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Many Crude Oil And Petroleum Product Sellers, Brokers and Agents, when you look at the Overseas "Secondary" Oil marketplace, Try not to Make Any product sales Or Income. Do You Wonder The Reason Why?
AN IMPORTANT "CONCEALED SECRET" OF OIL SELLERS & BROKERS: MOST NEVER MAKE a DEALS or MONEY
Crude oil and petroleum items sellers, and their agents and agents, whom run when you look at the so-called "secondary market" of this worldwide oil market today, don't often talk about this, or like to achieve this. Or such as the reality about it to be known. In deed, most of them would rather so it be held obscured, or simply just misrepresented. But, the truth is one distinctive part of their company "reality" is it: as a bunch, they frequently close no discounts nor make any sales for the oil product they purport to own available to offer, and, in reality, almost all them usually opt for months, also years, or simply permanently, without previously landing also a single sales contract or deal. It really is probably what might just be called "the available secret" of this oil attempting to sell industry!
C. Keila Nakasaka, a Ca lawyer and real estate trader and entrepreneur, whom conducted considerable general market trends and investigations into the D2 diesel oil trade to see if he could prudently recommend taking on the percentage broker's task to his clients, states he came away from his analysis significantly disillusioned and dissatisfied. In accordance with him, the "tales why these agents concoct tend to be that seller has some direct reference to a refinery. Some also declare that the vendor is, in reality, among the leading energy organizations in Russia… [but] what bothered me personally [the most] is that nearly every these agents neglected to be forthcoming. They frequently misrepresented on their own as mandates, direct representatives, as well as purchaser and sellers."
Most likely the main and most painful and sensitive benefit of which most these types of sellers and intermediaries (the agents, facilitators, mandates, agents, etc.) tend to be the very least "forthcoming" and "misrepresenting" about, is concerning the quantity and amount of sales discounts they have previously closed, if any, and/or income they have gained when you look at the trade, if any. In other words, the majority of these operatives generally speaking close no discounts, and earn next to nothing. Many of them opt for months, also years – or permanently – without successfully shutting any sales discounts, not to speak of making also a dime in percentage income!
As Nakasaka place it, describing his findings: "Another factor which I believed ended up being strange ended up being that a lot of of this agents we talked with never closed a D2 deal despite their months and often years within company. There was clearly one broker whom reported which he had pending discounts, and two whom claimed they performed in reality shut these discounts. But I did not locate them legitimate."
MAJOR GOOD REASONS FOR THIS, WHICH TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHY MOST "SECONDARY MARKETPLACE" SELLERS & THEIR INTERMEDIARIES NEVER CLOSE a DEALS
Exactly why is this therefore – they make no sales or income? Numerous aspects account for it. They are able to approximately be summarized the following:
1. MOST VENDORS (and their intermediaries) ARE FAKE, ANY WAY, WITHOUT ANY CRUDE OR OIL ITEM TO SELL
A fact that's at this point well-established and never susceptible to any disputation whatsoever among legitimate experts in the industry, is the fact that daunting most of selling provides peddled by crude oil and petroleum product "sellers" when you look at the so-called "secondary" oil markets, and their agents, agents, and other intermediaries, tend to be phony and bogus. In deed, some objective studies and analysis have put its level at an impressive degree of some 99.999999 % of provides introduced obtainable. Most likely the just thing of much redeeming value that may be claimed about it, is that with particular value to those that become foreign agents and intermediaries in the industry, some of them may usually be involved fraudulently in the industry but innocently and unknowingly, erroneously believing that deal or selling operation is authentic and genuine, when it isn't.
Place very just, maybe no place is the stating that "we live in an extensive interconnected globe" even more relevant today than in the world of the worldwide exchanging of crude oil and petroleum items. Generally, almost all this 1 needs in order to become a "seller" of crude oil or petroleum product, or his representative, genuine or perhaps not, who are running off any the main globe, is merely to own an access to a pc and an Internet connection. That is most! Unfortunately, but one dire bad effect of this so-called "revolution of this Internet" (among numerous others), happens to be that numerous whom today claim to be, or function as, "sellers" and/or sellers' "brokers" or "agents," tend to be largely uneducated or semi-illiterate, untrained and unskilled, and so are without any understanding of the appropriate principles of worldwide oil trading.
Kamal J. Southall, among the leading experts on the subject, whose book, "Trade Fraud, Financial Fraud, while the Joker Broker," the most respected texts in the event, places it this way:
"perhaps you have pointed out that while you've searched Google and libraries, and seemed high and reduced, finding items of information every now and then, you encounter interesting phenomena: almost no practical all about the art and science of working in Overseas trade as an unbiased trader is out there in every comprehensive method. Specific practices, documents, and treatments; mystical acronyms particularly "NCND" or "MPA," tend to be tossed back-and-forth, terribly corrupted model documents and kinds may filter your path, nevertheless the the reality is that a lot of tried work from home traders, agents – or, even more correctly, intermediaries – understand through highly costly 'trial and mistake,'… usually re-inventing the wheel each and every time, in that ever-elusive seek out a deal and understanding about how to shut that deal."
Southall estimates, citing another specialist's calculation, that off some body million people presently attempting to make it as agents or trade intermediaries on the planet, "perhaps no more than 1% gets the training and ability had a need to previously shut an offer… [meaning that] the daunting bulk, tend to be dealing blindly, [hence] discounts tend to be collapsing… and much more to the level, [oil dealers tend to be] being defrauded – sometimes massive.."
Mr. R. Ambardar, a broker of over 10 years of wide experience in worldwide market development and advisory solutions, calls "lack of experience and understanding" among the main main reasons why numerous agents and facilitators fail in crude oil endeavors. "people tend to be attracted into ecommerce as a result of [the tales they read about the] sorts of money one could earn because of effective discounts. Numerous agents fail, [however], to comprehend that requirements to achieve ecommerce are demanding, [and that] just those individuals who have several years of hands-on knowledge and thorough understanding of the industry can make an effort to prosper as middle-men."
A great number of amount of agents, Ambardar adds, forget that "To become a 'Facilitator' in oil company,… everything absolutely need is right understanding and expertise [since this is just what enable] you hook-up genuine buyers and sellers. You should be in the industry for long to own obtained understanding linked to the characteristics for this company."
Consequently, one fundamental manner in which this basic not enough competence or knowledge about the basic principles of this oil trade manifests it self, is in the failure of this average person among the sequence of agents and agents and intermediaries that run when you look at the trade, to craft good deals and successfully close sales discounts even after several months or years in the industry.
There is, for the normal contemporary seller's representative or broker, one other really serious shortcoming and bad consequence that emanates directly out from the fact that the principal supply of their education and training wherein they understand the workings of this oil trading company, is basically the world-wide-web. Again, Kamal J. Southall sums up these bad consequences this way:
"The expertise in acknowledging a dubious trade lead or tender request from a solid one, is typically lacking through the Internet, [and] there is absolutely no crucial filtering of this prospects you wind up reading. Something that may be create here, is create here, through the genuine to your dubious, to your deceptive. Additionally, the nature of this "broker system" is so that information is usually passed away about with little to no crucial filtering, not enough understanding of proper trading treatments while the basic tendency of data in order to become corrupted because trades hands, [and this] causes dangerous results."
