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[PFRPG] Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons
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[PFRPG] Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons
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Date Added: 02/04/2012 02:46:00
Before reading my review, you should probably know that I've been collaborating with the great guys at Purple Duck Games on several projects and that I received a free copy of this product. However, I have nothing invested in this product and feel that I can speak freely.
Eastern and exotic weapons? Yes, we are talking about the katana, kusarigama, naginata, bo staff and my favorite, the fighting fan. I've seen just as many japanese martial art films as the next guy, and while I love the films (such as hidden dragon, crouching tiger, hero etc.), I loath playing in such a setting. However, I'll try to keep my personal preferences out of this and give a more neutral review (if possible).
So what is this all about? Basically, legendary weapons are weapons that are supposed to follow the PCs throughout their entire carrier, growing in power as the PCs grow in power. I really like this idea, although I have yet to implement it in any of the games that I run. This pdf, of course, presents weapons with an eastern feel. I guess the exotic part is due to most of the weapons being exotic.
You'll find weaponslike the sickle called Blood Flower (a weapon created specifically for a witch's familiar), Kowarenai (a katana based around honor and loyalty, allowing the wielder to protect his allies), Stormslayer (a naginata that has the awesome ability to tame lightning and send it against another), Totsuzen No Arashi (a fighting fan create to be easy to hide at court, with some cool abilities like the one that allows the wielder to call a protean lacky). There are 15 legendary weapons in this pdf and not only do you get description and powers, you also get the important information (such as weapon stats, magic weapon special abilities, a monster and spell).
The layout is simple and easy to use. Personally, I much prefer this two column layout than the one column layout that they used in their first legendary pdf. The artwork is fairly simple, but works well with the weapon descriptions. I only found a couple of typos/mistakes (nothing to really disturb my reading), but what really bothered me was, that sometimes the magic items/spells are in italics (as I think they should), but most of the times, they are not. I like the spells/magic items to be in italics, which makes them easier to discern and find should you need them.
Lastly, the weapons seems perfectly balanced, and if you like an eastern feel, these weapons are certainly for you. The pdf also presents some guidelines if you wanted to make your own legendary weapons, and of course, a small location in the Lands of the GOW.
Personally, I would probably give this pdf a 3 star verdict (because I would need to work on these a bit to make them work in my current setting), but to be fair, the writing is pretty good (with some original ideas), the mechanics work and feels balanced and you really get a lot for your money, so I'll settle on a 4 star verdict.
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[PFRPG] Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons
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Legendary Eastern and Exotic Weapons by Purple Duck Publishing
This product is 28 pages long. It starts with a cover, ToC, intro, and credits. (2 pages)
Legendary Eastern and Exotic Weapons (21 pages)
It jumps right into the first weapon. Each one levels with the character, they are from level 1-10, gaining in power at character levels 1-20. Each one has a history, requirements and full information on it's powers and abilities. Below is a list of each weapon and the types of powers it posses. Just to give a reader a general idea of what the weapons are like. It has weapon stats for any new weapons.
AKIO – magical star knife, true strike, throwing, returning, shadow powers.
BLOOD FLOWER – Magical Sickle, beast shape, summon natures ally, Ally(lets some of it's + magic to be given to another allies weapon) and Blood Flower Rite, lets others deliver touch spells for you.
BREATHSTEALER – magical Kusarigama, short teleport, defense bonus, knowledge and confusion.
BROTHERHOOD – Magical butterfly sword, that can be used as a single sword or two, spell resistance, healing, hunting, nature powers.
KOKATSUNA – Magical Rope Dart, trick shot, illusions, dazzle, enthrall.
KOWARENAI – magical Katana, protection/walls vs chaos, shield/protect others, bring the user back to life sometimes.
LIBERATOR – magical Nodachi, obscuring mist, prayer, provoke, demoralize, hit at a range.
NIGHTBANE – magical Khopesh, water based powers, true sight, smite.
RHAPSODY OF SHARDS – Scorpion whip, bleed attack, blade barrier, spell storing, pain/pleasure, color spray.
SHIZUKANA – Sai, charm, mercy, disarm, spell disarm.
STORMSLAYER – Naginata, storm powers (wind, cold, lightning), identify, dispel magic.
TAIYO TSUJKI – Meteor Hammer, dispel law/chaos, balance (ability scores), calm emotions, remove disease.
TANGLED FATE – net, hard to escape, self mending, dimensional anchor, animate to attack, energy drain. Minorly cursed.
TOTSUZEN NO ARASHI – Fighting Fan, illusion powers, throw, detect poison, watery escape, protean lackey. (could have really used the return ability) – includes a new spell and a stat block for the NPC lackey.
