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American Association of Physicists in Medicine Awards Ceremony
July 15, 2002
Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth Hotel
Le Grand Salon
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
6:00 pm
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine was founded in 1958 to promote the application of physics to medicine and biology, to encourage interest and training in medical physics and related fields and to prepare and disseminate technical information in medical physics and related fields.
2002 Program
Welcome and Presentation of Awards
Robert G. Gould, Sc.D., FAAPM
AAPM President
Moment of silence honoring deceased AAPM Members
Young Investigators' Competition
AAPM Medical Physics Travel Grant
Jean M. Moran, Ph.D.
AAPM-IPEM Medical Physics Travel Grant
Eric E. Klein, M.S., FAAPM
Farrington Daniel Award
Mark Oldham, Ph.D.
Anil Shetty, Ph.D.
David Jaffray, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Ph.D.
Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award
Daniel Farkas, Ph.D.
George Pirtskhalaishvili, M.D.
John Lavelle, M.D.
Mark Zeidel, M.D.
Sheldon Bastacky, M.D.
Susan Meyers, M.S.
Yingtian Pan, Ph.D.
AAPM Fellows
Peter H. Bloch,
Ph.D., FAAPM
J. Daniel Bourland, Ph.D., FAAPM
Julie E. Dawson, Ph.D., FAAPM
Peter B. Dunscombe, Ph.D., FAAPM
Paul A. Feller, Ph.D., FAAPM
Doracy P. Fontenla, Ph.D., FAAPM
Richard A. Geise, Ph.D., FAAPM
Glenn P. Glasgow, Ph.D., FAAPM
Allen F. Hrejsa, Ph.D., FAAPM
Willi A. Kalender, Ph.D., FAAPM
Robert W. Kline, Ph.D., FAAPM
Mary Ellen Masterson-McGary, M.S., FAAPM
Yakov M. Pipman, Ph.D., FAAPM
Thomas M. Potts, M.S., FAAPM
Robert E. Rice, III, M.S., FAAPM
Almon S. Shiu, Ph.D., FAAPM
Douglas J. Simpkin, Ph.D., FAAPM
Palmer G. Steward, Ph.D., FAAPM
Lawrence E. Sweeney, Ph.D., FAAPM
Marcia M. Urie, Ph.D., FAAPM
Lynn J. Verhey, Ph.D., FAAPM
Cedric X. Yu, D.Sc. , FAAPM
Eric C. Zickgraf, Ph.D., FAAPM
Memorial Presentations
honoring Jack S. Krohmer, Ph.D., FAAPM
honoring Lawrence H. Lanzl, Ph.D., FAAPM
Recognition of AAPM Service
Charles W. Coffey II, Ph.D., FAAPM
Gerald A. White Jr., M.S.
Award for Achievement in Medical Physics
William D. Coolidge Award
Bhudatt R. Paliwal, Ph.D., FAAPM
Closing Remarks
Reception immediately following in the Galleries 1 - 4
William D. Coolidge Award
The AAPM's highest honor is presented to a member who has exhibited a distinguished career in medical physics, and who has exerted a significant impact on the practice of medical physics.
William D. Coolidge Award Recipients
|William D. Coolidge
|John R. Cunningham
|Robert J. Shalek
|William R. Hendee
|John S. Laughlin
|Peter R. Almond
|Marvin M.D. Williams
|Moses A. Greenfield
|Harold E. Johns
|Nagalingam Suntharalingam
|Edith E. Quimby
|Colin G. Orton
|Lawrence H. Lanzl
|F. H. Attix
|Herbert M. Parker
|Robert Loevinger
|John R. Cameron
|Leonard Stanton
|James G. Kereiakes
|James A. Purdy
|Gail D. Adams
|Bengt E. Bjarngard
|Edward W. Webster
|Faiz M. Khan
|Robley D. Evans
|Lowell L. Anderson
|Jack S. Krohmer
|Ravinder Nath
|Warren K. Sinclair
|Bhudatt R. Paliwal
|Gordon L. Brownell
Award for Achievement in Medical Physics
The Achievement Award denotes outstanding career achievement in medical physics practice, education, or organizational affairs and professional activities.
AAPM Fellowship
The category of Fellow honors members who have distinguished themselves by their contributions in research, education, and leadership in the medical physics community.
AAPM William
D. Coolidge Recipient for 2002
Bhudatt R. Paliwal, Ph.D.
Bhudatt Paliwal was born in 1938 in Khewra, a small village near Delhi, India. He received an MS degree in Physical Sciences and an MA in Philosophy from the Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, Pondicherry. He won an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scholarship to receive training in the peaceful uses of atomic energy at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Trombay, India. As a Fellow of the IAEA, he received additional training in medical physics from Professor Leonard Stanton at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, after which he completed Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Houston at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, M. D. Anderson Hospital in 1973. He had the privilege to be mentored by Professors Peter Almond and Robert Shalek.
In 1973 Bhudatt moved to the University of Wisconsin in Madison as an assistant professor of Radiology. This proved to be a stimulating environment for him that nurtured his scientific and professional career; learning from and collaborating with such giants as John Cameron and Herb Attix. He is currently a tenured professor of Human Oncology and Medical Physics and the director of radiation oncology physics in the Department of Human Oncology. Here he has mentored and taught many highly placed medical physicist all around the world.
Bhudatt has over 120 publications in refereed, scientific journals. He has been the editor, author or co-author of numerous books, chapters and AAPM monographs. His research and development interests have covered a wide range of topics that include: Tomotherapy, Time Dose Fractionation, Hyperthermia, Electron Arc Therapy and Quality Assurance.
Bhudatt has stimulated scientific research by organizing numerous national and international conferences and workshops on topics of interest in Radiation Oncology. The five International conferences on Time-Dose-fractionation in Radiation Oncology resulted in monographs edited by him that have stimulated many new research ideas in medical physics, statistics, biology and radiotherapy. Other monographs edited by him have covered Hyperthermia, Electron beam dosimetry and quality assurance in radiation therapy.
Bhudatt served as AAPM President in 1996. He consolidated a stable electronic age platform for the AAPM headquarters and his initiatives helped create the positive relationships and dialogue that in 2001 finally resulted in satisfactorily resolving the issue of two Boards for the certification of Medical Physicists. He was the Chairman of CAMPEP for six years and helped to include the Canadian College of Medical Physics as sponsoring organization. He is continuing to serve on several AAPM committees and is the chair of Education and Training of Medical Physicists. He is also AAPM's liaison to the European Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology.
In 1999, Bhudatt also served as the President and Chairman of the American College of Medical Physics. He has been the Chief Editor of Medical Physics World and an AAPM delegate to the International Organization Of Medical Physics.
Currently, Bhudatt serves as a Physics Trustee of the American Board of Radiology and as its Assistant Executive Director.
AAPM Award for Achievement in Medical Physics
Amos Norman, Ph.D.
Amos Norman, following wartime service with the 101st Airborne Division, earned an MA in Physics (1947) and Ph.D. in Biophysics (1950) from Columbia University with the financial support of Atomic Energy Commission Fellowships, the GI Bill and a working wife. He spent his professional career at the University of California, Los Angeles where he was a co-founder of the Biomedical Physics Graduate Program and where he continues to teach, serve on committees and conduct research as Professor Emeritus of Radiation Oncology. He served from 1979-2000 as Associate Editor of Medical Physics. He is board certified in Radiological Physics and is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. His publications include multitarget and thermal spike models for cell survival, extensive studies of DNA and chromosome damage and repair in human lymphocytes, calculations of the therapeutic gain possible from the identification of radiosensitive patients, calculations and experiments on the radiation dose enhancement in tumors loaded with x-ray contrast agents, and experiments, calculations and clinical trials of the CTX, a CT scanner modified for use as a therapy machine, for treating spontaneous brain tumors in dogs and metastatic brain tumors in human patients. He is currently working with a group that is developing the CXS, a tunable source of monochromatic x-rays for medical imaging and radiation therapy, and is exploring the use of Raman spectroscopy for constructing molecular portraits of cells and identifying radiosensitive patients.
