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Teaching Leadership: What We Know
The field of leadership education has reached a critical stage. After several decades of experimentation, "The Handbook for Teaching Leadership," Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana, and Nitin Nohria, is intended to be a foundational reference for educators facing this increasingly important challenge.
Editor's note: According to the authors of The Handbook for Teaching Leadership, Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana, we have reached a crossroads in leadership education. Many experiments, approaches, and techniques over the last few decades have been tried, and it's time to bring together what we've learned. This edited volume collects international scholars to not only put forward a foundational reference for leadership training but also to offer a community of practice where ideas can be developed and shared. The following excerpt is from the book's introduction.
Teaching Leadership: Advancing the Field
By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana
It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published their pioneering work, Leadership in Organizations (1985), widely considered to be the first formal textbook specifically designed to "teach leadership". Since then, the field of leadership has exploded. A simple Google search of "leadership books" returns more than 84 million hits. Not surprisingly, as overall interest in leadership has grown, so has the demand for courses on the topic. Scan the mission statements of most major universities and professional schools and you'll find that "educating leaders" is the common thread. Search the catalogues of almost any college and you'll find dozens of courses with the word "Leadership" in their titles.
And yet, if you were charged with teaching a course on leadership today, where would you start? Where would you turn to learn about the incredible array of approaches to teaching this ill-defined, yet important topic? How would you go about tapping into the wealth of practical experience in order to benefit from the hard-won lessons of those who have gone before you? What are the various theoretical assumptions and pedagogical techniques you might consider in the process of designing and delivering a course in this underdeveloped and undisciplined (in both the literal and practical sense of the word) field? How should one even "think about" the challenge of "teaching leadership"? This Handbook is intended to be a foundational reference for educators who teach primarily in traditional classroom settings and who find themselves facing this increasingly important but daunting challenge.
The teaching of any subject is many-sided. However, discharging the responsibilities of a university educator is particularly complex. Teaching is only one of many activities expected of a typical faculty member. There is also an expectation that what is taught should be grounded in research. Even for teachers who do relatively little leadership research, it is still assumed that what they convey to students represents the most important research relevant to the field. Moreover, when it comes to the subject of teaching leadership, university educators must also recognize that they are members of a larger community of academics responsible for shaping society's future leaders. Therefore, academics involved in teaching leadership must consider a broader context that often extends beyond the traditional boundaries of their home discipline and intellectual community. Finally, those of us who teach leadership must also acknowledge an increased responsibility to our larger community. If we are successful as teachers, by definition then, our students—that is future leaders—will play a disproportionate role in shaping the future of society. This is an obligation we should not and cannot take lightly.
If the teaching of leadership comes with unique obligations for the instructor, it also begs similarly important questions about the nature and quality of what is taught. Teaching languishes if it is not rooted in a solid understanding of pedagogy and grounded in quality research. University educators are expected to have a more intricate knowledge base—in both breadth and depth, more fundamental and more strictly criticized and tested—than is available to a layperson. Teaching in a university places a special obligation on an educator. In particular, what is asserted to be knowledge about leadership must be true. This is particularly challenging when it comes to leadership. Because when an academic makes an assertion in the field of leadership and communicates knowledge to students, engages students in the practical applications of that knowledge or imbues the identity of leadership on that student, the educational outcomes need to adhere to the criteria of veracity and accuracy we hold for any other field taught in a university setting. Moreover, academics must do this while adhering to societally expected commitments to scholarly, detached and dispassionate judgment. Without such a commitment, academics and the subjects they teach are in danger of being discredited.
It is far too easy to enumerate flaws in the current state of leadership education: course content rarely conforms to the norms of the scientific method (Bennis & O'Toole, 2005); teachers employ casual and often self-serving empirical evidence (Ghoshal, 2005); approaches are rarely grounded in well-established theoretical traditions (Doh, 2003); there are as yet few credible communities of practice dedicated to developing and sharing best practices; and there is scant empirical evidence that any of these approaches really work (Pfeffer & Fong, 2002; Mintzberg, 2004). In short, the current state of leadership education lacks the intellectual rigor and institutional structure required to advance the field beyond its present (and precariously) nascent stage.
In our opinion, the field of leadership education has reached a critical stage. After several decades of experimentation, with scores of teachers having developed and delivered a wide range of courses on the topic, we believe that the time is right to take stock and share our collective experience. Just spend some time with a group of people who are currently teaching leadership and you will come away with a few inescapable conclusions.
First, individually we have learned a great deal. Over the past twenty-five years, largely on our own, in various classrooms scattered throughout the glove, thousands of educators have accumulated an impressive wealth of individual wisdom. Unfortunately for the field, we rarely talk to each other, and surprisingly little gets shared. Second, with few exceptions, most of us are extremely passionate about what we do. The demand for improving the practice and quality of leading has never been greater for those responsible for preparing future leaders, the sense of urgency and commitment is palpable. Third, after spending only a few minutes with such a group, you quickly discover that there clearly is no consensus on the one best way to teach leadership. There are currently as many ways to teach the topic as there are definitions of it (Rost, 1991), each proponent as enthusiastic as the next about his or her favored approach. And finally, we have learned that most experienced teachers are not only happy to share what they have learned, but equally eager to discover what others have been up to as well.
Unfortunately, unlike some of the more well-established academic disciplines, there are few institutional resources available to support this increasingly important and motivated community of educators whose academic homes are widely scattered across traditional disciplinary boundaries. To us, the implications were clear. Such a wide-ranging collection of promising, yet unorganized, individual experience demanded an equally impressive collective effort to take stock and consolidate. As a result, we offer this handbook with the following three goals in mind:
- Take Stock and Consolidate Progress. Our primary goal is to share what we have learned after almost three decades of accumulated experience teaching leadership. To do this, we cast a wide net. Leadership educators from a broad range of disciplines and in a wide range of settings have experimented with a dizzying array of pedagogical approaches. Upon closer scrutiny, it is clear that some of us have been largely teaching about leadership (informing our students about the nature of the phenomenon); others have been teaching how to lead (equipping students with a set of skills and capacities enabling them to lead more effectively); and still others have focused primarily on helping out students actually become leaders (assisting students to gain access to and acquire the identity of a leader). These are but a few of the fundamental distinctions in an emerging field that have significant implications not only for design and delivery, but also for assessment. As a result of such conceptual disarray and interdisciplinary diffusion, solid data on outcomes assessment and theoretical grounding have lagged significantly. It is clear that a comprehensive volume is needed at this point in order to take stock and consolidate what we have learned.
