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UK dividend income poised for recovery
UK dividend income poised for recovery
UK equities - income generators
The UK stockmarket has always been a critical source of income and the dividend-paying culture of British companies has a long historical precedent.
This culture is clearly underlined by London Business School data that shows how the 5.2% average annual real return generated by UK shares between 1900 and 2012 would have been just 0.6% in the absence of dividends.
Companies remain squarely focused on growing shareholder distributions, a trend which in this low interest-rate environment is being taken ever-more seriously at the board level.
It should therefore be unsurprising that the UK equity market is an important income generator not just for domestically based investors with a home bias, but international ones too, who are looking at its attractions from a European or global perspective.
The above-cited London Business School data also underlines how long-term investors who benefit from the compounding effects of reinvesting dividends enjoy far superior returns.
The capex cycle should really fire if we see synchronised growth in Europe and the US. This would be a big driver for dividend growth.
And underpinning the strength of the UK equity income investment thesis is the market's track record of delivering progressive distributions in excess of the rate of inflation (with long-term nominal dividend growth of 5–6% over the business cycle).
After a hiatus in 2013, UK dividend growth looks to be accelerating again in 2015.
This reacceleration is what you would expect as we move into the latter phases of the business cycle, and we anticipate dividend growth returning to its 5-6% nominal long-term trend level this year and next.
Recovery trajectory
The below graph illustrates how UK dividends as a whole have rebuilt following the financial crisis and recession of 2007/08.
Rather than the total amount of dividends paid by UK equities, which surpassed the prior peak a few years ago, the graph shows the like-for-like payout at the per share level.
It adjusts for the huge issuance in new stock which occurred in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and underlines how the market is on the cusp of recapturing the peak payout levels achieved before the downturn.
The UK market generates around £80 billion of dividends every year, so it's a very deep pool in which to invest for income.
The range of opportunities is wide, from large-cap companies which offer high dividend yields to many small and medium-sized firms with exciting dividend growth potential.
In a period when yields on bonds have fallen so far (the 10-year gilt yield stands at 1.75% at the time of writing), the UK equity market will remain an important asset for those who require income today.
Arguably, this is truer for UK equities than any other developed market, as they have historically offered higher yields.
But one of the knock-on effects of the current low-return world is that safer higher-yielding equities have performed very strongly since 2007, these are the so-called 'bond proxies', or long-duration stocks, which include:
- Food producers
- Beverages
- Utilities
- Tobacco companies
Many of them have rerated to their highest level in two decades, but this super-charged performance appears to have run its course.
We witnessed the first inklings of this at the start of this year, when many of these companies stopped outperforming before bond yields troughed.
The prospect of a rise in interest rates has begun to set the agenda, and while some of these companies may be growing earnings at 8-9%, the period of extra-strong returns related to declining bond yields has passed.
Exciting growth potential
While we have concerns about some of the high-yielding companies, this caution is more than compensated for by those firms offering the potential for strong dividend growth.
Indeed, if you can find a stock that offers a decent real yield, which is sustainable over time, you should have an excellent investment.
We are in the latter stages of the business cycle and, as you would expect at this stage, dividend growth is beginning to reaccelerate. However, this cycle has two key differences to previous cycles:
- Wage growth has been much slower than you would have expected at this point and given how long we are into the recovery.
- The capital investment (capex) cycle has not yet swung into action. That is the point at which companies judge that demand is sufficiently strong to start investing.
There have also been unique challenges posed by last year's Scottish Referendum, the UK general election in May and the dramatic decline in energy prices.
The prior two events served to delay the cycle as multi-national and domestic companies waited for more certainty regarding the political landscape, and as a result capex has rolled slowly off since 2013. But this is beginning to change.
Looking forward, the capex cycle should really fire if we see synchronised growth in Europe and the US. This would be a big driver for dividend growth.
If you believe in a synchronised recovery and the world economy moving into more of a reflationary stage, the UK equity market is packed full of companies which should perform well in such an environment - including selected Financials, Commodity Cyclicals and Consumer Cyclicals (see 'The seven style groupings of the Business Cycle equity team', below).
The banks are one of the most interesting areas for UK equity income investors, particularly when you consider that in 2005 they paid on aggregate around £13 billion of dividends, equivalent to approximately 26% of the equity market's total distributions that year.
This year we expect UK banks to be paying about £11 billion, around 13% of the total, and half the peak level reached in 2005, so the recovery potential is clearly significant (see 'Banking dividends have significant lost ground to recover', below).
The European Union in/out vote does add an element of uncertainty, but we believe that the market impact of the result will be relatively short-term.
Having been through the Scottish Referendum and UK general election so recently, investors are now very familiar with some of the key sensitivities around the capex cycle.
It will have some impact from the key market everyone looks at, financials, but the financial system in the UK has been very adaptive to different tax regimes, different regulatory regimes, and will continue to evolve whatever the outcome of the poll.
Please remember that past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated. The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amounts originally invested.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.
The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain. U.S. troops shackled and dragged other detainees to small isolation rooms, then hung them by their wrists from chains dangling from the wire mesh ceiling.
Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment.
The public outcry in the United States and abroad has focused on detainee abuse at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but sadistic violence first appeared at Bagram, north of Kabul, and at a similar U.S. internment camp at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.
"I was punched and kicked at Bagram. ... At Bagram, when they took a man to interrogation at night, the next morning we would see him brought out on a stretcher looking almost dead," said Aminullah, an Afghan who was held there for a little more than three months. "But at Guantanamo, there were rules, there was law."
Nazar Chaman Gul, an Afghan who was held at Bagram for more than three months in 2003, said he was beaten about every five days. American soldiers would walk into the pen where he slept on the floor and ram their combat boots into his back and stomach, Gul said. "Two or three of them would come in suddenly, tie my hands and beat me," he said.
When the kicking started, Gul said, he'd cry out, "I am not a terrorist," then beg God for mercy. Mercy was slow in coming. He was shipped to Guantanamo around the late summer of 2003 and imprisoned there for more than three years.
According to Afghan officials and a review of his case, Gul wasn't a member of al Qaida or of the extremist Taliban regime that ran Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. At the time he was detained, he was working as a fuel depot guard for the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
When U.S. soldiers raided the house he was visiting, acting on a tip from a tribal rival who was seeking revenge against another man, they apparently confused Gul with a militant with a similar name - who was also imprisoned at Guantanamo, according to an Afghan intelligence official and Gul's American lawyer.
The eight-month McClatchy investigation found a pattern of abuse that continued for years. The abuse of detainees at Bagram has been reported by U.S. media organizations, in particular The New York Times, which broke several developments in the story. But the extent of the mistreatment, and that it eclipsed the alleged abuse at Guantanamo, hasn't previously been revealed.
Guards said they routinely beat their prisoners to retaliate for al Qaida's 9-11 attacks, unaware that the vast majority of the detainees had little or no connection to al Qaida.
Former detainees at Bagram and Kandahar said they were beaten regularly. Of the 41 former Bagram detainees whom McClatchy interviewed, 28 said that guards or interrogators had assaulted them. Only eight of those men said they were beaten at Guantanamo Bay.
