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My 13th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Klinkers tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
Mobile Frame Zero frames using only the bricks currently available from the Lego stores Pick A Model bins for this quarters Pick A Model.
I spent some more time with the 16 bricks in the current PaM.
The main pod houses the cockpit and main power source, and allows for one of three conveyance/manipulator configurations: humanoid, chicken walker, or quad. The arms on the humanoid can be fitted to the chicken walker or quad, but I'm not sure how useful they'd be. I'm still striking out on coming up with weapons systems, but these cores should be easy and cheap enough that if you wanted a company of them you could pull parts from elsewhere for systems. Also, these three frames only use 12 unique parts.
PaM-10/35h "Panda-H"
PaM-10/29q "Panda-Q"
PaM-10/29c "Panda-C"
C&C solicited as always!
Based heavily on (Read: Legs stolen from) Dark_Syntax's Vulture Riff Redux.
(Seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/dark_syntax/9170584169/)
The black bow under the chin is too long. It restricts the dome joint's movement. I need to get my hands on one of these: www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=11477
Mirit Ben Nun: Shortness of breath
'Shortness of breath' is not only a sign of physical weakness, it is a metaphor for a mental state of strong desire that knows no repletion; more and more, an unbearable glut, without repose. Mirit Ben Nun's type of work on the other hand requires an abundance of patience. This is a Sisyphean work (requiring hard labor) of marking lines and dots, filling every empty millimeter with brilliant blots. Therefore we are facing a paradox or a logical conflict. A patient and effortful work that stems from an urgent need to cover and fill, to adorn and coat. Her craft of layering reaches a state of a continuous ceremonial ritual.
This ritual digests every object into itself - useful or discarded -- available and ordinary or rare and exceptional -- they submit and devote to the overlay work. Mirit BN gathers scrap off the streets -- cardboard rolls of fabric, assortments of wooden boards and pieces, plates and planks -- and constructs a new link, her own syntax, which she alone is fully responsible for. The new combination -- a type of a sculptural construction -- goes through a process of patching by the act of painting.
In fact Mirit regards her three dimensional objects as a platform for painting, with a uniform continuity, even if it has obstacles, mounds and valleys. These objects beg her to paint, to lay down colors, to set in motion an intricate weave of abstract patterns that at times finds itself wandering the contours of human images and sometimes -- not. In those cases what is left is the monotonous activity of running the patterns, inch by inch, till their absolute coverage, till a short and passing instant of respite and than on again to a new onset.
Next to this assembly of garbage and it's recycling into 'painted sculptures' Mirit offers a surprising reunion between her illustrated objects and so called cheap African sculpture; popular artifacts or articles that are classified in the standard culture as 'primitive'.
This combination emphasizes the difference between her individualistic performance and the collective creation which is translated into cultural clichés. The wood carved image creates a moment of peace within the crowded bustle; an introverted image, without repetitiveness and reverberation. This meeting of strangers testifies that Mirit' work could not be labeled under the ´outsiders art´ category. She is a one woman school who is compelled to do the art work she picked out to perform. Therefore she isn't creating ´an image´ such as the carved wooden statues, but she produces breathless ´emotional jam' whose highest values are color, motion, beauty and plenitude. May it never lack, neither diluted, nor dull for even an instant
Tali Tamir
August 2010
C'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet
Se dit de choses présentées comme différentes mais en réalité très similaires
Origine
Êtes vous capable de faire la différence entre une assiette blanche et une blanche assiette ou bien un poteau rose et un rose poteau ? En dehors de l'aspect syntaxique, le placement du qualificatif par rapport au substantif, c'est peu probable. Les deux versions désignent bien ici la même chose, même si elles sont énoncées ou présentées de manière différente.
A lot of my work lately has been creating and comparing datasets from professional development workshops. Google Apps Script uses a JavaScript syntax and can pass information back and forth using JSON, so I'm seeing arrays everywhere I look.
in collaboration with Jan Brož as a part of FOMO @ Syntax, Lisbon 2015. Participating artists: Iain Ball, Jan Brož & Richard Nikl, Olga Cerkasova, André Sousa.
Live Performance, Amersfoort.
Gear: Electribe SX, SU700, Machinedrum, Electribe A, Electribe R, Boss distortion/overdrive, Korg Pandora FX (distortion^2)
Mix (200 BPM+, you have been warned) can be downloaded for free: www.syntaxterror.com
Le 24 juin, fête de saint Jean-Baptiste, on chante aux premières vêpres de la liturgie latine une hymne en l’honneur du saint, dont la première strophe a acquis une notoriété particulière depuis qu’au xie siècle le théoricien Guy d’Arezzo en a tiré son système de solmisation. En effet chacun des six premiers hémistiches se chante sur une note différente, et les six notes en question montent graduellement du grave à l’aigu en un hexacorde majeur. Guy eut l’idée d’attribuer à chaque note la syllabe correspondante de la première strophe de l’hymne, et d’en déduire des applications théoriques et pratiques qu’il n’est pas nécessaire d’exposer ici. Ainsi naquit la série UT, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA, qui sert encore de base à notre solfège moderne - lequel a cependant délaissé depuis longtemps la méthode guidonienne de solmisation -, moyennant l’adjonction du SI et le remplacement d’UT par DO, plus euphonique, l’un et l’autre vers le xviie siècle :1 Antiphonale Monasticum pro diumis horis, Tournai, Desclee, 1934, pp. 922-23. UT queant Iaxis MIra gestorum SOLve pollute REsonare fibris
FAmuli tuorum, LAbii reatum.Sancte Ioannes.Cette strophe initiale n’a pas manqué de surprendre les spécialistes par la disposition assez embrouillée des mots et par sa syntaxe un peu torturée rendant la traduction malaisée. Celle que propose le Paroissien Romain (éd. Desclée No 904, p. 895) est la suivante : "Pour que vos serviteurs, à gorge déployée. Puissent, de votre vie, exalter les hauts faits. Enlevez, ô saint Jean, de leur lèvre souillée. Toute l’impureté".Un tel cryptogramme, dans un poème de l’époque carolingienne, n’a rien pour nous étonner : on en trouve de semblables, et à foison, dans les Monumenta Germaniae Historica, au chapitre des Poetae latini carolini aevi5. En ce qui concerne celui de l’hymne à saint Jean-Baptiste, l’explication doit logiquement partir de la syllabe centrale, SOL, placée à l’intersection des deux axes. Emplacement signifiant, mais qui ne saurait bien entendu renvoyer à un quelconque héliocentrique astronomique, impensable au ixe siècle. Si le soleil se situe au centre de notre figure, c’est en tant que symbole de l’Esprit créateur, dispensateur de lumière et de chaleur et par là source de tout bien, de toute vie, de toute existence même. Le soleil matériel brille de son plus vif éclat au solstice d’été, jour le plus long et point culminant de la phase ascendante du cycle annuel - le folklore nous le rappelle avec ses "feux de la Saint-Jean" -, mais la transposition s’opère du plan matériel au plan spirituel et le triomphe de la lumière visible devient le signe d’une victoire de la vie sur la mort, de l’esprit sur la matière, du bien sur le mal. Le soleil matériel répand dans toutes les directions sa lumière et sa chaleur fécondantes, de même que l’Esprit créateur se projette par rayonnement dans l’espace pour faire surgir le cosmos : irradiation exprimée par la forme du cercle, symbole graphique du soleil.La doctrine chrétienne n’a pas manqué de s’approprier ce symbole de la lumière cosmique, si profondément ancré dans le psychisme de tout homme, pour en canaliser la puissance de suggestion au service du message de l’Evangile et de la Rédemption par le Christ6. Les implications chrétiennes du symbolisme solaire sont nombreuses et variées, et nous ne pouvons ici qu’esquisser quelques points, à seule fin d’en éclairer l’interprétation de notre cryptogramme et de préciser les antécédents de celui-ci quant à ce qui semble être son thème prédominant. Des résonances supplémentaires de ce thème seront ensuite dégagées au vu des divers vocables inclus dans le cryptogrammeL’étude des sources théologiques, liturgiques, historiques et iconographiques montre l’importance primordiale du symbolisme solaire pour la civilisation chrétienne (et aussi paĩenne) de la fin de l’Antiquité et du haut Moyen Age. Et l’Ecriture elle-même en donne l’exemple : du "fiat lux" de la Genèse jusqu’à l’Apocalypse les termes "lumière", "soleil", "feu" etc. reviennent avec constance dans le texte inspiré. Pour le Nouveau Testamen la vision lumineuse se concentre avant tout sur la personne du Christ, dont le prophète Malachie a prédit la venue comme d’un "Soleil de justice" (Mal. 4, 2) ; l’expression, reprise dès les environs de l’an 200 par Clément d’Alexandrie7, deviendra rapidement l’une des épithètes favorites assignées au Messie. De même le cantique de Zacharie annonce "la visite du Soleil levant" (Luc 1, 78) et celui de Siméon salue la "lumière pour éclairer les nations" (Luc 2, 32). Tout au long de son Evangile Jean associe la lumière à la vie comme l’un des attributs essentiels du Verbe ou Logos, et l’on notera à ce