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Headline in April 2019:
Update from 2019 AACR Annual Meeting
"A combination of two common immunotherapy drugs shrinks rare, aggressive neuroendocrine tumors, according to new research results presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019, held March 29-April 3 in Atlanta". See below under section: – Nivolumab (Opdiva) and Ipilimumab (Yervoy) in Treating Patients With High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma
Immunotherapy for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
There's a lot of Immunotherapy stuff out there! However, I also wanted to break it down and perhaps see if I can pick up the what, when, why, where and how in regards to Neuroendocrine Cancer. It's really difficult, not least because the picture is not clear and there is no general roadmap printed, let alone one for Neuroendocrine disease. Immunotherapy for NETs was discussed at ENETS 2017 in Barcelona. The presentation that sticks out was one given by Dr Matthew Kulke, a well-known NET Specialist in Boston. My reaction to the presentation was one of 'expectation management' and caution i.e. it's too soon to know if we will get any success and when we will get it. He also hinted that it's more likely that any success will first be seen in poorly differentiated high-grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma (NEC). Dr Jonathan Strosberg also said similar in a post here. In fact, from below you will see that grade 3 poorly differentiated is where the bulk of trial activity is (…..but read on, there is some action around plain old well differentiated NETs). You will also see that there are disappointing results so far with single agent Keytruda.
Retain hope but just be cautious with some of the hype surrounding Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is exciting, but we also need to be aware of the risks of taking the brakes off the immune system. We have seen and heard more and more stories about people with grim cancer diagnoses who became cancer-free after treatment with immunotherapy. This offers hope to those with cancer, but we need to be cautious when discussing immunotherapy. This treatment method is still new, and the cancer community is still learning about how it affects the body. An unfettered immune system may end up attacking healthy, functioning parts of a person's body, causing unpredictable side effects that may be life-threatening EVEN if not treated early.
For those considering a trial, I think it's worth spending some time reading this article from Cancer.NET – Doctor Approved Patient Information from the American Society of Clinical Oncology – "What You Need to Know About Immunotherapy Side Effects".
For Neuroendocrine Neoplasms, only Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the skin (Merkel Cell Carcinoma) and Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) has an approved drug (see below). Anything else is currently an experimental scenario (clinical trial). Before launching into what is out for with an interest in NET and NEC, it's worth pointing out that Immunotherapy is not for everyone, does not work for everyone, and has side effects for everyone.
Let's start with Pembrolizumab (Keytruda)?
'Pembrolizumab' is more famously known as 'Keytruda'. This drug crops up everywhere and it has connections to many different cancers. Before I talk about this trial called PLANET, it's very useful to take a quick look at the history of Keytruda which was only really made famous after former US President Jimmy Carter was treated with it for metastatic melanoma. There was a lot of media hype surrounding what made his treatment successful as he was also given radiation for his brain tumours and his large liver tumour was removed by surgery. However, putting the hype and conjecture to one side, Keytruda's CV is pretty impressive. Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is currently approved to treat certain scenarios in Hodgkin lymphoma, Melanoma, Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, Urothelial carcinoma, Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) related cancers (a very interesting development as it's the US FDA's very first approval on a tissue/site agnostic basis).
However, despite this excelent record, it's worth also noting that NANETS 2018 reported limited use of Keytruda (see below) as a single agent to treat high grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.
Other approvals are anticipated.
So what about Neuroendocrine Neoplasms?
FDA granted accelerated approval to Avelumab (BAVENCIO) for the treatment of patients 12 years and older with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). MCC is a Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the skin. Avelumab is a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking human IgG1 lambda monoclonal antibody. This is the first FDA-approved product to treat this type of cancer – CLICK HERE for more information.
In Aug 2018, the FDA granted Nivolumab (OPDIVO) accelerated approval for third-line treatment of metastatic small cell lung cancer (a type of Neuroendocrine Carcinoma. Read more – click here.
In Dec 2018, US FDA approves pembrolizumab for adult and pediatric patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). Click here.
On March 18, 2019, the FDA approved Atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ) in combination with carboplatin and etoposide, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC). Click here.
Clinical Trials:
I found the following trials for high-grade NEC:
- currently recruiting Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for the Treatment of Recurrent High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma (Pembro NEC)
- currently recruiting A Study of Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors
- currently recruiting Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) – based Therapy in Previously Treated High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinomas
- This trial is interesting. Nivolumab (Opdiva) and Ipilimumab (Yervoy) in Treating Patients With High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma It's a multiple cancer setup and includes several of the less common NET/NEC types including 'Lung Carcinoid', 'Anal NEC', 'Gastic NEC', 'Pancreatic NEC' 'Esophageal NEC. Interesting because this is the drug combo that NEC patient Danielle Tindle has moved onto after Keytruda didn't really work in the medium to long-term (see the Danielle Tindle story below). Looking at the list in the trial document, I'm thinking they might mean high-grade Lung Neuroendocrine rather than 'carcinoid'. I could be wrong. It's currently recruiting.
Update from 2019 AACR Annual Meeting.
The immune checkpoint inhibitor combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) induced a greater than 40% response rate and was well tolerated in patients with high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma, according to findings from the phase II DART trial presented at the 2019 AACR Annual Meeting.
"DART is the first NCI-funded rare tumor immunotherapy basket study which we think is unique in its design scale," lead author Sandip Patel MD, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, said in a press briefing at the meeting. "We're studying over 37 rare tumor types [using the] combination of ipilimumab plus nivolumab. The neuroendocrine cohort, the nonpancreatic cohort, had promising signs of benefit—[particularly] in patients with high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma—independent to primary site," added Patel.
See clinical trial document NCT02834013
See announcement of trial data – click here
- I also have some evidence of the use of Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) by an Australian high-grade thymus patient – I posted something here (Danielle Tindle)
- PDR001 (Spartalizamab) – see below.
UPDATE from NANETS 2018. "A preliminary trial of checkpoint blockade for neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) produced little evidence of activity, according to data reported here. Only one of 21 patients with high-grade NETs responded to treatment with pembrolizumab (Keytruda). Three others had stable disease. The trial had an objective response threshold of 5% as the definition of clinically interesting, as reported at the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society annual symposium. "Pembrolizumab, though generally well tolerated, showed limited activity as a single agent in high-grade neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) in this study," Arvind Dasari, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues concluded." More info.
Update from Gastrointestinal Tumor symposium 2019. "Disappointing results for single agent pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in well differentiated NET. Response Rate 3.7%. Not a viable option. Listen to Dr Jonathan Strosberg describe the poor results. Click here.
This is an interesting trial sponsored by Novartis (of Octreotide fame). PDR001 (anti-PD-1) is an investigational immunotherapy being developed by Novartis to treat both solid tumors and lymphomas (cancers of the blood). It is currently being trialled on many cancers including Neuroendocrine Neoplasms both well and poorly differentiated. Click here: Clinical Trial SPARTALIZUMAB – Immunotherapy for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (PDR001)
NET Research Foundation
Please also see the wonderful work done by NET Research Foundation who are using their funds to explore the use of Immunotherapy in NETs – check out their update by clicking here.
But what about just plain old well differentiated low or moderate grade NETs?
I found the following:
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with Lanreotide
According to the trial documentation, it's for patients with non-resectable, recurrent, or metastatic well or moderately (sic) differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs). i.e. most of us. It is recruiting. You can read about the PLANET trial by clicking here. Make sure you fully check the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Please note the incorrect reference to 'moderately differentiated' – this is no longer used in the grading classification for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.
Study of Pembrolizumab in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors (MK-3475-028/KEYNOTE-28) – NCT03054806 and another called 'A Clinical Trial of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Evaluating Predictive Biomarkers in Subjects With Advanced Solid Tumors' (KEYNOTE 158) NCT02628067
From Gastrointestinal Tumor symposium 2019. "Disappointing results for single agent pembrolizumab in Well Differentiated NET. Response Rate 3.7%. Not a viable option. Listen to Dr Jonathan Strosberg describe the poor results. Click here.
