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Watching the chemical industry for more than 15 years now, what do you think are the most significant changes over the past two decades?
The industry has changed dramatically since the time I began studying chemistry. The United States, Germany and Japan used to be the leading chemical nations, represented by their large global players. Nowadays companies from China and the Middle East make it into the top ten list.
Furthermore, investors started to discover the chemical industry, actively driving consolidation so that some historic names have simply disappeared while new players have entered the scene. Also, chemicals used to be a highly traditional industry, but the increasing volatility and pace of change over the past decade means that traditional thinking is no longer the path to success in a competitive global market.
Describe the "Innovation Benchmarker" patent analysis tool that you built for Accenture Research.
Innovation is a hot topic for chemicals. Public sources only provide the research and development (R&D) spend of a company, which gives insights about the R&D intensity of a business but not its innovation pipeline or success. To gain more information about innovative technologies or hot research topics, patent analysis is a useful tool.
Our Innovation Benchmarker can measure the quality of patents and monitor emerging competitors. We can watch burgeoning technologies and see who's most active in a specific technology field. The pure number of patents is less meaningful since it is mainly pushed for marketing and strategic reasons. Rather, the key performance indicators (KPIs) we monitor with the Innovation Benchmarker focus on the quality, trends and technology behind the raw number of patents.
What clients and projects are requesting this type of innovation research?
The innovation research is relevant for any company that wants to transform and optimize its R&D process. Accenture can do a baseline study on R&D initiatives in order to see how effective and competitive a company is compared to its peers. We often support merger and acquisition (M&A) activities by mapping patent portfolios to find synergies of a good patent match. With innovation proving to be a key source of competitive advantage in chemicals as well as other industries, we see huge potential in leveraging this research.
Based on your research, do you see new innovation patterns in the chemical industry?
One significant new pattern that should not be overlooked is the power of Chinese innovation. China has historically been regarded as a low cost producer, however, China is definitely ramping up on the innovation front. Pushed by the Chinese government, the number of patents has exploded in the past decade. Thus, it is only a matter of time until the gap closes between the share of patents granted in China as compared to the United States and Europe.
Another pattern we see is innovation around water treatment is a major area of focus. This aligns with the global challenge of managing water scarcity. China has filed by far the most patents today around water treatment, which will likely result in a huge competitive advantage.
You have a PhD in Chemicals. Why are chemicals so special to you?
I am fascinated by chemicals because they are part of everyone's daily life. Whatever we work with, whatever we use—there is chemistry inside. Most people don't realize that new products like smart phones can only exist because chemicals support electronic miniaturization as well as flexible displays, materials and adhesives. Other technologies like isolation materials, solar technology materials and even 3D printing also depend on customized chemical materials.
Tell us about your love of gardening.
Working in the garden frees my mind and helps me slow down, allowing me to return to my work with a fresh point of view. I'm very excited about the digitalization initiatives now underway in my garden. Automated watering equipment has been installed and plans for a lawnmower robot are in discussion. I am still waiting for a weed robot, which would be a really great invention for all avid gardeners!


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Peter Hapak photographed the contenders for the women's U.S. Olympic team for March 12, 2012 issue of TIME. The gallery includes additional images of the fighters in action.
Boxing has always been an Olympic sport. The ancient Greeks wrapped their fists in leather strips in the 7th century B.C. In the modern Games, gold medals have launched the sport's greatest figures: Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Oscar De La Hoya all made their first appearance on the world stage with a victory in the Olympics.
(For TIME's daily coverage of the 2012 Olympics, visit: Time.com/Olympics)
This summer in London, the XXX Olympiad will present a historic debut. For the first time, female boxers will compete. It's been 19 years since a teenage girl named Dallas Malloy went to U.S. federal court to win the right for women to participate in amateur boxing. Now Americans are fighting their way toward the first U.S. Olympic women's boxing team. Just getting to London will be a tough fight. For these boxers, this Olympics is limited, a test run. Only 36 women in the world will be allowed to compete in three weight divisions: flyweight (112-lb. limit), lightweight (132 lb.) and middleweight (165 lb.). Meanwhile, some 250 men will box in 10 weight classes.
Men's Olympic bouts last for three 3-min. rounds. The women's bouts are four rounds of 2 min. each. Debate flared when the AIBA, the international organization governing amateur boxing, suggested women might be required to wear short skirts rather than trunks to make it easier to distinguish them from male boxers. After an uproar, the AIBA agreed that skirts will be optional.
The three women who won the U.S. Olympic boxing trials in February near Spokane, Wash.—each winning four bouts in the process—are fighting for a chance to make history.
MORE: The New Olympic Ring
Katherine Dunn is an award-winning Oregon-based writer and author of Geek Love. She won the Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award in 2004 for her work on School of Hard Knocks: The Struggle for Survival in America's Toughest Boxing Gyms.

