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The following article is based on a paper written for presentation at the EDUCATION FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM Conference in Catamarca, Argentina, in April, 2002.
by Hazel Henderson
Education for this Third Millennium must be holistic. Teacher training and curricula needs to be geared to help all students to see our precious blue planet whole and understand the problems we humans face at the start of this new century. Since we only use about 10% of our brains, this expansion of our awareness is well within our grasp. One of the ways humans can expand their spatial and temporal frameworks is to create scenarios of possible and desirable futures. Using this futurist tool, let us imagine ourselves looking back from the middle of this Third Millennium. It is the year 2050 and much has changed - for the better!
Over the past 50 years, our understanding of human psychology and spirituality did begin to match our knowledge of the material world. We learned that in these times of accelerating change, visioning exercises are necessary, pragmatic and can yield practical results. Today, visioning a world of peace, equity, cooperation and ecological sustainability is taught in all our schools. Parenting is honored, loving relationships and role models are taught and showcased in our media.
As we remember, the 20th century, the bloodiest in human history, left the human family with an agenda of unfinished business. Visionary people had sketched out this agenda throughout the past century. From North America, Margaret Sanger's vision had helped empower women and advance human rights. Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, 1962, taught us that social innovation has not kept up with technological innovation - and launched the environmental movement. Buckminster Fuller and Martin Luther King, Jr. had pointed the way toward building a world that worked for everyone. Elise Boulding's Toward a Global Civic Culture (1987) and Building Cultures of Peace (2000) and her lifetime of crusading for peace-building, had envisioned the powerful civic society organizations of today. Margaret Mead taught us to believe in the power of a small group of concerned citizens to change the world - "Indeed" she used to say, "it's the only thing that ever has." Visionaries from around, the world pointed the way; Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Mother Theresa, Thich Nhat Hahn in Asia, Nelson Mandela in Africa, Vaclav Havel and Jean Monnet in Europe and in Latin America Perez Esquivel and Eduardo Galeano among many others.
Our extraordinary array of technological tools became life-threatening, as well as life-enhancing: from nuclear, chemical, biological weapons, to bioengineering, jets, satellites and computers; the flowering of tools of mass communications and the Internet. All these technologies became global by the turn of our 21st century. Many were unassessed and unregulated. A haphazard form of globalization was the result. It wasn't until 2030 that the "gun culture" in the USA died out as the guns in schools and on streets increased public horror and awareness of the gun makers' lobby.
The work of many grassroots activists and writers eventually tamed the globalization of technologies and those rampant global markets. Agreements between countries curbing money-laundering, taxing currency speculators, arms traders and polluters, are now part of international law. These taxes, and fines for abusing our global commons are collected by national governments, to replace the taxes lost to speculators and tax havens. After the crash of 2010, nations signed agreements and securities laws (like a global version of the USA's old Securities and Exchange Commission). Tax evasion was outlawed and many of the former tax havens instead created thriving economies based on high-tech, web bartering businesses and eco-tourist attractions.
Today, technological and social innovations are better aligned with global values, goals and polices. These now promote human development, social justice, health, well-managed economies within ecologically-sustainable parameters. These values were enshrined in global treaties, agreement standards, codes of corporate conduct and civic principles, and have created the better lives for all humanity we enjoy now in 2050.
Humans slowly learned, via all their communications tools and networks, what was needed to achieve this vision. A much larger, planetary context was needed for all our decision-making - from personal and local, to national, international and global. We all possess this mental tool-kit - a "zoom lens", and a wide-shot. We needed systems thinking and ethics (The Golden Rule). The Earth Charter, the grassroots, multicultural set of 16 principles of human responsibilities launched at the Peace Palace in The Hague in 2000 became the counterpart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We also needed science, knowledge and faith (in life) as well as imagination and creativity. After the September 11, 2001 onset of globally-organized terrorism, a new awareness grew of the importance of dialogues between cultures, civilizations and religions. Many pioneers helped bring all the religious traditions into a broad, ecumenical agreement to protect the planet and all life forms. Today, all church groups invest 100% of their portfolios in clean, green, ethical businesses. All business schools are now required to teach ethics.
Now, in 2050, our planet is ecologically rehabilitating. Its climate is stabilizing and its ozone shield almost restored. Action to change our ways was accelerated by the tragic floods caused by the mega hurricanes and typhoons in 2031 and 2032. It was the insurance companies that insisted on these laws to limit carbon emissions. They had begun shifting their asset portfolios to renewable energy as early as 1993. Much range land is reforested since most people shifted gradually to healthier, vegetarian diets. Biodynamic agriculture replaced industrial, fossil-fueled mega farming in the early part of our century. This restored soil fertility, together with the worldwide return to organic food and fiber production.
University departments of Urban Planning began to teach how cities would develop sustainably and many have grown by infilling wasted urban brown fields and parking lots. Mass public transit had finally replaced many freeways and unclogged downtown streets by 2025. Small, lightweight zero-emission "hyper-cars" now tool between our cities powered by hydrogen fuel cells. A global hydrogen economy replaced oil and gas by 2010, flowing in converted pipelines (See Henderson, Politics of the Solar Age 1981)
China has leapfrogged many stages of industrial development and the roller-coaster monetary turbulence of the turn of the century. The Chinese yuan is convertible, but protected from speculators by ingenious software in their screen-based currency trading systems. Widespread use of high tech barter is a further stabilizer. For example, Internet-based energy bartering ventures smooth supply bottlenecks, allowing developing countries to exchange their undervalued commodities directly for oil from OPEC members. The Shanghai stock exchange became the world's largest in 2023. Shanghai now has clear skies and fish back in the Huang Po and Suzhou rivers. The Shanghai Municipal government's environmental bond issue of 1999 was spent well - on "state-of-the-art" green technologies. China became a leader in energy-efficiency - surpassing Japan in 2021.
The need for energy has been halved worldwide, even in industrial areas. The widespread use of communications, computers, TV and the Internet made this possible, together with vastly increased energy-efficiency and ecological design principles. OPEC announced in 2001, that it would no longer feed the world's oil addiction and exacerbate global climate change. Oil was too valuable to burn and should be kept for plastics and higher-value uses.
The higher oil prices kicked the solar and renewable energy sectors into high gear. The high gas prices in 2000-2001 began to accelerate cars' increased mileage. Toyota and Honda beat Detroit by marketing the first hybrid electric cars in 2001. At last, the internal combustion engine was retired to the Smithsonian Institution where it belonged in 2015. OPEC countries changed course in 2005 and became major investors in the hydrogen economy. The oil cartel had already de-dollarized their oil in favor of the euro and electronic bartering with poorer nations. Most countries learned that if money systems were badly managed, electronic, money-free barter trading could clear markets and improve well-being - as Argentines had pioneered in 2002.
The human family stabilized at 8 billion in 2025, largely because the gap between rich and poor has been narrowed, and universal access to health care and education has been achieved. Women in every country advanced politically and economically, due to universal availability of education, health care, family-planning and birth control. This was achieved in the face of much patriarchal opposition. As women's economic and political empowerment progressed during the early 21st century, they now own or manage 50% of the businesses and nonprofit organizations. They hold a similar share of seats in parliaments, local governments, and judicial bodies. Micro-credit had expanded to allow millions of women to own their own small businesses. Women's influence in all societies has vastly increased. No political decisions are considered legitimate unless legislative bodies are composed equally of both sexes.
