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So, Christmas is over- Mary and Joseph have packed away the tree and the decorations and the swaddling clothes, and have been hunkered down with their new baby in a peaceful little home in Bethlehem for some time now.
And to be honest, since the night when the shepherds and angels and everyone showed up in a wild blur of glory and honor, it's been kind of quiet. Really, there is almost nobody bringing meals or checking in on the young couple, a friendly hello here or a kind gesture there, perhaps, but they are not living near life-long neighbors, friends of their parents throwing a baby shower or aunties offering advice. They are kind of all alone – maybe seeing friends of friends, and relatives of relatives from time to time, but this was not the way they had imagined their family life would start- not even once they rearranged their imaginings to include God-incarnate crawling across the living room floor.
Joseph rented them a little house with room for a workshop, not too far from THE stable, actually, but near enough to town that he got a little business, enough to keep food on the table, and news was sent back home of the child's birth, a few snapshots and updates now and then, "He just rolled over on his own!" "He snores like grandpa and can NOT get enough of those mashed peas!" "He took his first steps yesterday!" but no grandparents or cousins had yet met the toddler Jesus. It had been just the three of them, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, in a kind of suspended rhythm of adjustment and happiness, an in-between of sorts, settling into the miracle they shared, getting to know each other, becoming a family.
Until the day the pagans showed up and called their kid the king of the Jews.
Just when the story had begun to lose its hard edges, when the nostalgia had begun to descend and the lens soften, when this baby had begun to feel like he was theirs, a reminder that he is not arrives in the form of sages from a far-off land, astrologers, mystic-scholars who had been watching the skies for signs of God.
Surprising, perhaps, that those with no personal stake in the story, with no generational anticipation of a Messiah, no claim whatsoever to the promises of Yahweh to the people of Yahweh, are the ones Yahweh sends next. And their arrival bursts the bubble and exposes the light to all the world.
Epiphany, we call this day. Enlightenment. Aha! The breakthrough that changes your perspective, and lays opens your life before you differently.
Sometimes all the same things and people that were familiar and known one second look completely other and utterly amazing the next second, and often because you are suddenly seeing them through another person's eyes. That's something epiphany does.
The Christmas moment was God WITH US, Epiphany is GOD with us.
Sweet and cuddly though he may have just been, this isn't your own private Messiah any longer, folks. He belongs to the whole earth, and all who live upon it belong to the same God who has settled himself contentedly here in your lap. You are recipients of this miracle as much as the next person, of course, but with just as little sense of what it all means - maybe less, even, than these strangers (who are, in every way imaginable, strange) seem to grasp.
I love the crazy, cozy image of Mary and Joseph around supper with these visitors, after their camels have been tended to and bedded down, when the strangers had washed up and unpacked a little bit, and the lamps are lit and the table is set. The meal at the table between these people who smell different and look different and wear different clothing and speak different languages and whose paths never, ever should have crossed in any conceivable way, but who were right now breaking bread together, drinking wine together, sharing together what used to be mostly their own private secret that nobody else could relate to but them.
And I almost can picture that star exploding right then.
It had guided the Magi to the child, over desert and mountains, through night and day and night and day and night and day they followed its singular purpose, driven by the quest, knowing this is something big, being led right to it. And then, from the moment they laid eyes on him, and Mary and Joseph laid eyes on them, the cat is out of the bag, so to speak.
King Herod is now chomping at the bit to stamp out this newly discovered threat to his power, and the news is out, things are not business as usual; God has really come, the world is topsy-turvy and strangers from a strange land are eating with that nice couple down the street, normal as you please. And then I imagine the star, it's purpose completed, shatters into a trillion pieces, filling the sky with bright mess, scattering shards of radiance from one end of the globe to the other.
I picture them staying a while.
After all, it took many months, maybe years, to get there; they're not just going to stay one night and leave. At least, I wouldn't. I won't drive 2 1/2 hours to my grandmother's house just for an afternoon. No, siree. You've got to make the visit worthwhile. Share a few meals, spend a night or three, settle in long enough to catch up over morning coffee and debrief over tea before bed.
So what was it like, adjusting to being next to the miracle for a while?
Was it all the more miraculous for its ordinariness?
How did it feel to go from a distant star and a lifelong, theoretical quest for truth to a flesh and blood child who smeared his high chair with carrot mash and crashed out exhausted for naps, stunk up his diapers and cuddled the dog and threw bawling toddler tantrums?
Because here's one truth: miracles are almost never as sexy in person as they're built up to be.
What was it like for Joseph and Mary and for the strangers from the East, to fall into some daily patterns together, to have almost nothing humanly in common and yet get one another at a level nobody else on earth could, because your very presence represents to the other that this really is real, something really big is really happening. Like pregnant Elizabeth validating pregnant Mary's experience, sharing the miracle and being church– this wonky little collection of folk are now church, if church means, and I think it does, the ones reminding each other that God has come, that God is here, and that our very lives are part of the wonder and life-giving, love-bringing conspiracy of God. But also maybe getting annoyed because they load the dishwasher wrong and forget to take their shoes off in the house?
And then, just after the dream warning not to go back to Herod, and the Magi bypassing Jerusalem altogether to return home by another road, (Oh, wasn't Herod steaming mad when then never swung back by the palace! Didn't he pace on his balcony with his eyes on the horizon day after day, the realization slowing dawning after one week, two, three, that they were NOT coming back and there wasn't a darn thing he could do about it!).
Just after the hugs and blessings and goodbyes, the little family turning back inside, sighing, and expecting, perhaps, that life might get back to normal, normal is redefined again. Epiphany keeps going, see. It doesn't actually let you turn back; by its very nature Epiphany's path is almost always that of another road.
Their road is revealed when, like the one who told him two years ago not to be afraid to take Mary as his wife, an angel messenger invades Joseph's dreams again, take the child and his mother and flea, right now, go to Egypt. Get up! NOW.
It's your turn to be the strangers from a foreign land, Joseph. God-with-us, who was born in a stable and is now a homeless refugee, and you along with him; foreigners in a foreign land.
Some traditions hold that the little family settled in Egypt with the Ishmaelites, that they were received warmly by the way other side of the family tree, way back before Egypt became the land of their captivity, the place God had freed God's people from, the place that represented all that they were delivered out of – back from the time when it was all the same trunk, the roots, the beginning. Father Abraham - father of us all, descendants as numerous as the stars.
It's like baby God is on a sightseeing tour of the greatest hits.
I have been at this project for quite some time, you see…
I am the God who delivered you out of the land of Egypt, you shall have no other gods before me. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not recognize him. So to the land of Egypt they went, (part of the Roman Empire at the time), seeking safety and welcome in the hospitality, hearts and homes of strangers, who are part of the whole story anyway, while back home among the God's chosen people, the children of Israel, "King of the Jews" Herod's terrible wrath and fear commanded the deaths of all the male children under two in an effort to stamp out the light of the world before the flame caught and spread.
Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 'A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.'
And I hate that part of the story and will never understand it, and don't have a whole lot to say about it, except to notice both that God's love doesn't keep madness from happening but suffers it with us, coming as a homeless, transient peasant child, whose identity is revealed to nameless sheep-herders and pagan foreigners and NOT to the powers that be, no matter how loudly they rattle their sabers and fiercely they demand to be in on the secret. And also that as sweeping and awful as Herod's act of terrible evil was, it seemed not to make a dent whatsoever in the God-with-us project; and while Herod himself is long dead and gone, love endures forever, profoundly and mightily in small acts of kindness and care, and the everyday, transformative sharing of life by ordinary folks that puncture the darkness with God's light every moment of every day.
