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Before we go one word further, I have a request: Prepare to think differently about Washington, DC. Too often our capital city is disparaged for bulky national programs. But this is a story about something that works beautifully: Common Good City Farm located at 3rd and V Streets in the LeDroit Park neighborhood.
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Founded four years ago by Liz Falk and other engaged citizens, Common Good recently celebrated the start of the 2010 season. It's located on the grounds of a former junior high that ended in a sweep of school closings by Mayor Fenty in 2008. Of the twenty-six schools that closed, Common Good is the only active space among the vacancies formed two years ago. The city has plans to create a public park in the area surrounding the farm, so there will be gateway green for people to relax and then discover it.
For many, finding the farm could be the first step in a new life of learning about food. In addition to growing fruits and vegetables, it's an educational site, including cooking classes, for the local community. Soon they will have an outdoor kitchen/classroom on the grounds. It will be a simple roof structure with cabinets underneath, serving as the anchor in their educational work.
As part of their non-profit, Common Good also runs a program called Green Tomorrows. Participants work the farm and produce good food, and in return, they earn shares of the harvest. "It's like a CSA, but not for purchase," explained Falk. Workers can also build hours by attending the culinary and gardening classes.
Falk's broad vision of the Green Tomorrows program is that the people who receive training will go on to recover other vacant lots in Washington and create their own urban farms. Looking at the strength of the programs and community at Common Good, it's inspiring to imagine what such an expansion could like. This year alone, the harvest at Common Good will include fruit from thirty trees — pear, cherry, paw paw, and fig trees are included in the mix. According to Falk, "We're going to grow almost everything you can grow in this region."


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Women in Christian Music: This One's for the Girls
- 2006 30 Nov
Not much more than a decade ago, if you played in a Christian band, you were generally elated just to have enough greenbacks to get to the next gig. Ask StarFlyer 59, Bleach, the O.C. Supertones, Five Iron Frenzy, Seven Day Jesus and The Waiting. Even Third Day once traveled at the mercy of a fuel-thirsty van.
Now, there are more bands in the limelight than you can shake a stick at. Think Kutless. David Crowder Band. Pillar. Sanctus Real. Hawk Nelson. The Afters … and on and on and on. The pendulum of popularity has swung in favor of these bands of brothers like no other time in Christian music.
And female artistry is losing out on the gas money.
As labels divert artist development and marketing dollars to these male acts in this $700 million dollar Christian music industry, it's tough to advance a female act's career, let alone break a new artist who is a woman.
So, for those who dream dreams by singing into hairbrushes – or once did – we salute several of today's top female acts: Sara Groves, Mary Mary, Nichole Nordeman, Rebecca St. James, Natalie Grant, Kierra "Kiki" Sheard, Bethany Dillon, BarlowGirl and Leigh Nash. These leaders share their perspectives for restoring Christian music's time-honored tradition: Women and men standing shoulder-to-shoulder for the sake of the cause.
The Real Me
The most high-profile female artist of the last year has been Natalie Grant.
"I've had so many people say, 'How does it feel?'" the 2006 GMA "Female Vocalist of the Year" says. "I don't know how else to say it but to be honest and say, 'I feel really, really good.'"
Enjoying the Pottery-Barn-styled home she shares in Nashville with her husband/producer Bernie Herms (Avalon, Casting Crowns), Grant's dressed this June afternoon in earthy summer casuals. It's a scene disguising the fact that she's a scrapper, an artist who's survived not one but two label shutdowns across her first two records — each time just as her career taxied for a blue-sky takeoff.
But her last two studio projects – 2003's "Deeper Life" (Curb), which included the hit "No Sign of It," plus 2005's "Awaken" (Curb) – finally gave Natalie flight. Christian radio's been one key to Grant's takeoff. She's long been admired for her vocal expertise and for spot-on emotional interpretation, as with last year's moving No.1, "Held" (which also charted at mainstream radio).
"It took me a while to realize that it is OK to speak up; you have to take control of your own artistry," Grants says, trying to key in on how she cleared the clouds. She gives ample credit to her record label, Curb Records, for sticking with her as she found her wings for a third time. She's also taken charge by learning the craft of songwriting. "It took me on a real journey of self-discovery to find out what I wanted to say," she explains.
Along with her husband's coaching, Grant says she was inspired by other women whose artistry helps guide her toward discovering her songwriting voice – peers such as Sara Groves, Leigh Nash and Nichole Nordeman.
We Build
Grant says a woman's artistry at its best "reflects that she's empowered, that she's a woman of substance and has something to say." That's a fitting description for today's top female acts. Several tend to focus their efforts on presenting an encouraging message to the Christian church.
Nichole Nordeman is a two-time GMA "Female Vocalist of the Year" widely recognized as a songwriter's songwriter. With the poetry and precision of a surgeon's scalpel, her lyrics cut to the crux of both human brokenness and divine hope.
Speaking to the state of female artistry in Christian music, Nordeman reflects, "I have been obsessed recently with Sara Groves' 'Add to the Beauty' album. It feels very much to me like an example of what the strong but broken heart of a woman can offer in a culture where we seem mostly to be giving credibility – and airplay – to 'God is Great! God is Great! Praise His Name! He Reigns! He Rules!' etc. Sara's songs don't deny any of God's goodness. To the contrary, instead of heaping on the superlatives, she just starts peeling layers away ... one song at a time ... until I'm sitting at the red light weeping because I, too, want to add to the beauty, or build the kingdom one chunk of stone and messy bit of mortar at a time, or love someone who is impossible, just because it's right to."
Continuing in this vein, Nordeman adds, "This is what women bring to the table of Christian music. Or should. This is what motivates me now. First, that we look for the redemptive work of Christ's love – always and in everything and everyone – and that we write and sing about that. Second, that we make a pact with ourselves not to perpetuate the mis-marketing of God – singing and saying empty and theologically shaky things because that might be easier and people might buy more records. And, thirdly, that the music we offer to the world and to the church is not just for the sake of stirring everyone up emotionally, but that it calls us to action – whether that action is serving anonymously in our community or taking a public stand against sex trafficking like Natalie [Grant] or exposing the suffering in Rwanda like Sara [Groves]. Once our music points to the redemption of the love of Christ on a broken planet, it has to ask, 'What now?' Otherwise, we've brought nothing."
Taking a public stand has literally defined the career of Rebecca St. James. Late last year her "If I Had One Chance to Tell You Something" (Forefront) signaled a newfound sense of freedom, joy and energy for doing what the Grammy-winning artist does better than anyone – rallying the Christian church to be and do its best.
"Rock Bec is back!" remarks St. James, and fans are loving it. During a recent visit to the White House, even President Bush appeared pleased with her efforts. St. James – who also moonlights as an author, speaker and co-founder of the SHE events for girls – has spent the first part of 2006 feeding her ever-broadening worldview. She says, "We've had some really, really amazing ministry opportunities so far this year, starting out in Kenya and Rwanda earlier this year – my first trip to Africa. It's really been a blessing."
