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Joseph J. Kelly , Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council , proudly shared a family prayer book with his ancestral history written in . Your most innocent acts are misunderstood ; motives you never dreamed of are attributed to you ; and in the end it comes to " - - he hesitated a moment and then took the plunge , - - " to the sidelong look and the leer . Library ; Franklin , the library 's on-line catalogue ; and the Chadwyck-Healey database of Literature Online , including an electronic archive of English Drama , available through the library to Penn faculty and students . " But for all of their epigramatic wit and paradoxical attitudes towards life , Oscar Wilde 's other 1890s society comedies ( Lady Windermere 's Fan , A Woman of No Importance , and An Ideal Husband ) are all serious " problem " dramas about the intractability of sexual double-standards and the personal costs of respectability , precisely those issues that Wilde appears ( at least ) to be satirizing in The Importance of Being Earnest . " You have to set the right priorities - - your priorities and the priorities of your community , " said Paul Meyer , executive director of the Morris Arboretum.Similarly , it 's important that each institution set its priorities in the context of the larger community . An " authentic Humphrey dress " from the Democratic National Convention in 1968 was brought in by Nancy Moses , executive director of the Atwater Kent Museum . The sequence of tasks in a Future Search meeting first grounds stakeholders in the past , then leads them into an examination of the present , and finally frees them to envision an ideal future , temporarily unencumbered by real-life concerns and realities . Merck in August lost its first product liability case in Texas over the death of another Vioxx user , and 5,000 similar lawsuits are pending.Merck voluntarily pulled the drug from the market a year ago after its own study found that more than 18 months of Vioxx use could double the risk of heart attack and stroke.Higbee said the court had not been made aware of the nature of Morrison 's testimony in advance.The judge 's actions went beyond the request Humeston 's lawyers made Thursday to strike only Morrison 's testimony about certain animal studies.Higbee called for a brief break after her ruling . The subject came up in opening arguments , and Higbee ordered it off-limits because she says it would distract from the key question of whether Merck thought Vioxx was safe in 2001.Merck lawyers say they want to talk about the voluntary withdrawal because they say that shows — contrary to Humeston 's claims — company officials cared about patient safety.In a blow to the company , Higbee said Thursday she would n't allow discussion of the withdrawal . ATLANTIC CITY ( AP ) The judge in the second Vioxx product liability trial delivered a stunning blow to Merck on Friday morning when she struck the testimony of its first defense witness from the record.With the jury outside , Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee said she felt misled and sickened upon rereading the transcript of Thursday 's testimony by a Merck researcher who said studies by the company in the late 1990s showed the pain reliever would not cause heart damage.Higbee struck the testimony of Merck researcher Dr. Briggs Morrison from the record because she said he is not an expert on the studies he had told the jury about Thursday , nor did Merck give the court sufficient notice about what he would discuss . " In a related vein , Joseph Kelly , executive director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council , emphasized the growing importance of state and local governments in cultural resources . Thursday , December 12 . " The goal of the next exercise was to identify the common ground among all the stakeholders as demonstrated by the visions of an ideal future that they 'd just depicted , and to talk them through further . We need collaborative workshops for professional development and to raise morale.Endowment support for collections care is exciting.We should become more media savvy , in part so we can move from being just a site for education to a destination , explained Steven Rothman , collector and businessman.Paul Steinke , executive director of the University City District , noted that several institutions at the meeting - - Fort Mifflin , The Atwater Kent Museum , Eastern State Penitentiary - - had done something interesting to " reinvent " themselves in the past five years.There are an infinite number of things that the attending institutions can do to move forward , but finite resources .