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Summer is the most popular time for weddings. However, this does not mean that you have to be limited only by traditional themes and solutions. We bring you the hottest trends in terms of decorating ideas for wedding receptions organized in summer.
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Bright hues are popular for summer weddings decoration. But we strongly recommend that you do not try to use immediately all colors. Otherwise, as a result you might transform your idyllic wedding into a circus tent. You are advised to give preference to sophisticated and more restrained shades of bright colors. Try to limit to two colors and additional accent colors that will allow you to achieve the aesthetic integrity of the festive space. The perfect solution may be monochrome composition with pink or bright orange tablecloths.
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Beach and garden themes are the most common solutions for a summer wedding. However, even if you opted for a traditional theme, your wedding does not have to be boring and predictable. To avoid this, you only need to create your own, personalized version of the usual motif. If your favorite place was a small cottage in the woods, you can always opt for a mountain or a forest theme. Another idea is to hint the direction of your honeymoon. For example, if you arrange a garden wedding reception, but your honeymoon is planned for Hawaii, just add orchids to your wedding bouquets.
Natural arrangements
Carved fruits and fruit sculptures are favored for the composition of the central pieces. However, there are other alternatives – much more unexpected and more attractive from an aesthetic point of view. Do you like fruit, but you dream of something new and original? Ask your florist to use these decorating ideas for wedding receptions to create an original, fun and 'seasonal' image. Another alternative is give preference to natural, environmentally friendly solutions. Use vases made of wood and they will give you a natural look.
Classic summer gifts, such as flip-flops and mini-thermos for beverages can certainly please the guests. But lately, the 'green trend' continues to gain momentum! Eco-friendly gifts are still at the peak of popularity. This choice seems particularly logical if you organize a wedding in the open air and use the gifts of nature as your natural scenery. Among the possible gifts you can offer aromatic herbs planted in glass jars or recycled cans. It is enough to decorate them with ribbons or paper in the colors of the wedding theme. If you are smart you can also use them as wedding decorations (and thus you will not cause any harm to the planet). In the same note you can offer packages with flower seeds as they symbolize rebirth and love for nature.


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Seems like only yesterday, poor old Wenger was getting pilloried for his teams performance, and Arsenal held up as a joke. How quickly things and circumstances change in football. Now it's 'poor' David Moyes receiving some of the same treatment dished out to Wenger. If AW doesn't sign a new contract, it will not be for want of anything but a piece of silver ware, and that's now down to our team. The end of this season will certainly be sweaty palms time, that's for sure....exciting though. Having said all of that, I do feel for the man Moyes; as I did for Wenger......If Moyes is a dyed in the wool football man, then it must be torment, as it was for 'the man' Wenger.....but you make your own choices and have to live by them.
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Dr. Pryor was killed in action in Iraq while serving in the United States Army on December 25, 2008. He was instrumental in the development of this idea, the acquisition of the data, and the early versions of the manuscript. He was an extraordinary clinician, researcher, teacher, mentor, and friend and is greatly missed at the University of Pennsylvania and beyond, by his many collaborators, patients, and friends.
Injury-adjusted Mortality of Patients Transported by Police Following Penetrating Trauma
Version of Record online: 16 DEC 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00948.x
© 2010 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Academic Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Issue 1, pages 32–37, January 2011
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Band, R. A., Pryor, J. P., Gaieski, D. F., Dickinson, E. T., Cummings, D. and Carr, B. G. (2011), Injury-adjusted Mortality of Patients Transported by Police Following Penetrating Trauma. Academic Emergency Medicine, 18: 32–37. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00948.x
Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2009.
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Background: More than a decade ago, the city of Philadelphia began allowing police transport of penetrating trauma patients.
Objectives: The objective was to determine the relation between prehospital mode of transport (police department [PD] vs. Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) emergency medical services [EMS]) and survival in subjects with proximal penetrating trauma.
Methods: The authors performed a retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected trauma registry data. All subjects who sustained proximal penetrating trauma and who presented to a Level I urban trauma center over a 5-year period (January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2007) were included. Mortality for subjects presenting by EMS was compared to that of those who arrived by PD transport in unadjusted and adjusted analyses. Unadjusted analyses were performed using the chi-square test, Wilcoxon rank sum test, and Student's t-test. Adjusted analyses were performed using logistic regression using the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS) methodology. Data are presented as percentages, odds ratios (ORs), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Total hospital length of stay was examined as a secondary outcome.
Results: Of the 2,127 subjects, 26.8% were transported to the emergency department (ED) by PD, and 73.2% by EMS. The mean (± standard deviation [SD]) age of PD subjects was 26.3 (±9.1) years and 92% were male versus EMS subjects whose mean (±SD) age was 31.5 (±11.8) years and of whom 87% were male. Overall, 70.8% sustained a gunshot wound (GSW), and 29.2% sustained a stab wound (SW). Overall Injury Severity Score (ISS) was 11.21 (ISS for PD, 14.2 ± 17.5; for EMS, 10.1 ± 14.5; p < 0.001), and 16.6% of the subjects died (PD, 21.4 ± 0.41%; EMS, 14.8 ± 0.36%; p < 0.001). In unadjusted analyses, PD subjects were more likely to die than EMS subjects (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.2 to 2.0; p < 0.001). When adjusting for injury severity using TRISS, there was no difference in survival between PD and EMS subjects (OR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.63 to 1.61). Median length of hospital stay was 1 day and did not differ according to mode of prehospital transport (p = 0.159).