Singer/songwriter Sara Groves continues to enjoy a remarkable season herself. While she's been a popular favorite since her first hit single, "The Word," entrenched itself on Christian radio in 2001, many of her most avid fans are fellow artists. In addition to Grant and Nordeman – who have already cited Groves' influence – Jars of Clay, Bethany Dillon, Point of Grace and many others are quick to champion her artistry – especially her latest album, "Add to the Beauty" (INO). Groves' critically acclaimed 2005 release sounded a clarion call to the church, urging it to become increasingly active in God's justice work around the world.
"Long before the album ever came out, I felt like 'Add to the Beauty' was my clear declaration of faith," Groves says. "So, to have other people reinforce that is obviously a great feeling."
Regarded for the vulnerability communicated in her art, Groves recently released "Just Showed Up for My Own Life" (INO). It's an engaging, documentary-style DVD that's a natural extension of "Beauty," illustrating Groves' personal transformation toward advocacy. She says this "paradigm shift, this heart change" is about being in greater community with the body of Christ. "It's the greatest thing I've ever experienced."
Young Pioneers
The writer of 1 Timothy exhorts, "Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity." Bethany Dillon and BarlowGirl are shining examples.
Dillon resembles a sort of prodigy singer/songwriter whose lyrics belie her youthfulness. A self-described tomboy from rural Ohio, she released 2004's "Bethany Dillon" (Sparrow) at the age of 15, scoring big at radio with the No.1 single "All I Need" and the Top 10 hit "Beautiful." Her second record, last year's "Imagination" (Sparrow), landed her song "Dreamer" in the motion picture by the same name, put Dillon on the cover of CCM and further exhibited that she's a blue-chip talent.
"I think I'm grateful that I still feel like one of the kids in my family," Dillon says, reflecting on her achievements. "I'm happy all this has happened, but, if all of it ended tomorrow, I'm glad that family has been maintained." On the edge of 18 years old, there's little doubt Dillon's best is yet to come.
While Dillon may be in good company as a solo pop artist, all-female rock bands remain a rare musical commodity. In the Christian genre, Moses had more visions of God than we've had girl bands. So kudos to Chicago's BarlowGirl. Sisters Lauren (drums), Alyssa (guitar/piano) and Rebecca Barlow (bass) – each in their 20s – were 2004's best-selling new artist with "BarlowGirl" (Fervent). Earlier this year "I Need You to Love Me" became the band's second No. 1 cut off its sophomore effort, the Otto Price-produced "Another Journal Entry" (Fevent). Simultaneously taking very public stands for sexual purity and related causes, BarlowGirl has emerged as an example to girls and boys alike.
"I think it's a given that we are role models for girls," Lauren Barlow says. "But I think just as many guys who come to our shows say, 'I look up to you because you're standing for purity and I'm standing for that, too.'"
Salt and Light
Top female Christian artists work effectively to engage larger culture, too, carrying a hopeful message to the marketplace of ideas.
Sisters Erica and Tina Campbell formed Mary Mary and released their extremely popular debut album, "Thankful," in 2000. The duo has been at the top of the charts practically from day one with what are now signature gospel harmonies and polished urban beats. Their string of major crossover radio hits has included "I Sings," "Shackles (Praise You)" and "In the Morning." After taking a break to focus on family life, last year Mary Mary returned with a magical third, self-titled project and two more radio hits – "Heaven" and "Yesterday." Among a truckload of accolades, the duo recently earned an American Music Award.
"We definitely appreciate the Dove Awards and the Stellar Awards," Erica Campbell says, "but to know that people outside our genre pay attention is absolutely amazing."
Like Mary Mary, Leigh Nash has made a strong impression in both the Christian and general markets. She started finding her artistic voice as a girl growing up in New Braunfels, Texas, listening to strong women of country music such as Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline and Tanya Tucker.
Later, Nash and church-mate Matt Slocum assembled Sixpence None the Richer, eventually gaining worldwide popularity and a Grammy nomination with huge hits such as the No. 1 smash "Kiss Me" and their cover of The La's "There She Goes." It was a bittersweet taste of success, as record label foils repeatedly nagged at the group during its 12-year career. No one would have blamed Nash if she had walked away from music to treasure life out of the limelight with her husband, producer and former PFR drummer Mark Nash, and their son, Henry. Yet, Leigh continues to shape the face of music with the recent release of "Blue on Blue," her long-anticipated solo debut via her own imprint, One Son Records.
"I feel like it's what I'm supposed to do. It's also something I really want to do," Leigh explains. "I guess I think that, as long as God is making it possible and it keeps on seeming like it's the next thing, [I'll do it]. That's what I'm into – you say your prayers and then you do the next thing."
And remember that admonishment from 1 Timothy? Check out Kiki Sheard. Following her stellar 2004 debut, "I Owe You" (EMI Gospel), Sheard is a student in Detroit and continues to record and perform. She recently released the R&B delight, "This Is Me" (EMI Gospel). With an emphasis on her own songwriting for this project, the 18-year-old says, "This is my testimony. It's about me going through life experiences as a young adult. It's about me stepping out into the music industry and being less under Mommy and Daddy's wings." Broad wings they are: Kiki's mother is Karen Clark Sheard of the landmark gospel group The Clark Sisters (whose mother was Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, a revered gospel music matriarch). Kiki's father is Detroit's highly-respected Pastor J. Drew Sheard.
Between Rock and a Hard Place
The achievements by these women and others in the last year should warrant a celebration of Greek wedding proportions – if it were not for the current dilapidated state of female artistry in Christian music.
"There's always been that strong core of empowered, successful female artists. And we still have that," Natalie Grant observes. "It's just a little lopsided now with male artists."
That's a generous description.
An unscientific polling of Christian industry insiders suggests Christian music is facing a unique condition today: Its offerings by female artists run thin. As previously reported in CCM, the 2006 record release schedule is deluged with band acts. Rock is the sub-genre flavor of choice, as it has been the past few years. (Some might argue rock is edged out by the continuing popularity of worship music. Yet, more worship music today than ever is rock & roll. Think David Crowder Band, Starfield, Building 429, The Longing and Dalton, not to mention longtime staples such as Delirious and Sonicflood.)
This year's trends mirror last year's tendencies. Billboard's 2005 Year-End Top Christian Albums chart contained one female title in its Top 10 (Mary Mary). Natalie Grant's "Awaken" and Amy Grant's "Rock of Ages: Hymns & Faith" (Word) were the only additional projects from women to crack Billboard's Top 25. Only nine projects by women landed in the year's Top 50. And, between March 2005 and February 2006, only one out of 14 albums certified gold (500,000+ units sold) was a female act's title (again, Mary Mary) as tallied by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Claims of innocence tend to come from every corner. Release schedules reflect that record labels aren't signing as many female acts. "Consumers want bands," they retort. Off the record, a fraction of insiders point fingers at radio stations, saying programmers are playing fewer singles by women. Charts seem to bear that out. In fairness, that decision seems to be in response to consumer testing – station-directed surveys in which local listeners influence song rotation with their preferences. Presently, songs performed by women are not testing well.