sujet que les deux mots grecs signifiant lumière et vie, "phôs" et "zôè", sont souvent représentés en croix, durant les premiers siècles de l’ère chrétienne, de manière à constituer un monogramme-talisman où l’oméga se situe au centre, comme dans notre cryptogramme8. Aux Evangélistes font écho, et à de multiples endroits, les Actes des Apôtres, les épîtres et l’Apocalypse. Les Pères de l’Eglise affirment et commentent à leur tour la nature lumineuse - ou plutôt illuminatrice - de Dieu et du Christ, souvent d’ailleurs pour marquer avec fermeté la distinction à maintenir entre le soleil visible et le "Soleil de justice" qu’est le Christ. En effet cette distinction avait tendance à s’estomper dans l’esprit des fidèles et il existait chez eux une réelle tentation idolâtre. Ainsi la coutume s’était établie très tôt de se réveiller à l’aube pour assister en prière au lever du soleil. Et la pratique de la prière dirigée vers l’Orient est attestée au IIe siècle par Hermas, Tertullien. Clément d’Alexandrie et par les Actes de Paul9, puis au iiie siècle, en Syrie, dans la Didascalie et d’autres textes10 ; les adeptes du néo-platonisme la connaissent eux aussi11. Elle rencontre une faveur telle que les Pères s’inquiètent et formulent des réprobations parfois véhémentes. Tel saint Augustin, dans son commentaire du psaume 93 : "Qui dicunt : Christus est sol, mentiuntur de sole. Nouit sol Dominum suum esse Chrlstum et Creatorem suum. Et si indignari potest, acerbius indignatur contra falso honorantem, quam contra contumeliosum. (...) Quanta falsa de ipsis luminaribus quidam dicunt ? Et ferunt, tolerant, et non mouentur"12. Au Ve siècle encore le pape Léon le Grand blâme l’habitude qu’avaient les Romains de s’incliner vers le soleil levant au moment d’entrer dans la basilique Saint-PierreDans la liturgie latine la thématique de la lumière imprègne profondément la période de l’Avent et de Noël. Les chants célèbrent alors la naissance du Christ comme le lever du "Soleil de justice" appelé à diffuser son éclat salvateur sur l’univers entier. Assimilation d’autant plus naturelle en latin que le verbe "oriri" s’applique indifféremment à une naissance humaine et au lever d’un astre. Nombre d’antiennes de l’office développent ce mot-clef : "Orietur sicut sol Salvator mundi... " ; "Cum ortus fuerit sol de caelo... " ; "Exortum est in tenebris lumen... " ; et surtout celle qui se chante aux vêpres du 21 décembre, jour même du solstice d’hiver : "O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae : veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris et umbra mortis"14. Les chants de la messe, quant à eux, recourent avec prédilection aux versets 6-7 du psaume 19 : le soleil, "comme un époux qui sort de son pavillon, se réjouit, vaillant, de courir sa carrière. A la limite des cieux il a son lever et sa course atteint à l’autre limite... "15. Certains chants de Noël se réfèrent à l’idée plus générale d’illumination16. Si cependant le symbolisme solaire joue un rôle pour ainsi dire emblématique dans la liturgie de l’Avent et de Noël, il s’en faut qu’il s’y cantonne exclusivement : les "heures" de la journée monastique, par exemple, suivent la marche du soleil et en reflètent les étapes dans leur hymnes17 ; mentionnons en outre le rit du cierge pascal, celui du lucernaire et l’emploi des cierges en général, sans parler du sacrement de baptême, ressenti comme une illumination de l’âme sanctifiée et sur lequel on reviendra plus loinL’assimilation du Christ au soleil se manifeste encore au travers des circonstances historiques qui ont présidé au choix de la date du 25 décembre pour la fête de Noël, et qui confirment de manière indubitable le lien existant entre cette solennité et le solstice d’hiver. Le 25 décembre était en effet, à la fin de l’Antiquité, la date à laquelle on célébrait la fête paĩenne du "Natalis invicti" : on y adorait le "sol invictus", "soleil invaincu", ainsi appelé parce qu’il semble renaître alors après son déclin apparent de l’été et de l’automne. Le culte du soleil renaissant provient d’Orient et a été importé à Rome en l’an 219 par l’empereur Héliogabale, d’origine syrienne18. Celui-ci fit construire à cet effet deux temples somptueux et instaura toute une organisation sacerdotale avec un rituel minutieusement fixé. Un demi-siècle plus tard Aurélien imprima un nouvel essor au culte du "sol invictus", non sans le réformer et l’affranchir plus ou moins de son caractère oriental : comme après lui Charlemagne pour la liturgie romaine, il comptait par la diffusion de la religion solaire renforcer l’unité politique de l’empire. Aussi édifia-t-il en 274 un troisième temple et y organisa-t-il des jeux ("agor Solis") qui avaient lieu à dates régulières et notamment à l’occasion du "Dies natalis invicti", le 25 décembre. Le "Sol invictus", on le devine, opposa une concurrence redoutable au "Sol justitiae", surtout sans doute au Proche-Orient où la dévotion au soleil avait pris une importance particulière. Devant la vogue durable dont il jouissait l’Eglise se vit pratiquement contrainte d’intégrer la fête paĩenne à son cérémonial propre : d’où la fixation, dès l’an 33619, de la Nativité du Christ à la date du 25 décembreDans le domaine des arts figuratifs, enfin, nombreuses sont les représentations iconographiques illustrant l’assimilation du Christ au "Soleil de justice". Ainsi le nimbe qui entoure sa tête, et qui est déjà par lui-même un attribut solaire (de par sa forme circulaire et sa couleur dorée), se complète d’une croix où l’on aurait tort de voir un simple rappel de la crucifixion : témoin le nimbe à douze rayons ornant la figure du Christ bénissant de la basilique romaine de Saint-Paul-hors-les-murs (ve siècle). Le nimbe crucifère n’est autre en fait qu’une "roue cosmique", l’un des symboles solaires les plus répandus ; il consiste en un nombre variable de rayons émanant d’un point central, à l’intérieur d’une circonférence suggérant l’univers créé20. Les quatre rayons du nimbe crucifère peuvent évoquer les quatre saisons ou les quatre moments principaux du jour astronomique - matin, midi, soir, minuit -, mais les douze rayons du Christ de Saint-Paul-hors-les-murs se rattachent plus nettement encore au double cycle solaire, annuel et circadien, en vertu de l’analogie qu’ils présentent avec les duodénaires des mois de l’année et des heures du jour. Qui plus est, les écrits patristiques des premiers siècles rapprochent volontiers ces duodénaires solaires et les douze apôtres21. Et ce même rapprochement reparaîtra, sept ou huit siècles plus tard, dans les tympans romans qui montrent le Christ "chronocrator", au centre, entouré aux voussures périphériques par la ronde des mois de l’année, sous l’aspect soit des signes du zodiaque, soit des travaux propres à chaque mois22. Il y a donc ici permanence remarquable d’un thème symbolique dans la littérature théologique et l’iconographieOutre le nimbe crucifère, la roue cosmique donne lieu à une autre application, celle, tout aussi familière, du chrisme. Sa forme la plus fréquente est celle du "chrisme constantinien" (a), expliqué habituellement comme la combinaison des deux premières lettres grecques du mot "Christos", X (chi) et P (rhô). Mais il existe aussi le "chrisme simple", sans boucle (b), unissant un I (iota) et un X (chi), initiales grecques de "Iesous Christos", ainsi qu’une variante en croix (c). Comme de plus ces trois types peuvent être entourés d’un cercle indiquant la souveraineté du Christ, on saisit leur parenté évidente avec la roue solaireL’axe horizontal, celui de l’ALFA-Oméga, appelle moins de commentaires que l’axe vertical de RESOLUTIOIONAS. On attirera toutefois l’attention sur la curieuse disposition symétrique de l’alpha, de part et d’autre de l’oméga central, avec une inversion figurant un mouvement d’expansion autour de l’oméga. Cette disposition, riche de signification symbolique, n’apparaît nulle part à notre connaissance dans l’iconographie, où pourtant l’alpha-oméga est fréquemment associé à la figure du chrisme : partout les deux lettres grecques entourent l’axe médian, l’alpha à gauche et l’oméga à droite27. En répartissant symétriquement les syllabes LA et FA autour de SOL notre cryptogramme illustre avec ingéniosité la parole de l’Apocalypse rappelée ci-dessus, en même temps qu’elle précise la nature spécifique de l’axe horizontal comme se rapportant à l’univers créé. L’oméga, au centre, correspond au "point principiel" n’occupant par lui-même aucun espace et représentant aunsi l’image, dans l’espace, de l’Unité primordiale. En tant que dernière lettre de l’alphabet il symbolise la fin ultime de l’univers, mais il contient en puissance l’alpha puisque c’est de lui que part le mouvement d’expansion ou de création. Et cette création n’est pas "ex nihilo", elle ne procède pas du néant, du vide existentiel, mais trouve sa source dans l’Oméga, Principe divin auquel elle aspire tout en procédant de lui. L’Oméga est présent au début comme à la fin des temps, et l’alpha de la création projette dans l’espace ses énergies génératrices qui finalement reviendront à lui. L’axe horizontal de l’alpha-oméga symbolise par ailleurs le plan terrestre, et plus généralement celui de l’univers créé, tandis que l’axe vertical de la "resolutio" a trait à la dualité primordiale du ciel et de la terre ou de l’esprit et de la matière, transcendant en son essence toute manifestation sensible. Ainsi la "resolutio" d’une part, l’alpha-oméga de l’autre expriment parfaitement le symbolisme fondamental attaché à la direction respective de chaque axe de la croix.
nixel claw mech (spikels max)
inspired from dark_syntax nixel mech squad, i made a new nixel mech, this time using spikels mixels.
video review:
C6 Mobile Strike Frame Unarmed
Inspired by the work of Dark Syntax I revisited C6 trying to make something that is a little less boxy than my last large frame.
Built for Mobile Frame Zero.
