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On New Year's Day, two men, huddled in winter coats, were sitting in a boxy, 90-seat screening room — the main auditorium inside the Strand Theatre, at 35th Street and Troost. It was noon — and, on any other day, a busy hour at the last adult theater operating in Kansas City. Up on the screen — a stretch of vinyl the size of a dining-room table — a woman was fellating a very large penis.
Nearly a century ago, a very different organ commanded attention in this space: the $10,000 Wurlitzer that accompanied the silent films people arrived to see in "The newest, most luxurious theater in Kansas City," according to a Kansas City Times advertisement. The room holding the two men on this cold January afternoon is what remains of the original, 750-seat auditorium, which has been divided and subdivided over the past three decades. There is nothing luxurious about it.
In January 1917, the Strand sold tickets to thousands of people a week for Caprice, starring Mary Pickford, known as America's sweetheart. In September 1984, the big draw at the Strand — by then a 200-seat blight — was Sunday's "Amateur Strip Night."
In the seats closest to a burlesque-style runway, several fraternity brothers, each holding a flashlight, howled as each of the strippers stepped forward, aiming the beams at the women's crotches. A pint-sized performer going by Purple Rain used her fingers to spread herself open. Another woman slathered her nude body with oil and slid across the stage, to deafening applause.
After the show was over, the lights in the auditorium dimmed, and the projector cranked to life. The porn movie that night showed straight sex. Anyone wanting to see man-on-man action retreated to the Strand's former second-floor balcony, which had been turned into a smaller, 60-seat screening room showing hard-core gay porn.
No one there that night knew it at the time, but this was the high point — if you can call it that — for dirty-movie theaters in Kansas City. By the end of the 1980s, the VCR had completed its conquest of the XXX market, rendering the experience of watching a pornographic movie in a public theater obsolete. Thanks to the videocassette, any living room or bedroom in Olathe or Raytown could instantly become an at-home Pink Pussycat Theater. The old indignities — the shameful drive to a bad neighborhood, the peril of being recognized, the constant threat of being rounded up in a raid — were now for only the most old-fashioned or risk-aroused consumers. (And within another two decades, the Internet upset the marketplace yet again.)
"Why do people need to rent films anymore?" wonders Dick Snow, the longtime owner of the Strand Theatre. "They can watch porn — free porn, I might add — on their iPhones."
When Snow, who owns and operates Bazooka's Showgirls, bought the Strand Theatre in 1980, it had already been an X-rated house for nearly 20 years. Porn has always been big business in Kansas City.
Just ask Jerry Medlin, who owned a percentage of the Strand in the 1970s with the late Charles Setter (who later sold the Strand to Snow). Prior to taking over the Strand in 1972, Setter and Medlin had operated a 150-seat porno house called the Astro — inside Union Station. When the Astro played Deep Throat, Medlin recalls, "We had lines from the theater to the parking lot. It was a huge hit."
Still, for a brief moment during Medlin's tenure at the Strand, he and Setter tried returning mainstream entertainment to the theater.
"I can't quite remember why, but we stopped showing X-rated films and we played Mandingo," he says. The R-rated 1975 movie, involving James Mason and slaves trained to fight, wasn't exactly the return of Mary Pickford. "It didn't do so well," Medlin says, "so we went back to X-rated movies."
Porn had by then become something of a civic booster — it kept old, sometimes historic buildings erect. Screening dirty movies was a cheap way to profitably use what once were family-friendly neighborhood movie theaters, structures that had by the 1960s become obsolete and expensive to maintain.
Places like the Strand had aged from glistening meccas to respectable second-run movie houses. Hollywood sent its hottest releases first to the big palaces in a city's urban core, and next to smaller, neighborhood theaters — places that were, in Kansas City, built along thriving streetcar lines. KC's busiest streetcar routes followed Main, Troost, Prospect, and Independence Avenue; dozens of movie theaters dotted those thoroughfares. But the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the 1948 United States v. Paramount Pictures antitrust case leveled the old distribution platform, and within a couple of decades the second-run cinema would be a thing of the past.
"We get a lot of customers who come in and remember watching movies here when they were kids," says Michael Inman, who has worked behind the front counter of the Strand for five years. He was one of those children himself. "I grew up near here," he says. "A relative would bring me here to watch movies in the late 1950s."
The Strand was a popular family theater for decades. A newspaper advertisement from January 10, 1953, lists that day's shows — a double feature of The Asphalt Jungle, with Marilyn Monroe, and The Skipper Surprised His Wife, with Robert Walker — and a further incentive: "A free comic book for every boy and girl."
When the Strand Theatre opened in 1916, there were 25 other neighborhood movie houses operating in the city. Many of those small theaters are still standing, though not in use. Some have been converted to churches (the Prospect, the Oak Park) or warehouses. When Snow bought the Strand, two other historic small theaters were flourishing as porn palaces: the 1912 Kimo Theater, at 3319 Main (Snow turned it into the Dove in 1979), and the 1923 Rockhill Theater (at 46th Street and Troost). Both structures have since been razed.
"They didn't show movies at the old Rockhill," Snow says. "They had peep-show arcades and naked girls who danced behind glass windows."
