Welcome, faithful bloggers of The History Book. For current events this week, we are going to try something new. Due to some printer issues last week, our current events this week will be posted on The History Book. So breathe easy, no need to find a printer this week, just the internet. The format of your current event will remain the same: 1 paragraph summarizing the current event, 1 paragraph explaining your thoughts, opinions, and then the CORRECT citation. We will still be sharing them on Friday.Task: Post your current event on The History Book
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Due: Friday, Sept. 18th noon.
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By Alan Duke
CNN
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Kanye West called Taylor Swift with a "very sincere" apology Tuesday for interrupting her acceptance speech at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, Swift said.
Kanye West called Taylor Swift to apologize for hijacking her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
West phoned Swift following her appearance on ABC's "The View" Tuesday, her publicist said.
Swift talked about it in a radio interview with ABC.
"Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology," she said. "And I accepted that apology."
The apology came the morning after West, in an interview with Jay Leno, appeared to blame the pain of his mother's death two years ago for his "rude" behavior.
The rapper told Leno he would now "take some time off" to think about how he will "make it through the rest of this life."
West's appearance on the prime-time premiere of "The Jay Leno Show" capped a 24-hour period that began Sunday evening with him strolling down the red carpet at New York's Radio City Music Hall while gulping from a bottle of cognac.
The low-light came about an hour later, when West jumped onstage and grabbed the microphone from Swift as she accepted the Best Female Video award. West declared that Beyonce Knowles should have won.
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"I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong," West told Leno. "And it wasn't a spectacle, you know. It was actually someone's emotions, you know, that I stepped on and it was very, it was just, it was rude, period."
When Leno asked West what his mother would have thought of his behavior, he fell silent for more than a dozen seconds and appeared near tears. Leno pressed him again.
"Would she be disappointed in this? Would she give you a lecture?"
West gave a rambling, emotional answer:
"Yeah, you know, obviously, you know, I deal with hurt and, you know, so many, you know, celebrities, they never take the time off, and I've never taken the time off to really, you know, I just, music after music and tour after tour on tour, and I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt."
West said he wasn't trying to justify his behavior, "because I was just in the wrong. That's clear."
"But I need to, after this, just to take some time off and analyze how I'm going to, you know, make it through rest of this life, how I'm going to improve," he said. "Because, I am a celebrity and that's something I have to deal with."
He said he would like to personally apologize to Swift, a 19-year-old pop-country singer.
"And if there's anything I can do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I want to live this thing. It's hard sometimes, so."
After his four-minute talk with Leno, West joined fellow hip-hop superstars Jay-Z and Rihanna to perform "Run This Town," a song they recorded together.
Sunday night at the VMA's, Kanye West thought that Beyonce should have won the Best Female Video of the Year instead of Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift won her first VMA Sunday and was just about to say he thank you's when Kanye West came up onto the stage and took the mic. from Taylor and said "Taylor, I'm very happy for you, but Beyonce had the best video. Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time." I think this is a bad things because no one did this to him on his first VMA. Now it would be a little different if Taylor has won alot of Moon Men before but this is her first. Later when Beyonce won her Moon Man, she let Taylor do her thank you instead of her saying what she wanted to say. I think that that was very good of Beyonce to do.
My artical was about when the Brandon Valley Girls Volleyball team beat Washington High School in 4 games. It mainly tell how the Brandon team worked together to gain the victory over the Warriors.
I think that these articals are great to read, because they really inform the city about that how the sport teams are doing. I also think that is great that they put both sides of the court. I love reading about the stats that our girls recieve, they help me make goals for myself while I am on the court. But of course I will not be as good as they are for a while. But it is still good to set goals for yourself...
The first planet found outside our solar system
Just on Wednesday, astronomers confirmed a new rocky planet outside of our solar system. It is the first rocky planet to be confirmed outside the solar system. Its composition is very much like Earth. It is 3,600 degress F in the day. Astronomers say that one side could be molten lava and the other could be ice. It is also relativly close to Earth, about 500 lightyears away. Although it is 5 times Earths mass it is the smallest planet ever seen outside our solar system. It also has the fastest orbit.
I think that this discovery is important to know about because we need to know about what things are going on in space, ecspecially when they discover a new planet. I think this is a good discovery because it is very much like Earth and is the first confirmed rocky planet outside of our solar system. It is a very interesting planet the way it can have two different sides, I think.
