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Last Friday night in Sarasota, Fla., a head football coach and a pediatric brain cancer patient who considers that coach a close friend, were center stage in front of nearly 900 people paying $1,000 a plate at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Bo Pelini, Nebraska's 7th-year head football coach, and Jack Hoffman, his 8-year-old sidekick who battles brain cancer every day, agreed to be interviewed as part of the featured entertainment at the ninth annual Dick Vitale Gala.
The celebrity conversation was a gripping commentary that reminded every patron in the room how Jack's record 69-yard touchdown run in Nebraska's 2013 spring game helped elevate awareness for the disease and inspire fundraising to support research that will help fight the disease.
"Awesome with a capital A!" "@TeamJack: Jack & @DickieV at @TheVFoundation Gala raising $$$ 4 child cancer research pic.twitter.com/QUe1l0FRIh"
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Pelini has been a national leader in the fight against pediatric brain cancer over the past several years. He has devoted numerous hours of his personal time, working hand-in-hand with the Hoffman family and others. Pelini also has nurtured an environment in his football program that was instrumental in Nebraska launching its own chapter of Uplifting Athletes that targets pediatric brain cancer research. Husker wide receiver Sam Burtch, NU's president of Uplifting Athletes, is hopeful that his teammates can register 1,000 runners for the Nebraska Football Uplifting Athletes Road Race in partnership with the Lincoln Track Club on July 20. The event, which drew 700 runners and raised $15,000 for pediatric brain cancer research in 2013, includes a fun run and a 5K competitive race.
Uplifting Athletes Champions winner Rex Burkhead and Jack visit White House.
Rich Fisher, Burtch's position coach, was in Florida recruiting last week and attended the Dick Vitale Gala, along with Pelini, Jack, and his dad, Andy Hoffman. Jimbo Fisher, head coach for defending national football champion Florida State, was among the guests that included Alabama's Nick Saban and two Big Ten Conference basketball coaches – Michigan State's Tom Izzo and Indiana's Tom Crean. Vitale expects the gala to raise $2 million to support pediatric brain cancer research, increasing the event's overall contributions to more than $12 million. This year's event sold out and forced gala organizers to decline celebrities who wanted to buy tickets.
The @Huskers photo @TheVFoundation Gala with @rfisher88 & @BoPelini pic.twitter.com/4pN3VFYiiN
— Team Jack (@TeamJack) May 16, 2014
Andy Hoffman salutes Pelini for his role in fighting pediatric brain cancer. "When Coach Bo and his wife Mary Pat agreed to serve as honorary co-chairs for our first Team Jack Gala two months ago (in Lincoln), it meant so much to our family," Andy said. "Coach Bo represents everything that's good in college football. He has a deep commitment to serve others and does an amazing job of using his platform to impact society in a big and very positive way. Our family is so thankful to be a recipient of his graciousness."
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Thread: Football and Faith
11-30-2012, 04:18 PM #37Veteran Poster
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Re: Football and Faith
From what I've heard from the players themselves (my nephews know Matt Stover and I've talked to him) is they pray for each other during the game and that no one will
get seriously hurt. God doesn't care who wins a football game but he does care about everyone in the game.
Players from both teams gathered for years after the game and you seldom if ever saw it on TV but nobody is asking
God for a win. They just want to play their best and that nobody gets hurt.
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So Lob is perfectly alright with people having different opinions than his, as long as they never mention them? Not surprising from a liberal, but whatever."A moron, a rapist, and a Pittsburgh Steeler walk into a bar. He sits down and says, Hi Im Ben may I have a drink please?
Re: Football and Faith"A moron, a rapist, and a Pittsburgh Steeler walk into a bar. He sits down and says, Hi Im Ben may I have a drink please?
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Yea, there's plenty who will agree with him but not us.
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Re: Football and FaithIf you are uncomfortable because you think that his beliefs are mandated to the team and that non-conformity has consequences. Well, yeah, until someone can provide any sort of evidence to support that claim, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
But when the Head Coach goes out of his way to publicly proclaim that those activities are "a big part of who we are," it's not a stretch to conclude that unless a player participates in these things he's not really part of the team. If you're the 52nd or 53rd guy on the roster, hanging on to your NFL dream for dear life, & you have a philosophical problem with this, the pressure to conform must be immense.
