September 7, 2005. Dauphin Island, Alabama. The sandbar has moved completely ashore. Pelican Island has been moving closer to Dauphin Island for years, this storm moved it along in a leap. In the distance, just above the public pier is something; what is that? Awefully large for the shoreline? 

September 7, 2005. Why it would seem to be a displaced offshore oil platform. I wonder if Houston has a place for this? Come pick up your junk, Georgie !!!! 

September 7, 2005. There is however the crushed oil rigs. Go, Katrina. 

September 7, 2005. East end of Bienville Blvd. on Dauphin Island, Alabama didn't have the damage the west side did. 

September 7, 2005. The west end of the street is severely damaged.  

September 7, 2005. Dauphin Island, Alabama. The west end didn't do well. This is a clean water tank. 

September 7, 2005. Dauphin Island, Alabama. Photographer states :: Houses still standing but on shaken foundations and leaning piers. One of the places where Katrina cut a new channel of water across the island.
 

September 7, 2005. Dauphin Island, Alabama. It would seem the neighbors have come to visit. 

Morning Papers - concluded

The weather in Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:

Scott Base

Clear

-15.0°

Updated Thursday 08 Sep 1:59PM

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

55 °F / 13 °C
Overcast

Humidity:
72%

Dew Point:
46 °F / 8 °C

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

Pressure:
29.84 in / 1010 hPa

Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16

Clouds:
Mostly Cloudy 2600 ft / 792 m
Overcast 3100 ft / 944 m
(Above Ground Level)

end

September 8, 2005. The Northern Hemisphere mess compliments of the United States of America and it's polluting ways. 

September 8, 2005. Water Vapor satellite showing the three current Atlantic storms under the Carbon Dioxide blanket off the USA. Also noted are the storms of the northern midwest and the convection center in the Gulf of Mexico with an increasingly organized center near the Yucatan Peninsula where the bifurcation of the equatorial air takes place. It's another 'eddy' off the vortex. The Pacific is currently quiet do to lack of concentration of Carbon Dioxide. 

September 8, 2005. The Gulf of Mexico continues to build in strength noting the manifestation of an organized aire masse near the Yukatan. The current system is maintaining it's dynamics with the four oscillating systems connecting from the equator to the Arctic Ocean. Once again, the goal of the physics is to drive heat into the oceans. These are water loving storms. They will remain over the water working and gathering more heat and strength into the 'system' until the vortex is stretched 'to thin' to remain connected as it rotates counter clockwise (looking down at the Arctic Ocean) around Earth. Ultimately we could have four gigantic storms that may become autonomous. They will more than likely pick up velocity as the sun travels across them during the day. For super computers that have the sun traverse programmed into them they could literally predict the oscialltion knowing where the direct sun rays hit the strongest. Infrared heat is energy in calories that is bounced off the surface of Earth. It is what drives these systems.  

September 8, 2005. This is the USA infrared satellite. The dynamics of the Gulf Storms and Ophelia continue to build while the air flow from the equator across middle of the country causes eruptions of storms. 

September 8, 2005. The convection center over the Gulf of Mexico is in oscillation with Ophelia with it's 'eyes' east of Florida. The sun's rays didn't fuel the circumstances overnight so the two systems have somewhat stabilized while building mild velocities. Ophelia is now at 50 knots where it was 45 knots late yesterday. Nate and Maria remain unchanged and as of this morning the Gulf storm still remains unnamed.  

The Rooster 

September 8, 2005.gmt (z) The dynamics of the vortex system in the Atantic is building. Hurricane Maria which is furthest to the right is up to 100 knots. The equivalent is 115 mph. ONE KNOT = 1.15 miles. Hurricane Nate, the middle hurricane is currently, 75 knots. Ophelia is 45 knots, approximately 52 mph. A Cat One begins at 74 mph.  

September 8, 2005 0030 gmt (z) GOES East. The Gulf of Mexico convection center has become larger to encompass Mexico. It has the appearance of fueling Ophelia while bring it across Florida. A split 'eye' is nothing new. It's a double walled eye. We have seen this before earlier in the season. 

