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rajukumar8926 · 2 years

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Makeup Fixer Sprays What They Are and How They Can Help Your Skin

Whether a big event or a warm summer day, making your eyeshadow, lip-gloss, and basics last from day to night can be challenging. A makeup fixer spray is a solution if you want your makeup to withstand the elements, tears, and everything in between. These beauty fixer sprays are used as the final step in a makeup routine. This makeup troubleshooter spray can keep makeup in place during summer days, covered in sweat during vacation, workouts, and even on oily skin.

Makeup fixer sprays, most of which are alcohol-based, are responsible for your makeup lasting longer. Although they may comprise oils, alcohol is usually among the top four ingredients. Makeup fixers have a more pungent perfume scent to mask this same aroma of alcohol. If you apply a fixing mist without first establishing your makeup, the grip will only be effective for the upper layer of makeup, so a setting spray is required.

Makeup Fixer vs Makeup Setting Spray:

Makeup setting spray highlight skin-nourishing ingredients, whereas fixing sprays secure the connection of all cosmetics. Fixing sprays also contain alcohol. Alcohol conserves the polymer network as well as improves cosmetic hold. Fixers disadvantage many liquor droplets are unsuitable for people with sensitive skin.

Fixing Sprays For Oily Skin: 

If you have oily skin, your foundation will most likely start to look shiny when you're ready to leave for lunch. To keep shine under control, use a setting spray with mattifying properties. They may contain additives that absorb excess shine, allowing your makeup to last longer.

Fixing Sprays For Dry Skin:

If you have dry skin, you can use makeup helpers because makeup cannot adhere seamlessly to the skin's surface when it is dry, making it more prone to falling away and streaking. If you have dry skin, look for makeup fixers that provide moisture to your skin. And, if your composition is prone to oxidation, making your skin look duller as the day goes on, look for products that contain antioxidants.

Makeup Fixing Sprays For Every Skin Type:

These makeup fixers offer glow-enhancing eyeliner less prone to melting, caking, sliding, and fading in hot, humid, or sweaty conditions. It plumps the skin surface, confers a healthy radiance, and helps makeup last longer thanks to its lamp pigments and mucopolysaccharide equation. You can even use this one under makeup to prepare your skin for foundation application or to hydrate your skin at any time of day.

How To Use Mixer Spray?

Shake This Same Spray Bottle Vigorously:

As previously stated, you should conduct a raw material check before selecting a Makeup fixer spray. Now that users know that every face cream and makeup setting squirt, which is in liquid form before your spray, contains far more than 1-2-3 ingredients, you should rattle the sprayer well before use so that the additives mix well and you achieve the desired results.

Maintain A Safe Distance Between Your Face And The Squirt:

Not more than 8 inches in length. You should not spray each part of one's face individually. You should do it to ensure that the composition setting spray covers your entire face in just a few sprays. 

The setting mixer is among the most effective ways to prevent one's eyeliner from fading and smearing throughout the day. Still, some incredible hacks really can help you go above and beyond. These establishing mixer hacks will assist you in accomplishing this and become a regular ritual. 

Increase The Vibrancy Of Your Eyeshadow:

If you find that your eyeliner isn't as vibrant as you'd like it to be, also after applying several layers of eyeshadow, a makeup fixer lotion can help. The tactic is to spray a small amount of the squirt onto one's eyeshadow brush before applying the dye as usual. This will brighten your eyeshadow colour and keep it vibrant for longer. This technique can also be used on concealer under the eyes.

You can purchase a makeup setting mist with SPF formula if you want to keep your eyeliner in place while protecting your epidermis from the sun's UV rays. This is ideal for outdoor occurrences when you don't want to wear heavy sunscreen under one's makeup but do not wish to risk sun exposure, and you can use here Makeup setting spray.

For those people who don't know anything about the Forever52 makeup fixer, this is the best guide that will help them to understand each detail of it.

Makeup fixer spray is essential for makeup as it helps to set makeup without leaving any streaks. Make sure that you will use the best type of spray that will help you to take care of your long-lasting makeup. 

#Makeup fixer sprays

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laresearchette · 2 years

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: MASTERCHEF (CTV) 8:00pm EXPEDITION UNKNOWN (Discovery Canada) 8:00pm EXPEDITION X (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm JOSH GATES TONIGHT (Discovery Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT THE AMERICAN RESCUE DOG SHOW (ABC Feed) THE GREAT AMERICAN TAG SALE WITH MARTHA STEWART (ABC Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

DISNEY + STAR THE CON MARVEL STUDIOS: ASSEMBLED - THE MAKING OF MOON KNIGHT UNDERWORLD, INC. (Seasons 1-2)

NETFLIX CANADA LARVA PENDANT SOMEBODY FEED PHIL (Season 5)

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 12:30pm: Rockies vs. Pirates (SN Now) 7:00pm: Orioles vs. Yankees (TSN3/TSN5) 8:00pm: Red Sox vs. White Sox

NHL HOCKEY PLAYOFFS (CBC/SN) 8:00pm: Blues vs. Avalanche - Game #5

NBA BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS (SN1/SN360) 8:00pm: Celtics vs. Heat - Game #5

RENO MY RENTAL (HGTV Canada) 8:00pm/8:30pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Cameron works with a budget to change a musician's apartment. In Episode Two, Cameron helps a creative couple transform their kitchen and deck.

SHORESY (Crave) 9:00pm/9:30pm (SEASON PREMIERE): Shoresy tries to prevent his team from folding. In Episode Two, Shoresy and his new recruits attend a team mixer at Nat's.

GUT JOB (HGTV Canada) 10:00pm: Eric and Erica are more than ready to crack into their fixer upper in their dream neighborhood while Cindy and Ram's athletic zone hits the final buzzer.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #shoresy #gut job #mlb baseball #nhl hockey #nba basketball

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mysynthfetish · 4 years

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Season’s Beatings!

Bah Humbug! It saddens me to see that the ‘Murican version of Xmas, namely the capitalism-and-consumerism-gone-haywire-on-meth-and-steroids-pseudo-“holiday” that Xmas has devolved into, is slowly but surely creeping its way around the globe. It’s in full force here in Japan, though not quite to the extent of ridiculousness and ridiculosity that prevails back “home” but that’s hardly any consolation. In any case, O my non-existant readers, QUICK GO OUT AND SPEND MONEY YOU AIN’T GOT ON SHIT NOBODY WANTS SO YOU CAN SHOW THEM HOW MUCH YOU CARE ABOUT THEM!!! Meh.

Aaaaaaaaanyway. The Main Insert jacks on my main mixer started giving me the shits so I said fuck both of y’all, yanked those bastards out and replaced ‘em with the new version of the jack and all is fucking well now. Better Soundcraft than Mackie, and better Anything than Mehringer.... Here’s some photos.

This is the offending party. The jacks in question are at the top right. As you can see, they’re a funky kind of Neutrik jack. Weird looking. Not the usual threaded metal receptacle that’s bolted to the front panel. Oh no, it would’ve been more expensive to go with actual threaded-metal-business-end jacks. These Neutriks have plastic jobbies that secure them to the front panel, which as you can see have a + looking indentation into which you insert a coin, and lefty loosey, “click” and off they come. Righty tighty “click” and on they go. I actually have two of these mixers, and I’m sure I posted about them before as I’ve had this same problem with the other mixer and ghetto-fixed that one. This one though, there was no ghetto-fixing, the jack was fucked, so I desoldered both insert jacks and slapped new equivalent Neutriks in there. Nice that they still make them.

I thought it odd that the jack that shat itself had already been circled with pencil. Seems I’m not the only person to have gone on a repair mission with this mixer. And get a load of the sloppy soldering on that other jack at lower left! Fucking hell, people... FLUX REMOVER!! EVER HEARD OF IT?! Slap me upside the face with a semi-sacrilegous salami on sunday.... Aaaargh! Anyway it’s fixed and working perfectly now.

