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Today in History
869 4th Council of Constantinople (8th ecumenical council) opens
1450 Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Ludwig IX
1582 Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries
1864 Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)
1867 Monroe Baker, a well-to-do African American businessman, is named mayor of St. Martin, Louisiana. He is probably the first African American to serve as mayor of a town.
1867 Last day of Julian calendar in Alaska
1872 Booker T. Washington leaves Malden, West Virginia to enter Hampton Institute.
1875 Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
1878 George B. Vashion joins the ancestors after succumbing to yellow fever in Rodney, Mississippi. He was the first African American lawyer in the state of New York and an educator and poet whose most famous work was "Victor Oge" (1854), the first narrative, nonlyrical poem by an African American writer.
1907 Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
1921 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 (World Series #18)
1921 Present constitution of Liechtenstein comes into effect
1922 Yanks & Giants play an infamous 3-3 tie world series game (World Series #19)
1923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star
1925 WSM-AM in Nashville Tenn begins radio transmissions
1929 Autherine Lucy (later Foster) is born in Shiloh, Alabama. She will be the first African American student to enroll at the University of Alabama (1956).
1932 Perle Yvonne Watson is born in Los Angeles, California. As Yvonne Braithwaite, she will serve as staff attorney on the McCone
Commission investigating the causes of the Watts riots and will
become the first African American woman elected to the California
state assembly, as well as the first African American woman
elected to the House of Representatives. She also will be the
first woman to sit on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
as a result of an appointment by Governor Brown. Some years later,
she will become the first woman elected to the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors.
1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio
1953 Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of the US
1953 Yankees break own record with 5th consecutive World Series win - Billy Martin's 12 hits set record (World Series #50)
1956 Yogi Berra becomes the 4th Yank to hit a World Series Grand Slam (World Series #53)
1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
1963 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
1964 SF Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1965 Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite
1969 Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 PBS becomes a network
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1983 Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1984 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched
1985 Grambling's Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game
1985 Grambling's coach Eddie Robinson wins his record 324th college
football game.
1986 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms
1988 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
1990 Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obscenity (Mapplethorpe photos)
1992 Eddie Kendrick, one of the original members of the Motown group, The Temptations, joins the ancestors after succumbing to lung cancer.
Missing in Action
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Reinventing 'retirement'
Boomers want challenges and meaning, not rocking chairs. As they've done before, they're re-creating this time of life.
By Lini S. Kadaba and Rita Giordano
Inquirer Staff Writers
Last of four parts
What's next?
Baby boomers wrapping up careers - and peeking around the corner at life after 60 - are grappling with that mighty question.
As they search for a blueprint for the rest of their lives, they are, in typical boomer fashion, determined to reinvent retirement.
Boomers, after all, have left their imprint - a societal tattoo of sorts - on every stage of life. By sheer numbers, they have elevated the ordinary progression of time into something phenomenal. Childhood. Parenthood. Work. Menopause.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12818626.htm
In testing new drugs, more than a pet cause
Help for Hercules and maybe many more.
By Fawn Vrazo
Inquirer Staff Writer
Hercules Knapp entered a clinical trial recently without going through any of the usual patient protocols. He wasn't told what the trial was about, he wasn't offered a consent form, and no one asked his permission to give him a test drug. Indeed, he couldn't give his permission even if asked.
In the world of clinical trials, Hercules is a special breed - a mixed German shepherd-rottweiler and one of many pets nationwide enrolled in medical studies designed to help both them and future pet generations.
It's a growing field with many parallels to the human side. Pet clinical trials are overseen by ethics boards, results are reviewed and published in scientific journals, and successful drugs often make their way to the Food and Drug Administration for approval.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/12818622.htm
Possible damage by workers cited in probe of shuttle's fuel-tank foam
The new program chief said workers may have accidentally broken the part that failed on liftoff.
By Marcia Dunn
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Workers may have accidentally cut or crushed the section of foam that broke off Discovery's fuel tank during its launch two months ago - a mistake that threatened the safety of the astronauts and grounded the shuttle fleet.
That is the leading theory for the cause behind the disturbing loss of foam insulation that cast a cloud over NASA's return to space, said Wayne Hale, the newly appointed manager of the space-shuttle program.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/12818638.htm
Pope should rescind celibacy rule for priests
The scandal of abusive priests being shielded from the law and moved from parish to parish to continue their criminal acts reached all the way up the church hierarchy to Pope John Paul II himself, the one man who could have commanded every bishop and cardinal, at the first allegation, to immediately relieve the priest of his duties and report the matter to the legal authorities. He could have ordered archdioceses to open up their secret records of assaults on children and their internal records and letters detailing accusations of abuse over the years and how they were dealt with.