Partly because of the virtual not enough any objective requirements for qualification as a realtor or middleman when you look at the trade, while the easier entry involved with it, these providers have a tendency to operate in a weather of minimal guidelines or requirements, and of loose or no ethics, when the "dog consume dog" mentality appear to prevail – a weather for which each broker, representative, or mandate, being just selfishly concerned with only their own private gains and self-interest, is constantly attempting to undercut and prevent others in discounts. Therefore, usually causing the best detriment of the many parties taking part in an offer, as them all, all together, and not only one-party and/or various other, invariably ramp up the losers since NO deal at all is had with any purchaser.
"[One] reason why it really is difficult to determine the truth [concerning the oil product market]," reported C. Keila Nakasaka, the Ca lawyer and entrepreneur whom investigated the industry this season for possible suggestion of this trade to his clients, "is that there are numerous agents taking part in a transaction; and they are all afraid of circumvention. Ergo, it really is extremely difficult understand the conclusion purchaser or seller. Today, I understand that sometimes it requires teamwork to put a sizable transaction together, but what bothered me personally is that nearly every these agents neglected to be forthcoming. They frequently misrepresented on their own as mandates, direct representatives, as well as purchaser and sellers."
Yes, admittedly, there is no concern that event of experiencing a lengthy sequence of players, including agents, agents and intermediaries, in a business transaction, is an essential facet of worldwide company. Much more therefore, specially, in today's Internet globe for which many of us are therefore interconnected globally. Certainly, in oil sales transactions, it must come as no real surprise or everything unusual to anyone that these types of businesses, since they usually have a tendency to involve huge sums of income and sophisticated logistics, would sometimes require teamwork to put the transactions together. Thus, should sometimes involve a multiple amount of parties – traders, agents, intermediaries, agents, mandates, buyers, vendors, etc – to close out a deal. But understanding different here, just isn't much that in the Internet crude oil transactions one encounters a string of a lot of agents and middlemen. Rather, it will be the fact that many of these agents and middlemen or intermediaries that get involved in it, usually act and behave when you look at the damaging manner of understanding known as the so-called "Joker Brokers."
As Kamal J. Southall place it, "although experience of the underground sequence of worldwide agents trading meaningless provides and circumventing one another, remaining and right, illustrates well the definition of "Joker Broker" and resembles, usually, a Zoo packed with monkeys."
Adding that "the character, [which is] usually scorned as 'the Joker Broker,' is one thing people encounter very quickly within their forays into the world of trading," Southall, the writer of a classic in the "Joker Broker" personality, provides a meaning and description of this essence for this "Joker Broker" behavior, this way:
"Defined in the first instance as a bit of an occasion waster, the joker broker is a person who knowingly or unknowingly peddles and plies discounts and products that, when you look at the great majority of circumstances, tend to be non-existent, or terribly defined. Described as a propensity to bluff his method through transactions, the Joker Broker is just one… [who goes about] plying discounts usually concerning a string of agents from end of this world to another, but not just a single one features confirmed ab muscles existence of this products in front of you."
.One considerable outcome of this?
With a multiplicity of agents and chain of agents usually taking part in a trade, and every celebration running selfishly and undercutting and sabotaging one another in a functional environment for which each celebration is untrusting of this various other in a transaction, and it is frightened to be circumvented by the various other; most discounts that your "secondary" market sellers and their agents and agents tackle, tend to be automatically condemned to failure, also through the start. And frequently do fail.
5. PERVASIVENESS OF "The Joker Broker" MENTALITY ONE OF THE INTERNET AGENTS, AGENTS & DIFFERENT INTERMEDIARES
But essentially the most fundamental and central factor which makes up why most intermediaries active in the "secondary" oil market commonly are not able to, and never, near any sales discounts or earn any income or percentage as agents and agents even after several months or several years of peddling their oil product, could just be condensed into one broad term: namely, the effective pervading grip that "The Joker Broker" mentality has come to own in the agents and agents, almost all of who today are simply just Internet-based agents and agents.
What exactly is meant by this?
Place very just, numerous agents and agents, driven and limited by that they often are lacking much training or understanding when you look at the principles of worldwide trading, and also by the very fact, in today's Internet era, that their just "qualification" for assuming the mantle to be a "broker" or "agent" when you look at the oil company, is merely they have an accessibility the world-wide-web and a pc, usually act within their conduct of this oil attempting to sell operation, in a fashion that "resembles, usually, a Zoo packed with monkeys" – when you look at the terms of Kamal J. Southall, the writer of a classic on "'the Joker Broker" personality. A standard attribute of these agents and agents, is that they peddle, knowingly or unknowingly, crude oil discounts and products that in the face from it, come in most circumstances apparently non-existent or dubious, or at least terribly defined, while however acting like all is well with the product they provide, and therefore there's absolutely nothing for the potential purchaser to worry about regarding it. They're mostly blinded by greed and false belief they "are going to be very rich a few weeks or next month" by-doing absolutely nothing, other than, only shoving around a couple of copied documents on the web often handed down for them from other jokers, none of which any one of them features often confirmed regarding the very existence of this products they purport to be selling.
Apart from the fact that plenty of of those would, whether they get it done knowingly or perhaps not, often try to press phony discounts on the web, they often perform off numerous misconceptions and beliefs that are simply not true, often handed down for them from other jokers. Often, primarily concerned with "making an instant, quick dollar," they truly are innocently and naively attempting to shut a deal for a person who they think or just hope to be genuine, but that is, in reality not. But oftentimes, they truly are too proud or conceited just to take or concede that their beliefs and treatments are merely wrong, refuse to change their means, and still waste their time and others' time for months and years still attempting to press discounts – until, maybe, it eventually begins to dawn on it that for way too long no discounts have-been closed, or are likely to be closed, and never a dime of income happens to be, or will be, gained!
But most importantly of all, probably the worst type of factor that causes having less company or income for the majority of "Internet" crude oil agents and agents, is the fact that, lacking much knowledge or genuine comprehension of the real workings of worldwide company and/or method it actually works, they are often completely unrealistic and not practical in regards to the conditions and requirements they need of, or expect that, potential buyers would take to be able to purchase the items they purport to own obtainable. That is, they often times present sales provides and proposals which can be therefore impracticable, unworkable and outrageously unreal, and so are completely despite the way regular and genuine company features usually been done in the real world.
As one analyst place it, "Some of them [the "Internet" agents or joker agents] are quite entertaining [in the notions about company workings they present], and tell united states of this Nigerian fraud music artists. Society just doesn't work like that."
Here is a great example of the Joker Broker-type of offer that oil sellers and their agents and agents, almost all of who run mostly internet based today, usually need of intending buyers. It really is provided in the shape of the transactions TREATMENTS they need that potential oil purchaser should satisfy and follow, particularly these:
1) The Buyer submits ICPO (Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order) & banking details
2) Seller problems FCO (Full Corporate provide) on his letterhead with full contact details.
3) purchaser comes back the FCO duly signed and stamped.
4) Seller and purchaser sign contract.
5) Seller and purchaser exchange the evidence of Product (POP) and evidence of resources (POF) when you look at the after sequence/order:
6). First: Seller problems POP to your purchaser. Second: After purchaser confirmation and within 7 banking times, purchaser's lender problems POF to seller's lender.
7) purchasers lender opens up non-operative Letter of Credit (L/C) to seller's bank/or Bank Guarantee (at seller's choice).
