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Darrell Jordan can't get comfortable. He shifts in his seat, squirms from left to right till his long legs bend and twist into position. His arms and shoulders and back seem to be pointing in three different directions as he attempts to cram his imposing frame into one of the Cotton Bowl's tiny seats--a seat big enough for a small child, not a 6-foot-plus lawyer dressed in a natty black suit.
"There's just no room here," says the man who lost to Ron Kirk in the 1995 mayoral race. His voice booms throughout the empty football cathedral, bouncing off 68,000-plus more tiny chairs just like this one. "No room at all." He smiles a bit, or maybe it's a wince.
OK. He's made his point.
The Cotton Bowl seats are too small. Anyone who's ever sat in one since August 1968, when the old wooden benches were yanked out and the turquoise and white aluminum seats were installed, can tell you that. They're painfully small, 14 inches deep and 18 inches wide with about five inches of knee space in front. In these days of extravagant luxury boxes and posh club-level seats, the Cotton Bowl's seats are more like torture devices.
Of course, the tiny seats are the least of the Bowl's problems. That's why Darrell Jordan has forced himself into one on this February afternoon--to lay out, in detail, his plans for doming the 68-year-old facility.
You read right: Jordan wants to turn the city's ancient, open-air stadium into a state-of-the-art domed facility, just like the ones they have in Atlanta, New Orleans, and Detroit. He wants to turn the Cotton Bowl into the 81,000-seat Cotton Dome, the largest stadium of its kind in the United States, the third largest in the world.
It would be the first time ever that an open-air stadium got a dome.
Armed with a Coopers & Lybrand viability study in one hand and beautiful renderings in the other, Jordan talks of installing at least 100 luxury boxes on the west end opposite the existing press box, of installing 4,000 club seats, of building the opulent Premier Club from which big-money investors can view the field as they drink and dine in comfort.
Jordan points toward a day when the Cotton Bowl will host an annual schedule of at least five football games featuring college teams from around the country, not to mention the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, livestock shows and rodeos, extravagant concerts. He talks of restoring the Cotton Bowl to Tier I status in the eyes of the NCAA, meaning the stadium can once again host college football title games. He's even convinced that the Cotton Dome would be a great site for the Olympics, and he's even had very preliminary talks with Jerry Jones' people about bringing the Dallas Cowboys home, if only for an exhibition game. (Jones would never move the Cowboys back to Fair Park permanently--there's no free land on which he can build his long-proposed Jerryworld.)
And Jordan wants to do all this using private money--private money, he says, corporate money, investor money. No bonds. No tourist taxes. Not one penny out of the taxpayers' pockets. (Take that, Ron Kirk.)
All he needs is 150 million bucks.
So far, the Cotton Dome Foundation Working Group--a nonprofit organization chaired by Jordan--has raised $28 million, and it needs another $47 million in cash before the city will even consider allowing them to begin construction, which Jordan had planned to do the very day after this year's Cotton Bowl Classic featuring Texas A&M and UCLA.
Still, there's nothing you can say that will convince Jordan this is all a daydream.
"We said early on, if we came up against something that we just couldn't get around or over, we'd quit, and the phrase we use is, we'll keep going till we hear glass break," says Jordan, his white hair waving in the cool breeze that blows through the empty stadium. "Nobody wanted to look foolish or waste a bunch of time they didn't have. This absolutely can happen and will happen. This makes so much sense for the city and the region that it's going to happen."
Once among the major college-football destinations in America, the Cotton Bowl has become something of a pariah--a discarded landmark in the middle of the ghost town that is Fair Park 11 months out of the year. It's a shell of a shell, its paint peeling and its luster fading after 68 years of occasional care. The Cotton Bowl sits empty most days and nights, slowly and silently crumbling as its crowds get smaller and smaller.
As things stand now, it will never again host a college football national title game. The New Year's Day Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic will also never again host the Southwest Conference champion--because, since 1996, there hasn't been a Southwest Conference. And in two years, Southern Methodist University--for years the Cotton Bowl's home team, the provider of some of the grand old building's biggest and best memories--will move to its new permanent stadium on the school's University Park campus.
The Cotton Bowl will lose another tenant, another link to its glorious past as it stumbles toward a tenuous future. Long gone are the days when Heisman hero Doak Walker roamed the wide-open field, when Tom Landry led Eddie LeBaron and Don Meredith and Bob Lilly and his young Dallas Cowboys into battle, when Texas and Notre Dame battled it out for national championships. The old place is full of myth and lore: During the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic, Rice's Dicky Moegle was running toward the end zone when he was tackled by Alabama's Tommy Lewis--who had leapt off the bench to make the touchdown-saving play.
Once upon a very long time ago, Ty Cobb and Dizzy Dean came to the Cotton Bowl to play in one of their final baseball games, appearing during the minor-league Dallas Eagles' 1950 season opener. More recently, young college quarterbacks named Joe Montana and Troy Aikman came to Dallas on New Year's Day and started their long walks toward Canton, Ohio.
But the Cotton Bowl is an antique now, the childhood home no one wants to live in anymore.
Jordan's plan to rebuild the house has been greeted with everything from gleeful optimism to derisive naysaying. Coca-Cola, Bank One, and a few other local corporations believe in the idea enough to have committed a few million dollars to it, donating seed money and even agreeing to purchase one of those phantom luxury boxes that do not yet exist.
To some Dallasites, the notion of putting a dome on the Cotton Bowl is like pouring gold on a pile of manure. If nothing else, they've heard it before--ever since 1965, when state legislators looked into creating a domed stadium in Fair Park, then backed off once Clint Murchison decided to move his Dallas Cowboys from the Cotton Bowl to Texas Stadium in Irving.
The Cotton Bowl has always had an inferiority complex: It has forever been too small, too shabby, too puny to withstand the onslaught of steel-and-muscle stadiums that came in during the 1970s and '80s. It's never been good enough, ever since the rickety, long-gone State Fair stadium stood on the current site way back in 1921. Now, with the new city-supported arena for the Mavericks and Stars about to begin construction near the old TU plant and with Jerry Jones still talking about either doming Texas Stadium or building an entirely new shrine to himself and his Cowboys, it's one step closer to obsolescence.
Frankly, the only thing standing between the Cotton Bowl and the wrecking ball is the fact it's a registered historic landmark protected from demolition.
So it's hard to find fault with Jordan's plans for doming the Cotton Bowl: How can you argue with a man who wants to rescue a historical landmark by hitting up the private sector instead of raiding the public till? Besides, it's not like anyone's using it: According to the city, from October 26, 1996, through September 25 of last year, the Cotton Bowl was rented out only 33 times--a mere 13 times if you take out all those Dallas Burn soccer games (which may or may not stay in the Cotton Dome, depending on whether anyone can figure out how to grow grass inside).
SMU's football team played there a whopping three games. The Dallas Independent School District rented it out once. There was a one-day film shoot. A three-on-three soccer tournament was held. DeSoto took on Nimitz in a high-school football showdown. Cornerstone Marketing of America leased it for a photo shoot. Two concerts came through, including U2, which turned the Cotton Bowl into a giant Kmart.
And, of course, there was the annual Texas-Oklahoma game, the misnamed Cotton Bowl Classic, and the annual Al Lipscomb Classic featuring Grambling State and Prairie View.
What's not to like about Jordan's desires to fill the Cotton Dome 150 days of the year with college football games, conventions, rodeos, tractor pulls, maybe even the occasional Super Bowl? After all, any improvement to the facility is bound to bring much-needed money and warm bodies into Fair Park and South Dallas: Unlike the basketball and hockey arena, which draws local patrons, the Cotton Dome actually snares fans from out of town--fans who stay in hotels and rent cars and can help pay for the new arena.
And it's not as though the Cotton Bowl pours much money into the city's coffers now: During fiscal year 1996-'97, it brought in a meager $636,673 from rent, concession, and parking revenues--which is almost as much as it costs to maintain the decaying facility, according to Cotton Bowl manager Roland Rainey.
