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YOU SAY NEW YEAR’S TRADITION, SNIPPETZ SAYS

NEW YEAR’S SUPERSTITION

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THIS WEEK IN SNIPPETZ You Say New Year’s Tradition, Snippetz Says New Year’s Superstition... 1 “Temper Tantrums” Pathway Parenting

by Tami Urbanek... 4 Strange But True... 4 “The End is Near for Savings Bonds” Senior News Line... 8 “The Last One” Nick Snips by Nick Yanez... 8 Moments in Time... 11 “Finding Deals on the Net Part 2 of 2” Series 3, Article 20 Web Chat by Robyn... 13 THE DINING GUIDE - PAGE 6-7

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the veil on New Year’s traditions to find out what’s really going on!

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of mystery that surrounds the start of the New Year that many people aren’t willing to leave their fate to chance. In fact, many New Year’s traditions are more like superstitions and that got us wondering: what traditions do people carry on during this time and why do they do them?

So come along with us as we lift

Common New Year’s traditions (or are they superstitions?)

KISSING AT MIDNIGHT

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a tradition as follows: a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group, family, society, etc., for a long time. Traditions are an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior. So when we go outside to watch the fireworks from Pikes Peak because we’ve always done so, that’s obviously a tradition. It’s a customary pattern of action.

One of the most well-known New Year’s traditions in Western culture is to kiss your special someone (or maybe that cute stranger you’ve been eyeing all night) at the stroke of midnight. Have you ever wondered what is behind that? The hopeless romantics out there might say that it’s because you can say that technically speaking, you kissed someone from one year into the next. That does sound sweet. But looking back, this tradition actually stemmed from a superstition that claims that if you fail to kiss someone at midnight, you’ll spend the next year alone. By kissing someone, you are ensuring their affections for the next twelve months. For some of us, spending a year alone doesn’t sound so bad. For others, it’s enough to prompt us to grab the nearest man or woman and lay one on them.

The dictionary defines a superstition as follows: a belief or way of behaving that is based on fear of the unknown and faith in magic or luck. It’s a belief that certain events or things will bring good or bad luck. When you shy away from breaking that awful mirror in your bathroom as you’re remodeling it, it could be because you’ve heard that it will bring you seven years of bad luck. That’s a superstition since there’s no way to really prove that doing so will undoubtedly bring you bad luck. What you’re afraid of is the possibility that it could happen; you’re afraid of the unknown.

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So now that we know the difference between a tradition and a superstition, we have to ask ourselves one question: do you feel lucky, punk?

Wait, not that question. The question is: are we doing things because they are a tradition or are we doing them out of superstition? Perhaps we don’t even know why we do them. Maybe we do them because our families have always done things that way.

But looking back, it’s likely that we can determine the root of that

This tradition is not as well-known and is more likely to be seen by most people in Western culture as a superstition. The thought is that you shouldn’t ring in the New Year with an empty fridge, empty cupboards or an empty wallet. By stocking up with plenty to eat, drink and spend, you are ensuring a year of prosperity in your home. Of course, this may be easier said than done, but hey. Believe what you will!

PAYING OFF BILLS Some people believe that they have to pay all their bills before the first day of the New Year. If you have to write a check, it must be sent off before New Year’s Day. And don’t wait to pay back a debt until the New Year, either.

The idea is that if you go into the New Year with debt or you spend any part of your New Year’s Day repaying a debt or loan, you’re guaranteeing that you will be doing that the rest of the year. Similarly, a superstition states that you shouldn’t lend out money on New Year’s Day either unless you want to spend the year bailing out your friends and family. From a practical sense, this may not be possible but this sounds like a really good idea, regardless of whether you believe in the superstition or not!

MAKING LOUD NOISES We’ve all been to a New Year’s party where the crowd seems to absolutely lose their minds as the clock approaches midnight. Perhaps you thought it was the combination of drinks and lots of people that resulted in the ruckus. But what’s with those obnoxious nose-makers and horns? Well, one superstition states that you need to make as much noise as possible as the clock strikes midnight, not only to celebrate but to scare away evil spirits. Supposedly, evil spirits and the Devil himself hate loud noises so you’re protecting yourself from these demons for the next year.

