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Blog Less Traveled: A conversation with Matthew Crehan Higgins and Donna Hoke
blog by Scott Behrend • June 16, 2012 @ 9:41am
This week, we take a break from our usual Q&A format for a more informal roundtable chat with two celebrated local playwrights: Matthew Crehan Higgins, author of The Casual Sex Diaries and Making Gay History (among others) and longstanding company member at Buffalo United Artists, and Donna Hoke, author of The Couple Next Door and Road Less Traveled Productions Ensemble member. Both Matt and Donna are Artie Award nominees and they are currently collaborating on BUA Takes Ten: LGBT Plays at the Buffalo United Artists Theater—an evening of variations on gay themes by local playwrights as well as playwrights from all over the country.
SCOTT BEHREND: First of all, I just want to tell you how excited that two of Western New York's favorite playwrights have joined forces on a project. So how did BUA Takes Ten evolve? And what came first—the idea for BUA to host an evening of short plays, or the idea for the two of you to collaborate on something/anything?
DONNA HOKE: Hey Matt, we're favorites!
MATTHEW CREHAN HIGGINS: That's very generous. I first became aware of Donna… last summer when she wrote a blog post about Recovery Mode, a play by Matthew Burlingame, based on my story, that I performed in last summer. In her posting, she mentioned (she) really liked "most" of it a lot. In addition to the many positive things she commented on, she also offered some really fair, constructive and useful criticism of the piece. We became electronically acquainted, as people do, having largely a status update commenting relationship for awhile.
DONNA: I had sent Javier (Bustillos, founder and executive producer of Buffalo United Artists) an email telling him that ten-minute play festivals were all the rage and that if he were interested in doing one, I'd be willing to help. I was thinking maybe nothing more than a fundraiser of readings, but Javier said "I'm going to hook you up with Matthew."
MATT: Then several months ago, she sent me a note saying that she hadn't heard anything further about the short play event at BUA. I was surprised to hear "further," only because I hadn't heard anything about it at all. Little did I know that (Javier) told her that it sounded like a good idea and that he would assign me to it, but hadn't gotten around to mentioning it to me.
DONNA: I had no idea that Matt was this dynamic force of organized energy! I thought I'm detail-oriented—but he put me to shame. The whole thing has seemed seamless but he's done the bulk of the logistical work. Every step of the way, he has generously included me and counted my input, but really, he's been on top of everything, overseeing and organizing and basically turning this into a full-blown BUA production that I'm really proud to be a part of.
MATT: For good reason Javier has confidence that I'll do what he asks me to do. Certainly he has given me a lot over the years—so he is correct in that assumption.
SCOTT: You received a really staggering number of submissions; correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand you topped out at over 150 plays?! To what do you attribute this incredible response?
DONNA: We got 174 plays, which wasn't really incredible, but totally within the realm of what I expected. I've been in 10-minute play festivals where there were 500 submissions. Some get 700. I deliberately wanted to keep the submission window small (about a month) so that we wouldn't get overwhelmed. So once we got the call written, we set up a dedicated email…
MATT: The credit for that really belongs to Donna. As writers go, she has to be the most supportive and interested in the work of other writers… I have ever met. I have been a lot more insular in the 11 years since I started writing for the stage. I have a bad reputation - that I should work on changing - for not really getting out there and seeing other people's stuff. Working on this project with Donna has really made me regret that. I have had the luxury—that I didn't even understand to be all that rare—of being involved with a company that alway produced my work, several times even scheduling it before I had finished writing it. So for those reasons, I really had no idea how many people were out there looking for these opportunities. When we first finalized the submission guidelines I thought, "I really hope we get at least 20 really good submissions so we can put 10 really good things up." (Donna) has had her own work produced in many of these events around the county and is well connected through the electronic playwright network. She basically knew where to announce it and as soon as she did, the submissions came rolling in.
DONNA: And then we had to read them…
MATT: I was shocked as the number kept growing to the 174 we had in the end. Donna wasn't.
DONNA: In the interest of time, we did say in the guidelines that the the plays could absolutely not be more than 10 minutes. That's something that drives me nuts when I go to a 10-minute festival - seeing 15- or even 20-minute plays. We did, in fact, ask two people to cut their plays so they'd adhere to that guideline and that we could do 10 in a neat two hours. But then there was this little one that we wanted to include… which is how there ended up being 11…
SCOTT: While remaining tactful to the playwrights who invested their time into writing and submitting all of those plays… please share with us some of the challenges that you encountered while sifting through such a wealth of contenders!
DONNA: Reading 10-minute plays goes faster than you might expect. I read them first, as they came in, and came up with this crazy color-coded system to rate them using the Gmail stars. When Matt didn't even balk at the star system and, in fact, embraced it and added to it, I knew I'd found a kindred spirit (laughs.) So basically, with this color-coding system, I could read and let him know what I thought, and he could do the same when he read. The idea was that when we were done, we'd have a handful of top tier (green) plays that we'd have to debate about. But there ended up being very little debate. Either the top plays were really obviously stellar, or we have very similar sensibilities. It's probably a bit of both.
