Contemporary Persian Dance Choreography: Mojdeh Shahriari Company: Atash Dance Group Vancouver, BC Canada North Vancouver Folk Festival – 2005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJxAK35Sqqs&hl=en

Luke 12:22-26
Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifeb? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

Parable after parable, Jesus was teaching his significant following what God’s will for man was and is. Wealth was an area he spoke often about and it might seem depressing to most of us. Most of us devote our lives to providing well for us and our families and some of us are successful at it. To many, the safety in having wealth stored is more than the security of knowing we serve a loving savior. Wealth is measured in terms of money, possessions, jewelry, land, cattle and many other ways. Is the Lord saying that the pursuit of money is wrong then? Can we not build safety nets for ourselves here on earth to safeguard us and our families against difficult times like economic recessions?

In the verses prior to our passage today, we are reminded that if we put our trust in any wealth that is not scriptural, we may never be able to enjoy the fruits of it. Death may rob us of the chance of enjoying it’s protection and provision and our loved ones also may not get it. However, when we focus our lives on serving the Lord, we build for ourselves wealth in eternity and that is never perishing just as we are not when we are saved by God’s grace. Today the Lord reminds us that we are not to worry about our lives, our food, our physical health or clothes because he will provide and has been providing better than he does to even the birds of the air. We are considered God’s own children when we take his yoke upon our shoulders and we can rest in knowing that he has our best in mind. Now the pursuit of wealth is a joy because it is spiritual and all other wealth we acquire is from him and for his glory. Lets refocus our lives to serving him faithfully and building our treasures in heaven.

In His Loving Service,
Vineet

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Billing performance measurement is an integral part of medical practice billing and a prerequisite for effective management practices. Systematic measurement is mission-critical billing, an increase of complexity or outsource the billing function. Traditional billing metrics are limited in scope and focus on the process of submitting the application, without having to process imperfections on the insurance (payer) side. Modern information technologies make it possible to measure both productive and efficientMeasurements of the registered billing regulated to improve the presentation application and payment processes.

With the help of appropriate metrics can be reduced to improve policies and procedures to increase profits, reduce product complaints patients, 'improved financial performance and compliance, cash flow, reduce bad debt, identify areas of potential growth, improve the morale of employees to increase productivity and reduce costs. Useful metrics must be complete and easily. You must either complete end-to-end combinationProcesses and their individual components. Metrics must be used consistently over time and comparing standards. Clearly, different rules apply to different medical specialties, demographics, costs, and samples of CPT codes.

Medical billing metrics typically include compliance, cash balances, fees for auditing the accounts receivables management and collection of metrics to help the cash flow. This article focuses on performance metrics. For a discussion of compliance program, seeCompanion articles on the compliance of medical billing.

Data Collection

Traditional metrics are gross and net collection ratios. Both indicators are subjective to the individual practice, because often (randomly) by the (allowed) analyzed the payments. (Rate in net sales is defined as the ratio of total collections and expenditures totaling less adjustments. Amount of gross inflows in relation to the total collections of total expenditure in itself.) According to Medical Group ManagementAssociation (MGMA) 1998 cost survey, adjusted fee-for-service collections (net inflows) for the practice of family in 1997, an average of 98.65 percent. A report declining net inflows can be found on the symptoms of increased contractual write-off or an insufficient number of rejection. This report is particularly useful in the absence of modern computer technology, when compared with the amount of each payment is not possible, or if the appeal is the refusal to expensive. Otherwise, the use ofExpenditure for determining gross and net metrics collection, which included the discovery of the possibilities for improving production processes.

Days in accounts receivable (DAR)

An increasing number of days in receivables are symptomatic of a billing error. One way to find out is to include the DAR days from the date of notification until the date of payment for each claim and then average for all claims. A simple way for the average number of days in the records of calculationCalls from a ratio of debt to the calculated average daily wage or

Number of days in receivables = (Receivables / average rate) x 365

This parameter depends too much medical specialties, demographics, customer mix and the test CPT. Another disadvantage is that this metric is sensitive to the provider because the delay counts of failure for the data already delivered. This time was about average for all taxpayersDAR make a comparison between effective metric meters for each vendor review, but different suppliers.

An obvious advantage of DAR metric is its independence of the charges. The characteristic of this media metric eliminates sensitivity to specific day blinds or CPT, but also shape the behavior of the curve of credit.

