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The Major Headwind for These Companies
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China's PMI continues to contract, which means a slowdown in the manufacturing activities in the country. One of the sectors that may be impacted significantly is the coal sector. Although the Market Vectors Coal ETF has declined 29% on a year-to-date basis, I believe the downside is not over. Hence, investors should steer away from coal companies.
Beware of the coal
Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) trades with a negative P/E. The company posted a decline of 10% in revenue to $1.7 billion in the previous quarter and a net loss of $23 million, down from a net income of $173 million a year ago. Further, its cash from operations declined $120 million to $272 million.
Overall, the company has not been profitable lately. Further, I believe that its revenue will continue to decline. China's total coal demand tumbled in 2012 for the first time in the past decade by 32 MT, hit by slower economic growth and a surge in hydro power.
Analysts expect that Chinese domestic coal will capture a bigger share of the thermal coal market due to improving railroad and ports conditions. Hence, they forecast that coal imported to China "will fall by some 35 MT."
The aftermath of dimming demand for coal has severely impacted the commodity prices, and Peabody may see its revenue decline since it is an exporter to China. Investors need to look for improving manufacturing activity in China in order to reconsider investing in Peabody Energy.
Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI) is the second largest coal producer in the United States. The company posted a decline in revenue of 21% to $826 million in the last quarter compared to the year-ago period. Further, the company ended the quarter with a net loss of $70 million compared to a profit of $1 million a year ago.
Its cash from current operations fell $12 million to $43 million. Its free cash outflow at the end of the period was $20 million, compared to $47 million last year. Analysts rate the stock a 4.0 on a 5-point scale where 5 is buy and 1 is sell.
The company's subsidiary, Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., established operations in Beijing to increase the footprint in the region. However, the coal surplus in China will prove difficult for Arch Coal to export the product to the country. In fact, investors may expect a continuous decline in coal exports as long as China's manufacturing activity remains weak.
Further, the company competes directly with Indonesia, which is the main coal exporter in the world. This adds another problem to Arch Coal's export competition in the region. The company should try to enter the Indian market to try and offset a decline in revenue from China.
The big Aussie
BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is a diversified miner with many resources. The company produces coal, copper, and even Uranium. The company trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.1, well below the industry's average of 48.3. The company's revenue has declined 10% to $66 billion in the trailing-twelve months compared to last year. Its net income shrunk to $9 billion from $15 billion.
Several analysts suggest that BHP Billiton may be a dividend play because it offers a 4% yield. However, I believe this is not a wise idea. If net income and revenue are shrinking, the company may end up having issues paying its obligations.
Its free cash flow has been contracting since 2011, when it jumped from $7 billion to $18 billion. If we remove that year, its free cash flow has been shrinking since 2008. What's more is that the company posted a free cash outflow of $6 billion from an inflow of $3 billion. If this continues this way, I would not be surprised if the company slashes its dividend payment.
Investors also need to look for economic improvements in China. One tailwind for the company comes from its copper mining business. China's urbanization plans include an ambitious plan for the construction of homes. BHP Billiton could benefit from a stronger demand for copper in China in the coming months. However, we should wait until such strength for copper is present in the market. Otherwise, investing in this company should be regarded as a speculative play.
The Foolish message is…
The demand for coal is still weak. Thus, investors should steer away from these companies as long as China's manufacturing activities do not improve. The coal surplus will affect the exports from Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. Lastly, BHP Billiton's coal sector may continue to underperform, but the company's revenue may be partially helped by a stronger demand for copper if China continues with its urbanization plans.
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text: Flyers Game! It was my first time going to one & it was amazing! Flyers beat Chicago 5-4 with less than a minute left in the third period. The place went nuts. The energy of the fans was phenomenal, second only to Citizen's Bank Park in the summer (</3). All I can think about is when I'll get to go to my next game…tonight was definitely one of the highlights of my year.

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Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman says he has begun the search for a new Lieutenant Governor. During a news conference Monday afternoon, Heineman told reporters that the state constitution does not allow him to appoint any of the 49 sitting senators in the Unicameral. He also says because the gubernatorial election is just over a year away, he does not intend on placing someone in the position who plans to run for governor in 2014. The Republican says he doesn't want to give someone the edge, and would rather have the voters decide who they want to fill the state's top spot.
Heineman also said it would likely take several weeks to make his decision and announce an appointment for Lieutenant Governor.
Rick Sheehy resigned as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska on Saturday following inquiries into his use of a state-issued cell phone. Heineman told reporters Saturday that Sheehy had broken his trust, but he declined to elaborate.


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Today has been leg day and so tomorrow is hereby cancelled.
Today has been leg day and so tomorrow is hereby cancelled.
