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Roger Jackson
Roger W. Jackson, 61, Topeka, passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, at Midland Hospice House.
Roger was born Dec. 23, 1951, in Marion, Kan., the son of Max Sr. and Patricia (Potter) Jackson. He graduated from Marion High School in 1970 and Kansas State University in 1976 with degrees in business and finance.
He worked as a loan officer for American Savings from 1977-78, a sales agent for Executive Fund Life Insurance from 1978-79, an adjuster for Farmers Insurance Group from 1979-1987, and an agent for Farmers Insurance Group from 1987 until he retired in March 2013.
He was an active member of Faith Community Church and Kaw Valley Cat Backers. Roger was an avid K-State fan and never missed a football or basketball game. Additionally, Roger was an expert snow skier and he enjoyed playing golf and coaching his children's sports teams. The relationships Roger developed with family and friends were always his most prized possessions.
Roger married Sandy Anderson on Jan. 3, 1976, in Marion. She survives. Other survivors include daughter, Stacy (Jon) Ehlers, Jefferson City, Mo.; son, Devin Jackson, Houston, Texas; mother, Patricia Jackson, Yuba City, Calif.; brothers, Dr. Max Jackson Jr., Reno, Nev., and George Jackson, Boise, Idaho; and sister, Helen Jackson-Nicholson, Yuba City, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his father and grandparents, Guy and Martha Jackson and George "Percy" and Helen Potter.
Memorial services were Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at First Baptist Church, Topeka, with a luncheon afterward in the fellowship hall. Private family inurnment was to be at a later date. The family received friends on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, at Penwell-Gabel Southwest Chapel, Topeka.
Memorial contributions may be made to Midland Care, 200 S.W. Frazier Circle, Topeka, KS 66606; Marion Presbyterian Church, 610 E. Lawrence St., Marion, KS 66861; or KU Med Neuro-Oncology in care of Dr. Michael Salacz, 12200 W. 110th, Overland Park, KS 66210.
To leave a special message for the family online, visit http://www.penwellgabeltopeka.com.


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Lawmaker: 'If he knew about that when he testified, that's a lie. That's perjury'The IRS scandal validates the worst fears of law-abiding Americans, could trigger criminal charges and was likely known about in the White House for an extended time, according to Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., a former tax attorney and certified public accountant.
The White House has slowly admitted some there knew about the investigation, but it flatly denies any involvement in the decision to harass tea-party groups and other conservative organizations that also led to targeting of donors and sharing sensitive information with rival activist groups.
Rice believes the administration is much more closely connected to this scandal than it will admit.
"Former IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, when he was questioned in March 2012 in Congress, said there was absolutely no targeting. Now he has said that he was aware in spring 2012 that there was an internal list that included the term 'tea party,' so if he knew about that when he testified, that's a lie. That's perjury," Rice said. "We've had admissions here in the last couple of days about the fact that senior White House aides were aware of it at least as far back as a month ago. This only broke last week, for goodness sake. I'm sure as this investigation continues, we're going to find out more and more and more."
Last Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee held the first congressional hearing into the scandal. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, told the story of a constituent who was targeted for their political donations and their business was subsequently given the third degree by the IRS, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the FBI Domestic Terrorism Unit, the Commission on Environmental Quality and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Rice said that type of government harassment goes beyond the pale.
"If that's true, that goes beyond the realm of unreasonable and into the criminal," Rice said. "That's unconstitutional. There are criminal laws against things like that. That cannot happen, and steps need to be taken to make sure it never happens again."
Rice said in all of his years as a tax attorney and accountant, he never saw a client treated like the IRS dealt with these conservative organizations.
"A couple of times I had clients who it felt like there may have been some personal thing between the IRS agent and the client, but I've never seen an organized series of events like this where apparently people within the service and all up the administration, it looks like they targeted these specific groups," Rice said.
He said the irony of this scandal is that the actions of the IRS validate the reasons for establishing these groups in the first place.
"Our framers established our Constitution based on the citizenry cooperating with the government. This simply undermines the trust of the citizenry in the government. Our government can't work if the citizens don't work with the government," he said. "The framers of our Constitution didn't trust big government. They'd just come out of a revolution against the most powerful country on Earth, and they saw the dangers of big government."
"The tea parties sprang from a mistrust of big government," Rice said. "I ran my campaign on trying to limit the size of government. What you've seen here does nothing but breed further distrust. It shows that their skepticism was well-founded."


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Dukebox: Playground-themed nightclub set to open in Chelsea
The venue is the brainchild of Howard Spooner, who was the principle shareholder at the recently closed Public nightclub in Chelsea. It comes less than a week after Guy Pelly, who was also part of the management team at Public, announced he is to open the Tonteria Mexican cocktail bar and restaurant in Sloane Square in October.
"Public was very big and this is a lot smaller," said Spooner, who now co-owns Dukebox and also owns the Clapham Grand nightclub. I wanted to do my own thing. The relationship between Guy and I was so powerful together at Public that we were victims of our own success.
"Guy's the Pied Piper of the young in Chelsea and all credit to him for his next venture - we're still great friends."
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Located on a 3,000 sq.ft site, Dukebox will have a capacity for 230, operating under the mantra of 'a very British fun club'. It will feature a New York warehouse-style interior with eccentric theatrical touches and a series of nods to fantastical and idiosyncratically British design.
The overall theme will invoke a 'grown-up's playground', celebrating the elements of fun and surprise with nostalgic details prominent throughout, including carousel horses, a roundabout podium, caged jack-in-the-boxes, booths in the guise of Waltzer cars, a giant duck-on-a-spring and private dance floor caves.
Dukebox's staff is made up from the entire team at Public, excluding Pelly. The venue's name is reminiscent of the 17th century nursery rhymes The Grand Old 'Duke' of York and a jack-in-the-'box' toy.
Sharing cocktails, designed for between six and 10 people, at the venue include the Egg and Soldier - a giant egg cup painted with a soldier, which opens to reveal a vodka-based cocktail. The drink will have its own soundtrack, and be delivered to the table by marching soldiers carrying sparklers. 'The Present', an oversized gift box containing a cocktail, will be wrapped in a big bow and served with a confetti bomb.
Learnt from mistakes of Public
Spooner and Pelly were forced to close Public in May of this year due to it being labelled a crime generator for the area. But Spooner believes he has learned from the experience.
"We learned so much from what happened at Public," he said. "The residents are a very powerful voice and you need to listen to them. You need to work very closely with them to make sure everybody can live side-by-side.
"We did make mistakes - we made the offer too available, for too many people that were too young an age. We have an over 21's policy here at Dukebox.
"With Public we stumbled across what we were. And now this time round we've done a full brand exercise to understand what it is that we are, how we will operate and where our pitfalls were before."
Speaking of the potential to expand Dukebox based on its potential success, he added: "I'd like to roll it out internationally, but I wouldn't do another one in the UK."
Dukebox's other co-owner is Dipak Panchal, who is also behind numerous other London ventures. The new nightclub is expected to open on 12 September.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-For the fourth week in succession, a member of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team been honored by the Little East Conference.
Sophomore Kevin Markie (North Attleboro, MA/Nichols) has been named Little East Conference Men's Field Athlete of the Week.
Markie won the triple jump at Saturday's Wheaton Invitational with a leap of 42 feet, 1 ¼ inches. He also competed as a member of the 4 x 200 meter relay team, which finished second in 1:36.83.
"I was pleased to see that Kevin was honored, it reflects the season he has had so far," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "He won the Husky Invitational in December. To end the month of January with a victory at the Wheaton Invitational is a continuation of the success he has displayed as a Corsair."
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After the "La La Land"/"Moonlight" envelope mix-up at the Oscars, searches for the word "gaffe" spiked on the Merriam-Webster website, the company said Monday.
The term, in case last night's brouhaha wasn't explanation enough, means "a mistake made in a social situation" or "a noticeable mistake," the dictionary company said.
Merriam-Webster said Steve Harvey's Miss Universe blunder caused the same search term to soar in 2015.
What can be more special than attending the Oscars? Attending the Oscars with your best friend, if these images of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are anything to go by.