These photographs are an investigation into architecture as a "second nature", exploring how man-made structures like the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge organize space and shape our experience of the world. By capturing these iconic landmarks at twilight, the series focuses on the interplay of form, color, and light to reveal the profound ways these constructs become a framework for our lives.
The images invite us to read the language of our built world, showing how a modern cityscape, with its lit-up details and intricate geometry, can feel as powerful and essential as a natural mountain range. The structures are not just buildings; they are part of a shared, continuous narrative of history and urban life.
#London #Cityscape #TowerBridge #TowerOfLondon #TheSyntaxOfStructures #Architecture #UrbanPhotography #SecondNature #VisualArts
The discovery of Mecha-Cubits (metallic Tribe-Cubits with a single black wedge) by a group of Nixels deep within the caverns of the Mixel Moon allowed a single Nixel to Max with a tribe of Mixels to form a powerful, technologically advanced mecha. A sentient working/fighting machine where the unique powers and creativity of a Mixel tribe are combined with the technology and military structure of the Nixels resulting in a union much more capable than the sum of its parts. Many other Nixels have formed teams providing needed maintenance and technical support for the Mecha-Max’s during their explorations of Mixel Land.
The Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) is beginning to understand the secret origins of Mixel Land’s vast technological underpinnings. Initial discoveries suggest an unknown mutual enemy of Mixel/Nixel-kind that somehow disrupted a previous civilization and created the two disparate worlds of Mixel Land and Nixels Land. Mysterious remnants of this society can be seen in the giant Rainbow Cubit of Mixel Mountain, the extensive pipe network, and the unexplained Large Rock where Mixels inexplicably gather.
Meanwhile, the un-Mecha-Maxed Mixel tribes and Major Nixel both see the MMNEF as a threat to their status quo. Can the MMNEF solve the mystery of Mixel Land’s origin or will they succumb to the continuous threat from both Mixels and Nixels? Is the origin of Mixel Land something that should even be revealed?
These are all Mixel Max models (alt models) using only the pieces that come in the three sets from the respective tribes. This started as a slight departure from my usual mecha alt models of individual Mixel sets for Mobile Frame Zero when I built the first one from the Orbitons sets after being inspired by two fellow builders: Ezra Wibowo's (Cragster Max and Glorp Corp Max) and Dvdliu's (Wiztastics Max).
I wanted to make mecha Mixel Max's for the Nixel that comes with the tribe and set myself some conditions: build an many different types of mecha as possible, the Nixel must fit into the mecha and be removable without modification and have a well defined cockpit, and incorporate the Mixel tribe theme into an armed/military look. I knocked these out over about three weeks and had so much fun doing so that I'm kind of sad I'm done. I so can't wait for Series 5 and 6!
More pics in my Mecha-Max album.
Syntax Series sculpture, metal and bronze, by artist Steve Tobin on exhibit at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee
The discovery of Mecha-Cubits (metallic Tribe-Cubits with a single black wedge) by a group of Nixels deep within the caverns of the Mixel Moon allowed a single Nixel to Max with a tribe of Mixels to form a powerful, technologically advanced mecha. A sentient working/fighting machine where the unique powers and creativity of a Mixel tribe are combined with the technology and military structure of the Nixels resulting in a union much more capable than the sum of its parts. Many other Nixels have formed teams providing needed maintenance and technical support for the Mecha-Max’s during their explorations of Mixel Land.
The Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) is beginning to understand the secret origins of Mixel Land’s vast technological underpinnings. Initial discoveries suggest an unknown mutual enemy of Mixel/Nixel-kind that somehow disrupted a previous civilization and created the two disparate worlds of Mixel Land and Nixels Land. Mysterious remnants of this society can be seen in the giant Rainbow Cubit of Mixel Mountain, the extensive pipe network, and the unexplained Large Rock where Mixels inexplicably gather.
Meanwhile, the un-Mecha-Maxed Mixel tribes and Major Nixel both see the MMNEF as a threat to their status quo. Can the MMNEF solve the mystery of Mixel Land’s origin or will they succumb to the continuous threat from both Mixels and Nixels? Is the origin of Mixel Land something that should even be revealed?
These are all Mixel Max models (alt models) using only the pieces that come in the three sets from the respective tribes. This started as a slight departure from my usual mecha alt models of individual Mixel sets for Mobile Frame Zero when I built the first one from the Orbitons sets after being inspired by two fellow builders: Ezra Wibowo's (Cragster Max and Glorp Corp Max) and Dvdliu's (Wiztastics Max).
I wanted to make mecha Mixel Max's for the Nixel that comes with the tribe and set myself some conditions: build an many different types of mecha as possible, the Nixel must fit into the mecha and be removable without modification and have a well defined cockpit, and incorporate the Mixel tribe theme into an armed/military look. I knocked these out over about three weeks and had so much fun doing so that I'm kind of sad I'm done. I so can't wait for Series 5 and 6!
More pics in my Mecha-Max album.
Reflection from a shop window
Juxtaposition:
Street light, Volkswagen, Battistero di San Giovanni and Santa Maria del Fiore
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(part of my research called “ Brandscape architecture / City as a shopping mall ”
Brandscape Architecture ( City as a shopping mall )
Florence, 2008
See No Evil Block Party - Saturday 18th August 2012. Part of the 2012 Olympic Festival. Bristol repeats the repainting of Nelson Street. Celebrating with a New York Style Block Party with 6 stages.
See No Evil 2012 Block Party by Tom Vooght is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at www.flickr.com/photos/tmv_media/.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at twitter.com/tmvmedia.
Cardiff Daimler Fleetline/MCW 476 (JKG476F) leaves Caerphilly Bus Station with a Tredegar-Cardiff journey on 13 September 1973. Surprisingly, the three-colour logo used by Barclaycard and later Visa survived until 2006. Note the perfect syntax (but inconsistent formality) of "It doesn't matter with whom you bank".
Mobile Frame Zero company from only the bricks in a Lego 31005 set.
more pics in my Alt Model/SSC set
Been wanting to try my hand a Mantiskings's Single Set
Challenge with set 31005 after gusindor posted his Rusty Rovers where he managed to squeeze out 4 frames, a truck (also a frame), and 3 stations. All that made me take a second look at 31005; there's some good stuff in there (256 pieces) for $20 US.
I went into this with the goal of making 7brick tall frames (Chub sized) with some uniformity; 4 frames (enough for a real company or for 2 players to each have 2 frames for a small demo) and 2-3 stations. I ended up with 3 and 3; try as I might I just couldn't find a fourth frame.
Syntax
Pride
its made up of lonely moments
there was always a moment there when i knew
you always gave instalments
always knew u concentrated and grew
and i believe in reinvention
do you believe that life is holding the clue
take away all the lonely moments
give me full communication with you
your smile shine a little light, alright
dont hide, shine a little light
give up on your pride
do you believe in reinvention
do you believe thar life is holding the clue
any way to face the silence
any way to face the pain that kills you
your smile shine a little light, alright
dont hide, shine a little light
give up on your pride
give up on your pride, the moment's gone
give up on your smile, life is long
so i seen a bad dream, that you were gone
i got bitten on the soul, my blood will run
give up on your pride, the moment's gone
give up on your smile, life is long
so i seen i bad dream, you were gone
you're bitter and cold, my blood will run
A complex mapping bringing together ground floor activities, space syntax analysis and geolocated Instagram pictures.
Our Force Museum holds many collections of historic images, but a dip into the Oldham Borough Police’s archive rarely fails to turn up something interesting.
The force seemed very keen on recording many aspects of life in the town. We have street scenes, sporting events and wide range of oddities in addition to the more expected views of police officers at work. They even produced a film about life in the town.
This image features the Dr Syntax public house on the junction of Peter Street.
The imposing structure, dated 1929, is sadly no longer in existence.
The windows appear to be etched with the letters OB, which would relate to the town’s famous Oldham Brewery. The company operated from 1886 until the early 1980s.
The pub’s name may have been taken from a comic character created by William Coombe in 1820 or a famous racehorse of the same era.
See more images from the Oldham Borough Police Collection
From the collection of the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives.
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You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
While building Cinderella's Assault Walker I noticed the half-cone roof pieces from Cinderella's Castle looked canopy-ish so I knew I wanted to take a shot at starfighter of some kind.
Swooshable. :)
"since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things..."
E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet.
"Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony."
Morris Berman (b. 1914), Canadian educator, author.
These photographs are an investigation into architecture as a "second nature", exploring how man-made structures like the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge organize space and shape our experience of the world. By capturing these iconic landmarks at twilight, the series focuses on the interplay of form, color, and light to reveal the profound ways these constructs become a framework for our lives.
The images invite us to read the language of our built world, showing how a modern cityscape, with its lit-up details and intricate geometry, can feel as powerful and essential as a natural mountain range. The structures are not just buildings; they are part of a shared, continuous narrative of history and urban life.
#London #Cityscape #TowerBridge #TowerOfLondon #TheSyntaxOfStructures #Architecture #UrbanPhotography #SecondNature #VisualArts
40085 Valentine Bear arm mod. I also swapped out most of the white/grey for tan.
Richard Serra: Junction/Cycle
Two new sculptures
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date.
Born in 1938, Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of his generation. His groundbreaking bodies of work in both sculpture and drawing have been celebrated with major retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art (“Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years,” 2007 and “Richard Serra/Sculpture,” 1986) and the current “Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will travel this year to SFMOMA and the Menil Collection in Houston. He has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand. In addition to his 2008 MONUMENTA installation Promenade at the Grand Palais in Paris, Serra conceived The Matter of Time, an eightpart permanent installation at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2005.
14 September, 2011 - 26 November, 2011
exhibition
Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
I took this picture in Siegen, Germany, whre the sculpture was built.