MATT: While we were reading the plays, I was reminded of learning standard deviation in high school math. The majority fell in the middle - neither bad or good, just kind of in the middle. On one end were plays we felt for various reasons weren't produceable. Then on the other end were plays we were very excited about, several of which we didn't even get to choose because even at less than 10 minutes each, the time fills fast.
DONNA: If there was a challenge, it's probably that we didn't hear them aloud before we chose them. If we were to do this again, it would be a good idea to have semi-finalists that we then hear aloud before making final choices.
MATT: As writers, I think we understand that struggle and that desire to have one's work heard and seen and produced. Even though I have been lucky that way, I felt guilty when we'd send something into the archive knowing it meant we weren't able to give that person the opportunity.
SCOTT: You've assembled a large and really impressive ensemble of directors and actors to bring all of this good work to the stage. At the risk of betraying any favoritism, is there a specific script/director/cast combo that each of you are particularly excited about and looking forward to?
MATT: I could really go on and on about this because, as creative teams go, we are incredibly lucky on this. We have seven actors playing a total of 42 characters over the course of two hours and everyone is really bringing something special with them. I'm really surprised by what these actors and directors are finding in these character that I sometimes didn't even notice while we were reading the shows.
DONNA: Matt gets the credit for that. A few BUA regulars expressed interest in directing, and I asked about bringing Victoria Perez on, and Matt was totally on board with that (because who doesn't want Victoria for any project?).
MATT: Any opportunity to be around her—at all—is special.
DONNA: I knew (Matt) and Marc Sacco (one of my favorite Buffalo actors) would be in it…
MATT: Last summer, my very close friend Marc Sacco and I played fictionalized versions of ourselves in Recovery Mode. Before I did the spoken word evening that became that show, we had talked about putting something together that was a celebration of our friendship, but I was very caught up in the exceedingly long-term hurt I was feeling at the time over relationship loss… so that project took precedence. Within Recovery Mode, there was certainly a great deal of material on the ways Marc carried me through that time, but M&M is a 10-minute taste of what that initial idea would have been.
DONNA: And I knew Jonathan (Shuey), who I love…
MATT: When I saw BUA's production of Bent in the fall of last year I was really taken with Jonathan Shuey's performance. He had a smaller part, but I thought about his performance for a long time after. One of the very first plays I read in the review process was Allan Baker's ...Last And Always. It's one very final phone call between two men as the world is literally falling… around one of them in particular. I decided before finishing that play that it would definitely be in the lineup and that I would definitely be seeking Jonathan out for it… and that I then would selfishly cast myself in the other part. All of that worked out, and working with him is exactly what I thought it would be.
DONNA: I can't wait to see that. So I was happy with all of (the casting), and happy to trust (Matt's) suggestions for Caitlin and Alisse, who are great. Then we got together and decided who should go where, et voila! There is…some really funny stuff that I can't wait to see, like Happy And Gay and Incident On Crescent Road. Selfishly, I really want to see (Donna's play) Write This Way, because even though it's been produced five times, including in England, I've never (seen) it.
SCOTT: Finally (since you are both highly productive authors in your own rights)—what personal projects do each of you have on the horizon?
MATT: In September, I am going to the Rochester Fringe Festival to perform my solo show The Pipes Are Calling: An Elegy to Dan Higgins, Sr. about my relationship with my grandfather… I consider that show to be my very favorite thing I've ever worked on and am grateful beyond belief (for) any chance I get to do it again. I co-host Cocktails And Cream Puffs with Joey Bucheker and Marc Sacco, which is one of the top 15 GLBT podcasts on iTunes. And I will be appearing in BUA's production of Martin Casella's The Irish Curse—a very funny play about five guys in a support group for men with small penises. My next writing project hasn't come to me yet. I used to be in a big rush to find the next idea. These days I'm happy to go with it when it comes, but don't try to force it anymore.
DONNA: The same weekend (BUA Takes 10) opens, Subversive Shorts is opening, and I have a piece in that, and I'm also participating in MF24H, MusicalFare's fundraiser that has four teams of writer/composers writing four short musicals that will then be rehearsed and publicly presented, all within 24 hours. Busy weekend! Beyond that, I have a full-length play, Flowers In The Desert, in (the Emanuel Friend New Play) Workshop at Road Less Traveled, and RLTP will also be producing Seeds in March of next year. I've got a few shorts going up around the country, The Couple Next Door is being translated into Turkish, and I've got someone trying to place it overseas. I just finished two new shorts that I've started sending out, and I'm two scenes and a lot of notes into a new full-length called A Kind Of Salvation.
SCOTT: All of that sounds great, guys! I personally can't wait for BUA Takes 10 and Seeds—and Matt, I know that Jon Elston will be there on opening night of The Irish Curse!
