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“Bail Denied Accused In Riot,” Windsor Star. May 18, 1938. Page 1, 3, 6, and 8. ---- Police Reserves Are Called To End Riot ---- Three Men and Woman Are Arrested When They Interfere With Officers Escorting Relief Inspector ---- By ANGUS MUNRO Police reserves were called late last night to quell a rioting mob of unemployed in front of the Windsor City Hall. Three men and one woman were arrested when they sought to interfere with officers escorting Provincial Welfare Inspector Walter S. Weese from a meeting of the Windsor City Council at which a proposed 20 per cent, relief cut was being discussed.

Four Arrested THOSE arrested were Charles Newbury, 225 Dougll avenue; Harry Burleigh. 442 Church street; Anthony Goetz, 237 Dougall avenue, and Mrs. Harry Burleigh, wife of Burleigh. whose action it was that set the mob spirit aflame. Charges of unlawful assembly were laid against the three men. with the probability that more serious charges may be laid today. Mrs. Burleigh was released after being treated by a doctor for her hysterical condition. She was to appear with the men today in Windsor city police court.

The four were part of a mob of 600 which began to gather in front of the city hall as early as 6 o'clock. Denied admittance to the council chamber because of safety measures ordered by-building and fire inspectors, only a small delegation was able to gain entrance. The remainder of them stayed throughout a three-hour drenching rain to await the decision of the council on the proposed cut. About a dozen police officers mingled in the crowd and had no difficulty keeping order.

Throughout the rain, which snaked the majority of them to the skin in a short time, the crowd appeared in good humor, some amusing themselves by making biting remarks in tones loud enough to be heard through the open second-floor windows of the council chamber. It was when the meeting ended that the temper of the crowd suddenly changed.

Mr. Weese Booed Several groups of city and welfare officials had preceded Mr. Weese from the building, including Dave Croll. M.L.A.. Windsor-Walkerville. who had addressed the council. As Mr. Weese appeared at the door of the building escorted by two officers, the crowd began a concerted booing. Walking slowly down the down or more steps between two lines of police and with an officer holding on to each arm. Mr. Weese appeared a bit worried but was apparently in safe hands.

He had taken the stand at the meeting that the proposed cut must be enforced on orders from Toronto and this information had been relayed to the crowd prior to his appearance by a member of the delegation admitted to the meeting. With only a couple of steps to go before he would be on the main walk leading to hi car. there suddenly occurred the incident which set the stage for the mob M-rne that followed.

Mrs. Burleigh either pushed or jostled by the press of the crowd, or in a deliberate attempt to reach the inspector stretched forth her arm through the police line and pushed Mr. Weese. In so doing, her hand scuffed his face and left a' smear of what appeared to be cold cream or grease. She later claimed she was pushed into the art.

Crowd Aroused The incident acted like a signal to the crowd already wild with excitement and shouting at the tops of their voices. They became incensed with the desire to reach the inspector, and the police escorting him broke into a run in an attempt to reach ms car, parked about 50 yards away. The officers and their charge were followed bv the crowd, now mad with the spirit of the chase. Hundreds streamed across the city hall lawn endeavoring to head off the officers.

Mr. Weese was bundled into his car despite the efforts of the mob to reach him. but during the journey the three men arrested were taken in rharqe by the officers as they sought to interfere. Others, screaming and shouting, were held in check by the police, as the car bearing the inspector sped away.

It was at this point that the reserves were called and responded within a couple of minutes from the nearby police headquarters. Under the direction of Chief Inspector W. H. Neale and Inspector Willis H. Brampton, some semblance of order was restored and the mob streamed back across the lawns to their former place in front of the city hall.

As officers escorting the arrested men walked their prisoners to the nation, a hundred yards away, scattered sections of the mob followed, shouting and demanding the men be released. Several officers had their clubs drawn but they ere not needed, nor were they used.

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The prompt appearance of the reserves and their quick despatch of the prisoners avoided what may hare resulted in a general free-for-all between police and the mob. About 39 police were engaged.

The officers who accompanied Inspector Weese in his car were instructed to stay with him until he was safely home. It is not known whether he will prefer charges against those arrested.

The entire affair started out to be just another meeting of the unemployed and the spirit of good humor was apparent throughout the earlier part of the evening and until near the close of the meeting. Soap-box orators were numerous and all urged the crowd to organize and take action against the proposed cut in relief. There were fiery attacks on members of the city council, on relief admnistration in general and upon Premier Hepburn, who was referred to by one speaker Sydney I. Mat Donald as "the biggest liar in Ontario."

Other favorite epithets used by speakers included references to Mr. Weese as "the farmer boy from Dresden:" to Mayor Wigle as "the emperor of hovels" and "the brass hat colonel." Among the several who spoke were Joseph E. Spence. Jack Westwood. John Lindsay. MacDonald. Charles Newbury. William Emery and Ald. Reg. Morris.

Ald. Morris Ald. Morris left the council chamber during the meeting in protest at the refusal of council to entertain a motion to hear a delegation from the unemployed. He explained what was going on in the meeting and left the crowd with the warning to do nothing that would be unconstitutional in their behavior. Toward the close of the meeting, after the drenched serenaders had sung such old familiar airs as "We 11 Hang Mayor Wigle to a Sour Apple Tree" and "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" not the original version. William Emery, one of the delegation admitted to the meeting, spoke to the crowd and told them that the relief cut was being hotly debated. He had scarcely finished when it was made known that the cut had been voted effective June 1.

The announcement; coupled with the warning from Emery that no unlawful action should take place, seemed to be taken for a while in comparative silence. The rain continued to beat into the faces of those gathered about the steps, and then mutterings began.

"We'll wait until they come out." a voice shouted. It was then the first of the officials appeared. Among them was Dave Croll. who. being mistaken by a large number for someone else, was booed for a moment or two. then, as he was recognized, there arose a cheer. He smiled and walked slowly to his car across the street.

Inspector Appears The mayor did not appear nor did any of the council excepting Ald. Morris and Con. Reaume. who also were received favorably by the crowd; Ald. Morris especially being cheered. Then came Mr. Weese and the ensuing mob scene. Mayor Wigle and other members of council and control board appeared later when there was a comparatively small crowd immediately in front of the building, the remainder having followed police orders and scattered in all directions away from the steps. Mayor Wigle was escorted by police but was not molested although many shouted names at him as he passed.

In the earlier part of the evening before the rain became heavy, speakers urged upon the assembled men and women the necessity for continuing the fight against any welfare cuts. A mass meeting of the unemployed was proposed for Lanspeary Park on Friday of this week in the evening and ail promised to attend. Provincial officers of the Unemployed Association of Ontario are expected in the city on that date.

The meeting prior to the real excitement was one of those impromptu affairs in which everyone is invited to take part. A park bench was secured and laid across the broad landing half way up on the city hall steps. There, the self-appointed chairman held forth between speakers. His invitations were readily accepted and although the rain dampened the ardor of some of the listeners, the speakers were not stopped.

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They spoke with the rain beating into their faces and the water running down from their eyebrows and cascading over the ends of their noses into their open mouths.

