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U.S. Navy Operations Specialist 2nd Class Paul Davis mans a watch station in the combat information center aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) in the Mediterranean Sea May 8, 2014. The Vella Gulf, homeported in Norfolk, Va., was on a scheduled deployment supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Edward Guttierrez III, U.S. Navy/Released)
"Mental communication without verbalization ...
all space is made up of waves,
and we are constantly sending
and receiving messages from our brain."
~ Tina Louise ~
"All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape."
~ Jay S. Walker ~
This was origonally for my communication class project but I ended up really liking this shot. So here I am sharing it with you!
- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1873)" - OLINDA, a post village in Essex co., Ont., 6 miles from Leamington. It contains 2 stores and a broom factory. The population in 1873 was 100.
- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - OLINDA, a post settlement in Essex County, Ontario, 3 miles from Ruthven, on the Pere Marquette Ry. It contains 1 store and a black-smith shop. The population in 1908 was 40.
At an age of nearly 200 years, one of Essex County's most amazingly old, and forgotten about settlements is Olinda, Ontario. In the 1830s, the village of Olinda (roughly between Essex and Leamington), had a schoolhouse, a general store.
By the 1840s John C. Fox was the first known merchant in Olinda. The Olinda Post Office was opened in his store in 1860 and he became the first Postmaster from then until his retirement in 1895. The store also served as the local stage coach stop so it would have been a major hub of activity for the community. In 1888 the store was rebuilt by Fox's son, Alfred J. Fox.
in 1881, Olinda was a little hamlet served by a general store, a post office, a school, a Methodist Church, and a blacksmith shop.
The Post Office at Olinda was established - 1 November 1860 and closed - 31 December 1914.
/ OLINDA / MY 13 / 09 / ONT. / - split ring cancel
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- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - RUTHVEN, a post settlement in Essex County, Ontario, and a station on the Pere Marquette Ry., 34 miles from Walkerville, 4 miles from Leamington. It has 3 stores 1 branch bank and a wagon shop. The population in 1908 was 350.
Ruthven: In Gosfield South T, Essex C., on Hwy 3, 7 km. W of Leamington. The community was first known as Inkermanville after a battle in the Crimea in 1854. When the post office opened in 1860, the place was named Ruthven after the first postmaster, Hugh Ruthven. The current post office was built in 1974. The population is 460.
The Post Office at Ruthven was established - 1 November 1860.
/ RUTHVEN / MY 13 / 09 / ONT. / - split ring cancel
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- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - LEAMINGTON, a post town in Essex County, Ontario, a station on the Pere Marquette & Michigan Central RR., 37 miles soutb-east of Windsor, and a few miles north of Lake Erie. It has 5 churches (Roman Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist), 60 stores, 3 hotels, 3 banks (Merchants, Traders and Union), 2 printing and newspaper offices ("Post" and "News"), and a number of factories, steelworks, tobacco, harness and carriage shops, stoneworks, basket factory and fruit cannery. The population in 1908 was 2,450.
A settlement known as Wilkinson's Corners developed and, on June 1, 1854, a post-office called Leamington was opened. A saw and grist-mill was in operation the following year. By 1860 the community comprised 75 persons and stagecoach communication with Windsor was established. Leamington, with over 750 inhabitants, was incorporated as a Village by an Essex County by-law of November 26, 1874.
/ LEAMINGTON / MY 13 / 09 / ONT. / - split ring cancel
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Message on postcard reads: May 12 / 1909 - Dear Friend - Received your card not long ago. Was glad to hear from you. When are you coming up? We are well. George is putting up a wire fence. Write Soon. Good Bye - with best wishes - Pearl
Postcard was addressed to: Miss Edith Young / Leamington, Ontario
Created by Donna Barnard, art teacher at Westmore High School in Moore Public Schools, Oklahoma, and Carol Dvorak, art teacher at Carver Middle School in Tulsa Public Schools, Oklahoma. Created with the Brushes for iPad app.
See my post "Why email is NOT good enough for communication today" for more background about this photo and the concept it was created to highlight.
Cruised the library shelves, specifically looking for books on communication with the idea of taking a shot of 'Communication' for the communication theme. Found books on computers...Bingo!... both computers and books are for communication! The colourful spines of these books caught my eye and the titles gave me the idea to send them into a spin.
"Communication is a line, collaboration is a web"
I like this quote from Janet Benson (@SligoSherlock) that appeared on my Twitter TL via Isabel De Clercq (@IsabelDeClercq)
To effectively advertise your business, it is very important to find out the right message to communicate with your clients. People is used to be bombarded on the internet with constant advertising and promotion and this can create a problem for marketing specialists. Read More: goo.gl/z15sAR
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
www.instagram.com/frank.dinger
architecture photography movie by Frank Dinger:
I had nothing to put in this little area, and I had no idea what to do with this little desk I got on Craigs. So, voila! A communication Center!
