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The sociology program at University of West Georgia prepares students for careers in defense, social service, schools, software, publishing, and social work in local health agencies, government, and private corporations. The program focuses on the study of human social institutions and social relationships. Program courses include: social theory, sociological research methods, social organization and structure, social stratification and hierarchies, dynamics of social change, family structures, social deviance and control, social institutions, and social problems. Get more details below including other Georgia colleges that offer sociology program.
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Study human society and social behavior by examining the groups and social institutions that people form, as well as various social, religious, political, and business organizations. May study the behavior and interaction of groups, trace their origin and growth, and analyze the influence of group activities on individual members.
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According to the BLS, sociologists employment is expected to grow at a rate of 18.1% from 2010 to 2020
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Teach courses in sociology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
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Lemon juice gives this meat mixture a Middle Eastern flavor, making it one of my family's favorite meals. The pine nuts or sunflower kernels add a bit of crunch. - Lauren McMann, Blairsville, Georgia
6 Servings
Prep: 5 min. Cook: 50 min.
3 medium onions, chopped
1/2 cup pine nuts
sunflower kernels
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 pounds ground beef
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup minced fresh parsley
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
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Although some people who have a urinary tract infection (UTI) do not have any symptoms, most will experience some level of discomfort. It is important that a caregiver be aware of the signs and symptoms of urinary tract infections as their relative, or patient, might be unable to tell them of their discomfort.
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West Side Story comes to the market
The Jets and the Sharks will mingle with the egg farmers and the kale growers on Saturday at the King George Farmers Market.
Market visitors will be treated to a sneak preview of King George High School's "West Side Story" at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Director David Richards and his assistant, Andi Fines, have agreed to bring a little bit of the show to the public. It will be the first "Art in the Open" at the market this year.
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Social Entrepreneurship: Change the World
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Written by Leah Prinzivalli
Changing the World One Business at a Time
When most people think of entrepreneurship, they might think of Mark Zuckerberg raking in the cash with Facebook's IPO, or venture capital firms investing millions of dollars in a Silicon Valley startup. One area of entrepreneurship that is not as glamorous but arguably much more important is social entrepreneurship.
Social entrepreneurship is all about starting up a business or organization with the primary goal of making an impact on society. Recognizing the power of an entrepreneur to change lives, social entrepreneurs work proactively with the goal of yes, sustaining a profit, but focus on helping others. PBS & the Skoll Foundation defines the role of social entrepreneurs as "to recognize when a part of a society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck".
You might recognize Kiva, the renowned microfinance organization that connects small-dollar loaners to needy borrowers across the globe, and celebrity chef Jaime Oliver's Fifteen, which trains and employs disadvantaged youth. Although different in many respects, these two initiatives both used a big Idea to confront a core societal issue.
Here are some key ideas related to social entrepreneurship:
Corporate social responsibility (CSR): Corporate giants who participate in corporate social responsibility develop their own foundations, donate to worthy causes, or consider the public sector in daily operations. Google gave away $40M in charitable donations last year and tops most CSR lists. Stretch Island Fruit Co. partners with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation to plant fruit tree orchards in school yards every spring.
Triple bottom line: Social entrepreneurs aim to widen their reach in three areas - people, planet, profit. People has to do with giving back to the community, planet refers to acting in a manner that is sustainable for the environment, and profit refers to contributing positively to the economy. A company that properly practices the triple bottom line prioritizes the consequences of its actions on society and the overall economy over maximizing pure profit for the company.
Social enterprise: Any organization, either for or non-profit, that uses business methods to achieve social change. Housing Works runs a book store, multiple thrift stores, and community events and devotes the profits to fighting homelessness and AIDS.
Sustainability: The capacity to affect long-term change is a core social entrepreneurship value. Many enterprises focus on environmental sustainability. For example, Seattle Green Limo, recently featured in GOOD Magazine, is an environmentally-friendly transportation company for eco smart travelers.
Microfinance: Microfinance is a small loan provided to a low-income individual or group without access to traditional financial resources. MicroPlace, Acción, Grameen Foundation, and Pro Mujer are well-known organizations that provide loans to needy communities across the world.
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U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson has lobbed harsh criticism at Congress, dubbing recent partisan bickering as "job-killing gridlock," and calling for passage of measures he says will create much-needed jobs.
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Writers: Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
Cast: Annette Benning (Nic); Julienne Moore (Jules); Mark Ruffalo (Paul)
Mia Wasikowska (Joni); Josh Hutchison (Laser)
Warning about plot details and ending revealed. If you intend to see this movie you may want to read this analysis of "The Kids Are All Right (2010)" afterward.
"The Kids Are All Right" is a drama about relationships between the parents and children in a lesbian family. Nic, a physician played by Annette Benning is excellent as the dominant female, and Julienne Moore (Jules) plays her part excellently as the naive, easy-to-manipulate younger woman of the two. The two mothers met in college and became lovers when Jules went to see a university doctor, who happened to be Nic, doing her residency. They began a relationship and eventually decided they wanted a family and visited a fertility clinic. They used the same sperm donor for both children, making them half-brother and sister with two different mothers but the same father.
Paul, the father played by Mark Ruffalo plays his part superbly as the straight guy, not an intellectual, but smart in a worldly way, and open to the new social standards. Of course, why not, he showed his openness when he donated sperm as a young man who dropped out of college.
Nic (Benning) is portrayed as strong and a confirmed lesbian. Jules (Moore) makes you wonder if she might have been taken advantage of by Nic because she gives the impression of often being unsure, naive and confused. Was it sexuality or the sway of a commanding personality that steered her life in the direction of the same sex couple relationship?
