it could all be so simple. but you'd rather make it hard.
11.24.2010
11.17.2010
We Are Making Progress!
Sandra C. Raymond, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) issued the following statement after the Committee’s vote:
“We are pleased to share the exciting news that BENLYSTA has cleared a significant hurdle on its path to becoming the first FDA-approved medication for lupus in 52 years – since Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. BENLYSTA is now on track to become the first approved treatment ever developed specifically for lupus.
Today’s historic vote by the FDA Advisory Committee is not only a victory for developers Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline, but also for the entire lupus research community and industry. We have all worked for decades to overcome many challenges in developing new therapies for this unique and difficult-to-treat disease. For people with lupus, today’s vote represents a beacon of hope that new and improved treatments can be specifically developed for lupus.
The voices of people with lupus were heard loudly and clearly today. Their testimony demonstrated the urgent need to develop new, safe, effective, and tolerable therapies for lupus. Each person with lupus is unique, and if BENLYSTA is approved, it would be a significant and necessary first step towards creating the full arsenal of treatments that lupus requires. The LFA thanks the committee for its time and review to ensure the safety and efficacy of this potential medication for people with lupus. We also want to thank the numerous individuals with lupus and their families, who provided testimony and attended the hearing to show their support.
We are greatly encouraged by today’s vote, and eagerly await the FDA’s final decision. The LFA will continue to follow this process closely, and keep constituents apprised of developments.”
About the Lupus Foundation of America
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) is the foremost national nonprofit organization dedicated to finding the causes of and cure for lupus, and providing support, services, and hope to all people affected by lupus. The LFA and its national network of chapters, support groups, and local representatives conduct programs of research, education, and advocacy.
About Lupus
Lupus is an unpredictable and potentially fatal autoimmune disease in which the immune system is out of balance, causing inflammation and tissue damage to any organ system in the body. The health effects of lupus include heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and organ failure. An estimated 1.5 million Americans and at least five million people worldwide have a form of lupus. For more information, visit www.lupus.org.
About BENLYSTA
BENLYSTA was developed by Human Genome Sciences (HGS) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as an investigational therapy to treat lupus and last year successfully met its endpoints in two pivotal Phase III clinical trials.
11.11.2010
#20 Once a Week, Write a Heartfelt Letter
Often, this simple action starts a spiral of loving actions whereby the person receiving your letter may decide to do the same thing to someone else, or perhaps will act and feel more loving toward others.
#19 Lower Your Tolerance to Stress
There's no need to worry that you won't get it all done. When your mind is clear and peaceful and your stress level is reduced, you'll be more effective and you'll have more fun.
#18 Allow Yourself to Be Bored
The beauty of doing nothing is that it teaches you to clear your mind and relax. It allows your mind the freedom to "not know," for a brief period of time.
#17 Surrender to the Fact that Life Isn't Fair
One of the nice things about surrendering to the fact that life isn't fair is that it keeps us from feeling sorry for ourselves by encouraging us to do the very best we can with what we have.
#16 Ask Yourself the Question, "Will This Matter a Year from Now?"
To play "time warp," all you have to do is imagine that whatever circumstance you are dealing with isn't happening right now but a year from now. It will be one more irrelevant detail in your life.
11.10.2010
#15 Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out
Whenever we hold onto our anger, we turn "small stuff" into really "big stuff" in our minds. We start to believe that our positions are more important than our happiness. They are not.
#14 Create "Patience Practice Periods"
Being patient allows me to keep my perspective...in the midst of a difficult situation, that what's before me--my present challenge--isn't "life or death" but simply a minor obstacle that must be dealt with.
11.09.2010
interesting read.
America - He's your President for Goodness Sake!
By William Thomas
Posted: Friday, October 1st, 2010
There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their
political stripes, rallied round their president. Once elected, the man
who won the White House was no longer viewed as a Republican or
Democrat, but the President of the United States. The oath of office
was taken, the wagons were circled around the country’s borders and it
was America versus the rest of the world with the president of all the
people at the helm.
Suddenly President Barack Obama, with the potential to become an
exceptional president has become the glaring exception to that
unwritten, patriotic rule.
Four days before President Obama’s inauguration, before he officially
took charge of the American government, Rush Limbaugh boasted publicly
that he hoped the president would fail. Of course, when the president
fails the country flounders. Wishing harm upon your country in order to
further your own narrow political views is selfish, sinister and a tad
treasonous as well.