National budgets for education, health, social services and ecological restoration gradually increased relative to military weapons procurement, as more women and their male supporters lobbied and organized for such new priorities. The 1990s post-cold war rethink of what constituted a country's sovereignty and "national security "had continued well into 2010 and accelerated after the 2001 onset of global terrorism. These paradigm shifts in public debates and policies led to a redefinition of threats, particularly those posed by 20th century proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. They came to be seen as too dangerous to manufacture, stockpile, or transport -- let alone use. Indeed, major sectors of our early 21st century economy were based on cleaning up nuclear stockpiles, radioactive and other toxic wastes. Public health was another growth sector of most countries' economies after the anthrax scares of 2001 and the bioterrorism incidents of 2003. People soon realized that big, industrial-style weapons and wars were made obsolete by global terrorist methods. In our interdependent world, only cooperative, win-win strategies could make societies secure.
Many futurists, scholars and activists in the late 20th century identified other new domestic and international threats. The bad news of globalization proved to be terrorism, small arms trading and local conflicts, the explosive gap between rich and poor, the spreading of new and old infectious diseases, drug trafficking, money-laundering and speculation in the global currency markets. The new emphasis on domestic security in the USA after September 11, 2001 poured billions of new public investments into infrastructure: railroads, schools, public health clinics, and to beef up academic curricula on global issues, multicultural studies and languages. The threat of global environmental deterioration: spreading deserts, climate change, loss of species and biodiversity -- due to primitive industrial technologies driving narrowly-measured economic growth, has been reduced but is still with us.
All these threats to humanity's future were global and beyond the reach of any one country. After the USA's unilateralism of the George W. Bush administration proved unworkable came the lessons of the "War" on Terrorism. After many isolationists, rearguard movements, which often scape-goated immigrants or various ethnic groups, it became obvious that such politics were too divisive. National sovereignty was cooperatively pooled into global agreements to lessen these threats. The United Nations Security Insurance Agency (UNSIA) was finally implemented (see Henderson, Building a Win-Win World, 1996). T
he Security Council was expanded to include India, Brazil, Japan, Germany and South Africa as permanent members, and the veto was abolished. Then several small Central American countries followed the earlier path of Costa Rica back in 1949 - and abolished their armies. Instead, they redeployed their military budgets away from buying old US F-16s (which didn't provide deterrence anyway, in the domestic conflict and terrorism period of the 2010s). These funds flowed instead into retraining soldiers, investing in education, health, infrastructure and building home grown economies linked via communications. Their military strategies shifted toward buying peacekeeping insurance policies through UNSIA.
By 2010, forty other smaller UN member nations joined in the UNSIA insurance pool. Their premiums now fund a properly-trained contingent of peace-keepers from many countries and a grassroots network of local civic volunteer organizations in humanitarian and, conflict resolution truth and reconciliation hearings and deep listening. The UN Secretary General had first requested this "standing humanitarian force" in the late 1990s.
The world "court of public opinion" on TV, radio and the Internet has grown enormously providing instant feedback, judgments and sanctions on any overaggressive "leader". The USA and the few other holdout countries at last ratified the International Criminal Court supported in the Rome Agreement of 1999 in 2005. INTERPOL swiftly arrests tyrants and brings them to publicly televised trials. By 2010, this rethink of true human security has slowly shifted national budgets onto longer-term accounting.
Policymakers and university courses alike focus on prevention, futures research, technology assessment, scientific research and new multidisciplinary statistics measuring overall quality-of-life to steer their decision-making (see for example, the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, www.calvert-henderson.com). The Internet has allowed public review of policies since the turn of the century. The US Department of Defense and Peacekeeping's budget now allocates 50% to diplomacy and peacekeeping.
The huge increases in allocations for conflict prevention, diplomacy, treaties, agreements, global standards and international law, as well as funds allocated to education, health and public infrastructure were hotly contested by older sectors of the economy. Today, these social expenditures are treated as investments in future assets with huge intergenerational payoffs. Many of our idealistic, brightest students chose among the many new careers in global problem-solving and public service.
Accounting and economics have expanded to include multidimensional valuations of knowledge, software, human and social capital and ecological assets. Likewise, social and environmental costs of all public and private policies and decision-making had to be deducted to allow full cost pricing and accurate national indicators. The accounting and statistics sectors boomed, as we learned that we needed to measure what we treasure and monitor unhealthy trends.
Enhanced information tools have facilitated broader democratic decision-making, such as today's electronic town meetings, referenda and public-interest polling on major issues. The curse of money no longer taints elections now that all media, even in the USA (the last holdout), apportion free air time to all candidates, as a license requirement. The public, all of us who own the airwaves finally completed their reassertion of right of access to media. This took a long struggle with media owners over violent, degrading, distorting, and mind-numbing programming. Public interest groups police all advertising for accuracy. "Truth-in-advertising" tax set-aside funds are available to all such qualified groups for counter-advertising. When first introduced in 2009, companies in the Old Economy fought hard to keep their tax deduction for such advertising. The counter-ads had proved successful as early as 1999 in cutting tobacco use - since teenagers themselves had created the ads.
Today, we enjoy a truly information-rich, multi-access, TV, radio, Internet and wireless "global village" - designed with nature, for long-term sustainability. The civic society in every country has come of age after the teach-ins on humanizing globalization initiated by Porto Alegre's local officials in Brazil in 2000. Powerful voluntary, civic sectors kept both private businesses and governments accountable. The Information Age has morphed into an Age of Truth, where corporate or political, or any institutional or government malfeasance is instantly reported on the Internet. Global public-access "C-Span" TV reports daily on all the successful problem-solving efforts underway --whether in villages in Africa and other ecologically-rich but money-short regions, or other social innovations that were replicable. Civic society organizations are aligned with the new TV, radio and Internet media, advising on programming, spreading their audience reach and earning stock-options for their efforts. For example, Planned Parenthood had been a pioneer in delivery of education, health and family-planning information via culturally-sensitive TV dramas, and documentaries. These successfully by-passed patriarchal institutions and those opposed to women's empowerment.
Technological innovation is now steered democratically to meet pressing, widespread needs (not expressed in 20th century markets due to inadequate access to credit and money). However, verifiable information on these needs was ubiquitous and in the late 20th century became issues in politics. Information, now interchangeable with money, via high tech electronic barter soon came to substitute for ill-managed monetary systems. Where distorted financial and money-flows and cronyism in credit-creation create inequities, high-tech barter from local to global -- matches trades electronically. The IMF had been abolished in 2005 after another meltdown of the old money system and debacles in Argentina in 2001 due their bad advice. The World Bank's lending was focused on education and health delivery in partnership with civic society. All information on the activities of such international agencies - as well as those at national and local levels was posted daily on their websites by 2004.
Corporations, which had become global by the late 20th century, had escaped national taxes and regulation. After the famous Microsoft monopoly decision of the US Courts in 2000, antitrust laws were extended globally - by international agreements. The new global information -networked markets were prone to monopolization. Corporate chartering also came under internationalized laws. Companies could no longer incorporate in tax and regulatory havens, which allowed the old scams of less-than full disclosure, insider-trading and annual reports that concealed the social and environmental costs incurred by their business operations. After the defeat of the notorious Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) in 1998, and the WTO after the "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, corporations were re-chartered in 2007 to optimize the interests of all stakeholders (investors, consumers, employees, local communities and the environment) and had to be re-earned every 5 years.
Many companies chose employee stock ownership plans, which proved successful in thousands of companies since the latter part of the 20th century. Employees were more motivated, as shareholders in the enterprise. Besides, knowledge was at last recognized as a basic factor of production - along with natural resources and social capital. Capitalism had changed accordingly - as employees carried a company's intellectual capital in their heads - and could walk out anytime. The scandalous collapse of the ENRON Corporation in the USA in 2002, where 5000 employees who held stock in the company, in their retirement accounts could not sell it (while their bosses sold out, making millions) caused a public outcry as these employees lost their pensions as well as their jobs. This resulted in new laws to prevent such tragedies.
