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Bump.

What, you think so, against this hack attack, and side. No, a right & left hand opening combo with Warner to 3 or 4, IMO will be thew best. Cowan looks like a traditional opener, & Warner looks like someone who hasn't the best technique, but is a strokeplayer. Marsh is battling and we need a No 3 and a Keeper as well.

I'd like to see my dear Watson return to be a batsman, but as opener with Cowan, Warner to 3.

Is this Clarke's influence, Or, is it the Coaches? However I agree with you that he seems to have matured since the public outcry, Not wanting him as Captain prion to his elevation. He has Put to bed, that pretty boy,,,, bling image he had going. The team is traveling well, fortunately not being tested by India's poor output. But our young bowling stocks have invigorated more than the older bowlers and the public. IMO good brash fast bowling tyro's who don't take crap, make Everyone stand taller. Much like a footy team as well.

There's more left handed bowlers these days, who move the ball about. So I don't like it compared to a combo of Watson and Cowan.

If fully fit, Watson will walk back in to this team. IMO Siddle is a must test player. After 2 New ball strike bowlers we have to have a blood & guts, all heart workhorse to carry the big burden when the tracks are too flat. He is my Merv, can Bowl, can bat, & can field. He's the one who'll dig them in and Dig them out when others give up the ghost. Must keep. All grit & schitt.

Yep, I couldn't remember his name, Cummins, + Pattinson, + Siddle as the workhorse & one spinner, + an alrounder. Watson to Open for a year or two, then go back to the Mid order. I like what I'm seeing of Cowan. But don't like 2 Lefties opening the Innings. I think Cowan & Watson could be a good pairing? Maybe Warner can eventually be a No 3, David Boon type 3?

I pretty much agree Jack. I'd like to see both oldies to see out the 2012 Aussie summer, with one (1) of then to retire this Summer,,, and the other to retire the end of the 2013 Summer.I think, the same thinking is being applied to the bowling, as the other young quick recovers from injury. The worst thing we can do is fill the National Team full of inexperience all at once - see Hilfenhaus.

He's captain now & may well think of picking a stronger batting lineup. But then again he mightn't too. Maybe he's (clarke) is growing up and rising above childish fears and childish resentments.

Yep, no real interest, & I've also lost interest over the last 10 Years in our test team. I think it's the lack of characters & the 'statistical professionalism' thats detracted from the 'Game'. It seems to be tracking alongside the world of economists,,, boring... Time to step back towards the Human touch of individuals and Ego. Much more interesting and Real, Like Lillie & 'Thomo'... And Merv the swerve. Early Warne. Greg Matthews. PS: I have to say I'm regaining a little interest now in the New team with New players coming in, like Warner, Pattinson, etc.

Why?

Either that or we just Nickname him OAK... as some form of compensation, & we could give him a start @ the http://www.leighoak.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=53

Yet another 'Nuke' leak'. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/japan-plant-has-radioactive-water-leak/story-e6frf7jx-1226218856586 Japan plant 'has radioactive water leak' A RADIOACTIVE water has leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan but did not escape into the environment, report says. Kyodo News agency said on Saturday that 1.8 tons of radioactive water leaked in a pump at Kyushu Electric Power Co's Genkai plant. Yushu Electric issued a statement on Friday about a pump problem but did not mention a leak. Also on Friday, Japan's Prime Minister said work to stabilise a tsunami-hit nuclear power plant in the northeast is on track. Yoshihiko Noda said temperatures in three melted reactor cores at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant have fallen below the boiling point and radiation leaks have declined. A March earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant's power and cooling systems. .............................................

Radiation traces found in baby formula TRACES of radiation spilled from Japan's hobbled nuclear plant have been detected in baby formula in the latest case of contaminated food in the nation. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/radiation-traces-found-in-baby-formula/story-e6frf7jx-1226215687243 Major food maker Meiji Co said overnight it was recalling canned powdered milk for infants, with expiration dates of October 2012, as a precaution. The levels of radioactive cesium were well below government-set safety limits, and the company said the amounts were low enough not to have any affect on babies' health even if they drank the formula every day. Experts say children are more at risk than are adults of getting cancer and other illnesses from radiation exposure. "There is no problem because the levels are within the government limit," Kazuhiko Tsurumi, a Health Ministry official in charge of food safety, said of the radiation in Meiji milk. The March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan sent three reactors into meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which have been spewing radiation into the air and ocean. Some of that radiation has crept into food, such as rice, fish and beef. But this was the first time radiation was reported in baby formula. Kyodo News said airborne radioactive cesium contaminated milk as it was being dried at a plant in Saitama prefecture in March, citing the company. The company was not immediately available for comment overnight. Meiji has about 40 per cent of domestic baby formula sales, but the amount of recalled formula wasn't disclosed. The product is exported to Vietnam under a different name, Kyodo reported. The levels of cesium-134 and cesium-137 in the milk were up to 31 becquerels per kilogram, which is below the government limit of 200 becquerels per kilogram set for milk. The government has been reviewing its food safety and other radiation standards because some of them were not clearly defined before the nuclear crisis. Not all food samples are monitored for radiation, and readings have been voluntarily reported by the manufacturers, including the latest by Tokyo-based Meiji. Many consumers are worried. Some stores are labelling where the food was grown or caught, allowing shoppers to opt for imports or products from parts of the country deemed safe.

