Sorry if you received this more than once; on my end, it looked as if it were not going through: I've seen this in journalism, and looked it up on Wiki . . . interesting -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-30- *–30–* has been traditionally used by journalists to indicate the end of a story. There are many theories about how the usage came into being,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-30-#cite_note-0>e.g. It was telegraphic shorthand to signify the end of a story in the Civil War era.[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-30-#cite_note-1> Other theories include that the "-30-" originated when stories were written in longhand<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhand>; X marked the end of a sentence, XX the end of a paragraph, and XXX meant the end of a story. The Roman numerals XXX translate to 30.