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Situated in Magdeburg, the hotel provides stylish, 4-star accommodation close to Cathedral Of Magdeburg. It is ideally positioned for those wanting to sightsee in the area.
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This unique hotel provides a range of amenities, such as limited hours room service, a laundry service and parking.
Arthotel Magdeburg's 41 stylish rooms offer a flat-screen TV, a private bathroom and a telephone, plus all the necessities required for an enjoyable stay. A shower, a hair dryer and cable/satellite channels are also provided.
A satisfying breakfast is prepared each morning at Arthotel Magdeburg, and there are numerous cafés and eateries close by. In the evening, guests can relax in the cosy lounge bar.
The area surrounding Arthotel Magdeburg is popular for its shopping. It is within a 20-minute stroll of Magdeburg Central Station, which allows convenient access in and around Magdeburg.
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Located in Centre Ville-Gare, Hôtel Comte de Nice is a leisurely stroll from popular sights such as Nice Etoile Shopping Center and Marc Chagall National Museum. This 55-room hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like free in-room WiFi, free newspapers in the lobby, and a 24-hour front desk. Located centrally in Nice, it's also close to Orthodox Cathedral and Place Massena.
Start each morning with buffet breakfast, available for a fee from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
All 55 recently renovated rooms feature free newspapers and desks. 50-cm plasma TVs come with digital channels, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Free toiletries are also standard.
Property features
Renovated in 2013, Hôtel Comte de Nice offers free WiFi in public areas, a meeting room, and free newspapers. If you drive, self parking is EUR 16.00 per night, or you can take advantage of the airport shuttle (available on request) for EUR 40 per vehicle one way. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with luggage storage and securing valuables. This smoke-free hotel also has a TV in a common area.
- Walking distance to Nice Etoile Shopping Center and Marc Chagall National Museum
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport shuttle (fees apply)
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Hôtel Comte de Nice features multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Event facilities measuring 280 square feet (26 square meters) include a meeting room. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and an area shuttle. This Nice hotel also offers a television in a common area and an elevator (lift). Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Hôtel Comte de Nice is a smoke-free property.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 55
- 24-hour front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Ferry terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 5
- Multilingual staff
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Year Built 1993
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 280
- Conference space size (meters) - 26
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Free WiFi
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
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- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
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Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Access via exterior corridors
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Bathtub only
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free newspaper
- Soundproofed rooms
- Plasma TV
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Individually decorated
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- Pets allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Parking height restrictions apply
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.80 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 8.00 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 40 per vehicle (one way)
- Self parking fee: EUR 16.00 per night
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
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This property offers transfers from the ferry terminal (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
National Rating
This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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A wonderful obituary in the NYT for Grace Paley, who died yesterday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt. She was 84.
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About Airiel
Chicago-based indie rock band Airiel, a quartet consisting of Chris DeBrizzio, Cory Osborne, John Rungger, and Jeremy Wrenn, began their record-making with a series of four-song EPs released by the Clairecords label. Winks & Kisses: Frosted appeared on July 15, 2003, followed by Winks & Kisses: Dizzy on September 16, 2003, Winks & Kisses: Melted on February 10, 2004, and Winks & Kisses: Crackled on June 29, 2004; the four releases later were packaged together as a box set. The band released a self-titled EP in June 2005 and the same year embarked on its first tour of the East Coast. They released their first full-length album, The Battle of Sealand, on Highwheel Records on August 21, 2007. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi


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Rafael Viñoly has released details and images of an 'advanced masterplan' for Battersea Power Station. The images show a complete redesign including the removal of the previously proposed 300m glass chimney and atrium which was contested by the London Mayor in advance of the introduction of a new 'Views Management Framework'. The changes come despite figures collated during a month long exhibition of the plans in August 2008 which showed an 82% approval rate for the design.
Real Estate Opportunities, who own the site, said: "The masterplan has moved forward in close collaboration with Wandsworth Council, the local community, the Mayor and Greater London Authority, English Heritage, CABE, Transport for London and numerous other organisations. We are grateful to everyone for their contribution to the evolution of our plans for this major regeneration site."
The new plans, which go on display for the first time tonight at the Power Station site, ensure that the iconic station retains its dominance in the scheme by limiting the height of surrounding buildings to below that of the four chimneys, which are to be retained following evidence that they can be safely restored. They also introduce large areas of greenery and water, creating urban parklands in the centre of the busy Borough.
Five hundred new homes have been added in the redesign to total 3,700, and 1.5 million sq ft of office floorspace, community facilities and 500,000 sqft of retail, restaurants, leisure space and a hotel are to be created. A spokesperson for the scheme also advised that discussions are taking place with a private hospital operator about the addition of a hospital within a more detailed masterplan further down the line.
While the redesign will no doubt quieten many critics of the original extravagant designs, Brian Barnes, noted artist and community campaigner for Battersea Power Station is not one to silence so easily. Heading up the Battersea Power Station Company, like so many of the Station's supporters, Brian's interest was first ignited when the iconic building featured on the album cover of Pink Floyd's .....album. He memorably took a similar photo which featured in Q magazine. He has, some might say, a purist belief in the Station's community worth, and while he sees the latest designs as progress, there are many elements that he insists are not necessary. "They've gone back to the park view from before that mad dome thing which we called the dyson, you know it looked like it was going to hoover everything up..."
Barnes was the man responsible for the commissioning of drawings showing the last design, with its soaring atrium, from the Hungerforth Bridge. These were then shown to Boris Johnson who subsequently blocked the scheme following its approval by Wandsworth Council.
"I think there's still some madness going on with the building a private tube line," added Barnes. "One and a half mile of tube line, it's stupid...it takes about ten minutes to walk that distance and there's other tube stops very nearby... We think they should drop the tube line."
Rob Tincknell, Managing Director of Treasury Holdings UK who are seeing through the plans, however, advises that the tube lines are 'essential to achieve the high density redevelopment of the area' and that they are 'working tirelessly with Transport for London to secure the Northern Line Extension to Nine Elms'.
The inclusion of a hospital is also a bone of contention for Barnes: "What is the research they've done on needing a hospital on the site? There's St Thomas hospital on one side and another on the other side. Have they even asked the NHS if they need a hospital? They have hospitals all around!" he said. "Tube lines and hospitals are not what developers usually choose, it's like they're just trying to get support. It's rubbish."
The Battersea Power Station Company is a registered charity set up to support the maintenance and development of the 1930's relic. While the organisation has not raised any funds during the advancement of plans by Real Estate Opportunities, Barnes advises that this could change: "We would like to be involved in some aspects of (funding) the power station," he said. "Also there's a water station nearby, it's about 10,000 sq ft of space that could be used for the community." Plans for a swimming pool, a tourist shop for Battersea Power Station memorabilia or other community uses are being floated for a time when they see fit to seek funding.
In the mean time, Viñoly's new plans will be exhibited for public perusal from Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th June on the Battersea Power Station site. A spokesperson for the site advised that unless dramatic issues are brought up during the consultation, the plans could go to planning as early as July, but it was unlikely planning would complete in less than a year due to the complexity of the plans and the upcoming UK general election. The overall scheme, however is scheduled for completion by 2020 with stage one, consisting of the residential and redevelopment of the Power Station itself taking four years.
Ticknell said: "After two years of consultation, we are confident that we have the right scheme for this crucially important regeneration. Our plans will create a fantastic new place, will restore the status of the power station as a place of glory and will deliver new homes and much needed jobs in a highly sustainable project."
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[1] Would I really want a Claude Monet water lily or an Edward Hopper lighthouse as decorations for my cell-phone screen [2]? No, I wouldn't. But I could have them, thanks to a program developed by Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Pricing starts at $1.99. The MFA claims to be the first museum in the country to go the mobile-wallpaper route. They should try some art/ringtone combos. They could team with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on a string concerto for Monet, with the Boston Pops for a zippy "Sloop John B" to go with Hopper's lighthouse, and with that bandana-guitar-guy who hangs out near Park Street Station (I think he does Korn songs) for the crappy found/modern art stuff the MFA exhibits sometimes. Of course, there is a museum of sorts [3] where the whole music/image thing is a natural.
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About the Author: Josh Goldberg is the Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
Earlier this month, Dr. Ahmed Zewail, Nobel laureate and one of three U.S. Science Envoys, visited Cairo to discuss how the United States can work with Egypt to strengthen science and technology cooperation. While Dr. Zewail met with many senior government officials, including the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister, he also addressed the business community at an American Chamber of Commerce event and met a 10-year-old American University of Cairo student dubbed as "the next Zewail." At all of his events, Dr. Zewail led discussions and sought solutions on how Egypt can improve its education, science and technology systems.