Don't be embarrassed over the amount of weight you lift, or the amount of miles you run, the yoga poses you haven't mastered yet, or how you still get winded running up the stairs. We are all starting somewhere.
I think today at the gym I'll set a new personal best distance.
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if you want a nice body, go get it. if you want to become a lawyer, study your ass off. if you want nice hair, pick a style and get it done. stop being afraid and motivate yourself. find yourself. find your happiness, because it's out there waiting for you.
Exercise because it feels good. Exercise because it makes you happy.
Don't exercise because you're terrified that you ate too much for dinner. Don't exercise because you hate the way your body looks in the mirror.
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We Changed Up Our Look! Check Out What's New on Your My Craftsy profile!
Now when you log into Craftsy, your member homepage looks a bit different. You can get the latest news on all your Craftsy activities more easily, and browse suggestions for things you might like to make next! This sleeker, more intuitive experience is designed to let you do more watching, learning, and interacting, and help you find classes, projects, and patterns tailored to your taste. Here's an overview of what's new:
My Craftsy: It's all about you! Each time you sign in, you'll receive a custom activity feed featuring class announcements, pattern updates, responses to discussion questions you've posted, comments from other members your projects and patterns, and more. All of these updates are based on classes you're enrolled in, patterns you've bought, and projects and patterns you've posted to the Craftsy community.
What's Hot: This is a personalized wall of classes, patterns, projects, and deals picked specifically for you. Suggestions are based on what you've enjoyed on our site, and what similar crafters also enjoy looking at, purchasing, and creating.
Public Member Profile: The new public profile for each member is a classy, professional way for other Craftsy members to get to know you as a crafter and for you to get to know other members of the community! It compiles patterns and projects that you've posted, users you're following, and your other social media sites all in one place, so visitors can learn more about you and check out what you've created. Seeing is believing… so check out the new public Craftsy profiles for a few members like Stefanie Japel, Linda Permann, and Carol Ann Waugh.
We hope you enjoy your new look and we're eagerly awaiting your feedback! Our site engineers are constantly working to improve the Craftsy website to make it an easy and rewarding place for you to find your next great project and class, and the best all-in-one crafting tool. Keep your eyes peeled for a wishlist for courses and workshops, and a shopping cart you can use to make one single purchase for all of your classes and deals.
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I really like the new look. Everything is neatly laid out and easy to find – especially for those who have signed up for a lot of classes!
I have been using the new look of Craftsy for several days now and I love it. There is so much info in one place it is just great and so easy to use. Once again to the Craftsy team, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Do you have a Craftsy app for the iPhone or iPad? I'm always wanting to upload pics from my iPod to Craftsy.
The new look is more intuitive to use. Thanks, Craftsy.
On my personal page is it possible to organize my classes into categories by craft type and store them in that manner?
Also, the shipping costs of a store item can no longer be found where it used to be. Where did it go?
I Like the new site format so much better now! Thank you, thank you for putting back the ability to mouse over each design and see the current and total sales. Very important!
I am very happy with the new shop format. Now only my own designs show in my shop, previously another crafter with the same last name shared my page. Thank you!
I'm liking the new look! So much easier to read. Good Job!
I love the new look. Easy to navigate, easy to see all your stuff and a great way to see at a glance the latest offerings by those you follow and those who have generously left comments on your own things. Well done Craftsy. Very innovative. Love to see the suggestions specifically for us as well as there are so many new classes coming out that you sometimes miss ones that are great for you. Again – well done Craftsy.
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Joaquin: Cristina, I'm sorry about Alex. She's only like that with you.
Chichay: It's okay. We should actually be thanking her, because of her I was able to meet you… and I also got a job.
Joaquin: Even if I didn't choose you [for the job], someone else would anyway. Because you're not just a very talented person. You're also very… very… likeable.
Chichay: Excuse me.
Joaquin: Likeable, ryan. Really? Likeable. You should have stopped at talented. What are you…
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At first you were just a simple girl who dream to be watched on tv, you joined and auditioned random roles but unfortunately they were not given to you, but the word GIVE UP did not even crossed your mind you still continue to strive hard and overcome whatever obstacles came through, until one day you were given an opportunity to be on a movie you were too happy and excited even if your role were just simple AN EXTRA, but then who would expect that an extra in the past will be given a full blast of fame now?