And this is what I find so incomprehensible about Harbaugh going public about this. What did it accomplish, other than to put even more pressure on any player with reservations to "get with the program"? How can anyone be certain there won't be consequences for those who can't or won't?
Re: Football and Faith
You can pray if you want to. It shouldn't be something mandated by authority.
I'm positive the Ravens don't require every player and coach to pray, but when he says what he did he is speaking for the team as a whole. I think it would be wise for him to stay away from speaking for everybody on matters like this.
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Re: Football and Faith
Matt Stover is by all accounts every bit as devout a Christian as Tim Tebow, but no non-believing Ravens fan I know ever had a problem with him pointing to the sky after every kick & acknowledging the Creator he believes in.
For every non-believer who (you want to believe) only respects others' beliefs if they never mention them, there are a dozen believers who only respect non-believers' views so long as they can say to themselves "Believe what you will, I'm going to heaven when I die & you're gonna burn in hell." Nice people.
I don't really care what you believe or how ludicrous it seems to me so long as you treat your fellow man with decency & respect. A lot of people who call themselves Christians are in dire need of a refresher course on just what that means. They ought to start by rereading what their Savior actually said, most especially Matthew 25:31-46.
Re: Football and FaithWe are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
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He said "To see it pay off like that, with that kind of success, is more of a validation of faith and trust in one another and in God. I don't like to say it too much because I know some people don't like to hear that, but it's a big part of who we are as a team."
He shared what he believes to be the team's beliefs are. Unfortunately, it's not possible that all 100 or so people involved in the Ravens organization share the same beliefs.
Re: Football and Faith
I posted a thread soon after HARBs came here that he was a Christian based on one of the first
interviews he did and it was with the Wash Post. It described his office and he had a Bible verse on his wall behind his desk and a Daily Devotional on his desk. All those were detailed in the article and signs that he is a Christian.
HARBs does believe in God and his brother spoke at Promise Keepers and his dad was the
AD or Assist AD at Marquette a Cath College, I think it was and that's where his sister JOni met her husband who is now head basketball coach at Indiana.
There's no doubt in my mind HARBs entire family is Christian and they're strict
Catholics and thus the faith reference in the locker room and he's used plenty of
Bible verses as part of his motivational speeches.
Other Christian coaches like Joe Gibbs and Tom Landry held Bible studies on the players
day off. Some came, most didn't.
Joe Ehrmann of the old Colts became a Christian as a result of Stan White after his
brother died and he had serious issues with life. He later joined Stan's Bible Study and is
now on the pastorial staff of Grace Fellowship Church in Timonium, MD or was and even
got them their new pastor when they were without one, a former roommate at Dallas
Theological Seminary. Joe also had a inner city ministry called THE DOOR.
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And I gotta say, to me, while I think the conversation about the subject in general has been a good conversation. But when it comes to comes to what Harbaugh said publicly it's not really a big deal. And what he says is a big (read: not the only part) part of who we are as a team, so anyone not spiritual/religious doesn't have to feel left out. It makes me think of when I sold cars years ago when managers would bitch about shit in meetings "if it doesn't apply, let it fly". If you're not spiritual or religious than pay no mind to what we say...We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin


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By making his Double-A debut on Friday night, Gregory Polanco made good on a promise.
"A couple times [during Spring Training], in Bradenton, Fla., he told me that this was his goal," Altoona manager Carlos Garcia said. "It's been part of his plan. He said he was going to meet me here in Altoona halfway through [the season], and he did."
The Pirates' No. 4 prospect did more than just show up. He went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a stolen base to lead the Curve to an 8-4 victory over visiting Trenton.
"He had some delays with his flight and he was tired, but he said he was ready to play," Garcia said. "I told him if that's the case, then he's playing center field and batting third."
