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Alexion Highlights Innovative Rare Disease Portfolio at Investor Day Meeting
- Interim Phase 1/2 Data of SBC-103 Show Dose-Dependent Reduction in CSF Heparan Sulfate Levels in Patients with MPS-IIIB -
- Interim Phase 2 Data of ALXN1007 Show 28-Day Overall Acute Response Rate in Patients with GI-GVHD -
- Rapid Reduction of LDH in First Two Patients with PNH Dosed in ALXN1210 Study -
- Completed Enrollment in Registration Trial of Eculizumab in DGF -
- First mRNA Product Candidate to Target Crigler-Najjar Syndrome (CN-1) -
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CHESHIRE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALXN) announced today that the Company highlighted significant progress in its early- and late-stage rare disease portfolio and provided updates on key aspects of its long-term growth strategy at an Investor Day meeting held in New York.
"2015 has been an extraordinary year for Alexion as we advanced our global leadership in rare diseases and grew our product franchise to three therapies to serve patients with four devastating and ultra-rare diseases across our unique 50-country operating platform," said David Hallal, Chief Executive Officer of Alexion. "We move into 2016 from a position of great strength, with a focus on growing our leadership in complement biology with additional indications and novel complement inhibitors in development, while building our global metabolic franchise and expanding our pipeline with multiple R&D catalysts to bring breakthrough innovation to patients."
Further strengthening its leadership position in rare diseases, Alexion announced several key milestones across its complement and metabolic franchises:
- Interim Phase 1/2 data of SBC-103, an enzyme replacement therapy, showing a dose-dependent reduction in heparan sulfate levels in cerebral spinal fluid in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB (MPS-IIIB);
- Interim Phase 2 data of ALXN1007, a complement inhibitor that targets C5a, showing an overall response rate at 28 days in patients with acute graft-versus-host disease involving the lower gastrointestinal tract (GI-GVHD);
- Data from the first two patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) receiving 400 mg of ALXN1210 in a Phase 1/2 trial showing a rapid deduction of LDH;
- Completion of enrollment in the registration trial of eculizumab in delayed graft function (DGF), with preliminary data expected in the second half of 2016; and
- Additional data supporting the advancement of four highly innovative preclinical programs into the clinic in 2016.
"Alexion's R&D team is focused on accelerating our broad rare disease pipeline of highly innovative therapies that have the potential to transform the lives of patients with severe and life-threatening rare disorders where there are no effective treatment options," said Martin Mackay, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Global Head of Research and Development. "Our robust pipeline includes 10 clinical programs and 30 preclinical programs, and we have a strong combination of both internal innovation and strategic partnerships to drive future development. Importantly, we remain on track to advance four new molecules into the clinic during 2016 and deliver up to six new approvals by 2018."
Metabolic Franchise
SBC-103 is an enzyme replacement therapy being investigated in a Phase 1/2 trial for patients with mucopolysaccharidosis IIIB, or MPS IIIB (also known as Sanfilippo B syndrome). MPS IIIB is a rare, devastating and progressive autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by a genetic deficiency of the enzyme known as NAGLU. This enzyme deficiency leads to the buildup of abnormal amounts of heparan sulfate in the brain and other organs, resulting in profound neurocognitive abnormalities including severe cognitive decline, behavioral problems, speech loss, increasing loss of mobility, and premature death.1 Patients with MPS IIIB have a greater than 50 percent mortality rate by 17 years of age.2
The primary endpoint of the Phase 1/2 trial is safety and tolerability. Key secondary efficacy endpoints include changes from baseline in heparan sulfate levels in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), serum and urine as well as measurements of change in brain structures as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging and the effects on neurocognitive and developmental function. Interim data showed a dose-dependent reduction of heparan sulfate levels in CSF in three dosing cohorts (mean reductions of 3 percent, 6 percent and 11 percent at 0.3, 1.0 and 3.0 mg/kg, respectively). SBC-103 has the potential to provide both systemic and CNS clinical benefits due to blood brain barrier penetration. Alexion will be escalating the dose of SBC-103 during the first half of 2016.
Complement Franchise
ALXN1210 is a next-generation complement inhibitor in development for once-monthly dosing. Phase I data from the first-in-human single-ascending dose study of ALXN1210 were published online in the journal Blood at the American Society of Hematology congress last week.3 In the study, healthy volunteers received a single intravenous (IV) dose of ALXN1210 in sequential ascending doses (starting dose was 200 mg) or placebo, and were then followed for 150 days. Results showed that ALXN1210 was well-tolerated in healthy volunteers. Mean chicken red blood cell (cRBC) hemolysis was completely inhibited after a single IV dose of 200 mg of ALXN1210, and levels of free C5 were reduced by >99 percent from baseline in these healthy volunteers. In addition, serum concentration data of ALXN1210 exhibited a terminal half-life of 32 days, which is longer than that of Soliris® (eculizumab), which has a terminal half-life of 9 days. A multiple-ascending dose study of ALXN1210 is ongoing to further evaluate the safety and efficacy of ALXN1210.
In addition to these healthy volunteer studies, Alexion is conducting two clinical studies of ALXN1210 in patients with PNH. Preliminary data from the first two patients in a Phase 1/2 dose-escalating study of ALXN1210 in patients with PNH showed a rapid reduction of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) following the initial dose in the lowest dose patient cohort (400 mg). At Day 22, one patient had an 88 percent reduction of LDH and the other patient had an 85 percent reduction. ALXN1210 was generally well-tolerated with no serious adverse events to date.
Alexion has also initiated an open-label, multi-dose Phase 2 study of ALXN1210 in patients with PNH that is designed to measure change in LDH levels and safety in several dosing cohorts and intervals.
ALXN1007 is a novel anti-inflammatory antibody targeting complement protein C5a, which is being evaluated in a Phase 2 study in patients with acute graft-versus-host disease involving the lower gastrointestinal tract, or GI-GVHD, a severe and life-threatening rare auto-immune disease. The primary endpoint of the trial is overall acute GI-GVHD response rate at Day 28. Eleven patients were included in the interim analysis, with 10 patients evaluable at Day 28. Interim data showed an overall 28-day acute GI-GVHD response rate of 80 percent, and a 28-day complete response rate of 70 percent in acute GI-GVHD compared to historical response rates of 56 and 49 percent, respectively.4 The interim data support the continued advancement of ALXN1007 in GI-GVHD, and Alexion will initiate a placebo-controlled study in patients with GI-GVHD.
Acute GI-GVHD is an immune-mediated disease and a complication of stem cell transplantation occurring in 10-12 percent of allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplants.5,6 Patients with severe acute GI-GVHD have a 30-40 percent mortality rate within the first six months post-transplant.7 There are no approved treatments for GI-GVHD.