Conclusions: Although unadjusted mortality appears to be higher in PD subjects, these findings are explained by the more severely injured population transported by PD. The current practice of permitting police officers to transport penetrating trauma patients should be continued.
There are nearly 18 million individuals transported to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance in the United States annually,1 with nearly 40% of these being transported for injury.2 Rapid transport of trauma victims to definitive care within the "golden hour" has been the goal for decades,3 but the validity of this time benchmark has been questioned.4,5 There has been substantial debate about whether injured adults should receive advanced interventions in the prehospital setting ("stay and stabilize") or simply be rapidly transported to definitive care ("scoop and run"). Several studies have suggested that delays in definitive care by emergency medical services (EMS) providers can negatively affect patient care, worsening both morbidity and mortality.6–11 However, benefit has been demonstrated with prehospital notification and treatment of specific disease states, such as myocardial infarction (MI)12 respiratory arrest,13 and with prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest.14
Penetrating trauma represents a subset of all major trauma and is recognized as a condition requiring rapid definitive surgical care. There is a clear time tradeoff associated with delivering advanced medical care in the prehospital setting,15 and the consequences of an incremental increase in prehospital time in hemorrhagic shock can have lethal outcomes.6,8,16,17
Nearly two decades ago, the city of Philadelphia implemented a policy allowing for police department (PD) transport of victims of penetrating trauma. Short-term outcomes were demonstrated to be equivalent for PD-transported patients.18 Given the substantial evolution of trauma care over time, we sought to examine the effect of this policy change on mortality.
In 2006 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report outlining the state of emergency care in the United States and made specific recommendations for improving care delivery.19 One of the key recommendations was a call for the standardization of emergency care; specifically, the IOM report calls for the federal government to "support the development of national standards for: emergency care performance measurement; categorization of all emergency care facilities and protocols for the treatment, triage, and transport of prehospital patients."19 Thus far, few studies have assessed which is the safest, most economically feasible way to deliver timely and appropriate care to trauma patients in the out-of-hospital setting. In the wake of this national call to action by the IOM, there is an increased urgency to develop an evidenced-based foundation to methodically improve the delivery of prehospital care.20
We sought to determine the relation between prehospital mode of transport (PD vs. EMS) and survival in victims of proximal penetrating trauma. Based on previous work,18 we hypothesized that severity adjusted mortality among penetrating trauma patients would be similar for individuals transported to the ED by police and by EMS.
Study Design
We performed a retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected trauma registry data. This study was approved by the institutional review board of the University of Pennsylvania with waiver of informed consent.
Study Setting and Population
The trauma registry is maintained as part of the state-mandated trauma reporting system and is a comprehensive database kept and maintained by an administrator at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). HUP is an urban, tertiary care teaching hospital and Level I trauma center with over 60,000 ED visits per year and is one of six Level I trauma centers within the city of Philadelphia. The trauma center at HUP sees nearly 3000 trauma contacts per year, of whom 20%–25% are penetrating.
Philadelphia is the sixth largest city area in the country, with a population just under 1.5 million. Annually, there are nearly 250,000 calls for emergency service in Philadelphia, and all are answered by the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD)-EMS ambulances that are part of the multitiered service provided by the PFD. During the study period, there were between 40 and 50 ambulances operating in the city. Most of the ambulances are staffed by crews that consist of either two paramedics or one paramedic and a firefighter/emergency medical technician. Near the end of the study period, a small number of basic life support ambulances were added to the response structure to augment existing service.
Just over 20 years ago, the Philadelphia regional EMS system developed trauma triage protocols for PD transport of individuals with penetrating trauma.18 At the time our study commenced, this was a well-established practice, with hundreds of subjects being delivered to trauma centers throughout the city of Philadelphia each year. The protocol for who transports which penetrating trauma patients is less clear: if EMS is on the scene first, they will transport the individual; however, if PD is on the scene first, depending on expected time of arrival of EMS, and their judgment of the severity of the injury, they may or may not elect to transport to the closest trauma center. No formal policy outlines how care should be provided to injured patients transported by police, and in practice (based on our observations) individuals transported by police are typically rendered no care, including even direct pressure on bleeding extremity wounds.
Study Protocol
We retrospectively searched the trauma registry to identify all subjects presenting to our Level I trauma center by PD or EMS during a 5-year study period (January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2007) with proximal penetrating trauma (any penetrating wound proximal to the elbow or knee), regardless of whether they had signs of life (SOL) on arrival to the hospital. Subjects who were transported by private vehicle or arrived to the ED by other means were excluded from the analysis as they were thought to represent a diverse subset of patients dissimilar to the PD or EMS cohorts.
We compared in-hospital mortality for subjects presenting by EMS to those who presented by PD in unadjusted and adjusted analyses. As a secondary outcome, we examined total hospital length of stay.
