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Demolishing a shopping plaza or an office building is a pretty common job for a demolition contractor. Taking down a structure of that sort doesn't usually cause too much controversy. But it's when the demolition involves a structure that holds countless memories and moments in history, that preservationists, history buffs or sports fans sometimes voice their opposition.
On Dec. 8, 2013, the Houston-based demolition and recycling firm Cherry brought down three exterior ramp towers outside the Houston Astrodome using explosives, and it is uncertain when or even if the rest of the Astrodome will come down.
Many attempts have been made at saving the 50-year-old sports arena from demolition, but so far all of those attempts have failed. Most recently, Harris County voters rejected a $200 million renovation plan that was to come from public funds. Now Houston's Archaeological and Historical Commission are pushing for the stadium to be designated a historic landmark.
The famous arena, which gained the nickname the "Eighth Wonder of the World" during its five decades of use, certainly made a lot of history. From the first homerun hit there by New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle in 1965, to the 1986 National League Championship game between the Houston Astros and the New York Mets that lasted for a nail-biting 16-innings. Elvis, Pink Floyd, Mohammed Ali and Evel Knievel all entertained thousands inside the dome. It was the place where Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in three straight sets in the unforgettable "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match. And who could forget the thousands of displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina who sought shelter there in 2004.
Sports arenas are not immune to aging. It can be sad to say goodbye to a place that served up so many memories both inside the arena and on millions of televisions throughout the years. But fast-forward to 2014 and numerous code violations have left the Astrodome vacant since 2008. The newer Minute Maid Park and Reliant Stadium have been the major sports venues in the Houston area since the early 2000s.
ESPN's Chris Jones described the Astrodome in a recent column as being "caught in a potentially fatal in-between: It seems hopelessly ancient, curled up in the shadow of its massive, tricked-out neighbor, and yet not ancient (or pretty) enough to be seen as truly historic."
Soon the Astrodome may be just a memory as demolition will likely proceed in 2014. It is not the first time and it certainly won't be the last time a large sports and entertainment complex is demolished. Just a few weeks ago, the Minnesota Vikings played its last game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, which is slated to be demolished early this year.
Professional sports franchises would rather build bigger, better and newer venues than stay in aging stadiums. More and more these old arenas are left in the shadows of their modern replacements. While franchise owners seem quick to want to build new, I venture to say many sports fans like to cling on to the history made in old stadiums if sold-out sales of Astrodome and Metrodome stadium seats are any indication.
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While Lemon gets dressed, Tinker hangs around in the living room for a few minutes, chatting about his recent move to Atlanta from New York. Art of all sorts — paintings, photographs, collages — adorns the walls. A beautiful Thornton Dial monograph sits prominently on the coffee table. Tinker is friendly, sweet even, but not very interested in being interviewed. In an industry like television, where one is either in front of the camera or behind it, Tinker clearly prefers the latter. Lemon, arriving back in the living room, is obviously the former.
He's now wearing a pressed white shirt open at the collar and tucked into slacks with black, sharp-looking shoes. He has a full, masculine build and a commanding presence that puts one in mind of a politician. In person, his smooth, cream-in-coffee complexion looks as flawless at home as it does under layers of television makeup. His smile is striking. It is not an overstatement to say that his clear eyes literally glitter in the sunlight.
Lemon wants to get lunch at his favorite neighborhood spot, Murphy's, and as he walks in the door the valet guy, someone leaving with a to-go box, the bartender, they all eagerly say, "Hey, Don." He chats warmly with each and then looks aside to say, "Sometimes I feel like the mayor."
Sitting at the bar with a cup of decaf tea, Lemon reiterates twice, "You can ask me anything. Really." That attitude clearly shapes his presence as an anchor. "I just want to be me," he says. "I want to be the person who goes, 'What the hell?' or 'That's really funny,' or 'Sorry, I screwed that up.' I don't want to be perfect. I want to be real."
"In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.' I'm not consciously thinking that when I'm on the air, but that's just my personality. To be like, 'Are we really doing this?'"
Lemon talks at length about his frustration with gimmicks, the flashy sound effects that sound like outtakes from an action movie, the quizzes meant to keep viewers watching over a commercial break ("If I really want to know the answer I'll just Google it," he says), and the way those ploys work to dumb down the audience and lose more in long-term credibility and viewership than any temporary gain. "I think you can have fun on TV, but you should pick your moments. It should be natural. You shouldn't build in 'Oh, this is our cutesy moment of the day!'"