You are later led to speculate upon this even more when Jules meets Paul, the man who donated his sperm and is the father of Laser and Joni. Laser, sixteen, had decided he wanted to meet his father after his older half sister, Joni, eighteen, discovered a file in the house with the information for the clinic and contacted them. The clinic contacted the donor, Paul, informing him he had two offspring. Paul, being a cool guy agreed to meet his "children." and he and Jules meet, through the children, and hit it off.
Paul owns an organic foods restaurant and shows Jules his garden where he grows fresh vegetables. When she confesses having given up a landscape-designing career to stay home as a housewife, he hires her to landscape his backyard. They get along so well that they become involved in a sexual relationship. Paul gives the impression of being a sincere guy who wants to assume some responsibility in the children's' lives. He has been leading a bachelor's life but he comes to enjoy having dinner and getting together with his son and daughter.
At this point all parties except Nic (who has not yet met Paul and not wanted to) are happily interacting. Paul is growing into the concept of family life and fatherhood, a question mark has been removed from the minds of Laser and Joni, and Jules seems to be on the way to rediscovering an abandoned part of her emotional and physical life. Nic is persuaded to meet Paul for dinner at his home where he cooks his organic recipes for them. Nic imbibes wine excessively, in many scenes, which reveals the stress she is under from her duties as a physician, and the imminent leaving of Joni for college. We are never sure who is the mother of which child. You can also see that she is dependent emotionally on Jules, as Jules is on her financially.
When Nic goes upstairs to use the bathroom she discovers Jules' long red hair in the bathtub drain, and looking further, in Paul's bed. Of course this leads to an emotional scene and a blow up of the developing good alternative family relationships. It is very understandable that Nic would become so upset-she fears that Jules will desert her for Paul.
For awhile we are left wondering which way the story will go, until one night, after Jules has been sleeping on the living room couch at her house, she makes a declaration to the children and Nic that she is not leaving and apologizes for her infidelity and assures them she is back to being her old self. At this point depending on your personal viewpoint you will either feel glad or sad.
This is a complex intersection of different viewpoints. Jules has a chance to become the woman perhaps she was meant to be. Is she stronger than she seems, or really wishy-washy? When the sexual relationship began with Paul, it was she who initiated it when she spontaneously hugged him out of happiness after she showed him her work in his yard and he complimented her. She kissed him happily, and then it suddenly became a passionate kiss and they ended up in bed together.
Working at landscape designing, resuming her abandoned career, obviously fulfilled her and made Jules happy. Paul is a handsome and masculine man, a dominant personality because he dropped out of college to start his career and build up his business as a restaurateur. You can see Jules has a need to be loved and cared for. She needs that more than being an independent career woman. She easily falls under the domination of a strong personality. But she has an emotional nature that needs to express itself artistically. When she made the decision to break up with Paul and remain with Nic and her family she chose safety. It leaves you wondering if she may change her mind in a few years when Laser moves out to attend college.
Paul, when breaking up with his girl friend after he became involved with Jules, told her he wanted to settle down and have a family. This indicated he was ready to settle down with Jules and regard Laser and Joni as his new family. The end of the movie emphasizes the human need for close associations, as in a family, when Paul goes to visit them. Nic answers the door and, seeing Paul, exclaims in a fury, "Get your own family!"
Which is the reason I had to write an analysis of "The Kids Are All Right." From my observations of human life, jealousy and possessiveness head the list of the destructive emotions and traits. Whether you look back at the story of Cain and Abel, it is always the same: jealousy and possessiveness. We keep hearing the plaintiff question "Why can't we all get along?" Not until we get rid of our own worst selves.


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The Johnstown Inclined Plane is a cable-hauled railway that provides transportation between downtown Johnstown, on the floor of the Conemaugh River valley, and the borough of Westmont, on top of the bluff that overlooks the valley from the west. Like the two "inclines" in nearby Pittsburgh, the Inclined Plane is a funicular, which uses two cars that counterbalance each other and always move in opposite directions. The stationary engine at the upper station needs to provide only enough power to overcome friction and the difference in the weights of the two cars. The cars leave the upper and lower stations simultaneously, and always pass at the midpoint of the track. Unlike its cousins in Pittsburgh, the Inclined Plane carries vehicles as well as passengers.
The Inclined Plane is 896.5 feet (273.3 m) long and has a vertical height of 502.5 feet (153 m), which gives it a grade of nearly 72%. Each car can carry a load of fifteen tons. It was originally driven by a steam engine, but now uses a 400-horsepower (aboaut 300 kW) electric motor.
The Inclined Plane was built in response to the Johnstown Flood of 1889, as an emergency escape route during future floods (which function it served in 1936 and 1977) and as a tool for developing Westmont. It began operation on 1 June 1891. At first it was owned and operated by the Cambria Inclined Plane Railway, which was controlled by the Cambria Iron Works and its corporate successors. In the 1930s, it began to run at a financial deficit, which the steel company did not want to bear, so in 1935 the Borough of Westmont took it over.
After World War II, as cars became more common and roads to Westmont became better, traffic on the Inclined Plane decreased and subsidies increased. Finally, the Borough of Westmont decided that it could no longer afford to subsidize the Inclined Plane, and closed it on 31 January 1962. The Cambria County Tourist Council took over operation (while Westmont retained ownership), re-opened it on 4 July 1962, and promoted it as a tourist attraction. In 1982, the Cambria County Transit Authority took over ownership, which allowed it to apply for public transportation grants to rebuild the Inclined Plane during 1983-84. Operation is now in the hands of a corporation with connections to the tourist council and the transit authority.
