The commander of the US Navy's Combat Intelligence Unit (Station Hypo) at Hawaii, Commander Joseph J. Rochefort, noticed that the code reference "AF" was increasingly appearing in Japanese Navy signal traffic as a destination. Rochefort and his team of code-breakers began to concentrate their efforts on identifying the location of AF. It was recalled that two Japanese flying boats had made an abortive attack on Pearl Harbor in March 1942. The flying boats had refuelled from a submarine at French Frigate Shoals, a tiny atoll lying between Pearl Harbor and Japanese-occupied Wake Island and south-east of Midway. An intercepted signal from the flying boats mentioned that they had passed near AF. The only significant land feature in that area was Midway Atoll, and Rochefort was now convinced that AF referred to Midway. He was also convinced that Midway was the target of the impending Japanese naval offensive.

Some of Rochefort's superiors in Washington doubted the correctness of his conclusion that AF referred to Midway. Around 10 May 1942, Rochefort came up with a plan that he felt could identify AF beyond all reasonable doubt. Admiral Nimitz approved what was to become one of the most famous ruses of the Pacific War. Midway was instructed by undersea cable to transmit by radio in plain English a false message to the effect that the atoll's machinery for producing fresh water had broken down and that Midway was short of fresh water. Midway sent the fake message. It was picked up by a Japanese signal unit on a Pacific island, and the message was passed on by radio to Tokyo. The Japanese signal reported "AF is short of water". Rochefort now had his proof beyond reasonable doubt.

In the 1980's, to the endless amusement of the pundits and the press (those folks again ...), Mr. Bush had the misfortune to refer to some of his political problems as "getting into deep doo doo ...." The press have never let him forget it .... Nor has Dana Carvey, of "Saturday Night Live."

As I write this, NASA seems to have found some of George Bush's left over "doo doo" ... flying around its recently "completed" Deep Impact Mission to Comet Tempel 1.

The "doo doo" is now getting noticably deep ....

• People don't know how to play the game correctly.
  
  Case in point: Each team is divided into seperate "squads" which you can join and leave freely provided there is space. These squads allow you to spawn near your squad leader should you need to -- the advantage of having a mobile spawn point as well as one that is near to a current battle should be obvious. That said, many people don't bother to join squads. Some that do don't bother to follow the squad leader.
  
  You can also play as a team 'Commander' (one per team) that has control over scan functions, artillery, and other valuable assets. Often, no one will play as commander. Many commanders are morons, but teams will not bother to vote them out because...
  
  
• Nobody votes. Have an obvious team killer? Good luck getting rid of him, it's very difficult to get enough people to vote (by pressing "page up"). The thresholds are too high and voter participation is too low.
  
  
• Players drive off in vehicles without picking up teammates. Often times, battles are happening on the other side of the map. The only way to get there in a timely fashion is to hitch a ride. Some people don't pay any attention to the "Need Pickup!" shout. Others drive by you quite purposefully.
  
  
• Players run over their teammate's land mines and blow themselves up. This might be excusable if the mines weren't visibly boxed with a warning icon with an additional icon on your HUD. If you run over a teammate's mine, it is your own fault. You should never punish because of it. I had a guy fly an attack helicopter into a warehouse building to get some capture points. The problem was that I'd just mined the point because enemy armor was inbound. The helicopter managed to detonate the mines, killing the pilot, gunner, and a third guy on the ground. All 3 punished me.
  
  
• Players don't watch for artillery. There is an audible announcement and a highly visible icon on the minimap. If you don't get out of the way or take cover, it's your own fault. Do not punish the commander unless it is a completely egregious misuse of artillery.
  
  
• Connection times need to be drastically shortened. My computer can load all the resources needed to start playing in about 15 seconds. It takes almost two minutes to start playing thereafter because of "Verifying Client Data..."
  
  Wow, that all sucks. But still, it's great fun.
  
  
• The battles are (almost always) constantly in motion. While this can be quite frustrating at times, it also gives the rounds a sense of narrative and direction. That said...
  