WORLD'S AUTUMN – Bo Staff, sleep, see beyond the veil, freedom of movement, ki focus.
It ends with a OGL, contact info, advice on how to make your own weapons, and ads. (5 pages)
Closing thoughts. The art work is black and white and good. Editing and format are good I didn't notice any errors. The weapons have interesting history, some unique powers and abilities. It has a nice Asian flavor to the weapons. While they are well done it is not perfect. I think the fighting fan needed the return ability and the save DC's on some powers might not scale very well. It would be easy to fix though. So what's my rating? I am giving this a 4 star, it is good with some rough edges.
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[PFRPG] Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons
Purple Duck Games
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Date Added: 10/21/2011 06:10:34
This pdf is 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1/2 a page editorial, 4 pages SRD, leaving 22 1/2 pages for the new legendary weapons, so let's check them out, shall we?
Legendary items have become a staple of my home-brew games and the concept is cool and iconic - the items improve with the level of their wielder, gaining new powers, have their own background story and requirements. I love how the iconic weapons at once offer plot hooks and combat magic item inflation. The series has come a long way from rather standard abilities to far-out, well-designed and most importantly, unique weapons and that being said, this installment of Purple Duck Games' Legendary series focuses on uncommon, exotic weapons.
The exotic weapons herein range over kusari-gama, sickles, nodachis, katanas, war-fans, starknives, rope-darts to a net and even a meteor hammer - the coolest array of basic weapons yet to feature in an installment of the legendary series. Even better than the base weapons is the fact that EACH of the weapons has some sort of cool, unique ability that goes beyond adding quality xyz to a weapon: From the ability to use half the ability drain/damage suffered to enhance another score by half that value to the scorpion whip's ability to inflict pain or pleasure in the foes hit by it, the weapons come with unique, cool abilities as well as aptly-written background stories.
HOWEVER, unfortunately not all is well: While the abilities of the legendary weapons are based on the wielder's highest mental ability score, this results in rather low save-DCs. On a whole, I had the impression that scaling DCs would have been much more appropriate, especially due to the fact that several abilities are not based on spells and rather unique. While this is easily remedied by setting a fixed DC of 10 + 1/2 character level + mental attribute modifier, I still would have loved for the pdf to include this information - the unique abilities deserve as much.
Editing and formatting are very good, I only noticed minor punctuation errors. Layout adheres to the printer-friendly two-column standard and the b/w-artworks for the weapons rock, especially for the very fair price. The pdf also comes with extensive bookmarks. Content-wise, I enjoyed the background stories, the signature abilities, the weapon-choices - just about everything. Were it not for the aforementioned DC-problem, I'd rate this immediately 5 stars and slap my seal of approval on it. Due to the non-scaling DCs that make some abilities rather weak, I'll settle for a final verdict of 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 and encourage you to buy this. If you're also feeling that the DCs are too low, feel free to try out my proposed solution and post about it.
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[PFRPG] Legendary V: Eastern and Exotic Weapons
Purple Duck Games
Megan R.
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Date Added: 10/12/2011 02:22:11
Legendary weapons can be really FUN! Not just for the character lucky enough to wield one, but for the GM as well. Did you know that they can get jealous...? I for one would find it perturbing if the tools of my trade were getting miffed with me.
So here we have a selection of legendary weapons, the sort that young heroes acquire early in their careers and which grow with them, all of an unusual nature to Western eyes. Legendary indeed, perhaps something that nobody else uses, never mind the special powers that acrue... potential for some interesting quests to strange and exotic parts of the campaign world just to find out how to use the weapon to full effect, seeking tutelage from some ancient guru. (I like that, not just another weapons catalogue, but one which starts to spawn adventure ideas as I flick through it!)
Each weapon comes complete with backstory that gives not merely a rationale to the powers it confers on its owner, but ideas about what it might want from the relationship: particular actions or styles it might require, or quests that must be fulfilled. An assassin's weapon that coerces each successive owner into becoming the ultimate assassin himself... a fighting iron that once belonged to a warrior who made battlefield control an art form, and confers similar cunning on new wielders - or moves on to someone else forthwith.... a rope dart used by a geisha to right wrongs and said to appear in the hands of those who would defend those who cannot defend themselves... each weapon comes with a wealth of detail that builds plot ideas, whole campaigns even, as you read about them. And there's a nice illustration too, useful if you don't happen to be an expert in unusual Oriental weaponry.
Whether you are running an Oriental-flavour campaign or want to introduce a really unusual weapon into your standard cod-mediaeval European-style world, there are ideas here that could readily grow into... well, legend. Can't ask for more than that!
