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This conference investigates the transnational transfer of architectural expertise to, from, and within Asia from 1960 to the present–as well as its consequences for contemporary conditions of urbanization in the region today. The goal of the event is to uncover the multidirectional exchanges in architecture, planning, engineering, design pedagogy, and building technology that have taken place in Asia over the past 50 years; and to show how this acquired knowledge has been developed, appropriated, mixed, and modified in professional practice. Bringing academic research papers into dialogue with the insights of practitioners, the event will offer a heterogeneous genealogy of the current material, economic, and institutional conditions of urbanization in the contemporary Asian city. By developing an innovative historical framework, the conference aims to contextualize examples of cross-cultural knowledge transfer that are taking place in Asian cities such as Singapore today.
The event is a collaboration between the ETH Zurich's Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) and the Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC). It is organized by Max Hirsh (FCL) and Lukasz Stanek (MARC).
FCL is an interdisciplinary research center focused on urban sustainability in a global frame. Based in Singapore, it is the first research program of ETH Zurich's Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability. The Future Cities Laboratory is home to a community of more than 100 PhD, post-doctoral and senior researchers working in the fields of architecture, engineering, and urban planning.
MARC was established at Manchester University in 2006. The Centre is developing a research agenda that aims at critically understanding the co-evolution of design and development strategies and the socioeconomic processes shaping cities.
To register please email your full name, designation and organisation to Max Hirsh at firstname.lastname@example.com by 10 Nov 2013.
1730: Singapore in Transit: Historicizing and Contextualizing Architectural and Planning Exchanges
Chang Jiat Hwee, NUS-SDE
Lee Kah Wee, NUS-SDE
1800: Panel Discussion: Practioners' Perspectives
Moderator: Jane Jacobs, Yale-NUS
Lim Chin Chong
Kuan Chee Yung, CPG
Kevin Sim, Newspace Design
1915: Reception
1000: Registration & Coffee
1030: Welcome Address
Max Hirsh, FCL
1040: Introduction: Mondialisation of Architecture
Lukasz Stanek, MARC
1100: Genealogies of Globalisation
Chair: Lukasz Stanek
Australian Educated Architects and the Professionalisation of Practice and Training in Malaysia, 1960 -1980
Peter Scriver, University of Adelaide
Building the Non-Aligned Babylon
Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic University
Australians and Africans in a Post-Colonial Asian Empire: The Oberoi Hotel Group in the 1960s and 1970s
Amit Srivastava, University of Adelaide
1230: Lunch
1330: Transfer Typologies
Chair: Max Hirsh
The International Hotel in Post-Revolutionary China
Cole Roskam, University of Hong Kong
Constructing Masdar City
Gökçe Günel, Columbia University
The Nation's I/Eye. The National Art Gallery Singapore, 2010-2015
Mechtild Widrich, ETH Zurich
1500: Coffee Break
1530: Urban Geographies
Chair: Stephen Cairns, FCL
After Transnationalism: Indian Modernism in the Age of Globalisation
Vikramaditya Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle
Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore & Tokyo
Jonathan Solomon, Syracuse University
Songdo: Transnational Networks in the Reproduction of a Ubiquitous Ecocity
Sofia T. Shwayri, Seoul National University
1700: Wrap-Up & Final Discussion
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> drive doesnt work. So I wanted to install slackware 12.1 using the PxE
> network.
> My main problem as far as i can see is that i cant find the file
> pxelinux.0 or at least cant find out how to create it. All the sites I've
> looked at mention this file but I cant seem to find a working example.
> So far I have got a DHCP server working on my server and the PXE picks
> that up fine. It mentions at the end of the DHCP configuration file the
> fabled pxelinux.0
> The client then looks for the tftp server which is running on the same
> machine as the DHCP server but as far as i can tell the lack of the file
> indicated by DHCP (pxelinux.0)is my stumbling block.
> I have all (the first 4 ISO's) of the slack files on the root of hda1 and
> took care to maintain the directory structure so in my mind it should be
> just a case of getting the boot files via pxe to it then pointing it in
> the right direction for the setup.
> My server is .. (hold your shouts of GTFO noob please) is ubuntu 7.04, but
> i have used slack since 9.1, this is my fun machine and I enjoy the
> benefits of apt very much.
> Please help me get this machine up and running using PXE to boot slack
> 12.1.
> All the best.
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It Takes a Village Part 3
"There are times you just have nightmares and dreams of your experience. One of the big things is a lot of guys turn to alcoholism," says Air Force veteran Phillip Mullins. Mullins knows all too well how tragic life after military service can be. After fighting for our freedom, the hero returned home- where his life started to unravel. Phillip ended up heartbroken and homeless.
The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans says a fifth of all homeless people are veterans and 76 percent of all vets have alcohol, drug or mental health problems.
"The drug is a very devastating drug. It takes control of your life," says Air Force veteran Harry Fordham. He hit his lowest point when his cocaine habit landed him behind bars. "My rock bottom was while I was incarcerated and my parents died. They were my safety net," says Fordham. Bill Bunting's life fell apart too. After his military duty, his wife died of cancer. And, he ended up searching for meals and sleeping on the streets.
"I didn't care what life had to offer, had no ambition," says Bunting.
But now- these men are finding victory at the village.
Seven people make up the staff at The Tallahassee Veterans Village. They're teaching the vets how to once again become productive members of society. The men and women who live at the village are handed plenty of resources. But there are strict rules here...you get up to two years in the program...and you have to want to succeed.
"If you make one step, they'll make two or three," says Fordham.
It is seems those steps are leading these vets down the right path.
Phillip has been in the program for 10 months. In that short time, he's completed his physical therapy prerequisites at TCC... and learned how to use art as therapy.
It helps me to see that even though you make mistakes, you can always correct them," he says. The honor student is now headed to Lake City to begin courses needed to launch his physical therapy career.
Harry has been cocaine-free for four years. And the talented artist and honor student now has two pieces of artwork published in a statewide magazine...and even more work on display.
"If you're honest about what you want to do, education-wise-if you have a physical problem, a mental problem, they'll try to help you with your resolve."
Bill has graduated from the Tallahassee Veterans Village. He now has a steady job as a construction worker and has reconnected with his family.
The men credit the Village for being a big part of their transformation.
"The counselors and staff- they care...and not just because you're a veteran. They care about you personally," says Bunting.
"It's amazing when you get to see someone change their life for the better," says Tallahassee Veterans Village employee Ellen Cole.
"I know that things have changed for me...and that's a good feeling," says Fordham.
For more information about the Tallahassee Veterans Village, call (850) 575-3140.
It Takes a Village Part 2
Meet Tallahassee resident 45 year old Phillip Mullins:
The Air Force Veteran served in the Persian Gulf War, Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
These eyes have witnessed a lot of devastation. "I saw a lot of dead bodies, you know swollen. I saw like burnt out duece in a half on vehicles with people still in them. Those images are still there, all the dead guys, guys cut in half with just rounds that shouldn't have been used on people. But it's war and war is not an easy thing," says Mullins. Life after war wasn't an easy thing for Phillip either. The husband and father was a language arts teacher at Florida High in Tallahassee for 8 years. But relationships began to unravel. He says the military taught him how to stay in defense mode. That attitude trickled over into his post military life.
