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Attempt to plug oil leak delayed

The latest attempt to plug an oil well, that has been leaking for more than two months in the Timor Sea, has been delayed.
Oil began flowing from a well at the Montara oilfield, more than 200km off Western Australia's north-west coast, on August 21.
Three attempts PTTEP Australasia to plug the leaking well with mud have failed.
A fourth attempt was to be made today, but PTTEP Australasia said that would now take place over the weekend.
A spokesman for the company said an overnight analysis of electro magnetic surveys after drilling activities yesterday meant a specialised guidance tool would have to be used to align the drilling assembly in the well bore to intercept the leaking well.
"The drilling team on board the West Triton rig will deploy the alignment tool down the intercept well to accurately guide the drilling assembly towards the target," the spokesman said.
"Following a successful intercept, heavy mud will be pumped from the West Triton down into the relief well, displacing the oil, gas and water and stopping the flow."
The well casing being targeted is 25cm in diameter.
Late yesterday, PTTEP said a small piece of cement recovered near the site of the leaking well showed repair crews could be close to finally stemming the spill.
PTTEP said the well was initially leaking at a flow rate of 400 barrels of oil a day.
But the Greens said data from Geoscience Australia, revealed in Senate estimates hearings on Wednesday, revealed the flow could be about 2,000 barrels a day, plus condensate.
Conservationists have been critical of the response to the spill.
Today, WWF said PTTEP had confirmed the deaths of 16 seabirds out of 25 affected by the oil spill.
WWF conservation director Dr Gilly Llewellyn said dolphins, migratory seabirds, sea snakes and marine turtles have been found in the slick-affected area during a recent expedition by the group.
A survey report, released today, painted a picture of a rich marine environment under toxic threat from the Montara leak.
"We recorded hundreds of dolphins and sea birds in the oil slick area, as well as sea snakes and threatened hawksbill and flatback turtles," Dr Llewellyn said.
PTTEP said there were no reports of any whales or dolphins in trouble and tests undertaken on fish specimens to date showed no contamination by oil.
"Clearly, wildlife is dying and hundreds if not thousands of dolphins, seabirds and sea snakes are being exposed to toxic oil," Dr Llewellyn said.
"The critical issue is the long-term impact of this slick on a rich marine ecosystem, taking into consideration the magnitude, extent and duration of the event."
Oil could be a slow and silent killer, Dr Llewellyn said.
"Impacts from the Exxon Valdez disaster are still being seen 20 years later, so we can expect this environmental disaster will continue to unfold for years to come," she said.

Fatal crash in Gascoyne

UPDATE 8.15PM A man has been killed and three others injured in a fatal crash this afternoon in Woodleigh, about 700km north of Perth.
At about 4pm a car rolled over on Woodleigh Road, about 2km off Great Northern Highway and 25km north-east from the Overlander Roadhouse.
Semi-private Woodleigh Road runs to Woodleigh Station and is about halfway between Geraldton and Carnarvon.
At this stage, it is believed to be a single-vehicle accident.
St John Ambulance, FESA and the police are at the scene.
The crash came within minutes of a head-on crash on Donnybrook-Boyup Brook Rd about 10km north of Boyup Brook involving two people. One person is still believed to be trapped in a vehicle.
Both crashes came after a side impact crash in Dawesville today that saw an 18-year-old woman rushed to RPH with serious head and internal injures.
At about 3pm the young woman, who is from Erskine, was driving a Mazda on the incorrect side of an incomplete section of Old Coast Road.
Police said she failed to give way to a Mitsubishi Triton travelling northbound, but the male driver escaped with minor injuries.

AP sources: Report reveals CIA interrogation methods

WASHINGTON – As the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to-be-released report by the CIA's inspector general reveals that agency interrogators conducted mock executions of terror suspects.

These latest allegations are contained in a 2004 report that has been kept secret and is to be released next week, two congressional officials told The Associated Press. They spoke late Friday on condition of anonymity because the report has not yet been cleared for release.

Threatening a prisoner with death violates U.S. anti-torture laws.

In one case, interrogators brought a gun and power drill into a session with suspected Cole bomber Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, the report says. The suicide bombing of the warship USS Cole killed 17 U.S. sailors in Yemen in 2000.

In another episode, a gunshot was fired in a room next to a detainee to make the prisoner believe another suspect had been killed, according to the report, which a federal judge has ordered to be made public Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The IG report's findings were first reported by Newsweek on its Web site.