New AAPM Fellows
Dr. P Bloch has made several contributions to medical
physics. These include: (1) X-ray fluorescence analysis to assay in
vivo heavy metals such as antimony, lead, mercury and uranium in individuals
exposed to these substances in the environment or at the workplace,
(2) using magnetic resonance parameters to distinguish between malignant
and normal tissues, and to following these MR parameters during a course
of radiotherapy, (3) unifying electron and photon dosimetry with a single
dose calculation algorithm that used pencil beam energy deposition kernels
for calculating the 3D-dose distribution for electron and photon beams.
Recently his interest include using photostimulable phosphors and/or
amorphous Si detector for digital acquisition of treatment fields in
Dan Bourland received his PhD degree in Medical and
Health Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in 1990. He was Clinical Instructor from 1987 to 1990 in the Department
of Radiation Oncology, UNC-Chapel Hill. From 1990 to 1995 he was Assistant
Professor and Consultant, Division of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic.
In 1995 Dr. Bourland joined the Department of Radiation Oncology, Wake
Forest University, where he is Head of the Physics Section and Associate
Professor. Dr. Bourland's current AAPM service includes the Electronic
Media Coordinating Committee (chair), the RTC Sub-com on Molecular Imaging
in Clinical Radiation Oncology (chair) and AAPM appointments to AIP
and IOMP. He is board certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Radiological
Physics and serves as an oral examiner. Dr. Bourland has approximately
70 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, abstracts, and proceedings,
and an equal number of scientific and educational presentations.
Julie Dawson was born in Chile. In 1977, she came to
the United States with an IAEA medical physics fellowship for training
at MD Anderson Hospital and at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.
Afterwards, she worked at Mallinckrodt for five years. She received
her Ph.D. Degree in 1989 from the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Julie has worked at Saint Louis University since 1990. Currently she
is an Associate Professor and Chief Medical Physicist. Julie received
an MBA degree in 1994. Dr. Dawson current AAPM service includes the
Publications Committee (chair), the Professional Information and Clinical
Relations Committee (chair) and membership in several committees. Julie
is Board Certified by the American Board Of Radiology in Therapeutic
Radiological Physics. She is an Adjunct professor and a member of the
Dean of Engineering Advisory Board at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Publications include 9-refereed papers, and a book chapter `
Peter Dunscombe's graduate education was in Physics
and Nuclear Physics at universities in London, Birmingham and Hamburg.
In 1974 he changed careers to medical physics at Charing Cross Hospital
in London. In 1982 he moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba being appointed Director
of Medical Physics there in 1986. 1990 saw a relocation to Sudbury,
Ontario as Chief Physicist with academic appointments at Ottawa and
Laurentian Universities. In 2001 Dr. Dunscombe relocated once more to
Calgary,Alberta being appointed Director of Medical Physics and Professor
at the University of Calgary. Over the years Dr. Dunscombe has had the
privilege of teaching many medical residents, physics graduate students
and residents and radiation therapists. He has also taken a strong interest
in professional affairs having been President of the Canadian College
of Physicists in Medicine and latterly joining the Board of CAMPEP.
In addition he has published in many areas within and on the fringes
of medical physics.
Paul A. Feller received his MS in physics from the
University of Cincinnati in 1970, after which he entered the Medical
Physics Residency Program at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit. After a stint
as a CO in the USPHS Bureau of Rad. Health, he returned to UC and completed
his PhD in 1980. After a Post-doctoral fellowship at UC Hospital, he
began as a clinical physicist at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati in
1981, where he has supervised several graduate students and is still
the Director Medical Physics. He has been very active in AAPM, currently
most involved in the Summer School Subcommittee of the Continuing Education
Committee. He has been active in the ACR and the ACMP, serving as Chair
of the ACMP Board of Chancellors in 1995. He has served as President
of local chapters of the AAPM and HPS. Dr Feller is holds certifications
from the ABR in Medical Nuclear, Therapeutic Radiological and Diagnostic
Radiological Physics, and from the ABMP in Radiation Oncology Physics.
He is a Fellow of the ACMP.
Doracy P. Fontenla received her Ph.D. from the University
of Cuyo, Argentina. She was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department
of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (1982-1984).
She remained in the staff at MSKCC, until 1993,when she joined the Department
of Radiation Oncology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, as Medical Physics Director. She is an Associate Professor
at the College. Dr. Fontenla has dedicated extensive effort in teaching
medical physics fellows and radiation oncology residents as well. Currently
Dr. Fontenla is Associate Chief of Physics at the Long Island Jewish
Medical Center. Dr. Fontenla has served in several AAPM committees and
task groups. She also has been very active in the effort for obtaining
Licensure for medical physicists in NY. Dr. Fontenla has published 27
papers in peer-reviewed journals, about 50 presentations in scientific
meetings, nationally and internationally.
Richard Geise is a medical physicist with twenty-five
years of experience. He has Masters degrees in Physics and Radiological
Sciences and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Sciences. He is ABR certified in
Radiological Physics and a Fellow of the ACR. He has consulted for over
a hundred medical institutions and industries. Experienced in all areas
of medical physics, he currently specializes in imaging physics, safety
and dosimetry. He is a Clinical Specialist and Associate Professor at
the University of Minnesota, teaching medical, graduate, and x-ray technology
students and radiology residents. He has acted as head of Medical Physics
in the Radiology Department and Director of Graduate Studies in Biophysical
Sciences. He has contributed to over forty publications and given many
presentations in national and international venues. Dr. Geise has been
active in several professional societies, serving on or chairing many
committees, commissions and task groups, and is Associate Editor of
Dr. Glasgow was born February 8, 1944 in Lebanon, Ky.
He received his B.S. degree in 1965 at Western Kentucky State College,
Bowling Green, Ky and his M.S. & Ph.D. at the Univ. of Kentucky,
Lexington, Ky in 1969 and 1974 respectively. He served at the Washington
University School of Medicine from 1974 to 1985 where he finished as
Associate Professor of Radiation Physics. He has served at Loyola University
Stritch School of Medicine since 1985 and is currently Professor and
Head of the Division of Medical Physics. He resides with his wife and
daughter in River Forest, Il.
Allen F. Hrejsa received his PhD degree in low energy
nuclear physics from the University of Notre Dame in 1972. He then completed
a NIH postdoctoral research fellowship in Medical Physics at M.D. Anderson
Hospital. In 1973 Dr. Hrejsa went to Springfield, IL where he served
as Director of Medical Physics for two hospitals and the SIU School
of Medicine. After becoming Board Certified by the American Board of
Radiology in 1976, he worked at Fermi Lab's Neutron Cancer Care Facility
conducting research and providing patient care. Currently, Allen is
the Director of Medical Physics at Lutheran General Hospital in Park
Ridge, IL. Dr. Hrejsa is an active member of the AAPM, having served
as Chairman of the Ethics Committee, President of the Midwest Chapter,
and various other committees positions. He chairs the Governor's Radiation
Protection Advisory Board for the State of Illinois.
Willi A. Kalender received his Ph.D. in Medical Physics
from the University of Wisconsin, in 1979. In 1988 he completed all
postdoctoral lecturing qualifications for Medical Physics at the University
Tübingen. From 1979 to 1995 he worked in the research laboratories
of Siemens Medical Systems in Erlangen, Germany (1988 to 1995). In 1991,
Dr. Kalender became Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics at the University
of Wisconsin. In 1995 he was appointed full professor and director of
the newly established Institute of Medical Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His main research interests lie in
the area of diagnostic imaging, the development and introduction of
volumetric spiral CT was a particular focus. Other fields of research
are radiation protection and the development of quantitative diagnostic
procedures. He has published a textbook on Computed Tomography and more
than 400 papers, published in international scientific journals.