Even by the year 2000, inventors in many thousand garages and small startups had created the "new economies" of information, electronic trading, exchange and barter, preventive health care, education and services. Millions of formerly disabled people were absorbed into jobs with the enabling technologies of computerized interfaces. By 2009, biotech companies had perfected artificial eyes, muscles, and other organs and stem cells were used to help re-grow damaged tissues, organs and bones. All these were supported by technologies of the post-fossil-fueled, solar-based economies of today's Age of Light. Not all of these 21st century technologies were developed in response to traditional money-based price signals and marketplaces, which had been distorted, by subsidies, lobbying and politics. Prices are always history, and we learned to stop looking into the future through such rearview mirrors!
Indeed, most of these startups in solar and renewable energy, biotech, the Internet and human services were unprofitable. They required billions in front-loaded capital by visionary investors and venture capitalists who believed that the world's economies and societies could be redesigned to work for 100% of humanity. In risk-taking cultures like the USA, millions of day traders bought these stocks by borrowing, as in the gold rush era. Millions were made and lost - as in all periods of rapid technological change. Many voluntary, nonprofit groups and leaders in environmental and human rights spurred on the visionary entrepreneurs and investors. Together, they led the great transition to the knowledge-rich, ecologically based, sustainable economies, which was well-underway by 2025.
These pioneers operated in the non-money half of all societies, where visions, ideas, entrepreneurship and faith in the future come before money. They championed the real needs that the traditional price system did not detect or serve. These pioneers of the unpaid cooperative, voluntary sectors the "Love Economy" (Henderson, 1981) organized at local, state and national levels. They served people directly, educating the public, politicians and government officials, using all the new public-access media and the web. They reshaped academic curricula and helped enshrine into laws the enhanced rights, public investments and social innovations we now enjoy. The old media conglomerates, which controlled access and led to the "mediocracies" of the last century, gradually lost audiences with their endless repeats of boring game shows. Their violent "shoot-em ups" were finally so ostracized by their shareholders, that media giants began to pull them off the air "voluntarily" - leading to the Global Media Code of Conduct, signed in 2006.
As these social innovations became part of the institutional framework of societies, the new "caring sectors" were at last fully capitalized. Women led the change in this wave of social innovation. Just as Bismarck had invented social security in 19th century Germany and President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped initiate it in the USA in the 20th century, women spearheaded both the capitalization of the caring sectors and the ecological remediation sectors. Women, as grassroots activists and volunteers, had started thousands of environmental organizations since the mid-20th century. These two sectors are now pillars of our global economy - along with the information, communications and knowledge sectors in our postindustrial societies.
The economy slowly dematerialized as use of energy and materials became super-efficient. Companies, pushed by laws at the turn of the century, soon reaped profits in reclaiming their cars, computers and other products for reconditioning and resale. More people turned away from consumer goods to self-development and services in the human potential movement and the caring economy. For millions, their time had become more valuable than goods or money. These new "Attention Economy" sectors in (Henderson, Building a Win-Win World 1995). They grew first in industrial societies, with a myriad of new businesses in overlooked needs, delivering home-based services, health care, fitness, enabling the disabled, elderly, and in a variety of essential maintenance activities. They offered community education, social services, drug counseling, youth rehabilitation, recycling, garbage composting, thrift-stores, barter clubs, local-contract organic food-growing, solar and renewable energy companies.
The old Gross National Product (GNP) based on goods and money transactions, began tanking in Japan in the 1990s and by 2003 in Europe and North America. No longer mere "consumers," millions of citizens simply no longer found the time spent shopping as satisfying as family and community activities. The many Quality-of-Life Indicators began to soar! (See for example, Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, 2000, and online at www.calvert-henderson.com.)
Today in 2050, these multiple activities, geared to improving quality of life, are all multi-billion dollar sectors and provide some 50% of jobs and livelihoods - just as weapons-contracting and other heavy industries did at the end of the last century. By 2010, the sustainability boom had led to virtually zero unemployment. Prison populations in the USA fell from 2 million in 2000 to 1 million in 2010 as the health, education and caring sectors grew and poverty decreased.
The curse of racism in the USA diminished too, in a media-rich, multicultural, interdependent-world. It was cheaper to educate all our young people at Harvard than send them to prison. And indigenous peoples in the USA and worldwide were at last recognized as the keepers of ancient wisdom on sustainability. Their tribal lands reverted to their sovereign control and the bio-pirates who had "patented" the genetic resources these native peoples had protected for millennia, were stripped of these "phony patents" and "intellectual property."
A smaller, chastened WTO no longer promotes "intellectual property rights," and the new economics of full-cost pricing and quality-of-life indictors of national progress govern all world trade. This corrected accounting properly values local production and exchange, while world trade is now mostly in services, license agreements and software - not goods or hardware. It made more sense to ship the recipes than the cakes and biscuits! At last, economists recognized that thermodynamicists' models of efficiency were correct and economics texts were changed accordingly.
The resource-rich developing countries, exploited under colonialism had fallen further behind in the last century during the Cold War. In 2000, after the global civic campaign, Jubilee 2000, the so-called G-7 industrial countries (rich in money terms) agreed to write-off the unrepayable debt of these heavily-indebted countries, mostly in Africa. In 2001, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown had proposed a $50 billion "Marshall Plan" at the G-7 meeting - but this took a decade longer to implement. Many developing countries had been bypassed by the Industrial Age, but began to flourish as Solar Age, information technologies enable them to "leapfrog" the earlier wasteful industrial models and avoid the huge infrastructure costs of highways and electric grids.
By 2000, on-site, cheap solar power started lighting village homes and schoolhouses from Mongolia and Vietnam to Africa and the remote towns of Russia, Australia and the Americas. Off-grid electricity powered Internet access, together with handheld personal digital assisters. Millions of villagers started small communications businesses as Internet Service Providers - following the example of Bangladeshi women partners in the Grameen Phone Company. Short-wave, human-powered wind-up radios, cell phones and pagers became virtually free. In this new "Attention Economy", peoples' time and attention ("eyeballs") were more valuable than money. As Moore's Law had lowered chip prices, so Metcalfe's Law required huge networks and increased in value with ever more users.
By 2025, we had certainly learned that globalization brought irreversible change! A globalized economy demands as much cooperation as competition, requiring global human and employee rights, environmental protection, and global standards, corporate codes of conduct, and ethical politics and markets. Finally, the evidence was sufficient to replace the old economic text books, which had focused on competition and self-interest. Humanity has made that great, transition from the 300-year fossil-fueled Industrial Age to the Age of Light. We learned too in the first decade of the 21st century that money and information are interchangeable, through our experiences with the many bartering enterprises that now compete successfully with the money-based, bank-mediated global economy.
Certainly, a paradigm shift to map these changes was required and the curricula of all schools and universities have changed accordingly. The new global context allowed people to see the policies and private changes needed. They led to the world of 2050 we are proud of today. Things are not perfect, of course. Life would be boring! Each successive human generation will make further contributions to the evolution of our species and societies in this Third Millennium.
Signs of this Future Today:
· Post-Cartesian Scientific Principles now widely-acknowledged
· GNP as a measure of progress
· Now challenged by new indicators of Quality-of-Life
· Two Ways of Transacting
· A Systems View of Total Productivity (the 3 layer cake)
· Rise of the Attention Economy
· Global standards game (Playing the Global Standards Game)
· New Markets and New Commons (Exploring the Global Playing Field)
· Globalization can be Shared and Democratized
About the Author
Hazel Henderson is a global futurist, evolutionary economist and author of Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy (1999) and seven other books on sustainable development. She serves on many editorial boards, including FUTURES, Elsevier Scientific, UK; FORESIGHT, Cambridge UK and World Affairs, New Delhi, India. She is fellow of the World Business Academy and the World Futures Studies Federation, and advisor to the Calvert Social Investment Fund (Washington, DC) with whom she is cocreating the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators. She held the Horace Albright Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served on Committees of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Science Foundation, and the US Office of Technology Assessment.
