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According to the WHO, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect over 1 billion people worldwide, and are devastating to patients in the developing world. What is being done to get treatments to these patients and to speed development of new treatments?
Contributors Respond
Brenda Colatrella
Executive Director, Corp. Responsibility, Merck
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) impact more than a billion people in some of the poorest, most remote parts of the world, blinding, disabling, disfiguring and sickening those infected. They have a negative impact on life expectancy, productivity and childhood education -- all of which create a cycle of poverty and stigma for affected communities.
Today, because of renewed and new commitments, millions impacted by NTDs are being treated, several NTDs are being controlled effectively, and some even eliminated.
More than 25 years ago, Merck made the unprecedented decision to donate Mectizan® for as long as needed, wherever needed, to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) -- a debilitating, disfiguring disease and once a leading cause of blindness. In 1998, Merck extended its commitment to the prevention of lymphatic filariasis(LF) in African countries where it co-exists with river blindness. Through a broad, multi-sectoral partnership, the Mectizan Donation Program now reaches more than 200 million people annually. Onchocerciasis has been eliminated from Colombia and disease transmission has been interrupted – meaning no new cases have been identified – in three other Latin American countries and nine regions in five African countries. Steady progress is being made to achieve elimination of both LF and river blindness by 2020 and 2025, respectively. [More information at www.merckresponsibility.com]
However, the Mectizan Donation Program is no longer unique. Today, many pharmaceutical companies – including Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, J&J, Sanofi-Aventis, among others – are engaged in the fight against NTDs and are working together, and with other stakeholders, to address these diseases.
- As early as 1999, through the Partnership for Disease Control Initiatives, companies and their NGO partners began to share best practices and coordinate their activities where feasible.
- Through the Road Map for Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO better defined and advanced the strategy for NTDs, setting targets for the control or elimination of 17 NTDs by 2020.
- In January 2012, the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases was launched, bringing together diverse stakeholders working on NTDs and creating renewed momentum to control or eliminate 10 NTDs by 2020. WHO, the Gates Foundation, 13 pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank were among the original endorsers of the London Declaration.
- And in 2013 the World Health Assembly Resolution on NTDs was passed and the African Regional Committee also passed a resolution on NTDs, demonstrating the commitment of the countries.
Progress is also being monitored through a public scorecard that highlights both successes and areas for improvement. According to the London Declaration's first report, pharmaceutical companies are meeting 100% of country requests for medicines and delivered more than one billion treatments in 2012. Endemic countries are stepping up their commitments with 40 countries developing or having launched multi-year, integrated NTD plans. Donors have committed funds to support integrated NTD programs, scale-up programs, increase resources for mapping, improve program strategies and develop new tools. And innovative R&D partnerships have been launched to address remaining clinical gaps.
While significant progress has been made, there is still much to be done to sustain and expand existing efforts, and to tackle operational and R&D gaps. Funding is being mobilized, but more is needed. The capacity to deliver treatments in some countries needs strengthening. New diagnostics are needed to better understand when to start and stop treatments. For some diseases, new and better drugs or treatment strategies are needed to fill gaps where current therapies are limited or lacking. Endemic country governments need the political will and resources to address NTDs in their countries.
Additional support, commitment, and innovation will translate into even greater progress against NTDs and improved health for patients and communities.
Dale Kempf
Distinguished Research Fellow, AbbVie
Along with a number of other PhRMA members,AbbVie is committed to helping to bring solutions to the world's recognized health challenges, including Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). In line with our unique position as a biopharmaceutical company, AbbVie approaches NTDs from three perspectives: leveraging the expertise of our people; partnering with leading organizations; and utilizing our financial resources to address this global challenge.
AbbVie's Executive Council on Neglected Diseases coordinates efforts across the company to contribute innovative technologies, compounds for screening and our scientific expertise. It facilitates coordination of our resources and identifies opportunities for partnerships that address NTDs. In 2012, more than 100 of AbbVie's most experienced scientists contributed their expertise to research on NTD drug discovery and development in collaboration with partner organizations. We provide laboratory facilities and mentor student interns under a program sponsored by Franciscan University of Steubenville (Franciscan Institute for World Health) that focuses on NTD research.
AbbVie collaborates with leading organizations, providing our large library of diverse chemicals to screen against many NTDs. Partners include Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), the Gates Foundation TB Drug Accelerator (TBDA), TB Alliance, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). We are working closely with MMV to support three preclinical and early clinical development programs of novel antimalarials. In early discovery efforts, AbbVie scientists engage with DNDi and the TBDA, providing cheminformatics support, characterizing lead compounds from our partners' programs, and supplying large numbers (up to 100,000) of our compounds for screening against various parasites and tuberculosis. In collaboration with LSTM, we are identifying and advancing novel compounds for filarial (worm) diseases. AbbVie has joined 12 other health care companies, the Gates Foundation, World Bank, NGOs and Governments to collectively sign the London Declaration on NTDs, which aims to eliminate or control 10 NTDs by the year 2020.
The AbbVie Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, aims to help advance science and medical innovation, expand access to health care and promote science education globally. In line with those objectives, the AbbVie Foundation has provided $3 million to-date to support projects focused on advancing progress against NTDs. We continue to explore partnership opportunities that will increase early detection and intervention to prevent debilitating consequences of NTDs.
Michael Nyenhuis
President and CEO, MAP International
Not one more. Not. One. More.
I said those words after meeting a young boy named Kwazi in Ghana. His right arm and hand had been stricken by a little-known ulcer that left it permanently disfigured and unusable. Other children at his school in rural, central Ghana teased him, he told me. They called him "clutch" because his twisted right arm looked to them like a truck's clutch pedal. All he wanted, he pleaded, was for his right hand to work again.
It did not have to be this way. This could have been stopped. Not one more child should face this. Not. One. More.
Kwazi was stricken by Buruli ulcer, one of the 17 designated "Neglected Tropical Diseases" (NTDs). Buruli, named after the village in Uganda where it was first identified, is a skin and soft tissue infection. When caught early as a small nodule on the skin, it can be easily treated without much impact to the patient. When it opens as an ulcer and spreads, Buruli eats away skin, muscle and tissue, creating permanent disfigurement and disability. As many as 6,000 cases are reported each year, mostly in West Africa.
In combatting other NTDs, mass drug administration is often the best strategy. MDA programs can cost less than 50 cents per person per year to effectively combat trachoma, onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminths and others. A number of pharmaceutical companies have stood up to provide drugs used in MDA programs.
Buruli is different, however. It is not combatted through mass distribution programs. Instead, Buruli requires case-by-case treatment utilizing antibiotics and wound care for weeks and even months. Improved treatment options will come with simplified antibiotic protocols, point-of-care diagnostic tests and better understanding of the mode of transmission.
My organization, MAP International, has implemented Buruli-focused projects in West Africa since 2007, beginning in Côte d'Ivoire, expanding to Ghana and now into Liberia. Alongside WHO and national ministries of health, and with critical support from partners like the American Leprosy Mission and AbbVie, we have strengthened national programs, built treatment wards and ensured the provision of antibiotics and medical supplies. We have brought healing to children like Kwazi who are affected by the ulcer. Still, too many like him are left with lifelong disfigurement and disability.
Early detection is key to stopping the effects of the disease. If Buruli can be stopped before it becomes an ulcer - when it is still a nodule on the skin - no more children will suffer Kwazi's fate. That is why we have also invested heavily in education and awareness campaigns targeting mothers, health workers and others.
