Indian Ocean April 9, 2005 at 8:44 AM. The picture is better but no one in the path of that cyclone will say that. The cyclone is better defined. TO NOTE: While Earth is looking better in '?cooling?' the cyclone is delivering that accumulated heat into the ocean. The oceans are still heating. We are not cool enough YET. We still have a long way to go to secure our safety on Earth. This process has been in since October 4, 2002. It is serious and these are 'margin' improvements but they are improvements. There remains great brevity to be concerned otherwise I would not be this vigilant. 

Indian Ocean April 7, 2005 at 8:57 AM 

April 9, 2005 at 11:34 AM. Marginally better. The 'hot spots' thoughout bear watching. The Northern Hemisphere is heating up as noted in the northwest quadrant of this satellite image. We'll keep watching. 

April 8, 2005 at 11:32 PM.  

This is the last appearance Pope John Paul II made before he fell ill. The Man of Peace and his Doves. May he rest in peace now. 

The Human Tide of Moarners. Truly a personal relationship with the flock.  

When the Pope had first taken a turn for the worst. This is a mass for priests on March 24th the St. Peters Bascillica. 

A few lingering pictures. This was a requiim mass last week for the Late Pope in Jakarta, Indonesia. We don't frequently think of Indonesia as Catholic but there is a large populous there. There is a lot of 'ethnoreligous' tensions between the Catholics and Muslims in Indonesia. 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster "Crowing"

"Okeydoke"

April 8…

1652: Cape Town in South Africa is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as a supply post for the Dutch East India Company.

1893, Mary Pickford, American actor and motion-picture producer, who is traditionally regarded as the most popular performer in film history. She was known as “America's Sweetheart.”

1974: In Atlanta, Georgia, baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.

1990: Ryan White, the U.S. teenager whose battle with AIDS promoted public understanding of the disease, dies at 18.

1992: Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), survives a plane crash in the Sahara Desert; the plane's three crew members perished.

Hank Aaron: Hammerin' back at racism
By Larry Schwartz
Special to ESPN.com

http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00006764.html

Alphabetically and arithmetically, what could be finer than having "Aaron, Hank" as the first name listed in The Baseball Encyclopedia? The book's leadoff man is better recognized as the cleanup hitter who holds the Cadillac of baseball records: His 755 home runs are the most by a major leaguer.

1967 CRAIN CARROLL O. MEMPHIS TN RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 GALVIN RONALD E. RIVER FOREST IL
1967 PAWLISH GEORGE F. LAS ANIMAS CO RADIO CONTACT LOST
1971 ANSHUS RICHARD C. MINNEAPOLIS MN 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE AND WELL 98
1971 GRANTHAM ROBERT E. LOS ANGELES CA
1971 HALE JOHN D. BRANDENBURG KY
1971 PRATHER PHILLIP D. ARMARILLO TX 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG DECEASED 11/20

April 9...

1682, French explorer Robert La Salle reached the Mississippi River.

1898, Paul Robeson, singer, actor, athlete, and civil rights activist

1903, Gregory Pincus, biologist

1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

1940, during World War II, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.

1942, American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was followed by the notorious "Bataan Death March," which claimed nearly 10,000 lives.

1947, a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas claimed 169 lives.

1959, NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton

1963, British statesman Winston Churchill was made an honorary U.S. citizen.

1968, Slain American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.

1970, Paul McCartney announces the official breakup of the Beatles.

1965 FEGAN RONALD J. BROCKPORT NY CRASH AT SEA AFTER COMBAT
1965 MURPHY TERENCE M. NEW YORK NY CRASH AT SEA AFTER COMBAT
1967 SCHWORER RONALD P. LAS VEGAS NV
1968 LAWSON KARL W. TERRE HAUTE IN
1970 BUSHNELL BRIAN L. TUALITON OR "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 HORCHAR ANDREW A. INDIANA PA "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 KNIGHT LARRY C. WILBURTON OK "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"
1970 PFAFFMANN CHARLES B. KILLINGSWORTH CT "DOWN AT SEA, NO SURV OBS"

The Miami Herald

DiMarco leads as rain hits Masters again
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Chris DiMarco birdied his first hole upon returning to Augusta National this morning, ensuring he would remain atop the leaderboard once the first round of the Masters was completed.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11347084.htm

This is necessary because the government no longer has the money for police protection and have no desire for gun control.

