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Joseph Chermesino - EcoTeas
A conversation about the beginnings of a grass-roots company with an unique ethos, the growing popularity of yerba mate and why it may be the next big thing.
Yerba mate is quite an obscure concept for the average consumer, yet is continuously gaining in popularity. What are some of the features of yerba mate and how does it differ from the usual varieties of tea?
Botanically speaking, yerba mate is not related to Camellia sinensis (Asian tea) at all. A member of the holly family, yerba mate is known to botanists as Ilex paraguariensis. It grows as a small understory tree in the subtropical forests of eastern Paraguay, northern Argentina, and southern Brazil.
Yerba mate has a rich history of use by the indigenous Guarani people of the region. The Guarani first developed the method of pouring hot water over dried yerba mate leaves in a hollow gourd and sipping the infusion through a filter-tipped bamboo straw called a bombilla (bom-bee-ya). European colonists learned to drink mate from the Guarani in the 16th century. For millions of South Americans, sharing yerba mate with a bombilla 'traditional-style' has come to symbolize hospitality, friendship, and cultural identity.
Although yerba mate is technically an herbal tea or tisane, it does contain caffeine. The level of caffeine varies greatly depending on the method of preparation. A brewed cup of yerba mate contains slightly less caffeine than a typical cup of black tea. However, these levels increase dramatically when yerba mate is prepared 'traditional-style' with a bombilla.
It's important to note that yerba mate contains a medley of the three forms of caffeine found in coffee, green tea, and chocolate (caffeine, theophyllene, and theobromine, respectively). In addition, yerba mate supplies abundant B vitamins and minerals. Many people find the stimulation from mate less edgy and more physical than coffee or tea. Partly due to its appetite-suppressant qualities, yerba mate is often touted as a weight-loss aid.
Yerba mate is a rich source of antioxidants. The ORAC value of a cup of EcoTeas mate is 60% higher than an average cup of green tea.
The taste of yerba mate has been described as bitter or smoky. Some people find it objectionable, especially at first. However, brewing mate requires a bit of skill. To brew good mate, avoid using boiling water (170F / 75C is perfect), moisten the herb with cool water first, and steep for no longer than five minutes. When these instructions are followed, mate tastes great. The flavor is like green tea with gumption. Also, EcoTeas yerba mate is dried with warm air instead of the usual smoke, and this imparts a cleaner unsmoked flavor that many people prefer at first taste.
EcoTeas is a grassroots company on a niche market. How did you get into this business and what were some of the key steps in your company's development in recent years?
We started EcoTeas in the kitchen of a small house in Ashland, Oregon back in March of 2000. It was originally Stefan Schachter's idea to found a company to spread the availability of organically grown yerba mate in the US. He had learned about the tea while volunteering in Paraguay as a teenager.
Early on, he enlisted the help of long-time friends Brendan Girard and myself. Brendan was a social worker at the time, and I was a high-school English teacher. We shared a passion for organic gardening and healthy living. We blended teas in our back yard and served mate at regional farmers' markets and music festivals. In June of 2000, we acquired our first wholesale account in a local grocery store. We soon found ourselves traveling up and down the west coast of the U.S. promoting our brand in natural food stores.
The next leap forward came when we formed an exclusive partnership with the Kraus family farm in Misiones, Argentina. Their unique 'unsmoked' yerba mate was simply the best we'd ever tasted. It had a vibrant flavor and a rich, mellow body. The Kraus farm invested in us in the form of two full container loads of yerba mate, which was enough raw material to launch what turned out to be our top-selling product, a one-pound bag of pure leaf yerba.
We had witnessed the success of the loose-tea format in Argentine grocery stores, but even we were taken aback by the incredible success of this product in North America. The US tea market is largely driven by tea bags, but our loose one-pounder now ranks consistently among the top-selling tea products in the natural products industry nationwide. We still encounter skeptics in the industry who don't believe that our loose tea can succeed in their stores, but a brief glance at the numbers usually changes their minds. By streamlining our operation and maintaining focus, we've been able to offer a unique combination of value and quality that really appeals to the natural food shopper.
We've recently been pleased to achieve official recognition for our fair trade business practices. Swiss-based IMO (Institute for Marketecology) visited our farm, audited our books, and granted us their 'Fair for Life' status. We consider this a key achievement as we seek to keep pace with the evolving natural tea market. The USDA organic label has lost some of its luster in recent years, so we knew we needed to provide our customers with additional assurances that our tea is grown in a way that is sustainable and responsible. 'Fair for Life' was a great opportunity to do just that.
As you have pointed out, a major trend in the tea industry is convenience, with tea bags and ready-to-drink beverages dominating the market. Is yerba mate suited for this role and, alternatively, how can the category evolve to satisfy this need?
Actually, yerba mate is an ideal ingredient for the ready-to-drink energy beverage category. It is unique among stimulants for its 'triple-punch' of nutrition, antioxidants, and balanced physical stimulation. In the current functional beverage environment, it's only a matter of time before yerba mate awareness explodes in this country the way it has in South America.
Rather than getting into the complex business of selling bottled teas, we made a conscious decision from the beginning to become active in the supply business. To meet this need, we currently maintain a large quantity of 40-pound bags of our signature pure-leaf, unsmoked yerba mate in a warehouse in California. We also import full container loads of yerba mate of a variety of cuts, ages, and drying/roasting methods and ship directly to manufacturing plants.