Study for the Evaluation of Pembrorolizumab (MK-3475) in Patients with Rare Tumors (Experimental: Paraganglioma-Pheochromocytoma Group)
It is not known if this part of the trial is affected by the results above in Keynote-28. This study is recruiting at MD Andersen Houston Texas. Read more here.
PDR001 (Spartalizamab) -a Novartis drug – read about this trial click here.
Atezolizumab and Bevacizumab in Solid Tumors
In 2016, US FDA approved Atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ) for the treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Bevacizumab (also known as AVISTAN) is a well known drug already used to treat many cancers. Avastin is not actually Immunotherapy but is a tumor-starving (anti-angiogenic) therapy, i.e. its purpose is to prevent the growth of new blood vessels …. ergo this is a combo treatment using an Immunotherapy drug and an anti-angiogenic drug.
- Well differentiated Neuroendocrine tumors, Grade 1 or grade 2 according to reviewing pathologist
- Progressive disease over the preceding 12 months
- Any number of prior therapies
- Patients using a somatostatin analogue for symptom control must be on stable doses for 56 days prior to enrolment.
According to the trial documenation, there are two 'baskets' of types: Pancreatic NET (pNET) and "extrapancreatic" (i.e. beyond or not in the pancreas) including typical or atypical Lung NETs. Merkel Cell Carcinoma (a type of Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the skin) is also included in the trial. You can read about this trial by clicking here. Make sure you fully check the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Again, within the trial documentation, please note the incorrect reference to 'moderately differentiated' – this is no longer used in the grading classification for Neuroendocrine Neoplasms.
By the way, what exactly does Immunotherapy do?
Check out this summary from ASCO – click here.
Immunotherapy – Hype or Hope?
I mentioned above that there was a lot of hype surrounding Keytruda and other immunotherapy treatments. You may therefore enjoy this CNN article about the hype and hope aspect, it was given considerable sharing at ASCO17 – read the article by clicking here
If you're on an Immunotherapy trial not listed here, please let me now so I can update the post. Thanks in advance.
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If you're a dyed-in-the-wool night owl, changing your daily rhythm may not be possible. But borrowing a couple of habits from the early birds could help you stay healthier.
Are you a lark or an owl? Larks are the early-to-bed, early-to-rise types: They tend to feel more energized and focused early in the day and enjoy turning in early. Owls, on the other hand, don't really hit their stride until later in the day. Left to their own devices, they are happy to stay up until the wee hours and then sleep the morning away.The tendency to be a night owl or an early bird isn't something that we have a lot of control over. Although lifestyle, culture, and habit can certainly play a role in when you get up and go to bed, the tendency toward "morningness" or "eveningness" (as it's called in the medical literature) is largely a genetic predisposition.
Unfortunately for the night owls, our society seems to have been scheduled by the early birds. Standard school and business hours generally start just a few hours after sun up—and several hours before your typical night owl wants to be up and about. As a result, night owls tend to get less sleep than early birds, and suffer from all of the health risks that go along with that.
If you have strong owl tendencies, arranging your schedule so that you can work later in the day might make your life a lot easier. However, there are a couple of other things you may want to watch out for, as well.

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Let me begin by saying this. It is difficult to drag money out of management whether the district is loaded or not. For that, I recognize the negotiating team's work. But, no matter what, this union's work fell short.
Of course, the full-time faculty might be pleased. Being at the top column/top step, I should be very pleased. But, I'm not. Had CCFT allowed me to join the union last year, I would be voting against ratification.
And, here's why.
Five-percent salary increase
In a normal situation, a 5% salary increase, among other contractual gains, is pretty good—especially for some. For those full-timers like me, that increase comes to more than $500 a month, before taxes. But, for those part-timers who are making $30,000 a year or less, that 5% increase amounts to $150 a month, before taxes, or less. Truly, that 's almost nothing. After almost 8 years with almost no increase, it's actually insulting to part-timers. This is where the union's agreement falls short.
Expect management to fail part-timers
Some of us know how intransigent management can be in any movement toward increased salary and benefits for part-timers. We must expect that. If management was offering 5% for all faculty, the dollars which that amounted to should have been split out by the union—not a 5% salary increase across the board but rather a breakdown of those dollars. There are various ways to achieve this: 4% for full-time faculty, 6% for part-time faculty or some such configuration. Management would have eventually agreed to this. Part-timers could have gotten more than 5% and, more importantly, they could have made advances in the glacially-slow movement toward parity. Without a differential salary increase, there can never be parity.
This is what the union absolutely failed to address in its tentative agreement. It seemed it was greedy, greedy to improve full-timers' immediate salary at the expense of part-timers' long-term gains. It wanted to say, "See what we got you!"
Elimination of Full-Time Faculty Hires
As we all know, there are only three ways for part-timers to make substantive gains in their employment at Cuesta: be hired full-time, pick up extra classes if they aren't at their 67% max employment, and move toward parity with full timers. The elimination of the new faculty positions denied those part-timers who applied for those positions a chance to be full-time and also prevented other part-timers from the possibility of picking up extra units.
Equally as important is the precedent this agreement set. To swap the quality of teaching and services through more full-time faculty for a salary increase shows who was in control—and, that was the district. Certainly, we had to make concessions in the past, but never were those concessions between negotiable (salary) and non-negotiable (faculty hires) items. This is quite unheard of.
The union's responsibility is to negotiate a strong contract for all faculty. Management's responsibility is to come up with the money to do so. We had always bargained on that premise, and quite successfully. Why should the union be pressed upon to do management's job, i.e., find the money? Union president Stakes said that the removal of the positions was "much to everyone's surprise." Again, we must expect management to not act above board. But, we do expect the union to not agree to it.
The district had gone too far. It was at this point that a job action of some kind should have been called. That didn't happen, and the "surprise" went unheeded and unchanged. Who is in control here? Bargaining is meant to level the playing field. This field wasn't leveled. It was flattened.
Management Gains
Management apparently had enough money to make the Executive Director of Human Resources a Vice-President with at least a $30,000 a year salary bump. It then added a new Director of Human Resources/Benefits/Payroll position. It also applied some hefty increases to other managers. It's not about the money. It's about priorities. And, the district has decided what's important to it.
What now?
Stakes said, "The current situation of low salaries took years to develop and will require more than one year to fix. We will not be able to correct past deficits, but will move forward to provide better overall compensation packages in the years to come." Those "low salaries" developed over the 5-year (2008-2013) regime of Allison Merzon and her EB, which produced no monetary benefits to faculty during that span and whose practice continued with the current union until now (Do remember that all community colleges were grappling with the same budget crises). Cuesta full-timers dropped in rank among California Community Colleges from 35/72 to 72/72 in 7 ½ years.** Frankly, I don't know if we can ever fully recover.
Those who were hurt the most are our part-time sisters and brothers.
I hope the full-time faculty will pressure the union to reallocate these dollars in the name of justice and vote NO on the ratification of the contract.
I hope the part-time faculty union members come out in droves to vote NO on the ratification of the contract. Use the power of your numbers.
Send the union and the district back to the bargaining table to create a contract that benefits all faculty.
I urge the membership to vote NO on ratification of this contract.
**A part-time colleague who contacted me the other day sent me this. I had forgotten the exact email, but it gives the part-time statewide ranking in 2007:
On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:57 AM, MLA Rossa-Quade <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I've just received some current CA community college stats.
1.) Attached is the CFT Community College Council Part-Time salary study, completed 5 days ago. And . . . . . Cuesta College part-timers look to be about 9th from the top in highest possible salaries in all (not only CFT) community colleges reporting (which is all but about 5)!"