Students, CEOs, hotel employees and TV personalities warmly welcomed Dr. Zewail and offered their support to help him with his envoy responsibilities. As a science envoy, Dr. Zewail seeks to deepen existing and develop new relationships and gather valuable input on areas of potential collaboration aimed at addressing common global challenges and realizing shared goals.
The U.S. Science Envoy Program was first announced by President Obama in Cairo on June 4, 2009, and Secretary Clinton announced the first three envoys in Marrakesh last November. Along with Dr. Zewail, Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine, and Elias Zerhouni, former National Institutes of Health Director, serve as the first U.S. Science Envoys. Other prominent U.S. scientists will be invited to join the program in the coming months. The program is a core element of the U.S. commitment to global engagement in science and technology. American science and technology contributes to the global engine of progress and growth, and short-term visits by highly-respected American scientists have the potential to build bridges and help identify opportunities for sustained cooperation.
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Investigators at the University of Vermont have contributed major conceptual and therapeutic advances to the field of digestive diseases, including breakthroughs in the genetics of colon cancer, new treatments for hepatitis C, and lifesaving therapies for jaundice in the newborn. This tradition of excellence continues today. Our unit is active in a broad spectrum of high impact research areas.
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The event of the year so far for me is the chance to see Road to Nowhere, the first feature in 21 years by Monte Hellman. He and the film were fêted at Venice and now, this Thursday through Saturday, the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian is hosting an in-person tribute, with a killer pair of double bills and a sneak peak at the new film.
Hellman has long been the unsung hero of American cinema, the quiet artist, best known for an obscure road movie with strange casting that tanked when it opened in 1971. That's Two-Lane Blacktop, starring singer James Taylor and Dennis Wilson, of the Beach Boys, as the Driver and the Mechanic of a souped up '55 Chevy. They are men without qualities just as snazzy GTO (Oates) is a man of too many, all put on. They agree to race across country for pink slips but the movie has little interest in the contest itself; like all Hellman's greatest work it's stripped to the philosophical barebones, the difficulties of communication, and of existence and its meaning. In Cockfighter (1974), Warren Oates doesn't even speak for most of the film: a self-imposed vow of silence as he takes his bird on circuit to the title he threw away the year before.
These are arbitrary acts to provide focus, and purpose, but their validity is suspect. Hellman shot both films deep on location, in faceless places by the road, unremarkable hotel rooms, in ways that make the background fade away, or at least become interchangeable; his realism is such that it can be played out anywhere so long as the camera is running, and the more abstracted the better. As Hellman unremittingly strips away all that is inessential, it is the tension caused by this self-generating reality that combusts in the radically perfect ending of Two-Lane Blacktop.
The stars of that film don't really act so much as exist, or rather live the bare story that was given to them in pages as they shot chronologically across the country. The result is a spare, remarkable film of dream-like power. It's as little about cars as Cockfighter is about cockfighting. Oates is fantastic in both, finely nuanced, and if the latter is a less sparse – though no less brilliant – that's partly because producer Roger Corman shot more actual fighting to cut in. Hellman and Corman go back to the 60s together, when Hellman repaired botched Poe adaptations. In 1965 Corman paid him to make a pair back-to-back westerns with Jack Nicholson which, after a pair of curious and enjoyable Philippines-set films, proved the first full flowering of his talent.
Ride in the Whirlwind has an added bonus in old-hand iconic Cameron Mitchell, although like the film as a whole, he is noticeably subdued. Mitchell, Nicholson and handsome Tom Filer are traveling cowhands mistaken for outlaws, holed up and hounded. It's a bleakly absurdist injustice, and a tale full of Sisyphean tasks and dead ends. In The Shooting, Nicholson plays a gunman hired by the mysterious, imperious Millie Perkins to hunt down rascally Warren Oates. Just as in the 70s' films, the goals are presented as arbitrary. Whirlwind is the more conventional western, though defiantly unromantic; dialogue was plucked from Old West diaries, and the film has a real-life immediacy bolstered by grubby, non-descript production design. The Shooting, by comparison, starts with extraneous detail and strips itself bare: figures stalk through barren landscapes for reasons unknown to us. In its relation to conventional cinema, and full of enforced inaction, Whirlwind goes with Hellman's Philippines films; The Shooting, however, was his first existential masterpiece, a film whittled down to essentials, with ambivalent fatalism, mesmerizing power and a killer ending.
If each of these films seems suffused with the meaninglessness of existence, they yet avoid being meaninglessly bleak. Partly this is because the process of examining existence is so grippingly rigorous; partly because his characters do achieve moments of human contact, even if it will not last; and partly because Hellman is a film-maker of rare artistry. There is a quiet exhilaration in his film-making, the exercise of the art, and in its inextricable relation to real life. His new film Road to Nowhere makes that explicit, inspired in part by how Hellman and long-time collaborator Steve Gaydos used to shoot. The lead, a director making a movie based on a real life intrigue, almost has Hellman's name; the mysterious actress who may not be what she seems is partly inspired by Two-Lane Blacktop's Laurie Bird; and Hellman shot across America and Europe guerrilla-style with a digital SLR. The narrative triggers of his best work function in a similar way to Hitchcock's MacGuffins and the intricate games of Jacques Rivette, an excuse to make the film, and in Hellman's case, examine these people and these relationships, even if the context is borderline abstract. Road to Nowhere sounds like a more ambitious puzzle piece than he has yet given us, from murky convolutions of plot to the bleeding of fiction and reality. I can't wait.
- Two-Lane Blacktop plays with Ride in the Whirlwind on Thursday May 12, starting at 7.30pm
- Cockfighter and The Shooting are on Friday May 13, 7.30pm
- Road to Nowhere plays on Saturday 14, 7.30pm
Monte Hellman will be in attendance at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood all three nights.
Read more about Road To Nowhere via David Hudson's excellent round-up on Mubi.


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There is always that one pesky roadblock that hurts a team's chances to make the Super Bowl.
Sometimes, the roadblock comes in the first round; in other instances, a team faces its toughest opponent in the conference title game.
Who knows—if the New Orleans Saints could have tackled Marshawn Lynch on his epic and rather thunderous touchdown run a few years back, maybe Drew Brees would have won another championship.
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text: It's that time of year again when the weather calls for some new Luke Bryan tunes! The singer is getting ready to release Spring Break…Here To Party which will include more songs than his past Spring Break projects. Luke is just ready to give his fans new music! Luke says, "We are glad we can put 14 more songs out, and that's 14 more songs that people will have of mine and be incorporating into their lives. Luke's Spring Break…Here To Party includes some fan-favorite songs, and two tracks that Luke wrote. The singer has released new music like this every year since 2009 – get ready for it tomorrow (3/5).


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The University of Washington Huskies could end up being one of college football's surprise teams of the year. In order for that to happen, they'll have to get through a grueling 2012 schedule.
The Huskies play 12 games this year, including three games against Top Five opponents. Sounds like trouble, but they just might have what it takes to knock off some of these teams and to get into the Pac-12 Championship conversation.
Here's a look at the power rankings of every opponent that Washington is going to see on the field.


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- mario manningham
- michael schofield
- patrick omameh
- ryan mundy
- stevie brown
- taylor lewan
- tom brady
- alan branch
The NFL preseason is officially underway, and with mandatory roster cuts (down to 75) set for August 26th, now is a good time to check in with the former Wolverines currently playing in the league. After scouring the interwebs, here's my best guess at where each Michigan representative stands as we near the start of the season.
Locks To Make It
Jason Avant, WR, Carolina. After being relegated to decoy duty in Chip Kelly's offense for Philadelphia in 2013, Avant—who boasts the lowest drop percentage in the NFL over the last three years—should be one of Cam Newton's top targets with his move to the Panthers.
Tom Brady, QB, New England. Brady threw for over 4,300 yards with 25 touchdowns last season while working with a very raw receiving corps. It was universally considered a down year. I think he's gonna make it, y'all.
Alan Branch, DE, Buffalo. Branch was an integral member of the D-line rotation for the Bills last season, recording 39 tackles, and he should reprise that role working behind up-and-coming star Marcell Dareus again this year.
Stevie Brown, FS, New York Giants. After finishing second in the NFL with eight interceptions in 2012, Brown missed all of 2013 with a torn ACL. He's back from the injury and expected to start at free safety.
Larry Foote, ILB, Arizona. The longtime Steeler—Foote has played 11 of his 12 NFL seasons in Pittsburgh—was cut in the offseason, but quickly found a home in Arizona, which lost both of their starting ILBs from last season. He's currently atop the depth chart, and even if he doesn't hold that spot, he should stick around to provide veteran leadership for a young position group.
Jonathan Goodwin, C/G, New Orleans. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Goodwin and Tim Lelito, the two players competing to start at center, are "certain to make the final roster." Goodwin's ability to play both center and guard gives him extra job security, even at 35 years old, as does his relatively cheap one-year deal.
