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For several years I worked as a Certified Financial Planner for a major New York City-based corporation. When I worked with individuals, couples, and families, I was impressed by the fact that they most definitely had goals and desires. But despite their financial resources, many of them couldn’t seem to achieve the financial discipline to reach their objectives. Even when I laid out a clear plan for them, they had a difficulty following the plan.
If a person’s ability to meet their obligations is suddenly upset by medical or employment issues, the best plans may not work. Let’s face it. Seemingly sufficient cash reserves can eventually dry up. Nevertheless, for the most part, planning and staying on the plan will have a benefit for most.
Adequate financial planning and health is often not a factor of income level. Once I had a financial planning client who lived...
In our culture alcohol consumption has often been synonymous with being socially accepted. Somehow we have linked the ingestion of these liquids, which everyone knows contains toxic substances, to our desire to be socially connected. It has always been the baby boomers version of Facebook and Twitter. In fact, decades ago while serving as a young Army officer, it would have been considered an insult not to share a few “cold ones” with the men as a form of celebration. I’m not saying the Generation X and Y’ers are immune to becoming alcoholics. It seems to be a problem that transcends generations. Yet, when we allow occasional or moderate use to become a compulsion, then we have transitioned from participating in a social activity to developing and maintaining an addiction, which can easily ruin relationships, end careers, and even end in death.
When do the effects of drinking...
Over the past several years too many people have had to cope with the stress of financial difficulties. Very rarely have these situations been the consequence of poor decisions on the part of the affected individuals. Yet, it is so difficult for someone undergoing such stresses and strains to convince themselves that they are not at fault.
In our society many have always placed an emphasis on finding oneself. Generally, this meant realizing a sense of self-identity. In other words, we want to find out who we are. Often this leads us to seek answers from religious or other spiritual teachers, our nationality, our occupation or profession, our loyalty toward our favorite sports team or our academic alma mater, and even by identifying with our possessions. But what happens when our sense of self comes under question? It does not matter whether we did or did not cause such discomfort to...
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The stage at Siberia (2227 St. Claude Ave., 265-8855) has become a haven for all sorts of bands that don?t quite fit the conventional notion of New Orleans music. So maybe it?s appropriate that you won?t find a remoulade or roux anywhere near the new menu at its tavern kitchen.…
Treme, the HBO drama about New Orleanians picking up their lives after Hurricane Katrina and the federal floods, has received a 2011 George Foster Peabody Award. The Peabody Award is one of the nation's highest honors in electronic media, and can provide broader visibility for critically acclaimed but underwatched programs.…
Outdoors enthusiast and educator Dan Forman founded the Louisiana Outdoors Outreach Program in 2004 to link classroom education to outdoor experiences for area school children. Through the program, many students were exposed to the area's natural resources in state parks and City Park.…
Dallas artist David Bates may be the finest painter his hometown has ever produced, but when it comes to his favorite sport, fishing, he heads to Louisiana and the remote extremities of Plaquemines Parish. While the paintings in this Down Highway 23 series reflect the everyday lives of fishermen, they were inspired by a trip he made in 2010, when instead of the usual scenes of shrimpers, oystermen and boats laden with the day?s catch, he encountered a coastal dystopia defined by reporters, politicians, tar balls, oil slicks and clean up crews in hazmat suits.…
On his latest album Locked Down, Dr. John is joined by the Black Keys' guitarist Dan Auerbach, whose own group has hit a crest of critical acclaim and sold out arena tours. The two met at Manchester, Tennessee's Bonnaroo Festival, named after Dr. John's Desitively Bonnaroo, the 1974 album produced by Allen Toussaint and backed by The Meters.…
When chef Guillermo Peters started cooking at the Eco Café last summer, he predicted that some significant changes were in store for what at the time was a combination coffee shop/breakfast and lunch spot in Mid-City. Those materialized first as a name change to Canal Street Bistro and the addition of the chef?s upscale Mexican menu for a new dinner service on weekends.…
State Rep. Lyle Larson has written a letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderón asking that country to reimburse the state of Texas for its citizens living here illegally.
S.A. becomes command HQ for Dallas tornado response
The Texas Emergency Management Conference at Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center became a makeshift headquarters for state response to tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The issues involved “hazing, alcohol use and abuse, sexually exploitative behavior, sexual harassment, coercive behavior, and threats,” which surfaced in February as part of new member orientation, said David Tuttle, associate vice president of student affairs and dean of students, in a letter to the university community Monday.
