In a few days' time it will be Pentecost, and those of you who have "Advent to Pentecost 2015" e-books on your Kindle will be wanting to get a new e-book to take you from Pentecost 2015 to the beginning of Advent.
How you do this depends on how you got the e-book last time.
Do it again, just as you did before. All you need to change is the period you want the e-book to cover. This page has links to the instructions for Windows and Mac.
You started at this page and entered your registration code. So do the same thing again. Remember to open the list under "Which month do you want?" and select "Pentecost to Advent 2015". And of course, press the Create button at the very bottom of the page!
We also make a few standard Liturgy of the Hours e-books which can be bought directly from Amazon. The e-books are half a year long and (just like a printed book) once an e-book is obsolete you have to throw it away and get a new one. All the same, some people find this more convenient than buying a registration code and creating the e-book themselves.
Liturgy of the Hours 2015 (UK & Ireland, Ordinary Time), available from amazon.co.uk for £5.99, from amazon.com.mx for 34.99 pesos (about £1.50), amazon.in for 69 rupees (£0.70) and amazon.br for 3.99 reais (£0.85).
Liturgy of the Hours 2015 (USA, Ordinary Time), available from amazon.com for $9.99.
Liturgy of the Hours 2015 (Australia, Ordinary Time), available from amazon.com.au for AU$9.99.


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Thames speedboat death accused Jack Shepherd 'shouted help me', court hears
Charlotte Brown, 23, was at the wheel of Jack Shepherd's speedboat when it crashed on the River Thames near Wandsworth Bridge.
Thursday 5 July 2018 21:26, UK
Image: Jack Shepherd and Charlotte Brown were pulled from the Thames
A man accused of killing a woman in a speedboat accident shouted out "help me, help me" from the water - but did not shout to say anyone else was in trouble, a witness has said.
Jack Shepherd, 30, from Hammersmith, west London, is on trial for the manslaughter of 23-year-old Charlotte Brown, who he had taken out on the boat for a date.
He told police he had bought the boat "to pull women" and that he had taken several girlfriends out on it.
On the night of the crash, both Shepherd and Ms Brown had both been drinking.
A jury at the Old Bailey has been told how Ms Brown was at the wheel and the boat was speeding when it collided with a log and tipped over near Wandsworth Bridge on the River Thames.
Shepherd was found clinging to the bow and was rescued from the water just before midnight on December 8 2015.
Ms Brown was later pulled out of the water but was "unresponsive", with her mouth full of water and red wine in her vomit, the court was told.
Steven Morrissey, whose balcony overlooks the bridge, told the jury he heard a voice calling out after the crash.
In a statement read to the court, he said: "I could see the silhouette of a boat upturned. The boat's nose was underwater and part of the boat was protruding out of the water.
"My attention was taken away from the boat when I heard screaming. I had the feeling it was a young man.
"He kept saying, 'help me, help me, somebody help me'. It was just 'help me' - not 'us', or 'her'.
"I could see some people on the bank and lights where people were shouting, 'tell us where you are, we can't see you'.
"He just kept repeating, 'help me, help me'."
In his statement, Mr Morrissey said he could see search lights and torches along the bank, and later heard a policeman say "they've got him".
He said he did not hear a female voice but he did see "something in the water".
"My first thought was it was a body," he said. "I shouted at the police I had seen something."
Shepherd and Ms Brown had been drinking wine at The Shard before taking a bottle of champagne onto the boat.
Neither was wearing a life jacket.
In a statement read to the court, the accused said the boat was going "full throttle" at the time of the crash.
RNLI helmsman Ian Owen described finding Shepherd in the water. He told the court that Shepherd did mention Ms Brown to him.
"He was anxious to stay with us to find the female. He was quite adamant in assisting us with searching," Mr Owen said.
PC Liam Winter told jurors that Shepherd was "confused" and seemed "quite intoxicated".
"His words were slurred noticeably. He said, 'is she all right? Have you found her?"'
Shepherd is on trial in his absence, with the judge warning jurors not to speculate about the reason nor to hold it against him. He denies manslaughter by gross negligence.

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For today I have a few fun Christmas projects to share with you. My first one is a Tag to remind you of are AWESOME December Challenge that is going on.
I used Jaded Blossom the Winter Dies for the snowflakes, the White Christmas for the sentiments and from SVG Cutting Files I used Peeker Snowman Card for the card base.
I got the idea from Candace, she made a few different ones with different cut outs a few years ago!!! It's a easy card to make if you need to make lots of them but they look AWESOME!!! Just switch the papers or the cut outs and get a different look each time I used Jaded Blossom the Wine Tag Die for the tag, the Winter Dies for the cut out of a snowflake and added the snowflake to the inside, the White Christmas for the sentiment.
Peeker Reindeer Card for the card base.
Goodness me lady--these are so fun! I adore how you did that card with the die cut in the wine tag-- so fun!
Tons of cuteness! Awesome job!
LOVE them ALL!!! Fab Designs!
I love everything you created, especially those peeking cards!!


where's the other kid's plan? Oy vey, complicated!
Hi there. I've got 2 boys. They both have phones with Public Mobile. A couple of months ago, I got a replacement Debit Visa card. I figured out I should've updated my info with PM when both boys' phones stopped working. Oops.
I got things settled-up, and the phones were working.
This is where it gets confused. Both boys' phones got wrecked during the Christmas Break. I picked up an unlocked phone for one lad, but when we popped the SIM in, it didn't work. Works fine on wi-fi, but no texts or calls.
There's also a balance of $120 on my PM account, meaning that one of the payments didn't come out.
I can't find reference to either of the phone numbers, in the online PM account info.
What the heck? How do I sort this?
Re: where's the other kid's plan? Oy vey, complicated!
If I'm reading your post correctly, you're logged into a self-serve account, expecting to see both phone numbers?
Having a single account overseeing multiple phone numbers is definitely a desired/requested feature/capability, but sadly not something we can really expect anytime soon (if ever).
So, I tried to create a new profile, but when I entered the lad's phone number, it said that number was already taken, or was invalid. Problem is, I have no idea what the username or contact info would have been: as far as I knew, it was all on the one account. Ideas, anyone?
If you are trying to set up a new profile with the phone number that your son already has, then that's why you are getting the message that the number is not available. His profile already exists. If the new phone is compatible with Public Mobile you should have only needed to switch the SIM to the new phone.
Did you at any time intentionally suspend the account?
Problem is, I have no idea what the username or contact info would have been: as far as I knew, it was all on the one account.
I concur -- life would be easier if multiple numbers could fall under the umbrella of a single account! But unfortunately, that's not the case.
If you're using a gmail.com e-mail address, perhaps you leveraged the "dotted" variation to create a different address? Did you activate both SIM cards yourself, online? You could always try using the "Forgot your password?" link on the sign-in page, and try entering variations of the e-mails you have access to. If it's unknown, it will respond "Sorry, we're unable to verify your email address."; if it's a recognized e-mail address, it will send you a URL to change your password for that account.
"Did you at any time intentionally suspend the account?"
I went back and checked my bank statements: Public Mobile payments (2 payements each time) went out on June 6, September 4. The December payments weren't made until December 21st. That was after the boys' phones stopped working, and I figured out it was problably because I'd got the new card.
I didn't know that 2 phones couldn't be one one account. Thought they had been, all along. I think I need Mod help. How?
"If you're using a gmail.com e-mail address" Nope. Thanks, though, good thinking.
"Did you activate them both yourself, online?" Yep. I would've been the one to activate 'em.
I'll try the sign-in thing... Not too hopeful, though.
You can contact the Moderator_Team using the "mail" icon at the top of this page, or simply use this link to get in touch with them. Provide as many details as possible to confirm your identity (number, PIN, e-mails that you have, etc.), to minimize the necessity for back-and-forth messaging. The turn-around for a response has been a couple days lately, so keep a pack of patience nearby!
If the phones were destroyed is it possible that the SIM cards were damaged as well?
Also, I don't know if PM locks SIM cards to phones, but if they do that could be why it won't work in a new phone.


