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Capture your moments perfectly with Sonys exclusive Translucent Mirror Technology DSLR with superb performance whether you?re shooting HD movies or still images. Tele-zoom High Speed Shooting at up to 7 frames per second, complete with continuous auto focus. High-seed auto focusing is visibly faster in Live View and HD Movie modes.
Translucent Mirror Technology
Conventional DSLRs can shoot. Or they can focus with the speed and precision of Phase Detection AF. They cannot do both at once. The SLT-A37 utilizes Translucent Mirror Technology that directs light to both the image sensor and the Phase Detection AF sensor simultaneously.
16.1 megapixel resolution
You get incredible detail and gorgeous enlargements. Thanks to the 16.1 megapixel APS-C sensor size and Sony Exmor APS HD CMOS technology, the camera achieves high resolution with no penalty in low-light sensitivity or sensor noise.
ISO 16000 sensitivity
Incredibly clear low-light pictures without sacrificing detail, made possible by the low-noise Exmor APS HD CMOS image sensor and refined BIONZ image processor.
Full HD 1080/60i/24p movies1
This is one of the very few DSLRs with super smooth 1080/60i/24p Full HD recording capability. Records in your choice of 1080/60i or 24p AVCHD format or in PC-friendly 1080/30p MP4 format.1
Tele Zoom High Speed Shooting
The translucent mirror makes it far easier to capture the decisive soccer kick or your baby at her absolute cutest. The Tele Zoom High Speed shooting mode shoots up to 7 fps at 8.4 MP while maintaining continuous auto focus and auto exposure.
Auto Portrait Framing
Simply photograph a person and Auto Portrait Framing will save an additional, optimally framed image in portrait or landscape orientation. Combining Face Detection and By Pixel Super Resolution technologies with rule of thirds, Auto Portrait Framing provides beautifully composed and appealingly balanced full resolution portraits.
Eye-Level Electronic Viewfinder
The eye-level finder is one of the reasons people love DSLRs. But that finder goes dark whenever you shoot HD Movies. The Sony SLT-A37 enables you to shoot movies with the added stability you get holding the camera up to your face and using the eye-level finder for framing a scene and focus. The Tru-finder Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) is super bright, easy to see with an ultra-sharp 1.1x magnification factor. For those who require a longer eye-point (eyeglass wearers), it also provides a function for adjusting the finder magnification ratio.
Tilting 3? 230K LCD dot screen
Tilt LCD up 135 degrees or down 55 degrees to frame high- and low-angle shots that would otherwise be hit-or-miss.
Clear Image Zoom
Utilizing Sony?s exclusive By Pixel Super Resolution Technology, Clear Image Zoom increases the effective focal length of your lens up to 2x by digitally magnifying the center of your image with nearly imperceptible degradation that provides greater shooting flexibility.
Superior Auto mode
Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed shots. Unifies and simplifies Sony intelligent technologies, the camera automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then quickly shoots and combines up to six shots to produce images with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range using Auto HDR technology and lower image noise using 3 shots layering technology.
Sony Exmor technology
Conventional image sensors use only a handful of analog-to-digital (A/D) converters, which can slow you down. The Exmor sensor provides more than 4,000 column-parallel A/D converters. This helps enable continuous shooting at up to 7 frames per second.
BIONZ image processor
The brains of the camera is a refined version of Sony's BIONZ image processor. Its chroma noise reduction delivers high-resolution, low-noise photos even at ISO 16000 sensitivity. Also enables up to 5.5 fps continuous shooting at full resolution, Sweep Panorama mode and more.
Live View in LCD or EVF
You can use both the LCD monitor and Electronic Viewfinder for composing shots. Both provide a what-you-see-is-what-you-get preview of white balance, focus, depth of field, exposure and 100% framing accuracy, plus informative on-screen displays.
Compact, lightweight design
Eliminating the moving mirror also reduces the camera?s size and weight. It?s not just remarkably advanced; it?s notably small and light.
SteadyShot INSIDE stabilization
Image stabilization reduces blur by compensating for camera shake. Typical DSLR systems build image stabilization into selected lenses only. SteadyShot INSIDE image stabilization is built into the camera body itself. You'll reduce blur with every a-mount lens, including macro and wide-aperture standard zoom lenses.
Anti-Dust Technology
Anti-Dust Technology helps keep the CMOS sensor clean, resulting in consistently clear pictures. First a static-free coating on the sensor's low-pass filter helps repel dust. Then vibration automatically dislodges dust from the sensor.
Built-in Auto Pop-Up Flash
To help you shoot more effectively, the built-in Guide Number 10 flash2 automatically pops up and fires as needed when the camera is set to certain scene selection modes. The built-in flash can also trigger a wireless accessory flash (sold separately). The integrated hot shoe enables you to expand your lighting options with a range of accessory flashes (sold separately).
Phase Detection Auto Focus
While Contrast Detection AF often hunts for correct focus, Phase Detection AF knows exactly where correct focus is, and goes straight for it. The Sony SLT-A37 provides Phase Detection AF when capturing HD movies as well as during still image capture, either using the viewfinder or Live View on the LCD.
Main Sensor Live View with Quick AF
Main Sensor Live View with Quick AF combines the optimum focus of Phase Detection with high quality Live View images right from the main sensor. This is made possible by Sony Translucent Mirror Technology.
15-point Auto Focus
To maximize the value of Translucent Mirror Technology, Sony incorporates Phase Detection AF of great sophistication. Three cross sensors maximize precision.
High Speed AF for Full HD Movie Capture
When most DSLRs shoot video, their Contrast AF is slow and visibly ?hunts? for focus. The High Speed AF Full HD Movie retains the same fast, precise Phase Detection you enjoy for still images.1 It?s a decisive advantage for tracking fast-moving subjects and a major benefit of Translucent Mirror Technology.
Powerful creative control over movies
Full manual operation gives you the freedom and power to realize your creative vision when capturing movies. Using manual focus and P/A/S/M modes (Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority and Manual), you can flexibly adjust background blur and manually control exposure to achieve desired brightness and dynamism. On-screen prompts provide assistance to make full manual operation quick, easy and comfortable.
Face Detection/ Registration technology
The camera can automatically detect and register up to eight individual faces and adjust focus, exposure, white balance and flash to help deliver crisp, properly lit images of family and friends. Can prioritize children or adults.
Smile Shutter technology
Captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply select the Smile Shutter mode and the camera takes the picture automatically. You can prioritize children or adults and adjust the smile sensitivity.
Picture Effect mode
There are 11 types (15 variations) of picture effects to choose from: Posterization (Color), Posterization (B/W), Pop Color, Retro Photo, Partial Color (R), Partial Color (G), Partial Color (B), Partial Color (Y), High Contrast Monochrome, Toy Camera, Soft High-key , Soft Focus, HDR Painting, Rich-tone Mono, Miniature. Each is unique and each give you a new and exciting way to make your images and videos pop.
Multi-frame NR
Experience incredible low-light shooting without a flash. The camera captures six images in a fraction of a second. Combining the data from all six, it creates a single image with a reduction in noise equivalent to two additional steps of ISO sensitivity. Sensitivity selectable up to ISO 25600. (Recommended for still subjects.)
Hand-held Twilight
Get cleaner and sharper nighttime pictures?beyond the capability of traditional cameras?without using flash or a tripod. The camera captures six images in a fraction of a second. Combining the data with separate algorithms for still and moving parts of the picture reduces blur, minimizes noise and enables extraordinary detail.
