Langerhans' cell histiocytosis (LCH) is one of the 'histiocytosis disorders', as defined by the Histiocyte Society. LCH is an abnormal proliferation and dissemination of clonal Langerhans' cells in which they accumulate, along with other inflammatory cells, and form tissue granulomas in different organs. It is named after the appearance of the cells, which resemble the normal dendritic cells found in the epidermis first noted by Langerhans. Although once considered a disorder of immune regulation, it is now described as a dendritic cell neoplasm with a strong inflammatory component.
It was formerly considered as a disease of childhood but is now recognised as often presenting in adulthood.
The clinical manifestations of LCH are very variable, ranging from self-resolving single-organ disease to a disseminated, aggressive disease with a 10-20% mortality. LCH may affect one or many organs. If only one organ or system is involved, this is referred to as single-system LCH (SS-LCH) and has the best prognosis. If two or more organs or systems are involved, this is referred to as multisystem LCH (MS-LCH). MS-LCH is then stratified into low risk, high risk and very high risk, depending on whether any 'risk organs' are affected at diagnosis (haematopoietic system, liver and/or spleen) and by initial response to standard treatment regimes.
LCH is a rare disease that is more commonly seen in children but is increasingly recognised in adults.
Two thirds of children will have SS-LCH.
Children <2 years of age with MS-LCH, commonly have involvement of 'risk organs' and the highest mortality.
In adults the mean age at diagnosis is 35 years, with 10% >55 years of age.
69% have MS-LCH, 62% affecting the lung and 51% the skin.
31% have SS-LCH, 51% involving the lung (most of whom are smokers), 38% bone and 14% skin.
Progress in the development of treatments for LCH has been hampered by its rarity but also by the question of whether it is a reactive or a neoplastic disorder.
Current understanding suggests that LCH arises from a genetic mutation (BRAF V600E) occurring in a myeloid progenitor cell. It is thought that the developmental stage at which the mutation occurs determines the clinical manifestation of the LCH, although this concept is not proven.
The mortality and permanent organ damage sometimes seen in LCH are most probably due to the harmful effects of an uncontrolled inflammatory response rather than unchecked proliferation of clonal Langerhans' cells.
The presentation is variable and depends on the organ or system affected; it ranges from a self-healing disease to chronic recurrences.
The spectrum of symptomatic disease varies from a single bony lesion to multiple bony, skin and visceral lesions.
Bone is commonly affected (75% of cases).
Well-localised bone pain is a common presenting symptom, with pain during both activity and rest.
Bone pain usually correlates with a radiologically evident lesion but lesions can be painless.
There may be tender swelling of the soft tissue overlying the bone.
Common sites for bone LCH are skull, proximal femur and ribs.
Multifocal bony LCH is predominantly diagnosed in pre-school children.
Rarely, bone lesions may cause pathological fractures.
Skin involvement occurs in 34% of patients.
Rashes may be macular, papular, nodular or petechial.
Skin rashes in neonates may regress spontaneously.
Scalp lesions may be scaly.
Any mucosal tissue can be affected; ulceration and bleeding can occur.
Oral LCH may give rise to recurrent gingival ulceration and 'floating teeth'.
When the skin of the inner ear is affected, this may cause copious otorrhoea.
Purpuric lesions fo the nailbed occur with nail involvement.
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is reported in 10-50% of patients.
53% of patients with DI develop growth hormone deficiency over 10 years.
LCH lesions at other sites in the brain may cause neurological symptoms as a result of mass effect.
Orbit, mastoid and temporal bone lesions may lead to localised problems, including proptosis and sinusitis.
Progressive neurodegenerative symptoms may arise decades after the initial presentation.
Nonproductive cough, dyspnoea pleuritic pain or spontaneous pneumothorax.
Abnormal CXR showing a reticular-micronodular pattern.
Nodular/cystic pattern on a high-resolution CT scan.
Isolated pulmonary LCH occurs frequently in adults, predominantly smokers (>90%), with a peak at 20-40 years of age. Women are slightly more likely to be affected than men.
Pulmonary LCH is not considered high-risk but may proceed to multisystem involvement.
There are usually no symptoms unless the enlarged nodes damage or obstruct nearby organs and LCH cells are not typically identified in draining lymph nodes of affected tissue.
Diffuse infiltration or focal lesions of the spleen, liver or bone marrow are the most severe presentation and are defined as 'high-risk'.
Most commonly seen in infants less than 2 years of age.
Present with cytopenia or liver dysfunction.
Sometimes associated with chronic diarrhoea, hypoalbuminaemia, weight loss or faltering growth.
May lead to ulceration and GI bleeding.
LCH can involve other organs - for example, scrotal mass was a rare presentation in one study.
Other causes of oral ulceration.
Morphological identification of characteristic Langerhans' cells.
Positive staining for CD1a, CD207 (Langerin) and S100 cell markers is diagnostic.
Birbeck's granules on electron microscopy.
A thorough physical examination, including skin and oral mucosa, height and weight.
Blood tests: FBC, clotting studies, U&E, LFT, urine osmolality.
Plain X-ray - for bone pain or suspected bone lesions.
CT/MRI scans of head and spine.
Bone marrow biopsy may be required for staging.
Endoscopy if GI involvement is suspected.
Plain CXR - may show upper lobe infiltrates.
Lung function tests - may show impaired diffusing capacity.
CT scan - may show typical changes of pulmonary LCH.
Bronchoscopy or surgical lung biopsy.
Otolaryngological examination with audiogram may also be indicated.
Treatment may be local or systemic, depending on the number and location of LCH lesions.
Because LCH is rare, there are relatively few clinical trials and less experience available to inform treatment.
Treatment may involve surgical excision, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or combinations of these.
The prognosis and treatment protocol depend on the number of organs involved, which organ systems are involved and the degree of organ dysfunction.
Recommendations and protocols are available from the Histiocytosis Association.
