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Sard History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The ancestors of the name Sard date back to the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name is derived from when the Sard family lived in Cheshire, where the family was found since the early Middle Ages. "Our antiquaries agree that Schirrard, who was resident in England, and held great possessions in the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire, temp. William Conqueror, is lineal ancestor to the present Earl of Harborough." [1] [2] Lord Sherard, Baron of Leitrim, was created in 1627 for Sir William Sherard, of Stapleford, Leicestershire. He was known as the Earl of Harborough in 1719.
The name could have been Norman in origin as two sources note the French influence. The first source notes that Godefridus Sirart was listed in Normandy (1180-1195) and that Adam Scirart was later found in Dorset in the 13th century. Hugh Scherhare was found in Rutland in 1267. [3]
The second source claims the name that name was derived from the Old English word "scir" meaning "bright" and the French suffix "(h)ard." [4]
Early Origins of the Sard family
The surname Sard was first found in Cheshire at Thornton, where the family was first listed in the 13th century. William Sherard who died in 1304 appears to be the first listing of the surname. [5]
Another source claims that William Shirard listed in the Assize Rolls of Staffordshire in 1298 as the oldest listing of the family. This latter source goes on to note that Richard Schirard was also found in Staffordshire in 1323. [4]
Another branch of the family was found at Stapleford in Leicestershire. This was home to Sir William Sherard, Lord Sherard, Baron of Leitrim created in 1627. His son, Bennet Sherard (1675-1732) would become the 1st Earl of Harborough. The church at Stapleford "was erected in 1783, by Robert, fourth Earl of Harborough and contains some fine monuments to the Sherard family, among which is one by Rysbrach, in memory of Bennet, the first earl." [6]
The Wills at Chester list: William Sherratt, of Moss Side, Manchester in 1588 and John Sherratt, of Church Lawton in 1604. [7]
Early History of the Sard family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Sard research. Another 94 words (7 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1304, 1670, 1588, 1640, 1621, 1700, 1675, 1732, 1675, 1732, 1680, 1750, 1623, 1695, 1660, 1666, 1738, 1659, 1728 and are included under the topic Early Sard History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Sard Spelling Variations
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, early Anglo-Saxon surnames like Sard are characterized by many spelling variations. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages, even literate people changed the spelling of their names. The variations of the name Sard include: Sherard, Sherrard, Sherrat, Shirrard and others.
Early Notables of the Sard family (pre 1700)
Notables of the family at this time include William Sherard, 1st Baron Sherard of Stapleford, Leicestershire (1588-1640); Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard (1621-1700); Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron Sherard (1675-1732); Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough (1675-1732); Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough (1680-1750); and Philip Sherard (1623-1695), an English soldier, landowner and...
Another 52 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Sard Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Sard family to Ireland
Some of the Sard family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Migration of the Sard family
Many English families tired of political and religious strife left Britain for the new colonies in North America. Although the trip itself offered no relief - conditions on the ships were extremely cramped, and many travelers arrived diseased, starving, and destitute - these immigrants believed the opportunities that awaited them were worth the risks. Once in the colonies, many of the families did indeed prosper and, in turn, made significant contributions to the culture and economies of the growing colonies. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Sard or a variant listed above: Alfred Sherrat, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1860; Francis Sherrard settled in Virginia in 1732; Bernard Sherrard arrived in New England in 1769; along with Nathaniel and Robert..
Contemporary Notables of the name Sard (post 1700) +
Thomas J. Sard, American politician, Prohibition Candidate for U.S. Senator from Delaware, 1942, 1948
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The Sard Motto +
Motto: Hostis honori invidia
Motto Translation: Envy is an enemy to honour.
^ Arthur, William , An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. London: 1857. Print
^ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)
^ Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
^ Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print.
^ Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
^ Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
Sard (English)


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2 Newport Art Museum shows interpret the identity of youth, adolescence
By Alexander CastroSpecial to Newport Daily News
Nov 13, 2019 at 12:01 AM Nov 13, 2019 at 12:48 PM
The Newport Art Museum unfolds these themes with two new shows, "Winslow Homer: America at Play" and "Forever Young," on view through Dec. 1 and 31, respectively.
NEWPORT — The other week, I dusted off my Pentax and took my cousin's senior portrait. The experience brought back memories of my own yearbook photo — a glossy, airbrushed lie. At 17, my forehead was acned, my complexion spotty. You wouldn't know it from looking at my senior picture.
The tradition of eternalizing our high school selves in yearbooks is weird and softly deceitful. But it's not too different from portraiture's origins, when wealthy patrons would pay painters for flattering likenesses, presumably ones that would last forever.
Yes, the tradition of portraiture is old — the tradition of children-as-individuals less so, and the existence of the teenager, even newer.
Curator Francine Weiss rarely shies away from her expertise of photography in collection-focused exhibits like these. As expected, there's a generous helping of gorgeous photographs on display. Weiss said she reached out to artists, galleries and institutions to widen the exhibit's scope and variety.
You might be glad she did, as one can now see the work from many thought-provoking photographers. There's Sally Mann, whose "Kelly and the Deer" juxtaposes dangling carcasses with a 12-year-old girl's androgynous swagger. Suzanne Révy's photos of her teenage sons avoid the traps and lures of the sentimental. "Reflection" is a perfectly apt title for a photo that will serve as such to anyone who's ever been a moody boy.
Indeed, much of the work in "Forever Young" (as Weiss' wall text points out) deals with "the belief that children have individual identities and psychological dimensions." A more-than-adequate survey emerges, detailing kids' and teens' appearances in art of the last three centuries.
So an obvious omission is work made by teenagers themselves. Yes, such inclusions could have risked juvenilia, and subjective distance is useful in a show about something universal. But teenagers' self-representation is nevertheless an important missing piece.
Swapping out the theme of individuality is the companion exhibit "America at Play." It consists of engravings of Winslow Homer's illustrations, created for popular magazines and weeklies in the 1860s and 1870s. Homer's images are mostly ones of collective joy. Compared with the contemporary works nearby, his sceneries are less about interior states than shared activities.
But Homer doesn't evaporate children's humanity. A memorable diptych, "Flirting at the Sea-shores and on the Meadow," compares fledgling feelings to adult ones. Puppy love fills the day, while passionate adults rendezvous at night, hiding behind the sound of waves.
As Weiss explains in the wall text, Homer's work "became part of the fabric of nineteenth-century visual culture." Engineered for nostalgia, Homer's prints offer, perhaps, an uncomplicated vision.
Back in "Forever Young," Cynthia Consentino takes on a much more troubling social reality. In "Erin" and "Girls with Guns," a girl statue (smirking, arms akimbo) is defended by a battalion of armed, doll-sized, silver girls. Its energy is ambiguous enough that it could be a myth or a meme, with its possible interpretations ranging from laughter to terror.
Conversely, myth becomes reality in Diane Arbus' photographs. Here, in a tiny square of silver gelatin, is one of Arbus' most famous images: "Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967."
According to the Mount Holyoke Art Museum, who loaned the print for this exhibit, the reverse contains a note inked by Arbus herself, written to a friend whom she missed at an exhibit opening. That this particular print was used as a postcard only enhances its intimacy, its totemic powers. I was reminded instantly that this is my favorite photograph.
The father of the twins pictured wasn't as impressed. Bob Wade told The Washington Post in 2005: "We thought it was the worst likeness of the twins we'd ever seen. ... I mean it resembles them. But we've always been baffled that she made them look ghostly."
A senior picture is an idealized representation; it's both alike and alien. "Identical Twins" is similar, presenting an ideal binary: one twin smiling, the other stoic. Together they form a contradiction, one that made me feel young and unsure all over again.
That we ourselves contain such opposites is a fact of existence we learn poignantly, sometimes painfully, in adolescence and beyond. As the philosopher Hegel wrote: "Every actual thing contains a coexistence of opposed elements."
Or, to put it another way: we are all identical twins from Roselle, New Jersey.

