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Wraps, salads recalled for lack of federal inspection
By News Desk on April 29, 2016
The recalled wraps are packaged under the Hannaford, Turkey Hill and Starbucks brands.
Greencore USA Inc., of North Kingstown, RI, is recalling more than 1,300 pounds of meat wraps, poultry wraps…
Letter From the Editor: Spending Trickles Down to Food Safety
By Dan Flynn on December 20, 2015
They say that confession is good for the soul, so here goes. My confession is that I find most all of the peripheral food issues around food safety pretty boring. I was hoping Congress would…
Spending Bill Includes $104-Million Increase for FSMA, COOL Repeal
By Lydia Zuraw on December 17, 2015
Late Tuesday night, the House of Representatives released a $1.1-trillion spending bill to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, which is Sept. 30, 2016. Lobbyists for full funding of the…
Safely Thawing a Thanksgiving Turkey Takes Planning
By Lydia Zuraw on November 23, 2015
If you're defrosting a frozen turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, you might want to start now. There are only three safe ways to thaw food: in the refrigerator, in cold water or in the microwave. Be…
USDA: Alternatives to Antibiotics to Keep Food Animals Healthy
By U.S. Department of Agriculture on November 19, 2015
(This article was posted Nov. 18, 2015, on the USDA blog site.) Antibiotics are lifesavers. We depend on them to treat bacterial infections and diseases, such as pneumonia, bronchitis and strep throat, as well…
USDA's FSIS Releases Food Allergen Guidelines for Producers
In an effort to reduce adverse reactions to food allergens, along with potential recalls, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released a 26-page set of guidelines to assist meat,…
Harmonization in Food Safety Starts From Within
By Khalil Divan, Ph.D. on November 9, 2015
We can all agree that consumers should never have to worry whether their food is safe. Where agreement doesn't exist, however, is in the how. How do we best monitor for chemical, biological and physical…
Letter From the Editor: A 10-Year Term is the Vacancy Solution
By Dan Flynn on November 1, 2015
It has been almost two years since Dr. Elisabeth Hagen stepped down as our most recent USDA under secretary for food safety. President Obama has not appointed, nor has the Senate confirmed, anyone to fill…
Aspen Foods Expands Recall of Frozen, Raw, Stuffed and Breaded Chicken Entrées
By News Desk on October 2, 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, that Aspen Foods of Chicago is recalling approximately 561,000 pounds of frozen, raw, stuffed and breaded chicken products that…
USDA has Food Safety Advice for Those Affected by Hurricane Joaquin
By U.S. Department of Agriculture on October 2, 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued some food safety recommendations for those who may be impacted by Hurricane Joaquin. On Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service announced…


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namespace Content\UploadBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile;
use Content\UploadBundle\Entity\UploadImage;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\File;

class UploadController extends Controller
{
    public function uploadImageAction(Request $request)
    {
        $file = $request->files->get('uploadedImage');
        if($file instanceof UploadedFile){
            $uploadImage = new UploadImage($file);
            $repository = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('ContentUploadBundle:UploadImage');
            $image = $repository->findOneByName($uploadImage->getName());
            if(!$image){
                $uploadImage->setUrl($this->generateUrl('content_show_image',array('fileName' => $uploadImage->getFilepath())));
                $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
                $em->persist($uploadImage);
                $em->flush();
                $uploadImage->upload();
                return new Response($uploadImage->getUrl());
            }else{
                return new Response($image->getUrl());
            }
        }
        return new Response("Upload Failed",500);
    }

    public function showImageAction($fileName)
    {
        $repository = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('ContentUploadBundle:UploadImage');
        $name = pathinfo($fileName,PATHINFO_FILENAME);
        $image = $repository->findOneByName($name);
        if($image){
            $fp = fopen($image->getWebPath(), "rb");
    		$filecontent = stream_get_contents($fp);
    		fclose($fp);
    		$response = new Response($filecontent);
    		$file = new File($image->getWebPath());
    		$response->headers->set('Content-Type', $file->getMimeType());
    		return $response;
        }else{
            return new Response("File Not Found",404);
        }
    }
}

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Why Men Must Fight Back Against Shame To Reclaim Our True Identities
Manhood matters.
It matters so much, in fact, that God designed His plan for the world around it.
Man would care for the world, and the world would care for him. Man would live in intimate relationship with the Creator and would give himself to the world in the form of service.
But then shame entered the world.
It happened in the Garden of Eden after Adam ate from the only tree God instructed him to avoid. Once Adam realized his vulnerability and nakedness, he sought to hide his mistake from God.
"…I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
Unlike guilt, which often convinces us to change our behavior, shame tells us that we are inherently bad. According to researcher Brene Brown, shame tells us we can't change our behavior because the problem is at our very core. Shame identifies the person as bad instead of the behavior.
As it so often does, shame prompted Adam to disconnect from God instead of seeking Him. It led him to cover his mistake instead of confessing it.
Shame convinced Adam to make himself more acceptable by "covering up." Adam focused on his image instead of on his heart.
Later, King David made the same mistake, and it ravaged his entire family.
Following his extramarital affair with Bathsheba, David discovered that she was pregnant as a result of his indiscretion. To hide his own sin, David tried to convince Bathsheba's husband to sleep with her. When that didn't work, David sent him to be killed in battle.
David initiated a string of actions that served his own purposes at the expense of those around him. Shame prompted King David to hide his mistakes instead of confessing them and trying to make things right.
Later, when David's son Amnon engaged in his own brand of sexual sin, shame convinced David to remain silent in the face of his son's offense.
Shame rendered David powerless as a father and a king, and it does the same thing to you and me.
Shame convinces us to cover our true selves for fear that we aren't worthy of love or relationship. Shame convinces us that imperfection is a sign of weakness.
So we cover it all up.
· We don't often admit our mistakes.
· We don't readily talk about emotion.
· We rarely ask for help.
· We fight to maintain control.
Shame convinces men that weakness represents the ultimate masculine flaw; as a result, men should avoid even the appearance of weakness.
.To accomplish that, men engage in posturing, and we refuse to admit when we struggle. We project confidence even when we don't feel it, and we fight for control at all cost.
But make no mistake: there is a cost.
We're numbing ourselves to vulnerability by drinking, chasing women, withdrawing from our families, and going deeper into debt. And because it's impossible to numb only part of your experience, we're numbing ourselves to the good stuff, too.
Our families and our communities need us to let go of false strength and embrace the real thing: the kind of strength Jesus displayed during His time on earth.
Jesus never feared looking weak, but instead submitted Himself to the will of the Father. He never worried about His image, and He sought only to please God.
When He struggled, He admitted as much, and He sought help from the Father.
He trusted, He loved, and He served, and He provided the only example of manhood we'll ever need.
The world doesn't know how desperately it needs us to understand manhood. It needs us to be vulnerable, and to love, and to trust, and to serve. It needs us to care for it even as it cares for us.
It isn't too late to choose differently. The men of Junto Tribe seek to become like the Last Adam and restore our identities and our relationships.
We're ditching our false identities and seeking the true ones. We'd love for you to join us on the journey.
Photo by João Silas on Unsplash
Tagged: shame, manhood, Servant, Last Adam, identity, family, relationship, community
Manhood Is Only Unclear If You're Seeking the World's Definition
We struggle to understand manhood.
Society jokes about it. Belittles it. Diminishes the need for it.
Men find themselves caught between contradictory beliefs: the sense that manhood matters and the notion that it's a threat to the world.
But God never intended for us to be confused.
In fact, God values manhood so much that His plan for the world centers on it. When God created Adam in His own image and placed him in the Garden of Eden, He began the work of revealing manhood to us.
"The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it."
Genesis 2:15 NKJV
Adam was a servant. He bore a responsibility to tend the earth in a way that helps it flourish.
Adam was a warrior. He was appointed to guard and protect the garden and its occupants against threats.
Adam was a scholar. God directed Adam to name the animals, engaging his powers of observation, language, knowledge, reason, and curiosity.
Adam was a craftsman. He designed weapons, built shelters, and cultivated plants, and he developed the means to do all those things.
Adam was an explorer. The garden was only a small part of God's creation. The rest of the globe was uncharted territory that invited Adam to explore.
Adam was a leader. God called Adam to father a generation and to teach that generation to carry out the same mission that God had given him.
Adam was a disciple. He spent time with his Creator and learned what it meant to be a son of God.
Though we may struggle to find modern examples of true manhood, God's Word is full of them.
In Adam, and other men of the Bible, we recognize a pattern: when men imitate God, they succeed in their missions. When they fail to imitate God, they fail to be men.
Adam carried a massive responsibility on his shoulders. By living his life according to God's character, he would fill the world with God's goodness, and fulfill man's mission on earth.
You carry the same responsibility Adam did; to do meaningful work that benefits creation and people.
Thousands of years later, the mission hasn't changed. Manhood hasn't either.
You are a servant, a warrior, a scholar, a craftsman, an explorer, a leader, and a disciple.
You were created in the image of God, and your presence here is meant to be world-changing. As you discover manhood for yourself, you'll be equipped to share it with the generations behind you.
The journey won't be an easy one, but time is of the essence. Our days here are numbered and our mission is unique.
The men of Junto Tribe would love nothing more than to walk alongside you in this all-important journey.
The world needs men that know who they are. We intend to become those men.
Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash
Tagged: Manhood, Servant, Warrior, Scholar, Craftsman, Explorer, Leader, Disciple, Junto Tribe

