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Ex-Merkley Account Leader Lands at Launchpad
Tom Lamb becomes CMO
By Andrew McMains on May. 8, 2014 - 5:03 PM EDT
A veteran account man at Merkley + Partners and McCann Erickson has landed at a smaller agency in a bigger role. Tom Lamb, who previously was an executive group account director…
E*Trade Adds SS+K to Its Creative Roster
New shop will focus on online marketing
By Andrew McMains on Apr. 2, 2014 - 1:57 PM EDT
Looking to deepen its online marketing efforts, E*Trade has added SS+K to its roster of agencies. SS+K in New York will focus in particular on the brand's use of social media…
Mercedes M-Class Survives a Demolition Derby Without a Scratch in Fiery New Spot
Victory through evasion
By David Gianatasio on Jan. 3, 2014 - 10:08 AM EST
Mercedes-Benz USA puts the "demo" in demolition derby for this fun 60-second spot by Merkley + Partners touting the latest high-tech safety features of the automaker's M-Class vehicles. All hell…
Adweek's Top 10 Commercials of the Week
Christopher Walken, bulls, zombies and the most moving ad ever about a little boy lost
By Melissa Hoffmann on Oct. 18, 2013 - 7:26 AM EDT
Optical-illusion masters Brusspup buddied up with Ray-Ban for this anamorphic illusion video to show off Ray-Ban's Clubmaster line of sunglasses.
Ad of the Day: Merkley Looks to the Past to Inspire the Future of Mercedes
Pair of new S-Class spots
By Andrew McMains on Oct. 15, 2013 - 4:25 PM EDT
Few auto brands have as rich a history to draw upon as Mercedes-Benz, the luxury nameplate that was born in 1886. The continual challenge, however, is making the legacy of…
Ad of the Day: LendingTree
Merkley's furry green puppet calls 'BS' on big-bank loans and mortgages
By Andrew McMains on May. 7, 2013 - 2:25 PM EDT
To personify new client LendingTree, Merkley + Partners turned to a puppet. In a new TV ad, "Lenny" is a green-faced, straight-shooting friend to Len, his human counterpart. As both sit…
Social Strategies Differ for Auto Brands in Super Bowl
Toyota looks for sales with paid ads, Mercedes plays the long game
By Christopher Heine on Jan. 29, 2013 - 1:12 PM EST
The difference between an earned-only strategy in social media versus paid-plus-earned can be like the difference between the Baltimore Ravens' methodical, pro-style offense and the San Francisco 49ers' quick-strike "pistol"…
Kate Upton Scrubs a Clean Path to Super Bowl for Mercedes-Benz
Model washes CLA in one of two teasers
By Tim Nudd on Jan. 22, 2013 - 1:30 PM EST
Kate Upton is everywhere and nowhere for Mercedes-Benz as it prepares to air its 60-second Super Bowl spot on Feb. 3. The automaker on Saturday released its official 40-second teaser for…
Smithfield Foods Hires New Creative Shop
Shift covers Smithfield, Gwaltney brands
By Andrew McMains on Oct. 26, 2012 - 1:59 PM EDT
Doner is getting into the pork business. The Southfield, Mich.-based agency has landed creative responsibilities on Smithfield Foods' namesake brand as well as the company's Gwaltney line of bacon, hot dogs,…
LendingTree Selects Creative Agency
New shop's first work is expected in March
By Andrew McMains on Sep. 7, 2012 - 12:09 PM EDT
Five months after hiring a media agency, LendingTree has found a new lead creative shop. Merkley + Partners won the pitch for LendingTree's creative account and will break its first campaign…


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Liberal, Reform and United Synagogues in south London have joined forces to tackle issues that "have far too long been taboo in the Jewish community".
Seminars focusing on depression, cancer and drugs and alcohol abuse are launching the venture, organised primarily by Kingston Liberal Synagogue and the Weybridge-based North-West Surrey Reform community, with the backing of the Kingston United congregation.
The opening meeting on depression was addressed by Aviva Trupp of Jewish Care and the audience also included Wimbledon Reform members. Subsequent seminars will be led by representatives from Chai Cancer Care and Drugsline.
Kingston Liberal's Rabbi Charley Baginsky — who conceived the project with Jenny Jankel of North-West Surrey — is "very excited about these events. We felt there was a need in the Jewish community to provide a forum outside north London where people could talk about difficult issues in a safe and confidential environment.
"More importantly, it recognises that there are resources available to the Jews of south London and Surrey to help them in times of need," Rabbi Baginsky added.

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Banks Could Start Paying Back TARP Funds As Early As Next Week
Morgan Stanley has already requested to be allowed to repay its $10 billion in TARP debt.
The Federal Reserve Bank is in talks with several major banks about the prospect of returning billions of dollars of TARP loans, with some of the debtors hoping to give money back as early as next week, reports the Post. Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack wants to repay $10 billion now that his firm raised $8 billion in debt and equity. The government stress tests ruled that it needed to raise only $1.8 billion to pass. According to sources, Mack has already submitted the request to the Fed in writing. [NYP]


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U.S. Gulf Coast gasoline strengthened relative to futures in New York after Motiva Enterprises LLC reported an incident at the largest refinery in the region.
Conventional, 85-octane gasoline, or CBOB, gained 0.75 cent to a discount of 15.5 cents a gallon below New York Mercantile Exchange futures at 2:12 p.m. Conventional, 87-octane gasoline also added 0.75 cent, narrowing its discount to 14 cents.
Motiva's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery report a "process incident" and flaring from an alkylation unit and fluid catalytic cracker, according to a filing with state regulators. The 600,000-barrel-a-day plant halted startup of a unit yesterday after emissions, a notice to the U.S. National Response Center said. Destin Singleton, a spokeswoman for the plant, declined to comment on specific units.
The 3-2-1 crack spread on the Gulf Coast, a rough measure of refining margins for gasoline and diesel based on West Texas Intermediate in Cushing, Oklahoma, added 86 cents to $9.03 a barrel. The same spread based on Light Louisiana Sweet oil gained 46 cents to $6.63 a barrel.
California-blend, or Carbob, gasoline in San Francisco strengthened 1 cent to a premium of 5 cents a gallon over futures at 2:16 p.m. New York time.
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Hey Sebastian,
I'm a big fan of your blog, a lot of the techniques you talk about have really helped me improve my productivity over the last month or so. One of your posts that most struck me was the one in which you talked about how to read more. It got me thinking about how I could more easily reorganize my time to make it easier to read. I realized that I spend a lot of time reading every day, just not a lot of time reading books. So to remedy this I threw together a little app which I thought you, and your other readers, might be interested in. The basic premise of the app, which is called onesmallpage, is that it will send you up to 5 pages of a book to your email every day. This helps you use your email reading time to read more books. Anyway I know your inbox must be stuffed, but I thought I would share since the app is partly inspired by your blog post.
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
I think this looks way cool. If anyone tries it out, let me know how well it works?
Link here: http://onesmallpage.appspot.com/
Just finished A Christmas Carol, and still think this is a great idea.
One small complaint; three or four pages were missing. I'm not sure whether that's a problem with the book file or the email not being sent / received correctly. Although the slight overlap at the start and end of subsequent pages meant that only a couple of paragraphs were missed.
Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you're finding the service useful. Please let me know if you have any features you would like to request, or any books you think I should add - my email is dan (at) danshipper.com.
Signed up to receive, and have just read the first 10 pages of, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Great idea for a service. This book has been on my list for a while but I've never got around to reading it, so a bite-sized chunk in my inbox each day is ideal. Especially as the email displays well on my phone.
Excellent choice of books too! Good work Dan, and thanks for the repost Sebastian.
I connected with a very cool reader named Patrick. I wrote up, "On Getting More Done – Top-down, or bottom up?" and "Want to read more? Okay, here's a few ways to do so" upon question/request from him, and we've had a nice correspondence.
He just sent me this really smart email, and graciously allowed me to share it with you -
Hey Sebastian,
Thanks again for the terrific emails you took the time to write last time on the topic of reading more. And great stuff on the blog lately, keep that up.
I've recently come across some pretty interesting stuff in the motivation field, I guess you could say. So I thought I might share my discoveries in case it might grant you some more insight on the topic.
