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Saying that a Texas law barring same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and demeans the dignity of homosexuals, a federal judge struck down the law Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia doesn't mean gay marriages can be held in Texas, however; he placed a stay on the decision, anticipating an appeal by the state.
The issue is widely expected to be settled eventually by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Dallas Morning News reports Garcia has "acknowledged that his ruling would be far from the final say on the matter. He predicted the case, or one of 22 similar ones in other states, 'will make its way to the Supreme Court.' "
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" 'Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution,' Garcia wrote in his decision. 'These Texas laws deny Plaintiffs access to the institution of marriage and its numerous rights, privileges, and responsibilities for the sole reason that Plaintiffs wish to be married to a person of the same sex.' "
Garcia ruled in a case that was brought by four plaintiffs including Victor Holmes and Mark Phariss, who say that the ban on gay marriage, which Texas enacted in 2005, infringes on their rights.
"We are extremely happy — happy beyond words — with Judge Garcia's decision. Having been together almost 17 years, we look forward to the day when we can get married and when all gay Texans enjoy equal rights to marry as well," Phariss and Holmes said in a press release today, according to San Antonio's KENS 5 TV.
"Today, Judge Garcia affirmed that the Equal Protection Clause applies to all Texans. We are delighted by that decision, and we expect that, if appealed, it will be upheld."
State Attorney General Greg Abbott has said he will defend the ban in court.
Update at 3:50 p.m. ET: Gov. Perry Responds
In a statement issued after today's ruling, Gov. Rick Perry had this to say:
"Texans spoke loud and clear by overwhelmingly voting to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman in our Constitution, and it is not the role of the federal government to overturn the will of our citizens. The 10th Amendment guarantees Texas voters the freedom to make these decisions, and this is yet another attempt to achieve via the courts what couldn't be achieved at the ballot box. We will continue to fight for the rights of Texans to self-determine the laws of our state."
Thanks to NPR's Southern Bureau Chief Russell Lewis for passing along that info.
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There were 3.6 million jobs open and ready to be filled in May if the right candidates came along, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning.
That was up from 3.4 million in April, was the second-most for any month so far this year and was up 16 percent from the 3.1 million in May 2011.
But we also know that employers only increased the number of people on their payrolls by 77,000 in May (and an estimated 80,000 in June). And we know that the unemployment rate has been stuck above 8 percent since February 2009.
It would be unrealistic to expect that every job would suddenly get filled. And in a dynamic economy, jobs are always opening up and vacancies are being created.
But why is there such a huge gap between the number of new positions being filled and the number of openings that businesses say they have?
As NPR's Marilyn Geewax wrote for us last month, one theory is that too many employers are being way too picky — they're looking for the "perfect" candidates when there are many well-qualified people seeking work who might be just what's needed if given a little training.
There's also a case to be made that while many employers say they have openings they want to fill, they're really not all that keen to hire until they see the economy pick up some steam. Of course, in order for the economy to gain strength there needs to be some job growth. So their reluctance could just be prolonging the problem.
Politicians, as always, are pointing fingers at each other.
The good news in the new figures, according to The Associated Press, is this: "A rise in openings could mean hiring will pick up in the coming months. It typically takes one to three months to fill a job."
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What Were the Most Popular Baby Names in 2013?
Picking a name for a baby can be tough, so maybe this study will help.
According to BabyCenter, Aiden has been bumped from the top spot after an eight-year reign as the most popular baby name for boys. Jackson is now the king of boy monikers, while Aiden tumbled to second place.
Sophia remained at number one among girls for the fourth year running.
The list is created thanks to half a million parents who shared their babies' names in 2013. In the interest causing less confusion, the " list combines names that sound the same but have multiple spellings (like Sophia and Sofia; Jackson, Jaxon, and Jaxson)."
Some trends to note in 2013:
- Miley jumped 16 spots among girls.
- George rose 37% for girls and 10% for boys, thanks mainly to the birth of Prince George in the UK.
- Could this be the 'Duck Dynasty' effect? Korie rocketed up 13,262 places.
- Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may have gone out of the box to name their daughter North, but it sure didn't catch on. There was not one parent who chose that name.
- Kennedy was up at least 20% for boys (25%) and girls (21%), while Abraham (20%) and Lincoln (11%) also saw an increase.
