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André Cymone: Every time I turned around, I was being compared to Prince
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As part of a forthcoming City Pages story about Numero Group's excellent collection of Twin Cities funk and R&B, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound, Gimme Noise spoke to André Cymone.
The pioneering artist was one of the earliest breakout stars of the scene, and has become a successful producer in his own right. In conversation, he was quite frank and open about his memories from the late '70s and early '80s, which is the era celebrated in the compilation. Additionally, he is working on his first solo album in nearly 30 years. Here's an extended cut that didn't make the final print story.
I came across so much stuff; "Somebody Said" was on [one of the tapes]. I played it to [Jon], and I gave him about four or five songs, and he picked that one to be the song [used on Purple Snow]. I think music is music, and sometimes people get a little too precious. But at the end of the day, if you're a songwriter and a musician, you do what you do. It's fun. I think people who really appreciate music in its evolution can appreciate [the songs on Purple Snow], so I thought it was a great idea, great concept. I was really happy to be involved, happy they asked me.
You see what's going on on the West Coast, you see what's going on on the East Coast, and so you're kind of trying to fight for some kind of identity. It makes you work a lot harder. When you're in the Midwest, it's a weird thing to be sandwiched in there, because radio, when I was growing up, they played everything. They played Santana, they played Chicago, they played James Brown, Jimi Hendrix; it was just all over the map. You got so many different radio stations playing Top 40, and we soaked it in in Minneapolis.
That alone, beyond going out and producing records for different people, getting hits or whatever, which is fantastic, but I have to say, I look back on those days more fondly than the days where I made a bunch of money or [the] other trappings you get involved in in rock 'n' roll and the music business. Those things and those artists were so special, it really kind of shaped [me]. I can't speak for anybody else but I know they shaped me as a musician and gave me the attitude that I had, and that I have now.
I would've been that guy that if you saw me, you'd be locking your door. Women'd be clutching their purses going, "Oh no! Here he comes!" But I think, fortunately, it was [north Minneapolis community leader] Spike Moss and the community centers that played such a major role in having outdoor festivals, and letting us rehearse sometimes whenever our parents got sick of us rehearsing in the basement. They really kind of looked out for us and nurtured that spirit. That had a lot to do with keeping it going, at least on the North Side.
We had a shabby drum set, shabby amplifiers, all that kind of stuff, and they felt bad for us and let us use their gear. And we couldn't believe it; when we went into "Hear My Traina Comin'" I think we did a Jimi Hendrix song, I know we did a Santana song. We wound up winning the battle of the bands. It was amazing, it was just a great time. And those guys were really spiritual, beautiful people. They really gave us a lot. I think altogether, we really set off each other. I think that's what really made the music during that period. I think that really made it come alive. I can only speak for myself, but it had a lot to do with me going solo and a lot of the things that I ended up doing and continue to do.
A lot of people know Prince's career obviously, and I think everybody is very, very proud of him, and will obviously continue to be proud of what he's done and what he's accomplished. I think it's hard, you get a lot of guys, at least that I'm aware of, that are a little bit bitter because they haven't gotten credit. I try to do whatever I can to make it known. Between Prince and myself, I'm obviously not the most known. If there's any chance I get, I try to give everybody as much credit as I think they deserve. I know the role I played in his getting involved in whatever, it's just a fact.
When you think about it, there's so many different things coming together emotionally, it's like a veil lifted off. I think a lot of music that was going on back then represented that. I'm telling you, it was just a great time because you had characters in our community that, if you don't come from a black neighborhood or the black experience, a lot of times you don't see the inside of what really goes on. You have hustlers and boosters and pimps and prostitutes; there's so many rackets going on in a five or six square block radius that the average person, they just have no clue. You just drive by and you pass those four or five blocks, you have no idea what's actually going on.
We had people that would come to our house, literally, and say, "What size you wear? Come on man, 6 1/2, 7? I can tell what size your shoe is," and then they'd come back within a half hour with whatever kind of platform shoe, they'd have these silver Bootsy, Kool & the Gang platform shoes... You couldn't order that stuff from a catalog! [laughs] I'm telling you, it's hard to get people to get their head around the reality of what life was in that community back in those days. It was almost surreal. In some ways, it makes absolutely no sense, but when you're living in it, it makes all the sense in the world.
I didn't realize how much things had sort of been rewritten. It had kind of been written out of the script, unfortunately. Jon Kirby made me reconnect with that and made me think about it from a more realistic perspective. It made me go back and connect with the individual that I was before the whole Minneapolis music thing jumped off and went into whatever direction it went into. It was cool to have that kind of reconnection. Again, I have to thank Jon Kirby and Numero Group for putting together this compilation and making me see the light on that. It was really cool.
Our fathers played in a group together, which we didn't know until we started playing together. We had no idea. That's why I decided to step away. There's enough of that. If that's what people think, they should have that and I'll just go do something else. That's why I started doing other things, producing, until I started realizing, hey, you can make a lot of money doing this. You don't have to pay for tour support, you don't have to pay for sound and lights, you don't have to tune every five seconds.
Instead I was doing Adam Ant, Tom Jones, Tina Turner... MCA executives were cracking jokes with me, because they offered me Patti LaBelle, Deniece Williams, Vanessa Williams, all these different female acts, and instead I threw a thorn at them and did Adam Ant. I worked with him, first of all, because I really respected him as a producer and as a songwriter. I knew all the different things he was involved with. I don't believe in just doing the same stuff. Spread out. Some people, that's their thing, they're good at it, they feel good about that. That's just not my thing. Nothing against that, because obviously Jimmy and Terry made a chunk-load of money, and did really, really well. They put themselves on a producer's map and a songwriting map that I'm sure will stand the test of time.
Somewhere along the line, something happened to me. I know it sounds crazy, but something just woke up in me and said, "What the hell are you doing? You've been given a gift, and you're just sort of kicking back and chilling." I don't want to sound weird or odd or metaphysical or any of that kind of junk, but it really has been a very interesting experience because I've been writing songs that have been writing themselves. I can't even take credit for them; I wish I could. I have no idea how I wrote them, why I wrote them, where they came from, So to answer your question why I came back, there's so many different reasons. The main reason I came back is because music needs me. I know that sounds crazy, but I think music has very few champions.
We did that for about two weeks, and before we knew it I had 67 songs for this new album. So we pared it down from there to 11 songs. I've definitely cleared the air from Prince and the whole Minneapolis thing. If nothing else, like you said, people know where Prince is coming from. His thing has been well-chronicled, and he's been able to do his thing, and he's done it really well. Now I think it's a great time to be able to put a record out that can stand on its own. I'll always have to deal with a certain amount of comparison, but I think this is gonna be a little bit different. This record's going to be completely a departure from what I think people expect.