- Establish a Foundational Reference for Teaching Leadership. It was also clear that fresh theoretical approaches to teaching leadership abound, but no central clearing house currently existed to consolidate and share such potential. Exciting advances in related fields such as brain research, identity, ethics, adult development, communications, positive psychology, human intelligence and educational theory require a single source for educators to consult if we are to have any hope of realizing our potential for improving the practice of teaching leadership. The explosive and yet undisciplined field of leadership education has reached a critical mass where a comprehensive volume is required not only to share novel ideas but also to help establish conceptual boundaries and shape the future contours of this emerging field. With a steadily increasing number of schools committed to developing leaders as a central goal, and with more and more educators entering the field from an increasingly wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, the time is right to consolidate what we have already learned and to establish a foundation upon which intelligent progress can be made. We hope to address this need by providing leadership educators with a single reference that not only shares current best practices, but does so within a broad conceptual framework that encourages greater theoretical rigor.
- Build a Respected Community of Practice. With the demand for courses on leadership growing exponentially, the need to establish a respected community of dedicated scholars and practitioners is more important than ever. As a nascent field, leadership education is currently populated by a loosely coupled collection of wildly diverse, well-intentioned, but poorly organized gaggle of scholars and practitioners who are largely left to their own devises when it comes to deciding how best to teach leadership. From the college classrooms to corporate universities to snake doctors, the field is littered with unsubstantiated yet flourishing responses to the seemingly endless demand to grow better leaders. Despite leadership being so central to the core mission of many schools, there is surprisingly little serious scholarship on how to teach it in any of these institutions. Indeed, research on leadership education falls at best on the periphery rather than at the center of most schools that profess to educate leaders as their animating purpose. Many of today's most popular leadership courses are delivered by external consultants, senior lecturers and adjunct faculty, all largely marginalized members of the academy who were either denied tenure or had broken ranks with their "more academic colleagues" in order to teach leadership. More still are being taught by former practitioners who attained iconic status as successful leaders and now want to share their wisdom, secure their legacies or cash in on their success.
If we continue to allow leadership education to be framed, defined and sustained by such an ad-hoc approach, we open ourselves to an entire range of potentially grave risks: Will students continue to take university mission statements seriously? How long before students recognize the yawning gap between espoused aspiration and reality in our classrooms? And perhaps most importantly, how long can society survive without growing a stronger field of emerging leaders?
Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications Inc. Excerpt from The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Copyright 2012 by SAGE Publications Inc. All rights reserved.
- Mark Exton
- Principal Designate, Hiroshima International School
Hiroshima International School has as its abbreviated mission "Peace, Understanding and Leadership through Education": what might the book offer for those of us tasked with leadership education ahead of the tertiary sector?
- Kapil Kumar Sopory
- Company Secretary, SMEC(India) Private Limited
Despite importance of good leadership spelled out in business schools and existence of many management books which talk of leadership in detail, there is an acute dearth of good leaders. You can teach but you cannot make a person follow what you teach for good leadership is a self developed and pursued trait. A good leader has to be an amalgam of many positive qualities - absolute truthfulness,high moral and ethical character, humbleness but at the same time non-compromising with basic principles, absence of greed, complete knowledge of the job(s) of his organisation, readiness to learn and work, self discipline, empathy, ability to improve business as well as systems and procedures, clarity of vision, being an example for others, walking his talk, &c. There is no end to this and sometimes a leader could be construed as super haman as he is many in one. In short, a good leader must be a high standard corporate citizen. The expectations from good leaders being so many, we can count the prominent ones on finger tips. There then comes an oft heard " born leader" statement.We do understand that leadership can be taught and learned but all do not imbibe the traits of a good leader. One more problem is that whereas it should have been so, leaders do not work hard to create more leaders... for various reasons!
- Tom Verghese
- Director, Cultural Synergies
Obviously, a book whose time as come. I look forward to reading it. Leadership needs to be viewed from a global perspective rather then just the Western view so I hope this book has that additional perspective.
- joanne greene
- charg?e de cours, ESG UQAM - ENAP
Thank you for a great book. Thank you to all the contributors. Great new ideas, contacts and material for professors, teachers and trainers. JG
- Jack Slavinski
- Technology Consulting
Great perspective! It would be difficult to find a topic more critical than this one. Whether in academics or at the corporate level, we need to continue to elevate the focus on and importance of leadership. I continue to believe that the best way to approach this is to weave leadership principles into the fabric of EVERYTHING we teach as opposed to simply just having a Leadership 101, 201, 301, etc. program approach. This way, it would consistently be front and center in the hearts and minds of teachers and students, as it deserves to be!
- Robert Liley
- Founding Principal, The Signal Group
While it's undoubtedly possible to teach some of the techniques that can be employed by effective leaders, I'm not convinced that 'leadership' can, in fact, be taught successfully. Take a look at successful leaders; they exhibit many different characteristics and qualities depending on the situations they are in. Some successful leaders are wonderful people; others are real bastards! The people they are leading are quite different; the circumstances are often quite different; the competitive pressures are different; and the urgencies differ widely. More importantly, the leaders' motivations often come from quite different personal experiences. While I admire the attempt, I'm not at all certain of the outcome.
- Jacob Njeru
- Director, Maro gardens
Often - history is full of examples, civilisations leave their designed orbits and soon they fly into oblivion. Leadership fads and fashions are on such orbits - but when all is said and done - this is leadership - SERVE IN FAITH, NOT FOR GOLD. Anything else is domination. If you take prisoners be ready to be a janitor - a dog on a leash? This idea to nurture what we know and seek what we need is very commendable.
- Pamela Hongsakul
- Leadership Advisor, Hongsakul Media
Leadership can be taught and developed, the proof is in the pudding. I have worked with executives of all levels, from government ministers to CEOs to students, and I have witnessed crucial transformations. If we explore the world's great literature, we can see that this is not a new topic, it has just gained a renewed relevance and respect. I applaud this book for its attempt to deliver wisdom to our current crop of leaders.