"You bring all these guys from all over the country and pull them into this philosophy. Into- hey- you need to be able to put your life on the line for your country. It takes a lot of psychology to do that," says Mullins.
Phillip and his wife divorced- and before he knew it he was sleeping in his car and eventually ended up behind bars.
51 year old Bill Bunting is a Navy veteran. He served during the Ayatollah hostage situation in the late 70s and early 80s. He says he's witnessed a lot of gloom and doom.
"I've seen people get blown off the side of aircraft carriers," says Bunting. After war, Bill says he returned home to even more tragedy. "I lost my wife to breast cancer and pretty much gave up on everything." That's when his life started spiraling out of control. Before he knew it, Bill was living under bridges- and wondering where his next meal would come from.
Then there's 59 year old Harry Fordham. A talented artist- this Air Force veteran never participated in active war. For him, the real war was battling the lifestyle he fell into after his military service.
Harry turned to a life of drugs and crime. He was addicted to cocaine and would do just about anything for a hit. He even sold drugs just to supply his habit...that's what landed him in the Leon County jail.
For Harry, his room at the Veterans Village and his artwork have been a safe haven...but he admits it takes a lot of discipline. That's because it's just a ten minute walk to the streets that caused him so much heartache.
"That same area is where I did a lot of my drug use. I could walk down there today and some of the same ole faces and people who I knew are still doing the same ole thing unfortunately," says Fordham
Different, destructive paths led these men to the Tallahassee Veterans Village. A place where there's help for the hopeless.
It Takes a Village Part 1
At the corner of Lake Bradford Road and Kissimmee Street in Tallahassee sits what appears to be a normal apartment complex. But on the other side of the walls- is a village of people, helping veterans completely turn around their lives.
It's been the best thing that's ever happened to me. The counselors and the staff that's here, they care," says veteran Bill Bunting.
Amazingly, The Tallahassee Veterans Village has just seven employees. But what the crew offers is monumental, a combination of resources and hope for those who have gone from heroes to homeless.
"You think- oh- they worked in the military, they'll get out and they're taken care of. The only problem is they're given a huge packet of information that they may not necessarily read or understand. And unfortunately they can have benefits out there they don't even know they have," says Tallahassee Veterans Village employee Ellen Cole.
The village can house 52 vets at a time. They have an 11 p.m. curfew. No alcohol or drugs are allowed on the campus and vets are subject to random drug testing and room searches.
The men and women who get accepted into the program must attend weekly meetings, self improvement classes and check in with their counselors once a day.
The Vet Village isn't just a housing complex, it's a therapeutic community. A garden on the campus is just one example of how the vets are growing in all aspects of life…even couponing.
"The village has given a lot to me. They have extraordinary personnel who work here. They're very professional, but not only that, they're caring," says veteran Harry Fordham.
The program has been up and running for just 18 months. But already they have about 15 successful graduates. The vets get up to two years in the program. In that time counselors create bonds that ultimately end with a goodbye. "Watching people overcome some of the things, as you'll see in the stories- are just amazing to me. I mean you get rock bottom down and you think you've hit rock bottom down in your life at some point. It's nothing compared to what some of these individuals have gone through," says Cole.


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PARKERSBURG - Parkersburg City Council on Tuesday will consider whether to put the questions of eliminating term limits for the mayor's office and establishing term limits for its own members on the November ballot, but a number of city residents already know how they would vote.
Ray McIntire said he's in favor of term limits for both offices.
"We don't want to set up a kingship," he said. "Changing mayors works as an audit for the office."
But city resident Steve Davis sees no reason people shouldn't be able to keep electing a mayor or council member, if he or she is doing the job well.
"If they're doing a good job, they should be allowed to stay more than three terms," he said.
The city charter, ratified in 1969, limits the mayor to three consecutive full terms. Current Mayor Bob Newell is in the midst of his third term, the first mayor under the new charter to stay in office that long.
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Parkersburg City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in council chambers on the second floor of the Municipal Building. Items on the agenda include:
- An ordinance providing for an election to amend the city charter to eliminate term limits for the mayor.
- An ordinance providing for an election to amend the city charter to establish term limits for council members and separate items to prohibit council from raising the pay for council or the mayor during the term of office on which it is voted or during a municipal election year.
- A public hearing and the final reading of an ordinance authorizing the acquisition of vehicles and equipment at a cost of not more than $1 million for the Parkersburg Utility Board. The purchases will be covered by previously approved rates.
- An ordinance adding the city arborist to the City Tree Commission, increasing total membership to eight.
Local small business owner Cheryl Stahle says that's enough.
"Three terms is plenty. We need new blood," she said.
Council members Nancy Wilcox, Sharon Lynch, Kim Coram and Jim Reed are sponsoring an ordinance on Tuesday's council agenda that would put the question of removing the mayoral term limit before the voters on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Coram and Lynch have said they feel the voters, not the charter, should decide whether to keep the mayor in office after 2016 in the midst of a period of potentially historic growth for the city.
It would take yes votes by six of the nine council members to put the issue on the ballot.
Three have already come out against it.
The proposal to remove term limits on the mayor prompted Councilmen Roger Brown, J.R. Carpenter and John Kelly to sponsor another potential ballot issue, this one imposing three-term limits on members of council. Currently, there is no restriction on how many consecutive terms a council member can serve.
Parkersburg resident John White said he's fine with adding term limits to council members and keeping them for the mayor.
"We don't need career mayors or career representatives," he said. "It tends to breed corruption when these guys get there too long."
Stahle said the argument about keeping a mayor in place during a period of economic development doesn't work with her, because she feels city officials need to do more in that arena right now.
"To me, they seem more worried about what the fronts of the buildings look like, not the jobs that are in them," she said.
Some early opposition to the term-limit removal has been specifically aimed at Newell, who has said he doesn't know if he would run for a fourth term even if he could. Both he and council members on both sides of the issue have said they don't want the decision to be about whether a specific individual should serve more than three consecutive terms.
That's how Harold Brown, a former chairman of the Wood County Democratic Executive Committee who served on the city charter review committee from 2006 to 2008, is trying to consider the matter.
"If this were only to allow Mayor Newell to continue, I'd favor it because we've been very stable under him and his leadership's been positive," he said.
But Brown said he'd have concerns about what the lack of a term limit could mean for other candidates in the future.
"There is such a thing as a person being so powerful, such a strong leader ... they emerge with so much power they do things their way, which may not be in the best interest of the public," he said.
Brown said he'd be less inclined to support a term limit for council members.
"A council member is one of nine," he said. "Some of those people really do get to where they're serving their community exceptionally well."
And it's such a local position, Brown said, it's more likely an ineffective representative would be ousted by voters in his or her district than someone in a citywide position.
Gene Haynes, who served a term on Parkersburg City Council in the 1950s and supported the change to the strong mayor form of government under the current charter, said he's got no problem with term limits for the mayor and council, or Congress for that matter.
"They've been there so long, they think they're invincible," he said.