Everyone appeared to be having a good time despite the rain and the discomfort of the surroundings. A few umbrellas appeared here and there but for the most part the audience simply stood and soaked up the oratory and the rain. When they didn't like a reference made by a speaker, they interrupted and time was taken out by the speakers to listen to argument for or against, as the case might be.

They were all In agreement, however, on one thing, that the Windsor City Hall is a safe place for a large crowd to assemble despite warnings issued by fire marshals and inspectors. It is a ruse to keep the unemployed away from council meetings in large numbers, they argued, and the mayor and the fire department may be in cahoots on the matter, one speaker believed.

Police Show Tact Throughout it all, the police were called upon to listen to names and aspersions against city officials and the administration in general. They showed tact in dealing with many an incident that might have provoked trouble and even as the uneasiness grew toward the impending close of the council meeting, the officers seemed to have the spirit of the gathering under control. No one, who had spent the greater part of the evening with them, would have believed that in so short a time, they would have turned from a singing, joking, half-serious, half-jesting assembly into a hate-crazed mob, wild with temporary desperation.

Only by their stubborn refusal to leave, could one say that their purpose was more than just to hear the result of the council's action on the proposed cut. Had the rioting incident occurred at a point farther from police headquarters, it is difficult to say what might have been the outcome.

Inspector Neale and Inspector Brumpton and the men engaged in the foray did not for a moment lose their heads in giving commands or executing them. Had they done so and used guns or clubs, or had they been fewer in number or later in arriving upon the scene, the story might have had a more tragic ending.

Inspector Neale's composure was scarcely disturbed after his return to headquarters.

"Oh. yes, we had a bit of a scuffle, but everything's in order again." he replied to an anxious query, from a spectator.

Few Windsorites not directly interested witnessed the scene, as the downpour drove all but the most ardent excitement seekers back to their homes. The hour of the actual outbreak was shortly after eleven o'clock.

MAYOR DECLARES PREMIER AGAINST RELEASING FOUR --- Quartet Remanded to May 26 ---- Were Arrested During Disturbance at City Hall Last Night: Wigle Singles Out Charles Newbury, Calling Him '"Communist at Heart' ---- Following the statement by Mayor Wigle that Premier Hepburn had ordered that they be held in custody, all four persons arrested following last night's relief demonstration were remanded in police court this morning until May 26. Each was charged with unlawful assembly.

The four charged were arrested by police, who were called to the city hall to quell a rioting mob of unemployed in front of the building. They are Charles Newbury, 225 Dougall avenue; Harry Burleigh, 442 Church street; his wife, Mrs. Irene Burleigh, and Anthony Goetz, 237 Dougall avenue.

The three men were held at the police station overnight. Mrs. Burleigh was released after being treated by a doctor for her hysterical condition.

"The premier of the province has instructed the attorney-general that no bail be granted," Mayor Wigle asserted. He had entered the courtroom just as Cecil Croll, counsel for the three men and the woman, was asking that his clients be freed on "their own recognizance or nominal bail."

(Following the police court session. Mayor Wigle, when questioned by The Star, stated that he had not been in communication either with the premier or the attorney-general's department regarding the men under arrest here and that his statement to the court that the premier opposed release on bail of relief rioters was a quotation from Mr. Hepburn's word concerning accused in recent relief riots at Lakeview, Ont.)

Courtroom Crowded THE courtroom was filled when the names of the three men and the woman were called. Shaking with sobs. Mrs. Burleigh had to be helped to her feet by Police Matron L. F. Begg, as the charges were read.

"The police have more investigating to do." remarked Crown Attorney James S. Allan. K.C "There are more people mixed up in this thing. I am asking for a remand," he added.

"I don't believe they should be asked to elect today," observed Magistrate Brodie.

"If there is my question of bail I am asking that it be exceedingly substantial." continued Mr. Allan. "This was an unwarranted attack on an official of the Department of Public Welfare. It was a cowardly thing for the man was carrying out the orders given him.

Draws Parallel "It amounts to the same thing as a group of people beating up a postman because they are disgruntled because he did not bring them a letter they were expecting." added the Crown.

Upon being informed by Chief Inspector W. H. Neale that about a week would be needed to conduct the investigation. Mr. Allan requested that the accused be remanded until May 26.

"I am representing all parties and am making application for bail." Cecil Croll remarked as he stepped to the front of the courtroom.

"Five thousand dollars apiece."' remarked Mr. Allan, curtly.

Starts to Explain Mr. Croll started to explain "the purpose of bail." but was interrupted by the Crown.

'"Pardon me. Mr. Croll," asserted Mr. Allan, :but if these people are allowed out of custody it will hinder the police investigation."

Mr. Croll continued with a plea that he was positive his clients would appear for trial if released on their own recognizance or nominal bail.

"Oh. no. this is a serious matter,” remarked Magistrate Brodie in reply to the lawyer's suggestion.

Mayor Wigle "If this is an application for bail, the premier of the province has instructed the attorney-general that none is to be granted," commented Mayor Wigle as he entered the court room.

"We have got these people where they ought to be," he stated heatedly as he waved his cane towards the prisoner's box. "If they take upon themselves to arsault a representative of the government, they should be put where they belong: as far as the law will permit.

"That man Newbury." he continued singling the accused out with his finger, "has been bothering us ever since I have been mayor. He is Communist by heart and action."

Refuses Request "I will refuse to grant bail until the attorney-general has been consulted. ruled Magistrate Brodie.

"I have already been in touch with the department," Mayor Wigle advised/ "I am through standing for this sort of thing if I can stop it," added His Worship as he left the courtroom.

Several in the audience, recognized by court officials as sympathizers of the four charged, were heard to mumble incoherently as the mayor passed in front of them. They were immediately warned to remain quiet by court attendants.

Magistrate Brodie informed Mr. Croll that he would hear a further application for bail on Monday.

STATEMENT EXPLAINED BY MAYOR MAYOR WIGLE’S statement in Windsor Police Court today in reference to the four persons arrested following last night's relief demonstration, conveyed the impression that he had been in direct communication with Premier Hepburn, and that the premier hal advised that no bail be granted; this was the inference drawn by two news reporters and Dave Croll, K.C. M L. A.

Both reporters declared that from the mayor's remarks, they were cf the opinion that he had talked personally with the premier. Mr. Croll, present for the hearing, affirmed that his reaction was the same.

Mayor Wigle was questioned after it was learned that Premier Hepburn was en route to St. Thomas, had not been at Queen's Park for two days, and that the attorney-general’s department was ignorant of any instructions to refuse bail.

"The only reference I had," explained His Worship, "was to what Mr, Hepburn said to these people that the attorney-general was not to permit bail to persons arrested in such cases."

By "these people." the mayor said he meant the arrests which developed from the trek of a Lakeview relief delegation to Queen's Park. Friday. April 29. Premier Hepburn subsequently had ordered the attorney-general that no bail was to be granted, he recalled.

On the afternoon of April 29. four persons were arrested in the cabinet chamber of the Legislature Further arrests followed later.

BENNETT IS BLAMED BY WEESE CONTROLLER George Bennett was blamed for last night's disturbance in front of the Windsor City Hall, when he was charged by Provincial Welfare Inspector Walter S. Weese, in a statement to The Star this morning, of "deliberately inciting the feelings of the unemployed" at a meeting of the control board last Thursday.

