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Daniel Haber, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Cancer Center, outlined current opportunities and challenges in cancer research and treatment, and provided a vision to meet them during a presentation at the 13th annual Phillips Society luncheon Sept. 7.
Dr. Daniel Haber, Director of the Mass General Cancer Center, was among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences today in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Partners HealthCare has announced that the focus of the second annual World Medical Innovation Forum will be the global economics of cancer care.
On July 30, MGH faculty and staff gathered under the Bulfinch Tent to celebrate the many contributions of MGH Cancer Center employees and the one hundred 2015 honorees.
The 2015 NPLS will focus on Frontiers in Cancer Research, and cover some of the latest advances in the understanding and treatment of cancer. The conference brings together some of the world's leading scientists and physicians who have made dramatic breakthroughs in cancer therapy. Massachusetts General Cancer Center Director, Dr. Daniel Haber, is a keynote speaker.
Daniel A. Haber, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Cancer Center, and Kate Robbins, a 10-year survivor of advanced stage lung cancer, were among the many models who walked the runway at the Friends of the Mass General Cancer Center Fall Benefit: Couture for Cancer Care at the Revere Hotel in Boston.
The Mass General Cancer Center hosted the seventh annual the one hundred gala on June 10.
A new system for isolating rare circulating tumor cells – living solid tumor cells found at low levels in the bloodstream – shows significant improvement over previously developed devices and does not require prior identification of tumor-specific target molecules.
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In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalized approach to cancer treatments.
Researchers from the MGH Cancer Center have identified a new potential strategy for treating colon tumors driven by mutations in the KRAS gene, which usually resist both conventional and targeted treatments.
MGH Hotline 6.10.11 Selected from among 115 applications from across the MGH research community, the inaugural MGH Research Scholars recently were announced at the annual meeting of the MGH Research Advisory Council (RAC).
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The 64th meeting of the MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) on April 14 celebrated key accomplishments of MGH investigators, past and present, and examined strategies for meeting the challenges currently facing the academic biomedical research community.
ALL MGHERS are invited to attend the 2011 meeting of the MGH Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), which will commemorate the hospital's bicentennial with a look back at significant research accomplishments of MGH investigators and examine challenges facing today's research community.
MGH Cancer Center researchers have discovered a previously unknown feature of common tumor cells – massive overexpression of satellite repeats, which are DNA sequences that do not code for proteins. The findings may improve understanding of tumor development and provide a new cancer biomarker.
The largest study to correlate genetics with response to cancer drugs releases its first results today. The researchers behind the study, based at the MGH Cancer Center and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, describe the responses of 350 cancer samples to 18 anticancer therapeutics.
MGH Hotline 06.25.10 MORE THAN 650 guests attended the MGH Cancer Center's annual fundraiser, the one hundred, held June 2 at the Westin Boston Waterfront.
A team of researchers led by Daniel Haber, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Cancer Center, recently announced that they have revealed a unique molecular mechanism that might control the growth of cancer cells.
MGH Hotline 10.16.09 Seven MGH-affiliated physicians and researchers join prestigious Institute of Medicine seven MGH-affiliated physicians and researchers were among the 65 new members and five foreign associates recently elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), a recognized leader for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on health issues.
MGH Hotline 05.29.09 The MGH Cancer Center has been awarded a $15 million research grant from the proceeds raised by the landmark Sept. 5, 2008 Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) telethon.
MGH Hotline 5.15.09 Exactly 100 flowers were planted in the Howard Ufelder, MD, Healing Garden April 28 to recognize the newly announced members of the one hundred – 100 groups and individuals who are making a difference in cancer care.
MGH Hotline 2.6.09 The MGH community is invited to attend the annual Celebration of Science Feb. 11 and the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting Feb. 12.
The MGH Cancer Center and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute of the United Kingdom have begun a new alliance in cancer genome research.
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Q - Where does the name Yon-Ka come from?
The philosophy that Yon-Ka is based on is embodied in this name, which is a combination of 2 words:
- YON: a river with rapid and purifying water, as well as the phonetic homonym " ion ", meaning an energy particle
- KA: in ancient Egypt, Ka signifies the vital and eternal force that is inherent in each individual
Yon-Ka: a name that is symbolic of natural and constant regeneration.
Q - Why aren't Yon-Ka products sold on all distribution channels?
We take great care in formulating and manufacturing our products, and are thus extremely concerned with the high quality customer service and pertinent advice that each client is entitled to in a point of sale. In light of this fact, we have chosen to work with a network of professional estheticians that we have carefully selected and regularly train in the use of our products and treatments.
In the beauty clinics and spas that offer the Yon-Ka line, you will find estheticians who listen to you, analyze your skin and personally recommend products and individualized treatments that best correspond to your skincare needs. This is also the opportunity to treat yourself to a relaxing moment of complete well-being as well as physical and mental harmony in the aromatic world of Yon-Ka. Beauty starts from within...
Q - Are Yon-Ka products natural?
Yes, Yon-Ka Paris products are natural based. Please refer to the side of the retail box for the percentage of ingredients of natural origin. 70% of the line has 90% or higher ingredients of natural origin. Yon-Ka holds itself to strict standards and has been self-regulating our usage of natural ingredients for years.
Q - Where do the plants, used in the Yon-Ka products, come from?
A plant is a living organism and its characteristics vary according to its botanical species as well as its geographical origins, climate, etc… This is why the approximately one hundred plants used in the Yon-Ka products come from several countries around the world. The 5 Quintessence essential oils that are used in the composition of numerous Yon-Ka products are an example of this:
- lavender (lavandula vera) and cypress (cupressus sempervirens), which come from the Provence region (France),
- geranium (pelargonium graveolens), which comes from Egypt,
- thyme (thymus vulgaris) and rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis with cineole), which come from Morocco.
Each essential oil, and each botanical or marine extract is chosen based on its properties as well as other extremely precise criteria. These raw materials are subject to strict laboratory testing, prior to their use, in order to ensure optimal quality and stability.
Q - Are Yon-Ka products vegan and/or vegetarian?
No. Yon-Ka Paris sometimes supports the botanical extracts and essential oils in our formulas with proteins. For example: milk peptides, marine collagen, etc.
Q - Are Yon-Ka products gluten free?
No. In some of Yon-Ka Paris formulas, we use wheat and barley. Please refer to the ingredient list on the side of the retail packaging.
Q - Are Yon-Ka products paraben free?
With the new face of Yon-Ka, Yon-Ka Paris is moving to becoming paraben free. The goal is to be 100% paraben free by the end of 2014. Relatedly, 21 of the Yon-Ka products are preservative free due to their concentrate of essential oils and their fragments and naturally self-preserve.
Q - I have heard that fruit acids can be aggressive to the skin. Is this true?
For numerous years, AHA (alpha-hydroxyl-acids), commonly called fruit acids, have been used by our Laboratories for their moisturising properties. Thanks to their ability to eliminate dead skin cells and activate cellular renewal, they have also been added to cosmetology products over the past few years.
Their effectiveness is determined by their nature, acidity level and concentration. In low concentrations, AHA are excellent moisturisers that restore softness and suppleness to the skin. When used in higher concentrations and in an acidic medium, AHA show greater skin exfoliating power. In the highest concentrations, AHA are strictly used for medical purposes. Given this fact, it is essential that an accurate dosage of this ingredient be used for optimal cutaneous softness, combined with the expert advice of a specialist.
Yon-Ka offers a complete and well-balanced program, to be used in accordance with your own skincare needs:
- FRUITELIA, a protective emulsion with fruit acids (cane sugar, bilberry, maple, lemon, orange) grafted to almond proteins, to be used all year round for gentle and progressive skin regeneration action, without risks of irritation.
