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A Brief Introduction of Chakra Yoga for Beginners
This text about "Chakra Yoga" has been written for those who have an interest in the whole science of Yoga.
Unearthing of Chakra Syatem
The chakra system is divided into seven zones. Each zone have energy that must flow freely. When energy becomes block in a chakra, it triggers physical, mental, or emotional imbalances. These imbalances are manifest in symptoms such as anxiety, lethargy, or poor digestion. However, when the chakras are balanced by doing chakra yoga, the whole body works in harmony. We feel elevated, energized and whole.
Thousands of years ago, it was revealed that an intelligent mechanism in the body is responsible for the process of spiritual awakening itself. The subtle body is a part of you that you can't see or touch. It's where your energy flows. These subtle areas are referred as Chakras.
The word "Chakra" is derived from the Sanskrit word meaning "wheel". Literally translated from the Hindi. It means "Wheel of spinning Energy". A chakra is like a whirling, vortex like, powerhouse of energy.
Introduction to Seven Chakras for Chakra Yoga
It's important to know the seven major chakras located in the body. Chakra's knowledge is important for doing chakra yoga. Here is a quick rundown of each chakra.
- Root chakra
Color: Red unearthing
Element: Earth
Location: Base of the spine, tailbone
Related Body Functions: Elimination of waste and toxins, core balance, pelvic floor
Purpose: First chakra is a seat of physical vitality and the fundamental urge to survive. It regulates those mechanisms which keep the physical body alive. The main aspect of root chakra is innocence.
2. Sacral or pelvic chakra
Color: Orange
Element: Water
Location: Two inches below the belly button in the lower abdomen
Related Body Functions: Lower digestion and absorption, immune system, sexual organs
Purpose: The energy of sacral chakra is the center for creating relationships of all kinds. It is where we develop an inward sense of self. We also develop an outward awareness of others, ego, sexuality, and family and defined as we work with this energy. The feelings of other people are directly perceived through mastery of this chakra's energy.
3. Solar plexus chakra
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Location: Around the point where the ribs meet in the middle of your abdomen
Related Body Functions: Upper digestion, stomach, and diaphragm
Purpose: Located at the center of the body it is the place where physical energy is distributed. It is the center for unrefined emotions and personal power. It is the center that gives us the sense of complete satisfaction and contentment. Our creativity is fueled by our power of will.
4. Heart chakra
Color: Green
Element: Air
Location: Center of the chest, on the breast bone
Related Body Functions: Breathing, cardiovascular function
Purpose: The center of real, unconditional affection, spiritual growth, compassion, devotion and love. It is the bridge connecting the lower and higher energies of our being and is the place where resides our Spirit, our true Self, free and independent.
5. Throat chakra
Color: Blue
Element: Ether or space
Location: In the throat in the Adam's apple area
Related Body Functions: Taste, swallowing, speaking, jaw tightness
Purpose: The center for communication, self-expression and creativity. This is where the inner voice of one's truth is expressed. It is the chakra of diplomacy, of pure relationships with others, and of playful detachment. Speaking with knowledge of our inter-connectivity through Spirit reflects mastery of this energy.
6. Third eye chakra
Color: Indigo
Element: Light
Location: In the forehead, between the eyes
Related Body Functions: Sight, decision-making, perception
Purpose: The seat of intuition and direct spiritual vision; it is here that we visualize things through our "third eye" of intuitive knowledge. The opening of the third-eye corresponds with spiritual awakening. It is the chakra of forgiveness and compassion.
- Crown chakra
Color: Violet
Element: Cosmic energy
Location: On top of or just above the head
Related Body Functions: Mental peace and connectedness
Purpose: This chakra represents the highest level of consciousness and enlightenment. It is the connective center to spirit. This center integrates all the chakras with their respective qualities. Mastering the lower vibrational aspects of our being we reside in the full awareness that we are spiritual beings living a human existence.
Benefits of Chakra Yoga
The benefits of balancing chakra via chakra yoga are closely knotted with the philosophy of yoga. Are you practicing yoga? If yes, you will be aware of the feeling of full-body integration. And this integration comes after completing a session. It is common observation that blocked energy in a particular chakra can lead to illness. Therefore, take time to shift this energy. Chakra yoga can help clear these issues. This is something you can do consciously; so, that you can take control of your state of well-being.
Poses for chakra Yoga
Chakra yoga poses are a great way to cleanse and balance the chakra system. Not only does the stretching and strengthening help benefit your physical health, but when used in conjunction with energy zones, it helps to bring new life and balance to the chakras in yoga.
Practicing chakra yoga also introduces elements of meditation, which helps sharpen the mind while balancing and opening the chakras.
Tips to Buff up Chakra Yoga
What can you do to create and maintain healthy and balanced chakras? Here are seven sure-fire simple steps you can take to balance your chakras:
- Connect to Mother Earth: Take a walk in nature
A simple walk barefoot on grass or a sandy beach will do wonders to ground you. Hug a tree, go hiking in the wilderness, or visit a local park. You don't have to live in the countryside or mountains to strengthen this connection with Mother Nature.
Grounding yourself will give you the experience of "I am here, and I am safe" and this presence is so essential to your health. Take time out of your day to make sure you make this connection and you will automatically strengthen your Root Chakra.
- Calm your Body and Environment with Water
The physical problems of a poorly functioning second chakra are often the kinds of things that breed shame if the health issues concern their sexuality. One way to heal the shame is to soak for at least 20 minutes in a bath of warm water with one pound each of sea salt and baking soda.
Imagine all your guilt and shame dissolving in the bath water and being washed away as you say: "I speak the truth and reclaim my true nature. I am pure. I am clean." Water is healing, and immersing yourself in water on a regular basis is a self-nurturing habit.
Get Moving
You can balance your third chakra through physical movement, especially outside in the sun in the early morning or before sunset. Don't get too warm if you tend to be angry or short-tempered. Physical movement awakens and recharges your body.
- Love a Pet
It is through your heart chakra that you can come to feel the presence of unconditional, unlimited love for yourself, for all beings, for the world and beyond. One of the best ways to boost your heart chakra is through giving and receiving love with a pet. Our pets love us unconditionally and make it safe for us to learn to love again.
Do you have room in your life to adopt a dog or cat? You can feed your heart chakra and at the same time change this animal's life forever in a positive way. No room or time to adopt your own? What about visiting your local shelter or even just visiting a friend's friendly pet and sharing some love with them.
- Express Yourself: Use your Voice.
We can tune up our fifth chakra by expressing ourselves more clearly and exploring our creativity. All creativity is a way to communicate what we feel. Use your voice and read out loud your favorite book or poem. Write something yourself and recite it. Sing a song in the shower, in your car wherever.
When your fifth chakra is in balance, you can live your dreams and visions, your greater purpose. Let yourself be who you are and give yourself a voice.
Visualize and Find your Inner Sight
You can boost "third eye" chakra by working to rid yourself of the clutter in your mind so you can "see" more clearly. Daily meditation is a wonderful way to get rid of old beliefs and thought patterns that are holding you back. When you have awakened the sixth chakra, you are in touch with inspiration, insight, wisdom, and vision.
- Invite the Divine
When our crown chakra is open, our perception is clearer, broader, and we are allowed to not only see our daily patterns, but also the deep metaphysical patterns of our lives. Meditation is a powerful tool to boosting crown chakra. Perhaps prayer or communion with nature will assist as well.
It's important to understand what each chakra represents. Via through understanding we can keep this energy flowing freely by doing yoga chakra.


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The Book of Joshua
Zachary Schomburg
Black Ocean
128 p // $19.95
This is a journey without a departure, which makes it endless – an expedition through the space between grief and trauma, an unwieldy terrain that aching with hunger.
The Book of Joshua
Zachary Schomburg
Black Ocean
128 p // $19.95
This is a journey without a departure, which makes it endless – an expedition through the space between grief and trauma, an unwieldy terrain that aching with hunger.
Last night the poets Luke Bloomfield, Brian Foley, and Wendy Xu passed through Cleveland, OH on their Moonbucket reading tour in promotion of their books Russian Novels (Factory Hollow Press, 2014), The Constitution (Black Ocean, 2014), and You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2013), respectively. Below are three short video clips of each poet performing at the event, which took place at Guide to Kulchur.
Here's Luke Bloomfield reading his poem "Fisticuffs":
Here's Brian Foley reading his poem "Acumen":
Here's Wendy Xu reading here poem "Nocturne":
Their tour, which has also taken them to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Akron, will continue tonight in Buffalo, NY.
Elisa Gabbert lives and writes in Denver, CO. Recently, Black Ocean released her second book, The Self Unstable; Birds LLC published her first book, The French Exit, four years ago. She is an avid blogger, tweeter (Is that a word? IDFK.), and contributor to Open Letters Monthly.