In other news I picked up a weirdo little ancient Fostex 4-channel mixer with a built-in compressor, thinking I’d use it as a sub-mixer for snares from my various drum machines. It’s an MN-15. This one has the four RCA line inputs NOT run to the comp, only the single 1/4” mic/line input gets processed. Hmpf! The newer MN-50 though, seems that one is a re-design, which sends everything through the comp. Well then. I thought I’d just re-route the outs of the four input channels to the in leg of the mic/line slider and that’d be that.

The folks at Fostex are nice as fuck! The PCBs are very clearly labelled! But in the end, it isn’t working exactly as I thought. If you have any of the four channel faders zeroed, the signal cuts out entirely. I mean even if you zero out a channel that has nothing connected to it, the whole works gets silenced. Weird! But! If they’re raised even a smidge, everything works fine. Maybe there’s a ground plane separation I missed. In any case.... for the time being it’s been shelved.

Arturia DrumBrute Impact in da haus. This guy’s been hanging out here for about a month now. The more I play with it the more I like it. Yeah. They really did quite a good job with this. I noodled with the original DrumBrute in a shop but it was a bit too big and the sounds didn’t really do it for me, so I was a bit skeptical about the Impact at first. I thought it was just a smaller, trimmed down version with a madeover front panel and new color scheme but yeah nope. The sounds are really good, the sequencer is loads of fun and quite flexible, all around I’m very satisfied with this little bastard. If I have to say what I don’t like about it, well, the snare needs a bit more punch, and it would be awesome if the knob positions were memorized with each pattern (like the MFB-503 does). Otherwise, it’s a keeper for sure. Oh and this...

That right there is the most beautifulest distortion pedal I done ever laid eyes on. Sounds awesome as fuck too. Man I love this one. The visual element is simply astounding, mesmerizing even. Icing on the cake. Such a fantastic pedal. Currently I’ve got the Volca Nubass run through it, and fuck me sideways do those two get along like a house on fire in a thunderstorm. Perfect pairing. AAAAND....

That happened. Well I got it on extended loan from a friend who was letting it collect dust. I totally can’t afford to buy it outright. Maybe we can work out a paymebt plan. Synth rent-to-own or some shit. Haha! Yeah yeah. Anyway I had a Synth Lite II a while ago, and it was neat but noisy, and had no white noise so I modded it (I’m sure if you look waaaaaaaay back I posted about it here). Dunno why I sold it but I did. This mofo though, yikes. Welcome to Minimoog territory. Well, same neighborhood anyway. 3 VCO POWER!! Ring Mod and Sync too, as well as filter FM and the famous feedback loop, built in. The sequencer is a pain to get your head around but is useful. Through effects, like any other synth, it enters a whole new realm. Speaking of effects...

I have it run through this. As a synth, the nutekt is a fun thing to noodle around on, but with a stereo audio input and three simultaneous effects (mod, delay and reverb, with a number of variations of each), using it as an effects processor is a no-brainer. It is clean as fuck too. Personal favorite is ensemble, ping pong delay, and submarine reverb (which is like anti-shimmer, the pitch-shifted reverb is an octave lower instead of higher). Lots of fun.

And that’s all I have to say about that.

#fucktrump #satan #gamechanger audio plasma #mixer fixer upper #mfb synth II #drumbrute impact

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sgt-morgan · 3 years

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Lucky Kentucky ch. 1

Chapter 2

Hello there, this is my new Rockstar!Bucky x Reader fic. It was heavily inspired by my love of seventies mega rockstars, Almost Famous, Classic Rock, and a little bit of personal whimsy. I hope you enjoy, and read responsibly.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ : cussing, sexy times, drugs, booze, smoking, objectification, fornication, liberation, and a litany of other sordid topics and traumas.

Your name didn’t matter, at least not so far as you could tell. They called you Kentucky, sometimes if they felt cheeky, Bluegrass. You liked it, the first band that gave you that name was some shitty college band out of Detroit. They were convinced they were gonna be the next Led Zepplin. They called it quits three years later, a good old fashioned Rock n’ Roll suicide, booze, women, and drugs. The finer things always gets the best amateurs. However, their lead singer had a way with words, he came up with the nickname. He also wrote a beautiful song about a girl named Kentucky, who he just couldn’t swing, some big named country superstar sang the song and the last you’d heard he had been writing for the best of the best since. This earned you your title, Lucky Kentucky. A bit on the nose for your taste, but it made perfect sense. You kept following the music, you went to a band in L.A., the day you left, they signed a record deal with Sony. The next was a little English girl and her backing band, her first tour of England with you landed her a tour of the US faster than they could say ‘Burbon.’

You are what is known in the music business as a road manager, so far as you could tell, this was the job you were born to do. You made schedules, you supplied booze and other artifacts, you got hotels, paid off paparazzi, packed busses, and shoved half out of their mind rock stars on to stages in more countries than you could count, you couldn’t imagine any better life. You were the best of the best, you were who the record company called when everyone else had given up. You were a fixer, and an incredibly talented one at that. You had a gift for taking a mediocre side show band, and turning them into headliners.

So when you got the call from Tony and Pepper that you had to fix The Howling Comandos, you were shocked. They were big time, nothing like your usual fixer upper opener that you could make insta stars. They certainly weren’t your crowd, but you always had a problem saying no to Pepper, Tony’s company manager. Tony was a talented mixer, and a gifted album technician. So when he started his own label, it blew up pretty quickly. The comandos were the first band he signed. They had won Album of the Year their first Grammy season without even batting an eyelash. So once business started booming, Pepper took over the paper work, and Tony did what he did best, Fucking around with a mixing board. You had met them when you started working with Natasha and the Widows, a Blondie style punk outfit. They had a pension for eating men alive. Eventually, it got in the way of their success, so you stepped in and saved the band from total destruction. You and the starks had been thick as theives since.

“Tony, you mean to tell me, that the Commandos, the biggest artists of the decade, need my help?” You scoffed down the line, checking the Widows out of the last hotel of their tour with Greta Van Fleet.

“Yes Bluegrass, I do. Barnes is going through some existential heart break shit ‘cause ole bitch called of the wedding, and fucked the Guitarist of their opener. He’s been all drugs, booze, and sappy shit since, and someone’s gotta get the mother fucker back on stage. I’m Loosing money here Kentucky, something’s gotta give.” Tony sounded livid, there were very few times where Tony was as frazzled as this, so you knew it was serious.

“Alright, but I have conditions.” You sighed, you thought you could hear the sound of Pepper weeping tears of joy, but you couldn’t be sure. “I want the Widows to open, I’m not done with them yet Stark they’ve got some potential that still needs to be tapped. I want Frankie on security, I want Wanda for wardrobe and makeup, I want Vision for my techie, and I’m taking Peter as my Head roadie.” It was a big ask, but if you were doing this, you were gonna need the best possible team.

“Jeez woman, rob the treasure chest would yah? You want all of them? You just asked me for the entire roster. They’re on other tours! I can’t just- HEY! Woman don’t you-“ you heard a slap and an ow, and suddenly you were with the one and only Pepper Potts- Stark.

“Kentucky? You have a deal. You can have the Allstars in three months, everyone’s tours should be wrapping up, that puts you just in time for festival season. You up to it?” Pepper sounded like someone had just kicked her puppy. So you knew, you were the only one that could save the day.

“Virginia? Count me in. Give me the three months to plan and connect with the team and I’ll make sure James Barnes makes it onto that bus.” You could practically taste her relief through the receiver. What had you just signed up for.

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You’d done it. Six months, 7 bus rentals, 75 hotels, 107 plane rides, 20 festivals, 95 shows, 89 cities, and roughly 200 people later, you had managed to construct the American leg of one of the biggest and longest tours you had ever seen. All it took was two months, and 23 bottles of Jack Daniels, and you had done it. Now all you had to do was meet the band, and have your first tour meeting.

