Why The Medical Assistant Training Centre You Choose Is Of Vital ...

In these days the medical field full of novel ideas and professions, which are interesting, challenging and pay well. One of these is that of a medical assistant. These are the people, who are the immediate assistants to a doctor. A medical assistant might be confused with a nurse in many instances. They are even called nurses, but their set of responsibilities is very different from that of a typical registered nurse.

If one is interested in becoming a medical assistant, they first need to know what sort of a job it is going to be and how they can achieve education for the same. First, a medical assistant is that person, who takes part in major surgeries and procedures, with a doctor, working hand in hand for the success of the case. They are trained for handling the patient in absence of the doctor as well. They are meant to care for the general wellness of the patient, which is why most people would compare them to being nurses. They are supposed to check the vitals of the patient such as the blood pressure, temperature, and so on. Besides this, the medical assistants are supposed to play an important role in the management procedures of the hospital or the clinic.

One can easily select a good medical assistant training centre for the proper education in the field. This is important so that when you work as a medical assistant, you know exactly what is expected of you. Besides this, finding jobs in the medical field are impossible until you do not have the certification of the course you took in the field.

One thing you need to be certain about while choosing an institute, is looking for such a centre that imparts quality education without asking for too much money in return.

One should opt for such a centre that is easily commutable, so that you do not spend the whole day traveling. Practical knowledge is that really matters in the medical field and this is why you need to look for such a training centre that can provide you with good amount of practice before you land up in front of an actual patient who needs help.

There is a fleet of training schools you can choose from, one simply needs to pick the one, which is most convenient according to all the above parameters, so that you can become a good professional later.

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The Infused Spirit of Jason Lalli

Phoenix is known for many things, but poetry is not one of them. Which is odd, because Phoenix is a city that?s birthed its fair share of talented poets and quality poetry events over the years, including Jason Lalli, organizer and host of Infuse ? Open Mic. I talked to Jason about his experience as a performance poet in Phoenix, as well as his current work as programming committee chair for the first annual Phoenix Festival of the Arts in December.

How long have you been writing and performing poetry?

I have been writing and performing poetry seriously for about 6 years now. I dabbled on and off in the writing of poetry since I was 19. I am 29 now.

What ignited your passion for the kind of work that you do?

My passion was ignited when I realized after reading poems to friends and family that my words were making a difference. It was confirmed in a moment of what I call divine intervention when I was in a low point in my life on Christmas 2005. I was unwilling to share my negative energy with anyone. I was soaking in the bathtub at home when I heard a voice that was never verbally spoken and I felt a force lifting my head towards the ceiling. I?ll never forget those words, ?You?ve been given a gift, now go and change the world.? I became active within the performance community shortly after.

You describe yourself as an ?awareness/performance poet.? How do you define that?

I write about the truth I see in issues I feel are often over-looked or ignored because they come with a harsh reality. Like self-awareness, Self-love, substance abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, and bullying. So I suppose an awareness poet would be one that uses the creativity of their poems to bring awareness to its audience through the poems content. The scope of my poetry is not limited to awareness but many are also personal stories or simply a source of expression and therapy as poetry has helped in establishing a stronger development of myself.

Does that mean you use poetry as a form of political/community-oriented activism?

Yes, I believe both questions go hand in hand. The action of being out there and performing poems that promote awareness is advocating for its cause and speaks for itself. My primary goal through each performance is to hopefully resonate with at least one person in the audience, with hopes that my words invoke introspection of themselves, their thoughts, their actions, and the reactions they are causing with those around them.

So yes, you could say my cause is community-oriented. It is through the betterment of each individual that our community?s improve in quality, safety, and involvement. It?s most easily summed with a quote out of one of my poems on the back on my business card ?It only takes one voice, one heart, and one passion create a positive existence in another?s life.? I go about advocating for a stronger more united community through these outlets: hosting Infuse ? Open Mic, my poetic performances, the creation and planning of the Inaugural Phoenix Festival of the Arts, various donations of my time and art to fundraisers, as well as speaking at schools on substance abuse through an organization called, ?notMYkid.?

How did Infuse ? Open Mic come about?

Infuse was created in May of 2010. I used to host ?Mill?s End Open Mic? and after Mills End Caf? went out of business we were looking for a new home. That home was found at the Phoenix Art Museum. We flourished with an average of 250 patrons and 30 artists throughout the 3 hour show. I started the event because I had begun hosting Mills End Open Mic which was previously Mills End Poetry Slam. I wanted to open it up to more than just slam poets. I wanted to create place where new-comers whether to the performing arts or to the city could come practice, develop, build friendships, network, and most of all feel welcomed.

How did Infuse end up at the center?

