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These photographs, taken by Alexander Mustard, Richard Read, Marc Pilgrem and Stephen Broadbelt, are presented chronologically. They include pictures in our hurricane shelter - the Gun Bay Civic Centre, as well as pictures of the damage to the East End's resorts and villages, and also a few pictures taken as we drove back to the west side of the island, and finally when we got off the island by private jet on Tuesday evening.
We are all extremely grateful to the Caymanians who welcomed us with their hospitality, and took time to look after us so well during such stressful times. And we look forward to visiting the islands again soon, and helpling their important tourism industry get back to normal.
More than one week after the storm, most people on the islands still do have water, electricity and telephone lines. Food and water are scarce and rationed. International aid has been very slow to arrive - partly because there has been so little news about the hurricane because the international media has not been on the island (I will not speculate on the reasons here).
Everyone I know in the Tourism industry on the island seems dedicated to get it up and running as soon as possible (despite not having water, power or phone lines at the moment) - before the end of the year. Once the tourism is open for business, please consider Cayman as a destination again - your business will help the island get back on its feet again.
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How Europe Plans to Deal With Bank Stress-Test Results
After months of debate, here it finally is: European finance ministers' statement on how they intend to deal with the results of a planned clean-up of banks' balance sheets next year.
This clean-up consists of two main steps: First, the European Central Bank will review the assets of those euro-zone banks it will soon be policing, hoping to spot bad loans and investments and force banks to write them down to a more realistic value. The second step is a European Union-wide stress test, meant to determine how much banks' assets would lose in value under another economic shock.
The four-page statement released Friday explains how EU member states will deal with banks that turn out to have too little capital after the two exercises. It tries hard to make everyone happy, and by doing so may leave readers with as many questions as it answers.
Here's a quick rundown of the important passages:
1) Banks have to prepare "specific and ambitious strategies" for how they would react if capital shortfalls are discovered. Here, the first steps are all designed to avoid use of taxpayers' money and include selling shares or assets, merging with another bank or imposing losses on private investors. As expected, the statement contains a special reference to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, a strategy that may have risks.
2) There's a bit more explanation of how the ministers intend to deal with banks that have to impose losses on private investors. In those cases, the EU's state-aid rules, which are meant to prevent distortions to competition caused by government support, would usually require junior bonds to be converted into shares — a practice ECB President Mario Draghi has warned could lead to market unrest in some cases. To appease Mr. Draghi's concerns, the statement says the rules will be applied "with a view to safeguard financial stability." That will give ministers a loophole when they want to avoid imposing losses on investors in certain banks, but, by no means prevents even stricter burden-sharing to be applied to some lenders.
3) Also as expected, member states that do have to spend money bailing out banks won't be punished if those expenditures push their deficits above EU limits.
4) The most heated debate in the lead-up to the statement had been about the use of the euro zone's rescue fund. As had been flagged in advance, countries that have to use public money to prop up their banks but have trouble raising those funds on the market, can ask for a loan from the European Stability Mechanism– just like Spain did last year.
ESM loans, ministers stressed, would come only after "bail-in" of bank investors "in full respect of EU State Aid Rules," so at a minimum, junior bondholders would become shareholders. In fact, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble stressed that his country was very likely to insist on even tougher bail-in requirements in those cases. The loans would of course also still add to the borrowing country's debt load, so this measure doesn't do much to break the link between the finances of banks and their governments.
In a small victory for Southern European states, ministers did, at least theoretically, leave the door open for the ESM to take a direct stake in some rescued banks, rather than first lend the money to the banks' home country. But the reference to "direct recapitalizations" contains so many ifs and buts they they are unlikely to be used to deal with the fallout of next year's exercise.
The phrasing of the statement would allow direct recaps for banks that have passed the asset-quality review, but are caught out with a capital shortfall in the stress test. But even here, many obstacles remain: A country would have to be too indebted to afford an ESM loan, and bank investors would first have to take losses, likely all the way up to senior bondholders and, possibly, large depositors.
And finally, the statement also reminds everyone that national governments, and in some cases parliaments, still have to give final approval for the ESM to take direct stakes in banks — a requirement that allows Germany and others to play for time.
5) EU states that don't use the euro won't have access to the ESM. But the statement points to an alternative resource for these countries: an EU fund that has in the past lent money to non-EU countries like Romania and Poland.
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With technology making any good deed or slipup instant online fodder, it doesn't take long these days to get noticed, for something good or bad.
So Jordan White runs little risk of slipping under the radar, not with the season he's having. Case in point: Western Michigan's athletic communications staff in early October established a YouTube channel to showcase its dynamic offensive duo, quarterback Alex Carder and White, a senior receiver and North Ridgeville native.
The channel, now with a highlight reel video from each of the Broncos' nine games this season, has gotten more than 2,000 views. But the way White sees it, more exposure can't hurt him or his teammates, another reason why he's looking forward to tonight's nationally televised game at Toledo.
The game, slated for an 8 p.m. kickoff, will be broadcast on ESPNU.
It would have been an even bigger night for Lorain County football fans, but Toledo senior Danny Noble, a starting tight end and an Elyria High grad, suffered a broken leg Oct. 8 against Eastern Michigan and is done for the season.
"It's nice to get that exposure on national TV," said White, a fill-in for Western Michigan coach Bill Cubit on Monday's Mid-American Conference weekly coaches teleconference. "It might be different for our younger guys, who are still getting acclimated to college. A midweek game might be a grind for them. But being on national TV, with millions of people watching, will be fun."
White, though, already is on plenty of people's radars. He leads the nation with 95 catches, and in Western's win over Ball State on Oct. 29, became WMU's all-time leader in receptions, with 261.
And he may not be done: He's 160 yards from the career receiving yards mark and 215 from outdoing his own single-season mark of 1,378, set last year. Plus, he needs just 10 catches to break Jamarko Simmons' single-season record of 104, set in 2008.
He's also eclipsed former Bronco and current Green Bay Packer and Super Bowl champion Greg Jennings in each of those categories; White's nine touchdowns this season are five short of Jennings' single-season mark of 14.
"It all starts off the field," said White, named the MAC West Offensive Player of the Week three times this year. "(Carder) and I got together this summer, went over things for the offseason, what we wanted to accomplish. We had great offseason workouts, developed a camaraderie and got rolling into the season."
The Broncos, 5-4 overall and 3-2 in the MAC, may fall short of White's No. 1 goal, winning a MAC title. He said that championship was his No. 1 motivation in seeking a medical hardship after last season and the sixth year of eligibility that goes with it. White sat out two seasons after tearing each ACL, and in March was granted that sixth season.
The Broncos play Miami (Ohio) on Nov. 16 — a game also set to be broadcast on ESPN2 — and close their season with Akron on Nov. 25. WMU trails UT (4-1), Northern Illinois (4-1) and Ball State (4-2) in the division. So they need some help, but should reach six wins and become eligible for a postseason bowl game.
For White, a grad student seeking a master's degree in business administration, that'll have to do. Western last played in a bowl in 2008, a 38-14 loss to Rice.
"We had a few tough ones, where we didn't execute the way we should have," he said. "We got back to it against Ball State and hope to continue it (tonight)."
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Reviews are ideally an assessment of a film's value as entertainment or enlightenment. They should never be a guide when attempting to figure out what in the movie's world is going on. Such is the case with Christopher Nolan's mind-over-matter blockbuster Inception, a confounding riddle of a story where the characters are lost inside one another's dreams without a clue. Please, I think we already have enough trouble navigating the murky labyrinths of our own nightmares and making it out by morning.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is Cobb, a futuristic new breed of corporate espionage industrial spy and professional dream bandit, who is hired by corporations to steal their rivals' conglomerate plans from inside the minds of their adversaries. Here Cobb faces an unorthodox assignment from the multinational robber baron Saito (Ken Watanabe), who sends him on a mission to plant rather than extract thoughts inside the head of a competitor tycoon, Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), so he can dissolve his rival's financial empire.
The deal with Saito is pretty much an offer Cobb can't refuse, because he is being hunted internationally in connection with the death of his wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard). He's desperate to return to the States with a fake passport that Saito can arrange so he can reunite with his young children. So Cobb schemes to infiltrate Fischer's cerebral inner recesses, accompanied by sidekick Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and a team of sleepwalker suits in confrontation with brawny enemy brainiacs. He also has a newly recruited architectural dream-weaver Ariadne (Ellen Page), who's apparently a whiz in homo-sapien interior decorating.
Seemingly the opposite of writer/director Nolan's Insomnia, this action-driven yet at the same time somnambulant messing-with-your-mind scenario boasts intermittently astonishing imagery. There's a freight train barreling down a busy midtown street; a crew of cerebral predators floating in the air as if they're lost-and-found astronauts having wandered in from The Right Stuff minus their space suits; and for some reason a hypnotic, spinning secular dreidel tossed in, too. But where this particular train derails is when it veers into Freudian territory and rambles on with overly intellectualized screen lectures endlessly delving into a psychoanalytic dissection of the subconscious.
Because if there's one thing more snooze-inducing than being stuck as a spectator in somebody else's dreams, it's got to be getting imprisoned in someone's perpetual therapy sessions as an unwanted shrink. Not to mention that we've all been there, done that, when it comes to aggressive mind control, as in commercial advertising, subliminal and otherwise, attacking our brain cells and getting inside our collective heads whenever we don't happen to be sleeping.
Although most movies turning up at the 'plexes these days insult the audience's IQ by dumbing themselves down to appeal to some imagined lowest common denominator, the opposite holds true for Inception. That is, it's an invasive sci-fi noir operating at a level so far above and beyond what may be deemed the average viewer's comprehension that head-scratchers are likely to abound in the audience with this convoluted complexity in the extreme.
