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The Women’s National Invitation Tournament roadblock for the Illinois State women’s basketball team is once again Kansas.

Confronting that obstruction won’t require a road trip this time as Kansas visits Redbird Arena Thursday for a 7:05 p.m. contest in the WNIT’s round of 16.

“I’d be lying if I said we weren’t really excited to be at home and play on our home court,” ISU coach Robin Pingeton said Wednesday. “I certainly think that’s huge for us, especially this time of year. But we’re going to have to bring it. They are an awfully good team.”

ISU saw a 27-8 season end in the WNIT semifinals last season with a 75-72 loss to Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.

“It’s a chance to show some bigger name programs what we can do,” said Redbird senior Maggie Krick. “But it’s a different team and a new season.”

ISU (26-7) faces a 17-15 Kansas team that has gone 4-8 since losing senior standout Danielle McCray to a season-ending knee injury. McCray scored 31 points against the Redbirds last season and was averaging 19.8 points and 7.2 rebounds.

“McCray is one of the best, the real deal,” Pingeton said. “But they’ve got some players who have really stepped up for them. They have a tremendous inside game and they are very skilled on the perimeter.”

Without the 5-foot-11 McCray, Kansas relies on the balance of six players scoring from 10.5 to 6.8 points.

“We just need to stick together,” said 6-3 freshman Carolyn Davis, who averages 10.5 points and recently returned from two concussions. “It’s a road game and road games are hard, no matter who you’re playing.”

The Jayhawks also get 10.1 points from 5-11 guard Sade Morris, 9.6 points and 7.2 rebounds from 6-2 sophomore Aishah Sutherland and 8.7 points from 6-5 junior Krysten Boogaard.

“There’s a lot of drama involved before we even step on the court,” Kansas coach Bonnie Henrickson said of ousting ISU last season. “It’s a team that executes and plays hard. It’s a team we thought would be in the NCAA Tournament, even after getting upset in the Missouri Valley Tournament.”

The Jayhawks, who have defeated Prairie View A&M and Creighton in the WNIT, were 5-11 in a rugged Big 12 Conference that has advanced four teams to the NCAA’s Sweet Sixteen.

“We’re excited to still be playing and have another opportunity to play a program with a great tradition,” said Pingeton. “We have a lot of respect for Kansas. They play in the best conference in the country.”

Led by the senior trio of Ashleen Bracey (15.1), Krick (14.1) and Nicolle Lewis (12.1), ISU owns hard-fought WNIT victories over Butler (57-54) and Purdue (59-57).

“It definitely boosts the spirits,” Krick said. “It’s fun to win again after such a heartbreaking (MVC Tournament) loss.”

If the Redbirds win Thursday, they would meet either Illinois or Missouri State in the quarterfinals. ISU lost to Illinois in November and defeated Missouri State twice in MVC play.

WNIT rematch

Kansas at ISU

Time: 7:05 p.m.

Broadcast: WJBC-AM (1230)

Redbird essentials

Illinois State vs. Kansas

Time: 7:05 p.m.

Site: Redbird Arena, Normal

Television: None

Radio: WJBC-AM (1230)

Records: Illinois State 26-7; Kansas 17-15

Series history/last meeting: Kansas leads series, 4-0 (Kansas won, 75-72, on April 1, 2009).

About the Jayhawks: Junior forward Krysten Boogaard is averaging a modest 8.7 points but broke loose for 37 in an opening round WNIT win over Prairie View A&M … Freshman forward Carolyn Davis leads the Big 12 Conference with a .724 field goal percentage and is averaging 28.0 points and 11.5 rebounds in two WNIT outings … Kansas ranks second in the NCAA with seven different players reaching 20 points this season … The Jayhawks have lost senior Danielle McCray and redshirt freshman Angel Goodrich to season-ending knee injuries.

Next up: Winner advances to WNIT quarterfinals against either Illinois or Missouri State, TBA

Prediction: Illinois State 63, Kansas 60

Probable starters

(Scoring, rebounding averages)

ILLINOIS STATE

F — Ashleen Bracey, 6-0, Sr. (15.1, 7.8); C “Nicolle Lewis, 6-6, Sr. (12.1, 7.1); G — Maggie Krick, 5-11, Sr. (14.1, 4.8); Amanda Clifton, 5-8, Jr. (3.2, 2.5); Katie Broadway, 5-9, Soph. (7.6, 1.6).