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As well as being a much greener mode of transport, trains to London are often faster than driving or flying.
If you're coming from Europe, the Eurostar train via the Channel Tunnel is also a great option. The Eurostar's London terminal is at St Pancras.
London by train within the UK
London is the hub of the UK's rail network, with frequent services to all corners of the country from the city's centrally-located mainline railway stations.
Rail services in the UK are run by a set of private train operating companies. Your point of departure will determine the best service to take and at what station your train will arrive in London.
The fastest city-centre-to-city-centre journeys to London are:
- Bristol: 1 hour 45 mins (via First Great Western)
- Cardiff: 2 hours (via First Great Western)
- Birmingham: 1 hour 30 mins (via Virgin Trains)
- Manchester: 2 hours 10 mins (via Virgin Trains)
- York: 1 hours 50 mins (via East Coast Main Line)
- Newcastle: 2 hours hours 50 mins (via East Coast Main Line)
- Edinburgh: 4 hours 30 mins (via East Coast Main Line)
- Glasgow: 5 hours (via East Coast Main Line or Virgin Trains)
- Leicester: 1 hour 25 mins (via Midland Mainline)
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- Derby: 2 hours (via Midland Mainline)
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London's major stations
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All of the major stations have direct Tube links (the exception is Fenchurch Street, which is close to Tower Hill and Aldgate Tube stations). London's larger stations have shops where you can buy food and drink and something to read on your journey. A chemist is also standard. Some stations even boast retail outlets selling clothes, gifts and more.
Train tickets to London
Buy train tickets to London in advance to reserve a seat and save money. Visit the National Rail Enquiries website for further information about timetables, connections, stations and fares.
You can use an Oyster card on nearly all of London's commuter train services (zones 1-9). See the Oyster website for full details.
Railcards and rail passes
Several different types of card are available offering up to one-third off train fares:
- Young Persons (aged 16-25) and full-time students £30
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Jan. 16, 2009
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After seven minutes of its Ivy opener at Brown on Friday night, it appeared the Yale men's basketball team was in for a long night. The Bulldogs trailed 17-6 and were struggling. Then, all of a sudden, Yale turned up the defensive intensity. The Bulldogs held the Bears to just 12 points in the rest of the first half and outscored them 43-33 in the final 20 minutes en route to a 70-62 victory before a crowd of 1,169 at the Pizzitola Center.
"I thought we did an unbelievable job of guarding them hard," said James Jones, the Joel E, Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball.
Alex Zampier scored 15 of his team-high 19 points in the second half to spark the comeback. Ross Morin added 13 points, Travis Pinick contributed 11 points, eight rebounds and five assists and Garrett Fiddler had seven points and six rebounds.
Yale, which won its Ivy opener for the fourth straight year, shot 60.9 percent (14 of 23) from the field in the second half, while holding the Bears to just 37.5 percent.
Still, the score was tied at 51-51 with 5:16 remaining. That's when Zampier took over. He scored four straight points, and after Adrian Williams made three free throws to pull Brown back within one, Zampier hit a huge three-pointer with the shot clock winding down to give the Bulldogs a 58-54 lead with 3:28 left.
"Alex has the potential to be a great player," Jones said. "He made some plays when we really needed them."
Yale (6-9, 1-0 Ivy) hit eight of nine free throws in the final 1:32 to seal the win,
The Bulldogs finished 16 of 19 from the foul line in the game.
Yale's depth was a big factor. The Bulldogs' bench outscored Brown's 11-0. Jordan Gibson scored four points, Porter Braswell had three, while Paul Nelson and Michael Sands added two apiece. All four also contributed to the defensive effort.
Matt Mullery paced the Bears with 23 points. Williams and Peter Sullivan both scored 14.
Brown (6-9, 0-1 Ivy) made seven of its first 11 shots from the field in building the early 11-point lead but then was only 14 of 43 over the next 33 minutes.
"We really tried to take away what their guards do," said Zampier, who made seven of 11 shots from the field and all four of his free throws.
A 9-1 run midway through the first half pulled the Bulldogs within three, 18-15. Brown pushed the lead back to six, but Yale closed to within 29-27 at the intermission.
The second half featured five ties and nine lead changes. The Bulldogs took their first lead of the game, 34-31, on a Morin three-pointer. Brown's biggest lead of the second half was five, 45-40 with 12:38 left.
Yale has now won four straight games.
"We're starting to click," said Chris Andrews, who finished with nine points and was 4-for-4 from the foul line, all in the final minutes. "We gained a lot of confidence in the last three games. I'm happy with the direction we are going."
Yale and Brown meet again next Friday at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.


