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From Out West #15 By Chuck Woodbury One of the America's most unusual wars involved only one casualty -- a pig -- and yet it could have changed the course of history. The bizarre conflict took place on present-day San Juan Island (in Washington state) and involved American and British troops, and even warships. The Pig War began on June 15, 1859, when an American settler named Lyman Cutlar shot and killed a trespassing pig belonging to Englishman Charles Griffin of the Hudson Bay Company. "It was eating my potatoes," said Cutlar, who had already warned Griffin to keep his pig out his potato patch. "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig," was Griffin's reply. Normally, the shooting of a pig would be a small matter, but American and British tempers were short in those days. Both the United States and England claimed the San Juan Islands; ill-defined boundary lines were to blame. When British authorities threatened to arrest pig-killer Cutlar, his fellow Americans called for U.S. military protection -- which they got in the form of the 9th Infantry. The Brits responded by dispatching three warships under the command of Capt. Geoffrey Hornby. Forces on both sides grew, but guns remained silent. A month passed without incident. British Rear Adm. Robert L. Bayes, commander of British Naval forces in the Pacific, did his best to avoid war. He would not, he said, "involve two great nations in a war over a squabble about a pig." Yet, the scene remained tense and potentially explosive. By August 10, American forces numbered 461; British forces numbered 2,140 with five warships. When word reached Washington, officials were shocked that the shooting of a pig could cause such an international incident. President James Buchanan dispatched General Winfield Scott, commanding general of the U.S. Army, to investigate and hopefully contain the potentially deadly affair. Scott got both sides to agree to restrain their guns while a solution was worked out. During this time, both countries kept token forces on hand -- at what are now National Historic Sites called American Camp and British Camp. The paramount issue was who owned San Juan Island -- the Americans or the British. For twelve years, including the Civil War period, the issue was debated. It wasn't until 1872 that the question was put to a third party for a decision. On October 21, Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany declared the San Juan Islands American property; land north of the 49th parallel was Canadian, to the south it was American. A month later, British troops departed. And so ended the Pig War. If things had gone differently -- and war had actually begun, who knows what would have happened. Would the angry British have then sided with the Confederacy in the Civil War? If so, how would that have affected that war's outcome? Would it have swung the balance of power toward the South? If so, the world would be a far different place today -- and all because of a hungry pig in a potato patch. You can learn more about the Pig War by touring San Juan National Historic Park, open year round except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Admission is free. Both American Camp and British Camp are open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A good first stop is at the information center at Friday Harbor, about a block from the ferry dock at First and Spring Streets. For information write to Superintendent, San Juan Island National Historic Park, P.O. Box 429, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. Read more stories like this in Out West, "the newspaper that roams. Only $12.95 a year. Order online or get more information. Tell a friend about this story ©2000-2008 by Out West Newspaper Do you have any comments or update information about this story? Please e-mail Chuck Woodbury. From Out West #15 ©2000 by Out West Newspaper Do you have any comments or update information about this story? E-mail Chuck Woodbury
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British Hairdressing Finalists Announced 01.08.12
The finalists for the 2012 British Hairdressing Awards have been announced, and we have 6 Trevor Sorbie Stylists through to the Grand Final! Our finalists are....
Avant Garde Hairdresser of the Year - Adam Szabo (Covent Garden) and Mai Ha (Manchester)
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London Hairdresser of the Year - Bree Davie and Alfie Booth (Hampstead), and Adam Szabo (Covent Garden)
Southern Hairdresser of the Year - Anna Chapman (Brighton & Covent Garden)
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I don't know if I will be watching because Kim is not one of my favorite personalities, but it may be interesting, right? Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetieeeeee.1173 days ago
I don't even watch KK, but I have seen more of her than I would like. They show her every where. That doesn't make you a Star; it makes you popular. The whole family is exploited and they like it. You can not trust these reality shows because you leave too much to be questioned. Was the wedding real or just staged? Are they getting a divorce after 1 month of marriage? Was the divorce pre-planned to get the ratings. I don't know . KK and family are more than I can swallow. That is the reason i can no*****ch them.1195 days ago
Teresa does keep the show alive, but she lies to herself and others. She says she want to be with her family, but minus their spouses. she claims that she inspired everyone on the show to do something, but she had to inspire herself because they went belly up because of her over spending. Remember the first season, she was whipping out cash-left and right. Who does that in front of cameras. I wondered when Caroline was going to believe her first feelings about Teresa. Seems slike everyone else is doing the same. The reunion just topped it off. Teresa will keep her children crying, treating a little girl like an adult. Children should mot be involved in adult things.1196 days ago
If these women said in the beginning that this show is not scripted, should i believe you or them. I was on Joe Doherty court show and they had people that just went back and forth with the he said, she sad whereas you can get an explosive scene. Teresa is hot- headed and it doesn't take much to get her started. I'm really glad that Caroline has opened her eyes to Teresa. Loyalty to the wrong person can cause you a lot of grief. i have never known Caroline to lie about anything, She owns what she says. Teresa was all over the place; either she's lying or a severe case of memory lose. She owns nothing , even after she sees herself on camera. I didn't see 3 against 1 as much as I seen the possibility that Teresa has thrown everyone under the bus. 1203 days ago
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Here's another installment of the Magic Basketball Mailbag.
