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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES - The gas-storage facility that spewed methane uncontrollably for almost four months, driving thousands of families from their homes, won't resume operations until it has undergone tougher tests than ever required before, a process that will take months and perhaps even longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive leak near Porter Ranch in Los Angeles drew attention to Southern California Gas Co.'s Aliso Canyon storage facility and the larger subject of old energy infrastructure nationwide. It also put heat on the state to speed up tougher new regulations that will outlaw a risky practice that put the well in jeopardy of a blowout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't say it was a wake-up call. I'd say it was a 'You need to accelerate that process,' \" said Jason Marshall, chief deputy director of the state Department of Conservation. \"We've moved it to the top of the pile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Fupl2rtBfOlOQfZfRBuDB8T9XYTnxXAI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to passing emergency regulations, the department's oil and gas division directed the Aliso Canyon facility to undergo tests expected to last months before it can resume operations. It must also follow safer operating rules that could be expanded to facilities statewide, Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and residents sickened by the foul smell and chemicals have called for the facility to be permanently shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aliso Canyon is a major source of energy for Southern California and state utility overseers are figuring out how to provide power while it's largely out of commission, as well as exploring what would happen if it never reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legislative hearing Monday on a bill that would prevent the facility from storing additional gas while undergoing tests of its 114 wells, state lawmakers were concerned about power outages during a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is similar to when the San Onofre nuclear plant shut down in 2013 after a radiation leak, said Michael Picker, the president of the California Public Utility Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They built a system where Aliso Canyon was too big to fail. And it failed.'\u003ccite>Rep. Brad Sherman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't just the power, but it was the ability to support power flows north and south and getting power to certain specific parts of the state,\" Picker said. \"A transmission line in Northern California isn't effective in San Diego, for example.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike electricity that moves rapidly, natural gas flows about 35 mph and comes from out-of-state pipelines, so plans need to be made before it's needed. In addition to residential and business customers, Aliso Canyon serves dozens of gas-fired power plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They built a system where Aliso Canyon was too big to fail. And it failed,\" said Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat who owns a home in Porter Ranch near the facility. \"They say, 'We won't prove to you it's safe, we'll just prove to you it's necessary.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the facility were closed, getting new storage permitted would be unlikely because of community opposition and geologic concerns, said Jay Apt, co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. \"Taking something offline is probably forever,\" Apt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas Chief Executive Officer Dennis Arreola said the company planned to comply with new requirements and accelerate inspections at the facility that has had leaks and failures from corrosion and heavy use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new requirements will put a crimp in the speed at which gas is injected deep underground for storage when demand is low and withdrawn in colder weather or during demand spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests will measure the thickness of protective steel casings, corrosion and make sure wells can withstand intense pressures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10875934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10875934\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker-1180x737.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/AlisoWorker-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SoCalGas worker at the company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility. \u003ccite>(Kim Rice-Bogdan/SoCalGas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company will now be required to inject and withdraw the gas through narrow metal tubing that runs from the mountain-top facility to abandoned oil wells below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas had been using both the tubing and a much wider steel casing surrounding it to deliver larger volumes of gas. Experts said that was risky because the casing was a safety barrier if the tubing failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the blown-out well, the casing is believed to have failed under high pressure, allowing the gas to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall said the practice, which is fairly common, is forever over at Aliso Canyon and will be banned statewide once new regulations are drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is \"arguably more important\" than requiring subsurface safety valves. The well that failed had its safety valve removed in 1979. It wasn't required and was never replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Ingraffea, a Cornell University engineering professor who identified the dual injection and withdrawal practice as a fatal flaw after studying the well's records, applauded the new rules and test requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He questioned, however, how regulators had been lax for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has been criticized for a lack of industry oversight and acknowledged problems just weeks before the Aliso Canyon leak was reported Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of additional funding for new hires is not likely to appease critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rules don't fix the problems at California's broken oil regulatory agency, which has a scandalous track record of failing to enforce even basic regulations,\" said attorney Maya Golden-Krasner of the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists and residents sickened by the foul smell and chemicals have called for the facility to be permanently shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aliso Canyon is a major source of energy for Southern California and state utility overseers are figuring out how to provide power while it's largely out of commission, as well as exploring what would happen if it never reopens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a legislative hearing Monday on a bill that would prevent the facility from storing additional gas while undergoing tests of its 114 wells, state lawmakers were concerned about power outages during a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is similar to when the San Onofre nuclear plant shut down in 2013 after a radiation leak, said Michael Picker, the president of the California Public Utility Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They built a system where Aliso Canyon was too big to fail. And it failed.'