Instead, when Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law - arguably the most odious prelate involved in facilitating the sexual abuse of children - was forced to resign, rather than dismissing him in disgrace, the Pope brought him to Rome to serve at his side. Cardinal Justin Rigali expresses regret at the abuse of children by priests in his archdiocese, but when the Vatican chose Law to say a Mass in memory of John Paul II, and the 10 other American cardinals properly refused to take part, Rigali stood by Law's side.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/12818658.htm
Cancer death rate drops, but some types are on the rise
For men, new cases are holding steady. For women, they are up. Liver cancer has gotten more common.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Liver cancer seems to be on the rise, a blip of bad news in the nation's otherwise optimistic annual report on cancer that shows survival continuing to improve.
Overall, Americans' death rates from cancer have dropped 1.1 percent a year since 1993, a trend that continued in 2002 - the most recent figures available - researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/12818647.htm
The Guardian
Iran linked to killing of British soldiers
Staff and agencies
Wednesday October 5, 2005
Iran was today accused by Britain of supplying Iraqi insurgents with the technology and explosives to kill its soldiers in the south of the country.
A senior government official, briefing correspondents in London, said that there was evidence that the Iranians were in contact with insurgent groups fighting coalition forces in Iraq.
"We think it has come from Lebanese Hizbollah via Iran," he said, adding that the action could be an attempt to warn Britain off its demands that Tehran should abandon its controversial nuclear programme.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1585563,00.html
Government fires industry climate change warning
Mark Tran
Wednesday October 5, 2005
British industry cannot carry on with "business as usual" and must take action to curb greenhouse emissions, government officials said today.
Alan Johnson, the trade and industry secretary, told company executives at a London conference on climate change that they needed to modify their thinking on energy use.
"The smartest companies know already that business as usual isn't an option, and to succeed in a carbon constrained world it makes sense to invest and think differently about their energy use," Mr Johnson said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1585471,00.html
'Nine in 10 prisoners have mental disorder'
David Callaghan
Wednesday October 5, 2005
Nine out of 10 male prisoners have a mental disorder, the Zahid Mubarek inquiry was told today, on the last day of hearings.
The Zito Trust, which campaigns for better care for mentally ill people, told the inquiry that "prisons have become psychiatric asylums by default".
The trust's director, Michael Howlett, said in written evidence to an inquiry seminar today on the treatment of mentally disordered prisoners, that prisons are accommodating an increasing number of people with mental disorders.
He said: "Some 90% of the current male prison population is said to be suffering from a diagnosable mental disorder."
Mr Howlett blamed the shrinking number of psychiatric beds in the NHS, leaving treatment for people with mental problems or disorders to be attempted in prisons.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/youthjustice/story/0,11982,1585442,00.html
Mainly for Women
Part-time employment - is it worth it?
Leader
Friday October 5, 1956
The Guardian
Economists point to full employment, our ageing population, and the prospect of a labour shortage, and prophesy that more part-time employment is indispensable. Less convinced are the weary women, trying to combine any kind of job with family responsibilities, and the employer who, although hard-pressed, would much prefer the full-time worker.
Clearly the problem is many-sided. The country does need more workers, both in industry and in the professions, and these, it appears, are not available on a full-time basis. By 1977, out of every fifteen people three will be over 65 as compared with one in 1911 and two in 1951. Besides, immediate economic needs apart, no community can afford to give so many women higher education and then relinquish completely their potential contribution on account of marriage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1585368,00.html
Is this the death of freedom?
Five years ago, this country crafted the Human Rights Act. Now it is being ripped apart
Francesca Klug
Sunday October 2, 2005
The Observer
Today it the fifth birthday of the Human Rights Act, but there is little to celebrate. As one of those who once worked with Labour to craft a rights charter that went with the grain of our parliamentary democracy, I now see it being undermined, in word and deed, by the government that introduced it. Tory leaders, present and pending, line up to pen its obituary.
Early allegations against the act - that it would swamp the courts and spring open the prison doors - failed to materialise. But now the charge is more serious. The act has, in some quarters, effectively been held liable for the London bombings.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1582988,00.html
Science Daily News
Times-Picayune returning to New Orleans
BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The New Orleans Times-Picayune plans to be back in the city within two weeks.
Publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. announced the return this week, saying the newspaper, owned by the Newhouse chain, would also have jobs for everyone who was on the payroll when Katrina struck.
The newspaper has been operating out of Baton Route, Mobile and Houma, La. It continued to publish on-line throughout the hurricane and its aftermath, although print editions were suspended for three days before resuming using borrowed facilities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051004-16414700-bc-us-katrina-timespicayune.xml
Math Unites The Celestial And The Atomic
Providence, RI (September 28, 2005) — In recent years, researchers have developed astonishing new insights into a hidden unity between the motion of objects in space and that of the smallest particles. It turns out there is an almost perfect parallel between the mathematics describing celestial mechanics and the mathematics governing some aspects of atomic physics. These insights have led to new ways to design space missions, as described in the article, “Ground Control to Niels Bohr: Exploring Outer Space with Atomic Physics” by Mason Porter and Predrag Cvitanovic, which appears in the October 2005 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051005074603.htm
Earth Sinks Three Inches Under Weight Of Flooded Amazon
COLUMBUS , Ohio – As the Amazon River floods every year, a sizeable portion of South America sinks several inches because of the extra weight – and then rises again as the waters recede, a study has found.