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is actually the theme behind one superstition of the New Year. The idea is that you are making room for the new and lucky by getting rid of the old and unwanted. But some superstitions go a step further to say that you can’t get rid of ANYTHING on New Year’s Day. The belief is that the year must begin with something being added to the household before something is taken from it to ensure prosperity.

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superstitions such as those above rely on the idea that what you do on the first day of the New Year sets the stage for how your upcoming year will be. If you cry, your year will be filled with sadness. If you do something you’re good at and enjoy, you’re ensuring your year will be prosperous and happy.

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• Focus on one resolution at a time.

Divide and conquer the activities to achieve your desired results. Break larger tasks into smaller ones.

Although it’s completely out of our control, here’s a short list of what superstition says you can expect from the year based on the weather of that first day:

• Create a sense of accountability.

Designate a friend, mentor or comThis is a superstition many people panion for sharing successes, moni• No wind: a dry summer could really get behind! The belief is toring progress and offering supthat if you wash your clothes on New • Nice breeze: good summer port. The benefit of involving others Year’s Day, you’re “washing away” rainfall in your goals and plans is instant a family member. In other words, access to experience, knowledge you’re ensuring their death sometime • Violent wind: floods and wisdom. It also raises the bar of in the next year.

• Wind from the south: fine responsibility.

Similarly, you are not supposed to weather and prosperous times • Persist until completed. A resolusweep your house between Christmas • Wind from the north: bad tion achieved is a combination of and New Year’s Day so that you don’t weather all year consistency and hard work. If you sweep the good luck out the door. fall behind schedule or are side• Wind from the east: famine tracked for any reason, try to refoand calamities cus -- and don’t give up! Don’t surSETTING THE STAGE • Wind from the west: plentiful render to temptation, difficulty or supplies of milk and fish but the death Overall, many New Year’s of a very important person

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• It was novelist Mary Ann Evans -- better known by her pen name, George Eliot -- who made the following sage observation: “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”

• In the five-year span between 1946 and 1951, television ownership in the United States jumped from 10,000 to 12 million.

• You probably don’t know the name Clara Peller, but if you were watching TV in the 1980s, you would almost certainly recognize her as the “Where’s the beef?” lady from fastfood chain Wendy’s incredibly successful ad campaign. You might be surprised to learn that Peller wasn’t an actress; she was a manicurist. A commercial producer named Joe Sedelmaier was shooting a different ad when he realized they needed a manicurist on site, so an assistant ran to a local beauty shop and returned with Peller. As soon as she greeted Sedelmaier with a gruff “How ya doin’?”, the producer realized that she had potential. He convinced Wendy’s to create an entire campaign around the octogenarian.

The gamble paid off; the restaurant’s sales jumped by 15 percent almost as soon as the ads began to run.

TEMPER TANTRUMS

The key point is to remain consistent.

Children learn how to get what they want. They know which parent will give in and which one will not. We do that as adults too. If we want something from a supervisor, we’ll probably ask the supervisor who’s most willing to give it. If we get pulled over by the police for speeding, we’re probably hoping that police officer is in a good enough mood to offer a warning and not a ticket. So parents can understand how kids think.

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I remember my daughter having a serious meltdown at a store when she was around age five. I picked her up and we left the store as she cried and screamed all the way to the car. As I recall, I wasn’t buying her what she wanted.

Be consistent in communicating boundaries and what is acceptable behavior. For most families, throwing food across the room, throwing toys and other items is not an acceptable way to express frustration. For very

Some parents choose to spank their children. Personally, I’ve found it

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young children, this is the usual method of frustration expression. Children do not begin consciously thinking about how to react until probably close to age three or four sometimes.

As they age, they choose their reaction based upon prior experience.

