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Arthur Evans Appreciation Post
I like knowing things.
So when I heard someone on Twitter remark that the Baylor "Sailor Bear" logo and the "Wolverbear" Michigan logo that's been popping up (more?) recently, it got into my head and, in lieu of being able to focus on anything worthwhile I had to go waste some time sorting it out.
Apparently I'm not the first.
It's been referenced recently on this very forum. So, in case you are also interested here's some mascot history that will surely be useful to you in the future.
Not too long after Moe's birthed the collegiate sportwear industry over on North University, it seems it was already a big business nationwide. At this same time spare tires went from decoratively placed on the rear of your car to buried in the trunk. This killed some prime car logo real estate as well as the demand for such printed material. So, an enterprising car tire cover printing executive (because that's a thing that existed) shifted gears and got his chief doodler, Arthur Evans, to pump out college mascot designs that could be slapped on all manner of sellable goods. Any and every college that did or did not want a cartoon animal on the merchandise got one. I get the impression that official licensing was not yet a thing and that it was not always the universities themselves commissioning the mascots, so much as local businesses in a college town making their nut.
[An equally interesting essay might focus on how Universities started owning/controlling their names and image]
So now we have a situation where not only do Baylor and Michigan share a strikingly similar image that represents two different animals, but doppelgängers abound all over college sports apparel. Our wolverbear isn't the only repeatedly-used cartoon mammal
Three schools in the SEC alone use the same Tiger logo by different names.
To alumni of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, he's known as "Tommy Tiger." Auburn University's legions of football fanatics refer to him as "Aubie."The nation's 33rd president and Show Me State native provided the moniker for "Truman the Tiger" at the University of Missouri. But to devotees of Louisiana State University, he'll always be "Sailor Mike."
The common thread? The sure way to locate an Arthur Davis original?
Sailor hats.
Why? Who knows?
Just wanted to share.
MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1980
Previous MGoHistory [1986, 1971, 1997, 1989]
As the long winter that is the college football offseason approaches its merciful conclusion, we pause once again to review the glory of Michigan past before we witness what is sure to be the glory of Michigan future. So enter the TARDIS and join me and The Doctor as we take a look at the year that was….1980.
America enters a new decade as a country suffering, as President Jimmy Carter refers to it, a "crisis of confidence". Watergate and Vietnam have left the American people disillusioned with their government. The US economy, battered for the better part of the previous decade by recession, inflation, gasoline shortages, and high unemployment has many doubting in the future of the country. Adding insult to injury, the Soviet Union's brash invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian hostage crisis calls into question America's position on the world stage. The morale of the country in 1980 is not good.
Enter this guy. Former actor and governor of California, Ronald Reagan, bringing a message of optimism and hope, wins a landslide victory in November to become the 40thPresident of the United States. Reagan's policies of increased deficit spending and lower taxes help pull the economy out of the doldrums of the 1970's and sends the American consumer culture into overdrive, a culture that is still strongly imprinted on America to this day.
The countrys' morale is also given a big boost in 1980 by these guys. The XIIIth Winter Olympic games in Lake Placid, NY open under the specter of a US-lead boycott of the upcoming Summer Games in Moscow in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Rather than lead a boycott of their own, the Soviets attend the US-hosted games determined to humiliate the Americans on their home soil. The event the Soviets are most favored to win is the mens hockey tournament, where the Soviet National Team has been widely regarded as the best hockey squad for going on 20 years. The US National Team is a collection of 20 college amateurs lead by Minnesota Head Coach Herb Brooks and is not expected to compete for a medal. The US team surprises many by scrapping its' way into the medal round only to be faced with a semi-final match-up against the Soviets which nobody believes can be won. In what is now referred to as the Miracle on Ice, the Americans stun the Soviets 4-3 and then go on to win the gold medal by defeating Finland in the final. The US win in hockey sparks a wave of patriotism throughout the country and is widely regarded at the greatest sports upset in history.
Other notable news items of the year is the eruption of Mt St. Helens in Washington state which kills 57 people and causes upwards of $3 billion in property damage. The Voyager 1 space probe has a rendezvous with the planet Saturn, giving humans their first up-close look at the spectacular rings around the planet. The Chrysler Corporation, headed by Lee Iacocca, negotiates a federal loan to avoid bankruptcy. Consumer products like Post-It Notes, the Rubiks Cube, and the video game Pac-Man appear. And the Information Age gets somewhat of a start with the development of the telephone modem and the launch of CNN, which will ultimately lead to the 24 hour news cycle and the ubiquitous presence of the media in everyday life.
In the sporting world, 1980 is a banner year for Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania professional teams are represented in every major sporting championship contest in 1980. The Pittsburgh Steelers, lead by future Hall of Fame quarterback and NutriSystem pitchman Terry Bradshaw, win their 4thSuper Bowl championship by defeating the LA Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV. On the ice, the Philadelphia Flyers fall to the New York Islanders in 6 games of the Stanley Cup Finals. On the hardwood, the 76ers featuring the legendary Julius Erving lose the NBA Championship in 6 games to the LA Lakers and a rookie Magic Johnson. The Commonwealth is redeemed by the end of the year when the Mike Schmidt leads the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series title, defeating the Kansas City Royals in 6 games (this is not a typo, KC was at one time very good at baseball).
In the entertainment world, people watch "Dallas" by the millions and everyone becomes obsessed with the question of , "Who shot JR?". Other popular television programming includes "Three's Company", "Little House on the Prairie", "The Love Boat", and "The Dukes of Hazzard". On the big screen, we flock to see "The Empire Strikes Back" and learn that {SPOILER ALERT} Darth Vader is Luke's father. Nobody flocks to see "Heaven's Gate", which winds up bankrupting United Artists; and we are all blessed with some of the great comedic releases of all time in "Caddyshack", "Airplane!", and "The Blues Brothers".
On the radio we are enjoying the post-disco sounds of Blondie and Kool and the Gang. We rock out to power bands such as Queen and AC/DC, who release their classic album "Back In Black". The rumblings of a second British invasion are also starting to be felt in New Wave bands such as Devo, The Talking Heads, and David Bowie. Sadly, the music and entertainment world are dealt a stunning blow late in the year with the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman.
Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor, morale is high. Michigan Football is entering its second century of existence and head coach Bo Schembechler only a year removed from having won the Ten Year War against his nemesis Woody Hayes, sits atop the conference as the master of the Big Ten. Team 101 is one of Coach Schembechler's most talent-laden squads featuring All –Americans George Lilja and Anthony Carter as well as future All-Americans Bubba Paris, Kurt Becker, Ed Muransky, Butch Woolfolk, and…..Anthony Carter. The Wolverines, coming off a lackluster 8-4 record the previous season begin the season ranked 12thin the country only to fall to 1-2 and out of the polls early in the season with heartbreaking losses to Notre Dame and South Carolina by a grand total of 5 points.
Once conference play is underway though, Michigan finds its legs and rolls through opponents by massive margins including three straight shutouts of Indiana, Wisconsin, and Purdue to set up another showdown with Ohio in Columbus. The 10thranked Wolverines face off against 2ndyear coach Earle Bruce and the 5thranked Buckeyes with the conference and Rose Bowl hanging in the balance. Michigan grinds out a 9-3 victory earning Schembechler his 9thBig 10 title and 6thRose Bowl appearance.
Leading up to Rose Bowl contest against Pac-10 Champion Washington, the primary focus of the media was on Schembechler's bowl record, which included 5 losses in Pasadena and a loss in the Orange Bowl and Gator Bowl. Inspired to break the streak, Michigan plays an inspired 2ndhalf, lead by Rose Bowl MVP Butch Woolfolk's 182 rushing yards to crush the Huskies 23-6 and earn Schembechler his first Rose Bowl Championship and Michigan's first since 1965. The 1980 Wolverines finished the season 10-2 and ranked 4thin the country and would be the pre-season Number One team the following season.
The 1980's saw America emerge from the tumultuous 70's to a new age of prosperity and affluence. A parallel that can be drawn to the 1980 Michigan team that entered the season extremely talented but with low expectations coming off a lackluster season previously. Has a familiar ring to it, doesn't it? As Team 134 embarks on the 2ndthird of Michigan Football's 2ndcentury, we all wait expectantly to see if this is the year where Brady Hoke and his team of highly touted recruits finally takes hold and leads Michigan back to where it hasn't been for 9 years, the Big Ten Championship and the Rose Bowl. Hope you all enjoyed this stroll through the past and we'll see you all after the conclusion of the season in 2014. Go Blue!
MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1989
[Previous MGoHistory: 1986, 1971, & 1997]
We now find ourselves on a strange planet, standing before a large, rocky arch that emits an eerie glow. Inside the arch scenes flash in rapid succession. "What the hell is that?", one of us asks. Surprisingly the arch responds in a booming voice, "I am the Guardian of Forever! I can be your guide to any time and place you desire! Heed the instructions of the man next to you." We turn to find a tall, lithe man, with pointed ears dressed in a tight blue shirt staring impassively at a small black box that hums. "When I tell you", the strange man says, "step through the portal." We turn to each other and shrug. His shirt isn't red, so we must be in good hands. "Go now!" he instructs. We leap and hurl ourselves through time and space to find ourselves arriving in….1989.
The end of the 80's kicks off with the end of the Reagan era, sort of. Reagan's former Vice President, George HW Bush is inaugurated in January, becoming the 41stPresident of the United States. The Bush Administration starts off on a positive note when, in February, the Soviets withdraw the last of their troops from Afghanistan, ending their 9 year occupation. Things take a turn for the negative in March as Americans discover the inconvenient truth that drunk tanker captain, plus broken navigation system, equals bad; resulting in the Exxon Valdex running aground and spills hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. By spring, world attention turns to China as student protesters march on in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reforms of China's communist regime. The demonstration ends violently in early June as China's hardliners deploy the military to disperse the protesters, resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths. Meanwhile throughout the year, the Iron Curtain starts to crumble as Soviet-supported regimes across Eastern Europe are deposed in numerous free elections. This wave of democracy propagates with astonishing speed and incredibly culminates, in late autumn, with the fall of Berlin Wall, symbolically ending the Cold War.