And sometimes that gets to be the case, with voters often choosing the most familiar name, Haynes said.
"They always say the voters have the right to recall anytime, but they don't, generally," he said.
As for continuity in a critical time for the city, Haynes noted the mayor isn't the only one working on economic development initiatives.
"Continuity could be anybody," he said. "I've got no problem with Bob, but three times is enough."
In order to reach the ballot, both questions would have to receive at least six affirmative votes on Tuesday and again on Aug. 19.
Council will consider two other potential charter changes on Tuesday as well. One would prohibit council from voting for a pay raise for its members that would take effect during the term on which it is voted. The other would impose the same restriction on pay increases for the mayor. In addition, no salary increases for elected officials could be considered during a municipal election year.


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The Thermistocle experiment, which consists of an array of 18 Cherenkov telescopes located on the French Pyrenées, has successfully observed the emission of multi‐TeV gamma rays from the CRAB source, with a significance corresponding to 6.5 standard deviations. The source is resolved with an accuracy of 2.5 mr (≂8 arc min.) per shower. The observation of the signal relies uniquely on the high angular resolution in determining the direction of the individual showers. The source is localized with the precision of the order of 0.5 mr (≂2 arc min.) in an energy range so far unexplored. The energy of the gammas is estimated by measuring the amplitude of the Cherenkov signal detected by each of the 18 telescopes. The energy spectrum of the CRAB gamma source is determined in the range from 3 to 15 TeV. The results are compatible with a power extrapolation of the data available at lower energies (<1 TeV).
Probing Inflation with CMB PolarizationDaniel Baumann, Mark G. Jackson, Peter Adshead, Alexandre Amblard, Amjad Ashoorioon, Nicola Bartolo, Rachel Bean, Maria Beltrán, Francesco de Bernardis, Simeon Bird, Xingang Chen, Daniel J. H. Chung, Loris Colombo, Asantha Cooray, Paolo Creminelli, Scott Dodelson, Joanna Dunkley, Cora Dvorkin, Richard Easther, Fabio Finelli, Raphael Flauger, Mark P. Hertzberg, Katherine Jones‐Smith, Shamit Kachru, Kenji Kadota, Justin Khoury, William H. Kinney, Eiichiro Komatsu, Lawrence M. Krauss, Julien Lesgourgues, Andrew Liddle, Michele Liguori, Eugene Lim, Andrei Linde, Sabino Matarrese, Harsh Mathur, Liam McAllister, Alessandro Melchiorri, Alberto Nicolis, Luca Pagano, Hiranya V. Peiris, Marco Peloso, Levon Pogosian, Elena Pierpaoli, Antonio Riotto, Uroš Seljak, Leonardo Senatore, Sarah Shandera, Eva Silverstein, Tristan Smith, Pascal Vaudrevange, Licia Verde, Ben Wandelt, David Wands, Scott Watson, Mark Wyman, Amit Yadav, Wessel Valkenburg and Matias Zaldarriaga
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If you love comic books, you'll love these stylized villains from NBC's new superhero drama, The Cape. James Frain (Tron: Legacy, True Blood) and Vinnie Jones (Wanted Dead, Chuck) play two of the show's regular big bads, named Chess and Scales respectively. What's behind the stylized portraits of these villains? What makes them tick?
Frain (above) broke the show down to its basic elements:
"It's a superhero show and I play the supervillain. It's not that big a stretch. No one has any real powers. It's all about cunning and skill. It's very serious in its intent. But it's also light in the way it's played. It is closer to Batman in that the people don't have powers."
[Above: Vinnie Jones]
Vinnie explained his character's strategic plan for domination:
"Scales is the main boss, trying to take over, and he will be trying all different angles to do that. He's going to be teaming up wherever he can to try to take over Palm City. I think there are lots of things there, with Rollo (Martin Klebba) [and] with Chess (James Frain), that are going to be evolved into the storyline."
Even though the main character played by David Lyons fashions himself after his son's favorite comic book character, this show isn't based on a real comic book. Frain explained what creator Tom Wheeler had in mind:
"It is a completely new story. It is not based on a comic book or an old character. It is a completely new and inventive mythology. The show creator Tom Wheeler has the whole first season mapped out. He has the whole thing in his mind and he is slowly revealing it to us. And it's cool. I really hope people will give it a chance to reveal itself to them."
The Cape stars David Lyons (ER), Summer Glau (Dollhouse, Serenity), Jennifer Ferrin (Life on Mars), Ryan Wynott (FlashForward), and James Frain (TRON: Legacy, True Blood). This one-hour drama is set in a fictional Los Angeles and follows a former cop who after being framed for a crime becomes a masked superhero called the Cape, fighting to clear his name and reunite with his son.
The two-hour premiere episode of The Cape airs on NBC on Sunday, January 9th. The show then shifts to the time-slot right after Chuck on Monday nights beginning January 17th.
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Celine Dion Gossip
Celine Dion gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Dear Gossips,
So the American Music Awards. And Celine. And Alanis. Both sounded amazing. Definitely two of the highlights. There were some notable presenters too. I enjoy the new, much more congenial Harrison Ford. Like, he was never at Tommy Lee Jones levels of grumpy but this current attitude – playful and light – is definitely refreshing. Read Full Intro
Dear Gossips,
As a Canadian, Celine Dion is important to me. Some Canadians will claim that they're too cool for Celine. I don't even understand what that means. Since Celine is so essential to my national identity, this is what I'm tripping on today. Read Full Intro
Lunged me back to life
Here are the Canadians who've been representing Canada on the world stage lately: Rob Ford and Justin Bieber Is it our finest moment? Or our lowest moment? Debatable. There is however a Canadian whose representation of Canada is never debatable. Celine Dion is ALWAYS AMAZING. Full Story
Boy, I want, to be witchu
I started the day listening to Celine Dion's new song Loved Me Back To Life. It's a real leg lunger. It sounds like it's been written specifically for leg lunging. She can totally drop a leg lunge in there every 15 seconds if she wants to. And she does. Always. But why did they have to f-ck around with her voice so much? It's not like Celine doesn't have a voice. Full Story
Happy French Canadian Chinese New Year
Sorry to interrupt the Grammy coverage but... this can't wait. Morley just sent it to me and my life will never be the same. As you know, it was Chinese New Year's Day yesterday. We are in full New Year festival spirits for the next week or so. To celebrate the Year of the Snake, China threw what must have been a sh-tload of money at Celine Dion to have her sing at their state televised gala on Saturday. Full Story
Thanksgiving French Cheese
What a wonderful way to celebrate American Thanksgiving -- with the highest quality French Canadian cheese. Better this than the sad smut situation that Gabriel Aubry's involved in. Celine Dion was in Germany yesterday to collect her Bambi Award. Look at her, holding it as though it were alive, like it could converse. Full Story
I would never trade her
You know what people always say when someone's an embarrassment? Can we trade him/her? Maybe this is just what happens in Canada. A lot of people have been doing it this week with the announcement of that engagement. You know the one. I've even heard Canadians suggest Celine Dion now and again. Full Story
Return of the Queen
Of Vegas. It's Celine. She's back at Caesars for a multiyear run that will reportedly earn her $100 million. Last night was the kick-off. Obviously I wasn't there, but judging from the photos, well, it certainly looks like Celine was Celine. And maybe even with a few new moves? Am currently obsessed with what appears to be a gesture from the half-hip – check out the photo of her in the black dress with the generous slit as she's throwing one side of her body into some kind of gyration. Full Story
Best Contract Fulfilment: Celine Dion
Written by Duana This woman. This – woman. She is so fantastic. She is not here because these are all her lovely celebrity friends – she is here because she was invited, requested to do a job. You know what her job is? Her job is "to sing the 'Smile' song to commemorate those who have died". Full Story
The Anniversary of their Sex
Today is a very, very special today. It's one of the most precious days of all f-cking time. Can you hear the doves? They are singing and fluttering and our hearts should be soaring with the memory and the love and the joy of the memory of the love and the passion of the soul and the miracle of the life. Full Story
Through the faces of the Cheese
Celine Dion: Through the Eyes of the World hits theatres this weekend. Celine and the family attended the premiere in Miami last night. There's her angel, her miracle, her amazingness, her most wonderful, the blessed, the child of her life and love and existence, the transcendental, the elemental, the every word that describes every great feeling – her son Rene Charles. Full Story


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GOP to Sen. Manchin: 'Join us'
Manchins camp declines invitation
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PARKERSBURG — An officer with the Republican National Committee on Friday invited Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to become a Republica....