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Pair Of Events Ahead For Rowing This Weekend
April 17, 2014
AMHERST, Mass. - The Massachusetts rowing team will compete in two events this weekend; one in Coventry, Conn., on Friday against Connecticut and the other on Saturday in Boston against MIT and Bates. Last weekend, the Minutewomen competed in the Knecht Cup in West Windsor, N.J., where the Varsity 8+, 4+ and Pair boats won gold medals.
Last year against Connecticut, UMass claimed four of six races on its home course on the Connecticut River. The Minutewomen won the Varsity 4+, second Varsity 4+, JV 8+ and second Novice 8+ races. The second Varsity 4+ won by the greatest margin, crossing the finish line 17 seconds before the Huskies boat with a time of 7:11.37.
Projected Lineups - At Connecticut (Fri., April 18)
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Maddie Bushey (cox), Julia Deane, MaKenzi Gennette, Nicole Stone, Alisha Weinstein, Leah Hitchcock, Colleen Szeto, Catherine Murphy & Melissa Donahue
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Projected Lineups - vs. MIT/Bates (Sat. April 19)
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Checking the Forecast
Varsity 8+ Boat Named Row2k.com Crew Of The Week, Share UMass Athlete Of The Week
UMass Rowing In The National Polls
Rowing Earns Three First Place Finishes At Knecht Cup
The Varsity 8+ boat recorded a time of 6:47.65, which was two seconds ahead of second place Bucknell. Following this event, the Varsity 4+ finished first in a time of 7:44.09. The top four finishers in this race were all within two and a half seconds of another. Lastly, the Varsity Pair of Candace Miller and Pippa Edwards won the third gold of the day for the Minutewomen, notching a time of 8:19.47.
UMass Wins Three Events In Five-Team Meet
Rowing Sweeps Colgate In Three Races
Rowing Wins Three Races Over BC, Rhode Island
The Varsity 8+ boat recorded the best time of the competition in 7:14.08, three seconds ahead of second place Rhode Island. Following this event, the Varsity 4+ took home the second gold of the day for UMass with a time of 8:26.90. All three boats in the race finished within eight seconds of one another. Finally, the second Varsity 4+ boat notched a time of 8:41.41, besting second place Boston College by three seconds.
Rowing Takes Varsity 8+ From Coast Guard
UMass and Coast Guard were scheduled to complete a second Varsity 8+ race, but the Bears were unable to field another boat due to illness. The second Varsity 8+ from UMass raced against the first entry by the Minutewomen and Coast Guard's boat and finished in 5:47.5 to take second place.
Hajjar Honored With Elaine Sortino Leadership Award
As a coach, supervisor, advisor and mentor, Sortino demonstrated what it meant to be a leader to everyone around her. She embodied the characteristics of a true and successful leader on the UMass campus and throughout the nation. The inaugural winner, Hajjar, is a political science major and will graduate with her degree in May. She holds the role of the Student Government Association Vice President and is the varsity coxswain on the UMass rowing team.
The 2013-14 Minutewomen
The senior class boasts 13 returners, while just four members of the Class of 2015 remain.
This year's captains are seniors Taryn Wilson and Nicole Juul-Hindsgaul.
The 2013 Fall Season
The following weekend, UMass split up its squad and competed at the Head of the Housatonic in Derby, Conn. and Seven Sisters Sculling Race in Northampton, Mass. The program continued its strong start as it took first in the 1x, 2x and 4x events at the Seven Sisters Sculling Race and took home gold in the Open 1x at the Head of the Housatonic.
The Minutewomen entered six boats into the prestigious 49th Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston last October. UMass secured silver in the Lightweight 4+ and captured eighth in the Club 8+ race.
The team traveled to the Head of the Fish the ensuing weekend, which was the final race of the fall season for the full squad. UMass seized seven first place finishes and three boats added silver medal runs. Among the gold medalists were the Collegiate 1x, Collegiate Open 2-, Lightweight 4+, Quad, Collegiate 8+, Novice 4+ and Novice 8+.
The novice rowers finished the season at the annual Green Monster Regatta in Dartmouth, N.H. where the first Novice 8+ entry notched a fourth place finish.
A partial squad traveled to participate in the Collegiate Small Boat Challenge, a new addition to the UMass schedule, to round out the season. The Minutewomen took first place in the 1x A and 2x E Final events and captured silver in the 1x D Final.
Impressive Freshman
Emily Mann was the only underclassman invited on the trip to the Head of the Oklahoma where she was able to record two golds, a silver and a bronze. She was also a member of the highest finishing UMass boat at the prominent Head of the Charles Regatta after earning silver in the Lightweight 4+. Mann followed this performance with two golds and a silver at the Head of the Fish.
Pippa Edwards started her UMass rowing career with a strong second place finish in the Open 4+ at the Head of the Housatonic. Later that day, she followed with a gold in the 4+ at the Seven Sisters Sculling Race. Edwards continued her stellar pace at the Head of the Fish by recording two first place finishes in the Novice 4+ and Novice 8+ events.
Haley York began the season on a quality note as she helped the Novice 8+ boat win bronze at the Head of the Housatonic. The following weekend at the Head of the Charles in Boston, she rowed with the Club 8+ boat to a respectable eighth place finish. York ended her fall season with two golds at the Head of the Fish.
Teagan Rolf von den Baumen, an Oakville, Ontario native, rowed with the Club 8+ boat along with fellow freshman, York, at the Head of the Charles in October and helped secure an eighth place finish. She also captured gold with the Novice 4+ and Novice 8+ boats at the annual Head of the Fish Regatta.
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Composed by Avishai Cohen.
Recorded: Brooklyn, November 10, 2006
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There are few harder things to pull off in jazz than the slow vamp. Unless maybe it is a trio project without a bass. Or perhaps writing an exciting jazz piece based on . . . water. But trumpeter Avishai Cohen attempts all three of these in this opening track from the second installment of The Big Rain. Give Cohen credit for pulling it off. This type of music-making takes extraordinary patience, and the trumpeter demonstrates it here. The performance builds slowly—trumpet doesn't even enter until the 2:30 mark. The piano sets the mood, with percussion providing querulous rejoinders in an austere dialogue. When Cohen descends from above, it is with a poignant dirge. He nudges the accompanists into a loose rhythmic pulse where a wave-like 3/4 begins to flow over the basic duple beat. Changes here happen at their own pace, organic and without ostentation. In the world of fiction, critics talk about the "psychological novel." I'm not sure whether there is such a thing as "psychological jazz," but if there is, this mature, introspective track would be on the playlist.
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Representing the Workhouse
Curated by Laura Foster
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
Harriet Martineau, Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated (London: Charles Fox, 1833)
Before 1834, most paupers were given out-of-doors monetary relief from the parish. Martineau's short stories represent the devastating effects of this indiscriminate relief on communities, in which the respectable residents are nearly bankrupted by the cripplingly high poor rates that they must pay to support idle paupers.
The 1834 New Poor Law sought to make the workhouse the only form of relief for able-bodied paupers. The separation of families, rationed diet and the compulsory uniform in the workhouse ensured that only the truly destitute would seek shelter there.
'The Poor Law Amendment Act', Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, 27 February 1836
The illustration depicts the Abingdon workhouse which was completed in 1835. Designed by Sampson Kempthorne, the architectural design reflects the disciplinary intentions of the New Poor Law. The hexagonal form of the building provided the workhouse with six yards for segregating the classes of paupers. The master had an 'observation room' in the centre of the building, from where he could observe the paupers.
'New Poor-Law Workhouses', Illustrated London News, 7 November 1846
The illustrations depict the designs of two New Poor-Law workhouses. Interestingly, the Illustrated London News has made a mistake in labelling the pictures. The top illustration in fact depicts the workhouse to be built at Canterbury and the bottom illustration is of the Andover Union workhouse. The article criticises the design of the Andover workhouse for its similarity to a prison. By contrast, the proposed workhouse at Canterbury will possess more 'architectural taste' and provide more comfortable accommodation for the aged inmates and the children.
Hubert Von Herkomer, Old Age- A Study at the Westminster Union, The Graphic, 7 April 1877
Herkomer's sketch represents aged inmates in the female dayroom of the Westminster Union workhouse. In the right of the image some of the women sew, while others sit listlessly on benches, staring into space. Herkomer's painting Eventide- A Scene at the Westminster Union (1878) depicts a more sentimental representation of the same dayroom, adding the domestic details of a cat, tea pot and flowers.
Hubert Von Herkomer, Christmas in a Workhouse, The Graphic Christmas Number, 25 December 1876
The engraving depicts a middle-class visitor distributing gifts of tea to aged workhouse inmates on Christmas day. The charitable scene is unintentionally subverted by its publication opposite the image Returning Home with the Spoils, which pictures children worn out after a day of Christmas shopping. The juxtaposition of the images places the poverty of the workhouse in contrast with the excesses of the affluent middle classes.
Anne Thackeray-Ritchie, 'Jack the Giant Killer', Cornhill Magazine, November 1867- January 1868
This fictional narrative was serialised in three parts and tells the story of a country pastor, John, who becomes chaplain to a large town workhouse. The story compares the chaplain's fight against the tyrannies of the workhouse officials to Jack's fight against the giant in the fairy tale version of 'Jack the Giant Killer'.
Luke Fildes, Houseless and Hungry, Graphic, 4 December 1869
This wood engraving depicts homeless people of all ages queuing outside a police station in order to gain a ticket for admission to a casual ward. Casual wards were attached to workhouses and provided a night's accommodation in return for a few hours work the next morning. The same scene was the subject of a later painting by Fildes, entitled Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward (1874).