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Lewiston, ID – September 5, 2017 -Following up on a bid opening mid-December 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) yesterday delivered to the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport a blue-light special-a grant worth $1.7 million to add taxiway lights to the airfield's infrastructure.
The Airport Authority Board awarded the million-dollar installation contract to Johnson Electric, a Lewiston firm. Lights along the taxiways serving runway 26-08 are expected to be under construction early spring, while those associated with runway 12-30 will be done when that runway is under construction later in 2019.
Part of the Airport's master plan, the $1.8 million project not only replaces the blue reflectors that have been the staple visual aid since the 1940s, the project will also relocate and replace the vintage windsock, segmented circle, and traffic pattern indicators.
"A spin-off benefit is that we save the vintage tetrahedron, a locally favored wind indicator that dates back to the late 1940s," said Morgan.
By throwing its support behind the project, FAA will cover approximately 93.75 percent of the project cost. T-O Engineers will oversee construction and finish engineering to expand the system to cover the entire airfield.
The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport provides quick, cost-effective, convenient air service for North Central Idaho, Southeastern Washington, and Northeastern Oregon with daily non-stop flights Salt Lake City with connections anywhere in the world.


Pictured is Stephen Savage from New Driver NI with Marie-Therese McCartan, Ciara Maginness, Emily Rice, Lauren Ward and Claire O'Keefe from Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry.
Over one hundred Year 13 students at Our Lady's Grammar School, Newry have taken part in a safe motoring presentation, which aims to create a community of safe new drivers. The talk covers all elements of safe motoring including learning to drive, buying a car, insurance, looking after your vehicle and road safety.
New Driver Safety Ambassador Limited visit sixth forms in schools each year todeliver safe motoring presentations. Their aim is educate all new drivers and passengers on making good motoring decisions. All participants receive a free New Driver NI magazine and are asked to sign the New Driver pledge which includes the following 5 rules.
Not a Drop, Not a Drag!
Belt Up, Front & Back!
Stephen Savage, ProjectManager at New Driver Safety Ambassadors said "The programme has been runningfor over four years now. Feedback fromschools teachers and students is very positive. Making the pledge is a commitment to being as safe as possible on theroads.
"Too many young people are still losing their lives or being seriously injured on the roads across Northern Ireland. We want to see these figures reduce every year. We have set an ambitious target to get 10,000 pledges signed this year and we have made a good start since September.
The programme is completely free for schools as funding is provided by corporate sponsors including Charles Hurst First Time Buyer Centre, CRASH Services, Hankook Tyres, AB&C Insurance and JMK Solicitors. The Department for Infrastructure and some Policing and Community Safety partnerships also provide support. To make a school booking please contact Stephen Savage on 07793 198100 or email info@newdriverni.com.


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The Holy Spirit is speaking to God�s people. For those who listen and obey, they are about to move forward into the greatest outpouring of God�s Spirit that the world has ever known. But this is what I commanded them, saying, �Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. �Yet they... Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. read more.
We can know God is speaking to us because we have received the Spirit of God! The Spirit reveals the things of God to us through the Word, as we saw earlier in verse 13 . It is the Holy Spirit�s mission and delight to do this.
When the Holy Spirit is at work in our lives He speaks to us. But does that mean that every thought that runs through our heads is from God? How do you know when a prompting is from God and when it�s Satan whispering lies?


We had a meeting about the "Fright Night" plans on Wednesday November 27th. The outline ideas I'd suggested met with approval, which landed me with the job of writing a draft script… without actually taking over what should be a communal project incorporating the ideas of all concerned. So I wrote a draft script for about half the performance, added some notes on what I think should come next, and e-mailed it to everyone in the "Inspire Glossop" group yesterday evening (November 30th). I await responses. A copy of the e-mail went to my friend Libby, a valued member of our creative writing group who has more experience of dramatic productions that the rest of us (I have none at all, so this project has thrown me in at the deep end). Libby's advice and guidance will be gratefully received!
In the creative writing group we've been working on our application for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant and we plan to meet on Wednesday coming (4th) to sort out the preliminary stage. The following morning, Thursday 5th, will be our final rehearsal for the public performance-come-party on December 12th, when we hope to entertain a collection of civic dignitaries.


