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On this week's Federal Tech Talk, Damon Davis, director of the Health Data Initiative at the HHS Idea Lab, and Sara Zellner, director of Programs at the Health Data Consortium, how public-private partnerships can help address issues like transparency and security in healthcare IT.
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A Government Accountability Office probe of USASpending.gov, the government's awards website, found that while contracting information was generally correct, only 2-to-7 percent of awards listed on the site perfectly matched agency data. GAO recommended better record keeping policies be set by the Office of Management and Budget to avoid inconsistencies.
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New captain, advisers leading Commerce more deeply into open data
The Department of Commerce will hire its first-ever chief data officer, Secretary Penny Pritzker said recently. Pritzker also is establishing a data advisory council and introducing a "developer portal," which she said will help advance the agency's open data initiatives.
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The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released Version 3.0 of the Obama administration Open Government Plan. It adds three new initiatives to the core principles of transparency, participation and collaboration introduced in earlier versions of the plan.
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The FOIA Act of 2014 would amend the Freedom of Information Act in 12 ways. It calls for the online portal and requires more oversight by agency inspectors general. But some agency FOIA officers say the bill only would improve the information disclosure process minimally.
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The Center for Effective Government evaluated how well the 15 agencies that receive 90 percent of all Freedom of Information Act requests from the public process those requests. It found most of those agencies receive poor or failing grades in how they are implementing FOIA.
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- Surface diffusion coefficient can be varied by more than 4 orders of magnitude at a growth temperature of 725K
For the first time, using flexible MBE technology, Mike Rubin, Eicke Weber and colleagues at Berkeley Lab has grown large, two-dimensional GaN and other crystals of group III-N compounds at low temperatures. The lower temperature of film formation using MBE versus MOCVD allows higher concentrations of dopant to be incorporated into the final structure, as well as making it easier to manipulate the concentration of component parts of the final film.
Usually, group III-N films are grown at temperatures that are low compared with the melting point to prevent chemical decomposition during the growth process. MOCVD, one of the two primary methods used to grow GaN films, results in larger grain sizes, which is desirable and exploited by industry. However, because of the high temperatures at which MOCVD films are formed, suitable metal organic precursors are limited to create and dope the desired film. In addition, formation temperatures are close enough to thermal equilibrium to limit variation in the amounts of various materials that make up the final film. This Berkeley Lab innovation using MBE provides an alternative to these MOCVD-related shortcomings.
Prior to these advances, a drawback to MBE films had been that they frequently exhibited a three-dimensional, instead of two-dimensional, crystal growth and resulted in a thin film composed of small but oriented grains. Eicke Weber and colleagues have addressed this issue through a process designed to stimulate two-dimensional GaN film growth at low temperatures by MBE. These new, low-temperature films are grown using bismuth as a surfactant. This results in crystalline films containing a plurality of two-dimensional GaN crystal grains, of which each crystal lattice structure coalesces between the grains to form a continuous crystal, with a concentration of p-type carriers that exceeds that currently possible by MOCVD. Using this new method, the surface diffusion coefficient can be varied by more than 4 orders of magnitude at a growth temperature as low as 725K.
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Ex libris : confessions of a common reader
Anne Fadiman
Adult Nonfiction PN4874.F33 1998
Anne Fadiman
Adult Nonfiction PN4874.F33 1998
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Anne Fadiman is a column writer, a journal editor, and an award-winning author. She's also a life-long reader, and that means more than all her other scholarly accomplishments in this collection of her eighteen essays that pay tribute to the love of books and reading. Fadiman writes about how you're not really married to someone until you combine book collections. She muses on how reading the same book at different points in your life can change what the book means to you. She goes into raptures over secondhand bookstores and lovingly critiques the best (and worst) inscriptions people write when they're giving books to others. She chronicles the difficulties of being both a lover of sesquipedalians (long words) and an obsessive-compulsive proofreader. Fadiman is intelligent and passionate about books and her essays are written with a graceful elegance of style that will charm every kind of reader under the sun. In Fadiman's hands, reading becomes an art that is to be honed and nurtured over a lifetime. Fadiman's life is healthier, richer, funnier, and more rewarding because of her love of books, and that about sums it up for all us bookworms out there.
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8 Questions to Help You Save More
Published on - February 7th, 2012 (by April Dykman)
This is a guest post by Fiona Lippey. Fiona is the author of the bestselling book The $21 Challenge and founder of Australia's largest frugal website, SimpleSavings.net.
If you want to save money, and I mean really save money, then you're going to have to stop buying Stuff. You have reduce the amount you consume. Today I want to share the system I've been using for the last 15 years to reduce my spending and make sure I don't get tricked out of my hard-earned cash.
Question 1: Stop! Is this a good decision?
Before you reach for your cash, before you grab your credit card, before you pick up the item up from the sales rack, pause for just a minute. Stop yourself and think about whether or not you are about to make a good or a bad decision. A marketer or salesperson's job is to make you think you need something that five minutes earlier you didn't know existed. Find a way to trigger your internal alarm bell, so you can stop for a second and move on to question number two.
Question 2: Are you hungry?
If your belly is empty then your decision making is impaired. Our bodies get confused between the desire for food and inedible objects. So if you are hungry, step away, eat something, then wait for 15 minutes before moving on to question three.
Question 3: Is there something else?
There are so many other things you could buy. Is this item really the one you want to spend your hard-earned money on? There are other things you could achieve with this money. Will you be limiting yourself by making the purchase? If you have decided that this is the only thing you want, go to question four.
Question 4: Is it worth the effort?
Every time you reach for your cash, ask yourself if it is really worth the effort. If every $15 you spend is an hour you're going to have to work, is it worth the effort? Or should you leave your money in your wallet? (It's so much easier than having to earn extra money!) Now, if you have decided the purchase is really is worth the bother, move on to the fifth question.
Question 5: What will you gain?
Next, work out what you or your family will gain by buying the item. What are the longterm consequences? Will it improve your health and happiness or genuinely give you more free time? How? If you cannot answer these questions positively, then leave your money in your wallet. It is important that you be really skeptical when you answer this question. Now move to question six.
Question 6: What will you lose?
