Categories
Archives
Search
Medical coding training may be obtained in several different locations. It can be hard to find a high quality program. To begin, almost all training courses concentrate almost wholly on academic studies - which are definitely vital. In the long run, however, students learn most effectively when they are provided with the necessary hands-on training. This is necessary to allow for the student to be formally trained and prepared to become successful in their career.
We recommend programs that allow people to continue their own work as well as learning medical coding at home, at their own pace, on a full or part time basis.
Making the investment in time and money to go through training is the most productive way to learn medical coding and find a good job, but it’s not for everyone. A medical coding training program involves both a financial investment and dedication of your time. And it can be both frustrating and expensive to withdraw from one after you’ve committed to it and start over again at another place. As a result, it is important that you make a good decision the first time. How will you know how to spot a quality medical coding training program? What makes a school better than another?
Let’s realize the facts… Finding a job when you are done is the only thing that really matters. The only way you will be hired is if you learn to be a proficient medical coder. The key is to find a program with a strong reputation and which provides plenty of authentic hands on training.
Variations of the different kinds of graphic design programs available include:
Certificate Programs
Associate Degree Programs
Bachelor’s Degree Programs
Graduate Programs
There are upsides and downsides to each of these programs. Your best option will be one that advances your own unique career goals. It is best that you examine the differences in the bachelor’s and associate degree programs in graphic design so that you can make a wise decision on the program that will allow you to achieve the most fulfillments in your career.
Status of Professionalism: Sadly, there are far too many employers that view an associate degree as being less than desirable for their own employees. Many of them think of holders of four-year degrees as being more respectable and possibly even smarter in comparison. It may not be true, and it’s certainly unfair, but that’s the way it is. Mostly, when you may find that your associate degree poses as a problem will only be if you are interviewing against another person that holds a bachelor’s degree. Other than that, you will be equally intelligent and just as much qualified for the job.
Career Path: You will start your career faster with an associate degree in hand and it is likely that you’ll qualify for the same jobs that facilitate the holder of a bachelor’s degree.
Cost: Bachelor’s degree program are much more costly compared to an associate degree mostly because they are double the time length.
Ultimately only you can make the decision on whether or not obtaining an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree is right for you, but remember that in the end they will both offer you a place in an exciting and stimulating career that continues to add newer technologies at all times.
Many banks offer a debit card at no charge when you open a checking account with them. One such bank is Washington Mutual (where it is also free to open a checking account, by the way). You can then enroll in Washington Mutual’s very own school fundraising program, WaMoola for Schools.
Once you enroll in this program and use your debit card to do what you already do with a debit card: pay bills, go shopping - you get the picture, you will start racking up points, which translate into cash for the school of your choice. Each and every time you use your card to pay a bill or buy anything; any transaction except for ATM transactions, you add one point to your total. A point in this program is equivalent to five cents. If the school has managed to garner more than $50 by the end of the year, Washington Mutual matches the amount accumulated and donates it to the school.
Accumulated amounts less than $50 are donated instead to groups who work towards the goal of better education for all - so even if you don’t meet the goal, the money still goes to education!
The school of your choice must be recognized by the federal government as tax exempt (and almost all schools are) to qualify for the program. Washington Mutual maintains a list of eligible schools on its WaMoola for Schools website.
There is really no easier form of fundraising than this - if you can get significant involvement form parents, relatives and alumni, just think of how much your school could raise. All they need to do to participate is use their debit card, something most people do regularly. The more people you can get involved, the bigger the results will be for your school.
Five cents a transaction doesn’t seem like a lot of money - and admittedly, it isn’t. This isn’t an overnight fundraiser and thus not the best choice for short term fundraising needs. However, if you are just trying to raise general funds for your school, this is an excellent choice - it takes almost no effort for people to participate and costs them nothing.
Except for the little bit of time spent enrolling, you don’t have to do anything else to raise money this way. It works as you spend and certainly is worth doing for your school. For faster ways to raise money you may want to consider a more traditional route, such as a cookie dough fund raiser or other product sales.