Jordan's got the right idea. The only question is: How in the hell will he make it work?
Mark Berger spends several days every month in the Magnolia Building in Fair Park, working in a small temporary office that doesn't hint at the grandeur that might one day be the Cotton Dome. All he has to point to is a model featuring the domed stadium smack in the middle of a glorious, whitewashed Fair Park--one that belongs to a possible tomorrow, not forgotten yesterdays.
Berger works for Network International, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia-based Spectacor Management Group, the latter of which manages stadiums and arenas and theaters all around the world--from the Superdome in New Orleans to the Oslo Spektrum in Norway. It's SMG and Berger's hope that if--no, wait...when--the Cotton Dome is completed, SMG will take over, booking events and managing the stadium's financial operations. Network International develops the stadium's advertising and merchandising concepts. That means, in short, it's Berger's job to sell the Cotton Dome.
Which isn't such an easy thing to do: He must market a product that doesn't exist. He pitches artists' renderings instead.
Since January 1997, when SMG and Network were brought in by the Cotton Dome Foundation, Berger has had to go to Coca-Cola, Southwest Airlines, Dr Pepper, EDS, NationsBank, and dozens of other multimillion-dollar corporations and peddle Jordan's dream of a Cotton Dome. He has had to ask the city's wealthiest companies to buy luxury boxes (for $1 million to $650,000) and club seats and private seat licenses (from $25,000 to a mere $5,000) in a Cotton Dome that may never happen.
So far, Berger has raised $28 million in suite sales. It's not nothing, but it's a long way away from everything. Even if Berger manages to bring in $75 million from the sale of suites and private seat licenses (known in the business as PSLs), it's likely the foundation will still have to borrow the other half of the money. According to Paul Dyer, director of the city's Park and Recreation Department, construction can't begin on the Cotton Dome until the foundation can prove it has all the money in hand through cash and loans.
That doesn't deter Berger, who speaks, like everyone else associated with this project, with a salesman's golden optimism.
"In developing $28 million in commitments last year, we feel that's been a good start," he says. "We're not going to be successful by achieving one suite sale at a time. We're out there making company-by-company presentations, but what's going to get us there are multimillion-dollar commitments from select companies and organizations."
So far, Jordan has managed to convince most everyone he's come into contact with to help out in some way--and to work for next to nothing, hoping it would lead to a big something down the road.
SMG joined the cause with the hope that it would be awarded the opportunity to manage the Cotton Dome. HKS Inc., the architectural firm that built the Ballpark in Arlington and is currently constructing a $250-million retractable-domed stadium for the Milwaukee Brewers, came up with the conceptual design to see if the Cotton Bowl could support a dome. Same with Datum Engineering, where Jordan's old University of Texas fraternity brother Tom Taylor works. (Appropriately, Taylor was once employed by Frank Chappell, the civil engineer who redesigned the Cotton Bowl in the mid-1940s.)
According to everyone involved in the project, only Coopers & Lybrand was paid to conduct its study in 1995. For everyone else, "this is our charity work," says HKS' Bryan Trubey, who's spearheading the project for his firm.
"We've gotten paid for our expenses," he says. "But I grew up here. I live in North Oak Cliff and lived in places all over the world, and I just feel this is one of the most important things that can happen in Dallas. When Darrell asked us, it felt like the right thing to do. And as an architect, it's something fine to do for our city."
Such is the happyspeak that seems to come from the mouths of everyone interviewed for this story. They're involved for the good of the city, because they want to rebuild Fair Park and the Southern sector; they beam with civic pride and responsibility and glow when they talk about restoring a piece of this city's history. It's the feel-good project of the year.
Darrell Jordan, an attorney at Hughes & Luce, says he initially began thinking about covering the Cotton Bowl in 1995, three weeks after he lost the mayor's race to Kirk. He says he was approached by some private investors about building luxury boxes in the Cotton Bowl. They wanted him to represent them in their bid to the city.
Jordan explains that he became interested in doing far more than that when he discovered the Cotton Bowl had lost its Tier I status with the NCAA's Bowl Alliance, the governing body that dictates where the national title game--if such a thing truly exists in college football, and it doesn't--would be played each year. The Alliance, using the same criteria as the NFL when picking a Super Bowl site, insists its big bowl game be played in stadiums with at least 70,000 seats. But more importantly, the NCAA also wants the host city to guarantee that the game won't be played in weather colder than 51 degrees--something Dallas, home of the surprise January 1 ice storm, can't do.
When Jordan, who got his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas and went to law school at SMU, learned that the Cotton Bowl had become a place where only the losers fought it out on New Year's Day, he became convinced the old place needed a lot more than just a few luxury boxes.
"I told them I didn't think what they were talking about was going to fix much," Jordan recalls. "So we started doing a bunch of what-ifs."
He called his old fraternity brother Tom Taylor and asked him how feasible it might be to dome the Cotton Bowl. Taylor was initially intrigued by the idea--he had, after all, learned from the very man responsible for the building's current look--and brought in HKS and HCB Contractors to begin working up models and studies to determine whether the structure could support a dome.
In the end, Taylor says, they found it would actually be rather simple: The new dome wouldn't rest on the current frame at all, but on four new foundations (or columns) to be placed around the structure. The existing walls would then be built up to meet the new roof. Easy.
But before Taylor and Jordan could proceed, they had to get their proposal past the Dallas Historical Society in Fair Park. Without the society's approval, the project was dead.
"Typically, they fuss about changing the color of a building, and to make such a dramatic difference to the structure would routinely be dismissed without reservation," Taylor says. "We were very conscious about attempting to come up with a design concept compatible with the Cotton Bowl. Having grown up with the Cotton Bowl and considering my relationship with Mr. Chappell, I certainly wouldn't want to damage something he had done so well and something that was on the national registry."
Taylor's concept for the new roof was surprisingly elegant: The dome's bow-string arc design was lifted from windows found in the Centennial Building, and the new roof would be flat over the seats and high only over the playing field. Taylor insists you will only be able to see the new dome if you're standing several blocks away from the Cotton Bowl.
"We wanted to make the Cotton Bowl the focus and not the roof," Taylor explains. "Not to say something 150 feet in the air isn't going to catch your eye."
The Historical Society approved the changes, as did the state and national historical registries in Austin. Jordan then had Coopers & Lybrand conduct a study to find out whether doming the Cotton Bowl was even a financially smart move. The accounting firm concluded it wasn't without its risks--any one of a number of elements could derail the project, not the least of which was Jerry Jones' desires for a new and improved Texas Stadium--but that they were far outweighed by the potential benefits.
A number of athletic directors at various universities expressed interest in the notion of bringing their football teams to Dallas to play neutral-site "home" games, for which they would be rewarded handsomely--about a million dollars a trip. Currently, the newly formed CB Marketing Group, a Dallas-based firm created by local businessman Al Wahl and former Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Gene Stallings, is negotiating to bring Texas A&M and Texas Tech to the Cotton Bowl for one game a year, during which they would play a round-robin schedule of non-conference games against such opponents as Notre Dame and Oklahoma State.
Even though CB Marketing is asking teams to forfeit a home game in their own stadium--a game that generates substantial revenue for the schools--Wahl insists it will be easy to pay visiting schools a million or more to play in the Cotton Dome. He says the money will come from ticket and concession revenue and rental fees, not to mention money generated by corporate sponsors such as Dr Pepper, which currently underwrites the annual Texas-OU game.
"I'll betcha money that the Texas-OU game brings more income into the city than most of the games played by the Mavericks and the Stars," Wahl says. "That's all local money. We're going to bring in people from all over the country, from the university towns. They come in and rent up the town, buy souvenirs, go out to dinner and bars. The economic multiplier of that is extremely significant."
The Coopers & Lybrand study also indicated that the Cotton Dome could indeed compete for such events as the Super Bowl and the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament, not to mention livestock shows and conventions and other events that need covered venues.