There was also the Old Chelsea, in the River Market, but that structure had been built as a warehouse. Until it stopped showing adult films in 2000, it was the most glamorous place in town to see an X-rated film — relatively speaking, anyway. "It always seemed clean," one regular customer says. "It didn't smell like the Strand."
The Strand does have its own peculiar fragrance, the smell of old arousal. It's a suite of disinfectant, bodily fluids, cheap aftershave — and popcorn.
There's a small popper at the front counter, near the entrance. The bags of popcorn are small but free for the asking, and they sit near the space where the original concession stand used to be, when this was a prouder kind of cinema.
"The Strand had a wonderful candy assortment," says a 70-something woman who attended matinee shows at the theater in the 1940s, "much better than the one at the Isis, down the street."
A forlorn, coin-operated vending machine now sits near the auditorium entrance. There isn't much of a selection — a couple of candy bars, a few bags of chips — for the patron who might feel hunger pangs after watching scenes of anal sex.
Originally, two storefront businesses flanked the Strand: a barbershop to the south and a beauty salon to the north. The space once occupied by the beauty salon is now stocked with a few novelties (an easy-to-install sex swing, for example) and a modest selection of rental DVDs, including Fat Hos and Black Cock and I Like 'Em White, Volume 4.
"We don't get much rental business anymore," Snow says. "It used to be very lucrative."
Strippers (women or gay men) haven't performed regularly at the theater since the late 1980s. "We have occasional female strippers for special occasions," Snow says.
When the Strand auditorium was divided up again in the 1990s, the other half of the space was turned into four peep-show booths — without doors — where X-rated videos could be viewed without a lot of privacy. A former Strand regular says: "Part of the fun of the peep booths in the 1980s was that you could stumble in drunk, buy a handful of tokens, and have a lot of risky sex behind closed doors. Those days are long gone."
The Strand's grand opening, on July 1, 1916, showcased Bobbie of the Ballet, with Louise Lovely, an event advertised in that day's newspaper as full of "pleasing surprises." The ad promised: "With its ventilation and fan system, cool evenings are assured."
Fast-forward 88 years: A not-so-pleasing surprise awaits a Strand patron named Dan Renzi, the Kansas City native who achieved national fame as a housemate on the 1996 season of MTV's Real World series. Renzi was arrested for indecent exposure in the Strand's second-floor theater in May 2004. "He was pleasuring himself, exposing his genitals," Sgt. Brad Dumit later told The Pitch.
Renzi's TV celebrity assured that the vice bust earned plenty of publicity ("Real World Housemate Pulls a Pee-Wee," the Smoking Gun website reported) — something he should have known. The Strand's gay mini-cinema had a reputation for occasional public pee-wee-pulling since the balcony theater had opened in 1981. To publicize the new gay attraction that year, Snow flew in filmmaker Joe Gage, creator of the popular X-rated Kansas City Trucking Co., which was filmed in Los Angeles and Palm Springs.
"I remember my visit to Kansas City very well for two specific incidents," Gage says. "I had just completed work on a movie called Heatstroke and I took it to Kansas City to hold its first public screening. When the print arrived at the Strand, I discovered that the fourth reel was missing. There was no time to have it sent from New York, so I gritted my teeth, and the show went on without it. No one in the audience noticed.
"Afterward, everybody went to a local gay watering hole, where various fellows were brought over to the bar and introduced to me," Gage continues. "When I asked one gentleman how he liked the film, he shrugged and said, 'Not much. Nobody was very good.' Just then, there was a commotion at the front entrance, and a group of uniformed policemen appeared. I turned to my host and asked, "Is this ...?' He nodded and said, 'A raid.' "
Gage recalls that he and everyone else in the bar were held for 30 minutes while IDs were checked. "Then the cops left, and socializing resumed."
Gage recalls his Strand personal appearance as the only one of his career outside New York and San Francisco.
What makes the Strand a local cultural icon is the simple fact of its survival. Through two world wars and the changing fortunes of its neighborhood, it outlasted all of the other cinemas in the area. The Barrymore, the Bancroft, the Glory, the Mozart, the Gillham — they're all parking lots now.
But does the Strand have a future? The place isn't nearly as financially successful today as it was even two decades ago. The Internet has crushed the adult-theater business. "I'm not sure what the new business model is," says Snow, who admits that he'd consider selling the place if a buyer emerged. "It's an old building," he says. "They're costly to maintain."
Jori Sackin, a 32-year-old painter, musician and video artist, loves the place. "For about a year, I was totally obsessed with the Strand," he says. Sackin rented the Strand's auditorium two years ago for a one-night screening of Space Thang, a short movie he made with collaborator Pat Vamos.
"It was a film made specifically to be shown at the Strand, combining animation and clips of old 1970s sexploitation movies. Not the sex scenes but the parts in between. We had music and performance art that night, and we oversold the place. It only seats between 80 to 90 people, and we had 150 people show up. Everyone was so excited to be in the Strand."
Sackin sees the 96-year-old theater as a future urban multicultural arts center. "I have considered buying it," he says. "I go back and forth on the idea. I mean, there are issues. There's no parking, and the location is kind of strange. It's not that it's a bad neighborhood — in fact, it's almost desolate at night. But the building's not in good shape, and it hasn't been fully utilized in a long time. There are four apartments upstairs and the two retail spaces on each side of the lobby. You would have to imagine what the neighborhood might be in the next 20 years. Troost needs new businesses making money and attracting people."