Kathryn Bernardo. Some people will recognize you as the Young Cielo, Young Jenny, or Young Victoria. But for us fans you were known as the little Kath who made us laugh and adore in Goin' Bulilit, the morena girl who has retainers on and sings like a pro in a darna costume, the little girl who randomly given smaller roles but affects viewers bigtime. One day you were given a major role, an opportunity to show the public that you can handle such project, for us it is your stepping stone to be the NEXT BIG THING. Do you remember the time that you were interviewed and asked 'Ano mas pipiliin mo? Maging SIKAT o maging MAGALING?' And you answered 'maging MAGALING.' you definitely nailed that question, why? because whats the used of being MASIKAT if your not GOOD at it, people will recognize you for your hardwork not by the fame that you were given. Once your good at your work, fame will just follow.
Now that you reached full blast of 10 years in showbiz, you were reigned as the TEEN QUEEN and the girl who captured the hearts of many not just your fans but people who will recognize your hardwork not only on tv/bigscreen but on your personal life as well, it is not easy to balance the life of fame and the life of a simple college girl. You are every parents dream kid, and always remember you are not just the other half of your loveteam you are KATHRYN BERNARDO, versatility wise you can handle showbiz on your own.
Wishing you all the best on your next 10 years and the upcoming next.. I am happy to be your fan, and I will always be proud of you no matter what. And you my dear will always be my Teen Queen. :)) Congratulations on your 10th year! 👏 I love you. hamwaaaaa!! :*** 💋💋
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For Immediate Release:Majority Caucus Louisville Metro CouncilContact: Tony Hyatt 574-4137/ 526-3622
Metro Councilwoman Vicki Aubrey Welch (D) 13 will be on hand to not only spread holiday cheer but help raise money for the Louisville Salvation Army.
"Many of us may have read about donations being down for this holiday season," says Welch. "The Salvation Army does important work all year around but they really need our help during the holiday season."
Welch will man a red kettle for the Salvation Army on Friday, December 14th from 2:00 to 3:00pm at the Wal-Mart at 175 Outer Loop.
Wal-Mart will match the final amount raised by Welch from the bell ringing up to $250.
"I am happy to do what I can to help any group that helps the less fortunate during this time of year," says Welch. "While I look forward to meeting people and thanking them for their generosity, I hope every one will take a moment to drop something other red kettles around Metro Louisville."Sponsor:Vicki Aubrey Welch (D) 13


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text: The Barbie Video Girl camera from Mattel gives Barbie a new job. She's a film-maker – literally. The doll appears to be a standard Barbie, but it has a lens hidden in her necklace, and there's a small color LCD screen and controls on her back. There's no technical details listed for the camera, but I'm betting it won't film in HD. The video camera is compatible with Windows and Mac. There's free video editing software that lets you add music, graphics, and special effects that works with Windows only. Order Barbie Video Girl for only $49.99.


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Should be noted that some wise man (Sam Johnson) said that if you were not radical till you were 40 there was something wrong with you and that if yo had not become conservative after 40 there was also something wrong with you.
If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart.And it's attributed to lots of different people.
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
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I'm not ignoring anything. I'm being pragmatic. I don't think a whole lot of thought was put into the Pandaran race until very recently. You're making Samwise out to be some sort of modern day Tolkien. I'm saying...he drew the pictures for fun (the first one was for his daughter and wasn't even meant to be seen by the rest of Blizz). He wasn't secretly constructing a deep lore for the Pandaren. No, whatever lore we're getting for the Pandaren was probably developed much more recently (i.e. whenever the lore team started working on the story for MoP).
And I'd love for you to educate me on the rich Panderan lore we already have access to. Lets see...they live on an island called Pandaria, they like beer and they have "brewmasters", and they once traded a with the night elves thousands of years ago. Wow, that is truly a rich tapestry of lore. The weaving stories and sub plots are enough to boggle the mind.


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1.1 This practice describes the procedures for renewal of potable water pipes by using polymers based on isocyanate chemistry, generally known as polyurethane and polyurea. This practice covers design considerations, material requirements, installation techniques, inspection, and testing required for potable water pipe. 1.2 This practice applies to pipes with a minimum diameter of 4 in. (10 cm). 1.3 Several material types and grades are described to suit specific diameter ranges and design specifications. No upper limit on pipe diameter is imposed because Type 1 lining described herein is not tied to structural performance. The recommended range for Type 2 is 4 to 12 in. (10 to 30.5 cm) and for Type 3 is 4 to 48 in. (10 to 122 cm). Material Grade 1 may be used for lining Types 1 and 3 while Grade 2 is limited to Type 2 linings. These recommended ranges apply to metallic pipes like cast iron, ductile iron, and steel. 1.4 If the liner is to be coated on a nonmetallic surface, organic or inorganic, then additional testing should be done to assess the viability of these materials to adhere or be compatible or both with that surface. 1.5 In general, these materials can be applied to a variety of metals and ceramic and organic surfaces. 1.6 The lining material shall be certified for usage with potable water by ANSI/NSF Standard 61 or equivalent with the Water Quality Association (WQA), Underwriters Laboratories (UL), or other recognized and experienced entities using the smallest pipe diameter for which they will be used. 1.7 Units-The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard. 1.8 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
This standard is needed for development and applications of new products in structural spray for pipeline renewals.
