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The military faces hundred of millions of dollars worth of cuts to its spending on training as the government claws back the $1.5 billion that has supported operations in Afghanistan, the Solomon Islands and East Timor in the May budget.
"The government either has to find the extra money to fund training and exercises . . . as operations wind back, or Australian troops will not be kept at an acceptable level of readiness to go to war in future,'' a Defence source said.
Defence is given extra money for operations by government but sources say the funding also supports a wide range of military training associated with operations. These include counter-IED (improvised explosive device) training and training in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, which will have to be funded out of the existing defence budget once operations cease.
Spending on reserves training and on non-deployment-related regular force training has also been cut because of budget constraints. Of the three services, the army training budget is expected to be the hardest hit.
"If Defence has to find the extra money . . . out of the existing budget, then other areas will have to be cut,'' the source said.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute budget analyst
"Particularly for the army, the lines between what training is funded out of operations and what's funded out of the regular budget has become blurred and that is a problem for the overall budget,'' he said.
Defence sources warned the training spending deficit would be "even worse'' were it not for defence being able to take advantage of improvements in simulator technology.
Funding for operations is to be wound back sharply in this year's budget due to the withdrawal of the last 300 troops in East Timor before Christmas last year. Defence Minister
The warning comes after Defence Force chief General
"We are rethinking and resetting our training and exercise programs to get better value for money out of them and to make sure they are being conducted in the right context,'' he said.
But opposition defence spokesman
"You can't cut 10 per cent out of the 2012-13 defence budget, the largest cut since the end of the Korean War in 1953, without consequences,'' Senator Johnston said."And I don't believe this is the end of the pain as the Defence Minister refuses to rule out further cuts in the May budget."
The Gillard government has come under fire for cutting or deferring $25 billion in defence spending since the release of the 2009 defence white paper, including imposing further cuts of $5.5 billion over four years in last year's budget.
But Mr Smith insisted withdrawing operational funding would not adversely affect the overall defence training budget. "If Defence spends more [on operations] it gets more [but] if Defence spends less it doesn't get a windfall gain,'' Mr Smith said.
"Our overseas operations are always done on a no-win, no-loss basis, they're dealt with separately as part of the annual budget processes and this has been going on effectively now for a decade…whether it's the Solomon Islands, whether it's been East Timor which recently completed, or Afghanistan,'' Mr Smith said.
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Corey Duffel has certainly mined the overlooked corners of the punk, mod, and indie music world for some of his video parts' musical accompaniments. Some so rare that he purposely had the artists left out of the credits. Well now all you music buffs are getting hooked up with part one of The Duffman's Tapedeck. Find out Corey's choicest of jams from some of his past Osiris and Foundation video parts, the thought process behind them, and how the finished product turned out in his eyes. Click on over to page 2 to check out Corey's video parts he discussed.
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A pop up vintage 'Mods & Rockers' coffee bar was organised by the Alzheimer's society, which champions the rights of people with dementia and those who care for them.
The event took place in York as part of Dementia Awareness Week 2014 on Wednesday from 10am until 4pm at the Coppergate Centre.
Delicious cakes and home-baked scones were served by helpers, dressed in vintage. Bone china crockery was also pressed into service for the special occasion.
There were classic British motorbikes, vintage mod scooters, rock 'n' rock DJ's and dancing lessons.
Hudda Morgan, a partner in Harrowells Solicitors, York, who are sponsoring the event, said: "We wanted to support the work the Alzheimer's Society is doing to increase awareness of dementia and help people in York through the services it offers, as well as raising money for research into the disease."


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- PG: Jrue Holiday vs. Beno Udrih
- SG: Jodie Meeks vs. Marcus Thornton
- SF: Andre Iguodala vs. Francisco Garcia
- PF: Elton Brand vs. DeMarcus Cousins
- C: The Big Hole in the middle of our defense vs. The guy who used to fill it
The tip is at 10pm, Eastern. This is your game thread and I'll be right here into the wee hours. Join me, if you dare.
The Knicks are currently playing the second night of a back-to-back in Detroit against the well-rested Pistons. Let's hope Rodney Stuckey goes off. The Sixers enter the night a half game behind the Knicks for the sixth seed.
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(7/19/2013) The Bali Police will deploy 1,300 personnel as part of "Operation Ketupat" during the Hari Raya Idul Fitri period August 3-18, 2013.
The chief of the operations bureau of the Bali police, I Gede Alit Widana, told the State News Agency Antara that the 1,300 police personnel would be comprised of 341 officers from Denpasar headquarter and 959 officers from the wider Bali territorial command.
In addition to regular police personnel assistance to "Operation Ketupat" would be given by members of the Indonesian Armed Forces, the provincial transportation authority, community enforcement officers (Pamong Praja) and volunteers from the local community (pacalang).
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It would be his three hundred and sixty-first separate tadpole hatching.
You're the guy who passed up the sixty-first for the Safety First regiment.
He then knelt down and read the sixtieth and sixty-first Psalms.
The 4th of July, the sixty-first anniversary of American independence!
Should any sixty-first man throw his eye over these pages he will remember that I speak of one beloved by every one who knew him.
Born in 1818, the Professor was then in the sixty-first year of his age.
I came of age in the sixty-first year of the preceding century.'
Meanwhile the sixty-first battalion had effected an entrance into the castle garden.
Someone should have seen to it that the sixty-first should never have been long with less than five hundred men in the ranks.
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Rattlers score seven in the fourth on the way to a big win
By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers | May 24, 2011 8:09 PM ET
Peoria (25-20) threatened first as they loaded the bases with one out in the bottom against Rattlers pitcher Tyler Thornburg. But, Thornburg escaped with a grounder back to the mound that turned into a force out at the plate and another force out to end the inning with the game still scoreless.
Robbie Garvey started the Wisconsin second inning with a single and a stolen base, but he was still at second with two outs. Keen delivered a two-out, RBI single to plate Garvey with the first run off Peoria starter Su-Min Jung. Nick Shaw was next and he doubled off the wall in right to send Keen home. Mittelstaedt came through with another RBI single and the Rattlers were up 3-0.
In the fourth, the Rattlers (26-19) sent 10 men to the plate and scored seven times as the steady rain intensified. Franklin Romero started the inning with a triple. One out later, Tyler Roberts doubled to the gap in left-center to send Romero home. Jung got the second out, but had trouble finding the third out for the second inning in a row.
Keen doubled home Roberts. Shaw singled to send Keen to third. Mittelstaedt singled in Keen and sent Shaw to second base. Chris Dennis singled to drive in Shaw and that was all for Jung.
Rattlers slugger Mike Walker welcomed Peoria reliever Yohan Gonzalez to the game by crushing a three-run homer over the batting eye in center field. Walker's ninth home run of the season gave the Rattlers a 10-0 lead.
A large streak of lightning flashed above O'Brien Field just before Thornburg was ready to throw the first pitch of the bottom of the fourth inning and the umpires called for the tarp to be placed on the field. The game resumed after a delay of 64 minutes.
Thornburg did not return to the game on the restart. He scattered five hits and two walks over his three innings, but extended his scoreless streak to 10-1/3 innings pitched.
Brian Garman started the bottom of the fourth for the Rattlers and allowed two hits and struck out six over five scoreless innings.
The Chiefs scored two unearned runs off Tom Keeling - thanks to three Wisconsin errors - in the bottom of the ninth, but they would get no closer than that.
The Rattlers and Chiefs are scheduled to play a doubleheader on Wednesday night at O'Brien Field. Wisconsin has Charly Bashara (2-2, 4.45) and Jimmy Nelson (1-3, 4.50) are the scheduled starting pitchers for the twinbill. Peoria will send Graham Hicks (0-2, 2.45) and Cam Greathouse (2-3, 5.49) out as their planned starters. Game one will start at 5:00pm.
Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or timberrattlers.com starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 4:40pm.
WP: Brian Garman (2-1)
LP: Su-Min Jung (2-1)
TIME: 2:35 (1:04 delay)
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RESIDENTS can have their say today on fresh multi-million pound plans to regenerate Weymouth's Brewers Quay.
Developers have produced an application that will bring flats, shops and restaurants to the area. Homes are also planned for a car park behind the site.
It is expected a planning application will be submitted later in the year.
Both plans will be on show at the Weymouth Museum, which is inside Brewers Quay, between 2.30pm and 7.30pm today.
As part of the project, there will be a permanent home for the Weymouth Museum and additional space for indoor tourist and cultural attractions.
Alongside this project will be a plan to redevelop Newtons Road car park into residential housing to help finance the Brewers Quay redevelopment.
The site has been the subject of development plans in the past.
A £15m proposal, which included plans for a hotel, was submitted in 2011 but failed to progress.
Brewers Quay closed in February 2011 to allow work for the £15m project to be carried out. It was intended for the project to be finished in time for the Olympics but the deadline was pushed back.
The attraction re-opened to the public in March 2013, following the success of pop-up shops during the Olympics.
Brewers Quay currently houses the Brewers Quay Emporium and Italian restaurant Il Porto, among other businesses.
When the Echo broke the story of new redevelopment plans earlier this month, residents who live near the Newtons Road car park said they would be against new housing on the site.
