![When President Obama addressed the nation about the death of high-level Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar al-Awlaki today, said the drone strike that took out the US-born radical withdraws the man who "took the initiative in planning and leading the efforts to kill innocent Americans." While al-Awlaki was not the trigger-man in any of the 19 operations that is linked to terror, U.S. officials and terrorism experts said his hand was visible in all of them - either by simply pushing the attackers on the violent edge personally, guiding them through operations. "There is no doubt that Anwar al-Awlaki was the terrorist of today," said Seth Jones, a terrorism analyst at the RAND Corporation and advisor to the U.S. government. "We used a combination of participation in the operations ... and an almost unprecedented use of social media - YouTube, the wider Internet sites, Facebook, Twitter - for their propaganda messages out. " In a particular case, Jones said that al-Awlaki was a player with hands in the attempt by Omar Faruk Abdulmutallab to fly Northwest Flight 253 with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day in 2009 after he traveled Abdulmutallab to Yemen and met al Awlaki. "Al-Awlaki really helped him get into a jihadist camp, helped him gain access to the pump underwear and then actually walked him through [it]," said Jones. "I wanted [Abdulmutallab] to wait to exploit [the bomb] on U.S. airspace." Al-Awlaki Abdulmutallab also taught to avoid detection while traveling the world before the intended plot, Jones said. "So in fact it was directly at the operational and strategic level guidance for the terrorist himself," he said. "This is more than recruiting." In his speech today, both the defense secretary, Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the direct involvement of al-Awlaki on Christmas Day story. Other times, al-Awlaki seemed to be able to push potential recruits to the action of thousands of miles away. A month before Adbulmutallab not fly Northwest Flight 253, U.S. prosecutors say Nidal Hasan opened fire on an army base in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. Investigators later found Hasan had exchanged several emails with the al-Awlaki al-Awlaki justify the assassinations. In some cases, al-Awlaki did not have to speak directly to the recruits at all. In July 2011, a Brooklyn man was convicted of planning the trip to the Middle East to join the jihad and killing U.S. soldiers that according to the FBI. In the course of their investigation, federal authorities found "the defendant had been radicalized in part by the Internet addresses of Anwar al-Awlaki ..." "The tone, theme, then your ability to push through multiple media really made an unprecedented terrorist Al Qaeda," said Jones. Gregory Johnsen Yemen analyst agreed, saying he was not in their operational capacity, but their rhetoric that made al-Awlaki invaluable to the terrorist organization. "What kind of impact it will have [the death of al-Awlaki] have in the" lone wolf "terrorists"? Johnsen said. "That is, individuals, often English speaking people living in the West that seems to be inspired, if not encouraged to carry out attacks on al-Awlaki. And that's where al-Awlaki was a unique voice and someone like Al Qaeda group have a difficult time replacing. "](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZwPuj4s1Fe0b058cJgLsnRt3PQS48ezuzzSWHen2JSnsbltocngdgPjzI5TRCg5fVhJtkl36Z4Zni8W4abWjAqf2A5wy4fsnyk2QerQmAAK6U-RuEJCL8wCMBB6i3uxBuuDyZu3xwqk/s1600/ap_awlaki_hasan_abdulmutallab_ll_110930_wg.jpg){kind=link}
Pawpaw the Miracle Fruit
So what the heck is a pawpaw?
I recently heard of a drink in secret. Kayakers to paddle in the waters near Washington, DC, told me of a mango fruit that grows along the banks of the Potomac - a familiar mottled skin and hides a tasty treat.
A tropical fruit-like here, really? Yep. It is the only member of a family tree tropical warm. You can not buy in stores from papaya, so that for years the only way to eat from the tree was.
I was intrigued. So I decided to find a single pawpaw.
Matt Cohen DC naturalist guide showed me how to find them.
We take the path of the Billy Goat on the Maryland side of Potomac River. "Wow," was the first word of my mouth when I tasted one that we find our way. It's kind of handle is the banana ... with a little hint of melon.
Although not heard of it, the papaya has a story. Thomas Jefferson at Monticello papayas. And when he was minister of France in 1786, pawpaw seeds were sent to friends. He probably wanted to impress your friends with something exotic in America.
Lewis and Clark wrote in his diaries that were very fond of pawpaw. At one point during his expedition in 1806, relied on other provisions pawpaw when I was running out. And from Michigan to West Virginia, people have called even cities and lakes after the pawpaw.
However, the pawpaw has only recently been marketed. That's one reason I do not see in the grocery store. So far, there are only a few orchards sale to farmers' markets. This progress is largely thanks to the work of the plant scientist Neal Peterson.
He has spent the last 35 years of breeding of the pawpaw to make it look and taste more like a fruit we like to buy. Has been selected and cultivated varieties are bigger, with more meat.
After testing its first wild pawpaw for 35 years, had a eureka moment.
"It was a revelation," he says. Peterson believed that the pawpaw was every bit the rival of a perfect peach or apple - fruit that have had thousands of years of breeding.
Why had not someone who does this with pawpaw? "I just could instantly make the leap of the imagination," he says.
And nearly three decades later, he has a lot to show. Your pawpaw are grown in gardens a few and sold in agricultural markets.
And now moving beyond the novelty. A food scientist at the University of Ohio, Rob Brannan, is interested in studying the nutrients from the pawpaw. So far, he has published a study that found that the antioxidants in fruit account to be quite high.
