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Reviewed: 22 March 2016 by Techdave84, a Bisexual Married Male
Firstly, I really have enjoyed this cage!
Like many of the reviews, it took a little while to work out getting it on, but once the method had been worked out it is easy.
Personally, I found it quite comfortable to wear throughout the day (when flaccid) but small enough that when those moments did happen, restraint and reminder occurred.
Much to mistresses dismay, we found that I could get this on and off while it was still locked up even though I'm not exactly small.
Overall, this meant that it was quite good for me to wear for a day, knowing that if I needed to get it off in an emergency I could, and it took willpower to not remove it when I wanted to.
This would be good for men wanting to try cages for the first time or who just want something more as a visual than restraining.
- Pros
- Soft and comfortable (obviously only at certain times).
- Cons
- Too big and easily escapable for (what I think is an average size).
- Bottom line
- Great beginner cage.
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Not bad
Reviewed: 20 February 2016 by mrandmrsas, a Straight Engaged Male
It's the first time I have had anything like this as am just starting to explore. To be honest, I was unsure after I pressed that order button...
To be fair, I am glad I did. It's nice and soft, comfortable and very lightweight. Like the previous reviews, it is difficult to figure out how to get on, but once you get the hang of it it's okay. I have not experienced any of the ball tugging others have, and if I have it's not too bad.
The product overall is well worth the money as it's much cheaper than others I have seen and is ideal for beginners like me.
For me, though, it is only just a bit big enough when I'm flaccid, which is also good as it does allow me any room to grow at all. Once it been on and you are teased and teased and teased once it comes off. I have to warn others... it can get very very explosive!
- Pros
- Lightweight and good material.
- Cons
- Could be larger.
- Bottom line
- Good.
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Not perfect, but not at all bad
Reviewed: 07 January 2016 by JS2O
I am a little hesitant to admit, given previous reviews, that it fits me very well. Putting it on does take a little practice and there is no chance if you have 'help' - you need to be flaccid.
The ring is split into a cross section overlap where the lock fits and it is very easy to pinch skin between the sections - ouch!
Because it is flexible it is very comfortable until you get hard, when it tugs at the balls. This is something I am told we like. If Madam says I am not to get hard and I do get hard I deserve a little ball tugging - right?
Provided I don't get hard it is very comfortable to wear. It pulls the balls forward a bit so I am always aware that I am wearing it. It doesn't show under my trousers.
When it arrived Madam couldn't wait to get me into it. She had to, though, because when she tried to put me into it I got hard and then the silicone part did look like a little hat.
We bought it just before Christmas and once we had worked out how to get me into it we went shopping. I was under strict instructions not to complain at all during the trip or I would be left locked up for 12 hours for each complaint. Well I am male so I complained before we even parked the car. I was locked in the thing for 48 hours. I survived but found out about the ball tugging quite quickly and once Madam found out I experienced it quite quite frequently!
It is a toy rather than a device for serious players. I can get out of it while it is still locked but where is the fun in that? Madam says wear it, I wear it. Great fun.
- Pros
- Comfortable.
- Cons
- The overlap can pinch.
- Bottom line
- Not for those looking for maximum security, but comfortable and fun.
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Posted on 10/22/2007 7:03:20 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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The HOWIE on vacation comment was said back on the 15 when he was in court..........
So, I figure this "Ray" who calls every day must be Todd's agent. :-).
Today's Howie column
Fussy lot of Brits arent too fussed about Whitey
By Howie Carr | Friday, October 26, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Follow the safe-deposit boxes.
So now the feds are back in the United Kingdom, tracking Whitey Bulger, the elusive serial killer and kingpin of a notorious organised crime group, as the Brits spell it. In case you were wondering, by the way, Whitey grew up in a poor suburb of Boston. Southie is a suburb - who knew?
Anyway, the search now seems concentrated on countries where Whitey is known to have stashed cash in bank safe-deposit boxes. First Whitey, or some guy who looks like him and whos never bothered to step up and end the confusion, is spotted last spring in Italy - where one of his safe-deposit boxes was discovered.
Now the G-men are back in Great Britain, where he had a safe-deposit box in Picadilly. That one contained $50,000 cash and a key in it to another safe-deposit box, in Ireland.
Granted, the cops are baffled, as they used to say, and have been for almost 13 years now. But the only places the leads ever seem to be credible are in the locations where Whitey had a box.
I spoke yesterday to someone who was involved more than 20 years ago in procuring yet another bank safe-deposit box for Whitey. He lived in a city far from Boston, and Whitey, not yet a fugitive, was visiting.
He said he wanted to open a box, and would I put my name on it, since I had a bank account, obviously, and he wasnt from the area, the guy recalled. He said he just needed to keep some personal things in the box, for when he was in town. I mean, I knew he always carried a lot of cash, but I had no idea what he was up to. The box just started . . . filling up.
Later, the guy had to move suddenly, and he went down to the bank to retrieve Whiteys possessions. Imagine his surprise when he discovered the box was stuffed with cash, even more than was stashed at the Barclays Bank branch in London.
After Whitey became a fugitive, this guy spent some quality time fielding questions from the feds, and nothing ever happened to him.
You have to wonder how much money Whiteys got left, and where, even though its been estimated that he and his galpal Catherine Greig could stay on the lam indefinitely in Europe on $100,000 a year.
The Times of London ran a priceless quote yesterday from one of the FBI agents warning the people of Britain about the archfiend Bulger:
As well as being violent he is charismatic and along with the woman will get peoples trust and loyalty and that is one of the indicators for people to focus on - this man and woman will befriend you and win your trust.
In other words, if you ever run into anyone in the UK who is pleasant to you, call Scotland Yard immediately.
