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Good read, but do we really have to call every single person who's name is Campbell 'soup?' I dunno, maybe it's just me.
Michigan Muse(nes)day Sets the Timer on Soup
This. Always.
If you read Heiko's 3/22 presser transcript you probably guessed already what the MSM angle would be for this spring. If you missed it, here's the highlights:
Opening remarks:
"Hello everyone. It's Spring. Spring is FOOTBALL TOUGHNESS time. [Points off-screen]. Toughness and finishing. I'll now take questions that are not about Will Campbell."
Can you name some positions that you feel need to be addressed after last year's departures?
"Well you may not realize this but we lost three guys on the interior of the defensive line so I'm really looking for someone to step up th…say, this isn't a question about Will is it?"
Do you feel like you need guys on the line to be team leaders?
"Oh yes absolutely. Seniors, guys on the line, seniors on the line mostly. You, the Asian kid in the back!"
What do you like specifically about Elliott Mealer at the left guard spot?
[everyone grabs coffee while Hoke answers a few uninteresting questions about condo-blocking or whatever F you]
Have you seen consistency out of Will Campbell so far?
"I'd say that he has been consistent when he's consistent, but that hasn't been consistent. What we're looking for from all of our players is that they're always consistent, and not just consistent some of the time. He is mostly consistent, but when he gets inconsistent, that's when there's consistency issues. When there's inconsistency we have consequences, which we call 'consistequences,' and he has been very consistent at winning consistequences."
Last year you coached the interior defensive line. Does that mean you're going to be coaching W…
When a player is perceived as a blue chip out of high school is there a…
How long does Will Campbell have to prove himself?
Well after four years of playing they lose their eligibility so, hey where's everybody going?
Eric Lacy, the Detroit News:
Ann Arbor — Time is running out for Michigan senior defensive tackle William Campbell to prove he deserves to be a starter.
Michael Rothstein, ESPN Wolverine Nation:
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- He's down to his last chance. For three seasons, defensive tackle Will Campbell has oozed potential and possibility. From the acclaim he came in with from Cass Tech in Detroit to his massive size, everything about him appeared to be can't miss.
Nick Baumgardner, Ann Arbor.com:
For Will Campbell, the sand in the hourglass of his Michigan football career is starting to thin out.
There were other angles. Kevin Minor of Rivals.com eschewed the tick-tock approach to stretch "he lost 35 pounds" into 800 kind words from his buddies. The AP reporter led with both O and D lines and didn't get to BWC's countdown to oblivion until the 7th graph. Mark Snyder went with the tight ends because #ManballIsEverything. Drew Sharp almost assuredly said something that made Drew Sharp sound dumb.
In bloggerland, Aquaman did a BWC talking points this week on Tremendous and had this interesting bit I missed from his RVB interview:
When I interviewed Ryan Van Bergen a couple months ago, we talked a bit about Will. The gist of the discussion revolved around Will knowing his role, knowing what's needed of him and that it's simply a matter of execution. Ryan was clear in saying that near the end of the season, Campbell started to realize how important he was to Team 133's future. Apparently, Will has gotten the message, as the coaching staff is impressed with his developing leadership skills this off-season.
The Viking Age
What you are witnessing here is a going on six-year Norse saga as told by contemporaneous headlines: "Gone Viking: Sluggish Scandinavian Economy Forces Soldiers to Seek Fortunes on High Seas." Told as narrative it's so much better:
The legend began when he committed to Lloyd Carr in the summer before his junior year of high school. Pre-Hoke a high-profile kid pulling the trigger more than a year out sounded weirder; you're going to have to trust me on this. Four Nick Sheridan quarters into 2008 he then decommitted so he could give everyone a heart attack at the Army Bowl. His freshman year he enrolled early with expectations of replacing the graduating Taylor. Then Will hit a wall, apparently because his all-important pad level was too high to penetrate it. My Sparty little brother began reminding me that NCAA'10 Will Campbell was an 85 and Greg Jones a 74, this being supreme evidence that MSU can justify being the trolls of college football for having to put up with such perpetual indignities. Barwis set about rebuilding him as Barwis does, and in retrospect that freshman year should have been a redshirt, but you can't really redshirt a 5-star DT when you just graduated most of your defensive line, right?
The saga's nadir was reached his sophomore season. Enough folks were ready winding up to pitch the b-word by then that MGoUser West Texas Blue penned a "don't use the b-word" diary showing his progress was about on par with most of his classmates except (sigh) DeQuinta Jones. When things didn't go so well that year, the warrior threw down his sword/hammer/axe/polearm/seax/whatever F you to serve as a backup guard, a less prestigious post given to Vikings who cannot strike low enough to defeat a shield wall. Will got up to 350 pounds and served a quote about being lazy that fit the narrative.
But with the rise of the new king, Brady Hokesson the Pointer, and thanks to many battle losses among the hirdfense, Will was called back to the D-line. This is the rising action where the warrior is trained by three of the Great Wise Men of Nose Tackledom and we get a montage of weight running, coaches yelling "STAY LOW!" and "USE YOUR HANDS!", and much punishment of sleds. This culminates in a flash of +5 in the UFR for Notre Name, followed by the first reveal of god-like powers against Illinois sometime between before and after the Illini Zooked out for the year. Now it approaches its climax. Post-montage he is 315 and a leader and we still have no idea if he'll be good enough to give Michigan a shot at a great defense this year. Will he? Won't he? And the girl?
Guess how much time is left?
I don't know, dude, 13 games or something. Let me watch! And for the record pointing out that there's 1/4 left to go right when the film's getting good is just as annoying as it sounds like.
Why the fascination?
The obvious answer is as obvious as a press conference angle. Here's a list of every Michigan player recruited from 2008 to 2011 who was was a 5-star to at least two major sites (Rivals, Scout, ESPN):
|William Campbell
|6.1 (5 stars), 5th DT
|5 stars,
6th DT
|79 (high 3 stars),
22nd OT
That is the list. Gardner, Turner and Cissoko got the 5th from Scout and nobody else.
My own obsession on Will led me to that study of body shapes earlier this year, and also led me to ask various people who know football better than I do what's so hard about learning pad level. Their answers were between "it's actually really hard," and "YOU try learning to do a thing that your brain is sure is going to break your spine."
Rivals slotted Big Will just under fellow DT and similarly sized Chris Davenport of LSU. Davenport is now going into his redshirt junior season as LSU's top backup at OT, unless he's passed this spring by sophomore Evan Washington. There's nothing particularly remarkable about Davenport in circles who follow guys in Davenport's position carefully. They have plenty of 5-stars waiting their turns, and even more dudes who don't make an impact until their fourth year on campus. That is to say they only want Davenport taken outside and disemboweled for not living up to his hype about as often as they want him to replace the guy ahead of him (second-team All-SEC junior Chris Faulk); for the SEC this is considered a placid reaction.
Michigan is hardly a place that has never seen a blue chip. We have also seen blue chips morph into spectacular busts, and tables that explain this to us by showing things like 50%+ of 5-stars get drafted by the NFL while dramatically smaller %s of lesser star ratings do so, and can remind ourselves that once in awhile everyone who recruits 5-stars ends up with one from the half that don't become superstars. This is binary and human brains are good at binary.
What we're not quite as used to, what the old narratives don't really know how to address, is the blue chip who's kind of just a really good teammate who's working hard and has some talent and some technique issues that take a long time to work out but is slowly becoming the kind of guy who's a consistent contributor. If all you saw was the ESPN rating you'd be fine with this.
Eventually the Mathlete is going to come out with a PAN-based bell curve to replace our binary "made it or didn't" tables but when he does I bet you it looks like this:
The "inconsistency" and "…when he chooses to use them" and "out of shape" quotes that have escaped at times fit a narrative we do know: the loatheable, self-absorbed pre-star who wastes his God-given talents enjoying the benefits of them. But that is not at all Will Campbell. Those who interview him find him jovial, if a little shy. There's no hint of academic issues (he's on track to graduate in four years). The inconsistency isn't from lack of willpower (ha!) but the fact that a 6'5" guy needs to do worse things to his spine than a guy who's 6'3" in order to "get low." After essentially trolling recruiting followers he hasn't to my knowledge so much as registered a femto-ego on college football's touchy-ass vanity sensors. This means nothing except, no, it does: he loses rap battles to guys from Whitehall, Michigan:
