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– James Tumblin's 300,000-piece collection of Gone With the Wind memorabilia started with a single gray dress with black appliques that lay crumpled on the floor of the Western Costume Company in Los Angeles in the 1960s. "A docent told me not to bother to pick it up, because they were throwing it away," Tumblin, who once ran the hair and makeup department at Universal Studios, told the Telegraph last month. But "I had noticed there was a printed label saying Selznick International Pictures, and 'Scarlett production dress' was written in ink," he said. "I asked if he would sell it to me." He ended up paying just $20 for the costume, worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in four scenes of the 1939 film—an incredible bargain considering the dress sold at auction on Saturday for $137,000. The outfit—really a jacket and skirt ensemble—was actually pale blue during filming. But some of the 150 Gone With the Wind pieces sold by Heritage Auctions this weekend remain in pristine condition, including a gray wool suit Clark Gable wore when he kicked down Scarlett O'Hara's boudoir door as Rhett Butler, CNN reports; it sold for $55,000. A straw hat worn by Leigh fetched $52,500, while a black bonnet donned by Leigh and Olivia de Havilland's character Melanie Wilkes sold for $30,000, Reuters reports. Tumblin seems happy to have been able to offer up his pieces, many of which have toured the country. "I am really looking forward to walking through a museum and seeing something that I once owned," he said. He still maintains the largest private collection of Gone With the Wind memorabilia, which includes Leigh's Oscar. (The film almost didn't make it to the screen.)

(CNN) A dress worn by Vivien Leigh as she played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" has fetched $137,000 at an auction.

 That's a pretty healthy profit for the collector who bought the outfit decades ago for a mere $20 as it was on the verge of being tossed out.

 The outfit, a gray two-piece ensemble, was sold at an auction in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, according to Heritage Auctions

 It was the most sought after item among roughly 150 pieces of "Gone With the Wind" memorabilia on sale in the auction. They come from the huge collection amassed by James Tumblin, who used to work at Universal Studios.

 'They were throwing it away'

 Tumblin said he came across the Scarlett O'Hara dress in the early 1960s while doing some research at a costume company.

 "I saw this dress on the floor and a docent told me not to bother to pick it up, because they were throwing it away," he said, according to The Telegraph

 "I asked if he would sell it to me," he said. "I had noticed there was a printed label saying Selznick International Pictures and 'Scarlett production dress' was written in ink."

 From that savvy purchase, his "Gone With the Wind" collection snowballed.

 Other standout items include a straw hat worn by Leigh in a number of scenes in the movie and a gray wool suit worn by Clark Gable as his character, Rhett Butler, kicks down the door of Scarlett O'Hara's boudoir.

 Faded over the years

 The dress -- a jacket and full skirt ensemble -- was worn in several key scenes in the 1939 movie, including when Scarlett O'Hara encounters Butler and when she gets attacked in the shanty town.

 The outfit has suffered a little with age, however.

 When Leigh wore it in the movie, it was slate blue-gray. Over the years, it's faded to light gray.

 But that didn't deter the winning bidder on Saturday. ||||| DALLAS, April 18 A gray and black dress worn by Vivien Leigh in her role as Scarlett O'Hara in the classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" sold for $137,000 at an auction in California on Saturday.

 The outfit, featuring black appliques, was one of more than 150 items from the film up for auction by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills.

 The items were part of the private collection of James Tumblin, formerly in charge of the hair and makeup department at Universal Studios.

 Tumblin began collecting onscreen costumes, props and behind-the-scenes artifacts from the film in the 1960s, amassing a collection of more than 300,000 pieces of memorabilia, according to Heritage Auction officials.

 During a visit to the Western Costume Company he spotted the Scarlett O'Hara dress on the floor. He learned that the dress was about to be thrown away and negotiated a deal to buy it for $20, according to Heritage Auction.

 Tumblin has "devoted his life and efforts to promoting Hollywood and this film, touring his items throughout the United States," Kathleen Guzman, managing director of Heritage Auctions in New York, said in a statement.

 Other top selling items from the auction were a straw hat worn by Leigh that sold for $52,500; the trousers and jacket from a suit worn by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, selling for $55,000; and a black bonnet worn by both Leigh and Olivia De Havilland as Melanie Wilkes, which fetched $30,000. (Editing by Jonathan Kaminsky and Clarence Fernandez) ||||| Gone with the Wind pretty much swept the board at the 1940 Oscars.

 Now, 75 years later, an impressive collection of memorabilia from one of the most iconic films of the 20th century is up for sale.

 The collection assembled by Jim Tumblin, who spent 22 years working at the Universal Studios hair and make-up department, could raise as much as $1 million (£668,000).

 In all, more than 150 lots will go under the hammer at the sale being held by Heritage Auctions next month.

 Most interest is expected to centre on a dress worn by Vivien Leigh, whose portrayal of Scarlett O’Hara won one of the film’s 10 Oscars.

 Bidding will start at $60,000, rather more than the $20 Mr Tumblin paid for the dress in the early 1960s.

 Scarlett's dress (Hertiage Auctions)

 He spotted it while doing some research at Western Costume – a company which has served Hollywood since the days of silent cinema.

 “I saw this dress on the floor and a docent told me not to bother to pick it up, because they were throwing it away,” he said.

 “I asked if he would sell it to me. I had noticed there was a printed label saying Selznick International Pictures and ‘Scarlett production dress’ was written in ink.”

 Bonnie's blue riding suit is among the lots (Heritage Auctions)

 This modest purchase sowed the seeds for what has become one of the most significant collections of Hollywood memorabilia, now numbering more than 300,000 artefacts.

 “Word started going around the studios and people who had relatives who had worked on the film got in touch.

 Ashley's Confederate suit is up for sale (Heritage Auctions)

 "Then I started getting inter-office memos and phone calls," Mr Tumblin added.

 “Hollywood was one big family. We all knew each other in the business.

 “The collection grew, it was almost like rust – it just never went away.”

 It has been something of a labour of love as he has travelled around the US with his collection. Visitors to his exhibitions have included the former US president, Jimmy Carter.

 Vivien Leigh wore the dress in several key scenes and it is not the only evocative item up for auction.

 There is also Clark Gable’s grey suit which he wore as Rhett Butler in the scene where he kicks down Scarlett O’Hara’s door.

 Clark Gable in the suit (Heritage Auctions)

 It is in pristine condition.

 Also up for sale is Leslie Howard’s tattered Confederate uniform which he wore as Ashley Wilkes when he found his way back to the Tara plantation.

 According to Mr Tumblin, in many cases the costumes were hardly cherished at the time, often being left unloved on racks once they had fulfilled their purpose. Others have since been restored, including two owned by the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas, which were displayed at the V&A in 2012.

 It is not only costumes from the film which are up for sale.

 A presentation script, signed by David O Selznick and belonging to Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to win an Oscar, is expected to fetch $25,000.

 Then there is the typewriter used by Sidney Howard, who wrote the film’s screenplay – for which he earned a posthumous Oscar.

 Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind (Rex)

 One thing which Mr Tumblin is keeping is Vivien Leigh’s Oscar.

 Selling the collection will enable Mr Tumblin to share it with others, he said.

 “I am really looking forward to walking through a museum and seeing something that I once owned.

 Despite owning so much Gone with the Wind memorabilia, it is not his favourite film of all time – that accolade goes to Stella Dallas, starring Barbara Stanwyck.

 “Gone with the Wind is in my all time top 10 films I would watch if I was stranded on a desert island with a generator.” |||||


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Marine archaeologists have recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, where the remains of at least seven more priceless statues from the classical world are believed to lie buried.

 Divers found the right arm, encrusted and stained green, under half a metre of sediment on the boulder-strewn slope where the ship and its cargo now rest. The huge vessel, perhaps 50m from bow to stern, was sailing from Asia Minor to Rome in 1BC when it foundered near the tiny island between Crete and the Peloponnese.