After Herod's death the little family goes home for the first time, to Nazareth, to raise their first grader in Galilee among their own people, in their own village, with the grandparents, and the lifelong neighbors, and streets they grew up on, and the tiny, provincial world that had cradled and shaped them before their lives were ripped open by the light of the world.
How was little Jesus shaped by those early wanderings, I wonder?
What did he absorb from the Magi and the Egyptians, the welcome of strangers, the arduous journeys and the life-altering dreams?
How did Epiphany bend his path?
And what about those Magi?
The journeyers, and secret-sharers, the extended family of the God, long-distance soul-friends across barriers of every kind, pen pals in a miracle, who brought epiphany onto the scene as much as they received it themselves, and then went home by another road?
How did their trajectory change after encountering the light of the world?
And what of us?
Epiphany is our holy invitation to the miracle being revealed in our own lives, and shimmering in all the world.
Whatever this year has to bring, God is here.
Whatever the world goes through in the coming days, weeks and months, nothing can disrupt the God-with-us project.
This truth does not belong to us. We belong to it.
So Arise, sisters and brothers, and shine, for your light has come.
We are Epiphany's offspring: light-bearers and hope-tellers, descendants of the foreign magi who set out in trust that God will appear.
Love has invaded the whole earth and summoned all people to its unquenchable light that shines brightest in the ordinary moments of with-us-ness between friends and strangers, in this messy, real, world. So like the adventurers of old, we will watch together, open and ready, for the appearance of God with us, each and every day.


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Unfortunately, I've not seen this film. It's very interesting to me to hear of illicit sex and ultimate pregnancy in films like this made so long ago. In "Back Street" John Boles plays a prominent married man in society that carries on a life long affair with his mistress Irene Dunn. In this film, he is yet another character that doesn't remember his original liaison with Margaret Sullivan fathering a son. John Boles was also one of the main characters in the original "Stella Dallas" as the remarried husband of Stella Dallas who had a child with him when they were married briefly. Social class difference was the bane of their existence. He is a very kind man overall but only a cad to the lady of his affections. He comes across the screen as a pretty decent guy overall even with his dalliances. I also recall him in a Shirley Temple movie being her benefactor while she was a orphaned child. "You go Hollywood" John Boles can be cast as good or polar opposite a cad. I wish I could buy this on DVD. I'm really curious.
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UFO Octopus vs Wind Turbine: The Truth is Out There
ENERCON's investigative team discuss component failure. Image credit: WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ecotricity CEO reveals Preliminary Findings
Back in the early half of January I reported on mysterious sightings of an octopus shaped UFO seen flying towards a UK wind farm, hours before a turbine blade mysteriously snapped off. The story seemed to capture the public imagination. Journalists and bloggers alike pointed fingers at everything, from military spy planes to flying cows to fireworks, augmenting the most credible "aliens hate green energy" explanation. As investigations into the turbine failure continue, Dale Vince, CEO of turbine owner Ecotricity, tells us that things are beginning to get a little clearer:
The slur on the driving/flying skills of all extra terrestrials was lifted today — first findings from the forensic examination of the damaged windmill bits are that it definitely wasn't a collision of any kind. That lets the MOD off the hook too. We've just had the interim report from ENERCON, the manufacturer of our wind turbines, and they say that they found 'classic signs of fatigue failure' in the ring of about 30 bolts, that usually hold the blades on.
Interestingly though they've ruled out material or other defect in the bolts themselves, judging that the bolt fatigue is more likely 'effect' than 'cause' of the blade loss. The attention has shifted now to the components on either side of the ring of bolts, the theory being that a failure somewhere else in the chain of components is at the root of things. We're expecting a final conclusion in a couple of weeks and hope to be able to publish the report in full here.
All weird rumors and conspiracy theories aside, it's nice to see Ecotricity offering transparent and timely updates on the real cause behind this serious incident. Unless, of course, Dale is hiding something...
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Manscaping: Down Under
One of my favorite articles to write for Men's Rio Magazine was the "Manscaping: Down Under" article that was featured in the 2014 April issue. I got to (drunk) interview my friends during Spring Break... making for some great answers. Check out what women have to say about male grooming!
Manscaping: Down Under
The average fast food patron consumes 12 pubic hairs a year,
but women have it much worse.
A new trend of men's grooming is combing through the nation, and women are starting to expect the same attention to be paid to the gardens growing in your pants. With a variety of haircuts now popping up, I decided to get on my knees and examine women's pubic enemy #1.
For those of you who don't know—and some of you really don't—pubic hair is the pillow that provides the soft landing for your girlfriend. Often times, women have to deal with men that evolved from bears, rather than apes. A full bush could mean the awkward game of playing hide and go seek with the tiger lost in the jungle. Then there is the boyfriend that after a fight decides to trim his hedge into the shape of an eagle with open wings—true story. And let's not forget the guy who thinks he's The Illusionist. Shaving it off may cause it to look bigger, but it certainly doesn't feel bigger, David Copperfield.
According to ScientificAmerica.com, "Pubic hair acts as a sort of blinking marquee," a contrast so vivid against a hairless body that it actually aids in advertising a man's junk. The below-the-belt afro also works like a net that catches pheromones, which is a chemical substance masked as a scent that attracts the opposite sex. Sex Panther Cologne, anyone? Although an au naturel bush that resembles a Brillo Pad may be science, it's not a female's opinion. In fact, not all women voted bush in this election. So if you want a woman to beat around the bush (get it?), it's best to first understand what women want, Bropunzel.
Have you ever seen bush that turns you off?
"Yes! But it should not be completely naked though." –Gabby, 22
"No. You can usually tell by the person if they're going to be shaved. If you're fat, you probably have something nasty." –Dayna, 23*
"It's not ok when you feel like you have a mustache on." –Jennifer, 23
Does a lot of hair down there translate to masculinity?
"No." –Jacqui, 21
"Classiness verses trashiness." –Jennifer, 23
"It translates to laziness." –Gabby, 22
What do you think about men that have more pubic hair than head hair?
"It makes men seem older." –Vanessa, 22
"Oh my god. Sometimes the hair there is as long as their package." –Marla, 22
"Well that's weird. It's disorganized. It's like, where did all this hair come from? Why can't it be on your head? " –Jacqui, 21
Should a man's gardens be grown into a jungle, trimmed to perfection, or burned to the grown?
"Anything except really hairy. Trimed or like nothing is ok." –Kelsey, 21
"I don't mind if it's naked…" –Claudia, 22
How do you feel about men who expect you to be clean-shaven down south but don't want to groom themselves?
"He has some explaining to do." –Gaby, 22
"I've never had that happen to me." –Jacqui, 21
"Maybe if it was some fetish, you know? Like the hairy liking the unhairy." –Jennifer, 23
"If you sniff it and it smell like coochi fried rice, don't unzip the pants." –Dayna, 23*
Does a bar of soap with a man's pubes make you happy?
"The thought of that makes me want to gag. Anyone's pubes on any bar of soap is gross." –Kelsey, 21
"That's why you should live with someone before you marry them." –Sarah, 32
If he shaped his pubic hair it into a kitty, would you be more likely to pet it?