For him, though, the Strand has no stigma. "The interesting story to me about the Strand is what people think it is and what it really is," he says. "When I was putting together my project, I really got to know the place and the people who work there. The guys working in the theater are the sweetest, nicest guys. It's this great small-business story."
But how long can this theater continue as it is? Sackin's arts-center vision would require a kind of gentrification that seems virtually impossible for this stretch of Troost. But at least one Hyde Park resident says seismic shift is on its way.
Jinx Wallace, a 25-year resident of Hyde Park, a few blocks from the Strand, points out that the redevelopment of her neighborhood from blighted to sought-after single-family homes "didn't happen overnight."
"All positive changes take awhile," she says. "Look, the evolution of the Crossroads as an arts district didn't happen overnight, either. And now that rents in that area are so expensive, artists are looking at other neighborhoods, including Troost. One of my neighbors has already turned a building on Troost into artist studios. And with so many of the old buildings on Armour being turned into market-rate apartments, there are possibilities that we couldn't imagine 20 years ago."
So what, she wonders, does Troost need in order to become a viable retail community again. "There's still a lot of disagreement about that," she says. "But yes, I'd like to see the Strand continue to operate in some fashion on Troost, especially if it brings more creative people to the neighborhood."
When the Strand marks its 100th anniversary in three years, it may not be open anymore — as a porn theater, anyway. Snow says he isn't planning that far ahead. But after so many years grinding away in the shadows, this stubborn piece of KC history may find its way into the light again. The Strand's sexiest days might be ahead.
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July 23: Rays (48-53) @ Cardinals (54-46)
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The Cardinals close out their five-game homestand tonight and need a win in order to ensure it is a winning one. The club has fallen two games behind the Brewers, who finished off a sweep of the Reds today.
Oscar Taveras is starting for just the third time since July 10 as manager Mike Matheny continues to piecework his lineup based on matchups. He is trying to get both Taveras and Allen Craig enough opportunities to potentially find some traction on the offensive side. Taveras has hit .209/.244/.256 since returning for this second big-league stint.
Lance Lynn gets his second start of the second half tonight, this time facing a Rays team that is 12-4 in July and 15-3 over their last three road trips. Lynn allowed two runs in six-plus innings on Friday.
Matheny did announce this afternoon that Shelby Miller will return to the starting rotation on Saturday. Joe Kelly (Friday) and Adam Wainwright (Sunday) will also face the Cubs over the weekend. With Miller moving back to the rotation, Carlos Martinez is shifting into the bullpen. He will be available on Wednesday. The Cardinals won't need a fifth starter until August, and at that time, the organization will reevaluate whether Martinez will slide back into a starting role or remain in the 'pen.
Also in the bullpen tonight is lefty Kevin Siegrist, who was activated from the disabled list today. Nick Greenwood was optioned to Triple-A Memphis in a corresponding move.
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July 20: Dodgers (54-45) @ Cardinals (54-44)
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Now would be a good time to take a snapshot of the National League standings, which feature the Cardinals (alone) in first place in the Central and show them tied with the Giants for the league's best winning percentage. To keep both distinctions, the Cardinals will have to complete a sweep over the Dodgers tonight — no easy task given that they'll be opposed by Clayton Kershaw.
Kershaw had his scoreless innings streak snapped at 41 in his final start of the first half. Tonight, he's seeking win No. 12, which would also be his ninth straight.
With the lefty Kershaw on the mound, manager Mike Matheny added right-handed hitters Peter Bourjos and Mark Ellis to the lineup. Tough assignment for both to be asked to produce against the best when neither has head much playing time as of late.
Carlos Martinez gets the start for the Cardinals in a setting that will test how he handles his emotions. He's facing a big-time pitcher on a big-time stage (ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball). Martinez was too antsy his last time out, when he had a chance to pitch the Cardinals into sole possession of first place in the NL Central. The Cardinals need him to better handle the moment tonight.
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July 19: Dodgers (54-44) @ Cardinals (53-44)
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Joe Kelly returns to the mound today for his second start since returning from the disabled list. His first outing had its bumps, as Kelly allowed six runs on seven hits and two walks while lasting only three innings. Kelly has had eight days to rest since that start, and the Cardinals are hopeful that he'll now be able to push toward 100 pitches.
Kelly will be throwing to new Cardinals catcher George Kottaras, who is making his first start since joining the club a week ago. While the Cards still intend to give Tony Cruz the bulk of the starts in Yadier Molina's absence, the club does need to keep Kottaras involved and get him familiar with a new pitching staff.
Also making his first start of the second half is Oscar Taveras, who takes Allen Craig's place in right field. Craig is 1-for-6 against Dodgers starter Zack Greinke.
The Cardinals enter the day still trailing the Brewers by one game in the National League Central. Their 53 wins are only one off the NL high, shared by Milwaukee and Los Angeles.
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Molina out 8-to-12 weeks with thumb injury
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Yadier Molina will miss the next 8-to-12 weeks after suffering a ligament tear in his right thumb, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak announced on Thursday.
An MRI taken after Molina exited Wednesday's game in the third inning revealed the seriousness of the injury, which comes just as the Cardinals are making a push toward the top of the National League Central. The timing of it will also keep Molina out of the All-Star Game, which he was slated to start after winning the fan vote.