Beverage manufacturers choose our yerba mate supply for a host of reasons. Our pure leaf cut is not only potent, it is also very clean and dust-free. Meanwhile, our unsmoked taste is versatile and neutral. We are also 100% certified organic, fair trade, and kosher. We have an active reforestation program creating shade and protecting biodiversity, and of course we give our customers full access to this positive marketing story. At this point we have a decade of experience importing yerba mate from Argentina.
As the category evolves to include the bigger players, we'd love to maintain the association that yerba mate has with organic agriculture, fair trade, and rainforest restoration. Like chocolate and coffee, yerba mate can be grown in so many ways, from small subsistence plots to huge mechanized operations with lots of agricultural chemicals. Unlike those two major commodities, yerba mate has acquired a reputation from the outset in our country as an ecological tea. As awareness of yerba mate continues to expand, we intend to do all we can to keep yerba mate's product integrity intact.
The story behind EcoTeas is very inspiring. What are some of the features that distinguish EcoTeas from other players on the market and how do you foresee the companys vision developing in the future in terms of business practices, product innovations, marketing and other initiatives?
Thanks for the encouraging words! In the day-to-day grind of running a business, it can be easy to forget all the grace we've received along the way.
As far as what distinguishes EcoTeas, I believe we have a unique combination of common traits. For instance, lots of companies sell organic and fair trade teas. Likewise, many companies focus on providing high-quality loose teas. There are also quite a few tea companies that aim to attract customers through everyday low pricing. Some of these 'EDLP' brands may even state as an explicit point in their marketing plan that they want to be on people's shopping lists the same way that people buy eggs, milk, or bread. However, I don't know of too many other brands that combine all these traits into one product line the way we have. That's what makes us unique.
To elaborate, we would rather see our products in 10 shopping baskets than 100 gift baskets. Have you ever noticed how gift-oriented loose teas often migrate to the dark back corners of cupboards where they slowly go stale until they finally get thrown out when people move? I have no desire to see my own products languishing back there among the bamboo canisters of oolong and macha that sell for $20 an ounce! It's no wonder the market is dominated by tea bags and bottles when the alternatives are so expensive and obscure. We want to bring tea to the masses in a healthy, sustainable, affordable way.
Going forward, we want to do more of the same. We want to continue to increase the presence of our top-selling one-pounder. It's the kind of product that really ought to be everywhere coffee or tea is sold. We are systematically switching to compostable packaging for our entire product line. We are also excited to continue to supply the rest of the tea industry with yerba mate for all their tea bag and bottled beverage needs.
Sustainable practices are very important to EcoTeas. How do such initiatives tangibly contribute to improve the conditions of plantation workers and the environment?
This is a great question. I think about it a lot, actually. If fair trade certification doesn't produce tangible results for the workers and the environment, it's just a hollow logo affixed to the front of package labels. We're glad to finally achieve the certification, but we can't be complacent now that we have it.
First of all, the fair trade model provides farmers not only with a better price, but also a guaranteed price. Before they even start planting, farmers know exactly what they will be paid for their goods. Farmers working outside the fair trade model must often contend with fluctuating prices on the world market. This makes it very difficult to run a successful operation, pay employees, invest in the future, etc. With stabilized pricing, our farmers can turn their attention to growing the best yerba mate in the world.
We also provide our farmers with technical assistance for certifications and logistics. We have helped them acquire more land and expand their organic certification to this land. With our assistance they built a new warehouse to age their tea. Our farmers themselves have contributed to the construction of a local school and health clinic for their workers. Rather than treating our farmers like mere producers of an ingredient, we see the relationship as a long-term, mutually-beneficial collaboration. As they thrive, so do we.
A new innovation that arose through the certification process was the development of a special fair trade fund. A portion of the sale of each kilo of tea we purchase from our farmers goes directly into a special fund for the workers. The workers actually get to vote on how this fund will be used. For my part, I'm super curious to see how this fund bears fruit in the coming years!
The final piece of our fair trade puzzle is our reforestation program. We plant thousands of diverse native trees on our partner farm each year. These trees provide shade, protect soil, enhance biodiversity, and generate additional income through fruit and timber. We've experienced a steep learning curve about what, when, where, and how to plant, but we've had some great assistance from universities and NGO's along the way.
When you consider it from a broad perspective, fair trade is more than simply a cost of doing business in the natural marketplace. It's an investment in a superior product from an assured long-term source.
And from your company's perspective, how has the interest in Fair Trade and Organic products, which usually carry a heftier price tag, been impacted by the economic downturn?
I don't think anyone has really thrived in the recession, but the natural products industry has weathered it better than many other industries. In general, the economic downturn slowed the expansion of natural products into new demographics that have not traditionally enjoyed them. We saw fewer new store openings. Foot traffic in existing stores seemed to slow a bit. Meanwhile, many of our supply customers grew cautious about launching new products. A major supply customer of ours actually went out of business due to their inability to find new sources of venture capital during the height of the crunch.
Fortunately, the recession didn't really hurt us among our core customers. Due to our pricing structure, product format, and explicit brand message, our products generally appeal to the segment of the natural market that is deeply committed to the organic lifestyle. These are not people who are exploring organic foods because they recently read an article about growth hormones in milk, for instance. Our core demographic is younger, more highly motivated, and less affluent to begin with than the new wave of natural shoppers. They hold a deep concern for the health of their bodies and the planet. They likely grew enthusiastic about natural foods while they were still adolescents or in college, and at this point natural foods are an integral component of their identity. The economy would have to get a lot worse for these folks to give up on organics.
