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- Taco Tip number 33.

- You know you're at a legit taco truck

where the music is blaring,

the Mexican Coke is flowing,

and the trompo's rolling.

- And you order tacos with a simple hand gesture.

Tres al pastor, por favor!

(laughing)

(upbeat music)

- I'm Jarod Neece.

- I'm Mando Rayo.

- And we're taco journalists exploring

the most iconic tacos in Texas, through the eyes

of the people who make them.

- [Mando] We're in Houston, Texas.

- [Jarod] H-Town!

- We're here for tacos al pastor, Houston's iconic taco.

- [Jarod] And, I'm excited to back in my hometown

where there's literally a taco truck on every corner.

- [Mando] Where also gonna talk to a group of Dreamers

and see how they keep connected to the culture,

and their families through the tacos.

Our first stop is to catch up with Marco Torres.

He's a photographer, journalist, and taco lover.

So, Marco, we're in a warehouse, but I want tacos.

Where are we?

- We're actually at the Raven Tower,

which is in the near north side of Houston.

You know, people know me as Marco from Houston,

the taco guy and the photographer, so you know,

that's who I am.

And this is the home of laMacro food truck,

so laMacro serves the best trompo tacos in Houston.

- [Jarod] Alright, well, I wanna find out how they taste.

Let's go.

(laughing)

- Tacos al pastor are basically marinated pork.

We marinate it with dried chillies.

We put pineapple, and then we cook it on a vertical spit.

You wanna give it the shape

while you're putting it on there.

- So that basically looks like a top.

- [Marco] Yes.

- [Mando] You know, like the old school tops

that you throw down. - [Marco] Basically, yeah.

- It's a taco dreidel, guys.

- Taco dreidel. (laughs)

- [Mando] So within the loop, you couldn't see trompos,

or tacos al pastor, on a spit, right?

You couldn't do that because of the health department.

- [Marco] What I did is I talked to a couple of inspectors,

and I said, you know what, I really wanna do this.

So I gave him my run down, and he says,

well, if your apparatus could be 100% stainless steel,

we'll let you do it.

- Where'd the recipe of it come from?

- The al pastor recipe that we use comes from Mexico City,

and we've been using it for the last four and a half years,

and there's one ingredient that we put on there

that nobody else put, but obviously I can't say it on--

(laughing)

- It's beep!

(laughing)

- [Marco] People come in from all over California,

Canada, Mexico, and all of that, and they're like,

how is it that that your pastor is a lot better

than where I'm from?

And, I think, like I said, I do thank Mr. Pasqual

because his recipe is the one that put us on the map.

- Also, congratulations because the city of Houston

recognize you as one of Harvey's Heroes.

- You go on these refugee places

and they'll take sandwiches, bread, peanut butter,

and all of that,

but, not a warm meal.

So, us, that was our response.

- [Mando] Your way to comfort them.

- [Marco] Yes, yes.

- You're a first taco responder.

(laughing)

- Yeah.

(upbeat music)

♪ I get it while I can

♪ We'll build a master plan

♪ There's nothing that can stop the flow ♪

♪ With energy in hand

♪ You pull me in I get pulled out ♪

♪ Your love is what I'm all about ♪

♪ It's so intense without a doubt ♪

♪ It always makes me want to shout ♪

♪ Livin' I'm livin' I'm livin'

- [Mando] A taco tour in Houston is incomplete

without going to Boombox Taco,

which is also another taco truck.

The history that Alex has from his family,

you can taste it in the food.

In the tortillas, and the carne,

and the vegetables that he uses.

And, the other reason that I love supporting Boombox,

is because he supports the music and the art,

and the other kinds of cultures that are here in Houston.

-I'm Alex. I'm from Queretaro, Queretaro."

All my passions are together in Boombox Taco,

and I love it, I love it.

- [Jessica] First of all,

he does not like to stay in one place.

Let's keep that clear.

- [Jarrod] That's helpful.

