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SIGNAL PEAK Central Arizona Colleges Science & Astronomy Night returns to the Signal Peak Campus on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. for an evening of free family fun.
The event will feature a multitude of ongoing indoor and outdoor activities, including hands-on science experiments for kids and adults; discussions with CAC professor of astronomy and NASA scientist Wayne Pryor on the Rosetta Mission and a look at Jupiter through his telescopes; and a trip with Katy Wilkins inside STARLAB CACs inflatable planetarium.
The science comedy of Wildman Phil Rakoci and his cadre of desert critters also will visit the Signal Peak Campus.
CACs popular science and astronomy nights began as public viewing nights at the Signal Peak Campus. Over the past year and half, the program has been extended to other campuses throughout Pinal County, including the new Maricopa and San Tan campuses and the Superstition Mountain Campus in Apache Junction.
The Signal Peak Campus Science & Astronomy Night will feature an array of ongoing displays and scheduled shows throughout the evening.
As the sun goes down around 6 p.m., the observatory behind the S Building will come to life when Wayne Pryor unveils CACs powerful telescopes for the public to use to see Jupiter. At 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., Pryor will make a 20-minute presentation that will shed light on the ongoing Rosetta spacecraft mission.
Inside CACs nearby S and T Buildings is where the heavy-duty science and communications activities will take place, while the STARLAB will be held in the M (clock tower) Building.
Ongoing activities will feature Diane Beecroft and Bruce Martins Shock and Ahhhhh! presentations, which will feature shocking demonstrations and activities using oranges and cornstarch; Marilyn Edelman, Paul Tavares and Devin Fraleys Refreshing and Creepy Southwest with microscopes that feature the creepy creepers of the Sonoran Desert; and Luis Martinezs Chelyabinsk Meteor: How We Dodged a Bullet at 6:30 and 7:30. Dixie Kullman will host Roboroach, a bioengineering presentation.
Crystal McKenna will present proscopes and iPad telescopes, allowing attendees to see the world from a new perspective. Suzi Shoemaker and Clark Vangilder will collaborate on The Ahhhhhh of Physics, which features half-hour demonstrations and activities every hour beginning at 6 p.m. This presentation will include the use of magnets, motors and generators, and sound transfer. Tammy Janisko will also present Light Fantastic!, which allows attendees to explore light and sound waves and make a kaleidoscope to take home. This half-hour session, sure to please guests of all ages, is scheduled to begin every quarter-hour, beginning at 6:15 p.m.
English Professor Heather Moulton will present a child-friendly, drop-in literature session called Shocked to Life: Frankenstein. This activity, scheduled for 6 to 8:30 p.m., will feature coloring and storybook time and a PowerPoint presentation about Frankensteins monster and how he was brought to life. In addition, Animal Science Professor Bob Randall will show guests how to milk a cow.
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Newswise Fairfax, Va., March 5, 2014 The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new white paper, A review of safety, quality management, and practice guidelines for high-dose-rate brachytherapy, that recommends specific guidance to follow in the delivery of high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy to improve quality and patient safety, according to the manuscript published in the March-April 2014 print issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), the official clinical practice journal of ASTRO. The executive summary and supplemental material are also available as open-access articles online at http://www.practicalradonc.org.
Commissioned by ASTROs Board of Directors as part of the Target Safely campaign, the white paper evaluates the current safety and practice guidance for HDR brachytherapy, makes recommendations for guidance applications to the delivery of HDR brachytherapy, suggests topics where additional guidance is needed and examines the adequacy of general physics, quality assurance (QA) and clinical guidance currently available for the most common treatment sites with regard to patient safety. The manuscript also addresses HDR brachytherapy procedures, the use of checklists and forms, the multidisciplinary treatment team, challenges to maintaining safe use of HDR brachytherapy and key measures for avoiding catastrophic failure.
To ensure correct actions are followed for a specific brachytherapy procedure, the white paper recommends the use of a quality management program, including checklists and forms to maintain quality and prevent errors. ASTROs white paper references the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group (TG) 59 report that includes examples of forms for quality control and checklists for the various stages of treatment, which can be customized by the treatment team. The AAPM TG-100 report that includes the tools and process for creating an effective quality management program is also cited.
