Municipal Stadium Research Articles

Children's Welfare Concern in a Full-scale Disaster Pediatric Drill

Introduction:Children are almost systematically involved in mass casualty events, especially in the context of terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, the emergency medical responder preparedness is quite often low when it comes to pediatrics, on both technical and emotional sides. Preliminary training is indispensable, and full-scale simulations are arguably the best solution to tackle the needs of the first responders. The purpose of the study was to describe a simulation-based pediatric training with pediatric psychological support set up for the drill.Method:A full-scale exercise involving children between five and fifteen years old was conducted in the Toulouse municipal stadium during the preparation of the 2016 UEFA (European Football Championship) in France. As children welfare was the primary concern, a psychological support team was present at each stage of the drill and assessed any mental harm that could have happened. Children were asked about their feelings at the end of the exercise with a 5-point Likert rating scale and their parents had to report any perceived changes in the following week.Results:Out of 16 children participating in the drill, four were in an immediate situation (P1), four were in an emergent situation (P2), and eight were in an urgent situation (P3). One hundred percent of them rated their experience as very good and expressed no stress to their parents in the week that followed, and no harm was detected by the psychological support team during the exercise.Conclusion:The results of the study show that involving children as victims in pediatric disaster drills is possible in these conditions without impacting the mental welfare of children.

The Neighborhood and Surrounding City, 1926–2019, and: The Neighborhood Girls Catch Lordstown Syndrome, and: The Neighborhood Girls Fantasize about the WKBN Meteorologist, and: The Neighborhood Girls Ask the WKBN Meteorologist, and: 10¢ Beer Night at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 1974, and: The Neighborhood Girls Go on Strike, and: he WKBN Meteorologist Finally Stops by the Dairy Queen, and:

The Neighborhood and Surrounding City, 1926–2019, and: The Neighborhood Girls Catch Lordstown Syndrome, and: The Neighborhood Girls Fantasize about the WKBN Meteorologist, and: The Neighborhood Girls Ask the WKBN Meteorologist, and: 10¢ Beer Night at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 1974, and: The Neighborhood Girls Go on Strike, and: he WKBN Meteorologist Finally Stops by the Dairy Queen, and: The Neighborhood Girls Offer Me Allison Pitinii Davis (bio) The Neighborhood and Surrounding City, 1926–2019 [North, to Cleveland. West, to Akron. East, to Pittsburgh. South, to Wheeling.] lordstown assembly: The last local GM plant. Opened in 1966. Produced almost two million Pontiac Firebirds. Site of 1972 strike: “The strike lasted a total of 22 days and cost GM $150 million. Later strikers elsewhere who similarly engaged in disrupting production lines were labeled as having ‘Lordstown Syndrome.’ . . . Due to their ‘hipness,’ long hair, and mod fashion, the strikers were referred to by the magazine Newsweek as an ‘industrial Woodstock.’” Shut down in 2019. downtown: enter a chorus of Rust Belt fathers: Let [ ] = the demolished. “Those [ ]s were where the mills were.” “And that [ ] is where we danced.” “No, it was [ ].” “Maybe for white people who don’t remember the [ ].” en route, Glenwood Avenue: Foster’s Theater: 1939: Hold That Co-ed— “Swinging, Singing Football Fun Frolic.” 1960s: Fellini’s 8½. 1979: Summer Heat—“The Deer Hunter of Porn.” wkbn: First News at Noon: The weather moves from west to east, like English. [! ] First News at 6: The Neighborhood Girls are in love with the new meteorologist. First News at 11:00: A meteorologist will let you know/if you’re reading glare or snow.//Around white space letters form a cage:/a storm system on a page. [End Page 9] en route, Market Street: Uptown Theater: 1926: Joan Crawford stars in Sally, Irene, and Mary. 1979: Rocky II. 2017: for sale for $75,000. Contact Jose Cupeles. the neighborhood: North Midland region infinitival copula deletion: “Your car needs washed.” “Your clothes need cleaned.” “Your yia yia needs picked up.” “Your baby wants fed.” “The circle needs cut.” car tinsel car tinsel car tinsel the dairy queen on market street: Up the road from the Youngstown and Southern Railway (1904–1993). Employer of local neighborhood girls. Right off the turnpike and down the road from a trucking motel. the mahoning river starts at the Ohio as Beaver River, then flows from the southeast to the northwest. Petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and mercury are above safe maximum levels. [End Page 10] The Neighborhood Girls Catch Lordstown Syndrome but if you want our version, you’ll payin installments. You’ll neigh in a stalluntil we come out and free you. We hear you,we hear you over the factories and over the wildcats, the slowdowns, the one of manyslanted atop another. All marked downfor condemnation, demolition—baby, do you parsethis diction? Merciful, our kind of telling. Its sheen: our boyfriends’ sweat rolling off the car plant.We caught their syndrome—a tragic case—spreading at the conveyor’s pace,but we’re no fodder for your headlines. Our picket line is understood:another day in the neighborhood. [End Page 11] The Neighborhood Girls Fantasize about the WKBN Meteorologist The last one barely made it. Starter job.Fair-weather friend. But you, with your brand-newdiploma, your knack for atmosphericpressure—after your projected forecast, our cars need washed. Our mouths need fixed.Our grammar’s all grimed: primers don’treach these parts. Our parts are perfect,you’ll need a coupon. Our moms coupon Tuesdays, don’t dare disturb them.This whole town—a little much. But then againagainst the summer with heatindexing our index fingers, with the layoffs driven clear through May—it’s not half bad. Weather it. Stay. [End Page 12] The Neighborhood Girls Ask the WKBN Meteorologist do we accumulate? At apexes of lake effectwe Fahrenheit, we divide downto single digits—could you grip a girl who dipsbelow zero? Will you hero that mythologyweekdays at 6? We’d watch your station all shift exceptwhen you flip the fronts aroundour Blizzards drop, we...

