Friday, October 05, 2007
Posted: 09:26 AM
(RTTNews) - On Friday, The Carlyle Group announced that it completed its third and largest venture and growth capital fund, which is launching with a $605 million war chest for early stage venture capital, expansion stage growth capital and growth buyout transactions.
The Carlyle Venture Partners III L.P., 'will help its portfolio companies expand by using Carlyle's global platform and domain expertise in such sectors as telecom and media, defense and aerospace, automotive and logistics, energy, technology and business services to help its companies expand internationally and grow sales,' the private equity firm said.
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When is the corruption of this White House going to stop? When will someone impeach Bush and Cheney? After all, whom is going to profit from the surveillance in the first place ?
White House Fights Democratic Changes to Surveillance Act (click here)
By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 11, 2007; Page A04
President Bush and other Republicans stepped up their attacks on Democratic legislation that would require more oversight of surveillance within U.S. borders that is directed at foreign targets, escalating a partisan battle over the boundaries of U.S. spying.
In separate votes along party lines, the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees approved bills that would require the government to get approval from a special intelligence court for blanket surveillance of targets overseas. Supporters say the legislation is needed to safeguard the rights of innocent U.S. citizens who may be caught up in such surveillance....
Carlyle's way Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government, and industry. (click here)
By Dan Briody January 8, 2002
Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has become unexpectedly important.
That the Carlyle Group had its conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S. president George Bush Sr., former U.K. prime minister John Major, and former president of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has counted George Soros, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's estranged family among its high-profile clientele. The group has been able to parlay its political clout into a lucrative buyout practice (in other words, purchasing struggling companies, turning them around, and selling them for huge profits)--everything from defense contractors to telecommunications and aerospace companies. It is a kind of ruthless investing made popular by the movie Wall Street, and any industry that relies heavily on government regulation is fair game for Carlyle's brand of access capitalism. Carlyle has established itself as the gatekeeper between private business interests and U.S. defense spending. And as the Carlyle investors watched the World Trade towers go down, the group's prospects went up....
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
NYSE hits all time high and Carlyle gets 'bailout' from Bush in Telecom Industry ! (click on)
Best & Worst Performing Industries (last 3 months)
Best Performing
There is NOTHING in the profits to stockholders of the NYSE that interprets into good paying jobs in the USA. NOTHING.
And with a NYSE this good to a small percentage of American stockholders, I think they can pay more taxes. It in no way interprets into growth in the USA economy so much as 'balouts' through lower interest rates from 'The Fed' to the losers of the exploitation of the American housing sector, so Bush can 'float' his economy at the expense of the future of all Americans.
Worst Performing
I have heard it all now ! This is amazing. Bush has no economy and what does Brooks say? "The Odyssey Years"
Most conservative journalists go to the extreme to make a point, otherwise there wouldn't be any point to make. Right now, mothers all over the country are reading David Brooks' Op-Ed as reassurance their family is not the ONLY one with a twenty-something that is MEANDERING throught life.
To protect and give excuse of a USA economy without direction for their young adults in the job market place, David Brooks without the assistance of Erik Erikson (click here) has 'invented' a new stage of life. "The Odyssey Year."
According to Erik Erikson the twenty somethings are supposed to be engaged in life and making their way to bigger and better things:
Young adulthood: 18 to 35
Ego Development Outcome: Intimacy and Solidarity vs. Isolation
Basic Strengths: Affiliation and Love
In the initial stage of being an adult we seek one or more companions and love. As we try to find mutually satisfying relationships, primarily through marriage and friends, we generally also begin to start a family, though this age has been pushed back for many couples who today don't start their families until their late thirties. If negotiating this stage is successful, we can experience intimacy on a deep level.
If we're not successful, isolation and distance from others may occur. And when we don't find it easy to create satisfying relationships, our world can begin to shrink as, in defense, we can feel superior to others.
Our significant relationships are with marital partners and friends.
Ego Development Outcome: Intimacy and Solidarity vs. Isolation
Basic Strengths: Affiliation and Love
In the initial stage of being an adult we seek one or more companions and love. As we try to find mutually satisfying relationships, primarily through marriage and friends, we generally also begin to start a family, though this age has been pushed back for many couples who today don't start their families until their late thirties. If negotiating this stage is successful, we can experience intimacy on a deep level.
If we're not successful, isolation and distance from others may occur. And when we don't find it easy to create satisfying relationships, our world can begin to shrink as, in defense, we can feel superior to others.
Our significant relationships are with marital partners and friends.
What Brooks exuse making for Bush indicates is that indeed our young adults are isolated from the rewards of life and the chance for assets building because there simply is no economy for them. Just that simple !
Well this mother isn't interested in any decade whereby young adults flounder around the landscape of America looking for a career path while Republicans make lame excuse and write 'feel good articles' to parents don't feel alone in their plight.
No different than the administration of George H. W. Bush, this Bush has caused the collapse of the American infrastructure that provides good paying jobs to young adults.
What next?
Honestly, will people buy anything or what?
October 9, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Odyssey Years
By DAVID BROOKS
There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.
During this decade, 20-somethings go to school and take breaks from school. They live with friends and they live at home. They fall in and out of love. They try one career and then try another.
Their parents grow increasingly anxious. These parents understand that there’s bound to be a transition phase between student life and adult life. But when they look at their own grown children, they see the transition stretching five years, seven and beyond. The parents don’t even detect a clear sense of direction in their children’s lives. They look at them and see the things that are being delayed.
They see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriage. They’re delaying having children. They’re delaying permanent employment. People who were born before 1964 tend to define adulthood by certain accomplishments — moving away from home, becoming financially independent, getting married and starting a family.
In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these things. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent of 30-year-olds had done the same.
Yet with a little imagination it’s possible even for baby boomers to understand what it’s like to be in the middle of the odyssey years. It’s possible to see that this period of improvisation is a sensible response to modern conditions.
Two of the country’s best social scientists have been trying to understand this new life phase. William Galston of the Brookings Institution has recently completed a research project for the Hewlett Foundation. Robert Wuthnow of Princeton has just published a tremendously valuable book, “After the Baby Boomers” that looks at young adulthood through the prism of religious practice.
Through their work, you can see the spirit of fluidity that now characterizes this stage. Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity, searching and tinkering. Old success recipes don’t apply, new norms have not been established and everything seems to give way to a less permanent version of itself.