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POTH, EDGAR J. (1899–1989). Edgar J. Poth, professor of surgery, was born on February 1, 1899, in Seguin, Texas, the son of Edward William and Josephine Olga (Schwab) Poth. After attending public schools in Seguin and Corpus Christi, he studied chemistry and physics at the University of Texas, where he earned a bachelor's degree (1922) and a master's degree (1923). He then studied physical chemistry at the University of California and received his Ph.D. in 1925. In 1927 he became an instructor in the Department of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. While continuing to teach and engage in research, Poth earned a medical degree from this school in 1931. During those years he was also given permission to work independently in the research laboratory of the Department of Surgery. He received postgraduate training in surgery at Stanford University and later became a member of that institution's Department of Surgery. He subsequently held teaching positions at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and at Johns Hopkins.
Poth joined the Department of Surgery of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in July of 1942 and taught there for more than forty years. He was director of the Surgical Research Laboratory for eighteen years (1943–61) and was named Ashbel Smith Professor of Surgery in 1964. Poth, author of more than 160 scientific papers, was especially interested in the management of bacterial growth associated with surgical diseases of the intestinal tract. He was a member of several professional societies and served on the board of governors of the American College of Surgeons (1962–71). Throughout his career he served as a consultant in surgery to the United States Air Force. On December 22, 1928, he married Gaynelle Robertson, then a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, who eventually practiced ophthalmology in Galveston and served as chairman of the Division of Ophthalmology at UTMB for a number of years. After her death Poth married Annie Rae Williams, in 1982. Poth died in Galveston on October 25, 1989.
Galveston Daily News, October 27, 1989. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston: A Seventy-five Year History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967). Who's Who in America, 1980–81.
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Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise (PRIDE)
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PRIDE will evaluate the impact of weight loss on urinary incontinence in a randomized, controlled trial.
Urinary Incontinence
Behavioral: Lifestyle & Behavioral Change Program
Behavioral: Structured Education Program
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
|Official Title:
|Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise
- Frequency of incontinent episodes [ Time Frame: 7 day ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Predictors of improvement in urinary incontinence [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Reduction in Weight [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Maintenance of Weight Loss [ Time Frame: 12 months and 18 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2007
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Lifestyle & Behavioral Change Program
Behavioral: Lifestyle & Behavioral Change Program
Participants in the weight loss arm will receive an intensive group-based behavioral weight loss program. In the first six months of the intervention, all participants in the weight loss arm will be given skill-based diet and exercise prescriptions for weight loss and will be taught specific cognitive and behavioral skills to assist in the modification of their eating and exercise habits. Participants will meet weekly for 6 months in group sessions led by a nutritionist, exercise physiologist, or behaviorist and will follow a structured protocol. This intervention strategy is modeled on interventions that have been successful in other overweight populations and is similar to the programs implemented in our ongoing studies, such as Look AHEAD. With this intervention, women are expected to lose on average of 7-9% of their initial body weight.
|Structured Education Program
Behavioral: Structured Education Program
Women randomized to the Structured Education Program will be invited to participate in hour long group educational sessions at months 1, 2, 3, and 4. At months 6, 9 and 15, the groups will meet again for group support sessions. The content of these education and support sessions will include information about weight loss, physical activity, healthy eating habits and general health promotion. The educational sessions will be delivered primarily in a group format, with individual make up sessions provided for participants who miss group sessions.