Leon Hall, CB, Cincinnati. While Hall tore his right Achilles tendon last season, just two seasons removed from tearing his left Achilles, he's back in the starting lineup as Cinci's slot corner, a spot he plays about as well as anybody in the league when healthy. Barring further injury, his spot is very much safe.
David Harris, ILB, New York Jets. Jets head coach Rex Ryan called Harris "the most underrated player in the league" after he was left of the NFL Network's top 100 players list for 2014. Yeah, he's safe.
Junior Hemingway, WR, Kansas City. Even though Hemingway missed a good deal of training camp with a hamstring injury, he came right back and was a prime target for QB Alex Smith out of the slot. This very thorough rundown of the Chiefs' roster situation has Hemingway safely on the team—in fact, he should start in the slot—and that doesn't look likely to change.
Chad Henne, QB, Jacksonville. Though Jacksonville used the #3 overall pick on QB Blake Bortles, Henne started the first preseason game, and the Jaguars higher-ups insist there's no QB controversy. Bortles is the QB of the future; for now, however, this is Henne's job.
Taylor Lewan, OT, Tennessee. First-round picks don't get cut in their rookie seasons, especially when they're competing for starting jobs.
Jake Long, OT, St. Louis. Long is coming back from a torn ACL and MCL, so he's been held out so far in the preseason, but he's on track to make a surpringly quick return. Also, he's Jake Long, which should be enough.
Ryan Mundy, S, Chicago. Even though the Bears have shuffled their safeties around, Mundy has seen the most action on the first team of anyone, and he can play both free and strong safety in their system. He started the preseason strong, picking off a pass in the opener.
Michael Schofield, OG/OT, Denver. Third-round picks also don't get cut in their rookie season, except in very unusual circumstances. Considering Schofield is "in the mix" at both left guard and right tackle, it looks like he'll be a critical backup at the very least in Denver.
LaMarr Woodley, DE, Oakland. After seven productive years in Pittsburgh, Woodley was unceremoniously released by the Steelers over the offseason, and the Raiders were happy to get him. He provides a major upgrade from them at DE, a spot that may suit him better than 3-4 OLB, where he played in Pittsburgh.
Charles Woodson, S, Oakland. At 37, Woodson came back to Oakland, where he's beloved by the fanbase. He'll play safety there, and he is Charles Woodson, so he'll play well until he decides it's time to hang up the cleats.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the list.]
Michigan Museday: Demens vs. Worf
So my favorite way to learn things is to start an argument with someone who knows more than I do about that subject and see if my take can take the onslaught. On Sunday Magnus put an interesting question to the board about the current MGoTake on Kenny Demens:
I've seen many references to this in recent times, including when I was reading HTTV. There seems to be some sentiment around here that Kenny Demens is better than Obi Ezeh but he won't make anyone forget about David Harris. I'm kind of confused why people are down on Demens in that way. He's not Ray Lewis, but David Harris wasn't Ray Lewis, either.
As a junior, David Harris had 88 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, .5 sacks, 3 pass breakups, 1 fumble recovery, and 2 forced fumbles.
In a comparison of junior seasons, Kenny Demens had 94 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 2 pass breakups.
Those are pretty similar statistics, and while Harris did more in the turnover department, I'm not sure why people are insisting that David Harris was so much better. Demens still has a year to get to that level. He may or may not get there, but I don't think it's really a fair argument to compare the two careers right now.
Opportunity knocks.
Harris is special to Brian because he was the first great player uncovered in UFR. He's special to me because when I crossed that line between being someone who knows Michigan football and is truly
informed obsessed about Michigan football, I began going around telling people that David Harris (not Henne, Hart, Manningham or Long) was the most important guy on the team. In both cases that was in 2005, about the same time in his career that Demens was getting his unit dinged (vs. MSU et al.) for not being reactive enough. This has resulted in a bit of a bias on these pages from Brian and those principally informed by Brian to speak of Harris in near-Woodsonian terms. Whether you regard that as a weakness in our coverage, it fortunately leaves plenty of room for Demens to be both "worse than David Harris" and "a damn good Big Ten linebacker."
Here's the part of Brian's summation on Demens from HTTV that I am almost certain Magnus is responding to:
We got some clarity in 2011, when Demens was just okay. While he led the team in tackles, he managed just two TFLs against running plays. He barely beat blocks and was such a mediocre blitzer that Greg Mattison started playing him at nose tackle so he could send Mike Martin at the quarterback. On the plus side of the ledger, Demens was a surpisingly high-quality cover guy, sticking with players well down seams he didn't have much business covering.
First let's clarify that nobody's suggesting Demens is an average of 45s. The Unofficial MGoBlog Harris-Ezeh Scale of Linebackeritude...
...sees Demens firmly on the Harris end of the ledger.
That is a comedown from post-2010, when this site fell in love with Demens for being not-Ezeh and because most of his struggles were schematically blameable on GERG (plus the threat of a Dr. Vorax the Stuffed Beaver facewash if he did something good). He is a pretty good tackler. He stands up well to blocks. And he is one of the guys who helped make us stout in short situations last year. We like him.
Let's compare that to the feeling on David Harris going into 2006:
Harris was a player. He led the team in tackles, making a fair number of them near or behind the line of scrimmage. He was tasked with spying Drew Stanton during the Michigan State game and flashed his speed against Penn State when he tracked down Derrick F-ing Williams on an end around. His UFR number was +8 that game, a monster. Though Harris tailed off towards the end of the year, he's established himself as one of the Big Ten's better linebackers and certainly the best Michigan has.
Over the course of his senior season Harris went from a budding star that bloggers were into before it was cool, to a player of the decade who could diagnose the blocking assignments of a given play before people in the huddle did:
The difference I find is the instincts. Harris was great because he could read a play, make his decision, and shoot to where he needed to be. Having rewatched the late '90s games with new eyes I can see Dhani Jones had this to set him apart as well. Kovacs is the obvious modern example.
Ironically, "good in coverage, needs to be more instinctive" is the opposite of what we said in the 2011 preview:
It's clear by the rating above that I'm a Demens believer. I liked what I saw last year and I've seen MLBs who are pretty good to compare him to. David Harris, for one. He's not Harris but I think Demens is closer to him than Ezeh already. He just has a knack for getting to where the play is going. Though his coverage still needs some work he was decently effective in short zones last year.
There's no direct post-sophomore comparison for Harris because he had a knee injury that took two seasons to return from. Before that, freshman versions of Harris were the recipients of an a-normal amount of positive chatter. Spring chatter is just that and not worth putting that much stock into, however there's too many old copies of The Wolverine gushing about him to discount entirely. As soon as Harris was healthy he displaced the returning starter (McClintock) and never came off the field.
Demens before Iowa 2010 is equally hard to pin down. There was some trouble for which the entirety of Demen's culpability essentially came down to "is bad at choosing roommates." When he dropped behind Ezeh and position switching Moundros early his RS sophomore year the expectations were downgraded, only to be rekindled when it turned out this was just the work of the nefarious Dr. Vorax.
As for their respective junior seasons, the basis of the claim that Demens=Harris is in the tackling stats. Because the team can face radically different numbers of plays I like to use % of team tackles for this; though it doesn't change the point Magnus was making:
|2005 Season
|2011 Season
|% of 2005
|% of 2011
On the surface this seems to support your assertion that their respective RS Jr seasons were pretty comparable. Harris had a greater % of his tackles solo because the team was less into gang-tackling.
My memory said Michigan faced more passing offenses in 2005 than this year. However the stats say that 2005 and 2011 were almost identical in number of live plays:
|Live Defensive Plays
|Opp. Rushing Attempts
|Opp. Pass Completions
The biggest difference seems to be the cornerbacks and LaMarr Woodley made the tackles that Kovacs and T.Gordon took for 2011. If you take the view that tackles missed by linebackers go to the safeties then:
|W. Barringer
|Jordan Kovacs
|Brandent Englemon
|Thomas Gordon
|Jamar Adams
|Courtney Avery
|B. Harrison
|Carvin Johnson
(I included Courtney Avery because some of Harrison's season was at nickel and it's hard to separate that.)
There's also a moderate difference in rushing yards/attempt between the seasons that you have to imagine the leading tackler had something to do with: Opponents in 2005 were held to 3.8 YPA; in 2011 it was 4.0 YPA. However this is a very flimsy statistical case. Magnus is correct that the numbers do not show a major difference between Demens and Harris's junior seasons.