Compact, elegant, integrated, portable. Many attributes can be given to the TBS Groundstation. In the end it boils down to the only thing you'll be using from here on forth for your receiver, video splitter, (backup) screen, and more.
Compact, elegant, integrated, portable. Many more attributes can be given to the TBS Groundstation. In the end it boils down to the only thing you'll be using from here on forth as your receiver, video splitter, (backup) screen, and more.
At the heart of the Groundstation is a built in 2.4GHz receiver feeding a 4″ LCD screen and four buffered video outputs, protected by a custom aluminum enclosure. A barrel connector provides juice to your video goggles, allowing you to power everything off a single 3S battery. The built-in low voltage alarm lets you know when the fun is over before the lights go out.


Welcome to First Grade, in room 301 at Anthon Elementary! My name is Mrs.Vasquez and I will be your child's First grade teacher. I am truly excited and honored that you have entrusted me with your child's educational achievements for the next 10 months. It is a privilege that will not be taken lightly. Together, we will learn and grow while never forgetting to have fun. This is my 27th year teaching. I have been teaching 6 years at Anthon Elementary and I love it! I graduated from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies specializing in Bilingual and Early Childhood Education.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/should-you-have-your-entire-401k-in-a-target-date-fund-2018-11-05
More 401(k) Savers Than Ever Are Putting All Their Money in Target-Date Funds. Should You?
Alessandra Malito, MarketWatch
Nov. 11, 2018 7:00 am ET
Great news for savers: Average retirement account balances have hit record highs and have almost doubled in the past 10 years.
A good deal of the money in 401(k) accounts is ending up in target-date funds. In fact, more than half of 401(k) accounts hold 100% of their assets in target-date funds, according to third-quarter data from Fidelity Investments. Whether that's a wise strategy, however, is up for debate.
This is the first year more than half (50.4%) of 401(k) savers have all of their assets in a target-date fund, the Boston-based financial services firm found in its third quarter analysis of its investors' retirement savings. More than 30% of overall 401(k) assets are in target-date funds, up from 9.8% in the third quarter of 2008. Even more savers in 403(b) plans — 62% — have all of their assets in a target-date fund, the report said.
Target-date funds are investments tailored to an individual account holder's age and retirement year. It's essentially a "set it and forget it" strategy because the fund will automatically rebalance itself to align with the investor's age. For example, someone in his early 30s may be invested in a 2050 target-date fund, which assumes he will retire in that year at the age of 67. (The target-date fund assumes you will be at full retirement age in that year. For older generations, that age may be younger).
"The beauty of the target-date fund is it adjusts your equity for you as you get closer to your target retirement date," said Meghan Murphy, vice president of Fidelity Investments. So, someone in their 20s and 30s will be more heavily invested in equities, which can come with more risk, and the target-date fund portfolio will adjust to be more heavily allocated into bonds and conservative investments as that person gets older.
The problem: target-date funds aren't for everyone, yet many employers use it as the default portfolio for an employee saving in a 401(k). Of the employers Fidelity looked at in its analysis, 98% of employers use target-date funds, 90% of which have it as the default option in the plan.
Read more: Trump Tackles Retirement. Here's What It Means for Your 401(k)
Target-date funds are a great starting point, especially for new participants with little assets in a retirement account, said Dennis Nolte, vice president of Seacoast Investment Services in Winter Park, Fla., but savers should consider alternative options as they accumulate assets. "These funds treat everyone as if they have the same risk tolerance and income needs in retirement, and can tolerate the volatility before the 'target' year is reached," he said.
Asset allocations may be tailored for a specific retirement year in mind, but not how much money individual investors have, said Ryan Marshall, partner at ELA Financial Group in Wyckoff, N.J. People earning $20,000 or $200,000 a year are lumped in the same fund with the same asset allocations, which may not work in either of their favor. "It is even worse when someone who is late at **saving** for retirement may need more growth than they would potentially receive from a target-date fund," he said. "Clients like the idea of simplicity, but I truly believe there should be three target-date funds offered for each date."
Still, these investments are helpful for the employees uncomfortable with investments, said Eric Roberge, financial planner and founder of Beyond Your Hammock in Boston. "Although they may not have the optimal breakdown of asset classes, they are a great quick fix solution to get people not only saving into their retirement accounts, but investing that money," he said. These funds are often the default option, but savers can change their portfolio with alternative options the employer has made available, Murphy said. Plus, target-date funds have prevented many investors from extreme asset allocations, either too heavily invested in equities or not at all, she said.
This article originally appeared on MarketWatch.
Comments? E-mail us at editors@barrons.com


Local artists and designers appropriated the entire space at Off the Kerb gallery for the duration of the festival. This included the gallery stairwell, where Milly Sleeping presented a collection of wearable works that visitors were encouraged to try on and borrow as they viewed the accompanying exhibitions.
Designers were briefed to consider the way dress impacts upon sensation and experience. A feature of the exhibit was a suite of collars made by Evian Lee from unconventional materials including tyvek and plaster. I Feel Fine was the partner stairwell installation to Borrow at Off the Kerb during LMFF 09.
Thank you to Cultural Program Manager, Fleur Watson.


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HomeEuropean LeaguesBundesligaSadio Mane heading to Munich, as Bayern and Liverpool reach an agreement
Sadio Mane heading to Munich, as Bayern and Liverpool reach an agreement
June 18, 2022 Anytime Football Bundesliga, Transfer
Sadio Mane celebrates scoring of Liverpool against Burnley-Anfield -
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane is set to join Bayern Munich in a deal worth around £35m.
According to the latest reports, the German club have agreed on a fee with the Premier League giants and Sadio Mane is set to undergo medical tests with the Bundesliga club soon.
The 30-year-old scored 23 goals for Liverpool last season and he helped them to win the English League Cup and the FA Cup.
Mane has been an exceptional player for Liverpool since joining the club from Southampton six years ago and he has established himself as one of the best players in the world during his time at Anfield.
There is no doubt that the 30-year-old will go down as a Liverpool legend and he will also be considered as one of the greatest African players to have graced the Premier League.
The forward had just one year left on his Liverpool deal and it is hardly surprising that he has chosen to pursue a new adventure now.
The Senegalese international has won every trophy at the club level with Liverpool and he will be hoping to showcase his qualities in the Bundesliga now.
Bayern Munich are expected to lose Robert Lewandowski this summer and the Liverpool star could be his replacement.
Lewandowski has been linked with a move to Barcelona and it will be interesting to see where he ends up.
Meanwhile, Bayern Munich director Hasan Salihamidzic has confirmed that the Liverpool player is heading to Germany and the deal should be finalised soon.
Sadio Mané deal completed, Bayern director Hasan Salihamidžić confirms after meeting in England: "Yes, Sadio is coming to Bayern", he just told @Sky_Torben. 🚨🛩 #LFC
Paperworks are being prepared after full agreement reached with Liverpool today morning. #FCBayern pic.twitter.com/RTTS4OBxwA
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 17, 2022
Newcastle United keen on Nick Pope
Barcelona board agree to sell off the club's retail operation and part of TV rights for £555 million
Arsenal, West Ham dealt a transfer blow, as Andrea Belotti agrees to join Jose Mourinho in AS Roma
August 3, 2022 Anytime Football Serie A, Transfer
AS Roma have reportedly agreed on a deal to sign Torino striker Andrea Belotti. The Italy international, who is a free agent after running down his contract at the Turin club, has attracted the interest […]
Euro 2020 squad Wales: Cardiff teenager Rubin Colwill gets surprise call-up, Bale and Ramsey included
June 3, 2021 Anytime Football Euro, Internationals
Welsh caretaker manager Robert Page has assembled a 26-man squad for the Euro 2020. Wales will begin their proceedings in European Championship against Switzerland in the Group A clash as they have been drawn alongside Turkey […]
Real Madrid believe 'PSG beating Bayern Munich in UCL' could help Mbappe Transfer
August 23, 2020 xcelence18 European Leagues, La Liga, Ligue 1, Transfer
Real Madrid will be looking to sign Kylian Mbappe from PSG if the French side manage to win the Champions League this season. PSG take on Bayern Munich in the final later tonight. The 21 […]


