I've had 5 infusions of Keytruda and had the results of my CT scan yesterday. The lesion in my liver has shrunk and I have no other signs in my body now. Previously I had specks in both lungs. I had gamma knife treatment for 5 small tumours in my brain and Keytruda shrank the largest one. The only side effect I've had is my thyroid gland stopped working and I've been on levothroxine since Christmas.
Has anyone else got experiences? Everyone asks me how long will I be on it. I say as long as it's doing its work.
I don't have any experience with Keytruda/ Pembrolizumab but there are quite a few people on here who are having this treatment and I'm sure they'll be along soon.
In the meantime I'm hoping you might be able to help SarahT57 who has also just joined this group and is looking for information about side effects while taking this drug. If you feel able to help clicking on this link will take you to her post.
Hi sunnymeads, I've just had my 31st dose of Pembro/Keytruda. Ita a bit late to recall my story now but if you click on my name and go to my profile you will see my history of becoming clear on Pembro and remaining clear off treatment but then an unexpected return and restart of Pembro last June. I hate being asked how long I'll be on it, I think people expect to hear just for a few weeks. At the start I felt I would be on til it stopped working or death. Then as it worked so well I thought one year and I'd been extremely lucky and it wouldn't come back. My current plan is that I will have it for 12 more months, as I've just had surgery to remove one node it wasn't working on, and the expectation for me from oncology is that it has worked everywhere else, and the extra months will mop up any to small to see cells, and the hope is I will remain clear for a long time. The surgeon not so cheery, removal of the node doesn't mean it won't come back. So there's lots of hope but no guarantees, but new treatments coming along all the time that change for the better our prospects.
I do feel a lot better that for me I can answer that how long question by saying the plan is another 12 months. It's a lot nicer having a positive goal. When I first started on Pembro there were articles in the paper about Jimmy Carter the ex US president being clear after Pembro and cyber knife treatment so he was a positive example for me to well keep positive about.
I had my original melanoma cut out of my thigh in January 2017 followed by wide excision and 3 groin nodes out in March. 2 of those were positive so I had the remaining 12 taken out in May 2017. 6 monthly scans were fine until June 18 when I had an enlarged lymph node in my pelvis.
It was decided that I'd have this and the other pelvic and aortic nodes removed on my left side. I was operated on after Bank Holiday Monday. 7 out of 16 were positive and the next CT scan in October showed that I'd traces in my lungs and liver. I started on Keytruda 26th November.
The CT and MRI scans I had in January showed it was a 'mixed' response for lungs and liver, but I'd now got a 4mm lesion in my brain. They decided to treat that with Gamma knife and I had to go to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London on 1st March. Their MRI showed that I had another 4 lesions at the back and front but the original lesion had shrunk to 2mm. They zapped all of them.
I had another CT scan done a fortnight ago and got the results on Thursday. My lungs are clear and the liver lesion has also shrunk to 2mm. I'm having my 6th infusion on Monday and await a date for another MRI scan of my head luckily at Mt Vernon hospital and not London.
Just to add that I've been a widow for 19 years and have no children. My husband died aged 50 of a family heart condition. I've always been someone who's been optimistic unlike my brother who lives in Cambridge who was diagnosed as a catastrophist.
I'm glad you're keeping optimistic with that life has thrown at you, I occasionally have to remind myself to be.
Always feel out of it on Mothering Sunday as well, but a friend reminded me that we should be thankful for our mothers and grandmothers.
I've just this week found a copy of my father's mother's death certificate. I know she had cancer, but didn't know she had breast cancer aged 42 in 1924 with 3 boys under the age of 10. She had a mastectomy and died 20 years later of a secondary carcinoma of the pleura. Both Nellie's youngest boys couldn't go to her funeral because they were in the army in Italy. My father was her second son. He'd been married 2 years and I came along in 1948.
My own mother had cervical cancer aged 59 and had a hysterectomy followed by radium treatment in 1974. It burnt her bowel and had many other operations to remove the adhesions. She finally had her bowel removed aged 80, but died 3 days later of pneumonia. She was always optimistic and counted her blessings.
Hi, have a look at my profile for more about the success of keytruda. My oncologist tells me that current thinking is that after two years your immune system is trained and they can take you off and still see improvement. My issue is that it spread to my brain so it's quite a risk to take me off even though it looks like it's working ok.