This annual rise and fall of earth's crust is the largest ever detected, and it may one day help scientists tally the total amount of water on Earth.
“What would you do if you knew how much water was on the planet?” asked Douglas Alsdorf, assistant professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University. “That's a really exciting question, because nobody knows for sure how much water there is.”
Having an estimate of Earth's entire fresh water cache – from hidden groundwater, to the world's rivers and wetlands, to mountaintop glaciers – would greatly improve our ability to predict drought, flooding and climate change.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051005071750.htm
Boiler Modifications Cut Mercury Emissions 70 Percent Or More, Research Team Finds
Researchers at Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) have developed and successfully tested a cost-effective technique for reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
In full-scale tests at three power plants, says lead investigator Carlos E. Romero, the Lehigh system reduced flue-gas emissions of mercury by as much as 70 percent or more with modest impact on plant performance and fuel cost.
The reductions were achieved, says Romero, by modifying the physical conditions of power-plant boilers, including flue gas temperature, the size of the coal particles that are burned, the size and unburned carbon level of the fly ash, and the fly ash residence time. These modifications promote the in-flight capture of mercury, Romero said.
The ERC researchers reported their findings in an article titled "Modification of boiler operating conditions for mercury emissions reductions in coal-fired utility boilers," which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Fuel.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051004084651.htm
Evolutionary Conservation Of A Mechanism Of Longevity From Worms To Mammals
Though the study of aging in the nematode model organism C. elegans has provided much insight into this complex process, it is not yet clear whether genes involved in aging in the worm have a similar role in mammals. In a recent study, Dr. Hekimi and colleagues of McGill University (Canada) report that inactivation of the gene mclk1, the murine ortholog of the C. elegans gene clk-1, results in increased cellular fitness and prolonged lifespan in mice.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051004083842.htm
The Colossal Cosmic Eye: ESO's VLT Captures Image Of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350
Eighty-five million years ago on small planet Earth, dinosaurs ruled, ignorant of their soon-to-come demise in the great Jurassic extinction, while mammals were still small and shy creatures. The southern Andes of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina were not yet formed and South America was still an island continent
Eighty-five million years ago, our Sun and its solar system was 60,000 light years away from where it now stands [1].
Eighty-five million years ago, in another corner of the Universe, light left the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1350, for a journey across the universe. Part of this light was recorded at the beginning of the year 2000 AD by ESO's Very Large Telescope, located on the 2,600m high Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Andes on planet Earth.
Astronomers classify NGC 1350 as an Sa(r) type galaxy, meaning it is a spiral with large central regions. In fact, NGC 1350 lies at the border between the broken-ring spiral type and a grand design spiral with two major outer arms. It is about 130,000 light-years across and, hence, is slightly larger than our Milky Way.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051004175140.htm
The China Daily
Typhoon Longwang kills 65, dozens missing
By Guo Nei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-05 07:23
The death toll from Typhoon Longwang in East China's Fujian Province reached 65 last night.
Fifty armed police officers swept away in a landslide have been confirmed dead, while a further 36 officers are still missing, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
The officers were in a training school barracks in Fujian when the violent floods struck on Sunday night.
After 40 hours of searching by more than 7,000 soldiers and rescuers, 50 bodies had been found by yesterday afternoon.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/05/content_482692.htm
Miss Aisa Contest
Miss Asia winner Kitty Wang of China, center, poses with first runner-up Hong In Young of Korea, left, and second runner-up Anna Zhai of China, after winning the 2005 Miss Asia Pageant contest in Hong Kong Tuesday Oct. 4, 2005. Eighteen contestants from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and other Asia countries, participate in the contest. [AP]
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/05/content_482695.htm
Japan ready to resume talks with China
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-05 09:43
Japan has proposed to China that working-level talks on undersea oil and gas deposits in a disputed area of the East China Sea resume on Oct. 19, Japan's trade minister said Tuesday.
Shoichi Nakagawa gave no other details of the proposed talks, which would be the fourth round between the two sides in the past year. A ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Japan had not yet received a reply from China.
The last round of talks ended inconclusively last week.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/05/content_482706.htm
Super-efficient nuke reactor set for trial
By Fu Jing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-05 07:16
Chinese scientists are planning super-efficient nuclear reactors that can maximize uranium burn-up and minimize waste in the generation of electricity.
If the first experimental reactor, set to be in operation by 2010, is successfl, the technology could help relieve China's uranium supply problems as the country accelerates nuclear power plant construction.
China Academy of Atomic Science President Zhao Zhixiang said a team of scientists has already mapped a detailed plan to speed up research and utilization of the so-called next-generation fast reactors.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/05/content_482687.htm
Kiss with British PM's wife returns to haunt man 40 years
When an 11-year-old boy sneaked his first kiss under a British railway bridge in 1965, he most likely never expected it to be front page news 40 years later. But then he did choose Tony Blair's future wife.
