NFL PRESEASON: Rookie?s interception for touchdown lifts Dallas past Miami

by Barry Wilner, AP Pro Football Writer Associated Press

Dallas running back Phillip Tanner (center) runs the ball Sunday for a nine-yard gain against the Miami Dolphins during the Hall of Fame game. (Scott R. Galvin / The Associated Press)

slideshow CANTON, Ohio ? Rookie Devonte Holloman?s 75-yard interception return with a tipped pass keyed the Dallas Cowboys? 24-20 victory over the Miami Dolphins in the Hall of Fame game Sunday night that opened the NFL?s preseason.

The sixth-round pick from South Carolina was perfectly situated when rookie Chad Bumphis had Matt Moore?s pass go off his hands in the second quarter. It was the biggest play for a Dallas defense switching to a 4-3 alignment under new coordinator Monte Kiffin.

But the Cowboys controlled most of the game one night after their former offensive lineman, Larry Allen, and former coach, Bill Parcells, were inducted into the hall.

Quarterback Tony Romo, coming off back surgery to remove a cyst, sat out for Dallas. So the Cowboys turned to their ground game ? and ground down Miami as few regulars got onto the field.

Linebacker Hollomon sped toward the end zone with a group of blockers escorting him, and after he scored he tightly clutched the ball as he headed to the Dallas sideline.

Bumphis otherwise had a strong game with five receptions for 85 yards.

But Miami?s mistakes were decisive. They struggled most of the night against Dallas? new defense masterminded by Kiffin, the man who designed the Tampa 2 scheme so prevalent throughout the NFL.

Although top running back DeMarco Murray was held out, the Cowboys were dominant on the ground. Phillip Tanner did the bulk of the early work and finished with 59 yards and a touchdown. Joseph Randle handled the late duty and had 70 yards as Dallas piled up 170 yards rushing.

Allen, Parcells and the other five inductees ? Cris Carter, Jonathan Ogden, Warren Sapp, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson ? were on hand and were honored again before the game.

Parcells, who coached Dallas and was an executive for the Dolphins in his final two NFL stops, walked through a line of players from both teams, pointing and exchanging barbs and smiles with them.

Soon after, Dallas led 7-0 on Tanner?s 1-yard run. The Cowboys were set up at the Miami 9 when Ryan Tannehill botched a handoff to Lamar Miller on the Dolphins? first offensive play and Nick Hayden recovered.

Tanner soon departed with a left arm injury, but returned and ran over and through Miami?s defense. Dallas moved the ball well in offensive coordinator Bill Callahan?s first outing as its play caller; those duties were taken away from head coach Jason Garrett in the offseason. Of course, few starters ever made it onto the field for either side.

Dan Bailey?s 49-yard field goal made it 10-0, then Holloman made his long sprint to the end zone.

Dan Carpenter kicked a 27-yard field goal for Miami, which used Tannehill for only 10 snaps before Moore came in. Third-string QB Pat Devlin hit rookie Keenan Davis with a 5-yard TD pass on fourth down in the final period, making it 17-10, and Carpenter added a 45-yarder.

But rookie Kendial Lawrence ran in from 7 yards with 1:57 left to clinch it for Dallas, even though Moore returned and added a 5-yard TD pass to Kyle Miller with 16 seconds to go.

Defensive end Dion Jordan, the third overall pick in the draft, had little impact for the Dolphins.

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Whirlwind wedding allows dying tot to be best man for his parents

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

Toddler given weeks to live

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Couple weds with their terminally ill son, 2, as best man
• The marriage took place in the back yard of the family's home
• After a grim diagnosis from doctors, the wedding was planned within a week

(CNN) -- Dressed in a tan suit and an orange shirt matching his mom's bouquet, 2-year-old Logan looked on as his parents exchanged vows and rings at a back yard wedding.

Guests who gathered under a white arbor in the Jeanette, Pennsylvania, home applauded -- but many with tears in their eyes.

Because this union of Christine Swidorsky and Sean Stevenson was no ordinary wedding.

The couple had planned it for ages, and had penciled July 2014 as their special day. But that was before they learned that their best man -- 2-year-old Logan -- had just weeks to live.

The boy is suffering from leukemia, brought on by a genetic disorder Fanconi anemia.