The recent requirement for licensing as a Paralegal in California states that there are no requirements in California for certification or licensing. Even though this is true, many people decide to earn a certificate, by choice, as it is not required. Two certificates are accessible when certain tasks are carried out. These certificates are the Certified Legal Assistant, CLA and the Registered Paralegal, RP.
In detail, the choice of becoming a Certified Legal Assistant (CLA) is most often preferred. CLAs have accomplished taking and passing an examination that was given by the Certifying Board of Legal Assistance. The National Association of Legal Assistants accredits this two-day exam. Even after the CLAs have accomplished this, they are still required to renew their certification every five years. In between the five years of each exam, 50 hours of approved legal education credits must be included and proven. California Advance Specialist (CAS) is another certification in which a CLA is qualified for.
In order to become known as a Registered Paralegal (RP), candidates must pass a test composed by the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) and the test is known as the Paralegal Advanced Competency Exam (PACE). Every two years the RP is required to show proof of completion of 12 hours of legal education credits that are approved of so that he can renew his certification.
Accreditation of the homeschool and loss of revenue are the
biggest concerns of homeschooling.
Public school districts get money for each student enrolled and
in attendance. Homeschooling is reducing their funds. Some
district superintendents are genuinely concerned that
homeschooled students are not learning essential skills because
they are not being taught by professional educators. But their
opposition is based on the loss of revenue, face and stature.
Some districts support homeschooling but others take an
adversarial position and try to intimidate the participants.
Most professional teachers refuse to accept the fact that the
vast majority of public schools fail the students on every
level, and deny that they can be replaced by uneducated
“homespun hicks.” This concept is too humiliating to accept, so
they justify their positions by criticizing the homeschool
system. They try to discredit homeschooling by focusing on the
myth that the homeschooled student lacks social skills and most
often becomes a loner who cannot mix with peers. In actually,
these criticisms are contradicted by the statistics that dispel
these rumors and innuendos.
The vast majority of homeschoolers outscore their public
educated counterparts in all facets of life and education. The
deficiencies in social skills professional educators are so
worried about are most often found in children who get “lost in
the scuffle” and are not valued as individuals (obviously not
the homeschooled child).
Homeschoolers have disproved these myths by producing students
who excel on every level. If you are considering homeschooling,
do not be intimidated. When you approach the public school
administration do so with a firm resolve and knowledge.
Statistics are on your side. You are doing what is best for your
child.
It is highly recommended that early in the college selection process, parents and student(s) visit some schools to determine if they’ll be suitable. The criteria that must be considered before any college is applied to include:
• Average GPA, SAT I, class rank for acceptance
• The school should offer enough choices in the event the student changes their major
• Size, location, Greeks, religious affiliation
• Percentage of freshmen that return for year two
• Percentage of freshmen that graduate in four years
• Percentage of financial need met
• Percentage of gift aid/self-help awarded
• On or off campus job opportunities
• Meal plans and dietary situations met
• Name recognition
• Student/teacher ratio
• Average class size, semester or trimester
• Percentage of professors who teach and percentage of teaching assistants
• 2 or 4-year college or university
• Co-ed dorms
• Freshman cars permitted
• Handicap accessibility
• Cost of the sheepskin
It is also recommended that you determine if the school uses a need-blind or need-sensitive admissions policy. Need-blind is a practice where the student is evaluated without any regard to family income or assets. Need-sensitive is a shameful policy used by a host of elite schools such as Duke, Emory and Stanford. These schools will admit a less than qualified rich kid in anticipation of a large contribution to their own endowment funds. In essence, the wealthy family has bought an admission ticket to a school where their student might never have otherwise been accepted!
It’s anyone’s guess how many other schools enrich their coffers in this deceitful, unprincipled manner. Duke has even been brazenly open about this policy, and I find it curious that shortly after reaching their $2 billion fund raising goal in 2003, they reduced their freshman acceptance percentage from 7.5% to 4%. The words of Former U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) come to mind here, “When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.”