Stephen Smerdon, now the thrice-married owner of a bar in Hertfordshire, north of London, woke up on Thursday to find his fledgling love life of four decades ago splashed across newspaper front pages.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/02/content_482407.htm
Three share Nobel chemistry prize
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-05 18:02
France's Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday, for their work to reduce hazardous waste in forming new chemicals.
The trio won the award for their development for the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
The Nobel Prize committee honored the laureates for their findings in metathesis, which focuses on how chemical bonds are broken and made between carbon atoms.
The process is used "daily in the chemical industry, mainly in the development of pharmaceuticals and advanced plastic materials."
"This represents a great step forward for 'green chemistry,' reducing potentially hazardous waste through smarter production. Metathesis is an example of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man, society and the environment," the committee said.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/05/content_482754.htm
China develops new products to treat sewage
(People's Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-04 10:02
China has recently developed world-class high-molecular-weight polyacrylamide products which can be used for sewage treatment, paper making and oil exploitation.
The products were developed by the Changchun Research Institute of Applied Chemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.
According to experts from the institute,the new materials, up to international criteria, are in conformity with the development trend of green chemistry. The new products require simple production techniques and cause no second-time pollution.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/04/content_482588.htm
China builds 200-kph railway in Fujian
(People's Daily)
Updated: 2005-10-04 10:00
China has started building a 200 kilometer-per-hour railway from Fuzhou, capital city of East China's Fujian Province, to Xiamen, a coastal city in the province.
The line, with a length of 273 kilometers and a total investment of 14.42 billion yuan (US$1.78 billion), will be completed in 2009.
Since the railway will be constructed in high land, about 40 percent of the railway will be on bridges and in tunnels.
The Fuzhou-Xiamen line is part of China's coastal network of express railways.
The original railways in the province, with speeds of 60 to 70 kilometers per hour, are antiquated, a local official said.
The Fuzhou-Xiamen line will connect the original ones and form a network within the province, he said.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/04/content_482587.htm
The Cheney Observer
Jeb Bush supports drilling in Eastern Gulf of Mexico
BY TAMARA LYTLE AND JOHN KENNEDY
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. - (KRT) - Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he supports federal legislation allowing drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico - including areas where he aggressively fought energy exploration just four years ago.
Bush cited new political realities and protections he thinks he could win for the state in exchange.
Environmentalists, Democrats and Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida staunchly oppose the bill, which would allow oil and gas drilling 125 miles from Florida waters. They continue to insist that a strong political front in Florida can stop all new drilling in the Eastern Gulf.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/12817826.htm
Senate debates treatment for detainees
LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - U.S. troops interrogating terrorism suspects don't know which techniques are permitted and Congress owes it to them to establish clear standards, Senate Republicans said Wednesday, opening a politically volatile debate over the treatment of detainees.
The White House opposes legislation that would impose restrictions on the Pentagon's detention, interrogation and prosecution of prisoners, arguing that it would tie the president's hands in wartime.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/12821475.htm
Row flares between Jeb Bush and Jack T over games bill
You say potato and I say tomato
By Aaron McKenna: Sunday 02 October 2005, 09:52
LAST THURSDAY we ran a story based on a press release put out by Miami attorney and videogames watchdog Jack Thompson who claimed that he was requested by Florida Governor Jeb Bush to draft a violent video games bill. That's here. But according to the office of the Governor, he was bending the truth a little.
Thompson said he was asked to draft a bill similar to that currently awaiting signing or trashing in California, which would restrict the sale of violent and sexually explicit videogames to minors, and that if such legislation were passed Governor Bush had assured Thompson that he would sign the bill into law.
However, since then we've received an email from Governor Bush's Deputy Press Secretary Russell Schweiss saying that this is incorrect.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26629
President taps fund-raiser as ambassador to Portugal
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bush fundraiser Hoffman tapped for Portugal post
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Al Hoffman, one of the top fund-raisers for President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush, has been nominated by the president to be the U.S. ambassador to Portugal.
Hoffman, 71, is chairman of Bonita Springs home-building firm WCI Communities and a longtime Bush family friend. His nomination must be approved by the Senate.
The West Point graduate was finance chairman for the Republican National Committee and headed President Bush's fund-raising effort in 2000 in Florida and Gov. Jeb Bush's in 2002. In all, he's raised about $300,000 for Bush's presidential campaigns.
He also chaired Jeb Bush's inaugural committee.
Portugal was one of the first nations to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, doing so in 1791, and is a member of the European Union.