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Only in America: Government shutdown edition
Approximate two hours ago, at midnight, as the U.S. congress was unable to reach a resolution in passing the budget, a shutdown of the government happened, furloughing some 800,000 government workers and shuttering some non-essential agencies and services.
That is repeated ad nauseum; what's interesting is: how are the two polarised news sources — MSNBC on the left, and Fox News on the right — reporting this brouhaha?
For those not in the know, the Republican-held House in the Congress has been largely blamed for being unwilling to pass the budget without trying to force through language that aims to strip the Affordable Care Act, also popularly known as "Obamacare," from the bill.
Fox News has reported that lawmakers have "missed the deadline," emphasising that the shutdown would "limit access to national monuments, parks," and how the shutdown might impact travellers.
MSNBC, on the other hand, of course, was all "First shutdown in 17 years!" and various iterations of how the shutdown is impending doomsday.
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Rum Running in Highlands
Written by Muriel J Smith
Category: History and Happenings
PHOTO: Twin Light Hotel at the mouth of the Shrewsbury River. (from photo collection of Bob Johnson)
In spite of Andrew J. Volstead, that Minnesota congressman who authored the Act that tried to enforce the 18th amendment to the Constitution, Prohibition was an exciting time in the Bayshore and an era in history remembered with both grief and good humor.
While the Act, which banned intoxicating liquors to everyone in America, was later recognized as a 14-year social experiment it ended with the passage of the 21st amendment, which made it legal to drink again.
But along the Shrewsbury River, the Bayshore waterway that opened out to the Atlantic Ocean, the seafaring men who made their daily living fishing, clamming, lobstering and boat building, became the bootleggers, rum runners and smugglers who catered to the needs of a thirsty nation by night.
The age of the rum runner was a lively time for Highlands, and it's still an exciting memory for that generation who can still hear the soft purr of high speed boats, the taste of Usher's Green Stripe or Meyer's Perfection, and the names of those revered rum runners who plied the trade.
Respected smugglers, those who guaranteed unadulterated pure liquor, dealt with the wine, brandy and liquor shippers Maurice Meyer of London. The firm had been established in London in 1869 and was highly respected, both in England as well as in the USA where, during Prohibition, they only dealt with respectable, though clandestine, businessmen.
Meyers was aware of Prohibition for sure, but also aware of the public's resentment of it, and knew there was a need they could capably and safely fulfill. So, it designed a series of codes that were used by smugglers, issued fictitious names and London addresses where orders could be sent, and instructed their buyers in America to refer only to those code words and names in their cables and wires. Hence, the anonymity of the smugglers, and the respected firm's dealing with rumrunners, could be protected.
The specific codes were kind of fun, relating to flowers, fruits, or vegetables or meats that were familiar to the baymen. Buchanan's Black and White Scotch, for instance was known as roses, Hennessy's Three Star Brandy was apples. Even Moet and Chandon's champagne was known by a different name…peaches…, and gin was either salmon, mackerel or sold, depending on whether it was ordered in square or round bottles, or casks.
But all these folks were dealing outside the law, so in addition to keeping out of reach of law enforcement, they also faced dangers and death from others dealing in their same trade. These were the hijackers, those who made their living by stealing from the bootleggers.
One of the more famous stories of the era was the Saturday night that ended in murder right in the heart of Atlantic Highlands. Apparently, according to a newspaper report from the day, hijacker Frank LeConte of Newark, regarded as the supreme leader in hijacking circles, had a row with Robert Schneider, a good old Highlands fellow successful in the running trade. Seems that a while back, LeConte's men interrupted what was going to be a successful delivery of goods by Schneider's men some months before, and now there was a score to settle. So when Schneider spotted LeConte in Highlands this particular Saturday night, his men, led by Walter Keener and two sets of brothers in the business, George and Henry Nettinger and Ed and Ralph Bitter, pursued the hijacker out of town. LeConte so far as Center Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, but couldn't escape. As fate would have it, there was a train halted in the station, blocking the road. So everyone barreled out of their vehicles and a gun battle ensured. It's said LeConte was the first to be hit, nd was downed with a bullet in his stomach. Ralph Bitters took a shot to the shoulder, but it didn't stop him from carrying on the battle. And when it was all over, LeConte and at least six others were treated for wounds at the hospital in Long Branch, and a whole lot of them were charged with various crimes. LeConte didn't make it, and died at the hospital two days later. And when it came down to the law settling the difference, the brothers Bitters were charged with LeConte's murder. However, it didn't appear there were any witnesses, at least any witnesses willing to tell the story of what happened that Saturday night on Center Avenue, and there wasn't a Grand Jury around calling for an indictment. The brothers could return to plying their trade in Highlands.


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Olympiastadion
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Dynacord, Electro-Voice
Berlin's Olympiastadion is one of the most historic venues in the world, with its instantly recognisable design often the backdrop to some of the most memorable sporting events and concerts.
In August 2018, the European Athletics Championships were held at the venue, which made for an interesting summer, as the team at the stadium looked to significantly upgrade the audio system.
Frank Neubauer, Head of Technical at Olympiastadion, takes up the story: "The original audio system before the upgrade was from the original project back in 2004, so it had aged quite a lot in that time and was in need of a renovation.
"The project started in June, so there was around two months until the start of the European Athletics Championships – that was our deadline for completion of the new system. There was a lot of work to do in a short space of time. Plus, we had five concerts scheduled during that time, so it was vitally important that the existing audio system still worked during the upgrade for safety announcements at the events.
"The Championships were a big part of it, too – it had lots of announcements and music, so we had to make sure that the sound was perfect ahead of the event."
Having completed the audio installation back in 2004, Electro-Voice was once again enlisted to help upgrade the sound at the stadium. Back then, the German manufacturer won the project ahead of the 2006 World Cup and opted for an extensive, new sound system, featuring a state-of-the art XLC line arrays and Precision Series amplifiers by Electro-Voice.
"The Olympic Stadium was our first, big stadium reference in Germany and it was known as the best sounding stadium in Germany at that point," explained Fredi Palm, Application Consultant, ProSound for Electro-Voice and Dynacord. There was a clear brief from the team at the venue, which Christoph Meyer, Director of Events & Communications at Olympiastadion, explained further: "It is all about the experience when you're in the stadium. If you can't understand what is coming from the loudspeakers clearly, not only is it a safety risk, it's not particularly satisfying for those fans in the venue either."
The team wanted to invest in the latest audio technology, featuring IP and Dante. On top of that, energy-saving features had to be considered, along with lowering the total cost of ownership. Lastly, the new audio system had to comprise enough headroom for higher sound pressure levels and even better intelligibility, as well as offering the option for powerful sound reproduction for music playback.
With all this taken into consideration, the decision was made to stick with the loudspeaker design that was originally installed in 2004. Instead of completely replacing the loudspeakers, Electro-Voice's system engineers, working closely with the application support department at the stadium, decided that the best course of action was to upgrade the existing XLC 127 loudspeakers to the more powerful high-performance DVX versions.
"The existing 171 Electro-Voice XLC 127 two-way line array elements were upgraded to the XLC127 DVX versions with high-performance DVX drivers. The previous XLC line array worked in biamp mode using passive crossover network for mid/hi, now the XLC line array is driven fully active in triamp mode," said Fredi.
"Dynacord IPX series DSP amplifiers were the ideal choice in terms of installation flexibility, supporting Dante audio thanks to OMNEO IP-architecture and superior sound quality.
"Besides, IP technology featuring Dante leaves all options for future expansion. It also allows constant supervision and monitoring of all parameters of the entire sound system via IRIS-Net software and the customised GUI."
The 64 IPX10:4 amplifiers used at Olympiastadion handle the signal processing in its entirety, offering the highest performance, internal analogue-to-digital conversion with ultra-low latency, and a superior signal-to-noise ratio. The three DSP blocks are split into user, array and loudspeaker processing controls, each featuring a wide range of equalisation, delay, level options and even asymmetric filters to adapt to almost any application. Complete remote control and supervision is available via the powerful IRIS-Net software, allowing system parameters, such as online, power, temperature, network status and mains power to be constantly monitored. This allows for the creation of a fully-customisable graphical user interface.
"In terms of an installation point of view, our amplifiers have more power while using significantly less rack space. They consume a lot less energy, too, due to technology called Eco Rail that's patented by Dynacord," added Fredi.
Elsewhere, two N8000 amplifiers are used for collection and distribution of audio signals and as an interface to the EVAC system. The stadium's mixing console is a Soundcraft VI3000.
The new audio configuration made its debut at the European Athletics Championships, as per the plan. The whole audio system works flawlessly and has a powerful sound reproduction with even coverage and improved intelligibility. The energy consumption of the entire sound system could be reduced to even more than 50%, according to the Olympiastadion team, who were left delighted with the upgrade.
"With the new system, it is so much clearer in terms of audio coverage. For example, in the stands, you can address people directly. Before that, the sound just wasn't clear enough – especially with the crowd noise – but now, that just isn't a problem," Christoph revealed.
Frank added: "Normally for the Championships, we need additional boxes for the lower tiers, however, with this system, that's no longer needed. That really highlights the improvements that have been made. We are really, really happy."
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Aryzta bakery profits hit by UK and Ireland downturn
Aryzta has announced negative growth in bakery for the six months ended 31 January 2010, with its UK and Irish markets seeing the highest revenue decline.
Its food business, which is primarily focused on speciality bakery, saw underlying growth fall 10.1% in its European arm, with revenue down 7.7% to €533.6m. Operating profit for Food Europe stood at €60.7m, down 5.1%.
Its bakery business has a wide customer base including convenience retail, restaurants, gas stations, catering and hotels. Chief executive officer Owen Killian said credit availability remained difficult for many customers "who need to maintain and develop their consumer-facing investment", which led to customers reducing costs and postponing investment decisions.
According to a statement from Aryzta, consumers continued to switch channels during the period, with foodservice more impacted than retail. However, some growth came from new customers in Continental Europe. Meanwhile, underlying growth in Food North America dropped 2.7% although Aryzta's Developing Markets division saw growth of 3.4%.
The firm formed in August 2008 through the merger of Irish company IAWS and Swiss bakery firm Hiestand. It is a mix of business-to-business and consumer brands, including Hiestand, Cuisine de France and Delice de France.
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This is the Master EPROM for 32 in 1. Notice how it says Console on it rather than Game Rom? This particular version of 32 in 1 was meant to be built into the 2600 jr. console. It differs from the cartridge version by a few bytes which check to see if a game cartridge is put into the slot (if not the built in 32 in 1 comes up). Why Atari never released a 2600 with 32 in 1 built in is unknown, but the part number seems to indicate that this version came before the cartridge version. Perhaps Atari decided that bundling new 2600 jr.'s with a cartridge was more cost effective than having the game built in?


