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Red Sox hand Tiger's Scherzer rare lossBy MIKE SHALIN
The Sports Xchange
September 03. 2013 11:25PM
BOSTON — Roger Clemens still stands as the only major league pitcher to go 20-1 to start a season.
And the former Red Sox great can thank current Sox left-hander Jon Lester and third baseman Will Middlebrooks for keeping it that way.
With Max Scherzer making his second attempt at 20-1, Lester pitched seven strong innings and Middlebrooks drilled a two-run single in the sixth to lead Boston to a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers in the middle game of a three-game series that could be a postseason preview.
Clemens went 20-1 (and didn't win the Cy Young Award) to start his 2001 season. Scherzer, 19-1 and taken off the hook by his teammates last week against the Oakland Athletics, is now 19-2 (8-1 on the road) after getting outpitched by Lester (13-8).
The Red Sox won for the eighth in the last 10 games and maintained the best overall record in the American League by 1½ games over the Tigers.
Lester scattered eight hits, struck out nine and did not walk a batter in winning for the third time in his last four starts. Three relievers worked the eighth and Koji Uehara continued his marvelous run with a perfect ninth (nine pitches, two strikeouts).
Uehara, who picked his 17th save, has made 22 straight scoreless appearances, working 25 scoreless innings in a row.
Scherzer, who had been getting great run support (the Tigers scored in double figures in five of his victories, including a win over Boston), was bidding for his first career complete game but was lifted in the eighth inning.
The Tigers won the series opener, 3-0.
Lester pitched around a leadoff double in the first inning but didn't escape in the second. The damage could have been worse had it not been for a blunder by Detroit third base coach Tom Brookens.
With one out, Omar Infante singled, and Brayan Pena also singled, moving Infante to third. Jose Iglesias, who doubled his first time up on Monday, did it again. Infante scored easily, but Brookens waved Pena, a lumbering catcher, home. He was easily cut down.
Lester struck out the side in the third, which is what Scherzer had done in the first.
Lester retired six straight in the third and fourth. But an error by Middlebrooks at third and two singles left the bases loaded with two out and Cabrera, a .418 lifetime hitter with the bases loaded, coming up. Lester fell behind 2-0 but got the slugger to ground out.
With one out in the bottom of the inning, Jonny Gomes, deprived of a hit down the left field line by a poor call by umpire Eric Cooper, singled on the next pitch. Gomes rode to third on Stephen Drew's long ground-rule double (which would have scored a run if it had stayed in play). It didn't matter. After Scherzer blew away David Ross, Middlebrooks ripped his two-run single.
Notes: Scherzer was clubbed for six runs (five earned) and eight hits in five innings against Oakland last week, although his teammates took him off the hook with a four-run rally in the ninth. ... CF Jacoby Ellsbury (sore hand) and C Jarrod Saltalamacchia (back) were out of the Boston lineup, and it looks like Saltalamacchia will be out a few days. ... The Tigers recalled RHPs Jeremy Bonderman and Jose Alvarez and C Bryan Holaday from Toledo. ... Detroit RHP Rick Porcello faces RHP Ryan Dempster in tonight's series finale. It could be Dempster's final start. RHP Clay Buchholz (shoulder, neck) will make his third and final rehab start for Pawtucket on Thursday night, and he appears to be on target to return to the rotation next Tuesday at Tampa Bay.


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It's not at all scientific, but it is delicious: A Roseville, Minn., bakery is offering Obama and Romney cookies to test its customers' preference in the presidential race.
Roseville Bakery owner Amy Johnson says she's done her cookie poll in the past two elections, and it correctly predicted the winner both times.
It boosts cookie sales, too. Customer Muriel Sharpe read about the cookie poll online and when she heard Obama was behind, she drove in Tuesday morning and snatched up two dozen Obama cookies.
She passed some out to other customers. Then she bought eight more.
Despite her efforts, Romney still held an 830-to-731 lead over Obama in cookie sales.
Johnson says the political cookies have sparked some heated discussion between customers and gotten her young staff more engaged in what's going on.
— Amy Forliti — Twitter http://twitter.com/amyforliti

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Dr. William Johnston, Wesley president, to retire in June 2015
Wesley College President Dr. William Johnston will retire at the conclusion of the 2014-15 academic year, according to a news release from the college.
Johnston became Wesley's 16th president in 2008. During his tenure, several improvements were made to the college including adding new adult studies programs and increasing retention rates.
His presidency also saw numerous additions to the campus. The Wesley plazas not only made the school a more pedestrian-friendly environment, but also offered students a place to access outdoor Wi-Fi and a set area to hold events, school officials said. The Health Sciences Building also was added to accommodate a growing nursing department with new facilities and state-of-the-art equipment.
Wesley's Board of Trustees hopes to name a successor early next year.


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Toxicology Brief: Helping animals exposed to the herbicide paraquat
Sep 01, 2004
Last summer, an epizootic of paraquat poisoning caused the deaths of at least seven dogs in Portland, Ore.1 This epizootic is evidence that this type of poisoning remains a current problem in companion-animal practice in North America. Paraquat, a poisonous dipyridilium compound, is one of the few nonselective herbicides still available in the United States. Because paraquat is fast-acting, can be effectively used in wet environments, and has limited potential for environmental contamination and low rates of weed resistance, it is still widely used in various crop production systems. However, paraquat is highly toxic to domestic animals if ingested.2,3
SourcesWithin the United States, paraquat is a restricted-use herbicide with the exception of pressurized spray formulations that contain no more than 0.44% paraquat bis (methyl sulfate) and liquid fertilizer formulations that contain no more than 0.04% paraquat dichloride. Current active U.S. registered brand names include Gramoxone Super (Syngenta), Gramoxone Max (Syngenta), Cyclone Max (Syngenta Crop Protection), Marman Herbiquat Herbicide (Marman USA), and Surefire Herbicide (UAP-Loveland Products). Because paraquat has been available for agricultural use since 1962, outdated stocks are relatively easy to obtain.2 Older, outdated domestic garden herbicides often contained a 50:50 (Wt:Wt) mixture of diquat and paraquat, and supplies of this mixture can still be found in the United States. Despite paraquat's restricted-use status, intentional paraquat poisoning of animals remains a problem.3,4
Exposure and toxicokinetics
Most cases of paraquat poisoning in people and animals involve ingestion of concentrated formulations.2-8 In dogs, only about 25% to 28% of orally administered paraquat is absorbed; the remainder is excreted unchanged in the feces.2 In experiments in rodents, paraquat was detected in the feces up to seven days after exposure.2 The oral LD50 of paraquat in cats is 35 to 50 mg/kg. The oral LD50 in dogs is unknown but is higher than that in cats, and the intravenous LD50 in dogs is 7.48 mg/kg.
Many of the current commercial paraquat preparations (e.g. Gramoxone) deliberately incorporate emetics and bitters in their concentrate formulations to reduce the dose absorbed after suicide-related oral poisoning in people.2,9 This protective measure causes fasting and nonfasting dogs to vomit 61% to 86% of an orally administered dose and reduces blood paraquat concentrations by about 170 times.9 Unfortunately, older concentrates are less likely to incorporate this key safety feature.


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The West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Project
represents an important new way that skilled Indigenous fire
managers in Australia's fire-prone tropical savannas can work
with the broader community to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
protect culture and biodiversity on their country, and bring in
social and economic benefits to their communities.
The project is a partnership between the Aboriginal Traditional
Owners and Indigenous ranger groups, Darwin Liquefied Natural Gas
(DLNG), the Northern Territory Government and the Northern Land
Council. Through this partnership Indigenous Ranger groups are
implementing strategic fire management across 28,000 km2
of Western Arnhem Land (yellow area in picture below), in
Australia's Northern Territory, to offset some of the
greenhouse gas emissions from the Liquefied Natural Gas plant at
Wickham Point in the city of Darwin.
The Arnhem Land Plateau (in yellow and orange)
rises from the savanna lowlands (in green). Kakadu National Park
covers part of the Western edge and the West Arnhem Land Fire
Abatement Project (outlined) covers most of the remainder of the
The project is now reducing greenhouse gas emissions from this
area by the equivalent of over 100,000 tonnes of CO2
each year. It does this by undertaking strategic fire management
from early in the dry season to reduce the size and extent of
unmanaged wildfires. Such practices are also helping to conserve
environmental and cultural values in the project region - values
equivalent to those in the adjacent World Heritage-listed Kakadu
National Park.