Radio, retail, media – all just giving us what we want, right? And that's all we, as consumers, have ever really demanded.
But are industry decision makers really sure? Christian music's core demographic is women between the ages of 25-44. The Gospel Music Association recently reported the industry's primary audience is 30 percent more likely to be between the ages of 18-44 compared to the rest of the U.S. population. Are consumers actually saying "no"? Or are some just not getting the chance to have their preferences counted?
Then, there are the usual cultural obstacles. "It's very image driven," says Mary Mary's Erica Campbell about the music industry. "It's very much about being thin and being beautiful and about perfection. But the only perfect one is God." As with at-large culture, these issues loom more pointedly for female acts than for their male counterparts.
All these elements form a slippery slope for Christian music – a genre boasting that it is distinguished from all other music by being lyrically-driven rather than stylistically-driven. If industry decision makers are reticent to take chances on female acts due to popular demand and if conditions are not favorable for attracting new female talent, then Christian music's mission to draw people closer to God moves forward today with a bad limp.
All I Ever Have to Be
To a woman, each artist interviewed for this story had considerably more good to say about Christian music than not. What seems to unite this perspective is landing on a definition of success not driven by numbers or even accolades. Success, they suggest, happens when one has the chance to discover who God intends a woman or man to be in the present, constantly hurling toward a hopeful future.
For Mary Mary, that means pursuing that beloved scripture often quoted from pulpits on Mother's Day, Proverbs 31. "The God that is shining inside [you] is definitely the most important factor," Tina Campbell says. "If you don't have that, you are wasting your time."
"I think what was important for me was finding my voice," Natalie Grant says. "Not my singing voice, but finding out how to do something that matters with my life. I think, as a woman, I ask, 'How does that translate into my artistry?'" To that end, her songwriting voice is influenced by her experiences through her HOME Foundation, a campaign to raise awareness about international human trafficking.
Sara Groves, too, aims to continue her work toward social justice. She prefers to work with what's in front of her instead of fighting for what isn't available. For her, that means zeroing in on developing one's character.
"The women I really respect are women who know who they are in Christ and who have that ability to nurture everything around them to be better," she says. "That can be the gentle power of women." Sara remembers meeting Christian music's most influential artist, Amy Grant, for the first time. "The thing I was so struck with was her gentleness. She was so kind and gracious."
For BarlowGirl, finding success used to mean practicing as a band 50 hours a week so they could play as well as guys, Rebecca Barlow says. Now it means being faithful to God's calling. Rebecca explains that this begins with one's heart.
"It's not like you're going to wake up one day, and God is going to go, 'Here's your calling,' if you've not even picked up a guitar. No, it's the little things first."
She continues, "God is going to start gradually; so if we don't obey Him in the little things, He can't take us to where He wants to take us." Her trio illustrates this point. "The three of us joined our church worship band because that was one of the things God was putting on our hearts. We didn't know why. We thought it was just for fun. But, now as I think about it, God used that. If we hadn't been obedient in that, I don't think we would be where we are today."
Author and Women of Faith core speaker Luci Swindoll agrees. "God made us to be us. And it's such a joy to be around people who never try to be something they're not," she says via email. "Vulnerability is the key to finding who you are. When we throw up barriers or defend or protect or deny, it circumnavigates what God is trying to get at: the real you. It blocks His work. But, when those barriers are dropped and we let go of all those trappings, the world opens. People listen. They even buy our albums, and they feel different for having listened to what God is saying through us."
The Road Ahead
We would be remiss not to acknowledge that popular preferences tend to ebb and flow. Like economic markets that correct themselves, like theological experimentation finally recorded by scholars as fad, Christian music's popular pendulum will likely swing back the other way, favoring, again, pop and singer/songwriter acts regardless of gender. Not all bands introduced this year will find commercial legs – in fact, based on record sales, very few of 2006's new bands have been well received so far. And many that don't connect over the next year will be unceremoniously pruned from label rosters. To feed interest (and industry distribution systems), a new crop of potential stars, including women, will begin to rise. But is it good enough to rely merely on natural forces to balance the scales again?
In Christian music, women have long made tremendous strides, kicking at the darkness to bring light to the world. First, it was Evie, Annie Herring of Second Chapter of Acts and the Boone sisters. Then it was Shirley Caesar, Sandi Patty, Twila Paris and Amy Grant. Add CeCe Winans, Yolanda Adams, Margaret Becker, Susan Ashton, Cindy Morgan, Jennifer Knapp – and, of course, the women we celebrate today – and it's clear from the nascent Jesus Music days to the present era, female artistry makes a pervasive difference in the genre.
So, as new female acts develop their artistry to fill the shoes of those performing before them, are they being set up for success? How do we tell rising acts such as Ayiesha Woods, Krystal Meyers, Sarah Kelly, Vicky Beeching, Jessie Daniels, Ana Laura and others: "Thanks for your work today, but we've only got room for you tomorrow"?
"It's true. There are a lot of bands blazing a trail today; but we definitely have our place," Mary Mary's Erica Campbell says. On our journey to know God better, Christian music is at its best when diverse cultural, theological and experiential points of view are available, each one drawing us closer to the Creator of human diversity.
But, maybe, change can best start when that young girl's hairbrush is finally exchanged for a microphone. Or a keyboard. Or a guitar.
"I wish more girls would rise up and grab hold of their calling and what they feel they are supposed to do," says Rebecca Barlow. "God has so many different aspects. God gives each person in their life one aspect that they are to share with their generation. If you just had guy musicians, there would only be that aspect. But God gives each person a different place to be a mirror of who God is. As women, we need to start speaking out more about what God has given us on our hearts, just as the guys are already doing."
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With her piano-fueled songwriting, witty wordplay, and slight vocal vibrato, Ingrid Michaelson carried the tradition of the female singer/songwriter into the 21st century. Befitting a musician of the digital age, Michaelson first gained wide exposure not through sales but instead through tracks on soundtracks, including Grey's Anatomy and One Tree Hill. Born and raised on New York's Staten Island to an artist mother and classical composer father, she began exploring music with piano lessons at the age of four. After college, she toured with a national theater troupe and spent her free time writing songs, later compiling them into an online-distributed recording entitled Slow the Rain.
Michaelson blazed her own trail by independently issuing her proper debut, the engaging Girls and Boys, in 2006; following the inclusion of her music in several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, she then released a remastered version of the album on her own Cabin 24 Records in January 2007. Three months later, she won a national songwriting contest sponsored by Mountain Stage, a radio program produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed worldwide. "The Way I Am" was then picked up by Old Navy, who used it to soundtrack one of their clothing commercials, and Michaelson began making headlines as one of the country's most promising independent artists. A benefit project comprising live recordings, new songs, and rarities, Be OK was released in 2008. Michaelson joined the Hotel Cafe Tour that fall in support of the album, whose proceeds went toward cancer research; she later toured Europe alongside Jason Mraz.
