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Yesterday's announcement by NASA of the discovery of water ice on Mars by its Phoenix Lander probe made big news everywhere. The discovery involved the observation of water ice sublimating into the air - that is, the water went from solid to vapor state without reaching the liquid stage. The Martian atmosphere has perfect conditions for sublimation - extremely thin, dry and cold. How cold? Well, you can check the Live Martian Weather Report, with data from a station on board the Phoenix Lander. Today will see a high temperature of a toasty -26 degrees F. What more do we...

I am trying to figure out how to post pictures in both new posts and post replies. If anybody can give me a simple step by step it would be greatly appreciated.

June 14 is Flag Day. Post your pictures here. For those of you do not know how to post a picture on FR, here's the easy way. 1. Upload your pictures to your free account at Photobucket at this link2. Click on the "HTML code" label and the link with code will automatically be copied to you clipboard. 3. Paste the link in your comments! Easy, peasy. One, two, threesy! Enough talk. Here are my flags that will be displayed at the end of the driveway tomorrow.

Across the street from the Yankee Clubhouse store on 59th Street in Manhattan, Laura Ingraham accepted Talkers magazine’s Woman of the Year award Saturday night.Author of The Hillary Trap, Ingraham gave a very different speech than the most talked about speech of the day, Hillary Clinton’s concession speech in Washington and endorsement of Barack Obama. Ingraham thanked Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Don Imus, for three, among others, for giving her her start and encouraging her dreams of the going on air with a daily “rollicking ride through politics and culture.” Ingraham conceded nothing but endorsed taking stock.

Abir Sabri, celebrated for her alabaster skin, ebony hair, pouting lips and full figure, used to star in racy Egyptian TV shows and movies. Then, at the peak of her career a few years ago, she disappeared—at least her face did. She began performing on Saudi-owned religious TV channels, with her face covered, chanting verses from the Qur'an. Conservative Saudi Arabian financiers promised her plenty of work, she says, as long as she cleaned up her act. "It's the Wahhabi investors," she says, referring to the strict form of Sunni Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia. "Before, they invested in terrorism—and...

Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away. Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a woman, her stance also seemingly defiant. Her skin painted dark, nearly black. The apparent aggression shown by these people is quite understandable. For they are members of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes, who live in the Envira region in the thick rainforest along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier. Thought never to have had any contact with the outside world, everything about these people is, and...

[quote]Obama Draws Record Crowd in Oregon An estimated 75,000 gathered on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland on Sunday to see Barack Obama. “Wow! Wow! Wow!” were his first words, as he surveyed the multitude, which included people in kayaks and small pleasure craft on the river.[/quote] Two pictures were included to show Obama in a sea of people:

Hannah Montana is on in our house more than I care to acknowledge, but such is life when your wife, er, I mean, your seven-year-old is a manic Disney Channel fan. It’s actually a pretty funny show, although it doesn’t hold a candle to Cory in the House. (You just can’t beat White House chase scenes with Benny Hill-style music.) But this show could not have turned the now-besieged Miley Cyrus into a teen-pop phenomenon, and thus a “role model” if viewers of the show – and I mainly mean parents – could keep the whole thing in perspective. Fifteen-year-old...

The Light Erik Lewandowski Morning Flyout Jim Fenton Happy Easter Jacqueline Olexa Spring Joeri De Schutter Red and White Tulips Dale Crawford Logan at Easter Chris OMeara Lily Olga Gerasimova Spring... Katerina Lomonosov day of rain Beate Miedl-Rissner Untitled Carlos Barriuso Amo Danii and bunny Lola Martin Wilmsen Garza real Carlos Barriuso Amo Songs of Spring Jim Fenton Natalya Carson Exposed Mia Friedrich Layla seeking (and catching) easter eggs Gerard Maas UKRANIAN EASTER EGGS george mclean The Orchard Une femme avec un bycicle Andrew Maidanik SnowflakesAndrew Campbell Easter Sunday in Quito Ricardo Salguero surrounded by spirits Stanislav Volgushev Symmetry...

Melissa R. Moss, a teacher in a St. Louis suburb, is charged with e-mailing topless photos of herself to a 15-year old student. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Moss is charged with furnishing pornographic material to a minor. Moss was a teacher at Barat Academy in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, but she no longer works at the school. A school administrator says Moss has not worked at the school for months. St. Louis' FOX 2 News found a Facebook account with comments from some of the teacher’s students that date back to November. The students have written on the social...

