APR-B-1

EVENTS AROUND THE 106^TH RUNNING OF THE BOSTON MARATHON,
PRE-DEPARTURE FOR DHARAMSALA AND NEPAL

1. INDEX  to the events of the Apr-B-series
2. The presentation by my students Elizabeth Yellen and John Sutter on Ladakh and Malawi. 
3. The logistics and itinerary of our Dharamsala medical mission in the Sherboling Monastery and Barot village in the Dhaulidar Range of the Himalaya. 
4. The trip to Nepal for the participants who fly directly into  Kathmandu, to await my arrival from Dharmsala via Delhi, and the setting up the medical camp at Lukla for the Sherpa patients of the surrounding Everest region. 
5. The detailed itinerary of the Nepal medical mission at Lukla, and the Everest Trek Route, and ascent up Kala Pathar and Everest Base Camp. 
6. A response to the questions about Iodine Deficiency in the extinction of Neandertals, with a note on my part in speculation on a current model under observation in Mindanao: the competition of immigrant Visayan in extinguishing. Tboli cultural claims and displacing them further into the mountains as refugees and unsuccessful hypothyroid competitors.  
7. The events of the weekend in Boston of the 106^th running of the venerable Boston Marathon:  From BWI through PVD and on to the Back Bay Hilton for the rendezvous with the Clarks and Dysons and the AMAA—the Ron Lawrence Roast, the Expo and the Grand Event itself on a New England Spring Patriot’s Day weekend as the world record marathon time is shortened by 3 seconds—but not in Boston . 
8. A club member follows my progress through the Boston Marathon following the Champion Chip on-line—the first recorded use of my chip in real time—and my advice to him as an “On the Course Coach”  
9. Jon and Mary Bennet Poehlman tell of the life and death of the Nkosi Mzukazuka in Malawi. 

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