- Timothy Pascoe
- Creator, VECTOR Leadership
Dear All,
For me, leadership is less something you teach as one might teach a personl how to play the pianoforte or any other instrument. These remain substantially the same across time and place. It is more like teaching skiing where no two days or slopes are the same. Hence, as a practitioner one's first task is to learn how to be empathetic to the mountain - or those you are leading. From day to day and moment to moment, both skiing and leadership involve real-time problem solving. Working out what action is needed - on this mountain, in its particular condition; or with these people facing their current particular challenges.
It surprises me that leadership remains the missing link in business planning. We plan everythign else - our projects or tasks but not what you or I need to so so people will want to follow us. For me, it's about working out what they need from us: what specific actions we personally need to take so they will trust us professionally and personally and be willing to follow. There is no right or wrong that is universally applicable - beyond some underlying values. But values aren't actions, they just provide context for actions.
I've developed a planning tool, which I feel addresses these issues - covering both the so-called hard and soft issues. Not laying down any pre-conceived right plan but offering a process, through which the leader works out what is needed for their current followers in their current situation.
Notwithstanding my different approach, I very much look forward to looking at the book outlined above.
- Prasanth Gowravajhala
- Product Manager, Bosch/ETAS
Leadership is often misconceived as a subject that can be mastered by technical anatomy. However, the practicality of being a leader can be (mostly) better understood when experienced and definitely influenced by many factors. It would definitely be interesting to see the different perspective that leadership can be taught and I hope this book would make me change some of my above said presumptions. Due credits to Kapil Kumar as I second his thoughts regarding leadership.
- Gursharan Singh Bedi
- Professor & Head Electronics and Communication Engineering, SUS College of Engineering and Technology, Tangori-Mohali, India
Leadership can not be taught by academicians. It can only taught by proven leaders from the field. Universities, therefore, should engage leaders from the industry and armed forces to teach leadership. The art of leadership has more to do with the art of self-sacrifice for the community and the organisation. With focus on self, one may rise in the hierarchy of an organisation, but will never become an effective leader. Institutions teaching business management with their focus on self advancement can never teach leadership.
- Dennis
- Nelson, SFS
I have a thought.
I have nearly finished reading "The Handbook for Teaching Leadership" this week. The handbook, a compilation of submissions, confirmed for me several concepts that both prior readings and life observations had raised. The concepts support the idea that we change the world through taking responsibility for and changing ourselves. The concepts are that the world needs to do a better job of identifying our individual and collective principle role in the world and helping us to develop to be the best we can be in that role. The role is "leader". Aren't we all leaders? If leadership is defined as exerting influence to achieve a specific goal through others within a given timeframe, environment and context (the parameters), how long can we continue to believe that there is a core group of "others" who are the leaders and the rest of us are the followers? The questions arise because most of the research and writings about leadership and developing leaders allow, if not encourage, the inference that a select group get to occupy or rise to leadership positions. This allows the inference that there are some positions that do not involve leadership and some of us are relegated to those positions. The questions relate to potentially significant impacts. What if each of us is a leader? What if each of us knew that every other person is a leader? How differently would we treat each other? How differently would we seek, provide and receive training, feedback opportunities to share with others? How different might corporate workplaces and cultures be? How different might the world culture and international relationships be? How individually and collectively different might we all be?
By the opening definition, leaders exert leadership. Who doesn't exert leadership? While many people have never been: dictators, presidents, chairpersons, generals, captains, or sergeants, etc., most people at one time or another have been formally or informally responsible for one or more other people tasked to get a specific job done within specific parameters. Is there a minimum amount of exertion or influence or people or leadership times needed for leadership qualification? Where would that line be drawn? Can there even be a line? Situational leadership already is a popular topic and class of instruction: just the scope of the situations needs to be increased. Most if not all situations lie on a continuum. For example we can breathe, throw, think etc., super, super softly to very, very hard. Explosions, rainfalls, snow storms can be very, very minimal or totally devastating. The same is true for exerting leadership. The exertion and influence can be minimal, impacting perhaps one other person for a short period of time, or of incredibly greater magnitude affecting millions over centuries. Given that continuum, what person has never exerted leadership through at least one other person for some period of time? Who has never led a conversation, for even a brief period? Who wasn't born? While a person being born isn't verbally aware of or able to portray the event, the person being born certainly exerts influence through another for a specific outcome. And if the person never matured, the person still would never stop obtaining by whatever means possible, what was personally desired, wanted or needed to be accomplished in terms of his/her environment despite continuing to be unable of consciously exerting personal leadership or verbally being able to describe it. Might that person and all other individuals better obtain desired results if taught how to be a leader; taught the jargon and context of leadership? Might all people better and less offensively or less irritatingly obtain desired results by exerting influence through others learning that more effective leaders also serve others and contribute to the common good? Might all of us achieve more if we learn to be better leaders: improving the communication through shared jargon, planning and moving activities forward better, reducing frictions and other resource wasting stresses? Might we better exercise our own leadership and our own restraint when situations clearly indicate another person should be recognized as the momentary or situational leader given the new constraints and parameters? Might we follow other leaders better having been trained as leaders who recognize the needed and more appropriate interactions between leaders and followers? Wouldn't the world have to improve if each of its component parts, all of us, were afforded the environments in which we could best develop to be the best we could be and then applied that development and expertise to working better with all the other world leaders (everyone) to help make the world better? In conversations, the leadership changes: from speaker to speaker, and even from those who purposefully chose to remain silent to: learn more, encourage the speaker to continue, have others learn more, or even just to get the conversation (or monologue) over more quickly. In military operations, the leadership changes, in small patrols and large battles: as people die, situations change, particular skills have to be executed. In the military and in all organizations, there are different levels of leadership: from leading one or two people to leading 10s of thousands. In community and other social organizations, who leads which committees or fund raisers, etc., constantly changes.
Leadership on earth is a continuum for its people from birth to death, and for the conversations and all other particular situations in between. Lifelong, we all experience leadership both as leaders and followers. The differences between us as leaders include our level of consciousness of the leadership experiences we've had, the volume and scope of the leadership experiences we've had, the visibility of the outcomes to ourselves and others and the amount of study or leadership assistance any of us have been subjected to either as leaders or followers, despite the amount of leader and leadership study, development and training going on in the world indicating the set of "leaders" is a limited set.