Pre-Clinical Programs
Alexion is progressing its preclinical pipeline of more than 30 diverse programs across a range of therapeutic modalities. The Company expects four of these programs to enter the clinic in 2016. These include:
- Asfotase alfa as a potential treatment for the bone complications of neurofibromatosis Type 1, or NF1. NF1 is a severe, multi-systemic genetic disorder caused by mutations in the NF-1 gene that develops in childhood and disturbs cell growth, resulting in widespread lesions throughout the body including the skin, eyes, nervous system (including brain, spinal cord, and nerves) and bone. Lesions occurring in long bones can progress to non-healing fractures (pseudo-arthroses), which are thought to be due in part to calcification being impaired by excess pyrophosphate production (PPI).8 It is hypothesized that asfotase alfa could restore the balance in bone metabolism, thereby healing the lesions and preventing progression to fracture.
- ENPP1, an enzyme replacement therapy being developed for generalized arterial calcification of infancy, or GACI, and other rare disorders of calcification. GACI is an ultra-rare genetic disorder affecting infants in which excess of calcification in the medium and large arteries results in heart failure and respiratory distress. Patients with GACI have a 35 percent survival at 6 months of age.9
- ALXN 1540, one of the mRNA rare disease programs from the Company's collaboration with Moderna, in patients with Crigler-Najjar Syndrome (CN-1). CN-1 is a chronic congenital condition of excessive serum bilirubin caused by mutations in the UGT1A1 gene that presents in newborns. CN-1 is associated with irreversible brain damage and premature mortality;10 and
- One additional candidate from Alexion's growing complement inhibitor portfolio.
About Alexion
Alexion is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering life-transforming therapies for patients with devastating and rare disorders. Alexion developed and commercializes Soliris® (eculizumab), the first and only approved complement inhibitor to treat patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), two life-threatening ultra-rare disorders. As the global leader in complement inhibition, Alexion is strengthening and broadening its portfolio of complement inhibitors, including evaluating potential indications for eculizumab in additional severe and ultra-rare disorders. Alexion's metabolic franchise includes two highly innovative enzyme replacement therapies for patients with life-threatening and ultra-rare disorders, Strensiq™ (asfotase alfa) to treat patients with hypophosphatasia (HPP) and Kanuma™ (sebelipase alfa) to treat patients with lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D). In addition, Alexion is advancing the most robust rare disease pipeline in the biotech industry, with highly innovative product candidates in multiple therapeutic areas. This press release and further information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexion.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements related to the potential medical benefits of the company's product candidates, including ALXN1210, ALXN1007, and SBC-103, medical and commercial potential of Alexion's complement-inhibition technology and other technologies, and plans for clinical programs for each of our product candidates. Forward-looking statements are subject to factors that may cause Alexion's results and plans to differ from those expected, including for example, decisions of regulatory authorities regarding marketing approval or material limitations on the marketing of our products, delays, interruptions or failures in the manufacture and supply of our products and our product candidates, failure to satisfactorily address issues raised by the FDA in regulatory correspondence, the possibility that results of clinical trials are not predictive of safety and efficacy results of our products in broader patient populations in the disease studied or other diseases, the risk that strategic transactions will not result in short-term or long-term benefits, the possibility that clinical trials of our product candidates could be delayed or that additional research and testing is required by regulatory agencies, the adequacy of our pharmacovigilance and drug safety reporting processes, the risk that third party payers (including governmental agencies) will not reimburse or continue to reimburse for the use of our products at acceptable rates or at all, risks regarding government investigations, the risk that estimates regarding the number of patients with PNH, GI-GVHD, MPS III or other diseases are inaccurate, and a variety of other risks set forth from time to time in Alexion's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the risks discussed in Alexion's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2015 and in our other filings with the SEC. Alexion does not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except when a duty arises under law.
|Wijburg FA, Wegrzyn G, Burton BK, Tylki-Szymanska A. "Mucopolysacchardosis type III (Sanfilippo syndrome) and misdiagnosis of idiopathic developmental delay, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder." Acta Paediatr. 2013;102(5):462-70.
|Heron, B., et al. Am. J. Med. Genet Part A. 2011; 155: 58-68.
|Sahelijo, L, Mujeebuddin, A, et al. "First in Human Single-Ascending Dose Study: Safety, Biomarker, Pharmacokinetics and Exposure-Response Relationships of ALXN1210, a Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to C5, with Marked Half-Life Extension and Potential for Significantly Longer Dosing Intervals." Blood. 2015; 23:4777.
|Data on file.
|Jagasia, M., M. Arora, M. E. D. Flowers, N. J. Chao, P. L. Mccarthy, C. S. Cutler, A. Urbano-Ispizua, S. Z. Pavletic, M. D. Haagenson, M.-J. Zhang, J. H. Antin, B. J. Bolwell, C. Bredeson, J.-Y. Cahn, M. Cairo, R. P. Gale, V. Gupta, S. J. Lee, M. Litzow, D. J. Weisdorf, M. M. Horowitz, and T. Hahn. "Risk Factors for Acute GVHD and Survival after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation." Blood 119.1 (2012): 296-307.
|MacMillan, M. L., DeFor, T. E. and Weisdorf, D. J. (2012), What predicts high risk acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) at onset?: identification of those at highest risk by a novel acute GVHD risk score. British Journal of Haematology, 157: 732–741.
|Bolanos- Meade, J. et al. Blood. 2014; 124 (22); 3221-3227.
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Last summer Zurich based bag brand FREITAG moved into a new 5000 square meter factory. The brand has always stood out of the crowd, for its product, its production methods and communication. They fabricate their bags from used truck covers since day one and have since invaded the globe. A couple of weeks ago we even came across a new FREITAG flagship store in New York City.
The new factory stays true to the principles of the two brothers that founded the brand. The environment has once again been one of their main concerns.
""FREITAG has been growing every year from the moment the first tarps were washed in the Bros.' own bathtub. The individual recycled bag makers have come from 2 to over 130 employees, from 1 to over 50 bag models and from 1 push cart to 8 FREITAG Stores and over 400 resellers worldwide. All without a penny from investors.
Still, when you're «building your own factory», people are mildly surprised. No, FREITAG did not put down millions. As ever so often, they put down an idea: How about an entire block of affordable industrial and creative space in Zurich. Leaving out all luxury. But built to highest environmental standards.""
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NEW YORK — Businesses are getting rosier about the U.S. economy, and they're creating the jobs to prove it.
