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humanity fall from Grace, end is Gods plan. sin to high
Isn't life more important than economy? How about a whole considered ; and not just one member of it's form. Hope was lost before I was born!! I have no reason to be fighting as I among our Eldership; whom known error was of history's forecast to rainfall a consistent force of uncharted areas.... The bill for Gay marriage, was the Clinton signing; but you pass the bill unto the floor. Now with all the "my President is blk" only fooled men and women whom had hope in heart , was a true change in the hearts of men!! As seen all of this was political acts... Whichsoever side one chosen; Gods word speaks as how sinful this system has come corrupt!!! Lord our God had a son who did no sin, and as of today. Picking up my crois and walking with it no matter what. This world will kill me, if see fit too!
We will die, and the blood of the lands will be on the hands of elected people. Men and women of Satan's army of trained killer's; whom the Government wants people to honor murder's!!!!! That is vain! Titles of this world have became so contrary to Gods will, the wrath and the permission has no limits. Due to sin has reached to the clouds above!!!!
People setting trends to be seen, heard, challenged, to denounce one who's not able or worthy to be of how people chose friend's....
How churches have cast shade all over the earth, his the women are the serpentine, how men harken to her; not God!!! How she wrote most of history, hidden from the truth as if man had done so. Yes by this vain contributed; puts all in condemnation or contrary to the will of God!!!
So very few; amounts to higher rates of persecution worldwide!!!
With the Government taking sides for a female more than a male. The creation of a fallen from Grace, by mercy is the saved.....
Need a serious reform to show Lord God our hearts!! But with the Antichrist cells masses far near wide and strong. If the True Word of God followers don't come to one Accordance; we failed to stand on the word of God.


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Besides the ability to run Streamie against your own github repository without running your own backend server, there are several other design decisions in the code that are supposed to make the source as approachable as possible.
I'm joining Google next month, so the obvious choice for a client framework would have been to use closure. I decided to go with jQuery instead because everybody already knows that one already.
When you want to start digging into Streamie, start by reading app.js. In this file you see two big static arrays:
streamPlugins: This is a list of "plugins" which are run on every single tweet and which can transform the tweet in any way. Currently all stream plugins are defined in streamplugins.js. If you want to extend Streamie's tweet view, like e.g. translating all tweets, this is where you want to add your own plugin.
initPlugins: This is a list of plugins which are run as soon as the connection to the backend system has been established and Streamie is basically "running".
The REST API
Twitter exposes an extensive REST API to interact with it's service. Using these APIs requires doing oAuth. Doing anything with oAuth sucks. The good thing is that Streamie provides a proxy for the REST API that does all the oAuth stuff for you. This means you can use the API just as it is documented. E.G. this is how you favorite something in Streamie. Because the main channel from Twitter to Streamie is the user stream API, you don't really have to worry about rate limits.
Tweets, Direct Messages, Retweets
Coming from the Twitter API Tweets, Direct Messages, Retweets look quite different. Streamie normalizes them to be all specialized Tweets. This makes working with them quite easy. Streamie is using the "Stream" metaphor extensively. That is why your direct messages appear in the main stream. The buttons in the navigation only activate CSS classes which filter out certain tweets.
Start up time
Streamie's startup time can be quite long (as in a couple seconds). This is mostly due to the time it takes to load initial data from twitter. (See here if you are curious how that works). In development you can append ?cache to the URL and these API calls will use sessionStorage caching which makes loading almost instant.
Overall Streamie's software design is quite simplistic. Right now it feels like there might be a need to abstract some stuff a little more. There will likely be classes for "status inputs", custom events and maybe even tweets :)
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text: * PRIVATE AUDIENCE * (A BASIC LESSON IN THE ART OF LISTENING IN) BROUGHT TO YOU BY -[ THE OVERLORD ]- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PART I: THE LAW w: Section 605 of tital 47 of the U.S code, forbids interception of communication, or divulagance of intercepted communication exept by persons outlined in section 119 of tital 18 (a portion of the Omnibus crime controll and safe streets act of 1968). This act states that "It shall not be unlawfull under this act for an operator of a switchboard, or an officer, employe, or agent of any communication common carrier who's switching system is used in the transmision of a wire communication to intercept or disclose intercepted communication." hat all this legal bullshit is saying is that if you don't work for a phone company then you cant go around tapping people's lines. If you decide to anyway, and get caught, it could cost you up to 5 years of your life and $10,000. This, you are all assuming means that if you tap someone eles's line, you will be punished....wrong! You can't tap your own line either. The punishment for this is probably no more than a slap on the hand, that is if they actually catch you, but it's a good thing to know..............now on to the fun..... PART II: TAPPING verone has at sometime wanted to hear what a friend, the principal, the prom queen, or a nighbor has to say on the phone. There are several easy ways to tap into a phone line. None of the methods that I present will involve actully entering the house. You can do everything from the backyard. I will discuss four methods of tapping a line. They go in order of increasing difficulty. 1. The " beige box ": a beige box (or bud box) is actually better known as a "lineman" phone. They are terribly simple to construct, and are basically the easiest method to use. They consist of nothing more than a phone with the modualr plug that goes into the wall cut off, and two alligator clips attached to the red and green wires. The way to use this box, is to venture into the yard of the person you want to tap, and put it onto his line. This is best done at the bell phone box that is usually next to the gas meter. It should only have one screw holding it shut, and is very easily opened. Once you are in, you should see 4 screws with wires attached to them. If the house has one line, then clip the red lead to the first screw, and the green to the second. you are then on the "tappie's" phone. You will hear any conversation going on. I strongly recomend that you remove the speaker from the phone that your using so the "tappie" can't hear evcery sound you make. If the house has two lines, then the second line is on screws three and four. If you connect everything right, but you dont get on the line, then you probably have the wire's backward. Swich the red to the second screw and the green to the first. If no conversation is going on, you may realize that you cant tap the phone very well because you don't want to sit there all night, and if you are on the phone, then the poor tappie can't dial out, and that could be bad...so....... method two. 2. The recorer: This method is probably the most widespread, and you still don't have to be a genius to do it. There are LOTS of ways to tape conversations. The two easiest are either to put a "telephone induction pickup" (radio shack $1.99) on the biege box you were using, then pluging it into the microphone jack of a small tape recoder, and leaving it on record. Or pluging the recorder right into the line. This can be done by taking a walkman plug, and cutting off the earphones, then pick one of the two earphone wires, and strip it. There should be another wire inside the one you just stripped. Strip that one too, and attach aligators to them. Then follow the biege box instructions to tape the conversation. In order to save tape, you may want to use a voice activated recorder (Radio shack $59), or if your recorder has a "remote" jack, you can get a "telephone recorder control" at Radio shack shack for $19 that turns the recorder on when the phone is on, and off when the phone is off. This little box plugs right into the wall (modularly of course), so it is best NOT to remove the modular plug for it. Work around it if you can. If not, then just do you best to get a good connection. When recording, it is good to keep your recorder hidden from sight (in the bell box if possible), but in a place easy enough to change tapes from. The wireless microphone: this is the BUG. It transmitts a signal from the phone to the radio (Fm band). You may remember Mr microphone (from kaytel fame), these wireless mirophones are availible from radio shack for $19. They are easy to build and easy to hook up. There are so many differant models, that is is almost imposible to tell you exactly what to do. The most common thing to do, is to cut off the microphone element, and attach these two wires to screws one and two. the line MIGHT, depending on the brand, be "permenently off hook" this is bad, but by phucking around with it for a while, you should get it working. There are two drawbacks to using this method. One, is that the poor asshole who is getting his phone tapped might hear himself on "FM 88, the principal connnection". The second problem is the range. The store bought transmitters have a VERY short range. I suggest that you build the costomized version I will present in part four (it's cheaper too). Now on to the best of all the methods.... 