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Friday, December 28, 2012

Most Popular Posts since 2010

It took the entire seventh grade of Coolidge to bump
Mary Gail into second place.


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The computer, invented at a roadhouse in Rock Island, out-polled most of you. Sorry.

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Sgt. John Baker, RIP, won the Medal of Honor
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Liz Copeland, MHS 68, Won Her Community Beautification Prize




Liz Copeland won the prize for decorating her home for Christmas.





Clancy, Christmas 2012
Liz Copeland's mother was a beloved teacher at Garfield Elementary School,
the Athens of Moline.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

High School Tennis Coaching Academy 3-Pack - Tennis -- Championship Productions, Inc.



High School Tennis Coaching Academy 3-Pack - Tennis -- Championship Productions, Inc.:


Sample Videos



Description

High School Coaching Academy: All Access Tennis Practice
with Lawrence Eyre, Maharishi School (IA) Head Tennis Coach;
USPTA "National High School Coach of the Year" 2009,
Professional 1 Certified Tennis Teacher(USPTA -1991),
16 State of Iowa Titles (4 team, 7 singles, 5 doubles), 10 runner-up (7 team, 1 singles, 2 doubles)
featured in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd"
We followed 2009 National High School Coach of the Year Lawrence Eyre through two extended practice sessions giving you unprecedented access to every conversation, drill, decision and the layout of his practices.
In addition to live practice footage, Coach Eyre delivers `spot on' coaching points and explanations that will enable you to take his ideas and blend them into your own style of coaching.
Over the course of these practice sessions, Eyre focuses on strengthening five key areas in order of importance.
  • Consistency and accuracy of strokes and serves (most important)
  • Direction and placement
  • Depth
  • Spin
  • Velocity/speed/power (of least importance)
This DVD provides a myriad of drills and coaching points to ensure that each of your players continues to improve in these areas.
Lawrence Eyre has had great success with several generations of high school tennis players. Now you can implement the drills, techniques and coaching tactics that have led to 16 state championships!
219 minutes (2 DVDs). 2011.
High School Coaching Academy: All Access Coaching Match Play
with Lawrence Eyre, Maharishi School (IA) Head Tennis Coach;
USPTA "National High School Coach of the Year" 2009,
Professional 1 Certified Tennis Teacher(USPTA -1991),
16 State of Iowa Titles (4 team, 7 singles, 5 doubles), 10 runner-up (7 team, 1 singles, 2 doubles)
featured in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd"
The majority of a tennis match takes place between points and sets. If you and your athletes know how to make the most of this time, you will gain a competitive advantage over your opponents.
This unprecedented `All Access' DVD is an unbelievable teaching tool designed to help coaches maintain the all-important balance between specific, practical feedback and overall motivational encouragement of their players during match play.
COACHING IN PRACTICE
USPTA's 2009 High School Coach of the Year Lawrence Eyre takes you inside a "live" team practice and simulates how he prepares his team for a match. Using an intra-squad match, Eyres demonstrates how he practices watching and coaching his players at changeovers or at the end of sets.
COACHING IN A LIVE MATCH
On Disc 2, you will see Coach Eyre 'on the move' at every opportunity - from court to court - offering observations, suggestions and encouragement to all of his players during their matches. Filmed during an actual high school tennis match, this is a segment you will want to watch again and again. The coaching and the suggestions are terrific!
Get a leg up on your competition this season by mastering your down time during the match!
Eyre-coached teams have played for the State Team Championship 11 times in the past 24 seasons despite being the smallest school in the State of Iowa with a tennis team!
140 minutes (2 DVDs). 2011.
High School Coaching Academy: Conditioning and Quickness Training
with Lawrence Eyre, Maharishi School (IA) Head Tennis Coach;
USPTA "National High School Coach of the Year" 2009,
Professional 1 Certified Tennis Teacher(USPTA -1991),
16 State of Iowa Titles (4 team, 7 singles, 5 doubles), 10 runner-up (7 team, 1 singles, 2 doubles)
featured in Sports Illustrated "Faces in the Crowd"
Lawrence Eyre has taught and coached 15,000 tennis players over an impressive career that spans several decades of changing equipment, ideas and facilities. As a result, Eyre knows the challenge of putting together a tennis-specific strength, conditioning and quickness training program that works in the off-season, pre-season and in-season.
This DVD contains a collection of games and drills that can be applied to a wide variety of court conditions, team sizes and talent levels.
From the warm-up to the cool down and everything in between, Eyre shares all of the games, exercises and drills that he uses, with consistent success, to improve his players' fitness levels, prevent the occurrence of repetitive, overuse injuries and keep practices fun and competitive.
You will appreciate Eyre's coaching points throughout the DVD - perfectly timed to eliminate any confusion in how to organize a game or drill and/or why this drill is done, as well as insights on team building, hydration, rest and more.
This excellent tennis DVD also includes a resourceful `Rube Goldberg Machine' of eight training stations, all operating simultaneously on one court. It includes reaction drills, weight training, running and plyometrics, plus, tennis-specific drills on court - both with and without tennis rackets. Your team will love it!
Eyre-coached teams have played for the State Team Championship 11 times in the past 24 seasons despite being the smallest school in the State of Iowa with a tennis team!
90 minutes. 2011.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Love springs anew for Quad-Cities couple - Quad Cities Online