Following-up on the ACA branch of this thread, about 15 posts back (yesterday 12:51 PM & 10:56 AM):
The biggest problem needing fixed in Medicare, & in our health-care system in general, is fee-for-service. You go to a doctor or a hospital, if they don't get it right, you come back & they get paid to fix what they didn't do the 1st time. (Almost all health-care providers, as individuals, try to do what's best for the patient. But some of them are beginning to notice the field they work in isn't level.)
That's a perverse incentive. But the Affordable Care Act has its own perverse incentives, such as if an employer converts full-time positions to part-time, the employer isn't required to buy health insurance for them.
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How to fix the ACA (a.k.a. Obamacare)? Even Newt Gingrich has said the Republicans don't have a credible plan.
This morning Ted Cruz offered 3 points of the Republicans' approach to fix health care (after they defund the ACA). None of the 3 addresses the fee-for-service problem.
Cruz's 3rd point was to separate healthcare from employment. So there's some bipartisan agreement on that -- in fact, the ACA includes a plan to gradually transition out of employment-based health insurance. (Who knew? The ACA is as cluttered as Fibber McGee's closet, if anyone here is old enough to remember that; it's hard to know what's in it.)
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Thats all good and well but did you have any choice in saying that prayer?
Things can and will not stay the same unless people are forced and coerced into acting in certain ways.
I am sure things in the 40's 50's and 60's were considerably different than what your parents grew up with.
One thing to take into account is media's ability to amplify what we see going on in the world around us.
Things aren't as bad as you think they are. The media does focus on the negatives more than the positives going on around us. Sadly negativity sells more.
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I never advocated living in a theocracy,the likes of which existed in ancient Egypt,Calvin's 16th century Protestant Geneva,Europe's 15th century Catholocism,and yes even modern day Iran. What I would like to see is a restoration of a culture that I lived in the 1940s,1950s and early 1960s when the bulk of American traditional families were religious. Having said the prayer at Rayon Drive Elementary School,Franklin Jr. High School and Parkersburg High school instilled character in me and my generation that no longer exists in this dysfunctional society created in part by the sexual and secularistic movement of the 1960s that have created many of the problems existing now that cannot be fixed by political intervention.
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I don't know what the Voter ID law (proven that it doesn't prevent any legally registered voter from voting ONCE, anyone that says different is what my grandma would politely call a fibber-I'm not polite, they're flat out lying) has to do with the invite to Manchin.
Seems to me it's just another topic liverals are lying about. Color me shocked.
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"the secular,anti-religious revolution"
LOL! So you want to live in a country like Iran? A country where religion dictates public policy? And more likely than not foreign policy too.
Keeping things secular means no one party is showed any favor at all.
That is a key thing to have in place when running a country where all are equal under the law and people are actually free.
Otherwise you're in a theocracy.
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"The problems and issues facing the American people" CANNOT be solved by political intervention. These problems essentially were created and continue to be the result of culture change(technological advances requiring specialization in training for adequate employment,the drug culture developed in the 1960s and increasing exponenentially,the breakup of the traditional family,the secular,anti-religious revolution, all to name a few of the ills causing this unfortunate situation).
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It's pretty sad that this publicity stunt even qualifies as news, but then again given the ideology of the newspaper, I could see where this worthless story would appeal to their ilk.
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This is continuing proof that the Republican Party is bankrupt when it comes to govern and to provide new ideas in solving the many problems and issues facing the American people. It is truly a sad day when the only creative programs that Republicans can push forward on the radical right agenda is to keep American citizens from voting. Not too unlike how we grow mushrooms (keep them in the dark and feed them a bunch of manure).
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Senator Manchin ,you either stand for what you believe in, or you'll just be another republican like Romney, blowing in the wind! Like the (birthers) where are they now when one of their own, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was for sure born in another Country?
Can you say flip-flop?
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I also like Joe, and will vote for him no matter what party he is in because he supports my values(centrism) of a true leader. Joe is good for West Virginia. He possibly will be our next vice president.
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A fundamental belief of the democratic Party thet was not mentioned in these comments is: Democrats believe in catering and manipulating the poor,while keeping them(their voter base) dependant in all aspects. Like Republicans desire to eliminate vital social and economic programs for the DESERVING poor,while catering to the wealthy and to those working classes who yearn for restoration of faith,srong family(2 parent) traditions and responsibility.
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iPhone and auto correct...Lets try this again.
Yes Neo, we agree on much. I don't know if you agree with me on the ACA or not. I think it's fundamentally a bad bill that needs a complete overhaul. Many Democrats feel the same way. Why then do you suppose so many bow to the minority liverals running the show and refuse to do what they know needs to be done and fix it. After all, one would have to be completely stupid to think Obamacare isn't broke.
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Yes Neo, we agree on much. I don't know if you agree with me on the ACA or not. I think it's fundamentally a bad bill that needs a complete overhaul. Many Democrats feel the same way. Why ten do you suppose so many now to the minority liverals running the show refuse to do what they know needs to be done and fix it. After all, one would have to be completely stupid to think Obamacare isn't broke.
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Don't you love it when some body on the right tries to tell you what a Democrat meant to say! And one that can't spell liberal to top that off.
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AaronS & I agree to some extent. Medicare needs fixed. Obamacare needs fixed.
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"...about as many people thought it was what you call a "Big D" program, as today think Obamacare is."
And they would be right. What you fail to understand Neo is that I don't oppose universal healthcare. If anything, I believe I could make a Constitutional argument to support universal healthcare.
That doesn't change the fact that for the good Medicare has done, it's been a extremely wasteful program that's cost taxpayers billions. With as much waste and fraud surrounding the program, the stakeholders would have been better served with something other than the government oversight it's been burdened with for nearly 50 years.