Because President Bush loosened or eliminated the rules governing the treatment of so-called enemy combatants, however, few U.S. troops have been disciplined under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and no serious punishments have been administered, even in the cases of two detainees who died after American guards beat them.
In an effort to assemble as complete a picture as possible of U.S. detention practices, McClatchy reporters interviewed 66 former detainees, double-checked key elements of their accounts, spoke with U.S. soldiers who'd served as detention camp guards and reviewed thousands of pages of records from Army courts-martial and human rights reports.
The Bush administration refuses to release full records of detainee treatment in the war on terrorism, and no senior Bush administration official would agree to an on-the-record interview to discuss McClatchy's findings.
The most violent of the major U.S. detention centers, the McClatchy investigation found, was Bagram, an old Soviet airstrip about 30 miles outside Kabul. The worst period at Bagram was the seven months from the summer of 2002 to spring of 2003, when interrogators there used techniques that when repeated later at Abu Ghraib led to wholesale abuses.
New detainees were shoved to the floor of a cavernous warehouse, a former Soviet aircraft machine shop that stayed dim all day, and kept in pens where they weren't allowed to speak or look at guards.
The Afghan government initially based a group of intelligence officers at Bagram, but they were pushed out. Mohammed Arif Sarwari, the head of Afghanistan's national security directorate from late 2001 to 2003, said he got a letter from U.S. commanders in mid-2002 telling him to get his men out of Bagram.
Sarwari thought that was a bad sign: The Americans, he thought, were creating an island with no one to watch over them.
"I said I didn't want to be involved with what they were doing at Bagram - who they were arresting or what they were doing with them," he said in an interview in Kabul.
The rate of reported abuse was higher among men who were held at the U.S. camp at Kandahar Airfield. Thirty-two out of 42 men held there whom McClatchy interviewed claimed that they were knocked to the ground or slapped about. But former detainees said the violence at Bagram was much harsher.
The brutality at Bagram peaked in December 2002, when U.S. soldiers beat two Afghan detainees, Habibullah and Dilawar, to death as they hung by their wrists.
Dilawar died on Dec. 10, seven days after Habibullah died. He'd been hit in his leg so many times that the tissue was "falling apart" and had "basically been pulpified," said then-Lt. Col. Elizabeth Rouse, the Air Force medical examiner who performed the autopsy on him.
Had Dilawar lived, Rouse said in sworn testimony, "I believe the injury to the legs are so extensive that it would have required amputation."
After Habibullah died, a legal officer for U.S. forces in Afghanistan asked two military police guards at Bagram to demonstrate how they'd chained detainees' wrists above their heads in a small plywood isolation cell.
"Frankly, it didn't look good," Maj. Jeff Bovarnick, the legal adviser for the Bagram detention center from November 2002 to June 2003, said during a military investigation hearing in June 2005.
"This guy is chained up and has a hood on his head," Bovarnick continued. "The two MPs that were demonstrating this took about five minutes to get everything hook(ed) up; and I was thinking to myself, if this was a combative detainee, it must have been a real struggle for them to get him to comply, and the things they must have been doing to make him comply."
The only American officer who's been reprimanded for the deaths of Habibullah and Dilawar is Army Capt. Christopher Beiring, who commanded the 377th Military Police Company from the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2003.
Beiring told investigators that he'd received no formal training in leading a military police company, "just the correspondence courses and on-the-job training."
Then-Lt. Col. Thomas S. Berg, the Army lawyer who investigated Beiring in the deaths of Habibullah and Dilawar, argued that: "The government failed to present any evidence of what are 'approved tactics, techniques and procedures in detainee operations.' "
On Berg's recommendation, the charges against Beiring were dropped, and he was given a letter of reprimand.
"It's extremely hard to wage war with so many undefined rules and roles," Beiring said in a phone interview with McClatchy. "It was very crazy."
The commander of the military intelligence section that worked alongside Beiring's military police company at Bagram, Capt. Carolyn Wood, declined to comment.
The soldier who faced the most serious charges, Spc. Willie Brand, admitted that he hit Dilawar about 37 times, including some 30 times in the flesh around the knees during one session in an isolation cell.
Brand, who faced up to 11 years in prison, was reduced in rank to private - his only punishment - after he was found guilty of assaulting and maiming Dilawar.
U.S. soldiers' testimony in military investigations after the deaths of Habibullah and Dilawar suggested that detainee abuse at Bagram occurred from the summer of 2002 to spring of 2003, a period of about seven months.
Soldiers who served at Bagram before that time said detainees were never beaten. Col. Matthew Bogdanos, a Marine Reserves officer who worked there from December 2001 to April 2002, said in an interview that none of the soldiers or American operatives he knew had resorted to abusing detainees.
An Army interrogator who was based at Bagram in the spring of 2002 and later wrote a book under the pseudonym of Chris Mackey for security reasons, said in an e-mail exchange that while soldiers pushed the limits - such as using stress positions and sleep deprivation - he never saw or heard of detainees getting beaten.
Former detainees interviewed by McClatchy and by some human rights groups, however, claimed that the violence was rampant from late 2001 until the summer of 2003 or later, at least 20 months.
Although they were at Bagram at different times and speak different languages, the 28 former detainees who told McClatchy that they'd been abused there told strikingly similar stories:
- Bashir Ahmad, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban, said that in the late spring or summer of 2003, U.S. troops would chain him to the ceiling by his hands or feet. "Then they would punch me or hit me with a wood rod," he said.
- Brahim Yadel, a French citizen, said he was punched and slapped during interrogations at Bagram in December 2001.
- Moazzem Begg, a British citizen, said he was assaulted regularly at Bagram for most of 2002, until he was transferred to Guantanamo in January 2003.
- Akhtar Mohammed, an Afghan, said that at Bagram during the spring of 2003, "when they moved me to the interrogation room they covered my eyes, and took me up steep stairs. I always fell on the ground. And when I fell down, they punched and kicked me."
- Abdul Haleem, a Pakistani, said that U.S. soldiers threw him to the ground at Bagram in 2003 and kicked him in the head, "like they were playing soccer."
- Adel al Zamel, a Kuwaiti, said guards frequently waved sticks at him and threatened to rape him at Bagram during the spring of 2002. During an interview in Kuwait City, Zamel shook his head and said he remembered hearing detainees being beaten and "the cries from the interrogation room" at Bagram.
He wasn't the only person to report sexual humiliation.
Sgt. Selena Salcedo, a U.S. military intelligence officer, said that sometime between August 2002 and February 2003 she saw another interrogator, Pfc. Damien Corsetti, pull down the pants of a detainee and leave his genitals exposed.
In a 2005 sworn statement in the court-martial of Corsetti, she said she'd left the room and that when she'd returned the detainee was bent over a table and Corsetti was waving a plastic bottle near his buttocks. She said she didn't know whether the detainee had been raped.
Corsetti was acquitted of any wrongdoing. He didn't respond to a request for comment submitted through his attorney. Salcedo pleaded guilty to kicking a detainee - Dilawar - and grabbing his ears during a December 2002 interrogation.
