Finding places to store water remains the biggest imperative at Fukushima Daiichi, in part because flooding has blocked access to the reactors' disabled cooling pumps.
Those efforts inched forward Friday, as the government Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black,moved water that had been stored in a tank outside the building of reactor No. 2 into a vessel even farther away. Having emptied the tank close to the reactor's turbine building, plant operators hope to fill it with the contents of a condenser unit inside the turbine building. Once that vessel is empty, in turn, officials hope to fill it with radioactive runoff water. Similar transfer processes are under way at reactors No. 1 and 3.
Authorities want to switch to regular cooling systems so they can stop using the jury-rigged systems—spraying water at reactors and spent-fuel pools, or injecting water into the vessels that surround the reactor core.
The station's three most troubled reactors—Nos.Buy nike cheap mens acg sandals black, 1, 2 and 3—were stable on Friday, according to Tepco and the government, measured by pressure and temperature readings. "We have to remove the water and establish a sustainable cooling system as soon as possible," said Mr. Nishiyama. "The status of the reactors is to a certain degree stable, but it still does not allow us to be optimistic."
Mr. Nishiyama's caution was echoed by Prime MinisterBuy nike cheap mens acg sandals black, Naoto Kan. "We are ready to fight a long battle," he said. "But we will surely prevail."
Republican members of a House Ways and Means subcommittee grilled AARP Chief Executive Officer Barry Rand and AARP President Lee Hammond on the nonprofit organization's health insurance operations.
Rand defended the group's public policy
Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.positions and said money received from insurance licensing agreements was used to fund social-welfare programs for AARP's 37 million members.
Republicans argued that the group would gain financially by cutbacks in the law to the Medicare Advantage program that delivers Medicare health benefits through private insurers.
"The facts show AARP no longer operates like a seniors' advocacy organization," said health subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger, a California Republican. "Instead, it more closely resembles a for-profit insurance company."
Herger was referring to a report on
Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.AARP finances and operations that he wrote with fellow Republican Representative Dave Reichert and which was released this week. They have asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate AARP's tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization.
Democrats questioned the motives of Republicans for holding the hearing, saying it was political payback for supporting Obama's healthcare restructuring.
"Your sin ... is that you
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Rand challenged the Republican report's findings saying: "We reject the allegation that our public policy positions are influenced by our revenues."
Barth went to the lottery headquarters
buy Men's Shoes online,today to collect his winnings along with his six co-millionaires, three other men and three women. Waiting for them, besides their checks, was a large white cake surrounded by Snickers bars.
The other winners include Gabrielle Mahar, 29, John Hilton, 57, John Kutey, 54, Tracy Sussman, 41, Kristin Baldwin, 42, Leon Peck, 63.
The group met with a financial adviser Monday and all agreed they wanted to take the lump sum of $202.9 million. So each will get a check that after taxes will total $19,129,571.
Barth said the group has been playing the "big jackpots" for years and are guided by the maxim that there is a "fickle finger of fate."
They are not fickle about how they do it.
"We are pretty buttoned up," Hilton said.
buy Men's Shoes online,"We keep a check list of who's in and who's out for any particular drawing. You've got to."
They have played the lotteries when they went over $100 million and throw in $2 each.
"We have a list every time you get in and if you're not, you get a line through your name and you're out," Hilton said.
Mahar, the youngest of the group, was the
buy Men's Shoes online,first to find out they were winners.
"I was home watching TV with my boyfriend," she said. After seeing the numbers on the news, "I rechecked and rechecked the ticket." Then she got her winning ticket out of the recycling bin where she had thrown it.
U.S. officials called Koussa's resignation "very significant," and an example of growing splits inside the Libyan government. The foreign minister has been a close confidant of Mr. Gadhafi and served as his intelligence chief for more than a decade.
In Washington, the White House repeated that no decision has been made to provide arms to rebel forces in Libya. Wednesday's statement was issued amid reports that President Barack Obama has approved a secret authorization for covert efforts to support anti-government rebels.
The New York Times reported that the CIA has put an Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.unknown number of operatives into Libya to gather intelligence and make contact with anti-Gadhafi forces. The newspaper said the CIA declined comment on the report, which quoted what it called current and former British officials as saying British special forces and intelligence officers also are in the North African nation.
Earlier Wednesday, Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price. troops loyal to Mr. Gadhafi drove anti-government rebels from key coastal cities they had seized days before, reversing opposition gains made since international airstrikes began.
Libyan rebels retreated amid intense fighting Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price.around the strategic oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega. Many opposition fighters fell back to the city of Ajdabiya, from where residents were seen fleeing along the road toward the opposition stronghold of Benghazi.
Pro-Gadhafi forces were shelling Brega and a rebel military spokesman said he expected the loyalists to enter the city by Wednesday night.
Lindsay Lohan has one less legal worry after prosecutors announced they would not pursue any charges against her over a December scuffle with a rehab worker.
Riverside County District Attorney's spokesman John new fashion 2011 nike running shoes onlineHall said prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue a misdemeanour battery case against the actress.
Police were called to a Betty Ford Centre facility in Palm Desert around 1am on December 12 after a worker accused Lohan of hurting her during an altercation.
The worker, Dawn Holland, later spoke about the incident on camera with TMZ and was fired by Betty Ford for violating patient confidentiality rules.
Lohan was nearingnew fashion 2011 nike running shoes online the end of her three-month court-ordered treatment at the centre after violating her probation on a 2007 drunken driving case.
Prosecutors had sought further investigation from police agencies that responded to the call, but ultimately found there was not enough evidence to file charges.
The Mean Girls star faces a far more new fashion 2011 nike running shoes onlineserious case in Los Angeles, where she is accused of felony grand theft after a jewellery store claimed she took a 2,500 dollar necklace without permission.
Lohan has pleaded not guilty and her lawyer has said she is innocent. The actress last week rejected a plea deal that included guaranteed time in jail and is due in court on April 22 for a preliminary hearing during which prosecutors will lay out some of their evidence against the starlet.
The Giants took the AT&T Park field Monday night for the first time since Game 2 of the World Series, but they did so without closer Brian Wilson.
It's looking more and more likely that Wilson will be a spectator on opening day, as well.
Manager Bruce Bochy Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale price said it is "less than 50-50" that Wilson will be ready by Thursday's season opener in Los Angeles. Wilson is still in Scottsdale rehabbing a left oblique strain suffered during a March 17 appearance.
"The chances are he will not start with Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale priceus," Bochy said. "But we still want to give him the benefit of the doubt."
Wilson is scheduled for an 8-10 minute Buy cheap nike mens sandals st wholesale pricebullpen session Tuesday.
"We aren't going to rule him out completely, although we'll have a better answer tomorrow," said Bochy, who added that Wilson being ready by opening day would "really be pushing it."