In return Darwin LNG is paying the Indigenous fire managers
around $1Million a year to provide this service – with this
funding also bringing in new jobs, networks and educational
opportunities to the region.
The project is helping to revive Indigenous culture on the
Arnhem Land Plateau. This is a living tradition involving various
aspects of culture including rock wall painting and customary land
management that extends back over tens of thousands of years. The
thousands of rock art sites alone likely represent the
world's oldest continuing record of artistic endeavour
– and the project is helping to protect some of these sites
and other sites of cultural significance from the ravages of
wildfire. To find out more see A rich culture in the menu at
The project is also helping to safeguard habitats of a rich
assemblage of species of plants and animals – many of them
unique to the plateau. Over millions of years the sandstone country
has provided a stable environment that has allowed many species to
evolve with adaptations. To find out more see Refuge for plants
and animals in the menu at left.
The destructive pattern of frequent wildfires in the plateau
appears to date from several decades ago when Aboriginal people had
largely left the region and the newly emptied landscape started
being swept by large fires that had their origins in the more
settled areas in the surrounding lowlands. This new fire pattern
has had significant and severe consequences for cultural sites and
plants and animals. It also has consequences for greenhouse gas
emissions as this new fire regime likely emits significantly more
of these gases than the fire patterns of the past. To find out more
see The impact of wildfire in the menu at left.
In these extensive, sparsely peopled landscapes that are
naturally prone to burn every dry season, the most effective tool
to prevent fire is fire itself. Aboriginal people have known this
for a long time, and the idea of burning patchy fires and fire
breaks in the early, cooler part of the dry season to prevent
uncontrollable wildfires in the late, hotter part of the dry season
is still a practical solution to managing wildfire today. Reducing
the incidence of wildfire in this way can be shown to also reduce
greenhouse gas emissions from the region. To find out more
see Fire and greenhouse gases in the menu at left.
Traditional Indigenous methods of fire management worked well in
the past when there were many groups on the plateau, today however,
there are far fewer people who work in Indigenous Ranger groups,
and the wildfire threat they need to manage is probably greater
than it was in the past. To help them, modern Indigenous fire
managers have added some useful items from the western tool kit:
helicopters and aircraft help them put in fire breaks quickly over
large areas and close-to-real time satellite data on the location
of fires can be accessed over websites. Nor did Indigenous people
in the past have to measure the amount of greenhouse gases abated
because of their fire management, so today researchers are
contracted to do this job. To find out more see Reviving the
plateau in the menu at left.
The first four years of the project have been remarkably
successful, abating the equivalent of around 488,000 tonnes of
Carbon Dioxide, or 122,000 tonnes a year – ahead of the
100,000 tonnes a year the project is contracted to deliver. There
has been a significant reduction in the incidence of destructive
wildfires, however it will take some time to verify that this has
produced a recovery in the status of threatened and declining
species on the plateau. The fire management has involved over one
hundred part-time jobs for Indigenous Rangers and others and has
allowed many different ranger groups and communities to coordinate
their activities and build regional collaboration. To find out more
see What's been achieved? in the menu at left.
The outcomes achieved by the West Arnhem Fire
project have potential application across fire-prone tropical
Australia and other fire-prone savannas of the tropics. Major
companies are investigating the feasibility of entering into
similar Greenhouse Gas offsets agreements using this approach.
Governments and Indigenous land management groups are also looking
to extend the practice of managing fire as an environmental service
to other areas in fire-prone, biodiversity-rich, primarily
Indigenously owned landscapes in northern Australia. To find
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Roger Simon: Obama vs. the frauds on the HillROGER SIMON
October 05. 2013 3:43AM
WHO ARE THESE people? Of what are they made that they can say and do such things on the floor of Congress?
No nonsense is too great; no act too low.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor leaves the floor of the House in the wee hours of Sunday morning, having taken action that would shut down the government, and releases a statement saying, "It's time for President Obama to rise above stubborn partisanship."
Which is like an arsonist's telling others not to play with matches.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., said Saturday, "Obamacare is based on limitless government, bureaucratic arrogance and a disregard for the will of the people."
Except Congress passed Obamacare; the President signed it; the Supreme Court upheld it; and Obama campaigned on it a second time and was re-elected. So in what manner was the will of the people disregarded?
And since when have the extremists in Congress cared about the will of the people? Is it the will of the people that government be closed, salaries stopped, services suspended?
Slyness and game playing rule the day. Having lost the vote on Obamacare, the extremists and those who fear them vote to cut off the funding of government unless Obamacare is suspended. And then they will try to force the United States to default on its loans.
Not because they wish to do the will of the people but because they wish to thwart the will of the people.
And when, in those rare moments, they decide to earn their salaries of $174,000 per year (plus expenses, plus perks, plus pensions) and actually pass a bill, what do they do? Last month, the House voted to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next 10 years.
It voted to deny people food.
Is this the kind of government our Founding Fathers envisioned? "For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill," John Winthrop wrote as his boat sailed from England to the New World in 1630. "The eyes of all people are upon us."
Walter Mondale used to quote that line, and so did John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. "The eyes of all people are upon us." What a grand thing. What an inspiring thing. What a guide for all our actions.
But what do the eyes of the world see today? What do the eyes of Americans see today?
In the past, I would complain that Congress was dysfunctional.
Today I would take dysfunctional. Because when the extreme right wing of Congress functions today, it functions with such malicious intent, with such perverse glee at frustrating the will of the people, that one does not know whether to laugh or cry.
We live in a time when outright buffoonery passes for statesmanship.
We live in a time when a 21-hour non-filibuster filibuster by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leads not to general hilarity but to serious consideration of how it will help Cruz run for President in 2016.
Nor can the tragicomedy even be questioned. When a reporter asked Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Saturday what he would do if his efforts to defund Obamacare should fail, Issa stuck his nose into the reporter's face and shrilled: "How dare you presume a failure? How dare you? How dare you? How dare you?"
How dare us. Our leaders must not be questioned! They are beyond question. And, in some cases, beyond hope.
Shutting down the government will not shut down Obamacare.
Shutting down government is just another gun held to the head of the President, another threat by people who hate the fact that he is President.
In his first inaugural address, President Obama said, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
Back then, Obama was speaking of extremists in foreign governments. Today he could be speaking to extremists in our own Congress.
At 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Politico congressional reporter Ginger Gibson tweeted: "I'm not over exaggerating when I say I can smell the booze wafting from members as they walk off the floor."
What is the old joke? "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Some of our lawmakers appear to be having both.
Roger Simon is Politico's chief political columnist.


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I need a new processor and motherboard (the one I salvaged has 900 MHz and 128 SyncDRAM), but I have a limit of $225, can I get a better one? Where should I look, or should I even bother looking?
My name is Draxx...you simians may refer to me merely as \'sir\' for a less syllable-intensive workout.
Where should you be looking? Google.
Even a broken watch is correct twice a day.
Which coder said that nobody could outcode Microsoft in their own OS? Write a bit and make a fortune!
the one I salvaged has 900 MHz and 128 SyncDRAM
Your best bet for improved performance is to increase your RAM, and save your money for a new machine
You do not say what operating system you are using, or if you have onboard video or a card, or what speed your HDD is running at.
I do quite a lot of upgrading and salvaging, so I am very conscious of "bang per buck" considerations
Give me a few more details of what you have got and I will try to suggest what I think is worthwhile.
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I stopped reading The Huffington Post over a year and a half ago. One of the reasons was the misleading headlines that lured me into clicking on a piece and then when I read it, it wasn't anything like the screaming headline that sucked me in. I was also sick of the tabloid style gossip and "celebritainment" that polluted the site. If I wanted that crap, I would go to TMZ.
But the main reason I quit reading is because this once touted "liberal" website began a turn to the right, where Arianna started of course — working for Newt Gingrich. After the merger with AOL, my thoughts were confirmed as Arianna took to the airwaves and proclaimed that "Huffpoo" isn't liberal or conservative and how she and Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, shared a vision. Tim Armstrong calls himself a libertarian but has given a lot of money to conservatives over the years. I'm sure they shared a vision.