Dating gives way to Facebook and hooking up. Marriage gives way to cohabitation. Church attendance gives way to spiritual longing. Newspaper reading gives way to blogging. (In 1970, 49 percent of adults in their 20s read a daily paper; now it’s at 21 percent.)
The job market is fluid. Graduating seniors don’t find corporations offering them jobs that will guide them all the way to retirement. Instead they find a vast menu of information economy options, few of which they have heard of or prepared for.
Social life is fluid. There’s been a shift in the balance of power between the genders. Thirty-six percent of female workers in their 20s now have a college degree, compared with 23 percent of male workers. Male wages have stagnated over the past decades, while female wages have risen.
This has fundamentally scrambled the courtship rituals and decreased the pressure to get married. Educated women can get many of the things they want (income, status, identity) without marriage, while they find it harder (or, if they’re working-class, next to impossible) to find a suitably accomplished mate.
The odyssey years are not about slacking off. There are intense competitive pressures as a result of the vast numbers of people chasing relatively few opportunities. Moreover, surveys show that people living through these years have highly traditional aspirations (they rate parenthood more highly than their own parents did) even as they lead improvising lives.
Rather, what we’re seeing is the creation of a new life phase, just as adolescence came into being a century ago. It’s a phase in which some social institutions flourish — knitting circles, Teach for America — while others — churches, political parties — have trouble establishing ties.
But there is every reason to think this phase will grow more pronounced in the coming years. European nations are traveling this route ahead of us, Galston notes. Europeans delay marriage even longer than we do and spend even more years shifting between the job market and higher education.
And as the new generational structure solidifies, social and economic entrepreneurs will create new rites and institutions. Someday people will look back and wonder at the vast social changes wrought by the emerging social group that saw their situations first captured by “Friends” and later by “Knocked Up.”
Op-Ed Columnist
The Odyssey Years
By DAVID BROOKS
There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. Of the new ones, the least understood is odyssey, the decade of wandering that frequently occurs between adolescence and adulthood.
During this decade, 20-somethings go to school and take breaks from school. They live with friends and they live at home. They fall in and out of love. They try one career and then try another.
Their parents grow increasingly anxious. These parents understand that there’s bound to be a transition phase between student life and adult life. But when they look at their own grown children, they see the transition stretching five years, seven and beyond. The parents don’t even detect a clear sense of direction in their children’s lives. They look at them and see the things that are being delayed.
They see that people in this age bracket are delaying marriage. They’re delaying having children. They’re delaying permanent employment. People who were born before 1964 tend to define adulthood by certain accomplishments — moving away from home, becoming financially independent, getting married and starting a family.
In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds had achieved these things. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent of 30-year-olds had done the same.
Yet with a little imagination it’s possible even for baby boomers to understand what it’s like to be in the middle of the odyssey years. It’s possible to see that this period of improvisation is a sensible response to modern conditions.
Two of the country’s best social scientists have been trying to understand this new life phase. William Galston of the Brookings Institution has recently completed a research project for the Hewlett Foundation. Robert Wuthnow of Princeton has just published a tremendously valuable book, “After the Baby Boomers” that looks at young adulthood through the prism of religious practice.
Through their work, you can see the spirit of fluidity that now characterizes this stage. Young people grow up in tightly structured childhoods, Wuthnow observes, but then graduate into a world characterized by uncertainty, diversity, searching and tinkering. Old success recipes don’t apply, new norms have not been established and everything seems to give way to a less permanent version of itself.
Dating gives way to Facebook and hooking up. Marriage gives way to cohabitation. Church attendance gives way to spiritual longing. Newspaper reading gives way to blogging. (In 1970, 49 percent of adults in their 20s read a daily paper; now it’s at 21 percent.)
The job market is fluid. Graduating seniors don’t find corporations offering them jobs that will guide them all the way to retirement. Instead they find a vast menu of information economy options, few of which they have heard of or prepared for.
Social life is fluid. There’s been a shift in the balance of power between the genders. Thirty-six percent of female workers in their 20s now have a college degree, compared with 23 percent of male workers. Male wages have stagnated over the past decades, while female wages have risen.
This has fundamentally scrambled the courtship rituals and decreased the pressure to get married. Educated women can get many of the things they want (income, status, identity) without marriage, while they find it harder (or, if they’re working-class, next to impossible) to find a suitably accomplished mate.
The odyssey years are not about slacking off. There are intense competitive pressures as a result of the vast numbers of people chasing relatively few opportunities. Moreover, surveys show that people living through these years have highly traditional aspirations (they rate parenthood more highly than their own parents did) even as they lead improvising lives.
Rather, what we’re seeing is the creation of a new life phase, just as adolescence came into being a century ago. It’s a phase in which some social institutions flourish — knitting circles, Teach for America — while others — churches, political parties — have trouble establishing ties.
But there is every reason to think this phase will grow more pronounced in the coming years. European nations are traveling this route ahead of us, Galston notes. Europeans delay marriage even longer than we do and spend even more years shifting between the job market and higher education.
And as the new generational structure solidifies, social and economic entrepreneurs will create new rites and institutions. Someday people will look back and wonder at the vast social changes wrought by the emerging social group that saw their situations first captured by “Friends” and later by “Knocked Up.”
Like I said, Iraq has no sovereignty. Iraq will be devoured by it's neighbors.
Military trucks carry tanks toward Sirnak near the Turkish-Iraq border, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007, two days after Kurdish rebels killed 15 Turkish soldiers at the Turkey-Iraq border. Turkey said Tuesday it had begun preparations for a military operation into Iraq to chase Kurdish rebels whose deadly attacks on soldiers in recent days triggered public outrage. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Turkey issues fresh warning of military incursion into Iraq (click here)
20 hours ago
ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey on Tuesday threatened a military incursion in northern Iraq as part of stepped up measures against Kurdish rebel bases there following the deaths of 15 soldiers in weekend attacks.
The government said in a statement that it had given orders allowing for all legal, economic and political measures, "including a cross-border operation if necessary," against a "terrorist organisation in a neighbouring country".
The statement was taken to refer to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) presence in Iraq.
Earlier, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had met senior government and military officials to discuss tougher action against the PKK after the rebels killed 15 soldiers in weekend attacks. The group is listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community.
Ankara says the PKK enjoys free movement in northern Iraq and obtains weapons and explosives there for attacks across the border.
It has also accused Iraqi Kurds of tolerating and even supporting the rebels....
