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Florida recently announced that it has selected Escambia County Commissioner Grover C. Robinson, IV, to participate as a member of its 2015-16 Annual Class Program. Each year, the program selects Florida's finest leaders to participate in an eight-month curriculum to learn about statewide topics of concern and opportunities, while also encouraging interaction among the State's leadership.

Florida, Inc. Senior Attorney was recognized for her leadership and community service to the Pensacola community with the EscambiaSanta Rosa Bar Association’s 2015 Community Service Award. Powell, co-chair of its Pro Bono Committee, has demonstrated her leadership abilities by coordinating disaster relief efforts in Pensacola as well as serving as chairperson on the Statewide Disaster Umbrella Group.

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losers Scott’s website to make all emails available on demand has failed. Scott has quit using his government email account apparently.

Meanwhile Councilman Charles Bare asked the council to pass a policy that all city business be conducted only through the city’s server. He failed to garner enough support.

Gmail rules.

OHM Concession locations at the airport.

Travelers have complained about the long lines on Sundays because the gift shop can not sell water. City staff cites the St. Louisbased vendor needs exclusive rights to the bottled water to recover its million-dollar investment. Really? That must be some mighty fine H2O. Adam Sandler should be hawking it.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION The Department of Veteran Affairs says it has a $2.6 billion budget shortfall. If Congress doesn’t act in the next two weeks, the VA will be forced to shut down all its hospital operations. Why isn’t the president declaring an emergency and helping find a solution?

DONALD TRUMP The Republican presi-

dential candidate will do nearly anything for a headline. Going after Sen. John McCain was too much, and he may eventually pay the price as moderate Republicans look elsewhere. Sadly the polls still have the real estate mogul near the top of the field of GOP hopefuls.

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by Rick Outzen

OFF LIMITS For some reason, Donald Trump decided to go after Sen. John McCain. The real estate mogul depends on snappy quips to give momentum to his presidential campaign.

Tired of beating on Jeb Bush, Trump mocked McCain for being called a war hero.

He told Republican pollster Frank Luntz, "He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, ok? I hate to tell you."

McCain, who was the Republican nominee for president in 2008, shrugged off the remark, but his supporters and fellow military veterans were offended. They have been quick to point out that McCain, a Navy pilot who trained at NAS Pensacola, spent over five years as a prisoner of war in the "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War. He and his fellow prisoner, the late Bud Day of Fort Walton Beach, were repeatedly tortured by their captors.

Meanwhile, Trump, who must see himself as a winner, received four student deferments and one medical deferment to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. Trump’s quip brought into question whether the billionaire is fit to be the commander-in-chief of our military. Several have called for him to drop out of the race. His competitors for the Republican nomination asked him to tone down the rhetoric.

Frontrunner Jeb Bush tweeted on Saturday, “Enough with the slanderous attacks. @ SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans - par-

ticularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration."

This isn’t the first time presidential politics has generated attacks on a war hero. In 2004, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s military record was attacked. Kerry received several medals for his service in Vietnam, including several Purple Heart medals for injuries he sustained in combat.

The political group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth questioned the circumstances surrounding the medals. All the charges were contradicted by the official military records and his fellow crewmates who praised his courage. McCain called the attacks "dishonest and dishonorable."

It would have been nice in 2004 if others had agreed with McCain and fought to denounce the attacks on Kerry. Kerry never got an apology, and it appears McCain won’t either.

He doesn’t expect one for himself, but one is still due.

When he asked if he wanted an apology from Trump, McCain said, "I don't think so, but I think he may owe an apology to the families of those who have sacrificed in conflict and those who have undergone the prison experience in serving our country."

Some boundaries are needed in our political discourse. Let’s agree that attacking prisoners of war and decorated war heroes is off limits. {in} rick@inweekly.net

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HAYWARD SIDESTEPS STUDER LEASES

The Studers’ proposed UWF School of Entrepreneurship

By Rick Outzen For the past month, the hottest topic in downtown Pensacola has been the Studers’ proposal to investment $20 million to build the UWF Center for Entrepreneurship, a conference center and other facilities on three parcels at the Community Maritime Park.

Mayor Ashton Hayward praised the proposal before the editorial board of the daily newspaper. The Pensacola City Council reviewed the concepts at its June 18 workshop and asked the leases be returned for discussion before its July 16 regular meeting.

However, the leases were not included on the council agenda for its July meeting.

The mayor’s office had done little to work out the contracts. Instead Mayor Hayward, Chief Operations Officer Tamara Fountain and Council President Andy Terhaar drafted a resolution that took the parcels off the market for 60 days and instructed the city’s attorneys to comeback with leases during that timeframe.

Because the resolution had not been included on the July 16 agenda, Terhaar had to call a special meeting, which was held before the regular meeting, to discuss it.

Meanwhile, the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees held a

meeting on July 15. Tired of waiting for the mayor’s office to act, the board approved leases for parcels 3, 6 and 9 and delivered the contracts to the mayor’s office the next day.

Despite having the leases and the Studers asking them not to take the parcels off the market, the Pensacola City Council approved the resolution.

Mayor Ashton Hayward spoke at the meeting, praising the CMPA board for its efforts and reaffirming his support for the Studers’ projects. He believed the attorneys could work out the leases in less than 60 days.

He said, "We have good attorneys that can move us down the road ... There are just tweaks we need to do to the lease, and we are ready to go."

At the meeting, Quint Studer stood before the council and told them that he and his wife didn’t want the city council to take the parcels off the market while the city’s attorneys “tweaked” the leases.

“This week after months of meetings, your agent for leasing–the CMPA, overwhelmingly took the position that this proposal needed to move forward immediately and took steps to make that happen,” Studer said. “They did not need to approve anything ‘in concept’ or take their property off the market for 60 days; rather, they took action and approved the sub-leases for these parcels.”

He said, “Please know we have never asked you to stop marketing these parcels.

“We have good attorneys that can move us down the road."

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While we believe our proposal is the highest and best development in existence right now, if there is something better, we will gladly step aside.”

The Studers wanted the city council and mayor’s office to give a firm deadline for when the leases would be brought back to the council for discussion and a vote.

After all, the CMPA had given the city approved leases for the parcels. Lisa Minshew, attorney for the CMPA, told the daily newspaper that she thought the mayor’s office could complete its review of the leases and make its minor changes in 48 hours.