The native of the Dominican Republic batted .312 with 23 extra-base hits and 24 stolen bases in 57 games with Class A Advanced Bradenton in his second full season. The promotion cost him an appearance in Saturday's Florida State League All-Star Game.
Polanco's first Double-A at-bat, against Yankees No. 14 prospect Nik Turley, will look like an ordinary strikeout in the books. But the left-handed hitter saw seven pitches.
"He faced a good left-handed pitcher and he battled and got contact here and there," Garcia said. "He swung once at a changeup in the dirt, but he didn't swing at it the next time."
Facing Turley again with one out and runners on second and third in the third, Polanco drilled a grounder back up the middle. Turley deflected it to second baseman Jose Pirela, who thew Polanco out, but the 21-year-old had his first Eastern League RBI.
In the fifth, Polanco hit a ball into the hole on the right side. Pirela got to it, but Polanco beat the throw, then stole second. He got another infield hit in the seventh before lining an RBI single to center in the eighth.
"Tonight I saw a young man with a lot of ability, a young man who will beat the opposition in a few different ways: offensively, defensively and on the basepaths," said Garcia, a former Major League All-Star. "He's going to have a great impact on our ballclub."
The Curve manager knows there's more developmental work to do concerning Polanco, but he's in no rush to press the outfielder on any particular aspect of the game.
"Right now, at this point, I just want to sit and watch him play. He has a lot to offer and I want to make sure he feels comfortable, so he's able to learn in every game," Garcia said. "And I want to make him understand it's going to be a lot of competition up here, at this level. But I don't think he cares about that too much, he just enjoys playing.
"We just want to keep him healthy, keep him playing the game the right way, which I don't think is going to be a problem for him because that's what he does."
Alex Dickerson, Pittsburgh's 11th-ranked prospect, also reached base three times, swiped two bases, scored a run and knocked in another.
Turley (5-5) went five innings and was charged with six runs on six hits and two walks while striking out two.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Supporters of saving the historic China House from demolition requested more time on Wednesday from city officials to work on a preservation vision with the Cucamonga Valley Water District, which owns the property.
City officials have previously red-tagged the building as unsafe, and the Cucamonga Valley Water District, which owns the property, was given 60 days, ending on Feb. 14, to demolish the historic China House.
The preservation group was given a 60-day extension, which ends next week on April 11 to come up with a feasible plan and funds to stabilize the building.
Without a plan, the demolition could proceed, according to city officials.
"Any plans would need to include emergency stabilization of the structure," according to a letter from city officials regarding the property. "If no plan is submitted, demolition will be necessary to protect the public safety. "
Supporters hope to save the house, which they say is the last Chinatown structure that remains standing in the Inland Empire. It should be saved, they say, as testament to the early 20th century contribution Chinese laborers made in the area to carve water tunnels and harvest wine grapes and produce.
"We're hopeful people will maintain a positive attitude and recognize that there's no need to rush to demolish the building," said Eugene Moy, vice president of the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and a leader on the preservation effort.
Located on the southwest corner of Klusman Avenue and San Bernardino Road, the red clay brick building was built in 1919 on the site of a once-thriving Chinatown. Without funds to fix the building, the water district had earlier approved plans to demolish it and use some of the original brick work for a monument to honor the Chinese laborers who had lived in or near the building in the early 20th century.
After hearing from preservation advocates earlier this year, the water district successfully requested more time, but it's unclear whether it will again request an extension from the city or seek demolition permits.
Jo Lynne Russo-Pereyra, assistant general manager of the water district, said the water district has yet to talk to the preservation group about a new extension request and said she couldn't comment on the development until after district consideration is made over how to proceed.
Jeff Bloom , Rancho Cucamonga's deputy city manager for economic and community development, said the city will be waiting to hear from the water district which is expected to either come forward with a demolition permit request, or a stabilization plan.
If the district doesn't come forward with either by April 11, Bloom said the planning commission would give direction to the building official on how to proceed on the demolition requirement.
The historic group, in February, provided a preliminary preservation plan to the Cucamonga Valley Water District which identified 28 phased components of a $1.7 million development process that included fencing, a building restoration, landscape design, permitting, and interim management
Moy said the hope is to get funds from the water district, and the group would also be actively looking for donors, fund-raising and seeking grants.
