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Mara, the bicycle Republican
Patrick Mara, challenging incumbent Carol Schwartz in the Republican primary for DC Council at-large, told WashCycle he's more pro-bike than his opponent.
I do not own a car and understand the importance of more environmentally friendly transportation in the District. Cycling is a fun and practical form of transportation in an urban environment. As a Columbia Heights resident, I appreciate the bike lanes on 11th street (my home street). I would certainly advocate more bike-friendly policies and oppose the opening of Klingle road to autos. I am also keenly interested in the new SmartBike DC program. It has the potential to be a great success.Schwartz was one of three Councilmembers to fight for roads over recreation on Klingle. During her tenure chairing the committee overseeing DDOT, she passed legislation to add a few more on-street parking spaces at the expense of any larger transportation vision.
I'm sure I disagree with Patrick Mara about a great many issues, but from what we know so far, on transportation he'd be an improvement over Carol Schwartz.
While it wouldn't be tragic for some new (R) blood to be injected into the council, Schwartz is someone worthy of our utmost respect and admiration for what she accomplished during the dark days of the DC council.
And what about "e" groups as the Sierra Club which said nothing at all about the latter?
by Douglas Willinger on Sep 5, 2008 1:22 pm • link • report
It was the issue that the local "e" groups surrendered their credibility as "independent" organizations" insofar as a start for not reporting upon it.
I did contact the Sierra Club a few years back to no avail.
Perhaps someone quite influential lives along Klingle Road?
by Douglas Willinger on Sep 5, 2008 2:17 pm • link • report
Perhaps you should provide the link to your blog. To be honest with you, I think your blog has the best information about this South Capitol Street Mall idea. Come to think of it, the same is true with the idea for a Mall north of Union Station.
This idea is so widespread that I probably wouldn't know what you're talking about if I didn't have your blog bookmarked. Despite the fact that I sharply disagree with you about building freeways in cities, I have enjoyed your blog for its posts on history.
On another note, no one lives on Klingle Road. It was a road through a large urban park remember? The fact that it was destroyed and world didn't end lends credence to the idea that traffic disappears (motorists become cyclists, transit riders, don't bother to make what was a discretionary trip, while the few remaining find another route) when a road is closed. The Sierra club is against rebuilding Klingle Rd. because that road does not exist in a vaccuum. The traffic on that road has consquences, many of which are negative and unintended.
Yes, the Sierra Club totally ignored the South Mall, as did EVERY "e" group that I contacted about it in 2004+. Since canceling the SCM may ultimately save but one building -- St Vincent de Paul RC Church -- asking about properties and their ownership are logical questions.
BTW- what are the traffic counts on the parallel roads to Klingle Road? I think its more likely for drivers to divert to another roughly parallel road then it is to switch to walking or riding a bike, or switching to some mode of transit.
If Klingle Road was the only road to cross CT Ave with a grade separated crossing, how much more brake dust was created by closing it?
by Douglas Willinger on Sep 5, 2008 2:53 pm • link • report
We could use far more of them!
But I do think that the turn out over the Klinlge Road issue had something to do with the amount of attention given by the "e" groups, just as the converse was true with the South Capitol Mall.
by Douglas Willinger on Sep 5, 2008 3:13 pm • link • report
I am transportation chair for the DC Chapter of the Sierra Club and you NEVER contacted me about South Capitol Street. We are an all-volunteer organization and have limited resources, so we can only do so many things. Right now, our main transportation campaign is streetcars and all of our VOLUNTEER resources are focused there.
Our position on Klingle had nothing to do with who lives nearby. Indeed, if, as you imply, our position on Klingle was somehow tied to material gain or some other nefarious goal, I have yet to see the fruits of that Machiavellian scheme. (Perhaps other chapter leaders are keeping me in the dark as they spend their ill-gotten Klingle booty!) Bottom line: Sierra club is an environmental organization and it's not a stretch for an environmental organization to oppose a road through a park. You might think we were wrong to oppose the road, but please stop trying to attribute that opposition to some dark, nefarious and pseudo-secret goal.
I personally like the NCPC plan for South Capitol Street but I also like a lot of other ideas that various organizations and people have floated. If I and our other volunteers did not have jobs and lives, perhaps we could actively promote 25% of the ideas that we think have merit. In the meantime, if you think South Capitol Street and the southward extension of the Mall are so damn important, stop blaming other organizations for lack of action and get to work on a grass roots movement to promote it!
That's what I tried starting, in 2005 with my web site "The Future South Capitol Street Gateway", in 2004 with my testimony at the DC City Council stadium hearing, and starting in March 2006 with my South Capitol Street blog.
I even had created that stamp pair graphic in 2005.
I contacted plenty of people within the various "e" movements, and it was like trying to wake up the dead.
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Audubon Trail Becomes Economic Engine for Louisiana
With portions of its coastline underwater, and thousands of its populous still without homes and the services most Americans take for granted after point-blank hits from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, it would have been easy for the government of Louisiana to put golf - and the pursuit of all recreational activities - on the back burner.
But the powers-that-be, especially Louisiana Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu, knew that recreation and the tourism dollars such visits could bring would be crucial to helping put the state back on its feet. Landrieu and his team pushed forward with the development and refinement of the Audubon Golf Trail in the wake of these disasters. And the Pelican State's coffers - not to mention a whole lot of civic pride - have benefited from those efforts.
"Tourism initiatives like the Audubon Golf Trail are helping us keep Louisiana a first-class destination, a place where visitors and residents alike will want to work, live and play," Landrieu said.
According to a report prepared for the Louisiana Golf Alliance by SRI International and released in 2007, the size of Louisiana's direct golf economy in 2006 was approximately $446 million. Golf brings visitors to the state, drives new construction and residential development, generates retail sales and creates demand for a myriad of goods and services through the operation of the golf facilities themselves.
When the total economic impact of these golf-related activities is calculated, Louisiana's golf industry generated approximately $810 million of direct, indirect and induced economic output, $275 million of wage income and 11,100 jobs in 2006.
Louisiana's largest revenue-generating industries are agriculture, food and forestry, oil and gas, chemicals and advanced materials, professional and technical services, and entertainment and tourism.