All the author's books and articles are available on her website at www.hazelhenderson.com
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For most of the 14 years that Tinamarie Hatlee has lived in Ravena, N.Y., a small town south of Albany, she didn't mind the trains that passed 50 feet from the back door of her house. They came only a few times a day and moved slowly, so the noise was bearable. But starting last summer, Hatlee says, the trains have been rumbling by every few hours, from early morning until well past midnight. And they go much quicker, as fast as 50 miles an hour, she estimates. Many are oil trains—hundreds of black tank cars filled with tens of thousands of barrels of crude, mainly from oil fields in North Dakota, on their way to refineries on the East Coast. "It's terrifying to think of all that oil flying by so close to my house," Hatlee says. "I don't understand why they have to go so fast."
They're in such a hurry because there's so much oil to move. Over the past three years, U.S. production has increased by more than 2 million barrels per day to 8 million, and railroads are hauling more fossil fuels than they have in a century. In the third quarter of 2013, trains carried 93,312 carloads of crude oil, or about 66 million barrels—about 900 percent more than in all of 2008. Almost all oil reaches its destination without incident. In recent months, however, an alarming number of oil trains in the U.S. and Canada have derailed, causing spectacular explosions that blackened the sky with burning crude. In July a 74-car train plowed into the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic in the middle of the night, igniting an inferno that killed 47 people. In October a tank train derailed outside Edmonton, Alberta, forcing an evacuation. In November an oil train crashed in Alabama, spilling thousands of barrels into a marshland. In December two trains collided in Casselton, N.D., one carrying soybeans, the other crude. Eighteen tank cars ruptured and burst into flames, spilling about 400,000 gallons of oil.
Local, state, and federal officials, as well as the oil and railroad industries, are calling for tougher safeguards to prevent these kinds of accidents. Just what those protections will look like is anyone's guess. The tangle of competing laws and regulations governing U.S. railroads allows everyone to claim that someone else is to blame.
Mayors and governors in states that oil trains travel through have been making the most forceful demands. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to double the number of state rail inspectors from 5 to 10. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pressing for a hazardous materials fee on oil companies and refiners to pay for upgraded railroad tracks, more first responders, and disaster insurance for towns along oil routes. Emanuel doesn't have the power to make that happen, though. Overseeing railroads is primarily the federal government's job, in part because the industry would be paralyzed if it had to comply with widely varying local regulations each time a train passed through a town.
Washington doesn't appear to be in a rush to address the problem. On Jan. 23, investigators at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board made broad recommendations that would have big consequences: They said crude oil should meet the same restrictions as toxic chemicals, which must be routed on tracks away from population centers. In 2012 the NTSB said crude oil should travel only in upgraded tank cars with thicker, more puncture-resistant walls and sophisticated relief valves. This would require the industry to hasten upgrading its fleet of older, thinner-walled cars better suited to ferrying corn syrup than explosive fossil fuels. "The large-scale shipment of crude oil by rail simply didn't exist 10 years ago, and our safety regulations need to catch up," NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said when she released the report. "While this energy boom is good for business, the people and the environment along rail corridors must be protected from harm."
But Hersman can't require oil and rail companies to comply with her recommendations, and they haven't. President Obama could urge federal regulators to act quickly to come up with new safety rules. Congress could pass legislation. Neither has happened. Obama has been mostly silent on the issue, and congressional leaders haven't pushed bills to increase rail safety. Hearings on the matter are getting under way on Capitol Hill this month. The government should be "embarrassed by how unprepared they were for this," says Fred Millar, a rail safety consultant who's worked for cities and environmental groups.
Instead, the problem has been left to make its way through the federal rulemaking bureaucracy. In April 2012 the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, began considering new standards to govern oil shipments, a process that requires months of gathering comments from various sides and months more of deliberations. The agency says it has until the end of the year to finish new rules, but under pressure to act quickly, it could come out with them as early as this month.
The Transportation Department could issue what are called interim final rules to immediately impose new speed limits for crude trains and standards that require them to stay farther away from densely populated areas, Millar says. The administration, however, has resorted to "quiet backdoor meetings with the railroads and oil companies," he says, "to see what they'll agree to do voluntarily."
Of course, the industries don't need to wait for the federal government to tell them what to do—they could act on their own to make crude trains safer. Railroads have largely placed responsibility for safety on the oil companies that use their tracks, pressing them to switch to the newer, rupture-resistant cars. "We are trying to show that we are taking this seriously, and we're hoping that the Department of Transportation can follow suit," says Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.
Oil companies aren't eager to go along with the request, and they don't have to because the older cars meet current federal guidelines. Of the 92,000 tank cars used to haul crude and other flammable liquids in the U.S., only 14,000 have the updated safety features. Modifying them could cost the industry about $5.2 billion, according to estimates by Bloomberg Government. Some oil companies are getting out ahead of whatever changes might be coming. On Feb. 6, Tesoro, one of the nation's biggest refiners, announced it will replace all older tank cars it leases by mid-2014. "It is going to cost more to do, there's no doubt," says Senior Vice President Keith Casey. "But simply stated, we think it's the right thing to do."
Oil producers say the railroads that own the tracks the tank cars ride on, including CSX and BNSF Railway, share responsibility for the train accidents. "The first step is to prevent derailments by addressing track defects and other root causes," Sabrina Fang, a spokeswoman for the American Petroleum Institute, wrote in a Jan. 23 e-mail.
While the various sides maneuver for advantage, people such as Hatlee are anxious to see what, if anything, the government will do to prevent the next disaster. As it is now, "We'd be incinerated if there were an explosion," she says. "There's absolutely nothing to protect us."


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Saturday, Sept. 29: Walk-away the pounds, 9 a.m.; leaf painting, 10 a.m.; family movie, "The Pirates: Band of Misfits," 2 p.m.
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The trick to this recipe is the timing with the meat. You don't want to cut into the meat before it has time to rest or all the delicious juice would run out. Giving the meat plenty of time to rest will allow the juices to redistribute throughout the meat, creating a tastier bite.
The horseradish sauce with the beef adds a nice sharp tone that helps cut through the richness.
Sarah and Blake Vahlsing of Winter Garden, Fla. are proud to announce the birth of their son, Lucas Warren, born on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at Winnie Palmer Hospital In Orlando. The baby weighed 7 pounds and was 20 1/2 inches long.
Wednesday, Sept. 26
Carroll County Memorial Hospital holds a Downtown Business Health Fair from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Carroll County Public Library. There will be free basic checks, including blood pressure. Blood screenings for PSA will be offered for $25, while cholesterol check tests are $20. Flu shots are available for $25. Other healthy living information is available.
Carrollton Rotary Club meets at noon at the General Butler State Resort Park lodge.
The Fifth Synod of the Diocese of Covington was completed in August 2006 and one of the policies signed into Diocesan law from the Synod was to conduct a census.
It is to be like any other census, all the households within the boundaries of the Diocese of Covington are to be surveyed. This is being done because the last census in the Diocese of Covington was taken in 1939.
Apostolic church plans Sept. 30 special event
The First Apostolic Church of Carrollton hosts a jubilee service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. The service will include a gospel sing. Visitors are welcome to attend, enjoy and even participate in the service. For more information, contact Pastor David Croucher, (502) 525-7515.
Trimble hymn sing set for Mt. Carmel church
Trimble County Hymn Sing will be held Thursday, Oct. 4 at Mt. Carmel United Methodist.
God is blessing us with autumn in the brilliant contrast of blue and white sky and the deliciously pleasant cool weather.
This year the fall colors promise to be more spectacular than we have seen in a few years.
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins tells it like it is: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil … Nature is never spent; there lives the dearest freshest deep down things."
A prisoner who walked away from the Bluegrass Development Center in Richmond, Ky., has been captured by Kentucky State Police Troopers in Carroll County.