(laughing) - Exactly, exactly.

So, he wants to be with all the people everywhere.

Like he says, in the market, in the shows,

and the this and the that.

- This is a lifestyle.

- It's a lifestyle.

- It's a lifestyle, 100%.

- [Jarod] So these tacos and the salsa,

are these the family recipes?

- Absolutely, some ideas I grab from my family,

and with Jessica,

- Yeah, I grab from my family, too.

- [Alex] Actually, we combine.

- [Jessica] Yeah.

- [Jarod] Al pastor is traditionally made on a spit,

and you don't make that.

- [Jessica] No, we don't.

It's marinated just like al pastor,

but it is cooked on the grill at the moment.

- [Jarod] They don't always taste the same,

but how to you keep it,

the quality up and--

- [Jessica] It has to be definitely the quality of the meat.

- [Alex] I come butcher family, so every time I see a piece,

every time I go to the market, I'm making sure the--

- He's always going like this.

- This is a part.

This is a part.

(all talking at once)

- It's really cold, it's a freakin' fridge,

and he's like touching. - Sometimes,

I start opening boxes.

Hey, don't open that box!

♪ Taco, taco, taco

♪ Taco, taco taco

(upbeat music)

- [Jarod] Where here in Houston's north side

at Tia Pancha, one of the largest flea markets

in the city.

- [Mando] We're going to talk to a group of DREAMers

and find their connections to the tacos.

- I came to Houston when I was five-years-old

from Colombia and lived here ever since,

so growing up, right?

You leave your country and you come here to the States,

and you're already an outsider.

And, you're going through your day,

you're trying to work, feed your kids, help your family,

whatever it is that you're doing,

but you're constantly bombarded with,

you're a criminal.

Why are you here?

Right?

But then you come home,

and what's the first thing that you do?

You eat with your family, with your friends.

You have this experience.

Even through all of the storm,

I can always count on the people that I love

to be next to me.

- They talk about, they wanna send you home,

but you're already home.

- Yeah, I mean that's as close of a concept to what is home.

That's the question, what is home?

Home is where our lives are, where we've been to school,

or where we've raised families, or we've bought homes,

cars, et cetera.

- They think that we're outsiders,

but I don't consider myself anything else

other than a Houstonian.

They imagine who is a DACA person,

or who may not speak English.

Do they pledge allegiance to the flag?

And it's like, we're normal people, you know?

We probably might be putting gas next to you,

or we just treated you to some amazing tacos, bro!

(laughing)

- And at the same time they're eating

at Taco Tuesday.

For me, that doesn't make any sense.

If you're going to eat the food, you have to respect it,

you have to honor it.

Tacos and the food are an extension of our culture.

- We accept milk and orange juice,

but we don't accept the dairy workers, right?

They're undocumented people working?

This attitude, that's reminiscent of our history,

we accept the things and we like the change, right?

But, the people we're not so sure about.

And, it's a generational thing

that's going to have to change and occur.

- [Jarod] What changes can be made?

- Talk to your neighbors.

Sit around the table, eat tacos together.

And, hopefully that will change the mentality people have

of immigrants in the United States.

(upbeat music)

- I smell and feel like marinated pork!

After eating all those tacos al pastor.

And I truly believe, that taco is represented

of the people of Houston.

- [Jarod] And, I loved coming back to Houston

and eating tacos I'd never eaten,

going to places I'd never been,

meeting people like Alex at Boombox Tacos,

people like Saul, who's a Harvey Hero.

- And, I love the bravery of the DREAMers.

A lot of adversity, but they're creating change

and making this their home,

and they're doing it one taco at a time.

- [Mando] Thank you, Houston.

- [Jarod] AKA City of Syrup.

- [Mando] H-Town, Clutch City, Screwston.

- [Jarod] Keep it true.

- [Mando] Scrumbia

Houston strong.

- We do. - What up Fifth Ward?

- Grill. - Slabs.