- The president and first lady may not be winning fans among constituents, but their names are beloved. Barack soared 48% among boys, while Michelle moved up 13%.
- Aria bounced up 36 places to number 27 to enjoy the biggest increase for girls in the top 100, while Oliver zoomed a dozen spots at number 21 to be the biggest climber in the boys camp in the top 100.
- Peyton was the big loser for girls in the top 100, slipping 31 places to 59. Austin fell 17 places to 73 for the biggest drop among boys in the top 100.
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"Anybody that knows me knows that I'm very, very serious about my job and I dedicate myself very much. But I'm at the point in my athletic career where I can relax in the face of competition, and that speaks volumes about where I've been and what I expect from myself and the way I handle stress."
Don't worry, Matt Mitrione isn't getting misty. He isn't missing his former job as an NFL lineman with the conference championship games coming up this weekend, and in fact, he needed to be told a couple of days after the fact that his former team, the New York Giants, had been eliminated from making the playoffs.
Out of the NFL? He's cool with it.
"I'm good with being out of the NFL," said Mitrione. "As a matter of fact I actually haven't paid too much attention to it lately. I'm far removed brother."
It's not what you think you would hear from an athlete who has made it to the pinnacle of his sport only to see injuries take a toll and eventually shorten his career. But Mitrione is honest in his assessment of the end of his football life.
"In 2005, I thought that I still had a year or two to make an impact and make a team better," said the former defensive tackle who ended his career with the Minnesota Vikings. "When I got brought back in 2008 (for the All American Football League), I sucked. But in that same breath, I sucked because I was at a desk job driving 4,000 miles a month. I wasn't prepared to go back in, but it showed me that it was time to give it up."
In 2008, Mitrione was drafted to play in the aforementioned AAFL, a startup that suspended its inaugural season the day players were supposed to report for training camp (the league has yet to play a game but has announced that they will kick off in the spring of 2011), and the dream was over. Or so he thought.
"I started running a gym and by the time I started running a gym, that's when I started fighting, so it all worked out really well together," said Mitrione, who was able to nab a spot on season ten of The Ultimate Fighter and eventually work his way into the UFC. For the Illinois native, it's been a whirlwind ride since then, and if you see him with a smile on his face all the time, now you know why.
"I actually get criticized at times because people say I look like I'm having too much fun, so they think I'm not taking my job as seriously as I need to, which I find hysterical," he said. "Anybody that knows me knows that I'm very, very serious about my job and I dedicate myself very much. But I'm at the point in my athletic career where I can relax in the face of competition, and that speaks volumes about where I've been and what I expect from myself and the way I handle stress. I love my job."
"I know what it's like to have a job and a paycheck that you just hate earning," he continues. "This right here, I can get kicked in the mouth, shatter my jaw, but I would be happier feeling that kind of pain to let me know I'm alive still, versus earning a six figure paycheck pushing a bunch of paper and being on the phone negotiating with an underwriter. That would drive me nuts. So I'm grateful that the UFC has given me a chance and that Spike TV took a chance on me in the first place."
Getting a chance and making the most of it are two different things though, and Mitrione has turned a long shot into a promising fight career, complete with three wins, two knockouts, and a Fight of the Night bonus. Not bad for a green 32-year old novice to the world of mixed martial arts. But as Mitrione stated himself, when you enjoy what you're doing, the daily grind in the gym isn't necessarily a grind, and he looks at each day as an opportunity to add more weapons to his MMA arsenal.
"I really enjoy the mixed martial arts form, learning wrestling, learning positions and techniques and where not to put your foot because this is at the wrong angle, and all those variations," he said. "I enjoy that, and as far as jiu-jitsu goes, I like the angles, the sweeps, the positioning, top control, and all that stuff, so it's not pressure to learn it and to be good at it. It's fun to learn it and try to become an expert at it."
When you add those new tools to the punching power that knocked out Marcus Jones and Kimbo Slice and rocked the seemingly unrockable Joey Beltran, Mitrione is picking up the hardest game at an astounding rate of speed. But it's not all athleticism that's getting the job done for the heavyweight prospect; he's putting the work in and making the necessary sacrifices, and as he points out, being an MMA fighter can be a lot different than being an NFL player.
