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Chicagoland Weather
Current Conditions:
As reported at KORD, O'Hare Arpt..
Last update Wed 19 Feb 2003 4:56 AM CST 
Partly Cloudy 
27°F Feels Like: 17°F
UV Index: 0 Minimal
Wind: From the WNW at 12 mph
Humidity: 57 %
Visibility: unlimited
Barometer: 30.12 inches and Rising
Today's Forecast Wed 19 Feb 2003 03:47 AM CST
Mostly Sunny
Low 30°F
High 44°F
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Good Morning Tonk :-)
Well the home computer is up and running and ONLINE. *L* I just LOVE cable modem connections at $35 a month. So now if I can manage to get my husband or the kids off the computer in the evenings I might have a chance to post in here. Even Robbie at 3yrs old is a pro at some of the kids software we have for them. JJ's teacher is also sending home some more software for them so they'll be set.
Otherwise all is good here. Hubby grumbles about his schedule like always. I'm slowly but surely getting over the cold that for a few days killed my voice entirely. The weather is so screwed up here I can't even find words to describe it. Living next to the Atlantic Ocean is never dull!
Have a great day everyone!
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The Marines Have Landed
 Marines of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade view the sunset from the flight deck of the USS Kearsarge near Kuwait Naval Base. U.S. Navy Photo by PH2 Alicia Tasz  On board the USS Kearsarge, members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade wait to depart for Kuwait Naval Base to offload elements and join over 150,000 troops supporting the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Alicia Tasz  On board the USS Kearsarge, members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade wait to depart for Kuwait Naval Base to offload elements and join over 150,000 troops supporting the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Alicia Tasz  Sailors aboard the USS Kearsarge and Assault Craft Unit 4 load elements of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in the ship's welldeck for transfer to Kuwait Naval Base to support the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Angel Roman-Otero  Assault Unit Craft 4 enters the welldeck of the USS Kearsarge, to transport elements of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade to a Kuwait Naval Base in support of the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Angel Roman-Otero  Marines from the 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade drive a Light Armored Vehicle onto the beach at a Kuwait Naval Base in support of the global war on terrorism. The AAVs and other Marine equipment is moved from amphibious ships to the shore using Air Cushioned Landing Craft. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Angel Roman-Otero  A Marine from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade directs a tank off an Assault Craft Unit 4 onto the the beach at a Kuwait Naval Base. Elements of the 2-MEB are in deployed in support of the global war on terrorism. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Angel Roman-Otero  Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade pack into a helicopter aboard the USS Kearsarge for transport ashore to the Kuwait Naval Base. U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Alicia Tasz
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Thank G-d for these great men!
Prior to this treaty, genocide was completely legal according to the United States Senate!
Wednesday's weird warship, HMS Furious
Courageous class large light cruiser/aircraft carrier
Displacement. 19,100 t.
Lenght. 786'3"
Beam. 88'
Draft. 21'6"
Speed. 31.5 kt.
Complement. 880
Armament. 1 18", 11 5.5", 4 3", 4 3 pdr. (as originally completed)
HMS Furious, a 19,513-ton aircraft carrier, was built at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Begun as a light battle cruiser (or "large light cruiser") of modified Courageous class (called the "Outrageous" class by the sailors of the day), she was modified in the latter stages of construction and completed in July 1917 with a single 18-inch gun aft and an aircraft launching platform forward. After several months' experience with the Grand Fleet, she was further modified, receiving an aircraft landing deck and hangar aft. With the completion of that work in March 1919, Furious returned to the North Sea, providing important experience in the operation of combat landplanes at sea. On 19 July 1918, she launched a historic air strike that destroyed two enemy airships and their support facilities at Tondern, in northern Germany. A month earlier, in another historic incident, she had used both anti-aircraft guns and fighter aircraft to thwart an attack by German seaplanes. Following the end of World War I, the carrier operated in the Baltic Sea.
Her wartime aircraft landing arrangements having proved very unsatisfactory (understandable, seeing as how the "island" was in the very center of the flight deck, with 11 foot wide ramps on each side of the funnel and bridgework to connect the aft flight deck with the forward flight deck), Furious was laid up in reserve in late 1919. After futher experience with other aircraft carriers, she was massively reconstructed, emerging in August 1925 as a 22,450-ton ship with upper and lower hangars, topped by a long flight deck clear of obstructions, with a shorter aircraft launching deck at the bow. This configuration established a pattern for other British and Japanese aircraft carriers of that era.
Furious operated actively through the inter-war years, continuing her pioneering work as a platform for developing seagoing aviation techniques and combat doctrine, as those applied to the situations confronting the Royal Navy. In the later 1930s, her small forward aircraft flying-off deck was converted to a gun platorm and she was refitted with a small "island" superstructure amidships on the starboard side of the upper flight deck.
Through the first five years of World War II, Furious served with the Home Fleet in the Atlantic area. By mid-war, she was quite elderly, limited in capabilities, and required continual maintenance. She took part in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in April 1944, but was placed in reserve later in that year. After post-war employment in target trials, HMS Furious was sold for scrapping in January 1948.
Good day or evening to our awesome troops, veterans, and allies around the globe! THANK YOU for doing your part in protecting the USA!
(Is anyone having trouble with FR besides me or is the problem on my end? I'm having a very difficult time getting it to load.)