“If there are tweaks or adjustments required to finalize these leases, we are happy to sit down and talk about it, but with all due respect we do not need 60 days to come to a decision,” Studer said.

“We feel like we’ve carried this project about as far as we can carry it. It is now up to you and the Mayor to decide how urgent this project is to you.”

In the “Alice and Wonderland” world of Pensacola city government, the Studers got what they didn’t want and walked away with a vague deadline that the leases will be brought back sometime in the next 60 days.

Mayor Hayward, COO Fountain and Council President Terhaar may have felt they accomplished something. However, the “conceptual approval” and instruction to

the city’s attorneys to come back to the council in 60 days with leases were completely unnecessary.

Instead, the mayor could have passed out the leases approved by the CMPA to the council members and told them he was calling a special meeting for Thursday, July 23 to approve them.

Meanwhile, he would have Beggs & Lane attorneys meet with the Studers’ attorney to “tweak” the wording.

Studer took his time at the podium yesterday to talk about the mayor’s office and council’s lack of a defined process on how it handles leases at the Maritime Park.

“Five years ago, I wrote you a letter about the need for the city to come to grips with how property at the Maritime Park was going to be handled,” he said.

“I asked you and the mayor to come up with a clear process so that future projects wouldn’t be so difficult—so people with good ideas and the means to implement their ideas could move with urgency.”

Studer said he had hoped the mayor hiring CBRE as the city’s real estate broker would have streamlined the process. However, the opposite occurred— confusion over deadlines, success fees and favoritism given to some developers.

(Note: CBRE will be paid a commission on the Studers’ lease payments, but they were not present at the special meeting or the prior day’s CMPA meeting to talk about the leases.)

He talked about the numerous meetings his people have had to attend over the past nine months–CMPA, CMPA Audit & Operations, Individual Meetings with CMPA board members, Council members and Mayor, City Council Workshops and Meetings.

Studer said, “The ambiguity in the process is troubling and the antithesis of urgency.”

He pointed out that two years ago the Pensacola City Council and mayor’s office told the Studers and YMCA they had to negotiate a lease for a proposed downtown Y at the park with the CMPA board. The YMCA dropped the proposal when the CMPA canned their proposal. Now the mayor’s office and council appear to want to do the negotiating.

“Whether we started with the Mayor, the Council or the CMPA, for some reason our projects just get bogged down in this process, or indecision or dysfunction,” Studer said. “It is time to move the city’s development processes from endless activity to a constant state of urgency.” {in}

“It is time to move the city’s development processes from endless activity to a constant state of urgency.” Quint Studer

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HURRICANES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr. Roger Jones / Courtsey photo

By Shelby Smithey Residents of the Gulf Coast will probably say they know a few things about how hurricanes are formed. They know the basics: warm water temperature, low pressure and a certain distance from the equator equals bad news.

We’ve been through it, all the while listening intently to meteorologists (let’s hope not Jim Cantore) break the storm down for us in layman’s terms. However, a more scientific approach could help us to understand how hurricanes form and how climate change affects storm formation and intensity.

Dr. Roger Jones, a physicist and entrepreneur, was in Pensacola at the Bayview Senior Center July 14 for a discussion hosted by local nonprofit 350 Pensacola.

Jones is a Research Fellow at the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises at the

Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. He is a native of Pensacola and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Dartmouth College.

Jones explained the formation of hurricanes step-by-step in physics terms and why understanding them in this way can be beneficial to the way we are informed about them.

“I’m not a climate scientist, but what I have discovered is that formation of hurricanes turns out to be a good analog for social extreme events,” Jones said. “I’m approaching this in a different way because of my background as a physicist.”

“The first thing I’d like to talk about is a cornerstone of physics,” he said. “It’s called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it is where existentialism meets science.”

The law says that all closed systems, the Earth and the Sun for example, will evolve to a heat bath at a uniform temperature.

“All closed systems will try to equal-

“The surface of Earth is getting hotter and it’s putting us into this boiling atmosphere regime."

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For a cyclone to form, Jones said that water temperatures near the Equator must be higher than 78 degrees and that the area must be five degrees in distance from the Equator where the Coriolis effect can happen. Finally, the random trigger for formation is a localized low pressure.

“What does all this have to do with climate change?” Jones asked. “The surface of Earth is getting hotter and it’s putting us into this boiling atmosphere regime. This means that storms will be stronger and happen more often.”

The Earth is at historic carbon dioxide levels according to data analysis of an ice core in Vostok, Antarctica. Jones said that the CO2 causes the heating of the atmosphere, thus effecting hurricane formation.

“The intensity, frequency and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes have all increased since the early 1980s,” Jones said. “Hurricanes’ intensity and rainfall are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm.”

Dr. Jones’ lecture was one in a series addressing environmental issues presented throughout the year by 350 Pensacola. The nonprofit provides local support for the global 350.org campaign. The group works along the Gulf Coast to bring people together in an effort to make the safe upper limit of 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere a reality.

“We know obviously that our position on the Gulf Coast we are in a vulnerable area so it’s important for us to know the basic processes of how hurricanes work and how they are forecast to change as our climate changes,” said Christian Wagley, 350 Pensacola programs director. {in}

ize their temperature and reach thermal equilibrium throughout the system,” he said. “Earth and its atmosphere are an open system because of its external energy source.”

Jones said that the heating of the Earth in its closed system with the Sun causes rolling boiling winds known as RaleighBénard Convection.

“Heat is energy that is composed of the random motions of molecules,” Jones said.

“What this means is that down at the lower atmosphere the temperature gradient is so large that it suddenly completely changes the way heat is moved from the bottom to the top of the atmosphere.”

The Second Law of Thermal Dynamics says that heat should be transferred to the hot equator to the cold pole.

“The heating of the Earth is great enough so that it creates these Raleigh-Bénard cells on a global scale,” he said. “What we have from the Equator to the North Pole are three of these rolls of winds.”

The Earth’s rotation causes a Coriolis effect, which is responsible for creating the three sets of rolling winds, instead of one.

Close to the Equator the first rolling cell is the Hadley Cell. Near the poles, is the Polar Cell. In between the two, is the more complicated Ferrel Cell, which is responsible for unstable weather conditions to our area.

