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BUht Lcguuport, Indiana, Pharos-TrlbuM SOCIETY Mrs. Myrtle Snider assisted by Mrs: Adah Winings, Mrs. Maggie Birnell and Mrs. Anna Snider, entertained the WSCS of the Walton Methodist church Wednesday aft- trnoon. The'meeting opened with prayer for the missionaries by Mrs. Mable Montgomery. The secretary, treasurer and committee chairman, reports were given and routine business was conducted by the president, Mrs. Maude Logan. An auction sale was held following the business. "Strangers within the Gates" was the theme of the lesson given by Mrs. Florence Miller, Mrs. Sarah Cook, Mrs. Blanche Walker and Mrs. Montgomery. The hostess and Mrs. Miller gave a duet, "Walking With God" and the meeting closed with all praying the Lord's Prayer. Fourteen members and one guest, Barbara Winings, attended. -£The W.S.W.S. of the Broadway EUB church met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. D. A. McClintock of route No. 4, with i the lesson leader, Mrs. Lotta Bailey, giving the lesson on "Women, United to Serve." The program, on the co-operative work of Church women, opened with prayer given by the leader and a hymn being read by Mrs. Blanche Huffman entitled "The Churches One Foundation." Devotions were the Seventeenth chapter of John read by Mrs. Dorothy Lowe followed by prayer by Mrs. Bailey who also gave the with a favorite picnic dish. Emera club will hold a picnic at the country home of Lelah Stephens Tuesday evening. Members are asked to meet at the Masonic Temple at 6 o'clock. Shrine Ladies will entertain the Nobles at a covered dish dinner 'and card party Wednesday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Shrine club. On Thursday afternoon the ladies will hold a 1 o'clock dessert at the club. Washington township Circle 3 HD club will hold a family picnic Wednesday evening.at 6 o'clock at Spencer park. Members are asked to bring table service, meat and buns, and a wrapped white elephant gift for each family members who will participate in the games. The Anna Guard class of St. Luke's Lutheran church will hold a picnic Tuesday evening at G o'clock at Fairview park. A good attendance is desired. The Boone township HD --club will meet Tuesday noon for a picnic dinner at Hea park, Royal 'Center: Instead of the usual covered dish, members are asked to bring two covered dishes and table service as the Harrison township club will be entertained. hymn, Lord." "I Love Thy Kingdom, At this time the offering was received following the offering sentences from the Bible and prayer of dedication, both given by the leader. The presentation of topics was by the leader who also asked the questions—who, what, why, when and where of the society of Church women. These questions were answered as follows: who—Mrs. Winona Barnett, her topic being "Definition of the Society"; why—Mrs. Mollie Alber telling the reason for the society and work of the women o( the W.S.W.S.; when—Mrs. Ethel Hahn who gave the founding dale and accomplishments of the organization and where by Mrs. Blanche Miller who told of different foundations and their locations. The closing statement was byj Barbara Gingrich Guest Of Honor At Pre-Nuptial Shower Miss Barbara Gingrich, bride- elect of Peter Leahey, was honored at a miscellaneous shower Saturday evening at the home of her aunt, Miss Mamie Bauer, 525 Helm street, with Mrs. Joseph Shepler •and the Misses Rosemary and Loretta Bauer assisting. Contests were enjoyed with prize winners presenting their awards to the guest of honor. Special prizes were won by Mrs. Robert Sum, Mrs. Joseph Shepler •and Miss Loretta Bauer, The serving table was covered in white liner, and centered with a miniature bride sitting on a silver half-moon, showered with wedding bells. Flanking this arrangement were tall pink tapers. Each place was marked with a pink umbrella nutcup. Punch, cakes and strawberry parfails were served to the guests. Invited guests included; Miss Gingrich, Mrs. William Bowman, Mrs. William Gingrich, Mrs. James Gingrich, Mrs. William Bauer, Mrs. Leo Cahalan, Mrs. Thomas Mee, Mrs. Herman Bauer, Miss Rosemary Bauer, Miss Loretta Bauer, Mrs. Paul Spitznogle, Miss The WSWS of the North Third ;E<eanor Spitznogle Mrs Robert street EUB church convened re-1 Wootever, Mrs. Cletus Spitznogle, cently at the church parlors with Mrs - William Step'henson, Mrs. group singing and prayer by Mrs. Parker opening the meeting. After the offering was received, prayer Bruce Greig, Mrs. John Bauer, Mrs. Robert Bishop, Mrs. Bill Bauer, Mrs. Paul Bauer, Mrs. above. The hymn sung in closing was "Blest be the Tie That Binds" followed by prayer by Mrs. Bailey. The president, Mrs. Winona Barnelt, was in charge of the business session and presented a talk on "Fullfilling Needs Women." for the leader who commented on the! "He's'Taking out Ilia Papers" 1 was read by Miss Morrison. He- brew.s 11 and an article, "Our Constitution and Having Faith" were read by Mrs. Farmer. Miss Morris gave closing prayer. Mrs, Ruth Small conducted Ihe business mec'Jng during which lime reports wore heard and plans made to send a delegate lo the Women's Retreat in September. A picnic was arranged for August 2n<! at Spencer park for members and guests. Mr.s. Mary Smith reported on the book "Missions U. S. A." and Mr.s. Mary McKoc on "Our Church in Soulheasl Asia." A round lablc discussion followed the reports and Miss Morrison told o£ other foreign missions. Mrs. Goldic Bruner conducted a Bible contest which was won by Mrs. Farmer and Miss Morri.von. The committee, Mrs. John Mar'.in, Mrs. Don Miller, Mrs. George Sruncr and Mrs. Kay McKce A report was given of the recent Missionary Convention by Mrs. Blanche Huffman and Mrs. Bar- nelt who told of the theme, "The Strengthening of the Church for Christ." The secretary's report was given by Mrs. Maudie Priestholf, assislant secretary, and the treasurer's report was read by Mrs. Blanche Huffman. The Spiritual Life Secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Lowe, urged Church loyalty, Mrs. Mae Pownall was elected as assistant to the spiritual Life secretary. Christian Social Relations score-j served refreshments to the 1!i tary, Mrs. Pearl Fife, talked on a! m em hers seven children und one project promoting Christian social relations in all angles and the Children work report from the Bible, school was given by Mrs. Betty Ellars. The Special Project Secretary, Mrs. Nellie JSlkins, spoko briefly on a project preceding thu closing of the meeting by all giving the Lord's Prayer In unis.'in. Named to the program committee for the coming year during the session were Mcsdames Virginia Huffman, Natalie Carney and ISthel Hahn. Mrs. Bonnie Ilohrbaugh and Miss Alma Lehman joined the society. The president offered prayer preceding the serving of refreshments by the hostess uaii co- hostess, Mrs. Gladys Wilson. —to— The VfSCS of the Anoka Methodist church will meet Wednesday evening at 7; 30 o'clock at the church basement. There will be an auction sale. —vf— Women of St. Paul's Lutheran church basement. There will be noon at 1:30 o'clock with Mrs. Pearl Jones assisted by Mrs. Jennie Carter. Hull call will bo answered with a Bible verso containing the word, "transgressors." -£Crusaders class of the Ninth street Christian church will meet Wednesday noon at the church for an indoor picnic. Members are urged lo atlend und bring a covered dish and table service, -ft- Jcffcrson HD club No. 2. will meet 'Fimrmluy afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Lake Clcott school. Members are iisked to note the change in time. Koll cull will be answered with " a book I read this year." -ft- White Rose club will hold a hamburger fry at 6 o'clock tonight at the home of Mrs. Josso Lcbo, 2019 East Broadway. -&Bethlehem township HD club entertain 4-IJ girls and their mothers Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Riverside park with Mrs. Edith Zlcg, Mrs. Margaret Horn and Mrs. Ethel Reed as hostesses. Roll call will be answered guest, Mrs. Glenda Martin. —'£(— The Women's Missionary Society of the Burlington Brethren Church met Tuesday afternoon at the parsonage. The following officers wore installed: Pros. Mrs. Roy Bru baker, vice-pros. Mrs. Munson Brew.sler, Sec. train. Mrs. Fredrick Clingenpeel, patronesses