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FHWA and FTA issue review questions on environmental justice in transportation planning
Jim Fahey
Director of Government Relations
APWA Washington Office
Over the years, increasing attention has been given to the broad social and environmental impacts of various transportation investment and programming decisions on minority and low-income communities throughout the United States. This spring, the U.S. Department of Transportation is expected to issue revised planning and environmental regulations addressing these impacts.
As local officials await the issuance of these regulations, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recently sent out a memorandum to division and regional offices with a series of review questions and recommended actions for complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Executive Order on Environmental Justice.
The environmental justice order, issued by President Clinton in 1994, amplified Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars intentional and disparate impact discrimination. The directive requires federal agencies to make environmental justice part of their missions by identifying and addressing the adverse health and environmental impacts of agency activities, policies, and programs.
The FHWA/FTA memorandum provides clarification pending issuance of the regulations which, the agencies state, "will focus on public involvement strategies for minority and low-income groups and assessment of the distribution of benefits and adverse environmental impacts at both the plan and project level."
For transportation, the focus of much environmental justice concern in the past has been centered on project development. But as FHWA and FTA indicate in their memorandum, Title VI and environmental justice apply also to the "processes and products of planning." While the ultimate impact on local transportation planning is not specifically raised in the memorandum, the review questions outlined in it will certainly be of interest to local officials.
Below are the questions FHWA and FTA offer as an aid to reviewing and verifying compliance with Title VI and environmental justice. The discussion of the issues reflected in them will be held as part of planning certification reviews and as part of statewide planning findings that are made in connection with Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) approval.
Overall Strategies and Goals:
What strategies and efforts has the planning process developed for ensuring, demonstrating, and substantiating compliance with Title VI? What measures have been used to verify that the multi-modal system access and mobility performance improvements included in the plan and Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) or STIP, and the underlying planning process, comply with Title VI?
Has the planning process developed a demographic profile of the metropolitan planning area or State that includes identification of the locations of socio-economic groups, including low-income and minority populations as covered by the Executive Order on Environmental Justice and Title VI provisions?
Does the planning process seek to identify the needs of low-income and minority populations? Does the planning process seek to utilize demographic information to examine the distributions across these groups of the benefits and burdens of the transportation investments included in the plan and TIP (or STIP)? What methods are used to identify imbalances?
Service Equity:
Does the planning process have an analytical process in place for assessing the regional benefits and burdens of transportation system investments for different socio-economic groups? Does it have a data collection process to support the analysis effort? Does this analytical process seek to assess the benefit and impact distributions of the investments included in the plan and TIP (or STIP)?
How does the planning process respond to the analyses produced? Imbalances identified?
Public Involvement:
Does the public involvement process have an identified strategy for engaging minority and low-income populations in transportation decision-making? What strategies, if any, have been implemented to reduce participation barriers for such populations? Has their effectiveness been evaluated?
Has public involvement in the planning process been routinely evaluated as required by regulation? Have efforts been undertaken to improve performance, especially with regard to low-income and minority populations? Have organizations representing low-income and minority populations been consulted as part of this evaluation? Have their concerns been considered?
What efforts have been made to engage low-income and minority populations in the certification review public outreach effort? Does the public outreach effort utilize media (such as print, television, radio, etc.) targeted to low-income or minority populations? What issues were raised, how are their concerns documented, and how do they reflect on the performance of the planning process in relation to Title VI requirements?
What mechanisms are in place to ensure that issues and concerns raised by low-income and minority populations are appropriately considered in the decision-making process? Is there evidence that these concerns have been appropriately considered? Have the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) or State DOT made funds available to local organizations that represent low-income and minority populations to enable their participation in planning processes?
More information about environmental justice and Title VI as they relate to transportation, the environment, and planning can be found at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/ej2.htm.


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New Orelans Saints-LHSAA High School Game of the Week schedule announced
BATON ROUGE – For the third consecutive season, the New Orleans Saints have partnered with the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to continue the New Orleans Saints-LHSAA High School Football Game of the Week. Cox Sports Television (CST) will again broadcast 10 regular season games and 4 play-off games weekly en route to the 2010 LHSAA-State Farm Prep Classic on December 10-11, 2010 in the Louisiana Superdome.
Once again, the CST broadcasts will give high school schools and their teams the opportunity to showcase their talents and school spirit across the Southeast. The New Orleans Saints will be on site with their "Saints Game Day Experience", inflatable, football-related activities for area youth and competition for prizes.
"We are once again excited about the partnership with The New Orleans Saints in bringing high school football to the homes of fans across Louisiana," said Mitch Small, LHSAA Marketing Director. "Thanks to CST, Cajun Industries and our many other fine sponsors for their commitment to high school football as well for their commitment to high school sports. This year's schedule once again features outstanding matchups and profiles some of the top football players Louisiana has to offer."
Friday, Sept. 3 East St. John @ Patterson 7 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 10 West Monroe @ Neville 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 16 Scottlandville @ Southern Lab 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 23 Shaw @ Edna Karr 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 30 Slidell @ Mandeville 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 7 Minden @ Benton 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct.14 Bastrop @ Ruston 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 21 Acadiana @ Sulphur 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 28 Salmen @ Franklinton 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 4 Ouachita Christ. @ Cedar Creek 7 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 12 TBD
Friday, Nov. 19 TBD
Friday, Nov. 26 TBD
Friday, Dec. 3 TBD
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TAMPA, Fla. — At least he's honest.
ESPN New York's Andrew Marchand spoke with Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka recently, and the 25-year-old was blunt on how he feels about the tunes of his pop-star wife, Mai Sadota.