Nigel Reed, manager of Weymouth Business Improvement District (BID), is encouraging residents to go along to the exhibition today.
He said: "I'm going down to see it. Anything that improves the footfall and the attractiveness of the town is a good thing.
"People do need to go down and have a look."
If you are unable to attend Brewers Quay today, plans will also be made available to view online at www.brewers-quay.com Alastair Ross, a partner at Brewers Quay Investments LLP, said: "It will be attended by the partners in Brewers Quay Investments plus most of the consultant team.
"We would encourage as many people as possible to come.
"This is a great opportunity for everyone in Weymouth to have their say before we proceed to the next stage.


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Not too long ago, my grandson and I took a little weekend field trip. We passed one of the precast plants where they were making walls for a prison when he asked what they were doing. How do you explain to a 9-year-old boy thatthey have to make these walls strong enough to keep people inside a prison from boring through and escaping?
He asked if we could get a little closer when I told him what they were for. He wondered about the windows and doors, and he asked if they can make secret passageways like they do on TV.
After a 30-minute discussion on placing "those metal sticks in the wall" and the bars in the windows, he asked, "Could someone pay you not to make the concrete so strong so someone could cut through the walls with a pocketknife and get out?"
I tried to explain that if the walls weren't so thick, they still couldn't cut through them with a knife. The next question was inevitable: "Why?"
Then they were using a crane to load one of the walls onto a flatbed truck when he asked if they were really heavy enough to keep the wind from knocking them over. And how did they stick them together? About this time, I asked if he was hungry and suggested a burger and soda.
We were in a fast-food restaurant, and about halfway through the French fries, he asked, "Where else do they have to make the walls so strong that you can't cut through them?"
The couple seated at the next table looked perplexed at the question and strained to hear the conversation. My next thought was how to explain the details of putting this big concrete puzzle together.
Recalling Legos
Then it came to me: Legos. I played with them when I was his age, and even though he had his electronic games with him, I suggested we go shopping for something that would help him understand. Two hours and $22.99 later, we were on the den floor making ourselves a little prison out of those pesky little building blocks.
Showing him the interlocking pieces, I told him that this was how the walls were put together. Of course, this brought back memories of when my sons played with these demons. I say demons because my most recent memory of them was stepping on them in the middle of the night when I came downstairs to get a drink of water or raid the refrigerator.
We got everything done except the roof when his mom came in. "We're building a prisoner's house," he said. Of course, mom and grandmother wanted to know where this came from, and I just simply told them that it would take too long to explain.
He spent the night with us, and the next morning when I came downstairs, there he sat in the middle of the den floor with all of the blocks almost put together. But there was something different about this building.
I asked who the little green man was inside, and he told me that it was GI Joe. "That's what happens to you when you don't eat your vegetables," he said.
I'll remember that the next time I fudge on eating the green beans.
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Anyone ever heard of this place , i cant work out even who the instructor is from the website
Is this guy legit ??????
Anyone ever heard of this place , i cant work out even who the instructor is from the website
Is this guy legit ??????
Found a bit more info on this , instructors name is dan wait apparently a purple belt from a south london bjj school with a machado lineage
Any one heard of this guy ?
Nope, but good to see some MMA in Lincolnshire.
Apparently Dan Wait is Gracie Combative certified, but he is not on the web, there is a post on MA Planet, one of his students replyed to it.
I emailed him about training and he wouldn't tell me what belt he has and who he got it from.
Something to hide maybe?
mickyb - can you post the emails (what you asked and his response)?
http://www.ChrisReesAcademy.com - http://thetattooedchimp.blogspot.co.uk/
Hi Rob T, It's going to be a long post,
This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.revolutionma.co.uk/ from:
Mike B--------------------
Hi I'm looking at training BJJ, do you work with the GI all the
time, also could you let me know, who the Instructor is and what
belt he has, and who gave him his belt,
Thank you for any help you can give
Hi Mike,
Firstly please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to
you; it has been very busy over the last couple of weeks and for that
I apologise.
Revolution Gym has Gracie Combatives Training Centre status and the
lead coach is Dan Wait. Dan is a superb coach and will come highly
recommended by anyone you speak to.
We train on Wednesday nights 6:30pm start, Saturdays 9:30am start and
there is also an open mat session for members on Fridays starting at
5:30pm at the Portland Street Gym. There is a sign above the main
gate now so you won't miss it. Feel free to come along or drop me a
line on 07 .
We train both with Gi and without, mixing BJJ and MMA Stand-Up during
the sessions.
Would be great to see you down there.
Hi Mat,
I have emailed the main Gracie Academy web site just to check, as well as the only club on the site in the UK, the reply from the centre in the UK is below,
there is no mention of Dan wait on the Gracie web site,which looks like it is up to date, seeing as a blue belt was added for the Bradford centre for March 2010 I also checked on the Gracie University web site and Dan wait is listed as a white belt, maybe the site needs up dating,
I think I'm going to keep looking for BJJ in Lincoln/Lincolnshire
Looking forward to a reply
I'm guessing Mat looks after the web site and is one of Dan's students
At this point There was a email sent to me by mistake from Dan Wait,it should have been sent to Mat, which I will not post as Im a man of my word, even if I do think Dan is hiding something, in this email he talks about Instructors he repersents or did plus the mention of a purple belt. but the replies from Dan after the mistaken email I will post
Hi Mike,
Please accept our apologies for sending you that last email. It was, of course, a mistake that private email got sent to you. Please respect the privacy & confidential nature of that email.
We would also like to thank you for you original message. Reset assured, we have now removed ALL mention of anyone's good name, as we do not want to cause misunderstanding & upset to anyone.
We wish you well & hope you find what you're looking for. Best wishes for the future.
Kind Regards,
Hi Dan,
Thank you for the email,
I have been involved in Martial Arts for over 20 years, and I understand that politics in the Arts can be a pain in the arse, which I have always stayed out of.
I am looking to add BJJ to my standup arts, and your site came up during my search on the net, you mention in the email about a purple belt, could I ask who you got your belt from?
Thank you again for the reply.
Hi Mike,
Many thanks for your message. I appreciate your understanding in the matter. You sound like someone who knows & understands how the MA world unfortunately works sometimes.
I, too, have been involved in MA for a while, since I was 7 years old (I'm now 36!). In that time I have trained with & achieved rank with some of the best coaches on the world. I've been very lucky to have been exposed to a lot of very good people.
If you want to come along & take a look at what we do in the gym, then you are, or course, more than welcome. The first session is completely free with no obligations. I very much hope you will come along if only to take a look.
At that point, I would be more than willing to provide the answer to all your questions. I very much hope you understand my perspective.
Kindest Regards,
Hi Dan,
sorry for the long email,
I do understand why you would want to stay out of the type politics that martial arts brings with it, but then on the other hand if you are representing and been given permission to teach by some one or a camp, if they charge then surly you shouldn't begrudge paying that fee, even if you think it is expensive, after all their name could in fact be the selling point for people coming to train with you, if we aren't prepared to pay the price then we shouldn't use their name, I think that's fair.
In the email you sent to me by mistake which no one else will see,
you say
"I so badly want to steer clear of giving out 'names' to provide assurance. It's called creditability by association."
Then later in the email you say
"Please don't mention any associations when replying to enquiries. Perhaps it will be best to just mention pedigree, i.e., those who I have personally trained with. That way, nobody could possibly object? Gets difficult, doesn't it!!"
if you get/got permission to teach, lets say from the Gracie's (which you say you have) what does it matter, if you or your students tell others, it's something that you should be proud of, on the other hand telling people who you have trained with doesn't mean anything, could have been a one hour class, doesn't mean you can teach their art. that's what I would call "creditability by association"
I also don't see the problem in letting people know what belt/grade you have and who you got it from by email, would be better if your Instructor grades and Belts were on the web site, it strikes me as being a bit odd that you wouldn't answer my questions about your belt and who you got it from. after all that's what the internet and email addresses are for, plus some times people like myself, have a difficult time asking such a direct question.
I have since emailed another club in Lincoln teaching BJJ and JKD, got a reply by email about his belt/ranking and the groups he represents without any fuss, plus his details are on his web site, I am going to have chat with them next week before I deicide where I'm going to train.
Thank you again for your time.
Hi Mike,
Many thanks for the email.
I appreciate your comments & input. I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one.
I very much hope you find what you're looking for & enjoy the training at your chosen club.
Best Wishes,
Told you it was a long post. hope it reads as it should. by the way I never got a reply from the Gracie web site.
Sorry double post deleated it
Last edited by mickyb; 15-06-2010 at 12:01 PM.
Thanks for posting mate.
I don't see any reason why he couldn't just tell you who promoted him. Sad times in UK BJJ, this is happening more and more often.
Hopefully he is legit but responses like those make me doubt it.
http://www.ChrisReesAcademy.com - http://thetattooedchimp.blogspot.co.uk/
I've posted about this on the EFN forum, someone on there may have heard of him.
http://www.ChrisReesAcademy.com - http://thetattooedchimp.blogspot.co.uk/
A purple belt should be proud of his lineage and be prepared
to tell anyone who asks exactly who awarded him that belt.