- ALPHA-COMPLEX is used for increasingly intensive skin regeneration, and contains pineapple, passion fruit, lemon and grape extracts. To be applied in the evening, for a 4-week intensive treatment.
- At the beauty clinics and spas, the ALPHA-VITAL treatment combines exfoliation, nourishment and moisture-replenishment for progressive and well-balanced skincare. Your Yon-Ka esthetician will advise you on the most suitable treatment program for your skin.
Q - Are Yon-Ka products safe during pregnancy?
Yes. Yon-Ka products are safe and effective during pregnancy. We recommend following the obstetricians advice regarding any contraindications.
Q - How often should I receive a skincare treatment in a beauty clinic?
If it is reasonable, and of course, enjoyable, to regularly visit your esthetician, there are no set rules concerning frequency. However, it is better to make an appointment at least once a month and follow the home care program that has been specially recommended for you. In times of stress, as well as physical and mental fatigue, you will undoubtedly require skincare treatments and expert advice on a more regular basis. In certain cases (such as a slimming treatment), your esthetician will recommend more frequent treatment programs. Again, she will be able to advise you according to your own individual needs. And don't forget that we have developed different treatment programs that last 15 min., 35min. and 1 hour or more, so that you may fully benefit from these highly privileged moments of pleasure and beauty-enhancement, which is, of course, of utter importance!
Q - Are Yon-Ka products tested on animals ?
Yon-Ka products are not tested on animals, the safety tests are carried out according to alternative methods. In vivo tests were carried out on human volunteers under medical supervision:
- clinically tested means that tolerance tests and / or efficacy were performed on humans under the supervision of a Medical Investigator;
- dermatologically tested means that these tests were performed on humans under the supervision of a Physician Dermatologist
Here are the efficacy tests faced by Yon-Ka products before they are launched on the market:
- The tests are conducted on selected groups and with objective & measurable techniques
The selection of candidates, size of the panel and duration of the test depend on the product claim and recommendation of use.
A few examples:
- appraisal and measurement of the non comedogenic impact of the cream (measure of the potential triggering and appearance of comedons (aka: black heads): the test is done with a minimum of 20 volunteers presenting combination to oily skin, acne prone, evaluated day 1 and after 4 weeks of using the product in standard conditions.
- Measure of hydration levels
- Measure of the exfoliating and clarifying effectiveness
- Measure of the firming effect
- Measure of the wrinkle depth
- Etc …
- Tests on cellular cultures in order to validate actives performance
- Tests on epidermis models, reconstructed pigmented epidermis from different ethnic origins
- Tests on human transcutaneous explants taken during surgery and maintained alive – (ex. : test done for the Advanced Optimizer Cream and proving the anti MMP1 effectiveness)
- Consumer tests
Conducted on 10 to 150 consumers theses tests allow a better understanding and appraisal of the assets or weak points of a product, and the actual relevance of the product to the consumer's needs and expectations. The products are then developed accordingly.

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Q In patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), is initial thrombolysis more effective than heparin for reducing the risk of recurrent PE and death?
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Medline and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1980 to January 2003), Cochrane Library (Issue 1, 2003); and hand searches of reference lists of retrieved articles and abstracts of conference proceedings.
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published and unpublished randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with proper randomisation that compared thrombolysis with heparin for initial treatment of patients with objectively diagnosed symptomatic PE, and used objective methods to assess clinical outcomes. 2 independent reviewers assessed the methodological quality of individual trials based on allocation sequence and concealment, blinding, and follow up.
a composite of recurrent PE or death. Secondary outcomes were PE, death, major bleeding, non-major bleeding, and intracranial haemorrhage.
11 trials (n = 748) met the selection criteria. 3 RCTs used random number tables or programs for generating randomised allocation sequences, 5 had adequate concealment, 3 had blinding of patients and investigators, and none reported the number of patients lost to follow up. All studies included patients with symptomatic PE, and 5 trials also included patients with major PE (haemodynamic instability). Thrombolysis included urokinase, streptokinase, and tPA. Meta-analysis was done using a fixed effects model. Meta-analysis of 11 trials showed that thrombolysis and heparin did not differ for the composite outcome of recurrent PE or death or for individual components of the composite endpoint (table⇓). The thrombolysis and heparin groups did not differ for major bleeding (11 trials) or intracranial haemorrhage (11 trials) (table⇓). However, more patients who received thrombolysis had non-major bleeding than those who received heparin (table⇓).
No evidence exists that initial thrombolysis is better than heparin for reducing the risk of combined recurrent pulmonary embolism (PE) or death, major bleeding, or intracranial haemorrhage in unselected patients with acute PE. Thrombolysis increases the risk of non-major bleeding.
A modified version of this abstract appears in Evidence-Based Medicine.
Healthcare professionals continue to seek out effective treatment choices for PE. Sample size and the crisis status of patients have limited many of the research studies to date. 3 previous meta-analyses have resulted in conflicting answers.1,3 The meta-analysis by Wan et al reviewed the available research over 3 decades and concluded that no current evidence exists of a benefit associated with using thrombolysis instead of heparin for PE.
The 11 included studies did not use consistent selection criteria or outcome measures. Over the 3 decades during which the studies were published, thrombolytic agents and the types and formulations of anticoagulants have changed substantially. These factors make the meta-analysis difficult to interpret. Although the meta-analysis suggests a clear benefit for thrombolysis for patients at highest risk, the authors indicate that this finding deserves further investigation.
The authors acknowledged that the meta-analysis may have been underpowered to identify clinically important differences between the treatments. Meta-analysis using individual patient data might identify whether thrombolysis has a different effect depending on patient characteristics such as risk status4 or timing of treatment.
Nurses working in critical care settings would be most interested in this study. The results indicate that heparin is as effective as thrombolysis and less likely to cause non-major bleeding. However, more research needs to be done, with larger, adequately powered studies that use consistent methods and measurements.
For correspondence: Dr J W Eikelboom, McMaster Clinic, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. eikelbjmcmaster.ca
Source of funding: no external funding.
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The Seastreak ferry hit the dock pulling into Pier 11 near the South Street Seaport just before 9 a.m., opening a large gash on the starboard side of the bow.
At least 81 people suffered injuries, 10 were serious, but as of Wednesday night only three people remained hospitalized with one in critical condition. NYPD says the most serious person has a head injury and went to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Officials said no one has life threatening injuries.
"You couldn't tell it was getting ready to dock it was just coming in you didn't know it hit something and it was a disaster," said Tony Lucia, an injured ferry passenger.
Tony Lucia is one of the many passengers injured Wednesday morning when the ferry slammed into the pier .
"Everyone flew, everyone just flew, and people were on the ground," Lucia said.
For about two hours paramedics treated victims on site and one after another ambulances transported them to at least seven area hospitals.
Many have been treated throughout the day and discharged home.
There were 343 on board at the time, including five crew members. The ferry has a capacity of 400. All five crew members passed alcohol Breathalyzer tests
"Nothing seemed like it was going to be out of the ordinary," passenger Chris Avore said. "There was once or twice where I was talking with a colleague where we actually thought it was coming in a little hot near Brooklyn, where we're not used to seeing it. Then the next thing we knew, you feel the jolt and then everybody goes flying."
Dozens of people were taken from the ferry on stretchers, rushed to New York Downtown Hospital or New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center on the Upper East Side for treatment. Hundreds were evaluated on the dock in a makeshift triage area and on the ferry.
"Once you basically pass the Statue of Liberty, you pretty much know that you're going to be there soon, so a lot of people start standing up, milling around, getting their coats and everything like that," Avore said. "Anybody who was standing went to the ground."
Most of the injuries were on the upper level, where the people were standing while waiting to disembark. The man who suffered the critical head injury apparently fell down the stairs, possibly cracking the window. He was reportedly rushed into surgery and has been upgraded to stable condition. The second person critically injured also suffered a head injury.
