Kidney Cancer Association Announces Grants
Kidney Cancer Association (KCA) Chief Executive Officer Bill Bro today announced special grants to attendees of the organization's Survivors and Patients Conference, July 23 and 24 in Chicago.
In making the awards, Bro said, "We are pleased that everyone who applied for financial aid this year received it.
No one will be denied access to this important educational meeting because they could not afford it.
The KCA was able to fund all requests received by the July 1, 2004, deadline."Needs-based applications were evaluated by a social worker not affiliated with the Kidney Cancer Association, and funds were available to cover all expenses related to conference attendance, including airfare, hotel, and registration fees, as requested by the applicant."The Association is grateful for financial assistance from corporate supporters Genentech and Antigenics, whose generosity made these individual grants possible," Bro added.
Ten applications for financial assistance were received and fully funded.Invited speakers for the 12th annual conference include:Patricia Delaney, Food & Drug AdministrationLaura Schmidt, M.D., National Cancer InstituteNicholas Vogelzang, M.D., Nevada Cancer InstituteMihir Desai, M.D., Cleveland ClinicWalter Stadler, M.D., University of Illinois Medical CenterJanice Dutcher, M.D., Our Lady of Mercy Cancer CenterRonald Bukowski, M.D., KCA Medical Board Chair, Cleveland Clinic FoundationKim Margolin, M.D., City of HopeCo-chairs for the conference are Robert Flanigan, M.D., Joseph Clark, M.D., and Steven Campbell, M.D., all of Loyola University Medical Center.Those interested in attending the conference may visit the KCA website, www.CureKidneyCancer.org, for more information.
The meeting will be held at the O'Hare Hilton Hotel in Chicago.There are approximately 200,000 adults living with renal cancer in the United States and more than 180,000 cases are diagnosed globally each year. The disease claims the lives of 12,000 Americans each year. The KCA was founded in 1990 by the late Eugene P. Schonfeld, Ph.D., with the help of a small group of patients and their physician. It has grown to serve 60-thousand constituents in the United States and more than 90 other countries, and is the leading advocate for increased funding for research in renal cancer..
World Renowned Poker Players Compete For More Than $2 million In Second Annual PokerStars? Caribbean Adventure - Event to be Hosted at Atlantis Casino, Paradise Island, Bahamas, Jan. 5 ? 12, 2005
In the middle of January, when most of the Northern Hemisphere struggles to stay warm, some of the world's top professional and amateur poker players will head down to Paradise Island in the Bahamas to compete for an estimated $2.3 million prize pool, one of the most lucrative competitions of all time.
The exclusive Atlantis Casino will be the host of the second annual "PokerStars Caribbean Adventure," supported and sponsored by one of the world's largest and most successful online poker sites, PokerStars.com.
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure runs January 5 through 12th.
The eight day poker spectacular is scheduled to include multiple daily tournaments, cash games, satellites, sit ?n go's, and the crown jewel of the tournament ? the championship grand finale.
For the second consecutive year, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will be broadcast later as part of the popular World Poker Tour, shown on the Travel Channel in North America and on television...
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Air Travel Center Launches a Global Special Airfare Blog
Enola, PA (ContentDesk) December 2, 2005 -- Air Travel Center (airtravelcenter.com), a research and shopping facility for travelers across the globe, has launched a Special Airfare Blog to assist a world of air travelers shopping airline flights by price alone. The global wire covers all regions with focus on international flights. Three regional wires focus more on intra-regional and domestic flights. Airline, airline consolidator, and ticket broker reduced price lists are published as they arrive.The Air Travel Center has launched a special airfares blog that provides a planetary listing of reduced price flight offers as they are announced by airlines, airline consolidators, and airline ticket brokers across the globe. In recent announcements, prices have been as low as free and many flights are offered in a price range from 0,01 euro to 34,99 euro.
Consistently, whether you are flying from Asia Pacific, Arab World, European, or Americas regions, a flight that will cost what...
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Travelers take advantage of deals to Southeast Asia
The prolonged recession in Asia, combined with American's recent reluctance to leave the country, is helping to provide some really great travel deals.
Among them is Thailand.
Known as the "Land of Smiles", Thailand offers some of the best travel vacation values in the world right now with top hotels and impeccable service.A great package available now is a world-class golfing vacation offered by Swiss Golf Tours to Bangkok Thailand that starts at just $1999.00 per person based on double occupancy. With over 350 golf courses in the country and designed by the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Arthur Hills, and Arnold Palmer. Swiss Golf Tours has been in the golf vacation business since 1997 and began by doing golf tours for corporate retreats and executive board meetings.
Swiss Golf Tours maintains offices in the United States, Thailand and of course Switzerland. This amazing golf vacation includes 7 nights deluxe hotel accommodations, 4 rounds of world-class...
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Airfare for the Wayfarer
Have you checked the price of airfare lately?
Are you like myself, and quite afraid to contemplate that you're going to spend that inheritance from Aunt Tilley on a flight to LA?
For the general public, air travel is still an occasional event, and airfare is still comparable to a surprise attack of influenza.
We all will agree that air travel is much nicer than the open road (and faster), when you're in a hurry and in a compact car.
Airfare, however, is not the pleasant experience that air travel is.
Airfare, once you're past the sticker shock, is a confusing subject.
The prospective traveler can go online, and check for cheap, discounted airfare, on several websites that are independent of any airline sponsorship.
What you will find is a confusing list of possible flights, possible fares, and a message that alerts you to hurry to book at these discounted prices.
At this point, I generally long for...
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Free 39-week E-mail Newsletter on "Piano Chords & Chord Progressions"
(ContentDesk) July 1, 2004 -- A free 39-week e-mail newsletter titled "Piano Chords & Chord Progressions" is being offered by Keyboard Workshop of Medford, Oregon. While it is designed for self-motivated adults, it is also useful to younger students who may be taking piano lessons, but need supplementary material on chords and chord progressions.???? The newsletter covers the entire gamut of piano chords from "the 3 chords you absolutely, positively must know", to minor chord construction, extended...
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