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It was one of those cool-breeze, sunny mornings in Thousand Oaks, California, and before the Dallas Cowboys were to begin another preseason practice, a tennis match was under way on the Cal Lutheran campus. On one side of the net was coach Tom Landry and his assistant Dan Reeves. Opposing them were Fort Worth Star-Telegram sportswriter Jim Dent and network broadcaster Pat Summerall.
"Pat and I had several pregame Bloody Marys," Dent recalls, "then, after we won, we had a few more to celebrate." It was the late '70s, and for the young and promising writer still in his 20s, life was rich. Serving as a beat reporter assigned to America's Team was a glamour job, offering expense-paid travel, daily above-the-fold exposure and the day-and-night opportunity to rub shoulders with celebrity athletes and their star-studded hangers-on. The good-time kid from Arkansas, a graduate of SMU, had already come a long way.
He was, without doubt, a writer of great promise, destined to win awards and gravitate toward things bigger and better. In time, there would be even more high-profile newspaper stints, his own coast-to-coast radio show and, ultimately, best-selling sports books and a made-for-TV movie. As the intoxicating journey proceeded, Dent kept ordering another round.
And spiraling toward a self-imposed nightmare. The happy-hour social drinking morphed into an out-of-control habit. The day-after stories quit being funny and instead painted troubling pictures of a man with a serious problem. Too often there were rumors of angry, booze-driven verbal assaults on friends and let's-take-it-outside confrontations with strangers. And then, in the same flash with which the incidents occurred, things would quickly calm. Unfortunately, the span of time between such roller-coaster activities soon began to shorten.
Although his old tennis partner Summerall eventually woke to the realization that he had a drinking problem, checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic and launched the sober life he continues today, Dent sped hell-bent forward as the eternal frat boy, living with what he jokingly would refer to as a "sunrise curfew." Today, at age 50, he's behind Texas Department of Criminal Justice bars, facing eight years' imprisonment for misdeeds ranging from driving while intoxicated to parole violations and bail-jumping spread across four states.
Instead of traveling here and there for autograph sessions and meeting with interviewers eager to help boost sales of his latest book, Monster of the Midway, the story of NFL legend Bronko Nagurski and the 1943 Chicago Bears, he's awaiting word of which Texas prison unit he'll soon be assigned to, wondering what manner of career might be left to him.
Talking with the Dallas Observer in a recent series of phone calls from jail, before his transfer to an interim TDCJ facility, he spoke of the good times that led to bad; of buying into the romantic legend of the hard-drinking, bottle-in-the-bottom-drawer newspaperman. "I got swept up in trying to keep up with the fast pace set by a lot of my friends," he says. Then, in a somber tone, he notes that with the exception of Summerall and an old buddy, actor and Cowboys fan Gary Busey, most of them are now dead. Though he blames none for his own shortcomings, he recalls long, boozy nights spent in the company of hard-drinking Steve Perkins, former editor of the Dallas Cowboys Weekly, Doug Todd, the team's fun-loving, keep-'em-coming public relations director, even the Cowboys' late president and general manager, Tex Schramm.
Schramm, 30 years older than Dent and a man the author/journalist long called a friend, saw his Hyde-like side one evening following too many cocktails. A good-natured argument over something trivial soon turned into a profanity-laced shouting match keynoted by Dent's offer to fight. Only the fact there were others nearby who calmed the waters prevented another embarrassment.
As I told Dent when we began the interviews, I've spent a great deal of time during our 25-year relationship torn between urges to shake his hand in response to some new achievement or punch him in the nose for his senseless behavior--and now feel no small degree of guilt that those of us who are his friends didn't intervene long ago, confronting him with a tough-love demand that he seek help for his problem. But mending fences came easy for Dent. Friends and family have always been quick to forgive and forget, which is to say he's a man hard not to like; a warm, personable, do-anything-for-you kind of person when sober and someone I purposely distanced myself from when he was drinking.
"I wasn't ready to listen to anyone," Dent now confesses. "I was too damn stubborn. I've been an alcoholic for years, one of those who had to hit rock bottom to wake up."
He admits there were too many hard hangover mornings when he'd awake to the realization that he'd have to make a series of apologetic phone calls to those he'd cursed, belittled and egged into fights the night before. "I've spent far too much of my life trying to fix things and asking myself how many friends I'd lost," he says.
"And there was a time," he says, "when I was quick to blame other people, other situations for my own behavior. That was just the booze talking. Believe me, I've had a lot of time to think about things like that in the last few months, and I've finally come to the realization that I've got to take full responsibility for the things I've done."
"For as long as I've known him," says Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist and ESPN-103.3 talk show host Randy Galloway, "Jim's been one of those guys who never seemed to have any kind of stop sign in his life. Everything he's ever done, he's done to excess. And it would only get worse when alcohol came into the mix.
"I know there are people out there who are taking some degree of pleasure in the situation Jim's gotten himself into. And there are those who are fascinated by the downfall of someone who has had the kind of success Jim's had. Maybe he did bring it on himself, but I still hate that kind of thinking.
"There's far more than a career at stake here; there's a life that has to be turned around and saved."
Others are more hard-line. Khris Thurmond, victims assistant coordinator for the seven-county Brazos Valley chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MAAD), was in the Bryan courtroom in October when Dent received his sentence. And, while she heard him apologize to state District Judge Rick Davis for his behavior and promise to "get straightened out," she says, "If he had truly been sorry, he would have already changed. Instead, he obviously felt he was above the law and wouldn't be caught."
In spite of whatever personal demons haunted him, Dent prospered professionally for two decades. From the Star-Telegram he moved to the Dallas Times Herald, where from 1980 to '89 he continued to chronicle the Cowboys. When the Herald ceased publication, he quickly switched gears to become a nationally syndicated talk show host for Prime Sports Radio Network and started gathering material for an unauthorized biography of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Though copies hardly flew off the shelves, King of the Cowboys not only got Dent's foot in the book-writing door but re-emphasized that he was no student of the gee-whiz school of sports-writing. He was applying the same reporting skills that had earned him state and national journalism awards, among them one for a revealing profile of Jones.
Initially, he remembers, Jones had been receptive to the idea of his book, even granting a series of lengthy interviews. "Then," he says, "he became aware I was talking to other people, delving into his private life, and quit returning my calls." Soon, Dent says, there were rumors of a lawsuit and that a private investigator had been assigned to follow him as he gathered material. In time, his then-editor Edward Walters received a call from a Washington, D.C., attorney who said his client, Jones, was highly upset by what he was hearing would be in the book and demanded a prepublication look at the manuscript. Adams Publishing ignored the request, and the less-than-flattering bio was published in 1995. "All I ever told Jerry," says Dent, "was that it would be fair and objective." No legal action was ever taken, and Sports Illustrated eventually cited it as one of the three best sports books written that year.
Next, he teamed with colorful Major League Baseball umpire Durwood Merrill to write his biographical You're Out and You're Ugly, Too! And there was more hot water to tread. This time, however, the angry roar was directed more at Merrill--primarily for making critical statements about everything from the talents of several of the game's superstars to the league's commissioner and what he perceived as the outdated structure of Major League Baseball. "I have to admit," Dent says, "I was pleasantly surprised when it became obvious Durwood was willing to do a book that was something more than funny stories and stuff straight out of the box scores."
Soon came an offer to serve as a lead sports columnist for the San Antonio Express-News. That the job lasted only briefly, he insists, had nothing to do with drinking or rumors of dry-lightning fits of anger directed at his editors and co-workers. "What it came down to," he explains, "was a decision I made to write books, rather than a daily column. I knew I couldn't do both, so I made a choice."
Word rapidly spread through the sportswriting community, however, that the choice was, in fact, not Dent's. Instead, the story was that his welcome had quickly grown threadbare. Whatever the truth, his daily journalism days were at an end.
Yet it did nothing to slow his career. With praise already abounding for a third book that would elevate him to sportswriting stardom--The Junction Boys, a story of a legendary time in Texas A&M football history--he was anxious to get to work on yet another historical college football tale that had fascinated him for years.
"What I like," he says, "are sports stories that you can turn into good period pieces, filled with the lives and struggles of the people who were participants.