To put the size of Louisiana's golf economy in context, the direct revenues generated by its golf industry ($446 million) exceeded or were comparable to the revenue generated by other significant manufacturing industries in the state: seafood preparation and packaging ($468 million), plastics packaging ($334 million), and oil and gas field machinery and equipment ($490 million).
Helping to push the game and the tourist dollars it generates in Louisiana is the Audubon Golf Trail, a consortium of 12 courses under the tourism umbrella of the Office of the Lt. Governor. The Trail provides residents and visitors with high-quality golf courses around the state.
The program began with six charter courses and expanded to twice that number by July 1, 2008. While the overall decline in post-Katrina tourism levels has dampened revenues generated by the Royal & Ancient Game, SRI estimates that golf-related tourism spending in Louisiana was $67.3 million in 2006. This is based on an estimated 180,000 golf trips taken annually in the state and an average of $374 spent per trip by each visitor.
Upon a recent trip to the Pelican State, I toured five of the Audubon Trail's courses - two of which (the TPC Louisiana and the Golf Course at Audubon Park, both in or near New Orleans) were directly and drastically impacted by Hurricane Katrina; one (OakWing in Alexandria) that was not affected at all by the storms and has thrived in the post-storm era; and two others (the Atchafalaya at Idlewild in Patterson and the Wetlands in Lafayette) that have debuted since the devastation.
After this visit, I'm happy to report that golf is alive, well and thriving in the great state of Louisiana.
A Central Louisiana Jewel
OakWing, which opened in September 2002, offers a unique Jim Lipe design on the former site of England Air Force Base. This 7,043-yard links-style track blends the natural beauty of Louisiana bayous, lakes and towering tree-lined fairways with the challenge of rolling hills and undulating greens. Truly a course for all skills, OakWing's five sets of tees offer a challenge for everyone from professionals to amateurs, and the risk-reward on every hole require everyone to play at their best. Centrally located in Alexandria, the course is only minutes from the main interstate and is hard against the international airport that borders the track.
Rounds at OakWing increased by nearly 3% in 2006 from '05 (from 23,984 to 23,322), but decreased to 21,963 rounds (a 9% drop) in 2007. "You want to play the course a couple of times to get to know where things are," OakWing head pro Clayton Woods said, "but straight hitters always play well here."
OakWing is a good course with a nice layout and a stretch of holes (on the tough par-4 13th, the easier-than-it-looks par-5 14th and the visually-demanding par-4 15th) that will be remembered and should be experienced.
New & Impressive in Cajun Country
Our second stop was the Wetlands Golf Course, which opened in April 2006 and is owned and operated by the city of Lafayette. Designed by architect Frank Burandt, the track not only showcases the region's many lakes and wetland areas, it also features abundant flora, native grasses and wildflowers.
When the Wetlands earned admission into the Audubon Golf Trail in 2007, Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel said the designation would make a difference to Lafayette and the surrounding area. "We appreciate the help Lt. Governor Landrieu and his office gave us to get to the level of an Audubon Trail Golf Course," Durel said. "It's another opportunity to market Acadiana to the rest of the country. We're trying to rebuild tourism in the state after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and this will help fuel those efforts."
In its first full year in operation in 2007, the Wetlands continued its impressive opening stride, hosting more than 20 tournaments during the year. For its first full year, the course roughly kept pace with its 2006 opening, with golfers playing just over 28,000 rounds. Revenue generated by facility amounted to $985,000.
Two of the more notable events included the LPGA Louisiana Pelican Classic, where 150 players competed for spots on the LPGA Tour, and a qualifying tournament for the Nationwide Chitamacha Open. Local-themed events included a summer junior clinic (attended by 75 youngsters), a Parent-Child Invitational, a Ladies Invitational and the Fall Four Ball, a men's invitational.
The Wetlands is a good test of golf and the course is manned by an extraordinary staff. The two-year-old track has few trees, but 11 of its 18 holes are imperiled by water hazards and wind is always a factor. Hole Nos. 9 and 18 feature a double-green that ends at the clubhouse for dramatic finishes.
Top Quality in the Swampland
My third stop brought me to the Atchafalaya at Idlewild in Patterson. For roughly two decades, a group of St. Mary Parish golf enthusiasts struggled to put a quality course in the area, eventually overcoming a long series of dead ends. Then, Hurricane Katrina delayed its opening, and Hurricane Rita forced it to close briefly after just a week of play.
The Atchafalaya at Idlewild has had to overcome a lot, but South Louisiana golfers and visitors can be thankful it did. Located just below Patterson, the Atchafalaya is a strikingly fun test.
Although Atchafalaya's site was flat, part of it had an abundance of mature trees. The result is a course that looks, and plays, amazingly mature. And the finished product includes more than golf as Atchafalaya is more than the course's name - it's also the theme.
"This golf course is unique in that it is landscaped exclusively with plants native to the Atchafalaya Basin," said Rudy Sparks, who chairs the seven-person commission overseeing the facility. "We were able to actually collect different specimens and raise them for two or three years and planted about 700 different trees and shrubs and aquatic plants out on the golf course. We have about 50 different species of trees and shrubs and aquatic plants that occur naturally in the Atchafalaya Basin, which will be pretty neat to have all of that at one site."
Rounds at The Atchafalaya increased by nearly 8% in 2007 (22,810) from its opening year in 2006 (20,998).
Instead of trying to hide the course's irrigation pump house, which overlooks the water by the eighth tee, it was built to look like a trapper's wooden cabin, complete with rocking chairs on the front porch. Its five tee sets are named for Atchafalaya animals - gator, bear, eagle, owl and otter - and each hole is named for some aspect of the basin, with signage to explain the significance.
The Atchafalaya at Idlewild stretches 7,536 yards from the tips. It also boasts five lakes and 10 native wetland areas that encompass nearly 40 acres of the 175-acre layout. More than a half-million yards of native soil were used in shaping dramatic elevations, which now offer breathtaking vistas. The course also sports a par-5 shorter than one of the par-4s; a par-5 completely surrounded by sand; and a tough-as-nails finisher that the superintendent said was nominated as one of the hardest closing holes in golf.