The following is an overview of current possible treatments, according to organs involved.
No treatment (it may remit).
Psoralen combined with ultraviolet A (PUVA) therapy.
Surgical curettage is the usual treatment (for accessible sites).
Early chemotherapy (vinblastine and prednisolone) for bony lesions at crucial anatomical sites.
Radiotherapy may be used for isolated cerebral tumours.
Chemotherapy with cladribine or cytarabine is the most suitable treatment for pituitary/hypothalamic lesions, multifocal brain lesions or any brain lesion in multi-system disease.
Surgical excision of single nodes with LCH.
Regional node involvement may respond to a course of systemic steroids.
Chemotherapy for nodes resistant to treatment.
Smoking cessation is essential. This may be the only treatment required.
If smoking cessations fails and treatment is required, corticosteroids are the main treatment.
Chemotherapy may be used for progressive disease not responding to steroids; however, this is a last resort because its efficacy is uncertain. Drugs which have been used in this context are vinblastine, methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, etoposide and, most recently, cladribine.
Pleurodesis should be considered for recurrent pneumothorax.
Lung transplantation can be considered for advanced disease.
The standard initial treatment in children is a combination or prednisolone and vinblastine with 6-mercaptopurine added after the first six weeks.
Compared with children, adults experience increased neurotoxicity, worse myelosuppression and more steroid toxicity with the above regime. Cladribine or cytarabine are recommended initial therapy for adults requiring systemic therapy.
Duration of treatment of twelve months compared with six months reduces the rate of reactivation.
A combined regimen of cladribine and cytarabine has shown some promise but is associated with high toxicity.
Vemurafenib, an inhibitor of the BRAF V600E mutation, has shown efficacy in preliminary studies[2, 12].
Stem cell transplantation may be used in patients with a poor prognosis whose LCH has not responded to conventional treatment.
Patients receiving systemic therapy for LCH are at risk of Pneumocystis jiroveci infection and require prophylaxis.
DI should be treated with desmopressin.
Hormonal deficiencies should be adequately replaced as soon as diagnosed.
DI (relatively common) - treated with desmopressin.
Late relapse or progression to systemic involvement.
There may be an increased risk of other neoplasms.
Prognosis depends on the extent and nature of organ involvement. The clinical course of LCH is extremely variable, ranging from a self-healing solitary bone lesion to widely disseminated life-threatening disease.
Most cases have a good prognosis. In one study, five-year survival for low-risk patients was 99%, whereas the rate in patients with 'risk organ' involvement was 84%.
For patients requiring chemotherapy, the response after six weeks of treatment is a major prognostic factor.
Pulmonary LCH has a variable course. Most patients have a good prognosis: symptoms may be mild, and stabilisation or spontaneous improvement is possible. Some patients have progressive pulmonary LCH leading to progressive respiratory impairment.
Neonates with LCH limited to the skin and mucous membranes have a good prognosis.
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The delivery of parcels to end customers was expected to increase by 25 million mailings to around 355 million B2C mailings during this year's Christmas season, the German parcel and express logistics association (BIEK) announced last night.
Compared to the 2018 Christmas season, B2C mailings in the courier, express and parcel sector were "again expected to grow significantly" by 7 to 8 percent, according to BIEK.
For example, parcel delivery Hermes Germany alone was expecting more than 85 million mailings during this year's Christmas, an increase of approximately 6 percent compared the previous year, the company announced.
"In view of the continuing growth in parcel volumes combined with the rising demand for staff in an almost empty job market, the Christmas business is a challenge for the entire logistics sector every year," said Marco Schlueter, chief operations officer of Hermes Germany.
In November and December, an average of up to 14 million parcel mailings would be transported daily in Germany, according to BIEK.
In order to handle the high volume of courier, express and parcel mailings, around 25,000 additional delivery staff would be needed during the time before Christmas, the BIEK forecast showed.
According to Hermes Germany, around 3,900 additional vehicles would be on the road throughout Germany during Christmas season. Furthermore, Hermes would increase long-haul and supplier traffic between the logistic centers by around 450 trailer trucks.
The "Christmas parcel boom" in Germany was mainly due to the significant increase in online orders, Hermes stressed.
With regard to the first half of 2019, BIEK announced that despite the economic downturn, the courier, express and parcel sector would continue to grow, but "will also feel the effects of the weakening overall economy".
In the first half of 2019, the number of delivered parcels in Germany increased by 3.8 percent and express and courier deliveries by 3.7 percent, according to BIEK.
The positive development in the German parcel sector despite a weakening economy was an indication that the "high-quality service has become an integral part of our everyday lives, just like electricity and running water", said Marten Bosselmann, chairman of BIEK.
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Creation: Appeared in Nov 1957 (CTB) as a renumbering of part of VA 168. It initially ran like it does now, plus extended west on Little Creek Rd to Taussig Blvd, then northwest to end at VA 337 Hampton Blvd. This is the 3rd VA 170.
Adjustments: In Jan 1979 (CTB), VA 170 west was truncated to its current end at Military Hwy. Little Creek Rd remained part of VA 165; most of Taussig Blvd became I-564 except the very northwestern piece which became an extended VA 337. Also, a small bit of non-freeway Taussig Blvd exists between Granby St and Little Creek Rd next to I-564.
Improvements: VA 170 was paved upon inception.
VA 170 was multilaned on its entire Little Creek Rd alignment upon inception.
Posted: Fully posted; SR 170 shields in both directions on US 60 from at least 2007-16; VA 170 shields were still up leaving Gate 3 of the Naval Base as of March 2014.
Comment: VA 170 provides primary access from Little Creek Amphibian Base directly (though now VERY urbanized) to Norfolk Naval Base (via VA 165 and I-564).
VA 170 replaces VA 168.
VA 170 truncated to VA 165.
VA 170 #1: Appeared July 1933 as a renumbering of VA 514 from US 60 Lee Hall to Yorktown, then also continued east to Moore House, replacing VA 518.