In other news, the American space probe, Voyager 2, makes the final planetary rendezvous of its mission when it flies by Neptune. Author Salman Rushdie discovers that it's a bad idea to piss off Iranian clerics after Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa for the publication of "The Satanic Verses", forcing Rushdie to go into hiding for several years. Later, he'll be compensated for this inconvenience by getting to sleep with Padma Lakshmi. Lastly, an anonymous computer scientist at CERN, Timothy Berners-Lee, invents a revolutionary internet-based information management system that he calls the World Wide Web. The Web makes the internet accessible to virtually every person on the planet, revolutionizing the way humans communicate and eventually leading to mankind's greatest achievement; blogs.
In sports, iconic players dominate the championship scenes of several leagues. Joe Montana wins the 3rdof his 4 Super Bowls by leading the San Francisco 49ers over the Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16, in Super Bowl XXIII, with the great Jerry Rice earning MVP honors. The Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys", lead by Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, end years of frustration against the Celtics and Lakers, by besting the LA Lakers in 4 games to finally win the franchise's first NBA championship. In golf, British legend Nick Faldo wins his first of 3 Masters titles by defeating American Scott Hoch. German tennis players dominate the pro circuit with Boris Becker being named the ATP Player of the Year after winning Wimbledon and the US Open. Meanwhile, on the womens side, Steffi Graf continues her rise to making a claim as the greatest female player of all time by following up her 1988 Grand Slam with victories in 3 of the 4 majors, coming in as a runner-up only in the French Open. In mid-October, the "Bay" Series between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants is interrupted 30 minutes before Game 3 by the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Series is delayed 10 days before Oakland would complete a four game sweep of the Giants.
On the big screen, people flock to see Harrison Ford and Sean Connery quest for the Holy Grail in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". "Batman" is released and reinvigorates the superhero movie genre, which continues to thrive to this day. Kevin Costner and Michigan Alum James Earl Jones star in "Field of Dreams", which teaches us that "If you build it, he will come". And Morgan Freeman achieves mainstream stardom in the Oscar-winning "Driving Miss Daisy".
Television sees the premier of several programs that will be archetypes of the 90's such as "Seinfeld", "The Simpsons", and "The Arsenio Hall Show". We also see the premier of such Saturday morning cult favorites "Saved By The Bell" and "American Gladiators". The year sees the departure of mainstay programming that had endured for decades prior. "American Bandstand" and the original "Doctor Who" air for the final time. TV in the 80's gets a symbolic farewell when "Miami Vice" airs for the last time. In addition to TV programming, people amuse themselves with next generation video game consoles such as Sega Genesis and Ninetendo comes out with the GameBoy.
In other entertainment, more and more of America's youth are listening to rap and hip hop. Acts such as Public Enemy and "Fear of a Black Planet", and N.W.A with their album "Straight Outta Compton" gain mainstream acceptance. Former Michigan student Madonna continues to be pops biggest draw with her hit "Like A Prayer", Poison releases the definitive hair metal power ballad, "Every Rose Has It's Thorn", and boy band pioneers New Kids on the Block strike it big with their album, "Hangin' Tough".
In Michigan football, Bo Schembechler's 21stMichigan team opens the 1989 season with a #1 vs #2 showdown against Notre Dame in Ann Arbor. On a dreary, rainy September day, Michigan outplays the defending National Champions but the Irish still prevail 24-19 on the strength of two Raghib Ismail kickoff returns; leaving fans to this day wondering, "Why the {BLEEP} did we kick to Rocket Ismail again?!!" Michigan would go on to win the remainder of their games that season, including a 28-18 victory over Ohio that clinched the outright Big 10 title and Michigan's 10thRose Bowl berth under Bo. The '89 Wolverines featured All-American safety Tripp Welborne on defense. The offense was lead by quarterback Michael Taylor along with what is arguably the best backfield in Michigan history in tailbacks Tony Boles and Leroy Hoard and fullback Jarrod Bunch.
The Ohio victory and conference championship proves bittersweet when fans and alumni are shocked in mid-December with Coach Schembechler announcing that the 1990 Rose Bowl would be his last game as head coach. Stating that "Giving up my football team is the hardest thing I've ever had to do", a teary-eyed Schembechler names Assistant Coach Gary Moeller his successor. Schembechler's coaching career ends on a sour, but not unfamiliar, note when the #3 ranked Wolverines are defeated by the #12 ranked USC Trojans 17-10 in the Rose Bowl. Bo's last team finishes 10-2 and ranked 7th. After 21 years as Michigan's head coach, Bo leaves as the winningest coach in program history with a record of 194-48-5, accruing 13 Big 10 titles, 2 Rose Bowl titles, and 10 Rose Bowl appearances, and 17 bowl appearances overall.
While one coaching dynasty was coming to an end in 1989, another was gaining steam. The 1988-89 Wolverine Hockey team posted their second straight winning season under Coach Red Berenson. The team, lead by All-American defenseman Myles O'Connor, finished the season 22-15-4 overall and 17-11-4 (4thplace) in the CCHA. The Wolverines also picked up the first of 13 Great Lakes Invitational titles under Berenson, defeating the Fighting Sioux of North Dakota. While Berenson's program was still two seasons away from returning to NCAA Tournament play, Red makes one of Michigan hockeys most enduring contributions by introducing the winged helmet as part of the team's uniform on the eve of the CCHA playoffs, a design cue that seems impossible for hockey to go without today.
The 1988-89 Michigan basketball team starts the season expecting to compete for the Big 10 conference championship. Lead by Coach Bill Frieder, the Wolverines feature a talented roster that includes seniors Glen Rice, Mark Hughes, and Mike Griffin, as well juniors Loy Vaught, Rumeal Robinson, Terry Mills, and Sean Higgins. The Wolverines have a solid but underwhelming season finishing 24-7 and 12-6 in conference, 3rdbehind Indiana and Illinois and ranked 10thin the polls. Entering the tournament, Michigan is a 3 seed in the Southeast Region and expectations are modest.
Michigan's chances in the tournament seemingly take a turn for the worse when, days before the opening round, Coach Frieder is dismissed by Michigan Athletic Director Bo Schembechler. Upon learning that Frieder has accepted the job at Arizona State, Schembechler canonically declares, "A Michigan Man will coach Michigan" and installs Steve Fischer as interim coach. Inspired by fiery pep talks from Schembechler and record setting scoring by Rice, Michigan wins games against Xavier, South Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia to earn a spot in the Final Four. In the semi-final Michigan upsets 1 seed Illinois 83-81, forever earning the ire of the Illini and cementing Michigan as Illinois' main rival, unbeknownst to most Michigan fans. In the finals, Michigan battles Seton Hall to an 80-79 overtime win, the final margin being provided by two free throws from Robinson with just seconds to play, earning Michigan its first National Championship ever in basketball and Glen Rice is named the tournament Most Outstanding Player.
The 1989 Michigan basketball team was considered to be a group of talented underachievers heading into the NCAA Tournament, only to finally have all the pieces fall into place and go on an epic tournament run. Many comparisons have been made between this years squad and that historic bunch. With the conference championship just slipping through our grasp and our post-season journey about to begin, let us hope that the Wolverines of 2013 find some of the magic that struck in 1989. Go Blue.
MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1997
As kickoff for Team 133 approaches, our MGoHistory journey continues. Our past stops in 1986 and 1971 found pleasant memories of Michigan glory past. Now let's set the Omni to a more recent time, a more familiar time. We're arriving just 15 years past (no way it's been 15 years!) and the Omni shows green, which means history is right….oh so right. We have arrived in 1997!
The 90's are in full swing and the PC has become as ubiquitous a household item as the television. This coupled with the rise of the World Wide Web on the internet has spawned the Dot Com boom. Speculation into online businesses drives financial markets into huge gains worldwide, making countless computer geeks into millionaires overnight. Riding the wave of this economic boom, Bill Clinton begins his second term as president after a landslide victory over Bob Dole the previous November. On the surface, things seem to be running smooth for the president, but the turmoil of the Lewinsky scandal and his impeachment trial loom just a year away.
In Great Britain, Tony Blair wins the general election, becoming Prime Minister and sovereign control of Hong Kong is returned to China. The British also cause a stir when Scottish scientists announce the successful cloning of an adult sheep, Dolly; and a little known children's author, J.K. Rowling publishes her first novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone". Britain stays center stage on a sadder note when hundreds of millions mourn the untimely death of Princess Diana.
The Earth sees the return of comet Hale-Bopp for the first time in over 4000 years and NASA successfully lands the Pathfinder probe on the surface of Mars. Justice is served for many in Oklahoma with the conviction and subsequent death sentence of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. More positively, Steve Jobs returns to head a foundering Apple Computer where he will lead the next revolution in consumer technology that most of us take for granted today.
On the popular front, Americans line-up to see "Titanic" and Leonard DiCaprio becomes a star. Americans also line up to see "Batman and Robin" and it almost ruins George Clooney's career. Young people the world over inexplicably go crazy for the Spice Girls and Hanson while fans of hip hop and rap mourn the passing of the Notorious B.I.G. We all flock to our television sets on Thursday to watch "Must See TV" on NBC and see Ellen DeGeneres come out of the closet on ABC. Animated TV achieves a few hallmarks when "The Simpsons" become the longest running animated primetime show while another animated cult classic, "South Park", debuts on cable's Comedy Central.
Brett Favre leads Green Bay to their first Super Bowl championship in 30 years, the Red Wings bring the Stanley Cup back to Detroit for the first time in 40 years, and the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan win the NBA championship for the 5thtime in 7 years. Mike Tyson meets Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship, but rather than fight him, he tries to have him for supper.
