R.I.P. Daniel Kemp, you were a great kid and one to always be remembered! Always enjoyed playing poker and pool at your house with you and the boys even though I lost my money 🙂 My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family.
RIP Daniel Kemp. You were a good teammate but a better person. We had some good clubhouse memories together. Your smile was the most recognizable on the field.
You were the nicest person I’ve ever met I never heard you say anything negative about another person. Ill never forget when you used to call me your brother in law because lauren and cam were dating. Ill always think of you when I hear “under the bridge” by the red hot chili peppers. You touched so many lives with your kindness, you were a great kid and I was blessed to have known you, this seasons all for you man, I love you
Who’s coming back to Tempe tonight? Damn right your own sdizzle. Follow me on twitter @sduggan217 to get the where abouts on my journey. Remember, stay thirsty my friends..swag
Anybody who has delivered a speech, interviewed for a job or gone on a first date has likely endured the following scenario at some point in their lives.
You become a little tongue-tied, you accidentally blurt out something inappropriate and you have a split second to decide whether to stammer out an apology or keep talking as if nothing happened.
Ashton Altieri, a meteorologist at 9NEWS in Denver, experienced one of those slip-ups on live TV on Sunday. In a moment that surely will live on in YouTube infamy, Altieri tried to congratulate sports guru Aaron Matas on Indiana‘s victory over top-ranked Kentucky the previous day, but the words came out all wrong.
“Congratulations on your big hooters …. uh … Hoosiers win,” he said. “Wow, that was a slip of the tongue.”
Indeed, it was such a funny mistake that each of the newscasters in the studio immediately began laughing uncontrollably and one of them noted that the clip was destined for YouTube. Once anchor Corey Rose recovered, she jokes, “I feel like my face is totally red now.”
Credit Altieri for being such a good sport about it, though his excuse for his slip-up is a little flimsy
“It’s chilly out here, it’s hard to talk sometimes,” he said.
Storybook homes like this Moroccan estate can also come with fantastic prices.
Photo: Realtor.com
With some children’s stories, the setting is a major part of the story — think of the woodland cottages in the “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “The Three Bears,” or the unexplained footwear habitation of the poor old woman who lived in a shoe.
We gathered 10 such storybook-worthy homes. Some of these properties look like they’re straight out of children’s stories, while others look like they belong in a beautifully illustrated vintage children’s book. We’ve even featured a few from an architecture style known as Storybook.
See full list: Storybook HomesInformation on some of the following houses was provided by Realtor.com, and photos of a few others were supplied by John Robert Marlow, creator of the website Storybookers, which pays tribute to the whimsical, Tudor-meets-Hobbit Storybook architecture style that had a moment in the 1920s, but which lost its popularity by the end of the ’30s.
Haines Shoe House
Location:York, PA Price: $140,934 (estimate) Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square Footage: 1506
The quirky home was built in 1948 as an outlandish advertisement to sell shoes.
Photo: Beck Gusler | Flickr
This novelty house in the shape of a shoe recalls nursery-rhyme memories of the old woman who had so many children she didn’t know what to do. The Haines Shoe House on Shoe House Road has been occupied by senior women, but only temporarily as a guest house for couples to spend the weekend. Honeymooners were also invited to stay in the home by the owner, “Shoe Wizard” shoe seller Mahlon Haines. There’s an ice-cream shop located in the instep and a shoe-shaped dog house also sits on the property. Spadena Witch House
Location:Beverly Hills, CA Price: $1,300,000 in 1998, current estimate $2,872,000 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 4 Square Footage: 3,970
The witch house made a cameo appearance in Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone.
Photo: Bobak Ha’Eri | Creative Commons; Insets: Katherine O. | Yelp.com
This famous Storybook-style house has a few names: Spadena House, the Witch House, and it’s also called the Hansel & Gretel House. It was built in 1921 by Hollywood art director Harry Oliver and originally served as office space and dressing rooms for silent filmmaker Willat Studio. The next occupants were the Spadena family, hence the name, but there are no official records of any witches or Hansel and Gretel in residence. By the late 1990s, the home had fallen to ruin and was nearly razed, but it was recently rehabilitated, including restoring a once filled-in moat, with the help of another Hollywood art director, Nelson Coates. Moroccan Palace
Location:4 W Rivercrest Dr Price: $8,900,000 Bedrooms: 8 Bathrooms: 10 Square Footage: 19,668
This palatial abode was built in 2005 and sits on 3.78 acres.
