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The longest-tenured and most highly-decorated head coach in the history of Liberty Athletics, Brant Tolsma serves as the head coach of the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams. The 50-time Big South Coach of the Year was brought to Liberty in 1986 by former Flames track & field coach, Jake Matthes, to serve as the head men's track & field coach. By 1991, Tolsma had assumed each of the coaching positions he still holds today.
Tolsma shows no signs of slowing down, as he has guided Liberty's cross country and track & field squads to 15 out of a possible 18 Big South Conference titles since the start of the 2009-10 academic year. Under Tolsma's guidance, Liberty's cross country and track & field squads have now won 90 conference titles (including Big South, IC4A and Mason-Dixon) since his arrival on campus.
The 2009-10 athletic year was one of the finest in program history, highlighted by the Big South Conference's first-ever "Double Triple." The unique achievement, which has only been accomplished by 10 different schools in NCAA Division I history, saw the Flames and Lady Flames sweep all six Big South titles (men's cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field and women's cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field.)
Individually, Sam Chelanga closed his career in 2011 with a total of four NCAA national titles, including two apiece in cross country and outdoor track & field. Additionally, Heather (Sagan) Zealand won the mile at the 2002 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships and Josh McDougal was the national champion at the 2007 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships. Tolsma has been at the helm for each of the Flames' six individual national titles.
Chelanga's performance at the 2011 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which included a 5K national championship and a runner-up finish in the 10K, helped Liberty tie for 12th place in the final men's team standings. That is the highest NCAA Division I team finish in program and Big South Conference history in either cross country or track & field.
Tolsma has won 50 Big South Coach of the Year honors and twice was named the NCAA District Coach of the Year. His number of coach of the year recognitions is almost the same as the number of NCAA Division I All-Americans he has coached at Liberty. Tolsma's athletes have earned a combined 50 All-America honors since the program moved to the NCAA Division I level in 1989, including those earned by Melinda Bendik and Kolby Shepherd in 2012.
Tolsma's student-athletes have also excelled in the classroom during his tenure at Liberty. Seven Liberty cross country/track & field student-athletes have earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors at the Division I level under his guidance.
Tolsma's coaching career began at Campbell in Buies Creek, N.C., where he served as the head men's and women's cross country and track & field coach for seven years (1979-86).
Tolsma completed his undergraduate work with summa cum laude distinction in 1971 at Newark College of Engineering, since renamed New Jersey Institute of Technology. He went on to earn a master's degree in hydraulic engineering from Michigan in 1973 and a Ph.D. in the biomechanics of sport from Indiana in 1979. Tolsma's doctoral dissertation was entitled "Leg Dynamics of Maximum Speed Sprinting."
Tolsma has published several articles about track & field training and released a book, The Surrendered Christian Athlete, which expounds the role of the Christian faith in athletics. He has also designed several athletic training devices.
When he can find time, Tolsma still actively trains and competes in track & field. He won his age group in the World Double Decathlon Championship in both 2005 and 2010, as well as the Masters National Decathlon Championship in both 1993 and 2003. He placed second at the World Veterans Games decathlon in 1995 and at the 2002 World Double-Decathlon Championship in Finland.
During September 2010 at the Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex, Tolsma set the world record for men aged 60 and over in the double decathlon, a two-day, 20-event competition which includes all of the track & field disciplines. In October 2007, Tolsma broke his age group's world record for the one-day double decathlon. Tolsma also set an age group (55-60) world record for the double heptathlon in December 2008, while competing at Liberty's indoor track & field facility bearing his name.
The former president of the International Association of Ultra Multi-events, Tolsma has raced nearly every competitive distance from 50 meters to 50 miles. The latter he did to celebrate reaching age 50, about a decade ago.
Tolsma enjoys a number of sports and fitness activities, especially water-skiing. Nancy, his wife of 37 years, is the mother of his six children: Michelle, who is married to former Liberty tennis player Matthew Schley; Rachel; Brenda, who is married to current Liberty assistant track & field coach Clendon Henderson; Regina; Joey and Tami, a four-year member of the Liberty women's track & field team who just graduated in May. Tolsma also has eight grandchildren.

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Welcome to Choco Bay, your new one-stop resource for all things social media networking related. If you're looking to advance your company's social standing and reputation, our website will guide your way to that goal.
Discover the Demographics of Social Media
Does anyone from your target audience use Instagram? Do your customers in rural areas spend as much time on social media as your city-dwelling customers? These are the types of questions all companies need to ask before they invest time and money in a social media campaign. If you don't know where your customers spend time online, you can't be sure you'll reach them.
An infographic from DocStoc and the Pew Research Center illustrates which demographics spend time on social media. For example, 71 percent of women use social media as compared with 62 percent of men. More city dwellers spend time on social media (70 percent) than those who live in rural areas (61 percent). You should click here for background information on this.
The graphic also features some network-specific insights:
Pinterest appeals most to rural residents, women and those with middle- to high-level incomes.
Instagram appeals most to urban residents and 18-29 year olds.
Facebook is the most popular social media site among adults, followed by LinkedIn.
Do you know where your audience spends time online? The Zena 21 website has much more to say on this matter.
Check out the full graphic for more on the demographics of social media users.
Where the Future of Social Media Marketing Lies
There is no better window into the fast-changing world of social media marketing than Facebook's preferred marketing developer program. It has only been in existence for 18 months, and already there are over 260 such partners operating worldwide, helping brands plug into Facebook's ad platforms and parse performance. Within the program, there's an even more elite group of fourteen "strategic preferred marketing developers," or SPMDs.
Since they have privileged access, and often help Facebook develop ad products, these so-called SPMDs are arguably the best sources to turn to when trying to predict the future of social media as a high-tech marketing platform. You can read more about this at Z Plasma.
In a recent report, BI Intelligence interviewed executives at four leading SPMDs, who pointed to the key factors driving social media marketing's future, like the changing relationship between paid, owned and earned media. They saw consolidation in their area — the tech side of things, as opposed to the creative side — as inevitable, and believed only the marketing developers with the best technology would win out. As more brand dollars flow into social media, some firms will be able to build scale and others will lose the race and fall by the wayside. Go ahead and click here for additional details.
With over 260 PMDs all vying for the same pool of ad dollars, it is unlikely that they all will be able to remain in business. Our sources see industry consolidation via bankruptcies, mergers, and acquisitions. The key to this game is the technology. It's not about a flashy name and a reputation for social media knowledge. The best social media marketing specialists will have a great tech stack at their foundation.
PMDs should see a greater share of revenue come from software and technology licensing, or software-as-a-service. Already, one prominent PMD has folded after failing to reach sustainability. Syncapse was overly dependent on a single client, BlackBerry. And it had not achieved any significant revenue figures for its software package.
The lessons for social media marketing specialists? Diversify your client base, and build your company on a foundation of great technology, not fee-skimming. You'll find more info on this online. Other social media networks like Twitter and Pinterest will build out schemes similar to Facebook's PMD ecosystem, and push agencies and brands to connect with their ad solutions via these partners.
Here are some of the other insights gleaned from our conversations with Facebook's strategic marketing partners:
Influencing Facebook Product Development: SPMDs have influence at Facebook and have pushed Facebook to make many needed changes such as streamlining its paid media ad product line.
Pre-Testing Paid Media: Other elite Facebook marketing partners like Brand Networks and Adaptly understand that owned and earned media isn't just valuable in and of itself. It's also valuable as a source of analytics and data that will hint at what types of content will work as paid media. One airline brand using this technique saw total reach more than double to 63% of its targeted fans.
Moving beyond last-click attribution: One Adobe client, a hospitality and entertainment group, realized their apps were driving sales through other online and offline channels. They only realized this once they stopped obsessing on the last click before a sale, and tracked customers across channels. Visit www.social-media-brand-value.com for more on this topic.