Obamacare will suffer the same fate if it is not addressed as is some sort of practical manner that takes liveral politics out of the equation and instead looks out for the stakeholders in a more efficient manner than Medicare did.
As it is, liverals will do nothing to reduce the cost of healthcare while imposing the largest tax in
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"This is where I came in." (For those who don't catch the allusion, some people used to go to a movie theater w/o regard for show times, walk in & take a seat in the middle of the movie, remain through intermission, watch until the movie got to the part where they arrived, then leave.)
What that has to do w/ today's discussion: AaronS, I'm old enough to remember when Medicare came in. & about as many people thought it was what you call a "Big D" program, as today think Obamacare is.
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What he said and (what he meant)...
There are fundamental beliefs that make us Democrats: Taking guns out of the hands of criminals and off the streets,(via gun control) freedom of choice,(abortion on demand) separation of church and state,(the end of religion) healthcare for EVERYONE,(government control of health care) and that the rich needs to pay their share (redistribution of wealth).
(That's the Big D Democrat of Barrack Obama and the liveral party. It's not the little d democratic party of JFK and West Virginians. The difference is the origins of their belief system. While the latter has origins in Locke, Jefferson, Madison and the Constitution, today's D's origins lie with Engels, Marx and the Communist Manifesto.)
Denver is right. If Manchin believes in the values of old school democrats, he should leave today's Bid D Democratic Party. Personally, I think he should register as an Independent but that's just me.
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There are fundamental beliefs that make us Democrats: Taking guns out of the hands of criminals and off the streets, freedom of choice, separation of church and state, healthcare for EVERYONE, and that the rich needs to pay their share. It's that simple! And if Senator Manchin doesn't believe in that, then maybe it is time for him to switch sides!
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Manchin needs to go along with the rest of the elitists. Maybe when he gets his own backyard in order (will never happen). We must take care of our own. We will be fighting in the streets just like egypt. White collar crime destroys economies! Their ALL crooks. Prove me wrong!
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I think fiscally, Senator Manchin is more inline with Republicans with Democrats and while I don't necessarily agree with his bill sponsoring background checks (more for practical reasons than anything else but that's another debate), his view on the 2nd Amendment is much less extreme than the like 2016 Republican nomine, Chris Christie.
I like Joe and will likely vote for him no matter the party he is in because I believe he does vote for what he believes is in the best interest of WV'ians and Americans.
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This is a cute publicity stunt to place doubt in the minds of those who vote for a person because of his party as opposed to who he is. Interesting strategy used against candidates who tend to vote for what they truly believe as opposed to those who toe the party line.
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Manchin is a traitor and there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats, it's all just a show to divide and conquer the American people. Nothing but bickering on here while our country goes under and we continue losing our liberty. Say No to traitor Joe and his agenda to disarm the law abiding citizens. I don't trust any politician of either party.
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This is all very interesting, because the republicans have said everything under the sun about Senator Manchin. They have called him every name in the book! And now calls for a party switch? Get real!! I think the headlines pretty much says it all! GOP to Sen. Manchin: 'Join us' (Manchins camp declines invitation). In other words, not only no, BUT HE** NO!!!
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I'm female 51. I ran my 2nd Marathon October 2012. I didn't run much after that until the spring of 2013. My first 10 steps into my outdoor run I felt a "pop" in my left knee, intense pain and have not run since. It bothered me all summer. Walking up a hill I would feel that pop or tear and it would swell and I would suffer for weeks. I've had an xray and an MRI. I've gone for massages. The xray showed nothing, the MRI showed early arthritis. The massages helped other parts of my legs that were over compensating while I walked with this pain.
It hasn't been sore for a couple of months so this week I tried working out. Tuesday I did a sissy 35 min run in which only 20 min. was actually running. The first couple of steps I felt it become inflamed immediately so I wrapped it and continued because I'm stubborn and angry that this knee is giving me trouble. Last night I did squats, lunges, deadlifts and kickbacks.
This morning I woke up to a swollen knee and it feels just like it did back in April. I'm at a standstill with fitness.
I've researched Arthritis and I don't think Arthritis would cause it to hurt so much, swell, etc from working it. If the weather is bad then I might feel it ache (like my finger joints do).
I am at a loss as to what to do next.
You need to ask more specific questions regarding results of MRI. Was there a torn menicus? Were in the joint is the arthritis? Is the arthritic changes on a weight bearing surface, of under the knee cap? How bad are the arthrtic changes mild, moderate, or severe? The answers to these types of questions help provide direction to intervention?
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Were you out-of-pocket at the initial exam? It sounds like they did not finish the job, and more work should have been done to determine the cause of this problem. It acts like something was torn, perhaps not menisci (lateral, medial?), but ACL or other ligament damage could lead to that. Popping and severe pain without anything visible other than early arthritis? Hmmm..
I'm worried that you were doing lunges and squats at this stage. I would put that kind of cross-training away for now, in case it makes things worse. Ditto for all running. Chances are very good that the long rest after your last marathon de-conditioned the stabilizing leg muscles that could prevent a potential injury from reaching this stage. It took you a while to prepare your leg muscles for that marathon, and you can't just jump back into it after months of downtime. Maybe your return to running was too abrupt, and something was actually torn as a result. If such an injury cannot be found by competent examination and imaging, it is possible that trauma to deconditioned muscles could set up chronic pain syndromes that do not exclude popping noises due to erratic contraction. Still, I am inclined to wonder if the initial pop was due to a structural change, and what you are experiencing now is from the resulting instability.
Chondromalacia (runner's knee) is often suspected, but should be more evident descending hills. You said the pain came from climbing. Check these videos for an example of how to look for ligament injury in a physical exam:
Suppose there was nothing holding your knee together, just junk in there. You would expect the thigh (femur) to slip forward on the lower leg (tibia) when descending hills (PCL), and for it to slip backward on the lower leg when climbing (ACL). As I mentioned earlier, laxity in these ligaments can lead to menisci damage, with the latter being the result, not the initial cause. The initial "pop" could be the more important clue. Read the comments in these videos for 1st person accounts of similar injuries. This next video discusses whether surgery is always necessary, and the success of physical therapy, with examples:
My gut feeling is that the arthritic degeneration shown on your MRI (even mild, as Damien notes, depending on location) could be a player here, though many have more severe arthritis without such symptoms (again, where is the arthritis located). It is also possible that weak muscles after your rest allowed excess movement to strain/sprain tendons and ligamentation, leading to inflammation, perhaps a tear. Regardless of what is actually wrong, the rehab of this injury needs to take some time. Strengthening of the stabilizing muscles will eventually be necessary, but right now, a better understanding of the internals of your knee is required. You may be a candidate for arthroscopy, but another course of MRIs from different angles, maybe with contrast dyes (beware of gadolinium), would be a better place to start.
Not sure what you've found out so far, or whether you've had the time to get to it yet, but I came across more information worth considering as you move forward. In a nutshell, most people have remnants of fetal development in the knee called "plica," which ordinarily aren't a problem until they become irritated and thicken to the point of interfering with the normal operation of the knee. It's sort of like a land-mine waiting for something like marathon training to activate it. The link I supply here shows a case history in which MRI did not reveal this problem, but it was found incidentally during meniscus repair surgery.