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People tend to write—and, thus, think—the most at the beginnings and endings of things. Whether that thing is a job, life, or education, the middle just isn't that interesting. At the beginning, we are filled with excitement over the newness of the experience and anticipation for its possibilities. Bursting with enthusiasm, we are eager to share about our new experiences with anyone who will listen.
I've certainly seen this with posts by students at NYU-Abu Dhabi. They post prolifically in the early days, but eventually their frequency deteriorates due to the inverse correlation between life and sharing. Still, as I contemplate attending college across halfway across the globe their posts help to make the prospect less remote.
Thus, I hope that by renewing my writing here and cataloguing the memories of my last
fiftyforty-four days at UWC-USA, I might be able to offer a similar resource to students (my zero-years!) contemplating this experience which I have lived and loved for the past two years.
Of course, writing here will also help me to reconcile that I have finally reached an ending. By reflecting on this amazing breakneck experience of the past two years, I hope to gain some insight into how exactly it has impacted me and where I see myself going from here. Hopefully, this might even help me to decide where to attend university.
I thus promise to be an endblogger, posting regularly on the resolution of my life and investigating the future through pontifications on the past.
Also, please excuse the current state of the blog. I actually wrote this post several days ago, but got sidetracked with trying to restore the previous technically-advanced site. Failing that, I'm shipping my writing with this minimum viable product until I find the time to make the blog beautiful again.
What follows is a poorly written exposition of my recent activity. If you're not in the mood for self-congratulatory bullshit, here's the gist: I made morgante.net. It's cool. It's me.
I made myself last month. Rather, I made the online version of myself: morgante.net. I'd been meaning to do this for months, but #sitesprint finally gave me the motivation to do so.
Before doing so, I created numerous designs, from the gaudy to the overly-subdued. One was entirely primary colors, another was pure black-and-white. With respect to the design, I feel I've reached the ideal equilibrium with respect to the Goldilocks Principle: interesting, but not garish.
As my online home on the web, it of course links to all my profiles on various sites (I have too many). Most notably, I've added a link to Lemnos, my lab. Its name comes from the island upon which the great engineer-god Hephaestus wrought his creations. Within the lab are all my various technical projects. Its powered by Habari and a plugin of my own devising. The project pages are almost entirely automated: metadata is extracted from the plugin source, downloads are built from the subversion repository, and support is powered by the Habari Forums. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with the result.
Back on my hub, I did my best to keep things jovial. Building a website entirely devoted to myself is inherently rather pompous, so I was sure to have a healthy dose of self-mockery. The about page is a tongue-in-cheek tale of my life, while the Twitter widget in the sidebar features my occasionally whimsical wordplay. Meanwhile, the contact page is fully AJAXified, using my AlienContact plugin.
In the future, I plan to have a fully integrated lifesteam, à la Sweetcron. It will have all my activity from various places around the web, in addition to random life achievement bits: school awards, projects I start, etc. — the idea is that I will be able to programmatically generate a resume from the data. Though I currently have something similar here, I would like to eliminate a lot of the superfluous material from Newy Ancient and move it to my hub. The next iteration of my blog will put my best content up front, while also integrating newer (short) link posts.
Stay tuned for more exciting things as I finally get some priorities straightened out. My goal is to write at least one article a week, when the hellish load of AP English allows it.
Tomorrow I leave for a month in Paris. I expect my Internet access to be limited, and won't be able to post — though I doubt it'd be noticeable if I didn't post this. I'll return July 28, upon which you can expect an increased post frequency as I sort out some priorities.
Au revoir, mes amis!
When I was younger, I thought history didn't matter. To me, history was a dusty land filled with dates, maps, and death rates. I thought the inhabitants of this land — historians — were old, dusty people who had nothing interesting to say.
In short, I confused history with historical societies.
I was, and am, a person driven by change (action) and, to an unhealthy extent, power. Technology and politics, my passions, both move at a breakneck pace and are always focusing on the future. To my naive self, history was entirely antithetical to my entire philosophy.1
As one might expect, school was at fault. School taught me to memorize dates and people.2 We almost never explored the context of these events; we never delved into the legacies of the leaders beyond the most basic level. Timelines made regular appearances, as did color-coded maps. All this memorization took up time, time which would have been better spent thinking.
Naturally, given this context, I felt that history was something to be avoided like the plague.3
Now, of course, I know better.
