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Aramis Ramirez Has Thoughts About Theo Epstein and Bob Brenly
I tend not to dwell on former Cubs (though I curse them when they come back through town on another team, performing far better than they did with the Cubs). Once they're gone, I wish them well, but I'm not going to concern myself with everything they say and do. The same is true for former Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who is now the Milwaukee Brewers' third baseman. Go forth and do swell, Aramis.
But Ramirez offered two quotes recently to the Sun-Times that I couldn't not share.
First, on new Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations, Theo Epstein, and the man he kinda-sorta replaces, Jim Hendry:
''I think Jim was successful in Chicago,'' Ramirez said of Hendry. ''We made the playoffs three times, and I don't know if any other GMs have done that for the Chicago Cubs. It's hard to win [a championship], but we competed….
''It don't work that way, man,'' Ramirez said when asked about Epstein coming in and getting the job done. ''Obviously, he's been successful before in Boston. I'm sure he's got a game plan; hopefully, it works. But it's not that easy. It was a different situation when he got the job in Boston [nine years ago]. They were ready to win then; they just needed a couple of pieces, and he went out and got it, and he won.''
Interesting, but not surprising. And not necessarily wrong, either – no one disputes that the Red Sox were in a very different place back then than the Cubs are now. Still, it's strange to hear Ramirez stepping on the Cubs' plans like that. Perhaps Ramirez has lingering affection for Hendry, and feels like it would be a betrayal to talk up Epstein. Or maybe Ramirez is now a Brewer through-and-through, and is ready to start playing into the rivalry.
The more interesting quote offered by Ramirez, though, responded to criticisms he faced from Cubs' color man, Bob Brenly, after Ramirez was on his way out the door. Primarily, Brenly has ripped Ramirez as being a bad influence on younger players, a bad defender, a bad baserunner, and more. In response, Ramirez busted out the player card.
''You talking about Bob Brenly?'' Ramirez said when asked about recent criticism. ''I ain't going to get into a war with Brenly or any other guy. Brenly played the game. He knows how it is. And if you want, you can put my numbers right next to his and see who did better in their career.''
The whole Sun-Times piece makes for an interesting read, as it features a response from Brenly (in short: he just thinks Ramirez could have been a lot better if he'd worked harder), more from Ramirez on his time with the Cubs ("I'm not Tony Campana"), and thoughts from other Cubs.
(I bet you didn't know that Brenly actually had a career 106 OPS+, which is pretty good. It doesn't match Ramirez's 114, nor do Brenly's overall stats stack up with Ramirez's, but, hey, it's interesting.)


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There has been no discussion about putting back the start date for new rules of bank capital buffers in the lead-up to this weekend's G20 meeting, a senior Mexican Finance Ministry official told Reuters on Saturday.
U.S. and European financial officials are likely to come under pressure from peers when they meet in Mexico City for dragging their feet on implementing the so-called Basel III accords, the world's response to the 2007-09 financial crisis.
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"In the last three weeks, not one conference call, not one paper that has been presented, has suggested that modifying the timetable could be put forward by anyone," said Juan Manuel Valle, head of the banking and securities department at the Finance Ministry.
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So there we have it: a new, Bible-based, evangelical network of Anglican Churches, mostly in the developing South, has been formed at a conference of 280 bishops in Jerusalem, as a counter-weight within the Anglican Communion. This is not a split or schism. But it can be likened to a Reformation with far-reaching consequences, one that is set to reshape Anglicanism for decades to come – as did, in the nineteenth century, the Oxford movement. Just as the Oxford movement sought to pull the Church of England back to its Catholic roots and ended up dominating it, so the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FOCA) – created by the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCon) in Jerusalem which ended Sunday – is a new association of orthodox or evangelical Anglicans which is set to undermine and overshadow the existing Anglican Communion. FOCA includes at least two Church of England bishops as well as the heads of leading African, South American and Australian churches, incorporating 35 million worshippers in countries where Anglicanism is growing much faster than in Europe and America. (The Anglican Communion overall is thought to include about 80 million believers.) FOCA rejects not only the "false Gospel" of the North-American Anglicans, and their "unscriptural" endorsement of homosexuality, but also what they call the "colonial" domination of the global Anglican Church by northern, liberal mentalities. The new federation, overseen by a Council, is not so much a "Church within a Church" as a "Communion within a Communion". It will retain formal ties with Dr Rowan Williams and remain within the global Anglican Church. But there the togetherness ends. As Ruth Gledhill of The Times points out, "the new body will have its own bishops, clergy and theological colleges, and eventually its own structures, within the legal constraints of existing Anglican institutions." Gafcon Churches will expressly be out of communion with the US and Canadian Anglicans, who allowed the consecration of an openly gay bishop in 2003 and have authorized same-sex blessings in the teeth of objections from the Anglican Primates. In the Gafcon view, it is the North-American Episcopals' refusal to repent of these moves, despite requests from the Archbishop of Canterbury underlined by the Windsor Report of 2004, which has forced the current crisis. But rather than defend Canterbury's authority against the North-American Episcopals, FOCA is choosing to bypass Canterbury because of its refusal to expel them. The attendance of the US and Canadian Episcopal bishops at the Lambeth Conference which opens on July 16 makes a mockery of these "instruments of unity" of the Anglican Communion, say the Gafcon bishops, who will mostly be boycotting Lambeth. So the Gafcon structure effectively sidelines the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the traditional dominance of the Church of England within the Anglican Communion. In its final declaration, Gafcon on Sunday noted three "facts" about the crisis within the Anglican Communion: 1. The "acceptance and promotion within the provinces of the Anglican Communion of a different 'gospel' (cf. Galatians 1:6-8) which is contrary to the apostolic gospel ... In 2003 this false gospel led to the consecration of a bishop living in a homosexual relationship." 2. The "declaration by provincial bodies in the Global South that they are out of communion with bishops and churches that promote this false gospel .... A major realignment has occurred and will continue to unfold." 3. The "manifest failure of the Communion Instruments to exercise discipline in the face of overt heterodoxy .... Despite numerous meetings and reports to and from the 'Instruments of Unity,' no effective action has been taken, and the bishops of these unrepentant churches are welcomed to Lambeth 2008." .... "We can only come to the devastating conclusion that 'we are a global Communion with a colonial structure'." Gafcon describes itself as a "fellowship which is faithful to biblical teaching, more representative of the demographic distribution of global Anglicanism today and stronger as an instrument of effective mission, ministry and social involvement." Together with a series of 14 proclamations called the Jerusalem Declaration--essentially a call to return to the Elizabethan Protestant version of Anglicanism with its Book of Common Prayer and 39 Articles--the Gafcon leaders announced the formation of a new Council of Primates which will be, in effect, the "instrument of unity" for the Gafcon "communion-within-a-communion." FOCA will include a traditionalist North American province based on the existing Common Cause federation, which would declare independence from the liberal Episcopal Church. What happens next will be interesting. The FOCA leaders are arriving in London today, and will be holding talks and discussion in evangelical Anglican churches over the next few days. Will parishes in the Church of England profess allegiance to FOCA? If so, how many? In other words, will this "global evangelical rebellion" rub salt in the existing divisions within the Church of England? Meanwhile, four points to keep in mind: 1. The formation of FOCA consolidates and ratifies divisions which have long existed and have been growing ever more acute. Because the Anglican Communion is a loose federation, which includes Churches with strongly differing theologies and ecclesiologies, it can be seen as a tightening of one part of the Communion rather than simply the further disintegration of the whole. 2. Although the presenting issue is homosexuality, it would be wrong to say that the Anglicans have "split on the gay issue" as the press are inevitably choosing to simplify it. The difference is the old one of biblical authority. Gafcon is essentially a reassertion of the essentially Protestant elements of Anglicanism (Book of Common Prayer, 39 Articles) against "liberalizing" and "Catholicizing" tendencies in northern Anglicanism. It is a global version of the eighteenth-century English rebellion of the low-church evangelicals against the "wordly" bishops. 3. FOCA's severing of the links with the Episcopal Church in the US and Canada leaves the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury in communion with large and important parts of the worldwide Anglican Church which are at the same time out of communion with each other. Anglicanism has always had a genius for maintaining "together" -- the word must sometimes be employed very loosely – wildly incompatible understandings of what "Church" means. There is no reason to think it has lost that genius. 4. But it is not unimaginable that in the future the Anglican Communion becomes an even looser federation incorporating three networks: the evangelicals of the South, the liberal Catholics of Europe, and the liberal Protestants of the US and Canada. Austen Ivereigh
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The Oxford Movement certainly did not end up dominating the Church of England. It changed the appearance of churches and made Protestant Bishops dress up in mitres but its doctrines on church, ministry, and salvation, did not permeate to C of E. It was a gallant attempt to graft upon an essentially Protestant and Erastian church some vestiges of Catholicism. The dominant section of the C of E is modernist. The Evangelicals are merely reaffirming the traditional character of the Elizabethan Church, which was regarded as Protestant by all other Protestant Reformed Churches, and was staffed by Calvinists.
