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Dr. Brandon Mines, with Emory Sports Medicine Center, is also a team physician with the Atlanta Falcons. He said you can't predict or prevent these types of injuries, but said there are precautions athletes at all levels can take.
Mines explains the spinal cord is vital to the rest of the body, and an injury, while rare, can be life-threatening.
"Breathing and conscious state, you're talking about upper spinal cord injuries, head injuries. If you sever your spinal cord high up like this young boy had, you will completely be no motor function. You can't breathe, your lungs won't expand," Mines said.
Mines recalls only a handful of similar accidents.
"It doesn't take a very hard hit. It takes just the right or wrong angle that you can't see with the naked eye. You're talking just small degrees off of where you'd expect a normal hit to occur. The area of concern where you're going to have a death occur is if it's high up enough in the vertebrae so first vertebrae is up here, second and third," Mines said.
The medical examiner found Turman fractured his third vertebra.
Mines said athletes take pre-participation exams which check neck motion and look for risk factors. That and proper tackling techniques are the two keys to prevention.
"We do work with youth kids in youth football to tackle properly and to limit these things from occurring, because decades ago, we know there were a lot more spinal injuries because of spearing and putting the head down in tackling. So we teach kids look where they're tackling so they're not leading with their head," Mines said.
Mines said it only takes a split second for a wrong position or hit to change a life but he stresses to parents these injuries are extremely rare.
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Circuit Judge Stephen Bates denied a motion which would have allowed Hiles, who is accused of killing his wife and a Dry Ridge man, to be released from jail until his case goes to trial.
Hiles, 35, of Dry Ridge, entered a not guilty plea to two counts of murder on Sept. 10 in Grant County Circuit Court.
Name of Competition: Northern Kentucky Marching Band Festival
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Ranking and Awards: First in Class 4A, third overall, Best Overall Visual Performance
Names and number of bands participating: 11 bands – Mason County High School (7th), Holmes (8th), Lloyd Memorial (9th), Carroll County (10th), Harrison County (6th), Newport (11th), Beechwood (1st), Williamstown (2nd), Henry Clay (4th), Conner (5th), Grant County (3rd)
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The first meeting of the year between the Grant County Lady Braves and the Williamstown Lady Demons volleyball teams took place Sept. 3.
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GCHS junior Meagan Kinard echoed those sentiments.
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A 24-year-old Corinth man was arrested after allegedly robbing a Dollar General with a knife.
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Troopers in tandem with deputies from the Grant County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene.
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Cora Van Donsel, 90, works with her daughter, store manager Kris Berg, left, and grandson Jamie Berg, at Hansen's Dairy & Deli.
Elementary schools kids pulled a gun on her, various owners let the business fail and retirement remains elusive, but Cora Van Donsel endures.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
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What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on…
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The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
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History is written by the winners.
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History happens twice because people don't listen at the first time.
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
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Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
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Study the past if you would define the future.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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History will keep repeating until the lessen is learned..learn well
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History is only a confused heap of facts.
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The history of empires is the history of human misery.
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For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
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Patterns repeat themselves in history.
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The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
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History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.
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An escharotomy is a surgical procedure used to treat full thickness (third-degree) circumferential burns. Since full thickness burns are characterized by tough, leathery eschar, an escharotomy is used primarily to combat compartment syndrome. Following a full thickness burn, as the underlying tissues are rehydrated, they become constricted due to the eschar's loss of elasticity, leading to impaired circulation distal to the wound.
An escharotomy is performed by making an incision through the eschar to expose the fatty tissue below. Due to the residual pressure, the incision will often widen substantially.
Full-thickness circumferential and near-circumferential skin burns result in the formation of a tough, inelastic mass of burnt tissue (eschar). The eschar, by virtue of this inelasticity, results in the burn-induced compartment syndrome. This is caused by the accumulation of extracellular and extravascular fluid within confined anatomic spaces of the extremities or digits. The excessive fluid causes the intracompartmental pressures to increase, resulting in collapse of the contained vascular and lymphatic structures and, hence, loss of tissue viability. The capillary closure pressure of 30 mm Hg, also measured as the compartment pressure, is accepted as that which requires intervention to prevent tissue death.