for the Junior Sisterhood of Mary and Martha Mrs. Verne Wise ;md Mrs. Irvin Kizcr. Other members attending the meeting wore Mrs. Paul Garrison, Mrs. Russell Hodkey Mrs. Bright Hanna, Mrs. Frank Yost, Mrs. Charley Ovcr- holser, Mrs. Henry Bailey, Mr.s. Vella Hendrix, Mr.s. William Donglas, Mr.s. Itoy ClingcnpceJ, Mrs Earl Haun, Mr.s. Beulnli Rodkcy, Mr*. Joe Gnrrison, Mrs. Oiner Rodkcy, Mr.s. Glen Hanna, Jerilyn Garrison, Mrs. Chester Hanna and Mrs. Floyd Sibcrt. The next meet- Bauer. Also Mrs. Marie Hanrahan, Mrs. Claude Brooks, Mrs. Robert Sum, Mrs. Jack Fultz, Mrs. Harold Williams, Mrs. Lee Watson, Mrs. Terry Drummond -and Mrs. Mike Bryan. of dedication was offered 'by Mrs. j Lawrence Quirk and Miss Bertha Foutz. Committee reports were given after v/hich several Scripture verses were read. Mrs, Campbell, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Stamper and Mrs. Kroft gave reports on the Oakwood Convention which they attended in June. Emma Weber closed, the meeting with prayer. The Women's Fellowship of '.he Blue Ball church met at the church Friday for the July meeting with the devotional period in charge of. Mrs. Mary Farmer and Miss Coaslance Morrison. Patriotism and Religion was the theme. During this time the group joined in singing of "God of Our Fathers" and "America". Miss Lois Crimmins Honored At Shower A bridal shower was given Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Violet Emery for Miss Lois Jean Crimmins who will become Mrs. Robert Paschen July 21 at 2 o'clock in the Zion Methodist Church in Lucerne. The room was decorated with aqua and pink streamers and a covered unbrella behind the gift This color scheme was carried out in the refreshments. Games were played with prizes going to Misses Marjoric Green, JUDY STEWART, CHARLES HICKMAN TO BE MARRIED IN AUGUST RITES Sheila Peterson And Edward Costello Wed In Home Ceremony Miss Sheila Peterson and 'Edward Costello were united in marriage, during a double ring ceremony Saturday evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Peterson, 2437 North street. The bridegroom is the- son of Mrs. Clarence Hipsher, 129 East Market street, and Thomas Costello, route 2. Mrs. Donald Gillum, sister of the bride, of Walton, was matron of honor, and Jim' Cain was best man. The bride appeared in a white street-length dress fashioned with a deep V neckline, cap sleeves and a full skirt.' She wore a white picture hat, and accessories and carried a red rosebud nosegay. Mrs. Gillum wore, a dacron dress of blue-gray and a corsage . of white carnations. The mother of tiie bried chose -a white linen dress •and the bridegroom's mother, a blue dress. Three-tiered wedding cake, punch and other refreshments were served from a lace-covered table following the ceremony. Following a wedding trip lo the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri the couple will reside at 1215VL East Broadway. The bride, a 1957 graduate of the local high school, Is employed by the P-alumbo Distributing company. |Her husband, a 1956 graduate of the same school, is employed as assistant manager of the Schiff Shoe Store. Monday Evening, July !. IMf. CELEBRATE 50th ANNIVERSARY MR. AND MRS. ALBERT STANGLE, residents of the Headloc and Pious Chapel communities, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Sunday with an open house from 1 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon at the Pious Chapel church. A cooperative dinner was enjoyed at noon at the church basement for relatives and close friends. The couple has nine living children, Mrs. Calcsley Shaw and Raymond Slangle, of Idaville, rural route; John Stanglu and Mrs. Rosalie Martcr, Logansporl; Cecil Slangle, Kcwanna, rural route; Mrs. Freda Stackhouse. Monticello, rural route; George Stangle, Lafayette; Mrs. Betty Stotier and Leroy Stangle, of Monlicello. Thre arc 24 grandchildren and five ureal-grandchildren. (Pharos-Tribune Engraving.) Pohlman Studio. BETROTHED—Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Stewart, of High Street Road, announce Die engagement and August wedding plans of their daughter, ,'Judy Ann, to Charles W. Hickmaii, son of the late Dr. and Mrs, W. R. Hickman, 824 High street. Miss Stewart is a 1955 graduate of the local high school, attended Indiana University and is living in Chicago where she is employed by Linda Grube Attends National Meeting Linda Grube, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald .7. Grube, East street Road, attended the 31st biennial National convention of Al- thc Blue Cross-B'.ue Shield Insurance Company and is attending 1 lliu P'' a clli Omega social sorority at Patricia Stevens Fashion Career School. She is a member of the' tlle Huntington Sheraton Hotel in local Tri Kappa sorority. Her fiance is a graduate of the Local high school and Indiana University where he was a member of Sigma Nu social fraternity. (Pharos-Tribune Engraving.) 130 Vets Guests Of HD Club, Red Cross Nearly 130 patients in' building 1C at the Marion Veterans hospital Sr MI T, H in. M wcre entertained Friday evening Shernll Bennett, and Belly Mogs. I b momhcrs Qf th £ cailGher £ Duplicated gifts were given to the ' n , h , n ,,""" ,, l , m , ms ,,,|i nn ni,,i, honored guest. Invited guests won; Mrs. June Crimmins. Mrs. Dorothy Hammon, Mr.s. Margaret Horn, Mrs. Margaret Crimmins, Mrs. Sarah Jean Crimmins, Mrs. Verd;j Winn, Mrs. Helen Paschen, Mrs. Lillian Pickens, Mrs. Georgianua Pickens, Mrs. Phyllis Lay.man, Mrs. Mary Emery, and Mr.s. Violet Emery. Misses Marjone Green, Sherril Bonnet, Betty Paschen, Betty Moss, Judy Smith, Carole Strong, Ruth Wagoner,- Phyllis DeFord, Jane Price, Jane Collier, Pat .Paschen, Marilyn Hciny, Yvonne Unger, Gloria Crist,, and Norma Button. Hostesses were Misses Paulctta Emery, Betty Coffing, and Joan Cuffing. ' • Refreshments were served after the gifts were opened. j township home dcmonstralion club of Melon under the sponsorship of the Cass county chapter of the American Red Cross. Refreshments of 'cookies and punch were furnished by the Metea group. Novel enlcrlainment was provided by a "Kitchen Band" comprised of hostesses from the club and- directed by chairman Virginia Crane. Band members were attired in hats trimmed with green beans, carrotts, onions, radishes and r,EE-HAIUUSON Mrs. Luia Mason, of Delphi, an- Parish Picnic Held By St. Bridget's Two hundred members of St. Bridget church attended a picnic at Spencer park Sunday with u basket dinner being enjoyed at the ,Pasadena, California, June 25-30. Miss Grube is one of the four active members attending from Gamma chapter of Northwestern University in Rvanston, Illinois. Next fall she will be a junior there in the School of Education ancj she wil! be assistant rush chairman for her chapter. Following the convention she wont on a week post-convention tour to Yoscmilc National park anil hour. Rev. FatherF. J. Mee.| San ,, Fra . 11 ? isco with a S'™P of so- han offered prayer before and of- r " l ' Ry sisiers ' ter HID meal. Gallo's Accordion Band entertained during .the . afternoon. Games, Contests and roller skating were enjoyed with prizes awarded to winners. Former Local Man To Wed In Georgia Mr. and Mr.s. Linton Elmorc Buchanan, of Conyers, Georgia, announce the engagement and forth- !.