 The project team, from the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and Lund University in Sweden, discovered the buried arm with a bespoke underwater metal detector which has revealed the presence of other large metal objects nearby under the seabed. “There should be at least seven statues,” Alexandros Sotiriou, a Greek technical diver on the team told the Guardian. The operation is overseen by Ageliki Simosi, director of the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, which is responsible for all underwater archaeology in Greece.

 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detail of the arm discovered under half a metre of sediment by the ancient shipwreck. Photograph: Brett Seymour/EUA/ARGO 2017

 “What we’re finding is these sculptures are in among and under the boulders,” said Brendan Foley, co-director of the excavations team at Lund University. “We think it means a minimum of seven, and potentially nine, bronze sculptures still waiting for us down there.” The boulders that overlie the metal objects weigh several tonnes and may have tumbled onto the wreck during a massive earthquake that shook Antikythera and surrounding islands in the 4th century AD.

 The bronze arm, probably from a statue of a male, is the highlight of the team’s 2017 excavation season. Among other objects the divers recovered are a patterned slab of red marble the size of a tea tray, a silver tankard, sections of joined wood from the ship’s frame, and a human bone. Last year, the team found the skull, teeth, ribs and other bones of an individual who perished on the wreck. They have since extracted DNA from the skull and from it learned the individual’s sex and where they came from. Until those results are published, the person is known as Pamphilos after divers found the name, meaning “friend of all”, carved on a buried cup that had been decorated with an erotic scene.

 The Antikythera wreck first came to light in 1900 when Greek sponge divers happened on the scene in 50 metres of water. Archaeologists have since pulled up spectacular bronze and marble statues, ornate glass and pottery, stunning pieces of jewellery, and a remarkable geared device – the Antikythera mechanism – which modelled the motion of the heavens. During the 2017 excavations, divers recovered a bronze disc that may be a missing part of the ancient device.

 But it is the statues that made the wreck famous. In the 1900s, archaeologists working at the site surfaced pieces of a beautiful Hellenistic bronze, named the Antikythera Youth. The statue now stands in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens alongside an impressive bronze head named the Antikythera philosopher, also hauled from the wreck. Both date to the 4th century BC, raising the question of how they came to be aboard the ill-fated ship 300 years later.

 Jens Daehner, associate curator of antiquities at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, said the Antikythera wreck had already yielded significant bronze statues. “The chance to recover another group of lifesize statues associated with the wreck is extraordinary, because bronzes are usually encountered randomly under the sea, picked up by fishing nets or chanced upon by divers,” he said. “Those finds are not excavated like at Antikythera, where archaeologists can and do document the entire context, which provides all the sorts of very valuable data as to when the sculptures were transported and why they were on the ship: for trade, as booty, or as scrap metal to be recycled.”

 Facebook Twitter Pinterest As well as the arm, divers have recovered a patterned slab of red marble the size of a tea tray, a silver tankard, sections of joined wood from the ship’s frame and a human bone. Photograph: Brett Seymour/EUA/ARGO 2017

 The bronze recycling industry was huge in classical times and later in the medieval period, leading to the destruction of countless statues and other artefacts that would be priceless today. For this reason, many of the finest specimens of bronze statues that survive were once lost at sea. “Ancient bronze sculpture in general is rare due to the metal having been recycled in antiquity and later. We think of the ones from the sea as those that got away,” said Daehner. “Any chance to recover more Greek sculptures in any medium, but particularly in bronze, should not be missed.”

 To recover the statues will take a massive effort. The divers must first remove boulders that are in their way, either by hauling them up, or by drilling holes in the rocks and filling them with grout that expands to fracture the stone. Another option is to crack the boulders open with small shaped charges that technical divers use to rescue people trapped when undersea caves collapse. But even if the statues can be lifted from the sea, they will be broken and need costly and time-consuming conservation and reconstruction.

 Statues are not the only objects the excavators hope to find. The latest excavations uncovered a lump of material bearing a bronze disc that matches the size of geared wheels found in the Antikythera mechanism. Wound by a handle, the device showed the movement of the sun, moon and planets in the sky, but not all of the machine was recovered. “The disc looks very exciting indeed,” said Andrew Ramsey, a CT specialist at Nikon Metrology in Tring, who used CT scans to read inscriptions on the original pieces of the mechanism. But the disc may be something entirely different. Preliminary x-ray images reveal no teeth, but an image of a bull, suggesting the disc is not a cog but a decorative item.

 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Divers also discovered this piece of material bearing a bronze disc that matches the size of geared wheels found in the Antikythera mechanism. Photograph: Brett Seymour/EUA/ARGO 2017

 Mike Edmunds, emeritus professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University and a member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, said the findings are impressive. “They are getting very good at detecting bronze items which raises the possibility that they may be able to find either the missing planetary gearing from the Antikythera mechanism, which we know is there from the analysis of the inscriptions on the mechanism, or a new piece of mechanism, or another mechanism that was being transported, and that would be very exciting.”

 The team will return to the wreck in the spring, optimistic that they may pull up fresh treasures from the wreck. “It’s not going to be just the bronze sculptures,” said Foley. “We’re down in the hold of the ship now, so all the other things that would have been carried should be down there as well. Every day is going to be like opening Tut’s tomb.” ||||| A trove of new artifacts have been recovered from the Roman-era wreck that yielded the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism, including an arm made of bronze and a strange metal disc. But most intriguing of all, the latest survey suggests that seven bronze statues are still waiting to be discovered.

 The Antikythera shipwreck is the gift that keeps on giving.

 The latest expedition, led by the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, Lund University, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was conducted between September 4 to 20, and as per previous trips to the wreck, the team did not leave disappointed. With excellent weather conditions above them, the divers managed to recover an “orphaned” right arm of a bronze statue, pottery shards, nails, lead sheathing fragments, and an odd metal disc, among other artifacts.

 Excitingly, scans with a metal detector indicated the presence of at least seven undiscovered and priceless bronze statues buried near the sunken ship, which sank off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1 BC. The doomed vessel was filled with art pieces and luxury items, including the Antikythera Mechanism—a geared device used to predict astronomical events such as eclipses and the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets. The 50-foot-long Roman-era ship sunk near the tiny island between Crete and Peloponnese.

 Prior to this latest expedition, the Return to Antikythera project team managed to recover glassware, luxury ceramics, anchors, counterweights, tools, and even an ancient skeleton (which is currently being analyzed for DNA). During the recently concluded trip to the wreck, divers investigated areas where fragments of marble and bronze statues had been found before, and which were located near and underneath large stone boulders. Regrettably, the wreck happens to be located on a slope, and over the years, a succession of earthquakes has delivered numerous rocks and boulders to the site.

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 One of the more interesting items pulled from the wreck is a sediment-encrusted metal disc measuring about eight centimeters across, and with four metal arms with holes for pins.

 At first glance, the archaeologists thought it might be related to the Antikythera Mechanism, specifically a missing gear that was likely used to calculate the positions of the planets. But after performing an x-ray analysis of the disc, the researchers realized it wasn’t a gear at all, but some kind of decorative object adorned with the image of a bull. They suspect it was attached to the shield of a statue, or even to the ship itself.

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 The researchers also found part of a bronze robe or toga, fragments of the ship-shell (namely bits of the skeletal frame and planking), and a bare leg attached to a base that was lodged underneath a boulder. The discovery of the bronze arm, plus the metal detector findings, boosts the number of bronze statues suspected to reside at the site.

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 “What we’re finding is these sculptures are in among and under the boulders,” explained team member Brendan Foley to The Guardian. “We think it means a minimum of seven, and potentially nine, bronze sculptures still waiting for us down there.”

 Bronze statues are exceptionally rare, with only about 50 known to reside from this period. During both the classical and medieval eras, bronze recycling was an important industry—one that resulted in the destruction of countless statues and other artifacts that would, by today’s standards, be priceless. Ironically, some of the finest bronze relics from this era were recovered from shipwrecks.