You had never been so nervous to meet a group of men in your life. Normally, these meetings we’re pretty laid back and informal. Lots of getting to know you, and goofing off. This time, you were in charge of a multi-million dollar tour that could make or break the band of the decades d ruin your career. No pressure. Needless to say, you were fairly nervous.

You were relieved upon arrival that the first people to make it in were the people who seemed to be the most reliable. Vision and Wanda were quietly whispering to eachother in the corner as always, their hands gently intertwined as they surveyed the rest of their new subjects. Frankie was standing off in another corner looking like an immovable brick wall. His sunglasses firmly in place on his nose, looking scary as always. Peter was off with the widows flirting with their drummer. You didn’t think it would end well, seeing as MJ was a bit of a hot head, and Peter was akward and nerdy, but to your surprise, they seemed to be getting along swimmingly. Natasha and Carol were staring at a book full of something, if you had to guess, it would be song lyrics of some variety, and to your shock and absolute awe, Peggy had saddled up to Steve Rogers. Steve was the guitarist of the Commandos, and he seemed to be thoroughly enjoying her company. Tony and Pepper were chatting with Clint and Sam the drummer and bassist of the Commandos, and Bruce Banner, your newly appointed second hand. James Barnes was nowhere to be seen.

“Well, well, good to see that most of you have arrived early!” You smirked walking to the head of the table with your big box of tour folders, Peter moving instantly to help you. “If I have not yet made your acquaintance, I am Kentucky, just Kentucky, you may call me Bluegrass or Lucky, but I will always prefer Kentucky. It has come to my immediate attention, that you sorry suckers were in need of a fantastic road manager, and here I am.” You survey the room as you spoke taking into account every face that you could see in the room and making sure everyone was following. “Now, where is James?”

————Some unnamed bar across town ————

Bucky’s head pounded. Wether it was from the booze or the pounding music he had no clue, but he could tell that it was far too early to be in this booth.

“You really went for it last night Barnes,” Bucky looks for the source of the voice to find that, Luke Cage, owner of the best bar in LA, was unloading boxes of tequila into his storage cabinets under the bar. “You shouldn’t have either, you’re late for your tour meeting.”

Bucky absorbed the information, and felt it melt out of his brain as if it were nothing more than an irritating ear worm. “How do you know about that?” He sighed running a hand down his face and slowly standing to grab his leather jacket.

“It’s sharpied onto your arm,” Luke chuckled pointing to Bucky’s right arm in just about the only clean space someone could fine. “Steve came in and did it last night before giving about a hundred dollars to let you sleep it off in that booth.”

“Of course he did,” Bucky scoffed, “the punk never knew when to leave well enough alone.” Bucky quickly slipped his sunglasses over his aching eyes, as he watched Luke slide a cup of coffee across the bar. “Goodbye Luke, your bar is the only thing I’m gonna miss about this town.”

“Goodbye Bucky, the free live music, and the fantastic tips are all I’m going to miss about you boys. I’ll tell Jess you said hello.” And with that final fond farewell, Bucky left Luke’s bar for the last time before he was trapped in a tour bus for six months.

The drive to Stark Records was as second nature to him as tying his shoes. He easily glided in between cars, making record time to his place of employment. He parked his bike next to a slot that occupied the sweetest little red corvette he’s seen in a good while. The tune in the reference catches his brain and he starts to whistle the chorus, wishing the artist formerly known as Prince was still around. He walked past Sharon, the desk clerk, giving her his customary wink and a smirk, stealing a sucker out of her candy dish and wandering into the meeting.

That’s when he saw her, the hottest piece of ass this side of the sunset strip. She looked powerful, she looked commanding, she was covered in tattoos and wearing the best looking little black number. She was saying his name. “Where is James?”

“Right here sweet thing, I hope I’m not too late to the party, I’d hate to miss anything that came out of that pretty little mouth.” Boy was it pretty, the full lips covered in a red shade that he could only seem to imagine smeared all over her moth as she panted his name.

“Ah, yes there he is. Hello, James. Just in time to-”

“James is my dad sugar, I’m sure we can think of something a little more clever for you to-”

“Alright then Junior if you don’t mind, I’m trying to conduct a meeting, and I will not be letting a drunken moron interupt my carefully planned work flow.”

Bucky’s jaw snapped shut as the people around him, some friends and some strangers, laughed at the clever lady’s little barb.

“Alright then, as I was saying, I’m here to help. I believe in the Peter Grant method of representation. The you-have-a-venue-you-want-it-filled-I-have-just-the-band-sixty-forty method.” She said, flipping her hair into a simple bun on the top of her head, which Bucky couldn’t find more attractive if he tried, “I have made hotel arrangements for every show, I have made bus arrangements, I have planned for added shows, and delayed dates. I have brought you the best opener I have, the best artists, roadies, security, and technicians I could scrape together, and most importantly, I have given you my time and my trust. I can make your touring life as easy and as simple as humanly possible, or I could ruin it. However, all I want is to get you out there, grinding again, reminding your fans the reason they love you. All you have to do, is let me work, and focus on the music. Can we do that?”

“Doll? I like the way you think.”

“Junior? It’s gonna be a long fucking six months.”

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mmjjbbaannkkss · 4 years

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2020 Jan 20-25 Strength Provisioning

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.” Aristotle

Week 7/XVIII (mixed: FST, 60)

My leg days I’d try to burn fat, then altered the program into stairs and treadmills, and returning to leg-presses or hack-squats, but was just starving and wanting gains. I was unprepared, now needing compound deadlifts and lower leg presses to focus on full recruitment, total muscle. For slow-negative reps, instead of only negatives, going to try tempo declensions. Calves feel better with slow-neg and volume next week. Right lat strain was painful, but one sided and could finish the whole session, with single sided lat pulldown easy two days later, but need rear delt gains to compensate left with obliques. Soy-enriched beef patties on potato bread, mustard.

TLDR https://www.wellandgood.com/good-sweat/toning-workouts-muscle-definition/ Toning is a misnomer, it’s not a myth, bodybuilders are toned and shaped, but they got that why by resistance training for strength and eventually volume training for hypertrophy. Toning isn’t a myth, it’s just often confused for cardio. Toning is less than crossfit, but more than steady-cardio, creating muscle memory, but not always curves.

TLDR https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a21348891/40-year-old-man-workout/

It can be done. Eat some meat.

TLDR https://upfitness.com/bodybuilding/training/10-golden-rules-weight-training-40s/

Hypertrophy and holds. Easy on the spine. Warmups, stretches. Conditioning (toning where resistance becomes cardio).

TLDR https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/gaining-muscle-after-40-a-complete-beginners-guide.html 8-12 reps upper, 12-20 lower, improved form, recovery-minded.

WORKOUTS

#37/48 Heavy Push

Treadmill /fullup > Shldr Press *7/10305050505070 > Hoist *7/20253035506580-95-4f > Bc no left uppercut, r lat recruitment flareout, > Lat Raise *7/5lb*light all, rup r lat lower > Chest Press 2x? *7/305070*4 > Chest press B *7/90*7 > Dips 7x7/6,7- > Pec Deck 7x7/557085*4,100*2 > Pullover/Plate 7x7/pullforwardown20203030404050 > Tri-bar pushdown 7x7/50*5,60*2 > Twist 7x7/null? > Treadmill cooldown /x > Stairmill /5 > Planks 1-/L1-/R1-

Pressure, fuzzing about, at chest press turned tear down to bruise; should've showered prior, dirty;

/after massive headache, aspirin, reading glasses solved; kinda feels like hoist was heavy, back flexed to support, and w/o back warmup, overflexed it, a little raw, my quads are as stiff and glad sunday adds another day before leg day; need to work on entire left oblique connectivity, idk, slept 10 hours before eating and workout, and overthinking it, hurt myself, two major injuries, and a dozen smaller ones, toxicity from deep muscle tissue, by the time I got to the pulldowns, my back needed a posing flex bored waiting for the knot in my low lat to give up; the pressure helped deflate it, the cool healed it, but inflexible, and then the massive headache, intracranial prefontal right hemisphere at lobe divide.