More than anything he's proof that completely normal college guy brains exist in pretty much every kind of body, including incredibly athletic 6'5" 350-pound ones. And that normal guy brains are wired much more strongly that we credit them to not get spinal injuries.
When pressed with "when will we get our Norse god of nose guards" questions the coaching staff now answers with "he's a leader who leads defensive line meetings and sets up extra film sessions." Again, you can read too much. He's the senior and doing the things the seniors do, and while he should get credit for that it's not like this is at all out of character for normal likeable college guy.
Does the recruiting hype still mean anything? Yeah, kinda, since if you read his recruiting profile it still has him pretty dead to rights except for the timeline. You can also peer into his UFRs from last year and find less than superstardom, but also non-air:
|This is not happening.
|Please be real.
|Doesn't seem that real.
|SD State
|Keep hope alive.
|"Get off me"
|One play.
|Did not register.
|Not getting a ton of push.
|Got cut to the ground and was a major culprit on two long runs.
|Time to get excited about him again until next week.
|Also crushed face.
|Ohio (NTO)
|Didn't register.
Given no Martin, no RVB, and not even a Heininger (unless Brink is as Brink-y as they said he'd be last year, or Ash/Washington/Pipkins surprise), Campbell is almost assuredly going to start this year as the anchor of the defense. Whatever terrible coaching he got from missing out on a redshirt season and the switch to offense and whatever you count RR's staff as, it's hard to point to a guy in college football who's had access to higher quality position coaches than he has since last year.
Maybe he'll be a superstar. Probably he'll just be somewhere between decent and good. I feel like we've been saying that for a long time, but in the absence of real information what else is there? The trickles from insiders who know they're going get these same questions say things that suggest the talent, the arms, the strength, are all there and he's gotten better. We all want to know—I desperately want to know—but the answer for this one really just is let's wait and see.
As for help from Pipkins, Michigan's 2012 freshman 5-star DT, I wouldn't want to bank on it. He doesn't have Campbell's height—he's 6'3—but watch the video: he has some fundamentals to learn. Another saga, that.
You have to appreciate it from a pop art perspective. I know football better than I do art appreciation, but at museums and stuff I've noticed a scarf seems to help:
Defense, 32 Campbells on the field. Five yard penalty.
Defense, copyright infringement. $500 million penalty and loss of blog.
/ This penalty brought to you by Campbell's
// The game is corporatist enough fergodsakes
Fair use! Fair use or die!
(this should be a license plate)
Hope it all comes together for Campbell this year. And I hope the same mistakes are made with Pipkins (ie if he isn't ready, please redshirt). Checkout Tremendous' interview with Pipkins. Dude was playing the AA game at 360(!).
Thanks, Seth. Well written and thought-provoking.
Has to get his pad level more twords the Equator damnit.
Let's hope we never need to use the term "consistequences" ever again.
"YOU try learning to do a thing that your brain is sure is going to break your spine."
Well, that's a good way to see it, I guess.
I dunno, maybe it's my physics major brain, but whenever I need any sort of leverage my first instinct is to "get low" and I've never played so much as a single down in pads. Otherwise you're angling some of your strength upwards and even pushing heavy furniture will "stand you up". Like with lifting heavy boxes, sure, if you try to use your back it's a great way to blow it out, but this is really about using your feet and legs to exert force horizontally.
I dunno, do we have Will push around a car all day or something?
As someone who played Pop Warner football and up through junior high, I think its more of a question of how he was coached as a child and what has become natural to him. No doubt he has a lot of natural talent, size, etc, and that's why he was rated as high as he was. But in HS, he could get away with less than optimal technique, relying on his God-given ability. He can't rely on that talent alone now in college. He's got to unlearn a few things that he learned as a youngin'
stopped at "i've never played a single down in pads."
. . . but humans have passed down knowledge from generation to generation using words. Hoke doesn't teach "pad level" to his recruits by pointing here and there and grunting "ugh".
So, while I'd be the last person on Earth to claim I can properly execute getting off a block, I know what leverage is.
"but you can't really redshirt a 5-star DT when you just graduated most of your defensive line, right?"
No way man, we should totally redshirt Pipkins.
If he needs it...
Literally and figuratively I suppose. The one thing that struck me the most from this is that he is a good guy. Like Seth said, likable, no academic issues, no unwarranted arrogance or behavior issues, and on track to graduate in 4 years from the UM. Although his sucess on the field may not (yet) have lived up to lofty expectations, these other non-football facts make me proud to be an alum. Ideally i would want a guy who is both a beast on the field and a good guy off the field, but if given a choice, I will take the good guy off the field everytime.
I agree that people need to tone down the Pipkins hype just a little bit. I had seen him in the Army All-American game and nearly leapt out of my seat when he chased down that QB and crushed him into the turf, but I just went and actually watched his tape for the first time and he actually doesn't get the kind of push I was expecting from a 5* prospect, he actually gets blown up quite a bit against HS competition. That being said, the potential is off the charts, but like BWC he's struggling with some weight issues right now. He said he was up to 360 at the Army AA game and he's down to 340 now, but I think the strength and conditioning program is going to need to tear him down and build him back up. I just don't see him being serviceable until his Soph. year and then Junior year is when he'll be ready to go beast mode.
It's time...
Good read. I expect Campbell to be a decent player this year, and then will probably get drafted in a middle round, be a starter in the NFL for a couple of years, and then join Hawkeye and Iron Man for the next step of his epic journey.
For that you're going to have to get Brian to write the VT UFR.
I can't understand why so many people say the reason they read mgoblog is for snarky articles like these. To me these articles are nothing but pointless negativity. "Brady Hoke is fat and gives non-answers and Pipkins will suck and I can make South Park jokes that aren't funny because I'm not Matt Stone or Trey Parker."
God, why does every blog post here have to be GLOOM AND DOOM?!?!
Not sure if sarcasm. Okay, sure it's not sarcasm but I think you completely whiffed on the point of the phony press conference, which was making fun of the questioners for going in with an angle instead of being there to hear what the coach had to say.
The only negativity there was for the media, not Hoke or Campbell.
The cheekiness is part of the whole schtick of building great big narratives around what is just a good guy who's good at football and getting better at it through good coaching. Because Campbell was a 5-star to two sites and we didn't have many of those, now he has to be this Viking god instead of getting credit for how hard it is to be as good as Will Johnson.
I may not think Pipkins is going to be an instant superstar, but that's because big DTs take time to develop unless they arrive with great technique (Poggi, FWIW, I've been told has great technique). That is very rare in high school giant DTs because they are literally going up against guys like me. Gabe Watson could have left his stance 1 second after the snap and come at me completely standing up and I'd still end up buried. Against a Big Ten guard with a name like "Mealer" that's not going to work so much.
There are times when I use snark for its own sake, but this time it was to make a point about making it harder for people to appreciate Campbell for what he is because people are still trying to fit him into the canned blue chip narratives.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post4443321280315607690..comments2012-12-22T12:27:55.450+00:00Comments on Windy's Blog: Analysis of the goal conceded against Chelsea (22/12)Windyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-33883553124102062082011-12-28T22:52:48.095+00:002011-12-28T22:52:48.095+00:00I disagree about the handball, the ball was going ...I disagree about the handball, the ball was going out of play and Cole's hand prevented that.
1) His arm was outstretched away from his body. If this happened to a defender at the other end of the pitch, they would have been punished.
2) If it's accidental, what you are saying is that a goal can be awarded if an outstretched arm accidently deflected a shot in. That would be incredibly contentious to me. Sometimes, its a matter of fact over opinion with regards to hand ball.