First step for a fee (fee FPP) and Denial Rate

FPP is the percentage of claims in its entirety for the first time to payTemplate (from federal or state regulations punctual payment: 15 days for electronic submission and 30 days – for the paper.)

Refusal rate is to assess the additional parameter for FPP. Does the percentage of applications that require follow-up and therefore more expensive to process. Follow-up may take the form of a phone call to the payer to take credit for discovering a lost and given the interpretation of the rejection message, the correction of the data presented above, the submission of the initial request for consultations withSuppliers and notes, or medical waste.

Both FPP and Denial rates are very important indicators, often used to improve the processes of invoicing. The advantage of FPP / Denial metrics is that they charge is invariant, but the downside is that it hides the differences between the imperfections of the process by which applications and pages application for payment. To determine the patterns of problem CPT codes, or cost, FPP / Denial metric needs to be calculated, and for all pairs of payer CPT code, which is comparedStandard features for modern technology for billing.

Responsibility of the patient

Percent of patients, the responsibility of the percentage of patients the responsibility to put a total fee to be paid, and is more or less equivalent to deductions. This measure is in the front of the office so far, as it is not cheap, with the presentation clean credit or effective follow-up important.

Percent of loans above 60, 90 and 120 days (PARB60, PARB90 and PARB120)

PARBX solves theDAR sensitive issue of metrics and provides a simple and convenient invariant metrics billing process. The graphical representation is a distorted form bell. The slope is the quality of billing: a steep curve and the thin tail means healthy billing process, while a bell flat and fat tail means billing problems.

According to the MGMA survey, 25.35 percent of the accounts, the average family size of the practice requires more than 120 days were old in 1997. This figure improved to 17.7%2004.

In summary, is to determine a complete metric and free-invariant, as PARBX are informative and objective as a set of circumstances. However, these figures are lower only to identify specific areas for improvement of accounting processes. Modern technology helps to identify bottlenecks billing, as it allows for interactive review of metrics aggregated in different sizes. For example, PARBX metric is particularly useful for understanding claims to identify patterns of problem,specific payer or CPT code. Furthermore, modern technologies such as comparison Vericle individual payments for the authorized amount and the subsequent use of any denial, reducing the average percentage of exposure to low single digits to do.

I should not be buying any more books. Especially after the booksale last weekend (more on that soon) and with Christmas coming up. But I had two 40% off Borders coupons so I managed to get The Grand Sophy and The Foundling for about eight dollars each. After The Talisman Ring I want to make sure I’ve got more Georgette Heyer handy.

Pride and Prescience: Or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris is a bookmooch, and one I was excited to find in hardcover. I already have the third book in the series and much prefer when things match. This is one of my contenders for the Everything Austen Challenge.

I’ve got two more pending mooches, a Mary Roberts Rinehart and the last Susan Sand book, but the giver seems to have suddenly gone on vacation and emptied the rest of his inventory. Oh, well.

I discovered Snoop by Sam Gosling in a note by @piscivorous on Facebook. Its subtitle is What Your Stuff Says About You. I was interested in this book not only for what it could tell me about how to portray fictional characters but also for what it could tell me about me.

Chapter One begins with the story of John Steinbeck taking a shower in a hotel room before it had been cleaned. He named the former inhabitant Lonesome Harry:

“I could feel that recently departed guest in the bits and pieces of himself he had left behind.” from Travels With Charley

What was left: some laundry receipts, an unfinished letter in the trash, an empty bourbon bottle…

In a chapter entitled, “When Good Judgments Go Bad,” Gosling writes about extreme hoarding, which is defined as “the repetitive collection of excessive quantities of poorly useable items of little or no value with failure to discard these items over time.” I’ve written a story about this entitled, “Little Things,” which is almost finished.

Apparently the difference between pathological hoarding and ordinary collecting is that collectors enjoy their collections. Hoarders are disturbed by their booty. There’s an easy lesson there.

My favorite lines of all are about identity:

Identity is “the thread that ties the experiences of our past, present, and future into one narrative.”

“It is a story you tell about yourself to make sense out of what has happened in the past and kind of person you are now.”

I love this question that Gosling asks in the first chapter: “…what are the mechanisms by which personality reaches out and connects to the physical world?” His answer:

“identity claims“: (posters, awards, photos, bumper stickers). To assess their meaning, notice whether they are directed toward others or toward the self, whether they are in public or private spaces, and notice discrepancies between between public and private spaces, between front and back yards for example.