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Properly called rebellious than heretical? Not! Heresy is still heresy... The role of heresy in history is evil. The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Anglicanism/Episcopals or whatever they are going to call themselves with this new movement, need to come home. Making decisions in Jerusalem like this without the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him continues the Heresy. Quo Vadis? Lassie Come Home!
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I would like to let Mr. Ivereigh know that Anglicans in Canada are Catholic and Protestant, and Episcopalians in the US are also Catholic and Protestant. Some also would characterize themselves as Charismatic. Many of the Protestant Anglicans and Episcopalians have chosen to be part of this ''Back to the Past'' confederation. This new GAFCON group is more focused on power than on any biblical principle. Some members have already sold their allegiance to the Anglican Communion for the chance to be consecrated as bishops. The southern hemisphere power contingency would first find a disgruntled member of the clergy, offer him the prize, then the new ''bishop elect'' would convince his parish to join the orthodox fold. This alliance is not primarily about God, Christ or any other religious dynamic: it is about pure and absolute power. -- A Canadian Anglican


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Both chambers of Congress should lay out a "framework" of future government spending, Representative Kevin McCarthy said today in an interview with Bloomberg Television's "Capitol Gains" program airing Jan. 20.
"You can't get out of this without passing a budget," McCarthy of California said.
Political divisions in Congress pose limits to the ability of Republicans to achieve their long-term goals of deep cuts in spending, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told reporters at the retreat yesterday.
Attaching a requirement that the Senate pass a budget to a short-term debt-limit extension would require Senate Democrats to spell out their spending plans.
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The comments by Mulvaney and Ryan reflected the new political realities following President Barack Obama's re- election that are spurring House Republicans to reassess their goals.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Texas Tech coach Chris Walker is the first to say his team was overmatched Monday night.
He said at this point in the Red Raiders' development, they aren't even really in a position to look at the scoreboard for success.
That was probably a good attitude to take on a night like this.
Texas Tech trailed by as many as 41 points before losing 79-42 to No. 4 Kansas on senior night.
From the opening tip, Kansas soared for alley-oop passes and dunked over the Red Raiders, who finished with their lowest point total of the season and shot 26.4 percent against the top-ranked team in the nation in field goal defense.
"I thought that we lacked a little bit of toughness that would have negated some of those things," Walker said. "Once it starts spiraling downward, it was tough for us to come back from it and then it was just open season."
Texas Tech had nine field goals and nine turnovers in the first half. For the game, the Red Raiders had 14 turnovers and 14 field goals. They were outrebounded for the ninth time in 10 games.
"It is hard to swallow, but it's Kansas," said Jordan Tolbert who led the Red Raiders with 16 points. "It's not just any regular team."
Kansas' four seniors were determined not to get caught up in the emotion of their final appearance in perpetually amped-up, sold-out Allen Fieldhouse, and all four had big games.
"Today's been kind of crazy," said center Jeff Withey, who had 22 points and nine rebounds. "You try not to think about what's really going on, playing for the last time in the fieldhouse. For me personally, it hasn't really hit me. I don't think it will for a while."
Kevin Young had 14 points and fellow senior Travis Releford 13 added while point guard Elijah Johnson, the fourth member of the class, had seven points and 12 assists. The Jayhawks (26-4, 14-3 Big 12) took a half-game lead over No. 9 Kansas State in their quest for a ninth straight conference title.
"It's time to rock out. It's time to get to business, and I think we all knew that," said Johnson, who has 22 assists the past two games. "I honestly think the reason it hasn't hit all of us as far as this being the last (home) game is cause we're so focused on what we've got to do. So we're not dwelling on the moment. We know there's stuff to be done. That's where our heads are right now."
Redshirt freshman Ben McLemore, a potential NBA lottery pick who was probably also playing his last game in Allen Fieldhouse, had 13 points.
Fueled by Young and Withey, Kansas unleashed a 19-2 run to take a 45-20 halftime lead over the outmanned Red Raiders (10-18, 3-14). Withey and McLemore combined to score the first 10 points in a 16-3 run to open the second half.
Jordan Tolbert had 16 points for Texas Tech, which lost 60-46 at home to Kansas earlier this season.
"It's the most difficult situation probably in college basketball to come to Kansas on senior night, No. (4) in the country, a place with storied tradition and a great coach," Walker said. "Obviously, we're still building and it was a little tough for our guys."
The lopsided victory was the 30th straight for Kansas in its home finale and ensured the Jayhawks of at least 26 wins for the seventh consecutive season.
Coach Bill Self was happy to see the attitude his seniors brought to their final home games. There have been years when over-emotional seniors struggled.
"Senior nights are pretty nerve-racking to me," he said. "We've had some senior nights where we won but we didn't play good cause guys are too geeked-up and everything. Sherron (Collins) didn't make his first basket until about 10 minutes left on his senior night. But these guys were focused. It was emotional for them but they kept it pretty well in check. Of course, the fans were unbelievable."
"It really hasn't hit me, or any of us yet," Releford said. "I really don't know how to express that last moment walking off the court."
With one regular-season game left and then the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments, the four seniors — Withey, Young, Releford and Johnson — have a combined 463 victories.
Texas Tech, losing to Kansas for the 24th time in 28 games, finished its conference road schedule 1-8.
"Kansas is a very good team," Tolbert said. "It was obviously a little more intense because it was a top five team in the nation."


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I can't see Chicago going for that trade, considering they already had Crapford there and didn't doubt about letting him go.
But the rest of those trades are feasible, particularly the one with the Pacers. Haven't checked the numbers, but makes sense for both teams.
Trade the two fuks at all costs!