Jim Curatalo, a Cucamonga Valley Water District boardmember, said history is very important to the district, but also acknowledged concerns over the dangerous condition of the building. He said the primary concern for the district board is to provide safe and reliable water to residents.
"I need to speak with my staff following the council meeting to find out if there is any new development on this, but I'm hopeful things can be resolved in a way that would satisfy all concerns," he said.
Curatalo said the best chance for success for the preservation group "would be to secure private funding outside the water district's budget."


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In 2009 Jordan was helped by the presence of Tyson Alualu joining him on the line. Alualu went on to be drafted tenth overall in the 2010 draft. Thus, scouts wanted to see what Jordan could do as the main man on the d-line. Through eight games, Jordan has been the consistent force on defense and has recorded 7.5 tackles-for-loss and 4.0 sacks despite constantly being doubled teamed.
Right now Jordan is a borderline first round draft pick. In a 3-4 defense, ends do not usually put up great numbers, but Jordan is doing pretty good in that category. Yet, it will be during the workouts when he begins to separate himself from some other defensive ends. Much like Alualu a year ago, Jordan could see his stock rise very quickly after the NFL combine.
3/15 Update: Jordan was very impressive at the NFL combine and has worked his way into the top half of the first round. That was on the heels of an equally impressive week at the Senior Bowl. His versatility and ability to pick up different schemes has endeared him to teams that need help right away. And if you are picking somebody in the top of the first round, they better be able to help right away. The only thing keeping Jordan down some draft boards is his perceived low ceiling. As a four year starter, Jordan may not get any better than he is right now.
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pick 17 to New England. Pats always want the same guys as GB. and since GB will have one of last picks, they won't get a shot at this guy. He would look great in the GREEN AND GOLD
DraftCzar 01/25/11 10:02 PM
saints probably will take a de becuz god knows they obviously cant grade linebackers.
creeks21 01/21/11 09:08 PM
Experience as a 3-4 DE will really help this guy find a home. All the 3-4 playoff teams will have this guy on their radar. That means New England, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New York Jets, and possibly Green Bay will consider this anchor end. In the 3-4 you can never have enough depth on the DL because so few people can play two gaps well. If Belichik likes what he sees the Patriots will have a bunch of picks where Jordan will be right in their wheel house.
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Eugene A. Pickert played a behind-the-scenes role in the effort to defeat the Germans in World War II, serving as a Worthington Pump and Machinery Corp. executive closely assisting the U.S. government in helping the Russian allies.
Mr. Pickert transferred from New York City to Washington, D.C., in the early 1940s and arranged for the Russians to receive massive turbines and other heavy equipment built by Worthington. Those machines, shipped under the "lend-lease" program, built up the then-Soviet Union's infrastructure and allowed it to continue fighting the Germans.
The 99-year-old Hamburg resident died Saturday after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
A native of Detroit who graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, he was quickly hired by Worthington and soon sent to Washington, where he remained for the balance of World War II. Then he was transferred to Canada and worked for John Inglis Corp., a licensee of Worthington.
In the mid-1950s, he returned to the United States for a short stint before relocating as sales manager of Worthington's overseas operations headquartered in Madrid, Spain. He and his wife, the former Louise Manning, raised two daughters.
The family later moved to New Jersey and then to Orchard Park, where Mr. Pickert finished out his career with Worthington. He retired as a financial analyst in 1979.
Relatives said he kept busy throughout his long life with a number of hobbies, which included painting, repairing watches and old clocks, and woodworking. Even in the fiercest of winters, he and his wife, who died 1993, could be seen going out for evening walks during their time in East Aurora.
"My father was a true Renaissance man. Everything interested him. When he was 80 years old, he used three different computers. He was a devout Catholic and up until he was 95 years old, he went to Mass every Sunday," Susan Yeskoot said.
Mr. Pickert is also survived by another daughter, Mary Mannion.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Friday in SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, 66 E. Main St., Hamburg. Prayers will be said at 7 p.m. Thursday in Donald M. Demmerley Funeral Home, 21 Pierce Ave., Hamburg.