Molina is scheduled to undergo surgery on Friday.
"It's unfortunate," Mozeliak said. "Obviously, when you lose a player of his skill set and leadership, it's tough. But the game doesn't stop and we'll keep going."
Molina injured his thumb in the second inning of Wednesday's 5-2 win while grabbing third base as he popped up following a feet-first slide. He remained in the game to catch the next half inning before being replaced by Tony Cruz.
Cruz will become the Cardinals' primary catcher in Molina's absence, with Audry Perez ready to back him up. Perez, already on the 40-man roster, was recalled from Triple-A Memphis on Thursday. He hit .288/.288/.383 with 10 doubles, two homers and 21 RBIs in 44 games.
Perez was a September call-up by the Cardinals last season and briefly appeared in two games.
Mozeliak acknowledged that he will scour the market for available catchers, too, to see if an addition makes sense between now and the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline.
"I think from a standpoint of trying to replace him, that's not even a logical question," Mozeliak said. "What you're doing is we need to find a stopgap. We have a lot of confidence in Cruz, that's why he is our backup. Now he's going to get an opportunity to play every day. But in the meantime, we're also going to look out and see if there is something in that can help balance it out in the short term."
July 9: Pirates (47-43) @ Cardinals (49-42)
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With walk-off wins in the first two games of the series, the Cardinals have pulled to within three games of first-place Milwaukee in the National League Central. It's the closest the Cardinals have been to the Brewers in May. The club can further shrink (possibly erase?) that division lead in the five days leading up to the All-Star break. Two more games remain against the Pirates before a big weekend series in Milwaukee.
If you want to dream big…. imagine the Cardinals heading into the All-Star break atop the division. It's still a possibility.
Lance Lynn goes tonight and is looking for his 10th win of the season. If he gets it, he would be the first Cardinals pitcher since Bob Gibson (1968-70) to win 10 games before the All-Star break in three consecutive seasons.
Allen Craig returns to the lineup but drops down to the seventh spot, the lowest he's batted all season. Oscar Taveras, following his two-hit game on Tuesday, is manager Mike Matheny's No. 2 hitter du jour.
Matheny doesn't announce any unavailable relievers pregame, but it seems highly likely that Pat Neshek is hands off tonight after pitching in four of the last five games. How far the Cardinals can push Trevor Rosenthal is also a question, as he needed 27 pitches to cover the ninth on Tuesday.
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July 7: Pirates (47-41) @ Cardinals (47-42)
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One more week remains before the All-Star break, and the week sets up to be an important one for a Cardinals team that continues to tread water. First up are four games against the Pirates, who arrived in St. Louis as the NL Central's second place team. The Cardinals have dropped to third for the first time since the second week of the season.
A three-game series on the road against first-place Milwaukee looms this weekend. How the Cardinals fare over these next seven games will determine their division positioning heading into the season's second half.
Adam Wainwright gets the start today seeking to become the NL's first 12-game winner and looking to hold his spot as the league's starting pitching ERA leader (1.89 through 17 starts).
The bullpen gets a boost with today's addition of Tyler Lyons, who takes Marco Gonzales' roster spot. Gonzales returns to Triple-A, where he will start. Lyons, who was starting for Memphis, is here in St. Louis to pitch in relief. The Cardinals are then leaning toward bringing Joe Kelly back on Friday to make the start against the Brewers. Kelly has been on the DL since suffering an injury to his left hamstring in Milwaukee on April 16.
In other rotation news, Michael Wacha (right shoulder stress reaction) had his shoulder reevaluated with an MRI, which did show improvement. It was not enough, though, to clear Wacha to throw again. He'll rest for another two weeks, general manager John Mozeliak said, after which the team will do another scan. The Cardinals still do expect to have Wacha back on the mound this year.
Kevin Siegrist (left forearm/shoulder strain) threw 25 pitches in a bullpen session today and said afterward that he felt great. He plans to throw another bullpen session on Wednesday (that one at 100 percent intensity) and then head out on a Minor League rehab assignment.
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Cardinals recall Lyons; option Gonzales to Triple-A
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The Cardinals recalled left-hander Tyler Lyons on Monday and created space for him on the 25-man roster by optioning lefty Marco Gonzales to Memphis, where he will pitch in the Triple-A rotation.
Gonzales made three spot starts for the Cardinals, pitching most recently in Sunday's 8-4 loss. Gonzales allowed seven hits and walked five but limited the Marlins to one run in 4 2/3 innings in that outing. He finished five innings in only one of the three starts.
The fifth spot in the Cardinals' rotation, which Gonzales has filled since Jaime Garcia was shut down, will come up next on Friday, when the club needs someone to start the team's series opener against the first-place Brewers. Lyons, who has been pitching in Memphis' rotation since coming off the disabled list last month, would be an option. The Cardinals could otherwise choose to activate Joe Kelly (left hamstring strain) from the DL and have him start.
Kelly threw 72 pitches in a rehab start for Memphis on Sunday. The Cardinals had previously said they expected to have him make one more rehab start and then return to the Majors after the All-Star break.
Lyons posted a 6.12 ERA in six appearances for the Cardinals earlier this season.
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About Gehrig and ALS and running and giving back
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First, watch this.
