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From TheNewsTribune.com:

Crime rose last year in the South Sound cities of Puyallup, Gig Harbor, Sumner, Bonney Lake, Fife, DuPont, Federal Way and Kent and dropped in Lakewood, Ruston, Steilacoom and Olympia.

Tacoma saw a slight decrease in violent crime but an increase in property crimes, while the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department investigated more violent and property crimes.

Car thefts increased in a majority of the 32 law enforcement agencies in the South Sound.

Here's the press release.

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Nutria Unite!

Cast off the dastardly Caiman Overlords and stand your furry selves tall!

In an effort to support the survival of smaller things, I'd like to point out that a caiman infiltrator has sneakily requested a salmon dinner in one of our very own OlyBlog conversations. What's next, nutria?!

No matter how hypnotized you are, no matter how much a caiman bats its scaly eyelids, do not succumb! Support small things, including swamp rats...errr.......nutria!

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The annual fundraiser for the Disupute Resolution Center called "A toast to chocolate" was held yesterday at St. Martin's University. This is fundraising at its best: bring in a lot of people on a lazy Sunday afternoon, get them high on sugar, endorphins, and alcohol, and then ask them for money. Boy, what a set up! Who could resist?

The program was also very well done. Each speaker told heartfelt stories about the power and importance of alternative disupute resolution. As a mediator, it was not a tough sell for me. I've seen the process work significant change in the lives of people who are locked in conflict and miserable. It is peace work at the personal level, disseminating tools for improving communication one family at a time.

"Fighting Neo-Nazis: Against Foreign Fruit and Right Wingers," from SPIEGEL ONLINE:

A Leipzig performance artist has found an original way of disrupting neo-Nazi marches and demonstrations. When the skinheads come to town, the German Apple Front is there to meet them -- complete with its very own Führer of fruit.

It's shortly past midday on May 1 in Leipzig and 20 youths in black suits sit in an apartment south of Leipzig's city center, trading sunglasses and red-and-white armbands. The "Propaganda Minister" puts on a few records while the "Führer" rushes down to the gas station to buy batteries for his megaphone.

At first glance, the kids in their militaristic garb look like a group of right-wing radicals. But they're playing American rock music, and the symbol on their armbands is an apple, not a swastika. The "German Apple Front" is getting ready to perform -- because today, neo-Nazi Christian Worch of Hamburg is in town.