Otherwise, good analysis, I thought BAE struggled and doesn't look happy with the new setup that has forced us more narrow. I would consider a 3-5-2 formation with Walker & Bale the two widest in the five, dropping Assou-Ekotto for an additional centre back. It worked well against Stoke.

Also thought BAE was lucky to get away with hand ball, but the difference between the Cole one was that it didn't affect the play per se and it wasn't as if his arm was outstrethced towards the ball. I think it's a shady area.

Also, Adebayor offside goal decision was a shambles again by another linesman.

Also, going off on one a bit, players can only be offside with a part of their body that is legally aloud to touch the ball. Imagine if a player's arm is offside but the rest of the body isn't, they play on, and then somehow the man in question accidently scores via a deflection off his arm. That's where the rule is inconsistent for me, and it's probably apt that Howard Webb (aka Mr Inconsistent) was involved here again.

Also, I'm seriously fed up with the praise this guy gets, not just because I'm a Spurs fan, but Webb just makes a mess of every game I watch with him in charge. There's a few others obviously, but the best ones are those that never grab the headlines. The official v Norwich was a good example of email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-35540754027741637512011-12-28T20:23:39.587+00:002011-12-28T20:23:39.587+00:00Good analysis Windy. I think BAE's recent for...Good analysis Windy.

I think BAE's recent form has been worrying, he's being caught in possession more and more and him not tracking Sturridge was criminal for this goal.