Reference: Richard A. Burkert and Ellen Mountjoy Cooper, Uphill all the Way: Johnstown and Its Inclined Plane (Cambria County Tourist Council, 1985)
These pictures were taken on 25 July 2003.
[picture] The Inclined Plane can be seen from all over downtown Johnstown, as in this view from the Johnstown Expressway (PA 56).
[picture] The lower station is on the west bank of Stony Creek, which flows into the Conemaugh River a short distance to the north. Its only access is via a wooden-deck truss bridge that spans the creek.
[picture #1] | [picture #2] Two full-length views of the Inclined Plane, from near the lower station. A footbridge provides access across busy Roosevelt Boulevard.
[picture] The automobile entrance leads off Roosevelt Boulevard, on the north side of the bridge.
[picture] Passengers board at the lower station.
[picture] Approaching the upper station, we get a close-up view of the end of the track.
[picture] The platform of the upper station, with a car waiting at the left, the operator's booth in the middle, and the entrance to the gift shop on the far side. The operator is standing at the right.
[picture] Looking through the window of the operator's booth, we can see the control panel.
[picture] Looking out from the upper station, we get a spectacular view of downtown Johnstown and the Conemaugh River valley as a car approaches.
[picture] A view of the upper station from across the street. At the left is the station entrance, at the right is a gift shop. Out of sight further to the right is a visitor center with historical displays about Johnstown and the Inclined Plane.
[picture] Through windows in the gift shop and the visitor center on the other side, we can look down on the machinery that drives the Inclined Plane. The cable coming off the top of the large drum and leaving the picture at lower right is one of the driving cables. The other one comes off the bottom of the drum, below floor level. Both cables have to turn again through 90 degrees to reach the track, an unusual design required by the short front-to-back distance inside the station.
[picture] A side view of the upper station shows the tallness of the cars, caused by the steepness of the incline. The original cars had two levels, with vehicles above and pedestrians below.
[picture] Passengers enjoy the view out the front and sides of a car at the upper station as they wait for their trip downhill to begin. Most of the interior is actually intended for vehicles; the passenger compartment is at the right.
[picture] Most passengers don't use the passenger compartment, but it's a good place to sit down if they don't want to stand. Note this is not the same car shown in the previous picture! The two cars are mirror images of each other in layout.
[picture] The operator lowers the gate behind a car that has just driven on board for a trip down.
[picture] The car drives off at the lower station.
[front] | [back] Round-trip ticket. The operator didn't get around to collecting the stub on the return trip.
This page was last updated on 7 October 2004, and reviewed on 21 May 2005.
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James P. Leeds Sr. tells The Associated Press that his 74-year-old wife, Anne, died Saturday night in the Massachusetts crash. James serves on the board of commissioners in Longport, a resort town in southern New Jersey.
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Ohio State Associate Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Gary Maul discusses first year engineering program at Ohio State Marion.
Written by Kurt Moore as published in The Marion Star
Saturday, December 17, 2011
MARION - Educators and industries are working together in a common pursuit. They want more students to consider majoring in engineering.
Their attempts are largely geared around making it sound cool.
That can be seen through such events as the TRECA Marion Area VEX Robotics Qualifier held recently. It is also behind a push to educate students about what engineers actually do.
Their target? Students like Tri-Rivers Career Center senior Kelsea Sullivan, who is honing her skills by competing and who already has her mind set on engineering.
The push is coming as educators and industry leaders warn the United States is facing a shortage of engineers. Gary Maul, an associate professor emeritus teaching engineering at The Ohio State University at Marion, remembers when he was in seventh grade and President John Kennedy pushed the importance of space exploration.
"There was a huge push for science and engineering," he said.
Now many of the baby boomers who went into the field to answer his call are retiring. It has led to shortages in aerospace defense work as well as in other areas. There are concerns there aren't enough youth considering engineering to fill the void.
Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini has stated in media reports that China and India are outpacing the United States in the percentage of engineers graduating. Statistics from the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which Otellini co-chairs, show that about 120,000 engineering students graduate a year compared to about a million a year in China and India.
Vivek Wadhwa, a tech entrepreneur and researcher, stated in a Washington Post opinion piece that the data is flawed because of different definitions of "engineering." He agreed, though, that many American children aren't interested in engineering, and top engineering graduates often choose other professions.
Local efforts to change this include robotics competitions. Most school districts host some sort of robotics program. Marion County 4-H offers a LEGO version. Educators hope students will get hooked and consider what careers are available.
Sullivan's a believer.
"I've always liked math, solving problems," she said. "I like the computer engineering aspect. I live on my computer."
There also are efforts to make math fun, such as the recent Marion Mathematics Challenge on the Marion Campus.
Asked why more students aren't considering various engineering studies, Tri-Rivers engineering instructor Ritch Ramey said because it's strenuous and takes a lot of math, science and problem solving.
"It takes a special person to be a problem solver," he said. "You've got to be able to focus and sit down and see a problem through. Got to be willing to adapt."
Intel interviewed 1,004 teens with computer access to study their perceptions of engineering. The survey found many have positive opinions about engineering but few consider it because they perceive it as too difficult.
Forty-one percent associated engineering with the word "difficult" while 12 percent used the word "cool."
Slightly more than a quarter of teens interviewed had considered a career in engineering.
Solutions suggested by the survey included teaching students more about what engineering is. About 44 percent said more information on engineering might make teens consider engineering.
