Morning Papers - concluded

The New York Time

This Doll Has an Accessory Barbie Lacks: A Prayer Mat
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 21 - In the last year or so, Barbie dolls have all but disappeared from the shelves of many toy stores in the Middle East. In their place, there is Fulla, a dark-eyed doll with, as her creator puts it, "Muslim values."
Fulla roughly shares Barbie's size and proportions, but steps out of her shiny pink box wearing a black abaya and matching head scarf. She is named after a type of jasmine that grows in the Levant, and although she has an extensive and beautiful wardrobe (sold separately, of course), Fulla is usually displayed wearing her modest "outdoor fashion."
Fulla's creator, NewBoy Design Studio, based in Syria, introduced her in November 2003, and she has quickly become a best seller all over the region. It is nearly impossible to walk into a corner shop in Syria or Egypt or Jordan or Qatar without encountering Fulla breakfast cereal or Fulla chewing gum or not to see little girls pedaling down the street on their Fulla bicycles, all in trademark "Fulla pink."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/international/middleeast/22doll.html?hp=&pagewanted=print


I told you public opinion wasn't going to stop the Fundamentalist Movement in religion. Religion by nature is homophobic. It's nonsense. But people like Bush/Cheney thinks it's great. They don't care about gays, lesbians or bisexuals. They think it is an illness. I'll tell you what is an illness; the obsession of religion with sexuality and heterosexuality as the ONLY CREATION of god. THAT obsession goes to the very basis of human behavior and pleasure and it is where religion holds it's bastion of wholesomeness. Think about it. Is religious wholesomeness actually humane? It religion actually a humanitarian focus? If it is and I think that is a very big IF, then why is not every member of the human race included in that humanity? Belonging to God, is not being a member of a club. They can peddle their wares ELSEWHERE !!! They sell hatred in Rome.

New Vatican Rule Said to Bar Gays as New Priests
By IAN FISHER and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: September 22, 2005
ROME, Sept. 21 - Homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests, a church official said Wednesday, under stricter rules soon to be released on one of the most sensitive issues facing the church.
The official, said the question was not "if it will be published, but when," referring to the new ruling about homosexuality in Catholic seminaries, a topic that has stirred much recent rumor and worry in the church. The official, who has authoritative knowledge of the new rules, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the church's policy of not commenting on unpublished reports.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/international/europe/22vatican.html?hp&ex=1127448000&en=4b5ee9218e6daead&ei=5094&partner=homepage


Refineries and Rigs Shut Down for Storm
By VIKAS BAJAJ
Published: September 22, 2005
Energy companies stepped up evacuations of offshore operations and rushed to secure refineries on the Texas coast yesterday as they prepared for Hurricane Rita, which was upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane packing winds up to 165 miles an hour. The storm appeared to be headed for the heart of the nation's oil industry.
David Einsel/Getty Images
An oil drilling platform was at the Port of Galveston in Texas for repairs this month. As of Wednesday, companies had evacuated more than half their platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Rita neared.
With traders uncertain where the full fury of the hurricane might fall, oil prices moved higher but closed below their peaks for the day. The stock market also took a blow yesterday, with the Dow industrials falling more than 100 points, to 10,378.03, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index declined by 0.91 percent, to 1,210.20.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/business/22oil.html


It is about time they start believing in themselves rather than pandering to a public in demand of free internet. A vision is always helpful. AOL has been a pioneer to things like parental controls, etc. I don't use it. I can understand people that do. I find it inhibits the 'free' access to the net due to their protective measures. Regardless of the 'choice' for no controls the AOL environment still exerts some. I think that is fine for a population that appreciates that sort of protection. They need to realize who they are in this world and live with it. They aren't going to make everyone happy. At least not yet that I can see.

Time Warner Head Says AOL Is the Company's Future
By RICHARD SIKLOS
Published: September 22, 2005
The chairman of Time Warner, Richard D. Parsons, said yesterday that improving the company's America Online Internet business was a priority as he tries to bolster the share price - signaling a tweak in strategy and a belief that the stigma of the AOL-Time Warner merger is finally a thing of the past.
Mr. Parsons indicated that amid pressure from Carl C. Icahn, the financier and Time Warner shareholder, he was "looking real hard" at moves like buying back more stock and increasing the dividend.
But he added that a big buyback and Mr. Icahn's proposal to spin off the company's cable system missed the point.
"In my view, the real source of undervaluation is neither of these things," Mr. Parsons said. "The real driver of enhanced value, I think, is going to be AOL in the short term and the long term."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/business/media/22warner.html


Basra was so wrong. Completely wrong. The Brits should have taken on the establishment that placed their troops behind bars. The Brits actions were guaranteeing the escalation of tensions.