Our sales actually stayed steady during the recession. We didn't grow as quickly as we had been growing, but the slow-down gave us a chance to catch our breath, tighten our business model, and get ready for the next big growth spurt.
Looking ahead, how do you see the Yerba Mate market evolving several years from now both domestically and internationally? What trends will drive the market?
I have no doubt that yerba mate is going to continue to expand in popularity in this country and beyond. It has so much going for it, and it appeals to so many different people for different reasons.
Yerba mate has been flying under the radar in the US for decades. It has gained a firm foothold in US college towns, urban centers, and other progressive bastions. In the coming months and years, ready to drink beverages are going to help yerba mate spread beyond this core into the suburbs. I bet we see it showing up as a stand-alone or flagship ingredient in bottled tea flavors from the major conventional brands in the next few years. Also, I foresee big growth in yerba mate powder used as an ingredient in supplements for weight loss and natural energy.
A lot of this initial growth is going to leave our EcoTeas brand behind, but we're excited to help supply the companies that do expand into these niches. And as the ready-to-drink and supplement sectors expand, we'll be there to provide high-quality loose yerba to the recently converted.
Combining his love of healthy living, travel, and organic agriculture, Stefan Schachter founded EcoTeas in the year 2000 in the kitchen of a small house in Ashland, Oregon. EcoTeas' winning formula of great price, superior quality, and unwavering commitment to organic agriculture and fair trade has propelled their one pound bag of yerba mate into the upper echelons of the US natural tea market. Year after year, it consistently ranks among the top-selling organic tea SKUs in the nation.
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The Hound was somewhat of a prankster in days of old, but he never panicked a school like what two geeks did on Halloween. And for that, the geeks have been charged.
The Hound hopes they make these kids examples of what happens when you "joke" around on the World Wide Web and issue terrorist threats. While Jeremie Dalin, 17, of Fox River Grove didn't really specifiy which of the nation's four Stevenson High Schools where "many will die on 10/31", educators, police, students and parents were concerned enough at the Lincolnshire school. Parents flooded Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire police departments with concerned calls.
Dalin was charged by Lincolnshire police with making a terrorist threat after federal officials took a pass. The charge carries up to 15 years in prison. The other brain trust is Dennis Oh, also 17, of Buffalo Grove and a Stevenson student who spread the alleged Internet threat. He's been charged with obstructing a peace officer.
While it's doubtful either will see any extended jail time, the real punishment should be keeping them away from computers for an extended period of time --- like a decade. For these guys, that would be like being in jail. Think about them not being able to access YouTube or MySpace or any number of sites they visit on a daily basis. The horror!
Wouldn't that truly be criminal? The Hound challenges a judge to do just that if they are found guilty. Talk about a chance at creative sentencing.


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The Baldwin County doctor that treated former Alabama football players with adult stem cells also has treated at least two people diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
One of the ALS patients, former NFL football player and college coach Frank Orgel, recently underwent a new stem cell reprogramming technique performed by Dr. Jason R. Williams at Precision StemCell in Gulf Shores.
Former NFL football player and college coach Frank Orgel has been struggling with ALS for about eight years. (photo courtesy Precision StemCell)
Before the injections, Orgel's health had declined. He could not move his left arm or leg. He couldn't walk or stand on his own, he said.
Within a few days of having the stem cell treatment, Orgel's constant muscle twitching diminished, said Bob Hubbard, director of stem cell therapy at the practice. Within weeks, he was able to walk in a pool of water and stand unassisted.
"I think it's helped me," said Orgel, who was a defensive coordinator at Auburn under former head coach Pat Dye. "I'm walking in the pool and I used to drag my feet. Now my left leg is picking up."
ALS is a progressive neuro-degenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to death, according to the ALS Association.
Stem cells, sometimes called the body's master cells, are precursor cells that develop into blood, bones and organs, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates their use. Their promise in medicine, according to many scientists and doctors, is that the cells have the potential to help and regenerate other cells.
While Williams' treatments are considered investigational, he has said, they meet FDA guidelines because the stem cells are collected from a patient's fat tissue and administered back to that patient during the same procedure.
Orgel, 74, said Williams told him it would take between eight months to a year for his nerves to regrow. He is traveling to Gulf Shores from his home in Albany, Ga., this weekend for another stem cell treatment, Orgel said: "I need to get to where I can walk."
In recent years, Orgel has gone to Mexico at least three times for different types of treatments, not sanctioned in the U.S. At least once, he said, he had placenta cells injected into his body. "That didn't work," Orgel said. "I didn't feel any better."
These days, he's lifting weights and swimming twice a week as part of a physical therapy regimen.
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The technique performed on Orgel is called InVivo reprogramming, Hubbard said, which is described as reprograms adult stem cells into neural stem cells.
The procedure involves harvesting adult stem cells from the patient's own fat, which Williams obtains through liposuction. Then, he uses image-guided therapy to insert the stem cells into the patient's spine.
The patient is prescribed an oral medication that, as laboratory research has shown, causes stem cells to reprogram, converting them into neural stem cells, according to a written statement from the Gulf Shores medical practice.