"It's different in a lot of ways," he said. "It's different because you don't have somebody standing over you, making you get up, making you get out of bed, fining you money if you're late, so it's a very independent grind as far as MMA goes. In that same breath, you've got to be a very self-motivated person in order to be an MMA fighter because you have to push yourself to go to the gym on cold days, days you don't want to do it, days you're already tired. But other than having to be a self-starter and a self-motivator, the amount of work and effort you have to put forth is very similar. It's different types of training obviously, but the muscle soreness, the achy joints, and the fatigue is very similar."
Yet as the training camps pile up, Mitrione is starting to not just act, but react, making it clear that his education as a fighter is starting to stick.
"My last fight, I felt that," he said. "Halfway through the second round and in the third round, it was just automatic. My spacing, everything I wanted to do was exactly the way I wanted to do it, and I never had to think about it. I'm starting to get there, but I can't put the cart ahead of the horse because this is only going to be my fourth pro fight. I've got to keep myself as honest as possible and self-critique as honest as possible because this is only where I'm at, and the fact that I've been lucky so far, don't count that as me being good; count that as me being new and people couldn't critique my style as much."
At this level of the game, there's no such thing as luck, though you can appreciate Mitrione's self-effacing assessment of his fight game, which will be tested again this Saturday night as he looks to make it four in a row against Canada's Tim Hague. It's another high-profile bout for the Indiana resident, but being in the spotlight isn't about to get old for him, especially when he has a hungry opponent in front of him looking to put a "1" in his loss column.
"He (Hague) is a guy that's much better than his UFC record," said Mitrione. "He's an all-around tough kid, he loves the grind, he's got a good chin, and everybody's got that one fight where he gets his ass kicked or gets knocked out, so I don't think it's right to judge him on that Todd Duffee fight (where Hague got stopped in the first round). He's a good fighter, and ideally against me, he's gonna want to rush me and get me down on the ground, because I don't think there's any chance that he wants to stand with me. He might be able to take my punches, but I don't think he'll be able to stay with me as an athlete and I think I'll confuse him with my footwork and my head movement and the angles where my hands are coming from. So I think he's gonna try to get me to the ground and maul me there. He's capable of doing that because he's such a big body, but I think he knows that this is gonna be his last chance in the UFC, so I expect the fight of Tim's life. I understand that and I'm preparing for that."
Forget football, this is Mitrione's Super Bowl.
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84-Year-Old Winner of $590 Million Powerball Lottery Finally Claims Prize
The winner of the largest Powerball prize ever, $590 million, is Gloria C. Mackenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, Florida. Lottery officials made the announcement in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Mackenzie opted not to attend the news conference, but issued a statement that revealed that on May 18 another customer at the Publix Supermarket in Zephyrhills, where she bought the ticket, let her jump ahead in line to make the purchase. From the statement:
We bought the winning ticket as a single ticket, even though we bought four other tickets before the drawing. While in line at Publix another lottery player was kind enough to let me go ahead of them in line to purchase the winning Quick Pick ticket. ... We are grateful for this blessing of winning the Florida jackpot. ... We hope that everyone will give us an opportunity to maintain our privacy for our family's benefit.
Mackenzie has opted to take a lump sum payment of $370 million (before taxes), rather than receiving $19 million for each of the next 30 years.
Florida Lottery Secretary Cynthia O'Connell was asked why it took two weeks for the winner to come forward. She explained that Mackenzie took the time to meet with financial advisers. "This is a very large amount of money, it changes your life," O'Connell said. "I believe [Mackenzie wanted] to make sure that they were ready to handle the responsibilities that come with that kind of a jackpot win."


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When I was in Little India (Toronto) picking up the alphonso mangoes at an Indian grocery store I took the opportunity to look for some paneer which I had been unable to find anywhere else. I was in luck as I found some bricks of the harder paneer and I picked some up right away. Over the last while I have been building a small list of recipes that I want to try that include paneer but since I had never been able to find any it just kept growing. The first recipe on my list was a butter paneer masala. The basics of a butter paneer masala seemed to be cubes of paneer that are fried in ghee until golden brown in an onion and tomato gravy with spices and ground cashews that is finished with butter and cream. One of the spices in this dish was garam masala which gave me the chance to use some of the garam masala that I had made a while ago. I decided to try to keep the dish a bit lighter and reduce the amount of butter and I replaced the cream with yogurt.
