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In this Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 photo, Connie Custer makes kissing sounds that parrot Frank responds to at the Bird Nerds Rescue and Sanctuary in Canton, Ohio. Frank, a green Quaker, plucked himself because of neglect and a poor diet. The feathers, pulled out at the follicle, will not grow back on his bare, goose-bump skin. Custer said the average bird is re-homed as many as two to eight times in its life. Bird Nerds has attempted to end that cycle by housing and caring for neglected, unwanted and abused parrots. (AP Photo/The Repository, Stan Myers)
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FILE - In this March 27, 2009 file photo, a lobsterman throws additional fishing rope onto a pile in Rockland, Maine. Researcher Scott Kraus said at the annual Maine Fishermen's Forum in February 2014 in Rockland, that preventing endangered North Atlantic right whales from becoming entangled in lobster gear could be as simple as changing the color of the rope. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)
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FILE - In this March 6, 2013 file photo, a warning sign is shown attached to a fence at the 'C' Tank Farm at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, near Richland, Wash. Documents obtained by the Associated Press show that there are “significant construction flaws” in some newer, double-walled storage tanks at the nuclear waste complex. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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FILE - In this June 19, 2013 file photo, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, center left, answers questions from reporters in Richland, Wash., before touring the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Documents obtained by the Associated Press show that there are “significant construction flaws” in some newer, double-walled storage tanks at the nuclear waste complex and in a letter Moniz, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for better management of Hanford by the Dept. of Energy. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Kai-Huei Yau, file) LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL RADIO OUT KONA
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With the Los Angeles skyline in the background, the Los Angeles River flows Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Two men and their dogs were rescued earlier from the swift waters of the Los Angeles River. A few miles downriver, another man was pulled out and carried to safety. Even with rainfall totals exceeding six inches in some places Friday, the powerful Pacific storm did not put a major dent in a drought that is among the worst in recent California history. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Meredith McCarthy and her son Jasper Ward, 7, retrieve a plastic bottle as volunteers with Heal The Bay's storm response team remove snack-food packaging, plastic drink containers, single-use bags and other debris washed into the ocean from the Pico-Kenter outfall, a storm drain that serves a large part of the Westside of Los Angeles, at Santa Monica Beach, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Heavy rains will flush accumulated trash into the ocean, where it becomes a health hazard to humans and sea life. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Manufacturing Assembly worker Terry Young, 24, of Rialto, Calif., uses a sheet of plastic to protect himself from a downpour Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, as he jumps a flooded parking lot from a wood pallet to get to a food truck during his break in Anaheim, Calif. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow early Friday through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2014, Harold Lynch fishes in his ice shanty on Lake Onalaska in Onalaska, Wis. March 1 is Wisconsin’s deadline for removing ice fishing houses, but anglers are calling in to say their shanties are still stuck to the ice. The DNR sent out a press release saying they can’t change the law, but they’ll use discretion in enforcing the law with fishermen. (AP Photo/The La Crosse Tribune, Erik Daily)
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Traffic slows after authorities closed a section of Interstate 35 in Lakeville, Minn., Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. A series of pileups in snowy weather closed the stretch of highway for several hours Friday. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glen Stubbe) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT MBO TV is soft out