"When Gene Stallings was an assistant coach with the Cowboys," Dent recalls, "we'd sit around talking, and invariably the conversation would turn to his days as a college player at Texas A&M, where he was coached by Bear Bryant." Of particular interest to Dent were stories Stallings told of a brutal, inhumane 1954 summer training camp in Junction, Texas, where, for 10 hellish days, Bryant determined who would make his Aggie football team. Stallings would tell how two busloads of players left College Station for the dry, barren town on the edge of the Hill Country but only one, not completely filled, was necessary to bring the survivors home. Forming the foundation of championship A&M teams to follow, they were lionized as "the Junction boys," and Dent wanted to know more about them and their remarkable story ("Time of Their Lives," by Carlton Stowers, December 12, 2002).
Then, it was another Cowboys assistant coach, Jerry Tubbs, a linebacker on a series of great University of Oklahoma teams in the '50s, who had sparked Dent's interest in their story.
What ultimately resulted were back-to-back sports books now acclaimed as among the best in modern times. When, not long ago, USA Today listed what it judged to be the five top sports books published in recent years, not only was Dent's The Junction Boys included, but his The Undefeated, a detailed telling of the University of Oklahoma's 47-game winning streak, also made the list. There were superlative-laced reviews, sales enough to make national best-seller lists, a flow of sizable royalty checks and a movie deal with ESPN. "What Jim has done with Junction Boys and his subsequent books," says Peter Wolverton, his St. Martin's Press editor, "is create a new genre of sports book, taking milestone historical events and the people who participated in them to a new level of quality." Today, he says, every publishing house in New York is searching for similar books to mimic the sales success Dent has enjoyed.
Suddenly, he had money enough to buy rounds for the house. And a new venue to display the still-growing dark side--book-signing parties. Dent clearly put the emphasis on "party," and more than once, after too many scotches, too many beers, wound up in loud, profane arguments--not the best sales techniques.
Perhaps the greatest irony of his battle with booze was the fact no single incident resulted in any major consequence. Whatever damage might have been done was minor and quickly repaired. In the minds of many who knew him, it was just Dent being Dent. The true depths of his problems remained his well-kept secret.
In truth, many of his drinking antics were little more than mischievous--like the night years ago in Thousand Oaks when he and another writer helped a passed-out member of the Cowboys front office back to training camp. Instead of taking him to his dormitory room, however, Dent and his accomplice placed their drinking partner in the hatchback of a car parked in front of the team's temporary headquarters. The following morning, as a young rookie player made his way toward the dining hall for breakfast, he passed the scene Dent and his fellow prankster had staged, then raced into the office to report that he'd "found a dead man lying in a car outside." "That sort of thing," Dent says, "was pretty routine. Everyone was trying to beat the boredom of training camp." Dent, however, worked at it harder than most.
Over the years, the laughter began to disappear, and a cloud of legal troubles began to form.
He was in College Station on an autumn Friday in 1999, there for a bookstore signing the following day for the just-published Junction Boys, when he was arrested for late-night drunken driving and taken to jail. Since it was the third time he'd been ticketed for driving under the influence, a three-strike state law demanded that the charges be elevated from a misdemeanor to a third-degree felony. But, in the traditional dodge-the-bullet Dent style, he was bailed out by 5 a.m., got to his signing on time and sold 500 copies to the long line of die-hard Aggie fans in attendance.
Still, his legal problems were finally becoming serious.
To research, write and ultimately promote his book on the University of Oklahoma's record-setting winning streak, the Dallas resident of 28 years moved to Oklahoma City, adopting an out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude toward his Texas troubles. When he didn't appear for a scheduled Brazos County court appearance, authorities were told to start looking for him.
Along the way, Dent says, they got some help from a small group of OU exes who were irate over some things he'd written about the long-deified Sooner coach Bud Wilkinson in The Undefeated. Days before the 2001 Texas-OU Weekend in Dallas, authorities received a tip that the man they were looking for was scheduled to appear at a Dallas book signing.
The signing went well. Immediately afterward, however, members of the Dallas County Sheriff's Department served the surprised author with an arrest warrant.
Finally, in 2002, Dent stood before a Brazos County judge who sentenced him to 40 days in jail and 10 years' probation for the DWI he'd received in College Station three years earlier.
"I think everyone was hoping that spending a lengthy amount of time in jail would give him the opportunity to think about the troubles he'd been creating for himself," says literary agent Jim Donovan, who recalls his client stopping in Dallas for a breakfast visit on the morning Dent was released. Dent, clearly thrilled to be free and eager to return to work, assured Donovan he planned to be on his best behavior before leaving for Oklahoma City.
But later that day, just five miles from his front door, Dent was pulled over by an Oklahoma City police officer suspicious that the writer was driving while intoxicated. In Dent's lap was an open can of beer; nearby the emptied remainders of a six-pack he admits purchasing before leaving Dallas.
His excuse for the terrible lapse in judgment is flimsy: a low blood sugar problem he's suffered with for years. "I'd been a night trusty at the jail," he says, "and worked right up until the time they released me. So, I hadn't had any sleep. On the way home, I convinced myself that a few beers might help me stay awake."
He posted a $3,000 bail bond and was set free, pending trial.
To compound his problems, Dent ignored the provision that required him to inform his Texas parole officer of his latest arrest. He continued to dismiss appearance demands of the Brazos County judicial system, and he put Oklahoma City in his rearview mirror as quickly as possible, moving to Hot Springs, Arkansas, as warrants again began flying.
His life had become a traveling paradox as his professional career continued to bloom even as his personal life became stormier by the day. The Undefeated was nearing the 25,000-copy sales figure and ESPN-TV had begun filming the movie version of The Junction Boys. Work on the Nagurski book was going well despite myriad distractions, and ESPN.com had hired him to write a weekly online column.
Dent, however, says he would have exchanged it all for a few more years of good health for his 84-year-old father. Suffering from congestive heart failure, the elder Dent had only a short time to live.
"That," his son says, "is why I went to Arkansas. There've been all these stories about me being on the run. The fact is, it was very important for me to be able to spend some time with my dad before he passed away. And, despite the fact it added to my legal troubles, I'm glad I did it. Instead of being in jail when he died, I was there to help with funeral arrangements, to give the eulogy at his service and to help my mother through some rough days."
Dent's explanation earned him little sympathy from those convinced he was merely running from the inevitable. After he didn't show up for one scheduled Arkansas court appearance, Garland County deputy prosecuting attorney Brent Miller lashed out: "He ought to be man enough to own up to what he's done, but I guess he's not," Miller told The Bryan-College Station Eagle. "He needs to get his comeuppance."
Even Dent's attorney, Q. Byrum Hurst, admitted at one point that he had no idea where his client was.
Trouble, meanwhile, was never far away. There would soon be another arrest, this time in Hot Springs on the Texas warrant. A staggering $1 million bail was set while officials awaited a hearing to determine if Dent would be extradited. After he'd been in jail for 12 days, however, the bail was reduced to $5,000. He wrote another check and was released.
Two weeks later, his father died. Soon after, Dent again jumped bail and disappeared.
The end of the line came last June in Las Vegas, where he had moved in an effort to put off his legal woes until he could complete his book on Nagurski and the Bears. "At that point, reality had begun to set in," he says, "and I'd already begun talking with my lawyer about turning myself in. But I wanted to complete the book first."
Driving back to his apartment late one night, he was involved in a minor accident. Police immediately determined he was drunk and, following a routine check, learned of the lengthy list of outstanding warrants. Dent's wayward travels finally had come to an end.
"Our mother was in the hospital with heart problems at the time," remembers sister Janice Dent, "and Jim had been phoning to check on her every day." When the calls suddenly stopped, she feared that he might have been arrested and was again in jail.
On a recent evening following a jail visit to her younger brother, Janice said she's begun to see a different person. "I think he's now aware that he's got to make the decision to change a lot of things about his life," she says.
MADD official Thurmond says her office had been closely following the Dent case for at least 18 months and had a confidential "tipster" who would occasionally contact her about his whereabouts. "Anytime I would get new information," she says, "I would pass it along to [Brazos County Assistant District Attorney] Jay Granberry."
How does the five-year MADD veteran view Dent's future? "Time will tell," she says. "You either come out of prison a much better person or a much worse person."
In the past five months, as he's called a claustrophobic 10-by-30-foot cinder-block jail space home, Dent has come to view that final arrest as "a blessing." "I know I was eventually going to hurt someone or hurt myself," he reflects. "I'm so glad I can look back and say that never happened."
