N E W Y O R K, May 1, 2001 In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

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I placed 15th in my first real casino poker tournament on Saturday!

I went with Skarb to the RiverRock for their $90+10 bi-weekly tournament. I started off aggressively as I normally do but was too agressive and saw almost half of my stack gone. I then started to get some good hands, QQ, AA, 10’s twice. I was able to take advantage of the good cards and knocked out the first 3 people at my table and quickly became a chip leader in the tourney. After a while the blinds were at $500-1000 and the ante’s 200$, this is where I started to lose a bit, I wasn’t getting great cards and the ante’s were slowing eating away at my stack and by that time I was no longer the big-stack at the table. Word reached that were almost at the last 15 and everyone was happy to have made it in the money. We had the 2nd final break and on my first hand I was dealt pocket 7’s, blinds $1000-2000, ante’s $300. I raised to 4000, and then I was re-raised to 10,000. It was one of those feelings you get, the ones where it doesn’t matter what the odds are, just a gut feeling and I went all-in, the person instantly called me showing pocket aces. I went out 15th and collected $154 and some change. I basically put the other person on a big draw like A,K or A,Q and I felt like it would be a race with my 7’s. I’m not pissed with my decision at all, I probably could have stuck around for another 5-6 hands and maybe never had a better hand then 7’s. Anyways it was fun and a great experience, I’ll be back.

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Things are lining up nicely for Juventus. They are now 6pts ahead of 2nd place Napoli in Serie B standings and now they have a nice sponsorship deal via the Agnelli family. Forza Juve!

“Fiat has signed a 33 million euro ($44.06 million) deal with Juventus in one of the biggest sponsorship agreements in world soccer.”

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