"Gross. No. If it was a dog… maybe." –Jacqui, 21
"I HATE CATS." –Kelsey, 21
"Actually, I would be pretty impressed. That takes skill." –Jennifer, 23
***Requested name changed for privacy purposes.
Grooming How To
If you'll be presenting your goods to a lover for the first time or for the first time in years, make sure to know how she likes it. We mean, make sure you know if she prefers Harry Potter or the Bald Eagle. Abel Natividad, hair stylist at Spago Salon in McAllen, gives professional tips on how to tame, trim, and even wax your favorite body part.
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Keep pubic hair groomed by using scissors. Able suggests, "Be very careful around the testicle area, because one wrong move and that's it!" Avoid using the office scissors or grandmothers sewing scissors, please.
If you want a method that gives a more even look, use a clipper ($59 at Sally's Beauty Supply). According to Able, this will allow you, "to get as close as possible, because hair in the genital area is not as long as the hair on your head. You would want to use a 1" or 2" guard." Don't just do this on your first couple runs with a new girl. Be consistent by doing this every month or so.
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To begin with, Abel advises, "Do not use Nair! It will sting and throb for about a week." If you decide to create the ultimate optical illusion by removing all the hair around the area, waxing for men is available at spas like Spago Salon & Spa in McAllen, which offers female and male professionals to get the job done. Abel expands on why some men prefer waxing, "Some men wax for hygiene. Men tend to want to take off as much hair off the body, because it's not as hot so you don't release as much sweat."
If you're saving your spare change, use a new razor. I can't imagine Tetanus is much fun. Abuse the shaving cream or consider trying pre-shave oil, like Dessert Essence Jojoba Oil ($12 on Amazon), which helps reduce razor friction and irritation. Shave in small areas with a sharp razor. Be patient—remember you're protecting the family jewels! Apply baby powder after to reduce itching.


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Are Treadmills Tax Deductible?
It's tax season, and it might have you wondering if your recent treadmill purchase (or other fitness equipment) is tax deductible. To help people afford their medical treatment and maintain their health, the United States government permits its citizens to deduct medical care costs. In fact, according to the IRS Publication 502, you may even be able to deduct the cost of fitness equipment, such as treadmills, on your tax return if you are using the equipment for your medical care.
About the IRS Medical Tax Deduction
The IRS requires you to itemize your tax return for you to qualify for medical expense deductions. To treat some medical conditions, your doctor may recommend that you begin a steady workout regime. In this case, you may be able to claim the expense of purchasing exercise equipment like a treadmill, elliptical machine or stationary bike. To deduct medical expenses, you'll need to report them on Form 1040 in the Schedule A section of the document along with your other itemized deductions. Keep in mind that the IRS limits the amount of medical expenses that you can claim based on a percentage of your annual earnings. Specifically, you can claim medical costs that are more than 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income. For instance, if your yearly income is $45,000, then you can deduct medical expenses that are more than $3,375. You can also include any medical expenses that you paid for during the tax year in which you are claiming the deduction. Therefore, if you paid $6,000 for out of pocket medical charges, then you can deduct $2,625 on the Schedule A form.
Exercise Equipment and Medical Expenses
If your doctor told you to begin walking or jogging on a treadmill to lose weight because obesity is causing you to have health problems, then you may be able to deduct the expense of buying the item. To avoid trouble with the IRS, be sure to acquire the workout recommendation from your doctor in writing. Also, be prepared for a denial since the government agency could decide that you can get exercise by walking outside without a treadmill. However, if the IRS denies your deduction request, then you can debate the issue due to safety concerns. For instance, if you can only workout at night due to your work or family schedule, then it may be unsafe for you to walk outside alone in your area. In addition, if you live in a part of the country that experiences extreme weather conditions then you may also dispute the denial for the deduction. Some states may allow you to avoid paying sales tax on exercise equipment when your doctor suggests that you start working out regularly. Be sure to keep a copy of the doctor's order along with your exercise equipment receipt to verify the recommendation during an audit.
Final Thoughts
If your doctor has told you that you should begin a regular workout routine, then look into the possibility of receiving a tax deduction for the purchase of exercise equipment. With an approved deduction, you can maintain your health and your personal budget. More information:
- IRS: Medical and Dental Expenses (Including the Health Coverage Tax Credit)
- Livestrong: What Is a Medical Tax Deduction?
- TurboTax Blog: Is Your Weight Loss Tax Deductible?
*Please consult a tax expert if you have any concerns or questions about whether or not your fitness equipment purchase is tax deductible.


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Well, if you look at it that way...there ARE Author-Colored glasses! And they are really funky like the ones above. I would totally wear those, wouldn't you? My teenagers wouldn't be seen with me, that's for sure, but I think they're awesome. May have to get myself a pair for my next Author Photo Shoot.
Anyway, my point...
I have noticed since writing a full novel and having started the content edits as per my editor, I am starting to see my novel like a giant equation...and I HATE MATH. But, it's similar in that, while editing, if you change a specific detail in Chapter 12, you may need to go back to Chapter 2 and add a hint, then ahead to Chapter 8 to switch something around so that the detail in Chapter 12 makes logical sense. See, equation!
Now, while I wait for line edits, I read...other people's books. I am noticing that I am picking up on things earlier than I would had I not used this Author Equation multiple times in the last couple months. And it's not that the authors I have read are blatantly obvious - they're really not. Those funky glasses really work!
In any book, there are details you are supposed to simply pick up and carry with you through the story... and then later the author throws you a curve ball and you have a big "AHA" moment when that little detail comes flying back like the missing piece of a puzzle. And you have the "why didn't I see that?" reaction. It's fun when that happens!
Now that I read through my Author-Colored glasses, I NOTICE those little details and SOMETIMES I piece something together a little sooner than I'd like...those "AHA" moments we readers love so much can be "aha" moments through my new glasses.
More importantly, I am seeing many different versions of that equation through the eyes of other authors and that excites me. In some instances I am still thrown by the outcome but can quickly piece it all together and follow the climax back to its origin... it's a little like looking over your friend's shoulder during the math test.
Though, we authors don't call it cheating...we call it INSPIRATION! My writing will improve by checking out the creative equations in the books I read.
And I have come to LOVE my Author-Colored glasses!


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Hash Trash Run 803, Directions for 804!
Holy moley it was hot. The pack gathered round the circle at 4:17 (tsk tsk, latecummers) and off they ran, through shiggy hill and dale and sand and scratchy grass and mosquito and fly filled fields. Well, everything put the hill part is true. We thought we were going up that gigantic hill in the middle of the field, but as fate would have it- the path did NOT go in that direction, only scarily CLOSE to the precipice. The hare set the trail all by his lonesome, was very generous with the flour and didn't skimp on the length (of the run). 35 minutes into the run the pack FINALLY hit the halfway, where John Buttons was grunted and some runners defected to the walking group. Hashers straggled around the park so close to the circle, yet so far, and the hare kindly just told everyone to go on in.
Down Downs!
Hare: Fart Smella
FRB: Rowtard
DFL: Quickie, Pete
Virgins: Murky Hole, Ricarda
Short Cutting Bastahds! Long Horny, Desperate Housewife, Dyke.cum, Deliverance
Returnees: Pete, Twin "Put the goddamn baby down!" Peaks, Fart Smella, Fatty Tatty, Ryia, Pete
Wandering off: Pete
No Hash Kit: Ryia and Rowtard
Eating bonbons on holiday: Twin Peaks
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Zach – Welcome once again to Minimum Wage Historian! Today we will be discussing the Lost Colony of Roanoke! (ominous music plays in the background) With me is my co-host, Anna Komemna.