Many of the recipes that I found for the butter paneer masala called for soaking the paneer in water and I was not sure why until I had finished frying the paneer. The paneer was pretty hard after being fried and soaking it in the water softened it up a bit before adding it to the gravy. Needless to say, I tried some of the paneer before adding it to the gravy to see what it was like and it was just like a firm cheese with a crumbly texture on the inside. The paneer was pretty bland and flavourless but that was ok because it readily soaked up the flavours of the sauce that it was cooked in. The butter paneer masala was pretty straight forward and easy to make and it turned out really well. The onion and tomato gravy with cashews was nice and tasty and creamy with a hint of buttery. The paneer had a texture that I enjoyed and it had soaked up all of the tasty flavour from the sauce. I can't wait to use paneer again and now that I have more of an idea of what paneer is supposed to be I will have to try making my own.
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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 cups paneer (cut into bite sized cubes)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 onion (pureed)
- 1 teaspoon garlic (grated)
- 1 teaspoon ginger (grated)
- 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- 3 tablespoons cashews (ground)
- 1 cup tomato (pureed)
- 1 teaspoon coriander (ground)
- 3/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons yogurt
- cilantro (chopped)
- Melt the butter in a pan.
- Add the paneer and fry until golden brown on all sides.
- Let the paneer soak in warm water for 30 minutes.
- Melt the butter in a pan.
- Add the onion and saute until brown.
- Add the garlic and ginger and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the chili powder, cashews, tomatoes, coriander, turmeric and garam masala and simmer for 5 minutes.
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Goat Cheese Custards With Figs & Balsamic Syrup
I love Saturdays around here. Right now. In the blistering hot summer days of the Lowcountry. Oh yes…I do love our Saturdays. We literally jump out of bed and head out for the farmers market first thing in the morning. Some times we are a bit more tired than others (depending on the festivities of the night before), and can't decide whether we are ready for breakfast or brunch. But that's ok. It's summer. Bountiful. The choices are enough to make our head spin.
Simplicity is key: we nibble on radishes dipped in a bit of salt, some tomatoes rubbed on thick pieces of bread. A handful of warm olives and soft boiled eggs. Big chunks of watermelon just as juicy as the sun ripened peaches we get every week. Promises of grilled corn and freshly caught fish for dinner. It's easy to forget the heat in those instances. We did just that the other day as soon as we felt a breeze coming in. A sure sign of a storm later on in the afternoon.
We snacked on fresh figs and fresh goat cheese, fresh eggs scrambled with some chives from the garden and big mugs of coffee. Our pups decided to have a barking session with the neighbors' pets, cats included and within minutes we were down by the marsh making afternoon boating and late dinner plans with them. I really love where we live. So easy going and laid back. Reminds me a lot of summers back home.
The sound of doors swinging open and kids running out. Free. Loud. My mom's tabouli salad with tons of mint, oilve oil and lemon juice. I felt my heart nagging at me when I called home the other day and my brother was heading to the chalet where we'd spend our summers. I could taste the camp fires, the dives in the river and the hikes up our favorite trails. Filled me with serenity and the strong desire to keep on building my own new memories and trails here. Miles and years away.
I find it a bit harder here where people are constantly on the move but it seems that our street has finally found stability again. The group has changed a bit and that's a good thing. New faces, new stories, new opinions. Same kindness and desire to share which fits right in with the old team. So you see, it's not unusual to wave people over for a nibble and to have them stay the day.
When that happens I like to have something easy to whip up and serve for dinner and one of the recipes that often comes to my mind is custard. Creme brulee, creme caramels, pots de creme…things like that. This time though I went and dug out one of my all time favorite cookbook for a something new: Sweet Seasons by Richard Leach.
Seasons oriented cookbooks are not "news" but his book is the first one that stuck such a strong cord with me. A perfect mix of simple flavors and recipes with more high end ones. No matter which core recipe you settle for, you can pick one, more or none of the elements around it. This is the only cookbook that I have used from page one til the end. There is absolutely zero flaw in the recipes, explanations and techniques.
I had ear marked Chef Leach's recipe for Mascarpone and Goat Cheese Custard with Fresh Berries moons ago and you guessed it, never got around to make it until this past Saturday. We were nibbling on goat cheese and fresh figs when the proverbial light bulb came upon me and I remembered the recipe in Sweet Seasons, promptly removed the goat cheese plate from under B.'s nose and headed to the kitchen.
