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Brussels 29 March 2007
Commission to extend hair dye assessment in view of new data on sensitisation
The Scientific Committee on Consumer Products (SCCP) draws the Commission's attention, in a memorandum published today, to the fact that many of the hair dye substances currently used in hair dye products have the potential to cause skin sensitisation. A person sensitised to a hair dye substance may eventually develop skin allergy to this substance. In order to fully assess the safety implications of the memorandum findings for consumers the inherent sensitising properties of these substances and the real life exposure of consumers (frequency of use, amounts used, proportion of the population potentially affected, types and severity of effects, etc) must be considered. Today, there is little systematic data on the occurrence of allergies among hair dye users. However, given the large increase in the use of hair dye products over the last ten years, the report warns of a potential problem for the health of consumers. The Commission is aware of the problem and already in 2003 has agreed with member states and stakeholders on a strategy striving for a positive list of hair dyes substances to be allowed for use in the EU. In this context the categorisation of these substances according to their sensitising properties by the SCCP provides valuable input to this exercise. Based on the memorandum, the Commission services will now extend their assessment in order to minimise possible risks of allergic reactions caused by hair dyes.
Meglena Kuneva, Commissioner for Consumer Protection, said: "Product safety goes to the heart of consumer policy – it is the number one concern. The job of the scientific committee is to draw the Commission's attention to potential safety concerns. The Commission will follow the scientific advice and work quickly to provide the necessary next step of assessment of exposure".
Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health, pointed out that hair dyes are among the most popular aesthetic products in Europe. "In view of the findings of this report and the increased use of hair dyes in recent years, we need an in-depth assessment of the prevalence of hair dye allergies in the population."
The SCCP has assessed and ranked the skin sensitizing potency of 46 hair dye substances. The Memorandum draws the Commission's attention to the fact that a considerably high proportion of these substances are skin sensitizers; 10 out of 46 substances were found to be extreme sensitizers, 13 strong and 4 moderate. Given the widespread use of hair dyes, sensitization caused by these substances may affect the health of EU citizens.. Sensitization is the process through which an individual develops the ability to react to substances that are generally tolerated. Once sensitized, the person can develop allergic reaction upon re-exposure to the substance.
Growing popularity
There is a social and cultural demand for hair dying at an increasingly earlier age. According to a recent Danish epidemiological study, the median age for the first hair dyeing is only 16 years.
Allergenic substances may be used safely if exposure is sufficiently low. Models are being developed to address this aspect of risk assessment of skin safety. The aim is to determine levels of these substances that can be safely used in products without causing skin allergies to consumers.
EU action
Following the SCCP opinion on a possible link between the long term use of permanent hair dyes and the development of bladder cancer, the Commission together with Member States and stakeholders agreed in 2003 on an overall strategy to further regulate hair dyes within Cosmetics Directive (76/768/EEC). The main element of this strategy is a three step modulated approach requiring the industry to submit safety data by certain deadlines on hair dyes to be evaluated by the SCCP. The deadline for hair dyes for which no safety files have ever been submitted was 30 September 2003. Submission of safety files according to the new SCCP requirements was required until the 31 July 2005. The deadline for submission of files on combination of substances in permanent hair dye formulations is set on 31 December 2007. The strategy foresees to ban all permanent and non-permanent hair dyes for which no safety files have been submitted or for which the SCCP gives a negative opinion. In this context, the sensitization properties have been also assessed.
Further implementation of the assessment strategy and further epidemiological studies are necessary to examine the extent of skin allergies to hair dyes in the EU's population. At the same time threshold values for sensitizers of high concern need to be determined to take appropriate measures on a possible decrease of exposure.
In the last years the Commission adopted several regulatory measures with a view to minimize possible allergic reactions to certain substances used in perfumes and as preservatives in cosmetic products. The substances are regulated in the annexes to the Directive 76/768/EEC on cosmetic products.
Work of the SCCP
The SCCP is an independent advisory body established by the Commission. Its members are chosen on the basis of scientific excellence and they advise the Commission on the health risk of consumer products.
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I've read with interest some of the very informative threads for Sony BVH machines and its prompted me to reach out and pose my current dilemma and see if the knowledgable folks here can shed some light on it.
I have a BVH-3100P machine that has just had a spare head assembly put into it - the machine is working for except for two main faults with the servo or tension.
Fault 1: If you rewind fast, tension is lost and chaos happens (tape spills, snaps etc) - stuff of nightmares!
Fault 2: In Jog mode, when going back and forth (ie slow mo) the tape will randomly slap/bounce about on the last guide before the take up reel as seen in this video here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1vlmbiieyn79t ... 9.mp4?dl=0
It doesnt quite get bad enough for it to shut down, but you can hear the tape sometimes flailing as it bounces..surely that cant be normal..however...
...I then compared all the other "good" machines, and they seem very similair, but if anything I'd say this one does it worse. The thing is it can be random, at times not doing it, then try again and it does it quite bad.
Playback does not seem to result in tension issues or even shuttling slowly - it only seems to be when it gets up speed in rewind that disaster happens.
(I've not tried FF yet!)
With the BVH3100 its pretty much all internal menus via the keypad and writing things to NVRAM - I've performed the motor torque tests but initially
torque self tests failed for the take up motor, it should read between 63-65, but never gots over 57/58 ( by comparison a "good" machine gives around 63 on the test) also brake torque is not within spec either, but nor does it seem to be on a "good machine". I have been told this is not critical for now.
So, i swapped the entire take up motor and associated assembly, this time the torque test/s ran by the book and passed, and settings were updated. However this did not cure any of the problems
I swapped all boards, such as SV90, SY103, etc and also tried changing the reel motor and other boards inside, but none results in any change to the issue at hand.
All capacitors through the machine (except for the audio board) have been replaced (big job!).
Another suggestion was it could be down to a malfunctioning or out of alignment tension arm (there is only one on a BVH-3100), but to perform the test and alignment it appears i need this test jig below http://www.i-service-solutions.com/shopexd.asp?id=8153
Which of course cant be obtained anymore!. So again I appeal to any techs out there who may have a Sony service kit, or the tension alignment post & weight, to get in touch!, even if i can just borrow it to rule out if it is the problem or not.
I am confused as to why what i call "the tape slapping problem" on the last guide seems to happen across all the machines to some extent. I questioned if this was normal, but not knowing the long term service history of the other machines its possible they are out of spec as well.
But, if it is a tension arm issue, why does only this machine spill tape on fast shuttle/rewind - is this a separate problem? - or is it related to the tape slapping issue that when it gets enough out of spec, it may progress to the tape spilling issue on the other machines also?
The only way i think to really know what the problem is, is by obtaining that tension arm alignment jig/set and seeing it it cures all !
What are your thoughts? It seems the bulk of techo's out there only have experience with the BVH-2000's, but i am hoping someone out there knows the 3100's inside out and can assist!