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With liquid now angrily strewn across the floor, walls and ceiling, is his glass now half full or half empty?
It can be wonderful, entertaining, exhilarating and leave eternally happy memories imprinted in your mind. But "The Beautiful Game" it is not.
Because it can also be heartbreaking, punishing, frustrating and downright cruel.
When we thrash the scum or sock it to the likes of United on their own patch, it's like backing every winner at the races or finding out your first born has got their place at Oxbridge. Nights like last night are like dropping your keys down a drain or waking up in Vegas married to someone straight out of the Jeremy Kyle green room.
It hurts. It frustrates. Let's be honest, it beggars belief; what the fuck?! How the hell did that happen?
Winning with a minute and a bit to play but somehow contriving to lose. Liverpool last season and now a whole new chapter for the NCFC St James's Park horror show DVD (there's still enough time to get that pressed and in the club shops in time for Halloween btw).
Much anger will be vented and understandably so. Do we have a soft underbelly? Why can't we defend solidly for two minutes? Why is it that we score a goal and then concede one quicker than an average Championship manager can stuff an envelope in his pocket?
If we were really that soft-centred I don't think that we'd weather the bombardment we took early doors and then work ourselves into a position from which we should win the game. What is undeniable is that we continue to make individual errors that gift our opponents opportunities to get back at us. Whether it's Olsson, Bassong, Martin or Pinto, whether it's a tiring midfield or lack of cover or bad game management from the bench, it's there.
There's no point scapegoating. Our defenders all make basic errors, Bennett just as much as those picked last night. I've wondered why plenty. Is it down to the way we play, high full backs that can leave the CBs isolated and vulnerable if we make poor decisions upfield? Is it communication; do we lack a leader? Is it confidence? Or is this just as good as they are?
It's probably a combination of all factors.
Pinto and Olsson are often integral to things we do well in the final third. They're also both suspect defensively, but, they're asked to cover an enormous amount of ground pounding the flanks to facilitate our playing style. This will, on occasion, leave them out of position and our centre halves having to cover. I reckon the positives outweigh the negatives at the moment though.
Do we talk enough? Don't know. I think Martin leads the line better than anyone else but we don't have a particularly vocal presence. It's probably that which gives the impression our back four are often just winging it.
As for confidence...we'd just won 5 on the spin. If you can't be confident after a run like that then you never will be. However, it's not daft to think that leading, under the cosh, entering injury time, that Liverpool might sneak into the mindset. As professionals you'd hope that they've moved on and consigned that in the bin marked "Shit. Do Not Recycle." but they are only human.
With that in mind, perhaps they weren't helped from the bench. Trying to "shore it up" has been a god-awful tactic for Norwich City for what seems like forever. It still remains the percentage call though. Would the defenders been better served with a Murphy left up top to offer the hoof and chase? In hindsight, it's possible. Had we made that change and lost, we'd be screaming that putting on a player who's major weakness is his defending to try and see out a 3-2 win was madness. Meh.
Devastating as losing in that manner is, we're second after 10 games. I'd have been happy enough with that if offered before the season. I'd have been bloody delirious if offered that after the transfer window, and here we are.
We can all bitch about it for another couple of days. Alex hasn't got that time. His biggest test of the season is now upon him. He has to get the players up off the floor (that will help with defending high balls too) and ready for another scrap at Molineux.
That's the start of the next 10 games, if we can produce three goals and three points or even one goal and three points (a clean sheet - ha) then the pain of St James will subside plenty.
Over to Alex.


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The role, use and impact of PROMs on nursing in the English NHS
Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) are fast becoming a common mechanism within the English NHS to ascertain the impact on a patient's health.
Well developed PROMs may be used to understand the impact of a service on patients' health at the treatment centre level, and to make comparisons between expected and experienced health outcomes. PROMs are also increasingly being used as a measurement tool by which organisations and individuals providing health care can be assessed, managed, and remunerated.
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The Blockchain meets Internet of Everything Technology
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a realm of technology that has yet to find a defined market. An IoT application offers the ability for devices to communicate between devices for a specific purpose. Usually this communication is limited to a specific device set and are designed to be autonomous. The 2015 Texas Bitcoin Conference unveiled a list of new emerging decentralized IoT applications from their hackathon last Saturday.
And the @TexasBitcoin @DAppsFund million dollar winners are... 1. (500k) - Neural 2. (300k) - LivelyGig 3. (200k) - BitWave Congrats!
— Koinify (@koinify) March 29, 2015
IoT applications have yet to capture a large audience because the advantage of connected devices is difficult communicate to the average consumer. Samsung and IBM have recently collaborated together to create future IoT products using blockchain technology. This partnership will work together on IBM's ADEPT (Autonomous Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Telemetry) concept that melds BitTorrent's file sharing protocol, Bitcoin currency, Etherium, and peer-to-peer communication protocol Rehash. IBM has acknowledged the following hurdles with adopting IoT Technology:
- Functional Value
- Privacy
- Anonymity
- Cost effective
- Outdated Business Models
Blockchain's decentralized ledger brings the IoT model into a new threshold. As the device is created it can be recorded into the blockchain and referenced at any point during the life of the product. A sidechain can be created to manage Internet of Things applications. Sidechains have the ability to operate with larger blocks then the Bitcoin blockchain and even shorter transaction validation times. Sidechain transactions can still be validated on Bitcoin's blockchain through an initial block recording on the blockchain before transferring to an altcoin sidechain. This method maintains the validity of recorded transactions on the sidechain Transaction inputs are validated on sidechains through this decentralized system. When IoT transactions are confirmed, a driver can be dispatched (Uber), or a bed can be reserved (AirBnB) after the transaction is recorded.
This is unuseful to a majority of consumers. There has been adoption of the internet in everyday consumer devices such as cars in the past but have been only designed around increased sales and not usability. IBM suggests that the future of IoT could be in improving the user experience with IoT products. The car could operate with live updates about road conditions or traffic outlooks for your prefered routes. Currently, accessing services through IoT applications are made easier through "Click to Link your Social Media Profile" prompts. These easy-of-use applications make revenue through selling consumer information and IBM believes that this is not a sustainable business trend.
Another current issue for IoT adoption stems from compatibility. Devices created five to ten years ago are not guaranteed to interact with newer devices. Technology is evolving too quickly for past generation devices to continue to work for longer than a decade. Connecting devices to the internet to interact between each one another digitally removes the compatibility issues between devices. LivelyGig is one of the Texas Bitcoin Conference applications to propose a blockchain solution for IoT technology.
LivelyGig - Github
|Captured from Figure 1 of LivelyGig's Whitepaper
LivelyGig is offering an IoT employment services portal to connect skilled workers to employers through smart contracts. This is a new business avenue as it removes a traditional intermediary service by connecting the contractor to the client without friction. Individual skill portals such as Assembly.com, or Freelancer.com offer pay-per-content business models, but there has yet to be a decentralized platform for these type of business exchanges. Headhunters and agencies normally pool talented freelance workers together to provide managers the skills needed for various projects. The demand however is based on the prices negotiated by the intermediary and the contracting firm. Prices can be competitive and the benchmark for services will be consensus driven. Creating decentralized job services that can be posted on a sidechain creates a usable recall list for qualified individuals with no need for an intermediary.
Full-time, part-time, freelance and micro-tasks can be tasked without friction or delay of an intermediary. If a prospective job seeker does not meet the specifications of the posted transaction on the sidechain, the transaction requirements will not be met and the contract will not be validated or initiated. LivelyGig hopes to partner with current job portal services to transform the job offering business landscape.
Imagine a mainframe that can only be maintained by a handful of individuals and they are spread out across the country. The firm or the manufacturer that is leasing the mainframe can create parameters that will be monitored for the life of the product. As the mainframe continues to run, a vital problem occurs and the mainframe experiences a critical failure. IBM will be able to create a process for when the mainframe fails, to post a specific freelance request on LivelyGig almost instantly. A qualified individual with the correct inputs can request to complete the job and 'sign' the contract posting and immediately depart to the site where the mainframe is located.