"Mr. Bennett, as a public official, has a great deal to answer for this morning." Mr. Weese declared when he arrived in Windsor Police Headquarters from La Salle where he had spent the night to be where it was "quiet." "It is against him my grief is this morning and not against these poor, deluded persons who are so easily led.

SPOKE TO JOBLESS "It all goes back to the meeting of the control board last Thursday," Mr. Weese continued, still in a highly nervous state after his experience of last night. "It was there that Controller Bennett told a delegation of the unemployed that this man Weese should be run out of town. Surely, a man elected to public office should know better than to deliberately invite such trouble.

"Thanks to the Windsor Police Department, to whom I am deeply grateful. I was not harmed bodily, but I am still quite shaky from my experience." Asked if he suffered any bruises or injuries of a minor nature, the inspector declared that, so far as he knew, he had not. A stain appeared on the back of his coat collar, left by the soft soap which his female assailant smeared across his face and clothes.

"It was the first experience of this kind for me." Mr. Weese." explained, "and I hope it will be the last. Never before have I encountered any difficulty in the performance of my duties which led to such disturbances. I want to say to the Windsor police that they handled matters in masterful style. I was given safe conduct direct to the hotel in La Salle."

CONFERS WITH POLICE The inspector then left to confer with Chief Inspector Neale in his office regarding charges which may be laid today against those arrested in last night's fracas.

Police headquarters seethed with excitement this morning as the hour for the opening court session drew near. The momentarily expected arrival of Inspector Weese who was reported to have suffered a black eye in the rioting, was the chief topic of concern. Shortly before Mr. Weese came in.

Mayor Wigle visited the court chambers and conferred with Crown representatives regarding the charges to be laid against those arrested in the rioting. He urged that under no circumstances should bail be granted the three arrested and held as he is definitely of the opinion the time is at hand when more drastic measures must be adopted with repeaters in the role of peace disturbers.

MAYOR WIGLE "This fellow Newbury," Mayor Wigle told The Star later, "he should have been locked up five years ago. It is time somebody did something drastic about this thing. I told the Crown this morning that no bail should be granted these fellows under any circumstances and they should be given the full penalty of the law. I know that the attorney-general's department in Toronto feels the same way about this thing and that when duly constituted officers are interfered with, it is time something was done."

The 78-year-old mayor was his usual aggressive self and appeared only a trifle excited over the affair. He was frank in his praise for the job done by the police department at last night's disturbance and offered his congratulations to them.

Reports that he had suffered an attack from a woman and had been slapped in the face when he attempted to walk through the crowd after the council meeting, were denied by His Worship. Headlines in some papers outside Windsor this morning carried this false report

Mr. CROSS DENIES CUT ORDERED TORONTO. May 18 - Although he would not admit that the Ontario Department of Public Welfare and Municipal Affairs had actually-ordered a cut in Windsor's relief scale and had forbidden an extra levy to maintain the scale. Hon. Eric Cross intimated to The Windsor Star today that his department had maintained a "very strong attitude" in support of both these positions.

The minister declared that those in Windsor who were trying- to give the impression that the relief cut had been "ordered" by the department were merely "trying- to pass the buck."

Mr. Cross said his position was that he had merely "advised" the Windsor City Council that the scale should be cut to correspond with the schedules in Toronto. Ottawa and other Ontario cities. "We said we would not make our grants in proportion to the higher scale and that if Windsor wanted to give a higher scale they would have to find the additional money themselves."

"But did you not forbid any extra levy?" The Star asked. "

Well, the department's position has been that an additional levy cannot be borne by the municipality. They can't afford an extra levy. We advised the mayor to that effect and I think the council has realized it. Our position was that we made recommendations which the council has seen fit to carry out; we issued no orders.

"It must be remembered that Windsor had a higher scale of relief than other cities of the province and we could not continue to make our grants based on that higher scale. We had to bring them into line with the grants we make to Toronto and Ottawa and other centres." Mr. Cross said.

NOT SLAPPED REPORTS in outside papers that Mayor Wigle of Windsor was assaulted and slapped in the fracas outside the Windsor City Hall last night were denied this morning. The mayor did not leave the city hall until after the riot had taken place. The only one jostled or "roughed up" was Welfare Inspector , Weese. "I was not interfered with," Mayor Wigle said this morning

Photo captions: Top left: POLICE officers are here shown escorting Mrs. Harry Burleigh after her arrest in front of Windsor City Hall last night when a rioting mob struggled with police as they sought to take Provincial Welfare Inspector Walter S. Weese from a meeting of the city council to his automobile. Mrs. Burleigh's action in attempting to break through police lines to get at Weese precipitated one of the most exciting riots in the history of the city. Three men were also arrested. (Staff Photograph.)

Top right: THREE men and one woman were arrested last night for attempting to interfere with police escorting Provincial Welfare Inspector Walter S. Weese through a milling mob of unemployed after the city council meeting at which a 20 per cent, relief cut was discussed. At the top left, police are seen seizing Charles Newbury. Top right, Mrs. Harry Burleigh, after her arrest. She was either pushed, as she claimed, or attempted to slap Mr. Weese. Below a group of officers are seen scuffling with Harry Burleigh, a moment after his arrest, one of the officers holding his umbrella.

Bottom left: A SECTION of the crowd of 600 persons who gathered last night in front of the Windsor City Hall is shown here during the early part of the evening just after rain had commenced falling. Soap-box oratory was in full swing when this picture was snapped and the rostrum for all comers is midway up the steps and to the right. It was in the location pictured in the lower left that the rioting took place later in the evening when three men and one woman were arrested. Welfare Inspector Walter S. Weese, target for the mob's violence, was roughly handled just as he reached the steps in the lower left of the picture, and arrests were made just to the left of where the crowd on the extreme left stands. Rain fell throughout the three-hour meeting, soaking audience and speakers alike as they hurled a verbal barrage of scathing references against city officials in session within the building. (By Staff Photographer.)

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runningracingdancingchasing · 6 years

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Honestly, the visual aesthetic of Tangled is part of what drew me in so hard in the first place, and I love this exploration of the intent behind the look and feel of the world.

It’s an old video, but it’s worth sharing.

#Tangled #Rapunzel #Eugene Fitzherbert #Flynn Rider #Nathan Greno #Byron Howard #Victoria Ying #Doug Rogers #Dave Goetz #Concept Art

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tangledbea · 7 years

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Just sayin’.

#Tangled #Tangled the Series #Rapunzel #Maximus #Pub Thugs #Screencaps #One Angry Princess #Production Art #Dave Goetz

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lilimakesgifs · 3 years

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But the thing that makes the Tower unique are the murals that are in it.

So, the thing is, Rapunzel is bright, she’s smart, she’s artistic and she observes the world around her and she records her observations on the walls with paint. So these murals are really kind of a journal of what she sees everyday, starting from when she’s a little kid, we have some paintings that are just kind of scribbles. After eighteen years, she’s kind of filled the place up, and has no more room in the sketchbook, which is kind of a metaphor for the fact that it’s time for her to get out.

