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Friday, January 20, 2012
Pass The Page - Blog Hop
As soon as I received this photo of Alison's beautiful "Winter Sun" layout, I got to work on my own page.
vintage tags.
Thank you so much for stopping by and now you can move on to Jemma's blog to see what inspired her from my layout. There is a prize for those who comment on each blog. If you would like to start at the beginning please visit Julie over at Letting the Days Roll By.
I cannot wait to visit everyone's blog to see each transformation and interpretation!
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Love how you've interpreted Alison's page and made it your own...and the papers are just perfect.ReplyDelete
Ooo... another total change of colour scheme - but you have also kept the same basic structure as the inspiration page. I love the punched edge on the top layer of paper, also the torn piece with the two ladies peeping out at the viewer. The little heart embellishment is such a cool idea.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the little present of the downloadable journalling tags - how nice they are (and how nice of you)!
I'm enjoying this blog hop - it is really interesting to see what elements one person takes from another. Plenty of inspiration from all these layouts.ReplyDelete
Love what you did Ginger, and that it's now back to a multi-pic LO...can't wait to see the final one!!ReplyDelete
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Fabulous! I love how you have changed the photo number and added some very "Ginger" touches. Actually, before I move on I'm going back for another little look - I want to see those ladies again, they balance your page so wellReplyDelete
A fab LO Ginger :) I'm loving how all the LO's are changing along the way. Particularly love the colour scheme you've chosen, it really suits the photosReplyDelete
I love everything about this-colors, papers, photos...!ReplyDelete
Cool. Completely different colour scheme but you can see where the inspiration came from. I'm really enjoying this Blog HopReplyDelete
Fab layout, love the pictures and the background paper with writing on! xReplyDelete
I love everything about this fab page!ReplyDelete
Fascinating! Love your top and bottom edges edge and punchinella look paper behind the photo (Helen, I think, has done that too, earlier on!). The design on your lovely tags echoes the curvy edges of the journalling spots in Alison's ... very striking page!ReplyDelete
Great page! loving the textures & monochrome patterned papersReplyDelete
How fun!!! I love how you shared the elements that inspired you in Alison's page and your resulting page is fantastic! I love some many things about it!!! Off to start from the start! :)ReplyDelete
That's a lovely page Ginger. I love how you took Alison's linear design and made it your own.ReplyDelete
Thanks too for the vintage tag download. Just my thing!! Enjoying the hop and seeing everyones different take.
Aha, now its starting to look more like mine! I love the colours and papers you've used here and that journalling spot is amazing!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Ginger - how nice to finally be able to say so too! I love the various patterns & textures you'd incorporated within a very limited colour palette - and can now see exactly where you took inspiration!ReplyDelete
Oh the sketch is the same, but the pages are so totally different. What fun this hop around is turning out to be!! Nicely done layout!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFri Jan 20, 03:12:00 PM 2012
I love everything about this page! The colours are beautiful, and the ladies are fab. I just bought that punch yesterday - can't wait to use it now :)ReplyDelete
I've missed you!ReplyDelete
Wonderful layout Ginger, it's beautiful!
Oh now, you have really made it your own Ginger and your chosen colours look fantastic! I love this layout, the combination of the angular and the curved really makes it.ReplyDelete
I have been singing in my mind the song 'Afternoon Delight' for days now & wow here is you LO about it Ginger! Love your colour change from Alison's page, & love your hand journaling too, with top photos. Lovely hopping along with you. xxReplyDelete
And also thank you for sharing your Vintage Tags Ginger..I have downloaded them now.ReplyDelete
having fun here looking at all these pages! I love your take on the page and what you have created is totally my style :-) I can easily imagine making this page. Love the use of the BG basics and the block title as well as the two photos and the perfectly coloured and placed buttons! An all round gorgeous page!ReplyDelete
What a cool layout! I love it when people scrapbook the everyday...I need to better with that. Love the blues and those vintage ladies!!!ReplyDelete
Another who loves the vintage ladies. Great to see how you've taken the particular elements from Alison's page to create your own. Amazing how much it has changed from the beginning. What a fun idea.ReplyDelete
Isn't it amazing how you can use the same basic elements, just change colors and topic and it looks so different, excellent work and I love those vintage ladies :)ReplyDelete
oh wow, a great page. Love your choice of papers and those fab ladies.ReplyDelete
I love your page and your explanation of the inspiration you took really adds to the story. I am now going to put one of those notebook edge punches on my must buy list.ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking part and thank-you too for the download.
I love love love your LO! I really like the monochrome blueish colour and linear style. Such fun watching all these pages evolve! xxxReplyDelete
Understanding what inspiration people see in other's layouts is so fascinating. I love your linear design and momochrome scheme too!ReplyDelete
Another cracker - and so very different from the very first LO!ReplyDelete
Love how different yet similar everyone's is looking. Great page Ginger.ReplyDelete


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But it turns out that the champions of Main Street America got more money last year from a group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch than any other single source.