Green, Richard Allen. "First rocky planet found outside solar system." www.cnn.com
NEW PLANET!
There's a new panlet just outside our solar system. The planet is earthlike ,but very hot. On one side it could be a little molten and ice on the other side if there's water on the planet. On the Earth one day is less than one year on the new planet. CoRoT-7b is the name for the new planet. Even the density is simalar to Earth, Mercury, and Venus. It's the smallest planet ever found.
I think that they should continue looking for other planets. Also i think it's weird that the planet is so close to a star. Whats the weirdest thing is though is that there could be icce on one side and molten lava on the other.
Greene, Richard "First rocky planet found outside solar system" www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/09/16/new.rocky.planet/index
For those of you who have posted their Current Event: Thank you.
For those of you who have not posted your current event yet, here is an idea for a current event: In the Wednesday issue of the Argus Leader, there is an article about Facebook and it's educational use, if any. I would really like it if someone chose that article to do as their current event.
Malaysian woman, 107, fears hubby no. 22 will leave her.
My artical is about a woman who is 107 years old, who is one her 22 husband and feers that he will leave her for a younger woman. She said that she is insecure latley and she need to find out whether he still loves her or not. But sense he left their village in northern Terenggany state for a drug rehabilitation program, she has been scared.
I think that if your 107 years old you shouldnt be looking for another husband because its pretty clear that your going to die soon. I also think the 22 is enough. Aperently she is not very good at picking husbands, drug rehilabation.. Come on if your going to have a husband pick a good one. I think that she should just give it up and let him do what he wants.
Ahmed, Saeed " Malaysian woman, 107, feers hubby no. 22 will leave her"
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/malaysia.old.bride/index.html
Car Bomb in Kabul
A suicide car bomber attacked a Italian Military convoy on a road in Afghanistan's capital Thursday. It killed six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians. The suicide bomber rammed his explosives into tow Italian Military vehicles. The explosion shattered windows a half a mile away and shook offices and home throughtout the central Afghan neighborhood.
I think, where ever the suicide bombers are at the Military should just catch em and do something to them. They should do something about it. Whats the reason for being a suicide bomber. The only thing you do is blow yourself up and other people. So whats the point of doing it.
Car Bomb in Kabul (title) - AP (Author)- www.usatoday.com (website)
Personalized spam attacks target small businesses
The spammers who make the internet unsafe are now after specific individuals. Patrick Taylor, the CEO of Oversight Systems, received a version of a fake IRS email. It said one of his employees was under-reporting his company’s income, the message told Taylor to click on a link to begin resolving the problem. Taylor was suspicious; the employee mentioned was one of his best workers. So he asked Secure Works researcher Joe Stewart, Joe found it was the spammer would have siphoned the company’s funds. Everything is well now; Taylor has set up a PC dedicated to reducing the risk of clicking on anything that would harm the system.
Okay if you’re going to spam someone why not do it right, this guy was smart to have been suspicious. I didn’t understand why you would spam someone till now; in this case it was for money. It makes you a little more cautious about the e-mail you open.
By Byron Acohido www.usatoday.com
-- A jury Thursday acquitted a former Louisville, Kentucky, high school football coach of all charges connected to the heat-related death of a player last year.
David Stinson leaves the courtroom Thursday after being found not guilty in the death of a high school player.
The jury found former Pleasure Ridge Park football coach David Jason Stinson not guilty of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin, who collapsed during a practice on August 20, 2008. The teenager died three days later.
Gilpin's body temperature reached 107 degrees, officials say.
Stinson also was acquitted on a charge of wanton endangerment.
Prosecutors said Stinson ran a tough practice on a hot day that made several of his players sick.
"The defendant said to his kids, 'We're going to run until someone quits,' " prosecutor Jon Heck alleged in his closing argument.
"A young man given that ultimatum, he ran until he collapsed. He turned white, his eyes rolled back. He could no longer support himself. ... He lost his consciousness, was ultimately taken to the hospital where his body temperature exceeded 107 degrees," Heck said of Gilpin.
The defense argued that nothing was wrong with the practice and that other factors may have contributed to Gilpin's heat stroke.
"We're the first place in this country to indict a coach for a homicide or a felony involving a practice that nobody says they would have stopped," defense attorney Alex Dathorne said in his closing argument.