When you buy an item, you both gain something and lose something. If you are lucky, the only thing you lose is cash and the time it took you to earn that money. But this is not always the case. A great example of this is a computer game. You gain entertainment, but you might lose quality time with your family. Once you are certain you have accounted for everything you could lose, move on to the next question.
Question 7: Is there a better way?
Now it is time to shop around for a better price and work out the smartest way to buy it. How can you get the best value for your dollar in the minimum time possible? Occasionally, working it out for yourself will take more time than you save (when calculating your time as an hourly wage), but you will get satisfaction in knowing that you've found a great deal and are doing the best for your family. Once you have researched your purchase and found the best way to buy it, go to question eight.
Question 8: Do you have the cash to spare?
Most of the time, buying things on credit is stupid. So if you don't have the cash, remain free, walk away, and live happily ever after. Consumer purchases aren't worth burdening yourself with debt. This means you should avoid credit cards, layaways, interest-free loans, mortgage refinancing facilities, etc. Only buy something if you have the spare cash — and if you don't, go home and save until you do.
If want to save yourself some money, write down the eight steps and put them in your wallet! Every penny you save is one you don't have to earn!
This article is about Consumerism, Savings, Shopping
I like to ask myself what am I willing to give up in return for making a purchase. Am I willing to take funds from my entertainment budget for the month to pay for this? If it is a major purchase I consider looking at the opportunity cost of investing that money against my desire to have that item. Puts purchases in a whole new perspective!
I have to laugh at the question, "Are you hungry?" That is so true for me. Here's my coping mechanism – If I'm hungry, I will sit in the parking lot and eat a pack of peanut butter crackers and drink a bottle of water before I go into a store. (I keep them in the back of my van for quick snacks for all of us).
I could do these questions with most of my purchases, but most weeks I'm on autopilot when I do the grocery shopping. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.
awesome point for grocery shopping Mom of Five, I make sure I eat a big meal right before going to the store, it makes me less likely to buy any "junk" food and I want to leave the store sooner
I actually try to go to the grocery store hungry otherwise I have a hard time buying anything because nothing seems appetizing!
Ugh, I have this problem too. Half the time I walk through the supermarket and think "Yuck. Why would I buy any of this crap?" Thank god for produce stands.
Usually I don't buy things just because the amount would be so small and I hate using my credit card (with my main fear that my number will be stolen, because this has happened over 10 times).
Im naturally indecisive, and its much easier to not overspend when you agonize over the possible oppurtunity costs of any purchase.
Great questions. It would be good to attach them to your credit card.
My favourtite is: Would I be willing to work x hours to acquire this?
Controlling spending is probably more important than increasing earnings. We all know folks whose salaries are fine but who are always in debt. Thanks for the tips!
There's an old saying, if you'll excuse the implied sexism: "A woman can throw out more with a spoon than a man can bring in with a shovel."
Since the domestic science ideology grew out of the truthfulness of that quote, I think we can overlook the implied sexism…
I'm confused as to why the author thinks layaway is a bad idea…??? (I think it must mean something different in Australia.)
Paying cash in small doses over time for a major purchase seems to me to be the perfect way to delay gratification on something until you can pay for it – in full – with cash. Part of the reason people spend money rashly is for things they need that they might not be able to save for ahead of time (like kids' school clothes – in the right season & size).
Also, if something goes on sale while it's in layaway, you can pay the sale price.
What's so bad about that??
Although layaway is better than increasing your credit card debt, most people are still spending more than they can afford when they put things on layaway. There are also sometimes fees involved for opening the layaway account and for restocking the merchandise if you don't end up paying for it.
I've worked in retail and yes, some layaway plans are a pain but most are very simple. Just like anything (credit cards), if you are conscious and diligent, it can be a useful tool.
It's mid-summer, you are saving –in a jar even– for the kids' school clothes which will cost you several hundred dollars retail. Your favorite store has a "50% off christmas in july sale" with a lot of the high dollar items you will need (and what's more: your 13 year old loves the clothes).
You take your $100 already saved and put the sales items on layaway to be paid off in 4 weeks at $25/week…which is the amount you have budgeted to put in your "school clothes" jar every week until fall shopping.
You put the $25 into the store instead of the jar and get twice as many quality things as you could have gotten during the faux "back to school sales" after stock is marked up to be marked back down: $400 worth for $200.
What's more, there is no temptation to borrow $20 pizza money out of the "back to school jar".
An excuse to take longer while shopping? My husband is going to be so mad!
Seriously though, I have gotten into the habit of walking around with an impulse buy instead of going straight to the checkout. 9 times out of 10 I end up not buying the item. This has worked especially well for kids clothing.
I do this all the time with impulse items! I *know* I don't need it, but I really want it. So I browse the rest of the store while holding on to it, and by the time I make my way to the checkout, I'm usually ready to just put it down and go home. Especially if the line is long and it's all I'm holding.
also, know thyself. If you're the kind of person who likes to buy shoes, get out of retail stores and let yourself go crazy at Goodwill or something simliar.
Used shoes? Not for me, I wouldn't wear used shoes even if they were free.
As a European, where my walking(!) way from work to sports or my bus home currently includes dozens of shops, I'm often in danger of impulse buys.
I have gotten better, and most buys are things that are useful or have been on my "need" list since forever, but some are just stupid (expensive shoes that don't fit – thankfully happened only once).
For clothes, I mostly buy things that are reduced in price and fit perfectly. This helped a lot. (I'm not a big fan of buying clothes online, far too often they don't fit well and sending back takes time and energy too.)
lol I like the hungry tip.
just gotta be careful not to spend the $15 you are trying not to spend on pretties, on the snack shacks.
not sayin' i've done that of course…;)
Anything that will slow you down is a good thing. By slowing you down, you will think about the decision more. Look at alternatives.
I save money at the mall by treating it like a grocery store. I only go when I need something, I make a list beforehand, and I stick to the list. I also look out for coupons for stores beforehand, too. It makes for an emotionless shopping trip, which keeps me from wanting to buy a shirt or purse on impulse because "it's pretty."
I like the tips above, especially the one about calculating how long you have to work to buy something.