 Once these suspected bronze statues are located, a truly herculean effort will be required to pull them out. The archaeologists have several options, including hauling the rocks up or fracturing them into smaller pieces. Regardless, it’ll be a slow, costly, and tedious process. The next expedition is planned for the spring of 2018, at which time the archaeologists plan to explore the hold of the sunken ship.

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 Which, whoa.

 [Return to Antikythera Mission, Guardian] ||||| See Statues and Mysterious Disk Found in Ancient Greek Shipwreck WATCH: The site made famous by the Antikythera mechanism continues to yield fascinating discoveries. ALSO: There's additional footage from the expedition at the end of the article.

 Bronze limbs, a sarcophagus lid, marble statue pieces, and a mysterious bronze disk were among the remains found during excavations of one of the world's most ancient—and famous—shipwrecks.

 Greece's Division of Underwater Antiquities—a government agency that's part of the country's ministry of archaeology—announced their finds Wednesday after several weeks of excavations, which lasted from September 4 to 20. Located just off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera 180 feet below the sea, the so-called Antikythera shipwreck can yield insights into Roman culture during its heyday.

 "[Marine archaeologists] have found a very big treasure of statues of marble and bronze and other items," said expedition co-leader Aggeliki Simossi.

 According to Simossi, the first century B.C. merchant ship would have been bound for Rome, where wealthy members of Roman society decorated their villas with Grecian art. Large for its time, the ship measured roughly 130 feet long, meaning a large stash of artifacts was on board when it set sail for Italy.

 Video taken during the excavation shows the archaeologists pulling a realistic sculpture fragment of an arm from the elbow to the fingers. The open tilt of some of the statues' hands, with fingers seeming to gesture up and outward, suggest they were modeled after philosophers.

 While the statues would likely have been considered high art in their day, perhaps the most intriguing artifact found is a small, bronze disk. Punctuated with holes and decorated with the image of a bull, it's unclear what the disk was used for, said Simossi.

 Watch how a team of marine archaeologists excavated the ancient ship and (at minute seven) uncovered its mysterious remains.

 "It is maybe decoration for furniture or maybe a seal, or it could be an instrument," she said. "It is very early to say."

 It's also reminiscent of the Antikythera mechanism, a small, bronze disk that measures celestial movements with impressive accuracy. That piece was found among the ship's remains in 2006. The mechanism is so accurate, in fact, that it's often referred to as an "ancient computer."

 The team of archaeologists, co-led by Simossi and archaeologist Brendan Foley from Lund University in Sweden, will continue studying the remains of this year's haul, before returning to the shipwreck site in May of 2018 for more excavations.

 While Simossi said this year's field work yielded a bigger haul than previous years, the Antikythera shipwreck has been the archaeological gift that keeps on giving. It was first discovered in 1900 by sponge divers, who spotted limbs from bronze statues.

 The "orphan" limbs, as they're called by archaeologists, suggested early on that more treasure was waiting to be found. Famous French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau excavated the ruins in 1976, finding additional statues and some smaller artifacts. (Read more about Jacques Cousteau's work and why he was so influential.)

 While the site has been well known for over 100 years, excavations have been intermittent since Cousteau's trip in the 1970s. Foley's focus on the region in 2014 renewed archaeological interest. Perhaps one of the most significant finds came during September of last year, when archaeologists found human remains at the site. It was the first opportunity to examine 2,000-year-old DNA from the wreck, which may provide more clues about its history. The DNA is still being analyzed but initial work suggests it was likely a young male.

 Discussing the find in 2016 with Nature, Foley speculated that the ship sank suddenly and from natural conditions—most likely a storm. |||||

– The ship bound for Rome sunk in 1BC and was first discovered off the coast of Greece in 1900. And yet the Antikythera shipwreck is still providing new discoveries. The Guardian reports an expedition to the site last month turned up a silver tankard, a human bone, and much more. Perhaps most exciting: the arm of a bronze statue and evidence that the remains of at least seven bronze statues are still buried there. Previous bronze statues found at the Antikythera shipwreck were dated to the 4th century BC. Bronze statues from that time period are extremely rare, with only about 50 known in the world, according to Gizmodo. National Geographic reports that based on the positioning of the fingers, the newly discovered arm may belong to a statue modeled on a philosopher. Recovering the rest of the statue—and the others at the site—won't be easy. The Antikythera shipwreck is 180 feet underwater on a slope and has been buried by boulders from a succession of earthquakes starting in the 4th century AD. It will take a lot of time and money to move the boulders, recover the statues, and reconstruct them. Also discovered in last month's expedition was a mysterious bronze disc that the dive team originally thought could be a missing component of the famous Antikythera Mechanism. The mechanism, often called an "ancient computer," could predict eclipses and the movements of various heavenly bodies and was discovered at the site. However, X-rays of the disc show it's engraved with a bull and was likely a piece of decoration for a statue or the ship itself. The next expedition to the Antikythera shipwreck is scheduled for spring 2018. (An odd item was found at the site in 2016.)


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A former Rutgers University student charged in a high profile invasion of privacy case linked to a student suicide has admitted her role in the secret webcam taping of two male students engaging in sex and has agreed to cooperate with authorities in the ongoing case.

 In exchange, Molly Wei, 19, was permitted to enroll in a pretrial intervention program that could result in the charges against her being dropped.

 Wei made a brief appearance in Middlesex County Superior Court on Friday, where she waived her right to have the charges against her presented to a grand jury and agreed to enroll in the intervention program.

 The former college freshman, who was charged with two counts of invasion of privacy, declined to comment after the 10-minute hearing, but her lawyer said she was cooperating with authorities and that she should "not be a poster child for this."

 Her lawyers have said repeatedly that their client played a minor role in the controversial case.

 Wei and Dharun Ravi, 19, were charged in September with the secret taping of Ravi's roommate, Tyler Clementi, while Clementi engaged in a sexual encounter with another male in their dorm room.

 Clementi, 18, committed suicide a few days later by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

 Ravi was charged in a 15-count indictment handed up in April with invasion of privacy and bias intimidation. Authorities alleged that he targeted Clementi and the other male, identified only by the initials M.B., because they were homosexuals.

 Ravi, who could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if convicted, is to be arraigned on May 23. He has remained free on $25,000 bail.

 Clementi's parents, who attended Friday's hearing, were consulted by Middlesex County authorities and apparently agreed with the more lenient sentence for Wei.

 In a statement released after the hearing, Jane and Joseph Clementi said that "based on the information supplied to us, we understand that Ms. Wei's actions, although unlawful, were substantially different in their nature and their extent than the actions of Tyler's former roommate."

 Wei will be enrolled in the PTI program for three years and must complete 300 hours of community service and undergo counseling on issues like cyber-bullying and alternate lifestyles.

 She also has agreed to cooperate in the investigation and to testify for the prosecution in the case against Ravi.

 Authorities alleged that Ravi hid a recording device in the dorm room he shared with Clementi and then went to Wei's dorm room and used a laptop there to stream a webcam fed of the encounter.

 The indictment against Ravi charged that he recorded one encounter between Clementi and M.B. on Sept. 19 and tried, but failed, to record a second encounter on Sept. 21.

 Clementi, like Wei and Ravi, was a freshman at Rutgers.

 His death became a focal point for gay rights advocates who called it an example of the type of bias members of the gay community face.

 The incident also has been cited by groups concerned about that the Internet has become a vehicle for violating basic privacy rights.

 Supporters of Ravi have termed his actions a college prank run amok and have argued that authorities have turned the incident into a more serious criminal offense.

 In the statement released Friday, the Clementi family said it was important that "there be accountability for violations of basic standards of human behavior."

 "Actions have consequences," the family said.

 Contact staff writer George Anastasia at 856-779-3846 or ganastasia@phillynews.com.

 Follow the Inquirer at www.Twitter.com/PhillyInquirer and www.Facebook.com/PhillyInquirer ||||| (CNN) -- A former Rutgers University student who allegedly watched a web video secretly taken of a male student's sexual encounter with another man has been admitted to a pretrial intervention program.