Dave Goetz, Animation Art Director for Tangled || “Untangling the look of Tangled”

#movieedit #my gifs #tangled #tanglededit #this was a pretty cool video if youre interested in animation #disney #disneyedit

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the-hunchback-of-notre-dame · 4 years

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The Art of the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Stephen Rebello signed by seventeen of the artists who produced the film:

Gary Trousdale, director

Kirk Wise, director

Dave Pruiksma, supervising animator

James Baxter, supervising animator

Russ Edmonds, supervising animator

Michael Surrey, supervising animator

Tony Fucile, supervising animator

David Burgess, supervising animator

Kathy Zielinski, supervising animator

Lisa Keene, background supervisor

Gaetan Brizzi, sequence director, story

Paul Brizzi, sequence director, story

Thom Enriquez, character design

Kent Melton, sculptor

Don Hahn, producer

David Goetz, art director and

Will Finn, story supervisor, story, supervising animator.

#the hunchback of notre dame #hunchback of notre dame #disney #merchandise

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bunkershotgolf · 5 years

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Senior LPGA Championship at French Lick Resort Gives Back to Patients, Families of Riley Hospital for Children

“Riley Kids” Have Become a Huge Part of Major Golf Championship’s Week-long Festivities

When it comes to charitable giving, golf has long been recognized as the most prolific supporter among all professional sports in the United States. The $3 billion-plus professional golf has presented to worthy causes is a humbling figure, but the real inspiration comes in meeting the beneficiaries of such support. At the Senior LPGA Championship at French Lick Resort, which will be held for the third consecutive year this week Oct. 14 – 16, a special legacy is being built between the tournament, the resort, the community and the families of the benefitting charity, the Riley Hospital for Children.

The Senior LPGA Championship presented by Old National Bank will be contested on the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort in French Lick, Indiana. The field of 78 players include, members of the World Golf Hall of Fame, Major Champions, and past LPGA stars over the age of 45 who will compete in the 54-hole Major Championship.

During this tournament week, there’s a palpable air of competition. It’s a senior women’s major championship, after all. However, the prevailing sense of camaraderie and community is stoked by the presence of the nearly two dozen Riley Kids (patients and former patients of the hospital) who are invited to partake in the week’s festivities with their families. Some of the Riley Kids have the opportunity to announce the pros on the first tee during the golf tournament, others share their stories at the Pro-Am pairings party, others get the chance to caddie for players or just meet and socialize with the legends of the women’s game.

So, while defending champion Laura Davies eyes up her shot at a repeat and a full field of 45-and-older pros chase her down for a share of the $600,000 prize purse, there’s still a fun-spirited levity to this event. There’s also a clear appreciation for the support French Lick Resort has committed to the Riley Children’s Foundation over the past five years, which is expected to surpass $1 million at this year’s event.

“French Lick Resort has been an amazing champion of the Riley Children’s Foundation. Making these brave kids and their families a focal point during the Senior LPGA has provided immeasurable inspiration and a deeper connection with the fans and community,” says Brad Moritz, senior corporate gift officer for Riley Hospital for Children. “The Riley Kids and their families are treated like royalty when they’re at that incredible resort and their gratitude and positive attitudes leave a lasting impression on everyone they meet.”

Three-time cancer survivor and former Indianapolis University golfer Ashtyn Brown, who has worked in television production and now has her sights on studying to become a radiologist, has been on hand at previous Senior LPGA Championships and is expected to hit the ceremonial first shot at this year’s tournament.

Last year, Indiana native and the oldest-known living Riley Kid, Genevieve Bennett Slater was on hand to introduce the players at the first tee. Now 92 years old, Slater was a Riley patient between the ages of five and 16, when she had multiple surgeries to avert a birth defect.

“The patients and their families get to be a part of something special and the people they meet walk away with a deep, unforgettable appreciation for the work the Riley Hospital for Children does for so many children in our Indiana communities and beyond,” says Joe Vezzoso, vice president of sales for French Lick Resort.

Having hosted one of the first LPGA events in 1957 and the LPGA Championship in 1959 and 1960, it’s fitting that that French Lick continues that legacy by hosting the Senior LPGA Championship. French Lick Resort director of golf Dave Harner, who, along with Cook Group chairman of the board Steve Ferguson and the LPGA’s Jane Blalock was instrumental in bringing professional women’s golf back to French Lick, say he and his team are committed to giving the LPGA golfers who paved the way for today’s tour the recognition they’ve earned. “They deserve a place to play and compete and the reaction and participation from these legends of the game has been tremendous,” Harner says.

For the players, the chance to meet the beneficiaries of the tournament’s designated charity face-to-face is always impactful. LPGA player president Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, who will again be competing in this year’s tournament, had the chance to visit the Riley Hospital for Children a in September along with a team of French Lick staffers and LPGA officials and saw the incredible quality of life and care administered there.

“I continue to be humbled by everything Riley does for these kids and their families. We got to see the Child Life amenities and activities which allows the patients to play game, create art and take part in activities that give them relief from the grind of their treatment,” Goetze-Ackerman says. “They even had a putting course set up on the lawn. Everyone was all smiles. Their spirits and attitudes just amaze me.”

Goetze-Ackerman has developed a bond with a Riley Kid she met at breakfast prior to last year’s Pro-Am round, 14-year-old Evan Noble, who is the same age as her son, Jake. Noble caddied for two-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and helped calm her nerves in her first competitive round in more than a decade.

“To the gallery, it probably looked like we were doing something special for him, but the truth is that he was my angel. Putting my focus on his experience and making sure he was enjoying his time out there helped me settle in and not worry about how rusty my game was,” says Goetze-Ackerman. “As a parent, meeting these kids puts a lot into perspective and makes us appreciative a hospital like Riley is giving the best quality care and doing breakthrough research.”

Founded in 1924, the Riley Hospital impacts all 92 counties in Indiana and is Indiana’s only comprehensive pediatric research hospital, with expert physicians in every pediatric specialty handling more than 300,000 patient visits per year. Riley is among the top pediatric research hospitals in the nation, thanks to its partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine. Riley researchers are working on new treatments and cures for a wide variety of childhood illnesses including: cancer; heart defects; neurological disorders; asthma; cystic fibrosis; and diabetes.

The funds raised from the Senior LPGA Championship at French Lick Resort are earmarked for direct patient care.

‘I think this tournament will continue to grow in stature and will lead to more playing opportunities for the game’s past champions,” Harner says. “We also look forward to growing our partnership with Riley.”

Follow the Senior LPGA Championship Presented by Old National Bank, live from French Lick Resort on its television home, Golf Channel, and on the web via www.LPGA.com. Join the social conversation at www.facebook.com/lpga, www.twitter.com/lpga and www.youtube.com/lpgavideo, and on Instagram and Snapchat at @lpga_tour.

