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text: "She Knows" & So Do You: A Familiar Interview With FlygerWoods David Landry February 14, 2018 Artists To Watch, Exclusives, Familiarize Yourself, Fashion, Interviews, Lifestyle, Music, News, Sneaker Forecast, Sneaker Haven, Sneakers, Streetwear, The Leak This is D3 The Concrete, bringing you fashion from the street. Some days ago, I did an outstanding interview with an artist that I have been acquainted with for years: FlygerWoods. In this interview, we talk about a lot of interesting topics: his upbringing, his song that debuted on www.NICEKICKS.com and how does he stay so fresh! Artist: FlygerWoods Stylist: Kidd Ford @ranger_up Photographer: Vinh Luong @vinhluongstudios Designer: Preston Douglas @prestondouglasofficial ### Thank you for taking time to answer these questions! I know we just did an interview about your merch brand, but I felt that it would be vital and necessary so that potential fans can know more about the man behind FWM. Please tell us more about how you came up and what was it like to be a young Flyger Woods. I came up a middle child of 3 brothers, raised by our mother for the most part. My memories range from great to traumatic like most people, I think. My mother was and is a great mom as a single parent of 3, but there were definitely hard times and moments when we were in limbo as far as where we lived, relying on family members etc. In retrospect, the tougher times only made me and my brothers stronger men and I remain thankful regardless. I have always been a bit of an introvert and shy by nature, but music was a release and way of expression for me starting at a very young age. While most of my peers and friends got into gangs and shootouts, I really was the opposite choosing art and fantasy, comics, gaming, basketball and of course music and rapping. I always just wanted to make people laugh often the class clown at school, but eventually, the clowning caught up and I never graduated. Tell people how you got into doing music. What was the entry point for you? When? Why? Literally, it was the back of the bus freestyles lol. I started jamming Dipset and feel like that was when I really started "learning" how to rap. Initially, I was writing battle raps with gun metaphors for fun, but when Kanye dropped, my life changed completely. I realized it was okay to be myself as a rapper and more importantly to be true to myself artistically. This was the turning point as far as knowing this was going to be what I did with my future. I remember before you became Flyger Woods, you were Airborne and NICEKICKS.com, posted an article about you. How did that happen? My best friend Andrew aka TAME went to the NiceKicks store in Austin and played them a song I recorded as Airborne called "Jordan Anthology". After he played the track NiceKicks followed me on Twitter and reached out to me letting me know they loved the song. About a year later I dropped a mixtape called "Mind Pod Shuffle" which featured "Sneaker Head". I sent Nice Kicks a link to the track and Matt Halfhill the store owner enjoyed the song so much he posted it on NiceKicks.com. This look was a huge honor for me, being that the only other artist NiceKicks featured up to that point was Macklemore and I was just an undiscovered rapper at that point. TAME has always looked out for me as far as getting my music heard from the very beginning, love my brother. Who are some of your favorite brands, both locally and beyond the H? Why do you like these brands? Fine Southern Gentlemen, BAPE, BBC, Simple To Society, Set Sail, Human Made, Dope Boy Magic, Against The World, Preston Douglas, Stussy, Ralph Lauren, Native, Broke Bois and really so many more. I love the raw creativity that comes from the local brands whom many I listed are the homies, much of their gear is hand sewn and embroidered which is a style I am interested in. I really admire the indie brands because I have witnessed their grind first hand. The more simple and minimal designs appeal to me the most and I find I gravitate to them in my style. I appreciate the bigger iconic labels because they create high-quality pieces that stand the test of time from a fashion standpoint. Tell us about your upcoming projects, music, visuals, etc. What is the theme of it? I have 2 singles, an EP, and a video dropping within the next few months. "She Knows" produced by Izzar Thomas drops Valentines Day and " Make My Day" produced by Rob Quest drops on 2/23. I am currently filming a video for Make My Day and compiling various songs for my EP to be released around late March. My sophomore album is scheduled for Summer 2018 and titled "My Middle Name Is Tyrone" with production by WOLFE de MÇHLS. This project is dedicated to the younger me as well as the evolved me, and to releasing a few demons of my past while calling out some demons in the present. Tyrone historically gets a pretty bad rap, this one is for Tyrone. Any upcoming touring dates/opportunities for people outside of Houston, to see you on the road? Indeed, I'm currently working on a Texas tour with my best friend and fellow rapper TAME, The Aspiring Me. I just appeared on my homie Fat Tony's set at Axelrad the other night, performing at the next Bounce & Turn event on 2/23 and I am playing the EXP SXSW Showcase at Native on March 15th. I will keep you posted on all my new dates fam. What practical advice do you have for a young artist coming up in the industry? Know your identity and stand on your artistic and creative integrity. Don't hesitate to invest in yourself. Develop a team you can trust and rely on. In my opinion, an artist should be able to focus on their art and not every single aspect of the business on top it. My team has been imperative for the progression of my music, my focus and my brand…I stay grateful. Stop competing with anyone but yourself. Fuck the likes and the plays and just create the art because you love the art, you can't lose if you are happy. FlygerWoods wishes everyone a Happy Valentines Day with "She Knows", the first single from the Houston rap artists' forthcoming EP. "She Knows" is a straightforward song about the kind of woman who likes what he likes. Produced by rising Houston artist Izzar Thomas, "She Knows" will be available on all digital retailers and streaming platforms February 14, 2018. CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW TO CHECK OUT FLYGERWOODS' NEW SINGLE AND VALENTINE'S DAY GIFT, "SHE KNOWS"! Share this:TweetShare on Tumblr


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Welcome to my blog!
I'm an artist at Fancy Fish Games, a new independent games studio. My husband David Maletz and I have been making games for a long time, so we finally decided to get together with some of our talented friends and make an official studio. Our first game as Fancy Fish will be Havencall, which was recently announced via David's blog, The Legend of GameDev.
Anyways, This blog is where I'll post updates on my artwork and projects (hopefully pretty often), fun stuff I felt like sharing (once in a while), and perhaps a rant or two about things that make me really excited or really angry (hopefully not very often).
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Wedding, family & event photographer in Houston Texas
We had the honor of shooting the February 2017 cover of Absolutely Katy. Meet Kayla Powers & Dixie!
