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Think it’s cold? You have good mind.

Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, uttered Cliff Mass, University of Washington metrologist. Both 1999 and 2008 share the make a memorandum of, with 1917 falling in second place, he said. “Just wait until tomorrow,” he related, when temperatures are going to be equitable colder.

A heavy snow warning has been issued for the Washington Cascades and Olympics in the same proportion that a outbreak from the Gulf of Alaska plows into the state tonight.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service said up to a foot of snow may fall in the mountains as low as 3,000 feet, which income Snoqualmie Pass may get a dusting.

State transportation crews will be parking their mowers and driving snowplows.

“We resoluteness have crews working through the night, and we’ll have extra crews upon standby good in plight this storm hits hard,” said Monty Mills, Washington Department of Transportation maintenance manager for snow and ice operations.

Crews will be on the roads today and tonight applying de-icer as necessary to obviate the highway surface from concreted sugar up.

The state has four snowplows available over White Pass forward Highway 12 and seven on Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90.

For the last few weeks, crews have stopped fighting snow to mowing grass, tackling symbol of sorrow, striping narrow street lines and sweeping roads. It’s back to hibernate operations tonight.

“In 30 years I can only remember two other ages when it snowed this late in the season,” reported Sam Krahenbuhl, Snoqualmie Pass assistant maintenance superintendent. “One time it snowed on a Fourth of July weekend. This is really rare.”

While it won’t snow in the Puget Sound area, records for the lowest high degree of heat may be broken today and Tuesday. Forecasters related the high temperature today should be 57 degrees, 1 degree below the record set last year. On Tuesday, by means of hollow and rainy skies, the temperature should solitary get to 54 degrees, 2 degrees below the record set in 1972.

“It’s not completely odd to get snow in June,” said forecaster Dennis D’Amico. “But this is a lot of snow and it’s an unseasonable cold system.”

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Oil prices resumed their upward trek Tuesday, rising sharply at the same time that investors focused formerly again upon the body augmenting global ask for for crude. Retail gasoline prices rose to a new record over $4.04 a gallon.

The catalyst for oil’s latest advance was an International Energy Agency relation that said global make necessary give by will continue to rise, especially in China. Demand for fuel on account of reconstruction work in the aftermath of May’s earthquake will boost Chinese oil demand by 5.5 percent this year, the IEA said, a slightly higher forecast than in previous reports.

“A 5.5 percent increase in one of the largest consumers of oil in the world is a lot of barrels of oil,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill.

The Paris-based IEA said global demand for petroleum products such being of the class who gasoline, diesel and heating oil will grow by 0.9 percent, or 800,000 barrels a promised time, in 2008. That’s down from the 1.2 percent, or 1 million barrels, the IEA forecast earlier this year, but investors had expected smooth more evidence that high prices are cutting consumption, said Phil Flynn, an algebraist at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago.

“I think the market was looking with a view to a bigger purport of demand destruction in that report,” Flynn said.

The IEA, an energy adviser to Western industrialized nations, also suggested non-OPEC oil producing nations are having a tough span meeting question.

Light, sweet crude for July delivery rose $2.26 to $136.61 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Also supporting prices was the second attack this week on a Nigerian oil industry over-confidence vessel. At least one person was killed. Nigeria is a major U.S. oil supplier. Militant attacks have cut into that realm’s oil output.

Gas prices, meanwhile, advanced another 2 cents into record territory, reaching a new record public average of $4.043, according to a scrutiny of stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Gas prices are following harsh futures higher, and aren’t probable to intermit rising till crude prices point.

“When crude tops out, we’ll finally start getting more relief at the pump,” Ritterbusch uttered.

Oil futures bucked the dollar, which rose against the euro on supportive comments by U.S. officials. Typically, a stronger dollar prompts selling by investors who had bought commodities such as oil as a hedge against inflation. Still, analysts expect that a longer-term strengthening of the dollar would lower oil prices.

