Today's PIX!!! Monday, February 4th, 2008

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Soldiers stand with shovels in preparation to clean up snow at a square outside the Nanjing Railway Station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province February 2, 2008. Emergency crews struggled on Saturday to restore power to parts of southern China blacked out for a week by heavy snow as forecasters warned of no quick end to the worst winter weather in 50 years. REUTERS/Jeff Xu

Greek riot policemen throw tear gas canisters against anarchists during clashes in central Athens February 2, 2008. Police fired tear gas on Saturday when rival far-right and anarchist demonstrators clashed in central Athens, sending shoppers rushing into stores for safety. REUTERS/Stringer

A truck driver waits for help after being stranded by heavy snowfall at Kozak Pass near the Pakistan-Afghan border town of Chaman February 2, 2008. Rain and snowfall has caused the suspension of vehicular traffic between Pakistan and Afghanistan on Saturday, local media reported. REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai

A Kashmiri Muslim boy assesses the damage to a house after a gun battle in Frisal, 65 km (40 miles) south of Srinagar, February 2, 2008. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims on Saturday attended the funeral of Ruhul Bhat who police said was a "Battalion Commander" of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Kashmir's front line militant organisation and was killed in a gun battle with security forces in the area of Frisal late on Friday. Three residential houses were also destroyed during the gun battle, police added. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli

Sri Lankan military personnel inspect the scene of a passenger bus explosion by suspected Tamil tigers in Dambulla, about 150 km (93 miles) from central Colombo, February 2, 2008. A bomb exploded on a civilian bus in the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding 50, the military said. REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe

Corporal Etienne Gonthier girlfriend's Cinthia Morin reacts as her boyfriend's casket is carried inside the church in St-Georges, Quebec, February 2, 2008. Corporal Gonthier died when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near Kandahar, Afghanistan, January 23, 2008. REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger

A boy stands within a burnt area in a village near the city of Eldoret February 2, 2008. Youths burned hundreds of homes in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley on Saturday, sending residents fleeing with all they could carry, despite an agreement between feuding politicians to end weeks of bloodshed. REUTERS/Peter Andrews

A man looks through the window of a train picking up Serbs in their isolated village of Priluzja in Kosovo February 2, 2008. Serbia's pro-Western president Boris Tadic faces nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic on Sunday in an election that will decide Serbia's attitude to the West after the imminent loss of breakaway Kosovo province. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

A Palestinian woman shouts in front of the gate of the Rafah crossing border with Egypt during a protest calling on Egypt to open their border with the Gaza Strip February 2, 2008. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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A police officer walks at the snow-blanketed Imperial Palace in Tokyo February 3, 2008. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Men belonging to the Kalenjin tribe carry bows and arrows as they battle Kisii tribes people in a field adjacent to the western Kenyan town of Chebilat 03 February 2008. Chebilat was the scene of pitched bow and arrow battles between Kalenjin and Kisii tribes people. At least 13 people were killed overnight in tribal fighting and a police crackdown in western Kenya, police said Sunday, in a further blow to hopes raised by a peace deal between political rivals. AFP PHOTO/ Yasuyoshi CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/***** Images)

A woman evacuates her son by puts him in a bucket and push it through a flooded street in Jakarta, on February 3, 2008. Three people have been killed and nearly 90,000 forced to evacuate their homes in the Indonesian capital due to heavy floods, officials said. AFP PHOTO/Bay ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/***** Images)

KERICHO, KENYA - A Kenyan mother sits with her baby as a group of houses burn out of control February 3, 2008 in Kericho, Kenya. The houses belong to Kikuyu who have been forced out of their homes. Ethnic tribal conflicts in western Kenya continue and have claimed hundreds of lives forcing people to flee in fear of being killed by rival tribes, sparked by December's disputed elections. (Photo Paula Bronstein/***** Images)

A tiger family takes part in a carnival parade in the German capital Berlin 03 February 2008. Carnival is a tradition stemming from Catholic regions in the west and south of Germany, but it has increasingly been adopted by cities in the north and east. AFP PHOTO DDP/SEBASTIAN WILLNOWGERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN WILLNOW/AFP/***** Images)

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Three U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division patrol a dirt road in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Jan. 28, 2008. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt) (www.army.mil)

A U.S. Army Soldier from 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment plays rock paper scissors with an Iraqi child during a combined medical engagement at a clinic in Buhrez, Iraq, Jan. 25, 2008. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sean Mulligan) (www.army.mil)

U.S. Army Soldiers from the 186th Military Police Company, Iowa Army National Guard prepare to clear a house during military operations on urban terrain as part of mobilization training conducted by the 72nd Field Artillery Brigade at Fort Dix, N.J., Jan. 10, 2008. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Russell Lee Klika) (www.army.mil)

Dustin Lara of Fort Bragg, N.C., outpunches John Jackson of Camp Carroll, S. Korea, in bout two of the All-Army Boxing Championships Friday at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Photo by Ty Hollan www.army.mil

Why does this crater on Mercury look like a spider? When the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft glided by the planet Mercury last month, it was able to image portions of the Sun's closest planet that had never been seen before. When imaging the center of Mercury's extremely large Caloris Basin, MESSENGER found a crater, pictured above, with a set of unusual rays emanating out from its center. A crater with such troughs has never been seen before anywhere in our Solar System. What isn't clear is the relation of the crater to the radial troughs. Perhaps the crater created the radial rays, or perhaps the two features appear only by a chance superposition -- the topic is sure to be one of future research. MESSENGER is scheduled to fly past Mercury twice more before firing its thrusters to enter orbit in 2011.