Possibilities include teaching them that engineering majors make an average yearly income of $75,000 after graduation.
Intel suggested there's also a "cool" factor. Sound engineers design the acoustics for the music teens hear. Engineers design the roller coasters they ride. Engineers make driving, text-messaging and social media possible.
"Being an engineer is really interesting," said Jeff Garlock, associate chief engineer at Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc., as he talked about changing students' mindset. "It's a very dynamic area to go into. It's very tech, cutting edge."
Maul agreed that increasing exposure in high school could help. He talked about how TV shows have lawyers and police as characters but not engineers.
Outreach includes efforts to draw more females and minorities. Garlock said this diversity of opinions is needed, including when products are developed. He included as an example how Honda's CRV was designed with enough room in the console to hold handbags. Such views show what women can bring to the planning table.
"They too can be really successful," said Dave Wagner, dean of engineering technologies at Marion Technical Center.
"It's for everybody, not just the guys," he said of engineering.
The Marion Campus continues efforts to draw students into the field.
Wagner said Marion Technical College's alternative energy program is "really taking off" as the focus increases on wind, solar and geothermal energies. Its electrical engineering programs are strong, as are its mechanical engineering and electrical utilities programs.
Ohio State Marion hired Maul this year as it launched a first-year engineering program so students can take two of the early engineering courses on campus. The initiative focused on helping local students start out in Marion and save some money rather than immediately having to go to the main campus in Columbus.
Students in Marion's first Engineering 181 course learned about 3D computer modeling, built solar meters and used fuel cells. They also built bridges with 50 grams of balsa wood that were capable of holding more than 70 pounds.
"We've had really good interest," Maul said, crediting some of it with Marion County's strong history of manufacturing.
Engineering 181 and 183 will be offered winter quarter. Ohio State Marion is preparing to introduce sophomore-level classes next school year.
Tri-Rivers also offers engineering classes, including engineering technology.
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Halfway mark reached for OPSU bull test
The beef bulls consigned to the 62nd annual Oklahoma Panhandle State University Bull Test have completed 56 days of the 112 day performance test. The bulls have an overall average daily gain of 4.15 pounds. The test will be completed Feb. 1, 2014, and the top 60 head will sell in the 62nd annual Performance Tested Sale, Feb. 24.
Phil Light, Turpin, Okla., has the top gaining junior age bull with an ADG of 5.55 pounds, on a son of Connealy Final Product. Light also has the second ranked junior on another son of Connealy Final Product with an ADG of 5.2 pounds. Russell Fields of Cashion, Okla., has an Angus tied for second place on an ADG of 5.2 pounds. His bull is sired by SAV Mandan 5664.
In the junior pen division, Braden Naylor of Balko, Okla., has the top pen with an ADG of 4.59 pounds on his pen of three bulls, one Maine and two Simmentals. Light has the second, third and fourth ranked pens on ADG's of 4.48, 4.41 and 4.05 pounds, respectively.
Al Rutledge of Stillwater, Okla., has the top ranked senior age bull with an ADG of 5.91 pounds on a son of GAR New Design 5050. He also has the third-ranked senior with an ADG of 5.5 pounds on another son of the GAR New Design bull. Carl Cook of Galveston, Texas, has the second ranked senior bull on an Angus sired by the GAR New Design bull with an ADG of 5.52 pounds.
The top pen of senior bulls is the Al Rutledge pen of three Angus with an ADG of 5.26 pounds. Wink Farms of Panhandle, Texas, pen of three Angus with an ADG of 4.63 pounds is in second place. Two of his bulls were sired by GAR Ingenuity and one by AAR Ten X 7008 SA. In third place is an OPSU pen of three Angus with an ADG of 4.52 pounds. These bulls are sons of GAR OAF 1I2 Rito 7041G.
The next weigh-day is Jan. 4. Those interested in following the performance of the bulls through the test can contact Gwen Martin, OPSU Animal Science Department, at 580-349-1500 to be placed on the mailing list to receive the performance reports.
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Pinging in the rain: Boffins track wet spots using phone masts
Dutch university boffins working with meteorological experts and, er, T-Mobile have mapped rainfall using records of radio attenuation, producing real-time maps as good as radar and a lot cheaper. Not that they tried real-time first: as the writeup in the National Academy of Sciences explains, the proof-of-concept uses …
Very neat
A question would be how vague the operators are about stating the exact location of their masts and how much does that affect any derived weather modelling.
Note this would be for weather modelling and nowcasting rather than climate change.
Thumbs up for clever use of data to derive secondary information.
As to why it's never been done before I guess the operators never cared (it's a problem they can't do anything about other than re-site their masts) and the researchers who never asked, probably because they either didn't think the operators kept this sort of data or would not release it to them.
Ok I knew I heard this before
Ignoring the fact the Beeb reported this 2 days ago...
Similar research from quite a few years back, although not quite the same.
Except that
not all of us read every article on the Beeb, so the Reg's rebroadcasting of it here means that I for one would never have known about this had they not done so.
Just because a news site doesn't print a story within 5 minutes of it breaking doesn't mean the story is no longer relevant.
I'm happy to wait two days
for the puns.
"Pinging in the rain" - love it.
Make sharing data a part of the licence agreement
If they want to use microwave links, make them cough up statistics as part of the deal.
There, fixed.
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Combine it with data from sky stb's (relative signal strengths from hour to hour) and you've got a hell of a lot more data points.
As most networks, includung T-mobile, have massive gaps in their networks how were they able to be so precise?
Re: Precision?
