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CHARLIE Austin might be leaving Europe's most fabulous forwards in the wake of the goal trail he is blazing, but Kieran Trippier admits the striker isn't boasting about being better than Lionel Messi.
For starters, he wouldn't dare.
"I don't think he'd go as far as saying that – the lads would hammer him," laughed Trippier, before adding, "Although the stats don't lie!
"But Messi will probably go on and get 70!"
But with Austin reaching 20 after just 17 games, Trippier wouldn't put it past the continent's top scorer to end the season with double that amount.
"I don't see why he can't get 30 or 40," he said.
"He's on fire. I've never played with anyone like him, scoring 20 at this stage of the season.
"I can't believe he's the top scorer in Europe, but I think he will be for a long time.""
Trippier can take some of the credit for Austin motoring to the top of the goal charts.
His cross for the striker's late winner against Leeds on Tues-day was one of six assists the right back has laid claim to this season – mostly for Austin's benefit.
"Every time I cross the ball, it's like a magnet to his head. He seems to be on the end of everything," he said.
"We do that in training. He is just great to play with. If you put the ball in the box for him he is unbelievable.
"When Jay (Rodriguez) was here last year he was scoring loads.
"Now every time we play I feel so confident going into the game that Charlie is going to score."
Ahead of tomorrow's game at Ipswich Town, Trippier admitted that such is Austin's scoring rate (he has drawn a blank in only three games so far) it feels like already having a 1-0 lead before kick-off.
But as vital as the former Swindon Town front man's goals have been this season, the shut-outs need just as much emphasis.
No-one cut a more frustrated figure than Austin when his hat-trick against Sheffield Wednesday was cancelled out by the Owls' late equaliser.
Twice in that game the Clarets conceded within a minute of scoring.
They had previously held a 2-1 lead at home to Millwall, only to let two points slip through their fingers in the last minute.
Indeed, new manager Sean Dyche will remember well from last season how his then Watford team overcame a 2-0 deficit to beat the Clarets 3-2.
But in his opening two games as Burnley boss they have become only the second team this season to keep out both Wolves and Leeds, and in doing so register three home clean sheets on the spin – the first of those, against Blackpool, coming under Terry Pashley's caretaker watch.
Getting forward is a trademark of Trippier's game, but he has heeded Dyche's instructions to limit his right wing raids for the benefit of bolstering the back four, and it has so far paid dividends.
"I thought with the last gaffer, go back, for instance to Watford away last year, 2-0 up and cruising, and we lose 3-2. We did that plenty of times, but the new manager has recognised that and taken it on to the training ground and things are working at the moment," said the former Manchester City def-ender.
"He's a great manager to work with. We do more defensive work and he puts a smile on everyone's faces.
"We've needed to do more defensive work, and it's paid off in the last two games with two clean sheets.
"He has put some great ideas in our minds. Everything he has told us has been spot on and we've done it."
Timing his runs has been a key tweak for Trippier.
"Last year I was flying forward all the time, but I've had a slow season, my defending wasn't the best, but it's getting better, and now the manager's doing a lot of work with us, and as a unit we're defending well," he said.
"Going forward will take care of itself, it's the defensive side of things I needed to improve.
"I might not go forward as often as people like, but the most important thing is the defensive side, stopping goals going in our net.
"I think I only went forward three or four times against Leeds, but set up the winner, and for the other 85 minutes I was helping keep a clean sheet.
"If I don't bomb forward, you have Ben Mee on the left, who's great going forward, Rosco (Ross Wallace), Dean Marney, Chris McCann, Junior (Stanislas) – I could go through all the team, we have a great threat.
"The back four have been criticised recently, but we've shown how good we are in the last two games. I've got a lot more energy from not going forward as much. I've needed to work on the defensive part of my game, and done a lot of work on it.
"I try to get forward as often as I can, but as long as the ball doesn't go in the back of our net, that's the important thing."
And that defensive element goes from back to front.
"The manager has done a lot on pressing – if you get in people's faces, they don't like that," Trippier noted.
"Having people like Pato (Martin Paterson) pressing you all the game is bound to annoy you! He's great to have on your team."
The mood in the camp, he admits, is a positive one.
"Look at Palace, they lost their first few games and are top of the league now, we're three points or so off the play-offs and believe we can be up there," he said.
"Anybody can beat anybody, and we're going through a good spell.
"Hopefully it continues."


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The Braddock Beacon: June 2009
In this edition of The Braddock Beacon
Help Me Clean up Foreclosures
You are familiar with the problem. A bank or financial institution takes over a property through foreclosure, or maybe the occupant abandons the property. In any event, the bank is now the owner. But, it doesn't want to spend its money maintaining the property.
Braddock District Office Open House - Sunday, June 14th
On Sunday June 14th from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., I will host my first Open House at the Braddock District office.
Supervisor Cook in the Community and Upcoming Events
A round-up of events the Supervisor attended over the last month and a brief look at events going on throughout the month of June.
Help Strengthen Your Neighborhood
Summer is upon us. For civic and homeowners' associations, this often means "down" time as many organizations do not meet during the summer and instead use the time to plan for the upcoming year.
Braddock District Community Corner
2009 Lord and Lady Fairfax Honorees, Recent Appointees to Boards, Authorities and Commissions and the Schedule of Upcoming High School Graduations at the George Mason University Patriot Center.
Cook Proposes Helping Police, Firefighters, EMS and Teachers Buy Homes in Fairfax County
I wanted to make you aware of an initiative I proposed to the Board of Supervisors that seeks to help our police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel and teachers buy homes in Fairfax County.
Moving Through the Braddock District
An update on the HOT Lanes, Route 123 and Braddock Road Interchange, as well as some additional projects.
