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Active Short Sale, Approved Short Sale, and Active Short Contingent – What's the Difference?
From Brittany Mauriss on August 03, 2009 in CalFinder News
Market conditions have changed the way we look at real estate. It's no longer customary to call a Realtor, list your home, negotiate a fair deal, and leave a welcome mat for the new owners. What's commonplace now are foreclosures and short sales.
Speaking of short sales, there's a lot of confusion when it comes to this term. Even the real estate agents are confused. So, let's dive in and clear up the confusion.
What's a short sale?
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When a homeowner owes more than their home is worth, rather than foreclose they opt for a short sale. The proceeds from the sale are less than what is owed and the homeowner is forgiven the difference.The lender has to agree to discount the balance of the loan and the homeowner has to prove financial hardship. All negotiation goes through the bank's loss mitigation department.
The process of buying a short sale is a long one, so if you need to buy a home quickly, a short sale won't cut it. In most cases, you never hear back from the bank,and when you do,it's usually 3 or 4 months after you've submitted your offer. I submitted an offer for $10,000 over-asking-price on a non-approved short sale and actually got approved two months after submission - but that's rare and most likely because I put down a large deposit and overbid.
Active short sale
An active short sale means that the house is currently an active listing on Metrolist (MLS). A short sale hasn't been approved by the bank. The listing agent decides what the current market value of the home is and lists it as a short sale. If a buyer makes an offer on the home, the listing agent submits it to the bank along with a short sale package. The seller must convince the lender that they are financially unable to pay the difference between what they can sell the home for and the loan balance owed. The short sale package is lengthy and includes financial papers, such as past taxes, budgets, pay stubs, bank statements, etc. Once the loss mitigation department receives this paperwork, along with the buyers offer, the analysis begins. The bank determines if the homeowner qualifies for a short sale and they weigh their options - a foreclosure or a short sale - as to which tactic will bring minimum financial loss. This process takes between 2 to 5 months and possibly longer if there's a junior lien (2nd
mortgage) on the property.
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Approved short sale
An approved sale means that the lender(s) have agreed to the short sale and the above process has already been completed. This is usually because a previous buyer made an offer and triggered the analysis process, but the buyer got impatient, bought another house, or couldn't get financing. So, the listing changes from short sale to approved short sale. Now the listing agent knows the approved price the lender will release the property for. An approved short sale is more like a normal sale with a quick close. If you offer the approved price, you have a good chance of being accepted. If you offer less than the approved price, the waiting period (2 to 5 months) may start over again.
Active short contingent
This usually means that there are one or more offers that the owner has accepted, but that the bank hasn't yet approved. It could also mean that the buyer's offer is contingent upon selling their home in order to purchase the home that they put an offer on. Don't be shy with short sale contingents. Yes, it's "kind of" pending, but don't let that hold you back from submitting your offer. Be aggressive and bid higher, offer a larger deposit, or pay cash for the home. A cash buyer is in a very strong position and most likely will bump the other offers off the table.
The rules of the game
The MLS has a rule that a listing has to be changed from active short sale to active short contingent once the seller has accepted an offer, which is subject to and contingent upon the bank's approval. Most original short sale offers are rejected by the bank, so active short contingents make sense to put a back-up offer on. Once the lender has accepted an offer, the listing agent must change the status in the MLS to "pending," and then when closed to "sold."


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Cooking Wild Magazine: Going Digital in 2014
We are excited to announce that Cooking Wild magazine will move to a digital only format to be launched in the spring/summer of 2014. As a big thank you to all our current subscribers they will enjoy a lifetime subscription of the digital version.
The only way to grow is to change and we at Cooking Wild are excited by this next phase. The digital platform will allow us to explore video content including product demonstrations, tutorials, and webinars. Cooking Wild magazine will become the online hub for everything wild food related.

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MEMC Electronic Materials
MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR) designs silicon wafers.
MEMC claims to be the second largest producer of polysilicon in the US after Hemlock, a jv of Dow Chemical and Corning Glass Works via Dow-Corning. MEMC is a licensee of the Westinghouse Siemens process. The company originated as a division of Monsanto.
However, MEMC is not usually listed as a major supplier of polysilicon. Hence, they appear to specialize in the final processing of silicon wafers rather than conversion of metallurgical grade silicon to polysilicon.
A bit more about MEMCs processing technology was revealed in the obituary of Bob Walsh, the "Father of Polishing." [[1]] His process for smoothing the rough surface of wafer slices used a combination of chemical etching and mechanical polishing.
MEMC owns SunEdison that contracts to build solar farms. In 2013, MEMC announced that Foxconn will assemble its solar panels in Juarez, Mexico. This is the same Foxconn that assembles electronics products like iPhone in China.
SunEdison is reported to have 989 mw of solar farms installed, and 2.6 gw under development.
In 2013, MEMC changed its name to Sun Edison, ticker SUNE.
Sun Edison continues to remake itself as a solar power company. In 2014, a minority stake in its chip wafer unit was IPOed as SunEdison Semiconductor (NASD ticker SEMI). Also TerraForm Power Co. was IPOed as a yieldco for Sun Edison solar farms, traded on the Nasdaq under ticker TERP.
In 2015, Sun Edison announced the purchase of Vivint Solar Inc. The company, based in Lehi, Utah, went public last October. Vivint is the second-biggest installer of rooftop solar panels behind Elon Musk-backed Solar City Corp, with operations in seven states including California and New York. Sun Edison's TerraForm Power Inc. will buy Vivint's rooftop solar portfolio of 523 megawatts (MW), expected to be installed by year-end 2015.
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Americans love watermelon. Statistics reveal that an average American eats about 17 pounds of watermelon every year.
In this article, we will discuss watermelon benefits, medicinal uses and side effects.
Watermelon contains vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6, thiamine, calcium, iron and sodium. It is also a rich source of antioxidants. The best part of this delicious nutrient-packed food is that it has zero cholesterol and low sugar levels, making it a tasty and healthy treat for most.
Listed below are some watermelon benefits.
It is also believed to prevent preeclampsia (hypertension) in pregnancy. In all, if you are pregnant, watermelon is one of the fruits that you can include as a part of your diet.
Apart from the many health benefits of watermelon, recent studies show that it could prevent cancer. Watermelon contains a special carotenoid called lycopene. Lycopene is an antioxidant that is found in some foods like tomatoes; however, watermelon is a much richer source of it. The lycopene in watermelon is believed to help prevent cancer.
Some of the side effects of eating water melon include
Watermelon is a terrific fruit, or should we say vegetable. Not only is it delicious, it is healthy too. Including this healthy treat in to your diet can keep heart attacks, cancer, and a few other problems at bay. While there are a few side effects in some cases, it is safe to say that including a bit of this fruit as part of your diet can do more good than harm.
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THE PANES were rustic daimones (spirits) of wild mountains and highland pasture, as well as the sheep flocks and goat herds which grazed these lands.
The Panes were depicted as goat-footed men, with the tails, bushy beards, snub noses, pointed ears and horns of a goat. Sometimes they were shown with full goat heads, like the image right. As lascivious fertility spirits they were often depicted with erect members.
The Panes were a multiplication of the Arkadian god Pan. They were closely associated with the Satyroi, which were depicted with assine tails and ears, as opposed to goatish features of the Pan.
Strabo, Geography 10. 3. 15 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) and Korybantes (Corybantes) and Panes and Satyroi (Satyrs) and Tityroi."
Pausanias, Description of Greece 8. 37. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
"The sacred enclosure of Despoine [near Akakesion in Arkadia]. As you go to the temple there is a portico on the right, with reliefs of white marble on the wall . . . On the third relief are Nymphai and Panes."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 192 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"I [Zeus] have my Demigods (semidei), my Fauni [Panes] and Satyri, my Nymphae and Rustic Sprites (numina rustica) of wold and wood, not worthy yet to win the sky, but sure the earth, their portion, we must prove secure."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 392 ff :
"The countryfolk, the Numina Silvarum [Sylvan Deities], the Fauni [Panes] and brother Satyri and the Nymphae, were all in tears [following the death of the Satyrus Marsyas], Olympus too."
