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quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Ioasa F. Tavae, Jr., 29, of Pago Pago, American Samoa, died April 2, in Mosul, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. Tavae was assigned to the ArmyÔÇÖs 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, 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 Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Kenneth L. Ridgley, 30, of Olney, Ill., died March 30 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his unit. Ridgley was assigned to the ArmyÔÇÖs 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team), Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Tenzin Dengkhim, 19, of Falls Church, Va., died April 2 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, 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. Eric L. Toth, 21, of Edmonton, Ky., died March 30 on a supply route when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Toth was assigned to the Army National GuardÔÇÖs 1st Battalion, 623rd Field Artillery Regiment, Tompkinsville, Ky.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Warrant Officer Charles G. Wells Jr., 32, of Montgomery, Ala., died March 30 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 6th Motor Transport Battalion, 4th Force Service Support Group, Orlando, Fla.Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:By LESLIE MILLER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Airlines that offer low fares and provide service to smaller cities are chipping away at traditional large airlines like United and American, say the authors of an annual survey that ranks airline quality. Five of the six top-rated airlines are low-fare carriers, and regional airlines are making it onto the list for the first time because they now carry enough passengers to qualify. Brent Bowen, a co-author of the report and director of the University of Nebraska's aviation institute, said the traditional big airlines may just go away, leaving low-fare carriers and regional airlines. "Five years ago, low-fare carriers had a 5 to 7 percent market share," said Dean Headley, the study's other author and an associate professor at Wichita State University. "Today, the low-fare airlines have a 25 percent share." Low-fare carriers are succeeding because they have less complicated, more profitable route structures than the traditional airlines, Headley said. That makes it easier to keep customers satisfied, he said. The Airline Quality Rating study, released Monday, is based on Transportation Department statistics for airlines that carry at least 1 percent of the 630 million passengers who flew domestically last year. Five of the top six ranked airlines are low-fare carriers. JetBlue Airways was ranked as offering the best service, followed by AirTran Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines and America West Airlines. Two regional carriers carried enough passengers to be ranked for the first time: Cincinnati-based Comair, a feeder airline owned by Delta, and SkyWest, headquartered in St. George, Utah. Atlantic Southeast, another Delta-owned feeder airline, made its debut on the list last year. The regional carriers were ranked at the bottom of the list for quality, with American Eagle rated 13th, followed by SkyWest, Comair and Atlantic Southeast. The study's authors said regional airlines have unique challenges. They're more likely to be late, for example, because they tend to fly into hub airports, which get backed up in bad weather. David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, said the quality of service makes little difference to airline customers. "The only quality that passengers are concerned about is the quality of the low fares," Stempler said. As a rule, airlines generally arrived later, lost more luggage and caused more consumer complaints in 2004 than they did the year before, the report found. Only four of the 14 major airlines rated in both 2003 and 2004 were found to have improved ÔÇö AirTran, Atlantic Southeast, JetBlue and United. The study also found: _On-time performance worsened last year, with 78.3 percent of flights arriving on time, down from 82 percent in 2003. _Complaints about airline service rose 27 percent last year, a much higher increase than the 3.3 percent growth in passengers. _Last year, 4.83 bags were lost, stolen or damaged for every 1,000 passengers. _There was a small increase in the number of passengers "bumped," or denied boarding for space ÔÇö 0.87 passengers per 10,000 boardings in 2004, up from 0.86 per 10,000 in 2003.

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: One thing has struck me though, was there also an insurance policy on her and how much. I don't remember coming across anything that mentions this.I don't think he would be able to collect on it even if there was a policy for her.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Samuel S. Lee, 19, of Anaheim, Calif., died March 28 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries. Lee was assigned to 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Greaves, Korea.Link May you rest in peace...