Sketches at a Casual Ward, Illustrated London News, 19 November 1887
The illustration depicts a metropolitan workhouse casual ward. The men are shown queuing outside, having a bath before admittance, eating their rations in their sleeping wards and breaking stones the next morning.
'Another Workhouse Probe', All the Year Round, 7 December 1867
All the Year Round published a series of articles in 1867 that investigated the state of workhouses. In 'Another Workhouse Probe', the first-person narrator describes his visit to a Staffordshire workhouse and exposes the unsatisfactory care given to the sick and aged. The editor of All the Year Round was Charles Dickens, whose novel Oliver Twist (1837) is one of the most famous attacks on the workhouse system.
'The Model Union Workhouse', Punch, 23 June 1866
The illustration represents the union workhouse as a beehive and the paupers as worker bees. A fat matron and poor-law Guardian recline on either side of the hive. At the Guardian's feet a pauper bee lies dying, suggesting the inhumanity of the workhouse officials.


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Another bittersweet moment in SJ musical history will come to pass this Saturday (July 5th) at The San Jose Rock Shop, (30 N 3rd St. San Jose, CA 95112) as the native psych-rock trio, The English Language, will be performing it's last show in its hometown. Earlier this week, TEL announced plans to relocate to the greater Portland area - they'll continue their efforts therein.
Tristan Perotti, Mark Danley and Kyle Langlois started playing as a party cover band. But as mutual tastes and chemistry were realized, the act created more and more original material. Eventually the trio rifled through their couch cushions to put a home studio together. The recorded in the kitchen, in the bathroom and anywhere else they were feeling the rock. Eventually, TEL debuted in 2013, with a self-titled release that beckoned influences like The Kinks, The Doors and various blues-based rock. Their experience did little more than take the band out of the red, but the addictive musical bug had bitten down hard, and the damage was done.
The band continued on to release "This is Science/Rock & Roll," early in 2014, touting a new, more frantic energy to the act, while remaining true to their pop-sensibilities. But the album's first single, "Strange Moves" was anything but frantic, demonstrating the troupes eerie, paranoid undercurrent embodied their range and musicality.
They'll be joined at the final evening soiree by local, quirky blues rockers Grimace and the Fakers, New England pop/punk duo, When Particles Collide, and gypsy blues act, Los Los from Chico, CA.
The all-ages show is $5, with doors opening at 8 p.m. Visit the Facebook event page, or The San Jose Rock Shop official site for more details.


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I couldn't recommend Christine Ciavarella, PA, more highly. She's compassionate, thorough, detail-oriented and highly skilled. Our family's seen her for 15-20 years- -ever since Matt Vuksinich, MD, stopped practicing at Hahnemann Clinic. She's seen it all and combines homeopathy with western medicine plus is open to what works for you. A real special person, Christine. 510 524 3117 of Hahnemann Clinic at El Cerrito Plaza. Jill Cohn
I'm looking for a homeopathic doctor recommendation for my husband. He has been dealing with psoriasis on his leg and elbows for a few years. Dermatologists have prescribed creams and various medicines but nothing has helped. We are searching for alternative treatments in the homeopathic and holistic realm, any recommendations at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much! Tiffany
I have been reading about homeopathy remedies and want to try them for my 6 year old son. He has some behavioral issues such as impulsiveness and repetitiveness that seem to be related to anxiety. I would like to work with a compassionate and knowledgeable homeopathy specialist (doctor?) Any recommendations? openminded
Hi, I am looking for a homeopath that can help my 3 year old with constipation. Anyone out there have a homeopath that they LOVE? anon
Has anyone heard of, or had experience working with, Shana Sturm? She was recommended to us for homeopathy, and I would like to get more information about her. Thanks! -R
my son is 2 yrs old and suffers from severe eczema. he's had it since he was 10 months old. he repeatedly gets staph infections due to it and is almost always on steroid creams and antibiotics. he's been allergy tested, thus we rehomed our pets. no change. we give him bleach baths, constant aquaphor, etc, etc. nothing works. we've also tried chinese herbs and accupressure. so now i am open to homeopathic care. the problem is, the common recommendations are sooooooo expensive! $300 for initial session and then $150-200 thereafter. we cannot afford this. any recs for homeopaths that are actually affordable would be greatly appreciated. the oakland/berkeley area is ideal. thanks so much!
My son is going to be 5years old end of August. He was diagnosed with autism before 2. His autism is mild but he is very hyper and I insist there has to be something to help him like homeopathy or natural medicine to be able to get him to be more stable and calm so he can concentrate and focus and be able to sit for a couple of minutes, if not he will have a hard time in kindergarden and won't be able to do homework. He goes to special program. Some people say those kids eventually will get medication, I will like to know if someone knows about a Natural Doctor or homeopath, that might be able to treat this with natural medicine not with drugs. Bibiana
I am looking for an homeopathic doctor for my son. He has a cough when he wakes up. He is coughing during 5 weeks now.I am interested in natural medicine. I am looking for any advice.
My daughter is almost 6 months old and has been on Prevacid for four months now. I completely trust my pediatrician but the nagging feeling wont leave me that ''Its just not right'' to have her on any kind of medication (no matter how 'safe'!)for such an extended time. However, a number of consultations with other pediatricians have also reassured me that its safe and it has indeed helpd my child eat and sleep a lot better. She is now ready to start solids and I am feeling concerned about the acid reflux acting up with new foods. I would be so extremely grateful for any advice recommending a good children's homeopath, naturalist, and/or any success stories of the reflux eventually ending! please, no scary tales of how evil western medication is-not because I'm choosing to be ignorant, but I'm anxious enough already. Thanks, Nervous Nelly
I'm looking for a classical homeopathist in the East Bay - Berkeley in particular. Any suggestions out there? ThanKs. Alexandra
I'm considering adding a homeopath to the list of folks who provide pediatric care for my 10 month old baby. Does anyone have any experience with Edi Pfeiffer? homeopath newbie
The questions that Edi asked me were interesting for me to answer. They made me think about who my daughter is and where she comes from. Questions about how she is in the world, how she responds to different situations, eats, sleeps, etc. and about her time in the womb, her birth, the medical & emotional histories of her parents, grandparents, etc. Edi prescribed a remedy for my daughter and I think that it was very helpful. And Ive been able to give Edi a call when my daughter was sick and get her recommendations for what would be the best treatment for my daughter.
I certainly do recommend Edi. Aside from the fact that she is kind, thoughtful and nice to be around I believe that she is knowledgeable in the work that she is doing and I like that she has years of experience in homeopathy as well as motherhood. And Edi has always been very happy to answer my many questions about homeopathy and to share her wealth of knowledge about general health and good nutrition. Serena
I am looking for a recommendation of a classical homeopath in the East Bay. Berkeley or Oakland preferred. Thanks! Anon
Hi I am looking for a MD homeopath in Berkeley Area.any suggesions will be appreciated. Neelu
By the time we found Daniel Donner, my husband was very weak and sickly thin. Daniel used eastern, homeopathic, and western medical methods to diagnose and treat my husband. Daniel is a rare breed. Though his practice is primarily based on homeopathic and eastern philosophies, he employs western influences when necessary. To aid in diagnosing my husband, he ran a western laboratory test and was open to working with other doctors no matter what their orientation. He is a true healer - interested in healing his patients by whatever means necessary. Daniel is also an excellent acupuncturist (coming from my husband...who has been too several over the years).
After a few months of treatment, my husband's pain level has drastically decreased and he is gaining weight! His hair and skin look healthy again and he is more active than I have seen him since his illness. Throughout the process, Daniel provided me with updates on my husband's progress and was very supportive. I cannot thank him enough and recommend him highly! Here is his information: Daniel Donner 3927 Piedmont Ave (between Monte Vista Ave & Montell St) Oakland, CA 94611 (510) 655-0555 www.piedmontaveclinic.com Jessica
I was wondering if anyone had more up to date recommendations on local Berkeley homeopaths. Specifically, can anyone recommend a good homeopath in Berkeley, preferebly North Berkeley, for kids as well as adults? Has homeopathy worked for you? Thank you. Looking for great homeopath
My family and I, two adults and two young children, have been going through one illness after another since last October. We have had little time inbetween illnesses which range from colds and flu bugs to staph and strep infections. We cannot seem to break out of it and we are exhausted. The doctors at Kaiser give us conflicting advice IE: Everyone take antibiotics at once, stop all antibiotics, give only the person who is sick antibiotics etc. And round and round we go. It is very frustrating and I pretty much never want to go to Kaiser again. We need to try something else and I don't know what I am looking for. Homeopath? Naturopath? Whatever it is I need to be able to comprehend it with a foggy brain. I don't have time to read a book. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for alternative treatments or physicians who can help get us get out of this cycle. sick of being sick
[Editor: recommendations for Naturopaths were received also.
Can anyone recommend a psychotherapist who is also a classically trained homeopath? I know about David Anderson in Petaluma, but anyone closer? Thank you!