 Molly Wei pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of invasion of privacy, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.

 The case exposed the issue of bullying and suicide on school campuses after a grand jury indictment alleged that Wei's classmate Dharun Ravi secretly streamed online the encounter between his roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man in September 2010.

 Clementi's body was recovered from the Hudson River on September 30, more than a week after he jumped from the George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River separating New York and New Jersey.

 Should Wei complete the three-year program without additional legal troubles, the invasion of privacy charges for allegedly watching the video will be dropped, the office said.

 Wei will be required to complete 300 hours of community service and must participate in counseling associated with cyberbullying and alternate and cultural lifestyles.

 The deal also requires that she testify against Ravi, who allegedly set up the camera.

 A grand jury indicted Ravi on 15 counts including invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, tampering with physical evidence, witness tampering and hindering apprehension or prosecution.

 Authorities said Ravi secretly placed a camera in the room and accessed it remotely.

 He "then provided others an opportunity to view the encounter," Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan said in a written statement.

 Two days later, Ravi attempted to view a second encounter between Clementi and the same male, alerting others on Twitter of the planned meeting, the statement said.

 Ravi is accused of then deleting the tweet and replacing it with a false tweet in an effort to mislead investigators, according to the statement. |||||Summary:

– Molly Wei admitted her role in the cyberbullying case that led fellow Rutgers student Tyler Clementi to kill himself and agreed to cooperate with authorities. She will likely avoid jail as a result, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wei must complete 300 hours of community service, attend counseling on cyberbullying, and testify against the student accused of setting up the hidden camera that snooped on Clementi and another man, reports CNN. After that, the invasion-of-privacy charges lodged against her for watching the video with Dharun Ravi will be dropped. Wei's attorneys have argued that she played only a minor role in the case and that Ravi is the real culprit. He faces 15 charges on everything from invasion of privacy to tampering with evidence. Clementi's parents seem satisfied with Wei's penalty. "Based on the information supplied to us, we understand that Ms. Wei's actions, although unlawful, were substantially different in their nature and their extent than the actions of Tyler's former roommate," they said in a statement. Click to read about the resolution of the Phoebe Prince case, another high-profile suicide linked to bullying.


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In this April 21, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign event in Hartford, Conn. Clinton can’t win enough delegates on April 25 to officially knock Bernie... (Associated Press)

 In this April 21, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens during a campaign event in Hartford, Conn. Clinton can’t win enough delegates on April 25 to officially knock Bernie Sanders out of the race for president, but she can erase any honest doubts still left that she... (Associated Press)

 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A confident Donald Trump told supporters on Saturday that he's not changing his pitch to voters, a day after his chief adviser assured Republican officials their party's front-runner would show more restraint while campaigning.

 "You know, being presidential's easy — much easier than what I have to do," he told thousands at a rally in Bridgeport, Connecticut. "Here, I have to rant and rave. I have to keep you people going. Otherwise you're going to fall asleep on me, right?"

 Trump declared to the crowd that he has no intention of reversing any of his provocative policy plans, including building a wall along the length of the Southern border.

 "Everything I say I'm going to do, folks, I'll do," he said.

 Trump's new chief adviser, Paul Manafort, met Thursday with top Republican officials and told them his candidate, known for his over-the-top persona and brashness, has been "projecting an image."

 "The part that he's been playing is now evolving," Manafort said.

 At a rally in Waterbury, Connecticut, earlier Saturday, Trump joked about how it's easy to be presidential, making a series of faux somber faces. But he said told the crowd he can be serious and policy-minded when he has to be.

 Manafort "said, 'you know, Donald can be different when he's in a room.' Who isn't," asked Trump. "When I'm out here talking to you people, I've got to be different."

 The Republican front-runner and most of his rivals in both parties were out campaigning Saturday across the quintet of Northeastern states holding primaries on Tuesday, including Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and Connecticut. For the Republicans, in particular, the stakes are high as Trump looks to sweep the remaining contests and reach the required 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, while his rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich look to thwart his efforts and force the race into a contested convention.

 Trump revived his birther criticism of rival Cruz, which he has previously used to suggest the Texas senator is ineligible to run for president.

 "Rafael! Straight out of the hills of Canada!" he declared, referring to Cruz by his given name. Most experts say that Cruz is eligible to serve in the White House even though he was born to an American mother on Canadian soil, but Trump has worked to sow doubts.

 Cruz, in Pennsylvania on Saturday, addressed around 1,000 supporters in a high school outside Pittsburgh, and though the reception was raucous, the crowd didn't know how to react to the Texas senator's opening by saying, "Let me say something that is profoundly painful for someone who grew up as a fan of the Houston Oilers, God bless the Pittsburgh Steelers."

 Cruz said Tuesday "is going to be a pivotal day," but he also traveled on Saturday to Indiana, which doesn't vote until next month. Trump is thought to be favored in Pennsylvania, while Cruz's deep evangelical roots could give him a boost in Indiana.

 Cruz also rebuked Trump's recent suggestions that building separate transgender bathrooms is "discriminatory" and costly, saying Saturday that it should be "the choice of the given location, of the given local government to allow that, to provide for that."

 Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton also campaigned in Connecticut on Saturday. At a round-table event, she discussed ways to raise wages, promote early childhood education and reduce the pay gap between men and women with some of New Haven's working families.

 "Equal pay — we shouldn't be talking about it in 2016. It is almost embarrassing," Clinton said.

 Clinton heard workers describe their struggles with employers, home foreclosure and low wages. Clinton said it was "way past time that we have a raise in the nationwide minimum wage" of $7.25 an hour and said the nation should support cities and states like New York and California "that are willing to put a higher floor under low-wage workers."

 Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, spoke to a boisterous crowd of mostly young people in Baltimore where he railed against big banks and highlighted his differences with Clinton on everything from the minimum wage to free trade agreements.

 He hammered at "disastrous trade policies," describing them as not a sexy issue but an important issue, saying that "we are seeing corporation after corporation shut down in the United States throw millions of workers out in the street, people who are earning a living wage."

 "I oppose every one of these disastrous trade agreements. She supported almost every one of them," he said, referring to Clinton, to a chorus of cheers.

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 Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in New Haven, Connecticut, Susan Haigh in Waterbury, Connecticut and Vivian Salama in Washington contributed to this report. ||||| Photo

 As Donald J. Trump, who leads his two Republican opponents in both votes and delegates, begins preparing his campaign for a general election, he told voters in Connecticut on Saturday that they should not expect him to start “toning it down.”

 Mr. Trump’s message at two stops in Connecticut — first in Waterbury, and later in Bridgeport — seemed to contradict the closed-door pitch his newly installed campaign chief, Paul Manafort, brought to the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting in Florida on Thursday.

 There, in a slide show, Mr. Manafort assured members that Mr. Trump was “evolving” and simply playing a part with his incendiary style of campaigning, which has helped drive him to the front of the race but has caused party leaders to worry that Republicans will be punished in November.

 On Saturday, Mr. Trump seemed to view Mr. Manafort’s presentation slightly differently.

 “Paul was down in Florida and he said, ‘You know, Donald might be changing a little bit over a period of time and he — maybe he’ll tone it down, maybe he won’t, but who knows what happens?’ ” Mr. Trump told a crowd in Waterbury, before rejecting this notion.

 “I sort of don’t like toning it down,” he said. “Isn’t it nice that I’m not one of these teleprompter guys?”

 Later, in Bridgeport, Mr. Trump again addressed Mr. Manafort’s comments, which have prompted some charges of duplicity from Mr. Trump’s rivals.

 “He says, ‘Donald Trump knows, he’s really smart, and he will be different when he’s in private,’ ” Mr. Trump said. “Everybody is!”

 But he acknowledged that he understood the calls, including from his wife, Melania, and his oldest daughter, Ivanka, for him to be “more presidential.”

 “I started thinking, and I said I can, you know being presidential is easy, much easier than what I have to do,” Mr. Trump said, before quickly adding that, as a colorful entertainer-turned-politician, he might risk boring his audiences if he pivots too much toward general-election propriety.

