The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Stills: Arrived!

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Blackstone Reportedly Withdraws Bid For Dell, Citing ?Deteriorating? Business

Blackstone has reportedly withdrawn its bid for Dell, leaving the way open for founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy out the company, reports Reuters.

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Camden boys tennis loses to Rome Free Academy

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CAMDEN >> Rome Free Academy?s boys tennis team swept Camden 7-0 Wednesday. Camden?s Charlie Price and Sam Wright won the Blue Devils lone set in first doubles.

1S: Evan Griffith (R) d. Rich Price (C) 6-3, 6-4

2S: Zach Warren (R) d. Ryan Lisenko (C) 6-4, 6-2

3S: Michael Mellace (R) d. Zach Price (C) 6-1, 6-0

4S: Sebastian Domenico (R) d. Jesse Muller (C) 6-0, 6-1

1D: Barry Li/Thomas Hawkins (R) d. Charlie Price/Sam Wright (C) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2

2D: Daygen Hughes/James Striker (R) d. Spencer Connor/Andrew Hill (C) 6-4, 6-0

3D: Erich Metzger/Matthew Smith (R) d. Tanner Waterman/Emerson Carpenter (C) 7-5, 6-2

RFA 1-0; Camden 0-1.

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Scott blasts House health insurance plan | StAugustine.com

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TALLAHASSEE (AP) ? Gov. Rick Scott slammed a Florida House proposal Thursday that would pass up billions of federal dollars to provide health care coverage to 115,000 uninsured Floridians in a watered down alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal health law.

The proposal relies entirely on $237 million in state taxpayer funds and would not tap into an estimated $51 billion dollars in federal aid available under the Affordable Care Act over the next decade.

It would also offer coverage to thousands fewer residents, covering only those making 100 percent of the federal poverty level as opposed to the roughly 1 million residents that would have been covered through Medicaid expansion.

The Obama Administration has sought to increase health coverage to more Americans by expanding Medicaid to those making up to 138 percent of the poverty level ? something many state GOP lawmakers are opposed to.

Instead, House Republicans plan to expand a health insurance program pushed by former House Speaker Marco Rubio that would give residents state money to help them obtain coverage from the private insurers through the online health exchange. Rubio's plan ? known as Florida Health Choices ? has had trouble getting off the ground and currently doesn't insure anyone.

"The House's plan will cost Florida taxpayers on top of what they are already taxed under the President's new healthcare law. This would be a double-hit to state taxpayers," Scott said in a statement.

Scott made an about-face decision earlier this year saying he supported Medicaid expansion because it was the compassionate, common-sense approach, but he's said he's open to alternatives after committees in both the House and Senate rejected expanding Medicaid. Scott signaled Thursday he would support a Senate plan proposed by Sen. Joe Negron "because it protects both state taxpayers and the uninsured in our state."

Negron's bill would still tap into billions of federal dollars and use those funds for vouchers so patients could purchase private health insurance. His plan would utilize Florida Healthy Kids, an organization he says has a strong record with the state.

But House Republicans made it clear that they would not accept any health plan that relies on federal funds, worrying that if they expand the program the federal government will not make good on its promise to fund it. The federal government has promised to foot the entire bill for three years and 90 percent after that. That's a much better deal than the state currently has for Medicaid patients, with the feds paying roughly half.

"Maybe it's the $16 trillion deficit that gives me pause," said Weatherford. "The federal government is more interested in expanding a flawed program. We think this is an opportunity to lead the health care debate not just in Florida, but to take a new idea for people who don't have care and do it in a more responsible way. I don't think we should be relying, long term, on a federal solution to our health care needs in the state of Florida."

The House proposal is similar to another plan in the Senate by Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, who also wants to rely on state dollars. But the House plan is more comprehensive and would offer coverage to disabled adults and adults with children. Most of the plans would provide low-cost preventative and primary care visits, subsidized by state funds.