Robert W. Kline received his Ph.D. degree in Solid
State Physics from Wayne State University in 1974. After completing
a Medical Physics Fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center, he
joined the Department of Radiation Therapy at the Medical College of
Wisconsin. In 1986, he joined the Division of Radiation Oncology at
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, where he is currently an Associate Professor
of Radiological Physics and a member of the Mayo Graduate School Biophysics
Faculty. Dr. Kline is co-author of 46 papers in peer-reviewed journals,
as well as numerous abstracts and presentations. He was responsible
for organizing the design and fabrication of the I-125 eye plaques employed
by the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study, as well as by many institutions
outside the study. In collaboration with other individuals and groups,
he has been involved in defining quality assurance guidelines and certification
methods for the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study and for Stereotactic
Mary Ellen Masterson-McGary, M.S.
Mary Ellen Masterson-McGary received her M.A. in Physics
from Columbia University, and her M.S. in Radiological Physics from
Cornell University. She began her career in the Northeast Center for
Radiological Physics in Dr. John Laughlin's Medical Physics Department
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She held appointments to
the Medical Staff at MSKCC, and to the faculty of Cornell University
Medical College. After marriage to her loving husband Randy and the
birth of their wonderful daughter Katie, she accepted a position as
the Chief Physicist at Holmes Regional Medical Center. She is certified
by the American Board of Radiology and the American Board of Medical
Physics. She has been active in numerous professional societies including
AAPM, ABMP, ACMP and NCRP. She has served as President of RAMPS and
of the Florida Chapter of the AAPM. She currently sits on the Radiation
Therapy Committee, on the AAPM Board of Directors, and on the Board
of Chancellors of the ACMP.
Yakov Pipman moved from Buenos Aires to Israel at the
age of 15. Dr. Pipman got his Ph.D. in Physics at the Technion. After
a Postdoc at MIT and teaching Graduate Physics at Montana State University,
he entered Medical Physics as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MSKCC, fulfilling
a desire to use Physics for the benefit of patients. Later, he joined
MSKCC's Medical Staff. In 1985 joined the new Department of Radiation
Oncology at LIJ as Chief Physicist, where he promoted advanced techniques
and the highest standards of care. Consistently bolstered the Medical
Physics profession, serving as President of RAMPS, working for Licensure,
promoting continuing education and quality. He is a Fellow of the ACMP
and a diplomate of the ABR and the ABMP. Served on several expert missions
for the IAEA and assisted in the development of Medical Physics in Israel
and in Latin America through lectures, courses, visits and sponsorship
of colleagues. Currently he is Chair of the Latin American Affairs Subcommittee.
Thomas Potts has been a practicing Medical Radiation
Physicist for 20 years with experience in therapy, imaging, and radiation
safety. He is board certified through ABR (Therapy, 1987) and the ABMP
(Radiation Oncology Physics, 1991). In addition to AAPM, Mr. Potts is
a member of the Cascade Chapter of the Health Physics society, a member
of Sigma Pi Sigma (national physics honor society), and a member of
Rotary International. Over the course of his career he has held faculty
appointments at Loma Linda University, California State University at
Long Beach, and currently has an appointment as assistant professor
in the graduate faculty of the School of Nuclear Engineering, Oregon
State University. His educational background includes a B.S. in physics,
an M.A. in teaching physics with emphasis in reactor physics, and an
M.S. in medical physics. Developmental work includes intraoperative
electron beam treatment delivery systems and electron are therapy on
the Philips SL20.
Following award of a masters degree in medical physics
from the University of Kentucky in 1975, Robert E. Rice has served as
medical physicist for Hartford Hospital, as Chief Radiation Physicist
since 1977, as Director of Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics Services
since 1983, as the administrator for the Hartford Hospital Cancer Program
since 1990 and as Director of Imaging Services from 1997-2000. Certified
by both the ABR and the ABMP, he has been active in professional organizations,
notably the ACR Radiation Oncology Practice Accreditation Program. He
has served the AAPM as Placement Service Director, on committees and
task groups, as regional AAPM chapter President and as a member of the
board of directors. He is currently a Chancellor of the American College
of Medical Physics. His current interests are in improvement of patient
care through full integration of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies
and in creating new delivery systems based on self-directing teams.
Almon Shiu received his Ph.D. from the University of
Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences (UTGSBS) in 1988. He remained at UTMDACC, after his graduation,
where he is now Associate professor of the Radiation Physics Department
and leader of the measurement dosimetry and LINAC technology group.
Dr. Shiu's research in electron beam transport and clinical application
and in SRS lead to the development of Tungsten eye shield for electron
beam treatment and the miniature multileaf collimator for SRS/SRT. Both
products were awarded USA patents. Dr. Shiu has served in many capacities
in AAPM. He and Dr. Mellenberg were the co-coordinators for AAPM YR
2000 Summer School. Currently Dr. Shiu is the chair of the Technology
assessment subcommittee. He is board certified by the ABR in TRP and
the ABMP in Radiation Oncology Physics. He has also actively participated
in ASTRO and the CAMP credited MS/PhD graduate program at the UTGSBS.
Following masters degree training in physics and medical
physics at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Simpkin joined St. Luke's
Medical Center, Milwaukee, in 1979 as diagnostic physicist, physics
instructor, and RSO, positions still held today. He was certified by
the ABR in 1986, and completed his Ph.D. in Medical Physics from UW
in 1991. He has actively consulted to Milwaukee-area medical institutions
in diagnostic and mammography physics for the past two decades. Dr.
Simpkin has a keen interest in diagnostic x-ray shielding, leading to
publication of a number of research papers, appointment to AAPM and
NCRP committees, and numerous lectures and refresher courses on the
subject of shielding. Dr. Simpkin has endeavored to share with his fellow
physicists computer-based solutions to diagnostic physics problems,
including shareware programs to calculate shielding requirements, patient
entrance skin exposures, and generate mammography physics survey reports.
Palmer Steward received a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1968.
During postdoctoral fellowships at Berkeley and Stanford, he entered
physics in medicine as a radiation physicist hoping to contribute to
cancer therapy by modeling cell kinetic and survival responses to radiation
and drugs. He then spent 7 years at Washington University teaching and
developing computer models of proliferating cell systems, after which
he returned to radiation physics as a clinician. Following clinical
training at Washington University, he spent 10 years at the St. Louis
VA Medical Center and St. Louis University. In 1987 he moved to Iowa
where he focused on demonstrating the role of clinical physics to several
radiation centers and skeptical administrators who were accustomed to
seeing a physicist only for machine calibrations. Most of these centers
now employ at least one full-time physicist. Dr Steward believes that
his contributions have been more gratifying than conspicuous.
Larry Sweeney received his M.S. degree in Radiologiocal
Physics in 1976 from Carnegie Mellon University while working as a Junior
Physicist at St. Francis Medical Center. In 1978 he was certified by
the American Board of Radiology un Radiological Physics and went on
to complete his Ph.D. from the Univercity of Pittsburgh in 1981. During
that time and subsequently, he has been involved in teaching and training
of Radiologists, Physicists, Dosimetrists and Radiation Therarists.
Dr. Sweeney has served as an Officer of both the Penn-Ohio Chapter and
the Northwest Chapter of the AAPM. Currently he serves as the NW Chapter
representative of the AAPM Board of Directors and as the Chair of the
Subcommitee on Training and Practice of Medical Dosimitrists. In 2000
he finished two terms on the Medical Dosimetry Certification Board.
He Is also active on the Physics Economics Commitee of the American
College of Radiology. Since July 2001, he has become the President of
Northwest Medical Physics Center near Seattle, Washington.
Marcia M. Urie received her M.S. from Cornell University
and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her career started at
the Royal Marsden Hospital (London, England), took her to the Ministry
of Health (Jamaica), Maine Medical Center (Portland, ME), and St. Vincent
Hospital (Worcester, MA). In 1980 she joined the proton therapy physics
group at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA). From 1994-1999
she was Director of Medical Physics at the University of Massachusetts
Medical Center (Worcester, MA). Since 1995 she has been Director of
Physics at the Quality Assurance Review Center (Providence, RI) which
oversees the quality of radiation therapy for NCI sponsored clinical
trials. She is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School and has more than 70 publications. She has been active
in the NEAAPM, AAPM, RSNA physics program, several NCI sponsored collaborative
groups, and national clinical trials cooperative groups.
