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February 24, 2014
Dr. Kato to Receive 2014 Nobility in Science Award
The Sarcoma Foundation of America will award Tomoaki Kato, MD its 2014 Nobility in Science Award at its 12th SFA Annual Gala, "Finding the Cure in Our Time-Generating Hope" on Monday, May 5, 2014.
The Nobility in Science Award honors an individual who has made outstanding advancements in the areas of sarcoma research and treatment. The foundation chose Dr. Kato in recognition of his achievements in "ex vivo" transplant surgery, which entails the removal and re-implantation of as many as six abdominal organs. In an 18-hour surgery that was featured on ABC's NY Med, Dr. Kato saved the life of one of the foundation's Board Members by removing her abdominal organs, clearing them of the sarcoma, and replacing them back into her body.
Westfield NJ, December 2013
First Fully Laparoscopic Adult-to-Adult Liver Donation Saves Daughter's Life
Together with her extended family, 14-year-old liver transplant recipient Elle Haley enjoyed an extra special celebration of the holidays and the marriage of her grandparents.
The year before, she received a portion of her father's liver in what would be a groundbreaking procedure: Benjamin Samstein, MD, Surgical Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, removed the left lobe of Drew Haley's liver using an entirely laparoscopic approach. NYP/Columbia has been performing fully laparoscopic living donor transplantation when smaller portions of the liver were needed for younger children, but this was the first case in which a large segment - in this case Drew Haley's entire left lobe - was removed fully laparoscopically. The fully laparoscopic adult-to-adult surgery was published in the American Journal of Transplantation in September 2013 along with two similar cases in Europe, the first in the world.
Read more in the New Jersey Star Ledger here.
- November 2012
Liver transplant team makes sure 4-year old girl receives needed transplant in the midst of Hurricane Sandy
Four-year old Natalia Dreeland received the best possible news a rare matched liver was available for her much-needed transplant but at the worst possible time. With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on NJ and NY that very day, the chances of being able to transport that liver from Nevada to NY grew slimmer with each passing hour. Yet Natalia's transplant team, transplant coordinators, and heroic pilots did not give up until the donor liver arrived safely at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia. Three weeks later, Natalia is recovering and doing well.
Read the full story in the New York Times. - November 2012
New Hepatitis C Treatment Therapies at Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Listen to our talk on Columbia Surgery Blog Talk Radio to chat with Hepatologist Elizabeth Verna, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYP/Columbia's Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation and Robert S. Brown Jr., MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation. Speak to our experts about these new and exciting treatment options and learn more about Hepatitis C and the triple viral therapy medications. Dr. Verna and Dr. Brown will answer your questions live, such as:
- Who would be a good candidate for this new treatment?
- How does the triple viral therapy medications work together to better target the Hepatitis C infection?
- What is triple viral therapy's role in liver transplantation?
October 4, 2012
Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation Receives UNOS Silver Award, Lung program wins Bronze
The Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) at NYP/Columbia received a Silver Medal of Honor for exceeding national standards for organ donation. The award, which reflects transplants done between April 1, 2010, through March 31, 2012, was presented by the Department of Health and Human Services at the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) annual National Learning Congress in Grapevine TX. The award recognizes CLDT's outstanding outcomes, including its high rate of transplantation and low mortality rate among patients on the waitlist for a donor organ.
The CLDT is only one of five liver transplant programs in the US to win a silver award in this category and the only program in NYC to have done so. In related news, the Lung Transplant program at NYP/Columbia won a bronze award, also for its commendable performance in organ donation.
Sep 27, 2012
Health and Education for Asian Livers (H+EAL)
Outreach Program Educates New York Immigrants about Liver Disease
Three specialists from the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) at NYP/Columbia spoke at a special event for the Asian community in Flushing, NY May 7, 2012. Between 300 and 400 people attended the event, titled Prevention and Treatment of Liver Diseases for Asians, which was hosted by Asia Bank. The presentation was given to raise awareness about liver diseases and to encourage Asian immigrants to seek treatment.
- July 2012
NYPH ranked #1 hospital in NY City, # 7 in nation, in US News & World Report Survey
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the best hospital in the metropolitan New York area, and ranks seventh in the nation, according to the 23rd annual U.S. News & World Report annual survey, published July 17, 2012. This marks the 13th year that NYPH was included in the report's Honor Roll.
Of the 4793 hospitals included in the survey, 3% rank highly in just one specialty. NYPH earned national ranking in 23 specialties, including nine pediatric and 14 adult specialties. It was also ranked high-performing in two other areas of care. Rankings of the hospitals are based on criteria including survival rates, safety measures, nurse-to-patient ratios, and other factors.
The 2012-2013 report comes one week after NYPH was featured in the debut of NY Med, an eight-part documentary series filmed inside the hospital for one year.
See the overview of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in the July 17, 2012 US News & World Report here.
- July 2012
Hear about how Dr. Tomoaki Kato began his career in Liver Transplant
Reflections of a Living Liver Donor
By Susanne MullmanIn July 2009, I was a liver donor to my 21 year old daughter, Jen, whose liver failed due to autoimmune hepatitis. I first wrote about the experience in December 2009. Though I accurately captured the emotion and the gratitude I felt at the time, I glossed over many aspects of the journey. Our lives had not yet gotten back to normal, and although Jen would return to school in a few weeks, part of me was still holding my breath, overwhelmed by all we had been through and a little fearful of the future. Now, with the passage of time and watching Jen resume her life in continued good health, it is easier to write the story.
Living donor liver transplants help all kinds of people. Read stories about a few of them.
April 13, 2012
Dr. Tomoaki Kato and Dr. Emile Bacha lead dramatic surgical procedure to save young girls life
March 21, 2011
Living Donor Liver Transplantation May Allow Children to Withdraw from Anti-rejection Drugs
A majority of children who had received liver transplants from their parents were able to stop anti-rejection (immunosuppressant) medication in an encouraging study at three transplant centers.
March 14, 2011
New Cocktail Boosts Recovery from Hepatitis C
For someone with liver disease, a cocktail is normally a forbidden luxury. But in some cases, it may be just what the doctor ordered. Two recently approved medications are now being combined with traditional treatments to form a powerful new drug cocktail, improving the outcomes among patients with this challenging disease.
- November 15, 2011
Stamford CT woman gives husband the gift of life
When Brad Shwidock needed a liver transplant due to primary sclerosing cholangitis, his wife, Carol, was not only eager to donate, but was a good match. The successful living donor transplantation took place at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia September 13, 2011.
Read the story reported by the couple's local paper, The Hour Online, here.
November 10, 2011
Challenges in Liver Transplantation: Allocation of Donor Organs
The November 10, 2011 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine features an editorial by Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, titled Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis Time to Rethink the 6-Month "Rule."
In this editorial, Dr. Brown addresses the difficult questions surrounding how to fairly allocate donor organs, which are in far shorter supply than their demand. In the case of patients with alcoholic hepatitis, current guidelines exclude such patients from the liver transplant waiting list unless they have successfully abstained from alcohol for at least six months. Yet as Dr. Brown points out, many die before this required, albeit arbitrary, window elapses. And a new study indicates that if they are permitted to receive liver transplants, such patients may do at least as as well as, if not better than, some other patients who receive transplants far more often.