Due to the multidisciplinary nature of HDR brachytherapy treatment, the modality requires coordination among several clinicians to treat the patient accurately and safely. The white paper details the roles and qualifications of those directly involved with radiation therapy decisions: the radiation oncologist, medical physicist, medical dosimetrist, radiation therapist and surgeon. The roles and qualifications are based on ASTROs Safety is No Accident: A Framework for Quality Radiation Oncology and Care, a comprehensive book detailing minimum recommended guidelines for radiation oncology practices, and the AAPM TG 59 report specific to HDR brachytherapy.
The white paper addresses 12 anticipated challenges to maintaining quality in HDR brachytherapy because of the constant changes in the modality. Anticipated challenges include the replacement of the traditional radiation therapy simulator with a computed tomographic simulator, which requires significant changes in how HDR brachytherapy procedures are performed; the use of new procedures and methods, which can lead to mistakes due to inadequate training, QA or inappropriate procedures; the proliferation of devices, applicators and radionuclides used for brachytherapy treatment, which leads to an increased number of possible processes, types of equipment and clinical uses, making it increasingly difficult to determine how to assure that all of the variations are used with appropriate process control and quality management; and the potential for increased use of model-based algorithms such as Monte Carlo methods for dose calculations for brachytherapy sources, which will require new procedures for commissioning, new algorithm QA and new patient-specific planning checks. The full list of anticipated challenges is available in the supplemental material.
The manuscript makes seven recommendations for improved safety and quality in HDR brachytherapy. The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, hands-on component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy. The complete list of recommendations is available in the supplemental material.
The white paper describes six benchmarks to provide facilities with measures to evaluate compliance with the seven recommendations in the manuscript. The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well-type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change. Planning system source strength parameters must be updated with each source change; 4) treatments are performed according to the guidelines from the American Brachytherapy Society when available for the treatment site; 5) treatment plans and programs are checked through independent verification before treatment delivery; and 6) daily QA checks of the HDR brachytherapy system are performed before any treatment.
As the technology and use of HDR brachytherapy advances, it is imperative that clinical, physics and quality assurance guidance be reviewed and updated, as necessary, to ensure quality and patient safety in the treatment delivery, said Bruce R. Thomadsen, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. This white paper affirms that HDR brachytherapy is a safe treatment option when current process guidance is followed and appropriate clinical decisions are made based on clinical guidance provided in white papers such as this.
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Fairfax, Va., March 5, 2014 The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new white paper, "A review of safety, quality management, and practice guidelines for high-dose-rate brachytherapy," that recommends specific guidance to follow in the delivery of high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy to improve quality and patient safety, according to the manuscript published in the March-April 2014 print issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), the official clinical practice journal of ASTRO. The executive summary and supplemental material are also available as open-access articles online at http://www.practicalradonc.org.
Commissioned by ASTRO's Board of Directors as part of the Target Safely campaign, the white paper evaluates the current safety and practice guidance for HDR brachytherapy, makes recommendations for guidance applications to the delivery of HDR brachytherapy, suggests topics where additional guidance is needed and examines the adequacy of general physics, quality assurance (QA) and clinical guidance currently available for the most common treatment sites with regard to patient safety. The manuscript also addresses HDR brachytherapy procedures, the use of checklists and forms, the multidisciplinary treatment team, challenges to maintaining safe use of HDR brachytherapy and key measures for avoiding catastrophic failure.
To ensure correct actions are followed for a specific brachytherapy procedure, the white paper recommends the use of a quality management program, including checklists and forms to maintain quality and prevent errors. ASTRO's white paper references the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group (TG) 59 report that includes examples of forms for quality control and checklists for the various stages of treatment, which can be customized by the treatment team. The AAPM TG-100 report that includes the tools and process for creating an effective quality management program is also cited.
Due to the multidisciplinary nature of HDR brachytherapy treatment, the modality requires coordination among several clinicians to treat the patient accurately and safely. The white paper details the roles and qualifications of those directly involved with radiation therapy decisions: the radiation oncologist, medical physicist, medical dosimetrist, radiation therapist and surgeon. The roles and qualifications are based on ASTRO's Safety is No Accident: A Framework for Quality Radiation Oncology and Care, a comprehensive book detailing minimum recommended guidelines for radiation oncology practices, and the AAPM TG 59 report specific to HDR brachytherapy.
