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The release was broadcast live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She did great,” he said. “She did about as perfect as you can ask for.” Burnett said the bird had been treated at the Los Angeles Zoo for a wing injury and was testing it in the wild for the first time. She was released less than a mile from her parents and the nest where she was born. Ventana was planning to release three additional condors, but decided against it because of inclement weather, Burnett said. Those birds will be released over the coming weeks.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update: 10:10 a.m.\u003c/strong> Condor 646 was released and met at the door by a previously released condor — condor 550. The newly-released condor made a short flight before walking up the hill with condor 550 to explore the feeding area and meet other condors. A concern of the biologist is that the released condors are excepted into the group, but it appeared that condor 646 was brought into the fold. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another feeding cam\u003c/a> shows live video of the many wild and rehabilitated condors that gather in the feeding area regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warning: Some of the feeding videos can be fairly graphic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 9:57 a.m.\u003c/strong> The Ventana Wildlife Society has said that only one condor — condor 646 — will be released into the wild today because of changes in the weather forecast. Rain in the Big Sur area on Wednesday and Thursday is delaying the release of the other condors previously scheduled to be released today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four California condors are being released at 10 a.m. PT today in Big Sur by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ventana Wildlife Society\u003c/a>. You can watch the release live via a streaming webcam sponsored by the Oakland Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/Condor_Cam.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the condors released at the Oakland Zoo live webcam.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Zoo\u003c/a>‘s live-streaming camera is located in the hills outside Big Sur. The zoo also has a “Condor Cam” in the recovery center at the zoo. The center is designed for treatment of sick or injured California condors. Upon the birds’ recovery, they will be returned to their natural habitat. According to the Oakland Zoo’s website, prior to the Oakland Zoo partnership with the California Condor Recovery Program, the nearest Veterinary hospital for condor care was in the Los Angeles Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ventana Wildlife Society and Oakland Zoo run \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of condor cameras\u003c/a> that allow people to see the birds when they are feeding, rehabilitating and flying free. Because the majority of the condor rehabilitation work in the wild takes place in very remote areas, the Condor Cam in Big Sur is both a chance for the public to see the birds and a tool for biologists. The camera, which was installed last year, is on a grassy ridge in a very remote canyon at approximately 2800 feet elevation and about two miles from the ocean, according to Ventana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California condors were on the brink of extinction 30 years ago, but have made a gradual recovery. However, \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/with-condors-on-the-brink-california-considers-a-lead-bullet-ban-for-hunters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lead bullets\u003c/a>, which make their way into the condor food system after being used on animals that condors eat, have been a continuing problem. This past fall, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/10/11/to-protect-wildlife-california-bans-hunting-with-lead-bullets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Brown passed a law banning lead bullets across the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That insight could help scientists develop treatments and eventually find a cure for \u003ca href=\"http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/aboutepilepsy/syndromes/temporallobeepilepsy.cfm\">temporal lobe epilepsy\u003c/a>, one of the most common forms that people get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sea lions can get seizures and eventually develop epilepsy when they’re exposed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/science/top-research-projects/domoic-acid-toxicity.html\">domoic acid\u003c/a>, a toxin produced by some algae blooms. The Marine Mammal Center in Marin County treats sea lions suffering from seizures, but in some cases has to euthanize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked with Dr. Paul Buckmaster, a neurologist at Stanford University who’s studying the sea lions at the Marine Mammal Center. This is an edited version of our conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this comparison with people important? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re still trying to understand what causes seizures in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s important for the sea lions because it gives us a better understanding of what’s causing their epilepsy as well as the behavioral problems they show after being exposed to the toxin. Those problems are so severe that those animals will suffer if they’re released—they will starve to death. Now, they’re being euthanized—in a way, to prevent their suffering. It’s a really serious problem for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s important for people because we’re still trying to understand what causes seizures in people with temporal lobe epilepsy. One of the main ways we study that is by studying mice and rats, but the brain damage in mice and rats is not as similar to people as the brain damage in sea lions. So we might be able to learn more about human temporal lobe epilepsy by studying the sea lions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the next steps in your research?