Photo: John Greenwood
Glen Vincent and Christine Vincent Schnaufer shared naval experience when they got married, then they got divorced. They reunited at a son's wedding and are getting married on 12-12-12. They originally wanted to wed aboard his old ship, the USS Enterprise, which is soon to be decommissioned, but there was not enough time to get it squared away.
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Love springs anew for Quad-Cities couple - Quad Cities Online:


Love springs anew for Quad-Cities couple

 

Originally Posted Online: Nov. 27, 2012, 5:15 pm
Last Updated: Nov. 28, 2012, 7:27 am
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By John Marx, jmarx@qconline.com
Petite but not shy, Christine Vincent Schnaufer grabs fiance Glen Vincent's hand, and they laugh.
Everyone on the porch overlooking the gorgeous Geneseo meadow laughs. If Glen Vincent is within a 10-mile radius, you can bet people are laughing.

"Been there, done that, got the T-shirt to prove it,'' Glen says of the many unique twists and turns life can take. Glen and Christine, salt-of-the-earth people, are in the middle of one of those turns.

And the twist to their story is nothing but good.

Glen and Christine, both in their 60s, are getting married Dec. 12, 2012, after they return from a final visit aboard the U.S.S Enterprise (CVN-65) at Norfolk, Va. The Enterprise was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the ship Glen served aboard during the Vietnam War. It's the ship he and Christine -- as newlyweds -- walked to at Alameda, Calif., as he prepared to serve his country.

Approximately 200,000 American members of the U.S. Navy served aboard the Enterprise during its 50-year carer.

Glen Vincent is one of the lucky Enterprise alums who were selected to take a final tour of the vessel. It is being decommissioned and torn down over the next few months.

"Amazing,'' Glen says of the Enterprise, which was used in the filming of the movie "Top Gun,'' starring Tom Cruise.

Christine and Glen met at East Moline's Skateland in the early '60s and were bitten by the love bug. He was 18, she 15. Glen had to gain permission from Christine's police-officer father to be alone with her. They married three years later.

"It wasn't easy,'' Christine says. "If it wasn't my dad keeping an eye on us, it was other cops.''
The two divorced in 1976.

"My family loved him,'' Christine says of Glen. "We remained friends through it all. I know that doesn't always happen, but we did.''

Both married for a second time. Christine lost her husband four years ago. Glen, single again, caught up with Christine at the wedding of their son, Scott, soon after. They have been together ever since, courting as they did when they were kids -- sans local police officers watching their every move.

They wanted to have a Navy chaplain marry them this week aboard the Enterprise, but that wasn't possible.

"It just didn't work out,'' says Glen, who, thanks to an early Navy release in 1968, escaped a fire that killed 27 aboard the Enterprise in 1969. "We'll just get married and throw a party. Everyone loves a party, right?''

Christie and Glen understand there is not much traditional about them finding each other -- and love -- again. Conventional to them is just another word.

"We even went out dancing the night before we decided we would go ahead and get divorced,'' Glen says. "At the time, it wasn't working. We moved on, but down deep there still had to be something there. That and having a son together made us stay away from the bitterness.

"It's OK to go back where you started -- at least for us it is.''


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Monday, November 5, 2012

Eleanor Diehl's 90th Birthday Party - Great Celebration




Thanks to all classmates for your nice comments and to those able to attend mom's 90 birthday party.