Photo: Realtor.com
This Moroccan-style palace has room for Aladdin, Ali Baba, and approximately 40 thieves, with eight bedrooms in the main building and two two-story guest houses, each with three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. In addition to the oversize pool, two cabanas, and general palatial grandeur, the property comes with a petting zoo. Searles Castle
Location:389 Main St, Great Barrington, MA 01230 Price: $11,000,000 Bedrooms: 14 Bathrooms: 17 Square Footage: 60,000
The sprawling 68-acre estate includes a private pond.
Photo: Realtor.com
Some think that cottages must be quaint. Not so when speaking of Berkshire cottages — mansions built by business tycoons of the Gilded Age. This French Chateau-style mansion on 61 acres in the Berkshires region of Western Massachusetts went on the market for $15 million a few years ago. The price has since been reduced. Built as Kellogg Terrace by the railroad tycoon widow Mary Hopkins circa 1887, the mansion later took the name of her second husband, Edward Searles, whom she hired to decorate the home. In recent decades, the estate has served as a school and an events venue. Disney Court
Location:Los Angeles, CA Price: N/A Bedrooms: N/A Bathrooms: N/A Square Footage: N/A
Disney’s original studio was but a couple doors away in 1931.
Photo: John Robert Marlow
If the circa-1931 Disney Court bungalows look familiar, it’s likely because they were “almost certainly” the inspiration for the woodland home in the Walt Disney animated feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Another tale holds that Disney animators lived here, and supporting that, the Los Feliz, Calif., location is proximate to the original Disney Studios. A different Snow White-inspired house — owned by the woman who was the voice of Snow White in the animated film — is on the market. See more of the Storybook Homes
I have to say getting myself into acres of debt was really easy. In fact, I accrued most of it during college. Some of it was due to paying for school, but the other part was my own stupid mistakes. Here’s how I got myself into $80,000 worth of debt in eight years.
Student Loans
The vast majority of my debt was due to student loans. I went to college for a bachelor’s degree from 1995 to 2001 and then a master’s degree from 2001 to 2003. The bill for those degrees combined was $60,000, and I paid for every bit of it with student loans. I maxed out my loans every year for eight years, and it wasn’t that I didn’t work during that time. I had work study for the four years during my bachelor’s degree, but at $6.25 an hour for 20 hours a week, it was only $125 a week.
What I should have done was get a second part time job at 10 hours a week for $8 or $9 an hour which would have been an extra $80 to $90 a week, and I should have put that money into a savings account to help offset my student loans once I graduated. At the end of four years, I could have easily paid off $13,000 of my student loans. To date, I still owe almost $60,000 in student loans, and I will likely be paying them off for the rest of my life.
Credit Cards
This was my second college mistake. By the end of my bachelor’s degree I had six credit cards and somewhere between $8,000 and $10,000 worth of debt. I charged everything from flight time and books to clothes and gas on my credit cards. My first degree was in aviation, which is the most expensive degree at the college I went to.
In hindsight, I never should have applied for a credit card much less six of them, but the free money was addicting. I didn’t pay these off until almost 13 years after I opened the first account.
Medical Bills
My health insurance coverage has been spotty my entire adult life. Most of that is due to changing jobs every year or two, and the delay in coverage when starting with a new company. Over the course of 10 years, I incurred almost $10,000 dollars in medical bills that weren’t covered by my insurance plans. The smaller bills I paid as soon as I got them, but the larger ones for hundreds and thousands of dollars sat on my credit report for years because I wasn’t making enough income to do anything productive with them.
