It was confusing to me. So I did some hacking around and found that Wereley (and a couple of other scientists) started doing analysis of the BP Spill, at the request of NPR, who interviewed him on May 14th.

Wereley subsequently appeared before a House subcommittee on May 19th. Then on May 20th, Thad Allen formed a multi-agency Flow Rate Technical Group. Wereley was one of nine independent scientists appointed to the group (it doesn't include any of Wereley's former associates). The FRTG issued a preliminary report on May 27th and they are expected to issue the final report early next week.

Wereley recapped the report last night on AC 360; I kind of transcribed it on another thread -- LINK. (My account doesn't differ much from what Walden had previously stated.)  

A thought...the spill is all about SIZE. As we know, many observers have sought to minimize the spill rate, while some favor the higher estimates that Wereley initially reported. I feel the science, and the world of hurt in the GOM, will ultimately substantiate the higher estimates.

Critics have bashed President Obama for being slow to seize the political initiative in combating the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast, now widely believed to be the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The White House has battled back, releasing a timeline of events showing that Obama was briefed--and deploying the Coast Guard--within 24 hours of the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

What has not been previously disclosed: The president was not only briefed on the real-time events of the spill, but also on just how bad it would be--and how hard it would be to plug the hole.

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Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, told Obama at one of the earliest briefings in late April that the blowout would likely lead to an unprecedented environmental disaster, senior White House aides told The Daily Beast. Browner warned that capping a well at such depths had never been done before, and that they ought to expect an oil spill that would continue until a relief well was drilled in August, the aide said.

That early briefing on the scope of the spill--and enormous technical challenges involved in fixing it--might help explain the sense of fatalism that has infused Obama's team from the start.

Little that has happened since has changed their mind-set. Now six weeks later, the president's top advisers expect the oil spill--and the negative stories--to continue through August.

The fact that Team Obama was warned of the extent of the disaster so early on suggests that White House officials were aware of the environmental challenge long before they decided to demonstrate concern via presidential visits to the Gulf.

When asked about the prospects for the new cap fitted over the leaking well earlier this week, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs voiced little optimism. "I'm long out of the prediction business on this," he told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. "Everyone is hopeful that this works." His comments were echoed by Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the BP spill--who warned reporters against "over-optimism."

Given the lack of technical capabilities on the sea floor, there's not much the White House can do to plug the hole. And there are limited options for effectively preventing the oil from reaching large stretches of coastline. Instead, Obama's team is focusing on the options at their immediate disposal--methods of news management and presidential communication.

Obama's aides have grown increasingly frustrated with the public criticism that the president has failed to express sufficient anger. As Gibbs put it at a recent briefing, "If jumping up and down and screaming were to fix a hole in the ocean, we'd have done that five or six weeks ago. We'd have done that the first night."

Israel does not need enemies: it has itself. Or more precisely: it has its government. The Netanyahu-Barak government has somehow found a way to lose the moral high ground, the all-important war for symbols and meanings, to Hamas. That is quite an accomplishment. Operation Make the World Hate Us, it might have been called.....

... Things are said critically about Israel that wildly burst the bounds of thoughtful criticism. The language in which Israel is described by some governments and international organizations is lurid and grotesque and foul. Anti-Semitic tropes--the conspiracy theory about the Jews, most conspicuously--are regularly encountered in otherwise respectable places....

But it is emphatically not the whole picture, except for those Israelis and Jews whose political interests and ideological inclinations prefer it to be the whole picture. For there are forces in Israel, and in its government, that have a use for Jewish hopelessness....[right wing uses it well]

A real "Freedom Flotilla" would have sailed for Gaza to liberate it from its rulers. For Hamas stifles Gaza from within even as Israel stifles it from without. It oppresses the Palestininans who live under its sway and has brought them ruin. When did it become progressive to support a theocracy?....

A real "Freedom Flotilla" would have sailed for Gaza to liberate it from its rulers. For Hamas stifles Gaza from within even as Israel stifles it from without. It oppresses the Palestininans who live under its sway and has brought them ruin. When did it become progressive to support a theocracy?...

Leon Wieseltier via Laura Rozen

The Israeli military said activists on the Rachel Corrie did not resist when troops boarded the ship.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed Israeli forces not to harm the activists.....

On Saturday, thousands of people gathered in Istanbul to protest against Israel for Monday's deadly raid.

United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said Saturday Israel's blockade may be illegal.  Pillay said that under international humanitarian law, "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare" is prohibited.  She also said the law prohibits imposing "collective punishment" on civilians.

VOA

The Gaza-bound aid ship "Rachel Corrie" arrived Saturday at the Israeli port city of Ashdod after Israel Defense Forces soldiers boarded the ship peacefully and escorted it into Israeli territory. The move came after warnings that Israel would not allow the vessel to reach Gaza, which is under blockade by Israel, and several days after an Israel Navy takeover of another boat headed for the Hamas-ruled coastal strip ended in violent clashes and the deaths of nine passengers....

An IDF spokesman said Saturday that Israeli special forces soldiers used boats to board the ship, and were not air-dropped as in the nighttime takeover of the Mavi Marmara on Monday....

The group of IDF soldiers that boarded the ship included several female soldiers to handle the female passengers on board.

Everything about Debrahlee Lorenzana is hot. Even her name sizzles. At five-foot-six and 125 pounds, with soft eyes and flawless bronze skin, she is J.Lo curves meets Jessica Simpson rack meets Audrey Hepburn elegance--a head-turning beauty.

In many ways, the story of her life has been about getting attention from men--both the wanted and the unwanted kind. But when she got fired last summer from her job as a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown--her bosses cited her work performance--she got even hotter. She sued Citigroup, claiming that she was fired solely because her bosses thought she was too hot.

This is the way Debbie Lorenzana tells it: Her bosses told her they couldn't concentrate on their work because her appearance was too distracting. They ordered her to stop wearing turtlenecks. She was also forbidden to wear pencil skirts, three-inch heels, or fitted business suits. Lorenzana, a 33-year-old single mom, pointed out female colleagues whose clothing was far more revealing than hers: "They said their body shapes were different from mine, and I drew too much attention," she says.

"Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon'"

more like - Nasa scientists discover evidence that highly suggests alien life on Titan.  Basically, all the "chemistry" on Titan is correct for life, and there seems to be an otherwise unexplainable disappearance of hydrogen gas as one approaches the surface - which suggests that some "life form" might exist that is consuming the gas the way we consume oxygen.