 “Here, I have to rant and rave,” he said. “I have to keep you people going. Otherwise you’ll fall asleep on me.” |||||
What is a summary?

– So much for a changed Donald Trump. He told supporters on Saturday that he's not changing his pitch to voters, a day after his chief adviser assured Republican officials their party's front-runner would show more restraint while campaigning, reports the AP. "I sort of don’t like toning it down,” he said at a rally in Connecticut, per the New York Times. “Isn’t it nice that I’m not one of these teleprompter guys?” Trump also declared to the crowd that he has no intention of reversing any of his provocative policy plans, including building a wall along the length of the Southern border. "Everything I say I'm going to do, folks, I'll do," he said. Trump's new chief adviser, Paul Manafort, met Thursday with top Republican officials and told them his candidate has been "projecting an image." The "part that he's been playing is now evolving," Manafort said. At a rally in Waterbury, Trump joked about acting presidential, making a series of faux somber faces. He also revived his birther criticism of rival Ted Cruz, which he has previously used to suggest the Texas senator is ineligible to run for president. "Rafael! Straight out of the hills of Canada!" he declared, referring to Cruz by his given name and the country of his birth. The Republican front-runner and most of his rivals in both parties were out campaigning Saturday across the Northeastern states holding primaries on Tuesday: Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.


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 The Shutdown's Squeeze On Science And Health

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 In addition to shutdowns of national parks (including Alcatraz Island and Yosemite) and the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, the mandatory furloughs are affecting a wide range of government science and health agencies. Here's a snapshot:

 The "most painful consequence [of the shutdown for National Institutes of Health] is for the clinical center, the largest research hospital in the world" says NIH Director Francis Collins. Many of the hospital's patients have cancer, a rare genetic disease or a serious infection that hasn't been relieved elsewhere, Collins says. But Tuesday NIH had to close its doors to new patients. "How would you feel as a parent of a child with cancer," Collins asks, "hoping that somehow NIH and its clinical center might provide some rescue from a very difficult situation, to hear that, frankly, you can't come, because the government won't be able to stay open."

 More specifically at the NIH clinical center:

 No new studies will be started. Four had been slated to begin this week, but won't if the shutdown continues.

 No new patients will be enrolled in any of the 1,437 studies now underway. Roughly 500of those are studying new drugs and devices, and of those 255 are looking at cancer treatments for adults and children.

 The hospital's reduced staff will continue to care for existing patients, but new patients will not be admitted unless the NIH Clinical Center's director deems it medically necessary.

 Meanwhile, workers will show up to feed and care for animals in NIH labs, but basic research conducted by NIH scientists there will stop.

 "The vast majority of CDC's activities will be shut down completely," according to email from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson. "Only about 4,000 of the CDC's 13,000 staff members will continue to work," during the federal shutdown.

 CDC "will not be conducting multi-state outbreak investigations," but will keep the emergency operation center working "at a reduced capacity," that can be geared up quickly if a serious outbreak of illness is discovered.

 PulseNet, the CDC's foodborne disease tracking program is still up and running, NPR's Allison Aubrey reports.

 However, there will be no monitoring of seasonal flu activity across the U.S.

 Ongoing investigations, such as the one looking into several outbreaks of the brain-eating amoeba Naelgeria will continue, but surveillance of H7N9 (bird flu) and the coronavirus that causes MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) will be "much less robust," according to the CDC.

 Roughly 45 percent of the workers at the Food and Drug Administration have been furloughed, leaving the agency "unable to support the majority of its food safety, nutrition and cosmetics activities," according to Steven Immergut, an agency spokesperson. Some work, such as that related to some activities funded by user-fees in the Center for Tobacco Products, and "high-risk recalls, civil and criminal investigations, import entry reviews, and other critical public health issues," will continue, Immergut says.

 Mission Control at NASA's Johnson's Space Center in Houston remains open for business, providing its usual support for the International Space Station, NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, though the rest of the center in Houston is closed. Also, NASA's Web site is down, and most employees have been put on furlough. A NASA memo obtained by SpaceRef, an online publication for the space industry, suggests most NASA employees weren't even allowed to turn on their computers. The Mars rover Curiosity is still making its rounds on the red planet (staffed by non-civil servants), according to John Grotzinger, project scientist on the Curiosity team, but managers in charge of MAVEN, NASA's next mission to Mars, worry that even a brief shutdown could delay their project's Nov. 18 launch. If the orbiter misses its launch period, another window won't open again for 26 months, the mission managers say.

 At the U.S. Geological Survey, only 43 of its 8,600 employees are deemed essential and working during the shutdown. Just before she was furloughed Tuesday, a USGS spokesperson NPR's Richard Harris that there will be skeleton crews working at headquarters, at the earthquake center in Boulder, Colo., and at the volcano observatories, plus a couple of people are continuing to keep an eye on the data coming in from the two Landsat satellites. These spacecraft collect critical information about the earth's surface that's used by scientists and businesses. For now, the satellite data will only be archived, and analyzed and distributed as images later.

 Although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is affected by the shutdown, officials there told NPR's Jon Hamilton, the weather forecasting portions of the agency are deemed "necessary to protect lives and property," and will continue their work unabated. The National Weather Service also stayed open during the federal shutdown in the winter of 1996 — and successfully forecast a blizzard.

 Nearly 95 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's 16,000-member staff has been furloughed. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren says that means there will be lots of delays in the programs that safeguard the nation's air water land and food.

 Some cleanup activities are being postponed at more than 500 hazardous waste sites in nearly every state of the country. Some reviews of chemicals and pesticides are being stalled. But efforts to clean up leaking underground storage tanks will continue. EPA officials would also still respond to any environmental emergencies that arise, such as big chemical spills.

 In a contingency plan released late last week, the U.S. Forest Service called for keeping 41 percent of its workforce on hand in case of a government shutdown. The agency said it needed about 13,000 workers to carry out essential activities such as fire suppression, law enforcement, protection of federal lands, and protection of research studies where a halt in activity could destroy or endanger study findings.

 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is responsible for overseeing the nation's nuclear reactors, has saved up enough money to continue full operations for another week. After that, it will focus on its core role policing safety at the nation's nuclear plants. NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner says "the NRC will continue to have on site, at all 100 nuclear reactors in this country, its resident inspectors." But most of the agency's nearly 4,000 employees will be sent home. In the unlikely event an accident occurs, Brenner says they could be recalled quickly.

 You'll have to get your fuzzy animal fix elsewhere during the shutdown; the panda cam at The Smithsonian's National Zoo has been turned off. ||||| ARCO, Idaho (KBOI) -- Officials at Craters of the Moon National Monument are about to get more boots on the ground to search for a missing Boise woman.

 The monument has 19 employees and all but three were about to be placed on furlough due to the government shutdown. On Wednesday, however, officials there say the park has received permission to keep 10 workers under the "excepted" status during the search.

 Officials have been looking for 63-year-old Jo Elliott-Blakeslee for about a week. Her hiking partner, 69-year-old Amy Linkert, was found dead last Wednesday.

 "The probability of finding her (Elliott-Blakeslee) alive has diminished, but we are committed to continuing the search until we find Dr. Jo and bring closure to her family, friends and all those who have been involved in this search," said Dan Buckley, park superintendent.

 With 16 staff employees being placed on furlough, Ted Stout, chief of interpretation and education at Craters, told KBOI 2News that no one was looking for 63-year-old Jo Elliott-Blakeslee Tuesday morning.

 "It's pretty much just park staff that are continuing the search," Stout said. "But we're also faced with the government shutdown -- we've been busy with that."

 Federal workers are not allowed to volunteer to do their jobs during a shutdown because U.S. law says they can't do any work that has not been allocated funding.

 The search effort had already begun being scaled back due to rescue agencies being called back to their respective headquarters and poor weather earlier in the week. Only three staff members are at the park monitoring infrastructure resources.

