It's been a while now I'm back with force.

Lets ge serious

Time is on our side as long as we educate and expand our mental state.

One question

As I look at everything happening I can't help but believe this is all the setup to something greater. We are now being taken to the ball park and they will not let us watch the game. Instead they will let us bat and the ball will be invisible, we will strike out and the game will come to an end. We all have to ask ourselves one question why? And with one word is the awnser money.


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The oil spill: The latest developments


Oil sheen is visible as vessels assist off the coast of Louisiana. (Mario Tama/getty Images)

-- Five leaks in and around BP's well are more like "drips" and aren't yet reason to worry, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander. He extended testing of the experimental cap by another day, which means the oil will remain shut in. Seepage two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well, he said.

-- BP would like to implement a "static kill" of the well, which involves sending mud and later cement down into the well through the cap, according to BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells. The company is waiting for government approval.

The final closing of the well would still have to be performed by a relief well "bottom kill," scheduled now to begin in late July or early August if the weather remains good.

By the numbers

$7 billion

The amount that BP is getting from Apache Corp. for oil and gas properties in the United States, Egypt and Canada.

Altered BP photo comes into question


In the altered version of the photo, three of the screens show different images than in the original. John Aravosis of Americablog.com pointed out alterations, including jagged white edges around the silhouettes of the photo's subjects. (BP p.l.c.)

Apparently BP is no more adept at doctoring photos than it is at plugging deep-sea oil leaks.

A blogger has noticed that the oil giant altered a photograph of its Houston crisis room, cutting and pasting three underwater images into a wall of video feeds from remotely operated undersea vehicles. The altered photo is displayed prominently on the company's Web site.

An enlarged version of the photograph reveals flaws in the editing job. One of the 10 images sticks down into the head of one of the people sitting in front of the wall, while another piece of the image is separated from the other side of the head by jagged white space. The right side of the same image also hangs down below the area on which the video feeds were projected.

John Aravosis pointed out the alterations Monday evening on his Americablog.com and observed, "I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center." The photo doctoring comes as BP has promised transparency in a bid to regain the public's trust.

(Photo gallery: Oil spill containment and cleanup)

Scott Dean, a spokesman for BP, said that there was nothing sinister in the photo alteration and provided the original unaltered version. He said that a photographer working for the company had inserted the three images in spots where the video screens were blank.

"Normally we only use Photoshop for the typical purposes of color correction and cropping," Dean said in an e-mail. "In this case they copied and pasted three ROV screen images in the original photo over three screens that were not running video feeds at the time."

Dean said BP usually has a couple remotely operated vehicles on the surface at any given time for maintenance.

"We will replace the Photoshopped version currently on bp.com with the original image tonight," he added. "We've instructed our post-production team to refrain from doing this in the future."