Reckon these trades are all doable, some more than others ofcourse but the main aim is to get rid of at least one of them and get a very good PG back at the same time, that's the ideal thing. Expirers are second option ofcourse or at the very least one player that would be seviceable here and one other who is an expirer
What is it about Crawford that everybody hates? He has been the best player on the Warriors since coming over from NY. He has a really good Assist / Turnover ratio. He moves the ball around and can get to the basket and finish or dish...I dont get it. His shot, even when missing looks good, he will find his stroke and once Monta comes back, we need a guy that can distribute in the back court with him.
seriously, i loved the crawford trade from the start.... people love the haterade in heeeeer. dude's a balla
I feel the same way Mr. Crackerz, I have always liked Crawford and was really excited about getting him. Sure I would have rather had David Lee, but even with the glut at guard, a real distributor is something this team was lacking and Crawford has made some beautiful passes so far in his Warriors tenure, some resulting in assists and some not....but he is a really good passer.


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The study by the Washington think-tank's Metropolitan Policy Program was issued during an international conference hosted in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, Brazil, by the Global Cities Initiative, a joint Brookings Institution-JPMorgan Chase project aimed at getting metropolitan leadership engage more broadly with global markets.
In its "Metro Brazil" report, Brookings analyzed for the first time economic and demographic data pertaining to Brazil's most significant cities. It shows that metropolitan areas not only play an essential role in the country's financial landscape, but display dynamic economies that continue to grow despite slowed growth at the national level.
The numbers underscore the healthy state of these metro areas. With 33 percent of the population, they account for 56 percent of national GDP, concentrate half of the country's college graduates, and are responsible for at least 45 percent of their states' GDP. Globally, these metro areas are responsible for one-third of Brazil's exports.
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"Brazilian metropolitan leaders — not just mayors, but regional leaders, business and education leaders — should understand the unique assets of their regions and how they fit into local, state and international picture," said Wilson. That could mean pushing for a more prominent role for cities and metro areas in the political sphere, she said.
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As a result, another student fainted due to an extreme fear of blood, said Lamar University Police Chief Jason Goodrich.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013 | 1 p.m.
Three of the Miss USA beauties taking part in Sunday's pageant live on NBC from Planet Hollywood had a night free from rehearsals — and they hit up the Cirque du Soleil Beatles LOVE show at the Mirage and then continued to dance the night away at Hakkasan in MGM Grand.
Olivia Culpo, Miss Universe 2012, Logan West, Miss Teen 2012, and the current reigning Miss USA Nana Meriwether, who will turn over her tiara to crown the new winner tomorrow, snacked on popcorn and soda during Friday night's show. The trio went backstage for a meet and greet after the show and posed for photos with the cast and crew.
Also spotted in the audience was NHL player Dustin Penner of the Los Angeles Kings.
After ensuring underage Logan was back at her hotel suite, Olivia and Nana continued on to Hakkasan for the Bingo Players show.
Nana who took on her current Miss USA title after pageant winner Olivia won the Miss Universe contest here last year, were seated at a VIP table on the main stage. Our spywitness reported they sipped on champagne and tequila cocktails and danced to Bingo Players fan-favorite tracks "Cry (Just a Little)" and "Rattle."


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NEW YORK (AP) – Angelica Vale is getting steamy onstage. She puts her hands to her neck, twisting and moaning, before bursting into an orgasm that seems to leave her exhausted and completely happy.
Her expression changes when she realizes that her mother, the actress Angelica Maria, dubbed "Mexico's Sweetheart," is looking at her poker-faced. But Angelica Maria soon has the audience roaring with laughter: "Just like her mother!" she says.
The scene is part of "Los monologos de la vagina" ("The Vagina Monologues"), which marks the first time an off-Broadway theater has hosted an ongoing run of a commercial Spanish language play. It is directed by Mexican Jaime Matarredona with a trio of Mexican stars that also includes Kate del Castillo.
Its producers hope it's not the last such experiment.
"I think it sets a precedent to produce plays in Spanish and recognize that there is an interest and a market for a Spanish production in the U.S.," producer Federico Gonzalez Compean said. "This experience very likely will make us keep exploring — there's nothing concrete — but is something that we should keep on doing."
Created by Eve Ensler in 1996 after interviewing 200 women about their sexual experiences, the play is filled with humor but also sends a strong message of respect and awareness about violence toward women. Its monologues address topics from menstruation and maternity to masturbation and orgasm, as well as topics like rape and female genital mutilation.
"It is a beautiful tribute to women, it's done with very good taste," said Vale, a Mexican telenovela star better known for her role in "Letty la fea," the Mexican version of "Ugly Betty." ''There's a lot of laughter, but always with a beautiful message at the end of the play".
Vale, with her natural spark and talent for comedy, triggers the most laughter with monologues like the one that features an orgasm — done these days while the actress is six months pregnant — but also provides one of the most heart-rending moments with one about war rape, "My Vagina Was My Village."
Each of the actresses offers something different, and together they create a dynamic experience, full of camaraderie. The relationship between mother and daughter onstage is inevitably touching, especially with Vale expecting a baby.
"For me, working with my mom is the best, not only because she's my mom, but because she is a great goddess and a wonderful actress from which I never stop learning," said Vale.
"Working with my daughter has always been wonderful," said Angelica Maria. "I adore her, I admire her, I love her... We always get on well, even onstage."
The beloved veteran actress narrates the monologue "The Flood," inspired in the memories of an elderly woman, and movingly interprets the story of a girl raped by a friend of her family.
To del Castillo, "The Vagina Monologues" are "sadly contemporary."
"It's terrible, the monologues, all that they speak about, this violence against women, this abuse, and things haven't changed," she said recently in Mexico City.
The actress, who reads stories called "My Angry Vagina," ''Hair" and "The Vagina Workshop," added that "there's no way you will not identify with one of the characters."
"Los monologos de la vagina" is being staged at the Westside Theatre, which was the New York home of the original production from 1999 to 2003.
Maria, Vale and del Castillo will appear until June 1. On June 3, when the theater will start offering simultaneous translation to English, veteran Broadway actress Daphne Rubin-Vega, Argentine Maria Cellario and Dominican Flor de Liz Perez will take over.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
On July 18, 111 days before the November election, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx arrived at Obama headquarters for a special announcement. Flanked by a dozen campaign volunteers, Foxx explained how the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the first in the state's history, would boost the president's organizing efforts in this crucial battleground state.
"From the day North Carolina was selected," Foxx said, "it was clear that the Obama campaign was committed to delivering the Tarheel State for President Obama once again." Foxx described the convention as a "massive organizing opportunity to recruit, to train and to engage more North Carolina volunteers than ever before." To that end, he announced, volunteers who gave nine hours of their time in three shifts would be guaranteed a seat at Bank of America Stadium when Obama speaks on September 6.
At 41, Foxx is the youngest mayor in Charlotte's history and only its second African-American mayor (the first, Harvey Gantt, lost two bitter Senate contests to Jesse Helms in the 1990s). Foxx has become Obama's most visible surrogate in the state and an evangelist for the type of grassroots organizing that propelled Obama to victory four years ago. "In my previous campaigns for city council, we didn't focus as much on phone banking and door knocking and grassroots politics," Foxx told me. "We took a lot of the mechanics from the Obama 2008 campaign and applied them to my 2009 mayoral race and my 2011 re-election race."