Coopers & Lybrand estimated that a covered stadium could generate more than $200 million for the city annually. Which isn't so outlandish: According to The Wall Street Journal, the 10-day-long Houston Livestock Show, held annually in the Astrodome, generates more than $42 million.
On April 10, 1996, Jordan got the first drop in the bucket: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of North Texas donated $500,000 to the Cotton Dome Foundation to help market the luxury suites and club seats to corporations. Electronic Data Systems threw in an additional $50,000.
Four months later, officials from the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, the body that oversees the New Year's Day game, agreed with Jordan's assessment that the stadium needed to be covered if the Classic were ever to host a national championship game. (Such hasn't been the case since 1978, when Notre Dame defeated top-ranked Texas.)
The CBAA had been informed in August 1994 that the stadium was no longer among the Tier I bowls and that national-title battles would be fought only at the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, and now the Rose Bowl. That news, coupled with the fact that the Southwest Conference was disintegrating in 1996--sending the major schools (including Texas and Texas A&M) to the Big 12 and the smaller universities (such as SMU and TCU) to the Western Athletic Conference--was crippling.
When the Cotton Bowl Classic hosted Colorado and Oregon on January 1, 1996, only 58,214 people turned out to watch a football game played in freezing rain that would later turn to snow. It was a far cry from the crowds of 73,000-plus just a few years earlier. The CBAA had no choice but to support the Cotton Dome movement.
"There would be no group that would benefit more from a domed stadium than the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association," says CBAA president Rick Baker. "Our game is at a time of the year when weather has been known to be an issue. But we're convinced the main issue has more to do with the Southwest Conference than anything else. We had the Southwest Conference champion here for 55 years, and when that stopped in 1996, the drop in attendance had more to do with the change in the way the Cotton Bowl was viewed."
The Alliance, which consists of the commissioners of each NCAA conference, allows each bowl to bid on becoming a Tier I site: They have to offer exposure, money, and, of course, good weather. And they have to be able to pay the teams well--$8 million is the going price these days, a far cry from the $2 million UCLA and Texas A&M pocketed after playing in this year's Classic.
You simply can't play for high stakes when you're so low-rent.
"They have to beg for cheers at Texas Stadium. No one ever had to beg for cheers at the Cotton Bowl."
--Former Dallas Cowboy Walt Garrison
From the moment it was completed in 1921, the old Fair Park football stadium--as it was first called, and it was a generous name even at that--was never good enough. The first structure was barely even a frame, just a wooden shell that held a mere 15,000 people. Most Dallasites thought it a waste of money--they took to calling it the city's "white elephant." The stadium wouldn't host its first sell-out until 1923, when SMU hosted Baylor.
On May 28, 1930, the old wooden frame was torn down when Mayor J. Waddy Pate broke ground on the new State Fair stadium (or Fair Park Bowl--newspapers could never quite decide on its name), which was tantamount to beginning construction on a ditch. After all, the stadium was really nothing more than a hole dug 24 feet below ground level with the discarded earth piled up around it, till it reached 15 feet above ground level. Concrete beams were laid on the excavated earth for the wooden decks and bench seating; such construction was called "cut and fill," which was appropriate enough, because the bowl became a puddle when it poured, a dry gulch during droughts. The bowl cost $328,000 to build and held 45,507 people--though only 25,000 showed up to sit on splintered wooden bleachers when the stadium hosted its first game (SMU 27, Indiana 0) on October 25, 1930.
In 1937, the bowl was finally christened the Cotton Bowl, and for the next decade it sat there, slowly washing away with each heavy rain. Before each season, engineers would have to go in and shore up the embankment between the field and the seats, using crossties and telephone poles. By 1941, the place looked like an experimental art project, and State Fair president Harry Seay was considering having the WPA come in and rebuild the entire bowl with concrete. The idea died when war broke out, and so the Cotton Bowl was left to melt away.
In 1943, local architect Frank Chappell took it upon himself to convince the city's leaders that they needed to turn their attention to rebuilding Fair Park, especially the Cotton Bowl. He began correspondence with Mayor Woodall Rodgers, First National Bank president Nathan Adams, Daily Times Herald president Tom Gooch, Dallas Morning News chairman of the board George Dealey, and others.
In a private letter dated August 19, 1943, Chappell wrote that the Cotton Bowl was "rapidly washing away" and that the expense of maintaining the crumbling facility far surpassed its worth. "Major reconstruction will be necessary in a very few years," he wrote. Chappell, sounding so much like his successors in the Cotton Dome venture, promised bigger and better things for Dallas if the city would only enlarge the Cotton Bowl--more college football games, national prominence that would rival Pasadena and New Orleans, anything under the sun. "The stadium," he insisted, "should be reconstructed on a larger and permanent basis."
By late 1945 and early '46, Chappell had come up with plans to replace the seats, rebuild the foundation (replacing the washed-away earth with concrete), and build a new press box. He wanted to expand the capacity to 100,000. When Chappell received the OK to begin construction in January 1947, the cost of the entire project was $750,000, to be paid for with bond money--and the Cotton Bowl would hold only 62,400.
The project was completed by the beginning of the 1948 season--at which point officials found the Cotton Bowl still too small to hold the sell-out crowds that came to witness the football heroics of SMU's Doak Walker, who ran his way into the Heisman history books. In 1949, Walker's senior year, the second upper deck was added on the stadium's west side, opposite the press box, and capacity grew to 75,510. The Cotton Bowl, known for 49 years as "The House that Doak Built," has remained virtually unchanged since then--save the aluminum seats that were installed in 1968 as a last-ditch effort to save the Bowl's most prominent host.
In 1960, the Bowl was home to both of Dallas' pro football teams--Lamar Hunt's American Football League Dallas Texans and Clint Murchison's NFL Dallas Cowboys. Both teams couldn't outdraw high school football, much less SMU: They competed for fans by giving away tickets and bringing in Roy Rogers to ride around the field. The town wasn't big enough for the two of them, so, at the end of the 1962 season, Hunt took his Texans to Kansas City, where they became the Chiefs, and left the Cotton Bowl to Murchison's struggling Cowboys.
"We had two host teams there, and neither could draw a fly," recalls Hunt, a current CBAA board member who is said to have attended every single New Year's Day game played in the Cotton Bowl since 1937. "We were drawing 10,000 people. The Texans needed to find a place to play."
Dallas Cowboys owner Clint Murchison wanted out of the Cotton Bowl four years later, when the Cowboys and Packers drew a sell-out crowd to the 1966 NFL title game in the Cotton Bowl. Murchison and team president Tex Schramm felt the club had outgrown the cramped, antiquated facility, and in 1966, Murchison insisted the city build him a new $55 million stadium in downtown, a place where he could develop the land (sound familiar?). The city balked and told Murchison that Dallas would only pay to refurbish the Cotton Bowl--hence, the turquoise and white seats present today. (The new seats reduced capacity to around 68,000.) Murchison tried to bluff the city fathers by purchasing 90 acres in Irving for a million bucks, but it didn't work. Mayor J. Erik Jonsson stood firm...and watched the Cowboys leave for Irving in 1971, which some locals still haven't forgotten or forgiven.
"I can't say there was anything wrong about what the Cowboys did," Hunt says. "Clint took the initiative and built a facility that's proven to be an outstanding facility. Of course, I was sorry they didn't stay there."
The move upset players and fans alike: Texas Stadium (which currently holds 65,675) was the antithesis of the blue-collar Cotton Bowl. It was an arrogant monument to greed, from the luxury boxes to the hole in the roof that, uh, allowed God to watch His Team, and it all but forced the die-hard Cowboys fans to watch their team on TV. They couldn't afford the steep ticket prices; the beer folks had been traded up for the champagne crowd. Black players were particularly incensed because they believed the move to the new digs in Irving priced out the South Dallas regulars who could afford tickets to the regular-joe Cotton Bowl.