The Big Easy is Not, Really
Day 4 of the journey sent me to New Orleans, where our group played two courses that were about as far apart on the golf spectrum as you can get. The day began with a two-hour rain storm that delayed our start on the restored TPC Louisiana track in suburban Avondale. Situated on 250 acres across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, TPC Louisiana - home of the PGA Tour's Zurich Classic - was designed by Pete Dye, a man who knows how to turn a site with limited topography into a compelling test of golf.
Dye worked in conjunction with Steve Elkington and Louisiana native Kelly Gibson, both Tour players, to create a 7,520-yard, par-72 track that sits low on the property and utilizes natural vegetation, including numerous cypress trees. One of the most attractive features to the property is that it's self-contained, surrounded on three sides by drainage canals.
TPC Louisiana sustained significant damage from Katrina, with widespread flooding and thousands of downed trees forcing the closure of the property. In all, more than 2,000 trees were lost, with 25-30 acres of fairway turf in need of repair. The course, named by Golf Digest as the "No. 4 Best Upscale Public Golf Course" when it opened in 2004, was already undergoing competitive enhancements when the storm hit.
In 2007, the only full year of operations at the TPC Louisiana, 27,785 rounds were played at the course. In May of this year alone, 3,661 rounds were tallied, the most since May 2005 and the second-best month in the course's history.
Playing Dye's gem and walking in the footsteps of the pros while thinking about all the work that had to be done to bring the course back after the disaster was quite humbling, but not as much as the fact that the course features four par-4s of 480 yards or longer.
That afternoon we raced into the city's Garden District and enjoyed 18 holes at the beautiful and historic course at Audubon Park. The Denis Griffiths design features contoured fairways, manicured TifEagle greens, four lagoons and exquisite landscaping on a 4,220-yard layout set among 100-year-old oak trees.
The Golf Course at Audubon Park has enjoyed increases in rounds played in each of the three years (2005-07) it has been part of the Audubon Golf Trail, with 36,176 rounds in 2007. That number ranks second only to Olde Oaks, a 27-hole facility in Shreveport, among all the Trail's courses.
Golf has been played at Audubon since 1898. The world-famous Audubon Zoo sits right across the street, and it's the country's only course accessible by streetcar. What a great way to decompress after four days of tough but fun golf.
More details about these courses and others on Louisiana's Audubon Golf Trail, visit http://www.audubontrail.com/.
Steve Habel is an Austin, Texas-based journalist and Cybergolf's Southwest Correspondent. Since 1990, he has traveled around the globe covering news, business and sports assignments for various news bureaus, newspapers, magazines and websites. He also contributes to Business District magazine in Austin as managing editor and is the Texas football beat writer and a contributing editor for Horns Illustrated, the Austin-based magazine for University of Texas sports. Habel writes a weekly golf column for The River Cities Tribune in Marble Falls, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Golf Writers' Association.
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"I was born to two diehard surfers: how could I not have salt water in my veins?" Looking back on how she came to love the sea and surfing, 13-year-old Bethany (AnnaSophia Robb) describes something like a perfect childhood: long hours in the sun, lots of support from her super-tanned parents (Tom, played by Dennis Quaid, and Cheri, played by Helen Hunt) and older brothers (Ross Thomas and Chris Brochu), and a best friend, Alana (Lorraine Nicholson), with blond hair and a competitive spirit to match her own.
Bethany's so committed to her training that she sometimes loses track of other priorities, say, her promise to go on a trip with her church group. Still, it hardly seems fair that just a few scenes later, she's out surfing with Alana and her also tanned dad Holt (Kevin Sorbo) when a tiger shark pops up from the water and chomps off her arm. Luckily, Holt knows how to slow the bleeding and gets Bethany to the hospital in time to save her life.
Afterward, of course, that life is very different than it was. Bethany insists she'll not only surf again, but also win the big tournament. In the process of re-learning how, she's caught between two choices, to embrace the celebrity suddenly cast on a photogenic one-armed surfer (her family's front lawn is filled with tabloidy types when she comes home) or to embrace her church group (headed by willowy Sarah [Carrie Underwood]). Worldly glory or good grace? This inspirational movie doesn't leave much doubt at any point which way Bethany will tilt.
Why It's Fun
Based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, the movie benefits from long shots of Hawaiian beaches and beautiful people on blue waters. Some of the surfing is also thrilling, when performed by real-life surfers. Some surfing scenes, however, are plainly and unconvincingly digitized, such that you may be distracted by the obvious cutting-and-pasting effects.
The movie features a terrific central performance by Robb, who's as charming in this earthy, frankly emotional part as she was playing the ethereal nonconformist Leslie in Bridge to Terabithia. The supporting cast is less believable (Underwood is particularly awkward in her first movie role).
The movie also offers a variety of interactions among the family members: Bethany and her brothers having fun on the beach, for example, or their parents' thoughtful conversations with and about their children.
Who's Going To Love It
Fans of surfing movies will appreciate the contests, though these are frequently narrated by media announcers who over-explain the point systems and describe for you what you're seeing, including the shifting emotional states of competitors.
But if it's not compelling or authentic in the same way as some surfing documentaries (Bethany has a poster on her bedroom wall for one of the classics, The Endless Summer), Soul Surfer does focus on the emotional and moral dilemmas facing a girl who felt she had everything, as well as those confronting her mother and father. Cheri wants her daughter to recover her sense of self independent of surfing, while Tom hopes that if she can surf (and win a title), she'll still be "herself" — or more accurately, the self he wants to have back, "the way she was." Both mom and dad learn valuable lessons too.
What To Be Aware Of
The most gruesome scene in the film is the shark attack. While you don't see much of the actual event — no gnashing teeth, no contorting body and not too much blood, as in a similar scene in a horror movie like Jaws — the moment is potentially upsetting. The closeup shots of Bethany's face — hectic and in and out of focus — make clear that she is shocked, pained, and at least briefly afraid. But you also see, during the 10-minute sequence showing the ride to the hospital and early moments in her hospital bed, that her courage and confidence help those around her to feel less horrified.
A second disturbing scene takes place at the family home, when Bethany first arrives after her hospital stay. A throng of reporters pushes and yells. Tom takes charge, heroically driving their car past the crowd. His kids are impressed at his action.