Fatty eggs, stomach burns thru fats and carbs with it, talking to myself means hunger, but by then wouldn’t realize it to even stop by then, not my best session, forced me to work on left laterals tho, win inside a wound? So thirsty;

#38 C-set Pull *X/

Treadmill 10 > 1-Arm Row Mach *7/1030*6 > Palms-In Pulldown *X/557085*4,100120- > Lat Pulldown *X/LR33557-7- > Str arm Pulldown *X/102030*5 > Cable N Shrug X/ 406565100*6- > Row X/50*3,70 > Facepulls X/202530355050 > Preacher Curl X/304050/LR50*3- > Straight Bar Curl X/ > Alt Hammer curls C/ > Treadmill cooldown

One side lat pulldown, single side horizontal rows iff; straight arm pulldown too?

#39/48 FST Legs /lbs

Treadmill /x > Horiz LR *7/10*7 > Horiz *7/1030507090*3 > Hack Squat *7/20*2/full > Deadlifts *7/50*4,10*3- > Leg Ext *7/LR30*3,50*3,70- > Leg Curl *7/30*3,50*4- > Cable Bends *7/36*2,505 > Heel Raise *7/30507090110*3 > Rev Row *7/90*7- > Rope/Crunch *7/85*2,100*4,120- > Treadmill/x

Was an abs day, forgot to plank again, negative reps rope pulldown not great, rope pinched finger and it's been kinda numb for an hour, / kinda funny for 12 hrs.

#40/48 Push *10/

Treadmill /full > Shldr Press */1030*4,50 > Hoist *10/ 202530355065? > Lat Raise/5510101515- > Chest press *10/5050707090-90- > Bench *10/50*6(rlat-) > Pec deck *10/708585100*4 > DB Incl neutral fly/press ? > Pullover LR101020202020 > Tri-bar triceps 3040506070 > Twist *10/90*6- > Plank 1min; > Treadmill cooldown 18;

Every exercise this session has been the fixer one, working backwards, neck cord right just popped in cool down; standing vertebra adjustments, foam roller low lats cracked, first use of sacrum stretch, made for 5.5fts, but yeah; right hip flexor needs magnesium, warmup and stretch, left obliques and lat needs volume training; twisted; r lat still rebuilding of Monday hoists, compensation flex core cords, imbalanced; and mayhaps underdev'd left quad has L knee unrelaxed; have been overstayed; update Google maps in holding pattern, unconfirmed w play store perhaps, refused to update without watching it fucking update, battery at 5%

Soy isolate needs hot water? bogged me supplementing bread, re waking; dark thrash;

#41/48 FST Pull /lbs

Treadmill warmup > Lat Pulldown *7/LR2027354250*3 > Low Row *7/100*7- > High Row *7/355065*5? B; > Palms-in *7/7085*2,100*3,120~ > **Facepulls *7/?15202530355065- > *DB Shrug *7/100*7- > Prchr 1-arm *7/20304050505050 > BB Curl *7/2030cable40*5? > Cable Curl 1-arm *7/30LR*7 > Twist 7x7 / 70*1 > Treadmill cooldown 8

Also, getting sick of clothes and want to wear Dutch shorts if that makes any sense, plus shirts with tall in the size: Mixer grinder attachment, chickpeas+garlic+crockpot? Soy protein powder has to go into pancakes at this point. It's not bad, but it's not monohydrate/hydrolyzed idk. If making noise was art politicians would be smart; how do the cans get the whey mix right; met-rx, sponsor me; which is kewl because lifters pancakes was next; Tired. Salut.

#42/48 Lite Legs *10/

Treadmill /x > Body Squat /? > Horiz 1-Leg *10/LR10*6 > Horiz Press *10/30*3,50*3 > Side Bends *10/304050605040 > Leg Ext *10/LR10*2,30*4 > Leg Curl *10/5070-2,70-6,70-6-,70-4-,70-8- > Heel Raise *10/5070*5 > Rope Pec Knelt Crunch *10/70*2;;85,100- > Rev row *10/90*6- > Twist *10/3050*2,70*2,90-

Preworkout - Really having a hard time with the food balance/intake, finding a safe energy and sleep levels, without starving and not knowing it, my stomach numb or inside out, or overfed and lethargic, if a car, the green zone keeps shrinking and controls aren’t as fine tuned as could be. Post workout - Better.

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georgia lowell char. dev. (long)

BASIC INFORMATION

FULL NAME: georgia leanne lowell

REASONING: her mother's from georgia and still angry about being moved to texas after all these years.

NICKNAME(S): nope. please. beyond whatever pet name shawn calls her: nope.

PREFERRED NAME(S): georgia

BIRTH DATE: may 3

AGE: thirty two

ZODIAC: taurus

GENDER: cis female

PRONOUNS: she/her

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: heteromantic

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: heterosexual

NATIONALITY: american

ETHNICITY: american (irish, german ancestry)

CURRENT LOCATION: washington, d.c.

LIVING CONDITIONS: p good

BACKGROUND

BIRTH PLACE: austin, tx

HOMETOWN: same

SOCIAL CLASS: middle

EDUCATION LEVEL: degree in communications from ut-austin; masters in public administration from georgetown

FATHER: wayne lowell, 68

MOTHER: theresa lowell, 68

SIBLING(S): roseanne chavez, 34

BIRTH ORDER: youngest

CHILDREN: absolutely not

PET(S): king, dog

OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: shawn's family tbh

PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: quite a few but her most serious until shawn was with a diplomat named chris - they were ~steady~ for two years but like a great many things, the stress of the 2016 election put a nail in that coffin. georgia spent A Lot of time on the campaign trail, chris felt neglected, georgia thought he was being thick, they broke up the friday after election day.

CURRENT RELATIONSHIP: serious ass relationship with shawn kyle

ARRESTS?: nah

PRISON TIME?: nah

OCCUPATION & INCOME

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: communications analyst for planned parenthood

CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: it rocks.

PAST JOB(S): waitress, sweater folder at the limited

SPENDING HABITS: pretty reasonable - she has certain things that she's willing to pay out for (suits, sheets) and budgets accordingly.

MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: her kitchenaid mixer. it's pretty and it's her best friend because she has ALL THE ATTACHMENTS.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: aight - she works out five days a weak and alternates lift/cardio days.

SPEED: also good

INTELLIGENCE: she's p smart - analytical and quick.

ACCURACY: aight

AGILITY: good

STAMINA: good

TEAMWORK: she's the best backup you'll ever have but she's starting to shift into a leadership position and she likes it.

TALENTS: georgia can drag a bitch for a country mile.

SHORTCOMINGS:

LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: english, spanish

DRIVE?: yes

JUMP-STAR A CAR?: sure

CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: see above.

RIDE A BICYCLE?: yes

SWIM?: yes

PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: like she played clarinet in junior high band but she was happy to leave it behind.

PLAY CHESS?: no

BRAID HAIR?: yes

TIE A TIE?: yes but she's a lot better at untying them ayyy

PICK A LOCK?: no

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE & CHARACTERISTICS

FACE CLAIM: amber heard

EYE COLOR: blue

HAIR COLOR: blonde

HAIR TYPE/STYLE: long, naturally wavy. she's strict about hair maintenance because hey, it's something to control.

GLASSES/CONTACTS?: reading glasses

DOMINANT HAND: right

HEIGHT: 5'7

BUILD: tall and slim

EXERCISE HABITS: daily, save for weekends. she tries to not go with shawn. it's demoralizing.

SKIN TONE: fair

TATTOOS: nah

PIERCINGS: ears

MARKS/SCARS: appendectomy scar

NOTABLE FEATURES: like damn, georgia is just a knockout. she's a classic.

USUAL EXPRESSION: can a poker face be a pleasant expression? because it's a pleasant poker face.

CLOTHING STYLE: black suits for work, jeans and a shirt outside of.

JEWELRY: tasteful, small.