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14. 634 ff :
"For fear of rustic force she [the Latin Hamadryas Pomona] walled her orchard in to keep away the sex she shunned. What tricks did they not try, the quick young light-foot Satyri, and the Panes who wreathe their horns with pine . . . what did they all not try to win her love?"
Ovid, Heroides 4. 47 ff (trans. Showerman) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"I am borne on, like daughters of the Bacchic cry driven by the frenzy of their god [Dionysos], and those who shake the timbrel at the foot of Ida's ridge [i.e. the Korybantes], or those whom Dryades half-divine and Fauni two-horned (bicornes) [Panes] have touched with their own spirit and driven distraught."
Ovid, Heroides 4. 169 ff :
"May the agile goddess [Artemis] wait on you [the hunter Hippolytos] in the solitary glade to keep you safe, and the deep forest yield you wild beasts to slay; so may the Satyri be your friends, and the mountain deities (numina montanum), the Panes, and may the boar fall pierced in full front by your spear; so may the Nymphae . . . give you the flowing water to relieve your parching thirst!"
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3. 17 (trans. Rackham) (Roman rhetorician C1st B.C.) :
"If gods exist, are Nymphae also goddesses? If the Nymphae are, the Panes and Satyri also are gods; but they are not gods; therefore the Nymphae also are not."
Statius, Silvae 2. 2. 102 ff (trans. Mozley) (Roman poetry C1st A.D.) :
"Often in autumn-time when the grapes are ripening, a Nereis climbs the rocks, and under cover of the shades of night brushes the sea-water from her eyes with a leafy vine-spray, and snatches sweet clusters from the hills. Often is the vintage sprinkled by the neighbouring foam; Satyri plunge into the waters, and Panes from the mountain are fain to grasp the Sea-Nympha as she flies naked through the waves."
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 6. 24 ff (trans. Walsh) (Roman novel C2nd A.D.) :
"[At the wedding of Cupid (Eros) and Psyche:] She [Aphrodite] had organized the performance so that the Musae sang in chorus, a Satyrus played the flute, and a Paniscus [a Pan] sang to the shepherd's pipes."
Strabo, Geography 10. 3. 15 (trans. Jones) (Greek geographer C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"They [the poets] also invented some of the names by which to designate the ministers, choral dancers, and attendants upon the sacred rites [of Rhea and Dionysos], I mean Kabeiroi and Korybantes and Panes and Satyroi (Satyrs) and Tityroi."
Philostratus the Elder, Imagines 1. 19 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A.D.) :
"[From a description of an ancient Greek painting depicting Dionysos and the pirates:] A mission ship and a pirate's ship. Dionysos steers the former, on board the latter are Tyrrhenians, pirates who ravage their own sea . . He [Dionysos] is accompanied only by Lydian women and Satyroi and fluteplayers, and an aged narthex-bearer, and Maronian wine, and by Maron himself. Hearing that Panes sail with him in the form of goats, they [the pirates] planned to carry off the Bakkhai (Bacchae) for themselves and to turn over to the Panes she-goats, such as are raised in the land of the Tyrrhenians."
Ovid, Fasti 1. 391 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) :
"You were holding, Greece, the feast of grape-crowned Bacchus [Dionysos], celebrated by custom each third winter. The gods who serve Lyaeus [Dionysos] also attended and whoever is not hostile to play, namely Panes and young Satyri and goddesses who haunt streams and lonely wilds [and Seilenos and Priapos] . . . They discovered a grove suitable for party pleasures and sprawled on grass-lined couches. Liber [Dionysos] supplied wine, they had brought their own garlands, a brook gave water for frugal mixing."
Propertius, Elegies 3. 17 (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st B.C.) :
"Dircean Thebes will beat the wanton tambourine [in the worship of Dionysos], and goat-foot Panes will play on pipes of reed."
Seneca, Phaedra 783 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st A.D.) :
"For thy slumbers the frolicsome goddesses of the groves will lay their snares, the Dryads, who pursue Panes wandering on the mountains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9. 200 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"Thus he [Dionysos] grew up beside cliffloving Rheia [in the mountains of Phrygia], yet a boy in healthy youth, mountainbred. Circles of Panes among the rocks came about the dancebeating son of Thyone, skipping around the crags on shaggy-knee legs and crying 'Euoi!' to Bakkhos; and the goatfoot hooves rattled in their capers, as they went round and round in the dance."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11. 113 ff :
"The Panes have their cithern and their melodious tootling pipes [as gifts from Dionysos]; the Satyroi (Satyrs) have the roundrattling tomtom from your patron Dionysos; even the mountainranging Bassarids ride on the backs of lions."
Suidas s.v. Backhai (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.) :
"Bakkhai (Bacchae): [Bacchantes] and Satyroi (Satyrs) and Panes and Silenoi, attendants of Dionysos."
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3. 13 (trans. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
"Now [in India] the hill the summit of which is inhabited by the sages is, according to the account of our travellers, of about the same height as the Akropolis of Athens; and it rises: straight up from the plain, though its natural position equally secures it from attack for the rock surrounds it on all sides. On many parts of this rock you see traces of cloven feet and outlines of beards and of faces, and here and there impressions of backs as of persons who had slipt--and rolled down. For they say that Dionysos, when he was trying to storm the place together with Herakles, ordered the Panes to attack it, thinking that they would be strong enough to take it by assault; but they were thunderstruck by the sages and fell one, one way, and another, another; and the rocks as it were took the print of the various postures in which they fell and failed."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 67 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.) :
"[Rheia summons the rustic spirits to the army Dionysos for a campaign against the Indians:] The rockdwellers came also from their self-vaulted caves, bearing all the name of Pan their father the ranger of the wilderness, all armed to join the host; they have human form, and a shaggy goat's head upon it with horns. Twelve horned Panes there were, with this changeling shape and hornbearing head, who were begotten of the one ancestral Pan their mountainranging father. One they named Kelaineus (Blackie) as his looks bore witness, and one Argennos (Whitey) after his colour; Aigikoros (Goatgluts) was well dubbed, because he glutted himself with goat's-milk which he pressed from nannies udders in the flock. Another masterly Pan was called Eugeneios (Longbeard), from a throat and chin which was a thick meadow of hair. Daphoineus (the Bloody) came along with Omester (Eat-em-raw); Phobos (the Fright-away) with shaggy-legged Philamnos (the Lamb's Friend). Glaukos with Xanthos, Glaukos glaring like the bright sea, with a complexion to match. Xanthos had a mane of hair like a bayard, which gave that name to the horned frequenter of the rocks. Then there was bold Argos with a shock of hair as white as snow . . . Along with these came Phorbas (Fear) to join their march, savage and insatiate."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 17. 136 ff :
"[During Dionysos' war against the Indians:] The Panes madly made battle skipping with light foot over the peaks. One of them gript and enemy's neck tight with encircling hands, and ript him with his goat's-hooves, tearing through the flank and strong corselet together. Another caught a fugitive Indian and ran him through this middle where he stood, then lifting him on the curved points of his two longbranching antlers, sent him flying high through the airy ways, rolling over himself like a tumbler. Another waved in his hand the strawcutting sickle of sheafbearing Deo, and reaped the enemy crops with clawcurved blade, like cornears of conflict, like gavels of the battlefield. There was a revel for Ares [i.e. War], there was harvest-home for Dionysos, when the enemy's heads were cut! He offered the curved blade to watching Bakkhos, dabbled with human dew, and so poured a blood-libation to Dionysos, and made the Moirai (Fates) drunken with the battlecup he filled for them. Another man was standing, when one goatfoot Pan twined both hands interlacing about his neck, and struck his wellcorseted emeny with his horn, tearing his flank with the double point. Another met a fellow rushing on him with a blow from his cudgel, and smashed his forehead right between the ends of his eyebrows."