Hoffman, who served four years in the Air Force and has a master's degree from Harvard, would replace John N. Palmer, who left the post last year.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/12266891.htm
Halliburton Looking To Expand
Natural gas exploration is one of the fastest growing industries on the western slope. The sudden boom has pushed companies to expand their operations. Halliburton Energy Services is considering expanding by adding more warehouses and offices. The recent expansion is triggered by the western slopes young energy boom. Officials at Halliburton believe we are in our infancy stages of natural gas production and there is a potential for long term production of natural gas in the area. As more drilling companies expand their operations, companies like Halliburton who don't drill natural gas but maintain the rigs, are forced to expand as well. Halliburton is waiting to get approval to build the new warehouses and offices by the city council and planning commission. If all goes as planned Halliburton can begin construction on the new buildings by the end of this year. The city council and planning commission are scheduled to discuss the issue in either October or November.
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http://www.kjct8.com/news/readnews.cfm?ID=4713
Insufficient disclosure in Halliburton patents
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Tue 02 August 2005
Category: General
Issue No: 1390
Ruling that Halliburton had made insufficient disclosure in its two patents, Britain’s Patents Court rejected the US oil and gas company’s bid to challenge Smith International, a Texas-based products supplier to the oil and gas industry.
MIP Week reports in one of the longest and most complex judgments, the court said ‘If they had not been insufficient, both patents would probably have survived the attack of obviousness made upon them’. Said Judge Pumfrey: ‘At present, both patents cover unpatentable subject matter, but I envisage that this defect could be cured by amendment, were it not for the insufficiency of the disclosure, which I do not believe can be cured in this way.’ The European patents owned by Halliburton covered the design of roller cone drill bits used for drilling oil and gas wells. The patents also covered a sophisticated simulation computer program used in the design of the bits, though this detail was not clearly mentioned in the patents. Halliburton had sued Smith International claiming that its IDEAS software as well as the bits created by the software infringed its patents. Smith in turn claimed the disputed patents were invalid.
http://legalbrief.wnd.co.za/article.php?story=20050802111536784
The details:
Halliburton defeated in software patent case
Stéphanie Bodoni, London
In the first case to be argued between two parties on the issue of patentable subject matter in the UK, the High Court for England and Wales last week issued a crushing ruling for US oil and gas company Halliburton.
In an 84-page judgment, one of the longest and most complex ever issued by the Patents Court, Mr Justice Pumfrey on July 21 declared Halliburton's two disputed patents invalid. The ruling was a victory for defendant Smith International, a Texas-based products supplier to the oil and gas industry.
The European patents owned by Halliburton covered the design of roller cone drill bits used for drilling oil and gas wells. The patents also covered a sophisticated simulation computer program used in the design of the bits, though this detail was not clearly mentioned in the patents.
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=530496&ISS=17456&LS=EMS48009
Dick Cheney's Plan To Nuke Iran
Stand athwart the apocalypse, and shout: "No!"
by Justin Raimondo
August 2, 2005
Antiwar.com
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A recent poll shows six in ten Americans think a new world war is coming: the same poll says about 50 percent approve of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Somewhat inexplicably, about two-thirds say nuking those two cities was "unavoidable." One can only wonder, then, what their reaction will be to this ominous news, revealed in a recent issue of The American Conservative by intelligence analyst Philip Giraldi:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=RAI20050802&articleId=790
Cheney cuts short Montana vacation, heads to Saudi Arabia
Associated Press
BILLINGS - Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday cut short his vaction to Montana to return to Washington for a trip to Saudi Arabia.
His plans changed with the death of King Fahd.
The White House said Cheney and other U.S. representatives would leave for Riyadh on Wednesday to pay respects to the Saudi royal family and greet Fahd's successor, King Abdullah.
Cheney arrived here Monday and immediately left to fish the Big Horn River in southeastern Montana.
The Big Horn Angler fly shop in Fort Smith sold some trout flies to Secret Service agents.
"They came in a couple days prior to his arrival and floated the river," said Glenn Strickland, manager of the fly shop.
For security reasons, it was not disclosed how long Cheney had planned to stay in Montana.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/02/build/state/20-cheney.inc
MoneyLine by Neil Downing: Energy-smart car, home purchases could bring income-tax breaks
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Get ready to sort through a basket of federal income tax breaks that are intended to encourage you to save energy.
That big piece of energy legislation you've probably heard about, the one that Congress approved last week and President Bush is scheduled to sign soon, is mainly geared toward industry.
But it also contains some tax breaks that are geared toward consumers -- including new tax benefits for buying hybrid vehicles, and making home improvements to boost your home's energy efficiency, said Mark A. Luscombe, a lawyer, accountant and principal analyst for CCH of Riverwoods, Ill., a national publisher of tax information for accountants and other tax professionals.
http://www.projo.com/business/moneyline/projo_20050802_2money.da99dd2.html
William Rivers Pitt: Something to Choke On, Again
Tuesday, 2 August 2005, 11:09 am
Opinion: William Rivers Pitt
Something to Choke On, Again
By William Rivers Pitt
tMonday 01 August 2005
I don't know but I been told,
If the horse don't pull, you got to carry the load.
I don't know whose back's that strong,
Maybe find out before too long.