Illegal Boarding Houses on Braddock Neighborhood News
Braddock Neighborhood News is a TV program on the county government's Channel 16 which I will be using to provide you with information on issues facing our community, programs and services provided by the county, great things being done by our neighbors and what I am doing to respond to your concerns.
First Constituent Day a Rousing Success
Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to host the first, of what I hope are many, "Constituent Days" throughout Braddock District. Our first Constituent Day took place at Oak View Elementary and it was great to see so many citizens come out and share their thoughts.
Braddock Nights Turns 15
June 5th marks the start of the fifteenth season of music in the parks. Running through August 30th, Braddock Nights takes place every Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at both Royal Lake and Lake Accotink, and at 6:00 p.m. on Sundays at Ossian Hall Park, where you will be able to enjoy FREE live music.
Braddock District Budget Committee and Business Advisory
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Land Use Round-Up: Ongoing and Forthcoming Cases
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The El Paso/Las Cruces Alumni Chapter conducted their annual Founder's Day weekend celebration January 23-25, 2009. The weekend included a brothers only rededication dinner on Friday night with the Grand Polemarch's Chief of Staff Emerson Lattimore as guest speaker. Saturday included a bonding breakfast for brothers, a golf outing, and ended with an open banquet in which Executive Director Richard Lee Snow was the quest speaker. On Sunday, brothers attended church at Chapel 1 on Fort Bliss Army base and accepted a donations totaling over $1,600 for the Sunday of Hope and St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
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In this review, we examined if culture-specific asthma education programmes improves asthma related outcomes in children and adults from minority groups with asthma. Four studies with 617 patients, aged from 5 to 59 years were included in the review. We found that culture specific programmes were better in improving quality of life in adults and asthma knowledge in children but did not significantly improve asthma exacerbations. However there is insufficient data to be confident about the impact on exacerbations or whether culture specific programmes are beneficial in all settings. Nevertheless, it could be argued that asthma education programmes should be as culturally specific as possible, given the increased severity of asthma in minority groups and the complexity of health outcomes and culture. More studies are clearly required to address this question and to further inform relevant clinical practice and health policy.
Current limited data show that culture-specific programmes for adults and children from minority groups with asthma, are more effective than generic programmes in improving most (quality of life, asthma knowledge, asthma exacerbations, asthma control) but not all asthma outcomes. This evidence is limited by the small number of included studies and the lack of reported outcomes. Further trials are required to answer this question conclusively.
People with asthma who come from minority groups have poorer asthma outcomes and more asthma related visits to Emergency Departments (ED). Various programmes are used to educate and empower people with asthma and these have previously been shown to improve certain asthma outcomes. Models of care for chronic diseases in minority groups usually include a focus of the cultural context of the individual and not just the symptoms of the disease. Therefore, questions about whether culturally specific asthma education programmes for people from minority groups are effective at improving asthma outcomes, are feasible and are cost-effective need to be answered.
To determine whether culture-specific asthma programmes, in comparison to generic asthma education programmes or usual care, improve asthma related outcomes in children and adults with asthma who belong to minority groups.
We searched the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), the Cochrane Airways Group Specialised Register, MEDLINE, EMBASE, review articles and reference lists of relevant articles. The latest search was performed in May 2008.
All randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the use of culture-specific asthma education programmes with generic asthma education programmes, or usual care, in adults or children from minority groups who suffer from asthma.
Two review authors independently selected, extracted and assessed the data for inclusion. We contacted authors for further information if required.
Four studies were eligible for inclusion in the review. A total of 617 patients, aged from 5 to 59 years were included in the meta-analysis of data. Use of a culture-specific programme was superior to generic programmes or usual care, in improving asthma quality of life scores in adults, pooled WMD 0.25 (95% CI 0.09 to 0.41), asthma knowledge scores in children, WMD 3.30 (95% CI 1.07 to 5.53), and in a single study, reducing asthma exacerbation in children (risk ratio for hospitalisations 0.32, 95%CI 0.15, 0.70).


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Difficulty ranking world: 10842 (all)
Ranking Belgium: 619 (all)
Ranking Ardennes: 563(all)
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Best Buy Canada puts Android 3.0 into the HP TouchPad
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We know that Android tablets have been turning out left and right, which probably explains why Best Buy Canada mistakenly (and probably unconsciously) gave the HP TouchPad credit for having Android 3.0 on board...
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1. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Lol it reminds me of April's fool jokes
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thats a BIG typo
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I wonder how much Best Buy Canada will have to pay HP for this snafu... or else, I wonder how much HP paid Best Buy Canada to carry out this literary bait-and-switch? Funny funny...
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Must Haves: 10 Simple, Stackable Tiny Rings
Silver, gold, rose gold, brass, pewter — no matter the metal, we can't get enough of slim, stackable rings. Seen on the hand of just about every celeb worth her style salt, there's nothing like a helping of subtle metallic flair to finish off any outfit. Some are more intricate, others are bare-bones, but they all look good on everyone, with every outfit, for any occasion. Wear just one for a subtle statement, pile them on for a blingier finish, or order them a size small to wear mid-finger; the choice is yours. Here are 10 of our top picks…


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The End of Canada's Sovereignty as a Nation State? Towards a U.S.-Canada Economic and Security Perimeter
July 21, 2012
Global Research Over the past several months, the U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border action plan has taken significant steps forward. This includes efforts to modernize and expand infrastructure at key land ports. In a move that went largely unnoticed, both countries also recently agreed on a statement of privacy principles that will guide information sharing across the border. Meanwhile, a separate joint initiative has been announced which addresses energy and environmental issues.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched the U.S.-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue (CED) in 2009 to promote new ways to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. The CED Action Plan II released last month, outlines the next phase of activities both countries will undertake. This includes continued work on carbon capture and storage, as well as integrating the electricity grid. In a press statement, Canada's Minister of the Environment Peter Kent explained that the CED, "strengthens our efforts to collaborate on innovative clean energy solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
He also commented on how "It is our hope that the transformation of our economies and our joint work will identify clean energy solutions that will contribute to making sustainable energy a reality for all." Whether real or exaggerated, environmental issues are also advancing North American integration. If you look at some of the words being used and the goals being pushed, they are tied to Agenda 21. Under the guise of protecting the environment, many solutions being offered are in the form of more taxes and control over our lives.