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Definitions for BUMPbʌmp
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word BUMP
Princeton's WordNet
a lump on the body caused by a blow
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence(noun)
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
blow, bump(verb)
an impact (as from a collision)
"the bump threw him off the bicycle"
bump, knock(verb)
knock against with force or violence
"My car bumped into the tree"
find, happen, chance, bump, encounter(verb)
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
"We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
"bump and grind"
demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs(verb)
assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
"She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant"
dislodge, bump(verb)
remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
"The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
A light blow or jolting collision.
The sound of such a collision.
A protuberance on a level surface.
A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
A dose of the drug ketamine, when taken recreationally.
To knock against or run into with a jolt.
To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
To move the time of a scheduled event.
Origin: From Early Modern English bump, probably of origin. Compare bump, bumpe, Old bumpe. Apparently related to bumben, bummen, bommen, bummen, bumba, probably of imitative origin. More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Webster Dictionary
to strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall
to come in violent contact with something; to thump
a thump; a heavy blow
a swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance
one of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."
the act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following
to make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom
the noise made by the bittern
The New Hacker's Dictionary
Synonym for increment. Has the same meaning as C's ++ operator. Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index dummies in for, while, and do-while loops.
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To request a social media group advertisement post to be moved to the top of the group page.
In some social media group selling pages, you can request your advertisement to be moved to the top of the group page, you simply type "bump" and the administrator moves it up to the top of the page.
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
We did hit a speed bump.
In a nutshell, they're the things that go bump in Japan's night.
It's very confusing, sometimes, I bump into people when I'm in Kansai.
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Rubio 's initial bump in the polls is due to older voters really liking Marco Rubio story.
About 3 ounces of chicken breast is 26 grams, so bump it to 5 ounces and you're set for the day.
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- издутина, цицина, сблъскванеBulgarian
- bouleCzech
- Delle, Plumps, Stoß, Beule, Schlag, Unebenheit, Bodenwelle, BumsGerman
- chichón, cototo, bulto, tolondroSpanish
- bumppausFinnish
- bosse, bourrade, ballon, saillie, boumFrench
- pancione, colpetto, bozzo, protuberanza, gonfiore, gnocco, bottaItalian
- kulNorwegian
- botsing, bult, builDutch
- kulNorwegian Nynorsk
- brzuch, wybój, bum, stłuczka, guz, łupPolish
- inchaço, saliência, protuberância, estrondo, galoPortuguese
- колдобина, удар, шишка, опухоль, ухаб, выпуклость, столкновениеRussian
- čvorugaSerbo-Croatian
- çarpma, şişlik, yumru, küt, tümsek, vuruş, şişTurkish
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Restructuring CFB: A Proposal for Relegation and Dynamic Conferences
A friend of mine came up with this system for restructuring college football in a way that gives every team an equal shot at playing for the National Championship. He asked if I would post it on the board to get everyone's thoughts and perhaps stimulate some interesting discussion. This seemed like a Diary post to me, but I apologize if it would be better suited for the Board. Enjoy!
OT: Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to Grosse Pointe
On a raw, cold night in mid-March of 1968, I drove with my mother to Grosse Pointe High School (now G.P. South) to attend a very unusual event in that community. Its uniqueness was evidenced by the small but very vocal group from Breakthrough, a radical-right political protest organization based in Detroit, who were on the sidewalks across from the school. Angry protest demonstrations of any political stripe were unheard of in that quiet, well-to-do suburb. This was going to be a strange night in Grosse Pointe.
What had drawn those angry demonstrators to that particular location on that night was the person who was scheduled to speak inside the school: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
In the eyes of Breakthrough's founder Donald Lobsinger, King was a Communist traitor and agitator who was sabotaging our military efforts in Vietnam. In the eyes of the Grosse Pointe Human Relations Council, the group that had extended the invitation, King was a figure of major importance with particular relevance to the area, which had been convulsed by the Detroit riots the previous summer.
Having grown up in a very liberal household with a deep commitment to the cause of civil rights, our family sympathies with King and support for the civil rights movement was a distinctly minority opinion in the all-white and very conservative Grosse Pointe of that time.
I was only 15, and didn't know what to expect inside, but my mother was nervous about the possibility of violence, and that concern was echoed by the Grosse Pointe chief of police, who basically sat in King's lap as a protective measure during their car ride to the school.
The auditorium was packed, and King delivered a speech that concentrated on familiar themes that he had made the centerpiece of his campaign for civil rights since the 1950s. Breakthrough members interrupted King's speech several times with loud heckling from the crowd, but the most memorable occurence was when a young man began hectoring King about Vietnam. The atmosphere inside the auditorium was already very tense due to the previous outbursts, but King did something amazing to me: he stopped his speech, and invited the guy up onto the stage and gave him the microphone to state his views. He identified himself as a U.S. Naval veteran and made a short rambling statement stating his opposition to Communism. King's non-confrontational approach to him seemed to take the wind out of his sails, and defused what had been a potentially combustible moment.
The rest of the speech proceeded without further incident, and by the time we were making our way to our car, the demonstrators from Breakthrough were gone.
Just three weeks later, King was murdered in Memphis. That event was awful enough, but it was particularly so for my mother and me since we'd just seen him with our own eyes. The unrest his assassination sparked across the country was sadly predictable, and soon I was going to have a small personal taste of the depth of the local hatred for King.
One afternoon close to the end of the school year I was hanging out at the house of a girl I'd thought was pretty hot, and then the conversation randomly turned to King and the fact that I'd attended his speech in Grosse Pointe. She then announced that she was glad he'd been killed since he was a Communist traitor. I was no stranger to the casual racism that was routinely expressed by the people I grew up with in Grosse Pointe and Detroit, but to hear somebody who seemed perfectly nice and normal state their approval of murder so baldly and unapologetically to me was mind-boggling.
Her father then entered the room and then started ranting about how King was a subversive trying to overthrow the government for the Communists. I got the hell out of there since he seemed unhinged. She didn't seem quite so hot any more to me, either.
Given my family's interest in politics and support for the civil rights movement, I was very familiar with the resistance of southern politicians to integration, especially at the university level. Governor George Wallace's symbolic "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" in 1962 in opposition to integrating Alabama was for my Missouri-born parents a symbol of the backwardness of racial attitudes that were part of their own early lives, and it seemed just plain crazy to me that anybody could be so opposed to allowing black Americans to attend the same universities as white Americans.
(Yes, there was plenty of virulent racism in the north back then too, but it didn't have nearly the amount of overt and unapologetic institutional support from politicians and elected officials that it did across the south.)
By that time I was also a young college football fan, and as my grandfather had attended UM during Yost's first four years, rooting for Michigan was natural in our house. While the UM teams then were still predominantly white, they did have notable black players, and I was well aware of the integrated Southern Cal teams of that era since the Big Ten played the Pac 8 in the Rose Bowl each year. It seemed ridiculous to me that it wasn't until the late 1960s and early '70s that the major teams in the south became integrated.