For that we have to go to the realm of the individual games and plays. Here's the UFR comparison of their respective junior seasons:
David Harris:
|Notre Dame
|Night and day from McClintock.
|Eastern Michigan
|Reading and reacting in the short zone.
|Reading and reacting in the short zone.
|Michigan State
|Playing very, very well. Entrusted with spying Stanton all day; shows the faith they have in him.
|Well, we've got one linebacker.
|Penn State
|Biggest scrub to star transformation since...?
|Unbelievably deep drops in coverage.
|Worst game since he became a starter. Still did okay.
|Ohio State
Kenny Demens:
|Western Michigan
|Kind of a rough start but played in odd conditions.
|Notre Dame
|Twelve tackles and few errors.
|Eastern Michigan
|Slow to diagnose some things.
|San Diego State
|Not sure what to do with his Howard-esque coverage but I liked it.
|Not many plays even got to him.
|Did not get outside even on speed options.
|Michigan State
|Michigan's linebackers are not nearly as reactive as MSU/ND, even Northwestern, and it costs them.
|Not much got to him thanks to Martin.
|Stuck Coker cold a half yard from a critical third down conversion. I be like dang.
|Second consecutive solid game. Pretty good in coverage.
|Three straight +4s. Surprisingly good in coverage for MLB.
|Ohio State
|Ate some blocks.
Harris 2005: +35 in nine games (+3.9/game)
Demens 2011: +26.5 in twelve games (+2.2/game)
[EDIT: A copy error from 2005 screwed up my arithmetic. It is corrected now]
Now I realize UFR has changed a bit since then and that opportunities might be different and etc. etc. etc. etc. this is not scientific at all. What I'm really going by is the record in the comments. So those numbers probably don't mean anything.
What does mean things are the notes. In Demens you see "slow to diagnose some things" and "Michigan's linebackers are not nearly as reactive as MSU/ND, even Northwestern, and it costs them," and "Ate some blocks." Is it a weakness? I'm sure the coaching carousel Demens has had in his career is a big part of that. I'm also sure that among the most important attributes for a defensive player, perhaps even more important than his size or his speed or his tackling technique (though all matter a lot), is how many micro-seconds it takes him to react correctly to the play. In this Harris as a junior was outstanding, and Demens as a junior was "area for improvement."
Does this constitute a low ceiling for Demens? If you put a gun to my head: yes, I'd say he's RVB to David Harris's Mike Martin.
MGoHall of Fame: Football Nominees
Good lord, this was brutal. Hockey had a pretty clear cutoff that sat nicely at five, and getting to five in basketball was a stretch. I left Steve Breaston, Leon Hall, Allan Branch, and Zoltan Mesko out here. Jebus.
See also: structure, basketball, hockey.
David Molk
PROS: Tough-talking no-neck was a four year starter at center perfectly suited for Michigan's zone running game; won the Rimington as a senior. Hilarious interview with absolutely no regard for cliché. High fantangibles rating. At times seemed to be the difference between doom and success in the Michigan ground game. Broke something serious in his foot in the Sugar Bowl, watched Rocko Khoury make some panic snaps on Michigan's first series, and played the rest of the game seriously damaged.
Experienced both coaching changes and was one of the seniors Who Stayed™. A huge factor in the locker room uniting behind Hoke.
CONS: Had some injury problems. Inexplicably had his snap count jumped against MSU and only MSU for like three straight years.
Mike Martin
PROS: Four-year contributor and three-year starter who always teetered on the edge of being great. Finally accelerated down the senior-year stretch into a dominant nose tackle. During this period forced a pitch on a Nebraska speed option.
This is about all you need to know. You could not block him. Michigan's insanely good third/fourth and short defense started with him (and ended with Kovacs).
But wait, there's more: with Michigan's already-thin defensive line depth shattered by injury before the Sugar Bowl, Martin and Van Bergen faced off with future first-round pick David Wilson in a game where getting a stop meant you got four snaps before you were back on the field. They singlehandedly kept Michigan in the game despite dying halfway through the second quarter. A performance that should pass into legend the same way Hunwick's North Dakota game will.
Also a member of Those Who Stayed™. Along with Molk and Van Bergen, Martin got the Full Andy Dufresne from his time at Michigan.
CONS: Seemingly endorses "In The Big House." Not as highly regarded by the NFL as a few other guys on this list.
Ryan Van Bergen
PROS: Third and final member of Those Who Stayed™ on the list. Also a four-year contributor and longtime starter, underrated because of his lack of playmaking but still the TFL leader on last year's team. The other guy holding Michigan's defensive line together through sheer force of will in the Sugar Bowl. Virtually impossible to knock down. Screwed up a check in the 2009 Indiana game, leading to an 85-yard touchdown, then singlehandedly annihilated the next IU drive, giving Michigan a chance to pull it out.
CONS: Probably the least-great player on this list. Here as a tribute to Michigan's phoenix act in 2011. Not enticing to NFL. Still… look at that. This is not a list of the best players ever, so…
Brandon Graham
PROS: The best player on an awful Michigan defense and awful Michigan teams. Did not get the Full Andy Dufresne since his career ended halfway through the sewage tube. Still bore all of this with a Denard-like beatific smile. Just killed people, all the time.
NFL did really like him, drafting him in the top half of the first round.
CONS: Unfortunately his impact was limited because the team around him was terrible.
David Harris
PROS: Sideline-to-sideline missile was cerebral to the point of near-genius. Always there. Always. Made a habit out of juking(!) offensive linemen in zone schemes, making them think the play was going one way, then exploding into the ballcarrier when this was not the case. Junior year was tremendously underrated thanks to chaos around him; was major lynchpin and possibly the best player on Michigan's monster 2006 defense. Yes, I mean that seriously.
Early and still prime example of the usefulness of UFRing makes him near to my heart; not sure if you care. Validated all praise from Michigan fans by instantly becoming NFL tackling machine upon entry to the league.
Kind of looks like Worf.
CONS: Lacks iconic wow play. Others started longer than he did.
Mario Manningham
PROS: Emphatically does not have David Harris's problem since he was the target on two of the most iconic plays of the aughts: Oh, Wide Open and Lloyd Carr's Last Second. An electric playmaker the rest of the time, a guy who wasn't the biggest but was the fastest and hardest to keep track of. Had that brilliant slow-up-to-stall-the-DB-then-extend-for-the-TD move down pat. More of a technician than given credit for. Whenever I think of Manningham, I think of that Citrus Bowl when DeBord said "screw it, spread time" and Holly Rowe reporting that Florida deathbacker Brandon Spikes was chasing Manningham all over the field on his incessant end-arounds, saying "damn, boy, you good."
Did the worm after the 2007 Penn State win.
CONS: Got suspended for the weed, something that took some doing in the mid-aughts. Widely regarded as kind of maybe not the nicest guy to ever make it through the program.
Jason Avant
PROS: Amongst the nicest guys to ever make it through the program. Skillet-sized hands are made of industrial-strength adhesive. An elite-level possession receiver who was everyone's safety blanket. Targeted all the time and made all the catches. Probably the most common ex-player to be referenced in "You May Remember Me From Such Players As," to the point where I actively try to avoid it now.
Did this:
That about sums it up.
CONS: Did drop that one pass once, you know, that one. Never a huge deep threat.
Mike Hart
PROS: Four year starter with great backstory and running style burned into your brain. No speed at all but capable of juking in a phone booth and grinding out two, three, four yards after contact. Got a standing ovation for a particular eight yard run against Penn State once. Came out of a tiny school in upstate New York with outlandish rushing stats and a youtube clip in which he jukes every player on the opposing team twice.
Never, ever fumbled except twice inside the five against Florida in his last game. Pretty much the only thing standing between Michigan and a yards per carry under three during his time at Michigan.
Mouthy in a rivalry-pumping way. Fantangibles high. Added spice to life. I have already written his column. There is a "Mike Hart is pined for" tag on this blog.
CONS: Injury prone. Started this incredibly annoying "little brother" business. Spice added by mouth often backfired; went 0-fer against OSU.
Lamarr Woodley
PROS: Kills people. Brandon Graham was Woodley 2.0, a devastating defensive end who could not be blocked one-on-one. Has enormous Wolverine tattoo on arm. Finished off the Oh Wide Open game with the Yakety-sax-capping scoop and score. Fighting with David Harris and Allan Branch for title of best player on 2006 defense.
CONS: OSU 0-fer does not quite apply but really kind of does since he did not contribute much in 2003. That's about it. Kind of think maybe Graham was better since he had way less help and still produced.
Jake Long
PROS: Is he a man or a block-long wall? Only his mother knows, and these days she's not even sure. Four-year starter who rolled off the NFL left tackle prototype line and let exactly zero guys not roid-raging get to the quarterback when he was on the field. The first overall pick his draft year, all-American everywhere, etc, etc, etc, you get the idea.
CONS: Fantangibles low. Another Michigan great who had to suffer through the indignity of 0-fer OSU. Hurt most of the 2005 season. Not sure what I'd write about him.