"This is the same as a blueberry" or a cherry, Brannan says.
If scientists could put a "health halo" at the papaya, Brannan said, would result a commercial boost. It has happened before. Pomegranate juice, anyone?
"Yum - great taste," said Joan Foster, after trying the pawpaw for the first time in the agricultural market Olney recently. She has been waiting a long time to try. They are only available a few weeks off the year - and the season this year, the pawpaw is about to end.
So if you're intrigued, come back again tomorrow for some tips on where to find the beer papaya, pawpaw sorbet ... and recipes for pawpaw.
Holly Madison Insured her Breast for $1Million
In the annals of the insurance policy in the unusual celebrity, the recent revelation that Holly Madison has a policy of $ 1 million insurance Lloyds of London with her breasts barely raises an eyebrow. After all, Adam Lambert crotch was covered with a thousand pairs. Celine Dion would have given her voice. Heck, David Lee Roth wisely - and wisely - secured by its own sperm (with an average full-time).
You can try to understand why these stars such assurances. Not a single attribute or talent, they are not so special. That's why Jimmy Durante insured his nose and Dolly Parton says her breasts. It's smart business, even if they had a talent beyond its extraordinary anatomical properties. Madison, on the other hand - well, let's say it's wise to protect your surgeon has given assets. As she says: "They are my main money makers right now." Indeed. Would be a shame if something happened, and she had to use his medical training.
The era of reality star, Madison is probably ahead of the curve. Fame is fleeting, especially when it is based on legal talent. If the situation is not secure in his belly, the better. What are the other stars may actually want to watch your property safe? Kim Kardashian? Steve-O?
Rosh Hashanah Facing Two Phenomena
Bills by members of the Knesset, Zeev Elkin, Danny Danon, and break a lot deeper than that of liberal democracy in September: to avoid the observer largest democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville called the tyranny of the greatest danger to protect free debate and critical, and the rights of minorities.
Zeev Elkin began a boycott of the law and proposed that a committee of the Knesset should be able to veto candidates for the Supreme Court. His justification was that the values of the Supreme Court did not reflect the beliefs of most of Israel. This was followed by the proposal of a Knesset committee of inquiry "Goverment no left-wing organizations" and, finally, Kadima MK, Avi Dichter, the proposition that Israel is defined as the land of the Jewish people, with an emphasis on Jewish law and Hebrew the only official language of Israel.
Elkin, Dichter and Danon, with Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, want a democracy where there is no disagreement or criticism. Freedom, for them, there is a value in itself, it is not the critical discussion. It is in fact a nuisance that does not allow the government to do what you want. That is why they attack the institutions designed to protect human rights for all, including minority in Israel. Depth and threatens liberal democracy of Israel.
As the century showed a dramatic, democracies can not vote canceled. Now we see the same process, which takes place in Russia: His party applauded politely when Dmitry Medvedev to let them know you do as president in 2012, paving the way for Putin to win almost without resistance. Yes, the role of this process is democratic. Putin, by democratic means, which will become the de facto dictator, at least until 2024 - for all intents and purposes, probably the model of Israel's Lieberman.
The current obsession with the coalition of power and domination of Israel reflects the socio-political post-traumatic stress caused by the terrible violence that Israel has lived its entire history. In 1948, 1967 and 1973, Israel's existence was in danger, the loss of these wars would have meant the destruction and death of many of its residents. Israel was the teaching that only constant vigilance, courage, and military power has been kept alive in the country. Another lesson is that dialogue is not a strategy, which can lead to results.
1990 brought the hope and the peace process with the Palestinians, which exploded in front of the second intifada, Israel. This was a time when most Israelis retreated back to the hard shell that the country was for decades an existential threat. Political Hope was a luxury that most Israelis do not want to indulge in
Disorder essence of post-traumatic stress disorder is that the psyche is unable to understand that protect previous injuries are most useful present. In mid-2011 it seemed that Israeli society had regenerative powers away from its bunker mentality.
In the midst of this current black push Israel toward liberalism, 14 In July, a miracle. A group of young people began to protest against social injustice in Israel. At the beginning of Likud members said they were "left-wing radical elements," "anarchist" or "a spoiled child." But the protest quickly evolved into an unprecedented scale.
The media have focused primarily on the needs of young people and processes that have produced, such as the Committee Trajtenberg. I think the real miracle that this movement is its culture. You must be there to understand: this is a business developed a culture of respect, people the opportunity to speak and respected, a true dialogue, not to shut down the opposition in power, whether physical or verbal.
Origin of the movement was in Tel Aviv, but across the country like wildfire. In most of the poorest neighborhoods of crime victims' countries, citizens who had learned that can be impacted by the violence that saw their pain, their hopes, their wishes might have a fair hearing. They realized they had a voice.
The movement for social justice, reminded all that behind the obsession with power finds expression in the bill liberal, there is a difference in Israel, people, old and young, minorities do not believe in abuse, whether racial, religious, ethnic or political. There are people of all ages who care about others and not at least willing to listen.
The movement for social justice is the beginning of a healing process. The realization that the political process to work through dialogue and not by power alone, that people who think differently or have different interests must not be trampled, but can be read aloud.