Russell Allen Helm, 33, from Worthville, Ky., was apprehended Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at 811 Happy Hollow Lane in Worthville.
Helm had walked away from the center on Thursday, Sept. 20, according to a KSP news release.
Also arrested with Helm was Latosha Marcum, 24, of Worthville.
Happy fall! The Autumanl Equinox—the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator—occurred this past Saturday, Sept. 22.
The change in the seasons is the beginning of many things to come: crop harvest, cooler temperatures, layers of clothing, shorter days, rich fall colors, and frost.
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HELP! I did not use treated wood. Any solutions?
I am finishing my basement and forgot to use treated wood on the floor and walls where it touched the concrete. Is there anyway to fix this problem other than totally replacing all the boards? The inspector said there is a product you can use to paint on the wood to make it treated. I can not find it anywhere. Has anyone heard of this?
The only lumber required to be pressure treated is the bottom plate. None of the studs should be touching the concrete wall.
I have seen surface-treated lumber sold in stores out West but not the stuff to do it yourself. Even if you found some you'd still have to take down the wall to treat the underside of the bottom plate.
Don't take chances. Take it out, and do it right. You don't want to come home one day and find your floor bubbled up 3 feet. I know a guy that did this. PLed and nailed it to the concrete too. Put hardwood flooring over that, nailed and glued. When the floor started bubbling up, nothing was stopping it. He also put the flooring and plywood wall to wall, no gap between walls. :no:
As others said, do it right.
Take the walls back down and used treated lumber for the bottom plate. You can also cut pieces of tar paper and put between the cement and the treated lumber.
Good to hear you got a permit to do this. :)
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I don't see any other solution than to replace the plate. I don't know about tearing the walls down you could probably sawzall it out of there. If your lucky the plate you put down is running a little thick and maybe you can pick out the new plate a little thin. 1 7/16" instead of 1 9/16".
Even if you painted on the treatment you'll only be able to hit three sides and missing the bottom were it needs it anyway.
I'm surprised the inspector even suggested it.
You can sawzall the studs at the height of a double bottom plate to ease removal of the non-treated plate and avoid cutting nails (fewer blades). Pressure treated bottom plate and regular for the second plate. No problem finding something to nail your baseboard to when the time comes. If any studs are a bit shy of the plate, shim them to snug them up before nailing. All they're doing is holding up the drywall, I'm assuming (not load bearing)...
There is a paint on product by the name of Jasco. It is very runny, gets everywhere, and it stinks. But as everyone has suggested it is best to do it right ... take it out and replace with green plate.
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I'm starting to get suspicious that gun bans on college campuses don't work. <sarcasm off>
Maybe we should try arming our students instead of forcing them to be defenseless sheep.
This is a discussion on Another murder in a gun free zone within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; This one happened about 5 blocks from where I work for the time being. A University of Memphis football player leaving his on campus apartment ...
This one happened about 5 blocks from where I work for the time being. A University of Memphis football player leaving his on campus apartment or dorm was shot to death lastnight at about 10pm.
Classes canceled for today and the campus was locked down lastnight.
Of course, if the man could have carried to protect his life, maybe he would be alive today. But, you guys all know that...
Read the story HERE if you want.
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I'm starting to get suspicious that gun bans on college campuses don't work. <sarcasm off>
Maybe we should try arming our students instead of forcing them to be defenseless sheep.
This was a big item on last night's news ....... almost sounds like a 'hit' rather than random but I haven't as yet gotten to dig for latest facts.
Chris - P95
NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
That is about 7 blocks from where I live. And you know that he would not be allowed to have a gun on campus or in campus housing.
The likelihood that he did have a gun is pretty high considering the crowd he ran with and the likelihood that this had something to do with drugs is, in my opinion, high also...just my opinion.
Hopefully, the security cams can give them some idea of who the shooter was.
So, the elementry school on campus, Campus School, less than a block from the dorm where the shooting took place, did not cancel classes today....go figure
It is not the Bill of Privileges. It is not the Bill of Permits. It is the Bill of Rights.
People should not be afraid of the government; the government should be afraid of the people.
This is nothing new for Memphis. I lived at Cooper and Harbert, and Poplar and Auburndale. Not to far from UofM campus. My wife told me about it this morning.
You guys take care in Memphis. It is getting worse by the minute. I have friends there that are getting worried about just going to Fresh Market. Even to the coffee shops and sitting on the patio.
Since I work at WHBQ the station that I linked to in the original post, I sometimes get to hear updates on news stories early.
Seems that this young mans friends say he had around $3000 on him at the time of the shooting that they say he won at a casino in Tunica that night. So, the possible motive for this shooting was to rob him of his winnings.
We'll see what shakes out in the end.
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It just is not safe anywhere in Memphis, thanks, in part, to the current form of government in the city,
When you accept mediocrity you sow the seeds for future failure.
One should never confuse good fortune with good training.
Illegitimus Non Carborundum. In God we trust.
I am so confused.....How could this happen.....It's a gun free zone........There aren't any guns on campus..........Someone please explain how someone could be shot in a gun free zone.
Ok, I am done being sarcastic......for the moment.
Lex et Libertas Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis!
"Not only do the people who put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us deserve better, we all deserve better than to have our own security undermined by those who undermine law enforcement." -Thomas Sowell
This fellow, just like all of us has a right to self-defense that the school takes away. Where is all the great protection these schools claim to afford it's students?
DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH. LIBERTY IS A WELL ARMED LAMB CONtestING THE VOTE.
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Here is what my school says about CCW:
B. Community.
"This City is what it is because our citizens are who they are."
1. Endangerment. Violations of this policy include, but are not limited to:
Any act that directly or indirectly creates a substantial risk to the safety of a person or persons and/or the University community. This includes, but is not limited to, falsely reporting an emergency and/or engaging in the unauthorized possession, use, or alteration of any University-owned emergency or safety equipment.
Any possession and/or use of weapons, explosives, fireworks, or other objects designed and/or used to inflict injury or damage while on University premises, even if the student possesses a valid concealed weapons permit or other lawful permission to carry a weapon. This includes, but is not limited to, items which simulate such dangerous objects. The possession of non-lethal self-defense instruments (such as mace) is not prohibited; however, the reckless use of such devices may be considered a violation of this policy.
This is from the University of Denver Code of Conduct. Other lawful permission to carry a weapon would be an off-duty LEO. DU thinks they know best for the student population.
Does anyone else hear 'campus lockdown' and think 'fish in a barrel'??
"If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Place on Earth!" Ronald Reagan
I will reserve my comments till I hear the whole story, as many of these are tied to "other" reasons with some of these fellas getting gunned down. Still, may God bless his soul and his family for their loss.
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Girls Gone Wild Honcho Joe Francis' Wife Christina McLarty Moves Out
Well that was quick. After just two months of marriage, Joe Francis' wife Christina McLarty has moved out of the couple's Bel Air mansion. Let me guess – she found porn on his computer.
The couple had been dating for four years prior to getting married. In November, the pair had a lavish wedding ceremony at his Punta Mita estate. But their marriage was short lived, and Francis was overheard discussing his separation with close friends at Bruce and Kris Jenner's annual Christmas eve party.
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"He was talking about the details of the separation openly while at the Kardashian holiday party," a source told RadarOnline.com. "Christina moved out a bit after Thanksgiving."
Wait, so they were only married a few weeks?!
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Legislating conscience into contract : panacea or pandora's box?
Galloway, Kathrine Scott (2006) Legislating conscience into contract : panacea or pandora's box? Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Chapter 11 of the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 (Qld) and the Retail Shop Leases Act 1994 (Qld) both introduce procedural requirements to the process for creation of land contracts and were both introduced to address a perceived lack of conscience in each of the industries affected. These represent a recent broadening of the ambit of consumer protection legislation in Queensland which deviates from more traditional methods of statutory intervention into land contracts. This paper focuses on the extent to which the Acts effectively introducing a conscience element into certain land contracts, and the extent to which this alters classical contract law. The effectiveness of the approach is then tested against the critiques of two alternative theories of law - law and economics and feminist contract theory - to see whether the legislative approach answers the deficiencies in contract identified within the terms of each theory.