Of The Decade: Michigan's Defense
- brandon graham
- dan rumishek
- david harris
- donovan warren
- ernest shazor
- gabe watson
- garrett rivas
- grant bowman
- jamar adams
- jeremy lesueur
- julius curry
- lamarr woodley
- larry foote
- lawrence reid
- leon hall
- marlin jackson
- of the decade
- pierre woods
- shawn crable
- terrance taylor
- tim jamison
- victor hobson
- zoltan mesko
- alan branch
Previously in this series: ESPN Images and Michigan's Offense.
Brandon Graham (2009) & Lamarr Woodley (2006)
Slam dunk locks and mirror images, Brandon Graham and Lamarr Woodley set the standard for Michigan quarterback terror in the aughts. Wildly hyped in-state recruits and five stars, both spent a couple of years as underclassmen playing here and there and making people wonder if and when they would live up to their billings; both did so emphatically as juniors and then managed to top those performances as seniors. A large portion of last year's defensive UFRs not given over to rending of garments was spent wondering whether Brandon Graham was actually better than Woodley.
Survey says: yes, amazingly.
There was a mailbag question that explicitly addressed it:
I think Graham is better. I haven't gone over the UFR numbers yet—slightly busy this time of year—but I know Graham set a record against Michigan State earlier this year and has been owning offensive tackles all year. Woodley set standards by being consistently around +8 or +9 with forays up to 12; Graham's baseline is around 12 and ranges up to 18.
Though he didn't win the Lombardi like Woodley did his senior year, Graham led the nation in TFLs and was drafted about a full round higher by the NFL. While Woodley was more heralded in the award department, that had a lot to do with the other guys on defense. Woodley's compatriots will pepper the rest of this list. Graham's not so much. Woodley lined up next to Alan Branch, Terrance Taylor, and a senior Rondell Biggs; Graham's bookend was a true freshman and his other linemates were just sophomores.
Lamarr Woodley, meanwhile, did with the Lombardi in 2006, the first and to-date last time a Michigan player has won it. His season was statistically frustrating since, like Graham, he was close to a dozen additional sacks that a competent secondary would have seen him put up truly ludicrous numbers. Even so he had 12 sacks and 4 forced fumbles; outside TFLs were low (just three) but that can be chalked up to the rest of the defense taking up that burden. As mentioned above, he was the original gangsta of the UFR, averaging close to double-digit plus ratings on a weekly basis.
But all that pales in comparison to the play that finished the "Oh Wide Open" game in which Michigan established itself a contender. By scooping up an unforced Brady Quinn fumble and fending off ND tight end John Carlson all the way to the endzone, Woodley inaugurated the Yakety Sax era:
I just watched that three more times.
Second Team: Dan Rumishek (2001), Tim Jamison (2007 or 2008, take your pick)
It gets muddy past the slam dunks. Michigan's quasi 3-4 from the beginning of the decade makes decisions difficult, as does that one year Michigan switched to an actual 3-4. In 2001, Dan Rumishek was on the All Big Ten team with just 22 tackles. Seven were sacks, but man. That same year Shantee Orr managed 35 tackles with six sacks and 10 TFLs, but didn't show up on all conference teams. Later editions of defensive ends would have almost identical big play numbers but way more tackles. Tim Jamison had 10 TFLs and 5.5 sacks as a junior and senior but had 52 and 50 tackles.
Past Rumishek, Orr, and Jamison pickings are slim. Rondell Biggs was the unheralded guy on the 2006 line, a decent plugger but nothing special. A post-career steroid bust also gives his career an unpleasant sheen. Larry Stevens's career was very long but largely anonymous. He's best remembered for being hog-tied on the Spartan Bob play.
We'll go with Dan Rumishek, the only other Michigan DE to get on an All Big Ten team this decade, and one of Tim Jamison's upperclass seasons. Which is entirely up to the reader since they are essentially identical; I lean towards '07 because Graham was not yet a beast and Jamison saw more attention.
Alan Branch (2006) & Gabe Watson (2005)
Alan Branch:
That will do.
His statistics were not ridiculous (25 tackles, 5 TFL, 2 sacks in '06) but when he left for the NFL draft I thought to myself "this is a logical thing because he will go in the top five." Surprisingly he did not, falling to the top of the second round, but when you are primarily responsible for opponents going six of eighteen on third and one you get dropped onto the All Decade Team no questions asked.
Watson will be a more controversial choice but the guy was a two-time All Big Ten selection and is currently an NFL player. At Michigan he never quite lived up to his copious recruiting hype but he did have some pretty nice statistics for a nose tackle: 40 tackles, 6 TFLs, and 2 sacks as a senior with almost identical numbers from the year before. The primary issue with Michigan's run defense in '05 was that Watson would drive his guy yards into the backfield, forcing the tailback to cut upfield into the gaping hole left because Pat Massey was 6'8" and therefore getting crushed backwards as far as the guy futilely attempting to contain Watson.
The year before Michigan had their one-off experiment with the 3-4, leaving Watson all alone in the middle, where he dominated. In the aftermath of Watson's one-game suspension for being approximately spherical to start the '05 season, I attempted to adjust for Michigan's tendency to give up a lot of nothing and then a lot of huge runs in the spirit of Football Outsider's "adjusted line yards" and came up with the number 2.5, which was better than anyone in the NFL by three tenths of a yard. (Schedules are much more balanced there, FWIW.) Watson may have been an overrated recruit, but his Michigan career has been underrated.
Second Team: Terrance Taylor(2007), Grant Bowman (2003)
This is actually Taylor's junior season, when he lined up next to Will Johnson, a sophomore Brandon Graham, and Tim Jamison and managed impressive-for-a-DT numbers: 55 tackles, 8.5 TFLs, 3.5 sacks. He'd drop off considerably in his doomed senior year; whether that was a falloff in play or just collateral damage from the wholesale implosion around him is in the eye of the beholder. My opinion is the latter since Taylor tended to beat a lot of blocks only to see poor linebacker play rob him of opportunities in the run game; he was never much of a pass rusher.
We'll go with Taylor's statistically productive 2007 over 2008 because he was just about as good via the eyeball then and had more to show for it. Either way he is an easy pick.
The last spot is not easy. Early in the decade, Michigan defensive tackles were excruciatingly bored guys who spent football games blocking offensive lineman and letting linebackers take all the glory. In 2001 Shawn Lazarus started 12 games and managed 16 tackles. In the absence of accolades, statistics, or personal remembrances I can't put Lazarus or Eric Wilson or Norman Heuer in here even though I couldn't tell you whether or not those guys were even good. The guys not on the list who I do have personal remembrances of were not very good or are still on the team.
It's a debate between Grant Bowman, who I don't remember much about other than his mother was attacked by the usual band of Columbus idiots one year, and… yeah, Mike Martin and Ryan Van Bergen. Bowman's 2003 featured 36 tackles, 8 TFLs, and 3 sacks; Van Bergen had 40, 6, and 5; Martin 51, 8.5, and two sacks. Bowman's defense was infinitely better (22nd nationally in rush defense) than either Martin's or Van Bergen's but without the UFRs sitting around it's hard to tell how much of that had to do with Bowman and how much was the contributions of Pierre Woods, Carl Diggs, Lawrence Reid, and the profusion of non walk—ons in the secondary.
The tentative nod goes to Bowman if only because the rest of the line that year was Heuer, Massey, and someone the Bentley doesn't even bother to list but is surely Larry Stevens. Even if he had more help behind him, being the best player on a line that did pretty well against the run is a tiebreaker here.
David Harris (2006), Larry Foote (2001), Victor Hobson (2002)
A couple years ago I was editing a Hail to the Victors article about the considerable difference between David Harris and Obi Ezeh that referenced a couple plays from the '06 season. The diagrams, as diagrams are often wont to be, were confusing so I set about looking at the play myself so I could break the diagram out into three or four separate ones that would explain things in a more leisurely fashion. This was the result:
I swear to God I saw David Harris read not only the direction of a run play, the blocking scheme of that play, and which offensive lineman was assigned to him but modeled the lineman's brain and duped him into thinking the play had cut back. I found this terribly exciting.
That was just another boulder on the pile of reasons I love David Harris. He looks like Worf. He tackled everyone all the time and never did not tackle anyone. He was the first player I felt I was ahead of the curve on thanks to UFRing the games—like David Molk I think I was the first person in the media to recognize that this unheralded player was the balls, which made me feel like Dr. Z. And he kept tackling people. At some point in 2006 the Greek gods descended from the clouds and borrowed him for a while because the eagle that eats Prometheus's liver was on strike.
Then the Lions passed on him and Lamarr Woodley to take Drew Stanton, guaranteeing that the pair would instantly become two of the best defensive players in the league. Yeah. David Harris. I miss him so much.