The circumferential eschar over the torso can lead to significant compromise of chest wall excursions and can hinder ventilation. Abdominal compartment syndrome with visceral hypoperfusion is associated with severe burns of the abdomen and torso. Similarly, airway patency and venous return may be compromised by circumferential burns involving the neck.
Escharotomy is the surgical division of the nonviable eschar, which allows the cutaneous envelope to become more compliant. Hence, the underlying tissues have an increased available volume to expand into, preventing further tissue injury or functional compromise.
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Neurovascular integrity should similarly be monitored frequently and in a scheduled manner. Capillary refilling time, Doppler signals, pulse oximetry, and sensation distal to the burned area should be checked every hour.[4] Limb deep compartment pressures should be checked initially to establish a baseline. Subsequently, any increase in capillary refill time, decrease in Doppler signal, or change in sensation should lead to rechecking the compartment pressures. Compartment pressures greater than 30 mm Hg should be treated by immediate decompression via escharotomy and fasciotomy, if needed.[5, 6] A decision-making algorithm is shown in the image below.[1]
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The idea for this series is lovingly ripped off from NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. PCHH runs a segment on every show called "What's Making You Happy This Week?"
This Australian PSA in support of marriage equality that blends an excellent and important cause with some creative choreography. As a proponent of marriage equality and a former dancer, I am tickled by this.
It makes me happy that seven out of ten Australians believe that same-sex couples should have full marriage rights. It does not make me happy that currently, same-sex couples do not enjoy those rights; civil unions are legal in four out of eight states and territories and in the other four, same-sex couples can't even have those. Now we just need the law to catch up with public opinion.
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When I read Torah each week I search for the blessing in it, I receive the spiritual challenge and rise to meet that challenge, and I am guided in my practice. Spiritual practice begins with a loving discernment of "Here" and "Now."
I locate myself both in space and time. I widen my perspective to include the vastness of space. And then I begin to narrow my focus, finding this galaxy, this solar system, this spinning planet, this continent, this neighborhood, this body and the still point within, the place made sacred by my awareness.
Breathing out from this point, the very center of the universe, I locate myself in Time. I see the life-path that I have traveled, the twists and turns that have brought me to where Here and Now intersect. I find myself in the cycle of the seasons. I find myself in relation to the sun and the moon, the plantings and the harvests. I orient myself to the calendars, to the clock and to the proximity of Shabbat. I feel the glow of last Shabbat and the pull of the Shabbat to come. And I orient myself to the cycle of Torah.
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Vezot Habrakha is read at the end of Sukkot, on the holiday of Simchat Torah (which takes place of the 8th day of Sukkot in Israel and in the Reform tradition, and on the 9th day elsewhere). We have indicated the traditional Diaspora date.
On holidays, the cycle is interrupted in favor of a special reading appropriate to the day.
Because of the hybrid nature of the Hebrew lunar-solar calendar, in which years can range from 355-384 days, there are some portions that "double up" during the shorter years to fit all the readings into the calendar. Those portions are indicated with a ditto mark.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (WKOW) -- The UW men's basketball team survived another brutal shooting performance to beat Nebraska 47-41 on Sunday.
Wisconsin shot just 37.7 percent from the field and made just 3 of its 13 free throw attempts (23.1 percent).
Jared Berggren led the Badgers with 13 points. Ryan Evans' double-double on 10 points and 15 rebounds helped lift the Badgers to a win.
Berggren missed all four of his first-half shots but made six in a row to start the second half as the Badgers asserted themselves inside.
The Badgers (11-4, 2-0 Big Ten) won their fifth game in a row and held their ninth straight opponent to 60 points or fewer.
The Huskers (9-6, 0-2), coming off a 70-44 loss at Ohio State in their conference opener, have averaged just 42 points the last four meetings with the Badgers.
Ray Gallegos and Dylan Talley scored 12 points apiece and Brandon Ubel added 10 for the Huskers.
Ubel hit a 3-pointer for Nebraska's only basket after Gallegos had given the Huskers a 38-37 lead with 6:19 left.