A lot of bands know how to play to a crowd, but not many bands know how to be played by a crowd. Vermont's Phish is one of the latter. Band members came up with the idea of throwing beach-balls out into the audience—each one corresponding to a different band member—and having each musician jam along, according to what's happening to his particular beach-ball.
Whether or not the inflatables make an appearance when Phish plays an all-ages gig at 86 Street on Saturday (April 3), there's little doubt that the band's improvisational blend of virtuoso rock and inspired goofiness will be the main attraction. The group has been experimenting with and expanding the boundaries of popular music ever since coming together in the university town of Burlington, Vt., in the early '80s.
From the beginning, Phish has paid little heed to any of the traditional routes to music-biz success. The band completed several national tours that the members booked themselves, and all profits were reinvested in the live show, which still remains the group's focal point and first love. On the recording front, Phish released two independent albums before the live buzz on the band netted a deal with Elektra Records.
The band's most recent release, Rift, was produced by Muscle Shoals veteran Barry Beckett, and its songs are loosely linked by the theme of a guy sleeping and dreaming about problems with his girlfriend. A theme that's particularly close to home for the Phish members, one might ask?
Just last year, Phish toured as part of the HORDE (Horizon of Rock Developed Everywhere) tour, which saw them on a bill with the Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Widespread Panic, and Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit. These bands share a celebratory attitude and adventurous approach to playing live, which includes a familial relationship to the audience. However, only one of the five bands—the Spin Doctors—has become a huge success in the past 12 months. Is Gordon amazed at how far they have gone?
"Well, I know that it happens," he says, "but I really had no idea that it would happen like that. Last year they weren't even the closing band—us and Blues Traveler alternated the final spot. But I'm not amazed, because they write good pop songs, and it's a real talent to know how to write something that'll hit the mass audience and be catchy and all that.


I love Beautisol Self Tanner. It's one of my favorite tanning lotions, perfect for the summer season. Right now you can get a free bottle of self tanner with the purchase on one tanner.
If you haven't tried Beautisol Self Tanner, you are truly missing out, so make sure you head over to their website, but hurry! Offer ends August 5th!!


