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TEMPEST SQUADRON
WEEKLY REPORT
12/14/02


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SQUADRON NEWS

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Well, I created some new naughty word combos last night and today. My kids managed to spill milk on my keyboard and somehow that lead to my whole system crashing until this afternoon. I have a degree in PE and that doesn't include a lot of computers :P

All of that means that the FT 119 scores were only submitted to Seph a little bit ago, sorry. He has submitted them and we shall cross our fingers.

LT Obiwan has gotten his Tie to work! He was flying XWA only, but hopefully that is permently corrected.


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Squadron Status

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We are heading to the end of week 3 of the Wing X comp. FT 212 is due to me by tommorrow afternoon. Rover has submitted his and I will fly mine as soon as I send this reprt. That leaves Prost and Obiwan without submissions. If you hava a problem, let me know, god knows I understand.

ECR phase 3 has begun and it is TC 100. There has not been a set due date... so fly it in the next week to be on the safe side. ISD Challenge is position to become the battle group flagship!!! It is much better to lead than follow.


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Activity Reports

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CM Dirk Logan(5)
-flew TC 21

LT Sushi Master(0)
- on leave

LT Obiwan (1)
-flew ft 119

CM Rover (2)
- flew ft 119
-flew ft 212

LCM Prost Varsis (1)
-flew ft 119


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Miscellaneous

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http://www.emperorshammer.net/news.asp


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Sqaudron Roster

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TEMPEST SQUADRON OF WING X : Deep Strike
COMMANDER: CM Dirk Logan (scott@sparksracing.com)
NICKNAME: Riders on the Storm
BANNER: tempest.jpg
MOTTO: "May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!" - Othello
HOMEPAGE: http://www27.brinkster.com/tempest1


FLIGHT I - TIE DEFENDER
Nickname: Cupid's Arrows
Motto: "Mortuus ex Vento" -- "Death from the Wind"
1) CM Dirk Logan (scott@sparksracing.com)
2) TBA
3) LT Sushi Lord (da_sushi_master@hotmail.com)
4) TBA


FLIGHT II - TIE ADVANCED
Nickname: "Katayoku no Tenshi" - The One Winged Angels
Motto: We are the Plague of the Galaxy!
1) CM Rover (eh_rover@lglobus.ru)
2) LT Obiwan (gspaanman@hotmail.com)
3) TBA
4) TBA


FLIGHT III - MISSILE BOAT
Nickname: The Imperial Monsoon
Motto: "We'll blow you off your feet."
1) TBA
2) TBA
3) LCM Prost Varsis (thecrazynomad@yahoo.com)
4) TBA







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And now for something completely different...



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Two teams of Canadian engineers are completing their low-budget rockets and have begun seeking volunteer astronauts for a 2003 launch date to go 62 miles into space to win the St. Louis-based X Prize competition (which pays (U.S.) $10 million). The rockets (and those of about 20 other international contestants) are the "Cessnas" of the space industry, costing around (U.S.) $3 million to $5 million each to build. The astronauts will receive some training, but the engineers admit the adventure is hardly for the risk-averse. [Edmonton Journal-Canadian Press, 11-1

Democracy in Action
Mike Rucker, running for county commissioner in Tallahassee, Fla., apologized for urinating in a voter's yard in October, attributing it to a prostate problem and not anger that the voter had moments earlier refused to post Rucker's campaign sign. And Republican Lamar Alexander, running for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, reportedly turned a hand-shaking opportunity into a hand-squeezing contest with an opposition voter who had mischievously slipped Alexander a Democratic brochure in Dickson, Tenn., in October. And Makinka Moye, running for city supervisor in San Francisco, was revealed by the Bay Area Reporter in September to have been arrested earlier this year for bludgeoning and butchering a goat on a vacant lot near a city recreation center. (Alexander won; Rucker and Moye lost.) [Tallahassee Democrat, 10-31-02] [Knoxville News-Sentinel, 10-23-02] [San Francisco Chronicle, 9-23-02]

In October, Australian serial killer Ivan Milat complained to a state commission, asking the equivalent of (U.S.) $22,000, for a violation of his human rights. Milat, serving seven life sentences for seven murders, had swallowed some razor blades in a 2001 incident and now complains that prison officials' releasing his X-rays to the media was an invasion of his privacy. (Milat had complained previously about the air quality in his cell.) [Sydney Morning Herald, 10-30-02]

Least Competent Criminals
Masters of Technology: Burglars hit the K Bros. Service Station in Everson, Pa., in November and lugged away the lottery-ticket machine, perhaps hoping to print themselves some winning tickets; a lottery spokesman said the machine only works when it's hooked up to lottery headquarters. And Baptist minister James Andrew Smith, 42, was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, in November for a September graphics presentation (to a logistic company) that he was making with his computer; he had clicked the wrong line and inadvertently called up a photograph of a nude boy, which led to a search that police said yielded much child pornography. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 11-21-02] [Star-Telegram (Fort Worth), 11-22-02]





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CMDR/CM Dirk Logan/Tempest/Wing X/ISD Challenge
BS/PCx3/ISMx5/MoI/CoB/OV [PLDN] {IWATS-AIM-CBX-GFX-IIC/1-M/1/2-RT-SM/2/3-TM-TT}


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