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The Cocker Spaniel
If you're considering a Cocker Spaniel as your next pet, read as much as you can here and be sure ask yourself: Is this is the right breed for me?
This dog is going to be right for a variety of families and owners, just because they have a lot of personality and breed traits that make them one of the most owned dogs in America.
They may not be the biggest dog you will see, but they still need to be maintained with exercise every day. Grooming is going to be a need as well, with a trim and brushing every few months. They are extremely smart dogs that can have success in almost any environment, but especially that of a family environment.
Cocker Spaniels have been in the United States since the 1880s. There is also no doubt they are one of the most owned dogs in America. This is because they are so versatile with their flat or wavy coats, and there excellent balance and endurance. They come in a variety of colors, including black and black with a touch of tan. They can also be found in other solid colors as well.
It is pretty amazing when you hear that they have been mentioned during the 14th century. Spanyell was mentioned and this is also when the water/land divide of spaniels was created too. A Cocker is going to be the smallest of the spaniels. It is also in the sporting group too. Over time the American Cocker Spaniel has taken on some differences from the traditional English Cocker Spaniel, but that is to be expected. They have no problem dealing with water or being a hunting dog. They can easily run into areas and retrieve or flush out more prey. Read more about the history here.
Their Basic Look - The sporting group's smallest member, the Cocker Spaniel is a sturdy dog that is compact and a very refined head area of the body. They are a very well balanced dog with and are considered an ideal size dog. This dog stands straight up without any problems, and has a posture that slopes slightly downward from the front legs to the back. This breed can also achieve some pretty decent speed. They are incredibly durable as well. This is easily one of the most balanced all-around dogs, and they are a very happy breed. There is no doubt that this dog can make a great addition to any situation, and they are very smart.
The Size & Specific Measurement - The female Cocker Spaniel ideally should reach 14 inches at the withers when they are an adult, while a male should reach 15 inches. If a female is over 14 and a half at the withers, or a male is over 15 and a half at the withers, they would then be disqualified. On the other hand if a female is under 13 and a half and a male under 14 and a half at the withers, they are going to be penalized.
How do they measure the height of the dog? They use the shoulder blades and the ground, when the dog is standing comfortably, and take the measurement from there. The chest to the back of the thigh should be longer than the highest point of the shoulder blades to the ground measurement. A perfect Cocker Spaniel will have a proportionate stride and the body of the dog will never look like it is drooping.
Their Head - Lets start with the expression and the eyes. Keep in mind though, they are just a couple of many things that contributes to the overall proportion of the dog's head. The expression should be a soft and intelligent one that has an appealing aspect about it. They also need to be alert and know what is going ton around them. They eyes should be full and dark, while looking straight forward. The Iris is a dark brown color and the darker that it is the better your dog's head is going to look in competition.
The ears won't be much higher than the eyes, and should be feathered well. The skull of the dog is rounded, keeping the emphasis on round and not having a flat head. The nose should be big enough to balance out the muzzle and the rest of the skull. The nose is always going to be a dark color, which is almost always brown or black depending on what color the dog's body is. They should have a strong set of teeth on them too.
Their Neck & Body - The neck should be long enough that it allows the Cocker Spaniel to easily reach their nose to the ground. It also rises very distinctly toward the base of the skull, at which point it starts to taper off. The lowest point of their deep chest should be no lower than their elbows. The front of their body needs to be large enough to provide space for the heart and lungs. But, if it is too wide it can affect the stride and movements of the dog. Their strong back leads all of the way down to the docked tail at a slight slope. The tail should be docked so that there is a perfect line between the tail and the back.
Their Forequarters & HindquartersThe front legs on the dog should be at a ninety degree angle by the time you get up to the body. This allows them to have extremely easy movement. The high point of the withers should be wide enough that they allow for a full uninterrupted spread of ribs. The forelegs are very muscular and they are close to the body of the dog. The pasterns should also be strong and short too. Their feet should be compact and round, and the dewclaws can be removed.
The hips should be wide and the and the hindquarters very muscular as well. If you are looking at the dog from behind, they should have parallel legs when they are at rest and when they are moving. Their is going to be slight angle at the stifle, and then they will have extremely muscular thighs. They can also have the dewclaws on the hind legs removed too.
The Coat - The chest, ears, and stomach area are going to be feathered pretty well, but not so much that you don't get to see the true physique of the Cocker Spaniel. The hair on their head should be fine and short. The body of this dog should have medium length hair, with a bit of undercoating on the under part of the abdomen for protection. The texture of the coat is going to be one of the most distinguishing aspects of a Cocker Spaniel, with the coat being either silky, wavy, or flat. Excessive hair in certain areas or hair that doesn't match up with the style of the dog can be used for penalization.
Cocker Spaniel Grooming
Coat maintenance is a must with Cocker Spaniels. Cocker Spaniels have rooted hair, which means that the hair continuously grows, just like a humans. Due to this, Cockers need to be groomed, either by you or a professional, on a regular basis. Whether you keep your Cocker in a show cut (short along the back, long on the sides) or a field cut (short all over), they will require regular bathing, brushing, and coat cutting.
Please keep this in mind when deciding if a Cocker Spaniel is the right breed for you.
Cocker Spaniels also have a higher rate of ear infections than some breeds. This is due to their beautiful floppy ears, which prevent air from circulating inside the ear. This creates a perfect moist, dark environment for yeast and bacteria to grow. To prevent infection, it is important to clean a Cocker's ears on a regular basis, especially after bathing and grooming.