The cover showcased the Katy ISD FFA Livestock show and rodeo – in preparation for the Houston Rodeo which started up this week.
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Jim Parsons is set to executive produce a comedy based on the life of writer and columnist Alyssa Shelasky.
The story is that of a woman nearing 40 who takes the major step of deciding to become a single mother. She is described as independent and optimistic and as having a supportive and eccentric family who live in her building.
Marisa Coughlan is set to write the script based on the story she wrote along with Alyssa Shelasky.
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Director, ASI Data Science
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Richard leads the consultancy service at ASI, bringing the power of artificial intelligence within reach of everyone. ASI Data Science solve business problems using machine learning, and advise organisations about how they might reform their policies and operations to make the most of their data. Consulting sits alongside our fellowship programme which trains data scientists, and a software platform which provides tooling for data scientists.
Previously, Richard was the Director of Transformation – Digital & Data at the Home Office. He led a team working with other parts of the Home Office and across Government to establish a modern digital architecture to support the delivery of public services.
Previously, he was the Director of Performance and Delivery, and a founding member, at Government Digital Service, a unit of the Cabinet Office. Richard led the data and analytics programme which includes the Performance Platform and the Digital Service Standard, as well as data scientists, data analysts and user researchers working across GDS. The Economist and the Guardian have covered the team's work to give government staff a simpler, clearer, faster way of getting the everyday performance information they need to improve public services.
Richard has also worked on Electricity Market Reform, and before that he was at Google as their UK head of public policy. He also spent a year in Freetown with his wife, working for the Government of Sierra Leone to support officials and ministers.
Before Google, Richard was a policy advisor in HM Treasury, running the Gowers' Review of Intellectual Property among other projects. Before that he worked in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, publishing papers on innovation and happiness, as well as unpublished work on education and healthcare. He co-founded Engineers Without Borders UK while studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University.


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Coaching is a lot like parenting – its a journey of learning that is about developing the kids, but can be so rewarding when you step back enough to enjoy the experience yourself. On the field you are surrounded by kids trying to impress their peers, parents, and you during your slice of time in their probably busy lives. My goal has been to help them have enough fun in this team environment to appreciate the things a team can accomplish and have pride in themselves for knowing they were an important part of it enough to come out again next season.
Part of them improving season to season is me improving season to season as well. After all, if you want goals on the field, you need to have goals off the field. A new resource recently pointed out to me was the Responsible Sports Podcast. For example, Jim Liston highlighted his basic rules for keeping it a positive experience for the kids:
- Greet the kids by name (avoid nicknames)
- never punish with exercise
- encourage them to make mistakes in practice so they have something to learn by
- never pick teams in front of the group
- end each session as a group
Its not rocket science, and it doesn't take a lot of time, but there's a lot of free advise out there. There are a lot more resources out there more specific to soccer, but just like teaching the kids, I'd rather have lessons they can use in other facets of life beyond the touchline. How do you keep yourself fit to coach?


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Art of Mixology — mule mugs
Legend of The Moscow Mules, A variation worth Trying
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A cocktail is much more than a vehicle for alcohol. The true pleasure of drinking comes from the act of bringing people together. Strangers become friends, lovers meet and, occasionally, enemies spar. But all come together in pursuit of one thing: a fine beverage in convivial spirit. You're sure to have seen the iconic copper mugs wet with condensation, indicating the deliciousness inside. Enjoying a Moscow Mule is an American pastime and the rose gold cup is as much a part of the story as the cocktail itself. But where did it all begin? The legend of the Moscow Mule...
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As history has clearly demonstrated, the best get-togethers are based on a theme (Mardi Gras, new year's eve, ugly sweater parties). So don't try to reinvent the wheel, instead cut a lime into a wheel and pop it on top of a delicious Moscow Mule. This themed party is not only tasty and refreshing, it's interactive, too. Think words like smorgasbord, potluck, buffet, and Build-A-Bear. Idea 1 : Mugshot Why even think of making a Moscow Mule without a quality copper mug to keep the drink frosty and you looking pretty cool, too? Frankly they're half the fun of throwing...
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Each month we hand select a prominent barkeep to share their best Moscow Mule recipe and share a home bartending tip or two. Enjoy! Adam Oliveras doles out craft cocktails in a timelessly famous bar, The Prince, seen in New Girl, Mad Men and countless movies. Besides rubbing elbows with movie-stars some of the most recognizable people in the world, he's also the Lead Bartender at Skylight Garden in Westwood and has spent the last few years honing his mixology skills. Even with everything he has going on, he graciously carved out a little time to create an original recipe...


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What Difference Will Hollande's Victory in France Make for Europe, for the World?May 6, 2012 at 4:25 pm | Posted in Capitalism, democracy, International Relations, Labor, Political Economy, World Politics | 6 Comments
Tags: European Union, Eurozone, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, World-economy
Francois Hollande has defeated Nicolas Sarkozy to become the first Socialist president of France in 17 years. He campaigned on a platform to renegotiate the austerity package that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Sarkozy had championed, with the support of the British Prime Minister David Cameron and other 'center-right' politicians in Europe. The victorious Hollande argued that the way out of the fiscal crisis enveloping the Eurozone is to focus on growth rather than to reduce deficits. The austerity packages, by sharply curbing government expenditures not only leads to unemployment but also reduced payments to the elderly, the young, and the unemployed. They can therefore no longer consume at their previous levels leading to further unemployment as businesses curtail production and the economy continues its tailspin–as has already happened in Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, and Ireland.
But will Hollande be successful in reviving the Eurozone economies? Will this 'marshmallow' man (so-called because he hates fights) be strong enough to stand up to Merkel? His potential choice as prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault. has suggested that rather than reopening the draft fiscal treaty driven by Sarkozy and Merkel., Hollande will seek to incorporate a minor amendment on growth. This would not be surprising as Hollande's previous experience in government was as an aide to the last Socialist president of France, Francous Mitterand, who in his second term initiated a wave of neo-liberal reforms that de-regulated much of the French economy.
Socialist and Labor parties in Europe, as political expressions of trade unions since the late nineteenth-century, have floundered as manufacturing has shifted to lower-waged countries and trade unions have suffered a tremendous erosion of memberships. After Margareth Thatcher defeated the miners strike in 1984, European unions have steadily declined in political and social significance.