Affleck and Damon have been attending the Academy Awards on and off since they both won original screenplay for "Good Will Hunting" back in 1997.
And at the 89th Academy Awards Affleck and Damon were together, yet again, and their friendship was captured backstage, in the crowd and all over the Oscar show.
The best picture gaffe may have dropped jaws inside the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, but before the show, these are the dresses that turned heads on the red carpet.
Stylist Petra Flannery Instagrammed this concept illustration of the beaded Givenchy Haute Couture gown "La La Land" star Emma Stone accepted her lead actress award in. The hand-embroidered gown reportedly took 1,700 hours to make.
Another of the night's standout looks was this custom-made blue velvet Alberta Ferretti number worn by "Hidden Figures" star Taraji P. Henson.
Two days after the Oscars, still facing questions about the best picture snafu in which he unwittingly found himself embroiled, Warren Beatty called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "publicly clarify" what exactly happened.
In a statement released Tuesday to the Associated Press, the actor declined to comment further on the fumble in which he and fellow presenter Faye Dunaway mistakenly named "La La Land" the best picture winner rather than "Moonlight."
"I feel it would be more appropriate for the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, to publicly clarify what happened as soon as possible," Beatty said.
Very few media outlets get backstage positions for their photographers at the Academy Awards, but the L.A. Times has enjoyed such access for many years now. Here, you'll get a peek at actors, actresses and filmmakers as they let their guards down, like Ashton Sanders, above left, and Jharrel Jerome embrace after "Moonlight" was (eventually) named best picture.
PricewaterhouseCoopers managing partner Brian Cullinan, above right, was one of only two people responsible for handing presenters the correct envelopes. It was Cullinan who gave Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the incorrect envelope for best picture.
Hello, you two! Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux head to the stage.
Turn your attention away from the best-picture envelope mishap at the Oscars on Sunday and check out the new black-and-white men's underwear campaign from Calvin Klein, celebrating the Academy Award-winning "Moonlight."
The ads are already causing a commotion on the Internet, leaving many to possibly swoon after seeing photos of Oscar winner (and shirtless Calvin Klein model) Mahershala Ali and Trevante Rhodes (wearing briefs).
Calvin Klein's new spring 2017 underwear campaign, honoring the actors of "Moonlight," the first LGBTQ film to win best picture at the Academy Awards, will run as print advertisements and appear on billboards. The campaign could broaden visibility and appeal for the indie movie, which was made on a shoestring budget.
When Emma Stone won the Academy Award for actress in a leading role, Brie Larson was among the first people to congratulate the "La La Land" star in person.
"You know what's better than winning? Watching your friends win," said Larson on Twitter and Instagram of the emotional moment above.
As the many different angles shot of this heartfelt scene made the rounds, many fans commented that the tearful hug was among the highlights of the 2017 Oscars. Friendship is beautiful.
Jimmy Kimmel and the Oscars are unlikely to win any awards for casting.
Turns out viral sensation "Gary From Chicago," a.k.a. Gary Alan Coe, the first unsuspecting tourist Jimmy Kimmel introduced to front-row A-listers on Sunday night, was released from prison only three days before he was kissing Nicole Kidman's hand and getting "married" to fiancee Vickie Vines by Denzel Washington.
Following the epic Oscars best picture mix-up on Sunday, a few high-profile seat fillers shared what it was like witnessing the historic gaffe firsthand. The People's eyebrow made an appearance at the Oscars, as did Busy Philipps.
Here's what the stars in our viral reaction shot had to say:
Brie Larson did not applaud, which sparked speculation that she wasn't happy about Casey Affleck's Oscar win for supporting actor.
The actress -- who won an Oscar last year for her portrayal of a survivor of rape -- stood unmoving as Affleck delivered his acceptance speech at Sunday's Academy Awards.
Larson hugged him as she handed him the Oscar, but some interpreted her stance during his speech as a silent protest of sexual harassment. Affleck's Oscar campaign had been dogged by two 2010 civil suits involving allegations of sexual harassment, both of which were later settled.
At Sunday night's Academy Awards, a last-minute fumble overshadowed a much larger, and more significant, event.
While everyone scrambled to absorb, and then deconstruct, the mistaken announcement of "La La Land" as best picture when "Moonlight" had actually won, a thousand conversations about errant envelopes threatened to take the spotlight off the historic nature of the night's winners.
After two years of blistering criticism over back-to-back slates of all-white nominees, the motion picture academy spent the better part of last year attempting to broaden its membership and its sense of what it stood for as the public face of the movie business. Stung by last year's #OscarsSoWhite furor, the group headed into the 89th Academy Awards hoping to turn the page on the diversity debate — and perhaps find a moment of redemption.


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The idea is built around the belief that the world will end on December 21st, 2012 based on the Mayan Calendar. The theme is that we're preparing for the end of the world, and admission would involve bringing a canned good (or other supplies). When the world does not end, everything collected will be donated to charity.
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I thought there had been several parties for far, why not just pick a day, randomly, and say 'this is the day'. If you do this enough times, surely someone will be right sooner or later. So maybe 12/21 would be ok, two days before my 58th. Atleast, if we are right then what taxes are due can be ignored for that coming year.
So what kind of 'end' should we expect? I was hopping for something exotic, like vacuum decay! Or the more mundane like as asteroid impact! Of course, given the new technogies, maybe a very bad experimental result from CERN, or the North Korens missile over shoot?
We could just ignore the whole thing, since when it does happen, we might not be the wiser! Just one nice day cut short.
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Two relay teams from Palo Alto High and 14 local individuals will put it on the line at the 2011 Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships on Friday at Gilroy High. At stake for the top three finishers will be trips to the CIF State Meet at Buchanan High in Clovis on June 3-4.
The local qualifiers to the CCS finals are up from last season when only nine individuals and one relay team made the grade.
Four veterans from last year's section finals return for another shot at the state meet. That group includes Palo Alto senior Maurice Williams, Gunn senior Erin Robinson, Gunn junior Kieran Gallagher and Priory junior Kat Gregory. All four qualified following solid efforts at the CCS semifinals this past Saturday at Gilroy High.
Williams, who is hoping to earn a third trip to the state meet, will be busy in three events on Friday. He qualified fourth in the 100 at 11.09 and was second in the long jump at 21-10. He's also on the Vikings' 400 relay team that clocked a 42.85 while finishing third.
The other relay members are Tremaine Kirkman, Morris Gates-Mouton and Miles Anderson. Their 42.85 ranks second in school history to the 42.74 record from 1980.
Robinson cruised to a fourth-place finish of 11:11.98 in the girls' 3,200 while Gregory finished eighth in 11:15.95 after qualifying in the 1,600 with a 5:11.80 for 11th.
Gallagher was one of two local winners from the semifinals as she raced to victory in the girls' 800 in a season best of 2:12.82. She set the Gunn record of 2:11.36 in last year's semifinals. Teammate Kirsten Baird, a sophomore, was among four who cleared 5-2 in the high jump while tying for first.
Other qualifiers for the girls include Menlo School freshman Maddy Price in the 400 (sixth in 57.76), Menlo-Atherton's Catherine Carpenter in the 400 (eighth in 58.14), Sacred Heart Prep's Maggie Fong in the 100 (seventh in 12.67) and the Palo Alto 1,600 relay team advanced after taking fourth in 4:04.54.
For the boys, Menlo-Atherton's Michael Hester qualified in the 1,600 with a season-best time of 4:22.87, while Gunn junior Andrew Prior was a surprise non-qualifier while taking 19th in 4:29.24 after having a season best some 10 seconds faster. He was among the leaders when he was tripped with a lap to go. While he did manage to get up and finish, it was too late to qualify.
Palo Alto's Grant Sauer continued to run consistent times in the 110 high hurdles and earned a berth in the CCS finals with a 14.85 clocking. Cameron Van of Sacred Heart Prep and Victor Du of Palo Alto each cleared 6-2 in the high jump to advance while M-A senior Stas Della Morte went 21-3 1/2 in the long jump and was the final qualifier.