Where does the name "cocker" come from?
Cocker Spaniels are a breed of small hunting dogs that were originally used to hunt small game and fowl. It is thought that the name "cocker" comes from their great proficiency to hunt woodcock. Today however, while some Cockers are still used for hunting, you are most likely to find Cocker Spaniels either in the show ring or curled up on the lap of their favorite human.
Cocker Spaniels are a small dog with adult females usually weighing 20-25 pounds and adult males weighing 25-30 pounds. Cocker Spaniels come in a variety of coat colors. Solid color, which is a Cocker of a single coat color. Parti-color, two or more solid, well broken colors, one of which must be white. Tri-Parti, a parti-colored coat with tan points. Last but not least, Roan, which is starting to make a come back in the American Cocker Spaniel, much to the delight of many. Read more about the history here.
Cocker Spaniel Temperament
This is not going to be a timid dog, but yet they have a lot of patience when it comes to most things. That is one of the many things that makes them one of the most desired dogs in the country. They truly are one of the most loyal and loving dogs that you will ever meet.


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TC TO JOSEPH NEUBERG ; 20 October 1858; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18581020-TC-JN-01; CL 34: 221-222
Chelsea, 20 octr, 1858—
Dear Neuberg,
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I have a Sig Sauer P239 (9mm) in a "DAK," which I'm guessing is basically their version of DAO. There is NO safety on it, and I would like to carry one in the chamber when I do carry, because I don't know that in a SHTF situation, I'll remember to rack the slide first.
So, I am having my saddle-fitters do a custom IWB holster for me, but before I have them draw up the specs, can anyone please advise me if there's anything particular I should ask them to do to help me avoid ND/AD? I doubt it will just "done go off" but since there's no safety, I'd just like to make sure I do everything to keep myself and everyone around me as safe as possible.


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How to Calculate the Marginal Cost of Capital
Original post by Ryan Menezes of Demand Media
The marginal cost of capital is the cost that a company incurs by raising each additional dollar. This weighted value combines the marginal costs for issuing preferred stock, common stock and debt, which are the three different methods of raising capital. Shares cost the company through the expense of paying dividends. Debt costs the company through the expense of paying interest, though the company can deduct part of this expense from its tax liability.
Step 1
Decide the proportion of capital you want to raise from each source. For example, a company may choose to raise its 20 percent of its capital from preferred stock, 30 percent of its capital from common stock and 50 percent of its capital from debt. In this case, a new dollar will need 20 cents from preferred stock, 30 cents from common stock and 50 cents from debt.
Step 2
Divide the dividend that the company has promised for each preferred share by the preferred stock price. For example, suppose that the company issues new preferred stock at $40 per share, promising a $5 dividend per share. Divide $5 by $40, giving 0.125.
Step 3
Multiply the factor from the previous step by the number of cents you must receive from preferred stock. With this example, multiply 0.125 by 20, giving 2.5 cents.
Step 4
Divide the common shares' initial dividends by their share price. For example, suppose that the company issues new common stock at $50 per share, offering an initial $4.50 dividend per share. Divide $4.50 by $50, giving 0.09.
Step 5
Add to this value the common stock dividends' predicted growth rate. For example, if you predict the dividends will grow by 6 percent each year, add 0.09 to 0.06, giving 0.15.
Step 6
Multiply the factor from the previous step by the number of cents you must receive from common stock. With this example, multiply 0.15 by 30, giving 4.5 cents.
Step 7
Subtract the company's marginal tax rate from 1. For example, if the company's profits face a 35 percent marginal tax rate, subtract 0.35 from 1, giving 0.65.
Step 8
Multiply this value by the yield on the debt that the company issues. For example, if the company issues debt with a yield of 5 percent, multiply 0.05 by 0.65, giving 0.0325.
Step 9
Multiply the factor from the previous step by the number of cents you must receive from debt. With this example, multiply 0.0325 by 50, giving 1.625 cents.
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Add the costs from Steps 3, 6 and 9. Adding 2.5, 4.5 and 1.625 gives 8.625. This is the marginal cost of capital, measured in cents. Divide it by 100 to give $0.08625, the cost in dollars.
- Corporate Finance -- A Practical Approach; Michelle R. Clayman, et al.
- Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers; William G. Droms and Jay O. Wright
- James Madison University: The Cost of Capital
- Contemporary Financial Management; R. Charles Moyer, et al.
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Port Augusta Travel Guide: 42 reviews and 104 photos
For the uninitiated, Port Augusta is located around 400 kilometres north of Adelaide.
Pt Augusta was discovered when Matthew Flinders explored the Port Augusta area hoping to penetrate the heart of the Australian continent - to discover either a navigable river or vast inland sea. He was disappointed on both counts however.
The legendary inland sea did in fact once exist, but basically Flinders was 120 million years too late.
Having discovered no supplies of fresh water in the Port Augusta area Flinders then departed to complete his epic circumnavigation of the Australian continent and charting his name to the Australian history books..
Port Augusta has a unique geographic position - being centrally located; it makes a major service centre for travellers and freight trucks crossing to the Northern Territories as well as to Western Australia.
The freight train also crosses Pt Augusta heading towards NT and WA.
It was a very smooth ride, enhanced by the fact that I had a fabulous car
It takes approximately 4 hours to drive to Pt Augusta from Adelaide..