In one of our Buruli treatment wards I met two young girls. One had a small nodule on her cheek. Her mother had been to a Buruli sensitization event in her village. Concerned, she brought the daughter in to be checked. After a simple treatment, she was on her way home. A second girl had her shoulder and upper arm wrapped in bandaging. Her mother did not know about Buruli and the ulcer spread. After weeks and weeks of treatment, the girl would soon go home to contend with a lifelong disability.
Yes, we need improved antibiotic treatment and diagnostics. Equally, we need the resources to spread the message of early detection so that not one more child suffers the permanent scars of Buruli.
Eduardo Pisani
Director General, IFPMA
Since 2005, IFPMA has published a directory of global health partnerships, many of which focus on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The nature of these partnerships – ranging from R&D to healthcare system strengthening to donations – reflect the comprehensive approach needed to reduce human suffering caused by NTDs. Prominent among these partnerships, as well as individual company activities, are focused R&D activities to develop new therapies for patients around the world. So what is currently being done to speed development of therapies? Lots!
Earlier this year, IFPMA released a status report on pharmaceutical R&D to address NTDs specifically. Among our companies, we identified the 132 R&D projects focus on the following diseases prioritized by the World Health Organization's (WHO) Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR): tuberculosis, malaria, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), leishmaniasis, dengue, onchocerciasis (River blindness), American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), schistosomiasis, leprosy and lymphatic filariasis. These 132 programs represent a 40 percent increase in the number of projects versus the previous year. Because many global health successes in recent years have occurred through partnerships that combine expertise of different players, it is important to point out that most (85 percent) of these 132 R&D initiatives are collaborations between industry, research units such as product development partnerships and universities, and independent researchers around the world.
As more research compounds progress into late-stage development, increasing strain will be placed on the clinical trial and regulatory infrastructures in developing countries, where many trials take place and new therapies are eventually approved by regulators While capacity in both areas is slowly improving, more needs to be done. Because the time required for regulatory approval in some developing countries can be significantly longer than in US or Europe, focusing some attention and resources on strengthening regulatory capacity can help speed patient access to new therapies.
While researchers are leading the way to tomorrow's therapies, people are in need today. That is why the research-based pharmaceutical industry is donating 14 billion treatments this decade to eliminate or control of nine NTDs that represent more than 90 percent of the global NTD burden.
Finally, speeding development of and access to new treatments requires coordination. That is why we all depend on the WHO's leadership to ensure that R&D, capacity-strengthening, and access efforts have the best chance of relieving suffering among the nearly one billion afflicted by these diseases.
Andy Wright
VP, Global Health Programs, GlaxoSmithKline
Clara Marr and Matt Azzara may seem unlikely partners in the fight against one of South Asia's most deadly health challenges, visceral leishmaniasis or "black fever," but they represent an expanding model of pharmaceutical cooperation to address stubborn health challenges like neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
Marr is a clinical research and infectious disease specialist working in England for GlaxoSmithKline. Azarra is a market researcher and oncology strategist for Pfizer in the United States. Together they served on a six-month volunteer assignment to assist CARE India in researching ways to eliminate black fever, which infects an estimated 500,000 people each year. It is especially prevalent in South Asia, and is transmitted by small sand flies.
GSK's and Pfizer's commitment to work together with CARE India reflects the willingness among corporations to collaborate to solve big problems.
There is no doubt that NTDs are a big problem. One in six people in the world are affected by an NTD, a group of parasitic and bacterial infections. Financial incentives to develop treatments do not exist because NTDs mostly affect the poorest people who lack finances to afford treatment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set some very specific goals around combating NTDs by 2020. A coalition of global pharmaceutical companies and leading organizations signed the landmark London Declaration in January 2012 to eliminate or control 10 NTDs.
Progress against these commitments over the last year are outlined in a report, From Promises to Progress. The amazing news is that in 2012 pharmaceutical companies donated more than one billion treatments to meet 100 per cent of drug requests by endemic countries for NTD programs.
We are proud to be an active partner in one of the world's biggest and boldest public health initiatives, led by the WHO, to rid the world of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF). LF is transmitted by mosquitoes. It is more commonly known as elephantiasis, a name which describes the hardening and thickening of the skin that frequently accompanies massive swelling in the arms, legs, breasts and genitals. In 1998 we announced our commitment to donate to WHO all the albendazole needed to treat the 1.3 billion people in over 72 countries who are at risk, until LF is eliminated. So far we have donated four billion treatments of albendazole, alongside grants and other support for the global initiative.
The recommended regimen for treating LF is a single dose of two medicines given together - albendazole plus either DEC (diethylcarbamazine) or ivermectin. Merck has agreed to donate an unlimited supply of Mectizan (ivermectin) for African countries and Yemen. In January 2012 Eisai committed to donate DEC to WHO over a period of seven years to benefit some 250 million people.
In support of the WHO goals, we expanded our donation to an additional two billion albendazole tablets by 2020 to treat school-age children for intestinal worms which adversely affect children's nutrition and educational attainment.
Research still is needed to find treatments and prevention for NTDs. We have a dedicated drug discovery unit at Tres Cantos in Spain which focuses primarily on malaria and tuberculosis, but also NTDs such as Leishmaniasis, Chagas Disease and Sleeping Sickness. Research decisions at Tres Cantos are prioritised on their socio-economic and public health benefits.
The potential success of innovative teamwork, whether individuals like Matt and Clara or multinational companies, reinforce the need for collaborative approaches to address global health challenges, whether it is one disease at a time or one patient at a time.
Bennett Shapiro
Board Chair, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) North America
When we speak of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), we are actually talking about neglected patients, "the bottom billion" – poor, marginalized, voiceless populations living primarily in the developing world, and for whom access to health care and research and development (R&D) for new medicines are sorely lacking. These "bottom billion" are each afflicted with one or more of the 17 NTDs as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) – diseases that are sometimes fatal and always debilitating.
For some of these NTDs, adequate drugs and health tools do exist, so disease control is primarily a matter of getting these drugs into the field and into the mouths of patients – this is especially true for the handful of NTDs that the US government focuses on through its US Agency for International Development (USAID) NTD Program, which include intestinal-worm diseases such as schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and blindness-causing parasitic diseases including onchocerciasis and trachoma.
However, a dozen other important NTDs are not included in the USAID NTD Program – including the three with the highest death rates: African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis. In advanced stages of disease, untreated patients with these NTDs will die. And current drugs are wanting. They cause harsh side effects, require long treatment durations, and are complicated and difficult to administer in the field, often remote or conflict-ridden, resource-poor areas. In short, proper control of these most-lethal NTDs is extremely challenging without new, adapted treatments.
As part of the solution to address this gap, the not-for-profit R&D organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is working to develop safe, effective, affordable, field-adapted new treatments for these three deadly NTDs, which make up the core of DNDi's disease focus. These are the NTDs being seen in the field by Doctors Without Borders, which conceived of and launched DNDi 10 years ago this year, along with six global public health partners in Kenya, Brazil, India, Malaysia, and France, and at the WHO. DNDi was created to address the market and policy failures in developing new medicines to treat patients infected with these NTDs, most of whom are poor and do not represent a profitable market for traditional pharmaceutical R&D. DNDi's business model is to de-link the cost of R&D from final product price, considering medicines as public goods, and to bring together and coordinate public and private partners – academia, public health institutes, governments, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, non-governmental organizations, and funders – to speed up neglected-disease R&D. DNDi works closely with the pharmaceutical industry to harness their expertise in translating the fruits of the biomedical research revolution into new treatments for historically neglected patients, and pharmaceutical partners of DNDi have been active players in this effort to develop safe and effective therapies.