For Michigan athletics, the 90's were one of the great decades of the school's history. By 1997 Jon Urbanchek has built Michigan Swimming into a powerhouse, winning his 11thBig 10 title in 12 years. Not to be outdone, the women's swim team under Jim Richardson wins their 11thstraight Big 10 title. Women's softball has also become the dominant program in the Big 10 under Carol Hutchins winning their 3rdstraight Big 10 tournament title and their making their 3rdstraight Super-Regional in the NCAA tourney. Mens Baseball under Geoff Zahn wins the Big 10 Conference title as well.
The men's basketball team also continues to be one of the elite teams in the Big 10 under Steve Fischer Featuring notable players such as Robert Traylor (may he rest in peace), Maurice Taylor, and Louis Bullock; Michigan hoops follows up an NIT championship in March by winning the inaugural Big 10 Tournament at the end of the 1997-98 season. This all becomes overshadowed though with the breaking of the Ed Martin story in June which costs Steve Fischer his job, Michigan all of the banners it won during the decade, and creates a vacuum in Michigan basketball recruiting that allows MSU's Tom Izzo to become a coaching legend.
In hockey, Red Berenson fields what is arguably one of the greatest hockey teams of all time. The 1997 Wolverines are the defending National Champions and sport a line-up that include All-Americans Brian Wiseman, John Madden, Marty Turco as well as Hobey Baker winner Brendan Morrison. The team also includes no less than 5 additional NHL players in Jason Botterill, Mike Legg, Bill Muckalt, Matt Herr, and Bubba Berenzweig.
The Michigan icers win both the CCHA regular season and tournament championships and are overwhelming favorites to repeat as NCAA champions going to into the tournament. Michigan cruised to the Frozen Four, dispatching Minnesota 7-4 only to lose in the semi-finals to Boston University in OT, 3-2 and illustrating the highlighting the frustrating fact about the NCAA hockey tournament, the best team doesn't always win because pucks bounce. This is why you must always hate BU…always….so much. In terms of Michigan disappointments in athletics, the 1996-97 teams' loss to BU has to rank near the top.
Michigan football in 1997 is lead by former assistant coach Lloyd Carr, who is in his third season as Michigan's top guy. Unlike the rest of Michigan athletics, the football team is in the midst of a malaise which has seen them finish four straight seasons with four losses. Grumbling has begun amongst the Michigan faithful and some in the media snidely comment that the "M" in Michigan has come to mean mediocre. With former walk-on Brian Griese being the starter by Carr over the stronger-armed Scott Dreisbach and Tom Brady and a meh 14thranking in the AP poll coming into their opener with #8 Colorado, expectations are guarded to say the least.
Of course, we all know how this turns out. Michigan, lead by the legendary Charles Woodson and All-American Glen Steele never let anyone score…ever and Brian Griese heads a workmanlike Michigan offense to an undefeated season, it's first Big 10 title since 1992. The regular season is highlighted by an epic shellacking of #2 Penn State and a defeat of #4 Ohio in Ann Arbor to clinch a Rose Bowl berth. Woodson goes on to win just about every award a player can earn, including becoming the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy, which Tennessee fans deem to be the greatest injustice ever….EVER! Coach Carr is named Walter Camp Coach of the Year and Defensive Coordinator Jim Herrmann wins the Frank Broyles Award as the top coaching assistant.
Michigan goes on to defeat Washington State, lead by future NFL super-bust Ryan Leaf, 21-16 in the 1998 Rose Bowl securing the AP Poll National Championship. Michigan enters the Rose Bowl the undisputed number one team in the country, but Nebraska splits the title off their impressive win over Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl and some strange final Coaches Poll shenanigans, prompting years of speculation from the Michigan fanbase over which coach screwed us. I'm not saying it was Phil Fulmer, but karma is a bitch and Tennessee has had a pretty precipitous slide in the past decade and a half…just sayin'.
1997 may seem too many to be not that long ago, but it was pre 9/11, pre-Google, pre-Facebook, pre-Twitter, pre-Apple iPod/Phone/Pad, pre-reality TV, pre-Great Recession, pre-WiFi. The world has changed a LOT in the past 15 years. 1997 was the culmination of a dominant era for U of M sports. An era that saw the football program tower over Ohio and MSU, hockey rise to become the preeminent power in college, and basketball being one of the great programs in the Big 10*. Let's hope that the current caretakers of our beloved Maize and Blue are ready to give birth to a new era of Michigan domination that will make our hearts soar and our enemies' heads explode in frustration. Enjoy the season and we'll pick this up again in the winter of 2013.
MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1971
Since the stroll through 1986 came off pretty well, and since it's the off-season, and since Seth asked for it, we step into the Quantum Leap accelerator, once again, and journey back into the glorious past to observe Michigan athletics as part of overall history. We emerge in a time that will be unfamiliar to most of us, including yours truly as this is the year of my birth; a time without PCs, and cell phones, and ESPN, and internets, and blogs. Journey back to the bizarre and colorful times that were….1971!
We are in the midst of Richard Nixon's first term as president, where he shows a penchant for pointing at things. Vietnam is still going on and still unpopular. It gets even more unpopular when the New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers, and all the dirty secrets of the war that past administrations have kept from the public are brought to light. On the international scene, the United Nations formally recognizes the Peoples Republic of China and also declares the first Earth Day, Idi Amin leads a coup and seizes control in Uganda, and IRA-led rioting in Northern Ireland grows worse against British rule.
Human exploration of the Moon continues with the Apollo 14 and 15 missions, with Apollo 15 featuring a crew of Michigan alumni (Space, Bitches….Space) and a sweet ride in the Lunar Rover. The Soviet Union also achieves a technological milestone with the launch of Salyat 1, the world's first orbiting space station. Other milestones in technology include the release of the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor. Texas Instruments introduces the first pocket calculator sounding the death knell of the slide rule. And, the first e-mails and chat rooms appear on the ARPAnet, the precursor of the modern Internet.
1971 is the year that many sporting legacies are born. Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the "Fight of the Century" to set off one of the great boxing rivalries in history. The great Roberto Clemente leads the Pirates to the World Series title. In the NBA, future legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leads the Milwaukee Bucks to their only world title. In other areas of sport, legacies are being solidified. UCLA continues its era of dominance under John Wooden, defeating Villanova to earn their 7thtitle in 8 years. The Montreal Canadiens win the 17thof what will be 24 Stanley Cups. In the world of golf, Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA, rounding out the first half of his record 18 major championships.
In our spare time we watched television on just three stations. We were offered edgy broadcasting like "All In The Family" and "The Odd Couple" and tamer fare like "The Partridge Family". On the big screen we were following the exploits of Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection", Alex and his droogs in "A Clockwork Orange", and we meet Dirty Harry for the first time. On the music front, Led Zepplin IV is released, the Allman Brothers record At Fillmore East, Queen is formed, and Jim Morrison is found dead in Paris.
The music of Michigan was different during this time too. The Michigan Marching Band is an all-men arrangement under the direction of the legendary William T. Revelli and are introduced with the less politically correct "Men, take the field!" during football pre-games. Women would not be seen amongst their ranks for another year. Women are not seen amongst the ranks of any of Michigan's varsity sports in 1971, as Title XI is still a year away from passage into law.
Bo Schembechler is in his 3rdseason as head coach of the Wolverines and fields one of his greatest teams and points at things while doing so. Lead by All-Americans Reggie McKenzie, Billy Taylor, Thom Darden, and Mike Taylor, Michigan went 11-0 during the regular season and won Bo's 2ndBig 10 championship. Billy Taylor would finish his career as Michigan's all-time rushing leader with 3,072 yards, a record that would stand for 6 years until broken by Rob Lytle. Mike Taylor would go on to play 2 seasons for the New York Jets. Reggie McKenzie would go on to a 13 year NFL career with the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks, blocking for the likes of OJ Simpson. Thom Darden would be a 3 time All-Pro in his 10 seasons with the Cleveland Browns and is still the career-leader in interceptions for the franchise.
The season was highlighted by a thrilling 10-7 victory over Ohio in Ann Arbor. The game's memorable moment came late in the game when Darden came up with a win-preserving interception that Woody Hayes insisted to the referees should have been called pass interference. Hayes proceeded on a minutes-long tirade, ripping up yard markers, drawing 2 unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, and making an embarrassing spectacle that aired on news programs nationally…quite an accomplishment in the days before 24 hour media coverage.
Michigan's season would end with another disappointing showing in Pasadena with a 13-12 loss to the Stanford Indians (Stanford would not become the "Cardinals" until 1972 and not the "Cardinal" until 1981). Michigan came into the game ranked 3rdin the country and a 10.5 point favorite against the 8-3 Indians, but Stanford managed to edge out the Wolverines with a 31 yard field goal with 16 seconds to play. The 1971 Michigan team would finish ranked 6thin the AP and 4thin the UPI and is commonly regarded as the team that came closest to earning Schembechler a National Championship, although it is debatable that even a 12-0 Michigan team would've passed up eventual champion Nebraska.
Well, that concludes our nostalgic step through 1971. A time where clothes were bold and loud, phones were rotary dialed, and Michigan still didn't sell out every home football game. It's hard to imagine a time without video games, personal computers, and 24 hour news coverage, but those times existed. Here's hoping that Michigan's upcoming season sees Michigan back in the Rose Bowl undefeated against Stanford. I got a feeling Hoke would serve up epic payback topped off with a pointed finger.
MGoHistory - The Year In Review - 1986
Since the men's basketball team is still in the hunt for the Big 10 Conference crown, I feel inspired to look back at the year when Michigan last saw it's hoopsters as the top of the conference heap. Let's journey back to 1986…
Ronald Reagan is president and disarmament talks with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev are in full swing. It is the time of Perestroika and Russia is less scary than it used to be as the Cold War continues its denouement.