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# jQuery compatiblity

fully tested for 1.6.4. higher version should work in theory.

# version

0.1.0

# License
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JD Sports boss Peter Cowgill sells over half his shares in the retailer
JD Sports Executive Chairman Peter Cowgill has sold 10 million shares in the sporting goods retailer, representing over half the amount he owned.
JD Sports offered no reason for Cowgill's move, which earned him £21.3 million at an average of 213.22p per share.
Cowgill has been in the position of executive chairman since 2004. Following the sale he now owns 9,714,670 shares in JD Sports, which accounts for 0.19% of the company's share capital.
The move comes just days after the retailer shared that profits for the year January 2023 were expected to be ahead of current market expectations, with sales reportedly up 10% ahead for the 22-week period to 1 January 2022.
"It is now anticipated that the outturn for the full year will be at least £875 million," JD Sports' trading update added.
JD Sports also topped TheIndustry.fashion's The Index "Buzz Score" chart for the first time in December, which measures fashion shoppers' positive and negative sentiment towards 100 leading fashion brands and retailers.
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Rob Gronkowski was drafted in the second round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots. He was taken 42nd all around in the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Arizona. He is one of five brothers. Rob Gronkowski continued to break tight end records throughout the 2011 NFL season, and is a member of the 2011 AFC Championship Patriots Team.
Single season record for most receiving touchdowns by a tight end – 17 (2011)
Single season record for most total touchdowns by a tight end – 18 (2011)
Single season record for most receiving yards by a tight end – 1,327 (2011)
2008 Associated Press third-team All-American
2008 First-team All-Pac-10
Pro Bowl Selection (2011)
All-Pro Selection (2011)
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York
Height: 6'6" Weight 265 lbs. Number: 87
College: Arizona
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Q: speed up request handling in django rest framework for geodjango I have an application that is using geodjango for handling geographic data. Frontend react app sends requests to django rest api with defined query parameters which include boundary of map for data to download and other parameters to use for filtering. Considerable amount of time is spent for waiting (TTFB) and can sometime take ~15-20s which is unacceptable. Is there any way to speed up the query handling in django:
Here is the serializer:
class DecisionsGeomSerializerPoints(GeoFeatureModelSerializer):
class Meta:
    model= DecisionsGeom
    fields = ['id']
    geo_field = 'point'

Model has much more variables but the serializer is using just two
Here is the viewset:
class DecisionsGeomViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
queryset = DecisionsGeom.objects.all()
serializer_class = DecisionsGeomSerializerPoints

def createPoly(self,xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax):
    poly = Polygon(((ymin,xmin ), (ymin, xmax), (ymax, xmax), (ymax, xmin), (ymin, xmin)))
    return poly

def get_queryset(self):
    bbox = self.request.query_params.get('bbox',None)
    start_date = self.request.query_params.get('start_date',None)
    end_date = self.request.query_params.get('end_date', None)
    category = self.request.query_params.get('category',None)
    investor = self.request.query_params.get('investor',None)
    if start_date == "undefined" or start_date=="" or start_date==None:
        start_date="2000-01-01"
    if end_date == "undefined" or end_date==""or end_date==None:
        end_date=datetime.now().date()
    queryset = PozwoleniaGeom.objects.all()
    bounds=bbox.split(',')
    polygon = self.createPoly(float(bounds[0]),float(bounds[1]),float(bounds[2]),float(bounds[3]))
    if bbox is not None :
        queryset = DecisionsGeom.objects.filter(point__bboverlaps=polygon).filter(decision_date__gte=start_date).filter(decision_date__lt=end_date)
    if category != None and category !="undefined" and category !="":
        queryset=queryset.filter(category=category)
    if investor != None and investor !="undefined" and investor !="":
        queryset=queryset.filter(Q(investor_surname__icontains=investor)|Q(investor_name__icontains=investor)|Q(investor_name__icontains=investor))
    return queryset

Is there any possibility to optimize this to shorten the time?