Auto HDR built into camera
Captures more scene dynamic range than a single exposure can handle?and more range than photo film. Combines the best highlight detail from one shot, the best mid-tones from a second and the best shadow detail from a third for one incredible shot (up to 6 EV stops). Captures in a split second. (Recommended for still subjects.)
Sweep Panorama Mode
Capture expansive landscapes automatically. Press the shutter and sweep vertically or horizontally. The camera does the rest, continuously shooting images and stitching them together.
3D Sweep Panorama Mode
Capture vast scenic vistas and 16:9 shots in spectacular 3D. As you sweep across the panorama, the camera records separate right-eye and left-eye images that make landscapes come alive on your 3D television.3 Records both JPEG and MPO file formats.
Eight Scene Selection Modes
These help you get the shot by optimizing the camera for specific shooting situations. Select from Portrait, Sports Action, Macro, Landscape, Sunset, Night View, Night Portrait and Handheld Twilight Shot modes.
Six Creative Style settings
Control how the camera processes your images with six finishing styles: Standard, Vivid, B&W, Sunset, Portrait and Landscape. You can even fine-tune contrast, saturation, and sharpness to your personal taste.
1200-Zone exposure metering
Reads exposure directly from the main image sensor. Choice of Multi, Center and Spot metering accommodates a full range of shooting situations.
RAW image capture
The SLT-A37 saves pictures as compact JPEG files and/or ultra-high quality RAW files. RAW files save images prior to de-mosaicing, white balance, sharpness and color enhancement. This retains maximum latitude for enhancing the image on your PC.
Versatile on-screen displays
Informative displays in the LCD monitor and electronic viewfinder include digital level gauge, graphic display of exposure settings.
Graphic Display
Clarifies the relationship between aperture and shutter speed, as well as the effect each has on photographic results.
Index and Slide Show Display
Quickly review your photos using 6- or 12-frame index views, or as an automatic slide show with fade-in/fade-out effect.
HDMI output for HD viewing
Enjoy HD movies and stunning still images on a compatible HDTV.9 The camera includes an HDMI output. In addition, the BRAVIA Sync system works with compatible Sony BRAVIA HDTVs enabling you to control camera playback using the television's remote.
PhotoTV HD compatibility
Optimizes compatible BRAVIA televisions for gorgeous display of digital pictures.
Help Guide
Provides ready reference to advanced camera functions, helping to develop your confidence and skills as a photographer.
Slot for two media types
For cost-effective, convenient storage and sharing of your images, the camera accepts Memory Stick PRO Duo/Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo and SD/SDHC/SDXC media (Class 4 or higher recommended). (Memory card is required. All are sold separately.)
Powerful supplied software
To help you refine and manage your images and video, the camera is supplied with Image Data Converter (ver 4.0) RAW development software software and Play Memories Home image organization software8
Up to 500 Shots of battery life
Take up to 500 shots on a single charge with Sony Stamina battery power.5 Sony's InfoLITHIUM battery system enables you to see the percent of power remaining, so you can keep shooting in confidence.
Lens Compatibility: Sony A-mount lens
Lens Mount: Sony A-mount
Camera Type: Sony A-mount interchangeable lens digital camera
Imaging Sensor
Imaging Sensor: Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor (23.4 X 15.6mm)
Processor: BIONZ image processor
Anti Dust: Charge protection coating on Low-Pass Filter and Image Sensor-Shift mechanism
Pixel Gross: Approx. 16.5 megapixels
Effective Picture Resolution: Approx. 16.1 megapixels
Focal Length Conversion Factor: 1.5x
Color Filter System: RGB primary color filters
Media Type: Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, SD memory card, SDHC memory card, SDXC memory card
Color Space: sRGB, AdobeRGB
Still Image Mode: JPEG (Standard, Fine), RAW, RAW+JPEG
Still Image Size 16:9: L: 4912 x 2760 (14M), M: 3568 x 2000 (7.1M), S: 2448 x 1376 (3.4M)
Still Image Size 3:2: L: 4912 x 3264 (16M), M: 3568 x 2368 (8.4M), S: 2448 x 1624 (4M)
Panorama Still Image Size: Horizontal Wide: 12,416 x 1,856 (23M) Horizontal Std.: 8,192 x 1,856 (15M) Vertical Wide: 2,160 x 5,536 (12M) Vertical Std.: 2,160 x 3,872 (8.4M) 3D Sweep Panorama: Horizontal Wide: 7152 X 1080 (7.7M) Horizontal Std.: 4912 X 1080 (5.3M) 16:9: 1920 X 1080 (2.1M)
Video Format: AVCHD Ver. 2.0/MP4 compliant / MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
Video Mode: AVCHD: 1920 x 1080/ 60i (60i/24Mbps/ FX, 60i/17Mbps/ FH, 24p/24Mbps/ FX, 24p/17Mbps/ FH) MP4 HD: 1440 x 1080/ 30p (29.97 Progressive) Approx. 12Mbps (Average bit-rate) MP4 VGA: 640 x 480/ 30p (29.97 Progressive) Approx. 3Mbps (Average bit-rate)
Video Resolution: 1920x1080/60i (59.94i, 29.97p sensor output)
Video Signal: NTSC color, EIA standards
Audio Format: Dolby Digital (AC-3) / MPEG-4 AAC-LC, 2ch
Microphone/Speaker: Built-in Stereo Microphone
Lens Mount Type: Sony A-mount
Type: 0.46" SVGA Xtra Fine EVF (Electronic viewfinder) (1,440,000 pixels)
Diopter Adjustment: -4.0 to +4.0m-1
Field of View: 100%
Magnification: 1.09x (with 50mm lens at infinity, -1m-1 )
LCD Display
LCD Type: 2.6? TFT Clear Photo LCD (230,400 pixels)
Angle Adjustment: Tilt angle: Up approx. 135 degrees, down 55 degrees
Brightness Control: Auto/Manual (5 steps between -2 and +2)/Sunny Weather
Coverage: 100%
Live View: Continuous Live View (LCD/EVF Auto, selectable)
Real-time image adjustment display: Reflects: exposure compensation, white balance, creative style
Histogram: Yes (On/off)
Peaking: Yes (Level: High/Mid/Low/Off, Color: White/Red/Yellow)
Grid Display: Yes (On/off)
Customization: Grid, Histogram display, Grid Line, Magnified display for playback
Focus Control
Focus System: TTL phase detection AF (CCD line sensors)
Focus Points: 15 points (3 points cross type)
AF Modes: Single-shot AF(AF-S), Continuous AF(AF-C), Auto selectable(AF-A)
Focus Area: Wide (auto, 15 points), Zone, Spot, Local (15 local areas selectable)
Focus Sensitivity: -2 EV to +17 EV (at ISO100 equivalent with F1.4 lens attached)
Focus Features: Tracking Focus, Predictive control (AF-A,AF-C), Focus lock, Eye-start AF
AF Illuminator: Built-in flash, Range: approx. 3' - 15' (1m-5m)
Exposure System
Metering: Advanced 1200-zone evaluative metering
Metering Modes: Multi-segment, Center-weighted, Spot
Metering Sensitivity: -2EV to 17EV (at ISO 100 equivalent w/ f/1.4 lens)
Exposure Compensation: ?2.0 EV (in 0.3 EV steps)
Exposure Settings: iAUTO, Flash Off, Superior Auto, Scene Selection, Sweep Panorama, 3D Sweep Panorama, Tele-zoom Continuous Advance Priority AE, Movie, Programmed AE (P), Aperture priority (A), Shutter-speed priority (S), Manual (M)
Scene Mode(s): Portrait, Landscape, Macro, Sports Action, Sunset, Night Portrait, Night View, Hand-held Twilight
Picture Effect(s): 11 modes (15 effects): Posterization (Color, B/W), Pop Color, Retro Photo, Partial Color (R,G,B,Y), High Contrast Monochrome, Toy Camera, Soft High-key, Soft Focus, HDR Painting, Rich-tone Monochrome, Miniature
D-Range Optimizer: Off, Dynamic Range Optimizer (Auto/Level), Auto High Dynamic Range (Off, Auto Exposure Difference, Exposure difference Level (1-6EV, 1.0EV step))
Auto Exposure Lock: Available with AE lock button. AE is also locked when focus is locked in multi-segment metering mode.