And a third scene that may need a discussion shows Bethany and her church group visiting Thailand after the tsunami. The destruction is striking, the people look sad, and Bethany cries when she meets some victims. She comes to see different scales of loss and devastation, and to see herself in a new light.
The film underlines the bad competitive spirit embodied by Bethany's rival, Malina (Sonya Balmores). She's surly on land, unpleasant in their interactions, and aggressive in the water. She finally comes around, because Bethany is just so nice.
Viewers should be aware that the film emphasizes Bethany's Christian faith, understandably, as it is based on her real-life story.
And while the surf contests and local events showcase native Hawaiians, they're treated here mostly as two-dimensional backdrop, as well as sources of healing and wisdom for the white family.
See-It-Again Points
5 out of 10
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Soul Surfer
Director: Sean McNamara
Cast: AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Jeremy Sumpter, Kevin Sorbo, Craig T. Nelson, Carrie Underwood, Lorraine Nicholson
Studio: FilmDistrict, TriStar
Year: 2011
Rated: PG
US Premiere: April 8, 2011
UK Premiere: June 17, 2011
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Sadly, there have been a number of low points for the Rangers this season, but to me none worse than the last time the Rangers visited their "House of Horrors" in Montreal.
They were physically dominated from one end of the ice to the other and inexplicably didn't come to the aid of teammates Ryan McDonagh and Marty Biron after they were run by Montreal players during the 3-0 loss.
It got so bad, Canadien players were actually laughing at the Rangers for their lack of response to Biron being bowled over at the end of the game. Meanwhile their toughness was not only question by Biron after the game but from every corner of the hockey world the rest of the week.
I mean seriously, how could they not come to the defense of McDonagh after Max Pacioretty did this…
…we've all been looking for something, anything to jolt this team and I think the Rangers jumping Pacioretty off the opening face-off is it. I haven't seen this team stick up for each other once this year. We've seen Nash crushed by Lucic, nothing. McDonagh hit from behind by Pacioretty, nothing. Kreider flattened by Orpik, nothing. Time for the 2013 Rangers to stop being a group of individuals and become a team.
…and for those of you worried about the Rangers possibly giving up a short-handed goal on the very likely ensuing Montreal power play in such an important game. All I can say is this. After a watching a teammate come to the aid of another, you can bet that the Rangers penalty kill unit will go balls to the wall to make sure that penalty is killed off. And if not, who cares? They're in Montreal. It's not like they're going to win anyway.
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Nutritional Imbalance: Excess Sodium
Most of what is written about sodium intake is negative, but sodium is essential to our existence and is necessary for the preservation of our health. It plays a major role in regulating water balance, acid-base balance, transferring nerve impulses, regulating muscle action and transporting nutrients to all the body's cells. However, we are concerned here with the negative effects of excess sodium in the body.
Sodium (in salt) is added to most processed foods and occurs naturally in smaller quantities in many foods. For example, celery, beets, carrots and milk all contain sodium.
Excess sodium has been found to cause elevated blood pressure levels, especially in the 20% to 40% of the population with a family history of high blood pressure. As well, in the general population there are possible connections between high levels of sodium and changes in the level of stomach acid secretion, stomach cancer, migraine headaches and blood vessel disease in the heart and brain.
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The father of a 7-year-old St. Joseph boy who brought a loaded handgun to school has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports 28-year-old James Mueller was filed Wednesday, one day after the child brought the weapon to Lindbergh Elementary School.
A teacher confiscated the gun after spotting the boy showing it to friends. Police said the boy never threatened anyone.
Missouri law prohibits firearms possession by convicted felons. Mueller pleaded guilty in 2005 to a felony drug charge.
Mueller was being held Wednesday on $20,000 bond. Online court records did not list a defense lawyer, and no phone number for Mueller could be found.


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This happened at UC Davis today, 11/18. The students who were sprayed directly in the face remain composed and peaceful, although one woman has apparently been hospitalized for chemical burns. The officer walking by and spraying them does so with something like gusto.
I only got through the first 30 seconds of this video the first time, but I do recommend watching the whole thing. It's a novel experience, to watch the police behave absolutely abhorrently, then retreat in the face of a clearly superior moral imperative.
Many people have publicized that initial officer's name and e-mail address, and the impulse must be in part a response to his body language, which is so appallingly casual, as if he were watering some bushes with a garden hose. It's worth noting that this unconcerned exercise of extreme tactics appears to be an issue for this officer specifically. Even against an institutional backdrop that's becoming more and more famous for meting out unnecessary violence to peaceful people, his behavior must be understood as somewhat exceptional. Look at his face as he sprays them (as best you can–he's partially hidden behind a mask). Then fast-forward to the end of the clip (around 6:15), when the students announce to the officers that they are offering them "a moment of peace," that is, the option of leaving without further escalating a truly horrible situation. They cry (in one of the most moving instances of the human mic I've ever seen) "You can go! You can go!"
It's transcendently brilliant, this tactic–the students offer an alternative in a high-pressure situation, a situation that no one wants, but which seems inevitable in the heat of the moment. It's an act of mercy which, like all acts of mercy, is entirely undeserved. Watch the other officers' surprise at this turn in the students' rhetoric, after they had (rightfully) been chanting "Shame on you!" Watch the officers seriously consider (and eventually accept) the students' offer.
As the officer in the left foreground teeters back and forth, nervous, braced, thinking, watch the power-drunk cop on the right (who I think is the one who pepper-sprayed the crowd earlier) brandish not one but TWO bottles of pepper-spray, shaking them, not just in preparation, but in anticipation. He's seconds away from spraying the students again. His mask is up, you can see his face, but it's a nonexperience: it's blank, immobile. It would be inaccurate to say that he's immune to the students' appeal; he's not even bothering to listen. All he hears are sounds. No signals, all noise. Luckily, it's made clear to him in time that this colleagues are in retreat, and he does not spray them again.
Strange to seek a lesson on the police side of this appalling moment in our country's history, but there is one, I think, when you look at the faces behind the riot masks. Look at the expressions. So many are human, attentive, defensive, even regretful, but his is impassive, glutted and red with a chemical thrill. If he is indeed the same officer who sprayed the students earlier, he's already made the decision to spray once. It's much easier to jump that moral hurdle a second time.
