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##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ##################### UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MONTANA BILLINGS DIVISION ) RANCHERS CATTLEMEN ACTION LEGAL FUND ) UNITED STOCKGROWERS OF AMERICA, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ) Cause No.CV-05-06-BLG-RFC ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION ) SERVICE, et al., ) ) Defendants ) ) DECLARATION OF STANLEY B. PRUSINER, M.D. Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D. certifies and states as follows: 1. I submit this declaration in connection with R-CALF USAs motion for summary judgment in the above-captioned action. It is based on my own personal research and on my familiarity with research performed by others, including the scientists working in the laboratory that I oversee. 2. I am the Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). I am also the founder of InPro Biotechnology, Inc. 3. In 1997, I was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for my discovery of the novel protein agent, which I named "prions," that are the cause of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). 4. I am a member of a number of learned societies including the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. I am also a foreign member of the Royal Society, London. 5. I am the editor and a contributing author of Prion Biology and Diseases, which was published in 1999 to encourage young scientists to enter the field of prion biology, as well as to serve as a reference source for senior investigators. The second edition of Prion Biology and Diseases was published in 2004 to document the substantial advances that have been made in prion research since 1999. In addition to Prion Biology and Diseases, I am the editor of ten books and an author of hundreds of scientific articles in peer- reviewed journals and book chapters. A complete list of my publications is contained in my curriculum vitae which is attached to this declaration as Appendix A. 6. In 1964, I graduated with an A.B. (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1968, I earned my M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. From 1969 until 1972, I served as Research Associate with the rank of Lt. Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Section on Enzymes, Bethesda, Maryland. From 1972 until 1974, I completed my residency in Neurology at UCSF. 7. From 1974 until 1980, I served as Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF. Between 1976 and 1988 I was a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and - 2 - Biophysics at UCSF. From 1979 until 1983, I was Assistant Professor of Virology in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). In 1980 and 1981, I was Associate Professor of Neurology in Residence at UCSF. From 1981 until 1984, I was Associate Professor of Neurology at UCSF and from 1983 until 1984, Associate Professor of Virology in Residence at UC Berkeley. In 1984, I was appointed Professor of Neurology at UCSF and Professor of Virology in Residence at UC Berkeley. In 1988, I was appointed Professor of Biochemistry at UCSF. 8. In September 1972, two months after I began my residency at UCSF in the Department of Neurology, I admitted a female patient who was exhibiting progressive loss of memory and difficulty performing some routine tasks. I was surprised to learn that she was dying of a "slow virus" infection called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which evoked no response from her bodys defenses. Next, I learned that scientists were unsure if a virus was really the cause of CJD since the causative infectious agent had some unusual properties. The amazing properties of the presumed causative "slow virus" captivated my imagination and I began to think that defining the molecular structure of this elusive agent might be an intriguing research project. The more that I read about CJD and the seemingly related diseases, such as kuru in the Fore people of New Guinea and scrapie in sheep, the more captivated I became. 9. My research is focused on infectious proteins called prions that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases including BSE in cattle, scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and CJD in humans. Nascent prions are created by (1) spontaneous (or sporadic) refolding of a host protein, (2) genetic mutation or (3) exposure to exogenous prion. In mammals, prions are composed of a modified form of the prion - 3 - protein (PrP) designated PrPSc (the superscript "Sc" is for scrapie which is the most wellstudied prion disease). Like other infectious pathogens, prions multiply but they do not have a nucleic acid genome to direct the synthesis of their progeny. Rather, PrPSc (or prions), can induce the normal, cellular prion protein, designated PrPC, to refold. In doing so, it becomes infectious. The mis-folded prion proteins (PrPSc) can build up, creating masses of protein that rupture cells and cause microscopic holes in the brain. The destruction is so severe that the brain begins to resemble a sponge and death is certain. Prion diseases of humans and animals are 100% fatal. No vaccines, antidotes or cures exist to treat these disorders. 10. Since this structural transition in the prion protein underlies both the replication of prions and the pathogenesis of Central Nervous System (CNS) degeneration, much of the effort in my laboratory is devoted to elucidating the molecular events responsible for this process. Indeed, prion diseases seem to be disorders of protein conformation. 11. As a result of the unusual nature of prion diseases (e.g., the very small exposure to prions that can cause disease; resistance to heat, irradiation, and chemicals that might destroy or modify nucleic acids; incubation in animals and humans for years without any symptoms), controlling prion diseases is very difficult. Policy makers need to take immediate and aggressive measures to minimize and mitigate the risk of prion transmission between animals and humans. In doing so, this will ensure the safety of our food supply. 12. Evidence from numerous scientific studies supports the conclusion that a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), can be caused by ingestion of BSE-infected beef and beef products. Approximately 170 cases of vCJD have been attributed to - 4 - consumption of BSE-tainted beef and beef products (occurring primarily in the United Kingdom (UK)). It is unknown how many other people worldwide are harboring prions that cause vCJD. Some scientists have projected the possibility that thousands of people may be infected with vCJD prions. Recent testing of tonsils and appendices removed from otherwise-healthy individuals in the UK argues that thousands of people may be harboring vCJD prions from the consumption of BSE-infected beef. It is important to note that there is evidence of two iatrogenic transmissions of vCJD prions from human to human, to date. 13. Many researchers believe that there is a "species barrier," meaning that humans are less susceptible than cattle to the prions causing BSE and vCJD. Comparing known cases of vCJD to estimated exposures to BSE-contaminated meat is not sufficient to establish that there is a species barrier for several reasons: First, the incubation period for prion diseases in humans typically is long (anywhere from two and up to as many as 40 years), thus there may be many individuals with vCJD prions who are currently asymptomatic. Second, many scientists are concerned that vCJD is under-diagnosed, given the unusual nature of the pathogen, the difficulty of an accurate diagnosis short of an autopsy, and that prion science is a relatively new field of study. Finally, the denominator in any estimate of a species barrier the amount of infected tissue to which humans were exposed can only be an approximation, based on limited test data and many assumptions. Risk assessment and risk management decisions about the safety of our food supply should be based on the concept that one infectious unit (or dose) of prions is sufficient to cause vCJD in humans. - 5 - 14. In vCJD, prions accumulate not just in the brain and spinal cord but also in the lymphoid tissues, such as the tonsils and appendix, suggesting that prions enter the bloodstream. Sheep and rodent studies have shown that prions can be transmitted to healthy animals through blood transfusions from infected animals. Two recent cases in the UK argue that vCJD prions were transmitted between humans through blood transfusions. Because there is no reason to believe that BSE prions in cattle behave differently from those in other mammals, feeding bovine blood to cattle presents a risk of transmission of BSE prions. Therefore, a program to minimize the propagation of BSE prions should include, but not be limited to, a ban on feeding ruminant blood to other ruminants and to animals, a practice which I understand has been advocated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 15. Given the evidence that prions are found in blood, prions may be present in any organ including muscle, since all tissues are perfuse with blood. Patrick Bosque (now at the University of Colorados Health Sciences Center) and I found prions in the hind limb muscles of mice at a level approximately 100,000-fold higher than that found in blood. Michael Beekes and his colleagues at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin discovered high-levels of prions in virtually all skeletal muscles, not just in the hind limbs, after prions were fed to hamsters; and other scientists have found prions in the tongues of infected hamsters. Sheep infected with scrapie prions were found to have prions in both the hind and fore limb muscles. Similar findings have been observed in humans with CJD. My UCSF colleagues Jiri Safar and Stephen DeArmond found prions in the muscles of CJD patients, and Adriano Aguzzi and his colleagues at the University of Zürich identified prions in the muscles of 25% of the CJD patients they examined. - 6 - 16. Based on these and other scientific studies, it is reasonable to contend that the consumption of beef and beef products from cattle harboring BSE prions presents a risk for humans. Regardless of whether the tonsils and distal ileum have been removed from cattle and in the case of cattle 30 months of age and older, the brain, eyes, spinal cord, and trigeminal ganglia as well these measures are unlikely to be sufficient to ensure the safety of the meat we consume. The only reliable way to minimize the risk of humans developing vCJD from BSE-infected cattle is to eliminate BSE-infected cattle from the food chain. And the only way to reduce the number of BSE-infected cattle entering the food chain is to require blanket testing of all slaughtered cattle so that animals testing positive for prions will be removed from the food supply. 17. Since the mid-1980s, scientists at my laboratory and around the world have attempted to develop methods for identifying prions that can serve as an alternative to the immunohistochemistry test (IHC). The IHC test can be unreliable, cumbersome and extremely time-consuming. For example in a recent publication by my colleagues Safar and DeArmond, IHC consistently detected prions in only 4 out of 18 regions (22%) in human CJD brains whereas the CDI (Conformation-Dependent Immunoassay) test developed at UCSF detected prions in all 18 regions (100%). IHC is routinely used by the USDA as their confirmatory test and is considered their "gold standard." More streamlined and sensitive methods have been developed to conduct broader and more accurate testing for prions including the CDI. A significant portion of my career has been dedicated to the development and evaluation of sophisticated techniques for the detection of prions and subsequent diagnosis of BSE, scrapie, sporadic CJD and vCJD. A company - 7 - I founded, InPro Biotechnology, offers several sensitive and reliable prion tests which are being made available commercially. 18. It has been confirmed that two Japanese cows were diagnosed with BSE at 21 and 23 months of age in the fall of 2003. These cases help to demonstrate the necessity of blanket testing of all cattle at slaughter, including the testing of cattle less than 30 months of age. Neither of these two Japanese cows showed clinical signs of neurological dysfunction, thus neither would have been selected as a "high-risk" animal and designated for testing under current USDA protocols. These cows were only identified as positive for BSE prions because of the Japanese government's decision to adopt a policy of blanket testing for BSE at slaughter. 19. Experience in Europe has shown that, when countries have switched from only testing cattle showing clinical signs of neurological disorders to testing all animals above a certain age, the number of reported BSE cases increases. The European Union (EU) adopted regulations in 2001 requiring BSE screening of all animals over 30 months of age intended for the human food supply. (France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia choose to test all cattle that are over 24 months of age.) A May 2004 report from the EU Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General shows that, as a result of testing all cattle slaughtered for human consumption above a specific age, more cases of BSE have been identified through this "active" testing than were identified through the testing of cattle that were determined by farmers or veterinary practitioners to exhibit clinical signs for BSE (referred to as "passive" testing). This active testing in the EU has shown that BSEinfected cattle may display no signs even though they harbor substantial numbers of prions that can be identified using a rapid test for BSE. Thus, active testing of cattle - 8 - slaughtered for human consumption has prevented BSE-infected cattle from entering the food chain. The rapid BSE tests that are currently available, as well as those that are becoming available, are sensitive enough to make universal screening for BSE practical, without imposing excessive costs. 20. Current scientific knowledge demonstrates the ability to detect prions in cattle less than 30 months of age: BSE prions were detected in two cows 21 and 23 months of age in Japan. In the UK, 84 cases of BSE have been found in cattle 30 months of age and younger. Two positive animals under 30 months of age have also been detected in Germany. Recent advances in BSE diagnostics including tests developed in my laboratory at UCSF are the most likely to detect low-levels of prion infectivity. In order to realize the human-health benefit of testing it will be important to utilize the most sensitive and specific detection methods available. We should not underestimate the value of removing all apparently healthy cattle with detectable levels of BSE prions from the food chain. Such animals do not exhibit clinical signs and thus, would not otherwise be excluded from the food supply. I believe that testing all slaughtered animals is the only rational policy for adequately protecting the human food supply. 21. Given that no country other than Japan routinely screens cattle of all ages entering the food supply, and that only France, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia require routine BSE testing of cattle beginning at 24 months of age, there is little empirical data on BSE in younger cattle. Because the amount of infected tissue necessary to cause vCJD in humans is not known, and because the distribution of prions in infected cattle over time is not completely understood, it is neither safe nor scientifically justified to assume that all - 9 - - 10 - http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/06-28-05%20--%20Prusiner%20Declaration%20(10%20pgs).pdf Testimony, Legal Filings, and Studies Prusiner Declaration (Adobe Acrobat PDF File 238K) http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/06-28-05%20--%20Prusiner%20Declaration%20(10%20pgs).pdf Cox Declaration (Adobe Acrobat PDF File 90K) http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/06-28-05%20--%20Tony%20Cox%20Declaration%20(47%20pgs).pdf Charnley Declaration (Adobe Acrobat PDF File 17K) http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/06-28-05%20--%20Charnley%20Declaration%20(6%20pgs).pdf Weaver Declaration (Adobe Acrobat PDF File 33K) http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/06-28-05%20--%20Weaver%20Declaration%20(12%20pgs).pdf R-CALF USA's reply to USDA's cross motion for summary judgment (Adobe Acrobat PDF File 51K) http://www.r-calfusa.com/BSE/062805%20RC%20Reply%202%20USDAs%20Cross%20Motion%204%20Summary%20Judgment.pdf #################### https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html #################### WELL, i am nobody, i have no PhDs, and i am president and ceo of nothing, but i can tell you this much ; https://web01.aphis.usda.gov/regpublic.nsf/0/eff9eff1f7c5cf2b87256ecf000df08d?OpenDocument Docket No. 03-080-1 -- USDA ISSUES PROPOSED RULE TO ALLOW LIVE ANIMAL http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/03n0312/03N-0312_emc-000001.txt Docket Management Docket: 02N-0273 - Substances Prohibited From Use in Animal Food or Feed; Animal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed Comment Number: EC -10 Accepted - Volume 2 PART 2 PDF]Freas, William TSS SUBMISSION File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Page 1. J Freas, William From: Sent: To: Subject: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [firstname.lastname@example.com] Monday, January 08,200l 3:03 PM freas ... http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3681s2_09.pdf Asante/Collinge et al, that BSE transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest _sporadic_ CJD; http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/slides/3923s1_OPH.htm Docket Management Docket: 96N-0417 - Current Good Manufacturing Practice http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Mar03/031403/96N-0417-EC-2.htm Docket No. 2003N-0312 Animal Feed Safety System [TSS SUBMISSION http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/03n0312/03N-0312_emc-000001.txt # Docket No: 02-088-1 RE-Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of Docket Management Docket: 02N-0276 - Bioterrorism Preparedness; Registration of Food Facilities, Section 305 http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/02n0276/02N-0276-EC-254.htm OTC External Analgesic Drug Products, ... EMC 7, Terry S. Singeltary Sr. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/oct03/100203/100203.htm DOCKETS ENTERED on 2/5/03. ... EMC 4 Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Vol#: 2. 03N-0009 Federal Preemption of State & Local Medical Device Requireme. ... Docket: 02N-0370 - Neurological Devices; Classification of Human Dura Mater Comment Number: EC -1 Accepted - Volume 1 ... 00D-1662 Use of Xenotransplantation Products in Humans. http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Jun03/060903/060903.htm 2003D-0186 01N-0423 Substances Prohibited from use in animal food/Feed Ruminant APE 5 National Renderers Association, Inc. Vol#: 2 APE 6 Animal Protein Producers Industry Vol#: 2 APE 7 Darling International Inc. Vol#: 2 EMC 1 Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Vol#: 3 http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/01/Oct01/101501/101501.htm Send Post-Publication Peer Review to journal: disease in the United States I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc? LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD) and have been searching for answers ever since. What I have found is that we have not been told the truth. CWD in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem. largely unsatisfied after being told that a close relative died from a rapidly progressive dementia compatible with spontaneous Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). So he decided to gather hundreds of documents on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and realised that if Britons could get variant CJD from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), Americans might get a similar disorder from chronic wasting disease (CWD)the relative of mad cow disease seen among deer and elk in the USA. Although his feverish search did not lead him to the smoking gun linking CWD to a similar disease in North American people, it did uncover a largely disappointing situation. occurrence of CJD and CWD in the USA. Only a few states have made CJD reportable. Human and animal TSEs should be reportable nationwide and internationally, he complained in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2003; 285: 733). I hope that the CDC does not continue to expect us to still believe that the 85% plus of all CJD cases which are sporadic are all spontaneous, without route or source. region in Colorado. But since early 2002, it has been reported in other areas, including Wisconsin, South Dakota, and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Indeed, the occurrence of CWD in states that were not endemic previously increased concern about a widespread outbreak and possible transmission to people and cattle. transmitted to cattle by intracerebral inoculation and that it can cross the mucous membranes of the digestive tract to initiate infection in lymphoid tissue before invasion of the central nervous system. Yet the plausibility of CWD spreading to people has remained elusive. is only reported in those areas known to be endemic foci of CWD. Moreover, US authorities have been criticised for not having performed enough prionic tests in farm deer and elk. issued a directive to state public-health and agriculture officials prohibiting material from CWD-positive animals from being used as an ingredient in feed for any animal species, epidemiological control and research in the USA has been quite different from the situation in the UK and Europe regarding BSE. teeth, Singeltary argues. You get it when they want you to have it, and only what they want you to have. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA), says that current surveillance of prion disease in people in the USA is inadequate to detect whether CWD is occurring in human beings; adding that, the cases that we know about are reassuring, because they do not suggest the appearance of a new variant of CJD in the USA or atypical features in patients that might be exposed to CWD. However, until we establish a system that identifies and analyses a high proportion of suspected prion disease cases we will not know for sure. The USA should develop a system modelled on that established in the UK, he points out. Ali Samii, a neurologist at Seattle VA Medical Center who recently reported the cases of three hunterstwo of whom were friendswho died from pathologically confirmed CJD, says that at present there are insufficient data to claim transmission of CWD into humans; adding that [only] by asking [the questions of venison consumption and deer/elk hunting] in every case can we collect suspect cases and look into the plausibility of transmission further. Samii argues that by making both doctors and hunters more aware of the possibility of prions spreading through eating venison, doctors treating hunters with dementia can consider a possible prion disease, and doctors treating CJD patients will know to ask whether they ate venison. the [Samii] cases because there is no evidence that the men ate CWD-infected meat. He notes that although the likelihood of CWD jumping the species barrier to infect humans cannot be ruled out 100% and that [we] cannot be 100% sure that CWD does not exist in humans& the data seeking evidence of CWD transmission to humans have been very limited. Association (JAMA 2003; 285: 733). I hope that the CDC does not continue to expect us to still believe that the 85% plus of all CJD cases which are sporadic are all spontaneous, without route or source.<<< actually, that quote was from a more recent article in the Journal of Neurology (see below), not the JAMA article... Full Text Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/285/6/733?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=dignosing+and+reporting+creutzfeldt+jakob+disease&searchid=1048865596978_1528&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=jama BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL SOMETHING TO CHEW ON BMJ http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#EL2 BMJ http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#EL1 THE PATHOLOGICAL PROTEIN BY Philip Yam Yam Philip Yam News Editor Scientific American www.sciam.com IN light of Asante/Collinge et al findings that BSE transmission to the -------- Original Message -------- Subject: re-BSE prions propagate as either variant CJD-like or sporadic CJD Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:23:43 -0000 From: "Asante, Emmanuel A" To: Dear Terry, I have been asked by Professor Collinge to respond to your request. I am a Senior Scientist in the MRC Prion Unit and the lead author on the paper. I have attached a pdf copy of the paper for your attention. Thank you for your interest in the paper. In respect of your first question, the simple answer is, yes. As you will find in the paper, we have managed to associate the alternate phenotype to type 2 PrPSc, the commonest sporadic CJD. It is too early to be able to claim any further sub-classification in respect of Heidenhain variant CJD or Vicky Rimmer's version. It will take further studies, which are on-going, to establish if there are sub-types to our initial finding which we are now reporting. The main point of the paper is that, as well as leading to the expected new variant CJD phenotype, BSE transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate phenotype which is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc. I hope reading the paper will enlighten you more on the subject. If I can be of any further assistance please to not hesitate to ask. Best wishes. Emmanuel Asante <> ____________________________________ Dr. Emmanuel A Asante MRC Prion Unit & Neurogenetics Dept. Imperial College School of Medicine (St. Mary's) Norfolk Place, LONDON W2 1PG Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 3794 Fax: +44 (0)20 7706 3272 email: email@example.com (until 9/12/02) New e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com (active from now) ____________________________________ snip... full text ; http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/slides/3923s1_OPH.htm Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease THE findings from Corinne Ida Lasmézas*, [dagger] , Jean-Guy Fournier*, Hermann Boe*, Domíníque Marcé*, François Lamoury*, Nicolas Kopp [Dagger ] , Jean-Jacques Hauw§, James Ironside¶, Moira Bruce [||] , Dominique Dormont*, and Jean-Philippe Deslys* et al, that The agent responsible http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041490898v1 Characterization of two distinct prion strains http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/8/2471 ALL human TSEs must be made reportable Nationally and Internationally, of all ages...TSS


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Thoughtworks Technology Radar March 2012
ThoughtWorks recently published the latest update to its Technology Radar; a report produced to help technology decision makers understand emerging trends in software development techniques, tools, languages and platforms. There are some interesting observations of interest to Agile software development teams.