Nonnus, Dionsyiaca 18. 48 ff :
"The Panes [in Dionysos' army], high on their familiar rocks, danced in the dust with nimble feet, passing over the headlands of those untrodden precipices."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 21. 178 ff :
"[When the god Dionysos was driven into the sea by Lykourgos (Lycurgus):] The Satyros so full of energy showed a face unsmiling, and languished in sorrow strange to him. The Panes wandered wild through the woods with hillranging hoof, Panes in search of Dionysos, and heard no word of him . . . So they [the companions of Dionysos] were all restless and sad."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22. 39 ff :
"The Panes then, roaming about the craggy ravines sped on nimble hooves through the trackless hills; in terrible places, where even that light traveller the bird would not dare to fly, or traverse with his pair of beating wings in his lofty course."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 23. 155 ff :
"[The Indian river Hydaspes tries to drown the troops of Dionysos as they cross his stream:] He curved his own stream, and leapt upon Bakkhos with a volley of foaming surf . . . The syrinx of Pan was floating on the surface and rolling of itself on the waves, tossed about beside the double pipes."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 35 ff :
"Spare my reeds [set on fire], which . . . spare the harmonious tune of the pan-pipes which guides your [Dionysos's] own mystic song!"
Nonnus, Dionsyiaca 24. 100 ff :
"The Satyroi (Satyrs) attended his [Dionysos's] passage, and with them Bakkhante women and Panes passed through the water."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 123 ff :
"They [the Panes, Satyroi and Bakkhantes] leapt about dancing on the Indian drags, along the rocky paths; then they built shelters undisturbed in the dark forest, and spent the night among the trees. Some went deerhunting with dogs after the long-antlered stags."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 27. 25 ff :
"[Deriades addresses his Indian troops:] 'Kill me those Panes also with devastating steel. Or if they are gods, and it is not permitted to pierce the body of unwounded Pan with cutting steel, then I make prey of the mountainranging Panes, and they shall tend herds of elephants in the wilderness. Thee are plenty of wild beasts here also, with which I will join the wildbeast Kentauroi (Centaurs) and Panes of hillranging Dionysos; or I will make them a swarm of attendants for my daughter, and waiters upon the festal table of Morrheus.'"
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 29. 313 ff :
"[During the Indian War of Dionysos:] A friendly Pan fought with his goatsfeet: with a sharp stroke of his pointed hoof he tore all down the hollow flank of [the Indian] archer Melaneus and laid open his belly."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 34. 128 ff :
"[Dionysos is driven mad by Hera was absent from the war, demoralising the army of the god:] the Panes had drunk no hot blood fresh from the veins of a lioness of the wilds, and rushed not swift as the wind frenzied into the conflict, but they were mild with fear: hesitating they pawed the ground with gentle noiseless hooves, and ceased the terrible leaps of their highland dance."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 37. 10 ff :
"[During the Indian War of Dionysos:] When Dionysos saw friendly calm instead of war, early in the morning he sent out mules and their attendant men to bring dry wood from the mountains, that he might burn with fire the dead body of Opheltes. Their leader into the forest of pines was Phaunos [Faunus] who was well practised in the secrets of the lonely thickets which he knew so well, for he had learnt about the highland haunts of Kirke (Circe) his mother. The woodman's ace cut down the trees in long rows. Many an elm was felled by the long edge of the axe, many an oak with leaves waving high struck down with a crash, many a pine lay all along, many a fir stooped its dry needles; as the trees were felled far and wide, little by little the rocks were bared. So many a Hamadryas Nymphe sought another home, and swiftly joined the unfamiliar maids of the brooks.
Parties coming up would often meet, men on the hills traversing different mountain-paths. One saw them up aloft, out in front, coming down, crossing over, with feet wandering in all directions. The sticks were packed in bundles with ropes well twisted and fastened tight and trim, and laid on the mules' backs; the animals set out in lines, and the hooves rang on the mountain-paths as they hurried along, the surface of the sandy dust was burdened by heavy logs dragged behind. Satyroi (Satyrs) and Panes were busy; some cut wood with axes, some pulled it from tree after tree with their hands, or lifted trunks with untiring arms and rattled over the rocks with dancing feet."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38. 1 ff :
"The people retired into the recesses of the forest, and entered their huts. The rustic Panes housed themselves under shelter in the ravines, for they occupied at evening time the natural caverns of a lioness in the wilds. The Satyroi (Satyrs) dived into a bear's cave, and hollowed their little bed in the rock with sharp finger-nails in place of cutting steel; until the light-brining morning shone, and the brightness of Eos (the Dawn) newly risen showed itself peacefully to both Indians and Satyroi."


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Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that is needed to convert starches and sugars into energy needed for daily life. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), an estimated 366 million people have diabetes worldwide. In the United States, 25.8 million people are living with this condition — 90 to 95 percent of which are the type 2 variety — and a staggering 79 million have prediabetes.
Prediabetes and Diabetes Defined
Prediabetes, as the name implies, is characterized by blood-sugar levels that are above what is considered normal but are not as high as those that occur with full-blown type 2 diabetes. People with prediabetes also tend to have high blood pressure, high triglycerides (fats that circulate in the blood), low HDL ("good") cholesterol levels, and significant belly fat — a cluster of symptoms that raise their risk of heart disease. Unfortunately, most people with prediabetes develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years unless they make certain lifestyle changes — changes that have been found to be more effective for reversing prediabetes than medications, according to the National Institutes of Health. And if you're following the South Beach Diet lifestyle, you're already on the right track to preventing this disease.
Type 2 diabetes is a condition defined by high blood-sugar levels and abnormal insulin action. Insulin helps the body use a type of sugar called glucose, which the body gets primarily from carbohydrates in food. Glucose provides energy for movement, growth, repair, and other functions. In people with type 2 diabetes, insulin fails to move glucose from the blood into cells, which is why blood-sugar levels may spike after eating. Poor control of type 2 diabetes can lead to many health complications that affect the heart, nerves, eyes, and kidneys.
"The most frustrating thing about prediabetes and diabetes is that they are largely preventable, and in circumstances where diabetes can't be prevented, the onset can usually be postponed," says Dr. Arthur Agatston, author of The South Beach Diet Wake-Up Call and creator of the South Beach Diet. "These conditions are brought on by a Western lifestyle — eating refined carbohydrates and unhealthy fats like trans fats and saturated fats, and by inactivity," he explains. But a straightforward South Beach Diet approach to eating nutrient-dense, fiber-rich, wholesome foods (with an emphasis on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, lean sources of protein, good unsaturated fats, and low-fat dairy), along with daily exercise, can reverse prediabetes and help you prevent or control diabetes. "Many of my patients actually started the South Beach Diet because they were diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes, and I've witnessed their blood-glucose levels revert back to the normal range," adds Dr. Agatston.
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Get Tested
The American Diabetes Association recommends diabetes screenings every three years beginning at age 45. If you have symptoms of diabetes, which include excessive thirst and hunger, frequent urination, unexplained weight loss or fatigue, and irritability, see your doctor for a proper diagnosis and treatment.


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May 27-May 31: Merline was in St. John's for meetings to discuss potential topics that could be considered in formulating research projects in Labrador. She met with the Department of Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial and with Natural Resources NL, and Altius Minerals. She also received a tour of the different research laboratories and gave a seminar, as part of her application for adjunct faculty appointment, at the Department of Earth Sciences at Memorial.
May 28: Martha met with Sheila Freake and researchers from Queen's University to review a questionnaire on knowledge about aboriginal people.
May 29: Marie Clément sent a funding proposal to Nalcor Energy to initiate a research project on the bioaccumulation of methylmercury in the aquatic food chain.