What, too, is a 'growth' strategy has never been addressed except to say that it should not be based on austerity measures. As manufacturing is becoming increasingly automated–labor costs amounted to only $7.10 of a total production cost of $178.40 for Apple's iPhone 4–high-paying jobs in industry are simply disappearing. In large, vertically-integrated industrial operations, workers going on strike in a singe shop can disrupt the entire assembly line and hence undermine corporate profits. If workers in a gear-box plant down their tools, the entire auto assembly line will soon grind to a halt. Workers in the service sector–in the fast food industry or tellers in banks–simply do not have this structural power and hence their ability to bargain for better wages are far more limited. And as industrial production relocates overseas, more and more workers enter the service industries.
With lower incomes, their ability to consume is more limited. And this makes it less profitable to produce more goods and so industrial production continues to plummet as capital is increasingly allocated to financial speculation. This has the strange effect that whenever an election is held, the first question asked by the talking heads on TV is what would be the reaction of the markets to the results–because after the de-regulation of capital controls, the flows of capital into and out of a country are crucial to its economy and there is not government mechanism to regulate these flows.
In these conditions, governments are compelled to maintain market-friendly conditions and this is not something Hollande is likely to change. So what does growth-oriented policies mean? This needs to be spelt out beyond saying that it is the opposite of austerity programs, How is the economy going to add well-paying jobs in a situation when manufacturing is being steadily downgraded in the hierarchy of economic activities?
Iceland–An Independent PeopleApril 20, 2011 at 2:49 pm | Posted in democracy, Free Trade, International Relations, Labor, Political Economy, World Politics | 2 Comments
Tags: 21st Century Capitalism, Euro, European Union, financial crisis, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Internnational Monetary Fund, Ireland, Libya, NATO, neo-liberalism, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, US hegemony, US politics, World-economy
In the midst of the NATO campaign against Libya and the budget deal between Republicans and the Democrats in the US, a far more historically significant event appears to have fallen off the radar. On April 9, 2011, the people of Iceland voted for the second time to reject a government proposal for Iceland taxpayers to repay some €4 billion to the governments of Britain and the Netherlands which had compensated their domestic depositors in the collapsed online bank, Icesave. Initially, the British and Dutch governments had pressured the Iceland government to agree to repay them over fifteen years at a 5.5 percent annual interest–which was estimated to cost each household in the tiny island nation about €45,000 over the period. This was rejected by 91 percent of the voters in a referendum in March 2010. After subsequent negotiations, London and Amesterdam agreed to lower the interest to 3.2 percent and stretch the repayment period to 30 years between 2016 and 2046. The deal was accepted by a large majority of 44 in favor and 16 opposed in the Althingi, Iceland's parliament, which also rejected a clause to submit the bill to another referendum. Nevertheless, as the President, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to sign the bill, it was automatically subject to a referendum wherein it was rejected by almost 60 percent of the voters.
The Dutch and British governments–which had used anti-terrorist legislation to seize assets of the failed Icelandic banks–have threatened to scupper Iceland's application to join the European Union and to take the island nation to court. Reykjavik has insisted that the two governments would get most of their money back and the assets of the Landsbanki bank which set up the Icesave operation would be sold and was expected to realize 90 percent of the Icesave debt. What was at issue in the referendum was not whether London and Amsterdam would be compensated or not–but whether private citizens should be expected to shoulder the burden of repayment of a bank's debt in which they had no hand in incurring and from which they did not benefit. The threat to take Iceland to court is important because it is to frighten off other states which also face indebtedness due to the financial crisis like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. It is simply the question of whether the bankers have to bear the burden of the bad loans they have extended.
Iceland is, in fact, a case study of neo-liberalism gone awry. Before the late 1990s, Iceland's financial sector had been small and the banks were largely government-owned. In 1998, the two leading parties–the Independence Party and the Centre Party–embarked on a privatization of the banking sector, assigning Landsbanki to grandees of the Independence Party and Kaupthing to the Centre Party. A new private bank, Glitnir, was also set up merging several smaller banks. None of these banks had much experience in international finance, but like South Korean banks a decade earlier, these banks tapped into abundant cheap credit and easy capital mobility. Unlike the South Korean banks, their strong ties to political parties, the merger of commercial and investment banking, and low soveriegn debt meant that they got extremely high grades from the credit ratings agencies and as Robert Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir note: "government policy was now subordinated to their ends."
With the government relaxing mortgage rules to permit loans up to 90 percent of value, the banks rode the wave–by buying shares in each other they inflated share prices and enticed depositors to shift their savings to shares. In less than 10 years after the privatization of banks, Iceland had the fifth highest GDP in the world, 60 percent higher than that of the United States, and the assets of their banks was valued at 800 percent of Iceland's GDP. As land prices soared, Icelanders loaded up on lower-interest yen- or Swiss-franc debt.
By 2006, Iceland's current account deficit had soared to 20 percent of its GDP. Late in that year, Landsbanki established an online bank, Icesave, to attract deposits from overseas clients and by offering highly attractive interest rates, it raked in millions of pounds from England, and later millions of euros especially from the Netherlands. This was soon copied by the two other banks. These were established as 'branches' rather than as 'subsidiaries' which meant that they were to be supervised by the icelandic Central Bank rather than regulators in Britain or the Netherlands. Because of Iceland's obligations as a member of the European Economic Area to insure bank deposits, no one thought to worry about whether the Icelandic Central Bank had the capacity to oversee the vastly extended operations of the island's three major banks.
This happy bubble burst in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed, within a fortnight of which the three big Icelandic banks collapsed and by November of that year the krona had fallen from its pre-crisis level of 70 to the euro to 190 to the euro, so sharply cutting the islanders' purchasing power that the three McDonald's franchises were forced to close as the cost of importing ingredients made the price of burgers prohibitive! The country's stock market lost 98 percent of its value! If ever there was a definition of crisis, this was it. It was the first time in over 30 years that a 'developed' state had to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
In the light of all this, Iceland's voters have had the courage to face up to the crisis. It was the first country to kick out the government which had failed so spectacularly. Unlike its neighbor in the North Atlantic–Ireland which underwrote its own banking collapse and loader every household with €80,000 in debt–Iceland let the three banks go under and they imposed capital controls to prevent the flight of capital. Though unemployment in Iceland today is 7.5 percent in Iceland–up from 2 percent in 2002–but just over half of Ireland's 13.6 percent. Though the krona lost almost half its value, inflation is down sharply and without having to pay back foreign creditors, its government finances are in much better shape than those of Greece, Ireland, or Portugal.