Soldiers who served at Bagram starting in the summer of 2002 confirmed that detainees there were struck routinely.
"Whether they got in trouble or not, everybody struck a detainee at some point," said Brian Cammack, a former specialist with the 377th Military Police Company, an Army Reserve unit from Cincinnati. He was sentenced to three months in military confinement and a dishonorable discharge for hitting Habibullah.
Spc. Jeremy Callaway, who admitted to striking about 12 detainees at Bagram, told military investigators in sworn testimony that he was uncomfortable following orders to "mentally and physically break the detainees." He didn't go into detail.
"I guess you can call it torture," said Callaway, who served in the 377th from August 2002 to January 2003.
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Many human rights experts say the U.S. military began cracking down on detainee abuse at Bagram in 2004, in response to the public outcry over pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Asked why someone would abuse a detainee, Callaway told military investigators: "Retribution for September 11, 2001."
When detainees first had their hoods removed on arriving at Bagram, looming behind them was a large American flag and insignia of the New York Police Department, a reminder of Sept. 11.
Almost none of the detainees at Bagram, however, had anything to do with the terrorist attacks.
Bovarnick, the former chief legal officer for operational law in Afghanistan and Bagram legal adviser, said in a sworn statement that of some 500 detainees he knew of who'd passed through Bagram, only about 10 were high-value targets, the military's term for senior terrorist operatives.
That hardly mattered.
Khaled al Asmr, a tall, gaunt Jordanian, was hauled off a U.S. military cargo plane at Bagram in early 2002. Flown in from Pakistan in heavy shackles and with a hood on his head, he was accused of being an al Qaida operative with possible connections to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Standing in an interrogation room, Asmr said, he'd already been punched in the face several times by American guards. Two Americans walked into the room, wearing civilian clothes. They pulled out pistols and held them to either side of his head as a third American man entered and walked up to Asmr, according to his account.
The third man leaned toward Asmr's face and whispered, his breath warm, "I am here to save you from these people, but you must tell me you are al Qaida."
Asmr, who told his story to a McClatchy reporter in Jordan, was declared no longer an enemy combatant after a 2004 U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo. He said he'd known some al Qaida leaders, but that was more than 15 years earlier, during the U.S.-backed Afghan uprising against the Soviets.
Nazar Gul was of even less intelligence value. None of the Afghan security or intelligence officials whom McClatchy interviewed said they'd heard of Gul, making it unlikely that he was the dangerous insurgent the U.S. said he was.
Gul's American attorney, Ruben L. Iniguez, went to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2006 to check the details of his story of working as a guard for the Afghan government, and later said in sworn court filings - which included videotaped testimony by witnesses - and in an interview with McClatchy that every fact checked out.
The mistreatment of detainees at Bagram, some legal experts said, may have been a violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention on prisoners of war, which forbids violence against or humiliating treatment of detainees.
The U.S. War Crimes Act of 1996 imposes penalties up to death for such mistreatment.
At Bagram, however, the rules didn't apply. In February 2002, President Bush issued an order denying suspected Taliban and al Qaida detainees prisoner-of-war status. He also denied them basic Geneva protections known as Common Article Three, which sets a minimum standard for humane treatment.
Without those parameters, it's difficult to say what acts were or were not war crimes, said Charles Garraway, a former colonel and legal adviser for the British army and a leading international expert on military law.
Bush's order made it hard to prosecute soldiers for breaking such rules under the military's basic law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, in large part because defense attorneys could claim that troops on the ground didn't know what was allowed.
In sweeping aside Common Article Three, the Bush administration created an environment in which abuse such as that at Bagram was more likely, said Garraway, a former professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
"I think it's completely predictable, because you no longer have standards," he said.
In 2006, Bush pushed Congress to narrow the definition of a war crime under the War Crimes Act, making prosecution even more difficult.
The military police at Bagram had guidelines, Army Regulation 190-47, telling them they couldn't chain prisoners to doors or to the ceiling. They also had Army Regulation 190-8, which said that humiliating detainees wasn't allowed.
Neither was applicable at Bagram, however, said Bovarnick, the former senior legal officer for the installation.
The military police rulebook saying that enemy prisoners of war should be treated humanely didn't apply, he said, because the detainees weren't prisoners of war, according to the Bush administration's decision to withhold Geneva Convention protections from suspected Taliban and al Qaida detainees.
The military police guide for the Army correctional system, which prohibits "securing a prisoner to a fixed object, except in emergencies," wasn't applicable, either, because Bagram wasn't a correctional facility, Bovarnick told investigators in 2004.
"I do not believe there is a document anywhere which states that ... either regulation applies, and there is clear guidance by the secretary of defense that detainees were not EPWs," enemy prisoners of war, Bovarnick said.
Compounding the problem, military police guards and interrogators lacked proper training and received little instruction from commanders about how to do their jobs, according to sworn testimony taken during military investigations and interviews by McClatchy.
The guards who worked there from the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2003 were all reservists from the 377th Military Police Company, based in Cincinnati, and many of the military intelligence interrogators serving at the same time were from the Utah Army National Guard.
Good order and discipline had evaporated.
1st Sgt. Betty Jones said during a 2004 interview with investigators that a fellow military police sergeant and his men on several occasions were "drunk to the point that they could not go to duty."
Salcedo, the military intelligence soldier, said in her statement at Corsetti's court-martial that she and others drank alcohol during their time at Bagram, and at one point smoked hashish on the roof of a building.
Cammack told McClatchy that one of his sergeants drove a John Deere Gator, a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle, to a nearby town and traded with locals for bottles of vodka.
"Really, nobody was in charge ... the leadership did nothing to help us. If we had any questions, it was pretty much 'figure it out on your own,' " Cammack said. "When you asked about protocol they said it's a work in progress."
Senior Pentagon officials refused to be interviewed for this article. In response to a series of questions and interview requests, Col. Gary Keck, a Defense Department spokesman, released this statement:
"The Department of Defense policy is clear - we treat all detainees humanely. The United States operates safe, humane and professional detention operations for unlawful enemy combatants at war with this country."
No U.S. military officer above the rank of captain has been called to account for what happened at Bagram.
The head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan when prisoners were being abused at Bagram, then-Lt. Gen. Dan K. McNeill, declined an interview request. McNeill was later made the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, a post he held until recently.
His predecessor, then-Maj. Gen. Franklin L. "Buster" Hagenbeck, said in an e-mail exchange that from late 2001 to 2002, his attention wasn't on detainee facilities.
"Unfortunately, I have nothing to add to your reporting ... I was focused on battling the Taliban and al Qaida, as well as reconstruction and coordinating with the nascent Afghan government," Hagenbeck wrote. "I do not personally know of any abuses while I was there, and we focused on treating all with dignity and respect - even, and perhaps especially, those persons in our custody."
Hagenbeck is now the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Capt. Carolyn Wood, who led the interrogators at Bagram, was sent to Abu Ghraib in the summer of 2003 and assumed control of interrogation operations there that August.