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After Iowa had four scores on its first four possessions, Beilein took a timeout to stem the bleeding: Michigan trailed 9-0 just a minute and a half into the game and conceded a basket on the next possession. On the road, against one of the hottest teams in the country (arguably one of the nation's ten best teams), Michigan was off to the worst possible start.
The Wolverines eventually strung together some stops and started getting open looks on offense; a quintessential "weird guys" lineup (Walton / Abdur-Rahkman / Aubrey Dawkins / D.J. Wilson / Moritz Wagner) sparked a 13-0 run midway through the half and Michigan actually pulled into the lead by the eight-minute mark in the first half. Early on, Michigan found success inside with some nifty cuts as Iowa overplayed the three (2-9 shooting from deep in the half), but Iowa led at halftime after some back-and-forth play to close the half.
Michigan hit three three-point attempts before the first TV timeout in the second half and took the lead with a banked-in Zak Irvin and-one. Over the next eight minutes, Michigan's offense stagnated with turnovers (the Wolverines finished with an atypical 13 turnovers, while Iowa had just 4) and missed jumpers; Iowa went on a 16-3 run to open up a double-digit lead. Ultimately, U-M wasn't able to keep up with the Hawkeyes' shot-making down the stretch, particularly from Jarrod Uthoff and Peter Jok, and wound up hitting the Kenpom spread on the nose with an 11-point defeat.
Iowa's potent offense resembles Michigan's high-powered attacks of the recent past: the Hawkeyes don't get to the free throw line too often, but make up for it with an extremely low turnover rate and great shooting from pretty much everywhere on the floor. Unlike those Michigan teams, the Hawkeyes boast size and depth; they overwhelmed Michigan on the offensive end (1.29 points per possession, per Kenpom, tying U-M's worst defensive effort of the season against Purdue).
National Player of the Year candidate Jarrod Uthoff was bothered into missing 11 shots, but still finished with a game-high 23 points. It was a group effort from Iowa though: their starting backcourt combined for 13 assists and the Hawkeyes put up shooting splits of 51% (2P) / 45% (3P) / 90% (FT). U-M's poor defensive habits were exposed by a pretty-close-to-elite offense, too frequently Iowa took wide-open, high-percentage shots with a defender a step or two away.
Michigan's offense hit 1.12 points per possession -- which is one of the best performances against Iowa's defense this year -- but some inefficient shooting from key players doomed Michigan. Duncan Robinson and Derrick Walton came into the game shooting more than 50% from three; the two totaled 5-19 from deep against Iowa today. Zak Irvin struggled against Iowa's length, shooting 33% total from the field. Aubrey Dawkins was a notable exception, hitting three three's. Impressively, Walton, Irvin, and Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman combined for 16 rebounds and 15 assists, but the lack of efficient scoring from Michigan's three biggest scorers was critical.
In the front-court, Mark Donnal remained the most consistent option, though he was sometimes overwhelmed by Iowa's size (Donnal's four offensive boards were a nice bonus, however). Moritz Wagner was the second big off the bench and showed skill around the basket on offense. D.J. Wilson might have played his best minutes of the season, but they came in relief of Irvin at the four -- he looks to be a more valuable asset there than at the five.
Now that Michigan's toughest three-game stretch of the season (@ Purdue, Maryland, @ Iowa) is over, the schedule gets easier. Even with LeVert's availability still in question, Michigan should be expected to win its next four games, though a road trip to Nebraska might be tricky. Still, as the team continues to develop, it's hard not to be optimistic about the return of a player of LeVert's caliber. It wasn't a surprise to see Michigan's second- and third-options to create on offense struggle against Iowa, who looks very much like the best team in the Big Ten.
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About 2015
The Wolverines were a pretty good team last year finishing 39-25 overall and 4th in the Big Ten. The Wolverines won the Big Ten Tournament before falling to Louisville in the Regional Finals.
The Wolverines led the Big Ten in almost every batting stat. They hit .296 as a team, averaged over 6 runs per game and were in the Top-25 nationally in walks and OBP.
On the mound Michigan was a middle of the pack team. They finished 7th in the Big Ten with a 3.81 team ERA but ranked 31st nationally in strikouts.
Jacob Cronenworth played second and was the closer; Cronenworth hit .338, led the team with 91 hits and drove in 48 runs as the leadoff hitter. Cronenworth earned second team All-Big Ten honors and signed with Tampa Bay after being selected in the 7th round.
Jackson Glines played center field and was the team leader in OBP. He hit .349 as a 2-3 hitter, drove in 34 runs and his .984 fielding percentage was third best on the team. Glines was a first team All-Big Ten selection and was drafted by the White Sox in the 10th round.
Junior Travis Maezes played third and short. After lofty preseason expectations pegged him as the Big Ten Player of the Year, Maezes posted a .297 average and 27 RBI. Maezes was a third team All-Big Ten selection; he was drafted by Kansas City in the 13th round and signed this offseason.
Behind the plate the Wolverines lose Kendall Patrick. Patrick was a low average, high power hitter who led the team with 8 home runs, knocked in 33 and was pegged 15 times hitting cleanup. His .990 fielding percentage was the best on the team.
Eric Jacobson and Kevin White were regular starters; Jacobson the infield and White in in the outfield. Both players were solid in the field but didn't make too much of an impact at the plate.
Infielder Kyle Jusick graduated. Jusick started 17 games in the infield and hit .231.
Three arms have departed from a year ago.
Matt Ogden rotated in as the 3rd starter and threw as a bullpen arm going 5-1. His 2.47 ERA was the best on the team for a pitcher who threw more than 15 innings and he held hitters to a .234 batting average.
Donnie Eaton threw 21 innings in relief with a 5.14 ERA. The third arm, TJ Shook, pitched 5.1 innings of relief.
Ramsey Romano left the program a year ago after starting 24 games as a freshman. He entered spring practice for football as a quarterback and is now playing at Yavapai College. He will attend Long Beach State in 2016.
On the Infield
First baseman Carmen Benedetti took a monumental leap forward his sophomore year. As a middle of the order hitter he led the team in almost every hitting category; batting .352 with 71 RBI, 25 doubles and 28 walks, Benedetti was named 1st team All-American.
At first Benedetti had the highest fielding percentage out all position players besides Patrick.
Jake Bivens is your starter at short. Bivens was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and earned Freshman All-American honors from various outlets after hitting .319 from the top of the order and driving in 19 runs with a .435 OBP.
The third returning infielder is Hector Gutierrez, a junior from Detroit. Gutierrez played sparingly as a reserve appearing in 21 games, starting 4. He hit .250 with 6 driven in.
The Wolverines lost quite a bit from last year's infield and the incoming class is thin. Chicago native Ako Thomas will be in the hunt for playing time in the middle infield and George Hewitt, a highly regarded recruit and brother of former Phillies first rounder Anthony Hewitt will be in line for games at third.
The rest of platoon will be between upperclassmen Michael Brdar and sophomore Matt Ross, neither who have appeared in a game, freshman Joe Pace and Jimmy Kerr.