• greenery _ and their instruments coming marriage of their daughter, I- The legs of penquins are enclosed in the skin of (he body thus making their walk slow and clum sy. Misha Anderson Guest Of Honor At Barn Dance-Party The Charles L. Andersons entertained at u barn dance Saturday evening for Mr. Anderson's daughter, Misha Lee Anderson, who is visiting from Glentlale, California. Guests included: Irmudcun Wilson, Pat fiasham, Sharon Fully., Lois Stevens, Lima Bruce, Mary Barrett, Catherine Barrett, Hhode Dou'l, Sandy Young, Cindy Burton, Konnie Ban-Ion. Janice Kinehart, Dennis Gates, Larry Rains, Curl Newell, Jeunii! Wiiin, Kuren Clark, Judy Michael, Geneva Wallace, LeAnn Shafer,. Sam Khar]), Chris Christiiinson, Bill Marshall, Tom llilkcrl, Dale Bridge, Don Curry, Gene Swank, Bill Cunningham, Mike Jones, Hoiinie Oilman. Pal Gilman, Jimmy Robinson, Jimmy Hobersoi'., Hick Burning!], Rosalie l/ngcr, UarryJ Myers, Kay 1-Jasul- ley, Mike Crane, Tom Weaver, Pat Sheet*. LnMae fir.'iham, Misha Lou Anderson and Dave Young. Mothers who chaperoned wore Mrs, Christiiinson, Mrs. Shaler, Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Wilson. Popular tunes played on the hi-fi provided music for dancing and at the end of the evening rufrcsh- ments were served, nounces the engagement and forlh-1 joined, coming marriage of her grand- D anc i ))fi c( >. were frying pans, pan lids, wash boards, sail boxes and an old toy piano. Miss Phyllis DoFurd- played several accordion solos and volac! ducts were sung by Phyllis and her mother, Mr.s. live DeFord. Mrs. De-Ford, pianist, entertained with piano numbers un-d accompanied thu group during a community sing in which the patients daughter, Miss Linda Lee, of La fayellc, to Dean T. Harrison, also of LaFayelte. The couple will he married Scp- lemhcr 2(1 and in October will louvc for South America where the bridegroom-elect will work wilh the US Air Force in Civil Service. at the home of Miss Rita Oyler. The following officers were elected for the coming your: Prus. Janet Kixcr, Vice. Pres. Rita Oyler, Sec- Ti'Ba.s. Dcloris Hamia, Corresponding Sscy. Joy Benmer, Song Leader Julia Mcndrix. Other persons present at tin's meeting were: Ruth Wise, Barbara Cornwell, Mrs. Verne Wise. Mrs. Karl Oyler and Mrs. Floyd Sibcrt. -A The July meeting of the Bur- ompluled the entertainment for the evening. Bethlehem H. D. Members attending were Mrs. Kosella Wyscn- borger, Mrs, Edith Zcig, Mr.s, Virginia Crane, Miss Phyllis DeFord, Mrs. Eve DeFord, Mrs. Betty McQuinn, Mrs. Violc-l Emory, Mrs. Irene Pickens, Mr.s, Lucille Coffinj,', Mrs. .Ocnrginnna Pickens, Mr.s. Fred Oraucl, Mrs. i.'';'.'jnee.s Moss, and Mrs. Edna Kllclile. Also attending from Logansporl. were the A. R. C. Executive secretary, Miss Kay Roycr, MM. Doris Parker and Mr.s. Guy Ka.nl/er. Read the Classified Ads Margaret, to Floyd Junior Gongloff, son of Mr, and Mrs. Floyd Othello Gnngloff, of Fort Landerdale, Florida, formerly of this city. The marriage will be August III at the First Methodist church in Cohyers. Miss Buchanan attended Florida Stale University where her finnci; received his 13. S. degree In Physical Education. Ho WHS a member (if Kappa Sigma .social fraternity. Grandmothers living in (his city arc Mrs. Anna Shanks and Mrs. 1-lattle GaiigloN'. DR. 0. L BRAUN Rag. Podiatrist :••<-. Foot Specialist ;'>'. FOOT AILMENTS Officoi 314 North St. .••• LOGANSPORT PHONE 3330 ;.,' Wacln«iday* ; jt Friday* 9 to 4 " ~. PERU OFFICE: 115 Won 3th St. j".;.' Mon, Tuo»., Thur., Sot. 9 to 8 l . Pom Fhoni: GRIDLEY 33674 j . let tit handle All ywir Tra»d Ing will be held al the home of[i]ettsvi]ie Women's Christian Tern- Mrs. Hoy Clingenpecl August 81'h.! pcruncc Union mel at the home of — ft — Mrs. Kthcl Clirard with 15 mem- The Senior Sisterhood of Mary and Martha of the lUirlinglon Brethren church mel. Monday night at the home of Miss Janice Cling- cnpeel, Miss Rita Kixer was the lender « f the meeting. The following officers were chosen for the coming year: Pres. Miss lOileen Garrison, Vice Pres. Miss Jane Williams, Sec. Trcas. Miss Janice Cllngcnpcel, Song leader Miss Mary Ann Wise, Pianist Miss Karen Garrison, Patronesses Mrs. Munson Drowsier and Mrs, Fredrick Cling- enpcel. Oilier members of Ihe or- gani/allon arc Miss Mary Helen Ilcndrlx, Miss Patty Ititchoy, Miss Sherry Heusley, Miss Marilyn Ilen- drix and Miss Christine Kglohoff. -A— The Junior Sisterhood of Mary and Martha of Ihe Burllnglon Brethren church met Tuesday night burs present. Mrs. Grace Haneher was a guest. The thought for the month anil the American Creed were read by Helen Rogers. She led in the sululu to the flags. Mr.s. Estella Cl«rke read the devotional topic, "Miss America Needs Our Help". "What America Means To Me" was read by Mrs. Arelvu Cree. The lesson was given by Mrs. Mary Rogers, the loplc being u sermon by Rev. Glenn G. Knight, Scotlsbhiff, Nub. Mrs. Ruth Rickleff presented the L. T. L. work for children agcf fi-11 years. Newspaper clippings were rent by Mrs. Knthcrine Clear and Mrs. Winifred Troxwell. Klcction of Q/ficcrs will be held at the August meeting. Mrs. Helen Rogers will he hostess August 6. THE CARRIAGE BARN Forrest J. R»»d, Interiors 217-11th St. Phone 4681 Hours 9 to 5 daily, «xc»pt Sat., 9 to 12 WALLPAPER IAMPS GIFTS CARPETS DRAPERY UPHOLSTERY ACCESSORWS DIAL 5144 Ploaiant Hill Graenhauto Tickets. •• Reservations ••• ALL Tftfe featvr*: HAWAII BY AIR Atr fowfi of 6 day? oml up In Howoil, Aatot from lt>* W«>t Coair ilnrl ol $363,23. Hoi.I, ilghluelng Included In tow rate. Wt will fllodlx lupply xo» foldwt, with no cotl nor obllflollon. TW.pnon.—wr»«—cotn« In p*rio«. CHICAGO MOIOR CUM I.OfiANSI'OIlT BRANCH 22(1 Snulh Tlilrd Strict I'hom: SI 118 JULY SALE ALL SPRING AND SUMMER MILLINERY Volu»« to $35.00 $6.95 -$7.95 -$8.95 to $12.50 Groups of COSTUME JEWELRY REDUCED 50% ° AND MORf SPECIAL ALL WEEK Men's - Ladies SUITS Top Quality Cleaning Sure to Satisfy LONG'S CLEANERS 17th and Broadway 3rd and Linden Why wait for Safes tuy B«r» and Save Anyltmr Budget Priced Furniture and Rugs tot Our Location 9 a. m. to 9 p m, Tav* You Monay At Low Coif Dally-— McTaggart's Ham* Purniihlng C*. 1119 High Legion Auxiliary To Entertain Veterans Members of UK? American U>i;ion Auxiliary, Unit (iO, and second district members are invited td assist witli a picnic for Stale hospital veterans Wednesday Hi Riverside park. Mrs. Owen Shanlenu, Auxiliary Slalc hospital chairman, will provide baked ham, baked beans, rolls, coffee am! ire cream from (he stale and district funds. Those attending are asked to brinn a salmi or homemade pie. 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Theater Thursdays!
If you haven't see it yet, this is the TV spot for the new Dredd film releasing next month. I'm not too terribly excited about it, but it's the next comic book movie, so I'll have to check it out eventually. Watch the trailer and let me know what you think!

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WASHINGTON -- In trying to persuade Americans to slim down and eat more vegetables, the federal nutrition gurus who are redesigning the government's Food Guide Pyramid face a formidable task.
While glitzy diet plans remain perennial best sellers, most Americans are inactive and fat.
While nutritionists push broccoli and water, television advertising dangles snack chips and beer. And while U.S. agriculture policy subsidizes and promotes sugar and cheese, it offers little or no assistance to fruit and vegetable growers.


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Florida Keys for Families a to z guideD
There are a number of dolphin programs available in the Florida Keys. Each has its own restrictions. Reservations by phone or in person are advised in advance for these popular programs. For particulars on restrictions make inquiry with the provider.
The Dolphin Connection at Hawk's Cay Resort, Mile Marker 61, Duck Key, Florida Keys (305)743-7000 is described below:
Hawk's Cay offers several programs. Its Dolphin Discovery program is 45 minutes long and includes 25 minutes of personalized contact but no swimming with the dolphins. Under the supervision of a highly skilled guide or trainer you'll be able to pet, touch, and possibly feed the dolphins.
In its Dolphins Dockside program, Hawk's Cay provides adults and teens with a look at dolphin training. Participants act as trainer assistants during a training session. ages 13 and over, 12 and under must be supervised by a paid adult.
The resort's Dolphin Detective program offers young children and opportunity for hands-on participation in the trainer's world including training games, preparation of dolphin fish food and supervised training of the dolphins. 30 minute dock side program .Children must be 5 years or older.
Dolphin Research Center, Mile Marker 59, close by Hawk's Cay on Grassy Key, Florida Keys (305) 289-1121. www.dolphins.org.
Dolphin Research Center features Exciting and fun narrated dolphin and sea lion sessions every half hour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 days a week.
Dolphin Encounter swim program, DolphinSplash wade-in program and other fun interactive programs offered daily!
The Dolphin Research Center began as Santini's Porpoise School and was run by Milton Santini, a pioneer in dolphin husbandry and training. At that time visitors were allowed to swim with the dolphins.
