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♦ FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006
Fight against global warming hits big screen
(SPM Wire) By the time
you finish reading this story,
over 34.8 tons of carbon diox
ide will have been released
into the atmosphere and
over 210,000 cubic feet of
Arctic ice will have become
water.
So says a movie trailer for
“An Inconvenient Truth,”
a new feature-length docu
mentary that weaves the sci
ence of global warming with
former Vice President A 1
Gore’s personal story about
communicating the need to
reverse the effects of global
climate change.
No matter on which side of
the debate your sympathies
lie, it’s hard not to be capti
vated by images of Florida,
New York City, Shanghai
and Calcutta with their land
mass being overrun by ris
ing sea and ocean levels.
“Because of what’s hap
pening, the maps of the
world will have to be
redrawn,” Gore intones on
screen. “Our ability to live
is what is at stake.”
It is this message that
Gore is taking directly into
movie theaters, as “The
Inconvenient Truth” rolls
out in theaters across the
country, building to a full
nationwide release much the
same way the filmmakers
tell us water will overrun
many coastal regions of the
globe - including the land
on which the World Trade
Center used to stand.
“If you look at the 10 hot
test years ever measured,
they’ve all occurred in the
last 14 years,” says Gore,
who stresses that the world
has about 10 years to reform
its gas-guzzling, greenhouse
BUDGET
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Building improvements
will continue in the 2007
budget with $1.7 million to
continue the renovations
at the County Annex, State
Court and Sheriffs Office
and to build out the “shelled
in” space at the County
Courthouse in Perry. This
includes new judges cham
bers for the third Superior
Court judge as well as finish
ing the third courtroom and
jury room.
Some of the road projects
in the 2007 budget include
$200,000 for improvements
to White Road, $150,000 for
the Osigian Drive extension
to U.S 41, $134,000 for the
paving of Terrell Road and
$50,000 for additional land
scaping along Houston Lake
Road.
Sanders said traffic sig
nals at $60,000 each are also
planned at the intersections
of Langston and Lake Joy
roads and at Cohen Walker
Drive and Houston Lake
WATER
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Wednesday and Saturday,
odd numbered addresses
water on Tuesday Thursday
and Sunday. Outdoor
watering is not allowed on
Fridays.
The restrictions apply to
all county water customers
including some billed by the
cities, as the water is pur
chased from the county by
the city.
The dry conditions prompt
ed state officials Wednesday
to declare a statewide
drought. The restrictions,
classified as Level One under
the state’s drought response
plan, ban outdoor water use
between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
except by businesses that
require it like nurseries
and car washes
The restrictions do not
apply to residents on pri
vate wells or those who
pump water from their own
lake. Water restrictions do
apply to most golf courses
that draw from munici
pal supplies, but not those
who draw from a lake, like
Houston Lake Country Club,
County Commissioner Tom
McMichael said.
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gas-emitting ways before it is
past the point of no return.
To relate its alarmist mes
sage, the film relies heavily
on slick computer graphics,
dramatic footage of crum
Road.
In addition, 19 new patrol
cars will be purchased for
the Sheriffs Office at a cost
of $410,000 with five being
paid for courtesy of local
criminals - out of drug and
inmate funds to the tune
of SIOB,OOO. Inmate funds
will also be used to enhance
the video recorder and cam
era system at the Houston
County Detention Facility
budgeted at $67,000.
The budget also includes
a 90-day operational fund
balance after everything
else is funded, explained
Commissioner Tom
McMichael.
The contingency fund was
not depleted, as was report
ed in another newspaper,
said McMichael.
The county did carry over
$2.9 million from the prior
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snow having disappeared.
Sure to strike a chord is the
interweaving of Hurricane
year fund balance to finance
capitol expenditures in the
2007 budget totaling about
$3.8 million, a 37 percent
increase over FY 2006.
Sanders said the commis
sioners anticipate scaling
back the millage rate one
half a mill from 9.82 to 9.52
to offset reassessments in
the 2006 tax digest - “that
most of us got from the Tax
Assessor’s Office - mine cer
tainly went up,” Sanders
said.
He explained the decision
on the millage rate would
be made in September when
the tax digest is approved
and sent to commission
ers from the Tax Assessor’s
Office.
“The tax digest must gen
erate $29.5 million in rev
enue in order to balance the
budget, Sanders said.
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slideshow that inspired film
makers Lawrence Bender,
Laurie David and Davis
Guggenheim to approach
the former Vice President
with an idea to make this
film.
It is no surprise that
“An Inconvenient Truth”
plays like top Hollywood
fare, with impressive imag
es and music, as Bender
produced such movies as
“Pulp Fiction” and “Good
Will Hunting,” and direc
tor Guggenheim was execu
tive producer on “Training
Day” and directed episodes
of television’s “Alias,” “24,”
“NYPD Blue,” and “ER.”
Not everyone is being
swayed by the film’s message
and top production values,
however. Such entities as
the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, a conservative
public policy organization
which touts “free market
approaches to environmen
tal policy,” have made it
their business to dispute
both Gore and the science
behind “An Inconvenient
Truth.”
Indeed, the CEI even has
gone so far as to run tele
vision ads disputing the
ill-effects of carbon dioxide
emissions and global warm
ing, in general.
Of course, movie audienc
es have the opportunity to
make up their own minds.
To learn more about “An
Inconvenient Truth” and
to locate a movie theater
currently showing it, visit
www.climatecrisis.net on the
Internet.
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RADIO
From page 1A
kept at the post, which
eliminates some of the relay
ing required for communica
tion, and allows the post to
communicate directly with
deputies.”
Burke added communica
tion was done through dis
patch relaying information
back and forth, mainly dur
ing the chase. “That lack
of ability to communicate
was the one criticism from
the Grand Jury,” Burke
said in April 2005 when he
announced the officers had
been cleared of the shoot
ing.
“It was a trooper who saw
there was probably not a
gun, but there was no way to
communicate with the depu
ties,” Burke said.
The cost of the 10 radios,
with equipment, is $26,240,
which would have to come
from county contingency
monies.
Whether it will be funded
remains to be seen, but the
commission did vote to cre
ate a fact-finding committee
to report to the board at a
later date.
POLICE
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his back saying he surren
dered.”
The five-hour standoff
ended around 11:15 p.m.
Wednesday.
Everidge said more than 20
officers were on scene includ
ing the Sheriffs Response
Team, deputies and Perry
Police.
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