 Meanwhile, family members have called for experienced hikers to help join the search.

 On Monday, Elliott-Blakeslee's family released a statement thanking all those who have helped in the search, and saying that while they realize the chances of finding Elliott-Blakeslee alive are growing slim, they remain hopeful. They also noted that the search area is in rugged and often dangerous territory and prone to unpredictable weather.

 "Either way, we are committed to bringing her home and are actively recruiting volunteers with backcountry experience to keep the search going. But we will not chance injury or loss of searchers," the family's prepared statement said. "In that vein, at a minimum, those interested in participating should be able to hike 10 to 12 miles and climb 1,000 feet at a time in treacherous terrain."

  ||||| Searchers at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho; search for hiker Jo Elliott-Blakeslee, 63, was temporarily stalled as partial federal government shutdown began Oct. 1, 2013, a monument official says / KBOI-TV

 BOISE, Idaho The partial government shutdown has made the search for a Boise, Idaho woman more difficult.

 Jo Elliott-Blakeslee, 63, was missing at Craters of the Moon National Monument. But with 16 staff employees having been placed on furlough as the shutdown began, no one was looking for her Tuesday morning, according to Ted Stout, chief of interpretation and education at the monument.

 He told CBS Boise affiliate KBOI-TV a handful of staff members would resume the search in the challenging terrain Tuesday afternoon.

 And the Butte County Sheriff's Department tells CBS News some monument staffers and personnel from the department did start looking for her again. They were to continue the search Wednesday.

 "It's pretty much just park staff that are continuing the search," Stout said. "But we're also faced with the government shutdown -- we've been busy with that."

 KBOI points out that federal workers aren't allowed to volunteer to do their jobs during a shutdown because U.S. law says they can't do any work for which funding hasn't been allocated.

 The search was already being scaled back due to poor weather earlier in the week. Only three staff members were at the park, monitoring infrastructure resources, on Tuesday, the station said.

 Elliott-Blakeslee has been missing since she left for a short day hike in central Idaho last week,

 Her family is asking for hikers with backcountry experience to help in the search.

 Elliott-Blakeslee and 69-year-old Amy Linkert were last seen on Sept. 19. Officials believe the two went for a short hike at Craters, where their pickup was found parked with their phones, purses and dogs inside.

 They were reported missing Sept. 23 when Elliott-Blakeslee, a physician, didn't show up for work at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, Ore. Searchers found Linkert's body Wednesday; she appeared to have died from exposure.

 Searchers scaled back efforts on Sunday as a storm with heavy winds moved into the area.

 On Monday, Elliott-Blakeslee's family released a statement thanking all those who had helped in the search and saying that, while they realize the chances of finding Elliot-Blakeslee alive were growing slim, they remained hopeful. They also noted that the search area is in rugged and often dangerous territory and prone to unpredictable weather.

 "Either way, we are committed to bringing her home and are actively recruiting volunteers with backcountry experience to keep the search going. But we will not chance injury or loss of searchers," the family's prepared statement said. "In that vein, at a minimum, those interested in participating should be able to hike 10 to 12 miles and climb 1,000 feet at a time in treacherous terrain."

 The family said that it's critical for command center officials to be able to map every step the trained volunteers take with the help of radios and GPS technology, and they're accepting donations for equipment and other resources needed by the volunteers. ||||| For every week that the government shutdown continues, 10 children with cancer will not be able to begin their clinical trials, officials told ABCNews.com.

 John Burklow, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health, estimated that 200 patients would experience these delays each week of the shutdown. Since 15 percent of these patients are typically children, and 33 percent of these children have cancer, that means the patients facing delays would include about 30 children per week, 10 of whom have cancer, he said.

 Federal health programs are down thousands of employees, which hampers clinical trials and disease outbreak surveillance.

 The NIH, for example, has had to furlough 14,700 employees - or 75 percent of its staff - as a result of the shutdown, Burklow told ABCNews.com. He expressed surprise that calls were even getting through, because he said his phone system had gone down this morning.

 "Unfortunately, almost everybody is gone," he said of his office. His staff in the media office has shrunk from 38 to one.

 More than 1,400 ongoing clinical trials will continue at the NIH Clinical Center, which is the largest research hospital in the world, but it won't be able to enroll any new patients in these trials or start any new trials during the shutdown, Burklow said.

 "There are four new protocols [clinical trials] ready to start next week, and they won't be starting during the shutdown if we're still shut down," he said.

 As a result of the shutdown, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has furloughed 9,000 employees, rendering it unable to track multi-state disease outbreaks, said CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds. These currently include the disease stemming from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, which killed a 4-year-old in Louisiana a few weeks ago, and the stomach bug cyclospora, which has sickened 643 people in 25 states since June.

 "The vast majority of the CDC is actively in the process of shutting down," she said. "We've gotten really good at trying to find outbreaks, but our strong network is getting weaker. … This is spotty."

 The seasonal flu program will also be shut down, which could affect the CDC's ability to warn populations most at risk for becoming sick and its ability to create next year's flu shot, Reynolds said.

 PHOTOS on Government Shutdown: U.S. Parks, Memorials Closed

 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's media line rang until a garbled voice message system kicked in and picked up. The FDA tweeted that it would not be able to respond to @ replies during the shutdown but would be back soon. ||||| The federal government shut down on Tuesday and will stay closed until Congress can reach an agreement on how to fund day-to-day operations. So who gets hurt most by the shutdown?

 Everyone's heard that the panda cam at the National Zoo has powered down, but that's hardly the most serious consequence of a shutdown. The biggest disruptions are less visible — the workers going without pay, the patients turned away from research clinics, and so on. Here's a rough list:

 1) More than 2 million federal workers will see their paychecks delayed — and 800,000 of them might never get repaid.

 Federal employees protest the sequester outside the Department of Labor on March 20. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg).

 This is, by a fair margin, the biggest immediate consequence of a shutdown. So long as Congress keeps the government closed, many federal workers simply won't get paid during the shutdown (save for those in agencies with independent funding, like Postal Service employees).

 There are two classes of federal workers to consider. First, there are the 1.3 million "essential" civilian employees who keep working during the shutdown. These workers may see their paychecks delayed, but they'll eventually get paid once the government reopens.

 It's a different story for the 800,000 or so workers deemed "non-essential." These employees have to come in for a few hours on Tuesday, get their files in order, and then go home without compensation, indefinitely. And it's unclear if they'll ever receive back pay. That's completely up to Congress. Non-essential workers did get paid retroactively after the 21-day 1995-'96 shutdown. But this time around, some conservative are reportedly skeptical at the idea of paying federal employees for "work they didn't do."

 This could be a fair-sized financial hit for many workers, depending on how long the government stays shut down. Note that many of these federal employees have already gone through a three-year wage freeze and months of furloughs imposed by the sequestration budget cuts.

 The economic impacts could also be sizable. Economist Mark Zandi argues that the furloughs could shave 0.3 percentage points of fourth-quarter GDP growth (although some of that activity would come back if the workers get back pay). Maryland, where many federal workers live, could lose up to $5 million per day in income and sales tax revenue.

 Note that this doesn't include federal contractors, who will also start furloughing employees as contracts dry up. (During the 1995-'96 shutdown, one-fifth of contracts were put on hold.) It's still unclear how many companies will be affected, but the numbers are large. Fairfax County, Va., alone has 4,100 contractors that bring in about $26 billion per year.

 2) Millions of veterans may not receive benefits if the shutdown lasts more than two weeks.

 (The Washington Post)

 Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs have quietly told Congress that they likely won't have enough money to pay disability claims or make pension payments for veterans if a government shutdown lasts for more than two or three weeks. That could affect some 3.6 million veterans who receive these benefits.

 In a briefing with Congress, VA officials warned that many veterans depend almost entirely on these checks for their livelihood, and many have not been given enough time or information to prepare.

 3) The CDC will halt its flu program just as flu season gets underway.