Over the last few years I've noticed a reccuring theme in these
situations and that is a frauds reluctance to discuss his lineage.


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Richard J. Goettle
U.S. Market Consequences of Global Climate Change
U.S. Market Consequences of Global Climate Change
Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
April 2004
Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University
Richard J. Goettle, Northeastern University
Brian H. Hurd, New Mexico State University
Joel B. Smith, et al, Stratus Consulting, Inc.
Press Release
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Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Over the next century, global climate change is likely to have substantial consequences for the economy of the United States and the welfare of its citizens. As scientists work to narrow remaining uncertainties about the magnitude and timing of future warming, it is becoming increasingly important that we improve our understanding of the likely implications for human and natural systems.
In this report, a team of authors led by Dale Jorgenson of Harvard University developed an integrated assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. market economy through the year 2100. The analysis combines information about likely climate impacts in specific market sectors with a sophisticated computable general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy to estimate effects on national measures of productivity, investment, consumption and leisure. To account for uncertainties— both in the trajectory of future climate change and in the ability of different sectors to adapt—a variety of scenarios were modeled to characterize a range of possible outcomes.
The results indicate that climate change could impose considerable, lasting costs or produce smaller, temporary benefits for the U.S. market economy in coming decades. Importantly, potential costs under pessimistic assumptions are larger and persist longer than potential benefits achieved under optimistic assumptions. Because of "threshold effects" in key sectors like agriculture, initial benefits from a moderate amount of warming begin to diminish and eventually reverse as temperatures continue to rise toward the end of the century and beyond. These findings suggest that near-term action to limit the pace and scale of future climate change would be warranted not only because the potential damages outweigh potential benefits (which are transient in any case), but because early intervention would reduce the long-term damage under either set of assumptions, and reduce the need for more costly measures if pessimistic scenarios materialize.
This study makes an important contribution to our current understanding of the potential impacts of climate change, but it represents at best a partial assessment of the full range of those impacts. Certain market sectors (e.g., tourism) and a variety of indirect effects (e.g., climate change induced healthcare expenditures) could not be included because of a lack of data. Even more significantly, the analysis does not account for critical non-market impacts such as changes in species distributions, reductions in biodiversity or loss of ecosystem goods and services. These types of effects are described in a companion Pew Center report—A Synthesis of Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the United States—but remain extremely difficult to value in economic terms. Their inclusion in a more complete evaluation of both market and non-market impacts would almost certainly offset any temporary market benefits and add to the negative impacts, thereby underscoring the case for mitigative action.
The Pew Center and the authors are grateful to Henry Jacoby and Billy Pizer for helpful comments on previous drafts of this report.
Executive Summary
The continued accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere is projected to have far reaching consequences for earth's climate in coming decades. For example, in 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that average global temperatures could rise anywhere from 1.4oC to 5.8oC (2.5-10.4oF) over the 21stcentury, with warming for the United States as much as 30 percent higher. Climatic shifts of this magnitude would affect human and natural systems in many ways. Therefore, quantifying these impacts and their likely costs remains a critical challenge in the formulation of appropriate policy responses.
This study aims to advance understanding of the potential consequences of global climate change by examining the overall effect on the U.S. economy of predicted impacts in key market activities that are likely to be particularly sensitive to future climate trends. These activities include crop agriculture and forestry, energy services related to heating and cooling, commercial water supply, and the protection of property and assets in coastal regions. Also considered are the effects on livestock and commercial fisheries and the costs related to increased storm, flood and hurricane activity. Finally, the analysis accounts for population-based changes in labor supply and consumer demand due to climate-induced mortality and morbidity. Impacts in each of these areas were modeled to estimate their aggregate effect on national measures of economic performance and welfare, including gross domestic product (GDP), consumption, investment, labor supply, capital stock and leisure.
At present, our knowledge of the direct or indirect impacts of climate change on a broad range of economic activities is incomplete. Accordingly, there are important sectors and activities—such as tourism—that are omitted from this effort. Similarly, there is little information concerning possible interactions among the benefits and costs in different sectors. For example, the impacts on crop and livestock agriculture may have consequences for human health. Given the absence of reliable insights into such externalities or spillovers, these effects are also excluded from consideration. These limitations suggest that the results of this analysis are likely to understate the potential market impacts of climate change.
More importantly, this analysis does not consider the non-market impacts of climate change such as changes in species distributions, reductions in biodiversity, or losses of ecosystem goods and services. These considerations are essential to a complete evaluation of the consequences of climate change but are very difficult to value in economic terms. A companion report, A Synthesis of Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the United States, provides more detail on the relative vulnerability of different U.S. regions to both the market and non-market impacts of climate change.
To capture the range of market consequences potentially associated with climate change in the United States and to address the considerable uncertainties that exist, several distinct scenarios were developed for this analysis. Each incorporates different assumptions about the magnitude of climate change over the next century and about the direction and extent of likely impacts in the market sectors analyzed. Specifically, three different levels of climate change (low, central and high) were considered in combination with two sets of market outcomes (optimistic and pessimistic) for a total of six primary scenarios. In terms of climate, the low, central and high scenarios encompass projected increases in average temperature ranging from 1.7oC to 5.3oC (3.1-9.5oF) by 2100, together with precipitation increases ranging from 2.1 to 6.6 percent and sea-level rise ranging from 17.2 to 98.9 cm (7-40 inches) over the same period. In terms of impacts, the optimistic and pessimistic scenarios reflect a spectrum of outcomes from the available literature concerning the sensitivity of each sector to climatic shifts and its ability to adapt. As one would expect, the optimistic scenarios generally project either smaller damages or greater benefits for a given amount of climate change compared to the pessimistic scenarios.
Because several of the market sectors included here are especially sensitive to changes in precipitation, two additional scenarios were analyzed. The first assumes the high degree of temperature change combined with lower precipitation ("high and drier") while the second assumes the low level of temperature change combined with higher precipitation ("low and wetter").
By introducing the sector-specific damages (or benefits) associated with each of these scenarios into a computable general equilibrium model that simulates the complex interactions of the U.S. economy as a whole, the combined effect of climate impacts across multiple sectors could be assessed in an integrated fashion. Detailed results are described in the body of this report, but five principal conclusions emerge:
1) Based on the market sectors and range of impacts considered for this analysis, projected climate change has the potential to impose considerable costs or produce temporary benefits for the U.S. economy over the 21st century, depending on the extent to which pessimistic or optimistic outcomes prevail. Under pessimistic assumptions, real U.S. GDP in the low climate change scenario is 0.6 percent lower in 2100 relative to a baseline that assumes no change in climate; in the high climate change scenario, the predicted reduction in real GDP is 1.9 percent. Under the additional "high and drier" climate scenario, however, real GDP is reduced more dramatically—by as much as 3.0 percent by 2100 relative to baseline conditions. Furthermore, under pessimistic assumptions negative impacts on GDP grow progressively larger over time, regardless of the climate scenario. In contrast, under optimistic assumptions real U.S. GDP by 2100 is 0.7 to 1.0 percent higher than baseline conditions across the low, central and high climate scenarios, but these benefits eventually diminish over time. Nevertheless, to the extent that responses in certain key sectors conform to the optimistic scenarios, there is a distinct possibility that some degree of climate change can provide modest overall benefits to the U.S. economy during the 21st century.
2) Due to threshold effects in certain key sectors, the economic benefits simulated for the 21st century under optimistic assumptions are not sustainable and economic damages are inevitable. In contrast to the pessimistic scenarios which show increasingly negative impacts on the economy as temperatures rise, the economic benefits associated with optimistic scenarios ultimately peak or reach a maximum. Specifically, the agriculture and energy sectors initially experience significant cost reductions, but only so long as climate change remains below critical levels. Once temperature and other key climate parameters reach certain thresholds, however, benefits peak and begin to decline—eventually becoming damages. Different thresholds apply in different sectors and the time required to reach them depends on the rate at which warming occurs. In the high climate change scenario, the trend toward economic benefits under optimistic assumptions slows and peaks around mid-century, whereas, in the central climate case, this transition appears toward century's end. In the optimistic, low climate change scenario, benefits continue to accrue throughout the 21st century. Nevertheless, the existence of these thresholds means that continued climate change—even if it proceeds slowly—eventually reverses market outcomes so that predicted economic benefits are only transient and temporary.
3) The effects of climate change on U.S. agriculture dominate the other market impacts considered in this analysis. Currently, the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries represent about 2.0 percent of total U.S. industrial output and about 3.5 percent of real GDP. However, agriculture accounts for a much larger share of the overall climate-related economic impact estimated in this analysis. For example, across the low, central and high climate change scenarios, field crop and forestry impacts account for over 70 percent of the total predicted effect of climate change on real GDP under optimistic assumptions and almost 80 percent of the total GDP effect under pessimistic assumptions. These figures rise to 75 and 85 percent, respectively, if one includes climate effects on livestock and commercial fisheries. Clearly, significant impacts in relatively small sectors can exert a disproportionate influence on the overall economic consequences of a given climate change.