May 29: Joinal and Keith met with representatives of the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay to discuss possible collaboration on a biochar project related to the municipal landfill.
May 29: Keith submitted a CRC proposal to the Faculty of Medicine for consideration.
May 29: Martha and Morgon met with Malve Petersmann of Parks Canada to discuss plans for a new cultural centre in Nain.
May 30: Martha met with Suzanne Denty, Community Studies instructor, to help with developing a course on NL Society and Culture.
May 31: Martha discussed developing a proposal for the Cross-Campus Initiatives fund with Dr. Janie Parsons, School of Social Work.
May 31: Ron participated in a teleconference meeting of the Harris Centre Nominations Committee.
May 31: Ron attended the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce meeting, with Guest speaker, Hon. Jerome Kennedy, Minister of Finance.
June 3: Keith, Ron, Marie, Joinal, and Merline met to discuss planning for research poster presentations for our ExpoLabrador booth.
June 3: Martha Met with Mark Turner regarding the Labrador Film Foundation
June 4-7: Scott attended the Nunatsiavut Government Heritage Forum in Rigolet. He gave a presentation at this event on June 6th.
June 5: Martha attended a teleconference on NSERC procedures.
June 7: Four researchers from the University of Connecticut arrived at the LI Research Station to stay in the residence and use the lab for two weeks. They are working with Dr. Trevor Bell of Memorial and Tom Sheldon of the Nunatsiavut Government on their multi-year Lake Melville research project.
June 7: Keith hosted a job-shadowing student.
June 8: Scott gave Jamie Brake, a Nunatsiavut archaeologist, and Dr. William Fitzhugh, a Smithsonian archaeologist, a tour of North West RIver and the LI Research Station.
June 9: Marie Clément conducted a joint public meeting with Todd Bromfield (Director of Renewable Resources, Nunatsiavut Government) in Rigolet to present the different research projects that are being initiated on Atlantic salmon in Lake Melville.


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A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination is a presidential trivia lover's heaven. Through the combined effort of writer Bryan Young, his daughter Scout, illustrator Erin Kubinek, and a highly-funded Kickstarter campaign, the book pays homage to 13 of the nation's leaders who have been the target of an attempted assassination, four of whom have actually died.
While the title includes the words "children's" and "illustrated," this is not a warm and fuzzy picture book to be read to the kids before bedtime. It's designed for kids who are starting to learn the history of America in school. That's not to say that the book wouldn't interest adults, either. Young narrates what each president did during their lifetime as well as providing the historical context surrounding what would cause a person to want to kill a president, whether it was because of too many paint fumes or anger at the government. The illustrations act as graphic vignettes, complimenting and enhancing the unfolding stories.
Keep in mind that the book isn't just 160 pages of fun trivia facts; it acts as a supplement to grade school history classes where major assassinations are discussed (JFK, Lincoln, etc). This is not by any means a light subject, and it is treated with the respect it deserves in the book while not falling into dry history lecture. Some of the illustrations could be considered too explicit, such as JFK's assassination, but is there really any easy way to describe his death? In general, this book is recommended for late-middle school students and older because it gives the facts in an engaging and entertaining way that this age group will enjoy. A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination is an intriguing read for both kids and adults and helps tell parts of American history in a new and memorable way.
Erin O'Neall is a Library Assistant for the Salt Lake City Public Library. To find similar books within the library's catalog, or to find more info on The City Library's programs and services, visit slcpl.org.


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Not everyone thinks of going to mountain towns in the Summer because of snowmelt, places close down....it becomes a ghost town if you will. Crested Butte, CO is the complete oposite of a ghost town - more alive than anything else! From Denver, CO it is approximately a 4.5 hour drive West - and the scenery is quite something! We were booked for a 2 night's stay at the Purple Mountain Bed & Breakfast in the B&B District. This place is so quaint and gorgeous! It's a blueish-purple exterior with friendly knomes in the front yard, cruiser bikes and two porch swings to sit and sip a frosty cocktail. We were immediately greeted by the Proprietor, Chris, whom is very laid back, friendly and knowledgable of the town itself. Once we were settled, we walked into town to explore a bit and seek out some refreshment. Also we grabbed a spot at the end of Elk St. to watch the "chainless" bike race and watch the participants round a very sharp turn, sans a bike chain. A few actually ended up in the cushion of hay! Hungry at this point, we went into The Secret Stash for some pizza and drinks. http://www.thesecretstash.com/ This place is an absolute MUST for pizza. Unreal and absolutely delicious!!! Wow. Enough said. Moving on to the next day. Chris cooked up some fluffy banana waffels, coffee, and sausage for breakfast follwed by a summary of the day's events. What we loved about this B&B was that it gave all of us the opportunity to sit down over breakfast and get to know one another. Very friendly and homey - the furthests guests were from Oklahoma and also Illinois. The rest us us were from CO. http://www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/seasonal-calendar We were interested in doing some hiking, so we drove out through the base of Mt. Crested Butte and hiked about 2 miles for some gorgeous vista views. After coming down we headed to the town of Gothic for another hike to Judd Falls - about 2 miles round trip. Both hikes were great - different in scenery and challenge, but offered views of still snow capped mountain peaks, wild flowers and Judd Falls, once we arrived there. http://www.gunnisoncrestedbutte.com/site/static/images/Chamber-Map.jpg
From there we decided it would be fun to take the ski life up the mountain over 12,000 ft. for some views and photo opportunity. It's about a 15 minute ride both up and down the mountain and if you're afraid of heights, this isn't for you. The Wildflower Rush Downhill Bike races were also going on so that was fun to catch competitors coming down the mountain. When we got back to our cozy B&B, the "Bridges of the Butte" 24-hour bike fundraiser had started; locals ride their bikes for 24 hours around town - some of the costumes were pretty creative!
For dinner we decided to try Ginger Cafe; a local Thai restaurant with a nice outdoor seating area. Not our favorite place. The pad thai was actually pretty good - and medium spicy which had a nice kick to it. My husband's dish though which had Colorado lamb was not fared as well - the lamb was overcoooked and dry. Disappointing. Otherwise, decent prices, good waitstaff and a healthy cocktail list. A local hangout that we found that has a nice deck up on the second floor, overlooking Elk St. is the Eldo. Fun spot to hang out and people watch for sure. Also cold brews and friendly bartenders.
Wishing that we had another day....as there's so much going on in Crested Butte for the Summer! Ah, however, we will, of course be back.....and to stay at the Purple Mountain B&B!


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Obama flip-flop on SUPER PACs
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Obama talks a good game about believing that people (read: Romney) "meant what they said when they said it." But in 2010, Obama said he was dead-set against SUPER PACs. Now, he's for them, and he's trying to use them to rake in as much cash as he can.
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JACKSON — Mississippi officials warn that as floodwaters drop, the threat of mosquito-borne diseases will rise. They say people returning home should remember that even a flowerpot can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus and other diseases.
This week, Tunica County officials expect to let dozens of families return to the Cutoff community.
Dr. Paul Byers, acting state epidemiologist, tells The Clarion-Ledger that people should take the precautions suggested every summer: wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts, use insect repellent and stay inside as much as possible.
He also says returning homeowners should remove all standing water.
Mississippi's first West Nile Virus case this year was reported last week in Tallahatchie County. Mississippi reported eight cases last year and 53 in 2009.
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ISBN13:by Rau, Dana Meachen
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Writing is a lot like building. You make a blueprint, lay a foundation, and build your ideas one word at a time. Step by step, this book will show you how to plan, write, and polish your writing assignment. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Author Dana Meachen Rau builds with words every day in her home office in Connecticut. She has written more than two hundred books for children. She also visits schools and libraries to meet with young readers and writers.
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Brian's exclusive forecast for Washington DC:
Today: Sunny and pleasant with lower humidity. The high will be around 80.