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glass box nice, insides not so much...
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Not as advertised, insides very poorly done...ad said houses lit up, they were painted yellow! ice skaters were not nice at all...not happy with this product at all...
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Service excellent;Delivery prompt;This product was bought as a gift. Its concept was attractive but its performance mediocre.
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Have looked at this for a long time and always wanted one. Actually had it sent to my sister for her birthday. She couldn't be happier. Prettier than the picture. Will get one for myself now.
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I have purchased and returned this item twice. The first time, it arrived with the lid broken. The second time, the etching on the outside of the box was partially rubbed off and the outside of the box looked like it had been scrubbed with something abrasive. Additionally, one of the ice skaters bumped into the bridge when the music box was playing and the figurines were moving. I would give this no stars if the form would allow it.
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it is ok, we had to fiddle with it to get it to continuously play music. Beautiful crystal box.
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This was a gift for my mother-in-law (who prizes fine artwork) and she loved it. It was shipped very well protected in a Styrofoam cube and it worked perfectly right out of the box. She loved the movement of the piece, how it didn't have to be operating to be a very pretty piece (could sit on display) and, to be honest, she is thinking about leaving it out year-round! Probably one of the best gifts my wife and I have given her in the past few years.
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My wife chooses to use it as the table centrepiece.Love the music.What's not to like?
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The charge led to a Los Angeles judge's recent decision to revoke Brown's probation for his assault case against ex-girlfriend Rihanna. According to the 'Washington Post," Brown's bodyguard also rejected the plea deal Wednesday. Another hearing is scheduled for February 20th.
It was a frenzied scene outside D.C. Superior Court where Brown's hearing was held Wednesday. Security officers were reportedly overwhelmed by fans who flooded the courthouse in hopes of catching a glimpse of the singer.
Brown and his bodyguard are accused of striking a man outside of a hotel on October 27th, although there are conflicting stories about how the altercation began. Reports suggest the dispute started over an attempt to take a photograph. But Brown's camp says the man tried to board his tour bus and that the singer's bodyguard was protecting him.
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It will be the Philadelphia company's third IPO. The company's chairman, Joseph Neubauer, led a buyout in 1984 to fight off a hostile takeover. Neubauer later helped bring the company back to public ownership in 2001 before engineering its 2007 buyout with a group of private-equity firms.
Aramark said it plans to use proceeds to repay debt. It did not specify the timing of the IPO or number of shares to be offered in the regulatory filing.
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Progressive activists are launching a day-long, nationwide campaign Tuesday to sabotage the release of Paul Ryan's new book by going to bookstores and wrapping the copies in demeaning fake covers.
The Agenda Project, a New York-based progressive activist group founded by former Democratic National Committee official Erica Payne, urged its supporters to print out a digitally altered cover of Ryan pushing an old woman off a cliff – a visual version of the talking point Democrats used against Ryan's entitlement plan during his 2012 run for vice president – and cover copies of his book The Way Forward at stores while taking pictures of themselves for social media.
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PHILADELPHIA – The home portion of the 2013 sprint football season concludes for Penn on Friday night (7 p.m.) against archrival Princeton at Franklin Field, and the Quakers will be honoring 11 players who have dedicated many hours to the sprint football program as part of Senior Night.
Penn is looking to bounce back after a 43-12 loss at Post last weekend. The defeat in Waterbury, Conn. has the Quakers sitting at 2-3 overall this season. At home, Penn is 1-1.
The Red and Blue lead the CSFL in total offense to this point in the season, averaging 394.8 yards-per-game. Friday's opponent, Princeton, is last in the CSFL with 215.2 yards-per-game. A majority of both teams' offense comes through the air. Penn is second in the CSFL in passing offense, averaging 244.8 yards-per-game in the air. Princeton is right behind with 223.6 yards-per-game to rank third.