Macho law expands use of deadly force
OUR OPINION: IRRESPONSIBLE BILL: KILL OR BE KILLED LEGISLATION
The Protection of Persons and Property bill passed by the Legislature Tuesday is an example of what passes for governance in our state when too many lawmakers read from the same page in the Book of Political Cowardice.
In this case, the page that was copied into law was written by the National Rifle Association. Lawmakers see it as a winning hand because it has the appearance of being ''tough on crime.'' So the bill passed overwhelmingly in both houses, including with the support of some lawmakers who obviously know better. Gov. Jeb Bush has promised to sign it.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11340635.htm

The New York Times

Warnings Aside, Some Still Want Their Painkillers
MIAMI, April 8 - Bextra was Burt Wolfson's wonder drug. So the news that it was coming off the market amid new safety concerns made him panic.
Mr. Wolfson, a physical therapist who suffers chronic knee, hip and shoulder pain, was not fearing the adverse effects of the medication so much as life without it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/health/09pain.html?hp&ex=1113105600&en=570b65c54f4b5547&ei=5094&partner=homepage


Fear and Violence Accompany a Deadly Virus Across Angola

LUANDA, Angola, April 8 - The death toll in Angola from an epidemic caused by an Ebola-like virus rose to 174 Friday as aid workers in one northern provincial town reported that terrified people had attacked them and that a number of health workers had fled out of fear of catching the disease.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/health/09angola.html?hp&ex=1113105600&en=2f8e4bf4da78e258&ei=5094&partner=homepage

At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar
MEXICALI, Mexico
ALICIA ÁLVAREZ lives two miles from the American border and light-years from the American dream.
Growing up in Mexicali has made her a realist at 15. She has no taste for romances and soap operas. Harry Potter stories and a horror movie at the mall are as far away as fictions take her from her city's heat and dust.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/international/americas/09mexico.html?hp

Terrorist Attacks on Reactor Pools

A report just released by the National Academy of Sciences bears two disturbing revelations. The cooling pools for nuclear waste at some reactor sites may be far more vulnerable to a devastating attack by terrorists than federal regulators are willing to admit. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is operating in a hermetically sealed cocoon that makes it difficult for anyone - even the academy, armed with a Congressional mandate - to tell whether the public is adequately protected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/opinion/09sat1.html

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Bubbas know about cleavage. Beauty and the breast
Why are we focusing on women’s cleavage anyway? What about the butt-crack?’ (Photograph: Nadine Hutton)
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in South Africa, with one in 31 women suffering from this disease. The second National Cleavage Day (April 8) is being held to raise funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa through a series of promotional events planned across the country.

 

Windy Day Today. Checking the cleavage. 

The Royal Couple. 

A happy place with a relaxed atmosphere. Birkhall, an unpretentious house sheltered by the wooded hills of Royal Deeside, has been the setting for at least six royal honeymoons - including that of the Queen and Prince Philip in 1947 - and a great many more secret courtships. It stands at the edge of the Balmoral estate, private and self-contained, on its own green plateau, overlooking a tumbling garden and the salmon-rich River Muick. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother described it as "a small big house, or a big small house". 

Morning Papers - continued...

The Belfast Telegraph

Next Pope will get Irish invite
By Alf McCreary in Rome
08 April 2005

Click here for the funeral in pictures
The Irish hierarchy hopes to invite the new Pope to Ireland when he is elected to complete the process begun in 1979 by the late Pope John Paul II.
Bishop John Magee, the Newry-born cleric who was the late Pope's secretary from 1978 to 1992, told the Belfast Telegraph at a reception in the Irish College in Rome last night that the proposal was under "active consideration".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=627408

Mugabe's Vatican trip sidesteps EU ban
By Marta Falconi
08 April 2005

Click here for the funeral in pictures
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has arrived in Rome to attend the Pope's funeral, side-stepping a European Union travel ban because it does not apply to the Vatican.
The EU imposed sanctions on Harare in 2002 after its observers were barred from elections. It also banned arms sales and froze Zimbabwe's assets in European banks as well as some development aid.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=627533

Concern at lack of evidence: Adams
By Noel McAdam
08 April 2005
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has again voiced concern over the the failure of witnesses to provide evidence against the killers of Robert McCartney.
And he has confirmed that he is still in contact with the McCartney sisters, who have returned from their trip to the European Parliament in Brussels.
Mr Adams was asked yesterday if he remained concerned or was more concerned about the McCartney case, now ten weeks after the killing on January 30.
"I am absolutely more concerned - I actually take it personally - and I remain in contact with the family of Robert McCartney and we continue to our best as we have been doing," the West Belfast MP said.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=627466