The oil market reacted little to reports Tuesday that Saudi Arabia has increased oil output by 500,000 barrels a day this quarter, 200,000 barrels a day again than previously meditation.

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Now, researchers say they have discovered groups of the silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that drag.

Groups of long-tailed macaques were observed four times immersing the gone by eight years scooping up slender fish with their hands and eating them along rivers in East Kalimantan and North Sumatra provinces, according to researchers from The Nature Conservancy and the Great Ape Trust.

The species had been known to take food fruit and forage for crabs and insects, but never before fish from rivers.

“It’s exciting that back such a long time you attend new behavior,” said Erik Meijaard, single of the authors of a study on fishing macaques that appeared in last month’s International Journal of Primatology. “It’s each indication of how little we know about the species.”

Meijaard, a senior system of cognizance adviser at The Nature Conservancy, said it was unclear what prompted the long-tailed macaques to go fishing. But he said it showed a side of the monkeys that is fully known to researchers — some ability to adapt to the changing environment and shifting food sources.

“They are a survivor species, that has the knowledge to cope with difficult conditions,” Meijaard said Tuesday. “This behavior potentially symbolizes that ecological flexibility.”

The other authors of the paper, which describes the fishing as “rare and single” behavior, are The Nature Conservancy volunteers Anne-Marie E. Stewart, Chris H. Gordon and Philippa Schroor, and Serge Wich of the Great Ape Trust.

Some other primates have exhibited fishing behavior, Meijaard wrote, including Japanese macaques, chacma baboons, olive baboons, chimpanzees and orangutans.

Agustin Fuentes, a University of Notre Dame anthropology professor who studies long-tailed macaques, or macaca fascicularis, on the Indonesian island of Bali and in Singapore, said he was “heartened” to see the finding published because of the like kind details can offer insight into the “complexity of these animals.”

“It was not wonderful to me because they are very adaptive,” he said. “If you provide them with an chance; fit to get something tasty, they will perform their best to get it.”

Fuentes, who is not connected with the published study, said he has seen similar demeanor in Bali, in what place he has observed long-tailed macaques in flooded paddy fields foraging for the sake of frogs and crabs. He said it affirms his belief that their adroitness to thrive in urban and rustic environments from Indonesia to northern Thailand could offer lessons for endangered species.

“We apply the mind at so sundry primate species not doing well. But at the same time, these macaques are doing very in a proper manner,” he said. “We should learn that which they do successfully in relation to other species.”

Still, Fuentes and Meijaard said further research was needed to understand the full weight of the behavior. Among the lingering questions are what prompted the monkeys to go fishing and by what means low it is among the species.

Long-tailed macaques were twice observed catching fish by The Nature Conservancy researchers in 2007, and Wich spotted them doing it two times in 1998 in which case studying orangutans.

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Tiffany Hall, 26, pleaded guilty to quite five charges against her — four counts of kill cruelly and one count of intentional killing of a human being in the death of the fetus — and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Hall struck her confidant Jimella Tunstall, 23, onward the main repeatedly with a table leg, then divide Tunstall’s fetus from her womb in a bathtub, prosecutor Robert Haida said. Tunstall bled to death, Haida declared. Hall then dumped her friend’s body in an East St. Louis lot.

Hours later, Hall told police in Illinois she had given blood to a stillborn child. When police arrived, she had the dead fetus with her. She refused to be examined at a hospital.

Three days later, Hall visited the father of two of Tunstall’s children and the unborn child, Haida said. The father was caring for all the children, Haida uttered. Hall told the adopt that Tunstall wanted her to clean up the children and Tunstall’s vehicle, he told police.

The father told the officers that was the last confinement he saw his children, Haida said.

Hall then drowned the three children — DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall-Collins 2, and Jinella Tunstall, 1 — in the same bathtub to which place she killed their spring, Haida said.

