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SAM HALL The at-large Pensacola city

councilman has resurrected his political career and was elected in a tight 5-4 vote by his peers to be the new council president.

Hall took on the “Gilmore Girls” of the city council during their hostile takeover of the city budget workshops by offering a rational voice in a process gone haywire. He won the respect of many. His biggest challenge will be to build consensus on the Council and end the partisanship that has defined the Council’s first year under the new strongmayor government. Good luck.

BILL REYNOLDS The retired Marine Corps

Lt. Colonel has done well in his first four months as the Pensacola City Administrator. His handling of the Occupy Pensacola’s tent city on city hall property has earned high marks from most citizens, although we suspect he was tempted, at times, to bring in a tank to evict the protesters. Reynolds also deserves a special merit badge for sitting through the city council’s marathon meetings.

DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT BOARD

The agency charged with developing downtown Pensacola and running its lucrative parking system chose to not enforce its parking rules on Black Friday, which allowed downtown shoppers to save their quarters for Christmas gifts. Wise move.

MEGAN PRATT The other at-large Pensacola city council member has botched her tenure as the chairperson of the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency. Pratt didn’t support the new charter or Ashton Hayward when he ran for mayor. She has been caught pushing her ideas for the CRA without any approvals from her board. The biggest no-no was hiring a Panama City attorney and running up almost $20,000 in legal fees.

BECKY BRAY The former CRA Admin-

istrator was the experienced professional charged by Mayor Ashton Hayward to help Pratt and the CRA board. She helped craft an interlocal agreement between the CRA and the city that gave her a new title and put her under the CRA chair, not the mayor.

Bray is the one who should have recognized that the CRA board needed to vote on any contracts for legal services.

DOUG SALE The Panama City attorney

won the approval of Bray and Pratt to be the CRA’s attorney without ever having to complete a request for qualifications. In fact, it doesn’t appear the pair ever advertised the opening during the 18 months the position was vacant. Sale has run up hefty legal bills on the Hixardt deal and the new interlocal agreement with the city.

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WHY OCCUPY Sean works retail. The 20-something is college educated, another one of Pensacola’s educated and underemployed workforce. He describes himself as an Occupy Pensacola sympathizer.

Sean is a lucky one.

He has a job, but he admires his friends that camped at City Hall in November. He brought them food and water and stood with them when he could.

Sean isn’t an anarchist. He’s not a socialist or communist, but he knows things have to change. The divisions–economic, political and philosophical–in this country are tearing it apart.

All the elected officials from the White House to Pensacola City Hall profess that they want to create jobs. Republicans tell us that we have to cut corporate taxes and maintain tax breaks for the wealthy to do it. Democrats say that rebuilding the economy on the backs of the middle class won’t do it.

Sean doesn’t know which side is right, but he can look around Pensacola and see that things are not working.

“People tell me that Occupy should do what they’re doing through the system,” Sean told me as he checked me out. “But what do you do when the system is broken?”

State and national politics are controlled by those with money. Heck, Rick Scott purchased the governorship with his fortune.

Sen. Marco Rubio’s income quadrupled during his ten years in the Florida Legislature.

Dummy think tanks and foundations are created almost daily to produce reports and “studies” to validate political agendas. The line between real news and fake news has become blurred.

Meanwhile the rich get richer by cutting worker benefits, downsizing and taking advantage of incentives offered by the federal, state and local governments. Banks are bailed out, while they continue to foreclose on homes, charge insanely high credit card fees and create new bank fees.

“This isn’t about a political change,” said Sean. “We’re looking for a cultural change and that isn’t going to happen overnight.”

Sean makes a good point. We’ve strayed away from the values that built this country.

Profits have been placed before people. We offer corporate tax breaks and incentives and finance them by cutting funds for education, the elderly and those most vulnerable.

We fight for military funding, but cut back on care for the veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We build jails and prisons, instead of community centers and libraries.

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By Jeremy Morrison Attorney Doug Sale seemed almost relieved when the Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency cut him loose. After listening to nearly two hours of discussions, he had apparently reached the same conclusion in regards to his future relationship with the CRA—“I just can’t.”

“I don’t want to sound like I’m taking my marbles and going home,” Sale told the CRA board. “You have got some issues that must be resolved in this city before something much more serious than hiring a little ol’ lawyer from Panama City comes before you.”

It was the attorney’s first trip to town to visit with his clients. Weird as the meeting was, he seemed to think it worth the drive down Highway 98.

“I couldn’t resist it,” Sale said as the November 28 meeting wrapped up. “It was too challenging professionally and intellectually.”

“Bail before the ship goes down,” CRA board member John Jerralds laughed.

Sale’s visit to Pensacola was hardly a waste.

It provided the CRA and city officials with a marathon group therapy session. What City Attorney Jim Messer had referred to as an “opportunity moment” before the meeting began.

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Sale had come to the meeting to answer questions. But he also had a few questions of his own, such as who would be paying his bill?

“You want your money back?” he asked.

“I can give it to you. That’s not the point.”

Sale was hired in June by CRA Chairman Megan Pratt and former CRA Administrator Becky Bray. The attorney has done a good bit of work for them—“clearly, less than $20,000”—and a bulk of his tab has already been paid by the city.

During its September 19 board meeting, the CRA, which is comprised of the entire city council, give a 60-day approval to an interlocal agreement for the city to run the CRA that had been proposed by Mayor Ashton Hayward. Board member Sherri Myers wanted more control on the CRA administrator and wanted Sale to offer an opinion on her thoughts at the next meeting. Others, including Pratt, expressed interest in exploring other modifications. None were voted on by the board, only the extension was approved.

Since that meeting, Bray and Pratt worked with Sale to draft alternative interlocal agreement. The ‘Administrator’ morphed into an ‘Executive,’ with the new position reporting to the CRA chairman instead of the mayor. Then, the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, Hayward fired Bray and questions arose over the legitimacy of Sale’s contract.

Myers told Pratt that the CRA board members should have been involved in the discussions with Sale.

“We should have had these conversations during this 60-day period and we wouldn’t be sitting here now,” Myers said, adding that the board shouldn’t be expected to consider alternate language they had never seen before on a contract set to expire December 1— “I can’t operate that way.”

But these issues are symptoms be viewed in a broader context. And so, the evening’s discussions dove deeper, into a “tug of war” and a “playbook” and a “power struggle” and a “dead horse.”

At the crux of the matter is the CRA’s relationship with the Mayor, specifically, who exactly should have control of staff. This particular dispute does not exist on an island.

Similar struggles have played out in other council theaters since Pensacola changed to a strong-mayor form of government.

In the venue of the city council, Hayward has made it clear he intends to enjoy

the newly minted strong-mayor position.

But where the CRA is concerned, everyone is experiencing what Sale calls “growing pains” and Messer would probably refer to as a “sticky wicket.”

“We don’t know what the rules are,” said board member P.C. Wu in frustration. “One side is saying it’s a touchdown. One side is saying it’s not a touchdown.”

The CRA is a special taxing district within Pensacola. Its board is charged with developing a CRA plan that spends the tax revenues generated within its boundaries for the betterment of that area. While the agency is an independent entity, it does contract with the city to administer the CRA plan.

Currently, some members feel the existing interlocal gives the Mayor too much power; Hayward is happy with the current agreement.

“We don’t want this to have an appearance of a power-struggle of any sort,” Jerralds cautioned his fellow board members.

While this issue of a new interlocal agreement was going to take some time, most of the board seemed ready to retroactively ratify Sale’s contract—due to the fact that an actual vote was never taken on hiring the attorney—and get Pratt off the hook for any questionable procedure breakdowns and illegalities.

“I’m trying to choose my words because I don’t want to jump all over the chair, who I have a tremendous amount of respect for,” said board member Sam Hall, who was recently elected as city council president.

The general consensus among the board seemed to be that Pratt may have been a bit sloppy, but ultimately had the CRA’s best interest at heart. The board voted to approve Sale’s contract and pay him money owed. Pratt, Jerralds, Myers, Wu, Hall and Ronald Townsend voted to approve, while Vice Chairman Brian Spencer and Larry B. Johnson opposed the motion. Maren DeWeese was absent.