Negron said he still preferred the Senate proposal, but he praised the House effort as a "well-thought out plan" to provide coverage to some uninsured.

"I think it's a step in the right direction," said Negron.

Angry House Democrats have said finding an affordable way to expand health coverage is still do-able even though the Legislative session is past the midpoint.

House Democrats felt so strongly about the health care decision they initially agreed to withhold their support for the House's proposed $74 billion budget to signal their strong advocacy for action. But shortly after the House proposal was released House Democratic Leader Perry Thurston said he went to fellow Democrats and said they should vote on the budget as they deem appropriate.

Thurston, however, criticized the House proposal.

"The problem is that they've been dragging their feet, they still don't want to accept the money that's there," Thurston said. "Other states will take it. As a donor state, we'll continue to give, give and we won't receive for our residents. And it's because it's the most needy residents in the state of Florida."

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Gibson Min-ETune ? Perfect pitch at the touch of a button

Bob Marley, Roy Orbison and Chet Adkins would probably turn over in their graves if they could see these new Gibson Min-ETune guitars. Affixed to the back of the headstock is a battery-powered robot tuner that can accurately tune all six strings simultaneously to standard tuning in a matter of seconds. Just press the button, [...]

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Gwyneth Paltrow: I Smoke One Cigarette Per Week, Won't 'Do Botox Again'

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for her strict diet and intense fitness regimens, but the 40-year-old beauty still smokes!

In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar, the actress admits her guilty pleasure (surprisingly) involves nicotine.

"[My guilty pleasure is] my one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night," she told the mag.

PHOTOS: Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth also opened up about anti-aging procedures, saying she's currently too frightened to undergo cosmetic surgery, but wouldn't rule it out in years to come.

"I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50," she said. "I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy.

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"I looked like Joan Rivers!" she added.

For more with Gwyneth, pick up a copy of Harper's Bazaar's May 2013 issue - on newsstands April 23.

-- Erin O'Sullivan

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What happens in the brain to make music rewarding

Apr. 11, 2013 ? A new study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time. The study, conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -- The Neuro, McGill University and published in the journal Science on April 12, pinpoints the specific brain activity that makes new music rewarding and predicts the decision to purchase music.

Participants in the study listened to 60 previously unheard music excerpts while undergoing functional resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning, providing bids of how much they were willing to spend for each item in an auction paradigm. "When people listen to a piece of music they have never heard before, activity in one brain region can reliably and consistently predict whether they will like or buy it, this is the nucleus accumbens which is involved in forming expectations that may be rewarding," says lead investigator Dr. Valorie Salimpoor, who conducted the research in Dr. Robert Zatorre's lab at The Neuro and is now at Baycrest Health Sciences' Rotman Research Institute. "What makes music so emotionally powerful is the creation of expectations. Activity in the nucleus accumbens is an indicator that expectations were met or surpassed, and in our study we found that the more activity we see in this brain area while people are listening to music, the more money they are willing to spend."

The second important finding is that the nucleus accumbens doesn't work alone, but interacts with the auditory cortex, an area of the brain that stores information about the sounds and music we have been exposed to. The more a given piece was rewarding, the greater the cross-talk between these regions. Similar interactions were also seen between the nucleus accumbens and other brain areas, involved in high-level sequencing, complex pattern recognition and areas involved in assigning emotional and reward value to stimuli.

In other words, the brain assigns value to music through the interaction of ancient dopaminergic reward circuitry, involved in reinforcing behaviours that are absolutely necessary for our survival such as eating and sex, with some of the most evolved regions of the brain, involved in advanced cognitive processes that are unique to humans.

"This is interesting because music consists of a series of sounds that when considered alone have no inherent value, but when arranged together through patterns over time can act as a reward, says Dr. Robert Zatorre, researcher at The Neuro and co-director of the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research. "The integrated activity of brain circuits involved in pattern recognition, prediction, and emotion allow us to experience music as an aesthetic or intellectual reward."

