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Posted on December 22nd 2013
At this time of year, it's common for blogs and publishers to either look back at what has gone over the past year, or alternatively to look forward at what the future might bring.
The past year have seen a number of reports come out gazing into the future at some of the technologies that will transform society. We've had McKinsey's report into 12 disruptive technologies from earlier this year, which was itself preceded by the UK government's updated Technology & Innovation Futures report that looked at some of the shifts about to hit UK life.
Looking the other way is GovLoop's report highlighting 20 innovations that mattered in 2013. The document looks specifically at the top public innovations that emerged throughout the year.
In this end-of-year issue, GovLoop analyzed the 20 best innovations in government in four (rather naffly named) categories:
- Mobile Apps Movers and Shakers?
- Big Data Dynamos
- Social Media Mavericks
- Website Wonders
So what did they come up with? Here are the top 5:
- Cybersecurity executive order "The importance of the executive order should not be overlooked, I think it is worth pausing and reflecting on the significance of the executive order and the time the President spent speaking about cybersecurity during the State of the Union."Jeffrey Greene, Senior Policy Counsel, Symantec
- Open data directive. In May, the President mandated that the data should be fully described, fully accessible, standardized and fully downloadable and should be made public whenever possible.
- Presidential innovation fellows. The 43 fellows included engineers, entrepreneurs, computer scientists and designers, all tasked with developing solutions to improve lives, save tax dollars and create jobs.
- Libraries re-imagined.
- iCenter. North Carolina's new iCenter houses technology demos from across the state so that agencies can try new technologies before buying them.
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I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
when do they usually post the new challenge? Sorry Ive never tried this one yet~
Just bopping in to say I have NOT forgotten about you ladies.
I've been offline for a week now with a very bad back. I had a ruptured disk and back surgery back in 2000 - so I know when my back hurts me this bad it's time to get horizontal and stay off of my 'dupa'.
I'm better now - and am working on the add on preview = for the kit that I will be giving out as the bonus to the ladies who used Jeans4U letters also in their brag book exchanges. I have 3 birthday parties in the next 3 days (Fri, Sat, and Sun) so I do hope to get this add on done in the next day or two.
HUGS to all and sorry I'm late getting out the bonus - but when the back hurts - you just can't sit. It's a pain in the you know what - to get old.
Be back later this weekend with all the goodies.
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I love the bonus'es but I would rather you take longer sending them out because your busy taking care of your health. So dont rush on my account. Just get feeling better! I'll keep you in my prayers. Hugs, Chris
Hi all! Justing giving you an update on the album...only waiting on two pages! Should be real soon!
Also, the next brag book with the new sharing process will be announced in the next couple of days! So be on the lookout :)
Thanks again!
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I just got my bonuses sent out for those of you who used my templates! This was a great exchange! So many lovely pages! Let me know if you didn't get a PM from me and you did use my templates. :)
My "back is back" - and here is the extra goody bag I will be sending out links on tonight. It is an addon kit to my Jeans4U collection.
this will be going out to everyone who also used the "jeans4u letters" kit with their pages. thanks to everyone who participated in this brag book exchange!
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Really glad to see you *back* with a painless *back* Helen!! Love this add-on - Thanks!!! Can't wait to get all the BB QPs and make an album from them. Sure makes things easy to just plop in some pictures, add a little text and maybe an extra or two. Easy peesy and gorgeous at the same time - life is good!
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Hi all, I was really hoping to get the album to you before I went out of town last week. I'm back from being out of town now and will be getting you the album in the next day!
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By Charlie LeDuffFox 2 NewsDETROIT (WJBK) -- Justice Diane Hathaway packed her bags and retired from the Michigan Supreme Court on Monday just half way through her term. But that won't be her last appearance in court as she's been charged by the U.S. Attorney with bank fraud -- hiding other homes in order to get a short sale on her Grosse Pointe Park home.Last November, I reported on a tale of four houses. Let's begin with the one on Lakeview where she lived with her husband, a successful slip and fall lawyer. They said they couldn't afford the $1.5 million mortgage and had to move out, so the bank allowed them to sell the place for about half of what they owed on it. That's called a short sale.Before she was approved for the short sale, Hathaway gave away one of her homes to her stepdaughter -- a swanky pad in Florida with a boat dock. She gave another house to her stepson. It's just a stone's throw from the short sale house.Another stepdaughter bought a house in Grosse Pointe Park for $200,000 just months before the short sale, and just a few months after the short sale, the stepdaughter signed it over to the judge, just signed it over to her. Then the other stepdaughter after the short sale went through signed the Florida house back over to the judge, just signed it back over to her.Andy Arena, director of the Detroit Crime Commission, said it appears that the ex-justice may have already cut a deal with prosecutors, which may include prison time."She's going to do some jail time," he said. "I think they're going to look at this, the environment that we're living in right now in Southeast Michigan, I think the hammer's going to fall."We reached out to Hathaway's criminal lawyer and even stopped by her new Grosse Pointe Park home. We got an answer from neither of them.In any event, the former judge will have to tell it to the federal judge and that could come as early as this week. In the meantime, Governor Snyder is mulling a decision on who to replace her with."We do merit process in terms of really looking at people that are interested, looking at their backgrounds and going through that. So I want to be thoughtful about that. So it could take several weeks," the governor said.
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==People of Carillion==
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Or, a bell within a laurel wreath sable
Established: Shire of Carillon established in September 1978. Name corrected to Shire of Carillion in 1984. Changed to Barony of Carillion in 1986.
Blazon: Or, a bell within a laurel wreath sable
Heraldic officer's title: Bell Persuivant
Awards: Award of the Sable Bell, Established 1986 - (Fieldless) A bell sable. Awarded for long term service to the barony. Award of the Golden Chime of Carillion - no device - Given for single extraordinary acts of service to the barony.