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May 12, 2009

Dropped off the kid. Taking the bus to work. Soon I'll be at my desk answering emails. I want Harrison Ford to play me in the movie version. @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 96

Want to fuck with a Canadian? Run up to them, say "THANK GOD! WAIT RIGHT HERE!" and then run away. @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 88

This hospital clown is worse than my kid's cancer! I can't believe I paid two bottles of gin for JonBenet jokes and a visible erection. @fireland (Joshua Allen) – 87

Sign says "Pamper Your Mother." First off, Mother's Day was yesterday. Secondly, they're called Depends. @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 79

You ever look at a newborn and know -- just *know* -- you could take them in a fair fight? @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 77

I went online to check out some symptoms and found out I died from tuberculosis two years ago. I'm just glad to know. @badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 69

Every time Dave Matthews sings, a frat boy eats some wings. @pagecrusher (Simon Goetz) – 61

My daughter has her first-ever job interview tomorrow. At a burrito place. No, I'm not crying. There's free burritos in my eye. @sloganeerist (jtdobbs dur) – 60

Today at 5:30 I've been promised a ride on the @Wienermobile. In retrospect I probably should've asked if it was a euphemism. @joeschmitt (Joe Schmitt) – 59

HENRY'S SPECIAL TRAIL MIX RECIPE: 1) Pour a bag of chocolate chips into a bowl 2) You have just finished making my trail mix. @tehawesome (Henry Birdseye) – 59

Based on the way she speaks to us, this coworker missed her calling as a kindergarten teacher. @CcSteff (Stephanie) – 57

Smile waning... Laughter trickles to an echo... A light is extinguished. The suitcase stands empty. It is yellow. @LidMo (Unavailable) – 56

How did "wet blanket" get to mean "no fun"? From experience, a wet blanket is evidence of an awesome time. Ladies? @SeoulBrother (SeoulBrother) – 55

I sprayed the yard with spermicide to kill the kids that won't GET OFF MY LAWN. @thedayhascome (Josh Hopkins) – 54

Think you can embarrass me, grape juice? Well, all I gotta do is pour you ALL OVER MY PANTS AND NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW. HA! Juice is stupid. @sween (Jason Sweeney) – 53

The Boy: "I was holding this chick, and it pooped all over me." Me: "It's good training for when you start to date." "What?" "Nevermind." @tj (Fun Size Bytes) – 53

When you have an irritating rash on your stomach, playing baseball is the last thing you want to do. You want a belly-itcher, not a pitcher. @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 51

Sort of surprised by this. Shrunk and White, p. 86, paragraph 4: the correct plural of "wet Willy" is "wet Williams". @Moltz (Moltz) – 50

Our neighbor hired a blind landscaper. Big mistake. His azaleas all look like Lionel Richie's head now. @adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 47

The sex with my wife was so good, she texted me afterwards. I replied back to say I hope she had fun and to pick up a pizza on her way home. @thedayhascome (Josh Hopkins) – 44

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A discussion about Brand Elevation at Columbia Business School

Wolf and JP had the honor and much fun discussing the art and science behind ‘Brand Elevation’ with leaders who work on brands that know a thing or two about Dreaming, Doing and Daring – the three phases of Ueber-Branding we describe our new, step-by-step guide. Debra Goetz, CMO of online community Nextdoor, Dave Rapaport of Ben & Jerry’s and Tom Szaky, founder of the recycling group TerraCycle.…

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#sammichlap #hunchbackofnotredame #waltdisneyanimationstudios #animation #layout #drawing #visualdevelopment I was asked by my Art Director, Mr. Dave Goetz, to design the courtyard square outside of Notre Dame for Hunchback. This was kind of crazy for me to propose as it's super complicated. Everyone who drew or painted these buildings, throughout all the sequences they appeared, needed to hit this look. Of course DIsney Artists can do it, and the proof is on film– it's a beautifully designed and executed traditional animated feature! I'm proud to have worked on it. I'll post a few detail shots too.

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Announcing | Meet Our 2019 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Performing & Literary Participants

The newest cohort of our Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program brings together artists from Nigeria, Mexico, Iran, Germany, and more.

Through the support of The Vilcek Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the participants in its 2019 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Performing & Literary Arts. The program is presented in collaboration with New York Cultural Partners Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Dance/NYC, Exploring the Metropolis, Flushing Town Hall, Gibney, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Joe’s Pub, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Poetry Society of America, and Word Up.

2019 Participants and Disciplines:

Mentee Odera Adimorah, Performing (Nigeria), paired with Mentor Darian Dauchan, Multidisciplinary (United States).

Mentee Quetzal Arias, Performing (Mexico), paired with Mentor Mary Baird, Performing (United States).

Mentee Raha Behnam, Performing (Iran), paired with Mentor Dave Hall, Performing (United States).

Mentee Michal Birnbaum, Interdisciplinary (Israel), paired with Mentor Ivan Talijancic, Interdisciplinary (Croatia).

Mentee Eva Ding, Performing/Multidisciplinary (China/New Zealand), paired with Mentor Volker Goetze, Performing (Germany).

Mentee Lisa Hoppe, Performing (Germany), paired with Mentor Eunbi Kim, Performing (United States/South Korea).

Mentee Ruth Kessler, Literary (Poland/Israel), paired with Mentor Bonnie Harris, Literary (United States).

Mentee Kate Lee, Performing (Australia), paired with Mentor Shauna Kanter, Performing (United States).

Mentee Alisha Mascarenhas, Literary (Canada), paired with Mentor Pelenakeke Brown, Performing/Interdisciplinary (United States/New Zealand).

Mentee Holly Mitchell, Performing (Canada), paired with Mentor Justina Grayman, Performing (United States).

Mentee Syma Mohammed, Literary (Scotland/Pakistan/India), paired with Mentor Marija Sajkas, Literary (Serbia).

Mentee Nicolas Norena, Performing (Colombia), paired with Mentor Jonathan Cerullo, Performing (United States).

Mentee Stav Palti Negev, Literary (Israel), paired with Mentor Yilong Liu, Literary (China).

Mentee Althea Rao, Interdisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Palika Makam, Interdisciplinary (United States).

Mentee Luana Sandoval, Performing (Germany), paired with Mentor Abha Roy, Performing (India).

Mentee Chaitanya Tamayo, Performing (Philippines), paired with Mentor Candida Borges, Performing (Brazil).

Mentee Natasha Tiniacos, Literary (Venezuela), paired with Mentor Zelene Suchilt, Interdisciplinary (Mexico).

Mentee Michelle Palmieri, Performing (Guatemala), paired with Mentor Ray Leslee, Performing (United States).

Mentee Tanika Williams, Interdisciplinary (Jamaica), paired with Mentor Darine Hotait, Interdisciplinary (Lebanon).

This program is made possible with the generous support of the The Vilcek Foundation.

Learn more about the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, and don’t forget to sign up for the monthly Con Edison IAP Newsletter to receive opportunities and events as well as artist features directly in your inbox.

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mecha Combat #1036 - October 3349 Dirty 30 Chrono

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184)

Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1036

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Highlighting the October 3349 Dirty 30 Chrono

The Gaming authorities decided to hold a Chrono for Mechs up to (and including) 30 tons.

It had been a pretty busy period for me lately, and heading back for the compound I just had a quick glance at what the upcoming event was.

It was a pretty long event for 30 tonners, and that would fit me quite well. My schedule was bursting for a while, but I should be available for the scramble.

Just so I didnt forget, I punched my ticket and left some observers on the top (K2).

A couple hours before the scramble started there was a break in my schedule, and my troops were consulted about the standing. The reply totally flummoxed me, and made me start cursing my earlier hurry.

This was a CHRONO, not a sudden death, and my score was way to low to allow me any prize.

