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Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé
Department of Surgery
Division of Surgery
Head: Dr. Anne Méziat-Burdin
Administrative Officer:
Ms. Christine Murray
Telephone : 819 346-1110, ext. 14483
Division Members
- Dr. Yvan Blouin (CTP)
- Dr. Émilie Comeau (FTP)
Laparoscopic surgery including digestive and adrenal surgery. Bariatric surgery. Endoscopies. Varicose veins.
- Dr. Ghislain Devroede (FTP)
Pelvic floor pathology.
- Dr. André Forget (CTP)
- Dr. Gonzalo Gonzalez (CTP)
- Dr. Jean-Yves Hamel (CTP)
- Dr. Valérie Leblanc (FTP)
- Dr. Jean Ledoux (CTP)
- Dr. Marcel Martin (FTP)
Critical care and traumatology
- Dr Sandeep Mayer (FTP)
Pediatric surgery
- Dr François Mosimann (FTP)
Hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery. Digestive surgery. Peripheral vascular surgery. Endocrine surgery. Dialysis surgery. Organ procurement. Kidney transplant. Endoscopies.
- Dre Nathalie McFadden (FTP)
- Dre Anne Méziat-Burdin (FTP)
Bariatric surgery.
- Dr Alain Ouimet (CTP)
Pediatric surgery
- Dr Mario Viens (CTP)
CTP: Clinical Teaching Professor; FTP: Full-Time University Professor
Clinical Activities
The activities of the Division of Surgery are split up between the CHUS's two components, Fleurimont Hospital and Hôtel-Dieu. Its members perform, for adults and children, emergency and elective interventions related to the digestive tube (from oesophagus to anus), liver, biliary tract, pancreas, spleen, obesity, endocrine glands, breast, and hernias. During the past few years, significant efforts were made to develop surgical techniques in relation with the liver, obesity, and chronic renal failure (arteriovenous fistulae for hemodialysis, installation of catheters for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, deceased donor renal transplant, living donor renal transplant with laparoscopic procurement). New services related to pediatric urology will be added in 2007.
Moreover, the division also offers services related to upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopies, and acts as an advisor in the management and follow-up of major traumatisms affecting the trunk.
Academic Activities
From an academic point of view, full-time university professors are involved in undergraduate teaching (at least two courses) and all division members contribute to clerk teaching. All members are also involved in resident training (see section on the residency program).
Research activities
Throughout their training, residents have periods dedicated to the development of a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. At the very least, project results must be presented at the Department of Surgery's Scientific Day.
With regard to division members, they have, at some point, contributed to the surgical literature. The list of their specific interests as well as their publications indexed in Medline and PubMed can be seen in the "Research" Section.


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Considering the UK for your next adventurous escape? Trying to figure out how to spend your two week vacation?
Here's a quick look at some of the most quintessentially British activities, and scenic regions to explore during your two weeks in the UK.
Cornwall arguably has some of the best beach front in the UK, with over 400 beaches available for exploration. This delightful region in the south of the UK allows you to start your tour with the excitement of sun and sand. Whether you pick the dramatic north coast beaches with their stunning cliff scenery, or go to the southern beaches with their gentle coves and beautiful sea features, you'll find yourself surrounded by picture perfect views.
Renting a campervan like these Spaceships allows you to hop along the coast, sampling only the best within the short period of time you're there. Ensure that you stop at St. Ives for some quality artistic and culinary experiences while on your tour, as well as visiting Padstow which is famous for its amazing food packed into a small village.
The UK's most popular tourist destination is not to be missed. The cosmopolitan city of London is mixed with modern features as well as historical landmarks, guaranteeing an exciting tour all around. If you are on a budget, get the London Pass that will allow you to enjoy entry to more than 60 attractions all around the city.
Alternatively, look out for budget bus tours which will often include a lot of freebies as well. You can explore the city by bike or a walking tour for the more activity driven of us, or just take a helicopter ride to enjoy the whole view if you're lucky enough to have plenty of pennies! Choose from a variety of tour options showcasing history, modern attractions, as well as natural scenery.
Easily one of the most beautiful areas in the UK, the Cotswolds are a must see on your short tour. The area is a mash up of quaint villages, idyllic countryside, and tasteful natural scenery. Start your memorable tour by booking yourself into a beautiful rural cottage like those here: you can then visit an affordable yet beautiful manor like the Buckland Manor Country house for regal treatment.
After that, wander through towns with unique names such as Stow-on-the-Wold, Cheltenham, and Stroud, exploring their tastefully English architecture and lifestyle. Head to the outdoors for an activity such as fishing, golfing, horse riding, biking, or simply trekking and intimately explore the beautiful natural surroundings.
Perfect area for the activity tourist, the Yorkshire Dales offer you a quintessential British experience. This area makes for a great walking tour with varied types of trails available for both the seasoned and amateur trekker. Stroll through amazing natural features, beautiful hills, and stunning stone village scenery.
There are numerous caves to visit underground at White Scar, and delightful scenery available on every Dale. Enjoy Viking castles like the Skipton Castle, and go haggle at the local markets in Leyburn and Skipton.
Scotland as a whole offers a mysterious allure. However, the west coast is arguably the most exciting for tourism. Here, you will be treated to a variety of scenes: from Dumfries & Galloway all the way to Scourie up in the north.
In between, choose whether you want to explore part of the famous highlands or simply indulge in the coastal delights: a mix of the two is best. Whether you go island hunting in Mull, Islay, or Jura, or head out to Oban for whiskey, or try out one of the numerous world class golf courses, the West will always hold a unique appeal for you.


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15 ways to turn your first year as a father into a winning season.
by Gary Drevitch
Copyright (c) 2003 G+J Publishing, Inc.
September 2003
Getting a baby to sleep through the night may be the most stressful challenge new parents face. Experts advise putting an infant to bed while she's still awake to teach her to fall asleep on her own, but some parents sing, rock, snuggle, and even drive their baby to dreamland. Keep experimenting until you discover what works best for you. Almost nothing else a new dad can do will earn as much praise and thanks as cracking his baby's sleep code.
Once your baby is eating solid food or drinking formula, his dirty diapers may make you gag. Yeah, well, he's your kid. Changing diapers should become pretty quick and painless - even when you're half asleep - once you get the hang of it. If you want a real challenge, just wait till potty-teaching time.
You're both tired. You're not in bed at the same time very often. You may just forget to kiss each other. But from here on out, it's all about finding moments. If that means Sunday afternoon in the kitchen while the baby naps, so be it. Pucker up and accept that, for now, your wife craves sleep, and sleep only.
Don't bring your work troubles home. Like dogs, babies can sense anxiety. And like pets, they don't care how your day went-they just want some attention. Besides, we both know you'd be much happier playing peek-a-boo together than moping about office politics.
Once upon a time, your home was a well-organized showplace. And now? It isn't. That's probably because your wife has basically stopped cleaning. Should you say something to her about it? No. Just pick up her dirty socks, and while you're at it, do the dishes and take out the trash.
Your newly expanded operation has a number of administrative needs, such as ordering new or improved life-insurance policies and a will, and setting up a college fund for your child. Make a checklist, and start taking care of business.
Buying flowers for your new mom once a week won't just make the kitchen look pretty. It will show her that you still find her attractive, sexy, and - especially - worthy of courting. It's corny, sure, but buds will make her smile. A movie and a surprise dinner out can work wonders too.
The benefits of reading to your child from Day 1 are well-documented. Though it doesn't matter which picture book you select, why not choose one with a pro-father message? Try Guess How Much I Love You, by Sam McBratney; What Dads Can't Do, by Douglas Wood; or Daddy is a Doodlebug, by Bruce Degen.
If you need to put in overtime with the baby for a few days while your wife is tied up with work, do it with a smile; eventually, you'll need her to do the same for you. And stay in the game by reminding yourself that there's no parenting skill that your wife has that you don't have too (other than the ability to breastfeed).
Having a wit like Seinfeld's may entertain your dinner-party pals, but the rice-cereal set prefers slapstick. Loosen up and start mastering the fine arts of pratfalls, sneezing, and otherwise humiliating yourself. Just don't forget to bring Mom into all of the fun.
Admit it, you're fantasizing about cooking pancakes for your child on cheery Sunday mornings. Get in the habit by whipping up a few breakfasts and dinners for your wife each week. You'll earn brownie points, and those meals will probably be the only home-cooked food you get for a while.
One day, your child will want to learn all the cool stuff that fathers are expected to know - how to bait a hook, identify the stars, juggle three balls, and throw a curveball. If you're like me, you have no idea how to do any of these. So start studying now. 101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows, by Walter and Sue Ellin Browder, offers a competent introduction to the manly arts.