8) Seller problems 2% Performance Bond (PB) to activate L/C.
9) cargo commences depending on the agreed contract.
In point of fact, really the treatments like the above-outlined, tend to be "standard" and should, in TYPICAL and proper circumstances, normally be a workable and appropriate group of stipulations or requirements for a legitimate potential purchaser to-do company by. But here is what results in the big distinction here: there clearly was one very serious and fundamental factor that is grossly missing here. And that's this: usually, these types of offer requiring the intending purchaser to conform to these methods, is created, never by or from by a known or founded and even easily recognizable individual or entity, or fundamentally by an AUTHENTIC crude seller or provider. But quite simply by an Internet "seller." It really is usually provided by a person who just writes (or phones) and promises, often via some web connection or communication (a portal, e-mail or web site), that he is a crude "seller," and/or broker or representative of one, whom supposedly has some oil available to offer. And it is usually provided by a person who, invariably, would present which has no concrete proof or evidence whatsoever setting up his (or the woman) bona fides and credentials as an authentic seller, or an intermediary of one, nor reveals any genuine reputation having previously done when you look at the crude oil attempting to sell company, or any other items.
Therefore, essentially, understanding essentially occurring here, is that a couple of well-meaning treatments which may have legitimately been created by the industry professionals to be used by LEGITIMATE crude sellers, but usually been used by DEPENDABLE and good crude sellers and buyers alike to-do company, have instantly been hijacked by a brand new breed of "Internet" agents and agents – Joker Brokers – whom today need that sensible crude buyers tend to be to consider precisely those exact same treatments in transacting company with them! To put it another way, had been these Internet agents and crude "sellers" to own been a number of the so-called oil Majors – particularly Chevron, Valero, Shell Oil, Exxon Mobile, British Petroleum, complete Oil, etc. – meaning organizations and company entities which can be popular, already founded, easily recognizable, reputable and reliable, there would have been zero problem or concern in regards to the crude buyers using those "standard" treatments and conditions established above in employing the world-wide-web sellers and agents. But that is not the scenario all, here. Rather, rather to your contrary, these Internet-type agents and agents (while the purported sellers whose provides they peddle), tend to be largely Internet-based; and are generally obscure businesses, and even non-existent, with no known identification, no recognized base of businesses, or founded record or reputation for previous performance as crude sellers.
Yet, it is, when you look at the great majority of circumstances, the kind of expected crude "sellers" who desire and inquire that potential buyers must be submitting to those exact same treatments and conditions in working with them. Clearly, that is a ridiculous "Joker Broker" type of day-dreaming – which has no legitimate crude oil purchaser around the globe would take to distribute an ICPO (Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order) to a mere as yet not known, unproven, dubious Internet "seller" of crude oil to obtain company with these types of an entity. And undoubtedly, no legitimate crude oil purchaser around the globe would take to distribute its evidence of resources or economic and banking details to these types of an entity, or to also sign a contract with-it – an entity about who it understands absolutely nothing, and whose bona fides, credentials or existence as a supposed crude oil provider, is basically dubious and unestablished.
A major, popular, recognizable, or reputable entity or crude dealer, yes. Not an obscure, dubious, unidentified entity, largely present just on the web.
Analysts during the JokerBroker.com web site, which will be a site devoted to considerable compilation of a database of the very most notorious "Joker Brokers" individuals and organizations, sums it this way, describing why most legitimate crude buyers would generally speaking decline accepting these types of treatments and conditions usually demanded of those by Internet agents, outright:
"whenever an offer starts off with "send ICPO with BCL or smooth Probe, [POF], NCND and IMFPA," it is "broker language." Those who know broker language understand what this means: "i am a joker broker. I do not have genuine product obtainable, and I also do not know anyone who has any, so I would like you to offer me personally an Irrevocable Purchase Order along with your full economic details disclosed, so I can run around along with your purchase along with your profit my hands seeking product, while the next thing the truth is will be your company and banking details exposed to the whole world, caught unsecured on the web between thousands of various other joker agents."… That is what this language suggests. I suggest you understand the language, and kindly don't send me personally also one "deal" which starts off with this specific procedure. Kindly only put them straight into the rubbish container, which will be exactly where we put them when anybody delivers them in my experience."
Kamal J. Southall, composer of "Trade Fraud, while the Joker Broker," describes listed here as "some of the most notorious Joker Broker Documents":
"The Irrevocable Purchase Order/IPO ICPO: Sometimes known as the Irrevocable Corporate Purchase Order, these types of a document just does not exist. Or even to put things more rudely, the ICPO is crap. Indeed there, we now have said it, allow the chips fall."
This is what might oftimes be called "the available secret" of this so-called secondary market oil industry: as a bunch, the crude oil and petroleum items sellers, and their lengthy sequence of agents, agents and intermediaries, generally speaking near no discounts nor make any sales or income out from the oil product they purport to market, often after several months, also years, or simply permanently, to do the business. There are lots of factors which account for this. They add the fact that most oil sellers and their agents and other intermediaries, tend to be phony operatives with no crude or petroleum product to market, in the 1st, to not enough proper training and understanding by these operatives when you look at the principles of this company, to your existence of particular really serious disadvantages and shortcomings built-in when you look at the fact that, bye and large, the main source wherein most agents and agents today understand their art today as oil dealers, is only the world-wide-web.
But essentially the most fundamental and most central factor of which makes up the aforementioned reality, could just be condensed into one broad term: namely, the effective pervading grip that "The Joker Broker" mentality has come to own in the agents and agents, almost all of who today are simply just Internet-based agents and agents. Typically lacking much knowledge or genuine comprehension of worldwide company and/or method it actually works, and often blinded by greed and false belief they "are going to be very rich a few weeks or next month" by-doing absolutely nothing, other than, maybe, just shoving around a couple of copied documents on the web, the conditions, requirements, and treatments usually suggested by the "Internet" agents and agents for potential buyers purchasing from a seller, are often unrealistic, impracticable, outrageously unreal, also laughable and ludicrous atimes. They're unworkable conditions and requirements which can be totally despite the way regular and genuine company features usually been done in the real world. And therefore, legitimate buyers generally speaking reject outright the sales provides via these types of Internet sales operatives, hence resulting in typical not enough sales or percentage income for these types of operatives, thirty days after thirty days, as well as year after year.
Including, all the attempting to sell provides one gets today for the purchase of oil, are often from Internet "sellers" – individuals whom just claim, via an Internet communication, that they are "sellers" of crude or petroleum items with a few product to market, but typically have NO known identification, show no legitimate record or reputation for previous performance as an AUTHENTIC crude seller or provider, nor present any solid proof that expected seller also is out there. Yet, these mere "Internet" sellers would usually need and expect a critical purchaser of oil, just to sign an "ICPO," and come into a binding contract with them committing it self to responsibilities respected when you look at the several billions of bucks with these types of a yet unproven and dubious Internet "sellers" (or agents and agents), or to distribute its most painful and sensitive economic and banking details for them, etc! needs which, obviously, which has no legitimate crude oil purchaser around the globe would take or distribute to with just a dubious, unidentified, yet-to-be-established entity! Along with all that, increase that reality that those harsh conditions are increasingly being demanded of intending buyers by the sellers and agents in an oil industry that's, by all legitimate accounts, packed with a lot of fakes and fraud when you look at the contemporary oil attempting to sell industry!