I've not had any real side effects. Be careful not to blame everything on the treatment, sometimes even cancer patients can be sick like anyone else.
I'm having another MRI scan tomorrow to see if the gamma knife treatment I had on 1st March zapped everything. The Keytruda treated the original lesion they found in January and that had shrunk to half it's size in 5 weeks. It's stopped my thyroid gland working and I'm feeling tired, but seem to have more energy this week and hope to have my 7th infusion on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon.
Had problems again getting cannula in and didn't put it in until I'd been in the tunnel of the MRI once. I called it half baked.Tried right first and left crook of arm. Better than 1st March in London when 3 men had 7 attempts before I had the scan for gamma knife. I don't want to have a port unless I really have to. I think Theresa May has one.
Can I say also that my original 'wart' was on my notes still but it was on my left thigh. They don't seem to be able to correct it at the hospital after the mistake 2 years ago.It was 9 months before a Dr said it had to come out. My GP referred me in April 16 to the skin panel.


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by khurst2@gmail.com | Jan 3, 2022 | News
The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) and the National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) have renewed their agreement to work together to develop a diverse and inclusive workforce dedicated to the science and service of our nation.
Through a Memorandum of Cooperation signed on Dec. 1 by NOAA Corps Rear Adm. Nancy Hann, director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and NOAA's Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, and NNOA President Rear Adm. Sinclair M. Harris, U.S. Navy (Ret), the two organizations will collaborate with the goals of:
developing, implementing and improving strategies for the achievement and management of a diverse workforce of NOAA Corps officers
establishing and maintaining a positive image of the NOAA Corps in NNOA's communities of influence, and
providing personal and professional development opportunities to develop members of NNOA and the NOAA Corps.
"We are proud to stand beside and join forces with NNOA to ensure that our respective organizations are places where all feel valued, respected, and can thrive," said Rear Adm. Hann. "Only then can we achieve meaningful and sustainable success."
NNOA is an organization composed of active duty, reserve and retired officers, midshipmen and cadets, and interested civilians. NNOA is comprised of members of all ranks and ethnic groups and supports the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard in recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse Officer Corps that is representative of the best our nation has to offer.
NNOA is committed to leading, and mentoring officers, enlisted members, and civilian employees of the sea services, as well as our country's youth, to enable them to achieve their highest goals. NNOA is also committed to being a change agent in all areas of the sea services and related military organizations; identifying diversity problem areas and bringing them to the attention of all cognizant authorities.
The NOAA Corps is a uniformed service of the United States tasked with providing officers technically competent to assume positions of leadership and command in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Department of Commerce programs and in the Armed Forces during times of war or national emergency.
To meet human resources needs, the NOAA Corps requires a highly qualified diverse workforce that is committed to NOAA's mission. In turn, the NOAA Corps is committed to providing its workforce with training and professional development, a nurturing workplace free of discrimination or harassment, and an environment in which all can reach their full potential through a culture of diversity and inclusion.
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"Restoring truth and trust is not beyond our reach - but it must begin with enlightened leadership."
From SXSW to the public agendas for the upcoming major marketing industry milestones at WFA and Cannes, the same themes are ringing out – disinformation and misinformation, propaganda, hate speech, fake news and its effects, fraud and brand safety as the unintended consequences of rapidly evolving technology interacting with culture at blinding speed.
And as the recent conversation in Austin underscored, any solutions to these issues are unlikely to come from Silicon Valley, or an unprompted behavior change among consumers. Instead, it will be up to marketers – brands and agencies alike. The public agendas for WFA and Cannes point in the same direction – marketers are looking for solutions, and to be a force for good.
In concert with proliferating disinformation, reliance on a pure reach/frequency approach can contribute to the decreasing presence of regional and local press – organizations that play a vital role in a democracy as trusted information sources.
This trend has been underscored most recently in the US by Facebook, whose attempts to include local news content in user feeds have been frustrated by yawning news deserts. This should concern all of us for a simple reason – at a time when towns, cities and states are dealing with critical issues on multiple fronts – from growing their economies to educating their children to sustaining their resources, regional and local press are the forums through which consensus can be achieved and action ignited.
"In the current context of increasing disinformation and decreasing trusted sources, it's impossible to empathize with real people without considering how our media decisions might reverberate in their lives - which is why we as an agency are looking for real solutions that can begin to reverse the current trajectory."
The question applies across industries and geographies, channels and platforms – and the answers today are very different than they were a few short years ago.