4. The "easy-talks": This method combines all the best aspects of all the the other methods. It only has one drawback... You need a set of "Easy-tylk" walkie talkies. They are voice activated, and cost about $59. You can find em at toystores, and "hi-tech" catalogs. I think that any voice activated walkie talkies will work, but I have only tried the easy-talks. First, you have to decide on one for the "tramsmitter" and one for the "reciever". It is best to use the one with the strongest transmition to trasmitt, even though it may recieve better also. Desolder the speaker of the "transmitter", and the microphone of the "reciever". now, go to the box. put the walkie talkie on "VOX" and hook the microphone leads (as in method three) to the first and second screws in the box. Now go home, and listen on your walkie talkie. if nothing happens, then the phone signal wasn't strong enough to "activate" the transmission. If this happens there are two things you can do. One, add some ground lines to the microphone plugs. This is the most inconspicuous, but if it desn't work then you need an amplifier, like a walkman with two earphone plugs. Put the first plug on the line, and then into one of the jacks. Then turn the voulume all the way up (w/out pressing play). Next connect the second earphone plug to the mice wires, and into the second earphone outlet on the walkman. now put the whole mess in the box, and lock it up. This should do the trick. It gives you a private radio station to listen to them on, you can turn it off when something boring comes on, and you can tape off the walkie talkie speaker that you have! PART IV: WIRELESS TRANSMITTER PLANZ is is a tiny transmitter that consists on a one colpitts oscillator that derives it's power from the phone line. Since the it puts on the line is less than 100 ohms, it has no effect on the telephone performance, and can not be detected by the phone company, or the tappie. Since it is a low-powered device using no antenna for radiation, it is legal to the FCC. (That is it complies with part 15 of the FCC rules and regulations). It, however is still illeagal to do, it's just that what your using to do it is legal. This is explained later in part 15... "no person shall use such a device for evesdropping unless authorized by all parties of the conversation" (then it's not evesdropping is it?). What this thing does,is use four diodes to form a "bridge rectifier". It produces a varying dc voltage varieng with the auto-signals on the line. That voltage is used to supply the the voltage for the oscillator transistor. Which is conected to a radio circuit. From there, you can tune it to any zhannel you want. The rest will all be explianed in a minute.... PARTS LIST em | description ----------------------------------------------------------------- C1 | 47-Pf ceramic disk capaciter C2,C3 | 27-Pf mica capaciter CR1,CR2,CR3,CR4 | germanium diode 1n90 or equivalent R1 | 100 ohm, 1/4 watt 10% composition resistor R2 | 10k, 1/4 watt 10% composition resistor R3 | .7k, 1/4 watt 10% composition resistor L1 | 2 uH radio frequency choke (see text) L2 | 5 turns No.20 wire (see text) Q1 | Npn rf transistor 2N5179 or equivalent ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 may be constructed by winding approximately 40 turns of No. 36 enamal wire on a megohm, 1/2 watt resistor. The value of L1 is not critical. L2 can be made by wrapping 5 turns of No. 20 wire around a 1/4 inch form. After the wire is wrapped, the form can be removed. Just solder it into place on the circuit board. It should hold quite nicely. Also be sure to position Q1 so that the Emmiter, Base, and collector are in the proper holes. The schmatic should be pretty easy to follow. Although it has an unusual number of grounds, it still works. |------------------L1----------------| -- | CR1 / \ CR2 |----------------| A--------------/ \ --| ----| | | | \ / | | | C2 L2 | CR3 \ /CR4 | C1 R2 |----| | R1 -- | | | gnd C3 | | | | ----| |-----| | gnd | | | | | |-----|----Base collector | | R3 \ / B-----------------------| | \/\ <- Q1 gnd \/ | | emmitter(gnd) e odd thing about this bug that we havent encountered yet, is that is is put on only one wire (either red or green) so go to the box, remove the red wire that was ALREADY on screw #1 and attack it to wire 'A' of the bug then attach wire 'B' to the screw itself. you can adjust the frequency which it comes out on (the Fm channel by either smooshing, or widening the coils of L2. It takes a few minutes to get to work right, but it is also very ersatile. You can change the frequency at will, and you can easily record off your radio. PART FIVE: HELPFULL HINTS First of all, With method one, the beige box, you may notice that you can also dial out on the phone you use. I don't recomend that you do this. If you decide to anyway, and do something conspicuous like set up a 30 person conferance for three hours, then I suggest that you make sure the people are either out of town or dead. In general when you tap a line, you must be carefull. I test everything I make on my line first, then install it late at night. I would not recoment that you leave a recorder on all day. Put it on when you want it going, and take it off when your done. As far as recording goes, I think that if there is a recorder on the line it sends a sporatic beep back to the phone co. I know that if you don't record directly off the line (i.e off your radio) then even the most sophisticated equipment can't ell that your recording. Also, make sure that when you install something the people are NOT on the line. Installation tends to make lots of scrachy sounds, clics and static. It is generally a good thing to avoid. It doesn't take too much intelligence to just make a call to the house before you go to install the thing. If it's busy then wait a while. (This of course does not apply if you are making a "midnight run"). All in all, if you use common sense, and are *VERY* Carefull, chances are you wont get cought. Never think that your unstopable, and don't braodcast what your doing. Keep it to yourself, and you can have a great time. -[ OVERLORD ]- The CircleLord TARAN KING ight Lightning he Forest Ranger -80 systems watch for more advanced tapping, how they catch you, and verification in the near future. DOWNLOADED FROM P-80 SYSTEMS


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Weren't those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game? Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you. In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played! And even that botch-up of an invasion in Cuba was nothing to sneeze at. In those days, unfortunately, you — particularly those of you in the CIA — didn't get the credit you deserved.
You had to live privately with your successes. Sometimes, as with the Bay of Pigs, the failures came back to haunt you (so, in the case of Iran , would your "success," though so many years later), but you couldn't with pride talk publicly about what you, in your secret world, had done, or see instant movies and TV shows about your triumphs. You couldn't launch a "covert" air war that was reported on, generally positively, almost every week, or bask in the pleasure of having your director claim publicly that it was "the only game in town." You couldn't, that is, come out of what were then called "the shadows," and soak up the glow of attention, be hailed as a hero, join Americans in watching some (fantasy) version of your efforts weekly on television, or get the credit for anything.
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Their book with that startling title, The Invisible Government , was published in 1964 and it was groundbreaking, shadow-removing, illuminating. It caused a fuss from its very first paragraph , which was then a shockeroo: "There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible."
I mean, what did Americans know at the time about an invisible government even the president didn't control that was lodged deep inside the government they had elected?
Wise and Ross continued: "The first is the government that citizens read about in their newspapers and children study about in their civics books. The second is the interlocking, hidden machinery that carries out the policies of the United States in the Cold War. This second, invisible government gathers intelligence, conducts espionage, and plans and executes secret operations all over the globe."
The Invisible Government came out just as what became known as "the Sixties" really began, a moment when lights were suddenly being shone into many previously shadowy American corners. I was then 20 years old and sometime in those years I read their book with a suitable sense of dread, just as I had read those civics books in high school in which Martians landed on Main Street in some "typical" American town to be lectured on our way of life and amazed by our Constitution, not to speak of those fabulous governmental checks and balances instituted by the Founding Fathers, and other glories of democracy.
I wasn't alone reading The Invisible Government either. It was a bestseller and CIA Director John McCone reportedly read the manuscript, which he had secretly obtained from publisher Random House. He demanded deletions. When the publisher refused, he considered buying up the full first printing. In the end, he evidently tried to arrange for some bad reviews instead.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Guzan and the bigger picture
I'm happy for Brad, but the entire situation with his move there has been frustrating for local reporters.
The official news of his trial broke abroad, but not because no one from LA asked him about the move or his plans. Brad was a brick wall, rejecting our questions with as much ferocity as he defends his net.
Even the simplest queries were smothered.
"Are you talking to Celtic?"
"I can't say."
Well, that gives us a whole lot of nothing to write about. Which, incidently, affects exposure and publicity for Brad, his MLS team, and the entire league. Nice going.
Earlier in the day, Grahame Jones had chided Sunil Gulati at the press roundtable for U.S. Soccer's similar stonewalling about upcoming games, citing as an example the news about the upcoming game in Spain breaking there first.
Grahame didn't understand why the organization couldn't even admit that such games were a possibility, pointing out that even if they didn't pan out, the media coverage would include both the original option and any revision, thus ensuring a double amount of the publicity US Soccer says it seeks. Instead, when all the news breaks abroad, it makes soccer look second-rate here in the U.S., when it's really the federation keeping local media in the dark.
