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Lance Cpl. Daniel Jordan turns up the speaker volume to hear the sound of his unborn child’s heartbeat during a video teleconference, March 14. The family spent nearly two hours talking and viewing images of their baby during the VTC. Photo by Cpl. Ryan Young, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Public Affairs. AL ASAD AIR BASE — On the monitor is a smiling woman, happy to see her husband in such clarity and to hear his voice without the fear of losing the phone signal. The doctor’s office she is in is full of people with the occasional glimpse of family...

ST. PETERSBURG — Before dawn on Wednesday, Virginia Zinn heard a crash. She sighed, peeked out the door and saw a familiar scene. Here we go again, she thought. For at least the seventh time, a vehicle crashed into Zinn's home on 12th Street S. This time it was a school bus. At 6 a.m. The bus, heading west on Ninth Place S — an unpaved 10-foot-wide alley a toe from Zinn's place — struck the overhanging roof of her home as it tried to turn onto 12th Street S. Police estimated the damage at about $800, to be paid...

How Well Do Dogs See At Night? ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2007) — A lot better than we do, says Paul Miller, clinical professor of comparative ophthalmology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dogs have good night vision, due in large part to the tapetum, a mirror-like structure which reflects light, giving the retina a second chance to register light that has entered the eye. This is also what makes dogs eyes glow at night. The dog is holding a toy in her mouth. (Credit: Michele Hogan) “Dogs have evolved to see well in both bright and dim light, whereas humans do best in...

Birds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic Field John Roach for National Geographic News September 27, 2007 To find north, humans look to a compass. But birds may just need to open their eyes, a new study says. Scientists already suspected birds' eyes contain molecules that are thought to sense Earth's magnetic field. In a new study, German researchers found that these molecules are linked to an area of the brain known to process visual information. In that sense, "birds may see the magnetic field," said study lead author Dominik Heyers, a biologist at the University of Oldenburg. Magnetic Orientation Human-made compasses...

Scientists believe they have discovered the secret behind the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of Impressionist painting. The artist is known to have suffered from cataracts but new research shows how much and for how long this could have had an effect and how it may have produced his distinctive style. Researchers recreated Monet's Water-Lily Pond as he would have seen it. The pond was the subject of a series of canvases which Monet exhibited in 1900 at the age of 60.

'He is a dog and if we see him we will kill him' Clancy Chassay in Beirut Monday September 11, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Protesters greet Tony Blair’s visit to Lebanon. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP Hundreds of angry demonstrators waving Lebanese flags and chanting "down with Blair" gathered to protest at Tony Blair's meeting with Fouad Siniora at the prime minister's office in the heart of Beirut today. Held back by a line of Lebanese troops and security personnel enforcing a 1km buffer zone around the office, some protesters carried posters reading "Blair, you killer, go to hell" and "The blood...

8/11/2006 - BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- During a 24-hour shift that began at 7 a.m. on Aug. 7, an Air Force surgeon treated 18 patients with injuries that varied from a crushed foot and multiple improvised explosive device penetrations to gunshot wounds through the thigh and head. For Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Steve Barnes, the surgeon of the day, this meant nine operations, five of which were performed on Americans, three on Iraqis and one insurgent. "I volunteered to come to Balad for both personal and professional reasons," said the trauma surgeon instructor based at Cincinnati's University Hospital in...

OK I usually dont bother making movie reviews but hey its a weekend and I have nothing better to do. First off this is trully one of the best if not the best Superman movies ever made, not that previous editions didnt make it easy. Brandan Routh carried himself very well and I felt little continuity problems between him and Reeve's, at times in fact you would have thought it was Reeve's himself standing there. Kevin Spacey was born for the role as Lex Luther at times you felt the true evil that Lex Luther really was in the comic...

HANOI, Vietnam, June 4, 2006 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived here this evening to meet with Vietnamese leaders on a host of issues and to visit a U.S. team painstakingly investigating the whereabouts of the nearly 2,000 American servicemembers still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. "We appreciate what (the Vietnamese) do with respect to missing-in-action activities, and I'll be having lunch with the U.S. team that works that set of issues, which, of course, are important to us," Rumsfeld said aboard the airplane flying him here from Singapore, where he had been attending a meeting of defense...