KANSAS

F — Nicollette Smith, 6-2, Jr. (3.1, 2.4); Krysten Boogaard, 6-5, Jr. (8.7, 4.1); G — LaChelda Jacobs, 5-10, Sr. (2.3, 1.7); Sade Morris, 5-11, Sr. (10.1, 2.8); Monica Engelman, 5-11, Fr. (7.3, 2.6).

A 92-year-old Connellsville Township woman died of smoke inhalation as a result of a furnace fire at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, authorities in Fayette County said.

A second woman in the home, age 71, was overcome by smoke.

The office of Fayette County Coroner Dr. Philip Reilly reported the tentative cause of death for Eva Ajeanne Ritenour as smoke and fume inhalation, and carbon monoxide poisoning.

She was pronounced dead at Highlands Hospital in Connellsville at 9:25 a.m.

Barbara Jones was treated for smoke inhalation at Highlands.

State police at Uniontown ruled that the fire at 76 Dark St. was an accident. The fire originated in a fan in the natural gas, forced-air furnace.

Smoke caused about $5,000 damage as it traveled through the home’s duct system, authorities said.

Judy Kroeger can be reached at jkroeger@tribweb.com or 724-626-3538.

Credit: The Daily Courier, Connellsville, Pa.

Mae Jemison has accomplished many things in life. She is a chemical engineer, medical doctor, college professor, and in 1992, became the first African-American woman astronaut to blast into space.
New missionJemison now runs her own medical technology company, BioSentient Corporation. She’s also a spokesperson for Bayer Corporation’s science outreach program.
Each year since 1995, the company has commissioned a survey on science literacy and workplace issues. This year, it polled 1,200 women and minority chemists and chemical engineers. Careers in science, technology, engineering and math are collectively known as STEM.
“I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are,” says Jemison.
While women and minorities make up two-thirds of the American workforce, they represent less than 25 percent of STEM careers. The survey cites poor schools, lack of quality science and math programs, persistent negative stereotypes, financial cost and school and workplace bias as the reasons why.
Early interest Jemison says the survey also finds children are interested in science at an early age.
“That means is that kids come out of the chute excited about the world around them. They are interested in what is going on but hit roadblocks. They are really derailed from their track to becoming professional scientists by academic systems and societies that are neither color blind nor gender blind.” Nearly two-thirds of those polled said women and minorities in STEM careers are under-represented in their companies or institutions. Forty percent said they were discouraged from pursuing their chosen career, typically in college and often by their professors, an experience Jemison remembers from her undergraduate days.
Big gap
Despite a gradual increase in women graduating with undergraduate and graduate degrees in science fields, the gap between men and women remains significant in the U.S. workplace.
That’s according to a second report released this week by the American Association of University Women. “Why So Few?” compiles academic research from the last 15 years. Its findings underscore the social and cultural bias and barriers in higher education reported by the chemists and engineers in the Bayer survey.
Co-author Andresse St. Rose says, for example, while girls earn high school math credits at the same rate as boys, the myth that girls aren’t good at math is persistent and powerful.
“Because of that negative stereotype, girls are more likely to believe that they are less able in math compared to boys who have similar grades and tests scores in math,” says St. Rose.
But she is hopeful the situation can be reversed. “We believe that people can reset their biases by taking a proactive step, choosing to educate themselves more about women in these fields, by putting up positive images of women in science in their classrooms and in their homes.”
The AAUW report recommends steps to raise awareness about girls’ achievement and interest in science, and to get colleges to attract and keep more female students and faculty. St. Rose says all sectors of the community must implement these initiatives in order for them to be successful including, “kindergarten through 12th grade teachers and guidance counselors, college and university administrators and certainly employers and policymakers.”
Former astronaut Mae Jemison agrees. She says stronger science programs in schools and colleges will not only put more women and minorities in science fields, but also fuel a more literate democracy.

“Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy recorded in the cancer registries of almost all countries within the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In Iraq, the continuous rise in the incidence rate is associated with an obvious trend to affect premenopausal women,” said Nada A.S. Alwan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Breast Cancer Research Unit at Baghdad University Medical College and the executive director of the newly established Iraqi National Cancer Research Program.

Alwan presented early data at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held March 7-10, 2010.

The Iraqi National Cancer Research Program was organized by the Iraqi minister of higher education and scientific research in 2009 in collaboration with the common secretariat for the Council of Ministers and the Iraqi Parliament.