To get to Pt Augusta, places of interest that was passed includes Bute, Pt Wakefield,Snowtown, Redhill and Pt Pirie. However, due to the constant rain as well as I was not really sure of the route, I did not take any detours but the landscape although quite flat and arid has a certain kind of charm to it. Its hard to put the feeling into words actually. One has to be there to actually feel it.
- Pros:Quiet, laid back.
- Cons:Not a place should one want to feel a city life atmosphere, a bit rustic.
- In a nutshell:Depends on the person I guess, can be a variety of things...
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I haven't been in this place for over 25 years. I guess it hasn't changed a lot, only then there was no alcohol ban that I recall!!
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very the nice !! but where are pics of L*** ? :-p
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Why Justice Alito Was Moving His Mouth Last Night
And was he right and Obama wrong?
We find it hilarious that Supreme Court justices are expected to be so utterly reserved and objective at all times that the act of silently mouthing words to oneself sets off a firestorm of controversy, but that's the way it is. Accordingly, after Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and said the words "not true" to himself last night in response to President Obama's criticism of a recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign-finance law, everyone has been trying to figure out what, exactly, caused Alito to fly off the handle like a laboratory monkey infected with the "rage" virus and whether his drastic loss of self-control was justified.
First of all, here's what Obama said:
Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests including foreign corporations to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that's why I'm urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.
Well, as it turns out, Alito may have had a few things to quarrel with here. Linda Greenhouse, the Times' Supreme Court guru, suspects that Alito was responding to Obama's claim that the Court has "reversed a century of law." This assertion, Greenhouse writes, is "imprecise."
The law that Congress enacted in the populist days of the early 20th century prohibited direct corporate contributions to political campaigns. That law was not at issue in the Citizens United case, and is still on the books. Rather, the court struck down a more complicated statute that barred corporations and unions from spending money directly from their treasuries as opposed to their political action committees on television advertising to urge a vote for or against a federal candidate in the period immediately before the election. It is true, though, that the majority wrote so broadly about corporate free speech rights as to call into question other limitations as well although not necessarily the existing ban on direct contributions.
Basically, the Court didn't explicitly strike down the law Obama was talking about, but their ruling was so broad that it could have called it "into question." Is that something worth silently mouthing over? Maybe. But that might not have even been the target of Alito's ire.
In a Times fact-check of the speech, David Kirkpatrick zeroes in on the remark about the floodgates being opened for "foreign interests" to spend on American elections. (Furriners!?! Alert the militias!) Except that it's not entirely true. Kirkpatrick writes,
The majority opinion in the case, Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, specifically disavowed a verdict on the question of foreign companies' political spending.
"We need not reach the question of whether the government has a compelling interest in preventing foreign individuals or associations from influencing our nation's political process," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote. The court held that the First Amendment protected the right of American corporations to spend money on independent political commercials for or against candidates. Some analysts or observers have warned that the principle could open the door to foreign corporations as well.
President Obama called for new legislation to prohibit foreign companies from taking advantage of the ruling to spend money to influence American elections. But he is too late; Congress passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1996, which prohibits independent political commercials by foreign nationals or foreign companies.
Politifact makes pretty much the same case, that while the Court's decision went out of its way to leave untouched the ban on foreign meddling on our elections, "the ruling could open the door to foreign companies spending on American campaigns, given the general direction of the majority's opinion." So it could open the "floodgates," as Obama put it, but it hasn't yet, necessarily. Then again, when is a metaphorical floodgate technically opened? It's all semantics, really.
So, maybe that's what Alito was reacting to. Maybe it wasn't. We probably won't know for a long time, because Supreme Court justices aren't typically the gabby type. It does seem odd that Obama, a former constitutional-law professor, would get so much sort-of wrong in just a few short sentences. Then again, many topics had to be simplified for the State of the Union. The Court's decision and its effects are complicated, and that wasn't the time or place to get into the nitty-gritty of constitutional law. Seventy minutes is long enough already.
Justice Alito's Reaction [Opinionator/NYT]
Taking a Closer Look at Assertions on Domestic and Foreign Policy [NYT]
Why Alito shook his head: Obama exaggerates impact of Supreme Court ruling on foreign companies [Politifact]


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Today Jan. 13, 2014 Tom LaPille revealed Pharagax Giant, a new "Born of the Gods" spoiler from Wizards of the Coast's upcoming expert "Magic: The Gathering" expansion set in an article on DailyMtg.com. This common red creature card showcases one of the set's newest mechanics: Tribute.
Pharagax Giant - 4R
Creature - Giant (Common)
Tribute 2 (As this creature enters the battlefield, an opponent of your choice may place two +1/+1 counters on it.)
When Pharagax Giant enters the battlefield, if tribute wasn't paid Pharagax Giant deals 5 damage to each opponent.
Pharagax Giant forces your opponent to choose between losing a quarter of their starting life total or being slightly larger. Barring the Yoda factor, your opponent will always choose the irrelevant option. Because Pharagax Giant's ability won't reliably fire one way or the other, Fanatic of Mogis might make a better choice for a constructed deck.
In limited your opponent will most likely choose to pay the five life in order to make Pharagax Giant not be such an imposing threat. Later in the game when they're lower on life it'll end up being a 5/5 for five.
An important thing to note about Pharagax Giant is that it says "each opponent." That means if you've gained a political ally in a multiplayer game of commander then the opponent you've chosen might decide to let everyone (except you) take five damage.
The new Tribute cards like Wild Devastating Nessian are an interesting twist on the "punisher" cards, and much more relevant in multiplayer.