For long days and nights in jail cells in Las Vegas, Hot Springs, then Bryan, he had continued to blame others--this time what he perceived as a vengeful legal system--for his situation. Denial, he calls it. Instead, it was Harry James Dent stubbornness, something he'd elevated to an art form over the course of his adult life.
"After a while, though, I started looking deep inside, and a new reality set in. The time had come for me to face the music," he says. "I'm losing ground as we speak," he says. "It hurts to know that I've got what I believe to be a really good new book out there that I can't promote. Oh, I've done a few radio interviews, things like that, but mostly what people want to talk about isn't Monster of the Midway but me getting ready to go to prison." Since jail rules forbid inmates to receive hardback books, he's not yet even held a copy of his latest effort in his hand. "I have seen the cover, though," he says. His 82-year-old mother, Leanna Dent, brought it with her on one of her Arkansas-to-Texas jail visits.
So how does he deal with the limbo, the regimented isolation and removal from a freedom he once embraced with such abandon? There are the televised football games on weekends, the brief twice-a-week visits to a small, fenced-in outdoor recreation area for fresh air and a quick game of hoops with fellow prisoners. Each evening, as mail is delivered, he receives The Dallas Morning News and a steady stream of letters from friends and strangers, family and fans. This time, however, there are no special privileges, no trusty status. The system--from judges to prosecutors, bondsmen to jailers--is angry at him for his senseless list of missed court appearances, bail jumpings and refusal to abide by rules of his earlier probation. Just listen to what they were saying during the time he was avoiding arrest: "He's just kind of rubbing it in the face of authorities," said Arkansas prosecutor Miller. "Obviously," added Oklahoma County Assistant District Attorney Peter Haddock, "he has no respect for the court system."
The eight-year prison sentence he ultimately received, says Brazos County Assistant District Attorney Granberry, is a "proper result." "Jim Dent showed a total disrespect and arrogance toward his court-ordered obligations and the criminal justice system."
Now finally behind bars, he spends most of his time doing what he does best--writing.
"I've finished the first draft of a novel," he says, "a wild tale about a bunch of good-ol'-boy Texas gamblers who set out to fix a football game." He sent The Perfect Fix, written in longhand on stacks of legal pads, to sister Janice in Arkansas, who had it typed, then forwarded it to his Dallas literary agent, Jim Donovan.
"What I'm hoping," Dent says of his first attempt at fiction, "is that this will keep my career from being interrupted."
"That he's continued to write," Donovan says, "is the best thing he could be doing. It's helped him maintain his sanity. Jim's always talked of wanting to write a novel, and I think he has the talent to do a good one."
Meanwhile, in New York, his St. Martin's editor expresses a willingness to patiently await his return to the free world. "The way I look at it," Wolverton says, "he has a problem he has to get straightened out and behind him. Once he's done that, I'm ready for him to get back to work. He's a friend. I'm not going to abandon him."
Nor is Frank Luksa, the longtime Dallas sportswriter whom Dent has admired for years and always kindly addressed as "Uncle Frank." "Just look at [former Cowboys linebacker] Thomas Henderson," Luksa points out. "There was a time when it looked as if his life was just going to be one disaster after another because of drugs and alcohol. But he turned it around, got straight and has now been sober for 20 years.
"I was talking to him recently, and he passed along an interesting quote from Albert Einstein: 'You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.' Jim's got to come out of prison with that kind of attitude, a new mind-set, and be willing to make a lot of changes."
Today Dent says he's been amazed by the steady flow of encouragement that has come his way since he's been in jail. He estimates that he's received 300 to 400 letters, many from friends, some from people he doesn't know. Recently one arrived from a young West Texas man who had spent two years in the prison system Dent will call home. In great detail, the ex-con outlined what Dent might expect after being moved from jail to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and offered a lengthy list of go-along and get-along suggestions that would make serving time easier.
Then there are the old SMU frat brothers. As soon as word spread that Dent was in jail, a letter-writing campaign got under way. "I've heard from people I hadn't heard from in years," he says. "It has been that kind of support that's gotten me back on my feet."
Now, he says, he's ready to stop looking back and start focusing on the future. "I'm not going to be in prison forever," he says, "and I've still got a lot of things to do. I've got a lot more books to write." While most estimate he'll serve at least 18 months to two years of his sentence, parole could be possible in as little as a year. And while Dent plans to enroll in the prison AA program and do whatever is required to earn as early a release date as possible, he's also aware that his legal fate is now out of his hands.
There are still moments, however, when the frustration of his situation manifests itself in the familiar Dent rant. Recently, after doing a telephone interview with Galloway, Dent was unhappy with one of the questions his old friend had asked: "Is this the end of Jim Dent?"
The author admits he's growing weary of interviewers quick to portray him either as someone to be pitied or as Public Enemy No. 1. "I haven't murdered anybody, or robbed a bank, or molested anybody's children," he argues. "I made some mistakes that have only hurt me. And now I'm going to pay for what I've done and then get back to work. I'm a strong person, and I'm going to make it."
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Dent doesn't even wait for the next question to be asked. Yes, he insists, his drinking days are over.
So now he waits, marking time, attempting to nurture a patience he's never had, forcing himself into a positive frame of mind about the remainder of his life. It isn't, he admits, always easy.
And at night, long after the cell doors have clanged shut and the lights have dimmed, he falls into fitful sleep and welcomes a recurring dream. In it he is standing in Chicago's historic Wrigley Field; a soft breeze is floating off Lake Michigan, and the sweet scent of ivy wafts from the outfield walls. He's never quite sure why he's there, but fond memories of previous visits romp playfully through his mind. He's alone. He's happy.
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With a game as out there as Lollipop Chainsaw, it's only natural that critical opinion was split, but there is one thing we can thankfully all agree on: It's officially developer Grasshopper Manufacture's most shipped game ever. According to a figure announced at the Lollipop Chainsaw Summer Appreciation Festival on Saturday, Lollipop Chainsaw shipped over 700,000 units worldwide.
Great news for fans of Suda51, as the stylistic creator hasn't always made a big splash with his games in the shipped units department. Shadows of the Damned, for instance, pushed a meager 24,000 units in its first week in the US, and ultimately underperformed all around. Pretty odd for a game that includes a weapon called the Big Boner, right?
Next up for Suda51, Grasshopper Manufacture, and Kadokawa Games is Killer is Dead, of which we've mostly seen a few bits of concept art. Suda shared the first promotional video for the game at the Lollipop Chainsaw event, and it reportedly features No More Heroes-esque cel shading with a more stylish twist, and a male protagonist with a robotic left arm and a katana gripped in his right hand. Killer is Dead hits Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 sometime in 2013.
So, final verdict: You may have seen our review back in June, but what did you think of Lollipop Chainsaw?
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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter at @Moldilox.


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SAN JOSE -- Leading up to the 2003 draft, the talk was that class had the potential to be among the best in NHL history.
Rivalling the famed 1979 crop -- which included the likes of Ray Bourque, Mark Messier, Mike Gartner, Rob Ramage, Michel Goulet, Kevin Lowe, Neal Broten, Paul Reinhart, Guy Carbonneau and Glenn Anderson just to name a few -- it was seen as having big potential.
So far, a few from the top 10 in 2003 are already NHL regulars, including: Marc-Andre Fleury, Eric Staal, Nathan Horton, Nikolai Zherdev, Thomas Vanek, Ryan Suter and Dion Phaneuf.
The rest of the first round also boasts Jeff Carter, Dustin Brown, Brent Seabrook, Mike Richards, Corey Perry and Patrick Eaves. Further along, you'll find Patrice Bergeron (45th), Shea Weber (49th), Lee Stempniak (148th), Nathan Paetsch (202nd), Shane O'Brien (250th) and Tampa regular Nick Tarnasky (287th).
Needless to say, the '03 draft class was loaded with gems.
But no team has mined it like the San Jose Sharks.
When the Sharks faced the Calgary Flames last night, there were four players from that year showing their wares: Left winger Milan Michalek (5th), left winger Steve Bernier (16th), defenceman Matt Carle (47th) and left winger Joe Pavelski (205th).
