Sightings

"Our mission is to understand not only what happened but why and how it happened, ... We want to make sure we do not have events where interstate bridges drop into the waterway below them. That is not what we expect." "I think too many parents — we're all guilty of doing as I say not as I do, ... What you really need to do is model that behavior because they are watching you, and you are actually one of the best indicators of what your child's behavior is going to be." "The NTSB is concerned that in these events, [air traffic control] was not able to ensure the safe separation of aircraft." more »

Since 2007, more women have died from drug overdoses than from motor vehicle traffic injuries, and in 2010, four times as many died as a result of drug overdose as were victims of homicide. Men are more likely than women to die from drug overdose; however, between 1999 and 2010, the percentage increase in the rate of overdose deaths was greater for women (151%) than for men (85%). more »

"We needed a portable system of actionable medical orders that would follow the patient and be consistently respected across settings of care, whether that was in a long-term nursing care facility, home, hospice, the ambulance or an acute care hospital," Dr. Susan Tolle has said. POLSTs are often confused with advanced directives, but they differ in significant ways. An advanced directive is often completed by a healthy person, and is purely hypothetical. It lacks the medical authority of a physician’s signature. more »

"Specifically, we continue to have a 6.5 percent unemployment threshold for beginning to consider a first increase in the federal funds rate. As we have emphasized, the threshold nature of this forward guidance embodies further flexibility to react to incoming data. If, for example, inflation readings continue to be on the soft side, we will have greater scope for keeping the funds rate at its effective lower bound even beyond the point when unemployment drops below 6.5percent." more »