BUA Takes Ten opens Friday, June 22 and runs through Sunday, July 1 at the Buffalo United Artists Theater (119 Chippewa St., Buffalo). The production includes short plays by Matt, Donna, and WNY playwright Stefan Brundage, among others. Donna's Subversive Shorts selection can be seen on "A nights" from Friday, June 22 through Saturday, July 14 at the Manny Fried Theater. Matt will appear in his own play The Pipes Are Calling: An Elegy to Dan Higgins, Sr. at the Rochester Fringe Festival on Sept. 23-24, and will appear with an all-star cast in The Irish Curse at the BUA Theater in November. Finally (but not least of all!), Donna's play Seeds will receive its world premiere production at the Road Less Traveled Theater in March 2013. I'll see you there!
Photo from The Buffalo News.
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For years I've been thinking and hoping that quantum physics would become the next hacker revolution. DIYers in their basements, garages, and hackerspaces have already pioneered radio communications, PCs, household robots, and cheap 3-D printers—why not quantum entanglement, cryptography, computers, and teleportation? In recent years, physics educators have streamlined quantum experiments to the point where [...]Keep reading »
Teaching chemistry while female: when my very existence was a problem.
September 4th, 2013 | 21
Not quite 20 years ago, I was between graduate programs. I had earned my Ph.D in chemistry and filed my applications to seven Ph.D. programs in philosophy. (There were some surreal moments on the way to this, including retaking the GRE two weekends after defending my chemistry dissertation — because, apparently, the GRE is a [...]Keep reading »
When we target chemophobia, are we punching down?
July 12th, 2013 | 17
Over at Pharyngula, Chris Clarke challenges those in the chemical know on their use of "dihydrogen monoxide" jokes. He writes: Doing what I do for a living, I often find myself reading things on Facebook, Twitter, or those increasingly archaic sites called "blogs" in which the writer expresses concern about industrial effluent in our air, [...]Keep reading »
Science education: Am I part of the solution, or part of the problem?
November 6th, 2012 | 9
In my blogging career (and even before), I've spent a fair bit of time bemoaning the low level of scientific education/literacy/competence among the American public. Indeed, I have expressed the unpopular opinion that all college students ought to do the equivalent of a minor in some particular science as one of their graduation requirements. I [...]Keep reading »
DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012: helping classrooms in the aftermath of Super-storm Sandy.
Super-storm Sandy did major damage to the East Coast, especially New Jersey and New York City. The offices of DonorsChoose are in New York City. Their fabulous staff is safe (and mostly dry) and their computer servers are up, which means the Science Bloggers for Students drive has been operational and ready to receive your [...]Keep reading »
We dodged the apocalypse, so let's help some classrooms.
November 1st, 2012 | 4
We're coming into the home stretch of our annual DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students drive: Science Bloggers for Students: No Apocalypse in Sight (Transcript below) And, now until the end of the drive, you can get your donations matched (up to $100 per donor) thanks to the generosity of the DonorsChoose.org Board of Directors. Just [...]Keep reading »
On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry.
October 16th, 2012 | 15
There's a guest post on the Washington Post "Answer Sheet" blog by David Bernstein entitled "Why are you forcing my son to take chemistry?" in which the author argues against his 15-year-old son's school's requirement that all its students take a year of chemistry. Derek Lowe provides a concise summary of the gist: My son [...]Keep reading »
Kicking off DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2012.
Since 2006, science bloggers have been working with DonorsChoose.org and our readers to help public school students and teachers get the resources they need to make learning come alive. Is there an origin story for the annual Science Bloggers for Students drive? As a matter of fact*, there is: Science Bloggers for Students Origin Story [...]Keep reading »
Getting scientists to take ethics seriously: strategies that are probably doomed to failure.
August 31st, 2012 | 3
As part of my day-job as a philosophy professor, I regularly teach a semester-long "Ethics in Science" course at my university. Among other things, the course is intended to help science majors figure out why being ethical might matter to them if they continue on their path to becoming working scientists and devote their careers [...]Keep reading »
End-of-semester meditations on plagiarism.
May 30th, 2012 | 6
Plagiarism — presenting the words or ideas (among other things) of someone else as one's own rather than properly citing their source — is one of the banes of my professorial existence. One of my dearest hopes at the beginning of each academic term is that this will be the term with no instances of [...]Keep reading »
Is it worth fighting about what's taught in high school biology class?
May 11th, 2012 | 9
It is probably no surprise to my regular readers that I get a little exercised about the science wars that play out across the U.S. in various school boards and court actions. It's probably unavoidable, given that I think about science for a living — when you've got a horse in the race, you end [...]Keep reading »
Can Scientists Reform Science Education?
