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(Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday as the possibility of a $14 billion fine against Deutsche Bank weighed on big banks and investors wrestled with lingering uncertainty about when the U.S. Federal Reserve will hike interest rates.
The settlement proposal, made during negotiations between the U.S. Department of Justice and Deutsche Bank over claims that the German bank missold mortgage-backed securities, was larger than expected.
Deutsche Bank's U.S.-listed shares (DB.N) slumped 9.35 percent. Dow components Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and JPMorgan (JPM.N) fell over 1 percent each.
The S&P 500 financial index .SPSY dropped 0.91 percent, dragging down the benchmark index the most. The KBW Bank index .BKX fell 1.11 percent and logged its second straight week of declines.
Traders have all but ruled out the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates at its meeting that starts next Tuesday. But residual doubts and questions about when the Fed may finally pull the trigger still hurt sentiment.
"It's the uncertainty of next week, the complacency of investors trying to re-evaluate their portfolios as we prepare for an interest-rate hike," said Jeff Carbone, co-founder of Cornerstone Financial Partners in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI lost 0.49 percent to finish at 18,123.80 points and the S&P 500 .SPX fell 0.38 percent to 2,139.16.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC declined 0.1 percent to 5,244.57.
With futures and options contracts expiring, about 9.3 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, above the 6.6 billion daily average for the past 20 trading days, according to Thomson Reuters data.
For the week, the Dow edged up 0.2 percent, the S&P gained 0.5 percent and the Nasdaq jumped 2.3 percent.
The technology index .SPLRCT on Friday dropped 0.33 percent, pulled down by Apple's (AAPL.O) 0.56-percent decline and Oracle's (ORCL.N) 4.75-percent drop following weak quarterly profit.
Helping limit losses was Intel's (INTC.O) 3.04-percent gain to a 15-year high after the chipmaker raised its third-quarter revenue forecast.
The CBOE Market Volatility index .VIX, Wall Street's "fear gauge", declined 5.7 percent.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the NYSE by a 1.79-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.18-to-1 ratio favored decliners.
The S&P 500 posted 5 new 52-week highs and 2 new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 88 new highs and 50 new lows.
Reporting by Yashaswini Swamynathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Nick Zieminski


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The area through which I travelled in this travelogue is in the news again today. It seems that the Russian areas of Ukraine are in rebellion with possible talk of cessation and the involvement of Russian troops. But all that is not so new and for the policymakers and commentators of Kiev and Moscow could do worse than head to their little neighbour Moldova. Last week we looked at Gagauzia, the area that wanted to secede but didn't and next week we'll be heading to Transdniestra, the Russian-speaking region of Moldova that went one step further. But for today, let's head to the capital, the Moldova Kiev, the beating heart of a Moldovan nationalism that gave so much pride to some of its citizens but so scared some of the others. Those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to repeat the same mistakes and so, once again, please, Kiev, heed the lesson of Moldova!
Keep travelling!
Uncle Travelling Matt
Links to all parts of the travelogue:
Moldova and Transdniestra
3.4: The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
3.5: Targu Neamt, Agapia and Sihla
3.7: The Mocanita and Viseu de Sus
3.8: Viseu de Sus to Bucharest
Chişinău (I)
If the outskirts of Chișinău that I'd passed through in the taxi had been a little different to expectations, then the Hotel Cosmos was a complete surprise. I'd chosen the establishment on one basis alone, the same factor that determines all my hotel choices: cost. I go for cheap, not nice and so rarely do I actually expect my hotels to be any good. And at twenty-storeys high with a hundred and fifty room, I'd expected the Cosmos to be naught more than an impersonal sleeping factory. However, when I arrived there the staff were not just professional – not always a guaranteed in that part of the world – they were friendly and it felt more like I was checking into a homely B&B in Llandudno to which one returns year after year than the former Inturist monolith in the state capital.
Yet part of the Cosmos' charm was also its Inturist credentials. It had evidently been built in the 1960s as Chișinău's top hotel: luxury, state-of-the-art, where diplomats and commissars stayed. It was so retro, it was gorgeous, the kind of establishment that James Bond when he was Sean Connery would have stayed in. If only I'd had a dapper Anthony Sinclair suit, (with a Walther PPK hidden in the jacket), a cigarette and a trilby, and I'm sure that as I stepped out a hot chick in an Aston convertible would have swung in to pick me up, closely followed by a couple of cars with blacked-out windows full of gangsters or Soviet spies taking pot-shots at Miss Moneypennescu, (she would be Moldovan after all), and I.
Not that Chișinău is short of gangsters, (more than a few of whom were no doubt once upon a time Soviet spies), cars with blacked-out windows, guns or hot chicks. After checking in I embarked on a walking tour of the centre and saw all of them in abundance, (except the guns which were, after all, hidden in either the blacked-out cars, jackets of the gangsters or handbags of the chicks). It was immediately apparent that this was no normal city, or at least, not one with a normal economy. It was a place of wealth symbolised by the enormous new shopping centre and casino next to my hotel and by the swanky and sophisticated restaurant in which I dined, (lunchtime special 120 lei - $10), next to grinding poverty represented by everything else.. The cars were either brand-new Mercedes-Benzes or BMWs, or decades-old Ladas or Moskviches, whilst every other shop was a bureau de change. In Chișinău it seems, there's lots of money to change but very little to spend it on.
Whilst Tony Hawk's had been technically correct about Chișinău being a typical grey and bland Soviet city, (it was completely rebuilt after the war after being subjected to an earthquake in 1940 and heavy bombardments afterwards), I think he was too harsh. Chișinău has a charm to it, I can't quite put my finger on what exactly, but there is something. My guidebook described it as cosiness but to be honest, I'm not sure that that is the right word.
I wandered along the busy highway of Str. Albişoara and then up B-dul Renaşterii. Whilst Romanian – of Moldovan if you prefer – is clearly the main language here, (and thus I found myself in a zone of incomprehension for the first time on this trip), Russian is still quite prominent on both the signs and the tongues of the locals. Still, that doesn't seem to be enough for some folk; on the pavement of B-dul Renaşterii some angry citizen had spray-painted a sword sticking into an unhappy face with the legend 'РУМЫН' (Romanians) whilst the sword itself was labelled 'RUSSIA'. No further explanation is needed.
I walked up to the Parcul Catedralei, a large green space with the Orthodox Cathedral plonked in the middle. Inside there was a Mass in progress and I stayed to listen to the beautiful liturgy before exiting to investigate the nearby Triumphal Arch around which a chap in a bear suit was milling, trying to entice passers-by to have a photo take with him for a few lei.
Chișinău Cathedral, Triumphal Arch and House of the Soviet
I checked out and photographed Chișinău's other sights – the Government House, the Grădina Publică Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt with its statue of Ştefan cel Mare on the corner, the Parliament House and the Presidential Palace.
Ştefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) was a name that I was to see everywhere both in Moldova and across the border in the Romanian province of Moldavia. He's the martial national hero of the mould that seems to crop up in most tiny nations. As the Prince of Moldavia, a mediaeval kingdom that encompassed both the Republic of Moldova and Romanian Moldavia, he defended his lands against Poland, Hungary but most famously, the Ottomans. In his long career he only ever lost two battles and as a result of his holding back the heathens from Europe for so long, Pope Sixtus IV awarded him the Atheta Christi (Champion of Christ) whilst the Orthodox Church went one further and declared him a saint, (despite the fact that he had fathered over twenty illegitimate children). And if all that were not enough, Ştefan has one other impressive claim to fame: Vlad Ţepeş – better known in the West as 'Dracula' – was his cousin.
Ştefan cel Mare statue, Chișinău
The Grădina Publică, Chișinău's most famous park, is another pleasant green space in the heart of the city. It has a fountain in its centre and an avenue of busts of Romanian-language literary greats – I had head of none of them, but it was all rather pleasant nonetheless. Chișinău may be no competition for Rome, Paris or London as a tourist hotspot, but at the same time it is also far less pretentious and not burdened with awful eating and drinking establishments enthusiastically described as "contemporary" in the guidebooks. I at least, was happy.
I wandered back to the hotel along B-dul Ştefan cel Mare which has some fine Stalinist buildings lining its sides and stopped off at a bookshop to purchase a Romanian dictionary for my class – I have a steady stream of Romanian students and Romanian dictionaries are for some unknown reason, almost unobtainable back in Britain – as well as some cheesy Moldovan souvenirs and a guidebook to the country – there are none currently in print in the UK – that was so bad it was brilliant. Then I popped into an internet café to see what I was letting myself in for on the morrow when I headed to breakaway Transdniestria before returning to the Cosmos, chatting again to the friendly reception staff and then retiring to my room to wait with my Walther PPK under the pillow and my trilby on the side), for Miss Moneypennescu to show (she never did) passing the time by watching a Korean news channel[1] as the sun set slowly on the Moldovan capital.
Next part: Tiraspol and Bender
[1] One of the programmes was on the rise of K-Pop (Korean Pop Music) and how it is rapidly gaining in popularity across Asia. 'Ho hum,' thought I, 'it may be popular in China and the Philippines, but songs in Korean will never break the European or American markets.' Just over a month later the chunky Korean cheester PSY released 'Gangnam Stayle' which went viral on YouTube and shot to No. 1 in dozens of countries including the UK and most in Europe. By December 2012 it had become the first video to reach over a billion views on the internet making it by far the most watched music video of all time and the most successful song of 2012. How wrong was I?


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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday rejected an invitation by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to jointly hold a national affairs conference on constitutional reform with other political parties and civic groups, DPP spokesperson Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) said.
DPP Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) proposed to KMT Secretary-General Lee Shu-chuan (李四川) that all the major political parties and civic groups co-host a national affairs conference to seek consensus on constitutional reform, Cheng said.
Wu was told that the KMT favored the issue being discussed by the legislature's Constitutional Amendment Committee instead of at a national affairs conference, Cheng said.
The DPP will continue to communicate with the KMT about the idea, which is supported by the Taiwan Solidarity Union, the People First Party and civic groups, he said.
"Since issues related to reform to the legislative electoral system are among those put up for discussion regarding constitutional reform, what could be expected from an amendment drafted by the legislature alone?" Cheng said.
KMT spokesperson Lin Yi-hua (林奕華) said that the party does not oppose a national affairs conference, but said that such a conference should be presided over by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), as previous conferences were by former presidents Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) when they were in office, and that issues such as cross-strait relations and housing justice should also be on the agenda.
Wu and Lee met for an hour at KMT headquarters in Taipei.
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Have you ever had Birthday Cake Oreo's?
I literally could demolish a box of these in 5 minutes. It's a serious problem.
I only buy them when there's a special occasion and since yesterday was one, they made the cut on the grocery store list.
When I first woke up and saw them I knew I needed to get rid of them fast – or there would be none for the birthday boy! So, I whipped up the easiest birthday cake possible – an Ice Cream Cake!
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Last weekend my brother Keith and his girlfriend, Brittany, came up to visit!
We both went our separate ways while roaming the city but had plans to meet up for dinner at the restaurant, Tramonti. My brother was the one who suggested this restaurant and it was a good recommendation! Thankfully, we made reservations because the restaurant was tiny and NYC was crowded.
Don't you just love NYC during Christmas?
After trekking through Rockefeller center where a million other people were, we sat down at our table.
1/2 bottle of prosecco for me. Don't mind if I do.
You are also greeted with a warm bread basket and olive oil / vinegar for dipping. My favorite!
Adam and I split a salad that was on the specials menu which consisted of spinach, green apples, goat cheese, candied walnuts and a light dressing. I wasn't a fan of these particular nuts (twss?)- they were too chewy. I was all over that goat cheese though!
For dinner, I ordered another "Special of the Day". Butternut Squash Ravioli in a butter and sage sauce. VERY delicious!
Keith and Brittany split the gnocchi and a Caesar salad which they said was phenomenal.
It's no shocker my husband had to order the most expensive thing on the menu – Veal chop, mashed potatoes and broccoli rabe. Since the only thing left on his plate was a bone – I think its safe to say he enjoyed it as well!
Paparazzi break while we wait for dessert!
Adam and I chose the ricotta cheesecake and vanilla ice cream. The ice cream was no joke. I think they may have put more than a pint in our bowl!? The cheesecake was amazing… Not too sweet, which was great because the Ice Cream was a nice balance.
Keith and Brittany went with tiramisu and chocolate ice cream. Clean plates all around!
We were going to head to Rolf's after dinner but well…we're kinda old and were exhausted after a big meal! It's probably best we didn't attempt to go there because I heard there was a huge line out the door. Old people need sleep…
5 more days til Christmas!
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These days there are reasons for women to feel discouraged. The spectacle before us on the political stage is dismaying: some of our sisters are supporting a misogynist, bowing to the ancient rule that any man is better than any woman, and others are indulging in a sort of double-speak about the only woman candidate qualified and enduring enough to have made it this far. For those of us who have worked for decades in the ranks to make this happen, the lackluster support our daughters and granddaughters are offering is a repetition of the old tune. We don't, when the chips are down, support each other.
I'm taking my last turn at being discouraged, though, partly because of the women I watched last weekend on a public beach in southern California.
This state has, miraculously, welcomed natives of many other regions and countries, welcomed them not without the inevitable difficulties, but with resplendent results. In what other big US city do you find a neighborhood called "Little Bangladesh?"
One of the results was displayed on the crowded beach.