NFIB and its affiliated groups received $2.5 million from Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a conservative advocacy group with deep ties to the Koch empire. Of the five men that sit on the group's board, four are current or former employees of Koch companies and one is a friend of Charles Koch's.
Freedom Partners gave the NFIB $1.5 million last year, the biggest single contribution the federation received, according to tax records. The Koch-backed group gave three other NFIB-affiliated group another $1 million, making Freedom Partners among the top two biggest contributors to those groups, records show.
The big-money donations are raising questions about whose agenda NFIB is serving, that of mom-and-pop businesses or the captains of big industry.
Lisa Gilbert of the government watchdog group Public Citizen said the NFIB is "taking the name of small business in vain."
"The idea that Koch brothers money in some way is going to help small businesses is laughable," Gilbert said. "What they're buying is the ability to help set the agenda."
And that agenda has included taking the lead on the lawsuit challenging Obamacare (NFIB v. Sebelius) that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. They also opposed increasing income tax rates on people making $250,000 or more, even though the vast majority of small businesses aren't affected by the rate hike.
NFIB spokeswoman Jean Card said the organization brings in the bulk of its revenue, about $86 million, from dues its 350,000 members pay. Members, she said, set the group's agenda.
Any suggestion to the contrary, is "simply not true."
"We do what our members tell us to do. We've been doing it since 1943," she said.
On taxes, the organization asked its members in 2010 if the federal government should extend all the Bush-era individual tax rates, 89% said yes. In November 2010 they asked members if Congress should repeal the Affordable Care Act and 93% said yes, Card said.
Freedom Partners advocates for lower taxes and supports NFIB's work on reducing government regulations, group spokesman James Davis said. Many of the group's more than 200 members started small businesses.
"Freedom Partners, many of the businesses that are represented -- and I can't prove this to you because I'm not going to give you a list of our businesses -- but they are small businesses," he said. "They aren't publicly traded companies."
Robert Tappan, a spokesman for Koch Industries, said the company's roots are as a small business.
"Koch supports small businesses all over the country through our relationships with our vendors and suppliers and we support wholeheartedly the fundamental mission of NFIB --principled entrepreneurship," he said.
This isn't the first time NFIB has taken money from big corporate interests. In 2011, NFIB took $850,000 from the nation's top insurance industry trade group as part of a campaign to repeal a key Obamacare tax. The back-channel transfer by America's Health Insurance Plans to the NFIB allowed insurers to fund a much more politically popular ally in the fight against a tax on health care premiums.


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I have been thinking about it and wonder if/how our reaction to the situation would be different today. It could be a great scenario for John Quinones series Primetime: What Would You Do? It is a hidden camera show that captures how people react to real-life ethical dilemmas that call for action. Excellent show.
A few of my family members went on a day trip to Atlantic City. We left early in the morning and were not expected to arrive home until well after midnight. Since we were getting home late, we decided to stay over night at my parent's house. We woke to a loud banging at the front door. My Aunt thought it was my sister coming home late. My sister was asleep in her bed.
It was a man standing alone on the porch pounding on the front door with his fist. It was 3:00 a.m. He was yelling "Domestic violence! Domestic violence!" Now the whole household was awake - except for my Dad who can sleep through anything. Looking out the window, there was no one else in the street.
What would you do?
I would love to hear your comments! I will share how the incident played out for us in the next post.


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Hey, everyone, come on, grab your friends! We'll go to very distant lands!
Jake and Finn have stopped playing with BMO and are back for a second round of Adventure Time trade paperback mathematics! Adventure Time volume two collects issues five through nine of the series that's sweeter than Peppermint Butler. Within these flippin' sweet pages are stories of Finn and Jake turning into robots, traveling in Princess Bubblegum's time machine, and laying some smack down on the Ice King. Make your kids (or, hell, yourself) happy and pick it up!
Liches and zombies need not apply.
Scott Snyder just finished what is sure to become a classic Joker story in the main Batman series, but, before he made a name for himself, Snyder wrote one of the creepiest runs of Detective Comics ever. Set during the period of time where Dick Grayson was Batman, this extended run has an entirely different tone from other Batman books as Grayson is all about the sarcasm and acrobatics, both brought to life by Jock's expressive pencils. Faced with a complicated murder mystery to solve, Grayson must team-up with Commissioner Gordon to crack the case. Not only do Gordon and Grayson share sleuthing duties, but the story is also evenly split between them. Gordon must deal with the arrival of his prodigal son, James, Jr., who may or may not be entirely sane. Snyder is incredibly dept at pacing horror and suspense on the page, a talent uses handily during many of Gordon and James, Jr.'s scenes together. Just remember to watch out for that water running under the bathroom door.
One thing you will certainly not find in Image Comics Five Weapons miniseries is a sorting hat.