Reagan's popularity takes a hit as the details of the Iran-Contra scandal begin to come to light. Ferdinand Marcos is ousted from power in the Philippines and his wife's shoe collection becomes an enduring punch line. We learn about Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the first time…and after we bomb Tripoli, we don't hear from him all that much until the Arab Spring.
It is the year of the Challenger tragedy and the Chernobyl disaster. Halleys Comet paid the Earth a visit, the Dow Jones was approaching 2000 and we were joining Hands Across America. It is the year the Bears did the Super Bowl Shuffle, Buckner doesn't get his glove to the ground, and Larry Bird tastes champagne for the final time. Jack Nicklaus wins his last major at 46, Argentina wins the World Cup in Mexico, and Mike Tyson becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
If you were a teenager, like myself, then you probably had a crush on Alyssa Milano, and lusted after Kathy Ireland or Elle Macpherson. You learned that Tom Cruise had a "need for speed" and Ferris Bueller explained to you that 'life moves pretty fast". You still wanted your MTV, you watched movies on VHS, listened to music on cassettes, and didn't know that television or music should be played in HD. Aerosmith and Run DMC told us to "Walk This Way" while The Bangles wanted us to "Walk Like An Egyptian" and Bon Jovi just liked things "Slippery When Wet".
1986 was also a pretty good time to be a Michigan Wolverine. Men's basketball finished 28-5, 14-4 in the Big 10 and repeating as Big 10 Champions. That's right, there was a time when the basketball team was a repeat conference champion. Bill Frieder's Wolverines were lead by stars Roy Tarpley, Antoine Joubert and Gary Grant. Despite their conference title, Michigan continued their frustrating trend under Frieder of falling short of expectations in the NCAA tournament. In 1986, Michigan entered as a 2 seed but lost in the 2ndround to Iowa State by 3. Louisville, lead by "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison would go on to win the tournament (the first tournament to feature a shot clock FWIW) over Duke, who were making their first Final Four appearance under Mike Krzyzewski (and featuring future Michigan coach Tommy Amaker).
On the football front, Bo Schembechler fielded one of his greatest teams lead by senior All-American Jim Harbaugh and Jamie Morris and featuring All-Americans Garland Rivers and John Elliot. The Wolverines looked like a strong contender for the national championship, climbing to as high as second in the polls before losing on a last second field goal to Minnesota on the 2ndto last game of the season. Of course the enduring memory of the season now is the Jim Harbaugh guarantee to beat Ohio on the heels of that loss and making good on that promise in Columbus, downing the Bucks 26-24 and winning a share of the Big 10 title and a trip to the Rose Bowl.
Michigan would go on to lose the Rose Bowl to John Cooper's Arizona State Sun Devils, and finish 11-2 and ranked 7th. Michigan would get the last laugh on John Cooper…or the last dozen laughs when Ohio hired him as their head coach 2 years later and inaugurating 13 years that Buckeye fans now refuse to acknowledge as happening.
The other dominant athletic program on campus was the baseball team, lead by Coach Bud Middaugh. Having featured future MLB players such as Barry Larkin and Chris Sabo and incoming players such as Jim Abbott, Michigan was winning the 5thof the 6 Big 10 titles they picked up during the 1980's. Middaugh's record would later be tarnished as Michigan would be placed on probation by the NCAA for violations incurred during Middaugh's tenure.
Other Michigan sports were on the rise. Two men who now lay legitimate claims to a spot on the Michigan Coaching Mount Rushmore were early into their tenures in Ann Arbor. John Urbanchek was leading the mens swim team to the first of what would be 13 Big 10 titles over the course of his 22 years at Michigan. The Michigan hockey program under Red Berenson was only in Year 2-3 of rebuilding in 1986. Our helmets had no wings, Yost had few fans, and Tiny Jesus was a year away from even being born. Glory seemed remote and fanciful as we were mostly suffering the indignity of living in the shadow of a Michigan State team that was winning the National Championship.
I hope you enjoyed this little stroll through "recent" history, especially since a lot of you probably weren't even born yet. Just remember that while 1986 may be nostalgia for a lot of you, for some of us it was a time where a guy could wear pastels without being looked at funny, cell phones were something found in prison, and news was disseminated on paper. Here's to hoping that should Michigan earn a share of the Big 10 title this year, we won't have to wait another 26 years for the next one. Go Blue!


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"The Losers" arrived at theaters this weekend, and the second not-mainstream comic book movie to launch in the last month or so wound up fourth, with $9.6 million, according to studio estimates. Across the Atlantic, the comic book's driving force, writer Andy Diggle, took it all in and then charred with Hero Complex contributor Jevon Phillips about watching his page creations come to life in Hollywood.
JP: Was there as much of a collaborative effort on "The Losers" between the comic book creators and the screenwriters as the "Kick Ass" writers enjoyed?
AD: It wasn't a huge amount, to be honest. The main difference in production style between this and "Kick Ass" is that "Kick Ass" is creator-owned. Mark Millar and John Romita own all the rights, so they get to choose who adapts it and how and all the rest of it. They have a producer credit on the film. Whereas for "The Losers," this was simply work for hire that me and Jock get to do by DC Comics. Which was fine, you know, at the time. We were just happy to have the work — it was one of the first jobs that we ever did for American comics. It just means that we don't really have any control over the process. But, yeah, we actually became really friendly with the screenwriter, Peter Berg — director of "Hancock" and "The Kingdom." We met with him in London when he was over visiting, four or five years ago now, and he was very keen to make "The Losers." But he had to go off and make "The Kingdom," so they brought in James Vanderbilt to flesh out the script. We then became quite friendly with Jamie and I'd pass on my feedback on the script, but he wasn't under any obligations to take my suggestions on board. Basically, it was Joel Silver signing his paychecks, not me.
JP: What's your assessment of the final, onscreen product?
AD: I think it's great fun! I really enjoyed it. It's different from the comic, but in some ways it's strangely similar. The characters really very much feel like the characters from the comic and the action sequences are very closely based on stuff I made up, but the actual connecting tissue is very different. It's a lot lighter, less grim, a lot less political. The difference in a 90-minute movie and a 32-issue comic is that in a long comic series, you have the time and space to actually burrow down into the background of what's going on — into Max's plot. There isn't really time for that in a 90-minute movie — and the movie moves like a freight train. I think, superficially, it's very similar, but once you get beneath the surface and start looking at what's underneath, they're quite different beasts.
JP: I read the comic and I thought there were key sequences, like the helicopter-jacking, that translated especially well.
AD: Yeah! That was a real thrill for me to see, you know. Seeing moments I invented and lines I invented and moments being played out exactly the same as I'd thought of them — the finger gun and chopper-jack sequences — all of that was a real thrill for me. When I was writing that stuff, it sort of played like a movie in my head anyway. I just have to freeze-frame it when I'm turning it into a comic. Seeing it actually move up on the big screen the way it did in my mind was great.
JP: The praise for your writing often cites how cinematic it is. How did you hone that sensibility and where did you get your start?
AD: Well, oddly enough, I learned to write by doing screenwriting courses. I mean, everybody always tells me that I write cinematically. I don't do a lot of interior monologues or captions and stuff, so I tend to just write visuals and dialogue, and that's inherently cinematic. I actually wrote my first screenplay before I wrote my first comic. Comic books and film share the same spot in my heart. I am a fan of screenwriting and I collect movie scripts — and I'm writing a movie myself at some point.
JP: What's your most prized movie script?
AD: The most prized movie script that I have is the one I just received this week. I'm doing a bit of work on Peter Berg's "Battleship" movie, so I've just been sent a top secret copy with my name printed all over it. I'm not doing the script, I'm just helping out with some story work, fleshing out the background. I can't really talk about it, but it's kind of a big thrill for me.
JP: You did Green Arrow: Year One. There's been this talk about breaking the character out of "Smallville" and giving him his own show, or even a movie. What would your thoughts be on that happening?
AD: I don't really have any strong feelings about it. I don't really watch "Smallville" and hadn't picked up a lot of Green Arrow before I got the job. I obviously did some research. But I'd love to see a Green Arrow movie. I hear there's talk of this "Supermax" script that Justin Marks wrote to be turned into a film. I've read it, and it's really cool, but it's not really Green Arrow that you know. It could be any superhero, because once you get stuck in a prison, you don't have the bow and arrow, and that kind of defines him as a character. It doesn't surprise me that that never got green-lit. That one had a lot more interior monologue than most of my comics. It's a man alone, so you kind of needed to get inside his head. I didn't want to pull a Tom Hanks in "Cast Away" and have him talking to a beach ball or something like that.
JP: Of the comics that you either have written or are currently writing, which one is ripe for a silver screen adaptation?
AD: If I was to write it? I'd love to write a Green Arrow movie. I'd love to adapt "Year One" into a film — that'd translate really well. I think you could do a great Adam Strange movie.
JP: I wondered about that …
AD: Yeah, I think you could. But it would have to be an origin story. I don't think you can adapt what I did. My "Planet Heist," that story is set after he's been well-established as this man of two worlds. But that would work. There's been rumors of Joel Silver rebooting Swamp Thing for a long time. Imagine a CGI Swamp Thing with tentacles growing around him. You couldn't have made that film 10 years ago, but you could make it now… Yeah, lots of things! I'd love to see a British Hellblazer movie! Maybe reboot Constantine with Gary Oldman or Clive Owen or somebody like that.
JP: No "Judge Dredd vs. Aliens?" Stallone is hot again!
AD: [Laughs] Funny enough, Jock is working on a new Judge Dredd movie right now. They're making a new movie of it. It's written by Alex Garland, who wrote "28 Days Later." He's a big 2000 AD fan.
JP: Back to comics, any characters out there that you'd like to take a stab at writing?