Color Temperature: 2500 - 9900 k with 15-step Magenta / Green compensation
Creative Style: Standard, Vivid, Portrait, Landscape, Sunset, B/W (Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness adjustable in +/-3 steps)
ISO: Auto: 100 - 3200; Selectable: 100 - 16000; Multi Frame NR (up to ISO 25600)
Noise Reduction: Long exp. NR: (On/Off, available of shutter speeds longer than 1 sec.) High ISO NR: (High/Normal/Low) Multi Frame NR: (Auto/ISO100-25600)
White Balance Mode: Auto WB, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent (Warm white/Cool white/Day white/Daylight), Flash, C. Temp 2500 to 9900K, C Filter G7 to M7, 15-step, Custom, AWB micro adjustment
Drive System
Burst Buffer: JPEG Standard (16 shots) JPEG Fine (15 shots) RAW (7 shots) RAW+JPEG (6 shots) Tele-zoom High Speed Shooting (Standard: 18 shots; Fine: 17 shots)
Continuous Shooting Speed: Continuous (Hi: up to 5.5 fps, Lo: up to 2.5 fps) Tele-zoom Continuous Advance Priority AF High Speed (7fps)
Drive Mode: Single-shot, Continuous shooting (Hi/Lo selectable), Self-timer (10/2 sec delay selectable), Remote commander (RM-L1AM Sold Separately), Bracketing
Flash Sync Speed: 1/160 seconds
Self-timer: 2-sec. or 10-sec. delay,
Shutter Speeds: 1/4000 to 30 seconds, bulb
Shutter Type: Electronically-controlled, vertical-traverse, focal-plane shutter
Flash Compensation: +/-2EV in 0.3EV steps
Flash Coverage: 18mm (focal-length printed on the lens body)
Recycling Time: Approx. 4 sec.
Flash Bracketing: 3 exposures in 0.3/0.7 EV steps
Flash Metering System: ADI, Pre-flash TTL
Flash Modes: Auto, Fill-flash, Slow Sync., Rear Sync., Hi-speed sync., Red-eye reduction (on/off selectable for Autoflash and fill-flash mode), Wireless
Flash Type: Built-in, Pop-up Auto
Guide Number: 10 (in meters at ISO100)
Advanced Features
Advanced User Interface: Easy-to-understand Graphic Display and on-screen Help Guide User-friendly function menu
Anti Motion Blur: 6-image layering
Auto High Dynamic Range: Yes, (Off/On, Auto Exposure Difference, Exposure difference Level (1-6 EV at 1.0 EV step)
Sweep Panorama: Yes (2D/3D)
Face Detection: Off, Auto, Child Priority, Adult Priority (up to 8 faces detectable)
Smile Shutter technology: Yes - Off, Slight, Normal, Big
Image Stabilization: SteadyShot INSIDE? in-body image stabilization
Microphone Input: Yes
Accessory Shoe: Yes (Alpha)
BRAVIA Sync: Yes, via HDMI with compatible BRAVIA HDTV
HD Output: HDMI (TypeC mini)
Memory Card Slot: Dual memory card slot: Memory Stick PRO Duo/Pro-HG Duo media - SD, SDHC and SDXC memory card
PhotoTV HD: Yes, with BRAVIA Sync enabled HDTV and HDMI cable
USB Port(s): USB2.0 Hi-speed (mass-storage, PTP)
Weights and Measurements
Dimensions (Approx.): Approx. 4-7/8 x 3-5/8 x 3-1/3? (124.4 x 92 x 84.7mm) (W/H/D) excl grip & lens mount
Weight (Approx.): Approx. 1.12 lb 17.8 oz (506g) (w/battery & media) Approx. 1 lb/ 15.8 oz (448g) (excl battery, lens & media)
Battery Type: InfoLITHIUM NP-FW50 (7.2V)
Number of Still Images: Approx. 450 images with viewfinder, 500 images with LCD monitor (CIPA standard)
Supplied Software: PlayMemories Home, Image Data Converter SR 3.2 Image Data Lightbox SR 2.2
Operating System Compatibility: Windows XP SP3 (64-bit and Starter Editions are not supported,Windows Image Mastering API(IMAPI)Ver.2.0 or later is required to use the function for creating discs.) Windows Vista SP2 (Starter Edition is not supported) Windows 7; Mac OS X(v10.4-v10.6) (Image Data Converter & Image Data Lightbox only, PMB is not Mac compatible)
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Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions, and More Than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases
Crown Publishers, 1994 - English language - 245 pages
In this new book, word maven Hugh Rawson brings you a marvelously entertaining roundup of 1,000 spurious etymologies, then enlightens you with their genuine counterparts. Some wiseacre (which, by the way, has nothing to do with land measure) may have told you that a tip is something you give a waiter "to insure promptness", or that James I once knighted a remarkable side of beef, saying, "Arise, Sir Loin", but like hundreds of oft-repeated accounts of word origins, they're just too good to be true. People, it seems, are etymologizing creatures, and if a certain lexical lineage is unclear, they are sure to invent one. If you hear that pumpernickel was named by Napoleon Bonaparte, who, upon being served the dark German bread, derided it as "pain pour Nicol" (bread for his horse, Nicol), you can take it with a grain of salt (which since 1647 has been making questionable tales, like questionable meat, more palatable). With his third book, Hugh Rawson pulls off the literary equivalent of a hat trick (which is original not to ice hockey, it turns out, but to cricket).
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As airliner dead are honored, Germany chides Russia for inaction
As about 1,000 relatives of the dead from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 gathered Wednesday to meet the first bodies returned to the Netherlands, European anger at Russia's involvement in the months-long conflict in eastern Ukraine appeared to grow and the pro-Russian separatists in the region reportedly shot down two more military jets.
The first 40 bodies, still unidentified, of the 298 dead from the MH17 were flown from Ukraine to Eindhoven, Netherlands. The ill-fated flight left from Amsterdam, and 193 of the dead were Dutch. The solemn crowd that gathered in Eindhoven included relatives of the dead as well as the Dutch king, queen and prime minister.
As they were mourning, German officials indicated they'd run out of patience with the lack of progress by Russia in clearing the way for an investigation into the crash.
The German Foreign Office issued a statement saying: "Now it's enough." And a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that she is troubled by the lack of progress being made by Russia in the Ukrainian crisis. The spokesman, Georg Streiter, said Merkel now believes that tougher sanctions are required. Russia is not adequately supporting the investigation of the crash, Streiter said.
And Guenther Oettinger, the European Union energy commissioner and a career German politician, was quoted by European media criticizing Russian inactivity and saying that Europe should consider pulling its technical assistance to Russia in developing its Arctic oil and gas fields.