As a junior Cody Bruder started every game between DH and left field, pairing with Benedetti as middle of the order hitters. Bruder hit .308, knocking in 43 runs and slugged .423.
In right Johnny Slater returns after starting 36 games a year ago. Slater was able to drive in 25 runs last season from the back of the order despite hitting .229. He snagged 9 doubles, two triples and three homeruns while posting a .325 OBP.
Junior Jackson Lamb was a highly regarded recruit who hit .250 as a freshman and threw nine fantastic innings as a sophomore but missed most of last season with an injury. Lamb will be in the mix for starts between all three positions.
The prized recruit of the class, California native Jonathan Engelmann heads to Michigan after a distinguished high school career saw him drafted in the 28th round by the Twins. The 6'4 Engelmann looks to be a fit for the Wolverines vacant center field position and he also features a power bat who can switch hit.
Behind the Plate
With their every day catcher gone, backstopping duties should fall to sophomore Drew Lugbauer. Lugbauer played mostly as a DH last season and spelled Patrick behind the plate, hitting .211 and driving in eight.
Junior Harrison Wenson and senior Dominic Jamett both played sparingly a year ago. They'll battle for the backup position.
On the Mound
Pitching was a sore spot at times for this team a year ago but this season the group looks to take a big step forward.
Almost the entire pitching staff has returned, starting with #1 and #2 starters Brett Adcock and Ryan Nutof.
Adcock threw 90 innings last season and went 10-4, posting a 3.10 ERA and holding batters to a .213 average. He also posted an impressive K/9 of 9.50. Adcock was named Big Ten All-Third Team.
Nutof started 14 games as a freshman and was named a Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American. Nutof threw 80 innings posting a 3.71 ERA and a 5-3 record. He held batters to a .247 average.
Evan Hill missed the first two months of the season, but went on to start seven games and appear out of the pen. Hill posted a .450 ERA and a K/9 of 8.76.
Out of the bullpen Bryan Pall is the top returner. Pall threw 33.1 innings of relief a year ago with a 2.97 ERA and a K/9 of 8.42. Pall features a devastating slider as his swing-and-miss pitch.
Jackson Lamb and Carmen Benedetti both excelled in smaller roles, Benedetti allowed just three earned runs in 14 innings and held batters to a .085 average. Lamb threw nine innings and earned 1 run.
Mac Lozer, Jayce Vancena and Michael Hendrickson make up the rest of the group.
The freshman class is not short on arms. Eric Bakich has brought in five pitchers in this class; righty Ricky Karcher, lefties Benjamin Keizer and William Tribucher.
The two headliners of the pitching class are California native Troy Miller and Jack Bredeson. Miller was a Perfect Game All-American Honorable Mention and features a blazing fastball.
The 6'6, 235lb Bredeson, brother of football commit Ben Bredeson, has a raw power arm. His fastball reaches the mid-to-high 80's and he also features a power changeup, a curveball and a nice biting slider.
The Wolverines enter the season ranked 23rd in the country, the only Big Ten team to earn a preseason ranking.
In 2016 they'll take a step back at the plate. There's going to be a drop in production after losing upperclassmen bats in Glines, Cronenworth, Maezes and Patrick but they should see improvement on the mound.
With the Big Ten not having a clear favorite going into the year, this Michigan team should be contending for their first conference title since 2008. At the very least, the Wolverines should hold a spot in the top-4 of the conference standings.
Basketball Opponents 2015-2016: Through January 13, 2016
I did some research on the D1 opponents we have played thus far and put together a little something to summarize how they've fared through this point of the season. I recorded our score against said team, what their record is, what their Kenpom ranking is, and wrote down a few notes on how their season has gone. I characterized our wins and losses against our opponents this year using this metric:
Wins: Great (Kenpom 1-25), Good (26-50), Decent (50-100), Meh (100+)
Losses: Not Bad At All (1-25), Not Bad (25-50), Borderline Bad (50-100), Bad (100+)
Road wins get bumped up one catgory. For example, our road win at NC State (Kenpom 78) gets the bump from "Decent" to "Good" for being a road win. Similarly, home losses get bumped one category down.
Elon (W 88-68): 11-6 Overall, 2-2 CAA
Kenpom: 163
Notes: Elon has lost to anybody of significance thus far; a very average mid-major team.
Win Status: Meh
Xavier (L 86-70): 15-1 Overall, 3-1 Big East
Kenpom: 10
Notes: Xavier has been one of the best teams in the country so far this year. They have a list of quality wins including Butler, Cincinnati, Dayton, USC, 3 SEC teams, and Wake Forest. The only loss they suffered was a blowout at Villanova when guard Evan Sumner was injured when a Villanova defender landed on his head. This team is likely to be in the 1-4 seed range come March.
Loss status: Not Bad
UConn (L 74-60): 11-4 Overall, 3-1 American
Kenpom: 37
Notes: UConn hold two quality non-conference wins against OSU and at Texas, but have suffered losses at the hands of Syracuse, Gonzaga, Maryland, and Temple. This is a hard team to get a read on. Their play in the American will show whether or not this team truly is a contender.
Loss Status: Not Bad
Charlotte (W 102-47): 4-11 overall, 1-2 C-USA
Kenpom: 230
Notes: Charlotte isn't quite as bad as their record leads you to believe, but they're still pretty bad.
Win status: Meh
Texas (W 78-72): 10-6 overall, 2-2 Big 12
Kenpom: 58
Notes: Texas has done a quality job of defending home court this year, with a 2-1 record against Kenpom Top-40 teams (Wins against UNC and Iowa St., Loss to Uconn). Away from home is a different story. Texas has lost to Washington, Michigan, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and TCU away from home. They're going to have to step up their game if they want to make the dance, as 13 of their last 15 games come against teams that are currently Top-50 in Kenpom.
Win Status: Decent
NC State (W 66-59): 10-6 overall, 0-3 ACC
Kenpom: 78
Notes: NC State started the year off on the wrong note when William and Mary ran them out of the gym. It really hasn't gotten better for the Wolfpack. They picked up a quality win against LSU, but had close games with almost every mid-major team they played. They've lost their first three ACC games by 13 points total, and are about to enter a 5 game gauntlet that includes Duke, North Carolina, Pitt, and Miami. Likely not a tournament team this year.
Win Status: Good
Houston Baptist (W 82-57): 8-7 overall, 3-0 Southland
Kenpom: 267
Notes: Not a very good team. The Huskies have beaten the 3 bottom teams in the Southland Conference, and those teams all rank below 330 on Kenpom.
Win Status: Meh
SMU (L 82-58): 15-0 overall, 4-0 American
Kenpom: 15
Notes: One of two undefeated teams left in D1. Their seemingly low ranking is due to strength of schedule, which is 250th according to Kenpom. They have beaten two top-40 teams in Michigan and Cincinnati. Trips to Houston, Uconn, Cincinnati, and a home date with Gonzaga will determine how good this team really is. If they could play the postseason this year, they certainly look the part of a 2-4 seed.