After completion of a Ph.D. degree in high energy particle
physics from the University of Illinois in 1968, Dr. Verhey served as
an Assistant Professor at UCLA and at Harvard, working on high energy
experiments at LBL in Berkeley and at Fermilab near Chicago. In 1975,
he entered the field of medical physics by taking a position at Massachusetts
General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, doing research on the use
of protons in cancer patients. Between 1978 and 1990, he served as Head
of Clinical Physics for Proton Therapy at MGH. In 1991, he left Boston
to take a position as Chief of Physics in the Department of Radiation
Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco where he is
currently a Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department. He was responsible
for clinically implementing Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy at UCSF
with a variety of delivery methods. He is certified by the ABR and has
authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Cedric Yu received his D.Sc. degree from Washington
University in St. Louis in 1989. Upon graduation, He was employed by
Siemens Medical Laboratories for 3 years as a medical physicist and
project manager. From 1992 to 1997, he was hired as a clinical physicist
at W. Beaumont Hospital. He joined University of Maryland at the end
of 1997 first as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor,
serving as Director of Medical Physics. He served as a member in TG50.
He is currently serving in the IMRT subcommittee of the RTC in AAPM
and in the Physics Committee of ASTRO. He is board certified by the
ABMP. He is a member of American College Medical Physics. Cedric Yu
was a PI on one NIH grant and 2 industrial grants. He has published
33 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 1 book chapter and 1 scientific
report. He also has over 40 published abstracts. He supervised 9 postdoc
fellows and initiated an accredited dosimetrist training program.
Eric Zickgraf received his Ph.D. degree from Rush University of Chicago in 1996. He began practicing medical physics at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL in 1980 and became the Director of Medical Physics at The Community Hospital, Munster, IN in 1992. He is also an associate of Hubbard, Broadbent & Associates, Ltd. Dr. Zickgraf is board certified by the ABR in Therapeutic Radiological Physics and Diagnostic and Medical Nuclear Physics and is a Fellow of the ACR. He has served as the president of the Midwest Chapter of the AAPM and the Midwest Chapter of the Health Physics Society. He is active in the AAPM. He has taught at National Lewis University, The University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, and Indiana University Northwest.
Jack Stewart Krohmer, Ph.D.
Born in Cleveland, OH, Jack received a BS in mathematics and chemistry at Western Reserve University in 1943. In 1946, upon completion of three years in the military, Jack married Doris Elaine Lyman who survives him, along with two of their three children, Jack and Candace (their eldest, Karen, died a few months before Jack). He is also survived by nine grandchildren.
Jack's MA in physics was earned at Western Reserve in 1947 where he then worked for 10 years as Leader of the Physics Section, Atomic Energy Medical Research Project and Chief Physicist at University Hospitals of Cleveland while completing two years of medical school as partial requirements for a doctoral program under Earl Gregg at Case Institute.
Jack was certified by the ABR in 1950 and later by the ABHP and the ABCE. He served several years on the Health Physics Board and was an Examiner for the ABR for 32 years, rising to Chairman of the Physics Committee and a Member of the Board of Trustees. In 1957 Jack moved to Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas) as Chief Physicist and completed his PhD in 1961 at the University of Texas. 1963 saw him moving to Roswell Park in Buffalo, NY with a joint appointment at SUNY. In 1966 he became Associate in Physics at the Geisinger (PA) Medical Center and Visiting Professor of Physics at Bucknell University. Six years later he joined Radiology Associates of Erie (PA) and served for three of his seven years there as President of the Erie Clinic. Jack moved to Wayne State University in Detroit in 1979 as Professor and Director of the Radiation Physics Graduate Program.
Since 1985 (when he moved to Georgetown, TX) he did locum tenens at over 30 institutions in the US, commissioning equipment, designing facilities, hiring physicists and providing clinical physics service. His last efforts included establishing the Radiation Oncology Center at the Georgetown Healthcare System, named for him. In his 54 years in the field, Jack planned hundreds of diagnostic and therapeutic radiation facilities
Jack initiated the AAPM Placement Service and operated it for 14 years. He was dedicated to recruiting young physicists, elevating the professional level of all medical physicists and to strengthening the bond between physicists and physicians. He worked tirelessly within the AAPM (President in 1974), the ACR, the RSNA, the ARRS and several other professional and scientific societies. He received two gold medals and the Coolidge Award in recognition of his achievements only a few of which are catalogued herein.
Excerpted from: Medical Physics 28 (10): p. 1997, October, 2001, and Radiology 221 (2): p. 562, November, 2001.
Lawrence H. Lanzl, Ph.D.
Lawrence H. Lanzl (Larry to all his friends and colleagues) was born in Chicago and grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. Both his parents had come to the United States from Germany. His interest in science led him to major in physics at Northwestern University. After graduation, he joined the Manhattan Project, working first in Chicago and then at Los Alamos. He returned for graduate study in physics at the University of Illinois. It was there, while he did research on the betatron, that he became interested in the biomedical applications of the physics of radiation. After a brief stint at the Argonne National Laboratory, Larry came to the University of Chicago, where he worked as a medical physicist with Dr. Lester Skaggs. He was active in the design of a cobalt-60 radiation therapy unit and of an electron linear accelerator, before such machines became available commercially. Both were in service to patients for many years. He was instrumental in establishing a program of graduate study in medical physics, one of the first such programs in the country. He also served as a consultant on medical physics in various countries and as President of the AAPM and the IOMP. After becoming a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, he continued to be active, heading the medical physics program at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's for a time. His professional life became limited by several bouts of cancer, but he never faltered in his support of and enthusiasm for his chosen field. He was delighted when the Lanzl Institute in Seattle was named in his honor. However, if you had asked him what he considered to be his greatest professional achievement, I am absolutely sure he would have responded as he did when he received the Coolidge Award "...to improve people's health, and establish the profession of medical physics, and by doing these things, to make the world a little more civilized.
Farrington Daniels Award
The Farrington Daniels Award for the best paper on Radiation Dosimetry published in Medical Physics in 2001 is presented to:
Mark Oldham, Ph.D.
Anil Shetty, Ph.D.
David Jaffray, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Ph.D.
for their paper entitled "High resolution gel-dosimetry by optical-CT and MR scanning," Med. Phys. 28 (7) 2001, pp. 1436 - 1445.
Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award
The Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award for two of the best papers (other than Radiation Dosimetry) published in Medical Physics for 2001 is presented to:
Daniel Farkas, Ph.D.
George Pirtskhalaishvili, M.D.
John Lavelle, M.D.
Mark Zeidel, M.D.
Sheldon Bastacky, M.D.
Susan Meyers, M.S.
Yingtian Pan, Ph.D.
for their paper entitled, "Detection of tumorigenesis in rat bladders with optical coherence tomography," Med. Phys. 28 (12) 2001, pp. 2432 - 2440.


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Rufus Wainwright, son of singer-songwriters Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, is tying the knot this week with German-born theater producer Jorn Weisbrodt.
The pair, who were engaged in November 2010, will exchange their vows on Thursday afternoon at the Wainwright home in Montauk, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
And Carrie Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, will take part in the ceremony, which our source says has a guest list of 250, including Yoko Ono.
Following the nuptials, guests will head to a popular local restaurant, where they'll be treated to a dinner of lobster rolls and Champagne. Then, the crowd will head to Montauk's Shagwong Restaurant for a reception that's expected to continue until 4 a.m.
"Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" singer Rufus previously told The Post of the Shagwong: "It's filthy and smelly and, once again, sexy. It has some of that Montauk funk, which is why we're all out here."
Another source tells us the seats will be cleared out of the Shagwong's dining room to make space for a dance floor, and that Wainwright himself is slated to perform, along with several other artists.
There will be no DJ, only live music, we're told.
Fittingly, a sign hangs in the restaurant window that says, "Piano player wanted, must have knowledge of opening clams."
Wainwright and Weisbrodt have been together for more than five years. The couple have a daughter, Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen, with Lorca Cohen, daughter of singer Leonard Cohen.