HUSAYBAH, Iraq (May 23, 2006) -- After three years without a police presence in this western Iraqi town of approximately 10,000, the community is beginning to see a fully-restored police force with the introduction of two new police stations. With a new force of fully-trained police officers, many of whom are seasoned veterans from the previous police force, Iraqis here hope the added security forces will curb insurgent activity in the area, according to tribal sheikhs. The Police Transition Team here, a team of Coalition service members responsible for training and mentoring Iraqi police officers, has worked in recent months...

Expert: H5N1 Worst Flu Virus He's Ever Seen Thursday, May 04, 2006 SINGAPORE — A leading expert said Thursday the H5N1 virus is the worst flu virus he's ever encountered, and far too many gaps in planning and knowledge persist for the world to handle it in the event of a pandemic. The virus is a vicious killer in poultry, moving into the brain and destroying the respiratory tract, said Robert G. Webster, a virologist at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. "I've worked with flu all my life, and this is the worst influenza virus that...

MANAMA, Bahrain, April 27, 2006 – Civilian leaders got an introduction here today to one of the least-recognized success stories in the Middle East: how the U.S. Coast Guard is helping keep Iraq's offshore oil terminals operating and training Iraq's new marine force to maintain port and waterway security in the region. Lukin Gilliland Jr., managing director of Aquila Capital Parters in San Antonio, uses a battering ram to get access to a mock shipboard compartment during a training drill in Manama, Bahrain, for participants in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Larry Chambers,...

RIDGEFIELD — Gabriel Galanski is disheartened that more students from Ridgefield High School aren't considering a career in the military.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2005 – America has a solid strategy for victory in Iraq and will see that strategy through, President Bush said today in Minneapolis. "We will defeat the terrorists in Iraq. We will not let al Qaeda get a stronghold in Iraq," Bush said. "We'll help this country develop a democracy, which will send a powerful signal to people in Damascus and Tehran." The U.S. strategy is two-fold, he explained. The United States and coalition are helping the Iraqis establish a democracy. At the same time, they're training Iraqis so they can take the right to the enemy...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2005 – The United States, Great Britain and the United Nations remain steadfast in seeing democracy established in Iraq despite continued insurgent violence, Britain's senior defense official said here today. "The litmus test of leadership is not when things are easy or fashionable, but when times are difficult and we have to come through them towards the objective in the end," British Secretary of State for Defense John Reid told reporters at a Pentagon news briefing. Resolution 1546, adopted by the U.N. Security Council on June 8, 2004, demonstrates that the mission to establish a democratic Iraqi...

A Times Square movie theater laid an egg at a showing of "Chicken Little" last night. Adults and kids expecting to watch Disney's G-rated animated flick at the AMC Empire 25 theater on 42nd St. were instead presented with a foreign film that opened with a young man committing suicide. "It's pandemonium," Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News as he rushed out of the theater with his 5-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter. "The kids are crying. The mothers are screaming for the managers to stop the film." Terrified children didn't know what to do as they watched a young...

South African farmers see barren future with evictions on horizon By Stephen Bevan in Ventersdorp, North West Province (Filed: 23/10/2005) He does not look like the leader of a resistance movement. Yet, as one of the first half-dozen white farmers in South Africa to be forced to sell up under its land reform programme, Pieter Jacobs is at the forefront of a battle likely to be as bitterly fought as that in neighbouring Zimbabwe. For eight years Mr Jacobs, 53, and six neighbouring landowners in the Ventersdorp district of North West Province, have been disputing the claims on their farms...

ABOARD THE USS MOUNT WHITNEY, Oct. 21, 2005 – Business leaders participating in the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference today got to visit a one-of-a-kind Navy ship and sail off the coast of Naples, Italy. The USS Mount Whitney, the flagship for the 6th Fleet, is the only Navy ship with a hybrid crew of civilian and military personnel. About 60 percent of the crew are Navy personnel, and 40 percent are civilian mariners from the Military Sealift Command. The USS Mount Whitney is being used as a test platform for the hybrid crew model, said Navy Capt. Tadd Wheeler, commanding...