I am looking for a homeopathic practictioner, possibly one who uses the biomeridian machine, or one who someone has had a lot of good steady results with children and adults. Thank you. Suzanne
Re: Alternative practitioner for prescription medication side effects I highly recommmend Anamika Stoller as an excellent Classical Homeopath. I am not sure how well homeopathy can treat your situation... guess you would have to inquire. Her office is in Berkeley, and website is www.WholeHealing.net
Can anyone recommend a Homeopath? I went to one in SF for about a year and it helped my mysterious itch tremendously, but now about 4 months after my son's birth it is back with a vengeance and I need some relief. Only I was laid off and don't go into SF regularly and would like to find someone here. Thanks. Scratchy
Peggy Mee only uses homeopathy, and my whole family has seen her with incredible results for deeper rooted issues, such as hives, or difficult emotional issues. She is also very warm and compassionate, but I don't have experience with her working with younger children. They are both expensive, but if you can afford it, well worth the expense. Lucia
Can anyone recommend a homeopath who deals with mental health issues? I'm trying to find an alternative to the use of psychotropic medication! Thanks for your words of wisdom! Anonymous
Re: Pediatrician for child with food allergey
I want to highly recommend Christine Ciavarella, who is a homeopath at the Hahnemann Medical Clinic in El Cerrito. Christine is also a Physician's Assistant, which means that she has knowledge of western medicine as well. I have gone to her for both my children and have found her extraordinary. I spoke to her about possible food allergies of my baby and I know that she has experience in this area. She can be reached at 524-3117 Yvonne
I'm expecting my first child this summer and looking for a family doctor/pediatrician that is trained as a homeopath as well as in traditional medicine. I've heard a little about the Hahnemann clinic in Albany (and saw postings from 1997 on UCB Parents), but wanted to get more up-to-date information on the clinic or other similar clinics in the Berkeley area. I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with this clinic and any doctors there in particular. Thanks so much! Kim
Re: Pediatrician who has time for longer appts
Christine Ciavarella at the Hahnemann Medical Clinic at the El Cerrito Plaza - (510) 524-3117 - is the most incredible health care provider. She is a homeopathic pediatrician and she's been in the business for 25 years. Attentive, sensitive, and genuine are three ways to describe her care: she understands the core problem of illness and explores gentle yet highly effective ways of treatment.
As a homeopath, Christine is a strong believer in helping childrens' bodies cure themselves but she also does not hesitate to prescribe western remedies such as antibiotics when she feels it is necessary. We can call her in the morning if our daughter isn't feeling well and she can have us come in within a few hours, spending up to an hour with our little one if need be. She is thorough, dedicated to health care for her patients and is an all-around amazing woman. We love Christine! Nora, a mama of a super-healthy 'n happy girl
Re: Pediatricians who Support Limited Immunizations & Alternative Medicine
I too have switched for pediatric and general family care to the homeopathic practitioner Christine Ciavarella, recomended by another parent and I find her a treasure. It is still helpful to have a pediatrician on the back burner, when it comes to broken bones or hospital stays. Christine used to be connected to Dr. Jeff Gill (who also tolerated nonvacination but in no way supported it), unfortunately he has moved his office to Pleasanton. Christine is extremely well informed about the vacination issues, yet she will recommend tetanus vaccine and will administer some others on a much delayed schedule-but she will never pressure you like some health care practitioners .
Carla Cassler is wonderful. She has many years of experience and works a lot with children (and has 2 of her own). She's treated me, my mother, husband and both of my sons for allergies, arthritis, injuries and general flu/cold symptoms. She uses acupuncture, chinese herbs, homeopathy. She has medical experience/knowledge from working in medical clinics in Israel, as well as a vast knowledge and understanding of the eastern healing system and nutrition. Carla is also a very warm and friendly person. I trust her knowledge completely and can't recommend her more highly.
I can recommend Skip Roache who practices in Berkeley. He works with
adults and children (including infants) and will do phone consulations as
well. He's very reasonable and he calls back to find out how the patient
is doing. 510-843-4441
When my daughter was small she had many many ear infections. After a year of 11 prescriptions, we turned to homeopathy when she was 2-1/2 and finally found that pulsatilla worked best for her. I also bought a cheap earscope and learned to look inside her ears for the swollen reddened ear drum indicating an infection and a trip to the docs; a shiny white bulging drum meant pulsatilla. At 8 she had her tonsils out (I resisted to the last minute, but finally decided after a cold accompanied by sleep apnea). She has had no infections since. PS Check out "Somnus" website. They offer a radio-frequency technique for reducing tonsil size.
I can recommend Skip Roache who practices in Berkeley. He works with
adults and children (including infants) and will do phone consulations as
well. He's very reasonable and he calls back to find out how the patient
is doing. 510-843-4441
When my daughter was small she had many many ear infections. After a year of 11 prescriptions, we turned to homeopathy when she was 2-1/2 and finally found that pulsatilla worked best for her. I also bought a cheap earscope and learned to look inside her ears for the swollen reddened ear drum indicating an infection and a trip to the docs; a shiny white bulging drum meant pulsatilla. At 8 she had her tonsils out (I resisted to the last minute, but finally decided after a cold accompanied by sleep apnea). She has had no infections since. PS Check out "Somnus" website. They offer a radio-frequency technique for reducing tonsil size.
We have had success with Edie Mottershead in El Cerrito, 446-0582. We went to her after our 1 1/2 year old son had several ear infections, and he hasn't had one since (9 months later). Edie is experienced, thorough, and came recommended from several different sources.
(Oct 2003 editorial note: Edi Mottershead practices in Berkeley now. (510) 206-0582)
I'm responding to the person who was inquiring about homeopathy some time
ago. Being originally from France, I (and everyone else in my family in
France) have been using homeopathic remedies for decades, even for our
babies. They are safe, easy to use, and have NO side effects, which is a
big plus for me. In the worst case scenario, if they don't work, they
won't harm you either (whereas I almost died once and developed nasty side
effects at other times with allopathic medication). I have found that, for
most chronic conditions, it is very efficient. My daughter (now 15
year-old) developed allergies when she was 6 or 7 years-old and I have been
giving her homeopathic drops. The remedy she uses now is by A. Vogel, a
product from Switzerland that I found at Wild Oats market at the corner of
University and California streets; it's in a small glass bottle in a tall
rectangular box (white, I believe with some red, green and yellow lines!!)
and it works very well for Allergy to pollen, Hay Fever, Sneezing and
Watery Eyes. Now, I think that this product contains a little bit of
alcohol and you have to let it sit for a few seconds under your tongue, so
it burns a bit for a short while. But Wild Oats also has homeopathic
pellets in a small blue tube for all sorts of conditions, by the French
BOIRON laboratories. For those who have tendinitis, I use a pellet
combination of ARNICA MONTANA and RUTA GRAVEOLENS 30C for 3-4 days whenever
my arm hurts; also, the Arnica-based ointment--also available at Wild
Oats--is very effective for bruises and strains, for those of you who have
young children who tend to fall. You may want to talk to either one of the
Wild Oats nutritionists (they are very knowledgeable and patient!). Good
By all means check out homeopathic alternatives before tubes. When my daughter was 14 months she had a terrible ear infection. I gave in and tried antiobiotics, but she had a reaction to one. Our pediatrician suggested another pediatrician who uses homeopathic remedies (he had sent his own children to her). I highly recommend Dr. Ifeoma Ikenze (415) 258-9600. She is in Kentfield (Marin), is great with children, and is super knowledgeable about different remedies. The homeopathic approach took a bit longer (but who knows given that the antiobiotics didn't really do anything), but I felt much better about the fact that what they were really doing was jump-starting my daughter's body into healing itself and into fighting off future infections that could lead to ear trouble. We still use a "constitutional" weekly (or so)- remedy to strengthen her immune system. It has been over a year and a half and she has had one minor ear infection. I think the homeopathic remedies have helped her weather starting preschool without too many colds, too! Curryville
There was talk of tubes for my son when he was suffering from repeated ear infections, but I resisted and am so glad I did. You'll find pediatricians and even pediatric ENTs divided on the issue. I say, don't go there until you've exhausted ALL the possibilities, including Sally Savitz, a wonderful homeopath in the Rockridge area Oakland, whom I took Chris to last Spring (phone: 655-9644). While part of Chris's miraculous recovery my be in part due to growing out of it and also seeing a Cranio-Sacral therapist (she said his temporal bones were jammed--he's very active and falls alot and jammed temporal bones apparently block the drainage of the Eustachian tubes), I am convinced we would still be caught in the vicious cylcle of antibiotics if I hadn't decided to step outside of the "usual" approach to chronic ear infections. Apparently, chronic ear infections is one of the things for which homeopathy is especially effective, and Sally's assistant gave me some pertinent articles that I found very informative. Good luck, and if you're interested in the Cranio-sacral therapist, her name is Nancy Burke in El Cerrito (phone: 526-0115) and she's great with kids. Chris sees her now once a month for a preventative "tune-up".(But I still knock on wood everytime a cold doesn't become an ear infection--when you're a parent even superstition is worth a try). Beth
Our daughter (4 1/2 yrs.) had fluid trapped behind her eardrum for several months. My regular doctor suggested we might consider tubes. Anyway I took her to a homeopath who suggested that she chew large wads of gum, drink more water and blow up balloons. Mostly what we did was have her blow up balloons. It took her 2 days before she could blow them up by herself and she was quite excited and proud of this accomplishment. In two days she blew up 17 balloons. That was it. Apparently this helps to equalize pressure in the eustacian tubes so that the fluid can drain. A week later and another visit for a check up and we were told her hears looked great. Fluid gone.
I heartily recommend Sally Savitz, M.S., L.Ac., who is also a homeopath. She's great with kids as well as adults and thanks to her, we've finally broken the vicious cycle of antibiotics and the side effects (persistent ringworm), and Chris (my six year old son), hasn't had an ear or sinus infection for almost a year! (He was getting one every other month, every time he caught a cold, from 3 to 5 years old). She's located at 5346 College Avenue, a little south of Rockridge, and her phone number is (510) 655-9644. Beth
Good luck!