Lemon is always on his iPhone, constantly checking Twitter and Facebook and talking back to viewers, even during live commercial breaks. "I think everyone [in news media] has whiplash, trying to figure out what to do, how to keep an audience, how to keep viewers or gain viewers where there are tons more choices now and not just in cable but with the Internet, social media, all of that."
He's also eager to say that television can do something his phone can't: "You have to have a personality, someone who is engaging, in order to pull people in. You're drawn in by a human, by someone who you relate to or a personality you like, because otherwise you may as well just go on your iPad."
Cable networks are already well aware of this. The openly partisan networks put in an anchor that speaks to a specific political demographic, a Rachel Maddow liberal or a Sean Hannity conservative, and pander directly to the audience they court. That task is more complicated for CNN, which has, to its credit, resisted relying on partisan programming.
When asked what typecast role CNN intends for him to play, what type of anchor he's expected to be, Lemon pauses. He winces. "I think they want me to be the good-looking black guy. That's what I think. I don't know." He talks about not knowing how his book might affect his career, how coming out and being critical could play into that. At one point he says, "I don't know what will happen when my contract comes up." He thinks about it for a minute and says, "People want to have a box to put you in and I don't fit in anyone's box."

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Writer: Ross Molyneux
Date:Thursday May 28 2009
Time: 8:53AM
1) 'Premier League' on Sky Sports - It occurred to me more than ever last night, whilst watching last night's Champions League Final and suffering The Hairy Hand Man's Gang incessantly hyping up the game, that Sky Sports really are the scum of football.
From lingering around grounds with their wagon, cameras and propensity to target the biggest no-toothed, slack-jawed mongrel they can find in a replica shirt, through to coining the self-love fest that is 'Grand Slam Sunday' they've become so detached from the match going fan that it really is beyond insufferable. They are almost American in their desire for the razmatazz.
In a 20 team league where 16 clubs are barely worth a mention, their employment of some of the most f*ckwitted presenters around, namely Keys, Gray, Redknapp and Souness (not to mention Martin bloody Tyler) is a further gripe. And don't get me started on Phil Thompson. The things I could do to the Scouse gimp with a pair of garden shears goes beyond the unmentionable.
After 16 years of the soulless satellite sods, it's fantastic to see the back of the gang. Whether it's ITV or BBC who hold the rights to the highlights, it'll be far better than 'Keysie' and co.
2) New Grounds - Of the 19 away grounds in the Premier League, we potentially get maybe two new away trips a season (less if the clubs coming up are 'bounce backs'). Whilst the media (Keys and Co again) love the hype of the Anfield atmosphere on a European night, it's hardly a cauldron on a Sunday at 1:30 when they are performing their now routine howking of us.
So many trips have lost that edge, atmosphere and excitement that used to exist. Only Stoke this season was really worth a visit, with the presence of the knuckle-draggers from the Potteries a much livelier affair than the moribund regulation trips to half-empty and half-arsed Blackburn, Wigan and Bolton.
Of the grounds in the Championship, there will be the likes of WBA, Boro, Coventry, Reading and Sheffield United who we've visited recently. However that still leaves a whole host of new trips to have a gander at.
3) Points win prizes - Once again we come back to the point of the league which only three clubs can win. Whilst Arsenal are a permanent fixture in the top four, they're not really in with any shout of winning it. That leaves three teams that can win the trophy. Much like the supermarket business being dominated by a big four, so is the PL.
Scrapping for the leftovers off their top table doesn't really make for a lot of enthusiasm, no matter how much the race for a Europa League place is hyped up.
The Championship remains one of the most open leagues around. It'll be nice to be actively competing for a trophy again, rather than being cannon fodder.
4) Away day winnability - Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, Anfield and Arsenal. All grounds where we've just routinely gone to be sacrificial lambs. No win at Anfield since 94, since 73 at Old Trafford, since the 80s at Stamford Bridge. Highbury was a slightly happier hunting ground but the succession of 3-0 hidings at the Emirates means that getting a point at any of those four gets celebrated like a win. Desperate.
We now drop into a league where every game at every ground is winnable. It'll be a refreshing change to see sides set up to go and win rather than shoving 5 into defence and 5 into midfield.