Will the Magic make an offer for Melo after all?
Most likely, no.
If it hasn't happened now, then it probably won't happen.
I just had a debate with some Lakers fans. One of them claims that we have no defense against the Heat. What's your take?
Dwight Howard thinks otherwise.
Having the two-time Defensive Player of the Year as the anchor of the defense will help the Orlando Magic against the Miami Heat and slow them down a little bit, but it's not entirely clear if he alone is enough to stop them. Yes, the Magic have a bevy of perimeter defenders but none of them have proven that they can stop either LeBron James or Dwyane Wade, or even slow them down at all.
James, Wade, and Chris Bosh have been Magic-killers for years. This is nothing new and when looking at the matchups defensively, even with Howard in the paint to help discourage James or Wade from attacking the basket at will, it's doubtful that it will be enough. That's what's frightening about this matchup. Orlando has almost no choice but to single-cover James, Wade, and Bosh at times. Who stops them?
Maybe Bosh can be contained, but what about James and Wade?
Let's put it this way.
In 2009, the Magic led the NBA in defensive efficiency yet were unable to effectively defend James, Wade, and Bosh individually on their respective teams.
James eviscerated Orlando's defense in the Conference Finals, averaging 39 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists per game. That's not even including James' regular season meetings, mind you.
Wade, infamously, scored 50 points in a loss during a regular season game and in four meetings, averaged an obscene 38 points per game on a .579 True Shooting percentage.
As for Bosh, he averaged 24.5 points per game on a .622 True Shooting percentage — including a 40-point outburst in one meeting.
And remember, this was when they were the primary focus of the Magic defensively.
Yes, there's going to be a redistribution of shots and possessions but if James, Wade, and Bosh were able to accomplish these feats by themselves, it's scary to figure out what they'll do as a tandem.
For example, the Heat could employ the Charlotte Bobcats' strategy of going right at Howard in the paint and draw fouls on him. If Miami were to succeed in that philosophy, have mercy on Marcin Gortat because he's going to be left on an island.
With the new contract, will Redick play more?
It wouldn't be a surprise to see Redick average more than 25 minutes a game, given that head coach Stan Van Gundy has stated he's more than willing to pair Redick and Vince Carter at the wing positions since that's an alignment that has had success.
For a year or two, Mickael Pietrus was considered by some as the sixth-man specialist for the Magic. But now that role is firmly in the grasps of Redick, who's proven to be an excellent role player. It'll be interesting to see how much Redick's workload increases this season.
And remember, there's also the possibility that Redick becomes the long-term starter at shooting guard in 2012 if Carter does not return.
I really don't think, or probably even want this to happen, but wouldn't it be possible to put together attractive packages for BOTH CP3 and Melo? The Hornets would be interested in Nelson and Carter, while the Nuggets would be looking for a package around Bass and Gortat. Now, I have always had Bass going to the Hornets to offset Okafor's contract, but are there groupings of players that would work?
Wait, why wouldn't you want it to happen? Moving on.
No, it's not possible.
Just to get Chris Paul, the Magic would definitely have to give up more than Nelson and Carter.
Ryan Anderson or Brandon Bass, as well as Gortat would have to be included in the discussion as well. In that scenario, there would be no pieces left for a hypothetical deal with the Nuggets (that would interest them, to be specific). Orlando has assets but they don't have enough of them to acquire two players of Paul's and Anthony's caliber.
It would have to be one or the other, not both.
Thanks for the questions!
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Elbow Fracture In Adults
An elbow fracture is a break in one or more of the bones that form your elbow joint.
- Pain medicine: You may be given a prescription medicine to decrease pain. Do not wait until the pain is severe before you take your medicine.
- NSAIDs: These medicines decrease swelling and pain. NSAIDs are available without a doctor's order. Ask which medicine is right for you. Ask how much to take and when to take it. Take as directed. NSAIDs can cause stomach bleeding and kidney problems if not taken correctly.
- Take your medicine as directed. Call your healthcare provider if you think your medicine is not helping or if you have side effects. Tell him if you are allergic to any medicine. Keep a list of the medicines, vitamins, and herbs you take. Include the amounts, and when and why you take them. Bring the list or the pill bottles to follow-up visits. Carry your medicine list with you in case of an emergency.
Follow up with your primary healthcare provider or bone specialist as directed:
You may need a follow-up visit to remove your brace, splint, or cast. You may need an x-ray of your elbow to check how well the bone is healing. Write down your questions so you remember to ask them during your visits.
Ice helps decrease swelling and pain. Ice may also help prevent tissue damage. Use an ice pack or put crushed ice in a plastic bag. Cover it with a towel and place it on your elbow for 15 to 20 minutes every hour as directed.