Parents and student(s) should make the official unofficial visit to potential schools no later than the 10th grade. Colleges are always impressed when a 9th or 10th grader pays a visit. By keeping in touch with officials you’ve met, in essence, you will have added points to both your GPA and SAT I scores by establishing a rapport. When the time comes, administrators will be able to associate a face with your application. This helps a merely qualified student become a far more acceptable one.
However, before packing your bags and filling up the SUV with gas, make a checklist that includes the following:
Confirm that everything you plan to visit will be open and, ideally, that school is in session. Ask plenty of questions and be an attentive listener. Consider bringing a video camera or tape recorder for your notes no matter how good your memory is. Find out who reads applications from your area and, if possible, try to meet with a reader and be sure to keep in touch with them.
Student athletes should meet with a coach or two. Listen to the school radio station and get a copy of the campus newspaper. If the student has Greek intentions, visit some frat or sorority houses. Students should check out the dorm unannounced, introduce themselves to attending students and pick their brains.
Have a snack in the cafeteria. After all, their food is what the student will be eating for the next four years! Students who have decided upon their course of study should make every effort to arrange a meeting with the head of that particular department and audit a class or two. This may require an overnight, giving the student a greater opportunity to check out the dorm.
These are some college selection websites I recommend:
• For alternative criteria go to www.fairtest.org or call 617-864-4810. They have a list of some 300 schools that apply non-traditional guidelines in the Admissions Process.
• Afro-American schools: www.blackhighereducation.com/hbcu.html
• Jesuit schools: www.ajcunet.edu
• Jewish affiliation: www.hillel.org
• Trade and vocational schools: www.overview.com/colleges/
This is one of a series of articles by college admissions and financial aid expert, Reecy Aresty, based on his book, “Getting Into College And Paying For It!” For further information or to contact him, please visit www.thecollegebook.com.
For almost three decades, financial advisor and lecturer Reecy Aresty, has helped thousands of families to protect their assets, increase their wealth, and reduce their taxes. During the 1980’s, he turned his attentions to the complex world of college admissions and financial aid. By the end of the decade, he was already saving his clients thousands of dollars on a college education!
He has authored, “Getting Into College And Paying For It,” also available in Spanish. Filled with trade secrets and insider information, it offers solutions for high school and college families guaranteed to give students the all-important edge in admissions, and parents countless legal ways to reduce college costs.
In 2004 alone, Reecy saved families hundreds of thousands of dollars! He has become a major factor in obtaining affordable, quality educations for America’s students. In doing so, he has restored the faith people used to have in one another by proving that there are still people who care, people who can be trusted, and people who actually do what they promise - and get results!
Plato observed that the advent of an alphabet making writing efficient for average people actually lead to less knowledge or disciplined communication. We need not blame the Phoenicians for this because people really could benefit from writing.
John Locke and many other scientists during the time when man thought there was some reality in prejudices like The Scale of Nature observed that language was a pre-requisite for consciousness. Although there is some truth in his observations which include the Tabula Rasa, this is pure hogwash and perhaps even worse than that. He may well have sought to make people feel inferior just as that Scale of Nature was designed to do to so many non-Europeans.
Common sense is a most uncommon thing it appears. We still have many people living under the pall of the Bible Narrative and other ‘absolute religions’ (Fukayama and social engineers know how to use) which have whole histories of deceit woven into their dogma and the laws that form the structure of our society. I am all for the Kat-ma concept of Karma which would have these social engineers meet their maker and put an end to that Dog-ma. It is unfortunate that scholars who are interested in making a living often have to go along with things they know are only half true at best. It is more unfortunate that good money can be made debunking real scholarship and exploration by the likes of Barraclough Fell and other Epigraphists. Please take a look into Rob Gombach of Utah State University as he says Fell was only a hobbyist.