It was through my involvement with some other community-oriented activists that I was introduced to Joseph Benesh at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. Our relationship quickly became one of a close bond and similar visions, the Phoenix Festival of the Arts being one of those.

How did you get involved in the Phoenix Festival of the Arts?

There is a need for an arts festival in Phoenix, it?s 2012 and it?s never had one. I became entrenched with the festival as one of its creators. Joseph Benesh and I recognized this need. We teamed up together and were able to accept a generous sponsorship from dear friends of mine Lou and Evelyn Grubb. They had been to Infuse at the art museum and believe in what difference I am making and trying to make in our community. Unfortunately, Lou Grubb has since passed beyond this life and we are determined to make him proud for believing in us.

Also, there have been several others who I have had the honor to work beside for the last couple years in attempts to make this festival happen. It was through our relentless persistence and hard work of searching out new avenues that we are excited to see it finally become a reality. I consider myself beyond blessed to be surrounded with such positive uplifting people with a passion for humanity and making a difference.

You recently held open auditions for performers for the Festival. Did you see a lot of promising talent? What do you look for in a performer for an event of this scope?

The turn-out for the auditions was small but much was learned for years to come. But we?ve also received lots of applications and lots of great talent that applied. Every artist was graded on a scale of 1 to 5 based upon the following categories: Preparedness/Professionalism, Stage Presence, Creativity, Performance/Execution, and Originality.

It sounds like the performances are meant to be family-friendly. Are there any plans to do more adult, envelope-pushing performances in the evening or is it the festival?s intent to keep all its programming accessible to the widest possible audience?

This is best answered by our main goal of the festival; to unite our community by cross-pollinating markets through a variety of arts from vendors, organizations and performance artists. The festival is a family-friendly free event. Our night programming has some incredible caliber performances of bands/artists that have adult followings. There can be great entertainment without having to be controversial and profane. It is a professional artist?s job to gear their performance towards the audience, so we are asking for that discretion. However, there will be shows, for example a poetry slam in the center?s theater, where a disclaimer can be posted for those who enter that will allow for more ?envelope-pushing? performances.

This is a festival of all the arts that will include diverse cultural showcasing from visual, performing and literary arts. Several artists throughout history have spoken on such controversial and heavily debated topics tastefully and we intend on having tasteful programming. We would never want to discourage creativity but there is a time and place for controversial pieces, I believe most would agree that a family-friendly arts festival is not that time or place.

Do you have any plans to bring Infuse into the festival, or to do some kind of open mic/open stage to get the audience involved?

We are still programming but yes Infuse will have a festival edition. There will also be a poetry slam where anyone can compete for a cash prize.

Are all the shows free, or will some have individual ticket prices?

Admission to the festival and its entertainment will be 100% free. We will have two stages running throughout the course of the three-day festival, with the main stage located in the Margaret T. Hance Park, and the second stage in the theater located inside the Phoenix Center for the Arts.

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Austerity protesters fed up with economy to march in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-austerity protesters will march in London on Saturday to protest against public spending cuts enacted by a government fighting off accusations that it is run by an upper-class elite that ignores the plight of recession-hit voters.

The march comes at a time when Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition is reeling from the resignation on Friday of a senior minister accused of calling police "plebs", a class-laden insult for working people.

The party faced a barrage of negative headlines on Saturday over the departure of Andrew Mitchell, the "Chief Whip" or party enforcer, four weeks after he swore at police guarding the gates to Cameron's Downing Street office.

A second row involving George Osborne, the Chancellor - who sat in a first class train carriage with a standard class ticket before paying for an upgrade - played into the hands of critics who say the Conservatives are privileged and out-of-touch.

"Who Do They Think They Are?" asked the Daily Mail newspaper in a front page headline, while the Financial Times said the bad news over Mitchell and Osborne capped a "dismal week for the Tories", the centre-right party that is trailing in the polls.

Nurses, cleaners, librarians and ambulance drivers will be among tens of thousands who will march past the Houses of Parliament to a rally in Hyde Park in one of the biggest anti-austerity protests this year. Marches will also take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland.

Under grey autumnal skies, police closed roads around parliament in Westminster before the start of the march at 11 am.

Trade union leaders will seek to pile more pressure on Cameron at the event where they will tell protesters that the government's economic plan has failed, prolonging Britain's second recession since the financial crisis.

"Austerity isn't working. It is hammering the poorest and the most vulnerable," Brendan Barber, head of the Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group which represents 54 unions, will say in a speech at the rally.

"Ministers told us that if we only accept the pain, recovery would come. Instead we have been mired in a double-dip recession."

COALITION UNDER PRESSURE

The coalition government has responded to calls from unions and the opposition Labour Party to do more to boost growth by relaxing planning laws and boosting lending to businesses.