Sharks GM Doug Wilson said the credit goes to scouting director Tim Burke for a draft that has played a huge part in making the team a Stanley Cup contender.
The success, he opines, gave San Jose the ability to acquire Joe Thornton from Boston a year ago -- sending defenceman Brad Stuart, Marco Sturm and Wayne Primeau the other way -- without missing a beat.
"It's one thing to acquire a player like Joe Thornton but we had to give up three very important players. By having Milan, Steve and Matt Carle, and now Joe Pavelski coming from underneath, you fill one huge hole -- something you think you need to have to pursue a Stanley Cup, the one-two combination of (Patrick) Marleau and Thornton -- and you're able to replace Stuart, Sturm and Primeau internally and haven't left holes in the organization," he said.
The Sharks also sent second-rounder Josh Hennessy to Ottawa as part of the three-team trade that sent Martin Havlat to Chicago.
San Jose's fearsome foursome from 2003 aren't playing bit parts either. Michalek and Bernier flank Marleau on one of the league's best lines, while Pavelski has slipped onto the unit alongside Thornton and last year's top sniper Jonathan Cheechoo.
Meanwhile, Carle is making a case to be this year's top rookie.
Thornton, part of a heady Boston draft class from 1997 himself, can't help but be blown away by the crew assembled.
"They're great and they don't see themselves as young players. They're a big part of this team," said the reigning Art Ross Trophy winner. "The good thing is they're only to get better. You can see from last year, Milan and Bernier are getting better. The sky's the limit for those guys."
Wilson said having Thornton and Marleau makes it easier to add players to important positions.
But those four are part of a group of youngsters who make it easy to believe the Sharks will be in the Cup chase for years to come.
"We look at players who can help us win. You take a look at their pedigrees -- Matt Carle and Joe Pavelski won national championships, and (2005 pick) Marc-Edouard Vlasic won a Memorial Cup last year and played 104 games," Wilson said.


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Exclusive: D.J. Caruso Reveals Y: The Last Man Story Details
by Alex Billington
September 22, 2008
Over the weekend I had the chance to catch up with director D.J. Caruso in order to chat about his upcoming film Eagle Eye (that full interview will be up in the next few days). I wanted to make sure to get an update from him on Y: The Last Man, his passion project comic book film about a boy named Yorick who suddenly becomes the only male left alive on Earth. He's mentioned before that Warner Brothers wants to turn this into one of their big 2010 movies, since they're in need of some, but we've been waiting to hear more details, including what they might change in order to turn the comic book series into one (for now) all-encompassing movie. Caruso exclusively revealed to us what his "big change" in the plot will be.
Caruso said that he turned in the script to New Line last week and is working on tweaking it over the next month. "It's my job to get the script right first, and once we get the script right, which we're getting close, it could potentially be the next movie," he explained. The comic series, which began in 2002 and just wrapped up with its final issue this January, spans a total of 60 issues. A story that vast obviously won't fit into one movie. "If you know the series at all, it's a lot to choose from… You want to make a movie that stands alone, but I keep telling them I can't fit it all into one movie. God willing if it's successful enough, there has to be another movie." Caruso briefly explains how the story in the first film plays out.
"Initially it'll open very similar to what you know in the opening book basically, with Yorick and Beth. And ultimately when it all goes down, we jump to 6 or 8 weeks later, and sort of take that world there. In the montage of when it's all happening, we do see what happens in China, we do have little vignettes of things that are happening all over the world. And then from that point on, in the first movie, it then stays in Yorick's journey to get to -- with 355 as they try get across -- and find the doctor and losing Ampersand… It's global in that you see what happens, but it doesn't go out and further."
It sounds like at one point Caruso really wanted to talk more about what happens in it, but has to stop himself. However, when we started talking more about the comic and fans, he mentioned one of the big changes that they've made. "One big change is that we put in a 'ticking clock' with Yorick and Ampersand, and I separated them, and Yorick starts to get a little sick when Ampersand's not with him. I felt like we needed some kind of ticking clock so it wasn't just a boy and his monkey." Sound a bit like Spielberg's E.T.? Caruso added that Brian K. Vaughan, the author of the comic, has been helping out a lot. And as for the aforementioned big change -- "Brian loved that. So it's good to hear that the creator loved that."
Caruso's Eagle Eye debuts this weekend and once things start to settle down, he'll be working on Y: The Last Man again. "In another month or so it should be ready." It's one of the projects that I've been anxious to see come together. I just hope Warner Brothers understands this adaptation's potential and doesn't let it slip by as a small project. That's why I asked Caruso about how global it would be - to get a feeling for whether WB wanted to give this the budget that it really needs. The first draft of the screenplay was submitted and he's already got notes and is tweaking it, let's just hope he can polish it quickly enough. If you're a fan of the comic, I'm curious what you think about Caruso's big change? Good or bad?
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, general counsel Jeff Pash and outside labor counsel Bob Batterman are meeting with mediator George Cohen at his Washington D.C. office, a source with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday night, just hours after league owners concluded their get-together in a suburban hotel.
NFL Players Association officials aren't involved in the meeting at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and full mediation between the union and the league isn't scheduled until 9 a.m. ET Thursday, according to the source. It's unknown how long the league officials will meet with Cohen on Wednesday night.
New York Giants owner John Mara and Green Bay Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy also were in attendance.
The league and the union talked for four hours earlier Wednesday, then NFL owners departed for Chantilly, Va., where they held a three-hour special labor meeting without taking a vote about whether or not to lock out players when the current collective bargaining agreement expires at midnight ET Thursday.
Most of the owners departed from the suburban D.C. hotel after the meeting, canceling another session scheduled for Thursday. The meeting was intended to provide updates to all owners and determine their next steps in the negotiating process.
"There was nothing official about a lockout," Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said after exiting the meeting.
Irsay said the discussion in the meeting was "thorough," and he believed the ongoing dialogue between the NFL and NFLPA was a positive. When asked if he was frustrated that the situation could be headed to the courtroom via suits and countersuits, Irsay replied, "Business and frustration, they just go hand-in-hand."
Earlier Wednesday in Washington, a large group of owners and players' union president Kevin Mawae participated in mediated talks for the first time. The ninth session at Cohen's office also included Goodell.
After the early session, the NFL contingent — which included the entire 10-man labor committee — hopped into a fleet of six black SUVs at approximately 2 p.m. ET and headed to Chantilly to begin filling in other owners on the status of the negotiations.
The NFL's labor committee is comprised of owners Mara, Jerry Richardson of the Carolina Panthers, Pat Bowlen of the Denver Broncos, Art Rooney II of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys, Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs, Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots, Dean Spanos of the San Diego Chargers and Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals, as well as Mark Murphy.
"We decided it would be a good idea for our full committee to meet with this mediation process," Richardson said. "Our objective, of course, is to negotiate a fair agreement for players and teams. So far, we obviously haven't had success. We're optimistic in due time we will."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said more mediation sessions were expected.
"The committee has not made any decision as to what will happen upon expiration of the current agreement if we don't have a new one by tomorrow night," Aiello said.
Owners not on the NFL Management Council Executive Committee left the area when the owners' meeting portion was over.
"I'm still optimistic, and we've still got a few hours to go," New York Jets owner Woody Johnson said.
The players' union group exited the mediator's office shortly after the league group did but didn't return in the evening.
"We're talking," NFLPA president Kevin Mawae said before the early meeting. "That's better than not talking."
Said Pash: "I think it's important to reach an agreement as soon as you can. We've talked about the damage uncertainty does to the league, the damage uncertainty does to the players."
Mawae and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, an NFLPA executive committee member, joined the mediation for the first time Wednesday.
"Hopefully we get a little closer to where we need to be," Mawae said.
In an exclusive interview with NFL Network's Albert Breer, Brees was asked why he believed it was important for a player of his stature to be involved in the talks.
"Because I feel like I can make a difference," he said. "I feel like I represent all 1,900 players in this league, just as all the players who are involved do.
"I know how many have sacrificed on my behalf in the past. I'm just trying to do the same for them."
Another large group of players accompanied NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith on Wednesday, including Mawae, Brees, Minnesota Vikings linebacker Ben Leber, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch, Denver Broncos safety Brian Dawkins, New York Jets fullback Tony Richardson, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Mike Vrabel and Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth.