I think it's also good to avoid dwelling on the decision too long since sometimes I end up worse off that way! For example, I have wanted to buy a new snowboarding helmet for the last couple years and intended (two years in a row) to buy one at the end of season when they go on super sale, passing up helmets along the way knowing I could get a better price. But I just never did hit up those big sales since once spring rolls around, snowboarding wasn't on my mind. In the end I bought one at full price in the middle of winter! figure that one out! lol
Also, while these are all good questions to ask, I think it's also important to be comfortable with the decision to spend after the fact. If I buy some luxury, sometimes I feel guilty afterwards, and I think that comes from focussing on money so much. If I'm prudent most of the time, then I should be able to spend without the guilt and without scoring the absolute best buy once in a while.
I love this post! DH and I see it as a game and our net worth is the score. It makes being frugal fun. We only had one question (can we meet this need without spending money?) until I read this post. Whoo hoo! Game on!!
Good set of questions. It's all part of having a "wealth" mentality ("how much can I add to my net worth?") rather than an "income" mentality ("can I cut this expense?"). This helps you stay motivated.
Thank you Joe. Your post is brilliant.
I'm sorry if my comment seemed to imply any sort of judgment on the carrying cash vs. credit issue – I didn't mean any at all. It just struck me as odd in the original article that having cash was to be a prereq for any purchase.
I do carry cash if I'm in an unfamiliar area, but fortunately I haven't needed cash for my most used transit system since 2005, and I don't really consider an event like NY's insane power outage worth planning for (fortunately I left the city the day before it happened).
I think I have — finally — evolved past having to ask any questions. I just don't seem to want anything any more. If I find that I really do want something (rare), I put it on a list and see if I still want it later on. It isn't just the money, it is the time as well. When I look at something to buy, I think do I want to dust that? Move it around? Pack it when I move? Haul it to the thrift store when I am done with it? Surprisingly, the answer is usually no.
I love question #4; I think in these terms all day. I'm usually talking inside my head saying things like, "I'm going to have to work for three hours tomorrow be back at even." So I don't usually make spur of the moment decisions because I don't like the feeling of working and knowing I'm starting in the negatives.
Also, think about the way something is priced. There are creative ways that business can set prices to entice us into buying. For example, if a restaurant offers a $12 deluxe cheeseburger, but then also has a $7 cheeseburger on the menu, people might see the $7 option as a bargain. However, if the $12 one wasn't on the menu, the $7 one might actually seem pricey. It's important to be able to think through decisions, and see through marketing tactics, in order to save in some situations.
This article was so helpful. I particularly like questions #7. It always makes me feel a lot better when I get great deals on items I really wanted or needed.
This is by far my favorite post you have done on weight loss and eating right. I am reluctant on few of your points but the majority of the points you made i agree with.


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Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self, by Michelle Belanger
Weiser Books, Weiser Books, 205 pp. (incl. appendices, excl. bibliography), 2006
Dreaming is something we all do, whether we consciously remember our dreams our not. Belanger defines dreamwalking as "the art of sending forth a part of the self in order to make contact with others through the medium of dreams." I like her approach to the material; she frequently uses anecdotes to describe her personal experiences and explorations, and then lucidly deconstructs them to illustrate her points.
A wide variety of exercises are offered, from the more basic, such as creating dream haven, a 'gate of dreams' (essentially a 'portal' through which is the dream world), and fashioning an eidolon (one's dream-self), as well as more complicated explorations, such as creating dream landscapes and techniques for lucid dreaming. At the end of each exercise brief checklists aid the reader in determining whether or not one has performed the exercise successfully, offering suggestions for what to look for and tips to correct technique. Continue reading


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Report: 86 percent of your Xbox Live friends "watching a video or some shit"
The proportion of your Xbox Live friends who are using their systems for "stupid non-gaming crap" reached its highest level in three years, according to a recent study.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project today revealed the results of its annual look at the automatically reported usage status of your Xbox Live friends. The elegantly bound 20-page report, unveiled at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., found a shocking 86 percent of your friends were "watching a video or some shit" at any given time, a more than twofold increase compared to this time last year.
Your Xbox Live friends are busy getting lamer Achievements.
"These results definitively show that the people on your friends list are total casual/mainstream douchebags that don't even want to play games anymore," said Sonia Campbell, lead researcher on the exhaustive study. "While many of these friends used to be cool people who liked to play Halo 3 and stuff, the data proves that most of them would now rather spend their time watching 'Sex and the City' or whatever."
While the report shows a 20-percent year-over-year increase in the average number of your friends that are online at any given moment, the number of those friends participating in deathmatches or "capture the flag" scenarios dropped a whopping 35 percent compared to 12 months ago. Single-player "campaign" mode play also dropped 19 percent since last year, according to the study.
The increase in non-gaming ass-hattery among your Xbox Live friends is primarily the result of the popular Netflix streaming service introduced late last year, but that's not the only culprit. According to the report, on average 12 percent of your friends are "listening to some music that probably sucks," 19 percent are "chatting with their gay friends in some Xbox Live Party," and a whopping 23 percent are "just sitting on the Dashboard for hours like f***tards."
You weren't shocked at the news. "Whenever I used to pop in Modern Warfare or Team Fortress 2, there were like 10 or 15 dudes already playing and eager to invite me to their game," you said. "Now, whenever I invite people to a game, they're all like 'Maybe when this episode is over,' or 'Whoops, I wasn't watching the Xbox,' or 'Sorry, I have to change my tampon,' or something lame like that."
Despite the setback, you vehemently denied rumors that you're considering getting a PlayStation 3 in the near future. "At least with Xbox Live I know there'll be people on my friends list, even if they're doing stupid crap I don't care about," you said. "Plus, Trophies are totally gay."
Tecmo/KOEI unenthusiastically reveals yet another Dynasty Warriors game
In a startlingly frank press conference today, Tecmo/KOEI revealed that the next game in the popular Dynasty Warriors franchise would decidedly not set the world on fire with "innovative gameplay, exciting new modes or unforgettable experiences."
"We'd really love to be able to tell you that Dynasty Warriors 7 will be the most dynamic and action-packed entry into the series yet," said KOEI Vice President for Marketing Jim Samwell, "but what we've seen of the game so far just doesn't support a claim like that."
Dynasty Warriors 7 characters will receive graphical updates in the form of new hats.
