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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Joseph E.Rodriguez, 25 of Las Cruces, N.M., died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck his armored vehicle. Rodriguez was assigned to the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of three Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Jason C. Redifer, 19, of Stuarts Draft, Va. Lance Cpl. Harry R. Swain IV, 21, of Cumberland, N.J. Cpl. Christopher E. Zimny, 27, of Cook, Ill. All three Marines died Jan. 31 as a result of hostile action in Babil Province, Iraq. They were all assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 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 three soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldiers died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck a nearby vehicle. All were assigned to the Army National Guard's 1088th Engineer Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team, New Roads, La. The soldiers are: Staff Sgt. Jonathan R. Reed, 25, of Opelousa, La. Spc. Michael S. Evans II, 22, Marrero, La. Spc. Christopher J. Ramsey, 20, of Batchelor, La.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. Lindsey T. James, 23, of Urbana, Mo., died Jan. 29 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted patrol. James was assigned to the 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, 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. Pfc. Stephen A. Castellano, 21, of Long Beach, Calif., died Jan. 28 in Mosul, Iraq, from a non-combat related injury. Castellano was assigned to 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (Light) from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. James H. Miller IV, 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Jan. 30 in Ramadi, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Miller was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503d Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey, Korea.Link May you rest in peace...

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quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Nazario Serrano, 20, of Irving, Texas, died Jan. 30 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Serrano was assigned to the Combat Service Support Battalion 1, Combat Service Support Group 11, 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lt. Cmdr. Edward E. Jack, 51, of Detroit, Mich., died Jan. 29, of a non-combat related incident aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard. Jack was assigned to Commander, Destroyer Squadron Seven, home ported in San Diego, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Soldiers died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, in a helicopter accident. Both were assigned to the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. They are: Capt. Orlando A. Bonilla, 27, of Killeen, Texas. Chief Warrant Officer Charles S. Jones, 34, of Lawtey, Fla. This incident is under investigation.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. 1st Class Mickey E. Zaun, 27, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., died Jan. 28 in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries sustained in a collision between two armored vehicles. Zaun was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C. This incident is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lt. Cmdr Keith E. Taylor, 47, of Irvine, Calif., died Jan. 29, in a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Taylor was assigned to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Central Command, Iraq Detachment.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of five soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. The soldiers died Jan. 24 in Mohammed Sacran, Iraq, when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle overturned. They were assigned to the 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany. Dead are: Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Stevens, 26, of Sacramento, Calif. Sgt. Michael C. Carlson, 22, of St. Paul, Minn. Sgt. Javier Marin Jr., 29, of Mission, Texas. Spc. Viktar V. Yolkin, 24, of Spring Branch, Texas. Pfc. Jesus A. Leon-Perez, 20, of Houston, Texas. This incident is under investigation.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. Timothy A. Knight, 22, of Brooklyn, Ohio, died Jan. 26 when the CH-53E helicopter he was in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. Knight was assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The cause of the crash is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Jr., 31, of Weymouth, Mass., died Jan. 28 due to a non-hostile related incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion, 2nd Force Service Support Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:BEIJING (Reuters) - The French used grapes, Russians fermented potatoes, Koreans put ginseng in their drink and Mexicans distilled cactus plants to make fiery tequila. Now China is introducing fish wine. Sun Keman, an entrepreneur in the northeastern port city of Dalian, has formed the Dalian Fisherman's Song Maritime Biological Brewery, with a plan to use his background in the fishing industry to make fish into wine. "Different from China's thousands of years of brewing, the brewery will clean, boil, and ferment fish for making wine," the official Xinhua news agency reported. The company already had orders from Japan, Russia and other parts of China, it said. Tipplers might also take heart in knowing the brew is purported to be good for them. "Experts said the wine is nutritious and contains low alcohol," Xinhua said.great, fish based wine. Wonder what they will think of next?

eaglelander3d quote:Eagle Lander 3D (EL3D) is an authentic simulation of the Apollo lunar landings and includes accurate renditions of scenery, flight dynamics and the lunar module. EL3D has developed from a freeware first generation Apollo 11 simulator to one that will recreate every Apollo landing mission. Currently EL3D includes Apollo 11,12, 15, a LM racing course and an orbital module. Other missions will easily 'plug-in'. EL3D is designed to realistically render the physics and dynamics of the lunar module as well as the terrain of the lunar surface. EL3D uses the latest in graphical 3D technology to provide high resolution renditions of the LM, it's instruments, and the lunar surface in the region of the current landing site. All primary flight instruments work like the originals with many operating control panel switches too. The Apollo Guidance Computer has been modeled and works just like the original including the famous 1201 Alarm Code on Apollo 11!