Nashiri was one of three CIA prisoners subjected to waterboarding, a brutal interrogation technique that simulates drowning that was among 10 techniques approved by the Bush administration's Justice Department in 2002. President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have denounced waterboarding as torture.

"The CIA in no way endorsed behavior_ no matter how infrequent_ that went beyond formal guidance," said agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano. He declined to comment on the contents of the IG report.

Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices, a controversial move that would run counter to President Barack Obama's wishes to leave the issue in the past.

Gimigliano said the career prosecutors at the Justice Department have reviewed the report to determine if any laws were broken and whether the interrogators should be prosecuted.

"Professionals in the Department of Justice decided if and when to pursue prosecution," he said. "That's how the system was supposed to work, and that's how it did work."

Just one CIA contract interrogator, David Passaro, has been prosecuted. He was found guilty in 2007 in the beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.

The Los Angeles Times reported Aug. 9 that a CIA operative brought a gun into an interrogation booth to force a detainee to talk. One of the congressional officials told the AP that referred to the interrogation of the USS Cole suspect.

The IG review was completed in May 2004. The ACLU has sought its release since then. It was expected to be released earlier this year but was delayed by government request.

The report casts doubt on the effectiveness of the harsh interrogation methods employed by CIA interrogators, according to quotes from the report that were contained in Bush-era Justice Department memos declassified this spring. It says no attacks were averted by information obtained using harsh interrogation methods.

The CIA detained and interrogated 94 terrorist suspects; 28 were subjected to harsh methods. Of those three were waterboarded, according to government documents made public earlier this year.

But former CIA Director Michael Hayden said this week at a panel discussion in Washington that the review also credits the harsh interrogation with yielding information on al-Qaida's basic infrastrucutre, which in turn allowed the CIA to fight the organization behind the 9/11 hijackings.

John L. Helgerson, the now-retired CIA inspector who spearheaded the investigation, told the AP in June that the report is a comprehensive review of everything the CIA did in the secret detention and interrogation program begun in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The investigation was undertaken in response to concerns expressed by agency employees about the program, he added.

By Alisha

(from yahoo)

Friday nights

Ok as Karuna just said, what do you do on Friday nights. It may be some peoples favorite nights. Staying up late, movies are out, late night shopping in the city and much more....
Oh well, we want your say as well as mine! Make your idea great and sizzling, or make it fun and spectacular. It's your turn for your say. Comment on this and we'll pick the best and publish it in all my appropriate blogs and Karuna's favorites! After you send the comment if you want put your email address on the end of the comment and we'll contact you later if you win! Maybe a prize will be coming. (We're only kids-students in school, we'll do our best!)
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Alisha

The Food Guide Pyramid is one way for people to understand how to eat healthy. A rainbow of colored, vertical stripes represents the five food groups plus fats and oils. Here's what the colors stand for:

• orange — grains
• green — vegetables
• red — fruits
• yellow — fats and oils
• blue — milk and dairy products
• purple — meat, beans, fish, and nuts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) changed the pyramid in 2005 because they wanted to do a better job of telling Americans how to be healthy. The agency later released a special version for kids. Notice the girl climbing the staircase up the side of the pyramid? That's a way of showing kids how important it is to exercise and be active every day. In other words, play a lot! The steps are also a way of saying that you can make changes little by little to be healthier. One step at a time, get it?

The Pyramid Speaks

Let's look at some of the other messages this new symbol is trying to send:

Eat a variety of foods. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups. In other words, have foods from every color, every day.

Eat less of some foods, and more of others. You can see that the bands for meat and protein (purple) and oils (yellow) are skinnier than the others. That's because you need less of those kinds of foods than you do of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy foods.

You also can see the bands start out wider and get thinner as they approach the top. That's designed to show you that not all foods are created equal, even within a healthy food group like fruit. For instance, apple pie would be in that thin part of the fruit band because it has a lot of added sugar and fat. A whole apple — crunch! — would be down in the wide part because you can eat more of those within a healthy diet.

Make it personal. Through the USDA's MyPyramid website, people can get personalized recommendations about the mix of foods they need to eat and how much they should be eating. There is a kids' version of the website available too.

My fish just had babies

Right now I am helping my Dad scrape off fish eggs that my Angel fish just laid. We are putting them in another tank so the bigger fish don't eat them. Wish us good luck!
If you have any tips for looking after fish eggs please mail me at falisha@y7mail.com