Florian Vieux and Emilie Lecomte crowned Grand to Grand Ultra 2016 Champions
Salt Lake City, Utah – Switzerland’s Florian Vieux and France’s Emilie Lecomte were crowned the male and female Grand to Grand Ultra 2016 Champions. Vieux posted a new record overall time of 29 hours, 51 minutes and 24 seconds, while Lecomte was first female in a new record for the female category of 32 hours, 6 minutes and 48 seconds.
The lead pack of the elites included Sebastian Nain (France), Ralph Crowley (USA), Scott Loughney (USA) and Elisabet Barnes (Sweden) rounding out the top six.
In all, 139 racers from 24 different countries started this year’s Grand to Grand Ultra, and 115 competitors finished, also a new record. While competitors have to overcome the combined challenges of elevation, heat, desert terrain, carrying all their provisions for the week and distance, lower temperatures this year enabled the top athletes to break records.
Because of its location, the 170-mile long Grand to Grand Ultra has been ranked anywhere from the third most difficult to the most difficult ultra-marathon in the world.
The six-stage seven-day ultra-marathon foot race started at the awe inspiring North Rim of the Grand Canyon, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, and finished on the summit of the Grand Staircase, one of the world’s most iconic geologic formations.
The course took competitors through some of the most remote parts of continental America, made up of an unforgiving and surreal desert landscape of sand dunes, red rock canyons, buttes, mesas and hoodoos. Racers were required to navigate numerous slot canyons and cross the inaccessible high desert of the Colorado Plateau, in the way of the earliest settlers, Navajo and Paiute Indian tribes.
For more information about the event or if you think you have what it takes in 2017, visit www.g2gultra.com.
Grand to Grand Ultra 2016 Final Top 10 Results
Rank Country Last, First Name Time
1 Switzerland Vieux Florian 29:51:24
2 France Nain Sebastian 32:06:22
3 France Lecomte Emilie 32:06:48
4 USA Crowley Ralph 34:04:11
5 USA Loughney Scott 34:57:13
6 Sweden Barnes Elisabet 35:53:54
7 France Loiseau Jean-Michel 37:33:17
8 Japan Kitada Takao 38:05:42
9 Great Britain Mason Stewart 38:36:22
10 France Richet Philippe 38:45:01
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About Grand to Grand Ultra
The Grand to Grand Ultra has successfully completed its fifth edition. It is considered to be one of the world's most iconic multi-stage ultra-marathons and has attracted competitors from all over the world. It was the unique opportunity to hold a world class event that would stretch from the Grand Canyon, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, to the relatively unknown but equally geologically iconic Grand Staircase, that settled the location of North America's premier self-supported stage race. The Grand to Grand Ultra is now firmly established on the global race circuit for self-supported multi-stage ultra-marathons and was invited this year to join the prestigious Ultra-Trail World Tour , consisting of the world’s top 18 ultra-marathons in the world.
About Kanab
Kanab is the gateway to three national parks, five national monuments, a renowned National Recreational Area, two state parks, two national forests and unlimited outdoor adventures. In every direction, there are breath-taking views; the unique vistas of The Grand Canyon to the South, Zion National Park to the West, Bryce Canyon National Park to the North and Lake Powell/Glen Canyon to the East. For more information on visiting Kanab and the surrounding areas, please visit www.visitsouthernutah.com
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The #1 Thing You Can Do to Ensure the
Future of Hunting
LINCOLN, NE — Using the Powderhook app was named as part of the number one thing people can do to ensure the future of hunting in a recent Petersen’s Hunting article. The leading hunting magazine listed the top ten things people can do to ensure the future of hunting and gave “Becoming A Mentor” both in person or via the Powderhook app top position.
Downward pressure in hunting participation numbers among Americans over the past 20 years can be explained by major phenomena such as urbanization, cultural changes, lack of access, and more. Many such macro challenges are too big for the individual outdoorsman or woman to tackle. However, the process of becoming a hunter is better understood today than ever before, and national experts espouse the need for a new form of social support network.
Most hunters can track back their social support network to their father or other family member, but for an increasing percent of americans, that traditional support is not there. Supporting a new person through their path to adopting hunting is exactly what the Powderhook app aims to do. Through the app individuals are able to ask and answer questions, give advice and reassure a newcomer when they are on the right track.