The ferry was the 8 a.m. from Conner's Pier in Highlands, New Jersey, to the Wall Street area. It was scheduled to arrive at Pier 11 at 8:45 a.m.
The cause of the crash is unknown, but sources say the catamaran only recently was put back into service after being damaged during Sandy. The Coast Guard was on site inspecting the vessel and the pier, which reopened shortly after noon. The National Transportation Safety Board has also dispatched a team to investigate the crash.
The ferry company, Seastreak LLC, issued a statement saying it would work with investigators to determine the cause of the accident.
"We are simply shocked and stunned that this happened. We know passengers rely on us to provide safe transit on our boats - and safety is the number one concern for our company. We are very sorry this accident occurred.," the company said, "We are working with the National Transportation Safety Board and Coast Guard to determine what happened. We don't have those answers yet, but will do whatever we can to find out."
Seastreak added that its top priority is helping those people who suffered injuries.
"We're working to bring family members to the city and to make other arrangements to help them," the company said. " We want to thank New York City's emergency responders for arriving on the scene so quickly and helping us attend to those who were hurt. Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with those who were injured."
New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, said the ferry was coming in at 10 to 12 knots, or about 12 mph, when it collided with one slip and then hit a second. After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally.
The Seastreak Wall Street has been in accidents before. Coast Guard records said the ferry hit a cluster of fender piles while docking in 2010, punching a hole in the ship's hull. In 2009, it suffered another tear on the bow after another minor docking collision. No one was injured in either of those mishaps.
The naval architecture firm that designed the reconfiguration, Incat Crowther, said in an August news release that the ferry's water-jet propulsion system had been replaced with a new system of propellers and rudders to save fuel costs and reduce pollution. The hull was also reworked and the ship made 15 metric tons lighter. At top speed, the ferry travels at around 35 knots, or 40 mph.
Ferry accidents happen every few years in New York. In 2003, 11 people were killed when a Staten Island Ferry crashed into a pier on Staten Island after its pilot passed out at the wheel. Three people were badly hurt and about 40 injured when the same ferry hit the same pier in 2010, because of a mechanical problem.
Some details from the Associated Press.
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This mod is called Gulliver. It's named for the book Gulliver's Travels, though much of the inspiration comes from The Borrowers, Alice in Wonderland, and other size-related stories.
What it does
- From the outside, it looks just like plain vanilla Minecraft. There are no new blocks or items, just two Potions.
- But with Gulliver installed, you now have the ability to change your own size or the sizes of mobs & NPCs!
- The world works differently when you and mobs change size. See what happens!
A few starter tips for tiny players:
- Watch Your Step
- Shift-Crouch to Jump 1 Block High
- Some Blocks are Climbable!
- Carry Paper, a Slime Ball, String and a Lily Pad
- Carry something pointy (like a Stick or Sword), you may need it to pry open Chests or Doors
- Try the Fishing Rod
- Beware of Cats & Spiders!
A few starter tips for huge players:
- Watch Your Step – Falling Hurts!
- Shift-Crouch to Jump Half Your Height
- Try Punching Blocks/Mobs Barehanded
- Step On Mobs (or else Sneak Over Them)
- Right-Click Mobs When Barehanded to Pick Them Up
How to Change Size
Resizing Potions
Brewing recipe (Gulliver v0.10 for Minecraft 1.4.5 & later):
- Add Nether Wart to Water Bottle to make Awkward Potion.
- Add Red Mushroom to make Potion of Embiggening, or else:
- Add Brown Mushroom to make Potion of Ensmallening.
Add Redstone Dust to extend the effect duration, and/or turn them into Splash Potions with Gunpowder and you can throw them at mobs.
Potion of Embiggening makes you 4 times normal height, Ensmallening makes you 1/4 normal height. (You can drink Milk or the Potion with the opposite resizing effect to change your size back.)
Resizing Dyes
Having a stack of Cyan Dye in your inventory will make you half your size, and a stack of Magenta Dye will make you twice your size. You can have multiple stacks of dye to apply the resizing multiple times, so 3 stacks of Cyan Dye will make you 1/8 size, and 3 stacks of Magenta Dye will make you 8 size. The dyes may also be applied to Sheep, and in Gulliver v0.10, dyeing tame Wolves' collars will also have the resizing effect.
If you don't want to allow Dye-based resizing on a server, set the server.properties option "enable-dye-resizing" to "false".
If you don't want it in singleplayer, use this option in %appdata%.minecraftconfigmod_Gulliver.cfg:
Resizing Keys
Note: This requires both "Cheat Mode" (or Op permission on a server) and Creative Mode to work.
You can adjust the player's size by pressing the 'R' key to double the current size and the 'F' key to halve the current size. (Size limits are 1/8 for smallest and 8 for largest.) If the player is holding an ordinary Stick, then the size changes will apply to the mob you are pointing at. The player or mob will stay that size unless affected by a resizing Potion or Dye.
Configuration Options
If you want to start a new world at a particular size, like for doing a survival challenge, change the g_basePlayerSize option in %appdata%.minecraftconfigmod_Gulliver.cfg. To start new worlds at 1/8 scale, use this:
- Download and install Modloader
- Download X Mod
- Drag and drop files from "X Mod" into "Minecraft.jar"
- Delete the META-INF
- Close "Minecraft.jar" and run minecraft!
- If you don't want to mess with changing your minecraft.jar, there's a very nice launcher program for Minecraft called Magic Launcher. With it, you can setup a configuration to launch Minecraft with Gulliver activated. You won't have to touch minecraft.jar or even remove META-INF!
- It's a great way to manage other mods too, and it can do some compatibility checking for you. You can set what mods are being loaded and in what order. (Gulliver should be the last item in your Mods list, unless told otherwise for a particular mod.)
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If you are a book reviewer, you sometimes have the slightly hollow feeling that you are ringing the changes in the phrases and adjectives you use. To increase this sense of merely peddling breathless clichés, a friend has kindly sent me a list of adjectives that a reviewer must avoid at all costs.
They are: gripping, poignant, compelling, nuanced, lyrical, tour de force, readable, haunting, deceptively simple, rollicking, fully realised, page-turner, sweeping, riveting, unflinching, powerful, timely and unputdownable.
Well. I plead guilty to having employed the words 'poignant', 'haunting' and 'powerful' – though now that I am conscious of their tainted provenance I do try to find ways of not using them. You would never catch me using the others – unless of course, I were pushed for time, feeling lazy, had stopped bothering about standards or was hoping the reviews editor was asleep.
Two other popular adjectives of recent vintage which I steadfastly avoid are 'raunchy' and 'edgy'. I understand 'raunchy' is generally used in the context of elderly women writing explicitly about the pleasures of extra-marital sex – as in the 'raunchy' novels of the late (elderly) Mary Wesley. I have never read any of her writings on the grounds that life is short and I suspect I would find them a trifle too 'raunchy'. I would rather return to Jane Austen (I am re-reading Persuasion at the moment at the behest of my local Book Club) who is exquisitely 'un-raunchy'.
I never liked the word 'edgy' because I saw it thrown about all over the place; then I read the sorry saga of the Jonathan Ross- and-Russell Brand kind of 'edgy' humour and the even more sorry spectacle of the BBC defending them on the grounds that the public enjoyed this kind of 'edgy' fun – and I sent the word forever to the gulag of my lexicon. (I note that fellow-blogger Stuart Reid used it recently, but I remain unrepentant.)
A word I might use sometime, even though it is also thrown about too often, is 'feisty'. It seems to be only used about women and has a certain plucky charm to it. Sarah Palin is seriously 'feisty' – even if she is not a suitable candidate for the US presidency – so I do not 'refudiate' it (to quote a word minted recently by Ms Palin).