Pratt said that Bray had brought up the notion of hiring a separate attorney, and it seemed like a natural move in context of board discussions.

“It seemed that there was a general consensus,” Pratt said. “I will not disagree here, we probably need to flesh out our processes and there is confusion here.”

There may be a snag, however, to CRA’s retroactive move. Messer pointed out that he wasn’t sure the CRA had the authority to ratify the contract, but thought it might instead rest with the Mayor.

“If the mayor pays it, then you apparently had the authority,” Messer said, adding that if Hayward opts not to pay Sale’s bill the matter will need to go before a judge.

Then there was the matter of draf ting a new interlocal agreement, or not, and whether to keep Sale on the team.

The CR A was less cohesive on these points.

Wu suggested it might be good to keep a separate attorney.

“He’s not wed to the Council’s position, he’s not wed to the Mayor’s position,” Wu said.

Myers said she thought the current arrangement—extended two months ago— gave too much power to the mayor, specifically the ability to hire and fire staff that was charged with working with the CRA. “I think the system is broken,” Myers said. “And I say that based on the firing of Thaddeus Cohen, on the firing of Becky Bray.”

Hall also said the existing framework for the CRA didn’t seem to be working out under the new form of government.

“I think we’re just asking for trouble,” he said. “I think it’s critical that we get that playbook worked out.”

The new city council president said that he wanted to include Mayor Hayward in the process, thus respecting the intent of voters, but also thought it important to preserve the CRA’s individuality.

“As the CRA board, I’m not willing to give that up to him,” Hall said.

Sale told the board that he would work with both the CRA and the Mayor’s office to craft a new interlocal agreement everyone could work with. John Asmar, the Mayor’s chief of staff, said that they were up for conversations but that Hayward

“You want your money back? I can give it to you.

That’s not the point.”

Attorney Doug Sale

preferred the current agreement—“to be in the driver’s seat, to get it done.”

“The alternative is that the CRA hires their own staff, rents their own building, do their own accounting,” Asmar said.

Myers made a motion to keep Sale on as legal advisor. Although several members had lobbied for such—notably Wu— that sentiment died on the floor for lack of a second.

Hall suggested that the group extend the agreement until the next board. Pratt asked if he meant the next “board meeting.” Hall said he had meant until a new CRA board took seats in 2013.

“So, you’re asking to extend it for another year?” Pratt asked.

“Fourteen months, whatever it is,” Hall said. “I’m of the opinion, if it’s not broke don’t fix it. And it seems to be working for us.”

Wu said they had a “very divided council.” Myers suggested there was an element of orchestration to the mess. Pratt argued for staying the course on drafting another interlocal.

“This document isn’t about Mayor Hayward or us, it’s about the CRA,” the chairwoman said. “If we put it off until next year at this time, I think it will get brushed under the rug.”

Johnson said the issue was a “waste of time” and had him “spinning my wheels.”

The CRA then voted on Hall’s motion— seconded by Wu—to extend the current arrangement until the next board formed.

The chairwoman then said she had a question that had been on her mind since first taking office.

“When can I quit?” Pratt laughed.

She suggested that the board elect a new leader to coincide with the city council’s recent changing of the guard. Johnson asked if that meant she did not wish to be nominated for another round in the Chair.

Pratt told him to ask her next month.

Johnson threw Spencer ’s name onto the table, but Pratt said the matter would need to be placed on the next meeting ’s agenda.

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“It closed, I think it was, a week ago Sunday,” Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver said of the job posting.

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“There’s a misconception that this is solely a marketing position,” Oliver said.

The job became mired in controversy after Commissioner Robertson suggested that Forrest Gibbs would be good for the job.

Although he did not come from a marketing background, Gibbs was eventually hired with a starting salary significantly higher than advertised to fellow applicants.

The Escambia County Commission ended up relieving Gibbs to avoid any perception of unethical behavior and requesting opinions on the matter from state agencies.

Now Gibbs has reapplied for the position.

“He’ll be given the same consideration as any other applicant,” Oliver said.

Within the next couple of weeks, the county is expected to whittle the pool of potential applicants down to a dozen. Then the hiring panel, which has yet to be named, will conduct telephone interviews until zeroing in on about four finalists.

DREAMING ON THE SIDEWALK Occu-

py Pensacola is now heading into its seventh week. The last couple of weeks at City Hall have been made a bit less comfortable, since officials have taken the group’s tents and kicked the protesters to the curb. Not really the curb, but the sidewalk.

“They told people yesterday around 5:30 (p.m.) that they were redefining what the sidewalk was,” said Alistair McKenzie, who is serving as the group’s legal counsel, Monday, Nov. 28.

“Oh my! Who could have possibly seen this coming?”–Derrick Blythe

Occupy Pensacola mainstay Gary Paull and Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons talk shop. / photo by Jeremy Morrison Occupy Pensacola released a statement, Sunday, Nov. 27 which called for back-up 99 Percenters in the face of probable arrests come 11 p.m.

“There was strong indication people will be arrested tonight for standing on public space,” the statement relayed an earlier visit from a police officer.

“I guess they had word that we were gonna do a raid last night for some reason,” Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons said the next morning. “There’s nothing new. I’m not sure where they got the impression that anything was new.”

Simmons said that Occupy Pensacola has not been allowed on City Hall’s lawn for a couple of weeks, and they can no longer pitch tents. That’s still the same. The group’s allowed on the sidewalk 24-hours a day, that’s another constant.

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that Occupiers were no longer allowed in the diagonal walkways crossing the lawn.

So now the movement occupies the corner. Gary Paull, a former Marine and original organizer of the local Occupy, woke up on his cot one recent morning to the sound of passing traffic.

Before long he was in a conversation with Simmons, showing off his “Cadillac of cots.” The Chief said he likes to stop and chat “because I love Gary.”

The two seem to be developing a relationship.

“I don’t know about a ‘close-bond,’” Simmons clarifies. “We talk.”

“We have a cordial relationship between two humans,” Paull added.

McKenzie, meanwhile, said he has filed another emergency motion to have the restrictions done away with—“because this is absurd.” {in}

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Betting on the Future

By Jeremy Morrison A few months after arriving in office, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward got a new car. It’s cute.

The car’s a Honda Civic GX. In June, Hayward invited folks down to City Hall to take a gander. Aesthetically speaking, the car’s more responsible than fun; it’s a Honda, not a DeLorean.

The Mayor is exceedingly jazzed about the new car. That’s because the new car isn’t a car. The Honda is the future.

Purchased this spring, Hayward’s Honda represents one of the Mayor’s visions for Pensacola. The car is the first compressed-natural gas (CNG) vehicle the city has bought.

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“Natural gas is cheaper, it’s cleaner and better for the environment, and owning a natural gas utility like ESP makes it a pretty convenient vehicle to fill up,” Hayward said in a statement at the time he purchased the vehicle.

The Honda serves as a tangible announcement that the Mayor aims to cast Pensacola on the natural gas stage. More recently, it was announced that the city will partner with Emerald Coast Utilities Authority in switching some of each entity’s fleet of vehicles to natural gas.

But natural gas vehicles are just the tip of Hayward’s vision. The city is close to inking a deal on a CNG fueling station, with plans to construct two more once the initial facility is complete.

The move could provide Pensacola with a strategically significant foothold in the nation’s race into energy’s next wild frontier.

“That’s what I really want to be, is a player,” Hayward said, a couple of weeks after announcing the ambitions.

“That’s what I really want to be, is a player.”

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Indeed, it must be a thrilling cowboy-era in the natural gas industry. With oil proving to be an increasingly unstable commodity, the energy industry is focusing more and more on natural gas. It looks to be the next rung in the fossil fuel ladder.

But fossil fuel carries a lot of baggage. Folks in the natural gas industry prefer to look at their product as an endless supply of ecofriendly happy gas.

