Auction for Jeremy Lin Shoe Underway

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Jeremy LinIf you’ve always wanted to own a smelly, sweaty large shoe, now is your chance. Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin has given a shoe to Yahoo Taiwan’s auction website as a charity gesture. All of the proceeds from the auction will go to a local Down Syndrome Foundation.

The shoe in question is a size 12 red Nike Hyperdunk which is on Yahoo’s Taiwan’s auction website. The auction will go until October 25th. Lin wore the shoe during an NBA pre-season game in Tapei recently. Whent the game finished, he autographed the shoe and gave it to a local celebrity who turned it over to the foundation.

As of recently, there had been 15 bids, with the top one reaching NT#301,500 or US$10,000.

Breast Cancer Awarness Month Recognized by Fire Stations

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Dallas-Fire-Pink-Shirt-300x200It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and people around the country are doing amazing programs to raise awareness and funding. One woman is raising awareness in Dallas. Senior Fire Prevention Officer Shanetra Brown, a two-time breast cancer survivor, is heading up the Dallas Fire-Rescue annual Care Enough to Wear Pink campaign.

In 2008 she was first diagnosed with breast cancer and in 2012 she was diagnosed again. Now, the campaign she is spearheading calls on fire departments across the country to wear pink attire for the month of October. In Dallas, the fire fighters wore pink uniform shirts from the beginning of October until the 19th.

As Brown explained, “If you feel something that’s different in your body, go to your doctor. Don’t let fear paralyze you. The earlier they can find it, the better the treatment, the better the outcome.”