Once I got teachers who actually understood and enjoyed history, I was able to see beyond the numbers. I discovered that history wasn't a textbook or timeline, but a story, and a damn good story at that. With this discovery, I was able to find the joy of the past.
Not to go all philosophical on you, but the past really is the present.
Society evolves, but evolution involves a lot of repetition. Each iteration is almost exactly the same as the last, with only minor differences. A knowledge of that past iteration helps you to understand the current iteration — and the differences between the two.
Understanding — truly understanding — the world (politics, society, technology, etc.) is an extraordinarily difficult thing to do. Thankfully, we have the past to help us. With the wisdom of the past, we can more easily understand the present. Instead of having to draw an entirely new map of the world, we only need to draw a map of the new parts.
Almost every situation we encounter, somebody else has encountered before. Even when we can't see them, we're walking in someone's footsteps. Thankfully, that someone has probably already come up with a solution for or analysis of the situation. I am continuously reminded of this, whether in my daily Googling of technical problems or my comparisons between Palin and McCarthy. When it comes down to it, history is probably the most useful subject there is.
Sadly, far too many teachers get it wrong. Though I'm sure you're not one of them, you probably know some of them. History, more than any other subject, is really easy to get wrong.4 It is far too easy to get caught in the micro-history (who fought in what battle on what date?) and forget about the macro-history (why was he fighting?), especially because the micro-history is very easy to teach and test. Given this, it is no surprise that many history teachers don't teach history.
And every time it is a tragedy. When taught as a collection of dates, history loses its spark. A bad history teacher will — guaranteed — make history dull and lifeless. In other subjects, one can get by with a poor teacher and still enjoy it. History, more than any other subject, depends strongly on the quality of the teacher. A good history teacher5 will make even the most reluctant of students sit up in their chairs, but a bad history teacher will make even (or, especially) the future-historians start texting under the table. In no other class is this true: math people will always find
numbers mathematical language interesting, and some never will.6 The cost of a poor history teacher is great, but the benefits are superb: history gives students a framework to understand their world.
So please, remember to take the hi- off history.
Of course, at some point the "facts" do become important. The dates and names aren't entirely irrelevant, especially as one wishes to progress. To talk effectively and intelligently about the ideas, one must know the facts — especially if one aims to convince others. However, the ideas are indisputably more important — without them, history is pointless. Unfortunately, the ideas are generally only seriously discussed in the upper grades of high school and college. Up until then, the bare facts hold almost exclusive domain. By the time students reach the exciting parts of history, we have built a (false) image of history as boring and pointless — in fact, many never reach those discussions simply because they assume all history is as boring as 5th grade history. Even at the unit level, history is taught in the wrong order. Most teachers start with the bare facts and only touch on the bigger ideas near the end of a lesson. This should be reversed on both the micro and macro levels, with grand ideas being taught first to build interest and discussion. Only with the themes in place should the facts be taught, to supplement and reinforce those themes, leading to continued investigation. The primary focus of history should always be the story.
What do you think the proper order of history education is? Do you think schools need to focus more on the context of history?


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This is a very good recipe! I didn't use onion or mint. Also, instead of peeled mango, I used a can of tropical fruit mix. It was very good, but it didn't make a lot of salsa. Next time I may double the salsa recipe.
Jamaican Chicken with Mango Salsa
Becky Luigart-Stayner
Readers raved about the sweet 'n' spicy salsa that tops Jamaican jerk chicken. Make salsa up to two days ahead to save time in the kitchen.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 chicken breast half and about 1/2 cup salsa)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 244
- Calories from fat: 9
- Fat: 2.4g
- Saturated fat: 0.6g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.6g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.5g
- Protein: 39.8g
- Carbohydrate: 14.7g
- Fiber: 1.6g
- Cholesterol: 99mg
- Iron: 1.5mg
- Sodium: 445mg
- Calcium: 33mg
- 1/2 teaspoon Jamaican jerk seasoning (such as Spice Islands)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
- Cooking spray
- 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 (16-ounce) jar sliced peeled mango, drained and chopped (such as Del Monte SunFresh)
- Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle seasoning and 1/4 teaspoon of salt evenly over chicken. Coat chicken with cooking spray. Add chicken to pan; cook 4 minutes on each side or until done.
- While chicken cooks, combine 1/4 teaspoon salt, cilantro, and remaining ingredients. Serve salsa with chicken.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Thaddeus Young posted 23 points and 15 rebounds as the Philadelphia 76ers withstood a late push by the Sacramento Kings to take an 89-80 decision at Wells Fargo Center.
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Tyreke Evans scored a game-high 29 points for the Kings, who have dropped two straight and six of seven overall.
Isaiah Thomas had 24 points and DeMarcus Cousins contributed a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds in defeat.