"I'm not necessarily a fan of my wife's music," Tanaka said, according to Marchand.
Tanaka said he likes other Japanese pop, though he didn't specify.
Sadota, Tanaka's 29-year-old spouse, has been part of several music groups in her country and hit it big when she appeared on a show called "Quiz! Hexagon," by giving the wrong answers to questions.
Here's one of her songs below.
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When you spend buckets of cash in the offseason like the Boston Red Sox did this winter, you tend to enter spring training with something of an idea of what the roster will look like come April.
With most of the positions filled, much of the debate focuses on the makeup of the lineup card rather than the composition of the roster itself.
Such a situation often leads to a spring in which dozens of players end up in a heated battle for the final few roster spots.
But, inevitably, the faces that leave Fort Myers as part of the major league roster will change. And often quickly.
Consider, for instance, last summer. Who among us thought Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald, Daniel Nava and Felix Doubront would play major roles in the Sox pursuit of a playoff spot?
So as spring training progresses this March, all eyes remain on newcomers Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez and recovering regulars Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia.
It would be wise not to overlook a handful of other players, though, who likely won't be suiting up in early April but could play something of an important role by the time the dog days of summer arrive.
Here's a look at five players unlikely to break camp with the Red Sox whom you could be seeing before autumn rolls around.


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Honestly, I just use SQL backup and use BE to backup the SQL backup
directory. The sql backup system is quite robust and smart enough to avoid
these issues.
Just my opinion.
"Gregory Peterson"
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> I have Compaq Proliant 1500, NT 4, sp6a, dual P133, 128 MB RAM, Bent V
> 8, build 3316 (I trying to remember if this is the correct build
> number).
> Backing up and verify 5 SQL databases. MSDB, Model, Master and two user
> defined databases.
> Problem, everything works just fine up through dbcc of Master database.
> SQL Server log and Event Viewer both report:
> 22:31:19.5 SPID DBCCTraceoff 3605, SPID -- (This is the end
> of dbcc on the master database...GP)
> 04:57:55.26 SPID DBCCTRACEON 3605 SPID --(This is when it looks for
> space in the last database)
> As you can see there is close to 6.5 hours between the time that DBCC
> runs on the Master database and the time it starts on our production
> database.
> No other backup jobs are schedule or running. This just starting
> happening a short time ago. What could cause this delay?
> Thanks,
> Greg P.


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VirtualBox seamless mode places the Windows taskbar above your Gnome or KDE taskbar. The Windows desktop is not displayed. When you open a Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser, from the Windows taskbar and save a file from a website, it will save to the Windows desktop. To compensate you can allow Windows to share the exact same desktop as your host Linux OS. You can save files from Windows web browsers directly to the shared Linux desktop. Essential this is taking seamless a step further!! First enable VirtualBox shared folder support for your desired guest OS. Make the shared folder either your Linux desktop directly, or simply your home directory. Then mount the shared folder in the guest OS:
net use x: vboxsvrDesktop
Then open regedit. Locate the key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell Folders]
Change the desktop key to:
1) x: ; if you set the shared folder to be your Linux desktop folder
2) x:Desktop ; if you set the shared folder to be your Linux home folder
Now just reboot your Windows guest OS and observe the seamless consolidation of your Windows and Linux desktops!! This is one of my favorite Linux tweaks 🙂
I now run the virtual server in headless mode. If your interested in my new desktop configuration you can see it in this post!! Its frikkin cool. On my system notice that a virtual server environment is running in the top right window. That is the actual server environment that is hosting this website.


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Daily Dish 9.29.16Check out the final trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Janet Jackson's baby bump, Saturday Night Live's Presidential parody, and Miley Cyrus's claim of being an underpaid actress.
Watch Ariana Grande Take On Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Shakira & Celine DionAriana Grande showed off her vocal range on SNL impersonating Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Shakira & Celine Dion
Tina Fey And Amy Poehler Spoof Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood"Their squad however was filled with mom doctors and nannies.
Miley Cyrus, The Weeknd, Demi Lovato To Guest on 'SNL' This SeasonMiley kicks of the season as the host/musical guest on October 3.
Demi Lovato To Play 'SNL' On October 17th With Host Tracy MorganDemi Lovato is on a roll lately.
Reality Check For 3/2/15: SNL ISIS Skit [VIDEO], Justin Bieber Turned 21, Leonard (Spock) Nimoy Dies At 83The very controversial ISIS skit from 'Saturday Night Live' set viewers off over the weekend.
Reality Check For 2/17/15: SNL Anniversary Special, Ray J's Girlfriend, Lady Gaga The SNL Anniversary Special broke a ton of records on Saturday Night.
Saturday Night Live's Most Notorious Cast Members"Live from New York it's..." five of the most notorious cast members who've graced the stage at Saturday Night Live.
SNL Best Moments With Andrew Garfield I love when perceived unfunny people are funny. Here are some of the BEST OF's of Andrew Garfield from SNL this past Saturday.
Hot Right Now: Adam Levine Dyed His Hair Bleach BlondeIn case you've ever wondered what Adam Levine would look like as a blonde...he took the guessing out of it for you.
Ladies And Gentlemen, Ed Sheeran... Performing 'SING' On SNLEd Sheeran performed 'Sing' on SNL Saturday 4/12. [VIDEO]
Icona Pop Makes A Cameo On SNL!!Our friends Icona Pop made an interesting Cameo on SNL Saturday April 4th.


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Recipes for the Dead: Issue THREE is live on Kickstarter!
Hey dearest gentlepunks!