A young Latin woman (I'm guessing here) in a chrome-yellow bikini was playing paddle ball with a large, well-built young man. This young woman was beautiful enough with her waving long dark hair and perfect body to arrest attention, but she was not courting attention with her beauty. She was not courting attention at all. She was simply playing a game with consummate skill.
The young man, also an athlete, fired off many balls that, in earlier times, a comely woman partner might have ducked, laughing.
The woman in the chrome-yellow bikini returned them all.
He couldn't fire a ball beyond her, or over her, and he seemed to be used to being engaged in competition with an equal. Perhaps he was even enjoying it.
His father and grandfather never had this opportunity.
The woman in the chrome-yellow bikini moved with an assurance and a lack of self-consciousness that seem to me revolutionary. If she can move like this playing paddle ball, surely she can act with equal skill, grace, and assurance in a board room, a corporate office, or an artist's studio.
And then, in the midst of a point, she suddenly flung down her paddle and ran into the ocean.
She didn't excuse herself or offer a reason. She simply ran into the waves.
And he, her able partner, looked after her not with bewilderment or astonishment but with simple acceptance.
This is what she does. This is what he has come to accept and expect, if not admire.
Again, his father and grandfather would never have had the opportunity for learning this experience provides.
When she came back, dripping wet and beautiful, she took up her paddle and gave him a light whack on the rear end. Affectionate, teasing, perhaps a tiny bit condescending, once the attitude many men had toward their women.
We have Title IX to thank for this woman's physical competence—even if no one credits it—and her access to the equal athletic opportunities it provides for girls.
We have the chrome-yellow bikini's mother to thank for her attitude, and her mother's friends who talked and modeled other ways, other opportunities, other challenges than those her grandmother would have advocated—"Marry a good man and be taken care of for life,"—all that.
She may very well marry a good man, if that is what she wants, or a good woman, or not marry at all, have children, not have children, adopt—but whatever path she chooses, she will not expect to be supported and validated for life by another human being, lover, husband or child.
And that is revolutionary.
It is also the seed of the vast uneasiness disrupting our country today. The Trumpster's campaign is the last desperate effort of the stereotypical male to wrest back control from the spirit of the new age—the spirit of the feminine, not in its old lace and pearls manifestation (and there was some power there)—but in the image of the woman in the chrome-yellow bikini dashing into the surf.
This image is not inalterably tied to youth. On the same beach, I saw a beautiful older woman sitting on the sand with her legs curled under her, wearing folds of tissue-like gray material and a jaunty Panama hat, perfectly groomed, her purple toenails gleaming in bronze sandals.
She wasn't moving, physically, as she talked to another woman, but clearly she could move, and decisively, if she felt called upon to do so. And she no longer needed the potent reinforcers of her power symbolized by a bikini and long hair.
The beach is a liberator as the subject of my next book, Doris Duke, knew. In an earlier era, she only found physical and emotional freedom battling the surf off Hawaii and Newport in the somewhat reduced bathing suits of the last century.
Now, the beach is not the only liberator. The girls and women who embody the spirit of the new age are popping up everywhere.
At the hamburger stand near the beach, a young woman arriving with her friends wore a sweatshirt boldly printed with a line from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Tho she be small, she is fierce."
Yes, this young woman was small, physically, but she was taking up the space we afford to a large spirit, a spirit that knows the good uses of fierceness. And has read her Shakespeare.
Only the bubble of privilege prevents some of us from embodying this spirit of the age. Privilege seems to offer enormous possibilities and rewards, but they are illusory. Death, disinheritance, divorce, a sudden change in status, the glass ceiling—all can bring down dreams. And meanwhile, we live at a certain remove from the rest of the world, swimming off private beaches, attending private clubs, shielding ourselves from reality as most people know it.
The inherent strength of the feminine is not dependent to any great degree on outside circumstances, but to develop it, we have to venture out.
That spirit is available to us now, if we accept the challenge.
Even without the bikini and the long hair.


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My first instinct screams "no way," but, truth is, if I find the holy grail, that most elusive of mascaras that makes your lashes super long, extra voluminous, beautifully curved, intensely black, without smudging nor flaking, from morning till night, and then makes me a nice cup of tea too… well, I'd be tempted to splurge on it!
By Terry Mascara Terrybly doesn't claim to make you tea (too bad), but it's enriched with a lash serum that promises to help your lashes grow. Close enough… if it works. Does it?
I'm not sure. By Terry Mascara Terrybly contains glycoproteins to help promote hair growth but, after a month of regular use, I can't say I've noticed any difference. My lashes look the same length. But they're a bit softer, thanks to the hydrating power of hyaluronic acid.
What about the mascara itself? Do the intense black pigments and very wet, but not runny, formula deliver a false eyelashes effect? Nope. More like a natural, perfect-for-the-office look.
By Terry Mascara Terrybly adds some length and volume to my lashes. The wand, which is neither too thin nor too thick, does a great job at depositing the colour evenly, even on those hard-to-reach lashes, and separating them. No clumping.
But, frankly, I expected more. I know lots of women crave this natural look, but if I splurge on a mascara, I don't want the my-lashes-but-better look. I want drama. Lots and lots of drama. Mascara Terrybly is no drama queen. That doesn't make it bad. Just not for me.
It smudges too. I came home with panda eyes a couple of times (why does no one ever tell you you're looking like a mess when you're out and about?), which wasn't particularly nice. Most days though, when the wind doesn't make my eye teary, it holds up pretty well. Just keep it away from water.
So, is By Terry Mascara Terrybly worth it? Meh. It depends. If you're looking for a natural daytime mascara, and money isn't a concern for you, I think you'll like it. But if, like me, you want a mascara that makes your lashes scream "I'm here! Pay attention to me!," you'll have to look somewhere else.
Pros: Good daytime mascara; Gives a natural look that's perfect for the office; Provides some length and volume; Doesn't clump; Wand makes application easy and separates lashes well; Longlasting.
Cons: If you want drama, this is not for you; Smudges; Lash-growth serum didn't do much for my eyelashes; Expensive.
Summary: By Terry Terrybly Mascara provides some length, volume, and separation for a natural look that lasts for hours. But it smudges. The eyelash-growth serum didn't do much for me either.
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Medieval 2: Total War shows how polish, innovation, and perfection of a certain formula can make a really great game, even if it uses the same general idea time and time again. Total War games are all similar, and all of them are very deep strategy games. On top of that, they're just damn good. Both critically acclaimed and loved by strategy fans, Total War has been a constant stream of good strategic gameplay. Starting with Shogun Total War, then heading into Medieval times, to the Roman era, and now back to Medieval again, Total War has covered a lot of periods that most strategy games leave behind in favor of sci-fi or modern premises. Total War isn't boring, or overly realistic, and in fact it makes the warfare of these times very fast paced and exciting.
While this game has been around for awhile, this review is better late than never. If you are strategy fan you owe it to yourself to give this game a spin, especially if you are a fan of the series.