Detailed Description:
Three hundred and thirty overweight and obese women with urinary incontinence, 165 from each of two Clinical Centers, will be randomized to either a 6-month intensive behavioral weight control program or to usual care (no weight reduction intervention) and followed for 18 months. Efficacy of weight reduction as a treatment for urinary incontinence will be examined at 6 months following the intensive weight control program, and the sustained impact of the intervention will be examined at 18 months. To increase the maintenance of weight reduction and facilitate evaluation of the enduring impact of weight loss on urinary incontinence, we propose to study a motivation-based weight maintenance program. At the end of the intensive weight control program, women randomized to the weight loss program will be randomized to either a 12-month skill-based maintenance intervention or to a motivation-based maintenance intervention. The maintenance interventions maximize the potential for sustained weight loss and will allow us to determine if long-term weight reduction will produce continued improvement in urinary incontinence.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- aged ≥ 30 years and not institutionalized
- body mass index 25 to 50 kg/m2
- urinary incontinence symptoms for > 3 months by self-report and record > 10 incontinent episodes per week on a 7-day urinary diary
- able to complete a behavioral run-in consisting of self-monitoring of food and activity
- report having a primary health care provider
- able to understand and sign informed consent and complete baseline questionnaires
- agree to not initiate new treatment for incontinence or weight reduction, including behavioral, pharmacological or surgical therapies, for the duration of the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- current use, or use within the previous month of medical therapy for incontinence
- currently pregnant or gave birth in the previous 6 months
- current urinary tract infection (dipstick urinalysis positive for leukocyte esterase, nitrites or blood) or report having > 4 urinary tract infections in the preceding year
- incontinence of neurologic or functional origin (by history)
- self-report of prior anti-incontinence or urethral surgery, pelvic cancer or pelvic irradiation
- self-report of significant medical conditions of the genitourinary tract (genitourinary fistula, interstitial cystitis, symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse)
- report a medical condition that would affect the safety and/or efficacy of a weight management program involving diet and physical activity, including type 2 diabetes requiring medical therapy that may cause hypoglycemia, chronic steroid use or uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure >180 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure > 100 mm Hg); women with a history of coronary heart disease may participate with written approval from their primary care physician
- currently engaged in an active weight loss program and/or experienced a 10% or greater weight reduction in the past 3 months
- report being unable to walk 2 blocks (1/4 mile) without stopping
- report conditions that, in the judgment of the Clinical Center Principal Investigator, render potential participants unlikely to follow the protocol for 18 months, including illness likely to be terminal within 2 years, plans to move, substance abuse or other significant psychiatric problems, or dementia
- participating in another research study that involves investigational drugs or can potentially confound the results of PRIDE
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00091988
|United States, Alabama
|University of Alabama
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35205
|United States, Arkansas
|University of Arkansas
|Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205
|United States, California
|University of California at San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Rhode Island
|Miriam Hospital/Brown University
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
|Principal Investigator:
|Deborah Grady, MD, PhD
|UCSF Coordinating Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Leslee Subak, MD
|UCSF Coordinating Center
|Study Director:
|John Kusek, PhD
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
|Study Director:
|Lee Nyberg, PhD
|National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
No publications provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Deborah Grady, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00091988 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|UO1 DK67860 (completed)
|Study First Received:
|September 21, 2004
|Last Updated:
|March 2, 2010
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK):
Urinary Incontinence
Weight Loss
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Urinary Incontinence
Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Signs and Symptoms
Urination Disorders
Urologic Diseases
Urological Manifestations
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There's one sure way for Republicans and conservatives to lose the 2012 presidential election –– split over who their presidential nominee will be, and fail to go all-out to support the winner.
People keep asking me, "What would your father, Ronald Reagan, do?" The answer is easy. No matter who the nominee is, he or she would get his support. After all, his famous "11th Commandment" demanded that Republicans support their party's nominee, no matter who he or she might be.
He certainly would have supported John McCain in 2008. Tragically, if the party of Ronald Reagan had followed what would have been his lead, John McCain –– not Barack Obama –– would the president of these United States today.
If Obama is not to be re-elected in 2012, Republicans need to get their act together, decide on a nominee, and back him or her to the hilt.
Let's look at some flaws of the current frontrunners. Both Romney and Perry, like the rest of us, have their share of flaws –– Perry for having signed an executive order to inoculate 12-year-old girls against HPV, and signing a bill to provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens.
As for Mitt Romney, his membership in the Mormon Church has earned the hostility of some Christians, and his institution of so-called Romneycare when he was governor of Massachusetts has been questioned by many conservatives.
As things stand now, either Perry or Romney will be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Republicans will be obliged to support the winner, if we can hope to win the presidential election, no matter the flaws.
It's important to recall that Ronald Reagan outraged some Republicans when, as California's governor, he raised taxes and signed an abortion bill and became the first California governor to sign a no-fault divorce law. Despite all this, he still went on to become the greatest U.S. president of our lifetime.
If he were alive today, and we were to nominate him in 2012, I wonder which wing of the GOP his opponents would come from.
Regardless of the outcome of such a confrontation, Republicans will have to either hang together or hang alone.
Should either Romney or Perry win the GOP presidential nomination, we are either going to support the winner in the November election or watch Barack Obama win a second term.
Republicans simply can't afford to be bystanders in 2012.
Put it this way: Who do you hope will be the president when 2013 dawns: Barack Obama or a Republican? The answer is clear, whether our nominee is Romney or Perry or even someone else, such as Michele Bachmann.
