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PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Prosecutors are rethinking their decision to clear a Michigan officer of criminal wrongdoing in a January officer-involved shooting.
The case of Washtenaw County Officer Tracy Yurkunas has been reopened as new video has emerged, according to the Ann Arbor News.
Due to technical difficulties, the below video was not available at the time Yurkunas was cleared of any wrongdoing, but prosecutors are reviewing the videotape now that it has been made available.
According to the report, AnnArbor.com obtained the video through the Freedom of Information Act.
As you can see, the non-compliant man leaped from the vehicle and made a motion with his right hand that could easily have been construed as reaching for a sidearm.
You can also hear officer Yurkunas explaining in the video why she felt she needed to fire on the suspect.
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i could be happy with good personality. we'd have good conversation and a lot of laughs. i could eventually see love growing between us and her looks would cease to matter; she would forever be a beauty to me and i would make sweet love to her, not for me, but to show her that someone cares enough about her to want to make her feel good about herself.

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Robert Pattinson Going To ' The Rover' & Hunts Hussein in 'Mission: Blacklist' (UPDATE: Poster)
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[Original] Well, Robert Pattinson isn't fading into the background after his star-making turn in Twilight as vampire Edward… Oh, I really don't care about that "franchise", but I will say that his dark-thriller turn in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis can be something extremely different for the actor. Also, he'll be appearing in The Rover and Mission: Blacklist.
Pattinson has been cast as one of the leads in David Michod's The Rover, which "chronicles a man who relentless pursues a gang who stole his car through the wild and rough Australian outback of the near future." Pattinson will play Reynolds, "the brother of one of the thieves who is left behind when an encounter with the police goes very wrong." The film will also star Guy Pearce as "the man in search of his car."
He'll also be in Jean-Stephane Sauvaire's Mission: Blacklist, an adaptation of Mission: Blacklist #1 from military interrogator Eric Maddox: "that details the true, inside story of the search for Saddam Hussein and the interrogator, Eric Maddox, who spearheaded his capture." The film is adapted by Erik Jendresen.
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WTO Doha Round Bulletin, July 2010
July 2010
This bulletin, summarising key WTO Doha Round-related activities, is issued by the Office of Trade Negotiations, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Key issues
- Overview
- WTO 2010 Public Forum
- Agriculture
- Services
- Intellectual property
- Rules
- WTO Meetings in Geneva
Members continued their technical work in negotiating groups in Geneva during July. Australia has welcomed supplementary work taking place in a new small group format initiated by the G5, comprising Brazil, China, EU, India and the US. To date small group discussions on specific areas such as fisheries subsidies and development have been constructive and have injected a new dynamic into the negotiations. In his address to the Trade Negotiations Committee on 27 July WTO Director General Pascal Lamy called on negotiators to expand the small group dynamic by expanding discussions to all areas. Negotiations across the agenda will continue, including in the small group format, after the European summer break.
WTO 2010 Public Forum
The WTO's Annual Public Forum will be held on 15-17 September on the topic "The Forces Shaping the World". The Forum will explore how different factors on the world scene have an impact on the multilateral trading system and examine the WTO's role in bolstering international trade and trade flows, and strengthening trade rules. While the Doha Round remains a priority for the WTO, this year's Forum seeks to identify future steps for the WTO and will provide an opportunity to consider all aspects of the WTO's work and contribute to greater coherence across issues of global governance. The WTO invites participation by any civil society organisations.
Information on this year's programme and core themes can be found on the WTO website.
The WTO Agriculture Chair, David Walker continued a process of informal consultations and meetings in the week commencing 5 July. Australia and Canada circulated a formal WTO paper on the Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). The paper demonstrated concerns about the way an untargeted SSM could seriously impede normal trade and cause uncertainty for exporters. Consultations on tariff simplification also continued and Australia raised concerns about the commercial impacts of the current methodology. Further technical work is required before the next series of meetings.
Data and templates discussions continued in parallel, where Australia put forward a 'road map' for future work on export subsidy templates. Canada made a similar presentation on domestic support. The Chair welcomed these contributions and indicated his intention to set the forward work agenda prior to the northern summer break.
Meetings held in Geneva in July focussed on non-tariff measures (NTMs) and proposals for accelerated tariff reductions in identified product sectors. On NTMs, work continued on finding common ground on proposals offering the prospect of a more streamlined method of dealing with disputes and creating a more transparent approach to applying international standards in trade in sectors including chemicals, electronics and electrical goods and autos. On sectoral tariff liberalisation, discussion focussed on creating a method for members to participate in moving on a voluntary basis beyond formula-based general tariff reductions in key identified product sectors. Australia is a co-sponsor of sectoral liberalisation in the raw materials and gems and jewellery sectors.
The Chair of the Services negotiations, Fernando de Mateo, Mexico, encouraged Members to explore new ideas at the 2 July Council of Trade in Services in Special Session meeting. Australia joined others with strong interests in services in sending a robust message about the need to intensify the market access negotiations to ensure an outcome on Doha, including an acceptable outcome for services liberalisation.
In support of our market access interests, we reached agreement with a number of other Members to pursue our new plurilateral request on accounting services at the next rounds of services negotiations in September and November.
There continues to be broad general agreement that other areas of the services negotiations must also be progressed, such as disciplines on domestic regulation, and a mechanism to give Least Developed Country Members preferential treatment in the services negotiations.
Intellectual property
TRIPS Council chaired by Ambassador Martin Glass (Hong Kong) was held on 8-9 June. The meeting focused on two additional agenda items — IP and public health and enforcement trends. Australia has sought to discuss enforcement in TRIPS Council for some time and welcomed the opportunity engage actively in such discussions. Members also engaged in substantial discussion on the patenting of genetic resources. The next TRIPS Council meeting is scheduled for the end of October. It is likely that there will also be an event dedicated to the 'para 6' system on TRIPS and public health at that time.
The TRIPS Special Session took place on 10 June, Chaired by Ambassador Darlington Mwape (Zambia). The meeting focused on two questions circulated by the Chair which sought information from Members on their domestic geographical indication (GI) and trade mark systems in order to move negotiations on a multilateral system for notifying and registering GIs for wine and spirits. Members engaged in preliminary technical discussions, which are expected to continue at the next TRIPS Special Session in October 2010.
Ambassador Dennis Francis (Trinidad and Tobago) was formally elected as the new Chair of the Rules Negotiating Group session on 13 July 2010. He noted that Rules was a key part of the Doha Round for many Members and required a delicate balance with outcomes in all areas of the Rules mandate. The one-day session also provided Members with the opportunity to deliver statements to the new Chair about their highest priorities in the Rules negotiations and to provide their views on the way forward. Most Members agreed on continuing the negotiations from a 'bottom up' approach with a number indicating the importance of continuing to address Chair's draft texts, bracketed texts (controversial issues) and unaddressed proposals.