© 2011 Werner Schnell - All rights reserved !
These schemes are probably the first Swiss-German attempts to explain the idea of modelling sans serif typefaces after dynamic and static ‘form priciples’ rather than through construction using lines and arcs. The article does not discuss typeface classification. It mentions the humanist minuscule written with a broad pen as the source of the Renaissance-Antiqua (Old Style, Garald) and does mention a possible origin for the the basis for the Klassizistische Antiqua (Modern Face, Didonic). In 1970 Gerrit Noordzij would publish his explanation of these ‘form principles’ through the strokes of the broad and the pointed pen in his article “Broken scripts and the classification of typefaces” in “The Journal of Typographic Research”. His approach through writing may seem strange at first sight, but the pens are the tools with which the scripts that were the models to Renaissance Antiqua / Old Style / Garalde / dynamic resp. klassizistische Antiqua / Modern Face / Didonic / static were written). Monika Müller and Hans Peter Willberg related the terms dynamic and static to Gerrit Noordzij’s expansion and translation planes from 1976 which would evolve into Gerrit Noordzij’s Cube from 1985. Using Noordzij’s visualization they sub-divided the Linear-Antiqua / Sans Serif group of the German DIN typeface classification accordingly in their successful publication ‘Schriften erkennen’ in 1981.
The approaches by Erich Schulz-Anker and Gerrit Noordzij to classify typefaces as well as their practical implementation in classifications by Willberg, Kupferschmid, Bollwage, me and others show that it is possible to both improve and simplify the way we look at typeface design and typography without loosing detail or having to add main groups to it in order to be able to include new developments. Unfortunately, these insights have not yet led to a revision of the internationally recognized typeface classification systems, such as Vox, ATypI, DIN 16518 or BS 2961 (British Standard).
These schemes are from the brochure ‘Formanalyse und Dokumentation einer serifenlosen Linearschrift auf neuer Basis: Syntax-Antiqua’ (Form analysis and documentation of a sans serif linear typeface on a new basis: Syntax Antiqua) by Erich Schulz-Anker, published by the former typefoundry Stempel AG in 1969. The article was also published in german, english and french in Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, 1970, no. 8. I have reprostats from that article since the mid 1980ies, but unfortunately I had never made photocopies. Also I obviously did not make stats from the schemes shown here, so I had to wait until 2011 until Keith Tam told me about the article probably being the first in which the terms were used. The typeface Syntax was designed by Hans Eduard Meier.
In 1977 the terms dynamic and static were also used by Prof. Jan Solpera for the Czech typeface classification. It seems to be likely that he had obtained these from the article resp. brochure ‘Formanalyse und Dokumentation einer serifenlosen Linearschrift auf neuer Basis: Syntax-Antiqua’, but I am not shure about this.
Edit: got hold of the Novum-article in the National-Bibliothek in Leipzig. The schemes as shown here are in there too! Also found the first edition of ‘Schriften erkennen’ from 1981 there.
One of the things that I like to illustrate for children is the simplicity, the syntax of the image makes it a challenge. Soon come new jobs.
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A comment from my friend, Rob, this morning whether I had snapped the John Donne memorial in St Pauls back in April, made me look through my shots to find a few more memorials I have yet to post.
So, for Rob, and you all, this is/was, John Dunner:
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John Donne (/ˈdʌn/ dun) (22 January 1572[1] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical conceits.[2]
Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. He spent much of the money he inherited during and after his education on womanising, literature, pastimes, and travel. In 1601, Donne secretly married Anne More, with whom he had twelve children.[3] In 1615, he became an Anglican priest, although he did not want to take Anglican orders. He did so because King James I persistently ordered it. In 1621, he was appointed the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He also served as a member of parliament in 1601 and in 1614.
Donne was born in London, into a recusant Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in England.[5] Donne was the third of six children. His father, also named John Donne, was of Welsh descent and a warden of the Ironmongers Company in the City of London. Donne's father was a respected Roman Catholic who avoided unwelcome government attention out of fear of persecution.[6][7]
His father died in 1576, when Donne was four years old, leaving his son fatherless and his widow, Elizabeth Heywood, with the responsibility of raising their children alone.[1] Heywood was also from a recusant Roman Catholic family, the daughter of John Heywood, the playwright, and sister of the Reverend Jasper Heywood, a Jesuit priest and translator.[1] She was a great-niece of the Roman Catholic martyr Thomas More.[1] This tradition of martyrdom would continue among Donne's closer relatives, many of whom were executed or exiled for religious reasons.[8] Donne was educated privately; however, there is no evidence to support the popular claim that he was taught by Jesuits.[1] Donne's mother married Dr. John Syminges, a wealthy widower with three children, a few months after Donne's father died. Donne thus acquired a stepfather. Two more of his sisters, Mary and Katherine, died in 1581. Donne's mother lived her last years in the Deanery after Donne became Dean of St Paul's, and died just two months before Donne, in January 1631 [1].
In 1583, the 11-year-old Donne began studies at Hart Hall, now Hertford College, Oxford. After three years of studies there, Donne was admitted to the University of Cambridge, where he studied for another three years.[9] However, Donne could not obtain a degree from either institution because of his Catholicism, since he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy required of graduates.[10]
In 1591 Donne was accepted as a student at the Thavies Inn legal school, one of the Inns of Chancery in London.[1] On 6 May 1592 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, one of the Inns of Court.[1] In 1593, five years after the defeat of the Spanish Armada and during the intermittent Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), Queen Elizabeth issued the first English statute against sectarian dissent from the Church of England, titled "An Act for restraining Popish recusants". It defined "Popish recusants" as those "convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel, or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Service there, but forbearing the same contrary to the tenor of the laws and statutes heretofore made and provided in that behalf". Donne's brother Henry was also a university student prior to his arrest in 1593 for harbouring a Catholic priest, William Harrington, whom he betrayed under torture.[5] Harrington was tortured on the rack, hanged until not quite dead, and then subjected to disembowelment.[5] Henry Donne died in Newgate prison of bubonic plague, leading Donne to begin questioning his Catholic faith.[7]
During and after his education, Donne spent much of his considerable inheritance on women, literature, pastimes and travel.[6] Although no record details precisely where Donne travelled, he did cross Europe and later fought with the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh against the Spanish at Cadiz (1596) and the Azores (1597), and witnessed the loss of the Spanish flagship, the San Felipe.[1][11] According to Izaak Walton, who wrote a biography of Donne in 1658:
... he returned not back into England till he had stayed some years, first in Italy, and then in Spain, where he made many useful observations of those countries, their laws and manner of government, and returned perfect in their languages.
— Izaak Walton[12]
By the age of 25 he was well prepared for the diplomatic career he appeared to be seeking.[11] He was appointed chief secretary to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Sir Thomas Egerton, and was established at Egerton's London home, York House, Strand close to the Palace of Whitehall, then the most influential social centre in England.
During the next four years Donne fell in love with Egerton's niece Anne More, and they were secretly married just before Christmas[5] in 1601, against the wishes of both Egerton and George More, who was Lieutenant of the Tower and Anne's father. Upon discovery, this wedding ruined Donne's career, getting him fired and put in Fleet Prison, along with minister Samuel Brooke, who married them,[13] and the man who acted as a witness to the wedding. Donne was released shortly thereafter when the marriage was proven valid, and he soon secured the release of the other two. Walton tells us that when Donne wrote to his wife to tell her about losing his post, he wrote after his name: John Donne, Anne Donne, Un-done. It was not until 1609 that Donne was reconciled with his father-in-law and received his wife's dowry.
Part of the house where Donne lived in Pyrford
After his release, Donne had to accept a retired country life in a small house in Pyrford, Surrey owned by Anne's cousin, Sir Francis Wooley, where they resided until the end of 1604.[1][14] In spring 1605 they moved to another small house in Mitcham, London, where he scraped a meager living as a lawyer,[15] while Anne Donne bore a new baby almost every year. Though he also worked as an assistant pamphleteer to Thomas Morton writing anti-Catholic pamphlets, Donne was in a constant state of financial insecurity.[1]
Anne bore John 12 children in 16 years of marriage (including two stillbirths — their eighth and then, in 1617, their last child); indeed, she spent most of her married life either pregnant or nursing. The 10 surviving children were Constance, John, George, Francis, Lucy (named after Donne's patroness Lucy, Countess of Bedford, her godmother), Bridget, Mary, Nicholas, Margaret, and Elizabeth. Three (Francis, Nicholas, and Mary) died before they were ten. In a state of despair that almost drove him to kill himself, Donne noted that the death of a child would mean one mouth fewer to feed, but he could not afford the burial expenses. During this time, Donne wrote but did not publish Biathanatos, his defense of suicide.[8] His wife died on 15 August 1617, five days after giving birth to their twelfth child, a still-born baby.[1] Donne mourned her deeply, and wrote of his love and loss in his 17th Holy Sonnet.