The Brits, however, seem to have only minimal interest in hunting down the kindly old couple. Scotland Yard told the newspaper an officer met with the FBI, but that they are not providing any active assistance to the US investigation.
The English may be keeping a stiff upper lip about the Bulger affair, but over here we still care. I got a letter last week, actually a copy of something sent to another columnist whod described one of Whiteys boys as a stand-up guy. The writer disagreed more than somewhat, going back to three 1975 murders.
Who could lure Buddy Leonard out to get in Tommy Kings car? he asked. Who delivered his boyhood chum Paulie McGonagle to Whitey? You can write what you want, but people in Southie know what (the ex-friend of Whitey) is and it aint stand-up by any means.
What was it that William Faulkner said? The past isnt dead, it isnt even past.
That goes double with Whitey Bulger, at least as long as hes still on the lam.
This is interesting:
"Breaking News—Howie Carr Makes Major Announcement
on Phantom Gourmet Saturday"
The show airs Sat. at 10 am and 5 pm on Ch 38
(also Sun 11 am on Ch 38) and Saturdays 5-7 pm on
WTKK. Hmm!
Phantom Gourmet??? Well, of course, that's always where I check first for breaking news . . . ;-)
Breaking news......
The entire Northeast shellfish population is gone due to Howie's large appetite.
ha :)
Phantom Gourmet also has an ad in today's Herald saying that
"Boston has been waiting for a major announcement by Howie Carr. He'll make it this Saturday on the Phantom Gourmet".
It listed the times it's on Ch 38 (10 am and 5 pm) but
I don't think WTKK was mentioned (WTKK carries a radio
version of Phantom 5-7 pm Wednesdays)
Note that when you click on the pic of Howie it takes
you to the Kowloon's site.
Also in today's Herald: Michael Graham of WTKK said
that the reason Deval is endorsing Obama is due to
the fact that he's black. The gov. is not pleased.
In a related development, tartar sauce is now at $92 a barrel.
Michael Graham reacts to the governor's reaction to his
Ah :) btw I think there's one place where you have to pay extra for tar-tar sauce, and that's at Woodman's on Rt 133
in Essex (supposedly where the fried clam was invented).
I think you pay a quarter for each container of it and
the proceeds get donated to charity.
good place for fried clams: Beverly House of Pizza
just over the Beverly-Salem bridge (on the left as you
get off the bridge on the Beverly side). I think it's
$13 or so for a clam plate but you get a fairly decent
amount of clams plus greek salad & dressing, fries,
and a few onion rings.
Maybe Howie IS the Phantom Gourmet! It would explain so much!!
by the way someone on boston-radio-interest mailing list
wondered if it meant Howie would be doing a TV show on Ch 38!
For the record, he used to be on channels 2, 7, and 56
(and his predecessor Jerry Williams used to do shows
on Channels 25 and 27)
Man, I miss 38 and 56. We had them in Portland on cable when I was a kid - they had great cartoons, and I rarely missed the "Creature Double Feature". Some enterprising Mainer had to open up replacement stations up here. Oh, well. When those stations became affiliated with UPN and the WB (I think that was when I was in college in Worcester, early/mid 90's) they just weren't as good, anyway.
I don't remember Howie from TV, which is too bad. It would be neat if he had a TV show again - hopefully it would be syndicated up north, at least a little.
Wasn't the Phantom Gourmet on New England Cable News once? Is it still? I remember watching it on that station, fairly recently.
Phantom Gourmet was on NECN but got replaced with "TV
Diner" when Phantom moved to Ch 38
Ch 56 is doing Creature Double Feature tomorrow afternoon
(once again with host Ernie Boch Jr.) I think I remember
the host being Dale Dorman before.
I vaguely remember Howie on TV. Once he was on Ch 7
and was following a hack out of his office, trying to
ask questions while the hack put his hand over the camera, etc. Another time it was on Ch 2 with Christopher
Lydon hosting the news, and Howie doing some kind of
commentary on Christmas trees or something.
The replacement for Phantom on NECN: TV Diner
Aaaah, yeah, TV Diner is the show I've seen more recently.
I'm glad to hear that Creature Double Feature is back. I don't remember the host, but how can one forget Godzilla's many adventures?
I also remember the Movie Loft on TV38, and the guy who hosted that was very mellow. TV38 had the Red Sox and Bruins, too, before NESN came into being.
It's pretty pathetic to take a trip down memory lane on TV. :D
The Movie Loft host was Dana Hersey, Howie's voiceover guy!
Yes the man you now hear saying "And now here's Todd
Feinburg filling in for Howie".
Dana was the question-reader on Ch 38's legendary
"Ask The Manager Show". It was his baritone you heard
years ago, saying their legal IDs. "TV 38. W-S-B-K-T-V,
Boston" For awhile Dana did mornings at WBOQ 104.9
in Beverly (licensed to Gloucester).
Dana on Ch 38's "Salute to Cheers"
Dana can be heard on these Ch 38 promos from 1986
(Great Gatsby; Red Sox). Hey who's that wearing #46
for the Sox, Papelbon? Nope, prob Bob Stanley...?
Was that the license a Reagan donor wanted? The then-owner ran the radio station by himself, and also had health problems that required frequent medical absences, and even though he tried to automate it at the time (early 1980s), his treatments ran long on occasion, and listeners would treated to silences, etc.
The argument put forth was that the guy wasn't upholding his end of the FCC license agreement.
I don't remember what exactly transpired after reading one account, probably in the WSJ.
Hersey. I knew a guy that took his date to a July 4th Boston Pops concert. Hersey & Crew tried to come marching through, trying to displace people that got settled in early for the concert. Hersey didn't make any friends that concert, thinking he as media could uproot the hoi polloi just because he was "the media".
