Photos for March 8, 2013
Portland Timbers midfielder Sal Zizzo, right, steals the ball away from New York Red Bulls forward Thierry Henry during the second half of an MLS soccer game in Portland, Ore., Sunday, March 3, 2013. The game ended in a 3-3 tie. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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The Columbian's All-Region wrestler of the year Anthony Thomas, Thursday, February 28, 2013 (Steven Lane/The Columbian)
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Beware the sinkhole
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GOP Identity Crisis
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Blame the Sequester
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Vancouver firefighter-paramedic Mark Bennett, right, tries to find a usable vein on a female patient who collapsed March 1 during a cigarette break outside Lifeline Connections, where she was in treatment for heroin addiction.
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A door remains boarded up after a burglar attempted to break in through the side entrance. A large window pane, a jewelry case and several pieces of merchandise were also ruined during the incident.
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Liz Halili, owner of One World Merchant in Vancouver's Uptown Village, tends the counter Friday during a "cash mob" organized to raise money for the shop burglarized last week.
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A woman walks inside the import store on a sunny Friday afternoon.
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Portland Trail Blazers' LaMarcus Aldridge (12) scores over San Antonio Spurs' Tiago Splitter (22), of Brazil, and Tim Duncan, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Friday, March 8, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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From vantage points behind the goal, teams control their disc-throwing robots Friday in the regional competition at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland.
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"Odd Job," the Mean Machine's robot, waits in the pit area for its next event Friday during the Oregon regional robot competition at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. The Mean Machine team represents Camas, Washougal and Hockinson.
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The regional robot competition at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland includes shooting discs through slots at each end of the court, and ascending a pyramid-shaped jungle gym.
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Mean Machine members (from left) co-pilot Ryan Berg, 16; commander/team captain Keefe Koenig, 18; and pilot Bryce Croucher, control their disc-shooting robot in Friday's regional challenge at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. They're all from Hockinson, which is teaming with Camas and Washougal high schools.
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A cat sits on a wall in London. The London zoo is taking stock of an animal you don't often find behind bars, launching what it says is the first interactive map of the British capital's domestic cats.
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A cat looks through a window of a London house. The London zoo is creating the first interactive map of the city's domestic cats.
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A cat looks through a window in a house in London.
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University of Oregon philosophy instructor Paul Bodin and UO student Kevin Keiter engage a fourth-grade class at Edison Elementary School in a philosophy discussion in Eugene, Ore. Bodin has deployed his junior and senior students to elementary school classrooms to teach philosophy this term.
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Robbi Giuliano teaches her fifth grade class as they sit on yoga balls.
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Teacher Robbi Giuliano says, "I'm able to get a lot done with them because they're sitting on yoga balls."
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By making the sitter work to stay balanced, the balls force muscle engagement and increased blood flow, leading to more alertness.
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The exercise gear is part a larger effort to modernize schools based on research linking physical activity with better learning, said John Kilbourne, a professor of movement science at Grand View State University in Allendale, Mich.
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Replacing stationary seats with inflatable bouncers has raised productivity in this fifth-grade class at Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School.
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Robbi Giuliano teaches her fifth-grade class.
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Students in Robbi Giuliano's fifth-grade class sit on yoga balls as they complete their assignments at Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School in West Chester, Pa. By making the sitter work to stay balanced, the balls force muscle engagement and increased blood flow, leading to more alertness.
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Police control traffic along Washington street as several hundred people rally in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Nathan Cook smiles as he receives an award at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday at the Hilton Vancouver Washington. Cook received his award for an emergency response rescue.
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s international president, center, confronts an unidentified person in a heated exchange of words as several hundred people converge at the Riverview Bank building as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Police stand inside the lobby of the Riverview Bank building watching as several hundred people converged at the office building as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people, including Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s international president, converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Police stand inside the lobby of the Riverview Bank building watching as several hundred people converged at the office building as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people, including Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s international president, converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. Mc Ellrath holds a union contract in his hands outside the locked doors of the Riverview Bank building.(Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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“We don’t care how long, we’re going to win this struggle,” said Clager Clabaugh, president of ILWU Local 4, left, to several hundred people who converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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“We don’t care how long, we’re going to win this struggle,” said Clager Clabaugh, president of ILWU Local 4, left, to several hundred people who converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Vancouver first-year firefighter Isaac Eldred prepares coconut curry chicken for dinner at Station 2 in west Vancouver on March 1.