I understand why Van der Vaart went to ground to try to intercept the ball, he simply is never going to keep up with Cole even over very short distances.Keeshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-44405201088501910232011-12-23T20:44:49.282+00:002011-12-23T20:44:49.282+00:00There is a tendency for our defenders to ball-watc...There is a tendency for our defenders to ball-watch. I am not sure why this is as the ball is going to have to travel to someone and therefore it would seem logical to keep close to anyone to whom the ball is likely to go to. The problem was that our defence stopped, thinking that Webb was going to blow; Sturridge did not stop and so scored unimpeded. The other aspect is becoming worryingly familiar: Friedel's morbid fear of leaving the line. He should be commanding the six-yard box and could have made an attempt to cut out the ball across the box. At the very least he might have obstructed Sturridge's line of vision even if he missed the ball.
As for the ectopic Gooner, let me tell you that you have won nothing with any team wholly of Wenger's making. Also, there is only team that won nothing but could still be called great: Brazil 1982, the greatest team to have walked the earth. Guess what they have in common with the present Spurs side? They got shafted by the referee, too!
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-62071032918329992692011-12-23T17:14:38.901+00:002011-12-23T17:14:38.901+00:00Jill - agree about the Sandro foul, disagree about...Jill - agree about the Sandro foul, disagree about the handball, agree about Townsend! Can't believe he hasn't been on the bench at least... madness IMO.

Jfranks - we are being hit by some bad refereeing calls right now, but hopefully we'll get some in our favour at some point!!

Anon @ 12:13 - Most of us agreed that it was borderline and went in our favour and could easily have been given as a handball.

Anon @ 12:31 - agree about Kranjcar, would have been my sub of choice too!

Anon @ 12:48 - I thought Adebayor was lucky too, and the Assou-Ekotto barge should have been a foul. Ramires got away with a few (on a booking) too, and having watched the Adebayor "goal" again (having initially thought it handball), I think it was a perfectly good goal.

Anon @ 13:42 - made his debut there vs Charlton, scoring a great goal. He and Bale could have switched regularly to mix it up.Windyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-90263284221245879872011-12-23T13:51:48.658+00:002011-12-23T13:51:48.658+00:00Yes Townsend has played there on more than one occ...Yes Townsend has played there on more than one occasion for the first team. Tends to cut in but at least he's a quick wide player who can firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-79800166504360398792011-12-23T13:42:07.248+00:002011-12-23T13:42:07.248+00:00why do people think townsend would make a right wi...why do people think townsend would make a right winger? has he ever actually played firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-50569444469881393212011-12-23T12:48:40.381+00:002011-12-23T12:48:40.381+00:00Didn't matter that Adebayor put the ball in wi...Didn't matter that Adebayor put the ball in with his arm...nor that he shouldn't have been on the pitch! Having repeated his foul on Meireles (for which he got booked) on Mikel he then cynically & deliberately went in late on Terry...both deserving of yellows! Assou Akotou's assault on Ferreira (just what part of the ball did he play went unpunished) yet Ivanovic got booked for a push on Adebayor, something Adebayor did later (again unpunished) and Bale managed twice! Consistent refereering firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-60542870042912110742011-12-23T12:31:49.924+00:002011-12-23T12:31:49.924+00:00I'm starting to think I wasted money on my Kra...I'm starting to think I wasted money on my Kranjcar shirt. What's that guy got to do to get a game. He's not great on the right, but it would have been better than bringing Pav on.

 Also, that's twice in 3 weeks we've wrongly had a goal ruled out for off-side. That's 3 points dropped (assuming nothing else changed).firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-29677668121362943432011-12-23T12:13:43.636+00:002011-12-23T12:13:43.636+00:00What about the hand ball by van der fart against y...What about the hand ball by van der fart against your better team the super reds,heard nothing about that from the great supporters of a team that has won sweet F A since the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-37955356345037787592011-12-23T11:52:59.459+00:002011-12-23T11:52:59.459+00:00Jill is right. it was a series of three things, t...Jill is right. it was a series of three things, the first being a free kick that went against us outside there penalty box, where webb allowed play on, then goes and blows a whistle agaisnt us, 1. when it was a good challenge, and 2,. if any was very similar to the one he let play on only moments before....terrible lead up to the goal and inconsistency from the ref.Jfrankshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512776525990515196.post-60575489992624573712011-12-23T11:34:23.576+00:002011-12-23T11:34:23.576+00:00Lots of truth in your analysis Windy but I would a...Lots of truth in your analysis Windy but I would add that moments before Webb awarded the free kick - which I would agree with you was incorrect - that we were denied a free kick for a foul if I remember right on Sandro. (I haven't seen a replay of this just what I saw at the ground last night). I have to disagree with you tho' on the handball, I think that was Cole's only way of controlling the ball. Such a shame about the timing and manner of the goal. We were well on top up until then but I think it knocked the players back and the atmosphere dropped. The formation in the second half didn't work at all, there's a lesson in that, I'd like to see Townsend given a chance on the right in situations like firstname.lastname@example.com

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Allu Arjun, who is well renowned as the stylish star of Tollywood is likely to invest in a Kannada cinema with well known producer Rockline Venkatesh. Golden star Ganesh is likely to play what Naani has done in the Telugu block buster 'Bhale Bhale Magadivoy'. The remake rights of this film have been acquired by Rockline Venkatesh who is one of the top ranking producers and businessmen in Telugu industry.
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As one who holds to a realized eschatology and who has a Bible with 1Tim 4:10 in it, I don't read these passages as exclusionary -especially, given the radically welcoming ministry of Jesus.
Too, part of this discussion hinges on our understanding of what salvation is. To be saved from our sins (our selfishness and greed, etc.) and to be conformed to the image of Christ here in our daily walk, to be found going about the Masters work in the vineyard, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked -in short to walk with Jesus and become more like him is what it is all about. The corner preachers with they're "Do you KNOW where you'll be spending eternity?" spiel strikes me as such a Bizzaro-world version of Christianity which distorts the image of the Jesus I know and love and who loves me.