“Basically this heat energy is being carried northward through the wind in a rolling motion,” he said.

However, Jones said that in the middle Ferrel Cell, heat is transferred quite differently.

“The heat is being transferred in the wrong direction in this cell because of

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CLC AND JOLLY PRE-FILE Lt. Gov. Carlos

Lopez-Cantera and Congressman David Jolly, both Republicans, have formally announced that they will compete for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by presidential candidate Marco Rubio.

Lopez-Cantera formally announced his candidacy July 15 during a rally at All American Containers, a Miami company that has close ties to the Republican Party.

He said, “I’m running so that they can live in the kind of country that gave my Cuban immigrant family the blessings of liberty and freedom that only the United States of America offers.”

Jolly, whose Congressional district will be redrawn due to a Florida Supreme Court ruling earlier this month, announced his candidacy on July 20.

In a prepared statement, Jolly delivered a conservative message.

He said, “Over the next year, I intend to run for the United States Senate on an unwavering platform that will reject the politics of division and class warfare that have defined the current administration, reject the failed foreign policies that have projected only weakness and apology on the world stage, and embrace a new economy founded on the principle that individuals and families, not government bureaucrats, create success.”

Lopez-Cantera and Jolly join Northeast Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis and Orlando businessman Todd Wilcox in the Republican primary. Local Congressman Jeff Miller told Inweekly that he is still weeks away from making a decision on whether he will also run.

Congressmen Patrick Murphy of Jupiter and Alan Grayson of Orlando are among those running for the seat on the Democratic side. Rep. Gwen Graham may also join the race.

SUNDOWN ON PROJECT SUNBURST

Four years ago, Gov. Rick Scott announced Project Sunburst, a website that would make his office more transparent.

Emails to and from the Governor would be accessible to the public through an online, read-only email viewer. In addition, emails to and from 11 members of the governor’s office leadership team, who he claimed constituted more than 80 percent of the public records requests for emails, would be available.

“Since my first day in office, I have committed to making sure the citizens of our state have access to the information they need to hold their state government accountable,” Gov. Scott said when Project 88

Sunburst was announced. “I invite Floridians to view my emails, as well as those of my leadership team, to learn more about how we are working to make Florida the best state for businesses to grow and expand and create jobs.”

The governor’s Project Sunburst policy required emails to be posted within seven days of receipt or creation unless permission has been granted for an extended deadline.

However, the goal is for emails to be available within 24 hours.

Today Project Sunburst still exists, sunburst.flgov.com/public/, but it displays no emails from the governor's office. None. Zero.

Gov. Scott no longer uses his governor's account to send emails.

The First Amendment Foundation, a Tallahassee-based watchdog group, sent an email to its members saying Project Sunburst "has shed little light on the activities of the governor, his staff or his working relationship with the departments of state government."

The foundation pointed out that the emails of the governor's chief of staff, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and other members of his leadership team are not available on the Project Sunburst website.

EMPLOYMENT MATH On July 17, Gov.

Rick Scott announced that Florida’s unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent—the lowest rate since March 2008. In June 2015, 12,200 private-sector jobs were created across Florida. Florida’s annual private-sector job growth rate, up to 3.9 percent, has exceeded that of the nation since April 2012.

“Today’s announcement of nearly 900,000 new private sector jobs in just four and a half years is great news,” Scott said.

“We have cut taxes 50 times—including $400 million in tax cuts this year—and we will keep working to create an environment where more businesses can expand and grow in Florida so families have more opportunities to succeed in the Sunshine State.”

Florida’s unemployment rate for June 2015 was 5.5 percent, almost half of the December 2010 rate. Florida’s unemployment rate decreased by 0.6 percentage point over the year from the June 2014 rate of 6.1 percent, down to 5.5 percent in June 2015. The June 2015 unemployment rate is the lowest since March 2008 when it was 5.4 percent. Florida’s unemployment rate has declined by 5.2 percentage points since December 2010.

Escambia County’s unemployment rate for June 2015 was 5.7 percent, down 0.1 percent from the previous month. The county’s unemployment rate decreased by

0.9 percentage points over the year from the June 2014 rate of 6.6 percent.

The county’s labor force shrunk by 2,512 people, dropping from 142,376 in June 2014 to 139,864 in June 2015. The number of people employed also declined by 1,058, from 133,019 a year ago to 131,961 this past month.

As result of the unemployment math, the net effect is the number of unemployed dropped by 1, 454 from June 2014 to June 2015.

NAVY POINT BRIDGE WORK The

Florida Department of Transportation began construction activities to replace the bridge located on County Road 292A (West Sunset Avenue) over Bayou Grande to the Navy Point neighborhood the week of July 20.

Scott Bridge was awarded the $5, 476,808.54 contract to replace the existing bridge with a two-lane cross-section, bike lanes and 5-foot sidewalks.

During construction, West Sunset Avenue will be closed to traffic, with motorists utilizing State Road (S.R.) 295 (Navy Boulevard) and S.R. 292 (Gulf Beach Highway). A temporary signal will be placed at West Sunset Avenue and Gulf Beach Highway. Chattman Street and Syrcle Drive will also be accessible to West Sunset Avenue during construction.

Drivers are advised to use caution while traveling through the work zone and to be aware that speeding violations will be doubled when workers are present. Weather permitting, improvements will take a little over one year to complete.

BRIDGING THE GAP The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office will host “Bridging the Gap,” a crime prevention conference July 27, 28 and 29.

The three-evening conference at the Brownsville Community Center, 3100 W. Desoto St. in Pensacola, is an effort to encourage communication and action within the community by showcasing innovative crime prevention ideas and successful strategies. A major component of the program will be directed toward alternatives to violence among our young people.

Each evening’s agenda will begin with a light dinner at 5 p.m. followed by speakers and discussion from 6-9 p.m. Attendance is free, but seating will be limited. Registration forms are available at the Sheriff’s Office Administration Building, 1700 W. Leonard St. For more information contact Sergeant Delarian Wiggins at dcwiggins@ escambiaso.com or 436-9705. {in} inweekly.net

SoGo Saturday in Downtown Pensacola.

For Quint and Rishy Studer, it’s all about improving Pensacola’s quality of life

By Randy Hammer rhammer@studeri.org

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wonder about the man sometimes.