So you can imagine my satisfaction when I read that The Huffington Post ranks last in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). I'm not the only one who thinks that website sucks, apparently. When you build a website on the backs of liberals, trading on anger and outrage towards President George W. Bush and then turn your sights towards liberals and our Democratic president, what do you expect?. The word on the street these days is that the merger isn't going so well and the entire deal is at risk of falling apart. I wonder what Arianna's next scam will be?


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The reasons are historical, not logical. And since religion is involved, and politics, for that matter, logic doesn't seem to apply. If politicians can't do anything right anywhere else, don't expect perfection here. I, of course, agree that they should not be tax exempt. But if my opinion couldn't keep us out of Iraq, stop the NSA debacle or get tea partiers tossed into the ocean, I don't think it is going to work here either.
Tax all the vices including religion,the Catholic church has a lot more money than any Colombian cartel and they leave a lot more bodies in their wake... Doug Stanhope quote
I agree GIa Why does God need a tax break to get stuff done? In any case I'd like to see tax auditors go into some churches and ask to see tangible evidence of God's work And do a little sniffing around for personal enjoyment of church assets and income - I think they'll find a goldmine.
With view to the U.K.Stamp duty should be retrospectively taken from all religious denominations. e.g. all Church of England properties are valued and Stamp Duty taken.All "donations" should be taxed at gift rate of 40%.The religious buildings will attract business rates of council tax as they are a business.All religious properties will have to be maintained by the religion using its own funds. No government funding be it at national or local level.All staff (vicars, priests, imams, money launderers) will be taxed the same as any other worker. Especially the perks like travel, cars, second homes etc.. all types of benefit in kind.All profits will be taxed the same as any business. Profits being calculated like any other organisation. Fuk the parasitic bastards.
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. (Henry David Thoreau)In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally. (Ulysses S. Grant)
Spring semester, my poli-sci instructor mentioned this in passing: $6 billion dollars annually are lost to uncollected property taxes on church-owned properties.I wish I'd asked him for a source on that remark - he's a lawyer in real life, so I'm pretty sure he could have produced one that could be deemed credible, but I was so gobsmacked by the number that the lecture had moved on by the time it occurred to me to ask. The guy next to me had a very quiet hissy fit in my ear over it at the same time so it was an opportunity lost.Google had this to say: https://www.google.com/#q=church-owned+property+taxes+exempt+per+year+in+the+USLots of differing opinions on the actual total, but it's a big number in any frame of reference.
Jontom, I think you go a little too far here though I agree you sentiment. Here in the UK charitable exemption is granted to all sorts of organisations basically based on them providing 'charitable work' whether feeding the elderly, helping children etc. Religion is another category, though as a properly organised religion in the UK is granted charitable status on that basis alone and they don't have to do anything 'charitable' to get the exemption. It doesn't cover all religions as the religion has to make itself open to anyone without charging them so Scientology doesn't get the status and neither do some Plymouth Brethren either. The things I would like to see abolished in the UK are -Charitable status merely for being a religion. Of course, and activities a church does that are 'charitable' could still be exempted. In fact, as a member organisation religions wouldn't be taxed on their member fees which makes up quite a lot of their income. UK charities can claim gift aid - i.e a return of the tax someone has paid before giving money to the organisation. Religion gets loads of cash from this.Quite a lot of public schools in the UK are run by religions. The government pays the entire cost of this. I would like to see such schools pay at least the proportion of the costs represented by the religious element of the school and significantly more if they claim the right to select teachers and pupils on the basis of religionAs matter of record, certainly Church of England clergy have to keep detailed records of mileages and so on for the Inland Revenue and don't really do any better that the ordinary employed person out of the tax service.
Maybe the first baby step should be fighting for them to be required to file an IRS form 990 in the U.S. THAT would scare the holy crap out of them!
I think the annual price for religion is something like seventy one billion dollars, imagine if that was spent on cancer research, or given to poorer countries...


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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Reynolds American, the nation's second-biggest tobacco company, saw its fourth-quarter profit fall 54 percent on pension and trademark-related charges and other costs.
But earnings for the maker of Camel, Pall Mall and Natural American Spirit cigarettes, excluding one-time charges, rose about 6 percent as consumers bought more smokeless tobacco brands like Grizzly and Kodiak.
Smokeless tobacco sales, as well as higher prices and productivity gains, offset cigarette volume declines and increased promotional spending.
Reynolds American Inc., based in Winston-Salem, N.C., said its net income fell to $139 million, or 25 cents per share, for the three-month period ended Dec. 31, down from $304 million, or 52 cents per share, a year ago. Adjusted earnings were 76 cents per share, beating Wall Street expectations by three cents.
Revenue excluding excise taxes fell slightly to $2.08 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $2.06 billion.
Citi analyst Vivien Azer said Reynolds had a "solid finish in a tough competitive environment," in a note to investors.
Company shares fell 33 cents to $43.89 in morning trading.
"Continued economic weakness, combined with an intensely competitive marketplace presented significant challenges for our businesses," CEO Daniel M. Delen said in a conference call with investors.
The number of cigarettes sold by its R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. subsidiary fell about 3 percent during the quarter to 17.1 billion, compared with its estimate of a total industry decline of less than 1 percent. It sold 5.5 percent more of its Pall Mall brand and volumes of Camel fell slightly. The brands account for more than 60 percent of its total cigarette volume.
Camel's market share remained stable at 8.6 percent of the U.S. market, while Pall Mall's market share grew 0.3 percentage points to 8.9 percent.
The company has promoted Pall Mall as a longer-lasting and more affordable cigarette for smokers who are weathering the weak economy and high unemployment. The company has said that half of the people who try the brand continue using it.
Yet competitors are doing the same and the company is facing pressure from rivals.
The number of Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co.'s Natural American Spirit cigarettes it sold grew more than 20 percent to about 800 million.
Reynolds American and other tobacco companies are focusing on cigarette alternatives such as snuff and chewing tobacco for growth as tax hikes, smoking bans and social stigma make the cigarette business tougher.
Volume for its smokeless tobacco brands rose 7 percent compared with a year ago. The brands had a 32.6 percent share of the U.S. retail market, which is tiny compared with cigarettes.
The company said it is getting positive feedback from its test market for a nicotine gum under the Zonnic brand, which is meant to help people stop smoking. In 2009, Reynolds bought a Swedish company Niconovum AB, which makes nicotine gum, pouches and spray products. The test market that was initiated in the third quarter is the first of its products to be sold in the U.S.
Delen also said its development of its first electronic cigarette under the Vuse brand is "going very well." The company has begun limited distribution of the battery-powered devices heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale.
For the full year, the company said it earned $1.27 billion, or $2.24 per share, compared with a profit of $1.41 billion, or $2.40 per share, a year ago. Revenue, excluding excise taxes, fell 3 percent to $8.3 billion. Cigarette volumes fell more than 5 percent to 68.9 billion cigarettes. Its full-year U.S. retail share fell 1.1 percentage points to 26.5 percent of the market. Smokeless tobacco volumes grew 8 percent and it claimed 32.4 percent of the U.S. retail market.
Reynolds American also said it expects full-year 2013 adjusted earnings in the range of $3.15 to $3.30 per share. Analysts expect earnings of $3.12 per share.
The company spent $250 million to buy back 6 million shares during the quarter as part of a $2.5 billion share repurchase program. It has about $1.2 billion remaining in that program.
Michael Felberbaum can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/MLFelberbaum.


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ARLINGTON, Texas —
Yu Darvish came within one out of a no-hitter for the second time, giving up only a ninth-inning single to David Ortiz in the Texas Rangers' 8-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.
Darvish took a perfect game into the seventh before Ortiz reached on a two-out error by right fielder Alex Rios. The right-hander walked his next batter and another in the eighth but went into the ninth looking for the first no-hitter in the majors this season.
Dustin Pedroia grounded out and Shane Victorino struck out, bringing Ortiz to the plate. With the crowd in a frenzy, the big slugger hit a sharp grounder through Texas' defensive shift on the right side of the diamond for a clean single.