In Oct 1940 (CTB), VA 170 was renumbered as VA 238. Today it is still VA 238 except it uses SR 1020 right in Yorktown; the Battlefield Visitor Center erased some of this original routing; and east of there it used SR 676 instead of going to the Coast Guard Station.
VA 170 Lee Hall to Moore House.
VA 238 replaces VA 170.
VA 170 #2: Appeared in Oct 1940 (CTB) as a renumbering of VA 27. It ran from US 17 Tabb southeast to Drummonds Corner near Poquoson on today's VA 134, then south via VA 172 Magruder Ave and Armistead Ave to Hampton, then duplexed with US 60 on Queen St and Tyler St across the Hampton River, then used today's VA 143 which VA 170 followed to Phoebus, but continued on County St and Water St down to Mill Creek. VA 170 then used VA 143's approach to Fort Monroe, then used Ingalls Rd through Fort Monroe down to the ferry landing at Old Point Comfort. On the Norfolk side, VA 170 used Ocean View Ave to Granby St south to downtown Norfolk, then Princess Anne and Bank Sts, then Brambleton Ave southeast. VA 170 then followed today's US 460 down to US 13 Military Hwy, then used VA 166 and VA 190 over to Great Bridge. VA 170 then followed VA 168 Business down to just short of North Carolina where it picked up today's VA 168 for the last little bit.
Between 1942-44, VA 170 north was truncated to US 60 Ocean View. VA 170 was renumbered: VA 134 from Tabb to Hampton while the rest remained part of US 60.
VA 170 replaces VA 27.
VA 170 replaced by VA 134.
In Nov 1943 (CTB), VA 170 was rerouted between Great Bridge and South Norfolk to use VA 168 Business, Oak Grove Rd, a little Battlefield Blvd and Campostella Rd. This was partly new routing and a full replacement of VA 226. The old routing became VA 166 northwest of Great Bridge, VA 166-Y, and a rerouted US 460 through Portlock and South Norfolk.
In Nov 1957 (CTB), VA 170 was renumbered: US 460 on Granby St and VA 168 from South Norfolk down to North Carolina (some of the VA 168 pieces are no longer primary).


The Havanna String Quartet begins in Caleta de Sebo ( La Graciosa island) his island tour until January 16 with southamerican classic repertoire (Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, Brouwer), which also includes scores of the canary composer Juan Manuel Ruiz.
The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of the young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa and Frank-Peter Zimmermann as soloist, will open the Festival on Jan.7th at the Auditorio de Tenerife 'Adán Martín'. They will perform works by Prokofiev, Dvorak and the canary composer Gustavo A. Trujillo, repeating program the next day at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Gran Canaria. Subsequently, a chamber group of musicians from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will offer four concerts from Jan.10th to Jan. 14th in Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro.
Another novelty in the 33rd Festival is the addition to the programming of the Town Band of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Town Band of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Tenerife's formation with Felipe Neri as conductor, will perform outdoors on Jan. 20th in Caleta de Sebo in La Graciosa, to continue touring until Jan. 24th to Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria. Meanwhile, the Band from Las Palmas G.C. will present Oscar Navarro as guest conductor and will be responsible for putting an end to the Festival, with four concerts in Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, from Feb. 2nd until Feb. 6th.The canary formation Ensemble Villa de La Orotava, specifically its wind octet, also will join the Festival 2017 with a classical repertoire (Haydn, Beethoven, Von Weber, Krommer) and will perform from La Graciosa to Gran Canaria, through all the islands, from Jan. 19th to Jan. 29th.
The Ensemble Mosaik from Berlin, a specialist in experimental music, will perform scores of the canary composer A. Martin Leandro. Tickets €15.


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Week one into the New Year and it's already been tumultuous for retailers across the globe.
Drama continues for retail giant
To start the week, we saw the local owner of brands including Fantastic Furniture hire financial advisers specialising in helping distressed companies, as its parent company continues to battle a raft of investigations into its accounting practices.
Embattled South African Retailer, Steinhoff International, has warned that its accounting irregularities stretch back further than first thought, with the conglomerate forced to restate its accounts for 2015 and potentially prior years.
Steinhoff said the accounting irregularities which are the subject of an internal review and PwC investigation also affect the consolidated financial statements of Steinhoff Investment Holdings Limited by virtue of its ownership of certain European subsidiaries until 1 April 2016.
Local subsidiary Steinhoff Asia Pacific – which operates a number of high performing retail brands in Australia and New Zealand including Freedom, Fantastic Furniture, Best & Less, Snooze, Harris Scarfe, Plush, OMF, Postie and Bay Leather Republic – says it is financially strong but that it has appointed Minter Ellison and Ferrier Hodgson to provide legal, financial and corporate advice.
The company said the appointment was supported by its local lenders, and was a prudent step while parent company Steinhoff International Holdings works through "significant uncertainty". Later in the week saw Steinhoff's chief financial officer (CFO) Ben la Grange step down to "focus on the preservation and procurement of liquidity" for the group.
The first legal cannabis sale in California
Pay changes, pot shops and ivory bans
During the week, retailers were warned to ensure they are paying employees correctly in the new year, amid increases in overtime pay in the Retail and Fast Food Awards coming into effect over the next week.
Under the changes retailers and restaurants will be required to pay around 25 per cent more in overtime per hour to casual employees from the first full-pay period of 2018.
Elsewhere, a ban on ivory sales in China, the world's largest importer and end user of elephant tusks, took effect with wildlife activists calling it a vital step to reducing the slaughter of the endangered animals. Under the ban, China's 172 ivory-carving factories and retail outlets will also close. Some factories and shops started closing in March. Illegal ivory supplies have also been rife in unlicensed shops and online across China.
Meanwhile customers lined up early to purchase recreational marijuana legally for the first time in California. New Year's Day brought broad legalisation some two decades after the state was the first to allow pot for medical use.