That just makes it all the more important to choose wisely when you're enrolling in The School of Five Weapons, because the weapon you choose will define the rest of your life. Knives, staves, archery, exotics, and guns may be deadly, but they have nothing on the brain of Tyler, the most recent arrival to the premiere assassin school. Join Jimmie Robinson (Bomb Queen), handling both art and writing duties, as he leads you through the halls of the deadliest high school in the country.
Just don't call it Harry Potter with guns.
Talking raccoons make every comic better.
Brian Michael Bendis got to sample the Guardians of the Galaxy in his recent run on Avengers Assemble, but now he launches deep into the stars with the beginning of another ongoing Guardians of the Galaxy series. The first point one issue details the origins of Starlord, the boy from Earth who grows-up to lead the meanest bunch of space police in the universe. With crisp, detailed artwork from Steve McNiven (Civil War), the addition of Iron Man, and the eminent Marvel Studios film adaptation the only reason to skip this book is if you're off planet.
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Terrebonne Parish voters have an important issue to decide on May 4 and in early voting that continues through Saturday.
Terrebonne Parish voters have an important issue to decide on May 4 and in early voting that continues through Saturday.
They are being asked for permission to have the parish join the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District.
Terrebonne's 40-year agreement with the water district to buy its water for 3 cents per 1,000 gallons is coming to an end next year.
As a result, Terrebonne must either join the district, a move that will come with a 2.11-mill property tax, or choose to simply pay substantially increased fees for the water they use.
Neither option is attractive, but the financial realities are clear.
The new tax will equate to $15.83 per year for a homeowner whose home is worth $150,000. While no one likes the idea of more taxes, the dollar figure is low, and the benefit is great.
The possibility of paying a nominally larger tax is also more attractive than the alternative, which could be an increase of at least $4 a month on local water bills. That would come out to $48 a year, at a minimum.
The rate could be higher based on the negotiations that would have to take place between Terrebonne's Consolidated Waterworks District and the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District. Keep in mind, too, that Terrebonne's options are very limited when it comes to securing a long-term source to supply it with fresh water.
On the other hand, if the parish votes to join the district, the millage would come with the added benefit of membership on the board. Terrebonne Parish would get four board seats if it joins the Bayou Lafourche district. No parish would have more board seats than Terrebonne. Lafourche has four seats, while Assumption and Ascension parishes have two each.
In other words, a tax would ensure representation on the public agency that oversees the district. An increased user fee would come with no such representation. If Terrebonne Parish rejects joining the district, greatly increased water fees will come about and Terrebonne will have no control over those increases.
It is a decision each voter must make for himself or herself. But on this issue, the slight tax increase could be the best of two unattractive choices. Voting to join the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District is undoubtedly the best option.
Because of the sense the tax option makes, the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the measure.
"The 2.11 mills required for membership in the district is much less costly than the water bills we could expect to see if the parish does not become a member of (the district)," said Jennifer Armand, chairwoman of the chamber's Board of Directors.
The parish president has voiced his support as well.
"We are either going to pay it one way without representation, or we pay it the other way with representation," said Michel Claudet, Terrebonne Parish president.
The idea of paying more money for fresh water is an unfortunate fact of life that is dictated by the fact that the parish uses a lot more water now than it did in 1974 when the current contract was negotiated and approved.
Voting to join the Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District is our best option. By doing so, Terrebonne gains Fresh Water District board seats and receives a voice and vote in all decisions. In addition, Terrebonne is able to maintain reasonable fresh water rates and have a voice in setting those rates in the future.
A vote to join is a vote to control our own destiny.
Editorials represent the opinions of the newspaper, not of any individual.


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Things aren't quite as hot in startup land as they were this summer, with valuations taking a a slight hit across various stages during the third quarter, according to a new report out this week from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Nonetheless, as you can see in the chart above, valuations remain much stronger than in 2010 or 2011.
"As might be expected, there have been significant fluctuations in pre-money valuations over this multiyear period, including a dramatic decline in valuations during late 2008 through early 2009 and a return to earlier levels in mid-2010, most likely correlating to the financial crisis and its aftermath," the authors of the report write. "Since late 2011, however, there has been a substantial and broad-based increase in valuations, and they currently are significantly higher than at any other time in the last five years."
The authors of the report said it remains a "favorable time" to be an entrepreneur, with changes in the way deals are structured adding to the founder-friendly terms for startup founders.
"The buzz in the start-up environment has become more founder-favorable in recent years, with a number of prominent investors (many of whom were successful founders themselves) strongly espousing founders' rights and interests, both for the companies in which they invest and across the start-up community generally," they said. "Not all founders benefit from this attitude, but some, especially those who have founded successful companies before, can."
Meanwhile, "up rounds" are still getting done, meaning that startups are raising rounds at higher valuations than previous rounds. Seventy three percent of deals were "up rounds," compared to 77 percent of all rounds in the second quarter. That compares to less than 50 percent three years ago. It is worth noting that the statistics in the report are based solely on venture financing transactions in which Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati represented either the company or one or more of the investors.