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A CLACTON teacher narrowly missed out on claiming the award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year.
Amy Sargent, from Clacton County High School, was named as a finalist for the award.
She was nominated by school principal Jeff Brindle and was handed a certificate, showing she is among the top three new teachers in the whole of Essex.
A County High spokesman said: "We are exceedingly proud of Amy's fantastic achievement.
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What The Devil Has Happened to Popcorn Prices?
Remember the good old days, when a family of four could go see a movie, snack on some popcorn, and still have change from two dollars? No, neither do I, but that's what was happening 80 years ago, during the Great (ie First) Depression.
It's not often that you'll see me quoting a story from Gizmodo, but this snippet of info is worth sharing.
In 1929, a small bag of popcorn at a movie theater cost $0.62 ($0.05 pre-inflation). Now it's a whopping $4.75. That's a rise of 666%. The tickets themselves have risen by a comparatively small 66%.
Why the increase? Because the production companies get the biggest cut of the proceeds from tickets, cinemas have to rely on sales of popcorn, soda and candy to make any money.
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That has to be paid for somehow—and if the movie theaters aren't making enough money from the tickets, they have to raise prices on the extras.
Other factors include higher corn prices, higher paper pulp prices for packaging and higher fuel prices.
As the article explains, the size of the bag has no doubt gone up too, but there's still a massive disparity. At this rate, we'll all need an extra bank loan before stepping out the door.
Still, it doesn't seem to be deterring us: movie ticket sales have gone up 17.5% in the last year.
For many of us, sitting in the dark staring at a huge screen for two hours is a vital form of escapism during tough times. And I don't know about you, but, for me, I can't get through a film without munching my own body weight in popcorn (unless it's James Franco on the screen, but that's another story).
The winners in all this are the discount movie theaters. Vanessa Wilson at Woodbridge Movies 5 in Irvine, where tickets are just $1-$2, tells me that they have benefitted from a surge in popcorn sales during the recession, as moviegoers quite rightly reason that what they save on a ticket can be better spent elsewhere—on a bag of buttery bliss.
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Design must fit in with the surroundings In the 'Within Living Memory' (Gazette, December 13), Pat Hovey and Trevor Hughes recall the Kent riverbank north of Stramongate Bridge.
I, too, recall Pickles' wool warehouse, particularly the huge bales of wool being loaded in Beezon Road.
However, compare that photograph with the scene today and you get some idea of what has been lost.
The residential building referred to in this article is a prime example of the inappropriateness of many modern developments. The simple honesty of the old buildings has been replaced by a plethora of pyramid-topped turrets and stubby crow-step gabled dormers.
Likewise, the strangely shaped 'Box' erected behind the Castle Dairy (part of Kendal College) is doubtless an architectural gem, but sticks out like a sore thumb.
This is not a question of personal taste. Both these buildings are inappropriate to the surroundings and should never have been approved, particularly in a historically promoted town such as Kendal.
The Riverside development because of its stifling overdesign, the misshapen Box because it is clad with sawn slate, fine in Windermere or Ambleside, but alien to the limestone of Kendal.
Elsewhere we are assailed by alien design features, such as Mansard roofs (Sandes Avenue), round towers (Windermere Road) and Mediterranean-style balconies. In Milnthorpe, the new Booths is over-dimensioned, being almost as high as the church tower, although only a one-story building.
These are all recent buildings, but I am not suggesting Victorians were not guilty of many of these faults also.
As a geologist, alien stone types always strike me forcibly. For example, common exotics are purple Welsh slate and flint gravel, both sold in large amounts by builders' merchants these days and appearing in gardens and driveways all over the town. Flagstones may now come from as far away as India and jar with local stones.
One might have thought that a lesson would have been learned from previous mistakes, of which there are many, culminating in the hideous Sandaire House at Kendal, which is both overwhelmingly large and ugly.
These structures and the bulldozing of large areas of historic Kendal (Fellside and most of the yards) make ridicule of the status of Kendal as a conservation area.
Fortunately occasional new buildings are in tune with the surroundings. One example is the Wakefield Arms on Maude Street: unpretentious in design (it could be a barn conversion) and faced with limestone rubble, it fits in perfectly and shows that alien design is not a necessity for modernity.
Once things are lost, including the unique ambiance of a historic town like Kendal, few people realise their impoverishment.
Therefore, the Nostalgia page in the Gazette fulfils an admirable role in alerting people to previous mistakes and hopefully helping to advise the future.
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Everybody knows that in order to accomplish something, be it big or small, you must set a goal. It doesn't matter if the goal is to lose 10 pounds, to eat healthier or to work out consistently.
Although we probably all agree that goal-setting is necessary, the real problem is not setting the goal, but sticking with it. Talk is cheap, and if you really want to achieve your goals this summer, fitness or otherwise, you really need a plan.