Although The Self Unstable was published mere weeks ago, it's already garnered much critical praise. The New Yorker listed the collection as one of their Best Book of 2013, calling it one of "the most intelligent and most intriguing" releases of the calendar year. Likewise, it has appeared on various "Year's Best" lists at The Poetry Foundation, HTMLGiant, and elsewhere.
Last week, Gabbert agreed to answer some questions for me–via email–about her new book.
The marketing copy for your second book, The Self Unstable, calls the writing in this collection "lyric essays." I hoped you could address the concept of genre designation: what makes the texts in The Self Unstable "lyric essays," as opposed to prose poems, or just plain-old "poems" for that matter? To your mind, what is the purpose of genre designations? What benefits and disadvantages does labeling a piece of writing in this manner provide for both the writer and the reader? Does categorizing The Self Unstable as a collection of "lyric essays" demand that the audience approach the book differently? How so?
I think in the case of The Self Unstable the genre distinction is almost arbitrary. You could call them prose poems or just poems if you wanted to and I wouldn't say you were wrong, but I do think it's pretty clearly a hybrid text. In some ways the pieces are like essays and in some ways they're like poems. They touch on other genres too – Zen koans, aphorism, etc. So I guess you could say the genre is unstable.
From the outset, Black Ocean was interested in marketing the book as prose, and there are a couple of reasons that I agreed to that. One, Bluets by Maggie Nelson is one of the books that inspired me to write a book like this, and Wave calls Bluets lyric essay even though they're primarily a poetry press. Two, I was interested to see if the prose designation would widen the readership and/or, as you say, change the way people read it. I think it's too early to say if it has or will.
Regardless of where it's shelved at the library, I expect some readers to say, "What the hell, these aren't essays" or "What the hell, these aren't poems." My hope is that readers either don't worry about that too much, or are interested in engaging with how the form "subverts" or "interrogates" the idea of the lyric poem or the idea of the lyric essay. I hope it works on both levels.
I'm glad you mention "Zen koans" in your previous answer because your book concludes with a prose block that states: "Koans are used to provoke 'the great doubt'" (83). The internet tells me that a koan derives from the practice of Zen Buddhism and is "a brief paradoxical statement or question used a discipline in meditation." It would appear that the writing in The Self Unstable embodies or appropriates these characteristics. Could you tell me a bit about how you originally encountered this form; likewise, what compelled you to employ it in your own writing? How did the use of it alter your writing or challenge you to re-conceive the manner in which you compose and/or think? In your own words, what is "the great doubt" of our contemporary era?
My college boyfriend used to have a book of Zen koans, which he found more amusing than profound I think, and it was our bathroom reading for a while. I am not a Buddhist, and I went many years without thinking of koans at all, but as I was working on the pieces in this book, I found I wanted them to function as koans, meaning that they are designed to provoke contemplation, not to be taken as absolute truths in themselves. And further I found (this is probably weird) that I wanted to structure the book so that it would make good bathroom reading. In other words, I wanted it to be the kind of book that you can pick up, open at random, and read a few pages, then go back to whatever you were doing. You don't have to read them in order, and they're easily re-readable. Like a book to be read in interludes, a little lite pseudo-philosophy. (All philosophy is pseudo-philosophy.)
That line you quote is, if I remember correctly, lifted verbatim from the Wikipedia page on koans, which of course may be different now. I have no idea what "the great doubt" is in Buddhist terms but what a great fucking phrase. For me, "the great doubt" is what happens when you suddenly stop playing the game – all the little rules we need to follow to exist in society, all the logistical distractions of contemporary life – and say, "Wait … WHAT IS THE POINT of all this?" Why anyone would want to encourage more confrontations with the absurd, I don't know, but I suppose that's what I'm doing here. Or if not provoking those moments, at least thinking about them.
You open The Self Unstable with the question: "What is the self?" Then, you offer a concept of the self that aligns itself with constructivist thought: "You wanted a life of cause, but it was all effects"; moments later, you forward a proposition that promotes essentialism: "Luck is a skill, as is beauty, intelligence–all things you're born with" (3). As both a person and a writer, how do you negotiate these ideas of the self that appear to be in opposition to one another? What are your expectations—or, at least, desires—for a reader when they encounter such a paradox in your writing?
I remember reading recently that cognitive dissonance is overstated as a phenomenon, that people can hold all kinds of contradictory beliefs and experience no dissonance whatsoever. Certainly I think it's almost impossible, if not completely impossible, to have a coherent experience of the self, considering that you have to use your selfhood to form that concept – it's like trying to look at your own eye or taste your own tongue. Here's another analogy – you know when people take a bunch of different photos of the Eiffel Tower from different angles and then use it to build a collage that depicts the whole tower, because when you're close to the tower, you can't get it all in one frame? A book about the self is similar, in that you can't get a complete picture of it in one view or from one angle. I think that's part of why it makes sense to label The Self Unstable as an essay – which of course etymologically means "attempt." This is an attempt to get a grasp on the ungraspable. And I suppose I assume readers will be intimately familiar with the paradox because they are selves themselves.
In the opening prose block of the "Transcending the Body" section of The Self Unstable, you write: "Transcending the body sounds a little '80s to me, not to mention flaky and paranormal. Even avatars have gender" (19). The statement got me thinking about a recent post at Harriet by the poet Tyrone Williams that's subtitled "Posthumanism and Poetry." He begins his article by referencing N. Katherine Hayles' concept of the posthuman, which is "the disappearance of the liberal humanist subject to the distribution of human desire and will through digital technology." As poet who tweets and blogs frequently (i.e. uses "digital technology"), how has your online presence/persona altered or informed the ways in which you approach the concepts of self and subjectivity, as well as the "poet" moniker?
I used to think a lot about post-humanism. For years I truly believed that within our lifetimes we'd hit the so-called "singularity" and become immortal via digitization. Now I'm not so sure. It's not that I don't think it's theoretically possible to upload the self (in fact I think it's possible that we're all already living in some kind of digital simulation); it's that I'm less confident we'll get there before we all blow each other up or die off in some kind of mass plague.
But getting to your question: I think it's interesting that having an online presence (in my case, on my blog and Twitter in particular) creates an automatic archive of both your experience and your own description of that experience. And what's continually surprising to me, when I dig back through that archive and re-read things I've written in the past, is how consistent it feels. So either my true self is more consistent from the outside than it feels from the inside, or the online persona I've unknowingly crafted through language is very consistent. So I'll read something that I wrote four years ago and be struck that I could have easily said the same thing yesterday. Another early line in the book: "The self regenerates every five or six days." This is a reference to cell regeneration, the idea that after some amount of time your body literally does not consist of any of the same cells that it used to, but somehow your selfhood persists. For me, my digital traces are a very concrete illustration of that persistence, much more so than, say, photographs, because my body seems to change more over the years than my personality.
The notion that The Self Unstable is a "collage" pieced together by different perspectives and "angles" reminds me a bit of Benjamin and Adorno's concept of the "constellation." But it seems as though statements such as "All philosophy is pseudo-philosophy" and "Whatever you do, don't start thinking about thinking" (10) express a certain antagonism toward—or at least skepticism about—philosophy. Given that large portions of The Self Unstable obliquely (or directly, depending on your viewpoint) engage ontology, epistemology, and phenomenology, I hoped you could a speak to what seems to be your (or your book's) conflicted relationship with/to that discourse.
It's not true antagonism – I actually love philosophy and think poetry and philosophy are deeply entwined. In fact I've blogged about how philosophical poets tend to be my favorite poets. When I say something like "All philosophy is pseudo-philosophy" or "All philosophers are armchair philosophers" I mean that you don't really need accreditation to be a philosopher. It's like being a poet in that way, all you have to do to qualify is sit down and write some poetry. And a lot of philosophy turns out to be bullshit, but for that matter, most "science" historically has turned out to be bullshit. It's still interesting, in that philosophy shows you the history of thinking. I'd love to be placed in a continuum with Benjamin and Adorno as opposed to, say, Stevens and Berryman. Why not?
Returning to one of your previous answers, I like that you think of The Self Unstable as a possible bathroom read, as I'm a strident advocate of them, generally speaking. Of course, my bathroom reads tend to be "Collected" poetry books; this way I can engage with a specific poet every day over the course of 6-8 months. What are some of your favorite and/or current bathroom reads? Why?