Measuring Quality Of Engagement: SPMDs understand that the best metrics don't just measure quality, but quantity too. SPMDs have the best technology and interfaces for sifting through data.
Understanding Facebook Activity In Emerging Markets: SPMDs and PMDs more broadly can be marketers' field experts, sensitizing them to seasonal, cultural, and local economic factors.
Creating the Most Effective Social Networking Campaign
As a marketer, your every encounter with a smartphone-toting consumer should be considered an opportunity: Every mom who searches for product info in a grocery store, every kid who checks in at a concert venue, and every pet-lover who tweets a photo of his dog is a potential buyer to be reached via mobile.
They want to buy. You want to sell. But how do you make the connection happen?
Best-practices for mobile campaigns may be unclear to many, but the mobile opportunity is all around us. Here are five can't-miss steps to highly effective social-mobile campaigns. You can click here to get more information on this topic.
Engage consumers to turn those likes into action
Get your prospects' attention and get them to scan a QR code on your point-of-sale displays or visit your URL after seeing a banner ad. Once you have them on your page, ask them to do more than "Like" your brand on Facebook or follow you on Twitter. Social media is about more than just collecting people around your brand. It's about creating long-term relationships with them through compelling content and engaging campaigns. The Research and Development site has more to say on this.
Turn those likes into love by engaging them around their passion for fashion, sports, music, causes, or even your own products. Offer them rewards to post user-generated content, leave a comment, or share something of yours. Such interactions help you enter the stream of social conversation and share your branded content among your consumers' friends. When you win the social endorsement game, you win social media.
Skip the app store, and reach them through the Web browser
Don't make your buyer download and install an app. Instead, deliver a rich user experience on a mobile-optimized site available through the smartphone's Web browser (for example, Safari on an iPhone or Chrome on a Droid device). You should click here if you'd like to follow up on this.
In the early days of mobile campaigns, a lot of marketers focused on developing native apps that had to be downloaded from the app store. That's OK if you're developing a high-utility lifestyle app, but not if you're running a marketing campaign.
Instead, deliver your message straight from the Web to remove a barrier to entry for your consumer. Plus, the Web gives you the flexibility to tweak messaging, update design, repurpose content, and test calls to action on the fly, without pushing an app update through the app store.
Don't forget the desktop
Choose a campaign technology that enables you to simultaneously launch campaigns across mobile, social (Facebook), and the Web so that your campaigns have the consistent reach they need to succeed.
It no longer makes sense to run marketing campaigns where the mobile platform is not an access point. Conversely, mobile-only campaigns leave opportunities on the table with desktop prospects. To read more about this, click here. You can't get the most out of your campaign investment without integrating your social properties and other Web platforms and assets.
And make sure user data and content synchronizes across all three so that a Like from a mobile device is represented on the full Facebook Web asset.
Update your CRM and start selling
All the interest and attribute data you collected during your mobile campaign is a goldmine of business intelligence. The next step is to put the data to work for you. You need a plan for following up with relevant content and offers that convert those known leads into buyers. You'll find more info about this online.
This step requires discipline. The user data you collected during your campaign isn't worth much if it's never brought to your customer relationship management (CRM) system. A clean, data-rich CRM lets you segment your audience and deliver the right messages at the right times—driving new revenue from prospects and additional revenue from existing customers.
Capture interest and attribute data
Left-brain marketers will love this step: With all the new data analysis and marketing automation tools in our arsenals, we need to know more than names, email addresses, and telephone numbers; it's important to understand our customers' interests and attributes, too.
At a minimum, interest and attribute data refers to the information your users post publicly to their social profiles. However, it's possible to go deeper than what's publicly available. The right mobile technology enables you to paint a more detailed picture of your customers by analyzing their interactions with your campaign.
So, whenever you run mobile campaigns, make sure to capture user interests and attributes. Remember, this is social media, so the data is out there. It's up to you to gather their insights to craft better messaging, repurpose content, and generate offers that lead to a purchase and create strong, enduring relationships. Check out www.video-dtp.com for more.
When you understand interests and attributes, you understand what matters most to your customers and prospects.
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Microsoft Office Undergoing a Make Over
Microsoft Corp unveiled a new version of its Office suite aimed at traditional PC users as well as the fast-growing tablet market in a major overhaul of the aging workplace software.
The revamped Office makes use of cloud computing and is compatible with touch screens widely used in tablets. It comes as Apple Inc and Google Inc make inroads into the workplace, long Microsoft's stronghold. Office is Microsoft's single-biggest profit driver.
"The Office that we'll talk about and show you today is the first round of Office that's designed from the get-go to be a service," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told reporters. "This is the most ambitious release of Microsoft Office that we've ever done."
Microsoft has a lot riding on the 15th version of Office. Windows is one of the world's biggest computing platforms, and the Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other tools – are used by more than 1 billion people around the world. If interested in this topic you should click here.
Microsoft last updated Office in 2010, when it incorporated online versions for the first time. The full version of Office 15 is expected to be available in early 2013.
Cloud computing refers to a growing trend toward providing software, storage and other services from remote data centers over the Web instead of relying on software or data installed on individual PCs.
"Your modern Office thinks cloud first. That's what it means to have Office as a service," Ballmer said, adding that a preview version of the software is now available online.
Microsoft has also recently announced that subscribers to Office 365 will be able to use a new Office Mobile app on their Android phones. The new app is available immediately in the Google Play store. And it comes just a few weeks after Microsoft released a similar app for iPhone users who subscribe to Office 365. The Android app is free to download. But an Office 365 subscription costs $100 a year. For that fee, users can install Office apps on up to five devices such as PCs, Macs, and smartphones. So far, Microsoft hasn't created an Office app for tablets. If you'd like to read more then visit the Niners website.
Microsoft Office users with iPhones rejoice: Word, PowerPoint and Excel are now available on your smartphone. The Redmond, Wash., software giant released Office Mobile for the Apple smartphone Friday, finally bringing heavy Office users a way to edit their files on the go from their device.
The app can be downloaded from the App Store and allows users to edit recent files they have been working on that are saved in their SkyDrive. "After signing in to an Office 365 account, you can access, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from anywhere," Microsoft said in a statement.
The app is free to download but not everyone will be able to use it. You'll need a subscription for Office 365 in order to use the app's document-editing features. Those subscriptions vary in price depending on whether you're a student, professional or a large company, but the Office 365 for Home subscription costs $100 annually. You should click here to continue reading about this topic.
Office Mobile for iPhone will work with the iPhone 4, 4S and 5 and with the fifth generation of the iPod Touch. No word on when there will be an Office Mobile app for Android.


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Puppet Shows
The Youth Department performs Puppet Stories seasonally. Dates for our fall 2016/spring 2017 season are listed below. All shows are at 4:30 p.m. in the youth department.
2016-2017 Season
|October 7, 2016
|December 2, 2016
|February 3, 2017
Here are some clips from past puppet shows:
Dance of the Mitten People (intro. to December 2010 show)
The Gingerbread Man (December 2010)
The Three Little Pigs (February 2011)


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PRINCETON, N.J. - The University of Pennsylvania women's rowing team had a good day Sunday at the College Small Boat Challenge, hosted for the first time on Mercer Lake. Trials were done Saturday afternoon, with the finals on Sunday morning.
In the six-boat double sculls A final, Veronica Jones and Jenna Hebert took second place after covering the 2,000-meter course in 7:38.67, behind only Princeton (7:35.67). In the C final, also sixboats,Penn's B boat ofMaggie Dwyer and Maria Georgiou were second in 8:02.76, behind Boston University's A boat (7:54.76). In the D final, the Quakers' C boat of Holly Stevens and Kelin Baldridge were second out of seven boats in 8:32.08,behind Villanova (8:28.95).