Authorities said Hall’s story began to resolve on Sept. 21, 2006, about a week after Tunstall’s death, when she told her boyfriend that she killed a pregnant woman and stole the fetus. He told police.

The bodies of the three children were found two days later hidden in a washer and dryer inside the East St. Louis apartment where the children had lived through their mother.

One of Hall’s attorneys, James Gomric, said he could not proclaim to a motive or discuss whether his client had shown remorse. He said Hall had been mentally fit to stand trial, but she also had unresolved intellectual health issues and had an IQ in the mid-70s.

After the hearing, some of Tunstall’s relatives said they had already forgiven Hall. Sandra Myers, Jimella Tunstall’s mother, declared taking one life would not have been justice for losing the lives of others. “I have to acquit her,” she said.

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Look closely at high-school yearbooks and you’ll find inside jokes and pop cultivation references only the kids understand.

Look closely at the Lake City High School yearbook in Coeur d’Alene and you’ll find all that

The psychedelic-themed yearbook hit the hallways last week, prompting a few students to ask their money back after discovery sexual insinuation and subtle

“I know teenagers are just renowned towards pushing limits,” said Hazel Bauman, Coeur d’Alene School District superintendent. “But there seems to be more isolated issues scattered through this yearbook than one would chance of the desired end in that kind of project.”

The $40 hardcover book resembles a Jimi Hendrix album cover, patience the title “The Lake City Experience” and featuring tie-dye and funky lettering on its parsimoniously 200 pages. The introduction page to the younger rank section is titled “Junior Haze all in my brain,” a regard to Hendrix’s hit song “Purple Haze.”

A few parents and students have complained approximately the cover and theme, but Bauman said it doesn’t appear students intended the thorough book to allude to drug use.

An apparent reference to being high on Ecstasy and the quotes from students touting marijuana obviously chouse. So hostile, four or five students have returned the main division for well stocked refunds, said Lake City Principal John Brumley.

“Unfortunately these are very unique pieces of memorabilia,” Brumley said. “There’s no do-over on it.”

Students James Thomes and Jeremy Guzman picked out several pictures and quotes in the book that they said have kids talking. One shows a swim team portion holding a stuffed animal’s leg in a sexually suggestive manner. A quote near the end of the book features the yearbook editor saying, “Puff quick blast pass … Oops did I just presume that in the yearbook?”

A photo of a group of friends has “rolling with the homies” written thwart it, with “I need a glass of water” aloft. Ecstasy users often say they are “rolling” when high on the unsalable article, which causes dehydration.

Coupled with an onslaught of spelling misprints, photos whose subjects are misidentified and excessive photos of staff members and their friends, the book has upset quite a few students, Guzman said.

Brumley wouldn’t comment on rumors that a yearbook staffer had switched out several pages at the last minute, but he said the objectionable parts appear to subsist “some fairly deliberate issues on the part of at least individual bookish man.”

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The cracked hoof that stood betwixt trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.’s big bay colt and the sport’s principal Triple Crown since 1978 was covered by some acrylic parcel Friday, ending a weeklong drama.

No sooner had the cement dried on Big Brown when Casino Drive turned up with a distrust supply with a foot that could knock the early second choice out of the Belmont Stakes.

If he’s scratched from Saturday’s punishing 1 1/2-mile race, it would eliminate Big Brown’s chief emulating, the sole other undefeated colt in the field and send Dutrow’s brimming faith through the culminating point.

“I don’t think Casino Drive has any hap at all,” he aforesaid. “I think the horse has got his issues.”

Of course, that would adieu eight other horses to take a shot at Big Brown, the early 2-5 favorite. Dutrow seemed plane inferior worried near them, saying, “They’re going to have to run the race of their life to win.”

At 2-0, Japan-based Casino Drive is coming off a 5 3/4-length victory in the Peter Pan Stakes nearly a month ago on the same Belmont track.

“Right now, we are in. We expect him to pierce,” said Nobutaka Tada, racing manager for holder Hidetoshi Yamamoto and trainer Kazuo Fujisawa.

