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Always Remember
by Rick Crandall
posted Sep 2 2014 9:36AM
In August 1914, 1600 men enlisted into the British forces in the old moat around the Tower of London. Great Britain had just entered WWI and before it ended 888,246 of her sons gave their lives in the Great War. To mark the 100th Anniversary of Britain's entry in the war ceramic poppies are being placed in the old moat by 6,000 volunteers with the last one to be placed on November 11
, Armistice Day. These pictures of this incredible tribute were taken by my friend Molly McGinnis and show the poppies spilling, much like blood, out of one of the Tower windows and into the now dry moat. I'll bet it's breathtaking in person and certainly a beautiful remembrance. 1237 from Colorado gave their lives in WWI. May we never forget.
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A Story of Recovery
by Rick Crandall
posted Aug 25 2014 9:15AM
Over the last few weeks I have been sharing how love and faith have carried me and Diane through our journey with a second stroke and Di's recovery. This morning I want to tell you about my friend who has taken his own difficult road to re
covery but today it's paying off in a wonderful way!!
That person in the bed is Pierce O'Farrill. This picture was taken on July 21, 2012, the morning after the Aurora Theatre Shooting in which Pierce had been a victim. He was shot several times in the foot, arm and chest and will have shrapnel in his arm for the rest of his life as a reminder, as if the dark image of the shooter standing over him in the theatre that night is not reminder enough.
Months of rehab and an unbeatable strength of faith have brought Pierce to today, when he will marry Jackie, a beautiful woman who has been there with Pierce since his recovery began. It will be a beautiful ceremony that might just as easily never have happened, and for many in the theatre that same night won't happen. I know on the happiest day of his life Pierce will carry the memory of those lost on the saddest day of his life.
I am overjoyed for the two of them, but especially the kid I hired as a board operator at KEZW many years ago who was just trying to find his way. Pierce and I had stayed in touch over the years, but I like to think we're closer now than ever. I love him like a brother and am so proud of the man he has become. Bless you both today and congratulations. God gave you a gift in the darkness of that July night. A chance to find each other. Make the most of it!!!
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VJ Day 2014
by Rick Crandall
posted Aug 15 2014 4:03PM
Did you notice it anywhere? Were there any special sales or car deals to commemorate the day, one of the most significant in history? How many people flew flags to honor August 14, or what happened on this day 69 years ago? P
arades? Moments of silence? National Day of Remembrance? Nope. Today is remembered in quiet corners of nursing homes and retirement communities by old men who may not be able to say it anymore, but still can see it. They had survived a war that had claimed the lives of 405,000 of their comrades. It is also marked by the remaining survivors and later generations of those who lost the nearly 3700 from Colorado that left to save the world's freedom and did not return.
August 14th, 1945, at 5pm Denver time President Harry S. Truman went on the radio and announced to a war weary nation that Japan had accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and the official surrender would be signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2nd. World War II was over. He asked that VJ Day be celebrated on the day the surrender was signed, but it was too late. Across the nation, a nation that had been at war for three years, eight months and seven days, city streets filled with a celebration like no other. In Denver thousands left office buildings, school campuses and factories like Gates Rubber and Remington Arms, headed to the State Capitol and further downtown where one reveler remembered, "Everyone was kissing everyone!!" August 15th and 16th were declared National Holiday's and the celebrations continued until thoughts turned to, "what's next?" Soon veterans would be returning home after being gone for so long. Would they be the same? How had war changed them? Happiness was joined by anxiousness. And the long wait for loved ones to get back home began.
I didn't see much mention of VJ Day today in the newspaper or on the TV. Perhaps they're waiting until September 2nd to mention it on the date the surrender was signed. Or perhaps it is old news now. 69 years ago today it was a current event. God Bless all of our WWII generation that stood tall then, and remembers quietly now. May your memories be of heroic deeds and great conquests; may God grant you peace in your sleep and pride for those you lost. Thank you homefront veterans and frontline heroes from a grateful generation you returned home to raise.
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by Garner Goin
posted Jan 21 2014 1:12PM
It's one of those text messages you always worry about. Diane and I were at the store and my phone beeps. I glance at it and see the words, "Do we have baking powder?" Harmless, until you realize it's your 13-year old granddaughter texting, and what the heck is she cooking???? Needless to say we were home inside of three minutes and there was my formerly little girl making pancakes. She had gone on line and got a recipe from a cooking website and was making breakfast. How could it be that the little girl I was just playing airplane with to get her to eat Gerber Carrots was now searching recipes and cooking breakfast? I am learning, and living, one of the great challenges of grand-parenting, being so proud of their accomplishments, but somewhere in the back of my head hearing a whisper, "Enjoy this because…
The first time this happens you're so busy being a parent, and having a career, and growing up yourself, that the little moments get lost. The milestones are greeted with a casual, "Good job sweetie" and then it's back to the challenges of the world. You have a million pictures of your first child growing up, a thousand of the second and by the third kid you have group photos, and he's wearing clothes his brother was photographed in the year before!! Being a grandparent allows you to see what you might have missed the first time. I spent months wondering what Larissa's voice was going to sound like after she was born. I watched Ethan play T-Ball like it was game seven of the World Series, every time he played. Joshua and I have amazing talks about the things we want to build and the stores we want to open. This is the height of the joy grandparents feel in their life.
Somewhere though, lurking in those quiet moments when you have too much time to think, is the realization that with these milestones, the seasons are changing. No one lives forever and thinking you will cheats you out of the urgency of enjoying every second you have, and I refuse to let an hour go unused. I don't have time for daily drama and petty people. I assure you the last thing that goes through my mind will not be, "Can you believe what he said?" It will likely be, "I remember when I had the best pancakes I ever tasted.", or the touch of Diane's hand in mine, or our Thanksgiving table. Someone once said, "Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments…" I believe this to be true. Grandparents know it to be true. I hope you enjoy every moment…and your own pancakes.
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Christmas Trees
by Garner Goin
posted Dec 12 2013 6:31AM
This year Diane and I are sharing our 40th Christmas together and it has always been our custom to have a fresh tree. We have lived through the aluminum trees with color pin wheels, the white trees, the evolution of artificial Christmas trees and even trees you sprayed with scent so they would smell like trees. Through it all we remained steadfast in our determination to have a live tree. We have visited lots when it was below zero. One year I brought a tree home with the top four feet sticking through the sunroof of our Datsun and the branches sticking out both back windows, with our daughter sitting somewhere in the middle of the whole display! I went to the forest and cut down a tree once. It looked so much better in the forest! Yea, we've had some adventures but there is just something about a real tree that makes Christmas come to life in our home and this year, well this year let's say we love our trees more than ever because of who we got them from.