What's New in SQL Server 2012 RC0
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0. There are many new features, including: AlwaysOn, better performance management, more reporting and visualization tools, Columnstore index, and FileTables. The product will come in 3 main editions: Standard, Business Intelligence and Enterprise.
Olap4j 1.0: a Java API for OLAP Servers
Business Intelligence vendor Pentaho has announced the release of olap4j 1.0, a new, common Java API for any online analytical processing (OLAP) server.
Column-based Storage in SQL Server 2011
Imagine ad hock data mining queries against a single table with 1 TB of data and 1.44 billion rows coming back in roughly a second. This is the scenario Microsoft intends to support using 32-core machines and their new column-based storage engine.
Better Developer Experience in Version 1.5 of the Data Access Framework MetaModel
Eobject.org's open-source Java framework MetaModel implements a unified API for the access, exploration, and query of different datastores. Eobjects.org, both a website and an open source software organization dedicated to "the development of Open Source software related to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing", has recently published version 1.5 of MetaModel.
A Case for Graph Databases
We talk with Daniel Kirstenpfad, founder and CTO of sones GmbH, about Graph Databases and how they can better model some types of data such as relations in a social networking application. A graph database can offer performance benefits over other types of databases because they explicitly represent a graph and are organized to have index free adjacency.
LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure
Jay Kreps of LinkedIn presented some informative details of how they process data at the recent Hadoop Summit. Kreps described how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving.
Facebook on Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and A/B Testing
The Hadoop Summit of 2010 included presentations from a number of large scale users of Hadoop and related technologies. Notably, Facebook presented a keynote and details information about their use of Hive for analytics. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's VP of Engineering delivered a keynote describing the scale of their data processing with Hadoop.
Emergent Data Architectures Highlights From GigaOm Structure Conference
The GigaOM Stucture conference a couple of weeks ago addressed many areas of cloud computing. One of the key themes of the event was the emergence of new data architectures. Throughout the panels, interviews, and presentations many speakers identified significant changes in how data gets handled that will be coming.
Mahout 0.3: Open Source Machine Learning
The need for machine-learning techniques like clustering, collaborative filtering, and categorization has steadily increased the last decade along with the number of solutions needing quick and efficient algorithms to transform vast amounts of raw data into relevant information. Apache Mount 0.3 has been announced on March, adding more functionality, stability and performance.
Information Can Be Sold and Bought in "Dallas"
Microsoft's service codename "Dallas" is an information marketplace bringing together data, imagery and service providers and their consumers facilitating information exchange through a single point of access.
MapPoint Add-In For SQL Server Released
Microsoft released a free MapPoint 2009 Add-In for SQL Server 2008 spatial data. The add-in can be used with MapPoint to build map graphics against queries on SQL Server 2008 spatial geography columns.
Is the NoSQL Meeting Announcing the End of the RDBMS Era?
The NoSQL meeting tried to raise the awareness towards the opportunity of using non-relational databases which promise to be cheaper, simpler to administer and maintain, and offering superior scalability. Michael Stonebraker, co-creator of Ingres and Postgres, thinks that the end of RDBMS era is close, while others think that we are not there yet.
SQL Server 2008 Major Updates
Microsoft has released significant updates for SQL Server 2008, including 2008 Service Pack 1, Express Edition Service Pack 1, large Feature Pack, Upgrade Advisor, SRS Report Builder 2.0, SharePoint integration, and data mining Office add-ins.
Event Stream Processing: Scalable Alternative to Data Warehouses?
Dan Pritchett suggests that analyzing streams of events using Event Stream Processor could be an interesting alternative solution to data warehousing applications, which have, in his opinion, important downsides in terms of cost, scalability and reactivity.

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Travel deals publisher Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) may be in an anxious situation about its recent local deals offerings after Susquehanna Financial Group and daily-deal aggregator Yipit released a survey stating that businesses that have offered an online deal-of-the-day in the past aren't planning to do so again in the next six months due to concerns on low rates of repeat business from new customers. The survey queried almost 400 merchants recently about their experiences running daily deals with Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN), LivingSocial and other providers. [1] The discounted deals space is characterized with low barriers of entry, a lack of customer loyalty and has become highly competitive of late. We discuss these threats to Travelzoo's Local Deals business in detail below.
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More Competitors Can Reduce User Stickiness for Travelzoo
A major threat to Travelzoo Local Deals is that its business model is very easy to replicate. This has spawned a large number of deal-based clone sites that provide similar discounts to subscribers.
Travelzoo competes with companies like Groupon and LivingSocial that also sell vouchers for deals from local businesses such as spas, restaurants and activity companies. Travelzoo, however, contend that their approach will be very difficult to replicate owing to its rigorous deal quality standards. Still, there is lot of room for overlap in the nature of deals offered across companies, and this tends to reduce user stickiness as consumers will finally use a platform that offers the best value.
High Competition to Result in Softening of Take Rates on Daily Deals
The social buying space has become highly competitive and it's estimated that there are over 200 social buying site clones in the U.S. alone and over 500 worldwide. Low barriers of entry and minimal start-up costs have led to the rise of a number of competitors in the group-buying space. Competition threats to erode take rates (percentage of gross revenue kept by group-buying platforms). Certain competitors like Kgbdeals charge 15% from merchants compared to about 40% charged by Travelzoo. Competitive pressures will likely lead to a decline in take rates charged by the company over time.