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Don Share's blog is "Squandermania and other foibles." Last month he wrote an entry about my book. He begins: "Like a number of folks I've been in touch with lately, I've been reading Al Filreis's fascinating new book, Counter-Revolution of the Word: the Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960, which shows that there was what we now call a right wing conspiracy against modernist poetry." And ends: 'Filreis's forte is what he calls 'detailed exploration of ideological antimodernism," and he's done his homework, as you can see.... And do not fail to check out his greatly entertaining and useful blog on the year 1960, called "1960."'


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Stunning photo. Her expression though is what is truly beautiful. Does she know what the shirt means? I don't mean the language but the attitude part of it?
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I'm not sure if she knows what the shirt means. She is an adorable little girl, though!
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During the week of April 16, shares of many financial companies
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. As a result, many financial stocks can be picked up at lower
prices, compared with a couple of weeks ago.
Strong recent earnings news from
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (
Bank of America Corp. (
Citigroup, Inc. (
show the financial sector is springing back to life after the
pummeling it took from 2008 to 2009.
Combine these factors with increasing investor and consumer
confidence, as well as better consumer credit ratings, and the
outlook for the financial sector seems bright.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) -- which track the overall movement of
a sector -- present an excellent way to trade the financial sector.
Financial Select Sector SPDR (
replicates the financial sector of the S&P 500. It is the
largest and most widely traded financial ETF , comprised of 79 of
Wall Street's most notable financial companies.
The fund's top-ten holdings include the Bank of America, comprising
10.2% of the ETF, and JPMorgan Chase at 10.0%.
Wells Fargo & Co. (
comprises 9.5%, Citigroup is at 5.3%, and Goldman Sachs is at 4.8%.
Other major fund components include diversified financial service
companies (comprising 30.4% of the fund), commercial banks (20.0%),
capital markets firms -- which trade debt and equity securities --
(19.2%), and insurance firms (15.8%).
Currently, XLF is up about +11% year-to-date, making it one of the
top-performing financial ETFs. XLF also provides an annual dividend
of $0.34, giving it a yield of 1.2%. The ETF has an expense ratio
of a mere 0.22%.
Technically, XLF shows strength. Since bottoming out near $5.75 in
March 2009, the fund has, so far, climbed +192% to $16.78. And, it
remains in a strong uptrend.
In late August, XLF began consolidating in a narrow range between
support near $13.50 and resistance near $15.50.
However, in early March XLF pierced resistance, breaking an
eight-month rectangular consolidation pattern and completing a
bullish ascending triangle that had begun in February.
XLF is currently above its rising trendline, about $15.50, as well
as the 10- and 30-week moving averages. In March, the rising
10-week moving average crossed over the 30-week moving average -- a
bullish sign.
The stock is also climbing the upper Bollinger band. If XLF can
pierce its upper Bollinger band, the next major resistance area is
near $17.15, near where the upper channel line intersects.
The indicators are bullish. The MACD histogram is climbing higher
in positive territory, giving a buy signal.
The index (
) has been on a sustained uptrend since March 2009. While RSI is
just about to test overbought levels, it is not there yet.
Stochastics shows the stock is overbought; however strong
securities can become and stay overbought for long periods of time.
From a fundamental perspective, XLF shows earnings growth
potential, fair valuation and an increasing return on equity.
In 2009, the earnings per share of the fund's holdings were $0.45.
This year, nearly +107% growth is expected, with earnings reaching
$0.93. For 2011, analysts project another +47% increase, with
earnings reaching $1.37.
With a price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 17.1 and a price-to-book
ratio (P/B) of 1.0, the fund is fairly valued. In comparison, the
Dow Jones U.S. Financial Services Index Fund (
) --which seeks to replicate the financial services sector of the
Dow Jones Industrial Average -- has a P/E ratio of 22, and a P/B of
Analysts also project XLF will have a growing ROE was 3.2%. This
year, analysts expect ROE to nearly double to 6%. By 2011, ROE is
expected to increase another +40% to 8.4%.
These technical and fundamental factors make XLF an appealing
choice for trading the financial sector.
However, I will cautiously enter the position. A proposed bank tax
combined with the proposed financial regulatory reform bill brings
uncertainty into the situation -- especially in light of the
Goldman Sachs charges.
For my top individual financial stock pick, see this week's issue
of my
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We would also like to be crtiqued. Might be a bit worst, but we wanted to show what we wanted, who we are, and pit out rules so no one gets too disappointed if things come up and ruin a potential connection.
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Welcome to the forums, iwannalick.