Seriously. He pumps millions of dollars into the community and doesn’t really expect to make money in return.

His wife? You truly have to wonder about her. She’s the one who actually signs all the checks.

She’s about to sign another one, this time for $1 million to the University of West Florida to seed a proposed Center for Entrepreneurship.

Over the past five years, Quint and Rishy Studer have invested more than $100 million in the area, most of it in downtown Pensacola. They spent $20 million to bring a minor league baseball team to town, helped renovate DeVilliers Square and recently paid $5.5 million for the vacant ECUA property on Main Street.

And that’s just a partial list.

It doesn’t include the Bodacious Family of Shops on Palafox and Main, where you’ll find a coffee shop, olive oil store and So Chopped Salad and Bistro. Or the renovated buildings next door and across the street that now house restaurants, retail shops and a hair salon.

Four years ago, this block on Palafox and Main was dead. Now it’s called the SoGo District and you can hardly find a parking space on Saturdays.

Who spends millions like this and doesn’t expect to make much money in return? It’s hard to believe. So I get it when folks ask, “Are these people for real?”

Well, yes they are. And that makes us the lucky ones because Quint and Rishy have decided to spend the fortune they made creating the Studer Group on us, on Pensacola, on our quality of life.

I admit I’m biased. I’ve worked for Quint and Rishy for nearly two years. I’m head

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of the Studer Community Institute. When Quint approached me about the job, he said he had one overarching goal: To improve the community’s quality of life.

“That’s it?” I said.

“That’s it,” he said.

Helping Pensacola become a better place to live is not only the goal of the Institute, but also the reason Quint and Rishy spend money on things like a new YMCA building and Five Sisters restaurant and a $55-million apartment complex on the old Pensacola News Journal property.

It’s especially the reason behind the UWF Center for Entrepreneurship.

The Center will be housed in a $10 million, 55-000-square-foot campus complex the Studers will build on the northwest corner of the park if City Hall approves the leases.

And pending City Hall’s OK on the lease, an adjacent 14,000-square-foot, $6 million conference center overlooking Pensacola Bay and Blue Wahoo Stadium would allow UWF and the Institute as well as businesses throughout the area to host conventions, workshops and training seminars.

The Center also will include the Florida Small Business Development Center, the Greater Pensacola Entrepreneur Fund, the Center for Research and Economic Opportunities, the Haas Center, and the Studer Community Institute.

The combination of these organizations partnering with the UWF College of Business led the Pensacola News Journal to predict the Center would become the epicenter of Pensacola’s economic renaissance.

I couldn’t agree more. And that’s why all of us at the Institute are excited to be part of the Center.

To prepare for this, the Institute is filing paperwork to become an official not-for-profit.

This, along with our partnership with UWF and the Center, is a key reason PensacolaTodaycom and Studeri.com are merging into

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VISIT: Studeri.org a revamped Studeri.org website. Moving forward, the Institute will have one website rather than two.

The centerpiece of the Institute’s new website is a dashboard designed to help people better understand the Pensacola Metropolitan Area.

Why? Because the more we understand the challenges we face as a community, and the more engaged we become in addressing those challenges, the more likely we are to significantly improve the quality of life of people who live here.

The dashboard is a set of economic and social metrics that will allow us to compare our community’s performance to other similarly sized communities. The goal of the metrics is help us understand our current situation and then push us to think about what needs to change to move our community forward.

Things like Escambia County’s high-school graduation rate, which is 63 percent. The

national average is 81 percent. That needs to change. And the dashboard will allow us as a community to monitor our progress and understand at the end of each school year if we’re moving forward or moving backward.

The research and reports the Institute plans to produce will be tied to issues like this, issues that emerge from the dashboard, which the Institute has created in partnership with UWF vice president Rick Harper and his staff at the Center for Research and Economic Opportunities.

Another key feature of the Institute will be its ongoing workforce and leadership training. The Institute’s workshops along with the degree and non-degree programs the university’s College of Business will offer will turn the new downtown Center for Entrepreneurship into a true community campus.

Few cities our size are seeing the kind of investment in downtown that we’re seeing, said Rick Outzen, publisher of the Independent Weekly, in a column he recently wrote about the revitalization of downtown. The Studers alone are “investing tens of millions of dollars into housing, retail businesses, office buildings, a conference center and now the University of West Florida Center for Entrepreneurship.”

He’s right. Not many towns are blessed to have a family willing to spend $120 million simply because they want to make their city a better place to live.

That’s why I get it when folks say, “Are they for real?” Like I said, I often shake my head and wonder the same thing.

I especially shake my head when I see Rishy late in the evenings sweeping the floors at Bodacious Olive after the shop has closed for the day.

I shake my head because you just don’t find people much more real than that.

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By Rick Outzen Congressman Jeff Miller (R-Chumuckla) has everyone waiting to see whether he will jump into the race for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated next year by presidential candidate Marco Rubio.

In the past week, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Congressman David Jolly formally announced that they will compete for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat. Congressman Ron DeSantis and Orlando businessman Todd Wilcox have also declared their candidacies.

Miller’s name is missing, but many believe he should make a run for the seat.

A recent survey of likely Republican primary voters by St. Pete Polls showed Jolly as the frontrunner in the race for the GOP nomination with 22 percent.

Miller came in second with 12 percent, narrowly edging out Lopez-Cantera with 11 percent.

The absence of a clear frontrunner makes the Senate race very tempting for Miller to consider the jump from a safe Congressional district.

Inweekly reached out to Rep. Miller to get updates on the latest D.C. battles over the Department of Veteran Affairs, Iran nuclear pact, red snapper regulations and Pensacola’s federal courthouse. We also got him to open up about the U.S. Senate race.

Gibson wrote, “If these program funds are not restored, VA will face shutting down hospital operations during August 2015,” Miller was stunned.

“I'm extremely disappointed that they weren't more forthcoming with the shortfall,” he told Inweekly. “The secretary had been saying for quite some time he needed some flexibility, but there's a difference between flexibility to spend money and the fact that they, at some point, mismanaged their budget that they're going to have to shut hospitals down.”

He has asked the VA Secretary to appear before his committee.