And thus, here you have got it: why most expected "secondary" market Internet oil sellers and their agents and agents usually make no sales or income within their stint into crude oil and petroleum product selling company today within Internet era, for months and years.
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This is it! The last chapter of Trisha and David's imprint.
I have to say a big, big thank you to my beta, my friend, and the creator of this magnificent universe, Yay4Shanghai! She is awesome and without her, these stories wouldn't exist! Thank you for all your support and your encouragement throughout the story.
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Thank you to all of you who have read this story faithfully and reviewed! You kept me going through all the bricks of writer's block.
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Epilogue: A Reunion
15 years later
Trisha's POV
"Psst…" a little voice said in my ear. "Psst…Momma."
"I think Daddy's sick, he sure does make a lot of noise," another little voice said as I rolled over to see the little miniature me sitting on top of my husband's chest poking him and pulling on his eyelids as he snored away.
"Sammy, leave Daddy alone," I whispered, rubbing my eyes as I slowly woke up.
"Charlie and Cooper are up," the first little one smiled at me, a perfect Uley grin on her face.
"Go to the kitchen and I'll be there in just a second," I shooed the two little girls out of the room.
It was Saturday in the Uley house, our small three bedroom house that seemed to be bursting at the seams. It was going to be a busy day, every Saturday was really. It was the only day I had to devote fully to my family, my husband and my four little ones. The rest of the week was a flurry of academic activities, teaching third grade at the reservation school, seeing my girls in the evening in time to help with homework and make dinner. The truth of the matter was, in some ways, I had become that girl, the one I worried about becoming when David imprinted on me. But it was only in ways that I wanted. Everything that had happened in the last 15 years were things that I had wanted, even the surprises were things that I chose to deal with in certain ways.
After David and I reunited following my trip to Mexico, we spent four years as a couple, living together and working out the other little kinks we had in our relationship. We didn't talk about marriage until graduation from college got closer. We knew it would happen, that we wanted to be married, but David knew it was important to me have certain things for myself first, the most dire being my education. I had missed school more than I realized until I actually started attending it again. I majored in Elementary Education and graduated with honors in the normal four years, taking classes and working at the hardware store when I wasn't in school. It wasn't an easy time but the pride that I felt when I finished, was well worth the stress and late nights of the four years of college.
As a graduation present, Uncle Jake invited David and I to Italy. Both of us were hesitant at first, but we were assured that Ethan and Elena were elsewhere. It wasn't so much I was worried about seeing Ethan again, I still missed him, especially when I needed a friend outside of David and Mom. It was more a fear of the awkwardness of the situation. We went though and were welcomed by my uncle with open arms.
It was a great vacation, probably the best two weeks of my life to that point. We visited museums, things that were totally boring to David, but he sucked it up for me. We ate pasta and drank espresso and I nearly died laughing watching David's huge body try to drive a tiny, bright yellow Vespa. As we stood in St. Peter's Square, David gripped my hand and dropped to his knee, sliding a small diamond ring on my finger, telling me he had little more to offer than his last name and his heart, which I had held for so long, no matter what I said, it would always be mine. David and I returned to La Push, engaged with an extra souvenir, one we were oblivious to until almost two months after returning to La Push, when I stood in the bathroom with Anna waiting for the timer to go off and glaring at the plastic stick with two pink lines.
Within a period of two days, after finding out that I was pregnant, I saw one wolf and two former-wolves faint, something I didn't know was possible for wolves. And, as if Mark didn't hate me enough, he made sure to accuse me of getting pregnant on purpose and trapping David. I knew that any relationship I had with Mark before, would never exist again, I had broken it beyond repair, and while we might be cordial at birthday parties and holidays, things would never be like they were.
Four months after returning home, David and I were married on April Fools Day, my parents anniversary in a small ceremony in the front yard of our house, Grandpa Billy's house. I wore a lace gown, accommodating my growing baby bump, with Dad walking me down the aisle, not wanting to let me go when we reached David and his smile. Mom was my matron-of-honor, while Mark stood as David's best man, though he looked at me with disdain throughout the ceremony.
Nine months after the Italy trip, Sarah Emily Uley came into the world screaming her lungs out and into our hearts. From the moment we were told she was a she, David started in overprotective Daddy mode, buying everything in the color pink he could find while also scaring away any little boy that tried to come close to me when I was pregnant. Sarah was her Daddy's princess and had him wrapped around her little finger from the first ultrasound. Not to mention that she looked so much like David, save her pouty lips and her doe eyes, those were all me, that my Dad said upon seeing her for the first time, "Poor kid, looks just like a Uley." He wasn't quite so nice the next day when Krys imprinted on his little princess.
When Sarah was two, after a drunken Halloween party at Helen's and a night of unprotected sex, we found out we were expecting our second little one, another girl, Samantha Rachel. Sammy was born at 30 weeks, premature but a fighter nonetheless. While Sarah was an Emily clone as far as personality went, Sammy was a Daddy's girl. For the first three months after she came home from the hospital, Sammy couldn't sleep anywhere but David's chest, his warmth keeping her comforted like the incubators at the hospital. Now, though she struggled with asthma and underdeveloped lungs, there were no other signs of her prematurity.
"Momma, can I help?" Sarah stood beside the bed again, her long brown hair pushed behind her ears. "Want me to wake Daddy up?" she giggled as I grabbed her and pulled her to lay next to be on the bed.
"Let's get Charlie and Coop to do it," I smiled, kissing her on the cheek. Her eyes got wide as she hopped off the bed and scampered out of the room and I rolled over to watch David.
"Dollface, I love you," he groaned in his sleep. I leaned over to kiss him. It was only recently that he'd started wearing clothes to bed again and it had it's advantages and disadvantages. Disadvantages being surprise quickies were no longer an option and advantages being not having to worry about the kiddos seeing David naked.
"I love you too," I whispered, grabbing my house shoes from beside the bed.
Charlie and Coop or Charlotte and Cooper were the latest addition to the bustling Uley household. Twin girls born a little less than two years ago, who lived for the morning when they could slobber all over their Dad. And while David pretended it was annoying, I could tell by his smirk, he loved it.
I walked into the nursery, both girls standing up in their cribs, bouncing. "Momma, up!" Charlie said with her chubby arms up begging me to hold her.
"Come on, little one," I said, lifting her and putting her onto the floor.
"Momma, me too!" Cooper squealed. I picked her up and set her down next to her sister, who now had her arms up again for me to hold her. Charlie was the clingiest of all the girls. Sarah liked to be held and she liked to be around me, but Charlie had to know where I was at all time, screaming if she couldn't see me or David. It always made for interesting mornings when I dropped her off at Emily's everyday before school
I held Charlie on one hip while holding Cooper's tiny hand on the opposite side. "Wanna wake up Daddy?" I asked, Cooper tottering next to me giggling as we walked into the bedroom.
I put Charlie on the bed and then lifted Cooper to join her. "Daddy, up!" Cooper crawled to David's side, patting his cheek with her hand. "Up! Now! Up!" she bounced.
"Charlie, why don't you help her, sweetie?" I kissed her cheek as she turned to David, her little tiny bell voice ringing out.
"You get up, Daddy! We go to Annabewe's wedding!" she did the funniest thing, crawling to David and then hitting him hard on the stomach.
"Ugh!" David yelped as I laughed. "Shit that hurt!"