A friend in town put the bug in my ear one day about figs and balsamic when she was describing tart flavors she was putting together. I could not wait to get more figs at the market to pair them with a sweet balsamic reduction. Let me tell you…the combination with the goat cheese custards was perfect. A little sweet, a little tart, a little tangy. I made eight. I served six. Yep. We just could not wait…
Goat Cheese Custards With Figs & Balsamic Syrup, (custard recipe adapted from Sweet Seasons by Richard Leach).
Makes 8
The custards are a breeze to prepare and you could substitute cream cheese instead of mascarpone if you needed to.
These are best prepared a couple of hours in advance and can be kept in the fridge for up to 3 days.
For the custards:
3/4 cup mascarpone cheese
3/4 cup ricotta cheese
3/4 cup fresh goat cheese
1/3 cup honey
zest of one lemon
2 large eggs
1 large egg white
3/4 cup heavy cream
pate brisee or gluten free tart dough.
2 cups fresh figs (depending on the size you might have to quarter them)
Preheat the oven to 300F.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the cheeses, honey and lemon zest until smooth. Add the eggs, egg white and heavy cream and whisk until smooth. This is best done by hand so you don't incorporate too much air in the batter which would make your custard rise, fall and crack.
Roll the pastry dough to about 1/8 – inch thick and cut eight 3.5-inch disks from it. Place the 8 disks on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Gently indedt a 3-inch metal ring into each disk but without cutting through.
This will form a seal between the baking sheet and the custard and provide a bit of a crunch when you eat the custards. If this step is too time consuming, simply bake the custards in ramekins.
Bake the disks with the rings for about 20 minutes and allow to cool before filling.
Lower the oven temperature to 250F.
Fill the rings to about 3/4 full with the cheese custard and bake for about 30 minutes or until the filling seems set (should not wiggle anymore). Let cool and run a knife inside the rings to release the custards. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
For the balsamic syrup:
1 cup balsamic vinegar
1/3 cup honey
Put the vinegar and honey in a medium, heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to a strong simmer over high heat. Turn the heat down to medium and let the vinegar reduce by half or until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Keep warm.
To serve, place cut figs (either halved or quartered depending on the size) and drizzle with balsamic syrup.
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But in Florida, there's a python problem. Experts estimate there could be as many as 150,000 invasive Burmese pythons living in the Everglades. And with has no natural predators in region, pythons present a tricky problem for the native ecosystem. To confront the issue, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has issued a challenge to licensed hunters and the general public; harvest as many pythons as possible between now and February 10th, and claim thousands of dollars in cash prices. Approximately 800 competitors have registered for Florida's first ever Python Challenge. So we want to hit your big fish stories today - not about fish, but about snakes. Have you had a memorable encounter with a big snake in the wild? Give us a call at 800-989-8255. Our email address is email@example.com, or you can join the conversation at our website, it's npr.org and then click on TALK OF THE NATION.
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DR. FRANK MAZZOTTI: Good afternoon, Celeste. How are you today?
HEADLEE: I'm doing well. Thanks. Better than the Everglades, I guess. The hunt has actually taking place miles from where you are. For those of us who have never been to the Everglades, perhaps, or have never seen a python, certainly up close, paint a picture of this for us. Are there python all over the place?
MAZZOTTI: The pythons are definitely concentrated in certain locations in the Everglades, but they are fairly widespread. They go as far north for example as the boundary between Broward and Palm Beach Counties. As far west as to Naples and a few have been headed - heading south towards the Keys.
HEADLEE: Meaning, that if I were driving through the Everglades and got out of my car and started walking, I might come up and meet a Burmese python.
MAZZOTTI: That, well, that is certainly something that could happen. It is very, very, very unlikely.
HEADLEE: Okay. Thank goodness.
MAZZOTTI: We spend a lot of time looking for pythons and we don't see them most of the time when we're out.
HEADLEE: So how dangerous an animal are Burmese pythons?
MAZZOTTI: In the wild, simply because of their - of the very low encounter rates with humans, they pose very little danger.
HEADLEE: But the problem is that they're an invasive species, right?
MAZZOTTI: But the problem is that they're an invasive species, and the danger that they cause is really to the ecosystem. And they're a top predator and, you know, so much has spoken about the importance of top predators in nature shows and their role. Well, this isn't top predator, it's like an invader who is coming to a system that completely lacks defenses against it. And so we have very much serious concerns about the potential of that Burmese pythons, and indeed other invasive species, might be causing in the Florida ecosystem.
