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- Austin Peay Snaps EKU's Home Court Winning Streak - EKU Sports
- Stars come out for Jill Biden event - Delaware Online
- A personal choice and a personal mission - Times Union
- Resume, Cover Letter, DNA - The Atlantic
- Curves raises funds to fight breast cancer - Fond du Lac Reporter
| Austin Peay Snaps EKU's Home Court Winning Streak - EKU Sports Posted: 31 Oct 2009 11:50 AM PDT
Box Score RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky saw its six-match home court winning streak come to an end with a 3-1 loss to Austin Peay on Saturday at McBrayer Arena. Five members of the APSU team registered 10 or more kills and two finished with double-doubles. Set scores were 25-22, 20-25, 25-9 and 25-18. Jessica Mollman led the Lady Govs (19-6, 12-2 OVC) with a match-best 13 kills. Kirstin Distler finished with 12 kills and 15 digs. Stephanie Champine and Taylor Skinner each recorded 11 kills. Champine added 13 digs and two block assists. Ilyanna Hernandez contributed 10 kills. Sophomore Amanda Fago led the Colonels (6-17, 5-8 OVC) with 10 kills. She made only two errors in 26 total attacks for a .308 attack percentage. Kate Hendle finished with 32 assists and eight digs. Abby O'Connor led all players with 22 digs. Austin Peay totaled 58 kills and eight service aces. Eastern Kentucky had only 39 kills. The first set saw 12 ties and eight lead changes. Lindsey Loescher tied the score, 22-22, for the final time with an ace for EKU. The Lady Govs scored the next three points to finish off the set. A kill by Skinner and an ace by Sarah Alisaleh, sandwiched around an Eastern attack error, put APSU in front 1-0. An 8-0 run midway through the second set gave control to the Colonels. Autumn Harms recorded two kills and three others had one each during the run. A Lady Gov attack error capped the run and put EKU in front 17-9. Austin Peay closed the gap to two, but wouldn't get any closer. A kill by Hannah Groudle gave Eastern Kentucky a 25-20 second set victory and tied the match 1-1. Austin Peay scored the first four points of the third set and never looked back. An ace by Champine made it 11-3. An ace by Distler stretched the lead to 14-6. Back-to-back aces by Kayla Grantham and a kill by Mollman had the Lady Govs on top 20-8. Champine's kill ended the set, 25-9, and gave the visitors a 2-1 lead. The fourth set remained close until the end. A kill by Groudle made it a one-point game in favor of APSU, 16-15. However, the Lady Govs went on an 8-2 run to build a 24-17 lead. Mollman's kill two plays later ended the set, 25-18, and the match. The Colonels wore pink socks and hair ribbons for the past two matches in support of breast cancer awareness. For every home court victory in the month of October the EKU volleyball program will donate $100 to the Susan B. Komen Foundation to help find a cure for breast cancer. The Colonels finished with six wins at home this month. The team will be donating in the name of former EKU volleyball head coach Geri Polvino, former Colonel Cindy Thomsen and former EKU athletics employee Kay Patrick.
Eastern Kentucky will play its next three matches on the road, beginning Friday at Eastern Illinois. The Colonels and the Panthers are scheduled to begin play at 8 p.m. ET. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Stars come out for Jill Biden event - Delaware Online Posted: 31 Oct 2009 12:26 PM PDT The second lady held court at a breast cancer fundraiser Friday that drew some of Delaware's most powerful men to the BBC Tavern and Grill in Greenville. Jill Biden and her husband, Vice President Joe Biden, were at the newly opened restaurant to raise money for the Biden Breast Health Initiative. The nonprofit, founded by Jill Biden in 1993, aims to educate teenage girls about the value of early detection of breast cancer. About 250 people packed the restaurant, including U.S. Sens. Ted Kaufman and Tom Carper and numerous U.S. Secret Service agents. Attorney General Beau Biden and Congressman Mike Castle, who are expected to compete in the 2010 Senate race for Kaufman's seat, also were on hand. Castle has already announced his intent to run for Senate. Neither Joe nor Jill Biden spoke at the event; nor would they speak to media. Instead, they mingled with the crowd, stopping several times to shake hands and pose for pictures. At one point, Jill Biden told a greeter that she had worn a Phillies shirt under the red jacket that she and first lady Michelle Obama donned during Wednesday's opening game of the 2009 World Series. As the pink ribbon is the international symbol of breast cancer awareness -- and since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- many of the attendants wore pink ribbons on their suits and dresses. Jill Biden wore a black cocktail dress with a pink pashmina shawl. The vice president wore a dark suit and a red tie. The event was expected to raise up to $6,000, money that would go to the initiative's Julianne E. Hammond Scholarship Fund. The fund provides financial assistance to young adults who are pursuing careers in health or education. Last year, more than 2,600 high school girls learned about breast cancer self-examinations through the initiative. Kaufman said that breast cancer is something that will band people together regardless of their political views. "We don't do enough work that focuses on prevention," he said. "We end up using treatments that cost more money. Early examination is one of those things in which the cost and the quality of care both intersect." This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| A personal choice and a personal mission - Times Union Posted: 31 Oct 2009 12:11 PM PDT