- Inside. - Chingo Bling.

- [Jarod] Outside the loop. (laughs)

Chopped and screwed.

- [Mando] Over the bay.

(heavy bass music)

- [Mando] In the next proximo show,

we'll go to the Rio Grande valley

where barbacoa Sunday is a way of life.

- [Jarod] And visit Armando Vera,

the last barbacoa pit master standing.

- [Mando] And find out if we can cook our own

our own cabezas in a pozo.

(upbeat Latin music)

For more infomation >> Houston: Tacos al Pastor | Tacos of Texas Ep. 2 - Duration: 8:34.

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Texas Says 'Pickles' Only Come From Cucumbers. So This Couple's Farm Went Out of Business. - Duration: 4:22.

We had a beautiful display at the market each week.

Pretty soon we had a lot more than we could eat.

And we said 'gosh we got to do something with this.'

So we really thought we had it made.

Anita and Jim McHaney are retirees who moved from Houston to the Texas countryside in 2013.

Their plan was to live well and grow food on a 10 acre homestead

earning extra money selling produce at the local farmer's market.

We did amazingly well in the early stages.

They grew beets, okra, carrots, kale and Swiss chard.

Soil out there is very sandy and the beets just grew like mad.

Now the obvious thing to do, when you got more beets than you can sell

is to make pickled beets and can them.

Like most states, however, Texas has a so-called Cottage Food Law

that exempts certain items sold at farmer's markets

from the state's commercial food manufacturing regulations.

Foods like bread, produce, nuts, jams, popcorn and, of course, pickles.

But, what constitutes a pickle?

And who gets to decide?

The McHaney's discovered that the Texas department of state health services takes the narrow view.

What are pickles?

Pickles are made from cucumbers that have been preserved in vinegar, brine or a similar solution.

Only pickled cucumbers are allowed under the Cottage Food Law.

Legislators didn't say that, the health department did.

All other pickled vegetables are prohibited.

So, in order to sell their pickled beets at the farmer's market

the McHaneys needed a commercial food manufacturer's license,

to build a commercial kitchen,

to submit the recipes to a government contractor at Texas A&M university

and to register for a $700 food manufacturing class.

And it's only once a year, so if you miss it this October

then it's a whole year before you get another shot at it.

We got right down to signing up for the class,

I was gonna take it despite people said 'you won't learn a damn thing in there.'

And then saw that $700 dollars and said 'you know, this is crazy, this is insanity.'

Preposterous.

The McHaney's neighbor Virginia Cox, also grows and sells food at the local farmer's market.

She'd like to be able to pickle her leftover okra.

I could make a whole lot more on it pickled

because if it doesn't sell this week, I can take it back to the market next week.

If it's fresh and it doesn't sell this week, it's not gonna sell next week.

Today the McHaney's farm lies fallow.

But they have decided to take the state of Texas to court

with the help of the Dallas law firm Drinker, Biddle and Reath who took on the case pro bono.

Their argument is that the regulations on cottage food production are unreasonable

and stifle their economic opportunities.

People can't afford that kind of stuff, that shuts them out.

As precedent, the McHaney's case invokes the landmark 20015 decision by justice Don Willett

striking down occupational licensing for Texas eyebrow threaders.

Their challenging the Health Department's definition of pickles and subsequent regulation

on the grounds that it impinges on their constitutionally protected right to earn an honest living.

The Texas Department of State Health Services wouldn't comment on the pending lawsuit.

But defended the agency's rule as reflecting the most common interpretation of the word 'pickle.'

It forces you if you want to do a pickled beet

to go to a 700 dollar class that actually nothing to do with home canning.

And now we've got hundreds and hundreds of occupations

that you gotta pay the government to do your job.

For now the case is still pending and it's just entered the discovery phase.

But the McHaneys are optimistic about it's outcome.

You know we talk about pickling beets, but it's a lot lot bigger issue.