“We are going to have a very frank discussion on the Hill,” said Miller. “I do not intend to

“I do not intend to allow hospitals to be closed, but accountability continues to be the most important word at the VA, of which there is very little.” Congressman Jeff Miller

VA Comes Begging

Miller chairs the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. On July 13, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson sent him a letter informing him the department was facing a sizable budget shortfall. Sizeable is an understatement. The deficit is $2.6 billion.

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allow hospitals to be closed, but accountability continues to be the most important word at the VA, of which there is very little.”

He said the VA said the shortfall was caused by the increased outside care, which Congress mandated to lessen the wait times at VA hospitals and clinics. The VA also blamed a costly, new hepatitis C drug.

Miller said, “The drug is actually a life changer and has done more for patients that have hepatitis C than any. It's expensive, and I get that. We need to focus on that, but at no point did they tell us that their budget had a hole in it almost $3 billion.”

Miller did send a letter to President Barack

Obama asking him to get “personally involved” in the discussion of the budget shortfall that could lead to a shutdown of VA hospital operations in August.

“VA’s central office is physically located steps from the White House front door,” he wrote. “I strongly suggest you pay a visit and get to the bottom of what is happening.”

What was the president’s reply?

“Nothing, Nothing, Nothing,” said Miller. “I see absolutely no leadership on this particular issue from the president. If he thought that this was as serious a problem as the secretary has admitted that it is, the president would be looking for money all through the federal government to try to fill this budget shortfall, but instead the president is letting the agency flounder under an admittedly very good choice as secretary. “ Since the scandal last year that uncovered the VA clinics were falsifying records on their waiting lists, Miller has been fighting for laws that give better protection for whistleblowers and more power to the VA secretary to discipline or get rid of bad employees. Last week, Miller’s committee approved a bill that does just that.

Miller explained, “Last August, the president signed the Choice Act, which gives the secretary the ability to fire the top 430 leaders in the agency, and what my bill does is it actually would give him the ability to fire quicker, and easier, any employee at the VA that will not do their job.”

Under the Federal Civil Service rules, Miller said it takes a year or better in many instances to fire somebody. “That's just not

the way the taxpayers expect our government to be operated.”

He expects the bill to come up on the House floor before the recess at the end of July. The unions have already voiced their opposition.

"The unions are adamantly opposed to it,” Miller said. “They are throwing up all kinds of red herrings to get the Democrats to vote no.

This shouldn't be a partisan bill at all. There are protections in there for whistleblowers, which has been raised that we were making it easier to fire a whistleblower. It has protections in there for that. They're saying it strips away their appeals right. It still leaves what's called the merit system protection board in place. They can still appeal to that. It just speeds the process up, and I think that part of the problem that VA is having to deal with is the inability to discipline and hold people accountable.”

The challenge to change the VA has been difficult because the bureaucracy knows it can outlast the politicians.

“All federal agencies seem to operate on their own timetable, and in their own world,” he said.

“This could very well be a breakout model of change that is needed in the federal government to hold people accountable for not doing their jobs properly.

He didn’t hide his frustrations. “Nobody wants to penalize somebody who is a hard worker, who is doing what they're supposed to do, and what's expected of them, but people who are not doing what's expected, and in many instances, break-

“All federal agencies seem to operate on their own timetable, and in their own world.” Congressman Miller

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Iran Nuclear Pact

On Sunday, July 19, the Obama Administration sent its proposed nuclear agreement with Iran to Congress. The lawmakers have 60 days to vote on it.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as this deal is called, gives Iran the right to develop nuclear power, but “under no circumstances will (it) ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons." Inspectors will have 24/7 access to Iran's key nuclear facilities.

All sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council are to be lifted, and those levied by the European Union and U.S. governments are to be phased out as well.

Miller doesn’t support the agreement because it lifts the embargo, allows dollars—“and I'm talking about hundreds of millions and billions of dollars”— into the Iranian government, which they can use to purchase more weapons.

“It is one of the worst negotiated deals that I have seen brought forward to Congress,” he said. “I think the president forgets that it's the Kurds that the Iranians supplied weapons that killed our soldiers and military personnel in Iraq.”

He added, “The president has laid it out and said that it’s either this deal or we go to war. That's not at all what any of us want.”

Miller and his fellow Republicans want a deal that that allows immediate inspection by our inspectors.

“We don't have that,” he said. “The other thing is, we still won't be able to go on military installations where we may suspect that there are nuclear operations or research ongoing.”

Red Snapper Management

On Thursday, July 17, Miller and Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves introduced a bill that would pave the way for state-based management of the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery.

Red snapper management is currently under the jurisdiction of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service.

Earlier this year, the directors of the state fish and wildlife agencies from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas reached an agreement to accept joint responsibility for management of the red snapper fishery in federal waters The bill would give formal federal recognition to the agreement and remove red snapper from federal authority. It would place responsibility for the species in the hands of the Gulf states through a new, independent body called the Gulf States Red Snapper Management Authority.

“I think the federal government is not the agency that needs to have control over that particular species, “ said Miller. “The Gulf Coast states are better equipped to manage what's going on with the red snapper.

He pointed out that the recreational fisherman used to have weeks that they could go out and fish. Now they're cut down to days that they can fish for that one species.

He said, “I would like all of the parties to come to the table, but nobody seems to want to give, and the recreational fisherman is the one that comes out on the short end of the stick.”

The initial feedback on the legislation has been positive, especially along the Gulf Coast.

“For too long, the federal government has relied on outdated and inaccurate information to unfairly limit recreational Gulf red snapper

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Miller is cautiously optimistic.

“Those that oppose it are very quick to come in and spend a lot of money against certain individuals, and that makes some members very hesitant to support it, but I want folks to keep talking,” he said. “I think that there has got to be a solution out there, and I believe the solution is to return it to state control.”

cited "substandard conditions" that required urgent action.

The Pensacola courthouse is now empty.

Courtroom proceedings are conducted at the Winston E. Arnow Federal Building, one block north of the courthouse.

The GSA is working to lease additional courtroom space. The agency is conducting a thorough building condition analysis and engineering cost assessment of the main Courthouse that will be used to determine a long-term solution.

Miller said he is trying to the keep the courthouse on the front burner with GSA but has gotten some pushback from his fellow lawmakers.