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Organic unit comprises 36 ha managed organically since spring 2002. Carries self contained Aberdeen Angus suckler to beef herd, self contained Lleyn sheep flock, growing sufficient cereals to support the livestock and managed to be as sustainable as possible.
Technology transfer work also carried out on NI organic farms. DARDNI also coud provide plots for herbage and arable production research and for dairy cattle, beef, sheep and goats and a climate chamber.
EPrint Type: | Research facility description |
Type of Facility: | Experimental farm |
Keywords: | experimental farm, beef, sheep, cereals, organic unit |
Subjects: | Farming Systems Animal husbandry > Production systems > Dairy cattle Animal husbandry > Production systems > Sheep and goats Crop husbandry Animal husbandry > Production systems > Beef cattle |
Research affiliation: | UK > Greenmount College of Agriculture |
Related Links: | http://www.dardni.gov.uk/ |
Acronym: | DARDNI |
Location: | Greenmount Campus, Antrim, BT41 4PU Tel: 028 9442 6752 The Unit belongs to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Room 647 Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road, BELFAST BT4 3SB, N. Ireland |
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Canon doesn't make completely unrealistic claims for the speed of the PIXMA MP540, stating 7.3ppm for black print and 5.5ppm for colour. Having said that, they're still some way out from the day-to-day speeds you might expect, particularly if your print runs are short. This is mainly due to the amount of fidgeting around the printer does before starting to print.
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In the September issue of GSA Today, Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont-Burlington and colleagues present a cosmogenic view of erosion, relief generation, and the age of faulting in southernmost Africa. By measuring beryllium-10 (10Be) in river sediment samples, they show that south-central South Africa is eroding at the slow rate of about five meters per million years, consistent with rates in other non-tectonically active regions.
By measuring 10Be and aluminum-26 (26Al) in exposed quartzites, Bierman and colleagues find that undeformed upland surfaces have changed little since the Pliocene, with minimum exposure ages averaging 1.3 million years and maximum erosion rates averaging 0.34 meters per million years, and no Quaternary movement on faults that displace the quartzite but not the silcrete-mantled pediment surfaces.
10Be measurements in exposed fault scarp samples from the only recognized Quaternary-active fault are consistent with 1.5 m of displacement occurring at 25,000 years ago. They conclude that rates of landscape change on the upland pediment surfaces are an order of magnitude lower than basin-average erosion rates and that, as isostatic response to regional denudation uplifts the entire landscape at several meters per million years, valleys deepen, isolating stable upland surfaces and creating the spectacular relief for which the region is famous.
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Houston's single family home sales have shown double digit increases over 2008 since September. Home sales in December were strong at 4,456. This is 95 fewer than sold in December 2008. The 2008 number was exceptionally high due to closings delayed since September after Hurricane Ike. Although December sales were slightly lower than 2008, the second half of 2009 experienced a 17% increase over the first half. Expect the double digit increases to return in January. Sales in January 2009 were very low at 2,856. Watch for my detailed evaluation of 2009 later this month.
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First Meeting: Jan 29 (2nd week of classes)
Previous Seminar Versions: [CS591IG-Fall 2008] [CS591IG-Spring 2008] [CS591IG-Fall 2007]
Course Organizer: Indranil Gupta
Course Attendees: Students of DPRG Research Group (and prospective members)
This course is devoted to a critical analysis of the latest papers and hot topics in distributed systems. Unlike previous semesters, this semester's topics of focus are Clouds and Open Source Software. This does not preclude discussion of papers in other areas of distributed systems and distributed algorithms (i.e., non-cloud computing).
Immediate TODO's for Students Taking this Seminar:
Before February 2, 2009 (Thursday), please email TWO paper suggestions to Indy, with the subject line "CS 591IG Paper Suggestions".
Please provide the full author list, full paper title, conference name, month and year, and a link to the pdf for any papers you suggest (including your own publications).
To select your TWO papers, use latest publications from either conferences or journals (papers no earlier than 2007). For conferences, use the latest versions of conferences that are relevant to Distributed Systems research: this includes top conferences such as ICDCS, DSN, Middleware, NSDI, PODC, DISC, SRDS, OSDI, Usenix, Sensys, IPTPS, HotDep, HotOS, HotNets, SIGCOMM, Infocom, etc. (but is not limited to them). Any top Distributed Computing journal is also a good source (especially ACM and IEEE Journals such as Distributed Computing, IEEE TPDS, JSS, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TAAS, ACM TON, ACM TOCS, Distributed Computing, JPDC, etc.). If you still do not know which conferences to start looking at, a good place to start is the list of links to conferences on the CS 591SN websites - see [CS591SN-Fall 2008] [CS591SN-Fall 2007] [CS591SN- Fall 2006].
In addition, please DO NOT choose papers presented in previous versions of CS 591IG [CS591SN-Fall 2008] [CS591IG-Fall 2007] [CS591IG-Spring 2007] [CS591IG-Fall 2006][CS591IG-Spring 2006] [CS591IG-Fall 2005] or current/previous versions of CS 591 SN [CS591SN-Spring 2007] [CS591SN-Fall 2007] [CS591SN-Spring 2007] [CS591SN-Fall 2006] [CS591SN-Fall 2006] [CS591SN-Spring 2006] [CS591SN-Fall 2005]. You may be able to select papers from the "Paper Suggestions" list that appears at the bottom of previous CS591IG pages (but that were not selected for presentation in any of the above seminars).
Select only papers that are (1) extremely well-written, (2) that tackle an important problem, (3) that propose a novel solution, as well as (4) that have a thorough analysis or evaluation. If you are unable to find such papers, choose papers that have at least THREE of the above characteristics (1)-(4).
In addition, if you have any papers that you will be presenting in upcoming conferences, please include them also (in addition to the above two paper suggestions).
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Jan 22 | NO SEMINAR | ||
Jan 29 | All | DPRG Group Meeting | |
Feb 5 | All | DPRG Group Meeting | |
Feb 12 (4 pm - 5pm) | Jeanette Wing | B02 CSL | Cyber-Physical Systems Research Challenges |
Feb 13 | (day long) Yahoo! Training Day for Cirrus Cloud | ||
Feb 19 | Jay Patel | ||
Feb 26 | Steve Ko | ||
Mar 5 | Imranul Hoque | ||
Mar 12 | Brian Cho | ||
Mar 19 | Ramses Morales | ||
Mar 26 | Spring Break | ||
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Spring 2009 Paper Suggestions
A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/?q=node/378
Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication.
