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Retired Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen said government and BP scientists believe that an oil seep on the seafloor 1.8 miles from the blowout was coming from another well. They have identified five small leaks of gas closer to the damaged well, but those are not considered "consequential," Allen said.
It is also likely BP will attempt to start the process of finally sealing the blowout by pumping heavy drilling mud into the well from the top, said Allen and BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells.
"If it's approved, it's a 100% chance we'll go ahead with it," Wells said.
Teams of government scientists, BP engineers and academics are poring over the proposal to gradually pump the heavy mud into the capped well. If such an effort were successful, it could make it easier for a relief well to cement and permanently seal the rogue well at more than 17,000 feet below sea level, according to Allen and Wells.
An earlier attempt at a "top kill" failed because the mud could not push back the intense geyser of oil and gas gushing from deep within the Earth. However, with the flow finally halted, it is more likely that gradually pumping mud could prove successful, they said.
The weather has been mostly favorable this summer as the oil giant scrambles to end one of the nation's worst environmental disasters, which has now spanned more than three months and dumped more than 90 million gallons of oil in the Gulf. But there is a growing chance that could change in coming days.
The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday revised its forecasts and said that the storm headed toward Florida has a 60% chance of strengthening to an organized tropical depression. Weather Channel meteorologist Mark Ressler said forecast models cannot yet say whether it would strengthen into a stronger storm.
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2010年7月12日星期一
Barefoot Run Ends in Bahamas
His ride ended the way it began: shoes off, in the islands. Just not his islands. This time, Colton Harris-Moore, the tall teenager accused of being the “Barefoot Bandit” who once hopscotched the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest riding stolen speedboats and airplanes, Facebook fame and boundless gumption, crash-landed in the Bahamas. And this time, he was caught.
Early Sunday, after Mr. Harris-Moore had fled across the continent, the police in the Bahamas arrested him after they shot out the engines on his stolen boat and roared up beside him in open waters in the middle of the night. It had been more than two years since he had vanished from a halfway house in the Seattle suburbs in 2008 and begun eluding repeated efforts to track him in the dense forests of the Northwest.
American authorities said it could have been the success of Mr. Harris-Moore’s trek itself — making it all the way to the Bahamas — that ultimately led to his downfall.
“It was inevitable that he would make a wrong move. He was in a different culture. He probably stood out,” Sheriff Bill Cumming of San Juan County in Washington said of Mr. Harris-Moore. Now 19, he is 6-foot-5 and white.
While Mr. Harris-Moore had thousands of followers on Facebook — and his mother has hired a prominent entertainment lawyer to field proposals about his tale — his victims saw little romance in his spree.
“It was always in the back of your mind, you’re kind of wondering, when’s the next one coming?” said Scott Lancaster, who owns a hardware store on Orcas Island, Wash., that the police believe Mr. Harris-Moore burglarized twice, once stealing bolt cutters and $4,000. “It’s a bit unsettling. We were all locking our doors and we never had before.”
By the time the sun came up on Sunday, Mr. Harris-Moore was shackled and wearing a bulletproof vest as he was escorted to jail. His feet were still bare on the hot Caribbean concrete.
A statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force noted that their search “lasted for all but seven days.” Joel Lewis, 73, a cabdriver in Nassau, was at the airport when Mr. Harris-Moore was brought in by police airplane from Eleuthera. “I was asking, ‘What are all these police doing all over the place?’ Then I hear it’s just for one guy!” he said. “He wouldn’t raise up his head at all. He was walking with it down.”
Mr. Lewis said the plane was met by local police who boarded the plane and chained Mr. Harris-Moore. Mr. Harris-Moore was wearing short pants and shuffling with shackles around his ankles and handcuffs behind his back.
He is due in court in Nassau on Tuesday. He faces dozens of charges in the United States, including a federal warrant on charges of stealing a plane last fall in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
The authorities in Washington had spent two years tracking Mr. Harris-Moore, after they linked him to scores of crimes in the San Juans and nearby, from stealing cash and tools to speedboats and small airplanes, which they say he repeatedly crashed.