Newsletter: Clochette
Fighting Unit(s):
Founding Members of the Shire of Carillion:
- Sigmunder: Founding Seneschal
- Gershom Ibn Zabara: Founding Fighter Marshal
- Tamar the Gypsy: Founding Herald
The Second Seneschalate of Carillion began when the three founders agreed to turn over the Shire government to House Rowentree
- Sigrund of Tynwald Hill: Second Seneschal
- Magnus Blood Axe: Second Fighter Marshal
- Tamar the Gypsy: Founding Herald
List of Barons and Baronesses: http://www.eastkingdom.org/mediawiki/index.php/Baronage#Barony_of_Carillion
Territories of Carillion
Former Territories of Carillion
- Canton of Talonwood
- Canton of Whispering Pines
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Baronial Awards
- Coke Belle - Children's Service Award
- Golden Chime - Service
- Sable Bell - Significant Service
- Beacons of Carillion - Baronial Award for Arts and Sciences
- Gules Bell - Baronial Award recognizing injury in service to the Barony
- Order of the Larum Bell- Baronial Award honors all those who raise arms to defend the Barony and to serve in the Baronial Levies at Pennsic War
- Order of the Unbalanced - Baronial Award recognizing an extreme lifetime of service to the Barony
- Order of the Shrouded Bell - Baronial Award recognizing those who have passed in service to the Barony
Closed Orders
These are awards given by previous Barons, Baronesses and Seneschals of Carillion.
- Order of the Gold Leaf
- Order of the AARGH
- Order of the Cheek by Jowl
- Order of the Fish
- Order of the Ladies/Gentlemen of the Apocalypse(The Horse's Head)
- Order of the Cement Boot
People of Carillion
- Lord Aaron the Arrowsmith
- Mistress Amy Webbe
- Lady Anna of Carillion
- Duchess Brinwen the Fair
- Lady Brigit inghean ui Dhomhnaill
- Catherine of Carillion
- Lord Corcrán mac Diarmata
- Baron Cosmo of Carillion
- Lady Csirkérezá_Eorsebet
- Lord Erhart von Stuttgart
- Lady Estrella de los Confines
- Duke Gavin Kilkenny of Kilcarren
- House Grog
- Lord Ichabod the Tall
- Lord Ingvar Thorsteinsson
- The Honorable Lady Jolie Delarue
- Justin of Carillion
- Lady Katerine Long
- Lady Katherine Meade
- Baroness Katrina MacAulish
- Keep by the Endless Sea
- Baroness Mistress Kis Maria
- Duke Sir Konrad von Ulm
- Lady Lillian atte Valeye
- Lady Luned Gwyn
- Lady Máirghréad Ghearr
- Lady Mari Anna deLacey
- Baroness Mary Theophania Hunn
- Lord Mithgiladan the Herald
- Pagan Mahon, Baron Carillion Retired]]
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Ludwell-Paradise House
A two-story brick home on the north side of duke of Gloucester Street, the imposing Ludwell-Paradise house was built as a townhouse by wealthy planter-politician Philip Ludwell III. It dates from approximately 1755 and is still an elegant private residence. The Ludwell-Paradise House was the first building the Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin of Bruton Parish Church and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. obtained as they launched the restoration of Williamsburg.
- Built as townhouse by Philip Ludwell III
- Georgian architecture
- Virginia Gazette printed in the home when publishers lived in it
- First building obtained by Dr. Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller Jr. for restoration
Early Georgian architecture
A hip-roofed, five-bay early Georgian home with a 60-foot facade, the house stands one foot high for every 2.2 feet it is long. Laid up in Flemish bond with glazed headers, the Ludwell-Paradise House has a traditional central hallway with staircase, but it is not typical of the genre.
The bricks used in the top and bottom floors appear to have come from different kilns, an indication that the builder's plans changed during construction and more bricks had to be fired. The suggestion is supported by an unusual lean-to addition at the rear that is walled by bricks on two sides but clapboarded in the back. The lean-to may have been an afterthought, but it is an integral part of the 1755 fabric, not an addition.
The home succeeded another home built on the site between 1680 and 1690, and one or both of its chimneys may be from that first building. It is two rooms deep on the first floor, but just one room deep on the second – a feature usually restricted to 17th-century Virginia construction.
The jambs of the doors and the windows – spaced more widely than normal because of the length of the facade – have rubbed brick edging. The low-pitched roof has no dormers. The cornices have conventional block dentils with moldings. Some of the restored Ludwell-Paradise House's original solidity is apparent in the exposed beams of the basement.
Ludwell owned Green Spring plantation and was a member of Governor's Council
The house's first owner, Philip Ludwell III, was a member of the Governor's Council. Ludwell also owned Green Spring plantation in adjoining James City County and eight other farms. His father, Philip Ludwell II, had been a member of the House of Burgesses and one of the city's original trustees in 1699.
Virginia Gazette once printed in the home
Philip III's second daughter, Lucy, inherited the house, but she lived most of her life in London with her husband, John Paradise, and rented the Williamsburg home. Among her tenants were William and Clementina Rind, who arrived from Annapolis, Maryland, in 1773 and printed one of the city's Virginia Gazette newspapers in the home.
John Paradise, a scholar and a linguist, was an associate of Dr. Samuel Johnson's. When the new state of Virginia confiscated Lucy's house during the Revolution, Johnson called it "Paradise's Loss." After the war, the home was regained.
Widowed in 1795, Lucy Paradise returned to Williamsburg in 1805 and took up residence in the Ludwell-Paradise House. She had a habit of entertaining callers in a carriage rolled to and fro on the back porch by a servant and gained a reputation for eccentricity. Eventually she was committed to the Public Hospital, a mental institution. The house remained in the family.
Rockefeller secretly purchased home in 1926
In 1926, a few days after Rockefeller secretly commissioned Dr. Goodwin to draft plans for restorations in Williamsburg, the Ludwell-Paradise House came on the market for $8,000. Rockefeller, who insisted his name not yet be connected with the restoration, had twice visited the city, explored it, and seen the home. On the first trip, Goodwin had taken a shine to Rockefeller's small son, David. In a pair of letters written December 4, Goodwin informed Rockefeller of the opportunity. Rockefeller wired a reply from New York that arrived at 11:28 a.m. December 7. It said:
"Authorize purchase of antique referred to in your long letter of December four at eight on basis outlined in shorter letter of same date. David's Father."