Eurozone's WoesDecember 4, 2010 at 5:47 pm | Posted in International Relations, Political Economy, world politics | Leave a comment
Tags: 21st Century Capitalism, Euro, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakstan, Portugal, Spain, world politics, World-economy
The Euro–the single currency adopted by 16 states–has been under siege for over a year beginning with the election of a new government in Greece in September 2009 which sharply revised the country's public deficit from 6 percent of GDP to 12.7 percent. This led to a loss of confidence in the government's ability to repay loans and raised the cost of borrowing, creating greater difficulties for the government to repay the 300 billion euro debt bequeathed to it by its predecessor in office. Normally, a government faced with high debts could devalue its currency and thereby increase the competitiveness of its exports and attract both foreign investments and tourists but the adoption of the common currency ruled out this option.
Eventually, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cobbled together a rescue package of €110 billion ($146 billion) in May 2010 in return for Greece implementing very severe austerity measures. European policy makers also set up a European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to create a safety net of upto €750 billion to preserve financial stability among member states of the common currency.
These floodgates came under renewed threat when German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a statement that in future financial crises, creditors must also share in the losses rather than only the tax-payers. As Ireland was the most indebted economy within the Eurozone, this caused interest rates on Irish bonds to spike causing a further crisis in confidence. Unlike the Greek crisis which was caused by high public deficits, the Irish crisis was caused by a collapse of its housing bubble.
Soon after the introduction of the single currency, weak economic demand in the main Eurozone economies–Germany's real domestic demand in 2008 was only 5 percent higher than in 1999–fueled an asset price inflation-especially in Ireland and Spain. As the former taoiseach (Prime Minister) Garret Fitzgerald noted, the house construction rate in the Celtic Tiger in the last two decades was six times that of Britain–leading to an extraordinary housing bubble stimulated by the Anglo Irish bank and a host of overseas banks. When the bubble burst, instead of the banks' creditors sharing the losses, the government assumed their payment obligations, nationalizing the Anglo-irish Bank and creating the National Asset Management Agency to take over large loans from other banks, effectively transforming private debt into public debt.
The ECB and IMF have once again cobbled together a rescue package of €85 billion ($115 billion) but this has not stopped a massive gap in the bond spreads (an increase in the cost of borrowing for the weaker members of the Eurozone, especially Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy) and the fear is that if the crisis spreads to Spain and Italy, two of the largest economies, the EFSF would be inadequate and it would cause an enormous political conundrum: citizens of the stronger states will become increasingly unwilling to bail out the more 'profligate' states, and citizens of the latter would be unwilling to put up with increasingly stringent long-term austerity measures.
Spain is fortunate because a large amount of its government debt is owed to its own banks rather than to overseas banks. At the beginning of 2010, Spain's public debt was only 53 percent of GDP, about 20 percentage points below that of the Eurozone average and half that of Italy's. Last year, when the budget deficit stood at 11.1 percent of GDP, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also pushed through an austerity package that led to the government's deficit falling by 47 percent in the first ten months of 2010. The problem for Spain is its high private debt–especially the heavy borrowing from overseas banks to fund home construction in the years up to 2008, Before the start of the recession, Gilles Moec of the Deutsche Bank estimated that private sector debt was 210 percent of GDP compared to 130 percent for Germany, France, and Italy.
If the extent of the impending crisis have left many to wonder about the future of the euro, the problem surely is not in the common currency. As Philippe Legrain wrote in the Financial Times there is a lot to be said for
What was the problem was that capital from the stronger members of the Eurozone was channeled to fund asset bubbles in Ireland, Spain, and elsewhere. Tighter regulations of cross-border investments can mitigate this problem. But more importantly, why are lenders coddled in cotton wool while taxpayers are burdened with huge debts they had done nothing to incur? Ordinary Irish citizens, as Paul Krugman, has underlined are:
bearing a burden much larger than the debt — because those spending cuts have caused a severe recession so that in addition to taking on the banks' debts, the Irish are suffering from plunging incomes and high unemployment.
Earlier when Iceland and Kazakhstan faced financial crises, creditors shared in the pain. The external debt of Kazakhstan's banking sector which had stood at 26 percent of GDP when the crisis struck in February 2009 had been cut almost in half by September 2010 by making creditors share in the losses and accepting various combinations of senior and subordinated debt. There is no reason to let banks off the hook. In Iceland, the crisis caused the election of a left-leaning government which also were able to get better terms.
If the current crisis enveloping the Eurozone leads to the election of more left leaning governments, and to a refusal to nationalize private debt and to greater regulations over the economy, it may be the final nail in the neoliberal coffin!
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author · William Shakespeare
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genre · History play
language · English
time and place written · Around 1592, London
date of first publication · 1597
tone · Shakespeare's attitude toward Richard is one of condemnation and disgust, combined with a penetrating fascination with the mind of the power-hungry psychopath.
settings (time) · Around 1485, though the actual historical events of the play took place over a much longer period, around 1471–1485
settings (place) · Various palaces and locales in England
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rising action · Richard persuades Lady Anne, Prince Edward's widow, to marry him; he has his brother Clarence murdered; he has the two young princes in line for the throne murdered .
climax · In Act III, scene vii, Buckingham and others entreat Richard to accept the crown, which he pretends to refuse and then accepts.
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In Wedding Photography, you get what you pay for
Why is wedding photography so expensive? More than a few people have asked that question over the years. To the average consumer, it seems a common sense thing to ask. All they're doing is taking pictures. What about that is worth $2000 or more?
Let's begin this article with a reality check. People spend hundreds of dollars for a limo that they'll have for four hours. They spend $5000 on a reception hall with $30 a piece plated dinners. A bride will spend $1000 or more on a dress she's only going to wear once. The couple will spend $500 on a single bouquet of flowers, and in some cases over $1000 on the decorative flowers for the wedding, all of which will be gone by the next morning. The groom will rent a tuxedo that costs $200-$300, and it has to be returned promptly the following day. But when it comes to the photographer, who is going to produce and prepare the only lasting memento of their event, he or she is out of their mind to ask more than $500.