I was a pretty good reader as a kid. My mom recounts me sitting in the corner reading in pre-school instead of doing whatever other pre-schoolers did. In Kindergarten, I was praised for reading more books than any other kid. Throughout the elementary school summers, I dominated the summer reading programs in all the neighboring cities.
Eventually, I started to realize that all of these books are the same. Sometime when I was 10, I started to realize every book seemed to be about some derpy kid who eventually overcame his fears and saved the world, or at least his friend group.
I had the intellectual ability to read YA and adult books at the time, but not the emotional maturity. So, I hit a standstill.
Time passes on, I get into Classics (aka: any title whose name being uttered made me sound smart). I got a Kindle and subsequently got into Indie trash, at one point reading one book per day. Then the Kindle broke and I had no clue what to do.
I went through a massive overhaul on how I thought about reading, which leads us to how I read today.


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Love is an Open Door
(Tony X Reader)
"Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore!" You sang, rather loudly, as you pranced around the living room in your socks. You had just gotten back from seeing Frozen for the hundredth time.
To say it was your favorite movie was an understatement. The rest of the Avenger crew learned to cope with your obsessiveness, whether it was avoiding words like "snowman" or phrases like "for the first time". The only person in the tower not fully adjusted to it was your boyfriend, Tony.
You began to search for him, the tower was oddly silent. After checking the labs and "candy land", you gave up, flopping onto your bed in exasperation. Tired after your search, you drifted off into sleep, but not before vowing to get Tony to sing with you.
"Hey, have you seen [Name]?" Tony poked his head into one of the labs. He hadn't heard any singing in a while, and the tower was rather quiet.
"She was looking for you an hour or two ago. I take it you were hiding from her?" Bruce replied, looking up from his laptop.
"Um… yes. She's hell bent on getting me to sing "Love is an Open Door" with her," Tony groaned, running a hand through his hair.
"Why don't you just get it over with?" Bruce asked. He knew sometimes Tony was stubborn, but not as stubborn as you could be.
"I am not singing a song from some stupid Disney movie!" Tony retorted.
"I wouldn't say that, she might hear you." Bruce warned, lowering his voice.
Tony rolled eyes, "Whatever." And with that he left the room.
Not even 30 seconds later, Bruce heard Tony scream, followed by "No, no it's not a stupid movie! I- I was just joking around!"
"But Tonyyyy~," you whined, looking up at him with big [eye color] eyes. "It's just one song."
"Yeah, the most annoying song on the planet," he scoffed. You were currently sitting cross legged on the bed, waiting for Tony to come to bed. He walked over to the bed, sitting next to you.
"I'm deeply offended. So offended, I might just blackmail you into singing with me." You replied, leaning up to wrap your arms around his neck.
"Blackmail? What could you possibly blackmail me with? I'm perfect." Tony mocked surprise.
"You are perfect." Your voice dropped to a sultry tone. You leaned up and kissed him, the mention of blackmail slipping away from Tony's mind. You pulled away slowly after a moment, blinking up at him with hooded eyes. He shifted his hands to your waist, tugging on your shirt in an attempt to get it off. You stopped him, and kissed him again.
Suddenly you stopped, plopped down onto the bed and threw the covers over your head. Tony furrowed his brows, "What just happened?"
"I'm going to sleep. Isn't it obvious?"
"You are not allowed to do that. You cannot just leave me here after doing that!" he whined, falling down onto you, pinning you beneath him.
"Actually I can, goodnight," you replied, kissing him on the forehead before ducking underneath the covers.
"You minx. This is ridiculous."
"Well, there is one thing that could wake me up…" you trailed off, letting Tony put two and two together.
"Nope. Not doing it." Tony rolled off you, and you smiled. I'll get him eventually.
It had now been a week since you swore to get Tony to do the duet with you, and you were getting nowhere. You've been holding off on sex, hidden his drinks and even threatened to spray paint his suits pink, but he still wouldn't sing with you.
"Seriously Tony, its two minutes long, you'll survive." You reasoned, flipping through your book.
He sighed, after what seemed like a million years, and finally spoke. "If, and I mean if, I do sing with you, you'll stop with the constant talk of Frozen?"
Excited he was finally –almost- agreeing to do the duet with you, you tried to sound calm. "To a certain extent, yes."
Tony thought about it for a moment, took a deep breath and said, "Fine, I'll do the duet with you."
"Alright, tomorrow then. Oh, I should let you know, I'll have someone film it. You know, just in case I need it." You agreed.
Tony looked like he was about to say something, but you were already asleep.
It was Saturday afternoon, and the Avengers were gathering around for lunch. You stood up on your chair, demanding the attention of the team. "I have important news, everyone." You paused for dramatic effect, "Tony has agreed to do the duet."
"My god, finally. You've been pestering him for what, a week?" Tasha laughed.
"Yes. A week. But without further ado, I present to you, "Love is an Open Door." Performed by [Name] [Last Name] and Tony Stark."
Tony threw you the dirtiest look he could muster, but you simply grinned and pulled him to the center of the room. "Jarvis, would you be a dear?"
The music began to play, and you turned to Tony, "Oh, by the way, my singing voice is low, so I'll be singing Hans. You'll have to sing Anna."
A look of pure hatred with a pinch of panic formed onto his face. "Don't worry, the lyrics are right there," you say as you point to a screen with the lyrics.
Tony glared at the screen before turning to you, "Okay, can I just say something crazy?"
"I love crazy!"
"All my life has been a series of doors in my face, and then suddenly I bump into you~" Tony took your hand in his.
You blushed before continuing, "I was thinking the same thing. 'Cause like, I've been searching my whole life to find my own place. And maybe it's the party talking or the chocolate fondue~"
"But with you,"
"But with you," You copied, as Tony began to dance with you. "I found my place."
"I see your face,"
"And it's nothing like I've ever known before," You sang in unison.
"Love is an open door~" Deciding to have fun, Tony spun you both around, keeping one hand on your waist, the other connected with your hand.
"Love is an open door~" you joined in a moment later.
"Love is an open door,"
"With you!"
"With you!" You repeated, giggling slightly.
"With you!"
"With you!"
"Love is an open door…"
You smiled, glancing up at Tony, "I mean it's crazy."
"We finish each other's-"
"Sandwiches!" Tony interrupted.
"That's what I was gonna say!"
"I've never met someone," Tony started, "who thinks so much like me!"
Crossing your pinky fingers with one another, you exclaimed, "Jinx! Jinx again!"
"Our mental synchronization can have but one explanation."
"And I"
"Meant to be," you finished together.
"Say goodbye~" Tony continued.
"Say goodbye~" you joined him, "to the pain of the past. We don't have to feel it anymore!"
"Love is an open door," the two of you started dancing again.
"Love is an open door~"
"Life can be so much more,"
"With you!" Tony started,
"With you!" You pointed at him.
"With you!" Tony picked you up and spun you around.
"With you!" you sang as Tony gracefully dipped you. After a second you giggled. "Can I say something crazy?" You paused, a smirk on your face. " I think you rather enjoyed that."
Tony smiled, "Can I say something even crazier? Yes, yes I did." He pulled you back to him and kissed you.
You pulled away slowly, and asked "Jarvis, did you get that?"
"Of course, Miss [Name]."
"Send it to me?"
"Right away."
Tony raised his eyebrow, "I'm going to kill you."
"Silly," you booped his nose, "I'm Hans, remember?"
So I don't know how I feel about this...
I am so obsessed with Frozen, it's ridiculous..
Anyway, this was inspired by my brother and I. We were going through the Frozen album, when we reached Love is an Open Door. I called Hans, because I have a naturally low voice, and although Anna isn't too high, i prefer to sing the lowest voice.
I've actually always sung the boy part in duets.
I don't own Tony or any of the other Avengers.
I don't own Frozen.
I don't own you.
I am so obsessed with Frozen, it's ridiculous..
Anyway, this was inspired by my brother and I. We were going through the Frozen album, when we reached Love is an Open Door. I called Hans, because I have a naturally low voice, and although Anna isn't too high, i prefer to sing the lowest voice.
I've actually always sung the boy part in duets.
I don't own Tony or any of the other Avengers.