The nights go on forever, but the year flies by. You simply will not remember much about the early stages of your child's life once he turns a year old. That's why it's so important to record those firsts. If frilly baby albums aren't for you, just start a file on your computer. And keep track of milestones other than the basics such as crawling, eating solids, and walking. For instance, my son was exactly 3 months and 12 days old the first time he snatched a dollar bill from my hand.
Someday you'll be able to sleep in again. But for now, get up and take your child out early on Saturday mornings to the park, the front lawn, or even the coffee shop - anyplace you won't wake up your sleep-deprived wife. It's not just for her sake; it's a great way to bond with your baby.
Maybe it's the way your baby clings to her; maybe it's the way she smiles while he throws his mashed bananas at her; maybe it's just the way she looks in that short nursing nightgown. Whatever it is, your wife is pretty incredible. Let her know it - often. After all, a good MVP always credits his teammates when he wins the big prize.


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Dr. Barbara F. PiperSchool of Health and Human Services
Professional Summary:
Dr. Piper is internationally known for her program of research in cancer-related fatigue. She developed one of the first multidimensional patient-reported outcome measures for subjective fatigue, the Piper Fatigue Scale (PFS) and the Integrated Fatigue Model (IFM) that can guide practice and research. She has worked clinically as a staff nurse, charge nurse, clinical nurse specialist, educator and researcher.
2014: Nominated by Dr. Jan Atwood and Dr. Betty Ferrell for the National Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Nurse Researcher Award.
2012 - Nominated for the Distinguished Service Award: Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer.
2011 - Nominated for inclusion in: "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare"
2010 - Excellence in Mentorship: Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ
2010 - Invited panelist: Setting the Research Agenda for Cancer-Related Fatigue: NCI Clinical Trials Program
2002 - Recipient: Robert Tiffany Lectureship award given in recognition of significant international contributions to cancer nursing (2nd American so honored)
2002 - Inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing
Cantarero-Villaneuva, I., Fernandez-Lao, C., Diaz-Rodriguez, L., Cuesta-Vargas, A.I., Fernandez-de-las Penas, C., Piper, B.F., Arroyo-Morales, M. (2013). The Piper Fatigue Scale-Revised: Translation and psychometric evaluation in Spanish-speaking breast cancer survivors. Quality of Life Research, May 22 [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1007/s11136-013-0434-5.
Stover AM, Reeve BB, Piper BF, Alfano CM Smith AW, Mitchell SM…Ballard-Barbash R. (In Press). Deriving clinically meaningful cut-scores for fatigue in a cohort of breast cancer survivors: A Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) study. Quality of Life Research, Feb 19 [Epub ahead of print], doi: 10.1007/s11136-013-0360-6.
Reeve BB, Stover AM, Alfano CM, Smith AW, Ballard-Barbash R, Bernstein L, …Piper BF (2012). The Piper Fatigue Scale-12 (PFS-12): Psychometric findings and item reduction in a cohort of breast cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 136:9-10.doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2212-4.
Sun V, Borneman T, Koczywas M, Cristea M, Piper BF, Uman G, Ferrell B (2012). Quality of life and barriers to symptom management in colon cancer. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, Jul; 16(3): 276-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon2011.06.011. PMID: 21783415.
Borneman T, Piper BF, Koczywas M, Minevar CM, Sun V, Uman GC, Ferrell B (2012). A qualitative analysis of cancer-related fatigue in ambulatory oncology. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, Feb; 16(1):E26-32. PMID: 22297018.
Borneman T, Koczywas M, Sun V, Piper BF, Smith-Idell C, Laroya B,…Ferrell B (2011). Effectiveness of a clinical intervention to eliminate barriers to pain and fatigue management in oncology. Journal of Palliative Medicine, Feb; 14(2): 197-205. PMID: 21271872.
Piper BF, Cella D (2010). Definitions and subtypes of cancer-related fatigue. Journal of the National Comprehensive Network, 8(8): 958-966.
Piper BF, Borneman T, Sun VC, Koczywas M, Ferrell B, James R (2008). Cancer-related fatigue: Role of oncology nurses in translating National Comprehensive Cancer Network assessment guidelines into practice. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing Oct; 12(5 suppl): 37-47.
Teaching Experience:
Dr. Piper has extensive experience teaching AD, BSN, MSN, DNP and PhD nursing students, future medical students, and advance practice registered nurses (APRN). She has chaired and been a member of Doctoral and Master's Degree supervisory committees. She loves teaching; views it as a collaborative process; learning every bit as much from her students as they may learn from her.
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The founder of counter-Islamistation strolling movement PEGIDA, Lutz Bachmann, has been handed a five-year protest ban by the city of Dresden, but the order will do nothing to control the marches which have gathered tens of thousands of supporters.
The ban on Mr. Bachmann — the founder of the protest movement which has spread to a number of other German cities and European nations — and his co-organiser Sigfried Däbritz, comes after supporters of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) heckled German chancellor Angela Merkel at a unity day event.
Army tanks and thousands of police were deployed to eastern city of Dresden for the event, which in an unusual development was attended by Chancellor Merkel and President Joachim Gauck. PEGIDA supporters jibed the pair, demanding they "get out", and shouted down Gauck when he tried to speak.
The city council declared the protest had not received prior permission from them, and so have ordered the ringleaders — Bachmann and Däbritz — are banned from organising protests in the area until October 2021.
The ban has come in the form of a notification that neither of them are now considered proper persons to lead a protest, as they have been found to have violated the city rules.
Yet the ban is likely to do little — taking to Facebook, Mr. Bachmann revealed today that while he would no longer be able to technically organise marches, he would still be able to march with PEGIDA, be allowed to speak on stage as a guest, and help out with security — basically the limit of his involvement now.
German newspaper Zeit reports that Bachmann hasn't been a signatory of protest applications for the city since the end of 2015.
The PEGIDA founder wrote on Facebook that the ruling wouldn't change the fact he'd be at the protests — so-called strolls — every Monday night as usual.
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Selected 2010 Inflammatory Breast Cancer published research.
Links to free full text (where available) will open in a new browser tab/window. If free full text is not available, copy the citation and check with the reference librarian at a local public or college library for assistance in obtaining a copy of the full article.
Mahooti, S., et al. (2010). Breast carcinomatous tumoral emboli can result from encircling lymphovasculogenesis rather than lymphovascular invasion. Oncotarget, 1(2), 131-47. Abstract below, free full text may be found at link above.
The canonical view of the origin of tumor lymphovascular emboli is that they usually originate from lymphovascular invasion as part of a multistep metastatic process. Recent experimental evidence has suggested that metastasis can occur earlier than previously thought and we found evidence that tumor emboli formation can result from the short-circuiting step of encircling lymphovasculogenesis. Experimentally, we used a xenograft of human inflammatory breast cancer (MARY-X), a model that exhibited florid tumor emboli, to generate tumoral spheroids in vitro. In observational studies, we chose human breast carcinoma cases where there appeared to be a possible transition of in situ carcinoma to lymphovascular emboli without intervening stromal invasion. These cases were studied by morphometry as well as IHC with tumor proliferation (Ki-67) and adhesion (E-cadherin) markers, myoepithelial (p63), as well as endothelial (podoplanin [D2-40], CD31, VEGFR-3, Prox-1) markers. Unlabelled spheroids coinjected with either GFP or RFP-human myoepithelial cells or murine embryonal fibroblasts (MEFs) gave rise to tumors which exhibited GFP/RFP immunoreactivity within the cells lining the emboli-containing lymphovascular channels. In vitro studies demonstrated that the tumoral spheroids induced endothelial differentiation of cocultured myoepithelial cells and MEFs, measured by real time PCR and immunofluorescence. In humans, the in situ clusters exhibited similar proliferation, E-cadherin immunoreactivity and size as the tumor emboli (p =.5), suggesting the possibility that the latter originated from the former. The in situclusters exhibited a loss (50%-100%) of p63 myoepithelial immunoreactivity but not E-cadherin epithelial immunoreactivity. The tumor emboli were mainly present within lymphatic channels whose dual p63/CD31, p63/D2-40 and p63/VEGFR-3 and overall weak patterns of D2-40/CD31/VEGFR-3 immunoreactivities suggested that they represented immature and newly created vasculature derived from originally myoepithelial-lined ducts. Collectively both experimental as well as observational studies suggested the possibility that these breast cancer emboli resulted from encircling lymphovasculogenesis rather than conventional lymphovascular invasion.
