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Born in Pittsburgh, PA - Son of John David Zill & Martha Caroline Beitle Zill; Grandson of John Joseph [Zilinsky] Zill & Edith Wilhelmina Scheider Zill ... Jacob August Beitle & Anna Margaret Kohser Beitle ... My Family Tree on Ancestry.com is listed as: Zill Zilinsky Scheider Beitle Kohser Sentner Taucher Campbell Vogel
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I just noted that I created duplicates so I posted the images onto your memorials. Also I sent an edit request for W Bauer to change his first name to William as per the marker. I will delete mine. :)
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Thank you, Wayne! I (Debbie) am dlbrigante over at ancestry.com. My membership isn't paid up at the moment, so I don't know if I can see you/the tree that way. I will email you as well. My tree for this branch is "Johnson/Bullard," at ancestry. Thank you so much for your help!
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I hope you are well. I just wanted to make a connection as we are descendants of the Kohser family as well. Thank you for your work getting the memorial pages put up. We are descended from Charles Jr. and his wife Edna Balsinger. I believe Charles (Jr.) had 14 children. I think he was widowed young possibly and married again. We have Edna's death and possible burial as Pittsburgh in 1974, and Charles Jr. as having died in 1956. I have seen an image of his obituary, but I do not have a copy. Any information you can provide about our branch would be so appreciated! We are on the other side of the country so distance makes the search more difficult. Thank you for all of your hard work! It was such fun to show our children the picture of Charles and Catherina, their ggg-grandparents!
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Thank you for the SEIF pictures
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Thank you for such a quick reply. I was so surprised to see it listed. I did add a photo of the back side of the headstone.
What do I do to maintain it? Just answer emails?
Let me know.
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Just wondering why you took a picture of my husband's headstone? Did you know him? M Walters
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I found the headstone for Mary Beet and have posted the picture. It looks like her death date was 1984. ;)
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I posted a picture of Mary M Allison's grave. FYI The year of death on the headstone is 1939.
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may you never be forgotten
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for the grave photo you posted!!
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this is Luther Minton Ogilvie (1874-1948)
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Along with tours of the former LTV plant, came updates about construction, hiring, and investments in the company.
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Brazil is awesome. The 20+ hour itinerary wasn't. I'm not going to complain about that stuff though. The place I'm staying in is a decent shared accomodation type house with like 10 of us from the states, canada, UK, etc. I'm in a bunk bed until I get ahold of my own room in a month or so. The weather is nice but not too hot. It's their winter, which basically means everyday is like a nice day in Chilliwack.
We headed down to an outdoor bar thing around 2:30 and Rio de Janeiro basically shut the **** down so that everyone could watch the soccer game. During the soccer today they were so ******* enthusiastic and excitable, it's really charming. People are super friendly. A dude I was sitting next to on the plane turned out to be a pretty high ranking jiu jitsu guy and had a tattoo on his arm of the gym I'm headed to...seemed kind of fateful. I'll catch up with him later, he says he's going to show me a bit of the Brazil experience in a few different senses.
The women are definitely hotter than average and usually just my type =). I met this girl from Australia and her Brazilian friend sitting in the airport so I'll see if they'll take me out to see Rio at some point. I've already had a few confusing language barrier moments. Even in Southeast Asia I could pretty much get by entirely on English, but I'm going to have to learn a few things out here. Going to grab some groceries and do my first day of training tomorrow.
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The women's team took first place in the team competition, and also swept the top three spots individually at the Kachina Classic.
Junior Diana Hawk led the women's team and finished first overall with a time of 19:11.90, which marks a season-best time for her in the 5K event.
Hawk was named the WAC Female Athlete of the Week for her performance at the Kachina Classic last week.
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This is the third consecutive race that the women's team has won, and the fourth consecutive race that Hawk has finished first overall.
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Will be watching USA play. Is Mike Lowell in this though?
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Just a few months ago, we worried on this page that the $700 billion bailout of the financial services industry Congress enacted last September would suck up so much money—and increase the federal deficit so much—that it would be impossible to pass the massive public investment program that would be necessary to keep the recession from turning into a depression.
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This is a key moment to broaden a critical understanding of how the economy works. It's good to know what a collateralized debt obligation is, but it's much more important to recognize how three decades of stagnating real wages for a majority of U.S. households contributed to the explosion in debt that is now sending shrapnel around the globe.
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The La Vida Locash crew have been running things here in Sweden for 10 years now and they're celebrating with a huge birthday bash in Stockholm on friday that includes performances from Swedish house hero Adrian Lux, electro pop heroes Lo Fi Fnk, producer Kocky and Alexis Weak etc. If you're around then head on over to Färgfabriken for a night that most likely will be legendary.
To promote the extravaganza, they gave us a mix with the best dance tracks from their catalogue, put it on and float away to La Vida land. And as a special treat, we have two spots on the guestlist for the first two people to e-mail us.
La Vida Locash – 10 Year Anniversary Dance Mix (zShare)
Details for the party along with tracklist for the mix after the jump.
Swedish producer Kocky teams up with singstress Noonie Bao for the single "Prison Break" and the rising star on the Swedish techhouse scene, Adrian Lux, comes along to strip down the track and also turning it into an epic techy moment.
Kocky (ft. Noonie Bao) – Prison Break (Adrian Lux remix) (YSI)
Kocky (ft. Noonie Bao) – Prison Break (Adrian Lux remix) (Sharebee)
PS. Adrian Lux, his label La Vida Locash teamed up with the fine people over at up and coming Swedish clothing label Uniforms For The Dedicated, they're now offering 5 limited edition jackets. Go over here for a chance to get your mitts on the Adrian Lux designed goodies.
Grab the single here.
Swedens new hope when it comes to housemusic (check our previous post), Adrian Lux, returns after a Swedish minitour with fellow labelmate Kocky to deliver a grand mixtape. The first track on the mixtape, the epic "Strawberry" will be released on La Vida Locash August 20th. Adrian will also be playing live at Grolsch Block Party this friday.