The white paper addresses 12 anticipated challenges to maintaining quality in HDR brachytherapy because of the constant changes in the modality. Anticipated challenges include the replacement of the traditional radiation therapy simulator with a computed tomographic simulator, which requires significant changes in how HDR brachytherapy procedures are performed; the use of new procedures and methods, which can lead to mistakes due to inadequate training, QA or inappropriate procedures; the proliferation of devices, applicators and radionuclides used for brachytherapy treatment, which leads to an increased number of possible processes, types of equipment and clinical uses, making it increasingly difficult to determine how to assure that all of the variations are used with appropriate process control and quality management; and the potential for increased use of model-based algorithms such as Monte Carlo methods for dose calculations for brachytherapy sources, which will require new procedures for commissioning, new algorithm QA and new patient-specific planning checks. The full list of anticipated challenges is available in the supplemental material.
The manuscript makes seven recommendations for improved safety and quality in HDR brachytherapy. The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, "hands-on" component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy. The complete list of recommendations is available in the supplemental material.
The white paper describes six benchmarks to provide facilities with measures to evaluate compliance with the seven recommendations in the manuscript. The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well-type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change. Planning system source strength parameters must be updated with each source change; 4) treatments are performed according to the guidelines from the American Brachytherapy Society when available for the treatment site; 5) treatment plans and programs are checked through independent verification before treatment delivery; and 6) daily QA checks of the HDR brachytherapy system are performed before any treatment.
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HONG KONG, March 5, 2014 Coatings by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) aerospace business create the colorful characters and The Spirit of Hong Kong livery on Cathay Pacific Airways Boeing 777-300ER airplane painted to support the Hong Kong: Our Home campaign of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
The livery features a dark green fuselage with silhouettes of the 110 winners in an online contest calling on Hong Kong people to submit creative entries that illustrate the true spirit of the city.
Eight custom colors of DESOTHANE(R) HS/CA 8800 buffable topcoat by PPG Aerospace were applied over DESOPRIME(R) HS/CA 7700 primer and waterborne chromate-free DesoGel EAP-12 conversion coating and adhesion promoter pretreatment. The high-solids formulations of the topcoat and primer result in a lower percentage of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
With an aircraft as visible as The Spirit of Hong Kong, it was important for Cathay Pacific to have confidence that it would be a showpiece as it flies around the world, said Kent Wong, technical services manager, Cathay Pacific. Having worked closely with PPG Aerospace, we knew we could count on their products to perform and on their people to provide the exceptional service we needed.
PPG Aerospace was honored to help Cathay Pacific create the special livery, said Terence Cheng, PPG coatings segment manager, Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific has long been a PPG Aerospace coatings customer, and PPG supplied coatings for the first and second Spirit of Hong Kong liveries as well.
Cheng said the PPG Aerospace application support center in Suzhou, China, worked closely with Cathay Pacific to produce paint samples for color matching as well as the blended coatings. With eight colors needed in a short time period, the PPG Aerospace team at ASC-Suzhou worked quickly to provide the samples and specific size packages of the blended paints.
The aircraft was painted by Taikoo Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd. in Xiamen, Fujian, China.
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American Roy C. Farrell and Australian Sydney H. de Kantzow founded Cathay Pacific Airways in 1946 as a small freight and passenger carrier. As Hong Kongs home airline, today Cathay Pacific ranks as the worlds 19th largest airline by operating revenue, 14th largest in terms of revenue passenger kilometres and seventh largest in freight tonne kilometres. Serving 182 destinations in 42 countries and territories, Cathay Pacific carried nearly 29 million revenue passengers in 2012. One of Hong Kongs largest employers, Cathay Pacific and its subsidiaries employ 31,600 people worldwide. It is a founding member of the oneworld alliance and a partner of Asia Miles. For more information, visit http://www.cathaypacific.com and follow @cathaypacific on Twitter.
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WorldReligionNews.com officially launched its "Featured Contributor" program today with three articles: the first, written by Babu Gogineni, the International Director of the International Humanist and Ethical Union; the second, written by Stuart A. Wright, Professor of Sociology at Lamar University; and the third, written by Bob Adams, International Spokesperson, Church of Scientology.
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