"The brain activity in each participant was the same when they were listening to music that they ended up purchasing, although the pieces they chose to buy were all different," adds Dr. Salimpoor. "These results help us to see why people like different music -- each person has their own uniquely shaped auditory cortex, which is formed based on all the sounds and music heard throughout our lives. Also, the sound templates we store are likely to have previous emotional associations."

An innovative aspect of this study is how closely it mimics real-life music-listening experiences. Researchers used a similar interface and prices as iTunes. To replicate a real life scenario as much as possible and to assess reward value objectively, individuals could purchase music with their own money, as an indication that they wanted to hear it again. Since musical preferences are influenced by past associations, only novel music excerpts were selected (to minimize explicit predictions) using music recommendation software (such as Pandora, Last.fm) to reflect individual preferences.

The interactions between nucleus accumbens and the auditory cortex suggest that we create expectations of how musical sounds should unfold based on what is learned and stored in our auditory cortex, and our emotions result from the violation or fulfillment of these expectations. We are constantly making reward-related predictions to survive, and this study provides neurobiological evidence that we also make predictions when listening to an abstract stimulus, music, even if we have never heard the music before. Pattern recognition and prediction of an otherwise simple set of stimuli, when arranged together become so powerful as to make us happy or bring us to tears, as well as communicate and experience some of the most intense, complex emotions and thoughts.

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Migraine Pain Relief: Causes, Treatments and Alternatives | Mexico ...

Serotonin is a hormone that is technically called 5-hydroxyterpitamine and is produced and found in the pineal gland, blood platelets, the digestive tract, and the brain. Seroronin acts both as a chemical messenger that transmits nerve signals between nerve cells; and a substance that causes blood vessels to narrow. Changes in the serotonin levels in the brain can alter a person?s mood. Serotonin, based on some studies, also cause or trigger migraine headaches.

Migraines occur mainly due to the constriction of blood vessels near the brain. Typically, migraine pain lasts from four to 72 hours. Migraine affects about 15% of the entire U.S. population. Three times as many women as men have migraines. More than 80% of people with migraines (called migraineurs) have other members in the family who have them too. Migraine headaches are the second most common type of primary headache and they can have other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light.

A migraine is caused by the enlargement of the temporal artery, which is the artery that lies on the outside of the skull and under the skin of our forehead. When this artery enlarges, it stretches nerves around it and they in turn release certain chemicals. These chemicals are the cause of the pain that is called a migraine, and they also cause the artery to enlarge even more?more pain, more enlargement. Migraines are just a never-ending circle of agony.

Prescription-strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can reduce the frequency of attacks in over half of migraine sufferers. Mefenamic acid (Ponstel) and naproxen (Anaprox) are particularly useful for preventing migraines associated with menstruation. Beta-blockers are usually prescribed to reduce high blood pressure. Some, however, are also useful in reducing the frequency of migraine attacks and their severity when they occur. Propranolol (Inderal) and timolol (Blocadren) have been approved specifically for prevention of migraine. Others medications that have been found to be effective include metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL), and nadolol (Corgard).

However, regular headache pain relievers and other oral medications are probably going to do little to help. They are simply not absorbed the way they should be. However, a person with migraine could try some natural remedies such as massage, heat, a hot shower, relaxation techniques or any activity that helps puts aside the worries for the moment and relaxes the body.

Another non-chemical method used by people to treat migraines is called acupuncture, a procedure that helps calm the temporal artery and the sympathetic nerve system. There are a lot of practitioners of Acupuncture. They are licensed, highly trained professionals that can be trusted by patients.

When considering how to naturally prevent a migraine headache, you can try lavender or peppermint oil as a topical solution or inhaler. These can be put in a vaporizer or washcloth. Calcium and magnesium supplements also help relieve muscle tension.

Alternative medicines for migraine headache pain sufferers are available without the risks or adverse effects of the regular pain relief medications. Besides being more conservative than the medical establishment?s methods of migraine pain relief, they?re often just as effective, if not more so.