As Dr. Brown explains in this editorial, the typical recidivism rate among alcoholics is approximately 30%. Yet organs are regularly allocated to patients with hepatitis C, who have a 100% disease recurrence rate, and a much higher rate of graft failure than those with alcoholic hepatitis, at five years. A study by Mathurin et al in this issue found that carefully selected patients with alcoholic hepatitis experienced a 77% survival rate after liver transplantation at six months, and a recidivism rate of 11.5%. Based on these encouraging results, Dr. Brown writes, "...this study highlights the need to rethink our approach to transplantation for alcoholic liver disease, including applying better rules for selecting patients who are at low risk for recidivism that can be applied in a uniform and fair way."
Read the full editorial at the New England Medicine Journal of Medicine here.
September, 2011
Preventing Liver Cancer
Could your favorite foods be causing liver cancer? Dr. Lorna Dove joins Dr. Oz, as they discuss the risk factors for liver cancer, such as chronic alcohol consumption, as well as some solutions.
June, 2011Join Team Gratitude in Fighting Liver Disease: Walk in the American Liver Foundation Liver Life Walk on June 5
Are you, a family member, or a friend affected by liver disease? Help make a difference by walking with NewYork-Presbyterian's Team Gratitude this spring.
The annual American Liver Foundation NYC Liver Life Walk will be held Sunday, June 5, 2011 in Battery Park, NY.Team Gratitude includes patients with liver disease, liver transplant donors and recipients, friends, family members, physicians, and others connected through NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation. Celebrating its tenth year, the team is united in its commitment to fight liver disease. As part of that commitment, members walk for many reasons: to raise awareness about liver disease, to improve prevention of liver disease by raising funds for the American Liver Foundation; to walk in memory of a loved one; to represent the 30 million Americans fighting liver disease today; and to walk in gratitude towards life.
To join Team Gratitude at the NYC Walk, go to the Team Gratitude team web page. Scroll down the page to see the list of team members, and select the "Join Team" link (at the top of the list of team members). Then, follow the instructions to register for the ALF Liver Life Walk as a part of Team Gratitude.
If you would like to support Team Gratitude in other towns, a few of the members will be participating in these ALF walks:
- May 22, 2011: Eisenhower Park, NY.
- June 12, 2011: Verona Park, NJ.
For information about Team Gratitude, contact Jessica Chipkin, at email@example.com
For information about the American Liver Foundation and/or the Liver Life Walk, please contact ALF's Event Manager, Dilber Koyuncu, at email@example.com or 212.943.1059.
March 17, 2011
CLDT Named Top Center for Hepatitis B
Newsmax online magazine listed NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center as one of the top ten treatment centers in the U.S. for hepatitis B. In its review, Newsmax said "The hospital has remarkable statistics on curing patients with hepatitis B. The Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at the center is one of the best of its kind in the U.S."
Read the story here. -
November 2010
NYP/Columbia Patients and Surgeons Run NYC Marathon
November 7, 2010: Three NewYork-Presbyterian patients ran in the New York City Marathon with surgeons and staff who saved their lives. Jessica Chipkin, along with multiple members of the liver transplant team, ran for the second time since her liver transplant in 2005, when her liver failed due to Wilson's disease. Another patient from the hospital was Benjamin Carey, who underwent surgery for an aortic root aneurysm exactly one year prior to this year's marathon, who ran with his heart surgeon, Allan Stewart, MD. Timothy Sweeney, who had double lung transplant surgery just one year ago, ran with his transplant surgeon, Joshua Sonett, MD.
September 2010
Tomoaki Kato, MD, Robert Brown, MD, and Jean Emond, MD are featured in Innovations in Liver Transplantation, an online Information TV program. They discuss the role of liver transplantation in treating adults with hepatatis C and liver cancer, and children with biliary atresia and other liver diseases. Through interviews and patient profiles, the program clearly explains advances such as living donor liver transplantation and laparoscopic donor surgery.
- July 2010
Video: Story of a Father-Son Living Donor Liver Transplant
Charles Cascio, Jr. and his father, Charles Cascio, Sr. are both patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) in New York City. Charles Jr. donated a portion of his liver to his father during a living donor living transplant (LDLT) procedure. Both father and son have fully recovered. Benjamin Samstein, MD, performed Charles Jr.'s donor surgery. James Guarrera, MD, performed liver transplant surgery on his father. Watch their story in five parts.
June 2010
Dr. Kato Performs Successful Liver Transplant on two-Month-Old Infant
In February, 2010, Dr. Kato led a surgical team in a lifesaving liver transplant on a two-month-old New York infant with advanced liver failure. One of the smallest babies ever to successfully receive a liver transplant, the child weighed 4 pounds at the time of the surgery. In the weeks after being born 10 weeks premature on December 3, 2010, the patient was referred to NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center where she was diagnosed with an irreversible liver injury of unknown origin. Cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit, she was on a ventilator and had dangerous fluid buildup in her abdomen and difficulty feeding. She was on the organ waitlist for two weeks before a replacement organ became available. Read more about the surgery and the child's recovery. The story was covered in the New York Daily News.
- June 2010
Dr. Kato Featured in 2010 NY Magazine Best Doctors Issue
The June 6, 2010 New York magazine Best Doctors issue included a profile of Tomoaki Kato, MD, featuring a multi-organ auto transplant he led to rid a 63- year-old woman of a baseball-sized leiomyosarcoma tumor on her abdominal aorta. The tumor was also wrapped around two other major arteries. The team temporarily removed the abdominal organs. In removing the tumor they excised four inches of vena cava and three inches of aorta, replacing the vessel tissue with grafts. The operation required seven surgeons and two anesthesiologists; the patient went home after three weeks in the hospital.
- June 2010
Dr. Samstein and Laparoscopic Hepatectomy Featured on National TV
Dr. Benjamin Samstein, a pioneer in minimally invasive liver donor surgery (hepatectomy), appeared on an ABC News Healthfirst segment on May 27, 2010. The segment profiled a father who donated a portion of his liver to his young child, who suffered from liver failure. Until recently, living donor hepatectomy involved a 25 centimeter incision extending from chest to navel. Newly introduced minimally invasive donor surgery involves several 1-inch incisions instead. The result is much less pain and recovery time for the donor. The procedure is a boon for living liver donors, who are often a parent donating a portion of their liver to their childa parent who must care for the child immediately after surgery. The story was also covered nationally on CBS News.
- March 2010
Video: The CLDT's Benjamin Samstein, MD, discusses surgery for liver cancer
Dr. Samstein discusses "resection" (removing the diseased part of the liver), how much of the liver can be safely removed, and what challenges faces surgeons operating on the liver.
- February 2010
Dr. Kato and Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Profiled in NYT
The February 22, 2010 New York Times published an article about auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation, in which a portion of a liver is transplanted into the body of a patient with liver failure, usually a child, and the patient's own (native) liver is retained in place. The transplanted liver supports the patient until the native liver recovers, and immune-suppressing drugs to protect the transplant from the patient's immune system are administered. Once the native liver recovers, immunosuppression is stopped and the transplant liver is attacked and absorbed by the immune system. The great benefit of the procedure is that the patient must only take immunosuppressant drugs until their own liver recovers, although not all cases of acute liver failure do recover, and those patients rely on their transplanted liver and require immunosuppression for life.