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MEDINA — A recycling proposal from the Medina County Solid Waste District is based on the concept of spending money to make money.
The district has proposed giving area school districts $1 per student, which amounts to about $28,000, if they agree to not use an out-of-county recycler. That way, the county's Central Processing Facility in Westfield Township doesn't lose an estimated $300,000 in revenue from recyclables annually.
County commissioners ultimately will be the ones to approve any agreement.
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In the meantime, all the green Paper Retriever bins owned by private recycler Abitibi Bowater have been removed from local schools at superintendents' requests.
"We were saddened to remove our bins from the Medina County schools," said Denise Piotrowski, manager of Abitibi's Cleveland office. "Our partnership with those schools showed great effort from the staff, faculty and the students to get the community involved in recycling to reap the rewards of our work."
Abitibi had maintained bins to collect paper recyclables in Medina County for six years. Last year, the company reported it collected about 2,300 tons of newspaper in the county and paid about $30,000 in rewards to host sites in exchange for collecting the paper.
All the hosts of Abitibi bins are nonprofits, such as schools, and can use the money for projects of their choosing. She said there are still about 100 bins in Medina County at private schools, churches and other nonprofits.
However, county officials say the recycling program violates the Solid Waste District's policy. Paper and other recyclables already are removed from trash at the Central Processing Facility.
When the facility was built in 1993, the Solid Waste District instituted a policy of flow control, which means all the trash and recyclables that originate in the county must be sent to the facility. That way, the Solid Waste District and CPF's operator are paid for the cost of processing recyclables and for selling them to be recycled.
According to projections from the Solid Waste District, the county lost about $127,000 last year and the CPF's operator, Envision Waste Services , lost about $178,000 from paper collected by Abitibi that was not processed by the CPF.
"If there are no recyclables in the trash and we allow people to come into the county against our solid waste plan, we are making a big mistake," said Bill Strazinsky, coordinator of the Solid Waste District. "I then have to tell the EPA why I'm letting people come into the county."
The county hasn't filed a lawsuit against Abitibi. Instead, it's going to the organizations that host the bins to request they stop using them.
"We're getting compliance without going to court. That's the incentive here," said Commissioner Steve Hambley, who is the liaison for the county Sanitary Engineer's Office, which oversees the Solid Waste District.
The first step involves setting up an education and grant program for schools. Eventually, the Solid Waste District will begin to reach out to other organizations that host bins and ask them not to do so anymore.
First, the Solid Waste District is establishing a recycling curriculum for the county's schools.
"Part of our problem has always been we have the most unique recycling program in the state, bar none," Strazinsky said.
He said many county residents don't understand their trash is automatically sorted, and that will change over time by teaching children about recycling at the CPF.
In addition, the Solid Waste District has proposed giving $1-per-student grants. The school districts would be able to use the money for whatever programming they want, just as they could with the Abitibi grant.
To be eligible to receive the money, the schools can't have Abitibi bins and must implement the education program.
County Sanitary Engineer Jim Troike said Envision has offered to pay half the grant, or about $14,000. He said it would start as a one-time grant but could continue if it proves successful.
A letter detailing the proposal went out to superintendents earlier this summer. However, the sanitary engineer's office did not get official approval from commissioners beforehand.
Commissioner Pat Geissman said she was surprised by the offer. She said it may not be the best economic decision, since the sanitary engineer's office took out a $1.2 million loan to upgrade CPF equipment earlier this year. In addition, the facility plans to increase the tipping fee charged to trash haulers in order to help pay off the loan.
"I don't know if this was thought out really well," she said. "I just think this is the wrong way to approach this. I'm sure there are other options."
She suggested the county could set up recycling programs to help the schools collect recyclables and bring them to the CPF.
Troike sent a memo to commissioners last week that detailed the costs of such a program. Placing receptacles for the paper would cost $31,000 or $96,000, depending on the kind of receptacle. In addition, operating it would cost between $1,800 and $3,750 a month.
On top of that, the county and Envision would not receive a tipping fee, which they do when trash haulers bring in waste.
Commissioner Sharon Ray said the board would consider the program and soon decide whether to approve it.
Superintendents' views
Buckeye Superintendent Dennis Honkala said he's most excited about the education program.
"Regardless of the money that we get or don't get, the fact that they're willing to work on a curriculum for our kids is priceless," he said.
He said it's important that people know how recycling works in the county.
"Medina County needs to stick their chest out and say, 'We're a nationally known recycling county.' " He said money that used to come in from the Paper Retrievers helped fund some student organizations and their projects, like a middleschool student recycling group. "We'll make sure those students' opportunities to promote recycling continue," he said.
Medina Superintendent Randy Stepp said the money from Abitibi also went to student projects in his district. He said the grant from the county will cover the Abitibi money that would have gone to those groups.
However, he said the Abitibi bins served as a tool for teaching students about recycling.
"The only drawback that I can see is that the kids aren't going to have a bin outside their school to have the handson experience," he said. However, he said he appreciates the educational initiatives from the county.
"I think it can work. I think the county is trying to work through it and figure out some options," he said. "In the end, I'man advocate 100 percent for keeping as much money in the county as we possibly can."
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The Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM 2000), sent a tremor through the healthcare industry as it reported that in the United States as many as 98,000 people died each year from medical errors. A report published in July 2004 by HealthGrades, Inc., Patient Safety in American Hospitals, estimated nearly double that number of deaths 195,000 due to medical errors each year.