"Ooh, Daddy says bad words!" Sammy said from behind me. "Sarah, Daddy says bad words!"
"Daddy always says bad words," Sarah shook her head as David sat up and pulled Charlie to him.
"Why you wanna hurt Daddy, Charles?" David asked leaning up again the headboard.
"Daddy no get up," she snuggled into his chest.
"Yeah, well, you don't have hit Daddy," David patted her back.
I stood back and watched my daughters crawl all over their Dad and knowing that today wasn't going to be an easy day for David. Today was a special Saturday, a wedding for the wolf-circle as Brady was marrying his imprint, Annabelle, after loving her in so many different ways for 25 years. Today, Ethan was going to be there, it was honestly the first time we would have the chance to see him since the day he left, a thought that resulted last night in two long sessions of lovemaking, trying to convince David physically that I was his and there was nothing to worry about. It was sure to be an interesting day.
Just like their personalities, my daughters' fashion preferences were different and unique. Sarah was insistent on a ruffled black dress, while Sammy, who would've actually preferred no dress, wore a pretty cobalt blue jumper with a white undershirt. The twins were dressed in dresses of black and white and I sat them all on the couch in the living room to take a picture before running up to get dressed myself.
"You look handsome as ever," I whistled as David stood at the mirror trying to tie his tie.
"This blows," he groaned. "I hate having to get dressed up."
I giggled while I slipped my heels on. "I know, but just think. One day, you'll get to get dressed up for your daughter's wedding."
"Grr…" David growled.
"See? Now today's not so bad," I said, kissing his cheek.
We finished getting dressed, moving our caravan of daughters to the car, David trembling ever so slightly and trying hard not to phase, something he had stopped doing about ten years ago, but still had to control.
"You don't have to be nervous," I told him as he strapped the twins into their car seats. "I love you, David. I married you, and tonight, when the wedding's over, I'm not coming home with anyone but you and our girls." I knew he needed reassurance that this wasn't going to turn into a fiasco and while at first I contemplated not going to the wedding, Jesse, the now eighteen year old college student, madly in love with her imprint, begged me to go. And just like when she was little, it was hard to deny her anything.
"I know, I just worry," David sighed before opening the door for me to get in the car.
The wedding was beautiful, and throughout it, I watched as Ethan beamed with pride as his baby sister exchanged vows with her imprint. When the ceremony was over, the final pictures taken, we made our way to the reception.
"Girls, why don't you go play with your cousins?" Mom said, pointing to the Wahalla children on the dance floor. They were beautiful children, all with names that started with an 'E.' Two girls and a boy, Emmett, Emilia, and Evangeline, all three the perfect combination of Ethan and Elena. Sammy looked at me, questions in her eyes. Sarah was dancing with Krys, but Sammy was more than anxious to play with her cousins.
"Will Elena be okay with that?" I asked Aunt Nessie.
"Of course, sweetie. Why wouldn't she? They are family," she smiled.
"Just don't get dirty," I kissed Sammy's cheek as she ran off.
"Emmie! Wait up!" Sammy called after the middle Wahalla child. It was noticeable to me that Ethan wasn't there.
"He's in the house. You should go see him," Kim said behind me watching me search for him.
David and I each held one of the twins and I looked at him. "Let's go see him," I said as David groaned but complied, following me as we walked into the house.
And there he was, his back to us, looking out over the wooded area from the high windows. I could tell, even from the back he was as handsome as ever. David squeezed my hand, more for his own security than mine. "Remember who I married and who I'm going home with," I whispered, very low. David nodded and grinned.
"Ethan," I said so softly I wasn't actually sure if he would hear. But he did and he slowly turned around.
"I hadn't smelled that scent in so long I wasn't sure if my nose was deceiving me," Ethan smiled as he looked at me. "Wow, looks like you've been busy," he pointed to the sleeping baby in my arms, walking to meet us.
"This is number three," I said nodding to Charlie who was cradled in my arms, sleeping away. "And that's number four," I nodded to Cooper who was sucking on David's shirt collar.
"Names?" Ethan asked as he got closer and Cooper dropped David's collar and smiled at Ethan.
"This is Cooper and that's Charlie," David said, his face no longer a glare.
"They are girls, right?" Ethan asked.
"Yes, Charlie is Charlotte," I said, rocking the baby.
Cooper reached her arms out for Ethan and he looked at David for the okay to take her. David reluctantly released her to him. "Hello, beautiful," Ethan said, Cooper flashing another grin and giving a sloppy kiss on his cheek, her newest talent acquired after watching Sarah continually kiss Krys on the cheek, much to David's chagrin. "So, um, come have a seat," Ethan said.
David reached over to take Charlie from me, holding her tightly to his chest as she slept. We followed Ethan to the couch, sitting across from him as Cooper kept playing with his hair or his shirt. "How are things?" I asked, making the first move so to speak.
"Great, did you get a chance to see Elena? I know she'd want to see you. We're expecting our fourth," Ethan bounced the baby. Somehow, I doubted Elena wanted anything to do with me.
"Not yet, but I'll look for her when we leave," I smiled at him. Ethan hadn't changed a bit, literally. He was exactly the same, he hadn't aged a day, and while David and I both had age lines and the beginnings of grey hairs, Ethan was perpetually young.
"So, four kids, huh?" Ethan raised an eyebrow.
"All girls, even the damn dog is a girl," David grumbled. I giggled thinking about the dog in question. When Apple had passed away after living a long 12 years, I was hesitant to get another dog, but Sarah was insistent. David and I were both against it, until Krys showed up with the Weimaraner puppy that Sarah had already named Pumpkin, it being close to Halloween and all, and we welcomed Pumpkin into the family.
"A man's man gets stuck with all that estrogen and pink stuff," Ethan smiled.
"Yeah, I'm dreading the teenage years," David groaned, shaking his head.
"Let's hope they're not anything like us when we were teenagers," Ethan laughed and I joined in as David kinda chuckled.
"Momma? Daddy? Did you see Emmie? We're playing hide and seek and she's really good at it," Sammy said as the door opened. "Poppy keeps growling at Krys though. He and Sarah are dancing."
I giggled, waving for Sammy to come over to us, and thinking about my Dad already protecting Sarah from any impure actions of the imprint. "This is Sammy," I said, introducing her. "Sammy, this is Momma and Daddy's old friend, Ethan."
"Nice to meet ya, mister," she said. "Are you a wolf too?"
"Yep," Ethan nodded. "Nice to meet you too."
"This is Annabelle's brother," I told Sammy as she nodded.
"I know, they kinda smell alike," Sammy grinned. "When can I change?" She pulled on her dress.
"What do you mean they smell alike?" I asked her, she shouldn't be able to pick up on that, even if she was going to wolf-out, she wouldn't until she was older and it wasn't something I particularly wished on my daughter.
"Chill, babe. She heard me say it," David answered.
"Momma, Poppy and Gramps keeping picking on Krys and it's not very nice," Sarah said from the doorway with her hands on her hips.
"Did you tell Queenie and Mimi?" I asked, the family dynamics of Mom and Dad now being Queenie and Poppy and Sam and Emily being Gramps and Mimi were quite amusing to watch.
"No. I wanna go home though. They're being mean," Sarah's bottom lip quivered as I looked at my husband with pleading eyes.