\u003ccite>Rep. Brad Sherman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't just the power, but it was the ability to support power flows north and south and getting power to certain specific parts of the state,\" Picker said. \"A transmission line in Northern California isn't effective in San Diego, for example.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike electricity that moves rapidly, natural gas flows about 35 mph and comes from out-of-state pipelines, so plans need to be made before it's needed. In addition to residential and business customers, Aliso Canyon serves dozens of gas-fired power plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They built a system where Aliso Canyon was too big to fail. And it failed,\" said Rep. 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Experts said that was risky because the casing was a safety barrier if the tubing failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the blown-out well, the casing is believed to have failed under high pressure, allowing the gas to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall said the practice, which is fairly common, is forever over at Aliso Canyon and will be banned statewide once new regulations are drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is \"arguably more important\" than requiring subsurface safety valves. The well that failed had its safety valve removed in 1979. It wasn't required and was never replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Ingraffea, a Cornell University engineering professor who identified the dual injection and withdrawal practice as a fatal flaw after studying the well's records, applauded the new rules and test requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He questioned, however, how regulators had been lax for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has been criticized for a lack of industry oversight and acknowledged problems just weeks before the Aliso Canyon leak was reported Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of additional funding for new hires is not likely to appease critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rules don't fix the problems at California's broken oil regulatory agency, which has a scandalous track record of failing to enforce even basic regulations,\" said attorney Maya Golden-Krasner of the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Acid Flashback: Santa Cruz Bird Frenzy, Hitchcock and a Biological Whodunit",
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"content": "\u003cp>Long before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/habs_toxins/marine_biotoxins/da/\" target=\"_blank\">domoic acid\u003c/a> ruined Northern California's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 Dungeness crab season\u003c/a>, it was responsible for a panic along the Santa Cruz County seashore, which in turn informed a classic piece of creepy California cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashback to August 1961: In Germany, an enduring symbol of the Cold War -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/places/berlin_wall\" target=\"_blank\">the Berlin Wall\u003c/a> -- is under construction. Barack Obama is born in Honolulu. No one but a handful of Japanese researchers has ever heard of domoic acid. And in beachside communities near Santa Cruz, birds are going nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Great Bird Frenzy took place early the morning of Friday, Aug. 18, 1961. Here's how longtime \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/zz/20120115/NEWS/120117661\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter and columnist Wally Trabing\u003c/a> described the scene that unfolded along the shoreline just east of Santa Cruz:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A massive flight of \u003ca href=\"http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/08-14/shearwaters.asp\" target=\"_blank\">sooty shearwaters\u003c/a>, fresh from a feast of anchovies, collided with shoreside structures from Pleasure Point to Rio del Mar during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents, especially in the Pleasure Point and Capitola area, were awakened about 3 a.m. today by the rain of birds slamming against their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads in the foggy, early dawn. Startled by the invasion, residents rushed out on their lawns with flashlights, then rushed back inside, as the birds flew toward their light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television aerial supports were severed, and one power line was shorted out about 4 a.m. on Merrill Avenue when the birds hitting the lines slapped them together.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10871218\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10871218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg\" alt=\"Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.'\" width=\"300\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.' \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, the Sentinel reported crews picking up truckloads of dead birds from streets and lawns in the area. For an explanation of the avian behavior, the paper turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b332g/\" target=\"_blank\">Ward Russell\u003c/a>, a specimen collector and preparator at UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. (Russell's \u003ca href=\"http://blogrr.blogspot.com/2009/06/meet-beetles.html\" target=\"_blank\">claim to fame\u003c/a>, it appears, is that he promoted the use of \u003ca href=\"http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/17/flesh-eating-beetles-explained/\" target=\"_blank\">flesh-eating beetles\u003c/a> -- or dermestid beetles -- to clean skeletons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell opined that the sooty shearwaters, which fly tens of thousands of miles around the Pacific basin each year, became confused by a thick fog and flapped in a blind panic toward lights onshore. Others thought the sound of gunfire from the Army's Fort Ord might have spooked the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those who took note of the sooty shearwater episode was movie director Alfred Hitchcock, who owned \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/299/\" target=\"_blank\">a 200-acre estate\u003c/a> at the end of a narrow, winding road in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Three days after the invasion, the Sentinel buried an item on page 4: Hitchcock had read the paper's account of the invasion and planned to use it in his adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier \u003ca href=\"https://northviewulrich.