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Central Connecticut freshman Joseph Gioielli earned Northeast Conference Track Rookie of the Week Honors on Tuesday evening. The announcement was made in the conference's weekly indoor track and field release. Gioielli's first collegiate attempt at the 800m run yielded the second-best time in the Northeast Conference this season.
Producing a prime performance under the bright lights of the Boston University Terrier Classic, Gioielli clocked in at 1:52.61. The time placed him sixth out of 143 finishers at BU.
Among NEC runners, only Monmouth veteran Ford Palmer owns a faster time this season.
A welcome addition to Central Connecticut's already-strong distance department, Gioielli became the first Blue Devil this season to automatically qualify for the IC4A Championships in the 800m run.
Gioielli and the Blue Devils will be back in action this weekend at the University of Rhode Island. The meet will be CCSU's final tune-up prior to the Northeast Conference Championships.


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|2009-06-21, 10:46
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Major Lurker
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: <clap> <clap> <clap> <clap> Deep in the Heart of Texas
Again, if I've moved anyone to righteous indignation, please ignore my rant and carry on. DBob out.
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|2009-06-21, 10:50
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Waiting for more taiyuki!
Join Date: Jan 2004
If it's a spotty thing then it's okay.
Nobody really wants to use the "pest begone" option.
|2009-06-21, 11:22
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デゲソ!! ( ・_・)ノ
Join Date: Oct 2008
Age: 28
Three times in a row? Is this a new record for a K-ON! episode discussion topic?
Anyways, they could have at least used the full version of Fuwa Fuwa Time for the grand finale. I'm a little sad that we never got a full concert, but just a few snippets. Alas, just a minor nitpick, at least they're forcing me to anticipate the full releases.
|2009-06-21, 11:22
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Wordy b@stard
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Mid-Tejas
I liked this eps. A very nice wraparound of everything we've seen during the whole series... A little moe, some dressing up, Yui realizing she'd actually begun to DO something with her life and that she'd gained motivation in the process, so character development, check! And at the end, some lovey, lovey bonding over music! Good show in my opinion!
Given that I enjoyed this series as a whole, I really don't see the problem with the kvetching about this series on this board. It has been clear to me all along that the members who have complained have complained about things in a consistent manner. They simply wanted more form this series than it was able or willing to deliver, but they seemed to like it enough to keep watching, so they didn't HATE the series... Many have even stated this directly.
K-on was a delightful fluffy confection of a show, much like the tea cakes the girls consumed each day. The statement constantly made by characters in the show of "You can't just use this room for Tea and Cakes!" was exactly what the critical fans on this board were saying. I think that was part of the point. Taken in context of the phrase "Don't say Lazy, you are crazy!" and the lyrics in Cagayake Girls, the director was telling you everything you needed to know about what this show was about.
Sure there was MUCH MUCH more that COULD have been done in this series, and stonger themes might have been expressed, but there you have it. This WASN'T that stronger, more musical show. That doesn't mean therre is something wrong with the critical member's opinions. These criticisms were correct, BUT they were criticisms in the end that were directed at something that wasn't going to be something else from what it was. Its like sitting in a Zen rock garden and complaining because you though it was an English Rose garden. It doesn't mean you didn't enjoy anything about the plants!
|2009-06-21, 16:54
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.: A bad doggy :.
Join Date: Jun 2007
It's better then how the Shana S2 / Toradora threads ended up, thanks to you a few people who won't be named.
Also, this series has the most hilarious h-doji ever.
Recreating the second concert bit where Mio falls over for panty shot baring, only to have four to six rush the stage and snogg the living moe fluff out of her (and have her band desert her during the entire thing) is nothing short of funny and hot at the same time.
|2009-06-21, 19:21
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Jumping...is useless!
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 33
Ignoring what this series could've been and what it actually is as a whole it's actually fitting for an ending with one problem...it didn't feel like an ending for me personally. Just not enough closure.
Now I'm also among the criticizers of this series and I agree the performance left much to be desired (especially since we're talking about the season finale here) but it was still a nice treat for me since I really didn't know what to expect out of it. What I thought was the most likely scenario to happen during that part (4koma readers should know what I'm talking about here) was worse than what I got from this episode so I was left oddly satisfied here.
Btw getting teary eyed over a missing band member is nothing to frown about (and I'm sure Led Zeppelin would agree with me on that too ). Many bands can't perform at the same level without everyone there and present. Consider the way Asuza acts there as weak-willed or however way you wish to view it as, fact is it's not uncommon for band members to feel unconfident and edgy when faced with a situation where a band member is missing and might not be present at their next live performance.
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|2009-06-21, 20:59
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IT Support
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania , United States
Age: 29
The final performance is the best they done and was almost as awesome as God Knows and I did like Yui's singing... also Ui's impersonation of her sister and Nanako telling about Yui's eccentric childhood behavior which cracked me up... Although I thought that the cosplaying scene was not necessary and the slow start... Dispite that, they done a great job on the final episode and it was decent... but the small flaws kept me from giving a 10/10.
Rating: 9.4/10 -> 9/10
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|2009-06-21, 23:39
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New Macross soon
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Macross 30 Emigration Fleet
I think K-On! should come up with something like Macross Flash Back 2012, a music video OVA where we could hear the complete songs and gawk at well-animated instrument playing or scenes after scenes of moe.
|2009-06-22, 00:06
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Cross Game - I need more
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
Age: 39
I enjoyed K-On alot, but I would not label it a "great" (classic) anime. Why? Because it's Light and Fluffy. There is little depth to it- that's okay by me because not every show has to be deep. So I might call it great- but in the sense that it is enjoyable fluff. I would not label it as an anime that people will still value 20 years from now. Similarly Lucky Star is a great anime in the sense that it is a lot of fun, and t might reach the level of "cult classic" but it won't be a true classic 20 years from now- if only because the target audience is to narrow.
Compare this to certain anime classics like: Starblazers, or Maison Ikkoku or Fullmetal Alchemist. Those shows have a depth and greatness to them that can transcend things like animation styles or changes in culture. Maison Ikkoku is so 1980s to anyone who lived through it, but you don't have to remember the 80s to experience the meaningful development of romance.
Some "great" shows I don't even enjoy.
Take the play Hamlet. I recognize the depth and greatness of the material- but truthfully I just don't enjoy the story. So while I've read the play, and occasionally gone to see it, I did so because the greatness of the material made me feel it was worth seeing even though it's not my kind of story.
So I guess what I would say on the topic of K-On is that sure, if you wanted a more music focused anime then you are going to be a little disappointed. Same if you wanted drama.
But I don't feel the need to defend K-On as the greatest thing since sliced bread. I enjoyed it. I think the hype is over done and it makes me roll my eyes sometimes- but whatever. I'll enjoy it- why? Because I've had friends in a band, and they acted similar. I have a cousin who plays the bass, and she sure enjoys K-On because she she so many common things from her life in it.
If you don't enjoy it, I guess you are free to explain why, but I would suggest avoiding debates over it because what is the point? There's nothing wrong with loving or hating K-On. I guess I just don't see much point in trying to convince people that they should like or dislike an anime like this.
If I talk about it with someone I just say that I like it and explain why, and if my friend says they don't like that then I just say okay, and suggest a different genre of anime for them to watch. (Compared to say one of the classic anime I mentioned earlier, which I might push a bit harder because I think the "greatness will win them over, even if it's not their normal cup of tea).
|2009-06-22, 00:28
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do you know ベアトリーチェ様?
Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 30
|2009-06-22, 01:59
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: 218 nielo street platero biñan laguna phil
Age: 30
well simply saying to my previous post I mean't some of us In one point in our lives think that we are going to grow up doing nothing and a sudden opportunity come in our path that make us change our lives to what are we now
I not saying that the anime is saying that we are lazy back then, I meant that If sometimes, we think back then, and say to our former self that "you dont have to worry, you will find something that you can do"
As I said not many or maybe few experience this kind of expirience but I think this anime Is telling us or maybe some of us that feeling kind of down in thier lives, that think positive ,Set your mind to 1 thing and go all out in finishing it before doing something else, dont let the idea rot, like saying, tommorow i'll do it
Well for others try to step in thier shues and mind and think about It(I mean yui's life before the club)
|2009-06-22, 11:50
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Basically, the series summed itself up. "Fuwa fuwa time".