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the areas that we’re working on now is to widen our view. Instead of just focusing on one part of the brain—the part that’s most damaged in sea lions and in humans—we’re looking at other parts of the brain as well. We might get some clues because we can get better images of the brains of sea lions than we can of people anatomically. We’re able to preserve the tissue better. We can also use additional stains and look at more areas of the brain than we can in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we find some parts that might be damaged in sea lions that haven’t been recognized in people yet, we can direct the clinicians towards those areas, and say, “Look in these spots as well. See if you can find anything using non-invasive imaging techniques.” We might find some additional areas that are damaged that might be important and contribute to the seizures that people have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any connections between domoic acid and epilepsy in humans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In humans, there was an outbreak in the late ’80s when a bunch of people ate this toxin because it was in the shellfish they were eating. This was in the Montreal area, and the mussels came from Prince Edward Island where they were cultivated. A lot of people became sick. They had gastrointestinal symptoms. Some of the more severe cases also had seizures and memory loss. In some cases, that memory loss was permanent. They couldn’t make new memories after that. One of those patients who had the severe symptoms later developed epilepsy. So it’s possible for people to develop epilepsy if they eat this poison. But now seafood that’s available in restaurants and seafood stores is screened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is there a possible treatment for the sea lions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, there’s not. That’s what’s really frustrating about this. In people, if they had developed epilepsy after eating the toxin, you would prescribe them anticonvulsant drugs. Then, they could take those on a daily basis to help control their seizures. We can’t do that with sea lions. The sea lions are wild animals. They are only at the Marine Mammal Center for treatment and rehabilitation, and then they must be released. There’s no way for them to continue treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How are different populations of sea lions and other animals affected?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algae has population explosions called algal blooms. There are general trends, but they’re harder to predict on a finer timescale. They occur in focal areas along the coast, and if a sea lion is in the wrong place at the wrong time, they can be exposed and become intoxicated from the algae-made domoic acid. Other species are affected as well, not just sea lions. This was reported to cause a bunch of birds to die. Early on that was reported in the Santa Cruz area, there were brown pelicans and cormorants that were affected from the toxin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also suspected — and there are some anecdotal reports — of it killing dolphins and possibly whales. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By George Csicsery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109615\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 224px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109615\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-e1378226107152-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Adam Cohen discovered a group of windsurfers who had found this dog swimming in the bay while on his evening commute in a kayak from San Francisco to Berkeley Monday night, August 12, 2013. (Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Cohen discovered a group of windsurfers who had found this dog swimming in the bay while on his evening commute in a kayak from San Francisco to Berkeley Monday night, August 12, 2013. (Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That a \u003ca href=\"//www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/On-the-way-home-boater-rescues-dog-from-SF-Bay-4727557.php\">black labrador \u003c/a>with mysterious origins should be rescued from the middle of San Francisco Bay a mere three weeks before inauguration of the Bay Bridge’s new eastern span was too good to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is the first sign that the inauguration of the Bay Area’s troubled bridge might be an auspicious event. Why so? Any European alive before the 19th century would never have missed the connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That the omen went unrecognized by the people preparing to open the bridge on September 3 is testimony to our loss of cultural memory, but the Devil is always in the details, and it is never too late to make amends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fear of bridges failing on or near their inauguration has a rich and varied history, certainly in Europe, but also in the United States. Think of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse on November 7, 1940 a few months after that bridge was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time it was designed by Leon Moisseiff. The design was flawed, the bridge was too flexible, and that proved fatal. When battered by high winds, it developed an escalating vibration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened next was captured by at least two cameras. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xox9BVSu7Ok\">film\u003c/a> showing the undulating bridge as it collapses was shown in classrooms for decades. Naturally, you can see a dozen re-packaged versions on YouTube. It’s a haunting \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw\">video\u003c/a>. The only casualty was a dog trapped in a car abandoned by its driver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the sight of a black dog hovering around the famous medieval bridge in Regensburg, Germany, at night provokes raised eyebrows among savvy locals who recognize the Devil in his canine disguise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog-saved-in-bay/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109544\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109544\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-saved-in-bay.jpg\" alt=\"The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen) \" width=\"640\" height=\"466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But contrary to what you might believe from recent stories about superstitions connected to black animals, the devil’s presence around the bridge is not a portent of disaster. On the contrary, the hapless black dog of Regensburg’s bridge is the consequence of a success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regensburg’s old stone bridge, built between 1135 and 1146, was the first to link northern and southern Europe, and for hundreds of years the only way to cross the Danube without a boat or ferry. It has been standing for close to a millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is linked to the black dog through a beautiful legend, the origins of which go back to the time of its construction. The bridge’s architect, it is said, was in competition with the builder of Regensburg’s famous medieval Dom to see who would finish first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he