Hughes has a poor technique. Doesn't play straight enough to be an Test Opener. Send him away to wake him up further, then bring him back as an slips field, and a No 5 or 6 bat.

Yep. Oils are Oils, & poison is poison. The old 'Play with Fire' rings true.

The boys done well ! Looks the goods. The quicker we drop Hughes the better, with Clarke to 4, and Ponting to 5 with Huss 6. Watson in the open with warner. we should retire one mature player per Year from Now on. Hussey or Punter at the end of this 2011/12 Summer, followed by the other next summer. Watson could come down the order next year for Marsh, or Hughes could come back as a No 6? The Bowling looks exciting.

Nuclear pollution of sea from Fukushima was world's biggest by Staff Writers Paris (AFP) Oct 27, 2011 France's nuclear monitor said on Thursday that the amount of caesium 137 that leaked into the Pacific from the Fukushima disaster was the greatest single nuclear contamination of the sea ever seen. But, confirming previous assessments, it said caesium levels had been hugely diluted by ocean currents and, except for near-shore species, posed no discernible threat. From March 21 to mid-July, 27.1 peta becquerels of caesium 137 entered the sea, the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) said. One peta becquerel is a million billion bequerels, or 10 to the power of 15. Of the total, 82 percent entered the sea before April 8, through water that was pumped into the Fukushima's damaged reactor units in a bid to cool them down, it said. "This is the biggest single outflow of man-made radionuclides to the marine environment ever observed," the agency said in a press release. Caesium is a slow-decaying element, taking 30 years to lose half of its radioactivity. The IRSN said large quantities of iodine 131 also entered the sea as a result of the disaster, caused by the March 11 9.0-magnitude quake that occurred off northeastern Japan. But iodine 131 decays quickly, having a half-life of eight days, and the contamination "swiftly diminished," the report said. The IRSN said that, for the Pacific generally, caesium levels would ultimately stabilise at 0.004 becquerels per litre thanks to the diluting effect of powerful ocean currents. This is twice the concentration that prevailed during atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1960s. "These levels should not have an impact in terms of radiological safety," the IRSN said. However, "significant pollution of seawater on the coast near the damaged plant could persist," because of continuing runoff of contaminated rainwater from the land, it said. "Maintaining monitoring of marine species taken in Fukushima's coastal waters is justified," it said. The IRSN cited deep-water fish, fish at the top of the marine food chain and molluscs and other filtrating organisms as "the species that are the most sensitive" to caesium pollution. http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Nuclear_pollution_of_sea_from_Fukushima_was_worlds_biggest_999.html