The Times article focused on the case of NYPH/Columbia Patient Jonathan Nuñez, whose liver failed at when he was eight months old. Tomoaki Kato, MD, then at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, performed auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation surgery on Jonathan in 2006. Jonathan is now a healthy four-year-old, who is immunosuppressant free. Dr. Kato, who came to Columbia's Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation in 2008, was highlighted in the article as one of the few surgeons who perform the lengthy and complex procedure. - February 2010
Exclusively at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Laparoscopic Approach Promises Dramatically Improved Recovery for the Organ Donor Typically, a Parent Donating to Their Child
The laparoscopic liver retrieval is offered by Dr. Benjamin Samstein, Surgical Director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant Program, who first learned the technique from Daniel Cherqui of Hôpital Henri Mondor, Paris. Standard pediatric liver implantation is led by Dr. Tomoaki Kato, Surgical Director, Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation. The new surgical advance represents the latest chapter in a history of innovations in living organ donation by NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia surgeons. Dr. Jean Emond, chief of transplantation, was a key member of the team that performed the first pediatric living donor liver transplantation in North America in 1989 while at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Lloyd Ratner, director of renal and pancreatic transplantation, performed the nation's first adult-to-adult laparoscopic living donor kidney transplant in 1995 while at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Today more than half of kidney transplants are done with a living donor, and 80 percent of these are retrieved laparoscopically.
Read more about living donor liver retrieval and living organ transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. -
February 2010
Dr. James Guarrera Is PI in First-of-Its-Kind Liver Preservation Study
Machine Perfusion Outperforms Standard Cold-Storage Liver Preservation
Preserving organs on ice prior to transplantation, an approach known as cold storage or CS, has been the standard practice in liver transplant for 20 years. Now there is new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) may offer an improvement, according to the first-ever study comparing the impact of the two techniques on transplant outcomes. The phase I study was carried out by Dr. James Guarrera and his colleagues at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Unlike cold storage, which Dr. Guarrera describes as a static technique, HMP dynamically simulates "aliveness" by providing a continuous flow of oxygen and key nutrients to the liver while diluting and removing toxins and waste products.
- January 2010
Brooklyn Woman on Brink of Death Thrives After Five Transplants
At the turn of the 2010 New Year, Fox News and the New York Daily News reported on the promising recovery of a patient who received an unprecedented five-organ transplant in May 2009.
The procedure was performed by a Columbia surgical team headed by Dr. Tomoaki Kato. The 22-year-old patient, Kristin Molini, was near death from a rare medical condition known as intestinal dysmotility when she received a new liver, stomach, pancreas, and large and small intestines in a 13-hour operation. The Columbia surgical team included three surgeons, two anesthesiologists, and four nurses. According to the article, only 300 such surgeries have been performed worldwide since the 1980s. "It's still a very uncommon surgery," said Dr. Kato, "This is considered very high-risk." Media coverage for the multiple transplant included Fox News (December 31, 2009) and the New York Daily News (January 1, 2010). -
November 2009
Multi-Organ Autotransplantation
Transplant surgeons at NYPH/Columbia use autotransplantation to remove deeply embedded tumors involving the abdominal blood vessels, which would otherwise be considered inoperable. Autotransplantation is the removal and reimplantation of a patient's own organ (or organs). Unlike patients who receive organs from donors, patients undergoing autotransplantation do not have to wait for a donor to become available. They are not required to take immunosuppressant medications following surgery, as is the case with transplantation of donor organs.
- September 2009
Multi-Organ Autotransplant Patient Starts Third Grade in Fine Shape
On September 9, 2009, New York Newsday published a follow-up story about Heather McNamara, whose multiple-organ autotransplant and tumor removal was performed by Dr. Tomoaki Kato during February, 2009. Heather had lost her pancreas, stomach, and spleen, which were too damaged by her tumor to be reattached, leaving her diabetic, more prone to infections, and dependent upon pre-digested food for her nutrition. The article reported that the seven-year-old, who started third grade on September 8, looked and acted like a normal, healthy girl. Dr. Steven Lobritto, who was interviewed for the article, reported that her prognosis is good, "She's a robust kid," he said. "She's right on target."
- August 2009
CLDT Emergency Liver Transplant Profiled by NYT
The August 18, 2009 The New York Times profiled an emergency liver transplant in an American patient who became ill while traveling overseas. The procedure, which faced tremendous odds, was coordinated and performed by the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT).
June 2009
Comments from Dr. Robert S. Brown, Jr. were included in a June 22, 2009 Reuters article about possible reasons for Apple CEO Steve Jobs' recent liver transplant. If the tumor migrated to the liver from the pancreas, a liver transplant may be an effective treatment, said Dr. Brown, who continued, "Our experience after a liver transplant is a return to normal function."
- June 2009
NYP/Columbia Offers Artificial Liver Device as Part of Ongoing Trial
The Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device, or ELAD®, is the first artificial organ for liver patients that uses immortalized human liver cells. The Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is one of a few centers in the U.S. offering the device. The bedside system treats blood plasma, metabolizing toxins and synthesizing proteins just like a real liver does. The study is evaluating the effectiveness of the system in supporting patients' lives until a liver transplant becomes available. "We're also interested to see if it can relieve the burden on the patient's liver enough so that it can regenerate and regain some of its function," says Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH, site principal investigator.
Read more. - March 2009
In March, 2009, Dr. Robert S. Brown, Jr. was the featured expert in a news story on the extracorporeal liver-assist device (ELAD). He noted that, unlike previous attempts at an artificial liver, the ELAD uses human liver cells to metabolize toxins and synthesize proteins. The interview has aired on eight ABC and NBC affiliate stations across the country.
- February 2009
Dr. Kato Leads Historic Surgery Resulting in Successful Removal of "Inoperable" Abdominal Tumor
Removing a tumor from a 7-year-old girl's abdomen during a 23-hour surgery on February 6, 2009, Tomoaki Kato, MD, and a team of seven surgeons and eight additional clinicians removed multiple organs from the girl's abdomen. The team removed small and large intestines, liver, pancreas, spleen and stomach, while three separate surgical teams worked to excise the tennis ball-sized tumor, which was tangled around vital organs and essential blood vessels. After removing the tumor, the team re-implanted the liver, small and large intestines. However, the girl's pancreas, spleen and stomach non-vital organs that had been compromised by the tumor were unsuitable for re-implantation. The surgery is the first reported case of its kind in the world. The story was covered by New York Newsday, CNN TV, WCBS TV, NY1 TV, and 1010 WINS radio New York. Read more.
For the celebration of the center's 1000th liver transplant, clinical and administrative staff folded 1000 origami paper cranes.December 2008Liver Transplant Milestone Celebrated
Transplant recipients, donors and their families reunited with the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia liver transplantation team on Dec. 15, 2008, to celebrate surpassing the milestone of 1,000 successful transplants. Present for the event were Drs. Jean Emond and Robert Brown; clinical director Dianne Lapointe-Rudow, DNP, Elaine Berg from the New York Organ Donor Network; and several transplant recipients, who spoke about their experiences.