The period between the IOM report and now (1999 to 2004) not only witnessed an increasing awareness about medical errors and subsequent patient safety initiatives, but it saw the concurrent emergence of picture archiving communications systems (PACS). PACS improves quality and safety by improving the timeliness of care and treatment, enhancing accuracy, and improving access to vital patient information. These advantages are maximized by expanding the use of PACS beyond the radiology department to enterprise-wide implementation and integration with other technologies such as bar coding, radio frequency identification (RFID), online medication records, computerized provider order entry (CPOE), and electronic medical records (EMRs).
Industry experts expect the implementation of enterprise-wide PACS and other technologies to grow in the near term, further improving efficiency and patient safety.
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The Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM 2000), sent a tremor through the healthcare industry as it reported that in the United States as many as 98,000 people die each year from medical errors. What made the number even more dismaying was that many of those deaths result from avoidable medical errors.
The report certainly had a consciousness-raising effect. However, a report delivered in July 2004 by HealthGrades, Inc., Patient Safety in American Hospitals, provided an update that could only be deemed devastating. According to the report, the number of people killed by medical errors each year in U.S. hospitals has gone up, not down. The figure is now estimated to be 195,000 twice as many as estimated in the IOM report. To place the figure in context, hospital medical errors are the sixth-leading cause of death in the country, behind diabetes, influenza, pneumonia, Alzheimer's disease, and kidney disease.
If the IOM report identified patient safety as one of the most significant issues facing healthcare organizations, then the HealthGrades report should push the urgency pedal to the floorboard.
The period between the IOM report and now (1999 to 2004) not only witnessed an increasing awareness about medical errors and subsequent patient safety initiatives, but it saw the concurrent emergence of picture archiving communications systems (PACS). Such systems were viewed albeit with a somewhat limited perspective as an available tool that could increase patient safety. With the release of the new study, PACS will become a necessary and vital part of the movement to modernize healthcare technology. PACS has already made significant contributions to patient safety, and it will add even more.
The PACS Advantage
According to the HealthGrades report, of the three types of errors that accounted for almost 60% of patient safety incidents, one was failure to diagnose and treat in time. Experience has shown that PACS can have a positive impact in this area.
"PACS really improves the timeliness of care and treatment, because you have images available to all members of the care team instantly, so they can diagnose a patient much more efficiently," comments Jane Englebright, Ph.D., R.N., vice president of quality for the Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare services.
Englebright, who leads patient safety initiatives for HCA, adds that the capability is crucial in areas like the ER and ICU. "In the ER, where films are read by subspecialists, a PACS enables us to get images to them, wherever they are."
Herman Oosterwijk, president of OTech, a consulting company that helps clients implement healthcare technology solutions, concurs: "A well-designed, modern PACS can improve patient safety by enabling timely interpretations based upon reliable and readily available prior exams."
Along with availability of images and timeliness of care, Oosterwijk, author of the book PACS Fundamentals (2004), says PACS provides:
As far as increased efficiency and enhanced accuracy, PACS has dramatically shortened the cycle time from exam to diagnosis. Exam results are quickly delivered from radiology to the physician who makes the treatment decision. PACS enables the physician to have images and information needed to make a more accurate treatment suggestion or plan.
In addition, PACS makes previous images a patient's entire radiological history always and instantaneously available. This is important when treating conditions such as cancer, when an oncologist may want to see the most recent exam, recent prior exams, and the baseline exam, which can be as much as 10 years old.
PACS also fosters communications among healthcare professionals. It is vitally important that physicians share data and consult with each other on patient care, but consultation and collaboration is very difficult in the film-based facility. With PACS, any number of physicians can look at the same examination at the same time, essentially doing a real-time consultation. This significantly enhances the level of care.
When PACS is fully utilized, the technology can play a significant role in reducing the potential for error by eliminating steps in the distribution and management of images and associated patient information across the enterprise. Hospital staff and physicians can schedule and order exams, update patient information across an enterprise, provide information and images to physicians at the point of care, and provide diagnostic tools, features, and functionality to ensure the highest quality of interpretation and diagnosis.
Moving Beyond the Limitations
While an increasing number of facilities are installing PACS, many are missing out on maximum benefit by not fully utilizing them. Indeed, much of its potential remains untapped because of limitations imposed on the technology. Those limitations don't necessarily involve the technology itself. Rather, they have to do with how people perceive PACS and use it. The time has come to move beyond those limiting factors. The HealthGrades report helps make that clear.
One of the main problems is that many PACS vendors only offer a departmental PACS strategy. Both flexibility and scalability are limited, and clinician collaboration suffers as a result. Unfortunately, many users, too, share this departmental perspective. This view is shortsighted, particularly for larger facilities where other information systems are present and more and more data is being distributed across hospital networks. PACS is much more than a radiology tool; it should be incorporated across the hospital enterprise so that it benefits all departments. The coordination of image distribution and management across the enterprise requires much more than a departmental PACS solution. By not addressing this, traditional PACS have failed to deliver the operational and clinical benefits of true enterprise-wide image and information management. Fortunately, information technologists are beginning to look outside of the box and are developing enterprise-oriented solutions.
Another necessary and logical leap for PACS one that meshes perfectly with the enterprise-oriented outlook involves integration and incorporation with other information technologies.
"We can see how different safety technologies can come together," comments Englebright. "I see bar coding, coupled with radio frequency identification, as the ultimate solution for ensuring positive patient identification at the point of care, and PACS would incorporate that technology."
