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One of the AFL's most marketable players throughout a successful 16-year career with Hawthorn, Shane Crawford is one of the few players who has made a seamless transition into life in the media full-time. Having had a long association with Channel Nine as a key member of 'The Footy Show', 'Sunday Footy Show' and more recently 'Postcards' and 'KidsWB', Crawford continues to have a major role on both programs as well as across several other shows following his retirement from football at the end of 2008.
In 2010, Crawford displayed the ultimate show of dedication and generosity when he embarked on his journey 'That's What I'm Walkin' About', an 11 day ultra-marathon from Adelaide to Melbourne. The run raised an incredible $500,000 for the Breast Cancer Network Australia and confirmed Crawford's weight as a heavy-hitting media personality who has the ability draw a crowd anywhere he goes.
Originally from Finley in New South Wales, Shane received his football grounding at Assumption College. He developed into one of the AFL's premier players, entertaining football fans with his superb skills, endurance and tremendous courage.
In 2013, has raised more money for the Breast Cancer Network of Australia, riding from Melbourne to Perth a distance of over 3700 km on the "Tour De Crawf" for more information about the ride visit Shane's website – crawf.com.au
A fun and entertaining personality, Crawford is able to engage a wide ranging audience. In 2011, he was a star on the original incarnation in Australia of "Celebrity Apprentice', showing a blend of skill and personality to make it through to the last four contestants and endearing himself to the Australia-wide audience. Crawford has featured as a contributor on numerous programs including 'Random Acts of Kindness' and 'Money For Jam'.
With the Sunday Herald Sun, Crawford has taken readers behind the scenes and into the mind of a champion during his time as a columnist. He has also covered his other passion, Horse Racing, during the major Autumn and Spring Carnivals for the Herald Sun, again providing his unique and informed perspective. In 2011, Crawford has assumed the role as the face of Supercoach, the Herald Sun's popular interactive AFL competition that is played by over 400 000 readers. Shane and long-time colleague Glenn McFarlane produced his autobiography, That's What I'm Talking About" in 2010 through Penguin. A series of children's books under the title 'Kick It To Nick' followed in 2013.
On radio, Crawford was a feature on Triple M's AFL coverage in 2009 providing special comments on its main Sunday broadcast. Again, Crawford's balance between providing the listener with some great insight into the game as it unfolds alongside a mix of fun and humour is a perfect fit for Triple M's audience. In 2012, Crawford talent and insights were part of AFL Live's Saturday afternoon match broadcasts into regional markets.
The well-seasoned media performer has a national profile which both media and corporate organisations looking for a face for their brand have been able to tap into with great success. Large scale retailer Focus on Furniture have incorporated Crawford into their marketing strategy for several years with great impact, along with the likes of Crown's WestEnd precinct and Country Racing Victoria. Crawford's most recent initiative has been his appointment as the NAB AFL Auskick Ambassador, with the aim of enhancing junior development for Australia's Game for its 180 000-plus participants and their families.
On-field, Crawford's 305th and final AFL game saw him finally taste the ultimate success, with the Hawks' 2008 triumph providing him with one of the most well deserved Premiership medals any individual has ever received.
At the start of 1999, Crawford was entrusted by Hawthorn with the captaincy. It proved to be an astute appointment. Crawford led the young Hawks to Ansett Cup victory in the pre-season, before a season of individual brilliance saw him win the Brownlow Medal, his second Club Best and Fairest, All-Australian selection and scoop the pool in the media awards.
After leading the Hawks to consecutive finals series in 2000 and 2001, Crawford returned to his best, winning the club best and fairest in 2002 and 2003, All-Australian selection in 2002 and narrowly missing winning his second Brownlow in 2003. In all, Crawford was a four-time Hawthorn Best and Fairest winner and All-Australian, placing him in a rare class of superstar. The flair, hard work and excitement that encapsulated his career as a player will no doubt be the theme throughout his time in the media, factors that will see him continue to have a special connection with the public. This has extended in recent years with Crawford establishing a large following across social media , with a major presence on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
A devoted family man, Crawford lives in Melbourne with partner Olivia and their sons Charlie, Benjamin and twins Harry and Jack.


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The dairymaids and men had flocked down from their cottages and out of the dairy-house with the arrival of the cows from the meads; the maids walking in pattens, not on account of the weather, but to keep their shoes above the mulch of the barton. Each girl sat down on her three-legged stool, her face sideways, her right cheek resting against the cow, and looked musingly along the animal's flank at Tess as she approached. The male milkers, with hat-brims turned down, resting flat on their foreheads and gazing on the ground, did not observe her.
One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man — whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect — the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme:
Dairyman Dick All the week: — On Sundays Mister Richard Crick.
Seeing Tess standing at gaze he went across to her.
The majority of dairymen have a cross manner at milking time, but it happened that Mr Crick was glad to get a new hand — for the days were busy ones now — and he received her warmly; inquiring for her mother and the rest of the family — (though this as a matter of form merely, for in reality he had not been aware of Mrs Durbeyfield's existence till apprised of the fact by a brief business-letter about Tess).
"Oh — ay, as a lad I knowed your part o' the country very well," he said terminatively. "Though I've never been there since. And a aged woman of ninety that use to live nigh here, but is dead and gone long ago, told me that a family of some such name as yours in Blackmoor Vale came originally from these parts, and that 'twere a old ancient race that had all but perished off the earth — though the new generations didn't know it. But, Lord, I took no notice of the old woman's ramblings, not I."
"Oh no — it is nothing," said Tess.
Then the talk was of business only.
"You can milk 'em clean, my maidy? I don't want my cows going azew at this time o' year."
She reassured him on that point, and he surveyed her up and down. She had been staying indoors a good deal, and her complexion had grown delicate.