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Alcohol may improve breast cancer survival ? The Chart - CNN.com ...

Although drinking alcohol is known to be a risk factor for developing breast cancer, a new study suggests that alcohol may not have any effect on whether you survive the disease.? In fact, researchers found that being a moderate drinker may actually improve your chances of survival.

"The results of the study showed there was no adverse relationship between drinking patterns before diagnosis and breast cancer survival," said Polly Newcomb, director of the cancer prevention program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the lead author of the study.

"We actually found that relative to non-drinkers there were modestly improved survival rates for moderate alcohol intake."

The researchers followed close to 25,000 breast cancer patients for an average of 11 years, and found that women who drank moderately - three to six drinks per week - before developing breast cancer were 15% less likely to die from the disease.

More importantly, she says, drinking after diagnosis also didn't appear to impact survival.

"Whether you drink post diagnostically - again, moderately - doesn't appear to adversely impact your mortality," Newcomb said.

So does that mean women who have a history of breast cancer are free to drink up?

"The results of our study would suggest that moderate alcohol consumption after a diagnosis of breast cancer does not adversely impact either breast cancer-specific or overall survival," she said.

Another benefit of moderate alcohol intake - a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease in women with breast cancer, according to Newcomb.?"Cardiovascular disease is importantly being recognized as a contributor to mortality among breast cancer survivors."

The study found that women who drank those same three to six drinks per week before being diagnosed with breast cancer were 25% less likely to develop heart disease.

The bottom line, says Newcomb??"This is good news for women because it might help direct some of their choices after their diagnosis."

Dr. Sandra Swain, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which published the study Monday?in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,? agreed the findings are good news for breast cancer patients, but cautioned that more research should be done to confirm them.

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First trial to investigate magic mushrooms as a treatment for depression delayed by UK and EU regulations

Apr. 5, 2013 ? The world's first clinical trial to explore the use of the hallucinogenic ingredient in magic mushrooms to treat depression is being delayed due to the UK and EU rules on the use of illegal drugs in research.

Professor David Nutt, president of the British Neuroscience Association and Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London (UK), will tell the BNA's Festival of Neuroscience today (Sunday) that although the UK's Medical Research Council has awarded a grant for the trial, the Government's regulations controlling the licensing of illegal drugs in research and the EU's guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) have stalled the start of the trial, which was expected to start this year. He is calling for a change to the regulations.

He will tell the meeting at the Barbican in London, that his research has shown that psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, has the potential to alleviate severe forms of depression in people who have failed to respond fully to other anti-depressant treatments. However, psilocybin is illegal in the UK; the United Nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances classifies it as a Schedule 1 drug, one that has a high potential for abuse with no recognised medical use, and the UK has classified it as a Class A drug, the classification used for the most dangerous drugs. This means that a special licence has to be obtained to use magic mushrooms in research in the UK, and the manufacture of a synthetic form of psilocybin for use in patients is tightly controlled by EU regulations.

Prof Nutt will say: "The law for the control of drugs like psilocybin as a Schedule 1 Class A drug makes it almost impossible to use them for research and the reason we haven't started the study is because finding companies who could manufacture the drug and who are prepared to go through the regulatory hoops to get the licence, which can take up to a year and triple the price, is proving very difficult. The whole situation is bedevilled by this primitive, old-fashioned attitude that Schedule 1 drugs could never have therapeutic potential, and so they have to be made impossible to access."

"The knock-on effect is this profound impairment of research. We are the first people ever to have done a psilocybin study in the UK, but we are still hunting for a company that can manufacture the drug to GMP standards for the clinical trial, even though we've been trying for a year to find one. We live in a world of insanity in terms of regulating drugs at present. The whole field is so bogged down by these intransient regulations, so that even if you have a good idea, you may never get it into the clinic."

He will say that the regulations need to be changed. "Even if I do this study and I show it's a really useful treatment for some people with depression, there's only four hospitals in this country that have a licence to hold this drug, so you couldn't roll out the treatment if it worked because the regulations would make it difficult to use," he said.