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Passing sentence, district judge Quentin Purdy said: "Your behaviour on 28 May was disgraceful and downright humiliating. You used violence on this young lady and then to heap ignominy on her you turned her over and slapped her on the bottom repeatedly."
The court was told that Chisora, who has previous convictions for assault, attacked after finding text messages from another man on his then girlfriend's phone.
Darren Watts, prosecuting, said that Chisora was at the woman's home and was reading text messages while she was in the bathroom.
He explained: "One of these messages to her mobile phone was from another man. In response the defendant shouted at the claimant: 'What is this? What is this?'
"At this point he grabbed her by the arms and threw her to the bed and said: 'You cheated on me.'"
Chisora was ordered to pay £1,500 in compensation and £500 costs. He was also told he must complete 150 hours of community work.
The judge said: "You're a huge man, clearly a very powerful boxer." He described the attack as an "ugly incident", adding: "You clearly have a problem with violence and that has got to stop or your career will be over."


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Welcome into the world of the people of the Kingdom of Mountains (KOM). Kom has also been referred to as the Kingdom of Mentors. But that is another story... If you are new to the Kom Language, these are the first two little words you would hear when you enter Kom Kingdom: Gvi ajûŋ! = Welcome! If you are a Kom Citizen anywhere in the world, please sign up at Kom Citizens Global Signup Page
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The Wonder Festvial model and hobby show in Chiba, Japan may have wrapped last weekend (you read our reports, didn't you?), but cool information and pictures are still popping up with delightful regularity. Take this gallery of pics of Tiger & Bunny cosplayers, taken by Kotaku Japan at Wonder Fest.
Speaking of Tiger & Bunny and conventions...the Crunchyroll All-Stars will be at Otakon 2011 in Baltimore shortly. T&B's producer Masayuki Ozaki will be there too! Please keep your dial tuned here to CRN by for breaking news, cosplay pics, and gosh knows what else over the weekend!
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Le Meridien Khao Lak Beach & Spa Resort
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Le Meridien Khao Lak Beach & Spa Resort Phang Nga Reviews
3 reviews
Great spot Aug 02, 2013
I went to Le Meridien Khao Lak in 2010. Back then, it was a great hotel, I suppose that´s still the case. Huge garden, the rooms are really nice, I´ve never had a bed, which was more comfortable. Breakfast was very good, lots of things to try out. Joined a bbq once, which was fantastic, but expensive. Went to the Italian restaurant in the hotel, which was good, but nothing special. Most of the time, we had dinner outside he hotel (restaurant on the right hand side of the gate, when you leave the hotel area). Food was fantastic quality there. Also please talk to "E", who is located there. He is a private taxi driver. You can book tours with him for like 40 Dollars a day (up to 4 persons in his car). We went to Phuket with him and other places. He speaks english very well.
Good place there all in all.
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Felt like princesses Jul 10, 2009
Day 5 - checked out of Andaman Beach Suites, waited for our private driver to Khao Lak. We booked 2 nights at Le Meridien Beach & Spa Resort, let me tell you... this place is like paradise, it has its own private beach, the rooms are the best ones I've seen by far. It truly deserves its 5 star rating. We checked in, dumped our bags in our room then proceeded to look for Le Spa to have our pampering done. Booked a 2 hour session which included 1 hour Thai massage and 1 hour body scrub (2,400THB/$109) while Nesse had a 3 hour session that included 1 hour swiss massage, facial and body scrub (3,800THB/$172). I know it's a rip off but we figured, we're on a holiday, we're at a 5 star resort, why not go all out? Hehehe. After the pampering session, we got ready for a night out in the main town centre. Took the shuttle bus, costs 200baht for a return trip. We shopped, ate dinner and had our manicure/pedicure done... also tried that banana roti for dessert (YUM YUM).
Day 6 - Breakfast was at Cafe Lillawadee, it was the most expensive breakfast I've ever had. $40 per person... luckily we had 50% discount on all food & beverages ... we went 3 times, the sausages & fried rice were simply divine and the pastries were to-die-for. We planned on checking out Khao Lak, see the Tsunami memorial, go to the national parks but decided not to and spent the entire morning lounging at the beach. Collected seashells (planned to sneak them back to Australia) and chased crabs (hahah they were so elusive). One thing that was a let down for this resort was it's not a place for singles or young people, it's a place for complete relaxation and for honeymooners/couples. We spent the entire two days missing our bfs and wishing they were there with us. We certainly got a lot of looks, they probably thought we were lesbians. LOL Anyway, we also had mixed feelings about our stay there, it was 99% caucasians, the only other asians were the 4 korean couples and us. In one hand, we felt "rich, special and important" because we could "afford" to stay at a place like this and on the other hand, we felt bad for the people working there, it just seemed like they were slaves to the "white" people. Hmmmm... Ness & I discussed this throughout our stay there, don't get me wrong, we can't fault the place... as I said before, it's paradise! We had dinner at Cafe Lillawadee, opted out of the seafood buffet (kinda regretting it now though, it just looked sooo delicious), ordered ala carte instead. It took 1 hour for our pasta to arrive. >_< But thankfully they kept the olive bread & bread sticks coming. We also ordered antipasto platter, we thought it'd look like the ones served here in Aus but it was just prosciutto and melon balls. *sigh* The staff were so helpful, they noticed us slapping ourselves silly so they brought insect repellant for us. Such angels, I tell you. LOL
Day 7 - Checked out of Le Meridien, we booked a driver to take us to Phuket Airport, costs 1,500baht ($71). This is the only driver who came, not on time, but EARLY! So we tipped him an additional 100baht.
That was just a copy & paste job from my Thailand JBR. I'll add a few things, we've requested twin beds but got a king bed. We requested to be transferred or have the bed separated but that didn't happen. They gave us two blankets instead and more pillows so my friend and I can have some kind of divider. As I said, I doubt they cater for singles... only couples! The beach is perfect if you're after relaxation, it's pretty far from the main town. One of their restaurants (I think the steakhouse) was undergoing reburbishments, don't know if that's still the case. All in all, a great place to stay. I would definitely go back there again & take advantage of Star Hot rates! hehehe
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Le Meridien Khao Lak Beach & Spa Resort Overview
The resort is close to local sites and attractions such as the Khao Lak Center, Tham Phung Chang (Stalactites Cave), Ratchprapa Dam, and Similan Islands.
The resort features 243 guestrooms, suites, and villas. The spacious deluxe guestrooms feature a contemporary design gently blended with elegant Thai style. The villas are the pinnacle of luxury, and some of these private residences offer private pool, Jacuzzi, massage gazebo, direct beach access, open-air rain shower, and personal butler service.
A hidden paradise set at the edge of a far blue sea and close to untouched forests, fringed by seven miles of pristine beach and adorned with exotic fragrant foliage, Le Meridien Khao Lak Beach and Spa Resort offers an indulgent experience interspersed with moments of rapture.
This resort features services and amenities such as wireless Internet access, currency exchange facility, express check-out, safe-deposit box, laundry and dry cleaning service, medical assistance, 24-hour front desk service, tour desk, beauty salon and a 24-hour business center.
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Howell has worked in the logging business for over thirty years; over
those years he has learned about what is quality wood and what is not,
he has also implemented systems and techniques that has earned him the
respect of his fellow loggers. He even got involved in the cattle
business by raising cracker cows and roping steers. In all his works he
has always had a desire to build a log home.
In the summer of
1994 Terrel came across a stand of pine timber that seemed to be what
he was looking for, 150 year old pine trees, he told his wife Dixie and
they started to fulfill a lifelong dream. He had one of his two full
time crews cut the trees brought to his yard. He hired a local man to
mill his logs. After having the logs milled to the appropriate size. He
stacked all the logs and started making plans to build..
In the
spring of 1995 Terrel started construction. He used the lumber from
those big pines for everything from flooring to doors, cabinets and
ceiling boards. The floors where made from solid heart pine, doors from
pine planks, cabinets from heart pine, Terrel even had the hardware
forged by a local blacksmith. He wanted a true Cracker style log home.
In the summer of 1995 the house was started and completed in the spring
of 1996.
When the house was finished it was beyond what any one
expected. Log Home Design ideas featured it in there August-September
1997 issue. Terrel thought maybe other people would like a home like
In 2002 Terrel decided to start Cracker Sawmill offering
logs lumber and specialty flooring and beams.
the fall of 2003 Terrel started planning to build a log home model on a
piece of property that he had purchased in Levy County. He was thinking
of a classic Cracker style log building and decided on the Dog-trot.
The project was started in the spring of 2004, and
completed in the late summer of 2004.
Cracker Style Log Homes is located 2 miles south of Williston, Fl on
Hwy 27. We offer not only logs, but also lumber and flooring to the
Terrel decided that the same desire and commitment that
got him to this point was going to be the same desire and commitment in
selling this product to the public and to help fulfill the dreams of
log home enthusiasts all over just as his dreams were fulfilled.
completing the model in late 2004, the business took off. Mr. Howell
then decided it was time to build a state of the art milling facility.