AD: Well, I'd like to do some more "Hellblazers," maybe short stories rather than big arcs. I've always liked Nick Fury. I'd love to do a Nick Fury book. Not much about the younger Secret Warriors characters, but Fury himself saving the world and generally being cool and getting into scrapes. Umm, Blade. I'd love to do a Marvel Max Blade book properly. But I'm not a huge continuity junky … I didn't get into the business so that I could write my favorite characters. I just love the medium of comics, and I've got stories of my own that I want to tell. I think once my Marvel exclusive [contract] expires, I'm quite looking forward to doing a bunch of creator-owned things, lots of short, sweet little stories, and working with as many different artists as I can.
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"They all have great views," said Wayne Coogan of Coogan Construction, to the Juneau Affordable Housing Committee on Tuesday.
The company plans to start construction in 2013 on as many as 24 two-bedroom one-bath apartments. Eventually Coogan plans to build 56 units. However, he will need to permit the remaining 32 units.
The first 24 apartments are expected to rent for $1,200 per month without utilities.
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I think that most of them have awesome character designs. The only thing that annoys me is the little to no background that you see. What you mostly ever see is just a blank background, or in some cases you will see flowers or any other random designs. I think that having a background in one's manga gives it more of a sense of realism. For an example of an awesome shoujo manga that has little to no background design, try Gakuen Alice.
Some are good and some are bad. It depends on the artist.
Nope either your reading a very terrible artist. Most shojo have amazing art mind you..
Just like with any genre, it depends on the artist.
Having said that, it seems true that Shoujo artists do trend the overly decorated aesthetic.
Just now I tried to check out a random not that famous manga (at least I never had heard of it before) recommended to me by one of my best friends and the difference of style struck me immediately. Just look at this page
Yeah, the feminine details is not appealing to me. If anything, it's turning off male audiences with flower backgrounds and puffy text balloons.
Besides, it seems in Shoujo artists dont' worry about proportion much because their storytelling has less action and more talks.
However, you can't say their art is bad just because it's different or focuses on other things. If you notice, backgrounds, faces, and clothing are far superior in details in most cases when it comes to Shoujo.
I won't care much about drawing styles if the manga itself has a good story or it makes me laugh a lot. This is true for any genre.
Personally, I myself have taken influence from some of their styles. The way I draw noses and eyebrows are basically the same as in Fruits Basket.
I do love a few Shoujo anime and manga, like CCS, Fruits Basket, Kare Kano, Fushigi Yugi, Red River, Kimi ni Todoke, Guru Guru Pon-chan... though I haven't finished the last three. And when it comes to anime, Princess Tutu!!!
Too much anime, too little time!
In a mood to watch as many anime as I can!! :D
It depends on the artist and the style you yourself like to read.
I find that shojo is actually one of the better-drawn ones compared to other manga genres. Women primarily write and draw these, and thus reflects an idealized vision on what physical beauty and romantic relationships should be. Sure, the beauty of the actual art is dependent on the viewer and the year the series was first serialized. They are trends in manga art, and I'm not talking about just the characters' fashion sense.Try getting an older work of say, Miki Aihara (Tokyo Shonen Shojo) and compare it with her current serialization (From 5-9). It's the same manga-ka but the art is a stark as night and day. Lines are more modern and the features are more delicately drawn in From 5-9 as compared to the cartoonish feel of Tokyo Shonen Shojo. No, it's not just the evolution of her style or not that she "just got better". Compare her work with other manga serialized around the same year and you'd see the art is very similar as well
well just like shounen it depends on the shoujo. There's badly drawn shounen, badly drawn shoujo, nicely drawn shounen, and nicely drawn shoujo.
in my experience though the best-drawn shoujos have the dullest storylines T_T. So I don't read a lot of pretty shoujos lol.
you wouldn't believe your pants, if ten million fire ants
I don't think all are drawn badly. Some are drawn great and some not so much. Some are a bit too... "bubbly" and girly girl drawn for my taste, but that's just my opinion :p
These pretzels are making me thirsty
I think that it's because most shoujou artists tend to be very detailed about the aesthetics of each and every character. From the jaw line to socks, they incorporate that stuff and it looks great.. at profile views or at character art. It looks weird to me when it's in the panels only because I don't think that that much detail translates well when they're in motion or emoting.
That might just be me though. lol
Disclaimer: Does not apply to all artists.
#yoloswag #sarcasm
I don't really think they are badly drawn but, I do think some of them have a boring story line.
It all depends on the manga.
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well some of them are okay. but i really hate it when their eyes cover more than half of their face and then their nose and mouth are the size of a freakin' grain of rice.
Agree, I don't mind a love story well written, but I cannot look at this stereotypical style without my eyes burning. Sometimes I feel that they should just have the printers use sparkly paper to finish the touch :s The triangle extra large eyed style with no features, I cannot help but think of the traditional grey skin aliens...
A lot of shoujo manga tend to have really bad anatomy.
Watashi ni xx Shinasai!
Looks pretty damn good.
What even
I find some of them to look better than many Shounen manga and many others I find horrible. But same goes for any other genre, every artist's work has a different feeling to it, plus what's good and bad depends solely on the reader's taste.
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Europe Seeks to End Discord Over Banking Union
BRUSSELS -- An impasse over plans for the European Central Bank to supervise banks, the European Union's most ambitious financial reform, takes centre stage at a finance ministers' meeting on Wednesday.
France and Germany, traditionally leaders in such integrationist moves, are at loggerheads over parts of the plan, and there is little time left for the EU to meet a commitment to complete the framework for banking union by the end of the year.
Critical questions remain unanswered, such as how many banks the ECB should directly supervise and whether the central bank gets longer than one year, as planned, to fully take on its role.
After three years of piecemeal crisis-fighting measures, agreeing on a banking union would lay a cornerstone of wider economic union and mark the first concerted attempt to integrate the bloc's response to problem lenders.
But reaching a deal, which EU leaders want to sign off when they meet at a summit on Thursday and Friday, will require addressing the concerns of Germany, whose support is crucial, while also satisfying France and others with deep vested interests such as Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands.
"It's not an easy one for Germany," said one diplomat, close to the talks. "But the markets are watching us."
Another diplomat said it came down to a conflict between quality and speed: For the best banking union possible to be put in place it will take time and it may be necessary to extend agreed deadlines.
Berlin is concerned that supervision will develop into a scheme under which it is left to foot the bill for European banks too weak to survive when, as is planned, a central resolution scheme is set up to close troubled lenders.
It is also worried about a potential conflict of interest between the ECB's double role as supervisor and as guardian of monetary policy. Such a conflict could arise if the ECB were to decide to keep interest rates low to prop up banks.
In a sign of the tensions last week, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble publicly clashed with France's finance minister at a meeting intended to finalise the plan.
Schaeuble objected to the ECB's Governing Council having the final say over monitoring banks, a stance that appeared to push the talks backwards. One official from a non-euro zone country said on Tuesday Schaeuble had softened his line since.
But France also has demands.
"We can envisage degrees of supervision depending on banks' size, but on one condition -- that in the end the European Central Bank holds the ultimate responsibility," Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told Reuters earlier this week.
This concern is shared by analysts. "The ECB ultimately is the Governing Council," said Guntram Wolff of Bruegel, a think tank in Brussels. "Not leaving the final say with the Governing Council means you create a new institution. If you create a new institution, it would not have the credibility of the ECB."
Cyprus, which as holder of the rotating EU presidency chairs the meeting, will put a proposal for compromise before the ministers.
In the compromise document obtained by Reuters, Cyprus recommends that banks with assets of 30 billion euros or with assets larger than one fifth of their country's economic output be supervised directly by the ECB rather than national supervisors. Critically, however, they leave the ECB with the authority to widen this remit to problem banks.
The central bank's Governing Council would keep the final say in supervision, according to the proposal, which also lays emphasis on the need for a clear separation between monetary policy and supervision.
Ministers will also examine a Cypriot suggestion to allow the ECB take longer than until January 1 2014 to fully take on its role.
EU leaders hope that by setting up a single banking authority and later establishing a resolution fund for distressed banks, they will stop troubled banks from dragging their countries into crisis. They also hope to set up a way of coordinating national deposit guarantee schemes.
But while most countries support the idea of supervision, which is the first pillar of a full banking union, they disagree on how to structure it and how far to go in sharing bank risks.
All 27 countries in the European Union must give their approval for the project to go ahead, even if only those countries in the euro zone will fall under the banking union to begin with.
Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg, who had previously questioned the legal basis of the scheme, said that while it was unlikely to join he may allow other countries to press ahead if pan-EU voting safeguards are in place.
Britain has also demanded a voting scheme for countries outside the union to block certain decisions taken by the ECB, a veto that is opposed within the euro zone.
Ratings agency Fitch said the ECB's pledge to buy the bonds of troubled countries if they seek euro zone aid had lifted pressure for an immediate deal.
"(ECB President) Mario Draghi's announcement (on buying bonds) has taken the pressure off banking union negotiations for now," said Tony Stringer, a sovereign debt analyst at Fitch. "If they are able to demonstrate some progress as well as a clear path ahead, that may be enough for investors in the near term."
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Steve Beshear says he would consider calling a special session if lawmakers can agree beforehand on a way to strengthen the state's financially troubled pension system
for public employees.
"In the next few days, I'm going to have some conversations with the legislative leaders on the pension issue," Beshear said Friday. "The only way that I am willing to call a special session is if they get their acts together, and sit down with us, and we come up with an agreed-upon piece of legislation."
Lawmakers were unable to agree on a solution before they adjourned the 2008 regular session earlier this week. Without an overhaul, the state retirement system faces financial jeopardy as more employees retire. Despite the dire forecast, House and Senate leaders adjourned without an agreement.
Beshear said he will not call a special session unless legislation leaders "stand up ahead of time and say we will support this and we will pass this." The governor has become increasingly critical of the legislature, saying partisan politics had generated "dysfunction" between the Democratic-controlled House and the GOP-controlled Senate.
"I'm not going to waste the taxpayers' money calling a special session just so we can come up and argue about it again," Beshear said. "We can settle all those arguments now. And assuming that we
can settle those arguments, then I'm willing to call them back in for a minimum amount of time."