August 4th, 2011 | 11
I am honored to have been invited to give the keynote bridge talk between the 2011 Midwest Regional Zebrafish Conference and the 2011 Zebrafish and Education Summit in Rochester, MN on August 5, 2011. I eagerly agreed to speak as I am intrigued and enthused by the science education program for schools that was begun [...]Keep reading »
Teaching Scientific Thinking and Encouraging Creativity with Astrobiology
August 1st, 2011 | 1
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." ~Albert Einstein In 2007, a few graduate students at the National University of Colombia grew interested in astrobiology, the search for extraterrestrial [...]Keep reading »
Science Education and Changing People's Minds: Writing to convince
July 28th, 2011 | 4
I find online science communication fascinating. I am enthusiastic about its possibilities and intrigued by its challenges. With an interest in online communication, comes an interest in text. While videos, animations and images are powerful too, the written word is often the simplest and the default mode of online communication–-think blog posts, tweets, status updates, [...]Keep reading »
Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Have Changed Science Education
June 16th, 2011 | 7
"Science is messy. And the bigger the claims, the more intense the criticism." This is how Brian Vastag opened his Washington Post article chronicling the publication of NASA's arsenic bacteria paper along seven critical comments and a follow-up response. It describes the situation – and science – well, but it's not the story that those [...]Keep reading »
Kids Learn Better When You Bring Science Home
May 2nd, 2011 | 2
We learned all kinds of things from our parents—manners, safety, housekeeping, how to make a cake, how to pump our legs to make ourselves go high on a swing and where to find crayfish in a creek. As they showed us how to reach these small successes in our daily life, they also taught us [...]Keep reading »
Under-represented and underserved: Why minority role models matter in STEM
April 1st, 2011 | 2
A recent University of Massachusetts Amherst study found having academic contact with female professionals in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can have positive influences on students—female students in particular. For girls and young women studying these subjects in school, being able to identify female role models helps them imagine themselves as STEM professionals. The [...]Keep reading »
Can we declare victory for women in their participation in science? Not yet
March 29th, 2011 | 12
"When will we know when we can declare victory? For years I proceeded on the assumption that victory was equal participation of men and women in all branches of science and engineering. Today I'm not so sure…. It's possible that we will come to understand that some fraction of the asymmetries in the distribution of [...]Keep reading »
Global STEM Outreach Effort to Target Middle Schoolers in Barcelona and Malaysia
A global alliance aimed at educating and empowering youth to become the next generation to enter the information and communication technologies (ICT) workforce was announced today in Barcelona, Spain, at Cisco's Internet of Things World Forum.. Established in response to a growing demand for workers in this field, the Global STEM Alliance will be modeled [...]Keep reading »
Gravity-Defying, Self-Siphoning Metal Beads Explained [Video]
July 3rd, 2013 | 1
The effect is as astonishing as it is hypnotic: a chain of metal beads magically arcs above its container as the beads fall to the ground. The beads in the video, made by Steve Mould, who hosts several BBC science shows, are not magnetic, either. Pretty cool, huh? Mould gives us an explanation the video [...]Keep reading »
Science Advisor Gives Hopeful Progress Report on Obama's Achievements
May 10th, 2013 | 4
President Obama has restored science to its rightful place in the White House, says John Holdren, Obama's senior science advisor. "Science is again where it should be," he told an audience of 200 as part of a lecture series at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. on Wednesday, although he warned that the [...]Keep reading »
Flexagon but Not Forgotten: Celebrating Martin Gardner's Birthday
October 19th, 2012 | 7
October 21 is the anniversary of Martin Gardner's birth. Gardner (1914-2010) is a legend in recreational (and professional) mathematics circles. Although he had little mathematical training, his 1956-1981 Scientific American column "Mathematical Games" has had a huge impact on the way people view math. In a Science Talk podcast shortly after Gardner's death, Douglas Hofstadter, [...]Keep reading »
Abandoning Algebra Is Not the Answer
July 30th, 2012 | 62
In an opinion piece for the New York Times on Sunday, political science professor Andrew Hacker asks, "Is Algebra Necessary?" and answers, "No." It's not just algebra: geometry and calculus are on the chopping block, too. It's not that he doesn't think math is important; he wants the traditional sequence to be replaced by a [...]Keep reading »
American Astronaut Sally Ride Dies at 61
July 23rd, 2012 | 2
Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, died today at age 61, according to the Web site of her science-education company, Sally Ride Science. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Ride was born May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, where she received bachelor's degrees in physics and English, as well as [...]Keep reading »
How to Succeed in Science: Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Day 4
July 5th, 2012 | 3
On the last day of formal plenary talks at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, the laureates dispensed several lessons while describing their research experiences to the attending students, from developing expertise to enduring in the face of doubt. (You can read all our coverage of the Lindau meeting this week, including the "30 under [...]Keep reading »
Google Science Fair Winners at the White House
This year, the first Google Science Fair in partnership with Scientific American, CERN, LEGO and National Geographic drew more than 10,000 students from 91 countries. As the chief judge and master of ceremonies for the awards event on July 11 at Google's Mountain View, Calif., campus, I was delighted to meet and hear directly about [...]Keep reading »
Now: Bring Science Home Every Week!