The movement for social justice requires a lot of stamina to keep alive this healing. These processes occur at night, is slow. My great fear is that this process will be time to influence the political future of Israel in the coming years. too long for the citizens of Israel to realize that keeping the choice of politicians who condemn Israel's deepening isolation, there will come a day when the citizens of Israel wakes up to reality, where Israel is actually look at Masada, a fortress with no friends who live by the sword alone.
However, the social protest movement has left its mark: Trajtenberg Committee, although at this stage, is not accepted by the demonstrators, was a turning point in Israeli political economy. The protests have changed the language of social and economic discourse. More importantly, he reminded the Israelis and the world under the bark of the myopic obsession with domination, the human reality of Israel is alive, vital and capable of renewal.
Rosh Hashanah at Turbulent Times
The Israelis are Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the High Holidays and a time for reflection and prayer. There are 10 days of repentance that leads to the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement.
The new year comes at a time of political uncertainty in Israel, the Palestinians are seeking the recognition of an independent state within the United Nations.
Many of the children of Israel, as these people on the streets of Jerusalem, are skeptical about the prospects for peace.
This man is not identified in this way: "I do not expect much progress in the peace process did not really expect there to be a Palestinian state.".
Israeli woman and this has also expressed doubts. "I have my doubts," he said. "Because we can give many concessions to the Palestinians, and no matter what you want to give more."
To complicate peace efforts, Israel said Tuesday will build 1100 new homes in East Jerusalem, disputed, that the Palestinians want a future state. The United States and the European Union has reacted angrily to a notification, saying it hurts efforts to revive peace talks.
The Palestinians have refused to return to the negotiating table until Israel stopped all settlement expansion. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gave "1100 is not" peace process.
"Netanyahu said today, to say no and yes to peace agreements. And it is very, very unfortunate," Erekat said.
Despite the controversy, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, emphasized the positive aspects of Rosh Hashanah message to the Israeli people.
"Although we can not know everything that the new year will bring, we know: The United States will continue to support Israel, because the relationship between our two nations is unbreakable," said Obama.
Political unrest seems to have dampened the national mood: A survey of vacation explains 88 percent of Israelis are in a good mood, and that Israel is a nice place to live. In a tradition of Rosh Hashanah, as a dip in the apples with honey for a sweet new year.
Atlanta Braves Living a Nightmare
Tim Hudson has the opportunity to present in a game so important.
His team would have preferred not to reduce it.
Atlanta Braves, one of the advantages of a once-in-command in the National League wild card is wasted. Are on the verge of a historic collapse in September, to the last day of the regular season tied the Cardinals the final playoff position.
"It 's like living a nightmare," said Braves third baseman Chipper Jones.
Atlanta took exclusive possession of the National League wild-card lead over June 20, according to STATS LLC, and held until Tuesday 7-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Just three weeks ago, the margin was 8 1 / 2 games comfortable.
Although the Braves fell, San Luis is hot and has won 21 29, the last victory at Houston Astros 13-6 after seeing the last place at the beginning of a race to five lead.
Now the Cardinals are trying to become the first team to finish with a lead of at least eight games in September, although they have some competition. Boston Red Sox have collapsed as the Braves, allowing Tampa Bay to tie the card to play football AL 162nd.
"It's kind of our food here in recent days, 120 years of baseball and is one of those tracks to link the story," said St. Louis manager Tony La Russa. "But there is another story from the link and finish it."
At least the Braves still had his ace in reserve. Hudson (16-10) was set to face Joe Blanton in Philadelphia (1-2) with a station on the line.
"There's no place I would have preferred a mound when the game means something," says Hudson.
Atlanta has lost four in a row - scoring just four points in that period - and eight of 11 to be in this situation.
Hudson tried to be optimistic.
"It's no secret what's going on," he said. "We had some tough matches. But when it's over, and we hope to win and advance to the next level, I think there will be a lot of weight from our shoulders. I hope we can get there and a different tone playoffs to come. "
If the teams remain tied after Sunday, there will be a playoff game the next day at San Luis. The Cardinals won the hut with a 5-1 lead against the Braves in the series of the season.
In Houston, Chris Carpenter (10-9) will start in St. Louis in the last episode of the season. A loss of 105 Astros meet with Brett Myers (7-13), which has a series of four wins and an ERA of 1.24 in his last five starts.
"We feel very good about it," St. Louis Star Lance Berkman. "We played well."
The Cardinals appeared in big trouble when Houston took a 5-0 lead in the third inning. SANLUIS but tied with the fourth of five points, and pinch-hitter Ryan Theriot is a three-way tie with two runs in the seventh inning.
"It was unbelievable," said Craig Allen, who came with two hits after replacing Matt Holliday. "I do not know if it's supposed to be or not. All I know is that we have an incredible race and have a game left and we will give our best effort. If this happens, it should be. "
Derek Lowe (9-17) has another doom the Braves, giving five runs in four innings. Who lost his five starts in September.
Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins and Hunter Pence homered to back a strong presence of Roy Oswalt, who listens to the playoffs with a three-hit ball over six innings without scoring a goal.
"I'm man enough to say that I had a terrible year," said Lowe, whose ERA rose to 5.05. "But we still have a chance. Our best pitcher is going on."
The Braves have gotten to the end of the season by injuries to two of their best tickets (All-Star Jair Jurrjens and Tommy Hanson) and has been hampered all year by an illegal offense.