Cleveland Rocked: The Personalities, Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians by Zach Meisel

Reviewed by: Cleveland Rocked: The Personalities, Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians by Zach Meisel Chad S. Wise Zach Meisel.Cleveland Rocked: The Personalities, Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2020. 257 pp. Cloth, $28.00. The year was 1948. World War Two had ended three years prior. The suburbs were starting to take shape by returning servicemen. And the Cleveland Indians won the World Series, beating the Boston Braves four games to two. The city of Cleveland had waited twenty-eight years since their first championship in 1920. While parades and celebrations broke out all over the Cleveland area in ’48, Tribe fans of multiple generations could not fathom that another World Series Championship would be so far away. As of the writing of this book, it has been seventy-two years since a championship has arrived at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario Avenues. In his book, Zach Meisel takes readers through the 1995 Indians season, which nearly ended in a championship. Even though the series went to Atlanta and their Hall of Fame pitching staff, fans, and writers from around the league debate whether the ’95 Indians were one of the best teams in baseball history. In Cleveland Rocked, The Personalities, Sluggers, and Magic of the 1995 Indians, Zach Meisal revisits that season in great detail. His account of that season is vivid, well researched, and framed by his own love of the Indians. He digs deeply into the numbers to show the Indians batting, pitching, and fielding percentages of ’95 rank right up there with some of the best baseball teams ever . . . yes, ever. Meisal shares that the lineup included Sandy Alomar Jr. (HOF), Kenny Lofton (HOF), Omar Vizquel (HOF), Carlos Baerga (HOF), Albert Belle (HOF), Eddie Murray (HOF), Jim Thome (HOF), Manny [End Page 243] Ramirez, and Paul Sorento. That makes seven of the nine players in the lineup who were bound for Cooperstown. But the ’95 Indians almost didn’t happen! Cleveland Municipal Stadium, with whom the Indians shared with the football Browns was old, dangerous, and simply decrepit. In fact, in the early 1990s Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent, while visiting the stadium, stated that if a measure for a new stadium didn’t pass on the May 1990 ballot, “he could not guarantee the major league team would remain in Cleveland” (16). Fortunately, the measure passed and a new stadium, Jacobs Field, was opened in 1994 and quickly became “the place to be” in downtown Cleveland. As the number of sellouts continued, the revenues grew, which allowed the Indians to sink money into the players that made ’95 and so many other seasons, playoff-worthy. Besides being thoroughly researched and statistically accurate, Meisal includes off the field stories that really make the book a fun read. Case in point, Jim Thome once told the team a story about Sean Casey when he was with the Cincinnati Reds, who were in Chicago. It was the end of the 2004 season and the Reds were out of the playoff run. However, they beat the Cubs, eliminating them from the playoffs. On the bus leaving the ballpark, they got stuck in traffic. Casey demanded that the driver open the door. He ran into a corner bar yelling, “Hey, all you Cubs fans! The Cincinnati Reds just kicked your ass! Like they say in Chicago, better luck next season!” This may have seemed a good idea until he saw people in the bar running towards him. Casey yelled ‘Jesus!’ and ran as fast as he could, screaming, “Open the door to the bus!” As the Chicago fans beat on the bus, Casey got on, sat next to [Barry] Larkin, who observed, “God damn, Casey, I’ve been in the big leagues for 19 years. I’ve seen a lot of things. That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.” If you grew up during the 1970s and 80s in Cleveland, you were hungry for a winner. The Indians’ championship drought was approaching forty years in 1988. Meisel paints the picture of what it was like to live through those lean years. He shares stories of players, coaches, and front office personnel...