"Texas Stadium was a king's lair, with fans who belonged in a king's court," wrote John Eisenberg in last year's Cotton Bowl Days, a history of the glory years spent growing up with the young Cowboys. "Home games were no longer emotional outpourings; they were social occasions marked by reserved, 'tasteful' cheering from a crowd that felt it was above traditional football rabble-rousing...It was so quiet in there. It was bizarre."
There was more talk of doming the Cotton Bowl in 1983--it was dismissed as "financially unfeasible" at the time, says former State Fair marketing director Bob Halford--but it would remain untouched till 1993, when the city decided to spent $14 million to upgrade the stadium to host six 1994 World Cup games. Even then, the alterations were minor: A grass field replaced the artificial turf, wiring was updated, restrooms were cleaned and fixed, concession stands were revamped, and some work was done to the exterior. But it was like using a Band-Aid to fix the hole in the Titanic. Look at the stadium now, and it's still a throwback--about as modern as the Edsel.
"Like everything, it does wear out and has to be refurbished," Hunt says. "It has great sightlines and great history and recollections, but it also has other things that aren't so good. Still, if you look back at the history of the stadium, think of all the things it has meant to Dallas.
"There would be no Texas-OU game here without it. There would be no New Year's Day game here. And what about all those great SMU-Notre Dame games? Without that stadium, this city wouldn't have been a part of professional football. The World Cup clearly would not have been played in Dallas without the Cotton Bowl. I am certainly interested in the Cotton Bowl's history--and its future."
"1999: The 81,000-seat Cotton Dome gives Dallas a world-class domed stadium, at the dawn of the 21st Century."
--Cotton Dome promotional materials
Don't hold your breath.
Still needing $122 million, Darrell Jordan knows there won't be a Cotton Dome next year. Or, most likely, the year after that. Or--be realistic--the year after that. But the man is stubborn, insisting to this very moment that he can and will have the necessary money by the middle of this year.
He and Berger hint at substantial corporate donations they expect to come their way as soon as the Cotton Dome Foundation and the city sign a master agreement, which the two parties have been hammering out for several months.
According to Paul Dyer, the agreement maintains that construction will take place over the course of two State Fair periods, with construction pausing during the fair. The Cotton Dome people must also leave the stadium in playing condition during the State Fair, for the Texas-OU game and the Lipscomb Classic, and for the New Year's Day game.
The city is also working out details about who will manage the facility: The Cotton Dome Foundation wants control of the stadium for 40 years, during which time it can pay off what's likely to be substantial debt service. The foundation also will bring in an outside party to manage the facility--say, someone like SMG, which has worked with the NFL and NCAA to bring Super Bowls and Final Fours to its other facilities. But it's not a done deal: Jordan insists that there will be outside bidding, and that the city will have some (but not final) say in the selection process.
"It's still a contract in the negotiation phase," Dyer says of the master agreement. "There are some issues and a lot of parties involved. Managing Fair Park is probably the most multifaceted management problem in the city because of all the establishments in Fair Park. They [the Cotton Dome Foundation] will have to work with the institutions and their special events. There's a lot of ground to cover."
Jordan and Berger insist that once the agreement is completed, several major corporations will make substantial donations--who and how, they're not saying. Berger also says the debt service should be cut significantly by the sale of naming rights alone, which are going for between $1 to $2 million a year these days on 20-year contracts. Plus, Berger adds, it will be easier to sell the luxury suites and club seat licenses once construction begins.
If the Cotton Dome receives any money from the city, it's likely to come from leftover 1995 bond money that was supposed to go toward minor repairs to restrooms and concession stands, though Jordan hasn't asked for any city help--and the city hasn't offered. Kirk is too busy pushing his Trinity River plan to bother with the Cotton Bowl, and before that, he was too busy trying to get voters to pay for Ross Perot Jr. and Tom Hicks' new cash machine near downtown. (Kirk didn't return calls from the Dallas Observer.)
So Jordan is on his own, left to depend upon the kindness of strangers to build his shrine to civic responsibility. He is undaunted by the task before him, confident that construction will begin on the new Cotton Dome by the end of the year...or the beginning of next year...or...we'll see.
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As he ambles up the steps of the Cotton Bowl, back toward an empty Fair Park filled only with the sounds of the occasional inline skater rolling across concrete, he is asked if he had been elected mayor whether he would have called on voters to pay for the Cotton Dome rather than a new arena for the basketball and hockey teams. He pauses and smiles.
"I don't think they're exclusive," he begins. "You've got professional teams that need to make more money. The city owns this already. It's not in the condition it needs to be to be a competitive stadium."
Sure, but it just seems more viable to rebuild a city landmark that will bring new money into the city than it does to build a new arena that will profit Hicks and Perot.
"I can't get into that," he says, still smiling, almost grinning. "It wouldn't make any sense for us to get into a dispute with the city over its choice of priorities. I say this is a priority that we'll stay hitched to, and let others talk about the arena and the way it's going to be financed and all that. We're not being critical. We're just saying we want to stay focused on our deal, and we hope the city will give it the attention it deserves, and I have every confidence it will.


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BAOQUANLING, China (Reuters) - China needs to replace millions of workers who have quit farms for cities, but even its vast state power might not be able to transform the countryside into a network of big industrial farms capable of feeding its growing economy.
Pulling together small plots of land to make larger operations and introducing modern mechanical techniques would help boost productivity, vital if China's agricultural sector is to meet soaring domestic food demand.
But efforts to modernize the sector are struggling to gain traction because many farmers are suspicious about giving up their land, and even for some mechanized farms, there are too few workers.
Guaranteeing food security is a major tenet of the ruling Communist Party. The country is self-sufficient in rice and wheat, but is struggling to meet corn demand and has long given up trying to satisfy soy demand. It is the world's biggest importer of soybeans, and a major buyer of corn.
It has increased grains output for nine straight years and aims to add 50 million tonnes per year by 2020 to the record 571.21 million tonnes of grain harvested in 2011.
"It now needs the government to come out and manage the land of those who give consent, and improve economies of scale," said Fu Xuejun, a manager at the Baoquanling farm, owned by the Beidahuang Group, a huge state-owned farming conglomerate in Heilongjiang in northeast China.
Some say China should give up its fixation with self-sufficiency and take advantage of growing grains trade internationally.
"China used to emphasize self-sufficiency because the international environment was not favorable," said Li Guoxiang, researcher with the Rural Development Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). "Food security should have two aims - one is domestic production and the other is the ability to buy overseas."
The challenge of reviving the farming sector is daunting at a time when both the rural population and available agricultural land are shrinking.
The number of rural workers has been falling for years because of a low birth rate, an ageing population and most importantly the lure of China's fast-growing cities.
Between 1982 and 2010, when China's overall population rose by a third, the number of registered rural residents fell to around 710 million from 790 million, Reuters calculations based on census data show.
The real rural population is likely to be lower though, because many of 260 million migrants working in cities are registered in their home villages.
Millions of hectares per year of farming land are being lost to urban and industrial development. China's 2011-2015 plan for the farm sector allocates at least 104 million hectares for crops, an area the size of Egypt, compared with 120 million hectares in the previous plan. The main problem is persuading farmers not to abandon their plots.
Some land is simply lying fallow, as farmers find better pay elsewhere but still prefer not to give up their land.
"There is a lot of talk about urbanization and urban expansion encroaching on agricultural land but I often argue that non-farm wages are more relevant to whether land gets kept in production," said Bryan Lohmar, an agricultural economist and China director of the U.S. Grains Council. "A lot of land is left fallow because nobody wants to farm it."
Reflecting those wage gaps, 69-year old corn grower Li Huamin said he could earn as much from leasing out his land as from planting.
His 36-year-old son plans to abandon the plot near the state-owned farm of Suibin, a few miles from the Russian border, and open a restaurant.
"Young people aren't willing to be farmers anymore and leave to work or study in the cities - more than half have gone already," he said.
More than half of China's ploughing, planting and harvesting is carried out by machines, compared with a third a decade ago, but the biggest challenge lies in aggregating farms to develop economies of scale.