In 2011, Foxx was returned to office with 70 percent of the vote, and Democrats swept all four city council races, holding a nine-to-two majority for the first time in Charlotte's history. The races were viewed by the Obama campaign as a test run for 2012. Foxx's campaign, boosted by Obama volunteers from 2008, made ten times as many phone calls to voters as his opponent and knocked on 25,000 doors. "This was a really good wake-up call for the Republican Party," GOP consultant Jessica Wood would tell the Charlotte Observer. "We were clearly just out-organized."
North Carolina was the second-closest state in 2008—Obama won it by 14,177 votes—and had the largest spike in voter turnout compared with 2004, due largely to a surge in African-American and young voters. Today, the Obama campaign wants to prove that its 2008 squeaker was no fluke by forcing the Romney campaign to vigorously defend the state in a way that John McCain did not.
Political analysts Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin of the Center for American Progress have described this election as pitting "demographics versus economics." The country's changing demographics favor Obama, but the sluggish economy benefits Romney. Nowhere is this pattern as stark as in North Carolina. Demographically, state's growing coalition of young voters, minorities, white-collar professionals, and progressive transplants from the Midwest and Northeast favor Obama. People of color accounted for 61 percent of the state's 1.5 million new residents over the past decade. Since 2008, the black and Hispanic share of eligible voters in North Carolina has grown by 2.5 percent, while the percentage of the white vote has decreased by a similar margin. North Carolina has the largest population of African-Americans of any swing state, and it's also the battleground state where Obama is least reliant on white voters. Of the 263,000 people who moved to North Carolina in 2010, 65 percent came from states that supported Obama in 2008. In other words, Obama's local coalition has grown since 2008, while the Republicans' has shrunk.


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MGM has negotiated a "mitigation agreement" with Ludlow, guaranteeing that town an annual payment of $75,000 a year if the company opens a casino in Springfield. The Ludlow Select Board approved the deal earlier this week.
The agreement also includes a one-time payment of $50,000 by MGM to cover the town's consulting and legal fees, reports CBS's Chris Stewart. The casino company also will pay for a consultant to study what effects a Springfield casino would have on Ludlow. (Is it just me, or should that question have been answered before the town signed off on a mitigation agreement?)
Ludlow is the first neighboring town to sign an agreement with MGM, although a company official tells the Republican's Elizabeth Roman that its working on getting other pacts in place before Dec. 31, the deadline for applications to the Mass. Gaming Commission. "I know there was some anxiety about which community would be the first to reach an agreement with us," Michael Mathis, an MGM VP told Roman. "We have had some very productive conversations with other communities and are looking to secure more of these agreements so that we can provide a full application."
Meanwhile, as Chad Cain reports in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, who's expressed concern about what a Springfield casino would do to his city's downtown businesses, plans to ask the Gaming Commission to add Northampton to the list of affected communities if it cannot first reach an agreement with MGM. The city's negotiations with the casino company haven't gotten anywhere. Narkewicz also plans to ask the City Council to approve spending $22,000 to hire a consultant to study the effects of a casino on Northampton. (Sounds like casino-effects-consultant is a pretty good business to be in these days, doesn't it?)
Finally, as Mike Dobbs notes in this week's Reminder, the Gaming Commission is poised to announce any day now if MGM has passed its vetting process and can move forward in its application for a casino license. "If MGM is rejected, Springfield residents will probably be facing another effort to bring a casino to the city," Dobbs writes. "Springfield is the only community that has approved a casino deal through a referendum in our region and at least on paper would be the easiest sell."


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Happy Father's Day, everyone! This week we're taking a look at a space suit for the private sector, a dangerously imaginative puppy dog and a hostage situation you'll want to get looped into on your phone.
Pick#1 – Final Frontier Design's 3rd Generation Space Suit
After watching Prometheus, we couldn't help but want to own one of those nifty Weyland spacesuits for ourselves. Final Frontier Design is looking to be the first out of the gate for commercial space travel's clothing needs by upgrading their existing space suits to a 3rd generation design. The suits are designed for use in vehicle, so don't expect to take a space walk in them, but they will save your life in the event of loss of pressure or oxygen. The next generation of the Final Frontier is looking good.
Pick #2 – Danger Pug
First off, there is going to be a book called Danger Pug. Can we all just take a second to appreciate how cool that is and how weird it is that it didn't exist before now? The title alone just screams, "READ ME!" Danger Pug is the story of a a runt pup with a very active imagination who has adventures without ever leaving the house. So it's cute and inspiring. Like the Magic School Bus, only with something adorable instead of a mildly terrifying anthropomorphic bus.
Pick #3 –The Hostage Trials
What if Tamagotchis had stuck around, but instead of being your digital pet, they were sadistic villains trying to kidnap your friends? That's the basic concept of The Hostage Trials. In the game, your friend has been kidnapped and you have three days to save their life from a twisted villain voiced by David Hayter (the voice of Solid Snake!), but it's not 3 days in a game. You have 3 days in real time to complete the challenges. Part ARG and part audio adventure, The Hostage Trials will treat your mobile device as an interface for a new way to game. Where's Jack Bauer when you need him? Or at least Johnny Depp from Nick of Time?


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Most of the other job forums have a thread like this, and I didn't see an active one here, so here you go. Post whatever you feel is an accomplishment, whether it is unlocking Bard, a piece of gear, or a fight you enjoyed being a part of.
I'll begin: Ding 75.
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CORVALLIS, OR — National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) member institutions are in the process of constructing $3.1 billion in capital projects for recreation facilities, according to a recent study from NIRSA.
The NIRSA National Center administered the NIRSA Facility Construction Survey in which 220 member institutions reported construction projects that are either in progress or on the horizon. The 220 schools have a combined enrollment of 2.6 million students. The facilities represented in the report are expected to serve 1.96 million students each year.
The average project expenditure in the survey is $19.4 million, an increase of $5.2 million from 2004. The average new construction expenditure is $21.9 million (based on 88 NIRSA member institutions that plan new construction). The average expansion expenditure is $13.3 million (based on 44 institutions expanding). The average renovation expenditure is $6.1 million (based on 60 institutions renovating). Also, 25 projects for outdoor facilities/fields are under way, with an average area of 15 acres.
The cost to build a multimillion-dollar recreational complex has increased from $2 million to $49 million during the past 20 years, according to the "Kerr & Downs Research Report — Buying Power of Participants of Recreational Sports on College Campuses (2002)." During the next five years, an estimated 400 indoor and 318 outdoor recreational facilities that NIRSA members manage will be built or renovated for an estimated $4.9 billion, the report projected.
Complete data for the recent NIRSA study, including project descriptions, is available to NIRSA members. The data is accessible in the member-only password-protected area at www.nirsa.org, under the heading "Research Central."


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Offering artistic opportunities for students of all majors, the Department of Music at Benedictine University is committed to providing a high-quality educational experience in music education, performance, and general music. Our strength in instrumental and vocal ensembles provides students a base for artistic and intellectual growth, as does the chamber music ensemble that is available as one of our programs. Students also benefit from small class sizes, enabling them to receive individual attention from our highly-rated faculty.
The Bachelor of Arts in Music trains students to perform or pursue graduate studies in music scholarship, performance, and composition. The Department's degree program in Music Education offers students a comprehensive program of study that will fulfill all the requirements needed to earn an Illinois professional education license with an endorsement in music (grades K-12).