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Richard Ball: Economics Professor, Tree Man, Organic Gardener.Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Tucked away on Featherbed Lane, a little stone house built circa 1935 by Mathematics Professor Cletus Oakley, houses one of Haverford's many hidden garden treasures. Five years ago Richard Ball took over the reins when Professor Lyle Roelof moved on to Colgate University and he has waged war on invasive plant species ever since. Gout weed, Lesser celandine and Norway maple don't stand a chance when faced with Richard's boundless energy. He won't admit how many hours he spends in the garden but looking at what he's accomplished over the last several years, it's quite a lot.
While Richard loves most plants he considers himself a tree man. Scattered around his wooded garden are, at last count, 25 small trees that he has planted. Whether he bought them from the Forest Farm nursery catalog, a local native plant sale, or plucked them out of cracks in the sidewalk in Avalon, each plant is lovingly labeled the year it was planted and fenced off. Not just for protecting it from deer, but his own feet as he moves through the garden.
Chemical free, Richard has some unique ways of dealing with invasive species. Lesser celandine over the last decade has taken over our local woodlands, choking out the native flora. Richard has hand dug the bulbs, wheelbarrowed them over to a remote part of the property, and has covered the bulbs with a tarp. He's hoping, one day, to be able to use the soil again. Another technique is picking up discarded boxes from the Dining Center and laying them over the plants he wants to eradicate and covering them with compost or wood chips. Previously, he had been using old carpet to smother the plants, but felt the cardboard boxes were a more sustainable approach as they can be tilled in once they break down.
Moving through the Dahlias, Crocosmia and Daylilies you come upon a grove with stone picnic benches built by Oakley, the home's original owner. Shaded by evergreens, the tables and benches are covered with rocks. When asked about them Richard replied, "They just grow by themselves." What to do with them? "My plan is to make a plan," he replied.
His love for the garden is unmistakable. As horticulturists, the Arboretum crews have often walked through his garden and appreciated his work. Richard commented that this is the first year he feels that he's seeing results that even the lay person can appreciate. So next time you bump into Richard on campus, ask him about his garden, he'll be happy to fill you in.


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Controlled Burn Leads to Grass Fire in Tea
TEA - Fire crews from Tea, Lennox and Sioux Falls were called out when a controlled burn got out of hand resulting in a grass fire. The incident took place at 26861 467th Ave in Tea.
Authorities were called to the scene just after 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday when the fire began to spread. When crews arrived thick black smoke could be seen.
Crews worked hard to to get the fire under control and it took all three departments over an hour to extinguish the fire. Authorities reported the fire under control at about 3:15 p.m.
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Where did the story idea come from/process
"How do you come up with your ideas?" That's a question I get a lot, and it's a fair one. I do, in fact, have a lot of ideas.
Boy, for my first book, A Man of His Word, I had a great answer to that question. I'd been raking leaves and had this vision of a cowboy who gets his hat shot off by an Indian princess who rides out of the woods wearing a buckskin dress. True, it took another seven months before a plot that could fit that opener materialized, but still—it made a great story. An idea comes to the unsuspecting author, unbidden, magical—just waiting to be told.
It's all very mystical, isn't it?
So here we are, back again, this time with my second book, A Man of Privilege. And man, I wish I had a great, author-communing-with-the-Muse story to tell you.
But I don't.
This time, I can safely say that I hadn't even considered James Carlson as a hero. Yes, he was handsome and yes, he was authoritative, but to me, he was a resolution to a problem. It wasn't until my editor, the awesome Stacy Boyd, read the whole book and emailed me notes. The very last thing she said was, "Loved the ending! Would love to see books for Carlson and Yellow Bird."
(An aside: Thomas Yellow Bird, the Lakota FBI agent who lurks throughout two books? Yeah, I'd written him specifically to be a future romance hero. So far, his story has proven to be slightly elusive. Damned sneaky FBI agents. So freaking hard to read!)
She'd like to see a story for Carlson. And I had absolutely no story for him.
But this is where the weird part of being an author kicks in. I swear, it wasn't more than an hour of caffeine-fueled brainstorming (so named because it feels like my brain is storming) that I knew Carlson would meet a former hooker who had cleaned up her act and that she would turn his whole world upside down. I already had the basics of his personality and history laid out. I just needed to shake him up.
So I did. The result, A Man of Privilege, was a wild ride to write, and I think it's an even wilder ride to read.
So what do you think? Is it best to wait for inspiration to strike, or is it best to get an assignment? I'm giving away a copy of A Man of Privilege to one lucky person who answers that question! Plus—bonus—every week I'm giving away one of these handcrafted (by me!) book necklaces from everyone who commented throughout the week! Check the Authorial Moms blog every Sunday to see if you were the winner!
A Man of Privilege by Sarah Anderson
Blue-blood lawyer James Carlson is working on the case of his life. After winning this trial, his career will be set. He won't let anything…or anyone… alter his course. Then he meets his witness.