Proving that some parents should have their children taken away from them even into their teens, the trainwreck that is Lindsay Lohan's mother spoke out today on her feelings about Lindsay's fully nude photo shoot that is in this month's New York magazine:

Look at these and thaw out!

Mobula Ray pictures reveal spectacular leaps By Paul Eccleston Last Updated: 5:01pm GMT 23/11/2007 It looks like a futuristic space ship skimming over the ocean's surface. Or maybe a triangular shaped prototype aircraft launched from the depths. In fact it is a Mobula Ray, a smaller cousin of the Manta Ray, which puts on a spectacular leaping display. The pictures were taken in the Sea of Cortez at the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico. Found in tropical oceans around the world the mobulas off Mexico are renowned for their acrobatics. They hurtle up from the depths and leap...

I just found this during my daily job search... it's like the Google street view, only more... I'm very interested in seeing what fellow Freepers think about this in terms of privacy vs. freedom to take pictures of anything that you can see in public. Job Description: Now hiring contract photographers for large real estate database. Job involves shooting outdoors in residential areas for 5-7 miles daily, 6 hours daily. Photographers take photographs of all properties along streets in the Toledo, OH area. Process includes using ZAIO software to match photos to addresses. ZAIO provides the camera equipment, and photographers...

Daniel, a friend of mine and the son of one of my coworkers, is currently serving in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division. He recently e-mailed some pictures to his mom, and she passed them on to me. On patrol with a Bradley View from the .50 cal. Patrolling through cows and palm trees Daniel and Hassim, an Iraqi soldier, prepare to sweep a building Close-up of Daniel Patrolling through a grove of palm trees An Iraqi girl and Pebbles, the bomb-sniffing wonder dog Pebbles and his handler take a break during an urban patrol

Daniel, a friend of mine and the son of one of my coworkers, is currently serving in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division. He recently e-mailed some pictures to his mom, and she passed them on to me. On patrol with a Bradley. View from the .50 cal. Patrolling through cows and palm trees. Daniel and Hassim, an Iraqi soldier, prepare to sweep a building. Close-up of Daniel. Patrolling through a grove of palm trees. An Iraqi girl and Pebbles, the bomb-sniffing wonder dog. Pebbles and his handler take a break during an urban patrol.

Miss New Jersey thought her online photos were private. So did an "American Idol" contestant from Point Pleasant. Amy Polumbo and Antonella Barba instead discovered that their racy just-for-fun photos, posted on members-only sites such as Facebook and MySpace, were accessible to everyone, including would-be blackmailers with modems. But it's not just Jersey girls who fail to realize that deleting images and gossip from Web pages -- or placing them in password-restricted areas -- can't keep them from prying eyes. Many people are at risk because they don't understand how data are stored and shared. "When you delete it, content...

Since 1977, Camilo Jose Vergara has been using photography to document the the transformation of urban landscapes in America. He describes his approach as interdisciplinary, using techniques from fields that include sociology, architecture, photography, urban planning, history and anthropology. Vergara has focused upon the gradual erosion of urban neighborhoods through neglect and abandonment, often photographing the same structures repeatedly over decades in order to capture this process of of urban decay. The photography presented here is from Vergara’s project entitled Invincible Cities.

Non-Canadian Abortion Advocate Recruited to Face Young Pro-Life Leader By Elizabeth O'Brien CALGARY, August 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After avoiding public face-offs with pro-lifers for many years, abortion advocates are stepping up to the platform. Responding to the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) abortion truck campaign, a pro-abortion top-gun has been brought in all the way from the States to be interviewed with young pro-life leader Stephanie Gray on the issue of abortion. Abortion advocates have carefully avoided such encounters in the past, but a recent media frenzy over the giant billboards depicting aborted fetuses have caused a long-time...

Abortion Billboard Trucks Cause Media Uproar, Provoke Pro-Abortion Advocate to Publicly Debate Issue By Elizabeth O'BrienCALGARY, August 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than one week after the Canada Center for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) launched its pro-life, Reproductive "Choice" Campaign (RCC), featuring massive billboards of aborted fetuses on the sides of transport trucks, the media is still going haywire over the initiative.Following top-secret routes through the city, the trucks will be weaving through the streets of Calgary for an indefinite period of time. The images are approximately 11-meters long and display the torn-up limbs of a first trimester aborted fetus. The...