The treatment of the concept of OM by the Catholic Encyclopedia is a fine example of what is wrong with our society I think. Here is a little of what they say to start our voyage beyond conventional thinking. Om is the sacred syllable of Hinduism used by all schools in their meditation system. It expresses the ‘world-soul’ concept of Brahman. It is pronounced at the beginning of the recitation of the ‘mantras’. In practice, this concept is expressed in Hindu teaching as:
“‘All humanity converging at the foot of that sacred place where is set the symbol that is no symbol, the name that is beyond all sound.’ In the system of practices that make up Hinduism, there is the possibility of introducing this concept through an intensified psychic response or through practices that are diabolic {What?! This is certainly a great expression of the Pope’s ecumenical interests. This mentions nothing about it being like the Holy Spirit or what physicists say which I relate to the Logos. It is racial in the level of its prejudice and it is the kind of thing one should expect from ‘Crusaders’ with no soul.}. Here there is real danger, for this concept permits one to enter into a simple, self-delusive attitude {Rather than one created by the priests of this group of ‘churchians’ who do not follow the ‘living father within’ that Jesus taught.} that misleads while at the same time acts to shut out all other avenues of Christian response. Its danger is in the blandishment whereby a Universal Religion (the core of Karma or the at-onement of divine assumption of all into one) precludes sin since there is no one to sin against. Thus it has often been cryptically likened to the evolutionary religious concepts advanced by Teilhard de Chardin {Who almost was ex-communicated and is a great ecumenicist.}, namely, the ‘omega’ concept: ‘The revealed Christ is identical with omega. This christology of Chardin, an evolutionary complex, is stated in like manner: ‘Man bears along with him the world of beings inferior to God.’ (Letter 8/7/23 in ‘Letters to Leontine Zanta.’) (See Omega Point: Teilhardism.)” (1)
The Homeric scholars have found some things to prove the myth was not all mere fiction and this continues to the present in even more fascinating ways due to satellite technology as well as a weakening grip of Biblical intrigues or religious suppression. In the final analysis it is my sincere hope that people will become more spiritual and able to appreciate their religious icons were far more than the interpreters who used their image and good works. I am of the belief that when Homer wrote about ‘the underworld’ he was writing about North America and I know for certain that these people knew the earth was a sphere and had means to map and travel throughout the whole world since long before Homer. Much of knowledge started with observing the stars in world adventures or travels and man has always been adventurous. Here is the other ‘Om’ written as Ogham or Ogam.
“‘While some marks may be related to Ogam, we are skeptical of translations because the perception of the marks on the rock, often worn or damaged, is subject to considerable variability from one observer to the next.’
No nation has a monopoly on illegibility, and the authors could profitably have consulted any edition of any ancient work, at the bottom of any page (where the variant readings are listed); there they would find subjectivity galore, and accepted as a matter of course. In any case, they should keep mum; some people have the same complaints about standing stones and alignments.” (2)
The cover-up of Ogham and all of its branches of knowledge may have started before Rome and there certainly was a lot of plagiarization or Hellenizing going on as new leaders usurped the history, technology and science of the Kelts or ‘keltoi’ and ‘Ogygia’, as the Greek (Danaus) called them. Ogygia in itself means ‘ancient ones’ and Plutarch has a map identifying Iceland as Ogygia but that does not mean it was anything more than an ancient Thulean outpost.
Not long ago the Catholic Church had a fit of honesty and considered removing St. Patrick as a Saint. They knew all along that it was a near total fiction replete with removing snakes that had never been there in recorded or remembered history. They knew he had been sent there to make deals and re-write Scriptures or destroy things which would show the real roots of their faith and culture. He personally destroyed over 150 hand drawn books and we have proof of his editing of the Senchus Mor which had been a fantastic book with numerous volumes of law and culture. There are only a few glosses with obvious re-writes remaining. But the enslaved people of Ireland who have had their true history destroyed or hidden from them were all upset to find their Patron Saint might be a saint no more.
Uncial and Insular are languages that were developed in Irish language centers for writing the Scriptures (Uncial) and what later became English (Insular). Ogham was around a long time before these more sophisticated alphabets as any person with no grasp of linguistics can easily see and yet Britannica and others maintain the cover up to this day. Here is a little confirmation that St. Patrick was part of a major effort to bring certain people into the fold and develop schools to teach what the Druids like Columcille (later St. Columba) had learned at real centers of learning like the Isle of Druids or Iona. This is taken from the Annals of Ulster. This is a record of just one source in just one year (439). Bishops gathering in one place like this is not common as I understand it but I may be wrong.