“feeling regulators“: stuff to help us manage our emotions and thoughts. My little notes on my desk: “Begin anywhere.” “I am a work in progress.” “Believe.” My pictures of the ocean…

“behavioral residue“: A scavenger after peering into Cher’s garbage wrote: “It was like I had her whole world in my hands.” Apparently the incredibly telling aspect to trash is that it reflects “behavior that really happened.” In my trash in my study at this minute: wrapper from an IcyHot Sleeve for my elbow, zip lock bag with crumbs from my RyeKrisp snack yesterday, an empty tin from my Big Dipper Clarity candle, crumpled lists that have been accomplished.

To paraphrase a popular commercial: What’s in your trash? OR What’s in your character’s trash?

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11.1.09

Moon in Aries

The morning after a Halloween party excursion finds me just right back to feeling most comfortable in my own little nest. Even though CB’s home is exceedingly beautiful, small but loaded with loveliness, a real work of art like everything she does, I do not want what I do not have (Sinead O’Connor).

Daylight savings time ended early this morning. We’ll be tired, to bed and up even earlier than we had been all summer. It will actually be the same time but, to the world, we’ll be very early birds or will we be early worms?

I can be obsessed by interior design. It is one of the things I have always wanted to “do”. I have a great opportunity to do a room here at DarcyArts world.

The living room really needs help.

I was all gung ho thinking about, imagining a rich beautiful tile existing beneath the crappy rug there. On closer in spection it is really old tile dark brown with some not that attractive beige streaking. Could it be from the 40s? I think it is possible.

I am worried about taking up the carpet, crappy or not. Will it cost me in the end? It really depends on how long I live here. And there is another puzzle.

At this point in time I have no concrete vision of my future. I love that because I can get freaked out if I feel I am leading a predictable life.

The acceptable way of functioning says I should absolutely be married to a path at this point in my life. I should have all or nearly all of my ducks in a row. I should own things bigger and more valuable than a guitar amp, a couple of cobbled together workbenches and a closet full of comfortable clothes.

I think I’ve always felt more akin to the dharma bum life. I trust the light to provide sustenance. I truly believe “you can’t fall off the mountain”.

I would venture to say that all the people at last night’s party had lots of ducks and have spent their whole lives making rows and rows and rows. There were ginormous battleships of SUV lining the streets out side the glittering house.

People were costumed in many ways. 100% fake hippy was the most popular costume for prominent couples. Often Halloween costumes represent the skin we desire to slip into temporarily.

How would it feel to be all about LOVE and non-materialism? How would it feel to laze about and smoke pot and listen to music all day?

How would it feel to be a witch observing the seasons and aligning oneself with spirit?

Or Dog the Bounty Hunter, living a bleached-blonde life, high on adrenalin and testosterone accompanied by your big-tittied wife?

It was so pleasant to sit with Frank outside on CB’s well-groomed, artfully engineered patio. The stars were out. The moon was nearly full. We watched the people talk to one another.

I wondered after a while if I had been accidentally invited, just a name in a bank of contacts. The email sent out en mass.

We didn’t stay long. Long enough though for me to really feel the need to get to my living room makeover project and then that extra second more to ask myself why I shouldn’t just get rid of everything extraneous under my always temporary roof. I want to  be ready when the time comes to fly.

By Tucker Neel

Originally published in ART LIES Magazine, Issue No. 64, Winter 2009

Sometimes objects are so strange, so obsessively constructed, and unabashedly beautiful that, like a good intoxicant, they leave you mumbling and incoherent, unable to vocalize what they are doing to you. Yo Fukui’s LA debut solo show, Future Imperfect, at David Salow gallery comes satisfyingly close to accomplishing this sense of bewilderment. While it does fail to impress at times, the show is quite literally a spectacular start to this artist’s career.