October 6th, 2011 | 1
At Scientific American, we appreciate the value of a good experiment. So in May, we launched Bring Science Home as a series of free science activities for parents to do together with their six- to 12-year-old kids. We made sure the activities would be fun and easy to do, so families could complete them in [...]Keep reading »
70,000 Students Flock to Free Online Course in Artificial Intelligence
August 16th, 2011 | 9
Stanford University has opened up to the public an introductory artificial intelligence class, taught by two luminaries in the field. Anyone with high-speed Internet, anywhere in the world, can enroll in the online course. Just don't expect a lot of face time with the professors. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 70,000 people had signed [...]Keep reading »
Here a Henge, There a Henge: Astronomy Fun on a Street Near You
July 11th, 2013 | 1
I am traveling for most of July, so I hope you enjoy this post from the past, which originally appeared on the Budding Scientist blog on July 10, 2012. Last summer I was living in New York for the first time, and I was super jazzed when my roommate told me about Manhattanhenge. It turns out, [...]Keep reading »
Time in 298 Words
March 10th, 2013 | 11
Last year, in the inaugural Flame Challenge, Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University challenged scientists to explain what a flame is to an 11-year-old. This year, the subject was time. In particular, we were instructed to "Answer the question — 'What is time?' — in a way an 11-year-old [...]Keep reading »
Guest Post 6! Building STEM Bridges: Scientists Overcoming Isolation by Building Community
Please Welcome Guest Post , from my old stomping grounds at U Penn, Caleph Wilson! Diversity has become a watchword in the scientific community. For the last 20 years colleges, universities, government science agencies and private foundations have worked to increase the numbers of scientists from under-represented backgrounds. Some of these policy changes have resulted [...]Keep reading »
Guest Post 5: Accommodasians don't make waves.
Please welcome our fifth guest post, from AmasianV! In the aftermath of SciAm's recent snafu handling of DNLee's post, in which she recounted her interaction with an editor who called her an "urban whore," Sci asked me to guest blog for a series of posts aimed at getting more diverse voices heard. Diversity? Voices? That's [...]Keep reading »
Guest Post 4! Don't Just Assume You Should Know: How To Be An Excellent Mentor
Of course, latin-american foreigners are minorities in Pittsburgh. And that is totally fine. Yes, it can be challenging but also rewarding and awesome. I am originally from Colombia, where I did my undergrad. Back then, in my early 20's I decided to go abroad. So, in 2008 I moved to Pittsburgh and I have found [...]Keep reading »
Guest Post 3: If these blogs could talk: characterizing power, privilege, and everyday life in the sciences
October 16th, 2013 | 3
Please welcome the next guest group, the Microaggression Tumblr! The discussions sparked by the recent removal of DNLee's blog post about her treatment by a member of the scientific community is a great teaching moment on how marginalization in the sciences, or any sector of society, operates in everyday life. These incidents may seem specific [...]Keep reading »
Guest Post 2: Automatic 'othering'
October 15th, 2013 | 9
Please welcome the second in the guest post series, the fantastic D-list monktress, Hermitage! So, I'm one of the 'bloggers you've never heard of' that Scicurious has graciously invited to be part of her diversity guest post series. Which Sci made very clear is supposed to be an uplifting outlet for all of the e-rage [...]Keep reading »
Questions for Educators.
Today, I'm over at Neurotic Physiology, asking educators a question. Have you ever used my blog in the classroom? Have you used it because you liked it? Have you used it because you hate it? Why did you use it? What did you use it for? Was it effective? I would really like to know. [...]Keep reading »
How to repel kids from science: By shackling curiosity in cuffs
May 1st, 2013 | 19
In his delightful memoir "Uncle Tungsten", the eminent neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks recounts the swashbuckling chemical adventures of his teenage years, sparked when a sympathetic uncle got him hooked on to the wonders of chemistry. For me the most memorable image from that book is one of the young Sacks standing on a bridge [...]Keep reading »
Stephen Hawking's advice for twenty-first century grads: Embrace complexity
April 23rd, 2013 | 1
As the economy continues to chart its own tortuous, uncertain course, there seems to have been a fair amount of much-needed discussion on the kinds of skills new grads should possess. These skills of course have to be driven by market demand. As chemist George Whitesides asks for instance, what's the point of getting a [...]Keep reading »
The Birds in my Backyard
I'm an animal behavior expert and I've lived in Los Angeles all my life. Why don't I know the birds in my backyard? In my latest piece, at Zocalo Public Square, I argue that I should know who my wildlife neighbors are, and that understanding our natural world can create a better human community, too.Keep reading »
The LA County Science Fair Needs Help
Empirical research on the effects of science fair participation seems scant, but the research that does exist suggests that participation is generally a positive experience for students, that participation increases scientific literacy, and, importantly, that participation results in an increased understanding the process of science. One study conducted in Canada, for example, found that in [...]Keep reading »
Marie Curie, Theater, and Science Communication: An Interview with Alan Alda
December 1st, 2011 | 2
I grew up watching M*A*S*H reruns with my dad, so even early in life, Alan Alda, who played Dr. Hawkeye Pierce throughout the show's eleven seasons, was a familiar name and face. You might also recognize him from TV shows like The West Wing or movies like Murder at 1600. What you might not know [...]Keep reading »
Engaging Undergrads with Wikipedia
November 21st, 2011 | 5
Longtime science blog readers will certainly remember the popular cognitive psychology blog Cognitive Daily, written by Greta and Dave Munger, that had a fantastic five-year run at Scienceblogs. While Dave is still involved in the science blogging community through projects like Research Blogging and Science Seeker, and of course writing his own blogs, Greta has [...]Keep reading »