HEADLEE: Where are they coming from? Where did they start? Was this just somebody who bought a Burmese python as a pet and let it go?
MAZZOTTI: What is fair to say is that the Burmese pythons and many of the invasive species today have their origin in the pet tree. Now, that said, it's not like there's a hoard of people running out into the Everglades letting animals go. In this case, it could've been maybe as few as one or two animals let go in the early 1980s. If a female has mated and has sperm, she can store her sperm and lay eggs for a number of years. It would not have taken a lot of animals to cause this problem. It could perhaps have been aided by animals that were released by Hurricane Andrew. A lot of that we don't know. But what we do know is that the origin of this and other invasive species in Florida has come from the pet trade.
HEADLEE: Well, let's take a call here because we're asking for, well, in this case not big fish but big snake stories. And we have a call here from Holt, Florida. If I know my geography of Florida, that seems farther north than what Frank Mazzotti was talking about. You have a snake story for us?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Hi. Yes. It actually goes into just over the line into Alabama. But a couple of years ago, my brother-in-law and sister who lived just over the line between Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, and not too far from Interstate 10 where there's a very large, well-used truck stop, big production, and when he was traveling home on the side of the road of the interstate, I-10, was a very large dead python. And perhaps they can easily climb up into some of the big rigs and travel. So you know, we're pretty far north.
HEADLEE: That is very far north. Well, let me take that to our python expert here, Frank Mazzotti. How far can a python travel?
MAZZOTTI: I have to answer - let me answer that in kind of three ways. First of all, if you were to Google released pythons, you would find that there's a number of locations in the United States, even considerably farther north than Alabama, where people have found pythons that had been released into the wild. They get to be quite large. They're very much kind of a Houdini escape master. And so pythons showing up in unusual places doesn't necessarily mean that, you know, it hopped on a vehicle or travel from South Florida. Now, that said, there has been a few instances where pythons and also boa constrictors have been found in, I guess I'd say close association with automobiles. And, again...
MAZZOTTI: ...I'll bet you could find some of these on YouTube, you know, people extracting a boa constrictor from a car. So you know, that's not - that's also not an impossible scenario.
HEADLEE: Well, let me test out this email that we just got from Roy in Tucson, Arizona. He says he's a retired National Park Service employee. Let me read this to you, Frank. Roy says: I recently retired from a 32-year career with the National Park Service. Many national parks have serious problems with invasive species but few are as serious as the problems of pythons in the Everglades. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission does not have jurisdictions in national parks. But it would not be unprecedented for the National Park Service to undertake a program of exterminating an invasive species. In this case the problem is so serious that there is no way park staff could make a dent in it without the assistance of a huge contingent of trained volunteers. Your response to that?
MAZZOTTI: The park service is definitely cooperating with the Python Challenge. Now, and there are people who are permitted to catch pythons in the park, and they've all been encouraged to catch pythons in the park. And I hope they do. I think that in this instance, the caveat is that you can't benefit financially from pythons caught in the park. So if you do catch a - say, for example, the largest python in Everglades National Park, you couldn't win the award.
HEADLEE: Oh, I see, I see.
MAZZOTTI: But that doesn't mean that people can't hunt, the people who have permits, and a number of people do. It's the same as in the python - there's two categories in the commissioned python hunt. One for general hunters and one per permittees.
HEADLEE: Yeah. OK. I get it.
MAZZOTTI: And so there - no, there are people who are definitely encouraged to hunt for pythons in the park.
HEADLEE: All right. We...
MAZZOTTI: It's just not open to general hunting.
HEADLEE: We have this email from Lisa in Florida: I lived in South Florida, commuted to the Florida Keys daily. It was very common to see these large pythons basking on the side of the road. They looked more like speed bumps than snakes. I once saw one that reached from broken centerline to broken centerline along the middle of the road, and it was not even stretched out.
And then we have this call here. We're asking for big snake stories, and we have a call here from Zack in Iowa City. Zack, our snake story.