Anger Grows in Basra After British Raid
Christoph Bangert/Polaris, for The New York Times
American forces, above, and Iraqi police commandos killed five insurgents in a battle at a house in a Baghdad neighborhood on Wednesday.
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: September 22, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 21 - Waving pistols and assault rifles, Iraqi police officers led an angry anti-British demonstration in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, and the provincial council voted unanimously to stop cooperating with British forces in the area until Britain apologized for storming a police station to free two of its soldiers.
At least 200 people, mostly officers who work in the police station that was damaged in the raid, rallied outside Basra's police headquarters, demanding an official apology from Britain and the resignation of Basra's police chief, Hassan Sawadi, Iraqi officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/international/middleeast/22iraq.html


IT'S NOT THE SAME. It changes the culture of the fish market forever.

Planned Move of Fish Mart Delayed Again
By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: September 22, 2005
The Fulton Fish Market's long-awaited move to the Bronx, which was scheduled to take place over the coming weekend, has been delayed again, this time by a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the fish wholesalers from unloading their own shrimp, porgies and cod.
Julie Jacobson/Associated Press
The 300,000-square-foot home of the fish market in Hunts Point, in an April photo. The move has been delayed before by lawsuits and structural changes.
The move to a tailor-made $85 million refrigerated behemoth in the Hunts Point section has been eagerly sought by the market's 40 wholesale fishmongers, many of whom have been operating along the cobblestone waterfront of Lower Manhattan for generations.
Depending on the outcome of a court hearing tomorrow, the move could happen as early as Oct. 7, city officials said. The relocation was originally meant to take place in the spring and has already been delayed several times because of lawsuits and unanticipated modifications to the 300,000-square-foot building.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/nyregion/22fulton.html


2 Studies Find Flu Treatments Fall Far Short
Bay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
Riska Adianti's mother, left, and a relative mourned on Wednesday at a hospital in Jakarta, where Riska, 5, and another girl with flulike symptoms died this week raising concern among the public about avian influenza.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: September 22, 2005
International Herald Tribune
ROME, Sept. 21 - Just as governments around the world are stockpiling millions of doses of flu vaccine and antiviral drugs in anticipation of a potential influenza pandemic, two new surprising research papers to be published Thursday have found that such treatments are far less effective than previously thought.
"The studies published today reinforce the shortcomings of our efforts to control influenza," wrote Dr. Guan Yi, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, in an editorial that accompanied the papers. The two studies were published early online by The Lancet, the London-based medical publication, because of their important implications for the coming flu season.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/health/22flu.html


Eliot Letters Auctioned
By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Published: September 22, 2005
A collection of largely unpublished letters from T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) to the Faber publishing family, and inscribed first editions of Eliot's work were sold for £242,652 ($436,725) yesterday at an auction at Bonhams in London. One set of letters, some of them illustrated and including poems, from Eliot to Tom Faber, his godson, sold for about $82,000); and a second set, from Eliot to Enid Faber, Tom's mother and the wife of Eliot's publisher, Geoffrey C. Faber, went for nearly $100,000. Each was sold to a different bidder in the salesroom. In addition, more than $58,000 was paid for one of 460 copies of a first edition of "The Waste Land," privately printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1923 and inscribed by Eliot for Geoffrey Faber.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/books/22eliot.html


Coos Bay World

Hospitals, elderly patients evacuated

A sign in front of a restaurant in Galveston, Texas, above, sends a message as Hurricane Rita moves across the Florida Keys on Tuesday. AP Photo
By Pam Easton, Associated Press Writer
GALVESTON, Texas - Hospital and nursing home patients were evacuated and others gathered up their belongings and began clearing out today as Hurricane Rita intensified into a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds and threatened to devastate the Texas coast or already-battered Louisiana by week's end.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered for Galveston and New Orleans, one day after Rita sideswiped the Florida Keys as a Category 2 storm, causing relatively minor damage. Having seen what Katrina did, many people decided not to take any chances.

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/09/21/news/news05.txt


Capsizing: Search suspended, probe begins
A U.S. Coast Guard motor lifeboat patrols the area just inside of the Umpqua River bar, near the warning lights tower, Tuesday morning. The Coast Guard routinely patrols the area during rough weather but crew members also were keeping an eye out for any sign of the missing passengers of the charter vessel Sydney Mae II. World Photo by Susan Chambers

By Carl Mickelson, Staff Writer
WINCHESTER BAY - The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for a missing tuna charter passenger Tuesday - 17 hours after the boat he was on capsized south of the Umpqua River jetty.
"It's a case suspended, pending further developments," Petty Officer Robert Bertelson said this morning.
The search for Paul Turner, 76, of Boise, Idaho, was called off at 1:30 p.m. Turner is the only person still missing after the Sydney Mae II, owned by Pacific Pioneer Charters of Winchester Bay, capsized Monday night.