The problems keep piling up. Jones was slowed by the crisis in his right knee, and shortstop Alex Gonzalez left the game Tuesday after aggravating his right calf. It is not expected to play in the final.
"We played 161 games and it comes down to one," the first year, said manager Fredi Gonzalez. "We did it ourselves. No excuses there. We need to get it. "
In his last loss, the Braves were behind the game court sessions, Utley led the center-field bleachers.
A feeling of uneasiness came to Turner Field. Only worse. Braves fans boos stopped only long enough to help the Astros last place so far, breaking into songs of the message: "Come to Houston!"
Initially thought the Cardinals on their way to a second consecutive defeat, but went ahead for good with four runs seventh.
Berkman to collect two outs and scored on a double block of Craig, who took the time Holliday had a sore right hand. Yadier Molina walked before Therion Triple switch was 8-6.
Nick Punto doubled in Theriot, Craig padded the lead with a three-run homer in the eighth inning and added a single point shot in the ninth.
Eduardo Sanchez (3-1) scored two in January-March 1st innings to win for the night, when the Cardinals used seven relievers a jump start, Jake Westbrook, who allowed seven hits and five in two innings is a -3. It 'was Sanchez's first appearance since June 12 due to a shoulder injury.
The audience booed loudly when Houston Berkman, the Astros star long, scored in the seventh.
Turner Field fans were also crankier.
No one could expect a dramatic conclusion a few weeks ago.
"Not a single person in this locker room would not be in my team to play this game," said Fredi Gonzalez.
"I hope so," Jones said, trying to alleviate the tragic situation. "We are more or less everything you need in any case."
Tampa Bay Rays beat Yankees
Triumph of the Rays, Evan Longoria home runs 12 minutes, came after Boston squandered a unique method of lead in the ninth inning of the rain-delayed race in Baltimore, and lost 4-3.
The Red Sox, who had a nine-game lead over the Rays in the race for the wildcard on September 3, were tied with Tampa Bay in the finals of the playoffs in the American League entering last night's League regular season Major Baseball.
Longoria, Tampa Bay hit a three-run homer in the eighth, ending a six-run explosion.
With two outs, pinch-hitter Dan Johnson, with two strikes Homer in the ninth inning to tie Tampa Bay.
Longoria won with a home run with one out, you just open the foul pole in left field.
The Rays will open the playoffs on Friday against the Texas Rangers, while the Yankees will face Detroit in the other American League first-round series.
For Boston, Wednesday's match was the culmination of an epic collapse in September.
Red Sox pitcher Jonathan Papelbon closing scratched the first two batters in the ninth inning before giving a double by Chris Davis.
Nolan Reimold was followed by a double score pinch-runner Kyle Hudson, and Robert Andino osattu to left field by Carl Crawford is unable to manage.
The game was interrupted by rain delay of one hour, 26 minutes in the middle of the seventh inning.
As the rain beat in Baltimore, the Yankees lost 7-0 to the Rays in Florida. But when the Red Sox and the Orioles went to the game, the Yankees and Rays were tied 7-7 and entering the 10 innings.
In the rest of the season ended in the American League Texas Rangers 3-1 win at Los Angeles Angels take advantage of the field in the first round.
Angels catcher Mike Napoli broke a tie in the ninth with his fourth homer in two games as Texas set a club record with his 96 win of the season and sixth time in a row.
14 wins the last 16 games, Rangers held off Detroit to the right of the host Tampa Bay on Friday.
The Tigers did what they could, beating Detroit 5-4 in Cleveland. They will start the playoffs in New York on Friday.
Walter Payton Drug Abuse
A new biography of Walter Payton Hall of Fame, the details of re-use of drugs often, extramarital affairs, and the oppressive solitude that had haunted him since his retirement from the NFL.
Sports Illustrated Jeff Pearlman spent more than two years of work on 'softness: The Life of Walter Payton enigmatic "and discovers some surprising details about Chicago Bears running back was so popular that the NFL named its man of the years after him.
The book goes on sale next week. Excerpts appear in Sports Illustrated this week. Together, part of Pearlman Payton describes the use of drugs:
The burden of loneliness and problems in marriage, not just Payton. As a player had knocked out their ills with pills and liquids that are normally provided by the Bears. Payton jumped Darvon robots during the days of play, Holmes said, "I saw him leave the locker room with bottles of painkillers and had to eat a sandwich", and his body covered with foam by dimethyl sulfoxide, a topical analgesic normally used to treat horses. Now that he had retired, self-medication only intensify. Payton normally ingested a cocktail of Tylenol and Vicodin. In an embarrassing episode in 1988, Payton visited a handful of dental clinics, complaining of severe tooth pain. He has received several orders for morphine and hit a handful of pharmacies that have been filled. When a pharmaceutical business account, she contacted the police, who arrived at the house and Payton discussed the situation.
Pearlman also details the use of the painkiller Darvon Payton in his days playing and how a trailer is equipped with nitrous oxide use during training camp.
When Payton finished his career, has dealt with depression and suicide are often confronted with friends. Two reports did not affect his discomfort. Pearlman's ex-wife described Payton and his girlfriend attended the ceremony in the Hall of Fame - "were like ships passing in the night," Payton said assistant - and made a triumphant weekend, the worst Payton life.