To help you get it right this summer, here are my seven habits of highly fit people:
1Set a goal. Similar to a business metric, you must set quantifiable fitness and health goals. For example, if your cholesterol is 250, give yourself the goal of getting it down to 200 by your next checkup, as opposed to just wishing that number would go down. Take concrete steps, like limiting or eliminating your consumption of high-cholesterol foods, like butter, cheese, eggs and meat. If weight loss is a goal, commit to a number, let's say 20 pounds, and figure out how many weeks or months it will take you to safely reach your goal. If you stay committed to your commitments, you can safely lose 20 pounds in 10 weeks. If you want to improve your muscle tone and strength, give yourself a goal like achieving 10 perfect push-ups in eight weeks, and so on. Otherwise you are just wishing for results as opposed to planning and tracking your success. A wish requires no action on your part, but a plan does.
2Write it down. Some wise person once said, "failing to plan is planning to fail." Write down every single thing you would like to accomplish to improve your health, diet and workouts. You are far more likely to reach your goals if you write them down.
3Avoid portion distortion. Many people mistakenly think that working out is a license to eat not only whatever they want, but also unlimited quantities. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you consume more calories than you burn each day you will gain weight. If you're aiming for a sixpack, guess what — it starts in the kitchen, baby. At the minimum, diet is 80 percent of the equation and exercise is 20 percent. But you still have to do both.
4Make fitness a priority. Who has time to exercise? With juggling career and family, nobody has time for fitness, right? Wrong! If you plan to get fit you must make fitness a priority and plan a daily date at the gym, your basement or bedroom for a workout. You're more likely to get it in if you do it in the morning. The later it gets in the day, the more likely you'll blow off your exercise routine. Besides, when you prioritize your fitness first, you are making an investment in your most significant asset — you.
5Follow the Boy Scouts. "Be Prepared." Preparation is 90 percent of your success. Get organized, prepare your meals, buy your gear, sneakers, gym bag, toiletry items, etc. In short, leave no room for failure or excuses. Prepare the night before, pack your lunch and leave your gym bag at the front door.
6Exercise effectively. Are you exercising on a regular basis, say, three to four times a week, but still not getting the results you want? If so, then you must ask yourself: How effective is my exercise routine, or what's up with my diet? You want to be sure you are exercising and eating correctly, otherwise you could be getting diminishing returns. If you are not getting the results you want, then it is likely time to increase either the speed, length or the intensity of your training program, and/or to shake up your diet.
7Set realistic goals. Don't expect to lose 50 pounds in five weeks or expect to look like an elite athlete after only four weeks of training. Losing one to two pounds a week is not just acceptable, but a rather lofty goal. Two pounds is the equivalent of 7,000 calories, and that's no joke. Focus on the tangibles, like preparing healthy meals, getting stronger, increasing stamina, getting more muscle and losing body fat. Looking good and feeling great are the rewards for your efforts. It's a lifestyle, and what you put in is what you'll get out.


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The battle over exchange rates between Beijing and Washington is warming up nicely after a few years' hiatus, only with a bit more urgency this time. Today's hearing at the House Ways and Means committee canvassed proposals for what to do about it. Interestingly, there was more consensus among the experts testifying than previously that China holding down the renminbi was a serious problem. But the solutions all seemed less than forceful: call China a currency manipulator, go to the IMF, go to the WTO.
The more confrontational solutions, like imposing anti-subsidy duties to combat currency undervaluation, didn't get much support. Sandy Levin, the Michigan Democrat who currently chairs the committee, has a reputation as a sceptic of free-trade purists, but he sounded pretty cautious about anything that might touch off a direct confrontation. Read more


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A timeless style, simple yet distinctive individual pieces, streamlined tailoring, characteristic details and neutral colours characterise the designer fashion on the topic of "avant-garde". They also characterize the fashion of the Düsseldorf designer Marion Strehlow. Extraordinary and elaborate cutting techniques, basic colours ranging from black to anthracite and grey, as well as simple colour accents are considered to be the trademark of her collections. The models of the German Championship 2017 will wear her fashion. To complement the avant-garde fashion, the look will have expressive lips made up with bold colours. The rest of the make-up is restrained. The foundation matches the natural skin tone and is perfect and even. The face will be unobtrusively contoured and natural accents are set with rouge. The eyelids will be shaded with soft nude tones. The lips are perfectly contoured and painted in strong berry-colours.
German Make-up Championship Friday, March 31 201711.00 am at Meeting Point
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For many years now, Marion Strehlow has lived and worked as a fashion designer in Düsseldorf and enthuses with the distinctive design of her fashion label strehlow. Her creations are resistant against short-lived trends and fleeting, fashionable highlights. Marion Strehlow is characterised by a very independent and timeless style. Colour highlighted cuts, coloured applications or contrasting stripes at the pocket openings and slits are surprising details and are considered to be the signature of the collection. All of the pieces are designed with know-how and passion by Marion Strehlow and are created in her Düsseldorf atelier.


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1995: Glass, JL., & Frazee, RC. (1995). Inflammatory breast cancer. The American Surgeon, 61(2), 121-4.
Inflammatory breast cancer has historically carried a poor prognosis. This has led to the development of multimodal protocols in an attempt to improve survival. Twenty-three women were treated for inflammatory breast cancer at our institution between 1979 and 1992. The mean age at diagnosis was 55.8 years (40 to 77 years). Eighteen women (78%) presented clinically with an erythematous or swollen and tender breast, and 19 (80%) had pathologically demonstrated dermal lymphatic invasion. Five (21.7%) had evidence of distant metastasis at the time of presentation. Treatment consisted of modified radical mastectomy in 65% of patients in combination with preoperative or postoperative chemotherapy. The most common chemotherapeutic regimen was 5-Fluorouracil, Adriamycin, and Cyclophosphamide. Eleven women (48%) also received chest wall irradiation (4,200 to 6,000 cGy). Eleven women had classic multimodality therapy (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy). Median survival is 23.4 months (6 to 77 months). We concluded that with combination therapy, selected patients can experience long-term survival; however, overall prognosis remains poor, with eventual disease recurrence and death resulting from the disease.