Students accused of violations of university policy are being referred to the university conduct board and, depending on the severity of the violation, could be expelled, said Sharon Jones Schweitzer, a university spokeswoman.
Some organizations have been able to survive previous sanctions with help from alumni but that can be a challenge, he said.
Because the groups won't be able to hold their traditional fundraisers for nonprofits, “it's going to be a pretty big hit for members of the Trinity community and San Antonio community,” Mesa added.
In 1991, the university put the Spurs Sorority on probation for a year and revoked the charter of a fraternity for serving alcohol to minors after a student who drank at a party was fatally struck by a car.
Police Commander Cris Andersen said the man was standing in a driveway with his brother when witnesses said four men in a white Mercedes or Lexus car, all armed with semi-automatic handguns, pulled up, got out of the car and opened fire on the man.
Andersen said police were investigating what led to the shooting and are looking for the suspects in the white Mercedes or Lexus.
February delivered strong numbers for sales of downtown Austin condos. I count nine new construction sales and 14 resales (compared to six and 10 in January respectively). The 14 resales averaged $397 per square foot – the highest monthly average for resales that I can remember. Don’t mistake this for accelerating appreciation, though. Included in [...]
Here’s a long overdue official announcement of The Improvised Play Festival, happening in just a few weeks at The Hideout. The Improvised Play Festival is a celebration of narrative and/or theatrical improv in all its forms. Last year was the very first festival, and it was a great success. First, our out of town headiners: [...]
At Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St., 304-4714; www.chickiewahwah.com), you'll find local and touring roots music acts and the unlikely combination of vegetarian tempeh dishes and meatball calzones. The refreshingly grown-up Mid-City music venue has for the past few months been the latest roost for Garage Pizza (2828 Canal St., 214-5177), an eatery that specializes as much in light, meatless dishes as it does in the standard pizza parlor array of pies, calzones and pastas.…
Brett Michael Dykes (aka The Cajun Boy) with a dubious history of New Orleans' most memorable Final Four stories
by Brett Michael Dykes
This week New Orleans will host its fifth NCAA men's basketball championship, a grand spectacle of American amateur sport that's come to be known as the Final Four. Or, as the city's French founders would have called it back in the day, Le Finale à Quatre, due to their inexplicable fondness for the metric system, or something.…
Wed. March 28 | Eighty percent of the way through the elongated release of its fourth LP Privilege (Slender Means Society), Parenthetical Girls' gambit is paying off.…
Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos has a daunting catalog. With 33 years of live and recorded free jazz under his belt, Wierbos' swerving honk has graced no fewer than 100 albums alongside players as far-flung — continentally, if not creatively — as Amsterdam's Instant Composers Pool Orchestra and New York City's Sonic Youth.…
Now through Saturday, March 31, Wedding Belles (3632 Magazine St., 891-1005; www.weddingbellesstationer.com) hosts a sample sale. Debutante dresses are reduced as much as 75 percent.…
Apolline (4729 Magazine St., 894-8881; www.apollinerestaurant.com), the Uptown restaurant formerly known as Dominique's on Magazine, has been running nightly drink specials to help reintroduce itself to the dining public. On Wednesdays you can get any wine offered by the glass for $5 and some bottles for $20.…
Languedoc, France
$14 Retail A Rhone-style red, this bottling was produced with fruit from vines at least 30 years old planted in the Saint Chinian commune in southern France's Languedoc region.…
This year, like most years, has seen a rash of bills up for consideration by state lawmakers that would create new crimes — and stiff penalties. Here's a sample:…
Restaurants around town are getting ready for this weekend?s Final Four, but at Eleven 79 those preparations are probably a little more urgent than most, and undoubtedly involve more paint and power tools.
A fire broke out at the popular Italian restaurant during the first week of March, forcing it to close temporarily, and proprietor Joe Segreto says his crew has been racing to make repairs and reopen.…
In this week's Gambit, I look at proposed anti-bullying legislation ? and speak with families of bullied teenagers, some who killed themselves after constant torment from classmates, in school and online. Most recently, 17-year-old Louisiana student Tesa Middlebrook was found hanging from her school's bleachers on March 2, a school day, hours after her death ? her family insists she was driven to suicide from relentless bullying, and demands answers from the school and the authorities.…
Ken Korman on 2012's first blockbuster
It's not often that a book-and-movie franchise targeted at young adults manages to attain cultural-event status. The Twilight Saga came close in recent years, but the audience for vampire-teen-romance is limited mostly to kids of a certain age and gender.…