Hah, 'Freddie 'Huckleberry' Clutter-buck', cleans Up.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/japan-ponders-what-to-do-with-nuke-waste/story-e6frf7jx-1226186214764 Japan ponders what to do with nuke waste JAPAN has made big strides toward stabilising its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant but is now facing another crisis - what to do with all the radioactive waste the disaster created. Goshi Hosono, the country's nuclear crisis minister, said today that Japan has yet to come up with a comprehensive plan for how to dispose of the irradiated waste that has been accumulating since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Hosono gave the assessment after the government announced an $11.5 billion allocation to help the cash-strapped plant operator cover the massive cost of recovery without collapsing. Officials have rejected criticism that the allocation is a bail-out - stressing that the money comes from a joint fund of plant operators, with a government contribution in zero-interest bonds that must be paid back. The disaster, which killed nearly 20,000 people along Japan's northeastern coastline, touched off the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, generating meltdowns, fires and radiation leaks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station northeast of Tokyo. Officials say that - almost eight months later - the plant has been restored to a relatively stable condition and is leaking far less radiation than it did in the early days of crisis. They hope to achieve a "cold shutdown" - with each reactor's temperature below 212 Fahrenheit (100 C) - by the end of the year. But Hosono, in a response to a question from The AP, acknowledged today that the crisis has spawned a huge amount of irradiated waste that will require new technology and creative methods to dispose of safely. "We still don't have a full picture of how to deal with the waste," he said. "It would require research and development that may take years. For instance, we still need to develop technology to compress the volume of the huge amounts of waste that we cannot move around." Japan could be stuck with up to 45 million cubic meters of radioactive waste in Fukushima and several nearby prefectures (states), according to the environment ministry. Hosono said Japan is not considering shipping out the waste for overseas processing. The total amount of radiation released from the plant is still unknown, and the impact of chronic low-dose radiation exposures in and around Fukushima is a matter of scientific debate. More than 80,000 people evacuated from their homes, and a 12-mile (20-kilometer) no-go zone is still enforced around the plant. Cleaning up the area and compensating residents is expected to cost trillions of yen (tens of billions of dollars). Hot spots of highly localized radiation have been reported hundreds of kilometers away, and Hosono said a task force has been set up to investigate them. The fund payout of $11.5 billion (900 billion yen) announced Friday for Tokyo Electric Power Co. came after the plant operator agreed to a restructuring plan to cut more than 2.5 trillion yen ($32 billion) in costs over the next 10 years and reduce more than 7,000 employees. TEPCO has been bitterly criticized for its lack of transparency and slow response to the crisis. The application process for residents and business owners to seek compensation has also been called extremely cumbersome. The controversial fund is designed to help the operator meet its responsibilities without going bankrupt.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/fukushima-nuclear-plant-worker-dies/story-e6frf7lf-1226161675432 Fukushima nuclear plant worker dies A WORKER hired to help bring the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant under control died suddenly, the third fatality reported among workers at the stricken plant since the March accident, The Wall Street Journal reports. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said it believed the death on Thursday, like the previous two, had nothing to do with exposure to radiation in the plant. It also said the death did not result from overwork, though the company did not disclose the cause. TEPCO said a male worker in his 50s became ill during a meeting Wednesday morning, before his shift started. He was taken to a hospital immediately, and died the next morning. "We can't disclose what was cited as the cause on his death certificate because it would amount to violation of privacy," a TEPCO spokesman said. Following the accident, set off by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO was criticised for insufficient attention to worker conditions, subjecting dozens of workers to dangerous levels of radiation. In March, six workers were exposed to over 250 millisieverts of radiation - the ceiling set for emergency workers at the plant - including two who sustained suspected radiation burns to their legs after wading through contaminated water without wearing boots. Safety records improved significantly in recent months - In July, only six workers received doses of between 20 and 50 millisieverts, compared with 1264 who were exposed to at least 20 millisieverts in March. The two other deaths among Fukushima workers came in May, when a man died of a heart attack, and in August, when a man died of an acute form of leukemia after working for just seven days at the plant. In both cases, TEPCO said the death was unrelated to the man's work at the plant. The worker who died this week had worked there since August 8, helping to install a tank used to treat contaminated water. He spent a total of 46 days at the plant, logging an average three hours a day. His accumulated dose of radiation exposure was two millisieverts, well below the 250-millisievert ceiling. A Sept. 9 whole-body scan of the man had shown no excessive exposure, the spokesman said. TEPCO was still waiting for a test result to see if the worker had experienced more internal exposure since.

Fukushima reactor drops below 100C THE operators of Japan's crippled Fukushima power plant say the temperature of reactor number two has dropped below 100C, the approximate boiling point of fresh water, as the site slowly recovers from the March 11 tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said today that the heat of the reactor fell to 99.4C, following that of reactors one and three which dipped below 100C a few weeks ago. The firm recently introduced more efficient cooling methods at the plant, which houses six reactors, three of which were badly damaged. The permanent cooldown of the three is essential in order to stabilise the site devastated by the world's worst atomic disaster since Chernobyl. There were explosions at the reactors after they went into meltdown following the earthquake and tsunami, which hit its cooling systems. Japan has promised to achieve a cold shutdown of the plant by the year-end. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/fukushima-reactor-drops-below-100c/story-e6frf7lf-1226151390491

That, and we have Trade In another, Boak or Dangerfield, + Gaff, I hope.. I'd trade out quality to grab one of these maturing players. Our older 'name' players would be On the table. Jamar/ Davey/ + others, Morton, Maric, (Bennell?) plus steakknives, Dunn, Wonna, etc.

Japan nuke leak exceeds Hiroshima JAPAN'S nuclear agency says the amount of radioactive cesium leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the estimate released today was requested by a parliamentary panel. But it said a simple comparison between an instantaneous bomb blast and long-term accidental leak is impossible.The report estimated for each of the 16 isotopes leaked from "Little Boy" and 31 of those detected at the Fukushima plant but didn't provide the total. NISA has said the radiation leaked from Fukushima was about one-sixth of what the Chernobyl disaster released in 1986. "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city by the Americans at the end of World War II. http://www.heraldsun...x-1226123264937