A military investigation that followed the Abu Ghraib scandal - known as the "Fay-Jones Report" for the two generals who authored it - found that from July 2003 to February of 2004, 27 military intelligence personnel there allegedly encouraged or condoned the abuse of detainees, violated established interrogation procedures or participated in abuse themselves.
The abuse resembled what former Bagram detainees described.
A key factor in serious cases of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the report found, was the construction of isolation areas, a move requested by Wood, who said that "based on her experience" such facilities made it easier to extract information from detainees.
Wood remains an active-duty military intelligence officer.
Matthew Schofield contributed to this report from Paris and Lyon, France.
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Western PA bridge named for Medal of Honor Recipent
A western Pennsylvania bridge has been renamed for a soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor earlier this year for his actions in defending against an ambush by North Vietnamese troops on May 10, 1970.
The former Ewing Park Bridge was renamed on Veteran's Day at a ceremony attended by Rose Mary Sabo-Brown, the widow of the soldier being honored, Spc. Leslie H. Sabo Jr.
The 22-year-old Army rifleman was killed charging an enemy bunker, killing several enemy soldiers.
Sabo was wounded but managed to throw an enemy grenade away from another wounded comrade, then continued toward the bunker, and threw a grenade into it. He was killed in the blast, which also silenced enemy fire.
The bridge is in Ellwood City, about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.


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Oh Lordy, it looks like my attempt at being THE Misleading Mage is being misled by other Mages wanting to prove their power.
Of course those damn hunters may have been wrong… maybe there aren't just 2 Mage blogs with one being misleading… maybe there are many more but lots of us are misleading.
No wonder I only rate 23rd on this months Misleading Mage charts!
So, rather than what was planned, I present to you the master of the misleading, Rivs of A High Latency Life, with:
Misleading Mage posts:
Importance of Looking Good.
I came to realize there are many challenges that face classes today, for example, Hunters it's figuring out how to name their pet. It has to be hard otherwise why would there be so many pets named "Spider" or "Cat". The Mage class is no different, and with so many new races able to become mages, I thought I would share. If your a newly minted mage, or an old timer who seen ICC more then the back of your mouse hand, we have one major obstacle, or challenge if you will.. We need to look good, and being a Mage of the Finest Caliber I am here to help with a few things you could do to help make yourself look good.
1. Pick your gear by the way it looks
We are the pimps, er I mean nobility of the World of Warcraft. If a cloak looks better, and has less Haste on it, by all means wear the sharper cloak. I know PvP gear looks better, screw it keep it on. It has +spellpower on it. Looking Good does not always mean looking pretty, If you're undead you WANT to look ugly and mean…cause well you are.
2. Corpse Placement
I like to make sure I die away from everyone else, makes me feel special. Corpse piles is something we make, not be a part of.
3. Spells
Always use your flashiest, bestest spells, and always cast Mirror Images as often as you can, because what's better then one awesome mage, but 4 of you. I like to think I'm part of a show, like fireworks, for the other Raid people. I'm sure their bored out of their mind, and the Mage's job is to combat boredom, and be the cheerleaders of the Raid. As for Mana, The Blue Mana bar is more of a guideline for us, not the end all be all of our existence..feel free to disregard that…We got wands for a reason.
4 Surround yourself with the Opposite Sex
Cause nothing says successful like having a lot of Hotties around. If your a Girl, just announce you have boobs, and you could shoot your bolts the opposite direction and still be ok.
5. The Attitude to go with the Looks
We are like the Nobility of the World of Warcraft, so act like it. Our Class who rule Dalaran lifted the whole city into the sky dang it….THE WHOLE CITY, what did Warlocks or Hunters do, hell Warlocks are still skulking in the Slaughtered Lamb Pub in Stormwind. Someone dares to ask you for a port. feel free to open one to Stonard, and teach the cur manners. Plate drop, you need the gold too hit need, it's ok.
6. "You read it somewhere"
It's ok to be a complete moron, as long as you sound like you know what your talking about. I remember I gave a totally bogus strat, and I just said "I read it somewhere", and everyone died horribly. I feel that was a major success, they should be honored I opened my mouth at all.
Always remember though, a lot of people can Kill, but no one does it with Style, Pinoche, and Flare like a Mage.
Hey what?
That's it?
Yeah that's it… and by that, I mean that's the last Misleading Mage post… well for now anyway… we need to watch out, those Warlock's think our attention is turned to the Hunters… luckily our Hunter buddies are tracking those Locks.
Awesome Job Rivs… Honored to have you join me on this sinking ship of Mage Bloggerly (which sounds similar to what I'm going to do to the next Hunter that suggests there are no good Mage blogs around).
Now, tell me… where do I get my Hotties?
Gnomer and Out!
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This year's MTV Movie Awards will be a showdown between a bevy of bridesmaids and a cast of killer kids.
MTV says "Bridesmaids" and "The Hunger Games" top nominees with eight nods apiece, including bids for best cast, breakthrough performance and movie of the year. Also up for best picture are "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," ''The Help" And "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1."
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MTV announced nominees Monday in 12 categories, including six new ones such as "best on-screen dirtbag" and "best gut-wrenching performance."
Fans can choose the winners by voting online beginning Tuesday at 8 AM Eastern time.
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OCEAN CITY – The long-awaited pilot program for the Inlet surfing beach has been deemed a success this week by Ocean City Beach Patrol Captain Butch Arbin, after assessing all aspects of the first year of the Inlet surf beach.
"We have not had a single complaint from the public," Arbin said of the pilot program.
The southern part of the beach at the Inlet was designated for surfers at the beginning of summer, giving surfers complete access to that water, Monday thru Friday, with no interference from swimmers.
Surfing beaches have been an issue in Ocean City since as early as the 1970's, when Arbin can remember requesting that a section of the Inlet beach be set aside for surfing.
Before the beach was as developed and populated as it is today, surfers had their choice of numerous undeveloped beaches to surf. But as Ocean City grew and undeveloped beach areas became scarce, surfers were left with only one undeveloped beach to surf, which soon went by the wayside, leaving no viable surfing areas.
The first designated surfing beaches came in the form of three rotating beaches. Each day there would be three beaches, which would rotate daily, that surfers could use. The problem was if there were no surfers there, the beach would close to surfing and open to swimmers. Surfers would arrive intermittently depending on the tides and waves, finding that the beach had already been closed to surfers. As a compromise, the surfers gave up one of their beaches in exchange for two surf beaches that would remain surf beaches all day.
That system remained for several years, but as the surfing community grew so did the need for more waters to surf. This year the surfing community was granted their wish, receiving a large chunk of beach at the Inlet to be used Monday thru Friday.
Before the surf beach went into affect, there were some factors that needed to be considered. One was how a set surfing beach would affect the beach stands in that area, owned by Pat McLaughlin. Because the surf beach would be installed in the middle of McLaughlin's lease term with that area of the beach, it was important that he be consulted.
Arbin explained that with the facilitation of Mayor Rick Meehan, McLaughlin agreed, allowing the surf beach to make a home in the Inlet area.
Arbin informed the Recreation and Parks Committee Tuesday morning that after monitoring the surf beach all summer long and after talking to numerous parties involved, he deemed the pilot program a complete success.