But the stakes are too high to sit on the sidelines and wait for someone else to step up. We at OMD want to collaborate with all parties involved to grow and sustain solutions. Restoring truth and trust is not beyond our reach – but it must begin with enlightened leadership.
Florian is CEO of OMD Worldwide.


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Blacksburg startup Pervida has added Calm, a hemp oil-infused beverage, to its line of health waters.
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Obiso Company owns and operates Whitebarrel Winery. The company launched a new brand this year, called Avila Herbals, for its new hemp business.
Becky Hobden is founder and CEO of startup East Coast Cannalytics in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center. Her startup uses lab equipment to test hemp.
Jan Politis, wife of former Montgomery County Board of Supervisors member Jim Politis, pours hemp resin into a graduated cylinder while preparing a topically applied skin cream at Synthonics in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.
Jim Politis and Tom Piccariello have joined forces to engineer and manufacture a series of hemp-based products in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center.
Jenny Collette is the operations director for Pervida, based in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Blacksburg.
Richard Obiso of Whitebarrel Winery and Avila Herbals.
Chronic entrepreneurs blaze ahead as lawmakers clear way for hemp businesses
By Jacob Demmitt jacob.demmitt@roanoke.com 381-8621
Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill March 21, suddenly allowing the hemp industry to blossom in a state where it couldn't before.
The green rush was on, and entrepreneurs across the state began jockeying for their place.
A rookie entrepreneur in Blacksburg is looking for funding for her startup that will offer hemp lab testing services. A drug researcher and former elected official are teaming up to sell hemp products after years of development. A Riner winemaker has received all the licenses he needs to add hemp derivatives to his tasting room offering.
The seedlings are sprouting up near that winemaker's home now, prompting funny looks from Richard Obiso's 75-year-old father.
He didn't want to miss the first growing season, which he hopes will offer big profits.
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is the component of hemp getting people the most excited right now. It's not an intoxicant like tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is also found in hemp. Scientific research is scant, but CBD is anecdotally touted for helping with pain, stress, nausea and countless other ailments.
Virginia law requires growers and processors to keep THC levels down to trace amounts, so the plant can't be used to produce the high associated with marijuana.
Michael Gordon, CEO of nationwide hemp marketplace Kush.com, said the price of harvested hemp varies based on the percentage of CBD it contains.
On average, he said, an acre of hemp is bringing in anywhere between $20,000 and $30,000 right now. For comparison, an acre of tobacco typically produces less than $5,000.
But Gordon warns that farmers all across the country will soon begin harvesting the first hemp crop since the 2018 farm bill legalized the industry at the federal level. That means there will be more growers, and — in his opinion — a price crash.
"It's a bubble — that's why we jumped on it as fast as we did," Obiso said. "It has been lightning fast. I feel like I haven't slept since the first week of February. It's been literally 16 to 20 hour days just to get ready for it."
As of this month, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported 161 industrial hemp processors registered and 36 dealers across the state. At least six processors have a location in Montgomery County, while Roanoke County has one processor and one dealer. None were registered in Roanoke as of June 21.
For those who can act fast, stay nimble and aren't afraid of a little regulatory gray area, hemp represents a budding business opportunity in Southwest Virginia.
Here are some of their stories.
ChyloCure
Blacksburg scientist Tom Piccariello used to leave his office in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center every so often and fly to Arizona or Illinois — anywhere he could borrow lab space in more hemp-friendly states.
That was three years ago, when Piccariello saw the business potential hemp harnessed — but Virginia laws wouldn't allow him to begin experimenting.
He said he would conduct tests out of state, collect data, leave all the controversial substances behind and bring his findings back home. He said he would crunch the numbers in Blacksburg, design new experiments and then wait for his next trip.
Piccariello, president of pharmaceutical development startup Synthonics, was eventually able to receive a hemp grower's license by partnering with Virginia Tech. He could finally do research in Blacksburg, but he couldn't sell the stuff commercially until the hemp bill was signed earlier this year.
He's now working with co-founder Jim Politis, a longtime hemp advocate and former chairman of the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.
For now, ChyloCure is part of Synthonics, which is mainly focused on developing medications for thyroid-related diseases. Whenever the startup is able to secure enough funding, it plans to spin ChyloCure out as a standalone company.
"We waited for the state of Virginia to say it was OK for us to do this," Piccariello added.