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Market Commentary - 3.17.14
March Madness has officially begun — that time of year when we complete our NCAA tournament brackets. The lessons learned from past NCAA tournaments may apply to your investments. In March Madness, the goal is to the pick the winner of each basketball game for each round of the tournament. The 64 teams in the tournament are seeded from #1 to #16 for each of the four main regions. The four strongest teams are seeded #1 and the four weakest teams are seeded #16. Relative team strength helps to fill in the seedings between #1 to #16. While the top seeds are the strongest teams and tend to reach the finals, upsets do occur when a so-called "Cinderella story" team advances beyond expectations. When completing NCAA brackets, astute fans tend to emphasize top seeds though they will mix in some occasional "Cinderellas." Or in other words, they will diversify their final picks. Diversifying final picks also applies to investing in today's market environment. As we have noted in previous market commentaries, we expect the combination of a normalization of monetary policy (i.e. the Federal Reserve undertaking "tapering" to reduce quantitative easing), a gradual pickup in business spending, and an economic recovery continuing outside the U.S., to result in a gradually rising global GDP growth rate. In this environment, our four top seed "investments" or market opportunities include:
However, just like adding upsets to your March Madness bracket, it is prudent to add smaller "Cinderella story" investments to your portfolio. "Cinderella story" investments are those that are not likely to fully benefit from our economic and market forecast, but instead these investments offer exposure in case the unexpected occurs. For example, some "Cinderella story" investments include the following:
Overall, our top seed investments are those that we believe have the strongest chance of winning in the current market environment. However, just like your NCAA tournament bracket, there is no guarantee that these top seeds will pan out and it is therefore prudent to sprinkle some "Cinderella story" investments into your diversified portfolio. Just like a last-second game winning three-pointer, a phantom foul call, or lackluster play from a top basketball player, there could be many market surprises this year.
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- "The California Assembly passed a bill that would oblige state utilities to get a third of their energy from renewable sources by 2020." Governor Brown signed this update on earlier, similar laws.
- Farmers and others are setting up big projects to meet this artificial boost in demand.
The second dot belongs to the beneficiaries of big new projects for renewables. By current statistics, total capacity is about 63,000 MW. Of this, 420 solar projects have a capacity of 20,600 (about 30%) and 300 wind projects have a capacity of 23,700 (about 35%).
So we can see that current and future conditions will favor solar and wind projects that will need LOTS of space from people who own land. These facts lead me to the conclusion that farmers with useless land (due to loss in fertility or water or salting) are going to benefit from this government mandate. Seems like another case of baptists (environmentalists) helping out the bootleggers (unsuccessful farmers) via government subsidies.
Bottom Line: "Do the right thing" regulations that mandate behavior generate money for special interests.
H/Ts to DL and DW
* For a comprehensive overview of solar in the southwest, read this Miller-McCune article, which helpfully points out that rooftop solar can be more efficient than huge arrays in remote places.FYI, I'm NOT a fan of feed-in tariffs to promote solar. They are the reason why Germany (NOT a sunny place) is covered in solar (is Jersey far behind?). Better to price carbon into ALL power sources and then let market forces determine where and how to install solar. But THAT solution will not please lobbyists and special interests :(


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She's not alone. Yes, even kids raised in today's digital age respond to Harpo. In fact, there's another beloved entertainer who also elicits a similar response: Louis Armstrong. Day in and day out, school groups visit the Louis Armstrong House Museum and students from kindergarten to college walk away enchanted by Louis. What is it about Harpo and Louis that they still have this effect?
Well, for one thing both men was revered as near-saints offstage and I think audiences still admire them for being genuinely nice people. You really can't find a bad word about either man. They're also as funny as can be. For Harpo, one of the greatest comedians of all time, that's a given, but for Louis, that was something critics beat him up for for decades. "He's supposed to be an artist! Why is he making these jokes and funny faces?" Because Louis knew there was more than one way to be an entertainer and as he once put it, if his audience "is going to get a little laugh, I'm going to get one to!"
Still, critics called Louis a "clown" as if it was a derogatory thing, something he responded to beautifully late in life, telling Max Jones, "Critics in England say I was a clown, but a clown, that's hard. If you can make people chuckle a little; it's happiness to me to see people happy, and most of the people who criticize don't know one note from another." I've long said it's harder to make people laugh and nail a punchline with impeccable timing than it is to play high notes on a trumpet. Louis excelled at both but was only lauded for one of those gifts.
But both men also exhibited a sense of pathos that could make you cry when you least expect it. Some folks probably roll their eyes when Harpo pulls out the harp in the middle of the lunacy of the Marx Brothers but I always find those moments very emotional. Louis, too, could quickly go from giving audiences tears of laugher followed by tears of beauty in a matter of seconds.
Three quick examples. In A Night at the Opera, Harpo approaches a piano and proceeds to goof around with it (especially with its stool), making the kids in attendance literally scream with laughter. And then he sees his Harpo, gives it a passionate glance and plays such a beautiful rendition of "Alone," I had tears in my eyes when I showed it to my daughter for the first time last month:
And for Louis, I've written two blogs in the past about the glorious 1933 record "Laughin' Louie," stating that if you want to boil the complete Louis Armstrong Experience to about 210 seconds, this is the one I'd choose over avowed masterpieces like "West End Blues" because it has the comedy element. Louis and his friends are high as a kite in the first half of the record, as they do their own version of "The OKeh Laughing Record" but then Louis announces "the beautiful part" and plays an unaccompanied passage that, as Gary Giddins has written, could "make angels weep." From laughing to crying in three minutes. That's Louis. That's Harpo.
And of the 1947 Town Hall version of "Rockin' Chair," I've called it one of the great moments in western civilization and I stand by that. Louis and Jack Teagarden simply radiate love from the first note they sing but they're also really funny; the laughter in the audience is the type that just has to come out, it cannot be suppressed. And once you're exhausted from laughing, Bobby Hackett plays an emotional call to arms, Sid Calett starts unleashing his backbeats and Louis plays such a passionate ending, it always leaves me in a heap (I played this for my "Music of Louis Armstrong" course at Queens College last month and couldn't speak afterwards):
There's more parallels between Louis and the Marx Brothers. Louis is high as a kite and blowing like a wild man in 1933, 1934. The Marx Brothers are indulging in their most absurd comedies. Both are released from their contracts but in 1935, Louis signs with Decca and the Marxes sign with MGM. Both are taught to tone it down a hair to make it more palatable to a wider audience while still retaining the essence of their genius. Louis responds with "Shoe Shine Boy" and "Swing That Music." The Marxes respond with A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races. Home runs all around.
I don't think Harpo ever spoke of Louis and I've never seen Louis speak of Harpo but the two giants did team up for a 1961 episode of The Chevy Show titled "Swingin' at the Summit" and also featuring Kay Starr, Tony Bennett and George Shearing. You can watch the complete show on YouTube:
It's a fun slice of early 60s TV but for me, the best thing to come out of it are these two photos. In one, Louis and Harpo are their naturally joyous selves:
In the other, they switch roles....and still make me laugh.