Tonight: Clear and comfortable with a low in the lower 60s near the shore, upper 50s inland.
Sunday: Sunny and warmer with a high in the mid 80s.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear and muggy with a low in the mid to upper 60s.
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A cold front ushered in cooler and drier air to the Mid-Atlantic region on Independence Day. Readings overnight dropped into the mid and upper 50s in suburban locations, with low to mid 60s in downtown areas. High pressure will provide Baltimore and Washington with sunshine, light winds, and comfortable humidity levels on Saturday. Highs will only reach the upper 70s to around 80. However, this same high will move off the coast on Sunday, creating a more southerly flow that will result in warmer and more humid conditions. The high will continue to move out to sea during the upcoming week, sustaining the warm, humid air mass over the northeast states and setting the stage for afternoon and evening thunderstorms.
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Welllll, i was originally going to go with Cerebaton, which is my name in pretty much everything else and is from the Philip Pullman Dark Materials series. (It's also my Xbox live gamertag if anyone wants to add me, but i don't have the internet at home at the moment, and have to wait till im in college or at my dads =/)
Otogakage began as an idea, as in, Hokage, Kazekage etc, and i wondered what the leader of the sound village would be called. Otogakage = Sound Shadow =]
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I find that when it comes to pub food, it really is either a hit or a miss. And unfortunately at the Irish Heather, it was a miss today. I actually love the look and layout of the Irish Heather, it's got that Gastown brick and mortar vibe to it but still very trendy and clean. It was featured in Fringe, one of my favourite tv shows, so it's definitely has a worldly factor to it.
They have all your typical pub fare – Steak & Guinness Pot Pie, Bangers and Mash, and also your typical Gastown fare: charcuterie plate, olives, sandwiches etc. They also have a fairly extensive cocktail, beer and wine menu.
For lunch I dined with one of my favourite foodies, Ange of FoodPunk. I ordered the Fraser Valley Turkey Breast ($12) and she ordered the Albacore Tuna Melt ($12).
I didn't think much of my sandwich, the turkey was a little dry and so was the bread it was served on (in fact, I thought it might've been lightly toasted, but no, it was just dry). My soup was Clam Chowder, with very little clams in it and a little bit on the watery side. I know, I know I should've sent it back, but I really felt like I couldn't care less to send it back. I feel like the only time I would send food back is if it was completely inedible (burnt) or had strange things in it.
I'd like to come back to the Irish Heather, but probably for drinks with friends in the evening- as most pubs function better this way! I also hear their Long Table Series is great, so perhaps I'll come back to try this one day.
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I have been waiting for this phone for so long, If Verizon always announces pre-order dates pretty well in advance. I spoke with a Verizon rep this morning and she said it would be available for preorder on 12/5, released on 12/8, and she set up a call to help me order it with special manager approval (special price for something going on on my account).
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- Input: Touch Screen
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- Battery: 1,750mAh battery
- Dimensions: 136x68x8.8-11.5 mm
- Weight: 135 g
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Armed robbers demand money, drugs from elderly couple
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 10:04 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 10:04 p.m.
New Hanover County | A pair of armed men broke into a home in the 500 block of Carolina Inlet Acres Drive about 7:55 p.m. Wednesday, a New Hanover County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.
The robbers demanded money and drugs from the elderly couple in the home, said Sgt. Jerry Brewer, the spokesman.
When the couple said they didn't have either, the men took the man's cell phone and fled, Brewer said.
The case is under investigation.
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ATK/AT-SPI SIG Overview
The Accessible Tool Kit/Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (ATK/AT-SPI) is based on the accessibility tool kit (ATK) originally developed by Sun Microsystems for the GNOME platform. ATK/AT-SPI is, as was the intention from the beginning, a platform-neutral framework [2] for providing bi-directional communication between assistive technologies (AT) and applications. Through the use of AT-SPI, an application's components' state, property and role information is communicated directly to the end user's AT, thereby facilitating bi-directional (input and output) user interactivity with, and control over, an application or compound document instance.
ATK/AT-SPI Project Resources
- ATK/AT-SPI Email Archives [3]
- ATK/AT-SPI Documents & Specifications [4]
- ATK/AT-SPI Reference Index [6]
- ATK/AT-SPI BZR Repository [9]
- Bugzilla [10]
- IRC (channel: #a11y) [11]
- return to the ATK/AT-SPI SIG's Main Page [12]
- return to the Open A11y Working Group's front page [13]


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QUICKLY: The CU soccer team heads to Los Angeles to take on
No. 3 UCLA and USC to begin a four game road trip. The Buffs are searching for
their first conference win of the season, with a 6-6-3 overall, 0-5-1 Pac-12
record. CU faces the undefeated Bruins on Friday at 8 p.m. MT and USC on Sunday
at 2 p.m. MT.
COLORADO VS. UCLA: UCLA holds a 3-1 advantage over CU, including a matchup in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Buffs' only win was 1-0 double overtime victory in 2010 at Prentup Field.
SCOUTING THE BRUINS: At 12-0-2 (5-0-1 Pac-12), the Bruins are the only undefeated team in the conference. UCLA has scored 33 goals and allowed just five, racking up a total of nine shutouts. Eleven Bruins have netted goals, led by the Pac-12's top scorer, Zakiya Bywaters, who has 11 goals and three assists. The Bruins lead the Pac-12 with 37 assists, five of which were contributed by Jenna Richmond.
COLORADO VS. USC: The Buffs and Trojans have met just once. The Buffs fell 1-0 last season at Prentup Field. This will be CU's first trip to McAlister Field.
SCOUTING THE TROJANS: USC has not won since its 1-0 overtime victory over Washington in its Pac-12 opener, giving them a record of 4-7-3 overall, 1-3-2 Pac-12. Five of the Trojans' six conference battles have been sent into overtime. USC has a deep bench, with 12 goal scorers, led by Samantha Johnson who has netted four goals and contributed two assists. The Trojans play a physical game with a combined 17 yellow and red cards.
LAST WEEK: The Buffs fell 2-0 to the Oregon State Beavers last Saturday to conclude a five-game homestand. Rainy conditions led to a defensive battle, with the Buffs only allowing eight shots and two on goal. Goalkeeper Annie Brunner picked up one save, and senior captain Amy Barczuk led CU with three shots. OSU's Megan Miller and Jenna Richardson netted goals in each half, claiming the win.
ROAD TRIP: The Buffs hit the road for the first time since September 21 to begin a four game road trip. CU has lost just once on the road this season, holding a 2-1-3 record away from Prentup Field (not including a 2-1 neutral site win over Cincinnati in Denver), and a 1-0-2 record outside of the Centennial State. There are six California natives on the Buffs' squad, led by freshman starter Madison Krauser, who has scored two goals and contributed one assist this season.
CU VS. RANKED OPPONENTS: CU seniors have faced 14 ranked opponents going into this weekend's games. They have won four, all against top 15 teams. Earlier this season, Emily Paxton scored in the 45th minute off an assist from Shaye Marshall to take a 1-0 lead over No. 2 Stanford, but the Buffs would eventually fall 2-1 to the reigning NCAA champions. Last season, the Buffs tied No. 22 Auburn after two scoreless overtimes. They also beat No. 15 California to earn their first win in the Pac-12 and become the first CU team to win a game in the new conference.
TIME AFTER TIME: CU and USC have seen overtime action a combined total of 11 times this season. The Buffs have gone into extra time in five games, including three of six Pac-12 match-ups. From 2006-10, CU went into overtime at least five times each season. The Buffs are still far from the record set in 2010. That season, the Buffs went into extra minutes nine total times, including once in the postseason.
AY, AY CAPTAIN: Senior captain Amy Barczuk led the Buffs with three shots in CU's 2-0 loss to Oregon State. With three more starts and four more games played, Barczuk will break into the top 10 on CU's career list. She has currently started 71 of 73 games played. Barczuk also holds the 11th spot with 117 career shots on goal.