"Quite sure you can stand it? 'Tis comfortable enough here for rough folk; but we don't live in a cowcumber frame."
She declared that she could stand it, and her zest and willingness seemed to win him over.
"Well, I suppose you'll want a dish o' tay, or victuals of some sort, hey? Not yet? Well, do as ye like about it. But faith, if 'twas I, I should be as dry as a kex wi' travelling so far."
"I'll begin milking now, to get my hand in," said Tess.
She drank a little milk as temporary refreshment — to the surprise — indeed, slight contempt — of Dairyman Crick, to whose mind it had apparently never occurred that milk was good as a beverage.
"Oh, if ye can swaller that, be it so," he said indifferently, while holding up the pail that she sipped from. "'Tis what I hain't touched for years — not I. Rot the stuff; it would lie in my innerds like lead. You can try your hand upon she," he pursued, nodding to the nearest cow. "Not but what she do milk rather hard. We've hard ones and we've easy ones, like other folks. However, you'll find out that soon enough."
When Tess had changed her bonnet for a hood, and was really on her stool under the cow, and the milk was squirting from her fists into the pail, she appeared to feel that she really had laid a new foundation for her future. The conviction bred serenity, her pulse slowed, and she was able to look about her.
The milkers formed quite a little battalion of men and maids, the men operating on the hard-teated animals, the maids on the kindlier natures. It was a large dairy. There were nearly a hundred milchers under Crick's management, all told; and of the herd the master-dairyman milked six or eight with his own hands, unless away from home. These were the cows that milked hardest of all; for his journey-milkmen being more or less casually hired, he would not entrust this half-dozen to their treatment, lest, from indifference, they should not milk them fully; nor to the maids, lest they should fail in the same way for lack of finger-grip; with the result that in course of time the cows would "go azew" — that is, dry up. It was not the loss for the moment that made slack milking so serious, but that with the decline of demand there came decline, and ultimately cessation, of supply.
After Tess had settled down to her cow there was for a time no talk in the barton, and not a sound interfered with the purr of the milk-jets into the numerous pails, except a momentary exclamation to one or other of the beasts requesting her to turn round or stand still. The only movements were those of the milkers' hands up and down, and the swing of the cows' tails. Thus they all worked on, encompassed by the vast flat mead which extended to either slope of the valley — a level landscape compounded of old landscapes long forgotten, and, no doubt, differing in character very greatly from the landscape they composed now.
"To my thinking," said the dairyman, rising suddenly from a cow he had just finished off, snatching up his three-legged stool in one hand and the pail in the other, and moving on to the next hard-yielder in his vicinity, "to my thinking, the cows don't gie down their milk to-day as usual. Upon my life, if Winker do begin keeping back like this, she'll not be worth going under by midsummer."
"'Tis because there's a new hand come among us," said Jonathan Kail. "I've noticed such things afore."
"To be sure. It may be so. I didn't think o't."
"I've been told that it goes up into their horns at such times," said a dairymaid.
"Well, as to going up into their horns," replied Dairyman Crick dubiously, as though even witchcraft might be limited by anatomical possibilities, "I couldn't say; I certainly could not. But as nott cows will keep it back as well as the horned ones, I don't quite agree to it. Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?"
"I don't!" interposed the milkmaid, "Why do they?"
"Because there bain't so many of 'em," said the dairyman. "Howsomever, these gam'sters do certainly keep back their milk to-day. Folks, we must lift up a stave or two — that's the only cure for't."
Songs were often resorted to in dairies hereabout as an enticement to the cows when they showed signs of withholding their usual yield; and the band of milkers at this request burst into melody — in purely business-like tones, it is true, and with no great spontaneity; the result, according to their own belief, being a decided improvement during the song's continuance. When they had gone through fourteen or fifteen verses of a cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him, one of the male milkers said —
"I wish singing on the stoop didn't use up so much of a man's wind! You should get your harp, sir; not but what a fiddle is best."
Tess, who had given ear to this, thought the words were addressed to the dairyman, but she was wrong. A reply, in the shape of "Why?" came as it were out of the belly of a dun cow in the stalls; it had been spoken by a milker behind the animal, whom she had not hitherto perceived.
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I can see how this is amusing but if this is really how she manages her dog... ::shudder.::Dogs are not little children and to treat them as such does the dog a disservice and is asking for problems.
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I've been a visitor of ExChrstian for a couple of years now and am a fellow de-convert. I just need to put this out to people who will understand my frustration.
the blog I just set up:
My college campus closed an entire parking lot, for an entire month, to allow a "theater group" called The 99 to set up their temporary theater, right before finals. That was upsetting enough, but it gets worse. Little did the college or any of the teaching staff know that The 99 is a Christian organization that uses fear and manipulation to "save souls," (read convert people to Christianity). They present themselves as an organization concerned about teens who make "bad choices," but their focus and their goal is to convert vulnerable young people into their religion.
I started doing some research into The 99 and found a video of the founder, Terry Henshaw. He was speaking to a group of Christians and so he was very candid about the goal of The 99: To save this generation from hell. He revealed himself as an extremist Christian, but if you go to The 99 website, or read any of their brochures, etc., you would never know that. Strangely, after posting that video on my Facebook wall, it was taken down from Youtube and the church website where it originated. Google The 99 ! There is nothing. They are as covert as they come. I have no problem with Christians sharing their gospel. It's a free country, but the hundreds of people that visit their event, have no idea that there will be "counseling" at the end. The 99 needs to come clean about who they are and what their goals are.
I have sent letters to the Administration of the college and now I am waiting to see what else to do. I just can't believe they are getting away with this. People need to know who real 99 is. Visit my blog if you want to know more.