In 1602 John Donne was elected as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Brackley, but this was not a paid position.[1] Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, being succeeded by King James I of Scotland. The fashion for coterie poetry of the period gave Donne a means to seek patronage, and many of his poems were written for wealthy friends or patrons, especially MP Sir Robert Drury of Hawsted (1575–1615), whom he met in 1610 and became Donne's chief patron, furnishing him and his family an apartment in his large house in Drury Lane.[11]
In 1610 and 1611 Donne wrote two anti-Catholic polemics: Pseudo-Martyr and Ignatius his Conclave for Morton.[1] He then wrote two Anniversaries, An Anatomy of the World (1611) and Of the Progress of the Soul[17] (1612) for Drury. Although James was pleased with Donne's work, he refused to reinstate him at court and instead urged him to take holy orders.[7] At length, Donne acceded to the king's wishes, and in 1615 was ordained into the Church of England.[11]
In 1615 Donne was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity from Cambridge University, and became a Royal Chaplain in the same year, and a Reader of Divinity at Lincoln's Inn in 1616,[1] where he served in the chapel as minister until 1622.[18] In 1618 he became chaplain to Viscount Doncaster, who was on an embassy to the princes of Germany. Donne did not return to England until 1620.[14] In 1621 Donne was made Dean of St Paul's, a leading and well-paid position in the Church of England, which he held until his death in 1631. During his period as dean his daughter Lucy died, aged eighteen. In late November and early December 1623 he suffered a nearly fatal illness, thought to be either typhus or a combination of a cold followed by a period of fever. During his convalescence he wrote a series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and sickness that were published as a book in 1624 under the title of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. One of these meditations, Meditation XVII, later became well known for its phrases "No man is an Iland" (often modernised as "No man is an island") and "...for whom the bell tolls". In 1624 he became vicar of St Dunstan-in-the-West, and 1625 a prolocutor to Charles I.[1] He earned a reputation as an eloquent preacher and 160 of his sermons have survived, including the famous Death’s Duel sermon delivered at the Palace of Whitehall before King Charles I in February 1631.
It is thought that Donne's final illness was stomach cancer, although this has not been proven. He died on 31 March 1631 having written many poems, most of which were circulated in manuscript during his lifetime. Donne was buried in old St Paul's Cathedral, where a memorial statue of him was erected (carved from a drawing of him in his shroud), with a Latin epigraph probably composed by himself. Donne's monument survived the 1666 fire, and is on display in the present building.
Donne's earliest poems showed a developed knowledge of English society coupled with sharp criticism of its problems. His satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as corruption in the legal system, mediocre poets, and pompous courtiers. His images of sickness, vomit, manure, and plague reflected his strongly satiric view of a world populated by all the fools and knaves of England. His third satire, however, deals with the problem of true religion, a matter of great importance to Donne. He argued that it was better to examine carefully one's religious convictions than blindly to follow any established tradition, for none would be saved at the Final Judgment, by claiming "A Harry, or a Martin taught [them] this."[8]
Donne's early career was also notable for his erotic poetry, especially his elegies, in which he employed unconventional metaphors, such as a flea biting two lovers being compared to sex.[11] In Elegy XIX: To His Mistris Going to Bed, he poetically undressed his mistress and compared the act of fondling to the exploration of America. In Elegy XVIII, he compared the gap between his lover's breasts to the Hellespont.[11] Donne did not publish these poems, although he did allow them to circulate widely in manuscript form.[11]
... any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee..
— Donne, Meditation XVII[20]
Some have speculated that Donne's numerous illnesses, financial strain, and the deaths of his friends all contributed to the development of a more somber and pious tone in his later poems.[11] The change can be clearly seen in "An Anatomy of the World" (1611), a poem that Donne wrote in memory of Elizabeth Drury, daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk. This poem treats Elizabeth's demise with extreme gloominess, using it as a symbol for the Fall of Man and the destruction of the universe.[11]
The poem "A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day", concerns the poet's despair at the death of a loved one. In it Donne expresses a feeling of utter negation and hopelessness, saying that "I am every dead thing ... re-begot / Of absence, darkness, death." This famous work was probably written in 1627 when both Donne's friend Lucy, Countess of Bedford, and his daughter Lucy Donne died. Three years later, in 1630, Donne wrote his will on Saint Lucy's day (13 December), the date the poem describes as "Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight".
The increasing gloominess of Donne's tone may also be observed in the religious works that he began writing during the same period. His early belief in the value of scepticism now gave way to a firm faith in the traditional teachings of the Bible. Having converted to the Anglican Church, Donne focused his literary career on religious literature. He quickly became noted for his sermons and religious poems. The lines of these sermons and devotional works would come to influence future works of English literature, such as Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, which took its title from a passage in Meditation XVII of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Thomas Merton's No Man is an Island, which took its title from the same source.
Towards the end of his life Donne wrote works that challenged death, and the fear that it inspired in many men, on the grounds of his belief that those who die are sent to Heaven to live eternally. One example of this challenge is his Holy Sonnet X, Death Be Not Proud, from which come the famous lines "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so." Even as he lay dying during Lent in 1631, he rose from his sickbed and delivered the Death's Duel sermon, which was later described as his own funeral sermon. Death's Duel portrays life as a steady descent to suffering and death, yet sees hope in salvation and immortality through an embrace of God, Christ and the Resurrection.
Photoshoot in San Diego CA, this is an older promo shoot but I was taking a look at the shots and re-worked on a couple.
View On Black (Large)
Don't use this image on websites,blogs or other media, without my explicit permission.View On Black
♫ Syntax - Fever ♫
I can't be your daddy
You've already had me
I will not be your backbone
You see I'm riding my style on my own
It's about love
It's about soft
Give me whores who never sleep
Give me fever running deep
You see i'm looking for less cohesion
I will not see your reason
Romance doesn't suit me
But you dance to amuse me
It's about love
It's about soft
Give me whores who never sleep
Give me fever running deep
You try to approach me
But crawling doesn't please me
I cannot feel elation
I got to feel a love sensation
It's about love, love and strange times
It's about soft, soft and chilling rhymes
Give me whores who never sleep
Give me fever running deep
Give me love
Give me soft babe
Come on give me whores
Come give me fever
M100
I attach a very recent observation of SN2020oi.
Observation info is printed in the picture.
Excuse me for not knowing the syntax for proper reporting. Also the magnitude estimation made in Astrometrica may have large errors due to the background light from the galaxy.
Kind Regards,
Lars Hermansson
C6 Mobile Strike Frame with assault rifle and jump pack.
Inspired by the work of Dark Syntax I revisited C6 trying to make something that is a little less boxy than my last large frame.
Built for Mobile Frame Zero.
Sometimes I will feel as if I am looking into the eyes of a real human.
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The Chimpanzee [Pan troglodytes], living primarily in West and Central Africa. The chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives to humans.
A fully grown adult male chimpanzee can weigh from 35-70 kilograms (75-155 lb) and stand 0.9-1.2 metres (3-4 ft) tall, while females usually weigh 26-50 kg (57-110 lb) and stand 0.66-1 m (2-3½ ft) tall.
The Chimpanzee does not swim. They has an omnivorous diet, a troop hunting culture based on beta males led by an alpha male, and highly complex social relationships.
Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays. They have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank. They can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence. Young chimpanzees have outperformed human college students in tasks requiring remembering numbers.
Chimpanzee has self-awareness. Self-awareness of one's situation as seen in the mirror test, or the ability to identify with another's predicament, are prerequisites for laughter, so this animal may be laughing in the same way that humans do.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Info taken from Wikipedia
1947 Iola, Kansas Cubs
Front Row: Fred Lablanc, Bob Hewson, Buck Walz, Al Reitz (Mgr), Jim Yates and Hal Fortine.
Middle Row: Dick "Whitey" Wood, Alba Etie, Ken Aubrey, Joe Pollock, Jesse Raines and Leo Blandina.
Back Row: Oscar "Pappy" Walterman, John Barley (Business Manager), Jake Curnal, Paul Vickery and Roy Switzer.
(This is part of a two part photo submission covering the KOM career of Paul Ray Vickery.)
The KOM League
Flash Report
for week of
April 26 through May 2, 2015
Warning:
Everything these days, from medical prescriptions to golf balls, comes with a warning . Don’t over dose on medications or let someone hit you in the head with a golf ball else both could lead to pain, long suffering or death. You get my drift.
Fearful that these reports are far too voluminous I have come up with my own set of warnings.
1.Don’t consume in large doses. Read a little at each sitting. Pay attention to all warning labels.
2.Don’t attempt to drive or operate heavy machinery while around this report.
3.Never read while you are eating or drinking anything either extremely hot or cold.
4.Never share this medicine (report) with another person.
5.These reports may evoke strong emotions such as laughing out loud or sobbing uncontrollably. That is probably due to poor composition of thought on the part of the author.
6.Keep out of the hands of small children, adults up to age 65 and English teachers. None of these groups will understand the verbiage or syntax, let alone recognize the names of any of the people mentioned in the report.
7.In case of severe reaction take two aspirin and go immediately to bed. If symptoms persist erase the report from your computer and contact the author to request the reports never be sent again.
Any other problems encountered with these reports should be taken up with a competent expert in the field who can alleviate the distress. If you are not pleased with this product please return the unused portion for the amount of money it cost you to purchase it. Now, proceed at your own risk.
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Note from one of my proof readers.
I think the following line from the Report might have a typo at the end of the sentence: Jeptha McCormick was an Airman First Class during the Korean War and died in 2003 in North, South Carolina. Again, nice report and try not to get into any fisticuffs with Stanka - sounds a little dangerous! -Jerry in Arkansas
Ed reply:
North is a town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The population was 813 at the time of the 2000 census. North, South Carolina has been noted for its unusual place name.
Jerry’s reply:
I was thinking maybe "North, South Carolina" was a typo but maybe there is a North, South Carolina!
Ed reply:
Did you get my statement verifying that fact? There is also a town by the name of 96, South Carolina and there was a major league pitcher from there who turns out to be the only person ever to wear the name of his hometown on the back of his uniform. Do you know who that was?
Jerry’s reply:
Who wore the old 96 for his hometown?
Ed reply:
Wonder of wonders. If you pull up this site and look at the photos that pop up on Google you'll see a photo of the 96 on the back of Big Bill Voiselle. www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=Bill...