Using Blogs and Social Media in Undergrad Classrooms
This January, John Hawks (of his eponymous weblog) and I are moderating a session as part of the education track at Science Online in North Carolina. Blogging in the undergraduate science classroom (how to maximize the potential of course blogs) (discussion) – Jason Goldman and John Hawks This session will mainly feature a roundtable discussion [...]Keep reading »
Wanted: Diverse, Innovative Problem-solvers, Next Generation Scientists
When I departed for college my grandmother told me to join the debate team, because I was always arguing trying to prove a point. She was correct. I was a chatty Cathy and was always defending advocating my positions. Debating was the most exhilarating intellectual experience I had had until that time. It was a [...]Keep reading »
#NPRBlacksinTech – a conversation about African American participation in American Innovation fields
December 16th, 2013 | 6
NPR Tell Me More Program with Michel Martin has been hosting an on-going conversation about the state of African-American participation in technology, as well as science and engineering field. It began with an on air radio program on November 27, 2013: A Day In The Life: Blacks At The Cutting Edge Of Innovation (Podcast of [...]Keep reading »
Addressing Disparity in STEM & other subjects in American Education #AfAmEdChat
November 15th, 2013 | 1
Mark your calendars. November 18-22, 2013, is American Education Week. Created (in part) by the National Education Association in 1921 it "presents all Americans with a wonderful opportunity to celebrate public education and honor individuals who are making a difference in ensuring that every child receives a quality education." In celebration and reflection of 2013 [...]Keep reading »
Share your STEM education and career testimony & help change the equation
Only about 1.3 percent—less than 10,000—of the available pool of minority high school graduates earn engineering degrees from America's colleges and universities each year. The National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) thinks this equation needs to change. I do, too. NACME is participating in a special Congressional session to examine and recommend federal [...]Keep reading »
Charges dropped against #KieraWilmot, now let's shower her with science love
May 16th, 2013 | 4
#Solidarity4Wilmot prevails. Thank you! Charges dropped against Kiera Wilmot. Yes! And YES!! Anyone else doing backflips? This news, combined with her full expulsion from school (for next year) being over turned makes me very, very happy for her. (Though I'm thinking ahead – would returning to Bartow High School be in her best interest? Others [...]Keep reading »
Updates on #KieraWilmot, Legal Fund created
Thank you, thank you, thank you for reaching out and speaking up for #KieraWilmot and showing #Solidarity4Wilmot. I teared up as I read all of the offers of support to assist Kiera and other students all over the country. I was amazed, but not at all surprised. I know this community of educators, teachers, scientists, [...]Keep reading »
Scientists' Support for Kiera Wilmot #Solidarity4Wilmot
May 3rd, 2013 | 28
Here's what we now know. Kiera Wilmot was re-creating the Drano Aluminum foil experiment at school. She was outside, before the morning bell. She recreated one of those Wow! Science experiments, the kind we see on Myth Busters or You've Been Warned! Folks love those shows. They love doing that crazy stuff at home (although [...]Keep reading »
Florida teen charged with felony for trying science
May 1st, 2013 | 75
News of Kiera Wilmot's arrest has seriously unnerved me. She is the Florida high school student who was experimenting with common household chemicals in science class that resulted in a minor explosion. There were no injuries and no damage to school property; however, she was taken away in handcuffs, formally arrested and expelled from school. [...]Keep reading »
Travel Awards for College Students to attend Botanical Society Meetings
February 27th, 2013 | 1
Undergraduate Diversity Travel Awards to Botanical Society of America Meetings The PLANTS program (funded by the National Science Foundation and Botanical Society of America) encourages the participation of undergraduates from underrepresented groups at the annual meetings of the BSA and affiliated organizations (this year in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 27-31, 2013). These meetings focus on [...]Keep reading »
#sci4all: Making Science Allies essential to promoting #STEM
More and more I realize that having a scientifically literate public is imperative. As much as we hear news stories about new jobs and economic relief that STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) will have on our nation and our lives, the truth is, if individuals aren't ready for these great new, high-paying opportunities then that [...]Keep reading »


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This is the second in a three-part series on the ACCME accreditation process for CME providers. The first details the ACCME's accreditation process; and the third shows how to bounce back after being placed on probation or receiving a progress report requirement.
In a video on the ACCME's Web site, Kopelow calls the set of criteria with which providers must comply to achieve accreditation with commendation "a set of values or attributes that ACCME believes are the ones that can have the highest impact on healthcare, patient outcomes, and physician practice." It also can seem out of reach for CME providers who don't provide patient care services or have clinical and patient data. As an audience member at a session on achieving accreditation with commendation at the 2012 ACEHP conference said, "If we're not a hospital or a medical school, how can we comply with things like Criteria 21 [which requires providers to participate 'within an institutional or system framework for quality improvement.']?"
To answer this question, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education has created the following example, putting itself in the role of an accredited provider. In this example, the ACCME's CME mission is to enhance the competence and performance of CME professionals with respect to the ACCME requirements and in turn to enhance the competence, performance, or patient outcomes of their learners. The ACCME will seek to do this through its online resources, its live educational events, and its focused webconferences.
Criterion 16: The provider operates in a manner that integrates CME into the process for improving professional practice.