Menlo School senior Sam Parker made it to the CCS finals in the 800 with a solid time of 1:56.56.S
The CCS finals get under way with the girls' pole vault at 4 p.m. The girls' 400 relay is the first running event at 6 p.m. The 1,600 relays will wrap up the evening, with the girls starting first at 9:15 p.m.


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In the spirit of this evening, I want you to turn back to Psalm 107. This is an evening of thanks. This is an evening of praise for our salvation, for our God of salvation, for the Christ of our salvation. When I think about salvation in an Old Testament context, I'm so often drawn to Psalm 107. And I confess that I am stuck on this psalm. It is a glorious psalm.
It has a special significance to me because one of the most startling and one of the most amazing and one of the most God-glorifying conversions that has ever happened in this church and in my life occurred after I read this psalm. I didn't preach on it; I just read it, closed the Bible, sat down, and never referred to it again.
There was a young man sitting over in this area that Sunday morning who was one of the leaders of the gay and lesbian community in Los Angeles; a well-known and admired leader in that movement, also dying of AIDS. And he had said to somebody in Hollywood, in his environment, "I'm afraid to die and I don't know what to do about it. I need help." And whoever this person was, said, "You need to go to a place called Grace Community Church," and he did.
And I read the Psalm 107 and he was just literally shattered to the very core of his being. And he was a heap of brokenness and tears and sadness and joy, all mingled together because that psalm says there is a God who breaks the chains and sets the prisoner free.
He said to me later, he said, "Then you got up and you talked and you kept preaching and preaching and just kept going, and I kept saying, "Why doesn't that guy shut up so I can get down there and find out how this can happen in my life?" (Laughter) And so finally I shut up and he came down here and was just totally transformed and revolutionized. I had the privilege of baptizing Robert Logerstrum, that young man, and he had an incredible testimony in that world before he died.
So this psalm is precious to me because it's a psalm of salvation. As much as any part of the Old Testament, it puts us in touch with how people in the Old Testament were saved. It's just a profound, profound psalm. And it's really all about praise. Worship and praise and honor to God is really a matter of thanking God.
When Paul indicts the human race in Romans 1, he says, "They weren't thankful." Romans 1:21, "They weren't thankful." And if we're gonna worship God--and that's what we want to do tonight--if we're gonna honor Him and praise Him and extol Him and lift Him up, then we have to focus on being grateful for our redemption, don't we?
To help us express this, I want us to look at this incredible psalm. It calls us to the worship of God through thanksgiving for our salvation. This wonderful psalm was sung by the Jews especially to thank God for redeeming His people from threatening disaster and death.
It was used in a myriad of ways in the vicissitudes and struggles and sorrows of life, at times of disaster. In times of death, this was the psalm of thanks for deliverance. It provides a rich picture of the divine work of redemption, the divine work of restoration, particularly in regard to the redemption and restoration of Israel by the mercy and goodness of God.
Israel, as you know, had been redeemed and rescued and restored by God over and over and over through the centuries. They had been rescued from Egypt in the south. They had been rescued from Assyria and Syria to the north. They had been rescued from the Philistines to the west and they were rescued from the Babylonians to the east. They had plenty of reason to sing about God's great deliverance.
The opening verses are a summons to thank God. Verse 1 says, "Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south." In that summation rehearses all of the deliverances of Israel from every direction.
Now the psalm was mostly likely written after the exile in Babylon. It perhaps then looks especially at the Babylonian exile, the redemption of the people of God from their Babylonian captivity. And while that may be in some ways its most poignant reference, it is certainly not limited to that. In fact, it provides general pictures of God's redemption of Old Testament saints and as well of God's redemption even of us. It is applicable to all who have been redeemed from sin.
I'm fairly sure that this psalm was used for worship, particularly by the Jews who returned from Babylon to rebuild their city and rebuild the wall and rebuild the nation. Perhaps this psalm was even sung at the first Feast of Tabernacles that Ezra 3 says was celebrated right after they returned.
The key phrase there in verse 2 is, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so." Those who have been redeemed are the ones who ought to be praising God and thanking God. Those who have been redeemed are those who can genuinely sing the song of thanksgiving for God's goodness and God's mercy to them.
Goodness and mercy is the theme of the song, and it's the theme of the life of one who has tasted its sweetness and been invited to sing praises to a redeeming God. And as I said, it's not just Israel's song; it's our song, for we have been redeemed by mercy and by the goodness of God, and we have every right to sing this same song.
As you look at it, you see four illustrations of God's redemption. They're just very lovely, very magnificent, and yet simple pictures. Four pictures of God's redemption. First, in verses 4 to 9, God's redemption is like a lost caravan finding a safe city. Secondly, from verses 10 to 16, God's redemption is like a captive prisoner being set free.
Thirdly, in verses 17 to 22, God's redemption is like a sick person having found health. And finally, in verses 23 to 32, God's redemption is like a doomed sailor being rescued from certain death in a storm. Each of these poignant, graphic analogies illustrates the blessedness of God's redemption.
Perhaps we can envision a large throng of worshipers filling the court of the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and ready to offer thanks to God for their restoration. And in that vast multitude, one of the groups might consist of the leaders of caravans who had been stranded in the wilderness on their way to the holy city.
Another group might be made up of those who had been prisoners and been set free. Another might be made up of those who had suffered the terrible pangs of sickness and had risen from the bed of sickness in recovery. And perhaps there were some there who had suffered the dangers of shipwreck and been spared. And those are the pictures here, and they're graphic.
This is also, from the theological standpoint, a clear picture of how it was that a person in the Old Testament came to salvation. It was when they realized that they were lost, when they realized that they were prisoners, when they realized that they were sick, and when they realized that they were doomed to disaster, when they realized that they couldn't keep the law of a holy God, they couldn't love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength.
They were disobedient. They were rebellious. They were wayward. They saw the true lostness of their soul, the true imprisonment of their spirit. They realized the sickness of their sinfulness and the doom that awaited them, and they came to God and cried out.
Now each of these four pictures falls into the same pattern. The psalmist follows a sequence here. First, there is the predicament. Then there is the petition. Then there is the pardon. And then there is the praise. The predicament is the dangerous situation described. The petition is the cry for deliverance from that danger. The pardon is the merciful deliverance provided. And the praise is the call to thanks that follows.
Our own redemption from sin is imaged in these magnificent analogies. We, too, are like people lost in the wilderness, locked in prison, languishing in deadly sickness, and life-threatened on a storm-tossed sea. This picture then is not only of the redeemed of the Old Testament, but us as well.
Let's start with the first picture. It's very, very clear--that of being lost in a wilderness, verse 4: "They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them." There's the predicament. There is the predicament--restless, lost, sinners without resources, starved and thirsty, wandering hopelessly in a trackless desert, aimlessly looking for a city which can provide food and water, rest, and safety.
Obviously this could well depict Israel in the forty years wandering in the wilderness, when they came out of Egypt wandering restlessly and aimlessly, roaming around in a wasteland, a howling desert between Egypt and Canaan where they all eventually died under divine judgment.
It also surely could be used to describe the terrible plight of Israel and the land of Babylon lost as a nation, defused into a pagan culture in a religious desert of godlessness at the very point of perishing. It could also describe us, any troubled, destitute, forlorn, lost soul wandering aimlessly in the barrenness of sin without the soul-supplying spiritual bread and water of life.
That's how sinners are. They wander, looking for a city, someplace where there's water, someplace where there's food, where there's provision and joy and fellowship and rest and security and safety from the ever-present and impending death.
That leads to the petition in verse 6. This point psalmist says, "Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble." People ask me all the time, "How were people in the Old Testament saved?" When they realized their spiritual condition and cried out to the Lord. That's how. They cried out to the Lord in their distresses.
Israel certainly cried to the Lord in Egypt. They cried to the Lord in Babylon, they beseeching God for redemption from bondage and redemption from barrenness. They told God of their famished and serious plight and condition. They illustrate, really, sinners of all times who recognize their failure to keep the law of God, who recognized their lostness, their aimlessness; who recognized their deprived and their depraved and dangerous condition.
They recognized that they were wandering aimlessly from place to place and job to job and marriage to marriage and experience to experience, and never finding any lasting satisfaction. And they desperately want to find their way to an inhabited city of safety and peace and tranquility and satisfaction.