I don't own Frozen.
I don't own you.
Not even 30 seconds later, Bruce heard Tony scream, followed by "No, no it's not a stupid movie! I- I was just joking around!" That is so me. Don't mess with my Disney
Really good fic, I like it
Really good fic, I like it
Adorable disney movie moment ever
HILARIOUS!!! Best. Songfic. Ever!
I am Hans cause I'm so evil tea he that was amazing and so like me but I feel like the Hans part is much funner to sing then Anna's part
This is so great.
This is extremely hilarious and I too am obsessed with frozen
yeah. but my friends have told me that if i sing let it go one more time they will leave me in a dark room and make me watch both gremlins movies by myself without a single food item.
The horror!! Just don't sing in front of them. Then you'll be okay:3
Too late. :-/ I sang it but I kind of changed the words to make fun of my friends. Now if I need blackmail I can show the video on Facebook. so to quote Loki I DO WHAT I WANT!!!
OMG I love it!!!
I also did a Love is an Open Door avenger reader insert, but mine was with steve.
awesome job!
awesome job!
Your version was hilarious!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you<3
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you<3
It's funny you posted this. XD I am auditioning for a talent show with let it go. :3
Yes I love sining to frozen just memorized do you want to build a snowman
Awesome! I just barely got through memorizing Fixer Upper.
I was obsessed with it before I saw it... And then I did see it and I got even more obsessed. Now I have to learn every song from it or they won't get out of my head.... But Elsa's voice. It's so complicated. Like, one minute it's low, and then it's high, and all I can do is high and... Oh. That turned into a personal rant.
What I meant was, this is brilliant.
I was obsessed with it before I saw it... And then I did see it and I got even more obsessed. Now I have to learn every song from it or they won't get out of my head.... But Elsa's voice. It's so complicated. Like, one minute it's low, and then it's high, and all I can do is high and... Oh. That turned into a personal rant.
What I meant was, this is brilliant.
Go ahead and rant, it's good for your soul.
Idina is so talented and I love her. She did amazing with Elsa.
Im glad you enjoyed it<3
Idina is so talented and I love her. She did amazing with Elsa.
Im glad you enjoyed it<3
I have to do something like this soon.
Singing duets is fun.
It's amazing. You should watch it when you have the chance<3
Every time I would schedule with my friends to watch it in theaters, something would come up. It's like I'm bound to NEVER seeing that movie v_v.
i want to falcon punch hans so much after this movie


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Andy Pettitte couldn't shake the itch: the feeling that he could still pitch, still be a major leaguer, still be a Yankee.
In December, he picked up the phone, called Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, and said the unexpected: He wanted to play again.
That phone call set in motion months of negotiations and workouts culminating in Pettitte's shocking announcement Friday that he would come out of retirement to compete for a spot on the 2012 Yankees.
"I've just gotta follow what I feel like my heart is telling me to do," Pettitte said.
Pettitte's return, on a non-guaranteed $2.5 million minor-league deal, raises huge questions for the current Yankee rotation, which already has six starters for five spots. And there's no certainty that Pettitte, at age 39, can be better than what the Yankees have in-house. But at such a low cost, the Yankees figured they had to take the chance.
"This is Andy Pettitte. How do you say no to that potential asset despite what you have?" Cashman said.
Pettitte retired with great ceremony following the 2010 season. But after a year of coaching his kids and playing with his family in Texas, he felt unsettled. While doing an interview in December, he heard through a reporter that Cashman had said he'd take Pettitte back if the lefty wanted to pitch again.
Pettitte made the call. Cashman was surprised, but intrigued—enough to offer Pettitte a one-year deal for $10 million to $12 million. But Pettitte then backed off, unsure if he could stick to the work schedule, and uncertain how his arm would respond.
With Pettitte wavering, Cashman moved on to other things. On Jan. 13, he agreed to trade for Michael Pineda and sign Hiroki Kuroda with the money he would have handed to Pettitte. A week later, Cashman called Pettitte again and told the pitcher he should shut it down; the window for a return was closed.
"And I said OK," Pettitte said.
But that nagging feeling wouldn't go away. After a few days of inactivity, Pettitte told his wife, Laura, that he wanted to keep working out, in secret, just in case.
"I looked at my wife, and I said, 'Babe, I was loving working out. I couldn't commit to them, but I was loving working out.' So she said keep working out," Pettitte said.
At the end of February, Pettitte flew to Tampa to be a guest instructor, joining other retired Yankees in the coaches' room. He threw a few days worth of batting practice, and told everyone who asked that he was happily retired.
But he wasn't. A few hours before his plane was due to take him back to Texas, he dragged Cashman into Girardi's office.
"He grabbed me and shut the door and said, 'I've got to tell you something,'" Cashman said.
Pettitte said he wanted back in. Cashman countered that he'd need to take a lot less money to do it. Pettitte was agreeable.
The two sides haggled over terms, and owner Hal Steinbrenner said he'd be willing to expand the budget a little if Pettitte would take only a few million.
Pettitte agreed. But the Yankees needed to see him throw first.
As dawn was breaking Tuesday morning, the Yankees brought Pettitte back to Tampa's Steinbrenner Field to throw in front team brass. Pettitte took the mound in uniform and cleats, in front of Cashman, ex-GM and manager Gene Michael, Joe Girardi, and pitching coach Larry Rothschild. He threw, he looked good to the Yankees, and he felt at home.
"Once I stood on that mound the other morning, it was like I'd never left. Even though it was Tuesday morning, and Cashman was standing there with Gene Michael and Joe, and Larry, and it was just like I had never left, to tell you the truth. It was really weird," Pettitte said.
So Thursday night, Pettitte made up his mind to return. In doing so, he joins a long list of players who couldn't stay away, most of whom return to failure. After a year away from baseball, former Yankee David Cone un-retired in 2003 to disastrous results. Pettitte's close friend Roger Clemens went through a few quasi-retirements and successful returns before one final, mediocre hurrah in 2007—at a cost of nearly $19 million for the Yankees.
Pettitte admitted that the idea of being just another Brett Favre-style athlete who didn't know when to hang it up plagues him. "I am embarrassed that I'm coming back. But then, I'm like, what can I do? Things have changed. My desire to do this has changed, and I sure as heck don't want to look back 10 years from now and say 'man, wish I would have done that'," Pettitte said.
Pettitte first joined the Yankees in 1995, and aside from a three-year stint in Houston, spent his entire 16-year career with the Yankees. There, he formed the "Core Four," alongside Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Jorge Posada, that won five World Series. He picked up 240 wins along the way, and earned three All Star appearances, including one in what appeared to be his final season, 2010.
Pettitte has thrown to keep his arm in shape, but the Yankees still expect him to need at least a full seven-week spring training before he returns to a major league mound. That puts the best-case scenario for his return in early May.
Pettitte's return is a heartwarming story for most, but for Phil Hughes and Freddy Garcia, it's a punch in the gut. Hughes and Garcia were already competing for the final rotation spot, and now they know that the winner of that battle is likely to be jettisoned or relegated to the bullpen when the anointed Pettitte returns.
Hughes put on a good face about the situation.
"It's great; I love Andy. He's awesome. I worry about the things I can control… the work I do out on the field. That's the only thing I'm going to worry myself with," Hughes said.
Those issues will all need to be worked out, but the Yankees say they have months to work out the details. For the moment, they're thrilled to have one of their own back in the fold.
"Does it complicate things? Yeah, it does," Cashman said. "But Andy Pettitte's worth complicating things for."