Wainwright proposed to him in similarly laid-back fashion over an Indian meal at a London restaurant. Their save-the-date came in video form and showed the singer writing the details in the sand with a stick.

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A conversation with BluB0X
By Martha Entwistle
Updated Wed July 22, 2015
In the course of putting together the educational program for our new Cloud+ conference, I've been talking cloud almost every day and last week I met a new cloud provider called BluB0X.
The company is new, but the folks behind BluB0X have been doing cloud for a long time--the executives and some of the team are the people who founded TouchCom. Remember Touchcom? It was acquired by G4S in 2008. Here's a story about that deal.
I had a great conversation with BluB0X CEO Patrick Barry and COO Patrick de Cavaignac of BluB0X yesterday.
Barry told me the principals of BluB0X "took everything we learned in the 15 years building the previous [Touchcom] product and applied modern requirements and modern technology."� A significant difference is that Touchcom sold direct to end users whereas BluB0X is working with the channel. Another difference is that BluB0X focuses soley on security. "There is no facility management [component], BluB0X focuses on access control, alarm management, video, biometrics and visitor management," Barry said.
De Cavaignac added that BluB0X also does elevator systems integrating into the destination control systems.
Barry said security has gone through three technology cycles--we're now now at the fourth�technology cycle, he said
This fourth cycle, what BluB0X calls "Security 4.0," is the foundation of BluB0X's manufacturing philosophy. Barry said Security 4.0 comprises six technologies that are changing the security industry and which BluB0X is built around. They are: cloud/wireless; mobile devices; multi-factor biometrics; everything unified on a Mercury platform (the largest installed platform, Barry noted); open, standard, IP-based; and lots of analytics.
BluB0X is ramping up quickly, Barry said. It has several new customers. The company exhibited at ISC West and will be at ASIS in September. The company recently hired Siemens' veteran Perry Levine to do business development.
Want to demo the product? Barry said it's very easy to do. Because it's in the cloud, BluB0X provides a login and password "and they can use the demo site. ... They can try it before they buy it," Barry said.
It offers the standard cloud benefits of "one version, the current version that gets upgraded once a month, whereas the typical manufacturer upgrades once a year," Barry said.
Barry is also very excited about the product's ability to run on any mobile device. It's different, he said, because "it's readable whatever the dimension of the screen is ... you can run our software from a computer or when you're walking down the street with your smartphone." Many software programs work on mobile devices via apps, he said. That can be problematic because the interface looks different, there's a lot less power with the apps, and you have to keep updating the apps.
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Advice for the "Reality-Based" Community
Recently, the so-called "reality-based community" on the left has developed the theory that US oil companies have purposefully dropped gasoline prices from over $3.00 to $2.00 a gallon solely to help Republican re-election prospects in November. This notion is so insane as to be, well, insane, and I am not even going to bother fisking it any more than I would bother refuting a flat-earth hypothesis. OK, I can't resist, here are two quick arguments, by no means comprehensive.
- US oil companies control a minority of world oil supplies, and those folks who do dominate the market (Hugo Chavez, Iran, the Saudis, the Russians) are highly unlikely to be cutting Bush much slack.
- The implication is that either the old, high price or the current low price is somehow an unnatural contrivance. If the higher price was a contrivance, ie above the normal market clearing price due to some collusion, then we would have been swimming in oil as supplies outstripped demand, and inventories would be overflowing. If the current lower prices are a contrivance, then demand should outstrip supply and we should have lines at every gas station. Of course, neither situation has been observed.
So here is this week's message for the Left: Economics is a science. Willful ignorance or emotional rejection of the well-known precepts of this science is at least as bad as a fundamentalist Christian's willful ignorance of evolution science (for which the Left so often criticizes their opposition). In fact, economic ignorance is much worse, since most people can come to perfectly valid conclusions about most public policy issues with a flawed knowledge of the origin of the species but no one can with a flawed understanding of economics.
Postscript: In fact, the more I think about it, the more economics and evolution are very similar. Both are sciences that are trying to describe the operation of very complex, bottom-up, self-organizing systems. And, in both cases, there exist many people who refuse to believe such complex and beautiful systems can really operate without top-down control.
For example, certain people refuse to accept that homo sapiens could have been created through unguided evolutionary systems, and insist that some controlling authority must guide the process; we call these folks advocates of Intelligent Design. Similarly, there are folks who refuse to believe that unguided bottom-up processes can create something so complex as our industrial economy or even a clearing price for gasoline, and insist that a top-down authority is needed to run the process; we call these folks socialists.
It is interesting, then, given their similarity, that socialists and intelligent design advocates tend to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Their rejection of bottom-up order in favor of top-down control is nearly identical.
Update: From Cafe Hayek, letter to the Washington Post
Dear Editor:
that today's falling gasoline prices result from a fiendish plot to
keep the GOP in power, Kenneth Jones is certain that "gasoline prices
will go right back up to $2.75-plus after the [November] election"
(Letters, October 2).
If Mr. Jones is correct, he can make a
financial killing. All he need do is to invest all of his assets going
long in gasoline futures (which are today about 30 percent lower than
they were in late July). Indeed, he ought even to cash out all the
equity in his house, max out on his credit cards, and borrow heavily
from his brother-in-law so that he can invest as much as possible in
these futures.
He can then contribute his post-election financial bounty to the Democratic National Committee.
Donald J. Boudreaux


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NY Premiere
By Laurie Anderson
A pioneering storyteller whose ever-intriguing convergence of technology, violin, visuals, and voice creates spellbinding tales, Laurie Anderson (The End of the Moon, 2005 Spring Season; Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, 1999 Next Wave) opens the Next Wave Festival with Delusion. A phantasmagoric world made up of short plays, her latest work is activated by brooding, deeply affecting music redolent with Tibetan temple horns and Arabic strings, performed by Anderson on electronically enhanced violin with supporting virtuoso musicians. A simultaneously contemplative and whimsical epic about longing, identity, and memory, Delusion invokes both humor and terror, conjuring up elves, mysteries, ghost ships, and dead relatives to spin poetic stories and imagery into gold.
Commissioned by VANCOUVER 2010 CULTURAL OLYMPIAD, Vancouver;
BARBICANBITE10, London.
With additional support from BAM for the 2010 Next Wave Festival; Cal Performances UC Berkeley; Stanford Lively Arts, Stanford University, generously supported by Sarah Ratchye and Ed Frank.
Additional production support and residency provided by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Renssalaer.


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Before I launch into today's recipe, I'd like to share a little esoteric trivia with you. Esoteric in a world-wide sense, as our enlightened inner circle contains a bazillion people. But in order to understand the following, you must have a linguistic understanding of what www means and that's a big outer-inner (out-there) circle.
Stick with me, there's some logic to this intro, however convoluted it might be.
Today has great significance in the posting of this recipe. On November 12th, 1990, English physicist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau drafted a proposal entitled "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project." That's what guys who work at CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab, do in their spare time.
You know, when they're not messing around with particle accelerators or smashing atoms.
Little did they know that their project and the alliterative fusion of three simple words would have such a profound impact on the future of information technology and the way we communicate. And on food. Although few of us understand what's really going on in cyber-space, www has become a household "word" and making friends with people in far-off places is as easy as commenting on a blog.
Which brings me to the point of this post – Anne's butternut, leek and ginger soup. The recipe originally came from Mitchell Beazley's book, The Simple Art of Marrying Food & Wine. Anne, whom I met ages ago at Miles Collins' blog, left her version of the soup in the comment section of my Dia de los Muertos post. I doubt that Tim and Robert had friendships, food writing and recipe exchanges in mind when they wrote their proposal for the HyperText Project and dubbed the nebulous world of mark-up language and stored information the WorldWideWeb. But that's how things have unfolded in my little corner of culinary cyber-space (alliterations aside).
WWW has turned into FFF. WorldWideWeb. FoodFriendshipFun. I love it!