The restoration of Williamsburg was underway.
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NCI-Frederick is much more than a satellite campus of NCI. It is a unique biomedical research resource and one of only 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) in the country. These facilities are not part of the government, but are operated by universities and nonprofit corporations under federal contracts. They fulfill some of our country's pressing research needs by bridging public and private sectors. FFRDCs study a variety of defense and national security issues, but only one FFRDC - NCI-Frederick - is devoted solely to biomedical research.
This special issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin pays tribute to NCI-Frederick, which has, for more than 30 years, provided core scientific expertise and advanced technology development to NCI's intramural and extramural researchers, as well as to other NIH institutes and federal agencies.
Through its many advanced technologies, NCI-Frederick strives to speed the translation of laboratory discoveries into therapies for patients. Its capabilities include the capacity to rapidly deliver prototype drugs that meet the FDA's stringent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations for use in clinical trials - expertise that can help win regulatory approval for new drugs, vaccines, and other therapies. NCI-Frederick has been involved in more than 300 clinical trials, including a vaccine for lymphoma, a vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer, and the test that protects the nation's blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus. Read more
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In the coming months, NCI will establish an Antibody Characterization Laboratory at NCI-Frederick to test antibodies that are produced as part of a new proteomics pipeline created by the Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer Initiative (CPTI).
Antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system in response to other proteins, which are called antigens. In the clinical context, antigens are usually associated with unwanted invaders. Researchers can use these antibodies in a similar fashion to detect antigens in biological samples that may be tied to cancer.
Though antibodies are essential in research and diagnostic laboratories around the world and thousands are available commercially, "the majority of these antibodies are poorly characterized and their quality is unreliable," notes Dr. Henry Rodriguez, who directs NCI's Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) program. Read more
NCI-Frederick's Unique Combination of Resources and Flexibility
NCI-Frederick is much more than a satellite campus of NCI. It is a unique biomedical research resource and one of only 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) in the country. These facilities are not part of the government, but are operated by universities and nonprofit corporations under federal contracts. They fulfill some of our country's pressing research needs by bridging public and private sectors. FFRDCs study a variety of defense and national security issues, but only one FFRDC - NCI-Frederick - is devoted solely to biomedical research.
This special issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin pays tribute to NCI-Frederick, which has, for more than 30 years, provided core scientific expertise and advanced technology development to NCI's intramural and extramural researchers, as well as to other NIH institutes and federal agencies.
Through its many advanced technologies, NCI-Frederick strives to speed the translation of laboratory discoveries into therapies for patients. Its capabilities include the capacity to rapidly deliver prototype drugs that meet the FDA's stringent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulations for use in clinical trials - expertise that can help win regulatory approval for new drugs, vaccines, and other therapies. NCI-Frederick has been involved in more than 300 clinical trials, including a vaccine for lymphoma, a vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer, and the test that protects the nation's blood supply from contamination by the AIDS virus.
NCI-Frederick's technologies - from advanced imaging to nanotechnology research to large-scale supercomputing - are at the center of an emerging Advanced Technology Partnership Initiative (ATPI). This public-private partnership has the potential to make NCI-Frederick a test-bed for new technologies and novel research concepts. Researchers hope in the next few years to expand the ATPI through a state-of-the-art research park in the Frederick area.
NCI-Frederick owes a debt of gratitude to a group of dedicated cancer advocates and legislators, including philanthropist Mary Lasker, Senator Charles Mathias (R-MD), and Benno Schmidt, chairman of the Panel of Consultants on the Conquest of Cancer. During deliberations over the National Cancer Act of 1971, they pushed for a cancer research campus in Maryland at Fort Detrick. Their foresight made possible the FFRDC designation in 1975. Without that special distinction, we clearly wouldn't have made the kind of progress against cancer - at the speed we have made those lifesaving discoveries - over the last three decades.
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In the coming months, NCI will establish an Antibody Characterization Laboratory at NCI-Frederick to test antibodies that are produced as part of a new proteomics pipeline created by the Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer Initiative (CPTI).
Antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system in response to other proteins, which are called antigens. In the clinical context, antigens are usually associated with unwanted invaders. Researchers can use these antibodies in a similar fashion to detect antigens in biological samples that may be tied to cancer.
Though antibodies are essential in research and diagnostic laboratories around the world and thousands are available commercially, "the majority of these antibodies are poorly characterized and their quality is unreliable," notes Dr. Henry Rodriguez, who directs NCI's Clinical Proteomic Technologies for Cancer (CPTC) program.
Two years ago, NCI sponsored a workshop to determine what reagent resources were needed by the cancer research community to facilitate the identification of proteins and peptides of interest. The unanimous message was that one of the biggest bottlenecks is a lack of well-characterized antibodies.
"As industry and academia invest significant resources in the promise of proteomics and ultimately molecular-based tools, well-characterized antibodies will be vital to advancing these disciplines," says Dr. Rodriguez. "This is especially true of proteomics, where an antibody can be used to recognize a unique protein in the midst of millions of other proteins that the human proteome comprises."
The Antibody Characterization Laboratory will be part of NCI-Frederick's Advanced Technology Program (ATP), which includes teams working on protein analysis, structure, and molecular imaging. "We have quite a broad program with a variety of different protein characterization technologies," says Dr. Tim Harris, who directs ATP. When the antibodies start to arrive in Frederick in the coming months, Dr. Gordon Whiteley will lead the characterization team.