Mencius: Building Efficient Replicated State Machine for WANs.
Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-Peer Games Ashwin Bharambe (CMU); John R. Douceur (Microsoft Research); Jacob R.
Lorch (Microsoft Research); Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research); Jeffrey Pang (CMU); Srinivasan Seshan (CMU); Xinyu Zhuang (CMU) SIGCOMM 2008 http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p389-bharambe.pdf
FlightPath: Obedience vs. Choice in Cooperative Services Harry C. Li and Allen Clement, University of Texas at Austin; Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Manos Kapritsos, Luke Robison, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin OSDI 2008 http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi08/tech/full_papers/li_h/li_h.pdf
Other Cloud Bibliography
"Field studies of computer system administrators: analysis of system management tools and practices", (IBM Almaden), Barrett et al, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1031672
"Reducing the cost of IT operations: is automation always the answer?" (IBM TJ Watson), Brown and Hellerstein, http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251123.1251135
The Deter paper (Anthony Joseph's group): http://www.usenix.org/event/deter07/tech/full_papers/sklower/sklower.pdf
ModelNet from UCSD: http://modelnet.ucsd.edu/
"A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture", (Amin Vahdat's group) http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/?q=node/378
(very active) Cloud Computing Forum @ GoogleGroups: http://groups.google.ca/group/cloud-computing
Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Symposium at CMU/Yahoo in March 2008: http://research.yahoo.com/node/2104
List of Cloud Computing Providers: http://groups.google.ca/group/cloud-computing/web/list-of-cloud-platforms-providers-and-enablers
Some open source Cloud Computing Projects: http://groups.google.ca/group/cloud-computing/web/list-of-open-source-cloud-computing-projects
HOD: http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.16.4/hod.html
Tashi: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal and http://firstname.lastname@example.com%3E
(OSDI 2008, Anthony Joseph's group) Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
Dryad: http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/Dryad/
Amazon Web Services - Security: http://s3.amazonaws.com/aws_blog/AWS_Security_Whitepaper_2008_09.pdf
Yahoo PNUTS: http://www.brianfrankcooper.net/pubs/pnuts.pdf
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Recent advances in the formation of phase inversion membranes made from amorphous or semi-crystalline polymers
Wienk, I.M. and Boom, R.M. and Beerlage, M.A.M. and Bulte, A.M.W. and Smolders, M. and Strathmann, H. (1996) Recent advances in the formation of phase inversion membranes made from amorphous or semi-crystalline polymers. Journal of Membrane Science, 113 (2). pp. 361-371. ISSN 0376-7388
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SILVA, Markus Figueira da. Seduction and persuasion: the "delicious" dangers of sophistic. Cad. CEDES [online]. 2004, vol.24, n.64, pp. 321-328. ISSN 0101-3262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-32622004000300005.
This paper updates a polemic that goes through the relations between philosophy and education, since the encounter among Plato and the sophists: Is it the virtue that has to be taught? Is it politics? Is it rhetoric? The thesis defended here is that the current dominion of the ignorance and the utility is a result of the regrettable result of the triumph from the ideals of the sophists over the platonic ones.
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August 5, 2009 - Opportunity Collaboration Conference Field Trip to Playa Viva Announced
Davis, Calif., Aug 4 /CSRwire/ - On Oct. 19, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, social financiers, grant-makers and agents of change Participating in the Opportunity Collaboration event being held in Ixtapa, Mexico will join the founder of Rainforest2Reef.org, Playa Viva Principal and Social Investor, David Leventhal on a visit to Juluchuca, Mexico to explore opportunities to collaborate in poverty alleviation.
Excursion participants will learn about the economic and environmental challenges of this small village, and similar villages in Mexico and around the world. The day's events will focus on traditional agriculture, the development of local businesses and the protection of marine life.
"Juluchuca is a fascinating village because it starkly reveals the delicate line between being trapped in poverty and the opportunity to rise above it," explains Opportunity Collaboration creator Jonathan C. Lewis. "Once again, a small contribution of resources, training and access to markets is a fulcrum for creating a better standard of living."
Delegates attending the tour will witness the condition of rural poverty in Mexico and the opportunity to overcome this condition - as exemplified by the village's few burgeoning industries.
Juluchuca's modest economy depends on traditional agriculture and a few specialized products. Excursion participants will meet with organic co-op leaders, a coconut candy factory owner and a salt farmer to discuss challenges, history and plans for expansion. Ending their excursion at La Tortuga Feliz, participants will visit this turtle sanctuary managed completely by local volunteers and have the privilege of releasing baby turtles to sea.
"The residents of Juluchuca have dreams and aspirations like all of us - to have good jobs, a good education and a healthy environment. If we can be a part of helping them realize their dreams, then we have succeeded," states Leventhal.
The Opportunity Collaboration is honored to work with Leventhal and his organizations. The opportunity to witness his organization's commitment to the local community, wildlife, local business development, environment and overall health will truly be an inspiration for all.
About Rainforest2Reef
Rainforest2Reef is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the biological corridor stretching from the rainforest of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve to the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve to the Mesoamerican Reef.
Rainforest2Reef's mission is to protect biodiversity, maintain ecosystem services, and slow climate change by safeguarding tropical forests, coral reefs and the corridors connecting these threatened habitats. We do this by working in partnership with local communities to protect ecologically important lands through innovative mechanisms, using sound scientific research to manage and monitor protected areas, and developing non-extractive economic activities that improve livelihoods of local people. Please visit
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About Playa Viva LLC
Playa Viva is a boutique hotel and sustainable community being developed in Juluchuca, Mexico, about 30-minutes south of Zihuatanejo/Ixtapa resort area. The community is being built on 200 acres with 1.3 kilometers of beach front with over 85% of the land being restored as part of a private reserve. Playa Viva is committed to the values of triple bottom-line: profit for the community, the environment and the endeavor. Playa Viva is committed to preserving the cultures, traditions, communities, species and habitats that make this planet worth exploring. Find Come visit Playa Viva opening November 2009 - more at
About the Opportunity Collaboration
From October 17-20, 2009, the Opportunity Collaboration is strategic networking summit of social investors/social ventures, entrepreneurial nonprofit leaders, foundation trustees/executives and policy thought leaders. An impartial, non-aligned congress, the co-conveners are the Ashoka, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs, Calvert Social Investment Foundation, Global Philanthropy Forum, Social Venture Network, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Stanford Center for Social Innovation), Women Donors Network, Worldways Social Marketing and MicroCredit Enterprises CEO Jonathan C. Lewis. The Opportunity Collaboration brings together leaders from all over the world to leverage resources and create new alliances in the fight against poverty. Learn more about the Opportunity Collaboration at .
