Guide to Writing a Programmatic Resource Management Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement for the Bureau of Land Management

This guide is written for Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) employees assigned to the Public Lands team who may have some National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) knowledge, possibly have experience with writing Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), and with little or no experience writing programmatic EIS documents. The guide contains information encompassing the preparation of a complete Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for the Bureau of Land Management. The RMP/EIS is a programmatic NEPA document which has many differences and nuances distinct from a typical project type EIS. This guide provides the information necessary for a BAH Public Lands team member to understand the project process and the RMP/EIS document to successfully maneuver through the entire project from beginning to end.

How do primary health care teams learn to integrate intimate partner violence (IPV) management? A realist evaluation protocol

Background: Despite the existence of ample literature dealing, on the one hand, with the integration of innovations within health systems and team learning, and, on the other hand, with different aspects of the detection and management of intimate partner violence (IPV) within healthcare facilities, research that explores how health innovations that go beyond biomedical issues—such as IPV management—get integrated into health systems, and that focuses on healthcare teams’ learning processes is, to the best of our knowledge, very scarce if not absent. This realist evaluation protocol aims to ascertain: why, how, and under what circumstances primary healthcare teams engage (if at all) in a learning process to integrate IPV management in their practices; and why, how, and under what circumstances team learning processes lead to the development of organizational culture and values regarding IPV management, and the delivery of IPV management services. Methods: This study will be conducted in Spain using a multiple-case study design. Data will be collected from selected cases (primary healthcare teams) through different methods: individual and group interviews, routinely collected statistical data, documentary review, and observation. Cases will be purposively selected in order to enable testing the initial middle-range theory (MRT). After in-depth exploration of a limited number of cases, additional cases will be chosen for their ability to contribute to refining the emerging MRT to explain how primary healthcare learn to integrate intimate partner violence management. Discussion: Evaluations of health sector responses to IPV are scarce, and even fewer focus on why, how, and when the healthcare services integrate IPV management. There is a consensus that healthcare professionals and healthcare teams play a key role in this integration, and that training is important in order to realize changes. However, little is known about team learning of IPV management, both in terms of how to trigger such learning and how team learning is connected with changes in organizational culture and values, and in service delivery. This realist evaluation protocol aims to contribute to this knowledge by conducting this project in a country, Spain, where great endeavours have been made towards the integration of IPV management within the health system.

Time-motion analysis in women’s team handball: importance of aerobic performance

Women’s handball is a sport, which has seen an accelerated development over the last decade. Data on movement patterns in combination with physiological demands are nearly nonexistent in the literature. The aim of this study was twofold: first, to analyze the horizontal movement pattern, including the sprint acceleration profiles, of individual female elite handball players and the corresponding heart rates (HRs) during a match and secondly to determine underlying correlations with individual aerobic performance. Players from one German First League team (n = 11) and the Norwegian National Team (n = 14) were studied during one match using the Sagit system for movement analysis and Polar HR monitoring for analysis of physiological demands. Mean HR during the match was 86 % of maximum HR (HRmax). With the exception of the goalkeepers (GKs, 78 % of HRmax), no position-specific differences could be detected. Total distance covered during the match was 4614 m (2066 m in GKs and 5251 m in field players (FPs)). Total distance consisted of 9.2 % sprinting, 26.7 % fast running, 28.8 % slow running, and 35.5 % walking. Mean velocity varied between 1.9 km/h (0.52 m/s) (GKs) and 4.2 km/h (1.17 m/s) (FPs, no position effect). Field players with a higher level of maximum oxygen uptake (V̇O2max) executed run activities with a higher velocity but comparable percentage of HRmax as compared to players with lower aerobic performance, independent of FP position. Acceleration profile depended on aerobic performance and the field player’s position. In conclusion, a high V̇O2max appears to be important in top-level international women’s handball. Sprint and endurance training should be conducted according to the specific demands of the player’s position.

The next step after Japan? (Virtual reality, training and crisis management). Transatlantic Security Paper No. 2, June 2012

The recent crisis in Japan, which combined tsunami and technological events, shows that any crisis, especially those in developed and developing countries, is from here out a hybrid crisis, mixing natural factors and human/technological (NATECH). Faced with such dramatic events, which exceed any means available for emergency rescue service, it is necessary a) to remain prudent and b) to prepare. One of the means for preparing is unquestionably training. However, here, undoubtedly there are important constraints: How to train, for example, while reproducing vividly and realistically, an event? How to exceed the admittedly useful, although very limited, level of the table-top exercise? How also to avoid the unnecessary mobilization of dozens, even hundreds, of field and operation staffers to take part in an exercise which could lead to a disappointing outcome? A major crisis, a major exercise, in effect. The solution of virtual reality has emerged, in Europe and in the United States. It is also sometimes called “serious game”.

ESMO consensus guidelines for the management of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in Western countries. Over the last 20 years, and the last decade in particular, the clinical outcome for patients with metastatic CRC (mCRC) has improved greatly due not only to an increase in the number of patients being referred for and undergoing surgical resection of their localised metastatic disease but also to a more strategic approach to the delivery of systemic therapy and an expansion in the use of ablative techniques. This reflects the increase in the number of patients that are being managed within a multidisciplinary team environment and specialist cancer centres, and the emergence over the same time period not only of improved imaging techniques but also prognostic and predictive molecular markers. Treatment decisions for patients with mCRC must be evidence-based. Thus, these ESMO consensus guidelines have been developed based on the current available evidence to provide a series of evidence-based recommendations to assist in the treatment and management of patients with mCRC in this rapidly evolving treatment setting.