Sen. Damon Thayer has said revamping the retirement system is
crucial to avoid a future "fiscal calamity." House and Senate lawmakers pushed differing plans aimed at dealing with a potential $26.6 billion shortfall.
Kentucky's state retirement system covers more than 445,000
people, including state and county employees and public school teachers.
Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, had urged Beshear to call a special session to deal with the pension problems. Williams and other lawmakers said they had an agreement on a plan that cleared the Senate on the legislature's final night but stalled in the House.
"We already reached an agreement," Williams said. "Everybody knows we reached an agreement."
Beshear had previously said the issue can wait until next year's
regular legislative session, which begins in January. He said he doesn't want to spend taxpayer money on a special session, which costs some $60,000 a day, if partisan politics stand in the way of a solution.
House Majority Whip Rob Wilkey, D-Scottsville, said he wondered
whether it would be more efficient financially for lawmakers to pass the proposed pension fix now or wait until the legislature returns in January.
"It'll cost $300,000 in a five-day session to do that," Wilkey said. "How much can you save by passing it now instead of January."
House Majority Caucus Chairman Charlie Hoffman, D-Georgetown,
said the complexity of the pension problems warrants further study to find the best solution, and such a study could be time consuming.
"I would urge the governor to proceed with caution, and to talk to the interested stake-holder groups before rushing into something without proper study," Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he was disheartened that lawmakers were unable to
agree on a way to revamp the pension system. But he said he preferred taking no action to taking the wrong action.
"I think we did the right thing in leaving Frankfort without a bill," he said.
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UB Criminologist: Ferguson Reveals Danger of Uncertain Police Tactics
August 20, 2014
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Jeffrey Ian Ross, professor of criminal justice in the University of Baltimore's College of Public Affairs, tells CNN that the various tactics tried by law enforcement to quell unrest in Ferguson, Mo., may be a factor in the continuing violence and frustration there. The use of military-grade hardware has been "provocative," Ross said, while other efforts have appeared to show that police are "making it up as they go along."
While Ross agrees that police were needed to address the unrest, he said that public perceptions that they are "experimenting" to determine what will disperse the crowds have become a focal point.
"It tells me that they're not ceretain who's in control and how to control this civil strife," Ross said.
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10 U.S. Code § 1221 - Effective date of retirement or placement of name on temporary disability retired list
Notwithstanding section 8301 of title 5, the Secretary concerned may specify an effective date for the retirement of any member of the armed forces under this chapter, or for the placement of his name on the temporary disability retired list, that is earlier than the date provided for in that section.
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Clause (2)(A) is omitted as unnecessary since the revised section applies to the armed forces, and the revised section is made applicable to the other uniformed services by sections 3 and 4 of the act enacting this revised section. Clause (2)(B) is omitted as covered by section 101(8) of this title and sections 3 and 4 of the act enacting this revised section.
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There is a new point's leader in Top Fuel. Well, he's not new in the sense that he has never been the leader before, but he is new because Shawn Langdon went around Tony Schumacher to regain the top spot. This is the fifth time in as many races that Shawn and Tony have swapped places in the standings and it probably won't be the last..While Shawn, who drives one of the Al Anabi dragsters grabbed the top spot, it was his teammate Khalid alBalooshi who grabbed the trophy and the ice cream scoop after beating Doug Kalitta in the final round. This was the second win for Khalid in the Top Fuel class and the fourth this year for the Al Anabi team..Khalid started his weekend off with a win over Antron Brown, his fourth in as many meetings with the reigning champion. I have always said that there are some drivers who just seem to have a spell over others. It's kind of like a pitcher who can't get a certain batter out and yet he's good against everyone else. Did you know that Antron has faced ninety-seven different drivers in his career, including the bikes, and among those that he faced more than once there is only one other competitor
John Force was
one of those number one guys who didn't win. John, who has a grandstand named
after him at
The top two qualifiers in Pro Stock went at it in the final
round when Mike Edwards, who was number two in the field, beat Allen Johnson who was number one. As
much as you might expect to see that at a lot of events, did you know that this was the first time this year that the
top two qualifiers went at it in a final round in Pro Stock? And the last time
it happened was at Brainerd last year when Erica
Enders-Stevens beat none other than Allen Johnson in the final round. At
that race Erica was the top qualifier and Allen was second, and in the final
round AJ had all kinds of problems and only went fifty-eight miles per hour.
This year in the final round he had all kinds of problems and only went
fifty-two miles an hour..The win is the thirty-eighth of Mike's Pro Stock
career and it's the seventh time he has beaten Allen in the money round. Just
like the Top Fuel class, where Khalid has Antron's number, Mike seems to have
Allen's. Did you know that
Mike's win gave him a 23-11 record against Allen and he is now 7-1 against him
in final round matches? That's very impressive against anyone let alone a guy
who is driving one of the top cars in the class. The only person Mike has
beaten more times is Warren Johnson
(31)..Since I mentioned Erica it was a shame that she couldn't put together a
deal to get her to all of the races this year. In fact, it was a shame that
there wasn't a full field of Pro Stock cars at
Matt Smith had a
good day, in fact, the entire Smith family had a good
day since Rickie also won. For Matt it was his first win since Englishtown in
2011 and it landed him in third place in the points. Matt won the race after
qualifying eighth in the field, and as I mentioned last week it's tough to win
from that spot because if you both win you would meet the top qualifier in
round two. At
As I mentioned, Matt's father, Rickie Smith, won the Pro Mod portion of the show so the two were able to share the winner's circle and that had to be special. Did you know that the Smith's are the sixth family to have a parent and a sibling win at the same race, and they are the first to do it in those two classes? Rickie's win was his fourth in the Pro Mod class and did you know that ties him with Danny Rowe for the most wins in NHRA Pro Mod history? With the win Rickie is now the point's leader in Pro Mod, and how neat would it be if both of the Smith family members won the championship this year?...Dave Hirata broke a long dry spell when he beat Ray Martin for the Top Alcohol Dragster title. Did you know that his last national event win came at the Englishtown race in 2000, so that means he has gone thirteen years between wins? He also made a little history with his win because he started from the fifteenth spot in the field. Did you know that in the entire history of the alky dragster class, and that covers 557 races, Dave is only the second driver to ever win a race form the
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New Law Will Protect Newborns from the Resurgence of Whooping Cough
Stony Brook, N.Y. – In an effort to staunch a national epidemic of whooping cough, hospitals across New York State will offer the pertussis vaccine to all parents and caregivers of newborns next year.
The new law is the direct result of efforts by Shetal Shah, M.D., Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital neonatologist who advocated for approval of the law based on research he published in the journal Pediatrics. Dr. Shah's research showed that when parents in the hospital were offered the pertussis vaccine, they were not only receptive to the idea, they were eager to receive it. As a result, vaccination rates improved. The study showed that the best time to offer the vaccine to parents is while the mother is still hospitalized, soon after delivery.
Sponsored in the New York Legislature by Senator Kemp Hannon (R-Garden City) and Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket), this new law requires general hospitals "having a newborn nursery or providing obstetric services to offer to every parent, person in parental relation or other person who is reasonably anticipated to be a caregiver of a newborn being treated in such hospital vaccination against Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough)."
"As a biomedical researcher of infectious diseases who knows the power of vaccines, I knew a lot of people would benefit when Governor Cuomo signed this bill into law," said Samuel L. Stanley Jr., Stony Brook University President. "I deeply appreciate all of the hard work of Senator Hannon and Assemblyman Englebright and so many others here at Stony Brook – particularly Dr. Shah – who helped make this law a reality."
"Dr. Shah has shown true leadership and persistence in advocating for passage of this bill," said Margaret M McGovern, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief, Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital. "He has advocated for a common-sense solution that will be effective in raising the immunization rates for parents and other caregivers across the state."
"Because of the high risk to newborns, every precaution should be taken to ensure their safety," said Senator Hannon, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health. "By requiring that vaccinations be offered to parents and caregivers of newborn children, New York is taking the lead in ensuring these vulnerable babies are protected from this potentially fatal malady. I am pleased the Governor has signed my bill into law."
"Whooping cough can be very dangerous, and often fatal, for newborns," said Richard N. Gottfried, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Health. "Helping parents, relatives, and caregivers get vaccinated against whooping cough reduces the exposure of newborns, whose immune systems are not able to handle the vaccine."
"Whooping cough is a disease that we thought vaccines had banished," Assemblyman Englebright said. "When Dr. Shah approached me in February I learned otherwise. This disease is resurging because the vaccine is not permanent. Dr. Shah's suggestion for a new law to offer vaccines to parents and caregivers is brilliant, timely, and effective. I'm grateful to all who responded to Dr. Shah's request for action as this will save the lives of newborns."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, New York currently ranks third in the number of reported cases nationally. Statewide, 1,288 cases have been reported – three times the number from 2011. There have been 187 cases in New York City and 333 on Long Island, and an outbreak of pertussis occurred in Northport earlier this year and in Setauket more recently.
"This vaccine is approved not just for children and adults but also for pregnant women in their second and third trimester, since it is from these unvaccinated or under vaccinated family members that infants can get pertussis," Dr. Sharon Nachman, Professor of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, at Stony Brook Children's, said. The new law not only will help New York avoid breakthrough episodes of pertussis in the general population, it will reduce healthcare costs by avoiding costly treatment of pertussis in newborns.
"Parents and caregivers of newborns need to be aware that the pertussis vaccine is short-lived and can wear off within a decade," Dr. Shetal Shah said. "So some people who were immunized as children are no longer protected in adolescence or adulthood. Health officials are calling on all adults to get a booster shot as soon as possible – especially pregnant women and adults who spend time around children. The government recommends that children get vaccinated in five doses, with the first shot at age 2 months and the final one between 4 and 6 years. A booster shot is recommended around 11 or 12."