Anna – Glad to be hear. I can't wait to get started. I'm curious as to what happened my self.
Zach – Patience my Byzantine noblewoman. We will unravel this mystery. Next we have …yes, Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon – I need no introduction you silly man. Everyone knows who I am.
Buffalo Calf Road – You're the short guy with the big hat, right? The Ka'evé'ho'e
Napoleon – Why you…! I am not short! I don't know what that savage word means, but I know I should punish you for it!
Buffalo – I just called you a short white man.
Zach – And next we have famous Cheyenne warrior woman, Buffalo Calf Road!
Buffalo – Thank you, thank you. Hahoo!
Zach – And then we have Hua Mulan, woman general from Ancient China. She can kick your butt with kung fu.
Mulan – I just saw that cartoon called "Mulan". It was swine dung.
Zach – If you thought that was inaccurate, wait till we talk about Pocahontas. But I digress. (not this episode.)
Napoleon – Are you sure you have time for this, Zach Are you not writing your silly little book?
Zach – Why, yes, I am writing a book. It'll be my…I lost count of how many books I've written. You wrote, let's see. Oh yeah, ONE and it was crap. Should I have Jane Austin come back and slap you with a literary pimp hand? She's got the Bronte sisters as back up. They roll together.
Napoleon – I am not afraid of this woman!
Zach – Jane? Can you come in here a minute?"
Napoleon – No, no! Let us move on, yes? We have much history to discuss.
Zach – Very well. You're lucky Jane's showing Caesar and Matilda her "accomplishments with the cello"… and by cello she meant my bass guitar.
Anna – In 1584, Queen Elizabeth gave permission for Walter Releigh to establish a permanent colony in the new world. Sir Releigh did not go himself to create this colony, instead he sent Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to go do all the work for him.
Mulan – Why would they be interested in a small settlement clear across the ocean? Seems inefficient to me.
Napoleon – They wanted to use it as a base to go forth and act like pirates to the Spanish. Unlike in my time, the Spanish here are the ultimate sea power.
Mulan – The term was…privateers, right?
Anna – Yes, privateers are government sanctioned pirates. As long as they attack the enemies of the country that hired them, they were under full protection of that country.
Buffalo – They didn't come just to start a base for pira…privateers, but they also wanted to loot, steal and take whatever riches the New World had. I'm sure there was some nobility in there somewhere.
Zach – Well, they sent an expedition to go take a look and they brought back (willfully) two natives who told Releigh all about their homeland. This got them interested in a second expedition to set up a permanent colony.
Mulan – We Chinese also sent expeditions to North America but I do not think they ever planned on staying.
Anna – After their ships got separated in a storm, they met near Puerto Rico where they set up a small fort and then promptly abandoned it. Then they sailed north to what they called Roanoke Island, off the coast of North
Carolina. They met with some of their lost ships, one of which left dropped off their colonists and hurried up to Newfoundland to do some privateering.
Buffalo – Are all your explorers pirates and swindlers?
Napoleon – No, the Spanish were fanatical plunderers.
Buffalo – And all you French seemed to care about was fur trapping. What strange priorities you people have.
Zach – So they find the island and set up shop. They make a little fort like the one they abandoned and begin to make friends with the local natives.
Anna – See? They're not so bad.
Buffalo – Zach, let me tell this story.
Zach – Be my guest.
Buffalo – The English set up their little colony and begin making friends with the locals. One of the villages they befriended was called Aquascogoc. One of the settlers lost or misplaced a cup and claimed that it must have been stolen by an Indian. Because Indians cared so much about such things. So, as payment for the cup, the colonists go and burn down the entire village. The colonists were then surprised that the natives suddenly turned hostile towards them. Imagine that. Who would have guessed?
Anna – Yes, so relations with the locals weren't going very well.
Buffalo – Stop burning our villages and stealing our stuff and maybe we can be friends.
Zach – Short on supplies and the relief fleet no where in sight, they decide to send a ship back to find out what was going on with that pizza they ordered. This return voyage would bring back potatoes and maize to the Europeans.
Buffalo – And the Indians attacked the fort.
Zach – Yes, the colony had a few PR hang ups.
Anna – England sends another fleet to go and establish another colony in the Chesapeake Bay and their orders were to stop by Roanoke first, pick up all the colonists there and bring them along. But when they got there all they found was an abandoned fort and a skeleton.
Mulan – So they went up north and established the new colony in Virginia?
Anna – No, the fleet commander kicks all the colonists off the ship and tells them to reestablish Roanoke. Mulan, isn't building your home near a mysterious place of death bad feng shui?
Mulan – It's not generally considered a good thing…in most cultures.
Buffalo – According to the Navajo you can get "ghost sickness."
Napoleon – What is this ghost sickness?
Buffalo – It's when a creepy girl comes out of your TV and kills you.
Mulan – You just made that up.
Buffalo – Yeah. I watched the Ring last night. But there such a thing as ghost sickness.
Anna – The English then set up a new colony where the other colonists disappeared. They try to reestablish relations with the Croatans and other tribes, which I imagine was somewhat awkward because the tribes didn't even want to talk to them.
Napoleon – Maybe because they were still picking the colonists from their teeth?
Buffalo – They weren't cannibals, távo'eéh!
Mulan – Surrounded by enemies they send a man named White, one of Releigh's friends, back to England to beg for help, but while he's home a war breaks out between the English and Spanish. This is the war where Spain sends the Armada up to invade England. So England needs every ship available to stop the Spanish and White can't find a ship to return to the colony. There are some complications and failed attempts, but to make a long story short, White doesn't get to return until after three years.
Buffalo – White also had a granddaughter there, Virginia Dare. She was the first English person born in the New World. Unfortunately, not the last.
Zach – The only ship he could charter was a…you guessed it, a privateer ship that he convinces to make a brief stop there. When he arrives he finds the place deserted. Everything was carefully packed up and the houses were disassembled showing that it wasn't a hasty departure. Also, they had a signal that if they had to leave the colony forcefully, they were to leave a Maltese cross as a sign. No crosses were found but they did find the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree and "Cro" carved in another tree. Croatoan was another nearby island.
Anna – But before he could go looking for them, a giant storm came and they had to leave.
Napoleon – Ha! It wasn't until twelve years later that Releigh got off his fat, lazy English backside and tried to find out what happened to the colony. He sent his little expedition but they never made it to the island because another storm. These English are afraid of a little weather!
Buffalo – Soooo, what happened to them? They had to have gone somewhere.
Napoleon – I have a theory that is not my own.
Buffalo – I can't wait to hear it.
Napoleon – Cannibals.
Zach – So, anyway, what other theories are out there?
Anna – The most prominent and most likely is that they moved in with local tribes. They probably weren't self sufficient enough and had to either submit to the surrounding tribes or made some sort of bargain. The theory goes that the Chowanoke tribe took them in but another tribe attacked that tribe and took all the survivors as trophies and slaves. There are reasons to believe this. When Jamestown was settled, one of their missions was to find out what happened to the Roanoke colony. They found evidence of two story stone houses that the natives said white people had taught them to make. Also there were several reports of European slaves among different tribes in the area. One report said that there was an English maid among them. Some believe that this was Virginia Dare due to the age of the reported girl. Also, some of the tribes that used to live near Roanoke told the Jamestown settlers that they had white ancestors.