Larry Foote had a less tangential connection to the worst franchise in sports, but outside of that one-off decision his career has been a good one. As an upperclassman he was an all-around terror, notching 19 TFLs in 2000 and 26 in 2001 at the same time as he picked up a total of 16 PBUs. In 2000 he actually had more of the latter than Todd Howard, and Todd Howard got some of his when the ball deflected off the back of his helmet. Foote was what Jonas Mouton was supposed to be.
We'll go with Foote's senior year when his sack total leapt from one to six and he was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year en route to a smattering of All-American honors. A fourth-round pick of the Steelers, Foote's NFL career has been long and productive; he gets a small dollop of bonus points for being one of the current NFL crew frequently seen hanging out with Barwis.
The final member of the first team had to beat out stiff competition but Victor Hobson gets the nod because he was by far the best player on his front seven (Rumishek, Bowman, Lazarus, Stevens, Orr, Diggs, and Zach Kaufman(!) were the other major conributors) in 2002 and racked up the best all-around numbers of any linebacker under consideration: 99 tackles, 13 for loss, 5.5 sacks, and two interceptions. One of those was the Outback-sealing reverse pass interception. Hobson was deservedly All Big Ten on a team that finished 9th in the final rankings and 31st in rushing defense despite having zero future NFL players other than Hobson and an injury-stricken Orr.
Second Team: Pierre Woods(2003), Shawn Crable(2007), Lawrence Reid(2004)
Pierre Woods did something almost but not quite bad enough to get booted off the team after his breakout sophomore season (68 tackles, 14 TFL, 7 sacks) and spent the rest of his career playing sparingly—probably the only thing that has infuriated both Ted Ginn Sr and myself—until injury forced Michigan to deploy him extensively in the '05 Iowa game, whereupon he totally saved Michigan's bacon. Though he'd moved to defensive end by then, his bust-out year was at linebacker so here he goes.
Poor star-crossed Shawn Crable will go down in history as the best player to ever put on a winged helmet who Michigan fans have exclusively terrible memories of. In the span of three games at the end of the 2006 season and beginning of 2007, Crable delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit on a scrambling Troy Smith that turned a fourth-down punt into first down and eventually the winning points for OSU and failed to execute a simple blocking assignment on the field goal that could have turned The Horror into the worst win ever.
When he wasn't doing either of those things, though, he was a unique weapon. He is the current holder of Michigan's TFL record and spent his college days bouncing from linebacker to defensive end to crazy 6'6" chicken-legged defensive tackle in certain spread packages, finding ways into the backfield wherever he lined up. He also was the Ryan Mallett of defense as an underclassman, overran a bunch of plays even after he got his head on straight, and appears twice on the upcoming Worst Moments Of The Decade list. That disqualifies him from the first team, but not the second.
Finally, Lawrence Reid saw his career end prematurely as his back went out; late in the 2004 season it was clear he was laboring. Despite that he finished with 70 tackles, 12 for loss, 3 sacks, and an interception. Without the injury his senior season could have made it on to the first team… and seriously aided the 2005 team's efforts to not play the unready Shawn Crable.
Marlin Jackson(2002), Leon Hall(2006)
Leon Hall was sneaky great, one of the few players that the NFL ended up drafting well before I expected them to. Before Hall went halfway through the first round I'd pegged him as another LeSueur sort who'd go in the second and have a decent career; instead he's kind of ridiculously good. Hall leapt into the starting lineup midway through his freshman year an continued improving until he was a hidden beast on the '06 team. Hall's tackles declined from 61 to 45 as teams targeted neophyte Morgan Trent and whichever slot receiver Chris Graham had no hope of covering. At the same time his PBUs leapt from 5 to 15(!). That's impressive. Hall was a deserved Thorpe finalist.
Jackson, meanwhile, has the rare privilege of being the only sophomore to feature in the All-Decade first team. His opening-day matchup against Reggie Williams, Washington's star receiver and a player who had seriously considered Michigan before choosing to stay home, was electric. Jackson got in Williams's grill all day and the Huskies would not back off; by the third quarter he'd set an all-time Michigan record for pass breakups.
By the end of the year he was a second-team All-American to the AP, third team to Sporting News, and (whoopee!) first team to College Football News. He would spent his junior year at safety, battling injury, and though a return to corner as a senior found him on All-America teams again, Jackson never quite recaptured that sophomore magic.
Second team: Jeremy LeSueur (2003), Donovan Warren (2009)
LeSueur was a true rarity on the Michigan roster: a kid who managed to escape the state of Mississippi's immense gravitational pull. He started off slightly wonky—it was his face-mask penalty on Charles Rogers that extended Michigan State's final drive in 2001, setting up both the Spartan Bob play and Lloyd Carr's public dressing-down of Drew Sharp—but finally developed into the guy I thought Leon Hall was: an All-Big Ten type of player destined for a solid NFL career. That wasn't quite the case—LeSueur is currently playing for Bon Jovi, but no one else from the decade comes close.
The final spot is a tossup between Morgan Trent in the one year he wasn't clueless or unmotivated (2007), Donovan Warren this year, Grant Mason's year that exemplifies totally average play, and the nine starts James Whitley made in 2000 before succumbing to his personal demons. The vote here is for Warren, who I actually thought was good, over Trent, who I thought was okay trending towards good.
Jamar Adams (2007), Julius Curry (2000)
Michigan fans will be unsurprised to find a wasteland here after nine defensive positions occupied by world-wrecking All-Americans who have embarked on long NFL careers—everyone on the first team to this point is still in the NFL and almost all will start this year. Safety? Well, Cato June is still kicking around as a linebacker, but at Michigan he was a wreck thanks to an ACL tear that took years for him to fully recover from. And that's almost it.
The almost: Jamar Adams, bless his heart, was the closest thing to a star safety Michigan had in the aughts. He was actually good. Not good enough to get on the All Big Ten first team or get drafted, but good enough to be on the second team two years running and stick with the Seahawks long enough to actually get on the field in six games last year. This makes him a slam-dunk lock as the best safety in the last ten years of Michigan football.
And now: guh. After Adams it's a choice between the most massively overrated Michigan player of the decade—Ernest Shazor—or the guys towards the beginning of the aughts that no one remembers being specifically terrible. You can feel free to disagree but there is no way I'm putting Shazor here. While he did decapitate Dorien Bryant in that one Purdue game, his Michigan career ceased there unbeknownst to the coaches and most of the fans. He was about 80% of the reason Braylon Edwards had to hulk up and smash Michigan State in the Braylonfest game and when he entered the NFL draft he went from a projected second-round pick to totally undrafted, but not before various organizations made him a first-team All American. I will exercise my Minute Observer of Michigan Football privileges and say this: ha, ha, ha.
The problem then is that as I went through the names that vaguely occupied the safety spots for Michigan over the last decade I thought to myself "I should probably write down Willis Barringer and Brandent Englemon." Sadly, I cannot vouch for two guys who couldn't stay healthy or maintain their starting jobs, nor can I seriously support anyone I've seen take the field in the UFR era. So let's reach back into the long, long ago when memories are fuzzy and haul out easily the most unlikely member of the All Aughts: Julius Curry.
I can't tell you that I have detailed knowledge of Curry's play anymore, but I do remember liking the guy a lot and being seriously disappointed when his junior and senior years were wrecked by injury. As a sophomore in 2000, he put up an impressive collection of statistics: 59 tackles, 5 TFLs, 5 PBUs, and 3 forced fumbles, plus two interceptions, one of which he returned for a touchdown against Ohio State in a 38-26 win. Michigan managed to scrape out the 49th-best pass efficiency defense despite deploying Todd Howard and a very confused James Whitley—this was the heart of the "suspects" era—thanks to Curry's unregarded efforts. Maybe he never decapitated anyone, but by God he definitely would have tackled DeAndra Cobb by the second time.
Second Team: DeWayne Patmon(2000), Ernest Shazor(2004)
Patmon was the second member of the safety unit I remember not being specifically terrified about; Shazor was discussed above. He does deserve to be here because even if he gave up a ton of big plays he made more big plays in Michigan's favor than the other safeties kicking around this decade, and those guys gave up about as many plays.
Garrett Rivas (2006)
Rivas never had a huge leg but he was good out to 47-48 yards and stands as the most accurate kicker of the decade, hitting 64 of 82 in his four years as Michigan's kicker. That's a 78% strike rate; in 2006 he checked in at 85%. He was reliable, and that's all you ask for in a college kicker.
Zoltan Mesko (2009)
Obviously. All hail Zoltan the Inconceivable.
All Big Ten 2006: Defense
The official teams just bucket players into three categories: line, LB, and DB. I think this is dumb. For instance, all four first-team DBs are cornerbacks. Uh... okay. This list breaks the line down into DT and DE and the defensive backs into CB and S. Linebackers are still one big bin.