Loss Status: Not Bad At All
Delaware State (W 80-33): 1-14 overall, 0-1 MEAC
Kenpom: 349 (out of 351)
Notes: They are a D1 team that put up 33 points against an average defense. That is all you need to know.
Win Status: Meh
Northern Kentucky (W 77-62): 4-10 overall, 0-3 Horizon
Kenpom: 282
Notes: The Norse have lost their first three Horizon league games by a combined 41 points. The only true bright spots on their season are not getting blown out by Michigan and Xavier.
Win Status: Meh
Youngstown State (W 105-46): 7-10 overall, 2-2 Horizon
Kenpom: 222
Notes: Another average-at-best mid-major team. Blown out by any team of significance.
Win Status: Meh
Bryant (W 96-60): 6-11 overall, 3-1 NEC
Kenpom: 294
Notes: Bryant got absolutely slaughtered in non-conference play, earning only two wins (one against a D2 squad). They're off to a good start in conference play though, with their only conference loss thus far on the road at Wagner, who currently sits atop the NEC.
Win Status: Meh
Illinois (W 78-68): 9-8 overall, 1-3 B1G
Kenpom: 97
Notes: The Fighting Illini are a confusing team, as always. They have played good games against good competition, such as a win against Purdue and close losses to Iowa State, Providence and Notre Dame. On the other hand, they have also had some baffling losses, such as North Florida and Chattanooga at the beginning of the year. They opened B1G play with Michigan, MSU, OSU, and Purdue, a tough opening that certainly attributed to their 1-3 record thus far. They're going to need to pick up some more quality wins and beat the bottom level teams of the B1G if they even want to sniff the tournament bubble.
Win Status: Good
Penn State (W 79-56): 10-7 overall, 1-3 B1G
Kenpom: 151
Notes: Another year, another bad Penn State basketball team. The Nittany Lions were crushed by Duquesne early in the season, and also have a loss to Radford. Their best game of the year was probably against Maryland, where they took the Terps down to the wire before succombing in the end. Likely another season spent in the basement of the Big Ten for Penn State.
Win Status: Meh
Purdue (L 87-70): 14-3 overall, 2-2 B1G
Kenpom: 13
Notes: The Boilermakers are a very solid squad this year, but their weak non-conference schedule showed itself when they entered Big Ten play. Purdue suffered losses 2 and 3 on the year to Iowa and Illinois respectively. Their only other loss comes at the hands of a good Butler squad. This is a team that is going to improve as the year goes on, and if they learn to shoot like they did against Michigan on a consistent basis, they'll be a terrifying team come tourney time. Likely a 2-5 seed in the big dance.
Loss Status: Not Bad At All
Maryland (W 70-67): 15-2 overall, 4-1 B1G
Kenpom: 14
Notes: Unlike Rutgers, Maryland has certainly proven that it is worthy of playing basketball in the Big Ten. The Terps only lost one non-conference game, and that was in Chapel Hill to an excellent UNC team. The Terps still have much to prove however, as their best wins have come against UConn and Northwestern, neither of which are top-30 Kenpom teams. If this team plays up to it's potential it will most likely be a 1-seed come tournament time. If not, the lowest they'll fall is a 4 or 5 seed.
Win Status: Great
Overall Opponent Record: 150-106 (.586)
Michigan Record vs.
Kenpom 1-50: 1-4
Kenpom 50-100: 3-0
Kenpom 100+: 8-0
Currently ranked 31st in Kenpom, Michigan is sitting in a good place with no losses outside the top-50 and a signature win against an excellent Maryland squad. According to Kenpom, if the season were to end right now the Wolverines would be an 8-seed. If they continue to take care of business against teams they should beat and rack up a few more quality wins, there's no reason this team couldn't be a 4 or 5 seed come March.
This Month in MGoBlog History - January 2006
January 3 – Tuesday
What went right during the year of infinite pain? Among other things: Steve Stribling, Ross Ryan, Antonio Bass, and Shawn Crable.
In this hockey update, Brian talks about 'M' coming in third at the GLI, Jack Johnson and Andrew Cogliano getting in a public dispute, and a commitment from Trevor Lewis. It looks like Lewis ended up playing for Owen Sound instead.
January 4 – Wednesday
Unverified Voracity: Putting it to Bed gives various blogs' opinions on the Alamo Bowl loss. Everyone is sympathetic; no, it doesn't make anyone feel better.
'M' basketball loses to Indiana.
Perhaps this is an overreaction to an abberrantly bad game, but let's be serious: if you were to pick any game from the Amaker era against reasonable competition and peg the under/over on turnovers, 20 would not be a totally implausible estimate. 16 would probably get you even money.
January 5 – Thursday
Bullets on Texas' national championship over USC. This is interesting with the perspective of ten years:
Can we shut up about Mack Brown now? Blah blah blah never win big game blah blah blah never beat OU blah blah blah never does anything with all his talent... totally bleeding ridiculous given the state the program had fallen to under Mackovic and the powerhouse Sooner teams that kept Texas down for so long.
And this is as true now as it was then:
Also can we learn our lesson? All talk about "greatest ever" anything should be banned after that ESPN fiasco. Who knows? No one. Who can prove anything about anything? No one. So can we stop the inane assertions of the finest performance, best quarterback, best game ever?
A repost from the previous August showing Brian's feelings while watching Vince Young play.
January 6 – Friday
Rumors of change are coming out of Fort Schembechler. Here is a list:
· QB coach, uber-recruiter, and all-around Boy Genius Scot Loeffler is being promoted to offensive coordinator. Or co-offensive coordinator. Or being given more responsibility in the offense. Or pissed off and about to leave.
· Former offensive coordinator Mike DeBord, who went splat at Central Michigan, is going to retake the post or co-retake the post and is being set up by Carr as his designated successor.
· Terry Malone is ceding some responsibility, or all responsibility, or has been shot.
· Jim Herrmann has a silly mustache.
· Also he may be relieved of his linebacker coaching duties, or his defensive coordinator duties, or just left to stand because that's how we roll. The mustache remains intact.
· Defensive backs coach Ron English is either about to leave for the NFL, about to be defensive coordinator, or about to undergo a strange procedure that leaves him crippled but able to deflect passes with his mind, like that cat.
· '07 uber-recruit QB Ryan Mallet of Texas has been told that Scot Loeffler will be offensive coordinator/mayor by the time he arrives and is polishing up for an unprecedented run of twelve Heismans.
· Former coach Gary Moeller is coming back to be defensive coordinator or something. Yeah, far out, dude.
· Ohio State is about to get hammered by the NCAA.
· Bobby Petrino is about to be the new coach.
· None of this will matter because Carr is still the coach and OMG LLLLLoyd is a LLLLLoser. oneoneone. two.
January 7 – Saturday
Jai Eugene is wearing a 'M' hat. This is cause for great excitement. It sounds like he might have even committed.