There is not enough reliable information about Neural or BitWave to write about those applications at this time, but a further look into similar services can give a view through the looking glass. As IoT technology moves forward, better use cases and design structures can emerge. The creation of autonomous interconnected systems can create new interactions with devices that have yet to be envisioned. Keep a close watch on emerging blockchain technology and it's usefulness with IoT interactions.


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Issue Date: May 2, 2016 | Web Date: April 27, 2016
How the first nucleotides might have formed on Earth
News Channels: Biological SCENE, Organic SCENE
Keywords: origins of life, nucleic acids, nucleotides, RNA
An ongoing challenge for researchers who are studying the origins of life is figuring out how biopolymers such as DNA and RNA might have formed in the first place. In the case of RNA, a candidate for the first genetic material, researchers have observed the formation of its constituent bases and sugars under model early Earth conditions. But demonstrating how those bases and sugars might have combined to form nucleotides under prebiotic conditions has been challenging.
Now, a team led by Nicholas V. Hud of Georgia Institute of Technology has identified nitrogen-containing heterocycles that spontaneously react with the sugar ribose-5-phosphate in water to form nucleotides (Nat. Commun. 2016, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11328).
These nucleotides are capable of forming hydrogen-bonded base pairs similar to the Watson-Crick base pairs formed by modern nucleic acids. Furthermore, the newly created building blocks can self-assemble into large, stacked, noncovalent complexes, which could eventually facilitate the formation of RNA-like molecules.
Hud's team made the nucleotides with the heterocycles barbituric acid and melamine, both of which have been observed in model prebiotic reactions in the past. Both of them reacted spontaneously with ribose with yields greater than 50%. The bases in modern nucleic acids don't combine with ribose under the same conditions.
"We think we can consider these bases to be very plausibly prebiotic," Hud says. "They're doing things that look like they could get us on the road to making an RNA-like molecule." Such a molecule could have later evolved to incorporate the bases now found in RNA, he contends.
Besides forming base pairs with each other, Hud says, the melamine and barbituric acid would also likely hydrogen bond with modern nucleobases—melamine with uracil and barbituric acid with adenine. Such "forward compatibility" would ensure that as the bases evolved, they would retain the ability to transfer genetic information.
In addition, Hud and coworkers found that the ribose in their plausible prebiotic nucleotides preferentially adopts the β-anomeric form, which refers to the conformation of the carbon in the sugar that attaches to the base. When the nucleotides stack into noncovalent complexes, the assemblies end up with twice as much of the β-anomer as the α-anomer.
The researchers don't know exactly what's causing the enrichment, but it happens both in the initial reaction between the heterocycle and the ribose and in the formation of the noncovalent complex. "This is very encouraging for us because the β form is the one life uses," Hud says.
The work "demonstrates how a biologically relevant structure can spontaneously self-assemble in aqueous solution," says David W. Deamer, an origins-of-life researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "A similar process was likely to have occurred in the prebiotic environment as an important step toward the linear polymers that were necessary for life to begin."
Figuring out how to make such linear polymers is the next step for Hud's team. "We don't have the liberty of using enzymes," Hud says. "We need to get this to go with something plausibly prebiotic. It's still a challenge, but we're getting close."
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Serial characters, i.e. people we can get to know across a series of books, are popular. Look at Sherlock Holmes – I am not sure if he was the earliest example, but he first appeared in print in 1887 and went on to feature in four novels and fifty-six short stories, and countless adaptions since. Then there was Tarzan – his first adventure appeared in 1912 and he subsequently featured in twenty-five sequels by the original author, not to mention numerous other publications and formats down the years. Inspector Morse. The Famous Five. Paddington Bear. The Silver Brumby series. Harry Potter… and so on.
Now I don't know about you, but I love a series of books featuring the same central character… particularly crime or mystery stories. I love the way the author can reveal the character's background in a gradual – and more realistic – way across months or years of story time, rather than having to cram it all into one book (information overload?). And let's face it – we don't learn all there is to know about our work colleagues in one huge info-dump, do we? Who ever knew that the straight-laced and perhaps rather prim secretary on the fifth floor really likes heavy metal or Prog Rock, and has a collection of t-shirts to prove it which might rival your teenage son's? Okay, maybe that's not a great example (although I do know someone who worked with someone a bit like that – I didn't make it all up!) but I'm sure you know what I mean.
In my first published work, a collection of short science-fiction tales titled 'The Journey and Other Short Stories', the titular story featured two characters who, when my full-length novel 'The Methuselah Paradox' is published later this year, readers might recognise as the parents of missing scientist Emma Morgan. Although Tom and Eva Morgan's appearance in 'The Methuselah Paradox' is not exactly a continuation of 'The Journey' (that being the original short story which inspired the novel), there was a moment when I did seriously consider linking them, and making 'The Methuselah Paradox' a sequel…
When I first decided that Inspector Ian Hammond in 'The Methuselah Paradox' was going to feature in my next novel, and quite possibly the one after that, and maybe even the next… well, the thought of being able to unfold his story gradually gave me a huge tingle of excitement! Now I could take my time with him. And he's a nice guy – with a mystery in his past he badly wants to unravel… and I'm not going to say any more, for obvious reasons!
So yes, I think serial characters are a great idea. If you write them well (and I hope that is true of DI Hammond – you will have to be the judge of that when 'The Methuselah Paradox' is published later this year!) then you may be able to build up your readership and gain a nice following; who among us hasn't finished book one in a series and, having enjoyed it, scanned Amazon for the next – and been frustrated to discover that it isn't due out for another few months/a year? (Raises hand) Or binged on a twenty-series book featuring a character we've come to know and care about? (Raises hand) As a writer, it is something we all want for our own books, isn't it? And I think it is fair to say that novels featuring serial characters feel like the norm with most police procedural/detective stories these days. I guess it is the same desire for a familiar face and a long story arc which keeps viewers watching a soap opera week after week. What will happen next? We want to know! The different plot details of each story compliment the slower story arc of the main character(s) perfectly – a never-ending feast of intrigue and discovery.
Talking of long story arcs, that in itself can be a challenge. Do you work it all out before you start the first book, which could be boring for you as a writer, or do you discover your character as you go along, keeping one book ahead of your readers in the discovery stakes? I favour the second method, although I do usually have a rough idea of where I want my character to end up – assuming he or she doesn't surprise me, of course…
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Cambridge is not only a superb place to spend your day, but also offers a full and vibrant entertainment and nightlife scene.
With something to suit all tastes, there is usually an event happening at one of Cambridge's many entertainment venues on most nights of the week.
If you're area of interest is one of a theatrical note, then Cambridge is home to numerous world-class stage productions, throughout the year. Cambridge Arts Theatre is one of the region's liveliest and most exciting venues, hosting a varied programme of drama, dance, music, comedy and pantomime, as well as many shows prior to and direct from the West End.
Just around the corner the Cambridge Corn Exchange is the largest multi-purpose entertainment venue in the region. Run by Cambridge City Council, it presents up to 300 performances per year ranging from the hottest names from the rock and pop world as well as musicals, comedy, opera, ballet orchestral concerts and an annual Christmas show.
Cambridge is home to three cinemas - all showing a wonderfully eclectic selection of cinema from all over the world. the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse offers only the best in world cinema and is alao home to the annual Cambridge Film Festival, which takes place every September - a great place to enjoy movies produced from all over the world and a great place to enjoy film workshops and events.
You can also enjoy the best that Hollywood has to offer at Cambridge's two multiplex cinemas - The Light Cinema can be found at the Cambridge Leisure Park and is home to 9 screens, whilst Vue Cinema at The Grafton, has 8 screens of fun for all the family.