He also wanted to offer Kiln Dry logs and lumber. He even started
drying CY logs for his homes to reduce the chance of shrinking.
With the new milling facility in place Mr. Howell now
offers custom sawing, drying, and milling.
2007 Mr. Howell moved his son Dusty from the logging company to the
mill to learn and run his milling facility so he could better serve his
In the first part of 2007 Mr. Howell had another
thought. He is the only log home company he has found that offers 3
kinds of wood and he has noticed that this was confusing to a lot of
people. So he decided to build a large show room log home that he could
show all of his products to customers. This way they can come see what
looks best to them and know what to expect when they buy a package from
Cracker Style. He decided that the best place would be beside his
milling facility. This way, he could go a step further and give his
customers a tour of his mill. By the end of 2007 it was almost
completed. The showroom project should be completed by the end of
February 2008.
He would like to invite you to stop by and see all the
products he has to offer.
So call or stop in and see our model and find out what
old world ethics, craftsmanship and design are all about.
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What is over-active thyroid?
The thyroid is a gland in your neck. It is curled around your windpipe. Its primary function is to keep your metabolism working properly and at the right pace, so that, overall, your body functions properly and well.
The thyroid gland produces a hormone called thyroxine. When thyroxine is produced by the thyroid gland in excessive quantities (it travels around your body through your bloodstream), then your bodys functions accelerate and a range of symptoms can develop. Your thyroid gland is then regarded as being over-active.
Symptoms of over-active thyroid include:
Restlessness and hyperactivity
Hand tremors
Weight-loss or weight-gain (note: it is possible to experience weight-loss even though you have actually developed an increased appetite due to having over-active thyroid)
Tiredness (and sometimes overwhelming fatigue)
Breathlessness (this can be mild or severe, depending upon the individual)
Heart palpitations
Excessive sweating (especially at night)
Itchy skin
Thinning hair
Disturbed sleep
Sensitivity to heat
Mood swings (e.g., anxiety, irritability
Muscle weakness
Increase in the frequency with which you need to use the toilet to pass stools or to urinate
Diminished libido
Reduced fertility problems and interference of the menstrual cycle
Overactive thyroid can occur at any age. The most common cause of your body producing excessive quantities or thyroxine is Graves disease an autoimmune disease (that is, a disease where the body attacks itself). With Graves disease, you body produces antibodies which stimulate thyroxine to excessive levels in your thyroid gland.
If you are suffering from the aforementioned symptoms, make an appointment with your GP. After taking your medical history and asking you some questions, your GP will then ask you to take a blood test where a confirmed diagnosis of an over-active thyroid gland will be established. If this is the case you will be referred to a specialist (an endocrinologist) for further tests. An appropriate treatment will then be recommended to you.
Effect on your life
Although, with the appropriate treatment, levels of thyroxine produced by your thyroid gland can be controlled to some extent, it is vital (if you are suffering from the aforementioned symptoms) that you seek medical help as soon as possible, as over-active thyroid can actually be a life-threatening condition.
Once treatment has been sought, most people find they can live a relatively normal life and can continue to work and enjoy many daily activities.
Over-active thyroid is treated with prescribed medicine in tablet form, this is usually Carbimazole. You may also be prescribed Radio-Iodine a safe radioactive fluid taken as a drink or in tablet form. Both treatments are intended to reduce the levels of thyroxine in your body.
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I need to run from the command line - anyone know what I can do to pick up the proper application look?
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Feb. 5, 2008, marks Super (Duper) Tuesday, or the day that 23 states will be holding both parties' primaries. Four other states will be holding their primaries or caucuses before this date. Because the early states can greatly determine the success of a candidate's campaign, many of the presidential hopefuls have been spending their time in Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida, among other states. Only four early primary states, however, actually increased their overall contributions to the candidates from the first quarter to the second, with Iowa seeing the biggest increase, nearly doubling its contributions, from $131,800 to $274,575*. All candidates but Republican Duncan Hunter and Democrat Chris Dodd saw their coffers from Iowa get a boost. Donors from Nevada, which is set to hold its caucus on Jan. 19, gave less than half of what they gave in the first three months—from $1.5 million to $680,270, marking the largest decline among the early primary states.
Florida set its primary for Jan. 29, which is earlier than the Democratic National Committee (DNC) allows. As a result, the DNC is threatening to disqualify electors selected in Florida's primary and punish candidates who campaign there. Yet the candidates don't seem to take the threat seriously, or they see the campaign contributions as more valuable than the state's convention delegates. Half of the Democratic candidates brought in more from Florida in April through June than they did in the first quarter.
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NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – Newton native Gesine Janzen, Bozeman, Mont., will open the year in the Fine Arts Center Gallery at Bethel College with "Gesine Janzen: New Work in Prints," Sept. 5-26.
Janzen, currently associate professor of art and head of printmaking at the School of Art at the University of Montana in Bozeman, is a 1989 graduate of Bethel College. All the exhibits by outside artists this year are by Bethel graduates and former students of Professor of Art Gail Lutsch, who will retire at the end of the 2009 academic year.
There will be an opening reception for the artist Friday, Sept. 5, from 5-7 p.m. in the area outside the Fine Arts Center Gallery.
Janzen earned a B.F.A. printmaking from the University of Kansas and an M.F.A. in printmaking with a minor in drawing from the University of Iowa. She is the daughter of John and Reinhild Janzen of rural Whitewater and Lawrence.
Janzen has exhibited widely, including the Third International Student Art Biennial (SIAB '97), Museum of the City of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, and an upcoming solo show at the Academy of Art and Design in Lodz, Poland. In 2007, she participated in the Global Matrix II International Print Exhibition, a traveling juried exhibition.
Other exhibit venues in recent years have included the Print Arts Northwest Invitational at Portland (Ore.) Community College; a two-person show at the Beverly Gallery in St. Louis; a solo exhibit at the Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Mont.; the Iowa City Public Library; solo shows at The Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, Ark., and the PEO Foundation Gallery at Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.; and the Rocky Mountain Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, Colo., where the juror was Jan Ernst Adlmann, assistant director of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
More locally, Janzen's work has been exhibited, among many other places, at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence; the Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan; the Morgan Gallery and the Dolphin Gallery, both in Kansas City, Mo.; the Kansas City Jewish Museum; the Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka; and Trish Higgins Fine Arts and the Project Gallery, both in Wichita. In 1999, Janzen had a solo show in Bethel's Fine Arts Center Gallery and in 1998 at the Hesston College Art Gallery.
Her work can be found in corporate and public collections at, among others, the Wichita Art Museum; the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y.; the University of Colorado Special Collections, Boulder; Purdue University Galleries permanent collection, West Lafayette, Ind.; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; and, in Kansas City, Mo., Sprint, American Century Investments, DST Systems, Inc., Hallmark, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Belger Art Center.
Janzen is affiliated with Shack Up in Bozeman, the PAN Gallery in Portland, Ore., and Graficas in Tucson, Ariz.
"My work is about family, memory and placing myself in a timeline of generations," she says. "The primary source for my imagery has been the home my family maintains in central Kansas. In the last few years, I have focused on the material surroundings of this place on the prairie – wooden houses, farm buildings, fences and hand-built structures.
"The images are drawn from memory and imagination. Like daydreaming, various elements in the work are layered and repeated, building an imaginary space as I remember the past while considering the present and future."
More recently, she says, "My work has shifted from the representation of objects in a landscape to the landscape itself. Instead of being about forms and constructions that represent the people who built them, representation of the land implies the presence of the people who live and who have lived there. The style and surface quality of the woodcuts and etchings have been influenced by modern German prints I grew up with and look at for inspiration. In [many of] my most recent prints, the open space and gestural compositions represent the flow of time and passing generations."
Regular hours for the Bethel College Fine Arts Center Gallery are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 2-4 p.m. There is no admission charge. For more information or directions, call 316-284-5205 or go to the Bethel Web site at www.bethelks.edu.
Bethel College is a four-year liberal arts college affiliated with Mennonite Church USA. Founded in 1887, it is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Bethel is known for its academic excellence and was the only Kansas private college to be ranked in Forbes.com's listing of "America's Best Colleges" for 2008. For more information, see the Bethel Web site at www.bethelks.edu.