StarRush quote:Description StarRush is a spaceship simulator. The scene of action is a distant galaxy, which suffers from a syndrome similar to gold rush. Events that took place in America in the 19th century are transferred to distant future. StarRush immerses you into a world, where people are obsessed with gold. You can trust no one, but yourself. The only friend you can rely on is your gun, so be sure it is loaded. The main feature of the game is an original concept of the game world. Players can actually land on the planets by going through the atmosphere and even battle in the skies as well as in outer space. Prepare to take place in this race and remember that weapons are the best argument.

Link quote:OMAHA, Neb. - A Web-page designer who auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space is letting it go to his head. Andrew Fischer, 20, of Omaha, who put his forehead for sale on eBay as advertising space, received $37,375 on Friday to advertise the snoring remedy, SnoreStop. Fischer will display the SnoreStop logo on his forehead for one month. ÔÇ£I look forward to an enjoyable association with Andrew ÔÇö a man who clearly has a head for business in every sense of the word,ÔÇØ SnoreStop CEO Christian de Rivel said. ÔÇ£People will always comment on something out of the ordinary,ÔÇØ Fischer said in his sales pitch. ÔÇ£People like weird.ÔÇØ But there were limits: He refused from the outset to be the conduit for any message or product deemed tasteless or unacceptable in traditional advertising formats.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Timothy A. Knight, 22, of Brooklyn, Ohio, died Jan. 26 when the CH-53E helicopter he was in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. Knight was assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The cause of the crash is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

quote: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Jr., 31, of Weymouth, Mass., died Jan. 28 due to a non-hostile related incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion, 2nd Force Service Support Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.Link May you rest in peace...

Link quote:By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - If you look hard enough, you can find anything in New York. So for the lovelorn who are burned out by the bar scene, fed up with personal ads or tired of scouring the Internet, there's another place to look for that perfect date: the back seat of a taxicab. Specifically, Ahmed Ibrahim's cab. The 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant sets up blind dates for his single passengers through a free, impromptu matchmaking service he runs out of his yellow cab. He said he finds mates, or at least dates, for about eight people a week. "New York is a very tough city for dating," Ibrahim mused while driving through the West Village recently. "I have heard a lot of crying in this cab, a lot of fighting and a lot of broken hearts." "Sometimes great people were just missing each other by minutes; one would get in my cab just as another had gotten out," he said. Funny thing is, it works. Ask Natalie Dillon. She hopped into Ibrahim's cab with friends on the way to a party one day last April. When their conversation switched to how hard it was to find a decent guy, Ibrahim chimed in through the bulletproof partition: "Hey ladies, I make matches." "He really got our attention when he said that," Dillon said. "I was kind of skeptical at first but then I figured, 'Oh, this is New York, what the hell.' I figured he must meet a ton of people." So Dillon ÔÇö a single, 33-year-old media studies grad student ÔÇö described what she was looking for in a guy, and gave Ibrahim her cell phone number. About six weeks later he called her and said: "Natalie, I have a guy for you." "I couldn't believe it," she said. She soon exchanged several phone calls with Martin Karamon, a 34-year-old lawyer. A few weeks later they went on a date. Six months later, the lovebirds are still going strong. "It's very surreal, but that's the way it happened," she said. New Yorkers have long poured their hearts out to cab drivers, but during his 21 years on the streets, Ibrahim has built deeper relationships with many of his fares. During the holiday season, he decorates his cab with Christmas lights and ornaments. He routinely sends birthday cards to passengers he has befriended and even hands out roses on Valentine's Day (news - web sites). Playing Miss Lonelyhearts with a hack license comes naturally to Ibrahim, though he stumbled across the part accidentally. "I was joking around with this girl ... who said she couldn't find a boyfriend," he recalled. Ibrahim took her number. Three days later, a man got in his cab and bemoaned his bad luck finding a woman. Ibrahim called the woman and gave her the man's number. Three weeks later, she called back and said they had gone on a date and were getting along great. "I thought, 'Oh my God, this is my new project,'" he said. So he set about it with gusto, attempting matches for doctors, lawyers and students. Since then, he has been featured on Fox News Channel and NBC's "Today" show and in The Wall Street Journal. He even has an agent shopping his story to producers in Hollywood. Ibrahim doesn't charge for his service; he does it for fun, he said. But he doesn't offer his help to just anybody who gets into his cab. First, they must be serious about looking to settle down. Men in their early 20s are usually ruled out as being too young and wild. Older men who are "looking for Britney Spears" are crossed off the list for just being creepy. They must be gainfully employed: No one looking for a meal ticket is invited. Try as hard as he may, his work is about love and chemistry, so not all of his matches have been successful. "The guy I met was a very nice person but he just wasn't for me," Dana Rosen, 26, said of the one date Ibrahim set her up on. "But I'm very picky and it's hard to meet someone right away." She's willing, however, to let Ibrahim set her up again. "I trust Ahmed because he knows what I want and he knows that I'm picky," she said. "Besides, I'm always up for something different." Ibrahim said he will keep working on setting his passengers up for as long as it takes to find them the perfect match. "I hope I can accomplish a few marriages," he said. "I'm an old-fashioned guy." And what about for himself? "Marriage is not for me," declared Ibrahim, who is divorced. But he has a girlfriend ÔÇö a woman he picked up in his cab.