"It just doesn't get much better than that for a pilot program," Arbin said.
Arbin spoke to numerous patrons, the Eastern Surfing Association (ESA), and several surf shops, all of who have agreed with the success of the pilot program. Arbin also contacted McLaughlin who is still in support of the surf beach. Arbin explained that although McLaughlin has seen a decrease in business at his most southern stand, it has not affected the overall business of his three stands. "If they're going to rent they're going to rent," Arbin said, explaining that business is still going strong for McLaughlin.
Arbin also heard support from Bruce Gibbs, superintendent of the city's Maintenance Department, who is in charge of the Inlet parking lot. Gibbs reported that he had heard no complaints from the gatekeepers at the Inlet parking lot, who would have heard complaints from tourists as they left the beach.
Of course, the surfing community would like to see the availability of the beach extended through the weekends or the surf beach extended further north, but Arbin said he could not support that request at this time.
"The weekends are not practical from a safety standpoint," Arbin said, explaining that the high density of swimmers would cause safety concerns for the guards.
Currently, the surf beach is running smoothly, with two guards working the area at all times. Arbin explained that there are two guards that stay mostly in that area, and that on any given day one of those two guards will be there.
"It helps them monitor and know the people and the area," Arbin said, adding that having a guard that's become familiar with the surfing community is advantageous for the surf beach.
As for the safety of a surf beach, Arbin maintained that injuries are no more prevalent on a surfing beach than they are anywhere else.
"Almost 100 percent of the injuries are from that surfer's own board," Arbin said, explaining that surfers rarely run into one another and cause injury.
"For a pilot program, I would not have thought it would have brought this positive of a response," Arbin said.
Arbin has endorsed the pilot program continuing next summer at its fixed location at the Inlet.


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On the palate it shows bright acidity while the nose shows hints of pineapple and tropical fruits. A brassy California Chard with a gentle finish that goes well with the salty starters of the box but would be a great pairing for smoked salmon and other savory goodies that tend to show up on the table during the holidays. Like honey-roasted ham. This would be divine with a few slices of that and a dollop of Dijon mustard on the side.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:46 pm
Post subject: Ideas
I am new to your site Michael..and retired.
At the current time I volunteer on a weekly basis, during our very cold winter months, to make Soup for the homeless in the location of our church. The soup is made in my home and transported.
The organization is referred to as 'Pads', which maintains numerous locations. In addition to feeding they also supply bedding etc. for spending the night.
My need is simple .. new soup recipe ideas for 30 to 40 homeless people? Cost must also be considered due to limited funds.
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How are the soups currently made?
A chicken soup base is full of nutrients, tastes great, and is generally used from discards or extremely cheap ingredients (chicken bones, root vegetables, aromatics like onion) and can be added to easily to make a variety of soups. Simply cooking pasta in the soup results in chicken noodle soup while adding beans and finely chopped vegtables can turn it into a minestrone.
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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:12 pm
Post subject: Re: Ideas
George Gingras wrote:
My need is simple .. new soup recipe ideas for 30 to 40 homeless people? Cost must also be considered due to limited funds.
Hey George,
Right off the top of my head I would opt for a Split Pea soup. Bulk split peas are terribly inexpensive and most of the flavors come from smoke ham shanks/hocks, also inexpensive. When done halfway decently, this can a rich, flavorful and wholesome meal when served with only bread & butter. Any soup utilizing dried beans and cheap cuts of smoked meats would surely be a great way to easily serve many without much from the till. Sorry, don't have any exact recipes for those numbers.
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:18 pm
Post subject: Soup
There could be an entire topic here just for soups.
I agree with previous poster about beans being a really economical, cheap and nutritious meal. In my poorer days I lived off black bean soup, which can be made as fancy or simple as budgets allow.
Though it may be an acquired taste, two of my favorites are beet soup (barsht) and cabbage soup. Both are very simple to make.
For the beet soup, I fry a little salt pork (white bacon), with some onion and celery. Then I simply boil the beets unpeeled so they keep their color.
Depending on the size, it can take half hour to one hour. When they are nice and soft, I pull them out and discard the water (which can can be dirty) The skins come off easily then. I also boil some peeled and diced potatos in new water, or stock if I have it. Once they begin to soften, I chop the cooked beets, taking a generous slice off the leaf end because it can be bitter, and add them and the onion/salt port mixture, and some dill and the beet stems, if they are there. If greens came with the beets I slice and add them too. They will take only a minute or so to cook. I find I like a good bit of salt added to the broth. That's it. Carrots or other root vegitables can be added. Buttermilk or sour cream can also be added, but adds to the cost. This can also easily be make w/o the salt pork for vegitarians.
Second, the cabbage soup is also easy, but again an acquired taste. Start with simmering some pork trimmings, the cheapest you can get will work fine, like a pork shoulder (often .70 a pound). If you use shoulder, which is fatty, you will want to cool the stock and defat it before proceeding.
Then add chopped head of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and let that simmer until all are tender. I like to add cinnamon, allspice and cloves as seasonings.
Finally when it is cooked, drain and rinse some sauerkraut (one small can workes with one head of cabbage. Let this heat up and your done. Nice with a good dark rye on the side.
And another cheap suggestion is squash soup - I think there is a recipe already on this site. My mom used to buy a bushel of butternut each winter and keep it in the cellar. I think she got it for about 5 bucks and it lasted until spring,
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As expected, running back Darren McFadden and wide receiver Jacoby Ford aren't practicing today. In a surprising development, receiver Denarius Moore is watching practice with a protective boot on his right foot.
Backup running back Taiwan Jones also isn't practicing as a result of the hamstring injury he suffered Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. Receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is at practice, though he isn't participating. He is watching without the neck brace he was sporting after the neck injury he received against the Vikings.
So, as of now, the Raiders projected starting lineup against the Chicago Bears on Sunday would feature Michael Bush at running back, with Louis Murphy and Chaz Schilens at the wide receiver spots and Bryan McCann returning punts and kicks.
Moore got dinged up at some point of the Vikings game. However, he appeared fine afterward and he was not mentioned by coach Hue Jackson on the injury report after the game.
If Moore can't go, the Raiders also would need to find someone else to return punts. McCann is the logical candidate to replace Moore on punt returns and Ford on kick returns.
Rock Cartwright is in line to get some action at running back for the first time if McFadden and Jones can't play. He has not run the ball at all through the first 10 games.
Bush rushed 30 times in each of the past two games. That workload might go up even more if he is the lone healthy back Sunday.
Defensive tackle Richard Seymour (knee) and defensive end Lamaar Houston (hamstring) also aren't practicing today. Seymour played a bit against the Vikings despite missing all four practices the week before.
Fullback Manase Tonga and middle linebacker Rolando McClain are practicing, as is center Samson Satele three days after he suffered a concussion.
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"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." If only! I'm sure that many of you have heard some form of that quip by Santayana, and I daresay that in an unguarded moment I may have actually used it in class, as if the study of history were mainly justified by its prophylactic utility. That's not fair to Santayana, who meant no such thing, but it is how the quip is commonly understood. If you don't know your history, then you are likely to step on the same landmines that your ignorant forebears stepped on, and then think how sorry you'll be.