It's about economic freedom and government by bureaucrat regulations that got nothing,

well it's who bought and payed for the bureaucrat.

For more infomation >> Texas Says 'Pickles' Only Come From Cucumbers. So This Couple's Farm Went Out of Business. - Duration: 4:22.

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Absolutely Beautiful Tiny Cabin in East Texas(Emory / Rains County) on 5 acres - Duration: 2:36.

Absolutely Beautiful Tiny Cabin in East Texas (Emory / Rains County) on 5 acres

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How Slavery Led to Texas's Independence | History - Duration: 4:14.

For more infomation >> How Slavery Led to Texas's Independence | History - Duration: 4:14.

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Denuncian ciudad de carpas en Texas con cientos de inmigrantes | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 1:49.

For more infomation >> Denuncian ciudad de carpas en Texas con cientos de inmigrantes | Noticiero | Telemundo - Duration: 1:49.

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West Texas Gifts of Hope live in the studio! - Duration: 3:57.

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A 4 year old East Texas girls trip to Hobby Lobby goes viral - Duration: 2:01.

For more infomation >> A 4 year old East Texas girls trip to Hobby Lobby goes viral - Duration: 2:01.

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SPI Considered 2nd Most Violent City in Texas, Here's Why Locals and Visitors Don't Believe It - Duration: 2:02.

For more infomation >> SPI Considered 2nd Most Violent City in Texas, Here's Why Locals and Visitors Don't Believe It - Duration: 2:02.

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Texas, il 29enne Fabrizio Stabile muore dopo aver nuotato in piscina, colpito dall'ameba mangia-cerv - Duration: 3:31.

 È morto mentre nuotava in una piscina in Texas, il 29enne Fabrizio Stabile. A colpirlo un'ameba mangia-cervello, conosciuta come Naegleria Fowleri

Fabrizio ha cominciato a sentirsi male il 16 settembre scorso, accusando violenti mal di testa ed è morto qualche giorno più tardi, il 21 dello stesso mese

L'uomo era al Cable Park e Surf Resort a Waco, in Texas, quando si è ammalato. Gli epidemiologi hanno così prelevato campioni di acqua per testare la presenza dell'ameba e i risultati sono attesi in settimana

   Ma in cosa consiste questo parassita e cosa può provocare? Nell'uomo l'infezione da Naegleria Fowleri può causare una malattia grave: la meningoencefalite amebica primaria, che colpisce il sistema nervoso centrale

Se non diagnosticata e curata in tempo porta alla morte nell'arco di una settimana

Si tratta di un organismo minuscolo e dalla struttura semplicissima (misura 20 micrometri ovvero millesimi di millimetro) che però può infettare diversi animali, in particolare mammiferi

L'uomo rischia di contrarlo nuotando in fiumi o laghi, soprattutto quando l'acqua è tiepida o calda, e attraverso lavaggi nasali con acque infette

È impossibile trovare l'ameba nelle acque salate. Il parassita entra proprio dal naso (se l'acqua va in bocca non si corrono rischi) e risale lungo il nervo olfattivo, fino ad arrivare al cervello

Lì si moltiplica molto rapidamente, nutrendosi di tessuto nervoso cerebrale. Per oltre il 90% dei casi le lesioni provocano la morte

    Ma tranquilli perché i casi sono estremamente rari. "Tra il 2008 e il 2017 si sono verificate 34 infezioni - spiegano i Centers for Disease Control - Ma dei 143 casi totali registrati tra il 1962 e il 2017 sono sopravvissute solo quattro persone

Una di queste è Kali Harding, una ragazzina dell'Arkansas che aveva contratto la malattia in un parco acquatico, il Willow Springs Water Park di Little Rock, dove c'era stato nel 2010 un altro caso di infezione"

 In Italia al momento sembra essersi verificato un solo caso nel 2004 che ha coinvolto un ragazzino di 9 anni

For more infomation >> Texas, il 29enne Fabrizio Stabile muore dopo aver nuotato in piscina, colpito dall'ameba mangia-cerv - Duration: 3:31.