I determined to pay more attention in the future, but at least my troops had gotten enough footage from the fighting that a serious look-through at a later date showed the winners had been:

Div 1 345+ (21 Commanders): Claude Poirier, Leviathan (+750)

2: Jeff Haas

3: Sal Vezzosi Jr

4: Shawn Wretham

5: Fabio Favaro

6: Bernard Johnson

7: Sheriff Leary Wretham

8: Robert C Goetz

9: Terry Cole

10: Dan Ross

Div 2 -344 (18 Commanders): John T Mainer, Spirit of Bunny (+10460)

Div 3 -219 (11 Commanders): Ales Hasala, Northwind Dragons (+34290)

Div 4 -178 (18 Commanders): Donald Anthony Alligood, B.S.L.R. (+11100)

Div 5 -146 (23 Commanders): David McCallum, Heroes (+37880)

Div 6 -107 (24 Commanders): Makema Mathews, "R.V." (+40720)

Div 7 -80 (22 Commanders): Michael Moeykens, Emerald Dragons (+27980)

Div 8 -59 (20 Commanders): Rick_Howes, Heroes Light Brigade (+15910)

Div 9 -39 (15 Commanders): Dave Hankin, Karma (+1950)

Div 10 -27 (17 Commanders): Fitzwilly, Jagdstaffel 2 (+29740)

Div 11 -16 (19 Commanders): Robby_The_Robot, Jagdstaffel 2 (+17250)

7(1S)+4+4+5+7(1S)+4(1S)+6(3S)+8(2S)+7(1S)+2+1= Nine Silvers and fourty-six Bronzes were awarded to Commanders who at the end of the event clearly had overweight mechs in their formations.

Total Contestants: 208

Total medals claimed: 161 (of 165 possible)

Compared to the recent Selfsame, this event attracted fifty-six additional formations. Was it the format, or the longer sign-up time?

But as usual, the curse of K3 struck, so four Bronzes from that top ended unclaimed and were returned for resmelting.

The highest score achieved in this event was on K5 where David McCallum of the Heroes amassed 177 500 points. That is from holding the top against all comers for 142 score rounds. The highest margin to the runner-up was on K6 where "Raging Vengeance"`s Makema Mathews won by more than 40 000. Lowest score needed for a medal was on K3, where a late entry got a Bronze whitout scoring a single point.

Seven of the winners had a margin of more than 15 000 on their side, but on Mount Olympus the margin was only 750. That is very close in a highscoring event like this, and could be explained by difference in number of scorerounds the competitors was present.

But how close was the rest of the fighting? To find out we take a look at the differences between the medal tiers in this event:

..Silver to Bronze....Bronze to nothing

Div 1 ....30920......…..2740

Div 2 ......3600.........13220

Div 3 ....12300......…….N/A

Div 4 ....14730......…..3000

Div 5 ....16700......…..4520

Div 6 ....23920......…..3280

Div 7 ....24250......…..1100

Div 8 ......9190......…..2060

Div 9 ......1940......…….N/A

Div 10 ….8720......…..3060

Div 11 ….3240......…..1240

Here we had in general big to really big borders between the tiers. If that was because of stronger formations or lack of time to nurse the formations is another question.

The only clan that managed to get multiple Golds in this event was Jagdstaffel 2. They claimed the top prizes from the two lowest tops (K10 and K11). None of the unaligned Commanders managed to get a win, neither did any of the Selfsame winners manage to get a follow-up win.

Upcoming event: Reverse Ratman

Here we have a split event.

On K9, K10 and K11 any and all Mechs are legal to use.

On the remaining tops, only the Namtars will be allowed to fight.

Event ends August 1 between 1400 and 1430 New York Time

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Video Roundup

Principles of Collaborative Automation - Jessica Kerr - YouTube

Jessica Kerr is amazing. I need to add her to my must watch list. This talk helped me to realize that I need to think about my automation as a partner that can communicate back to me just as easily as I can tell it what to do.

Java Futures, Early 2019 Edition - Brian Goetz - YouTube

Brian Goetz and the rest of the Java team are, as I say whenever I get the chance, an inspiration. I love watching him thoughtfully explore how to adopt the most powerful features from other more experimental technology into the bedrock of this platform.

Our Terraform Journey: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - YouTube

I'm going to be leading an effort soon to do exactly this. We've been using Terraform for a long time but our usage is decidedly basic and that leads to it being decently hard to maintain and also hard to secure. This talk was helpful in thinking about how to do that.

These are directly related talks

Infrastructure as Code for Software Engineers - YouTube

Crawl, Walk, Run With Terraform - YouTube

Transforming the Management of Application Configurations and Secrets - YouTube

Seth Vargo Closing Keynote - YouTube

Listen to everything Seth Vargo says always. He thinks about development and operational responsibility in such a clear and helpful way. I like this talk because it thinks creatively about how to test (Hello Building Evolutionary Architectures and also advocates for technological constraints.

"Shaping our children's education in computing" by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube

Similarly listen to everything Simon Peyton Jones says always. He has been applying himself to the problem of education for the past few years and this is an incredibly inspirational and thought provoking talk.

"Gradual typing of Ruby at Scale" by Dmytro Petrashko and Paul Tarjan - YouTube

So much of what I do is this kind of work. Making engineering safer, faster, and easier at the tooling level. I liked this talk especially because of the adoption strategy that they present.

"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky - YouTube

This talk is really well done and completely outside of my circle of competence which are usually some of my favorite and most fruitful talks to watch. What's presented essentially is how to have highly performant, extremely data-intensive UIs functionally.

"Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell" by Alexis King - YouTube

Another relatively left-field talk for me. I love the marriage of metaprogramming and type theory. I still want to explore a language with an actual robust type system.

"Justice For Sale" by Brittany Wald - YouTube

Mass incarceration is a problem. Brittany Wald wants to apply technology to eliminate the gaps between those who can afford justice and those who can't.

"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld - YouTube

All I want to know is when support for this is landing in Emacs. It's a really intriguing approach to parsing.

"A Tale of Two Asyncs: Open Source Language Design in Rust and Node.js" by Ashley Williams - YouTube

I love the concept of genealogical analysis since I think it fosters intellectual humility. The bold 'rationalism' of the enlightenment is a blight on the land. I'm also a sucker for software history dives.

"Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong" by Rob Simmons - YouTube

I'm a big fan of contracts and they're something I wish I had time to explore more.

"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger - YouTube

This is really one of the better talks I've ever seen. What a presentation! It also, of course, brings to mind It Takes Awhile to Create Nothing by Ron Jeffries. Learn all about how layout can affect performance and how you can apply rigor to engineer around it. Also Coz seems quite neat.

"A Practical Look at Performance Theory" by Kavya Joshi - YouTube

"A Box of Chaos: The Generative Artist's Toolkit" by Benjamin Kovach - YouTube

Another from left field. Some of the art was quite beautiful and I love the idea of programmer as curator in this space (and possibly many other AI spaces).

"The Glitching Hour" by Amy Wibowo - YouTube

"Understanding Microservices with Distributed Tracing" by Lita Cho - YouTube

Upping our observability game is top of mind.

"Observability: Superpowers for Developers" by Christine Yen - YouTube

"Beyond traces: the insights in trace aggregates" by Daniela Miao - YouTube

"Freeing the software that runs our elections" by Roan Kattouw - YouTube

This talk made me think, as I often do, of whether I should be using my software engineering career to be doing something other than helping people with a lot of money take more money from people who have less money.

