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Welcome to Mickey Mouse Day!
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In the spring of 1928, Disney asked Ub Iwerks to start drawing up new character ideas. Iwerks tried sketches of various animals, such as dogs and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. (A male frog, also rejected, would later show up in Iwerks’ own Flip the Frog series.) Walt Disney got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney. “Mortimer Mouse” had been Disney’s original name for the character before his wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it, and ultimately Mickey Mouse came to be. The actor Mickey Rooney claimed that, during his Mickey McGuire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him. This claim however has been debunked by Disney historian Jim Korkis, since at the time of Mickey Mouse’s development, Disney Studios had been located on Hyperion Avenue for several years, and Walt Disney never kept an office or other working space at Warner Brothers, having no professional relationship with Warner Brothers, as the Alice Comedies and Oswald cartoons were distributed by Universal.
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Scott Shafer Resolute During Skid (AP; Kekis)
Syracuse coach Scott Shafer shrugged off the question.
“If I did, that would be between Mark and I,” Shafer, in his third year, said Tuesday on his weekly conference call with reporters when asked if he had met with athletic director Mark Coyle.
“For me, it’s just a matter of focusing in on things that are out in front of us right now. All the other things behind closed doors are just that — behind closed doors between me, my staff and anyone in the administration,” he said.
No need to look back at a losing streak that’s reached seven games. Shafer is running out of time to make something out of what’s become another lost season for the Orange (3-7, 1-5 ACC), who have won only two of their past 12 league games after going 4-4 in his first season.
“For me, you stick to the same type of consistency — trying to do a good job winning the daily processes,” Shafer said. “That’ll be our focus all the way through (the end of the season).”
Hired in June, Coyle has said he wants to see how the season plays out.
With two games left in the regular season, Syracuse has nowhere to go but up. The Orange finish with a pair of winnable games — at North Carolina State (6-4, 2-4) on Saturday and at home against Boston College (3-7, 0-7) a week later.
Nearly half of league games (46.67 percent) have been decided by seven or fewer points, the highest percentage of any conference in the country. Syracuse has had two — a triple overtime loss (44-38) at Virginia and a 23-20 setback at home against Pitt — along with a pair of 10-point losses, to then-No. 8 LSU in September and top-ranked Clemson on Saturday.
“A lot of calls haven’t really went our way, a lot of balls haven’t went our way,” linebacker Zaire Franklin said. “We know you’re going to be unlucky sometimes, but usually throughout the course of the season those type of things even out.”
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Deshaun Watson Highlights Versus Syracuse
What's Orange and Blue and a Mainstay at Every SI Home Game? (Brian Chapman's Iconic Truck (campusrush.com; Dougherty)
A light hail started four hours before kickoff on Saturday, and the people on South Crouse Avenue filed into the surrounding buildings of the Syracuse campus. Four ticket scalpers huddled in the heated entryway to a Dunkin' Donunts. A group of Clemson fans asked a stranger where the university's bookstore was. A bigger group of Syracuse supporters ducked into Varsity Pizza to get a cheap slice and free body heat.
But Brian Chapman, and his Syracuse-themed truck, braved the inclement weather on the other side of the street. Because if the Orange are playing football, Chapman and his 1990 Suburban are parked in the same spot. It doesn't matter if it's raining, snowing or if the team is falling farther and farther below .500. For the past two seasons—and greater part of the last decade—SU's football fortunes have dropped like the November temperatures, but Chapman's support hasn't wavered.
Every Saturday, he, his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's brother-in-law travel a half hour form Weedsport, New York, in the wackiest attraction of the Syracuse tailgating scene. It doesn't have a name or an extensive history, Chapman says. It's just an orange and blue truck holding four flag poles, and it's nearly impossible to miss.
"That truck has allowed all of us to have a lot of fun over the last 10 years," Chapman said before Syracuse lost to No. 1 Clemson, 37–27, last Saturday. "It's created a lot of fun, even though Syracuse football hasn't had a lot of fun over the last 10 years."
Close to a decade ago, with a failing Chevy engine and its paint chipping, the truck needed to be dressed up. Chapman spent $40 at a local hardware store got him one bucket of blue paint and one bucket of orange paint. The coat of blue went on first. Then the orange. Chapman scratched the wet orange paint with aluminum foil to bring out the blue.
It took one afternoon and hasn't been touched up since.
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Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney on the Lake Trail, Amphitheatre, Prison Dog Shelter and More (PS; Beidenbach)
Onondaga County officials took advantage of the warm November weather Monday to scout ideas by boat for the next section of hiking trail around Onondaga Lake, County Executive Joanie Mahoney said in a live chat on Syracuse.com.
Mahoney said the county does not yet have a detailed plan, but wanted to see the options for navigating around train tracks and a brook.
Mahoney said she was joined by Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon and officials from Honeywell and Destiny USA, whose land the trail would traverse.
She said they want to be ready for construction as soon as Honeywell is finished working in the southwest corner of the lake.
The next phase will take the "loop-the-lake" trail along the southwestern section of the lake, from the state fairgrounds to the Syracuse Creekwalk.
After that, the county will have to figure out how to bring the trail back up to Liverpool on a narrow stretch of land, she said.
In addition to exploring the geography, the county is looking into grant opportunities for both natural resources restoration and possibly building a boardwalk, she said.
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