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H.R.2678: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10360 Southwest 186th Street in Miami, Florida, as the "Larcenia J. Bullard Post Office Building".
|Joe Garcia, D-FL
|28 (9 Democrats, 19 Republicans)
|July 11, 2013
|House Oversight and Government Reform; Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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- Bill introduced in the House
- Bill passed in the House
- Bill passed in the Senate
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Last Action
|Dec. 15, 2014
|Signed by President.
|Dec. 15, 2014
|Became Public Law No: 113-213.
|Dec. 9, 2014
|Presented to President.
|Dec. 8, 2014
|Message on Senate action sent to the House.
|Dec. 7, 2014
|Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
|Dec. 7, 2014
|Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
|Sept. 10, 2014
|Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
|Sept. 10, 2014
|On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 422 - 2 (Roll no. 492). (text: CR 9/8/2014 H7252) (View this vote)
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Passings | Longtime Mark Trail artist Jack Elrod Jr. died Wednesday at age 91. Mark Trail was created in 1946 by Ed Dodd, who brought on Elrod four years later as a background artist. When Dodd retired in 1978, Elrod took over the comic strip, and earned many awards from environmental organizations. He also made a significant change due to reader feedback, removing the title character's pipe after a 6-year-old fan wrote to him saying, "It is bad for his health, pollutes the air, and it is dangerous to the birds." Elrod retired in 2014, handing over Mark Trail to current artist and writer James Allen. [Gainesville Times]
Comic strips | The soap opera comic strip Apartment 3-G ended its 54-year run Sunday with little fanfare, leaving it up to a handful of bloggers, including Tom Spurgeon of The Comics Reporter and Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon, to give the longtime funny-page staple a proper sendoff. "It definitely has an unaffected, what-we-call-Lynchian quality where what you're seeing and what you're 'hearing' as dialogue don't match," Spurgeon writes. "The limited sets and slightly faded color choices make it a bit nightmarish, almost like the world is collapsing comic book 'crisis' style around these increasingly feckless characters. It's hard to believe there are more than a dozen "places" in the world these characters exist. [The A.V. Club]
Publishing | Vox takes a lengthy look at the effects of DC Comics' efforts to diversify, in terms of characters, titles and creators. The article, which includes interviews with Marguerite Bennett, Genevieve Valentine, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, notes that while new titles like DC Comics Bombshells have been successful, others launched under the "DC You" umbrella – Black Canary and Midnighter, for instance — are on far shakier ground, sales-wise. However, Co-Publisher Lee suggests the company is standing behind the initiative: "I think it's important for us to listen and to learn and basically to adjust and pivot. There is this emerging audience. Comics are changing. At the end of the day, if you're going to remain competitive and grow and flourish, you have to be able to adapt and change and evolve." [Vox.com]
Digital comics | Japanese publisher Kadokawa will relaunch its English-language e-book service BookWalker on Oct. 8 with 700 new manga and light novel titles. BookWalker, which includes a website and iOS and Android apps, debuted last year with a library of Kadokawa books, including Sgt. Frog and Neon Genesis Evangelion, some of which have also been published by Viz Media and Dark Horse. The new site will include a wider range of books from other Japanese and North American publishers. Kadokawa also runs ComicWalker site, which offers free chapters of manga in English. [Anime News Network]
Creators | Colin McEnroe interviews Zippy creator Bill Griffith about his new book, Invisible Ink, which is the story of his late mother's affair with a cartoonist — or, as McEnroe puts it, "Zippy Meets Freud." [NPR]
Legal | A judge has ordered Matthew Pocci to stand trial on charges of felony reckless driving for an incident at last year's SDCC ZombieWalk: San Diego that left one woman seriously injured. In a preliminary hearing held Wednesday, the defense argued that Pocci, who is deaf, was scared for his and his family's safety, and was just trying to drive through an opening in the crowd of spectators, but the prosecution countered that he had grown angry and impatient. [CBS 8 San Diego]
Comics | Michael Dooley looks at Marvel's Daredevil through the years, with an emphasis on the art. [Print Magazine]
Graphic novels | The National Arts Council of Singapore has withdrawn a $8,000 publication grant for Sonny Liew's graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a biography of the Singaporean comics pioneer that depicts some tumultuous events in the nation's history. "We had to withdraw the grant when the book The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye came out because its sensitive content, depicted in visuals and text, did not meet our funding conditions," said Khor Kok Wah, senior director of the literary arts sector of the NAC. He did not specify what the "sensitive content" was, but the book makes satirical references to Singaporean politics and history. The publisher, Epigram, will return the $6,400 that was disbursed already and will cover the NAC's logo on the book cover with a sticker. The book will be published next year in the United States by Pantheon. [Straits Times]
This year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Bay Area's Alternative Press Expo, and Comic-Con International has announced the special guests who will be in attendance when it returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco Oct. 12-13 for what will be its last show at the venue.
This year's special guests are:
APE was started in 1994 by SLG Publishing's Dan Vado and was held in San Jose until 1999. It moved to San Francisco after that and has been held at the Concourse since 2004. But according to CCI, the show will be looking for a new home next year. "Sadly, we have been notified that this will be the last year for APE at that location," a statement on the show's website reads. "The Concourse is scheduled to be razed at some point in the future to make room for new condominiums."
Legal | DragonCon co-founder Ed Kramer, who hasn't been associated with the show since 2000, has been brought back to the Gwinnett County Jail and booked on child molestation charges that date back to August 2000. The 51-year-old Kramer was released on bond after his initial arrest following accusations that he sexually abused three boys, and has avoided jail and court for more than a decade because of his health problems, although he was under house arrest for a while. He was arrested again in Connecticut in 2011 for violating the conditions of his bond after he was allegedly found alone in a hotel room with a 14-year-old boy. Atlanta Magazine ran a lengthy expose on Kramer last year. [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Chris Arrant
If I only had $15, I'd walk out a happy camper despite only having one book, because that book is 20th Century Boys, Vol. 22 (Viz, $12.99). While your typical American comics fan may have no idea who Naoki Urasawa is, he is in my mind undoubtedly the best cartoonist working today. Twenty-two books in and he hasn't let up, delivering comics' example of long-run storytelling perfection a la Sopranos. Friend is one of the most terrifying villains I've seen in comics in some time, and the mad assemblage of childhood pals out to stop him are some of my most treasured fictional friends.
If I had $30, I'd come back to comic stores on an American tip, starting off with Godzilla: Half Century War #2 (IDW Publishing, $3.99) by James Stokoe. I missed this when the first issue came out, but since then I've found it and relished its pure cartooning chaos. The first issue was an ideal debut, and I'm interested to see Stokoe take Lt. Murakami to Vietman in the '60s for the ongoing war on Godzilla. After that I'd get the satisfying chunk, Dark Horse Presents #16 (Dark Horse, $7.99). I've been repeating the same praises every month, so let me try to spin it differently. This new issue, I have little idea what's in it besides the return of Crime Doesn't Pay; there's a new series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray in it I have heard nothing about, but DHP has re-built its track record of excellence and I'm fine spending $7.99 sight unseen. My final pick would be Daredevil #18 (Marvel, 2.99). Chris Samnee is quite different than the original artists on the book, but is excelling with Mark Waid in a new way — and that's good. Instead of aping what had gone before, Samnee assuredly gives us his own style that would make any true fan of art in comics smile.
Oh ,wait, I found some money. I know, I'll buy Memorial, Vol. 1 (IDW, $24.99). I missed this in singles, and this hardcover looks like the perfect chance to me to make up for past mistakes. These covers by Michael WM Kaluta really get my heart beating, and I've been wanting to read more of Chris Roberson on his own. The preview on IDW's website gives me the impression it's got down-to-earth personality amidst a fantasy world, and reminds me of classic supernatural fiction like A Wrinkle in Time or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Creators | How did Darwyn Cooke get involved with the Before Watchmen comics? "I was kind of dragged into it kicking and screaming by [DC Comics Co-Publisher] Dan DiDio. He had been discussing this for what does amount to several years now, and the first time he had approached me about it, I had actually turned it down simply because I couldn't see doing anything that would live up to the original. And, it was about a year later, the story idea that I'm working on now sort of came to me and I realized that there was a way to do the project, and I had a story that I thought was exciting enough to tell. So I phoned Dan up and said, 'Hey, if you still got room, I'm in.'" [Rolling Stone]
Creators | Ron Marz discusses Prophecy, his upcoming comic that turns the whole Mayan calendar thing into a crossover event that will bring together an eclectic group of characters, and defends the idea of crossovers in general: "If your objection is "they're not in the same universe," or a crossover somehow offends your sense of continuity, I'd suggest you're missing the point. More than any other medium, comics are about unfettered imagination, about making the impossible possible. If you're going to let some perceived "rules" prevent you from telling an exciting story, you're just not trying very hard. Having a sense of wonder, of discovery, is much more important than following some set of perceived rules and regulations." [MTV Geek]
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Graeme McMillan
If I had $15 this week, I'd avoid Marvel and DC altogether and go for some more independent offerings. Top of the pile would definitely be Prophet #21 (Image, $2.99), Brandon Graham's much-anticipated revamp of the Rob Liefeld book from the mid-90s, recreated (with artist Simon Roy) as some kind of Heavy Metal fever dream; I'm a massive fan of Graham's, and excited to see what he can come up with when he tries to play it (relatively) straight. I'd also grab Dynamite's Kirby Genesis: Dragonbane #1 ($3.99), another spin-off from the Busiek/Ross/Herbert series this time focusing on the almost Thor-analog warrior, and IDW's Memorial #2 ($3.99), continuing the urban fantasy series that I enjoyed so much last month. Lastly, I'd grab the cheap relaunch for Antony Johnston's Wasteland (#33, Oni, $1.00); I've really enjoyed this post-apocalyptic world building book for awhile, but this relaunch – which will return the book to a monthly schedule as well as debut new artist Justin Greenwood – looks set to be a good jumping-on point for those who've never sampled its charms before.