saw that the cathedral was nearly finished and the bridge was nowhere near completion, the bridge builder made a pact with the Devil to help speed up his work. The deal they struck gave the Devil the souls of the first eight feet to cross the bridge. Not bad, thought the Devil, a harvest of four human souls in exchange for some minor technical wizardry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Devil’s help, the bridge was indeed finished first, whereupon the cathedral’s architect threw himself from the Dom’s spire in despair. His suicide is thought to explain the image of a falling man depicted on the cathedral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did the wily bridge builder win his wager with the cathedral’s architect, when it came time to inaugurate the bridge (listen up, Caltrans) he tricked the Devil by sending a hen, a rooster, and a dog across the bridge before any human crossed. There were the first eight feet to cross the new bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outsmarted by a human, the Devil was forever stuck with the souls of these three beasts, but there was nothing he could do about it. This is believed to be why that black dog has been seen skulking around the old stone bridge in Regensburg ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association of a black dog with the Devil was immortalized in dramatic literature by\u003cbr>\nGoethe in Faust, where Mephistopheles (the Devil) first appears to Faust as a poodle\u003cbr>\nbefore revealing his true identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The link between bridges and the Devil is far more widespread than the Regensburg legend. A Wikipedia \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge\">search\u003c/a> reveals hundreds of devil’s bridges, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge#France\">49 in France\u003c/a> alone. Many of them are some of the oldest and most beautiful bridges in Europe. Why these bridges are tied to stories involving demonic forces in folklore, and why the legends are so similar, is not difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man-made bridge is not natural; it defeats the force of gravity, connecting two places that nature, or God, have separated. That act of defiance is made possible by technologicaldexterity, and in folklore all such acts are related to wizardry, magic, the invocation of supernatural forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In myth, the technologically daring are punished for their efforts at experimentation (think of Icarus and Prometheus). Building bridges over precipitous gorges and wide bodies of water is a dangerous business, and in folklore can only be accomplished if some supernatural power is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into the Devil’s bridge stories provides some insight into humanity’s\u003cbr>\nlongstanding love/hate relationship with technological progress and scientific innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges are not only actual paths and connections; they are also metaphorical links\u003cbr>\nbetween two different points, or even phases of life. We are more vulnerable in transition\u003cbr>\nthan on \u003cem>terra firma\u003c/em>. Science and technology are paths to the new and unfamiliar, often\u003cbr>\ninvolving counter-intuitive ideas and processes. Engineers practice a kind of wizardry\u003cbr>\nfew others can fathom. In folklore, how can their unnatural and dangerous enterprises\u003cbr>\nsucceed without demonic assistance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a charming legend among the Wampanoag people of Martha’s Vineyard that\u003cbr>\nreveals what happens when the Devil backs out of a bridge-building deal. The giant\u003cbr>\nMaushup, who lived on Martha’s Vineyard alone, decided to build a bridge to the\u003cbr>\nmainland. He started by throwing some giant boulders off the cliff at Gayhead into the\u003cbr>\nsea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one version of the story, he was bitten on the toe by a crab and stopped\u003cbr>\nbuilding the bridge. Another version, told to anthropologist William Simmons of Brown\u003cbr>\nUniversity, has Maushup losing a fight with the Devil. As a result, there is no bridge\u003cbr>\nbetween the Vineyard and the mainland, and all that’s left of Moshup’s project are the\u003cbr>\nboulders in the sea called Devil’s Bridge. It is a treacherous piece of water notorious for\u003cbr>\nshipwrecks caused by collisions with the underwater rocks of Maushop’s unfinished\u003cbr>\nbridge to Cuttyhunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is meant to shed light on the troubled history of the new eastern span of the\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The 24-year project is being delivered ten years late\u003cbr>\ndue to a series of mishaps that should have alerted Caltrans officials to seek some kind of\u003cbr>\ndiabolic bargain years ago. The recent bad bolts fiasco, as yet unresolved, was preceded\u003cbr>\nby an unbelievable chain of political wrangling that was partially \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vph7egU1gf4\">documented\u003c/a> in David\u003cbr>\nBrown’s 2011 documentary film \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebridgesofar.com/\">The Bridge So Far\u003c/a>. And that was preceded by the battle\u003cbr>\nof designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever is in charge, CalTrans, Governor Brown, please read up on your folklore. At the\u003cbr>\nvery least, get that young lab rescued from the bay in mid-August, and let it be the first to\u003cbr>\ncross our new bridge. It’s the cheapest bridge insurance policy you’ll ever buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>George Csicery is an Oakland-based writer and \u003ca href=\"http://www.zalafilms.com/\">documentary film producer\u003c/a> who was born in Regensburg, Germany.