It's a truism to say that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, but here's the thing: until the students call the rest of the officers to their senses in a truly exceptional act of grace, that doughy nugget of unthinking cruelty is winning.
But call him out they do, and that's a microcosm for what the Occupy movements are about when they're at their best–calling us out of our own bottom lines, forcing us to rethink the hard outlines of the legal constraints we ordinarily accept, impelling us to see what they look when upheld by the beefy implacable hand of an Old Testament God.
And then they remind us that there is a way out: You can go.
[UPDATE: For a much more thorough account of this incident, with links and the aftermath, see Angus Johnston at studentactivism.]


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Cameron Diaz denies having played any role in breaking up the marriage of Mindfreak star Criss Angel and his estranged wife.
"When Cameron met Criss Angel in May of this year, he had been separated from his wife for over a year and she had already filed a petition to divorce him in 2006," Diaz's rep, Brad Cafarelli, tells PEOPLE in a statement. "Cameron and Criss went on only four dates over a month ago and have no current relationship," he said.
As was reported by the New York Post, Joanne Sarantakos, 37, of Long Island, N.Y., is accusing Angel, her husband of five years, of mental cruelty and abandonment – as well as having had an affair with Diaz.
"We're naming Cameron Diaz as his lover," her lawyer, Dominic Barbara, reportedly told the Nassau County court, where Angel (real name: Christopher Sarantankos), 39, and his ex faced off on Friday. "We will subpoena her as soon as she comes back to New York."
In his statement, Cafarelli added, "These are meaningless, attention-seeking attempts to unfairly and unnecessarily exploit Cameron's celebrity by trying to involve her in matters she has nothing to do with."
Back in May, Diaz, 34, and Angel were repeatedly seen together in Las Vegas.
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The Jeremy Project
TROV and the "Jeremy Project"
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) has developed an underwater telepresence remotely operated vehicle (TROV) that is able, by using a stereo pair of cameras positioned at approximately human interocular distance (the distance between your eyes), to produce a picture that appears in three dimensions if special eyewear is used. TROV is also able to record film footage underwater using these cameras. This footage can then be translated via software into a virtual reality computer simulation of the environment that was filmed. A person can then use this computer-generated image in order to virtually "fly" through an environment that TROV has visited earlier and recorded. The "Jeremy Project" seeks to apply this technology, originally developed for NASA's Mars Pathfinder Project, to the field of marine archaeology.
ROV's have been employed to do underwater archaeological work before, but not to this extent as far as I am aware. Side-scan sonar has been used in order to map sites using soundings of the benthic terrain, but TROV's stereo cameras promise to attain a new level of accuracy, detail and realism that has not been achieved to date. By sending TROV over a site for a preliminary run and generating a map, archaeologists may be better able to tell which sections of a site they should focus on. Also, by generating a map during each phase of an excavation, records of provenience (where artifacts are within a site) will be more accurate.
To learn more about TROV and ROV projects at NASA Ames, you may want to visit the Intelligent Mechanisms Group web site.
TROV Applications to the Fleet of 1871
During late August and early September of 1998, NASA, in conjunction with the Coast Guard, National Science Foundation, and Santa Clara University, will be conducting field tests of the TROV in the Arctic Ocean. Tests will be run from the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, which will be departing from Seattle and traveling along the Canadian and Alaskan coast as far north as Point Barrow before making its return voyage. The ship will be passing over the waters near Icy Cape where the New Bedford fleet of 1871 was abandoned and eventually sank. We will attempt to locate the sunken fleet, reportedly situated between twenty-seven and fifty-two feet of water, and deploy TROV to take images of at least a few of the ships. Divers will most likely accompany the submersible. For the first test application of the "Jeremy Project," contact with the site will be visual only. Divers will not be allowed to touch any of the wrecks, assuming they are at least partly intact, and will serve only to assist TROV's pilot(s) with any maneuvering difficulties. The reason for this is two-fold: first, we must remain in compliance with the Alaskan State Parks commission, which maintains that we do not touch the wrecks. Second, coming in contact with wrecks, particularly those made of wood, has the potential for disturbing natural chemical balances that may be serving to preserve the wrecks from destruction.
What Do We Hope to Learn?
During the first phase of the "Jeremy Project," as mentioned before, we hope to test the practical applications of NASA's technology to the field of marine archaeology. Also, we hope to perform a few simple archaeological analyses of the site in question. Without doing any excavation and without coming in contact with the wrecks, we will visually inspect them in order to determine their state of preservation. Much is known about how wreck sites fare in warmer waters, but less is known about site formation as it occurs in colder waters. We will attempt to correlate the condition of the site with such factors as water salinity and temperature. Aside from abiotic factors, we will also attempt to detect any biological aspects of cold-water site formation processes that may or may not be present. For instance, it is known that in warmer climates a certain marine mollusk is responsible for much of the damage that occurs on wooden wrecks. Known as the "shipworm," Teredo navalis is a common boon to marine archaeologists everywhere. Are these organisms active in higher latitudes? Are any similar animals or plants present that do similar damage to underwater sites?
Historical Background of the Fleet
The whaling industry on the east coast of the United States was booming during the 19th century, and many coastal cities were benefiting from it.
The town of New Bedford, located in New England, was no exception. New Bedford's whaleship building industry was largely controlled by the Quaker community; master craftsmen saw that every part of each ship was constructed well and without fault. The whaling industry of this time period was notorious for being conservative in terms of the technology it chose to use-- in a time when steel was being used more and more often to build ships, metal cables were employed for rigging, and coal-powered engines were available, many whaleship industries chose to keep building with wood, and use fiber ropes to rig sails and harness wind power. The reasons were relatively simple most of the time: whalers were out to make a profit. Wind power was a lot cheaper than coal, and left the ships' holds free to load up with more whale oil and bone. Both of these were high-selling commodities at the time, used for a variety of purposes. Oil was primarily used as a source of fuel for light and heat in homes, but was also used to make soaps and lubricants. Bone was used largely in the fashion industry, as women's dresses and bodices supported by whalebone hoops were the current style.