Torrisi, R., et al. (2010). Phase II trial of combination of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin, cisplatin, and infusional 5-fluorouracil (CCF plus trastuzumab as preoperative treatment for locally advanced and inflammatory breast cancer. Clinical Breast Cancer, 10(6), 483-8. Abstract below, free full text not available.
Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) was shown as active but less toxic compared to doxorubicin in advanced breast cancer. Given its low cardiotoxicity, the combination of PLD and trastuzumab appears most attractive in the treatment of human epidermal factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We investigated the activity of 8 courses of PLD in combination with cisplatin and infusional 5-fluorouracil (CCF) plus 3-week trastuzumab in patients with primary or recurrent cT2-T4 a-d, N0-3, M0 any estrogen receptor (ER), HER2-positive breast cancer. Patients with ER and/or progesterone receptor (PgR) ? 10% tumors received also letrozole (plus triptorelin if premenopausal). The principal endpoint was clinical response rate; secondary endpoints were the pathologic complete response rate (pCR) and the cardiac safety of the combination. RESULTs: Thirty-two patients were enrolled in the study and all are evaluable for response and toxicity. Fifteen patients (47%) had ER-positive tumors, 15 patients and 2 patients had ER absent and ER poor tumors, respectively. Thirteen patients (41%) had inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and 84% of patients had clinically positive nodes. A clinical response rate of 94% (95% CI, 79%-99%) and a pCR rate of 41% (95% CI, 24%-59%) were observed. Fifty-four percent of patients with IBC obtained a pCR. Eleven patients discontinued treatment before completing 8 courses as planned. No patient developed relevant cardiac toxicity. CONCLUSION: In this series of very locally advanced breast cancer, the combination of CCF and trastuzumab was very active obtaining an impressive rate of pCR, particularly in IBC, which merits further investigation in larger series.
Ye, Y., et al. (2010). E-cadherin accumulation within the lymphovascular embolus of inflammatory breast cancer is due to altered trafficking. Anticancer Research, 30(10), 3903-10. Abstract below, free full text not available.
E-Cadherin functions as a tumor suppressor in some invasive breast carcinomas and metastasis is promoted when its expression is lost. It has been observed, however, that in one of the most aggressive human breast cancers, inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), E-cadherin is overexpressed and this accounts for the formation of the lymphovascular embolus, a structure efficient at metastasis and resistant to chemotherapy through unknown cytoprotective mechanisms. Studies using a human xenograft model of IBC, MARY-X, indicate that the mechanism of E-cadherin overexpression is not transcriptional but related to altered protein trafficking. By real-time RT-PCR, E-cadherin transcript levels in MARY-X were 3- to 11-fold less than in other E-cadherin positive human breast carcinoma lines but the protein levels were 5- to 10-fold greater. In addition, several smaller E-cadherin protein fragments, e.g. 95 kDa, were present. To explain these observations, it was hypothesized that there may be altered protein trafficking. A real-time RT-PCR screen of candidate molecules generally known to regulate protein trafficking was conducted. The screen revealed 3.5- to 7-fold increased ExoC5 level and 10 to 20 fold decreased HRS and RAB7 levels, which was confirmed in human microdissected lymphovascular emboli. Since these alterations may only be correlative with E-cadherin overexpression, one of the molecules, Rab7, was selectively knocked down in MCF-7 cells. An increase in the full length 120 kDa E-cadherin and the de novo appearance of the 95 KD band were observed. These findings suggest that it is the altered E-cadherin trafficking that contributes to its oncogenic rather than suppressive role in IBC.
Robertson, FM., et al. (2010). Inflammatory breast cancer: the disease, the biology, the treatment. CA: a Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 60(6), 351-75. Abstract below, free full text may be found at link above.
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of invasive breast cancer accounting for 2.5% of all breast cancer cases. It is characterized by rapid progression, local and distant metastases, younger age of onset, and lower overall survival compared with other breast cancers. Historically, IBC is a lethal disease with less than a 5% survival rate beyond 5 years when treated with surgery or radiation therapy. Because of its rarity, IBC is often misdiagnosed as mastitis or generalized dermatitis. This review examines IBC's unique clinical presentation, pathology, epidemiology, imaging, and biology and details current multidisciplinary management of the disease, which comprises systemic therapy, surgery, and radiation therapy.
Duke, TJ., et al. (2010). A cluster of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) in an office setting: additional evidence of the importance of environmental factors in IBC etiology. Oncology Reports, 24(5), 1277-84. Abstract below, free full text not available.
We investigated a cluster of three cases of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) diagnosed within 10 months in an office setting of 24 people. Information about medical history, pregnancy history, family history of breast cancer, oral contraceptive use/hormone replacement therapy, exposure to possible oncogenic agents and tumor promoters were obtained to determine whether there were differences in risk factors for IBC between cases and controls. The physical environment and location of the cases' office raised concern about air and water quality as well as radiation as being contributory risk factors for developing IBC. Of the three women with IBC, two had high exposures to pesticides/herbicides, all three used oral contraceptives and two used hormone replacement therapy at the time of diagnosis, two had a family history of breast cancer, and two were obese. Among fifteen controls four had pesticide/herbicide exposure, one had a family history of breast cancer, nine used oral contraceptives, seven used hormone replacement therapy, and five were obese. No specific environmental causes were established for this cluster. Several promoting factors have been suggested that could result in subclinical breast cancer emerging as IBC. Among them are exogenous hormones and exposure to herbicides/pesticides.
Van der Auwera, I., et al. (2010). Integrated miRNA and mRNA expression profiling of the inflammatory breast cancer subtype. British Journal of Cancer, 103(4), 532-41. Abstract below, free full text not available.
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression. In this study, we explored whether altered miRNA expression has a prominent role in defining the inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) phenotype. METHODS: We used quantitative PCR technology to evaluate the expression of 384 miRNAs in 20 IBC and 50 non-IBC samples. To gain understanding on the biological functions deregulated by aberrant miRNA expression, we looked for direct miRNA targets by performing pair-wise correlation coefficient analysis on expression levels of 10 962 messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and by comparing these results with predicted miRNA targets from TargetScan5.1. RESULTS: We identified 13 miRNAs for which expression levels were able to correctly predict the nature of the sample analysed (IBC vs non-IBC). For these miRNAs, we detected a total of 17,295 correlated miRNA-mRNA pairs, of which 7012 and 10 283 pairs showed negative and positive correlations, respectively. For four miRNAs (miR-29a, miR-30b, miR-342-3p and miR-520a-5p), correlated genes were concordant with predicted targets. A gene set enrichment analysis on these genes demonstrated significant enrichment in biological processes related to cell proliferation and signal transduction. CONCLUSIONS: This study represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first integrated analysis of miRNA and mRNA expression in IBC. We identified a set of 13 miRNAs of which expression differed between IBC and non-IBC, making these miRNAs candidate markers for the IBC subtype.
Dawood, S., et al. (2010). Trastuzumab in primary inflammatory breast cancer (ibc): high pathological response rates and improved outcome. The Breast Journal. Abstract below, free full text not available.
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) represents a rare but aggressive and lethal form of locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) and frequently with HER-2 neu overexpressed or amplified. We retrospectively identified 16 newly diagnosed HER-2/neu-positive IBC patients who were treated with preoperative trastuzumab. We determined the pathological complete response rate (pCR) when trastuzumab was added to preoperative chemotherapy in patients with HER2/neu-positive IBC. Furthermore, we assessed the expression of CXCR4 in metastatic recurrence sites. Ten patients (62.5%) achieved a pCR. Six patients (37.5%) achieved a partial response. Median follow-up of all patients was 24.2 months. Four (25%) patients have experienced a progression, of which three were in the brain. Two-year progression-free survival was 59.4% (95% CI 35-100). High expression of CXCR4 was detected in the brain metastases. We conclude that in spite of high pCR rates among women with HER-2/neu-positive IBC treated with neoadjuvant trastuzumab-based regimens the outcome remains dismal and brain recurrences are frequent. CXCR4 may represent a novel therapeutic target.
Pogo, PG., Holland, JF., & Levine, PH. (2010). Human mammary tumor virus in inflammatory breast cancer. Cancer, 116(11 Suppl), 2741-4. Abstract below, free full text not available.
The authors have found that retroviral sequences with 85% to 95% homology to the mouse mammary tumor virus were present in 40% of the sporadic breast cancers of American women. These sequences were not found in normal breasts or other tumors. A whole proviral structure was detected in 2 tumors. Breast cancer cells in culture were shown to contain and shed betaretroviral particles. This virus was designated human mammary tumor virus (HMTV). The authors have investigated the presence of HMTV sequences in a variety of breast conditions and geographic locations. Here they report that inflammatory breast cancer from American women shows a higher incidence of viral sequences (71%) than sporadic breast cancers. Similar incidence has been found in inflammatory breast cancers from Tunisia, and in gestational breast cancers. Because these conditions represent highly invasive malignancies, it is concluded that HMTV is sometimes associated with a particularly malignant phenotype.