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The only casualty was a dog trapped in a car abandoned by its driver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, the sight of a black dog hovering around the famous medieval bridge in Regensburg, Germany, at night provokes raised eyebrows among savvy locals who recognize the Devil in his canine disguise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/01/bay-bridge-update/dog-saved-in-bay/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109544\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109544\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/dog-saved-in-bay.jpg\" alt=\"The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen) \" width=\"640\" height=\"466\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group of windsurfers who found this dog swimming in the bay on Aug. 12(Courtesy of Adam Cohen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But contrary to what you might believe from recent stories about superstitions connected to black animals, the devil’s presence around the bridge is not a portent of disaster. On the contrary, the hapless black dog of Regensburg’s bridge is the consequence of a success story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regensburg’s old stone bridge, built between 1135 and 1146, was the first to link northern and southern Europe, and for hundreds of years the only way to cross the Danube without a boat or ferry. It has been standing for close to a millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge is linked to the black dog through a beautiful legend, the origins of which go back to the time of its construction. The bridge’s architect, it is said, was in competition with the builder of Regensburg’s famous medieval Dom to see who would finish first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he saw that the cathedral was nearly finished and the bridge was nowhere near completion, the bridge builder made a pact with the Devil to help speed up his work. The deal they struck gave the Devil the souls of the first eight feet to cross the bridge. Not bad, thought the Devil, a harvest of four human souls in exchange for some minor technical wizardry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Devil’s help, the bridge was indeed finished first, whereupon the cathedral’s architect threw himself from the Dom’s spire in despair. His suicide is thought to explain the image of a falling man depicted on the cathedral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only did the wily bridge builder win his wager with the cathedral’s architect, when it came time to inaugurate the bridge (listen up, Caltrans) he tricked the Devil by sending a hen, a rooster, and a dog across the bridge before any human crossed. There were the first eight feet to cross the new bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outsmarted by a human, the Devil was forever stuck with the souls of these three beasts, but there was nothing he could do about it. This is believed to be why that black dog has been seen skulking around the old stone bridge in Regensburg ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association of a black dog with the Devil was immortalized in dramatic literature by\u003cbr>\nGoethe in Faust, where Mephistopheles (the Devil) first appears to Faust as a poodle\u003cbr>\nbefore revealing his true identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The link between bridges and the Devil is far more widespread than the Regensburg legend. A Wikipedia \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge\">search\u003c/a> reveals hundreds of devil’s bridges, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Bridge#France\">49 in France\u003c/a> alone. Many of them are some of the oldest and most beautiful bridges in Europe. Why these bridges are tied to stories involving demonic forces in folklore, and why the legends are so similar, is not difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man-made bridge is not natural; it defeats the force of gravity, connecting two places that nature, or God, have separated. That act of defiance is made possible by technologicaldexterity, and in folklore all such acts are related to wizardry, magic, the invocation of supernatural forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In myth, the technologically daring are punished for their efforts at experimentation (think of Icarus and Prometheus). Building bridges over precipitous gorges and wide bodies of water is a dangerous business, and in folklore can only be accomplished if some supernatural power is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter the Devil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking into the Devil’s bridge stories provides some insight into humanity’s\u003cbr>\nlongstanding love/hate relationship with technological progress and scientific innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges are not only actual paths and connections; they are also metaphorical links\u003cbr>\nbetween two different points, or even phases of life. We are more vulnerable in transition\u003cbr>\nthan on \u003cem>terra firma\u003c/em>. Science and technology are paths to the new and unfamiliar, often\u003cbr>\ninvolving counter-intuitive ideas and processes. Engineers practice a kind of wizardry\u003cbr>\nfew others can fathom. In folklore, how can their unnatural and dangerous enterprises\u003cbr>\nsucceed without demonic assistance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a charming legend among the Wampanoag people of Martha’s Vineyard that\u003cbr>\nreveals what happens when the Devil backs out of a bridge-building deal. The giant\u003cbr>\nMaushup, who lived on Martha’s Vineyard alone, decided to build a bridge to the\u003cbr>\nmainland. He started by throwing some giant boulders off the cliff at Gayhead into the\u003cbr>\nsea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one version of the story, he was bitten on the toe by a crab and stopped\u003cbr>\nbuilding the bridge. Another version, told to anthropologist William Simmons of Brown\u003cbr>\nUniversity, has Maushup losing a fight with the Devil. As a result, there is no bridge\u003cbr>\nbetween the Vineyard and the mainland, and all that’s left of Moshup’s project are the\u003cbr>\nboulders in the sea called Devil’s Bridge. It is a treacherous piece of water notorious for\u003cbr>\nshipwrecks caused by collisions with the underwater rocks of Maushop’s unfinished\u003cbr>\nbridge to Cuttyhunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is meant to shed light on the troubled history of the new eastern span of the\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The 24-year project is being delivered ten years late\u003cbr>\ndue to a series of mishaps that should have alerted Caltrans officials to seek some kind of\u003cbr>\ndiabolic bargain years ago. The recent bad bolts fiasco, as yet unresolved, was preceded\u003cbr>\nby an unbelievable chain of political wrangling that was partially \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vph7egU1gf4\">documented\u003c/a> in David\u003cbr>\nBrown’s 2011 documentary film \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebridgesofar.com/\">The Bridge So Far\u003c/a>. And that was preceded by the battle\u003cbr>\nof designs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoever is in charge, CalTrans, Governor Brown, please read up on your folklore. At the\u003cbr>\nvery least, get that young lab rescued from the bay in mid-August, and let it be the first to\u003cbr>\ncross our new bridge. It’s the cheapest bridge insurance policy you’ll ever buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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