There was no shortage of technology launches during the first week, with retailers kicking off the New Year with more gadgetry aimed at improving company operations.
Using Perfect Corp's YouCam, Estee Lauder introduced mobile-based AR training for its beauty advisers internationally. Its ART (augmented reality training) is the world's first such education program. Using interactive live streaming, it allows the company's more than 17,000 beauty advisers to engage in real-time training and product briefings via their mobile devices.
Careful, or your automated trolley that's following might hit you
Not to be outdone, Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara installed a self-service kiosk at one of its stores to provide a flexible shopping experience for online customers.
Back in the US again, where an inventor released a fully autonomous shopping cart.
Designed to lead shoppers through a grocery store, the Dash Robotic Shopping Cart quickly and efficiently helps them find the items on their shopping list, which they input into the cart via an app.
The inventor, Five Elements Robotics, says using its autonomous navigation and planning software, the Dash Robotic Shopping cart will help increase revenues for store owners by ensuring the customer gets what they came for.
Also in the automated supermarket stakes, JD.com owner Beijing Jingdong Century Trade launched an offline supermarket, 7Fresh, in Beijing. Technology introduced by the supermarket includes smart shopping carts and sensor-activated product information. The smart shopping carts do not have to be pushed – they follow the shoppers around, and can even guide shoppers to the correct aisle.
Takeover time
Quiksilver's parent company Boardriders has agreed to acquire rival Billabong International, after agreeing to acquire all of the shares in the company valued at $1.00 per share via a scheme of arrangement.
The approximately $198 million deal, if approved by shareholders, will combine two of the largest global active sports brands.
In a statement, Billabong said the scheme consideration of $1.00 per share represents an implied enterprise value of $380 million.
Further afield, British retailer Marks & Spencer has confirmed the sale and franchise of its retail business in Hong Kong and Macau to its long-established franchise partner Al-Futtaim.
Tale of several sales
Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey said he was 'realistically' happy with the company's Boxing Day sales, but has admitted that competition was more intense this year amid the hype surrounding Amazon and aggressive discounting by rival JB Hi-Fi Group over the last week.
The relaunch of childrenswear brand Pumpkin Patch and the addition of a marketplace offer helped deliver a 'record-breaking' Christmas for Catch Group.
Debenhams issued a profit warning after slow sales
Accessories retailer Lovisa said it has had a bumper Christmas, pre-empting its interim sales report by releasing unaudited sales for the six months ended 31 December on Friday morning.
Red Balloon founder Naomi Simson said growing demand for non-traditional gifts has delivered for the online experience retailer over the holidays.
Meanwhile Amazon said it shipped over five billion items through its Prime program worldwide in 2017, with more members signing up to the loyalty program last year than ever before.
There was better news for US department store retailer Macy's who reported positive sales for the festive trading season, after improved sales on and offline.
But things weren't so rosy for British icon Debenhams after it warned its like-for-like sales have dropped after flat Christmas trading.
Back home, Australia Post said it is still being inundated by parcel deliveries as online shoppers snap up the remnants of post-Christmas deals, following the busiest month in its 209-year history.
Here's looking forward to what's on the cards for retailers next week…
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Months fly by in a jiffy. Harking back, they seem to dissociate into powdery thin bits of the past, those moments that arrived into your life with magnanimous gestures. Few of them manage to remain equally important several days from the happening, but few others fail irrevocably. Maybe it's an idea worth upholding to jot down nitbits from the past,however trivial they may seem in the big picture, so that several years down the lane you would find yourself sweeping away the dust from the attic only to confront the long forgotten gems of your life, the things that made you who you are.
October was thrilling. It offered joy so did it dampen the good spirits with a few heart aches. Isnt it necessary that one keeps miseries close to ones heart just like the goodnesses that life offers, you may ask. Life builds itself up from the pitfalls, I say. Let us consider a situation. I get scolded for a shortcoming of mine which cost someone else pain and subsequently I get punished for the same . I scream at the cruelty of fate, how it focusses on busting me rather than uplifting my days every time. I ponder over the event a day later once the bitten mind of mine has pacified and I see things in a different perspective. Was fate wrong ? Or was my judgement ? I take care never to repeat the mistake, never to let my deeds punish me a second time, pushing me over the abyss. Life is such. You learn to be right once a mishap beholds you. You learn to keep growing once success garnishes you.
October has seen it all. My smile, my tears, my surprise and my dejections. So a thought raved inside my mind as to whether I should be jotting down the same so that I would give life to my past a second time. And here I am with my memoir of the beauty this October was.
'Every theatre day felt like a distressing event to me in the beginning . And before long, my decision to take up a surgical field had started morphing into an irrevocable mistake to me, bogging me down. Though I could conjure up the courage to perform the surgeries in the same way as my teachers taught me, the thought of standing beside the surgery table waiting to paint and drape the patient as the anesthesiologist skillfully induced the patient, pricked my conscious being like nothing else.
' Life is not a bed of roses. There are times when you are thrashed to the shore by reality while you were engulfed in the peacefulness of sailing the sea. I have a word or two for myself for those times, words that were passed down over generations in view of the priceless truth that they carried – ' This too shall pass'.
A brand new Lenovo Yoga 2 Tablet! When a friend first suggested it to me i was apprehensive for i have had my share of dejections when my heart went out for products that were less in demand. But two weeks from procuring this one, i must say i haven't experienced anything like this in my whole life when it came to the technology front.
A silver ring with an emerald stone at the centre – a gift from a senior who left for her native place after her post graduation.
The dept of ENT at my college decided to go on a one day trip to a resort last month. I would say that it was a once in a lifetime experience what with my professors dancing their heart out rapaciously to Bollywood and A.R.Rahman music! I wouldn't lie, but i had my share of the bliss of a hammock for the first time ever in my life. We had such amazing time in the pool and then at the beach that the decision is on for another trip of the like in three months time!