Maggie Eagle Heart makes him question everything–his family, his goals, his future. Because she's the one woman he wants, and she's the one woman who is completely off limits. Yet even as he struggles to keep their relationship all about business, he can't deny the attraction is mutual–and irresistible.
James has always done what is expected of him…until now.
About Sarah:
Award-winning author Sarah M. Anderson may live east of the Mississippi River, but her heart lies out west on the Great Plains. With a lifelong love of horses and two history teachers for parents, it wasn't long before her characters found themselves out in South Dakota among the Lakota Sioux. She loves to put people from two different worlds into new situations and to see how their backgrounds and cultures take them someplace they never thought they'd go.
When not helping out at school or walking her rescue dogs, Sarah spends her days having conversations with imaginary cowboys and American Indians, all of which is surprisingly well-tolerated by her wonderful husband and son.
This post is brought to you as part of the A Man of Privilege/Distinction Blog Tour. For a complete tour schedule and rules, visit www.sarahmanderson.com. Comments on this blog will be entered to win a signed copy of A Man of Privilege.
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Full-Court Press: The next generation of coaches
Philadelphia, PA – Only those with access to a time machine can accurately predict whether a new head coach will achieve the level of success imagined by the athletic director who hired him.
Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth and Brad Stevens of Butler both elected to remain at their current posts despite being shown a healthy amount of interest from schools with much deeper pockets. After it became clear the top two coaches from the mid-major ranks were not interested, the athletic directors in the midst of coaching searches were forced to get a little creative and, in most cases, take a big chance.
The Big Ten has become one of the leading conferences in college basketball and sent seven of its 12 members to the 2013 NCAA Tournament. A pair of its members parted ways with experience to explore new regimes led by the sons of two of the sport's top coaches.
A trip to the Big Dance and a lopsided second-round victory over UCLA was not enough to save Tubby Smith's job in Minnesota. Firing Smith, who is one of just a handful of coaches with an NCAA Championship on his resume, was not a cheap decision. The cash-strapped athletic department had to provide the former Kentucky coach with a $2.5 million buyout so it could bring in a much less accomplished replacement in Richard Pitino.
The 30-year-old Pitino is expected to take the Golden Gophers, who rose to as high as eighth in the national rankings this past season, to a higher level. He served as an assistant under a pair of championship-winning coaches, including his father Rick at Louisville and Billy Donovan at Florida, but the hiring of the younger Pitino at the Big Ten program might have come a little too early.
Pitino was excellent in his lone season as a head coach in 2012-13 as he guided FIU to an 18-14 finish just a season after it went 8-21 under Isaiah Thomas. That successful campaign did enough to convince Minnesota's second-year AD Norwood Teague that Pitino could be more successful in recruiting the state's top prospects to stay home for school. Tyus Jones, Rashad Vaughn and Reid Travis are all prospective high school All-Americans from the Land of 10,000 Lakes and their recruitment clearly had a role in Smith's departure.
Another aspect which might have helped Pitino land the position at Minnesota came from the Southeastern Conference. LSU dipped into the Sun Belt Conference for its new head coach last summer when it hired alum Johnny Jones away from North Texas. Jones led the Tigers to a 19-12 record, including a .500 finish in the SEC in his first season at his alma mater, which could suggest the success Pitino experiences in his inaugural campaign away from the SBC.
However, Jones arrived in Baton Rogue with over 11 years of head coaching experience.
Smith will get another shot as he migrates to the Big 12 to take on the same position at Texas Tech. The Red Raiders have a long way to go as they aim to return to their first NCAA Tournament since Bobby Knight called the shots.
Minnesota was not the only Big Ten school to make a change. Northwestern ended the Bill Carmody era in Evanston, Ill., after 13 years without a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
During his tenure, Carmody brought some talented players to the Chicago suburbs such as Jitim Young, T.J. Parker, Kevin Coble and John Shurna. His Princeton offense did not help him overcome the difficulties associated with building a dynasty at a highly competitive academic institution.
Chris Collins, son of the reputable Doug Collins, was granted his first head coaching opportunity after 13 years of assistant work at Duke.
Mike Krzyzewski's assistants who have moved on to take the reigns of other Division I programs have yielded mixed results in the past. Johnny Dawkins was once the leading candidate to be Coach K's replacement one day, but his lack of a trip to the NCAA Tournament in five seasons at Stanford has hurt his chances of ever returning to coach at his alma mater.
Northwestern officials hope Collins can follow in the footsteps of former Duke assistant Mike Brey, who has just one losing season in 18 years as a head coach at Delaware and Notre Dame. If Collins gets the Wildcats dancing for the first time, his name is likely to surface when his former mentor decides to step down.
The Collins hire makes sense for Northwestern, which ideally would like to become the Duke of the Midwest due to the similarities between the schools in terms of size, academic focus and conference level.