Children want what they want. If parents give their children what they want every time they have a meltdown, then that is the standard that is being set.

The child can easily figure out cause and effect. Being consistent requires patience. It also requires the parents to understand how they want to respond to their child’s meltdown.

Have a method in place. Is it time-out?

Losing toys? Bed early? Then stand by it. Children will always try to test the boundaries, it doesn’t mean the parents have to get angry or react in a harsh way. Be consistent, patient, and firm with what you’re trying to teach your children. It will stick over time.

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LET US EAT CAKE When they hear the words “Christmas cake,” many people shudder and wonder how they’ll manage to choke down Aunt Geneva’s infamous fruitcake. Old fashioned as they are, though, Christmas cakes are for those of us who love the traditional foods of the holidays every bit as much as the newly invented confections. And while it’s true that some fruitcakes are hard to love, others are a glamorous and -- yes -delicious offering that reflects cherished customs and flavors that have been passed down for generations.

The first Christmas cakes were created in Britain and began life as something else entirely. Around the 16th century, during the early days of Christmas, a porridge was made to which dried fruits were added. By the 1800s, with the availability of flour, eggs and sugar, that simple cereal treat transformed into something more sophisticated. Over time, bakers spun the recipes into light and dark cakes, full of dried and candied fruit, or versions containing only nuts.

The French interpretation of a Christmas cake was a fussy, beautiful Bûche de Noél.

The recipe differed from tradition because it didn’t contain fruit. Instead, a sponge cake filled with chocolate buttercream was rolled to look like a Yuletide log. It is still a scrumptious showstopper today.

In America, we have continued making these heritage recipes and added a few of our own. There is nothing that says “holidays” more than a striking Red Velvet Cake; a Southern Lane Cake, filled with candied fruit sandwiched between light fluffy layers of white cake; a moist Apple Cake heady with spice; or your favorite variety of Coconut Cake.

A cake at Christmas is a treat worthy of the holiday, whether it’s an antique recipe or a new one like my recipe for Chocolate Candy Cane Cake. Nothing says “Celebration” like a slice of Christmas cake, the perfect holiday indulgence.

CHOCOLATE CANDY CANE CAKE This simple, fudgy cake is the perfect go-to dessert for the holidays.

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THE END IS NEAR FOR SAVINGS BONDS

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hen you live long enough, you often see old things come around again as new. Hemlines go up and down, hairstyles change. But sometimes the good stuff goes away and doesn’t come back.

Like the milkman. Like doctors who made house calls. Like paper Savings Bonds.

Remember when you got your first bond? It was a tangible item you could hold in your hands and read.

Maybe you got one when you were married. Maybe you did the same for your children when they had big life events. If nothing else, they were a safe place to save money.

They’re gone now. The paper version of Series EE Savings Bonds is no more. January 1 marks three years since we’ve been able to buy them. You have to get on the computer and order them online (www.

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elp, it’s finally here – my last article in Snippetz. If this is catching you off guard then I’ve got two things to say to you. 1) You actually care? That’s amazing. I feel so horrible now for not writing this article anymore. 2) I warned that the end days were coming for Nick Snips when I briefly dropped a hint in an article titled The Accident, three short weeks ago.

It’s funny because this whole thing came about accidently. Nearly six years ago I met George Wilkins at Rosie’s Diner in Monument, CO. Of course I’d heard of George, my mother had known him around town, like everyone else. But this was the first time I actually met him. In our very first encounter George told me

treasurydirect.gov). You open an account, working your way through many steps, and putting in a lot of personal information, such as your bank accounts. Your details have to be verified before you can make a bond purchase. Not surprisingly, bond sales have plummeted since the change.

The website lists good reasons to go electronic: You can see all your bonds online and you don’t have to keep track of pieces of paper. You can redeem them and have the money wired to your bank account. You can change the bond’s registration name with the click of a few keys.

And, if you have paper bonds, you can convert them to electronic. See www.savingsbonds.gov for more information.