January 9 – Monday
Unverified Voracity: This Time I Really Mean It has more rumors about coordinators. Strong signs pointing to Jim Hermann finally being replaced, and maybe Terry Malone too. One possibility is replacing them with Ron English and Scot
Lafloer (as spelled by an RCMB poster) Loeffler. Also, Matt Gutierrez and Max Martin are likely transferring. Finally, the NCAA authorized a 12th game which means that 1-AA games are on the horizon. No one knew the disaster that this news meant at the time.
Unverified Voracity: Unfathomable Idahoe. A number of feared opponents are going pro which is good news. These include: Santonio Holmes, Ashton Youboty, Laurence Maroney, and…
Notre Dame TE Anthony Fasano has left early. No doubt Weis E. Coyote will construct a new tight end from the mighty sinews of his frontal buttocks.
January 10 – Tuesday
No 1-AA opponents yet. The 2006 schedule will see the addition of Vanderbilt, but it's ok because they "will not have that Cutler guy who beat Tennessee and scared the jean shorts off of Florida."
January 11 – Wednesday
Recruiting board update. Adam Patterson visits and is impressed. Brandon Minor isn't worried about having Carlos Brown in the same class.
Unverified Voracity: Go Away Creepy Man deals with moral matters of the day.
January 12 – Thursday
A comparison from last year's offense to the coming year. It should be improved; however, if things don't go well, here is why:
· Evil Henne. This is obvious: he has to play better. He should have more opportunities to actually do something right with a (please, God) better offensive line and the threat of an actual running game, but even accounting for the myriad problems he had to deal with this year he was an average Big Ten quarterback at best, which doesn't cut it.
· Hey, offensive line, it's your mom! She says you still suck? Yoda says if the OL does not improve, the skill position talent matters not.
· Proving message board retards right. This is not a place where lamentations about Carr's utter unsuitability for anything other than janitor at a meat packing plant are offered up constantly, but Michigan has shown a tendency to fritter away offensive talent on a regular basis. This usually happens when Michigan has found itself in a "comfortable" lead (like, say, 3-0 in the first quarter) and decides to pack away the scoring offense for another day. Stay aggressive.
January 13 – Friday
Brian recaps half of his Big Ten team previews from the beginning of the season. Here is an interesting note from Wisconsin:
Stocco threw seven more passes in 2005 than he did in 2004 but had 32 additional completions, 12 additional touchdowns, and 921 additional yards. Wisconsin went from 99th to 11th in the country in passing efficiency. Sweet Fancy Moses.
What happened? Paul Chryst returned from pass-nutty Oregon State to become offensive coordinator and lived up to the ridiculous preseason message board hype--a titanic accomplishment. To put it in terms Michigan fans can understand, if Steve Stripling had the impact Chryst did, Lamarr Woodley would have beaten six quarterbacks to death this year with only his right pinky toe.
January 14 – Saturday
Basketball game versus Illinois open tread. Unfortunately, no comments exist.
January 16 – Monday
That Illinois game didn't go so well. But hey, there was a moral victory.
You can say what you want about moral victories not existing--fair warning if you do: you're parroting dull sports press conferences and are therefore being very boring--but when you're Michigan on the road against #6 Illinois and your eleven point halftime deficit turns into a tight game you literally have a shot at winning instead of a 30 point blowout, eh... moral victories here we come.
Also, Anthony Wright committed. With not the most encouraging headline: "Michigan, Wofford watch Wright."
Recruit board update. 'M' started looking around at other QBs (in addition to Cone), these include Nick Stephens who they offered and Greg McElroy. Stephens went to Tennessee and later transferred to Tarleton State.
January 17 – Tuesday
Unverified Voracity: Blog Bowl. Interesting speculation about Purdue DC Brock Spack being an option to replace Hermann. That didn't look great then, but he took over Illinois State in 2008 and has had success in the last couple years. Obviously, 'M' went a different direction.
Hockey game versus MSU liveblog/open thread. Doesn't look like the game was going well, and then Brian's cable died after the 2nd period.
January 18 – Wednesday
Yep, the game from the previous night did not go well.
Recruiting board update. Quintin Woods has committed. Interesting guy, he didn't attend any camps and there are no substantive articles about his football skills.
January 19 – Thursday
Unverified Voracity: Actually Relevant. Idaho State is excited about Matt Gutierrez.
January 20 – Friday
Brian opines about the changes he has experienced in how he reads sports: from mainline news sources to blogs. He compares it to the comeliness of women in the north vs. the south.
I guess I grew up at 15,000 feet. I'm used to walking into a bar and having my mental girl filing go something like "no, no, yeesh, no, if I'm drunk, no, maybe, no, no, yes."
Brandon Minor commits! Concerns exist about a lack of speed, but he is a "guy who can smash face."
January 23 – Monday
Game recap from basketball win over Minnesota. Brian took notes during the game and then commented on them in the column. Sort of a precursor to Twitter.
Unverified Voracity: Ginorbous. Jim Hermann continues to look for a new job (Cowboys LB coach is the latest rumor), and hockey splits with Bowling Green.
Recruiting board update. Thad Gibson has committed to OSU, and Sam Young has committed to ND.
January 24 – Tuesday
Part 2 of the season preview review. The worst prediction was Purdue going 10-1 with BCS bid. They went 5-6.
Recruiting board update. Jason Kates is added. This is seen a bad sign for the progression of Marques Slocum's test scores.
January 25 – Wednesday
'M' is going to play MSU in basketball. It's been a long time since they've had a victory over the Spartans. Can they win this time? They could.
Unverified Voracity: Doctor 90210 gives bad news about Hermann to the Cowboys and Jack Johnson possibly leaving during his freshman year. Looks like Johnson will stay for the rest of the year.
January 26 – Thursday
Horton was the Making Things Happen Guy Who Takes Over and Makes Things Happen Player Of The Game
It's no exagerration to say that [Chris Hunter] was the best big man on the floor, as Sims provided a valuable service by transmitting his acute vaginitis to Paul Davis, turning the much-ballyhooed beast of board into a nonfactor.
Brent Petway's collision with Ager didn't appear intentional to me, but I think once it was clear the two were going to bump into each other Petway decided to get his money's worth. Ager's response: hunch over and allow teammates and medical staff to swarm over him. Bill Laimbeer he's not. Ager then went 0-4 for the rest of the game, though he did have 4 FTs.
Was it unethical/wrong/evidence of the moral decay inherent in the Michigan program? Um... ask someone who doesn't regard that Laimbeer guy as something of a father figure. IMO: he didn't intentionally clock the guy, so play on.
January 27 – Friday
'M' gets a big 5-star OL commit in Steve Schilling.
Unverified Voracity: Just Like Life with recaps of the blogosphere rejoicing over the basketball victory. There is a basketball recruit out of Illinois who 'M' is recruiting who Brian keeps referring to as Eric Beverly. I don't think he's talking about former Lions Tight End, but rather the once Arkansas Razorback and current Houston Rocket, Patrick Beverly.