Collins, who is a native of Northbrook, Ill., showed he can recruit the type of talent needed to win in such conditions when he convinced the 2006 Illinois Mr. Basketball, Jon Scheyer, to play at Duke.
The Wildcats' first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament is not going to take too long to book if Collins finds a way to talk some of the Windy City's stars to wear purple and white.
The most talked-about coaching change in college basketball came at a future member of the Big Ten as Rutgers parted ways with Mike Rice after footage of his inexplicable treatment toward players during practice sessions became public. The Scarlet Knights needed to find a stable leader for the future as it immediately entered as tough rebuilding era due to the cloud left by Rice's poor behavior.
Rutgers signed Eddie Jordan, whose best work came during his stint with the Washington Wizards from 2004-08. Even though the hiring instantly became controversial after the fact that Jordan never obtained a diploma from Rutgers following his playing career, the school wisely stood by its choice.
Jordan's lack of a college degree was wisely overlooked by Rutgers. He still has decades of experience at the professional level to go along with a personal investment in the program. Jordan will have his work cut out for him, though, as he attempts to erase the negativity associated with Rutgers. He also may run into the same problems Carmody collided with at NU as he is known to employ a Princeton-style offense.
The Big Ten is not the only league that will feature a new coach with an intriguing pedigree. Buffalo of the Mid-American Conference will be under the watch of Bobby Hurley, whose father, Bob Hurley Sr., is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame due to his work at the high school level at St. Anthony's in Jersey City, N.J.
Hurley showed off an obvious understanding for the game during his playing days at Duke as he is still the NCAA's Division I all-time leader in assists. His mastering of the point guard position led to an NBA career which was severely altered by life-threatening injuries he suffered in a car accident.
Hurley only spent two seasons as an assistant coach under his younger brother, Dan, at Wagner and Rhode Island, but his last name and well-documented success as a player made him very attractive to a mid-major-level school. The notions that his winning mentality will properly translate from the hardwood to the bench and the Hurley name will pay off dividends when it comes to recruiting make sense, but Thomas proved that it doesn't always work out that way as he struggled to find victories at FIU.
The City of Angels also demanded attention during the coaching carousel period as UCLA and USC both had openings. UCLA took a more traditional approach to its selection when it hired Steve Alford away from New Mexico's up-and-coming program to lead the Bruins. Trojans fans also are excited by the hiring of Andy Enfield, who took the nation by storm while driving the 15th-seeded Florida Gulf Coast Eagles to the Sweet Sixteen.
Alford has been one of the best regular-season coaches in the country since leaving Iowa to coach the Lobos. He won nearly 75 percent of his games and took New Mexico to the NCAA Tournament in three of the past four seasons.
However, Alford failed to deliver desired results in the postseason while in Albuquerque, which is not going to be acceptable going forward as he takes over the school with the most NCAA championship banners hanging from its rafters.
Enfield showed how his innovative recruiting skills and exciting coaching philosophies can work effectively during March Madness. Still, USC made a bold hire considering Florida Gulf Coast finished second in the Atlantic Sun Conference last season, which was just Enfield's second as a head coach, then won the conference tournament and became the first No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament.
Schools at the same caliber of Minnesota, Northwestern and USC will need to continue to search extensively for their new head coaches in the future due to the evolution of the system. Northwestern hired Collins to be its new coach before the Final Four even took place. In the past, a coach like Gregg Marshall of Wichita State would most likely have ventured to the brighter spotlight at a power conference program after leading an underdog to the national semifinals.
The mid-major schools like VCU, Butler and Wichita State are managing to hang on to top-tier coaches much more easily today because they have minimized the gap in salary difference and upgraded facilities to mirror the bigger schools that use to hold an edge.
Smart, Stevens and Marshall are all planted in dream scenarios in which they are revered by their respective fan bases and still able to compete for national titles. It makes perfect sense that all three seem content on passing up on a slight pay raise to take on a more difficult task with more pressure and nowhere near as much job security. The NCAA has become a money-driven organization, just not to everybody.
Minnesota, Northwestern and USC may have had to settle for less desirable candidates than they would have in the past, but they also may have struck gold. Buffalo, Rutgers and UCLA seem to have made wise decisions, but, once again, only time will tell.


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Earlier this morning (or afternoon if live on the other side of Atlantic ocean) top Russian newspaper Sport-Express reported that Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski is about to sign a lockout contract with Dinamo Minsk. However, two respectful Belorussian media outlets suggest the deal is far from being over and they have quotes to back it up.
'Mikhail is stuck at the crossroads. He doesn't know what to do. Nobody knows anything for sure and he doesn't think it makes any sense to go play somewhere else for a month,' said Yuri Grabovski, Mikhail's father, in his interview to Goals.By. 'I would like to see my son play for his native club – Yunost. However, [Yunost head-coach] Mikhail Zakharov said he has nothing to do there. To be honest with you, I'm against these short-term contracts.'