Last Christmas we stumbled across a lot on a corner in Parker that sold the beautiful old fashioned trees we love. We purchased a beauty and when we took it down in January it was as fresh as the day we bought it, so we were determined to get our trees there again. This year the owner of the tree lot moved the whole thing to his property, Franktown Landscape and we headed down there to look. It didn't take long for us to find what we wanted and with our selection made we got to making small talk with Hubert Aguirre, owner of the place. Hubert is a character and I find as I get older I'm really drawn to them. I love their passion for life and their ability to tell a story. Hubert told us how he used to sing like Dean Martin for the girls in school and then broke into song. And Hubert talked quietly of his brother Raymond, who on March 27, 1970. Was killed in action in South Vietnam. He talked about how his mother and father were never the same and he talked about how much he missed his brother still. Diane asked him if he had heard of the Colorado Freedom Memorial and Hubert said no so Diane pulled the website up on the computer and there, in the database, showed him his brother's name, Raymond Aguirre, Panel 18, Row 3, Name 23. Hubert is too tough to cry in front of you, but you could see the tears forming.
We told Hubert that we had been thinking about placing a live Colorado Blue Spruce at the Colorado Freedom Memorial site and selling Dog Tag Ornaments that people could purchase for $10 and we'd write the name of any veteran they'd like on the tag and hang it on the tree. Hubert said you buy one, I'll give you one and I'll deliver them for free. It seemed to be a way Hubert could give his brother Christmas, if only by having a tree near his name. We shook hands and as we were getting ready to leave, Hubert said thanks, and started singing, "everybody loves somebody, sometime." A great character! Yesterday the trees were delivered to the Colorado Freedom Memorial and one of the two men in the truck walked up to the Memorial and asked where Raymond Aguirre's name was. I walked him to it and after a few minutes of silence he turned to me and said, "I'm Raymond Aguirre also. My Dad named me after his brother."
This year I see Christmas Trees differently. When I was younger they were the place where the presents appeared after Santa's visit. As I aged they became the keeper of family heirlooms, ornaments that hung on my Moms tree and her Moms, and those we added that say Baby's First Christmas and other wonderful symbols of our own growing family. Now these trees remind me that every generation has gathered here, in front of their own trees, during Christmases past and shared joyful celebrations with family. There was laughter, and excitement and surprise and love. They wondered what the journey of the coming year would be liked and prayed they would all gather together again at the tree to share the season. For some, like Raymond Aguirre and the other 5800+ on the Colorado Freedom Memorial, Christmas became a painful memory as they fought for their country far from home, far from the Christmas trees of their youth.
This year, under the soft light of our tree, the one Hubert loaded in the car, I give thanks for the greatest gift I will ever receive, the Freedom that lets me celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas morning and to be gathered around those beautiful trees with my own family. It's a gift I received from heroes I have never met and I will never sit by the tree again without thinking of them all.
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Cardboard Fireplace
by Garner Goin
posted Dec 3 2013 7:22AM
Cardboard Fireplace
One of my fondest memories of Christmas when I was a kid was Mom and Dad putting together the cardboard fireplace. It was about four feet tall and it had a red brick pattern printed on it and an orange light bulb that you plugged in and when it heated up it made a metal blade rotate causing the light to flicker. It was as close as we ever came to having a fireplace and I'd lay on the floor and just stare at the "flame" until Mom said it was bedtime. I remember our stockings were long beige socks that were part of one of Dad's military uniforms. No fancy stocking, simple military socks and they were filled with hard candy, ribbon candy, chocolate Santa's and oranges. And I remember listening to Sing Along with Mitch over, and over and over! I'm from the generation that grew up with Department Stores closed on Sunday's and everything closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Days. We really didn't mind because we had plenty to do at home, like play Mousetrap or join the neighbors for a good game of football. And we'd all gather for dinner and then sit side by side on the couch and watch one of the 4 TV channels we got.
This has all been on my mind the last couple weeks because of the incredible pressure everyone is under to leave the dinner table on Thanksgiving and head to the stores. And forget about doing anything at home Friday, that's Black Friday and you have to shop all day for those great deals. And don't forget Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And when Christmas Day comes the #1 present will be gift cards, so everyone can head back to the Malls for more shopping the day after Christmas! Seems to me we've kind of lost our values while looking for values. We try to wedge in a Church service or family dinner in December so we can "Remember the reason for the season" but we'll spend more time reading the ads than we will reading stories of the first Christmas.
I probably would be a club of one but I think it would be cool to call the second Saturday in December Family, Faith and Friends Saturday. Instead of rushing to the store we'd spend time together and enjoy one another's company. We'd have dinner together, maybe go caroling with the neighbors and have hot chocolate and Christmas cookies. There wouldn't be the pressure to shop because for this one day the gift would be each others company. And maybe before bed we could share a favorite story of faith. I know, that horse left the barn and you can't go backwards. I have just reached the place in my life where I worry in our haste for everything being new and better we threw out things that were pretty good to begin with, and necessary to establish values that guided us. I heard today that 90 people were injured in Black Friday fights for bargains. What does that say about us?? I think it says Family, Faith and Friends Saturday might be more necessary than we think. And a sit in front of the old cardboard fireplace would do us all some good.
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Carving the Turkey…
by Garner Goin
posted Nov 27 2013 8:29AM
When you're a boy growing up there are many signposts on the way that mark your path to manhood. I'm not talking about physical changes, I mean the things that signal a slow change in maturity. For some it's turning 18 or 21. Others joined the military to show they were men, or it's the first drink in the bar. OK, except I was pushing Dad's VW Bug down the road and popping the clutch when I was 15 so I could go for rides around the block and who didn't have their first sip of alcohol in high school?? I don't believe I was a man then, nor do I believe I was when our daughters were born. I was 18 when Sara joined us and 20 when Jen arrived. I grew up with them and held on for dear life. While those were all signs of change, they didn't classify me as a man. That happened on Thanksgiving Day 1996, when Dad handed me the electric knife and told me it was my turn to carve the turkey. I was 40-years old, and my Dad had just trusted me to do the most important holiday task I could imagine
You see, since I was old enough to pay attention I held the annual right of carving the turkey as the one thing I aspired to the most. After spending the entire day cooking, which came after she had just spent the entire day before cleaning, Mom reached way in the back of the cabinet and pulled out the yellowed box that held the electric carving knife. After she had mashed the potatoes, made the gravy, baked a mince-meat pie, prepared all the side dishes and sampled the crispy stuffing sticking out of the back of the bird, she handed Dad the knife and he sliced the turkey. I always wondered why she didn't carve the bird. Why shouldn't she be able to complete the task she had been working for days to accomplish? Apparently, I assumed, there was some ancient European tradition that had been brought across the Atlantic by our ancestors that dictated Mom pass the knife to Dad, and I knew someday he would pass it to me as the oldest son. I was spellbound as he moved from side to side and removed the slices from the turkey and put them on a very big platter we only saw once a year. Did you have one of those? It was white and had a turkey embossed on it. Anyway, after he finished, we said a quick prayer and began the feast. It was AWESOME and for a young boy it seemed the most important task a man could have and in 1996 that task became mine.
