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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A scruffy little fugitive is on the lam again in New Orleans, gaining fame as he outwits a tenacious band of citizens armed with night-vision binoculars, nets and a tranquilizer rifle. Scrim, a 17-pound mutt that's mostly terrier, has become a folk hero, inspiring tattoos, t-shirts and even a ballad as he eludes capture from the posse of volunteers. And like any antihero, Scrim has a backstory: Rescued from semi-feral life at a trailer park and adopted from a shelter, the dog broke loose in April and scurried around the city until he was cornered in October and brought to a new home. Weeks later, he'd had enough. Scrim leaped out of a second-story window, a desperate act recorded in a now-viral video. Since then, despite a stream of daily sightings, he's roamed free. The dog’s fans include Myra and Steve Foster, who wrote “Ode to Scrim” to the tune of Ricky Nelson’s 1961 hit, “I’m a Travelin’ Man.” Leading the recapture effort is Michelle Cheramie, a 55-year-old former information technology professional. She lost everything — home, car, possessions — in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and in the aftermath, found her calling rescuing pets. “I was like, ‘This is what I should be doing,’” Cheramie said. “I was born to rescue.” She launched Zeus’ Rescues, a nonprofit shelter that now averages 600 cat and dog adoptions a year and offers free pet food to anyone who needs it. She helped Scrim find the home he first escaped from. It was Cheramie's window Scrim leaped from in November. She's resumed her relentless mission since then, posting flyers on telephone poles and logging social media updates on his reported whereabouts. She's invested thousands of dollars on wildlife cameras, thermal sensors and other gear. She took a course offered by the San Diego Zoo on the finer points of tranquilizing animals. And she's developed a network of volunteers — the kind of neighbors who are willing to grid-search a city at 3 a.m. People like writer David W. Brown, who manages a crowd-sourced Google Map of all known Scrim sightings. He says the search has galvanized residents from all walks of life to come together. As they search for Scrim, they hand out supplies to people in need. "Being a member of the community is seeing problems and doing what you can to make life a little better for the people around here and the animals around you," Brown said. And neighbors like Tammy Murray, who had to close her furniture store and lost her father to Parkinson's Disease. This search, she says, got her mojo back. “Literally, for months, I’ve done nothing but hunt this dog,” said Murray, 53. “I feel like Wile E. Coyote on a daily basis with him.” Murray drives the Zeus' Rescues' van towards reported Scrim sightings. She also handles a tactical net launcher, which looks like an oversized flashlight and once misfired, shattering the van's window as Scrim sped away. After realizing Scrim had come to recognize the sound of the van's diesel engine, Murray switched to a Vespa scooter, for stealth. Near-misses have been tantalizing. The search party spotted Scrim napping beneath an elevated house, and wrapped construction netting around the perimeter, but an over-eager volunteer broke ranks and dashed forward, leaving an opening Scrim slipped through. Scrim's repeated escapades have prompted near-daily local media coverage and a devoted online following. Cheramie can relate. “We’re all running from something or to something. He's doing that too,” she said. Cheramie's team dreams of placing the pooch in a safe and loving environment. But a social media chorus growing under the hashtag #FreeScrim has other ideas — they say the runaway should be allowed a life of self-determination. The animal rescue volunteers consider that misguided. “The streets of New Orleans are not the place for a dog to be free,” Cheramie said. “It’s too dangerous.” Scrim was a mess when Cheramie briefly recaptured him in October, with matted fur, missing teeth and a tattered ear. His trembling body was scraped and bruised, and punctured by multiple projectiles. A vet removed one, but decided against operating to take out a possible bullet. The dog initially appeared content indoors, sitting in Cheramie's lap or napping beside her bed. Then while she was out one day, Scrim chewed through a mesh screen, dropped 13 feet to the ground and squeezed through a gap in the fence, trotting away. Murray said Cheramie's four cats probably spooked him. “I wholeheartedly believe the gangster-ass cats were messing with him,” Murray said. Cheramie thinks they may have gotten territorial. 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This is fine: Risk of economic shocks aside, Australia has no need to worry about Trump, Labor says Read More The obvious question is, if the Future Fund saw the best opportunity for returns in the residential property market, or energy infrastructure, or building a new submarine base for nuclear vessels, it would invest in these things — so why does it need a mandate to “be cognisant” of such areas? What will the Future Fund do differently now than before? Engage in a box-ticking exercise to check that it had run the ruler over every security infrastructure or housing deal before deciding to invest elsewhere? What’s the point? If the Coalition were in office and the Future Fund was being directed to be “cognisant” of investing in fossil fuels, would Labor be talking about how it was “not an especially controversial change”? The rich irony is that Chalmers is telling the Future Fund to be “cognisant” of renewable energy projects while Labor is encouraging, and helping to fund, investment in fossil fuel projects. It’s committed to half a billion dollars for geological surveying that it will hand fossil fuel companies for free . It’s investing $1.5 billion to help build a gas export facility at Middle Arm in Darwin , with the help of some Labor mates. Fossil fuel companies get to dictate how much petroleum resource rent tax they pay (a reason why the Future Fund is currently $294 billion when Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, built on North Sea gas and oil revenues, is worth US$1.7 trillion). This isn’t the first time Labor has tried to interfere — while insisting it isn’t interfering — with a key independent institution. It also used a statement of expectations to nobble the Productivity Commission (PC) this time last year — demanding the PC “take account of the government’s productivity agenda”, including “getting to net zero and becoming a renewable energy superpower”. The PC had already flagged concerns about Labor’s manufacturing subsidies and protectionism in its Future Made In Australia policy, but Chalmers’ statement seemed a warning shot for the PC not to dare criticise key parts of Labor’s policies. Chalmers also directed the PC to consult with government departments more — thus giving economically illiterate departments like Foreign Affairs and Trade a great role in shaping PC work — and to keep the secretary of Treasury in the loop about its activities. Governments don’t issue these diktats randomly or merely for window dressing. 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