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News: Leaders consider next steps for devolution deal
Local authority leaders from across the Sheffield city region (SCR) are scheduled to meet next week to consider how to proceed with its £900m devolution deal.
Last month, Sir Nigel Knowles, chair of the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), said that the deal "hangs in the balance" and urged the local politicians to "maintain a focus on growth and make devolution happen."
As part of a deal with central government, a Mayoral Combined Authority (CA) is set to be created, building on the 2013 agreement which saw the nine local authorities that comprise the city region create a new legal body with responsibility for transport, economic development and regeneration.
The current combined authority is scheduled to meet on July 17 with the devolution deal top of the agenda.
It follows on from Chesterfield and Bassetlaw Councils withdrawing their applications to be full members of the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority. Currently non-constituent members, the councils had signalled their intention to join the Combined Authority but a legal challenge from Derbyshire County Council over the consultation delayed the mayoral election from taking place this year.
A paper to the CA states that the decisions to withdraw was "disappointing, but entirely understandable news, for the CA and LEP." A fresh round of consultation planned for July has already been scrapped.
The paper adds: "Considering the decisions taken by Bassetlaw District Council and Chesterfield Borough Council as well as the uncertainty arising from the outcome of the general election means that the SCR CA now needs to consider the next steps to take forward the Deal. The CA is requested to consider and discuss this issue and decide what the next step should be.
"Both the Combined Authority and the LEP have expressed their disappointment at the decisions of Chesterfield and Bassetlaw – whilst entirely respecting the decision of these two authorities and their reasons for doing so. The SCR has successfully worked as a partnership to date – and there is nothing to stop the area continuing to do so in the future. In particular, this includes the delivery of SEP and associated programme of Growth Deal investment."
The £900m devolution deal includes a new gain share deal within an envelope of £30m a year for 30 years – giving the SCR the power to use new funding to boost local growth and invest in local manufacturing and innovation. In return, the Government will require a directly elected mayor to hold accountability for the new powers.
Jake Berry, the newly-appointed Northern Powerhouse minister is quoted in today's Yorkshire Post setting out his Government's stance on there not being a Yorkshire-wide devolution deal.
The MP said: "Devolution is about giving control to cities. Sheffield goes first. Next May people in the Sheffield region will elect a mayor and I share the strong view of local business leaders that the deal we signed in October 2015 remains the right deal for Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield. Indeed, it's the only deal that's there for those areas."
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I'm trying to remain polite here
I'm trying to remain polite and calm, but we're wandering into dark territory here:
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the debate for Rick Perry last night was the onslaught he faced over his controversial decision as governor to sign an executive order mandating that 12-year-old girls receive a vaccination for HPV, a virus that can cause cervical cancer. Not only had Perry abused his power by bypassing the legislature (which eventually overturned the executive order), but he did so in a way that put the health of innocent children at risk. Or so Michele Bachmann alleged, to some of the loudest applause of the night. "Little girls who have a negative reaction to this potentially dangerous drug don't get a mulligan," Bachmann proclaimed. "They don't get a do-over. The parents don't get a do-over."
OK. Deep breath. For the record, I've been afraid of this for a while.
It's perfectly reasonable to make an argument against the HPV vaccine. It concerns a disease you can truly limit exposure to, short of rape. Yes, condoms don't fully protect against HPV transmission, so even "safe sex" is suspect, but if you remain abstinent, there's almost no chance you can get the disease. It's also true that there are no long-term safety data (on the order of decades), so there is a debate to be had on the benefits and harms over the long haul. And some make the argument that giving a vaccine that protects young girls from a sexually transmitted disease gives the appearance of condoning that behavior.
I disagree with almost all of these statements. Cervical cancer is rare, and with regular preventive care very curable, but it's still real. The vaccines prevent transmission of the vast majority of strains that are believed to cause cancer. And I would like to protect girls and women from that, as well as the sexually transmitted disease itself. The vaccine has been proven safe in enormous trials. I believe that the very real benefits outweigh the unknown and unlikely potential long-term harms. I also don't think that there's a real moral hazard argument here, as the average 9 year old doesn't have the developmental thought necessary to understand how being HPV-immune should affect her sexuality.
But this is a debate I'm willing to have. Reasonable people can disagree. HPV is not the same as most other infectious diseases we vaccinate against.
What is not reasonable is making wild claims with unproven anecdotes in order to score political points:
There's a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.
First of all, mental retardation is not something that commonly "develops" in a preadolescent girl. Is Rep. Bachmann talking about autism? If so, that doesn't develop suddenly in this age group either. Regardless, of the 35,000,000 doses of Gardisil given so far, there have been no reports of mental retardation or brain damage.
I don't know what Rep. Bachmann's sudden interest is in vaccine safety. I hope it's not for political gain. Because at this moment, if you want to immunize your child for HPV in the vast majority of states, it's recommended. If you don't, no one forces you to. That's how we do vaccines here. No one holds a gun to your head. Only a few states even go so far as "opt out" on this one.
But the language that some are engaging in now is not questioning the wisdom of this particular vaccine as a policy. It's questioning whether we can "believe" the vaccines are safe. Unless you have good proof they're not, politicians need to be careful. People believe in you. People believe what you say. And if you start using fear of vaccines to win political points, the side-effects will be real.
The way in which we decide vaccine policy, and whether certain vaccines meet the standard for government intervention, is open to opinion. Their safety, however, is determined by science, and science should not be political.
UPDATE: Edited for clarity after I took a break.
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Deadline approaching for entries to Lisburn & Castlereagh Business Awards 2020!
The entry deadline of 27th January is fast approaching for the Lisburn & Castlereagh Business Awards 2020, with the winners being announced on Friday 6th March at a gala awards ceremony in La Mon Hotel & Country Club.
Launching the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Business Awards 2020 are Allan Ewart, Chair of the Development Committee at Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council and Amy Bennington, Commercial Marketing Manager at Power NI.
Businesses in the Lisburn & Castlereagh council area can enter as many categories as they wish, and submissions to what has become the premier event on the local business calendar are completely free.
The awards celebrate the high performing, diverse and exciting range of businesses that make up the local economy, from manufacturers to retailers, restaurateurs to technology firms, and everything in between.
Lisburn & Castlereagh Business Awards 2020 categories
Lisburn & Castlereagh Business Person of the Year (sponsored by Power NI)
Rising Star – Young Entrepreneur Award (sponsored by Inspire Business Centre)
Best Tourism Business Award (sponsored by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council
Excellence in Customer Service Award (Non-Retail) (sponsored by NI Chamber of Commerce)
Excellence in Customer Service Award (Retail)
Best New Business Award (sponsored by Lisburn Enterprise Organisation)
Excellence in Manufacturing Award (sponsored by Linamar Light Metals Belfast)
Best Exporting Business Award (sponsored by HMC Global)
Business Growth Award (sponsored by GMcG Chartered Accountants Lisburn)
Best Social Enterprise Business Award (sponsored by Social Enterprise NI)
Best Eating Establishment (Non-Licensed) (sponsored by Pure Roast Coffee)
Best Eating Establishment (Licensed) (sponsored by Ulster Tatler)
Innovation Award (sponsored by South Eastern Regional College)
Best Family Business Award (sponsored by Plastec NI)
Commitment to Responsible Business Award *** NEW *** (sponsored by OCS)
Alderman Allan Ewart MBE, Chair of the Development Committee at Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council said: "We are home to many companies who not only contribute to our local economy but whose success makes a significant impact on the overall economic prosperity of Northern Ireland.
"It is so important to recognise and support the tremendous achievements of these businesses, many of whom are flying the flag for Lisburn & Castlereagh on the world stage as well as closer to home.
"With 15 categories to choose from, there is an opportunity for businesses of all sizes and from many different industry sectors to enter and celebrate their accomplishments with their peers and colleagues.
"We had over 100 entries in 2018 and I expect interest this year to be bigger than ever. I would like to extend my best wishes to each and every entrant and I look forward to seeing many of you at what is sure to be another spectacular awards ceremony in March," he concluded
The overall sponsor for this year's event is Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, with a new associate sponsor for 2020, Power NI.
Amy Bennington, Commercial Marketing Manager at Power NI and associate sponsor of the 2020 LCCC Business Awards commented; "Power NI has a long-standing relationship with the business community, and we are happy to support the thriving, innovative and dynamic businesses based in Lisburn and Castlereagh.
"We're delighted to be sponsoring the LCCC Business Awards 2020 and we very much look forward to showcasing and celebrating all the achievements at the gala awards dinner."
To enter the LCCC Business Awards 2020 or to find out more information please visit www.lcccbusinessawards.co.uk
The deadline for entries is 5pm on Monday 27th January 2020.
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Amanda Sevall Designs: 365 Cards: Wow You're the Best!
To be honest, I wasn't sure I had any stamps that started with the letter Q when I decided to make my way through the alphabet at the beginning of this month.... then when I put together the full list, I found that I did!
I love this stamp.... so much fun to layer in colors and punches. There are five punches that coordinate with this stamp!
Somehow I missed that you were going alphabetically! Another beautiful card.


