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Pandemic could put Jaguars’ traditions on ‘timeout’

September 24, 2020

Lindsey Nolen Remember the basketball game HORSE? Well, on Thursday nights during the National Football League regular season the Jacksonville Jaguars’ offensive line comes together for their own version of the game, “CAT.” They’ve also been known to play a game of Rock Band or two. This is because on Thursdays after practice, Center Brandon Linder typically hosts the OL

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Buzz: Stork Saviors, Jacksonville Beach Sign, a CEO’s Raise and More

February 6, 2013

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Ron Word Stork SaviorsAn exposed power line and a retention pond proved too much for young endangered wood storks learning to fly, but the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens and JEA came up with some novel ideas to prevent them from electrocution, according to a JEA news release. At first, the

Bouquets to J.P. Morgan and the staff at Mellow Mushroom on Fleming Island

February 6, 2013

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Bouquets to J.P. Morgan and the staff at Mellow Mushroom on Fleming Island for making a soldier’s birthday wish for his wife a rousing success. Shawn Fulker, who’s deployed in Afghanistan, went to the Mellow Mushroom website to order a pizza and a gift card for his wife’s birthday. He

Bouquets to Jeanette Forrester of Peb’s Books

February 6, 2013

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Bouquets to Jeanette Forrester of Peb’s Books for keeping much of Jacksonville in the read since 1971. City Councilmember John Crescimbeni has called her Arlington store a neighborhood institution. She’s working to liquidate some 100,000 volumes of new, used and rare books before she moves to rural South Carolina for

Bouquets to History Teacher Daniel Flint

February 6, 2013

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Bouquets to history teacher Daniel Flint for requiring his students at A. Philip Randolph Academies of Technology to know the personalities behind the historical figures. For two years, Flint has won the Tom and Betty Lawrence American History Teacher Award from the National Society of the Sons of the American

Devouring Art

February 6, 2013

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ARTIVORES: PALETTE TO PLATE 6-9 p.m. Feb. 23 Florida Mining Gallery, 5300 Shad Road, Southside Tickets: $195; proceeds benefit MOCA’s education department 268-4681 floridamininggallery.com facebook.com/artivores Florida Mining Gallery5300 Shad RoadJacksonville, FL View larger map Dan Brown The crème de le crème of creative efforts from local visual, video, theatrical and

Pushing the Personhood Envelope

February 6, 2013

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Chuck Shepherd California activist Jonathan Frieman finally got his day in court in January, but a Marin County judge quickly rejected his argument that he’s entitled to use the state’s carpool lanes accompanied only by a stack of corporate papers in the passenger seat. (In the 2012 Republican primaries, Mitt

India’s Pathetic Politicians

February 6, 2013

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Chuck Shepherd The U.S. Congress may suffer dismal popularity ratings (less savory than head lice, according to one survey), but it’s saintly compared to India’s legislatures, which include six accused rapists at the state level and two in the national parliament. And 36 local officials have been charged with sexual

Cellphone for Cheaters

February 6, 2013

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Chuck Shepherd According to a January Wall Street Journal item, many Japanese men reject smartphones for low-tech 2002 Fujitsu cellphones, because it can help philanderers keep their affairs from lovers’ prying eyes. The phones lack sophisticated tracking features — plus, a buried “privacy” mode gives off only stealth signals when

You Must Remember Your Parents

February 6, 2013

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Chuck Shepherd China’s national legislature passed a law in December to establish that people have a duty to visit their aged parents at times. China’s rapid urbanization hasn’t developed nursing homes and the like to keep pace with the population. The law’s sponsors said it would give parents a legal

Pastor’s Redemption for Pornographic Past

February 6, 2013

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Chuck Shepherd Senior pastor Claude Gilliland III was forced to admit to his flock at New Heart church in Cleburne, Texas, in January he’s a convicted sex offender and he and his ex-wife had worked in the porno industry. Gilliland, 54, served four years in prison in the 1990s for