➽ The ACCME has reached out to numerous government and health system organizations to facilitate the inclusion of accredited CME as a "bridge to quality" and as a strategic asset to their initiatives to improve physician practice. For example, the ACCME has worked with the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Food and Drug Administration to position accredited CME as a strategic partner in their initiatives to improve prescriber practice in the area of substance abuse prevention, detection, and treatment.
➽ The ACCME produced the booklet and presentation, called "CME as a Bridge to Quality," to encourage CME providers to demonstrate to their stakeholders how accredited CME supports improvements in physician practice and patient care.
Criterion 17: The provider utilizes non-education strategies to enhance change as an adjunct to its activities/educational interventions (e.g., reminders, patient feedback).
As adjuncts to its Bridge to Quality™ accreditation workshops:
➽ The ACCME has published a compendium of compliance and noncompliance case examples drawn from the accreditation review process. This compendium is designed to help CME providers learn from each other and understand how the ACCME evaluates compliance.
➽ The ACCME publishes data about accreditation outcomes that shows providers that compliance is achievable and alerts them to potential risk areas for noncompliance.
➽ The ACCME facilitates the dissemination of best practices by producing video interviews with CME and other healthcare system leaders who share their innovative approaches to planning effective education, including strategies they use to overcome challenges and build bridges with other healthcare stakeholders.
➽ The ACCME uses organizational and administrative tools and processes to support providers in successfully achieving reaccreditation. For example, the ACCME publishes guides to the reaccreditation process and sends reaccreditation timeline reminders.
Criterion 18: The provider identifies
factors outside the provider's control that affect patient outcomes.
The ACCME has identified the following factors, outside of its control, that affect the ability of its providers to comply with accreditation requirements and offer effective CME that improves physician competence, performance, and patient outcomes:
➽ There is a range of expertise among CME
➽ Commitment to change varies among learners.
➽ Some executives are not committed to the success of their CME program. They may not allocate appropriate funding or resources, and they may not demand or expect that the CME program demonstrate change and improvement.
Criterion 19: The provider implements educational strategies to remove, overcome, or address barriers to physician change.
The ACCME's educational strategies relate to physicians as clinicians or CME professionals.
➽ The ACCME clarifies the accreditation requirements to ensure they are understandable to clinicians who may not be involved in CME as well as to physicians who are CME professionals.
➽ The ACCME holds special educational sessions for providers at risk of losing their accreditation. These providers must bring their physician leaders to the sessions. ACCME's chief executive talks one-on-one with the physician leaders to help them understand the accreditation requirements, the ACCME's expectations, and the relevancy of the educational requirements.
➽ The ACCME produces video interviews with physician leaders discussing how they have overcome barriers to physician change and facilitated physician commitment to learning and change through CME.
Criterion 20: The provider builds bridges with other stakeholders through collaboration and cooperation.
➽ The ACCME has built bridges with numerous organizations in the CME and healthcare environment. Through these connections, the ACCME has the opportunity to communicate the value of CME and facilitate the integration of CME in healthcare improvement initiatives. For example, the ACCME is an associate member of the American Board of Medical Specialties and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.
➽ The ACCME participates regularly in the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education meetings to discuss issues of importance to both the accreditation and credit systems.
➽ The ACCME participates in the annual conference and initiatives of the Association of Independent Academic Medical Centers focused on all components of medical education as it relates to quality and improved patient care.
➽ The ACCME exchanges information about its systems, requirements, and strategic planning/directions with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
➽ The ACCME collaborates with the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education on the process for Joint Accreditation for the Provider of Interprofessional Continuing Education.
➽ The ACCME builds bridges with organizations that are outside the CME environment. For example, the ACCME participated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Editorial Summit: Advancing Public Health Globally, held in September 2011 in Atlanta. The goal of the summit was to establish a sustainable, collaborative forum to facilitate the dissemination of scientific information to healthcare practitioners, policymakers, and the public. ACCME's chief executive Kopelow discussed how CME can support the translation of new science into physician practice and improved patient care. In January, the ACCME convened a follow-up meeting to further the forum's goals.
➽ The ACCME reaches out to organizations outside the CME/healthcare systems to build awareness of accredited CME. For example, the ACCME was invited to participate in the first U.S.-India Higher Education Summit, held in Washington, D.C., in October 2011. Hosted by the U.S. and Indian governments, the summit brought together international leaders in government, business, and academia to discuss their strategic vision for building collaboration between the U.S. and India in the area of higher education. Kopelow offered his perspective about how continuing professional education can contribute to this initiative.
➽ The ACCME provides speakers for numerous educational and professional development events held by recognized accreditors, member organizations, CME organizations, and other stakeholder groups.
Criterion 21: The provider participates within an institutional or system framework for quality improvement.
➽ The ACCME operates within the healthcare system to integrate accredited CME into quality improvement efforts.
➽ The ACCME encourages CME providers to position their programs as strategic assets to their institution's and system's quality-improvement efforts.
➽ Government agencies have approached the ACCME to discuss how CME can help drive quality efforts.
➽ The ACCME provides ongoing support for the American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification® initiative.