Powderhook Founder, Eric Dinger, said the honor was surprising, yet gratifying recognition. Said Dinger, “Our app has been live for less than two months. We have around 10,000 users thus far. That people understand what we’re trying to do at this early phase and recognize the necessity of reaching hunters in new ways is important validation for our work.”
Specifically the article calls hunters to sign up to be a Digital Mentor via the Powderhook App, so they can be notified when folks in their area have have questions. Digital Mentoring provides safe place for newcomers to ask questions and get local information that they would have had no way of getting before.
Petersen’s Hunting is a highly respected publication belonging to the Outdoor Sportsman Group, a company owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. Petersen’s Hunting is a sister company to respected media brands including Wildfowl Magazine, Game & Fish Magazine, Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel among dozens of others.
To read the article in its entirety, please visit: http://www.petersenshunting.com/conservation-politics/10-things-you-can-do-to-ensure-the-future-of-hunting/#ixzz4NYUoq2Tn
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About Powderhook
Powderhook promises to help people get outdoors more often. The Powderhook app and website are a one-stop place to find local, current information and expertise simply not available anywhere else. Our mission is ‘Access for All,’ which means we’re bringing all the local updates, groups, trips, events, and spots we can into one simple-to-use resource. To get the Powderhook app, visit us at www.powderhook.com.
The Utah Natural Heritage Fund at the Community Foundation of Utah invites you to the first Environmental Investors Forum on October 28, 2016 from 8:30am-11:30am.
Modeled after the Community Foundation’s renowned Social Investors Forum, the Environmental Investors Forum gives six outstanding nonprofit organizations the opportunity to pitch their innovative programs addressing environmental issues in Utah. A panel of leaders in Utah’s environmental community will assess the pitches on their innovation, impact, and sustainability, ultimately selecting which organization(s) will be awarded funding from the Utah Natural Heritage Fund. The finalists pitching their proposals are:
RSVP by Monday, October 24th here
When:
Friday, October 28th.
Registration & light breakfast at 8:30AM. Pitches 9:00-11:00AM.
Where:
Salt Mine Productive Workspace
7984 South 1300 East
Sandy, UT 84094
Why:
To support the efforts of innovative organizations focused on Utah’s natural heritage, while encouraging dialogue and increasing awareness of the environmental issues facing our state.
We look forward to having you at this exciting event!
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TRICARE Expands Coverage for Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure **Link Updated**
October 19, 2016
Congestive Heart Failure is now a covered diagnosis under the TRICARE cardiac rehabilitation benefit. Providers of cardiac rehabilitation services must be TRICARE-authorized hospitals or freestanding cardiac rehabilitation facilities. All cardiac rehabilitation services must be ordered by a physician.
Read the full article here.
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Navican will use a groundbreaking sequencing test to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors
The partnership between Intermountain Healthcare and Navican will help physicians across the world provide high quality solutions at more sustainable costs.
— Marc Harrison, MD, Intermountain Healthcare CEO
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, October 21, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In a move to accelerate advancements in precision medicine, Intermountain Healthcare will launch a new genomics research and testing company called Navican Genomics to help physicians identify personalized options to treat and prevent cancer. Ingo Chakravarty, a 26-year senior executive of the health industry, has been named as the President and CEO of Navican.
As an Intermountain Healthcare company, Navican is part of an integrated healthcare system with the capability to test and provide treatment for the greatest number of actionable gene mutation types, offering the most advanced next-generation sequencing available. In addition, Navican will have access to limited distribution and specialty drugs for patients.
Navican will use a groundbreaking sequencing test to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors. Developed at Intermountain Healthcare, this test gives oncologists more confidence in determining exactly which gene mutations are causing the cancer, allowing for more precise drug treatment. This precision medicine has far fewer side-effects than standard chemotherapy, increasing the quality of life for people diagnosed with cancer who previously didn’t have any options left to try.
“Navican gives new hope to patients and their families,” says Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD, executive director of Precision Genomics at Intermountain Healthcare, and Navican advisor. “Using advanced cancer-fighting tools such as the Navican test, we give physicians confidence in knowing they are doing everything that is available to them to provide the best possible care for patients.”
The healthcare industry is already realizing the promise of precision medicine through targeted therapies and actionable insights. However, only a small percentage of the population is seeing improvements from personalized treatment options. Under the leadership of Ingo Chakravarty, Navican is focused on combining targeted therapies with rapid improvements in technology and research to make precision medicine a viable solution for everyone with cancer.