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As the last hand-washing Andre Agassi, in which detailed his drug hitherto unknown, "sweetness" is remembered as the obscene stories found inside. Dominate the conversation the next day and the darkness of the brightest stories of the book: How happy young Payton Cancer installed on the flight or when a child was to play the ball first to sign his football. Drug problems and that you forget what it was fun to Payton on the field, and how strong he was in contact with the terminal phase of illness, and how you grew up in segregated Mississippi and ethnic tensions, calmed his heroism in the field.
In "Sweetness" shows, our heroes are always more complex than we know.
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Split Up
For years, Demi Moore is trying desperately to let the world know how you're happily married, Twitter provided a measure of honey are home to messages kitsch and banality Hallmark card. ("Work is love yourself. Happiness is an inside job for you and your higher power, which is just for you!")
If you have not heard now that Moore is married to Ashton Kutcher (and is still beautiful in a bikini), who lives on the International Space Station.
But here's the thing about his personal life paraded in public: The public pays attention. And so when things go wrong or seem to go wrong, or just somewhat different from the usual cloud of unicorn happy, everybody knows at once.
In fact, on Wednesday, we know: all is not great in the world @ aplusk. Lovetastic or at least not 100%. Tweets for TMI were reduced, the two would spend time together and become a woman claims she had an affair with Ashton Kutcher. The woman is Sara Leal, and she says she slept with something like 72 hours ago Kutcher. Age Twitter, you know. We keep learning faster.
Under the radar, if Kutcher has an affair with this woman, not the first. Some reports indicate that Kutcher has slept with another woman (named Brittney, of course) last year. Another fun fact: Leal said he met with lawyers, presumably to see if you need cash, uh, explore your legal rights.
Star magazine also seems to think that was separated from A to K, in an edition is hitting this week, reports that the star couple had separated and shared a fortune of $ 290 million.
And the power of Moore on Twitter? Well, is largely dead for 24 hours, which is the EON Kutcherland lady, this is the same as Moore points, the exact position of the womb of his teenage daughter, if it means a little 'more attention.
Adding to the real division?
I know where I will be looking for confirmation.
Christmas Island
It has a population of 1,403 inhabitants living in a series of "settlements" in the far north of the island: Flying Fish Cove (also known as Kampong), Silver City, Poon Saan and Drumsite.
The geographic isolation of the island and the history of the minimum human disturbance has led to a high endemism of the flora and fauna, which is very interested in the scientists and naturalists. 63% of the 135 square kilometers (52 square miles) is a national park in Australia. There are vast areas of primary forest in the Monsoon.
Phosphate, originally deposited as marine dead (no fertilizer often thought), was operated on the island for many years.
Discovery
Captain William Mynors of Santa MarÃa la Real, a ship of the British East India Company, the name of the island, he spent Christmas Day in the 1643rd The island was included in the UK charts and the Dutch already in the early seventeenth century, but it was not until 1666, when a card issued by the Dutch cartographer Pieter Goos including the island. Goos Mony called the island, whose meaning is clear. British navigator William Dampier on board the British ship Cygnet, made the first recorded visit to the island above sea marts 1688th He found abandoned. Dampier gave an account of the visit can be seen on his travels Dampier tried to go to Isla del Coco in New Holland. His boat was taken out of its course eastward, arriving at Christmas Island 28 days later. Dampier landed in the valley (west coast). Two of his crew were the first people recorded to set foot on Christmas Island.
The first attempt to explore the island in 1857 by the crew of the Amethyst. They tried to reach the top of the island, but found the cliffs impassable.
During the 1872-1876 Challenger expedition to Indonesia, naturalist John Murray carried out extensive studies.
Founded in 1887, Captain Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, which shows that the airline anchor bay of Cala fish, a party landed and made a small but interesting flora and fauna. The next year, Pelham Aldrich, on board HMS Egeria, who visited for ten days, accompanied by JJ Lister, who has assembled a large collection of mineralogy biological e.
Among the stones were collected and presented to Sir John Murray for examination were many of nearly pure phosphate of lime, a discovery that led to the annexation of the island by the British Crown, 6 Juni 1888th
The first attempt to explore the island in 1857 by the crew of the Amethyst. They tried to reach the summit of the island, but found the cliffs impassable.
In 1872-1876 the Challenger expedition to Indonesia, naturalist John Murray thoroughly investigated.
Founded in 1887, Captain Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, which shows that the airline Cala Anchor Bay fish, the party landed and made a small but interesting flora and fauna. The next year, Pelham Aldrich, on board HMS Egeria, who visited for ten days, accompanied by JJ Lister, who has compiled an extensive collection of mining biological e.
Among the stones were collected and presented by Sir John Murray for examination were a lot of nearly pure phosphate of lime, a discovery that led to connecting the island to the British crown, 6 June 1888
Japanese invasion
Since the outbreak of war in Southeast Asia in December 1941, Christmas Island a target of the Japanese occupation, due to its rich phosphate deposits. A naval gun was installed with a British officer and four officers and 27 Indian soldiers. The first attack took place January 20, 1942 by Japanese submarine I-59, a Norwegian freighter torpedoed at Eidsvold. The ship is operated and eventually sank off West White Beach. Most European and Asian officials and their families were evacuated to Perth. In late February and early March 1942, there were two air strikes. The bombing of a group of the Japanese navy conducted in March 7th District Manager to raise the white flag. But after the Japanese fleet sailed Group, the British officer went to the new Union flag. On the night of 10-11 March a mutiny by Indian soldiers have the involvement of Sikh police officers in the murder of five British soldiers and the imprisonment of the remaining 21 Europeans.