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Increasing levels of globalization are causing a few languages to spread at unprecedented rates. But many less common languages and their associated cultures are going extinct. Programs exist for the conservation of species and habitats at risk of extinction, but very little attention is given to language extinction. Some scientists are suggesting that there are more languages at risk of extinction than bird or mammal species
Does language extinction really matter? It is hard to imagine how the loss of a language halfway around the world would impact your life, and diversity in language makes it difficult to understand one another. But should that diversity be preserved?
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Jun 6 2013: I think that language diversity is important because no two languages convey the exact same meanings with every word said. For example, in English you can say "My friend and I went to the park yesterday" and no one knows the gender of your friend, but if you say the same thing in Spanish, the listener has to know the gender of your friend (amigo vs amiga). These differences affect how you can convey spoken information to others in a language.
There are also many types of slang that make sense in one language but are impossible to translate to another. For example, one of my favorite insults in Spanish is "La madre que te parió" lit. "The mother who gave birth to you." Depending on the context it can be very offensive, but I've most often heard it used in a more friendly context, to express astonishment or admiration for someone you know when they do something crazy/outlandish. (I'm obviously not an expert on Spanish, this is just how I've heard and used this phrase in Spain. This may not be true in other Spanish speaking countries). It's hard to explain but I really like the phrase and what can be conveyed by using it and I can't think of an equivalent in English.
It's hard for me to convey these ideas in a comment, but what I'm trying to say is that different languages allow/require us to interact with others in different ways, by the implicit and explicit information the grammar and syntax require us to provide when speaking and by the unique words and phrases that exist in every language. Losing languages entails loosing this diversity in expressing ourselves and in some ways our ability to describe our experiences and the world around us. So, I do think that language extinction matters
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IRVING, Texas – The Cowboys have yet to get away from the .500 mark this year, failing on their last three chances to get two games over. 500 this year. Here comes their fourth opportunity but it'll likely be the toughest challenge to date as they travel to New Orleans to face Drew Brees and the Saints.
Here are the gut feelings for staff writers Nick Eatman, David Helman and Rowan Kavner.
David Helman: I feel so much better about this game than I did when the week started. The Saints look vulnerable to a good pass rush, and
Rowan Kavner: I don't expect a blowout for either side here, but the Cowboys better make sure they don't get down in bunches early. The problem for the Cowboys in this one is that the Saints seem to do everything well that the Cowboys have had trouble with. In San Diego, the defense had trouble against Antonio Gates and Danny Woodhead, and the combination of Jimmy Graham and Darren Sproles in the passing game is probably even more lethal. Despite the Saints' improved defense under Rob Ryan, I see both teams still trading points in this one, but the Cowboys don't have an answer for Graham or the slot threats of the Saints. I think
Nick Eatman: Judging by the pattern of recent history, the Cowboys have a good shot here. Dating back to that 2009 game, these two teams play the opposite of what is expected. Even last year, the Cowboys were supposed to win but couldn't stop the Saints at the end. So this year, maybe the Cowboys really do have a good shot of going to New Orleans and grabbing a win. I wish I could see it, but I don't. Beating the Saints to improve to 6-4 heading into the bye week would be just too good for this team. Nothing comes easy for this team, especially in the Big Easy. I see the Cowboys staying with the Saints for a while, but eventually one team runs out of bullets. I think the Saints will win 38-30. I see a big game for Cole Beasley, maybe something like a double-digit catch game. I'm calling for a first career interception by Jeff Heath. But in the end, I see a flight home with a 5-5 team with two weeks to try and figure it out.


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3 Companies Drilling OPEC's Coffin
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Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Noble Corp as Noble Energy. The error has been corrected below.
Oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico continues its upward momentum in all aspects. By some estimates, the Gulf could yield 2.5 BOE/day. Given that the US imports about 4 million BOE/day from OPEC countries, Gulf of Mexico oil could seriously hurt OPEC imports in the future. Pleasant thought, but you have to drill for it first. Here are three deep-sea drilling companies that are drilling OPEC's coffin.
Modern rigs, lots of contracts
The company with the most modern fleet of deep-sea drillers is Seadrill (NYSE: SDRL). The company underwent fleet modernization over the past three years with plans to continue adding new rigs in 2013 and beyond. Of the four different classes of rigs, three are 99%-100% leased through 2013 and the fourth is 80% leased. The company maintains a $21 billion order backlog.