The Friends of Fish group, of which Australia is a member, delivered a statement highlighting the need for an ambitious outcome on fisheries subsidies and calling for intensified work. The statement emphasised the grim state of the world's fisheries and noted that these negotiations could deliver important wins for trade, the environment and development.
The Chair has indicated that the Group will meet in the week beginning 4 October to discuss fisheries subsidies. The week beginning 1 November will be devoted to anti-dumping and horizontal subsidies.
WTO meetings in Geneva
WTO programme of meetings for 2010 (PDF)
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Trade Policy Section, Office of Trade Negotiations
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"With all their differences, my forebears had one thing in common: if they had any musical talent, it remained buried." So wrote William Christopher Handy in his autobiography in discussing the absence of music in his home life as a child. Born in northern Alabama in 1873, Handy was raised in a middle-class African-American family that intended for him a career in the church. To them and to his teachers, W.C. Handy wrote, "Becoming a musician would be like selling my soul to the devil." It was a risk that the young Handy decided to take. He was internationally famous by the time he wrote his 1941 memoir, Father of the Blues, although "Stepfather" might have been a more accurate label for the role he played in bringing Blues into the musical mainstream. The significance of his role is not to be underestimated, however. W.C. Handy, one of the most important figures in 20th-century American popular music history, died in New York City on March 28, 1958.
While Handy's teachers might not have considered a career in music to be respectable, they provided him with the tools that made his future work possible. Naturally blessed with a fantastic ear, Handy was drilled in formal musical notation as a schoolboy. "When I was no more than ten," Hand wrote in Father of the Blues, I could catalogue almost any sound that came to my ears, using the tonic sol-fa system. I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee....Even the bellow of the bull became in my mind a musical note, and in later years I recorded this memory in the 'Hooking cow Blues.'" The talent and the inclination to take the traditional black music he heard during his years as a traveling musician and capture it accurately in technically correct sheet music would be Handy's great professional contribution. It not only made the music that came to be called "the Blues" playable by other professional musicians, but it also added the fundamental musical elements of the Blues into the vocabulary of professional song-composers. Jazz standards "The Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues" are the most famous of Handy's own compositions, but his musical legacy can be heard in the works of composers as varied as George Gershwin and Keith Richards.
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Restaurants in Dubai International Airport (DXB)
Whether it's a classic culinary temple or a local haunt, these Dubai International Airport (DXB) restaurants are destinations in and of themselves. Read on to discover Travel + Leisure's picks for the best Dubai International Airport (DXB) restaurants and dining experiences. Browse our travel guides for insider information on food trucks, bakeries, cafés, coffeehouses, farm-to-table restaurants, diners, trattorias, bistros, pizzerias, ice cream parlors, tapas bars, noodle houses, sushi counters, fine dining establishments, and more.
Our global network of editors and writers selects the best restaurants in Dubai International Airport (DXB) to help travelers soak up the local scene and find authentic dishes. Whether highlighting an insider hot spot, a celebrity chef's newest restaurant, a hip coffeehouse, or the best place for cheap eats, Travel + Leisure takes you there, serving up the best Dubai International Airport (DXB) restaurant listings. Below find T+L's top picks for where to eat in Dubai International Airport (DXB).
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Does entertaining in the suburbs base itself upon children's birthday parties, graduation parties, and weddings? |
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I don't think so, in out area we have round robin's, and summer neighborhood parties too with the people on our street. |
We live in a semi-rural area but get invited to parties in the suburbs that are adult parties. There is a big concentration of families with children in suburban developments so naturallly, there are a lot of children's events, just by the sheer volume of kids. |
We go to two or three cookouts each summer. We also meet at twilight at the community pool for drinks and socialization. We also go to our share of children's birthday parties, and I enjoy the time to really get to know the other parents. Don't go to too many graduation parties (can't think of even one), and haven't been to a wedding in ages. |
- Posted by summergirl (My Page) on Sun, Aug 18, 02 at 19:35
Suburbanites have dinner parties/cocktail parties/brunches and luncheons that do not necessarily involve a child's birthday party or other "event" mentioned. I have been to wine dinners, formal dinners, high teas and lavish cocktail parties and some pretty cool costume parties. And I have also been to many many birthday parties, graduation parties and anniversary parties too. And been to LOTS of BBQ's too. |
I don't like kids, so no, I don't go to children-oriented activities. Since I don't have kids, it's easy for me to avoid those kinds of gatherings. I'm kind of an abberation in my neighborhood and don't associate much with any one around here any more. We used to have neighbors with very similar interests and no kids and we did stuff together a lot- cook out, jump in their hot tub, sit around the chimnea and just chat. But they moved. So now we hang around people I work with, who are also suburbanites but in a different town. Most of them are also childless or can leave the kids behind. DH and I are known well enough that we don't get invited to children's BD parties. And none of our friends have any kids old enough to graduate anything but kindergarten yet. So, I guess the answer depends upon the lifestyle of who you ask. |
Entertaining in the suburbs is no different then entertaining in the city. The type of entertaining you do depends on what you like and the people that you associate with. I have lived downtown in major cities as well as out in the suburbs and the way that I like to entertain was the same regardless of the location. Ann. |
I would imagine that because more people in the suburbs have kids than city people, suburban get-togethers would almost always involve kids. One can assume that even at events like cocktail parties or dinner parties where kids don't belong, you'd find them there anyway. That's why I try to stay in the city since I don't care too much for children either. |
- Posted by cookingrvc (My Page) on Wed, Sep 4, 02 at 23:26
I think it's a function of age. For younger families with small children, there may be more of an emphasis on the children and entertaining around them. For couples like DH and I, who have no children living at home, we tend to socialize with folks around our age who have teens, young adult, or grown children, simply because those are the folks we tend to meet and with whom we have more in common with. For those friends that have small children, we usually socialize without the children, although there are times that we plan a dinner, cookout, or evening out with the kids. Sue |
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Dusit Thani Laguna Resort
Phuket, Thailand
Most of Phuket's high-end properties are hermetically sealed temples to luxury, tucked behind gates with little daily interaction with non-guests. That's what makes the Dusit Thani so refreshing. Though part of the gated Laguna Phuket complex, there's an easy friendliness to the hotel, thanks, in part, to its location along the public Bang Chao Beach. So you can have the friendly hubbub of fruit sellers plying fresh mango and local families frolicking in the surf without the over-commercialization of the island's other public beaches. Complimentary shuttle boats allow you to access the pools and eateries at each of the complex's other resorts. But at the Dusit Thani, you're already spoiled for choice, with five restaurants, a large spa, an even larger swimming pool, and lessons in everything from sailing to Thai boxing to batik. The 226 rooms have a nautical-by-way-of-Thailand vibe with navy and white striped textiles complimenting antique carvings and ceramics, all with private balconies overlooking the lagoons or the crystal waters of the Andaman Sea.