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I LOVE CUPCAKES! Especially Oreo Cupcakes! Yummy! I baked these quite a while ago, but forgotten all about it! So here goes the recipe and some photos of my masterpiece to share!! =) Hope you guys like it! Its really fun to bake them, not too difficult, and taste absolutely AWESOME!
The Ingredients
For the Cupcakes:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup natural unsweetened cocoa
1 1/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup hot water
24 Oreos, plus more for crumbs
For the Frosting:
1 cup shortening
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3-6 Tablespoons milk
2 or more teaspoons Oreo cookie crumbs
Steps to Bake the Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line tray with baking cups.
- Place one whole cookie in each cup or break apart at least 12 cookies and place the broken pieces into each cup.
- Mix the flour, cocoa, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl using a wire whisk.
- Add the eggs, oil, vanilla and milk and mix well until thoroughly combined. Add the hot water and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter (it will be very liquid) to a large measuring cup and then pour batter into each baking cup so it's about three quarters full. You should have a little left over.
- Bake for 16-18 minutes.
(**Makes at least 12 cupcakes**)
Steps to prepare the frosting:
- Beat the shortening in a mixer until smooth.
- Add vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add the powdered sugar in three additions, scraping down the sides after each addition.
- Add a Tablespoon of milk at a time and mix together until you achieve the consistency you like.
- Add the cookie crumbs and mix until completely combined. You can add more if you like, but I just wanted a light speckling to show off the white frosting.
- Place frosting in a decorator bag with a 1M tip and swirl on top of each cupcake.
- Insert a cookie on top of each cupcake.
- You can also apply frosting on each cupcake in a mounded shape. Turn upside down and roll the top around in a small bowl of cookie crumbs to coat.
**Note: If you would like to pile the frosting on higher, you should double this recipe to make sure you have enough.
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just the one place, canada i.e 51st state of US. the world doesn't revolve around US however much CNN believes it does. other places call it ice hockey.
by the same logic isn't ice hockey a criminal's sport ? since it is played mostly by hooligans who crash into each other to injure them ?
Wrong. I'm not a hockey fan, but I know enough to know there are more places where they play hockey, not just Canada. And other places call it field hockey, whereas it's just hockey for some. So? But don't know what this has to do with any of it, but FYI yes, the world does revolve around the US, whether you accept it or not. I won't get into that with you, this is as extremely off topic as it is, and that's completely my fault.
Second part of your post made just as much sense as the first. How's that same logic? Unless you're saying they're getting criminals out of the jails to play hockey, how's hockey a criminal sports? Hitting is part of their sport. That doesn't make them criminals. Hitting the batsmen is legal in cricket, not in baseball, so that must mean bowlers are criminals?
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We've spent some time with the Nokia N900, and we can tell you that it's simply a beast of a device. Big, powerful, and made strictly for landscape usage--the N900 oozes power. Maemo (the OS behind the N900) is also interesting but a little undercooked right now and since we're obviously much more familiar to the UI and philosophies of Android than Maemo, we silently wished for an N900-type device running Android. Looks like we're not alone. The video below captures a Nokia N900 actually running Android.
Yep, a very smart N900 user got their N900 to dual-boot both Maemo and Android. There's not much to it right now, in fact, the user says it's more proof-of-concept than anything else. But oh the implications--in the right hands this will be awesome. And how we hope it'll get in the right hands.
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Friday we got back to SFO in the evening, and in between lugging all the suitcases up too many stairs and helping put our exhausted and fussy kids down, I was able to figure out and communicate a good place to meet Pacific Association USATF Rho-Quicksilver team members Jean Pommier and Andy Benkert to carpool. (I'm now supposed to be on the team too, although I haven't yet negotiated the jersey issue, since my priority is to represent my main sponsor La Sportiva-- I'll maybe address this in a future posting.)
They live south, so I figured out a place near Stoneridge Mall in Pleasanton about 12 miles east of where I live along I-680 to carpool the next morning. Surprisingly I didn't zonk out in the back seat and enjoyed chatting with Jean whom I hadn't seen in a while, and Andy, whom I'd never met in person. It was supposed to rain all morning, and rained several times on the drive up. Right before getting to the park, we had more than an hour to spare so stopped at a Raley's for a bathroom break, when it was confirmed that I might have some leftover GI issues.
The venue, and thus the course, changed this year, due to California state budget cuts. I knew the 3-mile repeating loop of past years at Gibson Ranch north of I-80 was going to be replaced with a larger 10k loop from or around William B. Pond Park (part of the American River Parkway), but beyond that, had no idea what the course would be like. (The race organizers gave updates on the web, but the internet connection at the resort sucked.)
map of old course, courtesy Jean Pommier
new course
We were there pretty early. I used the bathroom again, brushed my teeth, mingled nervously based on the bathroom break. I got to meet my Sportiva Teammate, elite female runner Jenny Capel (who had won the women's 50k last year, but dropped from the 50 mile race this year.
Though she ran 50k+ fast, no "partial credit" at this race).
And then realized that Melissa Ownby, one of the assistant coordinators for the Oakland Marathon pace group leaders, was also with Daniel Fabun, whom I met at Headlands Hundred and SF One Day last year, and who would get his 50 mile distance PR today with 7:22, congrats!
Perhaps because of the new venue, they started the 50 mile race 12 minutes late.
As a result the 50k race would also start 12 minutes late, since they were using the same clock.
Mark Lantz (who would win the 30k) came up to me in the role of a Buffalo Chips Running Club member (thanks Buffalo Chips!), and meticulously described to me the course, mentioning in one long breath: "parking lot...trail... gravel...levee" and a bunch of other details I couldn't follow, that the bicycle pacer hadn't shown up yet, an he wasn't in shape to lead us out to guide us.