To bring new drugs to neglected patients, support is needed from the pharmaceutical industry and the other many partners mentioned; however, the full solution for accelerating new drug development for NTDs and other pressing global health needs requires more than just one or even several organizations or companies – more than a piecemeal strategy. The real solution requires a global R&D framework to prioritize, coordinate, and sustainably and innovatively finance new health-tool development for neglected patient needs, including pharmaceutical products. A WHO-led global health "R&D treaty" of this sort is currently being explored, with initial steps including set-up of a R&D "observatory", and review of 22 R&D "demonstration projects" submitted by different countries. However, the jury is still out as to whether these steps will lead to the establishment of a global health R&D framework for essential health.
A recent analysis showed that only 1% of ongoing clinical trials for new drugs and vaccines are directed towards neglected diseases. Filling this nearly empty pipeline must be sped up to save as many lives as possible among the "bottom billion" afflicted by some of the world's most neglected diseases.
Dr. Neeraj Mistry
Managing Director, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases
We are now closer than any other point in history to making neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) the next great success story in public health, thanks in large part to an innovative public-private partnership model that draws on unique competencies of various sectors and organizations.
The pharmaceutical industry has been an indispensable partner in the fight against NTDs through its mass-scale donation of existent drugs to programs around the world. Through this sustained drug supply, many mass drug administration (MDAs) programs have reached a critical threshold of treatment coverage which, when conducted over consecutive years, have placed many countries at the precipice of eliminating some NTDs in different parts of the world. To build on this momentum, most recently, in the 2012 London Declaration, 13 pharmaceutical companies expanded their commitment by pledging 14 billion doses of pills for free by the end of this decade. We now have all of the treatments required to control and eliminate the seven most common NTDs – which account for 95 percent of the global burden – by 2020.
The prevalence of NTDs in the poorest communities across a wide range of countries, including Myanmar, Honduras and Kenya, among others, has required the development of critical public health infrastructure, including innovative supply chains, forecasting and monitoring tools, which have been proven highly effective at scale. India, for example, which accounts for 35 percent of the total global burden of NTDs, recently ran two of the world's largest deworming initiatives: in Bihar, 17 million school-age children in over 67,000 schools received treatment; and in Rajasthan, 16 million children from 90,000 government schools and 70,000 community health centers were targeted.
Still, many other countries must demonstrate the political and funding commitments to build the capacity and logistical processes required to carry out such large-scale and sustainable treatment programs.
Over the past year, we have seen some encouraging signs of progress from regional and national bodies in NTD-endemic regions. Thirty-six African nations have developed multi-year national plans to control and eliminate NTDs by 2020. Also, at WHO's 63rd Regional Committee for Africa, countries adopted a regional strategic plan recommending increased access to treatments, resource mobilization, advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation, surveillance and research. In the past several months, the World Health Assembly, Organization of American States and African Union have all adopted resolutions against NTDs and strengthen efforts to integrate NTD programs into other health sectors.
While endemic countries accelerate their efforts to implement MDA and fund a larger share of their own NTD programs, we also see an opportunity for donor governments to do more. The US and UK governments have invested significant funds, but a $300 million annual funding gap still exists. Governments including Germany and France can play a leadership role in bridging this gap by integrating NTD investments into their existing development programs.
Improved coordination among a variety of partners may be the key to achieving breakthrough results for global NTD efforts. The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank, and with support from the WHO, recently hosted a Development Agency Roundtable attended by representatives from potential donor countries, global development organizations and pharmaceutical companies.
Even as we take the right steps to achieve control and elimination targets by 2020, it is still essential that we plan for the obsolescence of current treatment protocols; the effective tools we have today to combat NTDs will need to evolve to meet drug-resistance challenges that may emerge in the future. In preparation, the pharmaceutical industry once again has stepped-up through innovative PDPs; sharing compound libraries; and are embarking on a bold agenda to replenish the NTD diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine pipeline.
Why, I am often asked, would pharmaceutical companies do this if there isn't market potential for these products?
A former company executive who started one of the drug donation programs has a simple answer that speaks to the industry's moral imperative to combat NTDs: "We had the drug and people needed it, so we just had to get it out there to them!"
And this, I think is the at the heart of the matter – while opting for market-based principles to develop and deliver their products, pharmaceutical companies are essentially working with a purpose to improve the longevity and quality of lives of many people as possible.
Ranjana Smetacek
Director General, OPPI
On 9 September 2013, the Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) was proud to partner with the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations and Global Health Progress to convene a high level meeting of stakeholders who are committed to fighting and eliminating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in India.
Throughout the world, one billion of perhaps the poorest and most marginalized suffer from neglected tropical diseases. Despite making tremendous progress over the past decade, India remains home to nearly one-third of all of those who suffer from NTDs.
When stakeholders gathered in Delhi, we talked about understanding the burden of these diseases. We talked about the need to reach the poor and the marginalized. We talked about the importance of directing research and development capability towards these diseases. But throughout these discussions there was one common recurring thread: collaboration – the need for dialogue and the need for sharing, partnering, and integrating the efforts of all stakeholders.
Our meeting highlighted the many examples of what is possible when government, academia, industry, civil society, donors and patients come together and commit resources, both human and financial. NTDs can be controlled and eliminated – even eradicated – but we need to find a mixture of incentives to unite stakeholders. This includes incentives for companies to discover, research, develop and produce new medicines that treat or prevent theses diseases.
Through a coordinated approach to surveillance, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, India will continue to make progress against NTDs. The effort to tackle these diseases requires, first and foremost, the leadership of the government. It requires health care providers to integrate approaches to preventing and treating NTDs into primary health care delivery in India. It requires the ongoing engagement of civil society to give voice to the needs of the poor and marginalized. It requires the attention of the media to raise public awareness. It requires an environment that supports and rewards the development and marketing of new medicines and diagnostics.
Recognizing that meaningful progress requires the dedication and support of so many stakeholders even patients themselves to inject a sense of urgency. For 300 million Indians suffering from neglected diseases delay is not an option.
As the report from our meeting highlights: "NTDs can be controlled and eliminated. The stakes are too high for failure and the lives and futures of millions of people depend on the decisions and actions we take in the coming months and years."


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Attack Ad Targets Romney's Marriott Role
The Obama campaign Thursday released another TV ad suggesting that rival Mitt Romney may not have paid any income taxes at all in prior years, the latest in a relentless campaign centered on his refusal to release more than two years of tax returns. And it adds a fresh element, highlighting his role on the audit committee at Marriott International Inc., a period during which the company used improper tax strategies.
The Romney campaign didn't respond to the accusations, but called the ad a "dishonorable and dishonest attack."
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There is no evidence that Mr. Romney paid no personal taxes, and his campaign has said there was no year in which he paid nothing. But by declining to release additional years, Mr. Romney has given Democrats an opening to speculate, and they are plowing through it.
The new ad begins with video from a ABC News interview in which Mr. Romney is asked if there is any year in which he paid less than 13.9%, his effective tax rate in 2010. Mr. Romney replies that he hasn't calculated that but is "happy to go back and look."
The ad then asks, "Did Romney pay 10% in taxes? 5%? Zero? We don't know."