STELLAR STULLER: Junior Anne Stuller continues to move up in the CU record books. With 60 shots in 2012, Stuller moves past Fran Munnelly (2005) for eighth in single season shots. Stuller is tied with Munnelly for ninth on the single season list with 29 shots on goal, a mark that matches her SOG total from her first two seasons combined. Stuller is also in a six-way tie for eighth in single season goals. She scored her eighth goal of the season on October 5 against California, moving her into 10th on the Buffs' all-time list with 13 goals. Stuller ties Nikki Marshall (2008) for fourth most goals by a junior. With 17 points, Stuller holds down sixth place on the junior list.
NAIL BITERS: Four of the Buffs' six losses this season have been determined by just a single goal. All but one of Colorado's Pac-12 losses this season have been one goal defeats, with two of those games going into overtime.
ALL-STAR ATHLETES: Three Buffs have received major honors this season.
Sept. 10-16: Annie Brunner, CU Athlete of the Week
vs. Wyoming ������� W 2-0 ��� 0 goals allowed ��� 4 saves
vs. Air Force �������� W 2-0 ��� 0 goals allowed ��� 4 saves
Brunner has recorded 131 saves all-time, moving
past Kara Linder (2006-09) for sixth most for the Buffs. She notched
back-to-back shutouts to hold down the sixth spot twice with five shutouts in
two different seasons (2010 was her first).
Aug. 27-Sept. 2: Madison Krauser, CU Athlete of the Week
vs. Northwestern � T 2-2 ����� 3 shots �� 1 goal ���� 2 points
Krauser's first goal of the season came just
minutes after captain Amy Barczuk scored in the second half. She is the only
freshman to have started every game.
Aug. 20-27: Anne Stuller, Pac-12 Conference Offensive Player of the Week, CU Athlete of the Week, Soccer America Women's Team of the Week
vs. LIU �������������� W 2-0 ��� 6 shots �� 2 goals �� 4 points
vs. Wright State �� W 2-1 ��� 5 shots �� 2 goals �� 4 points
Stuller joined Nikki Marshall (2006) and Katie
Griffin (2005) to become only the third player in CU history to have three
multiple goal games in a single season, with her other two-goal game happening
at Northern Colorado.
Aug. 13-19: Annie Brunner, Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week
vs. Northern Colorado ����� W 3-0 ��� 0 goals allowed ��� 3 saves
vs. Colorado College ������� T 0-0 ��� 0 goals allowed ��� 5 saves
Brunner shut out both teams in the Colorado Cup and also shut out LIU in the Omni Hotels Colorado Women's Soccer Classic. It was the first time in CU history the Buffs started their season with three shutouts and the first time since 2008 the team had three shutouts in a row.
���������������������� Anne Stuller, CU Athlete of the Week
vs. Northern Colorado������ W 3-0 �� 3 shots �� 2 goals �� 4 points
vs. Colorado College ������� T 0-0 �� 2 shots
COMING UP: The Buffs conclude their four game road trip in Arizona before returning to Prentup for their final game of the regular season. CU takes on Arizona on Friday, Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. Colorado ends the trip against Arizona State on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 5 p.m. Both games will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Networks.


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According to Jay Busbee of Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday, American snowboarding superstar Shaun White will not participate in the men's Olympic slopestyle snowboarding competition that will begin this evening at 11:00 p.m. mountain time.
White was seen as a medal contender after finishing in third place at a World Cup men's slopestyle snowboarding competition in Copper Mountain, Colorado on December 22.
However White injured his wrist while practicing and will concentrate on the men's halfpipe snowboarding competition that starts February 11. White was actually one of two snowboarders that has had to pull out of the slopestyle competition. He joins Torstein Horgmo who broke his collarbone after hitting a rail in practice.
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Washington - Pres. Obama's approval rating matched an all-time low of 38 percent in yesterday's Gallup Daily Tracking Poll. Meanwhile, Democratic Senate candidates hurt by Mr. Obama's consistently low approval ratings are struggling in campaigns across the country.
Thursday's Gallup survey result of 38 percent represents a 12-point drop since December and is the lowest rating for the President since October 2011 when unemployment was at 9 percent. The surge in Americans who do not approve of the job the president is doing also matches a 38 percent rating he received after the downgrade of US credit by Standard & Poor in August 2011.
The only good news for the Democrat President is that he has not matched Jimmy Carter's record low Gallup approval rating of 28 percent. The former Democratic president saw interest rates reach 22 percent as Americans were idled by long lines at service stations waiting for a chance to purchase gas during anartificially-constructed fuel shortage.
"We have the situation in Russia, we have the situation in Syria and we have the situation of Americans being beheaded by ISIS," said Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport, the New York Post reported.
However, this is the seventh time Mr. Obama's job performance rating has dipped to 38 percent according to Gallup. Perhaps as troubling, the President's disapproval rating remained at a majority 54 percent. While yesterday's disapproval rating of 54 points is still two points above the 56 percent mark recorded earlier this year, Mr. Obama has dipped to 38 percent approval seven times.
Meanwhile, a jobs report out Thursday showed a disappointing 142,000 jobs were created as the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.1 percent from 6.2. The modest change in unemployment is not likely to benefit the President since it largely represents a decline in the workforce, meaning more people have given up looking for jobs.


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When "Criminal Minds" season 9 continues next, it's time for episode 14, appropriately titled "200" to mark the milestone episode. (Episode 100 was also titled according to its milestone.) On Thursday, Jan. 23, CBS released the official description and the first photo from the special episode.
In the 200th episode of "Criminal Minds," the BAU must delve into JJ's (AJ Cook) time at the State Department to find clues after she is kidnapped, and they uncover a secret mission that has put her life in danger. The team calls in Prentiss (Paget Brewster) to help. Check out the photo to the left to see Prentiss with Morgan (Shemar Moore) and Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler).
Brewster isn't the only familiar face returning to mark the milestone episode. Jayne Atkinson (Erin Strauss), Esai Morales (Section Chief Mateo Cruz), Josh Stewart (Detective William LaMontagne, Jr.), Mekhai Anderson (Henry), Nicholas Brendon (Kevin Lynch), and Brian Appel (Agent Anderson) are all also back for "200," and Debrah Farentino is guest starring as Undersecretary Rosemary Jackson. Farah Tahir and Tahmoh Penikett also guest star.
This week's episode, "The Road Home," showed that something was going on with JJ during the case, which warranted a call to Cruz to set up a secure line, and in the end, she went to meet someone, presumably Cruz, when she received a call from a private number before someone grabbed her from behind. Her phone was left behind.
"Criminal Minds" season 9 airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on CBS. "200" airs Feb. 5.
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At least three people have been killed and 25 wounded by a car bomb in Syria's second biggest city of Aleppo. This has occured a day after two blasts rocked the capital Damascus. Aleppo residents told the UK-based rights group that they saw bodies in the streets of Aleppo and that Sunday's blast had been close to a state security office. This is not the first time Aleppo was hit during the now year-long uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. "We have seen an explosion in Aleppo just a few weeks ago. That explosion targeted the security headquarters," Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from neighbouring Lebanon said. The opposition also reported heavy raids by security forces and fighting with rebels.


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Sept. 19, 2012
By Gregg Bell - UW Director of Writing
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SEATTLE - Something tells me the first day of college classes next Monday is not going to be all that daunting to Katie Collier.
"No," the 18-year old deadpanned with a well-earned laugh. "I am not worried about that."
For the UW freshman, Sept. 24 represents something deeper, something far more harrowing than the first day of school.
A year ago this coming Monday, the McDonald's High School All-America forward was diagnosed with cancer in her bone marrow. She was perhaps a day or two from bleeding to death. She was initially told she had a form of leukemia that had a 60-percent chance of killing her within five years, even with treatment.