An excellent corrective to this half-mistaken call for the study of history is a book I've just read for the first time -- to my embarrassment I say it, but everyone has his sins of omission. It's Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences (1948), one of those books like Kirk's Conservative Mind or Lasch's Culture of Narcissism that allows you to stand clear of the contemporary welter and see not only how we've arrived at the current unpleasantness, but how apparently disparate phenomena are related: the loss of the sense of transcendentals; the reduction of the people to the masses; corporate capitalism and the oxymoronic anonymity of property; pragmatic education in the service of materialist ends; and what Weaver calls "The Stereopticon," the public rapid-fire of one image after another, without cultural or historical context, at speeds that make reflection and reason impossible. The Idea, by the way, that has brought about these Consequences, is the nominalist one, given us by Scotus (whom Weaver does not single out for villainy) and Ockham (whom he does), which denies the existence of universals, and eventually replaces the quest for knowledge-as-truth with the Baconian quest for knowledge-as-power-over. In other words, it dethrones wisdom and sets up technological and bureaucratic utility in its place. It sees the world finally as a machine, and then man as a machine, or as some great inert mass to be activated for pragmatic and materialist purposes.
Some developments since Weaver wrote would bring him cause for hope: the homeschooling movement foremost among them. In a home school, the teachers and the students largely choose their course of study, making judgments that it is better for Joey to read Dickens than it is for him to read Stephen King, and so judging in the light of values deriving from their sense of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Or maybe, if they are foolish, they make the reverse judgment; but at least they are human in their error, and not some indiscriminate portion in a vast mass, and they will suffer the consequences of their misjudgment and perhaps learn from them, exactly as if they had neglected to provide for raingutters in a house they built for themselves. Yet many developments would but confirm Weaver's vision. He would, as the old-fashioned liberal Lasch did, see the feminist "revolution" as but one form of capitulating to the freedom-destroying reduction of families to wards of the state, and of genuine individualism to narcissism, with one's value determined not by tradition, or honor, or noble obedience to moral directives that transcend the age, but rather by celebrity, a plaque on a desk, and brightly ribboned toys. Every philosophy that scorns the past, writing it off as one long night of stupidity, or, worse, as "socially constructed" and therefore irrelevant to us now, condemns man to live a prey to current social managers and mass education and entertainment. You cannot be a lover of wisdom without a strong memory, Plato says.
I live and work in the midst of the ruins: just the other day I saved from the dumpster several learned expositions, written for the Intelligent General Reader, of the Summa Theologiae of Aquinas. When I opened one of the volumes, a passel of newspaper clippings fell out, along with some prayer cards, and memorials for deceased Dominicans. On the inside of one cover was written "R. J. Fortin, 1951" -- and if I am right, that means that the book was owned by an excellent Shakespearean scholar, an alumnus of my college, and the founder of our Western Civilization program. Somehow no one in my library saw fit to save the books. As no one in a local Narragansett Bay library saw fit to save four volumes of the renowned history of the Indians, by Francis Parkman. Mass man, watching "news" en masse, "educated" to believe that the latest ephemera, a Romney or a Mrs. Clinton, have ever entertained a single idea to distinguish them from the masses to which they agree that we should be reduced. We will know that we have a chance of rising from the sludge when the following conversation becomes conceivable once more:
Puling Person of the Populace: "Our schools are failing, Mr. Presidential Candidate. What do you plan on doing about it?"
Mr. Candidate: "Nothing at all. If your students can't read, might I suggest that you see to it yourselves? Might I also suggest that you fire those currently in charge of your schools? See to it yourselves. You are not children."
Puling Person of the Populace: "But Mr. Presidential Candidate --"
Mr. Candidate: "No more. Do not embarrass yourself any further."
Anyway, I wish you all a blessed Feast of the Circumcision -- though I know it happened a long time ago.


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I just read this interesting post by Ory on Kenyanpundit.com. According to the post, there seems to be evidence that people high up in ODM may be implicated in the maize scandal that has rocked the country, even as millions of Kenyans continue to live on wild fruits and dug up roots (are we in 200,000 BC????).
It makes you wonder whether we really need the coalition government. As things stand, it seems like these clowns running the country know that they can get away with everything because no one wants to break up the coalition government. Martha Karua (the Justice Minister) herself admitted that ODM and PNU politicians would rather remain in the coalition than seek a fresh mandate from wananchi. Raila and Kibaki should be bolder than they are being and face those stealing from Kenyans, be they big men or not. The two of them can garner enough support from their bases (I don't mean just central and Nyanza but rather their supporters from across the country) to run the country without having to compromise on issues of corruption and incompetence. Kibaki can make a name for himself as the man who saved Kenya and put it on the right path. And Raila can earn some political capital that he will need for the 2012 election. I am not a die hard fan of either man, but I think right now they are Kenya's best hope.


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Feb 27, 2014
From staff reports; Photos by Elizabeth Held
"Nailed it."
That was Marc Barr's reaction to winning the fifth annual Ava Nichols' Faculty Pageant, held Tuesday night in the Baker University Center Ballroom.
Barr, an instructor in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness, and his company of glow stick dancers defeated six other Ohio University faculty members and administrators to win the crown at this year's event, hosted by OHIO's chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity.
Alpha Phi Omega started the faculty pageant five years ago to raise funds for Ava Nichols, who was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and who passed away in March 2012. Nichols' family attended Tuesday night's pageant, a benefit for Camp Quality Ohio, a non-profit organization based in Akron that serves children with cancer and their families by providing a summer camping experience, year-round programs and support, all at no cost. According to event organizers, Alpha Phi Omega has raised more than $3,300 for Camp Quality Ohio through the faculty pageant and other fundraising efforts this year.
Contestants at this year's faculty pageant braved it through three rounds of judging, walking the catwalk during the formal wear round, showing their skills outside the world of academia during the talent portion of the competition, and giving those in attendance some personal insight during the question-and-answer session.
Here are some memorable moments from Tuesday's event:
Julie Suhr, a professor and director of clinical training in OHIO's Department of Psychology, engages an audience member in her talent performance. Suhr has perfected the art of "spalking," otherwise known as spell talking in which she is able to converse effortlessly by spelling out every word she speaks.
Loren Goldman, a visiting assistant professor of political science, shows off his talent with the help of one of his students. Goldman and the student wowed the audience with a dance and light routine synchronized to "Dueling Banjos," an instrumental composition made famous by the film "Deliverance." Prior to his performance, Goldman said he wanted to show the world what it missed out on when he opted for a career in higher education over that of a professional dancer.
Alpha Phi Omega members Drew Saunders and Allison Barwacz served as the emcees for the evening, entertaining the audience and engaging the contestants.
Jennifer Chabot, an associate professor in the Department of Social and Public Health, entertains the audience with "A Little History of a Professor's Very Best Moments," a comedy routine in which she shared some of her most embarrassing moments all in an effort to show students how professors are very human.