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Episode 17: Rachel Hollis
January 3, 2019 By Dan Schawbel • Leave a Comment • Podcasts
An interview with Rachel Hollis, author of Girl, Wash Your Face, about how she has the courage to share her personal life publicly, how she lives fearlessly, how to take charge of your life, who motivates her and her best career advice.
Welcome to the seventeenth episode of 5 Questions with Dan Schawbel. As your host, my goal is to curate the best advice from the world's smartest and most interesting people by asking them just 5 questions.
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This episodes guest:
Rachel Hollis was born in Weedpatch, California and after graduating high school, moved to LA where an obsession with Matt Damon led her to apply for (and get) a job at Miramax. While there, she met her husband and founded an event-planning company, Chic Events. Then in 2015, Rachel had her breakthrough moment on social media when an Instagram photo of her celebrating her stretch marks went viral to over 10 million views. In 2018, her book Girl, Wash Your Face deputed and went onto being a #1 New York Times bestseller for twelve weeks selling more than 880,000 copies in the United States alone. Since the success of her book, Hollis, her husband Dave and four children have moved outside of Austin, Texas. Her follow up book is called Girl, Stop Apologizing. With her husband she is the co-host of the RISE Together podcast and co-founders of The Hollis Company. The company has media, products, inspiration and community to arm people with the tools they need to make positive and lasting change in their lives. For her hard work, dedication and business success, Rachel was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the "Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30". Both Rachel and I started out as bloggers before we were entrepreneurs and authors. I deeply respect her ability to talk about her biggest insecurities and flaws publicly.
The 5 questions questions I ask in this episode:
How did you originally get the courage to share your personal life publicly?
What does it mean to live fearlessly?
How can people stop feeling shame and start taking charge of their lives?
Who do you look to for inspiration, motivation and emotional support?
What is your best piece of career advice?
Follow Rachel's journey:
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The Writing Habit
For David Rodeback's Alpha and Beta Readers
The Reading Habit
Discovered Gems
Others Recommend
Books Aren't Everything
The Faith Habit
Short Takes on Scripture
For Christians Generally
For Mormons
Explaining the Mormons
For Skeptics and Unbelievers
AF26 FHC Resources
About David Rodeback
David's Root Beer and Gourmet Soda Ratings
A Brief Personal Declaration
Why "Bendable Light"? Why Habits?
Bendable Light
by David Rodeback
© 2020 Bendable Light
Review: David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum
Posted on February 5, 2014 by David Rodeback
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Years ago, I tried my hand at a few book reviews. Here is one of them, because I think it still has merit, and because I need some content to test the function of this web site I'm building. This was previously published at an old site of mine, BookishThoughts.com.
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Hardback: 240 pages. New York: Putnam, 2001. ISBN: 0399147454.
Trade Paperback: 225 pages. New York: Penguin, 2002. ISBN: 0142000604.
I hope my first novel, if I ever manage to write it, is as good as David Czuchlewski's. He's an author to watch, especially because his intentions appear to be literary, not merely commercial.
The Muse Asylum is not summer beach reading, which allows your brain to be left at home (or, at worst, demands it be left at home). You need not be well versed in literary criticism to enjoy this novel, but if the word postmodern scares you when you see it in a book review, this gem may not be for you.
Every fashion in literary criticism becomes ridiculous at the extremes. One of Postmodernism's chief excesses is the notion that the author of a text (never a book or a story, always a text) is irrelevant to the meaning of the text. Roland Barthes went so far as to declare the death of the author, along with the "liberation" of the reader "from the tyranny of plot."
The text supposedly speaks for itself, and it may allow interpretations which are completely at odds with what the author thought she meant. This is too much liberty and too little responsibility. I incline instead toward Vladimir Nabokov's notion of the astute reader, who identifies with the author – as opposed to the postmodern reader, who ignores the author, or the typical reader, who identifies with a character. There may be some use in attempting to examine a text independent of its author, but when the "death of the author" becomes a dogma, one readily sees why the rest of the world cannot take most literary criticism seriously.
Enter a fictional American writer, one Horace Jacob Little, who prefers for theoretical or personal reasons (no one is quite certain) to write anonymously. That is, his books bear his name, or at least a name, but he hides from his readers so successfully that no one knows anything else about him.
His fiction changes the lives of three Princeton students, among many others, by opening minds to new and different ways of thinking. The Muse Asylum focuses on these three, during and after their Princeton years.
Jake Burnett starts reading Horace Jacob Little in high school. At Princeton, he introduces the captivating Lara Anne Knowles to Little's works. Jake and Lara become more than friends, until Andrew Wallace steals her away. Significantly, the Horace Jacob Little book Jake gives to Lara finally falls into Andrew's hands. This marks the beginning of the end of Andrew's sanity.
Andrew loses his mind at Princeton, finally becoming convinced that the invisible, godlike Horace Jacob Little is the author of a vast conspiracy to destroy him. He believes that someone murdered the original Horace Jacob Little, took his place, continued to write under his name, and confessed his crime in an obscure way in his "next" novel. Now the impostor seeks to kill Andrew, who has figured it all out.
When the novel begins, after Princeton, Jake is working for an alternative newspaper in New York City. In an effort to boost circulation, his editor assigns him to do what no one else has done: find Horace Jacob Little and interview him. This assignment leads Jake to renew his association with both Andrew and Lara.
Through all the plot twists, nothing is quite what it seems. Or, rather, some things might be, but it's devilishly hard to tell. The person Jake finally finds and interviews may or may not be the real Horace Jacob Little. An obvious suicide may not have been a suicide. Insane fantasies may not all be insane, after all. And Andrew's obsession, the exposure of the supposed murdering impostor, may be contagious. The key to the mystery turns out to be at the Muse Asylum, a haven for the gifted but insane.
The novel is written in the first person, but there are actually two voices. For the most part, Jake and Andrew alternate chapters. Jake's account begins with the assignment to find Horace Jacob Little. Lara plays the sane third party and a love interest who is for Jake ultimately unattainable. Andrew's chapters are excerpts from his autobiography, written at the asylum as a therapeutic exercise, and focused on the Princeton years. In these chapters, Lara is the love of his life and a friendly island in an ominous sea of faces, any of which might belong to the mysterious Horace Jacob Little or one of his minions. Keeping track of which narrative voice is which is a bit of a challenge for a few chapters, but that is not too much for a good writer to expect of good readers.
Read simply as a mystery, The Muse Asylum is fascinating and full of unexpected reversals. Read as a commentary on the Postmodern death of the author – actually, the complete irrelevance of the author – it is a delightful poke at a fashionable critical extreme. For in this fictional world, the author is far more important than the text. Jake and Andrew cannot embrace Horace Jacob Little's works without desiring, even obsessively, to discover and understand the authorial mind which created them. And it works both ways: what, and how much, the text says about its author is an open question, in Horace Jacob Little's case. In the end, it may well be more than everyone but Andrew had supposed.
Read at a psychological level, this novel poses, but leaves unanswered, some delicious questions: What is insanity? How is it related to genius? Who is sane, and who, really, is insane? At the end of the novel, one is inclined to doubt that there are easy answers.
Since authors do seem to matter, after all, I note that David Czuchlewski is a Princeton graduate and a medical student in New York City, and is working on his second novel. I'm looking forward to it.
Note: David Czuchlewski's second novel was Empire of Light, which was published in 2001. I very much enjoyed it and have since watched in vain for a third novel.
Art without Adrenalin: A Review of David Baldacci's Wish You Well
Hardback: 401 pp. New York: Warner Books, 2000. ISBN: 0446527165.
When I was in the fourth grade, my family moved from Boulder, Colorado, to a small, unincorporated farm town in Idaho, which had a post office but no traffic lights. I was a city kid, so my immediate sense of its smallness was based on the absence of public transportation not only in my new hometown, but also in the small nearby city and the larger cities up and down the interstate.
But size wasn't the biggest shock. In the mid-1970s Boulder was trying desperately to be Berkeley, California. I was probably wrong, but my impression then was that there were very few people in southeastern Idaho who were even aware that there was any world at all outside the borders of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.
The children at school and at church were not accustomed to newcomers. They greeted my arrival with countless petty persecutions. It didn't help that I instantly found myself well ahead of all the other students in every subject I had already studied at Aurora 7 Elementary – except orchestra, because my new school didn't have one.
I came near the beginning of a wave of immigrants from out of state, so I suppose my classmates were experiencing their own version of culture shock. At the time, however, I only noticed my own.
At length, my new milieu and I became accustomed to each other. I found some friends at school. Before and after school, and during summer vacation, I tended half an acre of vegetable garden and worked on nearby farms. Somehow, in the process, I came to appreciate the land and its people, to see the quiet goodness that often concealed itself behind bad grammar and dirty overalls.
We were 60 miles from where my mother grew up, though not so distant, culturally. So when David Baldacci announces in his introduction that he is offering a sort of history of "both where and how my mother grew up," he has met me on familiar territory.
Lou ("don't call me Louisa Mae") Cardinal is twelve years old, the tomboy daughter of a struggling, gifted writer, Jack Cardinal, and Amanda, his gentle, insightful wife. Little brother Oz (for Oscar, after Oscar Wilde) is seven. On the way home to New York City from an outing in a borrowed car, there is an accident. Jack is killed, Amanda is left a vegetable, and mother and children are launched on an unexpected journey from New York City to the mountains of Virginia, where the children will grow up in the care of their great-grandmother, who is also named Louisa Mae Cardinal.
My own culture shock pales next to Lou's, and the minor trauma of my father's unemployment hardly compares to a father's tragic death as a motivation to emigrate. Nor were my rural persecutors as vicious as Lou's. But as I read this gentle, moving novel, two parallel plots unfolded in my mind: the fictional saga of Lou and Oz in a strange, new world; and my own, very similar memories of childhood.
The two plots – mine and Baldacci's – have many common details. Lou and Oz find themselves far ahead in their new country school. They plant corn. They discover manure's rich potential for pranks. Eventually, their chores, once unimaginably strange, become "as natural as breathing." They find friends and protectors. They find a kindred spirit in attorney Cotton Longfellow, the great-great-great-grandson of the famous author, who lives in rural Virginia because it is as far from literary Boston as one can possibly be.
In the beginning, when they discover that nature itself is far bigger than New York City, Lou and Oz are frightened and intimidated. As time passes, their awe is undiminished, but they begin to feel almost at home in the daily battle to hold back the encroaching wilderness, as did I. Still, at least until the epilogue, they are destined to remain outsiders (albeit sympathetic outsiders) in the alien world where Jack Cardinal grew up, but where his literary gift and the culture that appreciated it mean nothing.
I indulge my personal reflections here to make two points. First, my personal response to Wish You Well is so rooted in my own experience that my objectivity is in doubt. (I don't apologize for this.) Second, and more significantly, David Baldacci has succeeded in creating what his fictional Jack Cardinal achieved: "vivid landscapes densely populated with flawed characters who, with each turn of the page, seemed more real than one's family."
Since we tend to caricature our own family members, and because we are prone to look forward, not behind us, such a book has merit far beyond entertainment. It can cause us to see those around us and our past with new eyes.
Obviously, this is not a Baldacci thriller. There is some legal drama, but it is more in the spirit of To Kill a Mockingbird than of modern legal thrillers. There is the occasional auto accident or explosion, even arson, but they are realistic and believable, not sparks in a turbo-charged engine invented to drive the plot at a frenzied pace.
The heroes and villains are not the stock characters of thrillers. Rather than a brilliant, ruthless, megalomaniac billionaire or a corrupt politician, the villains here are a cruel farmer who starves his wife and children, and a gas company. Even the latter evil is less that of a corporation than of the men who work for it, who think they can buy whatever they want.
The heroes are quiet, reflective children, not daring, desperate, resourceful, beautiful adults. The people around them are not the bright lights of business and politics, but the good people of the mountain, mostly illiterate but not stupid. Where in a thriller great battles might be won or great crimes committed, here there is a schoolyard brawl and a triumphant barn-raising.
In short, Wish You Well is much nearer to everyday life than the conventional best-selling thriller. Metaphorically, it is Simon Birch or Forrest Gump, not Air Force One.
As days and years pass, Lou deliberately learns a great deal about her father, who, though deceased, is very much present throughout the novel. The children live with the woman who raised him, in the house where he was raised, in the world about which he wrote his books. They read his schoolbooks and attend his school. He is more of a presence than Amanda, who remains alive in the next room, but unresponsive.
In the economy of novels, Baldacci would probably have killed Amanda, too, if she were not meant finally to come back to life. I wondered how he would pull it off, and whether it would be believable. Perhaps this means the device is a bit too obvious for so artful a novel.
I won't spoil the suspense, though, except to note that I'm not sure miracles have to be believable. Maybe they are not, by definition. Perhaps, like life, so humane and realistic a tale of faith and family and sacrifice would be incomplete without miracle. At least the concluding miracle here is more plausible than the plots of most thrillers.
Some Tom Clancy fans complained when, after two novels, he began to devote more pages to his characters and fewer to high-tech weaponry. Perhaps some Baldacci fans will protest that love, faith, sacrifice, and everyday villainy are a poor substitute for high adventure, romance, and evil in high places. Not I.
In terms of his language, Baldacci here is still very much the author of the page-turning thriller. His artistry is in the tale he tells, not the words and sentences he used to tell it. One does not pause to savor his prose, as one must, for example, when reading Annie Dillard. Still, this is a good story, told well enough to keep me turning pages.
I get Baldacci's thrillers at the library or buy them in paperback, enjoy them, and pass them on. I bought Wish You Well in hardback, and I'm glad. This one I'll keep. I've recommended it to friends. I may even read it to my children. This is his best work to date, but I hope it doesn't remain so. I'll keep reading his thrillers, if he'll keep writing them, but I hope he has another novel or two in him like Wish You Well – or even better.
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The decision is especially jarring, in light of recent appearance-driven abuse of Sikhs around the world.
On Wednesday, Gucci presented its 2018 Fall ready-to-wear line as part of Milan Fashion Week. Fashion followers in the U.S. woke up to photos across Twitter and Instagram that showed a fashion presentation staged in what was designed to look like a sterile operating theater, communicating creative director Alessandro Michele's take on human beings today being able to create new versions of themselves with bits and pieces from all over. "We are the Dr. Frankenstein of our lives," he said in a press conference following the show.
The images that were most widely circulated featured models strutting the runway in the brand's new collection carrying replicas of their own heads. Other models in the show held on to toy dragons and iguanas as accessories, while others wore realistic-looking open third eyes on their foreheads, and one look featured a black headpiece that was in the shape of a pagoda. Models wearing turbans — tied and folded in a way that mirrors the manner in which they are worn within the Sikh religion — were featured prominently throughout the presentation.
With an emerging presence of Sikh men in the fashion industry — like designer Waris Ahluwalia or the newer face of Toronto-based model Count — it's disappointing to see these turbans being shown on models who are not Sikh themselves, or daily turban wearers. Sikhs regard and treat the turban as a symbol of pride, strength, and courage. It's jarring to see something so sacred to some, be regarded as little more than a prop by others, particularly during a time when many Sikhs around the world, and of all ages, are suffering from physical and verbal assault based on their appearances. It is also important to note that the show also featured looks that incorporated what appeared to be takes on hijab and niqab, with a similar disregard.
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A week on Mer Island - deepening the dialogue about sustainable infrastructure
Over two and a half thousand kilometres away to the north of Sydney is a tiny island in the outermost reaches of the Torres Strait called Murray (Mer) Island. On the island live a community of 400 people who rely on diesel for electricity, desalination for water and import their food by barge from Cairns, eight hundred kilometres away. The water supply is intermittent, fresh food is prohibitively expensive and the only waste disposal method currently is burning off in the small open landfill, plastics and all. If you were an engineer, what would you do to try and improve the quality of life of the community and the impacts on the environment of this infrastructure? Where would you start?
This very question formed the core of the fourth year environmental engineering course, Planning Sustainable Infrastructure. For all of semester 1, 2015, we looked at infrastructure improvements and demand minimisation strategies across water, waste, energy and transport. We researched, we talked to the mayor, we analysed data, and learnt to make assumptions where information was thin. We wrote reports, compiled suggestions and presented to the public at the showcase.
For four incredibly lucky students though, this was only the beginning. Sarah Hayes, Felipe Lebensold, Amarin Siri and Danielle Tuazon were given the opportunity by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering to visit the island during the mid-year break and talk to the community about what we had found. This trip marks the start of a relationship between UNSW and Mer Island, whereby students each year will visit Mer to deepen the dialogue about moving towards sustainable infrastructure.
And so it was that the four of us, along with lecturers Prof. Martin Nakata (Nura Gili), Stephen Moore, Prof. Richard Stuetz, came to spend a week in the most remote and beautiful place we had ever seen. It was only as we made our way from Sydney to Cairns, Cairns to Thursday Island, Thursday Island to Mer and as the planes became smaller and smaller that we realised just how far away it was. Geographic isolation poses many challenges and it was on that trip that we realised the imperative of self-sufficiency in such a location. Sustainable infrastructure on Mer isn't just about reducing carbon emissions, it is a question of independence and standard of living. This is a lesson that Eddie Mabo, whose grave we were privileged to visit, knew deeply and passed on to his community. We have to find solutions that marry the two approaches: rain-water tanks may reduce the load on the desalination plant but the community is infinitely more interested in the fact that it would mean 24 hour supply. A community garden would reduce the need for freighted food and hence transportation emissions, but it needs to be framed in terms of improving food availability.
The week flew by, a strange balance of frenetic activity and blissful calm. We ran workshops at the school; we slept in the afternoon. We gave presentations to community groups and interviewed elders; we wandered through endless greenery and paddled in the bright blue ocean (large, close and abundant sharks meant swimming was out of the question). We looked at pumps and wiring and inverters, we learnt to fish and climb coconut trees, we skimmed pebbles and collected shells. We made friends with families, and watched the State of Origin together. We discovered that the colourful houses we'd seen all over the island in fact denoted the owner's NRL loyalties – lime green and purple houses everywhere indicated the Raiders and the Storm were popular choices.
The trip was the most unbelievable experience. What we learnt, above all else, is that engineering does not exist in a vacuum, it is and has to be a reaction to the social and cultural environment it is serving. We all knew this on an academic level, but to see and live and breathe the island for a week was to know it on a deeper, more fundamental level. Walking around, we saw that our lofty ideas dreamed up in a city classroom were too formal, too rigid. The trip gave us a better understanding of the intricacies and sensitivity that being an engineer involves which will be valuable to us for the rest of our lives. Also, we hope that in some small way we have helped to begin a fruitful relationship with the small island community we all fell in love with.
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News Media Caught in Massive Cover-up Scandal.
Federalist writer Mary Katherine Ham put the liberal media on blast by telling CNN's "Inside Politics" that the American public doesn't trust the press because they have a history of covering up sexual abuse allegations just to "score points" with the Left.
Ham specifically pointed to how the media covered for Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein, repeatedly killing legitimate stories to protect the guilty.
Marine who urinated on Taliban gets off after court finds meddling.
Marine Staff Sargent Joseph Chamblin is free to enjoy his Veteran's Day weekend after an appellant court threw out his conviction. Chamblin was originally punished by a military tribunal for urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.
The appeals court threw out the charges after learning that judges in the case were unlawfully influenced by the Obama-appointed Commandment of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Amos. Amos "severely and systematically" interfered with the case, according to the published opinion from the United States Navy-Marine Court of Criminal Appeals.
Donor offers to fund prayer garden on site of Texas church massacre.
Following last Sunday's shooting at a Texas church, the pastor has announced the church will be demolished. An unnamed donor has offered to fund the building of a prayer garden on the site.
Country Star Tim McGraw calls for gun control, attacks NRA.
Country music superstar Tim McGraw called out the NRA following the tragic shooting at a church in Texas. McGraw stated that he supports "common sense" gun control, which he equates to "military-style weapons" being banned.
Truth number one: The Second Amendment is intended as a check against state tyranny. Truth number two: The government can't effectively enforce the gun laws now. Shooter Devin Patrick Kelly was legally barred from owning a gun, but the U.S. Air Force failed to flag him in the system.
Kelley once held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. At other times he assaulted their baby son and threatened to kill her whole family. He was clearly a disturbed man who had no business owning a gun.
In an exceptionally awkward interview with Sean Hannity, GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore responded to accusations of inappropriate conduct with teenage girls as young as 14.