We subscribe to the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and Harper's, and those tend to end up in the bathroom, but I don't spend enough time in there to really get into long articles like that. For me a poem is about the right size for a bathroom session, so I throw literary journals in there, in particular contributor's copies, because otherwise I never seem to get around to reading them. Currently you'd find issues of Crazyhorse and Denver Quarterly in among the other periodicals. I also sometimes use this space to peruse catalogues, like Dean and Deluca, and that can be pleasantly meditative.
Speaking of continuum, how do you think The Self Unstable engages, speaks, or reacts to your first collection The French Exit; likewise, how does it relate to whatever you're writing nowadays? This second part of the question, obviously, begs the question: what are you currently working on?
I think writers tend to have a few subjects they obsess over, and my big subjects are present in both The French Exit and The Self Unstable – stuff like time and memory and meaning and death. But the form/approach is very different in The Self Unstable; aside from the fact that it's organized into untitled prose blocks, versus titled, lineated verse poems, it's also more idea-driven, whereas The French Exit is, I think, basically driven by emotion. That change is probably a result of the way my life has changed since I wrote the poems in my first book; I spend more of my waking hours working (at my day job) so I need to impose more structure in order to get meaningful amounts of creative writing done. When I was younger I was more naturally prolific, but now it helps me to contribute slowly and in small chunks to a longer "project." Also, my life (ironically) got more stable so I think the move to more contemplative reflection is a result of having fewer spikes of intense emotion.
All that said I'm back to writing in lineated verse. I recently acted in a production of The Designated Mourner, a play by Wallace Shawn, and I'm currently writing a series of poems in the voice of Judy, the character I portrayed. It's really too early to say how they relate to the other books but I'm sure my usual obsessions will find their way in, despite the filter of the character.
For many, many reasons, I'm unable to review a lot of the books I read. Instead of putting together a "Best of the Year" list, I thought it might be more interesting to create a "Books I Didn't Review But Really Liked" list. Below, then, are a handful of titles I thoroughly enjoyed, along with an excerpt of a poem that I thought was particularly swell:
Blaser, Robin. The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006.
from "Image-Nation I (the fold"
the participation is broken
fished from a sky of fire
the fiery lake pouring itself
to reach here
that matter of language caught
in the fact so that we
meet in paradise in such
times, the I consumes itself
the language sticks to
his honey-breath she is
the path of a tale, a door
to the perishing moonshine,
holes of intelligence
supposed to be in the heart
Gridlley, Sarah. Loom. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2013.
from "Shadows of the World Appear"
It isn't difficult to remember
how it went.
A wordless world would be a relief
until it expects you to see a horse.
Try to sing and stand where the aspens quiver.
The breeze will always
be almost there. Go back those few steps:
it isn't difficult to remember:
the wind will always shine as if
it loved its armored riders.
Hall, Joe. The Devotional Poems. Sommerville, MA: Black Ocean, 2013.
from "Trailer Park"
In an algorithm of trees exploding in your face, shaved from soap
in a prison cell, in a pair of yellow finches
alighting from high power lines over all these dudes
lying on their beds, palming their cocks, waiting for me
leached from circuits in a baroque array of evolving graphical
representations of a black economy, cancer, subverting process,
O Beast! O Christ!
in the mother fucking sound and the mother fucking light
the iterations of thunder, the bass so high
it hurls you into the grass, Beast!
Hass, Robert, ed. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa. New York, NY: Ecco, 1994.
from Bashō's "Learn from the Pine"
Learn about pines from the pine, and about bamboo from the bamboo.
Don't follow in the footsteps of the old poets, seek what they sought.
The basis of art is change in the universe. What's still has changeless form. Moving things change, and because we cannot put a stop to time, it continues unarrested. To stop a thing would be to halve a sight or sound in our heart.
Wieners, John. Selected Poems: 1958-1984. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
from "Poem for Painters"
No circles
but that two parallels do cross
And carry our soul and bodies
together as the planets,
Showing light on the surface
of our skin, knowing
that so much of it flows through
the veins underneath.
Our cheeks puffed with it.
The pockets full.
Wilkinson, Joshua Marie. Swap Isthmus. Sommerville, MA: Black Ocean, 2013.
from "Upholsterers' Moon"
so then the moon
drifting way too close
gets leaky
going through treeline when
a voice in the radio
accidentally says your name
Xu, Wendy. You Are Not Dead. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2013.
from "We Are Both Sure To Die"
Clutching a tiny molten piece
of someone else's life. I tried sleeping
in a bed made of heavy light. I tried moving
out into the forest where everything
was a deer. Say you will be nothing or
beside me. How best do you correspond
in the darkness of a year? But look the year
rolls over and gives me a new face. Now
you go toward the ocean with a terrible
spirit of discovery. There is getting to know
your body and disowning it. The ocean says you
are not dead. What else did you want
it to announce?
Zukofsky, Louis. "A." Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1978.
from "A-12"
Together men form one sky.
The sky is a man,
You must know this to understand
Why places are different
And things new and old
Why everywhere things are different,
You cannot find out
By looking at skies alone
But from their effects.
One sky is rich in each of us,
When a child is conceived
It gets a sky for a gift.
I would suggest checking out all these books if you already haven't. Each one will melt your face in their own special way.
The second sentence of "Lightning," the first poem in The Next Monsters (Black Ocean, 2013), reads: "I drag you to a little room to show you 116 photos" (3). To some extent, I think, this is a productive way to conceptualize the prose poems that comprise Julie Doxsee's third full-length collection of poetry: as "little rooms" a reader can enter so as to view the strange "photos," images, ideas, and language that reside within them. Like the rooms of a house, each one is a discrete space with its own furnishings; yet, when regarded collectively, they work in conjunction with one another to form a complete residence. Take, for example, the poem "Mountain and Monster":
A hailstorm comes out of the monster's mouth and I spill my coffee with a jolt. We laugh and laugh as if we had come together for the only time and place when and where split coffee is funny. You are the only monster I know who wears a pink sweater I say to it as it pretends to offer me some cashews. We are on top of a jagged mountain, fingertips inches from the clouds. (47)
This example, like many throughout the collection, offers readers a rather fantastical image; in this case, it is that of the speaker and a "monster" spewing a "hailstorm" from his mouth while laughing, eating cashews, spilling coffee, and touching clouds on top of a mountain. To this end, it is a bizarre little room with an odd and somewhat surreal painting hanging on its wall. You enter the room, look at the painting, momentarily lose (or escape) yourself in its strangeness, then move on to the next little room.
Of course, not all of these little rooms are furnished with images. Others are more abstract and fill themselves with ideas. To wit, here is the poem "Lion Touch" in its entirety:
Something important is nothing. To be inside people teaches us inwardness, doesn't it? A certain kind of me falls inside like an assumption. A certain kind of prayer finds a newborn you. Three days of water-only leaves a great pain in your chest without should to cover it.
Something important is wow. Perhaps we are coloring the bravery its takes to make love, to stay anesthetized outside. I think so. I think most people live in our chest without a way to get out. To feel them there is zoo-ish.
I'm glad people stay alive. I'm glad I am naked. (35)
The poem contains, primarily, a series of declarative sentences that focus on subjectivity and the complicated manner in which both internal and external forces work to create it. "To be inside people," or to extend outside of ourselves, paradoxically, "teaches us inwardness." Likewise, the Other lives "in our chest" and we "feel" them in this corporeal petting zoo. Yes, this little room is a far cry from the image-based surrealism of the previous example.
But, as mentioned before, these rooms work in conjunction with one another—not in opposition to one another—in order to create a larger, habitable structure. And in this structure, as Doxsee writes in the appropriately titled "Mansion": "There are 22 rooms here your words inhabit—the twisted serifs I spiral up and corkscrew down and spiral up and corkscrew down every day. Wear my dizzy skin, please" (63). Indeed, as we walk through the mansion that is The Next Monsters, we enter each room so as to "corkscrew" through and around their "twisted" words. In doing so, we become "dizzy" with linguistic vertigo, as the poet designs a strange architecture of poetry.
In some respects, then, the rooms she constructs while building this house function also as a monument to language that is both poetic and utilitarian. In the poem "The Key to Moving Correctly without Running into Obstacles," the speaker says:
I like words because they do anything right up front. I am a black cat with engorged nipples. My two babies are bats with goat legs. A third was born with white eyes—totally white—so it never saw my nipple and starved. For example. (55)
In this room, Doxsee manages to fuse what most critics find to be antithetical: functionality and the autotelic drive toward l'art pour l'art. Accordingly, "words" have the capacity to "do anything right up front"; but, at least in this poem, what they "do" is create a self-contained world wherein goats and bats suckle an "engorged" cat. Yes, the content of the poem maybe devoid of utilitarian value, but we can relate the act of creating that world to building a private study or den in which a home-owner can relax, meditate, or simply escape the anxieties stemming our daily quandaries about food, the rent, and bills.