In 1962, Hollywood hearing about Santini made a movie about a family in the keys that befriends a dolphin. "Flipper" was filmed on location at the Dolphin research Center (Santini's) and starred five of Santini's dolphins, including Mitzi, Little Bit, and Mr. Gipper. Some of the dolphins at the Dolphin research center are descended from those "Flipper" stars. Mitzi, Santini's first pupil, was picked to star as Flipper in the original movie.This is the place were the famous porpoise "Flipper" was trained and buried. Mitzi's performance made the film and the TV series that followed a hit. She became a beloved celebrity at Grassy Key. When she died she was buried beneath a dolphin statue in the School's courtyard. The Dolphin Research Center maintains the grave, and in honor of her accomplishments they always make it the first stop on the tour. A small plaque at the Dolphin Research Center reads:
Dedicated to the memory of Mitzi The original Flipper 1958 -1972
In 1977 Jean Paul-Gouin a whale conservationj ist purchased the Santini facility and renamed it "Institute for Delphinid Research". the facility was closed to the public in order to research the dolphin's language and reasoning skills.
In 1984 having completed his project, Jean Paul-Gouin turned over the facility with its dolphins to his general manage, Jayne Shannon, and head trainer, Mandy Rodriquez. They founded the non-for-profit Dolphin Research Center.
Theater of the Sea, Mile Marker 84.5, 84721 Overseas Highway Islamorada, Florida Keys (305) 664-2431, Second oldest marine mammal facility in the world and home of Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins., www.theaterofthesea.com
Park admission includes dolphin show, sea lion show, guided marine life tour and a 5-minute bottomless boat ride.
Cost of participation in the dolphin, sea lion and sea ray programs includes viewing of all shows. Swims include thirty minutes of water time. Participants take turns interacting with the animals. Allow 2 hours before or after program you are participating in to see the shows.
For Trainer for a Day participants, park admission allows viewing of the the sea lion session only.
Restrictions for all programs - Must be age 5 or older to participate, understand English or have translator. IAddiotionally, in order to avoid disease transmission to facility's animals must not have assisted with a marine mammal rescue within 48 hours of participation. Liability waivers must be signed prior to participation in the program by a parent or appointed guardian. Any appointed guardian must provide notarized documentation of guardianship.
Dolphin Swim program - Theater of the Sea offers a structured interaction in the water with the dolphin(s).Swimmers do trained behaviors with the dolphin(s) such as dorsal tows and hugs and may snorkel the pool with the dolphin(s). Each class and swim session last an hour. A parent or appointed guardian is required to swim with participantís ages 5, 6, or 7. Participant must be a competent swimmer. Trainers oversee the interactions from out of the water and cannot personally attend to individuals. Must not be pregnant. Observers for dolphin swims, pay park admission plus fee to accompany participant to the swim area.
Swim with Sea lions. Structured interaction in the water with the sea lion(s). Swimmers do trained behaviors with the sea lion(s) such as flipper tows and hugs and may snorkel the pool with the sea lion(s). one hour duration - parent or appointed guardian is required to swim with participantís ages 5, 6, or 7. Must be a competent swimmer. Trainers oversee the interactions from out of the water and cannot personally attend to individuals. Must not be pregnant. Observers for sea lion swims, pay park admission plus fee to accompany participant to the swim area.
Swim with the Rays . Feed and touch gentle rays near a shallow sandy beach. Snorkel with the stingrays and a variety of tropical fish. one hour. A parent or appointed guardian must accompany participantís ages 5, 6, or 7 to the swim area. For those participating in the 4:00 stingray swim, make plans to see the shows before program.
Trainer for the Day - Assist with feeding, training, and caring for the dolphin(s) and sea lion(s). Does not include swimming. One hour behind the scenes and one hour with animals. Must be at least 10 years of age to participate. Children may be ages 5 to 9 to participate, but their party must purchase the entire program. For Trainer for a Day, park admission allows you to observe the sea lion session only. For those participating in the 1:30 Trainer for a Day make plans to see the sea lion show before the Trainer of the Day program.
Dolphins Plus, Mile Marker 100.5 , Key Largo, Florida Keys, (305) 451-1993 , 866-860-7946, www.dolphinsplus.com
Dolphins Plus offers environmental programs several times each day at their marine mammal facility. Swim and interaction program described as a natural free swim snorkeling. Fee varies depending on the program you choose.
Wild Dolphin Adventures , Key West, Florida Keys -
Eco-tour with Key West's resident pod of wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins in their natural home. http://www.wilddolphinadventures.com - CLICK HERE
Dolphin watching is a great family outing. Kids and adults alike get a major thrill seeing the wild dolphins and sometimes experience great interaction while snorkeling amongst them. At times the dolphins take extra interest in children just like humans get excited about seeing their babies. Dolphins are intelligent beings and know that the little ones are the young and need extra special care.
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In this Open Letter to the Permanent Representatives to the UN, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security provides recommendations in view of the 12th anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) and the according Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security on "The Role of Women's Civil Society Organizations in Contributing to the Prevention and Resolution of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding". The NGOWG urges the Security Council and all Member States to take strong action on all Women, Peace and Security obligations and to redress gaps in implementation.
On 29 October, the UN Security Council will mark the 12th anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) by holding an Open Debate on Women and peace and security with a focus on, "The Role of Women's Civil Society Organizations in Contributing to the Prevention and Resolution of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding." This debate is an opportunity for the Council and all Member States to take strong action on all women, peace and security obligations, and to redress gaps in implementation.
The focus on civil society reflects the central and pivotal role of women's groups in the work of peace and equality. This year, women's rights advocates from Afghanistan, Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Libya, and South Sudan, through support from the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security, met with policy makers in New York in advance of key Security Council decisions. Women's organizations and women's rights in Syria and in Mali have faced particular challenges and risks this year, as their countries erupted in violence.
The messages of these activists echo the demands of our network regarding the urgency of supporting women's rights defenders, and supporting women's participation in peace processes, in all aspects of the rebuilding of judicial, security, and political institutions, and in constitution drafting. They highlight the absolutely vital role of civil society, particularly women's civil society organizations, in the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda, and the necessity of supporting women's civil society organizations politically and financially.
It is the time for Member States, including Council Members, to move beyond words and commit to increasing their efforts to work with members of civil society.
It is in this same vein that we remind Member States that this year's Open Debate is not simply an opportunity to pay lip service to the work of women's civil society actors on the issues on the women, peace and security agenda. It is the time for Member States, including Council Members, to move beyond words and commit to increasing their efforts to work with members of civil society – both domestically and internationally – to identify more effective methods and steps to address the many remaining implementation deficits. In your statement for this Security Council Open Debate, and in your country's work on women, peace and security, we urge you to undertake the following points:
- Detail how you will ensure that in all support you provide to peace processes, both formal and informal, you concretely champion full participation and the inclusion of women's human rights in all outcomes. Women are still largely excluded from these processes, which all too often are not informed by gender expertise, and lack necessary gender elements. This is demonstrated in recent data in the Report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security,1 and in current peace processes in Colombia and Myanmar. We urge you to facilitate the inclusion of women, women's human rights, and gender expertise in the implementation of peace accords, including in DDR programs, SSR efforts, judicial reforms, and political and constitutional reforms;
- Provide details on the concrete support, including financial support, that you will provide to women's human rights defenders. These women face particular risks in conflict situations, often with little recognition or assistance. This is evident in the serious danger posed to women's human rights defenders, including those in Afghanistan, the DRC, and throughout the Middle East. It is also reflected in the lack of accountability for violations of women's human rights, particularly violations of international humanitarian and human rights law;
- Address specifically how your country will ensure national level implementation of women, peace and security obligations which must be designed via a participatory, transparent process of drafting, implementation, funding, and monitoring, involving civil society and women's organizations at all stages. At the national level, national action plans can be a potentially effective tool for implementation when designed following a holistic, inclusive, and comprehensive process;
- Regarding prevention, detail how your country will address the root causes of conflict, including by tackling militarization and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, as well as the underlying causes of human rights violations against women and girls in armed conflict, including gender discrimination. Member States and the Council, should, inter alia, support the inclusion of robust gender provisions in any forthcoming Arms Trade Treaty; and
- Detail the measures and steps your country will take to ensure that, when conflict prevention efforts fail, women and girls affected by conflict receive the support, protection, and services they are due. Details would be welcome regarding your state's efforts to address sexual violence in conflict, particularly ensuring these are long-term, systematic, and holistic projects that address survivor needs and perpetrator accountability, aimed at disabling the conditions that enable such attacks. This includes ensuring humanitarian efforts follow established good practice for gender- sensitive responses, which comprises specific support for those who are most at risk, including refugees, internally-displaced women and girls, those living with disabilities, and young women.