If I had $30, I'd be likely to put Dragonbane back on the shelf and try out Marvel's Fear Itself: Journey Into Mystery Premiere HC collection ($19.99) instead. Not having been a fan of Matt Fraction's Thor, I skipped the first few issues of this and then, by the time I kept hearing great things and realized I actually really enjoy Kieron Gillen's writing, it was far enough into the run that I knew I'd end up waiting for the collection. Color me cautiously optimistic.
When it comes to splurging, my love of comics from around when I was born rears its ugly head again, and I find myself drawn to Marvel Firsts: 1970s Vol. 1 TP (Marvel, $29.99). This is possibly my favorite era from the House of Ideas, so the idea of an anthology of some of its weirdest hits sounds right up my alley.
I was surprised when Bil told me he read Zippy in his local Arizona paper and liked it. He didn't even qualify his opinion with the usual, "Of course, I don't always get it." Until then, I hadn't paid much attention to The Family Circus, but I slowly began to see that you could read more into it than what appeared on the surface.
We mentioned the other day that the late Bil Keane once did a Family Circus crossover with Bill Griffith's Zippy. Griffith has a nice piece at The Comics Journal that explains how the crossover came about and reinforces what everyone says about Keane being a nice guy but also sharper than his genial comic would lead you to believe; he also posts the Zippy strips that feature Jeffy and the Family Circus panel that features Zippy in all their surreal glory.
The world of comics is filled with tortured souls, but Bil Keane was not one of them.
The creator of The Family Circus passed away Tuesday at the age of 89, after what was by all accounts a wonderful life. Keane started drawing The Family Circus in 1960, and it is still going strong today — his son Jeff took over in recent years — and his 60-year marriage to Thelma Keane, the model for the mother in the cartoon, was a love match. Keane served as the president of the National Cartoonists Society from 1981 to 1983 and emceed its awards banquet for 16 years. Even before he died, his fellow cartoonists unfailingly described him as the nicest of nice guys, and startlingly funny. His niceness, apparently, had a bit of an edge.
Keane took The Family Circus seriously, seeing his mission as providing "good, wholesome, family entertainment," a sort of cartoon comfort food for readers whose real-life families may not have been quite as warm as his fictional clan. In fact, one of the most touching tributes to his work came from Lynda Barry:
I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn't have books in the house, but we did have the daily paper, and I remember picking out "Family Circus" before I could really read. There was something about looking through a circle at a life that looked pretty good to me.
For kids like me, there was a map and a compass that was hidden [in] "Family Circus." The parents in that comic strip really loved their children. He put that image in my head and it stayed with me.


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JOHN RICHARD GRAHAM McALLEN - John Richard Graham, 75, died on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 at Rio Grande Regional Hospital with his wife Joan and daughter Leslie at his side. Mr. Graham was born August 22, 1938 in Yoakum, Texas to John Richard Graham Sr. and Emma Hilka Flemming Graham. He graduated from Freer High School in 1956 and from the
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-Austin in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government. Mr. Graham's career reflected his lifelong commitment to education. His first professional job was teaching history and government at McAllen High School, initially in the original building downtown and later in the current location. In 1965 he moved to Houston to teach at Spring Branch High School where he met fellow teacher Joan Ruesch. They were married in 1968. Their daughter Leslie was born in 1973. Upon completion of a Master in Education Administration degree from the University of Houston in 1973, he became an assistant principal at Spring Branch High School. He was appointed the assistant principal at McAllen High School in 1977 before becoming the principal, a position he held for four years. After that, he was called on to serve in various administrative positions for the district, including administrator for secondary education, assistant superintendent and interim superintendent. Retiring in 1999, Mr. Graham spent countless hours tending his garden plot, growing vegetables which he loved to share with his friends and neighbors. The Grahams were avid fans of the University of Texas Longhorns and regularly attended games in Austin, with special pleasure after their two Austin grandchildren were born. They also enjoyed a number of cross-country road trips with John's sister, Maury. Mr. Graham was a lifelong Presbyterian. He was a much loved and valuable member of the First Presbyterian Church of McAllen, where, among many duties, he served as elder, treasurer, and chairman of ushers. Always interested in civic affairs, he served on the boards of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program and Planned Parenthood. A man of compassionate nature and careful demeanor, Mr. Graham was well loved by his students, friends, and colleagues. He was always a gentleman, with a becoming modesty and supportive, enthusiastic words for those around him. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his beloved sister Maury Shiver. He will be greatly missed by his wife, Joan Ruesch Graham, of McAllen and their daughter Leslie Jones (Chad) of Austin. His grandchildren, Graham and Eliana ("Ellie") Jones will miss their "Pops." His nieces and nephew, to whom he was "Uncle Bud," are Larisa Keltner, Fort Worth; Dr. Tiana Bonderer, Houston; Scharon Echols, Austin; and Scott Kessey, Houston. The memorial service will be Saturday, October 19, 2013 3:00PM at First Presbyterian Church in Mission. We would like to thank Drs. Tommy Yee and Viraf Cooper and nurse Dan Cavazos. Memorial gifts may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of McAllen Memorial Fund, 104 So. 12th St., McAllen, Tx. 78501.
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devin gardner
Monday Presser 11-3-14: Doug Nussmeier
When you're grading film on Devin Gardner how much do the near-misses, the picks that maybe should have been, factor into that and how much do you talk about that?
"A lot. I mean, that's always part of the evaluation. You want results but you've got to be process-oriented when you play the position. We've got to be on the right side of the field and have our eyes in the right place and our feet and timing and all that factors in, so any time we look at a pass play we look at all the factors that play into it whether it was a successful or not-successful play and why."
Do you feel like you got away with a couple on Saturday?
"Well, I think there was a couple that I'm sure they felt like they should have had and obviously we look at it as well. Why were we there? Was it timing wrong or on the wrong side of the field, did we made a poor decision? The biggest thing is that goes back to communication and we talk all the time in our room [that] you've got to be open in communication because if I don't know what he's seeing then I can't help him, so you've got to tell me what you see, what happened, what played out in your mind so now we can paint the real picture of what happened and get it corrected."
How much extra does game performance count in terms of evaluation as opposed to practice? I'm thinking particularly in this instance of Drake Johnson.
"Well, I think obviously any time you play a game the goal is to play well and the best players in games are the guys you want to play. Now, that being said we evaluate practice every day. Guys challenge and compete and usually it's very rare that you have a player that does not practice well that plays well."
Does what he did give him maybe an extra look in terms of more snaps going forward?
"Well, I think that when you talk about Drake and what he accomplished it goes back to everything we talked about in the development of players and it's kind of similar, it is very similar- I look back at where Derrick Green was at. We talked about right before he went down he had two very good weeks of practice and really kind of started to develop, and you look at Drake, once Derrick got injured the last two weeks he had two outstanding weeks of practice. Had the opportunity this week, did some great things, and [we're] really excited about what he brings."
To piggyback on what you were talking about earlier, how did Devin grade out? How would you evaluate him in that game?
