Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe Museum Shop100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SWWashington DC 20024202 488-0400The museum is located near the National Mall just south of IndependenceAve

Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe Museum Shop100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SWWashington, DC 20024(202) 488-0400The museum is located near the National Mall, just south of IndependenceAve., SW, between 14th Street and Raoul Wallenberg Place in Washington,D.C.Paid parking is available on D Street, S.W., between 13th and 14thStreets.This event is free and open to the public.Holocaust survivor, author and artist Mark Strauss will launch the release ofhis latest novel Four Plus Five at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum onSunday, May 10, 2009 from noon to 6 p.m.Four Plus Five is a narrative of thedrama of WWII Poland as witnessed by a young Jewish boy. Strauss describes hislatest work as "vividly dramatic and unashamedly truthful."Numerous oil paintings by this Shenandoah Valley artist are displayed at theAir and Space Museum, the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, and inother public spaces and private homes throughout the United States, GreatBritain, Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Strauss's artwork is also published inCrumbs (Marek Mann, 2006), a novel that he co-wrote (under the pseudonym MarekMann) with Maria Martell. Crumbs is a semi-autobiography of Strauss's life asan oil painter and Holocaust survivor. Strauss frequently speaks ateducational institutions in metropolitan Washington, DC about his personalexperiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland.For more information, please visit Mann PublishingLigaya Figueras for Marek Mann Publishing, +1-314-803-4188,. Prize JC quarterback Jeremiah Masoli was snagged by the Ducks yesterday.

He played for City College of San Francisco last year and led them to the junior college national title.In his one year with the Rams he amassed over 4,000 yards of total offense. He completed more than 60% of his passes, 31 for touchdowns and ran for another 10 td's.It will be interesting to see how fall practice sorts itself out now that Oregon has a total of 7 QB's. Masoli won't join the Ducks until June when he will begin the optional summer workouts.My QB poll has been updated with the latest addition.GO DUCKS! This article is also featured on The Wines Family.     Well ESPN predicted that the Wings-Avalanche series would go to six maybe seven games.  Anyone can tell you right now that for Johan Franzen and the Detroit Red Wings, it wasn't the case, as the Wings swept the Avalance.  Now this didn't really come as a shock to me because of the season series.  Detroit outscored the Avalanche 11-2 and won all four games against them.  No disrespect to the Avs and their fans but they really had no chance.  The injuries really cost them.  Paul Stastny, Peter Forsberg and Ryan Smyth were their main injuries coming into Round 2.  Scott Parker and Wojtek Wolski were also injured and contributed to Round 1 win vs. NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Rangers coach John Tortorella will miss Game Six of his team's playoff series against the Washington Capitals after picking up a one-game ban for throwing a water bottle at a fan, the NHL said on Saturday. To query or comment on this story email ) Sports. (For full coverage of the flu outbreak, click on [nFLU]) Stocks  |  Global Markets  |  Argentina  |  Japan  |  Mexico * WHO says new flu strain could become a pandemic * Mexico's likely death toll rises to 81 * New York schoolchildren likely had swine flu * Mexico shuts schools, churches, stadiums and bars (Adds Argentina airport checks, minister quote) By Alistair Bell and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, April 25 (Reuters) - A new flu virus that haskilled up to 81 people in Mexico could start a global epidemic,the World Health Organization warned on Saturday as the diseasespread further in the United States.

Mexico's crowded capital of 20 million people, where mostof the deaths have happened, hunkered down in fear and thegovernment said it would isolate sick people if necessary. The new flu strain -- a mixture of swine, human and avianflu viruses -- is still poorly understood. Although calledswine flu, the current outbreak is only infecting humans.[ID:nN24420522] There were 20 confirmed victims of the flu and 61 morewhose deaths were likely caused by the virus, the Mexicangovernment said More than 1,300 people were believed to havebeen infected. All schools in and around Mexico City and the central stateof San Luis Potosi were ordered closed until May 6 and HealthMinister Jose Angel Cordova called for bars, clubs, stadiums,movie theaters, churches and other religious centers to be shutto limit further infections. "It's about avoiding human contact," Labor Minister JavierLozano said. While all of the deaths so far have been in Mexico, the fluis spreading in the United States. Eleven cases have been confirmed in California, Kansas andTexas, and eight schoolchildren in New York City caught a typeA influenza virus that was likely to be the swine flu, healthofficials said on Saturday.