1995: Bonnier, P., et al. (1995). Inflammatory carcinomas of the breast: a clinical, pathological, or a clinical and pathological definition?. International Journal of Cancer, 62(4), 382-5..
Some controversy remains about the clinical or pathological definition of the different types of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) and especially the diagnostic and prognostic value of dermal lymphatic involvement. Our purpose was to classify the different types of IBC for which diagnosis was confirmed intraoperatively and ascertain features allowing reliable diagnosis. We studied clinical findings, biological data, and treatment outcome in a series of 144 successive patients. Our results suggest that there are 2 biologically different entities i.e., true IBC and pseudo-IBC. True IBC, whose course is currently fatal in all cases, can be divided into 2 sub-categories i.e., common true IBC (75.7% of cases), in which inflammatory signs occur primarily or secondarily, and occult true IBC (13.2% of cases). Dermal emboli have been observed in 61% of common true IBC, but their absence did not alter the rapidly unfavourable outcome. Extensive lymph-node involvement, other biological features and survival were the same in the 2 sub-categories. Pseudo-IBC (11.1% of cases) can easily be confused with common true IBC. The biological characteristics of pseudo-IBC differ from those of true IBC: no dermal lymphatic involvement and little or no lymph-node involvement. Despite large tumour size, outcome was particularly favourable. It is of great importance to differentiate true and pseudo-IBC, for which the treatments are different. Confirmation of true IBC requires pathological demonstration of dermal lymphatic emboli or extensive lymph-node involvement. Occult IBC must be identified for patients presenting rapidly growing tumours.
1995: Dahlbeck, SW., Donnelly, JF., & Theriault, RL. (1995). Differentiating inflammatory breast cancer from acute mastitis. American Family Physician, 52(3), 929-34.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a devastating disease with an extremely high rate of morbidity and mortality. Differentiating this disease from acute mastitis may be difficult on initial diagnosis. The expeditious diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory breast cancer has important ramifications for the patient's prognosis. Unfortunately, no clear guidelines are available to help the primary care physician differentiate between acute mastitis and inflammatory breast cancer. We present our recommendations and guidelines for a diagnostic approach to this problem. Inflammatory breast cancer typically occurs in older women, while acute mastitis usually affects younger, lactating women. If a trial of antibiotics does not decrease the signs and symptoms in the inflamed breast, inflammatory breast cancer must be considered, especially in older, nonlactating women.
1996: Lopez, MJ., & Porter, KA. (1996). Inflammatory breast cancer. The Surgical Clinic of North America, 76(2), 411-29.
Multimodal therapy with induction chemotherapy has improved significantly local disease control and overall survival in patients with IBC. This is now considered standard therapy for patients with this disease. Although survival has been improved, well over 50% of these patients will succumb to this disease. Ongoing and future investigations may better define the optimal approach for local control, the optimal duration of maintenance chemotherapy, and the possible role of biologic response modifiers and growth factors in further improving the outcome for patients with this disease.
1997: Bonnier, P. (1997). Influence of pregnancy on the outcome of breast cancer: a case-control study. Societe Francaise de senologie et de pathologie mammaire study group. International Journal of Cancer, 72(5), 720-7.
The relationship between pregnancy and the outcome of breast cancer remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic value of pregnancy at the time of diagnosis of primary infiltrating breast cancer. In a retrospective multi-center study we compared a group of 154 patients presenting pregnancy-associated (PA) breast cancer with a control group of 308 patients presenting non-pregnancy-associated (non-PA) breast cancer. Classic prognostic factors, treatment modalities, disease-free survival and overall survival were compared in the 2 groups. The relative importance of pregnancy was assessed by Cox multivariate analysis. There was a significantly higher proportion of inflammatory breast cancer, large tumors and negative receptor status in the PA group. Five-year recurrence-free survival, metastasis-free survival and overall survival were lower both in the whole PA group and in the PA sub-group excluding patients with inflammatory breast cancer than in the corresponding non-PA groups. According to clinical stage, histoprognostic grade and microscopic lymph-node involvement, probability of 5-year metastasis-free survival and overall survival was lower in the PA group. Outcome was significantly poorer after chemotherapy for patients in the PA sub-group than in the non-PA sub-group. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that pregnancy was an independent and significant prognostic factor. Pregnancy has an adverse effect on the outcome of breast cancer. Concurrent or recent pregnancy should be taken into account in the development of new systemic therapies. Our findings have important implications for further research into the basic mechanisms of cancer.
1997: Yamamoto, T., Iriyama, K., & Araki, T. (1997). Male inflammatory breast cancer. Surgery Today, 27(7), 669-71.
We report herein the case of a 68-year-old man diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. The patient presented following the rapid onset of redness and swelling over the left anterior chest wall. On examination, the left chest wall and left axilla were extensively hard, and the left upper limb was swollen. Ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) scanning disclosed a mass in the left breast, about 2 cm in diameter with an unclear margin, and swelling of the major and minor pectoral muscles. Needle biopsy of the breast mass confirmed invasive lobular carcinoma. As a radical operation was considered contraindicated, systemic and intraarterial chemotherapy using 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and Adriamycin (ADR) were performed. Nevertheless, the patient died of carcinomatous pleurisy 6 months after the initial onset of the disease.
1998: Brooks, HL., et al. (1998). Inflammatory breast carcinoma: a community hospital experience. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 186(6), 622-9.
