For the Wine Lover Staying In Tampa Housing

Wine lovers staying in Tampa this month make your way to the Sheraton Hotel on December 31st beginning at 5:00 pm for a social hour and wine tasting.  The wines offered are rated 90+ by Wine Spectator as well as from the Sheraton Selects menu.  All are available by the glass or bottle.  Bring your friends and make this a great New Years Eve.  The Sheraton Hotel website has more information with address and directions.   Try something new, or share your favorite and make new friends.




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Experience Tampa History When Visiting MacDill AFB Housing

 When you are stationed in Tampa and living in MacDill AFB Housing be sure to experience some of the culture and history of the area.  This month and continuing through February 2014 you can visit the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and see some of the most amazing photos detailing the history of the Tampa area.  The photos were taken between 1879 and 1955 and cover everything from gangsters to  pirates to cigars. 







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A Stay in Tampa AFB Housing and Nights of Shimmering Lights

Tonight is the last night for the 'Nights of Shimmering Lights Drive-thru Light Park' in Tampa.  While you are visiting and staying in housing in Tampa, the Dover area has a fantastic Christmas Lights extravaganza.  Load as many people as you can fit in your car and drive through Sydney Washer Rd. neighborhood of millions of twinkling lights.  For a donation of $20.00 you will creep through about  1.5 miles of magic.  Bring the whole family and bring your camera.




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Visit Bok Tower While In Temporary Housing

While you are enjoying the wonderful December weather staying in temporary housing in Tampa, visit the Bok Tower Gardens.  A special event looking back into the history of Florida continues through February 23rd, 2014.  During the first 85 years of the gardens many stories, photographs and artifacts were collected.  The exhibits curator, Joy Banks will share these with guests.  Visit their website to learn more about what will be presented and the other events upcoming at the gardens. 




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MacDill AFB Housing Provides Warmth on Christmas

 Great weather waits for you in Tampa for the Christmas holiday week.  Of course you expect Florida to be warm and wonderful and that's exactly what you will find when you are staying in our MacDill AFB housing.  When your assignment brought you to Tampa you may have hoped for a balmy December.  This is just what you will have.  Last weekend it was a bit rainy but this week will be wonderful.  Enjoy this fantastic weather and head to the beach after you open your presents.




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Staying in MacDill AFB Housing Offers Opportunity To See Christmas Spectacular

What a great time to be staying at MacDill AFB housing.  During the month of December you must see the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular".  This event is showing many times this month at The Straz Center in Tampa.  Located at 1010 N.W.C Macinnes Place this is a wonderful venue.  Hurry and go to the website for more information and to purchase tickets. 





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Masquerade Ball New Years Eve in Ybor City

 If you are staying in temporary housing in Tampa FL at the end of December 2013 and would like to attend a very glamorous celebration, this event is for you. The Club Prana will be the site for this event and it will be like none other.  Club Prana is a destination for excitement!  Enjoy music and dancing and ring in the New Year in style.  Visit the Club Prana website for more details and to make reservations.





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Easy Recipe for Homemade Jelly

We hope you had an excellent weekend and are looking forward to the holiday season right around the corner! This morning, we wanted to share with you a tasty recipe to make your own delicious homemade jelly. You can substitute any kind of juice that you like. You can also leave in the skins (if using fresh grapes), or pieces of fruit if you prefer to make jam. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll find it is very easy. The rewards are so worth it, and they make great gifts. Here’s the recipe:

5 cups grape juice (approximately 5lbs. of fruit or 16 cups)

 7 cups sugar

 1 packet of Fruit Pectin Liquid

 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice

 Yield: 7 (8 oz. jars)

Bring grapes to slow boil and press grapes with a mashed potato masher until juice comes out. Put mixture into a fine strainer and press all juice out. Put juice back in the pot; add sugar, pectin and lemon juice. Bring to boil for 1 minute- or until desired thickness is reached, skim off foam with a ladle. Ladle jelly into sterilized jars (boil jars/lids/jar rings) for 10 minutes or run through dishwasher cycle) using a wide mouth funnel, cover with lids and slightly hand tighten with jar rings. Put jars into pot with boiling water 2” above lids and boil as per standard canning procedures. Remove from water and let cool. Lids should pop as they cool to confirm they have all sealed. You can then unscrew the jar rings slightly and the lids will stay.

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Historically Today Was a Busy Day!

If you love history and how it affects our life today, then today is a big day for you.

On this day in 1773 The Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor.  Dressed as Mohawk Indians they boarded the boats at midnight.  This was to protest the Tea Act of 1773 a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.

In 1950 in the wake of the massive Chinese intervention in the Korean War, President Harry S Truman declared a state of emergency.  He stated that “Communist imperialism threatened the world’s people.  And called upon the American people to help construct an “arsenal of freedom.”

 In 1960, in the only event of its kind in U.S. history two planes collided over New York City. A  United DC-8 from Chicago was heading for Idlewild Airport(now JFK International). At the same time a TWA  Super Constellation from Dayton was heading to LaGuardia .  The United flight was put into a holding pattern due to bad weather.  The pilot miscalculated the pattern and flew into the path of the TWA flight.  The crash killed all crew and passengers on both planes as well as 6 people on the ground.

 For those who love literature, on this day in 1775 Jane Austen was born.   In 1944 the Battle of the Bulge began.  Why that title?  Because the Germans created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest in pushing through the American defensive line.  This was a desperate attempt to push the Allied front line west from n northern France to northwestern Belgium.

For our younger readers…….In 1977  John Travolta was launched into super-stardom when he starred in Saturday Night Fever.

 




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Chemical Weapons Watchdog Receives Nobel Peace Prize

The head of a watchdog group that is trying to rid the world of chemical weapons has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital. Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, collected the award Tuesday on behalf of the group.

Noting the organization's role in leading the mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons, Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said the "anonymous inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job."  At the start of his speech Jagland paid tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993.

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World Leaders Honor Mandela

Nelson Mandela was hailed as a "hero of our time" as tributes poured in from world leaders on the death of the man who led the triumphant fight against apartheid in South Africa and became that country's first black president.

Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, said Mandela "achieved more than could be expected of any man.”  Today he's gone home, and we've lost one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth," Obama said at the White House.

South African President Jacob Zuma, announcing that Mandela died at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, said, "Our people have lost a father.”

A memorial was service was held as part of an extended state funeral culminating in Mandela's burial on Sunday, 12-15-13 in the rural village of Qunu, where he spent his early childhood.  Before this, Mandela's body will lie in state for three days beginning Wednesday in the amphitheater of the Union Buildings in Pretoria where he was sworn in as president in 1994.

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Is This a New Superbug?

The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side into one of New York's newest tourist attractions, may have brought a different kind of visitor: a cockroach that can withstand harsh winter cold and never seen before in the U.S.

Rutgers University insect biologists Jessica Ware and Dominic Evangelista said the species Periplaneta japonica is well documented in Asia but was never confirmed in the United States until now. The scientists, whose findings were published in the Journal of Economic Entomology, say it is too soon to predict the impact but that there is probably little cause for concern.

"Because this species is very similar to cockroach species that already exist in the urban environment," Evangelista said, "they likely will compete with each other for space and for food."  Guess if you travel to New York in the future you better check all your  bags for unwelcome visitors………..Yikes!

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