This ought to be interesting. The USA invades Iraq illegally and now the 'idea' that Turkey is taking over in the northern regions is typical of the anarchic Bush White House. No structure, just shoot from the hip and let's profit in the aftermath.
Iraq is a battlefield. At the time when the USA Executive Branch is finally coming to terms with the civilian element in Iraq, when Maliki FINALLY stood up for his citizens against the USA's military and mercenaries; the country that was once Iraq is turning into "The Battlefield of the Ethnicities."
What a mess. The USA military needs to leave Iraq to prevent a war with Turkey !
It goes like this. The Kurds and Turkey have been enemies for a long time. When Bush invaded Iraq, the Kurds never wanted it because they had set up a democrary under the northern no fly zone and it worked for them. They had their own economy, shadow government and military. The PKK, no matter how unpopular and viewed by most diplomats as a terrorist group, have always wanted to establish a Kurdistan.
Iraqi Kurds warn Turkey (click here)
By Jim Muir BBC correspondent in Erbil, northern Iraq
The Kurds of northern Iraq have warned that there will be clashes if troops from neighbouring Turkey cross the border.
Ankara is demanding that Turkish forces should enter the north of the country to secure Turkey's interests if the US and Britain go ahead with an attack on Iraq.
Kurdish spokesmen have said that their guerrillas who control the north will oppose any Turkish intervention.
Regional tensions are rising in advance of expected military action by the US and its allies and the atmosphere between two of those allies - the Turks and the Iraqi Kurds - is becoming increasingly embittered....
To cut to the bottom line, Bush was never able to build the military of Iraq from the ground up. Quite the contrary. After destroying Saddam's military every self respecting citizen of Iraq ran the other way when Bush attempted to assemble a significant force called Iraqi police and military. There are lots of reasons for that, but, one of the reasons the Kurds don't throw in enthusiastically is because a large force in Iraq would dampen any authority they already have established.
Besides that, Bush is still hoping for his war with Iran. So if he can't put together a substantial Iraqi military that will ally with the USA, he'll settle for a Turkish military allied with the USA to invade Iran. See, with Turkey invading already identied 'terrorist' territory in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey it will 'appear' as though there are actually three allies working together to rid the area of PKK. The three would be the USA, Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds. Therefore, when it comes down to invading Iran there will be a coalition of supposedly three countries, Iraq, Turkey and the USA and it's coalition. But, that isn't the case. Iraq has turned away from putting together an autonomous military as it would overpower and control the outcomes of the already victimized populous of Kurds and Shi'ites.
What is occurring in Iraq today, is a slight of hand by many. By Turkey, by Bush's military and by the Iraqi Central Authority in the Green Zone. If Bush is able to 'pull off' this deception to the American legislature, he'll again take it to the UN and then proceed to override the initiative at the UN as he did with Iraq and invade Iran, but, this time with not just his contingent of military but also a full compliment of ambitious Turkish military INSTEAD of a allied Iraq military. That is why the Petraeus strategy won't work. The so called insurgency will be a predominantly Shi'ite military with loyalities to their religion before their government and they will more than likely 'turn on' the Turks and USA rather than fight along side of them. With that will enter the picture Iran backed, if not allied with Russia and China and then the Middle East will turn into a blood bath.
The Turks don't belong in Iraq, they belong at their borders protecting their sovereignty.
End of Discussion !
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Orientation Map
The Circumpolar Ocean
I think of it as the 'fifth' ocean. There are four official oceans, but, the Circumpolar Ocean of Antarctica can easily be discerned as unique to the others. At any rate if one clicks on this map and enlarges to maximum viewer size, one will note two lines that encircle Antarctica. They are the boundaries to the two 'currents' of this ocean. The outer border is the West Wind Drift and the inner border noted to be a lighter blue line is the East Wind Drift.
Ready for this? Where is the Arctic Ocean melting at a record pace?
October 9, 2007
0730z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite north and west hemisphere
FOUR heat transfer systems in the northern hemisphere over the Arctic Circle all in the proximity of the USA. Amazing. And of course, as George Bush would say, "There is no such thing as global warming and carbon dioxide could never be a toxic gas." Yeah, right. Jerk ! Sacrifice a planet for politics. Ethics? Where? Morality? Where? GREED. Everywhere !
October 9, 2007
0717 gmt
North Pole Satellite
The Arctic Ocean is the recipient of multiple heat transfers. MULTIPLE. Why? Because the blanket of carbon dioxide over the USA is so thick that the air is superhot and the water vapor GONE. The water vapor over the North Amerian continent is 'pulled' from the equator and causes drought in the Amazon and from the North Polar Cap where Polar Bears are dying as I write this. What does the USA do about that? NOTHING.
Did I tell you or did I tell you? Huh? But, there are still chronic heat transfers.
October 9, 2007
1200 pm UTC
Winds of Antarctica (click for 24 hour loop, thank you)
The winds that transcend the arrival of heat transfer are translated into significant velocity that sublimes the ice, causing a rise in water vapor and resulting in snow at lower elevations/altitudes. The snow sometimes is noted to leave the continent and enter the East Wind Drift such as is noted at 11:30, 12 and 3 o'clock.
October 8, 2007
0600 gmt
Antarctica Jet Stream Satellite
THIS satellite 'orientation' is the same as the temperature satellite, but, different 'temporal/time' component. At any rate, this orientation places South America at 10 o'clock, Africa at 2 o'clock and Australia at 5 o'clock. Therefore, the locations of high altitude/elevation heat transfer systems impacting Antarctica is discernable where noted in the satellite below given different 'temporal sync.'
October 9, 2007
0720 gmt
South Pole Satellite
It gets easy from here. Where are the LEAST heat transfers into Antarctica? This is an easy one. South America is at 12 o'clock. Africa is at 3 o'clock. And Australia is at 6:30 o'clock. Where is the 'break' in the heat transfer? You got it. THE PACIFIC OCEAN and where was there TWO, not one, but TWO; typhoons? Yep, THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
October 9, 2007
0900
Antarctica
Three images missing from the above temperature satellite of Antarctic, 6AM, 12PM and 3PM, click at title of entry.