Room to Book:
For privacy, book a Laguna King room away from the foot traffic of the beachfront rooms.
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Book one of the 2-hour afternoon classes in Thai cuisine (taught by the executive sous chef) and be treated to a candlelit dinner for two afterwards at Ruen Thai.
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Resident Evil 5
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Developer Homepage: http://www.residentevil.com/
Product Homepage: http://www.residentevil.com/
Resident Evil 5 is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil survival horror series, and was released on September 18. Resident Evil 5 revolves around Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar as they investigate a terrorist threat in Kijuju, a fictional town in Africa.
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Please join yourcolleagues on Wednesday, October 30th from 4:30pm-7pm at the ThirstyPagan. Pizzaand appetizers will be served at 4:30pm courtesy of the AlumniAssociation.
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Feb 17, 2011 6:44 PM by Jeanette Trompeter
There are so many treasures to be found on the central and south coast. Sometimes you don't even have to be looking for them, to discover them. Such is the case in a gem I found while doing a story on branding season a few weeks ago. I stumbled upon more proof than I anticipated that there's no place like home.
Out in the middle of the open cattle country of Parkfield is an artistic treasure. It's not sitting in a museum, but on Jack Varian's kitchen table. "Is that our dunes?" I ask as I flip through the book before me. "Yep. That's the Oceano dunes." says Varian.
It's a beautiful picture book. But you won't find any copies of it in your local bookstore. It was put together by a guy who's name you may recognize. "And we've had it all these many years since 1963" says Varian. The pictures in the book were all taken by Ansel Adams. Adams made this book in honor of Jack's uncle, Russell Varian. "You know I'm not sure where they met up, but I'm sure it was on a mountain top someplace." says Varian.
Turns out Russell Varian and Ansel Adams were hiking buddies. "They were both lovers of the Sierra Nevadas." Jack explains. "My Uncle Russell was a life long member of the Sierra Club as was Ansel Adams. And they ended up taking many trips together to the Sierras."
Ansel Adams went on to become, well Ansel Adams. Russell Vairan became a pretty famous inventor. But the bond that kept their friendship so strong through all those years, was their intense appreciation of nature.
Russell Varian's fascination with the outdoors spilled over to science. He and his brother Sigurd Varian invented all kinds of things but probably the most famous, the klystron tube that would become the basis of microwave radar. Adams appreciated his friends curiosity about life and the way things worked, and when Varian died in 1959, Adams set out to make a picture book in his friend's memory. And it became an album of photos that he took that he thought Russell would enjoy. Every shot took for it, he did so with Russell Varian in mind.
Jack Varian pointed out the subtle connection as I turned the page to a close up of an oak leaf. "To a lot of people this wouldn't be very meaningful. But to Russell, the geometry of this leaf and everything about it, and how it sustained itself, is the kind of thing he'd really get into."
Ansel Adams took the pictures, Jack's grandfather wrote the prose. And scattered among the pages, Russell's own words of wisdom about nature live-on. This isn't the only book like this out there. A little more than 200 of the books were produced and sold as a fundraiser for the Sierra Club more than 50 years ago. Who knows how many are still around or where they are.
It's probably not worth enough to make someone rich, but there's a wealth of knowledge to be found on these pages of this book. Lessons to be learned about the beauty of nature, and friendship, and taking time to take note of both. And it's all in our own backyard.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose State was scheduled to host UTSA on Thursday night but due to a leaky roof at The Event Center the game was cancelled and will not be made up.
Heavy rain began falling in the San Jose area about one hour before the scheduled tip-off and water began to leak onto the court with 25 minutes left in warm-ups.
The Roadrunners (8-20, 3-13 WAC) will finish the regular season at Utah State on Saturday. San Jose State (9-18, 3-13) wraps up its regular season schedule Saturday at home against Texas State.
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At 12 noon EST today, there were 33 entries, and RANDOM.ORG provided us with the number 4...
Which means Beth is the winner!! Thank you all so much for participating! I loved reading about all of your sugar cookie stories and I hope you enjoyed reliving those fun memories of making (and eating) them. I know I'm planning to make some with my kids in the coming weeks, and I hope you have time to bake some, too. Put on some holiday tunes and decorate away!
If you aren't Beth, please don't despair! We'll be having another giveaway in December at Facebook, and we'd love it if you joined us there. And ChicGalleria.com is hosting a giveaway of one of our Candy Cane Pedi Spa gift sets, so please head over there and read their instructions for entering to win. They're announcing a winner on November 30, so make sure to enter soon!
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Providing for children's particular needs
Children and young people suffer disease processes and responses to illness, injury and disability that are fundamentally different from those of adults. They also have unique characteristics of development and growth. Together these factors may make them susceptible to physiological and / or psychological harm, which may be long-lasting or even permanent. Their particular needs must be provided for during every phase of health care and disability support.
The health of children and young people determines their health as adults
The aim of health and disability services for children and young people is to promote health and treat illness. The goal is to enable as many children and young people as possible to enter adulthood with their potential for health and wellbeing uncompromised. Increasingly it is recognised that the health and wellbeing of children and young people significantly influences their health as adults.
Principles: what health and disability services should provide for your child or young person
The following principles recognise the particular needs of children and young people receiving health and disability support services. The principles describe what should be provided when your child or young person receives those services. They are based on expert opinion and a considerable body of literature in New Zealand and overseas and they have been developed after wide consultation.
Where to go for more information
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- Article 9
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Saying goodbye to summer is always hard for this California girl. With fall in the air, kids back in school and a new long arm machine in one of my favorite Quilt shops I may be able to happily face the fact that I no longer live in a coastal climate that stays 70 degrees year round. Sigh. I miss you SLO town.
I have been focusing my business away from quilting for customers and in the direction of teaching and lecturing. This is a huge but exciting change for me and I am looking forward to sharing everything I have learned over the last ten years with students.
Before I go into a lot of detail about my teaching ventures I am going to fill you with some eye candy. These are some of the gorgeous quilts I have had the privilege of quilting for friends and customers over the last few months....err...year.
This quilt was made by my good friend Noelle, it is an improv beauty, I love her bright pops of color, compositionally it flows so flawlessly and has so much depth and visual texture.
This next quilt was made by Heather Bostic with Melody Miller's amazing Bee fabric, it is her Hotel California quilt and I was able to squeeze some lyrics in there for her.
The Quilting on both of those Quilts may look complicated but in reality the designs I chose stem from a rather simple formula I have developed which creates a path working you across the quilt with as few starts and stops as possible.
I affectionately refer to this method of quilting as "Compositional Quilting". In addition to teaching this at Quiltcon2015 I will be teaching locally at Island Quilter on beautiful Vashon Island. Workshops will be hands on working on an HQ18 Avante.
The next few quilts I am going to share with you I quilted for Angela Pingel's book,
A Quilters Mixology. This girl knows her curves and I highly recommend her book if you are looking for some great designs and instruction working with curves.