Prof Nutt and his team at Imperial College London (UK) have shown that when healthy volunteers are injected with psilocybin, the drug switched off a front part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex, which is known from previous imaging studies to be over-active in depression. "We found that, even in normal people, the more that part of the brain was switched off under the influence of the drug, the better they felt two weeks later. So there was a relationship between that transient switching off of the brain circuit and their subsequent mood," he will explain. "This is the basis on which we want to run the trial, because this is what you want to do in depression: you want to switch off that over-active part of the brain.

"The other thing we discovered is that the major site of action of the magic mushrooms is to turn down a circuit in the brain called the 'default mode network', which the anterior cingulate cortex is part of. The default mode network is a part of the brain between the front and back. It is active when you are thinking about you; it coordinates the thinking and emotional aspects of you."

The researchers discovered that the 'default mode network' had the highest density of 5HT2A receptors in the brain. These are known to be involved in depression and are the targets for a number of existing anti-depressive drugs that aim to improve levels of serotonin -- the neurotransmitter [1] that gives people a sense of well-being and happiness. Psilocybin also acts on these receptors.

"We have found that people with depression have over-active default mode networks, and they are continually locked into a mode of thinking about themselves. So they ruminate on themselves, on their incompetencies, on their badness, that they're worthless, that they've failed; these things are not true, and sometimes they reach delusional levels. This negative rumination may be due to a lack of serotonin and what psilocybin is doing is going in and rapidly replacing the missing serotonin, switching them back into a mind state where they are less ruminating and less depressed," Prof Nutt will say.

The proposed trial will be for patients with depression who have failed two previous treatments for the condition. Thirty patients will be given a synthetic form of psilocybin and 30 patients will be given a placebo. The drug (or placebo) will be given during two, possibly three, carefully controlled and prepared 30-60 minute sessions. The first session will be a low dose to check there are no adverse responses, the second session will give a higher, therapeutic dose, and then patients can have a third, booster dose in a later session if it's considered necessary. While they are under the influence of the drug, the patients will have guided talking therapy to enable them to explore their negative thinking and issues that are troubling them. The doctors will follow up the patients for at least a year.

"What we are trying to do is to tap into the reservoir of under-researched 'illegal' drugs to see if we can find new and beneficial uses for them in people whose lives are often severely affected by illnesses such as depression. The current legislation is stopping the benefits of these drugs being explored and for the last 40 years we have missed really interesting opportunities to help patients."

Ethical approval for the trial was granted in March and Prof Nutt says he hopes to be able to start the trial within the next six months -- so long as he can find a manufacturer for the drug.

[1] Neurotransmitters are chemicals that transmit signals from neurons (nerve cells) to target cells.

[2] Funding: The Beckley Foundation has funded part of Prof Nutt's research, and the Medical Research Council has agreed a grant for the proposed clinical trial.

Abstract title: "Can we use psychedelic drugs to treat depressions?" Symposium: "Treating depression with antidepressants: where are we now and where are we going?"

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Majed El Shafie Congratulates Canadian Government on the Opening of a Permanent Canadian Diplomatic Office in Iraq

One Free World International founder Majed El Shafie praises the opening of a permanent Canadian diplomatic office in Iraq. This week's unannounced trip to Iraq by Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, follows the successful 2011 delegation led by El Shafie.

Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) April 02, 2013

One Free World International founder Majed El Shafie congratulates the Canadian government on the opening of a permanent Canadian diplomatic office housed at the British embassy in Baghdad. The announcement was made by Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, who is currently in Iraq as part of a 12-day Middle East tour.

Baird?s unannounced trip to Iraq, the first visit by a Canadian foreign minister in 37 years, follows the successful 2011 delegation led by El Shafie. Accompanied by observers MP John Weston, Senator Don Meredith and Iraqi activist Rabea Allos, El Shafie?s delegation was the first Canadian delegation to Iraq since the start of the war.