The coldest temperatures of the reporting stations are :
Vostok, Antarctica
6:00 PM VOST
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Temperature :: -79 °F / -61 °C
Humidity :: 73%
Dew Point :: -81 °F / -63 °C
Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h from the WSW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()
Wind Speed :: 5 mph / 7 km/h /
Wind Dir :: 240° (WSW)
Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m
Amundsen-Scott, AA
12:50 AM NZDT
Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m
Temperature :: -60 °F / -51 °C
Conditions :: Light Snow Grains Blowing Snow
Wind :: 22 mph / 35 km/h / 9.8 m/s from the NNE
Pressure :: 28.07 in / 950 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 0.4 miles / 0.6 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 600 ft / 182 m
(Above Ground Level)
Aviation
Flight Rule :: LIFR (NZSP)
Wind Speed :: 22 mph / 35 km/h / 9.8 m/s
Wind Dir :: 20° (NNE)
Ceiling :: 600 ft / 182 m
The warmest temperatures of any reporting stations are:
Bellingshausen, Antarctica
12:00 PM GMT
Elevation :: 52 ft / 16 m
Temperature :: 22 °F / -6 °C
Conditions :: Blowing Snow
Humidity :: 65%
Dew Point: :: 15 °F / -9 °C
Wind :: 16 mph / 26 km/h from the West
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.12 in / 986 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 4.0 kilometers
Aviation
Flight Rule :: IFR ()
Wind Speed :: 16 mph / 26 km/h /
Wind Dir :: 270° (West)
Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m
Base Orcadas, Antarctica
10:00 AM GST
Elevation :: 20 ft / 6 m
Temperature :: 22 °F / -6 °C
Conditions :: Light Snow
Humidity :: 92%
Dew Point :: 21 °F / -6 °C
Wind :: 12 mph / 18 km/h from the SW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 28.76 in / 974 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 3.0 kilometers
UV :: 1 out of 16
Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 492 ft / 150 m
(Above Ground Level)
end
Toll from Typhoon Lekima rises to 77 in Vietnam
Waves pound a beach in in Vietnam's central Thanh Hoa province October 3, 2007. Typhoon Lekima lashed central Vietnam with torrential rains and high winds, killing several people and blowing roofs off houses, media reports said on Thursday.
Tracking Data
Date: 30 SEP-03 OCT 2007
Typhoon-1 LEKIMA
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 15.50 116.30 09/30/00Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 14.90 114.50 09/30/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
3 14.60 113.70 09/30/12Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
4 14.60 113.30 09/30/18Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
5 14.90 113.20 10/01/00Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
6 15.80 112.90 10/01/06Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
7 16.10 112.10 10/01/12Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
8 16.30 111.80 10/01/18Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
9 16.80 111.60 10/02/00Z 60 - TROPICAL STORM
11 17.80 109.90 10/02/12Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
12 18.00 109.10 10/02/18Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
13 17.60 108.20 10/03/00Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
16 18.00 105.40 10/03/18Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
Typhoon-1 LEKIMA
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 15.50 116.30 09/30/00Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 14.90 114.50 09/30/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
3 14.60 113.70 09/30/12Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
4 14.60 113.30 09/30/18Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
5 14.90 113.20 10/01/00Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
6 15.80 112.90 10/01/06Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
7 16.10 112.10 10/01/12Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
8 16.30 111.80 10/01/18Z 55 - TROPICAL STORM
9 16.80 111.60 10/02/00Z 60 - TROPICAL STORM
11 17.80 109.90 10/02/12Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
12 18.00 109.10 10/02/18Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
13 17.60 108.20 10/03/00Z 70 - TYPHOON-1
16 18.00 105.40 10/03/18Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
HANOI (AP): Rescuers in Vietnam recovered the bodies of 11 more people killed by floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Lekima, as authorities on Tuesday tried to reach remote areas which have been isolated for nearly a week.
The discovery of the bodies pushed the death toll across Vietnam to 77, while 11 others remain missing and are feared dead, officials said.
Packing winds of 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph), Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam central provinces last Wednesday.
The death toll in the worst-hit province of Nghe An rose to 23 after rescue workers found a drowned body Monday night. Five people were missing, said provincial official Tran Gia Danh.
``Water has receded, but very slowly,'' Danh said. ``It has hindered our rescue efforts. Thousands of people, who are still living in isolated villages, really need food to survive.''
Three more bodies were recovered late Monday in Thanh Hoa, bringing the death toll there to 17. Two people were reported missing, said Nguyen Van Hoa, a disaster official.
``We have just been able to reach several parts of Thach Thanh district, as water is still everywhere,'' Hoa said, adding that food aid now is top priority after floodwaters wiped out the provisions of hundreds of thousands farmers.
The bodies of 7 other people were found in the provinces of Ninh Binh, Son La, Hoa Binh and Yen Bai.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official told The Associated Press from Ninh Binh.
The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 80,000 hectares of crops, Lowry said.
``In lowland in Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh and Nghe An, we saw many people living on dikes, roofs of houses or higher areas, which is very dangerous'', he said, adding that besides food, clean water, people also now shelters and protection from mosquitoes.
Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was 2,100 billion dong (US$131 million; euro93 million).
Authorities are rushing aid to hundreds of thousands of people. Nearly 5,000 soldiers and more than 30,000 militiamen have been mobilized to help people deal with the aftermath of the flooding, Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control .
Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
The discovery of the bodies pushed the death toll across Vietnam to 77, while 11 others remain missing and are feared dead, officials said.
Packing winds of 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph), Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam central provinces last Wednesday.
The death toll in the worst-hit province of Nghe An rose to 23 after rescue workers found a drowned body Monday night. Five people were missing, said provincial official Tran Gia Danh.
``Water has receded, but very slowly,'' Danh said. ``It has hindered our rescue efforts. Thousands of people, who are still living in isolated villages, really need food to survive.''
Three more bodies were recovered late Monday in Thanh Hoa, bringing the death toll there to 17. Two people were reported missing, said Nguyen Van Hoa, a disaster official.
``We have just been able to reach several parts of Thach Thanh district, as water is still everywhere,'' Hoa said, adding that food aid now is top priority after floodwaters wiped out the provisions of hundreds of thousands farmers.
The bodies of 7 other people were found in the provinces of Ninh Binh, Son La, Hoa Binh and Yen Bai.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and the Vietnamese government estimated that about 10 million Vietnamese had been affected by Typhoon Lekima, said Joe Lowry, a Red Cross official told The Associated Press from Ninh Binh.
The typhoon washed away 6,000 houses, damaged 52,000 houses and destroyed about 80,000 hectares of crops, Lowry said.
``In lowland in Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh and Nghe An, we saw many people living on dikes, roofs of houses or higher areas, which is very dangerous'', he said, adding that besides food, clean water, people also now shelters and protection from mosquitoes.
Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control said earlier the initial damage estimate from the typhoon was 2,100 billion dong (US$131 million; euro93 million).
Authorities are rushing aid to hundreds of thousands of people. Nearly 5,000 soldiers and more than 30,000 militiamen have been mobilized to help people deal with the aftermath of the flooding, Vietnam's Department of Floods and Storms Control .
Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill hundreds of people each year.
When typhoons occur in the West Pacific there is a huge heat load delivered into the ocean. It relieves Antarctica of 'some' of it's burden. Video.
People run away from high waves at the levee in Lianyungang, a coastal city in east China's Jiangsu province, Oct. 7, 2007. Affected by Typhoon Krosa, heavy wind swept through the sea area near Lianyungang on Sunday and surged big waves as high as 10 meters. (Xinhua Photo)
Typhoon Krosa hits East China, one mln evacuated (click on title to entry)
BEIJING, Oct. 8 -- Typhoon Krosa has slammed into the country's eastern coastal areas. Almost 1.5 million people have been evacuated from Fujian and Zhejiang. But no causalities have been reported so far.
Meanwhile, provincial governments have been preparing relief materials to be distributed to the affected areas. David Rathbun has the latest.
Krosa, the 16th typhoon this year, hit land about 3:30 pm on Sunday near the borders of Zhejiang's Cangnan County and Fujian's Fuding City. By 5 pm, it had weakened to a tropical storm.
The powerful storm was moving northward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. It was expected to sweep through Zhejiang Province before reaching the East China Sea.
The Zhejiang Provincial Flood Prevention and Drought Relief Headquarters says over 1.1 million people had been evacuated by 9 pm on Sunday.
In addition, around 75,000 vessels were recalled to harbor as a precautionary measure ahead of the typhoon.
The Fujian Provincial Civil Affairs Department has allocated 3.5 million yuan in relief funds. It has also prepared tents, quilts, rice and bottled water for those affected.
Schools, airports, expressways and shipping services in some areas have been shut down.
Meanwhile, the provincial governments of Fujian and Zhejiang have been warned of more strong rainstorms and landslides in coming days.
Fujian and Zhejiang have also been closely monitoring landslide-prone areas and examining reservoir dams. On Sunday morning, some reservoirs began to discharge water.
Earlier, Krosa swept through Taiwan where it left at least four people dead. Two people are still missing and 52 others have been injured.
(Source: CCTV.com)
Meanwhile, provincial governments have been preparing relief materials to be distributed to the affected areas. David Rathbun has the latest.
Krosa, the 16th typhoon this year, hit land about 3:30 pm on Sunday near the borders of Zhejiang's Cangnan County and Fujian's Fuding City. By 5 pm, it had weakened to a tropical storm.
The powerful storm was moving northward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. It was expected to sweep through Zhejiang Province before reaching the East China Sea.
The Zhejiang Provincial Flood Prevention and Drought Relief Headquarters says over 1.1 million people had been evacuated by 9 pm on Sunday.
In addition, around 75,000 vessels were recalled to harbor as a precautionary measure ahead of the typhoon.
The Fujian Provincial Civil Affairs Department has allocated 3.5 million yuan in relief funds. It has also prepared tents, quilts, rice and bottled water for those affected.
Schools, airports, expressways and shipping services in some areas have been shut down.
Meanwhile, the provincial governments of Fujian and Zhejiang have been warned of more strong rainstorms and landslides in coming days.
Fujian and Zhejiang have also been closely monitoring landslide-prone areas and examining reservoir dams. On Sunday morning, some reservoirs began to discharge water.
Earlier, Krosa swept through Taiwan where it left at least four people dead. Two people are still missing and 52 others have been injured.
(Source: CCTV.com)
Tracking Data
Date: 01-08 OCT 2007
Super Typhoon-4 KROSA
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 17.70 130.90 10/01/12Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 16.60 130.40 10/02/08Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
2A 16.60 130.50 10/01/18Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
3 16.40 131.10 10/02/00Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
4 16.80 131.40 10/02/20Z 60 - TROPICAL STORM
5 17.00 131.10 10/02/12Z 65 - TYPHOON-1
6 16.90 130.80 10/02/18Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
7 17.00 130.20 10/03/00Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
9 17.70 129.30 10/03/12Z 95 - TYPHOON-2
10 18.30 128.80 10/03/18Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
11 18.60 128.00 10/04/00Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
12 19.20 127.30 10/04/06Z 115 - TYPHOON-4
13 19.90 126.60 10/04/12Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
14 20.20 125.70 10/04/18Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
15 20.40 125.20 10/05/00Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
16 21.00 125.00 10/05/06Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
17 21.80 124.80 10/05/12Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
18 22.80 124.00 10/05/18Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
19 23.70 123.50 10/06/00Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
20 24.50 122.30 10/06/06Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
21 24.40 121.40 10/06/12Z 115 - TYPHOON-4
22 25.60 121.20 10/06/18Z 90 - TYPHOON-2
23 25.90 120.60 10/07/00Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
24 26.70 120.40 10/07/06Z 50 - TROPICAL STORM
25 27.60 120.30 10/07/12Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
26 27.60 120.00 10/07/18Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
27 27.70 120.00 10/08/00Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
28 27.80 120.20 10/08/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
29 28.00 120.00 10/08/12Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
30 29.70 123.00 10/08/18Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
+12 30.20 124.60 10/09/06Z 20 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
Super Typhoon-4 KROSA
ADV LAT LON TIME WIND PR STAT
1 17.70 130.90 10/01/12Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
2 16.60 130.40 10/02/08Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
2A 16.60 130.50 10/01/18Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
3 16.40 131.10 10/02/00Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
4 16.80 131.40 10/02/20Z 60 - TROPICAL STORM
5 17.00 131.10 10/02/12Z 65 - TYPHOON-1
6 16.90 130.80 10/02/18Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
7 17.00 130.20 10/03/00Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
9 17.70 129.30 10/03/12Z 95 - TYPHOON-2
10 18.30 128.80 10/03/18Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
11 18.60 128.00 10/04/00Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
12 19.20 127.30 10/04/06Z 115 - TYPHOON-4
13 19.90 126.60 10/04/12Z 120 - TYPHOON-4
14 20.20 125.70 10/04/18Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
15 20.40 125.20 10/05/00Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
16 21.00 125.00 10/05/06Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
17 21.80 124.80 10/05/12Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
18 22.80 124.00 10/05/18Z 130 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
19 23.70 123.50 10/06/00Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
20 24.50 122.30 10/06/06Z 125 - SUPER TYPHOON-4
21 24.40 121.40 10/06/12Z 115 - TYPHOON-4
22 25.60 121.20 10/06/18Z 90 - TYPHOON-2
23 25.90 120.60 10/07/00Z 75 - TYPHOON-1
24 26.70 120.40 10/07/06Z 50 - TROPICAL STORM
25 27.60 120.30 10/07/12Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
26 27.60 120.00 10/07/18Z 45 - TROPICAL STORM
27 27.70 120.00 10/08/00Z 40 - TROPICAL STORM
28 27.80 120.20 10/08/06Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
29 28.00 120.00 10/08/12Z 35 - TROPICAL STORM
30 29.70 123.00 10/08/18Z 25 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
+12 30.20 124.60 10/09/06Z 20 - TROPICAL DEPRESSION
The weather at Scott Base, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
October 10, 2007
0016
Scott Base at dawn
s
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
October 7, 2007
Alaska
Photographer states :: Termination dust a top the mountains is a good sign that fall is here and winter is very near.