I've read many articles discussing ways to cut costs with your wedding photography, and most of them, unfortunately, are very bad advice.
1) Price Shop – While it can be generally agreed that shopping around for the best price is a good idea, be sure you are shopping within comparable areas of the market. A photographer who costs $3000 versus a photographer who costs $500 is comparing apples to lemons. If you want to compare $500 versus $600 or $450, then you are shopping comparable services. Likewise, you are shopping comparable services if you are comparing $3000 versus $2800 or $3200. If you think you are getting a deal by going with the $500 photographer to save yourself money over the $3000 photographer, you aren't.
2) Put Cameras on the Tables – This is by far the worst idea I've ever seen, and I speak from many weddings worth of experience. In the first place, you aren't saving as much money as you think. Disposable cameras cost roughly $6 each, and it runs you, per roll, about $7 to develope the film and get prints. If you put out twenty cameras, you are talking about an approximate expense of $260. And you know what you are going to get for your $260? You are going to get pictures of walls and floors. You are going to get pictures of people taking pictures of people who are taking pictures. You are going to get pictures of Aunt Pat's behind. And that's provided you get pictures at all. Sometimes the cameras just sit there unused, and I've personally witnessed a wedding where someone was banging the camera on the table, saying, "look, you can make the flash go off." Other guests immediately began doing the same thing so they could all get a giggle. In the end, you'll walk away with about twenty pictures that are worthwhile, which amounts to about $13 an image. Not a good investment at all.
3) Find Someone Cheap – I know that you're trying to save money, but hiring someone cheap is a very bad idea. It is my experience that photographers who work cheap aren't typically photographers at all. The fact is, anyone can take a picture, but not everyone who can take a picture is a photographer. With the explosion of digital technology, it seems that anyone who buys a nice camera and snaps a few lucky shots suddenly considers themselves a photographer. And since they're so good three months out of the gate, maybe they should do some weddings.
If you go this route, you can expect them to show up with a consumer level camera and a kit lens. While there are exceptions to every rule, this generally tends to be the case. And my condolences to you if you're having a wedding in a low light environment with an amateur using a kit lens. There will be ghosting and motion blur in every last one of your orange pictures.
4) Have a Friend or Relative Do It – Refer to item 3. Whether you are hiring someone or getting a favor from a friend or relative, the fact is, either they are a photographer or they are not a photographer. If they don't have the equipment and know how to use it to accomplish the best possible results in any given environment, your pictures, if you're lucky, will be mediocre at best. Do you know what aperture to use if you are photographing a couple with the sun behind them? If you don't know, chances are good that the friend, relative, or amateur isn't going to know either. A professional will.
5) Get the Negatives/Raw Files to Make Your Own Album – First of all, no professional photographer worth his salt is going to give you the negative or Raw files. You might get processed jpegs, maybe even in high resolution, but you aren't going to get the Raw files. Secondly, professional photographers aren't providing you with scrapbook junk albums with the peel-back, static-plastic pages. The albums are generally matted or flush mount. You have to have a retail license to get those at anywhere close to a reasonable cost. So this is another instance of comparing apples to oranges. If you can get the files, and if you make your own album, it will pale beside what the photographer would have given you, both in quality and artistry. And that's assuming you can even open the Raw files, which requires particular software, in some cases proprietary.
What the people who try to help you save a buck neglect to realize is that there is a reason professional photography is so expensive. They'll tell you to ask, for example, if you can have the Raw files, when what you should be asking is, "do you have liability insurance?". They tell you to ask to see additional samples, when what you really need to see is a finished album that demonstrates their competence in photographing a wedding from start to finish. Any Joe can nail a good shot, but can he nail two or three hundred of them to make a nice album?
Some other questions that are truly worth asking:
1) Are you shooting medium format, full frame 35mm, or APS? – Medium format will give you images from 28-64 megapixels. Full frame 35mm will give you images from 21-25 megapixels. APS is a consumer level camera in the 10-12 megapixel range, and you shouldn't pay a premium price if that's what they're using.
2) Are you accredited with the Better Business Bureau? – If they're not, what recourse do you have if your photographer gives you terrible service or products? If they are, you can at least check their profile at the BBB website.
3) Do you have a business license? – Why in the world would you pay anyone for a service who isn't legitimate? That's very risky.
4) Are you insured? – What happens if they drop dead of a heart attack in the middle of your wedding? What happens if they fall in a fountain and ruin not only their camera gear, but all the pictures they took up to that point, as in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cvsImyIZA? Liability insurance is a must.
5) Do you have backup equipment? – If they drop the only lens they have and damage it, what then? I guess they won't be taking any more pictures. Insurance is a non-issue. It can take care of their equipment after the fact, but it does nothing for them at the time of when they still have the rest of the wedding to shoot.
6) Are you going to use fresh flash cards? – While flash cards are generally reliable and have a very long, usable life, they will eventually go bad.
To illustrate the point, I'll talk about a certain wedding on August 28th. Everything went smoothly. Bride and groom were very happy with their pictures. The following month, her cousin got married at the same place. The amateur photographer photographed the entire wedding on a single, used flash card. The card went bad. The entire wedding was lost. She (the photographer) was not legitimate. She was not insured. The cousin lost everything with no recourse.
Was it worth the alleged savings?
But moving on to more important things, clearly a professional is a wiser choice. But the question that remains is, why does it cost so much?
1) A professional will show up at your wedding with $16000-$20000 worth of professional equipment, with back-ups of everything. That equipment costs a lot of money, and it needs to be maintained, repaired, and occassionally replaced.
2) A professional will have insurance that can cost as much as $800 a year.
3) A professional deserves a professional wage.
4) Prints, paper, ink, and other supplies and cost of goods cost money.
5) A professional is educated in his or her trade.
6) A professional can show you samples that will give you peace of mind and confidence.
7) A professional is experienced and knows what to do in a given situation to get the shot.