"While the game will definitely be new, referring to it as 'improved' would be a bit of a stretch," Samwell added while looking at his shoes somewhat sheepishly.
Using a projector, Samwell showed the assembled press members the first screens for the new game, using a laser pointer to highlight similarities between them and shots from previous games in the series. "As you can see, it's pretty much just the same old crap we've been cranking out for over a decade now," he told reporters.
Lead developer Shinji Yamamoto said the game's development team simply "didn't come up with any good new ideas this time around" despite trying their hardest for a matter of months. "We were drawing a total blank on what we could add to the series at this point, but we had all these people assigned to make a new Dynasty Warriors game, so we just decided to go ahead and make one anyway," he said.
A fact sheet distributed at the event mentions game "features" (quote marks in original document) such as "new abilities that look slightly cooler than the old abilities," "roughly five-percent more characters on-screen at the same time" and "dozens of new heroes from Chinese history that are practically indistinguishable from the hundreds of others you already know."
Dynasty Warriors 7 will hit the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 "in time for the holidays, if anyone cares," Samwell said.
Supermarket Sweep Live coming to Xbox Live Primetime
Following up on the success of the recent 1 vs. 100 beta, Microsoft and Endemol announced today that Supermarket Sweep would be the next title in its series of pre-scheduled Xbox Live Primetime game shows.
"For our second game, we wanted a property that would be universally accessible -- and what's more universal than buying food?" said Endemol Lead Designer Jim Henderson in an exclusive interview with the Fryer. "We really feel the Xbox, with Xbox Live, is the first system to be able to accurately capture the constant thrills and nonstop excitement of competitive grocery shopping."
Xbox Live Avatars and their shopping carts will battle it out in Supermarket Sweep.
The semi-popular television game show, which premiered on ABC in 1965, featured pairs of contestants competing to see who could load the most expensive groceries into their shopping carts within a set time limit. Henderson said they've studied the original show and its '90s cable remakes closely to really capture what made them special.
"We've got the most realistic shopping-cart physics ever implemented in a videogame," Henderson said. "The weight of each item will affect the speed and momentum of the cart. We're even putting in random 'sticky wheel' penalties that lurch the cart ever so slightly to the side, just like in real life. Mark my words, this is going to be the Gran Turismo of shopping cart simulations!" he boasted.
While only three lucky pairs of contestants will be chosen to compete for actual groceries ("delivered overnight by air freight," Henderson explained), spectators will be able to roam the virtual aisles in parties of up to four "ghost carts" to compete for bragging rights. "It's not just a competition, it's also a learning experience," Henderson said. "So if you see someone in your group going for the rib-eye steaks, maybe next time through you'll be like 'Hey, maybe I should try to get the steaks this time, because they cost a lot.' There are whole layers to the strategy that we hope players will learn just by studying each other."
Much like 1 vs. 100 Live, Supermarket Sweep Live will feature an occasional audio commentary from a familiar face. "When we heard [Lifetime/PAX Network Supermarket Sweep host David] Ruprecht was available and looking for work, we were totally psyched to get a little piece of the TV show in our version," Henderson said. The game won't break for commercials, but will feature what Henderson calls "subtle product placement," like huge inflatable bottles of Snapple that can be loaded into the cart for extra cash and prizes.
When asked about eventual support for Microsoft's upcoming Project Natal motion controller, Henderson was coy. "Obviously, being able to actually reach out and grab that 36-pack of toilet paper would make the experience that much more thrilling, but no, we haven't announced any plans for Project Natal yet," he said.
Editor's note: These stories are 100-percent satire. Yes, Kyle Orland made it all up.


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Finding Raj was far easier than finding Marilyn. All over the collective perception, inside the physical, mental, subtle and formless realms, there were helpful signs to his whereabouts because common knowledge about him was no different to what he believed about himself. This was unlike Marilyn, whose real state of mind, and thus true being and character, remained hidden. All the signposts pointing to Marilyn led to nothing, and we should take note that there were millions more signposts for her than for Raj. In contrast, all the signposts pointing to Raj led to familiar illusions of his life in which he continued to play his role to the best of his ability, insisting he was joyful, fulfilled and enlightened, bigger than God.
Healing Raj was another story though, and would be far more difficult than healing Marilyn. As our work progressed, we saw that those with thinking weighted down with 'worse than' self-concepts were quicker to accept a new, loving story to live by, and so heal their lives. In many respects, the only way was up for those suffering severe inferiority complexes, and so whenever we arrived to help them understand what had happened in their most recent life as well as assist in unravelling the knots of lies that had caused them so much pain, they were more than happy to go along with us. They had nothing to lose.
In contrast, those with thinking weighted down with 'better than' self-concepts, like Raj, had to be first persuaded that there was something very wrong with their most recent life, because they refused to see it. This preliminary step of facing up to the obvious suffering they had endured and caused over a lifetime – that which we were able to skip with Marilyn and those like her – usually took some time.
We found him in the middle of an enormous orange marquee, sitting cross-legged on a raised dais surrounded by a throng of beautiful, young, blond girls who were tending to his every need. One was caressing his long, black, wavy hair. Another was giving his left foot a deep and sensuous massage. Others were throwing handfuls of rose petals over him, smiling to themselves, eyes closed. To the side, a band played frenetic dance music to which many thousands of devotees, all young, blond and dressed in orange robes, whirled about, their eyes popping out of their heads, their mouths twisting into grotesque grinning.
We approached, skirting around the imaginary dancers and stepping through the illusory mini-harem, to sit down in front of him, the scene continuing around us. Noah began.
"You know you are dead Raj? This life is over and has been for some time."
The music stopped. The dancers swirled their last, fading into a grey mist. The beautiful young girls disintegrated back into the pure mind-space canvas, the marquee disappeared, and Raj shed the strong, vital, thirty-year-old body, replacing it with the grey, balding, and emaciated sixty-year-old body he had been wearing when he left his last unhealthy, drug-addicted, megalomaniac's life. The three of us sat cross-legged, facing each other in the pure silence of unhooked mind space. Raj looked irritated.
"But this is Samadhi. You people know nothing! Foolish faithless! You have no idea who you are talking to, do you?" He started to draw up from deep inside his lungs the mucus that had been gathering there before turning his head and hawking it into the mind space emptiness.