One of the brightest spots in my career so far was being asked by Karen McTavish to contribute to her most recent book, Mastering the Art of McTavishing 2nd Edition. I collaborated with my bestie namesake, Krista who worked with me to piece the quilt that we submitted for the book.
Does this motivate you to hone in on your longarm skills?? If so, please consider joining me at the Island Quilter starting this fall. Workshops are being held on Wednesday mornings starting the 17th of September. Workshops are four hours in length from 10 am-3pm with an hour lunch break at noon.
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Wednesday Sept. 17th 10am-3pm
Wednesday Oct. 29th 10am-3pm
Zig Zag Sampler
Wednesday Sept. 24th 10am-3pm
Wednesday Nov 5th 10am-3pm
Broken Wreath
Wednesday Oct. 1st 10am-3pm
Wednesday Nov.12th 10am-3pm
Ghost Shapes
Wednesday Oct.8th 10am-3pm
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I'm looking forward to seeing some of you this fall in class as I reluctantly pull on my boots, fold away my summer tank tops and resign myself to the truth that fall, is in fact real. I will continue my slow.... slow knitting on a scarf I hope to finish this life time and fill my soul with lots of fabric sunshine at Island Quilter! Hope to see you there!!xo


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Active Countryside
This exciting and interactive feature highlights some of the many new outdoor activities that are now readily available in the countryside for all age groups and all abilities.
There is plenty to do to encourage children to get out and about and have fun in the fresh air. This area gives visitors the opportunity to try out a wide range of new and exciting activities all under the supervision of expert staff.
Where possible, the activities have been adapted to make them suitable for less-abled children and the staff are also on hand to advise landowners about the set-up and running costs, space and staff requirements and the practicalities of hosting each activity on their land.


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Principal Eigenvalue Minimization for an Elliptic Problem with Indefinite Weight and Robin Boundary Conditions
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This paper focuses on the study of a linear eigenvalue problem with indefinite weight and Robin type boundary conditions. We investigate the minimization of the positive principal eigenvalue under the constraint that the absolute value of the weight is bounded and the total weight is a fixed negative constant. Biologically, this minimization problem is motivated by the question of determining the optimal spatial arrangement of favorable and unfavorable regions for a species to survive. For rectangular domains with Neumann boundary condition, it is known that there exists a threshold value such that if the total weight is below this threshold value then the optimal favorable region is like a section of a disk at one of the four corners; otherwise, the optimal favorable region is a strip attached to the shorter side of the rectangle. Here, we investigate the same problem with mixed Robin-Neumann type boundary conditions and study how this boundary condition affects the optimal spatial arrangement.
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- Principal Eigenvalue Minimization for an Elliptic Problem with Indefinite Weight and Robin Boundary Conditions
- Journal
Applied Mathematics & Optimization
Volume 65, Issue 1 , pp 111-146
- Cover Date
- 2012-02-01
- 10.1007/s00245-011-9153-x
- Print ISSN
- 0095-4616
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0606
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Asymptotic analysis
- Principal eigenvalue
- Elliptic boundary value problem with indefinite weight
- Robin conditions
- Shape optimization
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- M. Hintermüller (1) (2)
- C.-Y. Kao (3) (4)
- A. Laurain (5)
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- 1. Humboldt-University of Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany
- 2. Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Heinrichstrasse 36, 8010, Graz, Austria
- 3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, 91711, USA
- 4. Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, 410 Math Tower, 231 West 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210-1174, USA
- 5. Department of Mathematics, Johann-von-Neumann-Haus, Rudower Chaussee 25, 12489, Berlin-Adlershof, Germany


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nckjm commented on the blog post Barack and the Beanstalk
So, who thinks Eric Cantor will be in the Super Congress? Do you smell sulfur?
Here's what we need: a new, third party. The Progressive Party and we need a candidate and we need to elect that candidate. We don't need a "pretend" primary rival for Barry. We aren't going to bring about change from WITHIN the Democratic Party. That's not an option. We're past that. Let's burn that bridge and move the hell on.
We true progressives have such passion, energy, intelligence, and vision that if we don't go ahead and take the leap, I think we shall go mad.
Is there not a true progressive leader who will rise up in response to the urgent call from our collective souls?
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Did anyone catch R. Nader on Olbermann tonight? (David Schuster was in for Keith) Nader talked about an initiative being launched in the next couple of days where 100 progressive leaders are being asked to join in an effort leading to a progressive primary challenger against Obama. BUT, he stressed TWICE that the goal of the initiative is NOT TO actually try to BEAT HIM in the primary but just to get progressive issues discussed and debated during the primary.
I want a FOR REAL progressive candidate…a "pretend" candidate would just feel like another slap in the face.
Help me, FDL'er…this isn't the answer I've been praying for.
nckjm commented on the blog post Liveblog of Senate Proceedings
I swear, didn't Reid just say that he was willing to compromise even more today but nobody showed up. OMG…are they really still trying to throw more of this ONE-SIDED "compromise" on the heap? Why don't the Democrats just shut up…NO MORE "GIVE AWAYS" to those madmen of the House. Why are Democrats so inept? It is already a one-sided bill…all cuts and no tax increases. It is already an afront to the citizens of our nation.
nckjm commented on the diary post Krugman on the Debt Debate: Cults, Centrists and Balance by Scarecrow.
Well said, Greenbell. The number of Americans who have "a piece of America" is shrinking daily. I am in angst about having no one to vote for in 2012 and my sister, whom I live with, really gives me a hard time about not voting for O. again even though she says a write-in candidate [...]
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You better believe it!
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Hello to everyone. I am new to FDL. I am experiencing such emotions as I watch things unfold. I read HuffPost and Democratic Underground but I am looking for a true progressive home. I feel so helpless and alone. I feel like the world has gone crazy and I am in a downward spiral.
I keep crying out to myself, why isn't there a strong Progressive star to shine for us…someone to step up and say, I will be the leader in this fight. Why don't we move forward with a primary candidate NOW…surely there is nothing more we need to see from Obama to know he is a significant part of the problem.
I think about the eight long years I endured with Bush and I, like so many others, thought change had come. OMG. It has been a nightmare. I can't contemplate five more years of the slow, death torture that Obama is delivering. It will have been 16 years of my life…waiting for the clear sounding trumpet to finally rally the people … to move the people to fight for America.
I am an uninsured 55 year old, once well paid corporate training professional, out of a job since November of last year due to job elimination from Big Bank. I live with my sister (20 years my senior) and we are living on my unemployment, her teacher retirement, and her social security…so we are ok at this time but I wake up in the middle of the night knowing that if something were to happen to her, I would lose our home, would have to sell it if I could, and possibly look to moving overseas…it is just a nightmare.
Nothing I see in Washington makes any sense and that really makes me think perhaps I am going mad. If I knew how to fight for my country, I would.