"Isolation without Containers" by Tyler McMullen - YouTube

This talk reminded me of a tweet by Jessie Frazelle about how a complex istio+knative feature can be accomplished in just a few lines of bash using standard linux tech. So much of 'progress' in tech is someone just ignoring or being ignorant of how something already works and going and making some framework or tool for it with all the bugs that have been fixed in the intervening 15 years since the feature that already did it was introduced.

"Moving from 1 to N regions: an open retrospective" by Andrew Bloomgarden - YouTube

This is literally my job right now. I need to take some more detailed notes about this one and apply them. I really appreciate the 'open retro' format of this talk.

"Git from the Ground Up" by Safia Abdalla - YouTube

Can anyone resist watching a talk on git internals?

"Building Senior Engineers" by Dalton Mitchell - YouTube

This talk really hit home. I have rarely seen mentorship done well and most companies I've worked for have prioritized hiring engineers that can just 'plug and play' (which never really works out anyway) rather than focusing on growing the engineers they need.

"Alda's dynamic relationship with Clojure" by Dave Yarwood - YouTube

Watching weather data become sound was so much fun.

"Safety in Chaos: Forming Realistic Failure Hypotheses" by Subbu Allamaraju - YouTube

Chaos Engineering is something that I want to get into asap.

"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings - YouTube

This talk was an incredible amount of fun. I want to be friends with the presenter. It immediately made me think of Russ Olsen's "To the Moon!" which I was lucky enough to see live.

"Correctness proofs of distributed systems with Isabelle" by Martin Kleppmann - YouTube

I want to be able to reach for correctness proofs for particularly important problems. I'm a pragmatist at heart and I think the number of things this is really important for are quite small but having the tool in my toolbox would be amazing. It immediately makes me think of Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane by John Hughes.

"Better Integration Tests for Performance Monitoring" by Maude Lemaire - YouTube

I love the idea of testing in production. Performance regressions as integration tests is a really neat idea.

"Meander: Declarative Explorations at the Limits of FP" by Jimmy Miller - YouTube

Declarative programming is a recurring theme in my tech exploration, possibly because the Clojure community at large is pretty obsessed with it. Having just read through The Art of PostgreSQL I can say that believing that you can write a better algorithm is almost always hubris. Meander immediately made me think of specter although the speaker took pains to differentiate them.

It also reminded me of an old idea I had to use example data as the query interface.

Keynote: Collective Problem Solving: Music, Science, Software - Jessica Kerr - YouTube

This is my kind of talk. Jessica Kerr goes an a discipline melding tear to sell her new term for the way we develop software in partnership with each other and our automation.

Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years - Carol Nichols - YouTube

I want to learn Rust at some point, just like I want to learn Go. I'm especially intrigued by Rust's governance model. I wonder how that will shake out over the years.

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David Stern, Transformative N.B.A. Leader, Dies at 77

David Stern, who during a 30-year run as commissioner of the National Basketball Association masterminded its transformation from a league in peril to a multibillion-dollar industry and the first American sports league to thrive internationally, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 77.

His death was announced in a statement from the N.B.A. He suffered a brain hemorrhage about three weeks ago and underwent emergency surgery.

The N.B.A.’s fourth commissioner, serving from Feb. 1, 1984, to Feb. 1, 2014, Mr. Stern intimidated many with his domineering ways but also possessed a marketing vision and instinct that helped lift the league from its darkest period to new levels of prosperity — and popularity — both domestically and abroad. N.B.A. stars were the first from North America to achieve global notoriety like their soccer counterparts, with the biggest becoming household names even in the remotest regions of the world.

The N.B.A. was lagging behind the National Football League and Major League Baseball in both revenue and television profile when Mr. Stern took over. But by the time he stepped down — having surpassed Pete Rozelle of the N.F.L. as the longest-tenured commissioner in the history of major North American team sports — he had overseen the league’s growth from fears of extinction in the late 1970s to a $5 billion enterprise. Television revenue increased more than 40-fold in that span, crossing the $1 billion threshold.

He succeeded largely by keeping the focus on the N.B.A.’s biggest names — Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley — understanding that it was they who gave the sport its worldwide appeal. Mr. Stern’s tenure practically began with the launch of the Jordan era; the 1984 N.B.A. draft, with Jordan and Barkley among its marquee players, was held soon after he started in the job.

In a 2014 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Stern said that one of his most cherished memories was seeing such stars come together to form the victorious 1992 United States Olympic men’s basketball team — known across the globe as the “Dream Team.” For a league that had seen hard times not many years before, he said, it was stirring to see them “being feted like a combination of the Bolshoi, the Philharmonic and the Beatles” on their march to the gold medal.

Seven new franchises were introduced during Mr. Stern’s tenure, including two in Canada in 1995: the Toronto Raptors and the Vancouver (now Memphis) Grizzlies. The league, headlined by new stars like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, reached 30 teams in 2004 with the arrival of the Charlotte Bobcats (now Hornets). Other Stern innovations included the creation of the Women’s N.B.A. in 1997 and the N.B.A.’s developmental league, known as the G League, in 2001.

In 1985, Jerry Reinsdorf bought the Chicago Bulls for $16 million. In 2014, shortly after Mr. Stern’s exit, Steve Ballmer purchased the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. And as franchise values rose during Mr. Stern’s stewardship, so did players’ salaries.

“I think people see all the money in sports and think that it was always like that,” Charles Barkley, now a television analyst for Turner Sports, said recently on the program “Inside the N.B.A.” “When I got to the N.B.A. in 1984, which was Commissioner’s first year, the average salary was $250,000. It’s almost $9 million now. And he is largely responsible for that.”

By the time Mr. Stern ceded his title to Adam Silver in 2014, the N.B.A. had opened offices in 15 cities outside the United States and signed agreements to televise games in more than 200 countries, in more than 40 languages.

The effects of that international growth were apparent on opening night this season, when 108 players from 38 countries and territories populated N.B.A. rosters. It was the sixth consecutive season in which the league had at least 100 international players.

Mr. Stern’s success stemmed from a relentless focus and a hands-on style that he had learned from working weekend shifts at his father’s Manhattan delicatessen. Yet he earned his share of criticism along the way for what some saw as a dictatorial manner; he was prone to scream at N.B.A. employees, team officials, league partners and reporters.

A Lawyer Out of Teaneck

David Joel Stern was born on Sept. 22, 1942, in Manhattan to William and Anna Stern. His father ran Stern ’s Deli in Chelsea. David grew up in Teaneck, N.J., and graduated from Rutgers University in 1963 before attending Columbia Law School.

His affiliation with the N.B.A. began in 1966, when, as a recent law school graduate, he was hired by Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, the prominent New York law firm, which represented the N.B.A.

Among the cases Mr. Stern worked on was a landmark antitrust lawsuit brought against the league by the Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson in 1970. Robertson sought to block a proposed merger with the American Basketball Association and outlaw the so-called option clause, which tied players to their teams. The lawsuit ended in 1976 with a settlement that enabled the N.B.A. to expand by adding the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs and New York Nets of the American Basketball Association — but only after allowing N.B.A. players to become free agents for the first time.