"And, whatever you think, I'm having fun. Why should it be over? You people are so serious."
"But Raj, are you really having so much fun? You have been here for centuries now. What are you doing exactly? Are you fulfilling your tasks?"
"But I am loved. They love me. Even now, downstairs, they love me."
"Well, Raj. Does anyone even remember you downstairs anymore? It was such a long time ago and there were too many repeat performances. We started to learn from our mistakes, and the examples you provided for our learning were stark. It was so tiresome; vicious defence reactions at every attempt to solve severe and undeniable problems, and the continuous sexual abuse got beyond a joke. Your image downstairs was a lie anyway. You know that. That is why you refuse to move on. You are scared Raj. You are scared that you will have to accept many difficult things about yourself and that we will tear down your marvellous, bigger-than-god image."
"Liars!" He stood up and stomped away. We would have to leave him be. That would be enough for now. He would sulk for a while, and get high. Communication would be impossible until he had processed our meeting. Maybe this time he would change his mind a little.
The next time the Boss put the Raj healing into our in-tray we found him in one of his fleet of golden Rolls Royce's.
"Raj, hi," we said, sliding down from above to sit either side of him.
"You two again," he sighed.
It was my turn to address him. "Yes. Hey, Raj, you know that these cars are a joke downstairs. If you drove any of the hundred that you bought with your devotees' money they would laugh at you, ridicule you and throw you into prison for a few months."
"Why should I care? Look!" He pointed through the open window at a crowd of dirty-blond, white-skinned, sleek and suntanned youngsters who had lined up along the road, and were bowing and cheering as he inched by waving.
"They love me, see. See!?"
"Raj, it is an illusion. This is your mind's projection. Why do you waste so much time on this?"
As before, the crowds disappeared into thin air, the antiquated vehicle dispersed into nothingness, Raj's appearance changed for the worse, and we were sitting, the three of us, cross-legged facing each other, still and quiet in the untouched mind space once again. Noah spoke.
"Why are you blind to the trickery of the mind, you who were supposed to understand it so well? Why are you blind to the liar that controls the thinking of mind-space leaders like yourself with the fiercest grip of all? The liar in the mind goes into overdrive in anyone claiming to replace God, especially those with the power to make loving changes in our sick world. That is why gurus suffer spectacular failures. Can we show you a few things?"
Raj sighed. He was approaching the sulk that he had used to avoid anything important in the past, but it had yet to overwhelm him. We may have a good opportunity. I went on.
"There is nothing unique about you Raj. You are the same as everyone else, everyone great and everyone common. You are the same as Noah and I. However, you believe you are a god, alone and special, to be worshipped like a deity. You believe this because the liar in your mind tells you it is so; but it is an illusion. How could it be true Raj, it is against your own teachings?" His eyes widened as I spoke.
"And your devotees, they believed the same falsehood. When the liar persuades us that specialness is real – that there is someone better than or worse than us – we may spend our entire lives inside its maximum security wing. This basic lie, taking unlimited forms in our thinking, influenced everyone, but the error had minimal effect in the world until large groups of people believed a particular form it took. Why do you think it all became so troublesome?"
"They loved me, they still love me," he peeped in his high-pitched whine, inspecting his sandals at the same time. Noah, rising, motioned at him to stand up.
"How about we take a little tour of suffering gurus Raj? A small sample of people who have felt, like you, powerful and yet vulnerable at the same time. Human beings – like us all – who failed to recognise the fear arising from this ambivalence, and failed to find the perceptual tools required to undo it, and so instead threw this fear onto others in an attempt to escape it. This is your story too."
"I have no idea what you are talking about. You obviously lack the mental capacity to understand the divine."
Noah and I flanked Raj, each taking an arm. In an instant, we were flying through the pure mind space. We swooped up, climbing, and then turned and dipped, gliding forward, certain of our direction and our next stop. We came in low, hovering over the first scene.
A large crowd of people had gathered in an open-air structure. The expectant morning air was warm and sticky. Children were running around chattering and playing while a group of serious-looking men were walking around and among the people, stopping at each one to do something. As we looked closer, we saw that they were adding droplets of liquid from small glass bottles into the openings of soft drink cans that all the adults were holding in their hands. Each person took a swig from the can, while parents gave their children a few sips before taking some themselves. The men dropped the liquid straight into the mouths of babies with the help of their parents.
In seconds, people were falling to the ground, dead. The older children fell where they were standing, having taken the drink from their parents. Babies stopped breathing in the arms of their mothers. Children still alive started to scream and cry as dead bodies crashed to the floor in their hundreds. A handful of people ran away when they saw what was happening and came to their senses. The rest, around one thousand people, were dead in minutes.
"This is the power you had Raj. This! This is what the love of a guru may justify."
"I am nothing like that crazy American," he was shrieking.
"It was close though Raj. You were lucky no-one died. And there were the suicides."
"You two make it up as you go along," he said, flicking his hair with a sharp movement of his head.
We flew up again, taking his arms and standing in close to him. He could storm off again at any moment. We came down from the mind space into a small city apartment where a large, moustachioed, turbaned, dark-skinned man, naked apart from a pair of miniscule, red underpants, was sitting cross-legged on a clean and neatly made king-size bed. He was talking to three white-skinned, dirty-blond, suntanned young men who were sitting on chairs placed around the bed.
"We need new girls for the parties anyway. Lila was all used up already, no?" the guru giggled. "Are the two sisters who have been visiting ready for me yet?"
"Soon guruji. The older one knows that sleeping with you will help her karma. She is ready. The younger one, well, she's young guruji, fourteen."
"Bring her anyway. She delights me. My sex will shock her into Samadhi, no?" He laughed, victorious.
In quick response, the Californian hippie-chuckle reverberated around the room. "Yes, guruji. Yes."
"But make sure we have the correct days for the parties. Ask the women to watch the girls please." His voice hinted at impatience.
"Pregnancies hurt the image. Have you arranged the surgery for Lila yet?"
The scene disintegrated and we stopped still in the mind space and looked at Raj.
"Maybe that happened," he whimpered. "Maybe there were some pregnancies that would have caused, some, well, difficulties. A few times, only a few times, but they all loved me, I assure you, they loved me."