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D-CA, 11th District2013 – 2015
D-CA, 7th District1975 – 2012
Lifetime Score 8%
2: On the Conference Report: H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)✔ Nay
3: On Passage: S. 540 - Temporary Debt Limit Extension Act✘ Yea
4: On Passage: H.R. 1944 - Private Property Rights Protection Act✘ Nay
5: On Passage: H.R. 3865 - Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act✘ Nay
7: On Passage: H.R. 4118 - SIMPLE Fairness Act (One-year Delay of ObamaCare's Individual Mandate)✘ Nay
8: On Passage: H.R. 3826 - Electricity Security and Affordability Act✘ Nay
9: On Passage: H.R. 1871 - Baseline Reform Act✘ Nay
10: On the Amendment: H.Amdt 671 to H.R. 4435 - Preventing NDAA funds from being used to implement climate change initiatives✘ Nay
12: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 742 to H.R. 4660 - To reduce funding for CJS Appropriations by 1%✘ Nay
13: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 815 to H.R. 4745 - To prohibit federal funds for the purchase of license plate cameras✘ Nay
14: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 824 to H.R. 4745 - To cut T-HUD spending by 1%✘ Nay
17: On the Amendment: H.Amdt. 1049 to H.R. 4923 - To reduce non defense spending in the bill to 2008 levels✘ Nay
18: On Passage: H.R. 5021 - Highway and Transportation Funding Act✔ Nay
19: On Passage: H.R. 5078 - Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act✘ Nay
20: On Passage: H.R. 24 - Federal Reserve Transparency Act✘ Nay
1: H.Amdt. 4 to H.R. 152 - To offset $17 billion of hurricane relief funds by cutting discretionary spending by 1.63%✘ Nay
2: H.Amdt.5 to H.R. 152 - To add $33.677 billion in additional spending.✘ Yea
3: H.R. 152 - Disaster Relief Appropriations Act✘ Yea
4: H.R. 325 - To Increase the Debt Limit until May 19th, 2013✔ Nay
5: H.Res. 99 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 933 (the Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government)☐ Did Not Vote
6: H.R. 45 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other Obamacare-related provisions✘ Nay
7: H.R. 1947 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill)✔ Nay
10: H.R. 2668 - Fairness for American Families Act✘ Nay
13: H.Amdt. 448 to H.R. 367 - To require that Congress be allowed to vote on any tax or levy upon carbon emissions☐ Did Not Vote
14: H.R. 367 - Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act☐ Did Not Vote
15: H.R. 2009 - Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care Act☐ Did Not Vote
17: H.J. Res. 59 - Continuing Resolution (with no funding for ObamaCare)✘ Nay
19: H.R. 2728 - Protecting States' Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act✘ Nay
20: H.R. 1900 - Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act✘ Nay
1: H.R. 1173 - Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act✘ Nay
2: H.R. 3578 - To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reform the budget baseline✘ Nay
5: H.R. 4628 - To extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans✔ Nay
6: H.Amdt.1039 to H.R. 5326 - to eliminate the Economic Development Administration✘ Nay
7: H.Amdt.1065 to H.R. 5326 - to cut Commerce, Science, & Justice appropriations by 1%✘ Nay
12: H.Amdt.1217 to H.R. 5325 - to cut $3.1 billion from Energy and Water appropriations.✘ Nay
16: H.R. 6079 - To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)✘ Nay
17: H.Amdt. 1431 to H.R. 5856 - To cut $1.07 billion from DoD Appropriations✔ Yea
18: H.R. 459 - To require a full audit of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks ✘ Nay
19: H.R. 3409 - Stop the War on Coal Act✘ Nay
2011: 112th Congress 8%
1: H.R. 2 - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act✘ Nay
3: H.Amdt. 45 to H.R. 1 - to cut the EPA's budget by $64 million✘ Nay
5: H.Amdt. 102 to H.R. 1 - to prohibit funds to employees who implement ObamaCare✘ Nay
6: H.Amdt.104 to H.R. 1 - to stop allocation of funds to Obamacare✘ Nay
7: H.Amdt.105 to H.R. 1 - cutting funding for implementation of ObamaCare✘ Nay
8: H.Amdt.106 to H.R. 1 - Denies implementation of the individual mandate of ObamaCare✘ Nay
9: H.Amdt. 111 to H.R. 1 - To reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels and cut $18.6 billion✘ Nay
11: H.Amdt.169 to H.R. 1 - to prevent the 2011 budget from being required to pay for inflated union wages✘ Nay
12: H.R. 1 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011✘ Nay
13: H.R. 4 - Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011✘ Nay
14: H.R. 830 - FHA Refinance Program Termination Act✘ Nay
15: H.R. 836 - To rescind the unobligated funding for the Emergency Mortgage Relief Program and to terminate the program✘ Nay
17: H.R. 471 - Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act✘ Nay
18: H.R. 910 - Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011✘ Nay
19: H.J.Res. 37 - Disapproving of the rule submitted by the FCC with respect to regulating the Internet✘ Nay
20: H.Amdt.258 to H.Con.Res. 34 - To replace the Paul Ryan budget with the RSC's budget☐ Present
21: H.Con.Res. 34 - Congressman Paul Ryan's Budget for Fiscal Year 2012✘ Nay
22: H.R. 1213 - To repeal mandatory funding to the states to establish health care exchanges.✘ Nay
23: H.R. 1229 - Putting the Gulf of Mexico Back to Work Act✘ Nay
27: H.Amdt.596 to H.R. 2354 -to cut spending 9.93% ($3.04 billion) from Energy & Water Appropriations Act of 2012☐ Did Not Vote
31: H.R. 2587 - Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act✘ Nay
32: On Passage: H.R. 2401 - To require analyses of the cumulative and incremental impacts of certain rules and actions of the EPA☐ Did Not Vote
35: H.R. 3078 - To implement the United States-Columbia Trade Promotion Agreement✘ Nay
36: H.R. 3079 - To implement the United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement✘ Nay
37: H.R. 3080 - To implement the United States-Korea Trade Agreement✘ Nay
39: H.R. 2250 - EPA Regulatory Relief Act✘ Nay
40: H.R. 10 - Making major executive regulations subject to Congressional vote (REINS Act)✘ Nay
1: H.J.Res. 45 - Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act✘ Yea
2: Concurring with the Senate Amdt: H.R. 2847 - Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act✘ Yea
3: H.Res. 1203 - Providing for consideration of the Amendments to H.R. 4872✘ Yea
4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)✘ Yea
5: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act✘ Yea
6: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 4872 - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act✘ Yea
7: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act✘ Yea
8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✘ Yea
9: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4213 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 ✘ Yea
10: On the Motion to Concur: H.R. 4899 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs✔ Nay
11: H.R. 3534 - Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act✘ Yea
12: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 1586 - "Education Jobs and Medicaid Funding Bill"✘ Yea
13: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5297 - Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010✘ Yea
14: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 4853 - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act ✘ Yea
15: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act✘ Yea
16: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 5116 - America COMPETES Reauthorization Act✘ Yea
17: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2751 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act✘ Yea
18: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 3082 - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011 ✘ Yea
1: H.R. 12 - Paycheck Fairness Act✘ Yea
2: H.R. 11 - Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act✘ Yea
3: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 384 - T.A.R.P. Reform and Accountability Act✘ Nay
4: On Motion to Concur: H.R. 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act✘ Yea
5: On the Conference Report: H.R. 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the "Stimulus Package") ✘ Yea
6: H.R. 1105 - Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009✘ Yea
7: H.R. 1106 - Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009✘ Yea
8: H.Amdt. 29 to H.R. 1262 - To remove Davis-Bacon prevailing wage provisions from the bill✘ Nay
9: On the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 13 - Congressional Budget for FY 2010✘ Yea
10: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009✔ Nay
12: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 2346 - Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009✘ Yea
13: H.R. 2454 - American Clean Energy and Security Act (Cap-and-Trade)✘ Yea
14: H.R. 3269 - Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act✘ Yea
15: H.R. 3221 - Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009✘ Yea
16: H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act✘ Yea
17: H.R. 3961 - Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009☐ Did Not Vote
18: H.R. 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act✘ Yea
19: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R.3288 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 ✘ Yea
20: On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 4173 - Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✘ Nay
21: H.R. 4173 - The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)✘ Yea
1: H.Amdt. 928 to H.R. 3524 - Prevents wage restrictions✘ Nay
2: H.R. 5351 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008✘ Yea
3: H.Res. 1092 - Relating to the implementation of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement✘ Yea
4: H.R. 5818 - Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008✘ Yea
5: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 2642 - Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Act✘ Yea
6: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: S.Con.Res. 70 - The Congressional Budget Resolution✘ Yea
7: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended: H.R. 6346 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act☐ Did Not Vote
8: H.R. 6275 - Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008✘ Yea
9: H.R. 415 - To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act ✘ Yea
10: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H.R. 6515 - Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act of 2008✘ Yea
11: Concur in Senate Amendment with House Amendment: H.R. 3221 - Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008✘ Yea
14: On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment: H.R. 3997 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (1st T.A.R.P. vote) ✘ Yea
15: On Motion to Concur with Senate Amendments: H.R. 1424 - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (2nd T.A.R.P. Vote)✘ Yea
16: H.R. 7321 - Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act (Auto Bailout)✘ Yea
1: H.R. 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act✘ Yea
2: H.R. 800 - The Employee Free Choice Act✘ Yea
4: On Motion to Pass: H.R. 1252 - Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act✘ Yea
5: H.R. 3043 - Making appropriations for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education☐ Did Not Vote
6: H.R. 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007✘ Yea
8: H.Amdt. 749 to H.R. 3221 - Udall/Plats Renewable Energy Standard Amendment✘ Yea
11: H.R. 2895 - National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2007✘ Yea
13: H.R. 505 - Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act✘ Yea
18: H.R. 3996 - Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007✘ Yea
19: H.R. 3915 - Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act✘ Yea
20: H.Amdt. 890 to H.R. 3355 - Omnibus Spending Bill✘ Nay
1: On Agreeing to the Resolution: H.Res. 653 - Reconciliation of H.Con.Res. 95 with S. 1932 ✘ Nay
4: H.R. 5429 - American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act✘ Nay
8: H.R. 4890 - Legislative Line Item Veto Act☐ Did Not Vote
9: H.R. 4761 - Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act✘ Nay
10: H.R. 5684 - To implement the United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement✘ Nay
11: H.Res. 1003 - Earmark reforms✘ Nay
12: H.R. 4772 - Private Property Rights Implementation Act✘ Nay
1: S. 5 - Class Action Fairness Act of 2005✘ Nay
4: H.R. 8 - Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act✘ Nay
6: H.R. 22 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act☐ Did Not Vote
7: H.R. 3045 - Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act✘ Nay
8: On Agreeing to the Conference Report: H.R. 3 - Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users☐ Did Not Vote
10: H.R. 3824 - Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act✘ Nay
11: H.R. 3893 - Gasoline for America's Security Act✘ Nay
12: H.R. 554 - Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act✘ Nay
13: H.R. 420 - Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act✘ Nay
14: H.R. 1606 - Online Freedom of Speech Act✘ Nay
15: H.R. 4128 - Private Property Rights Protection Act✘ Nay
16: H.R. 4241 - Deficit Reduction Act✘ Nay
17: H.R. 4297 - Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act✘ Nay


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Q: Product / patch installation or server upgrade required Two environments both are having the same issue. Some basic updates were applied but nothing out of the ordinary. Now I'm getting two errors that I can't resolve.