The CPTI pipeline starts with the Argonne National Laboratory, where cancer-related proteins are being produced. Later this year, private laboratories will be contracted to manufacture three monoclonal antibodies for each of these proteins and send these to NCI-Frederick for standard operating procedures-driven characterization. Promising antibodies will then travel to the Human Protein Atlas project in Stockholm, Sweden, and to the Harvard Institute of Proteomics for further analysis. All characterization data will be accessible to the scientific community through a Web site, with antibodies and hybridoma cells distributed by the Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank at the University of Iowa.
"This program will spur the development of resources that accelerate biomarker discovery and validation, translational research, molecular diagnostics, and therapeutic monitoring," says Dr. Rodriguez. "I'm convinced that when this happens, we will have a solid foundation on which to create a real impact with proteomics in cancer."
Plans for the pipeline were announced last month at the first CPTI annual meeting, where NCI Director Dr. John Niederhuber said that progress in clinical proteomics will require technological advances similar to those that have enabled recent progress in genomics. He added that the efforts of the CPTC will contribute fundamentally to the early detection and treatment of cancer, and affect all diseases.
Dr. Reynolds has been a member of the NCI-Frederick research community for more than 25 years. He currently serves as NCI associate director and director of the Office of Scientific Operations at NCI-Frederick. Here, he discusses the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) at NCI-Frederick, which supports the facilities and research discussed throughout the rest of this special issue.
What makes the ATP at NCI-Frederick special?
NCI-Frederick's Advanced Technology Program is not only special; it's unique. Among our national laboratories, indeed among all national resources, the ATP offers highly specialized support in a complex and fast-paced biomedical research environment. Among the ATP's participating laboratories, we count such initiatives as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, nanotechnology characterization, protein expression, histopathology, confocal and electron microscopy image analysis, and GMP manufacturing. NCI-Frederick's ATP is also home to the Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) and the only high-performance, high-capacity computer dedicated solely to medical research. The ABCC provides solutions for data-intensive computational biological problems and offers a broad spectrum of computer architectures, software packages, and consulting expertise. The ABCC also engages in collaborative research and training in computational biology and biomedical research.
Can researchers outside of NCI use ATP resources?
That's the best part. We provide these ATP services not only to NCI and NIH scientists, but, on a space-available basis, to other federal agencies and extramural biomedical researchers, as well. To see the full range of research support services, I encourage you to visit http://www.ncifcrf.gov/atp.
Why is it important for NCI-Frederick, a federal entity, to maintain the resources and programs available under ATP?
When others work with our scientists, it enables them to extend their inquiries to depths and in directions perhaps otherwise inaccessible. Our biomedical research scientists' work touches all aspects of scientific exploration, from routine laboratory processes to complex experimental design and interpretation of results. Providing these ATP services to others is not entirely altruistic on our part. Through the synergy we build with public-private collaborations and partnerships, we're able to bring the intellectual and empirical capital of the entire scientific community - academia, industry, philanthropy, government - to bear on two of the most critical health care issues of our times, cancer and AIDS.
In the most recent survey by the The Scientist magazine, which showed that NCI-Frederick is ranked second among the best places to work in research, respondents listed core facilities, such as those of the ATP, as a high-level factor in their job satisfaction. What are other reasons why people might enjoy working at NCI-Frederick?
In addition to our employees valuing their proximity to the ATP, they also gave top scores to our scientific library, its consistently forward-looking management and its holdings. I find it significant that an overwhelming number of the respondents cited their peers as excellent scientists, and 98 percent affirmed a high level of cooperation and collegiality among their peers. Those ringing endorsements of personal and professional satisfaction, coupled with almost universal agreement that core facilities and infrastructure are excellent, can't help but make for an ideal place to work. We're proud to be a part of this important and essential effort to improve the health of all people.
The largest of these is the Central Repository. It holds more than 10 million biological samples for researchers who work at NCI-Frederick, as well as intramural researchers from the main NIH campus in Bethesda and from other federal agencies. The repository is operated by Fisher BioServices, which subcontracts with SAIC-Frederick. The largest proportion of the repository comes from population science research studies in support of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
"We're not just a repository," explains Dr. Kathleen Groover, who oversees this repository for Fisher. "We investigate things that other biobanks may not have the financial resources, ability, or desire to do," she says. "Whatever we learn, we share with the larger community." Dr. Groover, for example, has an article in press on how compressor cycles in mechanical freezers can indicate potential equipment failure.
The Natural Products Repository contains more than 75,000 plant and marine specimens collected from around the globe through contracts with nonprofit groups and agreements with countries from which the samples are procured. These samples are available to government, academic, and industry researchers through materials transfer agreements that protect the rights of the source country, should the work lead to a commercial application.
An offshoot of early Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) drug screening programs, the Tumor Bank Repository includes more than 50 thousand vials of rodent tumor fragments, human tumor cell lines, tumor tissue in liquid suspension, ascites, and yeast, as well as four types of tissue microarray slides. These are shared with researchers in the government, academic institutions, and private companies worldwide.
The Biological Resources Branch Repository is also open primarily to nonprofit and academic researchers. It includes cytokines, antibodies, and other biological response modifiers, as well as imaging reagents and reference standards, most of which have been donated by companies or researchers that retired their programs but did not want the materials to go to waste. "All of these are available to researchers at no cost through our automated online ordering system," says Dr. Rosemarie Aurigemma, who oversees the repository and is a program director in the Biological Resources Branch in NCI's DCTD. "All we ask is that they pay for shipping."
The last repository was developed with advice from NCI's Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium. The NCI Mouse Repository maintains more than 100 strains of genetically engineered mice and strains used to derive cancer models. These mice are available to researchers at academic, nonprofit, and commercial institutions around the world for only the cost of shipping. The repository also accepts new models as they are developed, so they can be archived and shared. The NCI Mouse Repository is a member of an international network of repositories that develops best practices for strain maintenance and cryo-preservation, and minimizes duplication of mouse stocks.
Repositories at NCI-Frederick use state-of-the-art equipment and information technology. But even so, there are some limits on what they can hold. "Everything that comes to the repositories here fits in with the FFRDC mission," notes Dr. Mark Cosentino, who oversees the Central Repository for SAIC-Frederick. "It's not our objective to compete with private industry. Rather, we accept and archive samples that private biobanks are not well suited to handle."