Sunset at St.Simon's Island -
Photographed by Shri Deshpande

A B-1B Lancer from the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron pulls away from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron at Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, after receiving fuel over Afghanistan. Two B-1Bs hit reported al-Qaida safe havens Jan. 10 in Arab Jabour, Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Angelique Perez)

[Snoshi]

B-1 is such a "sexy" looking bomber

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B-1 is such a "sexy" looking bomber

hellyeah! 1234

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A Swedish train cart? I thought they only got away with Mercs and Beemers... Sorry couldn't help myself

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Hi-Res please.

[Bescht]

A hires version of this one would be very nice.

[Ceriy]

Hi-Res please.

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photo...-3252P-450.jpg

A hires version of this one would be very nice.

No Hi-Res available for this photo.

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A hires version of this one would be very nice.

Yeah.. sorry thats the highest res (as posted) that I found of it.

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Gen. C. Robert "Bob" Kehler, Air Force Space Command commander (middle), receives a briefing on the Combined Air and Space Operations Center from Col. Gary Crowder, 609th Air Operations Center commander, and Col. John Riordan, the U.S. Central Command Air Forces Director of Space Forces in the CAOC, Feb. 2 in Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Christina M. Styer)

An Iraqi lieutenant takes controls of a Cessna simulator at the Iraqi Flying Training School here. Iraqi pilots have begun flying their own missions and have earned some initial successes. An all-Iraqi crew flying on a recent reconnaissance mission spotted several terrorists manufacturing improvised explosive devices. The crewmembers alerted Iraqi police who arrived on-scene soon after to impede the terrorist?s efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman SerMae Lampkin)

he RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft co-pilot, 1st Lt. Jonathan George, tests equipment in preparation for take off Jan. 30 from a location is Southwest Asia. The lieutenant is a member of the 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron.(U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Domonique Simmons)

The RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft flight crew boards to perform cross-checks within the body of the aircraft Jan. 30 in Southwest Asia. The RC-135 has participated in every armed conflict involving U.S. assets. The RC-135 is the only aircraft that boasts a record of being continuously deployed for more than 17 years. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Domonique Simmons)

Navigator 1st Lt. Eric Myatt performs a cross-check inside a RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft in preparation for take off Jan. 30. Based out of Southwest Asia, the RC-135 has maintained a presence in the Central Command area of responsibility since August 1990. The lieutenant is with the 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Domonique Simmons)

Staff Sgt. William Bryan checks the oxygen flow inside a mask aboard a RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft Jan. 30 in Southwest Asia. Cockpit crews, intelligence experts, electronic warfare officers, and in-flight maintenance technicians have rotated into and out of Southwest Asia along with the aircraft for a variety of duties over the past 17 years. Sergeant Bryan is an airborne systems engineer with the 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron and is deployed from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Domonique Simmons)

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The destroyed vehicle seems to have a DshK-38 mount.

Respect for the French Military which (again) helps westeners in Africa

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Hi-Res

These two celestial beacons shining brightly in the east before sunrise are actually children of the Sun, the planets Venus and Jupiter. The second and third brightest objects in the sky at Night after the Moon, Venus and Jupiter appeared separated by about 2 degrees when this picture was taken on January 30th, but closed to within nearly half a degree early yesterday morning. In the serene foreground is the shoreline along the Miankaleh Peninsula and Gorgan Bay, an important bird and wildlife refuge in the southeastern Caspian Sea. Over the next two days, early morning risers around the globe will be able to enjoy a close pairing of Venus and Jupiter with an old crescent Moon.

U.S. Air Force pilots fly F-16 Fighting Falcons on a training mission over the South Korean peninsula Jan. 30, 2008. The pilots are assigned to the 35th Fighter Squadron from Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt Quinton T. Burris

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel deice several C-17 Globemaster III aircraft on the flight line of McChord Air Force Base, Wash., Jan. 28, 2008, prior to launch. U.S. Air Force photo by Abner Guzman

U.S. Navy sailors man the rails aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz as the ship gets under way from San Diego, Calif., Jan. 24, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kathleen Gorby

Matt Ballenger, an Iraqi military advisor, instructs an Iraqi army soldier on the proper way to pull rear security during a training session at an Iraqi army compound in Sherween, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Spc. LaRayne Hurd

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman performs a replenishment with the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic and the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill while under way in the Persian Gulf, Jan. 23, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jay C. Pugh

U.S. Army Capt. William Clark, a15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division commander, is joined by Iraqi volunteers from the Concerned Local Citizens as they look for weapons caches and enemies during a clearing operation in Dura'iya, Iraq, Jan. 28, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Timothy Kingston

U.S. Marines assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment return to the well deck on Combat Rubber Raiding Craft boats to the dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry in the vicinity of Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 1, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Joshua J. Wahl

A U.S. Army soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment secures an alley while on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 26, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jason T. Bailey

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New York Giants' defensive end Michael Strahan (92) dives on New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady (12) in the second quarter of Super Bowl XLII Sunday at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. The Giants won, 17-14.

Giants fullback Madison Hedgecock (39) is tackled by Seau (55) during the first quarter Sunday.

Tynes (9) kicks a field goal in the first quarter to give the Giants a 3-0 lead.

New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress makes the game-winning touchdown catch Sunday.

New York Giants' receiver Steve Smith (12) is upended by New England Patriots' safety Brandon Meriweather (31) during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLII at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale Sunday. The Giants won, 17-14.

Strahan celebrates after the Giants' win Sunday.