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One motorcycle squeezed between two trucks makes a motorbike sandwich.
Amazingly, the rider suffered only minor injuries and is recovering in the hospital, reports the video uploader.
The dash cam of my friend John's Motorbike captures a real funny video. He was out on the high way on his Hayabusa and speeding close to 150 km/h and suddenly sees two trucks almost blocking his way.
You know how difficult it is to stop a bike going at those speeds. You can hear him screaming shit, shit. But to his luck he almost got sandwiched between the the two trucks and narrowly misses getting run over by the truck. All the witnesses were shocked to see him escape with minor injuries.
This could have been a major accident that could have claimed his life. But now he is resting and saying good bye to his stunts for a while. Guys please never ever attempt these stuffs that he is trying to do.
Once again, there's no right and wrong in this video, only a lot of wrongs together. Two trucks driving side-by-side on a two-lane highway is not good for anyone. Not giving yourself enough room to stop on a high speed motorcycle run is also not good for anyone.
(Hat tip to Anthony!)


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Self-Repair of Uncore Components in Robust System-on-Chips
Yanjing Li (Intel Labs/Stanford)
Thursday, September 19, 4:30pm-5:30pm
Hamerschlag Hall 1107
Self-repair replaces/bypasses faulty components in a system-on-chip (SoC) to keep the system functioning correctly even in the presence of permanent faults. Such faults may result from early-life failures, circuit aging, and manufacturing defects and variations. Unlike on-chip memories, processor cores, and networks-on-chip, little attention has been paid to self-repair of uncore components (e.g., cache controllers, memory controllers, and I/O controllers) that occupy significant portions of multi-core SoCs. In this talk, we present new techniques that utilize architectural features to achieve self-repair of uncore components while incurring low area, power, and performance costs. We demonstrate the effectiveness and practicality of our techniques, using the industrial OpenSPARC T2 SoC with 8 processor cores that support 64 hardware threads. Our key results are: 1. Our techniques enable effective self-repair of any single faulty uncore component with 7.5% post-layout chip-level area impact and 3% power impact. In contrast, existing redundancy techniques impose high (e.g., 20%) area costs. Our techniques do not incur any performance impact in fault-free systems. In the presence of a single faulty uncore component, there can be a 5% application performance impact. 2. Our techniques are capable of self-repairing multiple faulty uncore components without any additional area impact, but with graceful degradation of application performance. 3. Our techniques achieve high self-repair coverage of 97.5% in the presence of a single fault. Our self-repair techniques also enable flexible tradeoffs between self-repair coverage and area costs. For example, 75% self-repair coverage can be achieved with 3.2% post-layout chip-level area impact.
Yanjing Li is a research scientist at Intel Labs and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2013, and both a M.S. in Mathematical Sciences and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Yanjing has authored and presented award-winning papers at IEEE International Test Conference and IEEE VLSI Test Symposium. She has also been awarded an Intel Divisional Recognition Award. Her research interests include robust system design, validation and test, and computer architecture.