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Well as stated in my other thread I am getting pi**ed off at my emissions deterioration light returning in-frequently, and rather than taking the car back in for its THIRD diagnostic session I figured it might be easier to buy something.
From reading threads people have had success running INPA on a laptop and using a USB to OBD2 lead.
Is this the sort of thing I should be looking at? Clicky
I don't fancy messing around with shorting pins on a vag com lead so will this work?


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A new day may have dawned on management of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico.
An Alabama-based, two-year pilot program that would give the state's entire charterboat fleet the freedom to catch a predetermined number of red snapper whenever they wanted got a second life and the blessing of the full Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Wednesday afternoon.
The program garnered so much support during a public hearing Wednesday afternoon at the council's meeting in Baton Rouge that National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Regional Office Administrator Roy Crabtree suggested it may be time to consider options for implementing a similar program in the for-hire sector Gulfwide.
"I think we are at a point where I haven't seen as big a mess as we are in," Crabtree said. "There are fundamental problems that are going to require that we change how we are managing the fishery and measuring the catches."
Crabtree went on to say that he believed the Alabama pilot program could be a good test for a Gulfwide system and that the council should begin the process now of looking at options to create a for-hire individual fishing quota program instead of waiting for results generated by the pilot after it ends two years down the road.
"While this test program in ongoing, this council should be focusing on working on a for-hire IFQ options paper . That would be a good starting point, then we can begin getting the public involved, get their comments and in two years we could be ready to roll on something Gulfwide," Crabtree said. "It could be time to really start thinking this thing through."
Tuesday, Tom Steber, president of the Alabama Charter Fishing Association Cooperative, had asked the council's Reef Fish Committee to endorse the cooperative's request for the NMFS to approve an exempted fishing permit that would allow six-pack and multi-passenger charter boats to fish outside of federal red snapper season closures.
The cooperative's EFP request closely mirrors a headboat pilot program that began Jan. 1. In its short lifetime, the headboat program has already been deemed a success by the 17 such participating boats across the Gulf.
It's goals are to:
⢠Assess whether a cooperative program can achieve conservation and management goals more effectively than the existing management system.
⢠Test new electronic data collection methods and assess their effectiveness.
⢠Assess economic impacts between Alabama's cooperative program and the existing charter for-hire industry.
⢠Develop, administer and test whether regional management is a feasible plan for management.
Steber said the for-hire charter sector has been asking for guidance and assistance to implement better accountability measures, but has gone basically ignored. The cooperative's plan and EFP request are their solutions to build accountability into their part of the fishery, he said.
Participation in the cooperative is expected to be 100 percent of the 90-boat Alabama-based fleet, that includes vessels from Orange Beach to Dauphin Island. Of the total, one vessel is owned by a Mississippi resident who runs out of Orange Beach and 15 are from Florida.
Those out-of-state boats all have valid Alabama charter licenses, Steber said.
The reef committee motion to endorse the cooperative's request failed by one vote.
In a rare move, the full council agreed to reconsider the cooperative's request immediately following the public hearing during which many people who spoke - recreational and commercial -- were in favor of granting the EFP.
The overwhelming consensus among those who spoke in favor said the pilot program would be a first step toward testing whether a large group of for-hire boats could cooperatively manage their designated share of quota and if such a system could bring the level of consistency charter captains have said is necessary to effectively operate their businesses.
Proponents also said it would interject accountability into a segment of the recreational sector since the pilot-program includes vessel-specific reporting requirements every time the captain leaves and returns to port.
Lack of such accountability measures was one aspect of current federal management of the recreational sector cited by a federal judge in a ruling that in essence said failing to prevent the sector from exceeding its quota in six of the last seven years violated national standards in the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and was therefore illegal.
MSA sets regulations requiring the fair and equitable allocation of all of the country's fisheries and management of those species to their maximum sustainable yield.
Over the pilot program's two-year test period, the cooperative is asking to be allocated 6.8 percent of the recreational sector's current 5.39 million pound quota or 366,520 pounds per year. The percentage is the average of annual red snapper landings by the Alabama charter fleet between 2011 and 2013.
Steber said the poundage allocation would then be converted into number of fish. Individual vessel fish shares would be allocated depending on whether the boat was a "six-pack" boat with a maximum capacity of six passengers or a multi-passenger charterboat able to carry seven passengers and up.
All participating vessels must have a federal reef fish permit. Captains would be able to book trips at any time of the year and continue doing so until their fish share was used up.
After the vote and in anticipation of what he believed would likely be a motion to begin looking at options for creating a for-hire individual fishing quota program, Crabtree directed NMFS staff to round up documents related to past discussions of beginning such a program ready for Thursday's meeting.
"If you think this is a good thing, then we need to come in here tomorrow (Thursday) and begin looking at putting together a charrterboat IFQ program," Crabtree told council members.
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5 Ways to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Fall and Winter
Colin McCrate is the coauthor of Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Crops at Home. In the spring, he told us how to plant our first vegetable garden. Here's his advice for preparing your plot for fall.
Do you feel the crisp breeze in the air? Notice the leaves are beginning to change color? Fall is finally here! With the change in season comes changes to your garden. It's important to get your veggie garden prepared for the transition to fall and winter. Plus, it's a fun way to make the most of the remaining sunny days. So, grab the garden gloves and get going to the garden:
1. Harvest and preserve vegetables and herbs: Oddly enough, after investing time and energy into the garden all season long, many gardeners will slowly fade away from harvesting as the season nears its end. I know you're tired of making zucchini fritters and tomato tarte tatin every night, but there's so much more you can do! Fall is the time to harvest many of your storage crops (onions, carrots, potatoes, winter squash) and make sure they are properly cured and put away for the winter. It is also a good time to examine plants that you may otherwise overlook: sunflowers, broccoli side shoots and herbs (among others). Herbs in particular can be easily dried or frozen in a variety of ways, and even a small garden can produce enough to provide a winter-long supply. Get out and scavenge everything you possibly can. (I'm sure you won't regret it come January.)
2. Check your soil pH: Checking your soil pH may seem beyond your range of garden nerdiness, but it is one of the most important things you can do each year to ensure the success of your crops. I find that it helps if you put on a lab coat and tease out your hair a little bit before getting started. A pH kit or electronic tester can be found at just about any plant nursery or online shop. Most kits are inexpensive and accurate enough to guide your pH adjustments. Most vegetables like a slightly acidic soil pH. The ideal range is between 6.3 and 6.9 (on a scale from 1 to 14). If your soil proves to have a pH below this range, add lime to your soil this fall (also available at most plant nurseries or hardware stores). If the soil is too alkaline (above 7.5), consider adding elemental sulfur to your beds to adjust the pH lower. Both of these amendments are organic, and adding them in the fall will allow them to incorporate for a few months before the next big planting season.
3. Add compost and other organic amendments: Just like the pH adjusting amendments mentioned above, fall is a great time to add sources of organic matter (compost, manure, etc) to the garden. A fall application of 1 to 2 inches of compost or manure on top of your beds will help resupply the soil with nutrients for the next season. Many gardeners will also add an additional layer of a lighter organic material (like straw) on top to prevent nutrient leaching and keep down early spring weeds. Add whatever types of compost or manure you have access to, but make sure that the material is free of weed seeds before applying it to the garden. Poorly composted materials can be full of seeds of grass and other traumatizing weeds, so ask the supplier!