What a tremendous tribute to an all-time great on the 75th anniversary of one of the most famed speeches in this sport's history. But Major League Baseball has taken this week not only to recognize Lou Gehrig for his on-field achievements, but also to bring attention to the cruel disease that cut his life short.
Now, watch this.
That's Greg Ratliff, the father of one of my friends and colleagues, Jason, from MLB.com. Theirs is one of many families currently burdened by ALS (now commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease), to which there is no cure or treatment.
The city of Kimmswick, Mo., has rallied around the Ratliffs to try and help them as they deal with rising insurance costs and medical needs for Nancy. The jewel event in those efforts is the Kimmswick 5K and 1-mile Fun Run, which is scheduled for Sept. 6. For those of you who enjoy road races or who have thought about giving one a try, I urge you to consider participating. The course is wonderful (I can vouch for it!) and the community is darling. Even Fredbird will be making an appearance at an event where winners are rewarded with pies.
For details on the race, visit this webpage.
If you're not sure the race is for you but still feel compelled to give back, I have set up a fundraising page. All monies raised will go to the Nancy Ratiliff Foundation. That page can be accessed here.
I hope to rally some support for the Ratliffs from the St. Louis community, as this has been the family's longtime home. Jason, who is the behind-the-scenes backbone of MLB.com's Draft and prospect coverage, has worked hard to tell his mother's story and organize this race. What a wonderful opportunity we now have to give back.
July 3: Cardinals (45-40) @ Giants (46-38)
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As trying as this 10-game road trip has been for the Cardinals (at least since they left Colorado more than a week ago), the club can finish it at .500 with a win today. Given who the Cardinals have faced and where they have been, .500 would probably be an accomplishment at this point.
Allen Craig is out of the lineup today, as Oscar Taveras gets the right-field start instead. Craig is hitless in his last seven at-bats and is 6-for-34 on this road trip. Jhonny Peralta moves back into the cleanup spot for the fourth time on this trip.
Carlos Martinez will be making his fourth start and is at the point where he is stretched out enough to push toward 100 pitches if all is going well. Martinez threw 82 in his last outing and came out with one out in the fifth. The Cardinals have won each of his three starts.
A reminder, too, that today is the final day to cast online ballots for All-Star Game starters. Yadier Molina was ahead of Milwaukee's Jonathan Lucroy by close to 500,000 votes on Tuesday. However, Major League Baseball announced today that Lucroy had 24 percent more online votes than Molina on Wednesday. That race for the starting catcher job is tightening. To access the ballot, click here.
Also, for those of you out-of-market readers, today's game will be shown on MLB Network and on MLB.TV.
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July 2: Cardinals (44-40) @ Giants (46-37)
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Once reluctant to expose Oscar Taveras to center field at this level, the Cardinals brought him up to the Majors this time with a willingness to use him at the position when circumstances were right. Consider Wednesday the first of those opportunities since Adam Wainwright is on the mound. With manager Mike Matheny's immediate priority being the need to spark the offense, he keeps Taveras in the lineup without pulling Matt Holliday, Allen Craig or Matt Adams out of it.
The Cardinals come into Wednesday's game having scored just one run (a Matt Carpenter homer) since Friday. The team has been held scoreless over its last 24 innings. That's the longest scoreless stretch of the season for the Cardinals, who have been shut out five times since June 1.
In five games against the Giants this season, the Cardinals are batting .176 with two homers. Through eight games on this road trip, the Cards have hit .222. And remember, this was a road trip that opened with three games at Coors Field, where the Cardinals scored 22 runs on 29 hits.
Not that the offense's struggles are a new development. The Cardinals, with 307 runs scored in 84 games, rank only above the Padres in that category.
And don't look now — but the Cardinals' division lead over the Reds and Pirates is just about gone. The Cardinals are only a half-game out of fourth place.
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How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
Participative Leadership
Disciplines > Leadership > Leadership styles > Participative Leadership
Assumptions | Style | Discussion | See also
Involvement in decision-making improves the understanding of the issues involved by those who must carry out the decisions.
People are more committed to actions where they have involved in the relevant decision-making.
People are less competitive and more collaborative when they are working on joint goals.
When people make decisions together, the social commitment to one another is greater and thus increases their commitment to the decision.
Several people deciding together make better decisions than one person alone.
A Participative Leader, rather than taking autocratic decisions, seeks to involve other people in the process, possibly including subordinates, peers, superiors and other stakeholders. Often, however, as it is within the managers' whim to give or deny control to his or her subordinates, most participative activity is within the immediate team. The question of how much influence others are given thus may vary on the manager's preferences and beliefs, and a whole spectrum of participation is possible, as in the table below.
There are many varieties on this spectrum, including stages where the leader sells the idea to the team. Another variant is for the leader to describe the 'what' of objectives or goals and let the team or individuals decide the 'how' of the process by which the 'how' will be achieved (this is often called 'Management by Objectives').
The level of participation may also depend on the type of decision being made. Decisions on how to implement goals may be highly participative, whilst decisions during subordinate performance evaluations are more likely to be taken by the manager.
There are many potential benefits of participative leadership, as indicated in the assumptions, above.
This approach is also known as consultation, empowerment, joint decision-making, democratic leadership, Management By Objective (MBO) and power-sharing.