They're really looking, according to Hebrews 11:10, for a city whose builder and maker is God; a city that has foundations. It's not transient. This is where the sinner has to come to a desperate sense of need.
In the Old Testament, persons saw of the law of God and saw that he or she couldn't keep it, and recognized the desperate condition, recognized the alienation from God, recognized that there was impending death on the horizon, and cried out to God in the condition of lostness, like sinners of any day who realized that the whole world is a barren wasteland of vast empty desert; stark and deadly will become desperate enough and hungry enough and thirsty enough and pained enough and frightened enough to call out to God for a way to a city, a city with limitless resources, provisions, rest, security, and satisfaction.
And verse 6 says--and this is so wonderful--"And He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city for a dwelling place." When Israel called to God, He heard them, and He delivered them, and He led them to a right way.
Actually, the Hebrew is a straight way. It literally means a road without humps and bumps and curves and turns, an easy road. The grace of salvation makes it an easy way. The journey is depicted as a straight way, an easy way. God provided goodness and mercy and grace, and it was Him who did all the work. All we had to do was receive it.
Well, the petition leads to the pardon, and the pardon leads to the praise in verses 8 and 9, "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness." What could more deserve the praise and thanks of God's people than that they are safely on their way to the heavenly city?
The second picture here is also a lovely picture. It's a picture of being liberated from a prison, lost in a wilderness, and secondly, locked in a prison. Verse 10, here's the imagery very clearly: "Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons."
Now there is a picture of a prisoner in a dungeon, in the darkness, in the shadow of death. People in those kinds of places died from the filth of those places, chained in iron chains that created tremendous suffering. They were there, verse 11 says--and here's the key--"Because they rebelled against"...What?..."the words of God." And "they had despised the counsel of the Most High. Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down and there was none to help."
The sinner not only looked at his life and recognized the aimlessness and the lostness and the hopelessness and the insecurity and the fears and the lack of satisfaction and the hunger of heart and the thirst. And Jesus talked about that in the beatitudes, didn't he. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness."
The sinner not only understands the aimlessness and the hopelessness and the despair and the emptiness, but he also understands that he is imprisoned as the result of a violation of Gods laws, a result of rebellion against the counsel of God, as a result of rebellion against the Word of God.
When Israel was in Egypt and when Israel was in Babylon, more recently, the experience was like in prison, and they had really no hope of freedom. They were there because of rebellion. They were there because of disobedience. They were, as it were, chained in the darkness and gloom of that pagan place.
They were like people in a dungeon, a stinking, smelly, filthy dungeon on death row waiting either execution or death from the conditions, without light and without hope. This calamitous situation was brought on by rebellion against the law of God by sin.
And in the Old Testament, it was that. The sinner not only had to come to the realization of his lostness and his insecurity and his aimlessness and his pointlessness, but the fact that he had to come to grips with the fact he had violated God, that he had broken God's law, that he had rebelled against God, and a righteous God had sentenced him literally to a prison of judgment.
This is how it was for Israel. They were taken into captivity in Babylon because of their rebellion. The prophets made that very clear. Read the first part of Zechariah. They had despised everything God said. Isaiah said the same thing in Isaiah chapter 5. He said, "You have despised the words of the Lord, that's why you're going into captivity."
I guess Zedekiah, who was their ruler, is kind of a model, kind of a symbol of their condition. You remember what the Babylonians did to Zedekiah? They took him and they slaughtered his sons right before him, and then they plucked his eyes out so that he would, in the rest of his lifetime of blindness, have the horrifying last image of the slaughter of his sons in his memory.
And then after doing that to him, they sacked and burned and destroyed Jerusalem and took the people captive. That was how he was hauled off in chains, by the way they put him in chains and hauled him off. It was like a picture of Israel. It was like an analogy or a symbol or a metaphor for the nation.
The sinner has to come to the recognition of this. And in the Old Testament that's where the sinner who would come to God would come--come to the realization that he had rebelled against God and that he was in the prison of his own sins, sentenced to damnation. He would come to the recognition of his spiritual imprisonment.
Adam, in all his posterity, rebelled against God and His Word; and the whole race is imprisoned in a dungeon of darkness, awaiting execution. Life is hard and unfulfilling. The soul of sinners is confined in the prison of inequity and the guilt and dissatisfaction, bound with chains too strong to be broken, living in total darkness, and realizing that this is a sentence of God because of sin. The sinner awakens.
And that leads to the petition in verse 13: "They cried out to the Lord in their trouble." That's where they come. That's where the sinner has to come. It's the same as verse 6: "They cried out to the Lord in their trouble." The same exact pattern. And then you go from the petition to the pardon in verse 13. And the same immediate reaction, "And then He saves them out of their distresses."
Jesus said it this way, "Him that comes unto me, I'll in no wise"...What?..."cast out." "And He saved them out of their distresses. And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains in pieces." That is glorious, isn't it? The sinner's chains, like Peter's chains, fell off at the word of the Redeemer, and he was brought into the light.
Charles Wesley put it this way, "He breaks the power of canceled sin and"...What?..."sets the prisoner free." Suddenly and instantaneously. And such pardon leads to praise. And the psalmist pleads if this has happened to you, "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of man."
That's the refrain that ends each of these images. The joy--Have you forgotten the joy consequent to such deliverance? "Oh that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness." Lost in a wilderness, restless; locked in a prison, guilty and miserable.
Thirdly, languishing in a sickness; another graphic image. Fools--again, the indictment comes because of their transgression and because of their inequities--were afflicted. They were made ill. It's like a fatal, deadly illness; a fatal, deadly sickness. And as would be true of someone with that kind of illness, you will notice that in verse 18 it says, "Their soul abhorred all manner of"...What?..."food."
When a person reaches the last throes of the deadly illness, they have no, what? No appetite. Loss of appetite. And he says in verse 18, "And they drew near to the gates of death." This is a picture, again, of the sinner in his lost condition; could be Israel in Babylon languishing in trouble. Could even be a reference that could apply to Numbers 21:4-9.
Remember the story of the snakes that came in and bit them? And when they were near to death, they were called to look to the serpent that was lifted up, who was the picture of Christ? Here is the imagery. Sinners are sick with a deadly, incurable ailment, requiring divine and miraculous intervention for a cure.
So the sinner not only realizes his aimlessness; he not only realizes his profound guilt and misery, but he realizes his impotence. He doesn't have the strength or the capability to bring about a cure. He has a condition that is hopeless. He is unable to handle life. He is unable to deal with issues in life. He has no peace. He just wastes away to death.
That's how sinners are--wanderers, restless, aimless; like prisoners, also chained, held in darkness, like depressed, sick neurotics who can't cope, who can't help themselves. And in each case, whether lost in the wilderness, locked in prison, or languishing in sickness, death is imminent. When a sinner comes to this realization, verse 19 says, "Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;" same exact flow. "Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble."
And the petition leads again to the pardon. This is so wonderful. "And He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." Is this not the goodness of God? Is this not the mercy of God? Here are these lost; here are these locked; here are these languishing, crying out to a God who eagerly, eagerly hears.
Sinners sick with guilt, sick with anxiety, listless, depressed, troubled, without appetite, on the edge, on the brink, in desperation call out, and God hears. Boy, this is just the absolute opposite from the way the Pharisees viewed their religion, isn't it? The kingdom belonged to the people who were righteous, self-righteous. Here God offers pardon to the people who recognize how bad they are, not how good they are.
And the pardon leads to the praise again, Verse 21. "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men." The psalmist is just pleading here. The psalmist is pleading again. He repeats himself four times with this, and it really is a plead, saying, "Please don't be thankless. Please don't be thankless."
Praise is what is appropriate; worship, adoration, gratitude. Psalm 105 says, "Oh, give thanks to the Lord...make known His deeds among the people. Sing to Him," verse 2, "Sing praises to Him. Talk of all His wondrous works." You can't possibly forget you should be praising and praising and praising and thanking God and thanking God.