Data Analysis
The intent of this analysis was to explore the effect of mode of transport on outcome following proximal penetrating trauma. We used standard assumptions about alpha (0.05) and information from our data including baseline (EMS) mortality rate (14.9%), ratio of EMS-transported patients to police transported patients (3), relative risk of death for police transported patients (1.57), and number of deaths (353) to calculate our estimated power. Unadjusted analyses were performed using the chi-square test for categorical variables. The Wilcoxon rank sum test and Student's t-test for independent samples were used for nonnormally distributed and normally distributed data, respectively. Adjusted analyses were performed using direct logistic regression. To adjust for injury severity, we used the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS) methodology.21,22 The TRISS score incorporates both a physiologic scoring system (the Revised Trauma Score and an anatomic injury scoring system (the Injury Severity Score [ISS]). TRISS is a standard and comprehensive comparator used to correct for severity in outcome analysis and to predict survival in trauma patients.21,22 TRISS coefficients appropriate for penetrating trauma were used, and the Z, W, and M statistics were calculated.21 The Z statistic measures the statistical significance of differences between the actual number of survivors in the sample and the expected number of survivors according to standardized norms. Thus, Z is a measure of statistical significance. The W statistic measures clinical significance by describing the number of survivors more (or less) than expected per 100 patients treated. The M statistic measures the degree to which the severity of injury for the study patients is similar to the standardized patient population.23–25 Severe injury was defined as ISS > 15. Given our concern about multiple comparisons causing an increased likelihood of Type I error in our unadjusted analyses, we have defined significance conservatively by dividing the traditional p-value of 0.05 by the number of analyses performed (n = 10) to arrive at a threshold for significance of p < 0.005.
Description of Study Population
Our power to detect an overall effect for transport type was 0.94 given the inputs we describe. A total of 2,429 subjects who had sustained proximal penetrating injuries were identified. A total of 302 subjects, who otherwise met enrollment criteria but arrived at the ED via private vehicle, were excluded from the analysis, leaving 2,127 for analysis. Demographics of the population are in Table 1. Overall, 71% (1,506/2,127) of the subjects sustained gunshot wounds (GSWs) while 29% (621/2,127) sustained stab wounds (SWs). Among subjects transported by PD, 500 of the 569 (88%) were GSWs, and 69 of the 569 (12%) were SWs. Of the subjects transported by EMS, 1,006 of the 1,558 (65%) were GSWs, while 552 of the 1,558 (35%) were SWs. Overall ISS was 11.2 (SD ±15.5). Overall mortality was 16.6%. About a quarter of patients with GSW (22.4%) died while only a fraction (2.4%) of patients with SW died. Median length of hospital stay was 1 day and did not significantly differ according to mode of prehospital transport.
|Patient Characteristics
|Police Transport (n = 569)
|EMS Transport (n = 1,558)
|Mean age, years (±SD)
|26.3 (±9.1)
|31.5 (±11.8)
|Sex (% male)
|GSW, n (%)
|500 (87.9)
|1,006 (64.6)
|Mean ISS (±SD)
|14.2 (±17.5)
|10.1 (±14.5)
|Death (%)
|Death, GSW (%)
|Death, SW (%)
|Death with SOL on ED arrival (%)
|Death, ISS >15 (%)
|Median hospital LOS [IQR]
|1 [1–6]
|1 [1–4]
Unadjusted Analysis (Table 1)
Police were more likely to transport more severely injured subjects overall (ISS = 14.2 ± 17.5 vs. 10.1 ± 14.5; p < 0.0001) and more severely injured subjects with GSWs (ISS = 15.3 ± 17.9 vs. 12.9 ± 15.9; p < 0.005), but not more severely injured individuals with SWs (6.2 ± 1.3 vs. 5.0 ± 0.4; p = 0.16). Overall, patients transported by PD were more likely to die compared to patients transported by EMS (21.4% vs. 14.8%, odds ratio [OR] = 1.57, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.22 to 2.01; p < 0.001). The association between police transport and increased odds of death persisted when the analysis was restricted to subjects with SOL on arrival to the ED (12.9% vs. 8.4%, OR = 1.61, 95% CI = 1.15 to 2.23; p = 0.003). This relationship, however, was no longer found to be significant when the analysis was restricted to the severely injured (44.5% vs. 41.91%, OR = 1.11, 95% CI = 0.79 to 1.57; p = 0.55).
Subjects who sustained GSWs were significantly more likely to die than those who were stabbed (OR = 11.69, 95% CI = 6.90 to 21.30; p < 0.001). This was true independent of the mode of prehospital transport (PD 24% vs. 2.9%, OR = 10.58, 95% CI = 2.55 to 43.82, p < 0.001; EMS 21.6% vs. 2.4%, OR = 11.47, 95% CI = 6.49 to 20.29; p < 0.001). Among those who sustained GSWs, there was no difference in mortality between PD and EMS transports (24% vs. 21.7%, OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 0.89 to 1.47; p = 0.307). Among SW subjects, analysis also demonstrated that there was no difference in mortality (2.9% vs. 2.4%, OR = 1.24, 95% CI = 0.27 to 5.60; p = 0.782).
Adjusted Analyses (Table 2)
|Police OR
The Z statistic in our sample was 1.73 and the W statistic was 0.72. These are both within the acceptable range. The M statistic for our sample was 0.90, indicating an excellent match between our study group and baseline patient groups.21
We used logistic regression to compare the effect of mode of transport on injury-adjusted mortality following penetrating trauma. The final model included mechanism of prehospital transport and TRISS as predictor variables and death as the dependent variable. In this injury-adjusted model, PD subjects were not significantly more likely to die (OR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.63 to 1.61) compared to EMS-transported patients. This relationship persisted in subgroup analysis of patients with GSW (OR = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.49 to 1.30) and with severe injuries (OR = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.47 to 1.44).