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1. Strawberry (Rice Twins Remix) – Adrian Lux
2. Shadows (Adrian Lux Booleg Remix) – Pryda
3. Turn Out (Adrian Lux Let me Show You Love Mashup) – Pryda
4. Miami Push – Boris Rush (Adrian Lux – Blaqstarr – Shake It To The Ground (Claude Von Stroke Remix) Mashup)
5. Virgin Suicide (We Are Your Friends Acapella Play) – Adrian Lux
6. Activator (Deep Dish Edit) – Whatever Girl
7. Gary (Carl Craig Remix) – Tiga
8. Strawberry – Adrian Lux
9. Greece 2000 – Three Drives On A Vinyl (Adrian Lux – Cirez D – The Journy Mashup)
10. Get Down (Japanese Popstars Remix) – Groove Armada
11. White Knight Part 2 (Adrian Lux Bootleg Remix) – Surkin
12. Call Me (Blende Remix) – Bodysnatchers
13. In da Club (Chocolate Puma Dub) – Copyright
14. Apple (Bart B More Remix) – Sander Van Doorn
Alot of Swedish stuff popping up at the moment. This is the latest effort from wonder producer Kocky, a remix of the single "Bed Of Nails" by up and coming East London singer Leon Jean Marie
Kocky is back with the new album "Stadium Status" (drops on April 30th) and this new single "4 Ever Juvenile" sees grime poster boy Tinchy Stryder throwing some bars. The La Vida Locash crew hit us up with this hot clubified remix by Krames, one of our favorite dj's/producers right now who we'll be happy to see make it big in 2008. A fidgety and wobbly bassline combined with that housey beat and some sweet soulful singing from Daniel Dermes + rapping from Tinchy makes this a lethal combination.
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Kocky (ft. Tinchy Stryder) – 4 Ever Juvenile (Start The Violence! Krames remix) (zShare)
Also, La Vida Locash are putting together a label night and relaseparty for "Stadium Status" with performances from among others Kocky, Alexis Weak, Noonie Bao and Adrian Lux etc. It will all go down on May 2nd at Hux Flux in Stockholm and the whole thing will be broadcasted live on the interweb by Arena Grande. So, it doesn't matter if you're sitting in an apartment in New York or chillin' on a beach in Australia, you'll be able to check out some of the finest Sweden has to offer. The event will, according to the La Vida Locash boys, "be completely insane"!
Plus, our southern Sweden peeps will be able to catch Kocky with Familjen on the 24th in Lund together with our friends in Pastell Crew. If you wanna win a free ticket, just holla at us before wednesday (23/4) with the answer to this question: What was the production name Kocky used when he did hip-hop beats back in the day?


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How Derby Telegraph raised concerns about Al-Madinah faith free school
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Hopes were high as the city's first faith free school, Al-Madinah , was set up in 2012 but how did everything go so wrong in less than 12 months?
IT is easy to imagine that the "dysfunctional" and "inadequate" school the inspectors from Ofsted found last October had been in the same chaotic state since it was opened.
The school, one of Michael Gove's flagship free schools, opened its doors to the first 200 or so pupils in September 2012.
It had been in the planning stages, aided by Government officials and consultants, for more than 12 months.
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Six months before it opened, and against a background of growing teaching union opposition, trustee Shazia Parveen and would-be principal Andrews Cutts-McKay waxed lyrical about the new venture when they spoke to the Derby Telegraph.
Non-Muslim Mr Cutts-McKay said the culture and ethos of the school would "match his own thinking" and Mrs Parveen said quite simply that he was the "best person for the job".
But, within nine months, Mr Cutts-McKay had resigned and reported the school and its practices to the Department for Education.
Yet a standard initial Department for Education monitoring visit almost three months after the school opened revealed that it was doing well with "no risks or concerns identified" in most areas.
Additionally, there were no safeguarding concerns, which became a massive feature of the subsequent full Ofsted inspection in October 2013, and pupil behaviour in the school was said to be "very impressive".
Governors were praised for their involvement, although there were signs that the lines between governance and leadership were starting to get blurred at this early stage, with a warning from officials that the division of responsibilities between the two needed to be sorted.
Leadership and strategic and educational planning were said to be strong at senior management level and the staff and pupils had praised Mr Cutts-McKay for being a role model and "inspirational leader".
The inspector was keen to see strong middle management developed because of pressure on senior management due to growing numbers at the school.
At this stage, the whole school – both primary and secondary pupils – was occupying rooms in Norman House, Friar Gate.
Originally, the school had been due to open in St Andrew's House, London Road, where the primary pupils were to stay permanently and a secondary department would be housed in a new building nearby.
But, ahead of the September 2012 opening, the trustees said they intended to house the children in temporary accommodation in the office block in Friar Gate.
It was not until early in 2013 that the secondary pupils moved out and into Midland House, Nelson Street, where they will remain officially until the end of the summer term following the decision to axe the department.
Primary pupils will move to the Midland House site by Easter but controversial plans to move any aspect of the school into Hartley House, London Road, have now been totally dropped.
There appear to have been no further official inspections of the school on any site before an emergency inspection was ordered in October 2013 by Schools Minister Lord Nash, following concerns reported in the Derby Telegraph.
But the ensuing damning Ofsted report revealed a complete contrast with the earlier monitoring visit in 2012.
Where attendance had been "good" it was now "worryingly low and declining" and "failures in leadership and management" were "at the heart of the school's dysfunctional situation with "no coherent staffing structure".
By the time the inspectors had arrived, following an urgent investigation into alleged financial irregularities spurred on by whistle-blowing, Mr Cutts-McKay was long gone.
He resigned his position in June 2013 and his place was taken by Dr Stuart Wilson, an interim head, taken on from September to the December.
But by then the damage was done and inspectors had no choice but to close the school during the visit on health and safety grounds and eventually place it in special measures and needing an urgent action plan.
Clearly, things went badly wrong from November 2012 to June 2013 between Mr Cutts-McKay and the trustees – Shazia Parveen, Shahban Rehmat and Ziad Amjad.
Sources close to Mr McKay say that he claims that he was increasingly sidelined by the trustees and became alienated from the financial and strategic planning of the school, despite working 90 hour weeks.
A friend, who did not wish to be named, said: "I think he now realises it was the worst mistake of his life to take up the headship.
"But he believed it could be a good school and was willing it to work.
"He believed wholeheartedly in the ethos but, in the end, it became too hard to be the head there and he was appalled by the way things had declined out of his control.
"So he left and passed on his concerns to the Department for Education, which started its investigations."
A new trust has now been brought in, headed by education expert Barry Day, of the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust, to keep the dream alive through the primary section of the school.
It will be working to turn the school around as continuing investigations into the finances of the school are still ongoing and a monitoring visit is due this term.'CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED AND DAMAGED BY AN IDEOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT'
CRITICS of Education Secretary Michael Gove's free school policy have been quick to savage the move to axe secondary education at Al-Madinah School but still retain the primary section.
Among them is Derby North MP Chris Williamson who said that the action "vindicated" everything he had previously said about the flawed free school programme.
Mr Williamson said: "There was always a high risk that one of Michael Gove's free schools would go disastrously wrong and the Al-Madinah School has demonstrated exactly why the whole programme should be abandoned.
"There is a horrible irony that this has happened in the very city where Mr Gove has tried to score political points by wrongly claiming low school performance in a bid to mislead the public about the standard of education in Derby.
"In fact, local authority-run schools in Derby are among the fastest improving in the land, and it is those very schools which he has criticised which will now need to pick up the pieces and accommodate the pupils let down by his free school programme.