David looked at me, his head cocked to the side in question. I nodded as he stood. "Sarah, let's go get you guys in the car. Can you hold Cooper's hand?" Sarah was already there taking her little sister from Ethan.
"You must be Ethan," she said sweetly. "I've heard lots about you. You're very handsome."
"Thank you," Ethan chuckled. "Don't let your Daddy hear you say that."
David waited for Sarah and Sammy who both held Cooper's hands as they walked out of the room. It was just Ethan and I left now and an awkward silence sat in.
"Are you happy?" he asked.
I smiled. "More than I really knew I could be. You?"
"More than I think is humanly possible," Ethan returned my smile.
"I'm sorry for everything I did, for causing you so much heartache, for running you off from your home," I said as tears started to well in my eyes.
Ethan closed the space between us, getting up from his seat to sit next to me. He took my hand in his and turned me to look at him. "It wasn't just you, Ray. I love my life with Elena, sure I would've loved to have been here with my family for certain things, but life just didn't have that in the cards for me. I had so many opportunities I never even knew I wanted before her."
"I know, and I just wish I wasn't the elephant in the room. She's my cousin and she doesn't even want to say anything to me," I said, holding myself together.
"She probably would if you gave her a chance. You have to think of it like this, for so long, everything in our relationship she thought I was comparing to everything I had with you. And I didn't, the love I feel for her is so much different, more than anything, you know?"
"I know. Ethan, you know you will always hold that special place in my heart. I'm grateful for everything we shared, all those years that you were my best friend and I'm happy that everything has worked out like it has," I sat up straighter.
"I guess imprinting's not so bad, huh?" Ethan grinned and I nodded back to him.
"I guess not," my words were genuine and I struggled with the thought that more than twenty years ago I cursed the imprint. Looking back at it now, it made my life complete. We sat in silence before I reached over and hugged him. "Thank you, Ethan, for loving me like you did."
"Thank you for letting me go, Ray," Ethan whispered before pulling away.
"David's waiting so I better go. You and Elena should come over tomorrow, we can have a barbeque," I said, knowing David would be thrilled shitless to share his meat with his former enemy.
"I'll talk to Elena and give you a call later," he answered.
"Bye, Ethan," I started to the door.
"Good bye, Trisha," Ethan said as I slipped through the door and headed out.
"Thanks," a voice said to my side as I stopped on the porch. "For what he said, for letting him go."
I turned to the youthful voice, the perfect woman standing on the porch, her beautiful curls and bright eyes, her smile was so sweet. "Elena," I said softly. She played with the ring on her finger, her wedding ring.
"Family is so important, Elena, so if you could not hate me, I would—" she cut me off.
"You have your love and I have mine, I know it's not easy to let someone you loved that much go, but I'm thankful you did," Elena spoke eloquently and I walked over to join her.
"It's funny, huh, how things go? Maybe we can be the family we could've been," I smiled.
"I'd like that. I think our kids like playing together," she giggled hugging me. "Grandpa Billy would like this."
I released her and nodded, telling her to come over the next day with Ethan for lunch. I knew the girls would love to see them and I would love to catch up with my cousin. I said my final goodbyes to her before climbing in the seat next to David in the Ford Flex. He took my hand and held it, kissing my knuckles as Sammy and Sarah went on about their cousins, dresses and boys and not wanting anymore baby sisters.
When we got to the house, three of the four little ones were fast asleep and we carried them to their rooms and then I helped Sarah get ready for bed, brushing her hair and giving her a kiss on the forehead before turning off the light and watching her tired eyes sag.
I gently shut the door and listened as David talked to Krys in the kitchen about how it wasn't okay or normal for him to sleep outside Sarah's room. Quite hypocritical since David did it for years with me. I gave one final check on the girls before heading to the bedroom, changing into my nightgown.
"How's number five?" David said into my ear as he slid his hand from behind to rest on my belly, kissing my neck lovingly. My stomach was still flat and unless you knew I was pregnant, you certainly couldn't tell. This one, like the other four, wasn't planned or expected, but we would take it.
"Making Mommy very emotional," I rested my hands on top of David's, holding them there. I turned in David's arms to face him, leaning up to kiss him softly. "I love you," I said against his lips.
"I love you too," he said. "Thanks for choosing me."
"Will you be okay if Elena and Ethan come over tomorrow?" I wrapped my arms around his neck tighter his hands sliding to rest on my rear end.
"Yep, if that's what you want," David said, lifting me to wrap my legs around his waist.
"I do. I want the girls to know their cousins. I want to know Elena," I kissed him as he walked backwards to the bed and laid me down, sitting back on his knees to take his shirt off and kicking his shoes to the side. I raked my fingers down his chest, stopping at his belt and gently unbuckling it. Fast and hard had its place, but this was the way I like sex with David, gentle, loving, and full of life.
"I love you so much," David said, kissing my lips and slowly pulling my panties down off of me, pushing my gown up and placing a warm, wet kiss on my stomach.
"You are the best husband and father anyone could want."
His forehead met mine as I hugged him. "You, our girls, you all are my everything." He pushed into me softly and slowly. I moaned and arched my back at the sensation, his lips feverishly kissing me as he pulled out and pushed back in.
"Did you lock the door?" I asked, not wanting my daughters to walk in on us, for their sake and ours.
"Yep," David groaned. "Ugh…can I keep…going?"
I nodded as he kissed harder and he moved in and out, my muscles tensing and releasing. The most amazing thing about anytime David and I made love being how perfectly our bodies seemed to fit together, and while there some that might prefer more complicated and intense positions, nothing felt better than the good, old missionary.
"You have to…first," David groaned and I reacted by wrapping my legs tighter for one more thrust of his pelvis.
"Oooohhhh!"My walls clenched and my back arched up harder.
"So perfect…" David shuddered until I felt him release and then collapse on top of me.
"Perfect ending to the perfect day," I whispered in his ear. "I love you so much."
"I love you too," David slipped out of me and rolled over onto his side of the bed. I curled into his side, and kissed his chest, falling asleep to his warmth and enough love to last us a lifetime.
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Mint has begun to overwhelm our garden over the past few weeks. Cohl is continuously encouraging me to find something to make with it. Hmmm… what about Mojitos?!? After searching the internet for the "perfect" mojito recipe, I decided to combine a few instead. What resulted was honestly one of the best Mojitos I have ever had. Fortunately for us, the mint in the garden was affluent. Having purchased 10+ limes and 2 bottles of club soda, we had enough for a party. What's better than a random Mojito Monday night? The simple syrup recipe below can be kept for 1 month, or 3 months if you add 1 T. vodka to the mix. Enjoy!
This cuban cocktail is the perfect combination of rum and mint.
For Mint-Infused Simple Syrup
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- 1 c. water
- 1 handful mint leaves
For a Single Mojito
- 6 Mint leaves
- 2 oz. mint-infused simple syrup
- 1 1/2-2 oz. light rum
- 1/2 Lime juice
- Club Soda
* Mint Infused Simple Syrup*
- Bring water and granulated sugar to a boil. Once a boil has been reached, remove from heat and add a handful of mint leaves. Let sit for 1 hour.
For a Single Mojito
- Place mint leaves in the bottom of a tumbler glass with 2 oz. mint-infused simple syrup. Use a muddler to muddle the mint leaves.