The graphics have a truly epic scale, which only few games can hope to achieve. They even manage to get some nice look textures in, which is amazing when you see so many units on screen. What's more is the movement and battle animations of every unit are far more detailed and smooth. You zoom in, and the battles occurring are far more interesting and unique than ever before. In fact, I find myself zooming in a lot more, enjoying the little conflicts going down below. The battlefields are massive in size, which allow for some interesting engagements. The different terrains and areas you fight on also have a direct effect on the battle. Nothing sucks quite as much as having to attack a position on top of a mountain. Ouch!
The attention to detail just isn't on the battlefield, but on the turn-based map as well. The interface has also received some minor updates, and it seems far more streamlined than ever before. However, things aren't all peachy. When you're dealing with so many details, like looking textures, and unique animations all on-screen at the same time, something happens. And that is FPS drop. Sadly, Medieval Total War 2 demands a lot out of your PC. Anything less than the bleeding edge and you're not going to be able to enjoy all the fancy shader effects, amount of detail, and other graphical features.
The sounds in this game are really spot-on. In battles, the ambience of warfare is in full swing. The sounds of arrows piercing through the wind, of cavalry mounting a full charge, or the crashing booms of your artillery all add together into the slew of battle. The music that goes along with the battle also set a perfect tune, and it really makes improves the gameplay. Being able to immerse yourself in this historic period is a lot of fun while you're commanding your massive armies.
Music plays a key role in the turn-based map and on the menus, too. It's a very pleasant sound, making the game a bit more exciting to play through. While it's not groundbreaking, again it really makes you more immersed in the time period. Its pleasing music is a great addition, through and through. Voice acting is also well done, with a lot of variety and dialogue throughout the game.
The game can be a bit overly complicated at times. In turn based mode, you're greeted with quite a few menus and sometimes coordinating attacks or implementing a strategy can be difficult. Still, once you get the hang of things, everything starts falling into place. Though there could be a bit more streamlining in the turn based mode, strategy fans will appreciate the level of detail more than they'll curse a few menus.
The same is the problem for real time battles. The camera seems to be a bit less funky than before, however it's still pretty high on the funky scale. Too much time is spent to adjusting the camera for optimial RTS coverage, and even still when you're commanding big armies you wish you could zoom out more. It'd almost be nice to zoom out as in Supreme Commander, and replace units with icons. That'd be great in setting up initial strategy, or managing massive armies. The mini-map is frustratingly useless, since even a unit with only a couple survivors will appear as the same icon as a unit with full strength. It's also really tiny, so you have to zoom in to get any sort of detail – and then it's not useful for watching the whole battle.
Still, these complaints are fairly minor in the grand scheme of things. You are still able to control the battle fairly well, and some of the frustrations with controlling armies are more due to the realistic nature of the game than the actual controls. After while you'll become familiar with the flow of battle, and can focus less on the camera and more on commanding. A major plus is the ability to quickly zoom in and view the battle up close with your middle mouse button, which is a lot more fun to do with the improved visuals and animations.
The core game starts you by playing in the turn-based mode, where you command your new empire. As you setup your cities or castles for economy or war, you'll eventually start bumping into other countries. Open warfare seems to be the end result many times, however it's quite feasible to conduct in friendly trade, and even become allies. Still, it all boils down to war, and commanding your armies in turn-based mode is very important.
One of the big differences in Medieval Total War 2 is separating cities and castles. Castles allow you to focus on building a vast army, and upgrading them to higher levels. Cities allow you to focus on earning the money you need to fund your growing war machine. You really need to find and fine tune the balance between city and castle, but once you do you'll be reaping the rewards.
Once you get your army setup in turn-based mode, it's time to start expanding your borders. Once you get in an engagement, a few things can happen. You can choose to retreat, auto-manage the battle, or take control of your army in real-time mode. A lot of the times you'll be finish a battle in auto-manage, especially if you don't want to be playing the same campaign for months. However, if you choose real-time mode, this is where the game starts to come full circle.
All your units you've setup in turn-based mode are faithfully recreated in real-time mode. Along with your units, the terrain, surroundings, and even city are identical to the turn-based mode. This is fairly impressive, and it helps dictate where and how to attack in turn-based mode. You start the engagement by setting up your initial groupings, formations, and ranks. Once you start the battle, you can immediately see where the enemy is located. A lot of different strategies, planning, and thinking happens at this point. Do you rush them with your cavalry? Or do you try to win the archery battle? Or would it be best to flank them with your cavalry while everyone else heads in head first? There is tons of variables and tactics to use, and everything that happens in battle reflects in the turn-based mode.
Once the battle is over, you've hopefully won. Generally an enemy will turn and attempt to retreat out of there, but your men will attempt to capture as many enemies has possible. Captured enemies can be ransomed, executed, or released, and your decisions make an impact in-game. Your successes on the battlefield also translate to experience upgrades for your armies. More importantly, they increase your general's command rating; make armies under that general more powerful. Other factors like unit preference, if you hire mercenaries, or if engage the enemy in certain conditions; you also improve various skill sets. You can become a more powerful a cavalry general, mercenary general, or a good defender, for example.
Overall, the balance between real-time battle and turn-based management hits the spot. You get a little bit of RPG flavor as your generals get different traits and vices. You get a lot of RTS loving in the real time mode. The management aspect gives a true sense of commanding an entire civilization. Overall, it's got a lot of aspects to it, and they mix those elements together very nicely.
The game is huge, and can seemingly take forever. If there is any complaint about the Replay Value, it's that the game is too long at times. A campaign can take you weeks to finish, only to setup a new campaign as a different faction under different rules. Then you've got another few weeks to put into a campaign, which could take months to finish if you fight all your battles.
If you get tired of the turn based side of things, there is plenty of historic battles to be fought. This historic twist to the battles is nice, and the battles feel quite epic. On top of that, historic battles are pretty tough, so winning them feels like a big accomplishment. You've got to earn your victory. In addition, you can play skirmishes against the computer. These aren't too exciting, and mainly I'd stick to campaign. Finally, you can go online, but so far that experience wasn't too fantastic for me.
To be honest, I just stick to the campaign mode. It can be setup in multiple different ways that really shake up your gameplay. The game allows you to really dig your teeth into some deep, strategic content.


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Chelsea are just waiting to put Diego Costa through a medical before completing the striker's £32million switch from Atletico Madrid.
Costa's move to Stamford Bridge, which was agreed in principle weeks ago, has been held up by a hamstring injury. But the striker is now returning to training with Spain ahead of the World Cup and Chelsea are keen to get a medical completed.
Chelsea could even complete the deal by the end of the week and are confident it will be sealed before the World Cup kicks off next week.
Landing Costa early in the summer will allow Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho to concentrate on other targets, who include Cesc Fabregas, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Koke and Filipe Luis.