Product / patch installation or server upgrade required.
One or more servers is not responding.
Warning: The farm servers do not currently have the same product and patch level as each other. This page only shows the database status as
  related to the product and patch level for the server that served this
  page, and may not be correct for other farm servers until they have
  the same set of required products and patches installed.

*

*psconfig won't run because it says service pack 1 is missing from one server when it's not. It has been installed on all servers and if I try to install it again it says there is nothing to be updated.

*all servers show there are no available updates.

It's the strangest issue and I really don't want to rebuild the farm.
Any ideas?

A: Couple of things you can do.

*

*Run the Get-SpProduct -Local after that run the Config wizard. I would use this psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force

*Clear the Config Cache on All server in Farm then run the psconfig wizard.


must be prefaced with a toast.
we toasted about a million times tonight.
and then dylan said withh all seriousnesss... "derek... Do you know we're running out of bears? i read it in a magazine. were running out pf bears."
i immmediiiately laughed out every toast.
my nose burns real bad.


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Now that we are into the new year, everyone is anxious to get going with plans for the 2013 season. There are a lot of exciting things to look forward to at all my local tracks. None of the area track's have released their schedule as of yet, but some have put out hints of what we will see once the new season gets underway.
Cornwall Speedway has an exciting schedule in store with the return of the World of Outlaw Late Models on Sunday, June 23rd, and the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars on Sunday, July 28th. It is expected that Cornwall will once again host Mr. DIRTcar series events for the Big Blocks, 358 Modifieds, Sportsman and Pro Stocks once again, as well as the three Canadian National Series events that we have seen in recent years.
Brockville Speedway has released some of their 2013 schedule, which will feature a new three race series of their own for the 358 Modifieds and Sportsman, as well as a two race series for the Rookie division. The 358 Modified series will have 50 lap features on Saturday, July 6th, Saturday August 10th and Saturday, August 31st. The Sportsman three race series will do battle on the same dates. The Rookie series will battle on June 15th and August 3rd.
Chapman's Can Am Motorsports Park has not announced their plans for the upcoming season as of yet, but a switch from Saturday night back to Friday night will take place. I did attend the Hangover Enduro at Can Am this past Weekend with a field of 18 cars doing battle in twin 40 lap races. It was great to get back to the track, and a nice way to break up the winter with a little racing action.
Mohawk Raceway has been fairly quiet over the off-season. They had intentions to drop the Pro Stock class, but an overwhelming turnout of racers from that division changed the minds of track officials when they held a meeting late in 2012. Their schedule is not out yet, but more information should be out in the next couple months.
Evans Mills Speedway has also made a change in their program for 2013, dropping the collective "Open Wheel" class in favor of the more traditional Northeast Style Modified division. The class will be open for Big Block/358 Modified/Crate Sportsman with different weight classifications that can be found on the Evans Mills Website.
December was a tough month for the racing community with the loss of several people that have helped make what dirt racing in this area has become today. Just before Christmas, Stan Friesen passed away. Stan was the grandfather of Modified star Stewart Friesen and was a big part of Ransomville Speedway. Just days later DIRTcar Hall of Fame racer Doug Hoffman passed away on Christmas eve. Hoffman was a legend in Dirt Modified racing, winning hundreds of races throughout the Northeast. Milton Johnson, father of Danny and Alan Johnson, and great racer back in the day himself also passed away just after Christmas. The loss of these three guys will have a huge impact of the racing community and will be missed by everyone.
With the racing season still a few months away, the next thing we can look forward to is the start of the NASCAR season. I make no secret that I am not a fan of Daytona and restrictor plate racing in general. However, I am looking forward to seeing how the new style car will effect the racing, and will be following how well my favorite driver Matt Kenseth does making the transition from a Roush Racing Ford to a Joe Gibbs Toyota. My prediction is that he will repeat as champion the 500, and over the course of the season will provide some much needed leadership to the entire Joe Gibbs operation.
It wont be long now and we will be back racing. There are some Pennsylvania area tracks that open in March, and as we get into April, tracks in New York begin to open up. As usual, Brockville, Cornwall, and Mohawk will begin their season in May. In the meantime, I look forward to the Canadian Motorsports Expo in Toronto on February 8th to 10th, the Gater News Motorsports Expo in Syracuse on March 9th and 10th and the annual Frontenac Mall Car Show in Kingston on March 21st to March 23rd. The car shows tend to get everyone ready for the upcoming season, as they mark the unofficial kickoff to the new racing season. Also, the banquets for all of my local tracks are coming up soon as well.
As always, any comments or suggestions can be sent to [email protected]. You can also visit me online at www.finishlinewebdesign.ca, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/crevelle, and on twitter at www.twitter.com/finishlineweb17
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Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face
January 11, 2021 by Siddhi Kamble
Entrepreneurship as a women profession might have been a distant dream in the past. But today, things look a lot different than they did a few decades ago.
Today, women entrepreneurs are making it big in the entrepreneurial world. The USA boasts about housing 12.3 million businesses that are owned by women.
But even today, men essentially dominate the world of entrepreneurship.
However, with the positive trend of inclusivity that we witness now, more and more women are making their way into this profession.
But making a mark doesn't come as easy to women in this world as it does to men. Gender discrimination, prejudices, social stigma, etc., work against women of all ages and backgrounds. And these hurdles only intensify when we bring in intersectional experiences – that is – when race, nationality, and other social categories interweave with one's gender.
To shed light on women's problems as entrepreneurs, Women's Entrepreneurship Day is celebrated on the 19th of November.
But what challenges does women entrepreneurs face and why is hard for a women entrepreneur to succeed in a business venture?
Let's find out.
1 Lack of Financial Support
2 Multiple Societal Responsibilities
3 Social Stigma
4 Lack of Acknowledgment and Networking
5 Bottom-Line?
Lack of Financial Support
Finance is an essential component to start any business.
Due to existing cultural and gender biases, women find it difficult to secure funding from investors to start a business. A survey reported that only 25% of female entrepreneurs found investors for their business. Furthermore, 8% of these female entrepreneurs received only partial funding. According to a study, there is a $1.68 trillion investment gap between startups led by men and women.
Additionally, sexism plays a significant role in how venture capitalists choose what they would fund and what they would not.
Katherine Hays, the co-founder and CEO of Vivoom, claims that while VCs are comfortable investing in what she calls "girl stuff" – like renting dresses and selling baby wipes, they seem to underestimate women when it comes to tech-related startups.
As they cannot wholly rely on outside financing to start a business, they are compelled to fund their ventures. Bootstrap financing forces women to struggle with a tight budget, which essentially restricts growth to some extent.
Initiatives like the Gender Lens Investment Initiative are actively working towards promoting gender lens investing. Gender Lens Investing refers to the practice of investing in women with the sole motive of women empowerment.
Multiple Societal Responsibilities
Women entrepreneurs often find themselves in a dilemma where they have to choose between business and family. This is a typical case of role conflict.
Society demands from women that they be good mothers and good wives. This often pushes women back inside their houses as choosing work over family seems dishonourable to society.
In such cases, the woman's business takes a back seat.
Entrepreneurship demands time and commitment, but a woman's familial roles don't allow her the same. A woman's earnings from a business reflect how women spend significantly less time on their business than men.
As a result, women earn lesser than men from self-employment.
Another factor is insecurity.
According to a study by HBR, women are less willing to take risks than men, mostly due to societal pressure, prejudice, and perception. As a result, most women prefer jobs over starting their business ventures.
This risk-averse personality poses as a challenge in running a successful business or a startup.
Social Stigma
Throughout human history, women have been assigned a status inferior to men in society.
Their capabilities are questioned in the business world, which only bogs their confidence down.
The mindset held by most men in the entrepreneurial world underestimates women. It is often assumed that, as compared to men, women lack regulatory and administrative requirements. They also believe that women cannot develop a business mindset by keeping their emotions aside.
Moreover, when women demonstrate leadership qualities, they are perceived negatively. Some might take them as "bossy", others might call them "aggressive". This is because society expects women to behave in a certain way – graceful, polite, obedient. Any behaviour other than that expected from them is looked at as unacceptable. These women, sadly, are considered as undeserving of their respect. All of these factors might result in women losing their confidence.
The patriarchal society doesn't accept women in leadership roles. To some, working under women is considered disgraceful and simply outrageous.
Lack of Acknowledgment and Networking
Another challenge that women face in the entrepreneurship world is that they often remain unacknowledged, or simply put, the industry does not take them seriously.
This exclusive environment and lack of respect for time and efforts that women put into their businesses often lead to female entrepreneurs doubting themselves. Eventually, it hinders them from reaching their full potential.
Additionally, as a result of this exclusionary environment, women's business networks are often smaller than men. This results from a fear of judgment, backed by self-doubt which hinders women from openly discussing their businesses, and consequently, missing out on opportunities to get people involved in their businesses.
To tackle this isolation environment, women take the aid of group networking, which are essentially women entrepreneurship groups that provide women with mentors and peers to guide them along with their endeavours.
Bottom-Line?
More and more women are casting off their chains and entering a world dominated by men. Women entrepreneurs like Cher Wang, co-founder, CEO and Chairwoman of HTC and Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble are great examples of women making a mark in the entrepreneurial world.
While it brings us delight to know that women finally realise their potential, it is also integral for society to play its part in encouraging women. There is a need for women's representation in such leadership roles.
The first step towards this would require the world to move beyond its biases and let women come forth and display their potential. This will inspire more and more girls to unlock their potential and break existing stigmas, eventually clearing the way for more women to transmute their vision into reality.
Did we miss something? Come on! Tell us what you think about our article on women entrepreneur challenges in the comments section.
Siddhi Kamble
A startup enthusiast who enjoys reading about successful entrepreneurs and writing about topics that involve the study of different markets.
by Siddhi Kamble


