Photos for February 17, 2013
Ted Ligety
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Mikaela Shiffrin
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Using our building-block approach to Oscar party canapes, diners can select from a buffet of ingredients -- from bases and spreads to toppings and garnishes -- to design snacks that suit their preferences.
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Washougal: Maasai warrior Sabore Ole Oyie from Kenya shows Gause Elementary second-graders Kaleb Murray, from left, Connor Fisk, Caiden Zipperlend and Otto LeBeau a dance to celebrate a successful lion hunt.
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Evergreen: Evergreen High School student Keilea Swearingen, from left, former University of Portland assistant basketball coach Kayla Burt and Keilea's mother, Crystal Swearingen, take part in a heart health awareness-themed basketball game at Portland State University. In September 2011, Keilea survived sudden cardiac arrest at school. Burt is also a heart attack survivor.
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Chuck Hagel
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Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. confer Thursday at the start of a hearing on the appointment Chuck Hagel of to be the next secretary of defense.
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Image: La Center High School senior Ryan Larkin accepts a donation of electronic waste during Clark County Skills Center's e-waste recycling event in January.
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Portland: The Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter of the ALS Association was recently honored as "Chapter of the Year" by the national organization. Pictured with their award are the local chapter's Executive Director Lance Christian and its Development Director Aubrey McCauley.
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Hough: The heroic fume-fighting efforts of trash collectors are celebrated in this handmade Valentine from Hough Elementary School and the Junior Joy Team.
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Hough: Members of the Junior Joy Team make Valentines for trash and recycling collectors.
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Austin Wiley, 10, picks out a new hat with help from his sister Mariah Wiley, left, and mom Kathy Romero at the Washington State Horse Expo on Sunday.
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Former Taliban militants attend a ceremony after handing over their weapons in Herat, Afghanistan. About 35 former Taliban militants handed over their weapons as part of a peace-reconciliation program sponsored by the Afghan government.
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Kylie Vroman gives some love to Lenny as Kylie's mom, Amy Vroman, looks on. The horse expo was at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Sunday.
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Kylie Vroman, 15, of Yacolt and her quarterhorse Lenny negotiate an obstacle called the "Squeeze Box" on Sunday at the Extreme Cowboy Race. The competition was part of the Washington State Horse Expo at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds. In the "Squeeze Box," rider and horse need to wedge between two barrels with cones and cups of water on top. Kylie finished first in the non-pro division.
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Kaylee Woods, 8, of Clackamas practices her roping skills at the Washington State Horse Expo at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Sunday.
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Portland Timbers forward Ryan Johnson hoists his three log cuttings, one for each goal he scored, after Sunday's 3-3 preseason tie against San Jose at Jeld-Wen Field.
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Jared Jeffries, right, talks with LaMarcus Aldridge, during a game in December. Jeffries is known as the team's unofficial spokesman and often keeps his fellow teammates laughing.
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Jared Jeffries performing comedy at Portland’s Boiler Room.
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Jared Jeffries said it was more nervous for him to perform comedy in front of people than face Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki (41) before thousands of basketball fans.
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The Associated Press Damian Lillard raises the trophy after winning the skills challenge on Saturday.
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Country music artist Mindy McCready performs at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn. on June 5, 2008. McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 37.
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Student Demarcus Miller listens to a teacher from behind a computer terminal in a GED preparation class in Buffalo, N.Y., Adults who've begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year.
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Student Deloris Rainey, left, works with teacher Erin Pustulka in a GED preparation class in Buffalo, N.Y., on Feb. 5. Adults who've begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over.
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Student Keith Holmes works Feb. 5 in a GED preparation class in Buffalo, N.Y. Adults who've begun working toward their GED are being urged to finish up this year, before the test for a high school equivalency diploma changes and they have to start all over.
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Robert Sprague of Wilmot, N.H., is a marketing consultant who wants to put an end to gun raffles.
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Marker's Mark Distillery Inc. A bottle of Maker's Mark is seen in an advertisement. After a backlash from customers, the producer of Maker's Mark bourbon is reversing a decision to cut the amount of alcohol in bottles of its famous whiskey.
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The $450 million in Washington state dollars that Columbia River Crossing planners are banking on is included in a transportation revenue package proposed by House Democrats today.