Some High Resolution Wallpapers & Pictures of the Porsche 911 GT3 / GT3 RS vehicles The 911 GT3 is created for the driving enthusiast who craves track days but who also demands such a capable car on regular roads. The 911 GT3 is propelled by the most powerful normally aspirated engine ever offered in a Porsche 911 in the North American market, a 3.6-liter powerplant that pumps out 415 horsepower – an astounding 115.3 horsepower per liter – and rockets the GT3 to 60 mph in an amazingly quick 4.1 seconds (0-100 km/h in 4.3 seconds).

It's incredible what you can find in an ordinary garden if you look closely enough. Amateur photographer Brian Valentine specialises in making the everyday look exotic with the wonders of macro photography, using special lens to magnify his subjects

A mysterious blonde paid a visit to a petrol station shop in the small eastern German town of Doemitz on Sunday -- wearing nothing but a pair of golden stilettos and a thin gold bracelet. The tall, slender woman strolled into the shop in the town of Doemitz on the warm afternoon and bought cigarettes, petrol station employee Ines Swoboda told Reuters on Monday. "I wasn't surprised because she's come in naked before -- she's a very nice woman," Swoboda said, adding none of the other customers were bothered. The woman could have faced charges of creating a public disturbance...

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ndianapolis - A recent visitor to Indianapolis says police are crossing a fine line when it comes to tourists and suspected terrorists. The criticism comes after a camera confrontation outside a major city landmark. Last Sunday, Walter Miller wanted lasting images to take back with him to Houston. He got them. To cap off his first F-1 race experience, he and his lens headed downtown. He had just snapped a photo of the Julian Opie Signs exhibit when signs of trouble converged. "Two police cars came up," Miller said by phone Friday. "One on the side of me and one...

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Paper Photog Quits Over Altered Picture Monday April 9, 2007 11:01 PM By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Writer TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A staff photographer for The Blade who digitally altered a front-page photo has resigned, the newspaper said Monday. Allan Detrich had told Blade editors that he altered a photo of a college baseball team for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper. The photo showed Bluffton University players kneeling March 30 at their first game after a bus crash killed five players in Atlanta. Photos of the team in other Ohio newspapers showed the legs...

Astronomers just got their most detailed look yet at supersonic 'bullets' of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula. Each bullet [image] is about ten times the size of Pluto's orbit around the Sun and travels through the clouds at up to 250 miles (400 kilometers) per second-or about a thousand times faster than the speed of sound. The bulk of both the bullets and the surrounding gas cloud [image] consists of molecular hydrogen. The tip of each bullet is packed with iron atoms that are heated by friction and glow bright blue in the...

Joyce Mucci, the Southern Field Representative for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is coming to Little Rock March 3rd -5th! Keeparkansaslegal has created some events for citizens who want to do something about illegal immigration can attend. Saturday March 3rd at 12:00pm Julie's, 110 South Shackleford Rd Little Rock, AR 72211-5721 (501) 224-4501 (just off I630 and I430) We will have a lunch/meeting at Julie’s where we will discuss legislation, the Mexican Consulate, banking, ballot initiatives, and other items concerning immigration in Arkansas. Monday March 5th at 2:30pm State Capitol (Exit 2B off I630) We will also have...

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Our adopted Uncle Joseph Mangus sent these pictures today from Iraq. He is on his third tour in Iraq and will soon be coming home.

LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle East on Thursday and said it had tightened its editing procedures after the publication last year of two photographs that had been digitally altered. The measures were among several steps announced by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of the global news and information agency, following an internal investigation that he said had resulted in disciplinary action. The two photos, both of Israeli military action in Lebanon during the war there last August, were taken by a freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj. Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj following an initial inquiry...

BE HERE, OR BE NOWHERE!

BE HERE, OR BE NOWHERE!

Europe's second-highest ranking commissioner was fighting to save his political career last night over pictures showing him naked on a beach with his chief of staff.Günther Verheugen, who is married, is shown — wearing only a baseball cap — with his newly promoted aide, Petra Erler, on a nudist beach in Lithuania. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, rushed to the aid of his German Vice-President yesterday, saying that he expected “people’s private spheres” to be respected. However, controversy over Mr Verheugen, 62, who is also Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, is raging in Germany, three weeks before...

November 2006 - Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft from 3Sqn, 17Sqn and 29Sqn of the Royal Air Force take to the skies over the Lincolnshire coast to perform a ’Diamond Nine’ formation. It is the first time that only single-seat aircraft are used in this formation, with the lead aircraft piloted by Group Captain Bob Judson. All three squadrons are based at RAF Coningsby, UK

Famed photog takes us inside the human experienceIt's a journey through the human body never imagined. Here are the most stunning, detailed photos of new human life ever photographed - published in the United States for the first time. Titled "Life," the collection of oversize color images from scientific photographer Lennart Nilsson magnifies the wonders of the human body like never before. Nilsson is best known for his iconic 1965 Life magazine cover shot of a living human embryo - the first time that life at such an early stage was captured on camera. Using the world's most powerful electron...