Li of CASS said studies have shown only 13-15 percent of small farmers have agreed to aggregate their land or transfer it to commercial farmers.
"The government simply can't go too fast and transfer land too quickly because of the impact on rural social stability," Li said.
Often, if a group of farmers sell, local governments use the land for more profitable industrial uses, and some farmers are reluctant to give up their land.
"Many think that if they transfer their land they won't be allowed to go back, so there are plots that are just empty because the farmers have gone to the cities but don't dare to lease out their land," said Li.
Heilongjiang became the country's largest grain producer in 2011 when yields rose 11 percent from 2010 as farmers deployed bigger and better machinery for threshing and ploughing.
Beijing wants to lift that to 65-70 percent by 2020, but the increased use of machines in most farms was a reaction to rising labor costs, not a drive to meet government targets.
"The core issue is, who will plant for us and ensure food security in future following urbanization and industrialization?" said Zong Jinyao, an official in charge of mechanization of the Ministry of Agriculture.
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Blackhawks vs. Bruins Stanley Cup Final previewNHL.com @NHLdotcom
Chicago BlackhawksSeed: 1 • 36-7-5 • 77 Pts.
Boston BruinsSeed: 4 • 28-14-6 • 62 Pts.
The first Original Six Stanley Cup Final since 1979 is a reality.
In 1979, the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers met in the Final with the Canadiens winning the last of four-straight titles with a five-game victory.
Now, the Boston Bruins, who swept the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins to win the Eastern Conference title, and the Chicago Blackhawks, who knocked out the defending champion Los Angeles Kings, renew their Original Six rivalry in the 2013 Stanley Cup Final with each looking to add to a recent championship. The Bruins won the Cup against the Vancouver Canucks in 2011 -- succeeding the Blackhawks, who defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in 2010.
Game 1 is Wednesday at United Center in Chicago (8 p.m. ET; NBC, CBC, RDS).
Despite being rivals since the inception of the League, the Bruins and Blackhawks do not have much of a postseason history. This will be the seventh time the teams have met in the playoffs, and the first since a four-game sweep by Boston in the 1978 Quarterfinals that continued the Bruins' domination of the postseason meetings between the two teams.
The teams did not play each other during the 2012-13 regular season because of the 48-game truncated schedule caused by the lockout.
Chicago is the favorite coming out of the gate. The Blackhawks won the Presidents' Trophy as the NHL's best team; they finished 15 points ahead of Boston (77-62), which ended up fourth in the East.
The teams have followed similar paths to reach the final checkpoint in the grueling marathon that is the march to the Stanley Cup. Each survived a seven-game scare -- Boston against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round; Chicago against the Detroit Red Wings in the second round -- but dominated in their other two series.
The finalists are very similar in construction. Each features a goalie playing at an elite level, a varied defense corps capable of playing both ends of the ice, and a deep fleet of forwards that features a potential game-changer on each line.
All in all, it appears to be a recipe for an unforgettable Stanley Cup Final.
The Blackhawks have four world-class forwards, and being able to move them around on the top two lines has given coach Joel Quenneville some options in the playoffs. Typically, Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa are on one unit with Patrick Kane and Patrick Sharp on the other.
Hossa has been the team's most consistent forward, and Sharp has provided plenty of goals. Toews and Kane have struggled at times, though Kane had a hat trick in the conference final-clinching win, and Toews set up his linemate's winner in double-OT.
The real star of this postseason for the Blackhawks has been rugged forward Bryan Bickell. He has proven adept at playing off the stars on one of the top lines, providing a physical element and the ability to cause chaos in front of the opposing goaltender.
Michal Handzus has been a surprise since being promoted to No. 2 center in the middle of the second round. Andrew Shaw and Viktor Stalberg have been a bit inconsistent -- impactful at times, less so at others -- on the third line, and Michael Frolik and Marcus Kruger have been great on the penalty kill.
Though known as a defense-first team, the Bruins can score. In fact, they have the most goals of any team in this tournament.
However, Boston doesn't really have a star system. As David Krejci said when asked if he was in the same class as Penguins superstars Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, the Bruins are a team, and teamwork is the foundation of all they do.
But make no mistake, Krejci is a superstar. He leads the Stanley Cup Playoffs with 21 points in 16 games and has scored several big goals, like his series-opening strike against the Penguins.
He is joined by some skilled peers. Center Patrice Bergeron is a defensive whiz but also scores clutch goal after clutch goal, including in double overtime in Game 3 of the conference final.
Nathan Horton, Krejci's linemate, has 17 points and is a plus-14. Milan Lucic, the other piece of the top line, is an elite power forward and has 13 points. Brad Marchand, a wing on Bergeron's line, also has 13 points. The other wing on that line is the legendary Jaromir Jagr, who appears to be hitting his stride in the later rounds of the playoffs.
Boston is so deep up front that nine of its 13 forwards have scored a goal, and 10 have three or more points.
The Bruins lost Gregory Campbell because of a broken leg sustained blocking a shot in Game 3 of the conference final. It will be interesting to see what his absence means long term.
Duncan Keith has been great, though he did miss a game in the Western Conference Final after being suspended for a retaliatory high-stick to the face of Kings forward Jeff Carter. The Blackhawks got by without Keith because of a surprisingly good effort from Michal Rozsival, but they won't want to be forced to play without their No.1 D-man again.
Brent Seabrook struggled in the first half of the second round against Detroit, but has looked like his old self since. He and Keith have been dynamic since being reunited for Game 5 against the Red Wings.
Niklas Hjalmarsson probably deserves more credit than he gets for being a strong No. 3. He and Johnny Oduya have been solid as the team's second pairing. Nick Leddy hasn't had the postseason expected of him, and his ice time has been reduced on the third pair. Rozsival struggled at times, but he was great in the game Keith missed while suspended.
The six defensemen are the undeniable foundation of the Bruins, who have allowed fewer than two goals per game.
Zdeno Chara might be the best defenseman in the League and was the focal point of a scheme that held the Penguins to two goals in the conference final. His work against Malkin was brilliant.
Chara's regular partner, Dennis Seidenberg, is among the most underrated defensive defensemen in the game. Andrew Ference returned from injury for the conference final, which was important for the Bruins because it evened the pairs again and allowed coach Claude Julien to match his second pairing against the Crosby line.
Johnny Boychuk and Adam McQuaid are conscientious, stay-at-home players. Rookie Torey Krug, inserted into the lineup because of injuries, injected life into the power play.
As good as Boston's defenders are defensively, they also contribute on offense. Boston has 15 goals from its defenders, including McQuaid's game-winner in Game 4 against Pittsburgh. Every defenseman who has dressed has at least one point.
This postseason could be remembered for Corey Crawford's breakout. Crawford has been solid, and sometimes spectacular, for the Blackhawks. They don't ask him to win too many games, but he hasn't been losing them either. He's also beaten Detroit's Jimmy Howard, who was playing at an elite level, and L.A.'s Jonathan Quick, who might be the best goalie in the world. It is pretty tough to argue with that.
Ray Emery had a fantastic season as Chicago's No. 1A goaltender and was a big reason the Blackhawks earned the William Jennings Trophy for the fewest goals allowed during the regular season. He hasn't played in a while now but is a pretty nice insurance policy should anything happen to Crawford.
Tuukka Rask was good in the first two rounds of the playoffs. He is otherworldly now.
Against Pittsburgh, Rask stopped 134 of 136 shots for an almost incomprehensible .985 save percentage. He had two shutouts in the series and allowed one goal in the final two games. His quick glove save against Jarome Iginla at the buzzer of Game 4 to protect a 1-0 lead will be a permanent part of his individual sizzle reel for years to come.
Rask has been so good he is making Boston fans forget the brilliance of Tim Thomas, who led the Bruins to the Cup two years ago with a performance that turned him into a local legend. Rask's numbers -- 12-4 record, 1.75 goals-against average and .948 save percentage -- are better than those of Thomas after three rounds in 2011.
Quenneville has made several key adjustments to get the Blackhawks into the Final.