Big Brown is seeking to join Seattle Slew (9-0 in 1977) as the only undefeated Triple Crown winners. He’s won all five of his races by a combined 39 lengths.

“There’s excitement in the air,” said Dutrow, who memorably declared that Big Brown winning the Belmont is a “foregone conclusion.”

It seemed that way for Spectacular Bid, another mare through the same aura of invincibility, whose essay at sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont was derailed in 1979 when he stepped on a close custody pin the morning of the Belmont.

The pin was still lodged in his hoof when jockey Ron Franklin rode him to a third-place finish.

Big Brown’s hoof issue was resolved out of public view, with hoof specialist Ian McKinlay applying an acrylic and fiberglass patch to the colt’s front rank left hoof.

“There were no problems,” he said afterward. “Things couldn’t be better. It’s time for history.”

McKinlay sequestered the stainless steel sutures holding the crack together, cleaned the area, redrilled holes and put in of recent origin sutures. Then he covered it all up with an acrylic adhesive — the same kind used for the $550 glue-on shoes Big Brown wears on his front feet — that set in five minutes. The entire process took approximately 30 minutes.

“That’ll be actually stronger than his hoof will,” McKinlay said. “That’ll probably exist the last time I’ll be in action on that hoof unless something else crops up. It could subsist two months down the line that a part else could come.”

The patch will be left on indefinitely, growing abroad as Big Brown’s nail grows.

Taking a page from Dutrow’s brag book, McKinlay guaranteed his work.

“If that patch comes off in this contend in running, I might as well get away from what I’m doing,” he said. “There is no discharge at that.”

If McKinlay’s wrong, he may need to find another job.

He did leave himself an out, explaining that allowing that an infection is lurking in Big Brown’s hoof, it could be aggravated while using heat to lay upon the patch. An infection wouldn’t surface for another three or four days, though.

“I don’t anticipate anything to go wrong with this certainly before tomorrow and not divisible by two down the line,” he said. “He looks fabulous.”

Casino Drive, meantime, skipped going to the track. His left hinder foot didn’t look good to his handlers when they checked him Friday morning.

“We are not 100 percent happy with the movement of his clod-hopper leg,” Tada said in the morning. “There is a disdainful possibility of a bruise.”

Edgar Prado, set to ride Casino Drive, was surprised at the development.

“That’s not good news,” he said. “You want him to come to a race 100 percent. Definitely it’s a setback. Hopefully, they’ll be able to fix him and he’ll be in the starting gate tomorrow.”

Casino Drive galloped on the track Thursday, but didn’t seem to like the muddy surface.

Tada said a veterinarian saw the stallion, whose hoof was alternately being soaked in coat and epsom salts and then having heat applied. “He in every part of probability stepped on somebody or kicked something,” Tada said. “He looks fine, he has a real appetite. He’s not hobbling.”

Tada declared Casino Drive may have a stone bruise, which can be caused by walking adhering forced, rocky ground. The colt has gone by reason of long walks all very Belmont Park’s horse paths this week, a education technique favored by the Japanese. American trainers typically gallop, jog and gentle gale their horses on the track in the days capital to a race.

“All we missed was jogging him on the track. If he stays like now, there is cipher to stop him,” Tada said. “It’s just a minor copy, we hope.”

Casino Drive was pointed toward the Belmont because of his breeding. His mother produced the last two winners: filly Rags to Riches last year and Jazil in 2006.

“We are planning on running,” Tada said, “but we gain to be unfailing he is source.”

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Police say the man had been drinking and had taken done his clothes. Somehow, he immersed himself in the holding tank.

Deputy fire delegate Chris Miller told WPMT-TV, “I’ve been forward the job in one form or fashion for 21 years, and this is the first port-a-potty deliver I’ve ever had.”