In the uncoxed pairs, Penn's A boat of Megan Fitzgerald and Emily Redfield was second out of six boats in 8:04.79; that was behind only Syracuse (8:02.60). In the D final, Nicola Barnes and Natalie Reynolds were fourth in 8:30.75, while in the E final Elizabeth Picciani and Becky Baumher were second in 8:32.08.
Shannon Macika competed in the single sculls, and finished fourth in theD final in 9:18.80.
Penn will close out the fall portion of its 2013-14 season with the University of Virginia's Rivanna Romp on Sunday, Nov. 17.
Download: Collegiate-Small-Boat-Challenge-2013-Sunday-Nov-03-all-results-chronological.pdf


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Gov't Mule to perform in Vail Sept. 14
July 26, 2012
VAIL -The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater announced it will close out its season in a big way, bringing Gov't Mule to the stage on Sept. 14.
Anders Osbourne will open for Gov't Mule, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. and the concert kicking off at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for this general admission concert are $48 and on sale starting today.
Gov't Mule, which started as a side project by Allman Brothers Band members Warren Haynes and Allen Woody, has grown to become a staple at music festivals across North America. Once named "a jam band with more than a casual investment in classic rock, soul and the blues," the band has been powering through venues throughout Colorado and the nation, bringing legendary rock covers and Southern-rock originals for years.
Attendees of Hot Summer Nights shows at the Amphitheater may have a chance to score free tickets to the show, if they find the mule hidden somewhere in the venue and bring it to the box office that evening before fellow concert-goers find it first.
"We're delighted to bring a big name to the Amphitheater to round out the summer," said Jennifer Mason, director of the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. "The announcement of Gov't Mule will surely bring some buzz and excitement to the Valley, and we find it a fitting finish to an incredible season at our venue."
Visit the box office or call 970–845-TIXS(8497) to purchase tickets.
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Once inside the concert venue, picnics with commercially-sealed non-alcoholic beverages are permitted, as are legless lawn chairs, blankets and umbrellas. Bikes, skateboards and dogs are prohibited at the Amphitheater. A concession area with a full grill and bar service is available.


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Really creepy story of a judge who commits a series of random murders that are linked to others and then presides over their trials, which ultimately end in death penalties. All the while, he keeps a journal in which he meticulously describes the killings. His wife, meanwhile, makes him nervous by constantly talking about how she just has a "feeling" that the accused aren't guilty, and, not being the sharpest knife in the drawer, tells him about it when she accidently finds his journal. I guess that's as good a place as any to stop. There are a couple of other twists and turns that aren't plausible in any real life situation, but do create an interesting listen in the make-believe world of CBS-RMT.
Just to clarify. Gogol and de Maupassant both wrote short stories called "The Diary Of A Madman," bearing no resemblance to one another. This episode was based on the de Maupassant story, but set in modern times in the USA. A creepy episode, and well done. Horror thriller, no supernatural elements.
An excellent thriller that lets us look into the heart of an evil man. He kills because of the laws of nature. Eventually, the "artist" has the book thrown at him.
An intelligent man rationalizes his urges to murder. The natural law must be obeyed!
It's 1950 and Frank Wallace is a respected judge. He has a problem though - once in a while he gets the urge to go out at night into the streets and find someone and just kill them. Then, he goes home and writes down the details in a diary that he keeps. He's done it before but a new wrinkle is that some of the murders he committed are blamed on other people - and those people end up in court before him.
Kasey H.
The lowdown: A prominent (very prominent) member of society is a compulsive killer. A well respected, well educated, well known man within his community. He has a twisted mind and believes in killing as a way of nature, a basic fundamental NEED that all humans have but most aren't aware of. He believes in it to the point that killing has become his god. It's his little secret. But killers have to let it out. They have to tell somebody of their depraved deeds and desires. So this killer confided in his diary.
Alvin P.
Isn't Fred Gwynne in the lead role in this episode?
Trivial exercise based on, as I recall, a very minor story. A pillar of the community is secretly commiting murders just because he wants to and because "killing is the law of nature". There's an interesting resolution that seems familiar but I can't remember where I've run into it before.
T. Durante
A judge chronicles his secret life of random, dispassionate murder. Guy de Maupassant translates well to CBSRMT. This is one of the best. Highly recommended.
Jonel P.
Fantastic story based on a Guy de Maupassant story (see also Episode 0044 The Horla). A man believes that the urge to kill is part of the greater laws of natural instinct and indulges this need when he sees fit. Being of upper class status, he believes he is perfectly positioned to execute these murders without being suspected. I don't want to give any more away because I thought the story moved along pretty well and kept me interested right through.
Jacobe James
This is the episode that got me "hooked" on CBSRMT for the second time. Thanks for sharing this episode with the group. This, like all my favorite shows, relies on fantasic narration to paint a great picure in the mind.
Aian V.
I liked the voice performances by the actors. Distinct, believable, dramatic. The one thing I might change would be the ending. Did anyone else find it a little abrupt and almost too easy of a way out to end the show?
Malcolm G.
This is a memorable episode, one I can definitely remember hearing the first time around back in the 1970's. I also remember hearing de Maupassant's The Horla which is also a good listen.
R. Parks
just curious, also, did anyone else's copy have audio blurps and hiccups? i'm hoping it was the file and not my ipod. yikes!
F. Poe
Sorry, but for whatever reason I can't download this file . . . "unexpected error occurred" . . . any thoughts or solutions on this?
I'm starting to wonder about that! A nice creepy show all around. And just enough versimilitude to make it work. A judge who murders; we read about similar things in the real world. A hospital intern who murders, for example. I like the way the final "wrong man", to use a Hitchcock type description, turns the tables on our villian by baiting him and increasing the pressure until he cracks. Nicely written. The copy I downloaded also had jumps and skips in the thrid act. But not a bad encode otherwise. The judge's spouse seemed oddly calm, even during her most stressful moments. Weird. But a fun show all the same!
My copy has about two spots where it skips in the third act also. It's not that bad at all though. Towards the end you can hear it skipping alot.....I thought my first copy of this episodes had no skips....but I erased it. I'm going to try and locate it now.
just listened to this one tonight. while it didn't really "scare" me, it certainly was very freaky. just hearing it from the narrative point gave me slight chills!
this was a top-notch show and one i am so happy i got to hear (it turns out it wasn't in my collection).
I agree that there were a lot of skips on this recording and that the ending was a little too quick and pat. However, overall it was certainly an enjoyable episode and the main character did indeed want to be caught so he could show what an artist he thought he was.
Vincent Price starred in the film version of this as the Judge in 1963. Though that story combined elements from TWO de Maupassant short stories. DIARY OF A MADMAN and THE HORLA. Not sure what Gogol's name is doing on this.
This is an excellent episode, as most all episodes based on Guy de Maupassant short stories are. However, I would say that the very best one, in fact, one that is also one of the very best episodes of Mystery Theater in general, is "The Graveyard"- an episode you won't forget.


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While we're looking at LiveCycle Designer, here's another great new tool that will help you avoid writing potentially long and tedious script. It's called Action Builder and it's pretty powerful. You can use it to define actions that will add or remove fields or sections of your form, set field values, change field or background colours, hide or show objects, or set focus to a specific field. All without writing any script by your yourself.
In this example, we want to either show or hide a bunch of credit card fields depending on the Payment option that was selected.
Assuming you have a form with these fields already on them, you would follow these steps (a link to the sample form is below):
Action Builder creates what is called "managed script". You can see this script in the Change event of the Payment field. You can, of course, edit this script – but it's not recommended. And if Designer detects any modifications it will assume that you're taking control and the script will become unmanaged.
Here's the sample pdf if you want to take a look: Registration.pdf


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Grossman agrees to remain with Redskins
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3:56 p.m.