I've got a similar gripe about the Galaxy. It's annoying when news about the team breaks on the East Coast because every question I've asked about the topic here results in a denial. If a trade gets to MLS headquarters in New York and someone is going to leak it there, for heaven's sake, admit that transfer to me, Luis, Grahame, Billy or Jaime first, so publicity for the team shows up where the team actually plays.
Instead, it's become harder to get any information from the Galaxy, especially since Beckham arrived. The trades are also killing the local reporters and their sources. Reporters talk to players and develop a trust there, but it takes time, and that's blown away when players leave. New players are often so nervous about making a good impression that they'll say essentially nothing for a long time. Same thing with new coaching staff.
No one wants the kind of regurgitated coverage we get stuck producing sometimes. We had Brad right in front of us, there's no way he didn't know he was flying out the next morning, but he couldn't say something simple like, "I don't know how it will turn out, but I'm flying over there tomorrow and I'm really happy for the chance."
Instead, we've got the after-the-fact crap. No, I won't hold it against Brad. He's a good guy, and his agent probably told him not to say anything, but it's depressing when the programming is so complete.
The media aren't the enemy. We're trying to cover the sport that so many involved with say needs more coverage, and instead of assistance, we're dealing with a lot of resistance. It doesn't really make sense. Agents and organizations such as U.S. Soccer and MLS and the individual teams need to think about how much they want to control their players and club information versus how much they want the public to even know who they are.
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Since when is covering Chivas USA and its players a priority for you guys?
Don't get me wrong because this is a good blog. However, Chivas USA or Brad Guzan are more certain to release information to other outlets that the trust AND know.
Just m opinion.
- January 22, 2008 at 7:44 AM
- A.C. said...
You're entitled to your opinion that we don't cover Chivas USA enough, but you're wrong that any information was released from Guzan or Chivas USA to anyone else.
Or if they did, show me that link. Somehow I doubt that Chivas USA trusts and knows sports news papers and sites in Europe. They're the ones who broke the story that Guzan was officially on trial.
- January 22, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Hey AC as a fan it did feel strange that Ives and that other DC reporter and even sky/bbc had more details than the local LA guys! I mean, I would expect to to hear from you guys before them. Best of luck this coming season.
BTW, can you get a hold of Jaime and see what's going on with his blog? It's denying access to a lot of the readers. Thanks
- January 22, 2008 at 8:01 AM
- A.C. said...
Jaime reads our blog pretty regularly, so just ask him the question here yourself if you like.
Hi Jaime! Could you give me permission to read your blog again, too?
- January 22, 2008 at 8:08 AM
- Toddzilla said...
To be fair to Sunil, he did agree with the thought that U.S. Soccer could do a better job of promoting games even when they aren't already 'in the bag'.
As for the situation with Guzan, I wonder if you'd hear a lot more on the local level if MLS wasn't in single-entity mode. I would think that teams/agents/players would feel more free to talk about the possibilities when the league doesn't really have much to do with it, as in other sports. On top of that, sounds like you're just out of luck with the people in the team structure that you're dealing with.
- January 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM
This finally explains why I was begging for Guzan news from you guys the last few weeks and you guys were posting nothing on the subject.
Was this part of the reason USSP temp cut their coverage of MLS? Have the journalist ever tried to sit down with MLS and others and explain what their needs are and how it benefits MLS and others in the long wrong? I assume USSP cutting its MLS coverage alarmed MLS enough to open a dialog between the two orgs.
MLS and its teams may take media coverage and US soccer media for granted, but some of it may be due their own immaturity in media relations as compared to other leagues. You could go on and on about this.
- January 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Soccer by Ives and Steve Goff? had more on this story than you guys that's all I'm saying.
Does Chivas USA even know who you guys are? That's not a dis on you guys. They are very secretive with player movement.
- January 22, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- Mister Zero said...
Well, one thing that shouldn't be a secret is that Celtic is offering $1 million dollars (cue Dr. Evil) for Guzan. Yep, the guy who is on a great roll as gk is being offered about 40% of the Preston North End offer for Twellman. USSF-MLS is the real "single entity". AC, just keep up what you do, which is great.
- January 22, 2008 at 10:19 AM
fc uptown
From what I read on scotsman.com the offer is around 1 million British pounds which is like 2 million dollars. Compare that to what DCU got for Troy Perkins who got GK of the Year for 06 and Celtic's offer looks a bit more respectable in my opinion.
- January 22, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- JT Soccer said...
eastlachiva, it sounds like Ives and Goff are the league plants. They get watered first.
Our guy in Chicago, Luis Arroyave, is a terrific writer but he usually isn't given the information first - or can't get the verification he needs to publish the news he uncovers.
Meanwhile, the leaks somehow always seem to find their way to Ives or Goff. It's just a reminder of how small minded (controlling) USSF & MLS are in their "effort" to extend soccer media coverage in the USA. The dependable pets get the crumbs; others are left to scramble. I can understand why AC, Luis & others might be frustrated as they try to bring information to us - fans who care about MLS.
Here we are, the people who actually support MLS clubs and we can't even get the information we'd like to get from MLS from the source we trust (Sideline Views or the Chicago Tribune's Red Blog). One day perhaps MLS/USSF will realize that they have to feed everybody - not just their selected pets.
- January 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM
That's what it sounds like to me. People get a little hyper-sensitive around here the moment a post sounds remotely critical. I apologize if that is the case. This is a good blog, not the best place for all-things Chivas USA, but good for USMNT stuff.
Having said that, the Chivas FO is almost always secretive whent hey underwhelm us with their signings. I don't think they have the best communication with the media.
- January 22, 2008 at 3:15 PM
- Bonji said...
I know the feeling. KSE and The Rapids are so closed lipped nothing leaks out unless you corner the coach at the Miami airport. MLS needs to work with teams on media policies to make sure fans get the news they need and crave!
- January 22, 2008 at 3:42 PM
Do you know why jaime cardenas' blog is saying it is "private"?
Is anyone else having problems accessing http://kornerpocket.blogspot.com/ ?
- January 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM
FWIW, lack of access to information and to the players is one of the things that killed tennis in this country.
- January 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM
- Son_Of_Sac said...
You know, this article makes so much sense. We are always looking for more information, and we don't find out anything in MLS until after the fact. It's bad for the league and sport in America to have nothing to talk about. The other sports run on gossip, and fill the Sportscenters and Baseball Tonights with serious gossip. Soccer could use that more.
- January 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM
You and Luis are great writers as are Ives and Goff.
I think Goff and other DC blogs have done a great job creating a buzz about DC United...I check his blog multiple times a day because I'm a huge DC fan. Having constant information has made me even more intersted in the team and I'm sure it's worked the same for other DC fans.
My point being...if the Galaxy and Chivas want a more loyal, interested fan base...the best way to do that is to get the info out to the fans. No better way these days than via reputable writers who have blogs....
We are spoiled in DC to have Goff...he's a good writer and seems to have great access to the DC United team.
Let me tell you..most of us can't wait to read the latest update on DC transfer targets....wereas the local Galaxy/Chivas fan...probably can't find anything out there so they lose the connection with their team during the offseason.
It's unfortunate that your blog seems to be always behind on MLS happenings...especially on the home team front. Sounds like the home teams themselves are to blame..and that's a shame.
- January 22, 2008 at 6:05 PM
that is disappointing, especially guzan. as a us soccer and mls fan, bringing attention and excitement to the fans is so important. guess i will go back to finding out what arsenal and west ham are up to.
- January 22, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Son_Of_Sac said...
" It's bad for the league and sport in America to have nothing to talk about. The other sports run on gossip, and fill the Sportscenters and Baseball Tonights with serious gossip. Soccer could use that more."
Some of us read this site:
http://mlsrumors.blogspot.com for the stuff you mentioned. It's always interesting and they seem to collect stories from all kinds of sources, foreign media, blogs like Ives, Goff and this one, and take it a step further.
Indeed they even linked to this story which is how I got here.