Anna – After that there were many reports by English colonists of grey-eyed Indians. Some French Huguenots later came across Indians with blond hair and blue eyes. In the late 1880s, Hamilton McMillan, a North Carolina state legislator, found that a local Indian tribe claimed to be descended from the Roanoke colonists and that some of the words in their language were similar to old, out of date English words and that some of their family names were similar to the names of the lost colonists. He made the "Croatan bill" that proclaimed them descendants of the lost colonists. There were also many reports of English colonists meeting groups of Indians that spoke English and knew about Christianity.
Mulan – That is one theory. I have one. When John Smith asked chief Powhatan about the lost colony, he said "oh, sure, they were chilling with an enemy tribe so we wiped them all out. Here, I have some English helmets we looted. Take a look."
Zach – Sorry, I wrote that quote. I paraphrased.
Mulan – But the essence is true. According to that legend, he took credit for destroying the colonists and had proof.
Buffalo – Or maybe they tried to make it back to England and sunk or starved to death. Or, here's an interesting one, maybe the Spanish did find them and destroy them! The Spanish do have a history of attacking forts and erasing evidence that there was a fort. They did it before at Ft. Charles and tried it at Jacksonville Florida on Ft. Caroline.
Anna – Seems to me like the colonists were either captured, assimilated or killed by the Indians.
Zach – But there is one possibility that we haven't discussed.
Anna – What?
Zach – Zombies. That would explain why there are no bodies. Once killed, they got back up and walked away. No wonder Powhatan had to kill them.
Anna – And on that fascinating note, we end it here and leave you to come up with your own conclusions.
Buffalo – They made babies with the Indians!
Anna – Their OWN conclusions.
Buffalo – But they did!
Zach – Zombies.
Napoleon – Cannibals!
Mulan – You all have it wrong. It was old man Withers with a mask trying to scare the kids away from the Spanish gold at the bottom of the lake.


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RISING prices on the precious metals market are not reflected behind the glass of Hawaii's jewelry retail stores -- yet.
The merchandise "was ordered way back in September or October, before the gold price went up," said Ted Gonzales, president of Pacific Diamond & Swiss Watch Exchange.
Consumers "are going to enjoy the benefit of me buying lower. It's a better deal for the consumer right now."
It's such a good deal that "margins are being squeezed," said Na Hoku President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Sultan.
Prices at his company's 30 Na Hoku and 32 Pearl Factory locations in Hawaii and on the mainland don't reflect the current market, either.
"Gold goes up really fast. We can't really raise prices that fast."
It's a cost issue, he said.
"I just can't afford to have people in my stores changing tags because they're so busy."
It's a bit of a double-edged sword, but Sultan says it's good to be busy.
"We're doing phenomenally well. I don't know if it's because people know gold is going up or because the economy in the country is so strong."
Prices will eventually go up, as jewelers buy at today's prices to stock store displays in the future, he said.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans' po-boy shops, gourmet restaurants and suburban bayou-side eateries are the backdrop for the country's search for its next "Top Chef."
NEW ORLEANS (AP) � New Orleans' po-boy shops, gourmet restaurants and suburban bayou-side eateries are the backdrop for the country's search for its next "Top Chef."
Bravo's 11th season of the hit reality TV food competition show was filmed in and around the city. On Wednesday, some of New Orleans' own top chefs walked a red carpet for a special pre-premiere screening of the show, which debuts on the cable network channel Oct. 2.
Chef Emeril Lagasse, who returns this season as a judge, said the season is sure to be different from any other.
"It's going to be a very interesting season because I think a lot of this new talent maybe haven't worked with alligator, maybe haven't worked with turtle," he said. "The culture and cuisine here is over 200 years old. You can't say that about a lot of cities. It's really amazing."
Chef John Besh, who also served as a guest judge on two of this season's episodes, praised his home state and the show's coming season.
"What we have here is really special," said Besh, who owns several New Orleans restaurants, including Restaurant August and Domenica. "We have the only indigenous urban cuisine in the country, and to share it with an audience of millions is really special."
The show pits contestants competing in various food preparation scenarios and they have to survive weekly eliminations for the honor of being named the nation's "Top Chef." It will include glimpses inside Lagasse's restaurant kitchens, Besh's bayou-side home and kitchen and modest places such as Cafe Reconcile, which grew in popularity after Hurricane Katrina when its kitchen was spared flooding.
Cafe Reconcile was among the first restaurants to reopen after the 2005 storm. It's also been celebrated for its mission to train high school students in at-risk neighborhoods for work in the restaurant industry. It serves up New Orleans specialties such as red beans and rice and gumbo.
Several contestants walked the carpet among the veteran chefs but it remained unclear who would survive the first cut. The screening stopped short of revealing who would be eliminated.
The show's executive producer, Matt Reichman, said prior to Wednesday's red carpet that one episode was shot with a focus on the city's ongoing recovery from Katrina. But the city has provided many other storytelling opportunities, such as its rich culinary traditions, its history and music. Among those included in the series is Kermit Ruffins, the jazz trumpeter known to cook up eats on a giant, curbside grill outside his New Orleans night club between sets.
"The competition is nuts," Reichman said. "The chefs are talented and fierce, but there's a layer this season that captures the atmosphere of being in New Orleans that was a lot of fun. It really is an embarrassment the riches we had access to."
Besh said he appreciates that the show ventured beyond New Orleans, to bayou-side communities such as Lafitte, Chalmette and north of Lake Pontchartrain.
"Our food ways don't end at the city limits," he said. "You have to go out to the bayou, out to the country, to understand where our food comes from."
Other New Orleans chefs making appearances in the series include Leah Chase, John Folse and Susan Spicer.
The show is an Emmy and James Beard award-winning series. Previous host cities include New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and Las Vegas.
Mark Romig, chief executive of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp., said it was only a matter of time before the show landed in New Orleans.
"Food is one of the top reasons people visit New Orleans," he said.
The show premieres Oct. 2 at 9 p.m. CDT.


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Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster recently offered an olive branch to the state's Ron Paul-supporting Republican delegates that promised to end the standoff that's throwing into question whether they'll be seated at the upcoming Republican National Convention.
The delegates and alternates — whose rights to be seated at the convention are the subject of a challenge filed by Maine Republicans Jan Martens Staples and Peter Cianchette — turned down the compromise offer.
Webster's compromise — which he said he didn't discuss with Mitt Romney's campaign — would have required that the delegates sign a pledge to support Romney if Paul didn't appear on the convention ballot. It also would have removed delegation chairman Brent Tweed's right to serve as spokesman for the group and announce members' votes. In exchange, Cianchette and Staples' challenge would be withdrawn.
But Webster didn't consult Staples or Cianchette in crafting his offer, and only Staples and Cianchette have the power to withdraw their challenge. And Staples said Thursday she wouldn't have supported the compromise terms.
She said she would have opposed obligating Paul delegates to agree to supporting Romney if Paul didn't appear on the convention ballot. "I would never support something like that because we're not a state that binds our delegates" to a particular candidate, Staples said.
And she didn't support the term that would remove Tweed from the spokesman's role.