Two of the top four passers in the CSFL will line up under center on Friday. Mike McCurdy is third among all League passers with 176.6 yards passing-per-game. His nine passing touchdowns are third among all CSFL signal callers. For the Tigers, Chad Cowden is fourth in yardage average at 157.6, and sixth in touchdowns with six.
Where the Quakers could take control of the game is on the ground. Penn is fourth in the CSFL in rushing offense, averaging a respectable 150.0 yards-per-game. Princeton, on the other hand, is last among the eight schools. Over 117 rushing attempts, Princeton as totaled -42 yards – which includes a long rush on the season of 20 yards. Mike Beamish has been carrying the bulk of the workload for the Quakers, with 481 yards rushing this season. His average of 96.2 yards-per-game is third in the CSFL. He enters Friday's game with 1,868 career rushing yards for the Quakers – 132 yards away from becoming the sixth 2,000-yard rusher in program history.
Prior to Friday's game, Penn will honor its 11 graduating seniors. This group has won 18 CSFL games over its four years together, including a 7-1 record in 2010 en route to a CSFL championship.
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A two-time All-CSFL honoree at placekicker, Michael Bass has connected on eight field goals and 43 PATs during his career. In addition, he has caught 27 passes as a tight end, with four career touchdowns. This year against Mansfield, Bass caught three touchdown passes to earn CSFL Player of the Week honors.
Jordan Colbert
Twice named honorable mention All-CSFL as an offensive lineman, Jordan Colbert has played in 20 career games for the Quakers.
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A two-time All-CSFL selection at wide receiver, Andrew Donald has returned to the lineup after missing almost all of 2012 with injury. This season, he has seven receptions for 86 yards and a touchdown. He enters tonight with 50 career catches for 729 yards and eight touchdowns. His 729 receiving yards rank seventh all-time at Penn.
Andrew Green
In his first season with the Quakers, Andrew Green has appeared in all five games at linebacker, registering seven tackles. He has posted one sack for a loss of nine yards at Post.
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An offensive lineman, Howerton has appeared in five career games for the Quakers.
Chris Nagle
A stalwart on the offensive line, Chris Nagle has appeared in 25 career games for the Quakers. In 2010, he was named honorable mention All-CSFL.
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Twice named honorable mention All-CSFL at wide receiver, Freddy Ordonez has caught 25 passes for 286 yards and two touchdowns. His 173 receiving yards this season are more than his career total entering the season.
Matthew Paige
A four-year standout on the offensive line, Matthew Paige was honorable mention All-CSFL last season. He has appeared in 21 career games for the Quakers.
Matt Pellegrino
A second-team All-CSFL linebacker last season, Matt Pellegrino has appeared in 20 games for the Red and Blue. He has 78 career tackles, including two sacks and six tackles for loss. He has recovered four fumbles in his career.
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Best Of :: Sports & Recreation
Yes, there's a double standard that goes on with sports fans in Dallas. If Michael Irvin gets caught with a roach, we will decry him as a moral degenerate. But if Stars goalie Eddie Belfour gets arrested because he was drunk as a monkey, well, that's just a man who lives a rock-and-roll lifestyle, brutha! Why? We'll let you draw your own conclusions. A black man caught with drug paraphernalia? Run him outta town! A white dude gets too loaded on a legal drug? Party on! At least, that's the way talk-show hosts and fans reacted to each episode. Our take: Michael Irvin was not only one of our favorite all-time Cowboys on the field, but he's also a guy we'd like to get to know off the field. Two reasons. One, crazed egomaniacs don't bother us (come to one of our editorial meetings sometime), and two, because, dude, we're dry right now, and we need a man with connections. After putting together a 400-plus page Best Of Dallas issue, one that honors a rich 20-year tradition, smokin' a bowl sounds so suh-weet right now...
Like other great moments in recent Dallas sports history, the best one of the year was a frozen one: Darryl Sydor, during Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals, crawling across the ice to defend his goal after he'd broken his ankle. ESPN analysts shouted in disbelief as Sydor, in obvious and tremendous pain, pulled himself across the ice with his arms, dragging his now-bum leg behind, and began throwing his hands in the air trying to deflect the puck as eventual champs New Jersey tried to score. It personified what makes hockey, and the Dallas Stars, so enthralling. Hockey at its best is a game that is at once more violent than football and more graceful than basketball, a game with an honor code that demands that hockey players not only play hurt, but play in blinding pain. Sydor's exhibition of--pick your clich--heart, determination, guts, whatever you want to call it-- almost made losing the Stanley Cup acceptable, because fans knew that moment reflected the Stars' effort, and the commitment fans ask of their sports stars.