SADR CITY, Iraq, Sept. 27, 2005 — Sadr City residents say they’re definitely seeing a difference as nearly $86.5 million in infrastructure improvements have been completed with an additional $246 million ongoing. Local citizens report their sewers are working (unlike last year when all the lift stations were inoperable with broken pumps), water pressure is better, and they’re seeing electric lines going up. U.S. Army Lieutenant Col. Jamie Gayton, Commander, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Brigade Troops Battalion Commander, is overseeing the work and says he couldn’t accomplish the mission without the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). “The lash-up...

The 278-149 roll call Thursday by which the House rejected an effort to restrict gun manufacturers' exports of high-powered, .50-caliber rifles. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the amendment restricting the gun exports. A "no" vote is a vote to reject the amendment. Voting yes were 134 Democrats, 15 Republicans and no Independents. Voting no were 65 Democrats, 212 Republicans and 1 Independent. X denotes those not voting.

Holy See Grieved by Terri Schiavo's Death Reaction of Vatican Spokesman and Cardinal VATICAN CITY, APRIL 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See officially expressed its sadness over the death of the brain-damaged woman in Florida who died of starvation after her husband had her feeding tube removed. On Thursday afternoon, Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, said that the circumstances surrounding Terri Schiavo’s death have "rightly upset consciences." "A life was interrupted. Death was arbitrarily anticipated, because feeding a person can never be considered as drastic therapy," said the Vatican spokesman in a statement. "There is no...

Sun-starved Alpine villagers 'see the light' with the help of solar mirrors By Clare Chapman in Innsbruck (Filed: 16/01/2005) Residents of an Austrian mountain village deprived of sunshine for four months of the year have found a way to beat the winter gloom. Mirrors will be installed in a sunnier spot across the valley, to reflect sunlight back to Rattenberg and eliminate the shadows that make its inhabitants feel so depressed. Franz Wurzenrainer, the mayor, said: "When weather forecasters predict a bright winter's day with plenty of sunshine, we have to take their word for it. From November to February,...

Indian town sees evidence of ancient tsunamiOnce-powerful city on same spot 'swallowed by the sea' Gautam Singh / APThis ancient Thirupallavaneeswaram Temple is one of the few remnants of ancient Poompuhar, which was a thriving capital city until it was "swallowed by the sea" more than 1,500 years ago.The Associated Press Updated: 2:33 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005POOMPUHAR, India - For generations, the people of Poompuhar have spoken of the days when their sleepy fishing town was the capital of a powerful kingdom, and traders came from Rome, Greece and Egypt to deal in pearls and silk. .

In Angry Waves, the Devout See an Angry God BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 4 - Aceh's highly influential Islamic clergy have explained the giant wave that devastated this overwhelmingly Muslim region as a warning to the faithful that they must more strictly observe their religion, including a ban on Muslims killing Muslims. The infusion of religious meaning into the tragedy, in a province already known as Indonesia's most fervently Muslim area, suggested the consequences of the Dec. 26 tsunami could extend well beyond the death toll. The sweeping destruction has torn apart the infrastructure on the northern part of Sumatra...

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As long as I am confessing less than elevated interests today, I might as well admit that I really enjoyed the new film National Treasure. This is probably the first Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie I have ever praised, unless you count Team America, which is a parody of his extravagent explosion-filled action movies, acted by puppets. Sure, it is a highly-implausible adventure film, but it has a number of redeeming values. It is first-rate storytelling, with nary a dull moment, and a mostly coherent narrative line. It is basically a treasure hunt, comparable in many ways to Raiders of the Lost...

Women see scarlet, men see red Jennifer Viegas Discovery News Wednesday, 4 August 2004 The world may appear a more colourful place to women, according to a new study that finds many women perceive a greater range of colours than men, particularly shades of red. The U.S. study, which analysed DNA from populations around the world, is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics. How men and women see the world appears to relate to evolution and how our early ancestors found food. Men were likely to have been surveying the landscape for prey to...