With Chicago trailing 3-1 in the conference semifinals against Detroit, he reunited Seabrook and Keith on the top defense pair. Seabrook, who had been struggling, picked up his game after being paired with Keith and has been one of Chicago's top blueliners since.
In Game 4 of the conference final, when Keith couldn't play because of a suspension, Quenneville smartly gave Rozsival extra ice time and he answered with a strong game. The coach also put Kane with Toews and Bickell in the second period of Game 4 against L.A. and they scored the game-tying goal on their second shift as a line. It was Kane's first goal in eight games.
Julien has never gotten enough credit for what he has accomplished with the Bruins. Boston has won seven of its past eight playoff series, and the loss came in Game 7 against the Washington Capitals last season.
He has an implicit trust in his team and plays to the strength of his roster. His use of his fourth line before the Campbell injury was a perfect illustration; Julien allowed his grinders to play against the top lines from other teams, showing the entire Boston lineup that hard work and defensive responsibility will always be rewarded.
Julien is a master tactician who has the rare ability to get the matchups he wants, even on the road, mainly because he uses his defensemen more than his forwards in matching situations. He is unflappable, displaying a preternatural calmness that bleeds into his team, even in the most dire circumstances.
Special Teams
Chicago had the best penalty kill in the Western Conference during the regular season (87.2 percent). It has been more than 7 percent better in the playoffs (94.8 percent).
The Blackhawks penalty kill is 55-for-58 through 17 games. Frolik and Kruger are arguably the best forward duo in shorthanded situations. They're not only aggressive in the defensive zone, but they have enough skill to create scoring chances. Chicago does a great job of getting in shooting lanes and blocking shots. Crawford has been excellent too.
Despite the amount of talent Chicago has on its power play, it has struggled with the extra man all season. Chicago has connected on 13.7 percent it its power plays in the playoffs, though that hasn't mattered much because the penalty kill has been so good.
The Bruins' power play wasn't good against the Penguins, going 0-for-the series. But it didn't have to be; Boston got enough scoring at even strength. Even with those struggles, the Bruins are better on the power play this postseason than they were when they won the Cup.
Boston is excelling when down a man. Pittsburgh was on the man advantage 15 times in the conference final and didn't score a goal. The kill is anchored by Seidenberg and Chara. Campbell was a key part of the unit and will have to be replaced.
Series Changer
Brent Seabrook: Seabrook has been effective since being reunited with Keith in Game 5 against the Red Wings. The Blackhawks will need him to be one of their most physical players against the Bruins, who will try to play a similar type of style Chicago saw from Los Angeles. Seabrook can play that game. He is a take-a-hit-to-make-a-play defenseman.
However, the Blackhawks also need Seabrook's skill in order to get to their transition game quickly so the Bruins wind up playing on their heels. They want the Bruins skating backward through the neutral zone. That will give Seabrook the opportunity to join the rush, which can be a big part of his game.
Milan Lucic: When the big power forward is on top of his game, he is almost unstoppable. There are few defenseman who can handle his unique mix of size and skill; Pittsburgh inserted defenseman Deryk Engelland, sacrificing offense in the process, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to do so. Lucic can wear down a team in a long series; just ask Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik, who took a debilitating hit from Lucic in Game 3.
Lucic's ability and willingness to get in on the forecheck and start the cycle allows Krejci the room required to bring his offensive wizardry into play. But when Lucic is not engaged, he is conspicuous for the lack of effect he has on the game. Therefore, he will have to be fully engaged in the Final for Boston to have the best chance to win.
Blackhawks will win if ... They use their speed and transition game in order to get the puck deep so they can play in the offensive zone. If you've heard this before -- well, it's because you have. This is the exact recipe for success the Blackhawks had against the Kings. If the Bruins are better in the neutral zone, Chicago will be in deep trouble. The Blackhawks have to win that area of the ice because success there leads to the type of offensive game they have to play.
Bruins will win if ... They play like they did against the Penguins. Essentially, the Bruins played a perfect series to bounce Pittsburgh in four straight. Boston received opportunistic offense, played patient and conscientious defense, got elite-level goaltending, excelled at penalty killing and kept its cool when Pittsburgh couldn't.
The Bruins can do it again because all of those things are part of the foundation of the system for success, one that was validated with a Stanley Cup triumph 24 months ago. If they are hitting successfully on each one, they become a team with few flaws that is nearly impossible to rattle or break down.
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This is my husband. He has just walked down the steps of the Jefferson Memorial and is looking out across to the Washington Memorial. How can you visit Washington D.C. and not be reduced many times to moments of reflection? This place makes you think about the ones that came before us and how important it is to preserve their dream.
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Oklahoma Military Records
This entry was originally written by Wendy Bebout Elliott Ph.D., FUGA for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Military records are available for Oklahoma prior to statehood. Bounty-land and military service records are located either at the National Archives or the Southwest Region branch in Fort Worth (see page 12). See also Odie B. Faulk, Kenny A. Franks, and Paul F. Lambert, eds., Early Military Forts and Posts in Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1978). For a historical perspective, see Brad Agnew, Fort Gibson: Terminal on the Trail of Tears (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), who argues that the troops served as a cultural buffer between whites and Indians. Names of soldiers who accompanied Native Americans during the federal government's forced removal of tribes can be found in U.S. Senate Document 512.
Confederate and Union service as well as other military service records are available from the National Archives (see pages 11-12). Some Civil War applications for pensions and pension records are extant at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, State Archives Division (see Oklahoma Archives, Libraries, and Societies). Included are records for Confederate veterans (and their widows) who served elsewhere but were residents of Oklahoma when allocated pensions. These are filed numerically and indexed separately. See Oklahoma Board of Pension Commissioners, Confederate Pension Applications for Soldiers and Sailors (Oklahoma City: Archives and Records Division, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, n.d.). Data on a Confederate pension from Oklahoma may be obtained from the Oklahoma Department of Welfare, Capitol Office Bldg., Oklahoma City, OK 73103.
Index to Applications for Pensions from the State of Oklahoma Submitted by Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and their Widows (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1969), Special Publication No. 2, gives veteran's name, application number, and number of the reel for locating the pension file on microfilm.
Native American military units were part of Texas organizations, and are filed with those units, not as separate units for Indian Territory. Some confederate service records may be filed with the State Adjutant General's Office or the Oklahoma Historical Society, Archives and Manuscripts Division. See also Grant Foreman, History of the Service and List of Individuals of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Confederate Army, 2 vols. (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1948); and Frank Cunningham, General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians, with a foreword by Brad Agnew (1959. Reprint. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).
Other publications include N. Dale Talkington and Deone K. Pearcy, Tributes of Blue: Obrcy, ituaries of Civil War Union Soldiers and Sailors Buried in Oklahoma. (Tehachapi, Calif.: T. P. Productions, 1996) and Oklahoma Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 15, Veteran Burials in the State of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Genealogical Society, 1999).
Online sources include the USGenWeb (see page 16) project for Oklahoma military records, and an online guide to Oklahoma Historical Society materials in its collection is available www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/lib/military.htm.
The Oklahoma Historical Society maintains a card file of veterans buried in Oklahoma. These data cards may include full name, birth date, death date, burial place, and military service unit data. The society also has incomplete records for the Confederate Home located in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Other records at the society include those contained in the Indian Archives section, such as muster rolls of the Indian Home Guard, which are on microfilm. These are arranged by tribe, then by unit.
A description of records held in the National Archives for World War I draft records is:
United States. Selective Service System. Oklahoma Historical Society. Oklahoma, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917'1918. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1987'1988.


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Occasionally some one asks for ideas on furling jigs / boards. Thought a thread devoted to various models would be useful, or at least interesting.
Mine is pretty much cobbled together with stuff from Home Depot. The table is simply a plywood sheet rested on a couple collapsible sawhorses. The wings on the far ( left side in photo ) side let me extend the two boards in my basic jig to 14' and let me furl lines / leaders up to about 12' long for Tenkara rods.