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|Sfenj (Orange Doughnuts)
December, 2002
Makes about 20 / These doughnuts, fragrant with orange, are eaten in Morocco to celebrate Hanukkah. Pack some in a basket to take into the street and hand out to passers-by, fulfilling the feast-day duty of almsgiving, observed by most religions.
4 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons dry yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
3 medium eggs, lightly whisked
1/2 cup orange juice
Grated zest of 1 orange
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Vegetable oil for frying
Powdered sugar
Finely grated orange zest
1. Bring all ingredients to room temperature.
2. Toss flour and salt with yeast and sugar. Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour in eggs, orange juice, zest, and oil. Knead until the dough is soft and pliable but no longer sticky (you may need a little more flour or water). Work into a ball.
3. Rub dough surface lightly with oil and drop back into bowl. Cover and let rise until doubled in bulk, at least 1 hour (rich dough takes longer than regular dough).
4. Punch down dough with your fist. Form dough into a rope. Cut into 20 pieces and roll each piece into a ball. Transfer to a floured tray and set in a warm place to rise for another hour, until again doubled in bulk.
5. Heat just enough frying oil to submerge doughnuts. As soon as oil is very hot, slip in a few balls of dough at a time. Fry, flipping once, until golden brown and well-risen. Remove and drain on paper towels. Finish with a dusting of powdered sugar and grated orange zest.
Calories 160,Fat 6,Perfat 33,Cholesterol 32,Carbo 23,Protein 3
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This is amusing in the sense that my Sicilian Grandmother made these "Sfinghi" doughnuts for our Catholic holidays! Only she didn't add the orange. I can't wait to try them this way. Oh, BTW, Northern Italians consider Sicilians "North Africans" anyway. LOL!!!!
Just incase my other comment didn't take, I wanted to say that my Sicilian Grandmother use to make these same Sfighi doughnut balls without the orange flavor for our Catholic holidays. I can't wait to try these this way. Oh, BTW, Northern Italians call Sicilians "North Africans" so I can truly see where this recipe came from. LOL!!!


