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COPASAH Communiqué: Strategic Directions and Future Pathways of COPASAH
The current issue of COPASAH Communiqué provides the glimpses of thE collective introspection, reflection and insights for the future directions. Such a reflection will be followed up. by marshalling the energies to consolidate the central theme of COPASAH, i.e. community c e n t r e d p a r t i c i p a t o r y accountability processes and bottom up knowledge making, through the Global Symposium on social accountability, that will be hosted by COPASAH in February 2019, in New Delhi (India). Read more
COPASAH Debriefing Review and Strategising Future Directions Meet
The COPASAH Debriefing Review and Strategising Future Directions Meet was held in New-Delhi India from September 5, 6&7. The meet witnessed participation of diverse experts from the field of accountability, health rights movement, accountability practitioners, academics and research. The participants spanned across different countries from Guatemala, Peru, Uganda, Zambia, UK, USA, Nepal, Bangladesh apart from India.
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Setting the Future Strategic Directions of COPASAH
COPASAH has traversed a journey of five years since its genesis in 2011.These five years has laid the foundation of realizing the vision and aspiration of COPASAH, where in this time the COPASAH Steering Committee members, accountability experts and advisors to COPASAH felt a need for undertaking a strategic consultation to identify priorities for COPASAH as well envision the future pathways for the global network. Read more
A Story of Success of Stakeholder Participation
The Community Uplift Program (CUP), is a NGO registered with the Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984. This is a story of the impact of social mobilization through the journey of what began as a pilot project to look at social accountability. The pilot project was funded by DFID in the District of Peshawar where the "Community Score Card (CSC)", a tool designed to look deeper into social accountability to improve healthcare. Today, CUP is implementing a scale-up of a CSC to help improve the primary healthcare services in Charsadda District.
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Social Accountability for Adolescents' Rights and Citizenship
This article is an account from a collaborative project 'Adolescents as Citizens and Change Agents for Social Accountability' implemented by three non -government organisations SAHAJ, SWATI and SARTHI in four backward districts of the state of Gujarat, namely, Vadodara, Surendranagar, Mahisagar and Panchmahal, in India. The stories of the adolescent girls and boys in the article give voice to their experiences of participating in the project and what it meant for them.
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Social Accountability: A Process Oriented Community Practice
THE accountability discourse is gaining momentum globally. However, the dominant discourse of accountability continues to be instrumentalist in its approach, which sees it as a technical report at the worst or merely as an intervention to improve health sector performance, at best. It is also tagged to efficiency, defined as value for money or getting things done at very low financial inputs. To this end, goals without fundamentally touching the core of accountability are set. The language that couches these goals is largely apolitical in its expression. The goals set in this school of thought range from producing a report or a score card to setting the millennium development (MDG) or sustainable development goals (SDG)...
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An insightful yet conflicted man - Brennan Manning
I'm reading a book called The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning, which Melanie bought me for my birthday. (Click here to read the first chapter.) I heard many good things about the man and read a few quotes that were great. A couple years ago, I bought Melanie his book called Abba's Child for Christmas, and she really enjoyed it. (Here's the first chapter.)
Anyhow, I'm just at the beginning of the book but there were a couple excellent passages that I needed to share because they hit home with me. I don't pray much. I have always struggled with it. The last line is a great metaphor.
My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. (p.45)
Here's another section too...
This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God, who out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross and died whispering forgiveness on us all.
The God of the legalistic Christian, on the other hand, is often unpredictable, erratic, and capable of all manner of prejudices. When we view God this way, we feel compelled to engage in some sort of magic to appease Him. Sunday worship becomes a superstitious insurance policy against His whims. This God expects people to be perfect and to be in perpetual control of their feelings and thoughts. When broken people with this concept of God fail - as inevitably they must - they usually expect punishment. So, they persevere in religious practices as they struggle to maintain a hollow image of a perfect self. The struggle itself is exhausting. The legalists can never live up to the expectations they project on God. (p.40-41)
Here's an interview with Mr. Manning from 2004. And here's a more recent one, interestingly enough I just found that Manning admits lying about his behaviour. Weird. That can't be good. I wonder how many Christians have written him off because he publicly failed. The world would be a different place if all our own private failures were in the newspaper the following day.