The hemp business hasn't turned into a moneymaker quite yet for the company. It has years of product development under its belt, but has only just begun finding its first customers.
Instead of CBD, ChyloCure has focused its attention on extracting and processing cannabidiolic acid, or CBDa. It's a similar component of the hemp plant, but Piccariello said he believes it may be more potent in the treatment of some conditions, such as epilepsy and anticipatory nausea.
The goal is to extract CBDa from hemp plants as an oil. The company uses magnesium to convert the oil to a powder, which can then be sold as is or added to topical creams and lotions.
Once the regulations become clearer, the company plans to produce edibles and drinks sometime soon.
Like CBD, research into the effects of CBDa is not definitive. But Piccariello points to early studies that show potential.
"The response we're getting from people and the overwhelming enthusiasm that people have had regarding using our product is significant and cannot be ignored," he said. "Something real is happening."
Pervida
Nathan Briggs spends a lot of his time figuring out ways to make hemp oil taste good.
Blacksburg-based Pervida recently launched a new oil-infused beverage: Calm. But the company doesn't use any artificial ingredients, preservatives, sweeteners or dyes that could otherwise help mask the earthy flavor of the hemp oil.
That leaves Briggs, a product developer, working away in the company's headquarters to come up with other solutions.
Pervida, known for its line of health waters, is selling Calm around the country. It has focused on distribution in Maine, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Georgia and Florida. Some stores locally and elsewhere around Virginia carry the drink, but Pervida is still working to grow the network in its home state.
For now, it's producing only a blackberry papaya flavor, but more are on the way.
A can costs $4.99 and contains 12 milligrams of full spectrum hemp oil.
The company, founded by Virginia Tech researcher Josep Bassaganya-Riera, prides itself on its own internal testing and the use of a hemp supplier that has achieved certification by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
For now, that supplier is in Colorado — a state with a head start on hemp processing. If Virginia's industry develops to the point it can offer the same quality product, Bassaganya-Riera said he would love to source locally.
"We know our CBD, we know our product and we know what's in it," Pervida Operations Director Jenny Collette said. "And we want people to be informed and make informed decisions."
The company markets Calm based on its effect on stress, though the company says CBD affects everyone differently.
"It promotes relaxation, kind of puts you at ease," Collette said. "But I don't particularly feel sleepy. It's not necessarily a before bedtime drink."
At first, Collette said she spent a lot of time educating consumers on hemp oil, how it wasn't an illegal drug and wouldn't get them high.
But she said she's noticed a shift over just the past few months, as hemp has received statewide mainstream attention.
"People are familiar with CBD," Collette said. "They know what it is and what it does. So now our focus has been on talking about how Pervida Calm is different and better than some of those other competitor CBD beverages out there."
East Coast Cannalytics
Becky Hobden first wanted to get involved with the medical marijuana industry, but the heavy regulations seemed to make that venture unreasonable.
So Hobden decided to move upstream. She wouldn't grow marijuana or hemp, or deal with processing it herself.
Instead, her big business idea was to provide services to those who do.
Virginia law requires hemp plants to be harvested before THC concentrations grow potent enough to be considered a drug. Hobden is betting that means farmers are going to want to keep a close eye on their crops.
Her startup, East Coast Cannalytics, uses lab equipment at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center to test hemp. She can determine the amount of CBD, THC and other cannabinoids. She can also test for contamination, like pesticides.
There are out-of-state competitors offering the same services, but Hobden says those are big companies located far away. Some can take over a week to return results.
"If you're trying to decide when to harvest your crop, that's a long time to wait," she said. "It's a time sensitive process."
Hobden admits it's hard to tell how popular her service will be, since this is new in Virginia.
But she already has paying customers and has been receiving her first hemp samples since June. Cannalytics has signed two testing contracts with local farmers.
"When I was putting my business together the hardest number to come up with was how many samples I'm going to be testing," Hobden added.
Avila Herbals
Richard Obiso has a Ph.D. in microbiology and worked in the biotech industry before launching Whitebarrel Winery.
But he still loves experimenting in the lab.
He plans to grow and sell CBD products at his Riner farm and wine tasting room. But Obiso's bigger vision is to develop a new variety of the plant designed to be grown in vineyards, filling space below the grapes.
The idea is that hemp could serve as a cover crop, keeping invasive weeds out of the vines.
The new variety he wants to engineer needs to contain high CBD concentrations, while also growing significantly shorter than the usual height above 6 feet tall.