Englebright describes it as a three-pronged approach, with each technology complimentary to the other, to create a more efficient and safer transmission of information.
PACS may also be integrated with other technologies to have a dramatic impact on the delivery of patient care:
Each in isolation helps somewhat, but the combined effect of the three is much greater. Integration will provide all of the information related to the patient.
The Enterprise Approach
Despite the fact that PACS has been around for about 10 years, it has not delivered its full potential outside the radiology department, nor its full potential to improve patient safety.
Because many installed PACS don't meet the needs of physicians outside of radiology, hospitals are still printing film and distributing it to those physicians. For PACS to achieve maximum clinical impact, clinicians need instant access to diagnostic-quality images all of the time, no matter the location, time, or workstation.
This approach is aimed at allowing customers to focus on the enterprise as a whole; it addresses imaging domains across the entire enterprise, including radiology, cardiology, dermatology, and pathology. As far as radiology, it enables the department to operate more efficiently through increased collaboration with referring physicians, as it fosters a closer relationship with the immediate care team.
This enterprise approach (enabled by Stentor's iSyntaxTM technology) utilizes mathematical representations of images called wavelets and allows for on-demand delivery of high-quality images by hundreds of users without any noticeable loss of speed. It provides users with instant access to as much imaging data as they require based on their interaction with the image. Diagnostic-quality images can be delivered over existing hospital networks, providing advanced radiology reading stations for radiologists and "always online" long-term storage. All of these features scale and integrate into a hospital's existing network. A standards-based, single database solution improves workflow and efficiency across the entire enterprise for clinicians, technologists, the IT department, and administrators.
Using this PACS technology, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), one of the largest non-profit integrated healthcare systems in the country, was able to image-enable the areas that were demanding images, such as the emergency department, orthopedics, the sports clinic, and neurology. This enhanced access created an environment in which patient care was immediately improved.
"The enterprise roll-out enabled our general population to become comfortable with softcopy reading and proved to our administration that we would be able to stop printing film for areas outside of radiology," said Claudine Martin, PACS systems analyst for UPMC. "Our physicians were thrilled when they realized they could pull patient images immediately, no matter where those images were originally taken and stored."
Future of PACS
Currently, implementation of PACS is steadily growing. "Right now, I'd say 25% to 30% of institutions across the country have installed PACS," reports Oosterwijk. "What I see now are many community type of hospitals, who never used PACS before, starting to implement, representing a new wave of adopters." Industry observers expect that, by 2007, the percentage of U.S. PACS users will increase to 65%.
"Healthcare is starting to realize that, as an industry, we need to start using technology better," remarks Englebright. "Most of the other industries in the country are doing much better jobs with efficiency and accurately transferring data, whether that is pictures or any other type of data. The issue for our industry is that we have so many areas where we can apply this and make tremendous improvements."
The recent increase in national attention toward healthcare IT as a potential solution to the critical issue of patient safety is a great first step toward bringing the nation's healthcare system into the 21st century. A steadily growing number of facilities have begun to recognize the value in utilizing PACS across the hospital enterprise, and as the trend progresses along with integration of technologies such as bar coding, point-of-care documentation, online medication administration records, CPOE, and EMR PACS will continue to help reduce medical errors and increase patient safety.
HealthGrades, Inc. (2004). Patient Safety in American Hospitals. Retrieved on January 8, 2005, from www.healthgrades.com/PressRoom/index.cfm?fuseaction=PressReleases.
Institute of Medicine (IOM). (2000). To err is human: Building a safer health system. L. T. Kohn, J. M. Corrigan, & M. S. Donaldson (Eds.). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Oosterwijk, H. T. (2004). PACS fundamentals. Aubrey, TX: Otech, Inc.


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With the approaching summer months, it is always a time to search out lighter wines for summer afternoons or Sunday brunches. The 2013 Alamos Torrontes, with grapes from the Salta region of Argentina, may be one of the favorites for the upcoming summer season.
The Alamos Torrontes comes from the Cafayate region of Salta. The Salta Valley is well known to fans of wines from Argentina. For those not totally familiar with Argentinian wines, the region ranks just behind the powerhouse region of Mendoza.
Like most premier Argentinian wines, the grapes come from the higher elevation foothills of the Andes. With the vineyards located at elevations of 3000 to 6000 feet, the vines are constantly exposed to piercing sunlight and cool, crisp evenings. When you add in the snow-fed waters from the Andes, you get ideal growing conditions for the Torrontes grapes.
The 2013 Torrontes exhibits oranges and jasmine on the nose, with citrus and peach on the palate. The finish will delight you with its crisp and slightly tart ending.
Torrontes is an interesting varietal, with a long history of growth in Argentina. It is the varietal of choice for whites in Argentina and is believed to have been brought to Argentina as early is the mid 1700's by Spanish colonists. It is primarily grown at the higher altitudes, resulting in more intense flavors from the stronger sun found at the growing elevations.
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The 2013 Torrontes was 100% Torrontes grapes, with a varietal origin of Salta, Argentina. The alcohol content is a moderate 13%, and the pH is a low 3.33.
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Serving lunch and dinner every day except Monday, La Kumbala draws a crowd of hungry-for-the-real-thing Latin food fans and natives of the region who are looking for a taste of home. Late nights, La Kumbala draws a different crowd as it transforms into a nightclub where the main attraction is salsa dancing, not salsa and chips. All of this was by design, as owner Sergio Umana's goal with La Kumbala was to serve both the flavors and culture of home.