Finally, we ask you to recall that this open debate need not be yet another meeting held at United Nations Headquarters. This is an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions of civil society to international peace and security, and to take concrete steps to support these contributions. We call upon you to use this year's open debate to not just recognize the significant efforts made by women's civil society groups, but to identify how you can work with these groups to help realize the objectives of the women, peace and security agenda, which, as the Security Council has recognized, benefit not just women and girls but conflict-affected communities and countries as a whole.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information or to discuss these issues further.
Sarah Taylor
Executive Director, NGO WOrking Group on Women, Peace and Security


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In my previous blog on urban design I managed to avoid political waters for the most part. This is primarily due to the fact that I am moderate and a centrist and it turns my stomach to listen to folks on the fringes hurl insults at one another. As such I can't maintain an interest in politics, my mind moves on to other things. That said, the topic of today's blog is about as political as they come these days. Today, I humbly ask that you lower your political guard for a few moments and consider what I have to say a real-world example of something that has been abstracted and politicized.
Just so you know, I tend to lean right on political issues, but as I mentioned, I am a centrist and favor cooperation and collaboration over taking it to the mat to win every issue. As recently as nine months ago I was in total opposition to Obamacare. As a self-employed, small business owner the idea that my monthly rates were going to jump to pay for a bloated government program made me cranky. Because of the particulars of my situation I was grandfathered for a year before I had to convert to an ACA policy. During that grandfather period I was diagnosed with cancer.
Had the ACA not been in place by the time I was diagnosed, the Rushing family would have been financially ruined. The key was the pre-existing condition provision. If I went to the market as a self-employed, sole-proprietor with stage four cancer, no insurance company would have taken me. We certainly would not have been able to afford to pay for cancer care without insurance. Please note that this is not due to failure to plan on our part. We have followed the savings playbook to the letter- we have our 6-month buffer, religiously contribute to our retirement accounts, and have 529's set up for the boys. Despite that diligent work, the monumental cost of this cancer care will far eclipse to few farthings we've worked hard to save. Through its pre-existing conditions provision, the ACA has mitigated an unimaginable stress, and preserved a brighter future for the Rushings.
I hate to be "the drain on the system" that gets more out of the system than he pays in. But I can assure you that I didn't plan on getting cancer at age 42, and we can't trace a poor life decision that led to the cancer. I simply drew a short straw.
Part of the promise of the ACA is preventing illness from having catastrophic financial effects on people. I firmly believe in this premise, and have been a beneficiary of it. I hope as we move into election season that when we take our positions on this issue people realize that portions of the ACA make sense for everyone.
So that's off my chest, I really felt like I needed to say something. (Now don't go using this an excuse to flood my Facebook with political stuff- there's enough of that out there already. And I say that with love in my heart :) Until next time, Roll Tide ya'll!


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Archive for April, 2011
Dear Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister
You wrote a letter to the Business Council of Australia before going overseas, challenging it to declare whether it supports your government's target of reducing national carbon emissions by five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020?
I have now read the BCA answer and it fails to respond as it could/should have done in order, in turn, to require you to be more open about the proposed carbon tax.
The key issue, in my submission, is that your government has an emissions destination in 2020 but no publicly available roadmap of how it will be reached.
I should like to pose the following questions to you:
First, in the absence of a new global agreement on climate change policy, do you commit the government to maintaining the national target at the present level? As it stands, it is not a weak target, as the Greens would have it, but a huge task and any move to increase it would have serious implications.
Second, can you state what level of carbon abatement the government seeks from electricity generation in pursuit of the existing target, currently estimated to require a total reduction of 160 million tonnes annually by 2020? As well, where do you expect to achieve the balance of the cuts beyond electricity-related emissions?
Third, noting that almost 30 million tonnes a year of abatement is predicted by your government to be achieved through the renewable energy target in its present form, can you state what the carbon price will need to be to deliver the balance of the electricity-related reduction in emissions in 2020? I believe it will need to be much more than double the $20 figure the Climate Change Minister has been using if it is to involve the closure of a number of coal-fired power stations.
Fourth, will you release the advice your government has received from ABARES and Geoscience Australia about electricity demand in 2020, the make-up of the generation mix at that point and the expected level of emissions? We have the 2030 forecasts in the energy assessment document, but the projections for 2020 are key to judging efforts to attain your abatement target.
Fifth, what measures other than the carbon tax is your government considering using to reduce the growth in electricity demand between now and 2020 – for example, are you planning to introduce a mandatory end-user efficiency target or to legislate for a higher RET? The public is entitled to know this, I believe, after the misunderstanding about your carbon policy intentions during the 2010 federal election campaign.
Sixth, will you release the full text of the key Treasury advice to the government on electricity prices? The advice produced by the department in October and December last year – and released under the Freedom of Information legislation this year – is minus 64 pages, almost all its content. We are entitled, I believe, to ask you what your government is hiding from us?
Seventh, allowing for the introduction of a carbon price and other higher power costs, does your government accept the Port Jackson Partners' view (as contained in the BCA infrastructure report of late 2009, re-iterated by the Australian Industry Group earlier this year) that the electricity price on the east coast in 2015 will be double what it was in 2008?
Eighth, has your government sought advice on the impact on the national economy of this price development and will you release this advice to the community?
Ninth, is it correct, as public servants indicated to the Senate Estimates hearings earlier this year, that the government has not required the Treasury to model the impact of a carbon price since the work done in 2008? Will you order updated modelling to be undertaken before proposing legislation and undertake to provide it in full to the Parliament before the carbon tax is again debated?
These questions, and your answers, are critical to a full understanding by the community of what we face when your government, with the support of the Greens and the independents, moves to legislate for a carbon price in the third quarter of this year.
Given the importance of adequate electricity supply at an affordable price to economic growth and national prosperity, and thus to employment and household budgets, it is hard to understand why the information outlined above should not be made available.
Keith Orchison
Editor, "Powering Australia" yearbook, Director of Coolibah Pty Ltd and former Managing Director of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia (1991-2003)
Where's the horse?
Suppose you are running a business and you want to go in a bold new direction that provides very interesting opportunities but also carries quite large risks. How do you go about it?
You decide what you would like to achieve. You draw up a plan to reach this goal. You test the elements of the plan and you establish a timeline for pursuing it. You cost it rigorously to ensure that you can afford what you want to do.
Above all, you are honest with yourself about the risks. In truth, this is the point at which more than a few business people lose the plot. Just read the newspapers.
Importantly, you are honest with your shareholders, if you have such.
You are free to run over a cliff on your lonesome.
If you have fellow travellers, they are entitled to know exactly what is going on. The law has a few things to say about this point for businesses.
Against this background, consider what the federal government is up to with its decarbonisation plan.
We have a goal – to cut emissions by five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020 – but very little understanding in the public arena of what this means.
Above all, we don't have a roadmap, even though the government has been pursuing its goal for more than three years.
The central problem is that a crucial part of the roadmap, the energy white paper promised by Kevin Rudd on assuming office, has not been produced.
After initial delays – it is a huge task – the expectation was that the paper would appear in 2010, but Rudd's personal political train wreck helped to derail this.
The government is now saying the white paper won't be available until late next year.
Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin said in a speech on 1 April that the process needed to be restarted after last year's election.
"I remain committed to finalising (it) by the end of 2012," he said.
The big, big difficulty with this timing is that the federal government is determined to push through the carbon price legislation late this year so that it can take effect in July 2012.
This is putting the cart so far in front of the horse that they are not even in the same town.
Decarbonising energy supply and use is not the only means of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Indeed, the energy industry is adamant that it must not be.
But stationary energy emissions – as opposed to those from vehicle tailpipes – are central to the decarbonisation plan.
The 2020 target currently stands at 160 million tonnes of annual abatement.
This is higher than it was when Rudd announced the goal because continuing growth in domestic fossil-fuelled energy production keeps making the target bigger.
It is likely, I think, to be about 200 million tonnes in reality by the decade's end – which is equivalent to the total emissions from power generation today.
To put this in context, note that the renewable energy target scheme, on the government's calculations, will deliver 30 million tonnes a year of abatement in 2020, assuming the RET can be made to work properly.
At present, partly because of silly decisions to use it also to subsidise solar photovoltaics, the RET market is in a mess and about $4 billion worth of wind farm development is parked in corporate "pending" files.
Another $15 billion worth of wind planning is stalled behind this.
It is wholly illogical to commit to a carbon price regime without the energy white paper, but speeding up production of the latter is easier said than done.
So why not bring the deadline for its delivery forward, perhaps to mid-2012, and delay a decision about the carbon tax until the full picture is available?
Of course, this may be more than Julia Gillard's political life is worth.
