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quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Juan De Dios Garcia-Arana, 27, of Los Angeles, Calif., died April 30 in Khaladiyah, Iraq, when his Bradley Fighting Vehicle was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Garcia-Arana was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Korea.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Joseph S. Tremblay, 23, of New Windsor, N.Y., died April 27 from injuries received from a mine explosion while conducting combat operations in vicinity of Hit, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Moundsville, W.Va. As part of Operation Iraqi Freedom his unit was attached to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were killed supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died April 29 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their dismounted patrol. Both soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y. The soldiers were: Pfc. Darren A. Deblanc, 20, of Evansville, Ind. Pvt. Charles S. Cooper, Jr., 19, of Jamestown, N.Y.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Timothy C. Kiser, 37, of Tehama, Calif., died April 28 in Riyhad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol. Kiser was assigned to the Army National Guard's 340th Forward Support Battalion, 40th Infantry Division, Red Bluff, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died April 28 in Tal Afar, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Stryker military vehicle. Killed were: 1st Lt. William A. Edens, 29, of Columbia, Mo. Edens was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash. Sgt. Eric W. Morris, 31, of Sparks, Nev. Morris was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash. Spc. Ricky W. Rockholt Jr., 28, of Winston, Ore. Rockholt was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colo. Pfc. Robert W. Murray Jr., 21, of Westfield, Ind. Murray was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, Colo.Link May you rest in peace...

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Link quote:WILMINGTON, N.C. - A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside ÔÇö a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident. Unlike a recent incident at a Wendy's restaurant in California, no questions of truth have been raised about the finger served up to go at Kohl's Frozen Custard and found later at home by Clarence Stowers. Officials from the state departments of agriculture and labor went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine. It was not immediately clear how the severed finger got into the custard. Wilmington television station WWAY reported that Stowers found the finger in frozen custard he purchased Sunday night. Stowers, who did not immediately return calls Monday from The Associated Press, told the station: "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'" Stowers said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water ÔÇö and "just started screaming." Stowers said he planned to contact a lawyer. Shop owner Craig Thomas did not immediately return a message left by the AP Monday. Joe Reardon of the Agriculture Department's food and drug division said state officials closed the shop while the food processing equipment involved in the accident was cleaned and sanitized. In March, a Las Vegas woman claimed she bit down on a 1 1/2 inch-long finger fragment while dining with her family at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif. Investigators have since called her claim a hoax and charged her last month with attempted grand theft related to millions in dollars of financial losses Wendy's has suffered since news of her claim broke.

Link quote:BY DANA STRONGIN The Wichita Eagle Sherry Henry once walked in on her brother as he was ironing his Army uniform. A second uniform was hanging nearby, but it wasn't his. It belonged to a soldier who didn't know how to iron. Helpful and dedicated -- that's just the way Tim Millsap was, his family and friends said Wednesday. Millsap, 39, an Army first sergeant, died Monday from injuries he sustained in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Millsap, a Wichita native, is the first serviceman from Wichita to die while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a combat engineer with Company A, 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Services are set for Wednesday in Salina and Wichita. Another Fort Riley soldier was killed in a separate incident Monday, according to a post spokeswoman. The Associated Press reported that family members said the soldier was Sgt. David Rice, 22, of Sioux City, Iowa. Millsap was an ornery man with a dry wit, his family and friends said Wednesday. One time, Millsap was shopping with his mother when he decided to play a trick on his sister. He hid behind the clothes racks and started rolling quarters across the floor. Sherry ran to pick them up. "I thought I was finding money all over the place," she said, adding that no one could stay mad at her brother for very long. Millsap was also a passionate athlete. He participated in baseball, track, football and wrestling at Wichita South High School -- but soccer was his favorite. He used to bike to soccer practice when his mother wouldn't drive him. He was twice named to The Eagle's All-City team. "He was probably, in some respects, one of my most productive players that I ever coached," said Klaus Kollmai, Millsap's former soccer coach at South. Millsap, who played halfback, had an unbelievable work ethic, Kollmai said. "Unless he gave 100 percent, he was just never satisfied," Kollmai said. He also made an impression on his neighbors. Terri Bosley grew up in the house behind the Millsaps, and Tim Millsap was a friend of her older brother's. He was "the guy everybody in the neighborhood was in love with," she said. After graduating from South in 1984, Millsap attended Kansas Newman College for a semester before enlisting in the Army in December. After summer boot camp, Millsap married Alyne Lank, who graduated from South a year after him. Less than a week later, Tim Millsap left for Germany. His wife joined him there several months later. She also followed her husband on assignments to Colorado, Hawaii, Missouri and Fort Riley. While the couple lived in Junction City, Alyne worked in Salina. She got tired of driving back and forth and wanted to live in Salina. Tim Millsap bought the Salina house his wife wanted. "He was very good at humoring my every whim," she said Wednesday. Millsap was also a good father, his family said. He loved fishing and hunting, and he took his daughter Deanna, 14, along on deer and bird hunts. Actually, Henry said, Millsap took his daughter everywhere. "Deanna was right there with him, whatever he was doing," she said. Millsap had a similar dedication to the Army. He was often assigned to work with individuals as well as platoons to bring out the best in them, said Army Capt. Terry Alvarez, who worked with Millsap twice. "He was dedicated to soldiers," Alvarez said. "He was very concerned about them, and he was committed to making sure they were taken care of." Millsap, who was on his second tour of duty in Iraq, was ready to retire, his family said. Some of the new jobs he considered included law enforcement, teaching, social work and coaching, friends and family said. Alyne Millsap said her husband had only made one definitive decision. "His number one to-do was to retire when he got home," she said. "He thought his job was done."In memory of 1st Sgt. Tim Millsap