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-birds-full-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">short story\u003c/a> \"The Birds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in fact, the Santa Cruz incident and Ward Russell's theory both made it into Hitchcock's \u003ca href=\"http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Scripts:_The_Birds_(final_draft,_2nd_rev,_02/Mar/1962)\" target=\"_blank\">final script\u003c/a>, set in Bodega Bay. In the film version of \"The Birds,\" Mitch Brenner, the character played by Rod Taylor, is trying to think of a way to drive away flocks of crows and gulls that have begun terrorizing the locals. Brenner has the following exchange with several other characters and a bird sympathizer identified only as Mrs. Bundy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mitch:\u003c/strong> Mrs. Bundy, you said something about Santa Cruz. About seagulls getting lost in the fog, and heading in for the lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deke:\u003c/strong> We don't have any fog this time of year, Mitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mitch:\u003c/strong> We'll make our own fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sholes:\u003c/strong> How do you plan to do that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mitch\u003c/strong>: With smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Malone:\u003c/strong> There's an ordinance against burning anything in this town, unless it's...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mitch:\u003c/strong> We'll use smoke pots. Like the Army uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deke:\u003c/strong> What good'll that do? Smoke's as bad as birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Bundy:\u003c/strong> Birds are not bad!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sholes:\u003c/strong> How can we go on living here if we blanket the town with smoke?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mitch:\u003c/strong> Can we go on living here otherwise?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For decades, there was no better explanation for the the 1961 Santa Cruz bird mystery than they'd gotten lost in the fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1991, a clue appeared. Hundreds of brown pelicans and cormorants were found sick or dead along the Monterey Bay shoreline. \u003ca href=\"http://www.jstor.org/stable/20460314?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\">Veterinary researchers\u003c/a> eliminated viruses, bacteria or heavy-metal poisoning as the cause, then determined the birds had suffered acute poisoning by domoic acid. The toxin was found both in anchovies the birds had fed on and in plankton the fish had consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz marine biologist David Garrison studied the 1991 incident and speculated several years later that domoic acid might have been responsible for the 1961 bird invasion. It wasn't until 2012, more than half a century after the episode, that researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography found direct evidence that the sooty shearwaters had indeed suffered domoic acid poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scripps scientists used an archive of biological samples from California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, a marine monitoring program in operation since 1949, to try to investigate the conditions the birds would have encountered in Monterey Bay in the summer of 1961. Specifically, the team was looking for samples that might show the presence of Pseudo-nitzschia, a genus of diatoms that includes species known to produce domoic acid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a summary of the research published in Nature Geoscience, the Scripps oceanographers reported that Monterey Bay zooplankton collected in 1961 showed high levels of the toxin-producing diatoms. Here's the mildly worded conclusion to the Scripps team's findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Given the similarities between events in 1961 and the domoic acid-induced poisoning of 1991, we suggest that toxic Pseudo-nitzschia were probably responsible for the odd behaviour and death of Sooty shearwaters in August 1961. This brief study therefore supports the contention that domoic acid caused the seabird frenzy ... and strongly suggests that domoic-acid-producing phytoplankton have been an agent of marine animal mortality in the California Current system for at least the past fifty years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OK -- maybe not quite \u003ca href=\"http://www.metv.com/shows/perry-mason\" target=\"_blank\">Perry Mason\u003c/a> stuff. But case closed.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Long before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/habs_toxins/marine_biotoxins/da/\" target=\"_blank\">domoic acid\u003c/a> ruined Northern California's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 Dungeness crab season\u003c/a>, it was responsible for a panic along the Santa Cruz County seashore, which in turn informed a classic piece of creepy California cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashback to August 1961: In Germany, an enduring symbol of the Cold War -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/places/berlin_wall\" target=\"_blank\">the Berlin Wall\u003c/a> -- is under construction. Barack Obama is born in Honolulu. No one but a handful of Japanese researchers has ever heard of domoic acid. And in beachside communities near Santa Cruz, birds are going nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Great Bird Frenzy took place early the morning of Friday, Aug. 18, 1961. Here's how longtime \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/zz/20120115/NEWS/120117661\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter and columnist Wally Trabing\u003c/a> described the scene that unfolded along the shoreline just east of Santa Cruz:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A massive flight of \u003ca href=\"http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/08-14/shearwaters.asp\" target=\"_blank\">sooty shearwaters\u003c/a>, fresh from a feast of anchovies, collided with shoreside structures from Pleasure Point to Rio del Mar during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents, especially in the Pleasure Point and Capitola area, were awakened about 3 a.m. today by the rain of birds slamming against their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads in the foggy, early dawn. Startled by the invasion, residents rushed out on their lawns with flashlights, then rushed back inside, as the birds flew toward their light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television aerial supports were severed, and one power line was shorted out about 4 a.m. on Merrill Avenue when the birds hitting the lines slapped them together.