5) Pricing - £50 for Chelsea, £46 for Spurs, bloody £40 quid for a trip to the sh*t tip that is the Reebok. Obscene.
With the recession showing no signs of abating, a season of £20-£30 tickets is a welcome change for the scheisters who charge corporate prices for everyday fans.
6) Blooding the youngsters - Half the criticism of the existing crop of crap was that they didn't care. The chance to see some prospects come through who have that unbridled energy so sadly missing from the cloggers like Nolan and Butt is going to be a real bonus. So what if they make a few mistakes along the way - at least they care!
7) Seaside Trips - Blackpool and Plymouth make a canny change from our current runs out to Fratton Park and Kosovo upon Wear. The carnage on an away weekend to Bloomfield Road doesn't bear thinking about.
8) Back into Europe - Tackling the Taffs means trips across the border to Cardiff and Swansea. Despite running the gauntlet of the Soul Crew and Jack Army, we can at least peddle the myth of two trips to Europe. After all - the mackems managed it with Cardiff for years.
9) JCLs out - Hopefully some of the first casualties of the relegation will be the braying JCL corporate whores that fester in our ground. The same people who used 'going to the footy' as some sort of statement akin to turning out at try hard bars like Tup Tup Palace or The Apartment with their money shot haircuts and bright pink shirts. Hopefully the cull of these to**ers will lead to the lost generation starting to get to see the team.
10) 46 games - Equals more home games and away trips - result!
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Time: 8:53AM
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Assistant volleyball coach Chuck Crawford resigned Thursday, moving back to Atlanta, Ga., for family reasons.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Assistant volleyball coach Chuck Crawford resigned Thursday, moving back to Atlanta, Ga., for family reasons. Crawford was hired on March 11 to replace Matthew Botsford, who took the head coaching position at Florida Gulf Coast.
"It is with a heavy heart that I resign my position as assistant volleyball coach at Colorado State," Crawford said. "My family situation has changed, and I am unable to move my family to Fort Collins due to my wife's high-risk pregnancy. This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make. The CSU staff includes some of the finest people I have had the privilege to know. However, at this time, the best situation for my young family is to remain closer to home and around our support system."
Hilbert showed his support for Crawford, and remains confident that CSU can fill the open position with a high-level coach.
"Family comes first," Hilbert said. "I have made career decisions based on family many times in the last 25 years, so I'm not upset with Chuck. We simply move forward and do what is best for Colorado State volleyball. The players and coaches in this program are good enough to sustain our high standards while we find the right fit for our open position."
Crawford spent the 2013 season at Georgia Tech. He was previously an assistant at Miami (Ohio) and Jacksonville, and a court coach with USA Volleyball.
"Throughout my coaching career I have hoped to work at a top program and with people of integrity," Crawford added. "Tom, Brook (Coulter) and Bri (Olmstead) run such a program. During my time at CSU I quickly learned that they truly care about the personal well-being of their student-athletes and staff. I will miss the opportunity to learn the game at a higher level, but more importantly, I will miss the opportunity to be around all of them as friends."
Colorado State is coming off a record-breaking season, in which the Rams set multiple program marks, including 27 consecutive victories and a .933 winning percentage (28-2). CSU won its fifth consecutive Mountain West title, earned a trip to the NCAA tournament for the 19th straight season, was ranked as high as No. 9 nationally and finished seventh in the NCAA for average attendance.
Hilbert and his staff will re-open its search for the vacant position, beginning immediately.
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I want to state first off I do not have a green thumb. I planted these hops and they seem to be growing well. The problem I am having is I don't know what is wrong with the plant. All the leaves are in poor condition but I don't think there is any kind of fungus or bug problem. I live in western Wisconsin and I have decent soil that I added 1/3 potting soil to and 1/3 composted manure to. I have tried watering a couple of times with Miracle-Gro but nothing seems to help. Help please!
Ummm, what is wrong with them? They look fine to me.
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Looks like you may have gotten a bit of the mracle grow on the leaves. Back off on fertalizing for a while, they look fine to me.
Looks like you might have some minor damage from insects, or from the leaves rubbing against the chicken wire, but I really can't see anything to worry about. I wish mine looked that good!
Looks like a fairly healthy plant. Uniform color on the leaves (veins & leaf consistent). A little bug chewed, but I've never grown anything that didn't get munched a bit.
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What david said. All my vines have something munching on them...but they're still healthy. If you're really concerned, get an organic bug spray like Organicide.