Chakravarty will be responsible for leading a team who works with physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare leaders to find treatments and clinical trial options patients wouldn’t have had access to previously. Chakravarty said Navican is also committed to advancing research and education to influence how the industry can collectively use insights to find new discoveries and sustainable solutions.
“We have reached a time where diagnostic and therapeutic technologies can become a synergistic, clinical portfolio used to aid in the management and wellbeing of community based cancer patients, and that’s precisely what we are going to do,” said Chakravarty.
Mr. Chakravarty spent the last two decades building global business in the in-vitro diagnostic marketplace, holding senior leadership positions at Gen-Probe, Roche Diagnostics, Ventana Medical Systems and most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International at GenMark Diagnostics. “While I focused on diagnostic solutions in Infectious Diseases during my last five years in the industry, I am glad to be back in the field of oncology where I spent the majority of my professional life and most importantly where my passion is,” Chakravarty said.
“The partnership between Intermountain Healthcare and Navican will help physicians across the world provide high quality solutions at more sustainable costs,” says Marc Harrison, MD, president and chief executive officer at Intermountain Healthcare. “Cancer is personal and Intermountain Healthcare and Navican are creating solutions that enable individualized care for each person. This means better results for those of us needing care now and for generations to come.”
More information about Navican Genomics is available at www.navican.com.
Intermountain Healthcare is a Utah-based not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, 185 clinics, a Medical Group with about 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners, a health plans group called SelectHealth, and other medical services. Intermountain is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain, visit www.intermountainhealthcare.org.
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Author pens fiction story about overcoming adversity with patience, persistence, ingenuity
MERIDIAN, Idaho – Author Howard E. Adkins believes that everyone needs to be aware of how others deal with adversity and see how they grapple with unanswerable questions, especially in religion. In “The Dash of Dr. Todd” (published by Xlibris), Adkins writes an adventure story seasoned with out-of-the-ordinary material such as whaling, hardships and dangers of ordinary life in the American Frontier West. In this story, readers will meet Dr. Todd, a fictional character being confronted with the sort of problems, medical and existential. “Every doctor in those situations would encounter and being constrained by the extreme limits of what doctors knew and could do in the mid-19th century,” the author tells about the book’s context.
Adkins dedicates “The Dash of Dr. Todd” to his great grandfather, who was a frontier doctor in Oregon and Idaho Territories in the Gold Rush days. “I hope readers will get a feeling of having been well entertained and perhaps have a better awareness of a professional role in the past that has not received much enlightenment.”
An excerpt from this book:
Eighteen twenty-five dash eighteen sixty-eight: a man’s life summed up on a gravestone, as though his birth and death are the only cardinal facts of his existence. Certainly, a Mozart concerto is much more than the first and the last notes or even the total number of notes contained in the work. It is the manner in which Mozart arranged those notes, the themes they demonstrate, and the sentiments they elicit that give the composition its beauty and importance. In the same sense, the dash on the gravestone really represents the whole fabric of the life of the deceased and consists of a complex weft and warp of events, emotions, and actions—all the threads that produced, day by day, the cloth of that man’s life. At least some of those threads are undoubtedly worthy of note in the existence of any man. The story that follows is the dash of Daniel Locke Todd, M.D.
“The Dash of Dr. Todd”
By Howard E. Adkins
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 391 pages | ISBN 9781441533524
E-Book | 391 pages | ISBN 9781450069632
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Howard E. Adkins was born and raised on a small farm near Meridian. He had two tours of active duty as a radioman in the Naval Reserve, including active duty in the Korean War. He graduated from Boise Jr. College, College of Idaho and Harvard Medical School. After a brief period in the general practice of medicine, he returned to Harvard for his residency training in ophthalmology, and then started private practice in that specialty in Boise. In 34 years of that practice, he has also been the chief of the medical staff at St. Alphonsus Medical Center and president of the Idaho Medical Association. He retired in 1996 and has been writing since. After 54 years of marriage, his wife, Ione, passed away. One year later, he married Nettie, a friend and classmate through grade school and high school. Adkins is the author of the following books: “The Scar,” “Strata,””Hannity’s Curse,””The Predators,””The Peccavi File” and “The Fledglings.”
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