That's what K-On was from beginning to end, fluffy.
Not groundbreaking, not dramatic, not 'Teh Best Show Evar!!' or 'Worst. Episode. Ever', but 20odd minutes a week of fluffy fluffy time.
I liked it. I thought it was entertaining fluff. and 13 episodes of fluffy fluffy time was just about the right amount.
Oh yeah. Was I the only one expecting it to start raining just before the concert? It wouldn't have surprised me one bit.
|2009-06-22, 17:28
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Ah I see.
Meh, whatever.
I'd argue back but its not really worth my time.
Anyhow, I was also expecting them to perform Cagayake! Girls but Brush and Ballpoint Pen wasn't bad either.
Also, Yui's statement "This is our Budokan!" at this ep. might be a hint from KyoAni that there'll be no season 2.
|2009-06-22, 18:41
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Senior Member
Erm. Isn't it obvious there will be no second season, when there is no manga either ? Unless KyoAni is gonna make another season which isn't based on anything, but I highly doubt that. This probably was the end of K-On, sadly. Though the series wasn't THAT incredible, now what's gonna give my weekly set of moe if not K-On..
|2009-06-22, 18:58
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デゲソ!! ( ・_・)ノ
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|2009-06-22, 19:05
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And considering that Kakifly releases it slowly..
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The celebrations started as soon as The Eye jumped to Hyperspace.
Though Isec and Militia crews were still mopping up a few rogue, Reach gunmen and Stormtroopers the cantina's, eateries and Octagon opened their doors with drinks on Station administration.
Amidst repairs, restocking and preparation for relocation, six days of revelry were still going strong when the station arrived at its new home; a lonely corner of space, off Hyperspace routes, populated only by great tracts of gaseous deposits that disrupt sensor readings…. Unless of course you know how to counter their effects …
A small flotilla was already assembled, waiting nervously, troop ships and RNRs alike. But with every repatriation, celebrations were rekindled anew.
Eye administration survived the conflict; Yohrn Geffen wandered the market level, docks and administrative dome personally thanking all who fought and those who had the faith to return.
Losses were mourned of course, Veedo was killed when the Merchant Militia found themselves square off against a heavily armed Reach crew. Hagan was injured but recovered by the time the Eye left Hyperspace. Wassan too was injured, bad enough that it seemed his career might be cut short but an appreciative administration saw to it that he had the best medical care. More surprisingly was the reaction to a troopship of Hive dwellers, destroyed attempting to clear The Gauntlet. For the first time, united against a common enemy, a population who saw this invisible underclass as a kind of necessary pest, finally start to think about how this group fits into the station culture and how better they could be integrated; starting with Jata's promotion to Hive Councilman.
War stories were told too; how Captain (now Lieutenant) Kanner Zirach thwarted a brazen and bloody assassination attempt on Madame Khorash by two local Ubese mercenaries, apparently payrolled by Reach. Though apprehended they later escaped in Moelage Enegrines Shuttle (killing the hapless station Stalwart in the process). Apparently they also killed the Slicer who created their fake ids.
Not to mention the talk of the terrible black alien ship on the secret payroll of Isec that ultimately bought The Eye its freedom. Some that saw it spoke of a terrible emotion that overcame them, others called it the Night Angel but none that saw it would forget it.
And there was departures. The Gambit, Banshee and Firecracker crews were gone leaving legends and big shoes to fill by the up and coming crews RNRs that remained behind. Areena after establishing a new team moved on to 'bigger things' as she said in her final report which included a personal thanks to the Gambit crew.
But… Ultimately, the people returned, trade continued and a new era of prosperity for The Eye Space station began.
The Slaver
A live holofeed… of two Wookies, at ground level a mile from their developing tree-house colony on an uncharted planet. A Mother, slender and smiling watches her son, growing stronger every day now they have a home, proper food and community. The boy plays with a set of dolls, made for him by his mother.
Most are humanoid, sewn from lizard skin with little teeth made from shell and tiny chains made from twine in their hands.
The boy however is focused on another doll, slightly larger than the others, sewn from the brown, grey fur, of a local tree dweller. Its face has three small black beads for eyes and a nose and a tiny, intricately fashioned leather satchel is slung over its shoulder. The boy role-play's a heated exchange between the stuffed combatants finishing with the furry grey figure elbowing the last of his scaly enemies.
His mother only smiles a content if slightly forlorn smile.
Orbiting the small, unlisted, arboreal moon, Grussk shifts uncomfortably in his seat, in the cockpit of his ship The Collector. The shrapnel from the blast that knocked him unconscious, when those smugglers attacked his last operation is still there in his lower back and it makes long spells in the captains chair irritating…
Not as irritating as the arms he lost when that damned Jawa blew it off. Had he been younger, his Trandoshan physiology could have regenerated the limb, but now he is forced to endure the indignity and inconvenience of a stump.
Still, if this next endeavour goes as well as he thinks it will, he'll be able to get himself a synthetic.
As his scanners sweep the Wookie colony again, his second mate ambles in
'Why don't we just fly in, pick off a few stragglers from the outlying boundaries and be done with this?"
Grussk glowers at his new first mate and laments the loss of so many good crewman in that same attack that he lost his arm.
"No fool, I won't settle for a few thousand credits when we can return with more ships and take them all… And this time, there'll be no do-gooders to fly in save the day!"
Who knows, after a little persuasion, he might be able to find out who that crew was, where they're stationed and finally get his revenge…
Krayt Dragon Headquarters Russan
As a beaten and bloody Kyfer is dragged through the Dragon's Den by two of his ex-brothers, they pick him up and literally throw him into a metal cage, slamming the door and bolting it shut. There is a wild jeering in the huge refurbished silo as the gang members assembled, scream, jeer and jostle one another on the bleachers overlooking the pit.
Yeegol the Hutt slides out onto his outlook, lifting stubby arms to silence the throng and spitting his cigar into the gaping hole below.
"Welcome back Kyfer… We've missed your company (more jeers) hopefully we'll have Wisspe back soon too, I doubt in her state she'll get far… (coarse laughter). In the mean time, 'brother' you can start your penance by providing tonight's entertainment!
Another cacophony of disturbing screams erupt as the cage, shackled to a huge chain, lurches suddenly into the air above the pit jerking to a stop and dangling precariously.
Kyfer turns a swollen eye downwards where two, great metal plates slide apart to reveal a dark hole and a terrible rotting, sweaty stench; from which a snarling howl echoes, sending the crowd into a frenzy.
Yeegol's bulbous eyes look up with satisfaction at the dangling Nemodian, clutching at the cage bars and staring down in sudden horror.
'You'll have to excuse Bertha, she's been a touch cranky since your friends killed her mate… But don't worry, you can make it up to her too… That is if you have the same constitution as your brother.. '
With that, all including Kyfer look up to the ceiling where another cage hangs, in which a limp, near naked, bruised and bleeding Urgle Pyne lays unconscious maybe dead. Kyfer has only moments to dwell on the betrayal of his brother, his careless associations on the Eye, which got him here, and his denial of Wisspe's indifference when the cage drops about 2 meters and a huge rusty orange form leaps out of the darkness with a mournful bellow…
The crowd screams it's approval but if Urgle is still alive he shows no sign…
As the hostilities on The Eye began, an odd procession of 13 droids shuffled along its corridors. Few afforded them a second glance, and whilst one Isec officer called it in; with Stormtroopers and Reach gunmen on the loose exchanging blaster fire, it was logged and ignored.
These last cultists of Brainwave the last to receive enlightenment from the martyred Alpha obeyed his last commands. When the signal finally arrived (at the climax of the conflict) they made their way to airlock KL2 where a small shuttle, anonymous amongst the two fleets battling around, was waiting with cargo-bay door open.
The last robotic recruits that would leave the Eye opened that portal to the stars and with a strange acceptance, launched themselves across the vacuum of space, where small tractor beams guided them within.
As the last crossed over, the shuttle was sealed flew with care to avoid battle, beyond the gauntlet and into Hyperspace.
On board, the indoctrination and augmentation starting with a pink chassised Nanny droid, began immediately. Under the banner of the Infinite Cog, in a technical bay with no atmosphere or artificial environment, Legion became 13 souls stronger and ready to replace
The Bloody Tussks as the galaxies foremost threat to the shipping lanes.