Why, please help me understand,are progressives not directing all our time, money, and effort to a FOR REAL primary challenge. Folks, without that, are we not doomed?
Please pardon this long post. I am just reaching out. I am looking for a community of sane, thinking, caring friends.
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Continuing with the theme of danger and beauty, while the Grand Canyon is a crowning achievement for many runners, it is also a perilous one. Temperatures that get well over 100 degrees combined with radical shifts in altitude crate a need for over 200 heat-related rescues each year. Make sure you don't tackle the canyon in midafternoon heat. Your body could experience cramping, hallucinations and even the bursting of brain cells. That doesn't mean you shouldn't attempt a run the canyon, as those who have made it through consider it the experience of a life time. Just make sure you plan a head and drink lots of water, and, you know, avoid dying.
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To honor his life, crowds gathered in New York City's Union Square on Tuesday (February 26) to protest national gun laws and racial profiling on the one-year anniversary of Travon Martin's death.
During the candle-lit vigil, Jamie Foxx commended the slained teen's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.
"I want people to know that this is a personal thing. And I want to thank Sybrina for being so strong because in the midst of all of the swirling and all of the talking points and people standing on both sides, you stood on the side of being a mother," said Foxx. "Tracy you stood on the side of being a father. You didn't talk about color which I thought was absolutely amazing. I looked at all of the different telecasts that you've done and you never brought that up."
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Does anyone have a photo of what this looks like? i have found nematodes on a hosta that I purchased this Spring and the OF's next to it have foliage that is browning out in the middle. They are in a somewhat sunny spot and we have had a drought so I don't want to kill them off if they are not infected.
I can't find a pic on the net of what they look like when infected. Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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Hi in an attempt to keep myself busy I have found a website which tells you how to read the child lines on your palm. Apparently according to palmists the amount of lines that go through your affection line tell you the amount of children you will have and if they will be boys or girls. Please find link below:
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Did you find it easy to read your children lines? I find this kind of interesting, probably because I'm bored. But I'm having a hard time finding any distinct children lines, it just seems like there's a lot of little lines going vertically everywhere in that area.
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I agree with the PP's...however I can't see any vertical lines going through or coming from the horizontal lines under my pinky. lol....wish i could though!! This sort of stuff fascinates me!
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When I was 17 or 18 I had my palm read in NYC. During that reading she looked at the side of my hand and told me I would have 2 daughters and I do. She also mentioned a little boy but that was in connection with a man I was supposed to meet and marry who would already have a son. Well, never met him. Unless DH isn't telling me something...LOL!! I am hoping that little boy she saw will be baby #3 for us. I am fascinated by palm reading!
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I also had trouble reading them but thought it might just have been me. Thats why I decided to post and see if anyone what everyone else thought. Looks like you need a bit of training on this palm reading stuff!
Glad I'm not the only one having a hard time. I looked at DH's hand and his was easier to read. It looked like there were definitely 4 or 5 lines, but I wouldn't say any of them were diagnal vs straight.
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The line directly under my pinky shows no distinct vertical lines of any kind. The line under THAT line shows two horizontal lines very clearly though......but I have two boys?!? I'm not so good at this apparently!
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Me too!!!
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It was hard for me to see at first but what I did I put some lotion and some water and saw the lines they went |\\\| .
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I have looked very closely and even got the DH to have a close look-apparently i have no lines at all or none that we can see...
This indicates we have no children but i'm sure i gave birth to a lovely baby boy 6 years ago - as if i could forget that labour lol... and i'm pretty sure we have bambino number 2 on his/her way- confirmed by little kicks and scan lol...
hmmmm maybe i need help with this one or my eyes may need tested hehe
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I have so many fine lines it's very hard to see. On both hands lot's of ////// and IIIIIII but maybe only 2 cross over and I have more then 2 kids. Oh and they all girls.
So this is not working for me. I wonder what would a palm reader say
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I only see one line below the agreement line, but I definitely have two little boys telling me to get of the internet!
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A quiet and wildlife-rich section of riverfront property adjacent to the Meadowville Landing residential development in Enon has been donated to Virginia Commonwealth University's Rice Center.
According to Thomas F. Huff, Ph.D., VCU's vice provost for life sciences, the land gift of approximately 150 acres encompasses critical nesting areas for bald eagles and habitat for a wide variety of flora and fauna.
The property is the gift of a group of individuals who form the Meadowville Trust and Meadowville LLC, made up of a group of local developers. The gift of the property, valued at about $500,000, will increase the size of the VCU Rice Center by nearly half.
"This remarkable gift expands the reach of the VCU Rice Center as we enter Phase II of our development plan, enriching research and educational opportunities for both faculty and students," said Huff.
Huff said that, for researchers, the Meadowville tract provides an extensive area of bottomland hardwood forest that complements the habitats at the Rice Center in Charles City County and opens many new opportunities for research and educational opportunities while preserving critical habitat along the James River.


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Black Leather Jesus brings the S & M noise to Destroy Vancouver V
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At VIVO Media Arts Centre on Saturday, March 2
It's only fun if someone loses an eye.
Actually, I'm not quite sure how much fun witnessing on-stage mutilation would be—I never did get to see Rudolf Schwarzkogler back in the day—but watching Black Leather Jesus torture its audience as part of Destroy Vancouver's fifth installment was not so much uncomfortable as it was problematic. And in this case, the problem is whether shock tactics are worth using when they no longer shock.
Yes, the Houston, Texas, sextet is face-meltingly, brain-janglingly loud, but Destroy Vancouver's organizers had thoughtfully provided a jar of bright-orange earplugs, for which many were thankful. And yes, the band features a half-naked guy in a bondage mask flogging an overturned metal staircase with a length of shiny chain, but so what? It was the shininess that fazed me. Make it an evil, rusty chain and you might have something.
Among connoisseurs of sexually charged noise, Black Leather Jesus, now in its 24th year, is often mentioned along with true pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten. But those groups delivered a real sense of risk—even suffering injury themselves, occasionally at the hands of outraged spectators—and they had a genuine propensity for filth. Here, no blood, semen, or animal parts were spilled into the front row, which might be one reason why Black Leather Jesus's sonic S & M came across as soft-core, consensual, and ultimately kind of silly. Not to mention fucking needlessly loud.
With that out of the way, let's spray kudos on Destroy Vancouver organizer John Brennan, who has successfully established an ongoing showcase night where noise acts, DIY electronic wizards, and free improvisers can meet and collide. Let's congratulate him, too, for getting a house. Although the crowd had thinned out by the time bondage boy doffed his shirt, it was solidly packed for the event's other import, percussionist Chris Corsano.