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10871218\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10871218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg\" alt=\"Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.'\" width=\"300\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.' \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, the Sentinel reported crews picking up truckloads of dead birds from streets and lawns in the area. For an explanation of the avian behavior, the paper turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b332g/\" target=\"_blank\">Ward Russell\u003c/a>, a specimen collector and preparator at UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. (Russell's \u003ca href=\"http://blogrr.blogspot.com/2009/06/meet-beetles.html\" target=\"_blank\">claim to fame\u003c/a>, it appears, is that he promoted the use of \u003ca href=\"http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/17/flesh-eating-beetles-explained/\" target=\"_blank\">flesh-eating beetles\u003c/a> -- or dermestid beetles -- to clean skeletons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Three days after the invasion, the Sentinel buried an item on page 4: Hitchcock had read the paper's account of the invasion and planned to use it in his adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier \u003ca href=\"https://northviewulrich.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-birds-full-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">short story\u003c/a> \"The Birds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in fact, the Santa Cruz incident and Ward Russell's theory both made it into Hitchcock's \u003ca href=\"http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Scripts:_The_Birds_(final_draft,_2nd_rev,_02/Mar/1962)\" target=\"_blank\">final script\u003c/a>, set in Bodega Bay. In the film version of \"The Birds,\" Mitch Brenner, the character played by Rod Taylor, is trying to think of a way to drive away flocks of crows and gulls that have begun terrorizing the locals. 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At an altitude above 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the Earth below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of development, Virgin Galactic appeared to be nearing the goal of turning ordinary civilians into astronauts when the first \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/31/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-destroyed-in-test-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceShipTwo broke apart\u003c/a> on Oct. 31, 2014, during its fourth rocket-powered flight. 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He said engineers, astronauts and members of the public helped convince him that space travel is too important to give up on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash investigation found that co-pilot Michael Alsbury prematurely unlocked the so-called feathering system that is intended to slow and stabilize the craft as it re-enters the atmosphere. Alsbury was killed, but pilot Peter Siebold, although seriously injured, parachuted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “feathers” — a term derived from the design of a badminton shuttlecock — are tail structures that extend rearward from each wingtip. They are designed to swivel upward at an angle to create drag as the spacecraft reaches its apogee, preventing a buildup of speed and heat as the craft descends. The feathers then rotate back down to normal flying position as the craft enters the lower atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/29/427473040/spaceship-2-pilot-was-thrown-from-the-vehicle-high-in-atmosphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A National Transportation Safety Board investigation found\u003c/a> that Scaled Composites, a company that was developing SpaceShipTwo with Virgin Galactic and was responsible for its test program, should have had systems to compensate for human error. 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"content": "\u003cp>The state Department of Fish and Wildlife decided on Wednesday to keep the commercial Dungeness season closed until all or part of the coast is clear of the deadly toxin that has been found in some of the crabs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish and Wildlife Director Charlton Bonham said fears of customers being poisoned by domoic acid outweighed the economic damage to the crabbing industry. Bonham said the decision will be reconsidered if state health officials determine that the toxin danger has ended either statewide or south of the Mendocino-Sonoma county line. Concerns over domoic acid -- a dangerous neurotoxin that can cause seizures or even death -- have so far delayed the season for over three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Health \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/12/state-allows-a-partial-opening-for-dungeness-crab-harvest\" target=\"_blank\">announced last week\u003c/a> that recreational fishing for Dungeness crabs was permitted south of Point Reyes. But they advised that diners should remove the guts and cook the crabs by steaming or boiling them and then discard the water used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247884601\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By this point in the season, Don Marshall would have pulled up around $140,000 worth of Dungeness crab. He spends more than half that amount on his business costs alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshall is trying to pay his bills by selling fish off his boat in Half Moon Bay. This catch brings in only 3 to 4 percent of what he usually makes from crab. He has had to take on additional jobs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked at a Christmas tree lot for three weeks right before Christmas. When that was done I was kind of thinking crab season would open. Then a few weeks went by and I’ve been doing construction work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871025\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10871025 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-800x1064.jpg\" alt=\"Don Marshall has been selling fish off his boat in Half Moon Bay to make ends meet. These fish only bring him 3 to 4 percent of what he usually makes on crab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1064\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-400x532.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-1180x1570.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-960x1277.