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More info on Claire Brosseau
Claire Brosseau: Wikis
Claire Brosseau (born Claire Elyse Brosseau, February 24, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is a graduate of John Abbott College in Montreal and the Neighborhood Playhouse acting school in New York City.
She works in film, television, theatre and musical theatre. She lives in Toronto but often works in Montreal. In 2003, she was nominated in the Best Actress category for a MECCA (Montreal English Circle Critics Award) for her portrayal of Louise in Daniel MacIvor's Marion Bridge.
Her film credits include: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), My First Wedding (2004), Geraldine's Fortune (2004), Phil the Alien (2005), A Previous Engagement (2005), The Ecstasy Note (2006), Framed for Murder (2007), The Love of Her Life (2008), Girl's Best Friend, and Who is KK Downey? (2008).
Her television credits include: Ciao Bella (2003), Petits mythes urbains (2004), Dr. Norman Bethune (2006), and The Business (2007).
In 2007, Brosseau was chosen to represent Montreal in the Homegrown Competition at the international Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.
Claire Brosseau at the Internet Movie Database
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The Eisner Award Winning team of David and Maria Lapham bring you the next volume in the Stray Bullets Trade Paperback Collection. Stray Bullets: Dark Days tells the story of Beth and Virginias time in Los Angeles fourteen-year-old Virginia's growing relationship with the young boy Bobby and the horrible kidnapping that rips apart all of their lives. This is a gut-wrenching noir thriller of small joys big horrors and the crushing weight of guilt...It collects Stray Bullets Numbered 23-30.


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Q: How to rewrite store view code in Nginx? I have some trouble to fix this issue.
I have a Magento 2 installation with two websites and several store views:
https://www.websiteone.com/onenl
https://www.websiteone.com/oneen
https://www.websiteone.com/onede
https://www.websitetwo.com/twonl
https://www.websitetwo.com/twoen
https://www.websiteotwo.com/twode
Magento wants every store view code to be unique, so we've made them unique.
Now I want to rewrite them to shorter urls like:
https://www.websiteone.com/nl
https://www.websitetwo.com/nl
But I'm not able to get it working. I tried several things like:
location /onenl/ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    rewrite ^onenl/(.*)?$ nl/$1 break;
}

or
location /onenl {
    rewrite ^onenl nl last;
}

I or get a 404 CMS page not found from our base store view. Or I get an nginx 404 not found and in this situation I think he doesn't understand to fire up index.php.
What am I missing? :)
Thanks!


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Q: gem install encoding error I recently install ruby in my computer and when I tried to install sass or compass I encountered this error.
Home@HOME-PC ~
$ gem -v
2.2.2

Home@HOME-PC ~
$ gem install compass
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)
U+200F to IBM862 in conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 to IBM862

Home@HOME-PC ~
$ gem install sass
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Encoding::UndefinedConversionError)
U+200F to IBM862 in conversion from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 to IBM862

what caused this error? and how do I fix it?

A: There is a bug in windows some have encountered https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/1025
some have reported being able to change the codepage to fix it. From prompt run:
chcp 1252

then do your gem install again

A: @amit-choukroune's comment helped me:
Editing the "C:\Ruby21-x64\lib\ruby\2.1.0\win32\registry.rb" (according to your real install directory)
and change LOCALE constant:
LOCALE = Encoding::UTF_8


•So the first thing I do is brush out my brows with a spooly. I use the Anastasia Beverly Hills #7B brush. It's a great little synthetic brush with a spooly on the opposite end. It works amazing with the ABH Dipbrow pomade as well!
•Then I go in with the Glossier Boy Brow in medium and run that through generously. I know most people use just this on its own or if they use it in conjunction with another product, they use it at the end but for me, I like to use it as a guide to see where I really need to add more "hairs". This also gets them to the desired darkness for me so when I go in with the Dipbrow after, it's not as harsh looking. After that I'll go back with the spooly just to brush out any excess product that I may have gone in to heavy handed with.
•Next, I work a little bit of the ABH dipbrow pomade (I use Ash Brown) on to the lid or back of my hand with the 7B brush and then go in with a very light hand and draw little hair-like strokes wherever I'm missing them, generally in the front, arch and tail. If I go too heavy handed, I'll take the spooly and brush over those spots. I continue to do this back and forth between my right and left brow, making sure they're relatively even until they look about right to me.
•Once my brows look the right colour, shape and thickness, I'll run over them with clear mascara or brow gel.
•To clean them up underneath, I use a little bit of concealer and buff it out so the line isn't so harsh.
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To outline the content of a core communication curriculum (What to Teach) suitable for all professional groups undergoing undergraduate training in health related subjects.
The Health Professions Core Communication Curriculum (HPCCC) is an international consensus statement based on previous national statements, existing literature, and a Delphi consensus process based on feedback from 121 communication experts from 15 professional fields and 16 European countries. The statement aims to guide communication teachers in all health care disciplines helping them to develop, refine and evaluate what should be taught as part of their own communication curriculum.
Members of EACH can also find the link to the HPCCC on the webpage Curriculum models. The HPCCC can serve as a guide to communication teachers in all health care disciplines in developing, refining and evaluating curriculum.
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Q: Logical OR vs Logical Addition According to this tutorial on Exclusive-OR Gate

The logic or Boolean expression given for a logic OR gate is that for Logical Addition which is denoted by a plus sign, (+).

However, in my understanding
1 OR 1 =1
1 + 1 = 0 (1 carryover)
How come that logical OR is the same as logical addition?