ZACK: Hello. We have a fun story in our family. My wife, who is working on and has been working for a long time, a pretty strong snake phobia, she went to the Naval Academy. And her - the story she tells is that she was on a training mission where she had to - she and her company had to sneak up on another position and they had to be absolutely silent. They were in the woods, I believe in Virginia. And she heard the wriggling though the underbrush and tried to be as quiet as possible. And the way she tells it, a wrist or arm-size snake fell down out of the trees, and it was in the process of trying to wrap up a squirrel. And she said it was close enough. She could have reach out and touch it, and so naturally she had to...
HEADLEE: She screamed.
ZACK: It was a challenge to not make any noise in that situation.
HEADLEE: I can imagine. That's Zack - oops, I accidentally cut - I accidentally hung up on you, Zack. I didn't mean to do that. Thank you much - so much for calling in. Well, let me go back to you, Frank Mazzotti, because one of the benefits for somebody like you, who is a professor of wildlife ecology, is that people through this Python Challenge are bringing in specimens for you to see exactly what the pythons are doing in Florida, right? What are you seeing?
MAZZOTTI: So far we're all - you know, of course, one day in for the hunt. We have personally received seven snakes and we have two more on the way into the lab. The snakes ranged in size from six to nine feet. And they came from a variety of locations in South Florida. So the hunt has gotten off to a successful start. No non-native - no native species were brought in.
Everything they brought in was a Burmese python. And the other thing that we're seeing is that people are doing a very clean job of euthanizing the snakes. People were concerned about what might happen, and we're seeing that everybody is absolutely following the guideline for how to do that properly.
HEADLEE: Let me ask you: If I am in Florida and I come up against a Burmese python, what do I do?
MAZZOTTI: You get on your phone - you take a picture of it, you get on your phone, you call 1-800-IVE-GOT1 and you send them a picture, and somebody that knows what to do comes out.
HEADLEE: Am I doing this while I'm running? Or what am I doing...
HEADLEE: Do I - it's safe to run away from it? I mean...
MAZZOTTI: Oh, it's safe to run away from it. I mean, don't, you know...
HEADLEE: Because I will run.
MAZZOTTI: I'm sure you're not asking me if you should catch it. The answer to that is no. You don't - it's not going to chase you. It's really not interested in you. In most instances, if you do see one, it's either going to run away from you or it's just going to sit where it is. And if it does, again, please take a picture of it and send it to us so that we can send somebody out there that knows what they're doing it.
HEADLEE: All right. Let's take another phone call here because we're asking for big snake stories, and you can call in as well at 800-989-8255. Dan in Rochester, New York, you have a snake story?
DAN: Oh, yes, I do. I do. How are you doing? I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines back in '99, and I was on an island called Apo, which is a very beautiful coral atoll island. And it was my first day as a volunteer on the site. And I swam out in the bay and I was doing a back float, looking up in the beautiful blue sky, and all of a sudden this huge water snake just went across my chest. And it was instantaneous and maybe, I'm guessing, five feet.
But it frightened me, and I swam back as fast as I could to the beach. And there was a local man there and I told him what happened, and he said, oh, that's bad luck. And about three months after that, it was because I had to come home on an emergency leave and I never made it back.
HEADLEE: Oh, that may not have been the fault of the snake.
Thanks so much. That's Dan in Rochester, New York. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And with us is the croc doc, I guess, is your unofficial title - Frank Mazzotti, professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida. You know, I can't imagine that the - with 150,000 of these estimated Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades, no matter how many the Python Challenge brings in, it's just a drop in the bucket, right? Is there another - what are the other strategies you have for controlling this invasive population?
MAZZOTTI: It's hard to say that we don't have, there doesn't exist a single or silver bullet. What we're hoping out of the Python Challenge in particular is that, you know, we can - one of the questions we'd like to answer is if we incentivize people to hunt snakes, will they remove more snakes? One of the things we know, most of the snakes now are caught by people who like to and know how to catch snakes. I mean, you know, that might seem strange to some people, but there's people that like to do that.
If there's some way we can give them incentives to spend more time hunting, are they going to catch more snakes? And then if we add that to other things, like we have developed a python trap, it has some uses. Dogs have been evaluated for their effectiveness by Auburn University and the park service.
HEADLEE: Haven't pythons been eating some of the dogs in Florida?
MAZZOTTI: Well, pythons have been eating a variety of things. We have - I don't think we have found a dog inside a stomach of a python yet.