The sliding carriage at the tip end is connected to a tension device and allows for reduction and relaxation of the leader during twisting and furling. On my original jig, a tension devise was the most difficult problem to solve. The carriage was the only solution I came up with. The tension devise is a length of stretch cord and a box end wrench of the appropriate weight. The fish hook on the post facilitates incorporating a tip ring before furling begins.
The posts or pegs are dowells set at spacing 40% of the distance from the butt to the tip on one side and 70% of that distance on the other side. This results in a configuration of 40% butt section, 30% mid section, and 30% tip section. Changing the spacing / configution would require a couple seconds with a drill to relocate the posts anywhere along the board. I chose the 40-30-30 configuration after reading a number of articles on leader construction. There may be better configurations, but this one works for me.
The gear system consists of two driven gears turning hooks for twisting / furling and a driving gear at a 5:1 ratio. Found the gears on an internet site. They were the most expensive component of the jig, but should last for quite a while.
Power by Ryobi as in a low end variable speed reversible drill. Since I use formulas for making leaders rather than using the "reduction" or "pig tailing" approaches, a lower speed drill is necessary so I can count revolutions / twists. Since I power furl rather than let the twisted leader material relax under tension, the reversible feature is essential to my system.
P.S. I just happened to clean up my work area yesterday after furling several leaders. Otherwise I would never have taken photos of my set up and started this thread.


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Your Peugeot servicing at Servicing Stop caters for all models within the Peugeot vehicle range, if you do not see your vehicle in the list below please call us and we will give you a quote for your car service accordingly.
The Interim and Full Service schedule descriptions we provide are just a guide of what we do and will vary on what each Manufacturer service schedule says, some additional items maybe required to comply with your warranty. However, we always provide a complete quote before anything additional is carried out.
Change oil and oil filter (special oils at extra charge). Top up bonnet fluid levels. Check brakes. Check steering. Check suspension. Check tyres. Check pollen filter. Collection and delivery.
Change oil and oil filter (special oils if required £24.00 + VAT). Top up bonnet fluid levels. Check brakes (remove wheels). Check brake fluid. Check steering. Check suspension. Check tyres. Check pollen filter. Change air filter. Replace spark plugs if applicable (at extra cost). Collection and delivery.
|Initial Checks
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10 points
|Collect vehicle from specified address
|Check vehicle history
|Note customer comments and recommendations
|Check for damage to body work
|Check trims
|Check lamps
|Check number plates
|Check mirrors
|Check timing belt interval
|Log vehicle condition using Servicing Stop mobile app
|Vehicle on the ground
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35 points
|Check ABS
|Check all interior warning lights
|Check horn
|Check condition and operation of seatbelts
|Check operation of interior lights and switches
|Check operation of exterior lights and switches
|Check front and rear windscreen wipers and washers
|Check condition and security of windscreen
|Check condition and security of rear view mirror
|Check fuel cap
|Check air conditioning
|Check and top up power steering reservoir
|Check PAS
|Check auxiliary belt
|Check fan belts
|Check pollen/cabin filter
|Check battery condition and security
|Check clutch operation
|Check handbrake operation and travel
|Check and top up gearbox oil
|Check and top up axle oil
|Check and top up transfer box oil (if applicable)
|Check and top up all under bonnet fluid levels
|Check and top up brake fluid
|Check and top up antifreeze
|Check and top up clutch fluid
|Lubricate door hinges
|Lubricate catches and locks (where required)
|Check coolant systems for leaks
|Check engine cooling fan
|Check operation of throttle and lubricate as required
|Replace air filter
|Replace spark plugs if applicable (at extra cost)
|Visually inspect condition of HT leads
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|Replace engine oil (specialist if required £24.00 + VAT)
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|Check condition and security of steering
|Check condition and security of suspension
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|Check exhaust system for security and leaks
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|Check brake pipes
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|Check condition of distributor cap
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|Test starter motor cranking operation and security
|Visually inspect radiator and coolant pipes/hoses for security and leaks
|Check all wheel bearings for noise/free play
|Check tyre condition and adjust pressure (if required)
|Check and record brake pads/shoes for condition and operation
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|Check condition and operation of front brakes (wheels removed)
|Check condition and operation of rear brakes (wheels removed)
|Refit wheels (if applicable) - set wheel torque
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Skylar Laine, Michael Grimm to headline Vicksburg RiverFest
26th annual event set for April 19-20
RiverFest organizers announced Wednesday that Mississippi artists Skylar Laine and Michael Grimm will headline this year's event in Vicksburg.
"Skylar and Michael fit in perfectly with this year's theme, 'Bringing it All Back Home,'" said Johnny Reynolds, RiverFest board of directors' president. "2013's RiverFest is all about supporting our Mississippi artists and showcasing the talents of our state.
The 26th annual event is set for April 19-20 in downtown Vicksburg. Two stages will feature local and regional talent on Washington Street. The north stage will be located at the China Street intersection and the south stage will be at the River Stage Plaza on Crawford Square.
Laine, a Brandon native, placed fifth on Season 11 of "American Idol." She will perform Friday night at RiverFest.
Grimm, who grew up with his grandparents in Waveland, was crowned the Season 5 winner of "America's Got Talent." He will take the stage Saturday night at RiverFest.
Go to riverfestms.com for times, ticket prices, performers and event information.


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It's a new year, and that means new book award nominations. Earlier in the month, the Man Asian Literary Prize, honoring the best novel by an Asian writer written in or translated into English, announced its 2012 shortlist. The nominees represent the nations of Pakistan, Japan, Turkey, Malaysia and India. You can read more about the finalists here, and the winner will be announced on March 14.
Check out the contenders!
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Between Clay and Dust by Musharraf Ali Farooqi (not yet available in a U.S. edition)
The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami (look for this title in our catalog in February)
The National Book Critics Circle also announced the finalists for its annual awards, and they include many popular and critically acclaimed titles from 2012. The NBCC Awards recognize the best books published in the United States in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Among the fiction finalists are Laurent Binet, whose HHhH won France's top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Poetry finalists include David Ferry, 2012 National Book Award Winner. Read more about all of the NBCC contenders here. The winners will be announced on February 28.
And the nominees are:
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande
My Poets by Maureen N. McLane
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
In the House of the Interpreter by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro
All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra
Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography by Lisa Jarnot
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture by Daniel Mendelsohn
Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
NW by Zadie Smith
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo
Fragile Acts by Allan Peterson
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell
Olives by A. E. Stallings
If we don't have it at Oakland Public Library, try LinkPlus. If you're new to LinkPlus, read this.
Three finalists for the Story Prize were also announced earlier in January. The Story Prize is an annual prize that recognizes the finest collection of short stories written in English and published in in the United States. It was originally established to recognize the short form since it is often overlooked for larger awards. This year they added an additional prize, The Story Prize Spotlight Award, to recognize an additional collection of short fiction. The first ever Spotlight Award will be given to author Krys Lee for her debut collection Drifting House. Read more about this year's nominations here. The winner will be announced on March 13.
Check out one of the 2012 Story Prize finalists:
Stay Awake by Dan Chaon
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
And the winner of the 2012 Story Prize Spotlight Award:
Drifting House by Krys Lee
If that isn't enough book award excitement for you, the Mystery Writers of America recently announced finalists for the Edgar Awards. In order to heighten the mystery, I'll wait to post those lists next week. If you can't handle the suspense, you can view the nominees here.
Posted on 1/20/2013 by Christy Thomas, Librarian, Main Library.


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What's on: Calendar
Sunday 9 February 2020
9:15am – 10:30am
Morning Service
Provision for children aged 0-14.
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Morning Service
Provision for children aged 0-18.