"The ridiculous freedoms granted to free schools by the Government has given unqualified teachers authority to educate on a whim, while he continues to attack the performance of state schools.
"He must now do the decent thing. If he refuses to spike the free school programme in the face of this latest shambles, then he must involve local authorities by giving them a leading role to ensure no more pupils are let down in this way again."
The National Union of Teachers has been involved in a series of disputes between the school and its teaching staff over pay and conditions.
Sue Arguile, secretary of the Derby NUT branch, said: "We are pleased to see the closure of the secondary part of Al-Madinah but disgusted that the educational lives of the children have been disrupted and damaged by an ideological experiment on the part of the Secretary of State for Education, Mr Gove.
"We would like to see the school close completely and Mr Gove abandon his ill-conceived free school programme before any more children have to go through the experience of those at Al-Madinah.
"Several primary schools are expanding and I would advise parents of children still at Al-Madinah School to apply for places in city council-run schools where they will receive quality, inclusive education provided by qualified teachers."THE CHEQUERED HISTORY OF CITY INSTITUTION MADE POSSIBLE BY NEW POLICY
School opens in Friar Gate to about 200 pupils.
Positive monitoring report from Ofsted which said the school had made "an excellent start in translating its aspirational vision into practice".
Rumours start about Government investigation into financial irregularities at the school following complaints to the Department for Education by whistle blowers.
Derby Telegraph publishes story revealing female staff are forced to wear Muslim head coverings, or hijabs, and segregation of boys and girls in classes.
Ofsted inspectors visit school, which closes suddenly at the end of the first day of inspection, for three days, after safeguarding issues.
School reopens.
Schools Minister Lord Nash sends ultimatum letter to trustee Shazia Parveen outlining timescale for deadlines and action plan. He also sends a report into the financial situation at the school carried out by the Education Funding Agency.
First deadline. School publishes changes in policy regarding wearing of hijab, as ordered by Lord Nash.
Ofsted report published, calling the school "dysfunctional" and "inadequate" which prompts Lord Nash to write to the school and say: "I am even more convinced of the need for very decisive and urgent action."
Second deadline passes with no further comment from the Department for Education.
Shazia Parveen announces she will step down as chair of governors and mysteriously adds "as soon as the transition is over".
Deadline for action plan to be submitted and trust chairman Shazia Parveen says the management has done "everything humanly possible to respond professionally in a timely manner to prove we are committed, dedicated and want nothing but good for our communities and children we serve".
Ms Parveen said she and her fellow trustees were asked to resign, claiming that the school would be closed if they did not do so.
Government announces that Barry Day and the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust has been asked to step in to help Al-Madinah School improve and the reports of two financial audits carried out by the Education Funding Agency are published, showing poor accounting and procurement practices.
Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust starts a due diligence exercise in school.
A monitoring inspection report is published by Ofsted which reveals that there was "no improvement" at the school.
Parents get the chance to see a Greenwood Dale school – Nottingham Academy – in action.
Trustees post a message on school website asking parents to remember the school in their prayers.
Founding trustees leave the school and a new trust board under Barry Day is established.
Government says secondary section of Al-Madinah School to be axed from end of summer term.


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During the chairwoman's long introduction of the first speaker, who was apparently a recovering alcoholic who got clean and helped people now or something, Lizzie kept herself distracted by scribbling on the ivory place card that had guaranteed her seat at our table. Alongside the raised letters of her imprinted name, LIZZIE KANE, she had written several variations in blue ink.
"LIZZIE KANE ARMSTRONG. LIZZIE KANE-ARMSTRONG. MRS. LIZZIE ARMSTRONG. MRS. KANE-ARMSTRONG. MRS. ELIZABETH KANE ARMSTRONG. MRS. ARMSTRONG. LIZZIE ARMSTRONG. ELIZABETH CATHRYN KANE ARMSTRONG." And, of course, "MRS. THOMAS ARMSTRONG."
It was a small card, but it was also a boring-as-hell speech, probably the first of many, so Lizzie amused herself by filling it up. Every now and then (when she thought one of us was looking at her), she'd glance over to the pear-shaped diamond on her left hand, pretending to appreciate its sparkle when really she was just trying to provoke and enjoy our envy. It was Lizzie's moment, and I don't begrudge her relishing it. At least, I don't begrudge her much. But it was annoying that she wouldn't just start the story.
I didn't want to be the one to ask her. Mostly because I thought I knew, more or less, how Lizzie would tell the story of her proposal. But also, I just wasn't in the mood. It was an alumnae charity brunch for our sorority, but someone made the idiotic call that it would be in bad taste to serve mimosas and Bloody Marys while fundraising for a halfway house.
Eventually, Becca, who is still single, caught Lizzie's eye during one of her ring-pondering fits and urged her, "So tell us how it happened."
At this, Lizzie expressed surprise that the three of us would be so interested in all the details, but she was just playing a part and giving me a headache. She knew it was her turn. She'd been through this same ritual—in a different seat at different events—when Tara announced she was engaged to Marc or when Henry proposed to me.
Hell, Lizzie even complained to me after Tara showed off her ring, saying that the bride-to-be had milked the moment.
"God, Helen, I'm never getting married," Lizzie had proclaimed to me then, which was over two years ago. "Or, if I do, I'm never telling any of you ladies about it."
I can only guess what charming comments Lizzie must've said about me after Henry popped the question in front of everyone during the senior-year formal, which took me completely by surprise. And, thankfully, it also rendered it unnecessary for me to construct a romantic version of "how it all happened" to tell my girlfriends.
(My engagement ring is still prettier and bigger than the one Lizzie keeps staring at. Good job, Henry.)
"Of course we want the details, Lizzie," I said to her in what would barely qualify as a whisper. "That's why I came to this event. It was $100 a plate for stale croissants. I'm wearing white shoes and pearls on a Saturday morning, and I'm sober. But you got engaged to Tom. So go ahead and spill."
At this, single Becca chuckled, and some old lady from the next table over shushed me so that she could hear the guest speaker talk about the Twelve Steps.
But Lizzie's emerald eyes glared at me. The future Mrs. Armstrong understood that I'd issued her a challenge. It was suddenly Rush Week all over again, and she was my pledge.
So she took a breath, grabbed her glass of water and drank from it. Then, she looked from me to Becca to Tara, and she began her story.
"Well, I mean, it's simple, really. We'd just gotten out of bed, and it was a beautiful morning."
At that, her eyes darted to the centerpiece, her forehead wrinkled with what looked to me like worry.
"I told Tom that I wanted every morning to be like that, to be someplace where I knew we were safe," she said while her focus remained on the petals of a fake daisy bouquet.
"He said, 'I promise to keep you safe if you'll do the same for me.' And then Tom reached under his pillow and pulled out the ring box. I guess it must've been there the whole night. But it was a lovely moment."
