Syrian air force general 'killed by rebels'

Quotation : "Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi was shot dead late on Monday in the capital's Rukn al-Din district, it said. The attack appears to be the latest in a string of rebel attacks on high-level figures from President Bashar al-Assad's administration."

Index terms : air force, army, opposition

Author : NC 

Found with : Netvibes 

Date : 10.30.2012

Source : BBC News

URL :  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20143182

By R.O

Regulator Marine’s Queen Bee returns from solo trans-Atlantic crossing

Author: Kathy Bohanan Enzerink

Date of publication: October 24, 2012

 From the left, Rich St. Pierre, Regulator Marine’s Owen and Joan Maxwell and Scott Douglas. Photo by Kathy Bohanan Enzerink

Abstract:

Presents the testimony of sailors whose boat, the Queen Bee, was hit by a rogue wave in 2008. They were escaped with one's life under the wire. The boat has  been found last january off Spain. He just returns to United States.

Extract:

"The birds were working, the sun came out, yet there were no fish, so they called it quits and St. Pierre took the helm. “I looked over my shoulder and saw a 14- to 15-foot curling wave right next to us,” said St. Pierre. “It was a wall of green coming over the tee top.” Knowing he couldn’t outrun the wave, St. Pierre opened the throttle hoping Queen Bee could ride it out. Instead, the wave tossed both men, who were not wearing life preservers, overboard and dragged Queen Bee out to sea."

Index terms:

Queen Bee / Rogue Waves/  Ocean

Found with:  Google alert

Source: http://www.allatsea.net

URL: http://www.allatsea.net/southeast/regulator-marine-queen-bee-returns-from-solo-trans-atlantic-crossing/

By FG