➽ The ACCME is collaborating with the FDA to support the participation of accredited CME in the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for long-acting and extended-release opioids.
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Love both of these August covers, especially the Curse Bells #1.
In fact, I really, really, really like the way stories are developing on Baltimore!
Unfortunately an artist and general direction change has derailed my interest overall in Witchfinder, but I'm certain when the story gets back on a more traditional track (whatever that means on a Mignola book) I'll perk up, but Witchfinder is currently very 'meh' for me.
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BALTIMORE: THE CURSE BELLS #4 (of 5)
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With the diminutive devil Madame Blavatsky preparing to curse the bells and damn thousands, will Baltimore choose to save the many or be blinded by his personal lust for revenge? Jailbreaks, our hero face to face with the horrific Haigus, teenage torture at the hands of an inquisitor, and more in the penultimate issue of Curse Bells!
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While Johann is locked in spectral combat with the spirit of a possessed prisoner of Russias Special Sciences Service, Kate learns about the deserted town of Rampayedik and its mysterious zombie looters.
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Between tracking down the vagrant followers of a prescient teen pursued by crablike beasts and dealing with a redneck priest who preaches by way of human mutilation to a trailer park populated by a cult of hillbillies, the B.P.R.D. certainly have their hands full. Can a fractured team wage a winnable war or are they fighting a battle of attrition? B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods and Monsters continues the series Comics Alliance calls one of the best books on the stands. Collects B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods #1-#3 and B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Monsters #1-#2.
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In the hellish frontiers of the American Wild West, nineteenth-century occult investigator Edward Grey finds himself caught in a showdown with an evil witch, bloodthirsty criminals, and zombie cowboys!
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Cover art by Mike Mignola!
John Severins weirdest western yet!
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Exciting to see both WitchFinder and Gods & Mosters trades in there, though no Storm & Fury yet. I was hoping that since The Fury and Monsters ended the same day the trades would come out right around the same time. I guess since this has Witchfinder and end of January and Gods & Monsters as begining of February that next months solicitations could still list it for sometime in February...
I hope The Storm and the Fury comes out in March. It'd make a nice birthday present
I've updated will recent stuff, can you give it the once over and see if I have missed anything? Thanks!
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OK, here's the missed items or items with details missing.
From Upcoming Comics:
- Hellboy Vs The Aztec Mummy (in Dark Horse Presents #8, January 2012)
- The Fury Epilogue (one of them any way) by Duncan Fegredo (in DHP #9, Feb 2012)
- Untitled Lobster Johnson story by Joe Querio (in DHP #10, March 2012)
From Series Under Development:
- Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand (Begins January 2012. Will start Lobster Johnson Year One" or "Day 5" - Illustrations by Tonci Zonjic with covers by Dave Johnson)
- [strike]Untitled BPRD short story written by Scott Allie and illustrated by Guy Davis[/strike] -This story was Casualties and has already been published.
I think that's all.
Corrected and updated! Much appreciated
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Sorry it took me so long. I have limited internet access for a few days. Ended up doing that on my phone (formatting is not fun on a phone).
Dude, any help is appreciated and I take my sweet time sometimes with these updates lol. No need to apologize, thanks for the assist!
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2 c. Bisquick
½ c. sour cream
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¼ c. butter
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cut sour cream into Bisquick. Stir in 7-Up. Dough will be soft. Sprinkle additional Bisquick or flour onto aluminum foil. Knead dough, roll out and cut with biscuit cutter. Melt butter in 9" square pan. Place biscuits in pan and cook 12-15 minutes.
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1 pack Ranch salad/dip mix
Bring cream cheese to room temperature. Mash cream cheese up in a bowl. Add the cheddar cheese and mix well. Add the Ranch dip mix and mix well.
Add bacon bits and mix well. Roll into a ball and roll in bacon bits. Refrigerate until ready to use. Serve with your favorite crackers.
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1 – 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
½ c. butter, softened
½ t. almond extract
¾ c. powdered sugar
1 c. white chocolate chips
½ c. sweetened, dried, cherries, chopped
¾ c. sliced almonds, lightly toasted
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Beat cream cheese, butter and almond extract until fluffy. Gradually beat in powdered sugar. Stir in chocolate chips and ½ c. cherries. Cover and refrigerate until firm enough to handle, about 2 hours. Place cream cheese mixture on plastic wrap and shape into ball. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Roll in almonds before serving. Garnish top with white chocolate curls and dried cherries. Serve with graham cracker snack sticks.


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Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue.
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Crane Cool Mist Humidifiers, $46 (Oscar the Owl), $60 (Train), $50 (White Drop)
Ultrasonic cool mist operation humidifier. Increases air moisture for easier breathing. Cool steam makes it safe to use around young children. Useful for dry winter months and when baby is sick. Also nice décor item for nurseries.
Baby Buddy Electronic Formula Dispenser, $90
Accurately measures the perfect amount of formula and dispenses effortlessly. Almost as great as a coffeemaker, this gadget makes middle-of-the-night feedings a little easier.
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Kid-O Bilibo, $30
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Exergen Temporal Thermometer, $30
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