"Drugs to fight cancer don't just drop out of the sky," says Dr. David Newman, who directs NCI-Frederick's Natural Products Branch (NPB), "but they can come out of the ground." A good example of this is the bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia), which is the source of paclitaxel (Taxol), a successful anticancer agent.
In fact, as of 2006, more than two-thirds of the 178 anticancer agents approved by the FDA and regulation agencies in other countries owe their existence to structures from the Earth's flora and fauna. And this isn't only with cancer: The cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin (Lipitor), for example, which is the top drug sold worldwide, is a synthetically modified version of a fungal metabolite.
NPB manages a global effort to find, collect, and process species of life that may be a source of raw material for new therapies. Either contract field collectors or collaborating organizations in the source countries provide NPB with a network to mine potential specimens in more than 25 countries. This collection is heaviest between the tropics, wher the majority of the Earth's 250,000 plant species thrive and marine invertebrates live in waters conducive to diving.
NPB is using its collection to provide researchers with promising leads for new drug development and the material with which to pursue it. NPB shares its samples with researchers from around the world who are working on any disease or medical issue of interest to the NIH.
Before researchers can receive NPB samples, however, they must sign a letter of collection, which, says Dr. Newman, "includes one fiercely nonnegotiable tenet: The source country must be involved in any subsequent drug commercialization." This stipulation came from wording in NCI's letter of collection, first signed with the Republic of Madagascar, 3 years before the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty that protects global biodiversity and the rights of countries.
Since its inception in 1986, NPB's terrestrial collection has amassed more than 60,000 plant samples. Marine products form a distinct category, contributing more than 14,000 animal samples (most of them invertebrates) plus 3,000 species of algae.
A fast growing collection is microorganisms, especially fungi and bacteria developed and maintained in conjunction with the USDA at Fort Detrick, with some 30,000 of these microbes characterized. Researchers are finding an increasing number of the significant bioactive components in animal and plant species are probably produced by microbes associated with the plant or marine samples.
Chemists working with NPB process and refine all of the material into extracts and keep them in a freezer with bar codes that capture detailed information about their origin. Then they conduct initial screens using the NCI-60 cell lines and other relevant assays for biological activity against cancer.
When the Small Animal Imaging Program (SAIP) opened at the NCI-Frederick campus in October 2006, "it was a huge thing for Frederick researchers," says Dr. Peter Choyke of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) and NCI project officer overseeing the facility. Now the most comprehensive animal-imaging program at NCI, the SAIP offers state-of-the-art facilities including CT, ultrasound, fluorescence optical imaging, PET-SPECT CT, and a human 3 Tesla MRI machine specially configured to scan up to 6 mice at once, allowing high-throughput analysis for large experiments.
Unusual among small-animal imaging facilities, animals entering the SAIP from the main animal holding facility at Frederick can be returned afterwards for further study or follow-up. Most animal imaging facilities, which scan animals brought in from outside laboratories, harbor pathogens that could present a risk if introduced back into the laboratory environment; therefore, the animals must be euthanized after the imaging procedures. However, the SAIP maintains the same pathogen-free environment as the adjacent animal facilities.
"An animal in an adjacent facility could come through our pass-through door and be in the same environment that they would have been in their own holding area. So this allows us to do repeated scans on that animal," says Dr. Choyke. This is especially important for studies monitoring the spontaneous development of cancer in transgenic animal models, he explains. "Much like [carcinogenesis] in humans, we don't know when a tumor is going to occur or where it's going to occur, so we need to take serial images."
Many NCI researchers based in Bethesda also make use of the SAIP though collaborative relationships with scientists at NCI-Frederick, or by establishing their own animal colonies at the main animal facility in Frederick, which is part of the Laboratory Animal Sciences Program.
Although extramural investigators do not have direct access to the SAIP, the laboratory provides inclusive educational opportunities including training programs, visiting fellowships, workshops, and shared imaging protocols. Members of the SAIP are also working with small-animal imaging facilities across the country to develop a common informatics system to store and access imaging data.
One challenge faced by cancer researchers who work with nanotechnology constructs - structures smaller than one-billionth of a meter in size - is how to effectively characterize these novel particles to obtain FDA permission to advance to human clinical trials. The Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL), located at NCI-Frederick, was created to respond to this challenge. NCL is a part of a large initiative, the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, which funds extramural research and training programs to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer using nanotechnology.
Funded by NCI under the Alliance program with collaboration from FDA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the NCL provides free preclinical testing and characterization of nanomaterials to partners in academia and small business. Since its inception, the laboratory has characterized more than 100 nanotechnology strategies with a rigorous assay cascade that includes physicochemical analysis, toxicology, pharmacology, and efficacy testing.
Results from this assay provide the information needed by the investigators to apply for an Investigational New Drug or Investigational Device Exemption application and, importantly, provides the NCL with data and experience to compile best practice guidelines to aid the process of characterizing nanomaterials for future clinical applications. "We find that the typical users of our protocols are small businesses attempting to do preclinical characterization," says Dr. Scott McNeil, director of the NCL.
The NCL assay cascade has already confronted challenges related to the inherent properties of nanomaterials. NCL investigators quickly learned that nanoparticles, many of which have catalytic or fluorescent properties, can interfere with traditional assays.
"Early on, we put some nanoparticles into an endotoxin assay, which is based on the cleavage of a protein to indicate bacterial contamination," explains Dr. McNeil. "The nanoparticles caused a robust response that was even more pronounced than if there had been bacteria present, because they were actually cleaving that protein."
Developing new controls to test for enhancement and inhibition of such standard assays has become an important part of NCL research. Location at the NCI-Frederick campus offers important advantages in this process, says Dr. McNeil. "For example, the Advanced Technology Program has half-a-dozen mass spectrometers, plus capillary electrophoresis, genomics and proteomics technology, and electron microscopy. So rather than NCL hiring those types of expertise as additional staff, we can simply walk downstairs and have access to those resources."