Two others I can recommend are David Bierman, 843-6042, and Daniel Donner, 655-0555. Both are Licenced Accupuncturists as well as homeopaths. My partner used to see Bierman regularly and he might be a bit cheaper. I went to see Donner when I was pregnant and he was very good, though expensive. Sophie
Does anyone have experience with Rescue Remedy? It apparently has something to do with Bach flower remedies(?) A social worker at my 87-y-o mother's retirement home has recommended it for her anxiety. I'll run this by my mom's doctor but am wondering if anyone has personal experience with it. Also, any recommendations on form (spray, water, pastilles, etc.)? Thanks. anon
If your mother is feeling anxious, the first thing that your doctor will want to do is determine the reason she's feeling anxious. Maybe she doesn't trust the social worker and doesn't like having quackery foisted upon her.
I would not recommend any form of ''Bach's Flowers'' for my elderly mother. There is no regulation whatsoever, and the pills could even be made in China. Cautious
I just purchased a bottle of Hyland's Sniffles and Sneezes for kids at Whole Foods, but before I opened it I wanted to research the ingredients. It turns out that the first active ingredient is Aconitum Napellus, which has a long history of being used as a poison! I have used Hyland's teething tablets in the past and know they too have a poisonous substance in them, but read on this network that it was only poisonous in extremely large doses and that the amount in the tablets was thus negligible. I'm VERY weary, however, to purposely give my children a known poison. Why in the world would I do that??!!! Does anyone have any educated advice on these homeopathic meds? leah
Many substances used to improve our health can be toxic in larger amounts (homeopathic or not). Homeopathic/natural/orgainc/ does not mean it can't hurt you. There are natural pesticides that can cause a lot of environmental damage.
Choose the homeopathic meds if that is what works for you and your family, and use them with your eyes wide open, as you should with any med. - anonymous
The more insidious danger with homeopathic ''remedies'' is that wasting time and money on placebo ''remedies'' will postpone the diagnosis and treatment of a problem that should have been treated immediately.
Here's a link with factual information on homeopathy, including its history: www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html. Educated
I think that it's great that you are questioning any modality that you are unfamiliar with and I suggest that you continue to take a closer look. Talk to Homeopaths and their patients about your concerns. Obviously, not all therapies are safe, regardless of how mainstream/alternative they may be. I've found however, that if you dig a little a bit into the motives that belong to the critics you will often find ignorance and/or fear. I just don't want ''Educated'' to turn you off to something that might really benefit you before you've taken the time to fully investigate for yourself. Good luck! Still Learning
Hi, All this talk of homeopathic remedies, which I would like to believe in, has me wondering two things:
1) Has the meaning of the word "homeopathy" been changed recently to mean something other than its original meaning, which was:
ho.me.op.a.thy n [G Homoopathie, fr. homoo- homeo- + -pathie -pathy] (1826): a system of medical practice that treats a disease esp. by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in healthy persons produce symptoms similar to those of the disease -- ho.meo.path nIt seems to be being used now to mean any herbal, "natural", alternative, "complementary", etc. treatment.
2) Have there been any clinical trials of these treatments, so that we can know that all these people's experience of their kids not getting ear infections anymore (etc) aren't just due to the kids growing out of it in the same way that they would if they weren't taking these treatments?
I'd be very interested to learn the answer, if anyone here knows.
At http://www.ihr.com/homeopat/research.html there is an article called "The Scientific Evidence for Homeopathic Medicines" which might answer some of your questions about clinical trials. Certainly the precise way in which homeopathy works is not fully understood, but because we don't yet understand the system by which something works doesn't mean that it isn't effective. Witness the evolution of modern scientific understanding over the past couple of centuries.
I'm pretty adamant about speaking up in defense of homeopathy. I grew up in a homeopathic household and my extended family has experienced remarkable success with it. The successes have involved many ailments that weren't things people grow out of: epileptic seizures, arthritis, Meunier's (sp?) disease.
Here's a little statistical blurb on where homeopathy is used throughout the world:
Homeopathy is particularly popular in France, England, Germany,
Greece, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and South
Africa. Approximately 40% of the French public have used homeopathic
medicines, and 39% of the French physicians have prescribed the
medicines. About 20% of German physicians occasionally utilize these
natural medicines, and 45% of Dutch physicians consider them
effective. According to a survey in the British Medical Journal (June
7, 1986), 42% of British physicians survey refer patients to
homeopathic physicians, and a New York Times article reported that
visits to British homeopaths is growing at a rate of 39% a year.
Certain alternative therapies such as herbal medicine and acupuncture have been finding increasing acceptance, even among standard practitioners of Western medicine, and there are clinical studies using placebo and double-blind methods which have supported the efficacy of SOME of these treatments. However, it is difficult to find credible research to support homeopathy.
As Joyce pointed out, there is a lot of confusion about homeopathy because the term is sometimes used interchangeably with natural/herbal/naturopathy, etc., even when these are not the same thing. For instance, arnica, a popular ingredient in homeopathic preparations, is also used in allopathic, naturopathic, and herbal concoctions, but in much much much stronger doses. I don't think we can say that the homeopathic dose (often something like 1:1,000 dilutions or more) and the 5% solution are the same thing...we certainly don't think so when the ingredient is something like belladonna, which also appears in homeopathic dilutions, but I hope you wouldn't dream of using a non-homeopathic dose on your children!
During the flu season I tried to get my husband to take echinacea, as I do. He at first didn't want to, because he associates echinacea with a friend who promotes its use as well as the use of homeopathy. I told my husband that although many people who use homeopathy also use echinacea, the echinacea in question is not being given in homeopathic doses, and furthermore, there are some well-designed studies which support the efficacy of echinacea in bolstering the immune system. (Zinc, on the other hand, is questionnable.) There are also some intriguing studies involving ginseng in prevention of cancer. However, we are not talking about homeopathic dilutions.
In 1995 the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine convened a panel to examine the possibility of developing practice guidelines for alternative medicines. The panel found that there were two impediments: One, the lack of data from well-designed clinical trials; and two, the divergent theories about the nature of health and illness even among the alternative disciplines (acupunture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, etc.)
In well-designed clinical studies, in which a homeopathic preparation is given to a randomized sample of patients, and another group is given a placebo, and both the patients and the researchers are "blind" to who got what (that's the "double-blind" part), homeopathy is no better than placebo. This has been found in studies of homeopathic preparations for pain, for warts, and for upper respiratory tract infections, etc.
However, I understand why parents might want to consider homeopathy for treatment of ear infections. Many, many parents have reported that their children have done better with homeopathic treatment than they have on a standard course of antibiotics. Here's why (I believe): Studies have found that over 80% of children with acute otitis media will improve if given _placebo_, rather than antibiotic. Furthermore, prophylactic antibiotics are not effective in _preventing recurrent_ otitis media. As we all know, antibiotics are overprescribed in this country, partly because parents and physicians want to "do something" and partly because IT IS better than nothing for nearly 20% of the cases. So if you use homeopathic treatment rather than antibiotics, you have a better than 80% chance that your kid will be fine. It's up to you as to whether you want to take that chance.
Homeopathy developed during the 19th century, at a time when people were still being cupped, bled, given emetics and all sorts of horrific treatments. It's no wonder that homeopathy was, and in many cases still can be, an attractive alternative to such violent treatments.
Many studies have demonstrated the importance of the "placebo effect." One shouldn't simply write off placebos or homeopathy as "doing nothing" - I think what they do is allow the patient to feel that she or he is DOING something, and is therefore not powerless in the face of disease. Also, it may allow the body/mind system to begin to heal itself, rather than be assaulted by some of the more violent alternatives. But I would like people to consider the possibility that in choosing homeopathy they ARE doing something, and that something is NOTHING. It is laudable to try do something, and it may be appropriate to have that something be a NOTHING, a nostrum, a placebo. I do object to the practioners and purveyors of homeopathic treatments making such profits from their tiny pills. (Not that larger profits from larger pills are any more attractive).
Think twice before asking for an antibiotic for a virus, and think twice before spending money on a homeopathic remedy when a nice warm cup of milk, or tea, or a cuddle, or a good book, might be just as salutory.
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The Tulsa Golden Hurricane blew away the Ball State Cardinals 45-13 in the GMAC Bowl for the first 11-win season (11-3) in school history. Ball State remained winless (0-5) in major college bowl games. In Stan Parrish's first game as head coach, the Cardinals generated just 225 yards of offense. Ball State's second half consisted of five 3-and-outs, and a single first down which came via penalty. Tulsa rolled up 632 yards as QB David Johnson threw for 193 yards and 3 TD's, and Tarrion Adams became the school's career leading rusher with a 207-yard, 2-TD performance. The Tulsa victory gave CUSA a 4-2 bowl record and left the MAC 0-5.
Colt McCoy's 26-yard hook-up with Quan Cosby with 16 seconds left in the game gave Texas a 24-21 win over Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. The score came just 1:54 after the Buckeye had taken a 21-17 lead on Daniel Herron's 15-yard run. After back-to-back BCS title game losses to LSU and Florida, it looked like a bit of the BCS monkey might be ready to get off of Ohio State coach Jim Tressel's back. Then, McCoy stepped into the spotlight. He completed 7-of-10 passes on the drive for 77 yards, and scrambled for 2 yards on another. It was the fifth straight bowl win for Texas, and seventh in the last eight tries.
Donald Brown rushed 29 times for 261 yards and a touchdown to help Connecticut overcome a sloppy first half and defeat Buffalo 38-20 in the International Bowl. The Big East has won all three International Bowls which matches the conference against a team from the MAC. Buffalo was the first MAC champion to play in this game as it made its first bowl appearance. The Huskies muffed two punts and a kickoff in the first half, and even Brown got into the act with one of UConn's two lost fumbles.