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/09/21/news/news01.txt


Top court sends back Tenmile water suit
By David Courtland, Staff Writer
The Oregon State Supreme Court has handed Coos Bay-North Bend Water Board a small victory in its battle for Tenmile Creek water, sending a Court of Appeals decision back for review.
The court stopped short of overturning the Court of Appeal's April 2004 decision, instead ordering it to reconsider the matter in light of House Bill 3038, a state water rights law passed in June.
Water Board General Manager Rob Schab said the decision follows the same general direction the board has been going for 15 years, as it has pursued Tenmile Creek water rights.

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/09/21/news/news02.txt


Super-sized groundbreaking
Tourists John and Jamie Felker of Cheyenne, Wyo., walk along Ocean Drive as heavy winds and rain brought by Hurricane Rita are felt on Miami Beach, Fla., today. The eye of Hurricane Rita is expected to pass just south of Key West as a Category 1 storm later today. AP Photo
Dwarfed by heavy machinery, local officials and others participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new RV park at The Mill Casino-Hotel on Tuesday afternoon at the site of the former Weyerhaeuser Corp. mill. Several members of the Coquille Tribe and officials from the Coquille Economic Development Corporation turned the dirt on the site during ceremonies. It is the first part of CEDCO's development on the site and when finished by May 2006, the site will have 100 standard spaces, 68 pull-through and 32 back-in spaces in the RV park. There will also be two super-sized spaces and registration facilities to include a laundry room, restrooms and showers. Michele Burnette, the secretary/treasurer for CEDCO, said the park will offer travelers a "spectacular" view of the bay. World Photo by Lou Sennick

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/09/21/news/news03.txt


New Zealand Herald

Antarctic rescue bid for Argentine men in crevasse
22.09.05 7.20am
Four Argentine Army commandos on skis have been dropped on to an Antarctic glacier, bidding to rescue two men whose snowmobile plunged into a deep ice crevasse.
Hopes of survival for the two Argentines involved in the weekend accident were fading as the rescuers from an elite Antarctic Commando unit arrived with ropes, ice anchors and other gear.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346739


Nasa braces for hurricane hit
22.09.05 12.20pm
MELBOURNE, Florida - Nasa ordered the evacuation of the Johnson Space Centre in Houston and turned over control of the International Space Station to its Russian partners as powerful Hurricane Rita barrelled across the Gulf of Mexico.
Many of the space centre's 15,000 government and contractor workers had already left the space centre by the time the evacuation order was given, heeding calls from Texas officials to evacuate the area, Nasa spokesman James Hartsfield said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346787


Mistrial declared for Gotti racketeering charges
22.09.05 10.20am
A mistrial has been declared on the most serious racketeering charges facing John A. "Junior" Gotti, and the jailed scion of the Gambino organised crime family is expected to be granted bail.
After eight days of deliberations in a New York court the jurors said they were deadlocked on all but one count: they acquitted Gotti, 41, of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346742


Southern India storm death toll mounts
22.09.05 5.20am
At least 1000 people are missing in southern India and hundreds of fishermen are unaccounted for in Bangladesh after a severe storm in the Bay of Bengal killed 50 people.
Indian authorities said about 100,000 people were homeless after heavy rains caused flooding in coastal districts of the southern Andhra Pradesh state. Most of the victims were either electrocuted or died in house collapses.
In Bangladesh about 300 fishermen are missing after the storm triggered high waves and heavy rain along the coast.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346736


Texans evacuate as Rita strengthens
22.09.05 7.00pm UPDATE
By Mark Babineck
GALVESTON, Texas - More than 1 million people along the Texas coast fled the approach of Hurricane Rita on Thursday as it developed into one of the most intense storms on record and threatened catastrophic damage.
With winds of 280km/h, the category 5 hurricane churned across the Gulf of Mexico on a course that was expected to take it ashore late on Friday or early on Saturday.
Having learned a lesson from Hurricane Katrina's assault on Louisiana and Mississippi last month, city officials along the Texas coast told residents to clear out and arranged for buses for those who needed help.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346814


Cholera death toll nears 300
22.09.05 2.20pm
BISSAU - The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Guinea-Bissau is approaching 300 and more than 4000 new cases have been reported this month alone, the Health Ministry said.
The tiny West African state was the worst hit by a region-wide cholera epidemic after months of heavy rains triggered outbreaks of the waterborne disease by flooding latrines and contaminating wells.
"There have been 15,776 registered cases, including 288 deaths," Tome Ca, a health ministry official, said.
At the start of September, there were just over 11,000 registered cases and 224 deaths had been reported.
The capital Bissau has borne the brunt of the epidemic, with more than 8800 cases.
Cholera can kill victims within 24 hours by inducing vomiting and diarrhoea that cause severe dehydration, but is treatable using a simple mixture of water and rehydration solution.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346788