A: The + operator has different meaning depending on the operands (1 and 1 in your case), e.g.:

*

*Decimal numbers: 1 + 1 = 2 (decimal), where + means decimal addition

*Binary numbers: 1 + 1 = 10 (1 is carried over for 1 bit), where + means binary addition

*Logical / Boolean: 1 + 1 = 1, where + means logical OR

*Text: "abc" + "def", where + means text concatenation

*Array/Lists: [1, 2] + [3, 4] = [1, 2, 3, 4], where + means list concatenation
Actually, + can be defined depending on the context, where the first three examples are assumed trivial, and the last two can be used in some programming languages, all using the same '+' sign/operator to denote different functions/meanings.

A: That site is a bit confused in its syntax use.
Let's make this clear: '+' means arithmetic addition. A sum of two one-bit numbers produces one sum bit and one carry. This is called a half-adder. A full adder extends this to include a carry-in bit.
Anyway, In logic, a one-bit half-adder is a XOR function for sum and OR for the carry. That is, for an adder with inputs a and b:

*

*sum = a XOR b

*carry = a AND b

Ancient History
Some primitive logic design languages used the '+' symbol for OR and '*' symbol for AND. When I say 'primitive', I mean really old, obsolete design entry methods like PALASM (c. 1976 or so) and some early university-developed tools.
This isn't the case anymore.  Modern hardware description languages don't use arithmetic symbols for logic operators.
Verilog uses bar and ampersand symbols for OR and AND logicals, similar to the C language:

*

*'|' (vertical bar) for bitwise OR

*'||' for logical OR

*'&' (ampersand) for bitwise AND

*'&&' for logical AND

VHDL uses keywords 'or', 'and', 'xor', etc. for logic ops.
In both VHDL and Verilog, '+' and '*' are only for arithmetic.
And now, that half-adder in Verilog:

*

*sum = a ^ b;   // exclusive-or

*carry = a && b;   // OR


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Wisconsin Edition
The Wisconsin Truth-O-Meter
Claims in the Scott Walker-Mary Burke race about jobs
By Dave Umhoefer on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014 at 10:02 a.m.
Dueling claims about jobs gained and jobs lost have marked the 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial race.
Scott Walker's pledge to create 250,000 private-sector jobs -- made when he was a candidate in 2010 and rated by us as a Promise Broken -- has reverberated throughout the 2014 campaign for governor. Both he, challenger Mary Burke and others have made a number of jobs-related claims. Here's how we've rated some key ones.
"We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since I've been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of (Jim) Doyle's time as governor."
-- Scott Walker, June 19th, 2014 in a news conference
Mostly True: Walker is right on the numbers that show Wisconsin did gain more jobs in his first three years as governor than Doyle, his predecessor as governor, did in his eight years. The blame goes in large part, though, to the Great Recession, not Doyle.
New jobs numbers are in, and Wisconsin has "fallen to dead last in Midwest job growth."
-- Mary Burke, on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 in a television ad
The ad also ignores the most recent 12-month performance -- a common yardstick for economists -- that says Wisconsin's performance improved and was better than two other Midwest states among the 10 states she cited.
Mary Burke's "record: 130,000 fewer jobs."
-- Republican Governors Association, Sept. 23, 2014 campaign TV ad
False: That job-loss number corresponds to Doyle's second term, not Burke's time as head of the state Commerce Department -- a period that saw an increase. Even with the most charitable of possible interpretations, the number is wrong.
"(Mary) Burke's company," Trek Bicycles, "makes 99% of their bikes overseas."
-- Scott Walker, July 22, 2014 campaign TV ad
Mostly True: The best available numbers, from Trek's own mouth, lend credence to the 99 percent claim, as do the best educated guesses by industry analysts. So the ad's main thrust is correct. Calling Trek "Burke's company" is somewhat problematic, though. She held a management position there and still owns stock, but she left a decade ago and seven years before the 2011 story that yielded the 99 percent figure.
Job creation has gotten worse each year that Scott Walker has been governor.
-- Mary Burke, Sept. 29, 2014 radio interview
False: The data says that's not the case -- it's been an up and down performance. And employers have continued to add jobs, albeit not at a strong pace.
Also in this series: Taxes and state budget, education, income and wages, business growth, higher education and miscellaneous items.
Researchers: Dave Umhoefer
Names in this article: Mary Burke, Jim Doyle, Republican Governors Association, Scott Walker
PolitiFact Wisconsin items as noted
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Study Offers New Information for the Fight Against Influenza
Ralph Tripp is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Development in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.
The influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, University of Georgia researchers are finding new strategies for therapies and vaccines, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
The researchers studied RNA interference to determine the host genes influenza uses for virus replication.
All viruses act as parasites by latching onto healthy cells and hijacking the cells' components, essentially turning the cell into a factory that produces copies of the virus. This process begins when influenza binds to sugars found on the surface of host cells in the lung and respiratory tract. Once attached, the virus downloads its genetic information into the nucleus of the cell, and virus replication begins.
"Viruses contain very minimal genetic information and have evolved to parasitize host cell machinery to package and replicate virus cells. Because virus replication is dependent on host cell components, determining the genes needed for this process allows for the development of novel disease intervention strategies that include anti-virals and vaccines," says study co-author Ralph Tripp, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and chair of animal health vaccine development in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.
"We have the technology today that allows us to target specific genes in human cells and silence those genes to inhibit the production of virus in the cells," he says.
RNA interference, which was first discovered as the mechanism that effects color change in petunia breeding, is now being applied to medical advancements. Using RNAi silencing technologies, Tripp's lab was able to identify key host cell pathways needed by influenza virus for replication.
"We have a very limited toolbox for treating influenza," Tripp says. "There are two medications currently used to treat flu infections, but virus resistance has developed to these drugs. Our studies have identified several novel host genes and associated cell pathways that can be targeted with existing drugs to silence virus replication."
Understanding which genes can be silenced to inhibit growth of viruses opens the medicine cabinet for the repurposing of existing drugs.
Existing antiviral drugs slow influenza virus replication by preventing the virus from releasing itself from its host cell. These treatments target the virus, which is able to rapidly mutate to avoid drug sensitivity. In contrast, drugs that target host genes work more effectively because host genes rarely change or mutate.
"If we target a host gene, the virus can't adapt," Tripp says. The influenza virus "may look for other host genes in the same pathway to use, which may be many, but we have identified the majority of preferred genes and can target these genes for silencing."
The influenza A virus has eight single RNA strands that code for 11 proteins. Recent studies suggest it may need several dozen host genes to reproduce. Turning off the apex, or signaling, gene can cause the reproduction sequence to stall.
"Through this research we can repurpose previously approved drugs and apply those to influenza treatments, drastically reducing the time from the laboratory to human medicine," says Victoria Meliopoulos, a UGA graduate student and co-author of the study. "We can manipulate the cellular microenvironment to increase the viral yield during vaccine manufacturing."
Meliopoulos said these discoveries can be used to create new anti-viral drugs and develop better vaccines that can be used to treat patients with influenza. This technology also can be used to improve medications for other viruses like hepatitis and polio.
The technology allows the researchers "to establish a comprehensive roadmap of human genes modulated during influenza virus infection to better understand these disease mechanisms and to identify novel targets for anti-influenza therapy," says Lauren Andersen, a UGA graduate student and co-author of the study.
Influenza is the world's leading cause of morbidity and mortality; seasonal viruses affect up to 15 percent of the human population and cause severe illness in 5 million people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the U.S., financial losses caused by seasonal influenza are estimated to exceed $87 billion annually.