I KNEW I knew that voice! Thank you for the enlightenment!
Someone has some great old TV38 commercials out on YouTube. Watching those really dragged me down memory lane. Sheesh, now I just want to go home and watch 80's cartoons. Well, not the GoBots, they were lame. ;-) Thank goodness for AdultSwim on Cartoon Network. (Yes, someone can like both Howie and Aqua Teen Hunger Force).
>>The then-owner ran the radio station by himself,
"W...VCA...Gloucester Massachusetts...you can make your
contributions to W-V-as-in Victor, WVCA..." Simon Geller
was the one man owner/operator of classical station
WVCA. I don't know about the "Reagan donor" but eventually
it was sold to the Tanger family...they spent a bit of
money on the station, keeping it classical, but then
it became swing/jazz and today it's oldies of 60s -80s
(plus Red Sox & Celtics). "Your good time favorites station"
I think there was some kind of challenge to the license
saying there wasn't enough public service/public affairs, etc. Geller btw would present classical music (and announcing in a not-so-radio-friendly voice). At times
he would say "I'm turning off the station now because I
have to go shopping" or to the movies, etc.
And the bit about health problems (after the sale he
moved to NYC and passed on awhile back) rings a bell.
Hersey with a do-you-know-who-I-am moment?
from 1986—Time Magazine
Click for whole article but here's an excerpt
At 3 p.m. on a gorgeous Sunday in June, Simon Geller slouches in an easy chair in his darkened apartment, with the windows closed and a chuck steak in the oven, listening to himself on the radio. At the moment, he is broadcasting the ballet Sylvia, by Leo Delibes, on the station he periodically identifies as "WVCA, 104.9 megahertz, in Gloucester, Massachusetts."
Styrofoam cups and cans of diet Coke are scattered across a desk dominated by a bulky radio microphone.
Apart from this announcement and the briefest possible description of the music, Geller says little, which is just as well. His listeners happily acknowledge that he has the least polished delivery in broadcasting. The accent is distinctly north-of-Boston, which suits them fine: the first syllable of the word Gloucester comes out long and glottal, as if the bottom has temporarily dropped out of Geller's voice. The letter r plays hooky.
But that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning."
Geller probably says less than any other broadcaster in America and has more time to say it. On this particular Sunday, as on almost every other day of the week for the past 18 years, he will sit in front of an 8-ft.-high stack of broadcasting gear from 6 a.m., when the station signs on, until 10 p.m., when it signs off. WVCA's studio is atop the Whale-of-a-Wash laundromat. The scrap of paper next to the apartment buzzer says simply WVCA-GELLER. When Geller plans to go to the movies or on an errand, he tells his listeners so: "And now I am closing. I have to go to the doctor. The kidneys or something, I forget." Then WVCA shuts down till he gets back.
Geller, a 66-year-old bachelor, doesn't have what you might think of as a radio personality. He isn't just taciturn but a misanthrope and the dead opposite of a local booster. He calls Gloucester "the end of the world" and says he would rather have caught on in New York City. In Gloucester, he says, there is nothing to do but work or have sex. "I don't have a sex partner," he adds gloomily, "so I work."
Darn, I don't get channel 38 out west.
Please update us after the Phantom show today.
I've been told that the announcement due in about a half hour on Phantom won't really be a big
deal (despite use of the word "major") and Howie will keep having to go through the legal crap
next week. But I'll relay whatever is said anyways.
Who knows.
So far the "big announcement" is Howie talking about restaurants with BIG portions (Common Man;
Luigi's in Wayland; Michael's Deli in Brookline—sandwich named after Howie
Dan Andelman: "Where you been Howie?"
Howie: "I've ESCAPED!"
...and that was it! Howie just doing a guest shot on
"The VIP Table" (he also recommends Bickford's for
breakfast: "YOU'RE GOING TO BICKFORDS!" he would proudly
say after giving out gift certificates. Howie says he
hopes to be back on the air soon...
And that was the BIG announcement. Guess we were suckered! :)
That's IT?
I hope he's back on the air soon too - Deval is just having a field day without Howie busting his b&lls.
Thanks for the re-cap
yeah—I didn't watch the second half of the show but I think that was his only appearance. The host said goodbye to him
at the end and there was no hint of "stay tuned for a big
announcement". If I missed it, sorry, but I get the feeling that WAS it (it's being rebroadcast at 5 pm today and
11 am tomorrow IIRC)
a bit of radio news for those in New Hampshire: due to an agreement with Entercom, the following stations owned by
Nassau Broadcasting are flipping formats around the first of
the year:
"The Hawk" classic rock at 102.3 in Concord and 101.5 in
lakes region will switch to a simulcast of WEEI sports talk. No Sox games though as other stations around there will still have the
And oldies stations at 104.9 in Wolfeboro (WLKZ I think)
and 99.1 in Henniker (WNNH) will switch to an "adult
hits" format called "Frank"
Howie's Sunday Herald column
At-large hacks are on edge of their seats
By Howie Carr | Sunday, October 28, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com
The good news is, the Boston City Council did accomplish one thing this year: It canceled its preliminary at-large election, thereby saving the taxpayers $600,000.
The bad news is, they have not canceled the final election, Nov. 6, raising the question: What if they held an election and nobody voted?
Even if the Red Sox [team stats] werent closing in on a World Series title, no one would be paying attention to this fight, so with nine days left the nine candidates for four seats care about only one thing.
Whos Mumbles with?
The mayor these days wields approximately the same type of power in Boston that Saddam Hussein did in pre-war Iraq. Whatever he says, goes. But Mumbles also resembles another former Mideast despot, King Herod. Hes always looking up at the stars, wondering if a new king - the next mayor - has been born, and can he kill him yet?
