And he played the right substitute as everything was beginning to unravel.
After graduating and then coaching in Australia, Mangini returned to Connecticut and started substitute teaching, everything from kindergarten to junior-high classes.
And the Xbox won't be a true substitute for everything viewers can get through their cable boxes because content rights will have to be negotiated for some shows before they can be watched through the console.
Before the final vote on the budget resolution on Friday, each of the party's leaders will have the opportunity to offer a wrap-around amendment, a measure that essentially substitutes for everything that has been voted on before.
It's about partners trying to make things easier for one another during their absence, and about single parents trying to arm their substitutes with everything they need to do the work of taking care of a family that isn't usually theirs to manage.
The creator of LSD, Dr. Albert Hofmann, believed that ingesting tiny amounts of the drug could have therapeutic value, and so-called "microdoses" have since been proposed as a substitute for everything from Adderall to marriage counseling.
Jonathan Safran Foer succeeded brilliantly at it in his novel "Everything Is Illuminated," and Lewycka did the same herself (substituting odoriferous cats for the hound) in her first novel.
"Yes, many may find another method," said Catherine Barber, director of the Harvard center's Means Matter public health education campaign, "but will it kill them?" Citing statistics from emergency rooms and death certificates, she said, "Nearly everything they substitute will have lower odds of killing them, sometimes dramatically so".
"It's quite rare for the appellate court to substitute its view and displace everything that came before," said the expert, Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law.