Private sector firms added 281,000 jobs in June, marking the strongest month for hiring since November 2012, according to payroll processing firm ADP.
"The job market is strong, and it feels like it's getting stronger," said Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi, who helps ADP compile the report.
Those job gains come from companies both large and small, and across a variety of industries.
Small firms with fewer than 50 employees, added 117,000 jobs, whereas large firms with more than 500 workers added 49,000 jobs. Meanwhile, mid-sized businesses added 115,000 jobs — the strongest hiring by medium-sized companies in seven years.
Breaking down the job growth by industry shows professional and business services added 77,000 jobs and financial companies added 11,000 jobs.
Blue collar industries that were among the hardest hit sectors in the recession are also gaining momentum, with construction firms adding 36,000 jobs and manufacturers adding 12,000 jobs.
These encouraging signs for the job market fit alongside other strong economic data released this week. Auto sales rose to an eight-year high, and new orders for manufactured goods rose to a six-month high in June. These increases are seen as a sign of improving consumer and business confidence in the future.
Although the ADP report only includes data on the private sector (it does NOT include government jobs), it is often seen as pre-cursor to the Department of Labor's definitive report on U.S. job growth and unemployment, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow.
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text: James allison in good spirits after jerez test Monday, February 11, 2013 - 13:00 With the E21's inaugural on-track test complete, Lotus F1 Team Technical Director James Allison explains where we're at and what happens next... How useful has the first week of testing been at Jerez? Winter testing is exceedingly precious. We get just 12 days to prove out a very complex vehicle. Twelve days to push the car and the team to make sure that we are match fit by the time we get to Melbourne. Jerez offers the teams four days of guaranteed good weather on a challenging track that will stress the car from both a reliability and a performance point of view. We leave this first test in high spirits having learned that the E21 looks both competitive and reasonably reliable. What are the initial conclusions about the 2013 Pirelli tyres? Pirelli has changed both the internal construction of the tyres and also the tread rubber compound. In the former they have tried to improve the ability of the tyre to handle braking and cornering loads simultaneously and in the latter they are hoping to deliver exciting racing by aiming for softer tyre compounds that suffer rapid lap time degradation as they wear. From what we have seen so far the construction changes are helpful and we are adjusting our setup to make the most of them. Regarding the compound choices, we are happy with the direction that Pirelli are headed and the challenge for us is to find out how to make the rubber last better than our competition. Now the first test is complete, what happens next for the team? The main thrust of activity between now and Melbourne is to build up the quantity of stock so that we can go racing. We are using just one chassis here in Jerez, but in a month's time we need to have four tubs ready to go. Gearboxes, suspension, bodywork and thousands of small parts all need to be made to allow us to commence the racing campaign. At the same time, we will be furiously building a crucial set of Melbourne performance upgrades to allow us to stay competitive. While the factory sweats to get this work completed, the travelling component of the team will plan and execute the remaining two tests. They will push the car as hard as they can to make sure we have amplified its strengths and minimised its weaknesses before we have to use it in anger. The car looked good in Jerez last year, but then the team had to stop testing after half a day at Barcelona; any concerns this time heading to the Circuit de Catalunya? We had a problem last year because we designed a single joint poorly. We had created a suspension mounting which was capable of withstanding the loads if it had been made absolutely perfectly. However, that style of joint was very difficult to make accurately enough to get repeatable performance from each chassis. We ran chassis #01 at Jerez and the suspension joint in this chassis was good enough to cope with the loads. We ran chassis #02 at Barcelona and the joint in this one was made just a whisker differently; it was not capable of taking the loads and so failed instantly. Once we realised our error we redesigned the joint so that the glue lines were capable of delivering the required strength without any scatter from chassis to chassis. On the E21 we've paid particular attention to this area so we're not expecting any repeat dramas.


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I hadn't been able to find out when my great grandmother, Jadwiga Tabor nee Paszkawicz, died. I knew that she had died before my great grandfather, Adam Tabor Sr, but I didn't even know how long before him she died. I really didn't have much to go on.
|Adam, Jadwiga, Aldona and Clarence Tabor
Her tombstone had only the year (1945), when I finally found the cemetery she was buried in, so that wasn't going to do the trick, but then...
A few years ago, I found a Western Union telegram in a packet of genealogy papers given to me and the question was answered.
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I went to ElSalvador.com to check out photos of El Salvador's momentous win last night against the U.S., but as is my habit, I became distracted by something else.
A still image in the sidebar of a tattooed marero (gang member), taking communion, made me pause. The story title: Pandilleros piden una oportunidad. I clicked through to the video and found it too moving not to share.
I don't consider myself religious, but something about this video touched me. Looking at those faces, behind the tattoos, I see young men who were once little boys, and for whatever reason, they made mistakes that led them to where they are. Many of them come from poverty or abusive homes. Neglected by parents or orphaned by war, they sought to "belong" and that is a big attraction to gang life – it's the family one never had.
"Siempre han dicho que nosotros somos la escoria y lo peor del mundo. Nosotros crecimos en un época de conflicto y en ese época tapamos nuestros valores con cosas negativas, pero estamos dispuestos a cambiar, si nos ayudan." – source
["They've always said that we're the scum and the worst of the world. We grew up in an era of conflict and in that time we covered our values with negative things, but we are willing to change, if you help us."]
"Nosotros estamos de buena fe, queremos seguir adelantes. Estamos consciente de que les hemos fallado a Dios, y a la sociedad, y aquí en nombre de toda mi pandilla, la MS13, quiero pedirle perdón, a la sociedad, y que nos dé una oportunidad de poder cambiar… nosotros también somos salvadoreños, nosotros también somos seres humanos." – source: MS13 gang member in the video
["We are of good faith, we want to move on. We are aware that we have failed God, and society, and here, on behalf of my gang, MS13, I apologize, I want to ask for forgiveness, from society, and ask that you give us an opportunity to change … we too are Salvadorans, we too are human beings."]
What would happen if we always believed the best about others, rather than the worst?…Maybe people live up to expectations.
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Leo's day and night
So here are more details behind those photos of Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio hugging on a yacht in the French Riviera yesterday. Leo and his boys were with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw. Then Blake showed up. They all greeted each other. She also hugged Lukas Haas. Gave him a friendly kiss on the mouth. Full Story
Rich, Famous, Herpes
Delicious. Not the herpes part, but the smuttiness of it. Obviously. So there's a story on TMZ about a major A list celebrity who is worth "in excess of $100 million" who hooked up with someone in Vegas and passed on some herpes. Jesus. Full Story
Bar, Leo...Blake?