Elevate your elbow:
Raise your elbow above the level of your heart as often as you can. This will help decrease swelling and pain. Prop your elbow on pillows or blankets to keep it elevated comfortably. While your elbow is elevated, wiggle your fingers and open and close them to prevent hand stiffness.
How to care for a brace, cast, or splint:
Follow instructions about when it is okay to take a bath or shower. It is important not to get your brace, cast, or splint wet. Cover your device with a plastic bag before you bathe. Tape the bag to your skin above the device to help keep out water. Hold your elbow away from the water in case the bag leaks.
- Check the skin around your brace and splint daily for any redness or open skin.
- Do not use a sharp or pointed object to scratch your skin under the brace or splint.
- Do not remove your brace or splint unless you are directed to.
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College of Law › The John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture in Law
Joint Appointment with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State UniversityWednesday, March 6 - 6:00 PMReception - 5:30 PMAllen Chapman Activity Center,The University of Tulsa
Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who currently holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the Kirwan Institute, Professor Alexander was an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinics.
In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of her first book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010). The book is considered one of the top African American books of 2010 and it won the NAACP Image Award for "outstanding literary work of non-fiction." The book has been featured on national radio and television media outlets, including NPR, The Bill Moyers Journal, the Tavis Smiley Show, C-Span Washington Journal, among others.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness challenges the conventional wisdom that with the election of Barack Obama as president, our nation has "triumphed over race." Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status, much like their grandparents before them who lived under an explicit system of racial control. Alexander argues that the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African American men, primarily through the War on Drugs, has created a new racial under caste – a group of people defined largely by race that is subject to legalized discrimination, scorn, and social exclusion.
The old forms of discrimination – discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service – are suddenly legal once you're labeled a felon. She challenges the civil rights community, and all of us, to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.Alexander's current work reflects lessons learned in her previous career as a civil rights lawyer and advocate in both the private and non-profit sector. For several years, Professor Alexander served as the Director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she helped to lead a national campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement. While an associate at Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Baller, she specialized in plaintiff-side class action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination.Professor Alexander is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. Following law school, she clerked for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the United States Supreme Court, and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.The Hager Lecture is an annual event held in memory of former TU law professor John W. Hager to bring eminent professionals to the Tulsa legal community to share their ideas on law and justice. Hager served on the TU Law faculty for more than 40 years and is still remembered at the law school as the "King of Torts."
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The Perfect Prodigal
The pastor in emotional crisis. Where does he go for help? Dr. Louis McBurney and his wife, Melissa, work full-time at their Marble Retreat Center trying to bring healing to Christian leaders unable to cope (See LEADERSHIP, Spring 1980, Volume 1 Number 2).
To give our readers an insight into what happens at Marble Retreat, we asked writer Harold Fickett, himself a pastor's son, to spend a week at the retreat center and to thoroughly research one story. Certain dimensions of this story are unusual, but the underlying pattern has applications to all of us, for it concerns our most basic thoughts and emotions and the experiences which shape them.
The story is based on the experience of one man, his family, and the people to whom he ministered. The names of the people involved, except for Dr. McBurney and his wife, have been changed to protect their privacy.
We suggest if you have only ten minutes, don't start this one now. Take time to read it as you would a story; let the background lead you into the events; notice the subtle interweavings of "normal" life. For the counselor, the pastor, the person trying to grasp the biblical counseling/ therapy role and to understand the troubles around him- and perhaps aspects of his or her own struggles-this article can provide important insights.
We have appended to the story a discussion of this case history with Dr. McBurney.
June 1978
In a southwestern city, under an oceanic sky, a man, David Johanson, and his wife, Claire, sat on a park bench beneath two eucalyptus trees. David was the pastor of a local Presbyterian church. His ministry had reached an impasse.
He looked down, unable to speak. Boyishly handsome at thirty-two, with a full head of brown hair, David looked from a distance like someone who might have been elected the outstanding member of his fraternity, as he had been; but up close, his features appeared stronger and somewhat mysterious: his eyes, though bright blue, were recessed, hidden. He sat so very still, as if to create boundaries for the wild struggle within him.
Claire's eyes were dilated with fear. She said his name.
David told her then that he needed to get away; if he didn't get away for a year, maybe longer, he might break down completely. He had never thought of himself as a candidate for a nervous breakdown, but he could not describe what he was going through now in any other way. He wanted to ask the church for a sabbatical.
Claire embraced him. She cried. But he knew, from how she held him, her hand on the back of his neck, from the catch in her cry which said yes, that her tears were joyful.
"I'm so glad it's the church," she said.
"Why? Tell me what you mean."
"Lately, well, I thought it might be me. That you had stopped loving me."
David Johanson began his ministry proper in 1971, when after seminary and a year as an assistant pastor, he received the invitation of Memorial Presbyterian Church to become its pastor.
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Sermons on Pastoral Ministry
The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
A Charge to Jason Meyer
1 Timothy 1:11
by John Piper
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life
Guest sermon preached while on vacation in Georgia
Acts 20:17-25
by John Piper
Take Heed to Yourself and to Your Teaching
Installation Service for David Livingston and Brad Nelson
1 Timothy 4:16
by John Piper
Twenty Years, Then Romans
Romans 5:12-21
by John Piper
Do Not Sell the Gospel
TBI Graduation
by John Piper
What are the signs that someone is selling the Gospel and how can we avoid doing it ourselves?