- January 22, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Wouldn't this be more of an issue that you just don't have enough insider sources? It's not the players responsibility to give information out, especially if he is still under contract. This blog seems to have become more and more a spot for complaining about the unfairness of being a reporter, or the "ongoing" drama of Hope Solo. I would say this is just an opportunity for learning, and to try different avenues to get information, not just straight from the horses mouth.
- January 23, 2008 at 7:46 AM
Josh does have a point. Goff when quoting sources often doesn't name names. A couple of days he stated in the comments section of one of his post that his sources do not come from the DCU Front Office, but often outside sources in the know. Oddly enough DCU front office people often deny or decline to admit to inquiries about potential transfers and so on until it clears MLS HQ. But Goff has been on the DC sports scene before MLS launched, his deep roots may score him the scoops that soccer journalist such AC and LB who have to work 2nd jobs can not manage to pull.
- January 23, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- A.C. said...
I've never set this blog up as a source of breaking info. It's a place for Luis and I to offer tidbits and thoughts that we can't place elsewhere. If I have a scoop, I'm going to try to get paid for it, and this blog doesn't do that - it never has. We would just have leftover quotes, pictures or just chat about things and one day I said, hey, lets get a blog going and put this stuff on there. It hasn't ever been any more than that. If that's not the information you care for, there are a lot of other blogs designed to do different things.
- January 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- A.C. said...
Let me also clarify that I'm not wanting MLS, any local team or the Galaxy to give me better information to place on my blog. This all started because LA reporters were asking Brad Guzan questions about something that they would have written news articles about if he'd given an answer. It's not about making my blog a better one, it's about getting the news of something out locally to someone.
- January 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- JT Soccer said...
Josh, east river, and AC,
This discussion reminds me of a conversation I had with a local reporter before the Fire was announced as the new MLS franchise. It was very difficult to get any league confirmation on anything but bits of information were leaked to certain writers outside Chicago who were friendly with the league. A similar relationship existed with national team information.
This was the way the Chicago Bulls operated as well. The "breaking news" or well sourced rumors would almost always surface first at certain locations, as well as the puff pieces that the Bulls wanted out to the public. It often reminded Chicago fans of the way Pravda was used back in the day.
Anyway, I still think that MLS and its clubs need to rethink their relationships with local media and for that matter, emerging national media.
I'll be curious to see what kind of cooperation CSRN gets this upcoming season from MLS clubs for its "Around the League" show and for its "Chivas USA" show. The individual clubs seemed to warm to the network as the season drew to a close. I hope that continues.
- January 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Speaking of CSRN many of their correspondants are just members of that team's supports groups.
Back to AC's post, what I was hinting at was that Goff and formerly Ives's SBI is that they were blogs linked to newswpapers who pay them to get the scoops and break them on their blogs. My comments are directed to AC and others attempts to get sourced information for her articles on soccer365, ESPN's soccernet, and USSP. As for the blog, I love this one b/c its independent from major news organizations unlike Goff's or the old SBI. SV provides the background info we normally don't get from bloggers such as Goff or news org's beat writers. The pictures, the personal conversations, and the actual audio of player comments. None of it fits into ESPN soccernet or other outlets, but its what I'm addicted to it when I visit SV.
I believe what AC has been getting at is that American soccer officials are overly coy to the point that its absurd and it hurts the popularity of the game in the US as well as journalist ability to provide their outlets stories so that they can earn a living. An example being the Gulati(?) roundtable AC brings up, Gulati's coyness on answering the possible friendly with Spain. Its absurd to deny it the whole thing, when the coach of Spain is openly discussing it. But the denials are so automatic that MLS and USSF do it anyway, when he and others could address the issue by saying something like "things are in the works but nothing is final". I think AC's post has been blown out proportion a bit.
- January 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Maybe US Soccer and/or MLS are pissed at you.
Have you written articles that were negative to MLS/US soccer?
- January 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- A.C. said...
My point wasn't that U.S. Soccer and MLS teams and players aren't talking to me (me, me, me) it's that they often aren't talking to anyone local.
As far as writing negative articles, I hope I have, because negative things have gone on at times with the league and that needs to be reported, just like the positive stuff that I've reported as well. Whether or not anyone is pissed at me, I can't say, but that's not the point. You don't have to like someone to work with them, especially if the end result in a beneficial one for both parties.
- January 23, 2008 at 1:33 PM
- JT Soccer said...
AC, I think that's the part MLS/USSF has missed all along. Give access to accredited journalists at all levels (local & national) and they will get the stories to the public. Deny them access to stories and the interested public may miss out.
MLS/USSF have to get over the idea that journalists are merely extensions of their PR departments.
- January 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I have to ask myself if the reporters in europe broke the story first because of the perceived favoritism you assert or are they just better at their job? Journalistic lassitude is often justified by claims of stonewalling and obfuscation. The fellow at the Chicago Tribune is claiming the same issues with the Chicago Fire.
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Humayun's Tomb, Delhi: A beautiful Mughal Heritage
There are so many beautiful and marvelous tourist attractions in the city of New Delhi. Today Delhi is considered as one of the historical capital of entire world. Most of the tourist attractions in Delhi are already declared as world's heritage site. Within one day you cannot cover all the tourist attractions in Delhi, because there are lots to see in this city. Delhi is mainly included in the Indian Monument Attractions. There are many monuments are there. So you have to plan a long trip to Delhi, and then only you can visit all the places in Delhi .You can enjoy the architecture and breathtaking attractions by visiting these places. One of the biggest attractions in the Delhi city is the compelling Humayun's Tomb. If you visit Delhi you have to take a tour of these historical Indian monument attractions.
After the death of Humayun, his senior widow Haji Begum built Humayun's Tomb in 1565 A.D. As per the report of historians, humayun is the second emperor of India. Inside the walled enclosure of the Humayun's Tomb the most notable features are the garden squares (chaharbagh) with pathways water channels, centrally located well proportional mausoleum topped by double dome. It is the first Indian building to use the Persian double dome. You can see the beautiful Ceiling decoration within Humayun's Tomb. It is one of the remarkable features of the Delhi Humayun's Tomb. You can see the buries of the Many of Humayun's relatives within the mausoleum. The tomb is built using white and black marble. The inlay work of the marbles was used to create designs. It is enveloped by a beautiful garden, the features of which had inspired the designs of Taj Mahal.
As per the measurement the height of the tomb is 47mt and wide is 300 feet (91m). Visit this magnificent Mughal monument and explore the beauty of the tomb. There Star of David on Humayun's tomb because the Star of David is also the Seal of Solomon. Solomon is recognized in Islam as a prophet and miracle worker. In 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar and his three princes used the humayun's tomb as shelter during the first war of Independence. Humayun's Tomb is considered as one of the most beautiful Indian monument attractions.
Indian Monument Attractions: Keshava Temple, Somnathpur
The Keshava Temple is one of the major temples in somnathpur village. Somnathpur is a tiny village which is located on the left bank of the river kaveri. This was founded by somnath, commander of the h Hoyasala army. Somnathpur village is situated near to Mysore district. Keshava Temple was built in somnathpur in the year of 1268. It is one of the oldest temples, 740 years before it was built. It is built using stones. The external wall of the temples has beautiful sculpture of Vishnu. And there are other 194 idols images also. Mythological characters of Hindu's are sculptures on the wall of this marvelous temple. Visit this great Indian Monument Attractions. There are three sanctum of the idol of Lord Keshava, Lord Janardhana and Lord Venugopala. The temple is built in using hoyasala style; there for it is an example of Hoyasala architecture it is also called as cradle of stone architecture. Where the temple is designed as a mini cosmos with scenes carved on the walls including Gods, Goddesses, dancing girls, musicians, gurus and all kinds of animals including elephants, lions, cows and monkeys. The keshava temple is built on an elevated star shaped platform.
The beautiful breathtaking keshava temple is a Trikuta temple. This is dedicated to Lord Krishna in his three forms and the names are already discussed above. Unfortunately one of the idols of lord keshava was missing here, and the other two idols Lord Venugopala and Lord Janardhana are damaged here. At the entrance of Keshava Temple calligraphy written on the stone tablets here. At the temple, the outer walls of keshava temple are decorated with a series of star-shaped folds and the entire surface of temple is covered with carved stone plaques. The walls above the plinth are also carved with exquisite figures of gods and goddesses, taken from the Hindu puranas, and meticulously arranged in vertical panels. You can experience this only when you visit beautiful Indian monument attractions.
