Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Christmas Abbott Is the First Female NASCAR Pit Crew Member

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Her name is Christmas and if auto racing legend Michael Waltrip is right, she will become more than merry asset in the NASCAR pits – she'll become a racing business goddess.

Christmas Abbott, a fierce CrossFit video star and Raleigh, N.C., gym owner who bears a gun tattoo on her hip and who worked for years as a civilian contractor in Bagdad – doing military laundry, no less – was signed this week as a full-time crew member for the Michael Waltrip Racing team and its Sprint Cup operation, making her the first woman to work the pits at NASCAR's highest level.
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While racer Danica Patrick offers star power on the track, Abbott, 31 and a Virginia native, will add her own muscled glamour to crews for this Sunday's Daytona 500, where she will be in the pits with racer Clint Bowyer and will shadow the pit team there in anticipation of her future gig.

At 5'3" and 115 lbs., her weight-lifting workouts will no doubt help Abbott endure the sport's lightening-fast tire changes, heaving 90-pound gas cans and jacking up stock cars in a very manly operation where seconds can mean the difference between winning and going home. She dodged IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Iraq, giving her significant experience in handling pressure.
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In a world that values star drivers, some expect the gritty, tough and photogenic fitness queen to expand the NASCAR fan base.

Abbott was discovered by NASCAR executive Ted Bullard who saw her videos and invited her to Charlotte, N.C., for a tryout. He set up a wheel and axel assembly station and she drilled the bolts with lightening speed. She will join NASCAR's year-long Truck Series and is excited about her debut, even if it comes with plenty of expectations.
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"Christmas is going to transcend NASCAR," Bullard told Yahoo Sports of her appeal.

"I have to get dirty and [travel] overnight," Abbott told Yahoo Sports of her new job. "NASCAR fans are die-hard and they will call out your B.S. I want to go to the highest level, and I left three jobs to do [this] one."

Of her newfound fame, she says: "There's a lot of spotlight. I prefer to be the quiet underdog."
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Prince Harry Spotted 'Getting Cosy With Cressida Bonas'

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As date nights go, it wasn't too shabby... A prince (Harry, to be precise), a movie (The Dark Knight Rises) a VIP party and then a few drinkies at an exclusive club (Mayfair's swish, Le Salon).

And the lucky lady? That'll be Cressida Bonas. And yes, that it is her actual name.
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Cressida at 'The Dark Knight Rises' after party
Model Cressida escorted Harry to the UK premiere of The Dark Knight Rises on Wednesday night, although they managed to avoid being photographed together.
Canny.

The pair then headed to the official after party at the Freemasons Hall in Covent Garden before moving on to Le Salon nightclub in Mayfair.

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Prince Harry leaves 'The Dark Knight Rises' after party at London's Freemasons Hall
According to reports the pair were seen getting cosy with each other inside the club where they both stayed until 4am.

Actually, that's not strictly true. Cressida - who went to Leeds uni with Harry's ex Chelsy Davy - was seen leaving at about 3.58am. The Prince two minutes later.

Hmmm.

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A source told The Sun: "Harry and the group danced their socks off but he was never far away from the stunning blonde.

"At one point he was sitting down playing with her hair before finally leaving just after 4am."

Cressida is the daughter of socialites Jeffrey Bonas and Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon. And with a name like that we're sure Her Madge would approve.

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The Ronda Rousey Diet

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Over the past month, no MMA fighter has seen their star skyrocket as much as “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey. The 25-year-old Californian wowed with her curves in ESPN The Magazine’s “The Body Issue,” candidly bantered with Conan O’Brien on his late night show, and has been the subject of an All-Access series on Showtime leading up to Saturday night’s clash with Sarah Kaufman (10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime). The reigning Strikeforce Bantamweight champ and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (judo) sat down with me recently to talk about her fascinating one-meal-a-day diet, coffee addiction, and how mixed martial arts helped heal past insecurities about her body.

Staples of the Rowdy One’s diet …


Rousey: It’s kind of a combination of The Paleo and The Warrior diet. I pretty much eat one meal a day – which takes place at night. I usually eat between 4 and 10 (p.m.). As far as supplements go, I don’t take anything that is made in a lab. If it was on earth 10,000 years ago then I will eat it.
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There is one exception to all of this each day: I get to have coffee every morning. That’s the only thing I really fudge on. A lot of athletes try to put a bunch of chemicals in their bodies, as much as they can get away with. I try to make everything as clean as possible, you know I even use a water alkanalizing machine and I try to only drink out of glass bottles when I can (to avoid petrochemicals). I try to only drink high quality water as well.

