One of our cat’s, Starbuck, got really sick on Saturday and my wife took her to the vet. She wouldn’t move, she was just laying on the floor and when Dawnell got her to the vet she was fine. On Sunday morning Star was just laying on the floor again and when Dawnell picked her up it was like she was dead, no muscle control at all and she took her back to the vet again. The vet said she was near death and he didn’t know what was wrong. He kept her until Tuesday evening. Starbuck came back home and she is almost back to her old self. She is talking and walking around and ate some canned food. She was also drinking water but she doesn’t have much energy at all. She will do some things and just flop on the floor and sleep for an hour or two. Hopefully she will continue to improve, it wouldn’t be easy to have to put down two cats within a couple of months of each other.

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Two asteroids are expected to pass within 154,000 miles of Earth today, closer than the distance between the Earth and the moon, NASA announced.

Asteroid 2010 RX30 is estimated to be approximately 32 to 65 feet in size and will pass within approximately 154,000 miles of Earth at 5:51 a.m. Wednesday. The
second object, 2010 RF12, estimated to be 20 to 46 feet in size, will
pass within approximately 49,000 miles at 5:12 p.m.

Neither should hit the planet and should be visible with moderate-sized amateur telescopes.

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Check out this interactive of what some of the countries are feeding their troops in Afghanistan.

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Homeowners Association removes headstones from the 1800’s and plans to replace them with white flat placards that will lie flush on the ground.

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Number of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and New Dawn
casualties as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5663
Deaths by Conflict
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 4400
Operation Enduring Freedom: 1262
Operation New Dawn: 1
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20 year old Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Rodgers