For her "proper" follow-up to Girls and Boys, Michaelson retreated to a Manhattan studio alongside producer Dan Romer. Forty newly composed songs were whittled down to a total of 12, with more emphasis being paid to the songwriter's peppier material. Featuring a string section on several songs, 2009's Everybody proved to be Michaelson's most expansive, confident effort to date, and she followed its release with another cross-country fall tour. In 2012, she returned with her fifth studio album, Human Again, with production from David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Regina Spektor, Stevie Nicks, the Bangles) and featuring the single "Ghost." It earned critical praise and performed better on the charts than any of her previous albums. The follow-up, Lights Out, appeared in April 2014, featuring a number of songwriting collaborations and guest appearances including Mat Kearney, A Great Big World, and then-husband Greg Laswell.
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Oct. 23, 2013, Klamath Falls, ORE. – Congratulations to the Electrical Engineering program on receiving accreditation by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. Accreditation through ABET provides an opportunity for academic institutions to demonstrate they are committed to maintaining their programs' quality and that their programs are performing at the level required by the professions they serve.
Accreditation is a peer-review process that requires programs to undergo comprehensive, periodic evaluations. One of the key elements of ABET accreditation is the requirement that programs continuously improve the quality of education provided. As part of this continuous improvement requirement, programs set specific, measurable goals for their students and graduates, assess their success at reaching those goals, and improve their programs based on the results of their assessment. This accreditation highlights Oregon Institute of Technology's College of Engineering, Technology and Management's commitment to providing quality education to students.
"This accreditation means that now all of our engineering programs are accredited by the EAC of ABET. It reinforces our commitment to educating and preparing students to demonstrate practical application and hands-on knowledge," said Dr. Charlie Jones, Oregon Tech's Dean of the College of Engineering, Technology and Management.
ABET-accreditation in Electrical Engineering at Oregon Tech is now added to our long list of accredited degrees in Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering Technology, Electronics Engineering Technology, Geomatics, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Renewable Energy Engineering, and Software Engineering Technology.
In addition to providing colleges and universities a structured mechanism to assess, evaluate, and improve their programs, accreditation also helps students and their parents choose quality college programs, enables employers and graduate schools to recruit graduates they know are well-prepared, and assists registration, licensure, and certification boards in screening applicants.
The Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy (EERE) Department at Oregon Tech, on the advice of its Industry Advisory Board, designed a new B.S. in Electrical Engineering program to address specific and emergent workforce needs in the State, especially in the areas of energy and optoelectronics. "We are proud and excited to add this program to the EERE Department portfolio of ABET-accredited programs," said EERE Department Chair, Dr. Cristina Crespo. "The program provides high-quality career-ready graduates with a strong foundation in classical electrical engineering, as well as unique areas of specialization, such as Power Engineering, Renewable Energy Engineering, Microelectronics, and Optoelectronics." This degree program is offered at both the Klamath Falls and Wilsonville campuses.
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Founded in Klamath Falls in 1947, Oregon Institute of Technology is one of seven universities in the Oregon University System, and the only public institute of technology in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon Tech provides degree programs in engineering and health technologies, management, communication, and applied sciences that prepare students to be effective participants in their professional, public, and international communities through hands-on learning. Oregon Tech has a full-service, residential campus in Klamath Falls and an urban, industry-focused campus in Wilsonville. Visit www.oit.edu to learn more about Oregon Institute of Technology.
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ABET is a not-for-profit organization, owned and operated by its more than 30 professional and technical member societies. An internationally respected organization with some 2,000 volunteers and peer-reviewers, ABET has set the higher-educational standards in its fields for nearly 80 years. More information about ABET, its member societies, and the evaluation criteria used to accredit programs can be found at www.abet.org.


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New Orleanians take their seafood seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it was front-page news last month when the French Quarter's P&J Oyster Co., a large supplier of Louisiana oysters in the U.S., shut down its oyster-shucking operation because of the oil spill.
The oil that began to spew after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig about 120 miles southeast of New Orleans has not directly affected the city, except emotionally. But local chefs are scrambling to find new sources of oysters and other seafood as old ones close, then open, then close.
Eating is a big part of New Orleans, both for locals and visitors: Local restaurants have annual sales of as much as $2.8 billion, said Wendy Waren, vice president of communications for the Louisiana Restaurant Assn.
Most of its 1,000 restaurant members in Orleans Parish and 4,000 in the metro area report sales revenues are stable this summer. But restaurant costs are up, Waren said, because those who can find oysters are paying about 30% more for them.
Michael Regua, longtime chef at Antoine's, the French Quarter bistro cherished by generations of old-guard New Orleanians, has found a limited source of oysters for his dishes, including Oysters Rockefeller. The secret recipe was created (without spinach, which most copycat versions use) in 1889 at the restaurant, owned by the same family since 1840.
Acme Oyster House, which specializes in oysters on the half shell, hasn't had to stop shucking, said Paul Rotner, director of operations for Acme, which has three restaurants in the metro area, one in Baton Rouge and one in Sandestin, Fla. "But it's getting harder and harder," Rotner said.
In normal years, Acme serves 6.5 million raw oysters and 2.5 million cooked ones, Rotner said. Since the oil spill, "We've had 50% of the oyster beds open, but they open and close on a regular basis. And we don't have the oyster fishermen to collect them, because so many are working for BP now."
Parkway Bakery, one of New Orleans' top po' boy restaurants, took oysters off the menu almost immediately after the oil spill, said owner Jay Nix. Instead of the traditional fried oyster and shrimp combo po' boy, the midcity restaurant now offers fried catfish and shrimp.
Tory McPhail, executive chef of the Garden District's Commander's Palace, rated the city's most popular restaurant in the current Zagat guide, acknowledged that finding oysters could be challenging. But as for other Louisiana seafood, he suggested checking https://www.louisianaseafood.com for daily updates.
McPhail explained it to me this way earlier this month: "In the last 24 hours, we've got more fishing grounds open today than we did 10 days ago or two weeks ago."
About 70% of Gulf Coast seafood comes through Louisiana, McPhail said, and the estuaries, bayous and marsh are fertile with speckled trout, sheep's head, black drum, flounder and more. Now that the water is warmer, larger shrimp also are more plentiful.
"We need to get the word out that the seafood is pristine, with government offices checking it all the time now," McPhail said. "What's coming to the market is fantastic. And if someone wants to help and support us, they need to get out there and eat Louisiana seafood."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 211 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
Keigan Boarding Apparel is a new brand of clothing marketed towards Surf, Skate, Snow, and Wake Boarders. As you know I am up against some big hitters like Quicksilver, Element, Hurley and so on. But as you can see, in their Logo they are very simple but eye catching. I would like to have a Logo that can be any one color, any size, very unique, with no lettering or the Company Name just a symbol. Lettering will be permitted if a logo can be composed out of the letter K, that would be fine.