It then segues to the Marriott issue. Without naming the hotel chain, the ad refers to the fact that when Mr. Romney was on the Marriott board, the company repeatedly used complex tax-avoidance maneuvers, including one tax shelter that was ultimately knocked down in court, according to a report by Bloomberg News in February. During those years, Mr. Romney was head of the audit committee for the company. The matter was revived this week in an op-ed piece posted on CNN.com.
The new Obama ad charges, "Romney personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the IRS as part of the notorious 'Son of Boss' tax scandal. One of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history."
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg replied by saying the ad was beneath Mr. Obama's ideals.
"In 2008, candidate Obama said 'you make a big election about small things' when you don't have a record to run on. Since President Obama can't run on record unemployment, falling incomes, and massive debt, he has decided to run a dirty campaign that is an affront to everything he claims to stand for," she said.
She didn't reply to a request seeking comment on Mr. Romney's role in the Marriott tax strategy. As for his personal taxes, Mr. Romney has released his 2010 return and says he will release 2011 returns when they are ready. But he says he won't release other years because that would only provide fodder for more Democratic attacks.


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Wednesday, 01/27/1993
KD Churchill's, Burlington, VT
Set 1: Help Yourself, Zero, Gun, Lets Go Dancing[1] > Jam[2] > Dimension Extension[1], Tone Clone[3]
Encore: Fire
[1] With Mike.
[2] Bass jam with Mike.
[3] With Mike and Fish.
Notes: Mike, introduced as a "special guest from a band called Tuna," joined in from "Let's Go Dancing" through "Tone Clone." Fish came out during "Tone Clone" and read a James Joyce selection about hell, after which Mike took a bass solo, and the musicians reprised the song.
Musicians: Jon Fishman (Guest), Mike Gordon (Guest)
Ritz Power Jam,
Friday, 02/05/1993
The Ritz, New York, NY
Set 1: Back at the Chicken Shack > Born Under a Bad Sign, Let It Rock, Improv Blues in 'G', She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride, Down the Road, A Mess of Blues, Little Wing, Day Tripper, Escaping, Hey Joe
Set 2: Hip Hug-Her, Rock Me Baby, In the Wee Wee Hours, Red House, Yonder Wall, She Belongs To Me, Not Fade Away, That's Heaven to Me, Just Before the Bullets Fly, I've Been Loving You Too Long, Spanish Moon[1], All Along the Watchtower[2]
Encore: Gloria[3]
[1] With Trey.
[2] With Trey, Dave Matthews, Leroi Moore and Boyd Tinsley.
[3] With Trey and Mike.
Notes: This ad hoc grouping was billed as The Ritz Power Jam. "Red House" and "Yonder Wall" featured Dave Tronzo on slide guitar. "Spanish Moon" featured Trey on guitar, vocals, and keyboards. "All Along the Watchtower" also saw Dave Matthews, Leroi Moore andBoyd Tinsley join the action while Trey, Dave, and Popper traded vocals. The "Gloria" encore, sung by Popper, featured Trey on guitar and Mike on bass. Phish had performed earlier in the evening at the Roseland Ballroom.
Musicians: John Popper, Noel Redding, Warren Haynes, Chuck Leavell, Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson, Marc Quiñones, Leland Sklar, Bernie Worrell, Jerome Brailey, Trey Anastasio (Guest), Mike Gordon (Guest), Boyd Tinsley (Guest), LeRoi Moore (Guest), Dave Matthews (Guest)
Saturday, 02/06/1993
The Wetlands Preserve, New York, NY
Set 1: Dimension Extension[1], Zero, Give it Up, Tone Clone[2], I Get High, Big Chief, Underground People, Confessions of a Man
Encore: Fire
[1] With Fish on vacuum.
[2] With Fish on drums.
Notes: "Dimension Extension" featured Fish on vacuum, while "Tone Clone" featured Fish on drums and a reading from Sun Ra's Book of Information. Phish had performed earlier in the evening uptown at the Roseland Ballroom, and had also covered Hendrix's "Fire" as their encore.
Musicians: Jon Fishman (Guest)
Late Night Jam Session,
Saturday, 04/17/1993
Private Home, Ann Arbor, MI
Notes: This private party and jam session included two bass players, three guitar players, two drummers, percussion and keyboards. There was a rotation of performers throughout the night, including Mike on bass and Fish on drums, and members of local bands Deep Space Six and Uncle Chunk. The only known song performed was the Sanford and Son theme. No known recording exists. Phish had performed earlier in the evening at the Michigan Theatre.
Musicians: Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Blues Traveler,
Sunday, 05/30/1993
Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, CA
Set 1: Sweet Talking Hippie, Save His Soul, Defense and Desire, Mulling It Over, Support Your Local Emperor, Whoops, Gina, 100 Years > Sweet Pain, Brother John, Mountain Cry[1]
Encore: Gloria[2]
[1] With Page.
[2] With Trey, Page and Todd Park Mohr.
Notes: This performance was part of the "Laguna Seca Daze" festival that also featured Phish. "Mountain Cry" featured Page on keyboards, while the "Gloria" encore saw Page, Trey and Todd Park Mohr of Big Head Todd and the Monsters join in.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio (Guest), Page McConnell (Guest)
Anastasio, Gordon & Masefield,
Tuesday, 06/08/1993
WVPS Studios, Burlington, VT
Notes: This performance for Vermont Public Radio featured Trey on guitar, Mike on bass and Jamie Masefield on mandolins. There is no known setlist or circulating recording.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Jamie Masefield
Jazz Mandolin Project,
Thursday, 06/10/1993
Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, VT
Set 1: Scrapple from the Apple, Jump Monk, Tree Fist, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Magilla, Kitty Litter Blues, Caravan, I Saw the Light[1], Alabama Jubilee[1], Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul[1], Take the 'A' Train
[1] Shane Brodie on guitar and vocals.
Notes: "Tree Fist" featured chords and lyrics improvised by the audience. "Kitty Litter Blues" was also improvised and featured Anne Weiss on vocals. "I Saw the Light," "Alabama Jubilee," and "Better Get It In Yo' Soul" featured Shane Brodie on guitar and vocals. This is the first public performance billed as Jazz Mandolin Project.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Jamie Masefield, Shane Brodie (Guest), Anne Weiss (Guest)
National Guitar Summit Workshop Jam Session,
Monday, 07/05/1993
Canterbury School, New Milford, CT
Set 1: Caravan, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Magilla, One Way Out, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Rock Me Baby, Shakey Ground, Jump Monk, St. Thomas
Notes: This performance was part of the National Guitar Summit Workshop. Trey conducted a guitar seminar and played in the ensuing jam session.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio
Jazz Mandolin Project,
Friday, 07/09/1993
J C's Jazz Club, Plattsburgh, NY
Set 1: C Jam Blues, Magilla, Caravan, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Billie's Bounce
Set 2: The Country Open, Donna Lee, On Green Dolphin Street, Jump Monk
Notes: This setlist may be incomplete.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Jamie Masefield, Noel Sagerman, Justin Rose
J.J. Cale,
Saturday, 08/28/1993
William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
Set 1: After Midnight[1]
[1] With Trey and Mike.
Notes: Trey and Mike sat on "After Midnight" during J.J. Cale's set opening for Phish.