This spring, the police believed they had Mr. Harris-Moore surrounded in the Turtleback Mountain area of Orcas Island. Sheriff’s deputies were joined by dog teams and helicopter pilots from the Department of Homeland Security.
“He was seen,” Sheriff Cumming said. “But it’s very, very rugged and very difficult to cover all that area extensively and completely. He was able to elude, and that was frustrating and expensive.”
Sheriff Cumming, who is retiring this year, said the search had affected his agency’s budget, in part because the department had to pay overtime to its 20 officers, who patrol four major islands and many more smaller ones. It was that search that appears to have prompted a series of boat and plane thefts that led Mr. Harris-Moore far beyond his Northwest comfort zone.
Last month, a South Dakota family was reportedly startled to find a man believed to be Mr. Harris-Moore in their home, naked. Once again, he slipped away.
“This was his full-time job,” Sheriff Cumming said. “He was not a casual fugitive. This was what he did on a full-time basis, and we do give him credit in terms of his ability to plan his activities and his escape routes.”
First arrested at age 12 for several crimes, including setting fire to Stanwood Middle School, Mr. Harris-Moore had a difficult upbringing on Camano Island. He was raised largely by his mother, who he said could be abusive, according to several news media accounts over the years.
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American authorities said it could have been the success of Mr. Harris-Moore’s trek itself — making it all the way to the Bahamas — that ultimately led to his downfall.
“It was inevitable that he would make a wrong move. He was in a different culture. He probably stood out,” Sheriff Bill Cumming of San Juan County in Washington said of Mr. Harris-Moore. Now 19, he is 6-foot-5 and white.
While Mr. Harris-Moore had thousands of followers on Facebook — and his mother has hired a prominent entertainment lawyer to field proposals about his tale — his victims saw little romance in his spree.
“It was always in the back of your mind, you’re kind of wondering, when’s the next one coming?” said Scott Lancaster, who owns a hardware store on Orcas Island, Wash., that the police believe Mr. Harris-Moore burglarized twice, once stealing bolt cutters and $4,000. “It’s a bit unsettling. We were all locking our doors and we never had before.”
By the time the sun came up on Sunday, Mr. Harris-Moore was shackled and wearing a bulletproof vest as he was escorted to jail. His feet were still bare on the hot Caribbean concrete.
A statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force noted that their search “lasted for all but seven days.” Joel Lewis, 73, a cabdriver in Nassau, was at the airport when Mr. Harris-Moore was brought in by police airplane from Eleuthera. “I was asking, ‘What are all these police doing all over the place?’ Then I hear it’s just for one guy!” he said. “He wouldn’t raise up his head at all. He was walking with it down.”
Mr. Lewis said the plane was met by local police who boarded the plane and chained Mr. Harris-Moore. Mr. Harris-Moore was wearing short pants and shuffling with shackles around his ankles and handcuffs behind his back.
He is due in court in Nassau on Tuesday. He faces dozens of charges in the United States, including a federal warrant on charges of stealing a plane last fall in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
The authorities in Washington had spent two years tracking Mr. Harris-Moore, after they linked him to scores of crimes in the San Juans and nearby, from stealing cash and tools to speedboats and small airplanes, which they say he repeatedly crashed.
This spring, the police believed they had Mr. Harris-Moore surrounded in the Turtleback Mountain area of Orcas Island. Sheriff’s deputies were joined by dog teams and helicopter pilots from the Department of Homeland Security.
“He was seen,” Sheriff Cumming said. “But it’s very, very rugged and very difficult to cover all that area extensively and completely. He was able to elude, and that was frustrating and expensive.”
Sheriff Cumming, who is retiring this year, said the search had affected his agency’s budget, in part because the department had to pay overtime to its 20 officers, who patrol four major islands and many more smaller ones. It was that search that appears to have prompted a series of boat and plane thefts that led Mr. Harris-Moore far beyond his Northwest comfort zone.