I just launched Recipes for the Dead: Issue 3 -- Steam Minted Meringue. In this issue, Veronica valiantly ignores warnings, daydreams about a certain musician, and may... Read more
Couple of NYCC things and Links
Heya dears,
A couple of things:
NYCC reminder: I will be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday - with cookies on Saturday - in the North Pavillion Artist Alley, N407along... Read more
Nenetl is Launched!
Alright, my wondrous loves,
The beast has been launched. Check out Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits here:
I appreciate you all for your past everythings, you magical monsters. Feel... Read more
Recipes for the Dead: Issue 3
My dearest punks,
By this time, I hope most, if not all of you, have received your packages. A few of you have yet to send me your addresses -... Read more
Your Mailboxes!
My punks and punkettes,
It's been a busy weekend. A few of my dearest friends and I gathered together with the sole purpose of properly packaging the books and sending... Read more
Our Ink-Splattered Virtuoso is Interviewed by our Glittery Sponsor Copic Marker
Hey secret loves,
It's been a big week that we've spent on designing the cover layout, designing the acknowledgment page and letting poor Allison embrace a moment of peace -... Read more
RocoCookie Shop Promo Ad - Done in Copic Markers
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I'm proud to say that we are finally finished with the coloring! We still have a bit of a ways to go - Allison will now... Read more
5 Tips for Running a Comics Project
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Hope you're all having (or about to have) amazing holidays and enjoying adventures, as Allison and I continue to huff and puff through the comic (it's getting there...).... Read more
Back from NYCC! + Photos of Copic Markers
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I have been meaning to write this update since yesternight, but I caught the nerd flu at the con and have been on an steady... Read more
Prototype Packaging and NYCC info
My dearest partners in mysterious affairs,
While Allison has been drawing as hard as she can, using as many limbs as she can, I've been working on my NYCC marketing... Read more
Recipes for the Dead: Sponsor and Notebook Preview
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A glorious email had reached the headquarters of Recipes for the Dead! It came from Copic Marker, the rockstar creators of amazing re-fillable markers that... Read more
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You are all properly glorious orbs of wonder and I appreciate every single being of you!
I am in the midst of preparing for Hurricane Irene, so... Read more
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This morning, I was deeply enchanted by the remarkable first page of the comic book. Even though it's in black and white right now, the second I... Read more
RftD Cookies
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It's been a busy week in the headquarters (a.k.a. kitchen) of Greentea Publishing. I tend to bake quite a bit, so I also end up writing... Read more
Where the Money Goes (& Some Kickstarter Advice)
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As we're moving towards the doubling the goal, allow me to explain what my generous and dearest backers are subsidizing with this money. The $2,000... Read more
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My generous friends and excellent peoples!
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Pull It Together, Guillermo
When you and I got sloshed over a pitcher of sangria and you said you just had to make a movie with a guy who had eyes on his hands, I was like "whatever floats your boat, dude."
But as your friend and paid life coach, I've got to tell you, your recent proclamation that extra roles in The Hobbit films will be filled by fans of the movies may be the worst idea anyone's ever had.
And to prove it to you, I invented time travel, went into the future, and brought back a review of the movie. Yes, thats what a good fucking friend I am.
Then I destroyed the time travel device. Why? Because it's function had been served. So take heed, Lermo. THIS is where youre headed if you dont wise up.
Del Toros The Hobbit Should Have Gone ThereAnd Not Come Back AgainThe first of two proposed movies based on Tolkiens The Hobbit was released this week, and by now its a fair assumption that Director Guillermo Del Toro has fled to Spain to escape the bloodthirsty mobs that roam the streets, calling for his blood. All this reviewer can say to those who would kill the man simply for making such an awful movie is: I own a boat.
What makes The Hobbit so uniquely terrible? Perhaps it is that it defames such a beloved work of literature. When a scene as classic as the Elven picnic is interrupted by the background elves continuously jostling one another in order to get close enough to steal pieces of Lembas bread, your movies in trouble.
Id warn of spoilers, but it seems to me that one cant really spoil a big plate of shit. In Part I of The Hobbit, the acting work, almost exclusively in group scenes, contains a number of filmic atrocities the likes of which Ive never witnessed. Rampant, unjustified departures from the original story included:
In the end, Mr. Del Toro appears to have had so little control over his set, one wonders if hes ever even heard of poisonous gas.
The Hobbit? More like The Bobbitt. By which I mean this film was so bad that it cut my dick off and flung it into the street.
In a parallel timestream, Michael is still head writer and co-founder of Those Aren't Muskets!


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How to Curl Your Eyelashes
If you were born with straight or limp lashes, grab an eyelash curler! This rather odd-looking beauty tool lifts lashes and opens up the eyes. All you need to do is place your eyelashes in the curler correctly, hold, and repeat! We'll outline the process of getting it down perfectly, so put down the mascara; your luxurious lashes won't need it!
1Apply eye shadow and eyeliner, allowing it to dry before curling your lashes. Mascara is always applied after curling the lashes to avoid lash breakage and smearing.
2Ensure that your lashes are clean and dry. Trying to curl wet lashes could result in the "bent lashes" look.
3Open the curler and place your upper lashes inside its mouth. Close your eye slightly, then open it; all of the lashes should move into the curler's mouth. Always hold the eyelash curler so that the mouth is parallel to your lashes.
4Move the curler closer to the eye until the tool comes to the base of the lashes, but not over the skin of the eyelid.
5Keep the eye open and slowly close the curler. Your eyelashes should fan out evenly across the upper bar. If at any time you feel pinching, readjust the curler.