Let the One Who Boasts Boast in the Lord
Reflections on a People and Their Preacher
1 Corinthians 1:10-31
by John Piper
A Pastor's Offering to God of Holy People
Romans 15:14-21
by John Piper
What is the pastor's calling? What does this mean for the rest of the church?
Preparing for the Discipline of a Vocational Minister
An Introduction
Joel 2:15-17
by John Piper
We lead by example not just when we succeed, but also when we fail.
I Entrust You to God and to the Word of His Grace
Acts 20:32-35
by John Piper
If the elders care for the flock, who cares for the elders?
Watch Out for the Wolves Within
Acts 20:28-31
by John Piper
There is laid upon the elders of the church of Christ a responsibility unique in all the world.
Faithfulness Is Better Than Life
Acts 20:22-25
by John Piper
Faithfulness means that you trust God and obey, no matter what impact it has on your safety or standard of living.
Serving the Lord with Humility, Tears, and Trials
Acts 20:17-21
by John Piper
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If everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, the Tuesday before Lent brings a lot of ethnic choices for those who want to celebrate Mardi Gras.
In traditional Polish bakeries in Buffalo, today is observed with the sale of Paczki ( say Pooonch-key), a larger lard-laden jelly or lemon doughnut sold to honor the occasion.
Among the outlets doing so today are Mazurek's Bakery in South Buffalo, and three at the Broadway Market in Buffalo's old polish district: E.M. Chrusciki's, Melanie's Sweets, and White Eagle bakery.
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Like Mardi Gras, Paczki traces its origins back to the middle ages, as a final dietary splurge before the austerity of Lent.
And If You Prefer Mardi Gras...... There's Allentown or New Orleans- if you really want to look beyond Buffalo The 19th annual Buffalo Mardi Gras Parade begins at 5 pm-- with a range of bar specials throughout Allentown and The Chippewa Entertainment district. Patrons can pre-purchase special bracelets to fund AIDS research, and use them for discounts all along the route. THIS YEAR THE PARADE WILL NOT TAKE ITS USUAL ROUTE FROM THE ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY TOWARD ALLENTOWN. The event will begin at 5 at Symphony Circle , wind down Wadsworth St. to Allen Street To Main Street. It will turn Right onto Main, and head South on Pearl Street. , until Chippewa St. A right onto Chippewa, followed by a right onto Delaware Ave, toward Allen St, and back the way it came. FROM Artvoice: Click here for a Map of The Parade Route | A List of Participating Bars . |
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Members of the Krewe of Zulu march during Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The Zulu parade began on schedule, led by a New Orleans police vanguard on horseback that included Mayor Mitch Landrieu.(AP Photos/Gerald Herbert) |
And In Sydney Australia A participant in the annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade prepares for the event in Sydney, Saturday, March 1, 2014. Ten thousand marchers along with 144 floats are entered in the 36th parade. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft) |
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(AP) A cold, gray day greeted revelers gathering Tuesday along parade routes as the Carnival season in New Orleans headed to a crest with the unabashed celebration of Mardi Gras.
The first street marching groups - including clarinetist Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club - were to begin their marches along oak-lined St. Charles Avenue and into the business district.
The Zulu parade began on schedule, led by a New Orleans police vanguard on horseback that included Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Later, the floats of Rex - the king of Carnival - and hundreds of truck trailers decorated by family and social groups would wind down St. Charles Avenue.
Rain began to fall early in the morning in New Orleans, and umbrellas and raincoats sprouted along the parade route. Sleet was expected to fall on some merrymakers in areas north and west of the city.
But revelers were still expected to gather by the tens of thousands in the French Quarter, where the bawdy side of Mardi Gras would surely be on full display.
Mark Nelson of St. Louis said he would be in the mix even in a downpour for his first Mardi Gras.
"That's why God made washing machines," Nelson said as he sipped on a daiquiri.
Along the Uptown parade route, Carol LeBlanc and husband Hov LeBlanc of New Orleans were strolling along St. Charles Avenue with friends Vicki and Duane O'Flynn from Arabi, La. The troupe was dressed as scarecrows, stuffed with grass and wearing plaid pants and tattered coveralls.
The cold weather wasn't worrying LeBlanc. "I've got my long johns on," she said.
Nearby, April Womack and her family had tents set up. Grills were fired up, and pots of crawfish were boiling. They camped overnight, a family tradition for almost two decades. "It's all about location," she said.
Her cousin, Yolanda Moton, said Mardi Gras is the opportunity for an annual family reunion, with relatives coming from as far away as Georgia. "This is the one time of the year that everyone in the family fits this in their schedule."
Sue and Kevin Preece from Edmonton, Canada, were at their first Mardi Gras.
"We wanted to come for Mardi Gras for about 10 years. It was on my bucket list, and he (Kevin) made it happen," said Sue Preece, a social worker.