But its latest attempt to ease the pressure on squeezed households backfired this week when Cameron said the government would legislate to force energy companies to give customers their lowest tariff. The surprise announcement appeared to take his own ministers by surprise and sowed confusion over what he meant and whether it would actually happen.

However, Sajid Javid, a Conservative Treasury minister, said the government was right to focus on cutting borrowing and that data last week indicating a fall in unemployment and inflation showed that its economic policies were on track.

"There is a still a lot to do," he told Sky News. "I don't pretend for a second that we are out of the woods, but this government is facing up to the problem, it is not sticking its head in the sand like (Labour opposition leader) Ed Miliband."

Asked about the perception that the Conservatives are out of touch, he said: "I think that what matters is what is actually happening out there in the real world."

Opponents of the unions say the government should stick to its plan to eliminate a budget deficit that stood at 8 percent of gross domestic product last year, the biggest of any major European country.

"The government must not listen to militant union leaders," said Mark Littlewood, director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, which describes itself as an independent free-market think-tank. "The cuts we have seen are tiny and further concessions to these protesters would be wholly unaffordable."

(Additional reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/austerity-protesters-fed-economy-march-london-100346774.html

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Catch the Orionid meteor shower Sunday morning

Gallup's seven-day tracking poll of likely voters shows Mitt Romney leading President Obama by 7 percentage points, 52 percent to 45 percent. Should Obama panic? Maybe: even among registered voters -- which should be more friendly to Obama because Democrats tend to be no-shows on election day -- Romney is leading by 1 point, 48 percent to 47 percent. This average takes one day of post-debate views into account, so you'd expect Obama to do better, because he was widely seen has having won the debate. Instead, Romney gained 1 point over Wednesday. ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/watch-orionids-meteor-showers-weekend-214213383.html

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Fire destroys State Fair of Texas icon Big Tex

DALLAS (AP) ? The man who provides the voice for Big Tex, the giant cowboy at the State Fair of Texas, was greeting people with his usual "Howdy, folks!" in a slow drawl Friday when someone rushed into his trailer to tell him the towering fair icon was on fire.

"It moved quickly," Bill Bragg said of the fire that engulfed the 52-foot-tall structure, leaving not much more than its charred metal frame behind. "It was a quick end."

This year's fair was supposed to be a celebration for Big Tex, marking his 60th birthday. Instead, the beloved cowboy was hauled from the grounds on a flatbed truck two days before the end of the fair in a procession resembling a funeral.

"It's sad to see this happen, but it's lucky no one was injured or killed," said Mike Blucher of Dallas, who was at the fair with his wife, Linda.

The fire brought a temporary end to a piece of Texas culture.

The cowboy with the 75-gallon hat and 50-pound belt buckle always was easy to spot and served as a popular meeting place for people coming to the fair or attending the annual Texas-Oklahoma football game at the nearby Cotton Bowl. But all that remained by noon Friday were hands and shirt leaves on a burned skeleton.

"Big Tex is a symbol of everything the state fair stands for," fair spokeswoman Sue Gooding said. "Big Tex is where my parents told me, 'If you get lost, meet at Big Tex.'"

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Joel Lavender said Friday afternoon that the cause of the blaze had not been determined.

Some dispatchers took a playful approach to reporting the blaze. "Got a rather tall cowboy with all his clothes burned off," one said. "Howdy, folks, it's hot," another said.

Fair officials and city leaders quickly called for the return of Big Tex, vowing to rebuild the structure. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tweeted that the cowboy would become "bigger and better for the 21st Century."

Big Tex's hands, boots and face were made of Fiberglas, Gooding said. The clothing that burned had been provided last year by a Fort Worth company, she said.

Gooding speculated that the fire could have started in mechanical workings at the base of the structure and that the metal skeleton "served as a chimney." The skeleton will be evaluated, and a new one will be built if necessary, she said.

Stanley Hill, who supervises a food stand that has been located near the structure for 18 years, said he noticed smoke coming from Big Tex's neck area. That quickly turned into a blaze that engulfed the structure's fabric covering.

"Once it started burning, it was gone," Hill said.

The structure was removed Friday in essentially the same way workers put it up every year ? with a crane that slowly lowers it. Only this time, the steel skeleton was covered with a tarp.

Big Tex was actually built in 1949 as a giant Santa Claus for a Christmas celebration in Kerens, 60 miles south of Dallas. Intrigued by the idea of a towering cowboy, the State Fair paid $750 for the structure, which debuted as Big Tex in 1952.

Big Tex is inextricably linked to the State Fair. The State Fair website is www.bigtex.com, and visitors to the site see their cursor turn into an image of Big Tex's head, clad in a cowboy hat. The fair's Twitter account features the cowboy's image as well.