September 8, 2005 gmt (z). It would appear that Ophelia is splitting it's eye while being pulled west across Florida. If this storm heads for the Gulf and meets up with a convection system that now spans Mexico, I don't want to know the velocity it can reach. I don't want anyone to get comfortable with the idea 'we can relax.' Now, is not the time. A few weeks from now but the solar radiation is still with us. 

Morning Papers - It's Origins

Rooster “Crowing”

“Okeydoke”

History

1822 Brazil declared its independence from Portugal.

1825 the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, bade farewell to President John Quincy Adams at the White House.

1892 James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan to win the world heavyweight crown in New Orleans in the first major prize fight conducted under the Marquis of Queensberry rules.

1901 the Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.

1914 Jean Blackwell Hutson, who will serve as curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, is born in Summerfield, FL.

1917 Jacob Lawrence, famous for his modernistic painting style depicting the Great Migration from the South to the promised land in the North, is born in Atlantic City, NJ.

1936 rock legend Buddy Holly was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas.

1940 Nazi Germany began its initial blitz on London during World War II.

1954 Public schools in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD integrate

1963 the National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1977 In Washington, President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama at the end of the 20th century. The Panama Canal Treaty also authorized the immediate abolishment of the Canal Zone, a 10-mile-wide, 40-mile-long U.S.-controlled area that bisected the Republic of Panama. Many in Congress opposed giving up control of the Panama Canal--an enduring symbol of U.S. power and technological prowess--but America's colonial-type administration of the strategic waterway had long irritated Panamanians and other Latin Americans.

1979 the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) made its cable TV debut.

1990 Kimberly Bergalis of Fort Pierce, Fla., came forward to identify herself as the young woman who had been infected with AIDS, apparently by her late dentist.

2002 Serena Williams wins the U.S. Open tennis tournament to win a third straight Grand Slam title. Serena, the # 1 player beats her sister, Venus, the # 2 player 6 – 4, 6 –3. This becomes the first time in tennis history a pair of siblings are ranked 1 and 2.

There is no "Missing in Action" POW report today, evidently September 7th was a victimless day. A little odd but there are days when there are only one or two so why wouldn't none be possible.

Indystar


Hurricane Katrina to reduce employment
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina will have a greater economic impact that previous killer storms, though the energy price spikes, slower growth and job losses won't be enough to push the country into a recession.
That's the view of the Congressional Budget Office which on Wednesday provided the government's first assessment of the economic impact from the country's worst natural disaster.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_ECONOMY_HK3?SITE=ININS&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE


Delphi chairman asking union for concessions

By Ted Evanoff
KOKOMO, Ind. -- Troubled auto parts maker Delphi Corp. will open detailed concession negotiations in October with General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union, Delphi Chairman Robert “Steve’’ Miller said this morning.
Delphi, GM and the union have had “conceptual discussions’’ regarding a bail-out of Michigan-based Delphi, but the talks are now at a fact-finding stage and won’t become detailed until next month, Miller told news reporters in Kokomo.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050907/BUSINESS/50907007


Haaretz

Israel holding secret talks with Hamas, Arab states over Gaza synagogues

Efforts to prevent the demolition of the synagogues in Gush Katif have been underway over the past few days through a number channels.
* Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yehuda Amar has raised the issue with Moroccan King Mohammed and has asked him to take the matter up with the Palestinian Authority.
* Shas chairman Eli Yishai has had talks on the matter with members of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's staff.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622274.html


Israel to seal Rafah crossing on Thursday as part of Gaza pullout

Israel is to close the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
until further notice, Israel Defense Forces officials said Wednesday, after Cabinet ministers proposed new arrangements that could include movement of Palestinians in and out of Gaza under the supervision of foreign inspectors without an Israeli presence.
The officials said the crossing, the only land link between Gaza and the outside world without passing through Israel, would be shut down on Thursday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/621913.html


IDF demands resignation of two yeshiva heads who called on troops to refuse orders

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday demanded the resignations of directors of two hesder yeshivas who called on their soldier-students to refuse orders during the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
Head of Personnel Directorate Major General Elazar Stern said that if the heads of the religious institutions don't quit, their students will be removed from the hesder yeshivas. (The hesder yeshiva framework allow soldiers to combine military service with religious studies).
Stern spoke Wednesday at a meeting of the personnel subcommittee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622260.html


I don’t think I'd go as far as the Rabbi, but, Bush claims god is on his side. I won't be so sure. It might not be god at all.