Ellis Island: Darn them sox!
Walter Ellis reports from New York
06 April 2005
There's no doubt what the Big News is this week in New York City. The Boston Red Sox are in town as the World Champions of baseball.
Whooah! Let's run that by me again.
The Boston Red Sox are in town as the World Champions of baseball.
For 86 years, it wasn't possible to write that sentence, other than as fantasy. Up until 11.40pm, October 27, 2004, when Boston took the title after a four-nothing sweep of the St Louis Cardinals, the Sox hadn't won the World Series since 1918.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/features/story.jsp?story=626917

Last lap for Rover as talks collapse
By Nigel Tilson, Business Editor
ntilson@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
08 April 2005
Workers arriving at MG Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham today were concerned that it could be the end of the line for the last remaining major British car manufacturer.
Workers at the company's huge Longbridge plant in Birmingham said that they had believed that a deal with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation was about to be signed.
But they conceded that the talks had now collapsed.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/business/story.jsp?story=627510

Don't mourn Rover
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Rover makes the British unwontedly sentimental. Once again, the closure of the Longbridge plant - a story that has been flickering on the periphery of our vision since the 1960s - is dominating the news, despite the wedding, the funeral and the general election. It is right that we should feel for the 6,000 workers who could now lose their jobs, especially given the strenuous efforts they have made to increase their productivity. But we seem to have lost our sense of perspective: 6,000 manufacturing jobs are, after all, lost roughly every fortnight.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/09/dl0902.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/04/09/ixopinion.html

BP on course to set new profits record as oil soars
By Saeed Shah
05 April 2005
BP is likely to smash last year's multibillion-pound profits record despite revealing yesterday that refining margins had shrunk and production growth had stalled in the first quarter.
Analysts said that given the booming oil price and additional oil and gas fields that will come on stream this year, the company is on course to beat the £16.2bn net profit it made in 2004.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/business/story.jsp?story=626661

Viewpoint: IRA must respond positively
Adams' appeal: Only an end to all paramilitarism will do
08 April 2005
To nobody's great surprise, the IRA has loftily decided to give "due consideration" to Gerry Adams' appeal for it to abandon its so-called armed struggle and fully embrace the political process.
Given the inextricable links that exist between the IRA and Sinn Fein, it would have been a major upset had the organisation rebuffed the party president. The sequence of events has been well choreographed, and now a weary public is required to await the IRA's response which will come "in due course".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/story.jsp?story=627444

Arab Israeli beats Jewish boys in quiz on Zionism
By Donald Macintyre and Said Ghazali in Jerusalem
07 April 2005
In a fortnight when two Arab footballers have kept Israel in World Cup contention, an Arab schoolboy has beaten hundreds of Jewish children to win a quiz focused on the history of Zionism.
Rami Wated, 12, an Arab Israeli from Jaffa, was a winning finalist in a competition to answer questions mainly based on Tel Aviv street names and their relevance to the history of Jewish nationalism.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=627249

The Telegraph UK

A host of daffodils - and not one from Wales
By Caroline Davies
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
This being the Prince of Wales's wedding, there are daffodils - 35,000 of them.
Columns of the spring flowers will adorn the grand staircase at Windsor Castle today as Prince Charles and his bride, the Duchess of Cornwall, ascend to their wedding reception.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=XOH4UJXBVXTLTQFIQMGSM54AVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/04/09/nwed09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/09/ixhome.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=21013

The woman he loves
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
When marriages break up, the friends of the husband and the wife tend to divide into hostile camps. The husband's friends, if he seems to be the wronged party, will denounce the wife and her lover. The wife's, if she has been wronged, will say that the other woman is a trollop.

The truth is hardly ever as simple as that. The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles have suffered more than most divorcees from this natural human tendency to take sides. This is because so many millions of people thought of Diana, Princess of Wales as their friend.
We know that today's ceremony in Windsor will provoke nothing like the public euphoria that greeted the Prince's first marriage.
This will not be a fairytale wedding between a prince and a young beauty, but the formal union of a mature couple who have loved each other for many years, whose children approve of the match and who seem to need each other very much.
We believe that the Prince of Wales will be a better man, and one day a better king, for having the help and support of a wife whom he loves. We rejoice for the couple and wish them every happiness.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/09/dl0903.xml

Alone at last (with just a few house guests)
By Elizabeth Grice
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Many royal honeymoons have been celebrated in the wild seclusion of Birkhall, the much-loved Scottish retreat that the Prince of Wales inherited from his grandmother, but none as unconventionally as the one that begins there this evening.
Marriage second time around for Prince Charles and his new duchess doesn't require all-inclusive romantic solitude (albeit in the company of a few servants). Instead of a traditional honeymoon, they have gone for a small house party comprised of people they feel most comfortable with.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/09/nwed409.xml