"You know somebody's a true Texan if you say 'Big Tex' and they don't look at you like you're weird," Gooding said.

Perhaps no one is closer to the giant cowboy than Bragg, who has served as the voice of Big Tex the last 11 years. Working inside a trailer a few yards from the base of the structure, the 65-year-old radio engineer reads from a script while his voice makes Big Tex's mouth move automatically.

As the crane moved into position to remove his old friend, Bragg was philosophical, saying he'd already been told he would be welcoming people to the fair in the same fashion next year.

"My job is safe and secure," he said. "They're telling me, 'Take the rest of the day off and we'll see you next year.'"

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Associated Press writer Schuyler Dixon contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fire-destroys-state-fair-texas-icon-big-tex-173347446.html

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Access Control Security System Prevent Business Theft and Threats

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Internal Theft Costs Businesses $10 Billion Each Year

Statistics show that damage from internal theft exceeds $10 billion a year, which is extremely damaging to business profitability and success.? There?s a variety of extremes in this regard, from those who nab your pens and you?ll never catch, to those with security code access who maliciously steal valuable data and information or sabotage your systems.? Conventional security systems aren?t able to solve this problem.? Keeping people out of buildings at night won?t prevent internal theft, and neither do motion sensors and window alarms.

The only answer is to control business access using security system access control.? Using a swipe card door entry system allows you to keep track of when employees come and go, keep employees out of areas they don?t need to access, and allows instant and free deactivation of an individual?s ?key? if their employment situation changes.

Advantages of Using a Card Access System to Control Business Security

?? No More Re-Keying Expenses: No more re-keying expenses. You don?t need keys anymore, so you no longer need to worry about your keys being copied or having to pay a locksmith. By using access control security system, you have a better grasp on your property and assets, while at the same time saving time, money and energy.? Swipe cards can?t be duplicated and can be easily deactivated.? That means you can control business access with just a few clicks, rather than re-coring many locks and replacing countless keys every time a key is lost or an employee leaves.
? ?Internal Theft Prevention: With access control security system, businesses are less vulnerable to internal and external threats as it can track and restrict people?s whereabouts. Only authorized users gain access to your business facility, or particular areas within it, thus diminishing theft risks and protecting your assets and ensuring your employees security.? And if a theft occurs, then the guilty party can be quickly found, since the card access system will know who was where when the crime occurred.? This can be a powerful deterrent.
? ?Remote Access: You can control business access with cutting edge security infrastructure from anywhere. The access control security system, provided by Maxitrol, is an effective solution to controlling employee theft and protecting your property. There are multiple ways you can access the system, including using a computer account, cloud technology or a smart phone. This means that business access and security can be controlled instantly from anywhere, even if a business trip takes you halfway across the country.
? ?The Obvious: Swipe card door entry systems provide building access safeguards without clunky and vulnerable metal keys.? Obviously, anyone can use a metal key to open a lock.? Card access entry makes it difficult to use someone else?s ?key? to get into your business.? The second that the card?s loss is reported, it can be deactivated.? This means that you can control business access instantly and for free any time a card is stolen or misplaced.? This goes for employees that leave, are replaced, or get moved in the organization as well.
? ?The Complete Package: the access control security system provided by Maxitrol is part of an overall business security solution that treats internal and external threats and fires.? With alarm verification to cut down on false alarms and to provide fast police or fire depart response, you can get complete business safety through the same hardware that helps you control building access.

Get Control Of Business Security with Card Access Security System

The Access Control security system allows you to control business access, monitor and limit entry to buildings and vital areas of your company, offering protection for valuable information and data, and creating a safer work environment for employees. Maxitrol provides modular, adjustable, integrated and cost effective security solutions for commercial, retail, and industrial applications. It is a UL and state certified security solution provider that offers both monitoring and maintenance services. For more information on access control security and swipe card door entry systems, please visit www.maxitrolsecurity.com or call 800-444-1191.

Source: http://www.nationalnewstoday.com/business-and-career/how-businesses-can-prevent-internal-theft-and-external-threats-with-access-control-security-system.php

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Flexible hours, nice co-workers, seeing the world: Fighters talk about fighting for a living

While it's easy to look at fighters as warriors who get in the cage to get to the highest pinnacle of the sport, it's also a job. Like everyone with a job, fighters have to put in hours at their office, do mundane tasks they wish they didn't have to do, and wish they were paid more.

But what are the best parts of being a full-time fighter? Hear from the fighters.

Let's say you had the physical gifts to be a UFC fighter. Is it still a job you would want? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/flexible-hours-nice-co-workers-seeing-world-fighters-144019424--mma.html

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