DJs handle the music and dancers the dancing, but Umana's mother, Flor Portillo, created the menu and runs the kitchen during the day. Her menu has a few Mexican dishes to satisfy those who crave a taco, and satisfy they will, but the core was inspired by other Central American nations like El Salvador and Honduras.
One dish in particular, la pupusa, stands out. Pupusas ($2.50) are a Salvadoran staple and aren't like anything you'll find at other Mexican restaurants in the area. These thick, homemade tortillas are stuffed with either beans, meat or cheese (or a mix of the three), then grilled until they're a little crispy on the outside and piping hot inside. They're served in threes and come with a delicious shredded red cabbage slaw and salsa. They're listed as appetizers, but honestly, if you paired an order of pupusas with another appetizer, you could have a meal.
The crisp outside and dense, almost chewy tortilla played off each other for a nice textural difference, then the flavorful filling rounded out each bite. The meat in the pupusas is al pastor (a type of marinated pork), the beans refried pintos and the cheese, delicious. Don't pass these up.
Another starter to try is the plantains. The plantano Maduro ($4.50) features fried ripe plantains served with refried beans and sour cream, which sounds like a pair of odd accompaniments for a sweet dish, but it really brings it into balance.
Portillo's menu may include tacos to appease diners with a taste for the familiar, but the bottom line is they stay on the menu because they're delicious. For $9 you get a choice of three tacos on homemade corn tortillas. Fillings include asada (steak), al pastor (marinated pork), pollo (chicken), lengua (tongue), and carnitas (roasted pork). My tacos came on one very full plate, each tortilla piled high with meat, onions and cilantro. On another plate came rice, refried beans and a little salad. It was a huge lunch portion, but one that I happily tried (but failed) to eat in its entirety.
There are also burritos and enchiladas on the menu at La Kumbala. The burritos aren't the mammoth creations the size of a Chihuahua that you get elsewhere, but rather a reasonable portion of food. The burritos ($6-$8) are served in pairs, and the pollo (chicken) and beef were both tasty, but not great. All of the ingredients were fresh, the chicken and ground beef were cooked right and seasoned well, and the sauce served with them – your choice of rojo (red) or verde (green) sauce – was spicy and flavorful, but in the end, the dish tasted like it lacked some passion.
A dish that did not lack in flavor, passion or portion is the mammoth molcajete Oaxaqueno ($15), a molcajete (lava stone bowl used as part of a mortar and pestle) that's been superheated in the oven and filled with chorizo (spicy sausage), shrimp, chicken, steak, cactus, onions, peppers, jalapenos, a hunk of cheese and green sauce. When it came to the table, the lava stone radiated heat and the amalgamation of meat and veggies bubbled and smelled heavenly, but it was a cauldron of food. If that wasn't enough, the dish came served with a pile of handmade flour tortillas, rice, beans and an avocado-topped salad.
The portion of food was impressive, but even more impressive was the flavor. Every protein was distinct, but unified by the cooking method, and the veggies were perfectly tender. As the chorizo cooked, some of the fat and a lot of the flavor found its way onto the other components. The spice from the chorizo perked up the shrimp a little, and helped the chicken stay moist and flavorful, and the texture of the finely-grained sausage and the larger pieces of steak played well off each other. The cactus, peppers and onions were a nice accompaniment, and this dish was really something special.
The carne asada ($13.90) was a grilled steak with onions, tomatoes, avocado, cilantro, sweet plantains and lime to squeeze over the top. The steak was thin and cooked perfectly, and the smoky flavor from the grill added a nice note.
A favorite, and an unusual dish, was the cena Hondurena ($10). Like the asada, it featured a large steak, a pair of eggs, cheese, avocado chimol (similar to pico de gallo), sour cream, plaintains and fried beans. It was a tremendous dish, with the richness of the egg yolk (they're cooked to order) livening up an otherwise lean cut of beef.
La Kumbala is one of a handful of places around Wilmington that offers more than the expected Mexican flavors, and for that alone it's worth a visit, but the food carries it over the top. You'll leave satisfied and with the flavors of another land on your lips.
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Globalisms and Power
Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies
Year of Publication: 2012
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XXII, 251 pp.
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Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum, and analyzes how neoliberal globalization strategies eagerly led by nongovernmental institutions determine the educational agenda in each nation. Both Portugal and Spain were subjugated by military dictatorships for more than four decades: their education systems were laced with an authoritarian, militaristic, racist, and xenophobic ideology. Both countries' secular authoritarian and conservative religious traditions are now dangerously entangled with the demands of neoliberal ideologies.
Shedding light on how education and curriculum policies and practices are determined and how they, in turn, determine the dynamics of ideological production in society, this book unmasks the massive artillery borrowed from the private sector to fix public education and lays bare the fact that nothing is natural, normal, or inevitable in this corporate global momentum.