Marc Barr, an instructor in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness, and his dance troupe deliver the winning performance at this year's faculty pageant. Dressed as glow stick dance figures, the group performed dance moves to some of the most popular dance songs of today and yesterday. The College of Health Sciences and Professions posted a video of the performance on Twitter, which can be viewed here.
Vice President of Student Affairs Ryan Lombardi and Dean of Students Jenny Hall-Jones show off what they do best – recruiting students to OHIO – during the talent portion of the pageant. Lombardi and Hall-Jones performed their version of Lionel Richie's 1984 hit "Hello," changing the words to "Is it OU you're looking for?" and peppering the performance with some comic relief.
The performance by Dean of Students Jenny Hall-Jones and Vice President of Student Affairs Ryan Lombardi earned the pair second and third place, respectively, at Tuesday's pageant. Their singing performance was accompanied by a video showing OHIO's mascot Rufus visiting various locations on campus.
Emcee Drew Saunders asks faculty pageant contestants Julie Suhr, Jeffrey Vancouver and Jennifer Chabot questions during the question-and-answer portion of the competition. The questions were submitted by the audience. Some of the questions were designated for specific contestants, such as when Vancouver, a professor in OHIO's Department of Psychology, was asked, "If you could psychoanalyze anyone from history who would it be and why?" His answer? Sigmund Freud, of course. But each contestant was also to share their most embarrassing moment in college.
Valerie Hudak, a member of Alpha Phi Omega who co-chaired this year's faculty pageant with Danielle Fultz, crowns Marc Barr as the winner of the fifth annual Ava Nichols' Faculty Pageant.
Delfin Bautista, director of OHIO's LGBT Center; Jacob "Buddha" Hagman, advisor for OHIO's chapter of Alpha Phi Omega; and Eric Horton, a graduate student studying physical therapy, served as the judges for this year's pageant. "This has definitely been one of the hardest years for judging," Hagman, who's judged every faculty pageant thus far, said following Tuesday's performances.


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Tired of that Zenith television collecting dust in your garage? What about that RAZR phone stuffed in the back of your desk?
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will host its first Electronic Recycling Event on May 8. The event, co-sponsored by the Greener Behrend Task Force and Lion Surplus, allows Penn State Behrend faculty members, staff and students an opportunity to dispose of used electronics. Items will be accepted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wilson Picnic Grove.
The service is free, and all of the electronics will be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. They are transported to a United States licensed facility to be separated, so parts can be reused and recycled.
"The event is important because electronic waste is so hard to dispose of," said Ann Quinn, the faculty adviser for the Greener Behrend Task Force. "It's a fantastic opportunity for us to get rid of things that we may have been holding onto."
Acceptable items include television sets, CPUs, monitors, hard drives, keyboards, peripherals, printers, circuit boards, laptops, DVD players, electric typewriters, fax machines, cellphones, modems, pagers, PDAs, VCRs and word processors.
Organizers do have the right to refuse any items brought in for the drop-off, and items will only be accepted during the date and time mentioned above.
For more information, contact Quinn at 814-898-6993 or email email@example.com.


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A last-minute effort to provide a legislative fix to the question of more local control over regulating oil and gas companies came to a halt Monday, all but ensuring a vicious, costly and possibly game-changing election season in Colorado.
The potential legislation might have quelled about a dozen statewide ballot initiatives this November that would give Colorado towns and counties far more power over drilling.
Now the stage is set for the oil and gas industry and well-financed environmentalists to engage in an election battle that could bring tens of millions of dollars into the state.
"In terms of how it plays out, it depends on which side comes across as moderate and most reasonable," political analyst Eric Sondermann said. "Who can capture those centrist voters who are open and supportive of some oil and gas development but who don't want it to be out of control. … That's who will benefit."
Legislators, environmentalists, community representatives, oil and gas operators and Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration were involved in extensive discussions in the past week about a legislative solution before the calendar runs out on the 2014 session Wednesday.
The negotiations will not cease and could be resolved with a special legislative session this summer, said Eric Brown, a spokesman for Hickenlooper.
"We're not done talking about it. We're going to continue talking about it and hope to reach an agreement sooner rather than later," Brown said.
When asked what specifically still needed to be hashed out among the varied interests, Brown said there are several moving parts but that a potential agreement could be close.
A draft of the possible legislation — obtained late last week by The Denver Post — specified that local governments may regulate noise, impose setbacks, conduct inspections or monitor oil and gas development to meet local permit conditions. No House Republicans signed on to the possible legislation.
Hickenlooper on Monday met with House and Senate Republicans to see if compromises could be made.
"There needs to be a vast majority of oil and gas industry support for the legislation. Then we'll at least consider it," said Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling.
The Colorado Oil and Gas Association was not involved in the negotiation of a bill, said its spokesman, who added that any potential bill needed "broad industry and stakeholder support."
"Bills or ballot measures that change how oil and gas is governed will have dramatic impacts to every sector of the economy," Doug Flanders, a spokesman for COGA said in an e-mail.
In recent weeks, oil companies intensified negotiations on a bill. The companies hoped a legislative agreement would lead U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a wealthy Boulder Democrat, to withdraw his support from some of the ballot measures that, among others, could allow counties to ban drilling.
Coloradans for Local Control, which is behind some of the ballot initiatives being promoted and has financial backing from Polis, thanked lawmakers Monday but expressed disappointment "that stakeholders could not reach a consensus."
"Even though the legislature was unable to find a solution to the problem, thankfully the Colorado constitution provides an initiative process for local Colorado citizens to fix their policy problems," said Rick Ridder of RBI Strategies, who is spokesman for Coloradans for Local Control.
"As Coloradans, we want every community to be able to determine what's right for its residents, from what school curriculum they use to whether they allow marijuana shops."
Meanwhile, Coloradans for Responsible Reform, which is backed by several prominent Democrats and Republicans and opposes the ballot measures, announced Monday it already has raised about $770,000 of contributions and pledges. The group includes heavy-hitters such as former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.
The question of an attempted legislative compromise comes as Republicans and Democrats gear up for major midterm election battles, chief among them: GOP U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner's attempt to oust U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.
Although he did not stake out a position on the proposed ballot measures, Udall said he's "always concerned about legislating through constitutional amendments." Udall also hinted at the possibility of special session "given the high stakes and given the fact that many people of good will who are stakeholders in this discussion want to see a common ground."
The ballot initiatives likely will engage opposition from GOP voters this November — an added plus for a party that already typically benefits from higher turnout in non-presidential elections.
Monday, Polis said that the lawmakers "and partners in industry came very close to brokering a deal that would have given local communities the ability to choose what is best for them.
"The current law takes away our ability to choose what is best for our communities and families by forcing fracking to happen anywhere, anytime," Polis said. "The people of Colorado are demanding a reasonable balance between energy development and their quality of life. I will not stop fighting for a solution that does just that."
Kurtis Lee: 303-954-1655, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/kurtisalee
Staff writer Lynn Bartels contributed to this report.


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Paranormal Agency (iPad)
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DescriptionHeather Williams is a paranormal investigator with supernatural powers, and the ability to exorcise possessed objects. She must confront a ghost from her past that is terrorizing the city.