You are right - pictures are absolutely necessary if you are going to get anywhere on this website. They don't have to be sexually explicit, but a face picture, a body profile fully dressed, and/or an action shot of you doing something you enjoy will go a long way toward catching someone's interest. If you want to see great examples, go to NicAtNight's profile. Some people require pictures of genitals before they agree to meet someone. If you are comfortable with that, I'd suggest taking one (or some) fully erect, put it in your private or personal gallery, and have it available for when someone asks for it. Not everyone wants to look at dick shots, though, so use them wisely.
The written portion of your profile isn't bad, though it needs editing. The first phrase has a line space between the"c" in couple and the rest of the word. You use incomplete sentences as well as complete ones. It makes it sound choppy and written without much thought. Try reading your profile out loud to yourself, and decide whether it is something you would want to hear.
You mention liking to give oral to both men and women, but don't mention anything at all about having intercourse with women. A discerning reader (as we all learn to be) looks at what is and what ISN'T said in a profile. If you are only into oral, that's fine, but then change your preference from "Wild" to "Tame and Moderate."
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Bread Pudding
12-14 slices white bread
1-1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1-1/2 cans evaporated milk (2-1/2 c.)
2-1/2 c. regular milk (If I don't have evaporated milk, I use all regular milk - good but not as rich)
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs, separated and beaten
1/2 c. butter
Break bread in small pieces, add all other ingredients. Bake in a greased 9"x13" at 350°F for 45 min. (I cover with foil for first 30 min. to avoid over browning.)
Vanilla Sauce
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsbp. cornstarch
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2 tsbp. butter
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Modern-day tourists take in the view from the parking area at the top of Grandfather Mountain. In today's 'Visiting Our Past,' columnist Rob Neufeld looks at what happened on the mountain in 1794.
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Time traveling to 1792, this column eavesdropped on the men who met in Asheville to choose the county's first courthouse site. We heard their talk about their families and war pasts.
The year 1793 drew us to Robert Henry, the "Forrest Gump" of his time - he'd been at so many key historical events. Familiarity with his arrival in Asheville will pick up when Rick Russell's biography of the man comes out in a few weeks.
Now, 1794 transports us to the top of Grandfather Mountain, to which André Michaux, the great French botanist, hiked with Martin Davenport from Toe River, and together sang the ...


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(Apr 07, 2011) On April 4, 2011, the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to fast track its appeal against a decision of a Federal High Court (handed down on February 23, 2011) barring the INEC from including five states in the upcoming gubernatorial elections scheduled for April 26. (Ikechukwu Nnochiri, INEC Urges Appeal Court to Determine Tenure of Five Governors, VANGUARD (Apr. 5, 2011).) The High Court found that the tenure of the governors in Kogi, Sokoto, Cross River, Adamawa, and Bayelsa will not end until 2012 and therefore their seats will not be open to contest in this election season. (Nnochiri, supra.)
The February 23 High Court decision came in response to a lawsuit filed by the governors of Adamawa, Kogi, and Sokoto. Citing a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the governors argued that their tenure could not have ended because the regular gubernatorial elections held on April 14, 2007, were voided, forcing them to wait until 2008 to take the oath of office after re-run elections. (Court Bars INEC from Conducting Gubernatorial Elections in Five States, THE NIGERIAN VOICE (Feb. 24, 2011).) In 2007, the Supreme Court held that section180(2) of the Nigerian Constitution clearly mandated that the term of office of a governor of a state starts as of the day the governor elect takes the oath of office. (Peter Obi v. INEC & others, S.C. 123/2007, International Center for Nigerian Law (ICFNL) website (last visited Apr. 7, 2011).) The provision specifically states:
…the Governor shall vacate his office at the expiration of period [sic] of four years commencing from the date when –
(a) in the case of a person first elected as Governor under this Constitution, he took the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office; and
(b) the person last elected to that office took the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office or would, but for his death, have taken such oaths. (Constitution of the Republic of Nigeria 1999, § 180(2), ICFNL website (last visited Apr. 7, 2011).)
The INEC, in turn, argued that because the governors won the re-run elections, their tenure commenced on the day they took their first oath of office. (THE NIGERIAN VOICE, supra.)
In the end, the High Court sided with the governors. The court spelled out the specific dates on which the tenures of each of the governors of the five states would expire – Sokoto, May 28, 2012; Kogi, April 5, 2012; Cross River, August 28, 2012; Adamawa, April 30, 2012; and Bayelsa, May 29, 2012 – and barred the INEC from scheduling gubernatorial elections in these states in 2011. (Nnochiri, supra.)
The INEC filed five separate appeals against the decision of the High Court. The Court of Appeals has already consolidated three of the appeals and will consolidate the other two at the next court hearing, which was scheduled for April 7, 2011. (Id.)
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What's on in London...