ALLERGIES: seasonal

DIET: pretty decent

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: nah, not really.

PSYCHOLOGY

ENNEAGRAM TYPE: 1 - the reformer

MORAL ALIGNMENT: neutral good

TEMPERAMENT: choleric

ELEMENT: fire

MBTI TYPE: ENTP

MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: a little anxious now and then because [gestures widely] the current state of shit

SOCIABILITY: active and extensive - she's social by nature and profession and while she keeps about 50% of the circle at arm's length, it's nothing personal.

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: steady af

OBSESSION(S): nah

COMPULSION(S): nah

PHOBIA(S): shawn getting seriously injured, any threats against her/the job actually being carried out.

ADDICTION(S): nah

DRUG USE: nothing that's not prescription

ALCOHOL USE: she can be a wine mom if she's a dog mom okay

PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: nope

MANNERISMS

SPEECH STYLE: clear and articulate, peppered with y'alls.

ACCENT: vaguely texan

QUIRKS: she's very anal about office supplies

HOBBIES: running, cooking, hockey

HABITS: georgia keeps three outfit changes in her office at all times - "called to capitol" professional, cocktail, gym.

NERVOUS TICKS: she plays with her rings.

DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: living a life she's proud of, leaving a

POSITIVE TRAITS: confident, independent, honest, charismatic, energetic

NEGATIVE TRAITS: impractical, stubborn, argumentative

SENSE OF HUMOR: it's really witty and cutting sometimes and it's fart jokes others.

DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: nah

CATCHPHRASE(S): "let's walk that back"

FAVORITES

ACTIVITY: cooking

ANIMAL: dogs

BEVERAGE: red wine

BOOK: make trouble by cecile richards

COLOR: green

DESIGNER: like anything sharp and minimalist

FOOD: goat cheese

FLOWER: pink roses

GEM: diamond

HOLIDAY: thanksgiving is her goddamn super bowl.

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: drive

MOVIE: when harry met sally

SONG: "not ready to make nice" by the dixie chicks

SCENERY: ehhhh not super partial to any one type? like if it's pretty, she's going to enjoy it.

SCENT: shawn after a shower (shawn right off the ice not so much), new books, and her perfume

SPORT: she dated into hockey and now she fucking loves it

SPORTS TEAM: caps

TELEVISION SHOW: meet the press and fixer upper

WEATHER: crisp and clear

VACATION DESTINATION: p much anywhere

ATTITUDES

GREATEST DREAM: honestly, she's good for right now. she's comfortable and confident but long term, she wants a family with shawn and what the hell: leadership in planned parenthood

GREATEST FEAR: lord where do you want her to start

MOST AT EASE WHEN: at home with shawn

LEAST AT EASE WHEN: things are not going according to plan

WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: active shooter is a pretty realistic fear of hers

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: getting where she is on her own merits and work ethic.

BIGGEST REGRET: not a damn one.

BIGGEST SECRET: nope.

TOP PRIORITIES: shawn, self care, work.

#c: georgia lowell

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Don't Invest Your Hard-Earned Money Without Reading These Tips!

Investments are what quite a few people think about getting into, but they're not sure of where to start. This helpful guide is about to come to your aid. If you want to learn about investing, then keep reading the rest of this article. Make sure that you create a game plan for what you desire to accomplish. Figure out how much time the process will take and if it will be worth your while. When you have developed a plan, meet with the necessary parties to discuss the deal that you want to achieve. Be careful about choosing properties with strange room layouts. You may personally find it interesting, but many people don't like these strangely developed properties. They can be extremely hard sells. Picking one up without a potential buyer in mind can lead to it sitting in your inventory for months, if not years. When looking at your business strategy, understand your sunk costs that go beyond the general price of the home. There are also closing costs and legal fees, among other things. Include all costs when calculating your margins. When you invest in real estate to rent the property, make sure you're able to get your money back within a reasonable amount of time. If it takes you years to get the money back in rental payments, then it will be hard for you to use the money on anything property related. If you are looking to buy a rental property from a seller, ask to see his Schedule E tax form. That particular document will honestly tell you what kind of cash flow you can expect from the property in question. Crunching the numbers tells you all you need to know about whether or not to buy. A fixer-upper may be cheap, but think about how much you have to renovate to bring it up in value. If the property only needs cosmetic upgrades, it may be a good investment. However, major structural problems can very costly to fix. In the long-run, it may not give you a good return on your investment. Avoid digging around your property if you are trying to improve the home for sale. Call a professional to come over just to make sure there are no electrical lines or anything else that is important lying around the property. It may even be illegal to dig in some areas, so do your homework first. Start investing immediately if you are thinking of making real estate a career or side business. One thing that can be a mistake is to not get into a market quickly and start learning about how the business works. The longer you stay on the sidelines is the more time you are missing out with people seizing the initiative. Endeavor to keep emotion out of the process of negotiation. Remember, you are buying this home as an investment, and you likely will not be living in it. Keep yourself from feeling too many emotions so you don't pay too much or don't make enough profit in the end. You can earn more income by using this advice. Think about hiring a management company whenever you are unable to pay enough attention to maintaining our properties. Even though you will need to pay a fee to the property management firm, the time you save from dealing with those trivial problems from the tenants would be worth it. Specialize only in one type of investment real estate. For bitcoin mixer , you can choose to focus on fixer-uppers, condominiums, starter homes or apartment buildings. Having a niche that you specifically know a lot about allows you to be more successful and it leaves less room for error when it comes to analyzing the flaws of a property. Get your financial plan down onto paper. Don't rely on keeping things straight in your head. There are a lot of moving figures when it comes to real estate investing. Costs increase and changes are often necessary. You need your first business plan down on paper so that you can keep a handle on that budget with ease. Isn't investing easy? You can now invest your money wisely after reading this advice. Just pick an avenue and pursue it. There's no other way to tell if this advice has helped.

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thisisheffner · 4 years

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Discovery Networks Corners Composers in Music Royalties Battle – Variety

Shows on the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV and Food Network may sound very different in the coming months. That’s because Discovery Networks, which owns those and other cable channels, is instituting a new pay policy that virtually assures no composer currently working on their programs will do so after Dec. 31.

Discovery has informed many of its top composers that, beginning in 2020, they must give up all performance royalties paid for U.S. airings, and that they must sign away their ability to collect royalties on all past shows on its networks.

Music makers surmise that the policy will result in an 80% to 90% drop in their income from these shows. It’s the last straw for many composers who say they will refuse to continue to score such series as “Gold Rush,” “Deadliest Catch” (pictured) and “Alaskan Bush People,” calling the new contract provisions “unprofessional,” “bullying,” “a corporate money grab” and “evil.”

Variety spoke with more than a half-dozen composers who have been informed of the proposal, which is designed to circumvent the 100-year-old system whereby composers are compensated for use of their music in broadcast media. Those royalties are collected and distributed by performance-rights societies ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.

Composer David Vanacore (“Fixer Upper”) says that initial fees are already so low that he and his peers rely on the so-called “back end” payments just to keep operating. “There is no way I can support what it takes to do a show based on what they’re offering,” he says. “I don’t think they understand the amount of time and energy that goes into the creative process.”

Discovery is requesting “direct source licenses” which will enable them to eliminate royalty payments. But composers say those royalties are vital to stay in business. What’s more, they fear that if this tactic is followed by other media outlets, making a living as a media composer in Los Angeles will eventually become impossible.

“All of the added musical value, bespoke musical branding and music scored to picture will not be financially supportable under the new proposed model,” said Didier Lean Rachou (“Gold Rush,” “Deadliest Catch”). “The Hollywood ecosystem of world-class mixers, assistants and musicians that I regularly use are no longer affordable for a small-business owner like myself.”

Composers have been offended by what they call “veiled threats” by Discovery executives that if they don’t take the new deal, their music will be stripped out of existing shows and replaced with generic library music that the network already owns.