ASHBURN, Va. — Former Florida standout quarterback Rex Grossman has agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Washington Redskins.
Grossman's return gives the Redskins the same trio of quarterbacks as last season, and his veteran presence is an extra piece of insurance in case Robert Griffin III doesn't recover from a serious knee injury by Week 1 in September.
Grossman agreed to the deal Wednesday. He's played nine NFL seasons and once took the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl, but he again is projected to be the third-stringer behind Griffin and Kirk Cousins.
Griffin had reconstructive surgery on his right knee in January. Cousins is expected to work with the starters during the spring minicamps and other offseason workouts.
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read moreDate: Friday, 31 January, 2014Namibian Training levy- explanation
Attached, an information document on Namibia's training levy to be implemented in April.
read moreDate: Friday, 31 January, 2014Training Levy becomes reality
Attached, the Namibian government gazette pertaining to the long-awaited and discussed Training levy, due for implementation from 1 April 2014.
read moreDate: Thursday, 16 January, 2014WTM Africa: A New Concept - New Beginnings
Attached is information on what is planned for the first ever World Travel Market Africa, to take place in Cape Town from 28 April to 4 May this year.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 04 April, 2012Namibia in Top 3 for ATTA bid
Attached an exciting media release on Namibia's results on its bid to host the Adventure Travel World Summit in 2013
read moreDate: Friday, 16 December, 2011HAN joins ATTA
The Hospitality Association of Namibia is the latest member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association based in Seattle, USA. See details and benefits of this partnership attached
read moreDate: Thursday, 21 January, 2016The latest news of the SADC tourism region
Enjoy the read: Click here to read the latest Livingstone Weekly, compiled by Gill Staden https://thelivingstoneweekly.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/tlbw20jan16-compres
read moreDate: Wednesday, 08 April, 2015The Livingstone bi-weekly: March/April 2015
Attached is the latest news of the KAZA region.
read moreDate: Thursday, 21 January, 20162015 HAN Tourism Accommodation Statistics
With a total of almost 55% of all available tourism accommodation across Namibia occupied during 2015, the past year ended just under 3% lower than the record year of 2014. the Nam
read moreDate: Thursday, 21 January, 20162015 Statistics- 4 quarters
Attached are the very latest statistical reports processed by HAN, reflecting the performance of the tourism accommodation sector in Namibia during the past year. 2015 seems to h
read moreDate: Tuesday, 04 March, 20142013 HAN Stats Report
Attached is the latest draft of the 2013 room and bed occupancy figures for the Namibian hospitality industry, based on figures submitted to HAN!
read moreDate: Tuesday, 04 March, 2014HAN Stats Fourth Quarter 2013
Attached is the report on hospitality occupancy statistics for the 4th quarter 2013.
read moreDate: Thursday, 24 October, 2013HAN Stats of the Third Quarter 2013
Despite declining submissions of individual reports from members, the results of the occupancy reports for July-September 2013 look up on the same period last year!
read moreDate: Monday, 30 September, 20132013 HAN Stats Second Quarter
Attached is the 2nd quarter room and bed occupancy report compiled by HAN on figures submitted by HAN members
read moreDate: Monday, 29 April, 20132013 First Quarter Stats Report
Attached is the first draft of the first quarter of 2013\'s room and bed occupancies. It would seem as though the performance/occupancy is improving, - sadly the report is based on far fewer i
read moreDate: Wednesday, 20 March, 2013HAN Stats 2012 - the year
The year that was 2012 in occupancy statistics. Will 2013 be better?
read moreDate: Wednesday, 20 March, 2013HAN 2012 Stats, Fourth Quarter
Attached is the 4th quarter report on room and bed occupancy among HAN members, - tourism accomodation
read moreDate: Tuesday, 06 November, 2012HAN Statistics 2012 - Third Quarter
Attached is the third quarter occupancy report for 2012, as per submissions received from HAN members
read moreDate: Monday, 30 July, 2012HAN Statistics 2012 - Second Quarter
Attached is the second quarter occupancy statistics report compiled by HAN, based on submission by its members. This report also reflects a slight increase on 2011 figures for the same period,
read moreDate: Monday, 30 July, 2012HAN Statistics 2012 - First Quarter
Attached is the first quarter occupancy statistics report compiled by HAN, based on submission by its members. Reflects a slight increase on 2011 figures!
read moreDate: Wednesday, 01 February, 2012HAN Stats 2011 year
Attached the annual occupancy statistics report for 2011, as per submissions by HAN members
read moreDate: Thursday, 16 January, 2014FNB Tourism Business Index
Attached the latest Namibia tourism business index, based on figures, opinions and input from a wide spectrum of key tourism stakeholders. The next survey is underway to determine the 4th quar
read moreDate: Wednesday, 22 April, 2015Namibia's Go Green Economy
After lengthy discussions and debate, the following report was compiled on Namibia's chances for a go-green economy.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 19 September, 2012EnviroScope Issue 76 August 2012
Stay updated with news on environmental issues in tourism. Please Take Tips!
read moreDate: Wednesday, 25 July, 2012Bio Trade Namibia
Namibia is very much in support of fair and bio trade practices worldwide, and hosted a workshop to discuss some of the most important issues on Bio Trade in Windhoek recently. Attached is the s
read moreDate: Monday, 02 July, 2012EnviroScope Issue 74 June 2012
Environmental news packaged by EnviroScope!Great for eye-opening reading!
read moreDate: Tuesday, 05 June, 2012EnviroScope Issue 73 May 2012
Keep updated on environmental news, by reading the attached.
read moreDate: Monday, 16 April, 2012Rhino's - A Statutory Burden
Is a dead rhino worth more, that one alive? A perspective of a SA farmer
read moreDate: Monday, 16 April, 2012SA Rural Community Tourism
SA Tourism Minister introduces new rural tourism concepts. Makes for inspiring reading
read moreDate: Thursday, 12 April, 2012EnviroScope March 2012
Interesting environmental news in the attached file!
read moreDate: Tuesday, 28 February, 2012NEWS - Environmental News
Attached is the February newsletter of Namibia Environmental and Wildlife Society, NEWS!
read moreDate: Tuesday, 28 February, 2012Wolwedans - Leading Example
Wolwedans this week launched its sustainability strategy, - showcasing solar-hybrid technology applied at the lodge. Perfect example of how to do things RIGHT!
read moreDate: Tuesday, 28 February, 2012EnviroScope Issue 7
Interested in the Environment? - Zebra Stripes and Cockroaches, - Learn all about them!
read moreDate: Wednesday, 01 February, 2012Environmental Calendar 2012
EcoAwards Namibia Alliance has drafted a calendar of interesting dates in 2012. See attached document.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 01 February, 2012Bannermann EIA Amendments
Intensive studies have been conducted in lieu of Bannerman Resources uranium exploration in the Namib. Attached a summary document in view of the upcoming public meetings.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012Raptors Namibia
A newsletter for bird lovers by Raptors Namibia.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012Rhino and a Buck
An interesting piece of comparison between the rhino and a little buck, the Vicuna.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012EnviroScope Issue 69
Another interesting newsltetter by EnviroScope for HAN Namibia.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 25 January, 2012EnviroScope Issue 68
An interesting newsletter on environmental issues, forwarded to HAN by EcoAwards Namibia.
read moreDate: Wednesday, 19 September, 2012Team Namibia September 2012
Team Namibia is gaining momentum and picking up speed. Great news! Read all about it.
read moreDate: Tuesday, 05 June, 2012Team Namibia May 2012
Attached the latest newsletter of Team Namibia, - Team Namibia AGM is on 13 June 2012.
read moreDate: Tuesday, 15 May, 2012Team Namibia May 2012
Attached the latest newsflash of Team Namibia.