31. March, nine warships arrived in Japan and the island surrendered. About 850 man Special Forces Base 21 and 24, and 102 construction unit arrived on the coast and occupied the island. Bring workers, many of whom had fled into the jungle. Sabotage equipment was repaired and ready to continue the extraction and export of phosphates. Only 20 men 21 Special Force Base remained as an ornament.
Individual acts of sabotage and the torpedoing of the Nissei Maru, in the spring of 17 November 1942 means that only small amounts of phosphate were exported to Japan during the occupation. In November 1943, over 60% of the population of the island have been evacuated from Surabaya to prison camps, leaving a total population of less than 500 Chinese and 15 Malays, and the Japanese to survive better. In October 1945 HMS Rother, invasion of Christmas Island. After the war, seven rebels were tracked down and prosecuted the war in court in Singapore.
Rock and Roll Hall Fame
Candidates for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, was released, and it is an interesting list.
Cards will be sent to more than 500 voters, who choose the artists to be inserted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year.
The candidates are:
- Beastie Boys
- The Cure
- Donovan
- Eric B. & Rakim
- Guns' N Roses
- Heart
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
- Freddie King
- Laura Nyro
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rufus with Chaka Khan
- Small Faces / Faces
- The Spinners
- Donna Summer
- War
"The 2012 candidates representing a broad scope of this" rock and roll "means," said Joel Peresman, president and CEO of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
According to the press release, to be eligible for appointment ", an individual artist or group must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to nomination." This means that 2012 candidates must have released its first record no later than 1986. (Sorry, Justin Bieber, back in 2034.)
Winners will be announced April 14, 2012, at the 27th annual induction ceremony, held in Cleveland, Ohio.
Visit rockhall.com more information and tickets for the ceremony.
Who is your vote?
Chris Christie for President?
Hopefully Chris Christie to run. He is telling the truth promising, detailed solutions to problems such as the growth of law, tax reform and foreign entanglements - all delivered in an entertainment package. Candidates often make statements about how honest and rigid live are going to be, while planning anything like that. It would be a service, and entertaining to see someone give it a real test. Smoking is also the other Republican candidates in venturing a mere statements or at least a few who fled with less haste of its predecessors.
Christie could run a campaign as bold as promised on Tuesday night in his speech strong and powerful at the Reagan Library? This is how he says it has in New Jersey: "It is a simple but powerful message of lead in difficult subjects to tell their citizens the truth about the depth of the challenges always honest with them about the difficulty of Solutions of this .. is the only effective way of driving in the United States at this time. "Later, in his call for strong leadership, said one of the greatest challenges the United States was" not become a country that puts comfort ahead of the hard truths. "
Christie reputation for blunt talk about everything from deficits to trade unions and scolded those who challenge is what is creating the buzz presidential, so has the ability. However, in the management of fashion is not exactly being a shooter right.
When asked if he was running, Christie addresses the audience at a political video compilation of his denials many. This seemed to slam the door, but not all the way which was very nice kind of behavior I expect someone like Chris Christie stand and satire. But then a woman stood up and begged the governor to run for president with such passion that seemed like it could come to tears. "I mean this with all my heart," he said. "Please, sir, to reconsider. Go home and really think about it. Please. Do it for my daughter to do it for our grandchildren, our children do so. Please, sir, your country needs you to apply for the presidency. "
Christie said: "I appreciate what you're saying and I take and I'm listening to every word of it and feel it. It is extremely flattering, but for the same reason, the message with all my heart you gave me a reason not to do it me. That reason has to reside within me. "He never said no.
This suggests two options: either a liar tells the truth that has made a decision and not being straight with the woman or is actually taking in what he says and still being considered. But if he really have a think why his first response was that the whole point in the video world politics? Why not play at the level, especially after a speech that talked about leadership and the harsh reality. The second response should have been the first response.
Christie There are many reasons to participate in this deceptively soft. It's probably smart for him to be playing the way he is. Shyness and shading and entertainment are a requirement of political campaigns and successfully. But it is a reminder that the promises of honesty are limited. Also limited is the ability to change Congress and partisanship by the power of effective speaking. Both limitations were incorporated into the discourse of Christie, who, like Obama's speeches in 2008, was full of promise and bromides in motion that ignite the imagination to think the problems can be resolved from behind a lectern magical.
Christie received a standing ovation that shows the public liked the strong defense of the notion of hard truths, but tells us nothing about whether you really want to hear the truth. You can be happy to leave it vague agitation.
If Christie ran, he would be our third candidate to speak the truth of this cycle. The first was Tim Pawlenty. It was not in the race long enough to test the theory. (His position on ethanol does not count). Rick Perry is calling itself the second tells the truth and the boy paid for it. The biggest problem is that he caused with his direct language. He said anyone who thinks of the children of undocumented workers do not deserve an education "has no heart." Sharp. In the intestine. Christie was similar to the statement, and according to the rules described in the Candidate Handbook disinterested, which is the kind of voters to speak directly, as it means that even if they disagree with him.