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BOSTON, Mass. – In a rare Friday meet men's and women's cross country competed the annual Emmanuel College Saints Invitational. For the men's squad they posted a 9th place finish out of 16 teams, while the women's team recorded a 12th place finish out of 14 teams at Franklin Park.
Leading the men's squad at Friday's meet was Jake Kerin (Quincy, Mass.) and Tad Delaney (Halifax, Mass.) with a 19th and 23rd place finish respectively. Kerin recorded a time of 28:09, while Delaney posted a time of 28:20.
For the women's team it was once again Angelica Pizzi (Milton, Mass.) leading the way for the Beacons. The sophomore runner posted a time of 21:36 to earn a 26th place finish overall.
Back on the men's side of the Saints Invitational, Joe Miller (Hull, Mass.) recorded a 101st place finish with his time of 32:07. Behind him was Emilio Alvarez-Flores (Mexico City, Mexico) with a time of 33:27 (118th). Leon Jarvis crossed the finish line with a time of 34:22, which earned him 129th place overall.
Finally it was Alvarez Missick (Boston, Mass.) to close out the afternoon for the men's cross country team as he finished with a time of 41:30 (161st).
The women's team saw Ari Leao (New Bedford, Mass.) record a time of 22:59 to earn a 54th place finish overall. Next to cross the finish line behind Leao was Renee O'Brien (Stoneham, Mass.) who posted a time of 26:10 (120th). It was then Ashley Glendye (Middleboro, Mass.) who earned a 127th place finish on Friday with her time of 27:01. Danny Valeri (Leominster, Mass.) recorded a time of 27:15, followed by Ashley Cahill (Spencer, Mass.) 33:24 as the duo closed out the afternoon for the Beacons.
The Beacons return on November 2 when they compete at the Little East Conference/New England Alliance Championship meet which will be hosted by the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, Maine.


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Following up my post about the Facebook group "Protest Ben Stein's Expelled", I got this blush-inducing celebrity endorsement from no less than Eugenie Scott!
Martin Wagner, you have your head on very, very straight.
If we raise a fuss for Expelled, we increase the publicity and the gate. We play directly into their frame.
Why would we want to do that?
Okay, take a minute to chuckle at the visual of me putting on my "aw shucks" face. Anyway, Eugenie goes on to point out that while Expelled is sure to be a huge hit in "church basements," — har! — the general public isn't exactly awaiting it with bated breath the way they are, say, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Launching some massive protest campaign against the movie will simply play into their hands by validating their false message that "Big Science" wants to shut down open debate. She goes on to recommend the NCSE's newly launched site Expelled Exposed. It's new and fairly spartan at the moment, but it's been launched both as a one-stop shop for all of the news surrounding the movie's release and publicity (such as the PZ fiasco), and will go on to be a resource for refuting the false claims in the movie itself. Go on over and bookmark it.
Incidentally, if you're a member of the Facebook group, you'll see that one guy who's responded, one Barrett Cune, is doing a great job making my case for me, by presenting himself as exactly the kind of histrionic assclown we don't want responding to the movie. In a couple of ALL CAPS harangues, he wails about the need to "hit the streets" and attacks imaginary people who "just want to whine about the Earth and her problems.. you dont actually want to do anything to help.. you want your fucking parents to do it for you." If old Barrett can't tell the difference between coming up with ways to counter the movie effectively and productively, and thinking no one wants to do anything simply because we think parading the streets like some kind of I.R.A. rally would backfire, he clearly needs to grow the fuck up. I can understand and sympathize with his passion, but not his immaturity. The idea is that we're smarter and more rational than the IDiots who do things like make movies comparing scientists to Hitler as a way of concealing the fact they have no science backing up their own position. Acting even stupider than they do is not how to turn the generally indifferent public off to their message.