Bar Rafaeli attended the Met Gala alone. Her boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio was also in town. This is not unusual. Leo tends to avoid events with so much heat if he doesn't have to go. But according to Page Six they didn't even hook up for the afterparty. Full Story
Leo's life right now
Well, he's still on holiday on a boat somewhere expensive with his girl Bar Rafaeli and Naomi Campbell who's been accused of lying at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor over a blood diamond...What? But Leonardo DiCaprio is so principled. And SO rich. Forbes Full Story
Is it ironic?
There must be some irony here, right? Where: Sardinia, ItalyWhen: August 8thWho: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bar Rafaeli, Naomi Campbell, Vladimir DoroninWhat: Birthday party for Fawaz Gruosi, founder of de Grisogono jewellery, specialising in black diamonds So Leo makes a movie call Blood Diamond. Naomi claims at the Hague that she didn't know that Charles Taylor gave her a blood diamond. Full Story
Leo & Bar go shopping
For cameras. He seems to buy a lot of them. I feel like once a year he's photographed camera shopping. Maybe they're for taking pictures of the tigers. He was in Asia recently on a research mission about tigers and has partnered with the World Wildlife Fund to raise $20 million to protect the endangered species. Full Story
Leo is not Lea
Lea Michele decided to be a bitch last week when one of the top society photographers in New York asked her for her name. What? It was all jokes, yo. She was totally just messing around. Ask the people who used to work with her on Broadway if they think she was messing around. What would happen if that happened to Leo? Well if the movies are any indication. Full Story
Leo covers his mouth
He does this a lot at the Laker games. So people can't lipread what he's saying. Sure. I guess. I mean... he could just watch it on tv, right? Leo's getting some eyerolls. Because I don't think Sandra Bullock would sit courtside at the Laker game and cover her mouth. Of course most of it has to do with the fact that his girlfriend is at the game with him. Full Story
Who let this guy in?
Written by Jacek Hello Smuthounds. It's been a while. Lainey's stuck in a shoot so I thought I'd fill the gap. She'll be back at it soon. I'll stick to what I know as subject matter in the meantime. If you've made the rounds of the gossip blogs, you would have seen that SI has just released its swimsuit issue. Full Story
Leo, Bar, Luke, Pete
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Leo Love Bars…still
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About this "independence" at the Washington Times.
People say that the paper created from scratch by Sun Myung Moon in 1982, the Washington Times, is "independent" of Moon and his "church." Everyone seems to instinctively know that the Washington Times' independence from Moon is very important. Given his belief that he is the Messiah (1) and that the world, according to his plan, is destined to be governed by his organization, their instincts are quite well founded.
The official findings of the 1977-78 congressional investigation into Korean influence on our country, known as the Fraser Report, included the following:
Among the goals of the Moon Organization is the establishment of a worldwide government in which the separation of church and state would be abolished and which would be governed by Moon and his followers. (2)
The Washington Times has served Moon well in many areas, opening doors and gaining credibility for his organization. Moon has certainly received a lot of bang for the buck through his Washington Times project. Sporting losses of tens of millions annually and barely making it into the top 100 in circulation for any paper in the country, it still manages to be one of the most-quoted papers in the world. With Moon distanced behind the curtain, the cry of "independence" provides a rationalization for those who embrace the paper. It allows them to think that they are not following or promoting Moon's stated goals.
However, Robert Parry, veteran investigative journalist, in his book Fooling America, How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom, (published in 1992) describes the Washington Times in this manner: While the (Washington) Post was tracking ever rightward during the 1980's, the capital's other daily paper was The Washington Times, a far-right journal financed and controlled by the Unification Church cult. The cult's founder Sun-Yung Moon of South Korea, espoused a totalitarian rightist vision of the world's future. His domination over the lives of his followers was so complete that he would select their spouses and preside over their weddings in bizarre mass ceremonies. Moon's Organization covered the paper's annual losses, estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. But the original sources for that money remained shrouded in secrecy. Though the cult had close ties South Korean intelligence, most of its money appeared to flow from rightist Japanese business interests.
Besides financing a virulent brand of right-wing journalism, The Washington Times and Moon's cult had institutionalized a means of buying influence for its extremist points of view. Through conferences, contributions, and salaries, the Unification Church and its panoply of front groups put money in the pockets of right wing thinkers, conservative journalists and pro military political organizations. During the 1980's, the Reagan White House often used The Washington Times as a billboard for its conservative strategies or as a weapon to attack administration critics. (pgs. 118-119.)
And author/columnist Joe Conason, in an exchange with Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," musing about having a liberal equivalent to Moon, willing to spend huge sums of money on a newspaper: CONASON: It would have been good if somebody had decided to be like Reverend Moon and spend hundred of millions of dollars on the "Washington Times" where Tony Blankley works, which has never made any money. It loses — no, you said the free market, Chris. It's not the free market. The free market isn't what supports the "Washington Times." They can't get any advertising or subscriptions. That is a propaganda operation that is paid for by Reverend Sun Moon. (3)
The Washington Times' so-called "independence" from Moon, although untrue, obscures the larger point: the newspaper was a subsidy to right-wing politics and thus plays a role in molding our society. No doubt Moon's money and front groups have played a role; Moon himself brags that he has "influenced America through the Washington Times and so many different activities." (4)
If you read this report and the articles linked in the notes below, and do your own research, I think you will find that the Washington Times has served Moon's real intentions, to give backbone to hard-right conservatism, driving our country right politically, thus creating a political climate for the theocrats within the Republican Party to flourish. A more theocratic government for the United States is always at the top of Moon's list of things to do. His interim goal is to unite the world's religions under his flag. The closer to theocracy any country is, the easier it will be for his group to manipulate those countries and through them, world events.
Moon's type of theocracy has been described as "Godism," (5) meaning that God will rule the world by speaking through Moon and his organization. This is how Moon described a step in his plan to theocratize our country, as cited in the Fraser Report:
"My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations and Catholics and all the religious sects." (6)
Moon also said in the 1970s that if he couldn't find the people to accomplish his goals using current congressmen, he would make congressmen out of his members. (7) Turns out that wasn't necessary, for as we shall see, he found a willing partner in the new right conservatism now in charge of the Republican Party. In addition to subsidizing this new conservatism with billions of dollars, Moon has also provided "vision" and "leadership" to their efforts. (8)
Representative Jim Leach (R- Iowa) expressed his concerns about Moon's influence on the Republican Party as early as 1983, saying that Moon's organization had "infiltrated the New Right and the party it (the New Right) wants to control, the Republican Party, and infiltrated the media as well." (9)
The Washington Times gave Moon the keys to our political system. U.S. News & World Report stated that by 1989, the church (Unification) has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. ... As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. ....
"Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research. Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role. (10)
Reporting that Moon's organization had "established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation..." is quite a revelation given Moon's stated goals and the authoritarian demands he makes on his followers. Moon's recruits believe him to be the Messiah and that as such he speaks for God. Indeed, in 2003 Moon told his Workshop on Journalism and Media that, "If I say something, you must do it. If you don't, that will be sin." (11)
That's a lot of power to wield over people. John F. Kennedy fought to show that he would not take instructions from his religious leader while performing his duties as a public servant. Kennedy believed in a strong wall between church and state. Moon teaches the opposite, going so far as to say that separation is the desire of the devil. (12) Moon doesn't separate anything he does from his "religion;" political goals and his efforts to manipulate the world are one. Church and state, in his mind, should be one. As cited in the congressional investigation, Moon once told his group that they "cannot separate the political field from the religious." (13)
It is easy to see why the leadership of the conservative movement has feared Moon's influence being exposed within their operation all these years. Claiming to be the "family values" party while working closely with a group famous worldwide for breaking up families makes one look like something well beyond a hypocrite. The relationship not only calls into question conservatism's real "values" but also exposes the movement's lack of judgment in its quest for raw power. Bluntly stated, it shows that the new right's support for the Constitution is quite fraudulent – they've given a seat at the table to a man whose sole intention is to wrench control of the world, a man Time magazine in 1976 quoted as saying, "I want to have new members under me who will be willing to obey me even though they may have to disobey their own parents and the Presidents of their own nations." (14)
Moon supplies money, "leadership" and "vision" to the religious right.
Doug Wead has been a Bush family liaison to the fundamentalist movement and was the man who put together the Inaugural Prayer Luncheon honoring George W. Bush in January of 2001. During the luncheon, Moon spoke and received an award for his "work in support of traditional family values."(15) Wead stated that the American Freedom Coalition (AFC) was one of the two most powerful conservative organizations in the country when fully active.
Here PBS's FRONTLINE in 1992 describes a letter from the head of the AFC to Sun Myung Moon:
AFC President Robert Grant, writing to Reverend Moon, thanks him for investing heavily and "helping to bring the AFC into being." Grant concludes by telling Moon, "Without your leadership, vision and the support of your devoted followers, the AFC would not exist." (16)
Moon, through his fronts, supplied money, "vision" and "leadership" to the conservative movement we see blossoming around us today.
Moon believes he is here to save the entire world, including Christianity. His son Hyo Jin Moon put his father's vision bluntly:"we must restore Christianity." (17) For that restoration to happen, Sun Myung Moon believes he must lead Christians into accepting him and his organization. Moon does not expect everyone to become a member of his group, at least not yet. His first step is to gain acceptance as a legitimate participant in the political dialogue, so that he can operate more freely. The American Freedom Coalition played a role in Moon's plan by gaining acceptance among conservatives, just as the Washington Times did. The AFC was started in 1987, two years before the Christian Coalition was founded. According to Christianity Today the head of the AFC, Robert Grant, explained why the organization, which "would not exist" without Moon, was created. Its purpose was to bring together not Christian groups, but "Christian Right" groups, the theocrats, for political power:
He (Robert Grant) emphasized that AFC is a political coalition formed because of the "inability of the 'Christian Right' to achieve its agenda" due to its "fragmentation and its failure to build coalitions with its philosophical allies from other communities for effective civic participation." (18)
Moon describes what he is doing as "the natural subjugation of the American government and population." (19) We are to go willingly, naturally. Moon doesn't have to force it; the Christian right and the conservative movement have been bringing us all along as they have accepted Moon's money and influence. Here is how Moon's son, Hyo Jin Moon, put it while speaking to members of Moon's organization in 1991:
We must make Christianity understand and help them be responsible through their own volition. That is why Father has picked these Christian people. It's not because they are becoming subject over you, don't look at it in the scheme of subject and object. We are in the course of restoration and we must restore Christianity. That means we must motivate them, just as God motivated Adam. God gave Adam a certain commandment, however, He did not manipulate Adam to perfect himself. No, that portion of Adam's responsibility was crucial. There has to be a condition within the Christian community of fulfilling their own responsibility. It is our duty to motivate Christian people so that they can ultimately realize who Father is and support Father's work. (20)
To reach his goals, Moon must move the country theocratic. With the Washington Times propping up right-wing politics, Moon has been busy picking up the naive religious right by the scruff of the neck and leading them to control of our government. Looking around our political landscape today, one can see that Moon's efforts have been quite successful. Electing George W. Bush will obviously continue to speed up the process, but even if he is defeated in November of 2004, it won't stop the direction we are heading – increasingly rightward and theocratic. Already, the party currently in control of all three branches of the United States government should rightfully be called The American Theocratic Party.
The Republican Party is controlled by theocrats.
The Republican Party would have you believe that they are the "big tent" party. In fact, the group with overwhelming control of Republican Party policies is a theocratic movement, nurtured over the years by Moon's money and his fronts, such as CAUSA and the American Freedom Coalition mentioned above.
In October 2002, Republicans proposed and Congress voted on HR 2357, The House of Worship Political Speech Protection Act, which would have allowed churches to spend up to 20% of their collection plates on partisan politics and still remain tax exempt.
It isn't hard to figure out which churches would take advantage of that bill. The Episcopal Church, USA and the Interfaith Alliance view HR 2357 and its latest incarnation before Congress, HR 235, as doing roughly the same thing. Commenting on HR 235, the Alliance said the "bill would turn the inner sanctuaries and pulpits of America's houses of worship into partisan political rally halls." (21)
These unnecessary bills over time would destroy any separation of church and state, something Moon says is "what Satan likes most." (22) It's hard to imagine a bill such as HR 2357 even being proposed 25 years ago. It certainly wouldn't have received any significant support. The vote was in essence a vote to provide the funding for the theocratization of the American government.
Has Moon's influence helped to make our country more theocratic?
Although defeated, 168 out of 214 Republicans in the House voted for HR 2357, the so-called House of Worship Political Speech Protection Act.
Here's the link to the 2002 vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll429.xml
That's 168 out of 214 Republican House members, a mind-boggling 78%, who voted for the theocratization of our government. The hard-line Republicans voted for this when in fact, the majority of the clergy in America do not want to see a situation where preachers are endorsing politicians from the pulpit, which is precisely where this type of legislation would lead. The Republican theocrats don't care what the majority of the clergy think; they want to empower the small percentage who will use their church's collection plates to support theocratic and extreme right-wing agendas.