Is "includung T-mobile" a comment on the sh!tty nature of the coverage?
More seriously, we could crowdsource the locations of the sodding EE masts. I have an app called Llama installed on my Android phone the purpose of which is to automate actions depending on where it finds itself in relation to cell towers, which it uniquely identifies, with the time it came within range. If enough people correlated their GPS positions with picking up/dropping certain cells we could locate the damn things well enough, I guess. Oh, wait, wasn't it something like this that got Aubrey, Berry and Campbell into hot water?
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Today, NORMA JEAN LONE LODGE, 26, from Anadarko, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve 36 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine and maintaining a drug premises in Caddo County, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
According to Court records, from March 27 through May 1, 2012, Lone Lodge and Craig Hal Nenaikita, 24, from Oklahoma City, used a house at 30151 U.S. Highway 271, located north of Anadarko, in Caddo County to receive, store, and distribute methamphetamine. During the course of the conspiracy, Lone Lodge and Nenaikita sold methamphetamine on multiple occasions to an informant. The pair were indicted on July 10, 2012.
On August 30, 2012, Lone Lodge pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine and maintaining a drug premises. Previously, on July 25, 2012, Lone Lodge was released to the Carver Center in Oklahoma City to complete residential drug treatment while awaiting sentencing and ordered to refrain from any use of drugs. During her stay at the Carver Center, Lone Lodge tested positive for K2, a synthetic drug, during a random urine analysis. Lone Lodge's use of K2 violated the terms of her supervision, resulting in a higher sentencing guideline range. At the sentencing hearing today, Judge Russell took into consideration her use of this controlled substance when he sentence her to serve 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release when her prison terms ends.
On August 30, 2012, Nenaikita pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine. Nenaikita awaits sentencing.
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Patient is a 20 year old male involved in a MVA three months ago, who has been receiving chiropractic care following his accident. Patient c/o back, neck and shoulder pain as well as headaches approximately three times per week.
Pertinent negatives: he denies shortness of breath, changes in vision, dizziness, fainting or psychiatric history. He denies any loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness in extremities or painless injuries.
The remainder or the review of symptoms was negative.
Non-obese, normotensive male.
Cranial nerves intact. Sensation intact in upper and lower extremities to light touch with monofilament exam, pin prick, and vibration. Position sense intact in great toes and thumbs bilaterally.
Normal reflexes in upper and lower extremities.
Quantitative strength testing revealed some weakness.
Upper extremity: weakness in right biceps muscle compared to left
Lower extremity: weakness in left extensors, right flexors and flexor hallucis brevis.
Limited range of motion in cervical and lumbar spine.
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Patient received MRI wo contrast for cervical and lumbar spine 1 month post-MVA as well MRI w/wo contrast for thoracic spine and brain 3 months post-MVA.
Syringohydromyelia 2mm in maximum diameter, located centrally with no surrounding edema from cervicomedullary junction to T4. No evidence for a Chiari malformation. No abnormal spinal enhancement.
Cervical spine:
C3-C4: Small bilateral disc protrusions with mild narrowing of the bilateral neural foramina.
C4-C5 Tiny bilateral disc protrustions with slight narrowing of right neural foramen.
Lumbar spine:
Early mild facet arthropathy throughout lumbar spine.
L3-L4: Small left foraminal disc protrusion without significant spinal canal or neural foraminal stenosis.
L4-L5: Slight asymmetric disc bulge to left.
L5-S1 Tiny central disc protrusion.
-Persistent central canal
-Syringomyelia, syringohydromyelia, syrinx, spinal cyst
Persistent Central Canal/Post-traumatic Syringomyelia :: Read TopicDiagnosis Confirmed by: MRI/Clinical neurological exam
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Tx and Followup:Patient continues chiropractic care.
Patient consulted a neurosurgeon regarding the radiological report of syringohydromyelia. The neurosurgeon does not feel the patient is a surgical candidate.
Additional Discussion:This patient's cervical and thoracic spine MRIs were read as syringohydromyelia, however, it is more likely the patient has a persistent central canal, given the imaging characteristics, the lack of symptoms of syringomyelia, and the lack of Chiari malformation or severe spinal cord injury. The incidental finding of a persistent central canal requires no follow-up, in contrast to a diagnosis of post-traumatic syringomyelia or syringohydromyelia which requires follow-up, potential surgical intervention, and carries the grim prognosis of neurological deterioration.
Discussion Author(s): Ashley Conway,
Geoffrey Gerow, D.C.
Joanna Garvey, D.C.
Krishnan Kartha, M.D.
Joseph Serghany, M.D.
Greg Feld, M.D.