BACKGROUND: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare form of rapidly progressive breast cancer. We reviewed the diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of IBC in our inner city community-based hospital and compared results with previous published reports. STUDY DESIGN: Twenty-five patients were diagnosed and treated for IBC at the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens during the 6-year period of January 1989 through December 1995. Criteria for inclusion in this study were clinical or histopathologic evidence, or both, of inflammatory carcinoma. RESULTS: IBC comprised 2.0% (25 of 1,257) of all breast cancer patients initially diagnosed during this study. All presented with clinical signs of IBC. Invasion of dermal lymphatics by neoplastic cells was demonstrated in 68% (17 of 25) of biopsy specimens. Sixty-eight percent (17 of 25) of patients presented with metastatic (ie, stage IV) disease and 28% (7 of 25) with stage IIIb; one patient (4%) died before staging. Estrogen and progesterone receptor studies were done on 72% (18 of 25) of all specimens. Of those patients who died, 85% were estrogen and progesterone receptor negative; of those surviving, 60% were estrogen receptor positive. Twenty (80%) of the 25 patients died, after a mean survival of 11.8 months and 5 (20%) remain alive, with a mean survival of 44.8 months. Of those who died, 85% were stage IV at presentation. All five survivors were stage IIIb at presentation. Patients underwent a variety of multimodal therapies. Survival was significantly associated with earlier stage at diagnosis and estrogen receptor positivity. CONCLUSIONS: IBC is characterized by rapid progression and dismal outcome. Earlier stage at diagnosis and positive estrogen receptor status suggest a more favorable prognosis. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, as part of a multimodal approach, has significantly improved the outcome for IBC, but this is limited to patients with stage IIIb disease. Most of our patients presented with stage IV disease. If improvement is to be realized at the community level, limited health care resources must be directed toward aggressive physician and public education.
1998: Chang, S., et al. (1998). Inflammatory breast carcinoma incidence and survival: the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program of the National Cancer Institute, 1975-1992. Cancer, 82(12), 2366-72.
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the cause of inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC), the most aggressive form of breast cancer. To the authors' knowledge, no studies have investigated whether IBC risk factors are different from those for breast carcinoma overall, and there has been only one report of IBC incidence and survival patterns. METHODS: The authors used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the National Cancer Institute for the period 1975-1992 to calculate age-adjusted incidence and survival rates for 913 white and 121 African American women with IBC involving dermal invasion of lymphatic ducts and 166,375 white and 13,674 African American women with other types of breast carcinoma (non-IBC). RESULTS: Between 1975-1977 and 1990-1992, IBC incidence doubled, increasing among whites from 0.3 to 0.7 cases per 100,000 person-years and among African Americans from 0.6 to 1.1 cases. However, rates for African Americans varied due to the small numbers of IBC cases. The twofold increase in IBC incidence was higher than that observed for non-IBC during the same period (27% for African Americans and 25% for whites). IBC patients were significantly younger at diagnosis than non-IBC patients; and among both IBC and non-IBC patients, African Americans were younger than whites. Overall survival was significantly worse for IBC patients than for non-IBC patients and for African Americans than for whites. Among whites, 3-year survival improved more for IBC patients than for non-IBC patients between 1975-1979 and 1988-1992, increasing from 32% to 42% for IBC patients (P=0.0001) and from 80% to 85% for non-IBC patients (P=0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The disparities observed in incidence trends and age at diagnosis, particularly according to race, highlight the need for further investigation of the differences between IBC and non-IBC incidence.
1999: Curcio, LD., et al. (1999). Beyond palliative mastectomy in inflammatory breast cancer–a reassessment of margin status. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 6(3), 249-54.
BACKGROUND: Inflammatory breast cancer is a locally advanced tumor with an aggressive local and systemic course. Treatment of this disease has been evolving over the last several decades. The aim of this study was to assess whether current therapies, both surgical and chemotherapeutic, are providing better local control (LC) and overall survival (OS). We also attempted to identify clinical and pathologic factors that may be associated with improved OS, disease-free survival (DFS), and LC. METHODS: A 25-year retrospective review performed at the City of Hope National Medical Center identified 90 patients with the diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer. RESULTS: Of the 90 patients identified with inflammatory breast cancer, 33 received neoadjuvant therapy (NEO) consisting of chemotherapy followed by surgery with radiation (n = 26) and without radiation (n = 7). Fifty-seven patients received other therapies (nonNEO). Treatments received by the nonNEO group consisted of chemotherapy, radiation, mastectomy, adrenalectomy, and oophorectomy, alone or in combination. The median follow-up was 28.9 months for the NEO group and 17.6 months for the nonNEO group. Borderline significant differences in the OS distributions between the two groups were found (P = .10), with 3- and 5-year OS for the NEO group of 40.0% and 29.9% and for the nonNEO group of 24.7% and 16.5%, respectively. DFS and LC were comparable in the two groups. Lower stage was associated with an improved OS (P < .05). The 5-year OS for stage IIIB was 30.9%, compared to 7.8% for stage IV. In those patients with stage III disease who were treated with mastectomy and rendered free of disease, margin status was identified by univariate analysis to be a prognostic indicator for OS (P < .05). The 3-year OS, DFS, and LC for patients with negative margins were 47.4%, 37.5%, and 60.3%, respectively, compared to 0%, 16.7%, and 31.3% in patients with positive margins. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that in patients with inflammatory breast cancer and nonmetastatic disease, an aggressive surgical approach may be justified with the goal of a negative surgical margin. Achievement of this local control is associated with a better overall outcome for this subset of patients. The ability to obtain negative margins may further identify a group of patients with a less aggressive tumor biology that may be more responsive to other modalities of therapy.
1999: Kurebayashi, J., et al. (1999). Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family members in breast cancer. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research, 90(9), 977-81.