Mr. Stern grew up a Knicks fan and attended games at Madison Square Garden with his father. “Even though they didn’t have a good record, they were my Knicks,” he told The Times in 1983.

He played the sport briefly in adulthood, saying he was “without most of the cartilage in my right knee from playing basketball with my firm’s team in the New York Lawyers League.”

Professional basketball looked on the wane when Mr. Stern joined the N.B.A. in 1978 as general counsel under Commissioner Larry O’Brien. The league was slipping into irrelevance — seven N.B.A. finals games from 1979 to 1981 were relegated to tape-delayed broadcasts on CBS that began at 11:30 p.m. Eastern time.

The league incurred further damage to its image after a report in The Los Angeles Times in August 1980 estimated that 40 to 75 percent of its players used cocaine. In the ensuing 1980-82 season, 16 of 23 teams reportedly lost money.

Mr. Stern, elevated to executive vice president in November 1980, negotiated a drug-testing policy in 1983, making the N.B.A. the first major sports league in North America to implement one. As soon as he became commissioner, the N.B.A. sought to help disadvantaged small-market franchises by adopting a salary cap of $3.6 million per team for the 1984-85 season (about $9 million in today’s money).

Those measures helped the N.B.A. regain stability as a business, enough for it to capitalize on the revival of the Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry throughout the 1980s — fueled by Bird and Johnson — as well as Jordan’s spectacular ascendancy to six championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.

Mr. Stern found his true niche in the game under Mr. O’Brien, who put him in charge of marketing, television and public relations in addition to business and legal affairs. When Mr. Stern walked away from the league’s day-to-day operations, Mr. Silver called him “one of the founders of modern sports marketing.”

“When I arrived at the league in the early ’90s, leagues weren’t considered brands the way they are now,” Mr. Silver told reporters in 2014. Mr. Stern, he said, was one of the first “to take modern state-of-the-art marketing practices, whatever the technology happened to be at the time, and apply them to sports leagues.”

Perhaps nothing made Mr. Stern prouder than the league’s role in supporting Magic Johnson after he disclosed on Nov. 7, 1991, that he had contracted H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

In his N.B.A. office hung a photograph of Mr. Stern presenting Johnson with the Most Valuable Player trophy at the 1992 All-Star Game in Orlando, Fla., just months after Johnson announced he had the virus and retired as a player (though he would later return for one season).

Mr. Stern supported Johnson’s desire to participate in the game as a leading All-Star vote-getter, amid a backlash in some corners over his participation and despite the fact that he was no longer an active player. Johnson’s presence transformed the league’s All-Star Weekend that year into a virtual convention for H.I.V. and AIDS awareness.

“It sort of us helped us begin to firm up our view that there was something about the medium of sports that resonated with people,” Mr. Stern told ESPN in 2014. “We could effect change,” he said.

Johnson told the sportswriter Jackie MacMullan that without Mr. Stern, “I wouldn’t be standing here today.”

“He gave me my life back,” Johnson said.

Brickbats Were Also Tossed

Mr. Stern had no shortage of detractors and adversaries over the years. He may have labeled himself “Easy Dave” to the news media during labor talks in 1994, but behind closed doors he was known for his temper, and for an approach that some found tyrannical at times.

Throughout the 2005-6 season he was widely questioned after instituting a dress code for players before and after games that some saw as racist. The Philadelphia 76ers star guard Allen Iverson described the policy as “targeting guys who dress like me — guys who dress hip-hop.”

Entering the 2006-7 season, Mr. Stern sanctioned the introduction of a new microfiber basketball that was received so poorly by the players that the N.B.A. abruptly went back to the traditional leather ball on Jan. 1, 2007.

Soon after, Mr. Stern was dealing with one of the most difficult challenges of his stewardship, when an F.B.I. investigation revealed that the referee Tim Donaghy had bet on games at which he had officiated. Mr. Stern also remained a pariah in Seattle for his role in allowing the SuperSonics to relocate to Oklahoma City after the 2007-8 season.

Some punishments that Mr. Stern handed down were seen as draconian, notably the myriad suspensions that followed an infamous Detroit-Indiana brawl in November 2004 and the yearlong suspension in 1997 of Latrell Sprewell for choking his coach, P.J. Carlesimo.

In considering his accomplishments, Mr. Stern told Sports Illustrated in 2018 that he most valued the tough assignments. “I think about Magic announcing he was H.I.V. positive, and Latrell Sprewell deciding to choke P.J. Carlesimo, Ron Artest going into the stands, Donaghy betting on games,” he said. “Those were places I had to step up and protect the league, and that comes with the job. That wasn’t extra stress. That was the job.”

Negative reviews began accumulating more frequently in his latter years as commissioner. In 2011, when the New Orleans franchise was placed under league control after the team owner, George Shinn, could no longer afford to operate the club, Mr. Stern refused to allow the team’s general manager, Dell Demps, to go ahead with a three-team trade. The trade would have sent the disgruntled All-Star guard Chris Paul to the Lakers.

“Basketball reasons” was the explanation given by the league office on Mr. Stern’s behalf — leading to numerous interviews in the succeeding years in which he continued to be asked for a more detailed explanation.

“I did it because I was protecting the then-Hornets,” Mr. Stern told Sports Illustrated in 2018. “No team sells or trades a future Hall of Famer without the owner signing off, and I was the owner’s rep.” He added that he “didn’t do a great job of explaining it at the time.”

Perhaps the harshest criticism Mr. Stern endured came during a labor impasse in the summer of 2011; it was just the second work stoppage in N.B.A. history to cost the league regular-season games. (The first was in 1998.) The HBO commentator Bryant Gumbel essentially blamed the N.B.A.’s “infamously egocentric commissioner” for the lockout and responded to Mr. Stern’s hard-line negotiating tactics by likening him to “some kind of modern-day plantation overseer.”

Mr. Gumbel’s comments gained little traction; Mr. Stern ’s reputation as “an honest broker” for his largely African-American player pool and a figure who “respects the men who play in his league and the community from which they come,” as described by the noted sports sociologist Dr. Harry Edwards, was well established by then. But Mr. Stern made it clear how much the remarks by Mr. Gumbel still bothered him in June 2017, when he called him “an idiot” in an interview with The Washington Post.

“I’ve done more for people of color than Bryant Gumbel has,” he said.

Even after resigning as commissioner, Mr. Stern could not detach from his workaholic tendencies. He served as an adviser to Mr. Silver with the title commissioner emeritus. He also advised the investment bank PJT Partners, the venture capital firm Greycroft Partners and the technology, media and telecommunications arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as several sports-technology start-up firms.

His survivors include his wife, Dianne Bock, and two sons, Eric and Andrew.

Mr. Silver has won praise as Mr. Stern’s successor in part for employing what is regarded as a more collaborative and open-minded style. But Mr. Stern’s impact on the league continues to be felt, especially in its efforts to expand its brand beyond the United States.

When the league announced that Mr. Stern had fallen ill, the Dallas Mavericks — owned by Mark Cuban, a frequent Stern antagonist — were playing the Detroit Pistons in Mexico City.

“He was incredible to me,” Mr. Cuban said, “even when he was yelling at me.”

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