During the 1800s, one of the most prized and sought after species of whale was the bowhead. This was for a number of reasons; first of all, it tends to live in colder climates, and therefore grows an extra thick layer of blubber to regulate its internal temperature. It is the blubber that is boiled down by the whalers in order to extract the whale oil. The second reason is pure convenience: bowheads are among the slowest moving of the large cetaceans, making them easy to sight and harpoon. Considering the difficulty and man-power involved in lowering the smaller, quicker whaleboats and rowing after the quarry, the slower the animal, the better the guarantee that the whalers were going to get a return on their personal physical investments. Bowheads' migratory routes take them into the frigid waters of the Arctic north of the Bering Straight during the summer months. Here, they feed in large groups, or pods, and are easy game. This was generally where the whaleships would confront them.
The Tragedy
During April of 1871, one such whaling fleet, hailing from New Bedford, set out from Hawaii for the Arctic whaling grounds in hopes of making a big catch and a good profit. Between the 18th and 30th of June, the fleet had made its way through the Bering Strait, and by late August, 39 ships were positioned off of Icy Cape, Alaska. Normally during this time of the year, floating ice has begun to form, but is blown out to sea, allowing whalers to work the waters closer to the shore until well into September, and get out easily.
This year, however, would be different. The winds came from the ocean, bowing ice into the shore, trapping the ships between it and the rocky coast. Some of the whalers managed to get out of the way in time, but 32 of the original 39 were trapped. At first, there was no panic, as this had happened the year before, but the wind had eventually blown the ice away.
Some ships even continued to hunt or boil down whale blubber. As time wore on, though, the situation became grim. It was obvious by the second week of September that they were not going to be able to get out-- scouts sent down the coast to the southwest attested to the fact that there were no open channels deep enough for the ships to pass through. On September 12, the captains of the trapped ships drew up a document stating their situation, and their decision to save their crews and leave the ships to fate. Whaleboats were loaded with supplies, outfitted with higher gunnels, and rowed and/or sailed down the coast. The crews were picked up by the remaining seven ships that had stood off from the encroaching ice, and sailed back to Hawaii. Amazingly, not one life had been lost. Unfortunately, the ships were lost with most of their expensive cargo.
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Best Buy's (NYSE: BBY ) new partnership with Samsung Electronics is yet another attempt by the big box retailer to attract customers to its stores. Under the arrangement, Best Buy will open up space inside its U.S. stores for Samsung to set up shop. The Samsung-branded stores will hit Best Buy locations as soon as next month, with plans to open 1,400 mini-stores by the end of June.
Shares of Best Buy climbed 12% on the news, continuing an impressive run for the stock so far this year. However, I think the market is overly optimistic about what this means for the struggling retailer.
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This isn't a new strategy for Best Buy. The store-within-a-store concept is something that Best Buy has been experimenting with since 2011, when the company cut a deal with Apple to open Apple mini-stores inside select Best Buy locations. Unfortunately, even one of the strongest brands in the world wasn't enough to spare Best Buy from declining revenue and sliding same-store sales figures.
Why would Samsung's entrance be any different for Best Buy? While the so-called "Samsung Experience Shops" should help pull more customers through Best Buy's doors, it's not likely to have a significant impact on the retailer's broader turnaround efforts.
The real winner, in fact, is Samsung. The company's mobile devices propelled Samsung to become the world's biggest smartphone seller. However, Apple's iPhone devices still rein supreme in the U.S. market. This could change thanks to Samsung's new deal with Best Buy. To be sure, Samsung plans to roll out 1,400 shop-in-shop destinations this year, whereas Apple currently has only 740 mini-stores within select Best Buy locations.
Importantly, Samsung's mini-stores are not only bigger than Apple's small format stores, but also allow customers to skip the main checkout lines, and instead, pay at Samsung specific checkouts. Similar to Apple's Best Buy stores, Samsung's mini-stores will display its smartphones, tablets, laptops, and televisions in a designated area within Best Buy that's staffed by Samsung product specialists.
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For Samsung, this partnership is a big deal. Ultimately, it gives the Galaxy device maker an instant presence in the U.S. retail market, where it had none before. For Best Buy, on the other hand, it's a small step in the right direction, although many challenges remain ahead.
While Best Buy said its current profit margins on Samsung products would remain unchanged, neither company would divulge the specific financial terms of the deal. Best Buy has a lot riding on this arrangement with Samsung, as the big box retailer continues to lose customers to the convenience of online shopping.
The brick-and-mortar versus e-commerce battle wages on, with Best Buy caught in the middle. After what might have been its most tumultuous year in history, there are now even more unanswered questions about the future for the big-box electronics retailer. How will new leadership perform? Will old leadership take the company private? Will a smaller store format work out for both the company and its brave investors? Should you be one such brave investor? To help answer all these questions, The Motley Fool has released a new premium research report detailing the opportunities -- and the risks -- in store for Best Buy. Simply click here now to claim your comprehensive report today.


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I think the descibcion here is rather poor. What this does is, it loads your vsts on a second PC, so your Main PC is freed from the work and can run much easier and therefore more stable. You copy-install the vsts on your slave PC. Then you have a new folder in your DAW with the outsouced vsts, which you can use as if they were run from your main PC.
Not mentioned here : this is now freeware. So I installed it and well. I doesn't work with all plugins. But those who do work, work fine. It takes some time to get used to it. After that you can go crazy.. Load all the CPU guzzler you want (depending of your slave PC of course). You just want to ignore your electricity bill.
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Preparation: Remove all stickers or labels from surface.
1. Cut piece of paper to fit center of saucer.
2. Write "happy birthday" with fine-tip black marker on center of paper and tape paper on top of plate with words face up.
3. Turn plate over and use liner brush and Black to paint words on bottom center of plate. (You should be able to see words and will be painting them in reverse.) Let paint dry and remove paper.
4. Hold saucer with top surface resting on hand when painting stripes, as you will be painting on back of saucer only.
5. Use 3/4" flat brush and Lavender to paint five stripes on rim of saucer, spacing them as evenly as possible.
6.Use 12 shader brush and Razzle Berry to paint wavy stripes, centered between Lavender stripes, on rim of saucer.