You can visit this temple from morning 9.30a.m to evening 5.30p.m. Every year lot of peoples is visiting this place. You can get spiritual experience from this temple. It is considered as one of the beautiful Indian monument attractions. If you are planning trip, then include this temple name in your list and visit this marvelous place.
Indian Monument Attractions: Red Fort, Delhi
One of the most famous and best places to visit in India is Delhi, which is the capital city of India. Red fort is also called as 'Lal Killa' it is the Indian name .The marvelous Royal Red fort is builted by using the red sans stone, which is one of the India famous historical monument. It took almost 9 years to complete the building of red fort. The fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1618 laid the foundation stone of the Red Fort. He ruled Agra for eleven years, and then he shifted to Delhi. The red fort is inaugurated in 1647. The construction of the red fort is started in the year of 1639 and ended up in the year 1648.There is one mail hall inside the fort, which is covered with silk and velvet and is brought from china and Turkey. The Red Fort looks like an irregular octagon. The Lahore and Delhi Gates are the two entrances. Red Fort is the largest Indian monument attractions.
Red Fort Delhi is one of the Mughal Architecture. It is Builted on the western bank of river Yamuna. The famous Chandni Chowk bazaar which is famous for traditional dresses it is situated here. It is very beautiful. Height of the red forts walls varies from 18 meters on the riverside and 33 meters on the city side. It is one of the largest Indian monument attractions. Red fort, Delhi is the location from where every year Prime Minister of India addresses the nation during the Independence Day celebration. The red fort is having good art and designs. The last fort which is built in Delhi is the Red Fort. We can't imagine the beauty of the fort. You have to visit the place then only you can enjoy the beauty of the fort. This is the one of the marvelous destination included in the Indian monument attractions.
Red Fort builted in 120 acres land, at one time holding a population of 3,000 people. It is one of the biggest creativity of the Mughals, enriched by Persian, European and Indian imagery. The beautiful Red Fort Complex is made up of palaces, mosques, gardens, monuments, halls etc. The red fort is also famous for the internal buildings, it includes – The Diwan-i-Am, the Diwan-i-Khas, Rang Mahal andMoti Masjid. Tourists from all over the globe are visiting this beautiful fort every year.
There is one Meena Bazar it is famous for wall paintings, jewelry etc. There are exhibitions and events that take place in the Red Fort each and every time or every year. Light and sound shows are conducting here; this is very much popular here. The shows are conducted both in Hindi and English. The English shows are organizing here for the convenience of foreign. Not only the tourist from the other parts of India are visiting here but also foreign are also visiting this beautiful place. Except Monday the Red Fort, Delhi is open on all days. Taxies, buses and auto rickshaws are available to reach these places. Plan a long trip to visit Indian monument attractions and enjoy and get relaxed by seeing the beauty of the places.
Indian Monument Attractions – Qutab Minar
Qutub minar is one of the famous and beautiful monuments of india. It is started builting in 1193 by Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak also called "Lakh Baksh Sultan" or "giver of hundred thousands" because of his generous nature. Qutbuddin Aibak was a very good builder. He constructed security towers, tax posts, check posts and a few of the forts in the most important cities of his empire to avoid loots and plunderings. He also initiated the construction of Delhi's earliest Muslim monuments. The beautiful indian monument attractions minar was surronded by full of green garden. This minar is having height of 72.5 metres or 238 ft. The diameter of minar is 14.32m at the base and about 2.75m on the top. Every year billionf of peoples arround the world are visiting this place. This monument is located at Mehrauli in the southern part of the city, which is in delhi. The beautiful minar has 5 storey. Qutab-ud-din Aibak has builted only the first story and the rest of the four storeys are builted by his son in law and successor.This minar is an example for Indo-Islamic Afghan architecture. Builters of this minar has put great efforts. Because of them now we got a beautiful and historical monuments. This is included in the indian monument attractions.
There are 379 steps are in minar and it is one of the Highest stone tower in India. There is a door on the northern side, leading inside the tower to a spiral stairway with 379 steps that winds its way up to the balcony in each floor and culminating in a platform at the top. honey combing is a special feature of the minar. October to march is the best months to visit and you can enjoy these place till sunrise to sunset. This indian monument attractions is made up of It is all red sandstone, except for the top, which is made of white marble. The qutab minar description is fully writtern in islamic character from top to bottom. It looks great. But today peoples are not allowed to go inside the qutab minar, because the staircase inside the tower has been closed following an accident in early 1980's when a party of school girls panicked when the lights failed and a stampede led to a number of deaths. For this reason peoples are not allowed to go inside the minar.
The builder of the great indian monument attractions qutub minar ,Sultan Qutbuddin aibak died accidentally while he was playing a game of polo in Lahore on horseback (polo aka chougan in India) in 1210., his horse fell and the sultan was impaled on the the raised area at the front of an equestrian saddle. And He was buried near the Anarkali bazaar in Lahore.


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Since the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. Popobawa's recurring attacks have become a popular subject for stories, conversation, gossip, and humor that has spread far beyond East Africa. Katrina Daly Thompson shows that talk about Popobawa becomes a tool that Swahili speakers use for various creative purposes such as subverting gender segregation, advertising homosexuality, or discussing female sexuality. By situating Popobawa discourse within the social and cultural world of the Swahili Coast as well as the wider world of global popular culture, Thompson demonstrates that uses of this legend are more diverse and complex than previously thought and provides insight into how women and men communicate in a place where taboo, prohibition, and restraint remain powerful cultural forces.
Katrina Daly Thompson is Professor and Director of the Program in African Languages in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is author of Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts.
"Katrina Daly Thompson emphasizes the importance of understanding African cultural texts in relation to both local and global contexts. The result is a fascinating study that moves in a compelling dialectic from the general to the specific and back again, entrancing and enlightening the reader in equal measure."
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Last year, the journal Nature asked me to write a Comment piece after they read one of my posts on prolonged drought and "Dust-Bowlification." The article was published October 27, 2011 (here, subs. req'd).
Since six months have passed, I can reprint the entire piece on ClimateProgress (see below).
This was my first piece ever in the journal itself. I did have an online piece, "Nature publishes my climate analysis and solution." This is not a peer-reviewed article but rather a "Comment" piece.
I sent it to five of the world's leading authorities on climate change and drought and the hydrological cycle: Kevin Trenberth, Aiguo Dai, Michael Mann, Peter Gleick and Jonathan Overpeck. I endeavored to incorporate their comments, but unfortunately Nature has a 10-reference limit for their Comment pieces so I wasn't able to include as many references as they suggested or as I would have liked. If you want links to most of the articles I refer to, go here.
I was particularly delighted that Overpeck liked the term "Dust-Bowlification." He really was an inspiration for me to begin studying this topic many years ago when I saw a 2005 presentation of his, "Warm climate abrupt change–paleo-perspectives," that concluded "climate change seldom occurs gradually" (see The "global-change-type drought" and the future of extreme weather).
I was equally delighted Nature has basically endorsed this term through its multiple appearances in this article and felt that the overall issue warranted more attention.
I do not believe that most Americans — and that includes most policymakers and the media — understand the convergence of the recent scientific literature on the extreme threat posed directly to this country of Dust-Bowlification (see "Climate Story of the Year: Warming-Driven Drought and Extreme Weather Emerge as Key Threat to Global Food Security").
I am glad that leading climatologists like James Hansen are starting to talk more about the threat posed by drought — since it is painfully clear that even some people considered climate experts are unaware of the literature (see "James Hansen Is Correct About Catastrophic Projections For U.S. Drought If We Don't Act Now").