In this study, we retrospectively analyzed a large population of patients with proximal penetrating trauma to explore the effect of difference in mode of transportation (PD vs. EMS) on outcome. We found that patients transported by PD had a higher mortality rate but that they were also more likely to be shot and more likely to be severely injured compared to patients transported by EMS. Although we demonstrated an overall higher mortality rate among patients transported by police, we found no difference between transport groups in subgroup analyses examining patients by mechanism of injury (GSW or SW). Similarly, we also found that adjustment for injury severity removed the effect of mode of transport on outcomes. Both of these analyses suggest that although police transported patients may appear to be associated with a greater risk of dying, this observed difference is largely attributable to case mix. We are left with the conclusion that police transport of patients with proximal penetrating injuries is not associated with lower survival when compared to EMS-transported patients.
Our findings are even more interesting when compared to those of the study by Branas et al.,18 which used data from a similar patient population collected between 11 and 17 years prior to ours. Their data collection period came immediately after the adoption of a policy (specific to this city) that empowered the PD to transport victims of penetrating trauma. Although the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) formalized its trauma transport policy fairly recently, the PPD had been transporting trauma patients for well over 20 years.18 In the study by Branas et al., mortality was lower for patients transported by PD. After adjusting for TRISS in our study, we found no difference in survival between patients transported by PD compared to EMS. It is interesting that similar conclusions were drawn in both of these studies and suggests that further research in this area could significantly affect policy.
Our findings challenge the current standard of EMS transport of critically injured patients and add to the ongoing debate about the preferred approach to injured adults in the prehospital setting. For decades, researchers have described the uncertainty associated with the decision to engage in aggressive prehospital interventions ("stay and stabilize") or to rapidly transport ("scoop and run") patients with severe injury. There is mounting and compelling evidence that acute life support interventions do not improve survival in the critically injured patient,8,9,11,26,27 but there remains much to understand about the relationship between prehospital time and outcomes for injured patients. Several recent studies have suggested an inverse relationship between on scene time, out-of-hospital time, and outcomes.8,9,27–31 This makes sense in the context of our findings that adjusted outcomes are similar for patients brought to the hospital by EMS and PD.
There are a few policy implications associated with our findings. We believe that these findings suggest that implementation of police transport for this patient population is safe and may help to decompress overwhelmed EMS systems or those without any significant EMS structure either in rural areas or in resource-poor countries. There are implications for dispatch policy, as well, in that proximity of the prehospital provider to the injury scene should outweigh the level of training when making decisions about dispatch for penetrating injury.
The ability of these data to inform a formal dispatch policy within the United States is limited, as individual systems may not have well-integrated police and fire/EMS services. However, during EMS "out-of-service" times, our data suggest that alternate (police) means of transport may be both safe and efficient. Additionally, these data reassure us that in instances when EMS response is delayed, we are doing the right thing for the patients by getting them to the appropriate, definitive care as quickly as possible.
Furthermore, the scene and transport logistics of patients with penetrating trauma in an urban environment like Philadelphia are often problematic. Scene instability and limited ambulance availability are common contributing factors that make these scenes difficult to manage. In an ideal situation, there would always be adequate police and EMS resources immediately available that would arrive on the scene simultaneously, with EMS units staging until the police have assured scene safety. However, when an ambulance is not on the scene, and a police vehicle is readily available, the use of police transport to a trauma center is a viable option to deliver the patient rapidly to definitive care. In situations where both police and EMS are on the scene, the patient should always be transported by EMS while police continue to maintain scene safety and initiate their investigation. This approach is further supported by our collective observational experience that patients transported by police rarely receive any medical care during transport, including the lack of any basic bleeding control measures.
Our study differs in some important ways from previous work. Our overall mortality rate was higher than in the study conducted by Branas et al.,18 and mortality for patients transported by PD has increased from 13.3% to 21.4%. This is surprising given advances in surgical technique and surgical critical care, but several possible explanations exist. This phenomenon may be due to the fact that improved communication has facilitated improved notification and response times and thus the fact that more patients are surviving to hospital arrival rather than being pronounced dead in the field. It may also be possible that that weaponry and injury patterns have evolved significantly to become more lethal in the nearly two decades since the earlier study.32–36 We found that police transport more patients with GSWs than SWs, and this may explain the initial unadjusted differences in mortality that we observed.
It should be noted that we chose this unique population of prehospital transports because of their critical nature and high mortality and our desire to improve prehospital care. We hold in the highest regard and maintain the utmost respect for the highly trained and dedicated professionals of the PFD. These men and woman are our colleagues who tirelessly and resolutely serve the citizens of Philadelphia and this study in no way is a critique of their practice. Our ultimate goal is to develop an evidence-based approach that builds on the heritage and foundation established by the PFD, this nation's first fire department. We do this in an effort to improve prehospital care for all, especially in the setting of increasingly limited health care resources.
This study and others like it should provoke thought as to how we manage and transport critically injured individuals with penetrating trauma from the prehospital environment. Although these findings support the scoop and run paradigm, they are in no way definitive. Further study is needed to prospectively evaluate the effect that mode of transportation, provider, out-of-hospital time, and prehospital intervention has on the outcomes of patients suffering from penetrating trauma and other time-sensitive conditions. We believe that the effect of the policy implications described above could be prospectively and systematically measured in regions considering the inclusion of police officers as prehospital providers for the injured.
Our results are not definitive because there may be limitations associated with our analysis. We performed several unadjusted analyses, and despite performing a Bonferroni adjustment by setting our p-value at 0.005 to decrease the likelihood of making a Type I error, it is possible that our unadjusted analyses may be erroneous. Our logistic regression model included variables thought to be the most relevant covariates and severity adjusters, but we were limited in that our TRISS calculations were based on presenting vital signs. These scores therefore fail to reflect any variations in physiologic parameters that resulted directly from care (or lack of care) that occurred in the field. We believe, however, that any unaccounted-for interventions in the field would have biased our findings toward the null, if there was a difference in PD and EMS groups.