Where things are from:
desk: Craigslist
lamp: eBay
art: antique mall, Etsy
clock: Antique shop
Everything else is from the thrift store.
Blogged about at Apartment Therapy here: www.apartmenttherapy.com/chicago/organizing/turning-an-em...
My blog: candimandi.typepad.com
This image was originally created for a school project. The objective was to make an extraordinary image of an everyday object. I'm not sure if it is extraordinary, but I do like the sense of motion and frenzy conveyed by the image, which I think is appropriate to the concept of modern communication.
Hand-held 4-second shot taken with a Konica-Minolta DiMAGE z6, with the camera intentionally moved during the exposure to create the motion blur/zoom effect.
Day 210/365
A great mix of awesome clouds and blue skies today
Have a great week friends
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Communication Breakdown, It's always the same,
I'm having a nervous breakdown, Drive me insane!
Led Zeppelin
A ÖBB class 4020 commuter train double unit, passing one old and one newer Intercommunication System beside a non public railway gate crossing, near Leobersdorf. Which only purpose is to protect a small path to one single field with permanently closed gates and two permanent flashing red lights. Sounds strange, but I guess the farmer knows, which one of the three buttons he has to press to get in contact with the dispatcher ... ; )
The Letters mean:
Gates will be open, if you call. Please press Button !
Today I made use of modern technology to communicate with Little Henry. I wanted to let him know that although our train was running late, I made sure that the next one would wait for us. The persuasiveness of a rolling pin is always a marvel to see :-)
I also wanted to make sure that Little Henry was taking care of my mommie and that he was fed properly ;-)
Most importantly though, I needed little Henry to look up a muffin recipe that my Uncle had forgotten.
Henry was most helpful and you can see him below carefully dictating the yummy ingredients.
The KOM League
Flash Report
for
March 12, 2021
This is the first report released in nearly a month. If you care to read it click right here: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/50957070916/
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It seemed as though a significant number of days had passed since last I came to the computer. It had been nearly four weeks and today an attempt was made to string together a few words in order to compose a comprehensible sentence. Hopefully, some of the material contained herein is okay.
About all that seems to happen anymore is the obituary files continue to expand. There are names appearing each day of people I have known personally or knew of due to their fame. It must be said that there is no pleasure derived in writing about the recently departed. However, some of those leaving us were “big” names in their respective fields of endeavor and without my pointing it out no one, or relatively few, would know they ever had a connection to the KOM league, even tangentially.
Just to preface this report the two recently departed men, who will be tied to the KOM league, are a big league player/coach/manager along with a famous radio voice If either of those subjects don’t appeal to you then cease reading at this point.
Most long term readers know that the author of this report had a baseball career that started and ended in 1951. There wasn’t much use for a skinny, runt of a kid in the game of baseball and he went on to a life that was basically free of the sport except for an idea in 1994 that an old league should be documented.
Over the span of a quarter century of looking for former KOM leaguers many surprises have come my way. In 1951 the New York Giants signed a young catcher out of Cape Girardeau, Mo. by the name of Bill Lee Atchley. By that point in history the Iola ballclub had been affiliated with the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and was now surviving as an independent team relying on players showing up for tryouts or being optioned there by a major league organization. Atchley fit into the latter category.
This is a brief clip on Atchley’s life. “Dr. Bill L. Atchley, Ph.D., 68, of Wachesaw Plantation, died Friday, Feb. 18, 2000, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. Born Feb. 16, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., he was the son of the late William C. and Mary Logsden Atchley. He was the former president of Southeast Missouri State University, former president of the University of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., and former president of Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. He served as president of the National Science Center Foundation, dean of engineering at West Virginia University, and associate dean and professor at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He was a U. S. Army veteran, having served in the Korean Conflict. He was a former professional baseball player with the New York Giants.
The following links are a “must read” to understand this story.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/77438609/bill-lee-atchley
digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll3/id/16699/...
clemsonwiki.com/wiki/Bill_Lee_Atchley
By referencing the aforementioned citations it is obvious that what Atchley didn’t attain in baseball he more than made up for it in the educational arena at some major institutions of higher learning in this country. In a long ago conversation he related that he still loved baseball and at one point in history was considered for the opening of the Commissioner of Baseball position that went to Bart Giamatti.