I looked at him in askance--you think I'm actually leading the way? Fortunately, one of the bicyclists showed up at the last minute and the course was well marked anyways.
The course (click for my recorded map) went through the parking lot area, then off pavement to a dirt path with plenty of unevenness in the terrain and puddles of water to avoid. Then a little more pavement. After the 1 mile (water only) aid station, 2 miles straight out on a slightly gravel levee to the mid-point (5k) aid station (fully stocked, with a chip timing mat that I missed the 2nd loop and had to backtrack to cross), before heading back on mostly single track trail, surprisingly filled with lots of slight ups and downs to keep things interesting if a little slower, back to the 5 mile (same as the 1 mile) aid station, and then mostly the same way to the start-finish. Thus, they kept the bent dumbbell shape of the course as in years past, only this year one side of the dumbbell was much larger than the other, and each loop was twice as long. (If that made no sense, just click the link for the map.)
click for the RD's photos of the course
I initially had my Forerunner set to time and current pace, noticing that I was fluctuating between 6:20 and 7:30 minute miles, until I figured out I should switch to lap pace and time. To my surprise, I was settling in at just under 7 minutes per mile, which put me on my course PR pace.
I had brought two Ultimate Direction bottles and came up with a system of dropping off an empty bottle and picking up a third to partially filled bottle. I actually needed 3 bottles to make this seamless, but was happy enough I was even that organized and environmentally correct. Thanks volunteers! I hate Gatorade but that was my main liquid. The pace was too fast to eat real food, so during the race I would consume the 4 Cliff shots with 50mg caffeine in each and a pack of Gu I'd quickly stashed in my pocket before leaving home.
Toward the very end of the 2nd loop (during which I kept the same pace as the first without feeling like I was going too fast), my lower abdomen started feeling unsettled, and the urge to dump liquid and gas hit me. I barely made it to the Portalet maybe 100 feet past the chip timing mat. For the next 90 seconds the only running I did was done by my bowels. I stepped out drenched in sweat, somewhat relieved, but still feeling bad.
So much for the 7 minute per mile pace.
I don't think it was from drinking the resort water. (Everyone drinking bottled water from those evil plastic bottles were still drinking ice cubes from tap water.) Maybe eating too many leftovers in the fridge, too much swallowed pool water, or all that open bar the last couple of days.
Loop 3 was tough. My pace slowed (7:19 for the loop), I felt stitches in the sides of my abdomen and then my chest wall. Mild nausea. Wondering if I'd have to pit-stop again.
Slowed even more for loop 4 (7:36), even as I was able to get over a lot of the cramping and didn't feel as sick as the previous. My legs felt tired. Maybe from too much running on these great trails I found in the hills inland from the resort. Those were some great runs, so I was okay with that.
(For an ultratrailrunner, running on the beach, as sexy as it sounds, gets old fast.)
What I WASN'T okay with was this: Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" kept playing over and over in my head. Despite not having heard that earworm on the radio that morning. The same thing happened to me during my McNaughton 150 mile last April, only with her "Love Story." I had briefly thought of bringing my iPod, which would have averted this, but was expecting it to rain.
Last loop it was hard to look cheerful and greet everyone I passed or saw coming the other direction on the handle of the barbell part of the course. My neck started tightening up, like when you sleep on it the wrong way. I knew this was probably from all the luggage lifting the day before--room to lobby to shuttle to airplane to shuttle to car to the 20 steps to the 2nd level of our house. I'm not the kind of guy who has valets and shuttle drivers lift everything, and during most of those transitions, it was mostly me (my wife handles the kids). It took a lot of effort to focus and try to relax so my neck wouldn't go into full spasm. I felt like I was able to kick a little at the very end, but the overall loop pace was still 7:52 minutes per mile, which is slower than my 50 mile and almost as slow as my 100k PR pace.
Overall time 3:51:06. My anti-PR for the course (compared to 3:45:28 in 2008 and 3:36:39 in 2007), but the best I could do, so not upset about it.
Given the events of the prior week (including too much food, and too much alcohol at the awesome welcome reception on Wednesday and wedding on Thursday. What do you expect? I have an open-bar drinking problem. Here is the 4-question CAGE test modified for open-bar (score 1 point for each yes answer):
- Have you ever felt you should cut down on your drinking when there is open bar? --Yes, I tell myself that all the time, but...it's open bar.
- Have people annoyed you by criticising your drinking when there is open bar? --Yes, but usually they tell me I should lighten up and have another drink. Since I don't have to pay for it, how can I refuse them? Then I am less annoyed. Okay, I am sort of lying. No one tells me I should have another drink. They usually think I've drunk more than I actually have.
- Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking at open bar? --Yes. But I felt worse about giving my kids the chocolate drink Thursday night. I had no idea it had alcohol in it, it was so chocolatey! But maybe it was all for the better because after my 2-year-old passed out, I only had to keep track of my 4-year-old, who actually did fine, dancing the night away with his cousins.
- Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or get rid of a hangover (eye-opener)? --Hell no. Now that's messed up. I never understood that champagne breakfast thing. If I'm hungover, I run instead, which is healthy so I get negative 1 point even though I'm not supposed to subtract.
But the total is 2 points, so I still have an open-bar drinking problem. (Actually, this is not the best test-- link for various alcoholism screening questionnaires. There are many, and if you take them all, you may feel the need for a drink.
Schwag-- no t-shirt (no complaints, got WAY too many of those). Plastic sippy mug with the Jed Smith Ultras motto-- "I ran far, I ran fast." Socks that get warm when wet--interesting concept, maybe I'll review these sometime. Good enough. Jean got a bag for placing. He came within 19 seconds of winning overall, but the rookie who won--get this, had a pacer for more than half the race. A pacer for a 50k?
winner Ted Archer
Even though I was 4th overall, I was 3rd in my division, so no prize schwag. Andrew from our car broke 4 hours for his personal PR, great job!