“This project includes within its objectives comprehensive epidemiologic studies on risk factors of the main encountered cancers in Iraq, with a focus on the characteristics and behaviors of cancer in patients inhabiting different geographic areas,” said Alwan.

The current study focused on 721 of 5,044 women who complained of breast lumps later diagnosed as cancer. Approximately one-third of the diagnosed patients were between 40 and 49 years old; 71.9 percent came from urban areas and 75 percent were married.

History of lactation was reported in 63.1 percent of the women and 29 percent had taken hormone therapy. A family history of breast cancer was reported in 16.2 percent of cases.

Although 90.6 percent of women detected a lump on self-examination, only 32 percent sought medical advice within the first month. Because of this, 47 percent of them presented with advanced stage breast cancer, either stage III or IV cancer. The main histological type was invasive ductal carcinoma of grade 2 in 56.6 percent and grade 3 in 39.9 percent. Estrogen-receptor positive tumors were noted in 65.1 percent of the cases and progesterone-receptor positive tumors were noted in 45.1 percent of the cases.

“We are currently planning to use this information to compare the demographic characteristics, clinicopathological presentations and management outcomes of breast cancer patients within selected countries in the Middle East,” said Alwan.

Keywords: Breast Cancer, Breast Carcinoma, Conservation, Ecology, Endocrinology, Environment, Epidemiology, Estrogen, Hormones, Lactation, Oncology, Progesterone, Women’s Health, American Association for Cancer Research.

A woman has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for being an tiffany pendants to a Tulsa murder.

Natasha Sanders, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an accessory after the fact to the murder of Kevin A. Jones.

Jones, 42, was found dead on Aug. 26, 2008, in a bathtub in his apartment in the 4900 block of South 76th East Avenue. He had multiple stab wounds and “visible blunt force trauma to his head and torso,” police reported.

A medical examiner reported that sharp force wounds and compression of the neck caused the death.

Sanders, from Stilwell in Adair County, was originally charged with being an accessory, based on allegations that she cleaned up blood at the scene and got rid of bloody knives and other evidence.

At a 2008 preliminary hearing, her charge was upgraded to first-degree murder.

But the murder accusation against her was dropped by a prosecutor tiffany earrings as part of a plea deal in which Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough sentenced Sanders to 23 years in prison.

Jurors in October found Terrance Kyle Moore, 43, guilty of the first-degree murder of Jones. Moore was sentenced to life in prison and a $10,000 fine.

On his life term, Moore must serve 85 percent of 45 years — or 38 years and three months — before becoming eligible for parole.

Sanders’ term does not have an 85 percent requirement.

Moore and Sanders had stayed at Jones’ apartment. Moore, also of Stilwell, told police that he attacked Jones after learning that Jones

and Sanders had kissed, reports show.

In a document supporting her plea to the accessory charge, Sanders tiffany necklaces that Moore killed Jones.

After his August 2008 arrest, Moore told police that Sanders stabbed Jones while Moore was hitting Jones, a report shows.

Sanders has been in the Tulsa Jail since Aug. 27, 2008.

Credit: Tulsa World, Okla.

The famous beads were handed out left and right, but it was for a much more important Tiffany Key Rings than for what the day is typically known. The Breast Cancer Partnership of Tacoma gave new meaning to the usual Mardi Gras celebration when 89 underserved and uninsured women were given access to mammograms on Feb. 16 at the Carol Milgard Breast Center. For many, all ranging in age from 40 to 64, this was their first opportunity for a mammogram, due to a lack of health care coverage (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/Carol-Milgard-Breast-Center.html> Carol Milgard Breast Center).

In a fun and non-threatening atmosphere these women — who otherwise would not have access to this critical component in their own health — received mammograms, important breast health education and pampering spa treatments.

“It’s vital that we keep the importance of breast health awareness at the forefront of women’s Frank Gehry throughout the year, not just during one particular month,” says Marcy Parsons, clinical operations director of the Carol Milgard Breast Center. “Given the response we had for this particular event, especially during a month that doesn’t have an emphasis on breast health and prevention, it speaks volumes to both the success of the event and to the need for preventative health services within the underserved populations of our community.”

This is the second such event held at the center in the past four months; last October over 60 women were assisted by the collaborative efforts of the Breast Cancer Partnership of Tacoma.

“This event brings to life the mission of the Carol Milgard Breast Center, which is providing breast health exams for all, regardless of their financial status,” adds Parsons. “We thank each of the members of the Breast Cancer Partnership of Tacoma for their commitment to these women.”