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A is known to play an important role in tumor angiogenesis. Three additional members of the VEGF family, VEGF-B, -C and -D, have recently been discovered. VEGF-C and VEGF-D are ligands for VEGF receptor-3, which is expressed in the endothelium of lymphatic vessels. The expression of VEGF-C is known to be associated with the development of lymphatic vessels. Therefore, it is conceivable that VEGF-C and VEGF-D might play a role in the development of lymphatic vessels in solid tumors. To obtain some clue as to this role, we developed a semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method to investigate the mRNA expression levels of each VEGF family member in breast cancer. All the VEGF family members were expressed at different levels in seven human breast cancer cell lines explored. Although VEGF-A and VEGF-B expressions were detected in both node-positive and node-negative breast tumors, VEGF-C expression was detected only in node-positive tumors. VEGF-D expression was detected only in an inflammatory breast cancer and a tumor which developed an inflammatory skin metastasis. These findings suggest a possible relationship between the expression level of VEGF-C and/or VEGF-D and the development of lymphatic tumor spread.
1999: van Golen, KL., et al. (1999). A novel putative low-affinity insulin-like growth factor-binding protein, LIBC (lost in inflammatory breast cancer), and RhoC GTPase correlate with the inflammatory breast cancer phenotype. Clinical Cancer Research, 5(9), 2511-9.
Inflammatory breast cancer is a rapidly growing, distinct form of locally advanced breast cancer that carries a guarded prognosis. To identify the genes that contribute to this aggressive phenotype, we compared under- and overexpressed sequences in an inflammatory breast tumor cell line with those of actively replicating normal human mammary epithelial cell lines using differential display. Of the 17 transcripts isolated and characterized from these experiments, overexpression of RhoC GTPase and loss of expression of a novel gene on 6q22, LIBC (lost in inflammatory breast cancer), were highly correlated (P<0.0095 and P<0.0013, respectively) with the inflammatory phenotype when a panel of archival inflammatory breast cancers was compared with noninflammatory stage III breast cancers by in situ hybridization. This study suggests two new molecular markers specific for inflammatory breast cancer.
1999: Alpaugh, ML. (1999). A novel human xenograft model of inflammatory breast cancer. Cancer Research, 59(20), 5079-84.
The step of intravasation or lymphovascular invasion can be a rate-limiting step in the metastatic process. Inflammatory breast carcinoma manifests an exaggerated degree of lymphovascular invasion in situ; hence, a study of its molecular basis might shed light on the general mechanism of lymphovascular invasion exhibited by all metastasizing cancers. To this end, we have established the first human transplantable inflammatory breast carcinoma xenograft (MARY-X) in scid/nude mice. MARY-X, like its human counterpart, exhibited striking erythema of the overlying skin. MARY-X was estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, Her-2/neu negative and p53, epidermal growth factor receptor positive. The primary tumor of origin of MARY-X exhibited identical markers, except that about 50% of its cells exhibited Her-2/neu amplification. Comparative studies of MARY-X with noninflammatory xenografts indicated 10-20-fold overexpression of E-cadherin and MUC1, findings that were reflected in actual cases of human inflammatory breast cancer.


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The Future of Historyby John Lukacs
For more than sixty years, John Lukacs has been writing, teaching, and reading about the past. In this inspired volume, he turns his attention to the future. ThroughoutThe Future of History, Lukacs reflects on his discipline, eloquently arguing that the writing and teaching of history are literary rather than scientific, comprising knowledge that is neither wholly objective nor subjective. History at its best, he contends, is personal and participatory. Despite a recently unprecedented appetite for history among the general public, as evidenced by history television program ratings, sales of popular history books, and increased participation in local historical societies, Lukacs believes that the historical profession is in a state of disarray. He traces a decline in history teaching throughout higher education, matched by a corresponding reduction in the number of history students. He reviews a series of short-lived fads within the profession that have weakened the fundamentals of the field. In looking for a way forward, Lukacs explores the critical relationships between history and literature, including ways in which novelists have contributed to historical understanding. Through this startling and enlightening work, readers will understand Lukacs's assertion that "everything has its history, including history" and that history itself has a future, since everything we know comes from the past.
Last Ritesby John Lukacs
Twenty years ago, John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs in Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy. Now, in Last Rites, he continues and expands his reflections, this time integrating his conception of history and human knowledge with private memories of his wives and loves, and enhancing the book with footnotes from his idiosyncratic diaries. The resulting volume is fascinating and delightful-an auto-history by a passionate, authentic, brilliant, and witty man. Lukacs begins with a concise rendering of a historical understanding of our world (essential reading for any historian), then follows with trenchant observations on his life in the United States, commentary on his native Hungary and the new meanings it took for him after 1989, and deeply personal portraits of his three wives, about whom he has not written before. He includes also a chapter on his formative memories of May and June 1940 and of Winston Churchill, a subject in some of Lukacs's later studies. Last Rites is a richly layered summation combined with a set of extraordinary observations-an original book only John Lukacs could have written. Praise for Confessions of an Original Sinner:"[Lukacs] is an often witty and always fascinating-even entertaining-writer."-Washington Post
The Duelby John Lukacs
This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler-poised on the edge of absolute victory-and Churchill-threatened by imminent invasion and defeat."A masterful book-masterful in its portrayal of its protagonists, masterful in its overall understanding of the death-struggle in which they engaged, masterful, above all, in its vivid, suspenseful chronicling of the most momentous eighty days in the history of this century."-Geoffrey Ward"This is a marvelous book. John Lukacs has lucid, unsentimental insight into the mind and character of both Churchill and Hitler."-Conor Cruise O'Brien"A wonderful story wonderfully told."-George F. Will"It is salutary to be reminded in this powerful study how close Hitler came to winning in 1940. . . . An impressive study . . . [written] with elegance and panache."-Peter Stansky, New York Times "A master of narrative history on a par with Barbara Tuchman and Garrett Mattingly."-Kirkus Reviews
A Short History of the Twentieth Centuryby John Lukacs
The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century--its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the authors own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, and the continuing democratization of the globe. The historical twentieth century began with the First World War in 1914 and ended seventy-five years later with the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989. The short century saw the end of European dominance and the rise of American power and influence throughout the world. The twentieth century was an American century--perhaps "the" American century. Lukacs explores in detail the phenomenon of national socialism (national socialist parties, he reminds us, have outlived the century), Hitlers sole responsibility for the Second World War, and the crucial roles played by his determined opponents Churchill and Roosevelt. Between 1939 and 1942 Germany came closer to winning than many people suppose. Lukacs casts a hard eye at the consequences of the Second World War--the often misunderstood Soviet-American cold war--and at the shifting social and political developments in the Far and Middle East and elsewhere. In an eloquent closing meditation on the passing of the twentieth century, he reflects on the advance of democracy throughout the world and the limitations of human knowledge.