Amazingly, it never rained while we were running. So I probably could have peeled off my yellow La Sportiva jacket over a long-sleeve tech shirt. I was a times a little hot, but other times there was a cooling wind.
Nonetheless, I did start getting cold afterwards. And dizzy. We were waiting for 4th teammate Jim Magill (4:47 at age 63, didn't drive with us) to finish, and I was enjoying hanging out and talking, but maybe all the accumulated sleep deprivation caught up to me-- I started feeling really tired, so went to lie down in Jean's Corolla backseat. Probably a good move, since after sort of napping I was able to stay awake and chat for the drive home, during which it rained a few times--wow, were we lucky with the weather
Before driving home from Pleasanton, I was charged with food shopping for the family, and helped get the kids dressed before going to the annual holiday dinner party at which I amazingly held up, though by the end of my evening ED shift the next evening, I was as beaten down as the Colts.
50 mile 50 km 30 km
Congrats to Michael Kanning, UC Santa Cruz freshman, winner of the 50 mile race with a PR of 6:15 (beats mine)-- kids grow up so fast!
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DescriptionThe third game in the OutRun series, which revolutionised the third-person perspective style of racing games. The levels are set across Europe, as you bid to escape from the police. Unlike other titles in the series, you use a different vehicle on each level, with motorbikes and jet-skis adding variety and taking different skill to use. You must complete each level within the strict time limits, and the routes are dogged with other vehicles to avoid and overtake. You can choose between sound effects or music.
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DevelopmentDevelopment on the game (which is an original product based on OutRun, not an arcade conversion) originally began not long after the Amiga conversion of the first OutRun was released in 1988. By early 1989 it was previewed in magazines of the day, but the release of the Turbo OutRun arcade game, and US Gold's subsequent conversion, meant that it was pushed aside and not completed for another 2 1/2 years.
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I went to my PCP this morning and recieved my first A1C of 6.2, I have lost 11 pounds lbs since diagnosis and she lowered my bp medication today. Those are both better than I had expected since my diagnosis of type 2 on March 3, 2011.
My HDL is 38 and my LDL is 114, Triglycerides 123, one of these numbers she wasn't thrilled with am guessing my bad cholesteral since that number should be below 40. So ended up with a medication to aide my diet and cholesterol. Other than that apparently by using the advice here and reading the books recommended, things are going pretty good.
Also was recommended to up my vitamin D from 1000, to 2000 today. For some reason my Vitamin D level is showing at 10…so up the dose and see if that helps. Hope everyone is having a great day! {{hugs & best wishes to all}}
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Congrats!! You should feel very proud!! The vitamin D thing is important for D..sorry just can't remember why.My endo told me to go outside in the sun for at least a few minutes a day..I have alot of medical problems so i have to take alot of Vit. D
YAY!!!!!!! Good for you!!!!!! Great job!!!!!
If I lose weight I'll be a skeleton. I'm glad losing weight is the answer for most diabetics. Glad your A1c was good.
WTG girlie girl !! Keep up the great work. Its times like that that really throws motivation in high gear, dont down shift!
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glad to hear your good news. hope you can keep improving and getting good reports.
I have been on the shots for two months now, my a1c when i got on the shots was 10.9 and two months after shots my a1c was 6.9. My endo dr was very please with the numbers. Only thing I have a problem with, is being on the insulin , i am having trouble loosing weight.
Im not on meds for diabetes and hope to keep off them as long as possible. I have heard some on shots at times have difficulty losing weight. Perhaps check with your nutrionist on that? Or your PCP might have some ideas. For now, walking and watching what I eat seems to do the trick. I wish you well with that.
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Congrats!!! Thats awesome.
Congrats on all the good numbers.
I am so proud of you…A1C is great and so is the weight loss. I was low on Vitamin D, too, and now have been on it almost a year and it is coming up quiet nicely…Definitely has helped my immune system, no colds or flu this winter or spring, and that's amazing to me…Good Luck to you.
way to go on your weight lose! and your A1c is great. Keep up the good work
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James McNeill managed his father Howard Smith's locally recognized restaurant for several of the 40 years it operated. It closed in mid-2010, and last June, McNeill took over this former Anthony's Italian turned Walkabout Pub & Grill, off Union Boulevard.
In November McNeill introduced his family's recipes to the bar patrons, desiring to turn the window-less space back into a family dining destination by day. There's no denying that it remains a drink spot after hours, with two pool tables, a DJ area, a few flat-screens and only Bud and Bud Light on tap. (Fat Tire highlights the small bottled beer selection, past liquor offerings.)
But regardless of what it feels like to eat kick-ass barbecue with plastic forks on foam plates inside a relic nightclub, the fact remains: You're eating kick-ass barbecue, conventions be damned.
The three-meat sampler with two sides and a dinner roll ($10.99) is the obvious choice for its hefty value; the two-meat plate is only a dollar less, with single-meat plates running $7.99 to $8.99.
Though they only see apple-wood smoke for around four hours, as compared to the beef brisket's 10 hours and pulled pork's 12 to 14 hours, Kasey's ribs offer the smokiest flavor on the menu. I'm talking deeply smoky, with a generous char (too much on a couple edges) that meets a black-pepper bite and a mild heat from the excellent, house-made barbecue sauce. McNeill doesn't offer its full recipe, but confirms the presence of brown sugar, and calls his a fusion of Kentucky and North Carolina styles.