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Early this spring, just after the swallows and western bluebirds started returning, I got busy cleaning out and repairing our birdhouses, making ready for nesting season. This hadn't been done for many years, if ever, and I don't know a lot about bird life, but what I'd read recommended an annual clean-out … Additionally, there were some houses that needed some roof repair, plus one incomplete house that had been kicking around the workshop, waiting to be hung
Once I finished up this one house, I decided to place it on a pole that is in view of our kitchen sink, and when the swallows were ready to build nests and begin mating, for weeks I got to watch the pair that had taken residence in this new house. Twice a day they would do their little courtship dance and mate, and something about it was both brutal (as is the way with many animals) and tender and endearing.
Through my binoculars I could watch them tucking strands of dry grass through their round door hole, and I felt happy that this little house had indeed been located in a spot that pleased the birds.
I went away for two weeks, traveling to see friends, and when I returned I discovered that I had failed my feathered friends. The screws that I had used to complete the unfinished house were plenty good–for a dry, unoccupied house. But the weeks of rain had soaked the wood roof and walls, and with the added weight they tore loose from the backboard that held the house to the pole. And when I got close to check on the damage, the stench in the air told me that in my absence some wee swallows had hatched, and perished.
I keep promising myself that I will restrain myself from interfering with nature. Things always seem to go afoul. And I am so tenderhearted that each mishap or death tears at my soul.
Yesterday I mustered the courage to confirm what damage had been done in this instance, and I pried open the gravity-stricken birdhouse. Inside was, indeed, the unpleasantness of dead, baby swallows; there looked to be about six of them. And, I was sad.
But their gnarly little bodies rested atop one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. And I was in awe.
Atop a cushion of dried grass were a few dozen feathers, a wide array of treasures from other wild birds in this area. None of these feathers are familiar to me. I am guessing that some are from the great blue heron that frequents the creek across the highway. And I am guessing that some of the reddish ones are hawk or owl. The speckled one reminds me of young eagles, and the coloring and stripes of another remind me of larger wild turkey feathers I have found.
You know what baffles me, in the midst of my amazement? In comparison to a swallow, these feathers are large … how did the swallows find these, when I rarely find bird feathers, and, why did I never see them bring these into their house?
What I see in life is not always what is true or real.
It has been five years since I married the lovely man with whom I was building a lovely life, and it has been nearly three years now since that dream life shattered.
What can I say about that? Three years ago I expected that by this point I would "understand" why my marriage ended, and I would have "healed" from the sorrow, pain, and loss. For three years I have prodded myself onward, day by day, bit by bit, with expectations (hopes) that "it" would be "all better" and I would feel whole again.
It's not and I don't.
For while I have lifted myself from the grey tonnage of break-up muck that nearly killed me, I have not escaped nor regrown the hole that bore into my chest, the hole which aches less each day, but which in omnipresent, nevertheless.
Now, don't construe my report to mean that I am miserable and depressed. I am not. I was, severely so, but I have moved beyond that, incrementally, like those cartoon illustrations of of pond scum evolving to become hunched Cro-Magnon man and later to become an upright-walking homo sapien. In fact, these days, most moments of most days, I am in a very positive mood–content, happy, excited, curious, or downright joyful.
But the hole remains, and it sits there nagging, a burning, empty space so proximate to my heart.
I have believed that I could fill the hole, incrementally like the rest of the progress I have made. I allow myself small, emotional attachments to, for example, the free-range chickens that live here. As chicks I fed them by hand and they still come to me and eat that way, even now that they are giant hens. But I know they will "betray" me, that one day a hawk will grab one or one night a coyote will feast on their flesh, leaving me a trail of feathers to find in the morning.
I don't walk with anticipation of this betrayal. No more than I walked with anticipation of my marriage's betrayal. But I have seen both things happen, and now I know it is possible … I have gained the hole in my heart, and I have lost a certain ability to trust.
So, I have been known to rail against the advice that goes something like, "That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I hate this platitude which passes for solace and wisdom. Where is the strength in being terrified of loving again?
I recently stumbled upon a beautifully composed and loving book by Augusten Burroughs, "This is How". Of course I love this book because the author is also opposed to flaky platitudes, but more so because it has been true solace to read his wisdom. About healing he says,
I had mistakenly assumed that healed meant restored.
As though scratched by a thorn on my arm, I was waiting for my flesh to seal itself so completely that eventually there would be no trace and I would forget which arm had been scratched.
It is a terrible thing to wait for something you desperately need that will never come. . . .
But here's the thing, there are some things in life from which you do not heal.
The tunnel never ends. There is no other side of it. . . .
. . . You might feel that "enough" time has passed now, that the hole at the center of you should not be there at all.
. . . Maybe there was a lesson you were supposed to learn and, obviously have not. . . .
The pressure to heal can cause enduring damage.
But like losing an arm or a leg in a car accident, no matter what, that arm or leg will never grow back. . . .
Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all.
But holes are interesting things.
As it happens, we human beings are able to live just fine with many holes of many sizes and shapes.
And pleasure, love, compassion, fulfillment–these things do not leak out of holes of any size.
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography–and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
Though there will always be days, like the weather, when the loss returns fresh and full and we will reside within it once again, for a while.
Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may well feel like the opposite. If you lose something or someone that is enormously important to you, there can be an overwhelming desire to stop living. To have no new experiences. To shut down.
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No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you.
Don't misunderstand me; the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it.
Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.
This is among the oldest, deepest, most primal truths: the facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not. This should be taken as encouragement to continue.
Encouragement to continue, now that I can take as strength. I am not dead, even though it was close. And those small swallows will build another nest, (of materials that I could never even hope to find). And I will watch them again next year, delighting in their swoops and their mating, ever remembering the nest that fell and the wee ones who perished. And I will strive to get over this notion that I should be healed by now, and instead will just keep on moving along with my life.


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27-year-old Bryan Harris, of Blue Ash, Ohio, isn't your typical Facebook creeper. While it is alleged that he solicited underage girls for sex and explicit photos he took it up a few scary levels. Rather than tell you myself I think the three local media outlets did a fine job of describing just how scary this guy is.
From Cincinnati.com…
Online conversations the FBI recovered indicate the suspect threatened to call the police and tell them the girl was suicidal in order to convince her to meet with him.
The transcripts of the Facebook conversations show the suspect using profanities and calling the girls "fat" and "lazy" and "fake."
"I couldn't cheer a game in high school because he drove an hour to stalk me," one reply said.
She told the FBI he has come to her place of employment twice uninvited.
"lol I have your full name and location goodbye," one message states.
Using the second account, Harris allegedly sent the girl a screenshot showing directions from his home to hers as the conversation proceeded past 1:30 a.m.
"B—- I got ur address," one message states in a series pressuring the girl to invite him over.
Investigators wrote about a number of similar conversations held between Harris' accounts and underage girls, calling one teen a "f—— c—."
Investigators say that Harris used the aliases of B-Ryan Italians, Bryan Blue, and Bryan Delfavro to target his victims. To make matters worse Harris is said to have admitted 'having sex' with 17 victims under the age of 18 which makes me wonder how many times were done under coercion.
Harris claims that he sent the messages to his victims' because he was 'lonely and has conversations with women for attention'. There's a big difference between attention and stalking. Hell, this is worse than stalking. This assclown is like the super villain of stalking.
This article from WLWT has some great tips for parents….
"We used to have to just worry about laptops and PCs and things like that. Now we're seeing more of the issues with iPads, cell phones. android phones, iPhones and things of that nature. What a lot of parents don't know is that there are still a lot of parental software apps for these devices," Mason Police detective Jeff Wyss said.
The article also states that the Ohio based Beech Acres Parenting Center is hosting a digital safety workshop November 10th for area for parents.
"We want parents to be educated about social media, which is an ever changing thing. It's not easy to keep up with so we'd like to give parents resources of how to stay on top of how things are going. What's going on out there? What are kids using and not using?" Jill Huynh, of Beech Acres, said.
If you're a parent living in the area and your tech skills may be lacking when it comes to social media you may want to check out the workshop. Or you can wait until it's too late and someone like this has already approached one of your ids online. It's your call.
UPDATE 10/14/2015: The FBI has opened a hotline for anyone who else who may have been one of Harris' victim…
Any individuals who believe they may also be a victim in this case are encouraged to call the FBI victim information line at 513-979-8882, where they will be connected with a member of the FBI Cincinnati Child Exploitation Task Force.