Utah broke out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter and went on to defeat Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl to finish 13-0. The Utes were the only team in 2008 to make it through the regular season and bowl season with an unblemished record. Utah also became the only non-BCS conference school to go to two BCS bowl games, and the Utes are 2-0 in those games. Playing without Andre Smith, the Tide's offensive guard that won the Outland Trophy, the Utes registered 8 sacks on John Parker Wilson. Utah QB Brian Johnson threw for 333 yards and 3 TD's while the Alabama offense managed just 212 total yards.
285-pound defensive tackle Ventrell Jenkins lumbered 56 yards with a recovered fumble to score the game-winning touchdown with 3:02 left in the game as Kentucky rallied for a 25-19 win over East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl. The Wildcats trailed 16-3 at halftime but David Jones returned the second half kickoff 99 yards to begin the comeback. Lones Seiber's PAT's were blocked after each of those scores, but he made two field goals from 21 and 34 yards to help his team's cause. ECU's Ben Hartman also had a PAT blocked.
Ole Miss completed a turnaround from 3-9 to 9-4 under first-year head coach Houston Nutt with a 47-34 Cotton Bowl win over favored Texas Tech. The 81 combined points set a Cotton Bowl record in the 73rd annual game and the last to be played at Cotton Bowl stadium. The game will move to the new home of the Dallas Cowboys next season. The Rebels finished the year with straight victories while the Red Raiders lost two of its last three to go 11-2.
Virginia Tech surrendered a touchdown to Cincinnati in the first 1:46 of the Orange Bowl, then scored 20 unanswered points in a 20-7 win. The victory was the first for the Hokies in a BCS game after losing a pair of Sugar Bowls and last season's Orange Bowl. It was also the first BCS victory for an ACC team since Florida State beat Virginia Tech to win the 1999 national title. The Hokies intercepted Bearcat QB Tony Pike 4 times. Virginia Tech freshman running back Darren Evans had 153 yards and a touchdown as the Hokies hit the 10-win mark for the fifth straight season.
Mark Sanchez threw for 413 yards and 4 TD's, and set a Rose Bowl record with 80 percent completions, as USC beat Penn State 38-24. In the process, the Trojans became the first team to win three consecutive Rose Bowls. The Nittany Lions saw their three-game bowl winning streak come to an end. USC led 31-7 at halftime after a 24-point outburst in the 2nd quarter.
Nebraska stormed back from a 14-3 halftime deficit with a 21-point barrage in the 3rd quarter as the Cornhuskers beat Clemson 26-21 in the Gator Bowl. The Tigers marched to the 'Husker 10-yard line with under two minutes left in the game but came away empty. Nebraska QB Joe Ganz threw two TD passes to atone for his first quarter fumble that was returned for a Clemson touchdown, and Alex Henery kicked four field goals. The Tigers were held to just 4 net yards rushing and 210 yards of total offense.
Georgia beat Michigan State 24-12 in the Capital One Bowl as Matthew Stafford threw 3 touchdown passes in the final 18 minutes. Knowshon Moreno caught the 21-yard game-clincher with 3:43 left to play as the Bulldogs notched their third straight bowl win, and the 6th in their last 7 tries.
Iowa junior running back Shonn Greene announced he would make an early exit to the NFL after rushing for 121 yards and 3 touchdowns in a 31-10 win over South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. The victory snapped a two-bowl losing streak for the Hawkeyes while the Gamecocks fell to 4-10 in bowl games. The Hawkeyes finished the season strong with six wins in their last seven games. South Carolina will enter the 2009 season on a 3-game losing streak. Stephen Garcia had a nightmare start at QB for the Gamecocks as he threw three interceptions and lost a fumble in his first four series.
LSU loves the Chick-fil-A Bowl. In 2005, the Tigers pounded Miami (Fla.) 40-3 in this game. This year, LSU rolled over Georgia Tech 38-3. The Tigers ended the regular season with losses in 3 of its last four games but took control of the Yellow Jackets with a 28-point second quarter. After Charles Scott's second TD put the Tigers up 14-3, LSU converted an onside kick. Though they were forced to punt, the Ramblin' Wreck fumbled the return and LSU soon took a 21-3 lead on Scott's third TD run. Georgia Tech also tried a fake punt from its own 22 and was stuffed well short, leading to another LSU score two plays later when freshman QB Jordan Jefferson teamed with Richard Dickson on a 25-yard touchdown.
Kansas spotted Minnesota a 14-7 lead, then reeled off 28 unanswered points en route to a 42-21 Insight Bowl win. The game marked the first time the Jayhawks made bowl appearances in consecutive seasons and they took advantage of the opportunity by claiming their third straight bowl win. Todd Reesing threw 4 TD passes for Kansas.
Boston College had its 8-game bowl winning streak snapped in a 16-14 loss to Vanderbilt at the Music City Bowl. It was Vandy's first bowl appearance since 1982 and first bowl win since 1955. The bowl victory also gave Vanderbilt a 7-6 record for its first winning season 1982. Bryant Hahnfeldt kicked a 45-yard field goal with 3:26 remaining to provide the game-winning points. The Eagles had two possessions afterward but went 3-and-out on the first effort, and were intercepted on the final try.
Oregon State won its fifth straight bowl game in a 3-0 defensive battle over Pitt in the Sun Bowl. It was the lowest score for a bowl game in 50 seasons - Air Force and TCU battled to a scoreless tie in the Cotton Bowl at the end of the 1958 campaign. Running back Jacquizz Rodgers and receiver James Rodgers (brothers) both missed the game with shoulder injuries for the Beavers. During the regular season, the duo provided 22 touchdowns, 2,107 yards of offense, and 2,925 all-purpose yards. The bowl loss was the third straight for Pitt.
Houston avenged a regular season loss to Air Force with a 34-28 victory in the Armed Forces Bowl. It was the first bowl win for the Cougars since 1980, snapping an 8-game bowl losing streak, and it came in Kevin Sumlin's first season as head coach. Air Force never led but the contest was tied twice, at 7-7 and 17-17, as the Cougars managed to keep the Falcons at arms length. Case Keenum threw for 252 yards and 2 TD's for Houston. The Falcons lost this game to California last year and are winless in their last three bowl appearances.
Oregon pulled away from Oklahoma State late in the game to win the Holiday Bowl 42-31. The Cowboys built a 17-7 lead in the first half, but the second half turned into a see-saw battle with five lead changes until the Ducks scored 14 unanswered points in the 4th quarter. Jeremiah Masoli, a JUCO transfer QB, ran for 106 yards and 3 TD's and passed for 258 yards and another touchdown. But it was LeGarrette Blount's determined 29-yard touchdown run that put the game away with 3:01 to play. Blunt leaped one diving defender and plowed through several others on his way to the end zone. The two teams accounted for 1,034 yards as the Ducks outgained the Cowboys 565-469. Oklahoma State QB Zac Robinson threw for 329 and a score, and ran for 54 yards and a TD.
Rice beat Western Michigan 38-14 in the Texas Bowl for its first bowl win since the 1953 season. The Broncos remain winless in four bowl efforts. Rice led 38-0 before Western Michigan scored two fourth quarter touchdowns. The Owls' stellar QB Chase Clement threw 3 TD passes, and ran for 72 yards and another score. He also caught a TD pass from Jarett Dillard in a reversal of roles - Dillard caught 60 TD passes in his career to smash the NCAA record by 10. Clement has thrown 51 TD passes to Dillard to set an NCAA career record for most touchdown passes by a duo.
Maryland scored a season-high 42 points - and needed it - to turn back Nevada 42-35 in the Humanitarian Bowl at Boise, Idaho. Playing on Boise State's blue "smurf turf" field, the Terrapins' Da'Rel Scott ran 14 times for 174 yards and two crucial touchdowns in the 4th quarter. Scott was held out for the first 2-1/2 quarters to serve as punishment for being one of seven players, including four starters, who broke curfew during the bowl trip.
Missouri beat Northwestern 30-23 in the Alamo Bowl on a 7-yard pass to Jeremy Maclin in overtime. The Wildcats overtime possession ended with an incomplete pass on a desperation heave from the 32-yard line after QB C.J. Bacher was sacked and fumbled for a 24-yard loss on 3rd down. Missouri's Jeff Wolfert kicked a 37-yard field goal to tie it with 2:49 left, but missed a 44-yarder that would have won it on the final play of regulation. Three interceptions by Daniel, and a 303-yard, 3 TD passing performance by Bacher kept Northwestern in the lead for much of the game.
Rutgers rallied from a 17-6 halftime deficit to beat N.C. State 29-23 in the PapaJohns.com Bowl. The Scarlet Knights pocketed their third straight bowl win, all with Mike Teel behind center. The Scarlet Knights had never won a bowl game until the 2006 Texas Bowl and made just two bowl appearances prior to 2006. N.C. State head coach Tom O'Brien had his personal 7-game bowl winning streak snapped as he suffered just his second-ever bowl loss (7-2).
Louisiana Tech beat Northern Illinois 17-10 in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana for its first bowl victory since a 1977 appearance in the same game. This year's edition was waged between a pair of at-large selections after neither the SEC or Big 12 could supply an eligible team. The Huskies scored first, but the Bulldogs answered with a 97-yard kickoff return by Phillip Livas. Daniel Porter's 11-yard run in the 2nd quarter proved to be the winning points as the teams combined for just 575 yards of offense. Defensive back Weldon Brown had 14 tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery for Louisiana Tech.