Recruiting board update including several good reports on Brandon Graham and Steve Schilling, and Jonas Mouton is looking good.
January 28 – Saturday
Open thread for hockey game v. MSU and basketball game vs. Wisconsin. Again, sadly no comments still exist.
January 30 – Monday
The basketball team beat Wisconsin, they're 15-3, and expectations are running very high.
Unverified Voracity: Unusual Pigment. 'M' Basketball is ranked for the first time since April 11…1998.
Basketball gets a commitment from Kelvin Grady.
Now a source of confusion in the Grady household can be shared by the entire Michigan family... awwwww.
Also, there was a Grady cousin named Demarcus. Looks like he ended up at Northern Illinois.
January 31 – Tuesday
Recruiting Board Updated: Aaargh Edition. Jai Eugene decommitted to go to LSU. Here is the list of top remaining targets heading into signing day:
· OL Daron Rose: Dropped us, unsurprisingly.
· DT Corey Peters: Visited OSU and M recently; those two with UK and Auburn are the final four. I think the late visits to Big Ten schools that had not offered indicate serious interest.
· DT Jason Kates: His Scout profile has the following two teams as "high" interest: Michigan and Syracuse. No offense to Matt Glaude, but, uh, I think we win this battle.
· S Jonas Mouton: Down to USC, Michigan, and Texas, though USC has about four guys of the exact same size and build as Mouton--I doubt he ends up there.
· DE Adam Patterson: Down to Michigan and South Carolina, as the article above notes.
· DE McKenzie Matthews: Haven't heard much about Matthews as of late. He still maintains a nominal top four of Michigan, Pitt, BC, and Syracuse. With things looking good for Peters, Kates, and Patterson he may get slow-played to one of the other schools, though with the Eugene decommit we do have room.
Unverified Voracity: Don't Tread on D. Sportswriters are coming to Detroit for the Super Bowl, and writing not so nice things about the city.
Unfortunately, no one coming into town has the ability to see past the blindingly obvious. That's why they're sportswriters--every time you set the bar for them they manage to snake under it.
Bonus Voracity: It's Gettin' Stale with a weird story about Jeb Bush and Myron Rolle and more good news on Jonas Mouton.


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Shiite Clerics Clashing Over How to Reshape Iraq
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: August 26, 2003
NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 25 — The clerics who hold sway over Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority are locked in a violent power struggle pitting the older, established ayatollahs counseling patience with the occupation against a younger, more militant faction itching to found an Islamic state.
The militants are suspected of carrying out a series of attacks, including one over the weekend, engineered to eliminate or at least unsettle Najaf's religious scholars just as Shiites feel their moment has come. The bloodshed started in April with the murder of a prominent young cleric, Abdel Majid al-Khoei, inside the city's most holy shrine. That slaying remains such a tinderbox issue that the police and prosecutors only reluctantly confirmed for the first time today that some 12 suspects had been rounded up this month and more arrests were pending.
The tense standoff, as described by clerics from both factions, is playing out among the twisting alleyways of this holy seat, a battle for the leadership of Iraq's Shiite community, which accounts for 60 percent of the country's population of about 25 million.
In one corner sit the senior ayatollahs clustered around Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, all betting that it is only a matter of time before the United States delivers a democratic state that the Shiites can dominate through sheer numbers.
Arrayed against them are more activist opponents of the American-led occupation who back Moktada al-Sadr and who believe that Shiites should aggressively pursue an Islamic state modeled on clerical rule in Iran.
"It goes back in history to two distinct lines in Muslim and particularly Shiite thought," said Sheik Shaibani, a 33-year-old cleric who runs the Islamic court in Najaf in defiance of the elder clergy.
"There are those who say you must undertake jihad in times of oppression, and those who say we must stay silent until the reappearance of the Mahdi," he said, referring to the Shiite savior.
Although not calling for an outright holy war, the young clerics hint at the possibility. No one points the finger directly at Mr. Sadr, the descendant of a long line of illustrious clerics, but the police, prosecutors and Americans in Iraq, not to mention ordinary Najafis, single out his group as the font of violence. "Everyone in the city was expecting something like this to happen," Qassim Shabbar, a Najaf merchant, said of Mr. Sadr's possible role in the latest bloodshed. A bombing on Sunday outside the residence of a conservative ayatollah killed three men.
Shadowing the entire discussion about Shiites' power is the question of Iran's role here. Officially, the Iranians have said they want a stable, democratic Iraq, expecting that it will bring Shiite dominion.
But some Iraqis harbor suspicions that Iran wants the United States kept preoccupied by an unstable Iraq, rather than turning its attention next door to the Islamic Republic, and so is supporting Mr. Sadr or worse, the scattered remnants of Ansar al-Islam, a militant Islamic group that American officials believe has been plotting attacks against Western targets in Baghdad.
In the immediate aftermath of the murder of Mr. Khoei, the son of a beloved grand ayatollah killed under Saddam Hussein, residents of Najaf were too fearful to speak about it. But a few weeks ago, they pointedly hung banners in the streets and spoke openly of their suspicions that Mr. Sadr or at least his followers had had a hand in it.
"Disgrace and humiliation to the heretics, the murderers," said one such banner near Mr. Sadr's office. Residents said opponents were also sneaking up to the office door at night to attach pictures of Mr. Khoei.
The possible ramifications of the Khoei investigation are so sensitive that prosecutors and the police refused to discuss it, other than to say they had arrested a dozen or so men whom witnesses identified as having been involved.
Sheik Ahmed Shabani, a Sadr aide, denied that the followers of Mr. Sadr had a role in any violence.
Conservatives in Najaf view Mr. Sadr and his followers as rabble-rousers. The difference between the two groups is readily apparent during any religious event, as stark as the difference between a rave crowd and a group of symphonygoers.
The followers of Mr. Sadr are all coiled fervor, chanting ardently against America, "We are Sadr against the infidels!" while rhythmically jumping and beating their chests with their hands despite the August heat. The followers of the elderly clergy, even the young, politely sit in formation or stand chanting tepid, apolitical slogans.
Among Mr. Sadr's most hotly disputed proposals has been to form a popular militia that his senior aides said would provide greater security in Shiite neighborhoods. It is also envisioned as a kind of morals police, upholding standards of Muslim public behavior.
"It is not an army of destabilization or to undermine security," said Sheik Muhammad Fartousi, one of Mr. Sadr's senior aides in Sadr City, a Baghdad slum with a population of two million that is ground zero for Mr. Sadr's supporters. "It will help the oppressed."
The militants are careful not to risk the wrath of the American forces by singling them out by name, but the threat of engaging them wafts around nearly every sermon, every interview.


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This brilliantly naive, low-budget shoot-'em-up presents every action as if it were brand spanking new.