That, to my mind, then, is the beauty of The Next Monsters: each poem is a constructed space in which we enter, so as to take leave of the world around us, and let words "do anything" to us they (and we) want. In the poet's own words, it is "language that makes an apple an apple," but it is "up to us to say that it is" (77). In other words, when we enter these rooms, we also enter into a symbiotic relationship with language; and such a relationship, when in assisted by a poet like Doxsee, has the ability to produce wonderful little rooms that contain beautiful furnishings such as: "I can't shake the image, I can't shake the full moon. It is the permanent, not the fleeting, that hurts" (41). Yes, the little rooms The Next Monsters offer a permanence that will leave you hurting in all the good ways.
The opening stanzas of Louis Zukofsky's "A-22" read:
Other letters a sum owed
ages account years each year
out of old field, permute
blow blue up against yellow
—scape welcome young birds—initial
transmutes itself, swim near and
read a weed's reward—grain
an omen a good omen
the chill mists greet woods
ice, flowers—their soul's return (508)
Written in counted verse (each stanza contains five lines, each line five words), Zukofsky winds his way through the natural world's fields, birds, weeds, woods, and flowers in an alliterative, idiomatically dense, syntactically circuitous, but formally rigid structure. As line after line and stanza after stanza unfold, each word "carves a breath" (509) into form, shaping the poem into a linguistic landscape via its musical and grammatical elements. Certainly, "A-22" pushes toward the upper limit of Zukofsky's poetics, an "integral" he defines as "Lower limit speech / Upper limit music" (138), in order to engage the natural world in a visceral manner that "speech" by itself cannot achieve.
It's no wonder, then, that Joshua Harmon prefaces his book Scape (Black Ocean, 2009) with a fragment from the opening stanza of "A-22": "—scape welcome young birds—." Just as did Zukofsky, Harmon creates a landscape in a similar fashion, focusing on alliteration, complex syntax, and a lush idiom. Likewise, Harmon composes Scape's first poem "Wither" in counted verse (each stanza contains two lines, each line four words). The first seven stanzas read:
—heelprint and halter, halfway
heard: before mean back
then, to know before
it breaks it lurches
so in the snowfield's
stalk- and stem-broken
edges a rosehip bends,
reddens at its tip:
halfway across, near dusk,
to know snow before
this is nothing to
naming this unread surface
defect of drifting lines:
snow breaks back (3)
Phoneme after phoneme echo each other through alliteration and rhyme for another ten couplets, all within the framework of a single syntactical unit. The experience is not unlike walking through an expansive "snowfield" at "dusk" while "drift lines" dust over one's path to shelter, the journey home made difficult by the unforgiving conditions. Yes, it's easy to wander off and get lost within the landscape of the poem.
And this, I believe, is the joy of Harmon's Scape: we can walk "step by step" through and "toward the form of a field" (7) within the poem, wherein "sound alone" (9) causes us to experience a particular type of "vertigo" (8). Indeed, our senses disorient as we travel through a poetic "landscape" that appears as "an open system, a naïve word's wound, a trick made of…waiting breath" (13), while we journey to "the elided spaces / inside [our] head" (20).
To further highlight this point, I've excerpted the opening and closing lines of the poem "Escape":
Torque of tongue
twiddle: starched
when you run
the wind follows
you, falls blistered
and burnt: hand-
writing allows
such green timber
to ruin knife-knit
openings: (55)
beyond a briarneck, lapse
turns light: turl and sumac-twist
how this stretch bees
rooted redundancies
race to pattern it
These scabbed leaves loosely north,
landslipped: otherwhorled in vacancies
of bough-bladed stripling—
Lonesome intention, riven match:
boon of brazen dismantlings takes
amid later light: underwinged (56)
As with the previous excerpt, the "rooted redundancies" of alliteration build a sonic "pattern" and "torque" the "tongue" so as to cause the mouth to "sumac-twist" within Harmon's landscapes. But, in addition to this sonic strategy, the poet creates linguistic "dismantlings" through creative slippages. To this end, "landscape" becomes "landslipped" (my italics) and "otherworld" becomes "otherwhorled." These playful techniques allow us to whirl in Harmon's whorled otherworld of words.
Yes, just as Zukofsky wrote "A-22" in a manner that "uncompassed" the directions "north south west [and] east" (513) in linguistic dislocation, so too does Harmon immerse us in a "landscape [that] can no longer / hold itself to together" (42), at least to the extent that its musical and syntactical structures unravel our senses and dizzy us into an ever expanding soundscape.
On Friday 10 May, Corey Zeller, Jeff Alessandrelli, and Joe Hall descended upon Akron, OH and read their poems for The Big Big Mess Reading Series. Below are a few videos from the event:
Corey Zeller reads from his recently released full-length Man Vs. Sky (Yes Yes Books, 2013):
Jeff Alessandrelli reads from recently released chapbook People are Places are Places are People (Imaginary Friend Press, 2013):
Joe Hall reads from his recently released full-length Devotional Poems (Black Ocean, 2013):
My futon's favorite people: Matt Bell & Brian Oliu, Amber Sparks, and Tyler Gobble.
Cool Presses that started working with Vouched the past six months: Lazy Fascist, Sarabande Books, Queen's Ferry Press, Curbside Splendor, Spooky Girlfriend, and Black Ocean.
COVER ART: May We Shed These Human Bodies and The Collected Works of Scott McClanahan, Vol. 1
People I'm still confused to have not met IRL yet: Mel Bosworth and Christy Crutchfield
My Husband's Budding Bromances: Ben Kopel, Tyler Gobble, and Kory Calico
Top 5 Stage Presences in no specific order: xTx, Devan Goldstein (when reading and also when he sings the shit out of some Bon Jovi), Amy McDaniel, Zach Schomburg, Peter Davis.
Favorite Dance Party: Lit Party @ AWP- duh!
Thing that makes me feel like !!! every time I read it: Ravi Mangla's Visiting Writers from Uncanny Valley Press
Favorite special thing: Electric lit's recommendations in my inbox. SO RAD. Also Matthew Salesses' Writer in Residence series at Necessary Fiction.
These book tours came and BLEW ME AWAY: Bloof books tour, The Southern Comfort Reading Tour, & the Over the Top tour.
Awful Interviews that still make me laugh big and large: Joshua Ware, Michael Nye, Matt Bell, & Nicholas Tecosky (who still owes me an arm wrestle…)
Fjords Vol. 1
by Zachary Schomburg
Black Ocean Press
72pgs. $14.95
Amber already did a fantastic review of this shortly after AWP, but I can't contain myself. It needs to be reiterated that this is a book worth having and owning . So:
Schomburg constructs his hundred little deaths as word games; as the reader you are his toy, and he will haunt you.

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Adonix Inc. (www.adonix-inc.com), one of Washington DC area's top suppliers of accounting systems, budgeting and forecasting, business intelligence, and customer relationship management solutions, has been selected as one of only four Microsoft Service Providers to participate in a series of four webcasts. Adonix will conduct their webcast, "Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast Series – CHOICES 2004: Microsoft Project Management & Accounting Solutions for Government Contractors," on Tuesday, February 12, 2004 at 2:30.
This free webcast series will educate how Microsoft's integrated Project Management & Accounting (PM&A) solution can provide organizations with the functionality required for government contractors and comply with federal government regulations and DCAA audit requirements.
"Microsoft selected Adonix to participate in our Choices 2004 campaign because of their commitment and expertise with government contractors and professional service organizations. Adonix has consistently demonstrated they have the necessary industry experience and in-depth product knowledge needed to help our clients successfully implement Microsoft's Project Management and Accounting solutions." Stated Kevin Mims, Partner Engagement Manager, Microsoft Corporation.
Adonix, Inc. President and CEO Michael Mahoney added, "We are very excited and honored to have been selected to participate in this seminar series. We will continue to demonstrate the various measurements that validate Microsoft's Project Management and Accounting Solution's value. We feel Microsoft Business Solutions offer the best solutions and resources in the marketplace."
Microsoft PM&A Solutions combine best-of-breed functionality with unparalleled flexibility, allowing project-driven organizations to exceed their objectives. In addition, Microsoft PM&A Solutions provide flexible options built to meet the needs of project-centric and distribution-driven organizations. Its customization and integration tools help organizations adapt best practices, integrate with other systems, serve customers better, and ultimately excel in their industry.
To view this archived webcast, visit: msevents.microsoft.com.
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The movie above shows a random walk on the Karate Club network [Zachary, 1977], a benchmark network used for social network analysis. At each time step, with probability a the random walker chooses one of the out-neighbors of the current node at random and moves to it, and with probability (1-a) it teleports, or jumps, to a random node. Each visit by the walker increases the size of the node. After a long time, the size of nodes will reach a stationary distribution, given by PageRank.