Webster said Republican National Committee officials are concerned about comments the delegation chairman made, published by the Maine Wire this spring, in which he said, "I put Mitt Romney in the same category as Obama. I'm going to be bold here. Obama winning — and I don't like Obama — is better than Romney winning."
But those statements aren't central to the challenge, Staples said. "As far as I'm concerned, that is their First Amendment right," she said. "I will defend people's right to say what they want."
Webster said Wednesday he expected his compromise offer to lead to a round of negotiations on the terms of an agreement.


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The program involves a "partnership" between the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and elements of the "obesity lobby," including
corporations such as the Publicis Groupe advertising agencies, AOL Time Warner,
Viacom and Primedia.
The CDC selected the Publicis Groupe's Frankel as the "lead agency"
for its anti-obesity advertising campaign. Frankel also advertises for McDonalds.
"This is like asking Jeffrey Skilling to head up the President's new Corporate
Fraud Task Force," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert.
AOL Time Warner, Viacom & Primedia all have TV stations that promote junk
food to children and teenagers, and encourage them to watch TV and play video
games instead of exercising. "If these companies were really serious about
doing something about childhood obesity they would stop doing these things. They
would not seek to corral the time of children. They would not pitch junk food,"
Ruskin said.
On top of this, the CDC program is going to spend $2.8 million this school
year on advertising to children on Channel One. Channel One is an ad vehicle disguised
as a news show that pitches junk food and soda pop to kids in the nation's classrooms.
Channel One, which is owned by Primedia, has been foundering in recent years.
"This new partnership will serve to prop up a prime propaganda vehicle for
the obesity lobby," Ruskin said.
Commercial Alert sent letters today to three key Members of Congress, requesting
them to investigate requesting them to investigate this connection.
In April, 2002, Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which is the majority
owner of Primedia, gave $250,000 in soft money to the Republican National Committee,
according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Jack Abramoff, a top Republican
lobbyist and fundraiser, is Channel One's Washington lobbyist.
"Could this be a political payoff to help out a major Republican soft
money donor and fundraiser?" the letters ask. "If Secretary Thompson
were serious about fighting obesity, he would encourage our nation's schools to
ban Channel One, instead of providing it with legitimacy and advertising revenues."
The requests for investigation were sent to Senator Joe Lieberman, Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions; and Representative
Henry Waxman, ranking member of the House Committee on Government Reform.
Commercial Alert also sent a letter today to Secretary Thompson, asking him
whether he would ask media companies and advertising agencies, as a condition
of receipt of CDC funds, to refuse to produce or show ads for high-added-fat,
high-added-sugar foods such as soda pop, junk food and fast food.
Last week, President Bush said "There's no capitalism without conscience;
there is no wealth without character." "Media companies and ad agencies
ought to have the character to stop pushing junk food at our nation's kids,"
Ruskin said. "And Secretary Thompson ought to have the character to ask them
to do so."
In May, Commercial Alert and a coalition of consumer and public health organizations
and advocates sent a letter to Secretary Tommy Thompson asking him to support
a World Health Organization initiative to curtail the marketing of junk food,
and prevent obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He did not respond.
Commercial Alert's mission is to keep the commercial culture within its
proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher
values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy. For more information,
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UnionPay International, the Global Leading Payment Network and Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan (DIBP), Pakistan's premier banking institution have entered into a historic agreement to issue UnionPay QuickPass (NFC) and EMV Chip Cards in Pakistan. With this initiative, DIBP will become the first Islamic bank in Pakistan to issue UnionPay QuickPass (NFC) enabled cards to its customers that allow the convenience of contactless payments "TAP & GO" while keeping the payments safe and secure.
The partnership was recently signed by Junaid Ahmed, CEO, Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited and Han Wang, General Manager, UnionPay International Middle East in Shanghai, China, in presence of Shuan Ghaidan, Director of Products, UnionPay International, Syed Zaka Ur Rehman, Head of ADC and Payments, Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited and Nadeem Haroon, Country Manager Pakistan, UnionPay International.
Speaking on the occasion Shuan Ghaidan, Director of Products, UnionPay International, said, "We are devoted to providing safe, convenient and preferential payment experiences for its global cardholders. So far, 3.4 million UnionPay cards have been issued in the market. The cooperation with DIBP this time will offer the local resident new and safer payment options, meeting customers' needs for more flexible payment methods. In Pakistan, UnionPay cards are widely accepted at the local merchants on their POS Terminals and ATMs".
Expressing his views Mr. Junaid Ahmed, CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan, said: "Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan (DIBP) is expanding its presence in EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale) network. This agreement now provides a revolutionary opportunity for our customers to best use the "contactless" payment feature via the EMV powered chip found on the card".
"DIBP is constantly striving to enrich and revolutionize its services to cover the maximum targeted remittance concentration areas in Pakistan. UnionPay is a strong partner for us to work with and it is my hope that this partnership will also help to strengthen the payment structures in Pakistan." Said Zaka ur Rehman, Head of Marketing & Product Development.
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Well, friends, it's 2012. I feel like this first post of the year should be somehow epic. After all, this could be our last year of existence, if you believe those wacky Mayans. I've had an amazing holiday break at home, which included a trip up to Maryland for New Year's. Not only did I go up to Maryland, but while there, I participated in a 1920s-themed murder mystery. 'Twas delightful! I played a character known as "The Baroness." That is a real mink that belonged to my great-grandmother. Baller!
There was a minor snag in our festivities when we discovered that we didn't bring a proper corkscrew, but we made do.
On New Year's Day, we all partook in a Saratoga Springs New Year's tradition called the Peppermint Pig (TM). You have this little pig made of peppermint and you go around the circle and each person says something that he or she was grateful for in the past year. Then you hit it with a hammer! You can read about this tradition in detail by clicking on the picture below. It was both touching and slightly dangerous, so it was perfect for New Year's.
My sojourn up north also included a brief visit to DC, during which I got to visit the wonderful cupcake store Baked and Wired in Georgetown. Because it was early in the day, I decided to go for the "breakfast cupcake" as I called it: a pancake batter cupcake with maple frosting and, get this, candied bacon! It was really tasty, but way too rich.
That's about all I have to report for now, dear readers, but before I go I want to tell you about my two other side projects, both of which have tabs up at the top of this blog. The first is my creative writing blog, aptly titled Pretentious Writing Blog. Feel free to leave comments on my poetry. I hope you like it, but you're not required to. The other new blog I started is brand new for this year. It's called A Year in Lunch. It is my 366-day photo challenge, for which I will be photographing my lunch every day of 2012. Both of these blogs are longing for followers, so check them out and if you like them (or me), follow them. Thanks! Happy New Year!


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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #532
With Dean Haglund still in Los Angeles, he and his friend in podcasting, Phil Leirness, bring you one of their shortest, most hilarious episodes in years. It's also, occasionally, tough to hear (because of wind). Stick with it, though, as Dean and Phil come at you from the world famous Hollywood Bowl, from the streets of downtown Los Angeles, from Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale (where people are dying to get in) and even from the middle of a tense action movie! Full of "merry daring-do", you won't want to miss a moment of one of our most unusual shows ever!
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #500
YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour turns 500 episodes old this week and your friends in podcasting celebrate this august milestone with one of their most bizarre shows ever, and it's truly an episode where everyone is dying to get in … You see, after meeting up at a certain historic building in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles to discuss such topics as a recent Guillermo del Toro exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dean's art work AND Dean's long-awaited graphic novel, Dean and Phil go on a field trip to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, one of the most unusual cemeteries in all the world! Never mind their usual segment "Celebrity Deaths", in this episode your friends in podcasting celebrate death itself! Sound odd enough for you?