If this will help, Keigan is a Japanese word meaning a very quick discerning eye. And this is what I am trying to capture in this clothing line for the extreme sport enthusiast.
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One journey ends, another begins!
Well folks, we started our journey on Ollie (and started this blog) back in November 2010, a whole year and a half ago, and I am delighted to announce that this particular voyage has officially come to an end and we have settled down permanently in Oakland. We found a lovely house called the Barnyard Collective, a small but vibrant group of rad folks dedicated to urban homesteading, home brewing, dog loving, vegan cooking, dumpster diving, and the queer things in life. It feels like home.
Ollie is parked in the spacious yard, providing a needed shade area for the chickens as well as a convenient storage space (and perhaps a cheap room for a lucky someone in the future?). Ivy seems to have taken to house living more easily than I (I haven't lived in a room in a house in four years!); she still sleeps between us, under the covers, at night, and she has found her favorite nooks and crannies (as well as illicit chewables) around the common spaces.
This doesn't mean that Max and I won't continue to visit intentional communities, of course. There are tons of said communities around the Bay Area, many of which aren't listed on ic.org. We kind of knew we'd have to live here before we even heard about the coolest ones. 🙂
But expect less frequent posting, as we will no longer be driving wildly from Davis to Seattle in the dead of night, nor will we be picking up too many more dead deer along the interstates. Those days are over… for now.


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Responsibility wasn't something I took to learning very quickly. It seemed I never got to be responsible for anything I wanted to be responsible for, only things others told me to take care of. Still, entering adulthood I believed it was best to own your mistakes if and when you make them. This belief wasContinue reading
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Fathers Day, for me, can be summed up in a handful of photographs. This is one of them: I'm the one on the left with graying hair and a graying beard. The two angels before me are my (step) daughters, and the formidable young men to the right are my sons. So there's no misunderstanding,Continue reading
How Quantum Physics and Reality Strengthened Bonds With My Sons
Reality. Fathering… Combat Sports… Quantum Mechanics… Reality? Absolutely. Let me explain. I wanted my sons to know about things I am interested in. Reality and it's nature tops my list of interests. So, I educated myself as best I could, and at least to the layman's level on cosmology, quantum mechanics, astronomy, neuroscience, philosophy (includingContinue reading
Courage – Why Dads need it, and how to get it
Courage is a fascinating aspect of the human condition. Cultures and nations around the world honor displays of courage, and courageous people. Among my heroes in combat sports, courage is as necessary to them as all of their conditioning, sparring, and training. I've often felt like courage isn't really considered when it comes to fatherhood.Continue reading


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Ayer is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1871 and was previously called Groton/Shirley. It can be found in Middlesex county and is a part of the Southern registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 1 Main/P.O. Box 308, Ayer 01432. On the attached map, Ayer is shown as 18 in Middlesex county.
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Fire hydrant parking penalty bill, others signed into law today by governor
A bill signed into law today by Gov. John Hickenlooper increases the fine for parking in front of a fire hydrant in unincorporated areas from as low as $15 to a flat $50.
House Bill 12-1094 is another reminder that a number of proposals before the legislature pass with little or publicity.
Rep. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, said he carried the bill at the request of the West Metro Fire department and that Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink testified in favor of the measure.
The bill was one of 14 Hickenlooper signed into law today during a slow day at the Capitol. There was no legislative session today because of Good Friday. Other bills signed into law include:
SB 12-077 — Concerning the repeal of laws under which the Colorado department of public health and environment regulated certain activities associated with yellow grease.
HB 12-1181 — Concerning a supplemental appropriation to the department of corrections.
HB 12-1097 — Concerning civil penalties for retail food establishments.
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"A Decision Support System for the Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis", Department of Physics, Antwerp, University of Antwerp, 18/11/2010. Download thesis (3.48 MB)
Journal Article
"Osteologic exploration of the clavicle: a new approach", The FASEB Journal, (1_MeetingAbstracts), vol. 23, 2009.
"Force Feedback to Assist Active Contour Modelling for Tracheal Stenosis Segmentation", Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2012, 2012. Download paper (3.6 MB)
"Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT'09).", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 31, issue 11, pp. 2093-107, 2012 Nov.
"Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis using Deformable Shape Models", Medical Image Analysis, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 250-266, 2011.
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"Tracheal Stent Prediction Using Statistical Deformable Models of Tubular Shapes", Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE, February, 2008. Full text (773.58 KB)
"Tracheal Stent Prediction Using Statistical Deformable Models of Healthy Tracheas", Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, March, 2008. Full text (34.19 KB)
"Segmentation of The Human Trachea Using Deformable Statistical Models of Tubular Shapes", Proceedings of Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, vol. 4678, pp. 531-542, August, 2007. Download paper (570.18 KB)
"Seeing Through the Window: Pre-fetching Strategies for Out-of-core Image Processing Algorithms", Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 6919, San Diego, CA, USA, SPIE, February, 2008.
"Robust Region Growing Based Intrathoracic Airway Tree Segmentation", Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pp. 261-271, September, 2009. Download paper (1.66 MB)
"Efficient approaches to intrathoracic airway tree segmentations", Proceedings of the Biomedical Engineering IEEE/EMBS Benelux Symposium, vol. 2, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 151-154, December, 2006. Download paper (515.86 KB)
"A Decision Support System for the Treatment of Tracheal Stenosis", Proc. of Workshop on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (WADGMM), Istanbul, IAPR, pp. 72-76, August, 2010.
"Assessment of Tracheal Stenosis Using Active Shape Models of Healthy Tracheas: A Surface Registration Study", Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, pp. 125-136, September, 2009.
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"A Framework for Morphometric Analysis of Long Bones: Application to the Human Clavicle", Liege Image Days 2008: Medical Imaging, March, 2008. Full text (426.68 KB)
"Exploring the Clavicle: Morphometric Differences Using a 3D Model", AAOS Annual Meeting, Las Vegas,Nevada, February, 2009. Full text (12.29 KB)
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"Computer-Aided Assessment and Stenting of Tracheal Stenosis", Computer Aided Diagnosis of Lung Imaging, 2010. Download chapter (4.67 MB)


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There's this typical mode of election analysis where you see that voters who said "change" is important voted for Obama, and voters who said "experience" is important voted for Clinton, so then Clinton won because more people were interested in experience, or else Clinton lost in another state because more people were interested in change. I can't quite prove it, but I'm pretty sure this is wrong. It seems to me that people are drawn to one candidate or another for a murky series of reasons, and then they come to pick up their favorite candidate's themes. So people who like Clinton develop an appreciation for the importance of experience, whereas Obama supporters decide that the Iraq War is the most important issue.