Okay, I've indulged myself in some off-kilter rambling, now on to food. This week's CSA box contained butternut squash, onions, leeks and an assortment of other fall veggies and fruit. As luck would have it, those were the ingredients in Anne's version of Mitchell's version of butternut squash soup. Thanks for the inspiration, Anne. Here's my version.
Butternut squash leek onion ginger curry coconut soup
what you need
1-2 butternut squashes (I ended up with about 4 cups of peeled and cubed squash) *
4 cups vegetable broth (or chicken)
1 cup water
2/3 cup light coconut milk
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 apple, washed, peeled, cored and chopped
2 leeks, trimmed and chopped
2-3 tablespoons butter
1-2 tablespoons freshly grated ginger (I like things gingery, use less if you please)
2 teaspoons curry powder *
roasted pumpkin seeds
what you do
Melt butter in a medium soup pot. Add onions and leeks and sauté until lightly browned. Add broth, water, apple, squash and ginger and simmer until squash is tender (30 minutes or so). Remove from heat and let cool for 15-20 minutes. Carefully puree soup in a food processor, in batches, and transfer back into the soup pot. Add curry seasoning and coconut milk, stir well and reheat. Top with a few roasted pumpkin seeds, even though I forgot to do it before taking the picture.
* Check with Amy at SS & GF for detailed instructions on how to peel and chop butternut squash.
* My Madras-style curry mix contains turmeric, cayenne pepper, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, white pepper, cinnamon, fennel, nutmeg, cardamom, cloves and Tellicherry black pepper.
The sisterhood of the traveling soup bowls would like to thank Tim and Robert for setting into motion the worldwideweb. We also appreciate the random brother with a bowl. Go forth and make soup!
Tags: butternut squash, curry, gluten-free, seasonal produce, soup


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Traveling to Disneyland soon? You'll want to add these resort restaurants to your dining list! We give a foodie shout-out to the winners of the Southern California Restaurant Writers awards!!
With a 36 year history, the Southern California Restaurant Writers, Inc. selects winners from south Santa Barbara to the border of Mexico. With such a large region, it's a testament to the food quality at Disneyland that so many awards were presented to Disneyland restaurants at the annual banquet Sunday night.
Join me in congratulating Executive Pastry Chef Jean-Marc Viallet named the Pastry Chef of the Year! For the last ten years, Viallet has been dreaming up creative pastries for Disneyland guests.
Disneyland Resort received top honors in five categories! The Golden Bacchus is presented to restaurants with an extensive wine collection. The Golden Sceptre is considered the "top restaurant" award.
Special Award Category
* Pastry Chef of the Year: Jean-Marc Viallet, executive pastry chef, Disneyland Resort
Golden Bacchus Wine Award
* Napa Rose (Disney's Grand Californian Hotel)
* Steakhouse 55 (Disneyland Hotel)
Golden Sceptre (Five Star)
* Napa Rose (Disney's Grand Californian Hotel)
* Steakhouse 55 (Disneyland Hotel)
Gold (Four Star)
* Ariel's Grotto (Paradise Pier, Disney's California Adventure park)
* Blue Bayou (New Orleans Square, Disneyland park)
Sterling (Three Star)
* Goofy's Kitchen (Disneyland Hotel)
* Storyteller's Cafe (Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa)
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Nicholas Simmons disappeared from his parents' house in a small upstate New York town on New Year's Day, leaving behind his wallet, cell phone and everything else.
Four days later, an Associated Press photographer, looking for a way to illustrate unusually cold weather, snapped his picture as he warmed himself on a steam grate a few blocks from the US Capitol.
Paul and Michelle Simmons saw the AP photograph in USA Today Sunday morning after it was brought to their attention through a Facebook page set up to help find their son, according to police and family friends.
The photo, taken Saturday by AP photographer Jacquelyn Martin, showed Simmons with his unshaven face pressed against a grate outside the Federal Trade Commission. He wore a ski jacket and a hood over his head. A thick gray blanket covered his lower body.
Martin was assigned to the White House that weekend, but with President Barack Obama still on vacation in Hawaii, she spent the day looking for shots that would illustrate the cold weather. That is how she found Nick Simmons, in an area where homeless people often gather when it is frigid outside. She found a cluster of men huddled around the grate, introduced herself and started taking pictures.
Then she noticed one person in particular, huddled under a blanket.
"It struck me how young he was," Martin said. "I again introduced myself and shook his hand. He said his name was Nick."
Martin finished shooting, sent the pictures to the wire and then called it a day. The next day, she received a message via Twitter from USA Today.
The newspaper had run the photo of Nick and was contacting Martin to tell her that Nick's family had recognised him and was trying to locate him. Michelle Simmons was certain that the young man in the photograph was her son, missing for four days.
Police picked Simmons up Sunday afternoon and took him to a hospital, said Capt. Patrick Phelan of the Greece, NY, police department. Simmons' father, Paul, and older brother Paul Jr. arrived in Washington Sunday night and were reunited with Simmons at the hospital, said longtime family friends Peter and Cindy Gugino of Fairfax Station, Va.
Martin, the AP photographer, said the episode serves as a reminder to journalists that every person they encounter has a story to tell.
"It's really gratifying to see that a photograph can make a tangible difference in someone's life. That's a really amazing thing to have happened," she said. "I'm happy and touched that the photograph could help reunite this family."
Police said authorities notified local media and tried to investigate the case, but there were no leads until the publication of the photo.
"It was pure dumb luck how all this happened," said Sgt David Mancuso, the lead investigator. "It's truly a miracle."
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Here he is at age 11 sitting in the Ohio State stadium dreaming of the day
he would be sitting at a football game as a Buckeye. So now it is 9 years later
and he is a Freshman at OSU and a avid Buckeye.
Here he is pictured with Jim Messina, Democratic Campaign Chairman. Sam, I just want to tell you how very proud we are of you and of the man you have become.


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PSA: More Free Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games Now Available
Grab these games for the low, low price of free.
Grab these games for the low, low price of free.
Pick up these games now before they return to their normal prices.
First of October 2016's free Games With Gold titles now available; see them here.
Baseball, racing, prison escapes, and more on tap for October.
Six games across PS4, PS3, and Vita will be replaced by May's lineup soon.
Ubisoft's postapocalyptic action game reportedly hitting PCs a week early; can be purchased through publisher's digital store or on Steam for $15.
Ubisoft's postapocalyptic action game hitting Windows machines next month through company's digital store, Steam for $15; includes exclusive Easy and Replay modes.
Ubisoft Shanghai's postapocalyptic action game hits North American PlayStation 3 virtual storefront early next month, European release pegged for April 4.
We talk to the composer who recently scored the new survival action title I Am Alive.
BioWare's sci-fi trilogy capper leads big week of new releases featuring Street Fighter X Tekken, Unit 13, MLB 12, and I Am Alive.
Supposed 2012 release schedule indicates new entries in Assassins' Creed, Splinter Cell, and Prince of Persia franchises due later this year; Just Dance Final Party also rumored.
Microsoft dates, prices seasonal slate of downloadable releases; Alan Wake's American Nightmare debuts February 22.
[UPDATE]: Third annual Xbox 360 game promotion kicks off February 15; THQ's Nexuiz and EA's Warp round out the offerings.
Ubisoft's "realistic" survival adventure looks to movies, not games, for inspiration.
Piracy makes PC version's profitability uncertain; creative director Stanislas Mettra still working on feasibility of port.
After three years of mostly silence, we finally find out what I Am Alive is really about.
Ubisoft confirms long-in-development postapocalyptic survival game will see the light of day on downloadable storefronts.
Ubisoft's survival game given M classification from US ratings group; third-person action title to include melee combat and finishing moves.
Ubisoft's Chicago-based survival game given classification by Down Under ratings group; publisher mum on title.
Have you seen us? Find out which games were conspicuously absent from this year's show.
Publisher scaling back development of new properties, declares PS3 Motion Controller support, reconfirms Oct.-Dec. earnings fell 3 percent to $682 million.
Yves Guillemot says "some publishers" will likely move releases out of "crazy" first quarter, does not name names.