"There's nothing wrong with the practice; there's nothing wrong with it."
The defense presented witnesses who said Gilpin had complained that he wasn't feeling well the day he collapsed.
Gilpin's parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against six coaches at the school. The suit claims they were negligent in their actions and that more than 20 minutes passed between the time Gilpin collapsed and the time one of the coaches called paramedics, according to CNN affilliate WHAS.
Stinson is the only person who has been charged with a crime.
Days after he was charged, Stinson told supporters that his "heart is broken." "Part of my life has been taken away," he said, according to WHAS. "I no longer teach, and I no longer coach at the school that I love. ...
I think that a coach that doesnt let you take a brake every once and a while should expecaily in weather that hot. i also think that if he didnt feel good then he shouldnt have went to practice or if he did tell the coach and he is suppose to let you rest or sit out during practice.
Mini T-Rex discovered
1.) The discovery of the Raptorex kriegsteini, the name of the mini T-Rex species, is just like the T-Rex only smaller in size. It's exactly like the T-Rex we know about today.
2.) My opinion on this is that it's pretty interesting. I'm not really a dinosaur person, but the Raptorex kriegsteini really grabbed my attention. It's amazing how scientists are still making discoveries today and haven't discovered everything in the world.
Vergano, Dan. "Miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered." www.usatoday.com
Kanye West called Taylor Swift with a "very sincere" apology Tuesday for interrupting her acceptance speech at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards, Swift said. He interrupted her saying Beyonce should have won, then apologized to her. But it was to late because she was already crying.
Okay, let me get this strait now, I have never been a Kanye West fan, but I am absolutely, 1,000 percent,completly IN LOVE WITH THE GUY! Seriously, I cheered when I saw this! Now, as many of you know, I am not a Taylor Swift lover, I can't, even remotly, listen to her music. I think she's the stereotype of the typical love addicted, ditzy, shallow "All-American" teenage girl. Gross. She tries to make people believe what will never happen, and she has a sucky singing voice. So go Kanye!
"West Embarrasses Swift." By Alan Duke CNN.com
Can Family Guy win at the Emmys?
I think they could, as almost everyone I happen to know likes to watch Family Guy. Actually, even I do. I just hope they do. They really are a funny show. Oh, and have you heard? They're making a new show that has the same artist as Family Guy.
What to watch for at the Emmys on Sunday - Cnn By Alan Duke
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/18/emmy.awards.preview/index.html
fox news
5.1 earth quake in mexico on thurs day. it ws 25 miles south of calixaco cal.several aftershocks
happened 2 hours later. people in sandeago felt the quake.there were no reports of injury or damages recorded.
I think that it is good that nobody got hurt. The earth quakes are unpredictable so they always do happen.that was good that there was no damages done.
Kanye West Vs. Taylor Swift?
I think it was very mean to go onstage adn take the mic from Taylor Swift and announce that Beyonce should have won. It would have been alot smarter for him to just say that some other time that wasn't on tv and right in front of Taylor. After that I think the sales for his songs are going to start to drop.
There is a new planet.
They found anew planet outside our solure system. The new planet is hot and maybe have ice to. Its the first planet to have water. The new planet is like earth. Its the smallest planet ever.
I think we should find other planets to live on that we can live on. I think its cool when you find other planets.
Greene, Richard "First rocky planet found outside our solar system" www.CNN.com
Current event of september 11
Farmers are thinking they can help bring down green house emissions, But they demend that they get paid to do it.
1. I think those farmers should want to help the environment thats how they make thier money.
2.I think the farmers are being greedy, they demand to be payed really how greedy can people get .
Current event for september 18
The united states are low on ammo in new orleans workes are working around the clock to make more. Stockholders are holding ammo because they thought obama would pass anti gun laws but sales soared when he did not.
Current event for september 18
Flooding in the philippines has killed at least 40 people.
Those are scary numbers and the mayor of cainta said that almost 100 percent of the town is under water.
I hope the rains stop and no one else dies. I hope they are getting aid.
~Current Events~
North Korea
North Korea is the last Stalinist state. In October 2006, it became the latest country to grip nuclear weaponry. Over the past twenty years it switched between confrontation and gradual rapprochement with South Korea and the US, in a hesitation that seems to be driven both by its hard to follow political strains and by a belief in brinksmanship as the most effective form of diplomacy.After activating it's first nuclear device, the country slowly movYOUTUBed away from confrontation. In February 2007 it agreed to discontinue it's nuclear program.