Yunost currently plays in VHL – a farm league for KHL clubs. Its notable alumni include the Kostitsyn brothers. Zakharov in one of his interviews this summer made it clear both Andrei and Sergei as well as Grabovski should sign with Dinamo Minsk come the lockout, no matter how much they wanted to play for Yunost.
Nevertheless, it appears there's another fish lurking in KHL waters for Grabovski.
'I'm not sure if Mikhail is in talks with any other team. I know that Dinamo wants him. Although, there is also [Barys Astana head-coach] Vladimir Krikunov, to whom we're always be in debt. I heard, he's also interested in Mikhail, but I can't tell you any details,' added Yuri Grabovski.
Last lockout Mikhail Grabovski spent his last season in Russia (2005/06) playing for Dynamo Moscow and Krikunov was its head-coach at the time. He also led Team Belarus to a fourth place at the 2002 Olympics and Team Russia to bronze medals at the 2006 Olympics.
'I talked to Mikhail. We had a very good talk,' said Dinamo Minsk GM Igor Matushkin to Goals.By. 'Obviously, Mikhail's priority is to play for a Belorussian club but there are other circumstances he has to think about. He promised to give us an answer in the next few days. I also would like to add that his agent, Gary Greenstein, was given a good offer by our club. We're waiting for Mikhail's decision. Whatever it is, Mikhail's still going to be our national team's leader. The important thing for him is to have quality ice-time on a top level. If he opts for Dinamo, we're going to be very happy.'
Dinamo Minsk signed
Washington Capitals star center Nicklas Backstrom Minnesota Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom and is reported to sign Sergei Kostitsyn. His brother Andrei decided to sign with Traktor Chelyabinsk.
'We keep in touch with Igor Matushkin,' said Greenstein to Pressball.By. 'We're having a normal negotiation process. I know that Igor talks to Mikhail as well. It's too early to say the deal is done, though. Believe me, it's not about the money. Clearly, Mikhail is a top-level player who deserves good money. However, there are a lot of other factors. First of all, he has a family and he wouldn't want to leave it. Second of all, insurance. His insurance is pretty heavy. He's obliged to have one by the Leafs. Finally, there are other teams willing to sign him in the KHL and Western Europe. By the way, they contacted us way earlier than Dinamo. Dinamo contacted us just a few days ago.'
'We think we're going to make a decision by the end of this week or at the beginning of the next one. I want to point out that our decision can be either about the club we're going to sign with or that we'll have for a month and see how this lockout is going to pan out. Don't worry, Grabovski is going to be in shape. He's been working in different camps that I set up for him since July, so he's fit,' added Greenstein.
So, here's the deal. Grabovski doesn't want to leave Toronto for a few months the league's going to be locked out for. If he chooses to do so, he's going to end up either in Dinamo Minsk, because it's located in his home country, or Barys Astana because he likes the coach. However, it is clear Mikhail is going to be back once the lockout is over.
Meanwhile, he may end up playing
with Nicklas in front of Backstrom. Not a bad experience.
Correction: An earlier version of the story suggested that Washington Capitals centreman Nicklas Backstrom was joining Dinamo Minsk. It is actually Niklas, the star goaltender for the Minnesota Wild.


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Welcome to JD Justin! Our son's name is Justin and we call him JediJman too! Very cute babies, btw
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A few months ago, producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders announced that Grammy Award-winning international pop icon Ricky Martin as Che, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger as Eva Perón and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón would play their final performance on Saturday, January 26, 2013. At that time, it was announced as well that the should would be announcing new stars and the production would be continuing its run. Later, they have revealed that the show will play its final performance on Saturday, January 26, tonight, after 26 previews and 337 regular performances.
Eva Perón used her beauty and charisma to rise meteorically from the slums of Argentina to the presidential mansion as First Lady. She won international acclaim and adoration from her own people as a champion of the poor, while glamour, power and greed made her one of the world's first major political celebrities. Evita tells Eva's passionate and tragic story through Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's most dazzling and beloved score, including "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," "Buenos Aires," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" and "High Flying Adored," together with "You Must Love Me," the Oscar-winning hit from the film Evita.
Elena Roger and cast of EVITA
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Substitute Healthier Ingredients In Your Favorite Recipes
Instead of regular ground beef...
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Why? Fewer calories, less saturated fat and less cholesterol.
Instead of sour cream on tacos or in dips...
Try non-fat plain yogurt (regular or Greek).
Why? Fewer calories and less saturated fat.
Instead of butter or margarine when cooking vegetables or protein foods...
Try trans-free margarine and oils like olive oil or vegetable oil.
Why? No trans fat, less saturated fat and more heart-healthy unsaturated fats.
Instead of butter or margarine when baking...
Try substituting half with applesauce.
Why? Fewer calories and less saturated fat.
Instead of cream, whole milk or 2% milk...
Try 1% milk or skim milk.
Why? Fewer calories and less saturated fat.
