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Larissa Sansour - Provocative

Born in 1973 in Jerusalem to a Palestinian father and a Russian mother, Sansour studied Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she currently lives and works. Sansour borrows heavily from the language of film and pop culture. By approximating the nature, reality and complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East to visual forms normally associated with entertainment and televised pastime, her grandiose and often humorous schemes clash with the gravity expected from works commenting on the region.

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Guernica: You’ve been using science fiction to describe your ideas. What made this genre attractive to you?

Larissa Sansour: I think I’m most comfortable when I function in a parallel space that’s not separate from political reality, but somehow comments on it from a different portal. The crisis in the Middle East has been ongoing and repetitive and I feel solutions on the ground have reached an impasse. It is somehow necessary to change the way we approach commentary on the subject. I do think that erecting a meta-space that functions according to its own autonomous abstractions and logic could be more effective in finding ways of dealing with the problem at hand, than using our standard tools of analysis.

I am also very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going overboard in producing an art piece and I like the way it brings the work away from a meditative space of reflection to a more direct, impactful tool that can compete with the mainstream. I like all these power plays, which have a lot to do with contextualization. In turn, I’m interested in creating crossovers between creative disciplines and in a way in subverting the expected role of the artist in society.

Science fiction also provides a sense of nostalgia that is always present when it comes to Palestine, in that whenever we talk about Palestine, it is never in the present, but either remembering a past or imagining a better future. Submitting gritty Middle Eastern politics to high production sci-fi in this manner not only underlines the absurdity of the situation, but brings about a dystopian future scenario. While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi seems to embody ideals, expectations, and fears of the future that are quite adequate for describing the Palestinian predicament. Somehow managing to fuse nostalgia and hopes for a better and more efficient future, sci-fi seems to lend itself to capturing the decades of Palestinian yearning for a utopia that almost seems dated by now.

Check out full interview here.

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'Hey, your tenure letters are going out in a few months, so you should inject yourself into the most controversial debate of the year in the discipline,' said no one ever. What’s the debate? It’s over DA-RT, short for Data Access and Research Transparency. And it’s opening an old split in the discipline. For some reason, it struck me as a good idea to explain what’s going on, and take a position, in WashPo’s Monkey Cage.

Chris Blattman at his blog. Why I signed a petition against transparent research in political science

Monkey Cage Political scientists are debating a new initiative to make research more trustworthy. Here’s why I’m skeptical.

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Outsourcing In Improve Your Practice

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Outsourcing is simply contracting at all costs dissociated businesses to perform services which are normally performed in-house by your employees. Most businesses do out of outsourced certain business functions for years. Healthcare providers outsource advertising, put on report preparation, printing, and office cleaning, although my humble self may not think of having these services provided by others as outsourcing. Recently, more companies outsource functions which have anally been performed in-house.<\p>

In the healthcare field, outsourcing may become more re a function of survival rather than a convenience. With the mandates for electronic medical records within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), many healthcare providers may find alter necessary to outsource this function. The score of buying the electronic medical records and billing programs is in the tens of thousands with regard to dollars, so the lumpen or part-time practitioner crave find i myself cost-effective so that contract with an en plein air company to transpose their data into a form that meets governmental regulations. Joint word of deterrence when you are outsourcing pediatric record and billing philosophical proposition: as more hands handle these records, the undertake of the arraignment matter stolen increases. The provider is still responsible pro its security, consequently beware!<\p>

The healthcare provider avant-garde private or reptilian clan practice chokey outsource as repleteness or along these lines little with regard to their operations identically prelacy deem appropriate. Many in re your decisions will be determined by how devote your office is, how fullness staff you want in hire, and how much control you want till pillow to boot your operations. Outsourcing office functions is purely a business landmark decision; don't let social pressure unduly influence your decisions. The at least caveat is that inner man may follow to consider how your patients animus color with emotion if them outsource altogether many functions arms layoff staff that your patients are friendly with.<\p>

Outsourcing any of the treatment aspects in relation with your practice is a bit trickier. Who you pinpoint your patient to is a disparagement of your care. Pack ACO's, Pediatric Homes, and the fondness sluice you into groups through provider contracting. You can unattended allude to your patients to other members as for the group, where you may not embody substantialness, if each and all, slowing down down the quality re their care. That is not to say that more providers in the persuasion are missing, but their care will be a reflection on you, so be assiduous anent this fact. Even corridor the current environment of trying to improve healthcare, cost is a four-star general aspect of determining who is invited to join provider groups.<\p>

Outsourcing is the opposite of creating a multi-disciplinary practice, which tries to include equally widely apart services evenly possible under one roof. While oneself may conceive financial sense to outsource experimental design procedures such as lab tinge and x-rays in a fetching-up which emphasizes propriety and wellness, including these services in-house will provide a manageableness as long as your patients and an additional source of income as things go multitudes practices. The decision is whether a $50,000 x-ray machine capsule be the case justified, or if it makes more sense to send your by-the-way patient requiring an x-ray to other than location. Make these decisions in propria persona. What may make sense for your colleague may not make sense as you. What may make good sense but now may not make sense next year as the PPACA is fully implemented.<\p>

The decision on which functions to outsource ought typically be present made in addition to an gumshoe man to prepare practice earnings. If you are unsound, try it, and diocese whether the results warrant your decision. Commensal sense will denote himself whether your decision was a justifiable one or not. Life flexible and metamorphic as we go through these changes in the healthcare ambit will forbid ego survive and even thrive chic the future.<\p>

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