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Link quote:By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II was clinging to life Friday as his condition deteriorated further, and the Vatican said his breathing was shallow and his kidneys were failing after complications from a urinary tract infection. Millions of faithful around the world prayed for the fading life of the pontiff. In St. Peter's Square, tens of thousands prayed into the night for the 84-year-old pontiff, with many tearfully gazing up at his third-floor window. "This evening or this night, Christ opens the door to the pope," Angelo Comastri, the pope's vicar general for Vatican City, told the crowd. Earlier, the Vatican said John Paul's general condition has "further worsened." The pope was taking part in the prayers of aides who had gathered at his bedside, spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said. The pope declined to be hospitalized. He said the pope's "breathing has become shallow" and his overall health had become "compromised." "The shallow breathing is totally consistent with severe failure of the blood vessels to provide blood to all the key organs," said Dr. Peter Salgo, associate director of the intensive care unit at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. "Eventually you run out of reserve." In Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick said he had heard from Rome that the pope is "sinking," and that he was praying that God will "take him peacefully." The White House said President Bush and his wife were praying for the pope and that the world's concern was "a testimony to his greatness." People in Wadowice, Poland, left school and work early and headed to church to pray for their native son. "I want him to hold on, but it is all in God's hands now," said 64-year-old Elzbieta Galuszko at the church where the pope was baptized. "We can only pray for him so he can pull through these difficult moments." In the Philippines, tears streamed down the face of Linda Nicol as she and her husband asked God to grant John Paul "a longer life." Muslims in France were praying for the pontiff because he was a "man of peace," said Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. At the Church of the Assumption in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's most populous city of over 13 million, about 200 Nigerians in Western clothes and bright traditional African robes sat on wooden benches, offering prayers at a midday Mass for the pope's recovery. "The pope's faith is so strong and full and the experience of God so intensively lived that he, in these hours of sufferance ... already sees and already touches Christ," Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, told hundreds who packed a Rome basilica Friday evening for a special Mass for the pontiff. In his first update on the pope's condition Friday, Navarro-Valls said John Paul suffered massive heart problems and was in "very grave" condition but was lucid and spent the morning celebrating Mass and receiving top aides. The pope asked one to read him the biblical account of Christ's Crucifixion and burial. A "fully conscious and extraordinarily serene" John Paul had participated in Mass and received some top aides in the morning, Navarro-Valls said. The critically ill pope appointed a large number of bishops and other church officials, the Holy See said in the afternoon. Among the top church officials who gathered at his bedside was Archbishop Paolo Sardi, the Vatican vice chamberlain. The chamberlain runs the Holy See between the death of a pope and the election of a new one. Another visitor was Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the governor of Vatican City and former archbishop of Detroit, who said the pope was being given oxygen. "As soon as he saw me, he recognized me," Szoka told the CBS' "Early Show." "I blessed him and as I did, he tried to make the sign of the cross. So he was perfectly lucid, perfectly conscious, but was having a great deal of trouble breathing. "And I don't know how long he can continue with that. They were giving him oxygen and all that sort of thing, helping him," Szoka said. Cardinal Marcio Francesco Pompedda, a high-ranking Vatican administrator, visited the pope Friday and said he opened his eyes and smiled. "I understood he recognized me. It was a wonderful smile ÔÇö I'll remember it forever. It was a benevolent smile ÔÇö a father-like smile," Pompedda told RAI television. "I also noticed that he wanted to tell me something but he could not. ... But what impressed me very much was his expression of serenity." Navarro-Valls said John Paul asked aides to read him the liturgy of the Third Hour ÔÇö