Ronnie Davis, a professor of economics at the University of New Orleans, decided to break his button-down image for at least one day. Clad in tutus, he and his wife, Arthurine, strolled through a rain-thinned crowd.
"All year I have to dress professionally. This is the one time I get to act like a fool," Davis said.
Celebrations were scheduled throughout south Louisiana and in coastal Mississippi and Alabama, sharing the traditions brought by French colonists in the 18th century.
In Louisiana's bayou parishes, riders on horseback would go from town to town, making merry in what is called the Courir du Mardi Gras.
The merriment must come to a halt at midnight, when the solemn season of Lent begins. New Orleans police were expected to sweep down Bourbon Street at midnight in the annual ritual of letting revelers know the party is over for another year.
The Zulu krewe's 2014 Witch Doctor, Derek Rabb, said he was charged with praying for the krewe's good health and good weather on Mardi Gras. "By God's grace, there will be sun," he said.
When out of costume, Rabb works at New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. A member of the organization for the past eight years, he said being in such a high-profile position has been an experience he won't soon forget.
"It's been a whole lot of fun," he said. "It's allowed me to meet some really interesting people."
Kitty Jensen, of Washington, D.C., said she and about 15 others from the nation's capital were part of the Kilt of Many Colors and were scheduled to march in the Rex parade.
"We are the party that never ends," said Jensen, dressed in an airy, royal purple ball gown, reminiscent of the Renaissance era.


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A year after Tony cruised into power, if you pardon the expression, the Sun newspaper came out with a front page headline that said 'Are We Being Run By A Gay Mafia?' (Their words not mine.) The implication was that under Blair's rule there were very powerful gay men present in the government, first of all Peter Mandelson, who had been outed by columnist Mathew Parris. Since then Mr Mandelson had been twice sacked from the cabinet, but was back in it in the last disastrous year of Labour in power, pulling most strings behind the scenes. He probably WAS the government at the time, as Gordon Brown did everything that he told him.
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So what role does Belco Forest Products play in all of this? First and foremost, our Armor Coat Trim & Fascia is proudly made in Shelton, WA, USA, meaning every piece of trim that leaves our yard is 100% American made, not only keeping money in the country but jobs too! We currently employ 50 full time staff members and are continuing to grow. Our products are primarily distributed to in the Pacific Northwest but we are going National, recently moving Armor Coat into California, Texas, Colorado and Florida. Although we still have a long way to go before the building industry is near its peak again, as Kush says, "despite the slings and arrows of those who demean us, America continues to be an exceptional nation where, if you look closely, you'll see 'Made in USA' proudly stamped on every home in every community across the country." Belco is proud to manufacture a product that helps make that stamp a little more visible.
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Virtually any scenario for the future that is at all realistic envisages a drastic drop in energy consumption from fossil fuels – compared to affluent consumer societies today. It little matters whether you work out what has to be done to reduce greenhouse gases or you come to similar conclusions by noting the inevitable end of cheap oil. I will be considering the writings of three authors who begin with this premise to lay the groundwork for their plans for future cities – Ted Trainer, David Holmgren and Folke Gunther. All three also add two other premises. The first is that there is no kind of alternative energy available that is remotely as cheap or abundant as fossil fuels have been for us so far. This is partly a matter of cost – the more energy costs the less you can have of it. But it is partly a matter of absolute capacity – for example there is a limit to the amount of good sites for wind energy. Their final premise follows from this one. Given a reduced energy budget and an absolute cap on energy expansion there is no possibility of a capitalist growth economy. Nevertheless there are a range of other possible social structures that could operate within these energy constraints. While I will lay out some of these options, an interesting aspect of this debate is that plans for a future city are about the constraints of energy use and are valid whatever social option we end up with.
Given all these premises the aim of their plans for future cities is to consider how we could live well in a low energy future. Clearly the premises which form the basis of this approach are not uncontested. In the final part of this chapter I will consider two recent books on climate change that suggest that some version of an affluent growth economy is possible without a fossil fuel subsidy – David Spratt and Philip Sutton's Climate Code Red, and Gwynne Dyer's Climate Wars. We could call this school of thought the technological optimist school.
My current thinking on how much we need to cut fossil fuels to prevent catastrophe has been influenced to a great extent by "Climate Code Red". This short book has been put out by Friends of the Earth and is written by David Spratt and Philip Sutton (2008).
A key argument of their book is that even the 0.5-degree increase that we have had so far was enough to start the melting of the polar ice, the disintegration of the Greenland ice cap and the melting of much Antarctic ice. Likely consequences of the current melting are a disastrous rise in sea levels.
They draw this conclusion from looking at the palaeoclimate data – data which shows what the earth was like in the distant past, with different amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What we are looking at now is an increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 280 parts per million in pre-industrial times to 380 parts per million now, gradually pushing the climate up. Palaeoclimate data from 130,000 years ago shows that when concentrations of CO2 were the same as today, seas were 5 metres higher. Three million years ago when carbon dioxide was at 350 – 450 ppm, seas were 25 metres higher. This would be a fairly disastrous outcome.