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The IPKat has heard that there's an interesting workshop coming up at Bournemouth University on 6 July 2004, from 11:00-15:30 at the Talbot Campus. The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management is organising a workshop on some current intellectual property issues in world trade, with a focus on empirical methodologies.
The programme includes a paper by Dr Dwijen Rangnekar (Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Warwick University) on Geographical Indications: "Origin Labels as Club Goods: The organisation and governance of supply chains", as well as one by Prof. Philip Hardwick & Prof. Martin Kretschmer (CIPPM) on "Origin Labels: An economic model". After lunch, Prof. Paul Heald (University of Georgia) is speaking on "Foreign Direct Investment and IP Enforcement: A critique of Edwin Mansfield's 1994 study". the Finale is an open forum on empirical methodologies with contributions by Prof. Stuart Macdonald (Sheffield University) on researching SMEs, Prof. Ruth Soetendorp (CIPPM) on patent databases and Dr Puay Tang (SPRU, Sussex University) on the hazards of interviewing. Other named contributions are invited: please contact Martin Kretschmer.
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Nightline's Moran To Anchor From New York
Nightline anchor Terry Moran will be a much more frequent visitor to New York, an ABC News insider confirms. Nightline Executive Producer James Goldston came down to the ABC News D.C. bureau two weeks ago to talk to Nightline staffers in Washington, according to sources familiar with the conversation. His message: Starting Monday (Nov. 12), more of the anchoring of the show by Washington anchor Terry Moran will actually be from New York.
"They want a New York feel, so New York is where the anchor is," said a longtime news staffer. An ABC Network News source familiar with the conversation confirmed that Moran, who shares anchoring duties with Martin Bashir and Cynthia McFadden, would do more anchoring from the Big Apple. But she said the issue was to reduce staffing redundancy, though D.C. remains a 24/7 news bureau, the source said.
"The idea is to increase efficiency in both New York and Washington," cutting down on staff demand, she said.
"So, in an effort to mitigate that, Terry will anchor more often from New York."
A lighting staffer and camera operator who had been manning a small, third-floor studio being used by Nightline will not will be losing their jobs, said the source, but will be reassigned.
Moran will continue to report from D.C., and anchor when necessary from the Hay-Adams Hotel, where ABC has a fixed, remotely controlled unmanned camera for standups, with the White House for a backdrop. The same location where Charlie Gibson anchors World News when he is in town.
With ABC's Washington-based public affairs show, This Week, moving to new digs at the Newseum starting early next year, ABC will soon have two D.C. studios with space available. The other is a large basement studio, the home to the formerly Washington-based, Ted Koppel-hosted Nightline and current home to This Week. The This Week crew is expected to make the move to the Newseum studio for the Sunday morning broadcasts.
A decade or so ago, said a longtime staffer, ABC rented out some of its D.C. bureau studio space to third parties until New York put th kibosh on that, saying it needed to be ready at a moment's notice to report news out of those studios. Some staffers are wondering whether the network will try to rent the space out again. Those conversationsd have not come up, said the ABC insider, but they could.
The ABC D.C. bureau has been through various changes and staffing cutbacks as the result of the post-Koppel reformatting of the show to a three-anchor broadcast that divides production time between D.C. and New York, where Goldston is based.
The reformat has paid off in the ratings, with Nightline holding onto its audience and closing the gap between CBS' Late Show With David Letterman and NBC's Tonight Show With Jay Leno. The changes have taken a toll on longtime D.C. staffers already on edge from an ongoing contract dispute.


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The help was there, and offered.
But apparently Titus Young didn't want it.
The former Lions wide receiver, who remains in a California jail after a recent string of arrests, apparently made it clear to the league that he wasn't interested in assistance 18 months ago, before his troubles came to a head.
NFL director of player engagement Troy Vincent told Eric Adelson of Yahoo! Sports that his department tried "multiple times" to offer counseling, after someone close to him called them, expressing worry.
"It was someone very, very close to him who was just concerned – really concerned," Vincent said. "Once we got the call, we sent someone out to meet with him. . . .
"We were told he was not interested in support. We went to people very close to his center of influence, to reach out to see how we can support him. The response was of someone who is not open arms to being supported."
Young's agent didn't comment on the report. The Lions washed their hands of Young after a tumultuous two years, though teammates have continued to try to support him.
But Young himself apparently isn't interested in that help, as offers were rebuffed.
"We can reach out, which we have done," Vincent said. "We look to assist and support – to get him on track. We've reached out. We have been reaching out prior to his last incident. We've been working hard for quite some time in this situation. Everything is available to him."
"We will be on call to support. That's all we can do. We are here. We are on call. Our support team is here for you. Unless he engages back, all we can do is sit and be on call. "
The idea of a professional athlete refusing help shouldn't come as a surprise. But the league has to continue to work with players before they reach the sad state Young is in, to make sure they know about the services available to them.


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Costume changes are probably pretty hectic backstage during the Saturday Night Live broadcast but things are especially intense (and amusing) in this video of Zach Galifianakis getting his head shaved during last Saturday night's SNL episode.
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After upgrading to DB2 V9.7 FP4 or higher, followed by db2updv97 on database. Attempts to run LISTAGG function may result in error SQL0440N.
$ db2 "select APPL_ID, listagg(APPL_ID, ',') within group (order by APPL_ID) as tt from msdb2.lockevents group by appl_id"
SQL0440N No authorized routine named "LISTAGG" of type "FUNCTION" having compatible arguments was found. SQLSTATE=42884
Diagnosing The Problem
LISTAGG will fail after upgrading to fixpack 4 and running db2updv97, if the instance/database is not recycled after db2updv97. The in-build function cache is populated during database initialization. After db2updv97, recycle is necessary to refresh the cache. Hence, the current cache didn't contain the new LISTAGG function.
Resolving The Problem
After running db2updv7 against the database, recycle the database by either using deactivate/activate database commands or db2stop/db2start to recycle the instance.
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|Tortuga Fusiliers
|Unit Profile (as of 3064)
|Pride of the Dominions
|Parent Formation
|Age of War
- 1 Unit Description
- 2 History
- 3 Officers
- 4 Tactics
- 5 Composition History
- 6 Gallery
- 7 Notes
- 8 Game Rules
- 9 References
- 10 Bibliography
Unit Description[edit]
The Tortuga Fusiliers began as troops in the Free Worlds League before fleeing to serve as household troops to House Amaris in the Rim Worlds Republic before going on to serve as mercenaries across the Inner Sphere.