One Meal A Day? This is Crazy!

I thought it was crazy at first. Especially since breakfast was, and still is, my favorite meal. I like having a big breakfast, a medium (sized) lunch, a tiny dinner and I would usually go to bed hungry. It took a while to get used to but I don’t really get hungry during the day anymore. I sleep a lot better than I used to and I have a lot more time because I’m not planning meals all day long.

Hunger pains?

There weren’t really hunger pains when I switched to the diet. You’re just used to eating, you’re sitting around and you’re bored … sometimes you just want to eat to keep yourself occupied. But as long as I’m busy – and I’m busy a lot these days so I’m run ragged all day long – I just pretty much need coffee and I’m cool.
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He (her nutritionist) wanted to take coffee out of my diet at first; we had to have a little bit of a discussion. I was like, ‘I don’t care what I have to do, but I NEED COFFEE! So that’s why we grind up a bunch of wheatgrass, parsley, cilantro and sprouts every morning – a green shot – and I take that every morning to try and combat my addiction to coffee.

Philosophy underlying her diet:

A guy named Chad Waterbury handles my nutrition. I got it all from him. The philosophy is, when you’re digesting food then your body wants to rest. If you’re hungry then your body wants to go and get food. So you have more energy when you’re not digesting food. So I can get more out of training on an empty stomach than I would on a full stomach.

On Insecurities About Her Body:

I had terrible issues with my body when I was younger because I always had to make a certain weight on deadline all the time. So people were constantly asking me how much I weighed and criticizing what I ate – so I felt if I wasn’t exactly on weight then I was ugly. People were like, ‘Oh, you’re heavy, you’re fat, you need to lose weight.’ I would get yelled at for being heavy so I equated the number on the scale with how I felt about myself. It was a hard thing to deal with if you’re a 15- or 16-year-old girl. I had a big problem with that for many years -- I didn’t like how I looked or how much I weighed.
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But once I started doing MMA and got away from that old coaching, starting to do more of it on my own, I started having a healthier self-image. Being in the ESPN “The Body Issue” is something tangible that I can hold in my hands and be like, ‘OK, I’ve overcome this and I have nothing to be ashamed of because the body that I have now is being celebrated.’

Carbohydrate sources:

I usually eat carbs on alternating days. So it will usually be rice or potatoes or something like that.

Calories per day:

Pretty much I just eat until I’m full. Since I don’t eat all day my stomach has shrunk so I get full fast. So I don’t count calories at all.

On Red Meat and Chicken:

If I have red meat it must be ‘Grass-Finished beef’ not ‘Grass Fed.’ Grass Fed could be that they fed the cow grass ONE DAY and then fed it corn for the rest of its life – and that qualifies it to be ‘Grass Fed’. Grass-Finished means it has to eat grass for at least 80 percent of its lifetime … so it has to be very high quality. I also try to eat everything organic, even when I eat dairy.
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Competed in Olympics (154-pound category). Fought MMA at 145 and now 135 pounds.

When I did judo I was tiny for the division. When I started MMA I walked around at 145 pounds so I fought there but I thought I could capitalize more fighting at 135 pounds and get more attention because it’s a deeper division. But I hadn’t been that light since I was like 15 years old so I went and got help for that. It’s been one of the easiest weight cuts I’ve ever done.

On being punched in her ‘MoneyMaker’:

I have a deviated septum, I have cauliflower ears, and my toes are all broken to hell. That’s just the way I look and I’m happy with how I look. So if people think an extra scar on my face would make me not movie-worthy … so I would just be a director or something like that. I can’t walk into a fight thinking, ‘Oh I need to save my moneymaker.’ I don’t care if I cut my face all to hell; I’m in there to win. You can’t walk in there scared of what might happen to you. I walk in there focused on what I have to do. If I wind up with a cut on my face, so what, whatever.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Mindy Mccready Photos

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The section of kids and Families say a missing people report was file Tuesday night with cloak Coral police force after McCrea took her son Dander from her father's house. McCrea doesn't have care; her care for does. The vocalist was allowed to visit Dander at her father residence.
 

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The primary single at large was "All I want is all." When it botched to break the pinnacle 50, BNA minutes and Mindy went part ways, said to be more creative difference. After the rip the album customary little helps and became a saleable stoppage.
 
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