That same sauce is used on the hot links and beef brisket, though the pork gets its own traditional mustard-and-vinegar-based dousing to handle the fattier meat. (Most meats are marinated for a full day prior to smoking.) Our pulled pork portion had a noticeably gamier flavor, but was rendered perfectly delightful and super-soft from its tenderizing bath. The beef brisket was a little chewier on a lunch visit than a previous dinner one, but still great because of the slightly sweet sauce and ample smoke. The hot link sandwich, unruly as a pile of diagonally cut sausage wedges mounded in a bun, brought respectable spice and again plenty of smoke; nothing at Kasey's suffers from subtlety.
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Expect fruit cobblers by Memorial Day, the true kickoff to McNeill's busy barbecue season. He says half his business is already devoted to high-volume catering, so consider that an alternative to bar dining.
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The Education Department has dropped its investigation of alleged sex and race bias at two Illinois colleges following the Justice Department's recent decision to seek a narrow application of the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education.
The Justice Department, in a legal brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court last month in the case of Grove City College v. Bell, contended that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 applies only to specific programs or activities within an institution that receive federal funds.
Previous Administrations, and, until recently, the Education Department under the Reagan Administration, have contended that when a school or college receives any amount of federal aid, the institution itself is the "program or activ-ity" receiving aid and must, therefore, comply with the law.
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After Judge Richard Murphy rejected that request, ed moved to dismiss all charges against the colleges, except one against a program for disadvantaged students that received federal aid directly.
Though ed also has sought to dis-miss the charges of racial discrimination against the two universities, neither Title IX nor the Justice Department's brief in the Grove City case address race bias.
Margaret A. Kohn, a lawyer for the National Women's Law Center, which opposes the Justice Department's interpretation of Title IX, said ed's adoption of the Justice Department's position would "drastically reduce" its ability to prohibit sex, race, and national origin discrimination in education.
She also said it would be inappropriate to apply the Justice Department's position on sex bias to cases involving racial discrimination, which is prohibited under a different law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As of last week, Judge Murphy had not ruled on ed's request to dismiss most of the charges against the colleges.--tt
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Video~ Kline and Grammy monkeying around at his 1st birthday!
Happy birthday Grammy! we couldn't get through this with out you!!!
My parents are amazing! My mom has pretty much moved in with us the last few weeks to help us get through this itchy bastard hell!
My dad and step mom made a special trip out to see us in Cali and help from new jersey, just because I asked them to.
Our support is amazing.........from our parents, family, friends, Dr. Rapaport, and not to forget all of our new red skin family we have met on our itchy bastard journey! I hope that all of you get support like we do. If you do have to go through red skin, you can not do this alone! And if someone offers you support, take it!!!
Klines update, week 14 tomorrow, 3 and 1/2 months! can i get a woot woot!!!!
well, his break in flares seems to have broken....we got about 2 days and now he is itching like crazy again and not sleeping at all. still not oozing as much so that is good! he is still living in the tub and has a major tantrum and flare when we take him out. I am so proud that we have made it to 3 and 1/2 months, but i sure wish we were already at a year!!!!
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If you've ever been moved by music so much it hurts, physiologically, I feel your pain. Keeps happening to me now as I fight to keep the narrow list of songs I've chosen to slot into the kids' musical Melted.
It's good pain, isn't it? Well, it's good if you're feeling it internally and not simply exposed to it audibly, viciously and vicariously because your colleague (let's call him Jase) in year five next door is playing Bob Marley's "No woman, no cry" on loop at 7am when you arrive early to concentrate on marking.
Looks like I'm not marking, again.
Bah. Who needs to mark? OR proof read reports for that matter? And it's near impossible when music plants itself like a wildflower in your soul, not to mention your belly, left hip and every one of your finger tapping phalanges.
What would be on your perfect Life Playlist?
I've often said that I wish my time on earth came with its own soundtrack. Problematically, it would be a debacle of eclectic chaos. Waltz and six-eight timing would be in fierce competition with doof doof four by four, not to mention that seven-six to warp the universe nicely. But at any point, any piece of music can become my life and it plugs the gaps in my soul where life keeps dropping out on me. Indeed, music is perhaps the ever present wireless in a dial up world.
So, writing a script for primary school kids where the action is punctuated by the perfect song at each turn is hard yakka. Not because there are no songs out there that help tell the story of two kids in the playground, a crazy nomad and a forty thousand year old Indigenous woman, but because, suddenly, EVERY song does it!
Suddenly, my main character Hurley is wailing in grief to everyone from Cold Play and James Blunt to TISM and Madness. Then I'm picturing my female protagonist Alexa pulling out powerhouse moments I envisage punctuated by Taylor Swift, Leonard Cohen, Andrea Bocelli and They Might be Giants (I know, "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas" is a pretty emotional power ballad if you're…melting).
So, this weekend, with my suberb JBL in the background thumping and pumping (literally – I love how it does that), I'm off to dance in my kitchen and listen to everything on my phone until I fall asleep on the tiles. That is, until we get to 'La Cucaracha'. I draw the line at a song about cockroaches. Seriously.
What cockroach has ever entertained anyone?
Wink. Nudge. Pump up the volume on your doof doof!
Off you go now and crank up your own crazy list.
Yours musically,


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The Brewmaster Studios is an artist in residence program, featuring some of the city's best artists and entrepreneurs.
Christian Heurich came to the United States with $200 in his pocket; by the time he died, he was recognized as Washington DC's most successful brewer. In keeping with Heurich's entrepreneurial spirit, the Heurich House Museum proudly supports those who share his ideals. The museum's carriage house, located at 1921 Sunderland Place NW, is now an artist in residence program called, a community of artists, makers, craftspeople, and scholars, called Brewmaster Studios.