4. Turn off your watering system: If you are lucky enough to have an automatic irrigation system or even if you just water with a garden hose, now is a good time to start thinking about disassembling the system to prevent frost damage. In warmer climates it may be possible to simply disconnect the system from a hose spigot and allow the water to drain out, but in colder climates you will want to either blast all the water out with an air compressor or just bring everything inside for the winter. Putting away hoses in the fall may seem fairly obvious, but also fairly easy to forget.
5. Plant garlic: Garlic is like the hidden track at the end of your favorite album. The garden season is over and done with, everything is cleared out and put to bed, and then out of nowhere it is time to plant garlic! The exact planting date will vary depending on your climate, but the goal is to plant after temperatures have dropped significantly but before the ground freezes. If garlic is planted too early, a tender new shoot may emerge from the ground before winter even starts leaving the plant susceptible to cold and frost damage. If you try to plant it too late (especially in colder climates), the ground may be too frozen to dig! Fall is the best time for garlic planting because it allows the crop to vernalize, resulting in larger yields (vernalization is a term used to describe a period of exposure to cold temperatures. For garlic, it encourages bulbing the following spring).
Plant an individual garlic clove 3 inches deep and space them 6 to 8 inches apart. Add a few inches of mulch to the bed (straw and/or compost) and wait! Each clove will develop into a full head of garlic by next summer.
For more information on garden site selection, soil preparation and crop care, check out Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Crops at Home. You can also learn more at SeattleUrbanFarmCo.com.


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New York — Steve Madden and Trebbianno have signed long-term leases totaling more than 60,000 sq. ft. at 19 West 34th Street, also known as the Martin Building, in New York City.
Steve Madden is taking the entire fifth floor and part of the fourth and eighth floors and will use approximately 40,000 sq. ft. of the 14-story building. The space will serve as one of Steve Madden's corporate offices and showrooms.
Trebbianno has leased the entire 20,000-sq.-ft. seventh floor and will also use the space for offices and a showroom for its accessories collection.
Both leases follow major capital improvements made to the building by owner PRD Realty Corp., a commercial and residential developer, owner and management company.
The renovation includes a redesigned lobby, which is now adorned with slab-to-slab limestone and travertine stone imported from Italy, walnut wood panels and Flos LED light fixtures, creating an upscale, modern look. In addition, the renovation includes the installation of three new high-speed passenger elevators, over-sized and operable windows and a new Class E fire alarm system.
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Combining mountainbiking with orienteering is the best of both worlds for regular competitors.
About 100 mountainbikers of all ages and abilities are taking to the Whakarewarewa trail network in the Vegas Vindaloo MTB Orienteering weekend.
Next weekend's event comprises two days of three different mountainbike orienteering (MTBO) events in Rotorua for mountainbikers of all levels.
Take Josie Boland for example. The 55-year-old manager is a keen amateur. She took up running in her 20s, orienteering in her 40s and has been mountainbiking since 1984.
"This has to be the ultimate sport," said Boland. "To combine mountainbiking with orienteering is about as good as it gets."
Boland is travelling with her family from Christchurch to the event and is looking forward to a great weekend.
"Both mountainbiking and orienteering are family sports - we have been taking our son and his sister to Whaka to mountainbike since he was a 5-year-old and could ride a bike, as we used to live in Napier.
"This year we are bringing him with us. This is his 22nd birthday on Bastille Day [July 14]."
Orienteering Bay of Plenty organises the annual MTBO weekend. Experienced mountainbike orienteers such as Peter Swanson set the courses.
"As with any orienteering event, you have to cater to all types - young and old, new and experienced, super fit and less fit," said the 48-year old, who is one of the leading MTBOers in the country.
"Consequently I have set a range of different courses that will suit anyone at each end of those spectrums. It's really important that newcomers and less experienced people have a positive experience, that they are challenged and enjoy the thrills of the sport and can succeed on the course, but not too challenged in a way that puts them off coming again.
"It's also important that experienced riders get an experience that stretches them and challenges them both physically and mentally. For this event I've designed courses that take riders on some of the really excellent trails Rotorua has, but keeps them thinking with different route choices. It's going to be really fun, for all grades and abilities."
The year also sees the introduction of the Chilli Challenge, where prizes will be awarded for the man and woman who do the best over all three weekend events.
There are several riders competing who are in the New Zealand team for the World MTBO Championships in Hungary next month. This will be a big training event for them and with a number of other top MTBOers attending from around the country there is likely to be lots of rivalry between the more serious competitors. But organiser Erin Roberts emphasises that the Vegas Vindaloo is the perfect non-threatening introduction to riding on world-class trails.
"We have regulars who travel from Auckland, Wellington and all over, and even from as far south as Christchurch," said the 38-year-old, who has a sporting background in adventure racing, foot and mountainbike orienteering, rogaining and multi-sport.
"The events cater for people who are completely new to the sport and just want to give it a go and feel a sense of achievement from completing a course, right through to those who are experienced and have competed at an international level. If someone can ride a bike they can give MTB orienteering a go."
What is most pleasing for Roberts is the number of young families who go out and enjoy the shorter courses. Her own nephews, who are aged 6 and under, love getting out on their bikes in the forest.
The most fun part is often at the end, when competitors compare war stories. "There is not a lot of banter on the trails, unless you are lost and then you band together," said Boland. "The banter is mainly afterwards, comparing route choice and where you think you went."


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Snap judgments: Patriots 38, Eagles 20
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The Patriots moved to 8-3 on the season and put an end to any postseason hopes for "The Dream Team" with a 38-20 annihilation of the Eagles on Sunday, a win for New England that had the fans at Lincoln Financial Field either A) leaving with six minutes left in the third quarter or B) chanting "Fire Andy!" at the head coach. But the good news for the Eagles? DeSean Jackson will still have an awesome Madden rating next year.
Tom Brady passed for 361 yards and three touchdowns, both Deion Branch and Wes Welker went over 100 yards receiving and BenJarvus Green-Ellis found the end zone twice for the Patriots, who own a two-game lead (really three, a sweep over the Jets, remember) in the AFC East. They host the winless Colts next Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
— Tom Brady did whatever he wanted against a depleted Eagles' defense, completing 24-of-34 passes for 361 yards and three TDs. Brady found Wes Welker on two of the touchdown passes, the first a 41-yard score in the second quarter that found Welker wide open after a terrific play-action fake by Brady froze Joselio Hanson and Nate Allen. The second TD pass to Welker (which was reviewed but correctly NOT overturned) capped a sensational eight-play, 69-yard drive to open the second half. Brady was 5-for-5 for 60 yards on the drive and in complete control on Sunday. Maybe his best effort since his Week 1 masterpiece in Miami.
— Welker (eight catches, 115 yards, two TDs) had three catches for 31 yards and the TD in the opening drive of the second half. He now leads the NFL with 82 receptions and 1,143 receiving yards.
— Deion Branch had a season-high 63 yard reception on 3rd-and-13 play in the second quarter, catching a Brady pass (after Brady motioned for Branch to run a different route mid-play), making Nate Allen miss, and running over Kurt Coleman before going down at the Philadelphia 1. His speed isn't what is was in his prime years, of course, but contrast the heart Branch showed on the play with the alligator arms special offered by DeSean Jackson in the end zone at the end of the second quarter. Talent matters, sure, but so does heart. Branch had his most productive game of the season, finishing with six catches for 125 yards.
— BenJarvus Green-Ellis hadn't scored a touchdown since Week 5 (Jets), but had a pair of rushing scores on Sunday. Green-Ellis finished the game with just 44 yards on 14 carries, but looked very sharp in the first quarter, maybe the strongest he has looked since injuring his toe a month ago.