However, without a new energy policy approach as the horse, Julia Gillard's carbon cart actually is going nowhere, no matter how she and Combet paint it, no matter how many ribbons they tie to it and no matter how loudly they cry "Gee up!"
And coming up with a heavily-laden cart now, then producing a horse to pull it in a year's time is no way to travel.
More questions
It's an art form to deliver a long speech on a major policy while imparting the least possible information.
Greg Combet managed it at the National Press Club, Canberra, this week.
His eight-page speech entitled "Tackling climate change in the national interest," contains exactly five short sentences of what might be seen as new information.
The most interesting of these sentences is the assertion that "millions of households will be better off under the carbon price."
Now there are, in round terms, about nine million householders in Australia.
How do I know?
I look at the number of residential customers listed in the Energy Supply Association yearbook. At 30 June 2009 the number exceeded 8.6 million. Allowing for annual growth, it will now be close to nine million.
My understanding is that there are roughly three million households classified as low income.
The denizens of the Press Club could have asked Combet how many of the remaining six million will given "generous assistance" – his expression. They didn't.
He said that pensioners and low and middle income households will be a priority, but he did not repeat the claim that the Labor Party made last year that "90 per cent of all households will receive assistance."
His predecessor, Penny Wong, also claimed in one of her speeches promoting the Rudd government's CPRS that "8.1 million working families" would receive "$660 a year on average" in compensation under the original scheme.
The Sydney Morning Herald recalls that, under the Rudd scheme, singles earning up to $30,000 a year and dual-income families with two small children earning up to $100,000 would receive compensation.
Combet also asserted at the Press Club that "demand for clean energy will grow because it will become cheaper relative to the current cost of burning coal for electricity."
Which forms of clean energy does he have in mind?
His government believes that most of the change that will occur between now and 2030 will be through the use of gas for power generation, taking it up six-fold to 37 per cent of the electricity supplied at that point.
It believes renewable energy will be at 20 per cent of demand in 2030, driven by the renewable energy target.
It believes that coal-fired power supply will be just a fifth less in 2030, in terms of actual output, than it is today.
The $20 per tonne carbon price Combet used in his speech as an example of the cost impact on steel and aluminium producers will not bring about a massive change in the electricity industry's current emissions.
It is unlikely to even drive the switch to baseload gas generation to meet new demand requirements.
It won't be enough to help the wind industry overcome the problem that renewable energy certificates, as a result of the RET subsidies for solat power, are now too low in value to justify building new farms.
The purpose of a carbon price is not to encourage householders to be more energy efficient – and why would they be if heavily compensated? – but to ensure that resources for power generation other than coal overcome their current cost disadvantages.
Beyond 2030, it will require a price sufficiently high to enable renewable energy to overtake gas as a major resource. (Nuclear power is banned, remember.) But that is for the longer term.
The immediate future is 2020 and the government's abatement target for then will not be achieved by a $20 carbon price this decade.
Federal Treasury, in recently released documents, canvasses a $40 per tonne price with a $1,100 overall annual household impact, if the tax includes petrol.
What level of compensation does the government have it mind? And for whom?
How can it commit future governments to ensure that the compensation it proposes to make available will be "permanent," as Combert claims?
An unkind critic could suggest that Combet's speech raises more questions than it answers.
Time, risk and cost
The 3,200 delegates at the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association conference in Perth this week have been exposed to a rare bird.
Joseph Stanislaw, independent senior adviser to Deloitte, is a towering figure in global thinking on energy issues.
He advises companies and countries on strategies to deal with the risks and opportunities in the evolving marketplace.
He was the co-founder with Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the co-author with him of the prize-winning book "The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy," which was turned in to a six-hour documentary aired on television around the world in 2002-03.
Not being able to be in Perth this week – I have missed only four APPEA conferences since 1981, having overseen 11 of them as the association's manager – I interviewed Stanislaw at long distance and his comments underline why delegates will have found his keynote address of more than passing interest.
Orchison: Over my time running industry associations, I came to the conclusion that three four-letter words sum up all that is critical to energy supply: time, risk and cost. As issues, they are far more complicated now than, say, back in the 1980s when the North-West Shelf project was being commissioned. Are today's generation of leaders able to manage this?
Stanislaw: Your three four-letter words appropriately sum up the challenge of the world energy industry. Having worked in the energy world since 1975, I think these words are as appropriate now as then. They are no more a challenge now than they were then and I say this knowing full well that in the past year the world has experienced an unpredictable series of catastrophic events that the "probabilities" said would not happen. We had some of these events in the past, but not to the degree and sequence that we do now. When these events happened in the 1970s and 1980s, it meant that, for any given project, regulation and risk would go up, costs would increase and time to develop the project would lengthen. This is exactly what is happening now. I think your three four-letter words must be placed on everyone's forehead.
Orchison: I think your concept in your recent writings and interviews of the world turned upside down is extremely apt, but is it fair to say that the biggest mistake now would be to assume that the new paradigm is where it is at? Is it really possible today to make grand plans for 2040 and 2050?
Stanislaw: The starting point is that, once the world settles in to what we may think is a new paradigm, it will not stay in that paradigm very long and change will happen. I think the only constant of any paradigm is that change and uncertainty are facts of life. Grand plans that try to lay out each step for the next 40-50 years are impossible, but it is important to try to have a vision of where the world might go. Vision needs to incorporate the uncertainties and possibilities for the unexpected to happen. Often the unexpected and the unknown are a very happy surprise. We can't have plans that don't allow for the surprises, good and bad. We are dealing today with large infrastructure development projects that often take 10 to 15 years to realise. For example, if one is thinking right now of large-scale nuclear development, if one did not have a plan in place now, one would not have the plants in place in 2025.
Orchison: Fukushima has hurtled in to the perceived future of nuclear energy like a bowling ball clobbering ninepins. What are the core messages nuclear, coal and gas proponents should be taking away? Should governments be spending even more on carbon capture and sequestration?
Stanislaw: Fukushima highlights the direction of your first question – those three four-letter words. Whether it is nuclear or oil or coal or natural gas, the message is clear: the public, and thus the politicians, are going to be stressing more vigorously about environmental risks, costs and social impacts. This affects how long it will take to develop any projects, the costs of those projects and the willingness of the public to accept the risks. The basic facts of life are that every energy supply source has risk attached to it in some sense or dimension. Different people view those risks differently. It all comes down to "time, risk and cost." These three words apply to China and every place in the world.
Cooking with gas
It says something about the vibrant state of Australia's upstream petroleum industry, and about concerns with policy issues affecting both exploration and production, that more than 3,200 people are attending the 51st annual Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association conference in Perth, starting on Sunday.
This is a 23 per cent increase on the record set at APPEA's 50th conference in Brisbane last year, 12 months in which a fair amount has changed in terms of the Australian scene.
As chief executive of the association from 1980 to 1991, I am fascinated by the huge increase in attendance – the record in my time was about 800 people, I think – and by the 160 organisations in the service sector that have booked 8,000 square metres of space in Perth Convention Centre in the associated exhibition as well as by how gas has overwhelmed oil as the centre of attention in the forum in the past 10 years.
Through the 1980s the search for oil and the policies impacting on oil-related exploration and production were the dominant conference topics as the upstream industry engaged with the Fraser and Hawke governments
Underpinning the conference participation today is the fact that Australia is on its way to become a superpower in the international gas market, driven both by the huge resources located offshore the north-west and northern coasts and onshore in Queensland and by this country's strategic position alongside the fastest-growing demands areas in Asia. Export of Australian LNG could rise eight-fold between now and the middle of the next decade.
The demand outlook has been changed yet again between APPEA conferences – first by the "shale gas revolution" in the US, with its implications for the global market, second by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, inevitably leading to higher gas needs by Australia's largest LNG customer and third by the revival of the national carbon tax proposal after Prime Minister Julia Gillard said during the federal election in August last year that it was not on her agenda for a new term in office.
"Australia is not in the (world energy) anteroom," observes Dr Joe Stanislaw, the US-based Deloitte global senior adviser on energy issues and a consultant to governments and major companies, a keynote speaker at the conference.
Premier Colin Barnett is happy to add: "Western Australia is the place to be," calling the gas discoveries adjacent to the State "Australia's most valuable natural resource."
Barnett claims that the potential gas resource offshore WA is likely to be more than 200 trillion cubic feet. To put this in context, one needs to understand that just three trillion cubic feet of gas will provide enough feedstock for an LNG project producing two million tonnes annually for 20 years. Australia as a whole today only consumes one trillion cubic feet of gas annually.
Critical factors for local development include national taxation policy, the proposed carbon price regime, the growing problems with environmental issues both in Western Australia and in Queensland's farming areas,a strong renewed focus on offshore drilling safety issues after recent disasters, the value of the Aussie dollar, project development costs, ongoing global financial constraints and the escalating problem of finding an adequate number of skilled workers for projects worth scores of billions of dollars. Just the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects in WA will require some 16,500 workers.