[It's ironic that Kerry makes accusations of the Bush Admin. bringing the Draft back when this was Kerry's plan the whole time. This was posted on the Kerry/Edwards site then removed when the Draft e-mail began to circulate. Young American's need to know who is really behind the draft issue. It is a democratic legislation that was recently killed in congress and this is Kerry's plan oulined for you below once he gets in office.] John Kerry Outlines Plan to Require Service for High School Students Part of 100 days Plan to Enlist One Million Americans in National Service A...

Kerry won Vietnam vets' wrath describing what he couldn't see BY HAROLD W. ANDERSEN Published Sunday, August 22, 2004 WORLD-HERALD CONTRIBUTING EDITOR It is one of the bigger gambles of the presidential campaign. But with most of the news media looking the other way, John Kerry has been getting away with it so far. I refer to Kerry's gamble that the news media won't finally take a hard look at his anti-war activities instead of concentrating on his four-plus months of combat-zone experience as a decorated, wounded veteran of the Vietnam War - experience that Kerry incessantly promotes as qualifying...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Red Cross wants to see Saddam The International Red Cross says it has met with coalition authorities in Iraq to discuss possible visits to Saddam Hussein. "The case of Saddam has come up in routine meetings with the coalition," Florian Westphal, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said. He said the ICRC was not treating the Saddam case differently from that of ordinary captives whose treatment it monitors and was not putting any extra pressure on the coalition to see him. Saddam was captured on December 13 and is being held in an unknown location during interrogation...

"Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" 2 Corinthians 5:6-7 (KJV) When we're living in our physical bodies, we're absent from the Lord. We can talk to him and have a relationship with him, but we can't see him. We follow his commandments through faith and we keep pressing toward the goal to be with the Lord, through faith. We can't see him, but we know he's there. That's faith, we walk by faith and not by sight....

=====Washington===== U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) fields a question during a press briefing at the White House, September 22, 2003. Rice spoke about President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s trip to New York tomorrow, where he will address the United Nations (news - web sites) General Assembly on the situation in Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) listens to Iraqi Minister of Electricity Ayham Sameraei (R) as he speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House, September 22, 2003....

The Game plan called for the president from Texas to meet the Texas team, but the National Basketball Association champion San Antonio Spurs were forced to postpone their scheduled White House visit to meet with President George W. Bush (news - web sites) because of Hurricane Isabel(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe) A US tank passes by as a crane removes a burned American military truck after US troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah on Sept.18, 2003. The Bush administration has asked Turkey, Pakistan and South Korea (news - web sites) to send a total of up to 40,000 troops to Iraq (news -...

I was driving down the road yesterday when I saw the back of a Fed Ex Truck. The logo on the back of the truck said "Never Underestimate An American" and on the side it said "Proud To Be An American" in red, white, and blue letters! I looked for a pic of this on the net and couldn't find it! Their was a website on the side of the truck and it said www.af.com Wrapped into his $87 billion budget plan for Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), President George W. Bush (news -...

Marine Lance Cpl Chris Delavore, left, helps Luther Lewis fill plastic bags with beach sand on Atlantic Beach, N.C. as they continue preparations for Hurricane Isabel on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003. The storm is expected to make landfall on the North Carolina coast on Thursday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) Vice President Richard Cheney sits next to Chief of Staff Andrew Card (L) during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, September 17, 2003. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) distanced himself from comments by Cheney that left the impression he saw a possible link between...

President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks in the East Garden of the White House, September 16, 2003. Bush pitched his 'Clear Skies' pollution control initiative as good for the economy, but ran into Democratic criticism that the plan served 'corporate polluters.' Photo by William Philpott/Reuters President George W. Bush (news - web sites) walks along the South Lawn of the White House on his way to the East Garden event, September 16, 2003. The U.S. Senate defied a second White House veto threat in as many weeks as Republicans displayed a willingness to break ranks with...