7. Use 4 round brush and Calypso Blue to paint thin line to left of each Lavender stripe.
8. Use 4 round brush and Bright Orange to paint thin line to right of each Lavender stripe.
9. Use end of paintbrush handle dipped in Festive Green to dot inside curves of Razzle Berry wavy lines. Let all paint dry.
10. Use 3/4" flat brush and White to paint over rim of saucer over stripes and dots.
11. To heat set, let dry 48 hours. Place in cold oven; set temperature at 325 degrees; bake 30 minutes; turn off oven and crack open door. Allow project to cool down before removing.
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This morning, I'll be heading to Success By 6's annual policy breakfast, where the focus is on Touchpoints.
What's Touchpoints? Touchpoints uses child care and health and human services providers to help parents understand their babies and toddlers better, particularly among lower-income families.
Onondaga County has been working on training child care and health and human services providers in how to help parents. Be checking the blog later today for updates on how the effort is going.
By Gina Chen
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A delightful infant who has been sleeping and eating well suddenly becomes irritable.
At night, the baby pulls himself into a standing position in the crib - and cries because he doesn't know how to get down.
The parents think they've failed or their baby's development is taking a downturn. They may get frustrated with the child.
But in reality, the baby is just so focused on learning to walk, that's all he can think of, so other achievements appear to regress. And that's perfectly normal, according to a child-development program called Touchpoints that's coming to Onondaga County.
The program aims to use child-care and health and human services providers to help parents understand their babies and toddlers better to bolster the child-parent relationship, particularly in low-income families.
"It's to keep relationships developing solidly and closely, rather than having development regressions cause derailments in a relationship, " says Laura Jenkins, clinical supervisor for Little Lukes child-care program, which is involved in the effort.
Touchpoints is the brainchild of Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a nationally known pediatrician who is based in Boston. Touchpoints programs have been set up throughout the country.
The idea is to train child-care and health-care providers who interact with low-income parents to understand that young children tend to regress before they are about to have a development burst. These experiences are called "touchpoints."
The providers help parents expect these regressions while relying on the parents' own expertise about their child, so the parents feel more validated in their parenting abilities.
The goal also is to increase low-income parents' use of existing outreach services of the county Health Department, such as Syracuse Healthy Start, WIC Nutritional Services and the Early Intervention Program. Providers from those programs will be trained in Touchpoints and are to establish relationships with parents through that program. Currently, some parents eligible for these types of programs either use them sporadically or not at all.
"We're not trying to re-create services. We're trying to strengthen existing services, " says Jennifer Sullivan Roth, executive director of Success By 6, which is among the program sponsors. "We're going to reduce abuse. We're going to reduce neglect."
Touchpoints is coming to Onondaga County with the help of a $63,289 grant from the Central New York Community Foundation, Sullivan Roth says. Success By 6, the Health Department and Child Care Solutions are contributing the rest of the $157,193 total project cost by giving their staff time to train for the program.
The program is primarily targeted at the 4,300 children younger than 5 living in poverty in Syracuse, although no parents are excluded, according to Success By 6. The target is low-income families because that's where the need is seen as greatest, Sullivan Roth says.
Parental stress from poverty and lack of access to support and information can interfere with parents' development of strong, healthy relationships with their infants, according to the grant proposal.
The way Touchpoints works, a few people get trained initially at Brazelton's Boston center, and then they train others in Onondaga County. The beginning training started in September, and organizers hope to have 300 people trained by December 2009.
Little Lukes started ahead of the formal program, which allowed seven workers to get exposure to Touchpoints in March. By the end of June 2008, Little Lukes hopes to have trained the more than 100 people who provide child care, preschool care or early intervention through Little Lukes' DeWitt and Oswego locations, Jenkins says.
Jenkins says Touchpoints isn't about professionals telling parents what to do.
For example, if a 3-year-old who uses the toilet suddenly stops using the toilet at a child-care center, a provider would engage the parents and see whether any changes at home may account for the child's actions.
The worker might explain to the parents that she has noticed the child seems eager to start making friends, Jenkins says. That could be a development burst from the parallel play of babyhood to the interactive play of older kids. The child may be so engrossed in making friends, she forgets to use the potty.
Then the worker would draw on the parent's own experience of what worked in the past to help the child learn to use the toilet to get past the regression, Jenkins says.
"It's not just an approach that says: Here's what's coming next, and here's what you should do, " she says. "That's not Touchpoints. Touchpoints recognizes that the parents are the experts on their child."


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—To examine the relationship between sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and smoking during pregnancy; postnatal tobacco smoke exposure from the mother, father, live-in adults, and day care providers; and postnatal smoke exposure from breast-feeding.
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—A total of 200 white, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian parents of infants who died of SIDS between 1989 and 1992 were compared with 200 control parents who delivered healthy infants. Case infants were matched to control infants on the basis of birth hospital, birth date, gender, and race. All information was obtained from a detailed telephone interview and validated with medical records.
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—Risk of SIDS associated with passive smoking by the mother, father, live-in adults, and day care providers; smoking in the same room as the infant; total number of cigarettes smoked by all adults; and maternal smoking during the time period of breast-feeding.
—Conditional logistic regression resulted in overall adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for SIDS associated with passive smoke from the mother of 2.28, the father of 3.46, other live-in adults of 2.18, and all sources of 3.50 (95% confidence interval, 1.81 to 6.75), while simultaneously adjusting for birth weight, sleep position, prenatal care, medical conditions at birth, breast-feeding, and maternal smoking during pregnancy. A dose-response effect was noted for SIDS associated with increasing numbers of cigarettes, as well as total number of smokers. Breast-feeding was protective for SIDS among nonsmokers (OR=0.37) but not smokers (OR=1.38), when adjusting for potential confounders.
—Passive smoking in the same room as the infant increases the risk for SIDS. Physicians should educate new and prospective parents about the risks of tobacco smoke exposure during pregnancy and the first year of the infant's life.(JAMA. 1995;273:795-798)
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"We are so fortunate in Houston to have so many wonderful places to eat and so many new ones coming on the scene that are fun to try out," says Raini Wright. "I want to remind Houstonians to not forget the great establishments that have been around for years and served us so well."