Thanks for the replies. The part that is concerning to me is that there are rips in the leaves. The rips are in almost all the leaves the new and the old. These rips were not caused by wind damage or damage from contacting anything. This is the worst looking of my five hop plants. Thanks again.
Wow, those look great, nothing to complain about. I have a serious green thumb, and my rhizomes are dead.
I finally took some insecticide to my plants tonight. I held off as long as I could, but there were way too many nefarious types and the spiders and ladybugs just weren't doing the job. The hard part is getting the spray on the bottoms of the lower leaves. Hope it does some good.


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20/20 Financial Advisers of Sacramento, L.L.C. Leonard R. Simpson, RFC®, AIF® Presents Monthly Economic Update for December, 2008 These views are those of Peter Montoya Inc., and not the topping the 0.1% gain economists has forecast; real presenting Representative or the Representative's Broker/Dealer, and should not be construed as investment income grew by 1%.7 In the third full week of advice. November, jobless claims decreased by 14,000 from the second week.7 Quote of the month. "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised In Washington, the Federal Reserve unveiled a new as insoluble problems."– John W. Gardner strategy to stimulate lending: the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). Not TARP – TALF. The month in brief. The month was less TARP had been created to buy bad debts, but it spent momentous than October, but still offered plenty of the first $290 billion of its assigned $700 billion to news. We elected a new President; some investors buy bank stocks and help AIG.8 Following up on welcomed the change, while others were deeply Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's thoughts that the troubled by it. The Federal Reserve augmented the second stage of TARP should focus on consumer Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) with the Term credit, the Fed created TALF to try to do much of what Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). the Treasury first sought to do. TALF will buy up to Domestic automakers came to Washington, D.C. to $600 billion in mortgage-linked securities and debts ask for federal aid. The stock and commodities from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae, and markets had another rough month … but stocks pulled use up to $200 billion to buy asset-backed securities off an amazing rally across the last five trading to help get credit to consumers.9 Market watchers sessions of November. At the national level, there wondered if the Fed would cut interest rates to all- were no signs of a real estate recovery. At the malls, time lows, maybe even 0% – but the Fed left rates consumers spent more than economists anticipated on alone in November. The National Retail Federation Black Friday. said that Black Friday 2008 saw U.S. consumers spending $41 billion, an 18% increase over 2007; the average shopper spent more than 7.2% than he or she Domestic economic health. Nearly all signs did a year ago.10 The Detroit Three, on the other hand, pointed to recession, as nearly all October indicators came to the nation's capital seeking $25 billion or were subpar. Unemployment had hit 6.5% in October, more in bridge loans – sales of domestic autos fell the highest level since 1994 and up from 6.1% in 31.9% in October.11 September.1 The Institute for Supply Management's October service-sector index read 44.4, and its October manufacturing index came in at 39.0; both President-elect Barack Obama announced New York numbers meant contraction. In fact, the Fed president Timothy Geithner as the next Treasury manufacturing sector had contracted at the fastest Secretary.12 Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary from pace since 1982 in October.1,2 Jobless claims pushed a 1999-2001, was appointed as director of the National 25-year high the week of Nov. 15.3 Retail sales fell a Economic Council – and some think he could become troubling 2.8% in October, a record month-over- the next Fed chairman when Ben Bernanke's term month dip.4 Consumer spending fell 1.0% in October ends in early 2010.13 and durable goods orders dropped 6.2%.5 Global economic health. Why did the United But all was not gloomy. The Conference Board's Nations call for "massive economic stimulus packages" November survey of consumer confidence went up to worldwide on December 1? Economies around the 44.9, recovering from a post-1974 trough of 38.8.6 world were slowing. The UN's Report on World (Maybe falling gas prices had something to do with Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 predicted the that.) Personal incomes went up 0.3% in October, U.S. economy shrinking by 1% in 2009, and the economies of the Eurozone and Japan respectively cocoa gained 12.29% and pork bellies 7.39%. The U.S. contracting by 0.7% and 0.3% next year. Growth for Dollar Index was up roughly 1.0% for the month as the India, Brazil and Mexico was respectively projected at last trading day of November drew to a close.20 7%, 2.9%, and 0.7% for 2009.14 Housing & interest rates. After an August The European