“Yes, it is finite in that it is a fossil fuel—and growing, The city of Pensacola has one natural gas vehicle thus far, the Honda Civic GX. / photo courtesy of Energy Services of Pensacola thanks to shale gas, which is a relatively Suarez is the director of Energy Sernew phenomenon,” Suarez said. vices of Pensacola, the local city-owned Don Suarez stepped out of the natuAlthough it is a fossil fuel, natural gas natural gas provider. He talks like a man ral gas conference and took the phone is packaged in a bright green bow. It is riding the wave of the Next Big Thing. Excall. He spoke sof tly so as not to disturb pitched as a bridge fuel that responsible cited exclamation marks are everywhere. his industr y cohorts in the conferadults can entertain while waiting for the “Frankly, natural gas is almost evence hall, but excitement escaped even improbable utopia of renewable energies to erywhere!” Suarez said, referencing an through his whisper. descend from the clouds. industry map detailing the country’s “Natural gas is plentiful in the United That’s where Hayward is coming from. deposits of the resource. “This map shows States of America,” Suarez said into the He sees jumping into the natural gas arena as where shale fields are and they’re almost phone. “We can likely supply 100 percent a responsible, green move. everywhere.” of our needs.”

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“Getting off oil is a pretty big deal,” the Mayor said. “It’s the right thing to do.”

Immediate economics also play a role.

While oil prices are expected to continue their climb as supply diminishes and production costs go up, natural gas prices are currently more stable, and lower.

“It’s clean,” Hayward said. “It’s obviously a hell of a lot less expensive.”

“Frankly, natural gas is almost everywhere!”

Don Suarez, ESP In under a decade, the plan is to switch an as-yet-to-be-determined number of ECUA vehicles to natural gas, in addition to a yet-to-be-determined number of city vehicles. The new natural gas vehicles will enter rotation as older diesel models are replaced.

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He explained that the city and ECUA would be focusing on larger, fleet vehicles.

The Honda Civic is adorable, but more or less a novelty.

“You need to be burning a lot of fuel in a localized area. If you’re not burning a lot of fuel you’re payback’s 20 years—well, that’s probably not a good application,” Resmondo said. “If you weren’t burning 8,000 gallons of fuel a year it’s probably not a place we ought to explore.”

In addition to not having a good enough pay-off, passenger cars are somewhat limited. Currently, the Civic is the only model being produced in any quantity. Logistics also play a role in limiting smaller autos from being applicable.

Compressed natural gas requires a pressurized fuel tank. The tanks are spherical and considerably larger than a traditional gas tank.

“All the tanks are spherical, it holds the most pressure,” Resmondo explained. “You know square tanks aren’t going to work.”

The size and shape requirements essentially eliminate the concept working for, say, a city police cruiser; the tank would eliminate all the trunk space.

“You basically have room for a couple of duffle bags and a brief case in the back,” Resmondo said.

So, instead of sedans, the city will be focusing on transitioning its larger— traditionally dieselrun—fleets. Resmondo calls the switch a “no-brainer.”

“For busses and trucks—big equipment—it’s pretty readily available,” Resmondo said. “Garbage trucks are a very good application for a CNG because they do burn a lot of fuel.”

When a diesel-run garbage truck is replaced with a natural-gas powered truck, the vehicle will be emitting considerably less carbon dioxide. The CNG engines are also quieter and require less mechanical upkeep.

When ECUA changes 10 to 15 of their heavy-duty trucks to natural gas, the city expects to see the utilities company save an estimated $250,000 annually on maintenance fees, in addition to about $1 million savings in fuel costs.

“We’re pretty excited about it,” said Nathalie Bowers, spokesperson for ECUA. “It’s going to be an extremely good move financially, mechanically and all the way around.”

In Tallahassee, the Leon County School District has already waded into the natural gas waters. The district began phasing in NGV school busses three years ago. Currently, the district has about 14 natural gas busses, with 30 more on the way. As the old diesel models finish out their lives, they’ll be replaced with their natural gas counterparts.

“It’s working out great,” said Manny Joanos, divisional director for Leon County Schools.

Joanos oversaw the District’s natural gas introduction. In addition to changing out its bus fleet, the school district has also invested in fueling infrastructure.

“We’re not sticking our toe in the water.

We’re in this,” Joanos assured. “Like they say in Vegas—we’re all in.”

Leon County School District officials already feel the move is paying off. While a CNG school bus costs on average about $27,000 more than a traditional model, Joanos reported that the District gets that money back within five years due to savings on upkeep and fuel; the typical life of a school bus is around 15 years.

“We think already we are seeing a reduction on our maintenance costs,” he said, adding fuel savings were also encouraging. “We’re saving a buck and a half, buck seventy-five, depending on what diesel is this week or next week.”

The downside? Natural gas vehicles need a place to fill up and fueling infrastructure ain’t cheap.

“Yeah, the start up is a little more than it would be for something else,” Joanos said.

Fueling infrastructure is integral to Pensacola’s plan. The current set up’s not going to cut it. While the city does have one slow-fill fueling station, it takes between six to eight hours to fill up that Honda Civic.

“That system would fill your car, but it’d take all night long,” Resmondo said.

Resmondo explained that there are two types of CNG fueling stations: slow ones and fast ones. The slow ones—or time filled—simply allow the natural gas (which, unlike gasoline, is not in liquid form) to seep into the tank. A fast-fill station uses a compressor to pump the fuel into the vehicle and takes about the same amount of time as a conventional gas pump to fill a tank.

“Much, much more expensive,” Resmondo said of the fast fill set up.

Pensacola is about ready to sign off on a contract with Zeit Energy for the construction of the first of its three planned stations. The first station—to be located at 3050 Godwin Ln., on ECUA property—is expected to cost $1,431,618.

While the other two facilities’ costs are not yet known, the entire project is supposed to run about $4.8 million. The money will come out of ESP’s budget.

But Pensacola isn’t looking at spending nearly $5 million to fill up a nominal number of city and ECUA fleet vehicles. That’s short-sighted.

“The long range is what I’m really focused on,” Hayward said.

Unlike most municipalities, Pensacola has a vested interest in natural gas. It owns ESP, the local natural gas company that supplies residential and commercial costumers. In that sense, exploring the natural gas arena makes sense.

“The NG certainly has wonderful applications for fleets.”

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As new extraction methods have opened up previously unrealistic reserves of home-grown natural gas, momentum has built swiftly. The industry has taken on an air of new-age wildcatters, with grins as big as their dreams.

“You’re being inundated,” said Joanos, alluding to the barrage of advertisements preaching the gospel of natural gas, “Let me tell you why.”

Joanos described a domestic fuel source with “huge reserves.” He sees an industry ready to explode, an industry that views natural gas vehicles as the next natural marketplace.

“In the last five years, with this new discovery on how to move it and the new

“If they don’t, somebody’s gonna lose a lot of money.”

Don Suarez, ESP widely used in heavy-duty, fleet vehicles.

At that point, with a trio of fueling stations in place, Pensacola would be primed to provide fuel to any number of customers.

Hayward throws out a few commercial possibilities: Coke, Pepsi, Lewis Bear.

Natural gas was at the forefront of his mind when wooing UPS—another potential customer—to the area.

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“You could run the gamut,” he said, describing a future in which Pensacola plays the role of fueling hub. “Where we’re geographically located on I-10 is spectacular.”

Hayward is making an educated bet that natural gas is the future.

If he’s right, Pensacola may be heading into the next frontier.

What if he’s wrong? What if the country’s massive fleet of commercial vehicles don’t belly up to the natural gas bar?

“If they don’t, somebody’s gonna lose a lot of money,” Suarez said.

“Have you heard of the movie “Gasland” by any chance?”

Amy Mall, NRDC

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If the oil industry has taken on the persona of a mean-spirited greed goon, the natural gas industry likes to think of itself as an even-keeled peacemaker. It’s not the goofy daydream of solar or wind or hydro. It’s what the serious grown-ups are discussing.

The barrage of industry ads alluded to by Joanos are soft-focused and syrupy-sweet.

The only downside, one might think, is the initial cost investment on infrastructure.

“If you spill it, it goes up,” Suarez said, noting how the product is less messy than traditional fuels.

But natural gas is not exactly the lovely, fluffy, feel-good fuel it purports to be.