Bars and Clubbing
If you prefer to enjoy live music and a few drinks, then Cambridge has a whole host of bars and clubs that are full of people out to have a good time – you could make your way along the main high street and enjoy the lively clubbing scene, or relax and chill out at some of the city's most stylish places to be.
Market Passage offers two of the city's most lively bars, with Baroosh Bar & Kitchen and Ta Bouche taking centre stage – if you prefer live music and world class cocktails, then head over to De Luca Cucina & Bar or La Raza and enjoy coolness personified - with nightly events offering some of the best live music and entertainment in town.
Presenting 100's of performances each year to over 100,000 customers, Cambridge Junction covers theatre, comedy, dance, live music, clubs and events for young people. Operating over 3 spaces and is one of the most exciting clubbing venues in the city - offering world renound djs and touring artists.
Traditional Pubs
Not everyone wants a full on night out on the town and there are plenty of relaxing traditional pubs and bars to enjoy - situated in the heart of the city and on the riverside, many of Cambridge's pubs have been part of the city for over 100 years, favourites include – The Eagle, The Old Spring, The Green Man, Grantchester and The Mitre Tavern.


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Hi, let me present myself, I'm Marco and I just got a RA, so a new member of this forum.
I have searched around and I think this topic might have been brought up already in the past, but maybe things have changed since.
Obviously, living in Italy, I wish that a European version of the relay box was available, as I don't like at all to use the adaptors which are bulky and, in my opinion, also unsafe.
Is there any hope for the future?
In the meanwhile, I was thinking to open the relay box and either substitute the US sockets with EU ones, if possible or wire the connectors of the sockets to another box with EU sockets.
Has anyone ever tried this?
I have opened the box unscrewing the back, but I don't know how to disassemble the sockets that are fixed on the board. Can anyone help?
Many thanks.
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You can just pry them apart.
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You mean from the front side (outside)?
I am a bit afraid of breaking the smal hooks of plastic that I suppose are fixing the sockets. It's not clear to me how should I pry them apat. If I force them inserting a screwdriver in the chink, is it ok? Thanks again.
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Written by Scott Scheper for Gaebler Ventures
We take a look at the corporate business strategies and see what entrepreneurs can learn from strategies set by large corporations. It turns out that corporate strategic objectives such as growth, stability and retrenchment are very relevant to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
You'll rarely hear the term "corporate level strategy" uttered in the realm of entrepreneurship.
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This is because corporate level strategy revolves around asking, "What business are we going to be in? What business should we abandon? What types of portfolio businesses should we hold?"
When you think corporate strategy, you think of large corporations. Take Pepsi, for example. Each quarter Pepsi evaluates their portfolio businesses (whether it be in beverages, snacks or fast food). After viewing the performance of each, they decide to either cut activity in one or increase focus in one.
Entrepreneurs are on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. Instead of holding a diversified portfolio of mini-companies, entrepreneurs are fully invested in one company, their own.
Although the last thing on an entrepreneur's mind is corporate strategy, it's important to understand corporate strategy for two reasons.
First, every investor wants to see an exit strategy in a potential investment. Today, more than ever, companies are banking on acquisitions as the exit strategy. If you're hoping for this exquisite exit, you'll need to understand why larger companies acquire smaller ones.
Second, it's important to understand corporate strategy because many concepts can, in fact, be applied to an entrepreneur's strategy.
In this article, we discuss three important elements of corporate strategy.
A company seeking growth faces a subset of growth choices: horizontal growth (concentration), diversification and vertical integration.
When a company is seeking slow growth or stagnation, management may seek a strategy that centers on stability. There are three elements to this strategy:
Retrenchment revolves around cutting sales. Retrenchment is a corporate-level strategy that seeks to reduce the size or diversity of an organization's operations. Retrenchment is also a reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable. Retrenchment is a pullback or a withdrawal from offering some current products or serving some markets. In a military situation a retrenchment provides a second line of defense. Retrenchment is often a strategy employed prior to or as part of a Turnaround strategy.
There are five activities that characterize retrenchment:
Scott Scheper is a venture finance enthusiast and serial entrepreneur hailing from Orange County, CA. Scott recently graduated from Chapman University where he was a Cheverton Fellow and graduated with honors in Finance, Management and Marketing.
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You don't want to guess about it. And then we went
to the Fish Room and there was a huge bookcase that was
all out of scale really for the rest of the furniture and
the question was whether to leave it or whether to take out
the round, fat oak table that we've had there ever since I've
been going to the White House. It must be something from the
days of Theodore Roosevelt, but it can be pulled out to
seat about 24 people and it fills up the room. But at any
rate, Mrs. Johnson has made a wonderful reform in the White
House executive section. There are now flowers--very pretty
flowers like what there are for the White House itself--in
all the offices, and there were very pretty pictures...
Did you have a hand in this?
No, I didn't suggest it. There are very pretty
pictures: a marvelous Whistler and a very good Grant Wood
and a Remington and something else there, which were more or
less representative of American artists. They didn't all
hang terribly well with earth other but they were representative.
There again I think we needed a scale model. You can't tell
how to rearrange a room adequately without looking at it,
especially people who are not experienced decorators, as none
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There are new Minnie ears at the Disneyland Resort and you're going to want to get a pair!
The new Classic Attractions Minnie ears have a navy velvet-trimmed interior and copious sequins on the ears and there's a 2019 in pink thread on the side. And the hot pink,, puffy bow features a ton of classic attractions!
You can spot Maleficent from Fantasmic!, It's a Small World, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Matterhorn, the Disneyland Railroad, the Jungle Cruise, Space Mountain, Mad Tea Party teacups, and the Partners statue!
There are also smaller icons like tiny Dole Whips in the pattern as well.
You can find the adorable new ears at the Emporium in Disneyland or Five and Dime in Disney's California Adventures.


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We ask, because the official X-Men movies Facebook page has made five album covers for your consideration. This movie refuses to let you forget that it's set in the '80s.
Our pick is probably Nightcrawler's "Let's BAMF."
Although "Hungry Like the Beast" also has its appeal. As do all the others.
Here are large versions of album covers for Quicksilver, Cyclops, and Jean Grey. Pick a favorite and bask in the many, many ways that X-Men: Apocalypse is embracing the completely absurd decade it is set in.


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To get rid of unwanted pregnancy there are several pills are available in the market. These pills are very good for family planning but there are several problems occurs when you didn't know the proper use of those pills. Here we will see some contraceptive pills side effects.
By having these pills females can avoid unwanted pregnancy but if there is medical profession involves it's better to go with them because the doctor knows the best.
What Are Oral Contraceptives Pills:
To avoid unwanted pregnancy these pills are made these pills also known as a birth control pills. especially in the US, there are 12 million women who are taking these pills to avoid pregnancy in 1 year. These pills are very effective if taken correctly.
contraceptive pills side effects:
Lower Immune System:
During consumption of this pill, the immune system of women gets down means they can get affected by any common disease it decreases the MHC molecule count in the body.
Blood Clot:
There is 1 disadvantage of this pill is they increases the chances of blood clotting in the body, essentially this causes only in those women's who are using an excessive amount of oral contraceptive pills.
Gaining Weight:
Inordinate consumption of these pill leads to enlarging weight or obesity, so it's better to take these pills in sufficient amount.
These pills also can lead depression or stress in women's. With this, there is a headache and tiredness also has been seen.
Enlarging Breast Size:
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Change In Behaviour:
This is a common factor usually every woman suffer when they are consuming contraceptive pills. They can experience a change in mood, depression.