"If they don't try for peace in the east of Ukraine," he told reporters, "if they don't decisively try to do something to prevent escalation, then there is no reason for us to help promote the growth of their industry and develop new resources for gas and oil and therefore to put this equipment on the list of sanctions."
German pressure on Russia is seen as pivotal in the effort to force a Russian response, as Germany has been seen to be hesitant to date because of deep business ties with Russia. Just this weekend, in The Sunday Times of London, British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote an opinion piece that was seen as highly critical of Germany's soft stance on Russia thus far in the Ukraine crisis.
In a phrase that seemed to be aimed at Merkel's government, Cameron noted there is "anger that some in the West, instead of finding the resolve to deal with this issue, have simply hoped it would go away."
He went on to write: "In Europe we should not need to be reminded of the consequences of turning a blind eye when big countries bully smaller countries. . . . We should not need to be reminded of the lessons of European history."
In Ukraine on Wednesday, Russian separatist fighters said they had downed two more Ukrainian fighter jets. The jets, SU-25s, were shot down over a village about 16 miles from the crash site of MH17.
The type of anti-aircraft weapon used to take them down was not immediately available, as officials described the weapons only as "missiles."
Ukrainian military spokesman Vladislav Seleznev said they were shot down by a "missile system" and that "the pilots took evasive action."
Before news of the jets broke, Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, told reporters in Kiev that "we know that they still possess anti-aircraft weapons."
A week ago, Ukrainian officials accused Russian fighter jets of downing yet another SU-25. According to the military website GlobalFirepower, Ukraine is thought to have started this conflict with a total of 116 fighter jets. Russian separatists are known to have shot down at least one Ukrainian transport plane and to have hit and forced another to land.


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Former "The Sopranos" star Jamie Lynn Sigler is pregnant.
The news comes just weeks after the pretty star announced her engagement to baseball player Cutter Dkystra.
This will be the first child for the couple.
Sigler and Dykstra have been dating for a year and she's clearly smitten. The actress recently told Life & Style magazine, "It's hard for me to find a soundbite about Cutter. I think the one thing I could say and the only thing I will say is that I would wish for any girl in the world to find their Cutter."
The star will be pregnant at the same time as best pal Joanna Garcia, who recently announced she's expecting her first child with her husband, New York Yankees star Nick Swisher."
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Psi abilities may allow a clinician to know information about their patients. Psychic intuition can provide information from patients' conscious and/or unconscious minds about their mental and physical condition. Likewise, information could be obtained directly from patients' bodies.
Many healers report they regularly make intuitive assessments this way. They may be able to diagnose problems even when they have never had direct contact with the patient, from many miles away.
I have spoken with numbers of doctors who have great gifts of intuition. They are often able to diagnose problems instantly, knowing whether an abdominal pain is caused by an infection, a blockage, or a cancer. They perform the laboratory tests, often wasting precious hours or even days, because they fear the skepticism and censure of their colleagues. Invatiably, they have kept these precious gifts completely secret from the doctors and nurses with whom they may have worked closely for many years.
Research on psychic intuitive assessments
Bioenergy field assessments
Living organisms have biological energy fields (biofields) around them. The biofields reflect the condition of the organism. Healers (and many others) can sense these fields with their hands. It is possible to access information about a person through the biofields regarding their physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual states.
You may be able to sense the biofield with your hands. Hold your hands opposite each other, slightly apart. Move them further apart (12-24 inches) and then closer together again, back and forth. What do you sense? Close and open your hands rapidly about 20 times, then repeat the process. Do you notice a difference? Find someone who will hold a hand up for you to practice with, and move one of your hands near theirs, then apart – as you did with your own hands. Repeat this with your other hand. What do you sense?
Most people will sense heat, tingling, very light pressure, or a sense like holding two magnets near each other.
With practice, you can learn to identify a person's condition by the intuitive feelings you experience in moving your hands through their biofield. For many people, such personal explorations may be the type of research that impresses them the most.
Research on biofield assessments
The biofield around the body can be senses by passing one's hands around the body. One study showed that it is possible to identify when another person's hand is held near a person whose hands are sensitive to bioenergies, and another study showed it is possible to identify where pains are located in another person through such sensations.


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Oklahoma Government Goes Mobile With OK.gov for iPhone
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – February 24, 2010 – OK.gov, the official Web site of the state of Oklahoma, announced today the release of a free iPhone application, available now at http://iPhone.OK.gov. OK.gov for iPhone gives Oklahomans convenient access to Oklahoma government directly from an iPhone or iPod touch. The new application provides real-time access to state agency news, office location mapping, and professional licensee lookups.
Features of the OK.gov for iPhone application include:
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"Oklahoma's new iPhone application joins only a handful of states enabling citizens to take their state government on the go," said Mark Mitchell, General Manager of OK.gov. "We are looking forward to providing even more convenient access to Oklahoma government through mobile technology."
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With summer in full swing, there's no better place to be than outside. Forget the pool. Forget the beach. Gather up your favorite checkered blanket, a bottle of water (or wine, if you're feeling adventurous), and a few picnic favorites and head to the park for some al fresco noshing.
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Washington, D.C. (January 30, 2013) The100th meeting of the National Conference of Pharmaceutical Organizations (NCPO) resolved that the member organizations will work together to help further secure the pharmaceutical supply chain.
"Supply chain issues go to the very safety of the medicines that all Americans rely on for the health of their families," said John Castellani, President and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and chair of the NCPO meeting. "It is our responsibility to do everything we can together so that patients and their families know that the medicines they take are safe."
The NCPO discussions on pharmaceutical supply chain security centered around three areas: product tracing, Internet sales, and disposal of unused medicines. The NCPO organizations agreed to key principles in each area.
"Pharmacists are taught that medication safety is their highest professional priority. The integrity of the distribution system is essential in the fulfillment of this mission," said Lucinda Maine, Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
"Medications are powerful, but those medications only work when their safety is assured and they are taken properly," stated Thomas Menighan, CEO and Executive Vice President, American Pharmacists Association (APhA). "The entire health care community must work together as a team to ensure the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain to continue the good health and safety of our nation."
NCPO recommended that an electronic system to trace prescription drugs in the supply chain must be uniform, apply nationally, and be based on internationally harmonized standards. Further, any new requirement for product tracing must be implemented in a scalable, cost-effective manner.
Unlawful sales of medicines over the Internet is a growing concern. NCPO leaders pledged that they would continue to work together to educate policy makers and the public about the dangers of purchasing medicine over the internet and seek appropriate policy solutions.
Finally, the NCPO leaders pledged to work together on appropriate disposal of unused medicines. Any disposal option must not create new opportunities for diversion of unused medicines to reenter the supply chain and rely on pilot studies.
This is the first time in the 100 year history of the organization that the leaders agreed to address important issues in the pharmaceutical supply chain. The full set of recommendations can be found here.
NCPO was founded in 1912 and consists of 11 organizations. The organizations are:
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Pharmacists Association
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Biotechnology Industry Organization
Consumer Healthcare Products Association
Generic Pharmaceutical Association
Healthcare Distribution and Management Association
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Community Pharmacists Association
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
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The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested over $500 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $49.5 billion in 2011 alone.http://www.phrma.org/
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For over a month it appeared as a large rectangular block covered in bright green plastic, surprising, and in some cases alarming, workers and visitors strolling through the Formal Gardens at Parliament House.