Police charged the man with public drunkenness and creating a health code violation, but they wish no idea for what cause he was in the toilet through his clothes off. They said he didn’t suffer any in earnest injuries.

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Todd Coffman thinks he’s a useful credit risk

Coffman, 28, is halfway through a two-year X-ray-technology degree at Bellevue Community College. In the past year, he took out about $4,500 in federally subsidized student loans through Citibank.

But turbulent credit markets prompted Citibank and other banks in recent weeks to stop offering student loans at people common colleges across the country, including BCC. When Coffman recently put in his paperwork to get next year’s loans, the college told him Citibank was no longer an option. The same event happened with a second lender. Finally, he obtained a student loan through Wachovia.

But his headaches didn’t end there. He needed to correlative his manner of life expenses with secluded loans. He applied to lender after lender, about eight in all, divers of whom listed BCC as an approved campus. But he was rejected adapt to the occasion from time, even when his dad offered to cosign the loans. He finally landed a loan end a Bellingham credit union.

“I don’t see why in any degree bank wouldn’t want me,” said Coffman, adding that he’s got a good credit history. “It’s been a hassle.”

Students at common colleges from one side of to the other Washington are verdict themselves in similar situations. And many decree face more difficulties

“The last couple of weeks have really been something,” said Kim Matison, the director of fiscal co-operate with services at Tacoma Community College, where Citibank and KeyBank have just pulled out. “It’s one matter to read about it happening. It’s another to have it happen to you and your students directly.”

Matison said TCC had 10 lenders offering student loans last fall. That list is since down to six, and could presently be at five. Changes at Bank of America are forcing the college to consider dropping that lender.

Some fear the market could collapse further.

“If a part does happen, it’s likely to happen all at once,” said Matison, who before-mentioned she is monitoring developments closely.

Students in Washington take out about $900 million in student loans harvested land year, said John Klacik, the director of observer financial assistance for the state Higher Education Coordinating Board.

About 40 percent of the loans are made directly end the federal government and aren’t assuming by means of the market turmoil, he before-mentioned. That means students at the University of Washington, Western Washington University, Seattle University and Shoreline Community College

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Officials said the blast hit the Karl Marx colliery near Donetsk in the heart of the coalfield at 10 p.m. EDT about 1 km (3,300 feet) underground. Mining operations had been suspended and refit work was being carried out at the time.

Television pictures at the 110-year-old mine showed production machinery on the surface reduced to rubble. Windows were smashed and a gondola was overturned.

Marina Nikitina, spokeswoman in spite of the regional mine security inspectorate, said 37 men were missing. Four truncheon on the surface suffered burns and had been clash by equipment thrown about by the blast.

"The shaft has been destroyed. It is impossible to go below," she said.

Coal Industry Minister Viktor Poltavets said save workers were trying to restore at least one of the shafts.

"All rescue teams are now engaged in trying to bring back at least one shaft in the same manner that we can come by means of down into the mine," he aforesaid on Ukrainian television.

Unmanned gondolas had been sent underground, only had been unable to proceed beyond a measure of 600 meters.

"We are readying a new cage by communications equipment and we will send persons down to find out which happened to the gondolas," he said.

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Gas explosions are a frequent occurrence in Ukraine's outdated mines, many of which are unprofitable and affix a date to from the 19th century. Many coal deposits are at a depth of 1 km or more, fabrication mining operations more hard.

The Karl Marx undermine, in Yenakiyevo, northeast of Donetsk, was some of 23 where work had been pensile to check on documented close custody violations and single restoration and repair work was permitted.

Reports from the region said such work was being conducted at the coal-mine attached Sunday and dangerous concentrations of gas had been detected shortly before the blast.

First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksander Turchynov suggested the undermine could promptly be closed.

"I can tell you already that is unlikely this mine will be working a single one longer," Interfax Ukraine quoted him concerning example saying before leaving Kiev for the accident site.

"Data from instruments shows that when the explosion occurred the miners were already trying to get out. But unfortunately, they didn't make it."