These figures for sea level rise are much higher than the modelling of the IPCC – one to two metres by 2100. The explanation for this discrepancy is to note that the IPCC modelling avoids inclusions of what have been called "slow feedbacks" – because they are very hard to model with confidence. However the palaeoclimate data gives us good reasons to think they are quite important. The theory is that extra carbon in the atmosphere can create a feedback loop. For example, the initial increase in carbon levels raises the temperature sufficiently to melt some of the global ice cap. As the ice melts, dark oceans and bare black soils do not reflect sunlight in the way that white ice does. Up goes the temperature again.
While the figures above give the palaeoclimate comparisons for ppm that we may reach quite easily by our own efforts this century, feedback loops could also drive carbon dioxide up to 900 ppm. A possible feedback is thawing of the arctic tunrda, releasing the carbon now locked into frozen soils – an amount that dwarfs global oil reserves. A possible scenario is a rise of six degrees or more – wiping 90% of species off the earth, as happened 55 million years ago. With most continents turned to deserts, everyone would have to move south of Melbourne or north of London to survive.
So a prudent policy would be to restore the ice caps by going back to less than a 0.5 degree rise. Such a temperature would be possible if carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was at 320 parts per million; a point passed some decades ago. To attempt to go back to a 0.5-degree rise we would need policies to replace all fossil fuel energy as quickly as possible, reducing CO2 to a level more likely to be safe (320 parts per million). Preferably before some of the more nasty consequences have kicked in (see also Dyer 2008 for a very similar and detailed argument).
Clearly this drastic reduction is not what has been seen as politically viable. The IPCC recommendations which have formed the basis of policy assume that 450 ppm is a reasonable goal, which will give us a chance of avoiding anything more than a 2 degree Celsius rise – according to their modelling. This supposedly requires a global reduction of 80% on 1990 levels by 2050. A lot more usual politically is a call for a cap of 550 parts per million; with an admitted 50:50 chance of going above 3 degrees, and a necessity to reduce fossil fuel use globally by 60% by 2050.
The point made by Spratt and Sutton, Dyer, the NASA scientist Hansen and others is that slow feedback loops could in fact lead to a six-degree rise in this 550 ppm scenario. The IPCC makes it quite explicit that it is not taking these slow feedback loops into account. It is the palaeoclimate data that gives us a sense of what these consequences might be. We are also warned by the very rapid disintegration of polar ice. The fact that the pace of this exceeds the modelling lends weight to those who argue for more drastic outcomes being likely.
While this debate is very real politically, it is in fact a bit beside the point if we are considering what we would have to do to attain either the more drastic or the less drastic moderation of CO2 emissions. The least drastic one is the IPCC-based aim for 550 ppm by cutting global emissions by 60% by 2050. The hidden sting in the tail of this scenario is that rich countries which now produce 70% of emissions (with 20% of global population) would have to reduce their per capita emissions by a lot more than 60% to make it remotely likely that poor countries will join them in cutting carbon emissions. In other words it is a political necessity that rich countries cut carbon emissions by close to 90% by 2050, whether we follow the science based on the palaeoclimate data or the science based on the IPCC modelling.
Trainer indicates these constraints with the following logic, based on the IPCC modelling (Trainer 2007: 2). To get the concentration of greenhouse gases below 450 ppm we would have to cut emissions to 1 Gt/y (one gigatonne per year) by 2100. Our present emissions are 6 Gt/yr. If we assume a world population of 9 billion at this time and also assume that everyone is getting an equal share of fossil fuel use, the per capita fossil fuel use would be a mere 2 to 3 per cent of our current use in rich countries.
Even if we went for the more politically typical use of the IPCC data and set our goal at 550 pm we would have to cut emissions to 2.4 Gt/y by 2050. So by 2050, the per capita use of fossil fuels (if everyone had a fair share) would only be 7.5% of our current rich world energy use. Meaning that the one billion who now use most of global energy could not have more than 7.5% of their present use of fossil fuels unless the rest of the world had less than that (the other 8 billion).
Clearly it does not really matter how you massage these figures, the implications are that to retain rich world affluence, either a select few (Trainer estimates 170 million people) remain at this level by using fossil fuels – and everyone else dies or stops making demands – or we work out some new way to produce masses of energy cheaply without using fossil fuels. Very quickly!
If all this were not bad enough, it seems very likely that we will be running out of oil in the not too distant future, with fairly drastic implications for transport and food production and distribution – reliant upon oil driven farm machinery, oil fuelled transport to consumers and oil or gas based fertilisers and pesticides.
The world's "oil peak' is almost certainly in the next 20 years, if it has not already happened. The peak of oil discovery was in the sixties. Since then in every year, less and less has been discovered. By now, discovery is virtually at a standstill so we have a fair idea of how much oil there is altogether. At the same time as discovery declines, consumption of oil continues to grow. By 2000 we had used up all the oil discovered up until 1960 (half the known reserves). As oil wells reach the middle of their productive life (half of the oil has been removed) they become harder and harder to drain. This means that the oil we do have left will become more expensive to extract. The competition for diminishing supplies of oil on the world market will drive up prices. This is already starting to happen. The only thing that could stop prices from going up would be something equally cheap to produce and just as useful as oil. The cost of alternatives to oil sets the top price for oil (Campbell 1997; Gunther 2004; Heinberg 2003).