- Add ice to ¾ full, juice of ½ of a lime and 1 ½ oz. light rum. Fill glass with club soda and stir. Enjoy!


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Most people are not expecting much from the Cleveland Cavaliers at this point. They are a young, inexperienced team and they are playing without their All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving. Most teams see the Cavs on the upcoming schedule and think it is going to be an easy win.
But that has not been the case lately.
Cleveland is not just rolling over and riding out another lottery season. They are playing tough and pushing their opponents for all 48 minutes.
If you look at the last eight games for the Cavs, they either won or were within striking distance in the second half. Most games were tight all the way until the fourth quarter.
Playing on the road against the team with the best record in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs, the Cavs were actually leading 101-100 with six minutes left before eventually losing the game 119-113.
Some people say there is no such thing as a "good loss" but Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson is trying to look on the bright side.
"It's a positive that we're up in the fourth quarter and not being down by 20," Thompson told ProjectSpurs.com after the loss. "It's a positive that we're competing, playing hard ad we're in games. We've just got to learn how to put fourth quarters together, play hard for four quarters and go out there and take care of wins."
If the Miami Heat take care of the Boston Celtics, the Cavaliers are next in line to try and derail the Heat's impressive win streak. Can you imagine how hyped that crowd is going to be when LeBron James returns home to Cleveland? Maybe the Cavs can ride that momentum to a big win.
OK, that is a lot to ask and I would not bet on it, but with the way this team has been playing lately, maybe they can at least give Miami a decent game.
The Cavaliers are a team looking toward the future. With all the young, talented players on the roster, they are going to eventually be a very solid group. All this effort to keep these games close even when they don't really matter is going to pay off down the road.


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Rosacea Red Sore Eyes Allergies Treatment
Taking doxycycline--briefly cured ocular rosacea. Now have red, sore eyes from allergies.Treatment?
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I took eye drops for my sore eyes and the next day i saw that my eyes are extremely red, should I worry? Is it an allergic reaction?
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Could be infection: A viral eye infection, which is contagious, can cause one or both eyes to be very red, itch, swell, and tear (usually a clear discharge). The symptoms may get worse quickly. Cool compresses can help, and an eye doctor may provide eye drops to help symptomatically. A broken blood vessel on the eye surface can look terrible, but is usually harmless. Many things can cause a red eye, so get an exam. ...Read more
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okay right off the bat, im not a troll and im not trying to offend anyone at all and i do not mean to come off racist in the slightest, im merely going off of things I've observed and drawing very, VERY general conclusions and i just want to know if anyone thinks my theory is plausible, okay so you know how people say that white people tend to do more like crazy stuff? like that one guy who shot up the movie theater was white, the kkk was mostly white, the main antagonist in scary movies tend to be white, im sure there are more examples but you get my point and i understand that its a big generalization but just roll with it for a second, now you know how a lot of incest can lead to gene invariability and gene mutations down the line and can cause certain dysfunctions whether they be physically or mentally, well you know how its steoreotyped that like white people live in small towns? like in country songs they always reference small towns where they're from and stuff (i understand not only white people are from small towns and i understand not all white people live in small towns but you have to agree that stereotype does exist to some extent) so my theory is, do you think those small towns create more gene invariability and mental dysfunctions down generations when everyone tends to be related to some distant extent so its more likely that people grow up to be like serial killers and you know people with more like "issues" i guess you could say which explains why white people tend to be put on display more for that type of stuff? i hope this made sense and once again i do NOT mean to offend anyone, i myself am half white and im just putting out a theory which i do not claim to be necessarily true but i want to see what others think
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Blacks are 13% of the population and that black men aged 16 - 32 make up about 4% of the country
Source: https://www.blackdemographics.com/population/
Despite being ONLY 4% of the country, blacks males commit:
52% of all Murder and Manslaughter
31% of all Rapes
56% of all Robbery
34% of all Aggravated assault
30% of all Burglary
29% of all Larceny-theft
30% of all Motor vehicle theft
23% of all Arson
39% of all Violent crime
29% of all Property crime
32% of all "Other assaults"
34% of all Forgery and Counterfeiting
32% of all Fraud
35% of all Embezzlement
30% of all Stolen property buying, receiving, possessing
26% of all Vandalism
40% of all Weapon carrying and possessing
25% of all Sex offenses (rape and prostitution excluded, see above)
30% of all Drug abuse
67% of all Gambling
33% of all Offenses against family and children
13% of all Driving under the influence
35% of all Disorderly conduct
32% of all Vagrancy
30% of all "All other offenses except traffic"
37% of all Suspicion
45% of all Curfew and loitering law violations
SOURCE: www.fbi.gov/.../table-43
So when you want to start assuming that white are more likely to do crazy things because of a few meek examples... you might be a little misinformed.52|31|0
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But it's not a crime. I'm fascinated by the stats, and even went to the site to see all the awful white people committing most of them, but I just don't get why gambling is in there. Gambling isn't illegal. Blowing someone's head off is.
It was part of the list in the source... So my apologies if you fixated on gambling in the super long list of other items... you will notice traffic offenses is in there as well... after the ones like
52% of all Murder and Manslaughter
31% of all Rapes
34% of all Aggravated assault
39% of all Violent crime
Seriously. You are trying to marginalize the entire point because of a single item.


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2. Someone spray painted "SATANR GOD IS DEAD" on the outside of my church this past Sunday – while I was inside, no less. I don't know what the extra R at the end of SATAN is for. Bunch of savages in this town….
3. I attempted what we agreed (by a vote of 16-4) was an acceptable practice in this post. My wife was not amused and called me a "cold little weirdo."
4. Our mailbox is a little undersized and it's funny to see how the mailman literally just stuffs the mail in anyway, damaging everything in the process. Of course, if I ever received anything other than junk mail and bills, I might not think it was so funny.
5. I use the word "y'all" a lot on the blog but I never say it IRL. I bet y'all are wondering whether my online personality is some sort of cowboy or else a country bumpkin, hayseed, or rube. It's cowboy, FYI, although I'm thinking about changing from using "y'all" to "yous guys," which is a little more New Jersey than anything else. What do you think, internet? Would you read the SingleSpeed blog if it had a little bit of a Jersey flavor?


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Dry-Curry Sweet Potatoes
READY IN: 55mins
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Sweet and spicy and the perfect companion to saffron orzo or other mildly flavored dish. From Rozanne Gold, a favorite cookbook author.
Top Review by mandabears
i used the recipe mostly as posted but changed the directions a little. I sprayed my yams with olive oil cooking spray and then put on the spices. i think the spices stayed on better and the cooking spray instead of the oil did save on fat content and calories.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 1⁄2 lbs sweet potatoes or 1 1⁄2 lbs yams, peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
- 1 -2 tablespoon curry powder, to taste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
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- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Put sweet potatoes into a shallow casserole; sprinkle with curry and salt; drizzle with olive oil.
- Bake, turning once or twice, for 45 minutes, until evenly browned; serve immediately.


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If a girl of 29 is dating a man of 41, she looks a lot younger, people assume she's 18-23... he looks in his 40's... strangers always assume he's her dad... everyone has different views, in your opinion... is it wrong or is it cool?
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If its legal then there is nothing wrong wit it i suppose, unless your not doing it for the right reasons. Say he is just using you for sex, or your just using him to show off and for possibly his money, who knows.