In April 2009 North Korea 'test fired' a ballistic missile despite opposition. On May 25, 2009, North Korea announced that it had done a second nuclear test, defying international warnings.
In August 2009, former President Bill Clinton visited North Korea for 20 hours, in which he freed of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea's antisocial government, and dined with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il.
I think that North Korea is planning something. America and South Korea should be careful. I don't think we should trust them.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/northkorea/index.html?inline=nyt-geo
Current Events 2
Iran
Iran's reported test-firing Monday of medium-range missiles that could reach Israel, Europe and American bases in the Persian Gulf was a reminder of the potent military threat Tehran poses to nations seeking to derail its nuclear program.
The launches demonstrated that Tehran was capable of striking its enemies, especially Israel, which has suggested it might attack Iran's nuclear installations, and the United States, which is urging tougher United Nations sanctions against the Islamic Republic while preparing to create a shield to protect its allies from Iranian missiles.
The missiles fired Monday, the Shahab-3 and Sejil-2, were launched in the desert as part of military exercises that began before the U.S., France and Britain last week accused Tehran of building a secret uranium-enrichment plant. The U.S. and other nations suspect Tehran's nuclear program is designed to create weapons rather than energy for civilian purposes and have threatened new sanctions on Iran if international inspectors are denied access to the facility.
I think that it is good that they are learning how to use nuclear power. They are finally joining the rest of us. I just hope they don't turn on us.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-missiles29-2009sep29,0,331326.story?track=rss
Current event september of 25
Two german cargo ships have sailed across the Northeast passage in the Artic. Melting ice caps have made it possible to do so.
Current event for october 2nd
The Big Garbage Patch A growing mass of plastic is floating in the pacific ocean. the garbage patch is twice the size of texas.
That can kill a lot of sea fish.
current event of oct. 9
the brandon valley marching band is marching on to san deigo for the band compitoin in December this year.
comedian lewis black gives his take on presiden obaa and tomdelays stint on danncing wit the stars. CURENT EVENT.
thousand of gay gay rights suporters march by the white hous and on to the capiitol to rally.
lady gaga told the crowd "we will continue to push you and your adminstration to brin your words of promise to a reality
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Suspected drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter and set fire to five buses and a school in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, killing two policemen, police and media said.
It is one of the worst recent outbreaks of violence in Rio and comes two weeks after the city was awarded the 2016 Olympic Games, despite worries over its high levels of violence and poor security.
Traffickers set fire to the buses in response to a police operation against them, the O Globo network said on its website, which showed pictures of the destroyed helicopter and buses on fire. It reported that three suspected criminals were also killed.
"The helicopter was hit by criminals and the pilot made a forced landing on a football pitch," Major Oderlei Santos of the military police told Reuters.
The helicopter had been carrying six police officers as part of an operation in one of Rio's hundreds of slums, which are dominated by heavily armed drug gangs, police said.
They said the helicopter exploded after it landed and that the four surviving officers were wounded, suffering from burns
morgan Harrigton, a 20-year-old edfuction major, wint to the concert at the Unicersity of Virgnia,s John paul jones arena in charlottesville with several grilfriends but disappered from their sight around 8:40 p.m.,according to police, who are calling it a missing person cade. "she was ecvited about the concert and she brought home three outfirs that she tried on for me," gil Harrington, said tuesday on HLN,s "nancy Grace"
"we chose one and she said, Mama, it is a rock concery so it is probably not what you would choose, bit is this one OK?" Harrington said she told her caughter, that will do fine. you know you have to give your kid wings, harrington said.
i think that some one brobly abduckted her and took off after they grabed her and brobly have had a gun.
The death toll from Iraq's worst attack in more than two years climbed to 155 Monday as Iraqis buried the dead from the twin suicide bombings that devastated the heart of Baghdad.
Funerals were held around the city amid heightened security that snarled traffic during the morning rush hour. The bombings targeted two government buildings, calling into question the state's ability to protect itself as it prepares for January elections and the U.S. military withdrawal.
"Sadness is overwhelming today in the office," said one government employee, who asked that her name not be used because she did not want to be reprimanded for speaking publicly about authorities. "It's as if we are sitting at a funeral in the office because many of our colleagues and people we know were killed."