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This week on New Mexico in Focus, a trip up to the Roundhouse to visit lawmakers in the thick of the legislative session. Gwyneth Doland talks with Senator William Burt and Representative Brian Egolf about the governor's push to get legislators to give up capital outlay monies for major water projects.
New Mexico in Focus airs Friday night at 7 p.m. on Channel 5.1 and appears online at NMiF shortly thereafter. The show rebroadcasts Saturday at 5 p.m. on Channel 9.1 and again on Sunday at 7 a.m. on Channel 5.1.
Also this week, Rick Aster, head of the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, sits down with Furhana Afrid to talk about ongoing changes in the oceans and atmosphere that are driving global warming and how it affects New Mexico, the Line looks at the phenomenon of "amendment fever," in the legislature and examines a proposed amendment designed to increase the state's minimum wage.
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Fambit Privacy Policy including Familyfinder feature
Fambit takes your privacy seriously.
Fambit is a web and mobile service for family communication and life-management. Fambit is provided by Familiq Oy, registered in Helsinki, Finland.
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User Content is the data you as the User create when using the Service: events, text and images. The User Content is owned by you and is shared only with other members registered under the same family account. Fambit does not disclose User Content to public nor share it with third parties, except when we are required to do so by the law.
Fambit enables you to share parts of the User Content with other persons or families outside of your own family account (e.g. by email to your friends) or with your contacts in social services (e.g. forwarding your Fambit content as your Facebook status message). In this case you select the Content to be shared.
User Content is not monitored by Familiq personnel nor contractors working for Familiq. However, Familiq reserves the right to review and delete User Content for justified reasons in the sole judgement of Familiq.
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"It takes a village to raise a child."
I bet you've heard that phrase before. This African saying reflects more about humans than just a tip for childcare. It's about community, about working together and helping out.
When you're in business for yourself, it's hard to see the benefits of community. We worry about the competition instead, or about who's going to badmouth our efforts.
Today I want to share two community project stories to inspire you and remind you that there is always another side to that competition:
When The Competition Chips In
Last week, I ran a special campaign at Fluent Language. I set out to share excellent Black Friday deals. Not just any deals, but the ones I dreamed of. In order to create this, I reached out to four companies that I admire. They're fellow language creators.
Each one of them came together to work with me and provide pictures, discounts and thanks for my customers. Without their generosity, I could have never put together the awesome list of deals that I found - and as a result, all of us felt the benefits.
Lesson learnt: Reach out to your colleagues and put together a joint promotion - their light will shine on you, too!
When You Activate Superpowers in Your Friends
My mastermind buddy Kathy Pine set herself the target of raising $8,500 to produce the Inspired Year Planner on Kickstarter. She only had a few weeks to put together the project and really kick it off, and found herself frazzled with so much to do.
At our recent Mastermind meeting, we jumped in. We pretty much bullied Kathy into taking our help with copywriting, video editing, promotion, anything. As a result, the project reached 100% funded yesterday and each of us got to show off some amazing skills. We have a fan in Kathy now - everyone wins!
Lesson learnt: If you're overwhelmed with a big project, you've got to reach out!! Ask friends, family, colleagues. You might be surprised by what they can do.
You should also check out her project on Kickstarter today!
If you're in the UK, pledge $35, select "no reward attached" and I will arrange special free shipping for you.
What these stories show is that you should not feel alone whenever you are stuck.
Get out of your rut, call in the cavalry! Your network is full of people who are bursting with creativity, wanting to help you, ready to offer something.
So...when was the last time you reached out?