And when the church gathers, this is what the church gathers to do: to worship and praise and honor God and lift up His saving character and His saving work, and exalt the Savior through whom this salvation was provided. Jesus hadn't yet died, but the pardon God offered to a penitent sinner was offered because Jesus would one day bear that sinner's guilt.
Even though He hadn't yet died, He would be the sacrifice for that Old Testament penitent. And the sins of that Old Testament penitent would be placed on Christ, who would bear them. Lost in a wilderness, locked in a prison, languishing in a sickness, and finally, life threatened in a storm, verse 23. These were the kind of things that people in the ancient world experienced. It happened all the time.
Terrible sand storms caused people to be lost. Prisons abounded with filth and death. Sickness was everywhere--epidemics, deadly plagues, and also because so much transportation was done on the sea. The sea, of course, was equally, if not more, threatening.
And so that's his last illustration in verse 23, "Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on great waters; they see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts of the waves of the sea. They mount up to the heavens; they go down again to depths." This is the surging sea.
"And the soul of the sailor melts because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end." This is, again, the predicament. He always starts with the predicament. The fearful dangers of man's sinful condition is like a storm at sea with its impending drowning. This really requires little comment.
Israel's captivity in Babylon was like this. It was like a storm at sea, like Jonah's experience with the sailors headed for Tarshish. I'll tell ya, there's nothing more frightening, I understand. I haven't experienced it. But people who have say there's nothing more frightening than being on a ship that's sinking in a storm. And souls literally melt; terror seizes the heart when there's not harbor and no rescue and only death.
The Jews knew that the storm of the Babylonian captivity had swept over the whole nation and threatened to drown them all. But more than that, it was an individual storm that would drown each soul. The world is a sea to sinners. It's a troubled sea. It's a sea full of temptation and sorrow and suffering, and its waves will one day drown.
The prince of the power of the air is really blowing the stormy wind. Heaven is the safe port and it can't be reached, though, by all the sinners' efforts, can it? The violence of life, the uncertainty of life, the oppressions of life, the disappointments of life, the agitations of life all pose death and disaster.
And so again comes the petition simply uttered in verse 28, "Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses." If ever there was a question about whether God was a willing savior, it should be answered by this psalm, shouldn't it? These people aren't deserving. These people are undeserving. We all are.
And the petition is answered with a pardon. "He brings them out of their distresses. He calms the storm so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because they're quiet. So He guides them to their desired haven." Just beautiful language from the restless, miserable, sick, fearful, aimless, wandering life, headed absolutely nowhere, with no resources, hopelessly near death and hell, calling on the Lord. It's all it requires.
I think some people may assume that people were saved in the Old Testament by some other way than we understand in the New Testament. Not at all. It was a matter of the sinner recognizing his condition; recognizing he was on the brink of death; recognizing he had no strength and no ability to solve the problem and deliver himself; knowing that he was a rebel who had violated God's law and couldn't satisfy God's law and earn salvation. He couldn't get himself to the Holy City. He couldn't get himself out of prison. He couldn't get himself out of the storm to the safe haven. He couldn't do anything to cure his own illness. And so he cries out to God.
I think maybe the single greatest illustration in the Bible of an Old Testament conversion is in Luke 18 where you have the Pharisees saying, "Aren't you glad, Lord, that I'm not like these other people? I tithe and I do all this." And then you have in the corner, looking down on the ground, beating his breast, the publican, and he's saying, "God, be"...What?..."merciful to me, a..." and Jesus said, "That's the man that went home justified."
That is a classic Old Testament conversion. And it was possible because of the sin-bearing of Christ, who would bear the sins of that man, just like He bears the sins of the one who believes today. The law of God, then and now, was to crush the sinner; to expose him for all this kind of condition for which he had no remedy but to cry to God for mercy.
Another one of the most remarkable conversions in our church--I was in my office one day, and I received a phone call from the hospital down the road, and I didn't know the person who called. He had someone in the hospital; called and said, "There's a man here dying and he wants to see you. You don't know him, but he wants to see you." So I got in my car and I went down to the hospital. It was just about six o'clock in the evening, and I walked in the room and it was another guy who was dying of AIDS.
And there was a homosexual friend or two of his. There was a homosexual from the homosexual assistance line or whatever it is that comes to help people when they have AIDS. And there was a homosexual nurse. And I walked into the room, and I immediately realized the situation. And I went over to him. His name was David Chastine.
And I said, "David, I'm John MacArthur. You called the church; you wanted me?" He said, "Yes." He said, "I've lived 20 years in this lifestyle and," he said, "I'm damned and I'm on my way to hell, and I grew up in a Christian family, and I went to a Bible college for two years. And I know the gospel and I rejected it. And I rebelled against the words of the Lord. And," he said, "I've lived this way."
He was a bathhouse homosexual of the worst ilk. It was a horrific scene. He said, "I don't want to die. I'm afraid to die. Please, can you help me?" And at that point, those guys went out of there like somebody was chasing them. (Laughter) I said, "Well, can you explain the gospel so that I know you understand?" And he went through the gospel; understood it clearly.
And I said, "How do you feel about the life you've lived?" He said, "It is sin." And then he just gushed out this, "It is wretched. I've always known it's rotten. I've always known God hated it. I've always known it's wrong. I've lived with terrible guilt and now I'm gonna go to hell!" He said, "What do I do? What do I do?" I said, "Well, I only know one thing to do."
I never give a guy a formula to pray. I said, "I only know one thing to do and that is this: Cry out to God in your distress and ask Him if he will save you. I can't save you and you can't save yourself through a formula. You ask God to save you." Now I know that when a truly penitent sinner cries out to God, He hears. Right?
This is what it says. "They cried out to the Lord in their trouble and He"...What?..."saved them out of their distresses." I said, "You just cry out to God." So he took my hand. I mean it was one of the most passionate prayers; one of those prayers that I'll never forget. "Please God. I'm so sorry. Please, please don't let me die in my sin. Please save me!"
He went on for like ten minutes, and he says...as much strength as he had, he's just wringing my hand. And then he was finished praying and then I prayed for quite a long time and just asked God to be merciful and gracious and put His glory on display and show that He was a saving God and He would rescue a sinner at the last moment. And we prayed; then it was over.
Our prayers were over and he just sat back in his bed. There was tremendous anguish and tears and all this. He just kind of broke into a smile and he looked over at the wall. I said, "What are you looking at?" He said, "I'm looking at the calendar over there." I said, "Why?" He said, "I want to remember the date of my new beginning."
And I'm not real mystical about things, but I know when you call on God, He hears, 'cause the Scripture says that. And he lived five days. And I went down there and just kept passing information. He was cramming for his finals. (Laughter) I took him books and tapes. He wanted to show up in heaven knowing at least a few things. (Laughter) And he witnessed to everybody who came to see him from that community.
God is in the business of hearing the cry of the distressed, isn't He? And you may not be in that category of sinner, but we were all in that category of sins somewhere. And we cried out and He heard us. And so the psalmist says in verse 31, "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness and His wonderful works to the children of men."
And you know what ought to happen every time your people meet, every time you gather as a church? You ought to be thanking God for His gift of salvation; that your whole church oughta be just exuberant. You sang tonight. You just sang your hearts out tonight because of the joy of your salvation, right? You were just lifted up. When Dianne was singing about, "We shall see Him face to face," that's real. That's not some fantasy. That's not some illusion. We understand that's where we're headed.
When the quartet was singing about the trumpet of Jesus, we know that's gonna sound. Those are all realities to us, and we sing with such exuberance. When an unbeliever walks in a church they oughta be overwhelmed with the joy and gratitude--just worshiping God, just glorifying God. I've said this and I'll say it again, "No man seeks after God." We want to have a seeker-friendly service. But no man seeks after God. But God seeks true worshipers. And He's the Seeker we're concerned about.
We want to just be so caught up in worship that like in 1 Corinthians 14, "A sinner would say, 'God is in this place,' and fall down on his face." We want people to eavesdrop on a worshiping community of people who are thrilled and excited and blessed and full of joy and gratitude.
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The final leg of the Triple Crown has been run and the Kentucky Derby is much too far away. But that doesn't mean that the thought of horse racing has completely left my mind.