An epidemic represents another type of flow on a network. An epidemic is a dynamic process that, unlike the random walk, simultaneously transitions to all the neighbors of a given node (and successfully infects each node, or survives at that node, with a probability a). The movie above shows an epidemic spreading on the Karate Club graph. Under some conditions, it reaches a stationary state, given by Alpha-Centrality. Alpha-Centrality was introduced by Bonacich [1987] as a generalization of the Katz index of a node. When infection probability is at epidemic threshold, Alpha-Centrality is proportional to Eigenvector centrality. This measure, introduced by Bonacich [2001] is given by the eigenvector corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph [Ghosh and Lerman, 2011]. Incidentally, the epidemic threshold is given by the inverse of the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix [Wang et al., 2003].
Let A be unweighted adjacency matrix, such as A(i,j)=1 if an edge exists between nodes i and j, and 0 otherwise.
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City Sweats Urban Sweat Lodge in Madison Park
Like an oven/straight-jacket combo for the soul.
Walking in, I was expecting it to be a bit more...L.A. My only concept of a modern a sweat lodge (i.e. one not situated in the desert and involving a vision quest) stemmed from reality TV, so I prepped myself to be greeted by a "Lose 10 Pounds in 45 Minutes!" poster and a vial of Botox.
Instead, the new City Sweats in Madison Park has a serene, spa-lit lobby where an ethereal hostess presents you with a shot of cayenne-pepper tonic and your personal jug of water before escorting you to a plush, private sweat room.
All zen aside, the actual process went something like this:
I was wrapped in a million-degree blanket cocoon and watched Orange Is the New Black on their Roku device for 45 minutes while every ounce of water streamed out of my body into a hot, damp puddle.
The sweat system uses infrared heat to warm the surface of the skin, causing you to sweat (a lot) and aid in detoxification, weight loss, relaxation, relief from anxiety, etc.
When it was over, after zoning out in their lounge for 20 minutes with some fresh blueberries and a house-brewed tea, I felt okay. Slightly light-headed and certainly relaxed, but nothing dramatic. I lost exactly zero pounds, by the way.
Mostly I found myself dwelling on this one question that probably should have occurred to me before that moment:
"Is my body actually toxic?"
See, I'm a good, holistic Seattleite: I eat organic as often as possible. I get acupuncture. I take vitamins. I shun parabens. Two days a week I consume nothing but juice that I spend hours preparing the previous day. (Ugh.) But what I've only recently considered is that this idea that my body is toxic and that I need to do everything possible—from cleanses to sweat sessions—to rid myself of these toxins might just be, I don't know, a product of all the blogs I read? (I later Googled "is my body toxic" and found an online quiz, but the results were inconclusive.)
All this is to say, what I actually got out of my appointment was a realization that it's great to sweat and float and juice the poison out if it calls to you, but that it's most important to pay attention to your body and take care of it in a way that feels best for you, not necessarily one that fits in with the latest holistic craze.
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz [Feb 22, 1857 – Jan 1, 1894) was a German scientist who Discovered and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by an apparatus to produce and detect radio waves.
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Do You Need a Financial Planner?
Not everyone needs a financial planner. If you are happy with your investment results, have a financial plan and know that your risks are covered, you really don't need to hire anyone. If anything, you should think about becoming a financial planner because it sounds like you really know what you are doing.
On the other hand, if you are a little uncertain about any of the areas above, you might benefit by working with a professional. But if you go this route, be very mindful of who you work with. Just because someone is a professional financial advisor doesn't mean that she's better than you are when it comes to investing or planning. So how do you make sure you get the right person on your team?
How to Hire a Financial Planner?
The following five steps should help you make sure you are hiring the right financial planner:
1. Soul Searching.
Before you do anything, be crystal clear on the problem you want to solve and your goals. List your questions. Are you mainly focused on retirement planning? Are your investments a mess? Are you paying too much income tax? Are you in debt? Do you need an overall plan? Are you worried about having enough life insurance? Are you concerned about "all of the above"?
List and prioritize all your concerns. Which is the most important? What keeps you up at night? Which is least important? Why?
Spend 20 minutes on this step now. It will save you hours (and possibly thousands of dollars) down the road.
2. Look in the right place.
At this point, it's time for a refresher course on how financial advisors work. Keep in mind that anyone can call herself a financial planner. But different planners work very differently and this is critical. The advice you get largely depends on how your advisor is licensed. Life insurance agents – if they are only licensed to sell insurance – can only sell life insurance. If you talk to such a person, the only "solution" they'll ever offer is for you to buy more insurance.
Stock brokers work on commissions. This is not to say that they are bad people. But when someone works on commissions it's very difficult to know who they are trying to help – you or themselves.
Fee only advisors work for you on an hourly basis or charge a fee based on the assets they manage for you. Fee planners are typically more objective then life agents or commission brokers but hiring one is far from a guarantee of competence, responsibility, or ethics.
Complicating this further is the fact that most advisors wear lots of hats. It's not unheard of for one person to be able to act as a life insurance agent, commission broker and/or an hourly or fee-based advisor. It can easily get super confusing.
The easiest way to cut through all this fog is to ask two simple questions:
A. Do you work in any capacity based on commissions?
B. How much of your annual revenue is based on :
- Life insurance or annuity sales.
- Commissions from sales of financial products.
- Hourly fees or asset based fees.
Assuming your candidate tells the truth; the answer will offer insight into how this person works. If the majority of her income comes from insurance sales, she is going to try to sell life insurance. This is not necessarily bad. But if you need a financial plan and you are talking to someone who bases his business on life insurance, you aren't going to get the kind of plan you want.
As you can probably see, I am a big fan of fee-only or fee-based planners. (Barb's comment: I agree with Neal on this as well) I do want to disclose that I am a fee-based planner and that might be skewing my view. And as I said, just because someone is fee-based or fee-only, it doesn't mean the person is qualified or a good fit for you. We're going to have to go through all the following steps no matter who you speak with.
3. Questions
You can tell a great deal about your planner by the questions he or she asks. And on your first appointment the advisor should ask you lots of questions. Be alert. Are they interested in getting to know you or are they spending time trying to convince you how great they are?
Any planner worth his or her weight should try to really get inside your head. What is important about money to you? What do you like about your current situation? What needs to change? They should be interested in all these topics besides getting to know you financially.
Anyone who does not really try to understand you is someone you should probably remove from your list. Your relationship with your planner is very intimate. You want to be sure you are talking to someone who understands you and who cares about you.
Having said that, there are a few questions you need to ask as well. I mentioned that you should find out how the person you are speaking with makes most of her money and find out what licenses she has. But don't stop there. Get the candidate to tell you who regulates their work. Then, ask for the contact information for those agencies.
For life insurance agents, that would be the State Insurance Commission (possibly under a different name) in your state. For brokers it's FINRA and for fee-based advisors it's either the State Department of Corporations or the SEC. Contact these agencies to see if there have been any complaints leveled against this advisor. Finally, ask for professional references like CPAs and attorneys. Then ask to speak with 2 or 3 clients who are more or less in your situation.
4. Verify
Even though your advisor will direct you to professionals and clients who offer positive feedback, talk to them. Ask how long they've known the person. Ask what they like about the relationship they have. Ask how they think the advisor could improve. Then ask if they have referred others to the advisors and about their personal experiences with the advisor.
5. Gut Check
At the end of the day, you have to like, trust and respect the people you work with. If your gut tells you something is wrong, it probably is. Never enter into a professional relationship with an advisor who doesn't treat you respectfully and with humility.
When you hire a financial planner, first be sure you know what you want and expect. Look for an advisor who can provide those services. Evaluate the questions they ask you and how comfortable you feel with this advisor. Then check with the regulatory agencies, along with professional and client referrals.
Finding the right financial planner (if you need one) can make all the difference between having financial peace of mind or not. Take the extra time to vet your advisor. You will not regret it.
What other ways do you suggest people vet their financial planner? What has been your experience?
This post was written by Neal Frankle. He is Certified Financial Planner in Los Angeles and blogger at www.WealthPilgrim.com. One of his most recent detailed posts was CIT Bank Review.
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Today I'm partnering with Clinique to share an empowering personal life lesson that I learned over the past few years. I can say with 100% confidence that I am a much wiser now than when I was in college. One might ask, "well, what does 'much wiser' mean?" Well when I evaluate my achievements and goals that I have set for myself, I look at my overall lifestyle. And it's a bit funny to say, but I go down this mental checklist of whether or not I am satisfied with my: health, job, family, partner, friends, hobbies, and so on. If there is anything in that list that is not satisfactory, I try and figure out why that happened and how I can change that. This might sound odd or very calculated, but I have found it to be very insightful because you are not just focusing on one aspect of your life, but it as a whole.