4) For the economy, wetter is better. All else being equal, more precipitation is better for agriculture —and hence better for the economy—than less precipitation. Not surprisingly, reductions in precipitation are costlier at higher temperatures than at lower temperatures and the negative impacts of drier climate conditions are greater under pessimistic assumptions than they are under optimistic assumptions. These results are driven by model assumptions about the relationship between agricultural output and different levels of precipitation; they do not consider regional or seasonal variability nor do they account for possible changes in the incidence of extreme events such as drought and flooding. To date, variations in precipitation have not been routinely incorporated in assessments of the agricultural impacts of climate change; nevertheless, they are potentially quite important and could significantly affect actual benefits or damages associated with climate change in this sector of the economy. Therefore, in future assessments, more attention should be paid to the specific effects of precipitation under different climate scenarios.
5) Changes in human mortality and morbidity are small but important determinants of the modeled impacts of climate change for the U.S. economy as a whole. An increase in climate-induced mortality or illness reduces the population of workers and consumers available to participate in the market economy, in turn leading to a loss of real GDP. In this analysis, mortality and morbidity effects alone account for 13 to 16 percent of the aggregate predicted effect of climate change on the economic welfare of U.S. households. Failure to include such effects therefore understates the potential market impacts of climate change as well as the likely benefits of climate-mitigating policies. Furthermore, the economic consequences of the mortality and morbidity effects arising from a given change in temperature are at the low end of mortality valuations found in the reported literature. Hence, the contribution of health effects to the aggregate market impacts of climate change could be even higher than these results suggest.
Taken together, these findings have important implications for current policy debates and for ongoing efforts to further refine our understanding of the likely impacts of global climate change. From a policy standpoint their primary relevance lies in the extent to which they support (or diminish) the case for intervention to avoid or mitigate the impacts being evaluated. Specifically, does the analysis suggest that the likely consequences of future climate change will be sufficiently negative as to warrant near-term actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions? This question is all the more difficult to answer because the benefits of policy intervention tend to accrue slowly, over a long period of time, while the costs of mitigative action must be borne in the near term.
On the one hand, the results of this analysis clearly point to the possibility that climate change could produce measurable negative impacts on the U.S. economy within this century that might justify anticipatory policy responses. On the other hand, the fact that some of the scenarios analyzed produce positive, albeit temporary, benefits for the U.S. economy in the same timeframe might seem to weigh in favor of forgoing, or at least delaying, such actions.
A number of nuances in these results—together with several larger considerations related to limitations inherent in the study's design—argue against the latter conclusion. Within the scope of this analysis, perhaps the most important point is the fact that most, if not all, potentially positive impacts of climate change under optimistic assumptions are likely to be transient and unsustainable over the long run in the face of steadily rising temperatures. If, on the other hand, pessimistic assumptions prove to be more correct, the economic impacts of climate change are not only immediately negative, but worsen steadily over time. Thus, the potential for temporary economic benefits must be balanced against the potential for immediate and lasting economic damages.
A second important point is that the modeling results reveal asymmetries in the magnitude of potential benefits versus potential damages. Specifically, the economic losses estimated under pessimistic assumptions are generally larger than the transient benefits gained under optimistic assumptions in all but the low climate change scenarios. Moreover, the asymmetry becomes more pronounced with rising temperatures as certain types of costs—such as those associated with extreme weather events—increasingly offset possible benefits to other sectors of the economy.
A further caution relates to the partial and incomplete nature of the analysis itself. This effort was limited from the outset to considering only market impacts of global climate change within the United States. As has already been noted, it was not possible to include all potentially climate-sensitive market sectors in the analysis; nor was it possible to account for all externalities or spillover effects. Moreover, the results of this analysis are not likely to be representative of other parts of the world, especially for those countries whose overall economic well-being is more closely tied to sectors like agriculture. For these countries, the potential damages associated with future climate change could be a much larger proportion of GDP than in the United States and the downside risks under pessimistic assumptions—especially in regions where climate change is likely to cause increasingly warmer and drier conditions—could be far more substantial.
Even more significant, in terms of drawing policy conclusions from these results, is the fact that the underlying analysis does not address a host of potential non-market impacts associated with climate change. These include shifts in species distribution, reductions in biodiversity, losses of ecosystem goods and services and changes in human and natural habitats. Such impacts—many of which are explored in other Pew Center reports—are probably of great concern to the public and could carry substantial weight in future policy deliberations. They are, however, extremely difficult to value in economic terms. To the extent that they have been assessed—even qualitatively—the results suggest that climate-related impacts on natural systems are far more likely, on the whole, to be negative rather than positive. As such they would tend to add to any negative market impacts associated with future climate change, while offsetting potential market benefits of the kind simulated in this study under optimistic assumptions.
In sum, the disparity in results between optimistic and pessimistic scenarios—and the likelihood that a consideration of non-market impacts would tend to exacerbate this disparity—highlights the continuing uncertainty associated with quantifying climate change impacts. The fact that the economic losses associated with pessimistic scenarios are both larger and more continuous than the transient benefits gained under optimistic scenarios would seem, by itself, to provide some support for cautionary action on climate change. In fact, such action—by slowing the pace and magnitude of temperature increases in the U.S. market consequences of global climate change coming decades—actually could forestall any damages or even improve the odds that optimistic rather than pessimistic outcomes prevail. If, on the other hand, worst-case scenarios appear more likely over time and ultimately justify more dramatic intervention, early efforts to achieve moderate near-term emissions reductions may help avoid the need for more costly measures later on. Meanwhile, high priority should be given to improving and integrating future assessments of market and non-market outcomes and to refining our understanding of the probabilities associated with varying degrees of climate change and the positive or negative responses that follow.
The Role of Substitution in Understanding the Costs of Climate Change Policy
The Role of Substitution in Understanding the Costs of Climate Change Policy
Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
September 2000
Dale W. Jorgenson, Harvard University
Richard J. Goettle, Northeastern University
Peter J. Wilcoxen, University of Texas at Austin
Mun Sing Ho, Harvard University
Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The U.S. economy has proven both resilient and adaptive over the past century. From the "bust" of the Great Depression to the current "boom" associated with information technology, the economy's ability to adapt stems largely from the substitution possibilities within it — that is, how businesses and households alter their behavior when a major economic change occurs.
Reducing greenhouse gases could alter future economic conditions, largely through increased energy prices. While these changes could be significant, the economy is rapidly becoming even more flexible and responsive as technology changes the way things are invented, produced, and distributed. Accordingly, the damages to the economy might be less. Yet, many economic models used in predicting the future costs of climate change policies do not adequately capture the economy's full range of substitution possibilities. A recent Pew Center report entitled, An Introduction to the Economics of Climate Change Policy, identified substitution assumptions as one of five key factors having the largest influence on modeling results. The other factors are: how baseline greenhouse gas (GHG) projections are measured; what policy regime is considered; how technological progress is represented; and whether GHG reduction benefits are included.
This analysis by Dale Jorgenson, Richard Goettle, Peter Wilcoxen and Mun Sing Ho explores the role of substitution in adapting to economic change. It begins with what is considered a "flexible" model (a top-down, computable general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy) and then constrains the flexibility parameters within this model to observe its new results. In essence, the authors use the same model to behave both "flexibly" and "inflexibly" in order to observe the effect of this pivotal assumption on model outcomes.
The most striking conclusion of this work is that the failure to depict the full range of historically-observed substitution possibilities (as many economic models do) can lead to as much as a doubling of the estimated costs of a climate change policy, an overestimate that is wholly attributable to this one pivotal assumption. This overestimation may be even more pronounced since the economy appears more flexible today than in the post-war period when these observations were made. Another interesting finding is that v a rying the flexibility households have in choosing to work more or fewer hours can be as important in predicting carbon prices and economic outcomes as the assumptions about flexibility in all of production. In summary, economic models of climate change must represent the full range of flexibility that is achievable or risk significant errors in estimating economic benefits and costs.
This paper would not have been possible without the comments and support from several individuals. The Pew Center and authors would like to thank Larry Goulder, Jeffrey Frankel, and Hadi Dowlatabadi for their thoughtful comments on early drafts of this report. Special thanks are due to Ev Ehrlich for serving as a consultant on this project, and to Judi Greenwald for her editorial assistance.
Executive Summary
The U.S. economy's reaction both to climate change itself and to the policies designed to avoid climate change depends largely upon the abilities of consumers and producers to adapt to these changes and move forw a rd under new conditions. In turn, these abilities depend on the ease with which consumers and producers can alter their purchasing behavior without sacrificing welfare, income, and production. This ease is reflected largely in the economy's "substitution possibilities" — the options available to con-sumers and producers to change what they buy and sell in response to changes in the prices of particular goods and services. If the cost of economic substitution is low, and the range of substitution possibilities is wide, then mitigation costs — the damages to welfare, income and production — are likely to be low and the burden on the economy is likely to be small. If the cost of substitution is high, and range of substitutability is narrow, then mitigation costs are likely to be high. The purpose of this paper is to examine the economy-wide impacts of reduced substitution opportunities when the economy must adjust to a constraint on carbon emissions.