One way or another ...
One way or another ...
One way or another ...
This darkness got to give.
-- Robert Hunter
There have been two bad moments looming over the horizon for the last couple of weeks. One is still in the offing, and a lot of people who have been watching and working the details should prepare themselves for the ram. The other went down this morning, and a lot of good folks are choking on their own rage right now.
One will center around Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who has been surprisingly diligent and effective in his investigation into who outed deep-cover CIA agent Valerie Plame. His diligence and effectiveness have been surprising, it should be noted, because he has been the only person in government lo these last five years who has actually and sincerely attempted to uncover and unravel the nest of lies, deceptions and bare-faced criminal actions of the Bush administration.
That means, of course, that he has got to go. GOP defenders of Bush, Rove and Libby have been lining up salvos against Fitzgerald should he continue to evidence his unfortunate streak of moral clarity. As Joe Conason reported in the New York Observer last week, "Circled in a bristling perimeter around the White House, the friends and allies of Mr. Rove can soon be expected to fire their rhetorical mortars at Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the White House exposure of CIA operative Valerie Wilson. Indeed, the preparations for that assault began months ago in the editorial columns of The Wall Street Journal, which has tarred Mr. Fitzgerald as a 'loose cannon' and an 'unguided missile.'"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00025.htm
Our Opinion: Agent outing dire threat to U.S. security
Tucson Citizen
A mere 16 words spurred the exposure of CIA Agent Valerie Plame and a probe into Bush administration officials that quickly is gaining steam after 1 1/2 years.
President Bush uttered the 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union address, citing Iraq's efforts to get yellow cake uranium from Africa as another reason to go to war.
But the 16 words were untrue. And when former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson made that clear - on NBC and in The Washington Post and The New York Times - senior Bush officials launched a damage-control campaign.
In the process, they outed Plame, who is Wilson's wife and had been working as an undercover agent for our nation.
Karl Rove, senior adviser for President Bush and top strategist for the Republican Party, leaked Plame's identity to conservative syndicated columnist and CNN commentator Bob Novak in July 2003.
He also identified Plame to Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, as did Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=opinion&story_id=080105b4_edits
Democrats: GOP congressmen should return DeLay money
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press Writer
October 04, 2005
The state Democratic Party on Tuesday called on Republicans in South Carolina's congressional delegation to return money they received from Texas Rep. Tom DeLay's political fundraising organization and asked Rep. Joe Wilson to return contributions from a recent event DeLay attended.
"Our Republican congressmen need to separate themselves from Tom DeLay and his serious legal and ethical problems," said state Democratic Party Chairman Joe Erwin. "Tom DeLay's money is tainted, and these congressmen should give it back - now."
Among South Carolina Republicans, Wilson has received the most money from the Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, or ARMPAC. Wilson does not plan to return any of it, his spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore said.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051004/APN/510040983&cachetime=3&template=dateline
Grace pushes out 130-nm process to ‘06
Mark LaPedus
(10/04/2005 5:54 AM EDT)
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SEOUL, South Korea — Chinese silicon foundry provider Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. said that it is expected to offer its 130-nm logic process in the first half of 2006 — which appears to be later than its original schedule.
Grace (Shanghai) has been shipping wafers based on 0.25-, 0.18-, and 0.15-micron technologies within its 8-inch fab in China. The company has been developing its 130-nm logic process, with plans to offer the technology in the 2005 time frame, according to its roadmap.
… Grace is well known for some of its high profile connections. In the U.S., it has reportedly agreed to pay $2 million for consulting services from semiconductor neophyte Neil Bush, the younger brother of President George W. Bush. In China, one of Grace's founders is Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and in Taiwan, its other founder is Winston Wang, scion of a powerful petrochemical magnate.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171202795
Miller Chats with CNN's Dobbs, Calls Jail 'Demeaning'
By E&P Staff
Published: October 04, 2005 10:00 PM ET
NEW YORK CNN's Lou Dobbs was perhaps Judith Miller's biggest TV supporter during her 85 days in jail, and the New York Times reporter recognized this Tuesday, granting him an exclusive interview.
Miller called the detention facility in Alexandria, Va., "the most soulless place I had ever been. ... It was demeaning. It was degrading. It was very lonely."
She admitted, however, that perhaps she will feel that the federal prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, acted in good faith if he brings indictments this month. "Let's wait and see what Mr. Fitzgerald has. If he brings indictments, if he has a very serious case, then I might have to say that perhaps his zealousness with respect to this mission was justified," Miller said.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221791
Bush adminstration a lame duck
PriBy Travis Thomas
October 04, 2005
This administration is finished. It is entering its lame duck phase -- the 10th month of its second term. A collection of immeasurable mistakes, ranging from unsuccessful war adventures against the Iraqis to two ranking administration officials being criminally implicated in the leak of a CIA operative's name, has doomed it. The crime they are accused of is that which put the infamous Cold War criminals Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to execution.