 Every fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors the spread of flu and figures out how best to direct vaccine programs around the country. During the shutdown, however, the agency will be "unable to support the annual seasonal influenza program," according to a memo from the Department of Health and Human Services.

 We're sorry, but we will not be tweeting or responding to @ replies during the government shutdown. We'll be back as soon as possible! — CDC Flu (@CDCFlu) October 1, 2013

 And it's not just the flu. The CDC also has to stop providing "support to state and local partners for infectious disease surveillance." And the agency will have a "significantly reduced capacity to respond to outbreak investigations, processing of laboratory samples, and maintaining the agency’s 24/7 emergency operations center."

 (The CDC will, however, continue its overseas malaria and AIDS programs, as those are funded independently.)

 4) Some food-safety operations would cease.

 Ken Trevarthan/AP - Water can cause harm by entering the egg through its porous shell, increasing the risk of contamination.

 During the shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration will have to cease most of its food-safety operations. That includes "routine establishment inspections, some compliance and enforcement activities, monitoring of imports, notification programs (e.g., food contact substances, infant formula), and the majority of the laboratory research necessary to inform public health decision-making."

 This past December, the FDA shut down a nut processor in New Mexico after records showed that the facility was shipping products infected with salmonella. That sort of monitoring and enforcement could become much harder.

 Now, that doesn't mean all food-safety oversight stops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will still maintain thousands of inspectors to check out meat and poultry facilities, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service is still allowed to recall workers in the event of an emergency. So there's still a fair bit of oversight capacity in place. But many routine FDA activities on this front will come to a halt.

 It's not just food safety either. A wide swath of regulatory agencies will close during the shutdown. The Environmental Protection Agency will stop monitoring air pollution and pesticide use. The Labor Department won't be around to enforce wage and hour laws or occupational safety. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees America's vast derivatives market, will close up.

 It's very possible that nothing will go awry while these regulators are closed. But that's hard to say for sure.

 5) Nutritional programs for women, infants and children could be disrupted after a week.

 Some programs will continue to receive federal funds, but those for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children would be cut off during a shutdown. (Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post.

 During the shutdown, the Department of Agriculture will stop supporting the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, which helps pregnant women and new moms buy healthy food and provides nutritional information and health care referrals to those who need it. The program aids some 9 million Americans.

 That won't hit immediately. The USDA estimates that most states have funds and authority to continue their programs for "a week or so," but they'll "likely be unable to sustain operations for a longer period. "Contingency funds will be available to help States—but even this funding would not fully mitigate a shortfall for the entire month of October."

 Update: On Tuesday the USDA released additional guidance allowing states to tap into additional funds that could allow many states to keep the WIC program running through October. But the memo warns that state agencies "may still face funding shortfalls associated with FY 2014 obligations during the shutdown."

 The agency notes, meanwhile, that food stamp aid for 47 million low-income Americans would be unaffected through the month of October, since that program still gets stimulus funds that won't run out until next year.

 6) Financing for small businesses could be hampered.

 Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina. (Bill Russ / VisitNC.com)

 The Small Business Administration has provided guarantees for some $106 billion in loans to more than 193,000 small businesses over the last four years. It also runs programs to help small firms win government contracts, help veteran-owned businesses, and boost international trade.

 All that would cease in a shutdown. Although the SBA would continue to back existing loans in its portfolio, it wouldn't initiate any new loan guarantees. The one exception here is the Disaster Loan Program, which steps in during natural disasters and other emergencies — that would continue to operate.

 For those reasons and others, a recent poll found that fully 41 percent of small-business employers with less than $5 million in annual revenue said that an extended shutdown (three months or more) would force them to pull back on their hiring plans. No one expects a shutdown that long, but even a shorter hiatus could disrupt some economic activity.

 7) The tourist trade would take a hit.

 Closed! Well, unless Arizona wants to pay to operate it. (Ron Watts / Corbios)

 The National Park Service will close more than 400 national parks, museums and sites across the country, including Yosemite National Park in California, Grand Canyon park, Alcatraz in San Francisco, and the Statue of Liberty in New York. Day visitors will have to leave immediately. Campers will have two days to pack up and get out.

 That sounds like a minor inconvenience, but it can have a major economic impact. During the last shutdown in 1995-1996, some 7 million visitors were turned away from national parks. Tourist industries and airlines lost millions of dollars per day, according to the Congressional Research Service.

 This time around, the National Parks Conservation Association estimates that local communities could lose some $30 million in business for every day of the shutdown.

 8) Head Start programs for hundreds of kids will slowly start closing.

 (Carol Kaliff/AP )- Lead teacher Carmen Prybylski works with children Quinn Watson, left, 3, Sofia Coway, 2, and Kayla Lamour, 3, at Head Start's new building in Danbury, Conn. July 17, 2013.

 There are some 1,600 Head Start programs around the country providing education, health, nutrition and other services to roughly 1 million low-income children and their families. Those will slowly begin closing during a shutdown.

 Initially, only about 20 programs would be affected — the programs whose federal grants expire on Oct. 1 and don't get renewed. Over time, more programs would likely be affected. The effects really vary from community to community. In York County, S.C., for instance, pre-kindergarten classes for some 864 kids will be canceled this Friday. (These programs would likely be reinstated once the shutdown ended.)

 Note that Head Start has already faced cutbacks due to sequestration budget cuts, having eliminated services for some 57,000 children this year.

 9) Disability benefits could be interrupted.

 (Source: Center for American Progress)

 During the shutdown, the Social Security administration won't have enough staff to schedule new hearings for those applying for disability benefits. And the Veterans Appeal Board will be closed, which means veterans appealing a decision on disability benefits will have to wait until the shutdown ends.

 Update: 10) Kids with cancer could get turned away from treatment.

 Here's one last impact to add to the list. As long as the government is shut down, the National Institutes of Health says it will turn away roughly 200 patients each week from its clinical research center, including children with cancer.

 “We’ve had to tell people, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t come here,’ ” NIH Director Francis Collins told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. See this post for more information and context.

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 Note that these aren't the only consequences of the shutdown. There are plenty of others: Businesses won't be able to access E-Verify to check the immigration status of potential hires. The National Institutes of Health will stop accepting new patients for clinical trials. The Bureau of Land Management will stop issuing permits for oil and gas companies on public lands.

 How painful the above impacts are depends on your perspective. Obviously the people affected will care a lot. But how big an outcry will there be from the broader public? Over at Business Insider, Joe Weisenthal suspects that "there's no obvious one thing [about a shutdown] that will be so annoying to the public that the two sides would quickly have to come to a deal." If that's true, a shutdown could last for quite some time.

 It's also worth noting that we've already seen disruptive cuts this year after Congress allowed sequestration to hit — and lawmakers haven't exactly rushed to reverse those haphazard budget cuts. Indeed, much of Washington appears to have made peace with sequestration. That makes it hard to guess exactly how long a shutdown might last.

 Related: Absolutely everything you need to know about how a government shutdown works. |||||
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– One potentially tragic consequence of the government shutdown: With 16 employees of Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho now on furlough, the search for a missing woman last seen there has slowed dramatically. Jo Elliott-Blakeslee, 63, went hiking with Amy Linkert, 69, on Sept. 19; they were reported missing last Monday when Elliott-Blakeslee didn't arrive at work. The body of Linkert, who is believed to have died from exposure, was found last week, CBS News reports. Now Elliott-Blakeslee's family is asking experienced hikers to help search for her, KBOI reports—the station notes that federal workers can't even volunteer to do their jobs during a shutdown. More unfortunate consequences: Children with cancer are being blocked from starting clinical trials, officials say, since federal health employees are also on furlough. Each week of the shutdown, 200 patients won't be able to start their clinical trials; 15% of these patients are expected to be children, and 33% of those children (or 10 per week for as long as the shutdown lasts) have cancer. Ongoing clinical trials will continue, however, ABC News reports. The CDC has also furloughed employees, so it can't track multi-state disease outbreaks. And its seasonal flu program will be halted, which might hinder its ability to create next year's flu shot, a spokesperson says. The Washington Post has a list of the nine most painful consequences. Among them: Of the more than 2 million federal workers whose paychecks might be delayed, 800,000 might never actually get paid. If the shutdown lasts more than a couple of weeks, veterans may not receive pension payments or see their disability claims paid. Disability benefits for non-veterans could also be interrupted. The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutritional program could keep running through October in many states, but could shut down after just one week in some. And Head Start programs, which provide health, nutrition, and other services to low-income kids, will gradually start closing. NPR runs down the shutdown's many impacts on science and health. Workers are furloughed and programs are being shut down at the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, the FDA, NASA, the US Geological Survey, NOAA, the EPA, the Forest Service, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (And as you probably have heard, the National Zoo turned off its "panda cam.") One other impact? A planned Ku Klux Klan rally at Gettysburg won't be happening.