WABC-TV and WCBS Radio both interviewed Dr. Emond, who discussed how advances like living organ transplantation have helped save lives. ABCNews.com and HealthNewsDigest.com also reported on the event.
Read the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital press release.
April 2008
New Life for Children with Liver Failure
If a child suffers from a serious liver disorder, treatment by a multidisciplinary center with vast medical and surgical experience can make the difference between an excellent or poor quality of life, or between life and death. At the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, outcomes far surpass the national average, with 92% of children surviving at one year, 89% surviving at two years, and 88% surviving at three years after liver transplantation. But short-term survival is not the goal. If a child lives only one or two years, that is not a successful transplant. Our goal is for every child to live a normal life well into adulthood.
April 2008
Preventing and Treating Adult Liver Disease
The Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation offers a full spectrum of services to patients suffering from all forms of liver disease, from walk-in office consultations, to antiviral treatment for Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B, to liver transplantation. In a trend that reflects the rising obesity epidemic, physicians at the center are seeing increasing numbers of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition associated with obesity. While non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is clearly on the rise, undetected viral hepatitis C infection accounts for about 50% of the center's patients with chronic liver disease. Alcoholism accounts for the next largest group of patients at the center, which is noted for its comprehensive, multidisciplinary treatment program.
- March 2008
On March 27, Fox Business ran a Schering-Plough Corporation press release regarding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of label revisions for peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin, as a combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C. Robert S. Brown Jr., MD, MPH, was co-principal investigator in the study leading to the label revision, WIN-R. The release was picked up by the Biloxi Sun Herald, and CNN/Money.
- November 2007
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, provided comments for a November 14, 2007 New York Times article about four transplant recipients in Chicago who contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade of the virus being spread by organ transplants. The organs also gave all four patients hepatitis C, in the first reported instance of the two viruses being spread simultaneously by a transplant. "It still remains that the biggest risk for patients on the transplant list is being on the list and not receiving an organ," Dr. Brown said, "there is always a drive toward better testing, but if it leads to more organ wastage, we'll probably hurt more people than we help...what I tell my patients is, the likelihood of being infected with HIV or hepatitis in that small window of time is incredibly small, and the risk of dying on the waiting list is not incredibly small." The story was picked up by the Akron Beacon Journal.
- 2007
Multimodality Approach Improves Outcomes in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
With nationally and internationally recognized authorities in established modalities as well as experimental techniques, the treatment team for hepatocellular carcinoma and hilar cholangiocarcinoma at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is setting new standards for patient outcomesincluding long-term survivalin resection, adjuvant therapies, and transplantation.
- 2007
New Drugs, Dosing Highlight New Approaches to Hepatitis C
The Center for the Study of Hepatitis continues to be actively involved in both clinical and basic science research in an effort to identify new treatments for patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). A multidisciplinary approach is central to efforts at the Center, which is a collaborative endeavor of Weill Cornell clinicians and researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital along with colleagues at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and researchers at Rockefeller University.
- 2007
Liver Transplantation: Better Preservation of Donor Organs May Enable More Transplants
As advanced as the field of organ transplantation has become, several important challenges remain. Of these, the availability of donor organs stands paramount. Among those with end stage liver disease, over 17,000 patients wait for a donated liver every year in the U.S., but fewer than 6000 receive one, and about 1800 people die while on the waiting list. As a result, researchers are avidly working to find ways to safely use as many potential donor organs as possible, including organs that once may have been considered "imperfect."
Living Donor Liver Transplantation Saves Lives
At this time there are eight patients on the waiting list for every available liver and many patients are considered too sick or too old to even get a place on the list. To address this serious shortage, the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) is pioneering methods of increasing access to liver transplantation. Living donor liver transplantation offers one solution.
- May 2006
Largest U.S. Hepatitis C Trial Provides Insight into Optimizing Treatment for Patients
Dr. Robert Brown is Co-Principal Investigator of the WIN-R trial, the largest hepatitis C study ever conducted in U.S. patients. The community-based study which involved more than 4,900 patients at 225 centers across the United States, showed significantly better outcomes with weight-based dosing. The study findings were reported at the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) annual meeting, May 20-25, 2006, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Dr. Brown and the study's Principal Investigator, Dr. Ira Jacobson of Weill Medical College of Cornell University, are co-directors of New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System's Liver Clinical Trials Network (LCTN). Click here to read the press release on study presentation at the Digestive Diseases Week.
- February 2003
Dr. Brown Presents First Data on Living Donor Liver Transplant
Procedure shown to be safe for donors and recipients
Robert S. Brown, Jr., MD, MPH is the principal author of an article entitled "A Survey of Liver Transplantation from Living Adult Donors in the United States," published as a Special Article in the February 27, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The article is the first to present comprehensive data on adult to adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in this country, with responses from 84 of the 122 programs now doing LDLT. Those 84 centers performed more than 90 percent of all cadaveric liver transplants (transplants that use organs harvested from someone who has died) in the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. Columbia University Medical Center has one of the nation's most active and outstanding living donor liver transplant programs.


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@sammyG, I would have to disagree with you on your point that music stored as binary files has overcome the degradation that digitalization brings to sound. Recently I participated in a study done with high definition compact discs and classic vinyl records.
The difference in sound quality, while slight, was apparent to most of the audio professionals in teh room. Perhaps the biggest issue that people have with this kind of analysis is the use of proper equipment to undertake a comparison like this.
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The U.S. Presidency was the subject of a forum in Hartford over the weekend. Historian Joseph Ellis, Bush/Cheney strategist Matthew Dowd, and Elizabeth Edwards weighed in on the potential, and toll, of serving.
Matthew Dowd was the chief strategist of the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign in 2004. He says if he had it to do over, he would not take that job.
Dowd publicly broke with Bush last year, and now supports Barack Obama for president. But he told the crowd he doesn't think Bush is the problem. More, it's the people around him, though he declined to name names.
"Leaders have angels of good and bad within them, and the people they bring around them can appeal to either the angel of good, or the angel of bad, because every human being has those."
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That was Elizabeth Edwards, wife of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards. She said it takes a measure of vanity for any candidate to launch a presidential campaign.
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While her husband John was campaigning, Edwards found her out herbreast cancer had returned, and that her husband had had an affair witha staffer. Elizabeth Edwards said the trick to handling the pressure is to try to keep all the attention in perspective.
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It has not always been this way. Historian Joseph Ellis said the founding presidents he studies would find the modern campaign rigors unseemly and incompatible with the qualities needed to govern.
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Monday and Tuesday, June 2&3, was the first JCNA HPDE at Road Atlanta. As a novice at a track day this was a groundbreaking event for me and as such it certainly is a highlight in my automotive history. While having done track events previously in racing schools, this was the first time I had my own street car on a track. The organizer, Todd Serota of TracQuest, runs a tight event and made sure that everyone went home in the same condition that they arrived.