Experts believe whooping cough occurs in cycles and peaks every three to five years. The current epidemic rate has been linked to the effectiveness of the vaccine, which was modified in the late 1990s following concerns about rashes, fevers and other side effects. The bill takes effect on January 18, 2013.
About Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital:
Established in June 2010, Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital is Suffolk County's only children's hospital. More than 7,000 children and adolescents are admitted each year. Stony Brook Children's operates 100 pediatric beds and has more than 100 full-time pediatric physicians and surgeons and over 200 voluntary pediatric faculty members in 30 different specialties. The hospital is the Level 4 Regional Perinatal Center for our area and has a Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. It is home to the nation's first Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center and also offers a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Program, Pediatric Cardiology Program, Pediatric HIV and AIDS Center, Cystic Fibrosis Center and the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. To learn more, visit the Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital Web site.


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USM's applied energy program, which gives students hands-on experience in measuring and testing energy efficiency, has acquired its dream home. The university-owned building at 19 College Avenue on USM's Gorham campus was built as a private home in the late 19th century. It features poor insulation, a fieldstone foundation and an old, oil-fired burner.
"We couldn't be happier," said Daniel Martinez, assistant research professor in the USM Department of Environmental Science and manager of the house. "This is the ideal structure in which to conduct research and teach students and community members about residential energy use and how to implement effective weatherization programs and other low-cost energy conservation measures on a typical Maine home."
While noting that model energy homes are important, Martinez stresses that there has been insufficient focus on houses built before the energy crisis of the 1970s. He adds that most residential-level energy research is conducted in controlled laboratories outside of New England. "We need the ability to research and teach using an actual, energy inefficient Maine house, rather than a controlled laboratory," said Martinez. "We need to know what works best here under actual conditions."
Martinez and his colleagues in the Department of Environmental Science's applied energy program are reaching out to private and public organizations to partner in the testing, research, and education of affordable and new energy-saving technologies. Plans for the house include the installation of real-time sensors, probes, and cameras to test and monitor the performance of improvements. All information eventually will be made available through a "Residential Energy House" website. The energy house, said Martinez, is also ideal to monitor and test indoor air quality, which can be affected with the introduction of energy conservation and supplementary heating measures.
According to recent statistics, nearly 72 percent of Maine homes are reliant on imported oil for heating at a time when the average statewide price of heating oil has increased more than 60 percent since the 2004-2005 heating season. Martinez also notes that cuts in the Low-Income Heating Assistance Program (LIHEAP) means that Maine's most vulnerable are facing a difficult year. "This situation highlights the need to reduce energy consumption through low-cost and proven technologies," he said.
The program is funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant through the NSF's "Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."
For more information, contact Professor Daniel Martinez at 780-5444, firstname.lastname@example.com or Professor Travis Wagner at 228-8450, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Posted: Friday, May 30, 2008
Minnesota Chief Justice Russell A. Anderson has named Susan M. Holden, Steven J. Kirsch and Michael D. Tewksbury to serve as members of the legislatively-mandated special master panel to consider claims, make offers of settlement and enter into settlement agreements for a special fund established by the Legislature to compensate survivors of the August 2007, I-35W bridge collapse. Susan Holden will serve as chair of the panel.
By law, the panel must consist of three attorneys who have experience in legal issues involving the settlement of tort claims and the determination of damages. The legislation appropriates $24,000,000 for settlement payments, with an additional $12,640,000 for "supplemental payments." The appropriation for administration of the process, from which the panel members will be paid, is $750,000.
Susan M. Holden is an attorney in private practice with the Minneapolis-based firm of Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey, Ltd. Holden specializes in litigating tort claims on behalf of injured people or their surviving family members. Holden, a graduate of St. Cloud State University and the William Mitchell College of Law, served as president of the Minnesota State Bar Association from 2005 to 2006, and president of the Hennepin County Bar Association from 1999 to 2000.
Steven J. Kirsch is an attorney in private practice with the St. Paul based firm of Murnane Brandt, specializing in civil litigation and primarily representing defendants and plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. He has an extensive mediation and arbitration practice and has lectured widely on alternative dispute resolution. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and of the Hamline University School of Law.
Michael D. Tewksbury is an attorney in private practice with the Minneapolis-based firm of Tewksbury & Kerfeld, P.A., specializing in civil litigation and representing both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury litigation. Tewksbury is a specialist in alternative dispute resolution, and has lectured extensively on personal injury litigation. He is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado and of Gonzaga University School of Law.


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Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 23, 2013 / 09:02 am (CNA).- An essay claiming that Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia was put in a "right-wing funk" by Pope Francis' popularity "completely misunderstood" the archbishop, his defenders say.
Two Catholic writers have strongly criticized an Aug. 17 National Catholic Reporter opinion essay by University of St. Thomas School of Law Professor Charles J. Reid, Jr.
Reid used Archbishop Chaput's July 23 interview with National Catholic Reporter correspondent John L. Allen, Jr. to argue that the archbishop is worried by "the sudden interest in the new Pope from unfamiliar quarters," like non-practicing Catholics, non-Catholics and non-Christians.
The opinion essay accompanied a cartoon depicting an archbishop with little resemblance to Archbishop Chaput. The cartoon archbishop was shown under a raincloud and appeared to be depressed by a chart of Pope Francis' growing popularity.
Sharply responding to the piece on the "First Thoughts" blog of First Things magazine on Aug. 21, Matthew J. Frank wrote that the archbishop's interview with Allen instead showed him to be "unequivocally delighted with Pope Francis."
"Literally his first comment on the Holy Father is, 'Thanks be to God that the Lord has given us a pope with such universal appeal to so many people.'"
Patrick Brennan, a blogger at the Catholic law blog Mirror of Justice, weighed in an Aug. 20 piece that Reid's essay was "an unjust portrayal of an exemplary bishop" whose summary did not resemble what the archbishop actually said.
In his essay, Reid goes on to suggest in his essay that Archbishop Chaput's comments that these people would prefer a church without "strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine" sounded like the older brother from the parable of the prodigal son, who was resentful on the return of his wayward brother.Reid cited the archbishop's description of contemporary culture as "pagan," arguing that this description was a bar to evangelization. He also blamed "right wing" Catholicism for failing to reach the marginalized and sinners.
Frank countered that Reid "completely misunderstood" the archbishop, who does not believe that the Pope is less concerned about the moral life and about doctrine.
Archbishop Chaput's references to the "right wing of the Church" did not include the archbishop himself, Frank noted. Rather, this referred to "people on the fringe" such as those drawn to the breakaway Society of St. Pius X.
"(T)his is not a faction with which Chaput identifies himself, and it strikes me as either very dimwitted or very willfully biased for Reid to understand Chaput that way," Frank said.
"This misunderstanding feeds every other thing Reid gets wrong. It's why he thinks – and this mistake is truly bizarre – that Chaput somehow rejects people being drawn to the Church anew by Francis's ministry."
Brennan noted that Archbishop Chaput "decisively" countered any disaffection with Pope Francis, citing the Archbishop's own words about the Pope: "I think he's a truly Catholic man in every sense of the word."
Frank rejected the idea that Catholic leaders like Archbishop Chaput had kept people way from the faith, noting that these leaders are "a large part of the reason" that he had returned to the Catholic faith and his wife had converted.


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Childcare Eligible Expenses
The IRS determines which expenses are eligible for reimbursement. Eligible expenses include before/after school care, au pair services, preschool/nursery school,
summer day camp, and elder daycare.
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|Au Pair
|Babysitting (work-related, in your home or someone else's home)
|Babysitting (not work-related, for other purpose)
|Babysitting by your relative who is not a tax dependent (work-related)
|Babysitting by your tax dependent (work-related or for other purpose)
|Before or after school programs
|Child care
|Dance Lessons
|Dependent care (while you work, to enable you to work or look for work)
|Educational, learning or study skills services
|Extended care (supervised program before or after regular school hours)
|Field trips
|Household services (housekeeper, maid, cook, etc)
|Housekeeper who cares for child (only portion of payment attributable to work-related child care)
|Kindergarten tuition
|Language classes
|Late payment fees
|Meals, food or snacks
|Medical care
|Nursery school
|Payroll taxes related to eligible care
|Piano lessons
|Private school tuition (for kindergarten and up)
|Registration fees (required for eligible care, after actual services are received)
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|Total payments (transferred from previous administrator)
|Transportation to and from eligible care (not provided by your care provider)
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The Field Museum collections are full incredible stories. In the 1930's archaeologist J. Eric Thompson collected several Maya obsidian objects from San José, Belize. Almost 80 years later, Field Museum scientists Gary Feinman (Curator of Mesoamerican Anthropology), Mark Golitko (Regenstein Postdoctoral Fellow) and Ryan Williams (Associate Curator and Chair of Anthropology), used modern techniques to analyze this Mayan objects and shed some light in the trading patterns of this civilization.
Listen to Dr. Feinman's conversation about Maya obsidian research and get a better understanding on how Field Museum anthropologists are doing ground breaking research with the Museum's collections.
Watch Mark Golitko's Field Revealed episode about The X-Ray Fluorescence Lab.
Learn more about J. Eric Thompson collection.


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March Madness is the biggest month in college basketball. But the madness can start long before students get to college. Some coaches with little or no experience recruit kids as young as eight, dangling big dreams in front of families. Host Michel Martin speaks with George Dohrmann about his book Play Their Hearts Out.
The Seamy Side Of Youth Basketball
By editor • Mar 9, 2012


text: Troy Corporation announced that its performance powder coating additive formerly known as Powdermate EX2099 has been renamed Powdermate 575FL. The new name represents the next generation in flow and leveling, enabling the production of pigmented coatings with uncompromised gloss and topcoats with exceptional clarity the company said. The high performance additive helps coatings to resist cratering, orange peel, and hazing, thereby providing a defect-free surface appearance. 575FL further provides excellent recoatability, intercoat adhesion, and delamination resistance. 575FL is effective in both thermal and UV-cured systems and is compatible with all commercial resin systems.