Perhaps we and the world all would be better off if the delta in leadership training and development between individuals was reduced as more people received more and better leadership training and development. Just a thought.
- Maj Gen M S S Krishnan, VSM
- Retired, Indian Army
The king is dead; long live the king. Communities, Societies and Nations can never be leaderless. The flame of leadership can never be extinguished, not just among humans but in other species as well. Yet, the subject of leadership is packed with mysteries not only for students of Management but alsofor others in evry organisation. In such a situation, educators involved in teaching Leadership do face stiff challenge in sufficiently igniting the spark of leadership in the target audience. At the end of any session on Leadership, there are more questions than answers. Today this challenge cuts across geographies when events such as meltdown of economies, terrorism, information explosion and the technology boom are putting leaders to stringent tests. At this juncture, the authors have done a commendable job in putting together a foundational reference for Leadership in a world of delightful uncertainties, for Leadership can be taught and must find a prominent place in every organisation.


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It all came down to one match, which ended with a marathon final game.
On her fourth match point, UCLA's Kyle McPhillips finally prevailed over North Carolina's Caroline Price at No. 3 singles, giving the Bruins a 4-3 win and the NCAA women's tennis championship.
McPhillips broke Price at 4-3 to serve for the match in front of a crowd of more than 1,000 at Georgia's Dan Magill Tennis Complex, only to see Price win the first three points. McPhillips saved the break points and then the players traded game points in what was ultimately a 22-point game.
It ended when a Price volley sailed long, sparking a big Bruin bear hug on court 3.
"She's disappointed; she feels like she let the team down, which she didn't," UNC coach Brian Kalbas said of Price.
The No. 7 Tar Heels (29-6) were making their first championship appearance. Fifth-ranked UCLA (27-2) was playing in its eighth final, and second in three years. This is the Bruins' second championship.
"It's heartbreaking to end the season, but I'm really, really proud of our team and our run here at the NCAA tournament," Kalbas said.
Doubles all season had been a strength for both teams: North Carolina had lost the doubles point just four times all year, while UCLA came in a perfect 28-0.
The Bruins made it 29 in a row with wins at Nos. 1 and 2, handing UNC's top team of Jamie Loeb and Hayley Carter just their second loss of the season.
Loeb was handed another rare loss in singles. The nation's top-ranked player fell 6-2, 6-2 to UCLA's Robin Anderson, ranked No. 2. The defeat put the Bruins up 2-0 and ended a 25-match win streak for Loeb.
The fifth-ranked Carter put the Tar Heels on the scoreboard with a 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 2 singles. A star freshman like Loeb, it was the 47th win of the season for Carter. Both players, along with Price, will be competing in the individual tournaments, which begin today.
Five minutes after Carter closed out her match, Kate Vialle drew the Tar Heels even with a win at No. 5. That left UNC's Price at No. 3, Ashley Dai at No. 4 and Tessa Lyons at No. 6, all of them in third sets.
Dai, who replaced Whitney Kay (foot injury) in the lineup, fell to UCLA's Chanelle Van Nguyen, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, giving the Bruins a 3-2 lead with two matches remaining.
The only senior to play for UNC in the final, Lyons said she was determined to end her career with a win. Lyons won a hard-fought battle at No. 6, edging Kaitlin Ray 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.
"That girl would have had to kill me to beat me," Lyons said.
Lyons' match ended as Price and McPhillips were beginning their topsy-turvy final game. Both teams were crowded around court 3, knowing one of them would soon be celebration. A point or two go differently and it would have been the Tar Heels.
Carter and Vialle were named to the all-tournament team.
Women's Final: #5 UCLA (27-2) def. #7 NORTH CAROLINA (29-6), 4-3 - Henry Feild Stadium
Doubles (Order of finish: 2,1)
1. #1 Robin Anderson/Jennifer Brady (UCLA) def. #3 Jamie Loeb/Hayley Carter (NORTH CAROLINA), 8-7(3)
2. #9 Catherine Harrison/Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) def. #13 Whitney Kay/Caroline Price (NORTH CAROLINA), 8-2
3. Courtney Dolehide/Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) vs. Ashley Dai/Tessa Lyons (NORTH CAROLINA), 6-7, unf.
Singles (Order of finish: 1,2,5,4,6,3)
1. #2 Robin Anderson (UCLA) def. #1 Jamie Loeb (NORTH CAROLINA), 6-2, 6-2
2. #5 Hayley Carter (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #8 Jennifer Brady (UCLA), 6-2, 6-2
3. #38 Kyle McPhillips (UCLA) def. #59 Caroline Price (NORTH CAROLINA), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
4. #13 Chanelle Van Nguyen (UCLA) def. #105 Ashley Dai (NORTH CAROLINA), 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
5. Kate Vialle (NORTH CAROLINA) def. #75 Catherine Harrison (UCLA), 6-4, 6-4
6. Tessa Lyons (NORTH CAROLINA) def. Kaitlin Ray (UCLA), 3-6, 6-4, 7-5


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The Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance is a core component of the CDC's Emerging Infections Program Healthcare-Associated Infections Community Interface (HAIC) activity. The EIP's C. diff infection surveillance is an active population- and laboratory-based surveillance in selected counties in 10 US states. Trained surveillance epidemiologists in the 10 EIP sites investigate all positive C. difficile toxin assay or molecular assay reports from clinical, reference and commercial laboratories for residents of surveillance catchment areas. Residents who have a positive stool specimen for C. difficile greater than 8 weeks after the last positive specimen and are ≥1 year of age are considered new cases of C. diff infection. For each C. diff infection case identified a case report form with basic demographic, clinical and risk factor information is completed. C. diff infection cases are further classified into three epidemiologic categories: healthcare facility-onset (HCFO), if positive C. difficile stool specimen was collected greater than 3 calendar after hospital admission or in a resident of a long term care facility; community-onset healthcare facility-associated (CO-HCFA), if positive stool specimen was collected in an outpatient setting or within 3 days after hospital admission in a person with documented healthcare exposure (i.e. history of hospitalization or long-term care facility residency in the 12 weeks before stool specimen collection); and community–associated (CA) if positive stool specimen was collected in an outpatient setting or within 3 calendar days in a person with no documented healthcare exposure. For a subset of C. diff infection cases identified, isolates are sent to CDC for molecular characterization.
