Large bins are set up at Mission Beach and Pacific Beach to encourage beachgoers to recycle.

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Thousands of people are expected to gather at Pacific Beach, and other San Diego beaches for 4th of July festivities.

Published on July 1, 2009

U.S. Lt. Col. Christian Cabaniss speaks to his Marines at Camp Dwyer on July 1, 2009 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines are part of a stepped up effort by American troops fighting Taliban fighters in Southern Afghanistan.

Published on July 1, 2009

(File photo) Gay pride participants hold signs in support of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at the 38th annual LA Pride Parade June 8, 2008 in West Hollywood, California.

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Anthony Drummond is wrote Jazz Queens Cast Blue Shadows, under the guidance of Dr. Floyd Gaffney, the longtime artistic director of Common Ground theater. Drummond also plays the club announcer in the musical.

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Candace Ludlow Trotter, a Common Ground theater veteran plays Dinah Washington.

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Candace Ludlow Trotter works with the band during rehearsal. She plays Dinah Washington in this production of Jazz Queens Cast Blue Shadows.

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Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies"

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Gunplay in "Public Enemies"

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Johnny Depp in "Public Enemies"

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Marion Cotillard as Dillnger's moll in "Public Enemies"

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The G-men: Chritian Bale as Melvin Purvis and Billy Crudup as J. Edgar Hoover in "Public Enemies"

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Johnny Depp shooting "Public Enemies"

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Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in Micahel Mann's "Public Enemies"

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Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center is one of 12 syringe exchange programs in New York City.

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Exchange workers check on their supply of syringes.

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Syringe exchange in East Bronx serves a large number of IV drug users.

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In New York, in addition to distributing clean needles, syringe exchanges distribute alcohol pads, bottle caps (to be used as cookers), and sterile water.

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San Diego’s clean syringe exchange collected 183,000 used needles in 2008.

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An IV drug user reads an informational pamphlet on safe injection practices

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IV drug users wait their turn to get clean syringes.

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San Diego’s mobile needle exchange operates out of a camper van in East Village on Thursday nights.

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When patients have end stage hepatitis C, they come to UCSD’s Dr. Ajai Khanna in hopes of getting a liver transplant.

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Dianne Jacob, chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, is adamantly opposed to clean syringe exchanges.

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Ivonne Amador hands out clean syringes to drug users in East Harlem and the Bronx.

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Clean syringe exchange programs hand out information about hepatitis C.

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Nurse practitioner Lisa Richards and liver specialist Dr. Tarek Hassenein work with hepatitis C patients at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest.

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Students donned Dr. Seuss caps as they took part in a number of read-ins.

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The focus for Read Across America is to curb the “summer reading loss.”

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More than 300 school kids went to Petco Park to kick off the national Read Across America campaign.

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Bub in George A. Romero's underrated "Day of the Dead"

Published on July 1, 2009