Serious men by Manu Joseph and A bad character by Deepti Kapoor. Owing to busy schedules i had started selecting books to read based on their reviews and thankfully i didnt go wrong in my decision for those two books were stupendous works of fiction!
The Ring. Having watched it for the umpteenth time, relaxed and slumped down on my couch, i felt satiated, which rarely happened these days while rushing through carelessly selected movies in between hectic duties.
The post is so sorted 🙂 Speaks of the kind of person you are… Glad you had a great month, Happy November to you..
Hi Maliny, so glad I found you blog site again after a long time. Hope to see you in mine sometime.


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Address to LEAP Playwriting Program (Learning Early About Playwriting) at Vancouver's Arts Club Theatre November 14, 2016
Welcome. Congratulations! You have written your way into this room.
This room is a very special place. It is a place where you will be listened to, and fostered. Writing and theatre are very precious and magical. Yes, they can be silly and stupid and banal and pointless and celebrate the wrong thing or be done for fun or just to make money. Of course they can. But playwriting (and film and new media) is the only kind of writing that comes to life, right in front of your eyes, in the hearts and minds and bodies of actors. And in this room, your plays will come alive in the hearts and minds and bodies of your fellow writers. You and your teachers will ask questions of each other. You will ask each other to look at things from different angles, in deeper ways. All this expands empathy. Shawn MacDonald and Christine Quintana are the most wonderful, versatile theatre artists. They can be funny and they can face fear. And they have so much to offer you, here, in this room.
Shawn invited me to join you in this room, today, to kick off your year with a keynote about playwriting and about how I founded this wonderful program called LEAP, ten years ago. That was before the results of the US election.
I was planning to give you suggestions for your writing life, tell you a little about my life as a playwright, and why I founded this program. I'm still going to do that. I'm going to welcome you into the playwriting community, to this beautiful new theatre, also a dream come true. But I'm also going to LEAP into this moment, our present moment. It pains me because you are just starting out, and I want things to be 100 percent wonderful for you. But part of being 100 percent wonderful is admitting to you that people in our theatre and writing communities, the one I am welcoming you into, are under attack. If learned anything from the past four days, it's this: It is vital to open your heart, to bear witness.
So I'm going to tell you four true stories from the past four days to bring us into our new context.
Yesterday, a car sped up in America, ready to mow down my dear friend. My friend is a playwright, theatre director, and professor. He is also, visibly, of Mexican descent. On Facebook, he wrote, "You never know who is feeling emboldened by their cocktail of hate, fear, and victory."
Another treasured colleague, who has fostered new plays for most of his career, who runs HowlRound, a theatre commons out of Boston, which has literally changed the way we speak about theatre to each other across North America, through online articles, gatherings, and streaming of events on HowlRound TV (you can study/write with Suzan-Lori Parks or livestream a panel discussion with Robert Lepage); the director and co-founder of HowlRound recently came out as a trans man. He writes,
It's such a terrible time for all of us who know we are specifically targeted by Trump's America. As a trans man, one who is only understanding now what it means to embrace my full self, to realize late in the game that I deserve to live as myself, that I am not crazy, sick, or wrong. …We all deserve to live in the full glory of our difference.
And Eden Robinson, another friend, a Canadian novelist who just won the Writer's Trust Engel/Findley Award for a mid-career author with an exceptional body of work, in response to the election, she says she is "Ready to use my voice to give you any sanctuary I can. You have allies. You are not alone." She lives in Kitamaat Village, British Columbia, and is of the Haisla First Nation.
And in the New York Times recently, there was an article reporting a rise in bullying of students of color at campuses across America. For example, at a middle school in DeWitt, Michigan, students made a human wall, and made it impossible for immigrant kids to get to class, telling them they were going to be deported to make America great again. Here in Canada, I've begun to see reports of bullying of Muslim students in Toronto schools. Canadian teachers are reporting great anxiety about the election coming from their students. Bullies didn't have the kind of example at such a high level of power that they do now.
No matter what your politics are, even if you voted for Trump or would have if you could, it's still true: many in our theatre and writing communities are being targeted. People emulate those in power, in the US, and in Canada. Bullies have been given permission.
It's powerful to come together in a room, to hear stories, to be together, to laugh, to cry, to consider things deeply, to slip inside the skins of other people, to understand their perspectives.
So today, I welcome you and use my voice to give you sanctuary, to let you know that you have allies and you are not alone. LEAP is part of that.
I believe it is more important to make art, to write plays, than ever. In a world where we are expected to respond immediately, where news cycles try to keep us addicted to panic, where we are isolated, yet connecting, through social media…it's very, very powerful to take the time to write a play. It's powerful to come together in a room, to hear stories, to be together, to laugh, to cry, to consider things deeply, to slip inside the skins of other people, to understand their perspectives.
I became a playwright because I was working in Vancouver as an actor, director, and artistic director, and I felt there were too many stories, especially about women, missing from our stages. I've written plays about women at work (Quality: the Shoe Play), motherhood (Jane Austen, Action Figure), and history (Lieutenant Nun—based on the true story of a woman conquistador, or a trans man). Like the founder of HowlRound, I thought these wild stories, especially my first plays, might be "crazy, sick or wrong," but much to my surprise, these plays have been produced, and celebrated. More recently, I've been writing about other untold stories—how we got the eight-hour day in Canada, how last year a small town in British Columbia became one of the only cities in North American to vote on whether or not they wanted big oil to come. Last year, I was one of three playwrights who founded an international climate change theatre action. We invited fifty playwrights from every continent on earth, to write short plays about some aspect of climate change, which were performed in over 100 venues worldwide.
A big part of why I became a playwright is because I am female. I became a playwright because, in ancient societies, like the Greeks and our First Nations, I learned that storytelling is a place to debate and explore the issues of our day. For me, playwriting, producing and teaching are all forms of writing. They are blueprints meant to inspire, they are blueprints of how we'd like the world to be.