Keep in mind, however, that the current interest rate on Series EE bonds is 0.10 percent. Interest on even a simple savings account is higher.

P.S. -- There is hope, however. After seeing cell phones get smaller and more complicated, with smaller buttons, the more basic flip phone apparently is coming back.

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much whatever I wanted in this column. Who gives that kind of freedom to a young rebel-writer with a snarky sense of humor and no degree? Well, George Wilkins did, because he believed in me. It’s one of the many reasons that I view him as a good man.

But I digress, this last column isn’t about George.

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that he’d heard “rumors” about me (I still don’t know what that means and deny any accusations). He asked me a few questions before providing me with a small part time job delivering Snippetz.

In these final words I wanted to address something bigger than Snippetz, small towns, and personal achievements. I want to start a dialogue about more than silly innovations, new technologies, or advancements in experimental medicine.

It was good for me. I had just moved back to my home town, with my head down. Things on the east coast didn’t pan out and I needed some source of income. This was me starting over.

So I did it. I drove down to a warehouse in Colorado Springs on Sunday nights and picked up the load. That night, I’d drop off papers to the business’s that were closed on Mondays.

The next morning I’d bring the bulk of the papers in, delivering them to the assigned area and chatting up local business owners, waitresses, and part timers.

Over the two years of Nick Snips I’ve talked about quirky news stories, professional sports, cultural problems, personal triumphs, and so much more.

It made me wonder how I should end it. What would be a fitting finish to a column that had no clear direction from day one? Nick Snips has been a random series of thoughts. A small glimpse into the mind of a twentysomething starving artist getting by in the most relevant years of his life.

It made me want to write something important; something worth reading, if just for one time.

About 6 months later, on a whim, I asked George if I could write in his paper. I had always been praised as a good writer by my teachers growing up. I figured I’d give it a shot.

That’s when it started. Over the next five years I would write a sports column, human interest pieces, local spotlights, glorified advertisements, one restaurant review, and a column called Nick Snips. I could write pretty

So I came up with this: I don’t know if you believe in a God. I don’t know what you do to reas-

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sure that faith or how it looks to you.

Religion is a funny thing. It offends people just by bringing it up. Heck, I’m sure most of you are shocked I’ve even touched on this subject. Either way, whatever you believe and however you believe it, I want to ask you a question. After you read it you may shrug it off or find little meaning. But if you really dive in, it might change your life. You don’t even have to worship a God or go to church to answer the question. In fact, I’m not sure there even is an answer. Here it is: What if there are parts of God specifically made for you, which no one else can ever know?

I didn’t come up with that. It was a good friend who said it. But it got me thinking. Hopefully I’ve done the same for you at some point over the last five years…

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“Let go of your guilt.” Are you kidding? You are guilty. If you had any sense of shame at all you would be totally depressed.

“Channel your imagination into ever-increasing levels of creativity.”

There are several good reasons for you to be consumed by suspicion and paranoia.

“Walk a mile in a man’s shoes before you criticize him.” That way when you do criticize him he’ll be a mile away and barefoot.

“Receive criticism with grace and dignity.” Unless it comes from a family member, a friend, an associate, or a stranger.

“Don’t talk about other people.”

Let’s see, I guess that means the only person we can talk about is me!

“Never look back.” The traffic in front of you might suddenly slow down and you’ll rear-end somebody.

“Be willing to share you’re experience and advice with those around you.” It’s so much fun being able to say later on, “I told you so.”

“Do something that will increase your heart rate and improve your muscle tone.” Take your computer out in the garage and beat it to death with a tire iron.

“Be willing to express yourself more openly.” Check state and local laws first.

“If someone hurts you, forgive them immediately.” Meaningful and satisfying retaliation takes great thought and careful preparation.

“Assume full responsibility for your actions.” Except those caused by oth-

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“Be more intuitive.” It might make up for your lack of intelligence and sound judgment.

“Live each day with integrity.” If you do, does that mean you can live each night with corruption?

“Celebrate each holiday just like you did when you were a child.”