Ultimately, you can hire a $500 amateur and take your chances. They will show up with a 12 megapixel camera, a used flash card, a kit lens with a maximum aperture of F/4, and if you're lucky, they'll have a shoe-mount flash unit. If something goes wrong, I hate it for ya. If they mess up and miss all your important shots, I hate it for ya. When your inside pictures are all underexposed, or have motion blur because their lens is inadequate, I hate it for ya. When you and your intended are silouettes against a white sky because they didn't know how to light and expose for a backlit situation . . . I hate it for ya! The internet is loaded with woe-is-me tales from disappointed brides who got messed up pictures, haven't gotten their pictures at all, etc. In the end, you will get what you pay for.
If you hire a professional, it will cost you a good bit more. But they'll show up with a professional camera that will give you high resolution images. They'll have new flash cards, professional series lenses with F/2.8 apertures that can handle low light situations, and a shoe-mount flash. They'll also have backups of everything in case something happens. They'll have liability insurance in case something drastic happens. They'll get all the important shots. Your pictures, inside or outside, will be properly exposed, sharp, crisp, and without motion blur. When you're back lit against the sun, they'll have lights to compensate, and know how to meter the ambient light to get a clean exposure between the foreground and the background.
The choice is yours. How do you want to spend your money? Invest in something you will love and enjoy for the rest of your lives together without regrets & always remember, "You get what you pay for."


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I joined this club today. I'm NOT Happy! (I'm Grumpy). ;)
Fortunately I found it while oiling the cups in preparation for our club's longest run of the year (tomorrow)
Seems strange that the end broke off. I wonder if the nut came loose or perhaps the keyway gave out...
No idea honestly. Didn't hit anything, pot holes etc.
Now that you mention it, it IS an odd place to break. The axle key was still in the hub and when I drove it out it looked ok.
You may want to check the inside of the wheel hub. If it has an interior shoulder defect, the hub may only be in contact with the end few inches of the axle. Over time the stress can cause the axle to fatigue and fracture. Best of luck.
How about some straight-on shots of the fracture? I'd like to see if was sudden or developing over a period of time.
Was it a reproduction axle?
Were you using axle shims?
Check your hubs for worn out tapers.
I second Walter's request for a well focused closeup of the fracture surface.
That's why safety hubs are a real good idea on any car that gets driven a lot. Think of the world of hurt that would cause going down the road at any speed. glad you found it when you did.
Looking at the stub left over, it has double set of holes for cotter to the axle nut.
Infers to me that is a very worn axle or hub, in that the nut had to be turned in well past the original cotter hole. That tapered end needs to match the hub well, otherwise some toggle load can occur.
A used Ford axle can only provide so much service.
I knew there was a 2-piece crankshaft club to join, I never knew there was a broken axle club to join. Just one more thing to worry about. Thank you.
I�m guessing axle shaft breaks were common back in the day. I have several axle housing with the bottom of the brake backing with a flat ground into it.
If you want a car that breaks axle shafts, try a Chevy 490 with a leather faced cone clutch. A lot of 490's running today use modified Ford TT axle shafts and modern clutch facing.
It used to happen to plymouths made in the 30's and 40's too!
I would suspect the key might have been too tight and the side of the hub toward the backing plate was tight but the outer edge was loose causing metal fatigue at the point of break.
Original Ford axles are now at least about 80 years old. Metal fatigue sets in. On the photos you can see lots of wear which suggests at some point things were moving about a bit. Axles break all the time.
Yes floating hubs are great, but not sure I could cut down the housing on my 12. Also have seen two floating hubs come apart on tours.
No solution is perfect.
Here's my application for the club. Happened last year.
I'll work on the photo you asked for. Yes, I had used axle shims.
Closer inspection indicated that the break was the final straw and an earlier crack appeared to be evident.
I never noticed the second cotter key hole. Must be blinder than I thought!
The use of shims tells me that the axle or hub taper was worn. Being worn, there was not 100% contact between the axle and hub across the entire taper. That created concentrated pressure points at the limited areas of contact. In your case, it looks as if all of the driving/braking forces were exerted only on the small end of the taper, leading to high stress concentrations at that end.


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Present Sounds is very proud to announce three new record releases, all coming within a few weeks of each other. We hope you will check out some sounds and maybe buy a CD or two. The catalogue is located to your right, you can order by mail on the link or you can click on any album cover to hear samples and purchase a CD. Let us know what you think.
First up: Seattle Percussion Collective, Volume 1 (PS1001)
This isa new record bya fantastically talented group from Seattle, led by percussion wizard Dale Speicher. This group has been working together for a couple of years, and has gotten an amazing amount of critical acclaim for their concerts of very difficult and modern repertoire. This disc includes works by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Tom Baker and Roger Zahab, as well as a work by Speicher. With several world premiere recordings, this is a disc not to be missed.
Next out is a new record by Triptet, You Can See the Bottom (PS1002)
A record from outer-space, or outer-outer-space. This improvising trio of Michael Monhart on saxophone, Greg Campbell on percussion and french horn, and Tom Baker on fretless guitar first played together in a Sun Ra Tribute band. Since then, they have been exploring the far cosmos and limits of free-jazz. The group recently had a very successful debut in NYC for an east-coast CD-release, and will be playing on the IsThatJazz? music festival in January of 2011. Watch for an announcement of their upcoming CD-release concert in Seattle.
Finally, our newest record: Vertigo (PS1003) - COMING SOON
Vertigo is a group led by the amazing clarinetist and composer Jesse Canterbury, and includes Chris Stover on trombone; Joanne deMars on Cello; and Tom Baker on acoustic guitar. A strange and wonderful combination of instrumental timbres, these players create a sound that is very new and unlike any other ensemble out there. With quirky and groove-based compositions by Canterbury, this record feels completely familiar and totally disorienting at the same time.


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Top Ten Tuesday | Top Ten Beach Reads (100th post!!)
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Great list! Love Anna and HP too:)ReplyDelete
Yes, Harry Potter! Has everyone else forgotten Harry Potter?! Perfect for summer.ReplyDelete
Here's my list of Best Beach Reads!