Bless you, Harpo. Bless you, Satchmo. They'll both live forever, making kids and adults both laugh and weep and feel good about humanity, even if just for a few minutes.


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At one of the northernmost points of Interstate 25 sits a small statutory town heralding itself as "The Northern Gateway". This is as apt a description as any for Wellington, a small town with a big community spirit. Content to be a bedroom community to its large neighbor Fort Collins, Wellington also sits close to Cheyenne, Wyoming and continues the tradition begun in the 1800s of being a favored stopover point for travelers between the two.
Determined stargazers also claim it as a favorite destination, along with those accessing the Roosevelt National Forest. Hometown of Supreme Court Justice Byron White, the town gained further notoriety when the remains of a woolly mammoth were discovered in 2000.
Celebrating the birth of our nation is a community wide endeavor in Wellington. The Fourth of July festivities begin at a pancake breakfast, moving on to live music and an enthusiastic, patriotic parade, and culminating in a spectacular fireworks display in the evening.


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The Silberhorn is a four star hotel with 70 twin and single rooms, situated right in the centre of Wengen. As soon as you arrive you will be struck by the outstanding features of our hotel, and seeing as we are only a few paces from the station you will have no problems finding us. The hotel's facilities include two restaurants, bar, disco dancing, children's play room (not supervised), sauna, hairdresser, shop and ski equipment rental - all under one roof. This is the ideal starting point for your excursions.
The Wengener Hof is one of the most venerable hotels in the world-famous Summer and Winter resort of Wengen. This first class hotel is equipped with 40 twin and single rooms. We are a member of the Silence-hotels partnership, which features comfortable buildings of character and individuality to satisfy the needs of charm, beauty and authenticity in a natural and peaceful environment. Feel at home when you stay with us. Our spacious and well-appointed rooms offer all bath, toilet, cable TV, radio, direct-dial phones, safe and minibar. Meal plan: buffet breakfast and 5-course dinner.
The Beausite Park Hotel is gorgeous! Slightly above the village center of Wengen, in a park environment in the most beautiful and tranquil location. Breathtaking is the view of the Jungfrau and the surrounding mountains. You reach the village center and the station of the mountain railway on foot. With the Wengen-Männlichen aerial cableway you hover within a few minutes to the skiing and hiking paradise "Männlichen - Kleine Scheidegg". In winter the children's and beginner's ski practice area in front of the hotel.
The Belvedere hotel is a three star hotel, rich in traditions. It was built in 1912 and consist of five floors and 60 rooms. The hotel is just five minutes walking distance from the train station (funiculare to Kleine Scheidegg) and the cable railway Männlichen. The rooms are equipped with a bath or shower, toilet, radio, TV and a direct dial phone. Our hotel is family friendly. After a day spent on a ski-run or on hiking you can enjoy the unique and relaxing atmosphere of our lounge with the cosy fire place on cold winter evenings.
Hotel Schonegg, in the Bernese Oberland, opened in 1903 and was one of the first hotels in Wengen to have running water or a phone system that allowed calls from the bedrooms. It was bought by Family Dequeker and has since enjoyed an extensive renovation inside and out – as well as the addition of the Jungfrau Suite on the top floor, a new sauna, wine cellar a dry waterbed massage. The hotel is situated perfectly on the main road of Wengen, a 5 minute-walk from the train station and 2 minutes from the cable car. The hotel is popular with repeat guests and has some of the most spectacular views of the Jungfrau Mountain and the surrounding scenery.


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Information Density, Mathematical Identity, Set Stores and Big Data
Performance when executing queries for transactions and analytics remains a universal concern for those supporting data warehousing, high-volume web sites, business intelligence and cloud computing. One factor has been growth and the sheer volume of data being stored and retrieved puts a strain on computing resources. The term Big Data has become a convenient handle to label software that operates with very large data sets and the data access technology that's necessary.Two of my previous blog postings discussed David Childs' work on extended set theory (XST) providing a mathematical foundation for managing data. Extended sets could be an important solution to the data management challenges of Big Data applications.
Childs' research has focused on a mathematical identity for data and the use of mathematical expressions for behavior. The desirability of an algebraic approach for operations with various data types has been explored by other notable researchers. David J. DeWitt and Scott L. Vanderberg of the University of Wisconsin published "Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance".
DeWitt and Vanderberg describe a viable algebraic query processor for an advanced data model, with databases of "completely arbitrary structure, multisets, arrays ... and a form of object identity that allows (but does not force) any part of a structure to have identity separate from its value."
SQL databases emerged as a result of applying set theory to data management, but using data operations on sets doesn't tie us to the relational model. For example, data types such as graphs and rings are defined as sets with various properties. The operating method for users of a CODASYL network model database is to define set ownership and membership and then traverse through links when accessing data.
Extended set theory is an augmentation of classical set theory. Instead of set operations with ordered pairs, extended set theory involves operations with n-tuples. In a seminar at Microsoft Research, Childs expressed this as
"In extended set theory, n-tuples are just sets with integer scopes (superscripts on element values)."
Today Big Data and scalability have captured the imagination of system architects and database designers. Web sites such as Facebook and Flicker present a unique scalability challenge, but many organizations are doing analytics with gigabyte-sized and larger data sets. Sharding, a process that distributes rows for a single table across multiple partitions, has been used for very large web databases with high transaction volumes. This partitioning and distribution of data across multiple servers permits the use of a shared-nothing architecture to provide scalability.
Techniques for partitioning data have become an area of interest for database designers and system architects. Besides sharding, other approaches include hash partitioning, range partitioning and list partitioning but extended set theory can play a role.
The advantage of the Childs' set-theoretic data model is it enables us to model data at a logical level and dynamically restructure it to match query requirements. Childs describes this advantage of extended set theory as adapting the data to the query instead of adapting the query to the data. That means a query can operate with an informationally-dense data set, requiring fewer I/O operations to deliver excellent performance against gigabyte-sized data sets, such as those generated for the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-H queries.
Benchmarks have shown extended set theory offers some performance advantages when processing large data sets. Indeed some of the execution times for decision-support queries have been startling when compared to IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
Many researchers and developers concerned about Big Data and cloud computing scalability have accepted Brewer's CAP Theorem and the need for partitioning data for performance reasons. XST treats all data representations as mathematical objects and provides a mathematical foundation for operations with data that's been partitioned.
Analytics and business intelligence typically produce longer-running queries than a online transaction processing (OLTP) mix, but performance and response times can still be an issue, particularly with complex ad hoc queries. A sharding scheme may provide efficiency for OLTP but it can induce a performance penalty if a complex query spans partitions.