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- "I'll protect you. I promise."
- —Sarah to Franco[1]
Sarah Andarsyn was a CPD officer aboard Titan Station[2]. During the initial beginning of the outbreak, Sarah accompanied Franco Delille, acting as a first line of defense against the Necromorph attacks. She remained unaware about her boyfriend's affiliation with the Church of Unitology and his mission to free Isaac Clarke from the Titan Memorial asylum. Her presence served as a source of constant delay for Franco's mission[3][4][5][6].
When Franco is ordered by his superior, Weaver, to head to the CEC Facility to repair a malfunctioning door, Sarah volunteers to accompany and assist him with his objectives. Upon their arrival, Franco notes the "malfunctioning" door appears to have been deliberately tampered with. Once the door is repaired, the CEC supervision brings other troubles on the station that could use their direct intervention to their attention. Sarah accompanies Franco to repair a computer problem for the CEC supervisor's friend. Again, Franco and Sarah notice that the computer systems appeared to have been corrupted with a virus; perhaps sabotaged like the door.
Weaver announces a damaged solar panel outside that needs tending to. Sarah teases Franco about his weariness towards spacewalks and promises to keep him from floating off into space. During the repair of the panel, Franco panics and starts to drift off the surface of the station; Sarah is quick to grab him. When Sarah and Franco return to the outer door and are caught off guard when discover a meteor strike has breached the airlock seal; they make a hasty exit before they can be exposed to the vacuum.
Weaver contacts Sarah and Franco with news of an "outbreak" that's starting to spread across the station; without requesting, he tells them that he needs them out on the field still as he is unable to specify the exact nature of the incident. Sarah notices Franco receives a message on a personal device; when she inquires who might be calling him, he dismisses it as a wrong number[2].
They head for the tram station where they encounter firsthand the cause of the outbreak. Sarah hears an odd noise in the distance, a crowd of people stampede into the tram station at the appearance of a monster. When civilians fall victim to the creature, Sarah reacts and attempts to gun down the assailant. She is bowled over by the crowd and loses her weapon. Acting fast, she grabs a fallen Plasma Cutter and dismembers the creature. As more creatures begin to flood the tram, Franco herds the surviving crowd into the tram; Sarah continues to fire on the Necromorphs until she is on the tram. On the train, Weaver elaborates on the nature of the "outbreak" and tells Franco there's a lighting issue in Sector 45 that needs to be addressed immediately[1]. Moments afterward Sarah receives a call from old partner, Hodgkens requesting help with a hostage situation Section 27[7].
Lighting FailureEdit
Arriving at Sector 45, Sarah and Franco traverse the pitch black environment in the hopes of reaching the Sector's Powerhub. Sarah objects to the idea of using the ventilation shafts as a means of safe travel. However, the arrival of Necromorphs sends the two into the vents regardless of the peril that waits in the narrow shaft. They emerge inside the Church of Unitology where a priest greets them. Franco decides to repair the security shields of the building. On Franco's suggestion, Sarah visits the mausoleum where the bodies of the deceased are stored in cryostasis. Unnerved, she returns as Franco completes his repairs.
After they depart from the church, they encounter a group of people who are promptly slaughtered by the Necromorphs; Sarah follows Franco on the suggestion to head to the hospital, knowing they'll find more survivors there. Sarah suggests that they take the direct route at the risk of running into more Necromorphs. Oppositely using the path to the Inverted City would take longer but minimize the chances of being attack.
If Sarah and Franco use the direct route, they will encounter a group of survivors in the hospital waiting for rescue. Sarah defends the group as they make a desperate run for the shuttle located on the hospital's rooftop. She tries to hold out longer while Franco repairs the shuttle, which appears to have been sabotaged. Franco is able to repair the door and herd the injured and hospital faculty inside. Sarah is attacked by a Pack of smaller Necromorphs almost immediately as the shuttle begins to ascend. She is bitten on the leg and overwhelmed by their sheer numbers[8].
If Sarah Franco cross the rim to reach the Inverted City, they will take a maintenance elevator. Down below they encounter two engineers in need of help; they discover the gravity generator has been sabotaged or damaged during the chaos. Sarah dreads the idea of the creatures attacking them moving unrestrained in zero gravity; Franco concocts a temporary fix that allows them to continue on to the Inverted City. The city is still and seemingly devoid life.
Inside a school they discover the mutilated bodies of civilians. Sarah spots a panic room and assumes there may be children inside waiting for rescue. Instead, she only finds a Necromorph where it'd been locked inside with a group of dead children. Weaver orders the building sealed to prevent the fate of the occupants from becoming public and causing a panic. Heading for safer ground, Franco once again suggests that travel through the vents. Sarah disagrees. She confronts him with his strange behavior and demands to know what's going on, but he refuses to answer. She exasperatedly asks which way they're going next, and Franco points her to a hatch. She starts climbing, he shoots her in the back. He tells her that he can't be delayed anymore before putting the barrel against her forehead and pulling the trigger.
Hostage SituationEdit
Arriving on the scene in Sector 27, Hodgkens describes in detail the situation with Armado Creeg and his family; Franco's assistance guarantees the rescue of Creeg's family and Creeg's death. Once the hostage situation is solved, the two head for the upper levels of Sector 27. Weaver orders a quarantine lockdown on the levels below them. Sarah reluctantly convinces him that losing some of the population is better than everyone. Once the sectors are sealed, Sarah suggests they go to the outer rim for evacuation. Their journey to the outer rim leaves draws attention to the fact they haven't encountered other survivors since leaving Sector 27. A Slasher breaks through a ceiling vent and Sarah kills it.
Realizing that the creatures are using the vents to bypass the quarantine protocols they start to make for the hospital for evacuation. However, another order from Weaver sends them out on another spacewalk to repair life support systems. If Sarah and Franco choose to repair the life support systems, they learn that the Necromorphs can survive the vacuum during a brief fight. Sarah's suit is ruptured during the fight; Franco jury rigs a temporary fix to maintain what oxygen she has left. However, the journey back to the airlock depletes Sarah's air supply. She suffocates before Franco can get her out of the vacuum. His attempts to revive her are unsuccessful[9].
Using the Interior Rout, Sarah and Franco head for the hospital. They enter a hall choked with smoke and bodies everywhere. Sarah checks them over while Franco fixes the venting system. Once repaired, the vents clear the room of the smoke, resuscitating the survivors. They press onward to the hospital when Franco receives another message. He dismisses Sarah's question once more when she inquires to who could be calling him, provoking suspicion in the CPD officer. The two are attacked by another horde of Necromorph from the ventilation shafts. Sarah fights them off while Franco hacks the door. As Sarah prepares to follow him she finds Franco on the other side of the threshold and the doors closing on her. Sarah begs him to open the door, but Franco says she can't come with him. She'll understand "in the next life". Sarah's cries for help turn to screams as the creatures tear her to pieces.
- No matter which route was taken, Andarsyn would die. Two deaths either involving death by oxygen deprivation or being overwhelmed by the Pack and two that Franco intentionally caused, either shooting her at point blank range or locking her in a room to be slaughtered by the pursuing Necromorphs.
- A Dead Space 2 audio log suggested that Franco killed Sarah[10].
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dead Space: Ignition: Act 2, Path 1: Lighting Failure
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dead Space: Ignition: Act 1
- ↑ Dead Space 2: Chapter 1: Where Am I?: Final Report
- ↑ Dead Space 2: Chapter 2: I Need Transportation: Hampered
- ↑ Dead Space 2: Chapter 4: Going to Church: Suspicion
- ↑ Dead Space 2: Chapter 9: Transportation Preparation: Activation
- ↑ Dead Space: Ignition: Act 2, Path 2: Hostage Situation
- ↑ Dead Space: Ignition: Act 3, Path 1, Route 1: Direct Path
- ↑ Dead Space: Ignition: Act 3, Path 2, Route 2: Space Walk
- ↑ Final Report


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To win an award you have to convince the judges that you make the grade. We have seen companies do fantastic work, certainly deserving of awards, but win nothing.
Entering awards is like taking a test or writing a proposal; to get through to the finals, there is most likely a grading system which you need to align the content of your submission against.
Winning an award demands that a judge mouths the word "wow" while reading your entry, ideally more than once.
Finding and articulating this "wow factor" is an area where the Boost team excels – having written well over 1,000 award entries, we can spot a winning story, or just a nuance in an otherwise average story that could make it a winner. We can then make sure the judge cites this when asked, "Why did you give them the award?"
Our writing services include:
- The full service: Taking complete ownership of writing your award entry from scratch, using available documentation and interviewing relevant stakeholders. More often than not, this also includes an element of evidence gathering too.
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- Coaching or mentoring: If you have an employee who you want to do most of the writing, this is fine – we are happy to support them through the process.
- Book-Ending: A popular service for people on a tight budget is our Book-Ending service. Here we help you plan and storyboard your entry, leave you to put together a first draft, and then we polish it if the budget allows.
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A group of tornados are swirling within 15 minutes of me while I sit at my computer. The rain sounds heavy outside and the town's disaster siren is sounding while I watch the local weather updates. I find this situation as an unfortunate metaphor for my life in seminary at times. Inside my dry house, as I wait for the coffee to finish brewing, I listen with unsettling ease to news anchors recite names of unknown small towns full of unknown people in distress. The seminary life can have a comparable insular feeling.
Sometimes this way of life is a shirt I try on and choose to wear, while other times it feels more like a uniform handed out, like a mechanic's jumpsuit, protecting myself from the dirt and oil and grime that I would otherwise pick up.
This uniform can be made up of academic requirements, of hours upon hours of reading or of papers that don't seem to be much more than mere busy work. Now I shouldn't fault the seminary or faculty, after all, it is a graduate school and academics should be rigorous. The seminary I attend, though not perfect, is definitely good. But instead of being made of something, maybe this uniform is made of a nothingness, a void that feels just as substantial as its physical counterparts.
Lest this be another bitter diatribe against "the system" I need to face the fact that I am more than willing to accept this uniform, and more than that, I choose my own clothes to wear that help me avoid the messiness that real life offers.
In confronting the groans of creation, I retreat and choose to put on a Hazmat suit. I am oblivious to the cries of this world and refuse to struggle and toil amidst Adam's thorns and thistles. This refusal to fight has an air of faux spirituality: how can studying the Bible be a bad thing? Getting good grades is always good, right? At least temporarily, this mystical facade allows me to avoid the curse put upon Adam and all men after him. I will not sweat, I will not eat in pain. Though I know I'm not really undoing anything, there's still a familiar feeling of false comfort to be found.
So as the storm is now dying down, I realize how fleeting our experiences really are. And I feel the pressure of actually living life versus living something lesser. There may be pain and chaos outside of my control and it may never truly be "easy", but I cannot deny the desire inside to characterize my existence over a something instead of a nothing. This desire won't always offer me pleasure, and I will probably curse it for its impression of betrayal. But I've found that there is meaning to be discovered in things other than pleasure, though they be painful and undesirable. And the more I come to this realization that life is a messy mixture, the more I refuse that uniform, the more I deny myself those clothes that comfort me at the expense of finding true comfort. Maybe this is the "putting on of the new self" Paul talked so much about.