Additionally, we excluded patients transferred to our facility or delivered by private vehicle. Unlike the two study cohorts, this is a highly heterogeneous group because there is no reliable way to assess the care of these patients, what treatments may have been rendered to them, or if they had first gone to another facility or had some other, undetermined delay in their transport to our trauma center.
The conclusions generated from this work should be interpreted within the constraints of a retrospective, albeit, large data set. This study was performed at a single tertiary academic medical center and within one large, urban EMS system, and therefore these results may not be generalizable to other institutions and EMS systems with different geography, infrastructure, or resources. However, we view this in some ways as a strength of our study. We demonstrated no difference in adjusted odds of death by mechanism of prehospital transport in a single system. This single system study eliminates many of the potential confounders of merging data from different EMS systems and trauma centers. As with most other out of hospital studies, the exact time of injury is unknown, and in turn we are unable to draw any specific conclusions about rapidity of transport and arrival to definitive care. We also do not know the duration of scene times or the interventions performed in the prehospital setting for the EMS- or PD-transported populations. We thus cannot draw definitive conclusions about the effect of care in the prehospital environment on mortality. However, we do believe that procedures were not performed on patients transported by PD and that arrival on scene is less limited by staging for scene safety. Although PD may wait for additional back-up, they are usually first to arrive on scene. This may result from the fact that there are simply more police units and that they are more likely to be roaming when dispatched, rather than dispatched from their quarters, as is often the practice for EMS.
From these data we conclude that there is no difference in adjusted survival rates between patients who have suffered a proximal, penetrating traumatic injury and are brought to the hospital by either the police department or the EMS. Although unadjusted mortality appears to be higher in patients transported by police, these findings are explained by the more severely injured population transported by the police. The current practice of permitting nonmedical police officers to transport patients with penetrating trauma should be continued. Future research should investigate this finding across multiple EMS systems and trauma centers, both at the state and at the national level.
The authors thank Drs. Charles Branas, Douglas Wiebe, and Kathleen Propert for their methodologic and statistical guidance and advice.
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Although he has yet to play more than seven minutes in a game this season, 76ers rookie Arnett Moultrie is likely to hear his name called more often, especially if the team's big men continue to be inconsistent.
Moultrie has not played more because coach Doug Collins trusts his veterans. However, Collins has spoken highly of Moultrie, a 6-foot-10 power forward acquired in a draft-night trade with Miami. Moultrie was the 27th overall pick by the Heat.
"If we were in a situation right now where we were just playing and trying to develop young players, he'd be out there and probably getting 20-25 minutes a night," Collins said Wednesday. "We're trying to win. To do that, you have to go out and use your experienced guys."


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Chickasaw Nation Industries has begun manufacturing oil field equipment
MARIETTA — A once nearly abandoned warehouse down the street from the Marietta cemetery has become the heart of a booming oil and natural gas operation.
Chickasaw Nation Industries Inc. is nearly complete with an overhaul of the former Siemens plant that will allow its Innovation One to build and repair pressure tanks, frac tanks and other equipment used in the oil fields throughout the region.
"I'm excited about the opportunities we have in front of us and the opportunity to grow," CNI Chairman Neal McCaleb said.
The Chickasaw Nation bought the manufacturing plant in 2004 after Siemens announced plans to close its operations in the area.
Innovation One began its upgrade early this year and hopes to be fully operational by the end of August.
The facility had boasted one of the largest powdercoat dry-paint processes in the state. Innovation One is adding a blasted-paint system similar to what is used in automotive painting. The bay is large enough to handle a semitrailer or a frac tank.
The upgrade also includes three 10-ton cranes to move the large oil field equipment throughout the facility.
"By the investment of the Chickasaws through CNI, we have saved 60 jobs and are trying to expand on that," McCaleb said.
McCaleb said the facility plans to add 80 to 100 employees over the next 14 months.
Private industry
The 110,000-square-foot plant historically has manufactured baggage conveyors, catwalks, hand rails and other steel-based products. Innovation One still makes those products to support its airport and retail customers, but the company is working to add to its expertise.
"In the airport market and distribution center market, they all have systems that require catwalks, handrails, stairs, ladders. The products themselves are very comparable to the oil field market," CNI CEO David Nimmo said. "The things we're looking at, they're all in our wheelhouse."
CNI has been a federal contractor for more than 18 years. The company has about 1,700 employees nationwide, most of which are outside of Oklahoma.
The Chickasaw Nation sees its new oil field equipment effort as an opportunity to move its focus to business in the private sector and away from federal contracts.
"We're trying to build a base that's not dependent on federal contracts. We're not averse to that, but that market is shrinking," McCaleb said. "Gov. (Bill) Anoatubby's vision has always been to move toward private enterprise.
"The oil industry seemed attractive to us. It is here, it's growing, it's not likely to shrink. We wanted to be in the midstream area."
Innovation One's efforts also are designed to boost Bullett Energy Services, which the tribe bought in December.
Based in Velma, Bullet has 44 employees and 17 transport trucks to support its saltwater disposal business.
The two companies will focus on the Chickasaw's historical territory in southern Oklahoma, which also is home to the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province.
"Not only is it in the Chickasaw territory, but it's also where a lot of activity is going to take place," said Joe Evans, CNI's commercial business development officer.
CNI and Innovation One hope to use the expanded Marietta facility to promote what they call "rural sourcing."