I heard single Becca sigh. I saw Tara smile. The magic of romance had worked on them. But I couldn't really feel it. I thought it was bullshit. Elsewhere in this hotel ballroom, our absentee waitress was chatting up one of the only men in the room, some guy forced to escort his mother to this shindig. At another table with the same centerpiece at just that moment, another group of old sorority sisters was probably enjoying the opportunity to reconnect. Up on the stage, that recovering alcoholic lady was talking about Jesus and getting genuinely emotional. She was wearing too much pink and too much eye makeup. She was maybe two minutes away from theatrically sobbing, which I didn't want any part of, so I turned my attention back to Lizzie, whose story wasn't at all what I expected.
I mean, Lizzie's not histrionic, like that alcoholic-in-recovery was about to become, but she's also never told a story that simple and boring before.
Single Becca bought it, though. She had put her hand on Lizzie's in appreciation, and Lizzie was beaming from that, embracing the rare chance to appear gracious about something. (Most of the time, I honestly can't figure out what the deal is with Becca. She probably kept a puppy dog poster on her bedroom wall until her senior year of high school.)
"Seriously, Lizzie, that's it?" I asked her. "That's how Tom proposed to you?"
Again, I got the icy emerald glare.
"Helen, what is it with you today?" Lizzie asked me accusingly. "You don't sound like yourself. Is everything OK?"
"Bad week," I murmured to Lizzie. "Sorry."
Behind Lizzie, the alcoholic had started sobbing into the microphone. Her face was flushed, and her makeup was a disaster, like a kindergartener's watercolor painting hung up before it was dry. Purple and green drops trailed down her cheeks. At one point, the woman had probably put all of her money into booze and couldn't afford waterproof mascara. Hearing the crying jag in stereo made Lizzie turn her head from me to the stage.
"And, you all … I'm just so grateful for women like you …," that lady wailed.
Lizzie turned back around to face all of us, mouthing silently, "Oh wow." And, with that gesture, Tara, Becca and I placed our attention back on the bride-to-be.
Tara returned us to the subject by observing in her sugar-coated drawl, "That sweet proposal doesn't sound at all like it came from the Tom Armstrong I know. Lizzie, you're sure this is the same groomsman who did that embarrassing toast at my wedding?"
Lizzie smirked at this, and Single Becca cooed, "Ooh, isn't that where you guys met?"
"Yep, it's the same Tom," Lizzie said.
Tara laughed and said, "Well, maybe your love has transformed him."
This hit me hard. Tara had assured me in the same way right before my own wedding reception. I went to her after I caught my groom checking out the ivory slip that peeked out from beneath Lizzie's periwinkle bridesmaid dress during our limo ride. Tara told me then that it was just a glance I misunderstood, that Henry only had eyes for me that day, that I was the only one he wanted to dance with.
"Love can't change you that much," I spat this time, returning my thoughts to the table. This caused Tara to turn her head toward me and give me this look of concern.
So I quickly deflected, chuckling, "I mean, if you're once a guy who makes a toast about Nantucket, you're always that guy."
Lizzie smiled at this and then she exhaled.
"OK, fine," she said. "There is more to the story than that."
"I knew it," Tara said.
The waitress finally came by and put water in my glass, which had been only melting ice cubes and lemon wedges for entirely too long. The service at this brunch was terrible. We all took swigs from our glasses as soon as the waitress had made her way around the table with pitchers of water and tea. Meanwhile, the alcoholic weeper had thankfully stepped away from the lectern and grabbed herself a tissue. A parade of rich, old women in white hats were still scheduled to speak about the importance of community service and outreach, though, so now was the time for Lizzie to give us the long overdue dirt.
None of us was prepared, though, for what Lizzie actually said.
"Chicken," she muttered, shaking her head.
"Pardon me?" Becca asked, glancing over her shoulder confused. "Are they bringing out another course? I thought the meal was over."
"Becca, please," Lizzie said. "I'm trying to get this out while I still have my nerve."
"It was Monday, the night of your anniversary, Tara, which makes it also the anniversary of when Tom and I first met, first danced, first kissed," Lizzie said. "And I knew that he had something special planned, something bigger than last year, because, instead of sending me two-word text messages all day long and a suggestion that we maybe watch his 'Rambo' DVD when we got home, I walked into my office to find a bouquet of white lilies on the receptionist's desk."
At this, Tara and I gasped at the same time. Lizzie just nodded at us.
"Yeah, I prefer roses," Single Becca interrupted, oblivious. "They're more romantic. I mean, I know they're traditional, but I'd want roses. A dozen red roses and a card that quotes some sonnet."
"Nobody cares what you like right now, Becca," I snapped, then said to Lizzie. "Tell me Tom didn't do the whole thing for you."
"He did," Lizzie said. And I started laughing. And then one of the old ladies at the next table shushed me.
"The whole what?" Becca asked.
"Lizzie's engagement poem from when she was 14," Tara explained while laughing.
"Huh?" Becca asked, but she was in the dark about the poem.
"It was lilies in the morning," Lizzie said with frustration. "And I knew that Tom was going to propose to me exactly the way I'd planned. I didn't even know he knew the damn poem. I must've told him when I was on cold medicine or something."
"Oh dear," I said.
Then I recited from memory her engagement plan, which she'd repeated to me in annoying singsong rhythm several times I got her drunk during her freshman year, "Lilies in the morning, white flowers every hour, the surprise of a blue dress in which I'll look pretty …"
"A meal on a rooftop overlooking the city," Tara continued.
"A love song swells around us from Nat King Cole," Tara and I said together.
"Then he asks me a question about us growing old," Lizzie finished while rolling her eyes. "God, I was so lame when I was 14."
"You guys, how do I not know this poem?" Becca asked, frustrated.
"You wouldn't drink freshman year, Becca," I reminded her. "It was during your religious phase."
Tara touched Lizzie's arm with sympathy and said that it was sort of sweet that Tom went all out like that.
"It shows he listens and pays attention," Tara said.
Lizzie complained, "Great, one of the few times Tom pays attention, I end up on a tar-soaked hotel rooftop in a royal blue bridesmaid's reject disaster on the hottest night in July, eating lousy chicken and dancing to my parents' wedding song …"
"A 14-year-old girl's magical, romantic dreams come true," I said curtly, holding my water glass in the air to toast.
Becca was puzzled. "You guys are so bitter today. You got engaged to a guy who was trying to do what you wanted. Why didn't this make you happy?"
"I'm happy, Becca," Lizzie said, looking down at her engagement ring. "I said yes to him, after all."
Becca looked unsatisfied. She stopped making eye contact with us, turned her gaze toward the tablecloth and began fidgeting with the napkin.