Three pairs of feet lifted a tiny way off the ground, hovered for a second, and then we were off again. This time we orbited the globe until we were over the ocean, close to Australia. Shooting northwards, we swooped down on a small tropical island. We circled a small village close to a beach scattered with tiny huts. At one end of the beach was a larger building. A crowd was heading inside. We followed them in.
The place was packed. The guru was parading up and down a line of devotees. They were new arrivals, fresh in that morning. They were all female, beautiful and in their twenties. The white-skinned, fat, bald, sixty-year-old guru wearing nothing but an orange loincloth examined their faces and bodies, touching, petting and cupping his hand on a breast if he felt inspired to do so.
"This one," he had chosen. "Drink some more," he ordered.
All the devotees reached for the whiskey in front of them, gulping it down. Helpers dragged the chosen devotee to her feet. She was quite drunk already. They led her up the stairs and towards the bed that had been set up in the middle of the raised stage where everyone could see it.
"No-one said anything about this. Please, no. I want to go home now," she whispered to the helper who had her arm. "And I feel sick." She burped.
"You have no choice," he whispered. "And you are lucky to have been chosen," he squeezed her arm hard enough to hurt. "If you decide against it, you will be in danger."
The inevitable happened but there was nothing interesting in hanging around to watch lower evolutionary beings copulate in the deepest fearfulness; sex with the added epic tale of avenging warrior claiming divine entitlement of a body to justify his better-than-ness. We'd had enough of that when we were lower evolutionary beings ourselves.
Now that we could see the lies in everything, human sexual activity predating the undoing efforts made us wince. It was even more gruesome when the lost humans believed there was something divine about it. Whenever we witnessed the sex confusion generated by the liar in the mind, we were nauseated. Our instructions were clear, never dwell on lies. It was good advice.
We let Raj watch, but we focussed his perception onto the heart of the devotee and the fear and confusion she was feeling, steering his awareness away from the gluttony and glee of the proven powerful guru. He would already be familiar with those feelings, and liable to defend them with bizarre references to the divine; references which only made sense to those desperate to rationalise criminal acts of madness. The scene drifted into grey meaninglessness.
"Well, Raj. Recognise anything there?" I asked.
"So he's a bit like me."
"He was a sick man Raj. Many of his devotees committed suicide." Raj's face twitched. "It will be a long time before anyone can help him. The delusion he suffers is so strong, he is blind to us, just as you were when you first arrived upstairs. Raj, do you recognise your world in these scenes? These gurus preached the same words of love as you, and they all promised that peace and happiness could be found through sex."
"Everyone says those things in India. It is no big deal. Stupid Americans with their heads up their asses. It blew their minds. It really did. What was I supposed to do? They were quite mad. How could I stay sane surrounded by those fools?"
We were getting somewhere. There was no movement through space. Instead, the grey surround morphed into images and form once more and we found ourselves sitting around a spacious dinner table in an outdoor restaurant. There were around ten people dining. Raj, Noah and I took spots between the diners. We seemed to be in a tropical zone as it was early evening, but dark already, and humid. Crickets were singing and a tall, thin woman with dirty-blond, unkempt hair was speaking.
"And the boss of Europe was coming to our little ashram in Denmark and they told all the pretty girls that we had to have sex with him; and maybe we had to have sex with some of his assistants too. The thought of it made me sick, but they told me I was being difficult. They told me I could forget enlightenment if I refused to have sex with the men. I knew that if I refused, the entire ashram would stop talking to me, that they would make my life impossible. I saw it happen to others. So I did it."
"Wow, that's horrible Marta," said the woman beside her.
"Yes, it is. It is one thing I remember right now, but there was much, much more. I managed to escape the ashram about a year later. I was nineteen. I was lucky. I had a friend who let me stay with her for a while. She saved my life, literally. I tried to kill myself three times."
"O my goodness!"
"Yeh," she paused. "That was thirty years ago."
Raj was examining the stubby, bloody, bitten shreds of his fingernails.
"I had an experience at the ashram in India, about ten years ago," said a middle-aged man sitting opposite. "It was grisly. It really upset me."
"What happened?"
"Well, I wanted help for, you know, emotional, relationship things. Anyway, I signed up for a workshop. It was expensive but one of the cool guys recommended it, you know, all the dudes were doing it. Well. There were around twenty of us. They told us to bring lubrication and condoms. Then the women arrived, but they were young some of them, like children, sixteen and so, maybe younger. The workshop was where we were gonna have sex with these young girls, but uninhibited, you know, we could do what we liked. The instructions were to be daring. They said this is how we would heal our psycho-emotional problems with parents, with authority. It would unblock us.
"Well, I felt sick. I could see the girls were unhappy and wished they were somewhere else. I know the look of a prostitute. I've been with enough of them…I'm sorry, it's true. I knew it was all lies, made up to justify fucking children and paying through the nose for the pleasure. We were somehow going to be closer to divine through acts of paedophilia. They actually believed that crap. It was vile. I left. I left the ashram. I left India soon after. It was sickening. I think the guru had died by then, but all this was going on, maybe even now it is. I heard it was worse when he was alive."
Raj had shut his eyes and his head drooped.
"We have one more visit to make Raj. Ready?" I asked him. He nodded.
We whooshed up again, swooping, swirling, whizzing high, plunging low, and then we were floating on the ceiling of a swish Manhattan apartment with an incredible view over the city through enormous windows. Two men were sitting on the modern, angular, spotless white sofa. They were both approaching their sixties, with hair the colour of a grey that had probably once been dirty-blond. They were looking at figures on a laptop in front of them on the minimalist glass coffee table.
"You see how rich we are man?" The first man roared with laughter. "We are so incredibly rich dude! Can you imagine if the old fool knew what we were doing? It was so easy to manipulate him those last years when he was bat crazy."
"Dude, it's hilarious! What makes me laugh is how they go for this bullshit more now than we ever did when he was around. It's insane."
"Totally dude." The Californian hippie-chuckle made a couple more laps of the chapter before the men and the apartment disintegrated into the mind-space purity from which they had emerged, leaving the witnessing process.