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How can you tell apart a Porteño (person from Buenos Aires) from other Spanish-speakers in Argentina and other countries? It's easy, just listen to the slang.
Spanish from Buenos Aires is characterised by Lunfardo, a dialect of Spanish developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. While it was originally spoken by the lower classes, it is now widely spoken by all in the city, with some terms spreading to other parts of the country and the other side of the Rio de la Plata.
Che, enough history, let's look at some of the top slang from Buenos Aires!
Boludo/a – Another word spoken with high frequency in the Argentine capital, boludo literally means someone with large testicles, although it isn't used in this way (and can also be used for women and children). The meaning depends largely on context. It is a way of calling someone an idiot, but is also used as an affectionate term for a friend, or as a casual interjection. So if someone calls you a boludo, read the room before getting offended!
Flash – Used as an exclamation, this means cool or awesome. So when Messi scores a goal, you could exclaim "Qué flash!" or "Es un flash!". It can also be used as a verb, flashear.
Mala leche – Literally meaning bad milk, this phrase means a situation or person with bad intentions. It can describe a person ("Tiene mala leche" – you have bad luck) or can be used to describe a situation ("Qué mala leche!").
Pedo – This word, meaning fart, has a number of common expressions. "Ni en pedo" – no way, not a chance; "En pedo" – to be drunk; "Al pedo" – for nothing, a waste of time; and "Subo como pedo de buzo" – translated literally as to go up like a scuba diver's fart, this expression refers to climbing the social ladder.
La verdad de la milanesa – The truth of the milanesa (breaded steak or chicken, similar to a schnitzel). This means the real deal, or the plain truth.
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Are we protecting the well-being of egg donors?
According to the World Health Organization 8-12% of women are unable to conceive without medical facilitation. The last 25 years have brought about hope for those facing infertility, with spectacular scientific developments in assistive reproductive technologies (ARTs): technologies that assist in achieving and monitoring a pregnancy. One example being in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The use of donor eggs in IVF treatment has become an increasingly popular option for women experiencing difficulties achieving pregnancy, spurring markets for egg donors. Multiple jurisdictions have developed legislation in order to regulate the use of ARTs and the resulting markets, citing as an objective: protection of the well-being of individuals engaging with ARTs. Differences across jurisdictions are most prevalent in regards to reimbursement and compensation for gamete (i.e. sperm and egg) and embryo donation, as well as for surrogacy. In Canada, for instance, only reimbursement of egg donor expenses is permitted, whilst in the USA women can be paid for their eggs. Egg donation is a complicated, time-consuming and invasive procedure. There are risks to a woman's physical health and mental well-being. For women in particular, ARTs and the market that stems from them have brought about a variety of concerns and dilemmas. Pertinent to egg donation are concerns around donor autonomy when engaging with these technologies – centrally, the role that compensation plays in these markets. There are concerns for women surrounding the business side of egg donation: concerns of a conflict of interest on the part of clinicians and researchers. Also, egg donation brings with it opportunities of coercion by financial incentive or other. Legislation in various jurisdictions has been put in place in order to limit risks stemming from the use of ARTs. While many feminists have critically evaluated the impact of ARTs, less attention has been placed on the impact of ART regulation, specifically, whether regulation seeks to alleviate concerns for participants, such as egg donors. The predominant regulation debate regarding egg donation has centred on whether or not egg donors should be compensated. And if so, how much? Making compensation debates the dominant focus, however, has perhaps misconstrued our perception of the problem by diverting our attention from all components of the issue. A core issue of ARTs, for instance, is that the market for egg donors is a unique one – fuelled by intended parents willing to go to great lengths to conceive, including crossing international borders to go to jurisdictions where donors may be more available. Neglecting these components inhibits us from creating legislation that might help us in achieving our goal: to best protect the well-being of individuals, such as egg donors, engaging with ARTs. For instance, if our goal is to 'protect' the well-being of donors should this not include those women beyond the physical boundaries of our own jurisdiction? ART regulation in all jurisdictions should not be blindly assumed to fulfil its goals and needs to be considered in its context: a legal system that has often failed to encapsulate female reproduction. We need to look beyond the compensation debate. In order to address all concerns, ART legislation might best be critically evaluated in terms of whether it helps to solidify systems that promote donor well-being. Promoting donor well-being should perhaps include regulation that enhances a donor's ability to determine whether donation is a good decision for them. Also, through regulation such as around medical practice that minimises harm to a donor's physical well-being. It is important that we remain mindful that the ramifications of our 'solution' to the dilemmas posed by egg donation should not be any less scrutinised than the dilemmas posed by the technologies themselves. *Katie Hammond is a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She recently completed her MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, and will be starting her PhD at the University of Cambridge in fall 2012 as a Smuts International Scholar. She is exploring the experiences of egg donors and the impact of regulation surrounding egg donation, focusing on Canada. Picture credit: Creative Commons and kicksie.
How can the international community help Belarus?
Last Sunday represented a tipping point in the recent history of Belarus which has had an immediate effect on the lives of its citizens, including mine. Independent exit polls and observers representing the diplomatic community, verified by the crowdsourcing platform Golos, show that, had it been a fair and transparent election, the uninterrupted, 26-year-long reign […]
How COVID-19 holds a mirror up to our societies
Being a Chinese student at a British university in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic provides an interesting perspective on our different societies' approach to COVID-19, says Jingwen (Alice) Fan.
Towards a better, more global approach to traumatic brain injury
In 2014 Hafsa Durrani tragically lost both of her brothers in a terrorist attack at Army Public School and College in Peshawar, where the terrorists executed 148 people in the school's auditorium – 132 students, all the teachers, a lab assistant, a guard and the principal. Five years on, Hafsa, who is from a Pashtoon […]
Private money interests at the heart of Hong Kong protests
Another round of resistance was recorded over the weekend between protesters in Hong Kong and the Chinese government. Organisers of the previous Sunday's pro-democracy rally estimated that 1.7 million Hong Kongers poured into city streets. Much of the news commentary depicts a David vs. Goliath standoff in which Hong Kong can only lose. Yet this view overlooks an […]


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This will be my last post for a little while. I'm leaving on vacation today, driving with a friend to Yellowstone, then later to Canada. So for the next two weeks my internet use will be limited. I'll see you later. Please try and have fun without me.
The concept: take a Legion of Super-Heroes cover and re-work it, modeling the new design after some other classic DC/Marvel comic cover from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. This is the cover to issue 259, when Superboy leaves and the Legion gain their independent title, modeled after Teen Titans issue #14. Here's a link to the rest of the Gallery.
Since it was only my second time attending, Baltimore Comic-Con is still very new and fresh to me. But in the short time I've known her, I've been impressed by every aspect of this convention. It's just a 2 day show that could easily be 3. Saturday especially, the aisles were packed with eager con-goers. I mean seriously packed, San Diego style. The place was hopping. Financially speaking, I had my most successful con in over 6 years of selling my wares on convention floors. And I had a great time. Hanging out with friends at my table, and especially after hours, is time that is always well spent. As with this year's Heroes Con, I roomed with talented friends E C Steiner and Christian Sager. We all sat in Artist Alley next to each other along with our extremely talented friend Robert Wilson IV. I couldn't want for better company. All weekend was filled with lots of great conversation, laughs, and some thrown objects here and there. I travelled to Baltimore from Pittsburgh with the incomparable fellows from Action Lab: Chad Cicconi and Bryan Seaton. I was very excited to hear that they made a significant splash with their work this year. They're really doing it with this Action Lab thing and it's invigorating to watch. This is a show where I get to see lots of familiar faces, and I also got to make some great new friends. If I had all day to write this, I might be able to start listing names, but I don't, so I won't. I hope the friendships made and continued this year continue on for a long time. Awesome folks come to this show. The local crowd is always kind and enthusiastic. The organizers and volunteers really know what they are doing, and they create an outstanding event. The fellow creators and exhibitors who come from far and wide are a spectacularly varied and charming group.
My webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley had the great honor of being nominated for a Harvey Award this year, and on Saturday night I attended the ceremonies. Sure, we didn't win, but it was a real thrill to be there. And I'm not just saying that, either. I was seated at a table with Bob Shreck and Jim Starlin, I could peer over a couple tables and see Stan Lee sitting there. I mean, c'mon, how amazing is that? It's pretty damned amazing, if you ask me.
There are hundreds of moments for this past weekend that I will carry with me fondly. Will you get to read about them all here? No. They're mine. If you can, get yourself and your friends to a comic convention and make your own moments. If you can get to Baltimore Comic-Con next year, that would be a great place to start. I'll see you there.
A quick reminder, the voting for the Harvey Awards ends tomorrow. If you are involved in creating comics, don't forget to vote. And if you would be so kind, please consider my webcomic The Guns of Shadow Valley for the category of Best Online Work. Thanks!