6Hold the closed curler for a slow count of five, keeping your hand and face steady. Repeat for additional volume.
7Repeat with the other eye.
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- Grab your eyelash curler and use a blow dryer to heat it up.
- Gently bring the curler to your eyelashes, but be careful not to burn yourself.
- Curl as instructed above.
- Hot curling sometimes crimps your eyelashes, so you might want to use a cold curler afterwards to get closer to the lid.
- Clean any eye makeup off of the curler regularly and replace the curler pad every few months.
- To avoid the "bent" lashes look, use the curler at multiple segments along the length of your lashes so that each "bend" is softened and work together to curl your lashes up in a smooth arc. To do this, start at the base of your lashes, then release slightly and move the curler away from you a little and clamp it again, and so on.
- Practice. This beauty enhancer takes a little getting used to.
- Never pull the curler away from your face when it's clamped onto your lashes, as this may pull your lashes out of your lid.
- Never share your eyelash curler with anyone or borrow anyone else's. You CAN get infections. It may seem like one of those things that will never happen to you, but it can and will if you share curlers, mascara, or eye brushes. Also, if you think you might have an eye infection, get it treated because they can, although it's very rare that they will, cause blindness if, and only if, they are left untreated.
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Celebrating over 200 years as a lifeboat station, Arbroath is one of the oldest stations in Scotland and its crews have been honoured with seven awards for gallantry. The station has also seen tragedy with seven lifeboat crew losing their lives saving others.
Volunteer lifeboat crew members at Arbroath RNLI were recently presented with a donation of £250 by members of Stivenstoune Thistle & Rose Lodge 169 from Ayrshire.
Arbroath's volunteer lifeboat crew were called into action twice over the weekend, responding to their pagers late on Friday evening and again on Sunday afternoon.
Both Arbroath lifeboats were launched last night (17th August) to attend an incident at the town's cliffs.
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Arbroath Lifeboat StationShoreArbroath AngusDD11 1PD
Station telephone
01241 873235
Station opening times
10am–4pm Monday–Friday
Visitor contact
Ron Churchill
Visitor contact telephone
Shop telephone
01241 431585
Shop opening times
Specific crew member details for this lifeboat station are not available here at the moment.
More than 4,800 lifeboat crew members around the UK and RoI drop everything when their pagers go off, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Only 1 in 10 crew members has a professional maritime occupation. Men and women of all ages and all walks of life crew the RNLI lifeboats around our coasts and waterways.
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The Arbroath Lifeboat Station is one of the two oldest in Scotland. It was established in 1803 and the first lifeboat was built by Henry Greathead who, in 1789, had built the Original, which was the first boat to be designed and built for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck. Little is known of the stations early history as records only exist from the time the station was taken over by the Institution from the local Lifeboat Committee in 1865
1827Gold Medal awarded to Lieut. Christopher Jobson RN, coastguard officer, for a service to the Clyde Packet when she was wrecked in a strong snow filled gale on rocks at Arbroath Harbour entrance on 2 January 1827. The Manby apparatus was used in a successful attempt to get a boat to the wreck, during her return the boat was swamped and capsized throwing three men, two women, and two children into the water. Lieutenant Jobson and a coastguard team rushed into the water and got them all ashore.
Gold Medal in the form of a gold lifeboat was awarded to Lieut. Jobson for rescuing the master of the vessel Alice that was driven ashore near Atbroath at 0200 in a severe gale accompanied by snow on the morning of 8 March 1827.
1865New lifeboat house built by town authorities (cost £179) on site of old house in road leading to harbour known as East Grimsby.
1911On 24 September, Bowman Peter Swankie, aged 64, fell beneath the carriage when the lifeboat was being taken to the slipway to be launched on service and was killed. Committee of Management granted his daughter £50 and grand-daughter £10.
1928A Centenary Vellum awarded.
1940Bronze Medal awarded to Coxswain William Swankie for going to the assistance of the barge Foremost of Aberdeen that was being attacked by a German aircraft on 9 February 1940. As the lifeboat approached, the attack was continued by two aircraft but despite machine gun fire and bombs the lifeboat went alongside the barge rescued the seven survivors and landed them at Arbroath. Coxswain Swankie was also awarded the British Empire Medal.
1952Lifeboat capsized whilst crossing the Harbour Bar after a launching to reported flares on 27 October, with the loss of six of her crew of seven. Pensions on service scale paid to dependants. More than £35,000 raised by the local disaster fund, including a contribution of £500 from the Institution. A commemorative bronze plaque erected on the storm wall of the Fish Quay. A stained glass window erected in St John's Methodist Church to the memory of the Coxswain gifted by his widow, and a memorial plaque in the Old Church to the six men, gifted by Mr and Mrs Cargill who lost two sons. The names of the six men are Coxswain D Bruce and crew members T Adams, C Cargill, D Cargill, H Swankie and W Swankie (Jnr).
A 150th Anniversary Commemorative Vellum awarded.
1962Commemorative bronze plaque erected on the storm wall of the Fish Quay in 1953 transferred to the outside wall of the lifeboat house.
1963Arbroath lifeboat ON934 The Duke of Montrose, exhibited at the International Lifeboat Conference held in Edinburgh from 4-6 June.
1968A D class inflatable lifeboat sent to station.
1986An extension to the D class boathouse was completed. Facilities included a new boat store and improved crew facilities.
1992Modifications to the boathouse and slipway were carried out at a cost of £85,000 in order to accommodate the station's new Mersey class lifeboat.
A Mersey class lifeboat sent to station 26 August replacing the Rother class lifeboat.