Vaginal Dryness:
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+ Although the last resource read, this was the first one that had me excited, New Songs of Celebration Render: Congregational Song in the Twenty-First Century. There has been a need for a book like this, a modern supplement to the previous work by Routley and Westermeyer on the melodies and texts of historic church music. Hawn, et al., and the accompanying CD describe "Seven Streams of Song: An Overview of Congregational Song since Vatican II (356-7, passim). They include: 1. Roman Catholic Liturgical Renewal Hymnody (Blest Are They, On Eagle's Wings); 2. Protestant Contemporary Classical Hymnody (Tell Out My Soul, When in Our Music); 3. African American Spirituals and Gospel Songs (Total Praise); 4. Revival/Gospel Songs (Because He Lives; Shine, Jesus Shine); 5. Folk Song Influences (use of Southern Folk Tunes and Shaped-note melodies; British, Irish, and Scottish tunes); 6. Pentecostal Songs (Awesome God, El Shaddai, Majesty, Thy Word); 7. Global and Ecumenical Song (Taize; Bell, Sosa). Chapter Six unfortunately parrots the false story of Luther pioneering vernacular styles (177), misunderstanding history near and dear to me. Scheer is correct about Booth--please keep Luther out of it. I must complement Scheer on the focus on the recent hymn revival, a theme QBR has followed closely (197). He also correctly shows the danger of worship adopting one generation's youth culture (200). I am also thankful that Chapter Two (Brink, 64) highlights the hymn revival. The modern hymnody of Townend (54, 193, 198, 351) and Getty (54, 198) is also featured in multiple chapters, demonstrating the unifying nature of such singable, freshly-stated, and theologically deep congregational song. I could quibble about other details in a longer review, but there just isn't anything like this resource elsewhere. Recommended.
- A Lutheran response to a new collection of Mennonite hymnody is a challenge. I personally found two texts, "God is our Shelter and Our Shield," and "Upon the Holy Mountainside" usable in my context. I was horrified by the anti-scriptural "God Sparks the Human Soul," particularly because it was written to encapsulate "a core tenant of Anabaptism--human freedom in choosing to follow God." Scripture teaches Original Sin, that humans are naturally enemies of God, and that even our heart, reason, and desires are tainted with sin. I most appreciated sight-reading the new hymn tunes. Not recommended.
+/ Gathered for God is both a CD and choral composition collection. I think of it as a GIA composer sampler. As a Lutheran, I won't use "Dolorosa." I will consider Cooney's "God Is Love" for weddings, as well as Mahler's "My Beloved Is Mine," and "The Lord Is My Shepherd" by Daigle. Partially Recommended.
+ Lyric Psalter Year A puts the Revised Grail Lectionary Psalms to melodies composed by Tony Alonso and Marty Haugen. With some adaptations to the Three-Year Lectionary of Lutheran Service Book, I can see this collection used profitably in an LCMS congregation. Roman/Marian Feasts would be omitted. We would like to see similar collections for B, C, and the Historic Lectionary. Recommended.
/ The God of All Beginnings collection of Joncas music is only Partially Recommended. "Christ Be Near" is comforting. "Like a Bird" sings an oft-misunderstood Bible text too overused by moderns pushing a feminine view of God or ministry. I could use "Canticle of Mary," but not "Holy Mary." "Sacred This Banquet" has some unfortunate language, incompatible with either Lutheran (LCMS) or Roman understandings of Close Communion. The remainder of the pieces are serviceable for Lutherans to consider using.
+/ Prolific composer James Chepponis' Mass for the People of God is next on our list. My concerns as a Lutheran are those of Luther looking at the medieval Roman Church's Latin Mass, as well as those of a modern Lutheran confused at seeing the Kyrie misused as part of the Penitential Act, instead of as a prayer of the forgiven people of God asking for mercy. Also, I will "quibble" about the phrase "people of good will" in the Gloria in Excelsis as an inadequate translation. LCMS Lutherans could use this setting otherwise, though we would certainly miss having an Offertory and our Nunc Dimittis. Recommended with slight modification.
+/ I respectfully disagree with Liam Lawton that "Christ Has No Body Now But Yours" and omit his "Ave Maria" from my use of his Eternal choral music and CD collection, yet I will consider use of his beautiful "Bethlehem Sky" and the comforting and memorable piano, choir, assembly, keyboard, guitar and cello piece, "The Lord Is My Shelter." Partially recommended.
++ Dennis Schrock's performance practic handbook for Handel's Messiah comes Highly Recommended. Participating in a performance of even part of Messiah can be a daunting proposition. This handbook will help you better understand the composition, content, theology, and musicality of the piece as a whole and as individual compositions. I appreciate the professionalism and high musicianship of this handbook and how it can prepare singers and musicians to worship the Messiah while performing Messiah.
-/ Appreciated, but Not Recommended. In QBR 2.1, (Christmastide 2007), we reviewed the original pair of My Morning Prayer and My Evening Prayer. Our praise and critique of My Lenten Prayer is identical. That previous review is reproduced below.
Liturgy & Hymnody CD Review
My Morning Prayer/My Evening Prayer. (Set of both My Morning Prayer and My Evening Prayer, or available separately for $25.95 each.) Seven Daily Services for People on the Go. Chicago: GIA, 2006 & 2007. 4–CD Audio CD set. $40.00. www.giamusic.com800 GIA 1358 (LH)
When I first saw these advertised, I thought, "This has got to be one of the best ideas that I've seen in years that would encourage busy people to pray." I still hold that opinion. This four-CD set has some wonderful strengths. I will also share some deeply-held concerns.
Here's how they are to be used, according to the back of the CD cases: "Each day of the week has two tracks on these CDs; the odd-numbered tracks are the beginning of the day's service, the even-numbered tracks begin with the Canticle…" My Morning Prayer makes use of the Canticle of Zechariah, often called by its Latin title, the Benedictus, while My Evening Prayer sings the Canticle of Mary, often called the Magnificat, also after the Latin.
Due to the success of their 2006 release of a resource for the morning, GIA followed up with a resource for the evening. My Evening Prayer appropriately begins with Saturday, the "eve" of Sunday, since it is prayed after sunset. My Morning Prayer goes Sunday through Saturday.
The services are very learnable by repetition. Repeated elements like the Invitatory, Canticle, music for the General Intercessions and Lord's Prayer, and the Blessing are the same for either MMP or MEP all through the week. The services are reverent and respectful of the received tradition, and their structure will be familiar to liturgical Christians nourished by the teaching of the Gospel. They also give the listener a good exposure to the texts, music and composers in the GIA catalog.
My primary concern with these CDs is the inclusion of women presiding in a prayer office. This will likely lead to confusion with regard to the Office of the Holy Ministry, (see 1 Corinthians 14:33b-40; 1 Timothy 2: 8-15; 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6; et al) and there is enough of that in Christendom as is. I wonder if the 50-50 male/female balance in reading Bible texts and praying collects is due to the influence of the flawed idea from "liturgical theology" that liturgy is "the work of the people."
Sunday's concluding collect at Morning Prayer makes a vague reference to how to "find" God. This could have been cleared up by a reminder that Christians find God "for us" in Word and Sacrament, just as He promises in Scripture. You will wish to avoid adding your "Amen" to the prayer for the dead near the end of Evening Prayer on Monday.
The hymn for Sunday Morning Prayer shows the influence of St. Augustine and his teaching of the role of Christianity in society (according to Niebuhr) as "transforming culture." The hymn text for Thursday Evening Prayer is weak, due to its theology coming primarily from the First Article of the Creed.
Additional strengths of the set are memorable well after finishing the week of prayer for the first time. The Morning Prayer canticle has the tune the British use to sing "O Little Town of Bethlehem," Forest Green, also found in Lutheran Service Book. That is but one example of how familiar melodies provide a welcoming foundation to both MMP and MEP. New compositions help add a breathtaking freshness. Wednesday's Evening Prayer hymn is wonderful. Listen to that before you begin using the set. Some users will notice that the hymn for Monday Morning Prayer is a text we knew from The Lutheran Hymnal 525 with new music and a new refrain.