Says one: “What they offered was paltry and pathetic. There was no financial component to compensate me for any domestic royalties they are asking me to sign away. If I accepted their withered carrots, they would then ask me to sign away all my past content. That was my retirement. There is absolutely no incentive for me to move forward with them.”

That “retirement,” according to Society of Composers and Lyricists President Ashley Irwin, is important to every film and TV composer because (unlike almost every other creative job in Hollywood) they have no union protection and the benefits that usually affords. “The closest thing we have to a pension plan is that royalty stream that comes through the performing-rights organizations. If that goes away, we’ll have nothing.”

Over the past 20 years, adds Mark T. Williams (“Police Women”), composer fees (the “upfront” money) have declined by as much as 50 percent. “We rely on industry-standard practices of retaining our composers’ share of performing-rights and other royalty income,” he says. “Without that, we don’t have a sustainable business. We don’t just write a piece of music and spit it out. We’re composing, orchestrating, mixing, mastering, providing an entire service as well as support after the fact.” Williams estimates that an inability to collect domestic royalties for music on Discovery networks would lead to an 82 percent decline in his income.

“This is deeply destructive,” offers Russell Emanuel, co-founder and chief creative at music production company Bleeding Fingers (which supplies music for “Alaskan Bush People”). “You cannot cut corners and be producing music at the top level. They’re not doing this to their acting or their voiceover talent.”

Discovery declined to make its music executives available for this story, but issued this statement: “Our 8,000 hours of original programming a year drives enormous economic value to the global music community. We compensate countless composers and musicians for their valued contributions, and will continue to do so.”

Some estimates suggest that avoiding ASCAP, BMI and SESAC royalty payments might save them $25 million or so – less than 1 per cent of Discovery’s third-quarter 2019 revenue of nearly $2.68 billion.

Several composers and music attorneys tell Variety that this initiative “sets a dangerous precedent.” They worry that inexperienced composers who agree to take this deal will erode long-held industry practices.

“What’s at stake here is the destruction of the creative process,” Vanacore says. “This is a downward spiral for all creative people.” And if Discovery follows through with its threat to remove all of the familiar themes from its series based on composers’ refusal to accept the new financial deal, “the shows will be damaged,” he adds.

Adds another veteran Discovery composer, who asked for anonymity: “the threat of having our series re-mixed with other music Discovery owns outright is unheard-of and would send a ripple effect throughout the industry.”

Several of these composers, and other high-profile composers who share their concerns, have banded together to launch a website, yourmusicyourfuture.com, designed to inform the media composing community of their rights and the possible ramifications of giving up the traditional “writer’s share” of royalties. More than 4,000 music-makers have signed up to support the initiative.

“What we have to do,” says Emanuel, is make sure that new composers understand that this does damage beyond their scope.” Williams adds that the proposed deal, if accepted, “undermines composers as a whole. We don’t understand their position and we don’t support it.”

All of the composers interviewed by Variety said they would be happy to continue working for the networks, and their producers, on these and other shows, but not if it means giving up the majority of their income to do so.

In a similar move, Netflix has attempted to convince composers to take the buyout but, sources say, generally back off those demands when composers (especially A-list names) balk.

This content was originally published here.

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Bachelor Party (ATS 1.07)

This is part of my ongoing Buffyverse Project, where I write notes/meta for every episode in an attempt to better understand the characters and themes of the shows. You can find the BTVS list here and the ATS list here. Gifs are not mine.

Bachelor Party is a backstory episode designed to emotionally prime us for Doyle’s death. We learn about his history and issues and where he needs to go from here--just in time for him to die. I’m kind of amazed Doyle made such an impact on the show and is remembered so well when he had only a few (nine) episodes in the first season. But I personally found him funny and charming...sort of the early Xander to Angel (a comparison Cordy notes as well). He brought some much needed levity from all the drama. That being said, this episode isn’t one of my favorites to rewatch. A lot of early Buffy and Angel relies on the plot surprises for entertainment, which don’t hold up on rewatch.

I love that Angel appeals to the brooding hermit in so many of us introverted types. He just wants to curl up with a book but Doyle is begging him to go play trivia at a sports bar (mostly to distract himself while Cordelia goes on a date).

Doyle: I just can't sit around here while..

Cordelia: While I steal into the night with my incredibly-more-wealthy-then-you prince? Makes your little life seem a tad drab, doesn't it? Doyle: Yeah just because he has money... doesn't mean that he can make you happy.

Cordelia: I'll have you know that Pierce has a lot more than money. He has a house in Montecito, he has a Mercedes CLK 320 and a place in the hills with a lap pool.

Doyle: Since you put it that way.

After Cordelia leaves Doyle conveniently finds a picture of Buffy that Angel keeps to brood over. It’s a promotional shot for Buffy and just looks way out of place. Why would Buffy take this moody-as-hell photo and why would Angel chose it of all options to treasure forever? Wouldn’t you want a nice grin or something? My goodness. I have to wonder how Doyle would have figured out what his vision was about at the end had he not seen it. Aren’t his visions usually more local?

Cordelia’s date doesn’t go as planned. Pierce is boring and when they’re attacked by a vampire he leaves her and runs off. Doyle comes to her rescue, which she can’t help but contrast to her rich date.

Cordelia: So, here I am at Le Petite Renard with Mr. Armani, who could keep me in blue boxes for the rest of my life..

Angel: Blue boxes?

Cordelia: Tiffany's! God! And the whole night I was bored silly. All I could think about was: if this wimp ever saw a monster he'd probably throw a shoe at it and run like a weasel. Turns out the shoe part was giving him to much credit.

Cordelia says she swore she would never date a fixer upper again after Xander Harris, but eventually she decides to go ask Doyle on a coffee date...which is when his wife walks in. She’s getting remarried and needs divorce papers signed. Despite pretending to be annoyed by Doyle for the past few episodes she’s immediately jealous when someone with his affections enters the picture. Harry’s husband-to-be played the demon in Anne on Buffy, a point that always annoys me. Are we supposed to pretend this guy has a really dark backstory? Haha. Anyway he immediately assumes Angel is her ex and seems impressed. Not so much when he sees the real Doyle.

Harry’s return causes Doyle to contemplate how little he’s changed from who he was when they broke up. She’s clearly moved on and healed, but here he is still drinking too much and hating his demon half. But changing is easier said than done. Quick backstory notes: Harry and “Francis” married when they were twenty. They met at a food bank. He had recently gotten his teaching credentials for third grade. When his demon half surfaced (his mom decided to keep things hush hush until it was certain he would have it) it tore him apart and ended their talk of having children. Harry learned to accept it while he became miserable and impossible to live with. Eventually Harry left.

Harry: I even tried to get him to go out--meet other demons. At least go to one mixer, you know? But he couldn’t accept himself--or them. So then he was just angry, and pretty much a bitch to live with.

We also find out that Harry went on to study demons around the world, which is when she met Richard Straley. Unlike Doyle, Richard is happy with his demon self.

Doyle: All that time Harry would go on about what an amazing thing my demon half could be, the worlds that it opened up to us, I thought she was just trying to make me feel better. I thought that she was pitying me. But it was true. I just wasn't listening. You know, Harry didn't leave because of the demon in me-- she left because of me.

Doyle decides to sign the divorce papers and try to let Harry go with grace. But when he’s invited to the Bachelor Party things go wrong as Richard’s family prepares to eat his brains. If Richard eats the ex husband’s brains it’s believed he will bring all of their love into the new marriage along with his own. Once again we get the gotcha, I’m a vampire! trick when the family believes they’ve taken care of Angel but he bounces back fast. Doyle and Angel fight the Straley family until Harry and Cordelia walk in.

Cordelia is protective of Doyle, but ironically hits him over the head in his defense because she doesn’t recognize his demon half. Harry is worried about what this says about her upcoming marriage.

Harry: And since when does your family follow the ancient teachings?

Uncle: We don't flaunt our beliefs, but they're very dear to us.

Harry: Oh, please Uncle John! When is the last time you pried your self away from ESPN long enough to spill the blood of a she-goat?