EIP C. diff infection surveillance also provides an infrastructure for further public health research, including special studies aiming at identifying risk factors for disease, population targets for vaccine, and monitoring effectiveness of prevention strategies. EIP C. diff infection surveillance was launched in 2009 in 7 EIP sites. It currently operates in 10 EIP sites across the United States and has approximately 11.1 million people under surveillance.
EIP C. diff infection data can be used to measure the burden of C. diff infection in the population, to monitor trends in disease overtime, and to characterize C. difficile strains responsible for C. diff infection and changes in the prevalence of these strains overtime.
Surveillance Objectives
- Determine the population-based incidence of community– and healthcare–associated C. diff infection among participating EIP sites.
- Characterize C. difficile strains that are responsible for C. diff infection in the population under surveillance with a focus on strains from community–associated cases.
- Describe the epidemiology of community– and healthcare–associated C. diff infection and generate hypotheses for future research activities using EIP C. diff infection surveillance infrastructure.
- Surveillance Population
The table below illustrates the population under surveillance for each EIP site as of December 2011.
State Surveillance sites 2011 Estimated
C. difficile Surveillance Population
CA San Francisco County 812,826 CO Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson Counties 2,488,410 CT New Haven County 861,113 GA Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnet, Newton, Rockdale Counties
MD Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Frederick, Kent, Somerset, Talbot, Queen Anne's, Washington, Wicomico Worcester Counties 835,893 MN Benton, Morrison, Stearns and Todd Counties 248,079 NM Bernalillo County 670,968 NY Monroe County 745,625 OR Klamath County 66,299 TN Davidson County 635,475 TOTAL —————— 11,118,140
- Case Definition
C. diff infection Incident Case
A case of C. diff infection is defined as a positive C. difficile toxin assay or a positive C.difficile molecular assay (e.g. PCR) on an incident stool specimen from a resident of the surveillance catchment area who is 1 year of age or older. Cases with a C. difficile positive stool specimen greater than 8 weeks after the last positive specimen are considered a new case with an incident stool specimen. Therefore, for surveillance purposes an individual may be classified and captured as a new incident case if eight consecutive weeks have elapsed since their last test positive for C.difficile.Recurrent episodes
C. diff infection cases with a positive C. difficile stool specimen between 2 to 8 weeks of the last positive specimen are considered recurrent episodes.Duplicate episodes
C. diff infection cases with a positive C. difficile stool specimen less than 2 weeks since the last positive specimen are considered duplicate episodes.
- Case Ascertainment
C. diff infection cases are identified using positive C. difficile toxin assay or C. difficile Nucleic Acid Amplification assay from all healthcare facility-based clinical laboratories as well as outpatient diagnostic clinical laboratories serving the population of surveillance catchment areas. Each laboratory serving surveillance catchment populations regularly provides line listings of positive C. difficile test results to the local EIP site. The line listings include the patient name and local laboratory identifier, date of specimen collection, as well as any additional available information (e.g. address, date of birth, age, sex, location of stool collection). Information on additional positive specimens from the same patient is recorded for the purpose of ascertaining and tracking recurrent or duplicate episodes, as well as, new cases (i.e. greater than eight weeks after the last positive C. difficile specimen). Case report forms are not completed on recurrent or duplicate episodes or patients determined to reside outside the catchment area.
- Laboratory Characterization
A convenience sample of stool specimens from incident C. diff infection cases with complete clinical and epidemiologic information are sent to reference laboratories for C.difficile isolation. Isolates recovered are then sent to CDC for molecular investigation including pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), toxinotyping and mutation analysis.
- Laboratory Audits
Routine clinical laboratory audits are a fundamental requirement of the EIP C. diff infection surveillance. The purpose of conducting an audit is to assess whether the EIP C. diff infection Surveillance is capturing all cases through active surveillance and ensure that any change in incidence is not a surveillance artifact.
Special Studies
- Clostridium difficile Household Study at MN EIP Site
- Evaluate the degree of household contamination with C. difficile including toxigenic strains
- Demonstrate comparability or differences in recovery from case and control households
- Compare isolates obtained from environment with isolates from humans and pets by molecular typing
- Determine the prevalence of and risk factors for C. difficile colonization and infection among household members and pets (cats and dogs) across different subsets of cases of C. diff infection.
- Impact of North American Pulsed-field Type 1 (NAP1) Clostridium difficile Strain on Disease Severity and Outcome http://shea.confex.com/shea/2011/webprogram/Paper4843.html
- Epidemiology of Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI), Emerging Infections Program, 2009-2011. Abstract presented at the 2012 Anaerobe Meeting, June 29-July 1,San Francisco, CA [PDF - 142 KB]
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I am looking to purchase a hub or splitter to plug into my firewire port so that I can plug in my hard drive and a video camera at the same time. Any recommendations? (I am pretty illiterate when it comes to the technology I don't understand the difference between firewire 400 and 800, for example).
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When Alex Garcia transferred to Golden Gate from First Baptist before his senior season, the running back was expected to be a complementary player to primary ball carrier Breon Brown, providing an occasional breather or a change of pace when the Titans needed it.
Since then, Garcia has blossomed into one of the Golden Gate's most dangerous offensive threats.
"We still complement each other but now defensive coordinators have to worry about both of us," Garcia said.
Garcia has become a more well-rounded running back.
"We expect him to get better each week," Titans coach Mike DiGrigoli said. "He has gone from a slasher that goes to the outside to someone who understands getting yards after contact. He has become more of a complete player with his blocking and catching balls out of the backfield."
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Garcia spearheaded the Titans' first win of the season — a 24-7 victory over Palmetto Ridge in the annual Battle for the Gate — with 140 yards and a touchdown. Garcia's 62-yard run to open the fourth quarter proved to be the knockout blow to the Bears, who had begun to gain traction after scoring just 18 seconds earlier.
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ASSISTANT boss Tony Docherty is adamant he and manager Derek McInnes can do a Gary Johnson and turn Bristol City's season around.
Johnson presided over nine straight defeats in all competitions during the early part of his Ashton Gate reign in 2005.
Yet the Londoner survived the axe and inspired a recovery that saw the Robins just miss out on the League One play-offs at the end of the season.
McInnes and Docherty are also under pressure following a run of seven successive defeats which has left City propping up the npower Championship table.