I would encourage GIA to provide similar My _____ Prayer resources for Compline (bedtime) and Midday Prayer (useful for mid-morning, lunch hour and mid-afternoon prayer). Praying with other people is better than a recording, yet this kind of help for personal prayer is better than praying alone.
More information about each of these titles
Critical reviews (by Lutheran pastors and church musicians) of books and other resources for Christian worship, preaching, and church music from a perspective rooted in Holy Scripture, the Lutheran Confessions and good common sense. LHP Quarterly Book Review asks, "Is it worth the money to buy, the time to read, the shelf space to store, and the effort to teach?"


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With increased demands you have less time than before to search for funders. How many of us have wasted hours searching and applying for funding with low returns? This interactive three hour session aims to reduce your funding search time and will help you to identify which funders will closely match the type of funding you need for your project(s) and organisation.
Trainer Profile
John Hayes started working in the voluntary sector for a rural Mental Health charity in Wales. He was then recruited by the local CVS to cover Brecknockshire as a community and organisational development worker, working with groups on governance, legal and funding issues and working with communities on community development and local participation in neighbourhood regeneration and development. After working in Wales for ten years he moved to the South East of England where he currently fulfils a similar role at OCVA as Development Worker.
What will I learn?
By the end of this session you will:
- Be able to identify suitable funders for your project or organisation
- Develop techniques for sourcing likely funders to meet your project needs
- Gain an understanding of what funders are looking for
- Be able to prioritise the needs of likely funders for your project
- Have an understanding of funder language
- Create a targeted list of funders for your needs
Benefits to you
You will leave the session with some practical tools and ideas for finding funders who closely match your project needs to enable you to minimise your time searching for funders.
Who should attend?
This session is for anyone who has responsibility or an involvement for raising funds or bid writing within your organisation. You could be a fundraiser, bid writer, project officer, project administrator or have a general interest in this topic.
Thursday 14th May 2020
9.45 am arrival for tea, coffee and networking for a 10.00 am start. The workshop will finish by 1.00 pm.
£45 per person for OCVA Members
£60 per person from a charitable organisation who are not OCVA members
£75 per person from a non-charitable organisation
The Old Courthouse
Floyds Row
St Aldates
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The Families Who Made Rome : A History and a Guide Paperback / softback
by Anthony Majanlahti
How often does a visitor to Rome drift towards some landmark and wonder who created it?
Why? What was their story? This fascinating book provides the answers. At once a history and a guide, it divides Rome into the districts dominated by the fabulously rich families of the Popes: the Colonna, della Rovere, Farnese, Borghese, Barberini and others.
In each case we learn their story - powerful, bloody and vivid - with all the scandals and intrigues as well as their relationships with artists like Bernini and Michelangelo.
As we stroll through Rome's history - either literally or in the imagination - we discover it afresh.
Famous sites like the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and St Peter's take on new significance as we watch the city rise from cramped medieval streets to become a glorious panorama of piazzas and palaces, fountains, towers and domes.
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Pages: 432 pages, app 100 integrated maps and drawings
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date: 04/05/2006
- Category: European history


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3114 ft.
Translation: Blue hill
Pronuncation: myowl gorram
May 2009 was the wettest hiking season in Scotland that I ever had the privilege of experiencing. This tour proved to be no different from the average squishy, slithering, sleety, soaking standard. Having set our mind on ticking off the four eastern Munros of the Fannaichs we approached the hills from the parking on the A835 between Loch Droma and Loch Glascarnoch which is at the bridge over the Abhainn an Torrain Duibh.
On the left bank of the Abhainn we followed the bends of the burn which carried a lot (!) of water indeed. The going was good and the path was sort of dry. Soon we reached the confluence of the Allt an Loch Sgeirich and the Abhainn a'Ghiubhais Li, crossed the first and continued our tramp along the left bank of the latter. We did not (!) use the bridge but climbed further on the deteriorating path. Higher up the burn we managed to cross it and headed over heathery terrain up the gentle slopes of Meallan Bhuide. Well, close to the rounded summit of this hillock the rain caught us and ended the short intermezzo of two hours walking without water coming down (my feet were soaked anyway, so hey, what difference does it make?). Loch Gorm came into view. It nestled nicely between the crags of Meall Gorm and the corrie headwall which lay ahead. We climbed into the hanging corrie above the loch, veered in a south easterly direction and came to the summit slopes of An Coileachan. At the summit sleet was coming down so the short rest was rather uncomfortable.
From this first Munro we turned north-west, crossed the area at the head of the corrie of ascent and climbed the grassy slopes, interspersed with rocks, which lead to the very flat ridge of Meall Gorm. The wind now caught us, things became considerably colder and the visibility dropped to 50 meters. At a stone shelter shortly before the summit we added an additional layer of warmer fleece in driving rain. Then the summit appeared, the cairn was touched and we continued immediately on the good path, not without being almost blown over once or twice by the gale. On this ridge we met another group of hillwalking lunatics (Sorry lads! :-))) who did the same tour counter-clockwise. Soon after the top of Meall nan Peithrean the 200m climb to the summit of Sgurr Mor began.
Frank raced ahead and I had to hurry not to loose contact. Having already bagged this Munro a few years earlier my motivation only sufficed for plodding on. At the large cairn we took a short summit break and then retraced our steps to where the side ridge leading to Beinn Liath Mhor Fannaich branches off. The steep descent down this side ridge was treacherous since a thin layer of slushy snow covered the grass and the path. Soon the broad ridge made for easy walking. We passed the hunters' shelter, got to the bouldery west face of Beinn Liath Mhor Fannaich and followed the path contouring around the hill to its north side. From there we climbed the last 100m to the summit of our fourth Munro. By now, we both were quite exhausted. But since the car was another seven or eight kilometres off and the weather did not improve we hastened our retreat. Down the very rocky south ridge of Beinn Liath Mhor Fannaich we headed towards the gentler slopes of Creag Dubh Fannaich. From this subsidiary top we struck a more or less direct line towards the confluence of the Allt an Loch Sgeirich and the Abhainn a'Ghiubhais Li.
The terrain got flatter and with all the water that had come down and was still falling from the sky we now experienced the disintegration of gentle heathery slopes into pools, rivulets, streams on grass and mossy water traps. One of the wettest pieces of land in Scotland we have ever seen. With some difficulty we crossed the Allt an Loch Sgeirich and reached the path along the Abhainn an Torrain Duibh, which had beed transformed into a raging torrent of peaty water with waterfalls and all. Very nice to the eye but our minds were set on autopilot by now. Then, after seemingly countless jumps over pools and countless bends of the river we finally saw the parking and our car. Soaked and very, very tired we reached the road, peeled off some of the wet layers of clothing and headed off towards our warm and cosy cottage in Letters on the shore of Loch Broom. This was not a great hike, there were no marvelous views, but in hindsight it feels like we did a decent job on a ghastly day in the hills.
Max elevation: 1172 m
Min elevation: 321 m
Total climbing: 1520 m
Total descent: -1139 m
Total time: 07:24:12
Description These two hills are at the south-eastern end of the Fannaichs, overlooking the east end of Loch Fannich. A broad ridge connects An Coileachan to Meall Gorm, and this ridge continues north-west to Sgurr Mor and the other mountains of the range. On the north side of this ridge there are several high corries holding lochans which drain north-east down the Abhainn a' Ghiubhais Li to Loch Glascarnoch. An Coileachan is a prominent hill with a fine corrie above the end of Loch Fannich.On the south side of the range the private road to Fannich Lodge is not accessible for cars, so the best approach to these hills is from the north. Leave the A835 road near the head of Loch Glascarnoch and walk up a rough path beside the Abhainn an Torrain Duibh and its tributary the Abhainn a' Ghiubhais Li for about 5 kilometres. Cross the stream to bear south over Meallan Buidhe and continue up the north ridge of An Coileachan. Traverse north then north-west along the broad and fairly level ridge past a stone hut to reach Meall Gorm. Rather than descending the steep north side of this hill, it is better to return along the ridge to the col just before An Coileachan and descend north-east from there to rejoin the uphill route.