“Have you heard of the movie “Gasland” by any chance?” said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with Natural Resource Defense Council. “There are folks whose drinking water has been contaminated.”

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But that’s on the production side.

Pensacola’s ventures—via ESP—are on the supply side. It’s much greener on that side, right?

Turns out, maybe not. There isn’t much information on the issue, but some studies currently emerging point to the possibility that—from start to finish, from production to end-use—natural gas might be a net loss for the environment when compared to traditional energy bogey men like oil and coal.

“We expect the production to be dirtier,” Mall said.

The primary environmental argument behind natural gas—the decrease in carbon dioxide output— is also somewhat fuzzy.

While natural gas vehicles do emit considerably less CO2, they instead emit a good amount of methane. Ton for ton, methane is considered to be more harmful to the environment due to its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere than carbon.

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Watching people light their tap water on fire—the main take-away from the documentary—is a bit unsettling. The image has become a poster child for the downside of natural gas.

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discovery of reserves they are predicting huge reserves,” Joanos said.

This landscape is not lost on Mayor Hayward. He’s given quite a bit of thought to the matter, and believes Pensacola is well positioned to take advantage of the predicted boom.

“I really looked at ESP plans to invest an estimated 4.8 million for CNG filling stations. it as an opportunity for us when I got in “We need to be a leader in this. We office,” the Mayor said. need to figure out how to grow our enterIf things go according to plan, natural prise,” Hayward said. “— get out in front of gas will come into its own and become it, honestly.”

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But such an intricate, mathematical argument is pretty difficult to grasp in a sound bite. A flame-throwing kitchen sink grabs people’s attention much faster.

The main reason the natural gas industry is primed to shoot for the stars— and the cause of the firewater—is the recent developments in drilling technologies. A method known as hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—has opened up previously unreachable reserves and led to speculation about the possible sea of gas the United States must be sitting on; supply estimates range from 100 years to as far into the future as the mind’s eye can see.

This new extraction method involves drilling a well, then pumping high volumes of highly pressurized water and a chemical cocktail into the Earth. The pressurized liquid separates the sediment and forces natural gas back up the line to the well.

This process works great, until the ground water gets contaminated and lights on fire.

Folks tend to freak out about that.

In addition to the visually startling flammable tap, natural gas production also carries risks normally associated with any energy production: pollution, stemming from leaks, and the possibility of an accident (think blowout, but with natural gas instead of oil).

“It’s a long list of issues, it’s a complex industry,” Mall said.

Because the natural gas industry has not been as active as the oil and coal industry, it is apparently not yet held to hazardous waste regulations.

“We’re very concerned about that,” Mall said. “People are concerned about their water.

They’re concerned about their air.

They’re concerned about the waste.”

The NRDC analyst said that the industry could tighten up the process to ensure that it was as safe and clean as possible.

“It could clean up its act. It has options,” she said, adding that industries don’t usually voluntarily do the right thing. “—only if government forces them to.”

Mayor Hayward’s heard of “Gaslands.”

But like the natural gas industry, he brushes fringe fears aside as pesky thorns in an otherwise glorious saddle.

“I think they can figure out the right way,” Hayward said.

While fracking is the main driving force behind the rise of natural gas’ popularity,

the method isn’t entirely locally relevant.

Suarez said that ESP does not get its natural gas supply from hydraulic fracturing operations. It comes from wells out in the Gulf of Mexico — “up and down the coast, all the way to Texas.”

And the city-owned company doesn’t get into the production side of things. It’s a provider. It contracts with BP to supply the product.

“I know that’s a sensitive company and name with local folks,” Suarez said, explaining that ESP renewed the British company’s contract in the wake of the 2010 oil spill “— they won the bid.”

The Gulf of Mexico has many natural gas drilling operations. But none off of Florida’s coast, as the state has banned the practice and there is a federal moratorium on oil and gas drilling in most of the eastern gulf—this is due in large part to concerns voiced by tourism and military interests in the area.

Throughout the past few decades, a number of exploratory wells have been drilled in both state and federal gulf waters off of Florida. Some of these natural gas operations look paydirt promising.

Particularly close to home, the Destin Dome blocks are something of an industry centerfold: sensual and completely unattainable. The blocks, along with other state tracts, were leased by various companies. Because both the state and federal governments implemented rules making the operations a no-go, much of the available leases were bought back through litigation. Murphy Oil, however, still holds leases on Destin Dome, blocks 56 and 57, located about 25 miles south of Pensacola.

Over the years, both state and federal lawmakers have made some noise about opening up Florida’s waters to drilling operations.

So far, the area’s military presence— which uses that portion of the gulf for training exercises—have been successful in holding such operations at bay.

Just before the 2010 oil spill, President Barack Obama was set to open much of the eastern gulf to drilling. This would not have included the Destin Dome sites, which are protected through 2022. Murphy Oil, however, will be allowed to submit plans for those blocks as early as 2012.

If Pensacola jumps with both feet into the natural gas game, it’s probably a safe bet that ESP will seek out the most bang for its buck. Ten years down the road, in our race into fossil fuel’s new frontier, how close to home will the finish line be? {in}

“We expect the production to be dirtier.”

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“People are concerned about their water. They’re concerned about their air.

They’re concerned about the waste.”

Mall

“I think they can figure out the right way.”

Hayward

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A SALUTE TO DIFFERENCE MAKERS Dr. Teresa Mahaffey

Dr. Teresa Mahaffey has made her life’s work a reflection of her personal life. Working as a pediatrician for the past 20 years, Dr. Mahaffey has treated children with all types of special quirks and gifts. However, it was when she had her son, Patrick now 20-yearsold, that she found her medical niche.

Patrick was officially diagnosed with autism when he was 7-yearsold, although Dr. Mahaffey saw the signs by the time he was one.

The family was stationed in Guam (her husband Kevin is in the military) where there were even fewer resources for parents of autistic children than in the United States.

About six years ago, Dr. Mahaffey responded to her increase of autistic patients by focusing her medical practices on those gifted children.

“There are not a lot of resources in the area,” she said. “I knew I could make a difference because I’ve been there.”

Becoming a doctor was always a career goal. Dr. Mahaffey went to University of Notre Dame for her undergrad studies and attended medical school at the University of Illinois. Dr. Mahaffey stays collegiate by teaching at Florida State University.

Dr. Mahaffey treats her patients with a holistic approach, meaning she treats both mind and body.

Autistic children have different symptoms and challenges. That’s why they are labeled “autism spectrum.”

There is no set plan that works for every child.

“It’s much more involved,” Dr. Mahaffey said of her practices. “I take into consideration things such as home life, school and therapies.”

Being a pediatrician also requires a particular bedside manner, which is even more important when discussing disorders.

“I think you need a lot more empathy,” Dr. Mahaffey said. “I also have to mediate what the media says about autism and the reality.”

Dr. Mahaffey has a few goals set for the Pensacola area.

“My vision is that we would have a center where pediatricians can send a patient to be tested, get diagnosed and arrange for follow-ups,” she said. “Ideally we would have a psychologist on staff to follow-up with patients and parents and arrange applied behavior therapy and tie-in the therapy with schools.”

Already Dr. Mahaffey has made progress in the area with Vision of Hope a non-profit organization geared towards teaching job skills to young adults with disabilities. The organization is a great way for them to get out of the house and engage with the community.

“They are forgotten about once they graduate from high school,” Dr. Mahaffey said. “We want to get them into the workforce even if it’s a rudimentary, repetitive job.”

Patrick has an I.Q. of 46 and cannot read or write, but he can tell you anything you need to know about airplanes or wasps said Dr. Mahaffey. He also has the cleanest room of her three kids.

You can hear Patrick laughing in the background with her staff. He goes to her office after school. She hopes what any parent hopes for: her kids to be happy. Dr. Mahaffey’s two other children, Peter and Katie are in the International Baccalaureate program at Pensacola High School.

“I have three gifted children in one way or another,” Dr. Mahaffey said.

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ZOO LIGHTS

No holiday is complete without a walk around the Gulf Breeze Zoo. Grab a cup of hot chocolate and take a ride on the train. Starting Friday, Dec. 2, the Zoo Lights continue every weekend of the month of December from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19 you can see the lights during the week. Tickets are $8, $5 for zoo members and $3 for train rides. For more information go to gulfbreezezoo.org.