Because of their experimental nature, stem cell injections to remedy conditions such as damaged knee joints or injured muscles are not covered by insurance. A typical stem cell therapy with Williams costs about $15,000. The collection of the cells through liposuction, he has said, makes up about half of the overall price.
Williams, a board-certified radiologist, said in a previous Press-Register interview that he spent about four years researching various stem cell therapies, including those collected from bone marrow. He said that the adult stem cells derived from fat tissue seemed to bring fewer chances for complications.
Harvesting stem cells from a patient's own fat removes the need to culture cells, Williams said earlier this year, explaining that culturing stem cells can be a weeks-long process that may expose patients to risks such as infection.
In recent years, professional athletes such as Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and New York Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon, among dozens of others, have acknowledged seeking stem cell injections outside the U.S. to try to help heal injuries.
FDA urges caution
Earlier this year, the FDA issued a consumer warning about claims regarding stem cells. In it, Stephanie Simek, deputy director of the FDA's Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies, said that stem cells from bone marrow or blood are routinely used in transplant procedures to treat cancer and disorders of the blood and immune system.
The document cautioned consumers, however, to make sure that stem cell therapy treatments have been approved by the FDA or are being studied under a clinical investigation allowed to proceed by the agency. "There is a potential safety risk when you put cells in an area where they are not performing the same biological function as they were when in their original location in the body," Simek said.
Cells in a different environment may multiply, form tumors, or may migrate elsewhere in the body from the spot where they were placed, according to the FDA warning.
While several dozen clinical trials involving various forms of stem cell therapies are under way or have been announced around the world, few have included adult stem cells found in fat tissue.
Williams has said that universities and research groups have been slow to move forward because research funding tends to steer toward new drug therapies. He said that he is up front with his patients, telling them that results cannot be predicted.
"This new technique of InVivo reprogramming shows great promise for possibly repairing or regenerating nerve cells," Williams said in a written statement. "That means it may open up opportunities for treating several neural conditions such as spinal cord injury, stroke, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease."
Williams said the new technique has been shown to help increase the number of neural stem cells that are transferred back into a patient.
"We are hopeful this will indeed help us heal or regrow nerve cells," Williams said. "However, it is still too soon to really know."
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Stroke patients see improvements after stem cell trial
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The first patients to take part in a clinical trial of a stem cell treatment for stroke have seen reductions in their disability, according to doctors.
Six patients in the west of Scotland had human stem cells inserted close to the damaged part of their brain.
After receiving the treatment, they saw improvements in the limb weakness they suffered as a result of their stroke.
Howeve, doctors have cautioned against reading too much into the early results of the clinical trial.
It is the world's first trial of a neural stem cell therapy for stroke.
Stroke is the third largest cause of death and the single largest cause of adult disability in the developed world.
The trial is being conducted at the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, and is being led by Glasgow University neurologist Professor Keith Muir.
He said: "So far we've seen no evidence of any harmful effects. We're dealing with a group of people a long time after a stroke with significant disability and we don't really expect these patients to show any change over time.
"So it's interesting to see that in all the patients so far they have improved slightly over the course of their involvement in the study."
Patients had human stem cells inserted near the damaged part of the brain
Professor Keith Muir was intrigued by the results
All six patients suffered a stroke six months to five years before they were recruited to the trial, and all had been left with limb weakness.
The patients were assessed using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.
Prior to the study, the first five patients had a median score of eight. Three months after treatment their median score had fallen to four.
The sixth patient was treated less than three months ago. Six further patients will be treated as part of this Phase 1 trial.
Professor Muir said he was "intrigued" by the early results.
He added: "We know that if you're involved in a trial you are going to see patients change in behaviour, particularly if you're doing something invasive, so we need to be very cautious indeed in interpreting these results.
"However, that said, it is not something we'd anticipated seeing in this group of patients."
Further trials are needed to establish whether stem cells actually help the brain repair damaged tissue.
Michael Hunt, chief executive officer of the company developing the treatment, ReNeuron, said: "The clinical trial is primarily a safety study and we must therefore treat any of the observed early indications of functional benefit with considerable caution at this stage.
"That said, we remain encouraged by the results seen in the study to date and we look forward to providing further updates."
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Now 13, he is still getting better and better.
Lisa Biermann has been dedicated to the improvement of her son's quality of life. Thus far, she has experienced the miracle of hearing her son speak, as well as many other accomplishments, after she was told he would never be able to perform everyday tasks.
Tyler Biermann is a lot like other sixth grade boys. He loves working on his computer, playing video games, riding a bike and watching television. He has a silly sense of humor and is very curious about the world around him.
What makes Tyler so very special is the great physical hurdles he has overcome in the past 12 years of his life to be able to do the things that most boys his age seem to do so effortlessly.
When Tyler was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, causing a lack of oxygen to his brain that led to Tyler suffering a stroke during delivery. The stroke caused damage to the back of Tyler's brain. Tyler was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and his mother, Lisa Biermann, was told to expect the worst: a child who would never walk, talk, or have any chance at a normal life.
Lisa refused to give up hope. She tried everything she could to help Tyler. Tyler could not walk because his feet would not sit flat on the floor. She tried botox injections every three months, braces, casts and even ankle cord surgery. Nothing worked.
Lisa said Tyler could not communicate with her at all. She never knew when he was in pain because he was unable to tell her.