quote:Originally posted by DocHoliday: The cheetah is such an incredibly specialized, optimized and fine-tuned predator machine it can actually run after its prey only for 2-3 minutes at a time and then it has to stop. In reaching speeds of up to 120km/h (hm.. 75mph?) which I believe is top speed for any land animalIf you count insects then I think the Mother-of-Pearl Caterpillar is the fastest animal. It has been clocked at 38.1 cm/s or about 15 in/s which would be 241 km/h or 150 mph respectively.

Link quote: The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft has sent back the first close-up pictures of the Moon taken in more than five years. The test observations show three views of ancient impact craters on the pockmarked lunar surface. SMART-1, Europe's first Moon mission, used a high-tech ion engine to gradually escape Earth's gravity after launch on Sept. 27, 2003. The slow-and-steady propulsion system makes for a cheaper mission compared to conventional rocketry. The craft spiraled outward for months, then entered a wide lunar orbit on Nov. 15 after the longest trip to the Moon ever made. It has been circling closer and closer to the Moon the past two months. The ion engine was turned off around the end of the year so science observations could begin. Then the craft's Asteroid-Moon Imager Experiment (AMIE) device took the close-up images released today. They were taken from between 620 and 3,100 miles (1,000-5,000 kilometers) above the Moon. One of the new images shows the good-sized impact craters Brianchon and Pascal, along with several smaller craters. "This image was the first proof that the AMIE camera is still working well in lunar orbit," said AMIE Principal Investigator Jean-Luc Josset of Space-X. SMART-1 will not land. But its observations are expected to increase understanding of the Moon's composition. Success of the ion drive could lead to a similar mission to Mercury. Among AMIE's tasks is to settle a longstanding debate over whether there are significant deposits of water ice at the lunar poles. Settling the question would inform any possible decisions about whether and where to send humans. SMART-1 will also map the Moon in infrared, helping scientists better grasp the distribution of minerals and the whole evolution of the Earth-Moon system. Because the Moon does not have an atmosphere, nor any significant underground activity like volcanoes and earthquakes, its craters preserve a record of asteroid and comet impacts dating back billions of years. Earth experienced the same bombardment, and scientists are eager to learn more about the exact timing of major events and how they might have affected the development of life. For the next two weeks, SMART-1 will make a medium-resolution survey of the Moon. Later, high-resolution images taken from lower altitudes will be integrated into the medium-resolution global map. "We are conducting more survey test observations until the electric propulsion resumes from Feb. 9 to spiral down further towards the Moon," said Project Scientist Bernard Foing. "SMART-1 will arrive on Feb. 28 at the initial orbit with altitudes between 300 and 3,000 kilometers (186 and 1,860 miles) to perform the first phase of nominal science observations for five months." ....*snip*

I don't think they do, heh. Not to mention there is other planets like the Venus Fly Trap out there.