The Central canal is an ependymal lined tube within the spinal cord from the obex to the conus medullaris. It is usually present at birth and undergoes segmental occlusion with age and is obliterated most adults, but persists and is visible on MRI in about 1.5% of the adult population.(1,2) MRI has increased the number of incidental findings of fluid cavities within the spinal cord. The nomenclature used to describe these findings has lead to physician-physician miscommunication and patient confusion. (3)
Radiological use of syringomyelia, syringohydromyelia and syrinx as umbrella terms for these incidental findings which are likely not true syringomyelia, may imply a prognosis of progressive neurological deterioration to clinicians and patients, when in fact the patient may have a benign dilatation of a persistent central canal. (3, 4,5)
Clinically, syringomyelia is used to describe a characteristic central cord syndrome presenting with loss of pain and temperature sensation in a cape distribution (neck, shoulders and upper arms) or in the hands, with sparing of touch and vibration as well as areflexic weakness in the upper extremities (dissociated sensory loss). Patients may present with painless injuries or burns to hands from lack of pain sensation or experience central cord and dysesthetic pain. (6,7)
Syringomyelia is associated with developmental abnormalities of vertebral column, base of the skull or cerebellum and brainstem: 90% of the time, syringomyelia is in association with a Chiari I malformation.(8) There are also acquired cases, such as post-traumatic syringomyelia occurring after serious spinal cord injury, sometimes many years later. It is estimated that 21-28% of patients with spinal cord injuries develop syringes, 30-50% will have some cystic spinal cord changes and 1-9% will have symptoms. (9)
Syringomyelia was coined by Ollivier d'Angers in 1827, before the recognition of the central canal as a normal structure. 10 After the central canal was recognized as a normal structure, it was assumed that the cavitations of the spinal cord previously described as syringomyelia were dilatations of the canal, and the term hydromyelia came into use. By the late 1800s, cavities unconnected to the central canal were described and it was suggested that syringomyelia be reserved for extracanicular cavities and that the term hydromyelia be used to describe dilatation of the central canal. (8)
At present, several classification schemes exist. Several factors likely contribute to lack of consensus concerning the nomenclature, including controversy regarding the pathogenesis, natural history of disease, and best treatment.
A classification scheme in Adams and Victorâs Principles of Neurology textbook is based on patency of the foramen magnum and distinguishes between developmental/acquired, but not between intra/extracanicular cavities: (8)
⢠Type I. Syringomyelia with obstruction of the foramen magnum and dilatation of the central canal (developmental type)
⢠Type II. Syringomyelia without obstruction of the foramen magnum (idiopathic developmental type)
⢠Type III. Syringomyelia with other diseases of the spinal cord (acquired types)
D. Secondary myelomalacia from cord compression
⢠Type IV. Pure hydromyelia (developmental dilatation of the central canal)
Milhorat et al. published a classification scheme based on communication with the fourth ventricle:(11)
⢠1. Communicating syringomyelia - dilations of the central canal that are continuous with the fourth ventricle
⢠2. Noncommunicating syringomyelia - dilations of the central canal that do not communicate with the fourth ventricle. Primary and parenchymal cavitations - extracanalicular syringes that originate in the spinal cord parenchyma and do not communicate with the central canal or fourth ventricle.
⢠3. Atrophic syringes occurring with myelomalacia (syringomyelia ex vacuo)
⢠4. Neoplastic cysts.
Why does differentiating between post-traumatic syringomyelia and a persistent central canal/hydromyelia matter?
⢠1. For patients: to prevent unnecessary anxiety, testing and follow-up in those with persistent central canals found incidentally on imaging that are unlikely to progress or be the cause of patient symptoms.
⢠2. For clear communication between physicians, eg radiologists and primary care physicians/neurologists/neurosurgeons.
⢠3. For legal purposes eg, in the case of potential post-traumatic syringomyelia in patients involved in litigation related to their injury.
⢠4. For identifying true syringomyelia subgroups likely to share a common pathogenesis for research purposes.
Despite a body of research, syringomyelia pathogenesis remains controversial. Acquired syringomyelia is associated with conditions that alter CSF flow or irritate the cord such as trauma, hemorrhage, meningitis, neoplasms or arachnoiditis. Post-traumatic syringes are commonly found in vascular watershed areas, suggesting ischemia may play a role in formation of a syrinx. Another possibility may be inflammation leading to edema and cyst formation or absorption of a hematoma leading to a cyst. Within the cyst, passive fluid accumulation is unlikely because syringes have high opening pressures.(9) The theory that obstructing CSF flow is involved in the pathogenesis fits with the association of syringomyelia with subarachnoid adhesions and the improvement in patients that undergo arachnoidolysis. For a detailed review of the postulated hydrodynamic mechanism of syrinx formation, see Greitz et al.(12)
80% of post-traumatic syringomyelia patients are males, which can be attributed to the male preponderance in spinal cord injury. 9
Post-traumatic Syringomyelia:
Prognosis: Usually slow progressive decline in neurological function, however some estimates for static course over 10 years are as high as 50%.(9)
Treatment: When to intervene surgically remains debatable. Some advocate for surgical intervention as soon as a cavity is identified to prevent further permanent loss of function, while others recommend waiting until the condition is symptomatic and progressing. Patients managed nonsurgically should have magnetic resonance imaging every 6â12 months and close clinical observation.(9) Post-traumatic syringomyelia arachnoidolysis or untethering was shown to be superior to shunting for patients with progressing symptoms. 94% were at least stabilized with arachnoidolysis. 13
Persistent central canal:
Holly and Batzdorf retrospectively reviewed 45 patients with slit-like syrinx cavities with an average size of 2mm who were imaged for mechanical spinal pain, radicular pain, paresthesia, numbness, and muscle spasm. Patients were followed for an average of about 3 years. The authors concluded that these cavities were remnants of the central canal â not true syringomyelia â were not the cause of patient symptoms and were unlikely to change in size. 4 Roser et al. also followed hydromyelia patients for 36.9 months, none had radiological progression of hydromyelia.3
Description of syringomyelia from Spinal Cord Medicine, Principles and Practice: 14
âAn intramedullary cyst with well-defined margins, which is eccentric, extends beyond the limits of the original cord injury, does not communicate with the central canal or the fourth ventricle, and is isodense with CSF (i.e., low-density T1-weighted image, high-density T2-weighted image) is characteristic. Syrinx MRI features that are associated with neurologic decline include long and wide, CSF flow from cardiac-gated images, poorly demarcated T2-weighted signal hyperintensity at the rostral extent, flow void sign on T2-weighted images suggesting high pressure, and association with spinal stenosis.â
A study of axial MRIs from 115 patients found the following correlations: 15
â1) Symmetrically enlarged central cavities were asymptomatic or produced nonspecific neurological signs.