Passing the torch…handing down traditions. That's what this wonderful time of year is really. The special decorations we put up that used to hang on Mom's tree. The recipes we dig out that still have stains from Christmases past when everyone was in the kitchen making cookies. And the stories we tell and the songs we sing that we've been singing as long as we can remember. Someday those recipes will be inherited by others who will smile through tears as they read your notes and copy the steps word for word. Those tears will be the secret ingredient that completes the dish! And we'll hang ornaments that have hung on family trees for generations. And we'll carve the turkey with the same knife Dad used, and his Dad before him.
I know now I didn't become a man because Dad asked me to carve a turkey. I became a man because Dad trusted me to be the next keeper of the family traditions. It is a job I love more than any I have ever had. On Thursday I will carve the turkey as Dad sits close by. When the meal is finished and the dishes cleaned, Diane and I will gather in the family room with our granddaughter Larissa and watch White Christmas, a tradition we started 30-years ago. Things change so fast, and the world doesn't look much like the one I grew up in anymore. As the Tradition Keeper it's up to me to make sure in the haste to change things and make everything better we don't forget it was pretty good already. We are a product of those that came before us and what a shame if we forgot the way home. I believe these are the days that hold the rest of the year together and I pray they bring you a Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a season filled with love. And I hope somewhere there's a little one watching you, waiting their turn to be just like you.
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We're All Different Now…
by Rick Crandall
posted Sep 11 2013 9:30AM
12-years ago tonight America was a different place, a place that seems so distant and foreign now. No one could know that come morning one of the Freedom's so eloquently spoken about by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and written about in the preamble to the Constitution, Freedom from Fear, would be shaken for generations. On the night of September 10
, 2001, the Denver Broncos hosted the New York Giants on Monday Night Football with the Broncos winning 31-20 despite wide receiver Ed McCaffery breaking his leg in the game. Fans left Invesco Field hopeful for a winning season. Earlier on the 10
Captain Jason Dahl left his home in Littleton bound for Newark, New Jersey where he would pilot Flight 93 the next morning, bound for San Francisco. Jason had switched flights with another pilot so he'd be free to take his wife to London for their 5
anniversary the next week. It was a normal end, to a normal day. How could anyone have imagined that before the sun would set on 9/11 nearly 3,000 people would be killed in the fall of the twin towers, the damage at the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania?
"Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed." Kahlil Gibran
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was broadcasting the KEZW Breakfast Club live from the Denver Zoo. It seemed we had just started the show when I heard my producer at the station engaging in a frantic conversation with our traffic reporter. I could sense some anxiety in their voices and for the longest time no one would respond to my repeated questions about what was going on. Then there was silence, followed by the producer saying to me, "You need to come to the station immediately…something bad is happening." I can hear those words as clearly today as I could 12 years ago. When I got to the station we flipped our programming to 24-hour live news and didn't play a song for 30-hours. I then made the decision that we needed to give people a place to go to escape from the news and the overwhelming sadness, if only for a little, and we started playing music again. I do remember the quiet skies with no planes flying. And I remember looking at three and a half month old Larissa, our granddaughter, and wondering what kind of world are we welcoming you to?
December 7
2001 I found myself, along with Diane in Hawaii for a broadcast I was going to do from Pearl Harbor for the 60
anniversary of the attack there. On that day a group of first responders from New York City had been invited to come, with their families, by the state of Hawaii for some R&R and a chance to meet perhaps the only people that truly understood what they had been through, survivors of the attack on December 7
, 1941. The young, muscular men from NYC, medics and firefighters who had entered the burning towers looking for survivors and spent weeks sifting through rubble looking for any sign of life stood with arms around 80-year old men who had themselves looked through burning hulls of sinking ships and oily water for victims of the Japanese attack. They hugged, they cried, and they more often than not just looked at each other in knowing silence. They had seen evil face-to face and were all changed forever.
I know now that we have all been changed. We are all different than we were on September 10
, 2001. Not the obvious different of age and physical change. The different that shows itself when we sit in an airplane boarding area, after clearing multiple security screenings with detectors and scanners, and worry about the person waiting to board our same flight who looks like they could be middle eastern. The different that shows itself in carrying all of our belongings in clear plastic bags to football games. Different in how we are hardened to the news, and the tragic loss of life that continues today as we not only lose a younger generation to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to the demons they bring home as 22 veterans a day take their own life as the only way they know to make the pain stop. Since 9/11 the Colorado Freedom Memorial, built to honor those killed in action since we became a state has added over 100 names. You can turn away, but it doesn't go away. We once assumed tomorrow was a given. We know better now. We're different.
Tonight, as you make the evening rounds and check that the family is safe and everything is as it should be, take a moment to remember those for whom life has not been the same since 9/11. Remember the families of 9/11 and the loved ones of those that have borne the battles since. Ask for courage to accept the new world and strength to carry those that live in fear. Ask for wisdom to know the answers to little ones questions and patience to make sense of it all.
Enough rambling from me for one night.
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Sports Dear John Letter
by Rick Crandall
posted Aug 20 2013 10:27AM
October 10, 1968 is the greatest day I ever enjoyed as a sports fan. Just shy of my 12
birthday, I had been raised to be a Detroit Tiger fan. My Mom was born in Detroit and had always followed the team. She was the one who taught me to throw a baseball and catch horny-toads and ride bikes. A boy could not have asked for a better Mom and on that October day in 1968 we were both rooting for the Tigers. Mickey Lolich was pitching on two days rest against the legendary Bob Gibson with the series tied at 3 and the final game being played in St Louis. I took a small transistor radio to school and had one of those ear pieces in and when teachers didn't look I turned the volume up. That day Lolich did something that no pitcher had ever done, or has done since, he pitched his third complete game in the Series and the Tigers won 4-1. I couldn't wait to get home and share the details with Mom, riding my bike like a maniac to get there!!
Sports represented to me all that was good in the world. I would spend fall and winter playing football in the front yards of our house and the Martinez's next door for hours on end. First I was the great #35 of the Dallas Cowboys, Calvin Hill, then I was George Blanda, before I became a Broncos fan. In the 70's we had Broncos season tickets and we were there when the team won the AFC Championship and I painted my entire basement orange in honor of the team. To this day when I see Red Miller, the coach of the Orange Crush Broncos, I thank him. For so many years I lived and breathed sports and the names still come easily to me. Al Kaline, Yaz, Mickey Mantle, Len Dawson, Cassius Clay. My personal sports hero to this day is the legendary Arnold Palmer and I was a devoted member of Arnie's Army. I still hold out hope of meeting him some day which would be the greatest thrill of my life. Lew Alcindor and John Havlicek and Wilt Chamberlain introduced me to basketball and I even rooted for lefty Earl Anthony on the Pro Bowlers Tour!! There may be better athletes today but there are no better sportsmen on the whole than when I grew up. And I find myself in the uneasy position of losing my interest in the sports I loved so much because of that.