Tyler was considered to be blind, with a prescription that was over nine units nearsighted, and his eyes jumped around. Even with glasses, he could not focus his vision, and doctors did not believe he could see, or ever would see.
Until he was 8 years old, Lisa would carry Tyler from his classes at Woodland Park Elementary.
When Tyler was 8, he had a seizure. A USA stem cell doctor heard about Tyler and offered to help him with umbilical cord stem cell therapy. Lisa said she thought hard about it, and because she had tried everything else and nothing had worked, she decided to try the stem cell therapy, which she was assured (correctly) that it had no serious side effects.
In December 2007, Lisa took Tyler to Mexico for the treatment, which had to be done in Tijuana because stem cells injection was not legal in the United States.
Nor is it today, five years later. Nor will it be anytime this decade, according to Don Margolis . Three months later, they went for a second injection.
The stem cells were given to Tyler intravenously for a period of approximately 45 minutes.
Lisa said within weeks, she saw monumental changes in Tyler. All the milestones he never reached as a baby, he began reaching.
Within three months Tyler could put his feet flat on the floor and could walk independently. At six months post-treatment, he no longer needed the painful braces that gave him bunions.
Also within the first three months, Tyler took off his glasses and told Lisa, "no see, Mom." When Lisa took Tyler to the eye doctor, his vision had improved from nine units nearsighted to 5.5. At six months post-treatment he had improved to four units. He is now at about 1 unit nearsighted and his doctor does not believe that he needs to wear his glasses. Even more impressive is that he can communicate and answer questions posed by the eye doctor.
In fact, Tyler, who could not communicate at all before his stem cell treatment, can now say hundreds of words. He can recite the alphabet. Tyler can spell and is even starting to read. He makes the honor roll and has received two spotlight awards from school for his progress.
Tyler helps with household chores, can walk up and down the stairs and pour himself something to drink. In December, he decided that he wanted to ride a bike and could not be discouraged from trying. To her great surprise, Lisa said Tyler not only climbed onto his friend's bike, but he started peddling as well.
There have been setbacks along the way. Last April, Lisa took Tyler to the doctor because his blood pressure was very high. The doctor noticed that Tyler had no pulse in his legs and had an MRI performed.
The MRI showed that Tyler had a rare birth defect. He only had two heart valves and his aorta was pinched. The MRI also showed that Tyler's veins and arteries had formed a web around his heart and major organs to supply them with blood. Lisa credits the stem cells for protecting Tyler's organs.
Tyler had surgery to repair his aorta and has recovered well.
"He improves every single day," Lisa said.
Lisa hopes to take Tyler for another stem cell treatment this summer. She wants everyone to know that there is hope and shares her experiences and links to others' stories on her website,
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Manhattan basketball's Torgrim Sommerfeldt turned to stem cell treatment to get him back on court
Sophomore forward from Norway has Jaspers flying high
Torgrim Sommerfeldt is back on the court for Manhattan after lengthy rehab and stem cell surgery.
From a young age, Torgrim Sommerfeldt set his sights on chasing his sports dream, one that had nothing to do with skiing, bobsledding or speed skating, winter sport staples in his native Drammen, Norway.
The 6-6 Sommerfeldt wanted to follow his two brothers and sister to the United States, soak up the college experience, and play a little college hoops along the way.
"It's been my dream since I was 10 years old, especially to come to America," says Sommerfeldt, a sophomore forward at Manhattan College. "I watched my brothers and sister go to the University of Missouri on track and field scholarships. When I was young I got a taste of what college life was like here and it was something I wanted to experience."
Sommerfeldt didn't know at the time that for his American dream to come true, he would eventually need to turn to a new and, in some circles, controversial, treatment: stem cells.
In early 2009 Sommerfeldt's dream seemed to be taking shape. After opening eyes internationally while playing with Norway's national team and turning some heads with his performance in the 2008 Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Sommerfeldt verbally committed to Wake Forest. A scholarship to an ACC school, two yearly matchups with Duke and North Carolina, playing in arguably the top basketball conference in the nation? Yes, the dream had finally arrived for Sommerfeldt.
Except Sommerfeldt never donned a Wake Forest uniform, never got a chance at showcasing his sweet stroke against Carolina or Coach K. Instead, 2009 was the start of a series of surgeries and medical setbacks that kept Sommerfeldt sidelined for much of the next three years. Six surgeries in all, four on his right knee, two on the left, with bouts of tendinitis and a stress fracture thrown in for good measure.
Wake Forest? It wasn't waiting around.
"They pulled the scholarship," Sommerfeldt says. "They moved on."
Sommerfeldt retreated to Norway, where he took a year off to rest his knees. Only there were more surgeries to come. He suffered from patellar tendinitis in both knees, which prompted procedures to remove parts of the tendon to alleviate the pain.
Still, despite his lack of playing time and mounting surgeries, schools kept tabs on Sommerfeldt.
"Seton Hall and Rutgers had interest, so did Florida International,"
Sommerfeldt says. But former Manhattan coach Barry Rohrssen and his former assistant Scott Adubato instead coaxed him to Riverdale with the hope that once his knees were sound, he could provide the kind of scoring punch that had much larger schools tracking him.
But Sommerfeldt's luck didn't change. He tore the meniscus in his right knee last summer only to rehab once again, and when he finally appeared ready to start the season for the Jaspers last November, a stress fracture put him back on the sidelines.