Another item is the cascade from one injury to another that I mentioned in the previous post. Arthritic changes in the knee can result from the neglect of another injury, such as a torn meniscus. This is referred to as "Fairbanks change," and can turn a comparatively minor injury into a career-ending one, by claiming what is left of the health of your knee joint via arthritic degeneration. I would suspect this more in the aging athlete, and the effect is probably one of the reasons why most people, including many doctors, believe that running is bad for the knees. It would be more correct to say that neglect of minor knee injuries can lead to further degenerative changes in the knee, whether or not running is involved, which it often is initially. Overall, from what I have learned, running correctly on healthy knees makes them healthier.
On that subject, it is important to have your gait analyzed by a professional for clues as to why you might be prone to certain types of injuries, and why such conditions might worsen as you continue to run. Everything from posture, to muscle tone, to bone structure, throughout the body, can have an impact on remote parts of your anatomy. The knee is particularly vulnerable to this interaction.
The master link from Athletic Advisor, from which I drew this information, is worth reading again for items that may have escaped your attention before. Further study can't hurt as much as what you are already going through. A little information can be a dangerous thing, and too much can have a paralyzing effect, but I'd rather face my doctor, like my marathons, overprepared.
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This year's IWF was no different, with Rockler unveiling at least a dozen cool new tools, with my 5 favorites all coming in under $25, yet all promising to make you a better woodworker, or at least, a happier one. They just keep thinking of stuff the other guys miss.
Added to their ingenious silicone glue brush is a small silicone glue tray, and a spreader for wide surfaces, offered in one $15 kit. The tray alone is worth $15. Think of all those pieces of carboard you won't have to rip up and all those yogurt lids you won't have to save and throw away afterward. The beauty of silicone is that dried glue just pops off. Why didn't some one think of this earlier?
Coming in right behind the glue kit is the Mixing Mate, a self-sealing lid that goes on your paint and finish cans, with a built-in mixing whisk, and a pouring spout that opens with a thumb latch and closes without dripping, air-tight. The quart version is available now for $15, and the gallon size is coming in January for $20. At these prices I can afford to have a dedicated one for my shellac can, for example, which I will clean off by filling the can with alcohol and spinning the whisk, when the shellac gets old. Same goes for other finishes that I tend to thin and need to mix occasionally.
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I ordered the tray,spreader and another brush. I use plastic spreaders, but they are ridgid and sometimes leave streaks when the glue isn't poured out evenly. I'm thinking that the more flexible Rockler spreader will work better.
It's amazing to me that such a common activity as spreading glue got an upgrade with these do dads.
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I ordered the tray,spreader and another brush. I use plastic spreaders, but they are ridgid and sometimes leave streaks when the glue isn't poured out evenly. I'm thinking that the more flexible Rockler spreader will work better.
It's amazing to me that such a common activity as spreading glue got an upgrade with these do dads.
Posted: 9:16 pm on September 16th
Not sure I'd use the tray. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've always just run a bead along a board and spread it with a brush -- and now my silicone glue brush. I don't waste any glue that needs to be peeled off any trays, either. My wife says I can have a couple silicone muffin cups that she doesn't use, so I guess I'll give that a try for a glue dish.
Posted: 9:37 pm on August 27th
I like both of these items. I can see a real value in the silicone gluing kit. The paint mixer looks interesting, but there seemed to be no real mention regarding the ease of clean-up. I can foresee moving parts becoming gummed up, ot flakes of one paint falling into another if it has any clean-up difficulties at all.
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I have a J.A. Henkles version and use it for bbq sauce.
Come to think of it, I don't use it often and I think I may have just repurposed it based on this article!
Posted: 12:32 am on August 23rd
I've been using a silicone bowl for mixing epoxy, etc. ever since Lee Valley started selling them a couple of years ago. And I bought a silicone pastry brush (for cooking) nearly ten years ago.
So, people have thought about these things before.
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An unsuspecting pedestrian seems to be the target of a dive bomber in a mural in Deland, Florida. The downtown area of Deland (population 25,000) is decorated with a number of murals. This one depicts activity at the Deland Naval Air Station during WW II.
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Choosing Your Doctor (Primary Care Physician)
Discover how to find the right doctor (primary care physician) for yourself.
View this short video to find out if your doctor is within your network, and if your doctor is covered by your health plan.
What is a Primary Care Physician?
In the past people relied on family doctors for everything from broken bones and the common cold to the delivery of babies. Family practitioners knew the medical history of the entire family because they treated both the children and the parents. Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) have brought this tradition back. Instead of specializing in a specific area of medicine, PCPs help patients maintain overall health by focusing on preventive care. Some insurance plans, particularly health maintenance organizations (HMOs) require patients to choose a Primary Care Physician. Check with your insurance company to see if you're required to select a PCP.
Which doctors qualify as Primary Care Physicians?
There are many specialties in medicine, but typically only three qualify as PCPs. In most cases only doctors with the following three specialties are considered PCPs:
- Family Practice or General Practice: A family practitioner is qualified to care for the entire family. A family practitioner can be board-certified and have training in a variety of subjects including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, or Psychiatry. This specialty was more common in years past but can still be found to treat the entire family.
- Internal Medicine: An internist can diagnose and treat disease with medicine. An internist is not a surgeon. There are several sub-specialties an internist can have, including: specializing in a particular organ, like the lungs or the kidneys; a particular disease, like diabetes; or a particular age group, like the elderly.
- Pediatrics: A pediatrician specializes in the overall well-being of children. Most pediatricians treat children from birth until adolescence or about 14 years old. Pediatricians can have sub-specialties such as surgery or pediatric cardiology.
How can you find a Primary Care Physician?
Choosing a doctor can be challenging. You might not want to just pick a name out of the phone book. If your insurance plan requires you to choose a PCP, you may want to take time to research your options. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Your health insurance plan. Your health insurance plan may have listings of doctors in its network who are accepting new patients. Choosing a PCP is often the first step in seeking treatment under an HMO or PPO plan. PCPs will handle any referrals to specialists you need.
- Personal referral. People often ask their friends, families, and co-workers for referrals to Primary Care Physicians. If someone you respect and trust has a positive experience with a doctor, it's possible you may like that particular physician.
- Current physicians. If you are moving to a new area, you could ask your current physician to help you find a PCP in your new neighborhood.
- Hospitals. It is common for hospitals to offer a referral service that can provide you with the names of staff doctors who meet certain criteria you may be seeking, such as specialty, gender, experience, and location.
Why should you choose a Primary Care Physician?
Don't wait until you get sick to choose a PCP. Primary Care Physicians may see their patients regularly and look for symptoms a patient may not notice. For example, a routine health exam may uncover conditions such as high blood pressure or even hormonal imbalances due to glandular problems. Health problems like these can go unnoticed by the patient for years and could result in serious chronic health issues. Annual exams may help your PCP guide you toward healthy lifestyle habits that may decrease the likelihood that you'll need expensive specialty care. Also, in HMO plans, a PCP will usually have to refer you to a specialist should you need one.
