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Operation Homefront and the Women's Self Worth Foundation will offer the Saban Military Wife Educational Scholarship to wives of uniformed service members who attend certain vocational training programs in the medical field and meet eligibility requirements. Two $30,000 scholarships will be awarded for tuition for vocational
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Michelle Shocked was a nomadic activist of Mormon/atheist parentage who fell into music along the way. And it's her travels that color her folk-rock with dimension and wisdom. Initially discovered in 1986 while singing by a campfire in Kerrville, Texas, by a Johnny-on-the-spot record producer with a Walkman, Shocked became
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So you walk through the grocery store, and you look at the big, shiny red apples, and you feel hungry. Then you notice just how big and red and shiny they all are. You get all suspicious and start remembering things about pesticides and growing seasons, and all of a
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JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD, Wash. -- During intense testing an evaluator yells, "If it ain't raining we ain't training," as soldiers of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, threw simulated grenades, cleared weapons malfunctions, assaulted positions and treated simulated casualties. In
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It's almost time for shorts and sandals again. Nature is shrugging off its slumber and flourishing with colors and fragrances, blooming flowers and leafy, green trees. The vibrancy and renewal of spring is here. It has arrived at Lakewold Gardens as well. Located on Gravelly Lake Drive in Lakewood and just minutes
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His shirt spotted with blood from a cut on his opponent's face, an exhausted Cameron Martinez sat in a chair in a busy training room inside Soldiers Field House on Joint Base Lewis-McChord with a big smile on his face. With the large championship belt was around his waist, Martinez held
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Furries unite - it's Procession of the Species weekend in Olympia! Yes, it's Oly's beloved 18th annual tribute to natural selection, human creativity, and the flora and fauna of planet Earth. Friday sundown brings the Luminary Procession, culminating in the release of glowing gossamer balloons over Capital Lake. It's effing
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Marco Benevento's new solo album, Me Not Me, explores a wide range of instrumental covers as well as a few original compositions. Me Not Me is Benevento's second solo album, following 2008's Invisible Baby, and is the first on his new record label, The Royal Potato Family. Reed Mathis (Jacob
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Marco Benevento's new solo album, Me Not Me, explores a wide range of instrumental covers as well as a few original compositions. Me Not Me is Benevento's second solo album, following 2008's Invisible Baby, and is the first on his new record label, The Royal Potato Family. Reed Mathis (Jacob
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The synthesizer is a powerful tool that has suffered much abuse since its entrance into the pop world. Cheese-doodling, lipstick-wearing hairspray bands of the '80s are to blame for the synth's lowly place among "real" instruments like guitars and snare drums. But Stepkid, a.k.a Benjamin Tyler from
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Olympia Satanists hold its monthly meeting in the Olympia Center. Personally, I have no interest in standing with the cloven-hooved Lord of Ordure - that South Park movie effectively declawed Old Scratch - but I advertise his conclave chiefly to counter the actions of a club of Evergreen fundamentalists who
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Friday night's Master of the Double Bass show doesn't involve a long-haired drummer with a double kick drum pedal - but rather a celebration of the upright bass, one of the most physically imposing and viscerally stirring acoustic instruments ever made, with Edgar Meyer behind it. Sleeves rolled up and