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE

The 9th Avenue Design District will hold its Open House Thursday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Home décor stores along 9th Avenue such as Urban Objects, Duh and Inside the Home (to name a few) will be participating. Enjoy drinks and food, as well as extended shopping hours to get those gifts you didn’t buy last week.

CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH

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The 5,000 ft. indoor interactive walkthru features a candy-cane maze, pictures with Santa and a magical sleigh ride tunnel.

The walk-thru will be every Friday and Saturday from Dec. 2 though Dec. 17 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Seville Quarter, 131 E. Government St. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children. For more information call 434-6211 or go to sevillequarter.com.

WINTERFEST

Winterfest creates a Winter Wonderland in downtown Pensacola. All Winterfest tours begin at Christmas Town Wonderland in front of the courthouse.

Santa’s Workshop Revue performs free entertainment for those passing by or waiting for Santa’s Express Tour and the original Performance Tour, which takes passengers through 11 stops to see holiday characters such as Frosty the Snowman and the Whos of Whoville. Prices and

dates vary for each tour. For more details go to pensacolawinterfest.org.

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University of West Florida presents the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” This is UWF’s fifth season adapting the holiday tale. The play opens Thursday, Dec. 1 and runs through Sunday, Dec. 4 then again from Thursday, Dec. 8 to Sunday

There may not be snow, but the Snowball Derby is an unexpected way to celebrate the season. The races begin Thursday, Dec. 1 and end Saturday, Dec. 3. Pits open

Pensacola Beach has plenty to do for the young and young at heart. Start the season at Our Lady Catholic Church for Joy for the Beach, presented by the Pensacola Beach Optimists Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. Also check out the Lighted Boat Parade, Friday, Dec. 9 starting at 6 p.m. at the Sabine Marina. Saturday, Dec. 10 start the day at Surf Burger for breakfast with Surfing Santa at 8 a.m. At 8 p.m. head to Bamboo Willies for the Santa Look Alike Contest. On Sunday, Dec. 11 Island Style is having a free ornament making event from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. At 2 p.m. the Surfing Santa Parade begins at Via de Luna and ends at Casino Beach. After the parade you can make your own gingerbread house at the Gulfside Pavillion on Casino Beach. Friday, Dec. 16 it’s a Christmas Cupcake Factory at Tiki Island starting at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18 take your picture with Santa at Island Style at the Santa and his Paparazzi event.

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‘Tis the Season cont'd LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTMAS

Friday, Dec. 2 you can help light the 150 ft. Christmas tree and tour the decorated Keeper’s Quarters at the lighthouse. Listen to Christmas stories in the parlor while nibbling on cookies and sipping hot apple cider and hot chocolate. Santa will also be in attendance. On Thursday, Dec. 22 visit the lighthouse for an old-fashioned Christmas tea. There will also be hot wassail, hot chocolate and cookies. More information at pensacolalighthouse.org.

HOLIDAY EVENING IN OLD SEVILLE SQUARE

The McGuire’s Pipe Band will kick off the evening with Jared Willets and the Channel 3 morning team reading “Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

The event is presented by the Pensacola Heritage Foundation at Seville Square. Join the fun, Thursday, Dec. 8 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

On Thursday, Dec. 22 sing along at the Carols in Old Seville Square from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. More information at pensacolaheritage.org

A TUNA CHRISTMAS

A comedic alternative to the holiday classics, “A Tuna Christmas,” takes place on Christmas Eve in a

small Texas town. The town’s production of “A Christmas Carol,” may not take place because of unpaid electric bills and a Christmas Phantom is destroying lawn decorations.

Not your typical yuletide tale. The Theatre West production runs Friday, Dec. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 11 and continues Friday, Dec. 16 to Sunday, Dec. 18. For more information go to: sanctuarytheatrewest.com. Tickets are $15 and may be reserved by calling the theatre box office at 912-4087 or by emailing reservations@sanctuarytheatrewest.com.

1940S RADIO HOUR

The Pensacola Little Theatre presents a show within a show. The old-fashioned situation comedy revolves around the last broadcast of a small New York radio station during Christmastime 1942. The play opens Friday, Dec. 9 through Sunday, Dec. 11 and continues Friday, Dec. 15 to Sunday, Dec. 18. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at

2:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $14 to $30 and are available at pensacolalittletheatre.com.

CHRISTMAS IN THE COAST

It’s almost like caroling only you don’t have to walk door-to-door and you don’t have to sing. The Pensacola Children’s Chorus shines on the Saenger stage Friday, Dec. 9 to Sunday, Dec. 11. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday shows start at 2:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $18 to $34 and are available at ticketmaster. com or pensacolasaenger.com.

PENSACOLA CHRISTMAS PARADE

It’s an obvious choice, but a good one nonetheless. Saturday, Dec. 10 at 5:15 p.m. you can hear Escambia County’s high school marching bands, see the Blue Angels flight team and of course catch candy and beads.

After the parade, is the Christmas Parade Dash sponsored by the Pensacola Runners Association. More information can be found at coxpensacolachristmasparade.org.

PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND HOLIDAY CONCERT

The Pensacola Civic Band will be playing holiday tunes at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium at Pensacola State College Monday, Dec. 12 and Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5, reserve yours by calling 484-1847.

THE NUTCRACKER

The quintessential holiday performance. Ballet Pensacola will be performing “ The Nutcracker ” Friday, Dec. 16 until Sunday, Dec. 18 . Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7 p.m. and Sunday shows start at 1:30 p.m. at the Saenger Theatre. Ticket prices are $20 to $32 and are available at ticketmaster. com or pensacolasaenger.com.

HO HO HUSTLE 5K

Bring the whole family for this friendly 5K sponsored by Running Wild. Kids can participate for free in the Santa Sprint following the race. The race begins at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 17 at 3012 E. Cervantes St. Early registration fee is $20. Sign up

by Friday, Dec. 16. Race day registration is $35. More information at werunwild.com or 435-9222.

HOLIDAY CABARET

It’s like a live Christmas mix tape. All of your favorite seasonal tunes are sung in “Holiday Cabaret.” Presented by Pensacola Little Theatre, “Holiday Cabaret” involves the talent of almost two dozen local performers. The event runs from Monday, Dec. 19 to Tuesday, Dec. 21.

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PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg. 15. 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m. through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

WOVEN & WRAPPED: KIMONOS, CLOTHING AND CULTURE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPAN 10 a.m. through Feb 12. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘IT’S 5 O’ CLOCK SOMEWHERE’ MARGARITA TASTING 2 p.m. Margaritaville Beach Hotel, 165 Fort Pickens Rd., Pensacola Beach. 916-9755 or margaritavillehotel.com.

VOLKSMARCH CLUB GROUP WALK 4 p.m.

Meet at T.T. Wentworth Museum 330 South Jefferson in the back parking lot. For further information contact Twinette at 748-0335.

WINE TASTING AT AWM 5 p.m. Aragon Wine Market, 27 S. Ninth Ave. 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com.

HERB CLASS AT EVER’MAN 6 p.m. $2 for nonmembers. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. 438-0402 or everman.org.

VEGAN DINNER AT EOTL 6 p.m. End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St. 429-0336 or eotlcafe.com.

T-SHIRT NIGHT 7 p.m. Drinks are half price when you wear Sandshaker t-shirt. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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COMMON THREAD 6 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

WINE TASTING AT EAST HILL MARKET 5:30 p.m. 1216 N. Ninth Ave.

LYON’S LIMOZINE 7 p.m. $5. The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or handlebarpensacola.com.

CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY AT THE LIGHTHOUSE 6 p.m. Pensacola Lighthouse, 2081 Radford Blvd. 393-1561 or pensacolalighthouse.org.

THE BLENDERS 7 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

TIM SPENCER 8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

COLLEGE DANCE NIGHT 9 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

FRIDAY 12.2

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m. through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

WOVEN & WRAPPED: KIMONOS, CLOTHING AND CULTURE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPAN 10 a.m. through Feb 12. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

55TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CARAVAN 10 a.m.

