Journalist Liz Kennedy takes a look at what is making the headlines in Friday's morning newspapers.
Front page pictures of Barack Obama everywhere this morning, even though his speech was too late for the papers.
It was to be a "date with destiny" in Denver, according to the Times, Obama's "big moment" in the Guardian and the Democratic candidate was said to be about to take "centre stage" in the Daily Telegraph.
And, writing before the event of course as well, the Irish Times says that his speech "evokes memories of King". Indeed it was made 45 years ago to the day after Martin Luther King delivered his iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech at Washington's Lincoln Memorial.
The Irish Independent leads with Senator Obama's four-day offensive on "battleground states" which starts today, but their picture is of a red-headed four year-old, who's starting school this morning.
Milo McCarthy from Cork has a big beaming smile on his face, as he adjusts his school tie, ready for the fray.
In contrast, a frail 84 year-old is pictured in the Irish News lead story this morning.
Pensioner Anne McMullan is comforted by her son, as she recovers from an arson attack on her home on the outskirts of west Belfast.
Caravan
The great grandmother was watching television in her home in Twinbrook when a caravan in her garden was set alight.
The blaze then spread to her home. Now a priest in her parish has urged the arsonists to give themselves up to police.
The paper's editorial says that Father Darach Mac Giolla Cathain's advice deserves to be accepted "not only in Twinbrook, but in every other neighbourhood where criminal behaviour has become commonplace."
The Belfast Telegraph leads with local politics. "The Executive's on the edge", according to the paper, after what it calls "a fresh row" between the DUP and Sinn Fein in "the high stakes political poker game", but the three front page pictures are all female, and two of them are NI TV stars: Rose Neill and Christine Bleakley.
And that duo is also on the front page of the News Letter this morning.
Rose is the lead story in the paper, with the news that she left BBC in Belfast yesterday, after a 30-year media career, which started at UTV in 1977, when Rose was first on screen as a children's presenter.
And Christine Bleakley is also pictured, as she prepares to polish up her dancing pumps for a high profile Saturday TV series.
That Strictly Come Dancing picture of Christine Bleakley is also on the front of the Daily Mirror.
Christine's the youngest contestant in the popular TV reality show - at 27.
Christine's only at odds of 6-1 according to the Mirror, but there's hope for the local lass will doubtless be higher than that.
The Independent leads with an economic warning. Rates must be cut, or job losses will soar.
David Blanchflower of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee attacks bank policy, warning that two million people will be out of work by Christmas, and that house prices will fall by more than 30 per cent, unless interest rates are cut.
And the Times also has a property lead, as it tells us that the house price crash may open the door to a new era of council housing.
Organic
More interest in our homes from the Guardian, as it leads on the fears of recession this winter, but it also tells us that shoppers are losing their taste for organic food, with sales seeing a dip, as customers count the pennies.
Egg sales in particular have been affected, but overall, it asks was it just a fad, as sales of organic food and drink have fallen by nearly a fifth since February.
And finally swatting a fly is dealt with in some detail in a few of the papers.
Yes, and the Independent even publishes a diagram to help you with any Indian summer insect problems. If you are swatting a fly, it tells us, you'll want to be sure it's going to die.
A new fly-swatting technique has been given scientific approval. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have been examining the brain of a fly.
Apparently, in the instant between seeing a swatter and flying away, some 100-200 milliseconds, it will try to fly off. So if you aim a bit forward of where the fly might jump, you will score a swatting hit!
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