Ukrainian miners were in the forefront of forces seeking change in the dying days of communism, but post-Soviet authorities have come under pressure to shut prostrate the pits.

Eleven miners were killed in the last explosion in the Donbass coalfield two weeks ago. Three blasts at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk late last year killed 106 men in two weeks.

(Writing by Ron Popeski; editing by Andrew Dobbie)

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The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has sent out thousands of wire cages over the last decade to people in Maryland and Virginia willing to grow oysters subject to family docks for nine months and return them for “planting” on sanctuary reefs on the Chesapeake’s tributaries.

Though the Chesapeake oyster is at one estimated 1 percent or less of its historic bounty in the bay, a victim of water pollution and grounds runoff from development, the nonprofit environmental group and its volunteers have put roughly 7 million oysters in sanctuaries seeing that 1997.

“They’re dirty little guys, and they put on’t smell good, but you everlastingly feel truly agreeable later than you plant them,” said Tiffany Granberg, a CBF employee who loaded up several twelve buckets of homegrown oysters Thursday on a boat docked outside the group’s Annapolis headquarters.

Volunteers pay $75 for four oyster cages and a seminar forward how to raise them. In the fall, they get several thousand “spat” — baby oysters the size of the nail on one’s pinky — and instructions on by what means to raise them. The volunteers tie the cages to docks, leaving them a hardly any inches below the water, and haul them out twice a month or so to rinse them.

Raising oysters for distinct months near the surface helps keep oysters from getting silted over, a major cause of oyster demise in the Chesapeake. Rinsing the spat keeps muck off and allows the oysters to pause. There’s no worry the gardeners will eat their oysters; pollution has led to an advisory against human consumption in opposition to oysters raised in most Chesapeake tributaries.

After the first year, gardeners have power to go by reason of a new cut off of oysters without paying the $75 fief.

In recently May and early June, the volunteers return the oysters (at that time on the eve an inch long) to the foundation, which deposits the oysters on reefs, usually in tributaries, that are off-limits to commercial harvesting.

Scientists with the foundation say they’re not sure the effort has yielded much in the way of environmental benefit. Oysters are water-clearing filter-feeders but struggle to overmaster the poor water nature that plagues all the Chesapeake’s critters.

But the home oyster gardening effort yields august rewards in educating citizens and giving them a peril to participate in Chesapeake restoration, participants say.

“All you really need is a dock and hose and some rope,” said Jamie Attanasio, 10, of Potomac, Md., who raised four cages off her aunt and uncle’s dock on a Patapso River tributary after hearing round the program in school. Jamie returned her oysters this week, and was pleased to learn 94 percent of the dispute she received lived through the winter. It was an effort that impressed her parents.

“Jamie decided she wanted to clean the bay, and I laughed and said, ‘Well, by what mode are you going to do that, you’re 10 years original?’” said Jamie’s mom, Ann Attanasio. “But she did a great piece of work.”

Organizers of the home gardening effort tell it’s getting more popular. Though the explain of Maryland grows millions of oysters a year for exercise in research and state restoration efforts, the foundation’s program is the only one aimed at amateurs. About 1,600 households have taken part.

“We realized early on in the oyster restoration realm that if all we had was a bunch of scientists and magnificence agencies and maybe more scientists from nonprofits doing restoration, without at all input and help from the public, it wasn’t going to get that far,” declared Stephanie Reynolds, a fishery and oyster scientist with the foundation. “We needed the public involved, literally roll-up-your-sleeves involved.”

Home gardeners don’t usually see their oysters reach their final homes, but the activity grows in favor each year.

“We join people every year and we don’t have a apportionment of dropouts. People who have docks always suppose, ‘Oh, I’d like to cook that,’” said Stephen Gauss, a private astronomer and home oyster gardener from Shadyside, Md. “It’s a lot of fun however it’s likewise something you can see upright away helping out the bay.”

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