“What I hear from folks is, you know, the money has already been spent to build this courthouse, and a lot of members would feel if we have to redo this courthouse, it will jump in front of a lot of others,” he said. “But the fact remains, you have a facility that has been a problem, really, since day one. Finally, you had a judge that finally put her foot down and said, 'No more,' and that's why they are now

“I think that there has got to be a solution out there, and I believe the solution is to return it to state control.” Congressman Miller

Federal Courthouse

Last month, Miller and Rep. Lois Frankel, a Democrat who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties, sent a letter to General Services Administration requesting new courthouses in Pensacola and Fort Lauderdale. The letter, signed by 13 of Florida’s 27 representatives,

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He said the originally GSA wanted to try more repairs to the building.

“They wanted to just go in and do some ‘Band-Aids’ and patches, which would have been terrible for the city, because the last thing the city needs is to be strapped with a $30 million plus fix in two years when they are supposed to take it over,” said Miller.

“We have convinced them that they needed to look seriously, so there was a discussion about going in and gutting the building and starting from the bones back out again,” he said. “They're looking seriously at everything from structural issues to the mold issues to the water intrusion issues, and trying to come up with a way to resolve it.”

The Race

While Inweekly was interviewing Miller, Rep. David Jolly announced his candidacy for Senate. The Tallahassee politicos immediately began to wonder if Jolly’s announcement meant the end of Miller jumping into the race.

As one political insider put it, Jolly and Miller were extremely close during the last Republican Party of Florida quarterly meeting.

Jolly appeared set to endorse Miller for the Senate seat. The rumor was Miller would now step aside and now endorse Jolly.

In the Inweekly interview, Miller was un-

fazed by Jolly entering the race. He saw the decision as being tied to the recent Florida Supreme Court ruling that Jolly’s district had to be redrawn.

“His district now becomes more Democrat,” said Miller.

However, he said that the redistricting is causing more problems for the Democratic members of Congress than the Republicans.

“Gwen Graham, who is my neighbor to the east, just won her seat. That seat will change to probably an R plus 15, which there's no way that she can win that seat,” he said. “Corrine Brown, my ranking member on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, interestingly enough, her district changes drastically, making it more difficult for her to defend her seat. “ Miller said he wouldn’t be surprised if Graham, the daughter of former Sen. Bob Graham, declared her candidacy to run for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat. Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson have already announced they are running.

Graham could impact the Democratic side of the race.

“The Democrats' election committee has done everything they can to try to keep the field clear for Patrick Murphy, and then Alan Grayson gets in, and then if Graham gets in the race, the Democrats have to be very concerned,” Miller said. “If Graham and Murphy split the vote, then Grayson becomes their nominee. That is probably not something that they would like very much.”

What about Miller?

What is the trigger that will get him to announce whether he will run for Senate?

“There is no trigger,” he said. “We are looking at the possibility of running. I am assembling a team, trying to make sure that I have what I consider the best that we can hire, should we run, but we're still weeks away from making a decision, and certainly from any kind of announcement.”

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“Changing lives, one wedding at a time”

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Photo by 6:16 Photography Kerry Abbott and Howard Jacques were deep into wedding planning when they got news in February that halted their lives.

Jacques—or Joc as he's called—was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia, a rare form of cancer.

Suddenly floral arrangements and bridesmaid dresses were not so important. And without insurance, medical bills would certainly take precedence over wedding receipts.

"We still wanted to get married," Kerry said.

"But our plans would have to change.”

Kerry contacted her wedding planner, Sara Gillianne to share the news. She responded, "Let me see what I can do.” It wasn't long before Gillianne, the face behind Pensacola Block Party Wedding (PBW), put the gears in motion to give Kerry and Joc the wedding of their dreams.

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"I thought about them often, keeping them in my prayers," Gillianne said. "I tried to continue the planning as best I could, keeping the vendors interested while not divulging too much of Kerry and Joc's personal information.”

It was in June that Gillianne and photographer Jessi Field decided to remove the voting and campaigning behind the PBW and give the gift of a wedding to Kerry and Joc. "The news kind of blew me away," Joc said.

It won't be the usual public block party—instead the couple is getting married on Pensacola Beach and having their reception at the Lee House— but the message is still clear.

"After all, the PBW motto is ‘changing lives, one wedding at a time,’” Gillianne said.

"This was obviously what we needed to do. This couple does not feel very 'lucky.' We intend to bless them and lift their spirits at this difficult time in their lives.”

Gillianne contacted her PBW alum and received positive responses and set the wheels in motion.

"The response could not have been any more heartwarming and generous," she said.

BLUE MOON BEGINNINGS

Kerry and Joc meet five years ago on Match.com, though they tell most people they met at Starbucks, where they had their first date.

"I was new to the dating scene and sug-

gested Starbucks and he said, 'I don't like coffee.' I said, 'I don't care,'" Kerry said with a laugh.

In 2012, under a blue moon, Joc proposed.

"It's not often you meet your best friend," he said. "We don't even fight about things."

They will have to wait until July 31, 2015, for another blue moon to be married under, but it was an important symbol to both of them.

In the five years they've been together, they've built a business and merged two families into one. They both have sons from previous marriages, Joc has two and Kerry has one.

"They're all best friends," Kerry said.

When Joc was given the diagnosis after an ER visit, their world changed. They became insular, Kerry said. Because of the wedding, they have something positive to look forward to.

"After a year of changes, we're still going to have the wedding of our dreams," Kerry said.

"It's a good distraction. For the boys, too."

'IT'S HUMBLING'

"I'm looking forward to see if I can pull off feeling well all night," Joc said.

Chalk it up to Joc's Navy background or just an instilled sense of strength, but he refuses to feel sorry for himself and takes his role as a father and future husband very seriously. A self-processed "workaholic," he's been told to slow down. Although he still works, much to his doctor's amazement.

"I have responsibilities. First is my family.

Then there's my employees who are responsible for their families," he said. "I stay positive.

What other choice do I have?"

"They say people with attitudes like Joc's are survivors," Kerry said.

Joc had noticed some things in his health for the past year before he went to the doctor.

Sharing his story, he hopes to inspire others to pay better attention to their own health.

"Don't wait," Joc said.