Ubisoft pushes stealth action sequel and Wii first-person shooter/slasher to Q1 '10; I am Alive and next Tom Clancy title moved past March.
French publisher reports worse-than-expected April-June sales of $118 million, cuts full-year forecast.
E3 2009: Stealth-action game coming November 17, new collaboration with Q Entertainment biggest news from French publisher's conference; Camera-enabled Wii fitness game, Tintin movie spin-off also unveiled, No More Heroes ...
Shaun White sells 3M, HAWX hits 1M, new Wii sports franchise in Q4; Call of Juarez due by June, Splinter Cell Conviction coming by holiday '09.
French publisher, Darkworks reach 'mutual agreement' to shift development duties to Chinese studio.
Publisher's latest will challenge players to survive in the ruins of a devastated Chicago, set for release next spring.
With several new titles recently revealed during its Ubidays event, publisher takes the stage in Los Angeles to show gameplay footage; debuts new survival action game.
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Things to Prioritize When Selecting the Ideal Dog Training Classes
Owning pets is something fantastic. So many individuals own pets in the homes they have. Nearly each home is with a pet. A lot of persons normally have dogs are their lovely pets. Cats and dogs usually are the common pets that you will get in homes.If you wish to get a pet you are capable of purchasing a dog. Dogs are loyal and sweet. They are going to love you with all they have. When you won a dog as a pet there is need for you to train them. They should be trained on different things. You should go for a dot that actually listens to your instructions. A dog that know where it is supposed to be at a particular time is a good option. You require one that is well behaved. For you to attain this you need to search for dog training services. To make sure that you dog listen to each instruction it is given get a good dog training services. Here are elements to consider when looking for an ideal dog training service.
There are numerous individuals that are giving dog training services. As a result of this getting the most ideal dog training services for the dog you have is not simple. It is difficult to get the appropriate dog training services. That is the reason why one is to be careful when picking dog training services. Make sure that the dog training service you settle for meets the needs that you have. Do not go for the dog training services that lacks observation of the set requirements of your dog and you. When in search of a dog training services you are supposed to take as ample time as possible.
There is no essence of rushing when picking a dog training services in order to avoid picking the wrong services. If you are in search of these services for the initial time you are not going to have a simple time and that is the reason why it is crucial that you do not rush. You can do research and by doing that you are going to make sure that you have selected the appropriate services for that dog which you have. Considering that there are numerous training services, selecting them is not a simple task and that is the reason why you should look into various consideration.
The reputation that a dog training service has matters a great deal. The dog training services' reputation is of the essence. You need to select a trainer that is reputable. Select a personnel that has a good reputation. Do not select trainers that are with no good reputation. If you wish to know the kind of reputation that particular services have, you are capable of asking around and you definitely will get the information needed from them. You also can have a look at the ratings and reviews of certain dog training services.


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Today I have a project to share that I was actually not sure I would post here..... But not every project can always be good, right?
Let me start by telling you what it is: A really simple set of tags that I made for fun and two reasons: 1) To play with my Oxides inks and try out different colour combos.
2) To practise my brushpen calligraphy ( and that is the bit I am really embarrassed to share)...
With my new interest in Midori sized travel and junk journals, I thought it was essential to work on my hand writing and learn brushpen calligraphy, - but boy, I have a long way to go as you will see.
But enough of the waffle and on to the project:
1: Vintage Photo & Iced Spruce
2: Vintage Photo & Peeled Paint
3. Peeled Paint & Faded Jeans
4. Broken China & Wilted Violet
5. Fossilized Amber and Fired Brick
Here are close ups of just a couple of them:
Anyway, onto the finished tags, each with a quote in very imperfect brush lettering. I have down loaded several so called "drill sheets" to practise each day, so hopefully I will get better in time. Oh for those of you who are interested, I used Tombow Markers.
As you probably gathered, I kept embellishments very simple, just using a few little things to add a bit more interest.
Well there you are, I'll keep going with the drill sheets and probably turn these tags eventually into a little booklet to chart my progress, - I'll keep you posted....
Hope the sun shines where you are and thanks for your visit today


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The debate that won't happen
For a Westerner, this year's presidential campaign has been both exciting and disappointing. There was excitement when Sen. Barack Obama and the entire Clinton family were stumping in Wyoming; who could ever have imagined that Democratic presidential candidates would be battling for convention delegates in a state that no Democrat has carried in 44 years? Excitement when Denver was chosen to host the Democratic National Convention in August. Excitement because Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is from Arizona, and another credible Democratic candidate, Bill Richardson, was from New Mexico.
The pundits who analyze these matters predict that several Western states -- Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and Oregon -- will be competitive battleground states that will get a lot of attention when the general-election campaign heats up after Labor Day.
So why the sense of disappointment? Because I haven't heard much mention of "Western issues," even though we're supposed to be important players this time around.
To be sure, the presidency is a national office of international stature. It is right that national matters like defense, employment, security, deficits, taxes, immigration, energy, health care, reproductive rights and Iraq dominate the campaign. We're Americans as well as Westerners, and we care about those things, too.
So how do we define "Western issues" as opposed to "national issues"? Or to put it another way, how is the West different from the rest of the United States?
One of my favorite histories is The Great Plains by Walter Prescott Webb. It's an oldie, published in 1931. Webb argues that if you consider factors like aridity (less than 20 inches of precipitation a year), then the Plains environment extends roughly from central Kansas to the crest of the Sierra Nevada. As he put it, "The distinguishing climatic characteristic of the Great Plains environment from the ninety-eighth meridian to the Pacific slope is a deficiency in the most essential climatic element -- water. Within this area there are humid spots due to local causes of elevation, but there is a deficiency in the average amount of rainfall for the entire region. This deficiency accounts for many of the peculiar ways of life in the West."
Aridity explains another peculiar factor of the West -- our abundance of public land. After the federal government acquired the West, much of it in the Mexican War of 1846-48, it gave away vast chunks of land to railroads. It tried to give away land to anyone who would work it with the General Mining Act of 1872, and the Homestead Act of 1862 and its successors. But even at that, there weren't a lot of takers. There just wasn't enough water to make the land productive for private owners.
Thus we have an abundance of federal land. I ran some numbers with U.S. General Services Administration data from 2004, omitting Alaska, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. The difference is striking. In the West, the proportion of federal land ranges from 29.9 percent in Montana to 84.5 percent in Nevada. In the rest of the country, the range is from 0.4 percent in Rhode Island and Connecticut to 11.8 in North Carolina and 13.4 in New Hampshire.
To put it another way, of the 624,995 square miles of federal land in the Lower 48, 552,081 square miles, or 88 percent, are in the 11 Western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
This plays out in a lot of ways, from the Sagebrush Rebellion to EarthFirst! Our major industries, from tourism to resource extraction and agriculture, are all connected to our abundance of federal land. That's why I long to see a presidential forum that features John McCain and Barack Obama answering questions like these:
"Senators, it would be presumptuous to ask you now about whom you would appoint as secretary of the Interior. But it would be fair to ask you which secretary, since the department was created in 1849, was your favorite. Was it Bruce Babbitt, James Watt, or someone else?"
"Currently, about half the budget of the U.S. Forest Service is devoted to fighting wildfires. Is this a reasonable allocation of public resources?"
"Continuing with the Forest Service, its budget for fiscal year 2009 is $4.109 billion, a drop from $4.126 billion in fiscal 2008 and $4.191 billion in fiscal 2007. Is this decline a trend that should continue?"
"In Colorado, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved an oil and gas drilling plan for the Roan Plateau. The state's governor and many other elected officials, ranging from local mayors to a U.S. senator, opposed the plan. Was this a good decision by the BLM? And further, how much consideration should the federal government extend to state and local officials in the administration of public lands?"
"What, if any, changes are needed in the General Mining Act of 1872?"
"The federal government currently charges $1.35 per month per animal unit for grazing on public lands -- considerably less than the going rate on private land. On the other hand, some argue that helping ranchers stay in business helps preserve open space. Where do you stand on the federal grazing fee?"