"Instead of having to outsource jobs to India and China, companies can rural-source to Oklahoma and have high-quality people with good training and reasonable rates," Nimmo said. "Innovation One is a perfect example of what we can do in Oklahoma to support industry here instead of outsourcing to China and shipping things in."
By keeping manufacturing operations in the oil patch, companies reduce their costs, McCaleb said.
"Transportation costs are a significant part of manufactured steel production," he said. "We're positioned here in Oklahoma and in the center of the nation."
Tribal members now represent about 12 percent of Innovation One and Bullet's combined employment. While the tribe hopes to increase that number, Nimmo said the larger goal is to benefit all of Love County and southern Oklahoma.
"If we can create jobs for everyone, all boats will rise together," he said. "That's what we're experiencing here in Marietta already. We're taking the resources and knowledge we've gained with government contracts throughout the country and are applying them here in Oklahoma to grow those jobs at home."


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The Center Stage Theater in Fontana will present the next show in their Broadway series' line-up, "Dreamgirls," starting on Friday, Feb. 14.
"Dreamgirls" tells the story of an all-girl music group trying to make it big back in the 1960s.� The takes a behind the scenes look at the music business and highlights what it takes to make it big.
Performances will continue through Sunday, Mar. 9. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. on Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday.
The menu for this production includes top sirloin, roasted garlic chicken, almond crusted mahi, and vegetable pasta which does not include the potatoes or vegetable sides, but the rest come with Caesar salad, freshly baked bread, rosemary butter potatoes, seasonal vegetables, an ice cream dessert, coffee and tea.
The cost for "Dreamgirls" ranges from $39.95 to $59.95 based on seat and dish. Show only tickets are $18.
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Hi Cadence,
I heard that Cadence will release a Open Verification Methodology with Mentor. Where can I download the Cadence version?
Best regards,
Hello Davy,Thanks for asking about OVM. OVM is on schedule tracking the dates Mentor and Cadence announced back in August. That means it is now in early adopter customers and will be released for general use at the end of the year. In the meantime, Cadence and Mentor are creating an OVM website which will open before the end of the year. The website will start off hosting technical content and will be the place to download the library, examples, and documentation.We are in the midst of visiting customers with technical details and a demo of OVM. If you haven't seen it yet, please contact your local account team or me directly and we'll make sure to get you the information you need.=Adam Sherer, SystemVerilog marketing director, (email@example.com
I'm also interested in the OVM.
I tried to compile Mentor Graphics's AVM with NCSim 6.14U but got a lot
of errors. It seems some SV language features are not supported by
NCSim at the moment. When Cadence and Mentor release OVM I guess there
will be a new release of NCsim as well? How much of the AVM are adopted
to OVM(Can we see some AVM stuffs in the OVM?)
We are using Incisive 6.2 (Incisive Design Team Simulator 29630 or Incisive Enterprise Simulator 29651) for the OVM development. That vesion of the simulator will be on the download site by tomorrow (November 7th).In the OVM development, both Cadence and Mentor discovered features in their class libraries and methodologies that the other company did not support. The good news was that these issues were relatively minor and we were each able to keep the APIs nearly intact for both contributing libraries as we brought them together in OVM. On the Cadence side, we have tested this by moving some of our customer's URM environments to the early adopter version of OVM. In each case, the conversion took about a day. We will be publishing information on that process and I expect that Mentor will publish information on how to move AVM environments. Once the environment moves to OVM, you can rest assured that it will run on both the Incisive and Questa platforms.Once OVM is available on the upcoming OVM website, both Cadence and Mentor will publish information on the simulator versions that run it. On the Cadence side, that will be at least the 6.2 release and its subsequent updates.If you are in the San Jose area, I'd recommend taking part in the OVM seminar tomorrow. If you are not in San Jose, you can attend by webinar. The sign-up info is at http://www.cadence.com/company/events/event.aspx?xml=open_verification_methodology.Regards,Adam "Sherilog" Sherer
I was just reminded that the URL in the previous post is for folks who will attend live. If you need to attend remotely via the webinar, please go to this URL to sign-up. http://www.cadence.com/webinars/ovm_webinar/index.aspx=Adam
Thanks for info! I'll try the webinar.
How can I view the recoded webinars? Is the OVM available for download now?
When will the OVM be ready for download?The design/verification world is waiting forthe improved and open verification methodology.This will certainly cause Synopsys to rethinktheir proprietary implementation of systemverilog libraries.
First release of OVM is scheduled for Jan 9, 2008. The release will be announced on this site as well as major EDA news outlets. Keep checking www.ovmworld.org.
Hello All,First and foremost, the OVM code is just about ready for download! As we anticipated, the holidays added a few days to the schedule, but Cadence and Mentor have finished their final testing and we are now qualifying the download site. Give us just a few days and the open download -- along with documentation, examples, white paper, data sheet, seminar schedule, and more -- will be ready.Some folks may have seen a reply to this forum with some specific dates and site names. As a policy, we can't comment on future press announcements, so we were forced to pull that posting. Again, that is only an issue about making future statements, not a reflection on the status of OVM.=Adam email@example.com
Its open! The OVM is now available from http://www.ovmworld.org. You do need to register and click through the Apache license to get the source, but that also allows enables you to post to the forums.At this time you can download the source code, documentation, examples, white paper, and data sheet.Cadence at its partners will follow-up with tutorials, training, workshops, seminars, and a whole lot more. The OVMworld.org site lists some of these and more will come.If you have any questions feel free to post them here or on the OVMworld forum as well as contacting your Cadence account and support teams.=Adam Sherilog


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Norman builder's home blends styles
NORMAN — Worlds don't collide in Kurt and Megan Dinnes' house — they meld pleasantly.