The Tartan Brigade[edit]
The unit that would become known as the Tortuga Fusiliers had its beginning in troops from the Free Worlds League who fled and ended up on the opposite side of human space in the Rim Worlds Republic. Forming themselves into a unit known as the Tartan Brigade the troops went on to serve the Rim Worlds Republic for some time, and by the end of the Age of War the Tartan Brigade were considered to be household troops of House Amaris.[1]
Reunification War[edit]
In 2575 civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic, with the factions polarized around those loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris and those loyal to the Rift Republican Army and the Rim Provisional Government.[2] At the time, the Tartan Brigade were stationed on the world of Illium in the Apollo Province of the Republic; Illium was considered a personal fief of the Amaris family and was famed for the "topless towers" within the capital city, Troy.[1] Unsurprisingly, the Tartan Brigade remained loyal to Amaris throughout the civil war, and the Brigade spent the next decade in place on Illium.[3][4][5]
The Star League eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in 2579 assembled Task Force MAILED FIST to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the Star League Defense Force, Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing Operation MAILED FIST, the name given to the military intervention. The first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near Apollo,[6] until a destructive raid on Alarion by the Fourth Amaris Fusiliers in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing Rim Worlds Army concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.[7]
In late 2584 the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations - resistance prompted by atrocities performed by the Draconis Auxiliary Corps when they captured Nightwish in mid-2584.[8]
General Nathan Isaacson of Battle Group Apollo assigned the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division to the conquest of Illium in 2589.[9] The Sixteenth was one of three divisions that made up VI Corps and landed on Illium in March 2589, meeting immediate resistance from the Tartan Brigade. However, when faced with the prospect of bitter battles in the very streets of Troy itself, Gordon made the pragmatic decision to surrender his forces to the Sixteenth, rather than risk damaging the city; Gregory Amaris subsequently approved of the decision, personally decorating Gordon after the war for his good judgement.[1]
Star League Era[edit]
The Tartan Brigade fought valiantly for House Amaris during the Amaris Civil War but the Brigade was reduced to battered remnants by the Star League forces led by General Aleksandr Kerensky. Still proud, the remnants of the Tartan Brigade swiftly found work as mercenaries in service to Coordinator Minoru Kurita and the Draconis Combine.[10]
Amaris Civil War[edit]
The Tartan Brigade had expanded considerably under the auspices of House Amaris; when the SLDF began landings on Terra in 2777, the Second Tartan Brigade was a division-sized unit, and one of three Amaris Empire Armed Forces divisions assigned to the defense of Geneva, operating alongside the Ninety-ninth Amaris Dragoons and the Thirteenth Hegemony Patriots. While the patriot division was a poorly-trained and equipped volunteer formation, the Dragoons and the Tartan Brigade were both dedicated and fanatical units with considerable experience. General Kerensky landed ten divisions of SLDF troops from the Eighteenth Army to liberate Geneva, and the spaceport northwest of the city, guarded by the Tartan Brigade, was the first objective for the Eighteenth. Facing the combined forces of the 116th Mechanized Infantry Division (the Flanders Division) and the 209th Mechanized Infantry Division, the Second Tartan Brigade engaged the SLDF forces near Versoix, slowly falling back over three days to the spaceport, where the heavy defenses there could add to the Tartan Brigade's firepower. The combination of the Tartan Brigade and the spaceport defenses were enough to stall the 116th and 209th, but additional SLDF forces opened up a second front through the Meyrin and Vernier districts, pressing the Tartan Brigade from the south, and used artillery forces dug in across the French border near Jura to support their attack. Having landed on the 2nd of February and first engaged the Tartan Brigade on the 4th, it was the 10th of February before the SLDF finally gained control of the spaceport, by which time much of the spaceport was in ruins, and the Tartan Brigade had successfully withdrawn it's surviving forces to the southeast, joining with the Thirteenth Hegemony Patriots around the Hegemony Congress.[11]
The Dragoons were fighting a bitter battle in southern Geneva at the same time, determined to stop the SLDF seizing bridges across the Rhône that represented the Dragoons' only viable escape route; it took until the 19th of February for the Dragoons to be forced to retreat across the Rhône, and as they fell back, they destroyed two of the three main bridges before joining the Tartan Brigade and Patriot division in the defenses at Geneva. Geneva was effectively a prison for the Amaris forces, but the surviving troops were so well-fortified and determined to resist that digging them out would've been a destructive and expensive proposition - so the Eighteenth enforced a siege instead, hoping to starve the loyalist forces into submission. For four months, the defenders rationed their supplies, but even at half-rations they were out of supplies by late April. The SLDF stepped up the psychological pressure on the Amaris forces by broadcasting messages offering food and warm beds to those who surrendered, and a steadily increasing number of Amaris troops did so, defecting from the Patriot division in particular. With steadily-increasing torrent of troops surrendering and being transported to the SLDF internment camp at Annecy, the senior officers knew that they had little time. Agreeing to launch a breakout attempt, the surviving units struck northwards, taking the SLDF by surprise as they broke out through Bellevue and Chambésy, with the 279th Light Horse Regiment and the Seventy-fourth Royal Dragoon Regiment in hot pursuit. A few companies of loyalists managed to get through the SLDF lines, but the bulk of the forces were contained by the SLDF; those who broke through were cornered at Saint-Cergue, under constant air attack and with no means of escape. The last Amaris loyalists surrendered on the 10th of June, ending the battle for Europe.[11]
Succession Wars[edit]
Born from a regiment of forces from the Tartan Brigade in 2784 and renamed Fuchida's Fusiliers,[12] the mercenaries were largely nomadic during the Succession Wars, never working for the same employer for more than a few years at a time and moving from one contract to the next.[10] Their first employer was the Draconis Combine,[12] but in a twist of fate, the mercenary unit that had its origins in the Free Worlds League would serve House Marik no less than four times during the first three Succession Wars; the Fusiliers were under contract to the League from 2834 to 2845, then 2882 to 2898, then again from 2931 to 2935; in 3021, having just completed a campaign in service to the Federated Suns, the Fusiliers signed on with House Marik again, and were still in service with the League in 3025.[10]