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But instead of caving into pressure from fans, some of whom are advocating a change of manager, club owner Steve Lansdown is offering McInnes and his staff the same backing he gave Johnson seven years ago in the hope they can effect a turnaround in fortunes.
Docherty said: "Someone was telling me there was a similar run under a previous manager several years ago when we lost nine games in a row.
"They stuck with the manager then, finished in the top half and then gained promotion the following season.
"We have to look at that and make sure we do something similar. The club has been here before and we have to make sure the players and the staff work hard to turn this around.
"We inherited a team that was in a worse position than this last year. We turned it around them and we will do it again."
Sunday's 2-0 reverse against Charlton saw the Robins equal a club record for successive league defeats.
Alan Dicks was manager when City suffered seven straight losses in the old Division Two in the 1970-71 season. The board of directors stood by him then and he staged a recovery that saw the team finish 19th and avoid relegation.
Although the run of defeats under Johnson amounted to nine games in total, two of those came in knockout competitions, Barnet and Notts County eliminating the Robins from the LDV Vans Trophy and FA Cup respectively.
McInnes and his players now face the unenviable task of avoiding an unwanted club-record eighth league defeat on the bounce when they take on Blackpool at Ashton Gate on Saturday.
Docherty said: "The next game now becomes essential, because you expect to pick up points from your home games.
"If we analyse the Charlton game and work hard on the training field, hopefully we will get that home win we are all looking for."
City are four points adrift of safety and confidence is at its lowest point all season. But Docherty insisted he and McInnes have faith in the players.
He said: "We came into that same dressing room last year in a worse position than the one we are in now.
"Those players answered the questions then and there are players in there that will continue to do that.
"There are those we have added to the squad that are the right type and that fills me with confidence.
"We've seen the players' reaction and they are not happy with the situation. There is nobody sitting back and thinking it is not their fault.
"Everybody has to unite and make sure they have the spirit to get us through this. We have to galvanise as a squad, make sure we address the issues that need to be addressed and come out fighting."


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Although Cellino hopes that McDermott will stay for the remainder of the season, his plans beyond that are unclear.
After winning his appeal against rejection to own the club by the Football League, Cellino was in attendance as the Whites slumped to their eighth defeat in nine games to lose 3-0 at Watford.
Zola has been out of management since leaving Watford earlier this season and the Italian connection has inevitably led to him being linked to the Leeds post, but agent Fulvio Marruccio was quick to dismiss the speculation.
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Higgs, I didn't vote for Obama, and I won't vote for his reelection, but that doesn't mean we should engage in revisionist history. After his election, Obama reviewed the Bush administration's timeline for withdrawal from Iraq, discussed it with his generals, and decided to stick to that same timeline. One would be hard pressed to find differences between the foreign policies of the current and former administrations regarding Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, etc...
LOL. I think you get the point, but maybe my experiences were different than yours. Of course, one has to be willing to reach out to others to break the ice, which seems to be SPC Tuttle's intent. If one chooses to patrol as a silent, heavily-armed American ignoring the locals, then all one will experience is a resentful populace. I've also witnessed some attempt to employ that ugly American tactic, and then wonder why they were resented.
I hope you give the SPC credit for at least wanting to try.
"so" = "show"
Do well, so compassion, and keep a journal.
Yes, Empyrean, they are. Most aren't Taliban. Most don't take their faith any more seriously than most Americans. Most have the same basic concerns as most of us (e.g., providing for their families, rearing the children to be good people (i.e., not Taliban), and doing what it takes to survive in a very harsh environment). Once you demonstrate that you're a person of honor, most of them are quite hospitable. Most are no more corrupt than your average American. Their politicians are corrupt and don't have their best interests at heart, kind of sounds like ours. I'll be happy to go on if you need me to.
People aren't as different as we often like to think they are.
Good story, but a "soldier" proudly serves in the Army, "airman" proudly serves in the Air Force, and a "sailor" proudly serves in the Navy.
Good story, but a "soldier" proudly serves in the Army, "airman" proudly serves in the Air Force, and a "sailor" proudly serves in the Navy.
Instant access to information through the many gadgets can also be a great hindrance to education. Why learn something if you can just Google it or read a short Wiki article and turn yourself into a pseudo-expert? Why waste time retaining it and examining it from different perspectives and formulating your own opinion when you have instant access to an opinion that agrees with what you think? What appears to be missing is the laying of a solid foundation that will allow students to grow into critical thinkers, which probably explains why we see so many citizens willing to follow shallow arguments dished out by both extremes of the political spectrum rather than examining them from different perspectives and making up their own minds. It probably also helps explain why about a quarter of our military age men and women cannot pass a basic military entrance exam.
On another note: some of the posters are talking about slide rules as though they are a bad thing. They are a much better teaching aid for things like logarithms, ratios, etc than calculators.
Here's a bit of irony: the editorial staff argues that "a critical piece of our culture, a source of knowledge..." shouldn't be handed out to school students. (Insert chuckle here.) I'm sure enterprising Gideons can find a suitable location near the school where they can hand out critical pieces of our culture and sources of knowledge.
Thank you for proving my point.
I�ll leave it to others to read our posts and determine for themselves whose viewpoint is closer to the truth.
I wish you well.
As BB777 pointed out, you are a brother, so I'll lend you a hand. There never was a case of soldiers raping a 6-year-old Iraqi girl. However, there was a case of soldiers raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family. This is probably the case to which you were referring. (It was an unconscionable act, regardless of her age.) And yes, military personnel have committed or are alleged to have committed other dishonorable atrocities, but those acts are very few in number and involve a very few service members (less than one percent).
I�m sure we both agree that such disgusting incidents like this happen in every war and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Our difference: one of us admits they do happen, but that such heinous acts are few in number and should be prosecuted; the other attempts to give the impression that such acts are relatively commonplace.
I would simply ask you to not be so quick to jump on the �Our troops intentionally killed Innocent kids, women, old people�� bandwagon. It�s my opinion that our service members deserve the presumption that their service is/was honorable, unless we have concrete proof otherwise; just as I have assumed that your father�s, son�s, uncle�s, cousin�s and your service was honorable.
Thank you for your service.
Just watched "The Panama Deception." Good stuff. It ranks right up there with the 9-11-was-an-inside-job and the holocaust-never-happened videos. Just enough truth sprinkled throughout to make it seem credible to those that want to believe it represents the truth.
