Photos for December 28, 2012
The Weinstein Company Christoph Waltz, left, and Jamie Foxx star in "Django Unchained."
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Twilla Brosseau, foreground, gets ready to bowl another frame during the 36th annual county mixed bowling tournament at Hazel Dell Lanes in Vancouver. The tournament features team and doubles competition for teams of women and men.
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Kids skate at Golden Skate, a Vancouver landmark.
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Big Al's is one of several bowling alleys in Vancouver.
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The 58th annual Clark County United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Open Championship Tournament is underway at Bailey's Classic Lanes, Vancouver, Saturday, April 28, 2007. (The Columbian, Janet L. Mathews)
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Big Al's hosts wedding receptions in its banquet rooms, which open onto Slider Alley. Ê
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People skate at Mountain View Ice Arena.
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Most C-Tran buses have six or seven on-board surveillance cameras, including at least one facing outward from the front windshield. Video from those cameras is sometimes used in traffic investigations.
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C-Tran uses video from its on-board bus cameras for a variety of reasons, mostly mundane, according to field operations manager Bob Medcraft. A $1.35 million project will replace the agency's bus surveillance system in the coming year with the help of a federal grant.
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Bob Medcraft, C-Tran field operations manager.
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C-Tran now uses docking stations to download and view video taken from bus surveillance cameras. Some of the equipment dates to the mid-1990s, but will be replaced as part of a system upgrade planned for the coming year.
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Clark County Commissioner Marc Boldt, center, is applauded by nearly 200 people during a ceremony last week thanking him for his service to the county. Boldt will be replaced as commissioner next week by David Madore, who defeated him in the November election.
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Clark County Commissioner Marc Boldt says once he leaves office at the end of the year, he won't stop volunteering in the community. Boldt has long been involved in the Clark County Fair. Here he checks the temperature of a beef bottom round roast inside the Young Life booth at the 2011 fair.
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Portland Trail Blazers guard Nolan Smith, left, takes a shot against Los Angeles Lakers center Robert Sacre, middle, and forward Earl Clark (6) during the second half Friday. The Lakers won 104-87.
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FILE - In this May 10, 2001, file photo, El Cajon, Calif., Police department school resource officer Rich Agundez Jr., who confronted and wounded a student who attacked Granite Hills High School with a shotgun in 2001, testifies in El Cajon. The National Rifle Associationís response to a Connecticut school massacre envisions, in part, having trained, armed volunteers in every school in America. But Agundez, school safety experts and school board members say thereís a huge difference between a trained law enforcement officer who becomes part of the school family _ and a guard with a gun. (AP Photo/U-T San Diego, John Gastaldo) SAN DIEGO COUNTY OUT; NO SALES; COMMERCIAL INTERNET OUT; FOREIGN OUT
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Cori Sorensen, a fourth-grade teacher from Highland Elementary School in Highland, Utah, gets training with a .357 magnum from personal defense instructor Jim McCarthy on Thursday during concealed weapons training for 200 Utah teachers in West Valley City, Utah. The Utah Shooting Sports Council offered six hours of training for teachers in handling concealed weapons.
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Photo by Fire District 3 Chief Steve Wrightson Friday night this GMC SUV was southbound on Northeast Caples Road when it rolled several times off the road into a field. The driver, who was extricated by firefighters from the SUV, was transported to an area hospital.
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Carol Curtis leaves service today as a commissioner at Clark Public Utilities.
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This script will never sell
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Right to work wins in Michigan
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Rob Henderling
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Erik Cloe
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Jake Walton
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Mel Sanders, aka Sterling
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When Robin Lowell's husband's job required the family to move to Snoqualmie, 170 miles from Vancouver, Washington State School for the Blind retained Lowell and sought a solution to make distance learning work.
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From her home in Snoqualmie, teacher Robin Lowell gives an algebra lesson to high school students at Washington State School for the Blind using a Microsoft video conferencing program.
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Abby Griffith, 18, a student at Washington State School for the Blind, uses a braille integrated keyboard while using a Microsoft video conferencing program for an algebra lesson with teacher Robin Lowell.
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Juan Aguilar, 15, a visually impaired high school student at Washington State School for the Blind, uses a special video conferencing program for an algebra lesson.
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Robin Lowell, left, and Sherry Hahn, of the Washington State School for the Blind, were in Prague, Czech Republic in early December being recognized by Microsoft at the Partners in Learning Global Forum. Here Lowell and Hahn were buying fresh fruit and wooden toys at the Havelske Trziste Market in Prague's Old Town.
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Washington State School for the Blind student Karley Patching, 16, uses a special videoconferencing program for an algebra lesson with teacher Robin Lowell, who is teaching the class from her home in Snoqualmie, 170 miles from Vancouver.
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Nike Swoosh
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County Commissioner-elect David Madore, left, and state Rep. Jim Moeller.
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The red Nike swoosh marks the entrance to the company's headquarters campus in Beaverton, Ore.
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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber talk to reporters after holding a joint press conference in April 2011 to announce the final proposal for the Columbia River Crossing outside the Red Lion Hotel on the River-Jantzen Beach.
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A lumber truck overturned on the ramp from state Highway 14 to Interstate 205 southbound Friday afternoon causing traffic in the area to backup.
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The cleanup of the Thunderbird Hotel site continues, Friday, December 28. A major retail chain is looking to develop the riverfront property.
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Police and firefighters responded to reports of a body found in the Columbia River Friday morning.
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Tea party over the cliff
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Right to work wins in Michigan
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