What does Perry get for free expression? That made him a target of clear speech Perry Christie who stressed among the Republican field in his speech. Do not call him by name, but after disagreeing with his policy said: "Let me be very clear from my point of view. That's not a heartless position is a position of common sense"
Christie showed that when we talk about, as Perry did, makes you a target. His opponents attack him and make it powerful forces and Christie are not even in the race. That's what makes the provisional candidates or conviction to say anything about honest medium. For this reason, Mitch Daniels, the jokes of his campaign could have been over almost before it began. In fact, it is dangerous to speak your mind.
Christie could announce his campaign and not pay any price to change its position. Obama said he would not run before you decide. Christie could also point to the woman at the Reagan Library and the others who asked him to be executed and say that the outcry helped him change his mind. Each candidate tries to claim there is a movement of citizens calling longing behind the competition. Christie can roll the videotape. Just hope that lives up to the position presented in his speech or his opponents shoot video as well.
Cedric Benson Banned
Cedric Benson and his lawyer David Cornwell expressed numerous objections to three game suspension to the broker in the NFL with an official hearing Harold Henderson on Tuesday a source familiar with the case told ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.
Benson Henderson considers evidence and arguments, but do not give an indication of when to issue a ruling.
Benson has also filed a complaint does not challenge the application of injuries conduct policy in the NFL at a time when there was a lock, no collective bargaining agreement, no union, and Benson was not an employee of any team. Benson was arrested in July and charged with misdemeanor assault after being involved in an altercation with a former roommate in Austin, Texas.
Benson believes that the interpretation and enforcement of the letter agreement between the next Players Association NFL and the NFL should be resolved either through injury or the complaint by the National Labor Relations Board before a decision can be made the disciplinary appeal.
A source confirmed to ESPN NFL analyst Chris principal Mortensen on Sunday that Benson has filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the NFLPA to the NLRB in connection with the agreement aside the letter.
It was unclear if the league could fine or suspend players who got into trouble in the NFL for four and a half months of blockade, where there was no collective bargaining agreement. The NFLPA was decertified as part of the labor dispute.
On the demand side agreement, the league and the NFLPA agreed finally that eight players (including Benson) could be punished for the incidents in the off season, while 25 others would not.
Benson, who spoke after the Bengals 13-8 'loss on Sunday was not happy with their union officials.
"There were some things in the CBA were not aware that it is really a surprise," said Benson told The Associated Press. "That kind of falls in the (players' association) would think that we are here to support and take back -.. That's what a union does not believe that in my case is different."
Benson was arrested in the summer of 2010 through an alleged fight at a bar in Austin and charged with misdemeanor assault. Benson met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after the incident and was not disciplined.
Benson agreed between the parties to resolve cases in 2010 and 2011 the court and spent five days in a Texas jail before this season began.
Listeria
WASHINGTON - Health officials say at least 16 people have died of listeria can be traced back to Colorado melons, the most lethal outbreak of food in more than a decade.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that 72 diseases, including 13 deaths, are linked to contaminated fruit. State and local officials say they are investigating three other deaths that can be connected.
The death toll released by the CDC Tuesday - including newly-confirmed deaths in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas - exceeded the number of deaths linked to a salmonella outbreak in peanut for almost three years. Nine people died in the outbreak.
The CDC said Tuesday that two deaths have been confirmed in Texas and one death each in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Last week the CDC reported two deaths in Colorado, four deaths in New Mexico, one in Oklahoma and one in Maryland.
New Mexico officials said Tuesday they are investigating the death of a fifth, while health officials in Kansas and Wyoming, said they are also investigating more deaths possibly linked to contaminated fruit.
Listeria is more deadly than known pathogens such as Salmonella and E. coli, although outbreaks tend to cause many diseases. Twenty people died in an outbreak of listeria poisoning in 1998 back to the contamination of hot dogs and cold cuts, possibly made by Bil Mar Foods, a subsidiary of Sara Lee Corp. Other large listeria outbreak in 1985 killed 52 people and was linked to Mexico-style soft cheese.
Listeria usually only sick for the elderly, pregnant women and others with compromised immune systems. The CDC said that the average age of the patients is 78 and one in five who get the disease may die.
Dr. Robert Tauxe of the CDC says the number of illnesses and deaths is likely to grow in the coming weeks due to symptoms of listeria does not always appear immediately. It can take four weeks or more for a person to become ill after eating food contaminated with listeria.
"This long incubation period is a real problem," Tauxe said. "People who ate contaminated food two weeks ago, or even a week ago could be falling sick week later."
CDC reported 72 illnesses and deaths in 18 states. Most of the illnesses were reported in Colorado, which has been ill 15. Fourteen illnesses were reported in Texas, 10 in New Mexico and eight in Oklahoma.
The outbreak has been attributed to the Jensen farm in Holly, Colorado, reminiscent of melons contaminated earlier this month. The Food and Drug Administration said health authorities had found Listeria in melons taken from grocery stores in the state and home of the victim who had grown up on farms in Jensen. Matching strains of the disease is found in the samples of equipment and facilities melon farms Jensen packing in Granada, Colorado.
The FDA, which is investigating the cause of foodborne outbreaks, has not released any additional detail about how the contamination may have occurred. The agency says its investigation is ongoing.
The Rocky Ford melons brand Jensen farms were sent from July 29 to September 10-25 states.