Childs' XST might prove to be an important tool for addressing data partitioning problems, assuming more developers and architects are willing to investigate a mathematical foundation for managing data. That was done by a generation of developers and architects who accepted Codd's relational model and the SQL databases that followed.
Childs has been researching set-theoretic operations for decades and most recently published "Set-Store Data Access Architectures". It compares mechanical and mathematical data models and explores column-store, row-store and set-store architectures. The paper explains a benefit of mathematical data access strategies:
" 9.3 Mathematical DAMs Since with mathematical data models updating is always a constructive process and no modifications to existing data are required, the only database design concern is to make sure all data required to support application data access requirements, is that all the data is actually loaded.
9.4 DAM Strategies This is not meant to imply that use of mathematical data models do not require considerable work and design intelligence to support high performance I/O data access, but only that the effort is less predictive and more adaptive in nature."
Childs has said the recent paper is ";an attempt to remedy forty years of set-theoretic obfuscation.";
One wonders whether this will re-kindle interest in data management based on a mathematical foundation or whether there's simply more energy going into building something new based on different objectives.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison quite succinctly summed up the problem of capturing and sustaining mindshare for technology:
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
It will be interesting to watch whether set-store data access architectures become high fashion for processing large data sets.
Part 1: "Sets, Data Models and Data Independence"
Part 2: "Laying the Foundation" It will be interesting to watch whether set-store data access architectures become high fashion for processing large data sets.


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Congress dithers on the economy
When the latest sign of a troubled economy emerged last week, Congress had a ready response: Nothing.
The same week that new data came out showing the U.S. economy shrank nearly 3 percent in the first quarter, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced plans to sue President Barack Obama for abusing his executive authority. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), meanwhile, garnered headlines for denouncing the name of Washington's football team. Both chambers then went into an 11-day recess.
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The reaction at the White House wasn't much stronger. Officials there bashed Republicans, and then argued the overall economy is doing just fine now.
The collective shrug highlights Washington's inability — or unwillingness — to make bipartisan deals that would assist Americans still struggling to recover from the 2008 economic collapse. For instance, congressional leaders have been unable to reach an agreement to revive expired jobless benefits for millions of people who have spent an extended amount of time out of work.
( Also on POLITICO: Lawmakers turn to stealth tax measures)
Of course, that inertia isn't tanking the economy, and the outlook could be improving despite discord in Congress. The economy added 288,000 jobs in June, a stronger than expected showing that helped reduce the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, it was reported Thursday.
Still, lawmakers from both parties are disgusted by the congressional inaction, which has been largely in place since Congress voted in February to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and shows no sign of relenting soon.
"Congress isn't moving fast enough on any issues, particularly on economic issues," said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who is locked in a tough reelection fight. "Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to a way out of this because the political parties have gone to their corners and the few of us that are left in the middle are just shadow-boxing with ourselves."
"I don't know what to tell people," added Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). "The bases for both parties are pretty dug in right now … It seems that both parties could do well if we can address the economic woes of the country."
( Also on POLITICO: Why the Civil Rights Act couldn't pass today)
With four months to go until Election Day, both Obama and Congress recognize that the state of the economy and job growth — or, more accurately, the public's perception of the state of the economy — is a top issue for voters, although Obamacare's rocky implementation remains a critical factor. And voters' unhappiness over economic issues is a driving force behind Obama's slide in the polls, with all the inherent problems that poses for the Senate Democratic majority.
Yet neither Obama and his Democratic leaders, nor their GOP counterparts on Capitol Hill, are serious about moving significant economic legislation beyond the bare minimum needed to keep the government open and functioning. Instead, they have used the inaction to hammer their political opponents and rev up their own supporters.
There are a few areas in which Congress is working to avoid problems that could spill over to the broader economy.
Congress is likely to pass a bill to extend the Highway Trust Fund before it runs out of money in August, top aides in both chambers predict, because to do otherwise could result in hundreds of thousands of jobs lost. A stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open beyond Oct. 1 is also virtually certain to be necessary, as partisan warfare has bogged down Senate progress on the 12 annual funding bills. But a funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, would at least prevent a repeat of last year's government shutdown.
( Also on POLITICO; Jobs report better than expected)
Beyond that, nothing is happening on Capitol Hill on the economy — or much else. And both parties are equally guilty.
Reid and his Democratic colleagues have refused to take up dozens of House-passed bills on energy production and regulatory reform, fearing Republicans could force votes on building the Keystone XL pipeline and other controversial issues. Progress on appropriations bills — a key part of the "regular order" that Reid and Boehner have pledged to resurrect — has ground to a halt. Democrats have stalled any trade deals, even rebuffing the White House's effort to reauthorize legislation giving the president the power to fast-track trade agreements.


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10-second rule to go up for NCAA committee approval on Thursday
NEW YORK — A proposed rule change that would penalize college football offenses for snapping the ball before 10 seconds had run off the 40-second play clock is scheduled to be reviewed one last time by an NCAA committee on Wednesday.
The conference call by the football rules committee is a routine step in the process, but also the last opportunity for the proposal to be withdrawn before it goes to the playing rules oversight panel on Thursday.
If the panel approves the proposal, the rule would go into effect next season.
The proposed change was made to address player-safety concerns held by some coaches who say hurry up, no-huddle offenses that increase the number of plays in games and limit defensive substitutions put players at greater risk for injuries.


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Infamous viral video star Rebecca Black has left school because of constant bullying over her music video "Friday," according to ABC News; the singer is being home schooled.
Black,13, was met with significant vitriol online when her vanity music video started circulating and that extended to mockery in the hallways of her school, according to ABC.
"When I walk by [bullies will] start singing 'Friday' in a really nasally voice," [said Black.] "Or, you know, they'll be like, 'Oh hey, Rebecca, guess what day it is?'"
Her mother, and now teacher, says she was relieved, since it means that Black can focus on her career. Black seems to agree, saying she intends to prove her critics wrong with songs like 'My Moment.'
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No matter how the unemployment figures are spun, a lot of people still are out of work, some 12.3 million.
The U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April unemployment statistics Friday, showing they ticked down a notch to 8.1 percent -- better than March's 8.2 percent and much better than April 2011 when unemployment climbed to 9 percent.
It was good news but the focus was on the number of jobs created -- the only real mechanism for putting people to work and reinvigorating the economy.
Labor said 115,000 jobs were created last month -- 130,000 in the private sector as governments continued to shed workers. The number represents about half what is needed to bring back the roaring '90s when the federal government showed budget surpluses. And if healthcare, social services and temporary business services are excluded, only 91,000 private-sector jobs were created.
University of Maryland economist Peter Morici said for unemployment to be reduced to 6 percent within the next three years, the economy would have to add 370,000 a month, something that's not going to happen with the gross domestic product growth limping along at the first quarter's 2.2 percent.