And I know, in my bones, how much some people hate women and immigrants and People of Color and their allies, First Nations and LGBTQ people. Some want to silence us; some want us dead. Since the election, I know this even more deeply. But every time we open our mouths or pick up our pens, we are not merely in defiance of the bullies—we are celebrating.
Safe spaces are popping up all over North America in the past four days—mayors are making declarations that their cities are safe, people are learning tactics to support people being bullied in public places, university leaders are declaring their campuses are sanctuaries. I declare that LEAP is a sanctuary too—for your writing.
When I named the program LEAP it was because I wanted you to be brave and bold—to make leaps in your writing. It was because I saw that being at the Arts Club Theatre, would allow you to LEAP, directly into the theatre community…to see all sorts of theatre, meet all sorts of artists, dream all kinds of dreams. This has all come to pass, it's come true. Shawn has expanded all this and he tells me that over the past ten years, LEAP itself has become a community—for example, alumni will come back and see your work. Such a beautiful thing. (A few days ago, I ran into the people who produced my first play and it made me remember what wild, crazy, audacious things I was writing about. It made remember something the great nature writer Barry Lopez told me, that sometimes who you are at twenty is something you need to live up to.)
Part of why I founded LEAP is because of things that have yet to come true. Vancouver's stages are still not reflective of the range of Vancouver's population. There are amazing stories, amazing people here, and we don't get to hear from them. This is why LEAP reaches out to schools across the lower mainland—to find you.
Part of why I founded LEAP is the story of Leslie Cheung. He is the star of the movie, Farewell My Concubine, and in China, he was ranked the favorite actor in 100 years of Chinese Cinema. Not only a stunning performer, he was bravely and openly bisexual. He moved to Vancouver in 1990. But as far as I know, no one in the Vancouver theatre community, including me, had any idea that he was here during the 1990s. By the year 2003, Leslie Cheung went back to Hong Kong and committed suicide. I realize he was suffering from depression. I can't help but wonder if it would have helped his depression to be connected to a community. I can't help but dream that we'd have the sort of community where we could find and collaborate with brilliant artists like him.
Elaine Ávila. Photo by Mark Halliday.
I have five suggestions for your writing life.
1. Theatre of the Impossible
This is something I ask my writing students on the first day:
"What's something you've never seen on stage, but you'd love to see, even though it's impossible? Shout out some things. Can you write them down?"
I'm not leading you through a whole writing workshop right now, so I'll tell you what comes next.
We write plays, using the list.
And then we discover, nothing is impossible.
It happens every time.
Theatre is like that.
Don't forget.
2. Make a plan, but be ready for it to be way better/wilder/weirder than you think.
Some call these dreams of where you'd like to do your plays "marketing plans." But what happens in my life in the theatre and with my plays is always bigger/wilder/weirder than my plans, so I call them "dreams" or the work of finding "homes for my plays."
For example, when I wrote 100 plays in a 100 days, I never dreamed that the collection would become a play called Jane Austen, Action Figure and it would be first performed in Spanish, in Panama City, and where it would be called Jane Austen, figura de accion. I never dreamed that it would become a groovy time capsule of my life when my daughter was three, of how I felt about motherhood and writing and life. I never dreamed it would be workshopped in Vancouver and at the Women's Project in New York City and that it would be performed in Edmonton.
I never imagined my plays would be performed in Lisbon, Portugal, a capital my grandparents never saw, and could only dream of…
Now it is your turn to write… Do not think about whether or not you are up to it. You are. This is your moment to write…to give back for all that writing has given you.
I never imagine how many wonderful writers I would become friends with and how much we would inspire each other. Yes, some of my plans include more traditional markers of success, but they don't usually work out that way. For example, I've applied to Sundance and big theatres in Toronto and New York. It hasn't worked out. Instead, a play I wrote was performed in the streets of New York—an actor started the play by rapelling off a building. For example, one of my plays, remounted last year by Mercedes Batiz Benet and Kathleen Greenfield, started on the ocean, from where the actors entered in rowboats, singing.
3. River
Writing is like a river. The people before you gave you the best they could, to let you know you are not alone, and how to survive dark times. They made us laugh, they helped us understand, they made joy. All that has flowed into you. Now it is your turn to write. To give to the next ones, down river from you. Give it your very best. Do not think about whether or not you are up to it. You are. This is your moment to write, to learn to write, to give back for all that writing has given you.
My mentor, Suzan-Lori Parks, is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. I got a full scholarship, like you have here at LEAP, to study with her. She said, "be a great writer, why not?'
Think about it. Be a great writer, why not?
Her mentor was James Baldwin, a great writer to turn to in these times. So we're all part of that river, right now.
4. Give what you want to get
As you build your dreams for your writing life, there will be many opportunities that you would like to "get." Don't forget that it may be very well within your powers to "give what you want to get." You may experience rejection and not being invited into various situations. Remember, you can turn and accept others, you can invite them. This gives great balance and joy to my writing life. It's why I founded LEAP.
5. What is your exact spot in the universe?
There is so much that only you know, and we want to know about it.
Shawn has reminded me this week about how writers at LEAP have told utterly unique stories over the years. They've written plays about school violence, immigrating from Argentina, missing and murdered Aboriginal women. These stories are about things only these writers knew, in their hearts, in their bones. There have been zany stories too, hysterically funny ones. For example, I remember one from the first year—with rhyming characters from the 18th century who burned in a fire and had us all gasping with laughter, who knows why? But that writer followed her crazy idea, she didn't work her mind like a bouncer, keeping ideas out. Instead she delved into who she was, what she had to offer. Her play brought us amazing joy.
To kick you off, and inspire you, here are some examples of things you know but I don't know:
How does it feel to be starting your writing career in the age of the Anthropocene, which scientists say has officially begun, a current geological age, where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment?
How does it feel to have the relationship between private and public that you do because of social media?
How does it feel to be from your cultural and family background?