The NFL's labor committee arrived in the D.C. area Tuesday and met over dinner, shortly after a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge David Doty in Minneapolis in which he sided with the union by overruling a special master's Feb. 1 decision to reject the NFLPA's request that $4 billion in 2011 payments from networks to the league be placed in escrow if there is a lockout.
"It doesn't change the dynamic for us," Pash said. "It was very clear the TV money was a loan. The decision was not unexpected."
Mawae believes the ruling works in the players' favor.
"I feel great we won the case with Doty," he said.
The mediation in front of Cohen, which resumed Tuesday for six hours after a weekend break, doesn't have a definite end point. Cohen had cleared his schedule to continue mediation at least through Wednesday.
The CBA runs out at midnight as Thursday becomes Friday on the East Coast, and the owners could lock out the players afterward. The union also could decertify — essentially, declare itself out of the business of representing players — and let the players take their chances in court.
"We're less than two days away from the deadline, so obviously this is crunch time," Brees said. "We, as players, want to get a deal done. There is definitely a sense of urgency on our side.


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#1 Am I missing something here?09-29-2013, 01:24 AM
I was for defunding Obamacare and fighting it tooth and nail but what good does it do a year before an election to postpone it's implementation until after the election.
Won't this get the dems off the hook before the election by delaying the rage people will feel when this is quite literally forced up our asses?
I'm with Ody and think that bills should be sought that force this on everyone in political office as well as us, why are we always doing the opposite of what we should, what the dammed hell is wrong with these people.Pffffffffffffffffffffff! Buh Bye Big Ears
I agree.
The gut reaction is to just get rid of the damned thing. But shouldn't we get rid of the damned politicians that brought this piece of shit on America by making them vote for funding it? Then let them go through elections in November, '14.
We need to regain the Senate while keeping the House.
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09-29-2013, 02:21 AMPffffffffffffffffffffff! Buh Bye Big Ears
The Dems would have to be complete fools to turn down a year delay, they would have to be brain dead and I don't believe they are. They will make like this is a fight and then supposedly reluctantly give in and then ride their good fortune all the way to reelection. We are screwed, totally fucked, the fat lady is singing.Pffffffffffffffffffffff! Buh Bye Big Ears
More and more I'm of the opinion that we assume our side wants to protect our conservative
values and practices, it's getting harder and harder to believe that.May the FORCE be with you!
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Isn't it companies that are getting off the hook. They're funders for the GOP.
I say go ahead and implement it all so we can figure out if we really do like green eggs and ham or not.
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I don't see the GOP's point in delaying it a year either, all that does is move the point pain is inflicted by it off until AFTER the mid-term elections, which is a very stupid plan for the GOP. More pain, sooner, with clear responsibility to the Dems for it is the sound strategy, but the GOP doesn't want to do that (I'm sure after the fact that McCain and his kind will claim that was their plan all along, but the Conservatives just don't trust his lying ass anymore, so even if that were possibly true, the base isn't putting any stock in him).
There are only two ways it makes any sense, and only the first one makes sense in terms of probability of outcome -
1. They are so convinced that Reid will never, ever agree to it, and that they themselves will ultimately have to acquiesce in it, that they believe when Reid is seen to have the way he insisted on after a hard fight, the GOP leadership thinks the public will blame the Dems wholeheartedly after living under the ACA's oppressive cost (And skinflint benefit) regime for a year...which might work, except that too many Conservative Congresspeople are honestly committed to fighting it tooth and nail, so the 'Eventually being forced to acquiesce' part of the plan sets up a huge emotional schism in the GOP itself that likely won't heal before said election. OR -
2. They think that this is an attractive-enough carrot to dangle in front of the endangered Democrat Senators up for re-election in reddish States in 2014, who (The GOP thinks) will be desperate enough to break Reid's stranglehold on the Dem Caucus and swing over to vote for the delay with Senate Republicans, giving them enough Senate votes to pass it and confronting Obama with a fait accompli and thus have to back down from his veto pledge. This is actually an especially stupid idea, because the bill can't even come up for a vote in the Senate unless Reid lets it, which isn't going to happen, with the sole exception of it being a conference committee result, however Reid will pick the Senate Dems on the conference committee, so THAT won't happen, either.
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|Número de solicitud
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|29 Sep 1987
|Fecha de presentación
|20 Oct 1986
|Fecha de prioridad
|25 Mar 1986
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|Manfred Jost, Jurgen Knoke, Zenji Yoshida, Noburo Ohta, Terumo Nakanishi
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|Firma Carl Freudenberg
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This invention relates to interlinings for stiffening fabrics and more particularly, nonwoven/knit composite interlinings.
For the large area processing of fixable interlining materials the advantages of nonwoven fabrics over woven and knit fabrics are well known. Such advantages include good bulk at light weights, easy cutting and punching and soft, full-bodied hand. In many cases, softness, combined with a certain form or shape stability, is desired for easier working. As noted above, nonwoven fabrics are soft; however, they generally do not have the desired form stability. When nonwoven fabrics are modified to provide more form stability the desired softness may be lost and a relatively hard hand developes. In contrast, knit fabrics generally have good form stability but lack the softness of nonwovens.
Nonwoven/knit composite materials are generally known for applications where the combined softness of the former with the form stability of the latter is of importance. For use as iron-on interlinings, however, such composites have heretofore proven unsuitable, because after dry cleaning undesirable unevenness or distortion of the lined fabrics surface occurs probably due to differences in the dimensional changes of the nonwoven and knit plies of the composite.
It is the object of this invention to provide an interlining of a nonwoven/knit composite which has, combined with a soft, full-bodied hand as customary for nonwoven materials; additionally, the high form stability and elasticity of a knit fabric.
Another object of this invention is to provide a nonwoven-knit composite that does not distort due to substantial differences in dimensional changes between nonwoven and knit plies that occur during conventional washing and dry cleaning.
The present invention provides a composite interlining comprising a first ply of nonwoven fabric having a weight of about 10 to 70 g/m2 ; and a second ply of knit fabric fiber bonded to the first ply, wherein the knit fabric has a nonwoven-type fiber structure, a weight of about 10 to 40 g/m2, a yarn titer of about 12 to 30 dtex at a mesh count of about 6 to 12 wales/cm and about 8 to 12 rows/cm.
The invention also provides a composite interlining comprising a first ply of nonwoven fabric with predominantly synthetic fibers and a knit fabric, preferably warp-knit, having a weight of about 10 to 40 g/m2. The titer of the knit fabric is 12 to 30 dtex at a mesh count between 6 to 12 wales/cm and 8 to 26 rows/cm.
The composite underlinigs of this invention may be coated spotwise with a conventional fusion adhesive to provide the desired iron-on properties.
It is essential that the knit ply has a similar fiber structure to the nonwoven ply, so that during fiber bonding a firm anchoring or adherence between the plies takes place. This configuration prevents the distortions, i.e, appearance of unevenness and blisters, which occur with prior art composite interlinings due to differences in dimensional change between the nonwoven and knit plies during dry cleaning or washing.
It has been found, surprisingly, that in the composites of this invention despite a partial loss of the character of the co-welded knit ply, the co-welded soft nonwoven ply gains greatly in form stability while the typical softness of the nonwoven material is preserved.
As compared with a knit interlining alone, the composite according to this invention shows, surprisingly, a tensile strength in both directions reduced to almost one third, which, however, is greater than that of the nonwoven material alone. This lower tensile strength has clear advantages in application technology. For example, unless the dimensional change of an interlined outer fabric and of a conventional interlining knit is exactly the same--which it rarely is--there is danger that distortions such as blistering will occur as a result from dry cleaning. Due to the lesser strength of the nonwoven material in the interlining composite of this invention--the nonwoven material develops no shrink force and no blistering occurs regardless of the degree of difference in the dimensional changes of the two materials. Further, as compared with an interlining of nonwoven fabric alone of comparable softness, the composite material has greater form stability, this being advantageous in garment making. The interlining of the invention is used, therefore, mainly for classic suits in men's clothing and for outer garments (tailored suits) for women.