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When the age of retirement has come, several foreign people decide to move to Italy; the weather, the food and the landscape are three main reasons that persuade people to move to Italy.
The good climate, the good food and the beautiful local sceneries attract many English, American and Northern European people who want to start over a new leaf. However, what are the best places to live as a retired person in Italy?
Among the most desired places we find destinations such as Tuscany, Rome, Venice and Naples but before making a choice you should really think about the way to start a new life and what you exactly want.
Tuscany: this is the most beaten region for English and American people; the high number of vineyards, the shining fields of sunflowers, the good wine and the beautiful countryside make it perhaps the most attractive region in the country. This is the right place for all the nature lovers and those who have the dream of living in a local casale, and the best option is to find an old one and renovate it to your taste. If you had Florence in mind as the Tuscan place to live in, you will see that it is a nice town because it is not that big and rather liveable but it is quite expensive and rents are rather high in what is renowned as 'culla del Rinascimento', the cradle of Renaissance.
Moving to Italy as a retired: will it be a typical "casale" in the Tuscany Countryside?
Rome: the richness of monuments and the fame of the town make it extremely alluring. The Italian capital city has no rival in the quantity of monuments, art sites and ancient historic background turning it into a fascinating place for all those who are in love with culture and art. Rome is one of the biggest cities in Italy, but it preserves a little town atmosphere, with its small alleys, the local markets, small shops and "trattorie" that serve local cuisine. Who has never dreamt about living in a flat facing the Coliseum or Fori Imperiali? However, this view will cost you a really high rent; despite the economic crisis Rome is one of those towns whose real estate market has not gone down and it is very expensive to live there. Moreover, living in such a big town also means being ready to be stuck in bad traffic during peak hours. However, these two negative aspects are definitely outweighed by the scenery and the great nightlife and plenty of things to do in the town.
Moving to Italy as a retired: will it be Trastevere in Rome?
Venice: renowned worldwide for being the hometown of romanticism, it is a mysterious and charming place due mainly to its lagoon where boats are the only means to move from some parts of the town to the other. It is also the presence of the lagoon that creates what can turn out to be a problem for those who were not born there or are not used to living there: the acqua alta , high water, during winter and the period of heavy rains. Water comes up and floods the streets making it necessary to put some specific footbridges and actually houses were built to tackle this problem since the first floor is actually the second one.
It is the perfect place to live in a less ordinary way and in a unique town if you can afford it.
Entrance to a house in Venice: will this be the place where you will retire in Italy?
It is also famous for its monuments, the near excavations of Pompeii and the Amalfi coast, for the good food and there you will eat the best pizza of Italy. Life here is not that expensive compared to other Italian big cities but the transport system is usually less efficient and the organization of everyday routine gets more complicated. But if you are retired and are not in a rush all time, this is a great place where to relax.
Street in Naples: what about retiring here?
If you are wondering about the cost of life and how you will live as a retiree in Italy, much depends on the town you choose, and obviously on your money. In general the cost of life is much more expensive in the northern part of Italy while rather acceptable in the south, bearing in mind that the dollar is a weaker currency compared to euro. If you want to spend less money, you could always choose a small town near the famous cities and reach them easily whenever you want.
As regards nightlife, there is not much entertainment in small places or in the outskirts but villages and little towns are the perfect option for all those who want to leave peacefully. Another option to enjoy quiet life and live in a picturesque environment is that of moving to an ancient borgo that you can choose from a long list all over the country.
If you are in doubt about what to choose, you should really think about what is the most suitable place for you. Big cities are usually best organized, rich in services, entertainment and nightlife but you will find problems such as traffic, noise and crowd.
Living in the countryside means having a more peaceful life but also being more isolated. However, if you have a car, you can usually cover distances in a short time; finding a place near a bigger town is the best option to have everything you want and renting a house in both places for a short time could help people who are uncertain. Bear in mind, if you opt for an isolated house in the middle of the countryside, burglary can be a problem.
Sun, mild temperatures, the richness and diversity of landscapes, the food and wine are all good points that attract more and more American and English retired people to start their life in a land which is now becoming a sort of European Florida.