I really don't need to make a list of athletes who have been caught cheating or abusing the law lately to make my point. In fact, there have been cheaters in sports since sports started. Things like pitchers marking up and doctoring baseballs, football players using stick-em to hold on to the ball better, players throwing games, stuff like that. But today not only are the rules of sport being violated, the responsibility of athletes as law abiding citizens and role models has been disregarded as if rules and law don't apply to them. And the price for getting caught is small in a nation that often overlooks character flaws in our heroes, and what's a few games suspension when you're making millions. It's that lack of respect for law, and the complete disregard for good sportsmanship if it means winning that has brought me to the point of being unable to get passionate about the people and games I've loved for so long. And I honestly believe no Commissioner can fine or suspend his sport back into being a model for people to respect. It has to come from within, from the athletes themselves who must self-govern and say this isn't right, this has to stop. As long as athletes say to one of their own, "we're behind you 100%" when they've been caught cheating or breaking the law that needs to come with the understanding that we're behind you unless it continues to be a problem. It amazes me when an athlete says, "I only did it because everyone else does". You only did it because the consequences for being caught are small in most cases. With priviledge comes responsibility. Whose teaching that lesson these days?
Enough of me going on and on. I just said this out loud because I can't believe I'm the only one that feels this way. There's no doubt I'll still cheer for the home team, it just won't be with the same love I've had all my life. I won't likely carry a transistor with an earphone so I don't miss a play and I may not see the end of many night games. I just don't have the passion for sports whose athletes don't have the passion for playing, and living right. Yep, I'm getting crotchety J
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Social Media vs Social Manners
by Rick Crandall
posted Aug 5 2013 2:35PM
Well here it is, the post that's going to out me…as a true GEEZER!!! The warning signs have been there for some time now. I'm starting to enjoy dinner about 4:30p and at 8:00p I'm wondering why I'm still awake. I really don't care what Kim whatever her name is wears, eats, sleeps with or names her baby, or for that matter, or any of the thousand other shows and "stars" like Honey Boo-Boo. Jimmy Stewart was a star. Bob Hope was a comedian. Grace Kelly was glamorous. Lindsey Lohan, really???
Anyway, I was reading with interest just last week an article about social media do's and don'ts. Seems people today have no social etiquette when it comes to using Facebook-Twiter-email-Instagram and a million other things. Well, it struck me, we have a couple generations that obviously need a refresher course on life do's and don'ts. Forget Social media etiquette, how about plan old manners and common sense? Start there, and the other things will follow.
So, I am offering my services as an expert on such things, learned from my own missteps as a youth. When I was a kid my Grandfather whacked my elbow with the handle of a butter knife because it was on the diner table. The only cell phone I ever saw was the shoe Maxwell Smart talked into. Boys/Men walked between ladies and the street when on the sidewalk so they wouldn't get splashed by passing cars. From that vast pool of life lessons I offer my children, grandchildren and younger generations a few things that will make you look, and act, way cooler. You're welcome.
One of the very first lessons I learned as a young man was to hold the door open for girls. In this case it was my Mom who was no girl, but the lesson was the same. You show respect and put others before yourself when you hold the door. It's one of the earliest form of service to others we learn. Today, if the person in front of you opens the door, run like the wind Forrest, before it closes in your face!!
Or play with your smart phone, xbox, Nintendo, ipad or other electronic distracting device. This will be difficult at first but slowly words will start to come out of your mouth, then complete sentences! How was your day today? What did you learn at school? When does Uncle Bob get out of prison? And gradually a laugh or two will spring forth and before you know it you learn your brother has a name other than Dude!!! If Adam and Eve had not been distracted at dinner time perhaps they would have discussed the snake and things would be all different now. Family conversation at dinner time is music to Gods ears!!
And it wouldn't kill you to put your hand over your heart either. Our National Anthem has carried men and women into battle. The flag we face when we hear the song has draped the caskets of soldiers who died protecting the freedoms we enjoy every day. HEY OVER PRICED ATHLETE, the song lasts about 2 minutes, how about showing a little respect for the song and banner that allow you to do what you do instead of gazing into the stands or dancing around. And those of you in the stands, put down the beer, take off your hat and be honored to do it.
So there I was in the soup aisle at the grocery store and the lady standing next to me says, "Why didn't he kiss you?" I looked over at her and said, "excuse me?" And then she said, "Did you end up sleeping with him?" At this point I'm getting a little annoyed and said, "what are you talking about?" She looked at me like I was the rudest person in the world and I noticed she had one of those Bluetooth things in her ear and she was on the phone. She was mad I was listening to her conversation, which she was having loudly, next to me, in the soup aisle. I have an idea. TALK ON YOUR PHONE AT HOME!!! I don't care about your personal life, I'm trying to buy some eggs and chips. It creeps me out when you're standing in the grocery store talking to yourself. You are not so important that you can't wait until the whole world doesn't hear your business!
Not a thank you email. Not a thank you text. Not a thank you tweet. Yea, those are fine for a quick word of thanks, but always send a follow up hand-written note of thanks. I know, it's hard to auto correct or spellcheck your handwriting and it probably takes 4 minutes to do something you can email in a minute or less. Yea, the grandmother who used to mail you a $2 bill inside a clown card that said "To Grandma's favorite little grandchild" is no longer with us, but this is a karma thing. And it's nice, and it'll help the post office make a profit. It still means something to most of us when out of no where a HANDWRITTEN note shows up. Try it.
I looked up the definition of pj's and here's what the dictionary says…" a loose usually two-piece lightweight suit designed especially for sleeping or lounging". I looked twice and didn't see any thing that mentioned they should also be worn to Walmart, Target, restaurants or movie theaters. If you're too lazy to wake up five minutes earlier and change out of your sleepwear before going to the Mall you might have a disease and should seek medical attention. We older folks think that just means you don't have much respect for yourself. And don't get me started on sagging pants. There are lots of things you can do to show you're unique. Building the Statue of Liberty, that's talent. Wearing your pants between your butt and your knees, that's disgusting.
I can still remember the very first cuss word I ever said. It was damn, and I got spanked for saying it. This morning Diane and I were at breakfast and I heard the kids in the booth next to us say…sucks, ass, bite me, Jesus and a couple other things that would have resulted in traction when I was their age. The number of times people use the F word these days equals their heart beats per minute. I'm sorry that young people aren't embarrassed to say bad words in front of their elders. I'm also sorry they don't call their elders and speak to the, and learn about their lives in more than 140 character conversations. We really have lost the art of speaking to one another and so much could be solved if we did. First, there is conversation.