"I knew you all were going to mock me mercilessly for this," Lizzie continued. "And I probably deserve it."
"So you made up the story about him asking you to marry him in bed the next morning?" Tara asked.
Lizzie took a sip of her water, then smoothly put the glass back on the table, while she said, "Actually, that part's true."
"So he didn't follow the poem by the letter?" I asked. "Tom managed some moments of originality?"
"I don't think it was planned," Lizzie said, cringing. "We were on the rooftop, dancing to 'The Very Thought of You,' while I'm trying my best to pretend to be happy about all this and surprised and stuff, and Tom suddenly took a step back out of my arms and puked on me."
"WHAT?" Tara exclaimed, which turned the heads of several alumnae, who were starting to get seriously annoyed at us. Becca's face was red with embarrassment.
Tara glanced at all of the ladies and smiled in her most delicate way, suggesting that our table would finally behave with a degree of decorum. But we paid for the table, so I don't know why we couldn't talk about whatever we wanted. They had their way of doing a charity event, and we had ours.
"Keep going," I told Lizzie before any of the women at the other tables tried to shame us further with disapproving looks.
"Tom broke out into a cold sweat and kept vomiting," the future Mrs. Armstrong explained. "It was completely disgusting. Pieces of chewed-up chicken all over the front of his shirt, white stains in his tie. I didn't think it was possible for the dress he got me to look any uglier, but I was wrong. Flecks of pasta, pieces of corn, other vegetables. I felt like I was wearing a collage."
Single Becca excused herself to go to the bathroom.
Lizzie paused, ran her fingers through her chocolate-brown bangs.
"So we went to the hospital, where the doctors diagnosed Tom with food poisoning right before I started getting sick myself," she explained." And when they had us change into hospital gowns, I guess that's when Tom snuck the ring under his pillow."
"You got sick too?" Tara asked.
"Of course," Lizzie said. "The damn, undercooked chicken did us both in. We were in that hospital room all night, and we woke up in the morning feeling better. So I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I told him never to propose to me like that ever again, that we were lucky to get out of it alive. And he reminded me that he'd never gotten around to actually asking me. And he offered to propose to me in the hospital because, if anything bad happened again, the doctors could keep us safe. So the rest of it happened like I told you."
I smiled at Lizzie.
"You win," I said. "That proposal story tops mine, particularly the way it ends."
"Helen, this isn't some game," Lizzie said. "We're not in some romance competition."
"We're not?" I asked her.
"We're all doing well in that department, except maybe Becca, but she's so cheery that it doesn't seem to matter to her," Lizzie said kindly.
I didn't agree with that. Her assessment was inaccurate. This is the game that we'd been playing since we met, which one of us would find love first, which one of us would marry first, which one of us would marry best and all the little envies and contests that come along with that. Certainly I wasn't the only one playing all this time. I couldn't be.
I glanced at Lizzie. She glanced back at me. My eyes were tearing up, and I could feel the color coming into my cheeks. The room was spinning around us, but we were completely still.
"Helen, what is it?" Lizzie asked.
"Henry told me that he's met someone else."


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Question: How to insure a full control of the distribution in all Member States MS?
Answer: In the EU, a unique controlled distribution system is not possible in all Member States (MS) given the differences in:Healthcare system, National legislation.
For this reason it is was neccessary to determine a core PPP with key elements to be implemented in all MS.
Then specific implementation details must be defined for each MS after agreement with National Competent Authorities (NCAs).
Question: Who is responsible for collecting and reporting malformations to the authorities and to the public?
Answer: It is the responsibility of prescribers and the pharmaceutical company to report the cases of exposed pregnancy (and not only malformations) to the authorities. The cases will be collected thought the malformation registry in some MS, or thought spontaneous reporting. The public is informed by the EMEA public reports or press releases. In addition, the EMEA will continue to inform patients/victims associations post authorisation.
Question: Who does the Risk Management Plan (RMP) protect?
Answer: Firstly, the RMP should avoid the birth of child with malformations, as the aim of the PPP is to avoid pregnancy exposure. The RMP should protect the Patients 1/ women of childbearing potential from foetal exposure, 2/ all patients from all adverse drug reaction (e.g. neuropathy).
Question: How will the public be informed on the history of thalidomide?
Answer: A paragraph on the history of thalidomide will be included in the European Public Assessment Report (EPAR), the Questions and Answers document (patient friendly information published on the EMEA website a few weeks after the opinion), the Direct Healthcare Professional Communication (sent by the applicant to all healthcare professionals would have been reviewed and adopted by the CHMP), in the educational materials.
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The research team discovered that extremely low doses of the drug lenalidomide (Revlimid ®) stimulates the protein production of immunocompetent cells, leading to an improvement in Zytokinaufteilung and production.Cytokines are protein substances that are used in the defense against viruses or bacteria are used. Cytokines are also responsible for the inflammation in the context of infection.
The study, based on these findings, was performed with a comparatively small number of only 13 patients and was aimed to determine the dosage context of such therapy. The data will appear in January in the journal Clinical Immunology.
The identification of a substance that is capable of the immunological decline in old age (so-called immunosenescence) to slow or even neutralize, the result of years of research by Dr. Edward J. Goetzl at UCSF and the National Institute on Aging. Focal point of his work on cytokines, the question of the change of Zytokinniveaus with age, gender differences and their impact on the health of those affected.
"It really speaks today, no one of longevity and life extension. What is rather interesting, a healthy life," said Goetzl, UCSF director of the Allergy and Immunology Research, a specialized department for the development of new diagnostics and therapeutics in allergy and immunology section.
"If the Zytokinlevel with 50 the same as with 25, the probability of disease probably low," said Goetzl. "If they go down but we have to do something about it. Could you take a low dose pill with no side effects, you would not do that, too?"
In 2009, Goetzl, a group of 50 elderly as part of a study by the National Institute on Aging on their cytokine levels for interleukin (IL) -2, IFN-gamma and IL examined-17. He found that really healthy 70-80 year old women the same cytokine levels as healthy had 20 years.
accompanied, on the other side there were older men and women whose levels increased inflammation and decreased immune response from a lower level of IL-2 and IFN-gamma was. This waste, found the researchers, had been in the last section of the middle ages have begun.
Based on this knowledge, they began the search for a substance with which the IL-2 and IFN-gamma levels were raised on, would not that of IL-17 levels significantly affected. IL-2 and IFN-gamma is protective immune modulating substances.
"Based on our studies, we had a profile in humans, which allowed us to begin the search for a suitable active substance," said Goetzl. "Our job was to find not only that, something with which the cytokine levels could be changed in the desired direction, but also that that be possible without the side effects should be."
The research team focused on three different classes of compounds, among whom was lenalidomide, a derivative of the well-known thalidomide. Thalidomide was introduced in the late 50's as a sedative and 1961 in the U.S. withdrawal from the market after the children of mothers who had taken the remedy for nausea during pregnancy, had come to serious birth defects.