Larry Bartels has a paper about this phenomenon that I recommend to one and all. Certainly, I think pundits ought to do a better job of at least keeping the possibility of this sort of thing happening. In general election terms, for example, Andrew Gelman has observed that the behavior of most voters is pretty consistent and predictable from year-to-year. But the candidates are always changing. So when George W. Bush is the nominee, the sort of people inclined to vote Republican claim that Bush's personal characteristics are really crucial, but when John McCain becomes the nominee the sort of people inclined to vote Republican like his personal characteristics.


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It has taken more than a year of development but the team at Facebook is finally getting ready to launch their first ever iPad app.
The free application is said to have been created with painstaking detail, having gone through several iterations to ensure that the Facebook OS was optimized for viewing and use on Apple's iOS system.
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text: Spazo 41 Posted December 24, 2014 (edited) I've been looking around at a few new cars and maybe I'm not seeing straight but it seems like there's not many good LOOKING cars in the lower price brackets. Mazda and Subaru for example went and made their cars look worse. The Mitsubishi mirage from the late 90s has been replaced with an abomination, the lancer is pretty bad too for that matter. There's some okay designs but some of them are just ruined by cheesy tail lights or grills or something. Or they're just trying too hard to come up with something unique when there's nothing classic for it to distinguish itself from. Some of the European cars are okay but they're also quite pricey. I won't name cars cos I might offend someone but wtf? Edited December 24, 2014 by Spazo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The competition includes 27 seniors from the San Juan School District, all vying for the coveted title of Sterling Scholar against 59 other seniors from Carbon, Emery and Grand counties.
The awards program will begin at 5 p.m. at the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center Multipurpose Room on the Utah State University - Eastern Campus in Price. The public is invited to attend.
The Southeastern Utah Sterling Scholars is presented in cooperation with district officials and high school administrators as well as colleges and universities who support the program through the offer of scholarships and other financial assistance.
The event will be judged by members of faculties from the USU-Eastern, Utah Valley University, and other educational and professional organizations throughout southeastern Utah.
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Other schools include Grand County, Green River, Emery, and Carbon high schools. Similar contests are held in other geographic areas of the state.
Nominees are judged on scholarship, leadership, citizenship, and character. Each nominee prepares a 16-page personal portfolio outlining scholastic and extracurricular accomplishments. In addition, nominees are interviewed by three judges in their respective categories.
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Chen Stormstout, Li Li, and Mudmug are content with staying at Stormstout Brewery now that we helped clear out a bit of the riffraff and secured Thirsty Alley. As we mentioned before, it seems we're just in time in returning things to normal, for an emissary has come all the way from Stoneplow for some emergency beer rations. We don't quite have a clue what we might be facing as we head down the western road, but as we make our way further from the Alley and Brewery, the surroundings become a bit more wild. Mushan graze in giant packs off to the south, while wolves prowl the grasses and trees to the north.
Stoneplow seems relatively peaceful, but there's a noticeable lack of farmhands in what is supposed to be a farming community. Looking further west we begin to see why: the fields are blackened closest to the Great Wall, with smoky white tendrils writhing from the ground. This can only mean one thing: the sha have somehow corrupted the area. The mantid in league with them are flying over the wall from the Dread Wastes, and it is only the bravery of a few Shado-Pan that hold them back.
Commander Loon Mai is in charge of the defensive forces, and also oversees the evacuation of his fellow pandaren. With his troops stretched so thin he cannot gather all the people himself, and so we volunteer for the task. While gathering our wits, we also meet with a familiar face, Lin Tenderpaw. She has stopped her on her way to find the Hidden Master. Though young, she can see just as well as any that the monks cannot hold back the mantid forever, and so suggests we do our part to thin their ranks. It only makes sense, as we'll be in the fields anyway.
Not at the pandaren are receptive to the evacuation order. A few families adamantly refuse to surrender their lands to the invaders, especially since they've tilled them for generations. Loon Mai doesn't seem too surprised by this; he'll keep his monks fighting for as long as he can. In the meantime, it seems he knows about the "Hidden Master" that Lin and her friends are searching for. He points us in the direction of Paoquan Hollow, a creepy forest not too far to the north. Lin can't even wait for us, so full of excitement, and she sprints off with little more than a "hope to see you there".
Paoquan Hollow is filled with mist. It's an eerie place, so unlike the rest of the Valley we've already seen. Fireflies dance in the gloom, while massive shapes appear and disappear. There's but a central path that leads through the dense fog, little used, and it stops at a small hut that suddenly looms before us. There's Lin, already trying to continue her training with the Hidden Master.
Master Bruised Paw instantly puts us through some rigorous training. We smash through bamboo, wood, and stone; we light fires in the mist and take on the shambling dangers head-on; we even climb high in the hills to gather a variety of eggs from the woodland birds, all to have the Master use them as part of our training! When all is said and done, we are tired but proud, having worked through the worst he had to throw at us... and poor Lin is left still attempting to learn just the beginning basics as we say our farewells to the strange old pandaren.
Thus ends our journey through the Valley of the Four Winds. Loon Mai thanks us for our help when we return to Stoneplow, and we are left to our own devices. We hear there may be a famous hunter in the south, his camp perched high atop the cliffs bordering the Krasarang Wilds. Yes, there he is, with some new faces and his son. Ready to send us off hunting wild game, hunting bigger game...
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The victim is this case had his credit card taken by a suspect at the Kinko's Fed Ex (650 Orchard Park Rd) West Seneca.
The resident reported finding a bicycle in their yard which
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Crimestoppers West Seneca Police Case#D49-11-116870 larceny hardware store.
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The Town Court plays a vital role in the protection of our safety and our rights as residents of the Town of West Seneca. Every town, city and village has a Court which handles civil and criminal matters.Any criminal act which occurs in this town is initially under the jurisdiction of our Town Court. After the arrest occurs, the individual is brought to court for an arraignment. The arraignment is the time when a plea of guilty or not guilty is entered to the charge, and if necessary, bail is set. Bail is an amount of money which an arrestee has to pay if he wishes to be released from jail, pending disposition of the criminal matter.West Seneca Town Court meets every Tuesday @ 19:00Hr's and Friday @ 09:00Hr's to hear criminal and civil matters. Trials and arraignments are held on other days of the week as they are needed.When a defendant appears on a Tuesday or Friday, they will appear with his or her attorney. By that date, a background check will have been conducted by the Erie County District Attorney's Office who will then attempt to resolve any discrepencies in the case and negotiate a plea or set the matter for trial. The District Attorney's Office has an assistant in each of the individual Town Courts to handle these criminal matters. On the Court date, any victims and the arresting officers will also appear to discuss the case with the Assistant District Attorney.The Town Court will also resolve civil disputes up to $3,000 in value. Any individual who resides or does business in this Town may bring an action in our Town Court, against any other individual living in Erie County. An individual not residing in this Town may also sue, in our Town Court, any individual residing or doing business in the Town of West Seneca.The court will also hear matters concerning landlords and tenants such as eviction proceedings, rent due or abandonment of the property. Any violations of the West Seneca Town Code, such as zoning, the noise ordinance, property maintenance, etc. and violations of the New York State Vehicle and Traffic Code will also be heard in the court. These matters are scheduled for Friday afternoons.Our Town Court also handles Small Claims Court actions. These matters are heard on the first Wednesday of each month and depending on various circumstances, some may be heard on a Tuesday or Friday. Only an individual may bring an action in Small Claims Court up to a monetary limit of $ 3,000.00 against any person or corporation who owes money if that person or corporation (1) lives, (2) has an office for the transaction of business or (3) works within the Town.All criminal, civil and Small Claims Court proceedings are open to the public. If you are interested in learning more about our court, please feel free to observe the proceedings. The Court is in session for criminal and civil matters on Tuesday at 7:00PM and Friday morning beginning at 9:00 AM. Small claims court matters are scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month beginning at 7 o'clock. Town Code and traffic violations are heard on Friday afternoons at 4:00 P.M.