1993A new D class lifeboat D471 Coachmakers of London was placed on service on 19 October.
1997Over the years a gradual build-up of silt has been occurring in the proximity of the slipway and remedial dredging was carried out in 1987. In order to remedy this problem proposals were drawn up for the construction of a 10 metre extension to the slipway. In November 1995 the Crown Estate granted approval for the extension to the slipway and planning approval followed from Angus Council in November 1996. Work commenced in May and was successfully completed in June 1997.
2001Framed Letters of Thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution Mr Peter Nicholson presented to Mechanic Allan Russell, Second Coxswain Thomas Yule and crew member Peter Willis who manned the relief D class inshore lifeboat and saved the crew of three of the yacht Grouse on the morning of 8 June 2002. The yacht was aground at Danger Point in fog, being pounded onto rocks by a large two metre swell which was further complicated by a large backwash returning from a nearby breakwater.
2002The Trustee Meeting held on 27 November decided that Arbroath Lifeboat Station be awarded a Vellum to commemorate the completion of 200 years service in 2003.
2004The new class of lifeboat IB1, D621 Duncan Ferguson was placed on service on Monday 2 August. This lifeboat was funded by a generous gift from Andrew Ferguson in memory of his father. D471 has been withdrawn to the Relief Fleet.
MEDAL RECORDThree medals have been voted. Two Gold and one Bronze, the last being voted in 1940.
FOREIGN AWARDOn 14 April 1905 the Arbroath lifeboat rescued five persons from the German Schooner Gesine. The German Emperor gave silver watches to the coxswain, second coxswain and bowman and made a monetary award to the rest of the crew.
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From Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Note: Dr. Post had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Data were collected by the MACS centers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (principal investigator, Joseph B. Margolick); Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, and Cook County Bureau of Health Services, Chicago, Illinois (principal investigator, Steven M. Wolinsky); University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (principal investigator, Roger Detels); and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (principal investigator, Charles R. Rinaldo), as well as the data center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (principal investigator, Lisa P. Jacobson).
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Andrea Stronski for administrative support for this study and Adrian Dobs, MD, MHS; Joseph Margolick, MD; and A. Richey Sharrett, MD, PhD, for their reviews of the manuscript draft and contributions to this study.
Grant Support: This study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grant RO1 HL095129 to Dr. Post), with additional support from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a component of the National Institutes of Health and National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research (grant UL1 RR 025005). The MACS is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with additional supplemental funding from the National Cancer Institute (grants UO1-AI-35042, UL1-RR025005, UM1-AI-35043, UO1-AI-35039, UO1-AI-35040, and UO1-AI-35041).
Potential Conflicts of Interest: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M13-1754.
Reproducible Research Statement: Study protocol and statistical code: Data collection forms used as part of the core MACS visit are available on the MACS Web site (www.statepi.jhsph.edu/macs/macs.html). The study protocol and the computer code used to generate results reported in this article are available on request. Data set: Individual-level MACS data are available from Dr. Post (e-mail, email@example.com) after review of a concept sheet by the MACS executive committee.
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Current Author Addresses: Dr. Post: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Division of Cardiology, Carnegie 568, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Dr. Budoff: Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502.
Dr. Kingsley: University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 418 Parran Hall, Fifth Avenue and Desoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
Dr. Palella: Northwestern University, 645 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60611.
Dr. Witt: Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Chronic Disease Clinical Research Center, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502.
Ms. Li: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room E7003, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Dr. George: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Blalock 524D2, Baltimore, MD 21111.
Dr. Brown: Johns Hopkins University, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, 1830 East Monument Street, Suite 333, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Dr. Jacobson: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room E7646, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: W.S. Post, M. Budoff, L. Kingsley, R.T George, L.P. Jacobson.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: W.S. Post, L. Kingsley, F.J. Palella, X. Li, R.T George, T. Brown, L.P. Jacobson.
Drafting of the article: W.S. Post, L. Kingsley, F.J. Palella, R.T George, L.P. Jacobson.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: W.S. Post, M. Budoff, L. Kingsley, F.J. Palella, M.D. Witt, X. Li, R.T George, T. Brown, L.P. Jacobson.
Final approval of the article: W.S. Post, M. Budoff, L. Kingsley, F.J. Palella, M.D. Witt, X. Li, R.T George, T. Brown, L.P. Jacobson.
Provision of study materials or patients: W.S. Post, M. Budoff, L. Kingsley, M.D. Witt, R.T George.
Statistical expertise: X. Li, L.P. Jacobson.
Obtaining of funding: W.S. Post, L. Kingsley, R.T George, L.P. Jacobson.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: M. Budoff, L. Kingsley.
Collection and assembly of data: W.S. Post, M. Budoff, L. Kingsley, M.D. Witt, R.T George, L.P. Jacobson.
Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) has been associated with HIV infection, but data are not consistent.
Objective: To determine whether HIV-infected men have more coronary atherosclerosis than uninfected men.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.
Participants: HIV-infected (n = 618) and uninfected (n = 383) men who have sex with men who were aged 40 to 70 years, weighed less than 136 kg (200 lb), and had no history of coronary revascularization.
Measurements: Presence and extent of coronary artery calcium (CAC) on noncontrast cardiac computed tomography (CT) and of any plaque; noncalcified, mixed, or calcified plaque; or stenosis on coronary CT angiography.