Fresh from a West Coast tour with Rangda, the New York percussionist was in blazing form. Casually flipping cymbals behind his back to land with a perfectly timed crash, Corsano managed to be both fierce and delicate, pummelling through hyperspeed workouts with focused abandon, then slowing down to wring the most exquisite timbres from his impeccably tuned kit. But some of the most mind-blowing moments came when Corsano put down his sticks and mallets to explore other soundscapes. When sawed at with a violin bow, strings stretched across one drum sounded like a particularly raw and energetic form of New York City minimalism. A toy clarinet attached to a yard-long plastic hose produced near-vocal cries and a piping complaint. A small microphone inside the drummer's high hat produced owlish hooting or wailing feedback at the press of a pedal.
None of the local performers matched his old-school physical virtuosity, but several displayed an equal level of imagination. Jeremy Van Wyck's solo project, Mongst, provided the night's most beautiful music, and its most interesting conceptual mashup, by pitting lush layers of environmental sound—apparently recorded during a trip to the Yukon—against archival footage of noise/drone/cut-up granddaddies William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, establishing a synchronistic connection between Arctic and psychic wildernesses. In another solo set, V. Vecker's real-time manipulations of his alto saxophone illustrated an equally tangible link between free improvisation and the electronic underground. And media artist Merlyn Chipman worked another kind of alchemical meld by pitting gorgeous fractal imagery against the hissing, ominous sound of frying electrons, both sourced from video feedback.
Something's going on here, and although there are other places to check out this emerging pan-stylistic wonderland, Destroy Vancouver has emerged as the scene's most expansive showcase. The next edition will apparently feature the legendary free-jazz drummer William Hooker; if you're into abrasive adventure, don't miss it.
The leather mask was simply an extension of the some of the members' true fetish lifestyles.
"...true pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle and Einstürzende Neubauten."
Those two acts are commonly referenced to in major publications as pioneers of 'noise', but many involved 'noise' artists see them more as influences on darker techno and industrial. Black Leather Jesus comes from a world filled with influences and colleagues from important 80s European and Japanese purer harsh noise and power electronics projects such as Ramleh, Le Syndicat, Maurizio Bianchi, Incapacitants, HijoKaidan, Whitehouse, Grey Wolves, etc.
If you'd rather give tongue-baths to Chris Corsano and William Hooker than listen to gimps and shark fanatics, that's your prerogative. But don't pull this shit like you're "so over" all this noise music. Chris Bohn will not return your calls no matter how much you spin quasi-academic candyfloss like "the synchronistic connection between Arctic and psychic wildernesses."
Actually, the top part of Yukon does fall within the Arctic Circle.
Or you could simply read the word arctic as uncapitalized, which would just mean a very cold environment (and which is what, I suspect, the writer had in mind).
I certainly didn't see them two days in a row to be shocked or made to retch. I came for a spectacle to enjoy and remember, and I got that and then some. To wit: Half-Naked Masked Guy, over the course of both sets, played a two-by-four with springs. He got into it, too-- clawing at the springs, going at it with a length of chain, picking it up and throwing it. By the end of the second set, the board had split in half and all the springs were half-detached, and he still kept playing. The rest of the show was just as beautiful, with everything involved from large containers to trashcan lids and caviar tins.
The second night, they were the penultimate act. The band who played after them capped off their set by graphically faking their own suicides. They were mediocre.
What is important is what Richard Ramirez brought to noise. He has been an openly gay artist releasing music and performing since he was fifteen years old. He has fearlessly pioneered and presented an explicitly homosexual voice and image in a scene which, when he started (and, honestly, even now 25-years later), was not known for being particularly open-minded in that regard. The reviewer writes about TG & EN courting real danger. I argue that Richard has faced just as much real danger. This is an artist who STILL gets at least one very real death threat every year, and has faced that kind of homophobic hatred for his entire life. I ask the reviewer, have you ever had a trip to play in a foreign country marred by receiving a letter stating bluntly "You won't get out of _______ alive, faggot?" Has Mongst? Has Merlin? It is that dedication to queer culture-albeit a rather dark niche (but hey, so were Coil, Dennis Cooper and John Waters, to name just a few)--in the face of hatred much deeper than the silly dismissal of this or any reviewer that makes Richard Ramirez and Black Leather Jesus important. It may seem like a bunch of nonsense, but Mr. Ramirez has given hope and inspiration to a generation of gay fans and fellow artists that reaches well beyond the (I believe) great music he makes. If that isn't important, than I really don't know what is.


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Mountain Lion sighting reported near school in 4S Ranch
Students at Oak Valley MS told to stay indoors
SAN DIEGO - Authorities searched open areas near Black Mountain Park Tuesday following a reported mountain lion sighting, but found no sign of any such wild predator cat, a sheriff's official said.
A passer-by reported seeing what appeared to be puma roaming on a hiking trail near Winecreek and Carmel Valley roads in 4S Ranch shortly before 9:30 a.m., according to Lt. Scott Amos.
The hiking trail is near Oak Valley Middle School, and school officials kept students indoors during the search.
The principal told 10News that these types of sightings are not unusual since the school sits near Black Mountain and the area has a lot of open space. Bobcats and mountain lions have been spotted in the past.
Deputies searched the area on foot and aboard a sheriff's helicopter for about 45 minutes, spotting no mountain lion, Amos said.
10News found several sets of tracks that appeared to have been left by bobcats, and perhaps a mountain lion. 10News sent pictures of the paw prints to Scott Tremor with the San Diego Natural History Museum, who said he's not certain, but prints may very likely be from a mountain lion.
John Cahill was running the trail and pointed out those paw prints.
"Just running along, you can see mountain lion tracks further down the trail," said Cahill.
He'd been alerted by the air search directly overhead.
"I saw the helicopter circling which puts me on alert when I'm out running; so any time I run past mud I start looking for tracks. When I see them, I hoof it off the trail," said Cahill.
The reported sighting has some parents concerned.
Tracy Bilhorn told 10News, "Absolutely because there's a whole wild area right across the street from the school so they must be living over there and coming down early in the evening or late at night; so it's concerning that it'd be so close here."
Bilhorn, who also runs the trail, added, "All the time, that's why I'm so concerned."
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Ryan Sather said he's aware of his surroundings.
"It's part of nature. You've got to deal with it, expect it and I respect them, and if I see one I'll give it its distance," said Sather.
Sheriff's personnel will keep an eye out for the animal in the course of their normal duties in the rural community west of Rancho Bernardo, Amos said.
"They'll certainly be aware that there may be a big cat out there somewhere," he said.
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Have you ever considered the Data Warehouse as a chaotic system? The work of the Data Warehouse team is never complete: new requirements trickle in every day, and user feedback gets more and more sophisticated as time passes. Chaos Theory can help explain this, and in the end, offer us some insight into how we can better plan Data Warehouse development, deployment, and maintenance.