Wow, I really am a Geezer. A Geezer who thinks our whole world has been reduced to what we hold in our hands and not who we hold in our hands. You want to know what happens when we don't talk to each other anymore, or look at each other anymore, or write to one another anymore? Just take a peek at what's happening in our nation's capitol. Enough Geezing for one day!!
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Capt. Stubing is on cruise control. Gavin MacLeod, the actor who steered The Love Boat and turned whining into an art form as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has retired from acting and is now focused on his faith, his family and his star-studded memories. He deals with all three in his new memoir, This Is Your Captain Speaking.
On the eve of a busy book tour, the 82-year-old actor spoke to the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) before welcoming the Royal Princess cruise ship to Port Everglades earlier this week.
Did you keep tabs on your former co-star Valerie Harper while she was on "Dancing With the Stars"?
I did. I'm glad she got voted off. That show is too trying for a normal person, let alone one dealing with brain cancer. I'm glad she's been an inspiration for millions of people, but I want her to concentrate on getting healed. She's one of the greatest people I've ever known.
So you read for the role of Lou Grant. But you didn't want it.
Not at all. I never believed me as Mary's boss. It was a physical thing and an age thing. But I wasn't going to say no to the audition. So I read for Lou, got my laughs and had my hand on the doorknob when I said, "Look, guys. Lou is a sensational role, but I really like Murray." So I read a few lines, including the one in which I call Ted Baxter the "Mastroianni of Minneapolis." A few hours later, I saw my agent. He said the MTM company had called and wanted me to do the pilot. I said, "What part?" He said, "Is there a guy named Murray?"
You also write about reading for the part of Archie Bunker, even though you didn't want it. Why not?
It was so defaming. You need a special guy to play that. I abhor bigotry in every shape and form. I come from a place of love and compassion. It wouldn't have been a good fit.
People today have a hard time imagining you in either role because you're now known for such likable characters. Did you ever feel pigeon-holed?
People see you as your latest personality and not as an actor. I played a drug dealer in "Hatful of Rain," my first big stage production. I played Big Chicken on "Hawaii Five-O," one of the most despicable characters ever. I once had a publicity director tell me that she didn't want to get close to me because she had seen me in "The Connection," a play in which I played something that came out from under a rock. I could play heavies as long as they got it in the end. I never wanted to send the wrong message.
Who was the biggest star who ever boarded "The Love Boat'?
That's a hard one. Tom Hanks came on when he was doing "Bosom Buddies." He acted with Doris Roberts. He still talks about it when I run into him. One of the thrills of my life was doing an episode called "Love Boat Follies" in which I got to perform with Carol Channing, Ann Miller and Van Johnson. I was in actor's pig heaven. I also have fond memories of the last episode, when I married Marion Ross, who I love so much.


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This week marks 15 years members of the Farm Bureau Woman's Leadership Committee will celebrate Food Check-out Week.
The effort began as a means for members to stress the importance of eating healthy with members offering tips to consumers to stretch their grocery dollars.
Nearly all consumers know that the cost of most things has increased in recent years, and proving a balanced and healthy meal is no exception. American's currently spend an average of nearly 10 percent of their annual income on food, which means that from Jan. 1 to the third week of February each year represents the number of weeks of income it takes for a U.S. family to generate enough money to pay for a year's worth of food.
That equates to a family working five weeks of each year to simply put food on the table.
The majority of food produced in America is grown on family-owned farms, with 98 percent of all farming operations being owned and operated by individuals and families.
Rush County Farm Bureau, Inc. Women's Leader Marlene Fudge pointed out that Americans enjoy the safest and most abundant and affordable food supply in the world.
Fudge will be at the Rushville Kroger beginning at 4 p.m. Wednesday to help consumers find solutions to eating healthy on a stretched budget.
"On the National level, the AFB Women's Leadership Committee staffs supermarket demonstrations for consumers to help them increase their knowledge of how to stay on a budget while purchasing healthy foods for their families," Fudge said.
Americans fare better than many foreign counterparts in providing food for families: Japan pays roughly 15 percent of their income for food, China 35 percent for similar purchases.
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A video released this week shows candid footage of presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser in Florida asserting that half of the electorate see themselves as "victims" entitled to government support, and that it's not his job to worry about them.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said, according to the clip. "All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."
"[M]y job is not to worry about those people," Romney said. "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Mother Jones has a 31 minute video of the recording.
So who doesn't pay income taxes?
According to the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center, as quoted in Christian Science Monitor, Romney is basically on target with his figure. About half of those households who don't pay income tax don't owe any "for the simple reason that they don't make enough money."
"A couple with two children with income of $26,400 had no income tax liability in 2011, due to an $11,600 standard deduction and four exemptions of $3,700 each," the article states. "Many of them are seniors who benefit from the exclusion of some Social Security income. The elderly make up about one-fifth of all non-income-tax-payers. The other big chunk is parents who benefit from tax credits for children and the Earned Income Tax Credit."
The LA Times reported that by Tuesday, the White House was steering clear of Romeny's statement.
The Obama team's response was "mainly to marvel -- at the statements themselves, clearly, but maybe also at the fact that they were so clearly recorded that Romney isn't challenging the provenance of the video."
Romney later said during a press conference that the remarks were "not elegantly stated," and stood by them.
"He then framed his statement, not as an attack on a particular segment of voters, but as an ideological discussion," according to the CS Monitor.
Could Romney's comments be a game changer for the November election? While some pundits claim his statement marks the end of his presidential aspirations (Bloomberg's headline: "Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election"), others defended it, "claiming they accurately reflect a culture of dependency," according to the CS Monitor.
George Washington University associate professor of political science John Sides has posted data making his point that "gaffes" like Romney's rarely matter.
"The best case for saying that 'gaffes matter' is that actual voters are persuaded to change their minds because of the gaffes," Sides writes. " If they don't, then it's tough to argue that 'gaffes' are really 'game-changers.' And, in fact, usually voters don't change their minds."
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Naqsh-e Rostam is an archaeological site located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in the Fars province, and lies a few hundred meters from Naqsh-e Rajab.
Four tombs belonging to the Achaemenid kings are carved out of the rock face. They are all at a considerable height above the ground.
The tombs are known locally as the 'Persian crosses', after the shape of the facades of the tombs.
One of the tombs is explicitly identified by an accompanying inscription to be the tomb of Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE). The other three tombs are believed to be those of Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BCE), Artaxerxes I (r. 465-424 BCE), and Darius II (r. 423-404 BCE) respectively. A fifth unfinished one might be that of Artaxerxes III, who reigned at the longest two years, but is more likely that of Darius III (r. 336-330 BCE), last of the Achaemenid dynasts.
The tombs were looted following the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander the Great.
Naqsh-e Rostam is an archaeological site located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in the Fars pro...
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Naqsh-e Rostam is an archaeological site located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in the Fars pro...