This analysis uses an economic model that, compared to other models, depicts a relatively complete set of substitution possibilities for consumers and producers. Simulation results from the model portray the economy's response to an emissions reduction schedule that is implemented through a system of tradable emissions permits. The first model simulation used substitution possibilities that were estimated from historical data. Next, the authors systematically replaced key parameters (i.e., coefficients or multipliers of selected mathematical relationships embedded in the model) in a manner that drastically reduced the substitution possibilities of producers and consumers. Each of these simulations defined a different world or economy. The authors then simulated each economy's reaction to proportionally identical emissions constraints. In this manner, the model produced measures of the economic responsiveness both with and without flexibility and the analysis quantified the benefits and costs of substitution.
Three areas of substitution are most important to the overall economic reaction to climate change. These are:
- flexibility in production, meaning the ability of firms to substitute labor, capital, or other materials for energy or each other when the price of energy rises;
- flexibility in consumption, meaning the ability of households to change the mix of goods and services they buy in response to higher energy prices; and
- flexibility between labor (and, hence, income and consumption) and leisure, as households allocate their scarce time between the two.
The principal conclusions emerging from this analysis are:
1. When allow able substitutions reflect the observed behavior of the past , constraining carbon emissions to around 70 percent of their projected base-case levels costs the economy about a one and one-quarter percent loss in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and a one-tenth of one percent loss in economic welfare. For perspective, at current levels, this loss in GDP corresponds to an annual loss in income of $430 per person living in the United States and the welfare loss is equivalent to a tax, payable today, of $3,175 per person.
2. Constraining carbon emissions is generally more costly when substitutability in consumption or production is restricted. Thus, flexibility within the economy significantly reduces the adverse impacts of climate change and climate change policies. Real GDP losses are slightly larger when consumption is less flexible, and are doubled when production is less flexible. Failing to account for the full range of substitution possibilities in consumption and production will lead to overestimation of the negative effects of climate change policy.
3. Just as "rigidity" magnifies economic costs, it can also magnify economic benefits under certain circumstances. For example, inflexibility in consumption or production is beneficial to economic performance when: (a) climate change policies lead to additional tax revenues, and (b) the tax policy for reusing these additional revenues is economically advantageous.
In fact, the benefit is magnified the more inflexibility is introduced (assuming a and b hold).
4. Differences among models' treatment of the substitutability between consumption and leisure are likely to be every bit as important in predicting emissions permit prices and economic outcomes as are the models' underlying details of technology, consumption, or production. The more inflexible households are with respect to their consumption-leisure tradeoff, the lower the costs of reducing emissions. Contrary to what occurs when substitution is constrained in production or consumption, rigidity in this instance appears beneficial. However, this rigidity can also prove harmful. The combination of an emissions constraint, inflexibility in consumption and production, and more favorable tax treatment leads to economic benefits (point 3 above). Add inflexibility in consumption and leisure, and the combination leads to economic costs. Rigidities in household choices between consumption and leisure substantially limit the observed economic outcomes from climate change policy: either the adverse impacts are smaller or the potential benefits never materialize.
This analysis is important not only because of its results, but also because it explores this topic in a detailed and systematic manner within a single methodology. It is among but a few efforts to fundamentally change the character of a model in developing a sensitivity analysis. The numerous and well-documented outcomes of other policy experiments have informed the policy process. There now are fewer surprises when a particular policy design is subjected to the scrutiny of a broad range of models. But the quest for understanding does not end here. A model's outcomes depend on interactions among the various components that govern its behavior, and thus analysts need to identify and examine these components in both isolation and combination. The intent of this exercise is to increase understanding of the nature and magnitude of the benefits and costs of substitution by exploring the key features of one particular model and the economy it can portray. The hope is that this exercise makes a modest contribution to the formulation of environmental and economic policies that are beneficially robust over the broadest possible range of economic circumstances.


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Grumpy Level: No I'm not training for a marathon, I'm training for the Apocalypse
You know that new joke?
What do you call a Computer Programmer after the Dead have risen? A Zombie
Well when your helicopter gets shot down post-apocalypse and the closest outpost makes you an offer that if you can move faster than that shuffling army of undead just behind you they may have some use for you, what are you going to do? Well I've managed to keep ahead of the Dead (sometimes only just) so I am now Runner 5 (the fourth if you are asking)
Coming Second is NOT an Option...
Welcome to Zombies, Run!, an Android/Windows Phone/iPhone Application where you are a - well - a Runner after the Dead have risen.
The premise is that you put it one while you run and follow the story as you jog. There are 23 Chapters ranging from "A Lost Child" to "Virtuous Circle" which unlock as you progress through, each lasting about 30 mins depending upon your music choices. The story is relayed to you like a radio play with several characters interacting as you go along. Oh yes you create a play list which can then be either be played in order or at random as you run and if you are still moving after the mission is complete you get snippets of "Radio Abel" - interviews etc which give additional background.
Ok So far, So Yawn - but then we get to the interactive bit. As you jog along you collect pieces of equipment which may (or may not be) of use back at the home base. You then determine which area to apply the equipment, either through your phone or through the website.
In addition to collecting stuff - turn on the GPS and you'll find the Dead will chase you. Every so often - a pleasant voice (who I like to call Breathing Betty) warns you of Zombies and then start telling you how far away you are from them (though this can also be judged by the loudness of the moans and groans just behind you). If you pick up your pace you can outrun the Dead, if not you just have to hope they can be distracted when you drop something. As Betty also advises you as to any items you have collected, every time you hear her the adrenaline starts to flow.
Stuff What You Can Collect Post Apocalypse (30 out of 46)
In addition, it will track and map your run, work out the number of calories burnt and act as the normal sort of Run Tracker many of us already use.
As Long as I Can Run Faster Than a Zombie...
So I'm well in training for that last marathon (well half marathon (well quick bit of a jog (OK as long as I can move faster than you))). This is the only app I have actually laid any cash down for (£5.99 for the Android version) and I'm really please I did. It's added a new element to my running and I get to choose my own soundtrack for the Apocalypse. If you run and are looking for a bit of extra inspiration I'd heartily recommend paying for this (there isn't a demo version I'm afraid). Check it out at:
Now I do have one sort of complaint, on my adventures around Abel Township, one item seems to be more prevalent than all the rest - this is the Sports Bra. Not sure why. Perhaps the Dead rose during some sort of Women's Race? And in their panic they removed their bras? Those last few minutes of civilization must have been a real eye opener.
Well I'm off to see what I can use half a dozen bras to fashion - so far I have earmuffs and a blindfold. Any other ideas?
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Ulcinj, Montenegro
Ulcinj, Ulqin, MontenegroUlcinj is situated in the far south of the Adriatic Coast on the same latitude as Barcelona and Rome. Together with the island of Hvar, it is characterised by having the largest number of sunny days in the Adriatic. According to the 2003 census, Ulcinj is inhabited by 26,492 people, with the following national composition: 72.14% Albanians; 11.93% Montenegrins; 7.44% Serbs; Bosniak Muslims and other nationalities 8.49%.
From the ancient lllyrian settlement of the Bronze Age (testified to by a large number of archaeological finds), through the first written records after the lllyrian-Roman war (Pliny the Elder), to the present day, Ulcinj was targetted by both Greeks and Romans - it was a significant episcopal centre with 365 churches (the number of days in a year) in the episcopal town of Svac (Sas); the target of the Turks - a strong pirate core defying all Mediterranean naval empires of the time; to finally become the meeting-place of tourists from all over Europe and the world. Ulcinj is a historical and tourist mosaic.
With nearly 20 km of beaches, 15 of which are made of fine sand; over 6,000 hectares of arable land; with an olive grove of around 88,000 trees; with sand, mud and sulphur mineral waters having medicinal qualities (rated extremely highly by eminent local and international experts and institutes) - Ulcinj represents a respectable economic and tourist potential for the development of all types of tourism (luxury, nautical and health tourism), as well as agriculture as a comparable branch.
Ulcinj Montenegro website is part of the largest network of web sites in Montenegro. For more information click here.


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The stock price of CAE Inc. , Canada's shining star in the world of modelling, simulation and training for civil aviation and defence, has been whacked over the past few months as investors grow increasingly nervous about the prospects of U.S. defence spending cuts.
Since its near term peak at the end of June, the stock has dropped 27 per cent, while the Toronto Stock Exchange and the S&P 500 are down about 11 per cent over the same period.
Now that the U.S. debt super committee has failed to reach a deal, you would assume there will be even more pressure on the stock, especially because one-third of the company's military sales are to the U.S. However, CIBC World Markets analyst Michael Willemse crunched the numbers and found drastic spending cuts shouldn't hurt the firm too badly.
For starters, the stock has already taken a hit, so it's harder for it to keep falling. On top of that, Mr. Willemse assumed that even a 9 per cent cut to U.S. defence spending would put only one 1 cent per share of CAE's earnings per share at risk, translating into 12 to 23 cents of CAE's share price. Not very much.
Mr. Willemse believes CAE has reason to be hopeful. If the cuts do come, they will be enacted in 2013, and as of right now, only 15 per cent of CAE's 2013 estimated revenues come from U.S. military spending. Moreover, the "risk of cuts to military simulation training is low given its inherent cost savings," he noted.Report Typo/Error


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by Mike Petersen in the Walter P. Chrysler Club magazine; reprinted by permission.