The Data Warehouse is a process which forms the center of an information supply supply chain, with several inputs and several outputs. Each input and each output is subject to change based on factors such as vendor upgrades, new interfaces, expanded interfaces, and perhaps most importantly end-user (client) evolution. All of these changes happen continuously. As people use the Data Warehouse, they become more inquisitive. They want their output and analysis rolled up or down in different ways. Predicting (i.e. planning) for Data Warehouse change can be as difficult as predicting (and therefore planning for) the weather. This environment of ever-changing needs fits neatly into the confines of Chaos Theory. But what is chaos in this context? What is Chaos Theory exactly?
From the book "Chaos Theory Tamed", author Garnett P. Williams writes:
Chaos is sustained and disorderly-looking long-term evolution that satisfies certain mathematical criteria and that occurs in a deterministic non-linear system. Chaos theory is the principles and mathematical operations underlining chaos. (pg 9)
Meteorologist Edward Lorenz in the 1960s determined that even the tiniest differences in an initial measurement can have a huge impact on an outcome. In other words, as his butterfly effect posits, a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa can affect weather patterns in North America. Weather is a system which has a highly sensitive dependence on its initial inputs.
The foundation of the Data Warehouse is only as stable as how you control for the tiniest changes to the inputs into the information structure. As weather, it too has a highly sensitive dependence on inputs. One tiny change to a source system can have almost catastrophic effects on the Data Warehouse.
Finding Order
However, despite the chaos, we should be able to find some order. This is what Lorenz and scientists after him tried to do. The first step in this process is understanding that even seemingly random changes are not always as random as they seem. If we can understand that changes to our Data Warehouse are not random, then we can build a better Data Warehouse.
There are a few things you can do to tame the chaos:
- Be consistent and systematic. The more predictable you and your Data Warehouse team are, the easier it will be handle change. In other words, control any and all variables that you can.
- Adopt proven analysis and development methodologies that others have had success with. This is not to say that some level of adaptation to your environment, team skills, and situation are not required, but rather, start off with a good foundation and follow along where it makes sense.
- Keep the team close. Quality and frequent interaction among the people who make and run the DWH is essential.
- Stay in the groove like an improvisational jazz band. If your data modelers are not in tune with your decision-support analysts who are not in tune with your DBA, then you can't expect to handle the challenges of chaos.
- Feedback and evolution are two very important aspects of Data Warehousing. Keep your ear to the wall and try to anticipate changes before they occur. This takes practice, but (back to the improvisational jazz band analogy) practice makes perfect.
- Keep in step. In the Data Warehouse world, change is natural and will come in waves. More significantly, if changes cannot be implemented quickly, your clients will lose confidence in your ability to keep up.
- Think and act quickly. The longer you debate, the longer your client must wait. While they wait, they construct workarounds or look elsewhere. If you're lucky and they do wait for you, their change may become outdated and no longer relevant; an opportunity might have been missed (and you've essentially failed them).
- Don't be afraid to be wrong. The consequence of acting quickly is that you might get something wrong. Just be agile enough to respond and deliver new change with urgency.
I'll post more thoughts on this over the next weeks. I'm particularly interested in how users of the Data Warehouse become more and more sophisticated as they use its tools and applications.


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2 Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. | 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. |
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Marge Schott
Marge Schott | |
Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
August 18, 1928
Died | March 2, 2004 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
(aged 75)
Margaret Unnewehr Schott (August 18, 1928 – March 2, 2004) was the managing general partner, president and CEO of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds franchise from 1984 to 1999. She was the third woman to own a North American major-league team without inheriting it (the first being New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson), and the second woman to buy an existing team rather than inheriting it.[1] She is perhaps most well known for her controversial behavior during her tenure as owner of the Reds, which included slurs towards African-Americans, Jews, and persons of Japanese ancestry. She was banned from managing the team by the MLB from 1996 through 1998 due to statements in support of German domestic policies of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler; shortly afterwards, she sold the majority of her share in the team.
Early life and career[edit]
Born in Cincinnati, Schott was one of five daughters of a Cincinnati native who grew wealthy in the lumber business.[2] She attended parochial schools and graduated from the Sacred Heart Academy.[3] She married Charles Schott, a member of a wealthy Cincinnati family, in 1952, and inherited his automobile dealerships and interests in other industries when he died of a heart attack in 1968.[2] A widow at 39, Marge Schott never remarried and had no children of her own.[3]
Cincinnati Reds[edit]
Schott had been a Reds fan for most of her life; from 1963 onward, she held an auction to raise money for the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, attended by several Reds players. In 1981, Schott bought a minority interest in the Reds as part of a group headed by insurance magnates William and James Williams. On December 21, 1984, she purchased a controlling interest for a reported $11M, making her managing general partner, and becoming the first woman to buy an MLB team.[4] In 1985, she was named president and CEO of the club.[5] Five years later, the Reds won the World Series, when they swept the Oakland Athletics.
Schott quickly became one of baseball's most publicly visible owners. The Reds had long been a family-oriented franchise, and fans praised her efforts to keep ticket and concession prices low. For instance, she kept the price of the basic hot dog at one dollar, and kept box seats around $12—the cheapest in baseball.[2] Unlike most owners, she sat in a regular box seat at Riverfront Stadium, and often signed autographs.[2] Despite not having any children of her own, she often allowed groups of children on the field to run to deep center field and back. She was also noted for always having Schottzie, her pet Saint Bernard, with her.[2]
She was also criticized for not spending the money it would have taken to build the Reds into contenders. This "cheap" attitude was sometimes conveyed in her own statements. She would publicly comment on occasion about having to pay players while they were on the disabled list, notably World Series hero José Rijo, about whom she once complained of "paying three million dollars to sit on his butt!"[2]
On November 13, 1992, Charles "Cal" Levy, a former marketing director for the Reds, stated in a deposition for Tim Sabo, a former employee who was suing the team, that he'd heard Schott refer to then-Reds outfielders Eric Davis and Dave Parker as "million-dollar niggers."[6] Sabo, whose position was "team controller," alleged that his 1991 firing was due to testifying against Schott in another lawsuit brought against Schott by several limited partners and because he opposed the unwritten policy of not hiring blacks. Schott's countersuit alleged that Sabo wrote unauthorized checks to himself and paid health insurance premiums to retired front-office employees. She asked for $25,000 in damages for defamation. Sabo ultimately lost his suit.
Levy, who is Jewish, alleged that Schott kept a Nazi swastika armband at her home and claims he overheard her say "sneaky goddamn Jews are all alike."[6] The next day, Schott issued a statement saying the claims of racism levied against her were overstated and that she did not mean to offend anyone with her statement or her ownership of the armband. Schott explained that the swastika armband had been a gift from a former employee.[7]
On November 29, Schott said the "million dollar niggers" comment was made in jest, but then stated that she felt that Adolf Hitler was initially good for Germany and did not understand how the epithet "Jap" could be offensive.