University of Michigan Football Team, 1901

Top Row: Wesley Winkler, Ralph Drake, Charles Rothschild, Norman Sterry, Kenneth Robinson, Alfred Chadwick, Weldon Fix, Ross Kidston, Les Barkenbus, Harrison Weeks, David Dunlap, George Gregory, Harold Baker, Cecil Gooding, George Sadler

Third Row: student mngr. H.C. Crafts, Edward Dickey(?), David Beardsley, William Snushall, ? Smith, George Davison, Kennedy Potter, ? Clark, Charles Van Valkenberg, Neil Snow, Joseph Horgan, James Forrest, William Foote, Webb Sadler, ? Hayes

Second Row: trainer Keene Fitzpatrick, ? Smith, Samuel Sackett, Everett Sweeley, Herbert Graver, Walter Shaw, Hugh White, Albert Herrnstein, Curtis Redden, Dan McGugin, Ebin Wilson, Bruce Shorts, Arthur Redner, Temple Owens

Front Row: Ralph Husson, Albert Preussman, Arthur Urquhart, Willie Heston, Benjamin Southworth, coach Fielding Yost, Charles Crane, Jerome (mascot), John Lewis, Frank Doty, Frank Belknap

University of Michigan Football Team, 1904

Top Row: assistant coach William Cole, Ted Stuart, James De Pree, Paul Magoffin, Walter Graham, Harry Patrick,

Middle Row: Hal Weeks, Harry Hammond, Thomas Jefferson Smull, Charles Briggs, Adolph "Germany" Schulz, Jay Mack Love, John Garrels, William Dennison Clark, Walter Rheinschild, Edward Hammond, Walter Becker

Front Row: trainer Keene Fitzpatrick, Tom Hammond, John Curtis, Henry Schulte, captain Willie Heston, , Frank Longman, Charles Carter, coach Fielding Yost, student mngr. Albert H. Montgomery

Seated in front: Fred Norcross

University of Michigan 150-pound football team, 1948

Top Row: Dick Bodycomb, Gus Eaton, Bud Marshall, Tony Cybulski, Herb Taggart, Bob Kash, Burl Selden (ass't coach), Cliff Keen (coach).

Third Row: Gene Kiddon, Gordon Smith, Vaughn Lowther, Jim Coleman, Larry Shaw, James Johnson, Frank Whitehouse, Gene Freed, Everet Knapp, George Sipp, Stan Emerling.

Second Row: Bill Clark, James Richter, Jack Keller, Dave Bradbury Fred Koehn, Hyman Berman, Bill Parshall, Bill Connoly, M. Richard Fleishman, Frank Murphy, Jim Briskin, Leon Hinz.

Bottom Row: John Wilcox, Prentice Ryan, Ed Morey, Jim Costa, Barry Breakey, Jere Ogle, Jim Armelagos, Don O'Connell, Jerry Burns, John Picard, James Sakai, Ted Karmazin.

1883 University of Michigan Baseball Team

Top Row: Charles A. Huber, Henry Ernest Montgomery, mngr, Metcalfe, Albert Miller, Lincoln McMillan

Front Row: William D. Condon,. Charles G. Allmendinger, Weldy W. Walker, Arthur P. Packard, Charles H. Blackburn

1882 University of Michigan Baseball Team

Top Row: John Henry Rollins, Walter Davis, Thomas P. Antle

Front Row: capt. William S. Harvey, Charles G. Allmendinger, Arthur P. Packard, Moses Fleetwood Walker, Frank W. Davenport, Richard Dott

University of Michigan Men's Tennis Team, 1981

Top Row: John Estates, Ron Brewer, Ihor Debryn, Ross Laser

Middle Row: Mark Mees, Tom Haney, Rodd Schreiber, Mike Swaney

Bottom Row: Dan McLaughlin, Mike Leach, Matt Horwitch, Coach Brian Eisner

University of Michigan Men's Tennis Team, 1992

Top Row (left to right): Trainer Hank Handel, Eric Grand, Mike Nold, Grady Bumett, John Lingon, Greg Artz, Scooter Place, Chris Wyatt

Bottom Row: assistant coach Tim Madden, Sean King, Terry London, Mitch Rubenstein, David Kass, Dan Brakus, Adam Wager, head coach Brian Eisner

U-M Softball Team, 1978

Front Row: Manager Debbie Snyder, Diane Mettelman, Tammy Herremans, Debbie Allor, Anna Bullard, Theresa Gardocki, Head Coach Gloria Soluk

Second Row: Shelly Piilo, Evelyn Edgecombe, Ann Slade, Kathy VanDeusen, Katy Brady, Sheryl Tominac, Trainer Laura Pieri

Top Row: Brenda Venhuizen, Mary Hibbard, Terry Conlin, Theresa Wyckoff, Roberta Zald, Fran Wiecha, Ass't. Coach Mina Sonda

U-M Softball Team, 2000

Front Row: Karmen Lappo, Jamie Gillies, Melissa Gentile (co-captain), Pam Kosanke (co-captain),

Second Row: Kate Eiland, Marissa Young, Courtney Murdock, Melinda Moulden, Meghan Doe, Marie Barda, Mary Conner.

Third Row: Liz Elsner, Chrissy Garza, Rebecca Tune, Kelsey Kollen, Stefanie Volpe,

Top Row: Melissa Taylor, Lisa Mack, Kim Bugel.

1875 University of Michigan Baseball Team

Top Row: Ogden W. Ferdon, Roberts Willis, George H.Winslow

Middle Row: George H. Abbott, Edgar Dean Root, Charles Burch, Oscar Pliny Shepardson

Front Row: Frederick Kimball Stearns, William Claflin Johnson