon has done it again. In this latest collection of columns, he details the most recent excesses and failures of America's self-censoring mainstream media, and brings you the real story on issues like: - The irony of the Zippergate President preaching abstinence to poor women and putting millions of dollars into "chastity education" programs -- and the even greater irony of the media ignoring this aspect of the Clinton scandals; - The V-chip's unexplored potential to zap out commercials; - How the U.S. government's self-righteous criticisms of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests got plenty of uncritical reporting, while the media forgot to mention that the U.S. spends $4 billion a year to develop its own nuclear weapons; - The stark contrast between coverage of Wall Street and coverage of Main Street; - "Media Scenes We'd Like to See" -- fantasies as appealing as they are unlikely, which include a vision of Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings donating their fortun to a trust fund for independent journalism and vowing to tell the truth even it gets them fired. From the relentless pro-corporate spin of daily news to the media's persistent lack of diversity, Solomon covers it all. New readers as well as old fans will welcome this invaluable book from a journalist who knows exactly how the media works -- and how to work it, appearing on TV and radio across the country to get the word out and challenge the status quo. |
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As a heartbroken Texas city watched Shannon Stone, in a wooden casket, take his final ride on a firetruck, reporters 900 miles to the west searched the face of Josh Hamilton for answers.
Who would he be? Despondent father? Stoic athlete? Conflicted believer?
On Monday, in a Phoenix hotel ballroom hosting All-Star Game media festivities, Rangers outfielder Hamilton was none of those things. He was open, thoughtful, resilient, a man with a broken but mendable heart.
I am in awe.
Five days ago he was standing in the outfield at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, when he heard someone say, "Hey, Hamilton, how about the next one?"
He turned, saw a man with his son, and nodded. The next time he had a ball he threw it to them, and as the father reached for it, he fell over the railing and to his death.
Hamilton heard the son screaming.
How do you move on from that, cancel the memory, quiet the cry? Friends can remind you it's not your fault and offer an endless supply of comfort, but in the end you have to arrive at that conclusion yourself.
Could the ballpark be his sanctuary?
"No," he said. "I can't approach it that way, because that used to be my life, period, and then obviously I got involved in drugs and things like that.
"I can't use it as my sanctuary anymore. You have to deal with life, you deal with accidents. Things that happen. You deal with them; you don't run to your job or anything else."
It's something, isn't it, that the path Hamilton once took, the one fueled by drugs and alcohol, probably left him equipped to handle this situation better than most. This is a guy who, in 2005, after a crack-cocaine binge, woke up to find himself sprawled on his grandmother's doorstep.
He survived that, came back stronger.
He will be the first to tell you he is not without flaws, as his relapse in 2008 demonstrated. But he learned that you not only can rise above a crack addiction, you can thrive. As crushed as he was and as haunted as he has been about Thursday's tragedy, his experience told him he could survive it.
And his faith told him that he was prepared to handle the emotional toll.
It has definitely been a roller coaster.
On Friday against Oakland, he went 1 for 5, and those around him said he seemed off his game.
On Saturday, he was 4 for 5 and ended the game against the Athletics with a dramatic walk-off home run. It was only the second walk-off of his career, and it left the park with such force some have suggested a supernatural force was at work.
"It's been an absolute emotional roller coaster," he said. "You go from the accident to the Rangers winning games, to a winning streak (seven games) to having a walk-off the other night, to being here.
"Life has to go on. Obviously, I'm going to have some feelings about the Stone family and everything that happened, but I also have joy about being here. The fans wanted to see me play the game."
He knows his healing process is missing an important step: connecting with the family of firefighter Stone, who was buried in his hometown of Brownwood, Texas, on Monday, following a memorial service that included hundreds of public-safety employees and 60 emergency vehicles that were part of a procession to the cemetery.
"I haven't thought it all the way through," he said. "I want it to be face to face. I would love to know what kind of man Shannon Stone was, meet his wife and his little boy, and see where it goes from there."
Several of his All-Star teammates said Monday they have been impressed at how Hamilton has weathered a difficult situation, and American League manager Ron Washington, who is also Hamilton's manager in Texas, said his player has "handled everything with class."
"Hamilton is fine," he said. "He's learned how to balance things and learned how to separate. These things come from being in the fire and gaining experience. He's getting to the point where he's an elite athlete and also an elite person."
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