Friday's "employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but much more remains to be done to repair the damage caused by the financial crisis and the deep recession," said Alan B. Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Krueger said 4.25 million payroll jobs have been added to the U.S. economy since February 2010 when unemployment stood at 9.7 percent.
The problem with unemployment figures is that they only reflect the number of people actively looking for work -- not those who have given up or are underemployed.
The BLS estimates 5.1 million people have been without work for 27 weeks or more, with 7.9 million working part-time because their hours have been cut back or they are unable to find full-time work. Some 2.4 million others "were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey," the BLS said.
If all those discouraged workers are included, estimates for real unemployment stand at 14.5 percent, 18 percent if all the new college graduates working at fast-food jobs are counted, Morici estimates.
Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, said the answer is investment to create more jobs and increased wages to stimulate demand.
"Increasingly, Americans are finding that low-wage jobs are their only option," Owens said. "While solutions such as the restoration of organizing and bargaining rights, stronger enforcement of wage laws, and a renewed social compact among corporations and their employees are powerful and necessary antidotes for the troubling erosion of wages, a critical first step we could take right now is to raise the minimum wage, close loopholes like the excessive employer tip credit, and index the rate to inflation so that it keeps pace with the rising cost of living."
In the near-term, however, "it is looking more and more like we will see a repeat of last year's spring and summer lull in job creation," said John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Not good news for President Obama, heading into his re-election race.
Morici blamed the sluggish recovery on "temporary tax cuts, stimulus spending, large federal deficits, expensive but ineffective business regulations and costly healthcare mandates."
Challenger disagreed.
"The fact is that demand for goods and services simply has not reached a level that warrants accelerated hiring," Challenger said. "In areas, where demand has improved, so has hiring. Just look at the auto industry. Chrysler just announced that it will forgo its usual summer shutdown and keep all its plants humming in order to meet consumer demand. Until more companies are experiencing the same type of demand, we are not going to see an explosion in hiring."
But fears of a new recession also play a role.
"The economic crisis in Europe and mounting problems in China's housing and banking sectors continue to instigate worries among U.S. businesses about a second major recession, and these discourage new hiring," Morici said. "The U.S. economy continues to expand albeit moderately but is quite vulnerable to shock waves from crises in European and Asia."


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Lancaster County's annual Veterans Day parade and program is set for Nov. 9.
Lineup starts at 11 a.m. at the Lancaster County Courthouse parking lot on Dunlap Street. The parade will start at noon as it proceeds from Dunlap Street onto Main Street ending at the American Legion. The program will start about 1 p.m. at the American Legion.
The United Bible Way Church of Lancaster dedicated the Hillside Memorial Park and Walking Track on Sunday, Sept. 9. The church family and invited guests gathered under the shelter and listened to Pastor Kenny Rose as he proclaimed what God had given the church and to the greater Lancaster community.
Kenji Mackey, the coordinator for the walking trail, shared Pastor Rose's God-given vision to emphasize how important exercise is to our health, especially walking.
Among the many wars throughout world include those in Israel and Iraq. The Bible predicts numerous wars and plagues will hit the Earth. AIDS and HIV diseases originated in Africa. Now Africa suffers with the deadly Ebola. If it hits the United States it would probably wipe out much of our population. It could happen. With all the travelers someone is bound to bring it back to the U.S.
Are these examples of the fulfillment of the Bible's prophecy? There will be a war above all wars.
I am writing in response to the violence in Ferguson, Mo. It truly hurts me to see what is happening there. My thoughts and my prayers go out to the family of Michael Brown.
Have we forgotten that prayer changes things, not violent protesting? It is time to "let go and let God." Look up to where our help comes from. He answers prayers in his time, not ours.
Help Mr. Brown's family. Don't hurt them in the way you are protesting.
Peace and calm are the keys to this situation. Jesus said it, "Peace be still."
There is near unanimity that the condition of our state's roads is in serious decline. However, there is debate as to why. Our roads are an asset, and as with most assets their condition can be measured by numbers.
What follows are figures that must be considered to make South Carolina's roads and bridges as safe and smooth as they were a generation ago.
S.C. Taxes and Fees
u South Carolina ranks No. 4 among 50 states in miles of state-maintained roads with 41,460 miles
u South Carolina ranks No 3 among states in lowest fuel tax
This is a partial response to Sandy McGarry's article, "Local voters have clear choice in solicitor's race," in the Aug. 31 edition of The Lancaster News.
Ms. McGarry states that her candidate, Randy Newman, is a "passionate" prosecutor. This implies to me that he is a "soft" prosecutor who would not waste time indicting criminals, but let them go on "probation" to free up the backlog of pending criminal cases in our 6th Circuit.
John Richard's letter addressing the ills displayed by grocery store shoppers in the Aug. 31 edition of The Lancaster News probably earned him "Atta Boys" from readers all over the region.
With the new school year, parents' attention is turning to school lunches. Traditionally, then U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had used the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for surplus meat and dairy commodities.
Children consumed animal fat and sugary drinks, to the point where one-third have became overweight or obese. Their early dietary flaws became lifelong addictions, raising their risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
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Three people were arrested early Friday after a high-speed chase that started in Crestview and ended just north of Shalimar, according to police.
CRESTVIEW - Three people were arrested early Friday after a high-speed chase that started in Crestview and ended just north of Shalimar, according to police.
The incident began at 12:40 a.m. when a Crestview officer tried to stop a 2001 Kia on South Boulevard for making an illegal U-turn over a concrete median and having improper taillights, police reported.
The KIA raced south until it neared a Crestview officer who was stationed in the median on State Road 85 to try to identify the driver. The driver veered toward the officer before it continued heading south.
Officers pursued the car until it reached the south end of State Road 123, where Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Okaloosa County sheriff�s deputies picked up the chase. The Kia was stopped after it ran over spike strips laid across SR 85 near the Poquito Bayou military housing area.
Shomari Deqwan Lee Coles-Kolefus and Kyle Dwayne Hamilton, both 18, ran off. Ashley Rose Holtzapple, 18, was arrested immediately.
Coles-Kolfus and Hamilton were captured later.
Coles-Kolefus, the Kia�s driver, was charged with felony fleeing and eluding law enforcement, driving while license suspended as a habitual traffic offender and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
Hamilton was charged with resisting law enforcement without violence. He also was wanted on unrelated charges.
Holtzapple was charged with resisting law enforcement without violence, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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The questions I have is with the many sources of magic and how they are to be balanced in a game.The priest, cult, druid, have their special power taps, but the common mage only has the random floating magic around him? The amount of places that the power comes from makes it more difficult to interpret how each one can be used and to what extent I think. I believe there should be some sort of ultimate single source of power that it all comes from and using that as a base helps define how the rest is used. Otherwise you pretty much have to have a different magic system for each type. It is used the same way, yes, but the approach to it is entirely different with an entirely different set of definitions.
I may have missed it, but what limits the amount of magic a person can use? and how is the generic magic collected?