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'Vexatious Litigation' Order Overly Broad
(CN) – An order declaring a California attorney and her son "vexatious litigants" in a dispute over a family trust is too broad and restrictive, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday.
The federal appeals court cancelled pre-filing restrictions imposed against attorney Nina Ringgold and her son, Justin Ringgold-Lockhart. The 2011 order had required the pair to obtain court permission before filing "any action" relating to the Aubry Revocable Family Trust, from which Nina Ringgold was removed as a trustee in 2005.
Ringgold had challenged her removal in a series of actions in state and federal court, while also alleging that others had liquidated the trust, which was set up by the Aubry family to "empower the African- American community of South Central Los Angeles by providing for future generations," according to the appellate court.
After Ringhold lost in state court and was there declared a vexatious litigant, she filed suit in Los Angeles federal court with her son, an alleged beneficiary of the trust.
U.S. District Judge Manuel Real ultimately dismissed the suit from federal court and followed the state probate court in declaring Ringhold vexatious in her personal capacity, not as an attorney. The court noted that she had filed some 37 motions in two separate federal complaints, in addition to her state court filings.
The order stated that the court would approve only those "filings that it deems to be meritorious, not duplicative, and not frivolous."
A three-judge appellate panel unanimously vacated the pre-filing order on Monday, finding that pursuing just two cases does not generally make a litigant "vexatious."
The panel also pointed out that some of the actions that led to the order had nothing to do with the case at issue. The court also failed to consider less restrictive moves to deter any allegedly "frivolous" filings, such as costs and fees, and failed to properly construct the order to address the alleged problem, the panel found.
"The scope of the order is too broad in several respects," Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for the panel. "By providing that the court will not allow a new action to be initiated unless the court deems the action 'meritorious,' the district court added a screening criteria that is not narrowly tailored to the problem before it, and is in fact unworkable."
"It is one thing for courts at an early stage of litigation to filter out frivolous suits," Berzon added. "Courts routinely perform this task, as the Rules of Civil Procedure prohibit frivolous filings. But courts cannot properly say whether a suit is 'meritorious' from pleadings alone. A lawsuit need not be meritorious to proceed past the motion-to-dismiss stage."
"We believe the case is about access to the court, the First Amendment, and whether citizens of the State of California may raise legitimate constitutional issues (although controversial)," Ringgold said in an email to Courthouse News. "Justice Berzon gets to the heart of things: '… [C]ourts cannot properly say whether a suit is 'meritorious' from pleadings alone.'"
"I think the courts need to take a closer look about how the term 'vexatious' is being used in the state and federal courts and whether that is consistent with the Privilege and Immunities Clause, the First Amendment petition clause, the Fifth Amendment due process clause, and the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause," she added. "It is my reasoned opinion that most Americans would not believe the petitions and grievances in the one prior complaint could have ever been viewed as 'vexatious'."


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Turfgrass Science
Penn State has been at the forefront of cutting edge turfgrass research for decades. From the development of bentgrass varieties to the management of turfgrass pests, faculty continue to provide valuable management information for turfgrass managers worldwide.
Turfgrass Science researchers working in the Department of Plant Science at Penn State.
The Center for Sports Surface Research at Penn State is dedicated to the improvement of all sports surfaces. Through cooperative scientific inquiry the center's members expect to improve performance and safety on all sports surfaces.
The Penn State Center for Turfgrass Science has been at the forefront of cutting edge turfgrass research for decades.
Undergraduate and graduate students place in the oral and poster competitions at the Crop Science meetings.


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We currently have no paid vacancies at LESS.
For other environment jobs please see sustainability jobs at environmentjob.co.uk
We are currently seeking volunteers for our Growing our Local Food Economy (GOLFE) project.
Volunteer Directors
Are you passionate about promoting sustainable living? Are you willing and able to devote around half a day per week to an interesting and rewarding voluntary role in your local community? If so LESS would love to hear from you!
LESS would like to recruit some new directors to work with the current team of 5 volunteer directors and 10 staff, to help shape the organisation's strategic development and growth. We are particularly keen to recruit more directors with expertise in one or more of the following areas: IT, marketing, social media, finance or fundraising.
Please click here for a role description and person specification. For more information and details on how to apply, please contact Emily Heath by email ([email protected] ) or phone (01524 380169).
Have a look through Our Volunteers section to find out more about our exisiting volunteers and how volunteering at LESS has helped them. You can find local volunteering opportunities through the Lancaster Volunteer Centre.


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Most people approach public speaking with a mixture or fear and hope; fear of speaking in front of others and hope that they will survive the event. Our bite-sized public speaking workshop will help you overcome such fears and help develop the confidence to speak confidently in front of others. Public speaking is a core business skill, vital for those who would like to succeed. Whether you work alone or as part of a team you will need to speak in public at some time. Whatever the circumstance, speaking with confidence and clarity will be essential to demonstrating your leadership ability and may determine how you and your organisation are perceived.
This introductory workshop will enable participants to:
Discover the key elements of successful public speaking
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Who is this for?
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Should you fear public speaking?
Knowing your audience, Knowing yourself
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Price and Format
This is a 2.5 hour session. Due to its participatory nature, this bite-sized public speaking workshop runs best with 8 – 16 delegates. Each course participant receives their own training notes.
The cost for in-house training at your choice of venue is just £295 per session. In order to ensure cost-effectiveness, we request that clients book a minimum of two bite-sized public speaking workshops per day.