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Twice Upon a Time
Twice Upon a Time by James Riley
In this sequel to Half Upon a Time (S & S, 2010), Jack, May, and Phillip continue their quest to discover May's past and her true relationship to The Wicked Queen. This time the Queen has sent fire-breathing dragons to burn down the Fairy Homelands, destroying the last remaining fairy who could clue the trio in on May's family tree. A sleeping spell keeps anyone from entering the Fairy Homelands so defending it is out. But there may be one other fairy who can helpa mermaid living at the bottom of the sea and protected by her father, the Sea King. The three children try to find her, convince her to get involved, and stop her father from destroying the Earth. Encounters with pirates, mermaids, Bluebeard, sea monsters, and a crazy pirate monkey abound. Children who have not read the first book are likely to be lost as this one picks up with Jack, May, and Phillip following the Pied Piper to the Fairy Homelands and unwittingly into the hands of their old nemesis, the Wolf King. This high-spirited adventure moves along at breakneck speed. The protagonists go from an island of middle-aged men and women who think they are children, to a pirate ship and, ultimately, to a world of mermaids and mermen who have a bad attitude about humans. Add to this an angst-ridden Jack, who is struggling with his own identity crisis, and May, who gives a whole new meaning to the word "sassy," and readers will have their hands full. Fans of wild rides with little time for reflection may enjoy this one.C. J. Connor, Campbell County Public Library, Cold Spring, KY


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Construction Technology
Program Information
In this field you can work as a journey-level carpenter, general contractor, specialty trade contractor or independent contractor in light or heavy construction as well as many other related trades in the construction industry.
Instruction involves off-campus sites that may vary each term. Different projects are reviewed to fit the nature of work and desired skills you seek.
Employment opportunities are expected to remain high. One-fourth of the workers in this profession are self-employed.
What's the Construction Technology program at Lane like?
Get the scoop from students and faculty in this career preview video.
One Year Certificate of Completion
Construction Technology
Gainful Employment Disclosure
Standard Occupational Classification: 47-2061.00
For a profile of this occupation go to the U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net website: Construction Laborers
Or check on these O*Net Related Occupations: Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
How many students completed the Construction Technology 1-year Certificate in 2013-14?In academic year 2013-14, 27 students completed this certificate.
What was the on-time graduation rate for these students?
Of students who completed this certificate in the 2012-13 academic year, 59.3% completed on time.
NOTE: The federally required method for calculating this rate assumes students will enroll full-time, declare a major immediately, and enroll in it continuously until certificate completion. In reality, many community college students attend part-time, explore several majors, stop out for a term or more, change majors, or brush-up academic skills to be better prepared for college level courses, affecting this narrowly defined on-time graduation rate.
How many jobs are forecast in this occupation between 2010-20?
Lane County: 6; Statewide: 75
What wages are forecast for this occupation?
Lane County hourly average - $41.15; annual average - $85,599
Oregon hourly average - $40.53; annual average - $84,304
How much will the program cost?
(Estimates based on 2013-14 data for full-time students. Students attending part-time will incur additional term fees. Consult Lane's website for updated tuition and fees.)
- Resident tuition and student fees - $5,189
- Differential fees - $0
- Books, supplies, other program costs - $1,265
- On-campus room and board - Not offered
- Total estimate - $6,454
What's included?
Explanation of costs: www.lanecc.edu/esfs/credit-fees-and-expenses
What is the median loan debt incurred by students who completed the program in 2012?
Federal loans - 2,311
Private loans - Not available
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Well, you can't say the guy didn't try.
After writing personal letters and making impassioned pleas to the Chinese government to help stem the worsening crisis in China, director Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw as the artistic advisor to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Spielberg said of his decision:
"I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual. At this point, my time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies, but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur. Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these ongoing crimes but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more.
Actress Mia Farrow was particularly pleased that Spielberg decided to back out. "I'm delighted by his decision and it's a desperate time for Darfur so this is a shred of good news in a very bleak week. Through his participation with the games it was clear that he was giving his moral cover to Beijing at a time when they're underwriting genocide in Darfur. So I hoped that he would discontinue his participation with the games."
China currently receives two-thirds of its oil from the Sudan. As of 2006, more than 2.5 million people have been displaced and over 200,000 killed in the conflict. To get more involved with the relief efforts in Darfur, visit Dreams For Darfur or DarfurGenocide.org.
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Michael has been blogging since 2005 on issues such as sustainability, renewable energy, philanthropy, and healthy living. He regularly contributes to a slew of publications, as well as consulting with companies looking to make an impact using the web and social media. He lives in Ithaca, NY with his family on an apple farm.View all posts by Michael dEstries →


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Student Affairs Services
Career Services
The Career Services Office provides a variety of programs designed to assist students in developing and managing effective career planning. Those programs include: career counseling to help in selection of educational program, job search services (including current full and part time job announcements), online services, academic/career workshops, assistance with resume writing, and many other resources. For more information, visit the Career Services Website located online at www.centralgatech.edu/careersvcs; call (478) 757-3431 in Macon, (478) 445-2305 in Milledgeville, (478) 218-3306 In Warner Robins; or visit the Career Services Office on each campus.
Current students and graduates are encouraged to regularly view the vacancy listings in the Job Database on the Career Services web page to stay current with daily updates. Resume review and assistance, as well as individualized job search counseling, and occupational information services are available. Academic/Career workshops covering a variety of topics are also offered each semester.
Special Services
Central Georgia Technical College provides equal opportunities to qualified students with documented disabilities. Assistance is available for students with physical or psychological disabilities or with learning disorders, including but not limited to attention deficit disorder, acquired brain injury, and specific learning disabilities. To receive services, students must self-disclose, request accommodations, and provide documentation that meets the guidelines set forth by the College and by the Technical College System of Georgia. Evaluations submitted as documentation must clearly indicate that a physical, psychological, or learning disorder is present and substantially limits one or more of the major life activities. For all types of disabilities, reasonable accommodations are provided in order to offset as much as possible the effect the disability may have on learning, classroom performance, and testing. Based on the student's documentation and a personal interview, an accommodation plan is developed by a Special Populations Coordinator.
Students with disabilities who wish to request accommodations must contact the Special Populations Coordinator for the student's campus of admission and set an appointment by phone or e-mail to meet with a special populations staff member to begin the documentation approval and academic adjustment process. Services are available on all campuses and will be coordinated by the campus's Special Populations Coordinator.