To date, out of the $80,000 worth of debt I incurred between 1995 and 2003, I’ve paid off almost $10,000. Some of it was through debt settlement agreements. Some of it was due to consolidations, and another $1,500 was due to my paying ahead on my student loans. Unfortunately, that still leaves me with $70,000 still unpaid, and most of that is student loans. If I didn’t have my student loans, I’d only have $10,000 in debt.
At 5:30 PM today, Sun Devil Athletics will host a press conference to announce Todd Graham as the newest head coach of your Sun Devil Football team. As a valued member of the Sun Devil Family, we wanted you to be among the first to receive this important announcement.
Todd Graham will be become the 23rd head coach in Sun Devil Football history. With an overall record of 49-29 including 3-1 in bowl appearances, Graham earned Conference USA Coach of the Year honors in 2006 after leading Rice to their first bowl victory in 45 years. While known for leading programs that post many of the top offensive numbers in the nation in recent seasons, Graham also is known as tough defensive coach who served as defensive coordinator at both Tulsa and West Virginia. The full press release is provided below.
The press conference will be webcast live by Fox Sports Arizona and can be accessed by clicking here. We invite you to tune in and hear from our new head coach as he prepares to begin the next chapter of Sun Devil Football.
PITTSBURGH COACH TODD GRAHAM, KNOWN FOR EXCELLENCE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL AND WHO TRANSFORMED PROGRAMS AT TULSA AND RICE, NAMED SUN DEVIL HEAD COACH
Arizona State University has named Pittsburgh head coach Todd Graham, who led Rice to its first bowl victory in 45 seasons in 2006 and then led Tulsa to back-to-back 10-plus win seasons for the first time in school history in 2007 and 2008, as its 23rd football coach, Vice President of Athletics Lisa Love and Chief Operating Officer Steve Patterson have announced.
While known for leading programs that post many of the top offensive numbers in the nation in recent seasons, Graham also is known as tough defensive coach who served as defensive coordinator at both Tulsa and West Virginia. He also has had an eye for hiring some of the nation’s top assistant coaches on his staff.
“Criteria for our head coach was established, and the word that was at the forefront of discussions was ‘energy’…energy towards promoting our program in the community and with former players. Energy towards instilling discipline, leadership and in recruiting. Energy towards representing our brand in every facet of the program,” notes Love. “In Todd, we have not only hired a young and sitting head coach, but one with a history of success on the field and in hiring top-notch assistant coaches. For the first time in his career, he will be taking over a program with a strong nucleus at the beginning. We are excited to watch Coach Graham take over a very well-positioned program and elevate it to the next level.”
“What we sought in a football coach was someone who would be in it for the long term at Arizona State, who would build and guide a program that would be competitive in the Pac-12 and on a national level year after year after year, who would communicate and connect with the community, and represent our University with honor. In Todd Graham we have that person,” says ASU President Dr. Michael Crow.
Born Dec. 5, 1964, Graham is 49-29 in his six-year head coaching career and most recently was head coach at Pittsburgh in 2011. He is well-known for his four-year stay at Tulsa from 2007-2010 when he led the Golden Hurricane to a 36-17 mark, which included three bowl wins and three seasons of 10-plus wins. The Golden Hurricane was one of just 11 schools to post back-to-back 10-win seasons in 2007 and 2008.
The native of Mesquite, Texas, had seasons at Tulsa which included records of 10-4 (2007), 11-3 (2008) and 10-3 (2010) and in his final season the Golden Hurricane won games at Notre Dame and then topped No. 24 Hawaii 62-35 in its own bowl game. The Notre Dame win was dubbed the biggest upset of the 2010 college football season by ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit.
His team’s have been scoreboard changers, as Tulsa twice led the nation in total offense (2007 at 543.9 yards per game and 2008 at 569.9 yards per game) and ranked fifth in 2010. His 2010 Tulsa team comprised of mainly his first recruiting class notched 505.6 yards per contest, but on the other side of the line of scrimmage the Golden Hurricane led the nation in interceptions (24) and was third in turnovers gained (36).