Light walls and wooden floors lend the 25-year-old home a Tuscan feel while dark, heavy furniture throw in an Old World vibe. The mood is more playful in the upstairs theater room, where a toy lion guards an adjacent hallway, but the grand piano downstairs strikes a more elegant note.
Americans like to blend styles, Kurt Dinnes said. It's also a hallmark of Sun Custom Homes, the company he helped found in 2000.
"What we're doing is taking the best of all those things and redesigning them for our clients. It can be to their taste, what they like," he said.
Kurt Dinnes was 29 years old, single and about a decade into his building career when he built this home in the Crystal Lakes neighborhood in west Norman. He and his wife, Megan, got married about five years later, and their children — Alexa-Lee Dinnes, 19, and Weston Dinnes, 17 — grew up there.
A tour of their home is also a tour of their lives together and the multiple remodels as the house grew along with the family.
Space that once housed the heating and air unit now contains a study, with skylights in the steeply slanted ceiling framing blue, blue sky.
The master bath was expanded at some point to make room for a breakfast bar and a steam shower: Shut the door, set preferences on the control panel inside, and steam immediately billows up, turning it into a sauna.
Steam showers are proving popular with his clients, Dinnes said. "You can sit in there and hide, try to relax," he said.
Theater rooms also are popular among clients, though Dinnes tweaked his own with a fireplace, as well as art deco flourishes and velvet curtains surrounding the wall-mounted screen, to emulate the feel of an old movie house. It's become the heart of their home, he said.
"The sound system in here is as good as any theater you go to," he said. "We just love it."
A guest suite beyond the theater room offers privacy in a fine hotel-like setting, its window looking out on the natural beauty outside. A chaise lounge offers a comfortable place to relax while taking in the view. "I like to come up here and read sometimes," Dinnes said.
But the real draw may lie outside. Terraced landscaping leads down from the patio and outdoor kitchen, past the pool and down to the water's edge. Beyond that stretches 60 acres of often-sparkling water that makes up the Crystal Lake Reservoir.
Dinnes said his company is including outdoor living spaces in a lot of the houses they build. Clients want them, "and they're willing to pay for them," he said.
The backyard also offers a lesson on how to turn something utilitarian into something special. A small, stone-lined riverbed stretches from the back of the house to the water with a couple of miniature bridges spanning it. That's how Kurt Dinnes chose to address a water drainage and collection issue, by installing drains and then using stones to blends them into the landscape.
"I hauled in and handset all those myself," he said.
Like a lot of families, though, the Dinnes clan is seeing their home empty out again. Daughter Alexa is a student at the University of Oklahoma, and son Weston will follow suit next year to pursue a degree in architecture. Weston Dinnes already has taken a huge step forward on his career path, though, designing and building a bungalow in Oklahoma City's Gatewood neighborhood.
Dinnes recalled the conversation with his son, who asked, "Dad, when did you build your first house?'"
Dinnes replied that he was 20.
"He said, 'I'd like to beat that if I could,'" Kurt Dinnes recalled. "I said, 'You need someone to finance you.' "
Dinnes then chuckled. "He said, 'That's what I wanted to talk to you about.' "
His son was involved in every aspect of the home from design to building to finishing it out, even figuring out how to wedge a circular drive onto the tiny lot, Kurt Dinnes said. The finished home sold two days after they listed it on the Multiple Listing Service.
For Kurt Dinnes, it was validation.
"He asked if he could do it," Dinnes said of his son, "and I believed in him."
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With its fully reclining airline-style business class seats, a strict no-smoking policy and designed top speed of 350 km per hour, the new Beijing-Shanghai express embodies China's race to the future.
The new line's launch is coordinated with the 90th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party to highlight the "scientific development" slogan dear to the heart of Chinese president and party secretary Hu Jintao.
It is the latest and most feted portion of a network the government hopes will stretch 45,000 km by the end of 2015.
China's luxury fast train
China's 300km/h train makes its public debut in late June amid questions about whether the US$34 billion locomotive will ever make a profit.
"This is the pride of China and the Chinese people," Ministry of Railways chief engineer He Huawu told reporters at the Beijing South Station before a trial run on Monday.
"It took just 39 months to build such a high-standard and world-renowned high-speed rail line, which is a gift for the 90th anniversary of the Party."
The sleek white and blue train -- dubbed "Harmony" after President Hu's "harmonious society" slogan -- zips along its elevated track at 300 km per hour, bypassing flat fields and rubble-strewn villages. It cuts travel time on the 1318-kilometre route to under five hours.
It would go faster but for safety concerns, after revelations of corruption led to the downfall of the rail minister earlier this year.
The line is designed to carry 80 million passengers a year, providing heady competition for the airlines on a route notorious for delays.
For 1,750 yuan ($A259), business class travellers are waited on by uniformed stewardesses.
It is also a non-smoking ride.
"That's hard for some passengers. Even though we only stop for one minute in Nanjing they race out to the platform and puff as fast as they can," said Wang Zongyue, who handles safety culture training for the new line.
China's ambitious high-speed rail programme is designed partly to shift passenger traffic off existing tracks, allowing for faster and cheaper transport of coal and grains.
The investment comes none too soon for the creaking freight rail system, which proved a major bottleneck as China's economy took off over the past decade.