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text: Rumors have been swirling about an expanded superhero cast in the follow-up to 2008's Lego Batman, with the Amazing Amazon and the Man of Steel reportedly joining the toy-riffic version of the Dark Knight. Ads inside of new Lego toys appear to confirm that, according to MCVUK. Lego's launching a new Super Heroes line with characters from both Marvel and DC, and inserts in the boxes of these new toys tease a sequel to Lego Batman. With Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman pictured in these inserts, it's probable that villains like Lex Luthor, Sinestro and maybe Cheetah may show up to bedevil the Lego do-gooders when LB2 shows up. No official word from Warner Bros. Games or Traveler's Tales has been released yet, but we'll update as we learn more.


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Barack Obama is once again, for better or worse, the president. Like most presidents he has an agenda. Raising taxes on the rich, nominally ending the war in Iraq, shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries, supporting gay marriage when politically expeditious, and so forth. But to hear some on the right tell it, behind the Obama the man is the real Obama, who also has a real agenda. This tends to be more sinister. The lighter version usually has to do with his alleged desire to turn the country into a European-style social democracy. More outlandish charges such as those from disgraced cartoonist Dinesh D'Souza include supposed anti-Americanism, or treasonous support for an emergent "United States of Islam."
With that kind of villain in mind, it's not hard to see how much of the conservative movement might be deluded into thinking America had by and large turned against the president over his first term. Enter the dread bubble of epistemic closure within the conservative movement, which Conor Friedersdorf and others have already done a great job explaining. The gist is that the Republican Party and conservatives devoted a lot of energy toward propagating the myth of the real Obama and less time making the case for the benefits of conservative governance or the benefits of a free society or even deciding what those things mean. Granted, their case was undercut by the billionaire crony capitalist on the ticket who implemented Obamacare's prototype, but a purely oppositional message can only carry you so far.
McCay Coppins reports on some self-reflection in the blogosphere:
"I think the right media may have erred," Dan Riehl, a contributor to Breitbart News and longtime proprietor of Riehl World News, told BuzzFeed a week after the election. "I think we let Obama get into our heads and we wound up campaigning against him, rather than for the things we believe in."
"It was a trap," he added. "And one I can't say I didn't fall into."
In electoral terms the fervor of the conservative blogging community is, obviously, far less detrimental than a candidate's failure to articulate a message. Romney ought to have made a stronger positive case, especially on things like school choice where he had a record. Or even where he didn't, by pointing out the Democratic party's position on abortion that's out of step with a majority of the country.
A study out today shows that 79 percent of Obama voters wanted changes to Medicare and Social Security. And yet, even though the President has remained more or less silent on either for his first term, the GOP wasn't able to make a strong case either.
On entitlements, a little Medicare jujitsu managed to blunt Democratic attacks. But voters still chose to hazard the implementation of healthcare reform rather than buy a Republican pitch that essentially amounted to 'we'll put things right back to the way they were before Obamacare, only we'll give you slightly less in benefits.' They certainly didn't buy the line about "raiding" Medicare.
At a panel last Friday at AEI, some of the writers on my "Manzi List" offered their thoughts on the Republican Party's failure and how to bring back a "majority conservatism." Not once was America's inevitable decline into socialism mentioned.
Some suggestions were cosmetic and speak to a certain obtuseness that will surely go down in history as a theme of Romney's campaign. Henry Olsen compared the women's sections of the web stores of both campaigns. Obama's had a plethora of trendy designs and messages of empowerment, all on clothes people might actually wear after November. His opponent had some "Moms for Romney" t-shirts and buttons with a picture of Ann.
Artur Davis claimed the GOP needed to learn how to "close better," and pointed out that the party's immigration position translated, especially for young people, into a nationalistic "aversion to multiculturalism." Ben Domenech made the case for a more populist/libertarian platform, and Reihan Salam went the opposite way, arguing the GOP needs to reclaim a "politics of order" in the midst of diversity and creative destruction.
These are all fine ideas, and the debate has been long in the offing, but it's worth remembering that these considerations all take place within the tectonic frame of powerful competing interests, both within the party and externally. Those interests are likely to favor one or the other reform track for reasons other than the health of the body politic. Big business favoring immigration, or opposing breaking up the banks. Or, most recently, the copyright lobby stifling discussion about IP reform, which should be a no-brainer for a GOP looking to move in a more pro-competitiveness, pro-Millenial, libertarian populist direction.
The conservative media is another one of those factions. If all the misinformation about the real Obama helped cost Romney the election, they've earned themselves the privilege of doing the same thing for another four years. Four more years of feeling like insurgents, four more years of agitated donors (if they aren't turned off by the ineffectiveness of Karl Rove's machine), and four more years of snarky blog posts about Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's hair. It all worked out for them, didn't it?