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The History of Eckankar
The ECK teachings have been here since the earliest times that man inhabited this planet. . . . The Living ECK Master of any era wants only to lead the individual to look within to the source of all knowledge, wisdom, and understanding: the place where one can move toward Self- and God-Realization.
The Founding of Eckankar as a Modern-Day Religion
Although the ECK teachings have ancient roots, Eckankar was introduced as a modern-day religion in 1965 by Paul Twitchell.
A seeker from an early age, he was introduced to a group of spiritual masters who would change the course of his life. These were the ECK Masters. While they trained Paul to become the Living ECK Master, he explored a wide range of spiritual traditions under different teachers.
The high teachings of ECK had been scattered to the four corners of the world. Paul gathered these golden teachings of Light and Sound and made them readily available to us. By 1965, Paul was offering Soul Travel workshops to the public. He wrote many books on Eckankar and the Light and Sound of God.
Eckankar Today
Since 1981, the spiritual leader of Eckankar has been Sri Harold Klemp, whose spiritual title is the Mahanta, the Living ECK Master.
Today, Eckankar is a nonprofit religious organization and church which has members in over one hundred countries. The spiritual home of Eckankar is the Temple of ECK. The Eckankar Spiritual Center houses administrative offices. Both are located on the Eckankar Spiritual Campus in Chanhassen, Minnesota, USA.


text: Are you a TPAM managed Partner??? – Earn $1000.00 for 1st BPOS Deal ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ MSFTTS2January 11, 20110 Share 0 0 US Exchange Extend Offer Sell your first BPOS or Exchange Online deal, and you could earn $1000! As a TPAM-managed VAR that sells Exchange on-premise, you could earn $1000 for selling your first BPOS or Exchange Online deal. Qualifying deals must be sold between January 7th and March 31st, 2011 (Microsoft Q3). Deals must be sold to commercial SMB accounts and have a minimum of 25 seats. Payment is first come first serve. Please contact your TPAM for more details. How do you get started selling Online Services? - Get started at http://www.quickstartonlineservices.com. Check out the Cloud Accelerate at MPN Cloud Accelerate. Also, I highly recommend downloading free internal use rights through the Microsoft Cloud Essentials pack to get comfortable with Online Services. If you're not yet a Microsoft Online Services Partner, visit the US Microsoft Partner Network for enrollment options and benefits through US distributors. Enrolling through a distributor will provide you additional support, which can help you close your first deal more quickly. Why sell Online Services? Selling cloud services like BPOS (to become Office 365) and Exchange Online can help you expand your customer reach, accelerate deal flow and drive incremental revenue. A recent IDC "2011 Predictions" report highlights some compelling points: · Public and private clouds will drive 15% of IT spending, growing four to five times the rate of the overall IT market · 80% of new software offerings will be available as cloud services · By 2014, over one-third of software purchases will be via the cloud It's a great time to start expanding into cloud services. If you feel that you want to commit to building a cloud services practice after selling your first deal, Microsoft can support you with programs like the SMB Cloud Champions Club. MPN Cloud Accelerate Quick Start Online Services BPOS Proof of Concept Kits for Partners BPOS Ready-to-Go Marketing Campaign Materials SMB Cloud Champions Club Technorati Tags: BPOS Office 365


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Nizwa's Souq includes fruit and vegetable, along with meat and fish markets. Unfortunately, due to a breakdown along the road from Muscat to Nizwa, by the time we arrive, these markets have shut down for their afternoon break (who knew they took siestas in Oman?). We are still able to explore the antique and silver markets a bit, which are closest to Nizwa Fort and consequently don't seem to be in as big of a hurry to close.
I'm finding that I enjoy photographing souks in black and white. This allows me to focus on texture and composition rather than being distracted by color. Then again, I'm usually open to any excuse to photograph in black and white.
Photos taken December 2015 (Nikon D7100).
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text: DigitalThe TSA Pulls Its Guns Out (On Instagram)By Patrick Coffee|July 3, 2013 ShareBy Patrick Coffee|July 3, 2013 ShareLet's play the hypothetical game: Say you're a government agency that many see as a necessary evil, but you still get singled out as an example of everything wrong with our system. It's tough to be popular when your job involves insisting that everyone remove their shoes, belts, wallets, ice picks, meat cleavers, spear guns, brass knuckles, gasoline canisters, and any other vaguely metallic objects before entering a full-body scanner with an NC-17 rating.What do you do to improve your public profile? Start an Instagram account to show the world what you're doing right—because who reads things anymore?Our point: here are some fun weapons that the Transportation Security Administration confiscated and featured on its brand new picture page. Oh hey, it's a loaded pistol small enough to fit in your toiletry bag!Next comes another tiny, poorly hidden handgun:Not impressed yet? Here's a stun gun disguised as a pack of cigarettes complete with total giveaway typo:It gets better—here's a knife ingeniously disguised as a gun, because no one ever looks for those:OK, you have to admit that this belt buckle/knife combo is pretty cool:And a blade hidden within a fake credit card? Touché, Mr. Bond:Both last and least, someone finally found a way to transport illegal fireworks across state lines: stuff them in your carry-on!Will this project help reaffirm the public's faith in the national security state? Probably not! But it does serve as a useful reminder that some people are incredibly stupid. And we expect to see more cool pictures as thanks for all those tax dollars.A final point: we appreciate the TSA's mastery of the hashtag, but we question their use of filters, because Mayfair and X-Pro II are where it's at. (Hey, at least they didn't use Kelvin.) Sharehttp://adweek.it/2jHUljo copy Adweek Adweek


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Tuscaloosa, Ala. - Alabama freshman running back Derrick Henry was injured during Saturday's scrimmage and will miss the remainder of spring practice and this Saturday's 2013 Golden Flake A-Day Game.
"Derrick Henry suffered a fractured fibula in Saturday's scrimmage and had successful surgery this morning with Dr. Lyle Cain," Alabama head coach Nick Saban said on Tuesday. "With the support of our medical staff and the hard work and dedication Derrick has shown since he arrived, we are confident that he will make a full recovery for the start of camp this fall."
Henry, from Yulee, Fla., enrolled at the University of Alabama in January to get an early start to his collegiate career. He set the national high school rushing record at Yulee High School and was the Maxwell Football Club's National High School Player of the Year.
Alabama's 2013 A-Day Game is scheduled for Saturday, April 20, at 2:00 PM inside Bryant-Denny Stadium. The A-Day Game is once again free to the public.