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pvt. Robert C. White III, 21, of Camden, N.J., died April 23 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries. White was assigned to the 864th Engineer Battalion, 555th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (Provisional), Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt.1st Class Allen C. Johnson, 31, of Los Molinos, Calif., died April 26 in Khanaqin, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his patrol. Johnson was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. David L. Rice, 22, of Sioux City, Iowa, died April 26 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when his HMMWV rolled over. Rice was assigned 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. 1st Sgt. Timmy J. Millsap, 39, of Wichita, Kan., died April 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Millsap was assigned to the 70th Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Fort Riley, KansasLink May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Kevin W. Prince, 22, of Plain City, Ohio, died April 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Prince was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Gary W. Walters Jr., 31, of Victoria, Texas, died April 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Walters was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Robert W. Defazio, 21, of West Babylon, N.Y., died April 24 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries. Defazio was assigned to the 23rd Ordnance Company, Miesau, Germany.Link May you rest in peace...

Not bad, it has decent acting. The "vision's" gimmick, although lifted straight out of "Unbreakable", gives this an interesting twist.

Downloading it now.

AI is one of the last areas in games that needs to be addressed. In the future the quality of the AI, I think, will be what differentiates the games. My hope, is that they use the AI to improve the gameplay, not to improve how cool the description on the box looks.

Link quote:KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Former CIA Director George Tenet said he regretted assuring President Bush in 2002 that he had "slam dunk" evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "Those were the two dumbest words I ever said," Tenet told about 1,300 people at a Kutztown University forum Wednesday. The theory was a leading justification for the war in Iraq. Such weapons were never found. Tenet, who left the CIA in July after seven years as director, also said apathy toward terrorism ÔÇö including congressional restrictions and budget and personnel cuts ÔÇö had sapped U.S. intelligence efforts for most of the last decade. "The atrophy was tremendous," said Tenet, 52. "We were nearly bankrupt." The CIA's assessment of Iraq's capabilities was not developed "for political reasons or a craven desire to lead the country to war," he said. Tenet, a trusted Bush adviser, made the weapons remark in December 2002, during one of his frequent intelligence briefings with the president. Unsure that Americans would find a CIA listing of evidence compelling, Bush turned to Tenet. "It's a slam-dunk case," Tenet said.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: And once again, I have to point out that the driver versions you have in your system info, don't even remotely look like ATI driver revision numbers. They look like nVidia driver numbers.Compaq uses some funky version numbers. The current driver version is 6.14.10.6512 that was put out at the end of March. the GPU is either a ATI M22 or ATI M24 The M22 is equivalent to a X300 and the M24 is equivalent to a X600. [ 04-29-2005, 01:26 AM: Message edited by: jamotto ]

Link Large video clip. Now where was this in the 80's?

Well, they should be worried, Frogs and Toads are very sensitive to changes in the environment. When ever something happens to them, other animals tend to follow suit.

Link quote:Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction. Scientists are baffled. Possible explanations include a unknown virus or a fungus in the pond. "You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," German conservationist Werner Smolnik told AFP news agency. The bodies of the toads expanded to three and a half times their normal size, he said. "I have never seen such a thing," AFP quotes veterinarian Otto Horst as saying. The site - which has been dubbed "the pond of death" - has been closed to the public. The exploding toads have also crossed the border north into Denmark, according to Danish Radio. It reported that a large number of toads that live in a pond near Laasby in central Jutland have started to suffer the same fate as the German amphibians. The toads crawl onto the land, swell up and explode in the middle of the night, the radio said.

Link quote:LISBON (AFP) - Portuguese gym-goers are being urged to drink beer as part of a healthy diet in a campaign launched by the nation's main association of producers of the alcoholic beverage. ADVERTISEMENT A total of 20,000 fliers outlining the health benefits of drinking up to two bottles of beer per day will be handed out to patrons arriving at gyms in Lisbon and Oporto, the nation's second-largest city, by Friday, according to the Portuguese Association of Beer Producers. The goal is to "draw attention to some less well-known aspects of beer, such as its agricultural origins, its nutritional value and health benefits when drunk in moderation and responsibly", it said in a statement. The fliers, which feature a smiling young woman jumping rope beside an image of a large glass of beer, point out that a 200 milliter (six fluid ounce) glass of beer has less calories than a quarter litre (quarter pint) cup of sugarless orange juice or a similar sized cup of milk. "Forget the myth of the 'beer gut' because it is just that: a myth," it reads. It adds that beer is a good source of magnesium and fibre and helps prevent diabetes, dementia, cholesterol and osteoporosis. Portugal has one of the world's highest rates of alcohol consumption per capita, although the bulk of it is downed in the form of wine. Portuguese breweries sold 740 million litres of beer worth 884 million euros (1.1 billion dollars) last year, a 3.6 percent increase over the previous year, according to the association of beer makers.

Link quote:BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch. Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding. "We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him. Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.