Well, here she was Tuesday, in Huskies workout gear on the edge of Harshman Gym inside Alaska Airlines Arena. She is perhaps the most accomplished and heralded recruit in UW women's basketball history.
She is certainly its most resilient.
The native of Covington, Wash., southeast of Seattle broke Seattle Christian's career scoring record last season - while doing what she was first told she'd never do again. The 6-foot-3 scoring machine kept pouring in points despite undergoing chemotherapy with regular injections of arsenic. She threw up at halftimes of games and was so exhausted after them that she would sleep for three days. After one game last winter, at King's High in Seattle, her mother found her lying on the concrete floor of the visiting locker room shaking from complete exhaustion.
"It's just weird to think it's already been a year," Collier said. "It's been a long year, but it's like, `Wow! It's a one-year anniversary.
"I'm just worried about getting around. Hopefully I'll be off my crutches by then."
Oh, yeah, those.
On July 30, in the first weeks after conquering cancer, just as Collier was finally herself again, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament, the medial collateral ligament and the meniscus in her right knee.
She was making a routine post move during a pickup game, a move she says she'd done "a million times." She heard her knee pop and crack during the first and only open-gym session the Huskies had this summer.
It was as unbelievable as it was unfair. For her, and for everyone who had seen Collier go through the previous nine months of fear, pain, constant nausea and debilitating fatigue from chemotherapy.
That was when Collier had her first why-me moment.
"I went through cancer. I went through chemo. I played in the McDonald's (All-America Game in Chicago) and felt so healthy, ready to go.
"Yeah, definitely. I was just like ... frustrated," she said on her second day of knee rehabilitation, eight days following reconstructive surgery. "I went through cancer. I went through chemo. I played in the McDonald's (All-America Game in Chicago) and felt so healthy, ready to go. We had our first open gym and playing the first 10 minutes of it felt so great. I was getting so excited.
"But then when I went down, it was ... it's just frustrating.
"I was just like, `DANGIT!'"
Collier says she had a plan of "OK, going to play this year, all four years. Nothing bad is going to happen."
"I just realize that you just never know what's going to happen," she said. "It's crazy. Everything that has happened to me has been totally out of the blue. I mean, this is my first knee injury. Ever."
The MCL is healing on its own. Her meniscus needed two dissolvable stitches to repair. A section of her hamstring became the replacement part for her completely shredded ACL.
Wednesday afternoon, she grimaced in pain as UW assistant athletic trainer Jennifer Stueckle pulled and grabbed and rubbed the knee. Collier hopes to be doing limited, on-court activities in six months, with full recovery in a year. That would have her back playing pickup games next summer, ready for preseason practice in October 2013.
But the Huskies' potentially phenomenal pairing this season of Collier inside with fifth-year senior Kristi Kingma outside is ruined. Kingma, the All-Pac-12 scorer, is back from her own ACL tear.
Yet despite all this, Collier is still smiling. She still looks the same as she did while becoming a national high-school star. Still with long, flowing, blonde hair she never lost despite chemo. Still seemingly game fit - except for the crutches at her side and the dark, thin, vertical scar being protected by strips of sheer surgical tape arrayed horizontally across her right knee cap.
More than angry, she feels empowered by all she's been through.
"Yeah, absolutely. I really do feel like I can handle anything," she said. "This is just so different, completely different than cancer. I'd say it definitely makes it easier for the recovery period.
"I can do this."
The Huskies just stand back and marvel at Collier's moxie, her sheer will.
Even before she's scored her first point for UW, Katie is one of the best Dawgs around.
"I've not been around someone with the type of resolve and the character that Katie has," said Washington coach Kevin McGuff, the former national-champion assistant with Notre Dame who then built a top-10 program at Xavier before coming to UW. "With everything she's been through and faced, the way she has persevered and maintained a positive attitude is just amazing."
McGuff took time during a recruiting trip Tuesday night to call me from Oakland, Calif., about Collier. He was gushing over her as a person even more than as the most skilled, touted recruit UW has maybe ever had.
"I don't think we could have a better person to build our program around for the next few years than Katie Collier," McGuff said.
Ann Collier is a recovery-room nurse at Valley Medical Center in Renton. That's the same hospital to which she took her youngest of five children on Sept. 24, hours before Katie was diagnosed with leukemia.
Mom doesn't sugarcoat how Katie's ACL tear flattened the already worn-out family.
"It was devastating, it really was," Ann said over the phone Tuesday night after her latest hospital shift. "We were all upset. We were kind of depressed about the whole thing, really.
"People say this to us all the time: `Wow. This is just too much.' And that's how we feel, too, after everything she'd gone through.
"Story of our lives. That's what we say around here now: It is what it is."
What it is has been more tragedy than any family deserves.
Ann Collier had breast cancer then beat it in 2009, though not without complications that also left her near death. Katie and some of her siblings missed "a lot of school," Ann remembers, to be with their mother supporting her at chemotherapy sessions.
Then last Sept. 22, the family was around the bed of Katie's paternal grandmother as she died. Colon cancer had metastasized into her lungs.
Two days after that, Katie was on her official recruiting visit to UW. On that Saturday morning, Collier awakened fellow senior high-school recruit Heather Corral from Vancouver, Wash., in their Seattle hotel room. Collier was bleeding from her mouth. Blood was all over her pillow.
Ann and her husband Mark, a regional manager at Whirlpool, were tailgating with McGuff and others before UW's football game that afternoon against California at Husky Stadium. Their daughter called to say her gums were bleeding and that she was wiped out, needing to go home.
I'm not a huge fan of doctors, which sounds funny now with me seeing one for, like, every day this past year.
At home Katie tried to sleep it off, but she was still bleeding when she got up early that evening. Her mom basically dragged her to a nearby urgent-care facility.
"I'm not a huge fan of doctors," Katie says, "which sounds funny now with me seeing one for, like, every day this past year."
But the urgent-care place was closed on a Saturday evening. "Score!" Collier thought to herself. "Let's go home now!"
She wanted to deal with it the next morning. Her mom had more prudent ideas, ones that saved her life.
While Katie stuffed her mouth full of every fast-food napkin she could find in the family car to try to slow the bleeding in her gums, Ann Collier took her daughter to the emergency room at Valley Medical Center. Katie spent much of the ride with her head out the passenger window. She spat so much blood down the side of the car her mother later wondered where all the dried-looking mud on the doors came from.
When the ER staff saw Collier's condition, they rushed her in past a throng sitting in the waiting room. Katie knew that wasn't a good sign. The staff put her through blood tests and could not find any clotting agents. Doctors later told the Colliers had they waited a day or two more to bring in Katie, she likely would have bled to death.
"Other people can be sympathetic when you have cancer. And so many people are so kind and compassionate," Ann Collier said. "But it's a whole `nother thing between those who have had cancer.
"Katie and I can talk about cancer and about death and about planning out our funerals in our minds, because she gets it. She gets the fact that she easily could have died that day she was diagnosed."
Collier was told she had acute myeloid leukemia, in the bone marrow. It has a survivability rate of just 40 percent within five years of diagnosis. She and her family spent the next day and a half, beginning late that Saturday night Sept. 24, thinking the worst.
The very worst.
"We didn't care if she ever even touched a basketball again," her mother says now. "We just wanted her to live."
She and Mark sent mass text messages to friends. Then Sunday morning, Sept. 25, Mark called the coaches at the schools to which Katie had narrowed her choices: Gonzaga, UCLA and Washington.
"We didn't know if she was going to live," Ann said.
Her voice trailed off, replaced by soft sobs.
"I'm sorry," she said. "It's just so dear to our hearts to know she had to go through that."
That Sunday morning, Valley Medical Center transferred Katie to the UW Medical Center, across Montlake Boulevard from the Huskies' homecourt at Alaska Airlines Arena. UW doctors refined her diagnosis to acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). According to the National Cancer Institute, APL is a distinct and rare subtype of acute myeloid leukemia. The incidence in the U.S. is approximately 600-800 per year in adults, and is rarer in children.