Unlike many pathogens, bacteria, Listeria can grow at room temperature and even at refrigerator temperatures. The FDA and CDC recommend that anyone who can have one of the contaminated melons away immediately and clean and disinfect surfaces that may have touched.
About 800 cases of listeria found in the United States each year, according to the CDC, and are usually three or four buds. Most of these date back to deli meats and soft cheeses, where the Listeria is more common.
Produce has rarely been the culprit, but federal investigators say they have seen more products related to listeria illnesses in the past two years. It was found in outbreaks in 2009 and celery in 2010.
Symptoms of listeria include fever and muscle aches, often with other gastrointestinal symptoms. Victims often become disabled and unable to speak.
Debbie Frederick said his mother knew something was wrong when his father, 87-year-old William Thomas Beach, collapsed at his home in Mustang, Oklahoma, and could not get up. He died a few days later, on September 1. The family later learned of his death was associated with eating cantaloupe farms and demanded Jensen.
"First of all, just a little going into shock," said Frederick. "Then, he settled in he still be alive if this had not happened. It is a life, why?"
Craigslist Killer
Ron Kroll said he is seeing "The murderer of Craigslist" movie, but I never thought something like this could happen to him.
This week we almost did.
The 37-year-old New Smyrna Beach man said he found himself fighting for survival time after meeting a man who claimed an interest in buying a boat ads Kroll had on Craigslist, a popular classifieds website.
Kroll believes that the man had other intentions in mind.
"I think it would have killed me if I had the opportunity," Kroll said by phone Thursday.
Kroll met the man, identified by authorities as Merritt Island resident Darin Leutbecker, about noon Wednesday near the Intracoastal Waterway in New Smyrna Beach to test a 2005 Wild Creek Classic boat. The two ventured to the south in the channel of Kroll in controls.
Minutes later, Kroll said the conference offered Leutbecker, who took the boat in shallow water. However, when they were out of sight of other boaters, Kroll, said that when he became suspicious.
"I knew something was not right," he said.
Kroll said the suspect told his back foot in front of the boat to see if I could rock. But Kroll knew and tried to take the boat back to shore.
Kroll was when he said he saw the suspect pull a gun from his backpack. The struggle continued and the two fell overboard.
"The most important thing was for me to be as far away from the gun as possible," said Kroll.
The two battled in chest deep water and in a moment of Kroll, said his hand directly over the barrel.
"That was one of the hardest things I've ever lived," said Kroll.
Seconds later, he said he thought he saw the suspect had dropped the gun and pulled a knife Kroll defense. However, the suspect pulled the water pistol and fired at Kroll and was launched to seek refuge.
Kroll swam ashore, while the suspect walked away with the ship, which was later found abandoned, the Office of the Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.
Kroll told deputies that during the fight that he believed the suspect had cut through the neck with the knife, Haught said.
The Volusia County Sheriff's investigators then notified the Sheriff's Office Brevard County in search of someone to appear in a hospital with a description of the suspect and injury. Around 7: 30 pm on Wednesday, a sergeant in Brevard Volusia researchers reported that a man matching the description, including a neck injury, was in the Canaveral Hospital.
Leutbecker was charged with robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the use of a firearm during the commission of a felony, robbery and assault. He was taken to the Volusia County Jail and Rama was arrested Thursday on bail of $ 10,000.
Kroll, who has sold several items on Craigslist in the past, said to be more careful next time. By Thursday, he had taken his phone number from the list online.
"It left me scratching my head," he said. "You only hear about these things happening to others. You never think it will be happening to you."
The incident has been removed Kroll's love for boating.
On Thursday, he was back in a different boat with his family - in the same waters where he almost died.
"You have to back out," he said. "You can be afraid of him."
Andy Rooney stepping down from ‘60 Minutes’
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Andy Rooney announced on Sunday "60 Minutes" will be his last regular appearance in the magazine. Rooney, 92, has been presented in the program since 1978.
Sunday will be the 1097th appearance of the original trial Rooney for "60 Minutes" and will be preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career in an interview with Morley Safer, CBS News.
Rooney's first essay, delivered in July of '78 was about the notification of deaths in car during the July 4th weekend.
However, Rooney became a regular feature in the program until fall. Before getting the slot end to itself a year later, in 1979, Rooney alternate weeks with James J. Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander,
"He hates to hear this, but it is an American original," said CBS News President Jeff Fager Tuesday's announcement.
Call us old fashioned, but remember a simpler time, when elderly men were given large portions, none other than television to kvetch endlessly about all things mysterious, novel he heard on the radio, wax rhapsodic over random gemgaws found secreted away from your desk, and generally whinge about the modern world hard and confusing. Unfortunately, that was, like all the times that were significantly better, we seem to have passed, as Andy Rooney irascible tortoise slowly scuttle off into the sunset on Sunday, officially announcing his retirement from being the private complainant was complains about money, and any old music will do.
The decision comes as something of a surprise, considering Rooney, in a dynamic and intractable 92 years, had until recently maintained seven days a week work schedule at least 6.75 of which went presumably sitting still and emitting a low moan, held. Unfortunately, 60 minutes on Sunday will feature a retrospective interview with Rooney in particular their most important comments, such as the time said he did not like it again much, much higher than they prefer one thing, continued its 1097th and final test Rooney may have to point out the flaws of every person in America, until finally, exhausted from all the bilious humor disappears in a cloud of ash.
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