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Miss Chihara Minori, famous voice actress and seiyuu in Japan, will be gracing DaiCon with her appearance where she will conduct a Q&A Panel and a special performance here in Malaysia!
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KKnM will be doing a Malaysian tour at DaiCon! They will be bringing an entire cargo load of official and authentic anime goods including keychains, posters, pencil boards, figurines and apparel by COSPA!
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Seiyuus perform voice-overs for non-Japanese movies, provide narration, and also work as anime and video game character actors.
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Divorce OK if Spouse has Alzheimer's?
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson raised eyebrows when he told his TV audience on "The 700 Club" on Sept. 14 that divorce is OK if a person's spouse has Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Robertson's views got the attention of other media, including "Christianity Today" magazine. Read the article and the backlash of comments from the magazine's readers.
One of the most well-known, alternative views is from Columbia International University President Emeritus Robertson McQuilkin. Two decades ago he decided to step down and end his 22-year tenure as president of CIU (then called Columbia Bible College) to care full time for his wife Muriel who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Hear McQuilkin's recent message, "Seven Things I Learned from Muriel" given at Sandhills Community Church in Columbia, S.C.
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Robertson McQuilkin's life with Muriel is also the subject of the book, "A Promised Kept."
More resources on this topic can be found at the new online Robertson McQuilkin Library.


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Schearer will be the special guest today on Deer Talk Now with hosts Dan Schmidt and Brad Rucks of Deer & Deer Hunting! The 1-hour webcast airs at 12 p.m. Central from Deer & Deer Hunting headquarters in Wisconsin. Deer Talk Now is presented by Mathews, Carbon Express and ICOtec.
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Schearer has traveled for years around the world hunting whitetails, elk, antelope and African big game for his popular television show "Shoot Straight With Chad Schearer," often with CVA muzzleloaders. But while Schearer loves smokepoles, he's also keen on bows or rifles … whatever it takes to have a successful, fun hunt.
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"Sergeant, get your squad over here in three minutes or you are here to stay!" Holtor bellowed into the microphone of the vox caster. It was still attatched to the back of the flayed piece of meat that used to be his vox operator." Standing up out of the crater that used to be his command bunker he surveyed the training ground. Spore mines were landing everywhere, nearly all his men had been on the parade ground when the first spore mines struck. Flaming vehicles were everywhere, screaming men, their guts spilling onto the ground thrashed insanely. The newly promoted Captain was torn away from the scene of horror by a crackling from the vox caster.
"Captain, my squad has been cut off, we can not reach the evac point." Color Sergeant Tathar Glutanan yelled into the microphone/
"Hold your positon for as long as you can sergeant! Me and my men will fall back to the evac point, hold them up as long as you can."
"Yes sir, wait, what in the name of the Emper-"
Holtor heard screams of "Incoming!" and then, he just heard screams.
He turned his vox caster to maximum broadcast area, and gave his final order to the trainees of the training station.
"Hold your positions, you can not make it to the evac zone, hold in the face of terror. Hold and punish the Emperors enemies, you know your duty, do it!" He grabbed a lasgun lying next to a pool of goo that used to one of his recruits and pulled himself out of the trench. He ran, across the cratered field that used to be the parade ground. He ran through the burning barracks. He ran, out of the base. He ran until all he could see of his base was smoke rising out of the distan
Holtor stood up, blood dripping off his family sword (Dorgasan Families, are somewhat like space marine chapters, each forming their own regiments, and each fiercly loyal to their family) the genestealer he had just slain lay twitching on the ground. He had escaped Training Facility 84XTB three days before, and from what he could tell, his planet was swarming with Tyranids. Five hours after escaping the training facility he had fired his last bolter round at a screeching hormogaunt. He had no idea where he was, all he knew was that the major Imperial cities were to the west of his camp so, he went west. He had met up with a squad of new recruits that had been out on RCS (real combat simulations) they hadn't lasted an hour after seeing their first tyranid. He had heard frantic lasgun fire all around him, nearly all day. But whenever he moved toward it, all he found was a dismembered pile of goo.
He continued running, the swarms were moving in his direction, not stopping for anything. In fact he didn't know why he was still alive. He scrambled up the side of a rocky hill, behind him he heard the screech of tyranids. He reached the summit of the hill, there in front of him was a half destroyed Chimera. The crew compartment had been melted into a thick gruel, however, the main gun seemed to be online. He crawled inside and moved up into the gunner's position. Half way up he stopped, there was a chest of a man still in the gunner's position, the rest of him was strewn around the compartment. Holtor threw the husk of a man out of the way in disgust. Suddenly, he heard a crackle from the Vox Caster in the Chimera, that had seemed destroyed.
"This is Captain Dexter Vultara, squadron leader of bomber squadron 67R, ground units below, make your way towards Beacon Hill. We are cleansing this area now."
Holtor stuck his head out the gunners hatch, six Imperial Wrath class bombers flew overhead. They spread out in a V formation. Holtor saw their bomb doors start to open, but nothing ever had the chance to come out. From the trees below, a huge black swarm of fleshborrer beetles enveloped nearly all the bomber squadron. Holtor saw four explosions come from inside the cloud. More static over the radio came in
---- After a loud series of crackles---- "Flavian, you there? Come in Flavian! We need supporting fire, these things are all over us. Dammit, Flavian where are you?!"
"Flavian went down in the cloud sir, so did Captain Vultara!"
"Who in the name of the Emperor is this, to much static!?"
"Tash. Sir we've taken hits, right engine, failing!" We are going down! Trying to land. In the name of the Emperor, there are millions of them! We are touching down no-----"
"Tash, come in. Tash! Sir, I lost them. Verex to orbital station, mission failiure, squadron destroyed, attempting to climb! Send evac teams imiediatly, get us out of here. Attempting to land on Beacon Hill."
"Acknowledged 67R, transports are en route. Stand by."
"Sir, sir, this is Tash. The rest of the crew, they are all dead! I'm the only one here, their feet, they are tearing the ship apart by just running over it. In the name of the emperor, they are throught the ceiling, Emperor forgive my failiu--- aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggg!!!!!"
Holtor exited the Chimera, one lown bomber flew towards the ground he stood on. Its right wing on fire, it's left gone. Holtor jumped into a ditch as the bomber landed, it plowed through the ground at a speed not less than 500 kilometers per hour. Earth and rocks flew everywhere, the bomber plowed into the Chimera crushing it underneatht the bomber's massive hull. Holtor rose from the ditch and ran toward's the flaming bomber. A door on the side of the bomber burst open, and three men fell out onto the ground. Holtor ran up to them, and pulled on of them to his feet.
"What is your name crewman?"
"Verex, vox man." Get your gun out, is there anyone else inside?"
"No, I, I don't know sir, to much static, explosions. I don't think so, sir I just do not know. The Tyranids, they, we don't stand a chance!"
"Keep silent, remember the Emperor in the face of terror. You will not disgrace your family today, now get the rest of the men up! We will stand here until evac arrives or we are torn to pieces by those Dmned bugs!"
"Yes, sir!" The man turned around and pulled up the other crewmen as best he could. Holtor took a few staps away and turned to address what remained of the crew.