read moreDate: Thursday, 12 April, 2012Team Namibia April 2012
News on Team Namibia
read moreDate: Wednesday, 04 April, 2012Team Namibia March 2012
Team Namibia has a new manager and dynamic team, - read all about it in the attached newsflash.
read moreDate: Tuesday, 31 January, 2012Team Namibia Jan 2012
Newsflash of happenings of Team Namibia
read moreDate: Thursday, 21 January, 20162015 HAN Award Winners - Hospitality Excellence Namibia can be proud of
A huge CONGRATULATIONS to all HAN Award winners of 2015! These establishments, as well as the Personalities, including Christie Benade as HAN Personality, Tibor Raith as Hotelier
read moreDate: Wednesday, 08 April, 2015Otjiwa Safari Lodge hosts major Wildlife Auction in May
Attached details and contact number for this years major game and wildlife auction, to be held at Otjiwa on 23/24 May. Be sure to register, should you be interested.
read moreDate: Thursday, 21 January, 2016New specials from our national airline
Great news specials on fares from Air Namibia between Namibia and Germany, but this time round, for all travelers from Germany to Namibia. This wonderful offer is valid until the end of June,
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013Southern Roads in Namibia- Future Plans
Attached is a draft of the Aus - Betanie - Solitaire- Walvis Bay Road link study just concluded by Roads Authority and ready for public comment. Tour operators and lodges/guest farms in that a
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013Eco Awards Alliance
Following a very impressive presentation on the value of sustainable tourism - as a way to go for international tourism by Keith Sproule, EcoAwards Alliance co-ordinator Hazel Milne invited the
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013Voluntourism: what it is and means to Namibia
NVTF chairman Dr Rudie van Vuuren made impressive representation of the value volun-tourism holds for the Namibian tourism industry, and highlighted the legal and bureaucratic obstacles faced t
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013Issues affecting Tourism: The Private Sector Perspective
HAN/FENATA Chairman made presentation on the issues, Private Sector perceives are hampering tourism growth and development. Here is a summary.
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013NTB and Regulation of Tourism of the Future
At the Tourism Dialogue, NTB CEO Digu Naobeb introduced innovative thinking of tourism regulatory procedures of the future, - in response to calls from the industry on over-regulation. Makes fo
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013National Planning Commission on Tourism
Attached is the presentation by the NPC on Tourism as reflected in the National Development Plan 4, which aims to transfer Namibia to the most competitive tourism destination in Africa b
read moreDate: Friday, 31 May, 2013Namibian Tourism Growth Strategy
Attached is the Presentation by Tourism Director Sem Shikongo on the draft Tourism Growth Strategy, referring to legal framework, including inter-ministerial committee and Tourism Advisory Counc
read moreDate: Friday, 17 January, 2014MET Minister Addresses ATWS 2013 Desert dinner
Copy of the speech by Environment and Tourism Minister at the official welcoming Namibia desert dinner of ATWS 2013 attache
read moreDate: Friday, 17 January, 2014MET Minister Welcomes 2013 ATWS delegates
Copy of the Environment and Tourism Minister's speech during the welcoming of ATW 2013 delegates in Windhoek's parliament garden.
read moreDate: Tuesday, 17 February, 2015NTA Stakeholder Newsletter January 2015
Attached is an informative Newsletter from the NTA, with news on job-attachment schemes, the VET levy and much more.


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Wow! I retired!
Yes, I turned off the alarm clock, punched out for the last time, and gave back my keys. I "pulled the plug" so to speak. As of March 1, I retired from my full-time position — a position I held for almost 19 years. It's a strange feeling. After working for more than 40 years, with few breaks, I have more time to do, well, to do what? That's the ultimate question.
More time to spend with my grandchildren, absolutely. More time to spend with my friends, definitely. More time to spend at home and with my husband, of course. More time for my favorite activity — you know, golfing. More time to clean my house, well, probably, but the question there is will I have more desire for that one. The days ahead will answer that, but my guess is that will be low on my list of ways to spend my days.
I always felt that I would know when it was right to move on to a new phase of my life, and the time has come. I have enjoyed working and have enjoyed my last job, but I do feel that my passion for my job and my desire to be there every day has diminished in the last few months. That's how I knew the time was close for me to say good-bye to my full-time position. I have never wanted to do anything half way and certainly not my work. I made my decision, and here I am now ... retired!
I am not sure what I will be spending all my time doing, but I make the following promises to those who continue to work at full-time jobs away from home:
• My driving between the hours of 6:30 and 8 a.m. will be limited to those occasions that are totally required. If I do find it absolutely necessary to drive on city streets or highways during those hours, I will drive the speed limit, not 10 to 20 miles per hour below. If my destination during the hours of 6:30 to 8 a.m. is a local coffee shop to meet friends, and I don't wish to at least drive the speed limit, I will delay my trip to the coffee shop, so I do not interfere with those drivers trying to get to work on time.
• I will avoid the local grocery store during the lunch hour. I will remember those who work may need to run an errand at the store on their lunch hour, and if they do run an errand, their time is limited, and if I have all day. Why not give up the lunch hour time slot to those who need it more?
• As I said above, the same applies during the hours of 4 to 6 p.m. I will try to avoid the store when those working need to go there. I will remember that I am just retired, I am not special, I don't need special treatment. I have the one thing I didn't have while working, and that is time. I don't need to be first in line; I don't need to be the first one the waitress brings water to; I don't need the clerk to ask me if I need help before someone else. I can wait — I'll have the time.
So, in the end, what are my plans? Well, as I said at the beginning of this column, I intend to play as much golf as possible, I intend to spend leisurely time with my grandchildren. I intend to sit on my deck with my husband, enjoy the sunshine and watch the flowers grow. I intend to be a better wife, mother, grandmother and friend. I intend to, well, enjoy life. I also intend to continue writing these columns for the BCR (as long as you are reading them), and just maybe I will find time to make my world and yours a little bit better place.
Maybe my retirement will take me near you, I hope so — I'll have that thing called time, precious time, to meet new people and enjoy new experiences. Hope to see you as I start my latest adventure. WOW! I'm RETIRED!
Nita Wyatt of Wyanet can be reached at email@example.com.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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Short-term exposure to cortisol can actually improve memory. This is the method by which flashbulb memories are believed to be formed. Additionally, a small amount of stress can increase the mind's ability to focus on a task. However, long-term exposure to high levels of cortisol can damage the hippocampus which can cause serious memory problems. It is unclear how much time it takes to cause permanent memory impairment, but finding ways to reduce stress in your life is always a good idea.
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A NEW report on better ways to tackle the floods which devastated communities on the Somerset Levels has been released by the Bishop of Taunton.
The Rt Rev Peter Maurice completed a walkabout of communities which suffered the worst of the winter floods yesterday morning (Monday) with a visit to Moorland, where many people had to be evacuated.
There was also a trip to the dredging project on the River Parrett which is being completed to help prevent future floods.
The report, called Fact, Feeling and Future, was officially launched at St Peter & St Paul's Church in Moorland at 11.30am yesterday.
When the water levels rose in January and February, local churches were at the forefront of the flood relief effort.
While working as part of the relief effort, report authors Simon Taylor, Rob Walrond and Annie Gurner gathered first-hand accounts from residents and farmers whose homes and lives were devastated by the floods, as well as clergy who were supporting them.
The result is a striking snapshot of the impact and implications on local people with 20 clear recommendations for action at national, regional and grass roots level.
Included in the report is an emotional appeal the Bishop made in February to drum up support for stricken families.
He says in the letter to the clergy: "Despite the admirable community spirit there is a real practical privation alongside heartbreak and a sense of hopelessness for farmers, businesses and householders.
"I want to encourage you please to consider two ways in which your church may do something about this and show solidarity with these stricken communities."
