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Parked (Unrated) Unlikely-buddies drama
about a lonely, middle-aged man living in his car
(Colm Meany) who gets a new lease on life when
he’s befriended by a 21 year-old stoner (Colin
Morgan) who introduces him to an attractive
music teacher (Milka Ahlroth). With Stuart Gra-
ham, Mark Butler and David Wilmot.
Silent Night (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity,
graphic violence and brief drug use) Holiday-
themed horror flick about a serial killer in a Santa
Claus suit who goes on a bloody rampage around
a quiet Midwestern town on Christmas Eve. Star-
ring Malcolm McDowell, Jaime King and Donal
Logue.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (R for
profanity, graphic sexuality, frontal nudity and
pervasive gruesome violence) Vigilante drama
about a man (Scott Adkins) who becomes bent on
revenge when he comes out of a coma to learn
that his wife and daughter had been slain by a
creep (Jean-Claude Van Damme) during a home
invasion. With Dolph Lundgren, Mariah Bonner
and James Rawlings.
Walk Away Renee (Unrated) Post-Oedipal
biopic chronicling filmmaker Jonathan Caou-
ette’s cross-country road trip with his mentally-ill
mother.
Panel Presses For Action on Ocean Acidity
Phuong Le
The Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) — Rising acidity
levels in the oceans pose a serious
threat to shellfish and other marine life,
and tackling that problem in Washing-
ton state will require reducing carbon
dioxide emissions, keeping polluted
runoff out of marine waters, and
increasing monitoring at hatcheries, a
group of experts said Tuesday.
The panel of scientists and policy
experts convened by Gov. Chris Gre-
goire recommended dozens of actions
to combat changes to ocean chemistry
detected several years ago when oyster
larvae in Pacific Northwest hatcheries
began dying in large numbers.
``There are ominous signals coming
from the ecosystem on this issue, as
ominous as anything coming from cli-
mate change,’’ said Jay Manning, for-
mer state ecology director who headed
the panel with former Environmental
Protection Agency administrator Bill
Ruckelshaus.
Gregoire, who formed the group as
part of a state and federal initiative to
help protect the state’s $270 million
shellfish industry, signed an executive
order Tuesday directing the Department
of Ecology to work on the problem. She
also announced $3.3 million in funding
Oyster harvesters at Wilapa Bay in 1968. Oregon and Washington
oyster beds are starting to die from ocean acidification.
for some actions in her proposed budg-
et.
However, with Gregoire leaving
office in January, it’s unclear where the
state would find money to pay for the
ideas. The state faces a projected $900
million deficit for the next two-year
budget ending in mid-2015.
However, the problem known as
ocean acidification also is a concern for
Gov.-elect Jay Inslee, said his
spokesman Sterling Clifford. Inslee is a
Democrat.
``He’s pleased with the executive
order today, and he’s looking forward to
continuing to address carbon pollution
and ocean acidification,’’ Clifford said.
Clifford declined to make budget
commitments when asked if Inslee
would include money for ocean acidifi-
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