The emphasis of the two days was on Education. Instructors were available and anyone who wanted an instructor to ride with them had ample opportunity.
The Jaguar turnout was low, but Roy Cleaveland of the North Georgia Jaguar Club was on hand to see how things were run.
Things I did not do:
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4. Had a heck of a great time.
As a bonus the author and vintage racer Burt Levy was in attendance working as an instructor and offering clinics for anyone interested. Burt was my instructor for part of the day, passing on driving skills with a liberal sprinkling of b.s. to keep it interesting.
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various aloe vera/potting mix questions
hi there. because it was so nice and sunny today (for once) i was gonna put my aloe plant outside so it could get some direct sunlight. but on the way, i stumbled and dropped the plant.
because i only repotted 4 days ago, everything fell out, dirt and all. also, when it hit the deck, two of the leaves bent and cracked, so i ripped the top parts off.
when i repotted 4 days ago, it was my first time, and i didn't realize that i should've ruffled it up so that the roots weren't stuck in the shape of the old pot. so because the plant had fallen out anyway, i thought, why not? i'll repot it properly this time.
so after shaking out all the chunks of dirt, i got to take a look at the roots. (i did take pictures and everything, but i've misplaced the USB cable; sorry!) the roots were quite dry (so that means they're not rotting, right?) but not SO dry that they were brittle. even though they were covered in dirt, i'm pretty sure they're not white in color. they looked tan/red/brown to me. is this a healthy color?
so right now i'm letting it sit outside on some paper in the sunlight. how long can i let it just sit without a pot?
reason i haven't repotted it yet, is because i have some questions about the proper potting mix. i used a potting mix especially made for cactus & succulents (said so right on the bag!) by Scotts. but it doesn't look fast-draining AT ALL to me. i'm no expert but it doesn't look very different from regular potting mix.
so i'm wondering... before i repot, should i mix the supposedly C&S mix with some more stuff? i'm guessing perlite? is perlite available in most stores?
or can i mix it with things like marbles?
thanks for all your help in advance!
When Hurrican Rita hitting us was a definite and the whole city was evacuating (for no reason at all apparently) I put my aloe (in soil) in a closed garage. That was in September 05. Oops, I sort of forgot about it -- until March of 06. I swear to you, it was pitiful. I brought it out, gave it a drink and left it alone to see if it would come back. Guess what. A year later and the thing is 16" tall with a diameter across the top of about the same, and it just finished flowering. They can withstand a LONG drought! ;0) As for soil, the stuff you have is junk by itself. It is loaded with peat which becomes hydrophobic when left to dry between waterings. I would only use it for about a quarter of my mix. Get some landscapers mix which is pine bark well decomposed (but still piecy, if that makes sense), and some grit of some kind. I use this stuff called OilDri which I get from Sam's for about $4.84 for a 25# bag. It is med-high fired clay and will hold it's structure for up to a year or more (that I know of). I also use decomposed granite or chicken grit. The feed stores sale it as Chicken Grit, but Home Depot sales decomposed granite as well - I think it was $3 something for a pretty good sized bag. You can also use unpainted fish tank gravel. I personally am getting ready to repot all of mine again without any peat. I am using coir instead. I bought it in the form of Bed a Beast at Petsmart in the lizard/iguana section for $5.99 for a block when hydrated makes 7 liters. I am going to mix 1 part coir, 1 part landscapers mix, 1 part OilDri, and 1 part decomposed granite. This makes it about 50% grit and very free draining-- good for where I am as constant rain is a high probability during the summer. I don't like perlite as it floats to the top. A lot of people like it because it is lighter than the stuff I've listed above, but other than my huge aloe and stuff in situ, my pots are only 3" to 8" so it's a non-issue. If your roots aren't white that is okay. A lot of succulents' roots turn a reddish tan color as they mature. As long as they are not mushy and/or dark brown, you should be good to go. Don't wait too long to pot up though. It can handle it, but why stress it. Happy gardening.
I've had good results with regular C&S mix, cut with probably an equal amount of medium grade perlite, and just a handful and a quarter of long fibered sphagnum moss. Is it any better than any other mix? no. Has it worked well for me? none of my plants have died, and they're putting on a lot fo new growth. The peat does become hydrophobic, like tanya stated, which is why I throw in the LFS.
As a side note, I remember a few years ago when I was just starting trying different mediums, I had some stuff potted in straight peat moss. I tried to water it and was dumbfounded when the water just formed a "water bubble" on top for almost 5 minutes.
Good Luck.
wow, thanks guys, especially for that link. that's a looooot of material.
what i noticed was Andy_E's post mentioning how there should be uniform particle size. this actually makes a lot of sense, no?
b/c if you mixed really fine soil with some rocks, all the soil would fill in the spaces between the rocks.
so i guess it really wouldn't help much if i added some marbles to the potting mix. all the soil would probably just pack around it, and drainage would be the same.
and tanyag thanks for all that info! but i'm a complete beginner, and that potting mix looks too ambitious right now, heh. in other words i'm looking for a lazy way out. :D
"how there should be uniform particle size. this actually makes a lot of sense, no?
b/c if you mixed really fine soil with some rocks, all the soil would fill in the spaces between the rocks."
Except if the product you are using for grit is jagged and not rounded. It would not be good to use marbles because they have rounded edges. The OilDri and decomposed granite are jagged edged and so compaction isn't a problem.
A simple fix for you would be to go to Home Depot or other box store and buy Aquatic Soil (see link). It is more or less Turface (high fired clay). Mix that equal parts with the soil you already have. You may still get the hydrophobic nature of the peat in that soil, but it shouldn't be as bad. If you don't have a lot of plants you can get around the hydrophobia by getting a shallow rubbermaid tub, placing your plants in it and filling it to about 2/3 up the pots. Let them sit for about an hour and through wicking action, it should rewet the peat. It has taken my small 3" pots up to an hour to fully rewet and my larger 8" pots up to 3 hours to fully rewet. The nice thing is I only have to water the 8" pots like every month and a half like this. I have had no problem with rot either because of sitting in the water. It would take longer than that to cause rot.
You could also keep it simple by getting the "Bed a Beast" stuff from Petsmart and the Aquatic Soil and mixing those equal parts or 40/60 respectively. It should be rather easy.
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Iran nuclear crisis sees deal emerging in Geneva
World powers and Iran are expected to reach a long sought deal on Friday to try to resolve Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
US, UK, French and German foreign ministers are making unscheduled trips to Geneva to join talks between Iran and the so-called P5+1 delegates.
Details have not been released but Iran is expected to halt some enrichment activity for limited sanctions relief.
Israel's prime minister said such an agreement would be "very bad".
The West suspects Iran's uranium enrichment programme is a step towards building nuclear weapons - a charge Iran strongly denies.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told CNN on Thursday that he was hopeful all sides could reach an agreement before the talks ended on Friday.
The blunt statement from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a stark warning of the problems the Obama administration will have in securing support for its policy both at home and abroad.
Not just Israel but many of Washington's Gulf allies are uneasy.
Mr Netanyahu's comments represent a call to arms to Israel's supporters on Capitol Hill where there is considerable scepticism about a possible deal.