the biblical passage describing the final stage of the Way of the Cross, the path that Christ took to his Crucifixion. In that stage, according to the Bible, Christ's body was taken down from the cross, wrapped in a linen shroud and placed in his tomb. Monsignor James Moroney, executive director of the Secretariat for the Liturgy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the Third Hour is especially significant for someone who is dying because tradition says Christ died at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Navarro-Valls said the pope followed attentively and made the sign of the cross. "This is surely an image I have never seen in these 26 years," Navarro-Valls said. Choking up, the usually unflappable spokesman walked out of the room. By afternoon, a steady stream of pilgrims jammed the Via della Conciliazione, the main avenue leading to St. Peter's, which was closed to traffic. Some carried candles, while others held rosaries. Some looked through binoculars or camera lenses at the window of John Paul's apartment. Police put the crowd at 30,000 during a recitation of the rosary in the square Friday night, the ANSA news agency reported. The two windows of John Paul's apartment lit up an otherwise darkened Apostolic Palace. Among those visiting the square in the morning was Rome's chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, who said he had come "to pray here in the piazza as a sign of sharing in the grief of our brothers for their concerns and as a sign of warmth for this pope and for all that he has done." John Paul's health declined sharply Thursday when he developed a high fever brought on by the infection. The pope suffered septic shock and heart problems during treatment for the infection, the Vatican said, denying an Italian news report he was in a coma. Septic shock involves both bacteria in the blood and a consequent over-relaxing of the blood vessels. The vessels, which are normally narrow and taught, get floppy in reaction to the bacteria and can't sustain any pressure. That loss of blood pressure is catastrophic, making the heart try harder and harder to compensate for the collapse. "The chances of an elderly person in this condition with septic shock surviving 24 to 48 hours are slim ÔÇö about 10-20 percent, but that would be in an intensive care unit with very aggressive treatment," said Dr. Gianni Angelini, a professor of cardiac surgery at Bristol University in England. The pope received the sacrament for the sick and dying on Thursday evening. Formerly called the last rites, it is performed both for patients at the point of death and for those who are very sick ÔÇö and it may be repeated. The Rome daily La Repubblica reported Friday that the sacrament was administered by his closest aide, Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, who serves as his private secretary. Dziwisz had given him the sacrament Feb. 24 just before the pope underwent a tracheotomy to insert a breathing tube in his throat at the Gemelli Polyclinic, the newspaper said. Among those John Paul received were Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican's No. 2 official; Undersecretary of State Archbishop Leonardo Sandri; his doctrinal chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger; and the Vatican foreign minister, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo. The pontiff was treated by the Vatican medical team and provided with "all the appropriate therapeutic provisions and cardio-respiratory assistance," the Holy See said. It said the pope was being helped by his personal doctor, two intensive care doctors, a cardiologist, an ear, nose and throat specialist and two nurses. Dr. Peter Weissberg of the British Heart Foundation said septic shock "puts a phenomenal strain on the heart." "Those already suffering from heart disease ÔÇö including those with heart failure ÔÇö are even more susceptible to septic shock," he said. "Infection triggers a profound loss of blood pressure, depriving organs around the body of their vital blood supply and putting an enormous strain on the heart." Even the fittest patients need special care to survive, he said. Hospitalized twice last month following two breathing crises, and fitted with a breathing tube and a feeding tube, John Paul has become a picture of suffering. His 26-year papacy has been marked by its call to value the aged and to respect the sick, subjects the pope has turned to as he battled Parkinson's disease and crippling knee and hip ailments. It is not clear who would be empowered to make medical decisions for an unconscious pope. The Vatican has officially declined to comment whether John Paul has left written instructions