I see the waxing and waning of Priest magic depending on the god, but if it is also controlled by the people, well, the Pope, for instance, would always have a considerable amount of magic at his disposal at any time even without direct giving from his god. How is that power tempered, or is it?
Generic magic for a druid would be plentiful in the great forest, so what limitations do they have in place. Is it the same as a priest or do priests have extra at their disposal because of the combined powers of god and people.
You also mentioned about a magic user becoming a god. It might not be so much with good, but evil seems to have those that worship him in fear due to the power he holds. Does having underlings give a magic user power if they trully worship him. After all, an evil magic user can easily promise things in return for worship just to get people to give them their power.The worship thing for good could turn into magic cults with a Grand Pubba as well. In time of need the cult comes together, all the members focus their energy on the Master of the cult granting him extra powers as if worshipped.
I guess I am looking for a common thread between them, not just how it is used, which I really like by the way. I love how it is cast and what it is capable of, but I am wanting to understand how I, as a normal magic user, can get the power that the priest and druid has available.
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Blues: Fender's blue (Icaricia icarioides fenderi)
(Lepidoptera: Polyommatinae: Polyommatini)
Profile prepared by Scott Hoffman Black and Mace Vaughan, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Once thought to be extinct, the Fender's blue butterfly was known only from collections made between 1929 and 1937, until it was rediscovered in 1989 by Paul Hammond. Fender's blue is a butterfly that formerly thrived in the prairies of Oregon's Willamette Valley, but during the past 140 years an estimated 99 percent of this native prairie has been turned into farmland or otherwise developed.
Habitat loss from agriculture and urban development poses the greatest threat to the Fender's blue. Another major threat to the butterfly is the invasion of exotic plants. Invasive species, such as Himalayan blackberry and Scotch broom, have been outcompeting and displacing the Kincaid's lupine and other native wildflowers in upland prairies where the butterflies live.
Xerces Red List Status: Critically Imperiled
Other Rankings:
Canada – Species at Risk Act: N/A
Canada – provincial status: N/A
Mexico: N/A
USA – Endangered Species Act: Endangered
USA – state status: N/A
NatureServe: G5T1
IUCN Red List: N/A
Fender's blue occurs in 32 small sites totaling 408 acres (approximately 165 hectares). Twenty- four of these populations occupy sites of eight acres or less. Most of these populations are in decline, and 19 contain fewer than 50 individuals. Fourteen sites are on federal, state, county, or city lands; the remainder are privately owned.
In surveys in 2001 many populations showed declines that are believed to be the result of the previous winter's drought conditions. Benton County had four stable, three decreasing, and one increasing population. Lane County had one stable, three decreasing, and two increasing populations. Active management—including mowing and burning to remove competitive weeds—is occurring at several sites.
Fender's blue is federally listed as endangered. A recovery plan for Fender's Blue, Kincaid's lupine, and Willamette daisy is currently under development by Fish and Wildlife Service.
Recovery Plan (ESA): In development.
Critical Habitat (ESA): None designated.
Oregon's Threatened and Endangered List statute excludes insects from listing, so Fender's blue is not provided with any protection at the state level. (Kincaid's lupine, however, is listed in Oregon as threatened.)
photo courtesy of Cheryl Shultz
please contact The Xerces Society for information on how to obtain permission to use this photo.
The Fender's blue is a small butterfly in the family Lycaenidae (gossamer-wings), with a wingspan of about one inch. The upperside of the wings of male Fender's Blue butterflies are predominately iridescent sky blue. Females have rusty brown wings. The dorsal surface of both sexes have a black border within a white fringe and the underside is pearly gray to dirty chalk, with black and brown spots, outlined in white.
Taxonomic status
Icaricia icarioides fenderi Macy, 1931.
The principal threats are loss of habitat and degradation of the vegetation communities on habitat that remains.
Efforts to restore degraded prairie habitat and to remove non-native plants will be critical to bringing this species closer to recovery.
Currently, scientists are engaged in an active research program to study the habitat needs of this butterfly's hostplant. In addition, scientists with the Nature Conservancy, with the help of Xerces Society volunteers, are looking for new populations. Scientific research into breeding the Fender's Blue butterfly are in their initial stage. Cheryl Schultz, Assistant Professor, Washington State University Vancouver, is heading up this effort.
Black, S. H., and M. Vaughan. 2004. Protecting the Northwest prairies and their butterflies. Wings 27(1):18-22.
Hammond, P. C. 1995. 1994 Study of the Fender's Blue Butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi) in Benton, Polk, and Yamhill Counties. Report to the Oregon Natural Heritage Program and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 34 pages.
Hammond, P. C., and M. V. Wilson. 1992. Biodiversity and the conservation of endangered species. Northwest Environmental Journal 8:174-176.
Hammond, P. C., and M. V. Wilson. 1993. Status of the Fender's Blue Butterfly. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 66 pages.
Hitchcock, C. L., and A. Cronquist. 1973. Flora of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 730 pages.
Oregon Natural Heritage Program. 1995. Rare, Threatened and Endangered Plants and Animals of Oregon. Oregon Natural Heritage Program, Portland, Oregon. 84 pages.
Schultz, C. B. 1994. Status of the Fender's Blue Butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi) in Eugene, Oregon: a Species at Risk. Report to the Oregon Natural Heritage Program and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 43 pages.
Schultz, C. B. 1995. Status of the Fender's Blue Butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi) in Lane County, Oregon: a Year of Declines. Report to the Oregon Natural Heritage Program and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 58 pages.
Wilson, M. V., P. C. Hammond, and J. B. Kauffman. 1992. The value of restoration and management in protecting biodiversity. Northwest Environmental Journal 8:201-202.
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Pacific Biodiversity Institute; Endangered Species Information Network: Fender's Blue Butterfly (Accessed 9/22/08)
University of California, Santa Barbara; "Endangered Butterfly Needs Special Environment."(Accessed 3/28/05)
CNN.com; "Double Jeopardy: Endangered Butterfly Depends On Endangered Plants."(Accessed 11/2/2004)
The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR; "Rare butterfly thrives in preserve,"by Lance Robertson (Accessed 11/2/2004)
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Creates full AD/CA/ADFS/WAP environment with Azure AD Connect installed
Quick Start
|Full deploy - AD, ADFS, WAP
|Full deploy - AD, ADFS, WAP, with client machines*
- Deploys the following infrastructure:
- Virtual Network
- 3 subnets: AD, DMZ, Client
- 3 Network Security Groups:
- AD - permits AD traffic, RDP incoming to network; limits DMZ access
- Client - permissive; restricts traffic to DMZ
- DMZ - restrictive; permits 443 traffic to Internal, RDP from internal, very limited traffic from Internal, no traffic to Internet or Internal
- Public IP Address for each node
- DSC installs AD, CA roles, generates certificate for use by ADFS and WAP
- Certificate is based on the public IP/DNS of the WAP deployment
- Split-brain DNS on the DC is configured for the ADFS URL
- The Azure vNet is updated with a custom DNS entry pointing to the DC
- Test users are created in the local AD by passing in an array. There is an array sample set as the default value in the deployment template.