Musicians: J.J. Cale, Trey Anastasio (Guest), Mike Gordon (Guest)
Jazz Mandolin Project,
Friday, 09/03/1993
J C's Jazz Club, Plattsburgh, NY
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Stacy Starkweather, Jamie Masefield, Noel Sagerman
Widespread Panic,
Thursday, 11/11/1993
The Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Set 1: Pleas, Space Wrangler > Henry Parsons Died > Travelin' Light, Diner > Pilgrims, Hatfield, Walkin' > Holden Oversoul, Love Tractor
Set 2: The Take Out > Porch Song, Can't Get High, Worry, Makes Sense To Me, Little Kin, Chilly Water, Fishwater, Pickin' Up The Pieces, Heroes, Mercy, Wondering, Mr. Soul
Encore: Get Up Early In The Morning[1], The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys[2] -> Time is Free Jam[2] -> The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys[2]
[1] With Trey and T. Lavitz; "Tipitina" quotes.
[2] With Trey and Page.
Notes: Trey sat in on guitar for the entire encore. "Get Up Early In The Morning" featured T. Lavitz on piano; the remainder of the encore featured Page on piano. "Get Up Early in the Morning" contained "Tipitina" (Professor Longhair) quotes.
Musicians: Dave Schools, John Bell, Todd Nance, Michael Houser, John "JoJo" Hermann, Domingo S. Ortiz, Trey Anastasio (Guest), Page McConnell (Guest)


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With their last movies bombing at the box office, there was doubt Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger would go through with their plans to make a prison-break film called "The Tomb" together.
Fear not, fans of aging beefcake action heroes. "The Tomb" will land at a cineplex near you in September. Only now it's called "Escape Plan." Maybe the last title hit a little too close to home.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stallone will play a brilliant -- no, really -- prison architect who has to break out of the world's toughest prison with Schwarzenegger. The film will also feature Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Sam Neill, and Vinnie Jones.
"Escape Plan" will hit theaters Sept. 13.
DAVID LETTERMAN ASKS LINDSAY LOHAN TOUGH QUESTIONS: David Letterman grilled Lindsay Lohan on Tuesday night. And she held up pretty well.
The troubled star appeared on CBS' "Late Show" on Tuesday.
"I was here early--so you do owe Paul," Lohan said, implying Letterman bet bandleader Paul Shaffer that she would be late, according to E! News.
After reading a few fake news stories, such as, "Lindsay Lohan was on the 'Today' show this morning. The appearance went well, only one camera is missing," Letterman asked, point-blank, "Yes or no, do you steal stuff?"
"Do you?" she fired back. "Do you steal your cups?"
"No, those are complimentary," he said.
When Letterman asked "shouldn't you be in rehab?" the actress said, "Do you not watch anything that goes on? May 2."
"We didn't discuss this in the pre-interview, just saying..." Lohan said, when Letterman asked what she was going to rehab for.
"To be honest," she said, "I'm the healthiest when I'm working, and the happiest. And I think this is an opportunity for me to focus on what I love in life. I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it's a blessing, not a curse."
Lohan deflects questions really well. She should be a politician. I mean, they steal too.
Asked whether she drinks too much, Lohan smirked and said, "We've discussed this in the past."
Letterman also asked whether pal Charlie Sheen, whom she met shooting "Scary Movie 5" and recently worked with on his television show "Anger Management," really loaned her money.
"That's something you'd have to ask Charlie," she said.
Lohan then took a look at the questions Letterman prepared for her.
"I thought you were going to be nice!" Lohan said, laughing, while perusing questions like whether she had any money saved and whether she ever asks herself, "Why always in trouble?"
"I don't know, I couldn't answer that," she said. "I'm a target, I've always been, and I've put myself in the past in situations where, you know, I take full responsibility for it. And it wasn't funny, and I was being immature and I was going through a phase. And I had a lot of family stuff going on and things in life.
"And you grow up, you mature -- and I've said that a million times, I know that. But what else am I supposed to say when it's a process of life? And I'm not trying to deny anything, any situation that I've been in."
Of course not.
As for the 90 days of so-called locked rehab she enters in a few weeks, Lohan said, "I've gone through a lot in life and I'm actually looking forward to taking time for me -- you can't make a joke of it, that's so mean!"
"Not even one or two?" Letterman asked.
"No, this is my show now!" she said. "I'm going to come back from rehab and take over your spot."
Letterman praised Lohan for being able to laugh at herself. He also said he never thought she'd come back to his show after all the jokes he's told over the years.
"You have enough spine, enough poise, enough sense of yourself to come out here and talk to me," Letterman said, causing her to tear up near the end of the interview.
ALEC BALDWIN MAY ENTER LATE NIGHT GAME: Alec Baldwin may get a late night talk show.
NBC is considering having Baldwin take over Carson Daly's 1:35 a.m. slot five nights a week, according to Deadline.com.
That's incredible. I mean ... Carson Daly is still alive?
Daly has apparently hosted "Last Call" for the past 12 years. And it seems that NBC thinks more sleep-deprived people would rather watch Alec Baldwin than Carson Daly.
Wow. Still alive ...
Anyway, the former "30 Rock" star currently hosts a podcast called "Here's the Thing," during which he visits the homes and dressing rooms and other celebrities.
NBC is shaking up its late night lineup, having Jimmy Fallon take over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno next year. Reports say the network is considering moving Seth Meyers from "Saturday Night Live" to Fallon's "Late Night" show.
A source close to NBC disputed the Deadline.com report, according to the New York Post.
MTV CANCELS 'BUCKWILD': MTV has decided to cancel reality show "Buckwild" following Shain Gandee death by carbon monoxide poisoning,
A spokesman for MTV told TMZ, "Given Shain's tragic passing and essential presence on the show, we felt it was not appropriate to continue without him. Instead, we are working on a meaningful way to pay tribute to his memory on-air and privately."
Gandee was found dead April 1 in his vehicle, along with his uncle and a friend, while going off-roading, or "mudding," in West Virginia. The truck's tailpipe became submerged in mud, and fumes backed up into the truck's cab.
Production on the show was immediately suspended and the reality series -- which focused on mudding and partying -- was in the middle of shooting the second season.
Buckwild averaged more than 3 million viewers in its first season and was one of the highest-rated shows on MTV.
The show has encountered other issues since debuting in January. Cast member Salwa Amin was arrested on suspicion of drug possession and her cast mate Michael Burford was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
TMZ reported that four of the second season episodes were shot, but will not air. However, a special taped two months ago is expected to be shown.
MTV said this weekend it will show a "day of programming dedicated to Shain in which we will air the entire first season of 'Buckwild'."
MIRANDA KERR NO LONGER AN ANGEL: Miranda Kerr will no longer be a Victoria's Secret angel.
This is a dark day for America.
Citing multiple sources, Us Weekly reported that 30-year-old Kerr is being let go as a Victoria's Secret angel after her $1 million, three-year contract "was not renewed."
Sources told the website Kerr is being let go because she "has a difficult reputation" and is no longer a big seller.
This is an outrage. Thank goodness for the Internet, where pictures last forever.
The Australian model is married to actor Orlando Bloom, with whom she has a 2-year-old boy, Flynn. The source said Kerr no longer sells as well as other angels, like Candice Swanepoel and Alessandra Ambrosio.
"They can still use her for catalog, where she will get a day rate, but she doesn't have to be an angel to do that," the first source said.
Executives from Victoria's Secret wouldn't deny that the contract has not been renewed, but chief marketing officer Ed Razek told Us that he has already invited Kerr to walk in the 2013 show.
"We have no plans to stop working with her," he said.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.
Thursday is April 11, the 101st day of 2013. There are 264 days left in the year.
1689: William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession.
1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as Emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba.