New Orleans team to call Oklahoma home
22.09.05 5.00pm
NEW YORK - The New Orleans Hornets, whose home arena was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, will play 35 regular-season National Basketball League games in Oklahoma City.
The Hornets will also play six home games at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, NBA commissioner Dave Stern announced today.
"The devastation of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region has made it necessary for the Hornets to move to a temporary location for the upcoming season," Stern said.
"Fortunately, the Hornets have received a gracious invitation from Mayor Mick Cornett and the business leaders and citizens of Oklahoma City to play their home games in the Ford Center, a first-class facility that we hope to fill with new Hornets fans this season."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346793


Israel seeking place on UN Security Council
22.09.05 4.00pm
By Donald Macintyre
JERUSALEM - Israel is attempting to capitalise on what it sees as an increase in international contacts - including with Muslim countries - by seeking a place on the UN Security Council.
It has indicated it wants to join other countries in being allocated a rotating place on the Security Council for the first time in its 57-year history.
The move follows contacts including an unprecedented meeting between the foreign ministers of Israel and Pakistan which both countries said was partly in recognition of Israel's withdrawal of troops and settlers from Gaza.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10346823


Israel completes pullout from four West Bank settlements
22.09.05 1.00pm
By Ali Samoudi
GANIM, West Bank - Waving the flags of rival armed factions, Palestinians poured into four abandoned West Bank Jewish settlements on Wednesday after Israel completed their evacuation under a plan to "disengage" from conflict.
Unlike the Gaza Strip, which Israel quit earlier this month, the settlements of Ganim, Kadim, Sanur and Homesh are in an area of the occupied West Bank remaining under Israeli army control.
But the army announced the complete removal of soldiers from the enclaves on Tuesday night local time, leaving them accessible to Palestinians from the nearby city of Jenin.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346815


Ex-Ukraine leader linked to reporter's murder
22.09.05 1.00pm
By Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW - A high-level parliamentary commission in Ukraine has accused former president Leonid Kuchma and his closest aides of master-minding the macabre murder of Georgiy Gongadze, the country's most famous investigative journalist.
Mr Gongadze's decapitated body was found in a forest outside Kiev two weeks after he was abducted in September 2000 whilst working on an in investigation into allegations of corruption at the heart of Mr Kuchma's government.
Mr Gongadze, 31, a co-founder of crusading internet newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda, had been beaten, strangled and his body then burnt and beheaded.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346816


Ukraine PM choice rejected
22.09.05 6.20am
Ukraine's Parliament rejected President Viktor Yushchenko's choice for Prime Minister in a stinging defeat for the country's leader less than two weeks after he sacked his Orange Revolution team amid an escalating corruption scandal.
Ukraine's chief prosecutor, meanwhile, cleared two of the President's aides of corruption, but said an investigation into abuse of power continued against one of Yushchenko's closest allies, Petro Poroshenko.
Acting Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov will remain caretaker Prime Minister while negotiations continue.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346740


Lions kill Ethiopian villagers
22.09.05 8.20am
Lions unsettled by deforestation have killed 20 Ethiopian villagers and devoured 750 of their domestic animals.
"The lions killed shepherds tending cattle and villagers after breaking into their houses," local official Tadesse Gichore said of the attacks about 500km south of Addis Ababa.
Authorities were hunting the lions, which began roaming after their habitat was wrecked by deforestation.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10346737


Sydney Morning Herald

US, Afghanistan squabble over resurgent Taliban
By Paul McGeough, Chief Herald Correspondent in Kabul
September 22, 2005
Strident calls ... President Hamid Karzai.
Photo: AP
A rift is opening between Washington and Kabul on how to tackle a resurgent Taliban which, mounting evidence suggests, now operates a modern-day "underground railroad" tapping into the terrorist expertise of the Iraqi insurgency.
President Hamid Karzai's demands for the US to back off militarily are becoming more strident, even as his own officials warn that the Taliban has more fighters, has access to better explosives and detonators and is better equipped and funded.
A security analyst operating in Afghanistan told the Herald: "What they're doing is apeing the US.
"The Americans embedded with the Afghanistan National Army to impart experience and to boost morale, and the foreign jihadis are embedding with the insurgents, instructing them on how to deal with the US from their experience in Iraq, how to conceal themselves and how to make, plant and detonate even more sophisticated IEDs (improvised explosive devices)."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-afghanistan-squabble-over-resurgent-taliban/2005/09/21/1126982124591.html


