It is always difficult to say whether or not Earth has reached a point whereby it is stable and potentially reversing. At this point we are just past the Spring Soltice and it seems 'hopeful' that the heat index in the troposphere might be stabilizing. The concern is as always the continued heat transfer to Antarctica as seen in the southern centeral of this photo and also noted over New Zealand. I will compare this with others to show the change in heat concentration in the southern hemisphere. This does not mean anything EXCEPT a concern that the southern oceans which are 'larger surface area' may be holding and exhibiting 'latent heat' radiation back to the trophosphere. With any luck it may mean there is some balancing of the troposphere but that may be nothing more than my chronic view that things have to be getting better.  

The Western Pacific 4.7.05. Noted Severe heat at the western margin of the image as well as the trailing heat flow to the eastern margin leading into Antarctica as noted in the New Zealand Satellite. 

Discovery External Fuel tank in the assembly tour. 

Discovery on the way to the Lauching Pad. 

Morning Papers - concluding

Sydney Morning Herald

Crack found in space shuttle pre-launch
The United States space shuttle Discovery began its crawl to a launch pad in Miami today, after a crack in insulation briefly delayed a significant step in NASA's two-year quest to return the shuttle fleet to flight.
The roll-out, taking place at barely 1kmh and expected to last six hours, was delayed by more than an hour after a hairline crack was spotted in the foam on the shuttle's external fuel tank.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Crack-found-in-space-shuttle-prelaunch/2005/04/07/1112815660257.html

Get more women on board or be closed, Norway tells companies
April 7, 2005

Oslo: Norway will force companies to close if they refuse to recruit women to at least 40 per cent of board positions by 2007, a cabinet minister has announced.
"Companies have been dragging their feet. They really have to recruit more women," the Family Affairs Minister, Laila Daavoey, said. "In the very worst case, they will face closure."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Get-more-women-on-board-or-be-closed-Norway-tells-companies/2005/04/06/1112489561991.html

Child loses foot as schoolkids detonate ammunition
April 7, 2005

Seven schoolchildren were injured in Turkey after accidentally setting off military devices they picked up at a military yard close to their school.
The children found 14 devices in a sack half-buried in the ground at a military yard, where used and apparently unexploded ammunition were dumped, the premier's office and police said.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Child-loses-foot-as-schoolkids-detonate-ammunition/2005/04/06/1112489565499.html

Auditor-general pulls veil on Sydney's dirty air
By Anne Davies, State Political Editor
April 7, 2005

Air quality is under threat because the NSW Government is failing to shift people out of their cars and onto public transport, the Auditor-General has warned.
In his report on Action for Air, the 25-year pollution plan the Government introduced in 1998, Bob Sendt found that NSW would not meet two out of six national air quality goals by the 2008 deadline. And he thought it had little chance of achieving them in the future.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/The-airs-dirty-and-heres-the-smoking-gun/2005/04/06/1112489565809.html

Child loses foot as schoolkids detonate ammunition
April 7, 2005

Seven schoolchildren were injured in Turkey after accidentally setting off military devices they picked up at a military yard close to their school.
The children found 14 devices in a sack half-buried in the ground at a military yard, where used and apparently unexploded ammunition were dumped, the premier's office and police said.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Child-loses-foot-as-schoolkids-detonate-ammunition/2005/04/06/1112489565499.html

Auditor-general pulls veil on Sydney's dirty air
By Anne Davies, State Political Editor
April 7, 2005

Air quality is under threat because the NSW Government is failing to shift people out of their cars and onto public transport, the Auditor-General has warned.
In his report on Action for Air, the 25-year pollution plan the Government introduced in 1998, Bob Sendt found that NSW would not meet two out of six national air quality goals by the 2008 deadline. And he thought it had little chance of achieving them in the future.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/The-airs-dirty-and-heres-the-smoking-gun/2005/04/06/1112489565809.html

The New Zealand Herald

Offence of 'sexual grooming' to bring seven years' jail
07.04.05 4.00pm

Paedophiles who groom children for sexual activity will face up to seven years' jail, Justice Minister Phil Goff said today.
A new offence of sexual grooming would be added to the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) when Parliament debated details of the bill in the next couple of weeks, he said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119214

Pacific Forum concerned at nuclear waste ship
07.04.05 4.00pm

The Pacific Island Forum today joined New Zealand in protesting the passage of a ship carrying nuclear waste through the region this month.
According to calculations by the environmental group Greenpeace, the British-operated Pacific Sandpiper should be off New Caledonia today after going through the Tasman Sea this week.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119240

Police sergeant told to pay $1250 to assault victim
Police Senior Sergeant Anthony Solomona. Herald file picture
07.04.05 1.00pm

A senior south Auckland policeman has been convicted of assaulting a teenager and told to pay the youngster $1250 for the emotional harm he caused.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119229

'We were pinned down by fire in the heart of Kashmir'
An Indian security force officer runs for cover after an attack in Srinagar where a bus was due to take a historic trip across divided Kashmir. Picture / Reuters
07.04.05 1.00pm
by Justin Huggler

SRINAGAR - When the gunfire suddenly sprayed across the street in front of us, we dived for the ground, scrabbling desperately to get behind a parked car. Up ahead, a woman had been hit and we saw her fall to the ground, the blood soaking her shirt. The Independent's photographer, Olivia, was trapped in a mêlée of fleeing people. A bullet whistled past her head, missing her by inches.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119223