At present, oil is used all over the world to generate electricity. Replacing these plants with other kinds of generators would in itself cost a fortune and create a shock to the global economy. But much worse is the fact that we use oil for almost all our transport needs – the transport that makes a global economy possible. This global transport will be cut back drastically if the cost rises.
All the authors who devise city plans for a low energy future assume that we cannot replace this fossil fuel energy with anything remotely as cheap and that in many cases there is an absolute cap on the possibility of extracting alternative energy. Trainer provides the most detailed coverage of this argument in his book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society (2007). I will just summarize a few key arguments to give a sense of this position.
Wind is the cheapest renewable energy but there is no cheap way of storing or transporting the energy produced by wind. If we think of using excess wind power to create hydrogen as storage, the costs would go through the roof – the capital cost could be about 11 times that of a coal-fired power plant plus fuel (Trainer 2007 : 34). We do not even have enough good wind sites. For example, if Australia was to supply half its energy from wind via a hydrogen system that used 4 units of electricity to store one unit for later, we would need 200 times the area we have in NSW and Victoria with wind speeds sufficient to drive the turbines (Trainer 2007: 35). Then there is wind variability. Wind speeds are below what is needed for power generation a good part of the year, even if we source electricity across whole continents. We would have to have back up generation in coal or some other source, with a duplication of expenses. To meet anything like present energy demands we would be using a lot of coal-fired power plant to back up the system when winds are down – much too much to meet global warming targets.
Solar thermal energy is the cheapest solar power. Short-term storage of heat energy in molten salt is the most probable means of dealing with night-time use and occasional cloudy days. Looking at a reasonably good site – outback Australia – we can get the following idea of how much capacity we would need to install to equate to a coal-fired plant. Building the storage system for a 1000 megawatt power station to store heat for three days of cloudy weather would cost 2.5 times as much as the cost of building a coal-fired plant (Trainer 2007: 47). A solar plant could not produce peak capacity most of the year, given winter, night times and cloudy days. So you would have to build more plant capacity to produce the same amount of energy in a year as would come from a coal-fired plant. It would cost 7.5 times as much money to match the capacity of a coal-fired power plant to deliver energy over a whole year (Trainer 2007: 45). Yet, this is an annual total. In winter, sun angles are low, and ambient temperatures are cold so that solar systems do not produce their best output. In fact, to be able to supply the same amount of power in winter as that produced in summer, the capacity of the plant would have to be five times that required in summer. As a result of all these factors (winter sun angles, nights, cloudy days, costs of storage), costs in winter to supply an equivalent amount of power could easily be more than 15 times the costs of the coal-fired plant (Trainer 2007: 47). Solar thermal systems are only practicable closer than 34 degrees to the equator. So, they are not much use in the northern regions where population is concentrated. To move power from the Sahara to Europe, losses would be great, both in transporting the electricity and in the expense necessary to construct this infrastructure (Trainer 2007: 56).
Biomass is a sad joke to replace oil and gas. To meet current demand in the United States we would have to harvest biomass from 1,162 million hectares – nine times all US cropland and 8 times all presently forested land in the US (Trainer 2007: 87). Hydrogen is not a practicable alternative – the difficulties in storing hydrogen add massively to the weight necessary to transport it. To supply an auto station with hydrogen would take 15 times more tankers than required to supply the same amount of energy as petrol (Trainer 2007: 94). Fuel cells to run cars would deliver energy at more than 10 times the cost of energy delivered by a petrol engine (Trainer 2007: 99).
All three authors agree that the current capitalist economy is incompatible with life on the planet and will either self destruct with a catastrophic loss of life – or be replaced by something more sustainable. There are a number of arguments, but the following is probably the most important.
The very structure of the capitalist economy makes growth inevitable. This is because firms compete to make profits. Less profitable firms are dumped by shareholders. This competition means that it makes sense to invest in technology which allows the firm to produce more with a lower cost in labour. So the same number of workers is producing more goods and services. The only way for firms to sell all these extra goods is to increase their markets. This is growth. 'This cycle, in which an increased productivity on the part of labor requires increased consumption of the rest of nature, repeats itself again and again' (McLaughlin 1993, p. 41).
If growth continues it is very hard to prevent increasing environmental damage. For example, Trainer points out that if we had a 3% per annum increase in growth, by 2070 we would be producing eight times as much as we are now; and what we are doing now is causing massive environmental damage (Trainer 1998). It is the difficulty of coping with such a magnitude of growth over time which makes it impossible to prevent increasing environmental damage. Growth in the economy means more use of resources, more pollution. These authors do not believe that there can be growth without environmental consequences – growth in 'service' industries like entertainment, education and tourism is also connected to new buildings, more transport use and so on (Trainer 1995).