Democrats failed to mount a well-executed opposition to this administration; the best Democrats offered was some gibberish about executive responsibility as they cast their yeas for war. The current state of Democratic war opposition is not a call for withdrawal at any point in the foreseeable future, but Hillary Clinton's bill to increase the number of troops in Iraq. For all of their bluster about the illegitimacy of the war, congressional Democrats have bought entirely into the neocon tripe that democracy is an institution able to be imposed.
http://thedaily.washington.edu/opinion.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=opinionpage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=13815&-search
Libby attorney: Miller, lawyer to blame
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller has only herself and her lawyer to blame for her seven weeks in jail, a lawyer for her source claims.
Joseph Tate, who represents Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, accused Floyd Abrams, the well-known First Amendment lawyer, of engaging in "spin control," The Washington Post reported. Tate says Libby released Miller from her promise of confidentiality long before she was imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.
"The significant fact that you continue to omit, and that seems to be lost here, is that you never told me that your client did not accept my representation of voluntariness or that she wanted to speak personally with my client," Tate said in a letter to Abrams. "Even you can't spin those facts away. That is the answer to this unfortunate circumstance of your client's incarceration, not any failure on our part."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051004-15545800-bc-us-miller.xml
Cheney warns on early Iraq pullou
Published: Tuesday, 4 October, 2005, 12:42 PM Doha Time
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday warned that Iraq could become a staging area for large-scale terrorist attacks on the United States if troops are withdrawn too early, as he tried to shore up waning public support for the war.
With no let-up in the Iraqi insurgency, opinion polls showing US public unease and some lawmakers questioning how long troops will remain, the Bush administration has stressed in recent weeks that it does not view pulling out as an option.
As he visited Marines who just returned from a seven-month deployment in Iraq, Cheney said in Camp Lejeune , North Carolina, that there had been “superb” progress. US generals last week had offered a cautious assessment of the readiness of Iraqi forces to take over the country’s security.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=55275&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56
Time to Fire Karl Rove and “Scooter” Libby
October 3, 2005
Ivan Eland
With the coerced testimony of New York Times reporter Judith Miller in his pocket, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is now free to complete his probe of the Bush administration’s “outing” of CIA covert officer Valerie Plame. Fitzgerald might have difficulty proving that two government officials—Karl Rove, the president’s ruthless political operative, and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff—knew of Plame’s covert designation and violated the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by intentionally leaking her identity. On the other hand, some analysts believe Fitzgerald will try to indict Rove and Libby on conspiracy charges, which are much easier cases to make. Only the special counsel knows the strength of his evidence, whether or not he will seek indictments, and on what charges. Because the term of the grand jury expires by the end of October, the public should know the outcome of Fitzgerald’s inquiry by then.
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1581
To Keep Post, DeLay May Need Quick Justice
By CARL HULSE
Published: October 5, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Representative Tom DeLay's furious effort to quickly quash criminal charges against him and discredit the Texas prosecutor who brought them is aimed in large part at a select audience: fellow House Republicans who control his future in the leadership.
With some of Mr. DeLay's Republican colleagues already agitating for new leadership contests in the months ahead, he and his allies know that a speedy and favorable resolution to the campaign money case is his best chance to move back into control easily.
"It is one thing if it is three weeks," said Amy Walter, a nonpartisan analyst of House politics for The Cook Political Report. "Three months, that is another story."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/05delay.html
On Tom DeLay's troubles
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
Where's his R-E-S-P-E-C-T?
HOORAY to the Travis County Grand Jury for indicting U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land. He's accused of conspiring to violate Texas election law.
DeLay gives lip service to states' rights, but he doesn't respect our right to enact laws that would forbid politicians to sell their favors to corporations or unions.
Playing the big, bad "city cousin," he came down from Washington to show his GOP "country cousins" how to dodge the letter and spirit of our election law. But his transparent money laundering did more than break the law, it openly mocked our intention to control the sale of elections.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/3380630
Margaret Thatcher Asked for Delay Detail
By Associated Press
October 4, 2005, 8:18 AM EDT
LONDON -- Prosecutors investigating Rep. Tom DeLay have asked former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for details of a meeting between the two politicians, her spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
Lord Bell said police contacted Thatcher's office to clarify details of a meeting with the Texas Republican in May 2000. He said DeLay had paid Thatcher a courtesy call while he was on a visit to Britain and that she was not involved in wrongdoing.
"Lady Thatcher is visited by many politicians and political figures from around the world," Bell said. "It was not a business meeting."
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-delay-thatcher,0,7012805.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Carlyle Group has good chance to buy Daimler's MTU-paper
Tue Oct 4, 2005 2:32 PM ET
FRANKFURT, Oct 4 (Reuters) - U.S. private investment firm firm Carlyle Group says it has a good chance to buy German diesel engine maker MTU Friedrichshafen, which belongs to autogiant DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) (DCX.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
"I think that we have a good chance to still buy it," Carlyle Group Managing Director and co-founder David Rubenstein told the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung in a story to be published on Wednesday.