Participative Leadership can be a sham when managers ask for opinions and then ignore them. This is likely to lead to cynicism and feelings of betrayal.
See also
Michigan Leadership Studies, Theories about decision-making, Lewin's leadership styles, Vroom and Yetton's Normative Model
Coch, L. and French, J.R.P. (1948). Overcoming resistance to change, Human relations, 1, 512-532
Tannenbaum, A.S. and Alport, F.H. (1956). Personality structure adn group structure: An interpretive structure of their relationship through an event structure hypothesis. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 53, 272-280
Tannenbaum, A.S. and Schmitt, W.H. (1958). How to choose a leadership pattern. Harvard Business Review, 36, March-April, 95-101
French, J.R.P. Israel, J. and As, D. (1960). An experiment on participation in a Norwegian factory. Human Relations, 13, 3-19
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The Size of Employee Stakeholding in Large UK Corporations
AbstractThe existing debate about policies designed to foster the development of a stakeholder economy have largely avoided a fundamental question. How large is the financial stake employees currently hold in their companies? This paper addresses this question using data from the Datastream database, and finds that there is already a significant link between the pay of rank and file employees and the performance of their firms. We find that a doubling of firm value increases employee pay in these firms by approximately 14 percent. Firms with explicit profit- sharing arrangements have a performance elasticity of approximately 0.32, while firms without explicit profit-sharing arrangements have a performance elasticity of only 0.11. This indicates that flexibility of pay is not limited to the explicit profit-sharing awards. This is further substantiated by the finding that even after controlling for the levels of profit-sharing pay, the performance elasticity in the profit sharing firms is 0.27. These estimates are by no means a complete measure of the stakeholding relationship, but they do quantify the financial relationship between firms and a group of primary stakeholders: the workers.
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Related researchKeywords: stakeholding; incentives; agency costs; profit-sharing; pay-performance sensitivities;
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- Bruce A. Rayton & Jonathan S. Seaton, 1999. "The size of employee stakeholding in large UK corporations," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(5), pages 259-266.
- Bruce A Rayton & Jonathan S Seaton, . "The Size of Employee Stakeholding in Large UK Corporation," Working Papers 97/2, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, The Nottingham Trent University.
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
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|SENSOR FOR GASES EMITTED BY COMBUSTION - A sensor for gases emitted by combustion, said sensor comprising one or more metal oxides forming an adsorption semiconductor the electrical resistance of which changes according to the gas adsorbed, said semiconductor being a semiconductor for the direct adsorption of gases without catalyzed chemical reaction, said sensor being arranged to detect nitrogen oxides in the case of a bright fire, and/or said sensor being arranged to detect, in the case of a smoldering fire, partially unburned gases, in particular alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids or amines.
David Edward De Haan, Waterloo CA
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|INDEXING SPATIAL DATA WITH A QUADTREE INDEX HAVING COST-BASED QUERY DECOMPOSITION - Approaches for indexing and retrieving spatial data with a quadtree index in database management systems are described. In an embodiment, data objects are stored without decomposition within a linearized quadtree stored within a B-tree index. In another embodiment, a method determines an optimal execution plan for a spatial query by parsing it to determine a query type and geometry object associated with the query. The method tessellates the query object by recursively decomposing the quadtree blocks that cover it. Cost-based decomposition decisions are made by consulting a cost model furnished by the database management system to minimize the cost of the resulting index range plan on the B-tree storage. Thus, data-directed query decomposition enacted by the method results in the optimal cost index range plan for the current data distribution and system context. In another embodiment, a system identifies and displays an optimal index range plan in a user interface.
Hidde De Haan, Jomtien TH
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|Electrostatic Speaker Systems and Methods - An electrostatic speaker system including at least one electrostatic speaker element having a pair of stators and a diaphragm therebetween, each of the stators and the diaphragm having an least one electrically conductive portion. The conductive portion of the diaphragm is patterned as a mesh, which may include gaps, and a conforming layer overlying the conducting portion of the diaphragm and disposed so as to cover gaps in the mesh. A speaker drive circuit provides soft clipping of the audio input signal so that the audio signal applied between the diaphragm and the stators does not exceed the maximum acceptable level that can be applied between the diaphragm and the stators of at least one speaker element.
Jan Mark De Haan, Smorum DK
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|SOUND PERCEPTION USING FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION BY MOVING THE ENVELOPE - The application relates to a method of improving a user's perception of an input sound. The application further relates to an audio processing device and to its use. The object of the present application is to increase the sound quality of a sound signal as perceived by a user, e.g. a hearing impaired user. The method comprises a) Defining a critical frequency f
Matthias M. De Haan, New York, NY US
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|Method and system for processing an image received from a remote source - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of, at a computer system, receiving an image recorded at and transmitted from a remote source, at the computer system, processing the transmitted image, for segregation of the transmitted image into a corresponding intrinsic image and, at the computer system, processing the corresponding intrinsic image to perform a preselected task, for a result. As a further feature of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the remote source comprises a cell phone or remote computer system.