The Special Populations Coordinator for Central Georgia Technical College's northern region (Bibb, Baldwin, Jones, Putnam, and Monroe Counties) is:
Sabrina Coneway
CGTC Macon Campus
The Special Populations Coordinator for Central Georgia Technical College's southern region (Houston, Pulaski, Peach, Dooly, Crawford, and Twiggs Counties) is:
Donna Dutcher
CGTC Warner Robins Campus
Student Activities and Recognition
GOAL Program
The Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) is an annual honors program jointly sponsored and administered at the state level by the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. The program's purpose is to give proper emphasis to the dignity and importance of technical education in today's world. GOAL candidates represent the new image of Georgia's technical colleges. Students must recognize technical education's critical impact on Georgia's overall economic health, have a strong work ethic, a dedicated sense of loyalty, and a healthy enthusiasm for promoting technical education in Georgia.
Full-time students who have satisfactorily completed one semester are eligible to be nominated for the GOAL Award. Instructors nominate outstanding students for the local GOAL title. One winner is selected to be the CGTC GOAL representative at the consortium level competition. Consortium winners go on to compete at the state level. The winner of the state competition is chosen based on leadership qualities and serves as an ambassador for technical education.
Student Activities
Central Georgia Technical College encourages students to participate in organizational activities under the supervision of Student Affairs. The College ensures compliance with Title IX regarding all activities. Students must maintain a minimum 2.00 grade point average to be eligible to participate. The following student activities are available to the student body.
Titans Athletics
CGTC is proud to have an intercollegiate athletics program that features men's and women's basketball and men's and women's cross country. The Titans are members of the Division I National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA).
The Wellness Center
CGTC Wellness Centers are located on the Warner Robins, Macon, and Milledgeville campuses. The facilities are used by CGTC athletes, students, faculty and staff. The facilities have a wide range of exercise equipment.
Student Organizations
Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP)
ACVP has a 40+ year history of service leading the way in representing professionals, supporting credentialing and providing continuing education for advancement. The goals of ACVP are
- To meet the needs of all cardiovascular and pulmonary providers
- To promulgate standards
- To promote recognition of the cardiovascular profession.
- Connecting over 3000 professionals involved in all levels of cardiovascular service (administration, management, nursing and technology) and involved in all specialties (invasive, noninvasive, echo, cardiopulmonary).
Lambda Nu
National honor society for the radiologic and imaging sciences.
National Association of Orthopedic Technologists
NAOT is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence through education of orthopedic technologists, and other related allied health care professionals, and the general public. NAOT believes that the profession of orthopedic technology can only reach full potential and universal acceptance through widespread educational opportunities. Certification of all orthopedic technologists underscores NAOT's commitment to these professional goals.
National Technical Honor Society
The National Technical Honor Society is an educational organization established to honor excellence in workforce education. Membership, by invitation only, is the highest scholastic honor awarded for exceptional performance in this area of education.
New Traditions Support Group
A student eligible to participate in NTSG will be a single parent, and/or have a disability, and/or a displaced homemaker, and/or has limited English proficiency, and/or considered economically challenged, and/or enrolled in a non-traditional program of study, and is seeking to successfully continue their education while managing the demands and responsibilities of adult life. The student may be full-time or part-time.
Non-Traditional Student Association
A Non-Traditional Student (NTS) will be defined as enrolled in a non-traditional program of study and is seeking to successfully continue their education while managing the demands and responsibilities of adult life. The student may be full-time or part-time.
Phi Beta Lamda
Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) is the post-secondary equivalent of Future Business Leaders of America and is the largest student leadership organization in the nation. The PBL Club at CGTC is open to all students. There are two chapters – the Warner Robins Chapter and the Macon Chapter to provide greater access to the majority of our students. The focus of the organization is on community service, leadership, and both personal and professional development. As a member, students participate in club fundraisers and community service projects, and serve as officers and committee members/chairs to develop their leadership skills. Additionally, members have the opportunity to compete in regional, state, and national competitions against their peers from other technical colleges as well as 4-year colleges and universities. As a result, students have the opportunity to travel across the state and nation and network with other students and professionals from the business world. Membership dues are required once per year.
Sigma Alpha Pi: The National Society of Leadership and Success
The National Society of Leadership and Success, or Sigma Alpha Pi, is an organization to help facilitate leadership and training to students. Once a month, The Society hosts a video conference with one of the nation's top authors and speakers. Additionally, student members are entered into a national organization which provides training and networking on the campus.
SkillsUsa is a national student organization serving more than 264,500 high school and college students and professional members enrolled in training programs in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations.
Student American Dental Hygienists' Association
The objectives of this organization shall be to cultivate, promote, and sustain the art and science of dental hygiene, to represent and safeguard the common interest of the members of the dental hygiene profession, and to contribute toward the improvement of the oral health of the public.
Student Leadership Council
The Student Leadership Council (SLC) is an elected body of students and is available to any student selected by the student body. SLC promotes the welfare of the College through democratic practices and procedures, plans student activities, promotes school functions, and provides input to the Vice President of Student Affairs.
Non-Traditional Student Association
A Non-Traditional Student (NTS) will be defined as a student at Central Georgia Technical College who is over the age of thirty, and/or a single parent, and/or a displaced homemaker, and/or has limited English proficiency, and/or is considered economically challenged, and/or is enrolled in a non-traditional program of study here at CGTC, and is seeking to successfully continue their education while managing the demands and responsibilities of adult life. The student may be full-time or part-time.Student Ambassador
An Ambassador is known as an official representative of an organization, and the Student Ambassadors represent Central Georgia Technical College. Duties of the Ambassadors include taking an active role in various college events such as Senior Day, various tours, graduation, student registration, career fairs and other events that help to promote the college. Ambassadors show leadership and are knowledgeable about CGTC, and they assist other organizations on campus as well. Any student enrolled in a certificate, diploma or degree program that is committed to representing Central Georgia Technical College are encouraged to apply. Interested students are required to have a minimum GPA of 2.5 and submit a recommendation letter from a CGTC instructor.


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TREATMENT PLANT MANAGER DPW - TOWN OF WAYLAND Town of Wayland seeks FT person to perform technical and skilled manual work in overseeing the operation and maintenance of the Water Treatment Plant and overseeing the operation of the water treatment system. Qualifications: HS diploma; additional related education or training preferred. Experience: 3 years working in an environment which constructs and maintains water distribution and treatment systems, of which 1 year is in a supervisory/management capacity. Licenses: Full Grade 2T at time of hire. Must obtain a full Grade 3T within 1 year of hire and have a valid driver's license. Wages: $52,972 - $70,404. Send resumes to HR Director, Town of Wayland, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778. EEO