If he's able to pull it off, Obiso would plant the hemp among his own grapes and also sell seeds to other vineyards interested in doing the same.
Farmers would make better use of their land and would have better yields, in theory. They would harvest the hemp first and then the grapes.
"And you've got no weed issues — other than the weed you're growing," Obiso joked.
The entrepreneur is calling his new hemp venture Avila Herbals.
Like the winery business, Avila said, almost all of its products are produced on his own farm.
He will grow the hemp, process it in an on-site lab and then sell refined CBD through distributors and in its tasting rooms.
In the meantime, Avila will be working to cross-breed species in order to design the vineyard hemp varieties.
Obiso would love to develop a CBD-infused wine, but current regulations don't allow it. But maybe someday, he said.
For now he's growing 11,000 plants on 6 acres of land, just down a hill from his wine grapes.
"We don't have $1 million," he said. "We're like the scrap fighters. We're going to try to grow 6 acres. We're going to try to make the best product we can."
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Nathan Cobb Sr. sailed his family south from Cape Cod to the Eastern Shore of Virginia where they settled around 1837. The family brought with them Massachusetts carving concepts, including the refined split-tail carving style adopted by Lothrop Holmes, A. Elmer Crowell, and Joseph Lincoln. Over time, the Cobbs evolved this style into one of their own. A well-balanced decoy, this curlew exhibits pleasing proportions with a gracefully rounded head, full cheeks, and a plump body that resolves with a precise Cobb Island tail-cut. This confident carving, featuring the Cobb's signature "V" feathering, represents the pinnacle of the Southern standard.
Birds from this important Cobb rig were first discovered by William J. Mackey, Jr. Later, they were brought to the broader public's attention when Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr. featured this exact decoy and a running rigmate both from the Purnell Collection in his seminal book Shore Bird Decoys. Even prior to this, however, rigmates had drawn the attention of "the old guard," landing in the collections of Lloyd Johnson, Dr. James M. McCleery, and Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
This stunning curlew, with its original paint, crisp clean lines, and original bill, hits the highest level of craftsmanship seen in the decoys that survived the remote island's storm-wrecked history.
The underside bears the Purnell collection "P" brand and also the "NELSON" collection stamp. Strong original paint with even gunning wear.
Literature: Henry A. Fleckenstein, Jr., "Shore Bird Decoys," Exton, PA, 1980, p. 130, back dust jacket cover, rigmate illustrated, pl. 145, exact decoy illustrated.
Joe Engers, ed., "The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys," San Diego, CA, 1990, pp. 166-167, rigmate illustrated.
Dr. Lloyd Newberry, "The Saga of Cobb Island," Sporting Classics, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 140-145, related example illustrated.
Robert H. Richardson ed., "Chesapeake Bay Decoys," Burtonsville, MD, 1991, p. 184, exact decoy illustrated.


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If Jerusalem is not divided, why are the Analytics implying such?
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The transition to the next millennium gives us an opportunity to reflect on the past and project the future. In this spirit, we have asked a set of distinguished scholars and practitioners who were involved in AI's formative stages to describe the most notable trend or controversy (or nontrend or noncontroversy) during AI's development. The responses provide an interesting characterization of AI-and, in many ways, of the people of AI. We gave our contributors a great deal of flexibility in the nature of their responses. Some provided grand summaries of the history of the field as a whole. Others commented insightfully on more focused topics. Some observed changes and changed along with them. Others are still making advances on research agendas articulated presciently long ago. Some are optimistic. Others are pessimistic. Despite the range, both individually and collectively they provide insights into where we have been and where we are going. Although each contribution is a unique expression of its author's glimpse back through AI's development, there is repetition of important themes that are at the discipline's core. The article serves as an interesting record of where AI is today, as well as setting the stage for what's to come
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NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. (WC) – Westminster College will celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at a special vespers service at 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, in the college's W. Charles Wallace Memorial Chapel.
Jarrett Samuels Sr. '94, a leader in the Farrell community, will serve as guest speaker. A mentor to many youth in the Farrell area, Samuels is founder of Crossroads Group Homes and Services that provides support to at-risk adolescents. Since 2007, Samuels has served as the head coach of the Farrell High School football team, which finished the 2018 season with a 15-0 record and claimed the PIAA Class A State Championship.
Music during the service will be provided by the New Castle Community Choir.