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News Briefing: Mount Vernon Receives $38 Million to Build Research Library
By Kate Golden on February 19, 2010No Comment
- Mount Vernon receives a $38 million grant – the largest in its history – to construct a research library on the grounds of George Washington's historic estate. [Washington Post]
- The Philadelphia Orchestra, facing severe financial problems and searching for a music director, received some mixed reviews this week. [New York Times]


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I haven't updated this blog in a while, sorry about that!
All these were finished yesterday (Finishing Friday):
There wasn't much left to knit, but the darning also takes time. So within a few hours I finished a scarf, three pairs of socks and a Christmas stocking! Which means there's lots of room for new projects!
I already bought the yarn for a new scarf (flag scarf with short rows, lots of colour changes), I will try out a new pattern for socks and knit a few more pairs of socks like the red and white ones. The slip stitch pattern is very easy, but looks great.
These 3 pairs of socks will be available in my Etsy shop soon, the scarf is for myself and the Christmas stocking is the last in a set of 5 custom order.


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2.5 gal. Electric Mini Tank Water Heater
The Eccotemp 2.5 gal. Mini Tank Water Heater is a Point-of-Use mini tank water heater with a holding tank capable of holding 2.5 gal. that is designed to supply instant hot water on demand to any faucet without long hot water pipe runs or to supply a standalone sink or faucet instantaneous hot water without wait. It can be used in most under the counter, point of use applications. The EM-2.5 is designed to supply hot water for all hand wash and kitchen sinks in a residential, commercial or industrial environment. The EM-2.5 can replace traditional central hot water heaters thereby conserving water and reducing energy waste. The EM-2.5 can also be plumbed in series with the central water heater and act as a booster. It is lightweight and compact and manufactured for easy installation. It can be mounted on the wall with included hardware or freestanding and is designed to operate at 150 psi maximum water pressure. Install a pressure reducing valve if your water pressure is greater than 150 psi.
202 4.0 GPM 85,000 BTU Propane Gas Portable Tankless Water Heater
EZ Tankless
The EZ 202 is a portable propane powered tankless water heater that allows for quick and easy hot water anywhere. With its ability to heat a continuous water flow, RV and camp site users rave about the ability to take shower, after shower, after shower. No longer will RVers be plagued by the short shower times permitted when using a small tank type water heater. Featuring easy to use dials on the front of the heater, most users can have the unit up and running in less than 15 minutes. This unit is designed for outdoor installations, but if installed indoors, it must be installed in a room containing at least 4000 cu. ft. of combustion air. When installed outdoors a vent pipe is not needed nor required unless otherwise specified by local codes.
Tempra 36 36.0 kW 5.46 GPM Whole House Tankless Electric Water Heater
Stiebel Eltron
Stiebel Eltron developed tankless electric water heating technology 90 years ago and continues as the industry pioneer and world leader. Our engineering and manufacturing tradition of excellence means you can depend on the performance and reliability of our products. Tempra whole house tankless electric water heaters never waste energy storing hot water, but deliver it as needed, as long as needed. The compact design needs no venting, allowing for installation close to draw off points, making the wait for hot water as short as possible and maximizing energy savings. Tempra tankless water heaters are sized based on the number of bathrooms and your climate. Refer to the Tempra Sizing Guide under More Views to determine which model you need. Call Stiebel Eltron at 800.582.8423 if you have high flow showers, or any sizing questions. Tempra models supply water at a constant temperature from 86 to 140 degrees F that is settable on the front panel. We recommend setting the actual highest temperature you use, typically 107 degrees for a shower. Tempra Plus models incorporate Advanced Flow Control to automatically reduce flow rates to deliver water at the set point if demand exceeds capacity. Regular Tempra models lack this feature and should be considered if this is not of concern. Tempra 36 models provide hot water for 3 or 4 bathrooms in warm climates or 3 bathrooms in cool climates, and with a power draw of 150 amps, necessitate 300 amp minimum total service to the house.
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text: I'm the co-author of "Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots" along with my brother Frank, who actually served in the U.S. Navy and whose story is the framework for our submarine journey. I'm a diagnostic radiologist from Pickens, SC, with a deep interest in history and writing. I am an amateur genealogist as well with a very large family tree that I've created, and I'm a co-author with another brother on two books about our family history and the history of the coal industry in West Virginia/western PA. All proceeds from the sale of our book "Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots" are donated to the USSVI Submarine Fund, a worthy charity that supports educational needs of the families of deserving U.S. submariners. Thank you for your purchase.


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We had a fox in the garden today. He emerged through the hedge and sat watching us - we were gardening.
Eventually he went behind an empty cold frame and lay basking in the sun. I took a few pictures but I'm not yet sure whether I can load one - TalkTalk has been messing about with my web hosting.


text: Epigenetics is scientifically an occasion to rejuvenate completely interdisciplinary research. Epigenetics is necessarily a long argumentative chain. Arguments come from biotechnology as much as environmental science or social science. Specialists of these disciplines are building their definitions of epigenetics and are already working together to develop a common language. Epidapo will be the place where this common language will have the better chance to thrive consciously, thanks to a special dedication to science reflexivity.


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Backgrounder: Jews for Jesus
Jews for Jesus is a global ministry whose priority is direct witness to the Jewish Community sharing the message of Jesus and the New Testament. Jews for Jesus "exists to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue for Jewish people worldwide."