We were rookies when we walked in, pros when we rolled out--or so it felt, with our nifty Specialized Expedition between our legs, our Bell helmet on our head, and our stylin' Fat Tire jersey over our shoulders. The last time we were on a bike was in 1982, back when Mom and Dad brought home that new Schwinn that long ago was reduced to bent, bruised metal after a nasty head-on with a car one night--enough to turn anyone away from biking for at least a little while. But two months after walking into the Richardson Bike Mart, looking for the instrument that was to be our salvation from an expanding waistline and encroaching lethargy, the place has become our home-away-from. The first day we walked in (underneath the framed Lance Armstrong jersey that hangs over the door), our salesman introduced himself (Sean Michael Dargan, whaddup?) and proceeded to introduce us to the right bike for the right build. Sean then explained that the bike had a lifetime guarantee and that the Bike Mart's expert staff would service it regularly, for a nominal (if not nonexistent) fee. But that wasn't the best part of the shopping adventure: That came when it was time to buy the accoutrements--the jersey and padded shorts, the gloves and helmet, the water bottle and bracket, the whole shebang that turns exercise into hobby into lifestyle. See, we like to bike--from nothing to 15 miles in two weeks, not bad if we do say so our own danged selves--but we like to look good while doing it, because that is, after all, the whole point. Uh, isn't it?
In this, the season that marks the beginning of the end for Your Heroes, there is only one human-interest tale worth telling concerning Dallas Cowboys players. Tim Seder, the 5-foot-9, 180-pound kicker who went to tiny Ashland University, was teaching at Lucas High School in Ohio when he found out he had a long-shot chance to make the team. He came to his first workout wearing a pair of indoor soccer shoes, complete with holes, that he'd borrowed from a student. He then went out and won the job, beating out dozens of other, seemingly more big-name kickers. Since the season's start, he has been the lone bright spot on a team that can no longer sniff mediocrity. Seder almost makes it worth going to home games, if only to root for him. Almost.
We keep waiting for Hansen's act to wear thin on us. It obviously has on his humorless co-workers, who--save for the refreshingly human Gloria Campos--stare at Dale in confusion after he finishes a joke-laden sportscast. (Apparently a focus group hasn't yet told them whether they're supposed to laugh.) But we still love to watch Hansen, who is the most entertaining personality on local television. (An aside: Much as we like Babe Laufenberg, we miss Hansen in the radio booth during Cowboys games...but we digress.) This was never so apparent as when, after every moron in town was calling for Troy Aikman's concussed head, Hansen spent his newscast sarcastically mocking that notion, showing highlights of Aikman-like drop-back passer Kurt Warner. It was two-plus minutes of ranting--far more entertaining and, hell, more enlightening--than another recounting of the day's scores. Hansen is aware that people now get their scores on ESPN and the Internet; what he can offer is smart, snide commentary, often more valuable than an hour's worth of X-and-O jock talk.
Unlike the Byron Nelson, they don't get Tiger Woods at the annual PGA tour event in Fort Worth. Insiders suspect it's because Tiger's sponsor, American Express, doesn't want to help plug Colonial's sponsor, MasterCard. Winding between some of the biggest pecans and oaks in the state, the Colonial course is a shrine to the game and one of the sweetest sports venues in the nation.


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Jeff Bridges's
Ever since its breakthrough role — coated in White Russian in The Big Lebowski — Jeff Bridges's beard has been his most expressive instrument. On Rooster Cogburn (True Grit), it reeked of whiskey, tobacco, and experience. And in Tron: Legacy, it was a testament to his character's humanity, a contrast to his eerily smooth-cheeked digital avatar.