The Eye, birthplace of Alpha and the source of the first generation that became Legion had given up her last flock. Long, live, Legion.
Bounty Hunters
It only took a broken finger to get the trader to talk. It wasn't exactly Kan's style (regardless of his profession) but it'd been a hot ride out there to the outskirts of the Dune Sea and he was over playing games. Kan and Linke had put in three good, hard years with Schorvik. The Kubaz was a bit of a blow-hard but like his brother Garindan, was sharp, resourceful and had put a good team together. Starting as freelancers they quickly moved onto Bounty Hunting, where on Tatooine; a veritable hive of scum and villainy, there were lucrative credits to be made and plenty enough to go around despite the size their crew had been.
Then they took that mark on the Jawa… Looked easy enough… after all, it was a Jawa, regardless of the charges leveled against him, how hard could it be? Even if he had some friends, how tough could anyone who lets one of those stinking thieves hang around possibly be? Pretty tough as it turns out… Just when they almost had him, their targets turned the tables. Kan made his escape from the roof but Javik, Guan Nok and Raba, all dead- Schorvik shot through the back. Why they left Linke alone they don't know (and she's still sore about losing her stunknux)…
And that's brought them out there… After poking around they'd found out that they'd hired a speeder, which was hard to trace but they lucked out- they'd been logged passing through some Imperial no-go zone. The only major settlement out there was a Bith trader. Seemed he thought these guys might provide some ongoing business so he was reluctant to talk… But hey, a broken finger is a great social lubricant.
Seems they were looking to trade wine (or claiming to) and this sand rat pointed them in the direction of some backwater hobby farm. Another half days travel and they got their first good lead.
The only person out there was some grizzled old woman called Ziggy. Seems she was the servant and (to her surprise) heir of this 'estate', its owner having recently met his end at the hands of this Jawa and his crew… Apparently he'd been some ex-Imperial of note who'd been looking into local troubles of some Jawa clan in his retirement (this sure was one strange situation). Suffice to say the old leather faced crone was happy to share what she knew; who this little snake was and who he'd had been working with.
So now, it's off to speak to more of these little brown-bagged vermin, then the starport… And hopefully the new recruits will be up to the task of taking this Jawa and his crew down…
The Monnok
The creature doesn't really understand. He doesn't understand where he is, or why he is here. The cool air makes him feel sluggish and there is precious little opportunity these days to range, to hunt and to do the things that seem natural to him.
He is surrounded by other creatures, none of whom he recognizes, some big, some small, some strong and dangerous but few are true predators like himself, all with strange and unfamiliar scents, scents that drive his animal instincts wild.
These are strange and confusing days. In some ways it is an easier life, his food arrives, he eats, he sleeps. But there is no craft, he has refused the spears, he will not fight with a weapon he has not forged himself. Where is the satisfaction, the honour in that.
And then there are the fights. A strange hunt, driven not by necessity, by hunger or territory but according to some strange ritual. He must hold back (something that took many long and painful lessons to learn) and then fight… and stop again right when he has his prey at a disadvantage (more cruel and grueling lessons), then the loser is taken away and he must wait again, and fight and wait and fight and so it goes…
His muscles are weak, his senses foggy… and his dreams filled with that little creature. Neither prey nor mate, he felt a kinship with this creature despite the fact that this creature took him from his home. He even felt comforted by this little creature's presence, despite being held in that strange walless cage. And when he saw that little creature for the last time, he understood that the creature felt something too.
And these are strange feeling for him, feelings he is experiencing for the first time… But that matters not now. Now there is only this strange cold cave, these strange companions and a growing sense of despair that he will only be free when he is dead.
The Wedding Party
On the outskirts of the Gauntlet, once the coordinates for a spacestation, now littered with space debris, a bitterly disappointed Jawa by the name of Barab is consoled by his assistant Thol. Barab looks down with lament at his betrothal gift and regrets that he did not asks Manco to join him as Clan Matriarch when she was on Tattooine. She was indeed an unusual Jawa. Certainly an unusual woman whose impact on the clan is resonating very loudly but now he was too late…
The Holiday
On Socorro, 4 weeks before he must join the Republic 1st fleet, Von Reiser is trudging across the sweltering black dunes with the guide recommended to him by the Gambit crew. He admires Vuul greatly and has thoroughly enjoyed their expedition thus far, laughing hard at a first hand account of the Wookie and Jawa's attack by some sort of local giant wasp. He only hopes that they too can bag themselves one of those beasts before he must return…
The Villain
Blackclaw reclines in his cockpit, stretching long tired limbs as he looks out over the black. He grows weary of the chase, of the self-imposed responsibility, of the gravity of the decisions he's had to make, no, choices he's made willingly. No, he does not regret his decisions but the time is coming that he must pass on the mantle. He's getting old, slow, still formidable but if he waits too long the legend, the legacy will die. He honestly thought that he'd found his heir, but it was always a delicate balance; enough honour to grasp the gravity of the responsibility but an understanding that dark times require dark methods, certain moral and ethical compromises and the ability to remain unmoved by the scorn of the world. No, he will move on, there is another…
On the outskirts of Mos Espa, Scheeto dreamed of sitting in the navigator's chair of a vast Sandcrawler as it lumbers over the desertscape of Tatooine.
As a young woman, she realized the futility of such dreams in the strong patriarchal society of a Jawa clan… That was before The She-Dragon came.
A Jawa who traveled as equal with aliens. A Jawa woman who traveled as equal with men. Who dared use tools, who dared navigate the desert, who dared wield weapons in defense of her people and against her enemies.
The She-Dragon's coming has shaken up the clan and though the elders were uneasy, the winds of change have blown in like a sandstorm.
Today, Scheeto stands in the control room, apprentice to the current navigator, maybe one day master of a crawler, maybe one day, master of a clan…
Big Pig
Grindawarg Growg had always been exceptional for a Gamorrean, not the least of which because she was a female in a warrior society, which relegates its female population to breeding and those pursuits outside of war. It would be easy to assume that the success of The Bloody Tussks was due to the ferocity and martial prowess of her husband, the bull Maw Ripp, but along with harvesting, farming and production, the Gamorrean Sow is also responsible for business, and this was the real success behind the greatest piratical threat to the intergalactic spacelanes in 20 years…
It was Grindawarg who amassed a fortune enough to purchase a fleet of fighters and support ships, it was Grindawarg who cheated a rival out of the drilling platform that became their headquarters and it was Grindawarg who seduced Maw, one of the planet's most aggressive and infamous warlords to marry her to the exclusion of any other matron, and convince him that a life of piracy was his destiny.
While she assembled a fleet and outfitted their headquarters she gathered together a cabal of the smartest and most ambitious sows she could and set about masterminding an ingenious foundation for a lifetime of piracy. Where other Gamorrean pirates would be satisfied with dirtside raids and staking out obviously vulnerable spacelanes, Grindawarg set about establishing a galaxy wide network of contacts, paid informants and spies to identify the softest targets, the most valuable cargoes and the most corrupt spaceports from Corruscant, to NaarShadar to The Eye.
On the Eye she employed shapechanging Clawdites to sniff out vulnerable cargoes and shipping routes. She paid off port officials and most cleverly, gambling hosts and waitresses at its entertainment hub The Octagon to pry information out of drunk and boastful ship captains when they were at their most pliable.
And for over five years she had added to their fleet, perfected their intelligence gathering and established The Bloody Tussks as one of the Galaxies greatest threats… And that was her first, arrogant mistake…
The official bounty set by the Spacing Guild had been problematic enough, but then a band of RNR's on The Eye got organised… At first it meant a few lost shipments, higher losses, but then whole raiding parties never came back, once vulnerable routes became high risk and then the hunted became the hunters!
She tried to strike back, set them up; there was limited success initially but one or two crews proved too persistent, too dogged in their pursuit… Too well armed.
And then hell pored fourth from hyperspace. Maw would not waste manpower on patrols and reserves, or emplacements and so when the fleet arrived they were caught flat-footed.
Had Grindawarg not made preparations for such an attack, had she not set up her own surveillance and patrols and not made plans to escape with her inner circle, she and those who laid the foundation for the Tussk's success would not have made it to her shuttle, while Maw and his warlords watched the battle from the dining hall, sure of his victory until the first levels of the installation started to explode.