1913: Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, during a meeting of President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, proposed gradually segregating whites and blacks who worked for the Railway Mail Service, a policy which went into effect and spread to other agencies.
1921: Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax, at 2 cents a package.
1945: During World War II, American soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
1951: President Harry S. Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.
1953: Oveta Culp Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
1970: Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon.
1979: Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
1983: At the Academy Awards, "Gandhi" was named best picture; its star, Ben Kingsley, won best actor while Meryl Streep received the best actress Oscar for "Sophie's Choice."
1988: "The Last Emperor" won best picture at the Academy Awards ceremony; Cher won best actress for "Moonstruck," Michael Douglas best actor for "Wall Street."
2003: Ten of the main suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole escaped from prison in Yemen. American troops took the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight. In Cuba, three men convicted of hijacking a passenger ferry the previous week were executed by firing squad, a swift response by Fidel Castro's government to a recent string of hijackings to the United States.
2012: George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A California prison panel denied parole to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and probably final bid for freedom. A University of California task force said that UC Davis police should not have used pepper-spray on student demonstrators in an incident that prompted national outrage. Algeria's first president, Ahmed Ben Bella, 95, died in Algiers.
Ethel Kennedy (85), actor Joel Grey (81), actor Peter Riegert (66), singer Lisa Stansfield (47), rock musician Dylan Keefe (Marcy Playground) (43), rapper David Banner (39), singer Joss Stone (26), actress-dancer Kaitlyn Jenkins (TV: "Bunheads") (21).
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Definition of monument in English:
- After his death, the Athenians honored his memory with a statue, and a monument to him was erected in his own country.
- They begin with the proposal to erect a monument to a famous figure.
- A dream of erecting a monument to the Battle of Britain is now one step closer after fundraisers hit the halfway mark £600,000.
- They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
- The late sculptor James McKenna was hailed as one of the best sculptors of the millennium at the unveiling of a monument at his grave in Newbridge last week.
- 'There have been some times in the past when people have damaged graves and monuments, but this hasn't happened recently,' he said.
- Historical monuments, sites and buildings also came under the scrutinising eye of the engineers preparing the draft plan.
- But Zambia offers other attractions like wildlife, a rich cultural heritage and its people, historical sites and monuments.
- Our individual histories reside in monuments and sites; our collective histories reside in places where we live together.
- Like an old stone barn with hand-hewn beams, they were built to last, enduring monuments to craftsmanship and common sense.
- Pat also contributed his expertise voluntarily over the years and the designs of the buildings are a monument to his skill.
- The building was a monument to gloomy Edwardian luxury, with a hallway of marble and panelled wood.
Middle English (denoting a burial place): via French from Latin monumentum, from monere 'remind'.
monitor from early 16th century:
Today's familiar uses of monitor, for a computer or TV screen or for checking the progress or quality of something, date only from the mid 20th century. A much earlier sense was 'a reminder or warning', reflecting its origin in Latin monere 'to warn', the source also of admonish (Middle English), monster (Late Middle English), and monument (Middle English). A monitor lizard is a large tropical lizard, in Australia also called a goanna (a L19th corruption of iguana), whose name derives from the way its reactions can warn people of the presence of a venomous creature. In schools from the 16th century a monitor was a pupil with responsibility for supervising and disciplining other pupils, who in the past might have done some teaching.
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Welcome and congratulations on your engagement! You are about to embark on planning the most meaningful and creative part of your celebration - your wedding ceremony.
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Barnstable is a red town, but each vote for Ed Markey was added to the total that gave him a double-digit win.
Pundits are analyzing, calling Markey an incumbent. He wasn't an incumbent anywhere but his own congressional district.
Comments like; "the machine pushed him over the edge…" "Scott Brown – Coakley turn-out vs today's turnout," the heat, the Bruins, schools out …. blah blah blah – every election has its own circumstances. Democrats don't fall in line, swear to a pledge or do as they are told. That's what makes us Democrats.
And MA relies heavily on the swing vote provided by unenrolled voters. We all did our part, from knocking on doors and making calls to contacting our own personal lists of friends family and neighbors to just getting to the polls and voting. The mid-Cape is red, that has wavered and wiggled just a little bit over the years. But when we move among the voters and have honest discussions we get results. Even though there are months until the next elections we need to keep talking about the issues, national and local.
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Thanks to the increasing availability of giant LED screens, the Golden Age of Neon has quietly faded in Las Vegas. For decades casinos defined their visual identity with colorful neon signs and competed for the most innovative signage. But with casinos closing, being refurbished and the arrival of new lighting technology a lot of neon signs were replaced, and for many years the Young Electric Sign Company kept the old neon signs in their "boneyard" for storage and recycling. Fortunately historic preservation groups rescued these signs. With support of the arts council The Neon Museum was born to save neon treasures and to educate the public.
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DU, NFWF meet to discuss Gulf Coast restoration
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) met with Ducks Unlimited staff in Port Arthur, Texas, in late July to discuss DU's
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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department hosted the meeting, assisted with a field tour and provided an overview of wetlands restoration opportunities in
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Oliver O'Grady will face an Irish judge Friday, this time after reportedly being found with thousands of computer images and videos of child pornography.
This is but the latest run-in with the law for the defrocked priest, a notorious pedophile imprisoned in the United States on a 1994 conviction for molesting two boys.
There were countless other victims.
In 2000, he was deported to his native Ireland, although through the years he has disappeared several times.
In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, O'Grady was a priest in Lodi, Stockton and San Andreas, moved from parish to parish for years, always one step ahead of discovery. That ended when his victims started coming forward.
In 2006, O'Grady was the subject of an award-winning documentary, "Deliver Us From Evil," in which by his own words O'Grady is utterly without remorse.
That he has not changed should surprise no one. That he remains free - out on bail today and not under a court order to stay away from children - defies explanation. He remains a clear, present and immediate danger to any youngster who crosses his path.
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Something awful lurks at the fringe of human awareness, dead gods that stir in their slumber, other worlds that press in against our own. A struggle over the fates of men is raging, and you are at its heart. Take command of brave but desperate human investigators or the monstrous and depraved servants of the Ancient Ones!
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Call of Cthulhu
Nate French
Eric M. Lang
The first thing I must say is that I am a fan of the literature of H.P. Lovecraft. So much so that being in New England I have visited the sites of several of his stories. I think every student of literature should read the opening paragraphs of the Call of Cthulhu. I don't agree with his outlook on reality, but his ability to write prose is genius.
I am also a gamer, there are many CCG products with a good theme, but horrible game mechanics. On top of this many CCG products are money pits which keep card store owners smiling, but are limited in who you can play with.
As a former fan of the COC CCG I remember the lack of attention given to this game. If you go on You Tube you can still see the "Demonstration Game" played with someone with a black robe and another guy. Not only was this of little help understanding the game, it was almost spoofing the game itself.
When Fantasy Flight released three games in the LCG format, they made the best core sets I've seen. The directions are no longer little inserts folded into a pack of cards. There is a mounted play board, neat Cthulhu tokens to use to drain your resources. Excellent video tutorials, and individual web pages and support.
You truly can buy the Core set, organize interesting decks and play some balanced games from the start.
The mechanics of the game are well done, but they require some getting used to. You must build resources,sacrificing some of your cards and battle for "Story" cards. At the same time play tactics and special abilities. Characters from Lovecraft's stories and quotes from the stories themselves add to the excellent artwork on the cards.