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Marshall has been selling fish off his boat in Half Moon Bay to make ends meet. These fish bring him only 3 to 4 percent of what he usually makes on crab. \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal Disaster Funds Could Provide Relief\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dungeness crab fishing is a $60 million industry in California. Commercial fishermen make the bulk of their profits between November and January. This year, the state never opened the fishery in November, and that $60 million figure has sunk to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Brown administration sent a letter to the U.S. secretary of Commerce asking for a federal disaster declaration. That would make fishermen eligible for relief funds they do not have to pay back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire is the chair of California’s commission on fisheries and aquaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to declare an official disaster of the California crab harvest and advance this petition,” he said, arguing that the secretary of Commerce needs to declare a federal fishery disaster as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before a disaster can be declared, a team from the National Marine Fisheries Services (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Fisheries\u003c/a>) will need to investigate the extent of the losses. Their recommendation will then go back to the secretary of Commerce, who ultimately decides. In the meantime, California fishermen are suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are hearing devastating stories from across the state of crab fishermen unable to make their boat payments.” McGuire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"Unused crab fishing pots sit at Half Moon Bay harbor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-960x666.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unused crab fishing pots sit at Half Moon Bay harbor. \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fishermen Struggle to Stay in Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last time a fisheries disaster was declared, it was salmon. It took fishermen up to two years to receive any federal money. Marshall thinks he can hold out this year, but he worries that other fishermen won’t be able to. Fewer local fishermen could mean more imported Dungeness in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For consumers, it means less fresh product and less sustainably fished product, because we are highly regulated. On top of that they can look at higher prices.” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Hesitant to Eat California Crab\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer confidence is also at stake this year. Even when crab is in the stores it may take a while before people think it's safe to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at Phil’s Fish Market in Moss Landing, manager Francisco Santoyo says he is not sure if people will buy California Dungeness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually going to have two different kinds of crab. A crab locally caught and one from Washington or Oregon. 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These fish only bring him 3 to 4 percent of what he usually makes on crab.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1064\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-400x532.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-1180x1570.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/MarshallIce-960x1277.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Marshall has been selling fish off his boat in Half Moon Bay to make ends meet. These fish bring him only 3 to 4 percent of what he usually makes on crab. \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federal Disaster Funds Could Provide Relief\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dungeness crab fishing is a $60 million industry in California. Commercial fishermen make the bulk of their profits between November and January. This year, the state never opened the fishery in November, and that $60 million figure has sunk to almost nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Brown administration sent a letter to the U.S. secretary of Commerce asking for a federal disaster declaration. That would make fishermen eligible for relief funds they do not have to pay back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Mike McGuire is the chair of California’s commission on fisheries and aquaculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to declare an official disaster of the California crab harvest and advance this petition,” he said, arguing that the secretary of Commerce needs to declare a federal fishery disaster as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before a disaster can be declared, a team from the National Marine Fisheries Services (\u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">NOAA Fisheries\u003c/a>) will need to investigate the extent of the losses. Their recommendation will then go back to the secretary of Commerce, who ultimately decides. In the meantime, California fishermen are suffering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are hearing devastating stories from across the state of crab fishermen unable to make their boat payments.” McGuire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10871091\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"Unused crab fishing pots sit at Half Moon Bay harbor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/UnusedPots-960x666.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unused crab fishing pots sit at Half Moon Bay harbor. \u003ccite>(Adia White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fishermen Struggle to Stay in Business\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last time a fisheries disaster was declared, it was salmon. It took fishermen up to two years to receive any federal money. Marshall thinks he can hold out this year, but he worries that other fishermen won’t be able to. Fewer local fishermen could mean more imported Dungeness in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For consumers, it means less fresh product and less sustainably fished product, because we are highly regulated. On top of that they can look at higher prices.” Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Hesitant to Eat California Crab\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer confidence is also at stake this year. Even when crab is in the stores it may take a while before people think it's safe to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down at Phil’s Fish Market in Moss Landing, manager Francisco Santoyo says he is not sure if people will buy California Dungeness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re actually going to have two different kinds of crab. A crab locally caught and one from Washington or Oregon. 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