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Dancing with the Stars Winner (My Prediction)
In preparation for the finals of Dancing with the Stars next week, I decided I'd make a little prediction on who is going to be the Dancing with the Stars 2008 Winner. Let me make it easy for everyone:
BROOKE BURKE and DEREK HOUGH
Not only do Brooke and Derek deserve to win Dancing with the Stars, but Derek has a fan base as large or larger than any of the stars. Add in Brooke's ability to use social media (See Brooke's Blog) and you have a couple that will be unbeatable in the finals.
The reality of the Dancing with the Stars finals is that the judges scores are almost exactly the same for each couple. In the finals, America's vote is what truly decides the winner. This year they have added a small twist having a Samba Face-Off (each dance set to the same song). Dancing to the same song will offer a little more differentiation to the couples as opposed to each couple just re-dancing one of their previous dances. However, it's always been almost scripted that the final show is a celebration of the last 3 couples talent.
My only concern is that I think that Lacey and Lance will do a really great Freestyle. Lacey's experience on So You Think You Can Dance should allow her to create what I think could be the best Dancing with the Stars freestyle of all time. Plus, Lacey and Lance do have a pretty nice following too. However, my theory is that more women vote for their favorites and more women will like Derek and Brooke, the mom, than those women that will like the rebellious Lacey and Lance.
Warren and Kym are a wonderful couple. Kym is one of the most beautiful and creative dancers on the show. Warren is hilarious and I've loved him since I first saw him blow up an offensive line. However, I just don't think they have the fan following that will get them the win. Plus, I'm almost certain that they'll be at least a couple points behind the other 2 couples. Warren is amazing for a 300 pounder, but not anywhere near as refined as the other 2. I will love to see what type of lifts Warren does in the freestyle. Considering his strength and Kym's slight frame, they could do some really amazing lifts. I expect Warren will throw her around like a little rag-a-doll.
Still don't believe me. Then, look at the numbers from this season.
Couple – Average Score
Brooke & Derek – 26.5
Warren & Kym – 24.4
Lance & Lacey – 23.9
If you're still not sure, just remember one final reason. Brooke choking last week is the biggest reason she's going to win. Previously, her fans would have been lackadaisical and many wouldn't have worried about voting. Her poor performance last week will inspire her fans to vote in enormous fashion.


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Reviewed by Alyssa F. (age 8)
I really liked Again Josefina because it was about piano and I play piano. It kind of reminds me of me because when I go in to piano it got harder. Again Josefina excites me because you never know what she will do. For example, when Josefina asked Papa, Papa slowly said "You have many responsibilities, Josefina, and Ana depends on you to watch Antinio." So, my favorite part is the beginning where Josefina slides her hand on the piano.
I would recommend this book, because I like the piano. I think people who are playing or want to play piano would like this book. I also think people who are kind of a good reader would be able to read this book. Readers might like this story because it might encourage you and maybe you will learn something new about piano.


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NORTHSTAR, CA-- As Christmas approaches, people from all over the region will flock to Sierra resorts for their chance at a little winter fun. It won't be just your average skiers and snowboarders, but also people with disabilities you'd normally think might keep them off the hill and it's all due to the Tahoe-based Disabled Sports U.S.A. Far West, making what what would seem to be the impossible...possible.
Monday was the second day on the hill for Jack; his first was only Sunday. The 9-year-old is autistic. He has trouble learning and receiving instructions, two things his parents thought would keep him from becoming a skier.
"We are a family that likes to ski, but Jack has never been able to do it before we heard about the program," said Kristen Meckel, Jack's mom.
The program Jack's mom speaks of is Disabled Sports U.S.A, a Tahoe-based ski school for people with mental and physical disabilities.
"We have adaptive equipment and professional instructors that can help overcome some of these disabilities and get folks out enjoying the great mountain experience," said Bill Bowness, Technical Director of DSUSAFW.
Monday morning instructor Loren tried a hula hoop and a pole before finding tethers were the best tool for jack.
Students always have an instructor and a volunteer to help them out, if not physically then mentally.
"We can talk all day about technique and the physics of skiing and strategies, but really what it boils down to is getting your head into it," said Loren Rupp, Jack's Instructor
For jack it was constant words of encouragement and fuzzy ball.
"That's where you see the grins, where you see the a-ha moments that as an instructor really make what we do so special," said Bowness.
It's rewarding for instructors, but for parents like Kristen and John Meckel, seeing their son do the impossible is an experience that can't be beat.
"It makes me smile, I am very happy to see him be able to do that," said John Meckel.
For Jack the instruction only lasts a few days, but the experience once he is able to ski with his family will last a lifetime.
It costs more than 300 dollars for Disabled Sports to put on a lesson, but the program is highly subsidized by donors so students only have to pay about 80 dollars to take part.
The program is offered at Alpine Meadows, Squaw Valley, and Northstar..


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Monday, September 2, 2013
Like many people, the Italians have a habit of moving with the arrival of summer. In the case of family Laviani, the destination is Foussais-Payré within neighboring France. There, they take the opportunity to relax and disconnect yourself from the amenities of the modern world. At any point of more than 80 000 m² of his ground, picks up the phone and the internet is evil fickle. Even indoors the technology does not present itself in all its voluptuousness usual: on television, there are only five available channels. "When you get used to it, happens to sit in a chair with a book in hand," says Ferruccio Laviani, the most illustrious member of the family, which is badaladíssimo designer. Behold the hardiness of the summers Laviani. The rest of the story is not so, so modest. It begins with the phrase: There was once a castle .
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Surrounded by an abundant, well-loved garden and wrap around verandas you can sit and relax. The back deck has outdoor furniture and barbecue facilities. Cosy, charming bedrooms, decorated to the era await you. Join them for a two course dinner and a cooked or continental breakfast. Families are most welcome and we are also small outdoor dog friendly.
If you wish to host a small business, private or charity function at the house, then Deb will be happy to talk to you further to organise details.