And, how does it feel, if you have a cell phone like my daughter's, who is a little younger than you, to have a phone that goes off with the regularity of a small and insistent kind of funny little animal?
How does it feel to be alive today, starting out?
Finding out about your exact spot in the universe can be a life long journey.
Right now, I am an associate at the Playwright's Theatre Centre. It's a three-year residency program. I have spent the past three years working on exploring my exact spot in the universe.
My family is Portuguese on my dad's side, and who knows what on my mom's side. As you can tell, I am not a visible person of color. I'm visibly white. On my mom's side, she was part of an experiment, where she was adopted, genetically matched to a family. It was considered helpful to try to wipe out all trace of her birth parents. On my dad's side, the goal was to assimilate, to become American. My family made the journey from being peasants to being university educated. This is a wonderful achievement, especially for the women in my family. My education is one of the greatest treasures of my life. But we lost things along the way. When I was growing up, I did not speak our language, attend our cultural events, or learn our stories. Until recently, I did not know that we have a literary tradition. Today, we might see this as trying to forget we were Portuguese and become as white as possible.
My background was erased but not quite…which doesn't seem like a story, and yet it is. I've been learning that it's a very common story, whether you are visibly a person of color or not.
I'm also learning that being Portuguese is extremely complex. We have a long history of oppressing and being oppressed. Neither is easy to face. We had hundreds of years of the Inquisition, the slave trade and the longest dictatorship of modern times. Many of us come from impoverished, rural peasant families, who had to leave Portugal for educational and economic reasons. Some of our families were conscripted into little better than slavery on whaling ships; some worked endless hours trying to get ahead as cleaning ladies and factory workers, farm workers and fishermen. Others rose to prominence as professors and in the computer industry.
Given the issues in America and Canada today, regarding racial violence, the construction of whiteness, and gender parity, realizing I'm a part of the enormity of the Portuguese diaspora is relevant, essential, and powerful. Being Portuguese, as I have discovered, involves facing some of the darkest demons in our collective psyche.
I've also found some beautiful things, many inspired by seeds planted in me by my grandparents when I was young. Azorean whalers, like my grandfather, married into the Inuit and the Coast Salish. So part of my exploring my culture has meant that I've found new family. In Vancouver, 500 Coast Salish are one-half Azorean Portuguese, from the same island as my grandfather. A new statue in Stanley Park is tribute to this connection.
And it's taken me a long time to realize the richness and possibility of my exact place in the universe. That's part of why I founded LEAP. So you can LEAP into that, here, today, now, this year.
I'm going to close with a very short excerpt from a piece I wrote about where I get ideas for plays, so that you can know they can come from everywhere:
Inspiration can come from anywhere.
If a play comes, follow it.
My plays have come from
a book falling off a shelf,
an email,
a dinner party anecdote,
pictures that flash into my mind while walking,
an architectural tour,
rejecting an idea and getting a better one,
a photograph,
overheard conversations,
motherhood,
someone saying a woman cannot do a thing,
outrage,
satire,
jokes,
other plays,
live music,
paintings,
looking at a forest,
rivers,
actors,
directors,
dancers,
designers,
gaps in stories,
footnotes in history books,
commissions,
questions,
dares.
The future of theatre belongs to those who have not yet spoken.
And that's you.
LEAP.
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You have a lot going on! Hope ya'll get to go home and things get better soon!
Thank you...I'll be posting an update soon.
Maureen, you are an angel! Thank you!
Diana, he was released and I'll be posting about our new routine soon.
Ricki Jill, yes, he did. We are adjusting to a new routine.
Im so sorry your Hubby has been sick !!! I hope he is home now with you sweet lady. Being home will help him so much~~~ I hope you take care and my prayers are coming your way.
Diane, thank you for the kind words. We are off on a new adventure in mealtimes!
A lot has been happening to you since I was last on-line.
Hugs and prayers being sent to you, HB, wisdom for the doctors, and all caregivers.
We all will be holding you up in prayer.
Yes, Janet, our world has been shaken. We are hone now and I'll be blogging an update soon. Thsnk you for your prayers. We do feel each one.
Pat, Please don't feel you have to keep up with us. We will check in on you. Just remember our prayers are with the two of you. You will get through this but use your energy where it counts.


i'm a hoarder. i'll be the first to admit it, & i sort of like it a little. my bathroom items are the absolute hardest hit; makeup, lotions, potions, razors, creams…it goes on & on.
1 pregnancy test, 3 years past its expiration date. i took it — just in case. i'm not pregnant.
14 (almost) empty mac compacts…to my horror, these cost me nearly $300…this isn't including the dozens of mac compacts that actually made it into the trash bin.
…and that's not even everything. pretty horrifying, right?! i promise to be better about throwing stuff away from here on out.


It's Calling is our third collaboration with the mighty and creative Lowe Alpine, our first two being Operation Moffat and The Bothy Project. In the middle of four months on the road in the US and shortly before getting stuck into shooting the mammoth Yosemite sequences of Psycho Vertical, I got an email asking if I'd get involved in this project and could we start now... erm... tricky timing but YES.
Joe's idea was to shoot in four countries with four filmmakers yet somehow combine all those stories into one. Many pages of notes, mood boards and one hell of a detailed brief later, crews in Australia, Switzerland, Scotland and the USA got to work. It was interesting as footage trickled in from around the world, one filmmaker's style informing and influencing the next in line to shoot.
It was an interesting and challenging edit, using all my forces to weave these adventures together and to write a voice over that would serve as glue. But weaving is what I love most, and we're very proud of this short film which celebrates our want and need to get outside and challenge ourselves, however we choose to do it. Enjoy!