When I recently, ran through that checklist in my mind, I found that I was lacking in the health aspect and I immediately set goals for myself to change and make improvements. I started to run 3-4 times a week, signed up for the Nike Women's Half Marathon in October, and started to eat more healthy. Looking back, when I was young, and if I was unhappy with my health, I would of just unhappily dwelled on it instead of actually doing something. And this personal lesson that I learned over time is that you have control over almost everything in your life. I used to think that I got lucky when I got this or unlucky when that happened, but everything is 20/20 in hindsight. Therefore if I could give my future self advice, it would be to never forget that you are in control. You can live the life you want and should do what you are passionate about. You can #FaceForward.
Thank you so much for reading and if you could give your future self any advice, what would it be?
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Cindy Schoumacher is an agronomist (French "Ingénieur agronome") specialized in the policies and markets of agriculture and of natural resources, and holds another master in environmental economics and policies. She studied in France (Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, and AgroParisTech) and did several internships abroad. She especially worked at FAO on the greenhouse gas mitigation options in livestock, and at UNEP on the recognition and mainstreaming of biodiversity and ecosystem services within the pan-European policies. Then, she was selected for a traineeship at the European Commission, within DG Environment, unit F1 "Resource efficiency and economic analysis", where she worked on many projects such as the composite index (environmental indicators), the raw and domestic material consumption, the Natural Capital Financing Facility, the Green Week 2014. She is working at Iodine since March 2014 on European projects mainly: IMPRESSIONS and OPERAs.
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The E in e-Health
Though eHealth in Fairmount City has a rather unclear interpretation, the idea is based upon utilizing technology to boost the quality of health care, as well as the advances have enabled both individuals and medical professionals to get to a range of resources make medical care much more efficient and cost effective. E-Health equips clients to take an active function in their treatment, enabling them to get a much deeper understanding of their problems and just how to effectively manage them.
The 10 e's of eHealth
Initially glance, one might think the "e" in eHealth in Fairmount City simply represents the word "digital." Though "electronic" is absolutely one facet, the full interpretation really encompasses a selection of various other "e's," representing real meaning of this concept :
- Performance
- Enhancing Top quality
- Proof Based
- Empowerment
- Encouragement
- Education and learning
- Allowing
- Expanding
- Principles
- Equity
Influence On Patient-Physician Communications
E-technology has the power to significantly reinforce patient-physician relationships. While added research study is needed to figure out specific outcomes, preliminary studies as well as studies have reported positive outcomes. Supplying clients with the tools to handle their own care allows them to enjoy a sense of raised confidence in their medical professionals as well as be more comfortable handling their conditions.
When clients in Fairmount City have e-health resources available at their fingertips, they're better geared up to ask their doctors extra sharp concerns to comprehend their conditions and also far better manage their wellness. People are most likely to total treatment strategies suggested by doctors when they can research results to find out the advantages of prescriptions, workouts and also other health activities made to improve their conditions. Sharing the burden of their very own treatment increases patient satisfaction, as people have the ability to gain a deeper understanding of specifically what their medical professional is doing to help them.
eHealth as well as Health Informatics
Health informatics in Fairmount City concentrates on creating devices to enhance medical care, while eHealth is designed to make it easier to share this beneficial details. The two can work in conjunction to provide patients with high-quality treatment, in a much more reliable manner.
For example, scientists in Fairmount City are working to create a procedure to immediately confirm EHR files to identify whether they comply with required criteria. In the future, this will help to simplify the general validation procedure. Scientists are additionally functioning to establish how simulation can be utilized to reinforce prediction versions for contagious illness.
Fairmount City Occupations in eHealth and also Wellness Informatics rising
The future of the healthcare market is undergoing a large restructuring as a result of eHealth as well as health informatics. Professionals looking for operate in these areas appreciate a lot of task prospects. Significant initiatives such as the Affordable Treatment Act and also the application of ICD-10 produced a need for workers competent in health infotech. Many health care companies have actually been forced to delay the start of particular systems, due to an absence of talent to execute the adjustments.
The UNITED STATE Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that work of wellness info specialists in Fairmount City will certainly enhance by 22% via 2022. Actually, experts anticipate this work trend will certainly continue even longer.
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e-Health Urgent Care Center Benefits That Make Telemedicine Worth It
If you think you need to go to a local medical clinic, there are a few things you should find out first. Learning some details before you even schedule an appointment can help the visit go smoothly. It can also keep you from wasting your time at an office that cannot help you.
The first thing you should do is find out when you can schedule an appointment. Some offices are more flexible than others when it comes to the schedule, so make sure it is convenient for you. For example, some clinics offer weekend appointments so you do not have to take time off work or school to see a doctor. They might also offer evening visits so you can go after work. Of course, if you can easily take a half-day at work, a more traditional schedule might be fine for you. The same goes if you work nontraditional hours, such as nights and weekends, since an office with weekday hours might be best.
You should also find out if your insurance plan is accepted. Be sure to ask just prior to making the appointment since clinics occasionally change which plans they accept. If you do not have insurance, find out the prices for patients paying cash. This gives you a chance to budget and even compare prices of local clinics so you can afford treatment. If you do not have a lot of cash right now, find out if you can get a payment plan in order to pay it off gradually.
Of course, you also need to make sure you choose a medical clinic that offers the services you need. If you just need to get an issue checked out, and get a referral to a specialist if necessary, a general practitioner may work well. But if you already know the type of specialist to go to, you should choose an office with this type of practitioner. For example, if you have problems with your feet, skin, or heart, each of these has a doctor that specializes in this subject. If you want expert advice that your general doctor cannot offer, you might want to see a specialist. Be sure the medical clinic you choose offer this kind of doctor.
You can find out this information from websites or even phone calls. If your local office features a free first consultation for new patients, you might consider attending one to find out the basic facts. This way, you are prepared for your first actual appointment.
A Great Medical Clinic's Design
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Medical clinic software programs help streamline many administrative tasks that medical offices perform. They offer computerized processes to provide timely and effective care to patients. Many programs offer modules on every aspect of clinic and patient management. From the administrative functions of automated medical records management, patients' billing and collections to automated appointment scheduling and reminders, there are many software solutions to ease the burden of clinic doctors and their staff.
In effect, from the tedious tasks of doing all of the completed record keeping and scheduling manually, the electronic technology has considerably lighten the load. Work flow is streamlined and simplified with the use of an effective IT program. Information storage is more secure and safe in a network data base. As your practice grows, you can upgrade and add more modules to your system.
There are many different types of Medical Clinic Software (MCS) to help private clinic physicians and clinic administrators and managers manage their office well. Today is a fast paced workflow environment day after day in small and big clinics. Taking care of both the business side and the patient care aspect can be quite challenging and stressful to a businessman-doctor running a multi-site facility.
One MCS program you can seriously look into is the Encore Medical and Dental Clinic Software System. It is a comprehensive tool for single or multiple users using an advanced Windows-based system for effective medical and clinic management. The key features cover work flow management, patient medical record, inventory control and report manager modules.
Encore's Work Flow Management covers electronic monitoring of patient registration to waiting, consultation, dispensary up to billing and payment. ICD-9CM codes and look up engine are used. Management of patient medical record includes automated recording of patient profile including health history and allergy, fast patient search, visit history and patient registration and mailing labels.
It's Medical Billing and Payment Management includes private patient billing, corporate billing and co-payment features. Payment in different mode-cash, cheque, visa, master, etc., payment in single or multiple payment mode, cash billing, invoice generation for credit billing, discount, goods and service tax, etc.
With its inventory control, you will have computerized master list item with preferred supplier linkage, item barcode label printing, inventory with expiry date and safety stock level checks, stock and quantity adjustment, supplier product catalog download or internet real-time viewing, purchase orders by internet or fax and autogeneration of purchase orders of low stocked items and goods acknowledgment receipt notes.
Its report management feature covers more than 30 daily, weekly, yearly and year to date reports, daily sales and collection reports, breakdown by service, payment mode, doctor, private and corporate patients, professional and medication charges, issued items and prescribed drugs as well as inventory status of expired and about to expire inventory.
For an IT solution for managing a medical clinic with multiple users, you can research on the Patient Manager Advanced application. You can install this software on multiple desktops which are networked to a shared database installed on a main server. There are medical clinic software systems you can integrate with advanced practice management software and electronic medical records modules.
Another MCS program is the Clinical Management Software. This software will eliminate the use of paper based patient index profile. It can automate records management of outdoor patients with added features to monitor the clinic's financial side. For effective software with in patient management modules, you can try the demo version of the SoftClinic system.