I also like the sound of the word 'apotropaic', though it is not easy to find a way of using it often; it has an added frisson for me because Christopher Hitchens used it in his Memoir. If only his Twitter fans would imitate their master and touch up their vocabulary.
Just as 'feisty' can only be used about women, 'oleaginous' can only be used of men. Men 'greasy', women 'plucky'; sounds about right.
To conclude with a phrase: I heard the expression 'joyous atheists' the other day and it struck a tinny note against my lexical eardrum. Indeed I refudiate it on the grounds it is an oxymoron. 'Joyous' has spiritual connotations and atheists have rejected the life of the spirit. They can of course be 'happy' – a word that is much lower in the hierarchy of the emotions.
You can be either 'joyous' or an 'atheist'; you cannot be both. Discuss.


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CRESTVIEW � U.S. Gold Gymnastics and Cheerleading staffers want to help provide a wheelchair-accessible home for a wounded soldier.
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Master Sgt. Joseph Deslauriers lost his left arm and legs in 2011 while serving as a U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal technician in Afghanistan.
The details are hazy, he said.
"I don't really remember what happened during the incident," Deslauriers said. "I just remember what happened afterwards."
His Silver Star medal � considered the third highest honor for bravery during combat � helped fill in the blanks.
Deslauriers gave medical attention to a wounded Marine after clearing a path toward a disabled military vehicle struck by an improvised explosive device, the award citation said. Deslauriers received his injury after clearing a route for additional military personnel. Deslauriers is credited for clearing a landing area for a medical evacuation helicopter and helping others carry the injured Marine to safety.
A new home
After 21 months of recovery and rehabilitation, Deslauriers is still active duty; he serves as an EOD program manager at Hurlburt Field's U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.
He said "it's mainly my willingness to give back to my country," that keeps him going despite the exhausting work.
However, life has its challenges. Deslauriers' family � including his wife, Lisa, and their 2-year-old son, Cameron � are living in an apartment that isn't user-friendly, family members said.
"When he returned home, he couldn't get his wheelchair through the front door without help," Lisa said. "Having a new home will alleviate those struggles."
Randy Wise Homes' Building Homes for Heroes program is working on a 3,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bathroom ranch-style house for the Deslaurierses.
U.S. Gold staffers are aiding the effort. Their first Wounded Warrior competition and Kids Night Out is Saturday.
A portion of the competition's proceeds and all the following Kids Night Out's proceeds will go toward the new home.
"The Kids Night Out is where we are going to be able to make a lot of money for him, because our coaches are working for free," U.S. Gold manager Jennifer King said.
Children ages 5 and older should dress comfortably to play several activities during the event.
Deslauriers said he and his family appreciate the school's efforts.
"It's great that young people of our community care for people in need and that (they) are coming together for a cause," he said.
WHAT: Wounded Warrior Competition, featuring 50 children from the Crestview and Destin U.S. Gold Gymnastics.
WHEN: 3 p.m.
WHERE: U.S. Gold Gymnastics and Cheerleading, 2118 3rd Ave., Crestview
COST: Donation
WHAT: Kids Night Out
WHEN: 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: U.S. Gold Gymnastics and Cheerleading
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Even by the limbo standards of the Board of County Commissioners the most recent regular meeting was contortionism at its finest.
Even by the limbo standards of the Board of County Commissioners the most recent regular meeting was contortionism at its finest.
Within two hours, commissioners dismantled a consolidated Economic Development Council/Chamber of Commerce model they constructed 18 months ago, to considerable controversy, and sought to hire an outgoing commissioner to lobby for the county..
The message being sent is unknown, but there is a wish that commissioners had spent the following day attending a meeting of the Port Authority and the presentation from an economic development expert with credentials most could only dream of.
Jeff Holt, Managing Director for Infrastructure Banking with the Bank of Montreal might have provided the most clear-eyed and optimistic discussion about the potential at the Port of Port St. Joe that has been heard since the effort to re-engage the port began more than a decade ago.
For 35 years he has been an investment banker, worked on deals billions of dollars larger than anything likely coming to Gulf County and worked on economic development around the globe.
Holt said the development of the port would not happen overnight, but he had learned about patience, about staying the course.
He noted the importance of the St. Joe Company as a private sector partner and how that name provided import to any meeting, any inquiry.
Calling the Port of Port St. Joe a �gateway� to the region that would never go away, he laid out the pros and the cons of what his team was attempting at the behest of the St. Joe, and by proxy the Port Authority.
In short, he underscored everything that the county, particularly the BOCC, has done wrong on the economic development side.
In the days following the BOCC decision to wreck its own model for bringing jobs to the county, the board of the Chamber of Commerce also met and could also find no consensus.
One board member believed that all that had been accomplished by the consolidation effort was a year of confusion.
He could have made it a decade.
That is what the BOCC has done as commissioners with varying agendas have assembled and disassembled the EDC as if playing with Legos.
The consistent removal and hiring of EDC directors, at least five since 2000, and the differing directions that have been supplied have set this county back a decade, easily, in the world of economic development.
Consider two recent deals Holt�s team led.
One was a deal with the State of Delaware to sell or lease the Port of Wilmington. That was near completion more than two years after being initiated.
Another was running a rail line through Los Angeles to the Port of Los Angeles, a $2 billion endeavor. That took six years.
Consider also the most prominent effort by the previous formation of the EDC, which actually included an active public/private partnership.
The former director was working on a series of deals to create something of a renewable energy research and operational center of Gulf County.
A woody biomass plant was the centerpiece, and never came to fruition when financing became an issue, but the other centerpiece was a grow operation for newly-engineered fast-growing plants.
That project, at one time, had the support of the St. Joe Company and Florida�s Great Northwest, a quasi-public economic development organization, but after the director was shown his walking papers that project disappeared.
The grass is now formally approved for growing and use and that project is now ramping up elsewhere.
And in blowing up that particular organizational model for the EDC, those private partners lost $50,000-$60,000 of their money to the county.
As was brought up at the Chamber meeting, what private partner would want to invest in the BOCC, which cannot stick to a pledge it seems, based on the last two organizational models, more than two years.
But that is also a mindset at the Chamber where one board member said the consolidated model just wasn�t working � after giving it all of a year.
That is the difference between the approach Holt put before the Port Authority and what the BOCC has offered over the past 12 years.
Economic development is not an instant gratification kind of animal, Holt plainly expressed.
Nothing � nothing � happens overnight.
And most of it originates in the private sector and only after the private sector has done its work does government begin to play a role, in permitting, incentives and the like.
Yes, there is a stewardship of the tax dollar aspect to county commissioners� argument, and if genuine a valid one.
But it is commissioners who have squandered tax dollars for more than a decade while they search in vain for an Economic Development model that provides those all but impossible instant results, and they have done so while alienating potential private partners.
And even though commissioners rarely care, how this plays in Tallahassee is another story for another day.
But underlying Holt�s discussion with the Port Authority was this fundamental � economic development is something you work hard at and hope that hard work pays off.
Economic development is not something that can be, or should be, controlled.
That is something commissioners have long needed to hear.


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Type 2 diabetics who are diagnosed with cancer often wind up ignoring their diabetes in favor of treating the cancer, which can increase the risk of premature death, a study partly led by a Northwestern University professor found.
But if patients are educated about how to treat their diabetes while they battle cancer, they do a better job of controlling their blood sugar levels, the study found.
"I think it goes down to information being very powerful," said Dr. June McKoy, a senior author of the study who is an associate professor at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine. "We have found that people with diabetes tend to do better with more information about their illness."
The study's results were published in a paper titled "Effects of Cancer Comorbidity on Disease Management: Making the Case for Diabetes Education" that ran in Oct. 31 in the online edition of the journal Population Health Management.