  
• It's a hoot to pin down and decimate the enemy. Maybe this will get me labeled a camper, but I think it's great fun to take control points that back the enemy into a corner. They have to find a creative way out of their predicament. (I do not camp uncapturable spawns. Dirty, dirty.)
  
  
• You really have to work together. Since capturing a control point takes much much longer when you're by yourself, you must recruit teammates to help take them. Two anti-tank players are also much better than one. Medics are invaluable, especially when you're "critically injured" and will die unless they come revive you. Engineers are essential for keeping tanks alive in hotspots.
  
  
• Unlockable weapons are something to work for. They really can pack more of a punch that the defaults, provided you choose wisely.
  
  
• I have squashed people with helicopters. I have driven cars off of high bridges and then parachuted to safety. I have shot down fully-laden Black Hawks from 500+ meters with a tank round. I've single-handed turned losing rounds into winning ones with well placed artillery barrages. I've stolen tanks from enemy engineers when they hopped out to repair, then I've run them over with their own fresh treads. I've run down the full count of an entire team with a ground defense gun. In a row.

SAN BERNARDINO Incorporating Ebonics into a new school policy that targets black students, the lowest-achieving group in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, may provide students a more well-rounded curriculum, said a local sociologist.
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Texeira suggested that including Ebonics in the program would be beneficial for students. Ebonics, a dialect of American English that is spoken by many blacks throughout the country, was recognized as a separate language in 1996 by the Oakland school board.

"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe,' Texeira said. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language.'

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -— A psychologist who has spoken out on eating disorders and other issues was arrested after she collapsed in a supermarket, allegedly after inhaling propellant from whipped cream cans.

Lisa G. Berzins, who has been interviewed on television and in newspapers and successfully lobbied for a state law regulating claims by weight loss businesses, was arrested on a warrant Friday charging her in the May 29 incident.

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, West Hartford police were called to the Farmington Avenue Stop & Shop and found Berzins lying on the floor and bleeding from her head. Berzins, the affidavit says, told police she did not know what happened.

Investigators concluded that Berzins inhaled from three cans of whipped cream containing nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, the affidavit said.

June 30, 2005, adventurers Bear Grylls, 30 and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, 34, are the diners enjoying a dinner party suspended from a balloon at a height of nearly 24,262 ft flying over Somerset, England. The pair were making a successful attempt to break the world record for the highest formal dinner party.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 300 cats, nearly a third of them dead, were removed from an elderly woman's Virginia home after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house, police said on Tuesday.

"Cats were coming out of the cabinets and drawers and were inside the walls. There were hundreds of them," Fairfax County Police officer Richard Henry told Reuters.

Please note that CrashBonsai models are not just for bonsai alone. They look great on coffee tables, kitchen counters, smashing into lamps and toasters.

An army of 200 million horse-like creatures will kill one-third of mankind (Rev 9:13-19).

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Save up for yourself gold; gold has always had value as money and always will, even in a cashless society. Identify one of these profiteers and seek to purchase food and living supplies from him. However, don't ever disclose to him how much gold you have and where it is.

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Therefore, since you have decided to reject Christ's offer to join in the rapture, your concern is how to maintain good health in the post rapture era. You must build a supply of multiple vitamins with particular emphasis on anti-oxidants such as C and E and minerals. It will also be necessary to have a supply of disinfectants, particularly one that can be added to water to make it potable.

Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Cruise has tossed off the shackles of Hollywood oppression and is piloting his Scientology-fueled funny car straight towards you. The tires are smoking and he's screaming to the stands about Katie, psychiatry, sex, space aliens, and Brooke Shields. We invite you to grab some popcorn and watch for a few minutes before the crash...

Q: What's the difference between one dollar and one lev?

A: One dollar.

Gary McKinnon has been accused of committing the 'biggest military computer hack of all time', and if extradited to the US faces up to 70 years in jail... What Gary was hunting for, as he snooped around Nasa, and the Pentagon's network, was evidence of a UFO cover-up.

"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask.

"I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."

"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.

"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."

"What were the ship names?"

"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."

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To : 		eric_hcr80@hotmail.com
Subject : 	Friendster Really Misses You

Hi Eric, We've noticed that it's been a few months since you stopped by Friendster. And that's okay. We're not mad!

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