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Temperature :: 46 °F / 8 °C
Conditions :: Scattered Clouds
Humidity :: 71%
Dew Point :: 37 °F / 3 °C
Wind :: 6 mph / 9 km/h / 2.6 m/s from the WNW
Pressure :: 29.87 in / 1011 hPa (Falling)
Windchill :: 44 °F / 6 °C
Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
2 out of 16
Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 5000 ft / 1524 m
(Above Ground Level)
Aviation
Flight Rule:
VFR (PAGS)
Wind Speed:
6 mph / 9 km/h / 2.6 m/s
Wind Dir:
300° (WNW)
Ceiling:
Unlimited
Monday, October 08, 2007
The Bush White House is incompetent. For that reason any legislature is afraid of stopping what has worked to date.
It's a matter of public vigilance. I guess it's upto the investigative media to keep on top of these morons. I don't what else say. There is so little confidence in this president and administration and while most agree the illegal programs they have used to date don't really accomplish anything except a lot of 'traceable' information that no one has time to trace; any self respecting legislator doesn't want the responsiblity of 'thwarting' what might work to protect Americans.
The Executive Offices are responsible for maintaining the Cabinet authority of Homeland Security including the NSA, FBI and CIA. It is the role of a currently incompetent president to oversee the nation's security. Everyone knows Bush is overreaching but what is one to do when the Executive Branch is corrupt and dead set on having things their way or no way.
Look what they have done? They ignored intelligence from the CIA and FBI, PRE-911 attacks even when the Senate Intelligence Committee members were 'onto' the issue of a threat against our country.
YOU CAN'T TRUST BUSH AND CHENEY to protect the USA. They have no capacity for measured competency UNLESS they have everything their way which includes invasion of privacy that definately serves political purposes.
These men have lead a war into a sovereign country for the sake of oil, when the 'real war' to defeat al Qaeda and bin Laden's network was in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They have made a complete and absolute mess of the powers of the Executive Branch by 'power playing' authority. In other words, if they have to 'do things' in a way that honors privacy and they can't cheat and manically control whatever level of information they desire for whatever reason they desire it, they WILL SABOTAGE the country. They have done that before. The Republicans are corrupt to the core and there isn't a darn thing anyone can do about it so long as they have capacity to out vote the Democrats. And quite frankly at this point, the Democrats don't trust the current administration's competency to change the rules and have them OBEY those rules.
It isn't a matter of doing what's best by the Democrats at this point. It is what the country can survive until Bush and Cheney are out of office. They need to be impeached, but, there aren't enough House and Senate votes to impeach and try because of 'image' issues for Republicans.
It's a mess. Completely.
...A former senior Justice Department lawyer, Jack Goldsmith, seemed to bolster their case last week when he told Congress that the program was a “legal mess” and strongly suggested that it was illegal....
It isn't just about the immunity for the utilities, it is also about immunity for Bush. Bush authorized illegal activity against the citizens of this country. If he can get the program he authorized illegally passed into law, it exonerates him from legal proceedings now and in the future.
....Wendy Morigi, a spokeswoman for Mr. Rockefeller, said that retroactive immunity for the utilities was “under discussion” but that no final proposal had been developed.
The immunity issue may prove to be the crucial sticking point between whatever proposals the House and Senate ultimately pass. Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who was among the harshest critics of the temporary bill, said in an interview he would vigorously oppose any effort to grant retroactive legal protection to telecommunications utilities....
The legislation should not have been brought forward for a vote. It should receive temporary authority now and until Bush and Cheney are out of office and then it should be looked at again when a more competent administration is in the White House.
Besides the technology is highly invasive and while a corrupt administration sits in the Executive Branch there will be widespread misuse of it. Find an administration that is corruption free and/or find a way to monitor them so they remain corruption free by public surveillance OF THEM.
In the long run, it will be up to the public to keep themselves free of government encumbrances until the USA gets turned around and we are finally defeating terrorist networks, something that even today evades the Bush White House from accomplishing. Even WITH their illegal programs, a clear demonstration the eavesdropping no matter what form it takes, DOESN'T WORK, but, they won't give it up. They can't. They would suffer consequences. It is far better for Republicans to state, "Bush was right the entire time" and pass lousy legislation, then for them to actually do something that would matter to the people of the USA.
Surveillance System Lets FBI Play Back Recordings as They Are Captured, Like TiVo (click here)
By Ryan Singel
Aug. 28
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected.
It's a "comprehensive wiretap system that intercepts wire-line phones, cellular phones, SMS and push-to-talk systems," says Steven Bellovin, a Columbia University computer science professor and longtime surveillance expert....
The United States of America is COMPROMISED and under Republican rule until it can dig itself out again!
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MnDOT's hiring of most expensive contractor to replace collapsed I-35W bridge upheld
October 8, 2007
Twin Harbors, Minnesota
Photographer states :: It's really just Skunk Creek, which flows through Two Harbors and dries up to a trickle by summer's end, but after three days of rain, it's flowing deep and fast. At one time, it would have been up and over the road, but retention basins put in farther upstream have tamed our litte creek-gone-wild. Rip-rap was recently added along the shore to keep it stable.