Here's the Interfaith Alliance, commenting on HR 235, the latest bill currently being proposed by the Republicans to make us a more theocratic nation. This legislation travels under the deceptive name, "Houses Of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act." This bill is unwanted and unneeded by America's clergy. In a recent Gallup/Interfaith Alliance Foundation poll, a full 77% of clergy were opposed to their fellow clergy endorsing political candidates. Another poll conducted by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, found that 70% of Americans feel that houses of worship should not come out in favor of one candidate over another during political elections. (23)
As the survey implies, most churches would not likely get involved in local elections, giving a huge advantage to, you guessed it, politically-driven, right-wing theocratic churches. The moderate-to-liberal churches would be forced in self-defense to participate in something they see as wrong.
Non-citizen Moon, by spending billions of agenda-driven dollars, has played a major role in bringing our country's political system to where it is today. In my opinion, the religious right, which has effective control of the conservative movement, which in turn has effective control of and influence over the Republican Party and the Bush administration, has become Moon's theocratic political army. They have become the soldiers in Moon's "natural subjugation of the American government and population." (24)
Although the press doesn't report it, the Republican leadership no longer hides its theocratic desires. Not only do they propose and overwhelmingly support bills such as HR 2357 and its newest face, HR 235, but they have gone as far as to work with Moon's organization to promote Bush's Faith-Based Initiative. Bush's initiative, as originally proposed, included direct payments to churches and backdoor deals to get around time honored regulations. "Moon Shadow," an article by Rob Boston and published by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, explored the Moon fronts used by the Bush administration to promote the funding of churches with taxpayer dollars. These actions amount to Bush literally using Moon, the grand theocrat, to help tear down the wall between church and state.
From the Americans United article:
To preview the (J.C.) Watts "faith-based" summit, Moon did a whirlwind tour of all 50 states in March and April, called the "We Will Stand Tour," to discuss family issues and plug the Bush proposal. ...The "faith-based summit" itself was sponsored by Watts (R-Okla.), Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and other top congressional Republicans, but efforts to promote it at the grassroots level were turned over to a Moon organization.
While a number of Republican-aligned private organizations have promoted President George W. Bush's religion funding scheme, only Moon won an official relationship with the Republican leadership to rally grassroots forces on behalf of the "faith-based" summit. This enhanced status enabled him to do grassroots political organizing and religious recruitment with the apparent blessing of Bush and his GOP allies in Congress. (25)
Moon working with conservatives behind the scenes to influence our society politically is nothing new. It has been going strong ever since Moon was a guest at the Reagan-Bush inaugural in 1981 and he was welcomed into the conservative movement. Moon, the master of illusion, has been used by conservatives to fool America. Again from the Americans United article:
Frederick Clarkson, a journalist who has studied Moon and other far-right movements, notes that Moon specializes in the creation of "Astroturf organizations," groups that appear to have grassroots power but that in reality speak mostly for Moon. Moon has used these groups to curry favor with Republicans for more than 30 years, Clarkson said, and is revving them up again to help the new Bush administration.
"Whenever the conservatives identify an issue as important to their agenda, Moon creates an Astroturf organization to create the appearance of grassroots support for these initiatives," Clarkson said. (26)
So you see, Moon's molding and manipulation of the new conservatism in America has been going on under the radar for many years, with TV coverage of his activities non-existent. Television news refuses to tell the American public about the Unification Church leader's goals and efforts, and as a result, few know who Moon is, let alone the daily influence he has on our political system and thus all our lives.
Moon has been working on America since he sent Bo Hi Pak, his long-time right-hand man, to America in the early 1960s to prepare the way. Carla Binion reported the following on information provided by Robert Roland, a witness before the Fraser Committee who dined with Pak in the early 1960s: Roland said that after dinner one evening, Pak revealed "step by step how the destiny of mankind was in the hands of a Korean named Moon." When Roland asked what his aim was in Washington, Pak said, "I must lay a firm foundation for Master by making influential political and social contacts." (27)
In the 1980s, Moon's lieutenant, Pak, made no secret of the group's goal to manipulate our political system to meet their ends. U.S. News & World Report quoted Pak as he stated the Moon organization's vision of our country's future: "We are going to make it where no one can run for office in the United States without our permission." (28)
In the January 1986 Mother Jones magazine, Carolyn Weaver wrote an article entitled "Unholy Alliance" in which she covered some of the growing ties between the Moon organization and the evangelical movement in America. Over the years, Moon has funded many on the right including Jerry Falwell (29), but Weaver reported an even odder contact for Pak's efforts at laying a "firm foundation for Master" – none other than Left Behind author Tim LaHaye. LaHaye has received funding from Moon and has given Moon's group a ringside seat to the religious right's efforts. Here is an excerpt of a dictated letter uncovered by Weaver, from LaHaye to Bo Hi Pak, thanking Pak for his help, advising him of the right's latest efforts and fishing for more Moon money:
Bo Hi, I am encouraged! Amid the bad signs I see today, I also detect a lot of good signs. The secretary of education, Don Regan, Ed Meese, Pat Buchanan and many others. Even physical ailments to three of the 76 (year old) flaming liberal Supreme Court justices. Bev was invited to the White House yesterday and was introduced to over 300 conservative leaders as "the president of the largest women's organization in America - over twice as large as NOW"... and was extended a thunderous applause. ...
Once again, my friend, I am in your debt for your generous help to our work. You don't know how timely it was! This move and reorganization of the whole ministry to free me for more time in Washington and ACTV (American Coalition for Traditional Values) activities has been extremely expensive, much more so than I originally thought. But I see daylight down the road and feel it is all part of the Master's plan. As soon as I can afford it, I plan to hire a PR firm to give more coverage for ACTV, get our message to the people. (30)
The Washington Timesfor its part has been a huge cog in Moon's plans. It provided the push, the backbone to hard-right politics while Moon's real agenda, a more theocratic United States, was pushed within the Republican Party. The problem is that Moon and all his followers could fall off the face of the earth tomorrow and it would not change the theocratic direction in which those empowered by Moon are taking our country.
Marching to Moonification
Likely knowing the value of an artfully-presented message, and undoubtedly skilled at public relations, here Moon instructs his followers to cultivate silence as they work to bring his vision to fruition.