Instead of regular cheese...
Try reduced-fat cheese or use less.
Why? Fewer calories, less saturated fat and less cholesterol.
Instead of snack foods with hydrogenated oil, palm oil or coconut oil (crackers, chips, candy or baked goods)...
Try fruit with plain yogurt, fresh vegetables and hummus, a slice of whole wheat toast and natural peanut butter, nuts and dried fruit.
Why? Less sodium, less saturated fat and zero trans fat.
Instead of regular mayonnaise...
Try light mayonnaise or mustard on sandwiches. Try non-fat plain yogurt or a combination of non-fat plain yogurt and light mayonnaise if used in dressing, sauces and dips.
Why? Fewer calories.
Instead of bologna, salami or pastrami...
Try sliced low-sodium turkey or roast beef. Or better yet, cook fresh chicken or turkey on the weekend and use throughout the week for meals.
Why? Less total fat, less saturated fat and less sodium.
Patient Education Materials — Protect Your Heart: Make Smart Food Choices
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Originally published in Allergic Living's Summer 2013 edition.
FOR four years in a row, there were upbeat reports at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology about the progress with oral immunotherapy – the most basic type of desensitizing treatment imaginable for food allergy.
Called OIT for short, it involves feeding a food like milk or peanut to allergic children. The children start by swallowing microscopic specks of their allergen on a daily basis. If they can manage that, they progress to a tiny bit larger daily dose, then a bit bigger again, and on it goes until they reach their maintenance dose – an amount of the food that they'll need to eat every day at home for months or even years.
Some lucky kids even finished their clinical trials able to eat full servings as their daily "dose" – perhaps a glass of milk, an ice cream cone or a handful of peanuts. When you consider that scant years before, there were precisely zero food allergy treatments in the pipeline, the news of these studies was phenomenal.
Yes, there was a high rate of reaction – mostly stomach aches and itchy mouths – accompanying the treatment, and some children had stronger reactions and could not proceed. But something remarkable was also happening: a majority of the allergic kids were able finish their trial eating some amount of their allergen every day – a food that had long been viewed as their personal poison, one that could be life-threatening. The presenting researchers were optimistic; the mainstream media began using the "cure" word.
Then came the March 2013 meeting of the AAAAI. Dr. Wesley Burks, the organization's outgoing president and a pioneer of OIT research, quickly signaled times had changed. He told the assembled allergists that it was not at all clear that long-term tolerance – in which a person on oral immunotherapy could stop taking daily doses of their allergen and still be protected – was achievable.
Burks spoke of encouraging OIT results, like the significant gains in patients' peanut consumption in one of his studies, but also of instances of patients quite abruptly losing the ability to eat the food without reacting. His message was: "The treatment is promising, but it's not ready yet."
Burks raised eyebrows, but a later presentation from Johns Hopkins University became the talk of the conference. The preliminary findings of a long-term follow-up on two milk OIT studies were both surprising – and disappointing.
The Hopkins researchers surveyed 32 children and teens who had completed the two OIT studies, and had been given clear instructions on what milk products to consume daily. Three to five years after graduating from their trials, only 25 percent were consuming milk without ever getting symptoms, while 16 percent had stopped their daily doses because of symptoms. The rest were reacting (to varying degrees), either frequently or occasionally. Among those reacting, almost a third reported a "systemic" or more serious reaction.
Pulling no punches, Dr. Robert Wood, director of pediatric allergy and immunology at Johns Hopkins said: "Some of the more dramatic failures had looked like absolute successes in the study. They were about as close to 'cured' as we could imagine."
Although it wasn't completely clear, Wood says the loss of protection in these kids is likely tied to reducing the daily milk dose. "A lot of them just ratcheted down their milk exposure because they were having reactions," he said. "And as they ratcheted down exposure, they lost some, most or all protection that the study had given them."
Was this small investigation the beginning of the end for OIT? Definitely not, say several leading allergists, including Wood and Burks, who is the chair of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina's school of medicine.
It's more that the long-term results are a flag on the play, an indicator that scientists can't presume the level of protection reached in a one- or two-year OIT trial will not change over time. The same goes for its cousin the sublingual immunotherapy trial (which involves giving the allergen doses in tiny amounts in under-the-tongue drops or tablets).
"We need long-term followup," stresses Wood. "Letting kids go at the end of the study is not the end of the story."
He and Burks both view the bigger picture as far more positive. "To go from where we were 10 years ago, which was to say that 'we probably can't give food to a highly allergic patient safely at all,' to say now that some patients are having extremely good outcomes, is big progress," said Wood. "The long-term potential is very real."
But he does see a need to temper expectations of just how quickly an OIT-style of treatment will be available at the allergist's office.
What several allergists tell this magazine is that OIT in and of itself may not be the solution, nor the only treatment option. The therapy may simply be a first stage, which needs to evolve. In fact, it appears that's already happening.
Next: Great hopes for combination therapies