"You, have never heard of, or seen me. And I have never heard, or seen, you. But now the fates have brought us here to die together. And we will do so as brothers! You know your duty, put strength in your heart, the emperor rewards the brave, we will stand and bring down as many of these filthy xeno as we can! You do not need to know my name, I do not need to know yours. But now, duty calls, check your guns, we go to meet the Emperor!"
He drew his sword and turned to face the slope he had just climbed. The ground shook with the steps of Tyanids, the noise was nearly unbearable. As the first Tyranid head came into few the crew opened fire, it's burning red eyes disolving in a splash of blood. More heads apeared, Holtor raised his sword and ran toward them to meet his destiny. He had made it five steps when he felt a small explosion in his gut as a fleshborere slammed into him. As he fell backwards he supposed he was lucky, he saw hundreds of beetles fly through the air where his chest had just been. Then with a loud roar and a loud crackling sound, bullets rained down into the ranks of Tyranids, Tyranids shrieked and screamed as bolter rounds ripped their armour into pieces. Two fighters did a barrol role and moved in again, spraying fire down on the unprepared Tyranids.
Suddenly Holtor felt a strong pair of arms pick him up and he felt himself being carried backwards.
"We are going to get you to the medical ship sir, hold on!" As everything blurred into a combination of absolute darkness and bright light he recognized Verex's voice. The last thing he saw before everything went black was a medical transport landing near the downed bomber.
Holtor pulled himself out of bed. He had been in the Medicae Hospitlar facility for nearly a month. The battle on planet, from what he could tell, was a stalemate. The Imperial Gaurd driving again and again toward the Tyranid ship in an effort to stop it's spawing of more Tyranids. Eac drive being repulsed again and again. The battle in space was coming to nothing, the Tyranid ships destroying Imperial ships at the same rate Imperial ships destroyed them. He supposed he would be dead now, if it were not for his family's influence. They had helped him get a, new, metal stomach. It couldnt really replace flesh and blood, but it kept him alive. He scanned the room, men were lying everywhere, the wounded on the beds, the dead piled up in corners. A medical officer walked up to him.
"You have orders, we have judged you fit to command again, anyway, even if you arn't, we need your bed. Follow the gaurdsmen waiting in the hall." Holtor wrapped his belt around his shining metal hip, and slip his sowrd into the belt. He then slowly, awkwardly, walked toward the door. Pushing open the door he stepped into the dark hall. A gaursmen snapped to attention and saluted.
"Sir, my name is Thomas. The family was worried about you, I am a Porteous as well. They asigned me to gaurd you, they do not need one of their most promising sons being killed. So, until I die I will gaurd you. There are no senior officers to brief you about your mission, what I am going to tell you is all you are authorised to know. As you may have guessedm we have been holding the Degser mountains aagainst the bugs. We have a large amount of bassilisks there, if we hold them the Tyranids can not brake through. The few ways around the mountains are being held by nearly ten regiments. They can hold out. The trouble is, recently, a large tyranid assault broke through one of our mountain positions. The family wants you to take a company of men back up there and hold it. The family needs to come out ahead in this war, so, if we hold up their we will be noticed."
"So, are all these men of our family?"
"Yes sir, all of them."
"How do we get there? CXVIII transport. The company is boarding now sir, you do not have time to get anything but some new carapace armour. And, well actually that is already aboard your shuttle. So, we go now."
"Lead the way Thomas."
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Holtor followed Tomas down the long hallway. Screams of wounded men came from every room, Holtor quickened his pace. He had seen plenty of gore in his carreer, but, this was to much. Holtor followed Tomas down a staircase, the electricity had almost all been diverted to the defensive guns, he could barely see where he stepped. As Tomas opened the door to the main lobby Holtor fell on his knees and vomited. Corpses lay everywhere, the stench, was indiscribable. Doctors sat smoking on the dead bodies, wounded men were lain down to be taken upstairs, only to be mistaken for dead bodies and have corpses piled on them. Tomas pulled up Holtor and shoved him out the large door leading to the landing pad.
"That can't be good to breath sir." Holtor stood up straight and looked around, five transports had landed and a company of elite Dorgasans, aparently from an armoured brigade, were piling in.
"The Command transport is that one there sir, your command squad is in it already."
"Understood Tomas. Anybody to be careful of in it?"
"Sir, the commissar, is a little, over zealous in his work, but the priests are, comparitevly, mild."
"Good." Holtor climed the steps into the transport, two squads were sitting in the troop section of the transport. Holtor surveyed them. They were veterans, he could tell that much. They were decorated with war prizes, one of the sergeants had two Chaos heads attatched to his shoulders. With approval Holtor walked into the small command room. As he walked in his squad stood to attention. A priest walked up to him.
"May the Emperor's blessing be upon you Captain. How long has it been since you conffesed?"
"There is always time for that, the Emperor judges us by our scars, I have many, but I would rather get more than spend my time stating my sins." The floor shook as the transport took off. Holtor introduced himself to the command squad making special note to treat the commisar well. The last thing he needed was to be executed. Holtor then walked into a small room where he sat down on what could pass for a chair and opened a small packet in front of him.
Holtor Porteous, the below are your orders. You will follow them to the best of your ability. Failiure to follow these orders will result in your execution.
You are to land near the Trasyar Tombs and reinforce your regiment's 9th Company. The Tyranids have pushed the 9th back to their command bunker. You will deploy just behind it, rally the remenants of the 9th company and push the Tyranids back. The 4th company is on stand by should you need it. There are four anti air platforms stationed near the command bunker, they are inflicting heavy casualties on the Gargoyels. These are not to fall, if they go this mountain range will be overwelmed from above. You know your orders follow them.
Holtor stood up and walked into the command room, tapping a vox man on the back Holtor said.
"Get me my two liutenants."
"Yes sir." Seconds later Holtor spoke into the vox.
"What are your names?"
"Liutenant Viso Flavian Porteous sir!"
"Liutenant Greser Porteous sir!"
"What combat experiance have you had?"
"I served in the purging of Korda sir, as well as the purgin of Testo." Viso stated.
"Sir, I've lost track, I fought at the eye of terror. Korda, Testo, Hoxt, Rent, Blood Bowl."
"That is enough Greser. Now, I have never heard of, or served with you, I look forward to it though. Now, from what I can tell of our orders the Ninth Company is in trouble. Well, you have read your orders so you know the situation. Viso, you and your platoon will move imiediatly to the front line and hold until I arrive. Clear?"
"Yes sir."
"Greser, you take your men to the anti air platforms and hold them! I will take my platoon and rally the ninth."
"Yes sir, should you fall, who takes command?" Greser asked.
"Sir, I can see the mountains!" Tomas yelled.
"We are approaching the landing zone, good luck to you men and may the Emperor protect!"
"Thank you sir." The liutenants said in unison. Holtor walked into the command room and gazed out the window. The transport was flying through a mountain range. Below him he could see men fighting Tyranids. Craters littered the mountain passes.
"Sir, the landing zone, I can see it!" Holtor pulled on his carapace armour, loaded his las pistol and stood by the transport door surrounded by the men in his new command.
"Brothers, you will not disgrace your family today!" Charge forth and destroy these Xenos in the name of the Emperor." With a thud the transport landed, the door opened and Holtor jumped (jumping being difficult with a metal stomach) into the snow.