Developing a relationship with your Primary Care Physician can help keep illnesses at bay. Remember the old adage: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Charming Shoppes Purchase Latest Add To Dress Barn Stable
Ascena is adding Charming Shoppes to its stable of clothing chains including Dress Barn and Justice, according to WSJ's Dana Mattioli.
Mattioli reports the group is buying Charming Shoppes, which operates Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug and Catherines Plus Sizes, for $7.35 a share, a 25% premium for shares.
Charming Shoppes shares jumped 23% to $7.24 in after-hours trading.
For Ascena, which was known as Dress Barn up until last year, the deal will help it reach a new demographic, its third such purchase since 2005.
That year it bought Maurices from American Retail Group for $320 million. That company, started in 1931, is aimed at twenty-somethings.
In 2009, it added Tween Brands for $321.7 million, a deal that launched Ascena into the market for girls aged seven to 14. Tween Brands operates the Justice retail chain.
Now with Charming Shoppes, Ascena is adding plus sizes to its arsenal of women's clothing.
Ascena's shareholders appear to like the deal; its stock is up 10% to $21 in after-hours trading.


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Love It or Leave It: This Girl Needs a Break
5/2/2014 9:00 AM PDT, by Sarah Taylor
Can we officially say that Selena Gomez needs a nice, long break away from the spotlight for a little bit? Because it's vividly apparent that all of this career stress, coupled with the Justin Bieber/Jenner girls/Taylor Swift mess is taking its toll on poor little Selena, and to what end? It shows in this girl's eyes that a Hollywood hiatus is needed -- if not completely necessary -- and if she doesn't get it? Well. I'd hate to see the physical and emotional results after that particular all-nighter.
Verdict: Leave it, because this goes way beyond the wine-colored dress and flat-ironed hair.
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Audi Asks: Which Car would Mr. Spock Drive? (Video)
Mercedes-Benz and BMW may battle for the title of best-selling European luxury-car brand year after year. But rival Audi wants car shoppers to believe it is the choice of the truly modern driver – including contemporary Vulcans.
A new ad from the high-end unit of Volkswagen AG includes a friendly Star Trek rivalry between old Spock, the actor Leonard Nimoy, and Zachary Quinto, who assumes the Vulcan's role in the latest installment of the intergalactic saga "Star Trek Into Darkness," which opens May 16.
In the ad, which runs more than two minutes, Quinto challenges Nimoy to a round of golf and a race to the country club after the older man beats him handily in an online chess match. For the drive, Quinto has a racy, silver-gray Audi S7, a souped-up version of its large fastback A7 sedan.
We see Nimoy getting into a Mercedes-Benz CLS550. It is clear the trip won't go well when his golf clubs won't fit into the big car's skimpy trunk (long cited as a CLS shortfall). Somehow, perhaps though Audi's selection of camera angles and lighting, the Benz winds up looking old and dowdy.
Trekkies who aren't in the market for a new car are likely to watch the spot repeatedly while looking for references from the old Star Trek television series, the movies that followed and even a peek at Nimoy's singing career ("Go Bilbo").


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Principle Contractor: American Ordnance LLC
Department: Army
Contract Details: American Ordnance, LLC, Middletown, Iowa, was awarded on June 1 a $21,819,932 firm-fixed-price contract to exercise Option #1 for 81mm propelling charges; 121,018 M218; 100,502 M219; 1,782,862 M220; and 574,720 M234. Work is to be performed in Middletown, Iowa (50 percent), and Milan, Tenn. (50 percent), with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2013. Bids were solicited via the national technology industrial base with four bids received. Army Contracting Command, Rock Island Contracting Center, CCRC-AC, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W52P1J-09-C-0029).
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Iranian Energy Chronicles: New Episode, Same Old Script
The latest episode of the Iranian Energy Chronicles has just been released, however it's not much different than previous episodes. In fact, you have to watch closely just to make sure it's not a rerun from last season.
This time China plays a supporting role. Iran reappears as the protagonist while the US and its allies are the evil perpetrators, the classic antagonists that just can't seem to get along with the other kids on the block.
In this latest installment, China's CNPC claims that it has some money problems. News broke last week that the Chinese oil major was struggling to finance phase 11 development of the Iranian offshore South Pars natural gas field. In fact, an Iranian official said that CNPC had "some difficulties [developing the project]," and that "it had not brought its financing."
The statement came a few days after a report in an Iranian newspaper claimed that CNPC had withdrawn from the field. Later however both Iran and CNPC refuted that particular claim. In 2009, Tehran signed a $5-billion contract with CNPC to develop the field.
However, all may not be what it appears. How can CNPC, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, with 23.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) proved oil and gas reserves, and 1.6 billion-boe production in 2011, have financing problems?
Admittedly, CNPC and its subsidiary PetroChina did suffer losses last year at its refining operations mostly due to high oil prices and state controlled prices of petroleum products. Yet, according to a Fitch ratings report in April, CNPC and PetroChina continue to generate "strong cash flow" from operations due to its profitable upstream and retail operations.
So, if cash flow and financing aren't the problems — what is? Some Iranian reports blamed CNPC for the fallout, saying that they had delayed the project for more than three years and had not even begun preliminary work. But we've heard this all before. French oil major Total SA (TOT), which earlier withdrew from the South Pars project, had similar accusations leveled against them by Iran as well. They eventually pulled out.
At any rate, in this episode, Iran blames CNPC and CNPC says it's broke. So, what's the answer? Can't we all just get along?
Sanctions and international pressure are the primary culprits. In fact a CNPC source told the National Business Daily last week that the situation regarding Iran"s nuclear program and political environment have made investment unstable and risky, and that there is a high degree of difficulty in developing the gas field.
Sanctions & Iran's gas dilemma
"Iran's oil and gas sectors have critical structural problems," according to "The Iran Primer," a book published by the United States Institute of Peace. "Subsidized prices and a population that has doubled since the 1979 revolution have created excessive demand. Supply has been stymied by under investment caused by financial constraints, technical shortages and sanctions."
Western sanctions are indeed cutting into Iran's oil and gas revenues, bone deep, however it's also a double-edged sword. It is wishful thinking to believe that sanctions alone will stop Iran's feverish race to develop its nuclear program. Though Obama will likely use recent sanctions to do some political posturing in upcoming presidential debates with Mitt Romney, Iran pushes forward "hell-bent-on-destruction" as my mother used to tell her four sons growing up in Southeast Georgia when we were doing something dim-witted. Irritant the sanctions are for Iran, a game changer – they are not.
Undoubtedly, both Iran and CNPC have high hopes for the South Pars field, which is the world's largest. The field is in the Persian Gulf and shared by Iran and Qatar. According to the US Energy Administration Agency (EIA), Iran's estimated proven natural gas reserves stood at 1,046 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) as of January 2011, the world"s second-largest after Russia. The South Pars field, only a portion of which is in Iranian territory, comprises over 47 percent of Iran's total reserves and produces 35 percent of its gas.