Four bas relief of the Sasanians empire of Iran about 5th centery. These are graved in the Rahmat mou...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been occupied since 4000BCE, making Iran home to the world's oldest continuous civilization.
It is located in central Eurasia on two ancient trade routes. One runs North-South and connects the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, the other one goes East-West between China, India, Europe and Africa.
There's a city called Isfahan at the intersection of these two routes, which at one time was the wealthiest city in the world. Isfahan was twice the capital of the Persian Empire, during the Median and then Safavid Dynasties.
Interesting artifacts from pre-Islamic Persia include the cylinder of Cyrus the Great, which is the world's first written declaration of human rights. The hanging gardens of Babylon (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) and the Code of Hammurabi (a set of rules which outlast the King) are also on the list.
The Persian Empire was so magnificent that returning Crusaders carried tales of its splendor and helped spark the Renaissance in Europe! Influence of the Zoroastrian teachings of equality also inspired Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates.
The Persian Empire was conquered by Muslim Arabs around 650CE during the Sassanid Dynasty. Initially the Zoroastrian, Christian and Jewish faiths were tolerated but by 1000CE most Persians had accepted Islam.
In the sixteenth century Shi'a Islam was declared in Isfahan to be the national religion of Persia and the second golden age began. From 1500 to 1720 the Safavid Dynasty built the greatest Iranian empire since before the Islamic conquest of Persia.
Because of its strategic location and oil resources, World War I found Persia in the middle of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire, Russia and the British Empire-via-India. Persia became Iran as of 1935 and was ruled by the Shah, a Persian term for "monarch."
In the Islamic Revolution of 1979 Iran re-established a theocratic government under the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Today the capital of Iran is the city of Tehran, and Iran is known as the world's center of Shi'a Islam.
Text by Steve Smith.


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Ohio State scored. In the end, that might be the most important thing for Buckeyes fans -- their team avoided the first home shutout for Ohio State in 39 years in their game against Michigan State. But that was the most that could be said for the Buckeyes offense, which scored just a single touchdown in a loss to Michigan State.
Not that the Spartans were lighting up the scoreboard. They eked out just 10 points on the afternoon, the first seven coming on Kirk Cousins' 33-yards pass to B.J. Cunningham and the other three points from a Dan Conroy 50-yard field goal. The 321 yards of total offense wasn't bad, per se, but most of it was not turned into anything meaningful. The three turnovers might have had something to do with that.
Meanwhile, the quaterbacks for the Prylor-less Buckeys were 12-of-25 for 143 yards, a touchdown and an interception, and the running game generated 35 yards on 39 carries -- an average of 0.9 yards a rush. With those kinds of numbers, you can't like Ohio State's chances of making the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game.
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Macy's, Inc. will be closing six underperforming stores this spring, including one in California, and opening or renovating nine additional locations, the retailer announced Thursday.
A 158,000-square-foot Macy's store in the Paseo Colorado in Pasadena is on the list of closures, affecting 116 sales associates, according to a company news release.
"We remain committed to operating a successful and growing stores business as part of our company's Omnichannel strategy for serving customers wherever, whenever and however they prefer to shop," Karen M. Hoguet, chief financial officer of Macy's, Inc., said in a statement. "This leads us to open new stores where we see the opportunity to fill gaps in important markets, as well as to make the tough decision to selectively close underperforming stores that no longer meet our performance requirements or where leases are not being renewed."
The company announced the closures as "a series of normal-course adjustments to its portfolio" that include five Macy's stores and one Bloomingdales's location in Las Vegas, which is part of the Macy's family. In a separate announcement, the retailer said same-store sales were up 4.1 percent in December compared to the same month last year.
Final clearance sales at the closing Macy's stores will begin Monday, Jan. 7 and on Sunday, Jan. 6 at the shuttering Bloomingdale's.
The list of closing stores (number of affected sales associates):
- Pasadena, CA (116)
- Belmont, MA (101)
- Downtown Honolulu, HI (91)
- Downtown St. Paul, MN (153)
- Downtown, Houston, TX (138)
- Fashion Show Home Store, Las Vegas, NV (35)
Macy's Inc. also plans to open new California stores: a Macy's in Victorville, to open in the spring with 140 employees and a Bloomingdale's in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale with 175 employees. A replacement Bloomingdale's store is slated to open in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto in the spring of 2014.
See a full list of planned new stores here.


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Champion AC installs and maintains UltraViolet light systems and various Air Filter systems. Our Guardian Air Systems kill 99% of bacteria, Mold and Viruses in your home. These Guardian Air Purifiers are approved by the EPA and are used in hospitals, US Government facilities and they are becoming more popular in residential homes as well.
Protecting you and your family from poor indoor air not only keeps you healthy, it also keeps your AC system healthy as well. Below is an article Champion AC had published in NSIDE magazine in San Antonio.
What is in the Air You Breathe?
Special to NSIDE
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ranks indoor air quality as one of the top five concerns to your health. Poor indoor air quality can affect everything from sneezes, coughs and colds to allergies and asthma. While many individuals think that the air outdoors is the primary cause to the rise and fall of allergies and varied sicknesses, the air indoors can be just as impactful.
Poor indoor air quality presents a number of risks in the home, office, and any other building, but it's something that can be controlled. There are preventative measures that can be taken in order to increase the quality of air you are breathing-in every day.
In the Home
When you think about controlling the weather inside your home, one of the most important factors is regularly changing your air filter. Air filters cost only a couple of dollars to replace. This is the easiest and most inexpensive thing you can do to improve air quality inside your home and make sure your family is breathing clean air. Dirty Air Filters can also cause malfunctions to your AC system and are the number one cause of Coil replacements.
If clean air inside your home isn't enough to get you to regularly replace your air filter, do it for the savings. A clean filter helps your AC run more efficiently - meaning it will use less energy. Higher ventilation rates reduce the transmission and spread of infections in the home.
In Schools and Office Buildings
Poor indoor air quality can impact the comfort and health of employees in the workplace and students in schools. Research by the EPA shows that this can affect concentration, attendance, and employee or student performance. In addition, if office or school management fail to respond in a timely manner to poor indoor air quality, students and staff are at an increased risk of short-term health problems, such as fatigue and nausea, as well as long-term problems like asthma.
Common sources of indoor air pollution include tobacco smoke, biological organisms, building materials and furnishings, cleaning agents, copy machines and pesticides. The EPA reports that a review of building investigation reports suggests that regular HVAC maintenance can have a significant impact on health and performance. Airborne particle reduction has shown continued benefits to both health and comfort of individuals.
"The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health reports that poor ventilation is an important contributing factor in many sick building cases," said Hubbert. "The characteristics of 'sick building syndrome' include physical symptoms without clearly identifiable causes. Symptoms can include eye, nose and throat irritation, among other ailments, and can lead to increased sick days."