NCI-Frederick takes very seriously its role as a major "corporate citizen" in its small, semi-rural hometown of Frederick, Maryland, located about 50 miles north of Washington, DC. In addition to traditional graduate and postdoctoral positions, the NCI-Frederick campus offers an array of top-quality science education and outreach programs that are tailored for students and residents who live in neighboring communities of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The longest-running program is the Werner H. Kirsten Student Intern Program (SIP), which is designed to expose local high school seniors to research and administrative management in a health care environment. SIP was launched in 1989 by Dr. Werner Kirsten, who was associate director of NCI-Frederick from 1989-1992. "There weren't a lot of opportunities here for the local school children in the public school system," recalls Barbara Birnman, who administers SIP as part of NCI-Frederick's Office of Scientific Operations.
SIP began with only a handful of students during the first year of its summer program, but has expanded and evolved to teach and inspire 545 high schoolers since then, including the 52 pupils currently enrolled in the program. The SIP scientific interns arrive at NCI-Frederick early in the summer before their senior year of high school. They work 9 weeks during the summer for a stipend of about $3,400. The program is mentor-driven, with more than 40 volunteer mentors among the NCI lab scientists.
"Summer is a training period and the students work not only with the mentor but with other people in the labs, as well, to learn how to use the equipment and about procedures, lab safety, and other important research techniques or research issues," Ms. Birnman explains. "When the school year starts, each intern is given a project that is usually a subset of what the mentor's lab is working on." The SIP students commit to at least 3 hours a day in the lab during the school week, time that's unpaid but earns them academic credit from their high schools.
In addition to the SIP program, NCI-Frederick also hosts a Summer Student Seminar Series that allows summer interns and other students to meet one another and hear scientists talk about the broad range of research being carried out on the Frederick campus. At the end of the summer, they're invited to participate in a Summer Student Poster Day.
NCI-Frederick's Elementary Outreach Program grew out of the efforts of an NCI scientist in the early 1990s who had children in a local elementary school and was giving science lessons to his children's classes. "It was so popular that other teachers in the school wanted him to teach science lessons in their classes," notes Julie Hartman, who works in the Office of Scientific Operations. "We now have teams for each grade level who go to four or five Frederick County elementary schools throughout the school year," providing 60-minute, hands-on science lessons and demonstrations.
Plans for new educational programs are well underway at NCI-Frederick. These include establishing an undergraduate intern program, offering teaching opportunities for NCI graduate and postdoctoral fellows at nearby Hood College, and partnering with several local universities to offer extensive course offerings at higher education facilities.
NCI Testifies at Senate Hearing on Tobacco
Dr. Cathy Backinger, acting chief of NCI's Tobacco Control Research Branch, testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on November 13. The hearing examined the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) test for measuring tar and nicotine content in cigarettes and the public health implications of marketing cigarettes using terms such as "light" and "low tar."
As Dr. Backinger told the Committee, "light" and "low tar" cigarettes do not reduce smokers' exposure to hazardous compounds or their risk for disease compared with regular or "full flavor" cigarettes. She explained that cigarette manufacturers heavily promoted "low tar" cigarettes as a way to reassure smokers who were worried about the health risks of smoking. Dr. Backinger went on to testify that many smokers saw "low tar" cigarettes as an alternative to quitting and, as a result, many continued to smoke.
In response to a question from Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), FTC Commissioner William Kovacic acknowledged that the FTC test method is inaccurate, explaining that machine tests fail to account for the fact that many smokers compensate for reduced nicotine levels in "low tar" products by inhaling more smoke. Dr. Backinger testified that an NCI review of published studies and internal tobacco industry documents found that cigarette design features allow smokers to vary their smoke intake from a cigarette and that tobacco manufacturers were aware of this "compensation effect" long before it was understood by public health scientists. Dr. David Ashley, chief of CDC's Emergency Response and Air Toxicants Branch, and scientists from other organizations also provided testimony to the Committee.
NCI Tobacco Monograph 13 on low-tar cigarettes can be viewed at http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/13/index.html. Dr. Backinger's testimony can be viewed at http://legislative.cancer.gov/hearings/research.
Appropriations Update
President Bush vetoed the FY 2008 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act on November 13 and the House fell short of overriding the President's veto (277-141) on November 15. The bill sent to the President would have provided NIH with $30 billion and NCI with $4.925 billion for FY 2008.
As a result of the President's veto, NIH and NCI will continue to operate under a Continuing Resolution (CR), which maintains funding for government operations at the FY 2007 level, through December 14. House and Senate leadership are now proposing an omnibus funding bill for all of the outstanding appropriations bills. This new proposal is being promoted as a compromise with the President and would include about half of the additional funding provided in the original versions of the FY 2008 spending bills. Congress has until December 14 to put together an appropriations package that either the President is willing to sign or will garner the support of at least two-thirds of Congress. If that fails, another CR will be needed to keep the government running.
For more information about NCI legislative activities, go to http://legislative.cancer.gov/.
Cetuximab Provides Slight Survival Advantage in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
Use of the targeted agent cetuximab (Erbitux) provides a small, but statistically significant improvement in overall survival in patients with colorectal cancer for whom prior therapies are no longer effective, an international research team reported last week.
In a 572-patient phase III randomized clinical trial, patients treated with cetuximab had a slightly superior overall survival rate compared to with patients treated with the best supportive care, 6.1 months vs. 4.6 months. All patients in the trial had tumors that expressed the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, a known molecular target of cetuximab, the research team reported in the November 15 New England Journal of Medicine.
"This is the first time that single-agent biological therapy has shown a survival benefit in advanced colorectal cancer," the study's lead author, Dr. Derek Jonker from the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group, said in April, when the trial's results were first presented at the American Association of Cancer Research annual meeting.