Vampire Academy! Interesting choice!ReplyDelete
Great List! You can't go wrong with Stephanie Perkins for a summer read. I need to check out Lola. I need to start The Vampire Academy series!!ReplyDelete
My TTT- http://angelica-2009.blogspot.com/2013/06/top-ten-tuesday-8.html
Fab list! Geek girl is a favourite of mine! Adorable is on my tbr pile (near the top) and I chose Sophie kinsella too! Here's my list...http://fabulousbookfiend.blogspot.co.ukReplyDelete
I love Sophie Kinsella. All of her books are perfect beach reads. I need to get my hands on a couple of Adorkable. Pivot Point was awesome. I think Anna makes every list I make. Great list!ReplyDelete
Natflix&Books' TTT
I chose Anna and the French Kiss and VA as well! Great choices!! Adorkable looks super cute!ReplyDelete
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Every Monday, we'll be taking a look at how the Yankees' top prospects (their MLB.com Yankees Top-30 rankings are in parenthesis) are faring.
Deivi Garcia, RHP, Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (No. 1, MLB No. 66) -- ETA 2020
Garcia failed to get through the fifth inning in either of his two starts this past week. Garcia allowed two runs in both contests, walking four and striking out nine batters in 8 1/3 combined innings.
Estevan Florial, OF, High-A Tampa (No. 2, MLB No. 67) -- ETA 2021
Florial has one hit in his last 14 at-bats after his six-game hitting streak came to an end. Florial is hitting .233 with a .292 on-base percentage and .377 slugging percentage with six home runs and 30 RBIs in 57 games for Tampa.
Luis Gil, RHP, High-A Tampa (No. 4) -- ETA 2022
Gil struck out four batters in four shutout innings in his last start, but he couldn't go further as he walked four batters in the process. The free passes, his lone issue at Low-A Charleston, are still plaguing Gil as he's walked eight batters in 13 innings since he arrived in Tampa.
Clarke Schmidt RHP, High-A Tampa (No. 5) -- ETA 2020
Schmidt followed up a seven-inning scoreless start in which he struck out nine batters, with a complete dud surrendering seven runs in three innings. Schmidt possesses a 3.84 ERA in 63 1/3 innings with Tampa this season.
Roansy Contreras, RHP, Low-A Charleston (No. 13) -- ETA 2022
Contreras notched his eighth win of the season, tossing six scoreless innings, while allowing just four hits. Contreras has allowed only three runs in his last four starts (23 innings), which has lowered his season ERA to 3.77 over 107 1/3 innings.
Alexander Vizcaino, RHP, High-A Tampa (No. 14) -- ETA 2022
In his third start for the Tarpans, Vizcaino allowed three runs across six innings of work in a no-decision. Vizcaino struck out nine hitters without walking a batter. Vizcaino now has 120 strikeouts in 105 1/3 innings with Charleston and Tampa.
Nick Nelson, RHP, Double-A Trenton (No. 15) -- ETA 2020
Nelson won his fourth straight start, a fantastic 11-strikeout performance in which he didn't allow any runs in 6 1/3 innings of work. Nelson lowered his ERA to 2.35 in 65 innings with Trenton.
Trevor Stephan, RHP, High-A Tampa (No. 16) -- ETA 2019
Stephan scattered seven hits in five innings, managing to allow just one run (his only run allowed in his last three starts) as his upswing continues. Stephan struck out seven batters in the contest and has now rung up 19 batters in the span that has stretched 17 1/3 innings.
Michael King, RHP, Double-A Trenton (No. 20) -- ETA 2019
After getting tattooed for 10 runs in his previous start, King righted the ship some with a two-run 5 2/3 inning start. King allowed six hits, did not walk a batter and struck out three.


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Parts of murm's sound are certainly not easy listening. In fact some of it could make you uncomfortable enough to want to walk away. Why would anyone want to listen to it then? Actually I am not entirely certain of that myself... I am just creating the kind of sounds which live in my head. Also, my political and social awakening has been a recent phenomenon and, unlike my contemporaries, I am constantly amazed and fascinated by my discovery of how our world works. To me murm is also a fuzzy little cotton wall for absorbing that shock.
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reprinted from March 2013, Four Seasons Taste on-line magazine… A TASTE OF PARIS by Anne Kleinberg Ah, Paris. The City of lights, of food and fashion, of architecture and amour. Just about every fabulous adjective you can think of applies. But a city of afternoon tea? A center for cookbooks? Really? During the weekend of February


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asking his protection. Columban at this time was strong in the favour of the royal house, and so the bishops seem to have taken no further steps against him.
Before long Columban lost the support he derived from the Burgundian court. Attracted by his holiness Theodorik II, king of Orleans and Burgundy, often came to Luxeuil to seek his prayers and counsel. The king, who had put away his wife, lived very evilly, and in 609 Columban took advantage of one of his visits to urge him to put away his concubines, and have children by a lawful wife and queen. The king was inclined to obey him. Columban's conduct, however, enraged the king's grandmother, the famous Brunhild, for she feared that if her grandson married she would lose much of her dignity and power. It chanced one day that Columban visited the old queen at the town now called Bourcheresse. When Brunhild saw him enter the hall, she brought the sons that different concubines had borne the king and set them before him. He asked what they wanted of him. 'They are the king's sons,' she answered ; 'strengthen them with thy blessing.' The quick temper of the Celtic saint was thoroughly roused. 'Know this,' said he, 'that these boys shall never hold the kingly sceptre, for they are the offspring of the stews' (Fredegarius, c. 36). After this Brunhild and the king acted spitefully towards Columban, and though a temporary reconciliation took place the abbot again excited their anger by writing to warn Theodorik that unless he amended his life he would withdraw from communion with him he would, that is to say, personally separate himself from him, as St. Ambrose did from the Emperor Theodosius, a wholly different matter from a general excommunication (Lanigan, ii. 279). On this Brunhild stirred up the nobles against the abbot, and incited the bishops to find fault with his monastic rule (Vita, 18). Urged by the party thus formed, Theodorik went to Luxeuil and ordered the abbot to grant free access to his convent to every one alike, according to the custom of the country. Columban refused, and shortly afterwards the king sent him to Besancon that he might there await his pleasure. No restraint was put upon the abbot's movements while he was there, and so he quietly returned to Luxeuil. When the king heard of his return he sent soldiers to drive him out of the monastery, ordering that none save his Celtic monks were to accompany him. Columban left Burgundy in 610, after having spent twenty years there. He and his companions were conducted with considerable harshness to Auxerre, and thence to Nevers, where they were made to embark on the Loire. From Tours, where he visited the tomb of St. Martin, Columban sent a message to Theodorik warning him that in three years he and his children would be destroyed utterly. At Nantes the party was to be shipped off to Ireland. While waiting there for a vessel Columban wrote a touching letter of farewell to the monks he had left in his Burgundian monasteries. With many passionate expressions of grief he bade them obey their new head, Attala, and requested that he would remain with them unless there arose some danger of division about the Easter question (Collect. 132). It is said that the ship that was to have taken him back to Ireland was miraculously driven ashore, and that he and his monks were allowed to go whither they would (Vita, 22; Fredegarius). They visited the court of Hlotair (Clothaire) II, king of Neustria, at Soissons, and were warmly welcomed. While Columban was at the Neustrian court the king consulted him as to whether he should join Theodebert or Theodorik in the quarrel that was then impending between them. Columban, it is said, bade him help neither of them, declaring that within three years the dominion of both should be his. Although earnestly pressed to abide in Neustria, he refused to do so, for he desired to visit other countries. In 611 he left Neustria, and, guarded by an escort provided him by Hlothair, travelled to the court of Theodebert, king of Austrasia, at Metz. Theodebert received him graciously and offered to settle him in any place that he thought would be a suitable station for mission work among the heathen people of the surrounding districts. Columban went to seek out a field of labour for himself; he ascended the Rhine, and entered the present canton of Zug. Here he and his monks preached to the Alemanni and the Suevi. In his zeal he set fire to a heathen temple, and this so enraged the people that he and his party were forced to flee. They went to Arbon on the Lake of Constance, and thence to the ruins of the ancient Bregentium, now Bregenz, where they established themselves. Columban again destroyed the images of the heathen people, but the preaching of St. Gall, who was one of his companions, and who knew the language of the country, had considerable effect, and the missionaries appear to have been unmolested.