"Devin did some really good things and he did some things we need to correct. Obviously 22/29, completed some balls, did some good things, two touchdowns, obviously the one interception we'd like to have back and there were a couple other decisions but he did some good things and he did some things that we corrected."
[After THE JUMP: Talking about Drake, Darboh, and the Devins]
Unverified Voracity Gets Rehab Profile
Basketball approaches. Save us, basketball.
Schlissel speaks. Mark Schlissel sat down with the Daily to talk about the future of the athletic department. Schlissel has mastered the executive's ability to talk without sending people running for the 72-point font, but there were some interesting bits in there. It seems like the timing here caught everyone off guard:
"I would imagine that we'll begin the process of organizing a search in the coming weeks," Schlissel said. "I can tell you with certainty I haven't talked to anybody at all — no matter what you read in the media — about whether they're interested in a permanent position here."
It seems like the decision-making process was winding towards that mid-November date when things got accelerated. Not sure I like the overtones of "begin the process of organizing a search in the coming weeks." That sounds like an extended timeline, and Michigan has some pressing priorities.
Schlissel flat out admitted that the names being floated in the media are people he's "never heard of before," which again shows his refreshing ability to say "I don't know" but I hope doesn't extend to the Michigan guys—at this point you'd hope he had a handle on the Long/Manuel/Bates group. He also said the usual bit about how they're not going to focus exclusively on Michigan guys.
In a second article, Schlissel cited Brandon's resignation as a reason he couldn't say much about exactly what went down but did offer this:
"One thing I will say is I expect everybody who works at this public university to treat the public with respect," Schlissel said. "That's a sort of condition of working at this university.
"Everybody should be respectful to the public we serve."
That's the general outline; I'll round up the AD chatter in a separate post.
A bit of a difference. Nebraska folk are looking at their schedule and that of various Big 12 teams and noticing that one is not like the other:
Let's pretend that Nebraska stayed in the Big 12 and West Virginia never received an invitation. Let's give NU the Mountaineers' 2014 home conference schedule. Ready?
Kansas State
I don't have enough exclamation points at my disposal for that list. I get pumped just thinking about it. That's a schedule from paradise, full of teams with speed and skill (OK, not so much Kansas). Or maybe it just seems that way based on Nebraska's rice-cake diet this fall. Ready? Are you sure?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Look at those two schedules. Look at 'em! The latter looks like an old catcher's mitt. It must be a sick joke, right?
This really hits home when you look at the basketball schedules: single-plays everywhere, even less balance than previously. Bleah. If the league was as responsive to legit criticisms as individual schools were, Delany would get run out of town on the same rail Brandon's on. But he's got that insulation.
Chaos in Bloomington. The last time things got so wild in central Indiana, Lucy left the barn door open and one of the cows got stuck in a police car. In the immediate aftermath of a freshman hitting one of his own teammates with a car, while intoxicated, Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson have been hit with four-game drug suspensions. That brings the number of IU players involved in drug-and-alcohol-related incidents up to 6.
And guess which newspaper just hired the human molotov cocktail that is Gregg Doyel?
Firing Crean for his team's fifth alcohol-related incident in a year could be expensive.He has a $12 million buyout this year unless he's fired "for cause." Would nearly 40 percent of his roster -- five of 13 scholarship players -- being cited for alcohol-related offenses count as "for cause"? A judge might have to decide, if it gets that far. But if a fifth IU player is cited, then that's where it should go. Because the coach overseeing that program, I don't care how much I like the guy, would have to go.
Yep. The Indy Star. Dan Dakich, meanwhile, went off on his radio show:
"Gregg Doyel was dead on. Indiana players, you're getting ready to get your coach fired... I love Indiana basketball down to my core. It's who I am. But not this crap...
"When did you fans become so soft, become so accepting of mediocrity, promotion and crap?"
Sounds kind of like a blogger there.
It's funny because we suck. If we did not suck it would be somewhat less funny.
Something like injury information. Gardner is not right and it's obvious; he limped around to finish the Penn State game and is still hobbled:
After a play broke down in the second half against Indiana, Michigan's fifth-year senior quarterback tucked the ball near the 50-yard line and took off.
His mind said go, but his sore ankle wouldn't let him. He ended up rushing for a first down, but it was obvious things have changed.
"(A year ago) I probably would've scored," Gardner smiled Monday. "But I got the first down, that's what the team needed, it kept the chains moving."
Let's just put that on the pile then. Soon we will ski down Mount Devin Gardner Problems.
Please? The Hoover Street Rag points out that fixing the current schedule imbalance in the Big Ten East is not a difficult thing as long as 1) MSU is also amenable to that change and 2) IU doesn't care:
Since Indiana is in the East, both Michigan and Michigan State play them every season. Fortutiously, Indiana played MSU at home and Michigan on the road this year. Therefore, all you have to do is flip the Indiana game from a home game to an away game and flip MSU from an away game to a home game. Everyone still ends up with the same number of home and away games, and the bottleneck is cleared.
Current 2016 Schedule
UM at MSU, at OSU, vs IU
MSU vs UM, vs OSU, at IU
OSU at MSU, vs UM, vs IU
IU vs MSU, at UM, at OSU
Proposed 2016 Schedule
UM vs MSU, at OSU, at IU
MSU at UM, vs OSU, vs IU
OSU at MSU, vs UM, vs IU
IU at MSU, vs UM, at OSU
Seems like all three programs in the MSU/OSU/M troika would prefer to have one at home and one on the road for balance and ticket sales reasons.
Alert! Alarm! The word from Boston:
If I ran Boston College, I'd be worried about losing AD Brad Bates to Michigan
— Dan Shaughnessy (@Dan_Shaughnessy) November 4, 2014
Never! Mind! The word from Boston:
This is a big bowl of awkward.
Tommy Amaker is set to coach No. 12 seed Harvard against No. 5 seed Cincinnati in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday, and when the Crimson lose their next game, Amaker is gone. He's Jacoby Ellsbury gone. Harvard's loss will be Boston College's gain.
BC hired Ohio coach Jim Christian instead. On the bright side for Shaughnessy, Jacoby Ellsbury was never found again.
Number one. Would you like a lot of quotes about Jim Hackett? Angelique has them for you:
"Number one, he's nice," Gilmour said. "Number two, thoughtful. Number three, clearly deep. … He is a thoughtful and organized person. And he may be the interim (athletic director) but he won't be a caretaker. He will be moving the athletic department ahead."
The Schiano rehabilitation project begins now. A long Pete Thamel piece on Peter Kings site finds Greg Schiano looking up at nothing in particular while exposing his teeth for reasons he doesn't understand.
I know that feeling of panic whenever someone points a camera at you and says "look like a human being," bro.
Anyway, Schiano makes breakfast, he is enamored with Urban Meyer's juice, he sings songs about chores to Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, he won't be an enormous Brandon to NFL scouts anymore, etc. Schiano's image was run through the woodchipper over his two years in Tampa and he's trying to be… well… that guy above instead of the guy who has his players go after people on a victory formation play.
(Also, what is that diagram? Is he demonstrating Notre Dame's last touchdown in 2011? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?)
Etc.: I was on Drew and Marc Friday talking about what happened and what's next. Hackett intro. Niyo on Hoke chatter. The Brandon timeline. Slate on the ouster. Drake Johnson breakdown.
2015 GA SG Jaylen Brown, the #1 kid nationally, will take a visit to Michigan. Ricky Doyle is going to be critical. Good think he doesn't look like a freshman physically.
Stuffing the Passer is now an animated comic strip, because of course it is.
Indiana Postgame Presser: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other items:
Hoke wouldn't take any questions about Dave Brandon; he said he'd address that on Monday
Hoke seemed pleased with the defense with the exception of two drives. He said the defense lost their intensity on Indiana's last drive.
Hoke attributed Drake Johnson's success in part to getting increased reps with the second unit after Derrick Green's injury
Jake Butt will rejoin the team for the Northwestern game
Devin Gardner is slowly recovering from his ankle injury, though Hoke said it limits the designed runs they can use
Hoke chose to kill the clock at the end of the first half because they had just thrown an interception and didn't want to put the defense in a bad position, and they were getting the ball to start the second half
Opening remarks:
"It was good to see the kids, as hard as they've worked – I see that weekly. Some of you believe that, some of you don't but what I can tell you it they work their tails off every time we go to practice. They work their tails off as a group. They really are accountable to each other and that's important and that's the way they came out and played. Obviously we got some good performances from some guys that haven't played as much but part of that is due because, talking about Drake [Johnson] probably as much as anybody, he's got a lot of second reps now since Derrick [Green] went out. So I think when you look at it from that side of that we've always thought he was talented but he took advantage of an opportunity and did a heckuva job."