The rulebook does a good job in explaining this. Deckbuilding is made simple by asking newbies to shuffle two factions together and add some neutral cards. As you gain experience you can go online for tips.
My beginning question was regarding if this game made sense to buy in these times. If you were thinking of getting into a customizable card game genre, the LCG are really the way to go.
I have played Warhammer: Invasion, it's a lot of fun. If you are familiar with the Warhammer universe, that might be your first choice. I have not played the Game of Thrones LCG so I can't give a yeah or neah on it. The Call of Cthulhu is a great game which can make the genre affordable. (You can still go nuts and get every expansion pack under the sun if you want to die a pauper like Lovecraft himself, but it isn't required.)
Now I'll let you know my devious plot. The hardest thing in CCG is getting someone to play outside the confines of the FLGS. Well, I gave the core game to some family members as gifts. I have a good supply of partners who without intervention by a van of deprogrammers have been bit by the Cthulhu Mythos and are a phone call away.
This is a fun and challenging game you should consider.


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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
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They looked at him so long and so closely that Pelayo and Elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar. Then they dared speak to him, and he answered in an incomprehensible dialect with a strong sailor's voice. (2)
So close—Pelayo and Elisenda are just about to accept the angel when he speaks. And, unfortunately for him, it's not Spanish. If he'd just invested in some Rosetta Stone lessons, maybe Pelayo and Elisenda would have been a lot kinder to him.
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That was how they skipped over the inconvenience of the wings and quite intelligently concluded that he was a lonely castaway from some foreign ship wrecked by the storm. (2)
Languages define communities. The way that the angel speaks is more important than the fact that he has wings for explaining where he comes from. Don't believe us? Think about the way your parents have to use UrbanDictionary.com to figure out what your community is talking about.
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Then they felt magnanimous and decided to put the angel on a raft with fresh water and provisions for three days and leave him to his fate on the high seas. (4)
Because the angel comes from elsewhere, the most sensible solution that Pelayo and Elisenda can come up with is just setting him loose on the seas. Seriously, this is the best they can do.


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To understand the mystery behind Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 we first need to step back in time to remind ourselves of the war that nearly was between Syria and the USA (plus allies). For a while, it looked like an "intervention" in the Arab nation was slam dunk until the British parliament voted against supporting the USA in this endeavour.
This was not as it seemed. The vote against was close; 285 to 272, with several members of the ruling coalition defying party lines and voting against the government….. as secretly requested by the US President via the CIA. The numbers of rebels needed to be significant to make the rebellion look credible.
But why did the USA request David Cameron to "throw" the vote? Because the imperative to invade Syria had passed; the prize had moved out of her borders.
The Prize
For decades now, Syria's ally, Russia, had been using the Syrian desert to the west of the Euphrates as a military laboratory location with the critically important attribute of being "plausibly deniable". Some of the breakthroughs made there had been low-level; the discreet delivery mechanism used to poison Alexander Litvinenko with polonium-210, for example. In recent years, the scientists had been setting their ambitions at a higher and more global scale. The rumours on "the grid" have been sketchy at what exactly had been developed, outlandish descriptions of space technology with nascent "terra-forming" qualities, through DNA-specific weapons and other similar Sci-Fi dreams have been murmured. But probably the most likely, given Russia's reliance on allies for her energy security, is a breakthrough in the generation of non-fossil fuel energy.
What we do know from the exponential increase in traffic, both physical and communications, between Moscow and Damascus is that a significant discovery or invention had occurred.
"Eyes on the Prize"
This activity had not gone unnoticed by the USA and China, both of whom could neither afford to be left behind in the global energy race nor allow a potentially hostile country to overtake them . The country with cheapest and most abundant energy source "wins" in global economic and influence terms. China acted first.
Using the ongoing civil war in Syria as cover, Chinese special forces staged an audacious attack on the well-guarded facility, abducting the dozen or so key Russian scientists and disposing of the remainder. The research facility was destroyed.
The intelligence received by the CIA following this incursion resulted in the request for the UK government to deliberately lose the planned vote to enter Syria.
The CIA then launched an aggressive manhunt to capture the missing scientists and eliminate their Chinese hosts. The US aircraft carrier Nimitz enforced an unofficial no-fly zone over Syrian airspace during this period to ensure a direct escape to China was impossible.
In the meantime, the loss of technology directly influenced Putin's decision to annex The Crimea.
Unable to fly from Syrian airspace, the Chinese made their exit overland through Iraq and into Saudi Arabia.
Under the guise of being a returning party of Haj pilgrims, the group boarded a chartered flight to Kuala Lumpur, a "soft route" back home to Beijing.
The Switcheroo
With significantly better intelligence than was gathered at the start of the exercise, the CIA tracked the team from their ally, Saudi Arabia. With hours to spare, a replica Malaysian Airlines 777 was switched for the plane which, on its next flight, would be used for the MH370 Kuala Lumpur to Beijing route. Modifications were made to enable mid-air refuelling and to allow a Navy Seals team to hide within the cargo hold.
The escaping party and their heavily sedated prisoners boarded the chartered flight unaware that it was 100% crewed by CIA operatives. Following take off, the plane ascending rapidly to above the normal operating ceiling for 777s, cabin pressure was slowly reduced until narcosis was induced. Navy Seals with oxygen masks then administered oxygen to the Russian scientists and civilians The Chinese special forces were left to slip into a coma and were restrained. Cabin pressure was returned.
The flight was then refuelled and, after ensuring all transponders were disabled, flown beneath the radar to assume a direct course for a secret CIA offshore processing centre, still in use from the Extraordinary Rendition programme.
Occam's Razor
If you are friends or family of those missing on flight MH370 and you have just read the above, I apologise. Your loved ones are dead. They died either through an aviation accident or a malicious act.
They are not sitting on a Maldives beach.
The speculation by those motivated to sell newspapers and advertising space is vulgar.
Rest in Peace.


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THE PLAINS - Head coach Jerry Close and his Waterford Lady Wildcats are no strangers to sectional championship contests.
Saturday at Athens High, the Wildcats made their 10th consecutive sectional championship appearance and for the 10th straight time became champions as they easily handled the Symmes Valley Lady Vikings, 51-24.
"I was very proud of our team effort today," said Close, in his eighth year as Wildcat head coach. "We've been working on some different things and the girls responded pretty well right from the start today."
The Lady Cats scored early and often as four different players scored points in the games first four minutes.
Hannah Dailey and Taylor Hilverding got things started with inside scores for Waterford and a triple by freshman Dani Drayer made it a 7-0 game.
Chelsey Paxton came up with back-to-back field goals on assists from Hannah Dailey and Brooke Drayer to make it an 11-0 game and forced Symmes Valley into an early time out.
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Waterford 51, Symmes Valley 24
Symmes Valley 6 12 2 4 24
Waterford 21 20 2 8 51
Merranda Davis 1-3 1-2 3, Gracie Waddell 0-2 2-4 2, Kayla Hayes 1-3 1-2 3, Kalli Hunt 2-4 4-8 8, Megan Johnson 3-6 0-0 6, Kaitlyn Payne 1-3 0-0 2, Taylor Michael 0-4 0-0 0, Totals: 8-25 8-16 24.
Sam Farley 1-1 0-0 2, Hannah Dailey 2-5 1-2 5, Taylor Hilverding 1-3 0-0 2, Chelsey Paxton 5-6 0-1 10, Brooke Drayer 4-10 3-3 12, Dani Drayer 4-9 0-0 10, Randee Seevers 1-1 2-2 4, Regan Porter 1-3 0-1 2, Cassie Reed 0-0 2-2 2, Lakyn Tolson 0-0 2-2 2, Totals: 19-38 10-13 51.