Aaron Johnson
Artist-director Sam Taylor-Wood took a gamble when she entrusted the 20-year-old Johnson with the daunting role of young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, in which he turned in one of the best biopic performances of all time. (Later, she would get engaged to him and have his child.) Then the makers of Kick-Ass cast Johnson as the world's scrawniest superhero. Beneath his downy, adolescent exterior seems to lurk the weathered spirit of a Johnny Depp or a Daniel Day-Lewis, with commensurate awards to come.
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Solve your family photo mysteries with these books by Maureen A. Taylor:
A search of the 1900 US census on HeritageQuest for W. Bryan resulted in a William Bryan in Arkansas, who was 10 at the time. You can't always trust ages in the census. Could this be the boy depicted in the photo? Or does the "Arkansas" notation on the back refer to something else?
The "E.R Pitt" notation could refer to the Earle who received the card from Frank.
There are no Pilbeams in Arkansas in the 1900 census, but it's not an uncommon name in Michigan, which is where Luther Abner (in whose trunk this photo was found) lived.
Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, whose name appears on the back, served in the Civil War and in the Spanish-American War. He spent two decades fighting on the American frontier and he drove Sitting Bull into Canada after the Battle of Little Big Horn. The names Little Big Horn and Red Cloud appear on the card.
Could these be notes for something else? I've seen the backs of cabinet card photos used as scratch paper filled with math problems or handwriting samples, but in this case, some of the information seems more significant.
It's a picture mystery with lots of different threads to follow. There's one other thing to consider: Our ancestors collected interesting images. Perhaps this was an image bought because it's unusual. In an age when most people posed with serious expressions, the image of a baby laughing was an anomaly.
In the meantime, I'll keep digging. These multi-layered mysteries are frustrating but fascinating.
Three of the four images are owned by cousins who descended from James William "Harvey" Dunaway (1829-1880) and his wife Treasy Humphress Bateman (1820-1901). Could this be the link that June's been hoping to find?
June created this graphic to illustrate who owns what.
Contacts In May 2010,
I'd posted about June's detective work trying to identify a cabinet card. That post disproved a caption identifying the couple.
A distant relative saw that blog post and sent June a copy of the exact cabinet card. This couple turned out to be the Newmans. The tintypes above show some other couple. It was an online Family Tree photo reunion.
She had such good luck with the last photo posted here, that she's crossing her fingers that a Dunaway descendant will be able to figure out who is in the tintypes.
I hope so too! I'd love to write another reunion story.
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Take these two assumptions and test them by fitting that information into the birth date of the grand uncle. He may have known her as an older woman or his parent's knew her.
Showing the grand-uncle a list of all family members born circa 1930 might trigger his memory.
I'll be looking at the unknown images on Thompson's website to see if there are any matches. Another identified picture of her might exist in his family collection. A positive ID could result from comparing her round face and smile to other images.
The final ID will come from testing the facts and comparing pictures.
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden it must be here beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives were more significant than speech and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung." (The New York Herald, May 31, 1868, page 10)


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Ok, sitting on a brand new Sager NP8760 which has the Intel Compat Ultimate 6300 802.11ABGN wireless card. The iwlwifi project provides support for the 6000 series cards,but the problem is that what you download gives you iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode, but what all the errors seem to be pointing out is that iwlwifi-6000-2.ucode and iwlwifi-6000-1.ucode are what is missing.
This is a common problem already, and so far a few people have been getting it to work with some work arounds. I was wondering if you all might be able to do a locate on iwlwifi and see if you have those two files, or if you know you have them or where one could find them, could you upload and/or link to it on here please?


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Kate Moss was herself the most glittering star at a celebrity-studded night to launch a book dedicated to her 25-year-long career.
The 38-year-old model wore a full-length gold metallic gown to greet guests at the launch, sponsored by Ciroc vodka, who included Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie, Bob Geldof, Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney.
Moss ended up getting behind the decks at 50 St James.with Jacobs.
'Kate: The Kate Moss Book' features photographs by Mario Testino and Karl Lagerfeld and is co-edited by Jefferson Hack.
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