In recent years, the derivative lenalidomide has been used more and more as co-therapeutic agent in certain cancers, especially multiple myeloma and renal tumors. Both cancers are considered dependent on IL-2 levels, just the mirror, the Goetzl and his colleagues ascribe an important role in immunosenescence.
In his latest study, researchers tested the compound in healthy seniors. They found that even were able to stimulate small amounts of lenalidomide, the IL-2 production optimally. In the young subjects (21-40 years old) was the IL-2 levels are increased by about a factor of seven. The volunteers over 65 years the increase was even more dramatic, reaching, on average, values for the 120 times the initial values and thus youthful levels. Regarding the needed dose lenalidomide increases the production of IFN-gamma by up to 6-fold, while the production of IL-17 is not affected.
The team led by Dr. Goetzl also found that lenalidomide had additional beneficial properties in the older study participants. It had improved the migration of T cells through the body, strengthened their capacity for knowledge of disease-causing germs and diseased cells and prolonged the life span of cells.
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In 1964 Jacob Sheskin, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Hadassah University Hospital (he was also the chief staff and manager of Hansen Leper Hospital in Jerusalem), administered thalidomide to a critically ill patient with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), a painful complication of leprosy, in an attempt to relieve his pain in spite of the ban. The patient slept for hours, and was able to get out of bed without aid upon awakening. The result was followed by more favorable experiences and then by a clinical trial.
He found that patients with erythema nodosum leprosum, a painful skin condition, experienced relief of their pain by taking thalidomide. Further work conducted in 1991 by Dr. Gilla Kaplan at Rockefeller University in New York City showed that thalidomide worked in leprosy by inhibiting tumor necrosis factor alpha. Kaplan partnered with Celgene Corporation to further develop the potential for thalidomide. Subsequent research has shown that thalidomide is effective in the treatment of multiple myeloma, and it was approved for use in the United States by the FDA for use in this malignancy. The FDA has also since approved the drug's use in the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum. There are studies underway to determine the drug's effects on arachnoiditis and several types of cancers. However, physicians and patients alike must go through a special process to prescribe and receive thalidomide (S.T.E.P.S.) to ensure no more children are born with birth defects traceable to the medication. Celgene Corporation has also developed analogues to thalidomide, such as lenalidomide, that are substantially more powerful and have fewer side effects - except for greater myelosuppression.
On July 16, 1998, the FDA approved the use of thalidomide for the treatment of lesions associated with Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (ENL). Because of thalidomide's potential for causing birth defects, the distribution of the drug was permitted only under tightly controlled conditions. The FDA required that Celgene Corporation, which planned to market thalidomide under the brand name Thalomid, establish a System for Thalidomide Education and Prescribing Safety (S.T.E.P.S.) oversight program. The conditions required under the program include; limiting prescription and dispensing rights only to authorized prescribers and pharmacies, keeping a registry of all patients prescribed thalidomide, providing extensive patient education about the risks associated with the drug and providing periodic pregnancy tests for women who are prescribed it. On May 26, 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for thalidomide (Thalomid, Celgene Corporation) in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) patients. The FDA approval came seven years after the first reports of efficacy in the medical literature and Celgene took advantage of "off-label" marketing opportunities to promote the drug in advance of its FDA approval for the myeloma indication. Thalomid, as the drug is commercially known, sold over $300 million per year, while only approved for leprosy.
Thalidomide is available to a number of patients in the UK, generally in specialist cancer treatment centres where research trials are taking place and specialist doctors have experience in its use.
Brazil has the second highest prevalence rate of leprosy in the world and thalidomide has been used by Brazilian physicians as the drug of choice for the treatment of severe ENL since 1965. A study published in 1994 found 61 people born after 1965 whose limb defects and exposure history were compatible with thalidomide embryopathy. In 63.6% of these cases, thalidomide had been prescribed without the physician informing the patient about the drug's teratogenicity. Since then production, dispensing and prescription of thalidomide have been strictly controlled and cases of thalidomide embryopathy are thought to have occurred until today.
The increasing potential therapeutic uses of thalidomide in many medical conditions as well as pressure from medical practitioners and their patients who might benefit from the drug have turned attention to safety and ethical issues. There is considerable debate on which patients thalidomide should be made available to, especially since it is well accepted that controlling access is exceedingly difficult.
The it is speculated that there are many unrecognized cases because the ECLAMC system covers less than 1% of all births in South America and phocomelia may not be specific enough to identify thalidomide embryopathy; that is, many patients might have only craniofacial anomalies. They concluded that there is a need for a birth defect monitoring system in areas where thalidomide is available.
Since ENL, which is the primary indication for thalidomide, has other successful treatment modalities, there is some question about the use of thalidomide to treat this condition (Crawford, '94a,b). The discussion of thalidomide's use for any condition, however, continues, with strong advocates on both sides of the debate as to how strict the control should be on the availability and distribution of this drug.
There is no question, however, that great care must be taken if thalidomide is given to a woman of childbearing ages.
Thalidomide has changed from a prototypical teratogen,essentially banned from medical usage to a possible useful therapeutic agent in a wide variety of conditions. In some countries it is still considered an experimental drug, but its availability and use are increasing. In regions where the drug is more difficult to control, infants have been born with the devastating findings of thalidomide embryopathy. Clinicians who desire to use thalidomide must be aware of its teratogenicity and also must appreciate the difficulty of controlling access to at-risk females. It is feared that if thalidomide is available by prescription for a large number of conditions, more cases of thalidomide embryopathy will occur. However, there may be severe cutaneous and systemic diseases for which thalidomide is an effective drug, and physicians and their patients will insist on availability. If this occurs, determining the risks and benefits will be an important challenge for the medical profession.
On 9 July 2001, orphan designation was granted by the European Commission to Laboratoires Laphal, France, for thalidomide for the treatment of multiple myeloma.
The sponsorship was transferred to Pharmion Development in 2004.Pharmion Development changed its name to Pharmion France in 2007 and Celgene 2009.
What is multiple myeloma?
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. Plasma cells are found in the bone marrow. The bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside the large bones in the body. Normally, the bone marrow makes cells called "blasts" that mature into several different types of blood cells that have specific functions in the body. These include red cells, white cells and platelets. Red blood cells carry oxygen and other materials to all tissues of the body. Platelets make the blood clot, and white blood cells fight infection. In multiple myeloma an excessive number of plasma cells are produced. Normally, the division of cells takes place in a controlled manner but with multiple myeloma, the process gets out of control and abnormal plasma cells multiply, producing many myeloma cells. These fill up the bone marrow and interfere with production of the normal white cells, red cells and platelets. This leads to a number of possible complications, which include anaemia, bone pain and fractures, raised levels of calcium in the blood and kidney disease. Multiple myeloma is life-threatening.