Epidemic a reality as bird flu cases escalate
By Mark Forbes, Deborah Cameron and Cynthia Banham
September 22, 2005
The World Health Organisation is warning of a catastrophic bird flu pandemic, and Indonesia has admitted it already has an epidemic after a five-year-old girl died and nine more patients were quarantined.
The Prime Minister, John Howard, said yesterday the consequences of a bird flu pandemic would be "enormous", as Australia agreed to a request from Indonesia's Health Ministry to fund the purchase of 10,000 doses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
In Japan, the Ministry for Agriculture said it was about halfway through the slaughter and incineration of 1.5 million chickens as it tries to contain the virus. Thirty-one poultry farms, all involved in egg production, remain under quarantine after testing positive during recent sweeps.
The virus is estimated to have infected more than 10 million birds in Indonesia.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/epidemic-a-reality-as-bird-flu-cases-escalate/2005/09/21/1126982124521.html


New Orleans on alert as Rita takes aim
By John-Thor Dahlburg, Scott Gold and Maria LaGanga in New Orleans
September 22, 2005
After lashing the Florida Keys, Hurricane Rita gained strength as it entered the Gulf of Mexico with 217kmh wind gusts.
The US National Weather Service upgraded Rita to a Category 4 storm yesterday, the same intensity as Hurricane Katrina, prompting preparations by jittery officials and residents from waterlogged New Orleans to the Texas coast.
On Tuesday, as President George Bush returned to the Gulf Coast, telling local leaders that amid the rampant devastation caused by Katrina there are promising signs of recovery, the Mayor of New Orleans ordered a second emergency evacuation.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/new-orleans-on-alert-as-rita-takes-aim/2005/09/21/1126982124527.html


Marsquakes rock our neighbour
September 22, 2005
Changing landscape … images taken in July 2002, left, and last April show the creation of two gullies on Mars.
Photo: AP
Los Angeles: The climate on Mars is showing a warming trend and recent images have shown the first evidence of seismic activity on Earth's neighbour, scientists have said.
New gullies that did not exist three years ago have been pictured on a Mars sand dune - another of what scientists say are surprising discoveries found by the eight-year-old Mars Global Surveyor that are changing notions about Mars' climate and formation.
"To see new gullies and other changes in Mars surface features on a time span of a few years presents us with a more active, dynamic planet than many suspected," said Michael Meyer, NASA's Mars Exploration Program chief scientist.
Images taken by the Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera showed that boulders have fallen down a Martian slope in the past two years.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/marsquakes-rock-our-neighbour/2005/09/21/1126982124545.html


Plan to prevent hatred of Muslims
By Tom Allard
September 22, 2005
Muslim leaders and the Federal Government will develop a plan to prevent the vilification of Muslims in the event of a terrorist attack in Australia.
Speaking after the first meeting of the Muslim community reference group yesterday, the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, John Cobb, said the project was part of a "national action plan" to promote harmony and understanding.
The meeting took place against a backdrop of deep concerns among Muslims about the Government's proposed new anti-terrorist measures and the impact of radio shock jocks, who they believe incite hatred against them.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/plan-to-prevent-hatred-of-muslims/2005/09/21/1126982127376.html


Unfair competition
September 22, 2005
Four women arrested after going topless on a street in Moravia, New York State, last month say they didn't break any laws and want the charges against them dropped.
The women, each charged with exposure, face 15 days in jail and/or a $US250 ($325) fine, Associated Press reports.
Their lawyer argues a 1992 state Court of Appeals decision allows women to go topless anywhere a man can.
But the Cayuga County assistant district attorney said that in addition to the nudity violation, he will argue that the women "interfered with commerce".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/unfair-competition/2005/09/21/1126982124548.html


Emergency landing: 'pretty intense but not panicky'
By Jano Gibson and agencies
September 22, 2005 - 2:31PM

In this image taken from television, theJetBlue Airways Airbus A-320 lands at Los Angeles International Airport amid a shower of sparks.
The pilot of a US airliner with 146 passengers on board successfully landed amid a plume of sparks and smoke from his landing gear.
The JetBlue Airways Airbus A-320 touched down on Los Angeles International Airport's runway 25 with its front wheels locked 90 degrees to the left.
Flight 292 landed after circling the Californian coast for about three hours to burn off fuel. There were no reports of injuries.
The pilot eased the plane onto the airport's longest runway as smoke and sparks shot out from underneath from friction.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/09/22/1126982154097.html?from=top5


21 days after Katrina, 70-year-old found
September 22, 2005 - 8:38AM
Rescuers have found a 70-year-old man who had been in his New Orleans house since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast three weeks ago, but his wife had died, Mayor Ray Nagin said.
"Yesterday we rescued a 70-year-old man from a home. He had been holed up there. He had water and food. Not a lot," Nagin told legislators in Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge.
"His wife had passed five days earlier. So we were able to rescue him yesterday," Nagin said without providing further detail.
"So the rescue efforts are still going on and we are continuing to recover bodies."
Rescuers found a 76-year-old man in the loft of his flooded home on Friday, 18 days after the storm.
At least 799 have been confirmed dead in Louisiana since the August 29 storm.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/21-days-after-katrina-70yearold-found/2005/09/22/1126982150638.html


NO REPORT FROM SCOTT BASE.