Results: 1001 men had noncontrast CT, of whom 759 had coronary CT angiography. After adjustment for age, race, CT scanning center, and cohort, HIV-infected men had a greater prevalence of CAC (prevalence ratio [PR], 1.21 [95% CI, 1.08 to 1.35]; P = 0.001) and any plaque (PR, 1.14 [CI, 1.05 to 1.24]; P = 0.001), including noncalcified (PR, 1.28 [CI, 1.13 to 1.45]; P < 0.001) and mixed (PR, 1.35 [CI, 1.10 to 1.65]; P = 0.004) plaque, than uninfected men. Associations between HIV infection and any plaque or noncalcified plaque remained significant (P < 0.005) after CAD risk factor adjustment. HIV-infected men had a greater extent of noncalcified plaque after CAD risk factor adjustment (P = 0.026). They also had a greater prevalence of coronary artery stenosis greater than 50% (PR, 1.48 [CI, 1.06 to 2.07]; P = 0.020), but not after CAD risk factor adjustment. Longer duration of highly active antiretroviral therapy (PR, 1.09 [CI, 1.02 to 1.17]; P = 0.007) and lower nadir CD4+ T-cell count (PR, 0.80 [CI, 0.69 to 0.94]; P = 0.005) were associated with coronary stenosis greater than 50%.
Limitation: Cross-sectional observational study design and inclusion of only men.
Conclusion: Coronary artery plaque, especially noncalcified plaque, is more prevalent and extensive in HIV-infected men, independent of CAD risk factors.
Primary Funding Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Unadjusted prevalence and 95% CI of plaque, stratified by HIV serostatus in 5-y age increments.
Interaction of age by HIV serostatus for the presence of noncalcified plaque was significant (P = 0.006). For the lines in each graph, the middle point is the point estimate and the 2 outer points are the 95% confidence limits for that point estimate.
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Eight Grand Rapids Community College students took top honors at the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership Conference recently held in Chicago all of whom qualified at the state competitions in February by finishing in the top three places of their competitive events.
Reinier Fontaine-Perez earned 1st place honors in the entrepreneurship competition for his business plan and pitch for Fontaine Financial, an accounting and finance entity. Also representing GRCC at the conference were Alexi Bettig, David Colbert, Jacob Golden, Zachary Nestor, Samantha See, Dominick Sheridan and MacKenzie Shangle.
"I am extremely proud of our students and how well they represented themselves and our college," said GRCC Assistant Professor of Business Peg Schoenborn. "In addition to the competition, the conference was a great learning experience for them – it offered access to the National BPA Leadership Expo, National BPA Officer Elections, various Student Success Sessions and multiple opportunities for networking with students and professionals from more than 23 states."
According to Schoenborn, more than 5,000 student delegates and advisors attended the conference. All eight GRCC finalists participated in 14 different national business technology contests, and finished in 10th place or better in the preliminary rounds of a competitive event.
"This group of students prepared diligently for months for both team and individual competitions ranging from Video Production to Financial Analysis. The professionalism and character that our business students bring to the table is impressive. I have no doubt they will be competitive professionals as they prepare to enter today's business arena," said Schoenborn.
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If Barry Bonds is striking out with the American public, it is his own doing.
As the controversial San Francisco Giants slugger prepares to become Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader, there are those who contend Bonds is a victim - that he is less than beloved because of the color of his skin.
Let's take a swing at this misguided thinking.
Leonard Moore, an associate history professor at Louisiana State University, is one of many Bonds apologists.
"White America doesn't want (Bonds) to (pass) Babe Ruth, and is doing everything they can to stop him," Moore recently told USA Today. "America hasn't had a white hope since the retirement of Larry Bird, and once Bonds passes Ruth, there's nothing that will make (Ruth) unique, and they're scared. And I'm scared for Bonds."
Talk about whiffing.
For the record, which Moore - who is black - doesn't seem to know, a black man broke Ruth's home run record more than 30 years ago. Hank Aaron surpassed Ruth in 1974, and unlike the questionable claims of Bonds' supporters, Aaron was forced to endure racism in his quest for greatness. It can't be overlooked that Aaron has no interest in being around when Bonds hits homer No. 756. The classy Aaron has his own reasons, and they should be respected.
Only someone who sees things only in black and white cannot realize that Bonds is chasing Aaron, not Ruth. Bonds is booed everywhere but 'Frisco because of his surly personality and - more to the point - his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Only the most naive can dismiss Bonds' changing physical prowess. How many men are better athletes in their late 30s and early 40s than they were in their mid 20s? It is the alleged juiced-up muscles under Bonds' skin that creates a public relations problem, not skin color.
How does Moore explain that former slugger Mark McGwire, a once-revered figure, was recently denied the honor of being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? McGwire, who is white, also has the steroid cloud hanging over him, and he will never be regarded the way he was in 1998.
If Bonds is never embraced by the public the same way as Ruth - and finally Aaron - he has no one to blame but himself.
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State officials say it was a perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances that led to last month's break-in and theft of historic artifacts from Washington Crossing State Park, but one environmental group says the state simply doesn't have the resources to protect its priceless treasures.
The burglary, five months after a break-in at Ringwood State Park in Passaic County, is proof that the state lacks the technology and manpower to safeguard the artifacts in its park museums and visitor centers, said Jeff Tittle, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
"This time it was just kids able to break into a building in a state park and walk out with historic artifacts," Tittle said of the latest break-in. "The state needs to be doing more to protect property that belongs to all of us as it becomes more and more obvious our state parks are not as secure as they should be."
Tittle blames cuts in funding and staffing at parks from Sussex to Cape May counties.
"These are our legacies that belong in New Jersey and to not have them adequately protected is disgraceful," he said.