1955 was the year of a complete styling turn-around for Chrysler, a styling renaissance led by Virgil Exner.
Following World War II, the American car-buying public purchased everything on wheels, so that the relatively stodgy Chrysler cars were successful in spite of their looks and shape.
Because of production lead time, newly hired stylist Virgil Exner had been restricted to dabbling with ornamentation on the 1953 and 1954 cars.
Sales in 1953 began to tell the bad news and by 1954 car sales were so bad that some new Chryslers were bootlegged onto used car lots.
Part of the preparation for 1955 was a Tex Colbert hundred-year loan for $250 million, largely for plant and process upgrades; the company structure was overhauled to form divisions, following similar moves by GM and Ford. Virgil Exner's "Forward Look," advertised as the "Hundred Million Dollar Look," debuted in 1955, resulting in a dramatic increase in sales, with styling years ahead of the competition.
Exner worked mostly on the Imperial, Chrysler, and DeSoto, while Maury Baldwin designed the 1955 Dodge. There are many similarities in these designs, including split grilles, sweep spear side trim, the windshield shape and incline, and body proportions.
The 1955 Dodge had a 120 inch wheelbase and a length of 212.1 inches — 6.6 inches longer than the 1954 Dodge). The Dodge had flair, with a wraparound windshield and clean lines.
The Dodge grille is close to that of the 1953 Studebaker, designed by Bob Bourke under Lowey. Since Exner had been at Studebaker, the 1955 Dodge and the 1953 Studebaker grilles may have a common lineage.
There were ten body styles in three series: D55-1 and D56-1 Coronet V8 (V8 and six), D55-2 Royal V8, and D53-3 Custom Royal V8. The basic body styles were two door sedan, four door sedan, two door hardtop, two door wagon, four door wagon, and two door convertible. Lancer and La Femme, introduced at mid-year, expanded styles to ten. All hardtops and convertibles were then called Lancers.
All Dodge Coronet cars have the script "Coronet" on the front or rear fenders, except the wagon, which has the script "Suburban" on the rear fender. The two door hardtops are Coronet Lancers, but show Coronet on the front fenders. Body styles are were a two door hardtop (V8 only), four door sedan, two door sedan, and two or four door wagon.
The next step up were the Royals, which have the script "Royal" on the front or rear fenders; Royal wagon have a script "Sierra" on the rear fender instead. The two door hardtops are Royal Lancers and may have either "Royal" (early cars) or "Royal Lancer" on the front fenders. Body styles were two door hardtop, four door sedan, and four door wagon. The polysphere V8 was standard on all Royals.
The flagships of the Dodge line were the Custom Royals, sold as two door hardtops, four door sedans, and two door convertibles. The early two door hardtops and convertibles have "Royal Lancer" on the front fenders; later cars have an additional "Custom" medallion on the front fenders. The early four door sedan has "Royal" on the rear fender with a "Custom" medallion, switching to "Royal Lancer" and a "Custom" medallion on the front fender along with other Lancer trim.
The early model year Custom Royal Lancer and the late model year Royal Lancer two door hardtops were similar, but the Custom Royal Lancer has chrome rear fins, like the 1954 Custom Royal. The Custom series also has unique taillight bezels and backup light bezels and a deluxe interior. The fender fins and sweep spear side trim were added to the late model year Custom Royal four door sedan trim package.
The La Femme was a special trim option with Heather Rose and Sapphire White color combinations. A matching cape, boots, umbrella, shoulder bag, and floral tapestry-like fabrics are the feminine niceties available with this Custom Royal package. There are compartments built into the back of each front seat for stowing all of this gear.
The hidden message behind this and the number of women in the ads seems to be "this car is easy to drive" and "this car is for both husband and wife."
1955 had some very gaudy paint combinations, such as the Studebaker Speedster. Dodge teetered on the brink of bad taste with a green exterior and yellow interior, but never had clashing primary colors outside. There are some metallic colors in the Dodge color lineup, which had thirteen basic colors, sixteen two-tone, and sixteen three-tone color combinations, to make a total of 45 different exterior color schemes.
The two-tones have the top and taillight housings one color, with the rest of the car the other color, or the top, hood, trunk, and taillight housings will be one color while the fenders, doors, and front would be the other color. Within the three-tone combinations, the upper color and the insert color could be swapped, adding an additional 15 color combinations. Along with the variations in the two-tones, the total number of color schemes is 76. A car with one of these 31 variations may appear to be a repaint as not all of the trim was off of the car when the factory varied the color scheme.
Interior colors were blue, green, black, or yellow, with seats covered in Jacquard fabrics with Cordagrain on seat backs and other areas of wear. Cordagrain is a vinyl material that matches the headlining and dash insert color as well as the upper color on the door panels.
Interior panels were two-tone, with the Custom Royal series using chrome trim and chrome insert panels to separate the two colors. The rubber trim around the rear window is painted to match the headliner in the Custom Royal series. Brochures show the dash insert color appearing on the glove box chrome handle, but I have never seen one like this, and it is probably an artist's error. The sales literature also shows the insert color of the taillight housings and rear stone deflector extending up to the stainless steel trim just below the trunk opening; in all of the cars that I have seen the insert color is on the taillight housings, rear stone deflector, and top only.
Late model year 1955 Dodges have a plate with paint and trim codes mounted on the cowl under the hood in the engine compartment. It does not appear in the 55 Dodge shop manual, and the serial number is on a separate plate on the left door jamb.
The engine serial number helps show when the ear was built. For example, a Custom Royal four door sedan, serial 34934003 with engine D553-80369, is car number 194,003 with engine 79,369. This car was sold in September, 1955. Since all V8 cars had the same style of serial numbers, the engine number is the car was built in the series. [See our VIN decoder.]
The 1955 Dodge accessory list is quite impressive. The accessories on my Dodge are marked with an asterisk.
There are three engines used in the 55 Dodges - the flat-head Getaway Six (for Coronets), the Red Ram V8, and the Super Red Ram V8.
The 270 cid V8 engines had higher displacement than they had the year before, but buyers who wanted more power could (and did) go to the Red Ram V8 instead.
The Red Ram V8 had polysphere heads, with single rocker shaft (one rocker arm per cylinder), and was used in the Coronet and Royal.
The Super Red Ram V8 was 270 cubic inches, like the Red Ram, but it had hemispherical combustion chambers with dual rocker shafts (one for exhaust, one for intake), and dual rockers per cylinder; it was called the "double rocker," with the "Hemi" name not arriving until the (almost completely different) 426.
The Hemi was standard on all Custom Royals and optional on other lines. The two V8s share many internal components, and will accept manifolds and other components from the 241 Hemi engines from 1953 and 1954. The six was already outdated.
The Super Red Ram with the power package (4 barrel, dual exhaust) was way ahead of the Red Ram in power.
Horsepower figures were measured with the generator, water pump, manifolds, and fuel pump. The Red Ram had low friction valve locks to allow for valve rotation but the Super Red Ram had no special provision for valve rotation.
The power package is a very rare option. The Carter carburetor was a surprisingly modern design, with metering rods on the primary jets and velocity valves controlling air flow to the secondaries.
The weakest part of the V8 engine is the forged crankshaft, but owners are warned of future problems by oil pressure issues. The trouble may have been in the bearing materials.
Lanny Knutson added:
The 1955 Plymouth "Hyfire" V8 [a smaller version of the Dodge Poly] was available in two displacements and three horsepower ranges: the 241 produced 157 hp, and the 260 produced 167 horsepower. A mid-year addition of a power package (four-barrel carburetor and dual exhaust) increased the 260 to 177 horsepower. The latter engine was not part of the original plan.
J.C. Zeder, Director of Engineering, claimed, "We are not seeking to develop higher speeds and greater power than anyone else. The increased speeds and torque of the 1955 Plymouth, when combined with the PowerFlite transmission, results in improved performance in low and middle ranges, plus greater economy." In other words, Plymouth's new V8 was considered to be no more than a higher-powered extension of the traditional and reliable Plymouth flathead six.
At the time, Chrysler considered the horsepower race to be exclusive to high-end cars. Chevrolet's new V8 brought that concept to an end, and brought the horsepower race to the low-priced field. Plymouth had to respond, and they did — with the 1955 power package and later with the 1956 Fury.
The overhead V8 was another facet of the latest automotive fashion. Everyone had to have one if they wished to keep selling cars, so Plymouth had one. If people like J.C. Zeder had their way, the familiar flathead six would still be Plymouth's sole powerplant.
The 1955 Plymouth "Hyfire" V8 [a smaller version of the Dodge Poly] was available in two displacements and three horsepower ranges: the 241 produced 157 hp, and the 260 produced 167 horsepower. A mid-year addition of a power package (four-barrel carburetor and dual exhaust) increased the 260 to 177 horsepower. The latter engine was not part of the original plan.
J.C. Zeder, Director of Engineering, claimed, "We are not seeking to develop higher speeds and greater power than anyone else. The increased speeds and torque of the 1955 Plymouth, when combined with the PowerFlite transmission, results in improved performance in low and middle ranges, plus greater economy." In other words, Plymouth's new V8 was considered to be no more than a higher-powered extension of the traditional and reliable Plymouth flathead six.