The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:

48 °F / 9 °C
Overcast

Windchill:
46 °F / 8 °C

Humidity:
93%

Dew Point:
46 °F / 8 °C

Wind:
5 mph / 7 km/h from the ESE

Pressure:
30.27 in / 1025 hPa

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds:
Overcast 2000 ft / 609 m
(Above Ground Level)

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Now, so far as this Mars photo. There are obvious topographic relief in both pictures that are identical. The photo on the left is from July 2002. The photo on the right is from April 2005. If one has followed the Mars photos over the decades it is a known fact that they have become 'sharper' over time. The CLASSIC example of that reality is 'the face' everyone said was a proof of something humanoid or some kind of mysticism. As the picture quality improved so was the imaging of the 'Face of Mars.' The 'cast' of the shadow on the recent picture tells me that the sun was at different positions in these pictures. The ridge line is shaper in the picture on the right. The dunes north in this picture to the crevasses are virtually the same. Personally, I don't think this is anything new except the FRAUD of Rove. I do believe this is just a 'sharper image' of the same area on the right only three years later. The shadow of the crevasses are in the first picture of 2002. I wasn't born yesterday. Check my passport. My mother will tell you I wasn't born yesterday and that has been a characteristic for a long time. Sorry. It's the way I see it. 

September 21, 2005 The Moon. September 21, 2005. 

September 21, 2005. See a brother here in Wilkesboro, North Carolina as well as a lot of people across the net are buying into this Moon thing big time. They want it. Fine. They are excited regardless of the fact the International Space Station will no longer be under control of the USA and the USA treasury could never achieve the monies that aspiration requires to do it well. They want this. I can understand that in a world where the USA national debt has no meaning and everyone under Bush can have what they want.  

September 22, 2005. I don't dare enhance this image. It's a disaster. I think 'Kenneth' still holds potential for Hawaii. The Gulf of the USA is over here. If you think this pre-sunrise infrared satellite is crazy, you should see the news. There is no semblence of order in the International climate. Lions eating people in Africa. Naked women in New York State. Taliban protected in Afghanistan. And the Taliban are known to be connected to the opposition forces in Iraq. Where is Osama bin Laden? He's there somewhere. There is no resolving that mess over there. Americans need to pay attention to America. This is a disaster. Then there is that Mars photo. I don't know. I think it's a fraud by the USA government. It looks so blasted obvious. I don't know what they are trying to sell either. NOTED: Rita and the continued building complimentary aire masse at the equator on the Pacific side of Central America. NOTED: Phillipe is becoming a huge issue but it's predicted to stay at sea for the moment. We'll see. It probably will. NOTED: The northern compliment to 'Rita' over Wisconsin. Basically it's the same longitude, so is the vortex north of the Wisconsin storm. Now, if you consider there are three huge 'events' on the same longitude as well as a contributing equatorial heat source that is quite an interesting dynamic to me. Those events are fluid in a liquid medium of gas. Follow?  

The Roosters 

"Read my lips. No new taxes. No new services. Unfortunately, no new pork." 

September 21, 2005. The Grand Casino of Gulfport, Mississippi. UNSAFE after a confrontation with "Katrina."  

September 21, 2005. The dynamiting of The Grand Casino at Gulfport, Mississippi. 

September 21, 2005. The cloud of dust. Where have we seen this before. Memories we never needed. 

September 21, 2005. The Demolition of The Grand Casino, Gulfport, Mississippi. 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster “Crowing”

“Okeydoke”

History

1792 the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.

1814 General Andrew Jackson appeals to free Blacks to join the army in a war against the British.

1815 General Andrew Jackson honors courage of Black troops who fought in the Battle of New Orleans.

1897, the New York Sun ran its famous editorial that declared, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."

1937, "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien, was first published.

1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.

1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.

1964, Malta gained independence from Britain.

1970, "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.

1973, the U.S. Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State.

1981, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

1989, Hurricane Hugo crashed into Charleston, S.C.

