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Volunteers, from left, Galiena Cimperman, Jennifer Belland, Heidi Hosinski, and Jen Rush help parrots paint at the Midwest Avian Adoption & Rescue Services in St. Paul, Minn. on Friday, May 2, 2014. The paintings are later sold to help support the bird sanctuary program. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Ben Garvin) MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE OUT
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Philippe, a Moluccan Cockatoo, paints at Midwest Avian Adoption & Rescue Services in St. Paul, Minn. on Friday, May 2, 2014. An ordinary looking office building on St. Paul's near East Side is the home to about 80 unordinary birds cockatiels and cockatoos, parrots and macaws. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Ben Garvin) MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE OUT
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** FILE ** Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama’s nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Shawn LaFrance, from the Foundation for Health communities talks about updates on the New Hampshire Children's Behavioral health Plan Thursday, May 8, 2014 in Concord, N.H. LaFrance told the group where things stand a year after it created a plan to fix the state's fragmented system for helping children with mental health and substance abuse conditions. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