Doctors told Katie that APL is usually found in older, obese men.
So much for that.
Collier's first question to doctors: "Will I lose my hair?"
She didn't.
New treatments for APL within the last decade have increased the survivability rate from Katie's form of leukemia to above 90 percent following six months of chemotherapy. Those treatments include regular intravenous drips of arsenic, which it turns out doesn't affect hair cells as much as more standard chemotherapy does.
Katie had her arsenic delivered through a catheter port below her right collarbone for two hours every day, Monday through Friday, for three months at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
Yes, arsenic. Think dCON.
"Exactly! I took rat poison, which is crazy!" Katie said, grinning that she is able to tell about it. "Everyone always says, `Stay away from arsenic!' And it was pumping through my veins. Crazy!
"October and November, it's still kind of a blur. I just slept all the time. My sister would drive me every day to treatment. I was SO nauseous. It was terrible.
"I wouldn't wish that on anybody. It was ...," she paused, "not a lot of fun."
She also took approximately 20 pills a day during the six months of chemotherapy, including anti-bacterial ones. APL was destroying her immune system, leaving her susceptible to infection. She spent a week in isolation at UW Medical Center. Anyone visiting her had to gear up in gloves, masks, hazmat-like suits -- and positivity.
An estimated 200 people visited Katie that week; "Even people she played against came to see her," Mom marvels. There were so many laughs coming out of that quarantined room other patients on the cancer floor came in, to thank the Colliers for bringing life to the specter of death. The security guards down the hall would see jovial teens and 20-somethings filing in and simply say without being asked, "She's in room 5127."
See, the treatment wracked Katie's body and bent her spirit. But it never broke either one.
"She certainly shed tears when she was alone, or with her sister Megan," her mom said. "But she is a MAJOR trooper, that girl. She NEVER complains, about anything. Her standard answer when all these people ask her is, `I'm good. I'm good'
"Lie, lie, lie!
"She just doesn't want to be miserable, or people to be miserable about her. She doesn't want to live in misery."
She hasn't. Katie has turned her cancer into her cause. She has made friends from repeated visits to the Ronald McDonald House and neighboring Seattle Children's Hospital just north of UW's campus.
"It's so cool to be able to relate to those people who are going through so much more extreme cases than I have," she says.
The bond she has with her mother is just about impossible to comprehend.
"Unless you've been through something like this, you can't really understand," Katie said. "But (my mom and I) do.
"To understand that death is really a possibility is crazy -- especially being so young, that someone my age or younger would have to think about this.
"We have a unique bond. Just going through chemo, we've both been through that. It's definitely brought us closer."
So why is Collier a Husky and not a Zag or Bruin? UCLA and Gonzaga wanted her just as much as Washington. And Katie and her family still consider the coaches of all three great people, and as friends.
Gonzaga's Kelly Graves visited UW Medical Center twice in the days following Katie's diagnosis. A few days after that was the funeral for Katie's grandmother. With Katie unable to even lift her head off the hospital bed's pillow, UCLA coach Cori Close flew up to be at her side so her family could leave for the afternoon to attend the service.
And Ann Collier specifically praises McGuff and his Huskies staff for always being there for Katie and the family - but also for keeping their distance when appropriate and not abusing the fact they were just across the street from UW Medical Center as a recruiting advantage.
Ann says she "absolutely" feared all three programs would rescind their scholarship offers once Katie was diagnosed with leukemia.
"We figured, `That's the end of it. No one is going to want this really sick girl to play for them,'" Ann said.
Immediately when they heard Katie's diagnosis Coach McGuff, Coach Graves and Coach Close all said, `It doesn't matter if she never plays basketball again. She has a full ride with us.' All of them.
"You always hear about college coaches being so cold, not caring about you once you sign. Well, immediately when they heard Katie's diagnosis Coach McGuff, Coach Graves and Coach Close all said, `It doesn't matter if she never plays basketball again. She has a full ride with us.' All of them.
"They were amazing."
McGuff called the Huskies' unconditional offer "a no-brainer."
"From what I'd gotten to know about Katie as a person and her character, that was an easy decision for me," he said. "She is just an amazing person. Any coach would want that kind of person in his program, whether she played or not."
Ultimately, Katie loved McGuff and his staff most. She loves their camaraderie. She calls UW her "dream school." And UCLA and even Gonzaga across the state in Spokane proved too far from the people who saved her life, who got her through cancer.
"For me it was just too far - especially with me getting diagnosed," Katie said. "In the back of my mind it was, `What if I get diagnosed again?' Say I got diagnosed again and I was away from my family. I just couldn't handle it."
Katie's siblings pulled her home. In particular, older brother Adam, 28 and in real estate, implored her to stay close to her family, just in case - though Katie said doctors have told her in the seven, relatively short years of the arsenic treatment for APL, no one has ever relapsed.
Katie's gift for Adam's birthday last year? Her announcement she had decided to attend Washington.
Ever optimistic and utterly undefeatable, Collier calls her ACL tear "perfect timing."
The way she sees it, she is now just another first-year player redshirting. That full year of recovery should end next summer. If all goes well, Collier will be ready for preseason practices in October 2013 as a redshirt freshman. Essentially, her Huskies career is just on layaway for one year.
Monday, her mother helped Katie move in to her UW dorm room. She is rooming with Corral. That's perfect: Her now-best friend also has torn her ACL - twice, while at Prairie High School in southwest Washington.
"It's so funny that we both ended up here now, and are rooming together," Collier said.
I asked Katie if she feels older than 18.
"Oh, yeah. I really do. Not just having gone through all that but just being the youngest of four siblings," she said.
"It was crazy that I was going through all that and I was still in high school. It was, `What's going on? I shouldn't still be in high school!'"
Now, it's an ACL tear.
"It's just frustrating, you know, to conquer cancer - and then have an ACL injury," she said. "I just have to tell myself, `OK. This is the last thing. This is the last obstacle that I have to play."
Though she's already gifted - physically on the basketball court, mentally and emotionally for staring down death before high school graduation -- I'd say life owes Katie Collier a break or three, don't you?
"I agree," she said with a breezy giggle. "I agree.
"Yeah," she added, nodding and smiling yet again, "that would be nice."
About Gregg Bell Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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Gadsden State Community College
LASER - Learning and Serving Education & Reflection
LASER: Learning and Serving Education & Reflection
In 1995 Dr. Victor B. Ficker, GSCC President, recognized the fact that many students "fall through the cracks" in traditional financial aid programs. The rising cost of college tutition is a burden on most of them. His appeal to business and industry leaders in the community resulted in a special scholarship fund for qualified students.
In exchange for their tutiontion, LASER students volunteer 75 hours of their time each semester at community service agencies. They are truly "giving back" to the community what the community has given to them: an opportunity to pursue their educational goals. LASERs are recognized in the community because they wear their distinctive Student Service Corps T-shirts while whorking for their agencies. With good evaluations and grades, a LASER can receive a scholarship for two semesters as a full-time student.
- Complete freshman year.
- Maintain GPA of 2.5 or better
- Attempt all other financial aid options
As a LASER, the student must agree to:
- Carry full class load and maintain or improve GPA
- Submit supervisor's evaluation at specified times
- Perform minimum of 75 hours community service per semester
- Enroll in Community Awareness Through Service Learning (ORI101)
- Promote the LASER program by wearing Laser T-shirt when working with the agencies
These are the business which have played a crucial role in the estblishment of the LASER scholarship fund:
- Alabama Power Company
- Alagasco
- AmSouth Bank
- BellSouth
- Building Systems & Supply
- Compass Bank
- Dean's Sausage
- Delphi Packard Electric
- Dixie Pacific Manugacturing Company
- Exchange Bank of Alabama
- Gadsden Regional Medical Center
- Gadsden Times
- Gulf States Steel
- SouthTrust Bank