[BIC-announce] Movember 2016... please accept the Feindel Challenge and help me change the face of men's health!

[Zografos Caramanos, Mr]

Hello, and sincere apologies to those in my contact list who have already received a similar message.  Please note that this request, which was sent to the BIC Mailing list, also contains this "Feindel Challenge" to everyone at the BIC:

Just about four years ago now, during the -- at the time -- BIC Lecture, I was sitting in my regular seat, which was just to the left of Dr. Feindel's regular seat; after a chat with him, and just as the talk was starting, he pulled a brand new 20$ bill out of his pocket and slipped it to me out of sight.  "What's this for?" I asked... to which he pointed at my silly little moustache and said: "Good job!"

I challenge everyone at the BIC to support the silly little moustache and help make a difference, just like Dr. Feindel did.  And please join us for the next Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture (see my next message).


Movember 2016<http://mobro.co/caramanos?mc=1> is now over and it's time for us to make a difference.

Men's health is a cause I am passionate about, but, in order to make a difference, I need your help. My commitment was to grow a moustache for the month of November and, in doing so, raise vital awareness and funds for prostate cancer<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/prostate-cancer>, testicular cancer<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/testicular-cancer>, and male mental health<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/mental-health>.  As you can see, I did:
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I am asking you to help support my personal journey by making a donation. The size of which isn't important, every little bit helps Movember to continue funding its world class programs<http://ca.movember.com/programs>, including work done here at McGill<http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2016/11/movember-funded-research-helps-chronic-pain-sufferers/>.

To highlight the importance of what I am doing, take a look at these statistics:
*    Prostate cancer<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/prostate-cancer> is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canadian me.
*    Testicular cancer<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/testicular-cancer> is the most common cancer in men aged 15-29 years.
*    1 in 5 men in Canada will experience a mental health problem<http://ca.movember.com/mens-health/mental-health> each year

If you'd like to help change these statistics, please donate here: http://mobro.co/caramanos

Please donate soon if you can ... even a small amount can help make a difference if lots of us get involved.  So far this year, almost $55,000,000 has been raised world-wide, with the third largest amount coming from right here in Canada (http://ca.movember.com/leaderboards/) - just behind Australia and the USA.

Since 2003, it's gone from 30 moustachioed men from Melbourne Australia to over five million Mo-Bros and Mo-Sistas from all over the world who have raised over 750 million US dollars.  See here<http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_garone_healthier_men_one_moustache_at_a_time.html> for a charming TED talk by one of the original Mo-Bros, moustache-farmer Adam Garone, about how Movember started and how far it has come.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to change the face of men's health, and please spread the word.
;-{

Mo-Bro Zografos 'Aki' Caramanos

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