"If the U.S. continues its corruption, and we find among the Senators and Congressmen no one really usable for our purpose, we can make Senators and Congressmen out of our members…I have met many famous, so-called famous, Senators and Congressmen; but to my eyes, they are nothing. They are weak and helpless. We will win the battle. This is our dream, our project. But shut your mouth tight." (31)
Moon himself has given orders not to spill the beans as to how the organization often operates in the political arena. The Fraser Report found that: In 1974, while preparing his followers for a demonstration at the U.N. against withdrawal of troops from South Korea Moon said: "You must remember that you should not be saying anything in political terms. You must say, "We are not concerned about political things. We are not doing this for political reasons, but out of humanitarian motivation." (32)
Often Moon has predicted dates by which he would control our country and the world. When one looks at his agenda and the new Republican Party's control over our government and their efforts of late, one can see that he is correct. We are heading where he has wanted us to go all along. The Bush administration recently gave nearly half a million dollars to the Moon organization to teach our kids not to have sex. (33) I believe he had himself "crowned" recently on Capital Hill (34) because he knows he has accomplished what he intended. We are being "naturally" subjugated. We are going, with the help of what might best be called the 'cult of conservatism,' where Moon wants us to go.
Here is how Moon described his efforts in 1997:
The famous term "melting pot" is always used to describe America. However, Reverend Moon came to America over twenty-five years ago but he has not become Americanized at all. Rather he has caused America to become Moonized. (35)
Was Moon the only person involved in driving our country right? Of course not. But take for instance Richard Mellon Scaife, the person most point to as the main sugar daddy of the right; Scaife will have to go some to match Moon when it comes to spending targeted, agenda-driven dollars and creating front groups to promote his political goals. The Washington Post reported that Scaife has donated 600 million dollars to conservative causes over the past 40 years.(36) Moon spent a couple billion, at least, on the Washington Times alone - in 20 years. (37) For that matter, as noted in the U.S News & World Report article quoted above, the Heritage Foundation, one of Scaife's biggest beneficiaries, was compromised by the Moon organization long ago.
To think Moon does anything not designed to reach his personal goals is ignoring who Moon is, what he says and his past actions. The Washington Times has not been stagnant the last 20 years. Moon may be rarely seen around the office today, but his impact on the paper is undeniable. Wes Pruden, the current man in charge at the Washington Times, is the appropriately right-wing person to run your paper if your goal is driving a country's politics rightward. Pruden, described by Bo Hi Pak as "the soul and conscience in the newsroom," (38) may be free as a bird, but in my opinion, to say he isn't helping Moon's agenda is ludicrous. Anyone who takes Moon's money, works for his front groups, and speaks on his behalf can be seen as furthering Moon's overall agenda. Even if it were just the credibility Pruden gives Moon by introducing him at functions, it still helps Moon move his ball down the field. Remember, Moon himself said this about his movement: "we cannot separate the political field from the religious." (39)
The Washington Times is not a product of the free market of ideas. The paper has never reported a profit.(40) Moon himself admitted that he had spent a billion dollars on the paper by 1991.(41) Although most reports today estimate Moon's subsidy to the Washington Times at around two billion dollars, (42) conservative Joseph Farah recently estimated the figure to be closer to four billion during an interview with journalist John Gorenfeld.(43) Pruden may have convinced himself that his views have been mainstreamed because of his talents. But in reality his ideas have been pumped into the political dialogue with the backing of the conservative's number one sugar daddy, the man who led them out of the 40-year liberal wilderness, their political savior, Sun Myung Moon.
The former governor of Virginia, A. Linwood Holton, is a member of a group of Republicans who, as their name implies, are trying to get their party to "Come Back to the Mainstream." According to an Associated Press report, the "problem lies with the 'extremist element that controls the Republican party,' Holton said, 'which has polarized this country.'" (44)
Sun Myung Moon has had as much to do with the changes within the conservative movement, the Republican Party and the political landscape of the United States as any man alive and yet the broadcast media and most of the print media continue to keep the American public in the dark on the subject.
The money to influence America.
The Moon organization admits that much of the money for their operations in the United States has come from Japan.(45) Recently, this flow of cash has been slowed somewhat as the Japanese legal system has tried to protect its citizens from what some call Moon's "swindling" followers (46) who engage in "spiritual sales," the selling of ginseng, marble jars, small statues and other items with purported supernatural qualities.(47) In Japan the courts ruled that Moon's "church" had perpetrated "unlawful acts" defrauding hundreds of millions of dollars from the citizens of Japan. In the very non-litigious Japan, there are now some 20,000 claims against the Moon organization totaling several hundred million dollars. (48) Japanese widows are among the more vulnerable people targeted by Moon's followers. (49) For years critics have pondered the sources of Moon's seemingly never ending flow of cash. Thanks to the Japanese legal system, and to former church members speaking out, we now know that much of Moon's money used to further his conservative agenda in America has come from fraudulent, high-pressure, intimidating sales tactics used on vulnerable widows and others in Japan. (50)
However, as much as Moon reaped from the practice of "spiritual sales" in Japan, that apparently was not the extent of his international dealings. In his forthcoming book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, Robert Parry, the former Associated Press and Newsweek journalist who exposed much of the Iran Contra affair and who is a long-time Moon watcher, explores the source of Moon's money and alleged ties to organized crime. Writing for Consortium News, Parry notes that Limited investigations of Moon's organization have revealed large sums of money flowing into the United States mostly from untraceable accounts in Japan, where Moon had close ties to yakuza gangster Ryoichi Sasakawa. Former Moon associates also have revealed major money flows from shadowy sources in South America, where Moon built relationships with right-wing elements associated with the cocaine trade, including the so-called Cocaine Coup government of Bolivia in the early 1980s. (51)
Many countries around the world do not open their arms and welcome Moon's influence on their societies. Germany and the United Kingdom do not allow Moon to personally enter their countries. (52) In June of 2004, Moon's "church" - which Honduran Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Rodriguez described as a "pernicious plague" (52) - was denied legal status in Chile because it found "the sect a danger to society and internal order." One report from Chile said that, "The government says Moon's doctrine 'injures the political stability of the democratic system that governs the nation' and promotes conflict among the legislative, executive and judicial branches." (54)
Does that remind you of any country?


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By Caroline McGraw [1] May 08, 2014 0 [2]
The Mouthwash Dance
I'm looking out the window, admiring the glories of spring. In the stillness, a convicting inner voice comes through: Honey, you haven't been paying attention. All this beauty surrounds you, and lately, you aren't pausing long enough to take it in. The voice is right. I've been moving through my days on autopilot, focused on efficiency rather than relationship. I haven't been stopping to smell the roses, literally or metaphorically.
Willie's 27th birthday is coming up this week, and my 29th is around the corner. But wasn't Willie's 26th birthday [3] just moments ago? Time isn't going to slow its relentless pace; I'm the one who needs to change. It's time to start living life rather than just "getting through" it. Thankfully, I've had some wonderful teachers in the art of being present. In my role as a direct-care assistant for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at L'Arche, I learned a great deal about slowing down. While on routine, I was always tempted to check off tasks quickly. I had to set limits on that desire for efficiency, because it didn't promote independence and growth for my housemates.