California LB Zach Follet forced a fumble by Miami QB Jacory Harris with 3:28 left and Nate Longshore's pass to Anthony Miller two plays later gave the Bears a 24-17 Emerald Bowl win. LB Charles Johnson recovered the fumble at the 9-yard line and returned it to Miami's 2 to set up the winning score.
Florida State beat Wisconsin 42-13 in the Champs Sports Bowl. It's the worst loss in a bowl game for the Badgers since they were blistered 44-8 by Washington in the 1959 season Rose Bowl. It was FSU's largest margin of victory ever in a bowl game. The 'Noles improved to 21-14-2 in bowl games, including a 13-0-1 mark from 1982-1995.
Pat White threw 3 TD passes to lead West Virginia to a 4th straight bowl win and became the first QB to start four bowl games and go 4-0 in bowls. The 31-30 victory over North Carolina in the Meineke Car Care Bowl also raised Bill Stewart's bowl record to 2-0 as the Mountaineers' head coach and his inaugural season record to 9-4 (Stewart was the interim head coach in last year's Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma). North Carolina fell to 8-5.
Howard Schnellenberger improved to 6-0 lifetime, and 2-0 at FAU, as a head coach in college football games as his Owls beat Central Michigan 24-21 in the Motor City Bowl in Detroit. The win gave FAU a 7-6 record overall. Central Michigan fell to 8-5 and completed the season with three consecutive losses.
Notre Dame jumped on Hawaii early and routed the homestanding Warriors 49-21 in the Hawaii Bowl to end a bowl game losing streak that extended back to the 1993 season. In winning their first bowl game after nine failed attempts, the Irish averted their first consecutive losing seasons since 1985-1986. Those seasons bridged Gerry Faust's last campaign and Lou Holtz' first. Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen was 22-of-26 for 406 yards and 5 TD's. Hawaii went 7-7 under first-year head coach Greg McMackin, the defensive coordinator under June Jones. McMackin was promoted when Jones left for SMU after guiding Hawaii to a 12-0 regular season and a loss to Georgia in last year's Sugar Bowl.
TCU defeated Boise State 17-16 in the Poinsettia Bowl for its 4th straight bowl win, and secured a double-digit win total for the fifth time in the last seven seasons. The Horned Frogs (11-2) trailed 13-0 in the second quarter before Aaron Brown scored on a 16-yard run with just 24 seconds remaining in the half. TCU took the lead on a 22-yard run by Joseph Turner with 8:59 left in the game. The loss was the first for Boise State (12-1) since it fell 41-38 to East Carolina in last year's Hawaii Bowl.
Britt Barefoot kicked the tying field goal from 46 yards out with 2:50 left in regulation, then banked in a 39-yarder off the left upright in overtime to lift Southern Miss past Troy 30-27 in the New Orleans Bowl. Troy's 28-yard field goal attempt in overtime was blocked to secure the fifth straight victory for Southern Miss who trailed 27-17 halfway through the 4th quarter. The Golden Eagles are used to comebacks - after starting the season 2-6, they rebounded with four straight victories to reach this game.
Arizona ended a nine-year absence from the postseason with a 31-21 Las Vegas Bowl victory over BYU. The Wildcats scored 21 straight points after BYU had taken a 14-10 lead early in the 3rd quarter. QB Willie Tuitama threw 2 TD passes and ran for another score, and WR Mike Thomas set a new PAC-10 record with his 259th career reception.
USF outscored Memphis 17-0 in the second half to pull away for a 41-14 win in the inaugural St. Petersburg Bowl at Tropicana Field. Matt Grothe threw for 236 yards and 3 scores, and added 82 yards rushing as he joined West Virginia QB Pat White as the Big East's only players to surpass 10,000 yards in total offense.
Colorado State snapped a three-game bowl losing streak with a come-from-behind 40-35 win over Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl. The Rams scored 20 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to overcome a 28-20 deficit. Gartrell Johnson ran for 285 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 6 passes for 89 yards, as the Rams racked up 618 yards of offense.
Wake Forest avenged a regular season 24-17 loss to Navy by rallying for a 29-19 win in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl. The Midshipmen scored the first 13 points of the game on a touchdown and two field goals, but the Deacons scored the final 15 points of the game, securing the win on Rich Belton's 35-yard run with 1:02 remaining.
Computer Success
For just the fifth time in 16 years, the Congrove Computer Rankings' preseason forecast missed on picking at least one of the national championship game participants. Like most, the CCR pegged Georgia and Ohio State to advance to the title game. Oklahoma was preseason ranked No. 9 and Florida was No. 6.
Still, the computer has picked at least one of the national title game contestants 11 times in its 16-year history (1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007).
The team it picked to win the title has played in the title game seven times (1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005), and won the title three times (1993, 1998, 1999).
For 2008, it projected the exact regular season record of 22 teams,
doubling the total of 11 from a year ago. It came within one victory on 26 others.
The computer correctly picked the winner in 75.7% of all games
played in 2008 while beating the spread in 52% of the games, almost exactly the same percentages it had prior to the 2006 bowl games.
During the season, the computer went 11-1 or better on the weekly picks of 25 teams, including unbeaten marks with Akron, Baylor, Iowa State, Michigan State, and SMU.
Against the spread, the computer was 10-1 with Ohio and Troy. It was 9-2 with Miami (Ohio) and 8-2 with Texas Tech. It missed just three times with Bowling Green, Clemson, Marshall, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, San Diego State, and South Carolina.
The computer had an .875 winning percentage straight up on Big 12
teams, and .860 on PAC-10 teams. It was 64-8 with Big 12 North teams.
The computer hit 71.6% against the spread on MAC games, and 58.9 percent on Big East games. It was .500 or better with 87 of the 120 teams.
The computer's preseason rankings correctly tabbed the winners
of five conferences - ACC, Big Ten, Mountain West, PAC-10, and WAC. It also nailed the division winners of the ACC Coastal and CUSA West. Nine more conferences or divisions were won by teams that the computer
picked to finish second.
Bowl First-Timer
Despite the explosion in the number of bowl games, they have featured just one first-time participant in each of the last three seasons. This year, it's Buffalo. Last year it was FAU. In 2006, it was Middle Tennessee.
First time in a long time
Of the teams that made it this year, these had the longest wait to get back to a bowl game:
Vanderbilt, 1982
Arizona, 1998
Louisiana Tech, 2001
Mississippi, 2003
North Carolina, 2004
Pittsburgh, 2004
Still Waiting
These teams have the longest continuing current streaks of bowl absence:
FIU, Never
Louisiana-Lafayette, Never
Louisiana-Monroe, Never
Western Kentucky, Never
New Mexico State, 1960
Kent State, 1972
Temple, 1979
Eastern Michigan, 1987
Baylor, 1994
Duke, 1995
Army, 1996
Utah State, 1997
Idaho, 1998
San Diego State, 1998
Bowl Appearance Streak
These teams have the longest continuing current streaks of bowl appearances:
Florida State, 27
Florida, 18
Virginia Tech, 16
Georgia, 12
Georgia Tech, 12
Bowl Winning Streak
Utah, 8 (1996) - Beat Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl.
Oregon State, 5 (2002) - Beat Pitt 3-0 in the Sun Bowl.
Texas, 5 (2003) - Beat Ohio State 24-21 in the Fiesta Bowl.
California, 4 (2004) - Beat Miami (Fla.) 24-17 in the Emerald Bowl.
LSU, 4 (2004) - Beat Georgia Tech 38-3 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
TCU, 4 (2003) - Beat Boise State 17-16 in the Poinsettia Bowl.
West Virginia, 4 (2004) - Beat North Carolina 31-30 in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.
(Note: Boston College had its' 8-bowl winning streak snapped with a 16-14 loss to Vanderbilt in the Music City Bowl. That was the longest such streak in the nation entering the bowl season.)
Bowl Losing Streak
Northwestern, 6 (1948) - Lost 30-23 to Missouri in overtime in the Alamo Bowl.
Ball State, 5 (Never) - Lost 45-13 to Tulsa in the GMAC Bowl.
Georgia Tech, 4 (2004) - Lost 38-3 to LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Western Michigan, 4 (Never) - Lost 38-14 to Rice in the Texas Bowl.
(Note: Notre Dame snapped its 9-bowl losing streak with a 49-21 win at Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl. It was the first Irish bowl victory since 1993. Houston ended an 8-bowl losing streak with a 34-28 win over Air Force in the Armed Forces Bowl. It was the first bowl victory for the Cougars since 1980. And finally, Rice snapped a 4-bowl losing streak with its first bowl win since 1953 when it defeated Western Michigan 38-14 in the Texas Bowl).
Bowl Winless (at least 1 appearance)
Ball State, 0-5 - Lost 45-13 to Tulsa in the GMAC Bowl.
Western Michigan, 0-4 - Lost 38-14 to Rice in the Texas Bowl.
Ohio, 0-3
Central Florida, 0-2
Akron, 0-1
Arkansas State, 0-1
Buffalo, 0-1 - lost 38-20 to Connecticut in the Independence Bowl.
Kent State, 0-1
Middle Tennessee, 0-1
Best Bowl Winning Percentage
(Minimum 20 appearances. Source: College Football Data Warehouse. Updated with this year's results)
USC, .660 (31-16) - Took over 1st-place with win over Penn State in this year's Rose Bowl.
Penn State, .659 (26-13-2) - Fell from first with loss to USC in this year's Rose Bowl.
Mississippi, .625 (20-12) - Defeated Texas Tech in this year's Cotton Bowl.