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One-Third Of All Americans Are On The Edge Of Financial Ruin
Contrary to all of the misleading propaganda spewing from the media, Wall Street and DC about a robust job market and an improving economy, the average American is living hand to mouth. Of course, if they can't find one of those make-believe jobs created by the Government statisticians, the taxpayer helps the average American live hand to mouth.
A study released today by Bankrate.com showed that 70 million American adults do not have any emergency savings. It's the highest percentage in the 5-year history of the survey.
Here's how Marketwatch characterizes the situation. You'll note that the Marketwatch spinmeisters are reporting that "job market has vastly improved." But they don't ask why, if that's the case, one-third of the country is on the brink of disaster:
In the past few years, the job market has vastly improved and home prices have rebounded — yet Americans are becoming even more irresponsible when it comes to saving for emergencies.
According to a survey of 1,000 adults released by Bankrate.com on Tuesday, nearly one in three (29%) American adults (that's roughly 70 million) have no emergency savings at all — the highest percentage since Bankrate began doing this survey five years ago. What's more, only 22% of Americans have at least six months of emergency savings (that's what advisers recommend) — the lowest level since Bankrate began doing the survey.
These findings mirror others — all of which paint an abysmal picture of Americans' ability to withstand an emergency. For example, a survey released in March by national nonprofit NeighborWorks America also found that roughly one third (34%) of Americans don't have emergency savings.
Greg McBride, the chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com, says these low savings reflect that households haven't seen their incomes ramp up and thus "household budgets are tight." Plus, he adds "people don't pay themselves first — they wait until the end of the month to save what's left over and then nothing is left over."
You can read this rest of the story here: Americans On The Brink Of Disaster
My favorite part of the article is the brain dead financial "adviser" at the end – Scott Cole – who advises people to put their savings in a "high yield" savings account. Oh boy, I can't wait to take my $10/month leftover after paying for food, gas and housing and put it in a bank where I can earn 1%.
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. economy is in tatters. The negative economic reports continue to pile up. The only people who have benefited from 6 years of ZIRP and $3.6 trillion in printed money are the ones closest to the spigot: Wall Street, Wall Street's bought politicians and the wealthy individual and corporate plutocrats.
There's no telling how much longer the Fed/Government can delay the coming reset, but when it occurs this country will be quickly reset to Third World economic status.


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The ITB Speed Networking event brings leading buyers and exhibitors together – the ITB Blogger Speed Dating event focuses on travel bloggers at ITB Berlin – New: the Blogger Base @ ITB Berlin
With its two Speed Dating events on 8 March 2018, ITB Berlin will be offering buyers and bloggers an opportunity to network efficiently with exhibitors and establish valuable contacts in the shortest possible time. In the morning members of the ITB Buyers Circle can attend the ITB Speed Networking event where they will be able to meet exhibitors from Germany and abroad. In the afternoon experienced travel bloggers will be offered 8-minute time slots in order to exchange views with partners from the global tourism industry. Participants can make use of the ITB Matchmaking Tool for appointments in the run-up to both events.
The ITB Speed Networking event, where leading buyers belonging to the ITB Buyers Circle can get together with exhibitors, is being held at ITB Berlin 2018 for the fourth time and is scheduled to take place from 9.30 to 11 a.m. This year's event, which will be held at the CityCube Berlin on Level B, is being sponsored by Guatemala, the 'Heart of the Mayan World'. ITB Berlin will be writing to exhibitors to extend a personal invitation to the ITB Speed Networking event. Following this invitation co-exhibitors will also be able to register. Buyers and exhibitors who wish to emphasise particular interests and key topics in order to find matching partners can do so in their profile descriptions. Participants may only attend the networking event by pre-arranged appointment and will receive a short list of confirmed dates before the event. On 8 March they can make use of up to nine 8-minute slots for face-to-face meetings. That way, participants will be able to make the most of their newly established contacts. The Speed Networking event also lets them expand their business horizon and explore new destinations and products.
For additional information and contact details at the ITB Speed Networking event please visit www.itb-berlin.com/Exhibitors/SpeedDating/.
New: Blogger Base @ ITB Berlin
The ITB Blogger Speed Dating event will also be offering 8-minute slots to enable exhibitors and travel bloggers to get together, introduce their respective portfolios and talk about ideas and opportunities for joint ventures. By using the ITB Matchmaking Tool they can arrange up to nine appointments in advance. The ITB Blogger Speed Dating event will take place on Thursday, 8 March 2018 from 4.30 to 6 p.m. at the CityCube in Hall B. In order to take part free of charge participants must previously obtain accreditation as a blogger for ITB Berlin 2018.
For more information please visitwww.itb-berlin.com/Visitors/TradeVisitors/Blogger/.
Another advantage is the Blogger Base @ ITB Berlin, a lounge area which ITB will be providing for bloggers again this year. From 7 to 9 March 2018 the movie theatre at the Marshall Haus in the middle of the exhibition grounds will be transformed into a relaxing working space. From 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. this is where bloggers can network, blog or simply come to charge their smartphones, tablets and laptops. As well as using charging points and relaxing in a quiet atmosphere visitors can also connect to free Wi-Fi.
About ITB Berlin and the ITB Berlin Convention
ITB Berlin 2018 will take place from Wednesday to Sunday, 7 to 11 March. From Wednesday to Friday ITB Berlin is open to trade visitors only. ITB Berlin is the World's Leading Travel Trade Show. In 2017 a total of 10,000 companies and organizations from 184 countries exhibited their products and services to around 169,000 visitors, who included 109,000 trade visitors. Parallel with the show the ITB Berlin Convention, the largest event of its kind, will be held from Wednesday, 7 to Saturday, 10 March 2018. Admission to the ITB Berlin Convention is free for trade visitors and exhibitors. More details are available at www.itb-berlin.com, www.itb-convention.com and at ITB Social Media Newsroom.
You may obtain your accreditation for ITB Berlin 2018 online at www.itb-berlin.com/Press/Accreditation/.
Join the ITB Press Network at www.linkedin.com.Become a fan of ITB Berlin at www.facebook.com/ITBBerlin.Follow ITB Berlin on www.twitter.com/ITB_Berlin.Get the latest updates from the Social Media Newsroom at newsroom.itb-berlin.de/en.
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My dream one day is to have a really cool home office that is detached from the main house and is in a beautiful backyard. I saw this idea posted a while back on {Dwell.com} and then later on {Apartment Therapy}. I love it! This specific shipping container was turned into a backyard retreat/guest house - so cool! Texas architect, Jim Poteet, was able to find an empty steel shipping container and transform it into this wonderful room for visitors! Measuring 8ft x 40ft, a portion of it was kept as a garden shed and the rest was the living space. Floor to ceiling glass doors and windows, heating and air conditioning, a green roof, bamboo flooring and wall covering were all added, as well as small sink, shower, and a composting toilet. The whole structure was placed on a base made from recycled telephone poles.
Shipping Container Retreat!
Posted by Narineh at 9:45 PM
Labels: Architecture, Decor, DIY, Interior Design, studio, Workspace
4 comments:
That is unbelievably cool. Fun post.ReplyDelete
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I've seen the shipping containers made into swimming pools, but this is even better. It's amazing how great this looks. A wonderful 70's vibe.ReplyDelete
I share your dream!!! I've been wanting this for a long time too, unfortunately it's still a dream, hopefully some day! :)ReplyDelete
so amazing - thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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