Like diabetes, cancer can be fought with a strengthened immune system, said McKoy, who is also director of geriatric oncology at Northwestern's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"If they're not caring for their diabetes, the cancer is also not taken care of," McKoy said. "Cancer is a frightening diagnosis. Their (patients') eyes glaze over after hearing 'cancer.' If they already have diabetes, it's the last thing they're focused on. A lot of people believe that cancer is a death sentence. It's not true anymore."
When cancer patients are taught how to fight their diabetes, ""it's like a light bulb goes off," she said. "Patients become empowered to take care of themselves. It's all about self-management. You have to take charge of it. The doctor's a guide."
Every cancer patient with diabetes should be seen by a certified diabetes educator to get information and support, McKoy said.
"Everyone involving the patient, including the educator, is part of a team. Patients do better when we work as a team. Registered nurses do most of the diabetes education and are certified by the state," she said.
McKoy also tells patients to see her once a month after they are diagnosed with cancer and to get their blood sugar checked three times each year.
"The hemoglobin A1c (blood-sugar) test is like a detective," McKoy said. "It is a way of assuring that a patient is following the course of their therapy and taking medication. It's like a fingerprint, so it shows whether patients have committed a crime … whether they're cheating on their diet and/or not taking their medication."
McKoy plans to study large data sets to assess which cancers patients with diabetes are getting and to see if they may be prevented.
Dr. Betul Hatipoglu, an endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said the "study was very interesting, and addressed a very important, basic question."
"One of the findings was surprising," Hatipoglu said: "We very poorly use education for disease management for diabetes, in general. They were able to show that patients who had cancer with diabetes, if you provided education, got better care for their diabetes, got more frequent blood testing to make sure the diabetes was better controlled, and they had less emergency visits and less hospitalization. Overall, this is an important finding, that if you provide more education for diabetes, then you provide better care for cancer."


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Former Portsmouth academy striker James Keene has returned to the South Coast strugglers - seven years after leaving the club for Sweden.
The striker, now 27, made his Portsmouth debut in 2005 playing just twice before loans at Bournemouth, Boston United and Kidderminster. He was sold to then Swedish champions Elfsborg in 2006, and has since racked up over 100 appearances for the Boras club.
Despite this, Keene is on his third loan spell away from Elfsborg in the last three seasons, and it's perhaps a sign that his time at the club could be almost up.
But Elfsborg's loss is struggling Pompey's gain. With the club at the beginning of the week announcing that at least five players would have to leave as a cost cutting measure, Keene's one-month loan will be an unusual pleasant piece of news for the Portsmouth faithful.
Keene shares this sentiment, telling the official Pompey website: "It'll be nice to get back out on the pitch again."
Not only Portsmouth, but I'm sure many football fans will hope Keene can make a big impact in his short spell, and try to shine some light on the dark situation at Fratton Park.
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A mother got shafted with a whopper credit card bill after her son racked up charges playing an online game, Asahi News reported earlier today.
The teen pestered his mum to let him play an online game (Asahi doesn't specify which). The junior high student and his mum made an agreement that he'd only play the free-to-play bit.
However, the kid got really hooked and began shelling out for in-game items, racking up a credit card bill of ¥240,000 ($2400). "I didn't know they cost real money," the teen was quoted as saying. Well, yeah.
The mum apparently consulted with her local consumer affairs bureau to figure out what she should do. Hint: Don't enter your credit card information in online games!
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Missouri was basically running clock in the closing moments of its blowout loss to the Crimson Tide yesterday. After a 38-minute lighting delay in the second quarter—which came with Alabama already ahead 28-0—and a full day of getting pretty relentlessly pounded by both the weather and an Alabama team that Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel called "maybe the best team [he had] ever seen," it didn't make much sense to air it out and risk injury on what would be the second-to-last drive of the game.
But it's tough to completely take the risk out of football, especially when 6-foot 7-inch defensive ends are tackling 5-9 freshman tailbacks. On the first play from scrimmage in the game's penultimate possession, DeMichael Fanning flipped Russell Hansbrough alllll the way over, despite pretty much having him wrapped up and stopped on forward progress already. Alabama was assessed a 15-yard penalty, and Hansbrough, amazingly enough, took the hand off on the Tigers' next two plays. The Hulkster would approve; the NCAA will not.


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Wiles exploded for a career high 31 points, leading the ETSU women's basketball team to a decisive 69-51 win over Atlantic Sun Conference rival Belmont Thursday evening inside Memorial Center.
ETSU (8-7, 6-1 in the A-Sun) has now won three straight over the Bruins and nine consecutive home games against conference foes. More importantly, the victory moves the Lady Bucs into sole possession of first place, as ETSU leads
"I felt like we came out ready to play tonight," said head coach Karen Kemp, whose club has now won 16 straight against current conference teams inside the
The Lady Bucs had no problem handling anything
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Wiles nearly single-handedly beat the Bruins in the first 20 minutes, as she netted 18 points (8-of-9) in the first half. As a team, ETSU held
In the second half, the Lady Bucs wasted little time adding to their lead, as Natalie Pickwell's (
ETSU's lead hovered around the 20-point mark for the next 10 minutes, but a lay-up and free throw by Crystal Kesler at the 4:59 mark cut the Bruins' deficit to 15, 59-44. However, that is as close as
The Lady Bucs did an excellent job taking
For the game, the Lady Bucs shot 41 percent (25-61) and held the Bruins to a frigid 25.4 shooting clip (15-59). ETSU grabbed a season-high 55 rebounds and out-rebounded
Wiles' 31-point performance marked the first time a Lady Buccaneer player scored 30-plus since B.J. Banjo accomplished feat, when she lit up
"TaRonda is playing this year like I knew she was capable of when we recruited her three years ago," commented Kemp. "This time last year, if she missed a couple shots, she would hang her head and not shoot; however, this year she will continue to shoot even if the first couple attempts don't go in. TaRonda also knows she has to continue to go out there and put points on the board in order for us to be successful every night."
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text: Top 10 Blog Posts of 2013 December 18, 2013 11:00 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jo Windmann AgWeb Senior Web Producer Email As we march steadily toward 2014, it is nice to take the time and reflect on the important topics, issues and articles of 2013. Here is a list of the 10 most-read blog posts of 2013. Follow the links to take a trip through time and remember the events, markets and concerns of the past year. Machinery Pete Never Used Chevy Pickups from '50's & '60's Sold on Nebraska Auction By Greg Peterson Not your average auction Saturday (September 28, 2013) in Pierce, NE. Lambrecht Chevrolet was opened for business in 1946. Owner Ray Lambrect is now 95 years old. Since the late 1950's he kept many never sold Chevy cars & pickups on his lot, sitting outside, also many in a storage warehouse that eventually had the roof collapse after a heavy snow. Saturday was sale day. Current Marketing Thoughts 10 reasons corn could move higher!! By Kevin Van Trump Corn trade continues to digest NEW record yields being harvested by many producers in the Delta and Ohio River Valley area (specifically southern IL, IN and northern KY). This talk is obviously keeping many of the larger traders leaning over the short-side of the boat. Their contention is, even though current supplies are extremely tight, a 13.8 to 14.1 billion bushel crop is just around the corner. The Ted Spread Are we going to see Sub $4.00 Corn this Year? By Ted Seifried A higher then expected Quarterly Grain Stocks report and better then expected yields coming off combines has cast a bearish cloud over the corn market. This has us asking the question - Can corn crack the $4.00 level this year? Given the potential for the biggest ending stocks in over a decade it would seem that the answer would be yes it could. However, there may be a big difference this year between what basic fundamentals suggest corn can do and what corn will do. So, the real question is will corn break $4.00 this year. Machinery Pete Blistering Prices on Illinois Auction Yesterday By Greg Peterson Ok, this is just plain amazing. An Illinois farmer had his 1982 JD 6620 combine with 2,694 hours listed for sale privately a while back, with a nice JD 918 grain head and a JD 444 4-row wide corn head. Asking price for the combine and 2 heads...$12,500. No takers. None. So he decides to have himself a small farm retirment auction instead. That auction was yesterday, Saturday, November 23, 2013 in Rushville, IL. How'd he do? Current Marketing Thoughts Will the Bulls Take Control After the January Report? By Kevin Van Trump USDA is scheduled to release its Quarterly Grain Stocks Report and its highly anticipated Annual Crop Summary for 2012 on January 11th. The January Report is the next focal point for grain and soy traders. 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Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and the DOJ
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) -- Special counsel Robert Mueller is among those being sued by President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Manafort, who is also suing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Department of Justice, is alleging that the DOJ went against the law in appointing Mueller to investigate Trump associates for possible collusion with Russia.