His 2007 squad not only led the nation in total offense at 543.9 yards per game, it set 29 school records, 15 conference marks and four NCAA records. Tulsa routed Bowling Green 63-7 in the GMAC Bowl, the largest bowl margin of victory in NCAA history.
His 2008 team again led the nation in total offense (569.9 yards per game) while ranking second in scoring (47.2 points per game), fifth in rushing (268 ypg) and ninth in passing (301.9 ypg). His team finished 11-3, capped by another large bowl win, a 45-13 victory over No. 22 Ball State in the GMAC Bowl.
The Sun Devil position will mark Graham’s fourth head-coaching position, as he also led Rice to its first bowl game in 45 seasons in 2006 and earned Conference USA Coach of the Year honors that same season. What made the year even more impressive is the Owls started the year 0-4 before winning seven of its next nine. Three of the wins were on the last play of the game.
Graham was an all-state defensive back at North Mesquite High School and after graduating in 1983 he played for East Central University in Ada, Okla., where he was a two-time NAIA defensive back. He began his coaching career in 1988 as an assistant at Poteet High School in Mesquite (1988-90) and then helped lead East Central University from a .500 program to NAIA national champions in his second year as he served as defensive coordinator from 1991-93. One year later he was at Carl Albert High School in Midwest City, Okla., and then spent time from 1995-2000 at Allen High School in Allen, Texas. While at Allen, north of Dallas, he also served as athletic director and led a program that had no district wins in the year prior to his arrival to five playoff berths in six seasons (1995-2000).
He was hired as the linebackers coach at West Virginia in 2001 and one year later he was named defensive co-coordinator as West Virginia went from 3-8 to 9-4. The 2002 Mountaineers forced 34 turnovers (19 interceptions) and ranked fourth nationally in turnover margin (+19).
In 2003 Steve Kragthorpe hired Graham as the defensive coordinator at Tulsa and he helped guide the Golden Hurricane to two bowl games in three seasons and led one of the conferences best defenses before taking over the Rice position. His 2005 team finished 9-4, won the Conference USA Title and shut down a high-flying Fresno State squad 31-24 in the Liberty Bowl. His defense ranked among the top 40 in takeaways (third), interceptions (third), pass efficiency defense (11th), pass defense (17th) and total defense (40th).
Graham earned a bachelor’s degree in education in 1987 from East Central and then later earned his master’s degree.
TODD GRAHAM BACKGROUND
Overall Head Coaching Record: 49-29 (6 seasons)
Born: Dec. 5, 1964
Hometown: Mesquite, Texas
Alma Mater: East Central University (1987)
Family: Wife Penni and children Bo, Hank, Natalie, Haylee, Dakota and Michael Todd Jr.
TURNING IT AROUND
Todd Graham was part of two of the NCAA’s top single-season turnarounds in recent history. In 2002 Tulsa was 1-11, but under Graham’s defensive leadership the team went 8-4 in 2003. At West Virginia, the Mountaineers were 3-8 but then jumped to 9-4 in his second season.
TULSA UNDER TODD GRAHAM
–In his first two seasons, the Golden Hurricane posted consecutive 10-win seasons for the first time in school history.
–Tulsa won a school-record 11 games in 2008.
–Tulsa led the nation in total offense in back-to-back seasons in 2007 and 2008, a first for any NCAA team since Nevada in 1995-96.
–His first hire as his offensive coordinator at Tulsa was Gus Malzahn. He also hired current Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris and current Texas co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite.
–His 2010 squad ranked fifth in total offense (505.6 yards per game) and was sixth in scoring (41.4) but also led the nations in interceptions (24) and was third in turnovers gained (36).
–Tulsa’s 661 points in 2008 was the second-highest total in modern era of NCAA at the time (second only to Oklahoma’s 716 in 2008).