"You played the liar's game very well Raj. You understood the rules and followed them impeccably. You were so diligent and methodical, that you won the liar's game. You were a true winner at the liar's game. And, as it is with all such winners, the moment you won, you lost everything."
We were sitting cross-legged once again, calm and silent in the colourless, brilliant, pure perceptual space. A large tear rolled down Raj's cheek and splattered onto his thigh, drawing a dark circle in his orange gown.
"Your young girlfriend, Raj, did you know she was depressed enough to take her own life?"
We left him with his thoughts. We would return when he was ready for his undoing speech.
While Noah and I were in training, the Boss had taught us that when we refuse to acknowledge madness in anyone (whether by insisting madness is evil, a sin, or by insisting it is sanity, reasonable) we refuse to acknowledge the insanity in our own mind at the same time. We saw that humans refused to acknowledge the madness of gurus because we feared the sacrifice of something important, something essential to our happiness. We had confused the most insane behaviour with finding our way back to our Good God, while at each crazy application of our insanity Good God slipped further from reach. However, the liar told us we were doing well, that we had found God, and He was with us, and we believed the liar instead of the obvious facts.
We saw that under the mental dictatorship of the liar, what we thought would bring us happiness did the opposite, without exception. Everyone suffered this delusion, but its effects were starker within the madness of insidious cults. Love remained mysterious in those times. We had it confused with destructive activities. Sex without ethics, power over others, fear, paranoia, financial corruption, criminal activity, murder and suicide was justified, and defended by further violence.
War masked as peace seduced the fearful. They believed that destructive activities ensured the power, specialness, and uniqueness of religions, cults, and gurus. Cult membership made them better than everyone else, and bigger than God Himself. Any threat to a cult's specialness could justify murder, and the guru was the most special of the special. It was logical, explainable, and utterly insane.
When we realised how the insanity functioned, how the liar in the mind had built a nightmare world and made it appear reasonable and sane, all the horrors had an explanation. Even the madness of devotees murdering their own children had a sad, heavy, explanation. What else could they do when the only thing that gave their lives any meaning was threatened? They must follow their leader in his specialness, and to death.
We saw that all human group mentalities reflected the madness of religious cults at varying levels of intensity. But, as we undid the lies wherever we found them, the unification of human perception revealed itself. Undoing specialness brought equality, connection and love, the things that the liar in the mind feared the most. In the early days of reconnecting, the liar's loudest cheer was for a representative that, it told us, replaced God, knew everything and could help us. We surrendered everything to this faulty human being, the guru. When the guru idol turned out to be just another despot, and destructive activity became commonplace, we resisted admitting our mistake as we feared we would lose our only hope of freedom.
Noah and I saw that the undoing had taken hold long before anyone had any clear notion about what the undoing was. We saw that the energy of love had taken up residence in our minds long before we formally noticed. Guru madness reflected our first tentative steps towards a peaceful, fair and equal collective perception. Humans took to the arrival of Love with great enthusiasm, and the frenzied escapes from fixed ideas we witnessed in those early years were proof of it. It was the first time we had known real hope for the future; hope based upon something other than the liar's promises. However, we channelled the energy of change in the wrong direction at first. This had been inevitable.
The Boss summoned us after the witnessing. We made the sign of the cross before Her. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
"Would you please go to Raj," she bid. "He needs something more."
He was waiting.
"But what will happen? I'm scared, it's true. I was bad to people. I know that. And I am sorry. But if I admit it and ask for forgiveness, what will happen? I will go to hell, no?"
"Raj, dear Raj," Noah said with a kind laugh. "You have been in hell since the beginning. Nothing you have ever experienced on earth has been anything but."
"Then, it will be worse, much worse." We both laughed.
"You have a choice. You can take a continuum of difficult lives so that you may learn what you did to yourself. This may take time, much time, because you could slip back into delusion at any moment. The other option is fast-tracking. This is one or two uncomfortable lives where you get all the lessons you require over a shorter period. The Boss organises the lessons and you have to accept them when they come. There is one other option, but you have yet to qualify for that."
"Let me think about it." He walked off. He had created a garden from the mind space canvas where he had been wandering since the witnessing. There were no more sulks, and no more young blonds, or crazy orange-clad devotees, or hippie-chuckles, or rose petals; just a simple garden where he could walk, look at the flowers and think things over.
"A powerful guru that sees nothing of his past lives!" I said.
"You're right. He has no memory of any of it."
"And to think, he raised our child and was an excellent father."
Noah and I looked at each other and began to laugh. The human world was so ridiculous.
"Thing is, he always had that yearning for megalomania," Noah said. "I guess his wish came true and he forgot everything else."
Whenever we refuse to accept the obvious, in any situation, our psychosis deepens, our confusion multiplies, and truth and peace remain out of reach. And so it was with Raj. And still he wanders, and thinks, in his delicate garden created from the mind space. He wanders and wonders, should he go for the long series of lives where he may well forget his task, or should he fast-track it and suffer in ways that would supply the understanding that would help him heal.


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So here we all are again. Another year starts and yet again we look toward the sun kissed hills of Temecula in southern California to kick off another year of hills, pain, ropes, barbed wire and thousands upon thousands of delicious burpees. Don't pretend you don't like them.
As Vail Lake prepares to open its arms to thousands of Spartans old and new, we now have the fortunate dilemma of just how much we want those Trifectas. Instead of hosting the usual Super to get proceedings underway, this year begins with the option of doing both the Sprint and the Super, or perhaps just one or the other. The mid-range Super will boast a minimum of 8 miles and at least 20 obstacles waits for you on Saturday. The shorter Sprint, a great option for those new to Spartan Race with a distance of around 3.1 miles, will also be held on a completely different track taking place on both Saturday and Sunday. Which Spartans out there will try to get two thirds of their Trifecta done in one glorious weekend?
Additionally, the ferocious lunacy of the always-demanding Hurricane Heat will be available for those who like their early starts sprinkled liberally with hundreds of burpees and random tasks that serve no purpose other than to build teamwork and exhaust your muscles.
The elites will be keen to reap more points. Especially the early 2014 season leader of the men's elite division, Elliot Megquier. Currently Elliot has a paper-thin lead over Alexander Nicholas who was last seen showing us how to beat the Slippery Wall. Naturally well known heavy hitters in the form of Hunter McIntyre, Miguel Medina, Isiah Vidal, David Megida, Hobie Call and others will be sure to have their say in how those rankings look before too long.