Boussen, H., et al. (2010). Phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant lapatinib plus paclitaxel in patients with inflammatory breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 28(20), 3248-55. Abstract below, free full text not available.
PURPOSE: We conducted a phase II, open-label, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of daily lapatinib plus weekly paclitaxel in treatment-naïve patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: The primary end point was pathologic complete response (pCR). Secondary end points included combined clinical response rate (based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria and clinically evaluable skin disease criteria). Patients were assigned to either cohort A (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 [HER2] 2+ or 3+ by immunohistochemistry [IHC] or fluorescent in situ hybridization [FISH] -amplified +/- epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR] expression) or cohort B (HER2-negative/EGFR-positive). A subpopulation of cohort A considered HER2-positive by the current definition of overexpression (3+ by IHC or FISH-amplified) was also analyzed. Patients received lapatinib at 1,500 mg/d for 14 days, then lapatinib at 1,500 mg/d plus weekly paclitaxel (80 mg/m(2)) for 12 weeks, followed by surgical resection or additional chemotherapy. RESULTS: Forty-nine women were enrolled (cohort A, n = 42; cohort B, n = 7). Cohort B was terminated because of slow accrual and lack of efficacy observed in IBC patients with HER2-negative/EGFR-positive tumors enrolled onto the parallel study, EGF103009. pCR occurred in 18.2% (95% CI, 5.2% to 40.3%) of cohort A patients. Combined clinical response rate was 78.6% (95% CI, 63.2% to 89.7%) in all cohort A patients and 78.1% (95% CI, 60.0% to 90.7%) in the HER2-positive subset. Common adverse events included diarrhea, rash, alopecia, and nausea (> 50% of patients in both cohorts). The incidence of grade 3 diarrhea was 55%. CONCLUSION: Lapatinib monotherapy for 14 days followed by lapatinib plus paclitaxel for 12 weeks provided clinical benefit in IBC patients with HER2-overexpressing tumors without unexpected toxicity.
Overmoyer, BA. (2010). Inflammatory breast cancer: novel preoperative therapies. Clinical Breast Cancer, 10(1), 27-32. Abstract below, free full text not available.
The treatment of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) has been hampered by the diagnostic rarity of the disease and its consequent inclusion in clinical trials of preoperative treatment for the more indolent locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). Patients with IBC have a 2-fold greater probability of dying of their disease compared with patients diagnosed with LABC. The aggressive clinical portrait of IBC supports the recent investigative focus on determining molecular changes specific to IBC and developing novel systemic therapies that will favorably affect its poor disease prognosis. A significant amount of laboratory research has been involved in defining a specific "inflammatory signature" for IBC, denoting molecular changes consistently found in IBC. This work has involved human IBC tissue and cell lines and has demonstrated overexpression of several molecules governing metastatic dissemination, such as overexpression of E-cadherin concurrent with a dysfunctional mucin 1. An increased prevalence of mutant TP53, overexpression of RhoC, and vascular endothelial growth factor-A has been found to contribute to the dominant influence of angiogenesis in this disease. A greater understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing the pathophysiology of IBC has led to the development and clinical application of novel targeting agents for preoperative therapy. This study reviews the advances in molecular understanding of IBC and focuses on the efficacy of therapies that target the epidermal growth factor pathway and angiogenesis as well as early investigational therapies involving RhoC and TP53.
Charafe-Jauffret, E., et al. (2010). Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1-positive cancer stem cells mediate metastasis and poor clinical outcome in inflammatory breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 16(1), 45-55. Abstract below, free full text may be found at link above.
PURPOSE: To examine the role of cancer stem cells (CSC) in mediating metastasis in inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and the association of these cells with patient outcome in this aggressive type of breast cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: CSCs were isolated from SUM149 and MARY-X, an IBC cell line and primary xenograft, by virtue of increased aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity as assessed by the ALDEFLUOR assay. Invasion and metastasis of CSC populations were assessed by in vitro and mouse xenograft assays. Expression of ALDH1 was determined on a retrospective series of 109 IBC patients and this was correlated with histoclinical data. All statistical tests were two sided. Log-rank tests using Kaplan-Meier analysis were used to determine the correlation of ALDH1 expression with development of metastasis and patient outcome. RESULTS: Both in vitro and xenograft assays showed that invasion and metastasis in IBC are mediated by a cellular component that displays ALDH activity. Furthermore, expression of ALDH1 in IBC was an independent predictive factor for early metastasis and decreased survival in this patient population. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the metastatic, aggressive behavior of IBC may be mediated by a CSC component that displays ALDH enzymatic activity. ALDH1 expression represents the first independent prognostic marker to predict metastasis and poor patient outcome in IBC. The results illustrate how stem cell research can translate into clinical practice in the IBC field.
Arias-Pulido, H., et al. (2010). GPR30 and estrogen receptor expression: new insights into hormone dependence of inflammatory breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 123(1), 51-8. Abstract below, free full text not available.
GPR30 is a novel G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (ER) associated with metastases in breast cancer (BC) and poor survival in endometrial and ovarian tumors. The association of GPR30 expression with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an aggressive and commonly hormone-independent form of BC, has not been studied. GPR30, ER, progesterone receptor (PR), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and HER-2 expression were assessed by immunohistochemistry (and FISH for HER-2) in 88 primary IBCs. GPR30 expression was correlated with patient overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), pathologic variables, and other biomarkers. GPR30 expression was found in 69% of IBC cases. ER, PR, HER-2, and EGFR were found in 43, 35, 39, and 34% of IBC cases, respectively. GPR30 expression correlated inversely with ER expression (P = 0.02). Co-expression of ER and GPR30 was found in 24% of IBC samples; 19% expressed only ER and 46% expressed only GPR30. Univariate analysis showed no association between GPR30 expression and OS or DFS. However, co-expression of ER and GPR30 was associated with improved OS (P < 0.03) and marginally with DFS (P < 0.06); the absence of both ER and GPR30 was associated with worse OS and DFS (P = 0.03 for both). Multivariate analysis identified ER as an independent prognostic factor of OS (P = 0.008) and DFS (P = 0.02). The majority of IBC tumors are GPR30-positive, suggesting that estrogen signaling may be active in ER-negative IBC patients. These findings suggest potential new therapeutic targets for IBC such as novel endocrine agents or direct modulation of GPR30.
Masannat, YA., et al. (2010). Case report of bilateral inflammatory breast cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care, 19(4), 558-60. Abstract below, free full text may be found at link above.
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare entity that makes up 1-3% of breast cancers. As the diagnosis of IBC is mainly clinical, for the inexperienced the clinical appearance can mimic mastitis leading to diagnostic delay and it is often associated with a poor prognosis. Very few cases of bilateral IBC are reported in the literature, all of which have been synchronous. We report an unusual case of bilateral metachronous IBC each with complete clinico-pathological response after treatment with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery on both occasions.


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Locksmiths in Hotham Hill offer a highly demanded service, which generally relates to maintaining and installing the various types of lock systems, from the standard key locks to the complex electronic or biometric locks. The most common types of locksmith professions consist of the emergency, industrial, commercial, and residential, which each of the specific fields requiring different skills and abilities.
Residential work is likely to be the most common of the services provided by a residential locksmith. A domestic property owner looks at personal security and safety as a key reason when it comes to making sure a home is fully secured against a would-be intruder. A locksmith has gained the experience and knowledge to suggest the most effective locks for a properties doors and windows. Beyond the ability to install new locking systems, the locksmith is also able to repair or replace the locks on the older styled properties. Extra services offered by a local locksmiths offer security advice, a key cutting service, installing locks on a garage or similar outbuilding, and installing at-home safes or vaults.
How Do I Choose A Residential Locksmith in Hotham Hill?
A safe is a wonderful device for keeping valuables protected from thieves and others from getting unauthorized access to its contents. But what happens when either the lock or the combination malfunctions, the key is lost or broken, you've forgotten the combination or the safe has been tampered with so that no matter how hard you try, you can't gain access to the valuables you have stored inside?
That's when the safe opening services of a professional locksmith are sometimes literally worth their weight in gold! Before you do anything that might damage the integrity of the safe exterior or the valuable contents inside, the first call you should make is to a professional locksmith for a prompt on-site evaluation of the situation and the best remedy.