As I wrote in the article:
Human adaptation to prolonged, extreme drought is difficult or impossible. Historically, the primary adaptation to dust-bowlification has been abandonment; the very word 'desert' comes from the Latin desertum for 'an abandoned place'. During the relatively short-lived US Dust-Bowl era, hundreds of thousands of families fled the region. We need to plan how the world will deal with drought-spurred migrations and steadily growing areas of non-arable land in the heart of densely populated countries and global bread-baskets. Feeding some 9 billion people by mid-century in the face of a rapidly worsening climate may well be the greatest challenge the human race has ever faced.
Now, Dust-Bowl conditions could stretch all the way from Kansas to California by mid-century. America's financial future and the health and safety of our people are at serious risk if greenhouse gas pollution is not brought under control quickly. The food security of all of humanity is at risk. Denial is simply not an option, the time for action is now.
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Which impact of anthropogenic global warming will harm the most people in the coming decades? I believe that the answer is extended or permanent drought over large parts of currently habitable or arable land — a drastic change in climate that will threaten food security and may be irreversible over centuries.
A basic prediction of climate science is that many parts of the world will experience longer and deeper droughts, thanks to the synergistic effects of drying, warming and the melting of snow and ice.
Precipitation patterns are expected to shift, expanding the dry subtropics. What precipitation there is will probably come in extreme deluges, resulting in runoff rather than drought alleviation. Warming causes greater evaporation and, once the ground is dry, the Sun's energy goes into baking the soil, leading to a further increase in air temp- erature. That is why, for instance, so many temperature records were set for the United States in the 1930s Dust Bowl; and why, in 2011, drought-stricken Texas saw the hottest summer ever recorded for a US state. Finally, many regions are expected to see earlier snowmelt, so less water will be stored on mountain tops for the summer dry season. Added to natural climatic variation, such as the El Niño–La Niña cycle, these factors will intensify seasonal or decade-long droughts. Although the models don't all agree on the specifics, the overall drying trends are clear.
I used to call the confluence of these processes 'desertification' on my blog, ClimateProgress.org, until some readers pointed out that many deserts are high in biodiversity, which isn't where we're heading. 'Dust-bowlification' is perhaps a more accurate and vivid term, particularly for Americans — many of whom still believe that climate change will only affect far-away places in far-distant times.
Prolonged drought will strike around the globe, but it is surprising to many that it would hit the US heartland so strongly and so soon.
The coming droughts ought to be a major driver — if not the major driver — of climate policies. Yet few policy-makers and journalists seem to be aware of dust-bowlification and its potentially devastating impact on food security. That's partly understandable, because much of the key research cited in this article post-dates the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Raising public awareness of, and scientific focus on, the likelihood of severe effects of drought is the first step in prompting action.
I first heard of the risks in a 2005 talk by climatologist Jonathan Overpeck of the Uni- versity of Arizona in Tucson. He pointed to emerging evidence that temperature and annual precipitation were heading in oppo- site directions over many regions and raised the question of whether we are at the "dawn of the super-interglacial drought".
The idea wasn't new. As far back as 1990, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York projected that severe to extreme drought in the United States, then occurring every 20 years or so, could become an every-other-year phenom- enon by mid-century.
Events are starting to bear out these worrying predictions. Snowpack reduction, early snowmelt and a decrease in dry-season river flow in the American West, forecast more than two decades ago, have now been measured. In much of the northern Rockies, the peak of the annual stream runoff is up to three or four weeks earlier than it was half a century ago. Heat and drought — coupled with the greater impact of destruc- tive species, such as bark beetles, aided by warming — have increased forest die-off and the risk of wildfire.
The palaeoclimate record dating back to the medieval period reveals droughts lasting many decades. But the extreme droughts that the United States faces this century will be far hotter than the worst of those: recent decades have been warmer than the driest decade of the worst drought in the past 1,200 years.
And much warmer conditions are projected. According to a 2009 report of the US Global Change Research Program, warming over mid-latitude land masses, such as the continental United States, is predicted to be higher than the forecast average global warming: much of the inland United States faces a rise of between 5 °C and 6 °C on the current emissions path (that is, 'business as usual') by the century's end, with a substantial fraction of that warming occurring by mid-century.
A 2007 analysis of 19 climate projections estimated that levels of aridity comparable to those in the Dust Bowl could stretch from Kansas to California by mid-century. To make matters worse, the regions at risk of reduced water supply, such as Nevada, have seen a massive population boom in the past decade. Overuse of water in these areas has long been rife, depleting groundwater stores.
Of course, the United States is not alone in facing such problems. Since 1950, the global percentage of dry areas has increased by about 1.74% of global land area per decade. Recent studies have projected 'extreme drought' conditions by mid-century over some of the most populated areas on Earth — southern Europe, south-east Asia, Brazil, the US Southwest, and large parts of Australia and Africa. These dust-bowl conditions are projected to worsen for many decades and be "largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stopped."
The concept of drought has not been ignored by the IPCC and other scientific groups; there is even a United Nations Con- vention to Combat Desertification. But the cumulative risks don't seem to have been fully recognized by the public and by policy- makers. And key questions remain to be answered, ideally in a dedicated report by an organization such as the US National Academy of Sciences or the IPCC.
UNANSWERED QUESTIONSMost pressingly, what will happen to global food security if dust-bowl conditions become the norm for both food-importing and food-exporting countries? Extreme, widespread droughts will be happening at the same time as sea level rise and salt-water intrusion threaten some of the richest agricultural deltas in the world, such as those of the Nile and the Ganges. Meanwhile, ocean acidification, warming and overfishing may severely deplete the food available from the sea.
What are the implications of dust-bowlification for energy generation? After agriculture, energy generation is responsible for the majority of freshwater withdrawals, and two key strategies for generating additional potable water — wastewater purification and desalinization — are both energy intensive. Future energy systems will need to be low on greenhouse-gas emissions and on water use. In particular, thermal power plants — including nuclear — may need to switch from evaporative or 'wet cooling' systems to dry cooling techniques, which, unfortunately, tend to be less efficient.
From an ecological perspective, what will be the effects of dust- bowlification on the global carbon cycle? In the past six years, the Amazon has seen two droughts of the sort expected once in 100 years, each of which may have released as much carbon dioxide from vegetation die-off as the United States emits from fossil-fuel combustion in a year. More frequent wildfires also threaten to increase carbon emissions. And as habitats are made untenable, what will be the effect on biodiversity?
At the same time, drought models need to be improved. They successfully chart the hydrological changes seen in the US South- west and the drying seen at the global level7, but regional predictions can be disturbingly variable. Some models forecast an increase in precipitation for East Africa, whereas oth- ers correctly predicted in 2010 that warming of the Indian Ocean would lead to drought in the region, such as this year's devastating drought in Somalia. The models need higher resolution and a better understanding of precipitation, sea surface temperature and the effects of vegetation.
Human adaptation to prolonged, extreme drought is difficult or impossible. Historically, the primary adaptation to dust-bowlification has been abandonment; the very word 'desert' comes from the Latin desertum for 'an abandoned place'. During the relatively short-lived US Dust-Bowl era, hundreds of thousands of families fled the region. We need to plan how the world will deal with drought-spurred migrations (see page 447) and steadily growing areas of non- arable land in the heart of densely populated countries and global bread-baskets. Feeding some 9 billion people by mid-century in the face of a rapidly worsening climate may well be the greatest challenge the human race has ever faced.
These predictions are not worst-case scenarios: they assume business-as-usual greenhouse-gas emissions. We can hope that the models are too pessimistic, but some changes, such as the expansion of the subtrop- ics, already seem to be occurring faster than models have projected10. We clearly need to pursue the most aggressive greenhouse-gas mitigation policies promptly, and put dust-bowlification atop the world agenda.
What does the future look like? Dai laid it out in a 2010 study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, "Drought under global warming: a review," the best review and analysis on the subject I've seen.
He is in the process of revising his analysis, but the figure below (which had been his 2030s projection in his original version) is a rough representation of where his analysis projects things will be around mid-century for the U.S.
The PDSI [Palmer Drought Severity Index] in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl apparently spiked very briefly to -6, but otherwise rarely exceeded -3 for the decade (see here).
And this isn't just Dai's finding. Michael Wehner et al. find the drying has the same signature in "Projections of Future Drought in the Continental United States and Mexico" (2011).