Symmes Valley: Shooting: 8-25 (32 percent), Three-Point Shooting: 0-0, Rebounds: 12 (Hayes 3, Hunt 3), Assists: 4 (Hayes 2), Turnovers: 27, Steals: 6 (Davis 2), Team Fouls: 11.
Waterford: Shooting: 19-38 (50 percent), Three-Point Shooting: 3-6 (50 percent), (D. Drayer 2, B. Drayer 1), Rebounds: 24 (Hilverding 4, Paxton 4, B. Drayer 4), Assists: 10 (B. Drayer 5), Turnovers: 16, Steals: 20 (B. Drayer 8, D. Drayer 5), Team Fouls: 6.
Next game: Waterford vs. Portsmouth Clay in district semi at Jackson 1:45 p.m. Saturday
Waterford played outstanding defense from the start as they forced 11 first -quarter Lady Viking turnovers and limited Symmes Valley to zero shot attempts in the games first three minutes.
SV finally got on the board on Megan Johnson's field goal, but the Lady Cats outscored their opponent 10-4 the rest of the quarter to take a 21-6 lead after the first eight minutes of play.
Dani Drayer connected from behind the arc to open the second quarter for WHS but the Vikings got consecutive baskets by Kalli Hunt, Johnson and Kaitlyn Payne to trim the lead to 25-11.
Dailey scored on a rebound and a putback, and Brooke Drayer followed on an old-fashioned three-point play to push the lead back to 19.
Field goals by Hunt and Johnson sandwiched another Dani Drayer score before back-to-back-to-back scores by the Drayer sisters and Sam Farley capped a 14-4 run that increased the Waterford lead to 39-15.
A pair of freebies by Hunt and a single free-throw by Merranda Hayes trimmed the lead to 21 before Paxton scored the final deuce of the half on a nice assist from Brooke Drayer.
Waterford dominated the Vikings in every aspect in the opening half as they forced 21 turnovers, outrebounded SV by a 14-12 margin, and shot 51 percent (17-33) from the field while limiting the Vikings to just 15 shot attempts.
With the comfortable lead, Close and his girls elected to run a very patient offense in the third quarter as WHS ran off almost five minutes before even attempting a second half shot.
Finally with 3:19 to play in the third, Brooke Drayer drove uncontested to the hoop to increase the lead to 43-18.
After Hayes scored the lone Viking basket of the third quarter, the Wildcats held the ball the rest of the way to end a third quarter that saw just three shot attempts between the two schools combined.
"We have had a little trouble with patience all season," said Close of the third quarter. "I told them to take care of the basketball and don't turn it over and if it's not a sure thing kick it back out and start it over again."
Waterford continued to work the ball around in the final quarter as they outscored Symmes Valley by a modest 8-4 to close out the victory.
Brooke Drayer paced the Wildcats with 12 points, while also totaling eight steals, five assists, and four rebounds. Dani Drayer and Paxton both reached double figures with 10 points apiece.
Hunt's eight points paced the Lady Vikings who finished the season with a 10-13 record.
Next up for Waterford (17-6) is a district semifinal at 1:45 p.m. Saturday against Portsmouth Clay at Jackson High. "We saw them (Portsmouth Clay) last season in the district semifinals so we will have some film on them," said Close. "It's a good team that we are somewhat familiar with, just with different personnel."


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An epigram is a concisely written thought that deals pointedly, and often satirically, with a single event or idea and often ends with an ingenious turn of phrase.
B.J. Palmer, the Developer of chiropractic, excelled in writing and collecting epigrams. His collection of epigrams, titled "As a Man Thinketh", comprises thousands he wrote or collected throughout his life. More than three thousand of these epigrams appeared inside and outside the buildings on the Palmer School of Chiropractic campus.
B.J. said he selected these epigrams for their "brevity, pungency, positiveness and having something to say." They were designed to influence Palmer student, staff and faculty attitudes, although many had no specific reference to chiropractic.
Selected epigrams are either being restored or newly affixed to walls and woodwork on the Davenport Campus, including the Hall of Epigrams leading to the Mansion Courtyard from West Hall Courtyard. In addition, the West Campus has decorated its hallways with many of the epigrams that B.J. Palmer made famous. They have also been added to the classrooms on the Florida Campus. Pearls of wisdom, as relevant to today's students as they were to students of that earlier age, are displayed, often in the distinctive "Arts and Crafts" font that B.J. admired.
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Today's guest blog post was submitted by U.S. Army Col. (Ret.) Charles D. Adams.
This past week, I returned to Fort Benning, Georgia 35 years after graduating from Airborne training in August 1977. As I expected, there were big changes on post. That became clear as I-185 South led to the majestic overpass with Iron Mike and Trooper of the Plains extending their greetings to the Maneuver Center of Excellence. In 2010, the Armor School collocated with the Infantry School as part of the Army realignment effort.
As I made the drive on post and found the location for my presentation, it was evident that elements of old Fort Benning endured. In the background stood two of the original 250-foot towers that I had to experience prior to making my first parachute jump (I did not fall) from an airplane. Signs on post pointed to Sand Hill and Harmony Church where I did my Ranger training in 1976. The towers and signs not only brought back memories but also invoked somewhat forgotten feelings–anxiousness, challenge, camaraderie, accomplishment, and pride–of earning Airborne Wings and Ranger Tab.
During the professional development session to the cadre of the Infantry school brigade, I spoke about artifacts of Organization Culture that symbolically represent the shared values of its members. Statues like Mike and Trooper, unit crests and division patches with descriptions of heraldry, and posters of Soldier executing tough training were ubiquitous and tacitly illustrated what the Army expected of its members.
Once again serendipity struck and I stayed for kick-off of the post's first annual Black and Gold scrimmage. That event ostensibly showcased the West Point cadets on the field who represent the great potential of officer leadership in the coming decades.
While merely a scrimmage, it was clear that players on both teams were striving to do their very best to honor those in the stands–the new recruits in training, cadre and serving members with their family, and veterans now out of uniform.
The words of General Douglas MacArthur were fitting. "On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory."
The pre-game ceremony honored five men who risked all and sacrificed self for their men and nation. Recipients of the Medal of Honor, Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and Purple Heart, they are exemplars of the Army value of Duty. Throughout the Army, these men are legendary in not only how they served in combat, but also what they did afterwards. The two contemporary honorees, one a double amputee and the other blind, continue to serve as Army officers in positions of responsibility.
The legacy of these professionals from Korea, Vietnam, and current conflicts also provide the artifacts of our Army Strong culture—things we need to embrace and hold on to—that represent our shared beliefs and values. I am certain seeing the heroes of the past and watching the leaders of the future made an impression on the students in both Armor and Infantry training units.
It is the senior leaders of our Army and the leaders in the ranks who will align our espoused values with actions to refine and strengthen the Army Culture. I am reminded of the 36th Inf Regt Motto, "Deeds, Not Words." That is the essence of Duty.


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Most of our alumni work directly with individuals, groups, and families in need, or provide the leadership that makes such professional work possible and effective. Alumni are encouraged to attend events on campus, help the Silver School recruit the finest prospective students, help our students and each other in their careers, provide leadership and support for the School's goals, and to be active and engaged members of the NYU Silver School of Social Work "family."
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