But it's now been revealed as the newest piece of official artwork gifted to the Australian people.
The two metre high sculpture is a gift from the Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark 20 years since the start of diplomatic relations between Australia and Bosnia.
It's been created by Bosnian-born Adis Fejzic (who uses Addis as his professional name), a 43-year old graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Sarajevo who is now studying for his PhD in Visual Arts at Griffith University. He became an Australian citizen in 2008.
His sculpture is a modern take on an ancient art form called Stecak (pronounced STEH-chuck) - carvings on medieval tombstone monuments known as Stecci (STEH-chee).
Addis says Stecak comes in many different shapes and sizes, including panels, vertical columns and rectangular blocks and combines figurative and symbolic forms, sometimes with verses.
"Stecak connects the opposites of visual and spiritual significance of the raw rough stone with the elements that have been transformed by human hands," he explains.
Addis believes his sculpture is the first made according to traditional standards but belonging to our time.
At first glance, the title of the artwork email@example.com - seems incomprehensible. It's modelled on a modern web address to create a bridge between the old and new.
The B and H refers to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Roman numerals indicate the year of the sculpture's creation while hierophany, explains Addis, "means some sort of manifestation of the sacred or breakthrough of the sacred from the heavenly to the earthly world ...this time it's incarnated... in stone from Australia."
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The sculpture is made of sandstone from Brisbane, Gosford and the Hawkesbury regions and weighs almost five tonnes.
Each of the four sides is embellished with different images. One, which Addis calls Abraham's Seal, features the Star of David, a cross and a crescent representing multicultural Bosnia, with the connection to Australia depicted by traditional Bosnian spheres in the shape of the Southern Cross.
Addis says the figure of the sleeping knight which dominates another side is homage to the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar who refers to Stecak as 'stone sleepers'.
The acquisition of the sculpture has been approved by the Presiding Officers of Parliament (the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives) who assess offers of gifts and decided whether to accept them or not.
Carol Mills, secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services, says only two or three artworks are accepted each year from other nations, large organisations such as the United Nations, visiting delegations or, rarely, from individuals.
Ms Mills says various issues must be considered when an artwork is offered, such as artistic merit and what it signifies or represents and whether the piece fits within the design of Parliament House and can be managed.
"It's a series of negotiations often," she says. "We're very pleased obviously to have the opportunity to consider the gifts and they are often very many and varied."
Ms Mills says the Formal Gardens are the only place at present where an artwork the size of the Bosnian sculpture could be installed but says new areas in the parliamentary precinct are being examined as possible sites for future large works.
Addis says he is both proud and humbled that his sculpture has been accepted as symbol of the unity between Bosnia and Australia.


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I can't believe another month has passed and I am back here sharing my bliss for the month. Dannielle and I will be doing these together and you can find her list at her fabulous new blog Quite Dainty. Be sure to show her send love and become a follower. Click on the adorable button below to head straight to her page.
So what is bringing me bliss this month? What is it I can't live without?? For starters, sweet treats. At the beginning of my pregnancy I couldn't stand sweets just salty. My world is back to normal because I can't get enough sweets! My hubby has been so wonderful running here and there and everywhere to fulfill my cravings... whether its lemon cake, cookies, and yesterday it was macaroons. He has gone out and gotten it for me. Yup he's a keeper.
This month has also been loaded with lots of crafts. I finished the quilt and the machine hasn't had a break since then. Nothing makes me happier than having a little me time sewing.
My true definition of bliss is our times together as a family. Those lazy weekends at home or when we are out and about. True joy is being with my three loves. This month we took a trip to the aquarium and it was awesome. I left wanting sushi and the Iittle lady loved it!
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I am continually amazed at the rich history of Red Cloud and all the wonderful things in that area. What a gem! I have been involved with economic development for nearly 20 years and to see the progress in Red Cloud warms my heart and solidifies my belief in the amazing things rural communities can do!
The Starke Round Barn is an awesome accomplishment! Modern buildings just cannot compare. Amazing architecture.
As a graduate student from Taiwan, the opportunity to attend the Willa Cather Spring Conference was a huge milestone for me in my academic life. Not only did I get a chance to visit and experience both Red Cloud and UNL in person, I was also thrilled to meet and learn from the generous community of Cather scholars. Wonderful events like these not only showcase and celebrate Cather's legacy, they instruct and inspire foreign students like myself.
I spent a week photographing Red Cloud as an artist in residence at the Willa Cather Foundation. Being able to discover this magic town in such a unique way was an unbelievable experience. I was able to literally follow in Willa Cather's footsteps as I photographed. This beautiful little town has cast quite a spell on me and as an artist I think it is an essential stop for other creative people.
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Emily Schuman has what the fashion industry calls "Street Style."
Schuman was bored at her sales job at AOL in 2008, and needed more creativity in her life.
She decided to start a blog to write about her favorite things: fashion and food. She put together her favorite outfits and strutted around the streets of Los Angeles taking shots of outfits she paired together.
"I hadn't really seen a blog pairing food and fashion," said Schuman, 28. "That was really weird to me. Cupcakes and cashmere just seem like a natural pairing."
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Her blog, " Cupcakes and Cashmere," exploded when Coach asked Schuman to design a bag for their line in June 2010. She then went on to win Best Fashion Blog in 2010 from Bloggie. She's popular on Twitter too, with 41,550 followers.
Following her brand partnerships with Coach and Juicy Couture, Schuman's been approached by Abram's Publishing to write a book, which she describes as "an extension of her blog, but a guide of how to live your life by the seasons." The book will come out in August 2012.
Schuman didn't go to fashion school or culinary school, and admits she just writes about her vision and what she likes.
"I started the blog this way for selfish reasons," Schuman said. "I knew if I was just writing about food or fashion, I'd get bored. There's a lot of learning as I go, sharing my tips. I'm sure professionals might not say that my makeup or food is not done right, but I'm just an everyday girl sharing how I go about life."
She admits that while she makes sure all of her recipes taste good, the food also has to look good in order to appear on her blog.
If you think Schuman looks familiar, you may recognize her from MTV's "The Hills." She was working in sales at Teen Vogue around the same time as Lauren Conrad was interning, and occasionally appeared in shots when they filmed at the office.
But since then she's been a regular girl. She left AOL when the company was offering voluntary buy-outs in January 2010 and has concentrated on her blog full-time ever since.
All of the clothes on the blog are items Schuman actually wears. She doesn't buy anything just to look good on her blog, she says.
"The outfits I show on the blog are organic," Schuman said. "I don't want to be in jeans and a T-shirt everyday, I liked to get dressed up and have inspirational pieces."
Schuman is known for pairing more-expensive items with affordable and trendy pieces from places such as Zara, Forever 21 and H&M.
She relies on the brand Elizabeth And James to find something that is tailored and fits her right. Every Sunday she goes to the flea market, in search of the perfect vintage item.
With so much of her life documented through photos and her blogs, Schuman says the biggest challenge is shutting off.
"Every so often I need to remind myself to put down the camera and stop working. Being my own boss is a blessing, but it's hard to separate work and real life," Schuman said. "I'm so fortunate to have the life I do, and the blog, but every so often to give myself a creative break I have to remind myself not to work."
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"They" say a picture is worth a thousand words…
This one, to me, is worth almost 200,000. That's how many I had to write to get this thing in my hands.
Why so many? Well, this is The Book That Tried To Kill Me ™, aka: TBTTTKM-2 ™ (kudos to my friend Lisa Brackmann for coining that phrase; hers is the original TBTTTKM.)
