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    Hurricane Rita forces New Orleans evacuation

    By Jack Fairweather in New Orleans

    (Filed: 21/09/2005)

     

     

     

    With Hurricane Rita bearing down on the Gulf coast yesterday, New Orleans began a second emergency evacuation of the city. Thousands of residents packed belongings and boarded up houses to which many have only recently returned.

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    Mayor Ray Nagin, who only last week announced ambitious plans to bring residents back to New Orleans, called on them to leave. He warned that the new storm could overwhelm the levees that collapsed, leading to the flooding of the city three weeks ago.

     

    Hurricane Rita passed over the Atlantic coast of Florida yesterday, where a mandatory evacuation order is also in place, with sustained winds of 100 miles per hour.

     

    Some residents in the Florida Keys stayed behind in boarded-up homes as stormwater submerged parts of the only highway linking the island chain to the Florida mainland.

     

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    Hurricane Rita hits Cuba

    Waves crash against Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon as Hurricane Rita passes near Cuba

     

    Early weather forecasts suggest Rita, currently a category two hurricane, would gather strength as it passed over the Gulf before making landfall somewhere along the Texas coast and south-western Louisiana towards the end of the week.

     

    Mr Nagin said that even nine inches of rain and a three-foot storm surge would cause "significant" flooding in the city's levee system, which has been only partially restored since Hurricane Katrina.

     

    Mr Nagin has been roundly criticised by federal officials for his decision to allow some 180,000 residents back into the city. President George W Bush warned on Monday that it was not the right time for residents to return to New Orleans, citing the coming storm and lack of drinking water and electricity.

     

    The aftermath of Katrina has exposed a serious breakdown in relations between local and federal government officials. Mr Bush yesterday made his fifth visit in two weeks to the storm-ravaged region as part of a concerted attempt to repair the damage to his reputation caused by the government's initial faltering response.

     

    State officials estimate that 80,000 people have returned to New Orleans to areas that escaped the worse of the flooding and wind damage.

     

    Long queues formed on the main approach roads to the city as returning residents were turned back, and others tried to leave.

     

    Amy Whitelaw, an office manager at a technology firm who arrived back home on Monday to the Algiers district of New Orleans, now under mandatory evacuation orders, said: "I cried when I came into the city and saw the destruction. Now I'm crying all again at leaving."

     

    James Jeffers, 54, who returned last week, said memories were still fresh from the city's evacuation three weeks ago. "It's very depressing to have to board up the house again. But no one wants to get stuck in New Orleans again when another hurricane hits."

     

    The evacuation also threatens to slow if not halt the city's reconstruction process. US Army engineers say breaches in the levees have been temporarily repaired, but that only 45 per cent of the levees' water pumps are operational.

     

    Engineers were yesterday preparing to seal off some parts of the levee system with concrete blocks to minimise the impact of further storm surges.

     

    Meanwhile, US navy ships have withdrawn from the banks of the Mississippi, and officials from Fema, the main government relief organisation, have orders to evacuate.

     

    "It's going to be hard to bring everyone back together at once, with the same momentum," said a Fema official. "It's going to be even harder if Hurricane Rita hits."

     

    JUST NO LUCK!

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    Johhny Cash- Hurt

    I hurt myself today

    to see if I still feel

    I focus on the pain

    the only thing that's real

    the needle tears a hole

    the old familiar sting

    try to kill it all away

    but I remember everything

    what have I become?

    my sweetest friend

    everyone I know

    goes away in the end

    and you could have it all

    my empire of dirt

     

    I will let you down

    I will make you hurt

     

    I wear this crown of thorns

    upon my liar's chair

    full of broken thoughts

    I cannot repair

    beneath the stains of time

    the feelings disappear

    you are someone else

    I am still right here

     

    what have I become?

    my sweetest friend

    everyone I know

    goes away in the end

    and you could have it all

    my empire of dirt

     

    I will let you down

    I will make you hurt

     

    if I could start again

    a million miles away

    I would keep myself

    I would find a way

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    My personal favorite for computers are ASUS... or, get a custom built one (as i did) Or, if your doing gaming, spend the big bucks and get an alienware computer.

     

    Best Desktop PC Processor of 2004

    Jim McGregor -    {01/24/2005}

     

    The key innovation in the desktop market continues to be a focus on performance. In 2004, AMD, IBM, and Intel all looked to attract performance-conscious consumers with derivatives of their server processors. AMD and IBM offered versions of their 64-bit Opteron and Power4 server processors in the Athlon 64 FX and PowerPC 970FX, respectively. Intel, on the other hand, offered both the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, a desktop version of its Xeon server processor, and an enhanced Pentium 4 based on the new Prescott core. Both processors feature Intel’s HyperThreading technology. In the end, however, AMD won the performance crown and is well positioned for the dual-core battle beginning in 2005.

     

    Microprocessor Report readers can access the full story (3 pages; 2 graphics) here: www.mdronline.com/mpr/h/2005/0124/190402.html. To find out more about Microprocessor Report, please visit: www.mdronline.com.