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How we EARN money saving electricy with OhmConnect-- California, Texas, and more - Duration: 11:58.

Hey frugal friends! It's Stephanie from SixFiguresUnder.com. Saving money by

saving electricity is a no-brainer-- you use less electricity, you save more money--

but EARNING money from saving electricity takes it a step further and

it is awesome! It's September now. Last month in August we earned over $90

from reducing our electricity usage a couple nights a week for the

whole month. Now if you've been following our transparent budget updates every

month, you've heard me talk about the OhmConnect program. I've been promising to

give you the whole scoop for months now and back in June I even recorded the

whole a whole screen share showing you the the dashboard and everything but I

didn't get this intro video done so I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the

program and then I'll show you the screen share video that I made so you

can see what the dashboard looks like see how earning money with OhmConnect

works. Let me tell you how OhmConnect works. OhmConnect is a free program that

is open to households who are willing to proactively reduce their electricity

usage during a couple of hours each week. So I usually get a text maybe one to

three times a week that tells me when the next OhmHour is. So I could get a

text today saying that tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. there is an OhmHour and

they also give me a forecast. They tell me how much electricity the electric

company is expecting me to use. Electric companies like to forecast how much

their customers are going to use so that they know what power plants they need to

activate in order to meet the electric demands of all their customers. So during

peak hours, you know when people are getting home from work they're cooking

their dinner, they're doing their laundry, they're turning on the air-conditioning,

when a lot of electricity is being used that's when OhmHours usually happen

because the idea is that they want to prevent the big dirty power plants from

turning on. Not only are they bad, really bad for the environment, they're also really

expensive to run. So OhmConnect gets all of its hundreds of thousands of users to

decide okay during this hour we are going to use less than our forecasted

amount so that the electric company doesn't need to turn on the big dirty

power plants that are expensive and so they are saving money and passing that

savings on to us. The way the forecast is calculated is they take the last 10 days

If it's on a week night, they take the last 10 weekdays

at that same period, so if the ohm hour is going to be from 6 to 7 they look at

the previous10 weekdays during the hours of 6 & 7 and find the average

of what you use then and that is your forecast. For weekends they look at the

last four weekend days at that same hour to forecast what you're going to be-- what

you usually use-- so your forecast comes in kilowatt hours. So they may say. "ok

tomorrow for the ohm hour that's from 6 to 7 you need to use, your forecast is

2.3 kilowatt hours. So in order to win the ohm hour I need to use less than 2.3

kilowatt hours during that 6:00 to 7:00 time period. If I use less

than that then I win the OhmJour and I'll get points which translate into

money. And the more I reduce my usage from that forecast, the more points I get.

So the less energy you use, the more points you get. Now what if you go over

your forecast? what if you use more electricity than they are expecting? You

will lose points. The thing is, you are able to opt out of OhmHours. If, you know,

we've had some OhmHours where we already have company scheduled to come

over and for whatever reason we could not meet the ohm hour, so you can opt out

if you opt out you won't lose points, but the default is that you will be

participating. So in just a second I'll show you the screen share video that I

made that goes inside my dashboard and shows you how we earn points and

walks you through all of that, but first I want to tell you how you can start

earning money. So to get started you can just go to OhmConnevt. If you go to

SixFiguresUnder.com/OhmConnect

I'll put the link down in the description. When you first get there and

they'll ask for your zip code they want to they'll try to guess what your

electricity provider is based on your zip code. You'll have a chance to change

that later if they don't guess right. You'll put in your email address and

create a password. After you verify your email address they will want you to

connect your utility company with them. Now the process at first seemed a

little intimidating to me. They send you a document, an online document

that you need to to sign online so that they have permission to access your

utility history and and usage so that they can know what your forecast is and

know how much you are using so they know how much you've reduced your usage . Since

the utilities are in my husband's name, I forwarded the document on to him.