DNA puts man in dock 21 years after Murrell death
By Neil Tweedie
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
The murder of Hilda Murrell, the anti-nuclear activist, a fertile source of conspiracy theories for 20 years, was the work of a teenage criminal who would have escaped justice but for advances in DNA profiling, a jury heard yesterday.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/09/nmurrell09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/09/ixportal.html

Christianity in a Godless age
(Filed: 09/04/2005)
Four reigning kings and more than 70 rulers of nations were corralled in front of St Peter's for the Pope's funeral yesterday. For once, they were not the centre of attention. At the moment of the Mass known as the Kiss of Peace, they found themselves awkwardly faced with having to shake hands. President George Bush of the United States turned to Kofi Annan, the discredited secretary-general of the United Nations. In front of him stood President Mohammed Khatami of Iran, part of the Axis of Evil.

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/04/09/dl0901.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/09/ixportal.html

Equitable: Let's talk about this £2bn battle
By James Moore (Filed: 09/04/2005)
Equitable Life chairman Vanni Treves yesterday made an 11th hour plea to the troubled life insurer's former auditors to enter talks about settling its £2billion lawsuit ahead of the start of the High Court battle on Monday.
Mr Treves said he would be prepared to meet representatives from accountant Ernst & Young "any time, anywhere" if it were prepared to enter discussions over a "fair and reasonable settlement".

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/04/09/cnvanni09.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/09/ixportal.html

The Globe and Mail

The final farewell
The final commendation is meant to be the solemn climax of a Requiem Mass. But as the first cardinals processed towards John Paul II's coffin to line up four deep on either side and melodiously solicit prayers for his soul, they were greeted with a storm of applause.
Then banners were unfurled in several places around St Peter's Square demanding the late Pope be made a saint forthwith. Then came chants of "Viva il Papa" and "John Paul, John Paul".

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201211&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

Reporters 'face jail' in Zimbabwe
Two British journalists arrested for working without accreditation in Zimbabwe are bracing for jail terms of up to two years if found guilty at a trial expected to conclude next week.
Toby Harnden and Julian Simmonds, who were detained during last week's disputed parliamentary elections, appeared in court on Friday handcuffed together, dressed in prison garb of khaki shorts and shirts.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201213&area=/zim_elections/zim_news/

Beauty and the breast
Malena Amusa and Tiffany Sakato
08 April 2005 12:00

‘Why are we focusing on women’s cleavage anyway? What about the butt-crack?’ (Photograph: Nadine Hutton)
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in South Africa, with one in 31 women suffering from this disease. The second National Cleavage Day (April 8) is being held to raise funds for the Cancer Association of South Africa through a series of promotional events planned across the country.
“Having something like National Cleavage Day is important,” says Dr Carol-Ann Benn, founder of the Netcare Breast Care Centre of Excellence. “People need to be aware of examining the breast, the beauty of the breast, so breast cancer isn’t seen as this mutilating and humiliating disease.”

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201171&area=/insight/monitor/

Chissano: US media coverage of Africa unfair
The United States's media coverage of Africa over the past decade is anything but fair and balanced -- and focuses overwhelmingly on the negative, former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said on Friday.
"Coverage of Africa, by the leading forces of American media, is, at best, dismissive of the continent's progress and potential," he said.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201219&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/

WHO puts Angola's neighbours on Marburg alert
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that four countries go on a Marburg alert around Angola, the epicentre of an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like virus that has now claimed 174 lives, a top health official said on Thursday.
"Everybody should be on alert. Not only other provinces in Angola but all its neighbouring countries, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Zambia," said Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Geneva-based United Nations health organisation's assistant director general of communicable diseases.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201103&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/

Christianity is not a comfort zone
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya
08 April 2005 08:10

Nobody is perfect. Not even Christ’s vicar could claim to be. So Pope John Paul II, who stepped into the shoes of St Peter, the man who denied Jesus Christ thrice, was only human.
But he was the leader of the biggest Christian outfit in the world and, therefore, his actions rightly attract scrutiny.
The pontiff had made his mind known with reference to women’s roles in the church. Many Catholics, especially women, are unhappy that the church has yet to pay sufficient attention to their position in the organisation.
Many other Catholics feel that the church is out of touch with its continued stance against contraception and the use of condoms.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201168&area=/insight/insight__comment_and_analysis/

Rwanda reburies 20 000 genocide victims
Rwandans reburied the bodies of more than 20 000 victims of the 1994 genocide who had been dumped in mass graves as the country marked the 11th anniversary of the massacre.
The reburials on Thursday were a gesture meant to restore dignity to the victims of the genocide in which more than half a million died in a killing frenzy. Rwandans marked the massacre with a week of mourning.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=201122

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Iraqi Policeman providing security in Najaf. 