"We've been waiting for this day for a long time, but under the circumstances with Logan being sick all the time, we just held off," Stevenson told CNN affiliate KDKA. "We always knew he was going to get better."

"But under the circumstances of what the doctors told us, we just decided to go ahead and do it while he was still with us."

Christine Swidorsky carried Logan down the aisle. His grandmother cradled her in his arms, his favorite brown teddy bear by his side.

"This is our dream come true, all our family together, and we're all together celebrating. The celebration of my son's life and the celebration of our marriage," Swidorsky said, as Etta James' "At Last" played in the background.

Fighting since birth

Born on October 22, 2010, Logan weighed just three pounds. Eating troubles kept Logan in the hospital, but he kept fighting, kept growing, and was soon home with his parents and his two older sisters.

And for his first year, he grew, he was healthy, and he made his family unspeakably happy. Even today, as his life nears an end, Swidorsky struggles to find words to say what an amazing little boy he is.

Just after Logan's first birthday, Swidorsky noticed that he wasn't feeling well again, and his lips and fingernails had turned white. Over the course of a month, she took Logan to the pediatrician four times before the head pediatrician tended to him. When he did, he quickly called 911.

Swidorsky said Logan shocked doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. His leukemia had progressed so far, they were surprised he was still alive. Chemotherapy was started right away, taking an extraordinary toll on his body.

The couple learned more devastating news shortly after: Logan has a genetic disorder called Fanconi anemia, which most frequently results in death, most commonly from cancer, between the ages of 25 and 30.

But Logan fought hard, just like he had done as a newborn. He landed in the ICU but pulled through, and by July 13, 2012, doctors were prepared to give him a blood stem cell transplant.

After his stem cell treatment, he was free of leukemia for nine months, eating and acting like any other child. Life started to feel normal for Logan's family.

But Swidorsky's gut feeling returned when she saw Logan acting strange again.

Cancer again

It was cancer again: a mass the size of an orange on Logan's larger and better-functioning kidney. Doctors had no choice but to remove the kidney, just a week before Easter this year.

Life gained a long-sought-after normalcy for Logan and the family, except for the twice-weekly visits to a clinic for his chemotherapy. The therapy, though not a perfect solution for Logan, would hopefully prevent a recurrence of the cancer, despite being a lower dose than average.

Logan's life continued to improve.

"He was eating bowl after bowl" of spaghetti, Swidorsky said. "It was a wonderful feeling."

But then he started getting fevers and throwing up.

Logan's left side swelled as the mass returned, where the kidney once was.

"I thought he was doing so well. It's like you take two steps forward, 15 back," Swidorsky said.

The doctors told Logan's family that they could only do more harm than good.

In June, as the family's fortunes continued to fail, the Make a Wish Foundation treated them to a trip to Disney World.

But after just four hours there, Logan was back in the hospital.

Eight days of torture ensued, as he had developed an infection and eventually needed to be flown home to Jeannette, about 40 minutes from Pittsburgh.

Finally, on July 26, doctors gave Logan one to two weeks to live.

Not giving up

But that doesn't mean Logan's parents are giving up.

"We're just blessed everyday that he's here with us," Stevenson said Saturday, after the ceremony. "We're not going to stop fighting. We have nothing to lose.

"I'm going to try until God says otherwise."

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Egypt police call on protesters to leave sit-in

CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian police official called Saturday on supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to abandon their protest sit-ins, saying it would pave the way for his Muslim Brotherhood to return to a normal role in the country's political process.

The nationally televised remarks by Interior Ministry spokesman Hany Abdel-Latif came as authorities announced plans to break up the two main Cairo sit-ins by erecting cordons to prevent people from entering them.

Morsi's backers, including his Muslim Brotherhood group, have vowed to continue protesting until he's reinstated. He was ousted in a military coup July 3 after several days of protests by millions who took to the street to demand his ouster.

Abdel-Latif promised the protesters they would be able to leave without being arrested if they had not committed any crimes. He offered protection and safe passage to those willing to leave the two main camps ? a large one outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque in eastern Cairo and a smaller one near Cairo University's main campus in Giza.

"If you believe you are bringing victory to the Brotherhood, it is your safe and secure departure that will allow the Brotherhood to go back to its role in the political process," Abdel-Latif said.