While the story may be a common one (for the action genre, at least), Rodriguez, who wrote, produced, shot and edited the entire film himself, has a uniquely straightforward wit that makes what might otherwise have been just another shoot-'em-up something more than that.
A gripping, tautly-paced action flick that outdoes most of Hollywood's similar output. This is clear evidence that film quality often has little to do with a production's budget.
Mythic pulp has its allure, and it also has its limitations. El Mariachi displays no real emotion except a profound appreciation for the genre film making that has inspired it, and a delight in manipulating the elements of such stories.
The unrelenting tempo is bolstered by Rodriguez's camera work and editing: nearly every frame seems to have been shot with a careening, handheld camera, and they're cut together in a skillful, fluid fashion that enhances the tension and pace of the 80-minute chase.
Spanish lingo crime meller has a verve and cheekiness that's partly a smart wedding of such influences as Sergio Leone, George Miller and south-of-the-border noir.
Rodriguez makes the same mistake as other first-time auteurs: The world of this movie exists only in relation to other movies, particularly the Sergio Leone-Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns of the early '60s.
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May 16, 2014For me, the biggest reveal in El Mariachi is that it was made by an American on an impossibly low budget. I thought this movie was a cheesyFor me, the biggest reveal in El Mariachi is that it was made by an American on an impossibly low budget. I thought this movie was a cheesy Mexican film made in the 1980s until I listened to the extra commentary. This kind of movie should appeal to movie buffs and academics.… Full Review »
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What does the Pope have in common with Britney Spears, Justin Beiber, J-Lo, and Beyonce?
I know what you're thinking but no, it's not his smokin' sense of style (though you can't deny that the man knows how to accessorize).
This man can rock a red hat! Photo: Getty Images
Like the myriad of famous folks before him, Pope Benedict XVI has gone and gotten himself a signature scent. Yep, the holiest man this side of the Vatican has his very own cologne, but don't expect to find it at a store near you any time soon. Though the Pope did employ the talents of Italian perfume maker Silvana Casoli to create an original scent, the unique blend of nature-inspired notes is said to be a top-secret formula for the personal use of the Pope only.
Of course, I can't help but think about the perfect name should the Pope ever change his mind and decide to mass market his cologne.
I did some research prior to making my list and guess what? ALL THE GOOD ONES ARE ALREADY TAKEN! Seems the perfume industry has a common Catholic theme going on:
1. Confess
2. My Sin
3. Forgiveness
4. Heaven Sent
5. Angel (Which I actually used to wear and forgot all about until I was writing this blog post and now I HAVE to run out and get some more!)
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6. Holy Water
I was bummed but not defeated so I trusted my faith and after some soul-searching, I think I've come up with a list worthy of the Pope's perfume.
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2. The Last Supper
3. SitKneelStand
4. P.Ben XVI
5. Our Father
6. Judgment Day
7. Celibacy
8. Exorcism
9. Disciple
10. Omnipotent
Okay fine. Truth is it was slim pickins out there so if you think you can do better, I'd love to hear your ideas. In the meantime, I'll be brainstorming a good commercial. I'm thinking harps, clouds, rosaries dropping out of the sky, and some nuns smelling the Pope in slow motion.
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My, my, what a fantastic idea to put these two together, if only because he's so tall. It's also potentially smart to give them the quickstep in the first week. It's got such a reputation for being challenging, but you get the sense Iveta and Nick are uniquely suited for it. They're both going to be challenged so much by the other styles this season; it's good to see them get the chance to start out strong. And they fucking DO! Dancing to "Ballroom Blitz," they are lightning fast around the stage, with a great sense of fun and a fearless presence. GOOD JOB, you two! Damn, that Nick is a tall one. Anyway: Standing O! Megan can't stop telling Nick "You're a tap dancer!" He sure is. Mary goes down the checklist of required elements for the quickstep. I love that Mary has a checklist for ballroom numbers, first of all. Too bad we can't understand a single word she's saying. The point is: Iveta and Nick kicked ass. Best quickstep ever? I'll say it.
RUNDOWN! (in order of my preference):
Melanie & Marko's contemporary
Iveta & Nick's quickstep
Missy & Wadi's jazz
Tadd & Jordan's African jazz
Sasha & Alexander's contemporary
Ashley & Chris's hip-hop
Ryan & Ricky's lyrical hip-hop
Clarice & Jess's Broadway
Caitlyn & Robert's jazz
Miranda & Robert's jive
No terrible performances this week, which makes guessing at eliminations harder, but if pressed, I'd say I'm worried for Miranda, Robert, Jess, and Alexander. And, if the injury is severe enough, Mitchell. Notice how Miranda's the only girl on that list? ...Sorry, Sally Hawkins.
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Not having much luck. I've read just about every post I could find here and I've done pretty extensive googling of the matter. Still much is not clear.
I've seen people say short out pin 9 to 5 and this confuses the hell out of me. Ok, Pin-9 is ring, Pin-5 is ground. So what, run + to 9 and 5 to ground? Tried that and it didn't work and not really suprised. (Yes WOR is on in the Bios.)
So here's a couple questions.
Do you even need a modem or is this a function of the serial port? The Bios has no modem options outside of WOR (the laptop has a spot for an internal modem but lacks it.)
The other thing that confuses me is that if you're not using a modem, my understanding, if there's not a common ground, the signals won't be received due to the voltage swings IIRC. I know everytime I hook a PIC up to a PC I need to use a MAX232 or similar.
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Gillian Kearney, John Bowler, Susie Burton, Christopher Goulding, Diana Hardcastle, Berwick Kaler, James Purefoy, Ray Stevenson.
Sixteen-year-old Emily Kennedy faces her future with a glad smile and an ever-hopeful philosophy. Her only worry is her delicate younger sister, Lucy. When a tragic set of circumstances force the sisters from their home, Emily is quickly forced to grow into womanhood and take on the responsibilities of an adult. Needing all her strength of will and character to see her through the difficult road she travels, Emily manages to cling bravely to her never-say-die attitude to life.
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Best Convention of the Past Year (2007)
Exxxotica Miami Beach
All of the town's cheesiest couples flock to the Convention Center to roam the carpeted aisles, eyeing naughty doo-dads with a mix of shock and boredom. (Then there are the guys who show up with brusquely amorous messages on their T-shirts: "I FUCK ON THE FIRST DATE," et cetera. Who do they wear them forç) This is the place where you'll run into the stripper you spent too much money on in Daytona; where everyone comes together for the annual Nearly Nude Mechanical Bull-Riding Championship. Marvel as relatively normal-looking people spend hours in line to get a picture signed by Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy. Gawk as hundreds of hapless locals wander a gauntlet of vaguely sexual booths trying to figure out how to get back their $25 and, instead, uncomfortably gather in front of a low-rent fetish demonstration. When Exxotica's in town, somehow South Beach feels a little more ... well, itself.
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1901 Convention Center Dr.
Miami Beach FL 33139
Miami Beach FL 33139
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