At the time, Chrysler considered the horsepower race to be exclusive to high-end cars. Chevrolet's new V8 brought that concept to an end, and brought the horsepower race to the low-priced field. Plymouth had to respond, and they did — with the 1955 power package and later with the 1956 Fury.
The overhead V8 was another facet of the latest automotive fashion. Everyone had to have one if they wished to keep selling cars, so Plymouth had one. If people like J.C. Zeder had their way, the familiar flathead six would still be Plymouth's sole powerplant.
There were three transmissions available in 1955: three speed manual, three speed manual with overdrive, and two speed automatic PowerFlite. The straight-six and V8 transmissions were all the same except the clutches. The three speed is so simple that the shop manual covers it in fourteen pages. The 0.7:1 overdrive is more complicated, and requires 31 pages. The PowerFlite takes up 84 pages of the shop manual. All had a tailshaft parking brake to simplify the rear brakes. 1955 was the only year for the automatic transmission lever mounted on the dash.
The PowerFlite transmission and torque converter were air-cooled, and had no vacuum modulator, enhancing its simplicity. On the V8 car, a full throttle upshift occurs at about 60 mph. Kick-down occurs all the way up to 50 mph. One oddity is very high (260 lb/sq.in.) fluid pressure when the transmission is in reverse. The life of the PowerFlite can be extended by shifting to drive (foot on the brake) to cut the engine idle speed, before going into reverse. During a rebuild, transmission life will also be extended by installing the kick-down cushion spring in the trash can, not in the PowerFlite. This spring softens the shift by momentarily holding the transmission in low and drive during kick-down, and puts a strain on the internal components.
The PowerFlite came with the four pinion rear axle, the stronger axle; one year later it was a high performance options. 3.54 is a standard rear gear with the PowerFlite, 3.73 is an optional ratio. Manual transmission sixes got 3.9, 4.3 with overdrive; the V8 counterparts received 3.73, 4.1 with overdrive.
All of these accessories, except two, are controlled by circuit breakers which automatically reset. Even the lights and overdrive transmission are on circuit breakers. This means that any intermittent electrical failure of a vital system will not stop the car, but allow safe travel to a repair area. The wiring is a combination of vinyl and varnished cloth insulated wires, which causes some mechanics to scratch their heads.
The eight tube radio is superb, and not as sensitive to power lines as are transistor units (the first all-transistor radio in any car was optional on Chrysler and Imperial for 1955). The tuning is crisp and fade in-and-out rarely happens. The tube warm-up period and the drone of the vibrator are continual reminders that the radio is drawing a massive fourteen amps.
The clock in my Dodge is still running after all of these years. I cleaned it once (instead of every six months as recommended by the shop manual). The clock has a solenoid which winds it up when a set of contact points close, usually every 3 or 4 minutes. The solenoid makes a loud "clink" and the clock light flashes on every rewind.
All 1955 Dodges have full instrumentation. The instruments have black faces with white numerals and pointers, including an ammeter (±50 amps, except heavy duty generators on air-conditioned cars and convertibles, which were ±65 amps); fuel; electrically-actuated water temperature; odometer; and mechanical-actuation oil pressure gauge, 0-80 psi.
The ash tray and headlight switch are designed to look like a gauge. Switches along the bottom of the dash are for the fan (heater and defroster are separate), ignition, wipers, and cigar lighter. When the parking lights are turned on, the ignition switch is illuminated. There are also lights for turn signals (a single green lamp) and for high beams (red).
There are two summer doors under the dash which allow vent air to bypass the heater. When closed, the fresh vent air is forced through the heater core. In very cold weather, the summer doors may be opened and the cowl vent closed to allow for recirculation of the air.
In addition to the adjustable cowl vent, there is a conventional temperature control switch to regulate water flow through the heater core. This unit is very effective. The one drawback is that the summer doors are not controlled from the dash, and the novice driver (or anyone with short arms) needs to stop the car in order to adjust these safely. However, they were designed to be closed once each fall and opened once each spring.
The air conditioning system is simple, with one three-level control for blower speed and one three-level (cold, cool, none) for cooling. The evaporator and blower are in the trunk, with vents to allow fresh air (one part fresh air, two parts recirculated); at high speed, the blower moves 300 cubic feet of air per minute, changing the air inside the car every 1 1/2 minutes. Cool air enters the car through grilles in the package shelf.
Fender vents are opened and closed with levers inside the trunk. Like the summer doors under the dash, they are designed to be opened in the spring and closed in the fall. The air conditioning compressor has a forged crankshaft and rods. The compressor is driven by two belts, another example of what some may call "over engineered."
There is a lot of stainless steel trim on the car, including window mouldings, rocker panel mouldings, and side trim. The remainder is die cast: medallion bezels, headlight doors, taillight bezels, parking light bezels, backup light bezels, all script, and the fake hood scoop. The die cast can be a nightmare to restore. The thin stainless steel side trim and the rocker panel trim are attached by clips and studs. All of the other trim is attached by studs. There is an extensive use of gaskets to seal out water, and the car is literally bolted together.
The 1955 Dodge suspension had conventional leaf springs in the rear and coil springs with king pins in the front. King pins can only rotate in one plane, so the front wheels do not change their axis of inclination much as they turn and travel over bumps. It is like having an elbow where your shoulder goes.
The V8 cars have an idler arm that is parallel to the steering gear arm for complete steering linkage symmetry. There are 21 grease fittings, 23 if you count the plugs in the rear axle for wheel bearings. Steering ratios are 22:1 in the six and 27:1 in the V8 cars. Steering had little effort, and the 16:1 ratio power steering made it almost effortless.
The 1955 Dodge was the last year for a six volt electrical system and the next to the last year for king pins and fifteen inch wheels. It was the first year for three-tone colors and the last year for bolt-on chrome fins. Six adults can ride in the car in comfort with all of the luggage in the trunk. It had a 20 quart cooling system and six quart oil capacity (sixes as well as V8s). All of the engines work on low octane gas.
Dodge placed eighth in sales in 1955 with 320,948 cars built in the USA and Canada. Chrysler captured 17% of the market as a whole, up from 11% in 1954.
There were four Canadian Dodge cars: Custom Royal, Mayfair, Regent, and Crusader, in 15 body styles. The Custom Royal was the same as the USA Dodge of the same series, while the other three were Plymouths with a Dodge front. Contrary to some writings, Dodge and Plymouth did not share major sheet metal.
The Mayfair was powered by the 241 V8. A 228 six, and optionally a 250 six, powered the Regents and Crusaders. The Canadian cars have a 115 inch wheelbase and are 207.4 inches long.
From the Walter P. Chrysler Club magazine - first printed 1980. Reprinted by permission. Also see Plymouths of 1955 ... Inside Dodge Main ... and Chrysler 1955-56 ... and Building the 1955 Dodge cars
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My New Z4 detailing
I have been a hobbyist/ detailer for years and was excited to do my new Z4. I was interested to see how "clean" the car would come from the plant, as this never saw the dealer lot and was not washed by them - on my request. There are a huge amount of good waxes - Meguires, Collinite, polymers but the latest technology I love is call "wipe on walk away" products - no buffing. This not a scam or ploycoat or some crap but high end stuff made by most everyone now. The real advantage is you don't buff at all, and have white stuff around the Roundel and in door jambs anymore, just unbelievable gloss. It leaves no white crap on your trim for you to scrub out.
Well the car was dirty. It had paint contamination - you check by putting your hand in a ziplock and feeling the paint. If you feel bumps, it needs claying.
So I clayed and rewashed with dawn detergent to get the surface free of all oils. And yes, for complete stripping, there in nothing better than Dawn.
Currently I am using the Blackfire products but another good one is Ultima. Blackfire Total Polish and seal is very unique. It is a sealer and polish in one, that dries almost to a gloss, no real buffing. You just rub it in and it disappears. Then comes their Crystal Seal which is just wiped on with a microfiber brick they supply - no buffing - it is done 30 secs after it hits your paint. Do the wheels too. Brake dust flies off them with a hose.
The results are fantastic and it lasts 4-6 months in the Florida sun. Follow up with car wash soap every week or so with a quick spray of their Poly spritz. All this can be done by hand, an orbital with a green pad is better for the polish.
Blackfire stuff here - not pushing it, Ultima stuff is also good:
I've used Ultima before and I agree, it's good stuff. However, when it comes time to prep my car for the winter, I put on 3-4 coats of Klasse SG. The reason I use this is because one spring when I washed the car with Dawn prior to claying, I could actually see the SG dripping off the car. If that could hold up to snow, salt and car wash detergents for 5 months, it's a winner.
BTW, looks like we have twin cars. Red/black, M sport, 18" wheels. Nice!
detailing is really different for parts of the country. Here you go for "show" and protection is secondary, If I was up north , this car would have gotten 2 coats of Collonite 845....
Glen E,
I read your post about your detailing project on the other site two nights ago. Your car looks great.
I have been reading a lot about the new products. It has been a few years since I have used the Zanios products and I like the results but I wanted to see what is new.
