Philadelphia Daily Record

Vol. II No. 25 (185)

Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia

March 18, 2011

Philadelphia Daily Record

Public Servant Of The Year

LABORERS LOCAL 332 Business Mgr. Sam Staten, Jr. received Phila. Public Record’s 2011 “Public Servant of the Year” Award from Mayor Michael Nutter last night. From left are Public Record Publisher Jim Tayoun, Nutter, State Rep. Ron Waters, Staten, Sam Staten, Sr. and State Rep. Kenyatta Johnson. More photos page 2.

Public Record Celebrates 12th Year With A Tribute To Sam Staten, Jr.’s Service

HUNDREDS of city’s political and labor leaders turned out at Galdo’s catering in S. Phila. last night to mark the 12th anniversary of Phila. Public Record, and also to honor civic leader Sam Staten, Jr. as “Public Servant of Year”. Among luminaries in attendance were, from left, Oak Lane power broker Marion Wimbush, Perry Blackman and Pete Lyde of Laborers’ District Council, and judicial aspirant Charles Ehrlich.

HONOREE Sam Staten, Jr. is flanked by Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, left, and Mayor’s Director of Federal Legislation Terri Gillen.

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STATE SEN. TINA TARTAGLIONE hands Sam Staten, Jr. Penna. Senate commendation as host Lou Galdo, Jr. congratulates him.

PUBLIC RECORD bookkeeper Haifa Hanna, Sana Muaddi-Dows, webmaster, her son Mark, and Catherine Weber were proud of this gala affair.

Phila. Public Record has become city’s key source for in-depth coverage of political scene.

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Casey Intros Bipartisan Bill To Treat Rare Diseases U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) has introduced the Creating Hope Act of 2011, a bipartisan bill that would encourage the development of new treatments for rare and neglected diseases that disproportionately affect children. The bill, which also has broad support among the medical community, patient advocates and biopharmaceutical companies, would strengthen a cost-neutral FDA program giving biopharmaceutical companies an incentive to develop treatments for rare diseases that are often less profitable than treatments for more common medical conditions.

“Millions of Americans are affected by rare diseases and neglected conditions for which there is currently no hope because there is no treatment,” said the Senator.

“The Creating Hope Act brings light where there is now only darkness by providing an incentive, at no cost to taxpayers, to develop treatments for these illnesses. The broad support for this legislation speaks to the need to solve this problem.”

Rare diseases, such as pediatric cancers, and neglected tropical diseases, such as malaria, affect significant numbers of Americans and people around the globe. More than 20 million Americans have a rare disease, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders. An estimated one billion people worldwide suffer from a neglected tropical disease according to the World Health Organization, and children are most frequently and profoundly affected by these conditions.

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Peter C. Adamson, MD, Chair of the Children’s Oncology Group at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said: “I commend Sen. Casey and his colleagues for introducing the Creating Hope Act of 2011. As a pediatric oncologist who leads the Children’s Oncology Group, a nationwide team of physicians, scientists, nurses and others dedicated to treating children with cancer, I know that improving the outcome for children with cancer will require development of new, more effective anticancer drugs. With cancer remaining the leading cause of disease-related death in children in the United States, the Creating Hope Act of 2011 will provide a critically important new way to help engage scientists in the biopharmaceutical industry to help develop better medicines for the children we care for.”

“Of the nearly one in 10 Americans with rare diseases, approximately two-thirds are children,” said Peter L. Saltonstall, president of the National Organization for Rare Disorders.

“Pennsylvania Bio thanks Sen. Casey for his continued commitment to the life-sciences industry and the thousands of patients in the United States who suffer from rare diseases,” stated Christopher P. Molineaux, president of Pennsylvania Bio. “With nearly 7,000 rare diseases, few treatment options exist for these small patient populations because it is often prohibitive for companies to enter the rare-disease marketplace.”

new therapies for tropical illnesses or rare diseases because it requires making an investment in products that will likely not recoup the high costs associated with their research, development, marketing and distribution. Developing products for children is particularly challenging because of the difficulties associated with conducting clinical trials on this population.

The Creating Hope Act of 2011 will create a stronger incentive for companies to invest in new treatments for rare diseases affecting children and neglected tropical diseases.

The following groups and businesses have endorsed the legislation: Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Bio Ventures for Global Health, Chai Lifeline, Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, CureSearch, GlaxoSmithKline, Genzyme, Kids v Cancer, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The National Association of Children’s Hospitals, The National Children’s Cancer Society, National Organization for Rare Disorders, Novartis, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Merck, Metronomix, Sarcoma Foundation of America, Pennsylvania BIO, Shire, CSL Behring, TB Alliance.

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Rendell To Speak At VIP Gala 2011 Mar. 24Fundraiser for Marnie Aument Loughrey at Law Offices of Daniel McCaffery, 2 Penn Center, Suite 1030, 5:30-7:30 p.m. For info (215) 427-1645.

Mar. 24Reception honoring Marty Bednarek, Democrat candidate for City Council, 6th Dist., at Historic Glen Foerd on Delaware, 5001 Grant Ave. 7-9 p.m.

RSVP by Mar. 20. For info (215) 6241700.

Mar. 24State Sen. Anthony Williams promotes School Choice forum hosted by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Bright Hope Baptist Ch.’s Sr. Pastor Kevin Johnson, at Bright Hope Youth Center, 12th and Cecil B. Moore Ave., 7-9 p.m.

Mar. 25State Rep. Michelle Brownlee hosts Open House for constituent feedback at office, 2839 W. Girard St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; free breakfast 9-10:30 a.m. For info (215) 684-3738.