Holtor pushed through the snow. He could hear the screams of the ninth company's men from just over a small hill. He led his platoon up the slope. He could see Viso leading his men around to Holtor's left and approaching the ninth from behind he had lost sight of Gresser and his men and wasn't going to look for them. As they came to the top of the hill he saw a terrible site. Thousands of bodies lay flayed in the snow, more were still thrashing as they were eaten alive. Trenches were filled with blood and corpses, tanks stood abbandoned in the pass, torn apart. The few men still alive were literaly in the command bunker, Viso and his men charged. The Tyranids were taken off guard and Viso and his men swept them back. He could hear lasgun fire to his right as Gresser and his men engaged. Holtor raised his sword in the air and brought it down his belt, with a battlecry he led his men charging down the slope onto the flank of the charging Tyranids. They punched into the Tyranid swarm, they went deeper and deeper into it cutting a bloody slash in the advancing swarm. Suddenly Holtor saw two of his men fly over his head, he wheeled around, a massive carnifex was roaring in triumph. The only men that had heavy equipment left had just been launched into the air by the carnifex, Holtor realized that their situation was doomed at best. The swarm had already completely surrounded them, soon the shear mass of bodies would trample them all. The command bunker was sixty yards uphill, Viso and his men were moving slowly down it pushing the Tyranids back.
"Fight toward the bunker men!" Holtor yelled. And with that he started hacking his way up toward the bunker. His men were still with him, firing randomly into the Tyranid swarm. Holtor wasn't really aware of it though, he was far to filled with adrenalin to notice, he cut down Tyranid after Tyranid. He lost track of where he was going, he heard screams over the shriecks of Tyranids, he kept fighting. Suddenly a hand grabbed his outstretched sword arm and pulled him uphill. Liutenant Viso dragged him back toward the command bunker, what was left of Holtor's platoon was already at the bunker firing into the confused Tyranid swarm. Viso threw Holtor to the ground near the bunker.
"What in the name of the Emperor were you DOING?" Yelled Viso over the shriecks of retreating Tyranids.
"You were fething standing out there, my men reached your men and got them back. Then when we got back up here you were not here, what were you doing!?"
"I, I don't know."
"You were just hacking down bugs out their like it was a walk in the training grounds!"
"I guess the adrenalin must have gotten to me."
"Well then sir you must have a very, very short life expectancy."
"What is going on?" Asked Holtor as he pulled himself up, (once again made very difficult by his metal gut)
"Aparently we scared em, but they could have killed us all and when they come back they will just run over us."
"Most of his men are dead and so is he, one of his sergeants has taken over. But they held."
"The ninth?"
"Nearly nonexistant sir, the few that were alive in the bunker are nearly insane and are probably safer to shoot."
"You find somebody with a vox and see if you can get us some support or evac."
"Sir." As viso ran over the heaps of bodies Holtor stared at his sword. It was barely recongnizable as the once great family heirloom it was, the ornate decorations were gone, the gold lining was gone. It was a pointy lump of metal. He heard a low humm and a squadron of bombers flew overhead, as they disappeared he heard explosions as bombs dropped into the fleeing Tyranid swarm. He doubted it would make a difference but it was nice to know that someone new they were alive.
Holtor hiked up the gentle slope, now not so gentle as it was choked in bodies toward the command bunker. He had inspected the line and his men should be able to hold off another few assaults, not to mention his engineers were throwing enough mines and other assorted explosives in front of the trenches to detonate Terra! Gresser's replacement was fortifiying the anti air guns as best he could with his remaining men and Viso was trying to smack some of the men from the ninth into line. As he looked up Holtor saw Viso roughly pushing a liutenant forward, his uniform was tatterd bloody and muddy, and he was spontainiusly thrashing his arms.
"Sir this is the last officer of the ninth company. He has something, interesting, to say." The man saluted with one hand while the other thrashed violently.
"Stop that arm or you lose it liutenant!" Ordered Viso.
"What is it officer?" Holtor inquired
"Sir, heh heh he, we were holding out oooo kkkk, till they came."
"Who came officer?"
"You from the slums or something, havn't learnt even basic gothic?"
"Sir, they came!"
"Viso shoot this man." Holtor ordered.
Viso aimed his laspistol at the back of the officer's head.
"NOOOOOOoooooo THEY came. They, we couldn't see em sir, they took out our big shooty guns! Blue flames eating up my men!"
"Viso, any ideas on what this wretch is saying?"
"Well, if we can trust this lunatic my guess is that either the Tau or the Eldar seemed to have attacked here."
"Was it the Eldar officer?" the man shook his head violently.
"Ok, was it the Tau?" He nodded violently and non ceasingly until viso smacked him on the head.
"Inform command that this are is unsecure and immpossible to hold, I want evac now!"
"Yes sir." Viso turned to leave when the man wailed.
"NOOOOOOOOOO, der was others!"
"Oh Emperor not this again. Who were "they"?"
"Describe their shots!"
"Red, like ours heh heh heh, but dey was painted wierd sar, and they were shrieking something or other bout phage, heh heh heh."
"Viso you better make it clear that this place can't be held, we have fething Bug worshippers! Now, is there anything else you want to tell us Liutenant?" The man shook his head violently. Holtor raised his laspistol and shot him cleanly through the head, the man fell onto the ground.
"Also advise command that they should bomb everything within five square miles of here. Understood Viso?"
"Yes sir!" Viso ran up the hill toward his voxman from behind him Holtor heard screams of
Holtor whirrled around and looked toward his forward line, snow was rising up in a huge cloud on the slope, he could hear the shrieking and chittering of the Tyranid swarm.
"VISO!" Holtor yelled at the liutenant talking into the vox.
"Get an air strike too, an air strike can you here me?"
"Sir!" Holtor spun around and ran to the forward trench. His men were spread thin, he aimed his pistol into the cloud of snow and fired, all his men did the same. Behind him three heavy bolters opened fire as did an autocannon, the Tyranids came on. Grenades flew into the clowd of snow, suddenly a sergeant standing in front of Holtor fell backward. His entire body had dimond hard spines sticking out of it, Holtor stared in disgust. The Tyranids came faster and faster.
"Fall back to the second trench! MOVE IT!" Holtor yelled. He then turned and fell back to the second trench they could see the Tyranids now, their terrible faces shrieking wildly. Suddenly fire erupted everywhere, mines, tanks of prolithium, grenades, auto cannon shells all exploded underneat the Tyranid swarm. They faltered and Holtor's men rained fire on them. The Tyranids dropped quickly but kept coming, they were over the first trench. Bolter shots tore apart the advancing Tyranids, lasgun shots tore holes in the bug's armour. In his heart, Holtor knew it was over, they were yards away now, his men were dropping at a terrible rate. Holtor stared in horror as he saw a Hive Tyrant charge through the line sending his men flying through the air. Holtor ran towards it firing, it whirrled around and roared at him, he stopped a yard away from it and stared into it's face. It raised it's massive sword, Holtor braced himself for a blow that didn't come, he opened his eyes, everything was happening slowly. A blue drop pod was slamming into the head of the Hive Tyrant, it's eyes were already dead, the drop pod punched through the creater's body sending blood and guts flying through the air. Holtor stared in awe as four Ultramarines charged forth from it raining fire on the advancing swarms. He turned, nearly twenty drop pods had landed in his line, Space marines were raining heavy fire on the confused Tyranids. Holtor started at the swarms of hormagaunts charging, he raised his sword and charged them, his men following close behind.
"INCOMING!!!!!!" Liutenant Holtor wheeled around, they were back, chittereing slashing monsters.