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It was good to be able to see who was online and who was offline. I also enjoyed the call statistics.
We had so many troubles with this product particularly because my phone was an Android and most of the other employees were mac. However, the problems encountered were not just on my android phone but also my mac and throughout the company. From onboarding which was far too quick and quiet presentation by Parakeet's account management team to the implementation, there were a lot of issues. Sometimes the client couldn't hear me or I couldn't hear them. The calls would drop unexpectedly and transferring was a nightmare. I also wish there had been a way where when transferring, I could have talked to the person I was transferring to before transferring the call. Finally, I had to be literally taken off the queue every night or it would continue to call my phone regardless of if I was set to away or not.
It was extremely easy to set up and had simple functionality that I liked. Paired well with Apple phones.
Calls would get dropped too often and this did not pair well with android phones. When transferring calls did work, you wouldn't have the functionality to put the person on hold to tell the person you're transferring then anything about why they were being transferred.


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ACF Culinary Team USA Gears Up for Culinary World Cup
The ACF Culinary Team USA has been busy preparing for the 2024 IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart, Germany, but ahead of that, six of the team members will be traveling to Luxembourg to compete this month in the Villeroy & Boch Culinary World Cup, Nov. 27-30.
Similar to the Culinary Olympics, there will be two main competitions: Restaurant Nations and Chef's Table. For the Restaurant Nations, "we will prepare 110 portions of a starter course, a seafood dish, entrée and dessert," ACF Chef and Team Captain Dan Holtgrave, CEC, says. "We have an hour to setup, and then production time is six hours and there is a two-hour service window. During the service, we will have an expo just like you would at a restaurant and will be preparing food for actual guests who have bought tickets to the event."
For the Chef's Table portion of the competition, the team will prepare a seven-course meal for 12 people, again with a six-hour production time and two-hour service window. Instead of a restaurant setup, the presentation will be buffet-style and include a dip and finger food platter, a carved platter, a vegan course, main course, dessert and petit fours.
The team's last practices before the trip took place in September at Madison Technical College in Wisconsin, at Oregon Coast Culinary Institute in October, and in early November at Brightwater – NorthWest Arkansas Community College.
At these practices, "for the most part things are set in stone, but we're always tweaking everything," Chef Holtgrave says. At press time, the team was still finalizing the Chef's Table entrée course because the protein selection – dry-aged chuck roast and rump steak — had had just come out in late August. "That's always the curveball, but we had a feeling we knew what was coming—that's now one of the dishes I'm in charge of so I've been busy refining that."
Chef Holtgrave says the team has many strengths, chief among them the fact that everyone is so passionate about their work. "Up until last October, we had never practiced together, and [because of the pandemic] had to come together quite quickly. We've been able to do that because we've put our egos aside and are all level-headed and know what we need to do. It's a good group of human beings and everyone on the team has a positive attitude. There are ups and downs, of course, and we're all working chefs, but when we come to practice the first thing you'll see is a big smile on our faces because we've been looking forward to getting together."
The team maintains some Zoom calls to go over notes and weekly assignments and shares photos of dishes. "We're always engaged in conversation," Chef Holtgrave says. "It's a great team."
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That's all from me today. Sorry for the short post, but I've had another loooooooooong day and I am exhausted.
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Karuna Therapeutics to Present Data from the Phase 3 EMERGENT-2 Trial of KarXT in Schizophrenia at the 35th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress
By: Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. via Business Wire
Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company driven to create and deliver transformative medicines for people living with psychiatric and neurological conditions, today announced that data from the Phase 3 EMERGENT-2 trial of KarXT in schizophrenia will be shared at the 35th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress, to be held October 15-18, 2022, in Vienna, Austria. A poster presentation and symposium will include previously reported efficacy and safety data, as well as new additional safety data from the trial.
"We look forward to presenting additional analysis from the positive Phase 3 EMERGENT-2 trial, which furthers our understanding of the safety and efficacy profile of KarXT, and reinforces its potential as a new and differentiated treatment in schizophrenia," said Stephen Brannan, M.D., chief medical officer of Karuna Therapeutics. "There continues to be a tremendous unmet need among people living with schizophrenia, and we believe that KarXT, with its novel and unique mechanism of action, robust antipsychotic activity and differentiated safety and tolerability profile, has the potential to redefine what successful treatment of schizophrenia looks like."
Details of the poster presentation and symposium are as follows:
Poster Title: Safety and efficacy of KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) in patients with schizophrenia – results from a Phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (EMERGENT-2)
Poster Number: P.0193
Date & Time: Sunday, October 16, 2022, 7:00 – 8:25am ET
Presenter: Christoph U. Correll, M.D., Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health
Symposium Title: New Medications Symposium: Progress in Drug Development – New Medications and Clinical Trials
Presentation Title: Safety and efficacy of KarXT (xanomeline–trospium) in patients with schizophrenia: results from a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (EMERGENT-2)
Session Number: S07.05
Date & Time: Sunday, October 16, 2022, 9:30 – 10:50am ET
Presenter: Stephen Brannan, M.D., chief medical officer, Karuna Therapeutics
About KarXT
KarXT (xanomeline-trospium) is an oral, investigational M1/M4-preferring muscarinic agonist in development for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological conditions, including schizophrenia and psychosis in Alzheimer's disease. Comprised of muscarinic agonist xanomeline and muscarinic antagonist trospium, it is designed to preferentially stimulate muscarinic receptors in the central nervous system. KarXT is the first potential medicine of its kind with a truly new and unique dual mechanism that does not rely on the dopaminergic or serotonergic pathway to treat symptoms of serious mental illness. This approach has the potential to provide a differentiated therapy, and, if approved, to beneficially impact the lives of millions of people with serious mental illness.
About Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a chronic and often debilitating mental illness that impacts how one thinks, feels, and behaves. It is characterized by positive symptoms (hallucinations and delusions), negative symptoms (difficulty enjoying life and withdrawal from others), and cognitive impairment. Together these symptoms can severely impact quality of life and productivity, with only 10% of people gainfully employed and many struggling to meet adult milestones – such as living independently. The life expectancy of people living with schizophrenia is reduced by 10-20 years compared to the general population. Schizophrenia affects approximately 21 million people worldwide and is most commonly treated with antipsychotics. Unfortunately, many people with schizophrenia continue to experience limited efficacy or problematic side effects while on antipsychotic therapy, and up to 74% of patients discontinue medication before 18 months. When schizophrenia treatment is discontinued, it can lead to impacts on health including relapse, hospitalization, and longer time to remission.
About Karuna Therapeutics
Karuna Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company driven to create and deliver transformative medicines for people living with psychiatric and neurological conditions. At Karuna, we understand there is a need for differentiated and more effective treatments that can help patients navigate the challenges presented by serious mental illness. Utilizing our extensive knowledge of neuroscience, we are harnessing the untapped potential of the brain in pursuit of novel pathways to develop medicines that make meaningful differences in peoples' lives. For more information, please visit www.karunatx.com.
This press release contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding our expectations about the timing of our ongoing and planned clinical trials and regulatory filings, our goals to develop and commercialize our product candidates, our liquidity and capital resources and other statements identified by words such as "could," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," "potential," "should," "will," "would," or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Forward looking statements are not promises or guarantees of future performance, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, and which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. These factors include risks related to our limited operating history, our ability to obtain necessary funding, our ability to generate positive clinical trial results for our product candidates and other risks inherent in clinical development, the timing and scope of regulatory approvals, changes in laws and regulations to which we are subject, competitive pressures, our ability to identify additional product candidates, risks relating to business interruptions resulting from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and other risks set forth under the heading "Risk Factors" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by such forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements.
Views and opinions expressed in this release are those of Karuna Therapeutics and do not necessarily reflect opinions of ECNP.
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Lauren Sneider
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