The aim of the report is to ensure that churches can respond even more effectively to future flooding to help communities become resilient in the long-term.


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Today, November 3 2013, is the first-ever YouTube Music Awards, and they'll be streamed live from Pier 36 in New York City at 6 p.m. EST. The live stream is embedded below in this blog post.
I was invited to nominate ten of the most innovative music videos of 2013. Two of my favorites made the final cut and are up for votes: "Endless Fantasy" by chiptune hackers Anamanaguchi, above [vote for it here] was one.
The other, "Ingenue" by the Thom Yorke-led global glitch-funk band Atoms for Peace, below. Read the rest


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If Judy Garland Were A Hoarding Interventionist
My new heroes in life, the Punchy Players, have birthed an episode of "Hollywood Hoarders" featuring Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli as interventionists and Ann Miller as the hoarder. Judy is concerned that Ann is holding onto a few too many "precious things" and wants to help her make a "clean sweep." Her precious things including corn cob holders, expired powdered doughnuts, Howard Keel, Styrofoam burger boxes, the Ann Miller frog collection, Dixie cups, and 10 cases of Shasta. Final thoughts from Judy: "No matter how much you love somebody, how do you clean up the hoard?" I ask myself this question all the time, Judy. Metaphorically, of course. [WOW]


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[F-18] Fluorothymidine PET/CT Imaging for Pelvic Cancers
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
University of Iowa
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Sarah McGuire, University of Iowa
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: October 18, 2012
Last updated: July 5, 2016
Last verified: July 2016
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Detailed Description:
[F-18] Fluorothymidine PET imaging will be used to create a radiation therapy treatment plan to avoid active bone marrow in the pelvis. This will be done to evaluate if sparing bone marrow will help maintain blood counts. This would impact chemotherapy administration.
|Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Endometrial Neoplasms Anus Neoplasms Rectal Neoplasms Prostatic Neoplasms
|Radiation: Bone marrow sparing IMRT radiation therapy
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Improving Pelvic Cancer Patient Chemoradiotherapy Outcomes With FLT PET Imaging
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Diagnostic ImagingU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Sarah McGuire, University of Iowa:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in FLT uptake as measured by PET/CT scanning [ Time Frame: baseline, weeks 1 and 2 of therapy, 1 month post radiation therapy, and 1 year post radiation therapy ]Standardized uptake values of the FLT tracer signal in pelvic bone marrow will be used to create patient-specific bone marrow spatial maps to reduce bone marrow dose during radiation therapy planning. Changes in uptake will be assessed in relation to the radiation therapy plan.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Adverse event frequency [ Time Frame: weekly during radiation treatment treatment for up to 8 weeks; then at 1 month, 3 months and 1 year post-radiation ]Assess grade 2 and higher adverse events. Evaluate the relationship between radiation dose, the bone marrow spatial map, and the adverse event frequency and profile.
- Blood Cell Counts [ Time Frame: baseline, weekly during radiation treatment for up to 8 weeks, 30 days and 1 year after treatment ]Blood counts will be recorded to assess the effect of radiation dose on pelvic bone marrow activity.
- Chemotherapy compliance [ Time Frame: At 24 months ]The amount of chemotherapy administered will be compared to the amount of chemotherapy prescribed. A secondary comparison against the level of bone marrow suppression (as measured by both the blood cell counts and FLT PET/CT scans) may also be performed. This cannot be assessed until the participant has completed their entire prescribed course of chemotherapy, which will vary based on their tumor type.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2018
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: FLT PET/CT
FLT PET/CT imaging ordered pre-radiation therapy, during weeks 1 and 2 of radiation therapy, and then at 1 month and 12 months after radiation therapy. The FLT PET/CT imaging ordered pre-radiation therapy is used for bone marrow sparing IMRT radiation therapy.
Radiation: Bone marrow sparing IMRT radiation therapy
A patient-specific bone marrow map will be designed from the pre-therapy FLT PET/CT imaging. A highly conformal radiation plan will be designed to spare active bone marrow.
Detailed Description:
Overall survival of pelvic cancer patients depends on control of systemic disease. If local radiation therapy depletes bone marrow function to such an extent that systemic therapies must be withheld, chances of metastatic failure increase significantly. This may be more significant for this group of patients because approximately one third of adult bone marrow is located in the pelvic region. Strategies to minimize toxicities would benefit a range of pelvic cancer patients including gynecologic, anal, rectal, and prostate. New chemoradiation combinations improve outcomes for these disease sites, but come at the cost of higher levels of toxicity. As many as 40% of cervical cancer patients miss at least one chemotherapy cycle due to hematologic toxicity and 36% of anal cancer patients experience grade 3 or 4 hematologic toxicity when undergoing chemoradiation therapy. A clinical trial of concurrent chemoradiation therapy for rectal cancer was terminated due to toxicity, including hematologic toxicities. Concurrent chemoradiation therapy shows promise for advanced stage prostate cancers, but it also increases grade 3 and 4 toxicities. To successfully limit hematologic toxicities for pelvic cancers, it is extremely advantageous to avoid irradiating the highly proliferative compartments of the pelvic bone marrow. However, the complex structure of the pelvis makes it difficult to assess the efficacy of radiation therapy (RT) planning strategies to avoid areas critical to hematopoiesis. Uptake of [18F]fluorothymidine imaged with positron emission tomography (FLT PET/CT) can be an accurate and sensitive tool for identifying and monitoring the effects of chemoradiation on proliferative pelvic bone marrow. Clinically validating the utility of FLT PET/CT imaging for identifying active bone marrow in the design of bone marrow sparing RT-plans and the important bone marrow assessment time points would provide a method to reduce acute and chronic hematologic toxicities for pelvic cancer patients.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Recommended to undergo pelvic irradiation with concurrent chemotherapy.
- At least 18 years of age. Pediatrics would be best served by a protocol designed for their specific needs.
- Karnofsky Performance Status of at least 60% at time of screening.
- Life expectancy of greater than 6 months.
Subject must have normal organ and marrow function (as defined below) within 30 days of study enrollment:
- leukocytes at least 3,000 / µL
- absolute neutrophil count of at least 1500 / µL
- platelets of at least 100,000 / µL
- creatinine equal to or less than the upper limit of normal
- not pregnant (as applicable)
Exclusion Criteria:
- history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to FLT
- an oncology research protocol requiring full pelvic radiation (i.e., 4 field box technique)
- uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- subjects taking nucleoside analog medications such as those used as antiretroviral agents.
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01717391
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01717391
|United States, Iowa
|Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Iowa
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|Principal Investigator:
|Sarah McGuire, PhD
|Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Iowa
More Information
Keywords provided by Sarah McGuire, University of Iowa:
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McGuire SM, Bhatia SK, Sun W, Jacobson GM, Menda Y, Ponto LL, Smith BJ, Gross BA, Bayouth JE, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Buatti JM. Using [(18)F]Fluorothymidine Imaged With Positron Emission Tomography to Quantify and Reduce Hematologic Toxicity Due to Chemoradiation Therapy for Pelvic Cancer Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Sep 1;96(1):228-39. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.04.009. Epub 2016 Apr 19.
McGuire SM, Menda Y, Boles Ponto LL, Gross B, TenNapel M, Smith BJ, Bayouth JE. Spatial mapping of functional pelvic bone marrow using FLT PET. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2014 Jul 8;15(4):4780. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v15i4.4780.
McGuire SM, Menda Y, Ponto LL, Gross B, Juweid M, Bayouth JE. A methodology for incorporating functional bone marrow sparing in IMRT planning for pelvic radiation therapy. Radiother Oncol. 2011 Apr;99(1):49-54. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.01.025. Epub 2011 Mar 22.