Commission rolled out a stimulus gain, the National Association of Realtors' pending package in late November: €200 billion that Eurozone home sales index sank 4.6% for September.21 October member nations could use as they desired, plus a housing starts fell 4.5%, and building permits fell number of suggestions for tax cuts.15 The Eurozone during the month by 12%.22 As for new and existing unemployment rate hit 7.7% in October – the highest home sales, the National Association of Realtors had in almost two years. The Eurozone annual inflation residential resales down 3.1% for October with the rate – a prime concern only months ago – dropped median resale price 11.3% underneath one year ago.23 1.1% last month to 2.1%.16 New home sales were down 5.3% in October, but the Commerce Department also said that the inventory of Signs of a manufacturing slowdown were evident: unsold new homes shrank by 8.0%.24 Great Britain's PMI fell to a record low in November, as did PMI for the Eurozone. In China, November The announcement of the Fed's TALF plan helped to brought the sharpest contraction in manufacturing bring mortgage rates down a bit lower at month's end. activity on record.17 Freddie Mac's November 26 survey had rates on 30- year FRMs averaging 5.97%, averages on 15-year Japan's industrial output fell by 3.1% in October, as FRMs at 5.74%, averages on 5-year ARMs at 5.86%, consumer spending diminished by 3.8%. Its Trade and average rates on 1-year ARMs at 5.18%.25 As Ministry forecast an appalling 12% contraction in December began, rates on 30-year and 15-year FRMs business output between September and December. were about .2% lower than the late-November South Korea's industrial output contracted by 2.3% in numbers above.26 October, and India revealed economic growth of 7.6% in the third quarter compared to 7.9% in 2Q 2008. Major indexes. Things looked pretty bleak there China's State Information Centre reduced its growth for a while: on November 19, the S&P 500 touched an forecast for 4Q 2008 to 8% from 9%.16 11-year low, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average flirted with a 5-year low.27 But then reports that New World financial markets. November shaped York Fed president Timothy Geithner would be named up to be a poor month for stocks worldwide, as Treasury Secretary started a rally, and momentum indexes flirted with lows not seen since the last bear built – the last five trading sessions of November were market. But overseas indexes rallied at month's end all winning days for the Dow, and in fact, they along with their U.S. counterparts to make the represented the best five days for the Dow and S&P month's losses a bit better. Some numbers: the MSCI 500 since 1933; the Dow rose more than 17% in that World Index fell 7.3% in November, and the Dow stretch, and the S&P shot up by more than 19%.20 Jones Stoxx 600 lost 7.1%.18 In Europe, the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 respectively lost 2.4%, 6.4% and % Change 1-Month Y-T-D 6.8% for the month. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 8.2% last month, as investors were wowed by DJIA -5.20 -33.36 the stimulus package offered by the government. 19 NASDAQ -10.77 -42.10 S&P 500 -7.48 -38.96 Commodities markets. Most commodities lost ground last month. Even gold did: gold futures fell Source: CNBC.com, 11/28/08 20 2.60% in November. Silver lost 31.74% and platinum Indices are unmanaged, do not incur fees or expenses, and cannot lost 42.16%. Oil futures sank 20.52% for the month; be invested into directly. These returns do not include dividends. with oil prices so low, retail gas prices went below $2 a gallon in many parts of the country for regular December outlook. December is normally a unleaded. Natural gas futures were down 7.95% for good month for stocks. We may see a Fed rate cut this November. Corn lost 23.27%, wheat 38.70% and month as well. The month hasn't started well – the soybeans 27.28%. Sugar, however, gained 10.35%, National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that a recession started in America in December 2007, November new and existing home sales (12/23), and the stock market also responded negatively to a November durable goods orders and consumer 26-year low for the Institute for Supply Management's spending (12/24), and the Conference Board's manufacturing index.28 The news that we have December survey of consumer confidence (12/30). "officially" been in a recession for a year might backhandedly offer a glimmer of hope (after all, only Riddle of the month. Here's a food riddle. two post-WWII recessions have lasted longer than 12 Someone strips away the outside of this food, leaving months), and it could prompt more than one kind of you free to boil, cook or grill the inside. (So what was economic stimulus measure (in addition to the the "inside" is now an uncovered outside.) You eat the package President-elect Obama wants to sign into law new outside, and throw away the inside of that. What as soon as he takes office). The Fed and the Treasury kind of food are you eating? are considering even further rescue programs – Secretary Paulson stated that TARP funds could (Contact my office or see next month's Update for the optionally be used for foreclosure