"INCOMING!" Liutenant Holtor spun to his left, more of them, charging down the slopes of the mountain pass.
"INCOMING!" Holtor wheeled to the direction the voice came from. Roaring gigantic monsters ran down the slope to his left, sending boulders rolling down towards his overwealmed command center.
"Sir, we have to get out of here!"
"Sir, we've been outflanked!"
"Sir, my line can't hold!" The voices of Holtor junior's came in over the vox, they all blurred into nothing in Holtor's mind. Holtor felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned. A legion of men, covered in blood stood in front of him. Millions upon millions of souls, stared at him. A tall man walked up to him, he wore the uniform of a Family Head, his face was scared and bloody, his chest had been torn apart.
"Pull your men back,"
"Who are yo-"
"Does it matter? Pull back now."
"Yes, sir." Holtor spun around and faced his men.
"All units, fall back now, head for evac point four!" Holtor looked behind him, the strange men were gone, all of them, without a trace. A strange light glowed from just behind a boulder, Holtor ran towards it and looked down. There, on the ground lay a sword, a glowing silver sword. Holtor picked it up and looked at it, it was amazing, the light glowed, making the decorations on the sword stand out even more than normal.
"Something terrible is going to happen, this is yours." A voice in Holtor's head said.
"What? Who are you?!"
"Does it matter?" The voice awnsered. Holtor turned around, his men fell back, scrambling over the rocks and boulders in their way. Without really knowing what he was doing he raised his sword in the air, a burst of light came from the sword, spreading out through the pass. Tyranids shrieked and fled to darker places. Then as if possesed, and not really knowing what he was doing, Holtor bellowed.
"A new era is upon you Dorgasans, the light of the Emperor will shine from your souls, stand and fight, you are men, not cowardly Eldar. Your lives are the Emperor's, do not waste them." His men stopped running and cheered, the ground trembled as dirt and rocks began to rise and spin around Holtor.
"Nothing, will withstand your rage, nothing can be compared to the hatred of MAN! Your wills will change worlds, prove yourself worthy of being men. Now brothers, FOR THE EMPEROR!" Holtor was slowly elevating into the air, it appeared that he was being possesed. Then, when he was fifteen feet into the air a huge burst of silver light exploded from him, the Tyranids were driven mad with terror, lighting bolts flew from Holtor's body ripping apart the horrified Tyranids.
"There is no light but that of the Emperor's!" And with that Holtor fell to the ground, all the glowling light disappeared from him, his sword still shone out like a bright light in the darkness of night. Holtor's eyes glowed, bright silver, his pupils had turned glowing red. Holtor stood, and walked toward the Tyranids, his men were behind him, and that was all he needed, that was all he would ever need. He knew what was going to happen to his home, he knew that the rest of his life would be devoted to hunting Tyranids, but he was no longer the doomed officer into a mighty warrior, he was filled with power and purpouse. His men met the Tyranid line, he walked through it, not a thing touched him. He stopped at the feet of a huge Hive Tyrant and looked into it's eyes. It shivvered and screamed, Holtor looked deeper, he could feel it's mind breaking apart, it roared and then with a groan fell dead to the ground. Holtor turned and rushed into the Tyranid lines, his sword slicing and chopping, he grinned, whatever the future now had in store for him, he would be ready. He would walk alone into the Eye of Terror should the Emperor will it, nothing could withstand His rage made manifest.
"Sir, I have a priotity transmission from Dorgasan command."
"Put in on in my office."
"Sir." Holtor walked towards the small closet he called his office. He slid the door open, walked in, and sat down in his leather chair in front of a small screen. He was exausted from the recent event that was already legend amongst the Dorgasan Armies. After the Tyranid assault had been totaly crushed, he had lost whatever power he had. His eyes still glowed and his sword was still the most powerful he had ever seen. It hadn't been a nice feeling, but it hadn't been bad either, he felt as if he had transformed into a million men at once, and that he had been pushed aside. The screen lit up and a tired old man appeared on it.
"Sir!" Holtor addressed the head of the most powerful family, family Flavian, on Dorgasa.
"At ease liutenant."
"What would you have me do Flavian?"
"As you may or may not know there was a heavy Tau presence in the Treesh Jungles, a regiment of men was dispatched to crush them, they failed miserably. They were led by your friend, Captain Trier Tarashan, a Tau force slipped by our fleet and orbital staion and evaced the Tau on the ground. Tarashan led a force to bored the ship carrying the survivors of the Tau ground troops, after intense fighting Tarashan was caputured and fired out of an escape pod for reasons unknown to us. The Tau fired him toward the Ultramarine Strike cruiser in orbit, the Space Marines fired on the escape pod and vaporized Tarashan. This must be a sign of herecy, take a company of men to the Ultramarine ship and, speak, to their commander. I want him to pay for the murder of Tarashan, am I clear?"
"Yes sir, but, wouldn't that itself be herecy and treason?"
"Is it your job to question orders Holtor?"
"No sir."
"What is your job?"
"To serve family Flavian sir."
"And if someone attacks family Flavian?"
"They are to be killed."
"You have your orders, get to them Holtor."
"Yes sir." Holtor stood to attention and waited for the screen to turn black, he then walked out into the main room.
"Get me some transports here now! And have the reserves called up to the landing pad now!" Holtor walked outside, he surveyed the ground, the corpses of Tyranids were piled chest high, he beamed with pride as he realized what he and his men were capable of doing. The snow blew everywhere as a transport landed, he and his command squad stepped in, Tomas right behind him.
"Where to sir?" The pilot asked.


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Deputies say a Massachusetts man wearing no pants tried to take a car with two children inside from the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Hadden Heights Saturday.
Deputies say a Massachusetts man wearing no pants tried to take a car with two children inside from the parking lot of the Dollar Tree on Hadden Heights Saturday.
Da Keo, 33, of 110 S. Loring St., Lowell, Mass., was charged with strong arm robbery and two counts each of first-degree assault and battery and kidnapping, according to arrest warrants.
An incident report states that a deputy responded to Hadden Heights about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, learning en route that the suspect involved was wearing black underwear, a tank top and socks and was running way from the Dollar Tree.
The deputy found the suspect matching the description and arrested him on W.O. Ezell Boulevard.
Two women told deputies that they were walking out to their vehicle and their two children got into the back seat. One of the women got into the back seat to buckle the children in when Keo got into the driver's seat and said, "I'm taking your car," the report states.
The woman buckling the kids in jumped up and moved to the driver's door as Keo began backing up. Both women tried to remove Keo from the driver's seat and were dragged by the driver's door. One of the women screamed for help, and another woman in the parking lot rushed over and also tried to remove Keo from the car, according to the report.
Both children jumped from the car and ran into the Dollar Tree. A store employee had seen the incident and called 911. Keo backed the car into the middle of the parking lot, then drove forward again trying to hurt the victims and leave with the car, the report states.
Due to the efforts of the three women in the parking lot and the store employee, Keo got out of the car, ran into a neighboring business, grabbed a half-gallon of iced tea, ran back outside and was spotted by the deputy, according to the report.
The women who were dragged by the car had injuries to their wrists, elbows and knees, according to arrest warrants.
Lt. Tony Ivey said Keo did not know the victims.
Keo remained at the Spartanburg County Detention Facility Sunday on a $70,000 bond.