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I had three days off of chemo (rather than 7 days between infusions, I had 10 days). In those three extra days, some of the persistent side effects of Taxol began to wear off. I had more energy, less pain, and my mind was more focused. It was easier for me to get out and… Read More »


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Wouldn't it be great if there was a simple way for people with years of experience in Bible translation to share all of that experience with aspiring Bible translators?
For many years the only option for this was through translation training centers. Over the years Wycliffe Associates has built dozens of these training centers around the world, benefitting thousands of translators as they gain experience.
But no matter how many training centers we build, they will still be beyond the reach of too many translators.
Fortunately, the Internet provides a helpful alternative!
The current translationStudio app includes fifty Bible stories, and hundreds of pages of translators' notes linked to these stories, so that local translators have the resources they need to produce the highest quality translation. Upcoming translationStudio releases will include books of the Bible and eventually the entire Bible, along with translators' notes linked to each verse and passage.
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I am so friggin glad I didnt stay up late to watch that game. The Red Sox were up 7-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning. The bullpen shat the bed and gave up three runs then Brandon Snyder had a throwing error that lead to the tying run. Then this happened:
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I got an email yesterday offering me 1500 bucks if I'd put ten text links to "sponsors" for one year in the sidebar of this site. Lots of other sites have gone this route, so there's not really any novelty here, other than that I've never gotten such an offer, and I never knew exactly what kind of money people were getting for this sort of thing. The arrangement, of course, is straight PageRank farming. The ten links aren't to actual sponsors, but rather to sites that want to up their PageRank through links from other sites that have already earned their PageRank the hard way (or at least by just being around for a long time).
To make a long story short, I'm not taking the money. I love the Web too much to take money to improve the search engine rankings of spammers.


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Please note that the website plan costs exclude domain-name & web-hosting because many people already have these and we see no sense in people paying for it twice! They are required, but you won't need them until we get started on the site (we'll remind you at that stage). You can get a domain-name & hosting for approx £5 per month, or £50 for a year, from our recommended host Clook Internet Services (Their 'Shared Hosting' package 'shared-2' is sufficient for most needs. Their service & support also really is second to none we've come across!) If you're looking for something even cheaper but still very good we also host some websites on TSO Host and have also found them to be really good.


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Content Marketing Interview with Bob Samii, Founder & CEO of SharpLaunch
Interview with Bob Samii // SharpLaunch Founder & CEO
When and why did you adopt content marketing as part of your overall marketing strategy?
Bob: At SharpLaunch we are big proponents of content marketing and it is one of the key foundations of our digital marketing strategy. We started with our content marketing strategy soon after the company was launched because it has implications across many different channels and big drivers for SEO, social media and PR/outreach.
How do you use content marketing to build your brand?
Bob: We have built a strong (and growing) readership around our content, primarily by focusing on creating on long-from educational marketing blog posts. Our aim is to help professionals learn more about CRE marketing topics with useful guides, tactical tips and how-to's. Our blog drives massive awareness for SharpLaunch and helps position our brand as one of the key CRE marketing authorities simply by maintaining this focus.
How do you get your content out to your target audience?
Bob: Most of our content is promoted through the typical channels (newsletters, social media, etc.) but we also have a long-term focus on SEO. The key to a successful content marketing strategy is to have a comprehensive distribution plan for every single post and this is where most companies fail. We have a simple rule: if we spend 1X on producing the content, we spend 2X promoting it
How has content marketing helped to achieve your marketing objectives?
Bob: We look to content marketing for three important objectives, here is the simple break down:
- Overall awareness: the number of eyeballs and visitors we generate from our content
- Engagement: what posts perform well, what do our visitors do, and how long do they stay
- Leads: we consider leads to be newsletter subscribers or anyone that inquires about our product
Where do you find inspiration for new content?
Bob: Most of the time we simply write about topics we have deep knowledge about and know our clients would find useful or informative. But there are also so many great sources and tools out there. We like Keyword.io, Ahrefs, Google trends, and what people are writing in other industry blogs.
What advice would you give to a new blogger?
Bob: Here's the most important advice I could offer:
- Do something unique. Starting a new blog today is a massive challenge if you want to get above all the noise (+2M blog posts written every day!!), so find your own angle and do not follow what everyone else is doing.
- Don't give up. Content marketing pays off in the long term, consistency and quality will pay off big if you stick to it.
Bob Samii is the Founder of SharpLaunch, a full-feature commercial real estate marketing platform used by CRE brokers, asset managers and building owners.
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It is hard to believe but we have finished translating the game into English! It was a long and quite expensive process and we are grateful to all of you who has donated us money.
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The cute journalist sitting next to her on the flight from London to New York is exactly what Josie Flynn needs to take her mind off her cheating ex-husband and her mother's I-told-you-so's. When he shares his own divorce story, buys her a drink, and invites her to dinner in New York, she feels pretty smug about the way her life is looking up. Then he doesn't show for the date, the wedding Josie is attending turns into a fiasco, and her ex-husband flies in from London to try to charm her back.
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With a rich dark amber color, this waffley sweet treat is neat! We began with copious amounts of Wheat, Victory Malt, Carabelge, and Belgian candied sugar to set up the malty waffle backbone, then played with an Abbey yeast to bring the taste of waffles and syrup together.
Starting at 19.6 Plato, then finishing around 5, many residual sugars still reside as we move the almost finished beer onto over 2000 pounds of blueberries.


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Plein Aire Painting
The first painting below was the one I painted with my Dad, and was my first try with this Palette. The painting is a 9x12 Oil on panel. About an hour or so worth of painting. The second painting I did yesterday, right outside my apartment in Uptown Chicago. I only had a little over an hour to paint and I didn't want to venture out too far from home. Not the most interesting scene, so I decided to make something out of the verticals that I was seeing. This painting is also 9x12 Oil on panel.