Cetuximab was also associated with a small, statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with the best supportive care, the authors reported. In addition, 31.4 percent of patients treated with cetuximab achieved stable disease, compared with 10.9 percent in the best supportive care group, and 23 patients on cetuximab (8 percent) had a partial response, that is, some tumor shrinkage, compared with no patients in the best supportive care group.
The research team also conducted an "exploratory analysis," Dr. Jonker explained, and found that the severity of rash seen in cetuximab-treated patients seemed to correlate with treatment response. The median survival for patients who survived at least 28 days who had a very low level rash, for example, was 2.6 months, whereas it was 4.8 months for those with a moderate rash (grade 1) and 8.4 months in those with a severe rash (grade 2).
The finding, the authors concluded, "suggests that [rash] may be a predictive marker, but this point has not been validated."
Tool Uses Three Factors to Assess Breast Cancer Risk
Researchers have proposed a simplified approach to identifying postmenopausal women at elevated risk for estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer who may benefit from preventive interventions such as the drug tamoxifen. Their approach, which uses three risk factors - age, family history of breast cancer, and previous breast biopsies - performed almost as well as the current standard risk assessment tool, which evaluates six risk factors.
The simpler tool "would be more accessible for routine and rapid prescreening in the prevention or routine care setting," they wrote in a study published online November 13 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Because many women must be screened to identify the minority who would benefit from chemoprevention, screening methods are needed that identify this minority more quickly, wrote lead author Dr. Rowan Chlebowski of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Using data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the researchers compared several models of predicting breast cancer risk. The widely used Gail model, which evaluates six risk factors, underestimated 5-year breast cancer incidence in the WHI population by almost 20 percent, but predicted ER-positive breast cancer more accurately than ER-negative disease. The simpler tool predicted ER-positive disease almost as accurately as the Gail model.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Mitchell Gail, of NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (who developed the Gail model), and colleagues noted that breast cancer incidence in the WHI was higher than in the general U.S. population and risk for ER-negative breast cancer based on family history was lower than in many other studies. "Chlebowski et al. have presented useful and important results that illustrate the promise and difficulty of estimating absolute risk in subtypes of breast cancer," they wrote, adding that additional studies are needed in women aged 50 and older and in younger women.
Decline in Adult Smoking Stalls, Rates Still High in Some Subgroups
More than 45 million Americans reported smoking in 2006, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health published in the November 9 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The self-report data from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed by V. J. Rock and colleagues.
The federal researchers found that about one in five adult Americans (20.8 percent) were current smokers in 2006. This figure has not changed significantly since 2004, suggesting that the previous 7-year decline has now stalled. As in previous years, the researchers found far higher smoking rates among some population subgroups, including adults without a high school diploma (26.7 percent) and people living below the federal poverty level (30.6 percent).
"The continued lack of progress in reducing adult smoking rates is a serious concern, and we need to understand and address why it is happening," said Dr. Cathy Backinger, acting chief of the Tobacco Control Research Branch of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
The study's authors suggest that among the factors responsible could be a 20.3-percent decline in funding for comprehensive state programs for tobacco control and prevention since 2002 and a near doubling of tobacco-industry marketing expenditures since 1998. In 2005, industry marketing expenditures totaled $13.1 billion; about 80 percent were devoted to price discounting strategies such as coupons or discounts for retailers that reduce the impact of tobacco tax increases on the consumer.
Analysis Indicates Letrozole, Tamoxifen Safe in Early Breast Cancer
A detailed safety analysis from a large, international clinical trial of adjuvant therapy in women with estrogen receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer indicates that the risks of cardiac events from letrozole or tamoxifen are generally low.
In a paper released early online last week by the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the trial, known as BIG 1-98, reported an overall incidence of cardiac adverse events of 4.8 percent in women treated with letrozole and 4.7 percent of women treated with tamoxifen. Women treated with letrozole were more likely to have a serious cardiac event (2.4 percent vs. 1.4 percent), such as heart failure, while women treated with tamoxifen were more likely to have a serious thromboembolic event linked to a blood clot (2.3 percent vs. 0.9 percent), such as a stroke.
"Although the overall incidence was low, patients at risk for thromboembolic disease, such as those with an antecedent history of such episodes, might consider avoiding adjuvant tamoxifen therapy," wrote the study's lead author, Dr. Henning Mouridsen from the Rigshospitalet in Denmark, and colleagues.
The BIG 1-98 trial compared adjuvant therapy using the 2 drugs in more than 8,000 women, testing 5 years of treatment with either drug alone or in combination (1 drug for 2 years and the other drug for the last 3 years). Published in December 2005, the results showed that letrozole was more effective than tamoxifen in reducing the risk of recurrence, and was particularly more effective in reducing the risk of "distant recurrence," detection of a metastatic tumor at a site far from the original tumor.
A history of diabetes and being age 55 or older were both significant predictors of the risk of a cardiac adverse event, and, they noted, continued "assessment of vascular adverse effects of highly effective adjuvant therapies such as aromatase inhibitors is important."
Given the low rate of cardiac adverse events seen in the trial, they concluded, "any excess of cardiac events on letrozole seems to be outweighed by the superior control of locoregional and distant recurrence afforded by letrozole compared with tamoxifen."
Family Program Helps Prostate Cancer Patients and Spouses Cope
A family intervention program aimed at prostate cancer patients and their spouses was shown to help the couples better manage the effects of the illness and maintain their quality of life, according to a study published online November 12 in Cancer.
The study, which was funded by NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, involved 235 couples who were randomized to either standard care or standard care plus a family-based intervention called the FOCUS Program. The supportive-education program consists of three 90-minute home visits by nurses and two 30-minute telephone sessions spaced 2 weeks apart and delivered between the baseline assessment and 4 months.
At 4-month follow-up, intervention patients reported less uncertainty and better communication with spouses than control patients, noted researchers led by Dr. Laurel Northouse of the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Intervention spouses reported "higher quality of life, more self-efficacy, better communication, and less negative appraisal of caregiving, uncertainty, hopelessness, and symptom distress at 4 months compared with controls, and some effects were sustained to 8 months and 12 months."