We have found a domestic cat. We have found chickens. But by far and away, most of what we find in the stomachs of pythons are wild animals - you know, wading birds. We have found a bobcat. We have found a deer in the stomach of pythons. So we are finding a variety of native prey in their stomach.
HEADLEE: Well, Wendy wants to ask - wants to make sure that you're teaching people how to tell a medium-sized python from the large native snakes, how to identify them.
MAZZOTTI: We are. We have training online to do that. We conducted training at the opening. The Nature Conservancy has really been helping the Fish and Wildlife Commission and helping us with that. We think that's absolutely a very reasonable concern that people have and one that we're addressing. And we're also keeping track of what people bring in at the check station.
HEADLEE: Yeah.
MAZZOTTI: So if people are making mistakes, you know, we're going to be honest about it and tell that.
HEADLEE: All right. It's probably not fair to have you answer this question with only one minute to go, Frank, but Dan in Shawnee, Kansas says: Don't forget pythons are just one of hundreds of species introduced in the U.S. House cats also introduced by the pets trade are far more dangerous to native ecosystems. Why no house cat challenge?
MAZZOTTI: There are different strategies for different species. I'll say several things. There are challenges for different species. My answer to you is: Why doesn't the media cover them? And also within my lab we are working on a feral cat project. We do recognize what a problem it is, and we are trying to deal with it.
HEADLEE: Besides just telling people to keep the cats inside, right?
MAZZOTTI: Oh, that's - that is truly the number one thing to do.
HEADLEE: All right. Frank, last question for you. How many pythons would it be to be a banner take? What's your pie-in-the-sky goal?
MAZZOTTI: My pie-in-the-sky goal is 1,000 people about have registered. If one in 10 catches a snake, we get 100 snakes out of this, I'm going to extremely satisfied.
HEADLEE: OK. That's Frank Mazzotti, professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Florida. He joined us today from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He's observing the 2013 Python Challenge. Thanks so much for your time, Frank.
MAZZOTTI: Thank you.
HEADLEE: Tomorrow we will mark 125 years of exploration with National Geographic. I'm sure they've come in contact with lots of pythons. Join us for that tomorrow. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee in Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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David Letterman, the longest-serving late night television host, is retiring.
SIEGEL: Letterman, who is 66, told the audience today during a taping of his late show program which will air tonight. Here to talk about David Letterman is NPR TV critic Eric Deggans. And Eric, why has Letterman decided to retire now?
ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: Well, Letterman, who doesn't talk to the press that much, hasn't really said why he decided to retire now. But when NBC was going through its high-profile transitions with Jimmy Fallon talking over for Jay Leno, a lot of people wondered what that might mean for Letterman, who was the oldest late night host and had been around the longest. Critics have said that Letterman seems a little less connected to pop culture these days. He made a comedy bit about fumbling to get on Twitter and took his first selfie pretty recently. And he said during his announcement to his audience that he'd been doing this for half his life, so maybe late night talk has increasingly become a young man's game and he just decided he was ready to leave.
SIEGEL: Well, is there any hint about who might take over for Letterman at CBS?
DEGGANS: Well, The New York Times reported some time ago that Craig Ferguson, who hosts the show that comes after Letterman's show, "The Late Late Show," has what's called the right of first refusal. So, CBS has to come to him and say do you want the late show job, and then if he says no they can move on. But, you know, if the network wants to get around that contract they have ways of doing it. And Letterman himself got passed over by NBC to take over "The Tonight Show" job when Johnny Carson retired because NBC wanted Jay Leno. So it's hard to know who might take over for him.
SIEGEL: Eric, how would you describe the impact that David Letterman has had as a late night host and broadcaster?
DEGGANS: Well, he's one of the last network TV talk show hosts left from a time when critics might say it was the height of the form. I mean, Johnny Carson and "The Tonight Show" could make or break - and did make or break - many legendary comics' careers. Letterman started as a quirky stand-up comic and then he became a regular guest host on "The Tonight Show" and then made his career. And then he started this show after "The Tonight Show" called "Late Night," did very well, and then moved to CBS and sort of became a broadcast institution. He matured. He helped audiences get through 9/11. He shared this health scare that he had when he had cardiac problems and became a broadcast institution. So I think he's left a really lasting impact.
SIEGEL: OK. That's NPR TV critic Eric Deggans on David Letterman's announcement that he'll retire next year. Eric, thank you.
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