"Space colony” 2008, Felt, paper, hexagonal wire netting, found object, 73”x42”x40”

Fukui’s stock and trade is his signature felt appliqué technique, where countless rectangle color swatches accumulate to form fantastic patterns and sensuous surfaces.  Five large sculptural works showcase his crafty obsessiveness, usually with an amorphous felt-covered form hovering above or around brightly painted paper mache’ bases reminiscent of Franz West’s sculptures. The almost compulsive constructions are startlingly, but none is more stunning than I Love You No Matter If The Earth is Destroyed. Here Fukui deploys his additive method atop a tie-dyed sheet, creating a zigzag pattern resembling a knitting project executed under heavy psychedelics. The entire form resembles a colossal hummingbird, complete with an erect metal proboscis. At night it glows, speckled with luminescent nipple-like orbs filled with sparkling Christmas lights. The buckling and bulging mass hovers on an unassuming steel armature as its long metal pole prods the unfinished skeleton of a corrugated plastic and metal shed. Work like this is frankly difficult to describe because it’s so insistently phantasmagorical, inspiring hyphen-heavy allegorical interpretations that always seem to miss the mark. And this is where Fukui’s work succeeds, when it generates a kind of ocular overload that renders all description inept.

"I Love You No Matter If The Earth is Destroyed" 5x11x14 ft., mixed media, 2007

The most incongruous and unsuccessful piece in the show is a painting of sorts titled Rain, consisting of countless drippy grey and black diagonal sumi ink brush strokes on over thirteen dozen rolls of toilet paper stacked on towel racks against the gallery wall. A few calculated drips on the wall itself convey that the piece was made in situ. The use of stacked toilet paper as large canvas is a novel move, but the piece is essentially a quick play on materials, marrying bodily functions with abstract painting. We’ve seen plenty of these kinds of jokes before and because of this the piece is forgettable.

"Rain", 72 x47 x 47 in., mixed media, 2009

Perhaps Fukui’s greatest challenge is that there’s so much other work out there employing techniques and materials similar to his – to varying degrees of success. It’s hard to imagine the works in this show going toe-to-toe with the likes of Yayoi Kusama, or even Mindy Shapero, because Fukui simply hasn’t figured out how to push his obsessive material concerns to their most extreme limits. However, his work certainly holds its own among so many of the junk-as-new millennium-totem works that seem to have colonized certain sectors of the art world for the last decade. Fukui’s work will have no trouble surviving this trendy epoch if he can make his next works ones that embrace even more risk while still residing at the fringes of pleasure.

The books that sit on Lynn Neary’s “shelf of constant reproach” are “the books I know I should have read…but haven’t.” She borrowed this term from Luis Clemons, who chooses which authors to interview for NPR’s Tell Me More, and who refers to the worthy titles that don’t make it as “the shelf of constant reproach.”

Emily, of Evening All Afternoon, would take issue with this view. “…the level of stress and sheepishness about even having a to-be-read stack is a little dismaying to me….should a person feel guilty about the number of books…waiting to be enjoyed? I feel strongly that we shouldn’t….”

Nevertheless I often feel, as piscivorous tweeted yesterday, that “a stack of books is following me about the house.” I have a book shelf full of books I’ve already bought that are waiting To Be Read (see photo). In my head is a list of books I feel I should have already read. Finally, I have books I want to reread. And new books are being published all the time.

Moonrat came up with a list of 100 books that she wanted/needed to read. She labeled it her: Project Fill-in-the-Gaps. Once the book is read, the ink changes from black to red. [list toward the bottom of her sidebar]

How to make sense of all these books? How do I decide what to read next? Infinite Jest had been on my to-be-read shelf for 13 years, but Infinite Summer persuaded me to dust it off and open it up. Recently I began adding how I chose the book I was reading to my Reading List page. I thought this might make me give the selection a little more thought. But other than my monthly writing group selections and review deadlines, it seems to be similar to the way I choose what to write about–at that moment it’s just what gathers enough weight to cause me to reach for it.

And you?

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the after photo

Last week, before I went out of town, I was looking for my new book, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. I looked on my ToBeRead shelf–not there. I looked behind me on this long built-in shelf that theoretically holds the things I’m working on–not there. I glanced around at the various piles of books on the floor.

I knew it wouldn’t be on my regular shelves because I hadn’t read it yet. Then I remembered the shelves to my right–my reference section, so to speak. I had stuck it there.

These four shelves–one for poetry, one for short story collections I refer to as I write, one for books on craft, and one for books on writers writing about writing–were overflowing with papers stuck everywhere, books piled horizontally on the tops of other books. When I had looked for Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor on my computer a while back, I had thought I didn’t have it, but here it was. So I realized that none of these books were on my computerized list of books. New project…

Taking one shelf a day, I wiped off dust, looked through tables of contents, thumbed through my underlinings, discarded the ones I no longer needed (and by discarded I mean put in a pile to donate to the library) entered the title in my computer, and re-shelved in alphabetical order. Well, they had to go back on the shelf some way. And yes it could have been randomly or by color, but, as some of you know, I’m an alphabetical type of person. I need to just admit that and move on.