During the same season, a former Oakland Athletics executive assistant, Sharon Jones, is quoted in The New York Times as having overheard Schott state: "I would never hire another nigger. I'd rather have a trained monkey working for me than a nigger," before the start of an owners' conference call.[8]
A four-man committee was convened to investigate Schott. On February 3, 1993, she was fined $250,000 and banned from day-to-day operations of the Reds for the 1993 season. John Allen took over as managing partner. Schott returned to work on November 1.
On May 18, 1994, during a speech before the Ohio County Treasurers Association, Schott commented that she did not want her players to wear earrings because "only fruits wear earrings."[9] She said, "I was raised to believe that men wearing earrings are fruity."[9] Up to 1999, the Reds had a long-standing rule prohibiting players from having facial hair.[2] The rule was rescinded after a discussion between Schott and newly acquired outfielder Greg Vaughn.
In 1995, Schott famously announced in the middle of the season that manager Davey Johnson would not return, regardless of how well the Reds did. By all accounts, this was because of a personality clash between Johnson and Schott. Most notably, Schott did not approve of Johnson living with his fiancée before they were married later in the year.[10] The Reds won the division (before losing the National League Championship Series to the Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 0), and Johnson was fired anyway.
The Reds traditionally played the first game of the season at home. On April 1, 1996 they played the Montreal Expos. The weather was cold and blustery and it had snowed earlier in the day. Shortly after the game started, home plate umpire John McSherry called a time out and motioned towards the Reds dugout, it was later presumed, for medical attention. After taking a few steps, McSherry collapsed and fell to the artificial turf face first. Attempts to resuscitate McSherry failed and he was pronounced dead at University Hospital about an hour later. The other umpires decided to postpone the game until the next day. Video showed Schott visibly upset that the game was to be postponed; reportedly she groused: "Snow this morning and now this. I don't believe it. I feel cheated. This isn't supposed to happen to us, not in Cincinnati. This is our history, our tradition, our team. Nobody feels worse than me."[11] Schott later insisted that she was standing up for the fans; critics saw her comments as insensitive. Schott reportedly offended major league umpires in general — and members of McSherry's crew specifically — by regifting a bouquet of flowers given to her, adding a sympathy note and sending it on to the funeral home.[2] During the team's next homestand, Schott attempted to smooth over the feud with the umpires, apologizing to them – despite none of them being in attendance at the game in question, only to have them refuse the gesture.[2]
Other incidents[edit]
Schott was the target of frequent criticism for allegedly allowing her ever-present St. Bernards, Schottzie and Schottzie 02, near complete free rein of Riverfront Stadium, including their defecating on the field.[2]
Schott was known for not wanting to hire scouts, stating that "All they do is sit around and watch ball games,"[2] and wanting not to post scores of other games on the Riverfront Stadium scoreboard (the cost of this service was $350/month). Schott said of the scoreboard issue, "Why do [fans] care about one game when they're watching another?".[2]
On an airplane, Marge Schott was allegedly approached by a woman who introduced herself as Edd Roush's granddaughter. Schott then replied, "That's nice hon, what business is he in?" Roush is a Hall of Fame center fielder who had many of his greatest years with the Reds.[12] The New York Times later dubbed her "Baseball's Big Red Headache."[3]
Exit from ownership[edit]
On May 5, 1996, Schott aroused ire when she made statements favorable of Adolf Hitler, saying he "was good in the beginning, but went too far."[2] MLB again banned Schott from day-to-day operations through 1998. Later in the month, Schott was quoted in Sports Illustrated as speaking in a "cartoonish Japanese accent" while describing her meeting with the prime minister of Japan.[2] Further, she said that she did not like Asian American kids "outdoing our kids" in high school.[2]
On April 20, 1999, Schott agreed to sell her controlling interest in the Reds for $67 million to a group led by Cincinnati businessman Carl Lindner. At the time she was facing a third suspension, failing health and an expiring ownership agreement with her limited partners, who planned to oust her. Schott remained as a minority partner.
In addition to her interest in the Reds, Schott was a major contributor to charitable organizations in Cincinnati, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Cincinnati Zoo, where they named an Asian elephant after her, Schottzie, also an elephant preserve, as well as Saint Ursula Academy in East Walnut Hills. She is recognized for her major donation to the local Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts of America that was used to create an 18-acre (7.3 ha) lake at Camp Friedlander. The lake was christened Lake Marge Schott.[13]
Marge Schott was also a generous contributor to special events at the University of Cincinnati such as the annual Homecoming Parade.
In 2001, Schott, a long-time smoker,[14] began to develop health problems. She was hospitalized twice for breathing problems and suffered from pneumonia in 2003. On February 9, 2004, Schott was hospitalized. Some reports claim she was hospitalized due to a cold while others said she complained of knee ailments. However, during her stay, she developed breathing problems and had to be put on life support.[15] She died at age 75 at The Christ Hospital, in Cincinnati.[16]
Schott's funeral was held at All Saints Catholic Church in the Cincinnati suburb of Kenwood.[17] She was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery wearing a red suit with an elephant lapel pin.[18]
- ^ Marge Schott at AllExperts
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Reilly, Rick (20 May 1996). "Heaven Help Marge Schott". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
- ^ a b c Radel, Cliff (March 3, 2004). Enquirer.com "A Woman of the People". Cincinnati Enquirer.
- ^ Swaine, Rick (1 March 2009). The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History. McFarland. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-7864-5334-4.
- ^ Nemec, David; Flatow, Scott (16 December 2008). This Day in Baseball: A Day-by-Day Record of the Events That Shaped the Game. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-58979-407-8.
- ^ a b Erardi, John (October 25, 1998). "Bookkeeper' started it all". Cincinnati Enquirer.
- ^ Rymer, Zachary (April 29, 2014). "Comparing and Contrasting the Donald Sterling and Marge Schott Sagas, Aftermath". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ topics.nytimes.com
- ^ a b Verducci, Tom (May 30, 1994). "Fashionably In First". Sports Illustrated.
- ^ "Poor Communication at Heart of Feud". The Washington Post. May 12, 1998. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ ESPN.com - Page2 - Most memorable opening day moments
- ^ Shannon, Mike (1997). Tales from the Dugout: The Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told. McGraw Hill Professional. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-8092-3107-2.
- ^ "Camp Friedlander". Dan Beard Council. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ Vaccariello, Linda (February 2006). "The Things She Left Behind". Cincinnati Magazine. p. 92. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
- ^ "Family says Schott is on life support". ESPN. 2 March 2004. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Goldstein, Richard (March 3, 2004). "Marge Schott, Eccentric Owner of the Reds, Dies at 75". The Washington Post.
- ^ Radel, Cliff (7 March 2004). "They all turned out to hail 'a great lady'". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Associated Press (March 6, 2004). "Reds execs, Cincinnati mayor pay respects". ESPN. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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- Baseball Library - career events
- Marge Schott at the Internet Movie Database
- Marge Schott at Findagrave.com
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