Philip De Haan, Germering DE
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|ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND PLUG FOR AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE - Known pumping devices have a connection lid, a connection cap slipped over the connection lid, a hollow chamber formed between the connection lid and the connection cap, and electrical connections that extend through the connection cap into the hollow chamber. It is disadvantageous that when fuels containing water are being pumped, such as ethanol, corrosion can occur at the electrical connections and at the uninsulated cable segments that are exposed to fuel near the electrical connections, for instance at the electrical coils or flexible cables of the carbon brushes, and in the final analysis this leads to an interruption in the electrical contact and thus to failure of the pumping device. In the electrical device of the invention, corrosion of the electrical connections and of the electrical components adjoining them upstream and downstream is avoided entirely or at least greatly diminished. According to the invention, the electrical connections are each provided in separate chambers of the hollow chamber.
|PUMPING ASSEMBLY - Electric fuel pumps are already known with a pump housing and a ground terminal, which is provided on a terminal cover, for making contact with an electrical ground, in which the pump housing and the ground terminal are connected to one another via a ground connection, which has a first contact section for making contact with the pump housing and a second contact section for making contact with the ground terminal. The first contact section is provided on the outer circumference of a terminal cover and, after installation, is pressed with a contact pressure against the inner face of the pump housing. Since the inner face of the pump housing has increasingly been provided with an electrically insulating anticorrosion coating, however, when the terminal cover is pressed into the pump housing, touching contact with the pump housing does take place which is usually also electrically conductive, but as a result of the electrically insulating coating has a high electrical resistance. In the case of the conveying assembly according to the invention, the impedance of the contact-making is reduced. The invention provides that the first contact section is designed to have sharp edges in such a way that, when it is pushed into the pump housing, it passes locally through an electrically insulating layer formed on the pump housing.
Stephen De Haan, Wayne, NJ US
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|ETHYLENE FURNACE RADIANT COIL DECOKING METHOD - Methods are provided for decoking the radiant coils in an ethylene cracking plant. The decoking process is controlled by monitoring the coil outlet temperature to control the rate of burning of coke in the radiant coils. Air flow rates, steam flow rates and coil outlet temperatures are controlled during the decoking process to prevent tube damage, minimize decoking time and maximize coke removal.
|ABSORBER DEMETHANIZER FOR METHANOL TO OLEFINS PROCESS - A process for conversion of methanol to olefins (MTO), including: contacting methanol and air in a methanol-to-olefins reactor; recovering an effluent from the methanol-to-olefins reactor comprising methanol, ethylene, and nitrogen oxides; separating the effluent via one or more reactive distillation and/or distillation stages using a hydrocarbon absorbent to recover a first fraction comprising ethylene and a second fraction comprising methane; wherein the separating comprises operating the one or more extractive distillation and/or distillation stages at temperatures and pressures sufficient to prevent any substantial conversion of nitrogen oxides to N
|ABSORBER DEMETHANIZER FOR FCC PROCESS - A process for recovering ethylene is disclosed, the process including: recovering a ethylene-containing stream comprising methane, ethylene, and nitrogen oxides from at least one of an ethylene production process and an ethylene recovery process; separating the ethylene-containing stream via extractive distillation using at least one C
|METHANOL TO OLEFINS PROCESS - A process for chilling ethylene to required storage temperatures is disclosed, the process including: cooling an ethylene product from at least one of an ethylene production process and an ethylene recovery process via indirect heat exchange with a coolant at a temperature less than about −100° C. to decrease the temperature of the ethylene product; mixing a portion of the cooled ethylene product with methane to form the coolant; expanding at least one of the coolant, the methane, and the portion of the cooled ethylene to reduce a temperature of the coolant to less than −100° C. prior to the cooling; and feeding the heat exchanged coolant to at least one of the ethylene production process, the ethylene recovery process, and an open-loop refrigeration system.
|ABSORBER DEMETHANIZER FOR FCC PROCESS - A process for recovering ethylene is disclosed, the process including: recovering a ethylene-containing stream comprising methane, ethylene, and nitrogen oxides from at least one of an ethylene production process and an ethylene recovery process; separating the ethylene-containing stream via extractive distillation using at least one C
|COKE CATCHER - The present disclosure provides for processes including a coke catcher that may be emptied during normal operation or steam standby, thereby overcoming the deficiencies in the prior design as discussed above, the coke catchers and process flows disclosed herein protecting the secondary transfer line exchanger from foulant while not limiting the time between heater cold shutdowns. The designs consider the impact of decoking options, such as when decoking to a firebox as opposed to a decoking drum. Further, flow and cost considerations are addressed in various embodiments; for example, decoke valves are fairly expensive, and process flows disclosed herein may provide for relocation of the decoke valve to facilitate coke catcher operations while not adding an expensive valve to the overall operating flow scheme.
|RECOVERY OF ETHYLENE FROM METHANOL TO OLEFINS PROCESS - Olefins may be recovered from a methanol to olefins reactor effluent by initially feeding the effluent to an absorber demethanizer to contact the effluent with an absorbent to recover an overheads including methane and ethylene and a bottoms including the absorbent, ethylene, and ethane. The bottoms are separated to recover an ethylene fraction and an ethane fraction. The overheads are cooled and partially condensed in a first heat exchanger to a temperature of −40° C. or greater. The resulting stream, or a portion thereof, may be further cooled and condensed via indirect heat exchange with a mixed refrigerant to a temperature of less than −40° C. The non-condensed vapors are separated from the condensed liquids to form a liquid fraction and a methane fraction. The liquid fraction is fed to the absorber demethanizer as reflux, and the methane and ethane fractions combined to form the mixed refrigerant.