Back in 99, Mumbles made the mistake of trying to take out Southie Council hack Peggy Davis Mullen with Mike Flaherty. But all Mumbles did was create an even worse problem for himself. Now Flaherty is talking about taking on Mumbles in 09, raising more than $400,000 and generally making a nuisance of himself.
Baby Flats will most likely top the ticket, followed by Sam Yoon, who seems to be the PC flavor of the month. Yoons often MIA. He spends about as much time on the eighth floor of City Hall in the Dapper ONeil hearing room as Dapper ONeil now does, which is to say, not much.
Another incumbent councilor is Felix Arroyo. He could have been a contender, but he, too, seems to have taken his eye off the ball. At the end of last year, Felix was spending as much time at Council meetings in the Chris Iannella Chamber as Chris Iannella, which is to say, none. The difference is, Chris had a better excuse for his absence: Hes been dead 15 years.
That leaves the fourth incumbent, Steve Murphy. He has two things going for him as far as Mumbles is concerned: Hes not running for mayor and hes from the mayors hometown of Tikrit . . . I mean Hyde Park. Murphy was with Gov. Deval Patrick early, and now Deval returns the favor, with a fund-raiser at Anthonys this week.
The fifth man out last time, who has been praying all year for Murphy to accept a hack state job from Deval, is John Dont Call Me Zip Connolly. If Murphy had fled, Connolly would have inherited his at-large seat. Connollys mother is a big-shot judge and his father, the former secretary of state, is on the Boston Licensing Board. This does not hurt fund raising.
Yes, there are other candidates. Martin Hogan finished 35,000 votes out of the money in 2005 and considered that a mandate from the electorate to run again. You need 500 certified signatures to get on the ballot. Hogan got 503, which was two fewer than the 505 turned in by David James Wyatt, a black Republican.
At the candidates nights, Wyatt likes to tell the crowds (make that handfuls of stragglers) how he canvassed for signatures in the citys firehouses and was shocked, shocked to learn many of the jakes dont live in Boston anymore. Apparently he missed the news that the residency issue was settled two or three contracts ago, the last time the union picketed Mumbles State of the City address.
The city has changed, obviously. Of Bostons 254 precincts, it used to be that only 70 or so could be considered totally moonbat. But last year, in the Democratic primary for governor, Deval got more than 65 percent of the vote in 141 of the 254 precincts.
Thats astounding, until you consider that Spanish, not Italian, is now the second, or maybe first, language in East Boston. Ward 3, the North End, has become an Italian-restaurant theme park, and Ward 10, Mission Hill, is a keg party. The best way to carry Ward 21, Allston, would be to get an endorsement from Vladimir Putin.
Theres only one thing Bostons voters, old and new, can agree on. Go Red Sox!
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Use gross grain ribbon and liquid beading to create comfortable and stylish flip flops for summer. Gather some friends to embellish inexpensive flip flops together.
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1. Measure length of strap on one flip flop. Add 1/2" to this measurement and cut two strips of fabric 3" wide.
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3. Attach strip to strap beginning at heel end. Wrap fabric around strap and overlap hemmed end over raw edge; hot glue to secure. Continue up towards toe until whole strip is glued. Repeat steps 1-3 with other flip flop.
4. Cut two 6" lengths of ribbon and tie around center of straps tying on outside of toe strap. Trim edges.
5. With palette knife, scoop and place small dollop of Silver Beadz to side of center. Set Beadz using hair dryer on low setting for a few minutes. Repeat this process as desired. Use palette knife and toothpick to place Beadz along edges of ribbons. Set with hair dryer.
6. Allow all Beadz to dry completely.
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Public Policy
Advocating on behalf of those impacted by sarcoma has been a core principal of the Sarcoma Foundation of America's mission since the organization was founded in 2001. The SFA continues to be actively engaged in the public policy arena, urging legislators and regulators to place a high priority on rare cancer research, drug development, and access to quality patient care.
Legislative Issues
112th Congress
ULTRA Act
The SFA has endorsed a bill introduced by Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) and Ed Towns (D-NY). The bill, H.R. 3737 – Unlocking Lifesaving Treatments for Rare-diseases (ULTRA) Act, amends the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow the Food and Drug Administration to approve an application for a drug designated both as an orphan drug and as a fast track product using a surrogate endpoint. The orphan disease or condition needs to affect a "small number of patients in the United States." The SFA believes that this kind of approach will enable the Food and Drug Administration to exercise flexibility in approving drugs for rare diseases like sarcoma.
H.R. 3737 – ULTRA Act
Letter of Support for the ULTRA Act
ULTRA Act Resources from EveryLife Foundation
Creating Hope Act
The SFA has endorsed a bill proposed in the U.S. Senate that would create incentives for the development of treatments for rare diseases that disproportionately impact children. The bill, S. 606 – Creating Hope Act, was introduced by Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) in March.
S. 606 – Creating Hope Act
Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA) Press Release on Creating Hope Act
NIH and FDA Funding
The SFA strongly urges Congress to fully fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Drastic and significant cuts in the budgets of health and science programs put funds for cancer research in jeopardy and could slow down the process for drug approval.
Legislative Alert:
Federal Cancer Research Funding in Jeopardy
111th Congress
ALERT Act
Legislation introduced in the 111th Congress contained language that would have directed the FDA to conduct a review and improve policies related to oncology products, including considering alternatives or surrogates to traditional clinical trial endpoints. The SFA firmly believes that FDA acceptance of clinical endpoints other than overall survival could remove many of the present barriers in the development of drugs to treat rare cancers such as sarcomas.