The Urban Politics of Juventus’ New Football Stadium

This article examines the local politics around a new private football stadium construction project in Southern Europe, within the frame of urban regime theory. The project aimed at demolishing a recently renovated municipal stadium in Turin, Italy and building a new one for Juventus FC. This new stadium project was the product of an urban regime that governed Turin for some years, an outcome that raises an important issue as, in the US, the explanatory power of regime theory for most stadium projects is in doubt. Using this evidence, the article adds to the ongoing debate on whether US urban politics theories can explain urban affairs in European cities and draws some similarities and differences between European and US urban politics.

AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN THE URBAN AREAS WITH MULTIVARIATE STATITICAL ANALYSIS AT THE EAST OF THAILAND

Two statistical multivariate analysis techniques had been applied to assess and predict whether the AQI in the urban areas at the east of Thai- land exceeded the standard level. Cluster analysis was utilized to group the five main pollutants also classify the monitoring stations. To evaluate the air quality group, discriminant analysis was then built to determine the prediction model. The results present that there are three clusters of the main pollutants. Cluster #1 mentions SO2. Cluster #2 contains NO2, O3 and PM10 while only CO is in the cluster #3. For classifying of monitoring stations, it exhibits that there are three distinct clusters: Cluster #1 consists five stations: General Education Office, Laem Chabang Municipal Stadium, Field Crop Research Center, Health Promotion Hospital Maptaput and Agricultural Office. Ta Sit Subdistrict Ad- ministrative and Sriracha Municipal Youth Center are the only one station in the cluster #2 and the cluster #3, respectively. A correct classification rate (CCR) was then measured to evaluate performance of the predictive model. The discriminant model performs very well with the average CCR 80.10% for the training data set and 78.97% for the validation data set.

Uma leitura do futebol em São Paulo: a ginga, os territórios e as identidades

In this essay we discuss some aspects of football, from a systemic perspective of society. We briefly present the authors linked to the social sciences who interpreted the organic relationship among football, nation and Brazilianness. For this, we will discuss the issues of body, ginga (swing) and cultural reinterpretation of a game played by Englishmen in Sao Paulo, to a redefinition how to play and appreciate football as a national asset. We also discuss the territories and identities of football in the state of Sao Paulo, how spaces were constituted and transformed, and a match played on the banks of Tiete river, until the construction of the monument of the Pacaembu municipal stadium.

The tune of mass dampers for the Municipal Stadium in Poznan

This paper presents the issues related to the design of the multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMD) for the Municipal Stadium in Poznan. It is focused on the design issues, in particular the selection of parameters of mass dampers, their location at the main structure (in this case the full modal analysis was carried out) and the optimization of dampers parameters (the optimization algorithm DAMP-SYM application was used). The verification of the assumptions made during the design stage was carried out, taking into account the dynamic tests of TMD as well as the measurements on the real object of Municipal Stadium in Poznan.