While all three of the low energy future authors share this understanding, they are a bit less explicit about what kind of social future they envisage. I will look at this in more detail as I go into their city plans, but suffice it to say that I take all three as developing a version of the "mixed economy" model. This is one of three models that are often presented as options for a sustainable future. I will describe these briefly, without presenting any critique or discussion (See Coates & Leahy 2005 for this).
In the mixed economy model, the virtues of three different kinds of economic structure are mixed in equal parts to create the economic and political climate for a sustainable society; capitalism in the private sector, socialism in the public sector and anarchism in a large community sector. This arrangement is supervised by a strong, but democratically controlled government, that regulates the private sector and provides energy and transport infrastructure and public services like education and medicine. To provide resources for the voluntary community sector two broad arrangements are envisaged.
At any rate, with a zero growth economy and reduced energy consumption, much time is available outside of paid work to engage in community action (Porritt 1990; Tokar 1987; Trainer 1995; Trainer 1996; Trainer 2007).
Clearly one of the problems for capitalism in moving to a zero growth economy is that productivity increases would lead to increasing unemployment and a political crisis as the unemployed became a majority of the population. The mixed economy model is intended to deal with that by creating a shorter working week, government jobs in environmental infrastructure and a guaranteed adequate income for unemployed people.
The socialism with democracy model is like the former Soviet system in that all major property in the means of production (factories, farms, mines etc.) is owned by the state. The idea is that a democratically controlled state ensures that all production fits with environmental guidelines. At the same time what is envisaged as different from the Soviet economies is that political life is organised democratically – through electoral processes at a community, national and international level. While government decisions regulate production as a whole, workplace consultation gives people a voice in daily life at work. Money is still the medium of exchange and people have to be paid by the state to get access to consumer goods (Baer 2008; Kovel 2007; Pepper 1993; Resistance 1999).
The environmental logic behind this model is that a democratic government keeps a reign on production to ensure that it is sustainable. It also prevents political problems coming out of zero growth by making sure all people have access to consumer goods through some kind of paid work, however few hours this actually amounts to – housework and community work could also be paid in this model.
In the anarchist gift economy model all production of goods and services is voluntary. Clubs and associations produce goods and services – and give them to the community. Or they produce for their own needs. In either case, the tools and instruments of production are also gifts from other clubs of producers. People's access to goods and services does not come through monetary payment but as a result of gifts. "Compacts", which are formalized promises to provide services or products, coordinate production (Nelson 2008). There is no money or paid work and no government. This version of anarchism does not favour small self sufficient communes but instead envisages networks of local, country wide and global cooperation organized around different productive tasks (Allaby & Bunyard 1980; Bookchin 1971; Leahy 2004; Nelson 2008; Purchase 1994).
Why work in this economy? People work partly in order to maintain the social order as a whole – they do what they can see needs to be done and specialize in activities that they find personally meaningful. Unpleasant work that no one wants to do is attached to a community or production group that requires the service – and rotated by roster. People volunteer to engage with others in work they find interesting or enjoyable. They receive status as the producers of useful gifts for other groups or the community at large. The means of production (in the Marxist sense) are owned by a patchwork of clubs, societies and federated hobby groups. However no ownership is un-contestable and there is no state to enforce ownership.
The environmental logic of this model is that people do not do any work that seems pointless and do not produce vast amounts which no one really needs – they do not voluntarily work themselves to death. Wealth does not come about through producing more stuff and being paid more to work harder – employment is not paid and the products are given away. Wealth comes from what other groups of producers have decided to offer you as gifts. In complete control at each point of production, collectives are not so stupid as to foul their own nests with environmental degradation that no one in their community appreciates. Status goes with gifts that are known to be produced in a sustainable way.
These three models can be regarded as "ideal types" and it is not always clear what kinds of social institutions might fit in a model. For example, a "local money" or LETS exchange of products and services might be construed as a part of a mixed economy model and acting under an umbrella state to coordinate paid work in the community context through a system of local money – or alternatively it could function as a kind of agreement or "compact" within an anarchist gift economy.
The technological constraints of a low energy future mean that plans for a city might be roughly the same whichever of these social models was actually adopted. So, while the authors I am about to consider tend to favour the mixed economy model, the cityscapes they envisage are just as relevant for proponents of the other two models.
These models are desired futures. Just like plans for low energy cities, they are attempts to work out how we could live well, given the constraints of global warming and the oil peak. Authors in this tradition are not naively optimistic about our chances of reaching these goals and also present a number of scenarios of societal collapse – or of authoritarian dictatorships that attempt to resolve environmental problems coercively and without success (Holmgren 2008; Trainer 2007).
I have painted all three of these versions of utopia as including large scale long distance cooperation. Partly this is to make the point that low energy futures do not necessarily imply small scale self sufficiency and to note that any kind of high tech production requires some long distance cooperation. Nevertheless, as we shall see, all three authors envisage a drastic reduction in trade and exchange over distance. To accommodate a low energy future, most goods and services are created locally.


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