Studies taken by the EPA in various schools and office buildings show that, when a facility is ranked poorly by its inhabitants, the most frequently cited problems are related to poor indoor air quality.
Air quality has become a health issue for the Alamo City. The City of San Antonio Office of Environmental Policy has its own Air Quality Health Alert Plan, intended to serve as a document for city operations on Air Quality Health Alert Days. The alert season ranges from April through October, but the impact of air quality should be taken into consideration by individuals year-round.
"Indoor air quality products can make a major impact to not only your family's health, but also the health of your home," explained Hubbert. "Installing these systems also extend the life of central air conditioning systems and help them run more efficiently which helps lower utility bills."
While it is something that might not always be top of mind, because we often take the air we breathe for granted, it's important to pay attention to the quality of air in your home and office. Take the time to clean up the air you breathe. Minor adjustments to your home and revisions in your daily routine can have a major impact on the purity of your indoor air quality. This is just something to keep in mind every time you take a breath.
Ben Hubbert and Tony Martinez, owners of Champion AC, began their business with the importance of air quality in the forefront of their minds. After studying the astounding impact and affects of poor indoor air quality, Hubbert and Martinez developed a business model that emphasizes the importance of controlling the climate in your home.
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As in years past, the rules each week: fearlessly (or not) forecasting the Texans and the Cowboys always plus four other games from the weekly professional slate which supposedly allegedly offer particularly promising prospects.
And some assorted BCS selections when warranted which strike a particular fancy. No need to remind - for entertainment purposes. Only.
The Kubiak Crew in bounce-back mode against Bahlmer. The top-two in the AFC. The AFC's only winning outfits just six rides into the 2012 rodeo. Major down-the-road playoff implications. The franchise the Texans have never beaten, the franchise that ended their first-ever playoff season just a matter of months ago. Subplots galore.
RAVENS (+6.5) vs. TEXANS. Both defenses are banged. Ravens ravaged by injury and opposing run games. They've allowed 200+ yards rushing in consecutive games for the first time in team history and last Sunday a team-record 227 to the Cowboys (Ray Lewis out may actually help reversing that trend. But don't tell anyone). All the more reason to believe Arian Foster busts out on home turf for first time this season. He had better because with Flacco flinging, with Cushing MIA, with Joseph obviously less than 100%, with Watt the only proven Texans sack-master so far, points will be scored on both sides. Huge number too much not to take when both likely into the 30s. And all the more reason to take the OVER at 48.5.
COWBOYS (-2.5) at PANTHERS. How can a NFL head honcho, a honcho with a Princeton degree no less, have so little command of simplest time-management concepts? Better question, how does said NFL head honcho remain a head honcho in the NFL in face of repeated slop-clock issues? Forward all related inquires c/o Jones, Jerry, Dallas.
Probably not a good strategy to lean on the faves when last week the dogs very much had their Sunday (and Thursday and Monday night). Week Six belong to the lower class - 12-2 ATS and a you-have-to-be-kidding-me 57-32-2 for the fall. What the heck ...
PATRIOTS (-10.5) vs. JETS. Any encounter with Jets is enough to make Pats PO'd. They are already PO's after locked in AFC East 3-3 logjam with no one to blame but themselves. Three wins by 55 points, three losses by four points. The Pats are so PO'd Not-so-King Rex may not cover 20.
BEARS (-6.5) vs. LIONS. Week of rest plus a defense which scores about as often as it is scored upon.
PACKERS (-5.5) at RAMS. Rodgers revved up to start rolling up wins.
RAIDERS (-4) vs. JAGUARS. Still not much (football) there there but Oakland showed some fight in last tick punch-out in Atlanta. What sort of muscle/attitude does Jax pack for cross-country jag across multiple time zones? Serously, you ask such?
LSU (-3.5) at TEXAS A&M. Tigers re-discover trench warfare game in survival test with South Carolina. Enough dastardly defense to keep the manic master of improv Manziel from destroying their BCS title game shot.
TEXAS TECH (-1.5) at TCU. Doege and validated "D" the difference.
SOUTH CAROLINA at FLORIDA UNDER 41 TOTAL. First to nine might be enough.
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Gayland Kitch doesn't feel a bit sheepish about not having a storm cellar.
That's in spite of his job as director of emergency management in Moore, Okla., which in May 1999 faced one of the most violent tornadoes on record in May 1999.
It isn't that Kitch is resisting the $3,000 or so it would take to build. It's that during tornado weather, he's not home. He's at the office, which has its own shelter. His wife is there, too, volunteering. When their kids lived at home, they came, as well.
Kitch isn't stupid, though. When he retires, he said, "I will probably install one."
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Kitch says more than 10 percent of Moore's homes — about 2,500 — now have a safe room or shelter. Helping homeowners make the investment has been a federal program that has paid up to $2,000 of the cost.
Every person has to make decisions about what to spend on preparedness for natural disasters. Buy a house with a view or live a few blocks from the beach? Build a storm shelter or make friends with a neighbor who has one? Get a weather radio? Buy earthquake insurance?
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The family will receive friends today, Jan. 9, 2014, from 6 until 8 p.m. at Kilgore-Green Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, at 2 p.m. in the Kilgore-Green Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in Boldo Cemetery. Victor Vaughn will officiate.
White was preceded in death by her brother, Larry Mahan; and son, Greg Freeman.
She is survived by her husband, Roger A. White of Pinson; children, James Ronald Freeman (Dawn) of Vinemont and Daniel Patrick Freeman (Alisha) of Jasper; grandchildren, Bethany Freeman, Kalon Freeman and Cyrena White; brothers, David Mahan and Roy Mahan; sisters, Ann Page and Betty Ferrari; and stepchild, Eric White (Pam) of Gardendale.
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The VTech First Steps Baby Walker features a sturdy design to support and encourage your baby's initial attempts to get about on their own 2 feet.
This colourful baby walker also features a detachable learning centre packed with activities, including shapes and light-up musical keys that introduce letters, words, numbers, animals, colours, singalong songs and melodies.
A moving butterfly, discs and rollers develop help to develop your child's motor skills plus a removable rattling telephone is great for role play games.
It also features textured wheels, easy grip handle and durable design to ensure your baby gets ample support when taking those first steps. Assembles very easily and can be stored away in small spaces!
The walker is also available in Classic - see item number 27GSS.
Useful info:
- Requires 3 x AA batteries (included)
- Age from 6-30 months
- Light-up musical keys
- Introduces letters, words, numbers and animals
- Removable toy telephone
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My Child Coupe Baby Walker – Pink Candy
Let your little one take their first steps in style with this fabulous coupe baby walker.
Suitable for babies from six months, this coupe baby walker has speed-restricted wheels, a height adjustable padded seat that is removable for cleaning and an adjustable footrest pad. The coupe features four cool removable tyres, a rear view mirror and stimulates your child with flashing lights and music.