Georgia Tech, .595 (22-15) - Lost to LSU in this year's Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Oklahoma, .583 (24-17-1) - Lost to Florida in this year's BCS Championship game.
Most Bowl Wins
Alabama, 31 - lost 31-17 to Utah in the Sugar Bowl.
Southern Cal, 31 - Beat Penn State 38-24 in the Rose Bowl.
Penn State, 26 - lost 38-24 to USC in the Rose Bowl.
Georgia, 25 - Beat Michigan State 24-12 in the Capital One Bowl.
Tennessee, 25
Texas, 25 - Beat Ohio State 24-21 in the Fiesta Bowl.
Oklahoma, 24 - lost 24-14 to Florida in the BCS Championship.
Nebraska, 23 - Beat Clemson 26-21 in the Gator Bowl.
Georgia Tech, 22 - lost 38-3 to LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Florida State, 21 - Beat Wisconsin 42-13 in the Champs Sports Bowl.
LSU, 21 - Beat Georgia Tech 38-3 in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
4 teams finished the regular season unbeaten: Alabama, Ball State, Boise State and Utah. However, Alabama and Ball State each lost in their respective conference championship games, and Boise State lost to TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl, leaving Utah as the only
This was Boise State's third undefeated regular season in the last five years. Utah went undefeated in 2004 and beat Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl. This year, the Utes defeated Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.
Only Hawaii made it through the 2007 regular season unscathed, and the Warriors were blown out 41-10 by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. It was the first season since 2002 that no team recorded a perfect record through the bowl season.
Boise State was the only team to finish the entire 2006 season undefeated, while Texas did it in 2005. Auburn, USC and Utah all had unblemished records in 2004.
WINLESS TEAMS: Washington was the only winless team.
Last season, FIU beat North Texas in its final regular season game to avoid being the only winless team. FIU was one of two schools to go winless in 2006 (Duke was the other).
WINLESS AGAINST FBS: 3 teams failed to defeat a FBS school: SMU, Washington, and Western Kentucky.
FBS vs. FCS: The divisions were renamed late in 2006. 1-A was given the new moniker of Football Bowl Subdivision
(FBS) while 1-AA was labeled the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
FBS teams went 85-2 (.977) against FCS teams this season, and are 375-37 (.910) since 2003.
Here are the losses by the FBS this season:
Cal Poly 29, San Diego State 27 (Week 1)
New Hampshire 28, Army 10 (Week 2)
This year, 82 different FBS teams participated in a total of 87 games that pit the FCS against the FBS. Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Texas Tech and Western Kentucky each played two such games.
ACC teams played more games versus FCS schools than any other conference. Here is the number of FCS games for each conference:
STREAKS: Utah has won 14 straight games. The Utes defeated Alabama 31-17 in the Fiesta Bowl.
Boise State had its 12-game winning streak snapped in a 17-16 loss to TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl. The Broncos have still won 19 consecutive home games, 49 straight regular season home games, and have never lost at home to a fellow WAC conference member (32-0). Overall, Boise State has won 38 straight conference home games since losing to Idaho in the final game of the 1998 season when it was a member of the Big West.
Florida has won 10 straight. Beat Oklahoma 24-14 in the BCS Championship game.
USC has won 10 straight. Beat Penn State 38-24 in the Rose Bowl.
Oklahoma has won 23 straight home games. Lost 24-14 to Florida in the BCS Championship game.
BYU has won 18 consecutive home games. Lost 31-21 to Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl.
Washington has the longest losing streak in the nation at 14 games, and has lost 8 straight home games. Season complete.
SMU has lost 10 straight overall, 17 straight conference games, 15 consecutive road games, and 21 straight to FBS teams. Season complete.
Iowa State has lost 10 straight overall, and 17 consecutive road games. Season complete.
NEW COACHES: The 2007 season featured 24 new head coaches. Nine led their team to a bowl game. This year began with 18 2008 coaching changes, and grew to 19 when Tommy Bowden stepped down from Clemson on October 13.
Only one team with a new coach failed to defeat an FBS school - SMU.
COACHES WHO WON'T BE BACK: The 2008 season wasn't close to being over when jobs started opening up for 2009. (See Coaching Changes for details):
As of today's date, there will be 21 new college football coaches in the FBS ranks next season.
The 21st became available when Boston College fired Jeff Jagodzinksi on January 7th after he met with the NFL's New York Jets about their head coaching vacancy.
20 positions were filled by December 30 with the announcement on that date by New Mexico State that the Aggies had hired UCLA defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker.
Only 3 of the new hires have served previously as a FBS head coach - Gene Chizik, Brady Hoke, who switched from Ball State to San Diego State; and Bill Snyder, who returned to Kansas State for a second stint.
Of the remaining 17:
8 were offensive coordinators in their most-recent job - Doug Marrone (New Orleans Saints to Syracuse); Dave Clawson (Tennessee to Bowling Green); Dan Mullen (Florida to Mississippi State); Mike Locksley (Illinois to New Mexico); Steve Sarkisian (USC to Washington); Dave Christensen (Missouri to Wyoming); Stan Parrish (Ball State to Ball State); Mike Haywood (Notre Dame to Miami University).
5 were defensive coordinators - Gary Andersen (Utah); Tim Beckman (Oklahoma State); Paul Rhoads (Auburn); Ron English (Louisville); and DeWayne Walker (UCLA).
1 was a wide receivers coach - Dabo Swinney (Clemson), who took over as interim coach when Tommy Bowden steeped down in midseason.
1 was an NFL head coach - Lane Kiffin (Oakland Raiders).
2 were FCS head coaches - Danny Hope (Eastern Kentucky. Spent this season as OC at Purdue); Rich Ellerson (Cal Poly).
Army - Stan Brock out. Rich Ellerson in.
Auburn - Tommy Tuberville out. Gene Chizik in.
Ball State - Brady Hoke out. Stan Parrish in.
Boston College - Jeff Jagodzinski out.
Bowling Green - Gregg Brandon out. Dave Clawson in.
Clemson - Tommy Bowden out. Dabo Swinney in.
Eastern Michigan - Jeff Genyk out. Ron English in.
Iowa State - Gene Chizik out. Paul Rhoads in.
Kansas State - Ron Prince out. Bill Snyder in.
Miami (O.) - Shane Montgomery out. Michael Haywood in.
Mississippi State - Sylvester Croom out. Dan Mullen in.
New Mexico - Rocky Long out. Mike Locksley in.
New Mexico State - Hal Mumme out. DeWayne Walker in.
San Diego State - Chuck Long out. Brady Hoke in.
Syracuse - Greg Robinson out. Doug Marrone in.
Tennessee - Phillip Fulmer out. Lane Kiffin in.
Toledo - Tom Amstutz out. Tim Beckman in.
Utah State - Brent Guy out. Gray Andersen in.
Washington - Ty Willingham out. Steve Sarkisian in.
Wyoming - Joe Glenn out. Dave Christensen in.
Purdue - Joe Tiller announced in January that this would be his last season, and former assistant Danny Hope was hired away from Eastern Kentucky to become his successor. Tiller was 87-62 in 12 seasons at Purdue, and 126-92-1 when you include his 6 seasons at Wyoming from 1991-1996. Purdue was just 4-8 (2-6, Big Ten) this year.


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Tips To Party Poolside in Vegas
March is a jam-packed month. In just 31 days we're celebrating Spring Break, March Madness, Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's, not to mention it's Daylight Saving Time and we'll be ushering in the first day of Spring. Although these events are important, the 75 degree weather we've been enjoying in Vegas has us thinking of just one thing…the start of Vegas pool season! We can almost smell the suntan lotion and chlorine….
To get you ready for the Vegas pool season, we thought we'd provide you with a few pointers on how to party poolside in Vegas. We'd love to hear your tips and pointers too!
- Go local. If you're visiting Vegas and want a different experience apart from the crowds go local. There are plenty of options (like the M, wink, wink) that are just a few miles from the Strip that provide beautiful pools, amenities and service - often at a much better price.
- Reserve a cabana. If you are planning to make a day of it, we suggest paying the extra money for a cabana. These covered areas are great retreats from the sun and usually come equipped with plush sofas, flat-screen TVs, sound systems, refrigerators, misters and sometimes even your own personal attendant. Here at the M, you can even receive an in-cabana massage from our four-star spa if you're willing to spend a little extra money.
- Use sunscreen. If you're visiting our wonderful sun-filled city for the first time, the Vegas sun is relentless. Plan accordingly and bring sunscreen. You don't want to be sitting in your hotel room with a bottle of aloe while your friends are getting ready to head out for a night on the town.
- Bring friends. Everything is better if you have a buddy…or two. The cabanas are usually large enough to fit 8-10 people, so split the costs and have a great afternoon with your friends.
- Celebrate responsibly. Remember, drinking in the sun will get you inebriated faster than normal. Be respectful of others and responsible when it comes to consuming alcoholic beverages and always off-set with water.
- Choose wisely. There are plenty of options for pools in Vegas – local, Strip, club, European, family. If you want to make sure you have a good time, do your research. Check the pool websites, chat forums and call the venues to make sure you know about the costs and the atmosphere upfront. The last thing you want is to show up ready for a family day at the pool only to realize the pool is European.
Current pool hours (until our grand opening) here at the M are 10-6 pm daily (operation out of DayDream). Call 702-797-1800 for more pool information.
Hours of Operation:
Villaggio del Sole
April 1 Grand Opening
Daily 9 am – 8 pm
DayDream Pool Club
April 16 Grand Opening
Thursday, Saturday & Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Hotel guests and ladies 21+ complimentary
Local $10
Non-Locals $15