He said that Islamist leaders at the sit-ins are controlling information and "brainwashing" the protesters into thinking the sit-ins are in defense of Islam.

The Interior Ministry said some of the sit-ins' organizers were involved in "killings, torture and abductions."

Last weekend, the Interior Ministry said 11 bodies were found near both protest sites, with some showing signs of torture.

The London-based rights group Amnesty International also said it had testimony of alleged killings and torture at the hands of Morsi supporters inside the sit-ins, including a witness who said he saw one man stabbed and another have his throat cut.

In a new allegation, Egypt's state news agency reported Saturday that a 25 year-old worker was detained and violently beaten at one of the sit-ins. It quoted a security official as saying that the young man was found late Friday near a military factory south of Cairo with severe bruises and injuries. He told police he was abducted two days ago by pro-Morsi protesters who were participating in a march after he criticized them.

There are fears of more bloodshed if the sit-ins are dispersed by force. Already more than 280 people have been killed in violence since Morsi's ouster. The bloodiest incident took place last week, when more than 80 pro-Morsi supporters were killed in clashes with police near the sit-in at Rabaah al-Adawiya Mosque.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-police-call-protesters-leave-sit-130245072.html

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Councilman Hotchkiss Thrown From Horse Before Parade

By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @magnoli | Published on 08.02.2013 2:42 p.m.

Santa Barbara City Councilman Frank Hotchkiss was thrown off his horse in the staging ground for the Old Spanish Days Historical Parade on Friday, and was taken to the hospital for treatment of his injuries, according to the Santa Barbara City Fire Department.

Firefighters and paramedics responded to the call at about 11:45 a.m., and took Hotchkiss to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital as a precaution, since head and neck injuries are a big concern when falling from that height, fire Battalion Chief Robert Mercado said.

?It?s a big distance,? he noted.

Hotchkiss, reached by telephone Friday afternoon, said most of his lower left back was very sore, and hospital staff were checking to make sure nothing was broken, but he hopes to be up and about in a day or two.

?I was at Pershing Park before the parade,? he said. ?It?s a good thing, too; all of a sudden my horse shied and bucked me kind of straight up in the air. I landed flat on my back on the grass.?

He has ridden horses many times before, but had never been on that particular horse, he said.

The animal apparently was spooked when Hotchkiss pulled off his hat to wave to someone.

The Historical Parade is one of the largest equestrian parades in the country, and has hundreds of riders on horseback making their way up State Street every year for Old Spanish Days.

City firefighters also responded to an incident involving a fall from a horse near the end of the parade on Micheltorena Street, Mercado said. A man and woman were riding the same horse and it's unclear whether the horse tripped or was spooked, but both people ended up on the ground, according to City Fire.?

Both people were taken to the hospital on backboards, as a cervical spine precaution. They complained of back and neck pain, responding firefighters said. It's normal for City Fire to respond to a few incidents at the parade every year, though the riders who come out for Fiesta are usually very experienced, they noted.?

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Defending champ Hunter-Reay ready to go for broke ? Artesia News

Ryan Hunter-Reay takes a corner during practice for the IndyCar auto race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

LEXINGTON, Ohio (AP) ? Defending IndyCar Series champion Ryan Hunter-Reay knows it?s time to make inroads on points leader Helio Castroneves.

Hunter-Reay put himself in perfect position to do it this weekend at Mid-Ohio. Hunter-Reay captured the pole for Sunday?s Indy 200, turning the second-fastest lap in track history to edge Will Power for the top spot. It will be the third time this season and the fourth time in his career that Hunter-Reay will start from the front.

Scott Dixon, who has won three straight races to move into second in the points race, will start third. Marco Andretti qualified fourth, followed by Charlie Kimball and Dario Franchitti.

Castroneves will start 15th. The Brazilian leads Dixon by 24 points and Hunter-Reay by 69 as he searches for his first series title.

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How Motorola can win over customers by letting them create the ugliest phones ever

In 2004, a high school friend named Benjamin showed up to homeroom wearing a pair of Nike shoes with the words ?DJ Wangsta? embossed on them. The shoes were a horrendous baby blue and sunshine yellow, and Benjamin -- who was not a disc jockey, nor had he ever been called ?Wangsta? or ?DJ Wangsta,? that I knew of-- had ordered the garish shoes online, custom-made to his specifications and tastes.