Believe what you want.
If you need more proof than his rant above, here's a rant of his posted on 5/24/09:
"My thoughts this day will go out to the unarmed Iraqi family killed by U.S. Troops and the rape and murder of their 6 year old daughter after her unarmed family was murdered. After the rape they just shot the 6 year old in the head
The excuse given by the soldiers Komrade? "We are trained killers. "This is what we do when there is lack of leadership"
I'll instead fly my flag of shame."
Imaging this, I doubt that he had proof of soldiers raping a 6-year-old girl, or the excuse he mentions.
But he did have time to take umbrage with my statement that 99 percent of military personnel serving in Iraq serve with honor. He apparently disagreed, but once again failed to provide proof otherwise. He must think that more than 1 percent commit the types of attrocities that he spews (i.e., more than 1,000 a year given that there are about 100,000 troops rotating through per year).
There have been a few attrocities, which have been/are being prosecuted, but more than 1,000 per year...not even close.
Here it is in a nutshell--I know he doesn't have the proof because one us was there.
Kanehbosem (a.k.a. Cannabis) made wildly unsubstantiated allegations. It's up to him to provide proof.
If he provides proof (which he won't because he doesn't have it), I'll contact the appropriate authorities. I suspect that the best he'll be able to do is a link to an extremist website or maybe a youtube clip.
Kanehbosem has a habit of making wild allegations, particularly involving the military, without providing proof. (I.e., he lacks intellectual honesty.)
I'll defend his right to say anything he wants, but that doesn't mean that I have to remain silent.
So, where is that proof of the mass murders (women, children, etc) in Panama, Kanehbosem?
Please share the specifics. I served more than two decades and missed all the briefs and training that led to us being "mass murdering machine[s]."
"Our troops intentionally killed Innocent kids, women, old people, up to 15 mass graves where the usa killed people, old, young, women, with hands and feet bound, and bulldozed them into the ground." --Another ignorant lie. Please provide your best proof. (Yes, the burden of proof in on you, the accuser.)
Those of us that were actually there (obviously not you) would like to know what we missed.
Now, where is that proof? I would be happy to start the investigation/prosecution of the perpetrator(s). Let me save you the time...you...don't...have...any...because it didn't happen.
Go back to your extremist, conspiracy theory websites and quit slandering those that served and still serve with honor.
(Take just a second to think about what this country would be like if we were the mass murderers you believe us to be. If that were true, I/we would be hunting and not typing.)
Learn to formulate balanced opinions based on facts before you slander entire communities of honorable citizens for the acts of a few. Your posts imply that the military is made up of men and women who rape little girls, kill their families and commit other atrocities as a matter of routine. You couldn't be farther from the truth. First of all, your details of the one incident that did take place, and was prosecuted, are in error (6 years old?)--researching your rants before posting will help your credibility.
Second, 99% of military members serve with honor, those that don't are prosecuted--as were the few soldiers involved in this case--but you failed to point that out.
It disappoints me that as an adult you haven't learned the value of formulating factual and balanced opinions; instead you rely on the emotion-driven, extremist drivel displayed in your posts.
Yes, I served in Iraq, and unlike you I actually have a clue as to what American troops were and are really doing there.
Quick, run to your extremist website and throw together a witty retort...maybe throw in "mindless automatons" or "crusaders" or "Nazis" (nevermind, you've used that one)


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Ella Mae Bentley, 98, of Johnson City, died Monday, September 16, 2013, at the Appalachian Christian Village.
She was a native of Johnson City, daughter of the late James Madison and Vergie Dulaney Garst Bowman.
Ella was a homemaker and had worked at the Leon Ferenbach Textile Mill, J.C. Penney and The Remnant Shop. Following her retirement she volunteered at the Johnson City Medical Center.
She was the oldest member of the Austin Springs United Methodist Church. Ella was valedictorian of her class at Boones Creek High School.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 27 years, Howard Bentley, in 1962; also a sister, Ileene Hardin; and two brothers, Clarence and Clyde Bowman; and nephew, Randy Bowman.
Survivors include: two daughters and a son-in-law, Nancy and Jack Patrick and Margaret "Jo" Bentley, all of Johnson City; two grandsons, Howard Patrick, of Johnson City, and James Patrick and his wife, Stacey, of Greenville, SC; three great granddaughters, Elizabeth, Ella and Ava; three great great grandchildren, David, Aaron and Mileena; three nieces, Teresa, Judy and Martha; three nephews, Ronnie, Jimmy and Lewis; several great nieces and nephews.
A funeral service is scheduled for Friday, September 20, 2013, at 8:00 p.m. in the South Chapel of the Morris-Baker Funeral Home under the direction of Rev. Jeff Moncier and Rev. Bill Wells.
The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until time of service at 8:00 p.m.
A committal service will be conducted on Saturday at the Monte Vista Memorial Park at 11:00 a.m. Pallbearers will be selected from family and friends. Those attending may assemble at Morris-Baker Funeral Home to leave in procession by 10:40 a.m.
The family would like to offer special thanks to the Staff of the Appalachian Christian Village Nursing Wing for their excellent care.
Memorials may be made to the Austin Springs United Methodist Church, 726 Austin Springs Road, Johnson City, TN 37601.
Online condolences are available at: www.morrisbaker.com.
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The Diigo page would look a lot better if the bookmarks that are posted have a small picture/image/thumbnail to the left of the link, rather than the profile picture of the person who posted it. It gets repetitive/redundant to see that person's picture/image over and over again. Instead, having a small image of what you're about to see on the website/bookmark gives you a sense of what you'll see if you decide to click on it. It is much more informative and useful and adds diversity to the look of the page.
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Edmodo does this really well. Alternatively, a thumbnail option as with FB where it picks up images from the website and allows you to choose a representative thumbnail or none.Ideally all three options as not all webpages are visually-compelling as thumbnails.
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Having a thumbnail of the bookmarked site can be a lifesaver. User experience wise.... having an avatar there isn't as meaningful as putting a website bookmarked thumbnail. I hope your developer team is really considering this in their discussions.