Found in a neighbourhood highly alluring to families - top schools, and the local library are right across the street - home is the epitome of satisfying living. Age old trees and a sprawling yard are the start of an amicable family experience. An interwar cottage that has been expanded greets beyond a long driveway - along with a circular driveway and garage at the back, first impressions and parking woes are handled in one stylish swoop.
Within, the bright and large vestibule welcomes, offering a glimpse of home which offers smart updates alongside touches that are a nod to a colourful heritage. With an everyday-appropriate layout that yields an entertaining hub and year-round comfort, there are features that offer some major wow factor.
Find the first in the open living and dining room. Commanding the space, a dramatic turn of the century mantle was sourced from a railway gentleman's club in Montreal to grace every conversation and social encounter in this locale. Bay windows at one end add a sense of event, offering a glamorous yet totally comfortable venue in which to dine, socialize, and create cherished memories. On the other side of the hall, a personal library framed by windows sees infinite use as a homework station or home office - sun pouring in hits rich tones in the solid wood built-ins just so. Access the kitchen via French doors, the main hall, or the dining room - home is both super functional and refined. Mexican sun-dried tile grounds the kitchen which offers plenty of storage and working space. Cold-storage and glass cabinetry is invaluable for storing both precious items and everyday necessities within reach.
Beyond the kitchen, pass a convenient powder room and step down into the intimate family room which is an absolute crowd-pleaser. Where Rockcliffe meets Montebello, an octagonal room with conical ceiling is surrounded by floor to ceiling windows, accented by oak and a grand wood fireplace. Picture it; a blanket of fresh snow, the roaring fireplace as backdrop and boisterous laughter filling the room. Family time has never been this good. During warmer months, patio access leads to a verdant and abundantly private oasis beyond. With picturesque pockets for outdoor living and playing, a barbecue spot and kidney shaped pool, summers are spent as they should be. Serenity surrounds, an annex with garage and loft space is a beneficial addition - relish country cottage pleasures in the heart of the city.
Back inside, the second level boasts high ceilings and bright, natural light for all occupants. Three bedrooms make up this level, a skylight in the main four piece bath offers the best wakeup call on the daily; a beautiful shot of Vitamin D. Two bedrooms keep occupants pleased with sunny views, while a nearby landing does double duty as reading nook or play area.
The master suite's bay window maximizes natural light and sits opposite wall to wall closet space. That, plus a dressing room keeps this zone clutter free and utterly cozy. Don't be shocked at the lack of ensuite, here's where home's out of the box design shows off; water closet, sink, and shower are cleverly concealed beyond separate reclaimed wood doors. The result? Seamless mornings where nobody is jostling for space.
At first glance, the basement proves utilitarian, flexible. Well-appreciated storage and laundry round out a highly functional space. Before you check off the three piece bathroom as another family benefit, look closer. As if from a fairy tale, the bathroom wall opens up to a second basement zone. You're faced with a cozy library corner and a wrought iron spiral staircase that leads to the main level. Beyond the secret passage, a sunken room proves useful as a bedroom for an autonomous teen, music room, or rec room. Follow the tunnel that leads to garage and loft. You'll love taking the spiral staircase to access the garage, or continue up to a spacious and sunny loft. Wired for a home office, find its use also for overnight guests. A two piece bathroom keeps occupants immensely satisfied.
In a home where living space is maximized, nature plays a starring role and family and friends come first, the magic behind the lush surrounding gardens is a joy. An amicable community, minutes-away commutes for everyone and the joys of a history-rich neighbourhood await. One of a kind doesn't even begin to describe this home - make an appointment and see it today!