S. 717 – 21st Century Cancer ALERT Act
H.R. 6224 – 21st Century Cancer ALERT Act
SFA Thank You Letter to Representative Lois Capps (D-CA)
Regulatory Issues
Drug Shortages
In 2011, a record number of drugs were reported to be in short supply. A large number of the drugs impacted by this shortage are drugs used by cancer patients. The SFA is highly concerned by this shortage and has been working with other advocacy organizations to address this complicated issue.
President Obama issued an Executive Order related to the drug shortage problem in October of 2011. This Executive Order directed the FDA to "take steps that will help to prevent and reduce current and future disruptions in the supply of lifesaving medicines."
REAP Drug Shortage Letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
Executive Order—Reducing Prescription Drug Shortages
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FDA Review of the Treatment of Rare Diseases
The Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2010 directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the treatment of rare diseases. The language in the bill required the FDA to establish "a review group which shall recommend to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs appropriate preclinical trial design, and regulatory paradigms and optimal solutions for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of rare diseases." The FDA must deliver a report on this issue to Congress in March 2011 and must issue guidance in September 2011.
The SFA has been urging the FDA to include language in the report and guidance that acknowledges FDA acceptance of clinical endpoints other than overall survival. Specifically, we are asking the FDA accept progression-free-survival as a meaningful endpoint for evaluating treatment efficacy in smaller clinical trial populations.
SFA Public Statement, June 30, 2010
SFA Rare Disease Comments, August 30, 2010
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In 2007, the SFA filed a Citizen Petition with the FDA asking that the Agency issue a formal "Guidance Document" outlining the process by which a drug company could gain approval for their products for rare cancer use. In November 2005, the FDA asked for, and received, input from their Federal Advisory Committee for suggestions on making approval easier and faster for rare cancers like sarcoma. Our petition merely asked for a codification on what would be satisfactory clinical data to gain FDA approval. While there was Congressional support for the SFA's Citizen Petition, the FDA chose not to act on our request. However, thanks to language in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2010, the FDA has been tasked with providing a report to Congress in March 2011, and industry guidance in September 2011, that outlines ways in which the Agency can help people with rare diseases get better treatment. We are hopeful that many of the issues raised in our 2007 Citizen's Petition will be addressed in the FDA's report and guidance.
Letters of Support:
Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN)
Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Representative Steve Israel (D-NY)
Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH)
Sarcoma Petitions
Petitions have become an important tool to mobilize stakeholders to advocate for policy changes and other actions. The Sarcoma Foundation of America does, from time to time, participate in petitions. One example is the petition to request a Presidential Proclamation designating July as Sarcoma Awareness Month. Typically, the SFA stays neutral on most petitions as we have a responsibility to represent all sarcoma patients. We do feel it is important to provide a venue for stakeholders in the sarcoma community to share their petitions with others. For this reason, we have created a webpage where these petitions can be share. If you are interested in recent sarcoma petitions, please follow this link.


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The Read Along #2: Omar Musa
All About Banned Books
Americans love banning books, and the winners of this year's most banned books have been announced by the American Library Association. John Green's young adult novel Looking for Alaska takes the top spot, keeping Green in the top ten. He was joined this year by the Bible....more
Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion
Cheaters Sometimes Win
While the poetry world continues to grapple with the Best American Poetry controversy, perhaps its worth considering why anyone would try to game the system. Theodore Ross over at The New Republic explains how cheating is one of the best ways of getting published....more
White Jealousy
The new Best American Poetry anthology, edited by Sherman Alexie, contains a poem by the very white Michael Derrick Hudson who used the pen-name Yi-Fen Chou to get his poem into publication. Now, Asian American poets are pushing to get readers interested in actual Asian poets, in addition to decrying Hudson's attempts to game the system:
[Author Jenny] Zhang revealed that when she was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, her white classmates "never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature." … Hudson, she wrote, wanted "what my cohorts at Iowa wanted too, to have the right to a name that gave them an 'edge' without having to endure racism, erasure, tokenization, self-devaluation, and the constant requests for free intellectual labour."
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I'm Chinese, and Sherman Alexie Chose Me
Always Part-Time
Over at KUOW, Sherman Alexie chats about why The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian just can't stop getting banned....more
This Week in Short Fiction
With the Senate Intelligence Committee's online release of their Torture Report summary and Melville House's announcement last week that it will publish a bound copy of the summary report at the end of this year, torture has been in the air....more
Banned Books Week: A Rumpus Roundup
Sunday marked the start of Banned Books Week, a celebration of freedom, and a recognition of the threat of censorship. Libraries around the US are hosting events.
Books are banned for a variety of reasons, and by a variety of organizations....more
Edan Lepucki Gives 'Colbert Bump' to Sweetness #9
Edan Lepucki's debut novel California has been the poster child for the conflict between Amazon and Hachette ever since Sherman Alexie plugged the book on The Colbert Report. Since receiving the Colbert bump, California has hit the #3 spot on the New York Times bestseller list....more
The Rumpus Interview with Edan Lepucki
Police Called on Teens Giving Away Banned Book
After Sherman Alexie's novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was banned by an Idaho school district, a crowdsourced funding effort bought a book for every kid in the local junior high school. Nearly all of the books were given away to students, reports Death and Taxes, but not before overly concerned parents called local police....more
Authors Try Their Hands at Bookselling for a Day
Ever wonder what would happen if a bunch of well-known authors invaded your favorite indie bookstore?
This past weekend, patrons around the country saw it happen. Sherman Alexie's "Indies First" project successfully launched with writers around the nation volunteering at local independent booksellers, meeting with readers, selling books, and, in the case of children's book author Bob Shea, cleaning out bookstore refrigerators....more
Notable NYC: 11/2–11/8
Saturday 11/2: Jim Tolan, Cecilia Woloch and Sean Thomas Dougherty read as part of Poetry Night, hosted by Tolan. BookCourt, 7pm, free.