He wanted his shoes to stand out, to be so can-you-believe-this-jackass stupid that everyone around him would have no choice but to acknowledge them, and him. From my memory, it worked: He strutted down the halls of our high school, with all eyes on his appalling kicks. From that day forward, everyone knew about Benjamin and his hideous DJ Wangsta shoes. It became his thing; he went from being ?that tall kid with the twin? to ?that kid with the dumb shoes.? He became an overnight celebrity, just by opting for footwear that he got to choose the looks of.

Nine years later Motorola is letting phone buyers do with their smartphones what Benjamin had done with his Nikes. With the Moto X, announced Thursday at a press event in New York City, shoppers will be able to log onto a website and customize their smartphones, with different color combinations and embossed messages on the back of the phone. On the Moto Maker website, you will be able to mock up your phone with one of 18 different colors (including hot pink, cherry red, and -- yes -- sunshine yellow); a choice of shades for the accent (which will tinge the volume and power buttons, and the metal rim surrounding the camera lens); and whatever words you choose on the back of the phone (a Motorola exec suggested printing your email address in case you lose the phone, though one imagines you could also opt for ?DJ Wangsta?).

Perhaps my opinion is skewed by memories of Benjamin?s sudden post-Nike boom in popularity, but this, to me, seems like a most appealing differentiator for a smartphone. Don?t tell shoppers what you are doing to be different; let them differentiate it themselves.

In a market where you are essentially trying to separate your product from the iPhone, or stand out from it, what else can you do? Samsung has found monster success with gee-whiz software tricks and an aggressive, on-the-offensive ad campaign; HTC has found critical, if not modest consumer, success with its wondrous hardware architecture; and the Nexus 4 has its own hardcore fans with its unadorned, quick-updating Android software. Nokia, LG, Motorola and Sony are still searching for effective, profitable answers.

If Motorola can effectively get the word out-- and, like other iPhone competitors, this phone will live or die on the effectiveness of the advertising push -- it should at least have a modest hit. Adventurous iPhone owners have long sought to establish their personalities by buying various wild cases to costume their phones, but Motorola takes this to the next level with its Moto X: It is an opportunity to declare your individuality on the phone itself, by inventing your own highly-visible color scheme and catchphrase. If the iPhone really has become boring, as many pundits insist, then a Motorola phone that you can festoon with the hues of your nation?s flag, or the colors your favorite college football team, may really appeal to some jaded shoppers. Perhaps Google could throw in a free ringtone of your choosing to really personalize this thing.

If some of the Moto X?s on display at Thursday?s event are evidence, these user-made cases are going to be nothing if not eye-catching (either pleasingly or, uh, DJ Wangsta-ly). The next step, clearly, will be to allow customers to choose any colors or photographs to print on the backs of their phones, and not just the 18 pre-approved ones that Motorola?s Maker tool allows you to select from. Perhaps that will be an option on the Moto X2 (Moto XI?) in 2014.

For now, though, Motorola is making the most easily customizable, micro-targeted phone on the planet, the only smartphone I know of that is makes it this simple to express yourself at the checkout counter. Whether it works is, again, contingent on the advertising -- let?s hope Motorola takes advantage of Google?s marketing team, and not whoever it was using -- and whether the DJ Wangsta?s of the world are as enthusiastic about decorating their smartphones as they are their shoes.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/moto-x-custom-design-and-dj-wangsta-231754968.html

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Community Foundations: Building Philanthropy and Effecting S

01 Aug, 2013

We close the current theme (fundraising) with a look at community foundations and the value propositions that drive their ability to operate and raise funds. Lori Larson, senior director of GuideStar DonorEdge, a technology and knowledge platform that enables community foundations to encourage increased charitable giving and to promote awareness of local needs and issues to donors and the community.

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Community foundations play a unique, critical role in the progress of social change. They are place-based, public charities and are approaching their 100th sector anniversary in 2014. There are about 700 community foundations in the U.S. and according to the Council on Foundations, the community foundation sector manages almost $50 billion of charitable assets and serves an estimated 86& of the U.S. population.