Journalists Simmonds and Hamden jailed in Zimbabwee. 

Morning Papers - continued...

Michael Moore Today

Massive Baghdad Protest Says No to Terrorism, U.S. Occupation
(photos)

Two Years Earlier, Same Location
(ABC News report)

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Shiites Mark Anniversary of Baghdad's Fall
1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Middle East - AP
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiites marked the anniversary of the fall of Baghdad with a protest against the American military presence at the square where Iraqis and U.S. troops toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein two years ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050409/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&sid=84439559

Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

By David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times
The Army's internal study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last year produced the most memorable image of the invasion.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2156

Even in president's hometown, recruiters can't reach goals
Emily Baker / Midland Reporter-Telegram
U.S. Army recruiter Sgt. Tomas Barrios flashed his debonair smile at hundreds of Lee High School students during a lunch hour last week. He greeted each student who walked by with a gentle salutation and a promotional key ring.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2155

Tucson's largest school district places restrictions on military recruiters
Associated Press
New restrictions have been placed on military recruiters by Tucson's largest school district.
Recently, the Tucson Unified School District adopted new rules that restrict visits by military recruiters to once a month per school.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2148

In pictures: Iraqi lives two years after Saddam

Lack of security issue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/in_pictures_iraqi_lives_two_years_after_saddam/html/1.stm

The Australian

Bushfire control goes on
April 09, 2005
NEARLY 200 firefighters are consolidating control lines around the Wilsons Promontory National Park - fearing the weather could worsen tomorrow.
The fire has already burnt more than 7,000 hectares of bush.
The fire on Victoria's south eastern coast - lit as a Department of Sustainability and Environment fuel reduction a week ago - was whipped out of control by high winds.
Hundreds of campers evacuated from the camping ground at Tidal River Bay and took refuge from the flames on the beach at Norman Bay for 12 hours until it was safe to drive out of the park.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12803908%255E1702,00.html

Vicar files objection to royal wedding
From correspondents in Windsor
April 09, 2005
AN Anglican cleric filed a last-minute objection today to Britain's royal wedding, maintaining that Prince Charles, divorced from the late Princess Diana, could not remarry while heir to the British throne.
Father Paul Williamson, 56, a Church of England vicar at St George's Church in west London, was the first person to arrive at civic offices in Windsor which opened specifically to register protests against the marriage.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12807291%255E1702,00.html

Navy ships collide in dispute
From correspondents in Jakarta
April 09, 2005
AN Indonesian navy ship has collided with a Malaysian vessel in an oil-rich maritime area claimed by both Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, a report said Saturday.
The incident off the coast off Borneo island happened Friday morning and involved Malaysia's navy ship KD Rencong and Indonesia's KRI Tedung Naga, the Sinar Harapan evening daily said, quoting an anonymous Indonesian navy officer.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12805864%255E1702,00.html

Chopper crash bodies recovered
April 09, 2005
THE remains of 18 people killed in the worst American military helicopter crash in Afghanistan have been recovered and the cause of the accident is being investigated, the US military said.
Three of those killed in Wednesday's crash were American civilians while the remaining were US service members, said Lieutenant Cindy Moore, spokeswoman for the 18,000-strong US-led coalition here.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12803671%255E1702,00.html


US aviation security chief resigns
By Maxim Kniazkov
April 09, 2005
THE head of a United States agency charged with providing post-September 11 security for commercial airlines has abruptly resigned in the wake of charges that despite a massive overhaul of security procedures, US carriers remained vulnerable to terrorist attack.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12802250%255E1702,00.html

Anti-US protests in Baghdad
April 09, 2005
TENS of thousands of Shiites converged on the centre of Baghdad for an anti-US protest to mark two years since the city fell to coalition troops.
Police cars blocked off main roads in central Baghdad and two major bridges across the Tigris River that cuts the capital in half as thousands marched through the street, chanting: “No, no USA, no, no America, no, no to the occupation.”