If your going out and its serious and its real, well its fine. But if your just using each other or taking advantage of him or the other way around then thats not cool.
Age shouldn't be a problem if its real, and if it is real love then you shouldn't think about what anyone else says, weather they say it is right or wrong
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Thanks :). (It won't let me change my age btw)... if anyone is using anyone for s#ex, it's me... older men have always been a huge fantasy of mine. 100% know how to satisfy a girl!.. and money doesn't appeal to me. I want love. I never let him pay. Id feel like i'm being bought because i was brought up with material possessions but no love. It's always me buying him things.


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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for Queenslanders to overcome their widespread "phobia" of dams in order to ensure the stable development of the state's agricultural sector.
During a community luncheon held in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton, Abbott said dam construction would play a critical role in the future development of the Australian economy, and the country's agriculture industry in particular.
"If we're going to have a good agricultural sector we need the resource, and the resource agriculture needs above all else is water," he said. "So we do need to overcome the dam phobia which was affected our country for the best of three decades."
Abbott's remarks coincide with a push for the construction of a large dam at The Gap on the Fitzroy River, situated to the west of Rockhampton.
Queensland Senator Matt Canavan and Lower House MP's Michelle Landry and Ken O'Dowd conducted a flyover tour of the Fitzroy River Basin several days prior to Abbott's visit to Rockhampton in order to look at a potential sites for dam building.
The trio of federal politicians will deliver a report on the matter to Treasurer Joe Hockey later this month.
Local politicians have also given their support to the proposed Fitzroy Riverdam, as well as the involvement of members of the federal parliament in the project.
"For any project, whether it's a mining project or a gas project or a community project, water is an essential item," said Isaac Mayor Anne Baker. "It's very encouraging to have the federal members attend Moranbah to talk about critical issues in particular around water and potential dam sites."
"For any project, whether it's a mining project or a gas project or a community project, water is an essential item."
The Rockhampton Regional Council believes the construction of another dam on the Fitzroy Basin, which is the second largest river catchment in Australia, would be of benefit to entire region.
"We're confident that another dam on the Fitzroy Basin will only contribute to and enhance the reliability of water supply and the opportunities for the use of water throughout the Rockhampton area and indeed the central Queensland region," said Greg Belz, chairman of the council's water committee.
The new dam is on a shortlist of 30 potential dam projects delivered to Abbott in September by a ministerial task force headed by Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.
The Coalition made the building of more dams a key part of its federal election campaign last year, during which Abbott billed himself as an infrastructure Prime Minister in waiting.
It's not only the climate that we are destroying, but our ability to survive and repair the climate now that methane feedback from the permafrost melt has started. They're busy poisoning the groundwater with fracking and open cut mines… that must be why we need to flood our valleys to make new dams. No water = no food. Water use is expensive for farmers and open slather for the mines. The gaols will overflow with ordinary Australians if we can't kick this mob out of government, because we're not going to watch our children's future disappear without a fight.
Dude, Methane concentrations have levelled out, CO2 increasing huge but no atmospheric warming for 17 years.
The models were and are crap.
The heat is not hiding in the oceans or the tide rise would resemble the crap model predictions, and they don't.


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At the beginning of this month, I posted some information about the all-new First Generation Radio Archives and how they've undergone a major-league expansion with the organization by merging with Nostalgia Ventures. The "Premier Collection" for October was a 10-CD set of twenty Rocky Jordan broadcasts; allowing you a chance to listen to more Middle East intrigue and adventure with café owner/jack-of-all-trades Rocky Jordan (as voiced by Jack Moyles) and his love-hate relationship with Captain Sam Sabaaya (Jay Novello), Rocky's friendly nemesis on the police force.
It is now mid-month, and Radio Archives has another brand-new Premier Collection to offer its clientele: a 10-CD set containing twenty broadcasts from Curtain Time—a dramatic anthology series heard in the late 30s and mid 40s that was very similar to the long-running The First Nighter Program. The concept of both shows was to present a half-hour comedy-drama in such a fashion that it recreated the experience of going to see a first-run play: arriving at the theatre, purchasing tickets, being shown to one's seat, etc. First Nighter was the more popular of the two programs, but Curtain Time was certainly no slouch; at the height of its run it was a weekly staple on NBC from July 13, 1946 to March 29, 1950 and was sponsored by the Mars Candy company…makers of Milky Way, 3 Musketeers, M&Ms, Snickers, etc. One of the announcers on Curtain Time was a gentleman named Myron Wallace—who in later years became better known as Mike Wallace, one of the many reporters on the TV news program 60 Minutes.
Radio Archives also has two new additions in their library of pulp magazine reproductions—volume 31 of The Shadow, which contains the stories "The Dark of Death" and "House of Shadows," and volume 30 of Doc Savage, spotlighting the tales "Quest of the Spider" and "The Mountain Monster." Both of these Halloween specials are available for $12.95 each—so if you're a fan of "The Knight of Darkness" and "The Man of Bronze" you'll certainly want to add these editions to your collection.
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Iraqi Curried Chicken
Recipe by steve in FL
I got this recipe from an Iraqi family after the Persian Gulf War when me and my family were camping in northern Michigan. They had left Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait, and I was lucky to be strolling thru the park when I smelt this meal cooking in their cabin. They warmly shared their meal and gave us the recipe. The slow-simmering smells wonderful and the flavor is fantastic. This is not a spicy curry as curries go, so even my kids will eat it. I suppose when our troops start coming home, they just might inundate us with the flavors and recipes they've experienced over there and will want to have them again, just like our ancestors have after coming home from successfully liberating the oppressed countries of the past century. Hope you try this and think of our troops.
Top Review by Gerry
Great chicken dish! Zaar introduced me to cooking with curry and coconut milk - a wonderful combination that we love. I browned the chicken, sauted the onion, the garlic cloves, added all the ingredients and simmered in the oven as my stove does not do simmer well. The aroma alone makes for a five! Slowly introducing cinnamon to my main dishes so only used half a stick - other then that made as directed with wonderful results. Did skim off the fat- 'fish' out the bones before serving and served over rice. Three large onions, 2 cloves of garlic along with the spices made for plenty of flavor for our tastes. Sopped up the sauce with freshly baked bread. Thank you Steve for a recipe that made for a great evening meal when the temperature with the wind chill dipped below minus 40.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 lbs roasting chickens, cut up
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 large onions, slivered
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 6 potatoes, peeled and diced
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 (13 ounce) can coconut milk
- salt and pepper, to taste (wait until dish is complete before adding s or p as the broth reduces and would intensify the saltin)
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- Heat a Dutch oven over medium heat and add the oil.
- Add the chicken pieces and cook gently until browned on all sides.
- Add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 3 hours, stirring occasionally.
- Yes, this is a long simmer for a chicken, but these are the instructions I was given, and when I tried it at home it tasted just like our meal at the camp. The potatoes should just about disintegrate, which thickens the stock, now turned sauce.
- Note that the fat and bones from the chicken will disengage from the meat - not very palatable for our tastes, but the Iraqi family seemed to have just ate around them. (I remove them and the cinnamon sticks before serving.).
- Serve over rice. We like to add cooked or steamed vegetables over the rice before drowning it with the curry. Box of frozen broccoli works for us. Oh - they also served whole pita breads with this, which they tore and passed on to one another to tear and pass and use as scoops. Neat!