When employed as a safe cracking device in the hands of an experienced locksmith, drilling does not necessarily render the safe damaged or unusable. In fact, most safes that are opened by locksmiths skilled in drilling can immediately begin repair on the drilling hole as soon as the safe is opened, in order to return it to as good as new condition, ready to do its job of securing cash and other valuables again.
Points to Consider While Looking for a Locksmith
Locksmith services contribute a lot in terms of maintaining an environment that is safe and secure for everyone. Locksmith service providers have something in common, i.e. they provide twenty-four hour services to customers. This indicates that there is no need to fix a broken lock yourself.
Calling a locksmith to fix your problem is way better than putting in your own effort. Along with that, it can also serve the purpose of coming up with new keys.
Different Varieties of Locksmith Services
Even if you have ample knowledge of how to fix locks, you never know when you need an entirely different kind of service from your locksmith. This is because locksmiths provide different types of services according to the needs of their customers. Some examples are key cutting, lock picking, new ignition keys, replacing lost keys, trunk opening, and duplicating vehicle keys.
Usefulness of Locksmith Services in Holidays
While spending your holidays, it is a possibility that you reach a destination and lock your car with your car keys inside. Of course, you might feel powerless at the moment. But luckily, locksmiths serve the purpose of opening your car door effectively.
It does not matter where you are and what time of the day you are stuck in a problem. Even if it is late night and you cannot find any locksmith nearby to help you out, you can call international locksmiths. That is how the importance of contacting a reliable locksmith company makes a difference to your holidays.


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North Oaks will hold Physical Day on Saturday at North Oaks-Livingston Parish Medical Complex for student athletes who attend participating Livingston Parish schools.
Athletes from 25 Tangipahoa Parish schools and Southeastern Louisiana University received free physical examinations April 20 at North Oaks Sports Medicine Physical Day.
North Oaks sponsored the 22nd annual event to help junior high and high school student-athletes fulfill Louisiana High School Athletic Association requirements and as the official health care provider of Southeastern Louisiana University Athletics.
"This was the greatest and best-run Physical Day ever," Ponchatoula High School Football Coach Hank Tierney said.
More than 100 North Oaks physicians, nurse practitioners, athletic trainers, employees and Southeastern Louisiana University athletic training education students volunteered at Physical Day. The event was at the North Oaks Diagnostic Center and Clinic Building.
In addition to Physical Days, North Oaks Sports Medicine cares for student-athletes on the playing field and beyond by providing education for coaches, athletes and families; onsite emergency acute care at practices and games; and rehabilitation to help severely injured players safely return to the playing field.
For more information on North Oaks Sports Medicine and program enrollment criteria, call (985) 230-5248 or visit http://www.northoaks.org/sportsmedicine.


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Patrick Hughes's parents knew that he would live a tough life after the doctors told them that their baby boy would be born without sight. For nearly two years they feared the worst and wondered about his future, little did they know their baby was born with a gift. During one evening they held baby Patrick to the piano, and they were both shocked. From that moment onwards they supported Patrick to pick up playing the Piano.
Baby Born Blind Left His Father Amazed After What He Did At The Piano
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Starting with peer to peer lending in the New Year can feel like doing it for the very first time all over again. Thankfully, we've compiled some tips and advice to make the execution of your next P2P fundraising campaign seem like a breeze.
Remember that focus and analysis are key. Devote yourself to one crowdfunding project at a time, lest you lose focus, or run the risk of not being taken seriously (if you have multiple projects on the go at once, it could make you look desperate, or cheapen the value of each individual project). You (and your team, if applicable) should use that burst of New Year's energy to deeply reflect on your project. Analyse any strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities from any past fundraisers/ the one you plan to carry out.
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Stand out! Ensure that you make the appeal as engaging and as attention-grabbing as possible. This advice does apply to fundraisers carried out at any time of the year, but even more so after Christmas and New Year has drained many of their hard-earned money. Take advantage of social media, pictures, and videos, to make your appeal seem all the more authentic. If someone can relate to you or your appeal in one way or another, they're much more likely to donate. Also, make sure to reach out to those who do donate, thanking them for their time and contribution. It's also worth communicating with like-minded fundraisers. As well as boosting morale, they may offer you tips and advice, or even possibly donate!
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14 weary busy women travelled to Byron Bay for a weekend away of relaxation and fun. I contacted Rosie and she organised four wonderful therapists to come to our accommodation and indulge our senses with relaxation massages and facials. We all enjoyed our massages and the relaxation began... thank you to Rosie and her team.
Melissa Ryan
Rosie has been giving massages for many years, all around the globe. So starting a mobile massage business was a natural course of action! There is something extra luxurious about having a massage in your own home (or accomodation as a traveller) and not having to get in a car and drive after being so relaxed. Because of Rosie's many years of massage experience, you don't actually need to tell her which part of your body needs attention, she can feel it and will work accordingly. Of course, you can ask for special attention to a certain area if needed but really, you can trust Rosie to work out the kinks, wherever they are hiding. You'll feel rejuvenated by the end of the session.
There is a reason that I keep going back to Rosie for massage. Because I feel amazing after each and every time. Having a massage from Rosie is one of my favourite treats and I look forward to the next one.
Rosie is one skilled individual.
Her kind and soothing disposition made my massage in Byron a truly memorable experience.
Since my massage with Rosie I honestly have not received the service, love and care in a massage that Rosie gives, she has healing energy that allows you to leave balanced, calm and re-energised.
I feel lucky to have met her! I can't wait to come back to Byron to book in again.
I was at Byron Bay on holiday over NYE, and lucky enough to get a spontaneous appointment with Yasmin from Byron Bay Mobile Massage in the studio at the beach. My back was in pain from a surfing lesson two days before, and my whole upper body was tight. The massage Yasmin gave me was one of the best I have ever received in my life. She has an amazing, gentle yet firm touch, and seemed to know exactly which part of my back caused what kind of pain. We only had half an hour but my shoulders and back felt relaxed and softened afterwards, my whole body felt healed, and the fact that I could sense an energy coming from her hands, made the massage even more amazing; as if I was floating. I am certain that if I hadn't seen Yasmin, my back would have caused me grief for days to come. I can only highly recommend Yasmin – I wished she lived in the UK, as I would surely consult her on a regular basis!
I recently had two facials from Rosie and Janene at Byron Bay Mobile Massage and both were amazing. In my own home, my own space, and I felt so cared for by these women, totally held. Thank you for your awesome service Rosie and Janene, my skin and face is still beaming....
I've always thought of massages as something you did in times of high stress or injury. However, I was recently gifted a massage. And because I wasn't feeling stiff or tense, I wasn't expecting to notice much benefit. But what I discovered was that I was much more tense than I had realised! After the massage, my body, face and voice were in a deep state of relaxation that was definitely more enjoyable than the state I had been in before the massage. I won't be waiting for the next crises to have my next massage.
Not having to drive after a massage is an extra bonus! Thank you Byron Bay Mobile Massage.
I had Rosie give me a session in my own home. She is so incredibly professional yet comes with such warmth and gentleness. From the moment she started tucking me in on the table I was completely relaxed as she had my trust. The session that followed was amazing. I have since had regular treatments and would highly recommend Byron Bay Mobile Massage to all.
Wonderful therapeutic massage that was gentle but very effective, absolute bliss! Very professional and attentive. Thank-you!
I recently had a massage with Rosie from Byron bay mobile massage and It was exceptional experience, more than just good technically.
It left me feeling light and refreshed.
Highly recommended.
Lismore, NSW
I was recently on holiday in Byron Bay and booked a massage with Yasmin.
Being 7 months pregnant this was a wonderful treat.
Yasmin's massage was very relaxing and it felt like a spa had come to our apartment!
Thank you so much.
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The team at Byron Bay Mobile Massage are available to massage in the Byron Bay Area, Suffolk Park, Lennox Head, Alstonville, Ballina, Lismore, Clunes, Federal, Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores and surrounding areas.
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Modern 2 bedroom City Centre flat. Cathedral Quarter of Glasgow with views over Glasgow Necropolis and within Walking distance of the Merchant City. Close to public transport links for easy access to all games venues. Fully equipped for a self catering stay during the 2014 Glasgow Games. Including private off road parking
The owner
Female from United Kingdom
Joined 12/05/2014
Speaks English
I have lived in Ayr Scotland for the past 20 years and work locally. I have 2 properties in Ayrshire which I rent out through local agents. My property in Glasgow is for rent as I will not be needing it over the summer. I am a keen walker and love to go out on my mountain bike, when I am not riding my horse! Hope the flat will be of use and value to someone.