This was the place where back in time, four of the original five, and Jamie struck their swords into Chaos. When all five points of the blades met, a vacuum was created and all of the Old Ones were sucked into another dimension and sealed. When Jamie was there, it was an empty plain, but eventually it grows into a forest. After Jamie goes back to his time, eighteen giant stones were raised making the first stone circle. Centuries later, in Medival times, people thought it was cursed and ground all the stones to powder and was sent to the Norh, South, East, and West of Great Britain where it was dumped into the sea. Later Sir Micheal Marsh, a servent of the Old Ones, and a nuclear physicist use his influence to make Omega One on top of gate exactly wiht 18 control rods, to match the original 18 stones.


It's been a few month since this question has been asked. And now after the dust after the layoffs last month has (mostly?) settled, I'd like to ask it again.
In November Daniel Snider stated, that the API is still valued and worked on. He also offered to post updates to the forum to at least communicate that the API is still alive.
This hasn't happened. API development looks as dead as it has for a long time. Last commit to github (api-cdi) was 3 months ago.
And since the company has recently shrunk and had to reorder their priorities I'm afraid the API could have fallen off the end of the priority list.
*Clarification: Of course not every idea has to be implemented within days. Or at all. But if it is effectively feature frozen there is no need to clean up and write down one's thoughts into a proper suggestion.
Seen and appreciated. And I had already thought what would be a good time span to post a "I take no answer as the answer, then " comment. I'm glad that that is no longer a question.


Hartzell Propeller Inc. is a world class engineering and manufacturing company offering the broadest range of propeller systems in the aviation industry. We design, develop, test, manufacture, and support constant-speed aluminum and composite propeller systems for all categories of aircraft in our power class, ranging from general aviation to military applications.
The company can trace its history from 1914 where a relationship between Orville Wright and Robert Hartzell led to the manufacture of the first Hartzell propeller in 1917. The company was founded on the principle of "Built on Honor" – a tradition that continues today.


The winner of our First Look at Last Look contest, Charley Harold of Dear Charley Designs in Lexington, KY, specializes in approachable, relatable design. Her winning submission, this family room addition in Lexington, proves that wood finishes should never be monochromatic.
1. One of the most difficult parts of the project was selecting different wood species and melding them together. This was an important feature to the homeowner, so we took every effort to find the perfect pieces of wood to complete each feature — beams, wood flooring, live-edge countertops and the solid beam mantle. The beams are salvaged from a rural barn in Garrard County, KY, and the live-edge countertops came from a specialty shop in Bagdad, KY. The solid hardwood flooring is select white oak, stained to match the existing wood flooring throughout the house. The mantle is a reclaimed solid beam from an old barn cut to just the right size.
2. Mixing wood colors and finishes was all about tone and layers. I worked to make sure they all related in some way. There is a golden tone that is present in each wood selected, but the shade or tint is a little different. Additionally, the texture of the rough-sawn wood beams, live-edge countertops and polished hardwood floors really kept the space from looking too monotone or flat with so many types of wood finishes.
3. The clients and their family have a playful style and were eager to think outside of the box. My design was an attempt to reflect that aesthetic. The room could have easily gone more toward a farmhouse design, but the family and I both wanted to add a modern punch of fun. This eclectic look was achieved by utilizing the homeowner's Mid-Century Modern furniture, using trim as a nod to the existing 1950s ranch style of the home and by juxtaposing many different textures.
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Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia - 2015) has a select few hot talk stations under the moniker Real Radio, while CBS Radio once had a larger chain of hot talkers known as Free FM, though the brand was abandoned after a post-Howard Stern attempt to network the format failed within a year.
Free FM stations targeted a largely male demographic ranking from 18 to 49, attracting those who normally listen to FM rock and alternative stations, instead of existing AM talk radio listeners.
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Create fake food with simple and cheap-to-make salt dough. Then, bake or let the pretend food items air dry. Paint your creations with craft paint and make embellishments with felt scraps, construction paper or seeds for a realistic look.
Mix salt and flour together in a large mixing bowl.
Gradually add in the water and stir with the wooden spoon. Continue mixing until the dough forms.
Lay the dough out on a floured surface and knead until it's fully combined and pliable.
Salt dough can either be air dried or baked in the oven. To bake it, preheat your oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Lay the dough pieces on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Baking time varies depending on the size and thickness of the pieces. You'll know they've dried when they start to turn white in color. Check salt dough crafts every 10 minutes while they're baking, and don't allow the edges to brown.
Roll a ball of dough on a floured surface and flatten it into a circular shape. Roll it until the circle is approximately 1/4-inch thick.
Use the plastic knife to cut out triangular "pizza slices."
Bake the pizza slices. Remove them from the oven when done and let them cool completely.
Paint the "sauce" on the pizza slices with red craft paint. Allow it to dry.
Cut out "toppings" from craft felt. You can either glue the felt toppings to the pizza slices or leave them loose for children to top the slices over and over again as a game.
Cut curved green strips for peppers.
Cut red circles for pepperoni.
Make small yellow strips for cheese.
Cut out brown and black circles for mushrooms and olives.
Use construction paper if you don't have craft felt to make pizza embellishments.
Mold the salt dough into various bakery items.
Make a cinnamon roll by rolling out a snake and making a spiral.
Make a loaf of french bread by making a long, hot dog roll shape and scoring diagonal slices across the top.
Make a pull-apart poppy seed roll by rolling five little balls. Place one ball in the middle and stick the other balls all around the sides.
Make a hamburger bun by rolling two balls. Flatten out one ball completely to be the bottom half of the bun. Flatten the bottom of the other to make the top of the bun.
Bake the salt dough pieces.
When cooled, paint the pieces in your colors of choice to look like pastries.
Glue real poppy seeds on pull-apart rolls and sesame seeds on hamburger buns with clear glue.
As a finishing touch, coat pastry pieces with clear, high-gloss varnish to create a glaze look.
Roll out the dough onto a floured surface with a rolling pin.
Cut out cookie shapes with cookie cutters.
Decorate them to look like sugar cookies with craft paint and glitter.
To turn the cookies into hanging ornaments, poke a hole near the top with a chopstick before baking. After decorating, thread a piece of ribbon through the hole.