I'd written Genie Knows Best and turned it in a few days before my deadline. (yay, me!) Unfortunately, it turned out that my editor didn't like it. At all. Now, normally, there are a few points we need to change/clarify/fix and I do some revisions and the book is ready. But this one, for various reasons, didn't work for her. So it was Back To The Drawing Board. Ugh. Can I just say that again? Ugh.
I had to start over. Had to come up with a different spin on the story, a different spin on the world, and a new way of doing things. The only things I kept from the original book were the main characters' names, the love scenes, the basic idea for the world, and the ending. I love this ending; I truly do.
So, okay, maybe we're talking 150,000 words.
Was this what I wanted to do? No way. Was it what I had to do? Yep. Am I satisfied with the result? I am. It's a whole other story about the same characters, whom I love. Kal is an alpha male in a beta role, or maybe even a gamma one. I had fun trying to contain him within The Service he's been in for four thousand years with the end in sight for him. Samantha Blaine was someone I wanted to help. All she wants is someone to love her for her (and not her inheritance/bank account) and to find herself being used at every turn… well, she deserved a happy ending, too. As did I. 🙂 Honestly, I was never so happy as when I turned this new story in because it's one thing to write a book under contract and know that it's going to go into production; it's quite another to write that book only to have to completely re-write it.
I haven't really spoken about this bummer of a year writing this book because, of course, you want to put your best foot forward in the marketplace. "Sure, I write books and they all go on to win awards!" is a good image, but the reality is, writing and publication are hard work–and this is why you need an editor. Mine could have tried to fix the original version up with me, but who knows what the result would have been since she had such an adverse reaction to it. She wasn't "feeling" it, and therefore, she couldn't get excited about it. Trust me, you want your editor excited about your work.
So, I pulled up my big girl panties, took a deep breath, and started off on story #2 for this couple. And, like I said, I love the result. It's a fun story, a lot of action with the largest cast of characters I've ever written. I had a blast writing the fight scenes (try orchestrating a fight scene with centaurs, trolls, leprechauns, dragons, and gnomes and keeping all those body parts straight!), and loved creating Harv's lair that was inspired by Riley's comment in National Treasure, "Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?" And, of course, I got to spend more time with Kal and Samantha and learned more about them, what made them tick. That journey is always fun, so I really can't complain (though I did, loudly) about having to spend so much time with them.
And I recently turned in Leave It To Genie and am waiting for my editor to read it. You can bet (and the leprechauns in Genie Knows Best already are…) that I'm waiting with baited breath.
Now these ARCs go out to the reviewers and I have another reason to wait with baited breath to see if this version of Kal and Samantha's story is as well received as Eden and Matt's was (starred review in Publishers Weekly). That's this business: hurry up and write, revise, and wait. 🙂
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YORK, Pa. – Swimmers throughout the Capital Athletic Conference will be converging on The Aquatics Center at St. Mary's College in St. Mary's City, Md. on Friday for the start of the 2013 CAC Swimming Championships. The Championships, which are being hosted once again by St. Mary's College will begin on Friday and continue through Sunday.
The defending champions are the Mary Washington Eagles, who have been victorious 12 seasons in a row.
Last season, the Spartans finished in third place with a total of 482.5 points. One of the top performances of the meet was during an exciting 200 freestyle relay in which the Spartans finished just behind Mary Washington in 1:26.39. Tyler Ziegler (Coatesville,Pa./Coatesville Area) and Shane Bonner (Ridley Park, Pa./Ridley) were both part of the strong relay team. Bonner, Cody Latchford (New Castle, Del./William Penn) and Andy Woods (Dover, Pa./Dover Area) helped the Green and White earn a third place finish in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:36.05. Bonner also had a strong 50 freestyle race, finishing in third with a 21.79 effort.
The CAC Championships prove to be a tough matchup every year. Mary Washington, Marymount and St. Mary's always show up with exceptionally strong swimmers.
"It is going to be really tough finish in the top three," said head coach Erin Kurtz. "But that has been our goal and we have been working to achieve it all season."
Despite having a small roster, Kurtz knows that she can expect a lot from her group of men swimmers. She believes that there will be big performances from her top swimmers, including Bonner, Latchford, Woods, Ziegler, Bryant Hughes (Middletown, Del./Caravel Academy) and freshman Kyle Walthall (Port Huereme, Ca./Rio Mesa).
Seniors, Ziegler and Woods will have one last opportunity to leave it all in the pool.
Kurtz also believes that Walthall has a shot to do extremely well in his first CAC championships. If Walthall can push himself to swim his fastest, he has a chance to make nationals. However, it is hard to predict because the timing scale can vary quite a bit from year to year.
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Next: Fast access to TODO states, Previous: TODO types, Up: TODO extensions
Sometimes you may want to use different sets of TODO keywords in
parallel. For example, you may want to have the basic
DONE, but also a workflow for bug fixing, and a
separate state indicating that an item has been canceled (so it is not
DONE, but also does not require action). Your setup would then look
like this:
(setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "|" "DONE") (sequence "REPORT" "BUG" "KNOWNCAUSE" "|" "FIXED") (sequence "|" "CANCELED")))
The keywords should all be different, this helps Org mode to keep track
of which subsequence should be used for a given entry. In this setup,
C-c C-t only operates within a subsequence, so it switches from
DONE to (nothing) to
TODO, and from
FIXED to
(nothing) to
REPORT. Therefore you need a mechanism to initially
select the correct sequence. Besides the obvious ways like typing a
keyword or using completion, you may also apply the following commands:
TODO or
DONE to
REPORT, and any of the words in the second row to
CANCELED. Note that the C-S- key binding conflict with
shift-selection-mode (see Conflicts).
DONE to
REPORT in the example above. See also
Conflicts, for a discussion of the interaction with


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In Which We Evoke A Particular Time And Mood
We Have All Learned To Ignore It
by ALICE BOLIN
My first day teaching creative writing to middle schoolers, I walked into the room where my class would meet, normally a health classroom, and found a large piece of butcher paper taped to the blackboard. Written in teacher handwriting across the top of the paper was the question "WHAT IS UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES." I was on my laptop, trying frantically to record all the examples of unintentional injuries that had resulted from the health class' brainstorm ("to accidently drop a baby," "committing suicide on accident," "accidentl death"), when my group of eighth graders started trickling into the classroom.
There I was, strange adult, rapt by the results of a seventh grade health class activity and clearly taken off guard by their appearance in my classroom. The eighth graders didn't laugh at me, didn't even smile, only stared at me skeptically. I scrambled to put my computer back in my bag and stand at the front of the room like some sort of authority, but the damage was done — it is a particular kind of indignity to be regarded as freakish by a group of nerdy pre-teens, one of whom is actually named Anakin.
There was just no way to explain to them what I was doing. "Look at this thing," I said, pointing to the butcher paper. "Isn't it funny?" They only eyed me more dubiously. In my first act as their teacher, I had inadvertently revealed my strongest personal compulsion, which is to hoard verbal matter, overheard conversation, stray remarks, stray thoughts, notes, lists, e-mails, gchats, text messages, diaries, notebooks, any and every piece of paper on which something mysterious or funny is written.
For instance: I have in my pocket at this moment a note I don't remember writing to myself that I found recently on my floor. It reads, "Landscape quote: O pardon me thou bleeding piece of Earth." (Googling reveals this is from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.) Also in my pocket is a note card where it says in my graduate thesis advisor's handwriting, "Question / Is there a historical reason for the great number of rear/alley entrances/exits in Missoula bars?" Also: a stranger's to-do list I found tucked in a book I ordered online; its only noteworthy item is "Return Cal's pants!"