The danger though is that Mr Netanyahu may be over-reaching. What real alternative is there other than trying to achieve an understanding with Tehran? Any diplomatic effort requires some modest concessions from both sides to try to oil the wheels.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will seek to reassure Mr Netanyahu. A damaging and divisive situation looms where Israel's interests are cast as being starkly different from those of Washington.
As reports of a deal emerged, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in Israel on a Middle East tour, changed his itinerary to fly to Geneva instead.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas, who is travelling with Mr Kerry, says his dramatic decision to change his travel plans is a clear sign that a deal with Iran may be within reach.
State department official Jen Psaki told the BBC Mr Kerry was going "to help narrow differences in negotiations" between Iran and the P5+1 (US, Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany).
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle are also going to the talks.
Israeli angerMr Zarif told CNN Iran would not suspend uranium enrichment completely but could "deal with the various issues on the table".
The US confirmed some sanctions relief was being offered in return for "concrete, verifiable measures".
"We can provide them some very modest relief, but keeping the sanctions architecture in place," President Barack Obama told NBC News.
"So that if it turned out during the course of the six months when we're trying to resolve some of these bigger issues that they're backing out of the deal, they're not following through on it or they're not willing to forward and finish the job of giving us assurances that they're not developing a nuclear weapon... we can crank that dial back up," he said.
But speaking ahead of meeting John Kerry on Friday morning, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said such a deal would be a serious mistake.
Iranian media reaction
The conservative media in Iran are hopeful about the nuclear talks but in contrast, hardline media are more guarded.
The moderate conservative Tabnak news website says that the talks had yielded "remarkable and probably unexpected progress", adding that it seems as though "the preliminary steps of a major nuclear deal between Iran and the West are being devised". It notes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "dissatisfaction" is another sign that a deal is close.
News channel IRINN broadcast an interview with its correspondent in Geneva in which the presenter says that the possibility of the two parties reaching agreement is greater than ever before. The correspondent says that the fact that P5+1 accepted Iran's proposed framework for talks was a significant achievement. "It means that the talks will be continued based on Iran's agenda from now on," he says.
However, the hardline Rajanews website is more cautious, drawing a comparison between the Geneva talks and a "bitter" deal between Iran and the West in 2004 under the reformist President, Mohammad Khatami.
"As long as the US has not agreed to lift all the sanctions at the final stage as well as recognise Iran's right to enrichment, no first step under the name of confidence-building should be taken," it comments.
"I understand that the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva - as well they should be, because they got everything and paid nothing.
"Everything they wanted, they wanted relief of sanctions after years of a gruelling sanctions regime, they got that, they are paying nothing because they are not reducing in any way their nuclear enrichment capability.
"So Iran got the deal of the century and the international community got a bad deal, this is a very bad deal. Israel utterly rejects it and what I am saying is shared by many, many in the region, whether or not they express that in publicly.
"Israel is not obliged by this agreement and Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself and the security of its people."
Israel sees a nuclear armed Iran as an existential threat. Mr Netanyahu has said the international community should accept nothing short of a complete halt to Iran's entire uranium enrichment programme, the removal of all enriched uranium from its territory, the closure of its underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordo, and a halt to construction of its heavy water reactor near Arak.
'End game'Mr Zarif said the sides could sit down by Friday morning to prepare "some sort of a joint statement" that would address three elements - a common objective, an "end game... in less than a year'' and mutual confidence-building measures.
Iran's lead negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, said the world powers had "clearly" accepted his country's proposed framework and were now discussing details.
However, there was no official confirmation from the P5+1.
Hopes of a long-awaited deal on curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions were given fresh momentum this year by the election of President Hassan Rouhani, seen as a relative moderate.
Since 2006 the UN Security Council has imposed a series of sanctions - including asset freezes and travel bans - on entities and people involved in Iran's nuclear programme.
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Number 8
updated October 31, 2012 |
front page
Back to what
passes for normal
The USA prepares to vote --- in some places is already voting, and if
you are a US citizen living in Panama you should have already voted but
if you haven't, depending on the state where you vote there still may
be time --- and Panama gets ready for its season of patriotic parades.
But down here the mood is not festive.
In the wake of this latest crisis people are abandoning the Martinelli team, Colon is mourning its dead and the public discourse is almost unimaginably vile. The basic problem of a guy who gets dangerously manic, controls all of the strings of political power and seems to have nobody in his entourage who will tell him when to stop remains and there will surely be new crises. Tearing up a street with a big saw. Photo by Kermit Nourse Maybe the least of it Political scientists are
educated to think in abstractions, principles and structures of doing
things. Those are important. They are so important that the sleaziest
of politicians seek to limit that sort of thinking because it gets in
the way of their appeals to base emotions, behaviors and prejudices.
It's harder to go vote buying among an electorate that's well educated
in civics.
However, those whom the voters send to City Hall soon learn that concerns about democratic institutions and procedures drive very few passions compared to concerns about the garbage getting picked up. Panama's democratic institutions are under concerted attack by crude and sneering people. However, the streets being torn up and the traffic jams resulting from that are a more immediate annoyance for most people. Streets being blocked off, water and electricity that keep going out and a general rise in the stress level of daily life are hurting this government more than all of the scandals. * * * This time of the year The
Panama News traditionally asks for donations from the readers. We have
been online only since early 2001, having started as a hard copy
tabloid in late 1994. And, come to think about it, we also have
memories of fundraising in the fall of 2004 and the fall of 2008.
Asking for donations in the autumn of a US presidential election year
is difficult. Campaigns suck up so much of the money to be donated to
causes at such times, and this year's election is far and away the most
expensive US election ever. The alternative media in the States, big
and small, are having the same sorts of trouble mobilizing the
financial support of readers that we are. However, we still have needs and we still have more than 30,000 people reading The Panama News, both this website and the associated Facebook page. It's kind of a ragtag operation, it's hated by bigots and demagogues and those who think that science is an evil conspiracy, but it persists. Our contributors include writers and photographers who have won some prestigious awards, and scholars and artists of international repute. Among the put downs we have received during this campaign season, a few really stand out and qualify as badges of honor. There is this Tea Party lady, one of those unreconstructed Zonians, whose husband died some years back and who drips scorn on everyone who gets government benefits --- except that the Social Security survivor's benefits she gets are somehow different. She believes in the Birther conspiracy and says that she has been unemployed or underemployed for 14 years and it's Barack Obama's fault. And she complains about this reporter's use of difficult words, specifically mentioning "vilify." Another guy with similar politics uses the military slogan "Keep It Simple, Stupid" and considers it elitist to write for anyone with more than a fifth grade education. We do occasionally post or link to academic or technical writing, and our different contributors have their different styles, but we don't dumb down. Those who are learning --- some who use The Panama News to learn English, others who use our Spanish-language sections to learn Spanish, youngsters in school and expatriate retirees looking to learn something of this country that's new to them --- we seek to enlighten, not talk down to. Is there room for an intelligent publication for Panama's long established English-speaking minority, and for people all around the world with ties to Panama? There seems to be. But we only get by with help from our friends. We ask for two sorts of things:
* *
It's early yet, but not THAT
early. Plans for big events during the dry season --- Panama's peak
tourism season --- are well underway. Some of you folks in colder latitudes should be thinking about travel plans.