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Categories: all Date: Jun 24, 2010 Title: PALLADIUM PRESENTS SiMON2 IPAD APPLICATIONFORT LAUDERDALE – June 24, 2010 – Today, Palladium Technologies announced the first alarm monitoring system for the new Apple iPad. The SiMON2 was designed to work exclusively on the iPad, and provides a fresh new look to the SiMON family of alarm monitoring systems.
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FORT LAUDERDALE – June 24, 2010 – Today, Palladium Technologies announced the first alarm monitoring system for the new Apple iPad. The SiMON2 was designed to work exclusively on the iPad, and provides a fresh new look to the SiMON family of alarm monitoring systems.
Palladium designed the SiMON2 to be a self-contained system for smaller yachts, providing much of the functionality of the larger SiMON, but with a brand new user interface. The first Palladium Apple product, iSiMON is a remote extension of SiMON. SiMON2 now takes much of Palladium's development experience with the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch to a much higher level. Navigation between screens is based upon the new icon-driven dashboard, which uses the swipe, multi-touch technology of the Apple iPad. This version includes the integration of cameras and lighting control within the SiMON2 alarm monitoring system.
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BOSTON (CBS) – The news just keeps getting worse in Boston. This time, it appears one of the Red Sox few bright spots is headed to the DL.
A Major League source tells WBZ-TV's Dan Roche that Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks has a broken right wrist after getting hit Friday night by a pitch in the 9th inning.
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I like these cookies alot but in our scholl they made them with no chocolate they almost tasted like butterscotch. If anyone has that recipe I would love to have it.
No-Bake Chocolate-Oatmeal Cookies
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Shape a sweet mixture of oats, peanut butter, coconut and cocoa into balls and let them set up on sheet of wax paper before serving. No oven required for these delicious chocolate-oatmeal cookies.
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- 2 cups quick-cooking oats, uncooked
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- 2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
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- Combine oats, peanut butter, coconut, cocoa, and vanilla, mixing well; set aside.
- Combine sugar, milk, and butter in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Pour over reserved oat mixture; quickly stir to mix well.
- Immediately drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper-lined baking sheets; let cool. Carefully remove from waxed paper to serve.
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Economic Integration, Factor Mobility, and Wage Convergence
AbstractThis paper studies the effect of economic integrationof two regions on the mobility of skilled and unskilled workersacross regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity.In particular, we study what happens when wages in both regionsare set by the unions of the 'West'—the region with agreater initial relative stock of human capital. We show thatunder some circumstances, it is the interest of the West's unionsto set up a speed of wage convergence greater than equilibrium,thus generating unemployment in the East. This slows the migrationof human capital toward the East, but quickens the migrationof raw labor toward the West. A greater share of economic activityis eventually located in the Western region. Unions in the Westwill benefit from this provided human capital has low migrationcosts relative to raw labor. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997
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- Saint-Paul, G., 1997. "Economic Integration, Factor Mobility, and Wage Convergence," DELTA Working Papers 97-01, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure).
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Advice For Newcastle Trip
Leave extra time for search procedures at St James'.
Everton officials are requesting supporters travelling to Newcastle United on Saturday afternoon to arrive earlier than usual due to searching procedures that will be undertaken on entry to the stadium.
St James' Park is a venue for next summer's Olympics and there is a requirement from LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) to carry out a number of test events to trial their search capability prior to the start of the games.
It means all of the visiting Everton supporters will be searched at each of the six away turnstiles (numbers 89-94), to the standard required for the Olympic football events at St James' Park in 2012.
This will include a meet and greet away from the turnstiles where supporters will be required to empty their possessions into a A4 sized plastic bag prior to a full search at the turnstiles.
Bag searches will ushered to one side to prevent any backlog and travelling female Evertonians will be channelled into a separate lane.
There will be crowd control barriers under the crowd corridor to direct supporters to the search area and additional signage will be in place.
There will be two search stewards for each turnstile in addition to the stewards at the meet and greet area explaining the search procedure prior to fans entering the stadium.
Amnesty bins for alcohol will be provided away from the turnstiles to allow supporters to dispose of any cans or bottles. Persons found with prohibited articles (drugs, weapons, fireworks etc) will be liable to arrest.
Please note the home supporters entering the turnstiles adjoining the away entry gates are also being subjected to search.