2) Central cavities that expanded paracentrally were associated with segmental signs referable to the paracentral component.
3) Eccentric cavities produced various combinations of long tract and segmental signs that could usually be related to the level, side, and specific quadrant of spinal cord cavitation.â
Persistent central canal is defined by Holly and Batzdorf as having a consistently thin diameter of the cavity (average 2mm) and its lack of pathogenic factors that alter CSF dynamics. 4
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Topic Author(s): Ashley Conway,
Geoffrey Gerow, D.C.
Joanna Garvey, D.C.
Krishnan Kartha, M.D.
Joseph Serghany, M.D.
Greg Feld, M.D.
The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
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When his engine went, he decided to create an electric BMW using off the shelf parts. Two years and four iterations later, Rimac created a 900-horsepower beast that can hit 60 mph in 3.3 seconds, top out at 174 mph and – depending on how much he flexes his right foot – travel for over 100 miles on charge.
So what's he doing with his lime green creation? Well, Rimac is now the proprietor of VST Conversions and while showing off his E30 to a couple execs from the German-owned RWE electric company, they decided to perform an impromptu drag race with the company's Tesla Roadster. See the results in the video below and check out the bonus clip of the BMW's development.
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Over the last week, attention has moved away from the merits of TransCanada's Energy East Pipeline project. As a result, and in the best interests of the project, Edelman and TransCanada have mutually agreed not to extend Edelman's contract beyond its current term. The contract concludes at the end of December, but Edelman will support the transition of work.Our Ideas
Digital Digest: What Edelman Canada is reading in digital marketing, technology and strategy. Fresh links served up Thursdays. This week's edition of Digital Digest was edited by Erin Collett, Victoria Neufeld, Alexandra Fahmey and Lauren Gross.
We can't even remember fall season now that holidays and snow are upon us. This week, we examine some cold weather campaigns, along with the most recent internet hashtag sensations. Read more »November 13, 2014 in Digital Digest, Our Ideas
Edelman is the leading independent, global marketing communications firm. We push the boundaries of traditional communications, using the latest social media and digital tools to establish a new era of public engagement between organizations and their constituents. With offices in …
With perceptions of health shifting from something that needs to be fixed to something that should be developed and improved within each facet of people's daily lifestyle, Edelman believes health today is everyone's business. As the world's largest agency and …
Richard Edelman and Edelman Toronto's Dave Fleet have been named to Communications Degree Guide's list of 'The 30 Best Communications and PR Blogs 2014.' Richard Edelman recently celebrated a decade of blogging, with his blog 6 a.m., and took the top agency blog spot on the list. Dave Fleet, senior vice president, Canada east digital, was recognized for his personal website, davefleet.com, and for his post "15 Top Tips for a Successful PR Career." Read the full Communications Degree Guide list here.
November 10, 2014 in External posts, Our Ideas
With perceptions of health shifting from something that needs to be fixed to something that should be developed and improved within each facet of people's daily lifestyle, Edelman believes health today is everyone's business. As the world's largest agency …
I joined Edelman three weeks ago and was quickly struck by the talent that exists on this team. Individually, everyone brings impressive levels of expertise drawn from seemingly endless skill sets, and collectively this expertise gives our clients a 360° view of how we can best support their brands.
There are many ways we come together on a daily basis to show up differently for our clients, but I was floored by how this mindset is amplified during The Little Give. This annual 48-hour corporate social responsibility initiative, which took place in Toronto this year from October 23-25, is intense (to say the least), but what each team is able to accomplish during this very limited timeframe is astonishing. Read more »November 7, 2014 in Our Ideas
Digital Digest: What Edelman Canada is reading in digital marketing, technology and strategy. Fresh links served up Thursdays. This week's edition of Digital Digest was edited by Caitlin Stewart, Victoria Neufeld, Erin Collett, and Jeff Lang-Weir.
The first step to creating great content has always been about understanding your audience and what they're looking for (particularly if they don't yet know they're looking for it). But what happens when the ways that you reach those audiences change, while the goals, and those watching, stay the same? This week, we look at some of the ways brands are tailoring their content to new platforms or shifting their approach to cut through the clutter and deliver the same message in new ways.
Tech Updates
Instagram's impressive growth is turning heads and marketers are taking note. Brands are now utilizing the mobile app to enhance their visual marketing strategy, and for good reason. Engagement on Instagram during Q3 2014 has risen 415 percent compared to the same period 2012 and now that Instagram is going to roll out paid advertising support, the game is only going to get more competitive! This shift has marketers thinking about how best to position content to drive quality results. Simply Measured crunched some numbers and Adweek provided some helpful tips for success, including:
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Risky business
Conventional wisdom has long held that brands should distance themselves from controversy, but recently some brands have become more willing to stake out a position on social issues. For example, Apple CEO Tim Cook became the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO last Thursday in an essay in Bloomberg Businessweek. He linked his announcement with Apple's corporate values and respect for equality. As well, Starbucks has released a video in partnership with OutTV filmed during World Pride 2014 in Toronto. The video featured contestants from Ru Paul's Drag Race. OutTV Chief Operation Officer Brad Danks said that public interest was so high that Starbucks had to move the shoot to avoid disruptions from fans and cited positive reaction from the gay community. While brands still run the risk that not all of their consumers will agree with their positions, more and more are finding it to be a risk worth taking. [DigiDay] [Marketing Mag] Starbucks, mentioned in this article, is an Edelman client, Apple and Sony are competitors to Edelman clients Samsung and Microsoft
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Edelman Canada's Digital Digest is a weekly bundle of links, served up on Edelman Canada's Our Ideas blog on Thursdays. It's also available by email. If you know someone who would like to be added to the mailing list, have any questions or just want to share some thoughts on anything you read here, email me. Let's get a conversation going.November 7, 2014 in Digital Digest, Our Ideas
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This post is part of a series on Cybersecurity. It was originally posted on Edelman.com.