Although patients benefitted from the intervention, "the effects were far greater for their spouses," the researchers noted. "At a minimum, the findings suggest that spouses of men with prostate cancer need to be included in programs of care. Too often, they are viewed as outside observers or only as providers of care. Instead, clinicians need to recognize that spouses are affected by the cancer and to treat them as co-recipients of care."


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December 23, 2012
This series features stories, calendars and more that focus on the multi-faceted Milwaukee Area Technical College. Students in the TV and Video Production division look at MATC programs, success stories, the cooperative learning that occurs at the lakefront's Discovery World museum, and much more. 'Stormwatch' is produced with virtual 3-d set technologies and challenges the TV students to marry their technical and high-definition production skills with creativity and flair.


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Kanopolis State Park
200 Horsethief Rd.
Marquette, KS 67464
Park Office – (785) 546-2565
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00am-4:00pm
Regional Office – (316) 683-8069
Kanopolis State Park started it all. The first Kansas state park has drawn visitors to eastern Ellsworth County since 1955. Situated in the rolling hills, bluffs and woods of the scenic Smoky Hills region of Kansas, Kanopolis is located 33 miles southwest of Salina.
The park features a full-service marina, beaches, picnic areas and cabins, as well as trails for horseback riding, mountain biking, and hiking. More than 200 primitive campsites and 133 utility sites are located through the 14 campgrounds in the Langley Point and Horsethief areas. Buffalo Track Nature Trail is an enthralling 1.5-mile route rich in native plants and wildlife, as well as Native American history. Kanopolis offers 31 miles of trails, all of which start in the state park. The Rockin' K trails take visitors to and from the Rockin' K campgrounds. The Horsethief trails loop through canyons and trees. Farther north and west, the Prairie Trails traverse high prairie and Red Rock Canyon. The Alum Creek trails take visitors across vast prairie and through many water crossings. Be aware that it can take more than a day to complete some trails on foot.
Kanopolis State Park also manages nearby Mushroom Rock State Park, a picnic area with unusual geologic formations that amaze first-time and return visitors alike.


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Danielle's Q & A
Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
Dallas Cowboys, i love football and Im from Texas so i have to love my team :)
What's your favorite movie quote?
Carrie Bradshaw: They say nothing lasts forever; dreams change, trends come and go, but friendships never go out of style -Sex and the City-
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
Fun Run
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
No tattoos but i have 5 ear piercings, looking for more haha
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
Taylor Swift "Trouble"
What's your best party trick?
i can drink the most lol
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
one guy told me he could marry me right then and there .. haha
What's the worst job you've ever had?
im so glad i have not hated any of my jobs...yet haha
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
I think when i picked up the biggest python snake to take a picture with .. it was pretty scary
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
whataburger i love the fries!
What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done in public?
made out with a girl haha
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
skirt and knee high boots
Tell us a joke.
A doctor walked into a bank. Preparing to endorse a check, he pulled a rectal thermometer out of his shirt pocket and tried to 'write' with it. Realizing his mistake, he looked at the thermometer with annoyance and said, "Well that's great, just great... some a**hole's got my pen."


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If your house is anything like mine, you always have some type of fruit wasting away on the counter or in the fridge. I got tired of throwing fruit away when it isn't "pretty" anymore, so I started cooking with it. The easiest is banana bread. It's one of those recipes where "anything close" measurement-wise works.
- 3 or 4 bananas (mashed)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 & 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 to one cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 eggs
Preheat oven to 350. Mash your bananas in a large bowl and add all remaining ingredients. Mix well and pour into a greased (or sprayed) baking dish. bake at 350 for 55 - 60 minutes. It's done when inserted knife comes out clean.


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What are "Indoor" Shoes?
MSGL students get to play outside every day that the weather allows. This means their shoes can get wet and muddy. To avoid tracking that dirt onto the carpet, we ask that you provide your child with one pair of shoes to wear outside and one pair to wear inside.
Your child will probably change outdoor shoes with the seasons - from sandals to sneakers to snow boots - but indoor shoes can stay the same all year. Walking around in the classroom with bare feet is not allowed, so a comfy pair of shoes that the child enjoys wearing is a must.
Below are some good examples of indoor shoes that work well for the children. These styles of shoes keep a child's foot dry from spills, are non-slip, stay attached to the foot, and they allow the child to get them on and off by themselves.
Below are some examples of indoor shoes that DO NOT work well for the children. Slippers are not water-resistant and they can be difficult to walk in. If a child has not yet learned to tie, shoes with laces can be impossible for a child to get on and off by himself. Please save these types of shoes to wear at home.
Because so many children choose the same types of shoes, please be sure to write your child's name on each shoe so we know whose shoes are whose. If you want to be fancy, you can order personalized labels for shoes and clothing online.
Your thoughtfulness when shopping for indoor shoes will help put your child on the path to independence. Thank you!
"No matter what we touch, an atom, or a cell, we cannot explain it without knowledge of the wide universe."
- Maria Montessori, 1948, To Educate the Human Potential
The Elementary students present their space projects in these photos from 2000 - 2001.
Stay warm out there and have a terrific Wednesday!
15 years ago the Lafayette Journal and Courier announced MSGL's plans to add an elementary program and move all of its programs to a new space.
The Morton Community Center on Chauncey Avenue had been MSGL's home since 1985.
As the article states, the new elementary program was originally going to be housed in a home on Rainbow Drive that had been donated by an MSGL family. A change of plans relocated that first class to some available classroom space inside the Temple Israel on Cumberland Avenue.
In February 2001, all of our programs, from the parent-infant class through elementary, moved into our permanent home in the former Calvary Baptist church on Soldiers Home Road.
In 2007, the elementary classes moved into the Montessori House, a remodeled home adjacent to the campus.
MSGL has plans to expand once again in the near future to add a second toddler classroom and a gym/gross motor space.


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