Manafort believes Mueller exceeded his authority by investigating matters that weren't related to Russia's potential role in the 2016 presidential election.
The lawsuit says, "the actions of DOJ and Mr. Rosenstein in issuing the Appointment Order, and Mr. Mueller's actions pursuant to the authority the Order granted him, were arbitrary, capricious, and not in accordance with the law."
Manafort brought up the suit in the US District Court in Washington, D.C. He was previously charged in 2017 with 12 criminal charges of money laundering, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements and several charges related to failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts.
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Chamber Orchestra to Present Evening Concertby Karen Handley • December 4, 2008 Share:
The Wabash College Chamber Orchestra invites you to an evening concert at 7 p.m., Sunday, December 7 in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
Under the direction of Wabash music instructor, Alfred S. Abel, the Wabash College Chamber Orchestra consists of a diverse group of Wabash College students, faculty, and members of the Crawfordsville community.
The Chamber Orchestra concert will feature two perennial classics, Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony in B minor and Handel's Royal Fireworks Suite. In addition, the orchestra will perform Arabesque by Debussy, the theme song for many years on the National Public Radio (NPR) programming.
The concert is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY—Vassar & New York Stage and Film announce complete casting for its two Inside Look play workshops to be offered this season at Powerhouse Theater: Margaret and Craig by David Solomon, directed by Sheryl Kaller (July 1-3) and Handball by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, directed by Cándido Tirado (July 15-17). The cast members will include Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore, Sex and the City, Assassins) and Jeni Verdon (Love Sucks) in Margaret and Craig, and Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Rob Morrow (Northern Exposure, Quiz Show, The Exonerated, Numb3rs), Obie® Award winner Danny Hoch (Black Hawk Down, Prison Song, Blue Bloods), John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones, Cyrano de Bergerac), and Victor Rasuk (Raising Victor Vargas, How to Make it in America, ER), among others.
Inside Look Play 2011 semi-staged workshops:
Margaret and Craig
By David Solomon
Directed by Sheryl Kaller
Musical direction by Paul Masse
With Mario Cantone (Laugh Whore, Sex and the City, Assassins) as Craig Russell and Jeni Verdon (the Coast Playhouse's Love Sucks) as Margaret Gibson
July 1-3, Susan Stein Shiva Theater
Tickets: $20
The dazzling, dizzying Craig Russell (Mario Cantone), a 1970s female impersonator battling inner demons on his way to cult stardom. His quest for fame tests and transforms his relationship with the only person who truly knows him, his best friend and beloved confidant, author Margaret Gibson (Jeni Verdon).
Performances: July 1, 2 at 8:00pm; July 3 at 2:00 and 7:00pm
By Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Directed by Cándido Tirado
With Reiko Aylesworth (Lights Out, ER, 24) as Laurie, Carlton Byrd (Blue Bloods) as Ra-Ra, Obie® Award winner Danny Hoch (Black Hawk Down, Prison Song, Blue Bloods) as Barry, Jeffrey Joseph (The Wrong Mr. Johnson) as Gee, Morgan Lynch (Nova Scotia) as Little Lucy, Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Rob Morrow (Northern Exposure, Quiz Show, The Exonerated, Numb3rs) as Christopher, Drama Desk® nominee John Douglas Thompson (The Emperor Jones, Cyrano de Bergerac) as Panama, Felix Solis (The Good Wife) as Orlando, Victor Rasuk (Raising Victor Vargas, How to Make it in America, ER) as Javier.
July 15-17, Susan Stein Shiva Theater
Tickets: $20
A handball court earmarked to become a dog run becomes a battlefield in a quickly gentrifying neighborhood. Set against the backdrop of New York City's scorching summer heat, this report from the front lines of a neighborhood 'in transition' is a fresh and startling story of community, culture clash and turbulence around change.
Performances: July 15, 16 at 8:00pm; July 17 at 2:00 and 7:00pm.
Please note that seating in the Susan Stein Shiva Theater for both Inside Look workshops is general admission, and there is no assigned seating. The theater opens 15 minutes before curtain. There is no late seating. The Shiva is intimate and all seat locations are excellent.
Powerhouse Theater's Café on the Quad will be open pre-performance on Fridays and Saturdays throughout the Powerhouse season and will feature Mediterranean favorites from Gigi's Hudson Valley. Relax and have a bite before the shows the Café, located by the Marcel Breuer-designed Ferry House on the Frances Daly Fergusson Quadrangle. Artists and audiences will gather, mingle, relax and enjoy Powerhouse's festival atmosphere, while savoring Gigi's signature dishes prepared with seasonal ingredients that highlight the bounty of the farms, gardens, and food artisans of the Hudson Valley, as well as wine and beer. (Friday and Saturdays, June 24-July 30) In addition, Tree City Coffee will serve as concessionaire at all performances and will feature their special brews and a selection of sweets. For more information and menus, see the website http://powerhouse.vassar.edu/visit or call (845) 437-7645.
Powerhouse Theater is the result of a unique collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, the program consists of an eight-week residency on the Vassar campus (124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY) during which more than 250 professional artists and 40-50 apprentices live and work together to create new theater works. Award-winning writers, directors, and actors all converge in Poughkeepsie, New York, for six weeks each summer to create exciting new work in an intimate setting.
Each summer New York Stage and Film (Johanna Pfaelzer, Artistic Director; Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang, Producing Directors) and Vassar College (Ed Cheetham, Producing Director) have offered discerning audiences a chance to see new works, which have included the the multi-award-winning Doubt (2004); the re-imagined classic On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (2010), to be presented on Broadway this fall; the groundbreaking Broadway musical American Idiot (2009); and A Steady Rain (2006), produced on Broadway in 2009 with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig.
Subscriptions to the 2011 Powerhouse Theater season and single tickets are available both online at powerhouse.vassar.edu and through the Powerhouse Theater box office on the Vassar campus: (845) 437.5599 // (845) 437.7235; email@example.com; Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY.
About the Inside Look creative teams
Margaret and Craig:
SHERYL KALLER (Director, Margaret and Craig)
Sheryl Kaller most recently received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts. Next Fall (Tony Nomination for Best Play) first played to rave reviews at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, produced by Naked Angels. Ms. Kaller directed Adrift In Macao, a musical by Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick, at Primary Stages, the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and an early incarnation at New York Stage and Film. Other work includes Dangerous Beauty, book by Jeannine Dominy, music by Michele Brourman, lyrics by Amanda McBroom (American Music Theater Project); Jayson With a Y (New Group); Rain by Regina Taylor (New York Stage and Film Readings Festival); Weird Romance by Alan Menken & David Spencer (The York Theater/Mufti); The New Americans by Cindy Lou Johnson (A.C.T.'s new works series); The Talk by Frank Pugliese (Naked Angels); How To Get To Where We're Going by Theresa Rebeck (Naked Angels/Democracy Project); The Fitting by Frank Pugliese (Naked Angels/Democracy Project); The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Dick Beebe (New York Stage and Film); Oh, Figaro (National Theater for the Deaf/National Tour 2003/2004); Patter For A Floating Lady by Steven Martin & Peter Melnick (Santa Barbara Ensemble); and Next, Please (Laurie Beechman Theater/Dramalogue Award for Best New Musical). Sheryl is the Co-Founder of Two Island Productions where she served as Artistic Director from 1994 until 2000.