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fiercefatfeminist said: Hey! I just found your blog and I love it! Im 18 and my senior prom is coming up in may. I have racked my brain trying to find something to do with my hair ! its about 5 inches long, long enough to put in a small bun. I considered getting a weave for the night but I really want to rock my natural hair. Do you have any ideas? Please im desperate!
updos updos updos! prom and formal events just screeeeam updo to me, and there are lots of awesome updos you can do with natural hair. now i cant visualize what 5 inches of hair looks like (my spatial recognition skills are nearly nonexistent), but i'm sure that if you can get it in a small bun, you can get a cute updo going.
head to google and see what you can find; if you can't find an exact one you like, you can probably find some inspiration. here's a cute one i found at curlynikki, and here's one of my faves i found on youtube (here's my attempt at it). seek and ye shall find! i'd love to see pics!
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Hello and welcome to this tutorial from adobenicnacs.tk. And in this tutorial, we're going to be continuing with our solar system scene. And now, we got all of our planets out the way. What we're going to be doing is starting to put them all into one final piece. So as usual, there's a lot to get through in very little time. So let's crack right on.
So first things first, I'm just going to close—I'm going to actually leave it out for now. Then up here, I've got my solar system folder and then I'll be going to planets and then to Photoshop documents. I'm just going to highlight all of them and drag them to Photoshop. We're just to going to give them a bit of time to open and there we go, we have all of them, so we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, so we all have all 5 in total.
So now, what we need to do is we're going to create a new file, and it's going to be a larger wallpaper preset. I'm going to press OK and we're going to invert the colors of the background by holding CTRL-I and then we're going to save it out straightaway. We go to file, "save as" in to solar system. And this time, we're going to go into complete piece into Photoshop documents. We're going to save this as "complete_one.psd" and then save this out. And no, we're not prompted the maximum compatibility, so that's fine.
Now, what we need to do is we're going to bring in each of our planets. And what we want to do is we'll start with the gas planet. And first, what we want to do is we're just going to put this into a group, so it'll help us deal with them later, even though it's only one layer, so hold CTRL-G and we'll call this "Gas Planet." And then using our move tool, we're just going to drag this. See, I'm not used to Photoshop CS4. Alright, if we just drag this one out here, we can then go into the gas planet and drag this into here. And then, what we'll do is we're going to our next one, the Grilled Planet. Group this up, our two groups, and we'll call this "Grilled Planet," drag this in, then we'll grab our Ice Planet and this planet, we name it "Ice Planet." Drag it in until into all of the planet and group this "All Planet". Bring it in, and then into the "Earth Planet," group that, Earth Planet and drag it in. And I'm just going to maximize this now. Actually, we'll minimize that and we'll just put it back in our tabs.
Okay, so now we've got a whole lot of files, and see you all the groups have gone inside each other, so you can just drag them out, get them out of there. So the first one we're going to do is if we look back at our final piece—in fact, we can close up the rest of these windows because we don't need them now. It's just prompting us to save because we grouped them, but we don't need to really. And as you can see, the first planet we had was our "all Black Planet." So what we'll probably do is—actually, we won't do any of that, so we'll just going to hide all of these. First things first, we're going to create new layer. We're going to set this to black because I won't be able to switch them around. Then we hold ALT, press backspace and fill this layer with black.
Now, this doesn't look like anything has happened, but that's only because the background is black anyway. So in this layer, and if you just jump back here, then we'll go to filter and we'll render a lens blur. And what we want to do is just stick this up here, play with the brightness a bit maybe, and then we'll just press OK with that. That's fine. So now, we've got our sun. In fact, let's call it sun. And then we start out with all the planet because we know that one goes first, and you can see our Earth planet still stuck inside there. Just bring that out and then the turn the visibility of the layer off, open up all planets to the bottom and then we'll just hold CTRL-T, and we'll just hold SHIFT-ALT and drag a corner to shrink it from the center, just get down here.
And then, we'll switch on our next one, which we'll go back here. It doesn't actually matter what you do, but just stick to the original. We'll do exactly as the original looked. There's the gas planet. Let me just check that because it didn't respond in the last ten seconds. Make sure you choose the group, hold CTRL-T, SHIFT-ALT dragging from the center, a bit bigger than our last one. You'll take the scene even further and then we'll just move out all planets and take that even a bit more. Just drag this into position.
The next was our Grilled Planet, so I'll switch that on, CTRL-T. Now, as you can see, we've already got a problem, and that these parts here are slightly transparent but it's an easy fix to do. We just go inside our Grilled Planet, take this layer and we duplicate it by holding CTRL-J. Because there's two of it, it has lots of—let's say 50% opacity, which you could choose 100%. So there you go, problem fixed. So we shrink the group in and then we hold CTRL-T, SHIFT-ALT, drag and then shrink it into size.
Then the Earth Planet, make sure you are on the Earth Planet there before moving it. I'll hold CTRL-T, SHIFT-ALT drag it just like the first time. And then what we're going to do here is we'll just select all these layers, CTRL-click the ice planet because we haven't chosen that one, and just move them down slightly. Then click on the Ice Planet layer then we want to make sure this one is at the very top.