Juliet Escoria, Sean H. Dolye, Andrew Worthington, Kendra Grant Malone, Stephen Tully Dierks. Worthington has a forthcoming novel, WALLS, due in 2014; Grant Malone has two collections of poetry, Everything is Quiet and Morocco; Dierks is editor of Pop Serial....more
Breaking Out of the "Reservation of My Mind"
Sherman Alexie always loved to read, but it never occurred to him that he—or any other Native American, for that matter—could become a writer.
That all changed when he read a poem by Adrian C. Louis and came to the following line: "O Uncle Adrian!...more
Don't miss this poem from Sherman Alexie's forthcoming collection, Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories.
"Until he became an elephant, Sheldon referred to his left hand as 'my hand' and to his right hand as 'my brother's hand.'"...more
When You're Young
"When I read this comic by MariNaomi in The Rumpus, I remembered three people who were amazing to me at critical moments."
Sherman Alexie gave love to MariNaomi's "SMOKE IN YOUR EYES: When You're Young." Hooray!...more
Here's Some Essays I Like
A couple weeks ago, I linked to a bunch of very short stories — stories that were superbly written but that only took a few moments to read.
People seemed to like that, so today, I'm doing the same thing with essays:
"There is a hole in the ozone layer but they say not to worry though the sheep who bear unfiltered light have milky eyes." — At elimae, "Dark Energy" by A'Dora Phillips....more
Notable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full Schedule Here), Agriculture Reader holds a launch party, the Dead or Alive exhibition opens at the Museum of Arts and Design, Gossip perform, Stephen Colbert helps celebrate the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) continues....more
Morning Coffee
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.)
WFMU's best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3).
The always reliable New Scientist has a handy list of tricks for alien trackers.
Check out this little dude, made entirely through friction....more
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I love Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb." He hated it. On a side note, I really love that the BBC is willing to spend 30 minutes on the story behind a single poem.
This is, I think, a good way to approach an online poetry journal–make it something other than a paper journal transferred onto a website....more
Notable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett's Letters get talked about, and Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine stand around, talk and sign books at The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival....more
Sunday Rumpus Political Links
I swear to God if I hear one more thing about Sarah Palin I'm going to snap, so this week, The Rumpus is giving you a roundup of political links that are a lot more interesting than anything ever written by or about her....more
Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at BAM, Sherman Alexie and Chuck Klosterman read, Guernica Magazine turns 5, Performa 09 begins, Literary Death Match returns to New York, and Lawrence Weschler presents Halloween Wonder Cabinet....more
Margo Rabb: A Poem I Love
It's rare to find a poem that perfectly captures the anger, absurdity, complexity, and hilarity of grief—something which Sherman Alexie does again and again in his new collection of poems, FACE, which is just out from Hanging Loose Press, and which I devoured in one sitting, and then immediately started over and re-read from the beginning....more


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Police Searching for Missing Adult Woman Who Intentionally Jumped Into Niagara Falls
The authorities are searching for an woman who reportedly intentionally jumped into Niagara Falls. The incident took place near Prospect Point at around 6 p.m. when the adult woman in her 40′s is said intentionally jumped into the Falls with the intent to harm herself. According to News 4, a bystander took video of the incident and the authorities now have that video and are using it in their investigation. Rescue workers have yet to find her.
Police were searching for a woman who went over Niagara Falls on Saturday evening.
New York Park Police said the woman, described as a white female in her 40s, went into the water near Prospect Point at around 6 p.m. "with an intent to harm herself."
Posted September 20, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Debris From Aircraft Discovered In Indian Ocean on Reunion Island, Believed to be That of Missing Malaysia Flight 370
After all this time, is it possible that the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has finally been found? Debris has been discovered on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. If the debris found is that from Malaysia Flight 370, it will have been located some 3800 miles from where the plane was last spotted. The debris from the aircraft found was about six feet long and covered in barnacles. Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared in March of 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Debris found on Reunion Island believed to be a 'flaperon'.
Nearly 18 months since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished, a 2.7m-long piece of debris discovered on Wednesday on the island of Réunion could finally provide clues to one of aviation's great mysteries.
Investigators suspect the debris is a "flaperon", a mix of a flap and an aileron.
To provide some context, see where the ill-fated Malaysian flight took off from and the subsequent search areas after the plane went missing.
Developing news in the Indian Ocean this Wednesday, where debris from an aircraft has been discovered.
A US official says investigators are extremely confident that it belongs to a plane that went missing more than a year ago.
The official says investigators identified the parts as being from the edge of a Boeing-777 Wing.
The same model as Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that disappeared in March of 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Investigators are now heading to the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean for further inspection.
Click HERE or on PIC to Watch Video via CBS This Morning
UPDATE I: Australia increasingly confident debris found is from MH370.
Authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said Friday that they were "increasingly confident" the wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island was from the ill-fated jet, raising hopes of solving one of aviation's great mysteries.
The two-metre long piece of wreckage is to be sent to France for analysis, with hopes high that it could turn out to be the first tangible proof the plane went down in the Indian Ocean.
Investigators are hoping they will then move closer to understanding the mystery swirling around the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, which vanished 16 months ago with 239 people aboard, most of them Chinese.
"We are increasingly confident that this debris is from MH370," Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the MH370 search, told AFP.
"The shape of the object looks very much like a very specific part associated only with 777 aircraft."