Shas rabbi: Hurricane is Bush's punishment for pullout support
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi and the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas movement, said on Wednesday that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for U.S. President George W. Bush's support for Israel's Gaza pullout.
"It was God's retribution. God does not shortchange anyone," Yosef said during his weekly sermon on Tuesday. His comments were broadcast on Channel 10 TV on Wednesday.
Yosef also said recent natural disasters were the result of a lack of Torah study and that Katrina's victims suffered "because they have no God," singling out black people.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622278.html

Investor's Business Daily

This is an administration with such a safety margin that it's agenda can be undone by one storm? Granted it was significant, but, they didn't foresee this issue?

They must have, they have been denying funding for the levee and wetlands. They weren't prepared to fill in the gaps in the case of the worst case scenario?

Really?

Reactionaries.

We don't need reactionaries for this country. We need competent people who understand the demands of a country without people who are used in a game of chance. Waging with human life is not the way I see my life. It was not the way the people of New Orleans saw their lives. Evidently, it is the way Bush/Cheney does see the lives of the citizens of this country.

GOP Agenda Blown Off Course By Storm Amid New Priorities

BY JED GRAHAM
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 9/6/2005
Congress is back from its summer recess, but the Republicans' prized legislative agenda remains on extended leave.
On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., tabled plans to call a vote this week repealing the estate tax amid the focus on hurricane relief.
Frist, who said only last week that the estate-tax vote would be among the first items on the agenda, reconsidered after Democratic complaints and a weekend assisting Katrina's victims as a medical volunteer.
Pressing ahead with the vote would have been "politically suicidal," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group.
President Bush, working hard to overcome criticism that initial federal relief efforts were deficient, had already cleared this week's agenda, canceling a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=5


Search Firms: Google, Yahoo ... And Sun?

BY KEN SPENCER BROWN
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 9/6/2005
Can Sun (SUNW) do for audio what Google (GOOG) did for the Web?
Searching for ways to set its servers apart, Sun Microsystems is working on a trio of projects to develop software designed to make it easier to find and organize digital media, including music and spoken words.
The server maker has no plans to become a search giant like Google or Yahoo. (YHOO) But it does see search as a more integral part of computing.
Users are drowning in a sea of data, and they need better tools to wade through it, says Paul Lamere, a researcher at Sun Labs, the Santa Clara, Calif., firm's research arm.
Case in point: Today's biggest iPod music devices hold about 10,000 songs, up from 1,000 in the first-generation iPod.
The devices, which also hold photos and other files, might be able to hold 10 times as much in just a few years.
"Imagine an iPod with a million songs on it," Lamere said. "Trying to scroll through a million songs, you'll never find what you want. Hit shuffle play (plays songs at random), and you'll never hear what you want."
Song Choice Harmony

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17


Firms Start To Expense Options, But Many Dismiss New Figures

BY PATRICK SEITZ
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 9/6/2005
Public companies opposed to expensing stock options are trying to undermine the new accounting rules that mandate it by getting sell-side analysts on their side.
Firms with fiscal years starting after June 15, which include giants such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Cisco, (CSCO) are required to treat stock options as an expense on their income statements. Previously this information was buried in the footnotes of their financial reports.
The impact of the accounting rule change is being felt as those companies provide fiscal first-quarter guidance during their fourth-quarter earnings calls with analysts.
While the companies are deducting the value of stock options from income, as they're supposed to under the new Financial Accounting Standards Board rule, many are telling Wall Street to ignore those figures.
Two Sets Of Books

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16

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September 7, 2005. Mayor Nagin at the news conference this Tuesday morning. I don't believe the reality of this has really hit home to this nation yet.