For a while now, I've been wanting to try my hand at horseback riding, something I haven't done since miniature ponies visited my preschool when I was four.
Finding the opportunity at the age of 23, I finally took my first horseback riding lesson last week at Zubrod Stables in Prospect, Ky.
A full-service, family-owned and operated Saddlebred equestrian facility, Zubrod Stables is known as one of the premier places in the world specializing in the American Saddlebred horse, with more than 50 years of experience in offering riding lessons, training and boarding.
Three generations of the Zubrod family now work at the barn, which is headed by Bonnie Zubrod and her daughter, Cindy Zubrod Boel.
Cindy, a world-champion trainer, co-chair of the United States Saddle Seat World Cup and co-chair of the USEF Saddle Seat Equitation committee, was my instructor for the day. With more than 20 world championships, 29 national and reserve national championships and having taught riders on five U.S. World Cup teams, I couldn't have found a better teacher.
But before I could begin my first lesson, I had to calm my slight fear of being bitten by a horse. I know it's ridiculous, but two weeks ago, I was hesitant to even feed an equine a peppermint at the Rock Creek Horse Show. Horse teeth are intimidating – okay?
Nonetheless, it was time I conquered this somewhat unreasonable worry, and looked a horse in its eyes. Walking right up to Beau, the Saddlebred I rode for my lesson, I slowly pet his nose and was surprised to find that there was no chomping at my hand.
Now that my fear was relinquished, I had to learn to mount a horse. Cindy first taught me the proper technique and, using a step ladder for assistance, I saddled up.
There was more to riding than I expected: a method for mounting, holding the reigns, sitting straight, resting your feet, turning the horse, starting and stopping.
I may not have been Cindy's finest student, but I felt I caught on pretty quickly and 30 minutes later, I was off on my own, leading Beau around Zubrod's indoor arena.
In one lesson, I gained a ton of knowledge and a huge appreciation for horseback and, well, horses in general.
Aside from the fun of riding a horse, horseback is also a great form of exercise and extremely therapeutic. Since horses can sense anxiety and respond accordingly, if you want a tame horse, you'd better act tame yourself. I, like everyone, face plenty of stress from day to day, whether at work, with family or in relationships. But when you're on a horse, it's best to let that all fall to the side.
During my 30-minute lesson, I forced myself to quiet my mind and trust that Beau would take care of me – not bite me. Before I knew it, I was basking in the simple moment of cruising on a Saddlebred, and all that worry about the outside world became totally irrelevant.
Amazed at my ability to become so calm while riding, I was also incredibly impressed by how docile and intelligent my horse was. Even with an inexperienced rider, Beau was carefree and listened well to all of my commands.
Following my lesson, I stayed back to watch a champion rider complete her lesson and witnessed how much more these horses are capable of doing. I thought I wanted a new puppy, but after my experience at Zubrod Stables, maybe I'd better save up so I can purchase my first Saddlebred horse. If not, I'll at least have some extra cash to return to the stable for a few more horseback riding lessons.
At just $30 for 30 minutes, Zubrod Stables offers Saddle Seat riding lessons for all ages and experience levels. Double-saddle lessons are also offered. In addition to instruction, Zubrod features more than 40 permanent stalls, a large, indoor year-round riding arena, a heated viewing lounge, indoor wash racks, tack, feed rooms and outdoor pastures.
Lessons are taught Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday lessons are for show horses.
In all this Derby down-time, don't let yourself suffer from pony withdrawal. It's never too late to learn how to ride horseback, and it's well worth the benefit of both exercise and a relaxing break from your day.
Zubrod Stables
3500 Locke Lane
Prospect, Ky.
Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m.; Show horse lessons held on Saturday.
Arrive 10 minutes prior to the start of the lesson. Wear appropriate clothing – for beginners this includes long pants (jeans or sweatpants) and shoes or boots with a hard, non-slick sole.
Zubrod Camps
Two 3-day camps are offered each summer, as well as one-day camps each spring and winter break.
There are beginner, intermediate and advanced camps for children of all ages – no experience necessary.
At each camp, attendees can ride twice daily, learn how to groom, wash, and braid tails, as well as parts of the horse and tack. Arts and crafts projects are offered daily, as is bareback riding and much more.
For more information on Zubrod Stables, visit www.zubrodstables.com or call 502.228.3377.
Contact writer Ashley Anderson at firstname.lastname@example.com, 502.498.2051.
Photos By CHRIS HUMPHREYS | The Voice-Tribune


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Passion spears research
Hauff '03 hopes to better lives of women, babies
September 4, 2013
By Jillian Birkholz '15
As anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Although Laura Hauff is modest about how her research is changing the world, her breastfeeding research has no doubt made a difference on the lives of mothers in the 10 short years since her graduation from the College of Saint Benedict in 2003.
"If it helps even one woman have a more positive breastfeeding experience, that changes her world," Hauff said. "And that's what it's all about - bettering the life of one person at a time."
She is now an assistant professor of anthropology and public health science at Santa Clara University in California. In addition to teaching, Hauff continues her research which centers on issues of maternal health and public health in the United States.
"My research explores how maternal characteristics affect breastfeeding outcomes," Hauff said. "The benefits of breastfeeding are well known and today most women want to breastfeed, yet they face a variety of obstacles. I conduct research to assist in identifying and alleviating those challenges."
These obstacles include things such as a negative labor and delivery experience, lack of support for breastfeeding mothers in the workforce, and Hauff's particular focus, challenges faced by women who are overweight or obese.
Hauff graduated from CSB with a degree in sociology. After graduation, she went on to study anthropology and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2011. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Health to research maternal and child nutrition at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
"I was inspired by many faculty members at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and I truly enjoy learning, so the role of a professor seemed a natural fit," Hauff said. "One part of my job that I really enjoy is the interactions I have with students, especially in small groups or one-on-one. It's here that I can most easily see that I'm making a positive impact in someone's life."
Hauff stays connected to the CSB community through volunteering as an alumna speaker at admission events as well as serving as a resource for current students with an interest in anthropology.
"CSB/SJU is a place made special by all the people who have walked its grounds," Hauff said. "It is a group that I am honored to be a part of and a place that I will enjoy belonging to forever."
Hauff credits much of her professional success to the life skills that she gained from her liberal arts education at CSB/SJU.
"I reflect often on how well Saint Ben's and Saint John's prepared me to read and write well, think critically, present my ideas, entertain diverse perspectives, and most importantly, how to learn," Hauff said. "In addition, while at Saint Ben's, I came to understand the importance of thinking of others, especially those who may be different from me, and the value of building community wherever I find myself."


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Sirolimus, Cyclosporine, and Mycophenolate Mofetil in Preventing Graft-versus-Host Disease in Treating Patients With Blood Cancer Undergoing Donor Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01251575
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 2, 2010
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia Adult Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Adult Myelodysplastic Syndrome Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia Childhood Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Childhood Myelodysplastic Syndrome Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in Remission Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm Mantle Cell Lymphoma Plasma Cell Myeloma Prolymphocytic Leukemia Recurrent Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia T-Cell Prolymphocytic Leukemia Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia Recurrent Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Hodgkin Lymphoma
|Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Drug: Cyclosporine Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil Procedure: Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Drug: Sirolimus Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation
|Phase 2
I. To determine whether the incidence of acute GVHD grades II-IV can be reduced to less than the historical rate of 70% with the triple-immunosuppressant combination of cyclosporine (CSP)/mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) with sirolimus in human leukocyte antigens (HLA) class I or class II mismatched related or unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) using nonmyeloablative conditioning. The evaluation will be carried out separately among class I and class II mismatched patients.
I. To evaluate the incidence of non-relapse mortality before day 100.
II. To evaluate the incidences of grades III-IV acute GVHD.
CONDITIONING: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo total-body irradiation on day 0.
TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.
IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive sirolimus orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days -3 to 180 with taper to day 365; cyclosporine PO twice daily (BID) on days -3 to 150 with taper to day 180; and mycophenolate mofetil PO thrice daily (TID) on days 0-30 and then BID to day 100 with taper to day 150.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 6 months and every year thereafter.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|77 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study to Assess Immunosuppression With Sirolimus Combined With Cyclosporine (CSP) and Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) for Prevention of Acute GVHD After Non-Myeloablative HLA Class I or II Mismatched Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation- A Multi-Center Trial
|Actual Study Start Date :
|December 1, 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 23, 2018
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 11, 2019
Experimental: Treatment (fludarabine, transplant, immunosuppression)
CONDITIONING: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo total-body irradiation on day 0.
TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.
IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive sirolimus PO QD on days -3 to 180 with taper to day 365; cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 150 with taper to day 180; and mycophenolate mofetil PO TID on days 0-30 and then BID to day 100 with taper to day 150.
Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant
Other Names:
Drug: Cyclosporine
Given PO or IV
Other Names:
Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate
Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil
Given PO
Other Names:
Procedure: Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
Undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant
Other Names:
Drug: Sirolimus
Given PO
Other Names:
Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation
Undergo total-body irradiation
Other Names:
- Rate of grade II-IV acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I or II mismatched nonmyeloablative transplants [ Time Frame: By day 100 ]
- Rate of grade III-IV acute GVHD [ Time Frame: By day 100 ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Older Adult
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages > 50 years with hematologic malignancies treatable by related or unrelated HCT
- Ages =< 50 years of age with hematologic diseases treatable by allogeneic HCT who through pre-existing medical conditions or prior therapy are considered to be at high risk for regimen related toxicity associated with a high dose transplant (> 40% risk of transplant-related mortality [TRM]); this criterion can include patients with a HCT-comorbidity index (CI) score of >= 1; transplants should be approved for these inclusion criteria by the principal investigators at the collaborating centers and at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC); all children < 12 years must be discussed with the FHCRC principal investigator (PI) prior to registration
- Ages =< 50 years of age with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- Ages =< 50 years of age with hematologic diseases treatable by allogeneic HCT who refuse a high-dose HCT; transplants must be approved for these inclusion criteria by the principal investigators at the collaborating centers and at FHCRC
- Aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and other histologies such as diffuse large B cell NHL: not eligible for autologous HCT, not eligible for high-dose allogeneic HCT, or after failed autologous HCT
- Mantle cell NHL: may be treated in first complete remission (CR); (diagnostic lumbar puncture [LP] required pre-transplant)
- Low grade NHL: with < 6 month duration of CR between courses of conventional therapy
- CLL: must have either 1) failed to meet National Cancer Institute (NCI) Working Group criteria for complete or partial response after therapy with a regimen containing fludarabine (FLU) (or another nucleoside analog, e.g. cladribine [2-CDA], pentostatin) or experience disease relapse within 12 months after completing therapy with a regimen containing FLU (or another nucleoside analog); 2) failed FLU-cyclophosphamide (CY)-Rituximab (FCR) combination chemotherapy at any time point; or 3) have "17p deletion" cytogenetic abnormality; patients should have received induction chemotherapy but could be transplanted in first (1st) CR; 4) patients with a diagnosis of CLL (or small lymphocytic lymphoma) that progresses to prolymphocytic leukemia (PLL); or 5) patients with T-cell CLL or PLL
- Hodgkin lymphoma: must have received and failed frontline therapy
- Multiple myeloma: must have received prior chemotherapy; consolidation of chemotherapy by autografting prior to nonmyeloablative HCT is permitted
- Acute myeloid leukemia (AML): must have < 5% marrow blasts at the time of transplant
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL): must have < 5% marrow blasts at the time of transplant
- Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML): patients in chronic phase 1 (CP1) must have failed or be intolerant of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs); patients beyond CP1 will be accepted if they have < 5% marrow blasts at time of transplant
- Myelodysplasia (MDS)/myeloproliferative syndrome (MPS): patients must have < 5% marrow blasts at time of transplant
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia: must have failed 2 courses of therapy
- Patients with related or unrelated donors for whom the best available donor is: a) mismatched at antigen level for any single class I locus (HLA-A, -B, -C) +/- an additional class I mismatch at the allele level OR mismatched at the allele level for any 2 class I loci (if typed at the molecular level) OR mismatched at the antigen or allele level for class II loci HLA-DRB1 and/or - DQB1; must be matched for at least one DRB1 allele and one DQB1 allele; b) there is a likelihood of rapid disease progression while HLA typing and results of a preliminary search and the donor pool suggests that a 10/10 HLA-A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 matched donor will not be found; c) there is no HLA-A, -B or -C one locus allelic mismatched donor available
DONOR: Related or unrelated volunteer donors who are mismatched with the recipient within one of the following limitations:
- Mismatch for one HLA class I antigen with or without an additional mismatch for one HLA-class I allele, but matched for HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQ, OR
- Mismatched for two HLA class I alleles, but matched for HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQ, OR
- HLA class I HLA-A, -B, -C allele matched donors allowing for any one or two DRB1 and/or DQB1 antigen allele mismatch
- DONOR: HLA-matching must be based on results of high resolution typing at HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB
- DONOR: If the patient is homozygous at the mismatch HLA class I locus or II locus, the donor must be heterozygous at that locus and one allele must match the patient (i.e., patient is homozygous A*01:01 and donor is heterozygous A*01:01, A*02:01); this mismatch will be considered a one-antigen mismatch for rejection only
- DONOR: Donors are excluded when preexisting immunoreactivity is identified that would jeopardize donor hematopoietic cell engraftment; this determination is based on the standard practice of the individual institution; the donor should be excluded if any of the flow cytometric B and T cell cytotoxic cross match assays are positive
- DONOR: Only filgrastim (G-CSF) mobilized PBSC only will be permitted as a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) source on this protocol
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients for whom the best available donor is mismatched at both HLA class I and class II
- A positive cross-match exists between the donor and recipient
- Patients with rapidly progressive intermediate or high grade NHL
- Patients with a diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Patients with refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB)-2 who have not received myelosuppressive chemotherapy i.e. induction chemotherapy
- Presence of circulating leukemic blasts (in the peripheral blood) detected by standard pathology for patients with AML, ALL or CML
- Presence of >= 5% circulating leukemic blasts (in the peripheral blood) detected by standard pathology for patients with MDS/MPS
- Central nervous system (CNS) involvement with disease refractory to intrathecal chemotherapy
- Fertile men or women unwilling to use contraceptives during and for up to 12 months following treatment
- Female patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients
- Patients with active non-hematologic malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) or those with non-hematologic malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers) who have been rendered with no evidence of disease, but have a greater than 20% chance of having disease recurrence within 5 years; this exclusion does not apply to patients with non-hematologic malignancies that do not require therapy
- Fungal infections with radiological progression after receipt of amphotericin B or active triazole for greater than 1 month
- Patients with active bacterial or fungal infections unresponsive to medical therapy
- Cardiac ejection fraction < 35% (or, if unable to obtain ejection fraction, shortening fraction of < 26%); ejection fraction is required if the patient is > 50 years of age, or history of cardiac disease or anthracycline exposure; patients with a shortening fraction < 26% may be enrolled if approved by a cardiologist
- Corrected diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO) < 40%, total lung capacity (TLC) < 40%, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) < 40% and/or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen; if unable to perform complete pulmonary function tests (PFTs), patients will be excluded if their oxygen saturation is < 95% with a formal six-minute walk test (ambulatory oximetry)
- The FHCRC PI of the study must approve of enrollment of all patients with pulmonary nodules
- Patients with clinical or laboratory evidence of liver disease would be evaluated for the cause of liver disease, its clinical severity in terms of liver function, and the degree of portal hypertension; patients will be excluded if they are found to have fulminant liver failure, cirrhosis of the liver with evidence of portal hypertension, alcoholic hepatitis, esophageal varices, a history of bleeding esophageal varices, hepatic encephalopathy, uncorrectable hepatic synthetic dysfunction evinced by prolongation of the prothrombin time, ascites related to portal hypertension, bridging fibrosis, bacterial or fungal liver abscess, biliary obstruction, chronic viral hepatitis with total serum bilirubin > 3 mg/dL, or symptomatic biliary disease
- Patients with poorly controlled hypertension on multiple antihypertensives
- Karnofsky scores < 60 or Lansky score < 50
- All patients receiving antifungal therapy voriconazole, posaconazole, or fluconazole must have sirolimus reduced according to the Standard Practice Antifungal Therapy Guidelines
- The addition of cytotoxic agents for "cytoreduction" with the exception of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (such as imatinib), cytokine therapy, hydroxyurea, low dose cytarabine, chlorambucil, or Rituxan will not be allowed within three weeks of the initiation of conditioning
- DONOR: Donor (or centers) who will exclusively donate marrow
- DONOR: Donors who are HIV-positive and/or, medical conditions that would result in increased risk for G-CSF mobilization and harvest of PBSC
- DONOR: Patients who are homozygous at the mismatched HLA class I locus or II locus, the donor is excluded if homozygous at the mismatched locus (i.e., patient is homozygous A*01:01 and donor is homozygous A*02:01); this type of mismatch is considered a two-antigen mismatch and is not allowed
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01251575
|United States, Colorado
|Presbyterian - Saint Lukes Medical Center - Health One
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80218
|United States, Utah
|Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
|United States, Washington
|VA Puget Sound Health Care System
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98101
|Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Rigshospitalet University Hospital
|Copenhagen, Denmark, 2100
|Principal Investigator:
|Brenda Sandmaier
|Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Responsible Party:
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01251575 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2010-02222 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
2206.00 ( Other Identifier: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium )
P01CA018029 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
P30CA015704 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
RG9213055 ( Other Identifier: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium )
|First Posted:
|December 2, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 24, 2019
|Last Verified:
|June 2019
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Hodgkin Disease
Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase
Multiple Myeloma
Neoplasms, Plasma Cell
Leukemia, Prolymphocytic
Hematologic Neoplasms
Leukemia, Prolymphocytic, T-Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases


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Former Senator Eugene McCarthy has died at age 89. Here is the Washington Post's obituary. For a more detailed look at this complex figure, see this piece by Andrew Ferguson from the Weekly Standard.