What are the methods of treatment available?
The main treatment of multiple myeloma is chemotherapy (using drugs to kill cancer cells) usually combined with steroids (a group of chemical substances, belonging to a larger class of molecules, the so-called hormones, which have an effect on the activity of certain organs). Several products were authorised for the condition in the Community at the time of submission of the application for orphan drug designation. Radiotherapy (using high-dose x-ray or other high-energy rays to kill cancer cells) can be very useful to treat painful areas and weakened bones. Interferon alpha is a protein normally produced by the body during viral infections, such as flu. Sometimes a combination of interferon and chemotherapy may be used.
Thalidomide could be of potential significant benefit for the treatment of multiple myeloma. The main reason is that it may offer a new way of killing cancer cells and stopping tumour growth in these patients. This assumption will have to be confirmed at the time of marketing authorisation. This will be necessary to maintain the orphan status.
On 24 January 2008 the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion,** recommended to grant a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Thalidomide Pharmion 50 mg hard capsule, intended for treatment of multiple myeloma. Thalidomide Pharmion was designated as an orphan medicinal product on 20 November 2001.The applicant for this medicinal product is Pharmion Ltd.
The active substance of Thalidomide Pharmion is thalidomide, an immunosuppressive agent (ATC code L04AX02). The precise mechanisms of action of thalidomide are not known but it appears to involve anti-angiogenic and immunomodulatory/anti-inflammatory activity.
The benefit with Thalidomide Pharmion in combination with melphalan and prednisone is an 18-month increase in median survival time in patients with untreated multiple myeloma, = 65 years or ineligible for high-dose chemotherapy, as compared to patients treated with melphalan and prednisone alone. The clinically important side effects are deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, peripheral neuropathy, severe skin reactions including Stevens Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, syncope, bradycardia, and dizziness.
Thalidomide is a potent human teratogen. A pharmacologist have a risk minimization programme called the PPP to prevent pregnancies in women being treated with thalidomide and exposure of unborn children to the medicine, which was implemented as part of the marketing authorisation.
The approved indication was: Thalidomide Pharmion in combination with melphalan and prednisone as first line treatment of patients with untreated multiple myeloma, aged = 65 years or ineligible for high dose chemotherapy. Thalidomide Pharmion is prescribed and dispensed according to the Thalidomide Pharmion Pregnancy Prevention Programme .
Thalidomide treatment must be initiated and monitored under the supervision of physicians with expertise in managing immunomodulatory or chemotherapeutic agents and a full understanding of the risks of thalidomide therapy and monitoring requirements
Detailed recommendations for the use of this product are described in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) which was published in the European Public Assessment Report (EPAR) is available in all official European Union languages by the European Commission.
Prior to starting treatment with Thalidomide Pharmion
All patients should be fully educated regarding the teratogenic effects of thalidomide, advised that thalidomide must not be given to any other person, that they should return unused capsules to the pharmacist, and that they should not donate blood during or up to 1 week after treatment.
All patients should be assessed and categorized into one of the following three categories: women of childbearing potential, women of non-childbearing potential and male patients. These categories define the education and risk minimization measures that should be followed. All female patients or female partners of a male patient should be considered of childbearing potential unless they meet the criteria defined in section 4.4 of the SPC.
All patients should complete a 'Treatment Initiation Form' corresponding to their risk category. The prescriber should retain the completed form and provide a copy to the patient.
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European Thalidomide Pharmion (thalidomide)
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended the approval of Thalidomide Pharmion (thalidomide) for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the bone marrow.
on 21-24 January 2008, the Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) concluded that the "benefits of Thalidomide Pharmion in combination with melphalan and prednisone outweigh its risks for the first-line treatment of multiple myeloma for patients over 65 years of age or who cannot be treated with high-dose chemotherapy". Clinical studies have shown that adding Thalidomide Pharmion to melphalan and prednisone can prolong survival time by about 18 months in newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma patients over 65 years of age, as compared to patients who received conventional chemotherapy.
The CHMP has approved a risk management plan that includes a number of actions intended to prevent pregnancies in women being treated with thalidomide and exposure of unborn children to the medicine. For example, all women of child-bearing potential who are treated with Thalidomide Pharmion must undergo pregnancy tests before, during and after treatment, in addition to using selected and effective contraception.
European Commission has now granted on 16 April 2008, Thalidomide Pharmion a marketing authorisation, as a result of thisThalidomide Pharmion will only be available by prescription, and treatment will be initiated and monitored by a doctor who has experience in the treatment of multiple myeloma.
A clear warning will be printed on the boxes containing the medicine, indicating that Thalidomide Pharmion causes birth defects and foetal death.
Prior to the launch of Thalidomide Pharmion in each Member State, Pharmion Ltd. will provide healthcare professionals and patients with educational materials about the treatment-related risks and the precautions required to ensure the safe use of the product .
What is thalidomide Pharmion?
Thalidomide Pharmion is a medicine containing the active substance thalidomide. It is to be used to treat multiple myeloma in combination with other medicines (melphalan and prednisone ) with multiple myeloma it works by blocking the development of cancer cells, and by stimulating some of the specialised cells of the immune system (the body's defence mechanism) to attack the cancer cells.
Multiple myeloma is a rare type of bone marrow cancer that usually occurs in older people and that is very difficult to treat.
Clinical studies have shown that adding thalidomide to melphalan and prednisone can prolong survival time in patients with multiple myeloma. Thalidomide Pharmion is to be used in patients who cannot be treated with high-dose chemotherapy (anticancer treatments), or in patients aged over 65 years who have not been treated for multiple myeloma before.
Thalidomide is 'teratogenic', meaning that it has a harmful effect on the unborn child.
A USA Company called Celgene now hold all marketing authorisation and in Canada and USA the risk management programme known as the (PPP in Europe) is called the S.T.E.P.s programme
Thalidomide Information outside of EU
On July 16, 1998, FDA approved the use of thalidomide for the treatment of the debilitating and disfiguring lesions associated with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), a complication of Hansen's Disease, commonly known as leprosy. Because of thalidomide's potential for causing birth defects, FDA invoked unprecedented regulatory authority to tightly control the marketing of thalidomide in the United States. A System for Thalidomide Education and Prescribing Safety (S.T.E.P.S) oversight program has been initiated that includes limiting authorized prescribers and pharmacies, extensive patient education about the risks associated with thalidomide and a 100% patient registry. This oversight program is designed to help insure a zero tolerance policy for thalidomide exposure during pregnancy.
Celgene Corporation of Warren, NJ, will market thalidomide as Thalomid.