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12802657%255E1702,00.html

Iraqi PM wants clean government
April 09, 2005
IRAQ'S newly appointed premier has begun the process of building a cabinet he said must include efficient technocrats and nationalists with a “clean history,” while a mass demonstration against the US-led troop presence was called for.
Despite the weeks of delay and bickering in nominating Ibrahim al-Jaafari as premier, Washington expressed hope Iraq's political calendar providing for a permanent constitution and definitive elections by the end of 2005 would be respected.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12800883%255E1702,00.html

The Seattle Post Intelligencer

After 27 years, mystery solved
Bones in Florida identified as missing Yakima teen
By LEWIS KAMB
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Rocky Berry has finally been found.
It's been almost 27 years since a Yakima teen with shaggy brown hair and a degenerative muscular condition left his family, hitchhiked across country -- and was never heard from again.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/219496_identified09.html

Uncounted ballots -- and election jokes -- keep coming
By GREGORY ROBERTS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
It's the election that will not die.
There were the recounts, the felonious voters, the lawsuit, the unreconciled votes and the problematic provisionals, all before last week's embarrassing discovery of 93 absentee ballots still uncounted in their envelopes.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/219489_elections09.html

UW urged to cancel biolab plan
Group representing 20 neighborhoods sends letter to Emmert
By JAKE ELLISON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
University of Washington's neighbors have united to fight a proposal to build a high-security, regional biomedical lab on the Seattle campus.
Citing concerns about safety and government secrecy, a group representing more than 20 neighborhood organizations sent a letter to UW President Mark Emmert yesterday opposing the anti-terrorism research facility.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/219480_biolab09.html

EPA cancels controversial pesticide study
By JOHN HEILPRIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday canceled a controversial study using children to measure the effect of pesticides after Democrats said they would block Senate confirmation of the agency's new head.
Stephen Johnson, as EPA's acting administrator, ordered an end to the planned study, a reversal from the agency's position just a day earlier when it said it would await the advice of outside scientific experts.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Senate%20EPA%20Nominee

Defrocked priest will get new trial
By SARAH BRUMFIELD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Defrocked priest Maurice Blackwell arrives at Baltimore City Circuit Court, in Baltimore, in this, Feb. 11, 2005, file photo. A judge granted a new trial, Friday, April 8, 2005, to Blackwell on child sexual abuse charges, less than two months after he was convicted of molesting a former parishioner who later shot the clergyman. Investigators' references to other alleged victims during the child sexual abuse trial made it impossible for Blackwell to get a fair trial, his attorney argued Friday. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, file)
BALTIMORE -- Less than two months after he was convicted of molesting a boy who later shot him, defrocked priest Maurice Blackwell was granted a new trial by a judge who said testimony about other alleged victims was inappropriate.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Priest%20Shot%20Trial

Myanmar's junta not deterred by pressure
By DENIS D. GRAY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
YANGON, Myanmar -- Every year, Myanmar's ruling generals throw a grand party in verdant People's Park, marching their troops around in celebration of what they claim are their many achievements. But it's an in-house affair.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Myanmar%20Yangon%20Gloom

U.S. Embassy in Yemen closes after warning
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN'A, Yemen -- The United States and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen for security reasons Saturday after warning against travel to the country.
U.S. Embassy spokesman John Balian did not elaborate on the security concern or say how long the embassy would remained closed.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Yemen%20US


U.S. military detains cameraman in Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A cameraman carrying CBS press credentials was detained in Iraq earlier this week on suspicion of insurgent activity, the U.S. military said Friday, while the network issued a statement saying it was investigating the incident.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Reporter%20Detained

Consultants sound off on papal politics
By DONNA CASSATA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- If American political consultants were running a campaign for pope, they would advise any hopeful to quietly build coalitions, enlist the help of eminent figures and, above all, don't look too hungry for the job.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1130&slug=Papal%20Politics

Mich. urges locals to eat invasive plants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Area residents are being encouraged to chow down on an invasive plant.
Garlic mustard is commonly tossed into landfills, killed with herbicides or burned. But now it's being donated to food banks to use in a variety of recipes provided by the Michigan Nature Association.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Invasive%20Eats

Mexico City mayor awaits arrest
By MARK STEVENSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Mexico City Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas sits to the left of an empty chair left open for absent Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during a press conference in Mexico City, Friday April 8,l 2005. Encinas temporarily took charge after Congress voted to strip the mayor of his immunity, and said the capital was "perfectly calm and in order." (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox on Friday defended a vote to lodge criminal charges against Mexico City's leftist mayor, a political rival who declared his candidacy in the 2006 presidential race.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Mexico%20Mayor%27s%20Fate

Castro: Bush at pope funeral 'hypocrisy'
By VANESSA ARRINGTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