Contents: João M. Paraskeva/Jurjo Torres Santomé: Introduction: Pouring Old Philosophical Wine into New Ideological Bottles: Globalisms and the Rebooting of Mankind's Revolution – Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Globalizations – Rafael Feito Alonso: Secondary Education in Spain – João Formosinho/Joaquim Machado: Democratic Governance of Public Mass Schools in Portugal – Gloria Braga Blanco/José Luis San Fabián Maroto: Crisis and Trends in Spanish Universities: The Bologna Process, Year Zero – João Menelau Paraskeva: Bologna Process(ors): Knowing Very Well What They Are Doing, but Still Doing It – José Gimeno Sacristán: The Professional Career for Teachers – Maria Alfredo Moreira/Flávia Vieira: Preservice Teacher Education in Portugal: The Transformative Power of Local Reform – José Félix Angulo/César Bernal: ICT as a Discourse of Salvation – Lia Raquel Oliveira: National Technology Plan for Education and Public Schooling: Myths, Limits, and False Promises – José Bravo Nico/Lurdes Pratas Nico: Official Discourses in the Educational Systems: Competencies - The New Curriculum Password? Juan Bautista Martínez Rodríguez: Competencies: The Key to the New Curriculum – Miguel Lopez Melero: Disability and Education: Transforming Difficulties into Possibilities – Jurjo Torres Santomé: Curricular Tensions and the Struggle for Justice in Neoliberal Times – Cathryn Teasley: Deconstructing Discourses on Racism in Educational Contexts in Spain: Along a Continuum of Racialization, New and Old – Jaime Rivière/Mariano Fernández Enguita: Social Class and Education in Spain – Ana Sánchez Bello: Gendered Agenda in Education.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
João M. Paraskeva is Associate Professor of Social and Educational Policy, and Curriculum Theory and senior researcher at the Center for Policy Analysis at the School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement at UMass Dartmouth. His latest book is Conflicts in Curriculum Theory. Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies (2011).
Jurjo Torres Santomé is Professor of Curriculum Studies and Education Policy at the University of Corunha, Spain. He has published comprehensively in the area of educational policy, curriculum and evaluation.
«João M. Paraskeva and Jurjo Torres Santomé's edited collection Globalisms and Power: Iberian Educational and Curriculum Policies, is an insightful and timely critique of the diverse and destructive ways in which neoliberalism has penetrated the heart of education and curriculum policy and practice.» (Susan L. Robertson, University of Bristol, UK)
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A preview of the 1st Annual Big Vine and Dine Festival
If you love wine, cuisine and the great outdoors, check out the inaugural Vine and Dine Festival August 14 to 17, 2014. This festival has a great deal to offer in one of the most breathtaking settings in the world. Near Bozeman, Montana, Big Sky Resort boasts an impressive 11, 166 summit, with views of two national parks and three states. And you are bound to discover wildlife such as Bighorn Sheep, Elk, Mountain Goats and an occasional Moose or two.
This event will be co-hosted two of the world's top wine authorities, Master Sommeliers Fred Dame and Jay Fletcher. The pair will spearhead educational seminars and guided tastings. These gentlemen are just two of only 219 Master Sommeliers worldwide!
Love vino? These wineries are pouring their top selections:
- Dunham Cellars, Walla Walla, Washington
- Pepper Bridge, Walla Walla, Washington
- Amavi, Walla Walla, Washington
- Bunchgrass Winery, Walla Walla, Washington
- Reininger Winery, Walla Walla, Washington
- Milbrandt Winery, Walla Walla, Washington
- Natalie Estates Winery, Willamette Valley,Oregon
- Cristom, Willamette Valley, Oregon
- Carlton Cellars, Willamette Valley, Oregon
- Brooks Winery, Willamette Valley, Oregon
- Hand of God, Mendoza,Argentina
- Argento, Mendoza, Argentina
- Vine Connections, Importers of Argentinean and fine Chilean Wines
- Dalla Terra, Importers of fine Italian Wines
- Robert Biale Vineyards, Napa Valley
- Justin Winery, Paso Robles
- Renwood Winery, Amador County
- Kistler Vineyards, Sonoma
- Green and Red Vineyards, Chiles Valley
- David Arthur, Napa Valley
- Arcadian Winery, Sta. Rita Hills
Pair this with cuisine created by top regional chefs and you will tantalize your inner foodie for sure. Big Sky's Jack Creek Bar & Grille recently won OpenTable.Com's "Diners Choice Award" as well as Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence. Happily the resort also offers numerous outdoor activities, including ziplining, to help you stay in shape.
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|Veterans at Fisher find smooth transition from military to business world
Some aspects of Fisher's Leadership and Professional Development program are familiar terrain for some students in the MBA program. That is what two military veterans said about making the transition from the armed forces to management education.
"Leadership training is a significant part of our background," said Greg Goins, a second-year MBA candidate about his career in the U.S. Navy. "We are able to exploit that background and play on the skills that the military taught us and use it in the business world."
Carly Dendinger, also a second-year MBA candidate and former Air Force Captain, agreed. In fact, she feels that in some ways military veterans have an edge over their civilian counterparts in the MBA program. "The discipline we acquired in the military translates fairly well into this environment and helps in how we approach completing tasks and assignments."
"We were given a lot of responsibility and leadership roles at a young age," said Dendinger, who served as an officer in the Air Force. "Many of our peers have not yet had those opportunities." They also said operations in the military share many of the same leadership and management principles.
Those leadership skills and knowledge acquired by military officers are a perfect complement to the MBA experience at Fisher, according to David Smith, executive director of the Graduate Programs Office.
The office actively recruits military veterans, with the help of a graduate assistant dedicated to reaching out to the service branches. Fisher also offers scholarships and fellowships specifically for veterans, including the Evelyn Michael MBA Fellowship, established by Timothy and Melinda Michael. A former Naval officer, Tim Michael, a member of the Dean's Advisory Council who received his MBA from the college in 1976, established the fellowship in honor of his mother.
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