The Carol Milgard Breast Center is a collaboration between MultiCare Health System and the Elsa Peretti Health System. It is managed by TRA Medical Imaging.

The Breast Cancer Partnership of Tacoma founding members include the Carol Milgard Breast Center; Franciscan Health System; MultiCare Health System; Breast Cancer Resource Center; Breast and Cervical Health Program of Pierce County; Korean Women’s Association; American Cancer Society of Pierce County; and Puget Sound Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

For more information, visit www.carolmilgardbreastcenter.org or call (253) 761-4200.

Keywords: Breast Cancer, Breast Carcinoma, Carol Milgard Breast Center, Finance, Paloma Picasso, Investing, Investment, Oncology, Women’s Health.

Ruder Finn’s travel and economic development EVP & Director, Gail L. Moaney, has been selected as one of The Network Journal’s “25 Influential Black Women in Business” for 2010. The Network Journal, is a business magazine which provides news and commentaries on the workplace and focuses predominantly on African-Tiffany Rings professionals and seeks to honor women who have demonstrated strong leadership in their respective fields.

Moaney, who possesses tremendous experience in implementing communications programs for a wide range of clients including airlines, destinations, hotels, resorts, online travel-related services and economic development clients worldwide, will be among the honorees to be saluted during Women’s History Month at the Annual 25 Influential Black Women in Business Awards luncheon on March 11, 2010 at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel.

“We congratulate Gail on this most recent accomplishment and commend her for the many years of exemplary and dedicated client service. She is quite deserving, and we thank her for the extraordinary leadership she has demonstrated as head of the travel practice for more than a decade,” says Richard Funess, president, Ruder-Finn/Americas. “She continues to inspire her peers and colleagues to be the very best in this field,” notes Funess.

“The women we are honoring in the twelfth year of these awards are, as usual, in the forefront of American leadership and symbolize the diversity and advancement that has occurred across industry lines,” The Network Journal Publisher and CEO Aziz Gueye Adetimirin said. “We salute them for achieving significant levels of success in their businesses and professional careers and for their myriad contributions to their community.”

Keywords: AT&T, Airlines, Economic Development, Economics, Ruder Finn Inc., Telecommunications, Tiffany Money Clips

This article was prepared by Economics & Business Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2010, Economics & Business Week via VerticalNews.com.

Bassam Jalgha, 23, has decided he doesn’t want a religious marriage. There’s only one problem: civil tiffany cufflinks are not performed in Lebanon.

Jalgha was one of around 200 people who marched on the Lebanese Parliament Thursday to demand politicians amend the law to allow people the option of marrying outside religious establishments.

The demonstration was organized by the Non-Violent Non-Sectarian Young Lebanese Citizens association (CHAML) to mark the day of “freedom of choice,” which the Lebanese National Campaign for Personal Status designated years ago as March 18.

Wearing wedding dresses and tuxedos, the protesters marched across Downtown Beirut to outside Parliament, ululating and chanting their demands. “It makes no sense [not to have the option of civil marriage], especially if they want us to live together and survive together as one population inside one country,” Jalgha said. “They should allow people from different religions who love each other to get married in their own country.”

The Lebanese state recognizes 18 different religious groups, which preside over personal status tiffanys like marriage, divorce, custody and inheritance. Marriages across the sectarian divide are allowed, provided one of the partners converts to the other’s religion, and are registered in the husband’s jurisdiction of birth.

Although Lebanese cannot have a civil marriage at home, the Lebanese state will recognize civil ceremonies performed abroad, so long as the marriage is registered at the Lebanese Embassy or consulate in the country where it took place.

In nearby pluralistic countries like Israel, Jordan and Syria, civil marriages are also not an option. As a result, numerous travel agencies in the region advertise one or two-day civil marriage packages in countries like Cyprus or Turkey.

But these trips are prohibitively expensive for many of those wanting a civil union. In addition, “this forces couples to get married alone, without their friends or families,” said Diana Assaf, a volunteer with CHAML. She said it made little sense for Lebanon not to allow civil marriages when they recognized those performed abroad. “We’re just asking for the simple right [for the Lebanese people] to get married in their country.”

The protest also fell on the anniversary of a bill by former Lebanese President Elias Hrawi in 1998, which almost succeeded in introducing the option of civil marriage. The bill gained approval from Cabinet members but was vetoed by the late former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He possessed both Saudi and Lebanese passports, and was said to have heeded the rulings of Saudi clerics who said granting civil marriage rights contravened Islamic Sharia law.