Jerry’s reply:
There you go. Mr. Voiselle in his good old number 96. Cool.
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Note from television newsman.
John: I don't know any of these fellas, but I love baseball and history and very much admire your dedication in keeping up this work. Thank you for including me on your list. Scott Thompson—KOTV Tulsa, OK
Ed note:
In 1996, Scott Thompson and his cameraman covered the first KOM league reunion. It was held in Pittsburg, KS. His coverage won him some major awards and in my opinion was the best coverage done at any KOM event of which there were a dozen. Thompson made many of the former players at that reunion famous one more time in their lives. Somewhere there is still video of that coverage just waiting to “burst forth” once more. (Hint, hint.)
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Note from a surrogate reader
Did not know Rechichar played baseball. I did remember he held the 56 yard record for a long time & that he played for Baltimore. Kuenn was always a favorite of mine. Guess I got a real deal when Neil had you send me your Mickey book! Dave—in Texas
Ed comment:
For many years Neil Gibson of Arlington, Texas was one of the most faithful and supportive members of the KOM family. He never played in it but was still fascinated by those who did. I was his house guest during a trip to Arlington, Texas to celebrate the 60th wedding anniversary of Aletha and Boyd Bartley. Shortly before Gibson’s passing he introduced my Flash Report to one of his Army Ranger buddies. At first his friend was skeptical of what he was receiving but like a good soldier he went along with what his friend was sharing. After Gibson departed the scene, Dave, became the eyes for his departed friend. In many ways they are like twin brothers. They like and dislike a lot of the same things and hold similar views on a myriad of issues. Neil Gibson lives on through his pal Dave.
Ed reply:
Dave, I can tie everything and everybody to the KOM league. Last night I mentioned those "free" books and both my cell and home phones lit up like a Christmas tree. I heard from three of Mickey's first cousins who ordered nearly two dozen of those “free” books for their children. At the same time Mantle's first roommate in professional ball was also calling. So, within 15 minutes of releasing that free book announcement I had calls from Farmington, NM; Denver, CO; along with Afton, Glenpool and Oklahoma City. I didn't know I had some of those readers.
Harvey Kuenn and Len Van de Hey crossed paths many times in their youth activities in baseball and football and Van de Hey was always the better of the two. I think in the right organization Van de Hey would have gone all the way to the top. He told me he had six children and four became lawyers but he still loved them.
Van de Hey had his chance, one spring, to win a spot with the Giants. All he had to do was beat out incumbent Whitey Lockman and prospects like Bill White, Orlando Cepeda, Willie Kirkland and Willie McCovey for the job.
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Time for a trip down memory lane
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This is a site that I accidentally came across recently. For those of you without access to the URL I’ll describe the photo. There are five guys in it with four standing and one kneeling. All the players were wearing Joplin Miner uniforms. The caption claimed this was a 1950’s team and the fellow standing second from the right was Mickey Mantle. My first glance caused me to say “No way Jose.” It was obviously Jim Finigan. The fellow kneeling was also recognizable as it was Johnny Sturm the Joplin manager in 1948 and 1949. That information alone narrowed the photo to those two years. The trouble was that both Sturm and Finigan were both there for at least parts of those seasons.
Johnny Sturm replaced Lou Gehrig at first base after the Iron Horse’s retirement. www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=Obit...
An attempt to figure out who the guy on the far right was led me to get in touch with Bob Hamric for he was on the Joplin roster in 1949. Hamric and I could both recognize Finigan and Sturm but not the other three. I leaned toward the big guy on the far right as either being Tom Hesketh or Dick Wuestling. To be able to identify either of those guys positively would have nailed down the date of that photo since neither Hesketh or Wuestling were with Joplin during the same year. But, I couldn’t do it. So, if you played for the Independence Yankees and Joplin Miners in the 1948-49 you may be able to identify that photo. Here’s hoping Cal Neeman pulls up that URL and gets in touch. I think he’s the guy with the best chance of telling me who those five guys are in that photo. (Note: At the time this report was prepared the site carrying that photo had not updated all my comments on the photo identification.)
As with most things when you are searching for something, you find something else. A member of the 1949-50 Joplin Miner pitching staff was a right-handed pitcher from Cincinnati, Ohio. When I was writing the Mantle book, a decade ago, (the ones I’m now nearly giving away) I spoke with Tom Hesketh. Here is what I discovered when preparing this report.
The Cincinnati Enquirer—this was from May 21, 2004.
GREEN TOWNSHIP - Thomas F. Hesketh Jr., co-owner of Brogan/Hesketh Formal Wear & Bridal Shoppe in Price Hill, died Tuesday at University Hospital.
His death resulted from a head injury he suffered after falling on ice Feb. 12. "He seemed to be recovering, then he got pneumonia," his wife, Susan E. Johnson Hesketh, said. Mr. Hesketh was 75.
He had been partners in the formalwear business with friend Dave Brogan of Delhi Township for 27 years. "It was a real venture," Brogan said.
"We had some good times (and) bad times. Our relationship lasted longer than some marriages."
At one time they operated four stores around Greater Cincinnati.
"It was a wonderful experience for me," Brogan said. "I was 20 years younger than Tom, (so) he sort of showed me the way. I looked up to him as a father image."
After growing up in Mount Auburn and graduating from the old Woodward High School (which was in the building that now houses the School for the Creative and Performing Arts), he attended Michigan State University with the goal of becoming a veterinarian.
But he left his studies and became a pitcher in the New York Yankees farm system. "At one point Mickey Mantle was his roommate," his wife said. "But Mickey Mantle didn't stay too long down in the minor leagues." (Ed note: He was a teammate of Mantle’s at Joplin. Mantle’s roommate was Tommy Gott).
Mr. Hesketh came home in the late 1950s and joined the Cincinnati Fire Department. "He spent almost all of his career at Engine Co. 5 at Vine and McMicken," his wife said. He retired in 1981.
He also owned and trained race horses. "That was his dream," his wife said. At the time of his death he was a part-owner of several horses including Suddenly Gone, with whom he had some success at Turfway Park.
Mr. Hesketh was devoted to his seven children and was a "big-time Elder fan," his wife said.
"He coached grade school when I was young," said his daughter, Linda Froehlich of Pleasant Ridge. "He just loved young kids. He enjoyed going to high school athletic events more than college or pro. That and his horses were it."
In addition to his wife of 36 years and his daughter, survivors include: another daughter, Patty L. Bloomfield of Batavia; five sons, Thomas F. Hesketh III of Camden, Ark., Robert S. Hesketh of Louisville, Charles E. Hesketh of Newtown and Timothy A. and Anthony T. Hesketh, both of Green Township; two brothers, Stanley Hesketh of Anderson Township and Bruce Hesketh of Monfort Heights; 15 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at Radel Funeral Home, 650 Neeb Road in Delhi Township. Mass of Christian burial is 10 a.m. Saturday at Our Lady of Visitation Church, 3180 South Road in Mack.
(This might be a good time to stop reading this report for a while. Beware eye fatigue may result from reading any further without a long rest.)
Passing of Ray Nemec
It would be difficult to count the times Ray Nemec and I communicated over the past 20 years. He inherited the Heilbroner material that was commonly known as the Blue Books. In that collection was the largest source of biographical and player information anywhere on this planet or any planet for that matter.
We had another thing in common, old time radio. We exchanged a lot of information of radio station call letters and performers on such stations as KOAM in Pittsburg, KS, KWTO in Springfield, MO, WIBW Topeka, KS, KFRU in Columbia, MO and even the town where that station originated circa 1927—Bristow, OK. Nemec is one of the few people I ever ran across outside of Southeast Kansas, Northeast Oklahoma and Southwest Missouri who ever heard a KOM league broadcast. The station he could pick up in the metropolitan Chicago area, at night, was KGLC operating at 910 kilocycles from Miami, OK which was only a 1,000 watt station. He heard the play-by-play done by Russ Martin who broadcast all Miami games except for those played on Sunday. That day he was busy preaching to the largest congregation in the city at the First Christian Church. Martin’s side-kick for a couple of years was former KOM leaguer, Joe Pollock. A Catholic from Cleveland, Pollock even went to the church Martin pastured. After Martin left town Pollock was back to the Catholic Church and that is where I last viewed his physical remains when I delivered his eulogy on July 21, 2003.
In one of our conversations I mentioned A. J. Cripe and his Town Talk Boys who I heard on KOAM at Pittsburg, KS from the time I was first aware of anything. A few days after the conversation about Cripe I had two cassette tapes in my mailbox and they were old Cripe radio show recordings. That only proved to me what many people told me over the years “A. J. Cripe isn’t all that good.” He was rather “corn ball” in fact.
Tying Cripe into the KOM league fabric isn’t difficult. For example he was from Garnett, Kansas as was Jim Morris. Long before Morris went into WWII he was a chauffeur from Cripe when he was doing his country music shows, running for the Kansas legislature and promoting his bread business. Cripe aired his 10:30 a. m. country show from the Bess Hotel in Pittsburg which was the place many of the visiting KOM league teams stayed when they played the local Browns club. The more affluent teams stayed at the Bess and those less so were housed at the Stilwell. I was told by many of the ballplayers that they made fun of Cripe’s music.
Every baseball team in the history of the KOM league was always facing hard financial times. During the 1948 season the Carthage Cardinals were in dire straits and decided to have a special night to boost attendance. They decided to bring to town A. J. Cripe and his Town Talk Boys to play before, during and after the game. As a result of this big promotion the attendance was far less than the already poor regular turnout. Yet, the baseball club was out the expense of Cripe and the boys making the 30-mile trip to town.