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Title: The Tortoise and the Ducks
Author: Aesop
Characters (names, personalities, strengths, weaknesses):
The Tortoise: Can't Fly, had its house on his back, wanted to see the World.
The Ducks: Helpful. good Friends.
Setting (Where is the story set. Describe the place in detail):
Near a pond in a Creek.
What was the problem?
Well the problem was that the Tortoise didn't get to see the World.
What was the solution?
Then along came Ducks and said that they could fly him to see the Countryside.
What was the Moral of the Story? Don't be Vanity


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Worcester's Economic Growth Slows in Fourth Quarter
The greater Worcester economy grew at roughly 1.0 percent during the fourth quarter of 2017, down slightly from the revised 1.3-percent figure realized in during the third quarter, according to the latest update of the Worcester Economic Index (WEI). The WEI, which is included in the Worcester Economic Indicators report released each quarter by Assumption College Professor of Economics Thomas White, Ph.D., is an estimate of local economic activity based on recent Worcester area employment and unemployment data.
"While the area continued to add jobs in the fourth quarter, this year's numbers showed less of a seasonal bump than usual, which contributed to the slow growth of the WEI at the end of the year," said Prof. White. "The December unemployment rate for Worcester was 3.3-percent which is still below both the state and national estimates."
In addition to updating the Worcester Economic Index, each issue of Worcester Economic Indicators provides a six-month forecast for the WEI based on four national leading indicators, recent WEI estimates, as well as its long-run trend. According to the December forecast, the Worcester Economic Index is expected to grow at a 1.7-percent annualized rate during the first half of 2018.
"Most of the leading indicators used in the forecast are positive. Consumer expectations are strong, the stock market has been on the rise, and credit market conditions are favorable," said Prof. White. "Only the interest rate spread is having a negative impact, which is due to recent rate hikes by the Federal Reserve."
In addition, the report highlights two local leading indicators. Fourth quarter new business incorporations in the greater Worcester area were up over 10.0-percent since 2016 which is a positive signal for potential future hiring. Statewide initial unemployment claims fell 0.2-percent over the past year, which is not significant enough to be either a positive or a negative sign.
The next Worcester Economic Indicators report will be issued in May 2018. Additional information about this project is available here.
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****RECENTLY REDUCED**** Sellers loss is your gain. Currently used as Commercial property this beautiful land has 22 acres and a great home. This Barn-dominium has a 2/2 open concept floor plan 1200 SQ FT, laminate wood floors, and carpet. Master has separate shower and bath. Metal Building shop is 2000 Sq Ft with 3 overhead doors and 20' ceilings, insulated, also a great entertainment area. Also has over 3100 sq ft of concrete. There is plenty room to add on. 5 RV hookups, outside office area or craft room with full bath, separate storage building. Paved road frontage. A great horse property or commercial property just minutes from town. Bring the animals and move on in!
500 Lockhart Cemetery Road, Cuero, TX 77954
- Commercial
- Square Feet: 1,200
- MLS Number: V225329
Community Information for 500 Lockhart Cemetery Road, Cuero, TX 77954
Features for 500 Lockhart Cemetery Road, Cuero, TX 77954
- Central air
- Central heat
- Electric heat
- Metal exterior
- Lot acreage is: 22.28
- Subdivision: Dewitt County
- Concrete floors
- Well water
- Septic system
500 Lockhart Cemetery Road, Cuero, TX 77954
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Watermelon is one of my VERY favorite fruits. It always reminds me of a hot summer day, spitting out the seeds... This cute watermelon is an SVG file from PPPR. You can find it HERE. The sentiment is from an old TPC Studio set. I bought it years ago at my LSS, and love it. I use some of these sentiments a lot!
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1 3/4 lb Potatoes
1/3 lb Flour
1 1/3 oz Cream of wheat
2 Eggs
12 oz Butter
1 teaspoon of Salt
1 pn Nutmeg
27 oz Apricots, fresh
3 oz Butter
Cinnamon sugar
Sugar cubes
1. On the day before, cook and peel and grate the potatoes. Mix in the
flour, cream of wheat, eggs butter, salt and nutmeg. Knead well and
roll out on a well floured board, about 1 cm thick and cut into 3 x 3
inch squares. Wash the apricots and remove the stones. Put a cube of
sugar in place of the stone, put the apricot back together and place
in the middle of the square. Fold the dough over and with
well-floured hands knead it into a dumpling. 2. Finish all squares
the same way. Bring a pot of water to a boil (with a pinch of salt)
and slide in the dumplings and let them simmer (don't let them get
stuck on the bottom) for about 6-8 minutes. Shake the pot gently so
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How to Tell Your Pet's Age From Its Teeth
Do you know your pet's age? If you adopted your furry friend, his or her age may be a mystery. Fortunately, a quick look in your pet's mouth can help you narrow down a general age range.View Article
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10 Years Younger Makeover!
My friend Wendy asked me for a new look to make her look and feel younger.
First stop was a visit to the hairdressers to get Wendy's hair into a short, edgy style. Very brave!
Next stop was the LYC studio where I gave her a new make-up look to lift the face and complement the great new hairstyle .
Here are the results – the first picture (1) was taken at about 10.30am and the last picture (9) was taken at around 2pm.
What a difference in a short space of time!
Details of what I used are below and watch out for the tutorial of the look coming soon.
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1. Before picture
2. Foundation applied with LY48 mini super foundation brush
3. Super Concealer Trio applied under eyes and on cheeks with LY26 brush
4. Cream blusher (from new products) applied with LY48 – loose powder applied
5. Eyebrows shaped and filled in with LY37 and colour Pom Pom (LY501)
6. Eye sockets shaded and lifted with a mixture of colours Swanson (LY502) and Maowi (LY501). Applied over base colour Ting (LY501)
7. LY17 used to apply Pom Pom (LY501) under the eye. Colour Pie from LY502 applied to lid
8. Lip colour applied with LY27
9. Final look
A big thank you to Donna at John Oliver for the fabulous haircut!


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Wine tags are considered to be very useful items by many wine aficionados as they help with the easy identification of wines. Uncorking machines have also gained a lot of popularity in recent times. These help in the fast and easy uncorking of wine bottles. The prices of these wine accessories vary depending on what item one needs as well as its quality.
Tabletop & Countertop Wine Racks: Another great option for the casual wine drinker is a tabletop rack. These racks generally hold fewer bottles than floor or wall-mounted racks. The casual collector can store a few bottles at once on their tabletop wine rack, making this style of storage perfect for people who live in apartments or smaller homes. If you can't install a wine room or cellar, tabletop wine racks allow you to easily grab a bottle of wine and pop it in the refrigerator to chill when company comes over.
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Shocking! Legendary Journalist Jimmy Breslin Dies in New York at the Age of 88
Jimmy Breslin was one of the biggest, brashest and perhaps the best columnist in New York City. Jimmy Breslin, the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning New York newspaper columnist who covered the funeral of United States President John F. Kennedy from his grave digger's perspective, dies on Sunday, 19th March 2017. He was 88 years old.