The Panama Jazz Festival will be January 14-19, with Herbie Hancock and the Wayne Shorter Quartet as the headline acts. There is, however, the near certainty that some kid of whom you have never heard will walk onto the stage and make people rave. Then there is the smaller festival in the more beautiful setting, which also includes the blues: the Boquete Jazz & Blues Festival. This will take place between February 28 through March 31 and one of the acts will be Chicago bluesman Tail Dragger: * * * Panama is getting some
attention in the world of archaeology these
days, even if our government would just as soon abolish the study of
history and privatize all of our antiquities. Julia Mayo, born to
Spanish parents in Colon and educated at the Complutense in Madrid, has
been digging around the El Caño site in Cocle and made some discoveries
that set certain social contexts for Panama and the surrounding region
some 1,300 years ago.
She has found the remains and grave goods of nobility, it seems. As in, mummies wearing necklaces of gold and human teeth. Scientists and archaeology buffs are duly impressed, but maybe this find could be the inspiration for a new cultural genre, the Panamanian horror movie. A mummy that was so mean in his lifetime that he decorated himself with other people's teeth could be the character who replaces the Tulivieja in Panamanian kids' nightmares. *
* *
Another colonense has done
something noteworthy of late. Colon swimmer César Barría, who is 29
years old and whose right leg is amputated at the knee, swam the
20-kilometer Santa Barbara Channel in California in a record time of
However, he was wearing a wetsuit so his time is not formally
recognized as a record even though it's the fastest time ever for a
person with his disability. The record books can say what they will but
Panama recognizes him as an amazing athlete.
* *
Years ago in US education,
there was a theory that some secular liberals talked about and thus
became the target of criticism from conservatives, especially the
religious right. They actually didn't tend to be as ridiculous as the
term they embraced, "value free."
At the time on one of my favorite Detroit rock stations there were these radio comedians, one of whom had been recently divorced. They lampooned both the concept of value free education and the single parents' group Parents Without Partners with periodic episodes recounting the experiences of the fictional group whose meetings the divorced guy said he attended, Parents Without Morals. It was hilarious, but then consider what Panama's president said at the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. His references to education were a prelude to an appeal to censor the Internet for the alleged benefit of kids and while he did not use the language of "value free" education, he did opine that the best thing is "an education that is divorced from politics, passions and paradigms." There are or can be problems with with education that's laced with partisan indoctrination. However, an education "divorced from politics" is one in which civics is not taught, in which kids are not taught that to sell their vote is to sell their country and that's a bad thing. Teaching kids to control their passions and understand that everyone else does not share them is an important part of education. Teachers without passion turning out kids without passion is a recipe for a boring, mercenary society which has no defenders. An education without paradigms is one in which kids in this country grow up barely understanding that they are Panamanian, knowing little of this country's history and cultures and being unable to distinguish between the symbols of this nation and imported generic corporate logos. It's the education that someone who replaces our traditional bus art with the banal Metro Bus logo and calls it progress foists on Panama's kids. And censoring the Internet to protect kids? Consider the source. This is a guy who hangs out with pedophiles. *
* *
In this terrible time to be raising funds for anything, let me still mention, and give you a link to, a most worthy cause: buying the footage needed from the Major League Baseball bureaucracy to complete a documentary movie about Panamanian baseball. If you might be interested in helping Eric Soussanin with this project, click here.
* *
This is the most eventful Theatre Guild season in many years and the
next play will be Rabbit Hole, showing October
11 - 13 and 18 - 20 at the little wooden theater near the DIJ and
Ministerio Publico, across the pedestrian bridge from the farmers'
market.Andres Clemente, "the voice of Danny" and Melanie Gilpin Lee, part of the cast for the upcoming production of Rabbit Hole, a Pulitzer-winning play about a family recovering from a tragedy. In recent years both our English and Spanish theater scenes have been enriched by an influx of Venezuelans and one of them, Ines Azpurua, makes her Theatre Guild directing debut with this production. *
* *
What is it with Americans these
days? And a month before we get to that question, we may want to look
to our southeast and ask what it is with Venezuelans these days. My
opinions on these are highly partisan, but in neither case uncritical.
And although I am not a prophet and the polls at the moment are kind of
the opposite of what I expect, I think that it will be a close election
in Venezuela and not so close in the United States. The Venezuelan
result will come first and unfortunately might become an issue in the
US election.
The choice that the Venes make is not the business of Americans, or of Panamanians. Considering what he and his followers allege Hugo Chávez to be, Ricardo Martinelli's self-proclaimed status as "the Anti-Chávez" ought to be frightening. He calls the Venezuelan president a heavy-handed left-wing tyrant, and he wants to be a right-wing mirror image. Washington's bipartisan apoplexy about Chávez is just bizarre. If one draws the US lot line somewhere south of Tierra del Fuego Venezuela would be part of "the back yard," but the line properly belongs on the Rio Grande and the president of Venezuela is at most a sometimes annoyingly noisy neighbor rather than any sort of existential threat. The polls showing Chávez with a double-digit lead are misleading. Hardly any Venezuelan is undecided about the man. But a leaked memo suggests that Capriles would bring back highly unpopular policies of yesteryear and that has caused splits in his own coalition and tended to unify a Bolivarian camp that has reason to be critical of its leader. I could imagine Chávez winning a narrow victory, Capriles alleging fraud even if there was none, and Romney baiting Obama about being a wimp for not invading Venezuela. I could also imagine Capriles winning a narrow victory and those on the losing side getting militant about ensuring that his tenure is brief and unhappy. Momentum could shift due to debates or events, but I expect that Barack Obama will be re-elected by a bigger margin than the one by which he won in 2008. I hope that he carries both houses of Congress and a bunch of statehouses and legislatures with him. This year's choice in the United States holds the possibility of being what political scientists call a "re-aligning election." As in, the end of a right-wing period that began with Richard Nixon and his Southern Strategy of 1968, with Republicans setting the agenda and Democratic interludes in the White House being rather conservative ones. But the right has overplayed its hand and aligned itself against the interests of the nation. If Romney goes down to defeat the extremists in the party will say that it's because he's a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and move the party and its already delusional pitch to the American people even farther from reality. The Grand Old Party could wander in the political wilderness for a generation, or go the way of the Whigs. That would leave great issues that must be decided to be fought over within the Democratic Party. *
* *
The legislature has passed a package of draconian intellectual property
laws that will be political issues for years to come, most prominently
as they will affect the prices of medicines and the sorts of foods and
chemicals that will be be used in our agriculture and eaten by
Panamanians. For the most part these laws were treaty obligations under
the "free trade" pact with the United States that Panama unwisely
negotiated and ratified.A small and belated protest against the new copyright law. Photo by Isabella Galvez Peñafiel The copyright law, however, went much fartther than treaty commitments and has been set up as a potential bludgeon against opposition media and small media in general. Totally abused, it could be pressed into service to close websites and radio stations that criticize the goverment. If abused the way that Hollywood and recording industry corporations would like to see it abused, the cultural works to which we have access would be much reduced and confined to "commercially viable" playlists. The draconian penalties and totalitarian procedures seem to have been inserted as a means by which public officials can extort payoffs. Copyright is not a one-sided question. There are conflicting legitimate interests to balance. But this law is a corporate and government bludgeon, not a shield for creative people. There were folks, including yours truly, who warned of bad things to happen on the copyright and patent fronts if "free trade" went through. But how did even worse things get slipped into the law without the opposition in the legislature opposing? Why the silence of the labor movement that opposed "free trade" in the first place? Why, once the alarm was sounded, did the FRENADESO folks who claim to be the "true opposition" maintain their silence? Getting into those hard questions in a realistic way should lead a lot of people to healthier approaches to the alliances that Panama must have to get past this sordid period in our national life. *
* *
Finally, at the risk of the
government taking the stand that embedding things from YouTube is cause
for a website's supression, I leave you with some Panamanian
music about what people have to put up with because of the politicians.