Russ Martin, on the other hand, was quite a personality. He always signed off his sports shows and baseball broadcasts with the Grantland Rice quote “When the one great comes to mark against your name he’ll write not that you won, or that you lost, but how you played the game.” (Ed note: That is the way I recall it.) In the case of Ray Nemec he “played” the game very well. He will be missed by a lot of people. The last note he ever sent me was wishing I’d get feeling better for I had been making a lot of mistakes in my reports. I wrote him back with the statement that I had spoken with my doctor’s and that I’d never be in any better health than I was currently experiencing. I informed him that I’d either have to cease sending the reports or he’d have to accept them for what they were. That was true a year or so ago and nothing has changed.
His obituary is listed here:
www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=...
When copied and then pasted it is difficult to reading because of the background but here it is for those of you who can’t pull up that site.
Raymond J. Nemec, 85, born June 19, 1929 passed away April 17, 2015. Raymond is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Loretta (nee Majerczyk); children, Thomas, Allen (Patti Pasquesi), Alice (Gary Blasen), and Jennifer Nemec; grandchildren, Brook and Stacie Blasen; great granddaughter, Hannah Boleyn; sister-in-laws, Felipa (late Robert) Nemec, Helen (late Martin) Jakubek, and brother-in-law John (Margaret) Majerczyk. Cousins Adelyn Krcek and Dorothy Bero, and many nieces, nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Anton and Anastasia (nee Rezabek) Nemec; brother, Robert; parents-in-law, Adolph and Josephine (nee Majka) Majerczyk; infant great granddaughter Makayla Boleyn. Ray was a man of many passions. After his family, came baseball statistics. At age 11, Ray knew he was more interested in statistics then playing; he would calculate his batting average, while running to first base. Ray made his mark as one of baseball's greatest minor league researches. He served as a founding member of SABR, Society for American Baseball Research. In August 1971 he and the group were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Ray contributed accurate player records to many publications. He served as the official score keeper for the Kane County Cougars in the late 90's. Ray coached and managed a little league team in Downers Grove. His love of numbers translated to a successful career in logistics and planning for Corn Products Co., serving 45 years in various capacities. Another interest was Radio. While serving in the Army, he announced live talent shows on the Armed Forces Radio. He hosted a radio show in the early 70's called, "Music, News & Nemec" airing on WDGC-FM. Growing up near trains fueled a love for LGB train's and Garden Railroading. Ray was a Charter Member of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America; as a board-member, he spent years as editor of the newsletter. He was a kind, reserved and always-complimentary man. He had an amazing gift for numbers and remembering details. He will be missed by all those who loved him. Visitation will be Tuesday April 21st 3:00-9:00PM at Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 44 S. Mill Street, Naperville, IL. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, April 22nd 11:00am at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, 36 N. Ellsworth, Naperville, IL. In lieu of Flowers, donations can made to Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, 310 N River Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016, Attn.: Sister M. Phyllis. For information please call 630-355-0213 or visit www.friedrich-jones.com
- See more at: www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=...
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All time Iola team at least from 1946-50
Readers of the Iola Register, in the spring of 1951, were encouraged to vote on an All-Star team of former Iola Cubs and Indians who played there from 1946-50. This article begins by announcing the contest and then I got lost in the weeds for some of the stories were too interesting to ignore. Finally, I followed the bouncing ball until it led to the announcement of the all-time best Iola players and then to one of the players who was far from the best at his position but still won.. That in turn led me to track the fellow who wasn’t the best all the way to his tragic demise in 1984. Try to make it through this story. It will increase your knowledge of KOM league history
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THE I0LA REGISTER, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1951. SPORTS News and Views: Boyd Bartley, four - time Ponca City baseball manager, is out of army service again now after doing a brief winter hitch and is looking for reassignment, in the Brooklyn Dodger organization. (Ed note: I found that mention of Bartley being out of the service by March of 1951surprising, since I own a letter that he sent to the Miami, Okla. Eagles asking them for an opportunity for his Camp Crowder team to play them in a spring exhibition game. The offer, by the way, was declined as Miami had already firmed up their spring schedule.
After seeing that statement contact was made with Bartley’s widow, Aletha. I asked about the series of events in early 1951. She replied with this. “1951 was the year he was recalled and we were in Camp Chaffee (Arkansas). Due to having boo coos (lots--a great quantity. from French "beaucoup") of kids he finally got his release and ended up scouting as (George) Scherger had the Ponca City team by then.”
Boyd was back at Ponca City in 1952 and Aletha picks up on their best summer in baseball. “We were so happy to get back home (Ponca City) as all the windows leaked in the (Arkansas) rental house, we had a real bad snow storm had towels stuck in all the cracks. It felt strange Boyd scouting that summer. Our best summer was when he had the Thomasville club (1954); he hit an umpire so was released as manager. We then went to Vero Beach for the rest of the summer as Boyd was part of the boys camp.”
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(The Iola Register column picks up again)
Ed Simmons won't be the all-time Indian catcher, but he is getting a surprising number of votes in the current all-star contest. It wasn't realized the fans did have such regard for him. This department's catching choices, in order, are Gene Daily, Ed Simmons, and Buck Walz.
Carthage has received official word from the sponsoring Chicago Cubs that Don Anderson will again be the choice as manager of the Cub KOM entry in 1951.
—His Baseball Prize "Please split the. $5 equally between the Red Cross and Salvation Army," orders W. B. Kerr, while mailing an entry in the all-star baseball contest. He offers these names in the poll to select all-time Iola first and second teams in the KOM league: First team- Paul Vickery, c; Bob Yuhas, Hal Brydle and Bill Upton, p; Joe Pollock, Larry Singleton, and Don Bruss, of; Gordon Geibel, lb; Alba Etle, 2b; Ken Aubrey, 3b; Leo Blandina, ss. Second team-Al Dunterman, c; Jimmy Yates, Hugh Bisges, Paul Schnieders, p; Walter Dunkovich, Hal Fortine, Leo Kedzierski, of; Jack Curnal, lb; John Paul. 2b; Jerry Whalen, 3b; Art Sullivan, ss; Whitey Wood, utility. The Register is offering $5 to the fan whose first and second squad selections most nearly match the combined vote of all those participating.
—Mickey Mantle Hits 420-Foot Home Run Los Angeles (AP) — Mickey Mantle, the rookie 19-year old from Commerce, Okla., has enthused veteran and rookie alike in the New York Yankee training camp. The switch hitting and speed of the Yankee youngster has everybody in camp talking. On Saturday, Mickey socked a mighty homer that carried approximately 420 feet. Monday night in the Yanks' 6-3 loss to Hollywood of the Pacific Coast league, he got a single in his only time at bat to boost his average to .571 —12 for 21.
April 18, 1951
The All-Time Player: Ken Aubrey, third baseman of the 1946 and 1947 team apparently is the all-tune favorite of local KOM league baseball fans, and the 1946 club was the beat Iola has had In five seasons, results of a Register poll indicate. Only one of the fans voting failed to place Aubrey on the .first team. Four 1946 performers, Gordon Giebel, John Paul, Larry Singleton, and Aubrey are first team choices. Others are Paul Vickery. Bob Yuhas, Bill Upton, Windy Johnson, Ray Khoury, Hal Fortine, and Joe Pollock. Winner of the $65 prize for coming the closest in his own choices to the combined selections of all fans participating is Walt Stranghoner, 330 North Street. Stranghoner disagreed with the majority only in the case of Hal Fortine. He substituted Dick Getter for Fortine, giving Fortine a second team spot. The second closest selector was Earle Fatherlln, who missed by having Don Bruss in the outfield and Bob Phillips catching on his first team.
Credit was given for agreement on second team choices, but it did not affect the decision on the $5 prize. In third place was Earl Dulinsky, leaving out Fortine and Bill Upton. He put Dick Getter and Paul Schnieders on his first lineup. .
The surprise player showing might be credited to Bob Yuhas, pitcher who was here in 1948, and opened the season with a seven- inning no-hit game against Independence. (Ed note: Before his death Yuhas sent me that baseball.) Yuhas led all the 60 or more pitchers the Indians have had in five seasons. In fact, he almost doubled the point score on his nearest teammate. Bill Upton. Only three participants leftYuhas off. Yuhas won 15 games and lost 12 on Iola's seventh place 1948 club. He had an earned run average of 3.34, eighth in the league in that department. Knowledge of his baseball whereabouts last season is not at hand for mention, here. His name has not been found in the record books for 1950. (Ed Note: Iola had two pitchers who had brothers who played major league baseball. Bill Upton’s older brother Tommy started out with the St. Louis Browns and Bob Yuhas’s older brother, Ed, had one great year with the St. Louis Cardinals before ruining his arm by throwing a rock at a squirrel prior to the start of spring training in 1953. Bill Upton also had a short stint in the big leagues.).
Another who ran away from others in the poll at his position was Paul Vickery, 1947 catcher, despite the fact he caught in only one-fourth of the games in his one season here and had a batting average of .161. Fans took a decided fancy to him. Three of his 20 hits were home runs. The only close voting was on second basemen, where John Paul edged out Jack Jordan and Al Etie, who tied for the second team nomination. The five-year teams:
(Paul)Vickery, c
(Bob) Phillips, c
(Bob) Yuhas, p
(Hal) Brydle, p
(Bill) Upton, p
(Oscar) Walterman, p
(Windy) Johnson, p
(Jesse) Raines, p
(Gordon) Giebel, lb
(Jacob) Curnal, lb
(John) Paul, 2b
(Jack) Jordan-(Alba) Etie, 2b
(Ray) Khoury, ss
(Leo) Blandina, ss
(Kenneth) Aubrey, 3b
(Mervin) Dubbers, 3b
(Larry) Singleton, of
(Leo) Kedzierski, of
(Joe) Pollock, of
(Dick) Getter, of
(Hal) Fortine, of
(George) Boselo. of
(Now is the time to take another break in reading this report assuming anyone has gotten this far. Failure to do so will result in extreme boredom and/or fatigue)
The foregoing was an early 1951 season project to gin up some interest in the forthcoming baseball season. A few highlights from the Iola Register were selected. What that attempt at naming an All-Time Iola team which covered 1945-50 indicates that people don’t necessarily vote with a great deal of understanding but rather who they liked based upon the player’s personality.