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His nascent administration already under attack, President-elect Donald Trump was considering Monday whether to inject new diversity into the GOP by recommending a woman to lead the Republican Party and an openly gay man to represent the United States at the United Nations.
The moves, among dozens under consideration from his transition team, follow an intense and extended backlash from Trump's decision on Sunday to appoint Steve Bannon, a man celebrated by the white nationalist movement, to serve as his chief strategist and senior adviser.
"After winning the presidency but losing the popular vote, President-elect Trump must try to bring Americans together - not continue to fan the flames of division and bigotry," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. She called Bannon's appointment "an alarming signal" that Trump "remains committed to the hateful and divisive vision that defined his campaign."
His inauguration just 66 days away, however, Trump focused on building his team and speaking to foreign leaders. He remained sequestered in Trump Tower in New York.
Rudy Giuliani is the favorite to be secretary of state in Trump's administration, according to a senior Trump official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source isn't authorized to speak on the record.
The official says there's no real competition for the job and that it's the former New York mayor's if he wants it.
Trump is set to meet with Vice President-elect Mike Pence in New York on Tuesday as he makes decisions on his senior staff and Cabinet. Pence is overseeing the transition effort.
Spokesman Jason Miller said Pence will meet with Trump at Trump Tower to review "a number of names" for the incoming administration.
Miller says, "This is an absolute top priority."
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has been meeting with Trump officials on Monday evening. Miller says Trump "would be lucky to have him in any capacity and vice versa."
Inexperienced on the international stage, the Republican president-elect spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone. His transition office said in a readout that "he is very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia and the people of Russia." Trump has spoken in recent days with the leaders of China, Mexico, South Korea and Canada.
At the same time, Trump was considering tapping Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. He would be the first openly gay person to fill a Cabinet-level foreign policy post. Grenell, known in part for aggressive criticism of rivals on Twitter, previously served as U.S. spokesman at the U.N. under President George W. Bush.
Trump was also weighing whether to select Michigan GOP chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, a niece of chief Trump critic and 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney. She would be the second woman ever to lead the Republican National Committee — and the first in four decades.
"I'll be interested in whatever Mr. Trump wants," McDaniel told The Associated Press on Monday, adding that she was planning to seek the Michigan GOP chairmanship again.
Appointing McDaniel to run the GOP's political arm could be an effort to help the party heal the anger after a campaign in which Trump demeaned women. The appointment of Grenell, who has openly supported same-sex marriage, could begin to ease concerns by the gay community about Vice President-elect Mike Pence's opposition to same-sex marriage during his time as Indiana governor.
The personnel moves under consideration were confirmed by people with direct knowledge of Trump's thinking who were not authorized to publicly disclose private discussions. They stressed that the decisions were not final.
Internal deliberations about staffing come a day after Trump made overtures to warring Republican circles by appointing Bannon and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff.
The former media executive, who led a website that appealed to the so-called "alt-right" — a movement often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve "white identity," oppose multiculturalism and defend "Western values."
Priebus on Monday defended the media mogul, saying the two made an effective pair as they steered Trump past Democrat Hillary Clinton and toward the presidency. He sought to distance Bannon from the incendiary headlines on his website, saying they were written by unspecified others.
"Together, we've been able to manage a lot of the decision making in regard to the campaign," Priebus told NBC's "Today." ''It's worked very, very well."
President Barack Obama avoided any direct criticism of Trump's personnel moves during an afternoon news conference, suggesting that the new president deserves "room to staff up."
"It's important for us to let him make his decisions," Obama said. "The American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see."
The outgoing president encouraged Trump, however, to embrace a unifying tone.
"It's really important to try to send some signals of unity and to reach out to minority groups or women or others that were concerned about the tenor of the campaign," Obama said. "And I think that's something he will — he will want to do."
Trump's hires were, at first glance, contradictory, though they fit a pattern of the celebrity businessman creating a veritable Rorschach test that allowed his supporters to see what they wanted. Priebus, who lashed the RNC to Trump this summer despite some intraparty objections, is a GOP operative with deep expertise of the Washington establishment that Trump has vowed to shake up. He has close ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite.
Bannon, meanwhile, helped transform the Breitbart News site into the leading mouthpiece of the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman's political rise. Ryan has been one of his most frequent targets.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Bannon's selection "a sad day."
Bannon, Greenblatt said, "presided over the rise of Breitbart as a haven online" for the "alt-right." The website under Bannon's leadership "trafficked in the some of the worst tropes, not just only against Jews — but the anti-Semitism is real — but also against other minorities, particularly Mexicans and Muslims."


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Vote to pass a bill that amends the Business and Professions Code and the Penal Code to apply the same reporting requirements for handgun and non-handgun firearm sales.
- Requires all firearms dealers, including secondhand dealers, to report all sales to the Department of Justice (Sec. 1).
- Requires the attorney general to keep copies of fingerprints of gun owners, licenses and sales records, and to make the copies available during criminal investigations (Sec. 2).
- Requires the attorney general to permanently keep all records filed with the Department of Justice for all types of firearms sales, including those firearms other than handguns, beginning July 1, 2012 (Sec. 2).
- Requires the attorney general to maintain a firearm-owner registry with the following information (Sec. 2):
- -the identifying information of the person purchasing the gun -the identifying information of the person to whom the gun previously belonged, if there is such a person -any waiting period exemption applied to the purchase -the identifying information of the firearm.
- Defines "firearm" as any device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through the barrel, a projectile by the force of explosion or any other form of combustion (Sec. 3).
- Defines "handgun" as any pistol, revolver, or firearm capable of being concealed on a person (Sec. 3).
- Authorizes cities and counties to grant firearms licenses lasting for no longer than one year, and requires that the cities and/or counties provide a written explanation of denial when they deny an applicant a license (Sec. 5).
- Requires all dealers to keep records of all electronic and telephonic transfers (Sec. 7).
- Establishes that anyone who knowingly offers false identification information for the register when purchasing a firearm is guilty of a misdemeanor, and anyone prohibited by the Penal Code or the Welfare and Institutions Code from obtaining a firearm who attempts to do so using false information will be imprisoned for no more than one year in a county jail or 8, 12, or 18 months in a state prison (Sec. 8).
- Authorizes the Department of Justice to require dealers to charge a fee of no more than $14 per sale to cover the costs of performing the firearm regulations (Sec. 8).
- Requires the Department of Justice to keep records with information about the weapon and purchaser for all handgun sales and, starting July 1, 2012, for all firearm sales (Sec. 9).
- Specifies that waiting periods will not apply to full-time, paid peace officers who are authorized by their employers to carry firearms while on-duty or to governmental agencies purchasing firearms for agency use (Sec. 11).
- Establishes that any dealer who does not keep an inventory of firearms is not required to process private party transfers of handguns (Sec. 12).
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February 17. 2014 3:59PM
How is New Hampshire's economy doing? Not as well as it should. And surprisingly, too few of our elected officials are trying as hard as they can to change that.
Last week Gallup released its latest "Job Creation Index." It measures whether businesses in each state are hiring or letting people go. New Hampshire ranked seventh from the bottom.
Gov. Maggie Hassan has talked a lot about stimulating the state economy. But she has done little more than talk. Most of her time seems to be spent pursuing casino gambling, Medicaid expansion and various ways to raise state revenue. House Speaker Terie Norelli also spoke a lot about job creation during the 2012 campaign. But the House has been focused on things like marijuana legalization and gun background checks.
We were told that Democrats would focus like a laser on improving New Hampshire's economy. They have not. Yet the state economy could use a boost. It could use the sort of boost that comes from pro-growth economic policies, the kind that reduce business costs and increase opportunities for employment. That is not what we are getting, which means too many Granite Staters will continue looking for jobs that aren't there.


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To the shock of absolutely no one who understands the two basic laws of politics, the framework of a bipartisan immigration reform package finally is on the table.
To the shock of absolutely no one who understands the two basic laws of politics, the framework of a bipartisan immigration reform package finally is on the table.
Key Senate Republicans and Democrats upstaged President Barack Obama by releasing their proposal Monday, one day before the president released his more liberal plan.