June 1941: Hitler and Stalinby John Lukacs
This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling Five Days in London, May 1940 is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June 1941. It describes Hitler and Stalin's strange, calculating, and miscalculating relationship before the German invasion of Soviet Russia, with its gigantic (and unintended) consequences. John Lukacs questions many long-held beliefs; he suggests, for example, that among other things Hitler's first purpose involved England: if Stalin's Communist Russia were to be defeated, Hitler's Third Reich would be well-nigh invincible, and the British and American peoples would be forced to rethink the war against Hitler. The book offers penetrating insights and a new portrait of Hitler and Stalin, moved by their long-lasting inclinations. Yet among other things, Lukacs presents evidence that Hitler (rather than his generals) had moments of dark foreboding before the invasion. Stalin could not, because he wished not, believe that Hitler would choose the risk of a two-front war by attacking him; he was stunned and shocked and came close to a breakdown. But he recovered, grew into a statesman, and eventually became a prime victor of the Second World War. Such are the ironies of history; John Lukacs paints them with a shining narrative skill.
The Hitler of Historyby John Lukacs
In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? Dangerously, the cumulative portrait that begins to emerge can suggest the face of a mythic antihero whose crimes and errors blur behind an aura of power and conquest. By reversing the process, by making Hitler's biographers--rather than Hitler himself--the subject of inquiry, Lukacs reveals the contradictions that take us back to the true Hitler of history.Like an attorney, Lukacs puts the biographies on trial. He gives a masterly account of all the major works and of the personalities, methods, and careers of the biographers (one cannot separate the historian from his history, particularly in this arena); he looks at what is still not known (and probably never will be) about Hitler; he considers various crucial aspects of the real Hitler; and he shows how different biographers have either advanced our understanding or gone off track. By singling out those who have been involved in, or co-opted into, an implicit "rehabilitation of Hitler," Lukacs draws powerful conclusions about Hitler's essential differences from other monsters of history, such as Napoleon, Mussolini, and Stalin, and--equally important--about Hitler's place in the history of this century and of the world.From the Hardcover edition.
History and the Human Conditionby John Lukacs
In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more.Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far and wide over the past two centuries. The pursuit takes us from Alexis de Tocqueville to the atomic bomb, from American "exceptionalism" to Nazi expansionism, from the closing of the American frontier to the passing of the modern age.Lukacs's insights about the past have important implications for the present and future. In chronicling the twentieth-century decline of liberalism and rise of conservatism, for example, he forces us to rethink the terms of the liberal-versus-conservative debate. In particular, he shows that what passes for "conservative" in the twenty-first century often bears little connection to true conservatism.Lukacs concludes by shifting his gaze from the broad currents of history to the world immediately around him. His reflections on his home, his town, his career, and his experiences as an immigrant to the United States illuminate deeper truths about America, the unique challenges of modernity, the sense of displacement and atomization that increasingly characterizes twenty-first-century life, and much more. Moving and insightful, this closing section focuses on the human in history, masterfully displaying how right Lukacs is in his contention that history, at its best, is personal and participatory.History and the Human Condition is a fascinating work by one of the finest historians of our time. More than that, it is perhaps John Lukacs's final word on the great themes that have defined him as a historian and a writer.
A Student's Guide to the Study of Historyby John Lukacs
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past--to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations--is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into which one is born. John Lukacs, one of today's most widely published historians, explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today's students. This guide is an invitation to become a master of the historian's craft.
Through the History of the Cold Warby John Lukacs
In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting the Soviet Union. A month later, to Lukacs's surprise, he received a personal reply from Kennan.So began an exchange of letters that would continue for more than fifty years. Lukacs would go on to become one of America's most distinguished and prolific diplomatic historians, while Kennan, who would retire from public life to begin a new career as Pulitzer Prize-winning author, would become revered as the man whose strategy of containment led to a peaceful end to the Cold War. Their letters, collected here for the first time, capture the writing and thinking of two of the country's most important voices on America's role and place in world affairs. From the division of Europe into East and West after World War II to its unification as the Soviet Union disintegrated, and from the war in Vietnam to the threat of nuclear annihilation and the fate of democracy in America and the world, this book provides an insider's tour of the issues and pivotal events that defined the Cold War.The correspondence also charts the growth and development of an intellectual and personal friendship that was intense, devoted, and honest. As Kennan later wrote Lukacs in letter, "perceptive, understanding, and constructive criticism is . . . as I see it, in itself a form of creative philosophical thought." It is a belief to which both men subscribed and that they both practiced.Presented with an introduction by Lukacs, the letters in Through the History of the Cold War reveal new dimensions to Kennan's thinking about America and its future, and illuminate the political--and spiritual--philosophies that the two authors shared as they wrote about a world transformed by war and by the clash of ideologies that defined the twentieth century.
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