Mar. 25Spring Fundraiser for Victim/Witness Services of S. Phila. at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine St., 6-9 p.m. Tickets $50. Light fare, wine, beer and music.

Mar. 25Gov. Tom Corbett addresses 82nd Airborne Phila. Chapter All American Dinner & Awards Ceremony at Iron Workers Union Hall, 11600 Norcom Rd., 7-11 p.m. Tickets $35. For tickets Eunice Lee at elee@zarwin/com or (215) 569-2800, ext. 1179, or David Oh, chairman, ext. 1157.

Mar. 25Springtime Cabaret fundraiser for State Rep. Rosita Youngblood and 13th Ward Democrats at 5551 Germantown Ave., 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

BYOB. Tickets $20. For info Shiela (267) 581-0025 or Dayne (267) 5939156.

Mar. 25Rep. Michelle Brownlee hosts open hosue at her cxonstiuent service officd at 2839 W. Girard Av., from 9 to 5 p.m. with Continental Breakfast at 9 a.m. to 10:3 a.m.

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Philadelphia VIP – the hub of free legal services for the city’s poor – will celebrate three decades of service, as it welcomes keynote speaker, former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, at its 30th Anniversary Gala tomorrow at 6:30 p.m.at The Westin, 99 S. 17th Street.

Rendell will receive VIP’s Pinnacle Award for his outstanding commitment to legal services for the poor. The event will recognize thousands of volunteers who have helped the organization make a critical difference in the quality of life enjoyed by Philadelphia VIP’s clients in need of legal representation.

Philadelphia VIP was created in 1981 to provide pro bono legal assistance when Legal Services Corp. funding to Philadelphia’s Community Legal Services was drastically cut. Since then, VIP has recruited and trained thousands of private bar attorneys to provide consistent, highquality representation to low-income clients with critical legal needs.

VIP continues to create effective ways of bridging the gap between socially marginalized individuals, families and communities with legal needs and lawyers possessing the skills and ability to meet those needs.

Drexel Medicine Welcomes New Cardiothoracic Surgery Chair Drexel University College of Medicine and Hahnemann University Hospital Welcomed Glenn Laub, MD, as chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Laub comes to Philadelphia from the Heart Hospital at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, N.J., where he has been director and chairman of cardiothoracic surgery. Laub founded the program at St. Francis which, under his leadership, has had outstanding clinical outcomes and was top-ranked in the April 2010 New Jersey Health Care Quality Assessment Cardiac Surgery report.

cardiac-surgery operations and has pioneered minimally invasive and valve procedures. Throughout his career, he has invented several surgical devices to improve patient outcomes during heart surgeries.

He started his own company, Defibtech, an award-winning manufacturer of lifesaving AEDs, and holds 10 patents for medical devices, including a less-invasive catheter used to connect patients to a heart-lung machine, which he developed during his surgical residency. Another device he invented measures blood flow in a patient’s leg.

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New Workforce Execs

Meat & Deli PHILA. WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD has elected PeopleShare, Inc. founder and CEO David Donald, left, as its chair, Patricia A. Coulter, center, as vice chair and Elizabeth RileyWasserman as secretary to serve through 2011.

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The Greeks follow the Irish this Sunday as they celebrate their annual Greek Independence Day Parade starting at 1:00 p.m. The parade will assemble on Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 16th

and 18th, and proceed west on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to the reviewing stand located in the 2300 block of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway,

Appropriate, If Melancholy, Timing For Japanese Noh Theater At Kimmel

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by Adam Taxin No one needs to hear me editorialize about the tragic and horrific ongoing news out of Japan over the last week or so. Suffice it to say that the crisis in that nation, to which I was fortunate to be able to travel for several weeks when I was in college, has been weighing on my mind. I am aware that, beyond the charities to which one can contribute, there is really not a whole lot the average person can do to help alleviate the current suffering of the Japanese people (which now includes exposure to 18 MARCH, 2011

radiation and hypothermia).

I have found myself thinking, on a less emotional level, about Japan and its culture more generally.

Therefore, it is worth noting that, the Kimmel Center, in association with bowerbird, will be presenting Kashu-juku Noh Theater on Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.

This should obviously provide a more pleasant Japan-related image related than those that have been all over television the last week.

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music-drama form, developed in Kyoto and preserved since the 14th century, is led by Katayama Shingo of the prestigious Katayama Noh family. Members of the Noh family are joined by kyogen (basically a short farce between noh acts) actors from another prestigious family, the Shigeyama lineage, in showcasing this tradition, accompanied by live music.

The program, performed in Japanese with English subtitles, will include three different types of performance.

Mai-bayashi (“Dance and music”) is a solo dance depicting the climax of a famous noh play. This program features a ferocious battle scene.

The kyogen segment will feature Boshibari (“Tied to a pole”), in which two servants tied up by their master face the crisis of being unable to drink their master’s sake (rice wine).

The other noh segment, Aoi no Ue (“Lady Green”)

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adapts a story from the classic novel The Tale of Genji. In that, a Buddhist monk intent on soul-saving confronts the jealous Lady Rokujo, who had sent a spirit to possess Genji’s wife, Aoi (“Green”).

At 6 p.m., prior to the performance, in the Kimmel Center’s Merck Arts Education Center, there will be a pre-show lecture by Linda Chance, Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

She will give audiences an opportunity to hear more about Japanese culture and the history of noh theater.

For an additional $20, ticket-holders have the opportunity to attend a reception immediately following the performance, which includes a complimentary beverage or small plate from the PECO bar by Wolfgang Puck.

-------------------Adam Taxin, a Center City attorney, can best be contacted via Facebook or at adamtaxin@gmail.com.

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