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the ATHICA
MYSTERY TRIENNIAL
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EVENTS:
Thursday 9/15: 7:00-9:00 pm
7:30 pm: Poi, Poles n’ Pins on the Porch
A Circus Arts Performance by: Safety
Third Juggling, Pyrokinetics, Athens
Vertical Pole Dance Academy
Voting Until 9:00 pm:
• Enter the “Who Dunnit?” Contest and
win fabulous prizes
• People’s Choice Contest Nominations
Sunday 9/18:4.00 -6X0 pm
4:00 pm: The BIG Reveal of the Mystery
Artists' Identities
5:00 pm: AMT Benefit Concert II:
“Music to Tabulate By” with performers
Jerry Hendelberg & Carl Lindberg
5:30-6:30 pm: “Last Dibs” Hour: all
remaining artworks half-off.
5:30 pm: Announcements: The “Who
Dunnit” Quiz Winners, The People’s
Choice Artist & The Board Choice Artists
for The ATHICA Mystery Selections
exhibit.
6:00 pm: Take home framed &
unframed artworks.
WHO DUNNIT ?
www.athica.org
Silver Sponsor: The Loft Art Supplies
Bronze Sponsors: Big City Bread,
Hamilton & Associates, Heirloom Cafe
and Little Prodigies
Media Sponsors: WUGA, Flagpole
Magazine, Athens’ Food & Culture
Extended viewing hours are:
Tuesdays & Wednesdays
9:30 am to 3:30 pm
Thursday through Sunday
from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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All funds raised by the ATHICA Mystery
Triennial will benefit ATHICA, a non
profit venue dedicated to providing
contemporary art audiences with
innovative and challenging exhibitions
and events.
Thank you, Athens Community
FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION OVER
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GOVERNOR FIRES THE MESSENGER
David Stooksbury, the state climatologist
for the past 12 years, is eminently qualified
to do the work that he does. I don't know of
anyone who is more qualified. He is an associ
ate professor of engineering and atmospheric
sciences at the University of Georgia. He has
gathered impressive amounts of research
data and analysis of the droughts that have
plagued this state for the past decade.
Pam Knox, Stooksbury's assistant, was
the state climatologist of Wisconsin from
1989-1998 and has served on the American
Meteorological Society's Committee on Applied
Climatology.
"I think we've done a pretty good job for
the past 12 years of building up an office
whose work is well-respected around the coun
try," Stooksbury says.
Gov. Nathan Deal signed an execu
tive order ordering the appoint
ment of two employees from the
Environmental Protection Division
(EPD) to replace Stooksbury
and Knox. Deal's office did not
make any announcement of the
change. When asked by reporters
why Deal removed two experts
in climatology, the governor's
spokesman kept repeating the same
prepared talking point: "EPD is a
natural home for this function. It's a
rational consolidation."
Deal never contacted the climatologists to
tell them they had been replaced.
"I have still not heard directly from the
governor's office," Stooksbury said during an
interview more than three days after Deal
signed the order to replace him.
Why should anybody care about who the
state climatologist is? Because this is a period
when droughts and other extreme climate con
ditions threaten Georgia's economic health.
Among the activities conducted by
Stooksbury's office is a website that provides
information on how farmers—agriculture is
the state's biggest industry—can get bet
ter crop yields during the current climate
extremes. He advises coastal communities on
how to cope with the rising sea levels caused
by the ongoing warming of the earth's climate.
As we have seen with Hurricane Katrina
and Hurricane Irene, it is also advisable to
have an expert climatologist on board who
can warn you about when and where a tropical
storm may hit your state.
Deal has replaced Stooksbury with Bill
Murphey, the chief meteorologist for EPD.
Murphey has degrees in physics and atmo
spheric sciences from Georgia Tech and has
worked at an atmospheric research center in
New York. His work with EPD has primarily
involved the operation of air quality monitor
ing stations.
Murphey is also a state employee ulti
mately answerable to the governor. Stooksbury
and Knox work at UGA with much of their
budget coming from independent
research grants.
"You've kind of lost that inde
pendent voice for informing the
public and informing decision
makers," Stooksbury says. "I'm
not sure that is good for the
state in the long term."
There is also this: the science
of climatology has become increas
ingly politicized in recent years, with
many pundits and politicians denying
scientific data that indicates our climate is
changing as the Earth gets warmer. Perhaps
the governor does not want a climatologist
who believes in making decisions that are
based on facts and data.
As for Stooksbury, he has tenure at UGA
and will continue with his teaching and
research at the state's flagship university.
"Next week I'll be teaching vector analysis
and coastal meteorology and grading papers,
just like I've always done," he says. "The gov
ernor has made his decision. We'll continue to
move forward and serve the people of Georgia
that way."
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GREETINGS.' IS THIS THE NATION
STATE KNOWN COLLOQUIALLY AS
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LOCALLY DESIGNATED AS "URTH"?
Tom Crawford tcraw1ord@gareport.com
by TOM TOMORROW
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