We've got lots of exciting events and projects coming up around London, from a ballroom dance and film experience, to art, late openings and pop up dining.
Stanley Spencer exhibition opens
7 November - 26 January
Open daily 10.00-18.00
Terrace Rooms, Somerset House, London
Stanley Spencer's poignant depictions of life during the First World War are leaving their permanent National Trust home at the Sandham Memorial Chapel for a landmark exhibition in London.
London Lates: Strictly Rivoli Ballroom
28 November, 7pm - 11.30pm
Tickets £26 (£20 students)
Rivoli Ballroom, Brockley, SE4 2BY
Glam up, put on your dancing shoes and shimmy on down to fabulous Rivoli Ballroom for a unique night out with Hacked Off Films and The London Project. Film and dance combine with an original 50s ballroom setting, in a one-off event inspired by cult film Strictly Ballroom. Become part of the story and live your ballroom dream.
Find out more about the event...
The Servant's Supper
13-16 & 20-23 November, 6.30pm - 11pm
£55 for a five-course dinner, complimentary drink & entertainment
Ham House, Richmond, TW10 7RS
A pop-up dining adventure with The Art of Dining. Expect plenty of twists and surprises.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
30 November, 7pm - 12am
Tickets £20
Sutton House, Hackney
An immersive film party with Amy Grimehouse featuring a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and lots of related decadent fun.


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EDINBURGH CASTLE (2) was built in 1910 by Harland & Wolff at Belfast with a tonnage of 13362grt, a length of 570ft, a beam of 64ft 5in and a service speed of 14 knots. Sister of the Balmoral Castle she was the last of a group of almost identical ships and replaced the Norman.
On 14th August 1914 sailed from Cape Town with mail and government only passengers to Gibraltar where she embarked troops before being escorted to England by HMS Minerva. She was then taken over as an auxiliary cruiser for the South Atlantic patrol and in January 1915 sailed from Devonport for South Africa with White Star's Ceramic to hunt for the German ships Karlsruhe and Kronprins Wilhelm. In 1918 served in the North Atlantic on convoy work.
She resumed commercial operations in 1919 after a refit and during that year carried General Smuts back to South Africa. She was withdrawn from service in 1938 and laid up at Netley until August 1939, when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty, to stop her being scrapped, and used her for an accommodation ship in Freetown, Sierra Leone for Naval personnel and survivors of sunken ships.
She was released from service in September 1945, but by then so much growth had accumulated on her hull during her years at Freetown that she could not be economically returned to Britain for refitting, so she was towed 60 miles out to sea by the tug Empire Lawn and sunk by gunfire and depth charges from the armed trawler Cape Warwick, HMS Porchester Castle and HMS Launceston Castle.
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Congratulations are in order to Mayor Don Hansen and the other four city councilmen who voted in January of this year to lift the ban on the sale and use of "safe and sane" fireworks in the city of Huntington Beach.
I know this is going to be disturbing to the two liberal members of the City Council who voted against the lifting of the ban, but when adult citizens are left to be adult citizens, they tend to act like adult citizens. Maybe even more disturbing to the left in this city is the symbolism that comes with an entire city, block by block, enjoying a freedom that they had been denied for almost a quarter of a century.
If the citizens of this great city can have a safe, successful and enjoyable time left to their own devices and not having the oppressiveness of a city government telling them how to celebrate their Fourth of July, maybe they will also realize that other parts of their life the city wants to control may not be in their best interest.
Coming soon, a council majority is seeking to ban plastic grocery bags in this city, following the lead of other bastions of liberty such as Santa Monica, Los Angeles and San Francisco. With their motto of "We Just Know Better," the two liberal council members and two other seriously misguided council members think the best way to control littering in the city is to control the activities of its citizens.
Apparently it's not good enough to have laws against littering (maybe we can enforce those first?) — we now must control how a grocery store handles the purchases of its clientele. No matter that you can go down aisle 3 at Vons and buy a package of 50 plastic bags. You just can't get the store to put them in a plastic bag in order for you to take them home. This is liberal logic.
The use of Fourth of July fireworks and the bagging method for groceries might seem to be small items, but they do represent a bigger issue: liberty.
Let's face it, when a city is powerful enough to tell you how to celebrate the 4th and how to bag groceries, it's powerful enough to tell you how to do most anything.
Frank LoGrasso
Huntington Beach
Hansen not the people's mayor
Huntington Beach Mayor Don Hansen is just full of ideas, isn't he?
First, there was his avid but misguided support of the reauthorization of fireworks in the city after a quarter-century ban; this resulted in so much commotion that I lost count of the number of fire-engine sirens I heard on the night of July 4. Hansen's friendliness to fireworks was likely influenced by the deep pockets of fireworks manufacturers.