The mandate of the 2011 delegation was to discuss the human rights violations in Iraq and to open bridges of communication with Canada. High level meetings took place with the Vice President of Iraq, Iraq?s Vice Prime Minister, President of the Iraqi Parliament, Minister of Human Rights, Minister of the Environment and Iraqi Foreign Affairs. In addition, the delegation met with Iraqi refugees and spoke with victims of last October?s vicious attack at Our Lady of Salvation Church.

?It is important that human rights and the rights of the minorities be equally as important as economic aide,? said El Shafie. ?One cannot survive without the other. It is our responsibility not to remain silent with regard to the human rights violations and rights of the minorities in Iraq. In the process of rebuilding Iraq, now is the time to build a strong human rights foundation to ensure a true democratic country with freedom of religion which is the foundation of all democracies. Without it, democracy fails.?

"I am delighted that our Ministers of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, and Citizenship & Immigration, Jason Kenney, have both recently visited Iraq,? said John Weston, MP from West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country. ?Broadening our diplomatic presence there strengthens the commercial reach of Canadians in Iraq while increasing our ability to promote peace in the region and human rights in the country. Kudos to Majed El Shafie and One Free World International; Senator Don Meredith and I were on the ground with them in Baghdad in 2011 on a human rights mission. Rev. El Shafie's leadership as a human rights advocate helped pave the way for our Government leaders to take the bold steps announced this week."

For more information on One Free World International, visit http://www.onefreeworldinternational.org.

About Majed El Shafie:

El Shafie was arrested, tortured and sentenced to die in Egypt because of his Christian faith. Today, he lives in Canada and fights for those persecuted around the world through his human rights organization, One Free World International. Pressuring governments, and challenging both world and spiritual leaders, El Shafie has not been afraid to put everything on the line to help those in need. El Shafie and his work are the focus of the award-winning documentary ?Freedom Fighter? (http://www.freedomfighterdvd.com) and the companion book, ?Freedom Fighter: One Man's Fight for One Free World? (Destiny Image). El Shafie regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament and Senate, and he's a regular guest on CTV News, CBC, Sun News Network, CBN, ACLJ's Jordan Sekulow Show and more. In July 2012, he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

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Brain cancer claims Janae White, courageous battler | The ...

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In a 2011 photo, Janae White looks out her window as she practices on the piano in her home between East Wenatchee and Rock Island. White had undergone several surgeries since 2009 to remove brain tumors and played the piano daily to help her recovery.

ROCK ISLAND ? Janae White passed away Tuesday at her home in Rock Island after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 54.

The Wenatchee World published a feature story about White March 15, 2011, titled ?The fight of her life.? She fought courageously for nearly four years.

White, the wife of local entrepreneur and businessman Calvin White, was first diagnosed with cancer in 2009, after suffering a seizure while watching Fourth of July fireworks with her family.

White was shocked by the discovery. A Mormon, she never drank, smoked or took drugs and always tried to live a healthy life. She was an accomplished concert pianist who performed widely and recorded several CDs. She played organ in her church and taught seminary classes. She was a Gold?s Gym trainer and bodybuilder who had won contests throughout the Northwest. She worked with her husband to operate various Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants they owned in the Northwest. She was the mother of six children and had 15 grandchildren.

Doctors gave her only a few months to live on several occasions. But she fought on, undergoing numerous conventional and alternative treatments. Two years ago, exams showed most of the tumors had shrunk or arrested in their growth. Doctors told her she was doing remarkably well, but that the cancer would likely return.

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Janae White reads to her grandchildren in this 2011 photo, from left: Brielle Lintz, 6, Sicily Lintz, 2 (center back), Kennedy Lott, 20 months, and Bentley Lott, 3.

Her condition deteriorated over the past year despite ongoing treatments.

A commemoration service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the East Wenatchee Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with internment to follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.

Rick Steigmeyer: 664-7151

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