St Christopher’s Episcopal Church 3200 N. 12th Ave. Bake sale and vendors, luncheon and a tour of

COMEDY ZONE 7:3 0 p.m. Lillo’s Tuscan Grille, 5 Via de Luna . Gulf Breeze. 93 4-5 456 or lillostuscangrille.com.

‘THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS’ 7:30 p.m. $12, Reservations requested. Panhandle Community Theatre, 4646 Woodbine Rd., Pace. 221-7599 or panhandlecommunitytheatre.com.

PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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SAWMILL & GUESTS 7 p.m. Chumuckla’s Farmers’ Opry, 8897 Byrom Campbell Rd., Pace. 9949219 or farmersopry.com.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 7:30 p.m. Sabine Sandbar, 715 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach.

934-3141 or dalesbigdeck.com.

JEREMY GIBSON 7:30 p.m. 600 South Atrium, 600 S. Palafox Pl. 432-5254 or 600southpalafox.com.

MICHAEL LOCKWOOD BAND 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

DESTIN ATKINSON 8 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox Pl. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

HOLLY SHELTON AND DAVID SHELANDER 8 p.m. Ragtyme Grille, 201 S. Jefferson St. 429-9655 or ragtyme.net.

REDDOG 8 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

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happenings THE RETURN-THE BEST OF THE BEATLES LIVE 7:30 p.m. $15. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

MICHAEL LOCKWOOD BAND 8 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

DUELING PIANOS 8 p.m. Rosie O’Grady’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

PAT PRICHARD GROUP 8 p.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 421 W. Belmont St. 912-4856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

DJ MR LAO 8 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

THE SHIZZ 9 p.m. The Deck at Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com Pensacola Wildlife Sanctuary THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW EXPERIENCE 8:30 p.m. $5. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

EMPOWERMENT: FOOD DRIVE FOR MANNA 3 p.m. Pensacola Little Theatre. 400 S. Jefferson St. 432-2042 or pensacolalittletheatre.com.

CAPIBARA $5 The Handlebar, 319 N. Tarragona St. 434-9060 or handlebarpensacola.com.

WINTERFEST TROLLEY TOURS 5 p.m. Reservations required. 226 E. Intendencia St. 435-0914 or pensacolawinterfest.org.

SCHOFIELD 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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BUZZCUTT 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

THE SHIZZ 9 p.m. The Deck at Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. Ste. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com JAMES ADKINS 9:30 p.m. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

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ZOO LIGHTS 5 p.m. $3-$8. Gulf Breeze Zoo, 5701 Gulf Breeze Pkwy., Gulf Breeze. 932-2229 or gulfbreezezoo.org.

55TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CARAVAN 6 p.m. $25. St Christopher’s Episcopal Church 3200 N. 12th Ave. Candlelight dinner and live holiday music. Please call 433-0074 to purchase tickets.

‘THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS’ 7:30 p.m. $12, Reservations requested. Panhandle Community Theatre, 4646 Woodbine Rd., Pace. 221-7599 or panhandlecommunitytheatre.com.

SCHOFIELD 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BUZZCUTT 9 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge, 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

KNEE DEEP BAND 9:30 p.m. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

SUNDAY 12.4

KRIS KRINGLE MARKETPLACE 9 a.m. St. Paul Catholic Church 3131 Hyde Park Rd. For more information contact Liz at 4 49-5575 or Beth at 287-3359.

SUCKER FREE SUNDAYS 11 a.m. All drafts half price. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

PALAFOX MARKET 8 a.m. Through Dec. 17. Martin Luther King Plaza on N. Palafox St. between Chase and Garden streets. palafoxmarket.com.

COMEDY ZONE 7:30 p.m. Lillo’s Tuscan Grille, 5 Via de Luna. Gulf Breeze. 934-5456 or lillostuscangrille.com.

‘THE HALLELUJAH GIRLS’ 2:30 p.m. $12, Reservations requested. Panhandle Community Theatre, 4646 Woodbine Rd., Pace. 221-7599 or panhandlecommunitytheatre.com.

EMERALD COAST BEAD SOCIETY SHOW 9 a.m. The Wright Place, 80 E. Wright St. 455-6109.

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL’S ‘MESSIAH’ 7:30 p.m. St. Paul Catholic Church, 3131 Hyde Park Rd. 484-1806 or choralsocietyofpensacola.com.

‘DOLLARS FOR DANAH’ FUNDRAISING PARTY 3 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

PHINEAS PHOGGETTES 10 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

ZOO LIGHTS 5 p.m. $3-$8. Gulf Breeze Zoo, 5701 Gulf Breeze Pkwy., Gulf Breeze. 932-2229 or gulfbreezezoo.org.

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KRAZY GEORGE KARAOKE 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s Downtown, 312 E. Government St. 469-1001 or hubstaceys.com.

RONNIE LEVEINE 12 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 6779153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

KARAOKE WITH MARK ESKEW 7 p.m. Hub Stacey’s at the Point, 5851 Galvez Rd. 497-0071 or hubstaceys.com.

JOSH GARRETT & THE BOTTOM LINE 4 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

JOSH GARRETT & THE BOTTOMLINE 7 p.m.

Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna., Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

WAYNE HALL 5 p.m. The Grand Marlin, 400 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 677-9153 or thegrandmarlin.com.

JOE OCCHIPINTI’S BIG BAND 7p.m. 600 South Atrium, 600 S. Palafox Pl. 432-5254 or 600southpalafox.com.

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE 7:30 p.m. $12.50-$15.

Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m. through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

WOVEN & WRAPPED: KIMONOS, CLOTHING AND CULTURE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPAN 12 p.m. through Feb 12. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

‘CHRISTMAS PAST’ TOUR 10 a.m. $5-$10.

Bagdad Village Museum, 4512 Church St., Bagdad.

983-3005 or bagdadvillage.org.

WILDLIFE SANCTUARY HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE 12 p.m. Wildlife Sanctuary, 105 N. S St. 525-4492 or pensacolawildlife.com.

WINE TASTING AT WINE BAR 2 p.m. $5 goes toward rebate on featured wines. Wine Bar, 16 S. Palafox Pl., Ste. 100. 476-3830 or chanswineworld.com.

SAWMILL & GUESTS 7 p.m. Chumuckla’s Farmers’ Opry, 8897 Byrom Campbell Rd., Pace. 9949219 or farmersopry.com.

CLARENCE BELL 11 a.m. Five Sisters Blues Café, 4 21 W. Belmont St. 912-4 856 or fivesistersbluescafe.com.

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happenings GAMER’S NIGHT 8 p.m. Fast Eddie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BROOKS HUBBERT III 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

MONDAY 12.5

SKEE BALL LEAGUE 9 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox Pl., Ste. 200. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg. 15. 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

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BILLY HOWELL & ASHLEY PENNEWILL 6 p.m.

The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox Pl. 912-4 229 or tlcdowntown.com.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

B.A.R.E. 10 a.m. Half-priced drinks for bar and restaurant employees. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

LIVIN’ THE DREAM 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

‘GIRLS NIGHT OUT’ 6 p.m. $45, Reservations required. Distinctive Kitchens, 29 S. Palafox. 4384688 or dk4u.com

MUSICIANS’ ALLIANCE 9 p.m. Apple Annie’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

BURGERS & BEER NIGHT AT SURF BURGER 6 p.m. Surf Burger, 500 Quietwater Beach Rd., Pensacola Beach. 932-1417 or thesurfburger.com.

JINGLE JAZZ 6:30 p.m. Phineas Phogg’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

S.I.N. NIGHT 7 p.m. $2 well drinks, $3 vodka infusions and $6 bottomless mimosas. Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com.

The Devil Makes Three MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL & TEXAS HOLD ‘EM 7:30 p.m. $2 Longnecks and pizza. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

TUESDAY 12.6

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. National Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd. 452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m. through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

WOVEN & WRAPPED: KIMONOS, CLOTHING AND CULTURE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPAN 10 a.m. through Feb 12. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

HALF-PRICE SUSHI 5 p.m. Atlas. 600 S. Barracks St. 437-1961 or atlas.goodgrits.com.