Why I keep these things, why I needed to document "What Is Unintentional Injuries," why I write down any interesting group of words that I hear or see, even just phrases that materialize in my brain suddenly but insistently — it is impossible to account for this practice completely, even to myself. As Joan Didion writes in her essay "On Keeping a Notebook," "The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself."
The easy justification, the one Didion is referring to, is that these random words might some day make it into a piece of writing, and of course they might. But I can tell you this happens for me remarkably rarely: the sentences I treasure most as found artifacts do not transform gracefully to components of writing, either poetry or prose, that could be judged as traditionally "good." For over a year I kept a file on my computer where I recorded my most emphatic thoughts, in an attempt to identify my mental refrains. I believed this file might become a useful reserve of poetic lines; instead it only serves to illustrate my incredibly vulnerable self-talk.
"Why do I keep forcing myself to think about this?" reads one item in the list. Another reads, "I have to not think about it." "We have all learned to ignore it" and "It's no one's fault," read others. There are pleas: "Don't get some other girl." "Don't bring your girlfriend." "Don't kiss where I can see you." And confessions: "I'm fairly obsessed with you." "Sorry I'm so obsessed with you today." But most of all there are just so, so, so many feelings: "I sometimes really feel that way." "I am a happy person always." "I'm always sad, but it's okay." "Am I sad or happy?" "I am sad or happy." "I have no feelings." "I'm a thing, I'm a feeling." "I'm a thing."
Didion also mostly records cryptic phrases, but she relates the strange items that she writes in her notebook as guideposts to memories, the one detail needed to evoke an entire place, time, and mood. The phrase "So what's new in the whiskey business" written in Didion's notebook calls to her mind a blonde woman conversing with two fat men by the swimming pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel — an intact context exists in her memory. "'So what's new in the whiskey business?'" Didion writes. "What could that possibly mean to you?" But for me it is exactly the lost significance, the sentiment that is not meaningless but only unmoored from its origins, that appeals to me about this kind of collecting.
I suppose this can't be separated from my relationship to poetry: that I love the way that poetry makes words strange and frees everyday speech from its everyday uses. Any carefully written thing can be loved for the beauty and ingenuity of its language, but it is poetry's main selling point that we may enjoy it at the level of the poem, the stanza, the sentence, the line, the word, the syllable. And much of contemporary poetry is explicitly about divorcing words from their contexts, evoking emotion without a discernible story. So while the sentences I write down rarely become poetry, I have noticed that it is often other people who love poetry who I see also grabbing their notebooks after hearing a startling turn of phrase.
And it is often these same poetry lovers who produce fodder for notebooks: my experience in grad school for poetry was remarkable for the incredible sentences I heard and read delivered offhand. I have recorded in old class notes countless statements like, "Pennies are probably our most happy coins," "'I don't want to think about that' is what my sisters say," and "Debra says squirrels smell like mice with rotten teeth." My colleagues annotated my work with comments like "Sexy connotations!" and "I read your movements as 'begat, begat, begat' and also 'subsumes, subsumes.'" Taken in context, none of these remarks are as odd as they seem written here; that's why it's so important for me to remove the context, so I can delight in them.
My collecting is not only about enjoying language in its mystery but also becoming a mystery to myself. I often write things on my cell phone's Notepad feature late at night, when I am half-asleep or drunk, that I puzzle over in the morning. There are two identical entries that say, "Rom com: woman lives in vegas and is a court reporter." Another: "Hersheys kisses mutant chocolate chip something." One of the things I am most grateful for in life is to find traces of my own former thought processes and feelings that I could not possibly replicate or inhabit again. I read "I'm fairly obsessed with you" written in the file of my thoughts and I have no idea whom I was addressing.
"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget," Didion writes. "We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were." She ignores that to forget can be a supreme grace. I treasure all of the diaries I kept when I was a child precisely because of the distance I feel from the girl who wrote them. Seventh grade Alice: "It's totally cool because it's like we've moved on to another level of flirting." Eighth grade Alice: "You know I've been thinking way deep things lately." First grade Alice: "Dear Alice, I don't know. Love, Alice."
I have always been a person who is "sensitive," and I take too long to get over everything. Reading old journals and notebooks, I am reminded that feelings are, in their essence, immediate, and they pass over us like shadows. All the words I collect are artifacts of sentiments that do not exist and could not even be conceived of again — ideas that once desperately needed to be expressed disappear, leaving husks of language that I save, I care for.
Alice Bolin is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in Los Angeles. She last wrote in these pages about music made by boys. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here. She tumbls here and twitters here.
Images by Yayoi Kusama.
"Standing Still" - Rachel Reis (mp3)
"Words" - Rachel Reis (mp3)
The new album from Rachel Reis is entitled Ghost of a Gardener, and it was released on February 14th. You can purchase it here.


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Is it raining with you?
Is there snow on the ground?
Cloud cover a little heavy?
Fog rolling in?
How about hot? Too hot?
Too dry?
Well, how about this, as an alternative?
That's the view of our Monte Bello Tasting Room from atop our vineyard knoll.
See anything missing?
I do.
I'd like to see you in this picture.
Can you come here?
Or maybe you're north.
Are you north?
Would this work better for you?
That's our Lytton Springs Estate, just a few minutes ago. We have a tasting room there too.
Sure is pretty.
Kinda wish I was there.
Can you go there?
If you can, will you send me a picture?
I'd like to see you there.
Or you could come here.
If you do, I'll take a picture of you, and then you can send it to me, and then we can post it right here.
Right here.
Right now.
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now, there is no other place I wanna be
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history
–Jesus Jones, "Right Here, Right Now"
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Sofia Vergara breaks silence on engagement
Actress SOFIA VERGARA has finally confirmed reports she is engaged, and has even gushed about her plans to become a mum again.
The Modern Family star received an extra special gift while celebrating her 40th birthday in July (12) after her partner Nick Loeb proposed during a trip to Mexico with family and friends.
Her 20-year-old son Manolo Gonzalez announced the happy news on his YouTube.com video blog, and now the Colombian beauty has opened up about her nuptials, confessing she is yet to begin planning the ceremony.
When asked about her wedding, she tells Celebuzz.com, "I haven't started planning anything because everything has been very recent. I just planned a very big birthday - my 40th birthday in Mexico. It was amazing. More than 100 people came and celebrated with me and my family, closest friends and co-workers from Modern Family. I am kind of, you know, working right now a lot - I just started the new Modern Family season - so I don't know yet (when we will get married). No plans."
Vergara also talked about having a baby with Loeb, admitting she hasn't ruled out another child.
She adds, "It's something that maybe... one day I'll do again. I wouldn't mind... I mean, I think I can still do it. But you know, when you want to do something like that, you want to do it right, at the right moment, so I am taking it easy. Maybe when I have a little bit less work."