But building a top-of-the line passenger system is controversial. Critics say affordable seats are needed more than luxury commuter lines.
Regular trains are so crowded during peak times that passengers stand or sleep in the aisles or even bathrooms, and poorer Chinese still queue for hours or even days to get tickets.
The heavily indebted ministry may have to cut back on some plans, analysts say.
"They might cut some of the far west lines and inter-city lines, some of the more ambitious plans don't make much sense," said Jerry Lou, chief strategy officer for Morgan Stanley Huaxin Securities.
He believes the new lines will spur demand for everything from real estate to instant noodles.
But Lou shrugged off allegations that the line, at a cost of 220.9 billion yuan, amounts to a high-speed vanity project.
"If you look back in history, very few high-profile projects actually did make money in the beginning ... They (the government) are certainly not naive about the high-speed rail being immediately profitable."


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Chelsea Clinton's Hair Transformation
January 1991
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, with his wife Hillary with a very young Chelsea.
Photo Credit: Danny Johnston, AP
October 1991
Chelsea with her father at the announcement of his candidacy, hair pulled back in a sweet half-up half-down 'do.
Photo Credit: Cynthia Johnson, Getty Images
July 1992
Chelsea, 12, poses with Arnold Schwarzenegger with a big head of curls!
Photo Credit: AP
August 1994
Chelsea's curls seem to keep growing, and we think her hair is fitting and youthful for her 14 years!
Photo Credit: Dennis Paquin, AP
December 1994
Chelsea wears her curls pulled back as she is hugged by her adoring father, President Clinton.
Photo Credit: Renaud Giroux, AFP/Getty Images
March 1995
Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea share a laugh in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Chelsea returns to her classic: curls down and long!
Photo Credit: Ajit Kumar, AP
January 1996
US First Lady Hillary Clinton and Chelsea attend the State of the Union Address, both wearing their hair down and natural.
Photo Credit: Luke Frazza, AFP/Getty Images
January 1997
Chelsea, 16, attends a ball with her father to celebrate his second term: proud and poised with her classic curls a little more tamed and grown-up.
Photo Credit: J. Scott Applewhite, AP
July 1998
Chelsea cut her curls a little bit shorter in 1998, attending a performance at the Kennedy Center.
Photo Credit: William Philpott, AFP/Getty Images
July 2000
Chelsea goes even shorter in 2000, leaving Air Force One with her father.
Photo Credit: Stephen Jaffe, AFP/Getty Images
October 2002
The curls are gone! Chelsea keeps her hair short but goes for a straight look as she attends the launch of the Versace Retrospective Exhibition in London.
Photo Credit: Dave Benett, Getty Images
May 2004
Chelsea gives her newly straightened hair a little body by curling the ends.
Photo Credit: Gregory Pace, FilmMagic/Getty Images
November 2004
We love this look: Chelsea is embracing her natural curl but making the waves softer and more elegant.
Photo Credit: Alex Wong, Getty Images
February 2006
Chelsea goes straight again in New York City.
Photo Credit: Jemal Countess, WireImage Getty Images
February 2008
Chelsea is growing her hair longer, and we are fully supporting this choice!
Photo Credit: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images
June 2008
Between the highlights and the soft waves, Chelsea is perfection with her father at the "Osgar" awards ceremony in Germany.
Photo Credit: Sebastian Willnow, AFP/Getty Images
January 2009
Two lovely ladies: perfectly coiffed hair must run in the family!
Photo Credit: Bill Clark, Getty Images
May 2009
Chelsea's blonde locks pop against her black dress at the DKMS 3rd Annual Star-Studded Gala in NYC.
Photo Credit: Andrew H. Walker, Getty Images
July 2010
Chelsea Clinton looks gorgeous at her wedding, hair pulled back in an updo for the big day.
Photo Credit: WireImage
September 2010
Chelsea accompanies her father at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative reception at the Met.
Photo Credit: Gary Gershoff, WireImage/Getty Images
November 2010
Chelsea rocks natural waves at the Glamour Magazine 2010 Women of the Year Gala.
Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images
February 2011
Chelsea must know some secrets to getting sleek and shiny hair!
Photo Credit: Jemal Countess, WireImage/Getty Images
March 2011
Chelsea wears big bouncy curls to an event hosted by her father in Los Angeles, CA.
Photo Credit: Mark Sullivan, WireImage/Getty Images
May 2011
Perfectly blown out, a girl's hair is the best accessory.
Photo Credit: Taylor Hill, FilmMagic/Getty Images
March 2012
Chelsea looks lovely as she attends the School of American Ballet Winter Ball.
Photo Credit: Robin Marchant, FilmMagic, Getty Images
May 2012
In a rare updo, Chelsea attends the Costume Institute Gala at the Met, and she nails the sleek look!
Photo Credit: Larry Busacca, Getty Images
December 2012
Chelsea attends a concert event to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy, wearing her hair simple and straight.
Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris, Getty Images
December 2012
Chelsea attends a concert event to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy, wearing her hair simple and straight.
There's nothing quite like the White House thrusting you into the public eye, but we've seen countless young women make the transition seamlessly. Most recently, we have watched Sasha and Malia Obama growing up in front of the world, but before them came the Bush sisters and Chelsea Clinton.
It can't be easy, but these young women have handled this transition to adulthood with grace, and we've loved watching their styles transform. Chelsea Clinton's 33rd birthday is February 27, and in celebration, we've taken a look back at her hair transformation. From a full head of curls to flowy waves, she's done it all!
Click through the gallery above to see how she's changed her locks over the years.
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