I think that it has some more universal relevance.
Enjoy. Eric
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This quarter features the Southern Asia-Pacific Division, which includes the countries of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, East Timor, and Vietnam, and islands of the Pacific, including Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and Wake Island. Almost 800 million people live in this region, of which almost 1.1 million are Seventh-day Adventists. About one person out of about 700 is an Adventist.
This year marks the centennial of the mission quarterlies, which were first produced in 1912. Throughout the year we will feature at least one story that appeared in Children's Mission over the years, and some additional stories relating to the history of the mission offerings. Look for these special features each quarter.
Indonesia is made up of more than 13,000 islands stretched along the equator between the Indian Ocean in the Pacific Ocean. Many distinct cultures and religions developed among the different ethnic groups living in Indonesia. Although Indonesia is not officially an Islamic state, more than 85 percent of Indonesians are Muslim.
The Adventist Church serves the people of Indonesia through several schools and medical facilities. Hospitals and medical clinics offer valuable services to Indonesians, and many have come to know Christ through them.
Myanmar (Burma) is the second-largest country in Southeast Asia, with a population of about 54 million. But years of military rule and civil war have isolated the country from global and economic influences and left many of its citizens in poverty. However this same isolation has helped preserve some of Myanmar's traditional culture and customs.
Religion usually follows ethnic lines, and ethnic groups haven't mixed well in Myanmar. While a small percentage of Myanmar's population is Christian, the majority (more than 80 percent) is Buddhist. Because they don't interact easily, they don't yet know of Christ's love for them.
Yours for the kingdom,
Charlotte Ishkanian
Editor, Mission


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Feb 09, 2011, 09:46 PM | |
Alternative MK Flight Control FC v1.33 - v2.0 MK THREAD-PART2
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since "Alternative MK Flight Control FC v1.33 - v2.0 MK THREAD" has been closed by Quad Addict, here is "Part 2" to follow up... Part 1 is here : http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1300414 Important notice : you are buying and using a clone MK at your own risk, and I'm not promoting nor selling anything here and cannot be held responsible for your choice. I simply opened this thread to continue what was started and closed by Quad Addict and because I know many people rely on this, including those using the real Mc Coy I don't believe the clone is detrimental to Mikrokopter.de but on the contrary contributes to it's development. Those who buy this cheaper copy wouldn't buy the original one in the first place, and I know for a fact that most will naturally go to the original product after a short while (Quad Addict did and so did I as an example). __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ _______________________________________ Now back to the thread : G and Dan, do you know how to flash the Ublox with v4 firmware, I couldn't find how? Cheers, Bob |
Feb 10, 2011, 06:49 AM | |
Joined Apr 2007
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Just to make sure we dont loose track of part 1
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Feb 10, 2011, 07:03 AM | ||
Bob |
Feb 10, 2011, 07:46 AM | ||
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Joined Dec 2006
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Feb 10, 2011, 09:24 AM | ||
And I'm one of the reasons?? Because I was trying to get my gps working and asked for help on "your" thread? What's wrong with some of you guys on RCG? Don't worry, people will learn all about me soon enough, with ot without your "help". There are a few things in the pipeline I cannot discuss now but later Anyway it's working now, thanks to G and Dan... and a bit of luck I guess. By the way, somebody mentionned gps was supposed to be flashed with v4 firmware, mine is loaded with v5 and seems to be working fine. Bob |
Feb 10, 2011, 09:38 AM | |
thanks Daniel,
this confirms I didn't screw up bridging 5v with first capacitor next to it All is fine now, I believe battery was dead and something happened because of it. I left the GPS connected to USB on the PC all night and all seems ok now. I have replaced the faulty ME 2.2 with a genuine ME 2.1 and will test later today. Bob |
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ok part2, so i will do my first post with question
anyone has flash this green bl with 0.42 or other version before, i have red bl and know how to flash red bl with red mkusb , but when i tried green bl with red mkusb, i can not flash it, it give me something like can not reset |
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The Book
About The Author
Laurence Smith
The Official
The Last Christmas Of JonBenet Ramsey is projected to be in E-book form by early spring of 2014 with national publication in book form shortly thereafter. This book is written in documentary style rather than how true crime books are traditionally written with flourishing metaphors and entertaining nuances, as I believe this book should be presented in a style similiar to what a prosecutor would employ when addressing a jury.
Following is an overview of this book, a writing that seeks to determine who is responsible for the heretofore unsolved murder of celebrity 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey that occurred over Christmas night 1996 in Boulder, Colorado
From the Publisher: There has been no comprehensive in-depth
analysis taken from
a multi-dimensional perspective of this infamous murder case, as undertaken by this author. Here, Laurence Smith
purports to show, beyond reasonable doubt, not only
the suspect
types who could not have committed this unspeakable crime (based
on existing forensic evidence, along with the psychopathology characteristics that would
have been present in the various pathology suspect types) but conclusively who the
actual killer could only have
In building a compelling case for naming JonBenet's killer, complete
crime scenarios
are presented wherein suspect types who could have remotely been responsible for this crime are inserted to determine the plausibility for considering each as a viable suspect. Various members
of the immediate Ramsey family are also placed in murder scenarios
to determine who (if any) can be regarded as a viable suspect(s).
Popularly held theories regarding JonBenet's death that exclude
Patsy Ramsey and any intruder as suspects are explored to
determine at what point the respective theory is no longer plausible,
and implodes under the weight of its own incredulity. An exhaustive
psycho-linguistic analysis by the author of the infamous ransom letter serves to support the definitive naming of JonBenet's killer.
Explanations are provided to questions the public has long sought
answers to, including: Who killed JonBenet and why? What were the circumstances surrounding her death? What were the conditions
and/or causes that contributed to the killer's motives? And what logic
and psychological factors were at play that directed the actions taken
by the killer, including the crime's elaborately staged cover-up,
designed to project the crime onto a sexual predator type suspect?
Laurence Smith's compelling and brilliant exposé of this infamous
crime reflects his masterful under-standing of the logic, forensics, and psychological factors that comprised the crime, enabling him to arrive
at a definitive finding that is more than credible.


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