"We're also asking our wedding guests to join the bone marrow registry, which is something we may need to use," Kerry said. "All it takes is simple mouth swab and you send it back in.”

For now, the couple is grateful, both for the wedding and each other.

"What I'm looking forward to most is sharing that first kiss with Kerry as my wife," Joc said. {in}

Joc and Kerry are most used to giving than receiving, they said.

"We've never asked for anything or expected anything," Kerry said.

Everyday the couple receives emails from Gillianne about a new vendor willing to help.

"It says a lot about the community," Joc said. "It's probably one of the most humbling things to happen in my life.”

With the wedding just a week away, Kerry and Joc say they're looking forward to a night where they can enjoy Visit deletebloodcancer.org to register as a being a couple and a family. bone marrow donor.

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by Jason Leger

Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell “Sing into My Mouth”

Sam Beam and Ben Bridwell are not an unlikely duo. In my mind, I generally connect Iron & Wine (Beam), Band of Horses (Birdwell) and My Morning Jacket as all being in some sort of indie rock “good ol’ boys” club.

Beam and Bridwell have phenomenal chemistry, blend extremely well vocally, and have been bouncing songs off of each other for some 15 years, so the two producing an album of covers together seems inevitable and incapable of failing. Well, yes and no. The album is everything we could want in the case of a folksy, bluesy, whimsical product from Bridwell and Beam. There are songs covered from artists as diverse as Bonnie Raitt, Talking Heads, El Perro del Mar and Sade. In fact, the cover of Sade’s “Bulletproof Soul” is haunting and tormented and is absolutely my highlight from this LP. The problem for me also stems from

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the range of diversity. While covering a song can pay homage to the track and the original artist, the act can also strip a song of what it was intended to be. That happens on this album most strikingly in the case of ‘This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),’ originally

by Talking Heads, which is shifted from a funky, spectral oddity to, well, an Iron & Wine song. Also, the pieces are so scattered that the wholeness of the album becomes a bit skewed and not cohesive.

Ultimately, these songs work independently, seen as a collaboration between two long-time friends and not necessarily as one solid work or piece of art. I strongly recommend this album for Iron & Wine fans, as you most likely won’t be disappointed. Band of Horses fans should give it a shot too, but shouldn’t expect BOH style output. “Sing into My Mouth” is out now via Black Cricket/ Brown Records.

Ratatat’s last album, “LP4,” and “Magnifique,” but to listen to the two back to back, one could see these two as part of a double album released together, with the latter being more guitar heavy, but not noticeably different in tone. For the most part, “Magnifique” is catchy and light, but there is very little to grasp onto or to make one desire multiple listens. In all honesty, most of the music could (should) be used for prime-time TV commercials. I actually think of Verizon every time I hear the album’s first single, “Cream on Chrome,” so maybe Verizon should hand the band some coin. While seemingly lackluster, “Magnifique” could soundtrack a barbecue, small party or beach trip, so it being summer and all, maybe you could get some use out of the album. “Magnifique” is out now via XL Recordings.

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Youth Lagoon 'The Knower'

While there are artists that I will always look to for specific things, I’m constantly hoping for growth and progress in the bands that I love. I never expect a musician to change the ingredients that make them who they are, however it’s of utmost importance to keep transforming those ingredients into something that at least appears new. In the case of Ratatat, the stakes are raised, considering they are an instrumental duo, producing no lofty ideas or intricate words to grab onto.

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teaches the skills necessary to become a practitioner of Ball Room and West Coast Swing, a popular partner dance that can be enjoyed with virtually any kind of music.

Tuesday class fee is $10 per person or free for people 30 years of age and younger.

DanceCraft, 8618 Pensacola Blvd. dancecraftfl.com BANDS ON THE BEACH 7 p.m. The Astronauts will perform at this week’s Bands on the Beach—which is a free outdoor concert series featuring regional artists held every Tuesday night through Oct. 27. Gulfside Pavilion at Casino Beach, 735 Pensacola Beach Blvd. visitpensacolabeach.com TUESDAY NIGHT POETRY NIGHT 7 p.m.

Free open mic poetry event every Tuesday.

Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, 101 S. Jefferson St. facebook.com/TNPNS DIRTY HEADS 7 p.m. With Los Rakas.

Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox. $25-$27. vinylmusichall.com

BLUE WAHOOS BASEBALL 4:05 p.m. Pensacola

Bayfront Stadium, 351 W. Cedar St. Ticket prices vary. bluewahoos.com HAMLET 2:30 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre, 400 S. Jefferson St. $15. pensacolalittletheatre.com LOST IN YONKERS 2:30 p.m. After their mother dies, Jay and Arty Kurnitz move to Brooklyn to live with their Grandmother and realize that their extended family may be more than they bargained for. Panhandle Community Theatre, 4646 Woodbine Rd, Pace. $15. panhandlecommunitytheatre.com CALABRESE 9:30 p.m. With Nik Flagstar & His Dirty Mangy Dogs and Earl’s Killer Squirrel. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. $8. pensacolahandlebar.com

MONDAY 7.27

COUNTRY & WESTERN DANCING 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY 7.28

DANCECRAFT BALL ROOM DANCING & SWING CLASS 6:30-9 p.m. This class

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This year’s juror Donan Klooz, Curator of Exhibitions at the Mobile Museum of Art, will be on hand to distribute awards for Best of Show, first place, second place and third place. The top honor will have a solo show in Gallery 5 of the Museum during the 2016 calendar year. Throughout the exhibition, visitors to the Museum will be able to cast their vote for People’s Choice and this award will be determined upon closing of the exhibition (Aug. 22).

Museum hours and

location: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and military; members and children 11 and under are free for the rest of summer. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org

THE LURE OF THE OCEAN: ORIGINAL WORKS BY GUY HARVEY HARVEY In

this exhibition Harvey combines his artistic gifts with his background as a marine biologist, diver, photographer and angler to create his unique and colorful pieces.

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calendar summer. Pensacola Museum of Art, 407 S. Jefferson St. pensacolamuseum.org DARK SIDE OF THE MOON On display

until Aug. 21st.

Museum hours and location: TuesdaySaturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.com

IN THE FAR-AWAY NEARBY This ex-

hibit features Kathy Breazeale, who has created 13 works that demonstrate her mastery of abstract art. On display until Aug. 21st. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.com INSTALLED AWARENESS This exhibit fea-

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laced with the pain of loss. The installation combines sculpture and photography and the subjects of each environment are built upon two or three dimensional explorations within a theme.