relief, and Chairman answer.) Bernanke indicated on December 1 that the Fed might buy Treasuries and use quantitative easing to improve Last month's riddle. While most English words can be liquidity if interest rates fall to zero. (Analysts widely pluralized by adding the letter S on the end, there is one expect the Fed to halve the benchmark interest rate to word that can be pluralized just by the addition of the letter 0.5% at its December policy meeting.)29, 30 C. What is it? Here are three hints: 1) the singular word is short; 2) the "C" is not the last letter of the word when it is Now a rundown of the important economic releases pluralized; 3) sometimes, the plural version of the word is across the rest of December: November auto sales mistakenly used to refer to one of these objects, when it (12/2), the November ISM services index (12/3), should refer to more than one. October factory orders (12/4), November unemployment and wages (12/5), October pending Answer: The word is "dice." The singular form is "die", home sales (12/9), November retail sales, PPI and core i.e., to cast a die or to throw a single die. Sometimes people PPI and preliminary December consumer sentiment talk about "tossing a dice" rather than "tossing dice." (12/12), November industrial production (12/15), the December FOMC policy statement, October housing starts, and November CPI and core CPI (12/16), Leonard R. 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The Thirty-Nine Steps (original 1915; edition 2007)
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I am not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading Buchan - I had always known about his novels and they had always been somewhere on my TBR list but somehow I never got to them. I guess it was time to rectify that.
Meet Richard Hannay - 37 years old, just back from Rhodesia (and now technically retired) and really bored. After all the excitement in South Africa, London and Britain are boring in the spring of 1914 (working out the year is not hard once you read the novel because the reference to the impeding and starting war is there but it is also as easy to figure it out in the first chapter when Hannay mentions the Balkan Wars and we know it is May - it cannot be 1913 because they are still raging and it cannot be 1915 because WWI had not started yet).
Hannay is ready to catch a train to somewhere, anywhere if nothing happens... and then something does happen - a guy he had never met before confides in him about a huge conspiracy involving the powerful men of the day and within days, the guy is dead in Hannay's flat. The story is so outlandish that our hero is not sure how much to believe of it... but after the murder, he decides that the story must have merit and goes on a run in Scotland. Of course he manages to do it in a way that makes sure that he is blamed for the murder and our bored man is not on the run from both the police and the murderers.
And somewhere along the way, it turns out that the conspiracy is not just real but that it is a lot more complicated than he thought. During his run Hannay meets all kind of different people - from a road worker to a politician wannabe to an old acquaintance; he manages to stumble right into the spies house (because the conspiracy involves foreign spies)- of course he does, there is no reason not to. Add to this a plane, a big explosion and Scotland Yard not just believing him but helping him at the end and the story is complete.
It is a spy story from the times before every spy had to have a beautiful woman on his arm; before the time when a woman was mandatory for a novel and especially a spy novel. It is called one of the first novels with a man on a run and it is - the description of the run and the places where he goes through are done very well and make you want to read more.
Buchan himself compares the novel to the dime novels so popular in the States at the time. And it really is very similar in tone to those pulp novels. But it is also very British in the way that only authors from the empire can make it. And despite its brevity, it makes you want to read about Hannay more - at least to see what else happens to him when he is bored... and what happens when he is not.
Reading The Thirty-Nine Steps today is an odd experience. On the one hand, there are modes of thinking and acting that seem decidedly old fashioned, if not completely obsolete. On the other hand, Buchan's suspense and tradecraft are timeless.
Richard Hannay, a Scottish mining engineer, had made a small fortune in South Africa, and had now returned to the UK looking for the next stage in his life. Sitting in London, "the best bored man in the United Kingdom", he had all but made up his mind to go back to South Africa when things got really interesting.
A terrified man, announcing himself dead, turned up on Hannay's doorstep, begging to be taken in. Hannay decided he was probably a madman, but let him in. The stranger had a tale of intrigue which culminated in the planned assassination of Greek Prime Minister Karolides when he visited London on June 15th, just three weeks hence. A few days later, Hannay came home to find his guest skewered to the floor with a knife through his heart. That was just Chapter 1.