PRIME TIME TUESDAY 5:30 p.m. Jackson’s. 400 S. Palafox St. 469-9898 or jacksons.goodgrits.com YOGA WITH BECKIE SATHRE 6 p.m. $2 for nonmembers. Ever’man Natural Foods, 315 W. Garden St. 438-0402 or everman.org.

WINE TASTING Aragon Wine Market 27 S. 9th Ave. 433-9463 or aragonwinemarket.com HOLLA NIGHT 7 p.m. $3 drinks Hopjacks Pizza Kitchen & Taproom, 10 S. Palafox Pl. 497-6073 or hopjacks.com. $2 TUESDAY 7 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

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happenings MIKE QUINN 9 p.m. End O’ the Alley at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KARAOKE WITH GEORGE 9 p.m. Play, 16 S. Palafox Pl., Ste. 200. 466-3080 or iplaypensacola.com.

LADIES NIGHT $2 drinks. Sandshaker Lounge.

731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 9322211 or sandshaker.com.

KARAOKE AT PADDY O’LEARY’S 9 p.m. Paddy O’ Leary’s Irish Pub, 49 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

HOLIDAY WINE TASTING AT ARETSANA FINE WINES 5 p.m. Special prices and gift wrapping upon request. 240 W Garden St. 433-8466

WEDNESDAY 12.7

GIRL’S NIGHT OUT 5 p.m. Fish House 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE ART FACULTY EXHIBITION 8 a.m. through Dec 14. Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Bldg 15. 484-2550 or pensacolastate.edu.

BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE 8:30 a.m. National Museum of Naval Aviation viewing area, 1750 Radford Blvd. 452-3604 or blueangels.navy.mil.

Hinder TOSH TUESDAY 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

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JEFF GLICKMAN TRIO 6 p.m. The Leisure Club, 126 S. Palafox Pl. 912-4229 or tlcdowntown.com.

LUCAS CRUTCHFIELD 6 p.m. The Deck at The Fish House, 600 S. Barracks St. 470-0003 or fishhouse.goodgrits.com.

HINDER 7 p.m. $20-$25. Vinyl Music Hall, 2 S. Palafox Pl. 607-6758 or vinylmusichall.com.

TUESDAY JAM NIGHT 8 p.m. Lili Marlene’s at Seville Quarter, 130 E. Government St. 434-6211 or sevillequarter.com.

KARAOKE WITH BECKY 8 p.m. Sandshaker Lounge. 731 Pensacola Beach Blvd., Pensacola Beach. 932-2211 or sandshaker.com.

PEARL HARBOR DAY LUNCHEON 11:30 a.m.

Kugleman Center, 1000 College Blvd. 453-9291.

‘CINCO BANDERAS’ 10 a.m. through Dec 1. Artel Gallery, 223 Palafox Pl. 432-3080 or artelgallery.org.

‘A ROADTRIP THROUGH FLORIDA ARCHAEOLOGY’ 10 a.m. DARC, 207 E. Main St. 595-0050, ext. 107 or flpublicarchaeology.org/darc.php.

WOVEN & WRAPPED: KIMONOS, CLOTHING AND CULTURE OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY JAPAN 10 a.m. through Feb 12. Pensacola Museum of Art. 407 S. Jefferson St. 432-6247 or pensacolamuseumofart.org.

WINE DOWN WEDNESDAYS 5 p.m. Jackson’s 400 S. Palafox St. 469-9898 jacksons.goodgrits.com.

MIXOLOGY CLASS AT VIC & IKE’S 6 p.m. $30.

Vic & Ike’s American Bistro, 104 S. Palafox Pl. 9128569 or vic-and-ikes.com.

SURF MOVIE NIGHT AT SURF BURGER 7 p.m.

Surf Burger, 500 Quietwater Beach Rd., Pensacola Beach. 932-1417 or thesurfburger.com.

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SOL DRIVEN TRAIN 6 p.m. Paradise Bar & Grill, 21 Via de Luna. Pensacola Beach. 916-5087 or paradisebar-grill.com.

PADDY’S OPEN MIC NIGHT 7 p.m. Paddy O’Leary’s Irish Pub, 49 Via de Luna, Pensacola Beach. 916-9808 or paddyolearysirishpub.com.

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Leisurely and In the Round

Jessica Campbell / photo by Lee Cave Two Nashville musical acts, currently touring together, are coming your way to perform a special holiday concert —in the round. Jessica Campbell and Carolina Story are both acoustic musicians with folk vocal styling. This is their second appearance at The Leisure Club in downtown Pensacola.

“They are both a part of the Music City Unsigned group and often tour together,” said Denise Berry, co-owner of The Leisure Club.

“They perform acoustic ‘in the round.’ They came through in July and were incredible.”

Carolina Story is a duo from east Nashville, not your run of the mill musicians.

They pride themselves on not being massproduced. Ben and Emily Roberts met while in school at Visible Music College in Memphis, Tenn. They have two records under their belt and have toured all over playing in places that people need music the most, like homeless shelters, and nursing homes. You can catch them yourself and enjoy their beautiful sound.

“Jessica and Carolina Story came through on their ‘Traveling Troubadours’ tour this summer and shared their wonderful songs and personal stories at The Leisure Club,” Berry said. “We are fortunate to be hosting them again and want more people to have the

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opportunity to enjoy their music. Providing a venue to highlight diverse talent and voices is part of the original vision we had in opening TLC. For us, events like this are the highest use of our space and you can really feel the positive energy when it all comes together.”

IN caught up with Jessica Campbell just after a short road trip. Jessica is a goal oriented, sweet voiced singer, who has a lot of strength in her delivery. She is from a small town, Catawba near Ashville, N.C. She won “Best Song” in the respectable USA Songwriting Competition. Another accomplishment was getting a self-penned song cut by Gordon Mote, the two-time Academy of Country Music Awards Piano Player of the Year. She has made headway in the film and television arena by placing songs in ABC’s “Ugly Betty” and on the Canadian CBS show, “Heartland.”

IN: When did you figure out that singing and songwriting was your fate?

CAMPBELL: I was always a singer in church and performed the National Anthem a number of times at local events. I was interested in guitar all along, but spent time learning how to develop my singing. About five years ago, I learned how to play guitar and it really improved my songwriting. Being able to travel and do both is really a great experience.

IN: How many records have you made?

In addition, what was the first recording experience like?

CAMPBELL: My first EP, “Stealing the Stars” was made in 2008. And this year I released “Great Escape.” I have a holiday EP as well, called “A Merry Xmas.” The experience of making my first album was a long process. I had written five songs and really felt that I was not ready to record 10 songs. Eight months later, I finished the record. We took what we

loved from the first five songs, it blended well together and made sense with each other. I was ready for it to be out – I was excited.

IN: Did you ever think you would get to make records when you started out?

CAMPBELL: I knew I would make records, it was a goal. I am writing songs for another one now.

IN: Are there challenges being on the road?

CAMPBELL: I am a newlywed, so that is a challenge to be away from him. My last tour was the first time we had spent that much time apart, since getting married. While on the road, we stay with friends and people who support the bands, so we stay on people’s couches and air mattresses. Often their pets cuddle up with us. Songwriting can be a challenge, I get seeds for songs down, but full composition is hard. It is nice to generate ideas and to be more creative when you have to spread out.

IN: In one of your YouTube videos, you mention your goals. What are they these days?

CAMPBELL: I want to be a full-time musician. Learning more, grow and get a record deal. A publishing deal for others and me would be great. Song demos are something I have done and would like to continue and keep recording our own music – keep it going.

IN: What would you like to do that you have not yet done?

CAMPBELL: I grew up singing the National Anthem. I would really like to do that for a national team. I would also like to play a big festival

like SXSW. Singing for the president would be great. I got close to the political system by singing for Fred Thompson. Amazing how many politicians are tied to musicians.

IN: Touring with Carolina Story, how did that come about?

CAMPBELL: We both play acoustic music, and Ben’s dad is a booking agent for the music industry in Arkansas. We got to know each other through him, started hanging out. They were still in college and we toured for a while.