Last month, a South Dakota family was reportedly startled to find a man believed to be Mr. Harris-Moore in their home, naked. Once again, he slipped away.
“This was his full-time job,” Sheriff Cumming said. “He was not a casual fugitive. This was what he did on a full-time basis, and we do give him credit in terms of his ability to plan his activities and his escape routes.”
First arrested at age 12 for several crimes, including setting fire to Stanwood Middle School, Mr. Harris-Moore had a difficult upbringing on Camano Island. He was raised largely by his mother, who he said could be abusive, according to several news media accounts over the years.
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2010年7月11日星期日
Spain Wins First World Cup
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“Organizationally, it has been a great success,” said Sunil Gulati, the president of the United States Soccer Federation and an economist at Columbia University. “All the concerns people had about Africa were dispelled.”
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Danny Jordaan, the chief World Cup organizer, said that the tournament had brought pride, unity, self-assurance and the sharing of a vision to South Africa, adding, “The nation has crossed a huge psychological barrier.”
Yet it remains unclear just how thoroughly South Africa was able to project itself internationally as a modern, technologically advanced, democratic and tourist-welcoming nation, said Peter Alegi, a visiting Fulbright scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban and an associate professor of history at Michigan State University.
In some places, anecdotal evidence indicated that the country was portrayed as just another soccer host or in the stereotypical African safari image, he said.
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Some fear a return of the xenophobia that led to violent attacks on foreigners two years ago. The plight of the poor must be addressed, The Times of Johannesburg wrote in an editorial Sunday, saying, “Freedom will forever remain elusive as long as they continue to witness the rich getting richer while their situation is rapidly deteriorating.” scrubs seasons 1-9 box set
2010年7月10日星期六
Raoul Moat dies after shooting himself during armed police stand-off
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2010年7月6日星期二
A Flick of the Head, a Nod to the Past
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That paradoxical state of affairs ended Tuesday night with a 3-2 victory over Uruguay in a South African city the Dutch helped build. It ended with a three-minute flurry of ball movement and scoring in the second half in which this Dutch team’s stars lived up to their name recognition: with the playmaker Wesley Sneijder manufacturing a goal in the 70th minute with a firm shot through heavy traffic and with left wing Dirk Kuyt setting up the next goal in the 73rd with a cross that Arjen Robben headed off the inside of the left post.
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That paradoxical state of affairs ended Tuesday night with a 3-2 victory over Uruguay in a South African city the Dutch helped build. It ended with a three-minute flurry of ball movement and scoring in the second half in which this Dutch team’s stars lived up to their name recognition: with the playmaker Wesley Sneijder manufacturing a goal in the 70th minute with a firm shot through heavy traffic and with left wing Dirk Kuyt setting up the next goal in the 73rd with a cross that Arjen Robben headed off the inside of the left post.
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The Uruguayans, true to their spirit throughout this competition, did not go quietly, even with a lineup deeply diminished by injuries and the suspensions of defender Jorge Fucile and the star striker Luis Suárez. It was Suárez’s deliberate handball on the goal line in the final moments of a quarterfinal match against Ghana that led to his expulsion but also allowed Uruguay to have the chance to win. grey's anatomy dvd set
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“We survived, and we were just so relieved in the locker room,” said Bert van Marwijk, the silver-haired Dutch coach. “It’s quite something we’ve achieved after 32 years, and it’s something I thought about toward the end on the bench. This is great, but the thing is we’re not there yet.”
The Netherlands and Spain are the strongest soccer nations never to win their sport’s ultimate title. Both are still in contention here in what has turned into a European World Cup after all the early focus on Brazil and Diego Maradona’s Argentina team.
In Sunday’s final in Johannesburg, the Netherlands will face the winner of Wednesday’s semifinal between Spain and Germany. Whomever wins the final will become the first European team to win the Cup outside of Europe, which is no great surprise considering the generally cool weather and similar time zone has made this competition feel less foreign than usual to Europe’s top teams.