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Today, I'll be taking an comprehensive look at a few of the leading caching plugins round. WP Rocket. In the following review, I will show you by exactly how much — and how readily — it could accelerate your site (using real-life evaluations and real data).
Caching Involves generating — and saving — a readymade static (i.e. unchanging) variant of your website on your server ready to show to visitors at a minute's notice. This decreases the demand for your website (or the consumer's browsers) to communicate back and forth with the server to build the behind-the-scenes information that generates your website's web pages.
You might Be wondering what happens if you publish a new blog post on a cached site, because, paradoxically, an unchanging cached version of your website wouldn't take this newly created data into consideration.
It is worth Pointing out that, in terms of features alone, WP Rocket contrasts fairly favourably using its competitors. Granted, you are probably more curious about how much faster your site will probably be following installing WP Rocket (and rightfully so), but it's wonderful to know you're not missing out on any important features.
If you do Decide to explore the further settings and choices WP Rocket supplies, you'll see it's a few tricks up its sleeve for potentially improving speed even further, such as the option to simply load media files (such as images) when the visitor reaches them on a page (a feature known as Lazy Loading).
Actually, Once the plugin was uploaded and activated on your website, the cache will be automatically generated when someone visits the site. Everyone visiting your site then should immediately start experiencing significantly quicker loading times. Simple!
WP Rocket Aims to eliminate all such confusion by being automatically up-and-running right from the box without being overly rigid that it's unable to deliver excellent results. After tripping WP Rocket, you will see just a few tabs on the admin panel, each with just a couple of easy-to-understand settings.
Of Course, it's suggested that you read the online documentation to actually determine what this plugin could do and just how much additional performance you can squeeze from it, but, for those in a hurry (or with a zero technical interest in the ins-and-outs of caching), it's safe to say speeding up your site with WP Rocket could not be made easier.
The primary Selling purpose of WP Rocket is how easy it makes enabling caching on your site. With most other caching plugins, you're faced with the sometimes daunting task of understanding — and filling out — several pages of configurations and options. Based on how you configure them, you could easily end up accidentally doing something a bit screwy (and even, in rare cases, inadvertently breaking your website ).
There's In addition, the option to alter the default cache interval. However, unless you are displaying especially fast-changing or significant external dynamic content on your website (for instance, critical content from social networking feeds), the default 24-hour lifespan ought to be fine.
1 feature That's really nice here is the option to substitute YouTube movie frames with a static preview picture. If you embed lots of YouTube videos on your website, this really is a great way to accelerate your website without sacrificing much, if anyusability.
· Remove query strings out of static resources (this you won't have a major impact, but it might enhance your GTmetrix score, if you care about that).
I recommend Enabling as a number of these configurations as you can. I say as possible because a number of the configurations for CSS or JS may cause issues with your site (this isn't WP Rocket's fault — it is almost always a possible issue with minification/concatenation).
Without Preloading, your website only"builds" the cache for a page when someone actually visits the page. That means the first visitor following the cache lifespan expires doesn't see the cached version (because the cache has not been built yet).
Cache Preloading lets you guarantee all visitors see the quick-loading cached page by"warming" yourself, instead of waiting for someone to see the page.
Personally, I find this to be The least exciting region of WP Rocket because there are loads of free plugins which do a great job cleaning your database. However, I guess the key advantage here is that WP Rocket eliminates the requirement for you to put in a separate plugin.
While you can find free Plugins to perform the first part, the next component, plus the fact which you're able to book CNAMEs for particular document types, provides you more flexibility than many of these free choices.
By Way of Example, you may use one CNAME to your images, and yet another for the rest of your files.
Through The plugin settings, you could also enable caching for both mobile users and logged-in users all with a simple click. After moving on to this'advanced' tab, however, things begin to get a bit more complex.
What's More, should you get stuck, the FAQ and support tabs make it incredibly easy to get into the online instruction, and also open a service ticket from within your WordPress dash — a lovely touch!
In General, WP Rocket aims to be all things to all people. On the other hand, it's quite simple to set up and start using on your site with default settings which truly create great results, nevertheless, on the other hand, there's also an appreciably large selection of configurations and options to cater to more sophisticated users with particular needs, or those who need more control over how caching functions on their website.
Should You have to refresh everything in the cache, though (not just recently updated or altered content), you can force WP Rocket to regenerate it from scratch. Going a step further, you will also find options to have unrelated components of your site automatically regenerated if a new article, page, product, remark, or a different type of content gets added.
Even though Utilizing WP Rocket from the box is quite simple, should you get stuck or wish to know more of the ins and outs of how it functions, there's quite a bit of high-quality documentation provided — such as a getting started section, different tutorials, useful FAQs and a convenient troubleshooting section.
As Mentioned at the top of this guide, I had excellent results from using WP Rocket to cache my WordPress website. By analyzing the speed of my site using GTmetrix — with the default settings of WP Rocket and simply uploading and activating the plugin before creating the cache and conducting the tests — the average page loading times dropped from 2.2 minutes to 0.9.
The site I tested the plugin on was a WordPress blog with the free Twenty Twelve theme, with approximately 80 articles and 37 active plugins. The site is hosted on an entry level shared hosting program from HostGator, and has no CDN in drama.
No two WordPress sites are the same, though, so these results might not be typical for all sites. They do, however, show that a very fundamental WordPress site on the cheapest hosting will almost certainly be able to achieve significantly improved load times together with the plugin.
Whether You decide to use WP Rocket in your website or not, there are a range of different ways to accelerate your WordPress website that is well worth mentioning, for example.
With Prices beginning at only $39 for use on one WordPress website, WP Rocket is an inexpensive option for most. Additionally, there are some other strong free selections available — such as WP Super Cache, and, for the technically minded, W3 Total Cache (to name but two of many. If you're searching for something that's exceptionally easy to prepare and use, though, and also provides access to an extremely helpful premium support desk, then WP Rocket is a strong competitor.
All Options include a year's access to plugin updates and support. After this period, you can continue using the plugin unsupported or renew your permit to keep access. There is also a 30-day refund available in case you aren't entirely pleased with the plugin after purchase.
Most of The activities you can execute to optimise the speed of your website take substantial time and effort — whether that is optimising media files, reviewing and consolidating your plugins, migrating to a new web host or altering topics. WP Rocket, on the other hand, can be applied to your website in just a few clicks.
What's? More, if you're a WordPress freelancer, whether helping clients with their present websites or creating websites from scratch, having something such as WP Rocket in your toolkit may be of enormous benefit. In only a couple of minutes, you will be able to accelerate a client's site and deliver them concrete results (in the shape of'before and after' online rates evaluations ), also, when the best way to distinguish yourself from your competition is to offer more value to the client, things like this can really help.