For 29-year-old Meggan Keith, the decision to have both her breasts surgically removed was a logical one. Keith is a scientist. Statistically, she knew that the genetic mutation she carried increased the risk of developing breast cancer by five times. On a personal level, she knew the devastation the disease causes: Keith watched her mother struggle to get out of bed during two bouts of breast cancer. Her mom, a nurse, died at age 36 from the disease, when Keith was 10. "I knew I didn't want that for myself," Keith said. She grew up in Ann Harbor, Mich., and now lives in Averill Park. Both she and her husband, Jamie Keith, are post-doctoral researchers at the University of Albany's Cancer Research Center. Keith's DNA carries the BRCA2 mutation that can cause breast and cervical cancer. The average woman has a 12 percent chance of developing breast cancer in a lifetime, but a woman with a BRCA2 mutation has a 50 percent to 85 percent risk. Evidence of the mutation runs like a curse through Keith's family history. Her maternal aunt suffered from breast and lung cancer and died in her mid-30s; a grandmother had lymphoma; and a great-grandfather had breast cancer, which is rare in men. Though she currently has no signs of breast cancer, Keith opted for a prophylactic double mastectomy -- an operation that nearly eliminates her chances of getting the disease. "I knew it was the right way to go," she said. As a biologist, Keith wanted to donate her breast tissue to science, but no one would take it. Keith discovered that there are tissue banks for healthy breast tissue and depositories for cancerous breast tissue and tumors. But nobody collects tissue from people like Keith who carry the genetic mutation. "It kills me that the tissue went to waste," she said. Researchers looking at the disease "have the beginning and the end," but are missing everything in the middle. Keith plans to change that. With the blessing of her UAlbany advisors, she's trying to start a tissue bank to handle material donated by carriers of the mutation. She hopes to create cell lines from the material to research what might trigger the cancer, and find ways to prevent or reverse the disease. Right now the only preventive therapy is prophylactic mastectomy. It was Keith's husband who encouraged her to get genetically tested. She'd been putting it off for years and finally did it when she was 25. At the time, the couple were dating and talking about marriage. "He said, 'I'm not going anywhere' -- and that's what I needed to hear," she said. After learning she had the mutation, Keith shopped around for the right doctor and the right procedure. She decided on a nipple-saving surgery, where the skin of her breast and the nipple are preserved after the underlying breast tissue is removed. It's a controversial surgery: The nipple is considered breast tissue; by leaving it, Keith still has an 11 percent chance of developing cancer.
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| Resume, Cover Letter, DNA - The Atlantic Posted: 31 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT
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| Curves raises funds to fight breast cancer - Fond du Lac Reporter Posted: 31 Oct 2009 11:07 AM PDT Fond du Lac Curves members raised $2,200 for the American Cancer Society during a breast cancer awareness event held Oct. 10 to 17 at Curves Fitness Center for Women, 810 S. Main St., according to a Curves press release. Silent auction themed baskets were awarded to lucky purchasers at the culminating Girls Night Out party at Curves on Oct. 17, with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. More than 50 baskets were donated by various businesses and Curves members, with the highest selling basket receiving a bid of $112. Donated raffle prizes also helped generate funds. "We far exceeded our expectations, and this is amazing in these economic times," said Angella Mueller, Curves owner. Efforts to raise money for the American Cancer Society continue through Nov. 7, Mueller said. New members who join by Nov. 7 and show proof of a recent mammogram or donate $25 to the American Cancer Society will receive their membership at a reduced rate. The customary service fee will be waived. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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