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Maintaining and conserving the Port Arthur Historic Site, with its range of colonial-era structures, requires that some very traditional trades be kept alive. Over the past couple of weeks, some of those skills have been demonstrated to visitors as part of the Tasmanian Heritage Festival.Port Arthur staff member Rohan George demonstrated traditional stonemasonry skills as part of a project to repair a sandstone wall adjacent to the Separate Prison. While he now works in conservation project management, Rohan is a stonemason by trade and was delighted to be able to give visitors an insight into convict-era construction methods.Sandstone for Port Arthur's buildings was originally quarried near the Site; replacement blocks were selected from a quarry in the north of the State to closely match the colour of the originals. Rohan then carefully chiselled and shaped the blocks to give their machine-cut appearance a hand-hewn look to match the original stones.For more information about conservation at the Port Arthur Historic Site, visit our website.
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Bike Accidents and In Fiore Balm
I took up a new sport recently, bought myself an extravagant birthday gift, a carbon-fiber TREK road bike, and became a cyclist-in-training.
Since I no longer own a car, biking seemed like a great way to get around and have weekend adventures on breathtaking back roads around the Bay Area. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity and explore my dream of doing a century ride (100 miles) through Marin or Big Sur.
While I am known for big dreams, unfortunately, my visions of Lance Armstrong riding up beside me, telling me I had great form and asking me if I wanted to ride with him, came to a screeching halt when I had a close encounter with a cement wall a week ago.
At that tail end of a 50 mile biking weekend around Marin County with my good friend, Jessica, I had a nasty crash.
We had just taken a yoga class to tend to our sore muscles, still adjusting to biking long distances. Biking home, we crossed a narrow path on a cement bridge (that I should have been, as the signs suggested, walking my bike on). On the downhill section of the bridge I had problems with my left foot clipping into my pedal (clip-ins, by the way, are the main cause of falls for new bikers).
You guessed it, I bit the dust. But before I landed squarely on my rear, I managed to slide along the cement wall. My mouth hit first then my chest, which was clad only in a yoga tank top. I got road rash and deep abrasions from my nose, upper lip, chin all the way down my chest and a gash on my left hip. I am blessed that I didn't break my nose or lose any teeth. I thank my lucky stars.
But, I'll be honest, it wasn't pretty and after a full day in bed, I was on a mission to make sure my ghastly scabs didn't become scars.
Just over a week later, my face is seriously, almost magically, back to normal with only a slight amount of pinkness. Here's what worked for me…
Get Your Rest
Sleep and relaxation is key so your body can focus on healing.
Homeopathic Remedies
Arnica and Rescue Remedy should be taken for shock and pain. When you feel better, you heal faster.
Drink Lots of Fluids
Your body must be hydrated internally to heal externally. What you do on the inside supports what happens on the outside. It's just that simple. Drink lots of water, herbal tea to hydrate and pineapple juice for extra healing enzymes.
Get enough vitamins internally. I took two packets of Emergen-C per day.
Keep it Clean and Dry
Until the wounds dry out, keep them clean and uncovered as much as possible and only apply antibiotic cream at this point. Minimizing the possibility of infection is critical for speedy healing.
Hydration and Regeneration
Once the wounds are drying out, apply In Fiore's Fleur Vibrante to hydrate and regenerate your skin. Alternately, between applications of Fleur Vibrante, apply Aloe Vera gel (100% pure only). Once the scabs begin to fall off, continue to apply Fleur Vibrante at least once a day and at night.
Protect New Skin
Wear sunscreen on the new skin which is extra sensitive and more likely to hyper-pigment.
Be healed,
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Carrie Stone, CMT
I am seriously out of the loop. I had no idea you had taken such a fall. I am thankful that you had the presence of mind to care so thoroughly for yourself and share your remedies with us. Taking time to care for ourselves and rest are the hardest things for my clients (and myself) to do. Thorough physical rehabilitation and energetic re-balancing after any injury ensures that we have more endurance and enthusiasm to play later. I will definitely share this blog with my clients and friends. Cheers, Carrie


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Some residents of tragic Bremerton apartment fire return
BREMERTON — The fire that took the life of a woman Tuesday at a Bremerton apartment complex continued to have lives in turmoil Wednesday.
Allison Camacho, whose apartment is one of just a couple that still has power in the Madrona Estates Apartment Community building that caught fire Tuesday, returned home Wednesday and went looking for neighbors.
"I couldn't not come and check on these guys," Camacho said.
Almost everyone is gone. Three families were given hotel vouchers by the American Red Cross for Christmas Eve. At least three other families joined the housing list when power still was not returned to their apartments Christmas Day.
Kimberly Nelson, a single mother of three young boys, received a voucher Christmas night after staying with members of her extended family Christmas Eve.
Nelson said that earlier this month she was forced to leave her home near St. Helens, Ore., and had only lived at the Madrona Estates Apartment Community since Dec. 11. On Tuesday, she was one of several who was displaced by the fire that took the life of a woman said to be in her 70s.
The Kitsap Sun is not releasing the woman's name until the Kitsap County Coroner's Office makes it official. Coroner's officials said Wednesday that they would not positively identify the woman until after an autopsy, which was scheduled for Thursday.
Nelson and Camacho had fond memories of the woman and said she had a Christmas tree in the window of her apartment.
Camacho, who was 11 when she lost her own mother and a 6-year-old sister in 1994 in a fire in their Bremerton home, stayed with friends on Christmas Eve but was able to return to her apartment that night to recover her 8-year-old son's Christmas presents and to turn off the oven that had been cooking a turkey that day at 200 degrees.
On Wednesday, she returned to stay. She went looking for neighbors and found Nelson, who early Wednesday was unaware the Red Cross was willing to help.
By Christmas night, the courtyard of the building Camacho lives in was oppressively dark, with most of the power still out. Camacho connected a freezer in Nelson's apartment to power in her apartment through an extension cord.
Red Cross volunteers, along with volunteers from the Salvation Army, were there Tuesday to take care of families who needed help. Three families received hotel vouchers from the Red Cross.
Three more families contacted the Red Cross earlier Wednesday, because their power had not been restored, and also received hotel vouchers. Nelson finally reached the Red Cross in the evening and received a voucher for her family as well.
Colin Downey, Red Cross spokesman, said anyone displaced by the fire is invited to call the organization for assistance at 360-377-3761. "We're there for whatever they need," he said.
Bremerton Fire Department officials have yet to release a determination of the cause of the fire.
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