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Vancouver first-year firefighter Isaac Eldred prepares coconut curry chicken for dinner at Station 2 in west Vancouver on March 1.
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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In this image taken on Feb. 18, 2013, St. Patrick's Day cocktails, from left, Irish grasshopper, herbal remedy, and, in rear, emerald Mary, are shown served on a tray in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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St. Patrick's Day cocktails: clockwise from top, emerald Mary, herbal remedy, and Irish grasshopper.
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Several hundred people, including Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s international president, converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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St. Patrick's Day cocktails, from left, Irish Grasshopper, Emerald Mary and Herbal Remedy
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Several hundred people, including Hector Cepeda, a union worker from Los Angeles, converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. "I want to make sure I was up here for this to support my union brothers and sisters in Vancouver, said Cepeda. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Vancouver firefighters, from left, Capt. Gregg Roberts, Isaac Eldred and firefighter-paramedic Mark Bennett work with an AMR paramedic at the scene of a March 1 motor vehicle accident on Interstate 5.
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Several hundred people converged at Esther Short Park as part of a rally to march in solidarity for locked out union workers of the ILWU Local 4 on the streets of downtown Vancouver Friday March 8, 2013. Supporters marched and chanted outside the offices of United Grain demanding executives at the company look at the workers contract. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Southeast 20th Street extension (continues to the east as Northwest 38th Avenue in Camas).
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Camas Mayor Scott Higgins breaks ground Tuesday on the city's extension of Northwest 38th Avenue and Southeast 20th Avenue.
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Camas Mayor Scott Higgins discusses the extension of Southeast 20th Street to Northwest 38th Avenue as workers with Tapani Inc. break ground. The project is intended to create a direct route from the Southeast 192nd Street corridor and open up commercially zoned land for development.
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Carmelized Onion and Guinness Dip.
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"It has a rich spectrum of uses," says Paul Hartley, author of "Guinness: An Official Celebration of 250 Remarkable Years."
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In this image taken on February 18, 2013, Irish chop suey is shown served in a bowl in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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In this image taken on February 18, 2013, Irish chop suey is shown served on a platter in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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Irish Chop Suey.
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In this image taken on Feb. 18, 2013, carmelized onion and Guinness dip is shown served in a bowl in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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In this image taken February 18, 2013, Irish chop suey is shown served on a platter in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
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Dennis McVicker, left, president of Tidewater Barge Line, admires Michelle Rushing's water rescue hero awards at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. At right is Michelle's husband Steven Rushing. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Nathan Cook smiles as he receives an award at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. Cook received his award for an emergency response rescue. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Shadow gets a whiff of his medal as he is honored at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Desiree Mattison, 15, left, of Mountain View High School, and Kaia Morgan, 12, of Cascade Middle School, dance during the opening of the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Rosario Jukkala, left, with Vesta Hospitality, cries while listening to a story about one of the honorees at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. At right is Kevin Stodelmon, also with Vesta. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Breakfast is served to hundreds at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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Nathan Cook's awards, as well as others, sit on a table at the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington. Cook received his award for an emergency response rescue. (Troy Wayrynen/The Columbian)
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live well poll results from March 4
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Laurie Iams demonstrates exercises to get fit.
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Laurie Iams demonstrates exercises to get fit.
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Laurie Iams does pushups with alternating leg lifts.
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Laina Harris goes through a 20-minute incline workout on her new treadmill in her Camas home Wednesday. Harris uses the steep incline workout and weekend hikes as preparation for an 8-mile hike on Mount St. Helens' south side this summer.
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A sports and fitness magazine lays on a shelf in an exercise room at Laina Harris' home in Camas. "I want that visual I have in my head to match up," Laina said about her body and battle to lose weight.