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I can't wait to go back home to Bristol for reading week for some rejuvenation and enjoying the novelty of a double bed and a bath clean enough to bathe in. I also can't wait to re-watch The Big Chill with a large cat sprawled out across my lap. There are of course a couple of essays that will need to be written in the middle of all of this, but that's nothing that the encouragement of Glenn Close, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum and William Hurt as a bunch of smart old University friends can't help me with.
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London hosted a wonderful Olympics and Paralympics in the summer of 2012, the same year that Poland and Ukraine hosted the Euro 2012 football championship. For most people, these events are all about the sport, the spectacle and the opportunity to travel and enjoy the atmosphere. However, for criminals these events bring opportunities which often involve the exploitation of children and young people.
There is significant evidence that the trafficking of children and young people increases with major sporting events. For example the Greek Ministry of Public Safety identified that incidents of trafficking increased by 94% during 2004[i], the year it hosted the Games. Some of London's Olympic boroughs already identified, as early as 2009, an increase in trafficking into the area.[ii] As well as cases of women and children being trafficked for sexual exploitation, police are also noticing an increase in children trafficked for the purposes of petty crime, such as pickpocketing.
Looking behind the headlines, we see an alarming link between trafficking and children's institutions. United Nations (IOM)[iii] research from Moldova tells us that girls who grow up in institutions are ten times more likely to be a victim of trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. At Lumos we know that growing up in an impersonal institutional environment does not prepare children for the outside world and often leaves them economically disadvantaged, too trusting of strangers and incredibly vulnerable to all kinds of exploitation – including trafficking. This extra vulnerability to trafficking is yet another example of how growing up in an institution harms the life-chances of children and it is just one of the many reasons Lumos is working to end the systematic institutionalisation of children across Europe.
A further link exists between sport, trafficking and institutions: some countries hosting major sporting events feel the need to hide their social problems and present a good public face to the world. In some cases authorities round up street children in the host city and place them in institutions or move them to other towns away from the media spotlight. A recent example of this, widely reported in the press, occurred in advance of the FIFA World Cup in Durban in 2010.[iv]
For many children trafficked abroad, being rescued by the authorities does not end their suffering. Some children, already victims of trafficking, become victims a second time when they are automatically placed in institutions on their return to their countries of origin – re-traumatising them and increasing their vulnerability to being trafficked again. Authorities in destination and origin countries alike should do more to assess the various alternatives to institutionalisation which may be open to the child, such as reintegration with the family or extended family, foster care or community-based care. Society's responsibility for vulnerable children should not end once they have crossed a border. We should care what happens to them next and work together to protect them and improve their lives.
There is an urgent need to understand this issue better and to take all actions possible to prevent the children who are victims of trafficking from being placed into large institutions that cannot meet their needs. Lumos is working with authorities in the UK to raise awareness of the nature of this problem so that social workers, police and local authorities assess the link to institutional care of each trafficked child and are able to respond in the best interests of the child when organising their return to their country of origin. We are also establishing links with NGOs, child protection authorities and national governments across Europe so that information about the scale of this problem can be gathered and that intelligence and good practice can be shared.
Finally, if you are based in the UK and you suspect that a child may have been trafficked, you should contact the Child Trafficking Advice and Information Line (CTAIL). This is a specialist service providing information and advice to any professionals working with children or young people who may have been trafficked into the UK. (Telephone 0800 107 7057 | Email: email@example.com)
If you think that a child is in immediate danger please contact the police by telephoning 999. For services in other countries, please contact your local police authorities or social services.
For further information about our work to break the harmful link between the institutionalisation of children and trafficking please contact Nolan Quigley on firstname.lastname@example.com
Useful Links: (external web sites)
• ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
[i] Greek Ministry of Public Safety 2005 (The Times, Influx of workers and prostitutes for Olympics raises sexual health fears, 17 March 2008)
[ii] The Metropolitan Police has already noted a small increase in the number of trafficked women working in the five Olympic host boroughs of London. (Guardian article, 19/07/2009) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/19/sex-trafficking-2012-olympics-london
[iii] International Organization for Migration "Protecting Vulnerable Children in Moldova" http://www.iom.md/materials/brochures/4_protecting_vuln_children.pdf
[iv] Sunday Times of South Africa, 14 February 2010 "Metro police deny charges of street children abuse"
"Looking behind the headlines, we see an alarming link between trafficking and children's institutions."
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