DaimlerChrysler in mid September took over 100 percent of MTU Friedrichshafen after it bought the Brandenstein-Zeppelin family's nearly 5 percent stake and the Maybach family's 7.2 percent stake.
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2005-10-04T183319Z_01_L04721306_RTRIDST_0_AUTOS-MTU-CARLYLE.XML
Frist wanted to sell shares earlier
Paper says senator approached accountant and officials months ahead of HCA earnings warning.
October 3, 2005: 9:33 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Tennessee Senator Bill Frist was looking to unload shares of hospital operator HCA Inc. months before the company gave warning of any financial difficulties, according to a news report published Saturday.
Citing an email and the draft of a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee, the Wall Street Journal reported that Frist was attempting to sell all HCA stock over two months before the company issued an earnings warning on July 19.
Frist is under investigation for insider trading by both the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as the Department of Justice for his sale of HCA stock on June 13.
Shares of HCA (Research) fell nine percent after the warning was issued, the paper reported.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/03/news/newsmakers/frist_hca/
June 12, 2003
Bill Frist's Bucks
The Scene examines what the U.S. Senate majority leader owns in the hospital company his family founded and how that wealth is managed
By Willy Stern
When Tennessee native son William H. “Bill” Frist assumed the mantle of U.S. Senate majority leader in January, the national buzz was almost uniformly positive. Press accounts characterized Frist as a smart, diligent man with a squeaky-clean background. He was described as a gifted doctor, possessed of a strong body of knowledge about health care. With strong ties to the president, he was seen as a man who might be able to unify the often fractious Senate. Some observers—including the Nashville Scene—suggested he would be a likely candidate for president in 2008.
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/News/2003/06/12/Bill_Frist_s_Bucks/index.shtml
Bechtel Walks Off Romania's $2.5-Billion Motorway Project 10/3/2005
Construction of one of Europe’s largest highway projects, Romania’s $2.5-billion Transylvanian motorway, is on hold through lack of payments. Turnkey contractor Bechtel International Inc. recently fired 530 workers while the government reviews its contract and seeks international loans.
Contract awards for the estimated $1.3-billion eastern extension of the same highway have also been suspended. The awards, made by Romania’s previous administration, are also being investigated by the new government for compliance with European Union procurement laws.
"We believe that all outstanding issues are going to be resolved shortly," says Bechtel’s project spokesman Bogdan Sgarcitu. "We are encouraged by the Ministry of Public Finance’s steps to arrange external financing."
http://enr.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0271-21821_ITM
The indictment of Tom DeLay and Jeb Eddy
By Frank Salvato
web posted October 3, 2005
If there is one thing that cannot be denied – and denial should be considered a sport in Washington DC – it is that whether the issue is legitimate or not, the Democratic Party truly knows how to pander to the mainstream media. When the opportunity arises to stretch the actualities of a situation in an effort to achieve the biggest media splash it shouldn't surprise anyone that the boundaries of fact and truth are sullied.
There are two fantastic events that have taken place that illustrate this point. One is the indictment of US Representative and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) on criminal conspiracy charges. The other is the San Francisco Chronicle's inclusion of a liberal activist's photo in an anti-war photo gallery portraying him as a disgruntled Republican.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1005/1005delayeddy.htm
Jeb Bush & Jack Thompson
October 03, 2005
by: Matt Saunderson
UPDATED: Thompson gives AMN comment.
UPDATE: 8:50 PM Central, Monday, October 3, 2005 See below for the original story.
Jack Thompson, upon reading our article, has provided comment to the Advanced Media Network on the current situation that is taking place between him and Gov. Jeb Bush's (R-FL) office. "The [Governor's] press office is totally incorrect," Thompson said. "Bush's policy office contacted me. I didn't contact them. Mr. Schweiss is either ill-informed or lying. Take your pick."
Thompson has also forwarded us a letter he has written to the Jeb Bush's Deputy Press Secretary Russel Schweiss:
Mr. Schweiss, I'm not sure if you think you have the gift of telepathy or not, but I am getting tired of your holding forth about phone conversations to which you were not a party. I just read an article in which you were quoted about all this. You are underinformed at best.
The below correctly reflects what I heard coming from Mr. Ball in the Governor's policy office. He and I have since spoken, and he does not materially disagree with it.
http://psp.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=1945
Thousands protest the Iraq war
SF also crowded with Loveparade revelers
(09-24) 16:05 PDT San Francisco (SF Chronicle) --
Tens of thousands of people marched in San Francisco and the East Bay today to urge the U.S. government to pull out of Iraq, joining anti-war protests in Washington and other cities.
Elsewhere in the city, thousands of people grooved to the sound of electronic music along Market Street and at Civic Center Plaza. And tonight, thousands more are expected to rock-out at SBC Park to Green Day, the celebrity punk band born in Berkeley.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/24/BAprotest24.DTL
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