Hannay of course was the obvious suspect. He fled, taking with him a notebook belonging to the dead man. He set out for Galloway in southwest Scotland, the closest wild place he could think of, and one where he felt he could easily pass. The notebook was in cypher, which Hannay cracked. He discovered a much more sinister plot. This was May 1914 and Karolides death would be the trigger sparking a war for which Britain was totally unprepared.
Hannay was now being sought as a murderer throughout the UK. His picture had been made public. He couldn't turn himself in with his hare brained story, so he decided to try to prevent the assassination. However, he was now in even worse danger from the Black Stone; the people who had murdered the man in his flat and who were behind the plot.
Buchan takes the reader on a great romp through Dumfries and Galloway, with Hannay on the run from the double threats. Hannay lived by his wits, forced to make snap judgements about those he encountered along the way. Most of the time he was right; at times he was dangerously wrong. Buchan himself was a Scot and a major in the WWI intelligence corps. Both these aspects come through in his writing. There are descriptions of the rural world and its people, and then there are some valuable lessons in deception.
If a man could get into perfectly different surroundings from those in which he had first been observed, and -- this is the important part-- really play up to these surroundings and behave as if he had never been out of them, he would puzzle the cleverest detectives on earth.
A fool tries to look different; a clever man looks the same and is different.
If you are playing a part, you will never keep it up unless you convince yourself that you are it.
Hannay narrates his own story, giving the reader glimpses into that prewar world, where being a gentleman was enough in just about any circumstance: A man of my sort, who has travelled around the world in rough places, gets on perfectly well with two classes, what you may call the upper and the lower. He understands them and they understand him. I was at home with herds and tramps and roadmen, and I was sufficiently at my ease with people like Sir Walter and the men I had met the night before. I can't explain why, but it is a fact. But what fellows like me don't understand is the great comfortable, satisfied middle-class world, the folk that live in villas and suburbs. He doesn't know how they look at things, he doesn't understand their conventions, and he is as shy of them as of a black mamba.
Luckily for him, he did not know just how far that rising middle class would go.
Looking back a century from 2015, there is a welcome lack of technology in Hannay's world. Such a story today would be full of tracking devices, computer analysis and weapons. It would be over in no time. Hannay could only rely on his innate abilities. The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first in a series of Richard Hannay novels. I look forward to reading more.
If you have seen either of the early film adaptations but never read the book there's a lot you wouldn't recognise (the 1978 adaptation is reportedly more faithful than those from 1935, 1959 or 2008 though I can't remember it well enough to make the claim on my own) so let me help you out. It is 1914. Pre-war. Richard Hannay is in England after years of life as a mining engineer in Rhodesia. He's bored (because he doesn't have a chap to run about with). He returns home one night to find an American on his doorstep. The man, Scudder, has faked his own death and claims to know of a plot to assassinate the Greek Premier during his imminent visit to London (heaven knows why he selected Hannay – a total stranger – alone in all the world to share this apparently vital piece of information with). The aforementioned Scudder is murdered a few days later. Rather than contacting any kind of authority Hannay disguises himself as a milkman to escape the prying eyes of whoever murdered Scudder and the police and catches a train to Scotland where he proposes to hide out until nearer the due date of the assassination and then warn 'one of the government people' of the threat to the Greek politician. This is as believable as the plot gets. Ridiculousness piles upon absurd coincidence for the remainder of this brief tale (it clocks in at under 4 hours in the audio version I listened to or under 100 pages in the Project Gutenberg download I skimmed).
I suppose I'm being a little harsh in that the preposterous story might not have seemed quite so outlandish a hundred years ago but when a book has nothing else – no character development, no thought-provoking exploration of themes – then the quality (or lack thereof) of the plot will get all the attention. Though perhaps I'll allow a digression to mention the quite confronting casual bigotry on display. I know we have to make allowances for the writing being of its time. But still: ugh.
Getting back to the story. I now know that it was originally published as a series of instalments in a magazine which makes a lot of sense as every chapter finishes with an absurd cliffhanger. I suppose that kept people returning to buy the next issue but it makes for a somewhat alarmingly paced tale when all strung together. There are repeated sequences of Hannay meeting the right person to help him escape his current predicament (however unlikely their appearance at that moment might be), the donning of a disguise, some running and hiding (usually in fields) and an in-the-nick-of-time escape. In between, our hero proves most worthy of the sobriquet for there is little he cannot turn his hand to (code-breaking, public speaking, setting explosives and generally outwitting all manner of gents) (and unlike all the films the novel is populated almost entirely by gents though I do recall a woman offering shelter and cheese at one point). I know it is meant to be suspenseful but there is never a single moment's doubt that Hannay will succeed and all without incurring any kind of permanent injury (though how he managed to pick up a very convenient case of Malaria in the middle of Scotland is, I suppose, something of a mystery).