Subsequently, during his State of the Union address, which is pretty
much a pep rally for America, an unknown congressional representative
from South Carolina, later identified as Joe Wilson, stopped the show
when he called the President of the United States a liar. The president
showed great restraint in ignoring this unprecedented insult and
carried on with his speech. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so stunned by the
slur, she forgot to jump to her feet while clapping wildly, 30 or 40
times after that.
Last spring, President Obama took his wife Michelle to see a play in
New York City and republicans attacked him over the cost of security
for the excursion. The president can’t take his wife out to dinner and
a show without being scrutinized by the political opposition? As
history has proven, a president in a theatre without adequate security
is a tragically bad idea.
Remember: “Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
At some point, the treatment of President Obama went from offensive to
ugly and then to downright dangerous.
The health-care debate, which looked more like extreme fighting in a
mud pit than a national dialogue, revealed a very vulgar side of
America. President Obama’s face appeared on protest signs white-faced
and blood-mouthed in a satanic clown image. In other tasteless
portrayals, people who disagreed with his position distorted his face
to look like Hitler complete with mustache and swastika.
Odd, that burning the flag makes Americans crazy, but depicting the
president as a clown and a maniacal fascist is accepted as part of the
new rude America.
Maligning the image of the leader of the free world is one thing,
putting the president’s life in peril is quite another. More than once,
men with guns were videotaped at the health-care rallies where the
president spoke. Again, history shows that letting men with guns get
within range of a president has not served America well in the past.
And still the “birthers” are out there claiming Barack Obama was not
born in the United States, although public documentation proves
otherwise. Hawaii is definitely part of the United States, but the
Panama Canal Zone where his electoral opponent Senator John McCain was
born? Nobody’s sure.
Last month, a 44-year-old woman in Buffalo was quite taken by President
Obama when she met him in a chicken wing restaurant called Duff’s. Did
she say something about a pleasure and an honour to meet the man or
utter encouraging words for the difficult job he is doing? No. Quote:
“You’re a hottie with a smokin’ little body.”
Lady, that was the President of the United States you were addressing,
not one of the Jonas Brothers! He’s your president for goodness sakes,
not the guy driving the Zamboni at “Monster Trucks On Ice.” Maybe next
it’ll be, “Take Your President To A Topless Bar Day.”
In President Barack Obama, Americans have a charismatic leader with a
good and honest heart. Unlike his predecessor, he’s a very intelligent
leader. And unlike that president’s predecessor, he’s a highly moral
man.
In President Obama, Americans have the real deal, the whole package and
a leader that citizens of almost every country around the world look to
with great envy. Given the opportunity, Canadians would trade our
leader, hell, most of our leaders for Obama in a heartbeat.
What America has in Obama is a head of state with vitality and insight
and youth. Think about it, Barack Obama is a young Nelson Mandela.
Mandela was the face of change and charity for all of Africa but he was
too old to make it happen. The great things Obama might do for America
and the world could go on for decades after he’s out of office.
America, you know not what you have.
The man is being challenged unfairly, characterized with vulgarity and
treated with the kind of deep disrespect to which no previous president
was subjected. It’s like the day after electing the first black man to
be president, thereby electrifying the world with hope and joy,
Americans sobered up and decided the bad old days were better.
President Obama may fail but it will not be a Richard Nixon default
fraught with larceny and lies. President Obama, given a fair chance,
will surely succeed but his triumph will never come with a Bill Clinton
caveat – “if only he’d got control of that zipper.”
Please. Give the man a fair, fighting chance. This incivility toward
the leader who won over Americans and gave hope to billions of people
around the world that their lives could be enhanced by his example,
just naturally has to stop.
Believe me, when Americans drive by the White House and see a sign on
the lawn that reads: “No shirt. No shoes. No service,” they’ll realize
this new national rudeness has gone way, way too far.
OCTOBER 2010 SENIOR LIVING MAGAZINE VANCOUVER & LOWER MAINLAND
By William Thomas
Posted: Friday, October 1st, 2010
There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their
political stripes, rallied round their president. Once elected, the man
who won the White House was no longer viewed as a Republican or
Democrat, but the President of the United States. The oath of office
was taken, the wagons were circled around the country’s borders and it
was America versus the rest of the world with the president of all the
people at the helm.