Wright and her husband celebrated a recent anniversary at La Colombe d'Or (3410 Montrose). "What a treat!" she says. "Of course, the setting is beautiful, but food and service were impeccable. The lobster bisque was delicious, creamy and had nice chunks of lobster floating in it. My husband had wonderful scallops, and my rack of lamb was cooked to perfection." The mousse desserts were "incredible" and the wait staff "were extremely attentive and polite," Wright adds.
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Kay Osborn enjoys Thai Style Fast Food (5712 S. Gessner, Suite D). "The restaurant is a hole-in-the-wall place run by a young husband and wife from Thailand," she says. "We eat there once a week for lunch, and the food reminds me of being back in my home in Thailand. The Pad Thai is as good as the street vendor food in Bangkok, and they will substitute clear noodles — made of mung beans — to make the Pad Thai lower carb." Dishes with kaffir lime leaves "are as good as my mother used to make," Osborn adds. "There are many authentic dishes, like Basil Chicken, that will please anyone."
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A criminal trial nearly two years in the making alleging FedEx knowingly delivered illegal prescription drugs to dealers and addicts ended suddenly Friday when prosecutors moved to dismiss all charges against the shipping giant.
U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted the request in a two-page order that did not indicate why prosecutors were dropping the case.
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Midway through the much-hyped presale of the Verizon iPhone today, technology experts and Verizon spokesmen were using a buzzword never meant for a product launch: "throttling."
The word describes an unannounced policy change that began yesterday for new customers that gives Verizon the right to squeeze previously unlimited data service for the network's most demanding users in the future.
"The top five (percent) heaviest users, they may get throttled at certain times, at peak periods of the day," said spokesman David Samberg. "We don't want five percent of the users to affect the quality of the network for the other ninety-five percent of the users."
Samberg said the new policy wasn't released by the company publicly, but was disclosed in flyers at stores and messages on bills and receipts. He also said the policy won't be implemented right away, but gives Verizon the right to restrict data service in the future.
The iPhone presale started at 3 a.m. today, and news of the throttling policy was first reported about seven hours later by Andrew Munchbach, a blogger for Boy Genius Report, a tech website.
Munchbach said he got an anonymous tip that a document on the Verizon Wireless webpage described new practices for customers who sign up for data plans or features starting today.
The web page said the policies are meant to make sure that most customers aren't slowed down by "the inordinate data consumption of just a few users."
Munchbach said readers of his blog are split over the new policy.
"Some of them think it's disingenous to say "Unlimited data" when they give unlimited data to a point and then slow it down," Munchbach said. "Others think it's fair, instead of charging everyone more, to penalize those who are using the most."
He noted that other networks like AT&T might not throttle service, but could charge far more than Verizon.
Brian X. Chen, a technology writer for Wired who pre-tested a Verizon iPhone, said the new throttling policy could help the average customer, but was disconcerting in what it reveals about Verizon's openness with customers, and readiness to serve them.
"Before the iPhone came out, they said our network is ready for this," Chen said. "Then the day it came out, they didn't put out a press release or anything (about throttling). Somebody just saw the memo they put on the website. They didn't make this very transparent."
But Samberg, Verizon's spokesman, said the timing was a coincidence.
"Everything that we've been doing in the last three weeks, people tie to the iPhone," Samberg said. "No, there's no connection between that and the iPhone."
He also said Verizon officials talked about it today after the news was reported.
Samberg said the policy was meant to address a capacity issue in Verizon's data service.
"It's like a highway with four lanes, and you try to put five lanes of cars on it," Samberg said, describing periods of peak data demand.
But Chen said the carrier previously promised it was ready for the iPhone, and questioned the use of throttling as a solution to capacity problems.
"They're trying to make it seem like it's for the greater good," Chen said. "In some ways that might be accurate, but it's also for them to have as many customers as they can on the network and sustain it."
He also said that if the new policy isn't implemented with better communication, it could lead to further questions about Verizon's service.
"When people go over, are they going to be notified that you're going to be slowed down now, or is Verizon just going to quietly slow them down?" Chen asked. "If they don't say anything, they could potentially slow down anybody, even if they're not going over. Going forward, transparency is going to be the issue with this."
But Samberg said that the Bedminster-based company clearly communicated the new policy by providing information about it on flyers, receipts and bills and through salespeople.
"We notified customers," Samberg said. "Verizon Wireless is extremely transparent in everything it does."
Samberg said he asked Verizon officials how users in the top five percent would be notified, and they weren't sure yet because the change was just made. Possibilities for notification include letters or text messages.
At the very least, Verizon may change advertisements for unlimited data plans in the future in order to comply with advertising law, said Rutgers School of Law professor Ellen Goodman, who specializes in media policy and advertising law.
"Generally, you are allowed to make a broad claim and then disclaim it as long as it's clear and conspicuous and understandable to the ordinary consumer," Goodman said. "They'll want to be careful, but I'd expect that in the end, it will say 'Unlimited' and then there will be a little asterisk."
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Rangers close in on saltwater crocodile seen in Mary River near Beaver Rock, outside Maryborough
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- May 03, 2012
RANGERS hope a rotting pig's hind quarter will help ensnare a large crocodile spotted near Maryborough - hundreds of kilometres south of its comfort zone.
A trap has been set in the Mary River after two sightings of a 3.5m reptile within a few days.
A professional fisherman phoned the State Government's croc hotline on Sunday, saying he had seen one sunning itself on a mudbank.
Rangers conducted several patrols and were surprised to see the creature on Tuesday at Brother's Island, 2km north of the Beaver Rock boat ramp.
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The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection's wildlife operations manager, Adam Northam, was sent from Brisbane yesterday to try to catch the crocodile alive.
Mr Northam said the plan was to lure the animal into a long cage that had a pig bait at one end.
"We know they like eating feral pigs so the bait we put in might do the trick. It is starting to go green. No good for human consumption but great for crocs," Mr Northam said.
He said the size of the creature pointed to it being an adult female more than 25 years old, or a male in its teens.
Mr Millyard said they could travel huge distances and cover 50km a day.
Beaver Rock resident Andy Fowler said that it was not uncommon to see crocodiles in the river.
"They are around. I've seen them but they don't bother anyone," he said.
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