Over the last four years the Falcons, under General Manager Thomas Dimitroff, Head Coach Mike Smith, and Quarterback Matt Ryan, have been one of the best franchises in the NFC.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

First-year head coach Mike Smith was named 2008 NFL Coach of the Year.

Then the Giants took control, as Manning threw for two more TD passes to Mario Manningham and Nicks and the defense completed its shutout of the Falcons to give the New York Giants the win, 24-2, and the Falcons their third straight playoff loss with Matt Ryan and Mike Smith.

* 1965 – Mike E. Smith, American jockey

The team at IBM involved in cipher design and analysis included Feistel, Walter Tuchman, Don Coppersmith, Alan Konheim, Carl Meyer, Mike Matyas, Roy Adler, Edna Grossman, Bill Notz, Lynn Smith, and Bryant Tuckerman.

* Lead alto saxophone – Brad Leali, Mike Smith, Jon Gordon, Ned Goold, Geoff Burke

The Astrodome was host to the 1986 All-Star Game in which Astros Mike Scott, Kevin Bass, Glenn Davis, and Dave Smith represented the host field.

Smith made his mark early on in the 2009 NFL Draft by acquiring talent such as Eugene Monroe, Terrence Knighton, Derek Cox, Eben Britton and Mike Thomas, who all made significant contributions in their rookie years.

* 1973 – Mike Smith, American guitarist ( Snot, Limp Bizkit )

In 2009, Mike Richard John Smith filed a Canadian Patent application ( Canadian Patent number: 2675044 ) indicating the screw type propeller is inefficient due to the screw type blade orientation of the propeller which when in operation for forward movement substantially moves the fluid ( for a boat the fluid is water ) sidewardly, rotationally, and rearwardly wherein moving the fluid sidewardly does not move the boat forward, thus contibuting to the inefficiency of the screw type propeller.

By his middle period, sexual freedom and the elimination of sexual jealousy were a major theme of Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), in which the progressively minded but sexually conservative reporter, Ben Caxton, acts as a dramatic foil for the less parochial characters, Jubal Harshaw and Valentine Michael Smith ( Mike ).

* 1977 – Mike Smith, American baseball player

* Into the Simpson Desert: Join veteran desert archaeologist Dr Mike Smith on an expedition into the remote southern Simpson Desert ( 2007 )-includes audio blog, expedition slideshow and photo diary, National Museum of Australia

Their secondary was led by Pro Bowl cornerbacks Dennis Smith and Louis Wright, along with Mike Harden, who intercepted 6 passes and returned them for 179 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.

* August 27 – Mike Smith, Canadian actor

Due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds, which he co-produced with Mike Hedges.

Eight former members of the Islanders have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, seven of whom — Al Arbour, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bill Torrey and Bryan Trottier — were members of all four Cup winning teams.

Despite having coached the Rangers to a regular season first place finish and the Stanley Cup, head coach Mike Keenan left after a dispute with General Manager Neil Smith.

Young goaltender Mike Smith was promoted to the NHL to serve as Marty Turco's backup.

On February 26, 2008 just hours before the trade deadline, the Stars traded for All-Star center Brad Richards from the Tampa Bay Lightning for backup netminder Mike Smith, and forwards Jussi Jokinen, and Jeff Halpern.

In 1982 Bob Smith ( Wolfman Jack ), ran into a radio engineer friend named Mike Venditti and he told Venditti that no one had been able to get XERF back on full power with its old RCA 250 kW transmitter, because RCA did not have any manuals relating to the equipment.

Notable examples include Mike Oldfield's " Guilty " ( 1979 ) Blondie's " Heart of Glass " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Hell on Wheels " and " Take Me Home " ( both 1979 ), Barry Manilow ’ s " Copacabana " ( 1978 ), David Bowie's " John I'm Only Dancing ( Again )" ( 1975 ), Rod Stewart's " Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Zonker, still not ready for the “ real world ”, was living with Mike and JJ until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke ’ s “ Baby Doc College ” in Haiti.

Michael “ Dynamite Mike ” Kelly, commander of New York ’ s Third “ Shamrock ” Battalion, also joined the race.

Although technically not a university, the FAA ’ s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center has many aspects of an institution of higher learning.

The first five-issue series, titled Ender's Game: Battle School, was written by Christopher Yost, while the second five-issue series, Ender ’ s Shadow: Battle School, was written by Mike Carey.

For example Great Britain ’ s 67½lg lifter, Mike Shaw, purportedly wore knee wraps which were eighteen feet long, and were objected to by American lifters whose rules allowed for 6 feet.

Mike Shaw ‘ lost ’ his world title, won the previous year, to American Jack Keammerer.

Despite the troubles, McLain had another productive season in 1969, winning 24 games and won a second consecutive Cy Young Award, tying with Baltimore ’ s Mike Cuellar, marking the first time two players had shared the award.

" At the end of the 2003 season, Mike Murphy, a Giants clubhouse attendant, was cleaning out Santiago ’ s locker when he found a sealed package of syringes.

Michael McCullers, writer and director of 2008 ’ s hit movie, Baby Mama, former writer with Saturday Night Live and co-writer with Mike Myers on Austin Powers in Goldmember, is an Indian Springs native.

Bergman contacts Richard Scruggs ( Feore ) and Ron Motley ( McGill ) who, with Mississippi ’ s attorney general Mike Moore, are suing Big Tobacco to reimburse the state for Medicaid funds used to treat people with smoking-related illnesses.

Another example is Fort Minor (" Where ’ d You Go "), which featured Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda.

That same year was the first year of Suicidal ’ s four year recording hiatus and Mike Muir and bassist Louiche Mayorga formed the Label “ Suicidal Records ” as well as the band Los Cycos Jon Nelson left the group and Suicidal Tendencies were banned from playing L. A. shows from an Incident at Perkins Palace ( their fans tore out ten rows of seats and promoters couldn ’ t get the proper insurance to hire them ) Muir was also about to try his hand at producing as well as starting the new label.

In 2009 The Manfreds ; Mike D ’ Abo, Mike Hugg, Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness joined Klaus Voorman performing a version of Mighty Quinn for his first solo collection A Sideman's Journey credited to " Voormann & Friends.

Garrett ’ s more notable performances include: the breakthrough role of Jimmy Henderson in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ( 1969 ); the protagonist ’ s son Mike Pusser from the Walking Tall movies ( 1973, 1975, 1977 ) and the recurring role of Zack Russell on the ABC TV series Family.

Only Harrison, Voormann, the six-piece horn section, and Badfinger ’ s Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins were there on that first day, and subsequent rehearsals were similarly carried out in “ dribs and drabs ”, as Harrison put it.

* Destiny of an Emperor at Mike ’ s RPG Center

Three of Hightower ’ s aides at the Agriculture Commissioner, Mike Moeller, Pete McRae, and Billie Quicksall were indicted and convicted on bribery charges related to Hightower's fund raising activities.

The label ’ s most important signings were the Chicago-based Paul Butterfield Blues Band ( with Mike Bloomfield ), the Los Angeles bands Love and The Doors, and the Detroit bands The Stooges and MC5.

DJ ’ s such as DJ Magic Mike contributed to the " Orlando Sound " which emulated Miami Bass in addition to house, deep bass, and eventually “ Florida breaks ”.

A disgruntled “ Scottish Guard ” with unusual eating habits called Fat Bastard ( again, Mike Myers ) has been hired to extract Austin ’ s mojo from his frozen body at the Ministry of Defence Cryo Chamber.