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How was the Fleet MP guys? Can't wait to hear the after action report

quote:Originally posted by Tac: Is this for real or is it a spoof?To be honest I don't know.

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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died March 26 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a mine detonated near their military vehicle. The soldiers were assigned to the Army National GuardÔÇÖs 76th Infantry Brigade (Separate), Indianapolis, Ind. Killed were: Capt. Michael T. Fiscus, 36, of Milford, Ind. Master Sgt. Michael T. Hiester, 33, of Bluffton, Ind. Spc. Brett M. Hershey, 23, of State College, Penn. Pfc. Norman K. Snyder, 21, of Carlisle, Ind.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died March 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV while they were on patrol. Killed were: Sgt. Lee M. Godbolt, 23, of New Orleans, La. Godbolt was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery Regiment, New Orleans, La. Sgt. Isiah J. Sinclair, 31, of Natchitoches, La. Sinclair was assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 156th Armored Regiment, Shreveport, La.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. Bryan J. Richardson, 23, of Summersville, W.Va., died March 25 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Moundsville, W.Va.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. Travis R. Bruce, 22, of Byron, Minn., died March 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an enemy mortar round detonated near his guard position. Bruce was assigned to the Army's 170th Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:Rap impresario 50 Cent may be riding atop the Billboard charts on the strength of his hit single "Candy Shop," but music lovers of all kinds will soon be able to mix their passions for beats and sweets if one gadget maker's plans come to fruition. That's right, the candy market's best-known handheld device, the iconic Pez dispenser, is about to go digital. Under a recently granted licensing agreement with Pez Candy, gadget design company Lincoln West Studios will soon begin selling MP3 players modeled after the big-headed plastic treat sleeves. Based on Lincoln West's plans, which were first detailed Thursday in a blog posted to the company's Web site, the Pez MP3 will arrive sometime this summer. The gadget will be built around a Samsung chip and will have 512MB capacity, as well as an LCD screen. The device will look exactly like a traditional Pez dispenser from at least two sides and will come in a variety of colors, said Patrick Misterovich, president of the Springfield, Mo., design company. And while the Pez MP3 will not hold any hidden capacity for carrying the time-honored candy onboard, the device will mate with any of the plastic heads produced to snap onto actual Pez Candy dispensers. This feature alone could play out in a gadget geek's dream, as Pez recently added new characters from the Star Wars trilogy to its legions of swappable hinged craniums. The first production run of the devices, built for Lincoln West by a third-party manufacturer, will deliver roughly 1,000 of the MP3 players to the United States. The music players, which will come with ear bud-style headphones and a USB cable to connect with PCs, will sell for $129 apiece and be sold directly through Lincoln West's site. The lightweight devices will have six control buttons and an LCD readout that mimics the design of other smaller players, Misterovich said. The designer said he was inspired to create the Pez MP3 after following a competition launched by breath mint maker Altoids, which challenged participants to create something original out of one of the company's pocket-size tin containers. The winner of the competition was an individual who stuffed a speaker for use with Apple Computer's iPod digital music player into one of the tins. "I saw that and I thought, that's pretty neat, taking something that you wouldn't think of as electronics and turning it into a device," Misterovich said. "When I started thinking about how I could do that, the Pez idea came to me, and I figured it was something that was pretty cool that could appeal to a lot of people." The gadget stylist has previously marketed MP3 players aimed at younger audiences, including so-called "tweeners," or boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 13, who aren't in the traditional marketing segments for children and teenagers. While those players, dubbed Secondhand Monkeys, produced only mixed results and relatively small sales, Misterovich said, the designer is convinced that the cult-like following already dedicated to the ubiquitous Pez candy dispensers will help spur greater interest in his newest creation. "The (Secondhand Monkey) was just an experiment; it was probably a bit too early to market at that demographic, but it will be there someday," Misterovich observed. "Pez dispensers are something people have already shown that they're very willing to grab onto."

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Iranian female cops in action video

quote:Originally posted by Grayfox: lol.... god. and no one suspected... just waved and honked their horns as they drove on by. must be something in the water down there... Nah, Just human nature. This was so obvious that it had to be legit.

Nah, now the NRA is trying to arm teachers NRA Leader Advocates Guns for Teachers quote:By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN, Associated Press Writer PHOENIX - All options should be considered to prevent rampages like the Minnesota school shooting that took 10 lives ÔÇö including making guns available to teachers, a top National Rifle Association leader said Friday. "I'm not saying that that means every teacher should have a gun or not, but what I am saying is we need to look at all the options at what will truly protect the students," the NRA's first vice president, Sandra S. Froman, told The Associated Press. Gun-control restrictions would not have prevented Jeff Weise, 16, from killing nine people and himself Monday at Red Lake High School near Bemidji, Minn., said Froman, an attorney expected next month to be elected president of the NRA, which claims 4 million members. The presence of an unarmed guard at the school failed to stop the siege, she noted. "No gun law, no policy that you could implement now or that was already implemented, I think, could possibly prevent someone so intent on destruction," she said. "I think everything's on the table as far as looking at what we need to do to make our schools safe for our students." Froman said if it is the responsibility of teachers to protect students in a school, "then we as a society, we as a community have to provide a way for the teachers to do that." Froman cited the 1997 school shooting incident in Pearl, Miss., where a teacher retrieved a gun from his car when a student opened fire, then held the student at bay until police arrived. A law prohibiting guns in schools "is not going to stop someone who has evil in their heart and who has the capacity to commit those crimes from doing them," Froman said.

Just some useless facts part of the movie was shot aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as this picture shows also Actor Josh Lucas has played the part of a hot-shot fighter pilot before in WC3 as Major Jace 'Flash' Dillon ok, that has been some useless facts. anyways, looks like it may not be too bad.