The My Child coupe walker can easily be converted from a walker into a rocker with the push of a button. Featuring a detachable play tray and a gear stick, horn and wheel, let your little one feel the excitement of being a racer from an early age!
Useful info:
- Suitable for babies from 6 months
- Removable padded seat
- Maximum weight 11kgs
- Detachable play tray with steering wheel, horn and gear stick
- Folds flat for storage
- Height adjustable
- Fun removable tyres and rear view mirror
- Coverts from a walker to a rocker
- No-tip safety pads
- Speed restricting wheels
- Requires 2 x AA batteries
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Keep your baby entertained for hours with the Walk 'N' Rock Natural baby walker. The My Child Walk 'N' Rock baby walker features both rocking and walking features helping your baby to move in their early stages. Suitable from 6 months (max weight 12kg). Removable padded seat. Height adjustable. Converts to rocking mode. Supportive foot pad in rocker mode. Detachable play tray. Lights & Sound. Folds flat for storage. Speed restricting wheels/No-tip safety pads. Folds flat for storage. Product weight 5.5kg.
Fisher-Price Rainforest Newborn-to-Toddler Rocker
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The versatile Fisher-Price Rainforest Newborn to Toddler Rocker adapts to suit your growing child, providing plenty of comfort and stimulation.
You can initially use it as a low-profile seat and rocker for a newborn with the option of 3 different recline positions. For soothing and nap time, simply switch on the calming vibrations. It can also be used for feeding your child.
As your baby grows, it can easily be converted to an infant seat by adding the removable toy arm with 2 soft toys featuring rattles for further stimulation and aid their hand-eye coordination. Melodies and sounds add to the fun.
For toddlers, just remove the toy arm and the rocker supports to extend to a higher position, allowing toddlers to have both a stationary seat and a rocker.
This Fisher-Price Rainforest Rocker folds easily for easy transport and storage.
Useful info:
- Use from newborn to toddler - up to 18 kg (40 lbs)
- Change from rocker to stationary seat with fold-out kickstand
- Folds easily for portability or storage
- Removable, machine washable and dryer-safe seat pad
- Secure 3-point harness
- Vibrations and melodies
- Requires 1x D battery (not supplied)
- Recline position maximum weight of child: 9 kg
- Upright position maximum weight of child: 18 kg
- Adjustable seat back
- Fisher Price Rainforest Newborn to Toddler Rocker
This sporty little racing car really puts baby in the driving seat. When the steering wheel is turned, the front wheels of the race car turn too! For added fun, the car toy can be used as a stand-alone toy and the reversible frog/mouse clicker toy gives extra play value.Colour: Green/Red.
Hello Kitty My First Hello Kitty Baby Walker
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Keep your little one entertained with the My First Hello Kitty Baby Walker!
Suitable from 6 months the Hello Kitty Baby Walker is height adjustable and easy to fold. Featuring anti-tip pads, speed restricting wheels and a removable toy tray!
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My Child Walk 'n' Rock -Baby Walker in Pink
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Keep your baby entertained for hours with the Walk 'N' Rock Baby Walker Pink. The My Child Walk 'N' Rock Baby Walker features both rocking and walking features helping your baby to move in their early stages. Suitable from 6 months (max weight 12kg). Removable padded seat. Height adjustable. Converts to rocking mode. Supportive foot pad in rocker mode. Detachable play tray. Lights & Sound. Folds flat for storage. Speed restricting wheels/No-tip safety pads. Folds flat for storage. Product weight 5.5kg.Colour: Pink.
East Coast Rest & Play Baby Walker Jumper
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Babies love the stimulation and exercise they enjoy while having fun on the East Coast Rest & Play baby walker jumper.
With 3 adjustable seat heights, you can adapt this versatile walker to suit your child before letting them get on with practising their walking and jumping as they build their muscles in preparation for when they start to walk.
The East Coast Rest & Play walker features a removable electronic play tray with lights and music to provide extra entertainment - perfect for keeping your child happy while you relax for a minute. Even the volume is adjustable!
A well padded seat and supportive back rest ensure maximum comfort and bumper is designed to protect your furniture.
Useful info:
- 3 adjustable heights
- Suitable for children who can sit unaided (approx 6 months) up to 12kg
- Electronic play tray
- Adjustable volume
- W 72, D 64.5, H 68.5 cm
- East Coast Rest & Play walker jumper
Go Go Rocking Cradle from Mamas and Papas! - Reversible colour combinations with three removable hanging toys - Removable cushion seat pad that can be machine washed at 40 degrees - Can be locked in to a fixed position Features and Benefits: - Ergonomically designed for comfort and support - Multi-position toy bar with three plush hanging toys - Secure and padded safety harness - Co-ordinating head hugger provides additional support for newborns - Integral feet which locks into a stationary position Age suitability: Birth to 6 months approx. Maximum weight: 9kg. H38, W 50, D 75 cm approx. Weight: 3kg.
Baby will love this brilliant multi function baby walker. From rocker to walker to push along to mobile music toy it's the perfect walker to convert as baby grows. Why buy me; Can be used as walker, rocker, push along car and mobile music toy. Interactive buttons provide flashing lights and sounds. 3 height positions as your baby grows.
Ladybird Caravan of Fun 2 in 1 Baby Walker Rocker
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The great value Ladybird Caravan of Fun baby walker can also be easily converted into a rocker.
In walker mode, you can encourage your child to build up the strength in their legs in preparation for taking their first steps. It can also switch to rocker mode in seconds to soothe your child.
An extra padded seat keeps your little one cosy and the quick-clean fabric is easy to wipe down.
The Ladybird Caravan of Fun walker is height adjustable to suit your child as they grow and comes with a detachable activity tray that will offer them hours of entertainment.
Other great items in the Ladybird Caravan of Fun range include a bouncer chair (see item number 2A6KR), playmat (2CC34) and sit-in toddler activity centre (2A6KQ).
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- Converts between rocker and walker
- Softly padded seat
- Detachable activity tray
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- Suitable for babies who can sit unaided (approx 6 months)
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Originally from central Florida, Annalise graduated in spring of 2012 from the University of South Florida - Tampa with a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.A. in Sociology. She is the Graduate Assistant in the Office of Greek Life where she advises the Collegiate Panhellenic Council and the Greek Community Council, as well working with Leadership Programs where she advises Leaders Striving for Success. She is a graduate student in the Higher Education Administration and Student Personnel program at Kent State University. Annalise is a sister of Alpha Omicron Pi.
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Danielle was born and raised in northeast, Ohio. She graduated in May 2013 from the University of Mount Union with a B.A. in Psychology. Danielle is a Graduate Assistant in Greek Life where she advises the Interfraternity Council, GAMMA, the Greek Community Council and also serves as the hall director in Lang Hall. She is in her first year of graduate school in the College Student Personnel program at Bowling Green State University. Danielle is a proud sister of Delta Sigma Tau.