PAUL MASSE (Musical Director, Margaret and Craig)
Paul Masse most recently conducted the Broadway production of Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, having conducted the world premiere of the piece at the Vineyard Theatre in 2010. Other Kander and Ebb projects include First You Dream and The Visit at Signature Theatre, and the Broadway productions of Curtains and Chicago. Fourteen other Broadway credits as a musician including Avenue Q, 42nd Street, and Gypsy. Off-Broadway: Jacques Brel..., The Fantasticks. 1st National/LA: Wicked. Various film/television recordings. BFA: NYU.
DAVID SOLOMON (Playwright, Margaret and Craig)
David has worked extensively as an Assistant and Associate Director to Joe Mantello, Scott Ellis, Sam Buntrock, Christopher Gattelli and Bill Condon. He has worked on eleven Broadway productions including 9 to 5; Pal Joey; Sunday in the Park with George; The Ritz; Curtains; as well as Laugh Whore and Assassins with Mario Cantone. He directed and conceived the first Broadway Recycled concert at Joe's Pub in 2010 and was the director of Marrying Meg for NYMF and My AIDS for the At Hand Theatre Company. He wrote the plays Free Donuts and Union Square for the Developing Artists Theatre Company at Center Stage, and the book for The Sexless Years, which was performed at Ars Nova. Margaret and Craig has had early developmental readings at the Roundabout Theatre Company and New York Theatre Workshop – and, being a Vassar graduate and former New York Stage and Film intern, David is thrilled to have the opportunity to be here with this project.
SETH ZVI ROSENFELD (Playwright, Handball)
Plays: The Writing on the Wall produced by the Westbeth Theatre Center; The Blackeyed Brothers which he directed as well, produced by Double Image Theatre and winner of the Samuel French short play award; A Brother's Kiss and After the Marching Stopped, initially produced by Angel Theater and later re-titled Brothers Mothers and Others for its Off Broadway run; Servy-n-Bernice 4ever, produced commercially Off-Broadway at the Provincetown Playhouse; A Passover Story commissioned by the late Joseph Papp for the Public Theater; The Flatted Fifth and Everythings Turning Into Beautiful produced by The New Group; the tiny plays La Familia, My Starship and PS: I'm glad you sent your hair for Naked Angels and the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival. He has worked extensively in film and TV. Currently: Seth is at work on the book for the musical stage version of the film Superfly to be produced by The Dodgers and Tommy Mottola and directed by Bill T. Jones. He serves as Writer/Producer on HBO's half-hour comedy "How to Make it in America" and is adapting the book The Wrecking Crew with Artie Nelson for a feature film to star Philip Seymour Hoffman.
CÁNDIDO TIRADO (Director, Handball)
Cándido Tirado has directed over a dozen plays including Migdalia's Cruz' El Grito Del Bronx. As a playwright Fish Men will have its premiere at The Goodman Theatre in collaboration with Teatro Vista. Momma's Boyz will be produced this fall by Teatro Vista in Chicago. His Off-Broadway productions include: Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz (co-written) at New World Stages and which was also performed in Las Bellas Artes in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Chicago, Tenerife and Miami; King Without a Castle, Checking Out, First Class (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater); The Barber Shop; Momma'z Boyz (Repertorio Español). Other productions include: The Missteps of a Salsa Dancer; From Dating to Death in Five Easy Steps; Ilka: The Dream; and Hands of Stone. King Without a Castle was also workshopped at Sundance Theater Lab. Some People Have All The Luck was produced at the National Theater of the Dominican Republic and New York. Heart Stopping Sex was produced by Soho Rep. His other plays include: The Kid Next Door; Hey There Black Cat; Abuelo; Fish Men; and The Missing Colors of the Rainbow. He co-wrote award winning short film with Alfredo Bejar Getting to Heaven, and was a staff writer for the TV show "Ghostwriter" where he was nominated for a Humanitas award. His screenplays include: Da Bronx, El Casique del Poker and It's Going to Take a Miracle. He's a four-time winner of the New York Foundation of the Arts Playwriting Fellowship. Publications: First Class, "Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New York" (Arte Publico); Some People Have All the Luck, "Nuestro New York: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Playwrights" (Penguin, Mentor Books). He's a co-founder of EDUCATIONAL PLAYS PRODUCTION with his wife Carmen Rivera, which tours the public schools presenting plays with social issues concerning the youth.


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The Autumn of the Patriarchs: Where Is the Arab World Headed?
The past months have seen dramatic changes in the political sphere of the Arab world. In his analysis of the events, Amr Hamzawy makes an optimistic prognosis but warns that radical Islamism and ethnic violence are still influential factors in the region
Unusual scenes are unfolding these days in the Middle East. Peaceful mass demonstrations in Lebanon, joint protest rallies put on by Egyptian Islamists and liberals against the Mubarak regime, and local elections in Saudi Arabia are shaping the region's image, along with pledges of non-violence on the part of Palestinian resistance groups, and multi-party negotiations to form a government coalition in Iraq.
The Arab world is changing – in far-reaching ways. In contrast to the simplified ideologically colored debates, particularly in Washington, on the question of to what extent current developments might have been triggered by the Middle East policies of the Bush administration or whether local and regional factors have likewise played a part, the true challenge of the present moment lies in comprehending the various directions in which such profoundly different nations as Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are heading today.
Elections in Iraq and Palestine were fair and pluralist
In view of the great regional diversity here, three complementary readings of present events seem to be plausible. First, there is no avoiding the optimistic conclusion that the tide is turning in favor of democracy. Indeed, evidence is accumulating of nascent political transformation in many countries in the Arab world.
Iraq and Palestine have held elections, which, although under the auspices of the American or Israeli occupation, were nevertheless fair, pluralist and enjoyed a high turnout.
The power constellation that emerged out of the Iraqi elections effectively prevents the feared hegemony of the Shiite majority and forces Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani and partners to deal with the demands of other groups by striving for consensus.
The Islamist movement is one force among several others
At least there is no longer any reason to fear a theocratic Iraq based on the Iranian model anytime in the near future. In Palestine, the Hamas Islamist resistance movement has been voicing its desire to take part in the parliamentary elections scheduled for this July.
This comes as no surprise, since the last local elections in the occupied territories secured the party 70% of the mandates in Gaza and 25% in the West Bank. The ceasefire with Israel and the general tolerance for the new Palestinian president, Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas), are thus being cemented through a pragmatic about-face.
The Islamist opposition is well on its way to gradually defining itself as an actor among others in the legal political arena, where ideological battles and conflicts of interest are fought out peacefully in the context of democratic institutions. The future Palestinian parliament will function as a school where Hamas can learn moderation and tolerance.
From developments in Iraq and Palestine, we can doubtless only draw qualified conclusions about the rest of the region. Both models will retain their exceptional character, especially in Arab eyes, for a long time to come. Nevertheless, the two countries no longer appear quite so anomalous when one considers the changes currently underway in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Authoritarian leadership model has lost its grip over society
Taken together, the events in these three countries demonstrate a break with the dominant authoritarian pattern characterizing the relationship between state and society. Faced with dissatisfied majorities and increasing criticism from the West of their undemocratic forms of rule, the authoritarian regimes in Riyadh and Cairo, as well as the Lebanese-dominated government in Damascus, have increasingly seen themselves forced to inaugurate political reforms.