According to the latest statistics available, in fiscal year 2010, funding for state parks was at $26.7 million, down from $34.3 million two years before that. Staffing went from a high of 850 in the 1990s to 407 currently.
"We need a stable source of funding for operation and maintenance of our parks so we can adequately preserve and protect what belongs to all of us," Tittle said.
State officials, though, said the recent break-ins have nothing to do with the cuts in budget and staffing.
"These were two completely different incidents with completely different circumstan-ces and neither had to do with budget cutbacks at the parks," said Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. "We have robust security systems in place at the parks."
The theft at the historic Ringwood Manor at Ringwood State Park in Passaic County occurred in March. Thieves disabled the alarm system and entered the building in the early morning hours and stole historic items including antique weapons, clocks, vases, silverware and paintings.
State officials declined to put a price value on any of the stolen items. None has been recovered.
The alarm system at Ringwood Manor has been replaced since the break-in, Hajna said.
The theft at Washington Crossing State Park was the result of a "perfect storm" of unfortunate circumstances, Hajna said. It occurred during widespread power outages that plunged New Jersey into darkness in the days after Hurricane Irene. With electricity out, the alarm system on the park's visitor center began running on a backup generator, Hajna said. But after days of running, that power petered out, he said. Park police, who might have been able to thwart the break-in, had been pulled from their usual patrols to join the hurricane recovery effort, Hajna said.
The center was left vulnerable to a group of teens who broke in and stole more than three dozen Revolutionary War-era artifacts, including weapons and coins. All but two of the items — a gold half-guinea coin and a rare 1710 brass tinderbox — were recovered when police apprehended the teens. Most of the stolen items belonged to a collection of historical artifacts on loan to the state by the Swan Historical Foundation.
Harry Kels Swan, 82, president and founder of the foundation, said nobody was around to take care of the park on "that very bad night. The place was wide open and these kids took advantage of it," Swan said. "If somebody had been making the rounds, they'd have caught the little rascals."


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You must meet with a VA counselor to apply for Chapter 31 benefits (not the Veterans Certification coordinator at the University of Minnesota). Once the VA counselor determines your eligibility, he or she will send a payment authorization to the Veterans Certification coordinator. Within two business days the coordinator will set up billing information with Third Party Billing and the UMD Stores.


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Confessions of a dieter
You know the old saying, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels?"
I'd beg to differ right about now. I can think of about 20 things that taste better than skinny feels. Like pizza. And ice cream. And cake.
Like some of you, I've been dieting hard since the beginning of the New Year. One of those dieting requirements has been abandoning my beloved Diet Coke, which has made me rather irritable and lethargic, to say the least. That alone has made these past 20 days stink.
So after a few weeks of putting myself through withdrawals of sugar and stuff that tastes like sugar, I think I'm finally OK. I will not be going back to my old ways because I don't want to put my body through that again. But I have to be honest: Dieting is no easy task.
It means knowing exactly what you're going to eat and when you're going to eat it. I bought a digital food scale (who am I?), and I constantly feel like I'm cooking things to warm up for the next day.
Long gone are the days of walking into a restaurant and casually ordering a meal. That's a rare luxury now.
I've figured out that you have to know what I call "the workarounds." I'm lucky that my boyfriend has helped me immensely with this, and my friends are also knowledgeable of all of the ways to make things seem like they taste better to your palate, even though they're bland and ridiculously disgusting.
For example, adding just a splash of hot sauce to everything that enters my mouth. Or adding salt-free fiesta citrus seasoning on my fish before I broil it. And popping in a piece of chewing gum whenever I feel a strong craving. And consuming enough water for a small village.
Another pain is making two or three trips to the grocery store daily because I never remember everything in one trip, even if my life depended on it.
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hot current debate in the video game industry is the topic of used
games. While this may seem surprising as used game sales --
both private and commercial – have been around for years, video
game makers are now turning on the time honored practice, looking to
make some extra money. Some developers have said used games
are worse
than piracy.Electronic Arts unveiled a controversial plan
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most of the games that we will release next year will have
downloadable content available from the start. We are looking
very carefully at what is being done by EA regarding what we call the
'$10 solution,' and we will probably follow that line at sometime in
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$10-$40 they already pay for the game itself. Publishers are
also looking to use a transition to digital downloads to make
customers less able to sell titles in the first place.Some
customers are circumventing these restrictions by creating one time
accounts on services such as Valve's Steam and selling them to
effectively sell the game. This technique is less effective on
consoles like the Xbox 360, though, where month billing is attached
to your account.GameStop's Paul Raines praised EA
and Ubisoft's decision to charge customers more. He states, "We
support the creation of added downloadable content for popular
franchises, as we see that as extending the life of titles and
broadening the base of game players. We do not anticipate an
impact to our used margins due to this program. The amount of used
game buyers currently playing online is low, and as it grows, our
proprietary models will manage trade and sale pricing to reach margin
goals."He adds, "Lastly, we believe that the online
pass process will allow publishers to better leverage their IP
content through DLC sales to both used players and new game
buyers."GameStop owns IP related to an online billing
and content delivery system for used titles. The company
posted record
sales in the first quarter of 2010.While game
companies have vowed to utilize the new used game markups to provide
"extra content" to the customer, they have provided no hint
to what that content might be or if it even exists at all.
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quote: And furthermore why does it basically cost the same price for a CD as a DVD. '4 guys making noise in a garage' vs. 'Peter Jackson flying to Austrailia and gettting top talent to make one of the most expensive epics ever.' And the movie lasts maybe 4x the CD to boot.
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Total employment dropped by 68,000 over the month, and unemployment rose by 47,000. The state labor force declined by 21,000 jobs in a month.