The attacks targeted the Baghdad Provincial Administration building and the Justice Ministry, wounding hundreds of people, including three American contractors. Officials revised the number of wounded down to about 500 Monday, from 700 the day before. There have been no claims of responsibility or arrests so far.
A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.
When Edward Ates takes the stand in his defense Wednesday, he's expected to tell jurors he wouldn't have had the energy needed to climb and descend the staircase where prosecutors say the killer was perched when he shot Paul Duncsak, a 40-year-old pharmaceutical executive, in 2006.
An attorney for Ates claims that in 2006, the 62-year-old who stood 5 feet 8 and tipped the scales at 285 pounds was in such bad physical shape that couldn't have pulled off the shooting or the fast getaway the killer made.
Ates' attorney Walter Lesnevich said his client's weight has caused Ates' asthma, sleep apnea and other obesity-related
San Francisco Bay area commuters were bracing for another day of wearisome commutes as crews worked on repairs to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
A day after 5,000 pounds of metal fell and hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge during an evening rush hour, state transportation officials said the bridge would not open in time for the Thursday morning commute.
There is no estimate for when the bridge will open again as crews were scheduled to work through the night and morning.
The pieces that failed Tuesday were parts of major repairs done last month after state inspectors discovered a crack in an "eyebar," an important structural beam. The rods that broke were holding a saddle-like cap that had been installed to strengthen the cracked eyebar. Only motorist was left with minor injuries after the incident Tuesday.
Officials with the California Department of Transportation attributed the incident to vibrations and grinding on a metal tie rod, causing it to snap.
During a briefing Wednesday, state transportation spokesman Bart Ney said crews were "making several enhancements to address that issue."
He also said strong winds likely played a role in the failure, which heightened concerns by some experts about the integrity of the repair and the bridge's safety in an earthquake. Scientists in 2008 said there is a 63 percent probability of a quake similar to the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta temblor in the Bay area over the next 30 years.
The 1989 earthquake caused a 50-foot section of the bridge's upper deck to collapse onto the deck below, causing another section to give way.
It took state officials until 1997 to decide it would be cheaper over the long run to build a new span than retrofit the existing one.
A rising Canadian folk singer was killed by coyotes this week in a national park in Nova Scotia, a park spokesman said Thursday.
Taylor Mitchell, 19, was at the beginning of the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park on Tuesday afternoon when she was attacked, according to Chip Bird, the Parks Canada field unit superintendent for Cape Breton.
Bird said hikers saw the coyotes attacking Mitchell and called 911. She was airlifted to a hospital in Halifax, where she died about 12 hours later, he said.
Mitchell was recently nominated for Young Performer of the Year honors by Canadian Folk Music Awards. She was touring the Maritime provinces and had a break between gigs to go hiking Tuesday, her manager, Lisa Weitz, said in an e-mail.
"She loved the woods and had a deep affinity for their beauty and serenity," she wrote.
i think that she was murded and left there for the coites to eat so that it would look like the ciotes at her.
Nancy Brizendine's slow-paced life in California's Antelope Valley has become something of a slick race track.
The first stunner, at 42 years old, in her 11th year of taking birth control pills, was that Brizendine and her live-in boyfriend and fishing buddy were expecting a baby.
"I was shocked. I didn't even think I could get pregnant," Brizendine said.
But concern over having a baby in her 40s soon gave way to the joy of becoming a mother for the third time.
Then, about 2½ weeks ago, came another sudden turn. Brizendine, a medical assistant, caught the H1N1 flu virus.
"I had a cough, sinus infection, infected ear, fever, and that's when I went into urgent care and tested positive," Brizendine recalled. "There were times when I honestly could not get out of bed because I was so sick and achy."
Brizendine began worrying about how the swine flu would affect her baby, due in January.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Health has banned the use of physical punishment to wean teens off the net, months after a boy was beaten to death at an Internet boot camp.
Chinese parents have turned to more than 200 organisations offering treatment for Internet "disorders" as the government increasingly warns of unhealthy Internet habits among the young.
Many of the camps are imbued with a military atmosphere. Patients are forced to replace hours in front of the computer with arduous physical drills or even more extreme "treatments".
"When intervening to prevent improper use of the Internet, we should ... strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical punishments," the ministry said in a draft guideline for Internet use by minors, posted on its website (www.moh.gov.cn).