Now, this is not to cut short the story of Bill Atchley but to bring into it another name. In 1947 the Independence, Kansas Yankees had a 22-year old pitcher, Alexander Zych from Kansas City, who had stared his professional baseball career in 1944 being signed by the Kansas City Blues before winding up with Wellsville, NY that year. He pitched minor league baseball in Hagerstown, Maryland--Norfolk, Virginia--Quincy, Illinois-- Greenville, Mississippi-- Raliegh and Kinston, N C as well as Rock Hill, Sumter and Gasonia, South Carolina.
By the time Zych reached the age of 27 he was back in his native Kansas City and playing for the amateur Holden, Mo. Chiefs in both 1954 and 1955. The next year he drove to Nevada, Mo. And pitched for that amateur club and led them to a Missouri state amatuer championship. On that club were three former KOM leaguers along with a former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher from Greenfield, Mo. by the name of Floyd “Goat” Wooldridge.
Over the years communication was maintained with Zych and the first book written about the KOM league contained considerable information that he furnished. The following obituary describes the connection he maintained with the game of baseball in both Kansas City and Oakland with the Athletics and Royals. (If the reader doesn’t click on these sites this report will be meaningless.)
www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansascity/name/alexander-zy...
On July 14, 2014 an announcement came over the radio of a terrible automobile accident and the patient was transferred, by medical helicopter, to Columbia, Mo. As it turned out Alex Zych died within a couple of miles of where this report is prepared.
Now go back to 1951
In 1951 Alex Zych was pitching at Kinston, North Carolina, Bill Atchley was catching for the Iola Indians, and a young boy was born on January 12 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The newborn had a cousin, once removed, named Patricia. In 1954 when the young boy was three years old his cousin, Patricia Limbaugh, married Bill Atchley. www.floydmortuary.com/obituaries/Patsy-Atchley/#!/ObituarySo
So, the connection to Rush Hudson Limbaugh III and the KOM league is made. Once back from Oakland Alex Zych was the “wise old head” in the Kansas City Royals clubhouse and when an upstart 27-year ticket salesman needed advice he went to the person who he considered the wisest which was Alex Zych, the equipment manager for the team. From a couple of sources I have heard that Rush Limbaugh affectionately referred to Zych as “Dad.”
Following the death of Zych he was paid high praise on Limbaugh’s national radio broadcast and the famed broadcaster thus attended the funeral of a former KOM leaguer. Whether Limbaugh was close enough to Atchley to attend his funeral I don’t know. Often I wondered if Limbaugh ever heard of Atchley’s baseball playing days. When Limbaugh had his “open line Friday” segments there was a temptation to call and ask that question but some things are just meant to never be known.
On a personal note, the first time I ever heard Limbaugh was in the 1970’s when he was on the staff of KMBZ in Kansas City. At that time I was living in Topeka and early of the morning he was given five minutes for making comments. They were a bit different from what I had heard on the radio. But, in those days about all you ever heard was “Swap Shop,” “Kitchen Klatter,” “Trading Post” and religious shows such as Theodore Epp and his “Back to the Bible” broadcast that emanated from Lincoln, Nebraska. AM Radio was nearly toast by the 1980’s.
After hearing Limbaugh in the 1970’s, on KMBZ, I never heard of him again until 1992. At that time I had met up with a former grade and high school acquaintance by the name of Mickey Roberts. He was going by the name of Mike and doing play-by-play broadcasting of the Albuquerque Dukes Pacific Coast league games on KOB radio in that town. At one game he told me I had to listen to a new show they had on their station. He told me the voice was from a former Missouri. I told Roberts I had heard that voice a decade and a half earlier while living in Topeka, Kansas.
Of all the forms of media radio was always my preference and I was attracted to people who knew how to communicate whether or not I agreed with them or not. At one time I reveled in hearing divergent voices of Limbaugh and Garrison Keillor who couldn’t have been more opposite if they had practiced. People have to be smart enough to listen, digest and form their own opinions which is sadly lacking in the era.
Many a debate—or argument—arose over the years with my son about what Limbaugh did or didn’t say. One thing I recall predicting, over two decades ago, was that Limbaugh would die most likely from lung cancer, long before his time. I made that point to my son, many times, due to his addiction to whatever cigarettes have that addict. Since Rush’s passing my son has never mentioned it even happening. I think he might recall what his old man has told him over and over about tobacco.
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The latest death with a KOM league connection.