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January 30, 2017 Topic: Politics Region: Africa Tags: African UnionDevelopmentDemocracyMoroccoTerrorism
This isn't the slow African kleptocracy you're used to.
by Ahmed Charai
In Western public discussions today, the word "refugees" triggers an association with Syria; "terrorism," ISIS and Iran; and "democracy," an inwardly focused debate about the implications of a wave of populism on governance in the United States and Europe. But survey the globe, and think ahead a few years, and you're likely to encounter a more dire and momentous challenge with respect to all three, in which Westerners are more vested than they might realize: the future of Africa.
The poorest continent is home to refugee crises forgotten by the world that dwarf the tragedies of the Levant: over a million in South Sudan, 250,000 in one refugee camp in Uganda alone, and scores of others. As to terrorism, according to the latest issue of the Global Terrorism Index, the deadliest jihadist group by sheer number of human casualties isn't ISIS but Nigeria's Boko Haram—and among the eighteen ISIS branches that the National Counterterrorism Center has designated "fully operational," eight are in Africa. At the core of these crises, in turn, lies a failure of governance: autocracies holding egalitarian principles in contempt prejudice religion and ethnicity over merit, and literally steal more resources than they disburse.
The magnitude of these crises ought to give pause to the present fixation on refugees from one or two countries on the Arab world's eastern flank. Moreover, the fact that so many more victims of jihadism and state failure are African Christian or animist than Muslim raises questions about the present-day fixation on the destitute of one faith to the exclusion of others.
I'll toss out another term that conjures an almost uniform association. Say "African Union," and most picture a coalition of kleptocracies who gather only to pontificate but can't unite even to save themselves. Yet this image, too, stands in need of an adjustment, and the White House should take notice of the reasons why.
They begin with an altogether different trend in Africa that has begun to inspire hope, and which the United States and other great powers should notice and encourage, even if only as a matter of self-interest. Several countries on the continent have begun to get their act together, mending internecine rifts and reforming economic and governance structures. What's more, they're injecting new energy into the African Union as a vehicle to spread their own best practices to other countries in the neighborhood.
A handful of African countries that have developed inclusive governance structures and grown their economies by investing in their populations typify a larger cluster of countries south of the Sahara—six in all—that are now among the thirteen with the highest annual growth rates in the world. Watch these countries in action at the AU: They're calling for security-sector reform and interoperability across borders to counter jihadists. They're calling out corruption and demanding change lest neighboring basket cases bleed into their territory. They're offering to help and advise other nations on reforming their own economic and governance structures.
Another robust player in the present-day AU is my country, Morocco. We recently rejoined the organization after thirty-two years in which we were politically isolated from its leadership: during the Cold War, Soviet-allied Algeria served as Moscow's vanguard on the continent, and worked through the AU to isolate pro-American Morocco from its African brethren. (The Algerian-backed Polisario separatist militia, laying claim to half Morocco's map, was used as a leftist revolutionary symbol in AU politics.) A generation later, these problems are beginning to fade. Oil-rich Algeria, now poor and corrupt, long ago ceased to inspire its neighbors. Meanwhile, Morocco's constitutional monarchy has developed pluralistic governing structures, grown its economy and empowered civil society. King Mohammed VI has devoted enormous resources into a new push for regional integration and investment in Africa, circling the continent on economic development and security missions over a dozen times. He believes in strengthening and securing the continent as a matter of national as well as global security, and wants Morocco to serve as a bridge between its Western allies and developing African nations as they come online.
The Trump administration would be well served to take a hard look at Africa—for the security threats and humanitarian crises its failure poses, and for the economic opportunities its success can bring to all its partners.
Mr. Charai, a Moroccan publisher, is on the board of directors of the Atlantic Council, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Center for the National Interest.
Image: USAID literacy program in Nigeria. Wikimedia Commons/USAID
Source URL: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-african-union-deserves-another-look-19249


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I was excited to experience 1.The Elephant Sanctuary and 2. Monks (I want to marry the closest version to that Peace Swag as God sees fit). My friend, Theresa wanted to attend a Muay Thai fight and with all due respect to the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej passing (October 13,2016) after a 70 year reign many activities were cancelled until after his cremation ceremony (October 26,2017) a year later.
However, what we did get out of that or at least I did was Kindness Is Gangsta. The country was on pause and the Thai people were allowed to mourn for a whole year. We were there when the ceremony occurred and saw how much respect and love the people had for their King. For many, he was the only ruler they've known and his people were a true representation of him. Listen ,there were gold statues all over this country.. Real Gold All Over and lights shinning down on them to show how regal and celebrated he was. It was beautiful to experience and I'm so grateful that I was able to be apart of their culture for that moment. I don't have pictures out of respect but the memories are forever with me and how the people treated us was so kind.
We also hung out with tons of animals including my favorite and best BORNDAY EVER at the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Phuket. We posed with Lions (next post), chilled with Monkeys and relaxed on the beach while indulging in selfcare Thai Massages for $5-$8US.
If you thought my trip to Phuket was amazing, I went somewhere else. Still in Thailand but traveling to Bangkok the capitol and final destination of our trip as a group. Yes to living our best life! Now we were only visiting for 24 hours, this wasn't a layover flight but a planned day trip. Alisha and I decided to not change clothes, try the traffic (crazy traffic) and immediately catch an Uber to Wat Pho one of the oldest temples, listed as the first and highest grade first-class royal out of six.
Wat Pho is considered the first public university of Thailand and holds study in traditional medicine and massage. This is the home of the Reclining Buddha, said to be a lion reclining. It represents the entry of Buddha into Nirvana and the end of reincarnations. This cultural icon is huge at 46 meters in length (105 feet) and 15 meters (49 feet) in height from the base to the top knot. My pictures does this no justice and I'm still in awe from this experience. Overall I had an amazing time in Thailand. Based on my trip I would recommend you do all this but also include Chang Mai it's said to be cheaper than Phuket.
I promise to do a video because there's so much more to this trip than my post can tell you. You need to see the food, beaches, people, excursions and our house. Please feel free to leave questions in the comments and I'll reply or answer them on my channel.
You can check out pictures on my Instagram or YouTube channel.
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