1998 Olympic Track Star Florence Griffith Joyner dies suddenly. She is noted for winning 3 gold medals and 1 silver at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea

Missing in Action

1966 AMMON GLENDON L. MUNCIE IN REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI 08/29/78
1966 BAUDER JAMES R. LA CANADA CA
1966 MILLS JAMES B. BAKERSFIELD CA
1967 KIEN NGUYEN THAI VIETNAM COMMANDO RELEASED 09/24/84 ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 JUDGE MARK W TORRANCE CA NOT ON ANY OFFICIAL LIST REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 PLUMADORE KENNETH L. SYRACUSE NY
1967 VESCELIUS MILTON J. MILFORD MI REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1969 CECIL ALAN B. HOLDENVILLE OK
1969 JACKSON JAMES W. JR. ATLANTA GA
1971 CARROLL ROGER W. JR. KANSAS CITY MO REMAINS RETURNED 06/94 IDENTIFIED 10/95
1972 COOK DWIGHT W. CENTER POINT IA REMAINS RETURNED 06/94 IDENTIFIED 06/95

Sun Herald

Rita unleashes Category 5 fury over gulf
PAM EASTON
Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas - Gaining strength with frightening speed, Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast a Category 5, 165-mph monster Wednesday as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were sent packing on orders from authorities who learned a bitter lesson from Katrina.
"It's scary. It's really scary," Shalonda Dunn said as she and her 5- and 9-year-old daughters waited to board a bus arranged by emergency authorities in Galveston. "I'm glad we've got the opportunity to leave. ... You never know what can happen."

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12697184.htm


GULFPORT 'You need to develop blueprint for future'
By GEOFF PENDER
SUN HERALD
GULFPORT - President Bush sat quietly for nearly half an hour, listening, as Gov. Haley Barbour and local business and government leaders kicked off their first meeting on how best to rebuild Katrina-ravaged South Mississippi.
Bush told the local leaders he didn't want to interrupt business - any more than a presidential visit necessarily interrupts business - because he believes it's important that "Mississippi people lay out the vision for what this important part of the world to look like" when it's rebuilt, not the federal government.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699185.htm


Levees better, but city still at brink of disaster
By PETE CAREY
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Hurricane Katrina so weakened New Orleans' 350-mile levee system that it probably can't protect the city from flooding even in a relatively minor storm, officials with the Army Corps of Engineers said.
While workers have closed most of the breaches that allowed the city to flood after Katrina, none of the burst levees has been returned to its pre-flood height, corps officials said. Many other sections of the levee have washed away or have eroded enough that even a small rise in the surrounding waters would spill into the city.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699216.htm


BILOXI Coliseum damage in the millions
Operating at 'bare bones' after 5 layoffs
By TOM WILEMON
tewilemon@sunherald.com
BILOXI - The Mississippi Coast Coliseum, one of the few beachfront landmarks to withstand Hurricane Katrina, has been a staging area for rescue and relief efforts. But it wasn't unscathed.
The arena and convention area sustained between $15 million and $20 million in damage, according to preliminary damage assessments.
Coliseum Director Bill Holmes and staff members briefed commissioners Tuesday morning.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699257.htm


The Advocate

Katrina's death toll climbs past 1,000
By ADAM NOSSITER
Associated Press Writer
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Searchers smashed through doors in New Orleans on Wednesday, bringing their hunt for the dead to homes that had been locked and to blocks hardest hit by Katrina's flooding. Behind those doors, officials said they expected a sharply escalating body count even as the overall death toll passed 1,000.
"There still could be quite a few, especially in the deepest flooded areas," said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jeffrey Pettitt, who is overseeing the retrieval of bodies. "Some of the houses, they haven't been in yet." Officials said searchers are beginning to find more children.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HURRICANE_KATRINA_HK2?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-09-21-16-21-53


House OKs tax breaks for Katrina victims
By MARY DALRYMPLE
AP Tax Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House approved $6.1 billion in tax breaks Wednesday to help families recover from Hurricane Katrina and to encourage Gulf Coast businesses to reopen their doors, or at least keep employees on the payroll.
The House passed the bill 422-0 as the Bush administration urged residents to get out of the way of another approaching storm, Hurricane Rita, threatening Louisiana and Texas.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HURRICANES_TAXES_HK4?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-09-21-16-24-28


Philadelphia Inquirer

'The conscience of the Holocaust'
By Danica Kirka
Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria - He lost 89 family members, survived a dozen Nazi camps and weighed less than 100 pounds when an American armored unit liberated Mauthausen in 1945.
Simon Wiesenthal, 96, who drew on his memories of the Holocaust to fight for justice for its victims, died in his sleep yesterday at his Vienna home. He had dedicated himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the six million Jews who perished.
He was very open about why he became a Nazi-hunter: He didn't want to meet millions of Holocaust victims in the afterlife and admit he had forgotten their suffering.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698364.htm


Casinos get break on taxes
Many would be built in areas with abatements.
By John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writer
When legislators voted to allow gambling companies to open casinos in Pennsylvania, they justified the move by saying that heavy taxes on the slots operators would bring in as much $1 billion in revenue.
But as the state is tallying up what it will take off the top, it is handing millions of dollars back to the wealthy gambling corporations because some of the proposed slots-parlor sites are in special tax-abatement zones.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698360.htm