Suddenly President Barack Obama, with the potential to become an
exceptional president has become the glaring exception to that
unwritten, patriotic rule.
Four days before President Obama’s inauguration, before he officially
took charge of the American government, Rush Limbaugh boasted publicly
that he hoped the president would fail. Of course, when the president
fails the country flounders. Wishing harm upon your country in order to
further your own narrow political views is selfish, sinister and a tad
treasonous as well.
Subsequently, during his State of the Union address, which is pretty
much a pep rally for America, an unknown congressional representative
from South Carolina, later identified as Joe Wilson, stopped the show
when he called the President of the United States a liar. The president
showed great restraint in ignoring this unprecedented insult and
carried on with his speech. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so stunned by the
slur, she forgot to jump to her feet while clapping wildly, 30 or 40
times after that.
Last spring, President Obama took his wife Michelle to see a play in
New York City and republicans attacked him over the cost of security
for the excursion. The president can’t take his wife out to dinner and
a show without being scrutinized by the political opposition? As
history has proven, a president in a theatre without adequate security
is a tragically bad idea.
Remember: “Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
At some point, the treatment of President Obama went from offensive to
ugly and then to downright dangerous.
The health-care debate, which looked more like extreme fighting in a
mud pit than a national dialogue, revealed a very vulgar side of
America. President Obama’s face appeared on protest signs white-faced
and blood-mouthed in a satanic clown image. In other tasteless
portrayals, people who disagreed with his position distorted his face
to look like Hitler complete with mustache and swastika.
Odd, that burning the flag makes Americans crazy, but depicting the
president as a clown and a maniacal fascist is accepted as part of the
new rude America.
Maligning the image of the leader of the free world is one thing,
putting the president’s life in peril is quite another. More than once,
men with guns were videotaped at the health-care rallies where the
president spoke. Again, history shows that letting men with guns get
within range of a president has not served America well in the past.
And still the “birthers” are out there claiming Barack Obama was not
born in the United States, although public documentation proves
otherwise. Hawaii is definitely part of the United States, but the
Panama Canal Zone where his electoral opponent Senator John McCain was
born? Nobody’s sure.
Last month, a 44-year-old woman in Buffalo was quite taken by President
Obama when she met him in a chicken wing restaurant called Duff’s. Did
she say something about a pleasure and an honour to meet the man or
utter encouraging words for the difficult job he is doing? No. Quote:
“You’re a hottie with a smokin’ little body.”
Lady, that was the President of the United States you were addressing,
not one of the Jonas Brothers! He’s your president for goodness sakes,
not the guy driving the Zamboni at “Monster Trucks On Ice.” Maybe next
it’ll be, “Take Your President To A Topless Bar Day.”
In President Barack Obama, Americans have a charismatic leader with a
good and honest heart. Unlike his predecessor, he’s a very intelligent
leader. And unlike that president’s predecessor, he’s a highly moral
man.
In President Obama, Americans have the real deal, the whole package and
a leader that citizens of almost every country around the world look to
with great envy. Given the opportunity, Canadians would trade our
leader, hell, most of our leaders for Obama in a heartbeat.
What America has in Obama is a head of state with vitality and insight
and youth. Think about it, Barack Obama is a young Nelson Mandela.
Mandela was the face of change and charity for all of Africa but he was
too old to make it happen. The great things Obama might do for America
and the world could go on for decades after he’s out of office.
America, you know not what you have.
The man is being challenged unfairly, characterized with vulgarity and
treated with the kind of deep disrespect to which no previous president
was subjected. It’s like the day after electing the first black man to
be president, thereby electrifying the world with hope and joy,
Americans sobered up and decided the bad old days were better.
President Obama may fail but it will not be a Richard Nixon default
fraught with larceny and lies. President Obama, given a fair chance,
will surely succeed but his triumph will never come with a Bill Clinton
caveat – “if only he’d got control of that zipper.”
Please. Give the man a fair, fighting chance. This incivility toward
the leader who won over Americans and gave hope to billions of people
around the world that their lives could be enhanced by his example,
just naturally has to stop.
Believe me, when Americans drive by the White House and see a sign on
the lawn that reads: “No shirt. No shoes. No service,” they’ll realize
this new national rudeness has gone way, way too far.
OCTOBER 2010 SENIOR LIVING MAGAZINE VANCOUVER & LOWER MAINLAND
11.04.2010
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