Buses set to cross Kashmir divide despite attack
An Indian soldier walks in front of a burning government building after an attack in Srinagar yesterday. Picture / Reuters
07.04.05 1.20pm

SRINAGAR, India - India and Pakistan open a historic bus link across divided Kashmir on Thursday, protected by heavy security following a suicide attack by separatist rebels on the Indian end of the route.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119225

Journalist shot on US-Mexico border

07.04.05 5.20pm

MEXICO CITY - A radio reporter in Nuevo Laredo on Mexico's border with Texas was in serious condition after being shot several times by an unknown gunman, the latest journalist to be attacked along the border in recent months.
Guadalupe Garcia Escamilla, 39, was hit by nine bullets as she arrived at Radio Stereo 91 to do her regular show on crime and public safety, according to the prosecutor's office in the Tamaulipas border state.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119176

Up to 40 feared dead in Congo ferry accident
07.04.05 12.20pm

KINSHASA - Up to 40 people are missing and feared dead after two overloaded ferries capsized while crossing the swollen Congo river, United Nations and government officials said.
Boat disasters are relatively common in the Democratic Republic of Congo where years of war and neglect have destroyed infrastructure and the mighty Congo river is often the only method of travel through the vast African country.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119217

Harvard economics professor charged with manure theft
07.04.05 3.20pm

BOSTON - A Harvard professor who specialises in environmental economics was arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a load of manure from a Massachusetts farm, a police officer said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119230

Veterans' battlefield tour was cover for $33m cocaine run
07.04.05 2.20pm
by Jason Bennetto

A coach party of Second World War veterans was used by drug traffickers as cover to smuggle $33 million worth of cocaine into Britain. Dozens of packages of drugs were hidden on the 49-seat coach as the group of former soldiers toured historical battle sites in France, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119205

Jailed Fiji minister resigns
07.04.05 4.20pm

A Fijian cabinet member jailed this week over his involvement in the 2000 coup attempt has resigned, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said today.
He said Lands and Mineral Resources Minister Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu's resignation was effective from last Monday, the day he was convicted and sentenced on the Fijian island of Vanua Levu.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119241

The weather at Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base

Overcast

-21.0°

Updated Thursday 07 Apr 8:59PM

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

27 °F / -3 °C
Clear

Humidity:
80%

Dew Point:
21 °F / -6 °C

Wind:
Calm

Pressure:
29.68 in / 1005 hPa

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers

UV:
0 out of 16

Clouds (AGL):
Clear -

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An Indian soldier walks in front of a burning government building after an attack in Srinagar yesterday. Picture / Reuters
 

An Indian security force officer runs for cover after an attack in Srinagar where a bus was due to take a historic trip across divided Kashmir. Picture / Reuters
 

Far reaching peripheral system to Australia.

New Zealand Satellite April 7, 2005.

Sunset at Glacier Bay last night. 

For as pretty a picture this is at Brighton, Michigan the clouds here are that of a heat transfer system taking heat from the equator to the Arctic Circle. 

April 2, 2005. Thunderstorm rolling in over Crystal Lake, Illinois. 

Not the greatest picture in the world but these are twin tornadoes of Port Fourchon, Louisiana on April 6, 2005 at 11:00 AM. 

Even in Eastern Siberia wet snow and harsh wind are not USUAL for April. 

April 6, 2006. Plano, Texas. I think everyone can see the tornado for themselves. 

April 6, 2005. It's odd what an intense low pressure system like a tornado will do to a roof. South Hancock County, Waveland, Mississippi. 

Needless to say no one took pictures of the tornado in Hancock County, Mississippi but only some of the aftermath.  

April 1, 2005 Prattville, Alabama. Due to heavy rains this sinkhole developed on Cobbs Ford Road a main road through town. 

A Burmese exile in Bangladesh, wearing Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's portrait as a headdress, protests abuses by Myanmar's military leadership (Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP).
 

Taking On Burmese Generals, at Last

Burma, or Myanmar, whichever is your pleasure has no economy except what it can 'etch' out of cooperation with Vietnam. As a result there is a drug economy and hence the junta.

Myanmar and Vietnam are trying desperately to carry out a 'makeover' of their nations by building their own economic trade developement meeting as recently as December 2004 (before the 26th tsunami).

Myanmar is located between Thailand and Bangladesh. That speaks volumes to the issues besetting this country and why their generals are 'in control' and why there are exiles and movements to 'make an issue' loud enough for the world to hear. I congratulate the exiles for their verbose defiance AND their survival.

Now.

If there is to be a centralized government and a reasonably recognized society there needs to be a major economic country like China involved to help define a work ethic and a product the Burmese or Myanmarians can deliver. Their country is so small and the needs of the people so meager it would not take a huge effort to change the face to this benign little country. Any country 'taking on' the 'rescue' of Myanmar also has to take on such a role with it's profound friend in Vietnam.

Both countries have a populous dignified and willing to produce a proud product to define their citizenry in rescue of their nations.

The 'difficult' issue of course is now dealing with a 'warlord' undertone that serves the current drug economy. It is a difficult situtation but not an impossible one, especially for a country like China which can promise and deliver on much, hence forcing the drug economy into the margins. The margins can best be accomplished by promises from a country like China on delivering an economy IF what accompanies that economic developement is a representative government at the same time and the SAFE return of the exiles.

Decades later women are still seeking justice from the Roman Catholic Sex Scandals.