One fellow who did very little to earn a spot on the All-Time Iola club was Paul Vickery. He unabashedly proclaimed to the Iola Register that he was the best looking player on Iola team during his 36-game stint in the “Oil city.” Vickery had graduated from a Dallas, Texas high school in 1944 and was signed by the Chicago Cubs (He could have possibly played between his junior and senior year in high school.). He spent some time that year with Marion in the Ohio State league and one game with Nashville in the Southern Association. He was back to baseball, in 1947, with Iola and Hutchinson, KS.. At Iola he hit .161 which wasn’t all-star stats. The next I knew of him was when he showed up at Ponca City, OK as their business manager in 1951. I have a photo of him taken at that time and I’d have to rely on the ladies to judge his self-declared handsomeness. On second thought his image will be posted on the Flickr version of this report.
A couple of years ago, I think it was, I wrote a rather lengthy story about Vickery. He spent his life in Dallas and was involved in the social life of that city. He even worked for the Dallas Cowboys in their sales and marketing functions for a while. All seemed to be going well until September 14, 1984. That was the day there was a tragedy in his home that took three lives and the former Iola All-Star was one of those involved. At the time of his death Vickery was the Vice President of Leader International Inc. and a member of the Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas. He regrettably left this life at the young age of 57. This citation contains the obituaries of Vickery and his wife. wcd.stparchive.com/Archive/WCD/WCD09191984P11.php I trust readers will be able to pull up that Find-A-Grave citation. If you can access the site it will provide you with the details which I am not doing. Vickery was buried at Minneola a town east of Dallas. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=VIC&am...;
Not all stories about the KOM league have happy endings and the life of Paul Ray Vickery fits into that category. However, very few lives have a “happy ending.”
Post script:
Not many of the fellows mentioned in the Iola All-Star balloting survive other than, Leo Blandina, Dick Getter, George Boselo and Buck Walz. Howard “Buck” Walz is a native of Jefferson City, MO who now resides in Arizona. I sent him a note asking about the time Paul Vickery was with the Iola club. Walz caught for Iola in 1946-47-48 and should have been voted on the All-Time Iola team ahead of Vickery. Regarding Vickery here was Walz’ comment: “I remember Paul Vickery. He was a good looking guy. I think he was Italian. He would hang out with (Jacob) Jack Curnal. I never heard him say he was good looking. I can't believe the story of his life…. Thank you for this update.”
To document my case, during the 1947 season, Buck Walz appeared in 66 games with 55 being behind the plate. Vickery played in 36 games with 34 of them as the backstop. At the plate Vickery hit .161 while Walz hit .255. Go figure. As far as fielding was concerned they had nearly identical statistics.
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Just for fun:
The site that carried the photo of the five Joplin Miners and one of the guys who they attributed to being Mickey Mantle when it was obviously, Jim Finigan, had a number of other historical Missouri photos. Many of them couldn’t be identified as to where they were captured or who was in the photo. I found two that I’m sure I correctly identified and sent comments to that effect to the site manager. For you who are major league fans tell me who the other three St. Louis Cardinals are in this photo taken between 1948-53.
www.flickr.com/photos/missouristatearchives/6198382757/in... If you pull up this site and go to the comments you will see my opinion as to who the fellows in this photo are with Red Schoendienst.
www.flickr.com/photos/missouristatearchives/6198382885/in...
There are a few comments beneath that photo which I submitted. A number of e-mails went back and forth with the daughters of the late Goldie Howard, former KOM league player/manager, regarding their memories of this place when they were young girls and their mother and father worked at that camp. Some of the instructors at that camp operated by Carl Bolin were former big leaguers: Jim Bottomley, Eddie Miller, Wally Schang, Ty Cobb, (yes, the Georgia Peach) along with Goldie Howard.
I could write an entire Flash Report on this place. One of the better stories about it is in a book by a very fine writer, Paul Hemphill. Here is a snippet from that publication. books.google.com/books?id=bjfiyaFfUBMC&pg=PT130&l... There are a number of pages here so read a while. The guy Hemphill described as a “brawny former minor league power hitter” was Goldie Howard.
A photo of two former KOM leaguers, who attended the camp, was sent to Howard’s daughters. The two guys in the photo were Benny Leonard and Billy Wade Creech who both wound up in the KOM league. They had attended the Ozark Baseball Camp in 1944 and were living in Henryetta, OK at the time. Creech, a left-handed pitcher and Leonard, a catcher, both wound up at Iola in 1949 and Leonard stayed another year for good measure and played the outfield. Gotta’ stop that tale here. There is more to this story, with photos. Maybe that can be addressed at another time. And, then again maybe not. As I say “I have a long way to go with this material and a short time to get there.”
The final item: A great obituary regarding Stanley, North Dakota’s gift to many
In the past year I have mentioned Lewis Saum who had a week and a half with the Iola Indians, in 1951, but never got into a game. He was owned by the New York Yankees. In my searching for him I contacted his wife and learned his health was failing. About a year later I heard from her once again informing me of her husband’s death. In recent weeks I was promised his obituary and it came this week. This is it:
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Lewis Oliver Saum was born on his grandparents’ farm outside Stanley, North Dakota, on December 19, 1933. His birth coincided with an unusually heavy snow storm, even for North Dakota, and the temperature fell below 36 degrees. His parents divorced when he quite young; he and his brother, Estle, were raised by his mother, Elsie Hunter Saum, and helped by relatives, particularly his Aunt Beatrice and Uncle Howard. At school he played sports, loved Latin and greatly admired his school principal.
At 17 he won a scholarship to Minot State College where he played baseball. He was a pitcher. Baseball scouts spotted Lew and signed him to the minor leagues. An old acquaintance wrote that Lew was the youngest player in the league. He played for teams owned by the New York Yankees and the then Washington Senators in small towns across the Midwest and Texas. After two years Uncle Sam drafted him into the army. Lew served at a radar base in Silver Spring, Maryland, and at a small base near Wiesbaden, Germany. He remembered not so fondly spending his 21st birthday on guard duty in Germany, matching in heavy snow. By March he was playing baseball for the army, far from the base and Wiesbaden. He enjoyed playing on an army team but said he regretted it left his little time to travel in Europe. When the season ended, he returned to the U.S. and to Minot State. There he met and married his first wife, Elizabeth. His only daughter, Joanne, was born in Minot in 1957.
After graduation, Lew won a graduate scholarship at the University of Missouri in Columbia to study Intellectual U.S. history. He received his Ph.D. there. One of his former professors from University of Missouri wrote that Lew had been one of the History Department’s most gifted students. Lew taught for two years at Missouri State in Springfield before he left the Midwest in 1965 for the University of Washington. He moved west in body but not completely in spirit. He always remained a country boy from North Dakota.
In Seattle he began his long (34 years) and distinguished teaching-research-writing career in the History Department at the University of Washington. He published 4 books on topics such as fur traders, Native Americans, everyday folk, newspaper men, actresses, soldiers, and scoundrels. He utilized a combination of letters, government documents, and newspapers as he researched for his books as well as his many, many, scholarly articles. His talents were recognized and he won many major research fellowships. While he was at the UW, he served as Managing Editor of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly for five years. Several of his colleagues have written that they thought that Lew’s prose was so “precise,” he always had the “exact word” that “conveyed his meaning.” Others have written on his unique sense of humor, generous, never sharp. He was “one of a kind.”
At age 65, in 1998, Lew retired from teaching and moved to Chico, California, to be with his wife Judith Raftery, who taught at California State University, Chico. They had met at the Huntington Library in 1983 where he was researching his third book and she was finishing her Ph.D. dissertation, also in U.S. history. They married in 1994. In Chico Lew continued his daily routine of library research and writing. His fourth book and several articles were published while he lived in Chico. Judy and Lew made summerly treks, almost always by car, to libraries in Washington, Missouri, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and places in between They often stopped to see Estle and Shirley, and after Estle’s death, to see Shirley. Lew accompanied Judy to the Philippines, Washington DC, New York, and other places in the east for her research. They tried as often as possible to return to the Huntington Library. Lew found items of interest wherever he went. He never used a computer and continued to rely on his typewriter. When he finished a manuscript, he sent it to a typist in Seattle who transcribed it on a disk and then sent to an editor.
Unfortunately, as his memory faded, he stopped his scholarly activities. His last article was published in 2006. He died in Chico on June 23, 2014, after a long illness.
Lew grew up very poor during the Depression and that early poverty affected him greatly. He was one of those people who never needed anything and he used a credit card only to hold a reservation. He preferred Travelers’ Cheques. Friends have written that they thought that Lew was very courtly, rather formal, with old-fashioned manners or at least manners uncommon in the 21st century. He was extremely private person who rarely spoke about himself. He had a wicked sense of humor and a twinkle in his eye when something amused him. I think Lew would like to be remembered as a kind and loyal man, as a highly regarded historian, a professor, an author, a baseball pitcher, and a football enthusiast from Stanley, North Dakota.
This report is now over. You can review it in the future on the Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/16644908453/