Our primary offering at TAB is a monthly board meeting of fellow, non-competing business owners. But what is it exactly that happens at a board meeting? We're here to answer that question for you.
Meetings will vary depending on the facilitator who's running them, but there are some pretty standard aspects you can always expect to find.
We recommend hosting the meeting at the beginning of the day. If you wait until the afternoon, members might not be able to get away from their business to attend.
Every board meeting lasts 4 hours, and that time can be divvied up in many ways. The most important part is that each member of the board has a designated amount of time to discuss an issue they're facing in their business.
After they present their challenge or opportunity, the facilitator will ask the other members to ask for clarification questions. And then the board will give their strategies and opinions on how to handle that particular situation.
It's been known to happen that members are able to resolve their issue simply from these questions. They just weren't asking themselves the right questions.
Many times, this process provides value to the member who has the problem and the other members as well. They may have a similar problem they're going through or will have happen in the future, and they're able to utilize the advice given by the board.
Once the other members have given their advice, the facilitator will typically ask which solution or part of the solution the member wants to implement in the next four weeks. Their particular problem may take longer than a month to resolve, but it's important they commit to beginning the solution process.
Many facilitators will then go into detail with their challenge in their individual coaching sessions with the member.
After everyone has presented, facilitators will ask each member to share their most important takeaway. This really helps each member see the value they're getting from the board meetings.
Along with receiving advice from fellow business owners, it's also common to have guest speakers who can discuss specific topics the board may be interested in or need extra help with.
The speaker may present for 30 minutes and then allow for a 30-minute Q&A session.
While every facilitator has his or her own approach to running a board meeting, the bottom line is the same: Every member gets value out of it. They're able to get the help they need from other business owners who've been in their shoes.
Learn more about TAB boards or find a board in your area.