U.S. environmental groups on September 15, 2003 blasted the Bush administration for failing to appeal a Wyoming court injunction that blocked a Clinton-era rule designed to protect millions of acres of federal forest land. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) addresses supporters during a Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign fundraiser while in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, September 15. (Larry Downing/Reuters) Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) meets with families of victims killed in a March 1988 chemical gas attack, at a memorial built on a mass grave in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) town of...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), right, meets Saeed Hussein Al-Sadr, a senior Iraqi Shiite cleric before private talks in Baghdad Sunday Sept. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Anti-government demonstrators chant 'Down with President Jean-Bertrand Aristide!' as they wait to participate in an anti-government march in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003. The march drew thousands of opposition supporters who protested President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government and clashed with a counter-demonstration in Haiti's second largest city. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel) Anti-government demonstrators carry a man who was hit by a rock thrown by pro-government demonstrators during...

U.S. Army soldiers of the 101st Airborne Aivision patrol a street in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) (C), accompanied by Israeli peace activists Latif Dori (L) and Uri Averny, attends a rally in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 13, 2003. Israel rebuffed a U.N. Security Council warning not to go through with its threat to exile Arafat, saying national security was at stake amid a new wave of suicide bombings. (Goran...

American soldier Maj. Bryan Luke of Mobile, Ala., 2nd in command of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry keeps at the ready during a night patrol in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. Patrols are an ongoing exercise in Iraq as a show of force to attempt to reduce the activities of possible Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean (news - web sites) rolls up his sleeves before taking the stage to babble to supporters during a campaign stop at Plymouth State College, Friday, Sept...

William Ledbetter from New York City shelters a candle from the rain during a memorial service Thursday Sept. 11, 2003 at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore. About 200 Americans and Singaporeans gathered at the embassy to commemorate those who died in terrorist attacks on New York and Washinjgton 2 years ago today.(AP Photo/Ed Wray) A New York City police officer consoles a girl during a memorial service marking the second year since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) An American flag, known as the 'Flag of Honor,'...

US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) insisted Wednesday that France and Germany were not opposed to a new resolution on Iraq (news - web sites), adding that he was open to suggestions on the US proposal.(AFP/File/Luke Frazza) US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov had a "constructive" telephone conversation on the Iraq (news - web sites) proposal that Washington has submitted to the UN Security Council.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards) A U.S. soldier of the 1st Battalion (22nd regiment) of the 4th infantry division compares an Iraqi youth's face...

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (news) receiver Joe Jurevicius (news) (83) catches a tipped pass for a touchdown in front of Philadelphia Eagles (news) cornerback Sheldon Brown (24) during the fourth quarter of their game Monday, Sept. 8, 2003 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Miles Kennedy) Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh appears in this Friday, July 11, 2003, file photo from New York. Commentator Limbaugh made his ESPN debut at a fitting location: Washington, D.C. Actually, it was Landover, Md., in the parking lot of FedEx Field, but it was still familiar territory for the right-wing radio host best known as the host of...

No US Casulaties in 7 days. A U.S. Army soldier trains a new Iraqi fire fighter at a U.S. Army base in Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday, September 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze The shadows of U.S. soldiers are cast on a wall as they guard an Iraqi detainee after an early morning raid in Tikrit September 8, 2003. U.S. soldiers came under attack in Baghdad and rounded up suspected guerrillas in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown Monday as President George W. Bush (news - web sites) prepared Americans...

Rummy Says: "Make My Day" U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attends a meeting with Mayor of Mosul Ghanam Al-Basso in his office during his visit the northern Iraqi city of Mosul September 5, 2003. If they had the chance, U.S. soldiers at a base in Iraq (news - web sites) would have had one question for Rumsfeld: When are we going home? Photo by Stringer/Turkey/Reuters President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks to the Kansas City, Missouri, Chamber of Commerce (news - web sites) at the Kansas City Convention Center about the US economy.(AFP/File/Luke Frazza) President Bush...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Secret Service is studying a pro-Bush cartoon in the Los Angeles Times, showing the president with a gun to his head, as a possible threat, U.S. officials said on Monday. Cartoonist Michael Ramirez said the drawing, which ran in Sunday's paper, was only meant to call attention to the unjust "political assassination" of Bush over his Iraq policy. The cartoon, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning

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Train de-railment...nothing to see...move along