Your credit cards are all charged up, your house payment is late, and your car needs brakes. Face it: you can’t afford to celebrate the way you would like to.

“Be brave in the face of danger.”

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“Change your diet to include mainly health foods.” Unless you are old.

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“Relax more.” Unless you feel more comfortable tense.

“Become a better communicator.”

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“Get out there and try to change the world for the better.” But don’t you dare mess with the status quo.

“Lose twenty pounds.” Here’s how: Take a two-week trip to Mexico, drink the water and eat the food.

“Be sincere.” If you can’t, at least try to fake it.

“Be yourself.” Unless you’re an idiot.

“Get all of your temporal affairs in order.” After all, you may live another twenty years.

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2. Entering 2015, who had the better record of franchises that started play in 1993: the Colorado Rockies or the Miami Marlins?

3. In 2013, Nick O’Leary set a Florida State record for career TD receptions by a tight end. Who had shared the mark?

4. Four Portland Trail Blazers have grabbed 300-plus offensive rebounds in a season. Name two of them.

7. TELEVISION: Who used to sign off his program with the words, “Good night and good luck”?

5. Only three players have tallied 50 or more goals in a season for the New York Rangers. Name two of them.

8. LANGUAGE: What is the American equivalent of the British term “braces”?

6. Which men’s soccer player holds the record for most World Cup matches won?

9. MOVIES: In which film is “The Children’s Marching Song” performed?

10. LITERATURE: What is the subject matter of the book “Ten Days That Shook the World”?

7. Name four of the six heavyweight boxing champions between Jack Dempsey (1919-26) and Joe Louis (1937-49)

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1. Where is the real Wolverton Mountain as immortalized in the 1962 song?

2. Name the group that released “You’ve Got Your Troubles.”

3. The soft-rock trio Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds eventually changed their name to Hamilton, Joe Frank and whom?

4. Who released “Dreadlock Holiday”?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Do you remember when we met, That’s the day I knew you were my pet, I want to tell you how much I love you.” (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Is the book of Luke in the Old or New Testament or neither?

2. For the journey to Bethlehem, how did Mary and Joseph travel? Bible not specific, Walked, Rode donkey, Boat 3. When Mary became pregnant, she and Joseph were “what”? Married, Engaged, Just friends, Strangers 4. At the birth of Jesus, who was king of Judaea? Solomon, Herod, Balak, Belshazzar 5. What was the home city of Mary and Joseph? Capernaum, Nazareth, Aphek, Shechem 6. Of these, which wasn’t a gift from the wise men? Silver, Myrrh, Gold, Frankincense (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Stan Musial (475 home runs), Albert Pujols (445), Ken Boyer (255), Jim Edmonds (241), Ray Lankford (228) and Mark McGwire (220).

2. The Marlins are 1,643-1,853 (.470 winning percentage), while the Rockies are 1,6411,861 (.469).

3. Melvin Pearsall (1994-97) and Lonnie Johnson (199093), with 10 each.

4. Kermit Washington, Buck Williams, Chris Dudley and Robin Lopez.

5. Adam Graves, Jaromir Jagr and Vic Hadfield.

6. Germany’s Miroslav Klose, with 17 (2002-14).

7. Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo Carnera, Max Baer and James J. Braddock.

1. Arkansas. The real mountain is spelled Woolverton. The song topped the country charts for nine weeks. The “Clifton Clowers” in the song was a real person, with the original song written by his nephew. Clowers lived to the age of 102.

2. The Fortunes, in 1965. The group later had success with “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.”

3. Dennison. The band’s biggest hit was 1975’s “Fallin’ in Love.”

4. 10cc, in 1978.

5. “Sea of Love,” written and released by Phil Phillips in 1959.

The song hit No. 1 on the charts in the U.S. and No. 2 in the U.K. Despite the song’s initial popularity, coverage by numerous other artists and use in a film, Phillips claims he’s only been paid $6,800 for recording the song and has never received any royalties.

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