I was going to talk about Johnson and Darboh. They had 122 and 170 yards, respectively. Can you talk about Darboh and his receiving today?
"Yeah, you know, Amara played a little bit as it as a freshman, a true freshman, and then sat out all last year but I think the confidence, and again, for both of them being in a system for the first time and then learning a little bit of a different system– they both are very talented, we believe. They both work extremely hard and it's nice to see those kind of kids when they get rewarded because of the hard work and what they do and Amara, you know we have Devin [Funchess] on one side and Amara on the other, it maybe opens up some things a little better."
[After THE JUMP: evaluating the defense, what's left to play for, and a couple of comments from players]
Michigan 34, Indiana 10
The pride of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School. [Bryan Fuller/MGoBlog]
It's a new day. Sort of.
There was plenty to celebrate in the first Michigan game of the post-Brandon era. The Wolverines thoroughly dominated Indiana, more than doubling their total yardage and earning the team's first double-digit win since the Miami game.
Devin Gardner set a season high in passing yardage. Amara Darboh posted the best day of his career. So did Ann Arbor native Drake Johnson, who rushed for 122 yards and two scores in his first extended action at running back. The defense shut down the nation's leading rusher, IU's Tevin Coleman, and even forced a pair of turnovers.
There was plenty of bad that was familiar, too. Gardner tossed an ugly interception and narrowly avoided a pick-six when the game was still competitive. Brady Hoke bungled basic clock management at the end of the first half, robbing Michigan of a chance to score before the break. The Wolverines punted from the Indiana 43 on a fourth-and-short. And, of course, the entire game came with the caveat of facing an IU squad with a miserable defense and a depleted depth chart at quarterback.
Oh, and the announced attendance of 103,111 was met with a mixture of laughter and boos; perhaps the program sold that many tickets, but on a chilly afternoon in Ann Arbor, there certainly weren't that many seats filled.
Eric Upchurch/MGoBlog
On this day, though, the good should be the focus. With Jake Butt suspended for the game for a violation of team rules, reserve tight end Keith Heitzman was able to record his first career touchdown on an improvised shovel pass from Gardner (pictured above).
Injury also created opportunity in the backfield. With Derrick Green out for the season and De'Veon Smith in and out of the game with a dinged up ankle, Johnson got 16 carries—14 of them in the second half—and he salted away the game, playing kitty-corner from where he starred in high school at both football and track. Johnson, who'd seen mostly special teams duty in his time at Michigan, showed off that track-star speed by breaking multiple runs into the Indiana secondary.
Darboh broke the century mark on nine receptions, scoring from 12 yards on a hard-thrown post from Gardner to give Michgian a 17-0 lead that would stand as the halftime score. He and Devin Funchess combined to reel in 16 of Gardner's 22 completions; no other Wolverine had more than one.
The defense dominated an Indiana offense sorely missing injured quarterback Nate Sudfeld. They got some help from IU coach Kevin Wilson, as well. Wilson benched Tevin Coleman after he put the ball on the turf twice, losing the second on a recovery by freshman Bryan Mone. Indiana couldn't generate any offense without Coleman, who'd finish with a season-low 108 yards—must be nice—on 27 carries; his mark of four yards per carry was well below his season average of 8.8.
The Hoosiers also insisted on running much of their offense from the Wildcat, which Michigan had dead to rights for most of the game. Jake Ryan recorded 2.5 TFLs among his team-high 11 tackles; fellow linebacker Joe Bolden had two TFLs of his own as M repeatedly shot gaps into the IU backfield. Any hopes Indiana had of getting back into the game were dashed when Ryan Glasgow sacked IU QB Zander Diamont, stripped the ball, and came up with the recovery in the third quarter; Johnson got the corner for his first touchdown on the ensuing drive.
The final yardage read Michigan 404, Indiana 191.
Hoke refused to address questions about Dave Brandon's resignation in the aftermath of the game, and that felt right. Today was about the team on the field, and while the opponent wasn't a strong one, they were able to ignore this week's distractions and take care of business. That alone was an impressive feat.
Scott Farkus Rules Everything Around Me
10/25/2014 – Michigan 11, Michigan State 35 – 3-5, 1-3 Big Ten
[Eric Upchurch]
Mark Dantonio is a crazy mofo. This is his great power: he can be offended at anything, forever. Mark Dantonio free-solos Mount Outrage every year. Michigan tried their damndest to not give him anything he could latch onto this time around, repeating the same praise over and over again until even the perpetually bored media noticed that this week's pablum was even more insipid than the usual business.
Then they put a thing in a field.
Fueling Dantonio's never-ending rage at the concept of Michigan is unwise but probably irrelevant. If hate moved spaceships Dantonio would be scowling at little green men circling Alpha Centauri instead of East Lansing. Dantonio is still pissed off at something Mike Hart said seven years ago; a dumb stunt with a railroad spike is a power mushroom when you're already big and skrong.
On the other hand, apologizing after is a pretty good summation of where both programs are. Michigan got the pounding everyone expected and then said "sorry for spoiling for field sir" as they slinked back home. Scott Farkus threw a snowball in our face and we apologized to him for being in the way.
Putting a thing in a field and then woofing about it isn't poor sportsmanship. We should know what poor sportsmanship is: punchin' people. Trying to hurt people. This series has seen plenty of that of late, on both sides. No one apologized after.
Apparently the standard for self-abasement has plummeted, though. So we get another statement. The latest in a never-ending series of PR gaffes. The chance anyone brings the spike thing up after the first round of LOL Michigan articles is zero, unless Michigan brings it up again. They of course do because Michigan refuses to learn Don Canham's first maxim—don't make a one-day story into a two-day story.
Thus more public emasculation for Brady Hoke. Dave Brandon seems to be deliberately trying to make his football coach look like the nation's most clueless goober. By the Maryland game he'll be wearing a beanie and a KICK ME sign. The crowning glory will be an Ohio Stadium weeping piteously at his imminent departure; Hoke will be dressed in nothing but a barrel and suspenders. The press conference afterwards will take place over a dunk tank.
I dunno man, I know this is some feelingsball right here but I can't help but think this is a big part of the problem. Hoke's response to the bullies asking him why he keeps hitting himself is "it's all in the statement." The team responds like their head coach. The man refuses to defend himself, either from his incompetent athletic director or his rivals laughing at him. The team gets plowed by the hint of adversity. Fight is almost totally absent.
When someone gets mad at your spike stunt, the correct answer is F--- YO COUCH. That is Dantonio's answer to everything. Would you like some baklava, Mark? F--- YO COUCH.
Michigan likes to talk about being a Big Boy. Before last year's Ohio State game Brandon said Michigan is "going back to hard-nosed, big-boy football." Whenever a journalist asks Hoke about the internet hordes clamoring for his head he says "it's a big-boy business."
You know who doesn't talk about being a big boy? Big boys*. People who talk about being a Big Boy wear short pants and ask their moms for a quarter so they can buy candy. Big boys don't look at yet another plate of crap and eat it with a sigh of disgust. At some point, big boys stand up for their dignity.
I don't see anything like that. I see the same mealy-mouthed coachspeak week after week, the same covering for his inept boss. Of course Dave Brandon's watching film with him.
Maybe that makes him a "great guy," as per the last possible defense of Hoke. I don't see it. He may be a nice guy; "great" at least requires you to have as much backbone as Ralphie in A Christmas Story.
*[Except Big Boi, who is contractually obligated to say his name several times per minute as per the Rappist Identification Act Of 1985.]
[After THE JUMP: not much, honestly.]
Unverified Voracity Is Like You Didn't But Of Course You Did
How did I miss this? Maize and Blue Nation has a shot of team goals taken from within the locker room onto which he's photoshopped success or failure thus far. As you might imagine, there's a lot of failure. I'm more put off by one of the criteria:
Time of possession? In 2014? Ugh. Slowness as a virtue.