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Though the Dutch continue to show occasional weakness on their back line and can lose their muse for extended periods, they have an abundance of weapons and a consensus-building coach in van Marwijk. They have clearly been a more explosive team with Robben, the Bayern Munich star, back in the lineup for the knockout round after his recovery from a hamstring injury.
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Uruguay’s star striker Diego Forlán, one of the top players of the tournament, responded shortly before halftime with a long-range left-footed strike of his own that seemed to fool goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg as it soared over him.
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2010年7月3日星期六
Argentina reels from World Cup defeat
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After watching the national team go down, 4-0, to far superior Germany, fans wept openly at the downtown Buenos Aires obelisk where thousands had gathered to view the game on enormous TV screens.
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Unlike earlier games, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did not upload match pictures to his website. He departed Saturday on a state visit to Africa, which he had previously scheduled so he could attend the World Cup final July 11.Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6 dvd box set
So far, the losses by Argentina and Brazil have not prompted national politicians to get into the act. But the disarray of teams in other countries have become affairs of state.Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6
In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy called an emergency meeting of soccer officials to discuss the team's meltdown and failure to advance to the second round. Nigeria's President Jonathan withdrew all national teams from international competition. Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6 dvd box set
Argentina's drubbing by Germany in the World Cup quarterfinals Saturday — a day after Brazil was unceremoniously shown the door by the Dutch squad — was a crushing blow to the collective pride in a region where soccer is religion and where expectations of a championship ran high.Desperate Housewives dvd box set
After watching the national team go down, 4-0, to far superior Germany, fans wept openly at the downtown Buenos Aires obelisk where thousands had gathered to view the game on enormous TV screens.
Argentina and Brazil weren't the only countries in mourning. Six South American teams made it into the tournament's second round; only Uruguay will play in the semifinals, on Tuesday against Holland. Desperate Housewives dvd set
But in Argentina, a country obsessed with the sport and with team coach Diego Maradona, the loss hit especially hard.
"I'm bitter and depressed," said 26-year-old secretary Natalia Perazzelli.
"I can't even talk. The World Cup no longer interests me," said Pablo McCormack, 43, a pharmacist. "I feel a huge disappointment." Desperate Housewives seasons dvd
It's been a controversial World Cup. Officials have blown crucial calls but eschewed instant replay. The French team mutinied against its coach and didn't make it to the second round. Nigeria's president, Goodluck Jonathan, formed a special commission to reorganize soccer after the national team failed to win a single game.Desperate Housewives box set
Many Argentine fans took it as an article of faith that their team — led by Maradona, who as a player led the squad to its 1986 World Cup victory but who had no experience as the national coach — would advance to the finals, possibly taking home the coveted trophy.
But as sportswriter Sergio Danishewsky wrote on the Clarin newspaper's website, Germany was so dominant that it stripped the Argentina squad "naked," exposing its "technical disorder…. The Cup is just a memory of what must be learned."Desperate Housewives dvd On Friday, Argentina's neighbor, soccer rival and tournament favorite Brazil, was beaten decisively, 2-1, by the Netherlands, provoking a similar round of soul-searching and second-guessing among soccer-mad fans.Desperate Housewives seasons box set
In Brazil's earlier games, Sao Paulo buzzed with the sound of vuvuzelas, the plastic trumpets that fans in South Africa are tooting throughout the matches. The horns fell silent Friday.
Unlike earlier games, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did not upload match pictures to his website. He departed Saturday on a state visit to Africa, which he had previously scheduled so he could attend the World Cup final July 11.Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6 dvd box set
So far, the losses by Argentina and Brazil have not prompted national politicians to get into the act. But the disarray of teams in other countries have become affairs of state.Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6
In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy called an emergency meeting of soccer officials to discuss the team's meltdown and failure to advance to the second round. Nigeria's President Jonathan withdrew all national teams from international competition. Desperate Housewives seasons 1-6 dvd box set
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