Now we actually want to scale this one up. And there we go, so let me move that one up a bit and then you can just highlight all the group then call it Planets, and just move them to roughly where you want. And then what you may want to do is desaturate them all, so what we'll do here is we'll duplicate the group by holding right click duplicate and we'll call this Planets Copy. We'll turn off the main Planets one and then we should be able to right click and choose merge group, so that's all one of our full image, so that means we can now, if necessary, desaturate it slightly so it's turning the image.
It's up to you if ever you want to do this. I'm going to desaturate only slightly. Let's try minus 10 and then increase the brightness a tiny bit. So before and after, it's not necessarily necessary, right? That was weird, but—it's not necessary, but it can provide an extra look to your photo.
So that's pretty much it, to be honest. If I just check this, all that we have left to do is add the signature. So if you have a signature—I didn't now, so I'm just going to see if I can find lines somewhere on my system,. I'll just import it from the old one. All we have to do, just drag this layer, actually bring this one out first and drag my signature in, drag it back into the taskbar or the tab bar, bring it down here, and we're done!
So if we just compare the two, they are both different angles, size, but they're all slightly different and each one will come out slightly different every time we try, which is quite nice. So lucky to say, we're finished.
I really hoped you've enjoyed this entire series and I've enjoyed filming it, I'm sure. So, other quick thing, I want to thank everyone so far who has beta tested my new site. There's a video on that, so that's another quick thanks. But I could say I really hope you've enjoyed the series. Please comment, rate and subscribe to my videos and all the videos in this series. I really appreciate it, every comment you write, I really, really appreciate it. I can't tell you how much I do. Hopefully, I should have some After Effects tutorials up. That's all I've got left to say really, so that's something to looking forward to. But other than that, thanks for watching!
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Chattanooga, please do something good with your beautiful old YMCA building. (What happened to these plans, I wonder?)
Last week I spent a few days bumming around small towns in middle Georgia on a meandering reporting trip where one of the only must-do's was visiting both of the Yesterday Cafes that claim to have the best buttermilk pie in the state. This one was superior. But the other one looked just like it.
Knoxville! Your downtown is lovely and I am ashamed it took me so long to realize this! Thank you for the surprise existence of your Tupelo Honey outpost and all the puppies at Market Square yesterday and for keeping the Tennessee Theater intact and for Rhythm & Blooms working whatever magic was needed to get The Everybodyfields back together for one night, confirming that after all these years of making me cry they can still make me cry. I had forgotten how that happens, actually. It wasn't until the house lights dimmed, they walked onto the stage and opened with "By Your Side" and I startled myself by bursting into tears that I considered whether or not it was prudent to apply non-waterproof mascara that morning. Fortunately Maybelline makes some budgeproof eyegoop because I cried and cried and then cried more. Have I ever said, "This band is my favorite band"? It's weird that I'm not sure if I have or not. But they are.
Saturday dusk on the Beltline.
The old Kodak lab on Ponce and Argonne is one of my favorite old buildings in Atlanta and for the first time last night I was stopped in just the right spot at the corresponding red light to take a photo. (I suppose there's a certain amount of irony, or something, in posting the shot to Instagram.) As of last year the whole building, including the neighboring Atlanta Eagle, was for sale, but I don't know what came of it. I live in fear of coming upon the building one day and seeing the storefront being painted over, the sign being dismantled, the block being readied for one of those parking garages Atlanta developers seem to love so well.
This cat lives on the Beltline, has its own mailbox and is named Piper. (If anyone knows anything else about this beautiful thing, please share! Google doesn't seem to know much.) (Also it took me too long to realize the cat was probably named after the culvert pipe it [apparently] hangs around the mouth of all day.)
The General Muir is open now and Atlanta/my life/the world is better for it. In addition to the lox platter from which the above beauty was assembled, Joe and I split an order of poutine and YES we added chopped pastrami and YES it was the best choice I have made in a long time, foodwise or otherwise. This place is going to give me five hundred heart attacks and they will all be TOTALLY WORTH IT. Also I am trying not to take so many photos of food lately, but it seemed like a crime not to document this thing. I mean. It's almost sexual. Not so when I began again to eat it—then it was just a total mess—but just look at that thing. Guttural noises. Uunf.
OK. This is better.
Come on, October. I expect this from January, maybe December, possibly even November—but you? I mean, seriously. What's up, dude? You got something you wanna talk about? Really, I'm here for you. Let's get this sorted out. Because right now my soul is dying and I am feeling like you do not even care.
Every morning.
Oh, I forgot to tell you about the friends I made in Nashville last week.