Paranormal Agency is a hidden object game, where cluttered rooms have to be cleared by finding and clicking on specific objects, listed at the right side of the screen, within a time limit in classic mode. The relaxed mode, selectable at the start, removes the time constraints. In some places, the list shows the object silhouette instead of words.
The plot is shown as cutscenes and dialog between the characters that are present on some locations. Mini-games appear occasionally, taking place on a separate screen with implementations of classic puzzles like jigsaw, concentration and similar games. They can be skipped without penalty.
In a standard gameplay variation of the genre, the screen is sometimes split in two similar images, and the player has to click on the differences. In some screens, the objective is to find all possessed objects that have a otherworldly glow around them. The hint button highlights the position of one object. Extra hints can be collected as ? marks on the screen, and up to 6 can be stored for later use.
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Black Friday Shoppers Forfeit Thanksgiving Dinner, Wait in Line
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COLUMBIA - Black Friday shopping begins early this year and some mid-Missourians stood in line Thursday instead of eating Thanksgiving dinner with family.
"I am out here for the TVs, the technology," Best Buy shopper Alex Malloy said.
As of 3 p.m. Thursday, 12 people were in line outside of Sears at the Columbia Mall and 15 were in line outside of Best Buy in Columbia. The majority of the Black Friday shoppers were in line for technology-- televisions, laptops and tablets.
Some spent time in line with family like David Tarrell, first in line at Sears at the Columbia Mall, who arrived at 9 a.m. with his son to wait for a 50-inch Toshiba television.
"I am just thankful I can spend this time with my son," Tarrell said. "My wife delivered me Thanksgiving in line here, so it's great to be first here."
Some shoppers like Jeff Miller spent time separate from his wife all for Black Friday deals.
"My wife is at Wal-Mart getting gifts for the grandkids," Miller said. "And I'm here for the deals at Best Buy. It is all worth it and we did our Thanksgiving feast on Sunday so it's just another day."
John Gilmore was the first in line at Best Buy, arriving at midnight Thursday. But it wasn't just for the television deals.
"I'm tired, I am here because of a dare," Gilmore said. "My friends and I played a game with dice and it ended up that I lost, and that's why I'm here."
Some were first-time Black Friday shoppers and others were veterans.
"I thought it was going to be a lot more vicious," Anna Graham said. "I thought people were going to be attacking each other and it is actually pretty mellow."


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Anyways, I am going to work on writing the steps to build Cairo on Mac, let's see if there are differences
NOTE: This has been my longest session when I expected to spend just an hour or two - I have found so many obstacles that I cannot recall all of them
NOTE2: No performance tests and the "make test" takes a pretty LONG TIME - More than 30 minutes (In Linux I believe it took shorter time, not sure)
- sudo port install git-core
- sudo port install buildbot
- sudo port install autoconf
- sudo port install automake
- sudo port install libtool //I think I did: fink install libtool instead
- mkdir sandbox && cd sandbox
- buildbot create-master cairomaster
- cd cairomaster
- I tried to checkout buildbot-configs/cairo-one-ubuntu-slave/master.cfg from my repository but svn does not checkout single files; But I placed the master.cfg to the ~/cairomaster folder
- buildbot create-slave ./cairoslave localhost:9876 macslave slavepassword
- buildbot start cairomaster/
- buildbot start cairoslave/
- firefox http://localhost:8020
ConclusionOne of my longest sessions and with more problems ever!!!! Read below all my obstacles and I hope that all that I have done will help the cairo developers, in fact, cworth from the cairo channel was really helpful and he made some changes to the INSTALL file to reveal some of the things I have discovered. I love the new section called "Extremely detailed build instructions" that he has added :D
ObstaclesThe autoconf and automake that come with MacOS X are not good for what I am trying to do (http://osdir.com/ml/finance.quantlib.devel/2005-09/msg00001.html ); I don't know if both or just one of them, but read below:
- sudo port install automake // because when I try to do .autogen.sh I get the following error (even though I have libtool installed):
NOTE2: later when trying to ./autogen.sh in cairo's folder I had a similar problem and I got libtool from Fink since MacPort was skipping since I already had libtool; After that it worked
Can't exec "libtoolize"
: No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/ Autom4te/FileUtils. pm line 288, line 3.
autoreconf: failed
to run libtoolize: No such file or directory
- I don't know what I did, I might have got autoconf from Fink or MacPorts // when I try to run ./autogen.sh with cairo I get this error:
./autogen.sh: line 177: libtoolize: command not found
- I did not know how to configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH but now I do:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Users/armenzg/Sandbox/libs/lib/pkgconfig //since I configured pixman to build there and it created a pkgconfig folder with a .pc file
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH // to export to the environment variables
- After setting up the PKG_CONFIG_PATH properly and tried again to ./autogen.sh:
configure: error: Cairo requires at least one font backend.
Please install freetype and fontconfig, then try again:
http://freetype.org/ http://fontconfig.org/
- I ended up doing "sudo fink install fontconfig" because neither through Fink or MacPorts I got it working
- Another problem, after doing a "make":
libtool: ltconfig version `' does not match ltmain.sh version `1.3.5'
Fatal configuration error. See the libtool docs for more information.
make[2]: *** [libcairo_la-cairo.lo] Error 1
- The libtool that comes with MacOS X is not the one we want (thanks cworth from #cairo channel on freenode):
LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize ./autogen.sh --prefix=/Users/armenzg/Sandbox/libs
- This last problem was found when I wrote the buildbot steps and I was trying to set environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH but that is not Shell Command and I found through bhearshum that I can do this:
macFactory.addStep(step.ShellCommand, name="autogen for cairo",
descriptionDone="autogen for cairo",
env={"PKG_CONFIG_PATH": '%s/lib/lib/pkgconfig' % mac_build_prefix,
"LIBTOOLIZE": 'glibtoolize'})


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CR Double Shaft Seal - Back-to-back
For application with toxic, aggressive, or explosive liquids Grundfos can offer a CR pump with a Back-to-back double shaft seal. The back-to-back double seal protects the surrounding environment and the people working in the vicinity of the pump. The back-to-back seal consists of two shaft seals mounted in a back-to-back arrangement in a separate seal chamber. The pressure in the seal chamber must be higher than the pump pressure; therefore the CR pump with back-to-back seal arrangement requires a separate system to maintain the pressure in the seal chamber. The back-to-back double seal arrangement with pressurized seal chamber prevents the pumped liquid from leaking through the shaft seal to the environment.
- Paint industry
- Distilling plants
- Petrochemical industry
CR Double Shaft Seal – Tandem
For applications with crystallizing, hardening, or sticky liquids Grundfos can offer a CR pump with a Tandem double shaft seal. This type of double seal consists of two shaft seals mounted in a tandem arrangement in a separate seal chamber. If the primary seal is leaking, the pumped liquid will be flushed away by the flushing liquid. The flushing liquid pressure must always be lower than the pumped liquid, therefore a separate system to maintain flow across the seal face must be present.
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Negative pressure dearation systems
- Industries handling potentially hardening oil products
- Caustic soda
- Hydrated lime