US President George Bush looks on as French President Jacques Chirac kisses the hand of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former US President Bill Clinton looks the other way, second from top right, after the funeral mass for Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, April 8, 2005. Sitting looking at Chirac kissing Rice's hand is First Lady Laura Bush. At bottom left, is King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Sofia with black hat; at top left, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. In background behind President Bush, Palestinian Qureia, widely known as Abu Ala (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
HAVANA -- Cuban President Fidel Castro criticized President Bush's attendance at Pope John Paul II's funeral Friday as "hypocrisy" because of the pontiff's opposition to the war in Iraq, and he downplayed the pope's role in toppling communism in the former Soviet bloc.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Cuba%20Pope

Massacre in Rio getting little attention
By MICHAEL ASTOR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NOVA IGUACU, Brazil -- Violence is a part of life in this slum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Shootings are common and death squads of former and off-duty police officers, funded by local businessmen, are known to knock off undesirables.
But even by the brutal standards of Nova Iguacu, last week's massacre of 30 people apparently by a band of rogue policemen was shocking, starting with the severed head thrown over the gate of a police station.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Brazil%20Rio%20Massacre

Handler punished for donning camel costume
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SYDNEY, Australia -- Qantas Airways Ltd. on Friday suspended a baggage handler who was caught on video opening a passenger's bag which contained a camel costume, donning the head and wandering around the airport tarmac.
The costume's owner, David Cox, said he was waiting inside the terminal at Sydney Airport earlier this week when he glanced outside and saw the baggage handler wearing his camel head.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Australia%20Camel%20Head

Rain washes out ash from Pacific volcano
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands -- Overnight rain washed away a dusting of ash from Anatahan Volcano, which continued to erupt on an uninhabited island just north of this tiny U.S. territory in the Pacific, authorities said Friday.
"We had a pretty good rain last night," which dissolved the ash that had settled on the capital island of Saipan, said Benjamin Cepeda, a public information officer with the commonwealth's Emergency Management Office.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=Marianas%20Volcano

continued...

April 5, 2005 eruption of Anatahan. 

Camilla. FINALLY.  

Final Tribute to a man of peace with unique life experiences and admirable goals if only the civilized world would stop living as barbarians and realize peace is truly a possibility. 

Morning Papers - continued...

The Sydney Morning Herald

Neo-cons move on but the tough stance stays
Recent appointments raise questions about US policy, writes Michael Gawenda in Washington.

As George Bush and Condoleezza Rice flew to Rome for the Pope's funeral, John Bolton, their choice as the next US ambassador to the United Nations, had more earthly political issues on his mind.

Bolton is at the centre of a fierce debate over the direction of US foreign policy, with even some moderate Republicans openly questioning his nomination.

Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control, is the most militant unilateralist and the most outspoken critic of the UN in the Administration.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Neocons-move-on-but-the-tough-stance-stays/2005/04/08/1112815727712.html

Elite Israeli force to spearhead Gaza pullout
April 9, 2005

Israel's army and police have set up an elite force to deal with violent opposition to this northern summer's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, security officials said, confirming a newspaper report.

Confrontations between settlers and troops are expected during the dismantling of 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/Elite-Israeli-force-to-spearhead-Gaza-pullout/2005/04/08/1112815728680.html

The greatest farewell in history
He was the Pope who changed the world and yesterday the world came to his church for one of the biggest funerals in history.
About a thousand current and former leaders from 100 nations and up to 5 million pilgrims packed Rome to pay homage to John Paul II, while an estimated 2 billion more watched the event on televisions across the globe.

To the sound of St Peter's bells and the applause of thousands of pilgrims, the Pope made his final journey into St Peter's Square, carried by 12 pallbearers in a simple wooden coffin, plainly adorned with a cross and the letter M for Mary.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/The-greatest-farewell-in-history/2005/04/08/1112815730233.html

Mass grief and opportunists
… Popes can be whatever you want to make of them. As cynically manipulative as ever, George Bush rushed to enlist this pontiff, post mortem, in his global fight for freedom, smoothly ignoring John Paul's outspoken opposition to the second Iraq war.
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Vatican spin doctors with an eye on posterity claimed the Pope's dying words were: "I searched for you. Now you have come to me. I thank you." This seems unlikely, given that his last public appearance produced only a strangled croak.
To my heathen mind, the Vicar of Christ, laid out in his crimson robe on the bier in St Peter's, looked like an avuncular department store Santa Claus. The embalming must have been first class, although according to the BBC the Vatican would say only that the body had been "prepared".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Mike-Carlton/Mass-grief-and-opportunists/2005/04/08/1112815725596.html