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When we first got our Westsail 28, there was no stereo onboard. Matter of fact, there was pretty much nothing on board that wasn't there when she shipped out of Costa mesa, California, back in 1977. Actually, there were a couple of major items like a relatively new Westerbeke diesel and a Webasto furnace but not much that you could see. Obviously, being music lovers, we needed a stereo. A car stereo was just the ticket although it became a little problematic where to mount speakers. Speakers tend to be a couple inches deep and the walls on the boat tend to be the thickness of one sheet of plywood, sometimes 1/4″, sometimes, 3/4″ but never more than that. So, the back side of the speaker would protrude into the space on the other side of the wall. Not knowing for sure where I wanted to put holes in walls, I decided to just build a custom cabinet and set it on the bookshelf that ran the length of the starboard side of the saloon.
It's worked out pretty well so far. The little cabinet on top holds various chargers, disc cleaners, patch cords, etc. There's a shelf on top where we stow the Netbook. But, we're hurting for space and looking at this cabinet, I see a lot of wasted space. Something had to be done.
The first step was to rethink the speakers. In the past few years, the sound from small speakers has gotten better and better. Most of the surface mount speakers I found, however, were just too big for the cabin. However, in La Paz I found these little beauties:
You can turn them anywhichway and they're small enough to not look out of place in our cabin. OK, speakers solved. Now it's just a matter of finding a new home for the stereo.
I knew I was going to do this project someday. I've been thinking and pondering on it for quite awhile. Well, now it was time to either take care of business or vacate the head, as they say. I entered into the project not really knowing how it was going to end. But, I knew the first thing was to pull the cabinet:
I was really pretty pleased with myself when I saw what a nice job I'd done on this cabinet. Seemed a shame to toss it but space is more important in this case. And look at how much room it frees up:
Of course, it only frees up the room if I don't have to turn right around and fill the new space with the stereo. My original thought was that I'd build the stereo in, either on the shelf or hanging from the top of the opening. Then books could go either above it or below it, depending on how I did it. But, I wasn't really liking this approach as much as I thought I would. The space just aft of the SSB radio was used for housing mini hard drives, blank CDs, and blank DVDs. The hard drives are currently in Flipper and will remain there until we finish our road trip. And by then, who knows? Maybe I'll have consolidated everything I have onto a couple of 10 TB hard drives which are sure to be available by then. I'll worry about that when the time comes.
So, what did I do? Well, I decided to use the former hard drive storage space for the stereo. Trouble was, once I built an enclosure around the stereo, the space was no longer wide enough. It would have been doable back when I had a shop that had a thickness planer in it. I could just plane the wood down to the size I needed to make the enclosure fit. But that's not the case so I had to work with what I had which was 3/4″ thick wood.
I remember the first time I ever saw a car radio mounted vertically instead of horizontally. It was on "Route 66″. I don't know which model year it was but I think it was around the time of the advent of the Corvette Stingray (what a cool name!) and there was a shot of either Buzz or Todd hitting a button on the radio. The radio looked just like any radio except that it looked like it had been mounted sideways, except for the fact that all the letters and numbers were set up so that it was obviously supposed to be mounted that way. Cool. Different and therefore, cool. Like the vertical headlights on the first Buick Riviera or the fastback on the first Plymouth Barracuda. Different, therefore cool. Anyway, I decided that there was absolutely no reason I couldn't mount my stereo "Stingray-style". Of course, the words on mine are all sideways but I can adjust. We almost never play CDs but, if we do I'm sure they'll play just fine. If they wouldn't, the Sony Discman never would have worked. So, here it is, my Westsail Stingray:
The carpentry is a little plain but it works and the system sounds great. And look at the resulting space:
BTW, the overhead (ceiling) I installed way back when proved its worth once again. I needed to run speaker wires from the forward-starboard corner to the stereo, the length of the saloon. I was able to hide the wire above the pine boards and only had to remove two boards to do it, not the entire overhead. Made the job much quicker and MUCH easier.
Tomorrow I have to figure out how to run wires to the new outside speakers. I mean I have to figure out how to run wires NEATLY to the outside speakers. Hmm. Wonder how I'm going to do it.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Rethinking space
Steve and Lulu who live aboard s/v Siempre Sabado have been doing so for long enough that they are having the opportunity to rethink some of their earlier decisions about interior space utilization...
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The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
When I see picture after picture of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, I get the chills. I feel like I've been through this before many, many years ago. And actually I have. I was a kid at the time, and it was Hurricane Agnes that caused the devastation. I still remember how scared I was like it was yesterday.
My family lost most of its possessions, and the same was true for all of our neighbors and friends. And the actual hurricane was just the beginning of a long, grueling process.
The clean-up seemed endless, and the whole ordeal took a toll on my parents and everyone we knew. It's really hard to explain to someone who has never been through it. I didn't fully understand it then, but I'm beginning to understand it now.
Because now I am an adult with kids of my own. And thankfully my kids didn't experience the devastation first-hand like I did when I was a kid. But some of their friends weren't so fortunate. And it's very scary for all of them.
My kids grew up with the beach and boardwalk just a few miles away. And knowing that certain places will never be the same is hard to imagine. It will be sad to see what the devastating storm has done to 'my beach'.
I know from experience that it takes a very long time to recover and you never, ever forget. Memories are etched in your mind forever.
But one thing I do know is this…all 'things' can be replaced, but people cannot. What matters most is that people are safe and sound. And as hard as it may be to believe right now, people are a lot stronger than they think they are. And in the end they rebuild their lives and weather life's storms together.


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Sealy Posturepedic Classic King Mattress Enhancer
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West Fargo Juniors Photo Days
West Fargo Juniors Photo Days are here and we are ready to get some great shots! We're shooting all the photos at our studio this year, 112 North University Drive in basement of the Manchester Building, Suite L110.
We will do our best to update the schedule below with the latest changes, but please consult your coach for the official photo times.
So sorry we have had to RESCHEDULE! Jersey issues that were out of our control and new dates will be posted as soon as possible!
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