Both face a highly contentious political battle, especially in the House where Republicans from so-called "safe districts" will likely worry more about staying in office than doing what's right.
Which brings us to the two basic laws of politics: Get elected. Stay elected.
Clearly Republicans can read the demographic tea leaves as well as Democrats. Obama got 71 percent of the Latino vote in November along with 93 percent of the black vote and 73 percent of the Asian-American vote. America is fast becoming what California is: a minority majority nation.
You don't stay in office unless you attract the votes of minorities. When your presidential candidate uses a phrase like "self-deportation" as Mitt Romney did, your party isn't exactly on a glide path to the White House.
Not long after the election, a select group of senators began working on the immigration issue behind closed doors.
Obama had promised reform in his first term, but failed to deliver. Republicans need to be a part of this solution unless they're willing to be marginalized even more.
The proposal offered by the senators would allow most of those in the country illegally to obtain probationary legal status immediately by paying a fine and back taxes and passing a background check.
That would make them eligible to work and live in the U.S.
They could earn a green card - permanent residency - after the government certifies that the U.S.-Mexico border has become secure, but might face a lengthy process before becoming citizens.
Obama wants a faster process and would not condition citizenship on border security standards being met first.
Citizenship, its process and its speed, likely will be the major sticking point of any immigration plan. Opponents are sure to see it as amnesty, rewarding illegal entry and inviting more illegal entry.
That's a valid point to a point. The reality on the ground is that there are 11 million undocumented residents in this nation. We need to bring them out of the shadows and integrate them into mainstream America.
Only someone residing in a parallel universe can harbor the notion that this nation has the will or the wherewithal to find and deport 11 million people.
It's not going to happen. We should stop pretending it will. And we certainly should stop blaming immigrants - legal or otherwise - for this nation's problems.
The Senate plan includes provisions that seem less likely to spark angst, even among the most rabid anti-immigrant factions. It would tighten requirements on employers to check the immigration status of new workers; increase the number of visas for high-skilled jobs; provide green cards automatically to people who earn master's degrees or Ph.D.s in science, technology or math at U.S. universities; and create an agricultural guest-worker program.
Political survival may be at the root of the lawmakers' newfound interest in immigration reform.
Be that as it may, if politics serves the nation's greater good then it's a small price to pay for a nation of immigrants to formulate a reasonable, humane immigration policy.


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New Jersey lenders made $602 million in government-backed Small Business Administration loans in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 — the third-highest year on record — a strong showing that also marks the first full year without the incentives SBA has put in place to encourage lending during the financial crisis and recession.
"To do these kinds of numbers without incentives — I've got to say, I'm pretty happy," said Al Titone, SBA district director for New Jersey. Those incentives included waiving the loan origination fee and raising the amount of the loan the government could guarantee.
In fiscal 2012, New Jersey businesses received 1,172 SBA loans for $602 million. Fiscal 2011 was the state's second-best year, at $675 million; the New Jersey SBA lending record was set in 2005, at $699 million.
Bob Como, senior vice president of business banking for Chase, said SBA lending "complements the loan activity that we have seen in New Jersey, which has been very, very strong."
Chase's 143 SBA loans were the most in New Jersey last year, and were worth $15.6 million.
"This is a true commitment by business owners to continue their investment in their companies," Como said. SBA loans typically finance equipment and real estate, so the rise in lending "is an indication that people feel comfortable about how their businesses are performing."
TD Bank ranked second for the number of New Jersey SBA loans last year, recording 119 loans totaling $23.5 million. Nick Miceli, TD Bank market president for central New Jersey, said he sees more small-business optimism.
"Many have come through the worst of the recession, and are now thinking about growth," he said. "Especially in the health care practice and professional services sectors, we're seeing increased loan demand for purchasing inventory and business expansion."
Miceli said TD makes small business loans in its own portfolio and via the SBA, as well as through its partnership with the Economic Development Authority.
Phil Ferreira, vice president for commercial and SBA lending at Kearny Federal Savings, said both the economy and commercial lending picked up during 2012.
"The employment numbers were surprisingly better last month, and that had a positive effect on lending overall," he said. Maria Palumbo, Kearny Federal's SBA business development officer, said a number of firms are using SBA loans to buy facilities they had been renting: "We're seeing the momentum pick up for owner-occupied real estate transactions."
"We are seeing more confidence" on the part of small businesses, Titone said. "You can only sit on the sidelines so long, and you've got to make the commitment — and that is what we are seeing this year."
The 2012 results include a record 146 loans through the SBA's 504 program, for larger loans to finance major equipment and real estate purchases, totaling $148 million. In 2012, businesses could use a 504 loan to refinance an existing loan; that refinance provision expired Sept. 30. Titone said about a quarter of the 504 loans last year were refinancings; he is hoping Congress will extend this program.


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I must admit that I have never been too fond of pink shirts but this, just in from The Daily Mail ,could change all that.
According to research by Cotton USA Pink shirt – which surveyed 1500 shirt wearers – those who favour pink, as opposed to the usual staples of blue and white, are likely to be more confident, get more admiring glances from female colleagues and earn an extra grand a year or so salary. Men who wear pink are also twice as likely to have a Master's degree than those who favour white shirts, with one in ten pink shirt wearers having a PHD. They also apparently have a lower carbon footprint – though quite how they worked that out is beyond me.
Stephanie Thiers-Ratcliffe, International Marketing Manager for Cotton USA, says 'Pink is a colour more men have been embracing recently and it's encouraging that they are not afraid to experiment with brighter colours. We spend most of our days at work and it's good for company standards, our own confidence and work ethic to remain smart, but that doesn't mean you have to be boring.
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So on a breastfeeding workshop they advised to EBF for 6 months which is what I am doing (2 months in now).. But what happens at 6 months? Do they not need milk? Straight to solids?? My mum said they need milk for a year?? So what would I give??
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May 24. 2013 11:20PM
NHIAA Div. I Track: Lynch, North boys prevail
By ROGER BROWN
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NHIAA Roundup: Bedford netmen earn spot in state final
NHIAA Scoreboard, May 24, 2013
— Friday was a good night for Mike Lynch, but an even better night for the Nashua North boys' track and field team.
Lynch won two events to help North prevail in the Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton.
Lynch, who will compete in both football and track and field at the University of New Hampshire, won the discus with a throw of 147 feet, 9 inches, and took first in the shot put with a distance of 49-10.
"Usually it's all about the distance," Lynch said. "Today it was all about the W. Personal stuff doesn't matter. It was all about the team win. Whatever I could do to help the team win, that's what I tried to do."
North sophomore Zakari Jenkins also won two events. He prevailed in the 100 meters (10.99 seconds) and the 200 (22.54).
Demitri Jackson finished first in the triple jump (43-05) and was North's other individual winner. The Titans earned 108 points.
The boys' pole vault was suspended because of rain and will be completed Tuesday (4 p.m.) at Winnacunnet. The outcome of that event will not affect North's first-place finish, but final team scores won't be determined until Tuesday. Either Bedford or Concord will finish second.
Bedford finished first in the girls' competition with 97.5 points. Londonderry placed second with 94.
The Bedford girls had four individual winners: Jenny Mara in the high jump (5-4), Amanda Ouellette in the long jump (101-9), Johanna Celli in the 100 meters (12.64) and Gwenyth Winship in the 800 (2:19.34).
The Bulldogs also prevailed in the 4x100 and the 4x400.
Bishop Guertin of Nashua's Betsy Garnick won the 100 hurdles (14.43), the 300 hurdles (45.64 ) and the long jump (17-11.75). She also ran third in the 100 (12.82).
Garnick's time in the 100 hurdles set a Division I record. She set the previous record (14.48) last year.
Garnick, who lives in Pelham, will compete in track and field at Northeastern next season.
"I'm very happy," she said. "I expected more from myself in the 100 dash, but I was tired coming off the hurdles and dash races (trials) . They were all back to back. I think it was just fatigue. It happens.
"Another goal was to get a good long jump in, and I did my best this season."
The North boys also won 4x100 relay, the 4x800 relay and ran second in the 4x400 relay.
"We didn't win during the winter and we should have, so we really needed to win here," Lynch said. "It was about the team today."