For example, my friend Theresa* moves at her own pace. She peels her hard-boiled eggs with precise, deliberate movements. On harried mornings, you can peel the egg for her and shorten your routine. But you don't want to do that unless it's necessary. Why not? Because it matters to Theresa that she peels her own egg. It takes more time, yes, but it's important to her. It doesn't matter if I can do it faster or "better" … because it isn't mine to do. At L'Arche, I learned to respect what didn't belong to me. Recalling this, I wonder: What if I offered myself the same respect I offered my friends? What if I could honor my own processes, the time it takes me to take a shower or eat a meal without rushing?
Working with Theresa also taught me that, while I couldn't always speed up our tasks, I could make them more fun. When I started helping Theresa with her twice-daily mouthwash, the 30 seconds she was meant to spend swishing felt like an eternity. Each day, I dreaded the countdown. (Several folks at L'Arche use mouthwash twice per day, so assistants count to 30 a lot.) Then one day, when I was in a buoyant mood, I sang the numbers. Theresa started swaying her hips; she loves to dance. In a flash, I saw a way to break up the monotony of mouth washing. I thought, We'll always have to spend 30 seconds doing this, so why not make it fun?
That day, the "mouthwash dance" was born. From then on, whenever I was on routine, I'd say, "And now, it's time for … the mouthwash dance!" I'd wave my arms and stomp my feet, and Theresa would grin. For 30 seconds, we'd both go wild. That dance break became a treasured point of connection. (And to think I used to dread those 30 seconds!) This spontaneous innovation has had staying power; years later, assistants still teach "the mouthwash dance" as part of orientation. It may not last forever, and that's perfectly fine. The idea wasn't to start a tradition; instead, the point was to bring delight into an existing requirement. Willie knows this lesson well. I smile as I remember him coming downstairs with his shoes on the wrong feet, his shirt on backwards. Willie loves to play pranks; he reminds me of the simple joys of being silly.
In that light, I consider my current routine, wondering: What part of my day do I dread, and how could I make it fun? Washing dishes comes to mind; it only takes a minute, but I don't enjoy it. So what if I sang as I scrubbed? Today, I know what song I'd choose: Ray LaMontagne's "You Are The Best Thing." Theresa loves that song. I picture her dancing, and a group of L'Arche assistants--myself included—joining in. We're letting loose, staying in the moment, singing words that are simple and true: ou are the best thing/That ever happened to me.
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Kofi Annan To Teach At Columbia
In addition to his Columbia SIPA affiliation, Annan will take on a broad, flexible role in other parts of university life.
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Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations will be a Columbia Global Fellow, the New York City-based university announced this week.
Columbia University's President Lee C. Bollinger said its part of a new initiative to bring distinguished leaders to campus to play significant roles in "designing, shaping and implementing solutions to critical international problems."
Two additional Columbia Global Fellows will join Annan in Morningside Heights next year. They are Alfred Gusenbauer, former chancellor of Austria, and Tung Chee Hwa, former chief executive of Hong Kong, said John Coatsworth, dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
"The Columbia Global Fellows program will bring students together with global practitioners to provide firsthand knowledge of experiences in the life of an international or public figure," Coatsworth said. "Fellows will serve as important resources for academic and professional programs across the university through public lectures, seminar meetings with faculty and students, mentoring Columbia SIPA students, and providing advice on research and teaching in their areas of knowledge and experience."
"Understanding the issues arising out of the forces of globalization is a key part of Columbia's intellectual agenda," said Bollinger, the University's president. "No one can help more in that quest than the former secretary general of the U.N. and international statesman, Kofi Annan."
Annan and the U.N. itself shared the Nobel Peace Prize for 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." He currently leads the Kofi Annan Foundation and is an active chairman of the board for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, among many other activities.
In addition to his Columbia SIPA affiliation, Annan will take on a broad, flexible role in other parts of university life. He will serve concurrently, for example, as a fellow on Columbia's Committee on Global Thought, chaired by Nobel laureate and University Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz.
The university anticipates that Annan's activities on campus will include giving lectures or smaller talks, hosting or participating in meetings and conferences, and moderating events with faculty or visiting speakers who participate in Columbia's World Leaders Forum. He will also participate in the activities of Columbia's Earth Institute along with its director Jeffrey D. Sachs, who served as a special adviser to Annan on the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals.
In light of the recent launch of Columbia Global Centers in Beijing and Amman, and with additional international centers anticipated in the future, the university looks forward to Annan's participation in occasional events and programs abroad.
"The Columbia Global Fellows program expands on a long tradition at the university, in particular at SIPA, of engaging world leaders in its research and educational mission," added Coatsworth. "From Columbia's World Leaders Forum to special lectures and ongoing collaborative research projects, policymakers from around the world serve as a bridge between faculty, students and a global community that faces tough policy issues on a daily basis."
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Fractured (Everything I Said Was True) Lyrics
Your story only tells one side, it's based on fact, but filled with lies
(you'd be rich if each was worth a dime)
I played my part and that's defined, you played the field on borrowed time
(and I know that fault was all but mine)
I chose to let you in, you chose to pull away
I jumped right out of my skin, when I heard you say
"Everything I said was true, everything except that I love you"
If it's not me, then who? I think I deserve to know, now we're through and through
No glory resides inside my mind, at least I never crossed the line
(cause I don't need the distraction)
But an angel appeared on your devil's side, nowhere to run nowhere to hide
(I'm just a nickel with traction)
So should we say goodnight, and give it one more try?
This isn't worth the fight, so let's just say goodbye
everything I said was true, everything except I loves you too
and if it's not me, it's you! I thought you deserved to know now we're through and through
Sad to see forethought after me cause, that's not fair
put yourself in my shoes and become the fractured one cause
I no longer care!
Everything I said was true, everything except that I love you
and if it's not me, fuck you! I thought you deserved to know now I'm through with you!


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King Khan's upcoming sci-fi thriller promises to chill you to the bone with edge-of-the-seat action. Here's a sneak peek at to what's to come.
SRK plays the father Shekhar Subramaniam, who is trying real hard to fit in his son's world. In the midst of this is a mother who tries to make peace between her husband's attempts in transforming into the ideal dad and the man she loves. Shekhar constantly perseveres to become 'cool' and make his son proud. But alas, every attempt disappoints his son further. That's until he creates a deadly game!
The game soon turns 'deadly' literally. All hell breaks loose when the game that was meant to be played with, starts playing them.
With this interesting premise, Shah Rukh Khan already has us in his grips. We can't wait to watch the film releasing on October 26!