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Research Conferences
International Massage Therapy Research Conferences (IMTRC)
We now host the International Massage Therapy Research Conference every three years. This event brings together massage and manual therapy practitioners, educators, CIM researchers, allied health professionals, and others interested in massage research from around the globe. We aim to educate massage practitioners about the research process and provide an opportunity to disseminate current massage research.
Past Conferences
September 2005 – Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 2010 – Seattle, Washington
May 2013 – Boston, Massachusetts
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Our final round-up from the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool, where we share our highlights from the final two days.
Stopping cancer evading the immune system
Our body's immune system, as well as fighting off illnesses and infections, can sometimes help seek and destroy cancer cells. However, many cancers have the ability to shield themselves from the immune system by producing a protein called PD-L1. This molecule interacts with one called PD-1 on immune cells, fooling the immune system into thinking the cancer isn't a threat.
Tuesday started with a talk from Dr Lieping Chen, from Yale University USA, who talked about his 20-year journey that led to drugs that block either PD-L1 or PD-1, to stop tumours tricking the immune system. One of these drugs, pembrolizumab (Keytruda), has already shown some promising results in treating advanced skin cancer and lung cancer, and early clinical trials for metastatic triple negative breast cancer are underway. Breast Cancer Now is also funding research to understand how breast tumours evade the immune system.
Dr Lieping Chen. Photo by Dr Richard Berks.
On Wednesday Dr Alexandra Snyder from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the USA outlined her recent successes and frustrations in trying to find ways to predict which patients are likely to benefit from anti-PD-L1 and anti-PD-1 drugs. She's found some promising candidates, including the number of genetic mutations in a person's tumour, but feels that a combination of complex factors will reveal the full picture.
Slowing down cancer evolution
Prof Paul Workman from the ICR, London explained that understanding how cancers evolve and change over time is critical to ensuring tumours cannot resist the next generation of cancer medicines. He explained that one of the drivers of cancer evolution is a group of proteins called the 'APOBEC3' family - these are normally involved in DNA repair, but when they are particularly active they can cause many mutations in the DNA, helping tumours become resistant to treatments.
Dr Nnenna Kanu from the UCL Cancer Institute presented her work on how APOBEC3 proteins end up being overproduced in breast cancer. She has found that they are particularly active in HER2-positive breast cancer, and in cells grown in the lab these APOBEC3 molecules can be activated in response to certain chemotherapy drugs. The knowledge gained from this research could eventually help stop breast tumours becoming resistant to treatments.
Great, clear presentation from Nnenna Kanu of @CharlesSwanton lab on pro-mutation protein APOBEC3B activation & targeting #NCRI2016 pic.twitter.com/JrbUxtGteL— BCI (@QMBCI) November 8, 2016
Reminding cancer how to die
When we think about cancer, we think of cells growing and dividing out of control. Interestingly, it's not simply that cancer cells have 'super-powers' enabling them to do this, in fact they have lost a power that's vital for our cells to function normally: the ability to die. We heard from Dr Pascal Meier from our Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, whose team specialises in studying the complex processes of cell death, how breast cancer cells evade it, and how we can push cancer cells back towards the cliff edge of death.
Professor Meier explained that the issue of whether a cell lives or dies doesn't just rely on its own internal 'death machinery', but also on the signals it receives from its environment. And the way surrounding cells respond to dying cancer cells are cause for concern: Dr Meier's findings suggest that they might be helping tumours to re-grow and become resistant to the effects of treatments like chemotherapy. He ended the session by posing the surprising question - should we really be trying to kill cancer cells?
Professor Pascal Meier. Photo by Simon Callaghan
Tackling the fear of cancer recurrence
In a session about patient-centred care, Dr Gozde Ozakinci from the University of St Andrews focussed on patients who struggle to cope with the fear of their cancer returning. She explained that being afraid of cancer recurrence is a completely natural response experienced by the majority of patients. But she is concerned that some patients find it much harder to cope with this fear than others, and they aren't getting the support they need. This level of fear can become problematic and have a huge impact on people's daily lives, as well as their long-term outlook on life.
Dr Ozakinci described a number of initiatives which have been designed to support these patients to cope with their feelings, and results should show in the next few years whether they are helpful. But she also pointed out that these initiatives are resource-intensive, requiring patients to attend extra appointments with trained therapists, so implementing them in the NHS could be difficult. This is why Breast Cancer Now is funding research to understand whether a series of phone calls could be effective instead of face-to-face appointments, saving resources and working around patients' busy lives.
Managing symptoms in palliative care
Continuing onto palliative research, Prof David Currow highlighted the gaps in our ability to control symptoms like pain and delirium in patients with advanced cancers. Worryingly, despite evidence being published in recent years showing that commonly-used treatments like anti-psychotics can actually worsen delirium in some cancer patients, Prof Currow reported that some doctors are reluctant to stop using these 'old-favourites'. He encouraged everyone in the room to take an honest, un-biased look at the evidence, and to work together to find effective new ways to treat these debilitating symptoms.
Practise changing data from David Currow at #NCRI2016 questioning our assumptions and harms in palliative care. Really powerful.— Katie Spencer (@katiespencer72) November 8, 2016
In a separate, moving, talk, Prof Currow also offered hope through recent successful attempts to manage some of the symptoms of cachexia - the incapacitating loss of weight and muscle mass that some patients with incurable cancer experience. some patients with incurable cancers.
Protecting hearts and saving lives
It's well known, but perhaps not often talked about, that certain cancer treatments come with a risk of health complications in later life, such as heart disease. On Wednesday, Dr David Hodgson from the University of Toronto outlined the heart risks associated with radiotherapy and anthracycline chemotherapy, and the importance of finding ways to screen for patients who are more likely to develop these complications. He explained new imaging techniques are emerging to identify these patients, and that certain drugs including ACE-inhibitors could be used to help protect patients' hearts. But in the end he concluded that lowering patient's other risk factors for heart disease, for example body mass index, would make the biggest difference
Mind the age gap in breast cancer surgery
About one third of all breast cancer cases occur in women older than 70, who may also be dealing with other health issues which might affect their chances of having surgery or developing complications afterwards. An ongoing study called 'Bridging the Age Gap' hopes to shed more light on their experience of breast surgery.
Dr Osama Zaman from University of Sheffield Medical School presented some early results from the study, finding that though women with dementia are just as fit for breast surgery as women without, they were two-thirds (66%) less likely to have surgery for their breast cancer - which could affect their survival and quality of life. This study adds to the growing picture of how older breast cancer patients do not necessarily receive the same standards of treatment as younger women.
Goodbye NCRI
That's it for the round-ups from the NCRI conference 2016. Don't forget you can catch-up on the talks from earlier in the week in our first highlights blog and our report from the 'new tricks from old drugs' debate.


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Ruth Mackenzie, speaker at The Culture of Innovation, ISPA's 65th Annual Congress, in New York City on January 15-17, 2013. View the full Schedule of Events.
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Manchester International Festival where Alex Poots appointed her as General Director in 2006. Ruth was previously Artistic Director of
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Pine/Strawberry Fuel Reduction used private donations from fundraisers to purchase Fire-Wise signs that are posted along main ingress and egress routes for citizens living in the communities of Pine and Strawberry. Gila County cooperated in helping to install the signs.
The signs were designed by a local resident and P/SFR member. The idea is to keep fresh in everyone's mind that wildfire is an ever present danger and that we must be constantly vigilant in order to maintain the gains we make via property clearing. Maintenance is the key to success in fuels reduction. Initial clearing is a one time event while maintaining it is an everyday event.