The proposed carbon charge is probably the largest cloud on the industry's horizon.
APPEA chief executive Belinda Robinson warns that a poorly-designed policy could impose a burden on local LNG developers not shared by their international competitors at a time when this country is seen as an expensive location for gas development because of high labour and material costs.
Reuters reports analysts' calculations that the local developments are among the world's most expensive.
Robinson is calling for a policy that goes beyond treating Australian LNG projects as a trade-exposed, energy-intensive industry to one that "loudly and unashamedly celebrates the magnificant opportunity" the industry offers for the domestic economy and the international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost wholly obscured by all this is the issue that has dominated APPEA conferences for most of the past half century: this country's requirements for liquid fuels.
Federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson revealed at the Brisbane conference last year that the net deficit in these fuels now stands at $16 billion a year and is heading towards $30 billion annually by 2015-16. The deficit was $12 billion in 2008.
If the federal government's carbon charges drove the petroleum refining industry out of Australia, as it very well might by the end of the decade, this problem will take on even greater strategic significance.
The other side of this coin is that, on the latest calculations by ABARES, the government's commodity advice agency, exports of LNG may be earning more than $21 billion a year by 2015-16, almost 40 per cent higher than today.
A critical issue for Australia is the development of a long-term strategic energy plan that covers all these issues and a number more, including electricity supply.
Ferguson said on 1 April that he is committed to having the much-delayed energy white paper delivered by the end of 2012.
Many in the energy industry will see this as too long to wait for this important signal on national policy, while decrying the government driving ahead with a carbon price regime without the all-important roadmap to the future.
With about 40 journalists attending the APPEA conference, Ferguson and other keynote speakers will be treated to some close scrutiny of their opinions over the next week.
In the public interest
As put-downs go, it is rather noteworthy.
Federal Resources & Energy Minister Martin Ferguson found himself speaking at a forum on strategic priorities for energy market development just as Ross Garnaut's badmouthing of electricity distribution businesses and the networks regulator was bursting in to the media headlines.
Garnaut won media attention with comments about "gouging" and "gold-plating" and the "weak" oversight of the Australian Energy Regulator.
This is what Ferguson said:
"We know that we have seen significant increases in distribution regulatory determinations in recent years.
"Part of this reflects the need to strengthen the network to cope with rising peak demand. This investment also reflects the age of the network.
"Getting the 'right' level of network expenditure is extra-ordinarily complex. There is always a balance between maintaining reliability and cost to the community.
"We must remember that lack of reliability imposes significant costs on the community.
"The establishment of the regulatory regime for the network sector is deliberately at arms length to government in order to maintain investor confidence.
"While Ross Garnaut has a role to play in advising the multi-party climate change committee, he does not speak for the (federal) government, nor for the (CoAG) Ministerial Council on Energy.
"The regulatory framework for Australia's energy sector is leading edge and, as such, the Ministerial Council on Energy and the energy market bodies often review different aspects of our regulatory environment to ensure that it delivers optimal outcomes for the community.
"In undertaking its long-term policy work, the Ministerial Council, which consists of nine energy ministers, seeks to operate away from the spotlight of the daily media cycle. It is not in the public interest to trivialise these matters in a high level public debate over the network regulatory regime.
"The market bodies and institutions already exist and have responsibility for finding the appropriate balance between reliability and value to the community.
"Electricity prices are currently a topical issue in the community.
"Residential electricity prices have increased by about 40 per cent over the past three years and are forecast to increase in the order of 30 per cent in the three years to June 2013.
"As those who study these issues, will know, there is no quick fix to rising prices.
"Trying to suppress prices ultimately leads to pain in the future when catch-up is required, as some jurisdictions are now finding.
"Prices reflect the cost of investment to maintain and replace ageing assets to ensure that the community gets the reliability it has come to expect.
"It is also important to recognise the complications that arise from peak demand growth, which is rising faster than underlying demand.
"Since 2005 peak demand in the national electricity market has grown by 3.5 per cent per year compared with growth of 1.2 per cent in energy demand.
"(This) means that we are spending billions of dollars on capital that will be utilised on a handful of occasions each year.
"For instance, 12.5 per cent of the capacity in the $8 billion south-east Queensland distribution network — $900 million of capital – is used on only three and a half days a year."
I can't remember when last I have read a ministerial statement and been able to say I agree with every word.
I just wish that Ferguson's comments could reach a wider audience than the 4,600 people who currently visit the Coolibah website each month to read the newsletter and this blog. Pass them on.
Too much sun
You will not find a better commentary illustrating the problems that can arise with populist energy policies than the latest research paper published by Paul Simshauser and his economics group at AGL Energy.
Simshauser is AGL's chief economist and moonlights as professor of finance at Griffith University. Tim Nelson is head of the firm's economic policy and sustainability unit and an adjunct research fellow at the University of New South Wales. They have teamed up with Simon Kelley, AGL's manager energy policy and regulation, to produce a review of solar power feed-in tariffs as the latest in a baker's dozen of economic policy working papers published since 2008.
The commentary will be balm to the soul of federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson, who has been resisting pressure for a national solar feed-in tariff for years and copping lots of environmentalist flak for his pains. Ferguson told federal parliament a while back: "Premium feed-in tariffs create an additional burden on electricity consumers."
"Darned right" would be a two-word summary of the paper by Nelson, Simshauser and Kelley (which is now published on the AGL website). The current FiT arrangements being pursued in the ACT and the States are a regressive form of taxation, they argue.
What's more, the trio shoot a big hole in a piece of propaganda pursued by the environmental movement to support FiTs.
The green movement, using postcode addresses of people who rushed to buy solar PV systems in Sydney under the outrageously generous Keneally government scheme, points to the higher take-up in the western suburbs versus the lower north, inner west and eastern suburbs to claim that the policy supports lower-income people.
But some digging in to AGL's customer base tells a different story.
Fifty-five per cent of those among its customers in NSW who rushed to take up PVs earn more than $62,000 a year versus 15 per cent in the low income category (ie under $26,000). And 56 per cent of the customers taking up PVs live in homes worth $600,000 and more.
Doing some mathematical footwork involving costs and household income, the AGL trio come to the conclusion that the solar policy's impacts fall 2.6 times more heavily on low-income households (as the cost of the scheme is smeared across all consumers) than on the better-off homes.
A poor public policy outcome, they say, because the FiT becomes a cross-subsidy of wealth from lower to higher income earners.
On the other hand, they point out, the large federal renewable energy target scheme ensures that all consumers benefit in proportion to their spending on energy.
There is another point.
Nelson and Co explain it thus: "Only householders that own their their homes can install solar PV systems. As such, the proportion of the population incurring the highest incidence of (this) taxation, those renting, are unlikely to be able to take advantage of the policy."
The conclusion is straightforward: "Australian FiT policies funded through higher tariffs on all other consumers are fundamentally regressive."
There are now 140 MW of solar PV on rooftops in New South Wales and about 510 MW nationally.
Nelson, Simshauser and Kelley also point out that there is no available analysis to support claims that the take-up of solar PV has network benefits – and it is network costs that are the primary driver of the current round of much higher power bills.
Their overall conclusion: "FiT policies internalise the benefits for wealthy households and result in a disproportionately higher effective taxation rate on lower income households. They should be gradually reduced and eliminated."
Or, to quote Martin Ferguson: "Maintaining the least-cost approach to stimulating investment in renewable generation that is represented by the RET will minimise the impact on electricity prices and vulnerable consumers."
Which leads me to repeat the admonition from Martin Parkinson, previously federal Secretary for Climate Change, now Secretary of the Treasury, that placing a 1.5 kW solar array on every household rooftop in Australia by 2020 at today's technology costs would run up a capital outlay bill of about $200 billion and deliver only 16 million tonnes of annual abatement.
The obvious landing point for policymakers is that, if we are going to subsidise solar development, it is better by far to support large-scale projects through direct grants (as in the federal government's Solar Flagship program, which is supposed to hand over $1.5 billion to attract twice as much in investor contributions) and via the RET.
All of which just reinforces the fact that pursuing piecemeal and ill-analysed green schemes for party political advantage – or even with an honest, but misguided desire for environmental benefits – without working from a detailed, long-term, national roadmap for decarbonising the economy is the dim bulb way to advance this cause.
Mushroom treatment
Is it possible to deliver a speech about China's efforts to curb its emissions of carbon dioxide over the next two decades without ever mentioning its massive nuclear power plans?
It is if you are Climate Change Minister Greg Combet.
On 30 March Combet spoke at the Australian National University forum on climate change activity here and in China. His talk is on his ministerial website. It runs to five pages. It never mentions nuclear power once.