The in the female division the competition grows equally as fierce with every race. Keen to shake off the dust following the winter break, Laura Messner will be all too aware that Danielle Ross, Jolene Wilkinson, Andi Hardy and the imposing pair of April Luu and Amelia Boone will quickly want to destroy her lead in the points tally. It's looking very much like 2014 will become the most hotly contested year yet.
Also new to Spartan Race is the Special Needs Spartan Course. The Special Needs Spartan Race is an obstacle course race designed to test resilience, strength, stamina, and ability to overcome adversity. Sports are a universal language which unites people on and off the field of play, cutting across lines of race, ethnicity, education level, social status, and economic background. The Special Needs Spartan Race breaks new ground by increasing collaboration and raising awareness. Most importantly Spartan Race is providing a safe and structured athletic event where individual differences are embraced. This will be a place where children and families can feel comfortable to express themselves and engage fully in the Spartan community.
The Special Needs Spartan Race course is designed for participants with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Special considerations have been set in place to accommodate the sensory profiles, physical, cognitive, and behavioral challenges faced by race participants.
In keeping with the Spartan Mission, our events are all about challenging today's perception of normal. Spartans welcome racers of all abilities. We integrate people with special needs to challenge the public's perception of what is normal. The spirit of the Spartan Race community encourages the development of skill, courage, sharing, and joy while transcending boundaries of geography, nationality, political philosophy, gender, age, race or religion. All racers receive a Finisher's Medal, a T-shirt, and are embraced as a member of the Spartan Tribe.
With our usual mix of vendors, music and community atmosphere in the event village, it's shaping up to be yet another outstanding event under the gloriously warm blue skies of California.
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7 U.S. Code § 1282a - Emergency supply of agricultural products
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(a) Establishment of prices to insure orderly, adequate and steady supply of products
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall assist farmers, processors, and distributors in obtaining such prices for agricultural products that an orderly, adequate and steady supply of such products will exist for the consumers of this nation.
(b) Adjustments in maximum price of products subject to any price control or freeze order or regulation to increase supply
The President shall make appropriate adjustments in the maximum price which may be charged under the provisions of Executive Order 11723 (dated June 13, 1973) or any subsequent Executive Order for any agricultural products (at any point in the distribution chain) as to which the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to the President that the supply of the product will be reduced to unacceptably low levels as a result of any price control or freeze order or regulation and that alternative means for increasing the supply are not available.
(c) "Agricultural products" defined
Under this section, the term "agricultural products" shall include meat, poultry, vegetables, fruits and all other agricultural commodities in raw or processed form, except forestry products or fish or fishery products.
(d) Implementation of policies to encourage full production in periods of short supply at fair and reasonable prices
The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to implement policies under this Act which are designed to encourage American farmers to produce to their full capabilities during periods of short supply to assure American consumers with an adequate supply of food and fiber at fair and reasonable prices.
Source(Pub. L. 91–524, title VIII, § 815, as added Pub. L. 93–86, § 1(27)(B),Aug. 10, 1973, 87 Stat. 240.)
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Executive Order 11723 (dated June 13, 1973), referred to in subsec. (b), was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 11788, June 18, 1974, 39 F.R. 22113.
This Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is Pub. L. 91–524, Nov. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1358, known as the Agricultural Act of 1970. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1970 Amendment note set out under section 1281 of this title and Tables.
Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 1970 as added by the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter.
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42 U.S. Code § 12211 - Definitions
(a) Homosexuality and bisexuality
(b) Certain conditions
Under this chapter, the term "disability" shall not include—
(1) transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual behavior disorders;
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 101–336, title V, § 512, formerly § 511,July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 376; renumbered § 512,Pub. L. 110–325, § 6(a)(2),Sept. 25, 2008, 122 Stat. 3558.)
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 101–336, July 26, 1990, 104 Stat. 327, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 12101 of this title and Tables.
Section 12102 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was amended generally by Pub. L. 110–325, § 4(a),Sept. 25, 2008, 122 Stat. 3555, and, as so amended, provisions formerly appearing in par. (2) are now contained in par. (1).
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A prior section 512 ofPub. L. 101–336, which amended former section 706 of Title 29, Labor, was renumbered section 513.
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Cardio-Sculpting Workout: 21 Days to Loving Your Shape
The 21-Day Plan
Sure, we're suckers for a workout that promises flat abs and a tight butt as much as the next girl. But there's a more important reason to exercise: It makes you feel great. "Good mental health is just as important as good physical health, and exercise is crucial to getting both," says trainer Jeanette Jenkins, author of The Hollywood Trainer Weight-Loss Plan: 21 Days to Make Healthy Living a Lifetime Habit. Her plan celebrates all of the fab stuff that comes with exercise: more energy, better health, and the motivation to keep coming back for more. So while this routine will definitely help you see an improvement in the right-around-the-corner skimpy-outfits season, it'll also help you love the shape you're in, inside and out.How the Plan Works
This 21-day plan is designed for all fitness levels, so follow the exercise and cardio variations that are right for you. Lacing up after a long layoff? Use the three weeks to make exercise a lifelong habit. If you're already in the swing of things, there are plenty of challenges here to boost your results.
The program consists of four primary workouts: three strength circuits and a cardio routine. Each circuit focuses on a different set of muscle groups; the cardio plan is designed to blast calories and improve your aerobic fitness. For best results, do the workouts in the order given below.What You'll Need
- A set of light (3- to 5-pound) and medium (8- to 10-pound) dumbbells
Day 1: Cardio, stretch
Day 2: Circuits A & C
Day 3: Cardio, stretch
Day 4: Circuits B & C
Day 5: Circuit A, stretch
Day 6: Circuits B & C
Day 7: Rest and rejuvenate (Repeat for weeks 2 and 3)
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If you look at the list, circuit a is 1-4, circuit b is the second numbered group, 1-3, and circuit c is the last numbered group, 1-3.7/11/2013 01:35:45 PM Report Abuse
which one is circuit A? and B?..and C?6/26/2013 02:26:43 AM Report Abuse
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