It has also been interesting to read about the ED deliveries where folks are detailing their cars in the Welt parking garage. At first I thought this was more extreme than I have been but now I understand their reasoning. For the past 9 years I have been buying Acuras, 6 total. Acura ships their cars with the white protective film and I am taking it that BMW doesn't.
I will apply something to mine when I pick it up in June just not sure what yet.
yeah even with coverings the paint gets dirty with something called rail dust - not just at trains but at ports - clay for best results.....Zaino makes a wipe on sealant that people like too....you get multiple coats on of ultima and it gets candy looking...
this is my accord with 2 wipe on coats:
I clayed my cars before the zanio was applied but I didn't know about the Iron X product then. I will have to research it more.
I was just surprised that BMW wasn't adding the protective film to help.
I guess using zanio's AIO and CS or similar products before it is shipped to the U.S. is better than waiting for a complete detail when it is here?
if you want to get really radical, do a search for opti-coat 2.0 on the autopia site - permanent - gloss
crystal seal eval here:
Did you do the ED? If so did you prep your car while there?
I just noticed the M on the wheel!
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> How come I can still call to my VoIP phone (by way of the "blocked WAN
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> other phone I use).
The state table. The phone has to be making some sort of outbound
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Probably very common with residential VoIP providers especially, since
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Farewell to Globe Drug Store on CherokeePosted on June 10th, 2010 12 comments
Globe Drugs
2626 Cherokee Street
South St. Louis, MO
The Cherokee Street News broke the news that the venerable Globe Drug store had closed its doors, and got the sentiment right in the headline: 1939-2010. It does feel like a friend has died.
I was expecting a mass outpouring of reports and condolences in the St. Louis press, but so far, only the RFT has jumped on the tragic news. Thank you.
After the initial shock, my first thought was of Sandy Cohen, the son of the Globe Empire begun in 1939. Sandy was born into this store, and it's the only job he's ever had. His enthusiasm and love for his working retail museum never seemed to waiver, and if – from his perch in the pharmacy – he noticed you taking pictures and reveling in the atmosphere, he'd cheerfully offer to take you on a tour.
Sandy would point out that the place was a 905 liquor store before his family took over, and iron grills over the vents in the ceiling confirm that this 1913 building was the home of a long-gone, sorely missed St. Louis cheap buzz tradition, from 1937 – 1953.
A Sandy tour gave you backstage access, which in this case is a ride in the original, unadulterated freight elevator up to the 2nd floor. The door loudly slid open to reveal a vast, dark area used for storage, with still-decorated Christmas trees and unopened Easter baskets scattered about.
And then comes the reveal of a bowling alley?
Sandy wasn't quite sure if there actually was a bowling alley in the building, or if this was just a rescued relic from elsewhere that found a permanent home in the Globe Museum.
The business office truly was a scrapbook of the history of the Globe, and of the Cohen family, both blood related and extended.
The rendering of the St. Louis cityscape (above) was commissioned by Joe as a way to feature all 4 Globe locations. As of this writing, the variety store on South Broadway near Soulard, and the wholesale warehouse at Clark & Tucker in downtown St. Louis remain open. The Globe variety store a couple of blocks west of 2626 Cherokee closed in the mid-90s.
Among the hundreds of photos on the walls is a shot of this store when it was 905 Liquors.
And here's the same ceiling fixture still in place today.
One of Sandy's favorite mementos is a letter he received in 2008 from someone confessing to having stolen candy from the store when they were 10. They apologized and sent along this dollar to pay for what they took.
Globe Drug was one of those rare birds: a still-vibrant, direct link to the past. History has personal meaning when you can physically trace the connections and experience a small slice of what life was like before it hit warp speed, before it was corporate, before rat-a-tat gloss suffocated neighborhood personality.
We're at the reverse of needing to advance the population; the earth is suffering the damage of too many people at one time. So the modern need for offspring seems an instinctive drive for immortality. Globe Drug felt like a slice of immortality, St. Louis style. I can feel the heavy sadness of Sandy Cohen and family as they pack up 57 years of life and cart it out of this building. And even as the neighborhood comes back to life all around it, all of us will feel the emptiness as we pass by 2626 Cherokee.
From a Suburban Journals article on the office wall:
"Who says that you can't go back? In the "hurry, hurry" world of today's super conglomerate drug stores, Globe Drugs…stands proudly as proof that quality and commitment to its customers needs still make a difference. …the Cohen family has worked hard to keep the nostalgic atmosphere that you would have found when FDR was in the White House… So, go back. Go back to a time when a variety store was the cornerstone of a community."south st. louis, st. louis business, st. louis history 2626 cherokee street, cherokee street, globe drug store, sandy cohen
12 Responses to "Farewell to Globe Drug Store on Cherokee"
Emmett McAuliffe June 10th, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Until the early 90s (at least) you could still take your kids to sit on Santa's knee at the Cherokee Globe Drug. It was the hoosier Miracle on 34th Street. Going to miss it, bigtime. We did a lot of World Wide Magazine shoots there.
Beautiful tribute. It will be missed.
steve carosello June 11th, 2010 at 9:34 AM
I can't believe it. When I first set up housekeeping, I'd religiously comb through the Globe Drugs ad in each week's South Side Journal and go stock up on the sale items every Saturday morning. I can't believe it survived Cherokee's bleakest times but not its rebirth. The only acceptable reason for Globe to close is that the owners/proprietors were ready to retire and cash out. Anything else is just crazy.
Seth Gordon June 11th, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Amazing article – and what a historic perspective on specific elements I never knew existed at the store throughout my childhood during visits when Uncle Sandy used let us roam the aisles and pick out whatever school supplies we wanted.
It's a shame that this quintessential beacon of light and warmth in St. Louis will no longer shine bright.
Lovely tribute!
The rendering actually is a rendering mash-up of all of the buildings built or occupied by the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company, the New York-based footwear manufacturer that purchased and expanded the building Globe owns downtown. The Cohens must have grabbed it from that building and moved it to Cherokee. Hopefully the rendering and all other archive-worthy Globe material will be preserved.
Emmett McAuliffe June 11th, 2010 at 3:06 PM
With the closing of anything Globe-related, let us pause to remember Gene "the newspaperman" Starr. Gene was always promising to revive the Globe-Democrat, handing out free newspapers of various stripes and would hang out at Globe drug stores just because of the name Globe, I think.
Eddie Roth June 12th, 2010 at 2:39 PM
A fine farewell. Thank you for writing it.
Hilary Hitchcock has an exhibit of photos of Globe Drug on display now at Urban Eats, 3301 Meramec Street (at Virginia).
Emmett McAuliffe June 16th, 2010 at 8:57 AM
1. I like the display case labeled quaintly "Ear Remedies". Remedies … what a great word. And a Dwight Twilley song, too.
2. That's true variety: "Housewares*Toys*Garden Supplies*Sporting Goods*Electric Appliances" And is that "as opposed to manual appliances"? Good.
Look at the way the font changes on the sign
3. It appears that the laws in the early 20th Cent. in St. Louis were laxer and u could actually sit on a stool at a bar and have a drink at a liquor store.
4. Since churches often had bowling lanes and "Hope Bowling" would be an odd name for a "secular" lane, I am wondering if it could have been the remnants of an alley at Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church, Brannon ave. and Neosho. The other Hope churches in the list of churches in 1925 are far too puritan for that sort of things. Catholics, definitely. Lutherans, maybe. The other possibility is that the 905 had a bowling alley since they were serving drinks on premises and needed to give their patrons something to burn it off.
5. Insect Killers next to Wine. Good move, Globe! In later days, most of their wine could kill insects b/c it was either rot gut or recent vintages past their time that they got on closeout. And in beer, FYI, Hollandia is *not* a good substitute for Heineken. At least not the Globe's shipment of Hollandia.
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Marissa December 19th, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Aww, that's a shame it's closing. I loved going there. I jump between this one on Cherokee and the one near Soulard, depending on which is more convenient at the time. I will miss Globe on Cherokee.
I learned of Globe Drug this past summer and what a difference it has made in my life !!! The cost effective inventory of snacks,sodas, and energy drinks allow me to provide free refreshment to all of those who work for me on my job sites. Production and morale has gone through the roof and I hope the last remaining store will continue to thrive as it has truly been a blessing to my company !!
I also love their food specials,coffee, and YES , the beer / liquor selection which makes entertaining friends during the holiday seasons and gatherings both affordable and fun !!
If anyone was truly saddened by the closing of the Cherokee store,now is your chance to step up and patronize the last store remaining before it could close. These people rely on us consumers to shop their inventory to keep them supplying us. Lets not let one of our prize possessions go to waste !!
Thanks much to all of the staff at globe drug and especially to the guys who help me carry and load all of my snacks,drinks,ect. when i visit.
You guys really are the best !!
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Take a Multivitamin
A National Eye Institute study showed that supplements with antioxidant vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and the minerals copper and zinc slowed the progression of advanced macular degeneration in high-risk patients. And a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid may also help. Still other studies suggest that vitamins may delay the onset of cataracts. "Take a multivitamin with minerals every day as a good preventative step," Graubart says. (If you have a family history of macular degeneration or cataracts, your eye doctor may suggest further supplements.)