"This summer, the U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled hearings on the Federal Lands Recreational Enhancement Act, also known as the Recreation Access Tax, or RAT. How much should Americans be charged for parking and using unimproved areas on land we already own?"
Of course, there are many other questions that could be asked, ranging from off-road vehicle use to National Guard deployments that deprive states of the Guard's help in dealing with wildfires on public lands.
It would be wonderful if the candidates scheduled a specifically Western debate, televised from Casper or Bozeman or Provo or somewhere like that. But despite all the hoopla about this being the year for the West to make a difference in the presidential race, I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen.
Ed Quillen lives in Salida, Colorado, where he publishes Colorado Central Magazine and is a regular op-ed columnist for the Denver Post.


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2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony: Saturday at 7:00 PM ET
Class for the Ages — Roundtable Featuring Hall of Famers Warren Sapp, Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin, Marshall Faulk, & Warren Moon: Thursday at 10:00 PM ET & Friday at 9:00 PM ET
The Road to Canton – Warren Sapp: Relentless: Friday at 8:00 PM ET
NFL Network broadcasts exclusive coverage of the 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony Saturday at 7:00 PM ET. The 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class is highlighted by NFL Network analyst and 13-year NFL veteran Warren Sapp. Former NFL players Larry Allen, Chris Carter, Jonathan Ogden, Curley Culp & Dave Robinson and former head coach Bill Parcells complete the 2013 Class. A contingent of 130 Hall of Fame legends will participate in the 2103 Enshrinement Ceremony to celebrate the Pro Football Hall of Fame's 50th anniversary.
NFL Network's programming leading up to the 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony is highlighted by:
Class for the Ages — Thursday at 10:00 PM ET & Friday at 9:00 PM ET
Thursday at 10:00 PM ET & Friday at 9:00 PM ET, Class for the Ages features a unique roundtable discussion. Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, Warren Moon, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame's newest member, Warren Sapp, explain the impact and satisfaction that comes along with reaching football immortality in a candid, one-hour special.
Among the topics the five Pro Football Hall of Famers discuss:
· What does it mean to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
· What made Bill Parcells a Hall of Fame coach?
· Will wide receivers Andre Reed and Tim Brown be voted into the Hall of Fame?
· The impact of fellow Hall of Famer Deacon Jones and his passing this year.
Class for the Ages segments:
· Warren Sapp is welcomed into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
· Does today's passing game influence Hall of Fame voting for wide receivers?
The Road to Canton – Warren Sapp: Relentless — Friday at 8:00 PM ET
Debuting Friday at 8:00 PM ET, The Road to Canton – Warren Sapp: Relentless chronicles the life of Warren Sapp. The one-hour special features footage of Sapp's undeniable talent as a high school standout, his transformation at the University of Miami, and his dominance in the NFL.
Before Sapp was a 300-pound force on the defensive line, the Plymouth, Florida native was a slimmed-down tight end, punter and kicker at Apopka High School. When the future NFL Defensive Player of the Year put on 70 pounds as a freshman at Miami, he changed positions to defensive line and his Hall of Fame career was launched.
Despite being a top NFL prospect, Sapp fell in the 1995 NFL Draft. During the program, Warren Sapp opens up about the experience and mistakes in judgment which caused the fall – including his admittance to marijuana use. His mother, Annie Roberts, reflects on the tumultuous time in her son's life.
Once solidified in the NFL, Sapp developed a fierce rivalry with quarterback Brett Favre. Relentless chronicles the long-standing on-the-field battle which turned into a friendship bonded by mutual admiration.
Relentless features interviews with the most impactful people in Sapp's life:
· Chip Gierke –Warren Sapp's high school football coach
· Derrick Brooks
· John Lynch
· Tony Dungy
· Brett Favre
· Jon Gruden
· Bryan Glazer
· Drew Rosenhaus
NFL Total Access – Live from Canton, Ohio — Saturday, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
NFL Total Access airs Saturday at 4:00 PM ET live from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio and leads into the 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony.
Host Rich Eisen is joined by Pro Football Hall of Famers and current NFL Network analysts Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin and Marshall Faulk. Former NFL coaches and current NFL Network analysts Steve Mariucci and Brian Billick and NFL Network reporter Stacey Dales will also be Canton, Ohio.
The three-hour broadcasts features guests and perspective on the entire 2013 Pro Football Hall of Fame Class. Highlights include:
· Bill Parcells' Coaching Style: Willie McGinest and Harry Carson will join Eisen and Sanders, Faulk, and Irvin on-set to discuss Parcells' coaching style. Both players played for Parcells: McGinest in New England and Carson for the New York Giants.
· Chris Carter's Journey: A special look at Chris Carter's NFL journey which started ominously and concludes with his enshrinement. The former wide receiver opens up about former NFL head coach Buddy Ryan cutting him in Philadelphia. Hear how Chris Carter's wife believes that move set off a chain of events which saved his life.
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WHITTIER, California — The 33-year-old Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.
Angela Suleman said her daughter expects a big challenge raising 14 children. The good news, she said, is all the babies appear healthy.
"I looked at those babies. They are so tiny and so beautiful," Suleman told The Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
Suleman's daughter gave birth to the octuplets Monday at a hospital in Bellflower but has requested that doctors keep her name confidential. Media knew little about the woman until a family acquaintance told CBS' "The Early Show" on Thursday that the mother is "fairly young" and lives with her parents and her six children.
The mother's father is a contractor who travels back and forth from Iraq. It's not known if she has a husband or boyfriend.
Also Friday, CBS News reported that the family filed for bankruptcy and abandoned home about 18 months ago. The mother has been variously identified as a student working toward a master's degree in psychology and as an employee of a fertility clinic.
The six boys and two girls, the second octuplets born alive in the United States, have garnered worldwide attention as media have attempted to find out more about the mother and her family. Hours after media gathered outside the Whittier home, Kaiser issued a statement on behalf of the mother requesting privacy.
"Please know, in our own time, we will share additional details about this miraculous experience," the statement read. "The babies continue to grow strong every day and make good progress. My family and I are ecstatic about all of their arrivals. Needless to say the eighth was a surprise to us all, but a blessing as well."
Within hours, media had camped out at the family's home in Whittier, where the babies' grandfather pulled up in a minivan in the evening and briefly spoke to The Associated Press. Beside him were two children — a 7-year-old and 6-year-old — who said they were excited to have eight new siblings.
But the grandfather warned that media may have a tougher time finding the family after the babies are released from the hospital.
"We have a huge house, not here," said the man, who would only identify himself as Ed. "You are never going to know where it is."
The mother also has two children, ages 5 and 3, and 2-year-old twins, neighbors told the Times.
Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and after finding out she was pregnant with multiple babies was given the option by doctors of selectively reducing the number of embryos. The woman declined.
"What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed," Suleman told the Times. "That is a very painful thing."
Dr. Harold Henry said the woman was already pregnant when she came to Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, and she was counseled about the risks of her pregnancy and on the option of aborting some of the fetuses. Doctors had been expecting only seven babies, but an eighth was born in the cesarean delivery.
Dr. Mandhir Gupta said seven of the babies were breathing without assistance. One was still receiving oxygen through a tube in his nose.
Seven of the infants were being tube-fed donated breast milk. One of the boys was expected to begin feedings Friday.
All babies continued to receive an intravenous nutritional combination. They were expected to remain in the hospital for several more weeks.
Some fertility specialists have said the children face increased health risks because they are octuplets and born nine weeks premature. At birth, they ranged between 1 pound, 8 ounces (0.45 kilograms) and 3 pounds, 4 ounces (1.36 kilograms).
Doctors say they advise against higher-order births, but acknowledge the decision is not theirs to make.
"Who am I to say that six is the limit?" said Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, medical director of Fertility Institutes, which has clinics in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York City. "There are people who like to have big families."
Dr. James Grifo, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the NYU School of Medicine, added: "I don't think it's our job to tell them how many babies they're allowed to have. I am not a policeman for reproduction in the United States. My role is to educate patients."