The nonwoven fabric employed in the invention has a soft consistency and is composed of, e.g., Nylon 66 or, preferably, Nylon 6 as the primary fiber which may be blended with up to 50% of other synthetic fibers or native and/or regenerated cellulose fibers. The nonwoven fabric has a weight of 10 to 70 g/m2, preferably, 20 to 50 g/m2. Higher fabric weights reduce the softness and elegant hand of the nonwoven composite. In addition to polyamide fibers, e.g., nylons, polyester fibers or polyester/copolyester mixtures can also be employed as the primary fiber in the nonwoven fabric.
The methods for production of the nonwoven fabrics used in this invention are well known and form no part of the invention. Longitudinal, transverse, or irregular nonwoven materials may also be employed. When a longitudinal nonwoven fabric which has very low strength in the transverse direction used the knit contributes stabilization mainly in the transverse direction, and such interlinings are particularly useful for reinforcing large areas.
The knit fabric may be a warp-knit of monofil or multi-filament yarns. The weave may be tricot, plain, sateen, velvet or combinations of these weaves. An important feature of the knit fabrics is that their fibers are structured so that in the fiber bonding process they are welded to the nonwoven fibers; that is the knit fabric must be adapted as set forth herein in its fiber structure to be similar to the fiber structure of the nonwoven fabric.
As with the nonwoven fabrics Nylon 6 knits are advantageous. Other preferred knit fabrics may be polyesters, and polyester/copolyester mixtures.
The two plies, i.e., nonwoven and knit, are preferably adhered by spot-welding them together and the knit fabric may be attached to the side of a nonwoven fabric coated with a fusion adhesive. To arrange the knit on the outer side of a nonwoven fabric away from the adhesive compound is possible, though less desirable, because in this configuration the full, soft hand of the nonwoven material is no longer so dominant. It is also possible in an alternative embodiment to fix the knit fabric between two nonwoven fabrics or gauzes.
The fixing or adhering of the nonwoven and knit plies can be effected by any type of fiber bonding, as for example a full-area bonding in a thermofusion oven with or without calendering. A soft hand is achieved by spotwise welding and calendering one smooth and one patterned roll.
Coating with a thermofusion adhesive is ordinarily done in a spotwise pattern, and preferred adhesives are copolyamides, particularly a ter-polyamide of Nylon 66-Nylon 6-Nylon 12, copolyesters, low-pressure polyethylene and PVC plastisols. The adhesive is preferably applied in amounts between about 8 and 40 g/m2.
The invention will now be explained in greater with reference to Examples given below.
On a conventional carding machine a sliver is carded with a fiber blend of 100% by weight Nylon 6 1.7/40.
The resulting gauze having a weight of 25 g/m2 is deposited by means of a cross-layer on a lath belt. Before the bonding with a calender, there is placed on the top side of the gauze a warp-knit consisting of 100% by weight Nylon 6 and having a yarn titer of 17 dtex, a mesh count of 9 wales/cm and 10 rows/cm, and a weight of 14 g/m2.
The laminate is then fixed with an embossing calender at 200° C., one steel roll of which is smooth while the other is engraved, with 64 dots per square centimeter at a dot spacing of 1.25 mm, the dot dimensions being 0.4×0.4×0.61 mm.
On the side fixed with the smooth calender roll, on which the warp-knit is applied, there is the applied spotwise 16 g/m2 of a fusion adhesive composition of a ter-polyamide Nylon 66 -Nylon 6 - Nylon 12 having a melting point of about 120° C.
The interlining nonwoven/knit composite produced in this manner has a soft, pleasant hand with good elasticity and is very stable in washing and dry cleaning showing no distortions due to different dimensional changes of nonwoven and knit fabrics.
On a longitudinal carding machine a gauze is carded with fibers 100% by weight Nylon 6. This gauze, having a weight of 8 to 10 g/m2, is deposited on a lath belt. A warp-knit fabric is placed on the gauze. This warp-knit fabric consists of 100% by weight Nylon 6 having a weight of 14 g/m2 and yarn titer of 17 dtex at a mesh count of 9 wales/cm and 10 rows/cm.
By means of two additional longitudinal carding machines there are placed on the warp knit two additional gauzes, consisting of 100% by weight Nylon 6 and having a weight of 15 g/m2.
The unbonded nonwoven composite, in which the warp knit lies between the gauzes, is then bonded with an embossing calender at 200° C. one of the steel rolls being smooth and the other engraved. The engraving consists of 64 dots per cm2 at a dot spacing of 1.25 mm and dot dimensions of 0.5×0.4×0.61 mm and the draw-off speed is 30 m/min.
Onto the side fixed with the smooth calender roll there are applied spotwise 16 g/m2 of a fusion adhesive composition of a ter-polyamide Nylon 66 - Nylon 6 - Nylon 12 having a melting point of about 120° C.
The tensil strengths of the various fabrics, in N/5 cm, measured with a tensile testing machine are:
Warp knit alone--lengthwise 55,--crosswise 63
Nonwoven alone--lengthwise 16,--crosswise 2
Composite per Example 2--lengthwise 25,--crosswise 18
Fabric interlining--lengthwise 196,--crosswise 174
Double rib interlining--lengthwise 66.4,--crosswise 60.5
The interlining composite material produced in this manner also shows a nonwoven-like, soft, pleasant hand with good elasticity and is distortion free after washing and dry cleaning.
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In April, at an event called Canesfest, University of Miami athletic director Paul Dee unveiled snazzy redesigned uniforms for the school's football, basketball, and baseball teams. Less attention was paid to a new logo, which soon appeared all over the shady Coral Gables campus printed on hats and T-shirts that were sold both online and in stores.
University officials insist the design represents the beloved ibis, which has been the official UM mascot since 1926. New Times, unfortunately, has been unable to confirm this. We showed the orange, white, and gray illustration to more than 30 people, and virtually everyone insisted it was something else entirely. A hurricane? Or maybe a blue whale breaking the surface? Then there was "What's the Japanese bullet train doing on the UM jerseys?"
The student union at Florida International University's Tamiami Campus was our main testing ground. We hoped fresh eyes, unsaturated by the UM propaganda blitz, would recognize the beloved waterfowl. Shown a rendering of the logo, here's how these college-educated youngsters responded.
"It looks like a spaceship, some kind of new CIA airplane," says Julie Ramos, age 23.
"It looks like a spaceship," echoes Anna deArmas, age 20. "As soon as I saw it [I thought] it looks like a spaceship. That's the only thing I see."
"It looks like midperiod Picasso," adds Alfredo Soto, former editor of FIU's newspaper, the Beacon. "Or perhaps it's one of three things, or maybe all three: a U.S. mail logo, a great big dirty pigeon wing, or a bit of skyline."
"It looks like a spaceship or a blimp, or it could be a wing," offers Deon Butler, age 21. "I thought it kind of looked like a bird at first, but then I said no way. I'm a graphics major. I think it would look better if they put an eye on it."
Only biology professor David Lee, age 57, sees a bird right off, though he somehow notices clouds as well. The image is "quite attractive," he notes, but his praise is conditional: "I hope it's not a logo for a sports team. If so, I don't think it will go. A logo has to be more in your face."
At least one person brings personal issues to the poll. "Seeing as it's Good Friday and I'm fasting, it looks like a chocolate kiss," says Maritza Kirod, age 38.
The logo was designed for the school by Nike, an apparel company known for way-out ads and questionable treatment of contract workers. The image is a "third logo," explains Patrick Nero, an associate athletic director who oversaw the creation. "Over time we've had about seven or eight tertiary logos," Nero elaborates. "We have a hurricane symbol we've used a lot at different times. Sometimes we've used a hurricane symbol with the U in it. There was no system to it. There was no reason to use one."
One of the more popular UM logos is Sebastian the Ibis, who is dressed in an orange varsity letter sweater and spats. Sebastian isn't going anywhere, Nero says. Fact is, though, the big bird on campus hasn't been pulling his weight lately -- at least when it comes to cash.
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"The Sebastian mark hadn't been selling very well from a retail standpoint," Nero says. "We wanted something more in line with what they're doing in the NBA, more of an action figure. Nike gave us a bunch of ideas, four or five different versions over a six- to eight-month period. This one we liked, because it incorporated both the ibis and the hurricane look."
So it's an ibis and a hurricane?
"You have to concentrate on the beak," Nero says. "It took me awhile to find it. Oh, the first ten times I looked at it I couldn't see it. But this is what the kids want. This mark is definitely geared 100 percent toward youth retail." After hearing this well-considered explanation, New Times polled four people within the intended demographic. One sees a bird. Valery Figueroa, age 17, speaks for the majority: "It's a spaceship." Asked what else she sees in the image, she says, "Nothing." She was unwilling to assist the quest for truth by staring at the image for four or five hours until an ibis appeared.