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Local Business Spotlight
Today, we are featuring the online business, www.thefitnessrecipes.com. This should be of interest to anyone looking to earn a living or supplement their income online.
TheFitnessRecipes is run by a local Uckfield resident with the goal of providing discount codes, also known as voucher codes, for individuals looking to purchase from online fitness related retailers such as sports nutrition supplements, equipment etc. They provide numerous ways for their visitors to save money through a sign up bonus, referral code or discount code at retailers such as MyVitamins, Gymshark, MyProtein, Maxishop, GoNutrition and more. There are also a number of articles that provide ways and tips for saving money when pursuing your fitness goals such as making your own homemade supplements.
Whilst voucher code sites are numerous the idea for the website was born out of the lack of sites targeting the fitness industry. Living a healthy lifestyle can become quite expensive with gym memberships, equipment costs and larger grocery bills. There wasn't anyone providing tips on where you could cut corners and where you shouldn't. Whilst there were a handful of sites providing discount codes specifically for the fitness niche they would often impose small barriers such as requiring a membership card in order to obtain the promo code. This is obviously not very practical since most people only look for a promotional code once they are already at the checkout and are ready to pay.
The website has been slowly growing to make a steady income, but you might be wondering how do these websites make money? The answer is through an affiliate program. Each time you make a purchase after clicking on a website's affiliate link, the website will earn a commission on the amount you spent on that purchase. Don't worry though, the cost to the consumer doesn't change. The amount of commission the website earns varies from retailer to retailer but can be as little as 2% up to as much as 10%. For example if a consumer spends £100 after clicking on an affiliate link, the website could earn as much as £10 commission.
£10 might not sound a lot but if a website is getting 1000s of visitors a day this could very quickly mount up, it's just a question of how do you get more visitors to your website! That's the hard part!


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International students
Our global reputation for excellence attracts the brightest minds from around the world. There are over 6,500 international students here, from 150 different countries. We're a Home Office-recognised Tier 4 Sponsor and we're fully compliant with government immigration requirements.
Take the challenge
Our success depends on our PhD students. You'll join talented students from the UK and around the world, and have the support of internationally renowned experts. Being at a leading research university also means you'll have access to the best facilities.
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PhD student life at Sheffield
Our students describe what makes doing a PhD at Sheffield special, including fantastic support, world-class research facilities and opportunities to network with colleagues from all over the world.
Language training
We offer free English language training courses for all our PhD students, so you can improve your skills while you study. You can take up to two 90-minute classes each week.
If you don't meet the English language requirements for your course, you might be able to come to Sheffield and study at our English Language Teaching Centre (ELTC). We run full-time pre-entry courses throughout the year designed to help you reach your target level. You can take the IELTS or University of Sheffield English Proficiency test.
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Getting here, settling in
Get in touch with our experts at the International Office if you'd like to know more about any aspect of coming to study at Sheffield. Or meet them in person – the team visits countries all over the world to talk to people about taking a PhD at Sheffield.
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Other routes to a PhD
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Some of our departments offer PhDs with Integrated Studies, which means you spend an initial year taking taught modules and a short research project, so you learn the research skills you'll need before progressing to a PhD.
Check department web pages for the latest course details.
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Some of our departments offer a one-year masters of research – an MRes, MSc(Res) or an MA with a research track. You'll carry out an in-depth research project, so it's ideal preparation for further postgraduate research. Check our taught courses A-Z for details.
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Our Centres for Doctoral Training (also called Doctoral Training Centres and Doctoral Training Partnerships) combine research with skills training. They offer you the chance to work on some of the major challenges facing the world today. Current opportunities are shown on our research training website.


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Celebrate Orlando's amazing culinary scene during Visit Orlando's Magical Dining Month sponsored by American Express. Beginning August 24 during a special preview week, and continuing through September 30, select Orlando restaurants will offer three course, prix fixe dinners for just $35. So call friends, family or co-workers and start making plans now.
Plus, through Visit Orlando, one dollar from each meal will benefit Best Buddies and Down Syndrome Association of Central Florida.


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On March 25, 2011, Reliable Storage 1 LLC, filed an application, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of hydropower near the town of Lake City, in Campbell County, Tennessee. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the owners' express permission.
The proposed pumped storage project would consist of the following: (1) A 10-foot-high, 12,100-foot-long roller compacted concrete ringed dike; (2) an upper reservoir with a surface area of 128.6 acres and an 7,914.4 acre-foot storage capacity; (3) a 180-foot-high, 1,248-foot-long earth embankment dam creating; (4) a lower reservoir with a surface area of 101 acres and an 7,594 acre-foot storage capacity; (5) one 24-foot-diameter, 5,300-foot-long penstock; (6) a bifurcation to three 14-foot-diameter, and 50-foot-long penstocks; (7) a powerhouse/pumping station containing three pump/generating units with a total generating capacity of 1,062 megawatts; (8) a substation; and (9) a 2.66-mile-long, 115 kV transmission line to an existing distribution line. The proposed project would have an average annual generation of 2,761,000,000 megawatt-hours (MWh), which would be sold to theTennessee Valley Authority.
Applicant Contact: Ramya Swaminathan, Free Flow Power Corporation, 239 Causeway Street, Boston, MA 02114; phone (978) 283-2822.
FERC Contact: Michael Spencer, (202) 502-6093.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications may be filed Start Printed Page 45253electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at firstname.lastname@example.com; call toll-free at (866) 208-3676; or, for TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Although the Commission strongly encourages electronic filing, documents may also be paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an original and seven copies to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426.
More information about this project, including a copy of the application, can be viewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P-14125-000) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support.Start Signature
Dated: July 20, 2011.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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The old man with memories and the young woman with questions had not met before this day, but seemed drawn to one another -- she to inquire, he to warn -- about the unwanted legacy that both binds and divides Germany's generations: the Nazi past.
Briefly, their paths entwined at an exhibit in the Gothic City Hall that has stirred unaccustomed passions in this southern city, confronting Bavarians with evidence directly contradicting the fondly held belief that Hitler's army remained aloof from the Holocaust.
Here, in grainy black-and-white photographs, some taken as grisly souvenirs, ordinary German soldiers -- not SS madmen -- are shown humiliating Jews and conducting summary executions by firing squad and hanging. Here is a letter written home by a young soldier boasting that his unit had killed 1,000 Jews -- ''and that was not enough.''
The exhibit has already toured 15 cities in Germany and Austria, but only in traditionally conservative Munich, where Nazism took root in the 1920's, has it become an object of ferocious political division, to the extent that both the far right and leftist groups called rival demonstrations.
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Yet, most remarkable of all, the exhibit has broken a wall of silence between young Germans, who learned principally about the Holocaust during high school, and a much older generation that took part in the Second World War and then, by and large, took refuge in self-imposed silence.
''Up until today this had not been discussed across the generations,'' said Lucy Wilbers, a 22-year-old student, whose encounter today with Hubert Endl, a 79-year-old military veteran, touched off one of many spontaneous debates.
The exhibit, sponsored by a private foundation run by the tobacco heir Jan Phillip Reemtsma, is called ''War of Destruction -- The Crimes of the German Army, 1941-1944.''
Its theme is that, as the catalogue puts it, ''in 1945, barely after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the generals of that period began the fabrication of a legend -- the legend of the 'clean Army' ,'' according to which ''the soldiers kept their distance from the Nazi regime and Hitler, fulfilled their military duties with decency and dignity.''
However, the exhibit's organizers said, ''from 1941 to 1944, the Germany Army in the Balkans and the Soviet Union conducted not a 'normal war' but a war of destruction against Jews, prisoners of war and civilians that claimed millions of victims.''
That conclusion, supported by photographs and documents, has inspired Bavaria's conservative rulers in the Christian Social Union -- the sister-party of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's dominant Christian Democrats -- to urge a boycott of the exhibit on the ground that it besmirches a proud military record, inspiring clashes with left-wing parties that support a more open debate about the past.
But, despite the boycott call, many Bavarians, young and old, have stood in line for hours to view the exhibit, fascinated and introspective.
''I was drafted in 1942,'' said a 73-year-old veteran, who declined to give his name. ''I wasn't in the places where these things happened,'' he said, gesturing to photographs of hangings and mass graves. ''And thank God I wasn't. Because if I had been, I'd have done the same. The choice was to shoot or be shot for disobeying orders.''
All the same, though, he said, he had served in a place in the Ukraine that he suspected was among the many sites where Jews were known to have been killed. ''I said to my comrades: If the things are happening that I think are happening, then we will all have to repent them.''