Sounds familiar. We're going to have to be really nice to Orson for his fundraiser this year because the man followed up Michigan-Penn State by actually attending the Mizzou-Florida game. In person and everything. In the flesh. To watch his team lose 42-13 to a team that gained fewer than 120 yards of offense. The resulting hot take:
4. This was expected, and almost comforting. It's a custom, slow-drip/ slow-pour kind of disaster. At one point in every fan's life there is a team coached by a person who trademarks a specific variation of loss, and then serves it until the Health Department closes it forever for numerous violations of common standards. For Florida, Will Muschamp is the hardworking barista at the local coffee shop who takes your order, brews your coffee without putting the water through any caffeine of any sort, and then pours it into your cup insisting its coffee. When you point it out, he shakes his head, grimaces, and mutters: "We'll get that sorted out. We're trying, and we'll get that fixed." Then he brews and pours another cup of hot water for you wonder why you keep coming to this stupid fucking coffee shop every time.
Brady Hoke sends you none pizza left beef no matter what you order, and when you call to complain he says it's really all about the kids who are making 8.15, no thanks to you.
Fantastic. Devin Gardner's profiled by Angelique Chengelis and what could make everything worse than it already is?
"I've been called the N-word so many times this year," Gardner said. "One guy told me I was the N-word, and said I know N-words can't play quarterback. And I was like, are we not past this? Say what you want about my skill, but come on."
I'm not surprised, but I'm still surprised. If Dave Brandon wants to fire off "find another team" emails to these gentlemen we are all behind that. I can only hope this is the usual 14-year-old-on-mom's-computer thing and not, like, actual adults, but I am almost certain I heard Dennis Norfleet described thusly by the Cumong Man guys at the 2012 Northwestern game so they're out there, being repulsive.
When Gardner's graduated (again) I hope we all buy him sandwiches and apologize on everyone else's behalf. I want Gardner to have to start his own charity to distribute the sandwiches he cannot eat, and then become such a sandwich expert he gets an honorary PhD in Meat Betwixt Bread. It's the least we can do.
Also in that article. I mean, even beyond the people who get shot into the sun it hasn't been a nice ride:
"It's hard to play effectively when you're continuously getting hit," Gardner said. "But that's the situation we're in. And my guys are trying as hard as they can, so I can't ask for anything else. I've just got to find a way, which I'm trying to do each week, so the stats aren't going to be there sometimes. It's just finding ways to win, that's it."
That's life at the moment, though pass protection has actually been pretty good the last few weeks. Maybe they can protect long enough to get some guys open downfield? Or covered downfield? I'm just asking for some downfield.
Case in point. Big plays: we do not have them.
The 43-yard touchdown connection between Devin Gardner and Devin Funchess in an 18-13 win over Penn State was a rare sight for this year's Michigan team.
The standout individual effort by Funchess gave the Wolverines their longest completion of the year and the longest play of any kind since a season-opening drubbing of Appalachian State
We seem to have swung too far the other way from Borges here.
And the guy we're not really trying to throw bombs to is… moving up on the SI draft board to 13th. Very frustrating.
The block 'M' on Michigan's campus has been painted green. pic.twitter.com/lGFvnXeVbv
— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) October 22, 2014
The race to be SI's most embarrassing employee narrows. The results have come back in the Oklahoma State investigation spurred by the eighty-part investigative piece by Thayer Evans and they are…
The NCAA and Oklahoma State announced Tuesday that allegations of widespread misconduct in the football program outlined in a Sports Illustrated expose last year were "fundamentally unfounded.''
…as per usual when a university maniacally checks for ticks, Oklahoma State turned up a few Level II violations. (The NCAA revamped its punishment structure into a four-tier thing a couple years back; levels I and II would have been the "major" violation level, although as Michigan learned your major violations can be not particularly major.) The projected punishment for Thayer's lurid descriptions of cash, grade-fixing and ladyfun distributed willy-nilly: a couple scholarships over a couple years.
Those violations:
The three violations named in the notice of allegations include a failure to follow institutional policy concerning player punishments for positive drug tests; the organization of the "Orange Pride" support program through the football program rather than the university, meaning all campus hosting duties performed for prospective football recruits ran "contrary to NCAA legislation"; and a failure to monitor charge related to the first two violations.
Details on the drug policy:
Finding: On four occasions, the applicable penalty for failed drug tests was not applied, but TCG concluded athletic ability was not the reason.
The NCAA's notice of allegations says the school failed to follow policies regarding athlete drug use. It said five athletes from January 2008 and October 2012 tested positive for banned substances and were allowed to play without the required corrective or disciplinary action. In one case, the notice says an athlete was not dismissed after a fourth failed test and allowed the athlete to compete during the first half of the season. This would be an infraction.
That doesn't move my "you can't hire THAT guy" needle since I've heard tell of schools closer to home doing similar things, and nothing else in the lurid story Evans published was substantiated. Evans went full Rosenberg here.
If you're wondering about Mike Gundy's viability: if he's leavin' he's viable.
So with that in mind. Evans combines with similarly dubious Pete Thamel—he of the dead Manti Te'o girlfriend story—to project what might happen at Michigan and Florida. While they get off a depressingly accurate zinger by describing the handling of the Shane Morris concussion as "straight out of the Julie Hermann p.r. playbook" they burn everything to the ground by swinging wildly at coaching candidates like
GREG SCHIANO, who is hated by the entire NFL and couldn't get a job last year; in his two years in Tampa he managed to make Tom Coughlin a hero for chewing him out after he instructed his players to go after the opposition QB as he kneeled to see the game out.
JERRY KILL, who would be coming off one good(?) season in the watered-down Big Ten in which he lost 30-7 to TCU and beat Purdue by a point. Plus the whole seizure thing makes him a risk.
BRET BIELEMA… which… no. Jeff Long has reportedly done a fantastic job of reining in Bielema's fratty tendencies, but this one fails on legit cultural grounds.
They also say Mississippi State has nicer facilities than Michigan, to which I say YES, they may be more stable and YES their athletic department is not run like a crappy Domino's franchise but dammit we have shiny buildings that will go toe to toe with anyone's.
It's coming down for the CHL, too. Actual law talkin' guy Chris Heisenberg writes on the recently-filed lawsuit against the CHL that seeks minimum wage for players. They currently receive 50 dollars a week plus the vague promise of a scholarship down the road that evaporates if you play pro hockey for any appreciable length of time (including the AHL and below); makes you wonder why anyone would pick the CHL over the NCAA… oh right large under the table payments to top players.
Heisenberg forsees the CHL losing this battle as they are no longer even vaguely credible as non-profit-ish enterprises. CHL franchises are now worth millions. If that in fact happens the trickle-down effects are going to be considerable, and hard to project. Some of them:
- There won't be any more crocodile tears from the CHL about how the big bad NCAA makes their players ineligible despite being amateurs.
- Mid-tier players with options in both leagues might be more inclined to go junior. Hard to see this being a large effect since a lot of these guys are overagers in the NCAA and that group doesn't have a lot of overlap with 16-year old CHL draftees.
- Top players might be more inclined to go NCAA. The Big Ten has implemented a bunch of scholarship improvements and if the CHL has to play everyone down to the fourth line that would drain resources currently used to woo big stars.
- US CHL teams might be under threat. Nobody cares about the Plymouth Whalers and they are probably relocating to Canada; increased expenses for dubiously profitable enterprises may force the CHL's US outposts relocate to various Canadian suburbs.
SALT. Any present cracks against Michigan State are inappropriate, so let's take the long view from a salty Henry Phillip Tappan:
"It is better to have one great institution than half a dozen abortions," proclaimed U-M's first president. "One institution must be located somewhere because we cannot locate everywhere; let us not split it into little pieces which shall have no strength and value anywhere."
I think I saw that guy yelling that Christian Hackenberg was a bum a couple weeks ago.
- Etc.: Limiting the unlimited: NCAA enters zen koan territory. Journalists have noticed that Michigan isn't saying anything this week. How can they tell the difference from other weeks? Random guy is like fire these guys. Hooray Denard! Stauskas is Grantland's favorite rookie.