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, Sister Carol Gray looks at a photograph of her father, Brandon Gray, at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. After an incident with a scout in 1963, Brandon Gray admitted himself to a mental hospital and the Scouts met with the Explorer who confirmed "the violation." Upon his release from the hospital, Gray was terminated. No records identified by The Associated Press show any charges or convictions for Gray in connection with the incident or any other charges for sex abuse. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo shows Sister Carol Gray at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. At 23, Carol bottomed out when she tried to kill herself. She would find herself drawn to religion. Twice she went through the application process for Catholic religious orders and twice the community cited her father's drinking and mental illness as reasons to reject her. After her second rejection, she cried herself to sleep. Then a nun named Sister Faith urged her to give it one more try. She did, and her acceptance led her to Maryland, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Mississippi and, finally, Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she now serves as regional director for Catholic Social Services of West Alabama. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, Sister Carol Gray looks at a photograph of her father at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In October 2012, Carol learned about the "perversion files" kept by the Boy Scouts from local news accounts. She told her brother Jim. Neither had heard of the Scouts' documents previously. To Jim, they held few surprises, save that the Scouts suspected something was wrong with their father and did enough to protect Scouts, but no one else. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, Sister Carol Gray looks at a photograph of her father, Brandon Gray, at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. After an incident with a scout in 1963, Brandon Gray admitted himself to a mental hospital and the Scouts met with the Explorer who confirmed "the violation." Upon his release from the hospital, Gray was terminated. No records identified by The Associated Press show any charges or convictions for Gray in connection with the incident or any other charges for sex abuse. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo shows Sister Carol Gray at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. At 23, Carol bottomed out when she tried to kill herself. She would find herself drawn to religion. Twice she went through the application process for Catholic religious orders and twice the community cited her father's drinking and mental illness as reasons to reject her. After her second rejection, she cried herself to sleep. Then a nun named Sister Faith urged her to give it one more try. She did, and her acceptance led her to Maryland, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Mississippi and, finally, Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she now serves as regional director for Catholic Social Services of West Alabama. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo shows Sister Carol Gray at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. On opposite sides of the world, the brother and sister sat transfixed, reading a stranger's account of long-ago secrets and deeply buried sins. While shocking in its way, the document didn't surprise these siblings, for the sins it described were the sins of their father. And they, too, had fallen victim to his abuse. The story of Brandon Gray is the story of the inaction of the Boy Scouts of America. For his children, it is the story of what happens when secrecy reigns and what might have been if not for the Boy Scouts' silence. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo, Sister Carol Gray looks at a photograph of her father at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. In October 2012, Carol learned about the "perversion files" kept by the Boy Scouts from local news accounts. She told her brother Jim. Neither had heard of the Scouts' documents previously. To Jim, they held few surprises, save that the Scouts suspected something was wrong with their father and did enough to protect Scouts, but no one else. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photo shows Sister Carol Gray at her home in Tuscaloosa, Ala. On opposite sides of the world, the brother and sister sat transfixed, reading a stranger's account of long-ago secrets and deeply buried sins. While shocking in its way, the document didn't surprise these siblings, for the sins it described were the sins of their father. And they, too, had fallen victim to his abuse. The story of Brandon Gray is the story of the inaction of the Boy Scouts of America. For his children, it is the story of what happens when secrecy reigns and what might have been if not for the Boy Scouts' silence. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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"We need as a nation to look at ways to rein in tuition," said Mel Netzhammer, the new chancellor at WSU Vancouver.
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"We need as a nation to look at ways to rein in tuition," said Mel Netzhammer, the new chancellor at WSU Vancouver.
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The WSU Vancouver campus continues to look toward the future by adding robust, in-demand STEM programs, including engineering and neuroscience.
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The WSU Vancouver campus continues to look toward the future by adding robust, in-demand STEM programs, including engineering and neuroscience.
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"WSU has an incredible reputation," said Mel Netzhammer, the new chancellor at WSU Vancouver. "We're Cougs. Our students love the fact that we're Cougs."
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"WSU has an incredible reputation," said Mel Netzhammer, the new chancellor at WSU Vancouver. "We're Cougs. Our students love the fact that we're Cougs."
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This undated photo shows Adam Lanza posing for a group photo of the technology club that appeared in the Newtown High School yearbook. Authorities have identified Lanza as the gunman who killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Dec. 14 inside an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself.
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This undated photo circulated by law enforcement and provided by NBC News shows Adam Lanza. Authorities say Lanza killed his mother at their home Dec. 14 and then opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life.
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A police cruiser sits in the driveway as crime scene tape surrounds the home of Nancy Lanza on Dec. 18 in Newtown, Conn. Nancy Lanza was killed Dec. 14 by her son Adam Lanza before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and opened fire, killing 26 others, including 20 children.
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Clara Flores-Aguilar, a Honduras native, is seeking asylum in the United States after experiencing years of domestic violence. She was being held in the Tacoma Detention Center while a judge considered her case.
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In this image taken on Jan. 28, 2013, from left clockwise, a glass of citrus bubbly with a small curl of lemon on top, a glass of spiced rose-pomegranate spritzer with a star anise on top, two glasses of sparkling wine, and a glass of wild meadow with berries are shown with canapes on a serving tray in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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In this image taken on Jan. 28, 2013, a glass of spiced-rose pomegranate spritzer with a star anise on top, center, and two glasses of sparkling wine are shown on a serving tray in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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Citrus bubbly with lemon, from left clockwise, spiced rose-pomegranate spritzer with star anise, sparkling wine, and wild meadow with berries.
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n this image taken on Jan. 28, 2013, a glass of spiced-rose pomegranate spritzer with a star anise on top, center, and two glasses of sparkling wine are shown on a serving tray in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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In this image taken on Jan. 28, 2013, a glass of citrus bubbly with a small curl of lemon on top is shown next to canapes on a table in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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A glass of citrus bubbly with a small curl of lemon on top, from left, a glass of spiced rose-pomegranate spritzer with a star anise on top, and two glasses of sparkling wine, with canapes are shown on a table in Concord, N.H.
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FILE - These July 2008 file photos Freddie Mac headquarters in McLean, Va., and Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington. President Barack Obama sang the praises in his State of the Union speech of a bill to help more homeowners with mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac take advantage of low interest rates and refinance their mortgages. But while the bill could gain traction in the Democratic-controlled Senate, it faces a rough road in the GOP-run House, where many Republicans favor scaling back the government's role in the housing market to boost the economy. Similar versions of the measure died in the House and Senate's lame duck sessions in 2012. (AP Photo/File)
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Associated Press files Freddie Mac headquarters in McLean, Va., and Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington.
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President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform Jan. 29 at a Las Vegas high school. Sharp shifts in the political landscape have put immigration reform tantalizingly close for the Obama administration and Cecelia Munoz, head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, who is leading the effort to provide a pathway to citizenship.
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Danica Patrick stands by her car after qualifying for the NASCAR Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Patrick won the pole, becoming the first woman to secure the top spot for any Sprint Cup race.
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