Then, he turned to young people in their jeans and leather jackets who had clustered around him, waving his walking-stick as he declaimed: ''It must never, ever happen again.''
For Ms. Wilbers, the student who spoke with Mr. Endl about his time with the German Army in the Ukraine and Yugoslavia during the war, the old man's stories illuminated what she had been told at school. ''There were books and videos and we studied them,'' she said. ''But, until today, they were not so real.''
Ms. Wilbers belongs to a generation of Germans that has been taught never to suppress the memory of the Holocaust and to accept, not guilt for it, but a national responsibility.
Mr. Endl, by contrast, is from a generation much closer to questions of guilt and its denial. ''I believe that after 50 years, we should not bring all these things up again,'' he said, ''because what you see here is a result of the way German soldiers were mistreated. Why is it always the Germans who are blamed? Did no one else do any killing?''
''Yes, but it must be aired, it must be out in the open,'' said a younger man who asked not to be identified by name.
The exhibit has contributed to a surge of fascination in the reunified Germany about the Second World War and the Holocaust. Indeed, such is the apparent hunger for explanations that, last year, a book by Daniel J. Goldhagen, a Harvard academic, on the role of ordinary Germans in the persecution of Jews, became a best-seller here.
The book's thesis -- in contrast to German historical works attributing the Holocaust either to the inherent evil of the Nazi leaders or to the system of genocide they created -- was that the killing of six million Jews stemmed directly from a particularly virulent, German anti-Semitism that sought the annihilation of the Jews as a ''national project.''
The fascination with the past is ascribed by some Germans to a generational shift.
''It has become so much easier for this generation to deal with the past,'' said Josef Joffe, a leading newspaper commentator here who has followed the debate closely. ''The young generation can relive the fascination without reliving the fear and stigmatization. It can look the evil in the eye.''
The debate, though, is more tangled than that, coaxing forth the array of emotions by which Germans seek to absorb the notion that their forebears committed what many consider to be history's most appalling crime. Most notably, many argue that, whatever happened in the past, they should not be the only ones to shoulder guilt.
''Other countries pushed out their Jews and sent them to us -- isn't that true?'' said a middle-aged woman who declined to be identified by name, bursting into a debate between two war veterans and a group of students in their early 20's.
And, cutting across generational lines, some asked why, after 50 years, Germany could not shake its past. ''We should be creating a new Europe,'' said Bernhard Ehreke, a 22-year-old hotel administration trainee. ''We should be looking forward and not back.''
Then, as if to answer his own question, he said: ''War is cruel. War is hell. It brings out criminal instincts that we should lay aside. And we should never forget that.''Continue reading the main story


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AmeriFirst Home Mortgage in Our Community
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage is a "community mortgage lender." This means we live and work in our community. Here you will find examples of how we get involved. If you see us at an event, please come say hi!
The Hausmann Story | March of Dimes
Mitch and Brittany Hausmann were looking forward to starting their family. With Brittany's pregnancy moving along as normal until about 28 weeks in she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. One week later she started to have server abdominal pain, and was told to go to the hospital by her doctor's office. There she was diagnosed with server preeclampsia.
Brittany's only thought as doctors told her that she had to deliver her baby nine weeks early was "Will I lose my baby?"
After the emergency C-section Mason Hausmann was rushed the NICU . However, it was not over for Brittany, she was also diagnosed with HELLP syndrome. So now Mitch has two things to worry about, His new born son that was born nine weeks early and his wife.
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage is a proud sponsor of the Kalamazoo Signature Chefs Auction and was honored to produce the video.
Bowling for Kids Sake with Big Brothers Big Sisters Kalamazoo
From AmeriFirst's organizer Jay Eakins: "I wanted to take the time to thank all the people that volunteered their time last Saturday to participate in the Big Brother's Big Sister's Bowl For Kids' Sake.
We have a great turnout and AmeriFirst was well represented.
With 30 bowlers and several more cheering us on. We were a force to be reckoned with inside the lanes!
To all of you that collected money and/or donated money, we can't thank you enough.
The current tally raised by the AmeriFirst bowlers is $4,396!!! That is an unbelievable number! And it is still growing.
And with the $2000 Sponsor fee paid by AmeriFirst; it means we contributed $6,396 to this event and it all goes to help with the local chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Congratulations AmeriFirst for a job well done, for an organization that is well worth doing it for!
See you next year!"
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Our Neighbors Need Our Help: The Flint Water Crisis
As many of you probably know, Flint, Michigan is experiencing a terrible situation right now. The drinking water in Flint, which used to be piped in from Detroit at a great expense, was switched to a local source and treated by a local water treatment facility. The water treatment didn't work correctly, and caused the water to become tainted and caustic to the pipes in many homes. All of this lead to a dangerous situation: high lead in the drinking water.
Many organizations and individuals are now sending bottled water to the residents of Flint. Money is being collected as well.
As a company that believes in making a meaningful difference in the life of others, AmeriFirst Home Mortgage has pledged $25,000 to the "Moving Michigan Forward" fund to help fix the underlying problems in the Flint infrastructure. This goes beyond sending bottles of water, this will help fix the actual problem for our neighbors.
Now we're helping the rest of the AmeriFirst Home mortgage team raise even more money to help our neighbors. In fact, we'd love to match (or more!) the donation from AmeriFirst!
Our neighbors are in trouble and need our help. We believe this as Michiganders, as Americans and as fellow humans.
Catalyst University 2016 - Leadership Conference in Kalamazoo
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage proudly sponsors this leadership conference right in our backyard. Catalyst Universtiy with Southwest Michigan First.
March of Dimes - Kalamazoo Signature Chefs Auction 2015
Share the Warmth Coat & Winter Wear Drive in Kalamazoo
For the second year in a row, the AmeriFirst Home Mortgage Home Office in Kalamazoo will serve as a drop-off location for the Salvation Army's Share the Warmth campaign. Drop off your new or gently-used winter coats, gloves, hats, scarves and more at our office at:
950 Trade Centre Way, Suite 400
Kalamazoo, MI 49002
Signature Chefs Auction Kalamazoo 2014
AmeriFirst is proud to continue to support the March of Dimes "Signature Chefs Auction" for the Kalamazoo division.
Share the Warmth
We're supporting the Salvation Army "Share the Warmth" campaign in Kalamazoo. You can find a drop off point near you as well! Help us keep our community warm this winter.
Sock Drive at AmeriFirst!
YouTube playlist "Our Community"
This playlist features videos we create to help showcase our community and local non-profits we help support.
Supporting Veterans Through Honor Flight
An Honor Flight is an all-expense paid flight for World War II Verterans to visit the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C. This national organization works with local hubs full of volunteers and running on donations to help local Vets make the trip. Honor Flight: The Movie is a documentary that follows Wisconsin-based Stars and Stripes Honor Flight during one of these flights. AmeriFirst Home Mortgage proudly partnered with KVets, a Kellogg's employee group, to sponsor the Michigan premier of Honor Flight: The Movie, which in turn fueled the launch of Talons Out Honor Flight - the Southwest Michigan hub.
Kiss Me Kate at WMU
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage supports Western Michigan University "The University Theatre" production of Kiss Me Kate. President and co-dounder of AmeriFirst Mark A. Jones says, "I enjoyed the Kiss Me Kate performance by The University Theatre at the President's Performance. What a talented group!"
2013 Bowl for Kids Sake for Big Brothers Big Sisters
March of Dimes Signature Chefs Auction Kalamazoo 2012
As a sponsor once again for this wonderful event, AmeriFirst Home Mortgage produced this promotional video for the Signature Chefs Auction at the Radisson in Kalamazoo.
2012 Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters
As a sponsor for the Kalamazoo Bowl for Kids' Sake event with GKAR, we produced a fun promotional video.
March of Dimes: Signature Chefs Auction 2011
Here's a teaser video we produced for the March of Dimes event in Kalamazoo "Signature Chefs Auction."
We're in Your Community
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage branches like Infinity Mortgage Associates in Coldwater, Michigan are active in the community, and see the rewards like "Branch County Board of Realtors Affiliate of the Year."
Our branch in Middletown, Ohio helped its community with a housing market summit presentation on home improvement loans.
AmeriFirst Home Mortgage believes in community involvement. Thank you to our partners and our friends in helping to make our local neighborhoods better places!


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Jun 12,2008
St. Charles granted funds for breast cancer program
by Bend Weekly News Sources
BEND, Ore. – The St. Charles Foundation recently received two grants from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Oregon and SW Washington Affiliate. Both grants will benefit programs within the Sara Fisher Breast Cancer Project.