"It took a while to come back from the meniscus surgery because of all the previous surgeries," Sommerfeldt says. "But when I finally did come back I got the stress fracture. It was so frustrating. I can't really put it into words. I'd finally got into a rhythm and was finally ready to contribute to the team. It was frustrating especially because of such a long period of time without really playing. It was devastating."
The usual protocol of rehabilitation followed. Again.
"He had exhausted almost every other conservative method we could possibly think of," says Dr. Anthony Maddalo, Manhattan's team doctor who doubles as the Rangers' assistant team physician. "He was bothered by chronic patellar tendinitis in both knees, and he had never really recovered from those operations (in Norway). He was in pain constantly. He couldn't walk around campus without pain. We tried physical therapy, ultrasound, types of electric stimulation, exercise and stretching but nothing worked."
With limited options, other than more surgery, Sommerfeldt and Maddalo decided to try something outside the box, a last resort as it were.
They turned to stem cell treatments.
"It really was now or never for me," Sommerfeldt says. "I don't think mentally I could sit out another year."
With that mindset, Maddalo contacted Dr. Steven Victor from Lenox Hill Hospital, who is also CEO of Intellicell BioSciences Inc., in New York City.
Victor's process amounts to harvesting fat cells from a patient and separating stem cells from the fat. It's a procedure similar but not exactly like the one former Yankees pitcher Bartolo Colon underwent prior to the 2011 season.
"What we do is take two ounces of fat from people and then we use our special technology, we use sound waves and water, where we actually separate the stem cells from the fat," Victor says. "Then we return the stem cells to the orthopedic surgeons, in this case Tony Maddalo, and they inject the cells into where the problem is. These cells are actually anti-inflammatory and they increase blood flow and grow new tissue."
Colon's procedure included using the addition of enzymes, which is not approved by the FDA and can only be performed outside the country, according to Victor.
Sommerfeldt's first treatment came in December of 2010, his second one about six weeks later.
Sommerfeldt didn't notice any changes right away and, due to the meniscus surgery and stress fracture, says it was hard to tell when the pain in his knees started to subside.
But after spending almost the entire 2010-11 school year on crutches, Sommerfeldt finally got into his first college game on Jan. 20 when Manhattan played at Marist.
He played just two minutes, didn't score, didn't even take a shot in the Jaspers' 61-44 victory. But that was OK. The dream was finally taking shape again.
"It was fun but it wasn't what I hoped it would be," Sommerfeldt says. "I really wanted to be able to do something out there, but it's a process and I've come to peace with that. I may not be the player I once was, but all I can do is try and get better every day."
The crutches, his constant companion since arriving at Manhattan, have been retired and Sommerfeldt says every day he is making progress, baby steps toward his goal of being a full-time player, the kind of player an ACC school once wanted as its own.
"It was frustrating to feel the pain with every step you take," Sommerfeldt says. "But that part is gone now. Now I can be on the court practicing and doing conditioning without the agony. It's definitely a step forward obviously. A year ago I would never think I'd be at this point. I believe the stem cells helped and I wanted to try it. I wanted to do whatever I needed to do to play again and pursue my dream."
So why does Dr. Maddalo believe it's the stem cell treatment that is finally proving to be the answer to Sommerfeldt's comeback?
"We tried everything and not just for a while," Maddalo says. "There was a year before he got to us and Wake Forest treated him. Then therapy, exercise, nothing had an effect on him. Then we give him two of these treatments and he turns around and starts to be able to be active. That speaks well for the treatment."
Doctors Maddalo and Victor think this treatment will become more prevalent in the sports world.
"Stem cell work is still in its infancy," Maddalo says. "The orthopedic applications are just becoming evident. Everybody read about Bartolo Colon last year and that was one of the orthopedic applications that sort of splashed on the scene and became the buzz of the town and Major League Baseball."
Now Sommerfeldt hopes to make some buzz himself over his last two years and change at Manhattan.
"Of course it crossed my mind that maybe I simply couldn't play anymore but I wasn't ready to give up on my dream," Sommerfeldt says. "If this works, great. If it doesn't I'll walk away knowing I tried everything I could."
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Antony Atala at Wake Forest explains why
To many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. People are often surprised to learn that this notion of harnessing the body's natural regenerative powers isn't new. In fact, aviator Charles Lindbergh did research in this area back in the 1930s in hopes of finding a solution for his ailing sister-in-law. The idea has endured because of the desperate need for replacement organs. Every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with organ or tissue replacement.
Today, regenerative medicine is becoming science fact. In the area of cell therapies, advances include a recent report that cardiac stem cells were able to improve heart function in a small group of patients with heart failure. In the area of tissue engineering -- or growing organs in the lab -- skin, cartilage, bladders, urine tubes, trachea and blood vessels have all been engineered outside the human body and implanted in patients. While these advances are currently helping small groups of patients through clinical trials, the goal of regenerative medicine scientists is to expand the applications of regenerative medicine to a wider range of diseases and also to larger groups of patients.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has called regenerative medicine the "next evolution of medical treatments". With its potential to heal, this new field of science is expected to revolutionize health care. Because of the promise of regenerative medicine, the U.S. military has funded an $85 million effort to develop regenerative medicine treatments for wounded warriors.
Regenerative medicine offers the potential to improve the quality of life for many, but also to combat rising health care costs. Early estimates project that regenerative medicine therapies will result in direct health care cost savings in the United States of $250 billion per year for the chronic diseases of renal failure, heart failure, stroke, diabetes, burn and spinal cord injuries.