Another software worth evaluating is the Med-Center. It is designed for a multi-user cross-platform. The system offers medical practice billing and medical records modules for small to medium size offices and clinics. It integrates electronic claim submittal which is HIPAA compliant and double entry accounting module for tracking ledger postings to the chart of accounts.
According to many satisfied users, medical clinic software programs have significantly increased their staff efficiency. Documentation misfiling, manual copying errors and other oversights are eliminated or reduced drastically by the automated streamline processing. If you plan to purchase one, make sure that your computer hardware system meets all of the software's operating requirements to enhance its performance. In your selection process, you should know the important key features to look for in your choice software to meet your short and medium term needs.


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The next important factor to be considered while trying to achieve a perfect exposure in digital photography is shutter speed. Like I mentioned earlier, the other two are Aperture and ISO. Firstly, we'll give a brief introduction to what the shutter is in a DSLR camera, what it comprises of, how it works before we finally go into discussing shutter speed and features associated with it.
What is a shutter in a DSLR camera?
In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a pre-determined period, exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light in order to capture a permanent image of a scene. The shutter is constructed such that it automatically closes after a certain required time interval. Operation of the shutter is triggered by a button called the shutter button or shutter-release button.
What is a shutter button?
In photography, the shutter button or shutter-release button is a button located mostly on the right-hand side of the DSLR camera body. When the button is pushed, the shutter opens for a pre-defined length of time; allowing light into the image sensor. During this process, an image is captured and the shutter closes afterward.
How does the shutter work in a DSLR camera?
Looking at a typical DSLR camera, the shutter comprises of 3 primary mechanisms; namely the mirror box, the bottom door and the top door. When the shutter button is pressed, the reflex mirror is tilted backward allowing light further into the camera. When the mirror flips upwards/tilts backward, a small door slides open from top to bottom, exposing the image sensor beneath. After that, another door slides down, covering the entire sensor. This process usually varies in time depending on the length of your exposure (shutter speed). After the second door closes, your reflex mirror falls back into place. The doors would then assume their default positions and technically, this process is known as Actuation. A typical DSLR camera can withstand close to 100,000 actuations in its lifetime.
What is shutter speed?
In Photography, shutter speed or exposure time is defined as the length of time the shutter remains open allowing light to get to the image sensor; also allowing the camera to take a photograph.
Features associated with shutter speed.
- Shutter speed controls exposure – It is used to control the brightness of an image. The longer the shutter speed, the brighter the image. This is possible because the shutter is open for a considerable length of time to allow the image sensor to gather more light.
- Shutter speed is measured in seconds – This could be full seconds (i.e 1 second, 5 seconds, 10 seconds etc) or fractions of a second (i.e 1/500, 1/250, 1/125, 1/60, 1/30, 1/15, 1/8 etc). The larger the denominator, the faster the shutter speed; the lower the denominator the slower the shutter speed. for example; 1/500 is faster than 1/30.
- Shutter speed is used to freeze movement in an image – By using a very fast shutter speed, motion is frozen. For example, using the featured image above, the image taken at 1/1000 sec freezes motion.
- Shutter speed is used to capture motion in an image – By using a very slow shutter speed, motion is captured. For example, using the featured image above, the image taken at 1/80 sec captures motion.
- Shutter speed and focal length – As a rule of thumb, always use shutter speeds with a denominator greater than the focal length. This helps to prevent camera shake especially in situations where image stabilization is absent
So while making things as simple as possible, we've been able to analyze the shutter speed as regards to digital photography and how it plays a significant role to achieve a perfect exposure while capturing an image. We have looked at Aperture, Shutter speed, next would be ISO.
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Apple's iPhone 7 Goes RED – The Special Edition Red Iphone
Apple launched the iPhone 7 last year with 5 colors available. Now they just launched a new color, the new iPhone 7 in RED. This is in partnership with RED which supports HIV/AIDS programs.
"For 10 years, our partnership with (RED) has supported HIV/AIDS programs that provide counseling, testing, and medicine that prevents the transmission of HIV from a mother to her unborn child. So far, we've raised over $130 million through the sale of our (RED) products. Now we're introducing iPhone 7 (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition. Every purchase brings us a step closer to an AIDS-free generation."
The specs of the RED Iphone 7 are listed below:
4.7-inch Retina HD display @ 1334×750 pixels, 326ppi
Force Touch
Apple A10 Fusion chip
128GB, 256GB internal storage
4G, LTE-A up to 450Mbps
Single-Sim (Nano)
WiFi 802.11ac with MIMO
Bluetooth 4.2
GPS with aGPS, GLONASS
NFC (Apple Pay)
12MP f/1.8 rear camera with OIS, six-element lens, flicker sensor, quad-LED TrueTone Flash
7MP Facetime Camera
Stereo Speakers
Fingerprint sensor
IP67 Water and Dust Resistance
Apple iOS 10
1,960mAh Li-Ion battery
138.3 x 67.1 x 7.1 mm (dimensions)
138 grams (weight)
The RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are available in 128 and 256GB models. The RED iPhone 7 launched in the United States last Mar 24, 2017. The USD prices are $749 and $869 respectively. This is already available for purchase at the Philippine Apple Store online starting at Php 43,990 for the iPhone 7 RED and Php 50,990 for the iPhone 7 Plus RED.
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3 Dogs Boarding & Daycare has provided boarding and grooming to Portland's pets since November 2008. Rather than being kept in cages or crates, animals at the facility sleep on couches and futons. Additionally, in the wide outdoor area, with pools, sandboxes, play structures, canine vacationers can exercise their bodies and their minds.
Although chiefly an animal care practice, Cedar Mill Veterinary Hospital also provides boarding services to canines who need a place to spend the night. The clinic, which was founded in 1992, has been certified as a Cat Friendly Practice by the American Association of Feline Practitioners and accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association. It is an ideal choice for pets with complex medical and/or dietary needs.
Central Bark is a Portland dog boarding facility that has given lodging to the area's dogs since 2003. In addition to providing boarding, pet care professionals can groom dogs and lead them on nature hikes. There are two Central Bark locations, one in Raleigh Hills and the other in Burlingame. Because Burlingame separates dogs according to size and energy level, it may be a better choice for small and/or fragile dogs.
At Cooper Mountain Kennel, in Beaverton, Portland Metro area cats and dogs can receive boarding and grooming services. The facility, which opened in 1994, includes 68 kennels for dogs, each of which has an indoor section and an outdoor section. Furthermore, 16 living spaces are available for cats. According to pet owners who have taken advantage of Cooper Mountain Kennel's offerings in the past, the staff excels at making pets happy and keeping them active.
Laurel Acres Kennels, which opened in 1986, is a Portland Metro provider of dog boarding services. The kennel has air conditioning and in-floor heating, with 72 dog runs and 24 kitty condos available. Many staff members, although not all, are Certified Pet Care Technicians who have received Pet First Aid Training. Online scheduling is available.
Minoggie Kennels is a dog training and boarding facility on a 150-acre farm on Sauvie Island. Just 20 minutes from downtown, the pet care center specializes in training dogs for hunting events. Among the facility's staff is Doug Shade, who has trained 13 recipients of the American Kennel Club's National Hunter title.
Murrayhill Veterinary Hospital is a Beaverton animal hospital that, in addition to pet healthcare, offers pet boarding to Portland Metro area families. A winner of the Super Service Award from Angie's List, the facility has dedicated spaces for dogs and cats.
Beaverton, OR 97007
Nature's Acres Kennels is a canine daycare and boarding center, offering training, grooming, and other forms of pet care to its canine clientele. The business's owner and supervisor, Sharon House, has extensive experience training dogs. She and all of her fellow staff members have trained with Pet Tech to become CPR, First Aid & Care Certified.
Play & Chase Dog Care is a kennel in Portland, serving pets from all parts of the city and its suburbs. The facility provides dogs with Kuranda beds, Puppy Playground toys, and rubber balls, as well as a team of experienced pet trainers and sitters who are happy to play with the furry tenants. Recently, Play & Chase Dog Care began offering its services to cats as well.
Rock Creek Kennels, Inc., founded in Hillsboro more than three decades ago, offers dog and cat boarding to families from Portland and other nearby cities. The business's approach to kenneling involves strictly limiting the numbers of pets who are in the facility at any one time. The Rock Creek Kennels, Inc., staff is fully certified, and the company is an accredited member of the International Boarding and Pet Services Association and the Independent Pet & Animal Transportation Association International.
