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lection handily Oct. 27, 2012 - Spoke at Panel of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Achievement. Panel held at Top of the Hay Adams in the Hay-Adams Hotel. I led off the panel speaking on Ending the AIDS Pandemic and an AIDS-Free Generation. Followed by Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Louise Gluck and Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien. Night of Oct. 27 went to Gala Dinner of the Academy at the Willard Hotel - Reception is Crystal Room; Black Tie Dinner in Willard Room. Typical classy Catherine and Wayne Reynolds Affair. Great entertainment topped off by Aretha Franklin. Again, Catherine and Wayne gave Chris and me the best tables right in front of the stage. Usual terrific guests. Wolf Blitzer MC'd. Colin Powell was dancing on stage with Aretha Franklin. Lots of fun. At my Table - Chris and Kathleen Matthews, Bill Cohen and wife Janet Langhart; current USA Poet Laureate Natasha Threthewey, economist (?) and his girlfriend Heather Hughes (29 yrs old and amazingly beautiful and friendly), Attorney General Eric Holder and wife Dr. Sharon Malone. Oct. 29, 2012 - Beginning of monster hurricane "Sandy". Supposed to be the worst storm in memory with convergence of a true Atlantic Ocean Hurricane with a Nor-Easter coming from Canada and the West. All airports (DCA, IAD LGA Kennedy, etc) and public ground transportation (Amtrack, METRO, NYC subways) up the entire East Coast of USA pre-emptively closed prior to the storm. Storm scheduled to peak here in DC tonight and into tomorrow. I came to work since there is an almost 100% chance that my house will lose power since even lesser storms cause power outages in my neighborhood. Likely will sleep here at NIH tonight. Stay tuned...... Oct. 30 - Nov. 3, 2012- "Sandy" totally devastated parts of the East Coast, particularly NYC and New Jersey shore. One of the worst, if not the worst "natural" disasters to strike NYC. Wall Street under water. Flooding of the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel and all NYC subway tunnels. Con Ed plant exploded and all of lower Manhattan without power. Had to evacuate Bellevue-NY University Hospital. Atlantic City destroyed. Truly historic. Nov. 6, 2012 - As I had predicted over and over again, Obama won re-election handily with 330 electoral votes. Nov. 7-8, 2012 - Went to San Francisco to give Keynote at 25th Anniversary of CFAR and 25th Anniversary of FDA approval of AZT. Great trip. Went to Stanford during the day to see Ali before going to SF. Nov. 19, 2012 - Appeared on ABC's ONLINE TV show hosted by Christianne Amanpour on the subject of the ongoing dengue epidemic in India as well as in Madeira and Puerto Rico. These ONLINE shows are fast becoming the new type of news outlets. A cross between regular TV and a blog. Nov. 27, 2012 - I present the C. Everett Koop HIV/AIDS Public Health Leadership Award to Rep. Henry Waxman at the Mayflower Hotel. The award is given by the Forum for HIV/AIDS chaired by Veronica Miller. I gave a nice laudation with slides