On display until Aug. 21st. Museum hours and location: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Artel Gallery, 223 S. Palafox. artelgallery.com

MY RETROSPECTIVE

This exhibition will feature 45 years of painting work by featured artist Marian A. Guthrie. On display until Aug. 31st.

Gallery hours and location: MondaySaturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Quayside Galery, 17 E. Zaragossa. quaysidegallery.com

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2015 WILD SHOTS PHOTO CONTEST The

Gulf Breeze Zoo is calling shutterbugs of all ages to enter their photos into the official 2015 Wild Shots Photo Contest. With over 800 animals, the Gulf Breeze Zoo’s diverse wildlife and interactive animal experiences create the perfect backdrop for any photographer.

Snap funny family pictures or the perfect animal poses.

Scenery, silly faces and animal antics are encouraged. The grand prize is a 4 pack of season passes, among other “wild” prizes! Submit your photos online by August 31st at www.

GBZoo.com.

POSTER COMPETITION FOR 2015 GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL Here is a

chance to become a part of Pensacola’s art history! The winning artist receives a

$1,000 cash award, and the winning design will be featured on posters, T-shirts and other GGAF promotional items for the festival. The Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival is accepting submissions to it’s 2015 poster design competition from July 1st to August 28th. All entries need to be mailed or delivered to Duncan McCall Advertising, 4400 Bayou Blvd, Suite 11. Competing artists can find a complete list of rules and requirements at www.ggaf.org/page/ poster-contest.

22ND POWER OF PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW & PRODUCT EXPO The annual

Power of Photography Show, at the Pensacola Cultural Center, is accepting submissions from July 1 until July 25.

Enter to compete for 85 ribbons and over $4,000 in cash and prizes. The event is coordinated by the Wide Angle Photo Club and benefits ARC gateway. Photo entries and fess will be accepted during business hours at Calagaz Photo (6895 N. 9th Avenue) or CCP Gallery (126 Palafox) in Pensacola, or Calagaz Photo in Mobile (90 Springdale Blvd.) You may also mail to one of these

by July 25. wideanglephotoclub.org

Classes & Workshops “MAKE-YOUROWN-GLASS” CLASS

10a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, July 24th and Saturday, July 25th. Held weekly on Friday and Saturdays, First City Art Center offers weekly “Make-Your-

Own-Glass” classes, no previous glassblowing skills necessary. The classes are open to anyone age 8 and older and range in price from $25-$45.

Pre-registration and pre-payment is required and can be made by calling 429-1222. First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

INTRODUCTION TO POTTERY ON THE WHEEL 6-8:30 p.m.

Monday, July 27th.

During this weekly workshop held on Monday evenings at First City Art Center, instructor Pearl VanHoove works individually with students to develop consistency in throwing on the wheel.

Participants receive and introduction to materials, equipment and throwing techniques. Each

session begins with a brief demonstrations followed by hands-on time at the wheel. The class is $40 and open to individuals age 14 and up. Pre-registration and pre-payment is required and can be made by calling 4291222. Class is limited to two participants.

First City Art Center, 1060 N. Guillemard St. firstcityart.org

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news of the weird THE 90-MINUTE DAY The whimsical premise of the iconic movie "Groundhog Day" (that someone can wake up every day believing it is the previous day) has largely come to life for a patient of a British psychologist writing recently in the journal Neurocase. Dr. Gerald Burgess' patient, following anesthesia and root-canal treatment, was left with a memory span of only about 90 minutes and awakens each day believing it is the day he is to report for the same root canal. He has been examined by numerous specialists, including neurologists who found no ostensible damage to the usual brain areas associated with amnesia.

The patient is able to manage his day only by using an electronic diary with prompts.

CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE Apparently, "uncooperative" child dental patients (even toddlers) can be totally restrained on a straitjacket-like "papoose board" without parental hand-holding, even during tooth-pulling, as long as the parent has signed a "consent form" (that does specifically mention the frightening practice). A recent case arose in Carrollton, Georgia, but a Georgia Board of Dentistry spokesperson told Atlanta's WSBTV that such restraints are permitted (though should have been accompanied by an explicit warning of potential physical or psychological harm). The father of the "screaming" girl said he was initially barred from the exam room and was led to believe, when he signed the consent form, that he was merely authorizing anesthesia.

WAIT, WHAT? A shortage of teachers led Howard S. Billings high school in Chateauguay (in the French-sensitive province of Quebec, Canada) to announce that 11th-grade French classes would this year be conducted using only the Rosetta Stone computer program.

•Among the new rules proposed by California's Occupational Safety and Health Standards agency in May was one to require actors in pornographic movies (whose male actors OSHS has already ordered to wear condoms) to wear goggles — lest bodily fluids splash into their eyes during scenes.

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(Further, all equipment and surfaces of sets must be decontaminated after each scene and at day's end.)

COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS The mayor of Whitesboro, New York, defending to a Village Voice reporter in July the 19th-centurybased town seal that features a white settler appearing to push down an American Indian man, denied any racism and said the image is "actually" a typical "friendly wrestling (match) that took place back in those days."

(According to Whitesboro's website, the Native American supposedly uttered, after the "match," "UGH. You good fellow too much.")

•In April, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop relocating whistleblowing employees to "offices" that were abandoned jail cells. The bureau had insisted that the transfers were not punishment for reporting agency misconduct — ­ even though one of the "offices" had no desk, computer or phone and required the employee to walk past prisoners' cells to get to work.

LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS But A Successful Parent: Scott Birk, 31, was arrested in New Berlin, Wisconsin, in July, thanks to a big boost the police got from his 6-year-old daughter. A Wal-mart security guard noticed, on video, someone breaking into a jewelry case and pocketing earrings, and approached Birk as a suspect, in time to overhear the girl tell her dad "several times" to stop breaking into jewelry cases. Officers running an ID check found no driver's license and asked how he had gotten to the store, and he said they walked. But Daddy, she said, we came in our car, and she cheerfully pointed it out to police. A search turned up more items stuffed in Birk's shorts, and he was charged with theft and violating a previous bail condition.

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