Plus he's an attorney, so you know reading documents like that is his thing.

So i had him he read it. He signed it electronically, submitted it, it

was simple. Once you submit the electronic signature to connect

OhmConnect with your utility company, wait a couple days and you'll be connected and

then you will start being able to earn through OhmHours. Okay let me show you

that screen share so you can see all the nitty-gritty of how unconnect works.

So let me just jump in here and show you how the OhmConnect dashboard looks.

Right here it shows our past performance in ohm hours, shows the the date and the

time and then the gray column shows what our forecast was and the blue column

shows what we actually used. So depending on the difference between the gray and

the blue, that's where the the points come in. So this this OhmHour we're really

close. We barely came under in under our forecast so we

only got 52 points, but others we get a lot a bigger difference and we get more

points. So this was a mega OhmHour. In the summer they have several, once a week

I think, they do a Mega OhmHour which has the normal forecast and then a

really challenging goal forecast and if you meet your your challenge goal then

you get an extra bonus. :et me click on this and you can see the details. So the

mega bonus for reaching our our goal forecasts, let's see okay, so the mega

goal here is 1.284 kilowatts per hour

kilowatt hours I mean. This is our regular forecast right here and this is

how much we use so we used less than the mega goal. So we reached our mega goal

and we got that that extra bonus that's a 500 point or $5

bonus. This gold status is if you, in the last the average of the last 20 ohm

hours, if you've saved 15% you reach gold status and that gives you another 50% so

1.5 times the normal OhmHour points and then if you are platinum status

that means you in their last 20 ohm hours you've saved 40% or more. So right

now we're at platinum but during this ohm hour we were at gold and so we got

the extra 50%. For platinum you get 2 times the normal amount. And this streak

of 12 here that means the last 12 ohm hours we have won. By winning I mean

we got below our forecast. As your streak builds your bonus increases I think it's

5% with each one and so we get an additional 55% of our normal OhmHpur

points so. And this this buddy thing that's that's another way to earn points

if you and your buddy-- mone's someone I don't even know-- win that OhmHour

you get a bonus. It can't ever hurt you but sometimes you get bonus points

from your buddy. Anyway so for this OhmHour

we got 1388 points which is $13.88

I should also mention that this was a double OhmHour. This is a

two-hour time frame from 6 to 8. Normally they're just one hour. Let's see

here's a mega OhmHour that was just one hour and you see there's our bonus for

reaching getting below the the mega goal. What we did, we actually flipped our

breaker during that time which is why we were able to reduce it so low. And then a

gold status bonus, our streak bonusm buddy bonus, and so that our we earned

$8.82. So if you look at the month of June, let's see, we earned a

$1.14, $2.65 t, 52 cents, $13.88, $3.82

97 cents, $8.82 so that that adds up to like$31 or

something and we've still got more days in the month. So that $31 doesn't

include any referral credits it doesn't include any reimbursements like

sometimes you can get the smart plugs and they'll they'll

reimburse you for it. Okay let me show you the rest of the dashboard here. Down

here it shows your your total. So right now we have $43.70 that

I can cash out. These tokens you can do prizes or you know a streak guard so

that if you if you lose an OhmHour it doesn't mess up your streak or different

things. I don't do a whole lot with tokens.

This shows that we're at platinum. It shows the difference in how much we've

reduced our usage in the last 2000 hours so right now we're at 44% which means we

qualify for platinum and we get two times

two times the regular OhmHour points. Right now we're at 15 and so are our

bonus is an additional 75% this is as long of a record as we've made it. This

is something that's going on in the summer. They have a summer time drawing

where if you reach your mega OhmHour goal then you get entered and once you do

that three times and you get entered in the grand prize thing but I'm not

expecting to win but if I do I won't say no. Well that's the OhmConnect dashboard.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the program, about how it

works, what we do in the OhmHours. I'll leave some links down below to this

program and to my blog post about it and let me know if you have any questions!