After a weekend fling with summer, it's back to normal temperatures (click here)
By Tim Harlow, Star Tribune
Last update: October 08, 2007 – 11:56 AM
A flood watch had been in effect for the area as the storms dropped more than 1 inch of rain in many places, including St. Paul, Andover, St. Cloud, Madison, Granite Falls, Little Falls, Morris and Willmar. Long Prairie wins the prize for the most rain, with 3.18 reported during the 24-hour period that ended at 7 a.m. today, the National Weather Service said.
A flood watch remains in effect for the Arrowhead region in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin where storms could drop 2 to 5 inches of rain, the Weather Service said.
A flood watch remains in effect for the Arrowhead region in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin where storms could drop 2 to 5 inches of rain, the Weather Service said.
Minneapolis Bridge Work Raises Costs, Rancor (click here)
by Tom Scheck
All Things Considered, October 8, 2007 · In Minnesota, the governor and state lawmakers are arguing over the best way to pay for replacing the I-35W bridge that collapsed in August. Cost estimates for cleanup and reconstruction have skyrocketed from $250 million to nearly $400 million.
The plan is to have the bridge finished by the end of next year — just 14 months from now. But so far, the federal government has only delivered a portion of the money it promised to provide for the project.
If the Republican governor and the Democrats who control the legislature can't authorize using state money to pay for the bridge, many of Minnesota's other road projects will be delayed.
Until federal money for reconstruction becomes available, the governor and state lawmakers have to figure out a way to pay for the bridge. But the state's transportation budget doesn't have enough money to float itself a loan.
Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau is asking a special panel of senior state lawmakers to authorize state money for the bridge. Without it, Molnau says they will have to delay other state transportation projects....
by Tom Scheck
All Things Considered, October 8, 2007 · In Minnesota, the governor and state lawmakers are arguing over the best way to pay for replacing the I-35W bridge that collapsed in August. Cost estimates for cleanup and reconstruction have skyrocketed from $250 million to nearly $400 million.
The plan is to have the bridge finished by the end of next year — just 14 months from now. But so far, the federal government has only delivered a portion of the money it promised to provide for the project.
If the Republican governor and the Democrats who control the legislature can't authorize using state money to pay for the bridge, many of Minnesota's other road projects will be delayed.
Until federal money for reconstruction becomes available, the governor and state lawmakers have to figure out a way to pay for the bridge. But the state's transportation budget doesn't have enough money to float itself a loan.
Transportation Commissioner Carol Molnau is asking a special panel of senior state lawmakers to authorize state money for the bridge. Without it, Molnau says they will have to delay other state transportation projects....
The other marathons being run are in no danger that the Chicago Marathon succumbed.
The weather/temperature conditions in Portland, Oregon and Boston, Massachusetts are FAVORABLE for such endurance running. Temperatures in the fifties.
According to average temperatures found at The University of Chicago Law School (click here), the temperatures for yesterday's "LaSalle Bank's Chicago Marathon" were far above normal than any other temperature.
Chicago
January - 32-17
March - 45-29
May - 70-50
July - 84-65
September - 76-56
November - 48-33
The sad truth is that many people seek to be 'the winner' of such events. They start at levels as is taking place in Boston, a 10 K run. While world class athletes might finish their marathons in style there are many who begin their athletic training in those shadows. It is a shame this tragedy had to be realized. I believe those that sponsor and organize these events need to evaluate the potential for 'doing good' in perspective to postponing the event to more favorable weather conditions. It's important all athletes that plan to participate have a good outcome or at least as good an outcome as can be realize for their abilities.
What occurred in Chicago yesterday was directly related to Climate Change and the sooner the USA deals with it the better off everyone will be. Postponing such an event is one way of providing success, but, in the 'postponing' endurance events should act a 'trigger' to a much larger issue as to why the postponement occurred in the first place.
I am quite 'used to' the idea of propaganda overshadowing 'the truth' regarding climate change. I just don't think it should be allowed anymore. Evidently, it costs lives while threatening others.
According to average temperatures found at The University of Chicago Law School (click here), the temperatures for yesterday's "LaSalle Bank's Chicago Marathon" were far above normal than any other temperature.
Chicago
January - 32-17
March - 45-29
May - 70-50
July - 84-65
September - 76-56
November - 48-33
The sad truth is that many people seek to be 'the winner' of such events. They start at levels as is taking place in Boston, a 10 K run. While world class athletes might finish their marathons in style there are many who begin their athletic training in those shadows. It is a shame this tragedy had to be realized. I believe those that sponsor and organize these events need to evaluate the potential for 'doing good' in perspective to postponing the event to more favorable weather conditions. It's important all athletes that plan to participate have a good outcome or at least as good an outcome as can be realize for their abilities.
What occurred in Chicago yesterday was directly related to Climate Change and the sooner the USA deals with it the better off everyone will be. Postponing such an event is one way of providing success, but, in the 'postponing' endurance events should act a 'trigger' to a much larger issue as to why the postponement occurred in the first place.
I am quite 'used to' the idea of propaganda overshadowing 'the truth' regarding climate change. I just don't think it should be allowed anymore. Evidently, it costs lives while threatening others.
Death of Michigan police officer stated from heart condition, but, this man was well conditioned and ran regularly with his wife. Excuses, excuses
I guess all of Chicago ran out of water yesterday. It looks as though the officer, husband and father had a pre-existing condition that never stopped him before. Hm? It would seem he passed any police physicals. He just doesn't seem to 'fit the profile' of a poorly conditioned athlete regardless of any heart issue. To believe his death is totally unrelated to the heat when 302 runners were hospitalized and the race stopped half way through is unrealistic and reeks of propaganda !
...A 12-year veteran of the Midland, Michigan, police department, Schieber was named its 2006 Officer of the Year. He was a mountain biking instructor for the department and was involved in establishing a law enforcement memorial at the department's headquarters last year, said Bob Lane, Midland Police deputy chief.
``He was just a very-well liked, very-well respected officer,'' Lane, 48, said in a telephone interview. ``He was in excellent shape. It took me totally by shock, to say the least.''
A father of three children, Schieber was running the race with his wife, Sarah, Lane said. At least 302 runners were hospitalized with heat-related ailments, according to the Chicago Tribune.
30-Year History
It was the hottest day in the 30-year history of the Chicago marathon, the Tribune said....
``He was just a very-well liked, very-well respected officer,'' Lane, 48, said in a telephone interview. ``He was in excellent shape. It took me totally by shock, to say the least.''