It appeared to have dropped the term "Internet addiction", widely used in earlier ministry documents, perhaps in a bid to calm worried parents who fuelled a mushrooming business of harsh camps to prevent teens from spending hours online.
The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked into an Internet bootcamp in the southwestern Guangxi region in early August, caused a media storm in China.
Days later another teenager, Pu Liang, was taken to hospital with water in the lungs and kidney failure after a similar attack in Sichuan Province.
The government in July had already banned electro-shock therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction, after media reports about a controversial psychiatrist who administered electric currents to nearly 3,000 teenagers.
The latest guidelines suggest officials in Beijing do not think that those with unhealthy Internet habits should be forced offline permanently.
On the holiday known as the Day of the Dead, a Brazilian bricklayer walked into his own funeral.
The sight of Ademir Jorge Goncalves alive shocked relatives, some of whom tried to jump out of the windows of the funeral home in southern Brazil.
"In my 10 years in this business, I have never witnessed a scene like this," said Natanael Honorato, manager of the funeral home in the Parana state.
On November 1, some family members and friends had identified the victim of a car crash as the 59-year-old Goncalves.They scheduled his funeral for the following day, Dia de Finados, a holiday when Brazilians remember loved ones who have died.What Goncalves' family did not know is that he had spent the night drinking at a bar near the site of the crash, but he was not the victim.
When the bricklayer got word of his funeral, he showed up at the Funeraria Rainha das Colinas funeral home Monday morning.
Later that day, the mystery was solved when a family in a neighboring town came inquiring about a son who was missing.
The family recognized the body -- and took it away for burial.
i think that this is realy mest up
A former commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan has warned history is being repeated in the war-ravaged country as the United States and its allies become increasingly mired in an "unwinnable war."
Gen. Victor Yermakov commanded the Soviet Union's 40th army in Afghanistan from May 1982 to November 1983, one of six commanders to preside over the Soviet task force after its 1979 invasion.
The Kremlin's bloody nine-year campaign to support the Marxist government in Kabul cost the lives of more than 15,000 troops and brought the Soviet economy to its knees before its 100,000-strong army was forced into a humiliating withdrawal.
The strategy of imposing its will on Afghanistan militarily had failed in the face of an unyielding guerilla insurgency, backed ironically by U.S. money and weapons. Afghanistan had become Moscow's "Vietnam War."
Fast forward 20 years and President Obama has authorized a troop surge that will take the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan to around 100,000, bolstered by around 45,000 NATO service personnel.
i think that we are dealing with something that we cant handle.
At a news conference Friday in South Bend, Indiana, the University of Notre Dame is expected to announce that Kelly has signed a five-year contract to become the Irish's fifth coach this decade -- the worst in Notre Dame's history, with a 70-52 record. Kelly won two Big East titles as head coach at the University of Cincinnati. The son of an alderman in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Kelly worked on Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign in the Boston area and had considered a career in politics.
Rescuers are looking for two missing climbers after finding a third dead on the slopes of Oregon's Mount Hood, but the search has been hindered by the threat of avalanches, a sheriff's deputy said Sunday.
The hikers began their climb at about 1 a.m. PT Friday. Authorities received a call that they were missing at about 10 p.m. Friday, said Deputy Scott Meyers of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.
They planned a fairly easy, "semi-technical" hike in which they would come down the south side of the mountain, Meyers said.
Authorities followed what they believed to be the planned path, and on Saturday found the body of one of the hikers, identified as Luke T. Gullberg, 26, of Des Moines, Washington.
Search and rescue personnel were unable to locate the others -- Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Washington, and Katti Nolan, 29, of Portland, Oregon.
i think that the two people missing need to be found sone or they are going to die.
It was a real eye opener for federal officials to find $200,000 worth of Red Bull was missing from a West Tennessee facility of the U.S. Navy.
Now, they’re energetically prosecuting two truck drivers who authorities accuse of routinely stealing cases of the energy drink since 2007.
The Commercial Appeal reported the arrests of William Henry Bartlett and Bobby O’Neal Armstead after their truck was stopped last week and police found 100 cases of the drink taken from Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington.
The newspaper said Bartlett told authorities he and Armstead stole the beverages from the commissary, where Bartlett had a job stocking the shelves with Red Bull.
Bartlett told investigators Armstead sold the stolen drinks and paid him $450 per
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