- Azure Active Directory Connect is installed and available to configure.
- DSC installs ADFS Role, pulls and installs cert from CA on the DC
- CustomScriptExtension configures the ADFS farm
- For unique testing scenarios, multiple distinct farms may be specified
- Azure Active Directory Connect is installed and available to configure.
- WAP VM - one for each ADFS VM
- DSC installs WAP role
- CustomScriptExtension copies and installs the cert from the DC and connects to the ADFS farm
- A template is included for Client creation via MSDN images. You will need to update the URL to point to your images. Images must be named "OSImage_Win<version>". You are responsible for validating your licensing rights for client MSDN images in your subscription.
- The NSGs defined are for reference, but they aren't production-ready as holes are also opened for RDP to each VM directly, and public IPs are allocated for each VM as well
- One VM size is specified for all VMs
- Managed disks are used for all VMs - no storage accounts are created for diagnostics
- The root CA cert is usually updated automatically to domain-joined clients within hours. To accelerate this, an easy workaround is to reboot the client VM.
- In the AD DSC template, there is a commented draft of some code to push the ADFS FQDN out as an "Intranet Zone" site to the client machines - we've punted on that for now, so you will have to do this manually on client VMs in order to get ADFS SSO.
- There has been an intermittent bug with regards to the script block that enables RDP access for non-admin (test) users within deployed client VMs (when the client deploy script is used). It doesn't affect the base lab functionality, but if you see an error regarding 'ConfigRDPUsers' during deployment, the AD admin may need to enable non-admin RDP access before a test user can login to one of the client VMs to try client SSO scenarios.
- This template is explicitely designed for a lab environment. A few compromises were made, especially with regards to credential passing to DSC and script automation, that WILL result in clear text passwords being left behind in the DSC/scriptextension package folders, Azure log folders, and system event logs on the resulting VMs.
The "deploy.ps1" file above can be downloaded and run locally against this repo, and offers a few additional features: * After the deployment completes, it will create a folder on your desktop with the name of the resource group * It will then create an RDP connectoid in that folder for each server and client that was deployed. * It will then create an HTTP shortcut to the ADFS WAP endpoint for testing and confirming the deployment.
The deploy script master has a line that allows you to separate your specific variables from the master via dot-sourcing. Here's a sample dot-sourced variable overrides file: ```powershell
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$AzureSub = "My Azure Subscription"try { $ctx=Get-AzureRmContext -ErrorAction Stop } catch { Login-AzureRmAccount } if ($ctx.SubscriptionName -ne $AzureSub) { Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionName $AzureSub }
$Branch = "master"
$VNetAddrSpace2ndOctet = "2"
$RGName = "TestRG$VNetAddrSpace2ndOctet"
$DeployRegion = "West US 2"
$userName = "localAdmin"
$secpasswd = "CrazyP@ssword"
$adDomainName = "aadpoctest.com"
#$clientsToDeploy = @("10-1511","10-1607","10-1703","7","8")
$clientsToDeploy = @("7")
$clientImageBaseResource = "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/ImageRG/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/"
$AdfsFarmCount = "1";
$AssetLocation = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure-Samples/active-directory-lab-hybrid-adfs/$Branch/lab-hybrid-adfs/"
$usersArray = @(
@{ "FName"= "Bob"; "LName"= "Jones"; "SAM"= "bjones" },
@{ "FName"= "Bill"; "LName"= "Smith"; "SAM"= "bsmith" },
@{ "FName"= "Mary"; "LName"= "Phillips"; "SAM"= "mphillips" },
@{ "FName"= "Sue"; "LName"= "Jackson"; "SAM"= "sjackson" }
$defaultUserPassword = "P@ssw0rd"
$RDPWidth = 1680
$RDPHeight = 1050
## Contributing
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When I updated you last night on the situation in Egypt, I told you that the Friendly Planet travelers in Egypt were on the Nile cruise ship en route to Aswan where they would be flown back to the Cairo airport. They flew back to Cairo and are staying at the luxury Fairmont Towers, Heliopolis near the airport awaiting evacuation.
If you have family or friends in Egypt with Friendly Planet Travel and want to get in touch with them, you can reach them at the hotel. Here is the contact information:
Tel: +20 22 267 7730
Fax: +20 22 267 7600
E-mail: [email protected]
But be patient if you can't get through right away. Most lines are busy, but if you keep trying you will reach the hotel.
We are working to get everyone on flights out of Egypt, either on U.S.-organized evacuation flights or via EgyptAir, which is once again flying as usual. We are even looking into chartering a plane. Meanwhile, everyone is comfortable at the hotel, still accompanied by bi-lingual staff at all times.
Please be assured that all of us at Friendly Planet Travel, together with everyone at Wings Tours in Egypt, are working 24/7 to maintain the safety of our travelers and to get them home quickly. We will not stop our efforts until every last Friendly Planet traveler has landed in the U.S.
Stay tuned to the blog, Facebook, and Twitter for more updates.


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Just in time for the New Year, Pollo Tropical is announcing the release of the 2012 version of its 21 Days to a New You Meal Plan.
The plan provides three weeks of healthful eating out options, plus easy-to-prepare breakfast and snack options. Each daily meal plan includes lunch and dinner options for both meals from 985 to around 1,225 calories.
Pollo Tropical chefs, working alongside popular media food personality "Dr. Jo" Lichten, created the meal plan based on the ideas shared by customers.
"The idea behind this actually came from our most loyal customers that enjoy our food as part of their lifestyle," says Kim Miller, vice president of marketing and communications at Pollo Tropical. "They count on our extensive menu variety and fresh ingredients. They portion it sensibly to make themselves look great – it's food they feel better about eating!"
Several exciting, new ingredients of the Plan in 2012 include the new Create Your Own TropiChop, a new brown rice that's steamed with chicken broth to lock in flavor, and new menu pairings that take full advantage of the fresh menu item ingredients at Pollo Tropical.
The new "Create Your Own" TropiChop lets the customer pick all of the ingredients from a broad range of Pollo Tropical menu items including white, yellow, or brown rice; kernel corn; lettuce; made-from-scratch beans; diced tomatoes; sautéed onions or peppers; and onions. Guests pick chicken or pork as their meat choice, and can sauce it up at the fresh salsa bar.
The company has added a new Spicy Poyo Poyo sauce as well, which packs fresh from the grill flavor with few calories. Fresh Salsa contains only about five calories per spoonful and adds a lot of flavor to skinless chicken, salads, and more.
The 21 Days to a New You Meal Plan includes other Pollo Tropical favorites such as its famous signature grilled chicken, roast pork, soups, wraps, salads, sandwiches, and unique variety of side dishes, including balsamic tomatoes, corn, boiled yuca with garlic sauce, and more.