McGuire SM, Menda Y, Boles Ponto LL, Gross B, Buatti J, Bayouth JE. 3'-deoxy-3'-[¹⁸F]fluorothymidine PET quantification of bone marrow response to radiation dose. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Nov 1;81(3):888-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.12.009. Epub 2011 Feb 6. Erratum in: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Sep 1;84(1):7.
Menda Y, Ponto LL, Dornfeld KJ, Tewson TJ, Watkins GL, Gupta AK, Anderson C, McGuire S, Schultz MK, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Buatti JM. Investigation of the pharmacokinetics of 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine uptake in the bone marrow before and early after initiation of chemoradiation therapy in head and neck cancer. Nucl Med Biol. 2010 May;37(4):433-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2010.02.005.
|Responsible Party:
|Sarah McGuire, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01717391 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01CA169336 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|October 18, 2012
|Last Updated:
|July 5, 2016
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|Data will be shared utilizing clinicaltrials.gov
Keywords provided by Sarah McGuire, University of Iowa:
Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography
bone marrow
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Prostatic Neoplasms
Rectal Neoplasms
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Pelvic Neoplasms
Anus Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Male
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Genital Diseases, Male
Prostatic Diseases
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Rectal Diseases
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Uterine Cervical Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
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Friday's Pterosaur: Tupuxuara
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Friday's pterosaur is Tupuxuara leonardii, which lived about 110 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Brazil.
Thursday's Pterosaur: Pteranodon
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Thursday's pterosaur is Pteranodon longiceps, perhaps one of the most recognizable pterosaurs, which lived about 85 million years ago.
Wednesday's Pterosaur: Jeholopterus
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Wednesday's pterosaur is Jeholopterus ningchengensis, which lived about 130 million years ago.
Tuesday's Pterosaur: Dimorphodon
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In the run-up to Saturday's opening of the new exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, we're highlighting one species a day from this amazing flying reptile group. Yesterday, it was Pterodaustro guinazui. Tuesday's pterosaur is Dimorphodon macronyx, which lived about 200 million years ago.
Pterosaur of the Day: Pterodaustro
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In the run-up to Saturday's opening of the new exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, we'll be introducing you to five interesting species—one a day—from this amazing flying reptile group. First up: Pterodaustro guinazui, which lived about 100 million years ago.


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>Racing>Marathon pace advice
For anyone that was wondering, I went out with the 3:15 group, then pulled away at mile 22 and ran negative splits to finish with a 3:14:07. BQ for my first marathon. Yeah, I'm a happy camper.
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201x goals: run a bunch....race some.....repeat...
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Great job - a lot of strength to pick it up like that - congratulations!
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
Thanks everyone! It felt great to finish strong and be able to pass people at the end, most of my races are usually the opposite where I go out too fast and fade. lol
I'm sure there are other factors involved, but I couldn't help but notice something. My half PR from last year pointed to a 3:05 marathon, but I was also 10lbs lighter for that half. That's a :20/mile difference, which is what I've seen people say is the difference that 10lbs can make. Just thought that was interesting.
Congratulations on a great first marathon. Not to burst your bubble but your time would not qualify for Boston this year. The minimum accepted time this year was 1:38 faster than the posted qualifying times. It might be slightly different next year because this year there were about 5000 people that got in based on not finishing in 2013. Just something to keep in mind if you are planning on running Boston next year you may want to try for a faster time.
Runners run.
It would have gotten you in in 2013, and since this year is so different due to the bombings I am sure you will get in in 2015 even if you don't get a faster time before September!
Running is stupid
Yup, I know. I'm not going to actually run Boston next year, just wanted to hit the mark. I'm hoping to run Boston in '16 and will hopefully register with a BQ+10 or better.
That is awesome, D2, congrats! Do you give credit to all the peeps who chimed in on this thread, or to your 1000+ miles of training?
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
That is awesome, D2, congrats! Do you give credit to all the peeps who chimed in on this thread, or to your 1000+ miles of training?
Thanks! You know it was the support here that did it!
Congratulations, Dave. It is nice to see you achieve your goal after following your training for some time.
5k - 20:56 (09/12), 7k - 28:40 (11/12), 10k trial - 43:08 (03/13), 42:05 (05/13), FM - 3:09:28 (05/13), HM - 1:28:20 (05/14), Failed 10K trial - 6:10/mi for 4mi (08/14), FM - 3:03 (09/14)
Congratulations! Recover well!
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Thanks David & Jimmy! Recovery is going well, I've gone for a couple of easy runs this week, going to keep it easy for the next week or so. I've got a couple of 5Ks and a 10K in April/May that I'm targeting. Then some short, fun races over the summer and a goal half in Oct. I'm really looking forward to running this marathon again next year with more training under my belt and being 20-25lbs lighter.


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Women's and Gender Studies 315. Black Feminist Theory
The class will examine critical and theoretical issues in Black feminism from the 1960s to the present, focusing on the influential contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that emerged in the 1970s. From this perspective, students will explore certain themes and topics, such as work, family, politics and community, through reading the writings of Black feminists. We will also study the ways in which women and men have worked together, toward the eradication of race and gender inequality, among other systems of oppression, which have historically subjugated Black women. Although emphasis will be placed on Black feminist traditions in the United States, at the end of the semester we will consider Black feminism in global perspective.


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Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy imagined Dublin's Chestnut Street early in her career and every now again she would write about one of its residents for "the future". Her editors and family gathered these unpublished short stories together to give you one last volume from this popular author who died in 2012.
Eggsecutive orders / Julie Hyzy
White House chef Ollie Parras is busy getting ready for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll when one of the guests dies at a state dinner. This mystery is fun to solve and the egg recipes in the back look delicious.
Far gone / Laura Griffin
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People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
Passover is just around the corner so this is the perfect time to read People of the Book. While restoring the famous Sarajevo Haggadah, Hanna Heath discovers some artifacts hidden in its binding. The author uses these artifacts to create a fictional account of the book's 500 year history. You'll love this blend of history and mystery.
Are you in the mood for a humorous family chronicle that features strong women and a bit of Irish history? Fans of Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher will enjoy meeting Mimi Malloy.
I've got you under my skin / Mary Higgins Clark
In Clark's latest novel, a TV producer and single mom is filming a new cold case series when the real killer surfaces. While you wait for your copy, try a book by Lisa Gardner or Iris Johansen. Both of these authors write suspenseful novels featuring independent women.
Five-year-old Anna awakes in her tent to the confusing sound of some sort of commotion at her family's remote campsite. Moments later her father grabs her and her three-year-old brother and deposits them in the large metal Coleman cooler. Hours later, the children manage to escape.
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For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:3
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The Vision is Yet for An Appointed Time. Habakkuk 2:3, VerseVisions XI Collection. Mixed media on canvas. Copyright 2010 by Mark Lawrence. All Rights Reserved.
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Eye to Eyebeam is a series on Eyebeam's artists in residence and fellows that includes interviews, photos, and other information on Eyebeam's artists and creative technologists. It is authored by Eyebeam intern Katherine DiPierro.
Mary Mattingly's projects are studies in self-sufficiency. She is talented at envisioning and creating sculptures, installations, and architecture that not only speculate about human migration as a response to natural and human-created adversity, but also offer solutions for providing basic necessities alongside a nomadic lifestyle. Her pieces include wearable homes, a self-sustaining barge, and in her latest project, mobile "flock houses" that are receptive to the movements of New York City's diverse populations. In her latest work, Mary's projects also offer a means for community growth that is, in her own words, "low-tech, ad hoc, and adaptable." Eyebeam intern Katherine DiPierro sent Mary a few questions about sustainability, the development of the Flock House, and even Occupy Wall Street.
Katherine DiPierro: Most of your projects center around accessibility to basic necessities - shelter, clothing, water - and play with the definition of what's considered a typical way of looking at those necessities. What experiences led you to develop this body of work?
