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TEMPEST SQUADRON
WEEKLY REPORT
11/30/02


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SQUADRON NEWS

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I have good news from LCM daniel Bonini, his joystick has arrived and he should be rejoining us in about a week.

I got a newer slightly faster computer yesterday and went out and bought a good video card, omg did that make flying much better. Enemy ships are much clearer and move and a more reasonable pace. It is almost like someone who needs glasses finally getting glasses. I am very excited.


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Squadron Status

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We are in the first week of the Wing X competition, FT105 is due to me tommorrow! I have CM Rover (great score!) and mine as of now. That leaves LCM Prost Varsis and LT Alxus Hedious missing their submission.

LT Sushi Master is on leave to get his computer situation sorted out and thus is excused from this mission.

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
-flew ft 105

LT Sushi Master
-checked in
- on leave

CM Rover
- flew ft 105

LCM Prost Varsis
-none reported

LT Alexus Hedious
-none reported


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Miscellaneous

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With this week being Thanksgiving, in the States anyhow, it is a slow news week.


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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) TBA
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) LT Alexus Hedious (big_hed_thehedbig@hotmail.com)




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And now for something completely different...



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Even with a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez is having trouble attracting pancreatic-cancer patients for his Columbia University study (only 25 of 90 slots filled), perhaps because the treatment's most prominent component is twice-a-day coffee enemas. A Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center doctor called the regimen "ludicrous," but Gonzalez said the caffeine stimulates nerves in the bowel, helping the liver with detoxification, according to an October Wired magazine report. His initial pilot program reported significant benefits of the treatment but was regarded with skepticism in that it included only 11 patients. [Wired, 10-30-02]
Scheduled to marry in December in Flint, Mich.: Ms. Laura Kah and Mr. Scott Boom (although she plans be just plain Laura Boom).

Recent Paraphilias: Ian Cheeseman, 34, already locked up in Ottawa, Ontario, was charged in September with having made about 250 collect calls from prison trying to trick young girls (by offering them Backstreet Boys concert tickets, among other things) into urinating into a cup near the phone. And a judge in Omaha, Neb., ruled in October that a confession made by former teacher Mike Florea, 35, was admissible in his sex-abuse trial; he had told police that he would pay boys $20 to $25 if they would ejaculate into small containers, which Florea then stored in his freezer. [Ottawa Citizen, 9-11-02] [Omaha World-Herald, 10-22-02]

Chattanooga, Tenn., police told the city's WTVC-TV in October that they had arrested Rudy Raines for possession of about a pound of marijuana, after Raines allegedly walked nonchalantly into a Fast Food and Fuel convenience store, past officer David Ashley, and uninhibitedly placed a stash of marijuana into the store's microwave oven because, he said, he needed to dry it out. Raines was arrested, along with another man sleeping in Raines' car in the parking lot. [Commercial Appeal-AP, 10-27-02]

Maybe that is what to Shak?


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respectfully submitted,

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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