A father of three children, Schieber was running the race with his wife, Sarah, Lane said. At least 302 runners were hospitalized with heat-related ailments, according to the Chicago Tribune.
30-Year History
It was the hottest day in the 30-year history of the Chicago marathon, the Tribune said....
Heat stroke is the most serious of any heat related conditions. It constitutes a medical emergency with impending death a possibility.
Heat Stroke is different from heat cramps or exhaustion in that it causes mental disorientation.
What makes heatstroke much more severe and potentially life-threatening is that the body's normal mechanisms for dealing with heat stress, such as sweating and temperature control, are lost. The main sign of heatstroke is a markedly elevated body temperature — generally greater than 104 F — with changes in mental status ranging from personality changes to confusion and coma. Skin may be hot and dry, although in heatstroke caused by exertion, the skin is usually moist.
Other signs and symptoms may include:
Rapid heartbeat
Rapid and shallow breathing
Elevated or lowered blood pressure
Cessation of sweating
Irritability, confusion or unconsciousness
Fainting, which may be the first sign in older adults
If you suspect heatstroke:
Move the person out of the sun and into a shady or air-conditioned space.
Dial 911 or call for emergency medical assistance.
Cool the person by covering him or her with damp sheets or by spraying with cool water. Direct air onto the person with a fan or newspaper.
What makes heatstroke much more severe and potentially life-threatening is that the body's normal mechanisms for dealing with heat stress, such as sweating and temperature control, are lost. The main sign of heatstroke is a markedly elevated body temperature — generally greater than 104 F — with changes in mental status ranging from personality changes to confusion and coma. Skin may be hot and dry, although in heatstroke caused by exertion, the skin is usually moist.
Other signs and symptoms may include:
Rapid heartbeat
Rapid and shallow breathing
Elevated or lowered blood pressure
Cessation of sweating
Irritability, confusion or unconsciousness
Fainting, which may be the first sign in older adults
If you suspect heatstroke:
Move the person out of the sun and into a shady or air-conditioned space.
Dial 911 or call for emergency medical assistance.
Cool the person by covering him or her with damp sheets or by spraying with cool water. Direct air onto the person with a fan or newspaper.
Scientist predicted Human Induced Global Warming is changing the course of human endurance
This didn't happen this year for everyone? There was no finish to The La Salle Bank of Chicago Marathon? There was an end to it, but, no finish. This is the year 2004 when Evans Rutto won "The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon." (click here)
Marathon cut short for first time ever (click on title to this entry)
By Josh Noel, Andrew L. Wang and Carlos Sadovi Tribune staff reporter
October 8, 2007
By Josh Noel, Andrew L. Wang and Carlos Sadovi Tribune staff reporter
October 8, 2007
The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon was cut short for the first time in its history Sunday as hundreds of runners laboring across ovenlike streets were treated for heat-related illness.The stoppage happened about 3 1/2 hours after the start gun on an abnormally sweltering autumn day, amid complaints of insufficient water for more than 35,000 runners who had come from around the world to compete in one of its pre-eminent marathons.One runner, a 35-year-old Michigan police officer, died after collapsing in the race's 19th mile, but it was not clear whether the death was heat-related....
There is a lot at stake here. Scientists don't 'make up' priorities in their research simply because they want to scare the public or have money thrown at them for their research. They are ethnical people whom are exceptionally well invested in research they perform. The science surrounding the issue of Human Induced Global Warming is decades old. It tells a sad and threatening story for species on Earth including homo sapien.
Humans are not exempt this time. Humans have been able to overcome nature and it's threat to survival with extraordinary grace and agility. They have done it so well, that now the very nature of a benevolent Earth is failing and they may be running the race of their lives. Literally. One death in this race is attributable and many exhausted runners now know the REALITY of Human Induced Global Warming.
Yesterday was October 7th and the temperatures during The La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon were in the 80s Fahrenheit.
When are you all going to listen and realize this is more serious than anyone has ever contributed a value to the problem.
How does the melting of the Arctic Ocean and the impending extinction of Polar Bears relate to the mainland USA?
Now you know.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Abortion and Gay Rights aren't the ONLY minority issue suffering at the hands of Self Righteous Right Wing Christians
There is 'trending' in the USA which indicates the nation has a right to be concerned about it's future and the equality of it's people. Freedom needs to take 'serious' precident in places other than Greensboro, North Carolina.
Civil Rights wasn't supposed to end with the 14th amendment, it was supposed to start there.
Good night.
Yes, I have a clear conscious. I always do. I believe in the potential of people, not the demands of law !
When the Robert's Court decided "The Partial Birth Aborton Law," Justice Kennedy stated...
...if he heard of one case whereby a woman's life was saved because of the procedure he would have voted with the opposing Justices. Does he consider emotional distress enough of a reason? Does he consider a woman desperate enough to attempt to take her own life enough of a reason?
I do.
The decision regarding the oppression of any abortion in the USA was "W"rongly decided. It was legislation that was intended to be a Trojan Horse to promote an Evangelical Christian agenda and victimize women. Justice Kennedy didn't see that?
If Justice Kennedy needs an 'example' of the circumstances women now will be facing to end an unwanted pregnancy, it might include their lives along with the fetus.
This isn't the first case. There was another one, I think it was Nevada within the last year. Not sure the state, whereby the woman was hit with a baseball bat stating it was an accident. She shortly thereafter aborted the fetus. She as well could have died, perhaps not caring if she would. Women have to be assured they are accepted in society when they don't want a pregnancy, they will receive confidential treatment when they do decide an abortion is better than pregnancy. They need support without ridicule or embarrassment.
Abortion at any stage of pregnancy should be a woman's right. Funny, if you asked me about this a year ago, I would have stated abortion should stop at 22 weeks. Not anymore. Not now that I see what venue this is all taking. Partial Birth Abortion was never exclusively used for terminating pregnancy, but, the 'fallout' as a result of the Justices' decision is more than women in the USA are willing to live with. If having the permission 'on the books' adds balance to the ability of women to cope with life, then we are better with the law than without it.
Pregnancy is a special time to MOST women. To others it's '...the wrong time...' and still to others it is a goal they never want to achieve. To those that seek a different road then an Evangelical enthralled with her pregnant status, I state they have the right to be different. They have the right to seek whatever relief they desire to end any unwanted pregnancy. Women should never live in fear of having a uterus or ovaries, but, need to accept their bodies as vital to their lives without a second thought to any resolve they have for their life.
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