New Zealand Herald

Charles and Camilla finally tie the knot
A young fan waits outside Guildhall for Charles and Camilla to tie the knot. Picture / Reuters
09.04.05 UPDATED 10.53pm

WINDSOR, England - British heir to the throne Prince Charles finally marries Camilla Parker Bowles on Saturday, his lover for the past 35 years who will be forever blamed for destroying his marriage to Princess Diana.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119653


Australia gives famous painting to Charles and Camilla
09.04.05 6.40pm

CANBERRA - A landscape painting by Australian artist Fred Williams will be Australia's official wedding gift to Charles and Camilla.
Prime Minister John Howard said Williams (1927-1982) was considered one of Australia's greatest landscape artists who captured a unique vision of the essence of the Australian landscape.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119606

Iran's Khatami denies handshake with Israeli leader
10.04.05 6.45pm

TEHRAN - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami strongly denied that he shook hands with Israeli President Moshe Katsav at Pope John Paul's funeral, the official IRNA news agency said on Saturday.
Katsav earlier said he shook hands with Khatami and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the funeral on Friday, when hundreds of international dignitaries gathered in the Vatican to pay homage to the late Pope.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119608

Charles in new PR disaster for shaking hands with Mugabe
Britain's Prince Charles (L) sat next to Zimbabwean finance minister Herbert Murerwa (C) and Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe (R) during the Pope's funeral. Picture / Reuters
09.04.05 11.30am
By Cahal Milmo

Prince Charles was last night embroiled in yet another public relations disaster, hours before his wedding, after he shook hands with the Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe at the funeral of Pope John Paul II.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119570


Rape of Afghanistan's forests bodes disaster
09.04.05
by Nick Meo

Before the outbreak of war in 1979, Afghanistan was famous for its unspoiled woodlands filled with wildlife. An unbroken belt of natural pistachio forest stretched across the north, giant 300-year-old cedars filled the mountain valleys of the east, and even the arid hills of the south were well-timbered.
Twenty-five years of war later, the extent of the country's environmental disaster is becoming frighteningly clear.
In 1977 satellite imaging found 55 per cent of Badghis Province was covered with woodlands. Now almost nothing shows up.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119471

Court orders demolition of Berlin Wall memorial
09.04.05 1.00pm
By Tony Paterson

BERLIN - A court ordered the demolition of a controversial Berlin Wall memorial yesterday - six months after the 120-meter-long copy of the former East-West barrier was put up in the German capital to mark the collapse of Communist rule in the city.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119580
US murderer could go free because of court badges
09.04.05 1.00pm

SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted murderer could be released from prison after 11 years because of a ruling that found it was wrong for family members to wear badges with an image of the victim during his trial.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119574

Jet made to land near Rome after report of bomb
09.04.05 1.00pm

ROME - An Italian Air Force fighter has forced a diplomatic jet with a reported bomb on board to land near Rome, where world leaders have just attended the funeral of Pope John Paul, an Air Force official says.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119582

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base

Some cloud

-27.0°

Updated Saturday 09 Apr 8:59PM

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

34 °F / 1 °C
Partly Cloudy

Humidity:
87%

Dew Point:
30 °F / -1 °C

Wind:
Calm

Pressure:
29.67 in / 1005 hPa

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16

Clouds (AGL):
Few 3800 ft / 1158 m

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April 7, 2005. Approaching storm of a view from the airport at Lebanon, Tennessee which caused flooding and transportation delays. 

April 7, 2005. Tornado clouds over steeple in Lebanon, Tennessee. 

April 2, 2005. Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Southwestern Pennsylvania. Snow instead of Spring. 

Severe weather at Guntersville, Ala. April 7, 2005 This wasn't a true funnel cloud. Came close. 

Still another view of the Partial Solar Eclipse April 8, 2005 through a Celestron 8" telescope .

April 8, 2005. Texas. Partial Eclipse of the Sun. It was reported there were multiple shifts in weather patterns during this event which speaks to the role the sun plays in Warming and Climate Change. 

Last journey: Pope John Paul II's coffin is lowered into the crypt of Saint Peter's basilica at the Vatican City on Friday after an open-air funeral mass attended by an estimated one million people. (AFP)

 

GOES EAST Water Vapor. April 8, 2005. The vortex flow along the east coast of North America is generated from The Virgin Islands. There is currently rain in the Virgin Islands with temperatures at 81 degrees F. The prediction is rain for the next week. http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=4285241