They are fun and trustworthy. We complement each other. Our first run together was in July. We share all the booking. This is our third run of the year and is near and dear to my heart. My husband is from Mobile and we spend summers in Seaside. It will be a night of holiday music and storytelling.

As for the menu of the evening, Berry said, “Our chef will be preparing a special winter dinner menu featuring locally sourced menu items and a selection of wines and craft beers. Our espresso bar will also be open serving up single origin coffees from Honduras, Mexico and Ethiopia. It is going to be a great night of live music and delicious food, wine and coffee. There is no cover charge but space is limited so reservations are suggested.” {in}

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December Play Pensacola Events Carols at Olde Seville Join us in Seville Square on Thursday, December 22nd to enjoy Carols performed by local groups and organizations. Performers include: Episcopal Day School Choir, The Workman Middle School Chorus, The Greater Little Rock Choir, The Fiesta Barber Shop Chorus and More! Bring your chairs and blankets out to the park and enjoy the sounds of the holidays. Performances will begin at 6pm with free admission. For more information, call 436-5670 or log on at www.playpensacola.com

Breakfast With Santa Come have breakfast with Santa Claus on the bay on Saturday, December 10th at Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones Resource Center from 8am-10am.

This is the perfect opportunity to bring the kids out and have their picture made with Santa, as well as enjoy a hot and hearty breakfast. In addition to telling Santa about all the goodies they want for Christmas, the kids will have the opportunity to create a keepsake Christmas craft, and get holiday face painting. Cost is $5.00 per child over 3 years old, parents are free! Don’t forget your camera for the Santa Claus photo opportunity. For more information, call 436-5198 or visit www.playpensacola.com.

Light Up the Square Play Pensacola - Neighborhood Services and the Pensacola Heritage Foundation invite you to become a sponsor of a light post in Seville Square. All post will be on display through the month of December. Sponsoring businesses featured at the Holiday Evening in Olde Seville Square Event on December 8th and on The Play Pensacola Carols in Olde Seville Event on December 22nd. Light posts range from $150-$250 and all proceeds go to benefit the Al Condon Youth Scholarship Fund and the Channel 3 “Communities Caring at Christmas” Charitable Program. For more information, call 436-5670 or visit www.playpensacola.com.

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Wrote a BBC reporter, “One day (Gadhafi) was a Motown (backup) vocalist with wetlook permed hair and tight pants. The next, a white-suited comic-operetta Latin American admiral, dripping with braid.” Nonetheless, Gadhafi had competition, according to an October report in the journal Foreign Policy. For example, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator owns, among other eccentric luxuries, a $1.4 million collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia. North Korea’s Kim Jong Il owns videos of almost every game Michael Jordan ever played for the Chicago Bulls.

LEADING ECONOMIC INDICATORS In March, William Ernst, 57, owner of the QC Mart chain of Iowa convenience stores, excitedly announced a company-wide employee contest with a prize of $10 for guessing the next worker that Ernst will fire for breaking rules. “Once we fire the person, we will open all the envelopes (containing the entries), award the prize, and start the contest again.” Ernst added, “And no fair picking Mike Miller from (the Rockingham Road store). He was fired at around 11:30 a.m. today for wearing a hat and talking on his cellphone. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!” (After firing a cashier who had complained about Ernst’s attitude, he challenged the woman’s unemployment-compensation claim, but in October, a judge ruled in her favor.)

• Even in a flagging economy, Christie’s auction house in New York City was able to attract a record sales price for a photograph.

In November, a 1999 photo by German artist Andreas Gursky, of a scenic view of the Rhine River, sold for $4.3 million. (It is possible, of course, that buying the actual waterfront property that Gursky photographed from—to enjoy the same view every day—would have been less expensive.)

• Unfortunately, Manulife Financial Corp. is a Canadian firm, and thus it had a very bad year. If exactly the same company had been magically relocated to anywhere in the United States, it would have had an outstanding year. Under Canada’s hard-nosed accounting rules, Manulife was forced to post a loss last year of $1.28 billion. However, under the more feel-good U.S. accounting rules, according to the company, it would have shown a profit of $2.2 billion and been flush with $16 billion more in shareholder value.

WAIT . . . WHAT? In the course of an October story on an ill-fated Continental Airlines flight during which all restrooms in

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coach were broken, the reporter for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis sought reactions from experts. Calling the toilet failures a “bad situation that hasn’t been addressed” was Robert Brubaker, a spokesman for something called the American Restroom Association, “a Baltimore-based advocacy group for toilet users.”

OUR ANIMAL OVERLORDS An Oxford University researcher reported in August on the African crested rat, which is so ingenious that it slathers poison, from chewing the A. schimperi plant, onto an absorbent strip of fur on its back as protection against predators many times larger. The researcher observed first-hand a dog quivering in fear after just one failed mouthful of a crested rat’s fur in his laboratory. The noxious goo is also used by African tribesmen on their hunting arrows.

RESEARCHING THE ITTY-BITTY: In October, Popular Science dubbed researcher Gaby Maimon of Rockefeller University as one of its “Brilliant 10” for 2011 for his monitoring of neurons in the brains of fruit flies. Maimon first had to immobilize the flies’ brains in saline and outfit their tiny neurons with even tinier electrodes—so that he could track which neurons were firing as the flies flapped their wings and carried out other activities (work that he believes can be useful in treating human autism and attention-deficit disorder).

OH, DEAR! (1) An October Associated Press dispatch from New Orleans warned that “Caribbean crazy ants” are invading five Southern states by the millions, and because their death triggers distress signals to their pals for revenge attacks, up to 10 times as many might replace any population wiped out. Said a Texas exterminator, of a pesticide he once tried, “In 30 days I had 2 inches of dead ants covering (an) entire half-acre,” and still the ants kept coming, crawling across the carcasses. Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi are currently the most vulnerable. (2) Biologists found a shark fetus with one centered eye inside a pregnant dusky shark off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, in October. A marine sciences lab in nearby La Paz confirmed that the unborn baby, which filled up a researcher’s hand, had the extremely rare congenital “cyclopia.”

From Universal Press Syndicate Chuck Shepherd’s News Of The Weird © 2011 Chuck Shepherd

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my pensacola Larry Kuhn

(My friends call me Kuhn)

Day Job: Night Supervisor Public Works De-

partment at the Santa Rosa Island Authority. I am also working toward getting my real estate license and master’s in public administration.

Pensacola Resident Since: 1986, though I spent my last two years at LSU. Geaux Tigers!

Good Eats: You can’t beat Jerry’s Drive In, burgers and cheese fries and a cold Coke, emmm. Since I work on the beach I usually go see Derek at Hemmingway’s for their Caesar Salad (best in the tri county area). And if you’re in a crunch for time, the artists at Subway always seem to surprise me.

Retail Therapy: Bass Pro, Gulf Breeze Bait and Tackle, Academy, or one of the many thrift stores in town.

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Watering Holes: I am a Beach Guy. I

usually go see my girls at the Shaker for a Banana Bushwaker, and then make a pit stop at Paradise to see J-Rat, and then head to see Miss Deb and Forrest at Paddy’s for a Car Bomb or two. Then I usually go watch Timberhawk at the Islander with Charlie.

Nightlife: When I’m not at the Beach I

usually go in town and see Bill and Kiley at the new Magnolia Bar. I also tend to make appearances at Hub’s or 5 ½ Bar and see Pat Bolster.

Outdoors: I’m a granola and I love to fish and Captain Rusty Smith and Skippy on the

Entertainer are your best bet to catch the big ones out in the Gulf. I also enjoy running, kayaking, and riding my beach cruiser out on the beach (A1213P).

Arts & Culture: I enjoy Gallery Night and seeing the local art of Pensacola; Rhonda Barnes is one of my favorite local artists in town. I embrace the beach lifestyle of showing up in a tank-top, shorts and flip-flops anytime of the year.

Never Miss Events/Festivals: BLUE ANGELS, best day of the year. Mardi Gras, second best day of the year, Hangout Fest, Florida/Georgia and Red Dress Run in New Orleans are ones you can’t miss.

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