When they insist on performing the ritual Harry gives her engagement ring back. To be honest, it was a little too convenient that Harry never mentions to Cordelia that Doyle’s a demon.

Harry: One word, Francis, just one word and I'll eat your brains!

Cordelia’s method of comforting others seems to work better with Angel and Doyle than it did with Buffy and her friends--probably because they don’t really want to open up and talk about their feelings. Her dismissal is easier to deal with.

Cordelia: Hi, Doyle. Are you going to become loser-pining guy, like, full-time now? Because you know, we already have one of those around the office.

Angel: Hey!

Doyle: Hey!

Cordelia: He can get away with it. He's tall and - and look at the way clothes hang on him. But you..

Angel: Okay, I think you've cheered us up enough.

Cordelia: You can't live in the past. You got to move on. Let it go. Forget it. Tomorrow is another day. Did I mention letting it go?

Doyle: Twice.

Cordelia: You'll get through this, Doyle. Nice guys don't always finish last.

Doyle: You think I'm a nice guy?

Cordelia: I think it, I say it. That's my way.

Funny that they used the phrase “nice guys finish last”--a sure way to gain the hatred of fandom now days.

The episode ends on a cliffhanger when Doyle has a vision of Buffy in trouble.

Character Notes:

Angel: He grills Cordelia’s date before letting them leave.

#bachelorparty #tracy stern #Allen Francis Doyle #Cordelia chase #angel #Cordelia/Doyle #richard straley #Harriet doyle #doyle/harry

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Staff Highlights: Jeff Kamensky

You’ve definitely seen today’s staff member before! Jeff Kamensky, our Senior Front of House Manager, shares how he found his way to The Music Hall, his favorite moments, experience, and maybe some cocktail advice…

How long have you been at The Music Hall? Where were you before and why did you decide to bring all of your know-how to the arts? I’ve been working at the Hall for almost 4 years. I started out as the Food & Beverage Manager (I mostly ran the bars) and now I am the Senior Front of House Manager. Before that, I spent 20 years in the restaurant industry working my way up from busboy to bartender and everything in between. I love the restaurant industry – it taught me everything I know – but I was ready for a change. The Music Hall combined two of my passions: hospitality and the arts. I grew up playing instruments and I’m a huge fan of live music in general. It seemed like the perfect fit!

You work most of the events, what brings you joy every time? The breath of relief after a smooth “in” of a performance – just like getting through a dinner rush in my restaurant days. Seeing a full house of patrons all settled in to enjoy a show with popcorn and a drink in hand. It’s gratifying.

I love living vicariously through the patrons and witnessing the joy they experience seeing their favorite band or hearing an inspiring author. Even if the performance isn’t necessarily “my cup of tea” I get joy from seeing others experience joy and knowing we helped make that happen.

What’s been your favorite live show so far? That’s a hard one… Andrew Bird, Trombone Shorty… Caroline Campbell playing Kashmir during Chris Botti’s set – a religious experience. But my favorite performance I’ve seen so far would have to be Galactic this February with special guest Chali 2na from Jurassic-5. Seeing a hip-hop artist from my youth on our intimate stage, very cool. And a hip hop performance with a live band, not just a DJ, the acoustics of the hall are just so good! Most of our patrons would never think of us as a hip-hop venue, but we truly have something for everyone and I hope to see more acts like this booked in the future!

When you’re not running the show as our Senior Front of House Manager, where are we most likely to find you? That all depends on the season. In the winter I follow the snow and you can find me and a board taking full advantage of my pass to Sugarloaf or Sunday River. In the summer I’m at the beach or on a mountain bike. Otherwise, I’m home “negotiating” with my wife about our latest home improvement project (oh, the joys of buying a fixer-upper!) or trying out a new recipe – I love to cook.

You just got your Food Protection Management Certification! How will this play into the care you give our food service and concessions? It was an enlightening course that will certainly provide guidance for our concession service when we reopen. It reinforced the things we’ve always done for food safety and also drove home a few points that will help sharpen our practices going forward. I hope to instill confidence in our patrons that we are prepared to handle the new COVID-19 climate. We’ll be doing everything we can to keep our staff and patrons safe and healthy.

While most of what we do is candy and popcorn, we also do lots of catering and special events. Kim McNamara and the rest of the City of Portsmouth Health Department have always offered guidance and support when we branch out into new territory, like serving hot dogs for Telluride By The Sea. This certification is another tool in the toolbox.

You interact with patrons at each and every show, what makes the Seacoast Community so special? The Seacoast continues to blow me away with their dedication to the community and the arts. Events like Fill the Hall, our annual food drive with Gather; and the Kitchen Tour, when neighbors open their homes to the public to help support The Hall; speak to the big hearts of our locals.

But what’s truly special about our Seacoast Community? That so many choose to spend their free time volunteering at The Music Hall! Our volunteers are our family and we’d be lost without them.

Give us your best pro-tip for those stuck at home during this time who find themselves with a cocktail shaker, strainer, spirit of choice and have no idea what to do with it (…asking for a friend). This is a toughie because it really depends on what’s in your liquor cabinet. But the key to bartending is creating a balanced cocktail – so don’t be afraid to measure to get your ratios right! And if at first you don’t succeed… try, try again! I’ve been really impressed with the cocktail kits our local restaurants are putting out since we can’t sidle up to their bars. I’d check out Vida Cantina’s margarita mix (just add tequila & orange liqueur of your choice!). Mr Kim’s and The Black Trumpet are putting out some great mixer options for their signature cocktails too. When all else fails, you can’t go wrong with a dirty martini! Mine comes absolutely filthy with Tito’s.

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20 Go-To Gift Ideas For Father’s Day

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20 Go-To Gift Ideas For Father’s Day

It’s almost Father’s Day once again. For your dad, that means a day of lounging around and getting the appreciation he so richly deserves, preferably with something chilled and malty within arm’s reach. But for you, it likely means a mad last-minute scramble of trying to find a gift worthy of his Herculean efforts.

You can relax – we’ve done the hard work for you. Here are 20 great Father’s Day gift ideas that won’t fail to impress the old man.

Streaming Stick

The DVD box-set is long dead – a dusty old relic from an ancient age of home entertainment. These days, the best way to satisfy dad’s desire to sit on the sofa and watch hours of movies and TV is a streaming stick. It plugs straight into the TV and provides direct access to literally thousands of channels and subscription services. They’re also wire-free, ugly-box-under-the-TV-free, and some models offer 4K high-definition too – so if dad’s the type who likes the latest, state-of-the-art tech, it’s a nifty addition to his home cinema setup.

Buy Now: £39.99

Whisky

There comes a time in every man’s life when the measure of masculinity becomes less about how many goals he’s scored at five-a-side, or how many pints he can sink in one sitting, and more about how many quality, rare, or unique whiskies he’s got stocked in the cupboard. And though whisky might seem like a clichéd gift on Father’s Day, the usual brand names are just the tip of the boozy iceberg when it comes to how many incredible whiskies are out there. Look out for bottles that use unusual distillation processes or pack in interesting flavours to seal a nod of approval from your old man.

Buy Now: £128.79

Driving Experience Day

The driving gloves are a dad staple – the kind of thing Alan Partridge would gladly receive from his kids on Father’s Day. But why not go one better and get your dad a driving experience (not that driving a car while wearing Partridge-style gloves isn’t an experience in itself, of course). You can choose from supercar track days – which means burning round in McLarens, Aston Martins, or Ferraris – or heavy duty off-roading. And if dad fancies something more specialist, he can even drive famous movie cars (Back to the Future DeLorean, anyone?), monster trucks, or erm, articulated lorries.

Buy Now: £89.00

Headphones

Some dads stay down with the kids and the latest tunes. Others stick to dad-rock and golden oldies. But all dads need a decent set of headphones. There’s a great range depending on how serious he is about his music, including over-ear noise-cancelling headsets, or – for the dad who likes a stealthier, more inconspicuous look – a pair of in-ear buds. Health-conscious dads might even appreciate a pair of smart earphones that double up as a fitness tracker, so he can monitor all his vitals while cranking out his favourite hits.