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A new Pentagon study shows that the number of sexual assaults reported by members of the military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in 2012, while the department estimates that as many as 26,000 service members were assaulted, based on anonymous surveys, officials said Tuesday.
The troubling trends underscore service members' continued reluctance to come forward and formally report attacks. And the numbers highlight the dismal results that military leaders have achieved in their efforts to change the culture within the ranks. The numbers are included in the latest annual report on sexual abuse in the military, which comes just days after the arrest on sexual battery charges of an Air Force officer who headed the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., told Air Force officials at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday that "while under our legal system everyone is innocent until proven guilty, this arrest speaks volumes about the status and effectiveness of (the Defense) department's efforts to address the plague of sexual assaults in the military."
Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force's chief of staff, told the committee that he and Air Force Secretary Michael Donley were "appalled" by Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinki's arrest. Although the case is being adjudicated by the Arlington County police, Welsh said the Air Force has requested jurisdiction.
The estimate of 26,000 sexual assaults is up from the estimated 19,000 in 2011, officials said.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering a series of steps and reviews to increase officers' accountability for what happens under their commands, and to inspect workstations for objectionable materials, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press.
Hagel is ordering military leaders to develop a method to assess commanders and hold them accountable on their ability to create a climate "of dignity and respect."
"Sexual assault is a crime that is incompatible with military service and has no place in this department," Hagel said in a new response plan the department will release Tuesday. "It is an affront to the American values we defend, and it is a stain on our honor. DoD needs to be a national leader in combating sexual assault and we will establish an environment of dignity and respect, where sexual assault is not tolerated, condoned, or ignored."


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Ellen J.Sullivan, MS, MSJ
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Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology Debuts Survivorship Toolkit
Resource offers individualized care plans for increasing number of women surviving cancer
(Sept. 13, 2012) – As cancer survival rates improve, there is an increasing need for simple, user-friendly resources that help survivors document their care and plan for life after cancer. To fill the void for this type of information for survivors of gynecologic cancers, the Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology is making available to patients and doctors a set of gynecologic cancer survivorship tools beginning in September, Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month.
The Survivorship Toolkit includes templates for individualized care plans for survivors of cervical, endometrial, ovarian and vulvar cancers. A general, post-treatment self-care plan for all cancer survivors is also available, as well as wallet-sized information cards and a survivorship calendar.
The Toolkit was developed by the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO), which established the Foundation to provide education and clinical practice resources to those who treat gynecologic cancers with the goal of one day eradicating women's cancers. To access the Survivorship Toolkit click here.
"We often hear from our patients that being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing treatment can be overwhelming, leaving them without a clear sense of all of the treatments they've received and what follow-up protocols they should follow," said Lynn P. Parker, MD, a member of the SGO Clinical Practice Committee and Division Director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. "With this new Toolkit, women and their healthcare team have a simple and manageable way to collect and control this vital information."
The Survivorship Toolkits are templates that can easily be put into use at physicians' practices and cancer centers where providers work directly with women to prepare them for life after cancer treatment. Each three-page Toolkit helps women and their providers gather and organize critical information including:
- Names and contact information for members of the patient's cancer treatment and post-treatment team
- Cancer history
- Diagnosis and treatment summary
- Disease status at completion of primary therapy
- Post-therapy side effects
- Follow-up recommendations
Care summary and follow-up plans are becoming an increasingly important aspect of cancer care. The American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer is requiring that accredited cancer centers have a process in place by 2015 to disseminate these types of resources.
"We recognize the value of these resources to the growing number of people surviving all types of cancer, and we also know that each type of cancer presents its own specific set of concerns," said Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, President of the Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology and Professor and Director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "Survivors of gynecologic cancers have unique needs and questions after treatment, including concerns about future fertility and sexual health that may not be covered in general cancer resources."
For more information and to download the SGO Survivorship Toolkit, click here.