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Laina Harris steps on the scale in her Camas home Wednesday. Harris weighs herself every day to monitor her weight-loss progress. "I'm still that girl that has all that weight to lose," she said.
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Ryan L. Matison, 20, of Battle Ground appeared Feb. 25 in Clark County Superior Court on an accusation of a Nov. 23 vehicular homicide of a Woodland girl, 17. Photo courtesy of KATU
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Samantha Effingham, 17, from Woodland died Nov. 23 after a two-car head-on collision on state Highway 502 near Northeast 29th Avenue, just west of Battle Ground. She was a passenger in the car driven by Ryan L. Matison, 20, of Battle Ground. Matison has been charged with vehicular homicide based on allegations he was driving recklessly at the time of the collision.
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Dianna Hanson, a 24-year-old intern at the Cat Haven in Dunlap, Calif., was mauled to death by a lion at the exotic animal park on Wednesday.
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Project Survival Cat Haven founder Dale Anderson, center, followed by Project Survival president Wendy Debbas, walks through a gate opened by a security officer to speak to the media Thursday near Dunlap, Calif. Sanctuary intern Dianna Hanson, 24, died the previous day by an attack by one of the sanctuary's lions.
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Dale Anderson, founder of Project Survival Cat Haven near Dunlap, Calif, walks quietly with Pele, a female lion, at the same fenced habitat area where a day earlier Cat Haven sanctuary worker Dianna Hanson, 24, died from an attack.
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Hewlett-Packard hopes that its line of Officejet Pro X printers will reinvigorate inkjet printer sales. The Officejet printer is targeted to small businesses and is being promoted as offering high-speed prints as a lower cost per page than comparably priced laser printers.
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Brad Freeman, left, director of research and development in HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discusses the company's Officejet printer that was years in the making in Vancouver and other locations. The printer is the fastest in its class, capable of printing 70 pages a minute. With Freeman are Matthew Shepherd, distinguished technologist in the Printing and Personal Systems Group, and Vanessa Verzwyvelt, an imaging systems engineer.
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Desiree Mattison, 15, left, of Mountain View High School, and Kaia Morgan, 12, of Cascade Middle School, dance during the opening of the annual Red Cross Real Heroes breakfast Friday March 8, 2013 in Vancouver, Washington.
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John Cody Clark, Youth Good Samaritan Rescue Hero
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William Melton Jr., Fire Rescue Hero
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Anne McEnerny-Ogle
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Michelle Rushing, Water Rescue Hero
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Shadow, Animal Rescue Hero
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Annalee Hoffman-Shives, Medical Rescue Hero
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Nathan Cook, Emergency Response Rescue Hero
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ILWU supporters converge on the downtown office of United Grain this morning.
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Union supporters rallied at Esther Short Park this morning on behalf of locked-out workers at Vancouver's grain export terminal.
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Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, center, and Cardinal Angelo Comastri arrive for an afternoon meeting, at the Vatican, Friday, March 8, 2013. The Vatican says the conclave to elect a new pope will likely start in the first few days of next week. The Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters that cardinals will vote Friday afternoon on the start date of the conclave but said it was "likely" they would choose Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. The cardinals have been attending pre-conclave meetings to discuss the problems of the church and decide who among them is best suited to fix them as pope. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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People demonstrate on behalf of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Esther Short Park this morning.
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Ann Oganesian, left, of Newton, Mass., pauses as she speaks with a State Department employee about job opportunities with the federal government during a Feb. 25 job fair in Boston. U.S. employers ramped up hiring in February, adding 236,000 jobs and pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in January. Stronger hiring shows businesses are confident about the economy, despite higher taxes and government spending cuts.
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Police attempt to guide a lost beaver through the streets of Oregon City on Thursday, March 7.
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Firefighters tend to a woman injured in an auto accident this morning.
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A Clark County Sheriff's Office deputy was sent to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center with minor injuries after being rear-ended by a car in Hazel Dell late Thursday.
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A Clark County Sheriff's Office deputy was sent to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center with minor injuries after being rear-ended by a car in Hazel Dell late Thursday.
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