Phila. snubbed in bid for emergency-radio funds
By Jennifer Lin
Inquirer Staff Writer
What do Pocatello, Idaho, and Bismarck, N.D., have that Philadelphia doesn't?
Big-time federal dollars to improve emergency radio communications.
The Philadelphia Police Department learned Monday that it was turned down for a $6 million grant to wire the city's rail tunnels so police, firefighters and paramedics could use their radios underground.
Instead, 26 other cities will share $92.8 million from the U.S. Department of Justice.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698365.htm


Towns get back in game
By Reid Kanaley
Inquirer Staff Writer
Steel made Coatesville. Paper built Downingtown.
A generation ago, those industries streaked the skies with smoke and steam, employed the men (mostly it was men), and fed Main Street economies in these neighboring, traditionally rival central Chester County communities.
Not anymore.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/wwl_downingtown/12698290.htm


List of the accusations involving Philadelphia Archdiocese priests
By Craig R. McCoy, Nancy Phillips and Mark Fazlollah
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church surfaced in 2002 with revelations of rampant victimization in Boston and quickly enveloped the church nationwide.
Since then, the Philadelphia Archdiocese has said that at least 44 diocesan priests had been credibly accused of abusing minors over the previous half-century.
Several other priests from religious orders who either served in the archdiocese or lived there have also been accused of abuses.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12666751.htm


The Jerusalem Post

Giuliani: Sharon a great leader
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
If Ariel Sharon were gearing up for an American-style stump campaign, he picked up a key endorsement and excellent ad soundbites when Rudy Giuliani compared the prime minister to Babe Ruth and said he deserved to be included in John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
"I have tremendous admiration for your prime minister. I think he's one of those really unusual people that knows how to put the good of the country in front of everything else," Giuliani said in response to a question from The Jerusalem Post at a press conference held Wednesday night.
The former mayor of New York was in town to speak at Ness Technologies' annual conference on leadership in Tel Aviv Thursday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284680


Alleged would-be El Al hijacker nabbed
By YAAKOV KATZ
The Shin Bet and the police's International Serious Crimes Unit arrested on Wednesday Tawfik Fukara who allegedly tried hijacking an El Al plane in 2002, upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport.
Fukara, a 26-year-old Israeli-Arab from the Galilee village of Bouina Nejidat, has been held up in Turkey ever since November 2002 when he allegedly tried hijacking an Istanbul-bound El Al flight with a pocket knife.
Following his arrest, Fukara was transferred to Turkish authorities for questioning and had admitted that he intended to hijack the plan and force the pilot to crash it into a building in Tel Aviv in a 9/11-like attack.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269283986



PM: No limit to the chutzpah!
By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND JPOST STAFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday evening rejected the demand that he state he will remain in the Likud party if he loses the September 26 central committee vote to move up the primary elections in the Likud.
Minister of Agriculture Yisrael Katz and chairman of the Likud faction in the Knesset MK Gidon Sa'ar said in a Tel Aviv press conference earlier on Wednesday that they would support moving up the Likud primaries if Sharon refused to declare that he would remain in the party even if he lost the September 26 vote.
Sharon was reacting to these demands when he told central committee members assembled at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, "The convening of the central committee is an attempt at ousting me, and those trying to do this are now coming to me with demands. I ask: can you oust and then make demands?"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127182727066


'PA is crumbling, Fatah in disarray'
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
The Palestinian Authority is crumbling, its leader Mahmoud Abbas is too weak to enforce law and order, his Fatah party is in disarray and Hamas is taking control of the Gaza Strip, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said on Wednesday during a rare on-the-record briefing with military reporters.
For more on the situation in the Gaza Strip, see our SPECIAL REPORT: GAZA UPHEAVAL >>
"The Palestinian Authority is barely functional," Diskin said at his headquarters in Ramat Aviv. "(Abbas) has no apparatus to control Fatah. He is a general without soldiers. Giving him more weapons won't give Fatah strength. He needs more motivation."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269283180


PA won't dismantle militias
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday rejected an appeal from the Quartet to dismantle armed militias and called on the international community to stop meddling in the Palestinians' internal affairs.
Ministers of the Quartet – the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union – said in a joint statement Tuesday that following Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians needed to "dismantle terrorist capabilities and infrastructures."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284767


Musharraf's speech - historic?
By DANIEL PIPES
When the Malaysian currency tanked in late 1997, the country's then-prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said he had "definite information" that Jews were the cause.
"We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally [financier George] Soros is a Jew." Mahathir went on to say that just as "the Jews would rob Palestinians... this is what they are doing to our country.
Mahathir's anti-Semitism is so typical of discourse in the Muslim world over the last generation that I have found an "uneasy parallel" between it and Nazi Germany of the 1930s.
This background makes clear the historic nature of a speech by the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, to the American Jewish Congress on September 17. More coincidentally, he too singled out George Soros as a symbol of Jewish financial prowess, but very differently.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127182727879

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September 20, 2005 Self explanatory.