Posted July 31, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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MISSING AT SEA: 14 Year Old Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos Missing Since 7/24/15 While on Fishing Trip Off the Florida Coast (Update: Coast Guard Locates Capsized Boat, No One On Board) (VIDEO)
14 year old Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen of Tequesta, Florida have been missing since Friday, July 24, 2015 off the Florida coast. The boys left the Jupiter Inlet about 1:30 p.m. after buying $110 worth of fuel for their 19-foot, white single-engine vessel. It is reported that they were headed east, toward the Bahamas on a fishing trip. After the Coast Guard had searched more than 7,100 miles of ocean waters from Jupiter to Melbourne, they still have not found the missing boys.
Missing Boys: Perry Cohen (left) – Austin Stephanos (right)
UPDATE I: Teens' missing boat found overturned, no one on board.
It is being reported that the Coast Guard has located the missing boys 19 foot boat capsized boat that was spotted by a C-130 aircraft at 11 a.m. The Coast Guard stated that the C-130 spotted the overturned vessel at the edge of the search pattern. A helicopter from Air Station Clearwater was dispatched and lowered a rescue swimmer, who was able to confirm the registration numbers of the boat. The capsized boat was found on Sunday, 67 miles off Daytona Beach.
The U.S. Coast Guard said the boat was found 67 miles off Ponce de Leon Inlet in Volusia County.
The boat cover and one personal flotation device was missing.
The boat will be anchored in place while search and rescue efforts continue.
Coast Guard confirms that boat belonging to missing boys found
UPDATE II: Continued updates of the Coast Guard search for the missing teens.
UPDATE III: Families hold out hope for Florida teens missing at sea.
Rescuers endured a fourth night of an anxious search for two young Floridians born and bred as boaters who vanished on the high seas.
The Coast Guard scoured an area the size of West Virginia with no sign of the boaters by early Tuesday. The 14-year-old boys' vessel was found capsized two days earlier. But relatives and friends of the teens were clinging to hope that the expertise they acquired boating and fishing in their short lives was enough to keep them alive while apparently lost in the Atlantic.
"This isn't something that he's new at," said Carly Black, the mother of Austin Stephanos, in an interview with television station WPBF. "I think they feel better on the boat than they do on land."
UPDATE IV: Coast Guard Continues to Search for Missing Boys … Teen's capsized boat found 70 miles off shore.
In the warm waters off the Florida coast this time of year, the Coast Guard says, someone can survive four, maybe five days.
Florida teens Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos have been missing since Friday — four days and counting.
"People can survive in the water," said Capt. Mark Fedor, chief of response for the Coast Guard 7th District. "It's relatively warm, but, again, it's a dangerous environment, and there's only so long you could stay in the water."
The day-and-night search is focused 60 to 70 miles (97 to 113 kilometers) off Jacksonville, north of where the boys' capsized boat was found Sunday. Fedor said search conditions were good, but the situation is dire.
The Coast Guard says five cutters, a Navy ship and multiple planes are involved in the search.
UPDATE V: Family calls off private search for missing Florida boys.
The families of two Florida teens who went missing at sea called off their private search Sunday after weeks of trying to find them.
The private efforts began after the Coast Guard called off the search for Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos, who went missing on July 24 after launching a fishing trip off the Florida coast.
"We love our boys and want them home," the families said in a joint statement. "Today, our hope becomes our prayer — that one day Perry and Austin will be returned to us. We thank everyone for their dedicated efforts and support."
After over a week of raising funds and calling on volunteers to help the effort, the family called it off due to no credible evidence found to help find the boys.
Posted July 27, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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10 Years Later: Searching in Aruba for Natalee Holloway … The Search of the Aruba Landfill in 2005 for Missing Natalee Holloway (PICS)
On July 23, 2005 Scared Monkeys conducted an interactive, town hall style on-line interview with Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch, the non-profit search team that had been searching for Natalee Holloway in Aruba since she had gone missing on May 30, 2005. Texas Equusearch had been flooded with emails of encouragement and tips from the many followers and readers at Scared Monkeys that Tim granted the interview. Interactive web interviews are commonplace today, needless to say they were not in 2005 and the logistics to make it happen was nothing short of a miracle. Following the interview as I thanked Tim Miller on the phone and for TES's great work in their search for Natalee Holloway, Mr. Miller did an amazing thing … he asked if I wanted to go to Aruba and help search for Natalee. Once we cleared up some logistics and made sure that we could pay for the ticket to Aruba ourselves so not to impose on TES or have them divert any funds from the search on our account, we let it be known that Red was going to Aruba to search with Texas Equusearch.
Returning to Aruba, a place where my family had vacationed since the 1970′s, long before the many high-rise hotels and wining vacations there on game shows. Aruba, a place where I got to know so many families, who treated us as one of their own and a place where I had even dated an Aruban girl, who's family was pretty well connected. Talk about your long distance relationship, before the days of social media and Facetime or Skype. A place where I hung out with more locals than tourists. Aruba, a place where I lived and worked as well. Now I was going back to help find Natalee Holloway.
I have to admit i was not sure what I was getting into and was not sure which searches I would be doing, land, water, both? I had told Tim that I was going to be a member of the search team first and reporting on the story second. Little did I realize than just a couple days before going to Aruba that that I would be helping search in the Aruba landfill as The witness claimed he saw the men dumping the body on the afternoon of June 1. The following article discusses the landfill search on such a generic and antiseptic way. Let me just say it was far from that and maybe one of the most rewarding and disgusting thing I have ever done in my life.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
A volunteer group searching for Natalee Holloway dug through a landfill for a third day Sunday but found no clues, while the missing teen's mother left Aruba for the first time since her daughter disappeared two months ago.
Crews equipped with trained dogs, a bulldozer and a tractor hoe dug 15 holes in a landfill where a witness claims he saw men dump and cover a female body two days after Holloway disappeared, said Robert Cook, spokesman for the volunteer Texas EquuSearch, which is coordinating the landfill effort.
Searches at the landfill Friday and Saturday also produced no sign of Holloway.
