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Police block off the area around Sammamish State Park on Sammamish Lake near Seattle late on Saturday, July 17, 2010, looking for a gunman involved in a shooting in the park. The Washington State Patrol says two people are dead and four others wounded in the shooting. (AP Photo/Steve Ringman, Seattle Times)

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** FILE ** Yahya Wehelie of Burke, Va., displays his U.S. passport in Cairo on June 16, 2010. Mr. Wehelie, whose travels to Yemen landed him on the U.S. no-fly list and left him stuck in the Middle East for months, arrived in New York on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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The Boa Sub C work boat, top, operates near the Q4000 drilling rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, July 16, 2010. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Workboats operate near the Transocean Development Drilling Rig II at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, July 16, 2010. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Workboats operate near the Transocean Development Drilling Rig II at the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, July 16, 2010. The wellhead has been capped and BP is continuing to test the integrity of the well before resuming production. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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This Tuesday, July 5, 2009, file photo shows Carte Goodwin, who was West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's General Council, at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday, July 5, 2005. Mr. Goodwin will be the governor's temporary appointee to the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd's seat. (AP Photo/Bob Bird, File)

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A munson boat pulling boom passes a transrec machine as it is lifted back onto the deck of the Pacific Responder oil skimming vessel on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana Thursday, July 15, 2010. The machine vacuums oily water contained by the booms into tanks on the vessel, where it can then be separated. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Workers continue to construct a berm system on the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands, La., Thursday, July 15, 2010. A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Contractor Wade Falany removes a chain securing a munson boat to the deck of the Pacific Responder oil skimming vessel as boom trails behind on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Workers continue to construct a berm system on the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands, La., Thursday, July 15, 2010. A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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A worker walks through the water as a berm system is constructed on the northern end of the Chandeleur Islands, La., Thursday, July 15, 2010. A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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In this photograph take July 8, 2010, a computer for less is dispalyed at a Staples in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, July 8, 2010. Consumer prices fell for the third straight month, providing some bargains to American shoppers.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Associated Press "This gives a signal that we are very, very serious in our commitment to promote safe environments and to offer an adequate response to abuse," said Monsignor Charles Scicluna, a Vatican doctrinal official who helped revise the norms. "If more changes are needed, they will be made."

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Garry Hayes, a geology teacher at Modesto City College in Modesto, Calif., opposes a proposed measure carried by a state senator that would strip the serpentine rock of it's status as the official state rock citing that serpentinite, as it is formally known, can contain asbestos.

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Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 15, 2010, to discuss financial reform legislation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, left, gestures during a press conference along with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, right, at the state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 15, 2010. The governor said 71,500 jobs have been added in Virginia since February. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Yahya Wehelie, from Fairfax, Virginia, walks in downtown Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Mr. Wehelie, 26, of Burke, Va., has been stuck in Egypt for more than two months but is now expected to arrive in New York Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Archeologists, center, take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Archeologists Elizabeth Meade, left, and Molly McDonald take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Archeologists Elizabeth Meade, top, and Molly McDonald take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat at the World Trade Center site on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)