In my TED talk, I highlighted some of the work of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. Our team of more than 300 scientists is working on cell therapies and developing replacement tissues and organs for more than 30 different areas of the body.
For example, the talk highlights our still-experimental work to engineer a human kidney. Being able to replace solid organs such as the heart, liver, kidney and pancreas is considered the "holy grail" of tissue engineering. That's why we're pursuing multiple strategies in this area: cell therapies, tissue "inserts" to augment an organ's function, and "printing" replacement organs.
At TED, we demonstrated 3-D printing technology, already used in a variety of industries -- from auto parts to concrete structures. Our goal, or course, is to apply the technology to organs. The project is based on earlier research in which we engineered miniature kidneys using biomaterials and cells. In animals, these structures were shown to be functional, in that they were able to filter blood and produce dilute urine.
This printer, while still experimental, is being explored for organs such as the kidney and structured tissue such as the ear. The ultimate goal is to use patient data, such as from a CT scan, to create a computer model of the organ we want to print. This model would be used to guide the printer as it layer-by-layer prints a replacement organ made up of cells and the biomaterials to hold the cells together.
For me, the real highlight of the TED experience was a reunion with Luke Masella, one of the first patients to receive a lab-engineered organ -- a bladder. Seeing Luke again and hearing about his successes reinforced in my mind the ultimate goal of regenerative medicine -- to make patients better. That in itself makes it an idea worth sharing in 2012 and beyond.
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The El Paso County Sheriff's Office said it was 100 percent contained around 9:30 Wednesday night.
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Elsewhere he may be an useful and profitable member of the commonweal — here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence.
The Abbot, by Sir Walter Scott, 1820.
Somebody who is a makebate is clearly making a bate. The second half survives today in abate and debate; it's from Latin battere, to beat or fight (the first sense of debate in English in medieval times was to quarrel or battle). As a noun, bate described discord that was severe enough to result in a fight.
British readers might think they recognise in this another form of bate, a fit of rage or bad temper, an example of which appeared in the Daily Mail in January 2004: "Shrieking with simulated frustration, Clarkson flew into a bate, picked up a hammer and smashed his desktop to smithereens." But the evidence suggests that this derives from a nineteenth-century respelling of the verb bait, to persecute a person with persistent attacks, so that a person was said to be in a bate as a result of being baited.
Among the other senses of bate, one in particular is known to falconers. A hawk that beats its wings in agitation and flutters off the perch is said to bate. This is ultimately also from Latin battere, but directly from the intermediate French batre, to beat, linked to the verb to batter.
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Republicans remain more enthusiastic than Democrats in voting this year as in 2010, and Independents increased their enthusiasm in both general elections since 2008, according to a new poll by SoonerPoll.com. The phone survey of 305 likely voting Oklahomans show 60% of Independents were more enthusiastic in voting this year than in previous elections, Republicans were 58% and Democrats were 46%. While Independents only make up about five to seven percent of the turnout on Election Day, there may not be much to read into how this will affect the election here in Oklahoma. But,Read More »
For those closely watching the electoral college's movement this year, Oklahoma has never moved from the deepest of red colors. And, today's presidential race results will firmly keep it there. In a survey of 305 likely voters taken by phone Oct 18-24th, 33 percent said they would vote for the re-election of President Barack Obama – a slight improvement from the 29 percent in August who, at that time, said they'd vote for the president. Governor Mitt Romney remained at 58%, with President Obama's gain since August coming from undecided voters, which now sits atRead More »
The simplest way to explain Pres. Barack Obama's unpopularity in Oklahoma is a left-of-center, Harvard-educated, Chicago-politician doesn't fit in with the Okie style of politics. But is it Obama or a symptom of a larger disease wiping out a Democrat's chances of taking Oklahoma's electoral votes? Consider this: Obama's vote percentage in the most recent SoonerPoll was 29%. In comparison to the Tulsa World's Oklahoma Poll results over the last two decades, that's lower than Pres. Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal or Gov. David Walters' midnight court arraignments over campaign finance charges. And yet, PresRead More »
A word of advice for any Oklahoma Democrat running for elected office this year: hide any photos of you with President Barack Obama. The latest polling numbers show the president is about as popular in Oklahoma as the heat. Figures from the newly released Oklahoma Poll, conducted by SoonerPoll, have the president losing badly to Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Of the nearly 500 Oklahomans polled for the survey, only 29.4 percent said they will vote for Obama while 57.4 percent said they will vote for Romney with 13 percent unsure ofRead More »
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum leads the pack of Republican primary candidates in Oklahoma, but voters think some candidates are better than others when it comes to certain attributes, according to a recent SoonerPoll study. Results indicate that a plurality of likely Republican primary voters think Santorum is the best candidate when it comes to honesty and ability to understand the problems facing people like them. However, pluralities of Republican voters said that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is the strongest leader with the best experience. Despite believing that other candidates are betterRead More »
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum leads the pack of Republican primary candidates in Oklahoma, according to a recent SoonerPoll survey. If the election were held today, 38.5 percent of likely Republican voters who plan to participate in the March 6 GOP primary said they would cast their vote for Santorum. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would finish in second place with 23 percent. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who led Oklahoma when SoonerPoll last polled the race in December, fell to third place with just 18 percent. Results indicate that U.S. Rep. RonRead More »
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Applied Leisure Project
|Course code LEIS3360
|Units 10
|Level 3000
|Faculty of Business and LawNewcastle Business School
This capstone course provides a vehicle for students to demonstrate their knowledge and capabilities relevant to their strategic career plans. This course emphasises the importance of formal and informal networking in facilitating employment opportunities.