“Secundinus, Auxilius and Isserninus, themselves also bishops, are sent to Ireland to assist Patrick.” And there is also an entry that has Patrick being confirmed as a bishop a couple of years later. So he clearly was not the top person or grand Pooh-Bah of the hegemony that was there in the first place. Rome was always looking to get more local ‘fronts’ for their deals so that the average person would not clue in to what was really going on. Here is that entry from year 441. “Bishop Patrick was approved in the Catholic faith.” Of course I could be cute and suggest he had not even been Catholic before this but I frankly don’t think that would be unusual either. Augustine is a study in greed and need for power too.
In the apologetic words of the current Pope whose heritage includes the ‘Holy’ (?) Emperors of this heinous group of ‘churchians’ he asks for ‘forgiveness and renewal’ as he admits to dastardly deeds of the Crusades, Flagellants, and Inquisitors. But is there a day care center in the Vatican? How about a female priest or God forbid, a Bishop? Most of humanity doesn’t even know what a Druid or ‘proto-Celt’ is or was. There is an old saying ‘if you want to know what a Druid knows, ask a wild bee.’ The bee was important to the Phocaeans, Napoleon and now the Mormons. Symbols (like the bee) communicate, letters are symbols, language or communication is more than the intellectual sum of its letters or words. The heart and soul make the beauty of true wisdom comprehensible to far greater depths than the intellect can imagine.
How did we sink so low as to barter the lives of our mothers and ’sisters’?
Why have those who arranged these horrors tried to blame the Jews (and in an indirect manner, all ’sinners’) for the death of Jesus? He did not claim to be a co-equal member of the Holy Trinity. It wasn’t the Jews who ‘killed our Saviour’. John Ralston Saul says this about the whole matter
“HOLY TRINITY-CHRISTIAN A pre-alchemist alchemist concept developed by early Christian administrators to soften the hard-edged simplicity of straight monotheism.
The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost {That the beatniks called ‘Laddio, Daddio and Spook’.} made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism {And raised un-natural ‘virginity’ or possible non-sense such as immaculate conceptions, which fathers must have loved and priests certainly benefit from, to heights of increasing obscenity!}. Twelve Disciples as semi-deities then made it sextusdecitheism. Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain, old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion ever to have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with {And this is the MOST important observation of a technique known in psychology as ‘projection of a pluperfect paranoid’ or the ‘BIG LIE’ of alphabet soup agencies and ‘black ops’; the less organized criminals like the Mafia call it a ‘frame-up’.} by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view {Also they began at least 700 years of war, A CRUSADE! against the remnants of the Kelts in Ireland.) - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan. ..These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered {ego ‘Manifest Destiny’} and/or killed for their own good in order that they may benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages.
HOLY TRINITY - POST CHRISTIAN So far Nietzsche has been wrong about GOD. We have not managed to become Him in His place. Instead we have replaced God with a yet more abstract divinity based upon pure rational power… Organization or structure replaced the Father, TECHNOLOGY displaced the Son and the Holy Ghost gave way to information. The new priesthood was made up of technocrats. As the etymology of the word ‘technocrat’ indicates, from the beginning they were to be specialists in power… And they would stand guard over information.” (3)
The fears and apathy of average people are as much to blame for this history of managed and ‘guarded information’ that records the acts of bad people. ‘We are all our brother’s keepers’ is not just an idle platitude. The Druidic concept called IESA or ‘The Brotherhood of Man’ apprehended the Cosmic Thought Field of Faraday and Tesla or the ‘Cosmic Soup’ of Deepak Chopra. NASA scientists have just announced that Life is Everywhere including microbes in outer space. They talk about cell membrane formation that makes we wonder if these are conscious connected ‘info packets’(Tesla) or ‘templates’ (Teilhard de Chardin) from which energy can create in a manner more akin to ancient creationist theories of the supposed pagans.
Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com