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Nominations Sought for Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame
Dec. 19, 2009 - Athens, TX)... Individuals or organizations that have made a lasting contribution to freshwater fishing in Texas may be nominated through February 26 for induction into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame.
Nominations may be made in the categories of industry, angler or media. The nominee must be a Texan or Texas organization. Individuals may be either living or deceased. One nominee will be chosen by an independent selection committee and formally inducted during the annual Hall of Fame banquet at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.
Prior inductees include Floyd Mabry, Jackie Hewlett, R.D. Hull, Bob Kemp, Nick Cr?me, Charlie Inman, Sugar Ferris, Leonard Ranne, Earl Golding, Kathy Magers, the Sabine River Authority, Skeeter Boats, Michael ("Shorty") Powers, Ray Murski, Albert S. Bradley, Richard M. Hart, William B. ("Doc") Shelton, Charlie Pack and Paul Hinton.
Nomination forms and instructions are available on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department web site or by calling (903) 670-2228.


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MUNICH (AP) – Frenchman Alexander Levy overcame two bogeys to shoot a 4-under 68 in the third round Saturday to pull into a three-way tie with Ernie Els of South Africa and Sweden's Alex Noren atop the leaderboard of the BMW International Open.
The trio was even at 15-under 201 heading into Sunday's final round.
Els, who began the day with a one-stroke lead and shot a second consecutive 69, remains confident he can claim the title.
"Yes I am,'' said the two-time winner of the British Open and U.S. Open. "I'm swinging nicely and I've had my back against the wall, so to speak, the last two rounds where I've had to come back and try to salvage something. I did it again today.''
Levy, whose best finish to date is 10th, did well to emerge with only a bogey on the 15th, when he had to hack the ball out from under a tree.
"I'm very happy. It was great for me to play with a fantastic player,'' Levy said of partnering with Els for the day. "It's nice to play with him, very happy. It was unbelievable.''
Noren managed five birdies and an eagle to offset a bogey.
"I hit a lot of good shots and a few bad ones, but you always do,'' he said.
England's Matthew Baldwin and Denmark's Thomas Bjorn were one stroke back. Bjorn put himself in contention by holing nine birdies in a round of 65 to move up 14 places.
"I needed to shoot a round to give myself a chance tomorrow, and I've done that,'' said Bjorn, the 2000 and 2002 winner. "The first two days it's been decent but not great. I stepped it up today and that gives you a little bit of confidence tomorrow.''
American Peter Uihlein was another shot back in sixth after a 67.
"I'm just happy to keep putting myself in a good position going into the final round. That's what it's all about,'' Uihlein said.
Local favorites Marcel Siem and 2008 winner Martin Kaymer both shot 69 and were at 204, along with defending champion Danny Willet (70), Joost Luiten (67) of the Netherlands and Brandon Stone (67) of South Africa.
"It's a special week. I played really good golf the whole week so far and yesterday I managed to grind out a good round, but today I really played great golf again,'' said Stone, who is playing his debut season as a professional.
Sergio Garcia holed seven birdies and avoided any bogeys for a 65. The Spaniard is one of three players four strokes at 205.
Play was delayed by one hour at the start and again later for 1:20 due to heavy rain.
Els had two bogeys in the opening seven holes, but finished strongly after making an adjustment at the 11th. He came agonizingly close to the eagle on the 18th, which would have given him the outright lead, but was content with the birdie for a share.
"Hopefully tomorrow things are a little bit better,'' Els said. "It's going to be tough going in. Everybody's going to be quite tense.''


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