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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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Posing after the unveiling of the butter sculpture are, from left, state Dairy Princess Halee Wasson, of Centre County, dairy farmer Jim Harbach, of Clinton County, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, and butter sculptors, Jim Victor and Marie Pelton, of Conshohocken. The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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Posing after the unveiling of the butter sculpture are, from left, dairy farmer Jim Harbach, of Clinton County, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding, Vernon Horst, of the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, state Dairy Princess Halee Wasson, of Centre County, and butter sculptors, Marie Pelton and Jim Victor, of Conshohocken. The butter sculpture is unveiled at the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. The sculpture, made from more than 1,000 pounds of butter, pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)
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In this image taken from video and released by the U.S. Coast Guard, four offshore supply vessels extinguish a fire on an oil production platform fire 80 miles south off Grand Isle, La., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2016. The pre-dawn fire has been extinguished on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and there is no sign of pollution in the area, authorities said Thursday. There were no reports of injuries. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
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In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand two lynx walk along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
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This Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand shows two lynx walking along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
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Lindsey Hodges shops at Kroger located off of Alps Rd. in Athens, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. A menacing winter storm approaching the South could bring freezing rain to states as far south as Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and up to 8 inches of snow in parts of North Carolina and Virginia, forecasters said. The storm also brings the threat of freezing rain to parts of the Deep South including Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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This Dec. 15, 2016 photo provided by Dontje Hildebrand shows a lynx walking along a highway in Molas Pass outside of Silverton in southwestern Colorado. Only about 50 to 250 lynx are believed to be living in the wild in Colorado, and sightings are rare. They were native to Colorado but virtually disappeared from the state by the 1970s because of hunting, poisoning and development. (Dontje Hildebrand via AP)
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"The President checks out a thunderstorm brewing outside." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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"The President checks out a thunderstorm brewing outside." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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A man drives a motorbike vending cart on a road flooded by an overflowing lake on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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A woman looks at an overflowing lake on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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Tourists wear flotation devices and moped riders pause before crossing a flooded roadway on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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Georgia guard J.J. Frazier (30) puts up a shot against South Carolina during an NCAA basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Athens, Ga. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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Georgia forward Pape Diatta (5) puts up a shot against South Carolina guard Duane Notice (10) during an NCAA basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Athens, Ga. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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South Carolina guard Sindarius Thornwell (00) puts up a shot against Georgia guard Juwan Parker (3) during an NCAA basketball game, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Athens, Ga. (John Roark/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
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FILE- This Aug. 29, 2003, file photo shows one of two beluga whales that washed ashore on a beach south of Anchorage, Alaska. The Cook Inlet beluga whale population was listed as endangered in 2008, and a federal recovery plan released Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, calls for a reduction in threats of highest concern, including noise and cumulative factors that may be keeping the population from growing. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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A woman walks in the rain in downtown Reno, Nevada on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, across a bridge above the rising waters of the Truckee River. A flash flood was in effect in Reno 40 miles downstream from Lake Tahoe, where a winter storm warning continued and another foot of snow in the Sierra was expected. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)
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FILE - This Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, people gather near the downtown Rio Grande emergency shelter, in Salt Lake City. Residents living near the sites of four 150-bed homeless shelters in Salt Lake City say they feel left out of the planning process. About 150 people showed up to speak against planned homeless shelters at a City Council meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. The four planned shelters would replace the downtown facility. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