지암(志巖) 서윤복(徐潤福)의 생애와 체육활동

This study examines what influences Seo Yun Bok actually exerted on the development of Korea`s sports, focusing on his athletic activities as an athlete, a sports leader and a sports administrator. The results are as follows. Seo Yun Bok began his regular career as a marathoner after his entrance into Gyeongseong Commercial Practice School. After the Korea`s liberation from Japanese occupation, he organized `Joseon Marathon Popularization Association(Joseon Marathon Bogeuphoe)` with Son Gi Jeong and Nam Seung Ryong. He participated in, and won, a number of marathon contests, and eventually won the Boston Marathon, displaying his supreme talents and skills in the world. After retiring as a marathoner, he became a teacher in Sungmoon Junior Highschool, picking out and training a prominent marathoner named Song Gil Yun, who finished second in the 54th Boston Marathon(1950). While he was in office as the president of Seoul Municipal Stadium, he made this an international-level stadium by installing the cutting-edge facilities for the first time in Korean history, such as lighting fixtures for night games in the baseball park and the tartan tracks in the main stadium. In particular, among Seo Yun Bok`s numerous contributions, his victory in the Boston Marathon was the great feat which displayed the newly independent Korean people`s capabilities in the world through sports activities. In brief, his feat was one of the greatest accomplishments in Korea`s modern sports history.

If They Built It? Stadium Dreams and Rustbelt Realities in Cleveland

In 1968 sporting and political leaders in Cleveland, Ohio hired an architectural firm to study the feasibility of building a multipurpose, domed stadium in the city's downtown. The sporting media and team officials desired a modern facility to replace the ageing and outdated Municipal Stadium and offer greater financial reward. Civic leaders hoped a new facility would fit into downtown renewal by bringing people and entertainment dollars back to the central city as well as polish a tarnished civic image. This pattern had been used earlier and would be used again by America's traditional industrial cities looking to escape the thralls of post-war urban decline. In 1970 the final study deemed a new stadium impossible. The project had been unable to overcome the tumultuous natures and recent histories of Cleveland's political, social and economic institutions.

"Charlie Finley Has Soured My Stomach for Baseball": Charles O. Finley versus His Players

Kansas City Athletics pitcher Vida Blue uttered this title's quote after resolving a season-opening salary dispute and holdout with A's owner Charles O. Finley in May 1972. (1) The holdout finally ended after Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided to mediate the dispute, and President Richard Nixon--in an irony too great to ignore--publicly sided with Blue. Blue went on to say that Charlie Finley treated me like a damn colored boy. His experience with Finley exemplified the owner's with many of his players during the late 1960s and 1970s. (2) Charles Finley could be a very generous, kindhearted, and charming person. On several occasions he spent huge sums of money helping players and coaches with family medical emergencies. However, Finley had a darker side--one of control and manipulation. He could be bombastic, egotistical, and confrontational. In later years Finley's generosity included many strings and caveats that damaged his relationships with his players. In sum, Charlie Finley was a bully. This essay examines his bullying antics and the paternal relationship Finley imposed upon his players. It will explore Finley's positive and negative traits with his players as well as the players' reactions to these traits. We will examine two of the most infamous Finley-player controversies: the 1967 airliner incident that resulted in Finley's eventual suspension and the release of Ken Harrelson and the 1973 World Series controversy involving Mike Andrews. These two controversies had a lasting effect on the A's and provided the American public with a negative picture of their eccentric owner. It is important to understand that wherever Finley went he engendered contempt, or so it appeared. And he never seemed to mellow with age. In Kansas City in 1961, many people thought him a jerk, and in 1980, when he finally sold his team to Oakland, many people still thought him a jerk. (3) SHENANIGANS AT THIRTY THOUSAND FEET: FINLEY VERSUS THE 1967 A'S Charlie Finley's cantankerous with his players did not happen overnight. Throughout the 1960s Finley ran his team as he ran his insurance business--his way was the only way. Finley was not a patient man and did not trust advice from others. He was demanding and wanted to turn Kansas City into a winner. While he could be extremely generous and kindhearted, he also quickly betrayed pettiness, crudeness, meanness, and capriciousness. Finley lived by the creed sweat plus sacrifice equals success. It was how he became a millionaire, and he demanded the same all-out effort from his players, coaches, and managers. Finley spent most of the 1960s fighting with his managers, general managers, and the municipal leaders of Kansas City. Never satisfied with having the team in Kansas City, Finley threatened to move the team if city leaders did not resolve his complaint of the moment. He also eventually alienated his entire fan base. He is remembered for his off-the-wall promotional ideas for increasing the sub-par attendance at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. Finley was not initially involved in the daily activities of his players or field managers and avoided interfering with on-field decisions. This was about to change. As the 1967 baseball season dragged through the hot and humid month of August, little was going right for the Kansas City Athletics. After a promising 1966 campaign in which they won 74 games and finished in seventh place, the young A's were experiencing the tougher side of life in the Major Leagues. The 1967 season began with great hope; Alvin Dark was back to manage the A's. Sports Illustrated ran a feature article on the young team in its March 13 issue that stated, For the first time, the A's are not the subject of ridicule.... Some people have been so bold as to predict a K.C. pennant may be only two years away. After a quick start, the overachieving young A's found themselves once again near the bottom of the American League. …

Beyond the Economic Catalyst Debate: Can Public Consumption Benefits Justify a Municipal Stadium Investment?