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I don't think that it would be much harder than this, right?
One of the challenges we always face when building an RC model is providing access to the equipment. After some thought regarding the Stinson I decided to use a sliding tray through the nose. The tray will hold the motor/gear drive, the receiver brick, and the battery. The challenge to making that approach work is making and breaking the connection between the servos and the control surface push rods.
Again, after some thought I decided to use magnets to establish the make/break control linkage connection. The one thing that had me stumped initially was how to connect the magnets to the servo piano wire linkages and the carbon fiber push rods. The magnets in this case are 1/8 in diameter and 1/16 thick. An idea finally came that suggested using a piece of 1/8 dowel to back the magnet followed by an application of heat shrink tubing all reinforced with some thin CA.
Prior to building the parts I developed some sketches to help evaluate the final configuration so today was spent at the computer rather than the building board.
I use ends like pictured. Easy to remove from the servo end with tweezers.
Might not be accessable in your sliding tray though.
Paul- Nice work. It sounds as if you are taking the idea for the sliding tray from the world of electric free fight and the magnetic pushrods from the Snap-and-Fly airplanes. It sounds like a good mix!
Glenn - That method is very good when you have access to the servos. My installation will not have servo access once the tray is in place. Hence the magnet joiners.
PC-49 - I have not looked at the Snap-and-fly models internally. I have only seen them in flight. I am not surprised that magnets are being used for their connections. It is a smiple and very effective way to make and break a connection. I know the sliding tray approach is not new by any means. It just seemed to be a perfect way to handle the equipment access for the Stinson.
With the control linkage make/break connection concept in hand the equipment tray was made up. It is simply a piece of medium hard 1/16 balsa that slides through slots in the cowl nose ring and two guides near the make/break connection. Each set of guide slots are reinforced with 1/64 plywood pieces. The shape of the cut out in the cowl nose ring disk was determined by the geometry of the equipment tray. The tray is held in place with a single pair of ¼ x 1/16 magnets. Again, plenty of hold power but also easy to separate when the time comes. The battery holder was cut from a replacement Blade MCX landing skid assembly. I have to thank my brother Ralph for that slick idea.
The push rods are held in place in the fuselage with balsa guides reinforced with pieces of 1/64 plywood where the push rod passes through the guides. This runs very smooth with little effort required for movement. To allow removal of the equipment tray without pulling the tail surfaces off, a piece of 1/8 dowel was CAed to each push rod behind the forward guide. The distance was just a tad more that the stroke of the receiver brick servos. These stops rest against the forward push rod guide when the equipment tray is pulled forward. The system works surprisingly well.
Weight at this point with the battery in place is 29.2 grams. My current weight projection suggests the final weight will likely be a bit above 50 grams. I would have liked to have made my goal but the model should still be ok at the higher weight. It has a wing area just under 84 square inches.
Very slick, Paul. These are the ideas that stand the test of time, get published, and grab the attention and appreciation of modelers like Glenn and I! (You may know that builders are becoming hard to find on this forum with the advent of all the RTF Ultra Micros.)
Mike is using the module concept on his U.S. Abigail 2.4, but you have to leave the actuators behind. You've solved that problem. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show....php?t=1263139
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Glenn - I am using magnets that are roughly 3mm in diameter by 1.5mm thick. They are stronger than needed. Not so strong you have a hard time getting them to part, but stronger than is actually needed. Depending on the application relative to the control surface sizes your 1mm magnets may work just fine ( I am assuming the 1mm is referring to the diameter).
I did not get much done on the Stinson today. Basically the landing gear wire was bent and installed. The parts for the landing gear were organized for installation. I plan on having the landing gear completed tomorrow. That will include making the balsa wheels.
Nice. Those landing gear parts look familiar!
You make your own wheels too?
Me too. I like making wheels. The sorta scale wheels I made for the Trojan came out well using neoprene cord tires. First time I made WWII style wheels.
Yeah the magnets I have are round, 1mm dia X 1mmm thick. Added them to an order from KJ magnetics and when I got them and saw how small they are, sort of had no use for them. Now I do!
When I was young my Dad owned a Stinson Voyager that we flew all over the place. He gave me a few Stinson related items recently.
There are 8 sheets in the set. I have them in high resolution files on my computer but no real way of showing that on a forum so I only uploaded a scaled down image of 2 of the sheets. These are not model plans. I believe they are factory reproduction plans with some extra notes showing the differences between the different Reliant models. My Dad got these back in the 70's. I thought you would be interested in seeing these.
ckreef - Thanks for posting the drawing for the Stinson taper wing series. As it turns out I do have those drawings in my collection of airplane three views. Those drawings are the basis of my earlier comment that the Comet designer took some liberties when developing the plan for the Comet SR-7 kit.
I did have some time today to spend on my rendition of doing the Comet Stinson SR-7 as an RC model. Today was spent doing the fiddly landing gear stuff. The landing gear fairing parts were glued in place and then shaped using a piece of 220 grit sandpaper wrapped around a piece of 1/2" brass tubing. I used a larger diameter dowel when I did the Free Flight version, but found the smaller diameter brass tubing worked better this time around.
After the landing gear fairings were shaped I tackled the wheel pants. No real issues there. Just shape the profiles and then round off the edges. The inside faces of the pants received a piece of 1/64" plywood to act as a bearing face for the wheels. I will explain that in just a bit.
The wheels for the model were made from two laminations of 1/8" balsa with the grain of each lamination at 90 degrees to each other. I use a piece of 1/16" dowel as a wheel hub. The dowel is drilled along the center axis and is 3/16" long. The length of the hub allows the balsa to be turned down to form the wheel hub.
To make the dowel hubs I actually start with a piece of 3/8" dowel. The center hole is drilled. Since that part of the process is hard to do accurately without an appropriate machine tool, I start with the larger diameter dowel. That dowel is then mounted on my Dremel mandrel. The diameter is turned down to the diameter of the mandrel shaft that happens to be 3/16". Turning the larger diameter down allows the final dowel piece to be true relative to the drilled center hole.
Once made up, the hubs are glued in the balsa wheels. I run the wheels on a piece of 1/16" tubing to get them tracking straight and then apply a drop of thin CA to the hub. The tubing is removed and the wheels get mounted on the Dremel tool. They are shaped using a sanding block, an Exacto knife, and some 220 grit sandpaper. The shaping process goes quickly and is pretty easy.
The final step in making the wheels for this model was installing a piece of 1/16" aluminum tubing bushing. The length of the tubing is just a tad smaller than the inside width of the wheel pants between the two 1/64" plywood plates. The piece of aluminum tubing is glued in the hub and keeps the wheel centered in the wheel pant.
The wheels will be painted and dressed up a bit and then the wheel pants and wheels will be mounted on the landing gear legs. I can then get on with building the flying surfaces.
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Commentary -- Rural elderly and health
By Jon Bailey
Many rural areas of the United States are experiencing significant demographic shifts, chief among them an aging population. In 2007, approximately 15 percent of rural residents were 65 years of age or older, 25 percent greater than in the nation as a whole. The nation's population of those 65 or older is predicted to double by 2030, reaching 20 percent of the nation's total population, and the fastest group age cohort in rural America are residents 85 and older. An increasingly aging population leads to greater incidences of chronic diseases and disability, taxing an already stressed rural health care system. An aging population also brings with it numerous social and community issues. A large portion of rural seniors live at home alone, without a family caretaker to provide or obtain necessary health care services.
While seniors have nearly universal health care coverage due to Medicare, there are certainly issues related to rural seniors that should be addressed in health care reform legislation. Seniors want to remain in their communities. Providing health care services in community settings through rural health clinics, federally qualified health centers, and critical access hospitals can help them do so. Health care reform legislation can help address rural health care worker shortages by enhancing Medicare funding of telemedicine and other health care information technology uses in more health care facilities frequented by rural seniors. Lastly, strengthening long-term care services and support is crucial to helping more seniors stay in their rural communities.
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Link between sleep loss, weight gain
In many ways, looking into matters of health and fitness and writing this column is like being a PI. After all, the end result of either job is the same: to provide you, the client, with important knowledge.