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Safe Journey Dog Boarding opened in 2006 and was subsequently purchased by Craig Capley in 2010. The Portland-based dog boarding facility is climate-controlled and does not keep animals in cages, crates, or pens. The staff specializes in helping dogs whose owners work graveyard shifts. Furthermore, they can provide individualized care to elderly or sickly dogs.
Sauvie Island Kennels is a Portland pet hotel that has boarded local dogs and cats for nearly 50 years. In addition to dog breeding, training, and behavioral counseling, Sauvie Island Kennels offers to board dogs and cats of all sizes and breeds. Interested pet owners should review the facility's website for advice about preparing their canine for a stay at Sauvie Island Kennels.
Kim Hormby, a former veterinary assistant and pet sitter, founded the Portland pet hotel Stay in 2006. Stay provides lodging, grooming, and exercise to canines from families in Portland and the surrounding areas. Each dog living at Stay has her private suite, with fifty square feet of space. Pricing is all-inclusive, with no added charges for exercise or for addressing dogs' special dietary and medical needs.
Since 1967, the Charlton Kennels and Farm has served the greater Portland community as a provider of dog boarding services. Based on the 160-acre Charlton Farm, which was established in 1845, Charlton Kennels gives each of its canine guests an enormous dog run. At the Charlton Kennels and Farm, to minimize the animals' anxiety, dogs are kept apart from each other.
The Dog House, a Portland kennel providing pet care services exclusively to dogs, offers overnight boarding, doggy day care, and washing service options. Portland Metro families bringing their canine to the facility should bring any necessary medications and food, and be prepared to inform staff members about any special dietary, behavioral, or medical needs.
The Parkway Veterinary Hospital, a pet care clinic based in Lake Oswego, has boarded dogs from Portland and other nearby cities since it was founded in 1986. A member of the Animal Care Group of Lake Oswego, the facility has dedicated living areas for dogs, cats, rabbits, and exotic animals. To minimize boredom and anxiety, veterinary personnel ensure that dogs receive exercise and attention.
UniversityK9 Dog Training, located in Milwaukie, is a climate-controlled dog hotel with natural light, video surveillance, and human supervision. In the large indoor space, dogs have plenty of room to exercise, and they are free to socialize with their canine roommates. The outdoor space has covered video surveillance, and large training areas, some of which are covered with canopies to protect dogs from rain and the sun. UniversityK9 Dog Training's marquee service is its three-week doggy boarding school, during which pets learn how to follow basic commands, and unlearn any problematic behaviors.
Milwaukie, OR 97222
Virginia Woof, in Portland, helps families from the city and the surrounding area who need a place where their canine companions can stay. The facility includes large indoor play areas, large kennels where dogs can comfortably eat and sleep, rubber floors designed to be easy on dogs' joints, and a variety of balls, kongs, and tug toys. Large dogs and small dogs are kept in separate play areas. The staff includes a certified dog trainer and a veterinary technician, as well as multiple pet care professionals who have received certification in pet CPR and first aid.
Wag Along Pet Care, a Portland dog boarding company, focuses on giving its visitors a luxurious experience. Calm classical music is playing 24/7, and doggy guests share a spacious living room with couches where they can stretch out and sleep. Mary Ellen, who owns and runs Wag Along Pet Care, is licensed, bonded, and insured.
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Jingle bells will be ringing in downtown Stafford on Sunday, Dec. 14, as the Stafford Community and Civic Affairs Commission welcomes merry-makers of all ages to the town's fifth annual Winterfest Celebration.
The festivities will commence with a parade that will step off at 2 p.m. at Olympic Park and end at Town Hall. The parade will be led by the Stafford High School band and will include various groups and organizations, floats, costumed characters, and, of course, Santa Claus. Following the parade, all are welcome to join the carol sing outside Town Hall, then head upstairs to enjoy some goodies, craft activities for children, and an opportunity for children to whisper their gift wishes into Santa's ear.
Commission member April Waugh said this is the third year she has headed up the children's "make and take" craft tables for Winterfest. "Last year we set up two tables with age-appropriate projects for all the kids who participate," she said. "We made ornaments like candy canes with google eyes and popsicle ornaments with tons and tons of stickers, and glitter, and glue. This year I picked up a bunch of red- and green-colored material at the local thrift shop so kids can decorate their own Styrofoam ball ornaments. It's always so much fun. We're the last table to leave each year because we always have such a good time," Waugh said.
"An addition to the parade this year is the Connecticut Jeepers Group," said commission member Barbara Bresnahan. "We're hoping for a large turnout of decorated jeeps." New also this year will be several crafters who will set up at Town Hall, providing a convenient Christmas shopping opportunity. "In lieu of a vendor fee, each crafter is donating one item for a raffle, which will take place close to 4 p.m.," Bresnahan said.
Prior to the parade, the First United Methodist Church, located at 8 Church St. at the top of Main Street, will be holding its annual Live Nativity, an activity that has been presented for more than 10 years. The church will also be participating in the parade with its own float complete with angels and wise men.
"We strive to present our Live Nativity in concert with the Winterfest Celebration to make it an integral part of our community celebration," said organist and choir director Jill Gregori. "The Live Nativity includes scripture reading of the birth of Christ enacted by the children and adults of our church. We sing Christmas hymns during the Live Nativity and are sometimes, including this year, joined by the Stafford High School Madrigal Singers. All are invited into the church following the Live Nativity to warm up and prepare for the parade," Gregori said.
Following the Live Nativity, the Stafford High School band, color guard and Madrigals will march in the Winterfest Parade, said the school's music director, Laurie Dillon. "Then the Madrigals and Concert Choir will lead the town carol sing in the parking lot and we will sing out of a carol book that we provide the audience," she said. Dillon said they leave it to the audience to choose the carols, but they often do a few of their own picks so that the Show Choir can dance to old favorites like "Deck the Halls," "Joy to the World" and "Good King Wenceslas." Following the carol sing, the Madrigals and Ladies Chorale head on to the West Stafford Congregational Church for a concert, which is open to the public.
"It is truly a group effort on the part of the 100 music students who are in one or more of the groups," Dillon said. "It is a busy afternoon for us, but rewarding to come in touch with wonderful people who care enough to organize these kinds of events for the town. The organizers set an example for my students to get involved in their community and support their creative efforts," she said.


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I heard of the Cinque Terre (pronounced CHINKWEH-TEH-RAY) while planning my very first trip to Italy with my girl friend from college. We saw some pictures online and immediately fell in love with the colored coastal towns.
The word "Cinque Terre" which means "Five Lands" in Italian, constitute the villages of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso el Mare. These villages are located in the Northern part of Italy's Liguria region!!
How to Reach the Cinque Terre
How to Reach the Cinque Terre From Florence:
I traveled to the Cinque Terre from Florence and it was a very easy. To reach the Cinque Terre, simply buy your tickets online from Trenitalia or from the ticket counter at the train station from "Firenze Santa Maria Novella Station" to "La Spezia Centrale". Don't forget to place them inside the black line (in the picture below) to get it stamped/validated.
Once you have your ticket, board the train to La Spezia Centrale. It should take around 2.5 hours to reach La Spezia Centrale depending on the train you take. I suggest you to take the direct Regionale train.
Once you reach La Spezia Centrale, take a smaller local train to the Cinque Terre village you are staying in. For instance, if your accommodation is booked in Monterosso al mare, take a ticket from La Spezia Centrale to Monterosso al mare. It is the last station of the Cinque Terre villages and usually takes about 15 minutes to reach from La Spezia Centrale.
Similarly, if you are staying in Riomaggiore or want to stop there, it happens to be the first stop and takes about 8-10 minutes from La Spezia Centrale. All train timetables are available on the website of www.trenitalia.com and at the La Spezia Centrale station. There are trains every few minutes to take you to the Cinque Terre from La Spezia.
How to Reach the Cinque Terre From Rome:
Use the same method to book a train ticket (as explained above) but this time book a train from Roma Termini/Roma Tutte le Stazioni to La Spezia Centrale. The fastest train takes only 3.5 to 4 hours from Rome and I highly recommend booking the Frecciabianca especially if you want to save time because it is not only direct but super fast!
How to Reach the Cinque Terre From Venice:
Applying the same methods to book tickets as mentioned above, take a train from Venezia Santa Lucia/Venezia Tutte le Stazioni to La Spezia Centrale. There is usually a change of trains at Bologna or Florence (Firenze). The journey is long and will easily take about 5-6 hours.
There are other options to reach the Cinque Terre such as hiring a private car or booking a tour. Personally, I would recommend a train journey to everyone as it is not only breathtaking but also comfortable and easy!
Here are some pictures of the Cinque Terre!
Stay in less touristy towns such as Sesti Levante, La Spezia or Biassa.
Have you been to the Cinque Terre??