Annual revenue from exports from the South Pars field is projected to reach $100 billion according to the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC). Last week the company's managing director, Mousa Souri, said that Iran plans to increase its daily gas exports to 400 million cubic meters by developing the remaining phases of the field.
Though the South Pars field is massive, Iran is still a new importer of natural gas while Qatar is the world's leading LNG exporter. Iran's gas sector is under-developed and used mostly to meet domestic demand, while natural gas accounts for 54 percent of Iran's total domestic energy consumption. In 2010, Iran was the world's fourth largest producer and third largest consumer of natural gas.
CNPC has been present in Iran's oil and gas sectors since 2004. The Chinese oil major is developing Iran's Masjed Soleyman oil field in collaboration with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). After completion of both phases of the field, production is expected at up to 55,000,000 bbl/d, according to Iran's Jaam-e Jam newspaper.
In addition, CNPC is developing Iran's North Azadegan field in conjunction with NIOC –Iran's biggest find in 30 years when announced in 1999. The field contains 26 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves, in a two-phase development with ultimate total production estimated at 150,000 bbl/d (75,000 bbl/d for each phase), according to the EIA.
Not only is CNPC in Iran so is China's Sinopec. Sinopec signed a buyback contract at the end of 2007 to develop Iran's Yadavarn oil development project. The first phase will produce at a plateau of 85,000 bbl/d (by 2014), while the second will boost production to 1850,000 bbl/d by 2016. According to Iran's Oil Ministry Annual Bulletin the field is estimated to have reserves of up to 17 billion barrels of oil, with 3 billion barrels considered to be recoverable.
The $2 billon deal named Sinopec as the operator with a 51 percent stake in the project while NIOC holds the remaining interest.
As this current episode of the Iranian Energy Chronicles unfolded between CNPC and Iran, the US was on script, playing its part and hit Iran again with fresh sanctions.
Last week a new package of sanctions passed by Congress along with an executive order signed by President Obama targeted Iran"s energy, petrochemical and financial sectors. Obama said the new sanctions would further pressure the country for failing to meet international nuclear obligations.
The new legislation endeavors to sanction banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Iran sell its oil by circumventing current sanctions, such as through the reflagging of Iranian ships. It puts nearly all of Iran"s energy, financial and transportation sectors under US sanctions.
Caught in the cross hairs of these new sanctions were China"s Bank of Kunlun and an Iraqi bank, accused of doing business with Tehran.
Both Iran and China were quick to counter. Iran's foreign ministry accused the West of seeking plans to disrupt the growth of Asian nations, chief among them being a plan to insecure energy markets in the Middle East.
The Tehran based Jaam-e Jam newspaper reported that Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a meeting with the Chinese deputy foreign minister for disarmament Ma Gaw Sho, that Asia's emerging economies have concerned the West, especially the United States, which are after plans to cause disruption in the way of fast growth of Asian nations.
"Attempt to insecure the energy market in the Middle East is chief among plans by the West to slow down the economic growth of its Asian rivals," Mehmanparast said.
If Iran's response was disingenuous, China's response was one of open resentment. The China Daily ran an article titled "Washington abusing Iran sanctions" on August 3. The article says that Washington damaged ties between the two nations and that the US should "correct its erroneous decision, lift the unprovoked sanctions against the Bank of Kunlun and stop harming Chinese interests and Sino-U.S. relations."
At the same time, China's foreign ministry issued a brief statement expressing "strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition" to the US move and said it would officially protest the decision.
However China is pragmatic if nothing else and realizes that even though it cuts deals with Iran as long as there are sanctions in place, problems will persist. Not only that, China's aim is not one of confrontation, especially with the West, but one of energy security, insuring that its juggernaut economy can continually be fueled — literally. They realize that they do not have the military power nor the blue ocean navy to shield Iran. In short, not only does the Middle Kingdom need Iranian oil and gas, it needs the West to play along as well.
Next episode coming soon
Even so, as deals are cut, as accusations, ill-will and tempers flare over implementation of those deals as well as sanctions, Iran is not likely to give up its nuclear ambitions unless forced to do so, meaning either American or Israeli military force. Though that discussion will have to wait until another day, suffice it to say, Iran –with no real allies in the region, save Syria, who is at civil war and whose leader could plausibly be expected to suffer a similar fate as that of Muammar Gaddafi if rebel resistance wins the day — is no friend of its Arab neighbors. If regime change in Iran is forced by the sword, few states in the region would shed many tears other than the usual media inspired grumbling and chest beating in Middle Eastern capitals. Life would go on in the region, and elsewhere for that matter, oil would still flow, and the world would be rid of yet another dangerous regime. The next episode of the Iranian Energy Chronicles is set for release soon, hopefully the next installment will not look like just another rerun.


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Hans Wiersma
Associate ProfessorMemorial Hall 227B
Curriculum Vitae
I have two main teaching roles at Augsburg and I enjoy them both. First, I enjoy my role teaching our "Search for Meaning" (Introduction to Religion) courses. I get to meet and learn from students representing all kinds of religious and non-religious points-of-view. Augsburg's diverse student community makes for an ideal setting for comparing and contrasting beliefs about life's meaning and purpose.
I also enjoy my role working with the many students who come to Augsburg interested in ministry and church work. As a former camp-counselor, youth director, youth pastor, and youth-and-family pastor, I consider it a privilege to be a part of the biblical and theological formation of developing Christian leaders, especially those in our Youth and Family Ministry (YFM) program. Much of my teaching (as with much of my scholarship) is focused through the History of Christianity. I believe that an appreciation of where the church has been, where it's at today, and where it might be going will better guide budding Christian leaders.
All of the above sounds pretty serious, I know, but I do have a sense of humor: Crazy Talk and Crazy Book.
Sample Courses
- REL 100 "Religion, Vocation, and The Search for Meaning"
- YFM 205 Topics "Media and Ministry"
- REL 309 "Religion at the Movies"
- REL 343 "Theology of Marriage and Family"
- REL 345 "The Lutheran Heritage"
- YFM 358 "Life and Work of the Church"
Sample Publications (available online)
- "Redeeming Life of Brian: How Monty Python (Ironically) Proclaims Christ Sub Contrario" in Word & World 32 (Spring 2012)
- "Luther on Lending: A Pastoral Response regrading the Subject of Usury" in Word & World 30 (Spring 2010).
- "Commentary on Psalm 46" (with connections to "A Mighty Fortress is Our God") in Working Preacher (October 31, 2010)
- "Commentary on Galatians 4:4-7" in Working Preacher (December 28, 2008)
Contributions to Scholarly Books
- 24 articles in The Westminster Handbook to Theologies of the Reformation (2010)
- 330 entries (including 22 long articles) in the on-line edition of Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity (2014)
- "Engaging Media and Messages in the Religion Classroom" in Teaching Civic Engagement (2016)
- Forthcoming: "The Uses of the Law" in Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions (due out in 2016)
- B.A., University of California, 1984
- M.Div., Luther Seminary, 1991
- Ph.D., Luther Seminary, 2005
Parish Experience
- The American Church of The Hague, The Netherlands, 1991-1993
- St. Paul Lutheran Church, Lodi, California, 1994-1998
- St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 1998-2008


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