During the process I discovered Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge. I don’t write poetry, but I love words. In this book, the author writes about how she collects words. And prints them on tickets–admit one. More about this book later.

Do you have books you’ve forgotten about? What books do you refer to when you write?

Hugo Gellert, "Law of Capitalist Accumulation"

I often teach my students that supply and demand cannot be considered independent of one another (as neoclassical economists always assume, and teach) if the accumulation of capital determines both. Thus, for example, if the accumulation of capital leads to rightward shifts in both the demand for and supply of labor, wages may not increase (and quite possibly will decrease).

So, to understand what is going on, it’s important not to remain on the surface (of supply and demand) but to ask what is going on behind (the supply and demand schedules).

The same is true of explanation of the current crisis. The latest is offered by Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor and Ernst Schaumburg, “Why are we in a recession? The Financial Crisis is the Symptom not the Disease!” [open link] Here’s their story:

The common wisdom is that cheap money and lax supervision of financial institutions led to this financial crisis, and solving that crisis will take us out of the recession. In our view, the financial crisis is just the symptom. The fundamental cause of the crisis is the huge labor supply shock the world has experienced, not the glut in liquidity in money supply.

The impact of globalization is a sharp increase in the developed world’s labor supply. Labor in developing countries – countries with vast pool of grossly underemployed people – can now compete with labor in the developed world without having to relocate in ways not possible earlier. . .[W]e argue that this huge and rapid increase in developed world’s labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, is the major underlying force that is affecting world events today.

The first question they fail to ask is, what caused the sharp increase in the developed world’s labor supply? The second question is, what effects did this sharp increase have—in the United States, China, and elsewhere?

To answer the first question, we would have to understand the role of the accumulation of capital: in outsourcing jobs from the United States to China and elsewhere (thus putting downward pressure on workers’ wages in the United States) and in creating new labor supplies in China and elsewhere (by destroying noncapitalist forms of production and swelling the ranks of the capitalist working-class).

Then, it would be possible, to answer the second question, to analyze the changing distribution of income—again, in  the United States, China, and elsewhere—that led to the tremendous increase in capitalist surplus that was appropriated within and between countries and distributed across national boundaries to fuel the financial boom. And then bust.

General Warm-up

5 – 10 minutes of light cardio

Workout

1: 20x Goblet Squat @ 53# + 100m Sprint
2: 20x KB Swing @ 53# + 100m Sprint + 100m Farmer Carry @ 2x 53# KB
3: 20x Goblet Squat @ 53# + 100m Sprint + 100m Suitecase Carry @ 1x 53# KB + 1x “Decide and Throw”

The booksale on Saturday was an all-around win: I found some great bargains, limited myself to under twenty dollars, and had a chance to catch up with the head librarian, whom I haven’t seen since before college.

I picked up some series books for my collection: some Nancy Drew digest paperbacks, a couple Hardy Boys, and a late Bobbsey Twins I was missing. I also found one of the McGurk mysteries and two Mandie books, both series I loved when I was younger and hope to pass on some day.

I also found the following adult mysteries:

• Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart: From the author of the Dead on Demand series, featuring a teen-age girl during WWII
• Postmortem, by Patricia Cornwell: I’ve been considering trying her books; this is the first in the Kay Scarpetta series
• Withering Heights, by Dorothy Cannell: In addition to featuring amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, these books never fail to make me laugh along
• Irish Gold: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel, by Andrew M. Greeley: the series gets trite later on, but the first ones are quite interesting and I know I’ll want to reread them
• Silent In The Grave, by Deanna Rayburn; I think I’ve read the first chapter online about three times, so now I can finally see what happens!

And some regular fiction as well:

• Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. It’s on the Guardian list and is also a translation.
• My World and Welcome to It, by James Thurber. I’m not sure which I love more-the drawings or the writing.
• Lady of Quality, by Georgette Heyer. Totally psyched about this one!
• Battles at Thrush Green, by Miss Read. My mom reads these.
• Kitchen Privileges, by Mary Higgins Clark. She’s one of my guilty pleasures, and this is her memoir.
• Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party, by Graham Greene. My mom collects him but had never heard of this one.
• The Second Tree from the Corner, by E.B. White. A collection of his Ney Yorker pieces.

And my camera cooperated for pictures. A good day all around!