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Objective: To compare types and frequency of medical complications and comorbidities associated with violence-related penetrating traumatic brain injury (TBI) as compared to violence-related blunt TBI.
Method: Data were collected prospectively at four medical centers participating in the TBI Model Systems (TBIMS) of Care project. A total of 317 individuals met the inclusion criteria for the TBIMS (i.e., showed evidence of a TBI, were age 16 or older, presented to the TBIMS emergency department within 24 hours of injury, and received acute and rehabilitation services within the model system).
Main Outcome Measures: Frequency of medical complications and comorbid diseases.
Results: Patients with penetrating injuries suffered significantly higher rates of respiratory failure (P = .004), pneumonitis/pneumonia, (P = .002), skull fracture (P = .001), cerebrospinal fluid leak (P = .0005), and hypotonia (P = .001) than did patients with blunt injuries. Prediction of complications and comorbidities via multiple regression revealed that a penetrating violent injury and the severity of injury were independent predictors of a higher rate of medical complications, whereas age and gender did not account for unique variance in the equation.
Conclusions: Penetrating injuries are associated with higher rates of certain medical complications, especially to the pulmonary and central nervous systems. Acute care physicians and physiatrists must be prepared to treat these complications more often in patients with penetrating injuries.
In RECENT YEARS, traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation programs have become more and more medically complicated, owing, in part, to the pressures on acute care hospitals for decreased lengths of stay. Rehabilitation physicians have begun accepting patients onto their inpatient units earlier in the patients' recovery and are, therefore, encountering complications that once never would have been seen there. For this reason, rehabilitation practitioners have needed to identify and treat progressively more medical complications and to consider them amongst the factors influencing functional outcome. Anecdotally, clinicians have noted that patients with penetrating injuries suffer higher rates and different types of medical complications than those patients with blunt injuries. However, to date, there has been no empirical evidence to confirm such impressions.
In addition to the clinical observation that patients with penetrating injuries (typically those with bullet wounds) experience higher rates of medical complications, there is an interest in studying the rate and type of medical complications of those with violence-related TBI in general because of the social and economic implications of such injuries for the rehabilitation process and society. Although patients with nonviolent injuries suffer significant setbacks personally and professionally, which also affect the economics of health care, violence is an ill that threatens the security and well-being of every social unit from the family to the country as a whole. Thus this study sought to assess the occurrence and type of medical complications that occur in violent injuries and to determine if there was a difference in the type and rate of occurrence of these complications between the different types of violent TBIs.
Despite the dearth of research on the medical complications specifically related to violent injuries, several recent reviews have highlighted the problem. 1–3 Also, Levy and colleagues 4 found that in penetrating craniocerebral injuries, infection around the bullet tract, wound dehiscence, cerebrospinal fluid leak, seizures, brain abscesses, and elevated intracranial pressures (ICP) were all fairly common complications. They also found that infection and elevation in ICP were predictive of Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) 7-determined outcome. 11 Kaufman, Makela, Lee and colleagues 8 found that hypoxia, anemia, hypotension and disseminated intravascular coagulation were associated with (though not significantly correlated with) worse outcome on the GOS. Aarabi 7 found that infectious complications were among the major prognostic indicators of the outcome (by GOS) of patients who sustained missile head wounds in the Iran-Iraq conflict. Ansari and Penezi 8 found that among Pakistani soldiers, cerebral vasospasm, seizures, and cardiopulmonary failure were the most frequent causes of death. Unfortunately, in their study no mention was made of outcome, except for mortality. Aldrich and colleagues 9 pointed to intracranial hypertension and hypotension as medical complications that resulted in especially poor outcomes as measured by GOS. Although medical complications were mentioned in these studies, they were not the principal focus. In the Levy and colleagues 4 study, for example, the effect of aggressive surgical management in cerebral gunshot wound patients with low Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 10 scores was the main issue. Kaufman and co-authors 6 focused on whether aggressive surgical management could lead to less mortality in patients with cerebral gunshot wounds. Aarabi 7 concentrated on surgical outcome amongst war-wounded cerebral gunshot wound patients. Ansara and Penezai 8 struggled with the question of triaging war-wounded cerebral gunshot wound patients and Aldrich and co-authors 9 dwelt on predictors of mortality in civilian cerebral gunshot wounds.
Suspecting that, true to clinical observations, there might be differences in the types and rates of medical complications depending on whether the patients' injuries were penetrating or blunt, we sought to confirm this impression through further literature review. No studies were found which distinguished between these two groups on the basis of the kinds of medical complications suffered.
Interestingly, Zafonte and colleagues 11 studied blunt and penetrating injury groups and their conclusions hinted indirectly at a possible relationship between medical complications, these two types of injuries, and functional outcome. This team of researchers found, for example, that patients with penetrating injury tend to have longer duration of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA), longer inpatient rehabilitation stays, higher acute care charges, higher rehabilitation charges, lower FIM score at rehabilitation discharge and at 1 year after injury, and higher disability rating scale (DRS) scores at rehabilitation discharge.
In an effort to identify reasons for these differences, we considered the idea that a higher incidence of medical complications, if such were shown to exist, in the penetrating group could partially explain this trend. It was hypothesized that a significantly higher incidence of medical complications occurs in the patients that survived penetrating injury as compared to those with blunt injury. The aims of this study, then, were to determine (1) whether there is a difference in the incidence and type of medical complications and comorbidities between the blunt and penetrating groups and (2) what factors (group membership, severity of injury, demographics) contribute to the frequency of these complications and comorbidities.
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