Remember: Notre Dame worthies are included, though this is way less funny for the defensive side of the ball.
Defensive End
1. Lamarr Woodley, Michigan
If you read this blog, you know about Woodley. He has 11.5 sacks and equal-if-not-greater contributions that only show up in OCD game charting. He is the face of the Michigan defense that was so magnificent for 11 of Michigan's 12 games and one of the premiere defensive ends in the country. Justifying his inclusion is like justifying Troy Smith's.
1. Anthony Spencer, Purdue
If Spencer's luck holds -- and let's hope it doesn't -- he'll be playing for the Detroit Lions next year. He was a capital-M Man without a defense in 2006. Anything the Boilermakers managed to do right on that side of the ball was a direct result of something Spencer did. And lord, he did a lot: a Matt-Rothian 26.5 tackles for loss and 10.5 sacks. His most impressive/depressing statistic, though was his 86 tackles, second on the team. At defensive end! Spencer was the Kevin Garnett of the Big Ten in 2006. Like Garnett, he should be commended for not snapping and breaking the neck of any of his incompetent teammates.
2. Vernon Gholston, Ohio State
Alternated terrifying edge rushes with equally terrifying (to Ohio State fans) wild run irresponsibility early. As the season wore on the former remained and the latter dwindled, making Gholston scary to only one set of fans. I don't like the idea of him next year, and that's what this list is: Michigan players I love and opposing players I hate. So, yeah. I hate Gholston. Congratulations.
2. Brian Mattison, Iowa
Doesn't have the stats a few others do, but what can I say? I just like the guy. Uh... hate the guy. You know what I mean. When I UFRed the Iowa-Michigan game, he was all over Michigan's zone running game. When I did a tape review of the Iowa-Ohio State game, he was the only guy with a concept of containment and the only guy capable of getting to Troy Smith. Those were Iowa's two biggest games of the year, and he was one of the best players on the field in both
Defensive Tackle
1. Alan Branch, Michigan
Mountain of a defensive tackle who didn't rack up a ton of flashy stats except this one: #1, as in Michigan's rushing defense (despite those, uh, hiccups versus Ohio State, which only served to bring that defense back down into the realms of the mortal). Branch is a disruptor on the interior and a guy you single block at your peril, just like...
1. Quinn Pitcock, Ohio State
A sure first-rounder in April's NFL draft, Pitcock was far and away the best player on Ohio State's defense, crashing through interior lines like they were made of the slightest cotton en route to eight sacks, eleven tackles for loss, and a lot of easy plays for his linebackers.
2. Ed Johnson, Penn State
I know Alford had more sacks and tackles for loss, but when I watched Penn State it was Johnson who was the more consistent of the two Penn State tackles. Alford is a penetrator who relies a lot on quickness and runs himself out of plays here and there, while Johnson is one of those 6'0", 310 pound fireplugs that drives people into the backfield with remarkable regularity. Johnson made more plays than his partner, but fewer of them showed up in his statistics.
2. David Patterson/Terrance Taylor/Jay Alford, OSU/UM/PSU
Yes, this is a cop out. Each benefited from playing next to the above terrors. Alford is a penetrator and a playmaker like Pitcock, while Patterson and Taylor are more in the mold of Johnson. Each filled the space next to their partner with a second playmaking defensive tackle and created havoc in opposing offenses.
1. David Harris, Michigan
Made the leap from pretty good to outstanding his senior year, tracking down backs sideline-to-sideline on all manner of run and pass plays. Other than Branch, he was the man most responsible for Michigan's #1 rush defense. Criminally left off the Butkus finalist list, he's the best Michigan linebacker I can remember (this extends only back to Jarrett Irons, freaked out 40-something Michigan fans). He played nearly every snap Michigan's defense faced and made only one glaring error, a busted coverage that led to Wisconsin's touchdown. I hate the idea of a middle linebacker other than him.
1. J Leman, Illinois
Does anyone remember how awful the Illinois defense was a year ago? Probably not. If you have data about the 2005 Fighting Illini in your head, you are wasting space that could be more productively used with something like the jeans preferences of squirrels. Well, I know nothing about the sartorial splendor of squirrels (imagine Lou Holth thaying that five timeth fath), but I do remember that the 2005 Illinois defense was an abomination.
So if I told you that the 2006 version of same was above average, you'd want to hand out a medal. Well: here's the medal. Leman racked up 152 tackles, 19 for loss, four sacks, four pass breakups, and two forced fumbles as the Illini shot up to 40th in total defense. He was the guy running around against Ohio State stuffing the Buckeye's six million second-half runs. He was... good. Which is weird to say about an Illinois player, let me tell you.
Also: his first name is "J". No period. No abbreviation. Just a letter. He is also unmistakably rocking a mullet in that headshot. Rocking a mullet and wearing an American flag tie. He is Joe Dirt, linebacker. That demands recognition.
1. Dan Connor, Penn State
Outperformed his more touted partner in the opinion of most Penn State fans, and that's good enough for me. He was a force in the PSU games I watched, slightly more likley to burst into the backfield and maul an unsuspecting running back. His 103 tackles came from an outside linebacker position, while Posluszny's 108 came in the middle: slight advantage Connor.
2. Paul Posluszny, Penn State
Probably didn't deserve the Butkus last year (AJ Hawk) or his finalist status this year (arrrrgh David Harris), but still a damn good linebacker. Against Michigan he refused to stay blocked on the second level, slanting and shedding his way to bottle up Mike Hart time and again. Though Hart would finish with 112 yards, they would be his toughest of the season.
2. Mark Zalewski, Wisconsin
I'm mildly upset at my own list here, which is virtually ignoring the Big Ten's fourth badass defense: Wisconsin. They have a couple first-teamers in the secondary, but hardly any representation up front, largely because they suffer from the same problem Ohio State wide receivers do: too much balance. Zalewski doesn't have a million tackles but he does have a mohawk and a bad attitude. (I was briefly tempted to have the second team linebackers be Zalewski, Prescott Burgess, and Shawn Crable so I could make some comment about pityi ng the fool who tries to run on them, but I was quickly tackled and injected with sedatives when I mentioned it. And thank God for that.)
2. James Laurinaitis, Ohio State
My position on Laurinaitis and his magic, leather-magnetized hands has been made clear: dude is way overrated and belongs nowhere near the Butkus finalist list or the All-American teams he'll no doubt feature on. I blame two people: Troy Smith and Brent Musberger. Smith is the primary motor for Ohio State's #1 ranking and Musberger's intolerable boosterism of him during the Texas game, Iowa game, and every other game was repeated so often that it became true in the minds of the brainwashed masses.
...but he does have his good points. He is fast, able in zone drops -- to get Drew Tate to throw the ball right at you you have to be in good position -- and a good blitzer. If he's kept clean he will fill and tackle ably. He's not bad by any stretch of the imagination and... sigh... deserves a place on this team. But on the second team, dammit, until he defeats a block. Any block.
1. Leon Hall, Michigan
I was confused about the Hall hype -- top corner in the draft, Playboy All-American -- going into the season, thinking him more a Jeremy Lesueur type who would be first or second team all conference and a second or third round pick. I was wrong. Hall is the best Michigan corner since Woodson, solid against both the run and the pass, a superb tackler and technician. He does not have the outrageous athleticism of someone like Justin King, but makes up for it with instincts and smarts. A probable top-ten pick in April's draft.
1. Jack Ikegwuonu, Wisconsin
By all rights should be playing for Purdue with that last name, but the Badgers are glad to have him. Ikegwuonu's matchup with Manningham was the most difficult the Michigan sophomore faced all year -- his long touchdown victimized Allen Langford -- as he found his outs, slants, and the like blanketed, leaving Michigan almost no margin for error on those throws. That's all you can do as a cornerback.
2. Justin King, Penn State
Let's get this out of the way: he can't tackle worth a lick. Run at him and he may as well be a ballerina. But in pure coverage terms, he might be the best in the league. Living up to the recruiting hype, as corners tend to do, his athleticism is NFL-caliber and his instincts are good. Hard to beat deep and hard to sit down in front of, King is a thorn in the side of opposing passing games.
2. Malcolm Jenkins, Ohio State
A jam artist and a tough customer in run support, Jenkins is an up-and-comer in the league. If he manages to rein in his aggression and be smarter about when to back off, he'll be a complete corner. As of now he still gets burnt-crispy deep with some regularity. This year it wasn't relevant since Ohio State got so many sacks and faced so many hobbled or plain bad quarterbacks.
1. Roderick Rogers, Wisconsin
Rogers didn't have to do much against the run thanks to the imposing Wisconsin front seven (their absence from this team should not reflect poorly on them -- it's a tough year to get on this team up there). Free to play centerfield, Rogers picked off two passes, broke up seven others, and was key in Wisconsin's #1 ranked pass efficiency defense -- a number that's overstated due to the Badgers' Minnesota-worthy schedule but still damn impressive.