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - English Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "English" BrueGuestMember # Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 9:43 am well i attemptd it. Alot of it is wrong perspective wise but i thought i would see what your opinions are. Should i color it? I dunno. plz leave some comment and some crits. Man, do those come in handy Well enough rambling heres the pic Back to top DanmemberMember #Joined: 24 Sep 2000Posts: 224Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 11:21 am If you are going for a perspective drawing you might want to use a ruler to give it that technical feel. Some of the lines seems to be a bit curved, this may be because you are drawing from your wrist or maybe you want to give it that curvy cartoony feel. Also you might want to draw that dog from more of a top-view rather than the almost side view that you have. You may also want to fill in the blank area in the top left. Just a few lines to show that there is a sidewalk or the wall of a building there [This message has been edited by Dan (edited January 04, 2001).] Back to top LightmemberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 528Location: NC, USA Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 3:33 pm Not bad.. add some more shading to the total picture and lessen highlights on cat. Try to put some more textures in too. Back to top AmpamemberMember #Joined: 09 Nov 2000Posts: 110Location: UK Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 3:45 pm The perspective is off in parts as you say - the phone box isn't on the same plane as the pavement, and the lamp post leans some what! I would advise redrawing to get the perspective right before you spend effort painting. Also... the top of the lamppost is very flat. Hugz Ampa. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Sentara Healthcare prepared for ICD-10
Sentara Healthcare is preparing for ICD-10 implementation on Oct. 1, 2015. More than 10,600 personnel in multiple disciplines across the enterprise have been trained or are completing ICD-10 training. With an employee campaign dubbed 'Power of 10,' Sentara has invested almost $32 million over two years in training, new computer software and process redesign across 12 hospitals, integrated services and the Sentara-owned Optima Health Plan.
ICD-10 is the International Classification of Diseases, used by virtually all developed countries except the United States to precisely identify diseases states, manage population health, track pandemics and assure timely, accurate reimbursement to providers. In 2014, the U.S. delayed implementation of ICD-10 until 2015.
"The use of diagnostic codes has always been part of the health care billing and reimbursement process," said Robert Broermann, chief financial officer for Sentara Healthcare. "It's how information is accumulated about the prevalence of injuries and illnesses and it's used to track the costs of treating those conditions," Broermann added. "Converting to ICD-10 will significantly improve the precision of that information in the U.S."
ICD-10 captures new diseases, procedures, technologies
Now in use for more than 30 years, ICD-9 codes have fallen behind modern medical terminology. For instance, ICD-9 has no codes identifying Ebola, the deadly disease that swept the African continent in 2014 and appeared in the U.S. There are technologies and procedures in use today that did not exist when ICD-9 was adopted and cannot be added due to limits in ICD-9's infrastructure. ICD-10 features many more codes than ICD-9 for identifying disease states, which allows more accurate coding. While ICD-9 has about 13,000 diagnosis codes, ICD-10 currently has 68,000. ICD-9 features 4,000 procedure codes, ICD-10, 72,000.
"ICD-10 is not just about billing and reimbursement," said Bogdan Neughebauer, M.D., infectious disease specialist with Sentara Medical Group. "ICD-10 allows timely tracking of pandemics such as a flu outbreak or Ebola and it will help identify areas of the U.S. or the world where certain diseases are more prevalent."
Trained personnel are practicing with 'dual coding' using both ICD-9 and ICD-10 to ensure they are ready to perform accurate ICD-10 coding after implementation on October 1. Healthcare providers trained on ICD-10 also have access to a mobile app through a Sentara training contractor to help them stay current.
How will ICD-10 affect consumers?
"We want ICD-10 implementation to be a non-event for our patients, who hopefully won't notice anything different," said Marion Swaim, vice president of health information management for Sentara. "The work we are doing now to prepare for implementation will help ensure correct coding and timely claims processing and reimbursement for providers who do business with Sentara and Optima Health."


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Use .htaccess To Redirect One Domain To Another Domain
I have been using a WordPress plugin for awhile called Pretty Link Pro which provides a ton of awesome features including a link shortener such as tinyurl.com. When using the URL shortener you can actually configure Pretty Link Pro to use a different domain which would be a benefit if your URL is long similar to www.question-defense.com. I have been using link.as so instead of providing shortened links such as http://www.question-defense.com/1ce I can provide links such as http://link.as/1ce which you can see is a lot more user friendly when providing links to others. One thing I wanted to ensure was the fact that Google was not crawling content on the http://link.as URL which is possible simply by Google finding the shortened links on places like Twitter. Below I describe a .htaccess modification that will redirect any traffic to one URL to another while including any trailing text.


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I think one of my favorite things about IU is the sheer amount of activities to do in Bloomington! I have a lot of interests, and I have a pretty adventurous spirit. I like to try new things, and Bloomington has a lot of great opportunities to explore. Even better, student discounts and free events are the best! I just recently went to an Itzhak Perlman (check him out playing Schindler's List theme) for $20 on a student discount. Just on one campus, you can experience D1 sports teams, world-renowned musical performances, art exhibits, cultural festivals, indie bands, and much more. When I need a break from academics, I can pick and choose what types of events I can spend an evening with.
Some great links that I check out from time to time:
The IUB events calendar: http://events.iu.edu/iub.html
Athletics Calendar: http://www.iuhoosiers.com/calendar/events/Musical Performances: http://music.indiana.edu/events/
Bloomington Community Events: http://calendar.bloomingtonscene.com/


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NEW ORLEANS, July 3 (UPI) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh will probe alleged wrongdoing linked to BP's multibillion-dollar fund compensating victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
Freeh, who ran the FBI from 1993 to 2001 and last year led an internal investigation into the Penn State sex abuse scandal involving disgraced ex-coach Jerry Sandusky and several high-ranking university officials, will be the settlement-fund investigation's "special master," U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans said in an order.
The court needed to create an independent external investigation "to ensure the integrity of the program for the benefit of the parties and the public," said Barbier, who is hearing the case for damages over the 2010 BP oil spill.
The U.S. government estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil spewed into the Gulf after a deadly April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig ripped open a well owned by BP.
A seafloor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until the well was capped July 15.
The appointment of Freeh, who runs a risk-management firm, came a few days after a senior lawyer with the claims-settlement program resigned over allegations he was going to be compensated by attorneys filing claims on behalf of clients, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Oil spill claims administrator Patrick Juneau said last month he was looking into those allegations.
Freeh's appointment also follows BP PLC complaints it was paying millions of dollars more in compensation than it expected under a settlement it agreed to last year with lawyers representing claimants.
BP argued Juneau's office was approving payouts that were either too large or went to companies that didn't actually suffer losses from the spill.
BP agreed to settle claims from thousands of Gulf Coast businesses and individuals last year. The British multinational oil and gas company estimated at the time the claims would amount to about $7.8 billion but has since raised the estimate to more than $8.5 billion.
Barbier earlier ruled the payments were in compliance with the settlement agreement, but BP has appealed.
An appeals court in New Orleans is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the dispute Monday.
BP said Tuesday it was pleased with Freeh's appointment.
"We believe that Judge Freeh's experience on the federal bench and as director of the FBI make him ideally suited to conduct a thorough investigation into the recent allegations of unethical and potentially criminal behavior within the program," the oil giant said in a statement.
Freeh was a U.S. district judge in New York for two years before being appointed FBI director.
BP pointed to the "wide latitude" given to Freeh "to look for other possible ethical violations or misconduct" beyond the lawyer's alleged misconduct.
Stephen Herman and James Roy, who head the committee of lawyers representing the plaintiffs seeking compensation, said in a statement they were "confident that any impropriety, if confirmed, will prove to be an isolated incident."
Juneau said he also welcomed Freeh's investigation.
"Since we initiated the Deepwater Horizon claims process on June 4, 2012, our mission has been to process claims in a fair, efficient and transparent manner," he said. "This type of investigation is consistent with our goal of transparency of the claims process."