Grafton Rose is a Federation style home built in 1902 - there are three rooms available for use by guests - the front room has an ensuite and a queen size bed - the middle room has two king single beds and the back room has a queen size bed - the middle and back rooms share a bath room - the house is reverse cycle air conditioned and also has a fire place for the winter months.
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Race against time to develop new antibiotics
The second part of a series of three news features on antimicrobial resistance looks at how the antibiotics pipeline is drying up while resistance to existing drugs is increasing. Theresa Braine reports.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:88–89. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.030211
Within a few days of scraping his leg in a scooter accident in 2009, nine-year-old Brock Wade was in hospital fighting for his life with a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. Once the infection – caused by one of the bacteria most often resistant to antibiotics – had been diagnosed, doctors put him on five different antibiotics. "After a month in the hospital, and against all odds, Brock recovered and was well enough to come home," says his mother Rhonda Bailey-Wade on the web site of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
Scenarios such as this IDSA case study are increasingly being played out all over the world. But not all the thousands of patients that contract drug-resistant bacterial infections every year are as lucky as Brock. And the problem looks set to get worse. While infectious agents are becoming more and more resistant to the medicines that are currently in use, not enough drugs are being developed to combat them.
"MRSA continues to be a major cause of community-acquired antibiotic resistant infections," says Dr Brad Spellberg, one of the authors of the 2004 IDSA report Bad bugs, no drugs. "However, because companies in the late 1980s and early 1990s recognized the threat of MRSA, starting in 2000 we did get new MRSA drugs. Right now, we have reasonable antibiotics to treat MRSA. As resistance catches up with them, in the future we will have problems again."
There are many reasons. One is scientific. "The low-hanging fruit has been picked," says Spellberg. "But the concept that we've exhausted the pantry is ridiculous. Now we have to dig deeper, think harder and more cleverly."
Another reason is commercial. Antibiotics, in particular, have a poor return on investment because they are taken for a short period of time and cure their target disease. In contrast, drugs that treat chronic illness, such as high blood pressure, are taken daily for the rest of a patient's life. "Companies have figured out that they make a lot more money selling the latter drugs than they do selling antibiotics," Spellberg says, highlighting the lack of incentive for companies to develop antibiotics.
That's why many companies have stopped developing antibiotics altogether. Only five major pharmaceutical companies – albeit five of the biggest – GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Merck and Pfizer, still had active antibacterial discovery programmes in 2008, according to an article published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in January 2009.
Adding to the grim picture, a comprehensive study of antibiotic development, covering innovative, small firms, as well as pharma giants, found in 2008 that only 15 antibiotics of 167 under development had a new mechanism of action with the potential to meet the challenge of multidrug resistance. Most of those were in the early phases of development, according to the study entitled The bacterial challenge: time to react.
But there is hope. "Given that the antibiotics we have available today were discovered as growth byproducts of bacteria that we can culture, and that we've cultured less than 1% of the bacteria on our planet, there are many potential solutions out there," Spellberg says.
A variety of biological solutions have yet to be fully explored, such as phage therapy and the potential use of the lytic enzymes found in mucus and saliva to kill pathogens (as described by researchers in an article published in October 2010 in the Institute of Physics' journal Physical Biology).
Another example is that of researchers at GlaxoSmithKline who recently described a novel class of antibacterial agents that target type IIA topoisomerases. The article was published in Nature in August 2010. "This investigational compound class has activity against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria," says Dr Mick Gwyn, the study's lead author and a researcher in antibacterial drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline.
Antimicrobial resistance is the inevitable consequence of prescribing antibiotics. "Whatever infections we treat, the bacteria that are part of our normal flora are always exposed to these antibiotics," says Dr Hajo Grundmann, chair of infectious diseases and epidemiology at the University of Groningen and head of the Department of Bacteriology at the National Institute of Public Health in the Netherlands. "Simply by surviving the onslaught of antibiotics, they are developing more clever ways to overcome the most sophisticated and advanced antibiotics."
There are no global data on the number of cases, including fatal ones, of resistant bacterial infections. According to the 2008 study, every year at least 25 000 patients in the European Union alone die from an infection caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria and estimated additional health-care costs and productivity losses are at least 1.5 billion Euros.
Some of the most resistant infections are caused by Gram-negative Acinetobacter, and by certain strains of Klebsiella and Pseudomonas species, according to Spellberg. These bacteria cause a variety of illnesses ranging from hospital-acquired pneumonia, bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections from catheters, abdominal infections and even meningitis in people who have had head and spine procedures, for example, epidurals during labour.
"Anywhere in the body can be hit by these bugs. And the issue is that without effective antibiotics the death rate is much higher," says Spellberg.
The outbreak of resistant strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) – a common cause of food poisoning – carrying a gene called NDM1 (New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase) in India in 2010, which spread to other countries, is a case in point. Until recently such completely resistant bacteria have only been found in hospitals, Spellberg says, but "now we're starting to see virtually or totally pan-resistant bacteria spilling into the community".
The solution may lie not only in scientific discovery but also in the economic incentives for developing drugs. "I think that Congress understands that this is now a market failure and that economic incentives are needed to correct the market failure," he says.
Public–private partnerships could provide one solution, according to a May 2010 commentary in the British Medical Journal, such as the GlaxoSmithKline research partnerships with the Wellcome Trust and with the United States Defence Threat Reduction Agency.
Referring to "the twin challenges of conserving the effectiveness of existing antibacterial drugs and developing new ones", authors of the British Medical Journal article Anthony So, Melissa Furlong and Andreas Heddini of Swedish-based nongovernmental organization, ReAct, write that "delinking research and development costs from drug pricing and the return that drug companies receive on investment could correct misaligned economic incentives".
This delinking of research costs and drug pricing is something that industry may be prepared to accept, according to Richard Bergström, director-general of LIF, the trade association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden.
"Incentives that separate the financial return from the use of a product are the only way to change this behaviour," said Bergström at a conference held at Uppsala University in September 2010. "Intelligent pull incentives, such as advance commitments and prizes, provide financial rewards to the developer that are not based on the volume of use of the novel antibiotic. With the right set-up, pharma companies will have no incentive to drive use. Maybe they will not do any promotion at all. Use would be agreed with public policy-makers, purchasers and national health systems."
Bergström called for a "global compact" similar to the one used for the United Nations programme for good governance and sustainable development enshrined in Millennium Development Goal 7. This agreement "could focus on the agreed and gradual introduction – and responsible marketing and use of – new agents".
"A global compact would require that not only industry but also governments, physicians and pharmacists join forces to preserve the new medicines that our children and grandchildren need," said Bergström. "No single tool will solve the problem. What is really needed is a collection of incentives that address the multiple obstacles to success."
This year the World Health Organization is devoting World Health Day on 7 April to raising awareness around the issue of antimicrobial resistance. More information is available at: http://www.who.int/world-health-day