Jimmy's death was confirmed by his physician, William Cole. Jimmy died at his home in Manhattan and primary reason being complications from pneumonia. His longtime employer reported Jimmy Breslin's death and as per Cole,
"He was a force of nature. There's a funny story to go with that. Apparently somewhere along the way he lied. He wanted to be the youngest person at a certain paper. Usually, it's the other way around."
Jimmy was released just before four days following a one-night hospital stay due to pneumonia. One night earlier on Saturday, Jimmy shared dinner with his second wife who is ex-City Council member Ronnie Eldridge.
His stepdaughter, Emily Eldridge said:
"It's the end of an era. He was a force of nature. He was complicated, but he had a great life and a lot of fun."
Jimmy Breslin was working for the New York's tabloid Daily News back when he won a Pulitzer in 1986.
"As a columnist, he found human angles that went straight to the heart of the story," the Pulitzer committee then said in 1986.
Heartfelt Condolence swarmed through Twitter after the news the media all around the globe.
Jimmy Breslin, a legendary columnist whose savagely funny prose leveled the powerful for over 50 years, has died https://t.co/8MCGZqMV3X— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2017
R.I.P. Jimmy Breslin who climbed tenement stairs. My obit is on NPR tonite. Listen to a 1/2 hour doc: https://t.co/AbKnSCvLHI@NPR @npratc pic.twitter.com/b0Vk0LCtiU— Jon Kalish (@kalishjon) March 19, 2017
Jimmy Breslin, the prolific New York City and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, has died. https://t.co/Lm1TZbn5nI pic.twitter.com/ur1pFMf0Iz— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 19, 2017
#JimmyBreslin could write like a punch in the nose, make you cry like a baby, at the remarkable -- unnoticed -- dignity of working people.— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) March 20, 2017
Along with journalism, Jimmy also authored several books. Jimmy chronicled the funny, lovable as well as genuinely awful New York Mets of 1962 in his book 'Can't Anybody Here Play this Game?' However Jimmy's first novel, 'The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight', was a humor-filled story of a Brooklyn mob published in 1969 that became a major motion picture later which helped thrust Robert De Niro into stardom.


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Would you leave two Toon mad kids with pots of black and white paint in charge of the decorating? Jackie and Steve McNally did - and look what happened.
The brave parents let sons Emmett, 10, and Kieron, six, both devoted Newcastle United fans, loose with the paint brushes for a TV home makeover programme fronted by Ulrika Jonsson.
The Swedish star breezed into the village near Newcastle where they live to film an episode of her ITV programme, Home Alone, which leaves the children in charge of the paintbrushes.
Whatever Jackie and Steve were expecting, they never dreamed they'd end up with a huge United team shirt on the side of the house.
Jackie said: "I must have been mad to leave the boys in charge.
"I thought it would be a good experience for everyone and would give Emmett an insight into TV work because he wants to be a director.
"It was a shock when we first came back but the bits we've seen are already growing on me.
"We really love it and if the kids are happy and enjoy it then that's the main thing."
Emmett and Kieron won the chance to leave their mark on the family home after their parents agreed to take part in ITV programme.
The series Ulrika Jonsson gives children a blank cheque and a team of builders so they can do whatever they want with their home.
The full results of the McNallys' brave decision to give the kids the run of the place will be seen on TV later this year.
For now, the full extent of the damage is being kept under wraps until Home Alone is beamed out on ITV.
A spokesman for Granada TV, who make Home Alone, said: "To take two kids, give them a blank cheque and a team of builders to change mum and dad's home in whatever way they'd like would be unthinkable.
"No parents in their right mind would ever allow it - until now.
"That's what happened when Ulrika Jonsson and her crack team of builders, designers and engineers visited Jackie and Steve in Newcastle.
"Their sons, Emmett and Kieron, had some very specific ideas about home improvement and Ulrika and her team followed them to the letter."


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History and Theater: How Do We Tell the Stories that have been Silenced?
September 16, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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The East Side Freedom Library,
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History and Theater:
How Do We Tell the Stories that have been Silenced?
Saturday, September 16, 2017 @ 3:00-4:30PM
What happened at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon, thirty-five years ago (September 16-18, 1982)?
Why don't more of us know this story?
This special event features a father and son, historian and playwright, Rashid and Sim, who are in town for the staging of Sim's play SABRA FALLING, which opens on September 15 by Pangea World Theatre at the In the Heart of the Beast Theater's space. The play's opening on the 35th anniversary of the massacre adds to its timeliness.
Rashid Khalidi is a world-reknowned historian and the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Among his ten books is UNDER SIEGE:PLO DECISION-MAKING DURING THE 1982 WAR, which explores the Sabra and Shatila massacres, which are the subject of Sim's play, SABRA FALLING. Sim was born in Beirut and raised in the U.S,, graduating from Macalester College, then earning an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has been a Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights Center and an Emerging Writers Fellow at the New York Theatre Workshop, and is currently artist-in-residence at Teatro Amal in Chile. He is the co-editor (with Naomi Wallace) of INSIDE/OUTSIDE: SIX PLAYS FROM PALESTINE AND THE DIASPORA, and he has had several plays professionally produced.
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A large number of end-of-terrace Georgian and Victorian terrace flank walls are heading for collapse, according to Clive Richardson of engineer R T James and Partners. Terrace flank walls are progressively leaning over out of plumb, using up their margins of safety. Richardson calls this phenomenon the 'bookend effect', which has been observed in hundreds of terraces throughout Britain, and is the subject of recent detailed studies. 'The life-expectancy of terraces suffering from the bookend effect is poor,' he says.
Terraces of three to five storeys are typically affected. Where they have large ground-floor openings, as for shops and pubs, the effect can be particularly marked. Of course, there can be other causes of leaning walls, such as poor structural integrity, eccentric loading, wind, etc. Some terraces are not affected, saved by other, compensating structural effects - which helps explain why the bookend effect itself has not been spelled out before.
The bookend effect is primarily the result of daily and annual cycles of expansion and contraction in the front and back masonry walls. Broadly, expansion creates movement outwards from the centre of a terrace, most pronounced in the pushing outwards of the terrace flank walls. During the contraction phase of the cycle the front and rear walls have insufficient tensile strength to pull the crosswalls back into place. Materials slip against one another. Debris falls into gaps, thus inhibiting recovery to the original position. Thus in each expansion-contraction cycle there is a ratcheting effect outwards from the centre.
For a combination of reasons the ratcheting effect is greater with height, for example because the greater weather exposure with height increases movement; lesser dead loads higher up constrain movement less. So terrace flank walls tend to lean outwards, as do party walls to a lesser extent.
The annual ratcheting might be of the order of only 1mm, but over a lifetime these effects accumulate. 'Walls of greater than a third of their thickness out of plumb cannot usually be economically restrained by domestic- scale structural measures,' says Richardson.
Remedies are technically possible, notably by creating movement joints where party walls meet front and rear walls, or by inserting reinforcement into the masonry bed joints. However, both these are whole-terrace solutions which are only likely to be practicable where the terrace is in single ownership.
Palliatives to increase terrace life include strengthening spine walls to act as buttresses, tying the structure together, bracing with steel framing or even erecting a new building at the end of the terrace to create a new bookend. 'Without structural intervention,' Richardson says, 'distortion will accelerate as gravity acts more and more on out-of-plumb walls and old age reduces the robustness of the fabric. Eventually, the flank walls must collapse, followed later by each party wall in turn.'
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