Several helpful tips sections spotlight the Plan, including Ten Healthful Breakfast Ideas, which gives breakfast tips ranging from eggs to sweetened rice. Ten Recommendations for Staying Healthy outlines the importance of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, stress management, and exercise. Ten Healthful Snack Ideas provides great tasting and healthful snack tips.
For a free copy of the Pollo Tropical 21 Days to a New You brochure, visit any company-owned Pollo Tropical location or download one at www.PolloTropical.com/21Days.
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Satisfied with her stark creations, she leaves the stage in darkness, and soon two more videos are projected over the artwork, similar to the earlier films but not exactly the same. The action paintings are essentially abstract, but Mutu carefully crafted some very specific patterns that now make sense with what's happening onscreen. The images and words clash with the black strokes on the white screens, calling into question the effects of the artistic intervention as well as that of the colonialists. And about sixty minutes before it all started, it's over; the audience leaves in silence, Mutu not coming out to take a bow. BELGRAVE NECK T SHIRT STONE MELANGE CREW Banana Stroke is a powerful, provocative experience layered with meaning that will take time and effort to decipher, but it's well worth further investigation; perhaps Mutu will shed more light on it during her November 15 talk with curator Adrienne Edwards.
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Through My Eyes: The Rev. Kevin E. Taylor
Some experts believe that sociocultural factors, including a "wounded spirit," leave many Black gay men vulnerable to HIV. Here, a Black gay minister offers advice to other Black gay men on loving themselves, expressing their gifts and finding comfort in God.
I am a proud Black gay man who was born in the projects of Washington, D.C. Like many gay men, I struggled with religion and my orientation. So many Black gay men have been beaten down by homophobia, discrimination, the church or HIV that they feel as if they are "broken" and disconnected from their church or spirituality. Many have been rejected from their homes or churches. And that's too bad, because Black gay men have so many creative gifts to offer. We've been the backbone of many churches for decades.
If you are a Black gay, or same-gender-loving, man looking to build a closer relationship with God, my advice is simple: Study the Bible and not what people say about the Bible. Many people in the church today are more like the Pharisees and leaders Jesus came to rebuke than the Christ they say they love. If you're looking for a new church home, find one that will love the "whole" you, that will accept and honor your life and loves as a Black gay man. Sometimes there is pressure to attend a certain church or denomination, and to stay around what is familiar. Don't give in; just do "you," not what people say "you" should do.
If you're looking for something nontraditional, that's fine, too, as long as it works for you. Find your Higher Power.
But if you're looking in the Bible, there are Scriptures that tell people that God has always "known" us. My favorite is from the book of Jeremiah: "Before you were formed in your mother's womb, I knew you." These are very comforting to read, especially when people are struggling with their sexuality or trying to come out. Black gay men especially need to be reminded that we are wonderfully made and that God searches the heart -- not the orientation or the skin color.
One of the greatest tricks of oppression is to get the oppressed to believe that they are damaged goods. Many of us crave acceptance, but there is a very big difference between acceptance and love. Black people have been in America for centuries, and some people will never accept us as equals. The same holds true for gay men, especially those of color. We are already feeling "less than" because we think we don't see enough positive images of ourselves. But Black gay men are making incredible contributions -- Lee Daniels received an Academy Award nomination for Precious.
I was ordained as a minister in 2000 with the Unity Fellowship Church Movement. It's a primarily Black LGBT denomination, so you get that intense traditional Black-church worship service but with an inclusive message. Over the years I've counseled many couples and many brothas. Many have come to me when their status changed or when they learned that a partner was HIV-positive. Every day is a wake-up call to life. Sometimes this diagnosis can shake us into the present to help us become more conscious about the business of living. One of my good brotha friends has been positive for 26 years, so it can be a "live" notice and a clarion call to live your truth and do what brings you joy and happiness. It's time for some action. Don't put your dreams off until tomorrow. Today is all any of us knows.
My life as a Black gay man has been amazing. I've had a great career working in the entertainment industry and a wonderful spiritual calling. Five years ago I adopted a now 20-year-old son, and it was incredible watching him grow into a young man. Many brothas sometimes wonder how they can give back to the community. Have you considered mentoring youth? Or volunteering in your neighborhood? Black gay men have so many skills and talents that our community should tap into. And there is no greater satisfaction than seeing someone smile and hearing them thank you for helping them become a better person. When you live in your truth and stop trying to seek the approval of others, you stand taller. The truth will do that to you.
Rod McCullom has written and produced for ABC News and NBC, and his reporting and analysis have appeared in Ebony, The Advocate, ColorLines and other media.


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When Gina Kell loses her husband on Christmas day, she soon finds a kindred spirit in another parent at her kids' school, Michael Spehn who loses his wife at the same time. As they help each other and their children though grief, they grow closer and fall in love. However, family and friends cause them to question whether being together is a good idea. They are forced to ask themselves if their new found love is strong enough to overcome the grief surrounding both families or if it is simply too soon for either of them to think about moving on.
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Trustees of the Associated Specialty Contractors (ASC), Bethesda, Md., recently voted to endorse the 2007 update to the AIA Document A401-2007 Standard Form of Agreement between Contractor and Subcontractor. Published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, D.C., these contract documents (unveiled in November) establish the contractual relationship between the contractor and subcontractor and set forth responsibilities of both parties and list their respective obligations. Endorsing the AIA A401 for more than 30 years, ASC participated in the revision process of the latest version of the contract documents over the past three years.
Following are just a few of the changes sought and supported by ASC, according to Daniel G. Walter, president of ASC:
The general contractor is now obligated to furnish (at no cost to subcontractors) all temporary facilities, equipment, and services except as specifically identified. Previous wording had resulted in unexpected charges to subs for hoisting, temporary power, and other job-site services.
The A401 allows a subcontractor to reach agreement with the general contractor as to whether arbitration or litigation is to be used for binding resolution of disputes.
It also limits a subcontractor's additional insured liability to losses caused by the sub's negligent acts or omissions.
"Using model contract documents benefits electrical contractors by savings time and money," says Walter. "They are better understood than locally developed documents. The legal community is also more familiar with them and may be able to review them more efficiently, saving the contractor legal fees."
When asked how these documents differ from the new ConsesnsusDOCS contracts recently launched by The Associated General Contractors of America in conjunction with other trade associations, Walter explains that although both documents were designed using different processes, they have input and involvement from stakeholders in the construction process. Having two sets of standards, both of which are voluntary, will not create confusion in the marketplace, Walter maintains.
"Most electrical contractors are presented contracts that are developed by local attorneys or general contractors," he says. "These contracts often have been modified many times trying to fix problems that occurred on past projects. Using model documents provides the parties an efficient way to reach a fair agreement. The use of either set of documents is a better choice than being forced to use most locally developed documents."