Buy Now: £269.00

Beard Trimmer

Take the hassle out of pops’ grooming routine with a top-of-the-range beard trimmer – an essential part of any modern man’s grooming kit. The best models have multiple settings for different beard styles, fast-charging (and long-lasting) batteries for cordless use, an in-built vacuum to hoover up hair cutting as he trims, and multiple accessories for tackling eyebrows, ears and even nose hair (which is a hairy fate that awaits all men, unfortunately).

Despite all those features, a decent beard trimmer won’t cost you a small fortune. Combine it with a fancy beard oil or shampoo for the full groom-tastic set.

Buy Now: £45.99

Sunglasses

Don’t throw shade on your dad this Father’s Day with a rubbish gift – put shades on him instead. And if he’s marching into his autumn years gracefully, and rocking the silver fox, salt-and-pepper-beard look with seasoned grace, an elegant pair of sunglasses will do just the job. Chances are he still feels about 19-years-old anyway, so he’ll enjoy swaggering around James Dean-style.

Even if he’s not the most fashion-conscious of dads, a pair of classic aviators or no-nonsense Ray-Ban Wayfarers are a timeless look on just about anyone.

Buy Now: £118.00

Bike Maintenance Kit

Most dads will have a sort of rudimentary tool box knocking around for those general, quick-fixer-upper jobs. But when it comes to fixing up a bicycle, you need a specialist set of tools for the job: a good bike maintenance kit. This will include all the basics, such as a puncture repair kit, allen keys and wrenches, but also tools for repairing or tinkering with your chain, spokes, and pedals. It’s the kind of tool kit that your dad would probably never think to buy himself, but he’ll be eternally grateful the second his bike needs tuning up.

Buy Now: £54.99

Smart Speaker

Much more than just a bit of kit of blasting out tunes, the smart speaker is likely to become dad’s new personal assistant/best friend. These gadgets sit in the corner of the room, answer all of dad’s questions, do the Googling for him, control the thermostat, sprinklers, and lights, and can even order him a pizza. Don’t be surprised if you get bumped down the family pecking order – it can do more chores in one afternoon that you did for your entire 18 years living at home.

Buy Now: £149.00

Craft Beer Subscription

The craft revolution continues, putting the mass-produced, tasteless lagers we once quaffed without question to shame. Of course, there are so many crafty beers, lagers, and stouts available it’s hard to know where to start with all those quirky, colourful labels packing out shelves. With a craft beer subscription, you can get a beer expert to do the hard work for you – for a set fee, they’ll pick out a selection of craft beers to send directly to your old man’s door each month, so he’ll always have some new and exciting bottles to hand.

Knitwear

Men and knitwear – a pairing that’s been a staple of fatherhood for generations. In fact, we’re pretty sure it’s a legal requirement for dads to own at least one cardigan or woolly jumper. But knitwear isn’t the old fashioned garb it used to be; it’s a chance to keep him looking stylish and on-trend. If he’s not into cardies or jumpers, a good quality scarf and pair of gloves will do the job.

Buy Now: £85.00

Carving Set

Cooking a slap-up, hearty meal has been reclaimed by modern alpha men as one of the key dad-skills – and the roast is the greatest, most triumphant of all the slap-up, hearty meals. So what dad’s life is complete without the proper kitchen tools – a good quality meat plate and set of knives – to carve and serve the proud results of his hard roasting labour? He’ll look and feel like a don at the head of the table, and if you want him to get serious about cooking meat, combine the set with a book on roasting and carving (honestly, it’s harder than it sounds).

Buy Now: £85.00

Fitness Watch

Furnishing the old man with a gold timepiece is a thing of the past. So instead of buying him a watch that simply tells the time, try one that can also tell him how his heart rate’s doing, how many steps he’s walked that day, calories burned, speed, distance, and anything else he needs to keep in top shape. When paired with his smartphone (assuming he can work a smartphone, of course), a fitness watch will be like having a personal trainer on hand at all times. Except much less shouty.

Buy Now: £260.00

Slippers

Look up Father’s Day in an encyclopedia, and it’s sure to be accompanied by a picture of the humble slipper. But there’s a reason slippers are a Father’s Day tradition – they’re a nod to the fact that dad’s got a bloody hard life sometimes, so he should take a load off and relax. Wool-lined slippers are where it’s at for pure comfort, but why not try a pair of new-fangled slippers with a detachable rubber sole, for outdoor and indoor relaxing.

Buy Now: £15.00

Double-Edged Safety Razor

If your dad keeps a clean shaven look – or puts a razor to his chin semi-regularly – a double-edged safety razor is an ideal gift. They take a bit more practice to use (it’s not as simple as just hacking away) but the benefits speak for themselves. The blade is angled to ensure a much closer shave, plus being able replace the blade means it will irritate his skin much less than the average cartridge razor. Splashing out on quality will save your dad some cash too – he’ll never have to buy another razor, just dirt-cheap replacement blades.

Buy Now: £26.00

Decanter and Tumblers

What do you need for a proper drinks cabinet? Whisky – check. Rum – check. Vodka and gin – check. Brandy – check. Mixers – check. Some of those little umbrellas that go into cocktails… well, maybe not. But one essential for making it a next level drinks cabinet – and we mean serious next level, the kind of drinks cabinet dad will show off with equal pride as his own children – is a crystalline decanter and tumbler set. It’s the classiest way to drink and will make the old man feel like Don Draper when he’s supping back the hard stuff.

Buy Now: £110.00

Drone

There’s not a man in the world who completely grows out of playing with toys – a fact proved by the ever-growing world of smart gadgets and wearable tech (toys for grown ups, let’s be honest). But on Father’s Day, the one day of the year when it’s all about dad, cut to chase with a serious piece of kit: an all-singing, all-dancing, all-flying drone, which can be controlled straight from his phone. These are essentially the toys of future – the kind of space-age plaything your dad could only dream of when he was a boy.

Buy Now: £66.99

Coffee Grinder

Dad’s been getting through life fuelled by coffee fumes and goodwill since the day you were born. But for the modern coffee drinker, it’s about much more than a quick-fix energy boost. Coffee’s as much for the connoisseur as fine dining and posh booze – which is why he’ll appreciate one of these top-notch grinders. If doesn’t matter if he makes his cup of joe using a press, pour over, or drip machine, just a few cranks of this grinder will get the coffee beans to the perfect consistency every time.

Buy Now: £44.99

Fragrance

Whether it’s aftershave, cologne, or eau de toilette (and yes, they are different things), dad likes to smell good. He might be knocking on a bit, but he still likes to unleash his inner sex panther with a decent whiff now and again. And rather than just pick any old scent off the shelf, do your research and find one that best suits him or, if all else fails, follow your nose to a classic men’s fragrance.

Buy Now: £11.30 for 100ml

Smart Toothbrush

Those techy boffins make everything smart these days – even your toothbrush. A step up from your standard Oral-B, the smart toothbrush pairs with a phone app and monitors your brushing routine. It then gives you all kinds of feedback: best brushing technique, what you’re doing wrong, which areas of your mouth need the most attention, and other essential tips. It’s like having a mini dental hygienist hanging around the bathroom on charge. Needless to say, it’s the Father’s Day gift to keep your old man smiling.

Buy Now: £79.99

Retro Gaming Console

Leave the new fangled games and VR headsets for the youngsters. Dad would be much happier getting retro with Frogger, Pac-Man, Super Mario, or Sonic the Hedgehog. There’s an ace selection of mini old school consoles available now – whether he was a Nintendo, Sega, or Atari and Commodore kind of guy back in the day – with each console packing in 30 or more classic games. Watch him spend hours in front of the TV, wallowing in the glories of his gaming past and still failing to get past that elusive end-of-level boss.

Buy Now: £50.00

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