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Oldest Olympic champion Keleti celebrates 100th birthday
Hungary's Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion, today celebrates her 100th birthday, receiving a call from the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach as part of the occasion.
Winning 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, she is the most successful Hungarian female athlete at the Games, winning five gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956 Olympics.
Only three Hungarians are more successful than her, all from winning medals in fencing.
She won the floor event at the 1952 Games and defended that title in 1956.
Keleti also won the team, uneven bars and balance beam golds in Melbourne to make her one of the most successful Olympians from the country.
After cross-country skier Lydia Wideman died in April 2019, Keleti became the oldest living Olympic champion.
IOC President Bach spoke over the phone to Keleti to wish her well.
Agnes Keleti has turned 100 today ©IOC
"Heartfelt congratulations and best wishes for your birthday," said Bach.
"Your story is truly inspirational.
"You have demonstrated the power of strong determination and courage to overcome tragedy.
"These are the attributes of a great Olympic champion.
"As an Olympian, your 10 medals, five of them gold, are truly amazing.
"I am sure that had you competed at the Olympic Games London 1948, you might even have had more."
The President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), Krisztian Kulcsar, handed over a gift to Keleti on behalf of the IOC, who could not visit her in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
MOB secretary-general Bálint Vékássy was also present, as was György Nébald, President of the Hungarian Olympic Champions Club and Sándor Altorjai, secretary-general of the Hungarian Gymnastics Association.
As well as cake and flowers, Keleti also received a copy of the victory medal of Hungary's first modern Olympic champion, Alfred Hajós.
"You have come to a wonderful anniversary that is given to a few," said Kulcsar.
"We are grateful for all you have done during your rich life for both your homeland, the Olympic movement and your own sport.
"Your unique career fills every member of the Hungarian Olympic family with great pride."
Due to the Second World War, Keleti could not compete at the Olympics until she was 31 years old.
She was part of the only Jewish gymnastics club in Budapest, and looked to be part of the Tokyo 1940 Olympics before it was cancelled due to the conflict.
Agnes Keleti showing her Olympic gold medals ©MOB
During the war, she was forced to flee Budapest due to threats to Jewish people, having previously been expelled from her club due to her religion.
Keleti was then an alternate for the London 1948 Games, making her Olympic debut in 1952.
Surviving the war after using a fake identity and marrying fellow gymnast István Sárkány, she came out of the conflict and back into gymnastics, resulting in her winning her first Central European Gymnastics Championship in 1947.
Her father and uncles were among 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed during the Holocaust.
Along with her Olympic heroics, she won the 1954 world title in uneven bars.
After Melbourne 1956, she sought political asylum in Australia after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary.
She later emigrated to Israel and coached the national gymnastics team.
Keleti was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002.
She is the most successful female Jewish athlete in Olympic history, with only one Jewish athlete – swimmer Mark Spitz – having won more Olympic medals.
To mark the occasion, the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) also presented Keleti with the Fair Play Career Award.
President of the CIFP, Jenő Kamuti, presented her with the award at the Rumbach Street Synagogue in Budapest.
January 2021: Book celebrating oldest living Olympic champion Keleti translated into English to mark her 100th birthday
January 2021: Ágnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic champion, has 100th birthday in her sights
February 2020: Mike Rowbottom: Mantle of being the oldest Olympic champion remains in lively hands with Ágnes Keleti
February 2018: World's oldest Olympic champion dies aged 100
April 2016: From the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 to Rio 2016, the Olympics has always found a place for the stateless and misplaced
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The sun comes out and the bathing suits go on. But then come the cover-ups, as most women are not pleased with the extra pounds on full display.
This time of year puts a spotlight on weight issues. But just like one-size-doesn't-fit-all, one weight loss plan is not right for everyone. Before hitting the gym or jumping into whatever the latest online diet trend is, consider what really works. Today's weight loss options include customizable plans to meet specific needs or challenges, such as underlying health conditions that might hamper weight loss efforts.
Rather than simply looking at weight loss as a diet, most programs today approach the whole picture to help you improve overall health while also losing weight. That often means a health evaluation, nutritional education and learning about portion control, an important component to maintaining a healthy weight once you've reached your goal.
But most women are too busy to plan healthy meals, let alone fix them and squeeze in workout time. "We have busy lives. We depend on fast food or foods that aren't fueling our bodies the right way, then we can't figure out how to lose weight. You have to think about food differently," explains Jennifer Owen, a representative for Ideal Protein, a medically designed and developed program for long-term weight loss management, located in medical offices.
Using evidence-based guidelines to manage weight loss, Ideal Protein's approach tackles the root cause of metabolic syndrome — the body's overproduction of insulin — by restricting consumption of sugars and carbohydrates.
Ideal Protein participants are supervised by medical personnel and typically lose two to three pounds of fat a week. Body composition is measured weekly to keep everything on track, and weekly counseling sessions, as well as emails with nutrition and exercise tips, help support participants during their weight loss journey.
Education and medical supervision are also key components behind the weight loss management programs offered by Clinical Nutrition Services, an approach built on the idea that choosing the right foods can help transform your health. The program features coordination between a doctor and an in-house registered dietitian to allow for better weight loss management and any underlying medical issues that might impact weight loss.
To address weight loss issues, Clinical Nutrition Services' physician-led office conducts metabolic testing and body composition analyses while using objective clinical analysis to determine vitamin and micronutrient levels and food sensitivities. "We often see people who have tried other weight loss methods that haven't been successful. They then feel that they've failed, or that they can't do it, but we discover that it's a hormonal issue or something else medically. Once we address their underlying problem, they're able to successfully lose weight," explains Dr. Rosemary Castoreno with Clinical Nutrition Services.
Clinical Nutrition Services does use appropriate medications to assist weight loss when warranted. "Our goal, however, is not to keep people on medication. It's to make sure they can sustain the weight, so we re-teach/re-educate on portion sizes, good versus bad carbs and more. After many of our patients lose weight, they no longer need medication for diabetes or blood pressure, so we see people reduce or eliminate the medical conditions, thanks to their weight loss," says Dr. Castoreno.
Using medication to aid in weight loss is also a component of SliMedica's weight loss services. SliMedica offers nutritional weight loss solutions, which may be paired with medication to assist in weight loss — as well as laser treatments to melt away fat. SliMedica's Zerona Laser treatments utilize cold laser technology to emulsify unwanted fat and allow it to secrete naturally out of the body. "Combining weight loss with the cosmetic procedure (laser treatments) maximizes results. We can help patients lose a large amount of weigh in a small amount of time," explains Alexandrah Castillo, an SliMedica patient counselor.
So find the weight loss program that's perfectly suited for you, then toss that cover-up and let the swimsuit enjoy the season.


At present, the management systems of companies and Industry 4.0 are closely linked. However, technologies that promise to drastically help the efficiency of operations are not implemented in production floors and specifically in warehouses. This chapter shows a methodology of bibliographic search that determines the most recent optimization algorithms and with greater occurrence within the scientific literature. Editorials and scientific journals are also taken into account. The information is analyzed and shown in the conclusion part of the work. The conclusions indicate the hybrid algorithms with greater publication, their characteristics, the different types of metrics used for the implementation of optimization systems in production environments, and the secondary support algorithms used to cover the performance weaknesses of the main algorithms.
First, it is important to give the context of the stores within the maquiladora industry and the stores of small and medium enterprises in Ciudad Juárez. In the case of manufacturing industries, the warehouse is managed as part of a complete production system, of which the production warehouse is part. The complete system considers from the purchase of raw material or sub-assemblies to the delivery of the final product. Topics of industry 4.0 are mentioned in recent times in relation to the handling of inventories, such as Artificial Intelligence, portable devices (wearables), data analysis, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud (Cloud) (Forger, 2018), but these do not end up being integrated into the real practice of the industry.
The first type consists of those elements such as the raw material or sub-assemblies necessary for the production or assembly activities.
Finished product that reached the required quantity ready to ship to a distribution warehouse.
It should be noted that the locations of these three types of items in storage can be separated, although they are usually located within the same area. All the articles that enter a production warehouse are grouped in boxes or "pallets" that are attached a label with codes that contain information regarding the product, the date of receipt, quantities, and an identification code for each box or pallet.
Regularly the flow of warehouses depends on a system known as ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning), this is an integrated system, which covers all the processes of the company and shares data among all departments, has a unique database and manages Real-time data (Forger, 2018). In the border region, the use of an ERP computer tool known under the SAP brand (Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung, for its acronym in German) is widespread. The company's planners control the internal product orders to be produced, and this information is what triggers the floor management to comply with the orders, causes the production managers to request the assembly elements and consumables from the warehouse, recover quantities of product previously reserved in stock (stock) and, again, the planners control the output of the finished product to the distribution center.
From the general point of view of the production system, the warehouse process is a necessary management process that does not add any value to the product, because it does not modify any of the product characteristics that the customer values or perceives as added value. An expense is considered as the time that the elements for production or finished products are inside the warehouses without moving. As it is not a productive process, the warehouse is considered a single intermediate step between production lines and distribution centers.
Depending on the size of the order, it is directed to the location accompanied by a manual transport cart, or a motorized cart that drags other manual carts, or a forklift truck.
Wait to receive a new order and repeat the cycle.
In figure 1, the cycle of the described steps is illustrated.