Mary Mattingly: In the year 2000, Bechtel, the World Bank and other organizations privatized water in parts of Bolivia. Thousands of people protested this in Cochabamba, as many were no longer able to afford it. With a concrete example of an essential need being sold for use at prices people can't afford, and then studying the pervasiveness of water commodity trading and growth through globalization I realized if the present Military-industrial complex wasn't already, then the future would become inhuman. At that time in my life I was continuously moving and studying architecture, media, and politics at different schools, always trying to travel with less belongings than the time before. I began researching practical inventions while re-learning how to create, find, and utilize necessities, and building "Wearable Homes".
KD: Your latest project is the Flock House, which you're hoping to develop during your Eyebeam fellowship. What do you think are the biggest challenges in producing and displaying these extremely mobile homes?
MM: Flock Houses are fairly mobile because they are lightweight and small, but they will depend on vehicles already heading in the direction of their next landing-place for the most mobility. Choreographing each stop beforehand and then figuring out which vehicles may be willing and available to let a Flock House hitch a ride takes some planning. Designing living and communication systems that can support a couple of people in a fairly small space (even by New York City standards) and within the other parameters I've set for the structures (including utilizing reused, local materials with a minimal power grid) has also been challenging, but these design and choreography demands are both parts of the process I enjoy. The present challenge is to arrange a framework so when the Flock Houses take to the world, the rest is spontaneous. The things I can't plan ahead for will be the biggest challenges and the more rewarding experiences.
KD: Since the recent Occupy Wall Street movement (and the events occurring in solidarity, Occupy Together) has entered public thought, I feel as though there's an increased interest, or at least an awareness, of infiltrating urban space. What's your take on it; additionally, do you see current events impacting your Flock Houses?
MM: This endeavor is both a living space and an interactive public artwork, exploring and expanding the boundaries of housing and usable spaces. The structure and people residing inside will engage with the surroundings at each stop and be dependent on these places for additional sources of food, water, and electrical energy (largely generated through human power). We are working towards making a program to exchange resources, services, and skills, to continue what we are experiencing (and will continue to) at Occupy Wall Street and other movements: spreading ideas, knowledge, mutual cooperation, and democratic participation.
KD: In addition to the Flock House, do you plan to work on any other projects or seminars during your fellowship?
MM: Yes, I'm working on a couple of other things. One is a film project, and I'm working on expanding the "Wearable Homes" project to "Wearable Scalable Architecture". I'll work on these units linking together and providing or storing necessities: shelter, food, and water.
Thanks for the interview, Mary! For the latest on Mary Mattingly's current and future projects, be sure to visit her Eyebeam profile and personal website.
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Thakoon Fall 2012
When a designer talks about being inspired by a red-light district, it would give anyone pause; after all, surely the absence of clothes is the whole point there? So let's be clear that when Thakoon Panichgul says those three little words, he is actually referring to the 1983–1988 installation by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, rather than any scarlet-hued area of ill repute. That wasn't all that Panichgul had on his mind, though. He was also thinking about his own romanticized notions of uptown New York in the early sixties. Those have been informed by a Netflix-scaled memory bank of movie images, populated with impossibly soigné creatures who would have had their hair coiffeused at the salon if they as much as had to step out for a soda, let alone a date at the Plaza. Panichgul was thinking sex, and he was thinking love, and of the age-old tension between the two. And both those sometimes entwined, sometimes opposing forces always involve clothes at some point and in a rather significant way.
This, then, was Panichgul in pretty-perverse mode, playfully colored by a palette awash with Valentine reds and lipstick pinks, and with a silk satin printed with sizzling red neon strips, while other times his glistening, textured black patent leather looked like the rain-washed streets of the Reeperbahn at night. He worked with the stricter, more severe silhouette that has slinked into view these past few days; his take might suddenly reveal a deep slit on a skirt. (The slit is back, FYI, so you might want to start thinking about how you are going to cope with that come fall, should you feel the impulse to slash and flash.) There were dresses cut sheath style and spliced with basket-woven panels that fetishized prim, while others were more like slips, in sober gray wool, yet whose sculpted curves were designed to add some frisson of eroticism. Into the mix went leopard-collared bomber jackets, leather tees, and paper bag–waist straight skirts; Mongolian lamb knitted up into cardigan-like fur coats; and rather wonderful pants etched with silver thread–embroidered feathers.
It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out with those who wear his clothes. Ever since he started his label, Panichgul has been able to tap into the mind-set of a young cool girl, whose impulse is to look street, and artisanal, and yes, a tad sexy. Somehow, into that, he always injected a sense of youthful effortlessness, an effortlessness that was oftentimes missing when the look veered styling-wise into more complicated conceptual territory. No designer wants to be pigeonholed for doing only one thing, yet still . . . some of that spirit of old would have been desirable here.
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Stuffing is, without a doubt, my favorite part of Thanksgiving. Though I love me some sweet potato casserole, and I inherited a fondness for fruit pies from my father, I spend 362 days a year (thank you, leftovers) thinking about stuffing.
You see, throughout my entire life, my mother has been responsible for preparing the stuffing for our Thanksgiving meal, a prized recipe passed down from my grandmother. And while a love of cooking might have skipped a generation, my mom masters that stuffing, year after year, striking the perfect balance between moist, aromatic and crispy. So it seemed wrong to try to recreate it myself — or even to ask for the recipe.
But once I started working in food media, and Thanksgiving became the highlight of my professional year, it occurred to me I ought to ask for that recipe, and see what made it so darn delicious. Well, folks? The answer, much to my dismay, was boxed stuffing — or at least, part of the answer. My grandmother (or Mama, as she was known) always added some choice vegetables and herbs to give it her own special touch.
When we asked our Kitchens to create some unique Thanksgiving side dishes, I couldn't wait to see what stuffing or dressing they'd come up with. Perhaps a southern-leaning dressing with oysters and sausage? Or maybe something totally different, like Mixed Grain Dressing With Shiitakes, Parsnips and Apricots? Chef Treva Chadwell succeeded at surprising us twice with her highly original renditions on the Thanksgiving classic, but it was the third recipe that really caught my eye: Better Than the Box Stuffing.
This recipe, much like Mama's, starts with a bag of seasoned stuffing mix — because on Thanksgiving, of all days, those little shortcuts count (and man do those seasoned cubes taste delicious). She adds leeks, celery and herbs (all musts), plus pecans and cranberries for their nutty, sweet and tart flavors. Suddenly, the finished stuffing melds even more harmoniously with the rest of the Thanksgiving meal, from the requisite cranberry sauce to the pecan pie.
And you know what? When Cooking Channel chef Kelsey Nixon crafted a super-easy Thanksgiving menu for our website, I noticed that her Baked Apple Pear Stuffing started with a bag of the cubed stuff, too. With the two fall fruits and raisins, it is pleasantly sweet and possesses amazing texture.
So I guess my point is this: At this time next week, on Thanksgiving Eve, if you're planning to use some boxed or bagged stuffing (cubes or not, with or without herbs), it's okay. More power to you if you're starting from scratch with an interesting base like cornbread or biscuits. But if you are going to use the store-bought stuff — at least add in some additional fresh ingredients. Just like my Mama did.
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Zach , is this your first session since the new baby girl?
And i realize you were not trying to rub anything in, but man we are in the midst of no wave flat spell and its been along time for some of us to have any kind of waves. I scored Stomach high peaks waist high lines like 3 weeks ago now and thats the best surf i have scored in board shorts that i can remember since early maybe late june. There have been some freaky eveing swells that pop up but we havent had really fun surf over waist high in some time now. So if you get some guys a bit grouchy its because the Atlantic has not been kind to us. Chest high would be unreal right now