The book is a forgettable romp. Its language and attitude are dated and its substance is…well…almost non existent. And after so much adventure the ending is a whimper rather than a bang which is something of a disappointment. But it's enjoyable enough as an example of the British "Tally Ho Chaps" sensibility in action (and in the early days of the war I'm sure this would have been appreciated) and perhaps worth the short time reading it occupies to understand the origins of the now well-worn trope of an innocent man on the run.
Synopsis: Scottish born Hanney comes back from South Africa to his flat in London only to be confronted by an American who appears to know about an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe. After an apparent suicide and the murder of the American, Hanney flees for his life and ends up hiding in the Lake Country of England. Never knowing who to trust, Hanney must break up the plot and try to capture the anarchists.
Review: This is one of the earliest novels about spies and plots to overthrow governments. While there are sections that are overly detailed, the story is involving.
I decided to read this book after seeing it in The Guardian's list of the top one hundred novels, the sort of list I suppose I should have mistrusted. After all, there are just too many great novels for one person to read and appraise.
I know I certainly wouldn't have included Buchan's book. Described in the Guardian as a cross between a Sherlock Holmes and (anachronistically) a James Bond novel, I felt it lacked any depth. In fact I'd say Fleming's novels were closer to this one, being full of action with precious little characterisation. And I think the Bond books had less to stretch the credulity than this book. Even Buchan seems aware that he's going beyond the believable when he has his narrator, Hannay, say: 'So far I had been miraculously lucky. The milkman, the literary innkeeper, Sir Harry, the roadman, and the idiotic Marmie, were all pieces of undeserved good fortune'. And this is partly why I rate the novel so poorly. It just luck that keeps Hannay going – there's nothing to like about this man unlike Hall's Quiller who relies on his capabilities to stay on top. Where le Carré offers us rounded characters, Buchan just relies on the success of his hero to attract the reader – all very shallow.
What interest I had in the book came from the way it reflected the time in which it was written, not so much the expected anti-German feeling as the sort of language used by the characters (such as 'Sir Walter Bullivanr – down at his country cottage for Whitsuntide'- reflecting the Church's still dominant influence) and the portrayal of a long-lost England of open countryside and moors and little villages before motorways and commerce swallowed just about the lot.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0141441178, Paperback)A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is edited with an introduction and notes by Sir John Keegan in "Penguin Classics". Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life - until a spy is murdered in his flat, just days after having warned Hannay of an assassination plot that could plunge Britain into a war with Germany. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay picks up the trail left by the assassins, fleeing to Scotland, where he must use all his wits to stay one step ahead of the game - and warn the government before it is too late. One of the most popular adventure stories ever written, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" established John Buchan as the original thriller writer and inspired many other novelists and filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock. In his introduction to this edition, historian Sir John Keegan compares Buchan's life - his experiences in South Africa, his love of Scotland and his moral integrity - with his fictional hero. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and further reading. John Buchan (1875-1940) was born in Perth, and first began writing at Oxford University, producing two volumes of essays, four novels and two collections of stories and poems before the age of twenty-five. During the First World War he worked both as a journalist and at Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, eventually becoming Director of Information. He published his most popular novel, "The Thirty-Nine Steps", in 1915 - and it has never since been out of print. If you enjoyed "The Thirty-Nine Steps", you might like G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday", also available in "Penguin Classics". "Richard Hannay is...a modern knight-errant". ("Observer"). "Once you've started, you can't put the book down". (Stella Rimington).
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Richard Hannay, a mining engineer, 'retires' at the age of 37, having made his fortune in Africa. He finds London dull, until he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. Hannay is at first disinclined to believe the young American, with his incredible tales of international intrigue, and hints of a terrible secret. But when the American turns up dead in Hannay's flat, Hannay is forced to flee the attentions of both the conspirators and the law. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps.… (more)
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- Pillowtop mattress
- Yard
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
We should mention
Accommodations are situated at multiple addresses. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
National Rating
This property does not have an official STAR Rating from AAA Tourism Pty Ltd. For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.


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