The information presented on this page includes consumer and patient information, thalidomide advisory committee and workshop transcripts, the approved labeling text and the medical review on which the decision to approve this drug was based. Also included are selected links to other web sites containing thalidomide information.
Where is Thalidomide approved ?
Thalidomide is approved in Brazil and Mexico, Canada , Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Australia. Thalidomide Pharmion was approved in Australia earlier this month. It is available in other countries on a named-patient or compassionate-use basis.
Thalidomide is being widely used in Brazil to treat people with leprosy - including women of childbearing age. Government doctors say that the use of the drug is strictly controlled but members of some associations of thalidomide survivors say that many women of childbearing age could be taking the drug, especially in remote areas, where leprosy is most prevalent.
There 228 000 cases of leprosy were recorded in 1992, the last year for which official numbers are available. Of these, 34 000 were new cases - double the number for 1986. The rise is due, to better diagnosis and more primary care. Brazil has the second highest population with leprosy in the world after India, and the Amazon region has the worst rate - 36 cases per 10 000 population.
Brazil has the second highest population with leprosy in the world after India, and the Amazon region has the worst rate - 36 cases per 10 000 population.
Thalidomide, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, is manufactured in Brazil by one laboratory in Belo Horizonte, and the entire output is sold to the government for distribution to local health services throughout Brazil. We now know that this year it was doubling production to over two million pills. The entire stock was for treating patients with leprosy .
The government have said that 27 cases of people with the thalidomide syndrome have been confirmed. Rosangela Goncalves Nascimento, chairwoman of the Brazilian Association of Thalidomide Victims, claims to have discovered 33 cases, the youngest in a child 2 years old, as a result of "amateur" research. She believes that there could be up to 7000 victims because of the number of women potentially at risk. The association has been distributing posters for use in health posts warning of the dangers of thalidomide and will take part in the international thalidomide survivors congress to be held in Sweden in September.
3. What is thalidomide approved for in the United States?
Celgene markets thalidomide as Thalomid in the U.S. It is approved to treat newly diagnosed for the treatment of multiple myeloma. MM, erythema nodosum leprosum, the painful, disfiguring skin sores associated with leprosy, and to prevent and control the return of these skin sores.


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An ethical bank is seeking to double the number of charities it helps in Kent and the South East offering loan amounts of up to £2.5 million.
Following a Big Society Capital investment earlier in the year, Tonbridge-based Charity Bank currently lends to around 50 organisations across the South East England but now hopes to increase this number.
This rise in lending comes following an approval of £11m of loans from January to June this year, compared with £6m in the same period in 2013, an increase of 83%.
Charity Bank is also providing free consultations to help potential borrowers in the region explore all the finance options open to them.
Founded in 2002, the bank provides loans and support to help charities and other social sector organisations access the finance they need, on terms they can afford.
Local borrowers include Voluntary Action Within Kent in Tunbridge Wells, which not only runs a diverse range of projects supporting children and young people with disabilities, young carers, youth volunteering, older people and those who are socially isolated across Kent, but also provides advice and support for voluntary and community organisations in the county.
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"Following Big Society Capital's investment, we are in a position to lend to more organisations in the region at a time when they are under pressure and really need financial help."
During free consultations, Sims and her team will explore the suitability of loan finance for charities and other social sector organisations.
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"Loan finance can be empowering. It can help charities grow and expand their services, diversify their income streams or make the most of an available opportunity."
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Ranching has gone to the dogs…
10 Jul, 2014 at 7:39 am | Written by: Leah Peterson
This is Sunny. I love her, for many reasons. We adopted her through our local shelter efforts in Broken Bow. In the almost two years we have had her, she rarely has a bad day. Each morning she rises from her dog house, stretches, and approaches whoever is leaving the house with a "What a great day this is going to be!" expression.
Except for during storms. Last night as the storms raged on, I went to check on her and the ranch cats. Huddled together, they stared back at me with fearful expressions that screamed "Please make it stop!" If not for how wet and stinky they were, I may have invited them in to the porch. Not even that place would have eliminated the sounds of the howling wind and thunder and lightning that cracked and flashed above our heads. I offered words of comfort, and returned to the house to wait for it all to end.
Sunny's expression last night, reminded me of how I have been feeling lately. Anxious, worried, scared, and waiting for the storm to pass. You see, we are in great transition as a family. We are praying for peace as we come to terms that we will remain a one child family. We are almost through one year of living as "self-employed" and working through the growing pains of living on one income and adjusting to paying enormous rates for our own health insurance, and we are part of a multi generation ranch family that is going through epic changes. Last week we were honored to be named NTV Farm Family of the month. Not ones for recognition or public praise, it still felt like a soothing balm on the backs of people who have been aching under the weight of bearing the load of stress that comes with ranching. Are corn prices going to come back up? Will we even see harvest as these hail storms rage across Nebraska on a weekly basis? Will the cattle ever stay in the pastures as they ought to? Will a pink eye epidemic break out again? How will we keep paying these sky rocketing property taxes? And my worst fear of all. What if something happens to dad? How can we do this without him?
My father is healthy as a horse. Rarely a day has come and gone where he has been unwell enough to keep him from the ranch work. But, my faith was rocked this week when some people who are dear to us lost their patriarch, suddenly and unexpectedly. It's the stuff that makes anyone do a gut check. On top of the worries I already had, it was a blow. How I hurt and ache for their loss, cannot be put into words. Their loss reminds me that our time on earth is really but a snap of a finger, a breath of wind, a whisper in the grasses. None of us will get out of here alive, and none of us know how long it will be until the day it comes for us.
I have said many times before that ranching and farming isn't for the faint hearted. Admittedly, my own heart has been faint many a time in the past two years since we moved home. I love this life so very much, which makes the joys and successful times all the more beautiful, but also makes the bad times more painful. How one learns to navigate these ups and downs, requires a lifetime. If you see an "old timer" you recognize that they have done it. Back stooped, faces full of lines from worry and time in the sun, hands that are calloused and bearing the scars of time. But usually, a beautiful twinkle in their eye, and a grin that tells the story of overcoming the worst. It's where I want to be one day.
Sunny is wearing her smile this morning, memories of last night gone. Just like the birds that are singing, and the cows that are bunched together to greet the morning sun. It's a new day here, clean up to do, cows and bulls and fences to check…but it's a break from haying and irrigating too. And, it's a story that so many of you can tell in your own words as well. It's why I am thankful for this community, because we share this journey in common.
And, I know your ranch and farm dogs will inspire you today too.
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In Gallup's new report, Egyptians are pessimistic about the struggling economy and their standard of living, yet they are extremely optimistic about their lives improving over the years. Host Michel Martin discusses the report with the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center's Mohamed Younis. Martin also catches up with Cairo University graduate student Yassmine ElSayed Hany, who spoke with Tell Me More on the day Egypt's former President Mubarak stepped down.