He contrived to repeat this trick in an Op-Ed piece in The Australian newspaper on April Fool's Day.
Combet plays up the huge Chinese investment in renewable energy and the ongoing activity to close old, inefficient coal-burning plants but avoids talking about the large-scale coal and nuclear development replacing them.
He notes that coal's contribution to Chinese electricity generation will fall from 79 per cent now to 55 per cent in 2035, but fails to point out that this is 55 per cent of a hugely-increased power supply, resulting in emissions rising sharply, not falling.
(This mirrors the Australian government forecast that its policies will drive down local coal-fired generation to 43 per cent of demand by 2030 and its failure to ever point out that, because there will be a much higher electricity output, the actual amount of coal-fuelled power will be 150,000 GWh a year then versus 200,000 GWh now.)
Combet says the right policies will ensure that Australia remains "competitive in the inevitable low-pollution, clean energy world of the future."
Which future is this?
It isn't the one in the 2030s when global emissions will be billions of tonnes per year higher than they are today and coal and natural gas will still be the major power generation fuels.
We live in a world where, for example, the ALP has gone in 16 years from being the dominant political party in our largest State to being almost destroyed at the last election – and where, under a series of Labor governments talking up their green credentials at every turn, burning coal to make electricity in New South Wales has risen by about a third to 30 million tonnes a year today.
The federal Labor government, in its national energy assessment, forecasts that Australian generation will be 80 per cent fossil-fuelled in 2030 and, by implication, most of the existing NSW coal plants will still be in production.
Combet, whose parliamentary seat is in the Hunter Valley, dwells on none of this.
How does the 2030 national energy assessment square with "the inevitable low-pollution, clean energy world of the future" in an investment environment where his political party eschews all thought of using nuclear power – and where Ross Garnaut says the carbon scheme should replace the renewable energy target after 2020?
It is this tendency to government Orwellian rhetoric and dissimulation that requires us to treat everything said by the key federal ministers – Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, Combet – with caution at best and scepticism in the main.
In his ANU speech Combet said this: "Every cent of the revenue raised (through the proposed carbon charge) from the large polluters will be used to assist families with household bills, support jobs in the most affected industries and invest in programs to tackle climate change."
Leave aside the fact that closing down all Australia's emitting industries would have no effect whatever on the impact of rising emissions in the atmosphere – and that what we are setting out to do is to encourage the really big emitting nations to make massive carbon cuts by imposing pain on ourselves as an example, although the prospects of most of our competitors following suit are near to zero.
Just focus on Combet committing sufficient government revenue from the carbon price to "assist families."
Three days after he spoke, media access to Treasury documents through the freedom of information legislation revealed that the "hit" of a $30 a tonne tax on the average household will amount to $860 a year (including $218 for electricity) and a $40 charge will add $1,100.
One of the Treasury documents suggests that direct cash payments to households will be the best way to alleviate this pain.
For 10 million households this would cost about $8.6 billion a year (at the lower price) before money was spent on assisting energy-intensive industries and greater support for low-emission energy developments.
A $30 charge would raise about $7.5 billion a year from the electricity generators, but it is way below what is needed (estimated to be $50 per tonne) to start driving existing coal plant out of the market.
How many "families" will be compensated at what level and for how long – in a national economic environment where already Gillard is talking up the need for a "tough" federal budget next month?
By the way, all this focus on a carbon price is going on while there is speculation (by entities like Fitch Ratings agency) that the worsening of unrest in the Middle East could briefly drive the world oil price to $200 a barrel and see it settle in the $90 to $150 range in the early years of this decade.
Combet at the ANU never referred to the need for care in adding significantly to domestic energy costs at a time when the oil price may be going through the roof.
What advice one wonders are agencies like the highly-regarded Office of National Assessments giving the government about the oil price risks for a country facing a net trade deficit in liquid fuels of $30 billion annually by 2015? Shouldn't we be told?
The truth is that Combet's ANU speech is a metaphor for the poverty of the information being made available to the community in the carbon debate and for the low-down deviousness of political rhetoric on this issue.
One final point: it is my understanding that we will see a draft energy white paper from the government late this year, ahead of a final policy statement in 2012 – months after it proposes to drive the carbon price through parliament.
Go figure, as the saying has it. Except that we can't because Combet & Co are giving us the mushroom treatment.


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A nice thing about Kaiserreich is how neat and simple tech tree is after Road to 56. The less nice is how complicated focus trees are, so I needed to figure out what those choices even mean eventually.
The war was a lot of fun, fighting with militia, and nothing even resembling 7inf 2art. I had to leave gaps in frontline to even have enough 6militia units for some offensive. But my enemies suffered from similar shortages, I had a lot of military factories in my focuses, so I managed to win - first getting Washington, then going up Atlantic Coast, and then rolling West.
Mexico tried to use our civil war to grab some land, but that war stalled, so they got nothing.
After we won, just days before WK2, somehow 80% of US was not our cores, and it only slowly became it by events, events costing pp. I find this annoying.
I had some time to setup proper division templates and for increasing my armies drastically. Going from 2 to 80 mil factories feels good.
There were two probems - Pacific States joined the Entente, so any war of reunification meant conquering Canada. And French Syndicalists took Berlin, asking me to join Mitteleuropa and the war. How about no?
As Canada was the only major power in Entente, and their whole population is within a few day's walk from AUS border, I got not only Pacific States and Canada, but most of Entente's lands, where I setup a bunch of puppets.
Coming next - revenge on Mexico. Eventually I'll need to fix Europe, but I have fraction of original US fleet.
EDIT: And I got Mexico and Centroamerica, and couldn't be bothered to continue beyond that point.
So we start as least populous, and least industrial part of the US. Pope sent two divisions, but they did nothing. At least we got a lot of militia - 300k vs 500k each for both our enemies.
Quick land grab moved borders here. Maybe expansion West was a bad idea, and I should have focused exclusively on pushing North - I don't really have enough troops to even man frontlines I have, but then neither have my enemies.
The decisive fight - Syndicalist armies never recovered from losing that many divisions. 1 division of French volunteers delayed fall of Boston for months, as somehow volunteers ignore supply system, and it was regulars to my under-equipped militias.
After surprisingly quick war against Entente I setup own faction (needed console to invite own puppets). West India is in my faction as well. I think my best route to victory would be moving my armies to India and going to Europe from there - I don't think tiny African colonies will be of much use.


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Two tinned infant formula samples not in compliance with nutrition label rules
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (July 28) announced that the manganese and iodine contents of two tinned infant formula samples were found to be inconsistent with the declared values on their nutrition labels. The CFS urged the trade to stop selling the affected batches of the products immediately.
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"The CFS collected the above two infant formula samples from a supermarket in Causeway Bay for testing under its routine Food Surveillance Programme. The results of chemical analysis showed a discrepancy between the actual manganese content (24µg per 100g) and the declared content (40µg per 100g) on the nutrition label of the sample with a best-before date of October 28, 2019, and a discrepancy between the actual iodine content (60µg per 100g) and the declared content (130µg per 100g) on the nutrition label of the other sample with a best-before date of January 26, 2020," a spokesman for the CFS said.
"The CFS has informed the vendor concerned of the irregularities and the vendor concerned has stopped sale and removed from shelves the affected batches of the product according to the instructions of the CFS. The CFS is tracing the source and distribution of the affected products," he added.
According to Section 61 of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap 132), if any person falsely describes a food or misleads as to the nature, substance or quality of the food on a label of the food sold by him, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to a maximum fine of $50,000 and six months' imprisonment upon conviction.
The CFS will inform the trade, continue to follow up on the case and take appropriate action.
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The company reported a net loss of $3 million in FY10, but this was a 41% improvement on its losses from the previous year.
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FALLING WATERS. W.Va. - A bridge over Interstate 81 that was damaged on Thursday afternoon has reopen, West Virginia transportation authorities said Friday.
The bridge carrying Spring Mills Road over I-81 was damaged on Thursday when it was struck by a truck hauling a large scrap bucket.
The driver, John R. Robertson, 61, of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, was charged with failing to follow his permit.
The West Virginia Department of Highways detoured both southbound I-81 lanes immediately following the accident. Engineers spent most of the day on Friday assessing the extent of the damage. They opened the road at about 6 p.m., said Bruce DeHaven, interstate supervisor for the department.
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Hello guys,
one of the most beautiful cities in Germany I visited, is Duesseldorf. This is my first time here and first for Vogue Fashion Night Out in Duesseldorf, so I was more than excited. This is a place where you find a mix from art, new and old architecture, fashion, trade fairs and center of financial and business. The photos are shot at Hyatt Hotel, Radisson Blue and Old Town.
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Er, Terra, he said he has a cold, not that he is cold.
Save the energy and put on a sweater and use a blanket. That's more fun anyways.
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