Sean Hannity visited Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Hannity's lecture included the time he tricked Paul Begala with the quotes John Kerry made supporting invading Iraq. He also spoke about facing the evil of our time in the same way we had to face Hitler. Hannity did many impersonations of Bill Clinton and talked about how the democrats had lost the South. He briefly talked about his disagreements with Repubicans on the issues of over-spending and illegal immigration. His ending statement was that in times of war, we need the right people in power. During Q/A session, most of the...

Happy 3rd Anniversary Dragonflies' Lair and Poets Our Poets bentfeather fatima Hope and Glory Knitting A Conundrum Lady Jag Liberty Belt NicknamedBob Reaper Freeper Scubie Nuc starbase Texas Songwriter WayzataJohnn We the poets of the Lair, thank all who support us. We hope to be here a long time, singing our songs riding the stars, writing our own visions, and best of all, loving all who continue to lurk and visit here over the years. We write of love, we write of war, we write of sorrow, we write of Knights and Kingdoms from before, we write of drawing...

A friend sent this link to a remarkable set of pictures of Israeli soldiers on the front lines. It is well worth a look, even if you don’t read Hebrew.

With the Reuters photo fiasco having come to light, one has to wonder what the editors do. How do doctored pictures get released into a global tinder box that will likely incite an already tense situation and possibly spark further violence? The answer could be that the photos fit their agenda, or it could just be a simple mistake. If we assume that was a simple mistake, then we could file this under a one time incident and accept Reuter’s retraction. This would be the end of it and the media could return to business as usual. The new component...

The 2006 Freedom Concert is upon us! http://www.freedomalliance.org/2006_concert_page.html The NJ Freedom Concert is Friday, July 21. http://www.freedomalliance.org/06freedomconcert.html The CA Freedom Concert is Wednesday, August 2. http://www.freedomalliance.org/06freedomconcerCA.html Who is going?

THE heart-stopping moments when Neil Armstrong took his first tentative steps onto another world are defining images of the 20th century: grainy, fuzzy, unforgettable. But just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland. A desperate search has begun amid concerns the tapes will disintegrate to dust before they can be found. It is not widely known that the Apollo 11 television broadcast from the moon was...

Matt Hamill sent me pictures of himself with Tito Ortiz and his buddies. You won't find these pictures anywhere else on the internet except on ...

I guess I'm not politically correct if this makes me LMAO: Oh, yeah, while I'm at it: Stop the "Pride" parade in Jerusalem!!

"Without the brave men and women of the Army, battles being fought abroad might be fought on our own soil." http://capnbob.us/blog/ Be strong America. Remember. Thank you! Thank you all be good persons be strong America good country!!!!

Let's see how America celebrates her 230th birthday! Post your pictures here of your local parades, picnics, festivals, etc. It'd be especially nice to see pictures of how Americans are honoring our fallen war heros.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - King Abdullah has told Saudi editors to stop publishing pictures of women as they could make young men go astray, newspapers reported Tuesday. The king's directive, made in a meeting with local editors, caused surprise as the monarch has been regarded a quiet reformer since he took office in the ultra-conservative country last August. In recent months, newspapers have published pictures of women — always wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf — to illustrate stories with increasing regularity. Usually the stories have had to do with women's issues. The papers have also started publishing a range of...

Greetings All, I'll be posting the afteraction report on the roadtrip to Colo. Springs, via Albuquerque, and the return trip to LHC via Cortez, CO and the gun shoot on the VetsCoR forum on Monday. I'll include pics and links to videos of me and Jim shooting. Look for it by Monday.

Fifty ways to kill Zacharias Moussaui It looks like Zacharias Moussaui may have to be sent to meet the 72 virgins in hell. With that in mine, here are some the ways the Government can administer Justice to Zacharias Moussaui. 1. Place Zacharias Moussaui in a chair. Using an industrial strength crane, hoist 150 ft. above Zacharias Moussaui a 900 lbs. pot-belly pig. Drop the 900 lbs. pig onto Zacharias Moussaui. 2. Force Zacharias Moussaui to watch GIGLI, BASIC INSTINCT 2, ALEXANDER, CATWOMAN, SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2, WHITE CHICKS, JERSEY GIRL, and other Razzie Award winning movies. This will force...