From July 30, 2005 … Red searched the landfill from 10 AM till 3 PM. He said it was one of the foulest and god awful smelling places he has ever been in. For three days we searched the landfill and for every hole that was dug to a certain level, some one then had to get into it to do a more fine search with rakes and shovels. The picture below taken by a digital camera, although it looks grainy. That would be because of the constant Aruba trade wind blowing all the sand and crap in the dump around.
During the landfill search, I not only searched for Natalee Holloway with the members of Texas Equusearch, I also was digging next to her dad, Dave Holloway. I thought to myself as we were digging in the worst filth and the most disgusting stench that I had ever experienced in my life, I so wanted to help this man and find his daughter. Then I thought to myself in the next second, it might not be the best thing to happen when he was present. It was one thing to take part in this search, another thing to find human remains in a landfill, but quite a different thing to have to see a grown man break down in uncontrollable tears and emotions if we actually found her. This was the roller-coaster of thoughts and emotions that took place ever day as we searched for Natalee Holloway.
This search will forever be seared in my mind, body and soul … as previously stated, one of the best and worst things I have ever done in my life.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
Unlike most landfills in America where those in charge can locate and track what was dumped where and when, Aruba had no such tracking system. Imagine that. Instead, we had to go by the witness as to what area of the landfill he thought he saw the vehicle and where the dump site was. All the while the witness covered his face for fear of being recognized and to prevent the foulness from getting into his nose and mouth. So how did we know how far down to dig or where to dig holes? At a certain point we got in the holes and looked that the daily news papers that were thrown away to see what date they were to find the date just before May 30, 2005. That was the methodology.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
And for every hole that was dug like the one above, when we got to what we thought was close enough to the correct proximity of time, some one had to get into the hole and comb throw it to see if we made needed to dig deeper or had to use a rake, shovel and your hands to search. That would be yours truly in the blue shirt in the hole.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
And all the while Red and the members of Texas Equusearch were in the landfill in some of the most foul and hideous conditions trying to help Beth and Dave find their daughter on a witness tip we were following up on, the media was kicking their feet up from a distance trying to get a picture with their telephoto lenses.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
Or better yet, a close up of the media getting a sun tan while we are in the landfill busting our butts to get some closure for the Holloway/Twitty/Reynold's family.
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005
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Posted May 31, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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Laura McComb and Her Two Children, 6 Year Old Andrew McComb & 4 Year Old Leighton McComb Missing Since Memorial Day Weekend in Wimberly, TX (Update: Body of Andrew McComb Recovered)
Laura McComb and her two children, 6 year old Andrew McComb and 4 year old Leighton McComb are still missing following the massive floods that hit Texas over the Memorial Day weekend. They were among 12 people who went missing as the vacation home in Wimberly, Texas, was ripped from its foundation in the rapid flood waters of the Blanco River (VIDEO). Jonathan McComb, was pulled from the floodwaters and taken to a San Antonio hospital for treatment. The McCombs were with Ralph and Sue Carey along with their daughter, Michelle Charba, her husband Randy and their 4-year-old son, Will. All are still missing. Say a prayer for the missing and their family.
Jonathan McComb was rescued on the bank of the Blanco River, but his wife, Laura McComb, and two children,
in addition to others who were in a house that was swept away, remain missing. (Image source: KVUE-TV)
UPDATE I: Laura McComb Salled Her Sister and said, 'I Love You, and Pray' While Inside the House Floating Down the Blanco River Called Her Sister Before It Hit Bridge.
Missing mom's sister Julie Shields says, "I think recognizing with what's happening with the weather, we all know and we have accepted that they're gone."
Julie Shields said she was on the phone with her sister, Laura, when their cabin was swept away.
"We are floating in a house that is now floating down the river," Laura told Shields on the phone. "Call mom and dad. I love you, and pray."
Those were the last words Shields had with her sister.
"My sister will always be my sister," Shields added.
The conversation ended when Laura thought she saw a light from a helicopter that was there to rescue them.
"And I just expected to go to Wimberley High School the next day and find her," said Shields. "When she wasn't there, I knew something was very, very wrong."
UPDATE II: Body of 6-year-old Andrew McComb Recovered.
The body of Andrew McComb, 6, whose family was in a house washed away by floodwaters in Wimberley, Texas, has been found, a Hays County, Texas, official said Friday.
The body was found Thursday evening near the border of Hays and Blanco counties, according to Trey Hatt, spokesman for the Hays County Emergency Operations Center, The Associated Press reported.
Authorities earlier this week reported recovering the body of a child from the Blanco River in Hays County, but did not identify the child.
Andrew McComb's identity was confirmed using dental records, an official said today.
Posted May 28, 2015 by Scared Monkeys
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The cost of designing a new facility for Douglas County's Public Works Department could cost an additional quarter of a million dollars in architectural fees.
County commissioners will be asked Wednesday to approve a contract amendment with the design firm clark-huesemann that would increase the total design cost to $773,500, or about 6.5 percent of the construction cost.
Commissioners will consider that change when they meet at 4 p.m. at the courthouse.
The new facility will combine all the county's Public Works operations into a single facility in southeast Lawrence, near the soon-to-come interchange of Kansas Highway 10 and the South Lawrence Trafficway.
Originally, the construction cost was estimated at around $6 million, and the design fees were estimated at about $529,000, or 8.8 percent the construction cost.
Since then, however, the scope of the project has grown, most notably by calling for designs that will meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED standards. Those involve features such as passive solar lighting to reduce electricity costs, the use of recycled building materials, and water-efficient landscaping.
The total project cost, including construction, design fees and a 3.5 percent contingency, are now estimated at about $13.9 million.
Current plans call for letting bids in December, with construction expected to start in February 2014.
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