Wehner and Dai are quoted in an excellent new IPS News piece by Stephen Leahy, "Action Needed Now to Prepare for Severe Drought." That article notes future conditions "for almost all of Mexico, the midwestern United States and most of Central America … are projected to be worse than Mexico's current drought or the U.S. Dust Bowl era of the 1930s that forced hundreds of thousands of people to migrate":
"Drought conditions will prevail no matter what precipitation rates are in the future," said co-author Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. government research centre in California.
"Even in regions where rainfall increases, the soils will get drier. This is a very robust finding," Wehner told Tierramérica.
Wehner's conclusions are based on findings from 19 different state-of-the-art climate models. His results match Dai's. The story notes:
"If the projections in this study come even close to being realised, the consequences for society worldwide will be enormous," Dai said in 2010.
According to Wehner, the very latest projections from the newest computer models that have not yet been published also show very similar results. "At the very least we are looking at severe drought conditions in future."
Wehner said he was surprised the study received very little media attention, given the serious implications for the future.
What this means for future generations is "a very difficult issue for me to talk about" at a personal level, Wehner admitted.
Climate Progress readers aren't surprised the media mostly ignores what is probably the most dangerous of all the climate impacts humans face in the coming decades (see "Network News Coverage of Climate Change Collapsed in 2011").
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NJT-09-051May 29, 2009
NEWARK, NJ — Commuters who have been waiting for a parking space at Edison Station got closer to their goal today with a groundbreaking ceremony for a project that will more than double parking capacity at the busy Northeast Corridor station and accommodate every customer currently on the waiting list.
The groundbreaking marks the first NJ TRANSIT rail project to make use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funds that will create jobs while improving or expanding New Jersey's statewide public transportation network.
"Stimulus projects like Edison Station are providing New Jersey with much needed infrastructure improvements at a very crucial time," said Governor Jon S. Corzine. "This is exactly the type of project that helps to create jobs for our citizens while encouraging economic growth in our state."
"In New Jersey, mass transit is a necessity. Our highways are the most congested in the country and our workers have the third-longest average commute times. We have an obligation to give New Jerseyans more transportation options and, with the completion of this new park-and-ride facility, we can help reduce congestion, fuel emissions and travel times for commuters and improve our air quality," said New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg.
"This project embodies the goals we had in mind with the economic recovery package, and it is a fitting first recovery package rail project," said New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez. "On one hand, this project will create jobs immediately. On the other hand, it lays the foundation for future economic security by encouraging the use of mass transit, which helps reduce family energy costs, saves commuters time and money and cleans our air. I'm proud to have helped secure the federal investment in projects like this, which will help us recovery from this economic crisis."
"Edison Station is one of the busiest stations in the NJ TRANSIT system, benefiting thousands of New Jersey residents every day," said Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. "This new parking facility will help even more commuters avoid congested roadways and is a great use of Recovery Act funds because it will improve our infrastructure and create over 100 quality jobs."
As the result of the hard work of Gov. Corzine and the state congressional delegation, especially Senators Lautenberg and Menendez, New Jersey expects to receive $17.5 billion in ARRA funds over the next three years, including about $7.3 billion to residents and businesses in the form of federal tax cuts. Combined with the state's share of another $240 billion in tax benefits and competitive grants nationwide, the White House expects 100,000 jobs will be created or preserved in New Jersey over two years.
"New Jersey residents need look no further than this work site to see that federal stimulus funding is already having a positive impact on our economy," said NJ TRANSIT Chairman and Transportation Commissioner Stephen Dilts. "This project is one of 15NJ TRANSIT projects worth more than $420 million that have been accelerated and will start this year."
An estimated 121 jobs will be directly or indirectly created by the project.
"This parking expansion is a solution to an issue for our residents. Our community greatly benefits from the proximity of passenger rail service, and this project will allow even more residents to take advantage of this asset," said Edison Mayor Jun Choi. "I am very happy for all the residents whose wait for a parking space will soon be over."
"It's no accident that a project that builds parking capacity is among the first that NJ TRANSIT is getting started with federal stimulus funds," said NJ TRANSIT Executive Director Richard Sarles. "The availability of parking helps define the convenience and attractiveness of a public transit system, which is why we've added about 14,500 spaces to our inventory since 2002."
The NJ TRANSIT Board last month awarded a $4.7 million construction contract to Petillo Inc. of Flanders, New Jersey, to build the lot and make other improvements.
The lot, along with new lighting and sidewalks, will be built adjacent to the outbound platform with access from Kilmer Road. A traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Kilmer Road and the entrance road to the new lot.
The project also includes repaving and reconfiguring one of two existing lots on the inbound side of the tracks to optimize capacity and improve traffic flow, and creating a public space south of the station building.
Current parking capacity at Edison is 362 spaces. After the new lot is opened and the existing lot is reconfigured, the station will feature 816 spaces – more than double the current inventory. There are currently about 370 names on a waiting list for parking at Edison.
NJ TRANSIT will own the new lot and will seek bids for an operator. Park America operates the existing two lots, one of which NJ TRANSIT owns with the other jointly owned by NJ TRANSIT and Edison Township.
The project is expected to be completed in early 2010.
Edison Station is the 13th busiest of the164 stations and terminals served by NJ TRANSIT, serving nearly 7,000 customers each weekday with direct service to Newark, Secaucus Junction and Penn Station New York, among other destinations.
About NJ TRANSIT
NJ TRANSIT is the nation's largest statewide public transportation system providing more than 895,000 weekday trips on 240 bus routes, three light rail lines and 11 commuter rail lines. It is the third largest transit system in the country with 164 rail stations, 60 light rail stations and more than 18,000 bus stops linking major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia.


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Last summer, when I reached my goal of losing 100 pounds, I set a new goal – to lose 50 more. My reward to myself for losing 100 pounds was a trip to Six Flags Magic Mountain, which I took in September. Right around then, I also decided on a reward for losing 50 more – a trip to the gun range. I've fired a gun once before in my life – a rifle, back when I was in college, and for a long time, I've really wanted to shoot a pistol. I have no interest in owning a gun, because having one in my house frightens me, but shooting one in a controlled, safe environment… well, sign me up!
In December, I reached my goal and had lost 50 more pounds – Woo-hoo! Time to go shooting! Except that, for a while, life kinda got in the way. I reached my goal a few days into a 3-week trip out of town, and then I ended up traveling for part of January, so now it's February, but my friends Mat and Maggie (who also have been hankering for fire a firearm) and I finally found a day to head down to shoot some guns. So, on Presidents' Day, we took full advantage of the second amendment, and headed down to LAX Firing Range:
It's a few blocks from the airport, so it's appropriately named.
We took their Beginner Firearms Training Course, which is a two-hour class that introduces you to a gun. You can check it out on their website – which says that firing guns is good for people who "seek stress reduction (enjoy euphoric rushes of energy combined with inner peacefulness — much like yoga)" – I kinda love that.
Danny was our instructor. Danny has been around guns quite literally his whole life – he told me he started learning about them when he was three. I don't know how many guns he has now, but he casually mentioned at least 3 during our class. At any rate, Danny knew what he was talking about, and was a great teacher. The first half of the course was in a classroom, where Danny passed out unloaded Glocks and taught us how a gun works, and what all the parts are – I had no idea a gun had so many parts! We went over gun safety, too, and then we got on our feet and Danny walked us through how to hold a gun, how to use the sights correctly, the proper stance, so you maintain the most control over your weapon, and how to actually pull the trigger, which makes all the difference in the world if you actually want to hit a target.
The second half of the class was actually in the firing range, which looked like every firing range I've seen in movies and TV:
There were about 14 lanes total, and the floor was littered with shell casings. We had to put on noise-canceling headphones before entering, and good thing, because it was loud.
One by one, Danny brought us up to our lane, and we practiced shooting the pistol, with Danny reminding us of ways to improve our stance, position our body, and hold the gun. I felt prepared to fire the gun, and the act of pulling the trigger turned out to be way more measured and controlled than I thought it would be.
That's Mat on the left, Maggie in the center, and yours truly on the right, with Danny overseeing all of us.