Patent applications by Stephen De Haan, Wayne, NJ US
Steve De Haan, Wayne, NJ US
|Patent application number
|HEAT EXCHANGE DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a heat exchange device having at least one heat exchange tube is disclosed. The method includes: determining a peak heat flux area of the at least one heat exchange tube; and disposing in the at least one heat exchange tube an flow enhancement device for creating a desirable flow pattern in a process fluid flowing through the at least one heat exchange tube; wherein the flow enhancement device is disposed in the at least one heat exchange tube upstream of or at the determined peak heat flux area of the at least one heat exchange tube.


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Katharina Sieverding's Stauffenberg-Block (I–XVI /1969), from the permanent collection of the Kunstsammlung, forms the center of this exhibition in the Bel Etage of the K21. Due to its enormous dimensions, this ensemble – consisting of 16 large-format color photographs of the artist – can be shown only infrequently.
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Suspended more than 25 meters above the piazza of the K21 is Tomás Saraceno's gigantic installation in orbit. This steel wire construction spans the museum's vast glass cupola on three different levels. Positioned within this net structure, which encompasses altogether 2500 m², are half a dozen "spheres" – inflated spheres having diameters up to 8.5 meters. Visitors have access to this transparent installation, and can move freely between the spheres on all three levels.


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Thanks for the input! Looks like the T-Mobile plan would work just fine for me, I rarely go over even 20 minutes a month with the 300 minute plan I have with VM. But they're not showing the Nexus 4 as being an available phone to go with their $30/mo plan. If I were to go that route, could I get one at someplace like WalMart and then just activate that plan through the website?
Although, the important point is that you said you thought that the SII wasn't not THAT much better than the EVO for the bucks, which is kind of how I was thinking too, so may just stick with VM, pay the extra $10 and go that route. Did think I saw somewhere that there IS an LED flash on that model? Will have to check on that, since I do make use of that all the time, for both still and video cams.
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From what I've seen, rooting and loading a custom ROM will largely fix the problems with the Triumph. Having said that, both the Evo and the SII are far better phones than the Triumph. My personal thought is that the SII is not $100 better than the Evo, YMMV. The one big complaint about the Evo is that some people (not all) seem to have issues with an error, largely when texting. Additionally, the Evo is rather thick and heavy.
The SII has a better camera (8 MP vs. 5 MP) though it isn't 3D, which some people like. Both have much better processors and screens than the Triumph. I don't think you can really go wrong with either phone.
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Just the thought of something happening to your pet is enough to get your heart thumping in your chest. Despite your best intentions, accidents can and do happen. But if you're prepared, your pet has a better chance of making it through a crisis situation.
In any medical emergency, the best course of action is to bring your pet to a veterinarian as soon as possible. Since time is of the essence, don't waste precious moments surfing the Internet for suggestions or trying to handle the situation yourself. And never give any medication to your pet unless you get the green light from your vet.
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Since there are no at-home products that can be used to induce vomiting in cats, you'll need to take your feline to a veterinary clinic for treatment. In either case, get your pet to the veterinarian as soon as possible.
All cuts, punctures and bites have the potential to become infected, so they need to be examined by a veterinarian. If your pet is bleeding profusely, cover the area with sterile gauze and a clean towel, and then apply direct pressure until a clot forms. If there is an object penetrating the wound, such as a stick, do not attempt to remove it.
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SALEM — The town has abandoned plans to participate in a regional planning project, fearing it wouldn't have any say in decisions.
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We have been a one car family for the past few days and it has just served to remind me what a great walking neighborhood we have here in Del Ray.
Whether you choose one car (or even no car) for personal or economic reasons, you'll find almost everything you need here with just a bit of shoe leather. In fact, in real estate lingo, its what they call "walkability" and I'd like to share what a recent day looked like for me.
Michael took me to work at the B&N store in Potomac Yard in the morning but when I got off that afternoon I was on my own. I changed shoes and headed out for a 15 minute walk home, down Rt. 1 to East Howell Avenue.
The sidewalks on the east side of Rt. 1 that border the Potomac Yard development are really more like the Mt. Vernon bike trail – wide curving swaths of asphalt with green on both sides that makes the highway less daunting.
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Just across the street from the "Y" are a bakery, a Giant grocery store and CVS drug store for more convenience.
After several rounds with the elliptical trainer and free weights, it was time for home and another change of clothes. This time my destination was up Howell and down Mt. Vernon (a total of four blocks) to the Anne Welsh salon where the fabulous Elizabeth Klebaur tackles my untidy and numerous cowlicks.
Never one to turn down a dinner invitation, Michael came down to meet me when I was done and we walked another two blocks for our favorite fish tacos at Taqueria Poblano.
Gently full, we sadly bypassed dessert at the Dairy Godmother and headed home. The sounds of a high school baseball game called from Eugene Simpson field, just across the parking lot from the "Y" but with an early morning on the schedule we opted out – this time.
It was a great spring afternoon/evening – and all because I went walking in my Del Ray neighborhood.
Thanks to my spouse and managing partner for this take on living in Del Ray. And if you want to know more about what walkability means as a seller or a home buyer, give me a call at 703.927.4554.
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