In 1968, McCarthy ran as an anti-Vietnam war candidate in a series of Democratic primaries. He did well enough in New Hampshire to cause President Johnson (whose name did not appear on the ballot) to announce that he would not run for re-election. McCarthy's success led Robert Kennedy, who had been holding back, to enter the race. The big showdown between the two occurred in California. Kennedy won, but was killed on election night. The Democrats went on to nominate McCarthy's fellow Minnesotan, Vice President Humphrey, at a convention marred by rioting. Humphrey was narrowly defeated by Richard Nixon in the general election. They don't make political campaigns like that anymore, which is just as well.
McCarthy's most ardent supporters were college students. Most of my anti-war friends preferred him to Kennedy, as I did (and still do). First, McCarthy had shown more guts than Kennedy by challenging Johnson before it was clear how weak the president's position was. Second, McCarthy came across as cool; Kennedy as anything but. Yet deep down, most of the college kids I knew were mainly just interested in becoming involved. One of my friends left college for Indiana, where a primary had just been held, in order to join up with the McCarthy campaign, which was heading to Oregon. When he missed the plane, the Kennedy campaign offered to pay his way to Oregon, and he defected.
In many respects, some of them superficial, Robert Kennedy's position in 1967 can be compared to Hillary Clinton's position today. It's more difficult to identify the new Gene McCarthy (it's certainly not Howard Dean). He was one of a kind.


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Mavs spoil Terry's return
Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points, Shawn Marion had a double-double in his return from a calf injury and the Mavericks spoiled Jason Terry's return to Dallas with a 104-94 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night.
Terry scored eight in his first game in Dallas since leaving for Boston in free agency. He was the latest key piece the Mavericks decided not to keep since beating Miami in the 2011 NBA finals.
Terry was known for 3-point shooting and clutch fourth quarters with the Mavericks, but he missed both of his 3-pointers in the game and was just 1 of 3 shooting without a try from long range in the final quarter.
Paul Pierce and Brandon Bass led Boston with 16 points apiece, and Bass added 11 rebounds.
The Mavericks kept their lead near the halftime margin of 11 until early in the fourth, when Jordan Crawford hit a tough 3-pointer from the corner, then picked up a steal from Mike James near midcourt and made a reverse layup with Nowitzki in pursuit to pull Boston within six.
Brandan Wright led Dallas with a season-high 23 points and had a key strip on a drive by Jeff Green that led to a short jumper from Darren Collison for an 88-78 lead with 7:44 remaining.
The Celtics were within five in the final 2 minutes until O.J. Mayo's 3-pointer made it 100-92.


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ST. LOUIS (AP) A five-game winless stretch has the rebuilding St. Louis Rams stuck on three wins.
Coach Jeff Fisher reminded one of the NFL's youngest rosters on Monday that with more consistency, and perhaps a turnover or two, the tide will turn.
Also, how easily momentum can swing in a game.
``They didn't like it, don't like it, but they saw where their opportunities were and they understand how this thing slipped away,'' Fisher said. ``And they're determined not to let it happen again.''
Fisher was critical of some officiating calls in Sunday's 27-13 loss to the New York Jets, notably a holding penalty that nullified rookie Chris Givens' 98-yard kickoff return near the end of the half that would have given the Rams a 14-13 lead.
He added that rookie Rodney McLeod, whose technique was fine except for a prolonged tug of the jersey, could have given officials no reason to target him.
``You know, there's three holdings on their first kickoff that aren't called and all of them were more egregious than the one that was called,'' Fisher said. ``I'll just leave it at that.''
Fisher said the Jets' Chaz Schilens did a good job of acting on the play.
``When the arms go up, sometimes that's all it takes,'' the coach said. ``But we're not good enough to even put ourselves in position to where they think it's a hold.''
Fisher said he probably should have given the ball more to Steven Jackson, who averaged 6.2 yards on 13 carries for St. Louis (3-6-1).
He didn't think quarterback Sam Bradford wasn't guilty of hanging onto the ball too long while perhaps intimidated a bit by an early interception.
``They did a good job affecting coverage and taking away checkdowns. He was just trying to make plays,'' Fisher said. ``There was a couple times where he probably could have pulled it down and run a little bit and got the first down.
``He knows someone's chasing him, he doesn't know who.''
Bradford was 6 for 8 for 60 yards on the Rams' opening 13-play, 86-yard drive capped by Brandon Gibson's 1-yard scoring catch. He was 8 for 10 for 79 yards before getting picked off by Eric Smith on a short sideline pattern, and 15 for 34 for 91 yards the rest of the way.
``It was just a late throw,'' Bradford said. ``I know better than that. You can't come across the field. I tried to force it.''
Jackson shared time with backup Daryl Richardson much of the first half of the season, part of the time while recovering from a groin injury.
Fisher has said this time of the season is when they'll lean on the 235-pound bruiser who's seeking his eighth consecutive 1,000-yard season, so it was puzzling to see Richardson in the game for more than a play or two at a time.
``I think in retrospect, we probably should have fed `Jack' a little more,'' Fisher said. ``I talked to him today about it. He ran over some people, some good players.
``We're going to have to commit to that.''
A few turnovers, or just one, would help the Rams dictate terms. According to STATS LLC, they're just the second team since 1950 to go five games without a takeaway.
``You get a bounce here and there, but right now they're not bouncing our way,'' safety Quintin Mikell said. ``It's crazy, because that could be the difference in the game.''
The Rams had appeared to be poised for a surge after outplaying powerful San Francisco the previous week. Because of crucial mistakes, they settled for a tie.
``I don't believe in the whole `step forward, step back' stuff,'' middle linebacker James Laurinaitis said. ``We definitely viewed this as a game that we thought we could get, and it's disappointing to lose one at home.
``I'm not going to lie about it. We have to figure out how to win games like these.''
The second half was all Jets. They put up 27 unanswered points before the Rams got a late score on Gibson's second TD grab, and not counting a kneel-down on the final play their last 21 snaps were all in St. Louis territory.
The Rams had six snaps in Jets territory the first possession and two more in the second quarter, but none in the third.
``Field position was tough, especially in the third quarter,'' Fisher said. ``Field position played a big part in the game.''
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