These organizations are unique in their opportunity to:

• Invest charitable dollars for a return on investment to increase philanthropy and grantmaking in their communities;
• Provide local nonprofit information to enable smarter decisions and more effective philanthropy; and
• Convene diverse groups of people to solve social problems, build infrastructure, and community investment.

Because community foundations are public charities, they must receive most of their support from the general public and must pass the IRS public support test. As such, they are held to strict standards of financial management, stewardship, and practices. No other organizations exist with this unique responsibility and opportunity for social change.

Historically, community foundations focused on managing and investing tax-deductible dollars from individuals. In the early 1990s, commercial financial institutions started offering the same types of charitable giving funds as community foundations. This new competition was only the beginning of market disruptions for these organizations. Many entrepreneurial and visionary community foundation leaders recognized that significant changes to their strategies and business models were needed. GuideStar?s DonorEdge partners, collectively known as the DonorEdge Learning Community (DELC), exemplify this creative leadership in how they have transformed their organizations and embarked on a new goal to become their community?s essential source of philanthropy and nonprofit information. The DELC connects people with charitable causes with which they care about, and organize and present information in a meaningful way for action and impact. This work exemplifies how community foundation are operationalizing new initiatives and research, such as Money For Good, Markets for Good, Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, and The Overhead Myth campaign.

Sustainability, resilience, impact, risk, and uncertainty are not new problems but continue to pose paralyzing challenges, especially to the social sector. As a result, the sector is witnessing a slowly emerging, positive shift in helping to communicate and create knowledge about the good, effective work of nonprofits through information design and education about how nonprofits achieve their mission. At the 2012 COF Fall Conference for Community Foundations, John Kania and Grant Oliphant presented CFInsight?s donor-advised fund study, ?Do More than Grow? and ?Designing What?s Next,? respectively, about reimagining multiple designs of sustainable business models for community foundations. Both presentations emphasized the critical need for community foundations to design their own future and purpose based on the people and communities they serve. The message included bridging the gap between community foundation aspirations and practices, and realizing that sustainable value requires a full spectrum of innovation that goes well beyond ?fixing? traditional revenue models.

In a recent Markets for Good blog post, Bahia Ramos discusses how community foundations can engage new donors via ?giving days.? Along those lines and also aligned with themes from Knight Foundation?s Media Learning Seminar 2013, the community foundations in GuideStar?s DELC have invested further and beyond giving events to:

• Engage their communities and move donors along the continuum of charitable giving and inspiring philanthropy;
• Provide nonprofits an opportunity to showcase their critical contribution to community and society; and
• Empower donors to make informed decisions about their charitable giving.

Similar to Knight Foundation?s community foundations program, the community foundation sector is beginning to recognize that:

• Community foundations are uniquely positioned to become civic leaders and distribute community information, and facilitate and support positive social change.
• Collecting data for clarity of community needs and issues can be transformative for effective decision making and positive social change.
• Social change will not occur without experimentation and managing risk through a non-traditional lens.
• Positive social change cannot be accomplished without relationship building and community engagement of the broader community.
  • Community foundations must overcome traditional barriers and attitudes in strategies, collaborations, and partnerships.
  • Digital media is the entryway for broad distribution and engagement.

The learning community, DELC,? is transforming philanthropy in their communities through new strategies, nontraditional collaborations, and a culture of willingness to experiment. In many of these efforts, the DELC uses GuideStar DonorEdge nonprofit profile data internally for improved grantmaking and organizational efficiency, shares the data with community funders and stakeholders, and presents the knowledge from DonorEdge data with donors and the community at large to increase community philanthropy and affect positive social change.

The evolution of social change: community foundations play a critical role

Note: GuideStar powers DonorEdge, a technology and knowledge platform for community foundations to encourage increased charitable giving and promote awareness of local needs and issues to donors and the community. Beyond technology, GuideStar is a partner with the DELC, a group of innovative community foundations that use DonorEdge in their work. The vision of our partnership is a long-term commitment to inspire philanthropy, innovation, sustainability, and nonprofit sector building. We are a model of collaborative knowledge exchange at all position levels, from the executive suites to the project teams.

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What do you think? Are community foundations in a good position to drive positive change at the local level? (If you think so, slide the Swipp slider to +5 for a a strong ?Yes,? or to -5 for a strong ?No.?

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