— After a very shaky start (more on that later), the defense settled down and did what they should do against a pass-skipping addicted Vince Young (a man once picked THIRD in an NFL Draft). Young finished the game with 400 yards passing, but plenty of those came in El Garbage time. I've been all over this defense this season, but I will not use 400 yards from Young as evidence. When it mattered, the Patriots made stops, and none bigger than the 4th-and-1 stop at the NE 2 in the third quarter. The Eagles tried play-action and rolled Young out to his right, but the Patriots did not bite on it. Kyle Arrington stayed with Brent Celek the whole way, and Young's attempt wasn't even close. A TD there makes it 31-20 and who knows what could happen? But the game was over (6:27 left in third) when the Eagles failed to convert and turned the ball over on downs.
— Rob Ninkovich had a sack of Young (with plenty of facemask, no call), a tackle of LeSean McCoy for a loss and two other hits on Young.
— Rob Gronkowski caught his 11th TD of the season in the fourth quarter, beating Nate Allen (who had a brutal game) over the middle. Gronkowski has 11 touchdowns this season and 21 in his career. Only three tight ends in history have put together back-to-back seasons with 10+ touchdowns, and Gronkowski is the only one to do so in Seasons One and Two.
— Logan Mankins continued his 2011 struggles, getting beat twice by Cullen Jenkins in the opening drive of the game and whiffing on Jenkins on a Stevan Ridley rush. The offensive line settled down but Brady was lit up early on, taking five hits in the first quarter.
— Young came out throwing and that seemed to surprise the Patriots. Riley Cooper easily beat Kyle Arrington for a 58-yard catch on the opening drive of the game. Two plays later LeSean McCoy (very quiet all game) found the end zone (Gary Guyton was lost on the play) and it was 7-0 Eagles. On the next Philadelphia possession, DeSean Jackson was open on a deep ball from Young, and it appeared that Antwaun Molden was at fault. But the secondary was significantly better after that, with Arrington and Molden making key third-down plays (the Eagles finished just 4-of-13 on third down).
— Stephen Gostkowski missed a 35-yard field goal (to the right) in the second quarter. He would later convert on a 45-yard attempt with 52 seconds left in that same quarter.
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Last Saturday marked the third annual joint Birthday Bash for myself and Torquil Arbuthnot of the New Sheridan Club. This year Miss Bethan of the Vintage Mafia joined us and a truly awesome shindig was put together. The playlist consisted of vintage tunes, punk, metal and totally reem pop. ;)
I even did new Party Hair.
The birthday trio in all our glory. Miss Minna made us pictures, scattered across tables. But let me get one important thing out of the way... my whole outfit in all its slightly lesser glory!
Yes... it's a custom made Fleur dress with kittens on the skirt! My birthday present from Shona! Worn with trusty white Remix wedges, bamboo and bakelite bangles, plus bamboo earrings.
The guests were super stylish... of course.
Glamorous Claire, Penny Dreadful Vintage, Lena of Vintage Guide to London and Charley Landgirl 1980!
FACE CAKE! My birthday present from Vintage Patisserie. Thank you Angel Adoree, inspirational business woman I am proud to call a friend. And thank you also to Elisabeth Blanchet who kindly took so many of the above photos! Click the link to see more (as if you aren't sick of my face by now...)!
I'll stop boring you all there. I am blessed to have so many wonderful friends to see me into my 4th decade. Being 30 isn't so bad... here's to the future!


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The Stampeding Of Lady Bastable
"It would be rather nice if you would put Clovis up for another six days while I go up
north to the MacGregors'," said Mrs. Sangrail sleepily across the breakfast-table. It was
her invariable plan to speak in a sleepy, comfortable voice whenever she was unusually
keen about anything; it put people off their guard, and they frequently fell in with her
wishes before they had realized that she was really asking for anything. Lady Bastable,
however, was not so easily taken unawares; possibly she knew that voice and what it
betokened--at any rate, she knew Clovis.
She frowned at a piece of toast and ate it very slowly, as though she wished to convey the
impression that the process hurt her more than it hurt the toast; but no extension of
hospitality on Clovis's behalf rose to her lips.
"It would be a great convenience to me," pursued Mrs. Sangrail, abandoning the careless
tone. "I particularly don't want to take him to the MacGregors', and it will only be for six
It will seem longer," said Lady Bastable dismally.
"The last time he stayed here for a week--"
"I know," interrupted the other hastily, "but that was nearly two years ago. He was
younger then."
"But he hasn't improved," said her hostess; "it's no use growing older if you only learn
new ways of misbehaving yourself."
Mrs. Sangrail was unable to argue the point; since Clovis had reached the age of
seventeen she had never ceased to bewail his irrepressible waywardness to all her circle
of acquaintances, and a polite scepticism would have greeted the slightest hint at a
prospective reformation. She discarded the fruitless effort at cajolery and resorted to
undisguised bribery.
"If you'll have him here for these six days I'll cancel that outstanding bridge account."
It was only for forty-nine shillings, but Lady Bastable loved shillings with a great, strong
love. To lose money at bridge and not to have to pay it was one of those rare experiences
which gave the card-table a glamour in her eyes which it could never otherwise have
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prospect of conveniently warehousing her offspring for six days, and incidentally saving
his railway fare to the north, reconciled her to the sacrifice; when Clovis made a belated
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When I made the recipe coming up for the next Your Recipe, My Kitchen, I had to have bread sticks. I didn't realize I needed bread sticks, though, until I was in the homestretch for fixing the meal. I had to have them within an hour. Luckily, this recipe fit the requirements. Five minutes to mix, ten minutes to rise, twenty minutes for a second rise and twenty more minutes to bake = delicious, soft, herb filled bread sticks.
I doubled the recipe to feed my family, so that is definitely an option if you need more than nine bread sticks.
Easy Bread Sticks
Author: Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker adapted from Taste of Homea
- 2½ cups flour
- 2½ tsp yeast
- ½ tsp salt
- ¾ cup water warm water
- 2 Tbsp oil
- 1½ tsp honey or agave syrup
- 2 Tbsp butter, melted
- Parmesan cheese, shredded
- Italian seasoning
- Salt
- Combine 1½ cups flour, yeast and salt.
- Combine the water, oil and honey and add to the flour mixture.
- Mix in the remaining flour to make a soft dough.
- Knead five minutes.
- Cover and let rise ten minutes.
- Roll into a 9X9 square.
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If you want to frost a cake or top a pie with whipped cream ahead of time, stabilizing the cream keeps it from deflating or weeping. Chowhounds recently shared their favorite methods.
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We asked in early July if Minnesota manufacturing had turned a corner given upticks in hours worked and wages during the spring. Those indicators promptly dropped in the next report! New data, though, indicate things really are improving.
Creighton University's survey on Minnesota's economy finds supply managers in a better mood in August, with the university's Minnesota Business Conditions Index jumping to its highest level in more than two years. Creighton economics professor Ernie Goss wrote:
Upturns among non-durable goods firms more than offset weakness in the state's durable goods sector. Telecommunications firms continue to report weaker economic activity. Supply managers were very positive …
Creighton's "leading economic indicator" calculation — based on a survey of supply managers — climbed to 58, a regional high, from July's 45.2 and June's 43.9. Anything above 50 on the index indicates businesses are expecting growth.
Like our over-optimism in July, data is subject to change. Manufacturing's taken the biggest job hit in Minnesota, with 38,900 jobs lost in the past year. So there's a ways to go.
Still, Creighton's got a pretty good track record. Goss was predicting Minnesota's unemployment rate would top out at less than 9 percent in this recession. The most recent data — a drop to 8.1 percent in July — is proving him right.
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Charles Dutoit is one of the world's leading conductors, especially noted for his performances of French, Russian, and 20th Century music. His family background is diverse; Dutoit is Swiss-French on his father's side, and English-German-Brazilian on his mother's. As a boy he studied violin, viola, piano, and drums. He became interested in conducting, and was in a position to watch Ernst Ansermet conduct L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, including attending his rehearsals. In his career, Dutoit's...Full bio
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