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He's a bloodhound for the digital age.

 A rambunctious black Labrador named Bear — one of only five dogs in the nation trained to sniff out electronic data devices — played a key role in the arrest of former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle on child-porn charges.

 The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle's Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.

 Bear has taken part in four other investigations, including this week's arrest of Olympics gymnastics coach Marvin Sharp. And he's just been sold to the Seattle Police Department to help investigate Internet crimes.

 Steven DeBrota, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Indianapolis, said when he first heard about Bear's olfactory abilities, he was skeptical.

 “I thought I was being punked, but it does work," said DeBrota, who was the lead prosecutor on the Fogle case and calls Bear "a key part of the team."

 Read NBC News' coverage of the Jared Fogle case

 Bear's dog whisperer, Todd Jordan, gave NBC News a demonstration of how he works his magic, walking him through an apartment while repeatedly giving him the command "Seek!"

 The dog zeroed in on a kitchen drawer, which Jordan opened to reveal a device. "Good boy!" he told Bear, giving him a handful of food. ||||| ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) — Investigators analyzed thousands of text messages, emails, pictures and videos to bust Jared Fogle and Russell Taylor. To be sure they got all the evidence, they sent an electronic-sniffing dog through Fogle’s home last month.

 The K-9’s owner said there are four dogs in the country trained to sniff out electronics, including computers, iPads, jump drives, and even small memory cards. Officials said the dog found devices in Jared’s house that helped the investigation.

 He’s a black dog named Bear, and he’s a lot like any other two-year-old lab. He likes to play, and he loves his treats.

 But most other dogs have never searched Jared Fogle’s property.

 “I had no idea until the morning of what house I was actually going to,” owner and trainer Todd Jordan said. “Once I found out who it was, yeah, it makes a little more nerve racking for us.”

 Two weeks before the raid, investigators called Jordan and said they’d need his help. They knew what Bear was capable of.

 To show off Bear’s skills Thursday, Jordan hid electronic devices throughout a room and put Bear to work. In less than ten minutes, the dog found a small memory card in a book bag, a flash drive in a box, and an iPad in a filing cabinet.

 “It’s just like any other K-9 training, like with the narcotics or explosives or anything,” Jordan said. “You get the dog used to the odor and reward them as they indicate on it.”

 Bear’s reward is food. Jordan keeps a pouch of dog food with him as he guides the dog.

 Jordan and Bear have been a team for a year now. But when Jordan’s dogs are fully trained, he sometimes sells them to law enforcement agencies that need the help.

 After the Fogle raid, Seattle PD reached out to Jordan. Now Bear is headed west.

 “It’ll be bittersweet,” he said. “It’s sad to see him go, but the type of work he’s doing, it’s very rewarding.”

 “He’s probably one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever worked with,” Jordan said.

 Bear is moving to Seattle this month. The Fogle investigation was the fifth case he has worked on.

 Jordan said he’s currently training two more dogs to sniff out electronics. |||||

– There are only five dogs in America trained to sniff out electronic devices, and one of them played a major role in Jared Fogle's downfall. Bear, a 2-year-old black Labrador, was able to sniff out a thumb drive that human investigators missed during a search of the former Subway spokesman's home last month, reports NBC News, which describes Bear as a "porn-sniffing dog." He can detect tiny memory cards easily and was trained with methods associated with "any other K-9 training, like with the narcotics or explosives or anything," his trainer tells WISH-TV. "You get the dog used to the odor and reward them as they indicate on it." The lead prosecutor on the Fogle case tells NBC that Bear is a "key part of the team," though he doubted the pooch's abilities at first. "I thought I was being punked, but it does work," he says. The evidence, along with that gathered by an FBI informant, helped secure Fogle's guilty plea on child-porn and underage sex charges. Bear has been a busy dog: NBC reports that he also played a role in the arrest of Olympic gymnastics coach Marvin Sharp. Bear's trainer, a deputy fire chief, sells dogs to law enforcement agencies when their training is completed, and Bear will soon be on his way to Seattle, where the police department contacted the trainer after hearing about the Fogle case. (Fogle's charitable foundation appears to have been a sham.)


– Coulrophobes might want to steer clear of Wisconsin for a while. Some creeped-out people in Green Bay have been calling police about a clown wandering around with a bouquet of black balloons, reports USA Today. The clown was spotted at 2am Monday, though it's unclear whether he's surfaced since. Police tell NBC 26 there's nothing they can do since the clown doesn't appear to be doing anything illegal. Of course, a Facebook fan page has since sprung up, and Chicagoist rounds up some theories: viral marketing stunt, actor in a horror movie, or some kind of self-promotion, given that "the page launched a half hour after the first photo was supposedly taken."

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UPDATE: The mystery of Green Bay's 'creepy clown' is finally over. A local filmmaker has stepped forward, claiming responsibility for Gags the Clown on Facebook.

 Adam Krause, has revealed himself on the "Gags - The Green Bay Clown" Facebook page as the creator of the clown phenomenon. He said it was all part of a 10-day marketing plan to campaign for his upcoming short film that will be called "Gags." Krause explains in the post that all the photos used in the original viral post were photographed in May of 2016.

 Krause also explains that no one was ever in danger during these photo shoots and safety was everyone's number one priority.

 Here is the post by Adam Krause posted just after 8 p.m., Monday, August 8.

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 Green Bay, WI -- Neighbors in Green Bay are on edge after seeing a person dressed like a clown by the intersection of Mason and Adams Street around 2 a.m. Tuesday.

 The pictures are going viral on Facebook. The original post has almost 8,000 shares. A Facebook page has also been created to post future sightings of the clown, called Gags - The Green Bay Clown.

 Police say they've received a few calls about the clown.

 "A person can walk down the sidewalk dressed however they want as long as they're in a place they legally can be, and they're not in a place that has a closing time, like a park," said Captain Kevin Warych with the Green Bay Police Department.

 Police say their options are limited in dealing with the situation. ||||| CLOSE Wisconsin residents are calling police, asking about a disheveled clown walking through Green Bay with four black balloons. Sara Snyder, USA TODAY

 People have spotted this clown walking around Green Bay. (Photo: Gags - The Green Bay Clown, Facebook)

 Wisconsin residents are calling police, asking about a disheveled clown walking through Green Bay with four black balloons.

 But, there's not much police can do. The clown doesn't appear armed or dangerous — just really creepy.

 "This person is not breaking the law," said Captain Kevin Warych of the Green Bay Police Department. "He can walk in a clown costume anywhere he wants."

 The clown, who is being referred to as Gags – The Green Bay Clown, was first spotted at 2 a.m. Aug. 1, according to a fan Facebook page that popped up the next day.

 Commenter Shannon Mueller said if she met Gags, she would "curl into the fetal position and die of heart exploding from pure terror."

 Photos of Gags show a figure with full face makeup – high eyebrows, hollow eyes and a black smile. The clown wears a soiled-looking jumpsuit with a ruffled collar.

 Some believe Gags is part of a horror film, but others say they haven’t seen a camera crew.

 Warych said he's surprised that Gags has gone viral.

 "At the end of the day, it’s just a person walking around in clown costume."

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