Now, the mayor has worked assiduously to put a measure on the November ballot that would remove a long-standing and long-accepted property tax assessment ("Tax for pensions on ballot," July 5). Like other flawed political decision-making from the recent past — such as the removal of the car tax by neophyte Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which would have added billions to California's strained budget, and the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, initiated while this nation was in the midst of expensive mega-military endeavors in Iraq and Afghanistan — the removal of this modest tax ($75 annually on a house valued at $500,000) is not among the things that ought to even be considered in this era of draconian governmental cutbacks and public service reductions.
If this measure were to pass, our police department would lose 11 positions. Other municipal departments would suffer similar damaging reductions in employee numbers, interfering with timely responses to the vital needs of our citizenry. Precluding this moderate levy would be at the expense of our common good.
Ben Miles
Huntington Beach
Trip to Egypt changed attitude
I just wanted you to know how much I enjoy reading Mona Shadia's column (Unveiled: A Muslim Girl in O.C.). I grew up here in Southern California and had never spent much time with people from the Middle East, or people of the Muslim faith. After 9/11, my feelings for Muslims went on a downhill slide in a big way. I wanted nothing to do with Muslims.


text: http://www.downloadsquad.com – Filed under: Fun, Games Just to clarify, a member of the UK Parliament is equivalent to a representative in the US House of Representatives. This is a game then about being a politician -- for a week! In MP For A Week you are tasked with all of the usual tasks of an active politician, ranging from interesting to menial. At the start, though it's not very clear, you need to pick a constituency, a political party (leading or opposition) and a difficulty setting. Once you've done that, click 'start' and off you go! Like most modern games, your smartphone acts as your game menu. In any given day you can attend a debate, answer correspondence from your constituency or even instigate a committee inquiry into culture or the environment! If you need help (because let's face it, we're not all destined to be politicians), there's a handy guide that'll give you some tips. It's a cute game and, I hope, fairly representative of the job itself. If you're interested in becoming a politician yourself, or if you're merely curious about what politicians get up to, give the game a go! It's in Flash, so you can jump right in (and if you're American, enjoy the quaint London accents...)Be a member of Parliament for the week in a new UK video game originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments (General)


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In September I will be teaching a university module on web technologies. This session will be available to 1st year (freshman) students who don't necessarily have any programming knowledge or know how the web works.
In the 2nd semester I will be teaching Flash, which is my specialism, so I know exactly what I am going to teach, but in the 1st semester I will be teaching them web standards technologies - HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, PHP and MySQL.
Where I need advice is how to proportion the emphasis for each part, and which parts of each technology to cover. Another real issue I'm struggling with is how much of the bad old ways should I teach them? Do they need to know about bold as well as strong, etc. UPDATE: based, on your feedback I will only be teaching the latest version of everything - CSS3, HTML5 etc.
I'm not sure exactly how long the semester will be but I'm guessing about 10-12 weeks. Each session is a 2 hour lab. Obviously there's only so much I can cover in that time and it will be up to the students to go a research this stuff properly on W3 schools etc.
My ideas so far were:
Lesson 0 - Course intro and overview of the current tech landscape. What is out there, what will we be learning, what won't we. What is a web server, URL etc. Looking at different example websites and discussing how they work.
Lesson 1 - HTML basics (head, body, title, img, table, a, lists, h1, strong etc)
Lesson 2 - CSS for styling and layout - fonts, webfonts, float etc
Lesson 3 - Intro to programming JS (variables, loops, conditionals, functions)
Lesson 4 - more JS programming fundamentals, DOM manipulation
Lesson 5 - jQuery - making things fly about and look cool
Lesson 6 - XML and Ajax
Lesson 7 - PHP basics - syntax, server-side principles
Lesson 8 - PHP and MySQL - forms, logins, saving user info
Lesson 9 - don't know
Lesson 10 - don't know
Please let me know if you think this is the right order, what have I missed, how to use any spare sessions etc. Thanks :)
Thanks for all your responses - some great stuff. To be absolutely clear, this is not a computer science course, it is a practical module on a creative technology course. The emphasis definitely has to be on making cool things work rather than understanding how the backbone of the internet works. That can come later, if the students are interested. At the end of the module I would like the students to be able to produce a web page or pages that does something cool, using some or all of the technologies I cover. Many of these topics are of course far beyond the scope of a 2 hour session, however I do not have the option of reducing the syllabus, I will just have to explain what the technology does and encourage the student to research it in their own time.