Students are required to develop a comprehensive career portfolio that includes relevant documentary evidence of their professional preparation for a career in the leisure industries. This course also requires students to undertake a large Work Integrated Learning experience designed to further develop capabilities relevant to their career goals.
Not available in 2015
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1. have gained demonstrable experience in a workplace /work training context that contributes to students identified career goals and interests.
2. critically evaluate the effectiveness of this experience in relation to individually developed learning objectives;
3. develop industry networks and contacts relevant to their career interests;
4. assess their professional strengths and weaknesses with reference to the student portfolio.
|1. Managing a Work integrated learning experience placement or project (WIL.
2. Journal preparation.
3. Evaluating (WIL) learning processes outcomes.
4. Assessing professional strengths and weaknesses.
5. Developing industry networks.
6. Developing a Career Portfolio.
|Replacing Course(s)
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|Not applicable.
|Industrial Experience
|Assumed Knowledge
|LEIS3350 - Leisure Management Practice III.
|Modes of Delivery
|Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning
Internal Mode
|Teaching Methods
|Email Discussion Group
Experience Based Learning
Individual Supervision
Integrated Learning
Self Directed Learning
|Assessment Items
|Contact Hours
|Individual Supervision: for .05 hour(s) per Term for Full Term
Email Discussion Group: for 3 hour(s) per Term for Full Term
Practical: for 100 hour(s) per Term for Full Term
Seminar: for 6 hour(s) per Term for Full Term
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The wand is the instrument of invocation of spirits. In most traditions, the wand represents the element of fire (in other traditions, earth, air, water or spirit) and symbolizes the life-force within the Witch. The wand dates back to prehistoric times. The Greek god Hermes is represented with a caduceus, a wand entwined with snake and winged top, a symbol of power, wisdom and healing.
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Construction—and preparations for the new streetcars—will mean changes for the Dundas and Spadina streetcar routes this summer.
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Teachers and students across Louisiana prepare for the leap test all year ....making sure 4th and 8th graders advance to the next grade.
Burnell Lemoine, Lafayette's superintendent, "we went up in some areas and down in others, but overall the results were not as good as last year."
Seventy-seven percent of fourth graders passed the leap test this spring, last year seventy-eight percent passed.
Eighth graders had a three percent decrease, dropping from seventy-seventy percent passing in 2009 to seventy four percent.
Lemoine said, "not to make any excuses but look at the numbers we are testing, but when you look at the numbers we test i mean we are testing thousands."
Even though Alice Boucher replaced 80 percent of it's staff last year, there's still a significant amount of students failing. Students at Alice Boucher Elementary dropped in English, science and social studies, but improved in math.
Alice Boucher Principal, Keith Bartlett, said "we are certainly aware that we have much more work to do...that number will definitely go down, we know that the number of unsuccessful students will decrease."
He said it's just going to take more time.
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Flooding Victims, many of whom don't have flood insurance, are still looking for help more than a week after the storm that created the flooding. Miami County Emergency management workers and the Red Cross were in the highest impacted areas of Tipp City Friday tallying up the damages.
"Just trying to get a better handle on how bad it was even though we know what the answer is going to be on that," said Kenneth Artz, Director of the Miami County Emergency Management Agency.
"I know it's been over a week but these things for the assessment part you want to get these things right. And it affects everyone from Covington to Troy to Tipp City," Artz said.
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Louisiana Department of Education announced Wednesday round two of Jump Starting Jump Start grants aimed at increasing career guidance, apprenticeships, and internships provided to Louisiana high school students participating in Jump Start.
Jump Start is the state's new initiative to provide students with basic and advanced career credentials that allow students to continue their education after high school. To achieve the Jump Start credential, students complete "pathways" of courses and workplace-based experiences developed by Regional Teams made up of industry, colleges, and school districts.
"From the first six months of Jump Start implementation, we know that two of the most important elements of the Jump Start experience are regular career planning and access to experiences in the Louisiana workplace," said State Superintendent John White. "Too often today, students are not regularly planning for life after high school and have a minimal understanding of the expectations involved in holding an actual job. We must change this."
Jump Start Regional Teams may submit grant applications focused on either or both of the following two goals:
Increase career counseling capacity: Career counseling enables an engaged adult to interact with high school students to help them understand their college and career options. This second round of Jump Starting Jump Start grants will help thousands of additional Louisiana students receive guidance from an engaged adult on how they can attain employment in one of Louisiana's high-growth job sectors, while also determining what type of traditional or non-traditional college and career training pathways might work best for them. Grants will help fund training and professional development for school counselors and teachers.
Develop regional portfolios of workplace experiences for students: Historically students in different school districts have not had equal access to the types of authentic workplace experiences (e.g., guest speakers, job location visits, internships, apprenticeships, etc.) that help students learn about career paths they might pursue. Jump Starting Jump Startgrants will make it possible for thousands of Louisiana student to learn more about careers and life opportunities based on the input and guidance of industry experts, both experienced industry leaders and "near peer" recent graduates who have attained employment in high-growth job sectors.
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