Certainly, the Saudi Arabian elections, from which women and other groups are excluded, or the promises to pull Syrian troops and secret service agents out of Lebanon, do not constitute any kind of comprehensive reform in the sense of a lasting process of democratization.
Just as real is the danger that the change in the Egyptian constitution will be rendered meaningless by presidential elections conducted along the lines of the Tunisian model, in which Bin Ali stages his inevitable next term in office as if it were a pluralistic victory.
Public is more receptive to ideals of democracy than ever before
But what is decisive here is the realization that it has finally been possible to push the autocrats to make concessions.
Today, the prominent father figures of the Arab world no longer react as they once did to internal protest movements, reaching into their diverse arsenal of repressive measures, but instead yield to pressure from a public that is more receptive than ever before to the ideals of democracy and human rights.
For the political culture of lament and passivity that is so widespread in this region, this transformation is paramount to a true revolution. The autumn of the patriarchs has begun.
There is still militant Islamism and ethnic violence
But enough rosy images! Because the second possible reading shifts the analytical viewpoint to the inherent dangers of militant Islamism and ethnic violence in today's Arab political landscape. By contrast to countries like Algeria and Egypt, in which the waves of violence have ebbed considerably, one can find particularly in the Gulf States increasing radicalization among the Islamist protagonists.
Inspired by the survival of Bin Laden and the terrorist momentum in Iraq, these splinter groups see the situation in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, just to name the two most explosive examples, as an end-game against the infidel.
Everyday life here is characterized by the senselessness of fatalistic violence, compelling the state authorities to resort to repressive counter-measures. Taking into consideration the profoundly backward-looking culture prevailing in today's Gulf States, the menace of radical Islamism turns into an impending conflagration.
The results of the Saudi-Arabian elections, in which the ultraconservative Wahabis gained the majority of the mandates, and the unspeakable discussion in the Kuwaiti parliament on the political rights of women, should be understood in this light as more than simply early warning signs.
Fight against terror as excuse for political stagnation
Their implications for overall political development are fatal. The problem is that the regimes are justifying the slow tempo of the reform process (in Saudi Arabia) or its stagnation (in Kuwait) by citing the necessity to fight terror.
The West as well is refraining, for good reason, from exerting pressure on the gulf rulers to push forward democracy.
Preserving law and order in this strategic space is more important in terms of realpolitik than any dreams of democracy, especially when the oppositional forces feel committed to a different understanding of politics.
One-sided ethnic makeup of Arab regimes
Another danger zone is sprouting out of the fertile ground of potential ethnic and religious conflicts. Arab regimes frequently evince a one-sided ethnic makeup that neither reflects a country's social realities nor has any basis in consensus.
Repression and marginalization of the Berber population have long been the order of the day in Algeria, while in Syria the Sunni majority forms the target and on the Gulf, particularly in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, it is the Shiite citizens who are excluded.
This approach was also a structural feature of Iraq for quite some time, and characterized the relations between northern and southern Sudan as well.
Now, the ethnic and religious composition of the power constellations in both countries is changing, and political institutions are gradually being established in which the representation of the various ethnic groups is to be democratically sanctioned.
This development is by no means escaping the notice of the Arab public, surely drawing the greater amount of attention in the case of Iraq. Everywhere in the region, the voices of the oppressed are clamoring to be heard, and their demands are taking on sharper contours.
Lack of means to avoid upcoming conflicts
The "underdogs" are finally finding their longed-for champions in al-Sistani and the southern Sudanese leader John Garang. Few of the countries affected have at their disposal the necessary means to defuse the apparently unavoidable upcoming conflicts.
Last year, the Syrian regime reacted with the accustomed mix of brutal repression and cheap propaganda to unrest in the Kurdish region. Even in Bahrain, where fairly democratic structures are in place, the Shiite majority is under-represented and thus justifiably feels marginalized.
Although political reforms leading to expanded opportunities for popular participation are basically the only true formula against ethnic and religious conflicts, this second danger zone has a somewhat dampening effect on democratic prospects in the Arab world. At times, one gets the impression that the rulers in these countries are dealing with the lurking risks by defending their power even more brutally and uncompromisingly.
Is an escalation along ethnic and religious lines a present threat in Lebanon as well? Most likely not.
What about Lebanon?
The main protagonists on the Lebanese scene, notwithstanding the antithetical opinions of Hussein Nasrallah and Walid Jumblat, are oriented toward a political consensus backed by the concept of the nation state.
The symbolic banning of all foreign and partisan flags from the Beirut demonstrations is just one indication of this, and even more, the visible agreement across the various camps that the fate of the country should be negotiated within the state-sanctioned political sphere, if possible democratically, and without external intervention.
This was the central message of the Hisbollah demonstrations in which several million people took part, impressively documenting their social weight and political ambitions.
The return of the nation state
The significance of national sovereignty is thus changing from an apprehensive collective of "us against the world" – no matter whether the capital of that world is Washington or Damascus – to a formula indicating a willingness to compromise: "we're in this together," which has the effect of focusing attention onto national politics.
A similar tendency toward recognizing national borders as the signpost for political demands can be felt today throughout the region. The nation-state, long derided by the pan-Arabists and combated by the Islamists, is being rehabilitated, elbowing transnational visions of an Arab or Islamic Umma into the political background.
At the last rally held by the Egyptian protest movement known as Kifaya (Enough), which took place this February, neither anti-American nor anti-Israeli slogans were flung to the masses. The situation in Iraq and the occupation of Palestine, which used to exercise such power to draw crowds, were not mentioned even once.
The importance of consensus-oriented politics
The protest stayed on-topic, demanding political reforms in Egypt. Even the disadvantaged Shiites in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia demand changes within the framework of their respective nation states.
Just as in Iraq, they do not entertain any separatist Shiite ambitions, but rather hope to achieve with their campaigns better political representation and a more just distribution of wealth between themselves and other ethnic and religious groups.
The rediscovery of the nation-state thus represents the third plausible reading of today's Arab reality, the one whose signs point to gradually more consensus-oriented political arenas, which will contribute to fostering democratic reforms.
In the preface to the first edition of his book "From Hegel to Nietzsche" in 1939, German philosopher Karl Löwith (1897-1973) writes: "The process of meaning shift is never complete, because in historical life we can never know in advance what will result in the end."
In view of the diversity and polarities characterizing developments in the Arab world today, we can think of no more humble note of caution with which to conclude.
Amr Hamzawy
© Süddeutsche Zeitung 2005
Translation from German: Jennifer Taylor-Gaida
Dr. Amr Hamzawy is Senior Associate for Middle East Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington. He recently published "Kontinuität und Wandel im zeitgenössischen arabischen Denken," (Continuity and Change in Contemporary Arab Thought), Verlag des Deutschen Orient-Instituts, Hamburg 2005.
Commentary Amr Hamzawy
The West Must Now Speak with Islamists
Egyptian political scientist Amr Hamzawy argues that critical dialogue with Islamists would allow influence to be exerted on the most dynamic political groups in the Arab world, whose members have partly become religious democrats.
Political Reforms in Syria
Reluctant Embrace
Syria is about to step into the stream of Arab political reform, but with as little fanfare as possible, writes Sami Moubayed from Damascus.
Interview Ahmad Saif al-Islam Hamad
"No to Another Term of Mubarak in Office"
Egyptians will be voting in September on whether to extend the term of Husni Mubarak as president once more. Opposition to the move is growing, and Ahmad Hamad, executive director of the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre, told Mona Naggar about the background to the movement.


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