But since you don't pick my assignments or pay me to pursue them, it might be more accurate to call me a public, rather than a private, investigator.
Much of what I've learned about doing investigative work has come from Spenser, the super sleuth in a series of novels written by Robert B. Parker. In these, Spenser often discusses cases in terms of what, through his experience, instincts, and evidence, he knows is true and what, in a court of law, he can prove is true.
Quite often, he discovers the first far sooner than the latter, yet he can not notify the police until he has both.
That's where this job is different. If I wait for proof the way it's defined in the court of health-and-fitness law, after handfuls of both short- and long-term studies that overwhelmingly support the notion, not only is the element of timeliness lost, but something else may also be as well.
Your health.
Case in point is the back-and-forth battle about high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Superimpose a chart of the increase in overweight Americans since the early 1970s over America's increase in consumption of HFCS since that time, and they look strikingly similar.
My gut as well as working with dozens of people who wanted to lose weight tells me that's more than coincidence, and dozens of studies since the 1970s seem to support that, such as one published in December 2011 issue of Metabolism.
In that study researchers compared the effects of a 24-ounce beverage sweetened with HFCS to one sweetened with what you know as table sugar. The HFCS beverage produced higher amounts of what researchers call "metabolic biomarkers," a situation that increases the odds of a whole host of health problems, such as high blood pressure, kidney disease, and diabetes.
Yet less than three months later, a review of more than 40 studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine article seemingly cleared HFCS of its critics' primarily concern: that it leads to the weight gain that often triggers the aforementioned illnesses. That's because in 31 of the 40 studies, the subjects given HFCS ate the same number of calories as the control subjects and gained no more weight.
In short, I can't prove those studies wrong even though they contradict something I "know" in my gut. All I can do in this case is create cogent, commonsense arguments to sway you away from using nothing more than minimal amounts of HFCS and focus the majority of my columns on things more clear cut.
Like the link between a lack of sleep and weight gain.
Back in 2003, a University of Michigan study caused a stir when researchers discovered that every additional hour third graders spent sleeping reduced their risk of becoming obese sixth graders by 40 percent, a finding that supported earlier work at the University of Chicago. In that study, sleep-deprived adults produced more of the hormone ghrelin, which produces hunger, and less of the hormone leptin, which signals satiety.
More recently, researchers have established that losing as little as 60 minutes of sleep a night for three days produces the hormone problem that the University of Chicago study uncovered.
A study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Minnesota Obesity Center, and the Mayo Clinic and previously mentioned in a May "Fitness Master" column found subjects who slept 80 minutes less for eight nights ate an average of 549 extra calories each day than normal. Compounding matters and contrary to what you would expect being awake the extra time did not increase their daily caloric burn significantly.
In fact, a Swedish study that disrupted adults' sleep found the disruption caused the body to hoard calories and lower basal metabolic rate to such an extent that subjects burned 20 percent fewer calories the next day.
Consider all these studies and you see that not only does a lack of sleep reduce the body's need for calories, but it also leads to you consuming more of them.
Perhaps the most intriguing study linking a lack of sleep to weight gain was performed by researchers at the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center using information reported by 1088 twins, 604 identical and 484 fraternal. The researchers considered less than 7 hours of sleep a night to be "short" sleep, 7 to 8.9 hours to be normal, and 9 or more to be "long" and looked for patterns.
Beyond finding that those who slept more weighed less, the findings suggested that a lack of sleep makes you more likely to be influenced by your genetics. In other words, dieters from families whose family members tend to be overweight are more susceptible than typical to a lack of sleep undermining their weight-loss efforts.


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It was 887 days ago.
Don't look now but it's been that long since the Mavericks lifted their only championship trophy. Sadly, it is also the last time they won a playoff game.
It was June 12, 2011 when Jason Terry scored 27 points, Dirk Nowitzki was named NBA Finals MVP and Mark Cuban shared a tear and a hug with Don Carter. Man, time flies when you're having ... none.
Dallas returns to the pinnacle of its existence tonight when they play the Miami Heat in American Airlines Arena. To say the least, a lot has changed. On both teams.
Since that stinging Finals flop on their own home court, the Heat have won two consecutive championships and LeBron James has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest players of all time. The Mavericks? Um, they've turned into the Cowboys. Mediocre, with a past that trumps their present.
Only Nowitzki and Shawn Marion remain in uniform from that epic night on South Beach. Since winning Game 6 against the Heat they're 82-78 including a four-game sweep to the Oklahoma City Thunder after the lockout-shortened '11 season.
Since losing to the Mavs that night, James has led the Heat to four consecutive routs of the Mavs by an average of 15 points. In other words, dust off the championship DVD tonight if you want to enjoy a victory in Miami.
A native Texan who was born in Duncanville and graduated from UT-Arlington, Richie Whitt has been a mainstay in the Metroplex media since 1986. He's held prominent roles on all media platforms including newspaper (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer), radio (105.3 The Fan) and TV (co-host on TXA 21 and numerous guest appearances, including NBC 5). He currently writes a sports/guy stuff blog at DFWSportatorium.com and lives in McKinney with his fiancee, Sybil, and two very spoiled dogs.


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Childhood obesity has tripled since the 1980s. In Illinois, more than 25% of youth ages 12-16 and 18% of youth ages 6-10 are overweight.
Email IAPD at firstname.lastname@example.com and share what your agency is doing to fight childhood obesity.
Illinois park districts, forest preserves, conservation and recreation agencies are making it a priority to fight childhood obesity. Read below to find out what Illinois agencies are doing to fight childhood obesity.
Lombard Park DistrictThe Lombard Park District has developed an eye-catching, fact-filled Power Point Presentation about encouraging healthy lifestyles for youth sports participants by encouraging coaches and parents to eliminate team snacks. This educational presentation lists the risks of being overweight or obese and provides an overview of obesity trends in the United States. Treatment and prevention initiatives are reviewed. Lombard Park District Executive Director Mike Fugiel has taken this presentation to local clubs and organizations in the Lombard area to spread the message that the Lombard Park District is fighting childhood obesity by encouraging "Healthy Play."
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Click here to view the Lombard Park District's "Childhood Obesity: Causes, Prevention, Treatment" brochure.
Want to start a similar initiative at your agency? Call the Lombard Park District at (630) 627-1281.
Geneseo Community Park DistrictThe Geneseo Community Park District partnered with the Henry County Health Department to develop a health education program called "Heart Smart" for 6th grade students. "Heart Smart" was a 9-week educational program focusing on the attention that our nation faces with childhood obesity and the impact it has on other preventable health related complications.
Want to conduct a similar "Heart Smart" program at your agency? Call Ken Asta, Geneseo Park District's Health Risk Coordinator/Exercise Specialist at (309)-944-5695 or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Snow began falling Saturday morning, but conditions worsened as the day went on. Massachusetts Gov. Patrick asked residents in the eastern part of the state to stay off roads between 5 p.m. Saturday and 5 a.m. Sunday.
There is a blizzard warning in effect from Saturday afternoon through early Sunday morning in Massachusetts for Coastal Essex County, East Coastal Plymouth County, and Cape Cod and the Islands.
This time around, Southeastern Massachusetts and Eastern Maine will get hit the hardest in regards to snowfall amounts. However, the Cape and the Islands will start off with rain during the afternoon before switching over to snow in the evening.
The highest snow accumulation will take place in Southeastern Massachusetts and Eastern Maine.
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Kate Moss Got All Bashful When She Read a 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Excerpt for Charity [VIDEO]
A while back, interview and microphone-shy supermodel Kate Moss promised BBC1 listeners that if they donated at least £200,000 (that's roughly $300,000 USD) to the Comic Relief charity, she'd read an excerpt from "erotic" mom-porn novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' live on the air.
They did -- so on Thursday, March 14, Moss held up her end of the bargain.
Kate Moss + Naomi Campbell Prove That Naked is the New 40 [PHOTOS]
Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell have been putting the "super" in "supermodel" for decades now. Kate is 39 and Naomi is almost 43, so you'd think their steamy topless magazine spread days would be over.
Au contraire.
The half-naked pair melted the pages of the December 2012 Russian and German editions of Interview magazine, and we found a sneak peek for you. You're welcome.