We each had 3 turns firing the pistol, and we each emptied the gun's magazine each time, for a total of 30 bullets. Our target had the silhouette of a man on it, and for the first 2 turns, I fired at his chest, but then, to switch things up, on my third turn, I fired at his head.
Here's Mat and Maggie with their targets afterwards:
I'm not one to regularly toot my own horn (although this self-centered blog may suggest otherwise), but it turns out that I'm kinda good at hitting targets! After firing my first ten shots, and landing them all in the orange zone on the target (which was closest to the center), Maggie said, "OK, David, when the zombie apocalypse happens, you're definitely coming with us!"
Here's me and my target after the class was over:
And here's a closer look:
I'm proud of that big hole right in the center. That's where I hit the same spot repeatedly with 6 or 7 bullets, and it's only a few millimeters from the black dot Danny wanted us to hit!
And, yes, up in the corner are 20 extra bullets. A box of 50 9-millimeter bullets came as part of the class, and since we only used 30 in the class, we all got some bullets to take home. It's a smart incentive to encourage people to come back to the range – I definitely want to go back, because what else am I going to do with them? Fling them at intruders?
There's a wide variety of targets you can shoot at, and I already know which target I want to shoot at next time – it's Target #11:
That girl's got it comin'!
Keep it up, David!


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Big Step Forward for Conservation in Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
Udall, Heinrich Introduce Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act - Wilderness bill completes community's vision for protection within the national monument
On May 21, 2014, President Obama designated the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument by use of the Antiquities Act. (View the signing ceremony on YouTube).
Check out our Spring 2014 edition of New Mexico Wild newsletter, featuring information and great photos on the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Sec. Jewell's visit to Las Cruces. View the newsletter.
Press release and timeline of NM Wild's involvement in the campaign.
Follow the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks campaign on Facebook and Twitter.
Join us in thanking President Obama.
For ten years, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has led the charge for conservation in Doña Ana County. Over the past year, we helped mobilize incredible community support for the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks proposed national monument in Doña Ana County. In a recent survey, 83 percent of local citizens expressed their support for the creation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument will protect this rare American landscape and its abundant history. National monument designation also will help secure significant long-term economic benefits for Doña Ana County and Southern New Mexico (for example, visitors to the nearby White Sands National Monument spent $15.7 million in the local economy in 2008).
Read: Presidentil Proclamation
View: Photo gallery
Download: Map of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks proposed national monument
Read: News Posts
Listen: Earth Matters radio show discussion
Watch: Signing Ceremony
Connect on Facebook: "Like" Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance acknowledges President Barack Obama, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, and U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall for their work to make the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument a reality. Heinrich and Udall introduced the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act on December 12, 2013, and on January 25, 2014, hosted Sec. Jewell in Las Cruces for a tour of the proposed national monument and a townhall meeting with the local community. With the designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument by President Obama on May 21, 2014, nearly 500,000 acres of culturally and ecologically rich Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Doña Ana County will be permanently protected. The national monument includes the Organ Mountains, Sierra de las Uvas Mountains Complex, and Greater Potrillo Mountains. Among the wildlife that call this their home are golden eagles, many hawk species, owls, desert mule deer, three quail species, mountain lion, pronghorn, javelina, bobcat, coyote, bats, rock squirrels and other rodents, and numerous other birds.
In addition to getting the local community on board with the proposed monument, NM Wild also garnered support from local officials, hundreds of local businesses and the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, we earned media endorsements from the El Paso Times, Las Cruces Sun-News, The Albuquerque Journal, Deming Headlight and the Santa Fe New Mexican. Between April and October 2012, the Town of Mesilla, the cities of Sunland Park, Las Cruces and El Paso, and the Doña Ana County Commission all passed resolutions supporting a national monument. View full list of supporters here.
View a testimonial from a local archaeologist.
Organ Mountains: Our Organ Mountains define the Mesilla Valley. From picnickers to horsemen, family outings to day hikes, they offer great recreation, important wildlife habitat, critical watershed protection, and the natural backdrop to New Mexico's second largest city: Las Cruces. The Organ Mountains encompass three wilderness study areas, each unique and worthy of permanent protection.
Sierra de Las Uvas Mountains: These volcanic mountains support outstanding high desert grasslands. The Uvas sustain thriving populations of quail, deer, javelina and other wildlife. In addition, three different Native American cultures left their marks in various sites throughout these scenic mountains. The Uvas have been managed as a wilderness study area since 1984.
Broad Canyon: A secluded gem, Broad Canyon shelters hidden water pools, flat topped mountains and ancient cultural sites. Only 45 minutes from Las Cruces, this area has some of the most beautiful views that stretch across Southern New Mexico and into Mexico, and is a vital watershed draining over 75 square miles of land.
Potrillo Mountains: Extinct volcanoes, black lava fields, and mile after mile of desert grassland combine to give the West Potrillo Mountains qualities found nowhere else in New Mexico. Just 45 minutes from El Paso and Las Cruces, the Potrillos could be New Mexico's 4th largest wilderness.
Robledo Mountains: The Robledo Mountains house the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument. They have worldwide significance and bring wonderful recognition to the Mesilla Valley Region. The Robledo Mountains unit has been managed as a wilderness study area since 1984.
Cultural Resources: The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument protects a New Mexico legacy spanning Pre-American, New Mexican, and American history that includes training sites for the Apollo Space Mission, the Butterfield Stagecoach Trail, Billy the Kid's Outlaw Rock, Geronimo's Cave and thousands of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs. Download the archaeological report.
Timeline of New Mexico Wilderness Alliance's Involvement
1972: Former NM Wild Board Chairman Wesley Leonard and board member Dave Foreman start working on a proposal to protect BLM lands in Doña Ana County.
1984: BLM identifies six Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) in Doña Ana County. NM Wild co-founders are involved in advocating for the protection of local mountain ranges.
1991: BLM identifies two new WSAs in Doña Ana County.
2004: NM Wild opens and staffs Las Cruces Field Office.
2005: NM Wild organizes a community coalition to begin working towards protection of the Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks area.
2005: Senator Pete Domenici begins work on Doña Ana County conservation legislation. Bill would protect all local WSAs, but also include a large 65,000 acre land sell off component.
2006: NM Wild forms community coalition and helps pass resolutions from local communities urging adoption of a Citizen's Land Protection Proposal with more proposed wilderness areas and National Conservation Areas, which opposes a land sell off element.
2007: Community Memorandum of Understanding signed, including an agreement on vehicular access and boundary adjustments for citizens conservation proposal. More than 20 local business organizations, sportsmen organizations, and community groups agree to comprehensive boundaries.
2008: Rep. Steve Pearce introduces HR 6300, proposing to remove WSA protection from mountains throughout Doña Ana County. Community coalition and newspaper editorial oppose Rep. Pearce's legislation.
2009: Sens. Bingaman and Udall introduce Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act (S.1689) to protect WSAs and additional citizen proposed lands in Doña Ana County. The Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces (HCCLC) and NM Wild hold wilderness economics forum, which brings in economic development leaders from across the country who discuss the economic benefits of protected public land near communities.
2010: U.S. Senate field hearing draws more than 600 supporters of S.1689. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unanimously passes S. 1689 out of committee. Legislation dies when no action is taken before Congress adjourns.
2011: Sens. Bingaman and Udall introduce Organ Mountains-Doña Ana County Conservation and Protection Act, S.1024. The legislation closely mirrors S.1689. All land protection legislation in Congress dies to due to inaction, making it the first Congress in more than 40 years to not protect public land in America.
March 20, 2012: NM Wild, along with diverse community of supporters, announces proposal calling for the designation of a national monument.
December 12, 2013: U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall introduce the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act to establish the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument.
January 25, 2014: United States Sec. of the Interior Sally Jewell visits Las Cruces for a town hall to gauge support for the proposed national monument and tour proposed monument areas. Support for the national monument at the forum was overwhelming.
May 21, 2014: Obama designates the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument.
We still need your help to save the historical, cultural and ecological gems in Doña Ana County. Please consider giving to the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance to help us continue our efforts to protect wilderness areas within the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national monument. Your generous contributions help us fund our Las Cruces staff members who are working on the ground every day to conserve Doña Ana County's most special places.


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