TODD GRAHAM HEAD COACHING RECORD YEAR-BY-YEAR
RICE
2006: 7-6 (6-2 in Conference USA and second in West)
TULSA
2007: 10-4 (6-3 in Conference USA and first in West)
2008: 11-3 (7-2 in Conference USA and tied for first in West)
2009: 5-7 (3-5 in Conference USA and 3rd in West)
2010: 10-3 (6-2 in Conference USA and tied for first in West)
Creative. Effective. Motivated. While you may think that you’re using words on your resume that will appeal to hiring managers, some words can actually turn them off. On Tuesday, LinkedIn released the top 10 words that job seekers overuse in resumes and job applications. Here’s the list:
— Creative
— Organizational
— Effective
— Extensive experience
— Track record
— Motivated
— Innovative
— Problem solving
— Communication skills
— Dynamic
If you’re wondering how LinkedIn came up with this list, its data scientists examined millions of profiles to find out which words professionals used the most in 2011. Surprisingly, some of the words are different from what LinkedIn found to be the bad buzzwords in 2010, thanks to the skyrocketing growth of the professional networking site. A year ago, there were 85 million users. Now, there are 135 million users from around the world, so naturally that list of buzzwords has changed.
What’s interesting is that the buzzwords vary, depending on the country. The word “creative” was overused in Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Effective” was used by too many job hunters in India. And Italians, it seems, are fantastic at “problem solving.”
If I’m Not Creative … What Am I?
I hope seeing this list doesn’t kill your holiday buzz. If you’re using these words as a selling point to potential employers, spend some time this month finding better, more descriptive words that pinpoint your talents.
[See 8 Reasons to Continue Your Holiday Job Search.]
“Competition for opportunities can be fierce, so craft your LinkedIn profile and resume to stand out from the professional pack,” says Nicole Williams, LinkedIn’s connection director and best-selling author of the book, “Girl on Top.” “Even though this year’s list of overused terms differs from last year’s, your objectives remain the same: Banish buzzwords from your profile. Use language that illustrates your unique professional accomplishments and experiences. Give concrete examples of results you’ve achieved whenever possible and reference attributes that are specific to you.”
LinkedIn recommends adding skills to your profile, which can serve to show hiring managers firsthand where your strengths lie. Recommendations, too, can help beef up your online profile.
LinkedIn also suggests filling out your LinkedIn profile fully. They say your profile is 12 times more likely to be viewed if you have more than one position listed in your work history. Adding a nice photo of yourself increases viewability as well.
What About My Resume?
Now that you know the words that employers are sick of seeing in resumes and cover letters, you can avoid them. If you’re stuck for ideas, here is a list of action verbs, and an online thesaurus can always give you alternatives to the words you don’t want to use.
It’s your job as a talented job candidate to stand out with your resume and cover letter. Take time to rewrite it, and have a friend review it to give feedback on how appealing and engaging it is. Always customize both your resume and your cover letter for the job you’re applying for.
Lindsay Olson is a founding partner and public relations recruiter with Paradigm Staffing and Hoojobs, a niche job board for public relations, communications and social media jobs. She blogs at LindsayOlson.com, where she discusses recruiting and job search issues.
Dutch Bros. Arizona will make it easier for ASU students to pull an all-nighter this week.
The coffee drive-thru location near Rural Road and Lemon Street will begin serving coffee on Wednesday for 24 hours a day through Dec. 14 to meet the caffeine needs of exhausted students.
“(It’s) just kind of to give students the upper hand and have some great coffee available to them for 24 hours from reading day all the way through the end of finals,” said Natalie Abel from Zion & Zion, a marketing agency that serves Dutch Bros. Arizona.
Abel said she wishes a coffee shop had offered a service like this while she was in college.
“It’s a really good way to get out of the room where you are studying, go and get a cup of coffee and have a little break,” Abel said.
This is the first attempt at serving the coffee near campus for 24 hours a day, Abel said.
Jim Thompson, owner of the Rural Road and Lemon Street location, said the 24-hour idea developed after the store saw an increase in business when it extended its Friday and Saturday hours until midnight.
Thompson said this week will be a test run for potentially keeping the Rural Road and Lemon Street location open 24 hours a day permanently during the school year.
“This is kind of our way of not only providing the service for all those students but to maybe see how effective it is and do it on an ongoing basis,” Thompson said.
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