The overthrow of Theodebert at Tolbiac in 612 brought Bregenz under the power of Columban's enemies, Theodorik and Brunhild (Fredegaritus, c. 38). He therefore departed for Italy, leaving St. Gall, who either was or pretended to be sick, behind him


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JACKSON — Neel-Schaffer Inc. is once again ranked among the nation's Top 500 design firms by Engineering News-Record, coming in at 199th on ENR's list for 2014. It marks the 20th consecutive year Neel-Schaffer has been included in ENR's Top 500. Neel-Schaffer is the only Mississippi-based firm that is ranked among the top 200 nationally by ENR. The Top 500 ...Read More »
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Mississippi State makes NSF ranking of research universities
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University continues to rank among the nation's top research universities, according to a new survey by the National Science Foundation. The recently released NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey for Fiscal Year 2012 places the university at 92nd overall among public and private institutions, based on $233.2 million in total research and development expenditures. At ...Read More »
BKD makes rankings from two magazines
BKD, LLP CPAs & Advisors has been ranked the 12th largest national firm in 2014 by Accounting Today and named a leading training and employee development company by Training magazine. The 2014 Accounting Today Top 100 Firms list has ranked BKD the 12th largest firm in the nation. BKD was also named a national leader in audit and accounting, ranks ...Read More »
Mississippi State's MBA program makes top 100 ranking
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University's master of business administration programs, both on-campus and online, now are listed among the Top 100 in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings. While the college's distance MBA program was nationally ranked last year by the publication, the recently released 2014 report marks a milestone for the on-campus MBA program, in that it ...Read More »
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A new study just released puts Mississippi dead last in the U.S. when it comes to brains. The 2014 America's Brain Health Index reveals which areas of the country have progressed, held their own or lost ground in taking measures to improve their brain health over the last three years. Mississippi retains the lowest position among the brain-healthiest geographies in ...Read More »
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8 days in and two parties already done, I think I have at least one party almost every week of December. I love it, I love all the decorations, I love all the smiling faces, there's nothing not to love. Suddenly everything makes me happy. That means I have to be extra careful so that I don't lose track on the fitness front.
This is what I do to keep myself on track
- I keep reminding myself I don't want to start 2015 unhappy because I have put on weight. I want to start my new year being happy and that means I need to be healthy, that means I need maintain my lifestyle irrespective of the parties
- On the day of the party all my other meals are lot more clean, so I stick to boiled eggs for breakfast, fruits for snacks, vegetables (boiled or grilled) for lunch.
- I choose what I eat at the party depending on what I like, I don't waste calories on stuff I don't really like too much. I usually skip the starters that are passed around; if there are carrot sticks then I might nibble on those but otherwise no starters for me. Main meal I always have more of the turkey, very little stuffing, I love the chestnut salad and I have a little (a small spoon) of everything else.
- Finally dessert, I share dessert I usually have a spoon from T's plate.
- My guilty pleasure is the mulled wine; I love it so that's where my calories add up. The way I avoid too much of wine is by setting up a early morning workout date, If I don't find a workout buddy then I make sure I tell somebody who will keep me accountable this keeps me from going overboard.
Just because I have a party to attend doesn't mean I miss a workout, it means I add a few extra minutes to my usual workout for a few days (just a few extra minutes of running, or maybe an extra set for all my exercises)Keep Reading I will Keep WritingTanvee


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GEST Applauds Appointment of Scott Angelle as Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
Lori LeBlanc, Executive Director of the Gulf Economic Survival Team, issued the following statement today on the appointment of Louisiana Public Service Commissioner and former Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Secretary Scott Angelle to the post of Director of the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).
"The Gulf Economic Survival Team is extremely pleased with the announcement that Scott Angelle will lead the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Scott has been a long-time champion of the power of our American offshore oil and gas industry to fuel our nation and our economy, and his leadership at BSEE will be essential in securing American energy production in the Gulf in the years ahead.
"Having had the opportunity to work alongside Scott when he served as the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, I cannot think of a more qualified person to be the Director of BSEE. In addition, while serving as interim Lt. Governor of Louisiana, Scott aggressively and successfully worked to end the federal moratorium on offshore drilling and get our industry back to work in the Gulf of Mexico following the Macondo accident in 2010.
"Scott Angelle is committed to common-sense regulations that ensure safety and environmental protection with transparency and predictability to ensure that America's offshore oil and gas industry will continue investing in the Gulf and producing jobs and energy that fuel America. We look forward to working with him in this new role to strengthen American energy production in the Gulf."
Read BSEE's announcement on their website at www.bsee.gov