This past week saw the passing of a former big league player coach and manager by the name of Norman Sherry ps://www.mlb.com/news/norm-sherry-ex-catcher-manager-dies-at-89
In reading that obituary one of his buddies from “day one—actually” came to mind. Sherry and Stan Santo who played first base for the 1951 Ponca City Dodgers were lifelong friends until Santo’s passing. It is always my goal to share information with people when it has some meaning and in this case I figured the son of one of those guys fit into that framework.
To Mark Santo
I have seen a lot of articles today from the baseball experts about the death of Norm Sherry. They claim to know all about him. Your dad could have filled them in on a lot about his younger days of which they are unaware.
Santo’s reply:
Hi John. You got that right. Talk about similar paths…My dad and Norm were born one day apart. They went to high school together, played baseball together in high school, went together for induction into military service, and remained friends until my dad passed away 2 years ago. They both lived in San Diego county in their later years.
Growing up in the same neighborhood my dad also knew Larry Sherry. As I was told, they never thought that Larry would ever be a great player due to a birth defect with his feet; needless to say they couldn’t have been more wrong about that. When Larry passed away a few years ago my Dad was invited to and attended his funeral.
When I was 13 years old my dad took me to a winter training camp in the Los Angeles area where Norm was coaching to see if my pitching talents were as good as my Dad thought they were. Of course they weren’t and I distinctly remember being blown away by the grown-ups. Not exactly a moral booster for a 13 year old, but a great experience nonetheless. I feel like Norm’s passing represents the end of a chapter in my life.
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A special item.
It is realized that not all the recipients of these reports care all that much about them. Here is a special link to something I found interesting. I’d place this under the category “sometimes you never know what you have.” youtu.be/VmdFNQnbS0k ________________________________________________________________________________
Robert Anson Grove passes.
www.galvnews.com/obituaries/article_f9639322-0119-56a4-b6... (Photo included in citation)
Only once was it my privilege to speak with Robert Grove but he was a fascinating man. He was a great conversationalist with interesting stories to share. He spent less than a month as a catcher for the 1949 Ponca City Dodgers. As the obituary indicates his time in the KOM league is not mentioned.
Thanks to Jack Morris who included me on his list for passing along this obituary.
TEXAS CITY, TX — Robert Anson Grove (Bob), 90, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.He was born on September 12, 1930 in Norfolk, Virginia to Donald M. Grove and Deloris Bridget Grove. After graduating from Ball High School in Galveston, TX Bob tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers and was the catcher for their farm team in Sheboygan, WI. until he was drafted into the Army in 1953.
Bob married his high school sweetheart Mary Ellen Pierce on September 26, 1952. During their 66 years together, they were blessed with 3 daughters. In addition to being a loving husband and father he worked for the same family, Eugene B. Smith, at Moody Compress in Galveston, TX. He was an active member of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Texas City, TX where he served many years as the Finance Committee Chairman. Bob was also a ham radio operator (WB5FGD) and used this talent to serve others through the Shriners Burns Institute in Galveston and emergency preparedness during hurricane season. He was an outstanding golfer, tennis player and a master Easter Egg Hider.
He was preceded in death by his wife Mary Ellen Grove, his parents, brothers Don Grove Jr., Joe Grove, George Grove, Jack Grove, sister Zoe Anne Dundee (Mick) and son in law Kenneth Beasley.
He is survived by his sister Zoe Belle Calaway, his daughters Janet Grove Gonzales, Jo Ann Grove Konecny and her husband Larry, Jill Grove and her partner, Dianna Jarvis; grandchildren Brian Gonzales and wife Layla, Brandon Gonzales and wife Jackie, Bobby Gonzales and wife Crystal, Larry Konecny Jr. and wife Daniela, Candice Maintz and husband Bill, Laura Williams and husband Kyle, Andrew Konecny and wife Victoria and Gryffen James-Grove along with 14 great-grandchildren and other extended family members who he held dear.
Ed comment:
With the passing of Bob Grove there are six surviving members of the 1949 Ponca City Dodgers. They are Daniel Chepkauskas, Loren Doll, Dick McCoy, Theodore James Dean, John Nixon and Dean Antonson. Chepkauskas worked in the space industry, Doll and his partner Isrig operated huge cattle and grain operation in Western Kansas, Dean was in the production side of the movie industry. McCoy spent many years with the Omaha, Neb. Fire department and the readers can flunk me on Nixon and Antonson since I don’t recall their post-baseball careers. However, I know where both live and can put anyone in touch with those guys if they are curious about their means of support subsequent to their baseball career.
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Bye—This concludes yet another effort to recall and report something from the past. These reports are akin to bond fires. First there is a need for fuel then a spark to create a flame to get things going. Sometimes there isn’t the fuel or the spark to create a Flash Report and when that happens long periods exist between their production.