A number of Lebanese politicians still back civil marriages, though. MP Ghassan Mokheiber, who tiffany pendants closely with civil society, was outside Parliament to lend his support to the protesters. He told The Daily Star civil marriage should be one of the “basic rights” enjoyed by the Lebanese people. “There has been a lot of talk about de-confessionalizing Lebanon,” he said. “This could be one of the tools to bringing people closer together.”

He noted that protesters were not looking to abolish religious marriages or confessional laws. “It is an optional law that would not deny faith nor good morals nor religious weddings. It is simply an alternative that now the Lebanese have to find in other countries,” he said. “It’s time that we recognize our own marriages in Lebanon.”

Although the option of civil marriage doesn’t seem like it will be granted anytime soon, the movement for greater civil freedoms is picking up momentum.

In February 2009, Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud issued a circular granting Lebanese citizens the right to remove their religion from their Civil Registry Records. Baroud said the initiative was in line with the Lebanese Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Lebanon helped author, and several other international human-rights treaties signed by Beirut.

An online petition and Facebook group demanding civil marriage are also gaining more and more tiffany earrings. In addition, CHAML will soon present a draft law to parliamentarians granting the option of civil marriages, Assaf said.

But until that option comes to pass in Lebanon, those wishing to marry outside of a religious institution will still be forced to travel abroad to do so.

Fashion designers and modern haute couture establishments have begun to base their fashion creations on a fusion of the traditional and modern with special emphasis on ethnic motifs and colors with a view to offering a new outlook to the fashion scene.

This look also enhances the exotic aura of more eastern looking outfits. Countries tiffany bracelets India, Pakistan and Bangladesh now boast innumerable fashion houses and designers that attempt to be innovative and unique.

Of these, some outfits and outfitters have been able to catch the praise of fashion lovers and fashion followers from different walks of life. A few of these innovative fashion houses and designers have also achieved international recognition as artists and art houses with a flair and mode of haute couture of world repute.

Pakistan has also come out with creative and innovative designers and fashion houses, many of which have now received acclaim and renown in the international world of fashion.

The fusion of ethnic/traditional and the modern/funky outlook has given rise to new and tiffany cufflinks trends, not only in clothing but also in jewelry and accessories.

Among the selected names from Pakistan are Amir Adnan and Huma Adnan. Amir Adnan began as a name to reckon with in dynamic fashion innovations in men’s style. The Amir Adnan label began in 1990 as a collection of unique couture ties, which were celebrated because they were creations of a “creative and visionary banker” called the Amir Adnan Business Collection.

The brand quickly grew to become a pioneering trend in rendering traditional menswear, specially the formal eastern long coat, the Sherwani, into a signature of a high fashion luxury item liked by the urbane Pakistani (and other eastern) male.

Amir’s unique selling point has been the revitalization of traditional garments into a viable fashion statement relating to the fashion conscious modern male elite. With a close observation of the tastes of cultured and conscientious clientele, Amir creates exclusive items to attract and please the man/woman who likes to wear well.

Therefore, Amir’s innovation of the traditional Shalwar/Kameez, Lehenga/Kurta, Chooridar/tiffanys, Sari/blouse have added to the new and extremely glamorous national wear of the subcontinent.

Amir’s covetable jewelry collections “meld meticulously intricate craftsmanship with novel experimental techniques to create romantic and contemporary pieces that resonate with fluid femininity.

Using indigenous silver and precious gem stones mined in Pakistan, Amir is able to expose the beauty of the pieces that lie in their ability to fashion vivid lives of their own while reflecting the inspirational free-spirit of the modern woman.” Amir Adnan is the proud recipient of the Pride of Performance Award given to him in appreciation of his contributions by the government of Pakistan. Huma Adnan, Amir’s business half and better half, is a designer in her own right.

She is the “discerning creator” of FunkAsia, a brand of fashion wear that combines the modern European with the eastern traditional. Her fashion statement takes on different trends and hues inspired by the atmosphere, colors, and diverse landscape of Pakistan.

FunkAsia presents an urban-chic collection of colorful pret wear for women. Amir and Huma Adnan have taken part in many fashion presentations in both Asia, America, and Europe where they have successfully competed with great names.

From business to society high fashion, Amir and Huma Adnan have successfully created a tiffany pendants for their fashion design with their innovative and exotic fusion of clothes and jewelry that can be used with chic and taste anywhere in the social world. The couple is based in both Karachi and Dubai now.