ABSTRACT:A host of empirical studies have indicated that stadiums and arenas have no significant impact on metropolitan area income or employment. In light of this evidence, the continued proliferation of public investment in sports facilities begs the question: Is there some other justification for this spending, or are policymakers simply acting against the public interest (either irrationally, or in response to political-economic influences)? A possibility that has not been fully explored is the notion that stadiums and teams generate tangible and intangible consumption benefits that could support some level of public investment. This research builds on a small foundation of literature that is moving discussion beyond the economic catalyst debate by providing an empirical measure of the consumption benefits that accrue to a region as the result of hosting a major league sports team. A contingent valuation survey is used to quantify the consumption benefits that would be associated with the relocation of a major league baseball team to Portland, Oregon. An empirical measure of the region’s aggregate willingness to pay for the benefits associated with hosting a team is disaggregated into option and existence values, which can then be compared to any proposed level of public contribution to a new stadium. The findings indicate that consumption benefits would only support a capital investment of approximately $74 million; a figure far smaller than the typical stadium subsidy. The majority of projected benefits are associated with expected public goods and externalities, rather than anticipated attendance, indicating that an equitable financing plan should employ nonuser revenue sources. The level of projected benefits does not vary by locality within the metropolitan area, which argues for a regional cost-sharing approach. The willingness of residents to pay for stadium construction is tempered by a concern about other pressing social needs in the Portland area and a reaction to the current tax climate.

The Selling of Cleveland Municipal Stadium: The Linking of Progressive Era Ideals with the Emerging Consumer Culture

The Selling of Cleveland Municipal Stadium: The Linking of Progressive Era Ideals with the Emerging Consumer Culture

Infield Flies and Other Sporting Types

IT HAS NOT BEEN MY EXPERIENCE THAT THERE'S a natural affinity between insects and sports. If anything, there would seem to be a fundamental incompatibility, given the ability of insects to bring even athletic events to a screeching, unscheduled halt. The Chicago White Sox, for example, blamed their 14-7 loss to the Cleveland Indians in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland on August 24, 1982, on infield of the entomological kind. Apparently, storms off Lake Erie blew huge numbers of mosquitoes into the stadium during the game, occasioning multiple delays to allow players to spray themselves with repellent. White Sox relief pitcher Jim Kern had particular difficulties and told a reporter, felt like I was doing a (bleep) Off commercia!...! couldn't concentrate. They were flying up my nose, in my ears, and I must have swallowed a dozen of them. I got my usual Cleveland greeting, 10,000 bleeping flies (Champaign-Urbana News Gazette, August 25, 1982). Presumably, these mosquitoes were tormenting players on both sides, and not just the visitors; implied in Kern's comments is the notion that Cleveland pitchers are as accustomed to swallowing as fielding them. How responsible the were for the loss is hard to say-the White Sox had lost seven of the eight games directly preceding their loss in Cleveland, and it seems unlikely that insects were at fault in all cases. The point is, though, that baseball players are, by virtue of experience, uniquely entitled to resent insects. After all, baseball games are generally played outdoors-where insects flourish-during the summer-when insects are at their peak. Although football is played outdoors, games generally occur late enough in the year that most self-respecting insects are passing the time in diapause. Basketball is played in indoor arenas during the winter, as is ice hockey-which presents an even greater challenge to insects by virtue of freezing temperature. Although winter stoneflies, snowfleas, and grylloblattids might be able to cope with the freezing temperatures, the odds are low that they'd be hanging around an ice arena during a game in numbers large

An Archaeological Assessment for the San Antonio Municipal Stadium

The Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio was contracted by the Parks and Recreation Department, City of San Antonio to conduct archival and survey testing on 43 acres of land in western San Antonio at Leon Creek prior to establishing a municipal baseball stadium. The past history of the site was investigated and a survey and shovel testing was conducted on July 8-9, 1993. No indications of archaeological resources were discovered, therefore, no further investigations were recommended.