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Nigeria's military raided an Islamic insurgent camp and launched air and ground attacks over two days, killing about 50 sect members, a military official said on Friday.
This came as Nigerians mourned the death of nine people who died after Boko Haram staged a highway attack on Thursday at Bulabulin-Ngabura village, 50km north of Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Boko Haram insurgency.
The military's newly formed 7th division, established to quell the insurgency in the northeast, participated in the raid, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa said in Maiduguri. The attack on the camp also involved a military gunship as back up, he said. Military helicopters have been seen hovering in the skies near Maiduguri recently.
Musa said the counterattack took place near Bulabulin-Ngaura and in Gajiram village, where 15 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram members who raided a local market on Wednesday.
"Troops pursued the terrorists to their camps and destroyed the camps with air support," he said.
Boko Haram members who staged the highway attack early on Thursday also kidnapped a family of five who were traveling to their country home in Biu for the weekend, residents in Bulabulin-Ngabura villages said.
Cab driver Musa Lado told reporters that dozens of insurgents staged the attack, which killed a Borno state government adviser.
"We could not move along the highway for several hours because of the attack. By the time we were told the road was safe to continue our journey, we saw corpses of nine persons, including that of an adviser in the Borno state government," another cab driver said.
He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety.
The driver also said a man, his wife and three children were kidnapped from their car along the highway, and he helped get the vehicle to Biu.
Since 2010, more than 1,700 people have been killed in attacks by Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden."
There has been a rash of attacks by suspected sect members in northeast Nigeria recently, after young vigilantes formed the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in June as a backlash against Boko Haram. The task force has taken over the search for the insurgents in many towns in the north and most Boko Haram members have since relocated to the surrounding bushes. The vigilante force claims credit for thousands of arrests in Maiduguri and many killings.
Many residents welcome the vigilantes and credit them for some initial relative peace. Others find their existence troubling and worry that they may carry out human rights abuses.
Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejerika on Friday commended the CJTF for helping the government catch Islamic sect members in northeast Borno state.
"I wish to commend the youth volunteers for their support in fighting the insurgency," Ihejerika said in the first endorsement of the group by a high-ranking military officer.
Ihejerika was in Maiduguri to oversee the deployment of troops and equipment for the newly established 7th Division of the Nigerian army. The new division, once fully established, would bring an end to the mandate for the CJTF, which has had military backing when it goes out on missions.
The vigilante group members have also become targets. On Aug. 30, suspected Islamic sect members ambushed and killed at least 24 members of the CJTF who were on a mission to find and fight the sect near Monguno town, 160km from the city of Maiduguri. Those who returned from the attack said 36 other vigilantes were missing.
Earlier that week, two attacks killed at least 20 members of the CJTF in Damasak, where six members were shot while sleeping, and in Barma, where attackers disguised in military uniforms slit the throats of young men.


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- Key extraction task "LiteOn Key V3 (Tarablinda)" now supports the Slim firmware versions 9504, 0272, 0225, 0401, 1071 and also tries to discover the key on unknown firmware versions
- 2 new tasks added named "Lock SPI Flash" and "Unlock SPI Flash" The new unlock SPI flash task is used in combination with Geremia's MXIC and Winbond Unlock method. It is very much influenced by Geremia's unlockSPI program, which was the first bruter to unlock Winbond SPI flashes. To relock the flash after you have finished writing a patched firmware to it, use the lock SPI flash task. This will instantly make the SPI flash write protected for all blocks. BP0, BP1 and SRP status bits are
activated afterward, so handle this function with care!
- Read Flash task now can create a full firmware dump of the Slim firmware versions 9504, 0272, 0225, 0401 and 1071. To create full firmware dumps of 0225 drives and above you should get a compatible SATA2 controller and set it to IDE mode. In addition you should be able to do Geremia's MXIC or Winbond unlock method. The compatible SATA2 controller is needed to unlock the MTK. Any installed drivers should be uninstalled, because they will switch the controller back to AHCI mode. In combination with the SPI flash status register unlock you are able to write to the firmware and inject Geremia's 8051 trojan, which can then dump the complete firmware. A risk level is added to show you how risky it is for your individual flash chip and firmware combination to write the patched firmware to obtain a full dump.
- Possibility during "Read Flash" task to write firmware sector 3E of Slim drives with unknown firmware version. This feature should be useful if new, unknown Slim firmware versions get out. If you write the patched 3E sector to a new and unknown firmware version this could potentially kill your drive. So handle it with care!
- Portio.sys reimplemented as separate driver for DosFlash32 and DosFlash64. The driver files portio32.sys and portio64.sys are again separated from the executable file. This way the user has the possibility to sign the drivers on his x64 system with the Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider.
- SATA and IDE adapter list updated
martes, 6 de septiembre de 2011
DosFlash 2.0
Después de más de 9 meses de su última actualización, Kai Schtrom ha publicado la versión 2.0 DosFlash, aplicación que permite flashear los lectores de Xbox 360 vía MS-DOS.
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New York City's fire department was known throughout the world before September 11, 2001, but that day put the heroism of its members on a whole different level. It's what the firefighters at one house did that day for some folks from Aggieland that added a little extra meaning to a defining number.
On West 19th Street in New York City, you'll find Engine 3, Ladder 12, Batallion 7. The Pride of Chelsea. The Dirty Dozen.
Around noon Saturday, they were preparing for their Christmas party, and along with the holiday decorations, the food, and the conversations, there was maroon and white, and a few extra 12s.
"Anytime your company's representing a number, you want to stand behind it 100 percent," said Tiernach "T.C." Cassidy, part of Ladder 12.
Five firefighters from this house stood behind the 12, and gave their lives to save others as the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11. Inside a nearby building were Texas A&M professor Oral Capps and his wife Debbie.
"We heard the sound of the south tower pancaking, and that was a bad sound, but the building filled up with black smoke, and we couldn't see each other," Debbie said in a previous interview with KBTX. "We just felt each other."
"To be right there and to witness it, you just kind of rub your eyes and say, 'I don't believe what I just saw,'" Oral added.
SOT Heinz Kothe / FDNY Firefighter
"You really don't remember everybody that you did help," said Heinz Kothe with Ladder 12.
But the Capps made sure those men of 12 remembered her family's gratitude.
"She's (Debbie's) brought guys out to her place for vacations, stuff like that, to go see Texas A&M games," Kothe said.
And on one anniversary of 9/11?
"They had a memorial set up similar to the Twin Towers with the names of the five brothers that we lost in this house, so it all came rushing right back to me," Cassidy said. "You think you get further away from New York and you wouldn't be as affected, but in College Station, it was just as much as it was here."
So this house's firefighters count themselves as Aggie fans. Shirts sent by the Capps certainly don't hurt that fandom, and so this season, they've watched Johnny Manziel and admired.
"I'm rooting for him," Kothe said. "I know the whole fire house is rooting for them. We're his 12th Man, and being 12th truck, it'd be great if he gets the Heisman."
In New York City, there will be the brave men of the 12th whose bravery brought them to the 12th Man.


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UNC Pembroke took a pair of matches from GSW on Saturday afternoon. The men surrendered a late goal in the second overtime to suffer a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat; and the Lady Hurricanes were defeated 3-0 in the early match.
UNCP 2, GSW men 1 (2OT)
Jamie Kiep converted a one-on-one challenge with UNC Pembroke goalkeeper Horatio Bynes to net the 87th minute equalizer and send the game into overtime, but Eirik Torgerson's 109th minute Golden Goal helped UNCP pull out a 2-1 victory over Georgia Southwestern Saturday afternoon at Varsity Grounds.
Andy Pullin and Torgerson both netted a goal apiece for the hosts, with Chicho Abreu, Dragan Lipovac and Rondell Honora each booking assists. Derek Schicker registered an assist for the visitors. Bynes grabbed a pair of saves for the Braves between the pipes, with Georgia Southwestern netminder David Porley turning in one save in the loss.
Neither team was really able to get an edge in the opening 60 minutes of play, but Abreu's quick pass to Pullin on a momentum transition was redirected underneath a diving Porley for the game's first goal. The score would hold up for more than 50 minutes of play until Schicker found an opening in UNCP's defense on a breakaway opportunity, thereby creating a simple one-on-one opportunity for Kiep to get the Hurricanes off the mark.
UNCP (7-5-1, 3-2-0 PBC) finished with a slim 10-8 shots advantage after recording the only two shots in the extra sessions. The Braves also held a 6-4 corner kicks advantage over GSW (2-10-0, 0-3-0), with the most imporant corner perhaps the last, as it led to the winning score.
The Hurricanes are at North Georgia on Wednesday for a 3:30 p.m. match. Live stats will be available on gswcanes.com
UNCP 3, GSW women 0
The UNCP women's soccer team was able to hold visiting Georgia Southwestern scoreless and pick up a 3-0 victory over the Lady Hurricanes on Saturday afternoon at Varsity Grounds.
GSW trailed 1-0 at the half.
Junior Faye Corbett assisted newcomer Anna Svensson in UNCP's first pair of goals. The first ball to find the back of the net did so in the 28th minute, while the second score came in the 53rd minute of play. Each goal had the same recipe for success as Corbett serviced the ball into the Lady Canes' box while Svensson delivered one deadly strike to send the ball to the back of the net.
The Lady Braves last goal came off a corner kick delivered by Fanny Forsman in the 72nd minute. Junior Sheena Mature was able to get a touch on the ball to deliver it to freshman Ashley Anctil who redirected it past GSW goalkeeper Amber Bahri.
Bahri made 16 saves - two shy of the single-game school record. Rea Segoviano stopped one for UNCP.
The Lady Braves improve to 8-3-1 overall, 3-2-1 PBC, while Southwestern falls to 3-8-0 overall, 0-5 PBC.
The Lady Hurricanes are at North Georgia for a 1 p.m. match on Wednesday. Live stats will be available on gswcanes.com.