The first grant for $25,000 will help to grow the Sara Fisher Breast Cancer Project initiative to take breast health education on the road to women in rural and frontier areas. The goal is for women in these regions to learn how, why and when they should use the three key screening methods for breast cancer: self exams, clinical exams and mammograms. Peggy Carey, director of the St. Charles Regional Cancer Treatment Center in Bend says that in 2008-2009, the program will test whether a free transportation van service to screening services will encourage women to have their mammogram.
"Ultimately our goal with any program associated with the Sara Fisher Project is to decrease morbidity rates from breast cancer among Central and Eastern Oregon women," said Carey. "The best way to do that is through early detection and by reaching women in rural areas we are providing a service that they may have otherwise felt was unavailable. We hope this service closes the gap for them."
The second grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure for $15,000 will be used to help rural women with their travel expenses to the treatment center in Bend. Included are gas coupons, lodging vouchers and Safeway coupons.
"It is amazing to think that just by providing transportation assistance with this generous grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure we are possibly saving a life," said Carey. "We feel like that ties in perfectly with the grassroots efforts we have seen from Susan G. Komen."
For more information on the Sara Fisher Breast Cancer Project, please visit www.cascadehealthcare.org.
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About the St. Charles Regional Cancer Treatment Center - The St. Charles Regional Cancer Treatment Center serves as the primary resource and referral center for cancer patients in Central and Eastern Oregon. This facility offers cutting-edge cancer treatments and technology, along with a wide range of education and support services for cancer patients. The goal is simply to provide the best care available anywhere. Only one in four hospitals that treat cancer patients receive accreditation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. St. Charles Regional Cancer Treatment Center is one of them.


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Drawing inspiration from the famed Laurel Canyon bungalows of Joni Mitchell and "Mama" Cass Elliot, Estrella restaurant, recreates this long-vanished artistic community through its seamless blend of indoor and outdoor spaces, modern Italian American cuisine, and theatrical venue. Estrella, named after the circus girl from the Mitchell song "Ladies of the Canyon," evokes a time when food, music, artistry, and community all coexisted under one canopy. Guests will dine on Italian American inspired dishes from Chef Dafne on an expansive outdoor terrace lined with a golden wood trellis, and hung with colorful glass pendants, twinkling lights, and locally sourced plants.
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Klingon Stormtrooper Ballerina Princesses
Here's something you don't see everyday - #Klingon #Stormtrooper #ballerinas! #starwars #startrek pic.twitter.com/Oa4iQCcC4o— Ashley Eckstein (@HerUniverse) September 23, 2014
Today is a good day . . . to dance! Feel the music course through your veins, for the blood of Kahless moves like a happy bumblebee or a graceful swan. Ashley Eckstein snapped this photo at what Amy Ratcliffe suspects to be Dragon Con.
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Volume 16 Issue 22 | Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2003
Designing uncommon costumes in a Tribeca loft
By Kerry Savage
Downtown Express photo by Elisabeth Robert
Frankie Stein in her costume studio.
Eyes widen, jaws drop, and feet tingle when people enter Frankie Steins loft of costumes.
Childhood fantasies burst from the walls, hang from the ceiling and peek out of corners. I want people to feel like they are on Broadway or in the movies, said Stein.
The picnic, a wide red tablecloth skirt dotted with plastic purple grapes, small baguettes, yellow foam cheese and a half-bottle of George DuBouef Beaujolais, will be worn this year at the Central Park Conservancys Halloween Ball, Stein said. Also in attendance will be the queen of a chess set, decked out in white embroidered cloth with silver and gold trim and a large white and silver crowned hat.
Frankie Steinz Costumes has been open for a decade on the second floor of 24 Harrison St. in Tribeca. Stein designs costumes year-round for corporate clients, music videos and TV shows including Saturday Night Live, Everybody Loves Raymond, The View and Sex and the City.
During Halloween, she opens her business up to the public and sees customers by appointment only. Her designs rent for $75 to $250 for 24 hours.
Stein emphasizes that her full attention to clients when choosing a costume is an integral part of her service. I dont like a costume that you put on and you look like yourself in a costume, she said. I can tell who people should be right when they walk in. I know what they are thinking. I have a telepathic connection with them.
Stein, 50, is an enthusiastic, energetic woman. Her short dark brown hair is streaked with fuschia, and a fluorescent green shirt peeks out from her fitted black jacket and pants. Her black English bulldog, Trixie, nestles beside her while she talks or lounges on her yoga mat, basking in the light from the large loft windows.
Stein explains what sets her apart from other Halloween costume stores. Im really against broken heads and blood, she said. I like fantasy. I think thats important. The costumes are not things that you get in a package. Theyre made with great fabrics. And you get everything.
She also has vintage costumes and rentals for children, including the Mad Hatter, a multi-colored, wide-stripped suit, and a half-boy/half-girl costume. Packaged costumes teach commercialism and not creativity, she said. Her childrens costumes rent for $35 to $70 for a week.
This year, Stein is going to a private Halloween party as a tornado, a design originally executed for a corporate client. It is a mix of dark colors: gray, green and blue paint covers wide rings and smooth pieces at the top the design, which gradually narrows to fit over one leg. The headpiece is stunning, a turban of black netting that wraps down and over the face and neck, with a house, a bike, and other items wrapped up in it. The costume is designed to move with the wearer, giving it the energy of a real tornado.
Many years ago, Stein was a C.P.A. in Rochester, N.Y. She took over the family accounting business, but always knew it was not what she wanted to do. She opened a costume shop, Treasure Hunt, and worked there for five hours a day while maintaining her accounting practice.
I was in another world, in my heaven, Stein said of her first store. It was a total transformation. I just really hated doing accounting.
In 1983, she picked up and moved cold turkey to Aspen, where Frankie Steinz Costumes was born and became a success. Jack Nicholson was a regular customer, she said. He would come after hours at night in his Land Rover and buy weird things, gifts for Angelica Huston. It was a gift store for people. It was New York in Aspen.
But the Aspen environment bored Stein. Too many white people, too many mountains, she said with a laugh. So, despite a petition by the people of Aspen to keep her from leaving, she packed up and moved to New York in 1989.
She spent some time in the art department at F.A.O. Schwartz, and later designed a line of childrens clothing, which won her a Best New Childrens Designer award from Ernshaw Magazine. But Stein realized that she didnt want to do retail work anymore; she wanted to focus on one-of-a-kind design.
I like building things. I love making big, conceptual pieces, she said, using the example of a costume she designed for a corporate client: the year 2000.
It was my futuristic idea, Stein said. You know, we all thought the world was going to come to an end, and that Y2K thing. It was very dark and gloomy, kind of scary, with things coming out of it. It had a mini-universe on it, but it wasnt up top, it was towards the bottom, like the universe falling down.
Her favorite materials are foam, rubber and plastic. Its different, she said, smiling again. I dont like material unless its very odd. She said she doesnt have a favorite place to find fabrics and other materials, but it is clear from the more than 1,000 costumes featured in the loft that she spends a significant amount of time selecting just the right cloth and accessories to create and accent a piece.
Stein works mainly in her home, also a Tribeca loft, and her costumes can be seen online at www.frankiesteinz.com. The amount of time spent on each piece varies; the Queen Margaux costume she held out took about a month. She works on several different pieces at a time and will design either from artwork supplied by a client or from her own.
Like many small business Downtown, Steins has been affected by the slow economy and, of course, Sept. 11. People are not in a spending mood or a party mood, she said. Im lucky Im still here. But we love it here. If I had to move out of Tribeca, Id leave New York.
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I think we have come to that point in our club stability that we can start mimicking Barcelona's model of the summer transfer season which usually means buying one or two big stars in each summer transfer reason. The question on everyone's mind after the Marco Reus sale to Dortmund is who could this 'bomber' be. Continue reading
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Fabio Capello, you are so funny!
Fabio Capello, the famous Italian trainer who is currently coaching the English national team has launched a scathing attack on the German national team. He has accused the Deutsche Nationalmannschaft of 'theft'.
Capello told reporters how "Germany had five of Turkish origin who opted to represent them and we all know what happened."
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Lancaster Campus Project
-By the time you read this, the bulk of the site work is advancing toward its conclusion and digging for the foundations has started.
-It will then be time for all of us, to redouble our commitment to the project, and ask ourselves, each and everyone, how we can collect the remaining amount of money which is left as a challenge to all us. What monetary sacrifice are we willing to make so that this project becomes the fruit of the efforts of the whole parish. The LDC will start again a concerted fund-raising effort later this month. We trust the response will be worthy of our faith and commitment to our Church.