On July 1, 2014, the Canadian government introduced Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) – a new law designed to regulate certain forms of electronic contact – including emails, texts, social media messages or any other form of electronic communication to a recipient. The underlying principle behind CASL is that such activities can only be carried out with consent from the recipient, under an "opt-in" approach.
If you are doing business in Canada, or planning to do so, it's good policy to employ best practices and engage with your stakeholders by following the new rules. Furthermore, you also need to familiarize yourself with CASL and its implications given that violations can carry significant monetary penalties. The law also applies to electronic messages originating outside Canada. Companies can be fined for up to $10,000,000 per violation. In addition to monetary penalties, companies could also potentially face criminal charges. Read more »October 29, 2014 in Our Ideas
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As a part of Edelman's Living in Color program, I joined my friends at Free The Children as they launched the 2014-2015 We Day tour. The first location of the 14-stop tour was Toronto, at the Air Canada Centre.
We Day is stadium-sized youth empowerment event that celebrates the actions young people take in their local and global communities
We Day not only brings together passionate young change-makers and educators, but it also rallies world leaders and entertainers who take the stage at each event to inspire the audience. This year in Toronto we had speakers and performers including Katie Couric, Big Sean, Joe Jonas, Kendrick Lamar and many more. Read more »October 23, 2014 in Our Ideas
Kraft MiO set out to make a meaningful impact on its target audience – millennial males – as the title sponsor of Toronto music festival, North by Northeast (NXNE). The challenge given to Edelman was relatively simple: turn the sponsorship of NXNE into something newsworthy and original that everyone will talk about.
NXNE – much like its American cousin, South by Southwest (SXSW) – is a fertile yet crowded place for marketing opportunities. Throughout the week of films, panels and five days of concerts from more than 650 bands, festivalgoers were looking for the best gigs, which often take place in pop-up and secret spaces. So we took over a Toronto Transit Commission streetcar and reimagined it as the most original venue the festival had ever seen – The MiO Squirtcar – moving (literally) concerts along the city's hippest stretch: Queen Street West. Partnering with NXNE and Much, The MiO Squirtcar was an official venue filled with an incredible lineup of acts (Reggie Watts, Macaulay Culkin's The Pizza Underground, Dragonette, and many others).
This massive undertaking entailed navigating countless logistics, and coordinating a huge creative effort, including naming, designing and illustrating the streetcar's exterior and much of its interior, producing artwork, and even outfitting staff members. All of this was unprecedented.
The team worked tirelessly in under two months, considering every detail, conducting vigorous media relations, and planning for the unexpected. Ultimately, The MiO Squirtcar ran for four wildly successful nights of shows, with onlookers staring agape as it passed by, music fans running alongside it to get on, and riders dancing and partying throughout the night.
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Itasca-based Aircell LLC has moved a step closer toward bringing in-flight broadband service to domestic air travel this year by entering into a technology partnership with Aricent Inc., a California company.
The alliance, announced Monday, pairs the two companies in the development of software and processing components for the data processor that enables Aircell's in-flight service, Gogo. The components will allow for a clean flow of information between on-board devices, such as laptops and PDAs, and Aircell's nationwide wireless network, which was completed in January. The "air-to-ground" network consists of 92 cell towers across the continental U.S.
"We needed somebody to come in and help us because we were on a very short deadline," said Joe Cruz, chief technology officer at Aircell.
Aircell plans to launch its Gogo service by the end of 2008. The company won Federal Aviation Administration approval for the service in April, and already has an agreement in place to equip 15 of AMR Corp.'s American Airlines aircraft with broadband. It is also working to bring broadband to all Virgin America Inc. passengers by the end of the year at an estimated cost of $12.95 per session for a six-hour flight. Shorter flights could cost less.
The potential for in-flight broadband "is pretty tremendous because it provides benefits in different ways," according to Richard Owen, executive director of the World Airline Entertainment Association.
For passengers, Owen said, the service provides the convenience of surfing the Web. Wireless service also would allow carriers to reduce the weight of planes through the elimination of cables now necessary to access in-flight communication systems. With high fuel prices putting a serious strain on carriers, Owen said, such cost savings would not be overlooked by airlines.
Mary Kirby, senior editor of Flight International magazine, said broadband would enable passengers "to dictate their own in-flight entertainment." Such capability, she explained, would give carriers the chance to scrap the pricey in-flight entertainment systems they often provide for passengers.
Aircell's Gogo plans represent the second significant push in recent years to provide commercial air travelers with broadband service. Chicago-based Boeing Co. first tried to offer broadband via satellites, but dropped the plan in 2006 due to high costs and a weak market for the service.
Since then, however, the market has changed, according to Kirby. "Staying connected," she said, "has become more and more important."
And although Aircell's air-to-ground service is typically slower than satellite-based broadband, she added, it is considered "generally, a much less expensive solution."