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Career Advice from Wildly Successful People
#1 Not all feedback is created equal.
Amantha Imber
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Great job advice can be transformative. It can set you on a whole new trajectory, land you a new role, or even prompt you to make a big change. Through her podcast, Amantha Imber has had the opportunity to interview and learn from some of the most successful business leaders, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, chefs, and entertainers. Here is some advice from them:
Not all feedback is created equal. Take a moment to reflect on the feedback giver. Ask yourself: Do they have your best interests at heart? Do they have experience or expertise in the subject they have given you feedback on?
Flirt with your future self. It's normal to get urges to try out different roles or career paths. But instead of doing something dramatic, think about small experiments you can do in your current role that can help you understand your choices better.
Schedule a life check-up. A life check-up involves asking yourself how you're tracking with your career and the job you are in. It ensures that you're not blindly following a career path you're going to regret years down the track.
Do your current job well — even the boring bits. Every single job is a mix of good bits and bad. Do them all well to stand out from the pack.
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I once sat across from a boss and listened as he gave me a brutally honest performance review. At the time, I was working as a consumer psychologist for a multi-national advertising agency. My job involved advising big brands on how to best persuade their customers to engage with their products and services.
While I have no recollection of the positive feedback I received that day, there is one piece of constructive feedback that stayed with me.
"Amantha, the problem with you," my boss said, "is that you'd rather be right than be liked."
What he was referring to was my unwavering commitment to telling my clients they were wrong if they suggested anything that contradicted my research-backed insights. I didn't care about building relationships. I only cared about reporting on the facts and making sure everyone else based their work on said facts.
It turns out, this is not the best way to persuade people — which, ironically, is what my job was all about.
While I resisted my boss's advice at first, I slowly started to make an effort to build a good rapport with my clients and understand that interpersonal connections are just as important a method of persuasion as supporting evidence. For me, that lesson fundamentally changed how I think about communication, and I still use it to convince people that my ideas are great ones.
The many successful business leaders, musicians, writers, entrepreneurs, chefs, CEOs, and entertainers that I've interviewed for my podcast agree — great job advice can be transformative. It can set you on a whole new trajectory, land you a new role, or even prompt you to make a big change.
Below is a list of the advice my guests have found most valuable and used to propel their careers forward. Maybe you'll find it just as useful as I have.
Not all feedback is created equal.
Alison Watkins, group managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil, started her career as a self-described "insecure overachiever." Due to her insecurities about her work skills, Watkins was someone who aimed to please, which made her very vulnerable to the judgments of others. However, she eventually realized that people who pass judgment may not actually have particularly good judgment.
Having spent many years in very senior roles, Watkins learned to adopt a different perspective when she realized that taking on everyone's judgments wasn't serving her. "I've become a lot better at accepting that not everybody is going to agree with the choices that I make or the things that I say or do," Watkins told me. "I have learned to value the judgment from those who are well placed to be wise or considered, and their feedback is really important to me. And I try not to leave myself vulnerable to the judgments of less informed people."
Pro tip: Instead of reacting to all feedback immediately, take a moment to reflect on the feedback giver. Ask yourself: Do they have your best interests in mind? Do they have experience or expertise in the subject they have given you feedback on? If the answer is no to either question, you might want to re-consider taking on the feedback to heart.
Flirt with your future self.
It's normal to get urges to try out different roles or career paths. But instead of doing something dramatic like jumping ship or enrolling in a two- or three-year degree, Scott D. Anthony, a global innovation thought leader and senior partner at Innosight, is a fan of Herminia Ibarra's suggestion to "flirt with your future self."
"The idea is that you consciously experiment and 'try on' different roles, and indeed leadership styles, to see what fits the best," Anthony said. "For example, I think that a natural next act for me someday would be to become a teacher. But will I actually like teaching? There are small experiments I can do in my current role that help me understand that better, which includes talking to people who have made similar transitions to see what surprised them."
Pro tip: Try to get out of work mode and get into play mode more often. As Anthony suggests, treat it as a little experiment. Feeling inclined to make a new career move? Make a list of five people you can speak to who can provide insight into this career. For example, if you want to pivot into travel blogging, ask colleagues who they think the best travel bloggers are and reach out to them on LinkedIn or other social media channels for a chat. Turn up your curiosity and make a list of things you want to know and questions you might ask. For example: How do they make money? How did they get their start? How many hours do they work?
Schedule a life check-up.
We go to the dentist and the doctor every year for a check-up of our health. Yet most people don't deliberately stop and do a check-up of their life. Organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant says we should all be scheduling twice-yearly life check-ups. A life check-up involves asking yourself how you're tracking with your career and the job you are in. It ensures that you're not blindly following a career path you're going to regret years down the track.
Adam schedules these in his own diary for January and July. "In July, I do a rethinking of my teaching approach and what content I'm going to cover that semester," Grant said. "And then in January, I think about what I want to be working on in terms of research and writing and podcasting." For Grant, doing a regular life check-up has led to new book ideas and projects. For example, his podcast with TED (WorkLife), came as the result of a life check-up.
Pro tip: When doing a life check-up, it can be tempting to assume that the grass is greener on the other side. If you are contemplating a moving to a new company, for example, it's worth reflecting on what drew you to your current role and organization in the first place and then think about whether it's really necessary to leave in order to fulfill your goals. Once you have that clarity, you could make time to have a conversation with your boss to share your goals and ask if they see any opportunities for you to meet them where you are.
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Do your current job well — even the boring bits.
Millennials are well known for having high expectations of their job. That's a good thing. But it's also good to accept that no job is exciting or challenging 100% of the time. And ironically, it can be the less "fun" parts of a job that allow you to shine.
For Wendy Stops, a director on the board of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the largest bank in Australia, the most fundamental piece of career advice she gives to people is to do your job well. Stops admits that people's first reaction to this advice is, "That's obvious." But she says it's not. "If you're asked to go and photocopy 200 pages," Stops told me, "show them that you're the best damn photocopier that they've ever seen."
Stops has observed younger people who are ambitious in their careers shying away from tasks they see as more menial or complaining about doing tasks that might be boring. But she advises that when you do your base job well, it gives you license to be a bit more creative in how you do the bigger things. It gives you permission to put your hand up for things that are outside of the scope of your day-to-day job, providing you with additional opportunities. If people trust you can do the small things, they are more likely to trust that you can do the big ones, too.
Pro tip: Don't complain about the boring or tedious parts of your job. Every single job is a mix of good bits and bad. Do them all well to stand out from the pack.
While good advice is helpful, it's also worth noting that there is plenty of bad advice going around. If the advice you've been given doesn't sit well with you, doesn't help you get closer to your goals, or won't serve you in the long run, don't take it. It's easy to get in auto-pilot mode when it comes to your career, but to make better decisions about it and deliberately head in a more fulfilling direction, good advice from those who've "been there, done that" can come in handy.
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Dr Amantha Imber is the founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium and the host of How I Work, a podcast about the habits and rituals of the world's most successful people.


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France: Lyndon Johnson Speaks On Nuclear Disarmament At Shape Headquarters 1961
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TRANSCRIPT SEQ 4: Mr. Johnson: "I should emphasises we are going to do everything, and I repeat everything, that can be done with dignity and honour to attempt to reach an agreement. Eve though we have accepted most of what we thought was the proposal in the difference that existed between us and the Russians, we now find them making new and different and much more far reaching proposals. Nevertheless, with patience and understanding and with prudence, we going to continue at the President's insistence to make every possible effort. If no agreement is finally reached it certainly will not be on the conscience of the American and British delegation, and on the free world."
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Background: Mr. Lyndon Johnson, Vice-President of the United States, in Paris on a special mission from President Kennedy after attending the independence celebrations in Senegal, spoke April 6, to delegates from member-countries at SHAPE - Supreme Headquarters , Allied Powers in Europe - on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of its foundation.
He took the opportunity to make a forthright reaffirmation of American faith and intentions in the Atlantic alliance and gave an exposition of what, with fuller cooperation and sacrifices, the community could achieve.
Making a departure from his prepared speech, Mr. Johnson said that he had just come from Geneva where America was striving for a nuclear tests ban treaty. Pledging his country's best efforts to obtain a sound and effective treaty he said (SOF) :
On the controversial question of Nato's nuclear armaments, Mr. Johnson confined himself to saying that an "effective nuclear capability" was needed and that the United States was ready to consult closely with all members of the alliance on the ways and means of "maintaining this capability in the future".
Before leaving Paris, the American Vice-President will have discussions with M.Debre, the French Prime Minister
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Arthur Henderson makes speech opening first World Disarmament Conference in Geneva
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A start is made on taking obsolete guns to be broken up. Shoeburyness, Essex.
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The Disarmament Conference resumes in Geneva.
Towards World Disarmament
Ramsay Macdonald at League of Nations Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Speeches by various delegates at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva, 1932.
La Conference Preparatoire Du Desarmement Aka Disarmament Conference In Paris 1931
Fighting breaks out in the audience at the Disarmament Conference.
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Representatives from USA, USSR, UK, France & Canada discuss disarmament in London.
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Foreign Secretary Mr Selwyn Lloyd opens the UN Disarmament Conference in London.