The Fusiliers spent the last years of the Third Succession War on the border between the Free Worlds League and the Lyran Commonwealth, conducting a range of missions involving raiding and sabotage. Despite having spent four years almost continuously in action against the Lyrans the Fusiliers had found fewer chances to claim booty than they had anticipated, and it was rumored that the unit commanding officer, Major Michael Iverson, was looking at changing Houses once more when the Fusiliers' contract with the League ended.[10]
Although the Fusiliers had experienced both good and bad times during the Succession Wars they remained proud of and devoted to their heritage; the DropShips and aerospace fighters operated by the Fusiliers were painted in tartan plaids, and the Fusiliers' personnel wore stylized variations of ancient Scottish kilt as their standard uniform, although the kilts were made of synth-weave rather than tartan cloth. The Fusiliers had also cultivated a reputation for reckless, bloodthirsty behavior on the battlefield and often stayed in action far longer than other, more prudent units would have countenanced.[10]
War of 3039[edit]
In 3038, Fuchida's Fusiliers were stationed in the Draconis March, on the world of Udibi. Among the many Federated Suns-employed mercenary units selected to assist the War of 3039, the Fusiliers were transferred to Benet III and assigned to retake the lightly defended world of Royal, captured by the Combine during the Fourth Succession War. Seemingly a relatively easy mission, the mercenaries would later learn that things were much more complex behind the scenes.[13] [14]
Though First Prince Hanse Davion forbade Duke Paul Stephenson of New Ivaarsen from using his New Ivaarsen Chasseurs from retaking his lost landhold, Duke Paul ensured a steady volume of supplies and support for an underground movement against the Combine occupation. When he received word that AFFS would send the Fusiliers to retake Royal as his Chasseurs prepared for action elsewhere, the Duke sent his son Leto Stephenson to accompany the mercenaries as their liaison officer. Duke Paul then proceeded to recruit a battalions-worth of MechWarriors from both Chasseur regiments as well a regiment from New Ivaarsen's militia to create the New Ivaarsen Volunteers. Just before the Fusiliers jumped, Leto signaled his father, who immediately dispatched the Volunteers. As soon as they arrived on-world, Colonel Stephenson assumed direct command of the Royal invasion. With word of their duke's son leading the invasion, almost the entire population of Royal rose up against the three Kurita conventional regiments stationed on-world. While suffering heavy losses, the people of Royal played a decisive role in ensuring Colonel Stephenson and his Volunteers ejected the Combine forces in a mere five weeks. [14]
After the war ended, the Fusiliers lodged more than a dozen formal complaints against Colonel Leto Stephenson, alleging that he overstepped his authority in assuming control of the Royal invasion and that he issued orders that forced the Fusiliers to take the brunt of the combat losses, yet assigned the bulk of the salvage taken to his New Ivaarsen Volunteers. When these complaints disappeared in the AFFS bureaucracy, the Fusiliers proceeded to file civil suits against the Stephenson family, and while these too also faded away, several New Ivaarsen-based businesses made a number of large payouts to the mercenary unit in the mid-3040s. [15]
Unfortunately while they eventually received some degree of financial redress, the Fusiliers lost in the court of public opinion in the process. A number of prominent Royal citizens, including the new planetary governor, charged the mercenaries with cowardice, citing seemingly endless examples of the Fusiliers either holding back or outright refusing to follow attack orders given to them by Colonel Leto Stephenson. As word of these claims spread throughout the Draconis March, the Fusiliers soon found themselves persona-non-grata anywhere near Royal, New Ivaarsen or even Robinson, with the AFFS forced to relocate them entirely after no Draconis March world wished anything to do with them. The final blow was the lack of respect given for the Fusiliers' service in the war. Where other mercenary units received a visit from Field Marshal James Sandoval or another member of the AFFS high command in person, the Fusiliers merely received a note of thanks from Field Marshal Ardan Sortek. [15]
From Mercenaries to Pirates[edit]
Shuffled about by the AFFS, the Fusiliers eventually returned to Udibi only to find the ill-feeling against them in the Draconis March remained. Remaining in the service of the Federated Commonwealth during the mid-31st Century, as of 3050 the Fusiliers were still stationed on Udibi.[16]
In 3051 the Fusiliers were ordered by FedCom High Command to deploy to the Lyran half of the Commonwealth to face the Clans, despite not receiving the Star League era upgrades that AFFC front-line units were receiving ahead of such transfers. Already embittered after Royal, the Fusiliers believed this indicated the Federated Commonwealth intended to sacrifice them to slow the Clan juggernaut, breaking contract in the face of this "betrayal". Once going rogue, the unit raided the Precision Weaponry plant on Tancredi IV for their own upgraded equipment. The raid caused significant damage to the weapons plant, motivating the unit to move quickly out of FedCom controlled space. The unit proceeded through the Outworlds Alliance, raiding for only food and water. The Fusiliers continued with minimum stops with a brief stop in the Mica Majority, where the unit acquired supplies and some gold through legal channels.
The unit wandered the barren star systems outside of the Outworlds Alliance for the next few years. With only a brief clash with the Brotherhood of Randis on Antallos, who repulsed their attempt to grab a BattleMech cache. The unit finally found itself in the Tortuga Dominions in 3054, where they decided to set up their own operations.[17]
New Name and Nation Building[edit]
The Fusiliers settled in the Dominion, taking over what used to be Lady Death and her Pirate band's base of operations twelve years after their capture by 9th FedCom RCT.[18] The unit set out and began raiding neighboring nations, especially the Federated Commonwealth.
Throughout these raids, Tortuga Prime begun to industrialize and create primitive BattleMech factories, due to the Fusiliers' actions shortly after their arrival in late 3050s. The Fusiliers' industrializing revived the planet's flagging economy and allowed for the Word of Blake to set up a B Class HPG Station on the planet.[19]
The unit adopted the planet's name as its own, as the Tortuga Fusiliers. They beefed up their forces by expanding their Aerospace elements and creating an infantry unit by 3064. Where drawing from people of the Dominion to create a formal infantry regiment trained in crowd control as well as a general battlefield unit. They also moved to rebuild Tortuga Prime's aerospace forces, using up to nineteen Aerospace fighters to form the core of an Assault force planetary assault and interdict trade for the Fusiliers.