For the fiscal year 2012, average daily revenues varied across the rig classes. Overall revenues and dividends increased but earnings declined. Operating expenses increased, particularly for downtime in their two most lucrative rig classes either for technical reasons or transfers. Other rig classes did not experience significant downtime for technical problems.
Seadrill offers investors both income and capital gains potential. The current dividend yields about 8.9% and the stock grew from around $8 in 2009 to almost $40 today. The stock sells for a little over 15 times earnings, reflecting a promising future. Newer rigs command higher lease rates and Seadrill has more newer rigs with more on order. Those rigs on order have already been contracted even before they're built. The company holds a significant debt load, but this is for building rigs that, again, already have lease commitments.
In the Gulf and around the world
Noble Corp (NYSE: NE) operates 20 rigs in Mexican and US Gulf of Mexico waters. After its first offshore drilling operation off Cape Hatteras in the 1940s, Noble has grown to an international drilling company operating 68 rigs throughout the world. Even better, Noble has 11 rigs under construction and under contract.
One downside to all the shipbuilding is capital expenditure will likely exceed cash flow for 2013. However, since the new rigs are already contracted, risk is minimized. Further minimizing risk is Noble's efforts to reduce drillship downtime. So far, they reduced downtime from 6.5% in 2012 to 5% and foresee further improvements in 2013.
The most recent quarter showed improved earnings from the previous year, $0.59 per share versus $0.50 per share. Management also reported higher dayrates for its operating rigs and about $14 billion in backorders. Looking ahead, Noble sees the Gulf of Mexico as one of the prime locations for new oil discoveries and management is upbeat on Noble's position to capitalize.
Not upbeat, but beat up
On April 20, 2010, Transocean (NYSE: RIG) joined British Petroleum in becoming a household name courtesy of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and environmental disaster. Not the sort of press companies yearn for. The fallout hammered Transocean's earnings in 2011 and to a lesser extent, 2012. Lawsuits persist and form more dark clouds for 2013.
Transocean, to its credit, continues to drill for oil. In fact, the company plans on divesting its onshore exploration business to concentrate on higher-margin offshore drilling. While these re-alignment efforts won't show up until next year, Transocean is moving in the right direction. The company currently operates 15 rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the most of any of its offshore drilling operations. For the four weeks from March 14 to April 18, Transocean added $1.2 billion of new or extended contracts for all rigs in all locations. Clearly, Transocean isn't going away.
Unfortunately, also not going away are lawsuits or Carl Icahn. Lawsuits continue to entangle the company although a settlement was reached with the Department of Justice. Carl Icahn wants a special dividend. Transocean's biggest shareholder submitted a shareholder proposal for a $4.00 per share dividend rather than the $2.24 per share offered by Transocean. Given Transocean's legal headaches from Deepwater Horizon and other incidents, not to mention over $12 billion in debt, I'm not sure even $2.24 is a good idea.
Final Foolish Thoughts
Deepwater drilling rigs command increasingly higher leasing rates due to growing demand. The Gulf of Mexico holds exciting promise as new technology allows previously untouchable oil to be produced. This, in turn will reduce US demand for OPEC oil.
Drilling companies stand to profit from both the growing worldwide demand for oil and the technology to find and extract it.
Overall, I like Seadrill for its income and capital gains potential. Yes, the debt load is high, but I believe it is well covered by solid lease commitments. Noble comes in as my number 2 pick. Transocean, with all of its legal expenses and uncertainties, would best be avoided.
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Alert: Guidance for Enterovirus D68 on the Public Health Ontario website
19 Sep 2014
Ontario municipal elections 2014
18 Sep 2014
Healthcare Food Service Workers-Week October 5-11
16 Sep 2014
PRESS RELEASE: Homecare a bit of a mess; Canadian report
16 Sep 2014
Alert: First Human Case of West Nile Virus for 2014 Reported in Toronto
09 Sep 2014
Calling all young leaders of SEIU Healthcare!
28 Aug 2014
Join us in celebrating Environmental Services and Housekeeping Week, Sept. 7-13!
18 Aug 2014
Congratulations to all Purple Day winners!
15 Aug 2014
Could you be one of our next Member Organizers?
15 Aug 2014
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Memorandum - Ebola Virus Disease
06 Aug 2014
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