1. Brandon Mitchell, Ohio State
Ohio State safeties are beginning to bother me like Ohio State kickers do. Where do they unearth these people, and do they have a patent? I bet there's a lab somewhere.
2. Anthony Scirroto, Penn State
I give up and give in to five interceptions. I don't like doing this, but I begin to understand why there are four cornerbacks on the All Big Ten first teams.
2. Jamar Adams, Michigan
Michigan rotated four safeties all year, but what they really did is rotate three guys through free safety and have them play next to Adams, a solid run defender who's comptetent-ish in pass coverage. Yes, it's a weak year for safeties.


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Otherwise what you wrote is correct.
I need help for gr 10 trigonometry since I havent done it for along time and kind of forgot what to do
A tall building casts a shadow that is 9.2m long. At the same time a 1.8m person casts a shadow that is 0.4m long. How tall is the building? Find your answer to one decimal place.
I thinks its 9.2/x = 0.4/1.8 and you would cross multiply to get 9.2 x 1.8=16.56/0.4 to get 41.4.
A ramp is designed so that is rises 20cm vertically for every 1 minute horizontally. What is the vertical height of the ramp if it has a horizontal length of 4.2m?
A tree in your yard casts a shadow that is 4.5m long. Your 1.5m tall sister casts a 1m long shadow. How tall is the tree?
4.5 x 1.5 =6.75 6.75 /1=6.75
A 7.6m tall telephone casts a 6.1m shadow. The nearby school casts a 15.8m shadow. How tall is the school to 2 decimal places?
6.1 x 15.8 = 96.38 96.38/7.6=12.68
A model of the CN tower casts a shadow that is 0.9m tall and casts a shadow that is 0.2m long.If the real CN tower casts a 123.3m shadow find the height of the tower to the nearest meter
0.9 x 123.3 = 110.97 110.97/.2 = 554.85
A conical coffee cup is 20cm tall and has a diameter of 8cm. A new cup is designed that is 4cm shorter. What will be the new cups diameter. Find your answer to one decimal place
I had no idea what to do for this one
A tree has a shadow that is 12m long. If you are 1.8m tall and cast a shadow of 1.2m, how tall is the tree.
12 x 1.2= 14.4 14.4/1.8 = 8
(This is not the same thing as what you wrote. Ask anyone that grades papers.)
Otherwise what you wrote is correct.
Thanks for the help i forgot to post 2 questions so here they are
A park desinger placed survey posts as shown in the diagram below. Measurements were made as indicated. How wide is the pond? Find your answer to 1 decimal place. The first number is 18 the bottom one is 5 and the horizontal one is 30
I thinks its 5 x 30=150 150/18=8.3
Explain why similar triangles cant be used to measure the height of the tree in the diagram.
The first triangle is 8m and 18degrees the second smaller triangle is 2m and 24degress. I dont know why the triangles cant be used.


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Considering it is now pretty much mid-July (what?), and that if you live anywhere other than where I currently am, I'm sure you are just melting. It's rainy and cool here, which I was kind of bummed about until I recently spent 3 very sweaty days in a 4th floor walk-up in Boston without air conditioning during the hottest days of the year. Love Boston. Miss Boston. Have so much fun in Boston. Can absolutely, forever, do without that special brand of humidity it brings during the summer.
The week of the 4th of July, K and I took a road-trip throughout the Northeast. Well, really we just went to New Jersey, up to Boston, then back down to New Jersey before returning home to PA but we stopped along the way and took our time leisurely driving up and down the East coast. At just over 1,300 miles, we had a nice week. You'll hear more about that later, though.
However, what I realized is that I currently live in this weird little pocket of weather where it doesn't get hotter than 82 degrees. Apparently, everywhere else in the country is baking. Boston was so dang hot, it was scary. We were trying to move the rest of the stuff out of K's apartment and every trip to the car required a 15 minute rest and a bottle of water. Spots were seen. Needless to say, we cut our losses and will try again in the fall, when it's cool and the trees are pretty.
My point is, though, that you probably don't want to turn on your oven at all, much less long enough to roast chicken. I wish you would, though. This chicken is cut up into pieces which makes it cook faster and is marinated for 12 hours so it's flavorful right down to the bone.
Let's make like July and roast! (I can feel you rolling your eyes, and I'm ok with it.)
This chicken starts with a marinade. In a large zippered bag, add a whole chicken with the skin on that has been cut into pieces. Squeeze in the juice of one lemon and throw that in there too.
Next, add salt, pepper, smoked paprika, and some roughly chopped garlic.
Chop up some fresh rosemary fairly finely and add that to the bag. Add a quarter cup of olive oil as well.
Realize that the bones in the chicken breasts are poking holes in the bag and transfer everything to a large bowl. You may not have this problem--your zippered bag might be much stronger or your chicken breasts less sharp. Point is--zippered bag or large bowl, either one works. Toss it around until the marinade evenly covers the chicken pieces.
Cover that with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 hours, but up to 24. I meant to only marinate this for 12 hours, but plans changed and we ended up eating it the next night. The more it marinates, the more it will take on the marinade's flavors, however keep in mind that it's chicken and likes to be cooked fresh.
When you're ready to cook, preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Cut up some new potatoes into cubes and set aside. Add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil to a large oven proof skillet and heat over high heat.
Add the chicken pieces skin side down, working in batches. Let them cook for a minute or so until the skin is slightly golden.
When all the chicken pieces are seared, arrange them in the skillet, skin side up. Add the potatoes around the chicken. Sprinkle a little more salt and pepper over the top.
Into the oven it goes for 30 to 35 minutes until the skin is very golden and crispy and the juices run clear and the potatoes are fork tender.
Let the chicken rest for about 10 minutes, then serve with the potatoes and a nice green salad if you'd like.
This was the perfect dinner for K and I, because he prefers white meat, while I like the chicken legs. Everyone gets what everyone wants!
This is easy enough for a weeknight meal, but pretty enough to serve for a dinner party. Marinate the chicken that morning then right before your guests get there, stick it in the oven. While it's cooking, you can serve drinks and appetizers while your home begins to smell like I'd imagine a Norman Rockwell painting would. Oh, and I'd serve it right in your cast iron skillet. Look at that beautiful presentation!
In my humble opinion, this dish is absolutely worth turning on your oven.
Here's the recipe!
Skillet Roasted Chicken with Potatoes
- 1 whole chicken, cut into pieces with the skin on
- 1 pound new potatoes, cut into cubes
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup olive oil, plus 2 tablespoons more for the skillet
- 2-3 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- In a zippered bag or large bowl, add the chicken pieces. Add lemon juice, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, chopped garlic, and olive oil. Toss together until the chicken pieces are completely coated. Cover in plastic wrap or seal the bag and marinate for at least 6 hours, but up to 24.
- When you are ready to cook, preheat oven to 425 degrees. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to a heavy, large, oven-proof skillet. working in batches, sear the chicken, skin-side down until golden brown. Remove the chicken and repeat until all the pieces are seared. Once they are all seared, arrange them in the skillet, skin side up, and surround with the cubed potatoes.
- Transfer entire skillet to the oven and cook for 30-35 minutes until the skin is very crispy and the juices in the chicken run clear. The potatoes should be fork tender.
- Serve chicken with potatoes and a green salad.


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Today, I had some soup that my dad made. I took one sip and found he had put tons of hot sauce in it. I rushed to drink from a soda can sitting on the counter, only to find that my mom had used it as an ash tray the night before. I can still taste the hot sauce, and the ash. FML
by Autocorrected / 11/26/2012 at 3:13pm / Philippines (Manila) / Miscellaneous
Today, after being single for a while now, I unwillingly went on a blind date with a guy my friend convinced me would be perfect for me. He took me to McDonald's; his father was with him the whole entire time. He is 27. FML
by N / 11/26/2012 at 10:13pm / Denmark (Hovedstaden) / Love
Today, I went out and bought a copy of Black Ops 2. I got home and opened the case, only to see the game disk was missing. When I went back to the store to complain, the guy at the desk accused me of trying to pull an old scam on him. FML
by FUCK A FUCKING DUCK / 11/23/2012 at 12:20pm / Bahamas (New Providence) / Money
Today, while at school, a bra fell out of my coat. After the initial shock, people started congratulating me on finally getting a girlfriend. I didn't have the heart to tell them it was my mom's. FML
by Tymer / 11/23/2012 at 10:56am / Canada (British Columbia) / Miscellaneous
Today, I heard a teenage boy ask his friend, "So, is it, like, November in Australia too?" This is the future of America. FML
by toritoratora / 11/26/2012 at 12:27am / United States (California) / Kids