However, the intervening year had not been kind. The unit had expanded two battalions however, two companies had been outright destroyed when they decided to leave to join the Lady Death's Death's Consorts.[20]
Elements of the Fusiliers were present in the New Port Royal system when the Death's Consorts lost a Union-class DropShip in 3066.[21]
|Commanding Officers of the Tartan Brigade
|2589 - 2599[1]
|Commanding Officers of the Fuchida's Fusiliers
|Michael "Mad Mac" Iverson
|Commanding Officers of the Tortuga Fusiliers
|Twylla Sumeral
|3058 - 3064[22][23]
The Fusiliers, by 3064, had become specialized in Urban Combat. The unit developed devious methods for this area of fighting. They had devised, laying mines in parks and MechWarriors walking their machines through buildings. Also they developed a method of destroying non-jump capable 'Mechs, in a tactic they called the Canyon of Death. Trick & move enemy into tight spot and then have their jump capable 'Mechs jump on to buildings next to them and blast them from above.[24]
Composition History[edit]
- Tartan Brigade (Loyalist)[25]
- CO: Colonel Angus Graham
- First Tartan Brigade
- Second Tartan Brigade (Division)[11]
- - At this point in time the Second Tartan Brigade was one of three divisions of Amaris Empire forces assigned to Geneva on Terra.[11]
- Fuchida's Fusiliers (Veteran/Reliable)[26]
- - At this point in time the Fusiliers were a heavy regiment operating at full strength and were stationed on Tinaca.[26]
- Fuchida's Fusiliers (Veteran/Reliable)[26]
- - At this point in time the Fusiliers were a heavy regiment but had been reduced to a little over half-strength, and were stationed on Tinaca.[26]
Fuchida's Fusiliers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) [27]
- Note: At this point in time the medium-weight unit was stationed on Tinaca with an operational readiness of 110 percent. [27]
Fuchida's Fusiliers (Regiment/Regular/Reliable) [27]
- Note: At this point in time the medium-weight unit was stationed on Tinaca with an operational readiness of 65 percent. [27]
Fuchida's Fusiliers(Regiment/Regular/Questionable)
- Contract:FWLM [28]
- CO: Major Michael Iverson
Fuchida's Fusiliers (Regiment/Regular/Questionable)[29]
Fuchida's Fusiliers (Battalion/Regular/Questionable) [30]
Fuchida's Fusiliers (Battalion/Regular/Questionable) [31]
- Fuchida's Fusiliers (BattleMech Battalion)[23]
- Fuchida's Fusiliers (BattleMech Battalion)
- Tortuga Fusiliers (BattleMech Battalion) - CO: Twyla "The Major" Sumeral
- The unit consisted of four companies.[32]
- Tortuga Corsairs (2 AeroSpace Fighter Wings) - CO: Cameron "Hot Seat" Kline
- 1st Tortuga Infantry Regiment (1 Infantry Regiment) - CO: Ryan "Lady Killer" Coleman
In Master & Minions sourcebook, the unit was destroyed by Death's Consorts during the Jihad, however it is unclear when this exactly happened.[33] They are not listed in Field Manual: Updates, but are mentioned as of 3067 in Handbook: Major Periphery States as a threat.[34]
Game Rules[edit]
Reunification War[edit]
- During the Reunification War the Tartan Brigade receive a -1 penalty to all repair roles as a consequence of the disruption caused to the logistical infrastructure of the Rim Worlds Army during the Rim Worlds Republic civil war.[35]
Clan Invasion Era[edit]
- While using Force Specific Rules in a scenario, when using Urban settings. The Fusiliers can deploy a fourth of their units numbers in hidden positions prior to start of a game. Another rule the Fusiliers possess is the Banking Initiative ability.[36]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Historical: Reunification War, p. 136, "Illium to Barcelona (March 2589 - August 2591)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 130, "The Spark"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 154, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 155, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 132, "Case Apollo"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 134, "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 House Marik: The Free Worlds League, p. 106-107, "Fuchida's Fusiliers"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 79, "Geneva"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 First Succession War, p. 35, "Those Left Behind"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Historical: War of 3039 , p. 140
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 50 "Wave One - Royal (March-April)"
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 51 "Wave One - Royal Backlash"
- ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 19, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
- ↑ The Periphery (1996) p. 85 - Fuchida's Fusiliers - Origin and Early history from 3050s.
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery pp. 124-125 - Paula Lady Death Trevaline - The Lady Death - Brief description of her early history and capture by the 9th FedCom RCT.
- ↑ Masters & Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers pp. 239-240 - Tortuga Prime - Fusiliers' arrival revives Tortuga Prime's economy.
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery p. 130 - Tortuga Fusiliers, how they got their name and their history in early to mid 3060s.
- ↑ The Bitter Taste of Hope
- ↑ The Periphery (1996), p. 78 - Periphery Independents - Fuchida's Fusiliers strength and status listed as of 3058, including Commanding Officer.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Objective Raids, p. 49
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery p. 130 - Tortuga Fusiliers - Tactics.
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 131, "The Rim Worlds Army Loyalties"
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 First Succession War, p. 137, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery (DCMS)"
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 '' Second Succession War'', p. 97
- ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p.109
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Historical: Brush Wars, p.87
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 140 >Historical: War of 3039, p. 140
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 20 Year Update, p. 19
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery p. 130 - Tortuga Fusiliers re-organized into Four company battalion after infighting.
- ↑ Masters & Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers p. 240 - Tortuga Prime - planetary history includes the Fusiliers' take over of the planet and its demise.
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States p. 141 - THE CONSTANT ENEMY: PIRATES IN THE OUTWORLDS - Other Threats - Tortuga Fusiliers are noted as threat as of 3067.
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 183, "Rim Worlds Republic"
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery p. 155 - Tortuga Fusiliers - Force-Specific Abilities.
- Field Manual: Periphery
- First Succession War
- Handbook: Major Periphery States
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2
- Historical: Reunification War
- Historical: War of 3039
- Masters & Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- Objective Raids
- The Bitter Taste of Hope (BattleCorps Story)
- The Periphery, Second Edition
- Second Succession War


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – San Diego State put together 14 hits to open the weekend series with a 5-3 win over UC Santa Barbara on Friday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
The Aztecs (28-11) were led by Tyler Adkison and Danny Sheehan, each with 3 hits in the game. The Gauchos (16-19, 3-5 Big West) fought hard to keep the game close, but a ninth-inning rally by San Diego State proved to be the deciding factor in an unusual game.
Noah Davis, UCSB's starting pitcher had his work cut out for him on the mound. After an Adkison single and stolen base, Julian Escobedo pushed the first run of the game across in the top of the second with a chopper just over JJ Muno's head, scoring Adkison.
Then in the fifth, Alan Trejo got the inning started with a liner to center field. The next batter, Andrew Brown, got on by a fielding error, and was soon followed by a pair of hits from Jordan Verdon and Adkison once again to open the lead 3-0. Andrew Checketts, UCSB's head coach, commented that San Diego State's two-strike approach was, "really a nice job…they put the ball in play."
However, the Gauchos bounced right back the next half-inning. With two outs, catcher Dempsey Grover laid down a great surprise bunt for a single. A pair of throwing errors on the play allowed Grover to advance from first to home in one play, cutting the lead to 3-1.
The next inning, the Gauchos came back to tie the game 3-3. Billy Fredrick reached on a fielding error to start the rally, followed shortly after by a single from DH Sam Cohen. A deep fly ball by Austin Bush allowed Fredrick to advance to third, then Tommy Jew followed with a seeing-eye RBI single, scoring Fredrick and advancing Cohen to third. With runners on the corners, Jew stole second and the catcher's throw down nailed his pitcher on the lower back, allowing Cohen to come in and score.
Pitching 7 1/3 innings, Noah Davis kept the Aztecs off the board in the sixth inning and recorded the first out in the 8th inning. After tossing 110 pitches with only 1 earned run, Checketts decided to pull Davis and bring in Kevin Chandler for relief, "He (Davis) gave us a chance today… still very competitive and throwing hard."
A round of hits from Sheehan, Verdon, Brown, and Adkison pushed the Aztecs ahead 5-3 in the top of the ninth inning, wiith two of those hits coming with two strikes.
The Gauchos tried to fight back in the ninth with a lead-off single by Muno. However, the next three batters flew out to end the game.
UCSB will look to tie the series tomorrow at 1:00PM at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. UCSBGauchos.com will have live audio and video broadcasts of the game.