Categories Sundays, Children, Youth, Students, Adults, Family
12:30pm – 3pm
Mandarin Fellowship
A place Chinese speakers in Sheffield a place to make friends, be part of a community, and learn about the Christian faith. Please bring a packed lunch. Children are welcome.More info
Monday 10 February 2020
10am – 11:30am
Small Talk
A warm, welcoming, friendly atmosphere and a safe play environment for small children and adultsMore info
Categories Pre-School, Family
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Music Ministry Rehearsals
Category Music
Tuesday 11 February 2020
7pm – 9pm
Students at Seven
Student small groups, 'Students at Seven', meets on Tuesday evenings in the Church Centre. The evening begins with a meal, followed by a Bible study, discussion and prayer.More info
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Wednesday 12 February 2020
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Bible Training Yorkshire is a course designed to equip Bible teachers and leaders for faithful and purposeful future ministry. Click 'more info' for further details of the course and how to apply.More info
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Support and friendship for new and expecting mums.More info
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The 'Friday Club' is a meeting place for retired people that offers a great meal, table, board and card games, newspapers, carpet bowls and, not least, time to talk and make new friends.More info
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TIJUANA, Mexico, November 3, 2013 - The next NORCECA Congress
will be in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in October 2015.
The delegates voted enthusiastically in favor of the famous
tourist region for the biennial meetings, which was the only
candidature submitted in the last session of the two-day general
assembly that gathered together delegates from 40 National
Federations and Territories.
The presentation of the Dominican Republic's candidacy was made
by Jose Aybar, vice president of the Dominican Volleyball
The region of Punta Cana in the eastern part of the Dominican
Republic hosted the 2005 and 2011 NORCECA Congress. It was also the
site of the FIVB and Board of Administration meetings in 2009.
The delegates also approved two new age-group categories
starting in 2014: The U-15 and U-23 Championships.
The representatives of the VIS and Statistics, Media, Medical,
Technical and Development commissions made summarized reports of
the activities of their respective areas for the past two years.
They are Judith Sandino, Roosevelt Comarazamy, Victor Figueroa,
Ariel Sainz and Mushtaque Mohammed.
Then Saul Castro Verdugo, president of the Sport Organizing
Commission, made a compared report about the increase of the number
of countries who hosted events over the last two years.
The number of countries grew up to 25 for a 59 percentage of the
totality of the NF affiliated to NORCECA. He pointed out that in
the past the circle of countries willing to be hosts was reduced to
only five.
It was also announced that Wilbur Harrigan of Antigua and
Warrenton Dixon of Jamaica, were selected as new members of the
NORCECA Board of Administration.
On Saturday, the members of the Finance, Beach Volleyball, Legal
and Refereeing commissions presented their respective reports
before the Congress, the highest authority in the structure or
During the Congress the National Federations of Mexico,
Guatemala, Jamaica and Saint Lucia were recognized for their
outstanding performance while hosting events and developing the
sport in their countries.
Also Jacques Joachim and Edgar Alvarado, of Haiti and Costa
Rica, received the FIVB Silver Collar for outstanding services to
the sport. It was also designated a high commission which will
travel to Cuba to present the Golden Collar to Eugenio George
Laffita, who couldn't attend due to delicate health.
The XXII NORCECA Congress was attended by four confederation's
president along with the FIVB President Dr. Ary
Graça which was an
unprecedented fact in the history of FIVB.
Dr. Saleh Bin Nasser of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, president
of Asian Confederation, Dr. Amr Elwani of Egypt, president of
African Confederation, Dr. Rafael Lloreda Currea of Colombia,
president of South American Confederation, and Cristobal Marte
Hoffiz of Dominican Republic, president of NORCECA, all attended
the two-day meetings.
At the conclusion of the meetings, the delegates took part in
the opening ceremony of the new FIVB-NORCECA Regional Development
Center located at the Baja California High Performance Center in
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Back in the day, Al Hurricane hit the road and played with the likes of Fats Domino and Marvin Gaye. But he's firmly rooted in Albuquerque, where he raised his seven kids.
We're so glad to have Mr. Hurricane play our Taco USA party tonight at El Pinto. Read up on the legend in this week's music article, "Sigue Cantando."
Details on the show and half-price tickets can be found at alibi.com/tacousa.


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I fly.
Bring it on.
Country Fried
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
What are you doing to treat your AT? Massage and calf strengthening typically help.
I didnt have it till today, but I just got off searching and calf lowering (raise up and then lower down slowly) along with ice massage and ibuprofen for swelling seem to be the treatment recommendations out there.
There also seems to be some debates between whether to stop running or not - some say yes but it seems that more of the stuff I read says to not stop but to back off and run slower and on softer surfaces if you can.
but now comes another debate that I need to qualify pretty quickly, and that is the one related to my shoes. Three weeks ago I bought new running shoes and a few days after my ankles started hurting. So I bought new shoes (and was unfortunately unable to return the other pair) and now a week after buying those I have Achilles pain. Should I return these new ones? I only have till Saturday to decide and then the return period ends.
My stupid little mobile-friendly treadmill calculator
What model of shoes [old shoes]? Amazon and eBay typically have the leftovers from shoe stores...
Also, what model of shoes did you buy?
I'm of the active recovery camp.
And make sure your shoes are right.


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SKF rope sheaves pay off with 195% ROI
The challenge
The SKF solutionWorking closely with mill technicians, SKF engineers analyzed the problem and concluded that the bearings clearly failed because of inadequate lubrication and corrosion damage. They replaced the problem equipment with rope sheave units from SKF.
The resultUnplanned downtime was significantly reduced, enabling the mill to schedule planned stops for less urgent and routine maintenance. In addition, the work floor became a much safer place because of the unique locking facility of the SKF sheaves.
Return on investment (ROI) summary over a 2-year period
- Savings per machine by avoiding downtime and maintenance: €265 500
- Total SKF rope sheave units investment: –€90 000
- Total savings: €175 500
- Total ROI: 195%


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Ad watchdog bans botox promotions
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%The advertising watchdog has banned adverts for two health clinics after they promoted the benefits of the prescription-only medicine Botox.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the rulings against Dermaskin Clinics, based in Cardiff, and HB Health of Knightsbridge "set a precedent of what we expect from all advertisers across the sector" and would be followed up by compliance work.
Advertising prescription-only medicines such as Botox to the public is prohibited under UK regulations.
Advertisers who offer the product and other injected treatments can describe them as "cosmetic fillers" or "injected fillers" but cannot name Botox directly.
However both companies named Botox on the home page of their websites, describing it as a "commonly used beauty treatment", while Dermaskin went on to say it was "a proven and safe treatment, which has been in use for over 16 years".
HB Health told the ASA it had removed the reference to Botox from its home page and replaced it with the term "wrinkle softening treatment", but added that references to the product were extremely common within the beauty industry and many clinic websites contained similar content.
Dermaskin agreed to remove the reference to Botox from its home page, but said permitted references to treatments "should take into account normal clinical practice in the UK".
Dermaskin added that the use of Botox for facial lines and wrinkles was "both common and widespread amongst the specialists and doctors within the speciality".
The ASA said Dermaskin's website included claims that went beyond factual references and were a direct promotion of the Botox, such as "this revolutionary treatment ... .is the most popular such treatment in the world" and "thousands of these treatments are performed every year with astonishing results".
It said: "Because many of the direct and implied references to Botox within the website constituted a promotion of a prescription-only medicine to the general public, we therefore concluded that the code had been breached.
The ASA noted that HB Health had changed its website to remove references to Botox, but this had not resolved the issue because visitors who clicked on the replacement text "wrinkle softening treatment" were then connected directly to content about Botox.
It said marketers needed to ensure that references to Botox were only presented in the context of a potential outcome of a consultation with the clinic.
The ASA ruled that both ads should not appear again in their current form and warned both clinics to "take special care when referencing Botox in the future".
The watchdog said: "It is illegal to advertise a prescription-only medicine, such as Botox, to the public. Our rulings, which apply to ads across media including online, set a clear precedent for the
whole health and beauty sector.
"Any company referring to Botox must stick to the facts and avoid any promotional language. We'll be communicating this requirement to the sector and providing help and advice so they get their ads right."
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