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I Have Spoken With President Buhari – Akufo-Addo Breaks Silence On SARS Saga
kastlefmadmin October 21, 2020
he Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has finally broken his silence on the SARS brutalities ongoing in Nigeria as he says he has spoken with President Muhamadu Buhari.
A few moments ago, President Akufo-Addo sent a message of solidarity to the Nigerians and especially the youths who have been brutalized by the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), which has long been accused of unlawful arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings.
President Akufo- Addo sent a tweet during the late hours of Wednesday, 21st October 2020 afternoon, urging that peace and calm be restored since violence can never solve the issue at hand. President Nana Addo also added that he had spoken with Nigerian president, President Muhamadu Buhari, who is committed to ending the SARS brouhaha.
"I join all well-meaning persons in calling for calm, and the use of dialogue in resolving the #EndSARS impasse in Nigeria. I have spoken with President Buhari, who is committed to this end, and has begun the processes that will lead to reform," the tweet stated.
He commiserated with the families that have lost their dear ones and expressed his condolences as well, wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
The hashtag #EndSARS has been trending not just in Nigeria but across the world for several days [Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP
"Violence, be it on the part of the Police or protesters, cannot be the solution. To the families who have lost their loved ones, I express my sincere condolences, and I wish the injured a speedy recovery," it added.
Some celebrities have asked President Akufo-Addo to act and ensure that the alleged brutalities are brought to bay. Many among the tall list include Yvonne Nelson, Lydia Forson etc. However, "Omo ada" hit singer Samuel Adu Frimpong, also known as Medikal has quickly debunked claims that President Akufo-Addo has been quiet.
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He added that the president's silence doesn't mean he is seated aloof, but may be working behind the scenes, hence Nigerian president, President Muhamadu Buhari must be blamed for his incompetence as noted in a tweet chanced upon by obcommunication.com.
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Our Last Best Hope? Family Planning and Women's Empowerment
January 7, 2014 By Laurie Mazur
The original version of this article appeared on the Aspen Institute blog.
When journalist Alan Weisman proposed a new book on the challenges posed by human population growth, his editor said, "That one's a live wire; don't touch it."
But Weisman was undeterred, and two years later, he published Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? It's an impressive accomplishment, exhaustively researched, and engagingly written. On December 11, Weisman was joined by a cross-section of development experts at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC, to talk about the book, in a lively session moderated by former broadcast journalist Jackie Judd.
Weisman's previous book, The World Without Us, examined humanity's environmental impact by imagining planet Earth after our mysterious disappearance. The new book is about the world with us. Lots of us – 7.2 billion at last count, with another million arriving every four days. We are, he observes, on track to add another 3.7 billion people to the planet – the equivalent of two Chinas, or 10 United States – by the end of this century.
Just how many people can the earth support, without irretrievably damaging the natural systems that sustain all life? To answer that question, Weisman visited 21 countries, where he spoke to scientists, doctors, religious leaders – and countless ordinary men and women. From the Jordan River, which has been reduced to a toxic trickle, to the empty nets of Philippine fishermen, he finds that limited resources are a challenging daily reality for many of the world's people. However, a compelling theme emerged: ensuring that women have the ability to choose whether, and when, to bear children is crucial not only to human health, but to our shared environment.
In The World Without Us, Weisman suggested a universal "one-child" policy as a means to reduce human numbers and impact. But, in researching Countdown, Weisman learned that such policies are not only wildly unpopular, they are also unnecessary. As it turns out, the most effective – and ethical – way to stabilize population growth is to ensure access to voluntary family planning, while empowering girls and women.
Joel E. Cohen on education and population growth
Take, for example, Iran, home to what Weisman calls the "most enlightened and successful" family-planning program in the world. That program was launched in 1987, after Ayatollah Khomeini's pronatalist campaign to raise a "twenty million man army" worked all too well. At the time, Iran's total fertility rate hovered at nearly seven children per woman, and Iranians were daunted by the prospect of educating and employing their largest generation ever. So the Ayatollah issued a fatwa permitting family planning, and health workers fanned out on horseback, bringing free contraceptives to every corner of the country.
Unlike the Chinese government's recently amended one-child policy, the Iranian program enabled people to make their own decisions about childbearing. It did, however, require couples to learn about family planning in premarital counseling. And, importantly, it encouraged families to keep girls in school. As a result, Iran reduced birthrates even more rapidly than China. As Weisman observes in Countdown, by 2000, Iran's total fertility rate reached replacement level, 2.1 children per woman, a year faster than China's compulsory one-child policy. And it has continued to fall, to 1.7 in 2012.
Iran is not alone. Worldwide, fertility rates dropped from just over five births per woman in 1965 to 2.5 today. Still, pockets of high fertility keep the global rate well above replacement level, guaranteeing continued growth.
Weisman found many reasons for this. Everywhere he traveled, he found that men wanted more children than women. Sometimes, the goal is political and military strength. In Israel and the Palestinian territories, he found orthodox Jews and Arabs locked in a struggle to out-reproduce one another. In Uganda, funding shortfalls and fragile supply chains undermine access to contraception. In Niger, where child mortality remains high despite recent gains, couples have many children "to stay ahead of the reaper," said Weisman.
Weisman is hopeful that these problems can be overcome. "We know how to do this," he said at the Aspen event. "It doesn't require any great technological leaps." For example, he said, ensuring universal education for girls would bend the growth curve, reducing population projections for 2050 by a half-billion.
Some of the experts Weisman consulted are techno-optimists, believing that our intelligent, adaptable species can innovate its way out of any crisis. The Green Revolution, which increased grain harvests tenfold in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is a favorite example. But when Weisman visited the cradle of the Green Revolution in India, he found falling water tables and desperate farmers. "Every year, they dig their wells deeper and deeper," he said. "With the water now 1,000 feet below the surface, many are giving up." Thousands have resorted to suicide.
Countdown is by turns sobering and hopeful. Weisman has indeed touched a live wire. But he offers a solution – a "last, best hope for life on Earth." That solution – ensuring access to family planning and empowering women – is vitally important in its own right, and offers wide-ranging benefits for food security, water, sanitation, environmental security, and more. It is a solution whose time has come.
Sources: CNN, Nature, The New York Times, UN Population Division.
Video Credit: The Aspen Institute.
Topics: Africa, Asia, China, demography, development, education, environment, family planning, featured, food security, gender, global health, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, media, Middle East, natural resources, Niger, Philippines, population, U.S., Uganda, video, water
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Stabilizing and keeping the nation's population well within control –both are unavoidable for decent living–is an ice rink likely to topple many national governments,simply because it touches a raw nerve of the people governed–their basic desire for sexual fulfillment–or A–,not necessarily the need to multiply–say,B!Of course all parents know that most of their kids came out without their having prepared themselves or planned for the latter.So once family planning is announced, men initially and women after them tend to mistake B for A–and raise an outcry!To complicate matters Islam and Catholicism–both originated centuries before in an underpopulated world– oppose family planning on quite unsound reasons! Every nation's government owes to itself the duty of generating this awareness in its people of the vast distinction between A and B.
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It has been known widely and for decades that "The Green Revolution" was a short term success story (i.e. good public relations for fleeting high yields), while being the driver of long term failure for having discounted and mistaken the integrated systems of water management, population demands, distribution networks, expensive "inputs" etc.
The fact that it continues to be referenced at all is testiment to the entrenched interests that would benefit from large scale expansion.
Time to close that chapter and move on to something more in keeping with ecologically balanced programs that integrate humans, especially locally dependent smallholders.


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Q: Inspecting end of file during reading the file by ReadFile() function How can I inspect end of file in next code. I try to write function that can read wchar_t symbols one by one while some define earlier symbol be read, but if EOF be read function must stop.
wchar_t wchr[1];
BOOL b = TRUE;

do
{
    b = ReadFile(hReadFile, wchr, sizeof(wchar_t), &dw, NULL);
    if(!b)break;         //it doesn't work
    tempGetLine[size] = wchr[0];
    size++;
}while(wchr[0] != endSymbol);

A: The way to check if ReadFile is at the end of the file is to check how many bytes it has read vs how many you requested. That is:
if(!b)break;

should read:
if(dw != sizeof(wchar_t)) break;


If you want to start playing with the doll, touch its left arm and hold it for about 7 seconds — the doll asks: «Mom, what shall we do?» Then you can play with it as you like.
Smart ANJUTA always knows when it`s time to eat, sleep; it even knows the holiday New Year Day thanks to the built-in calendar and watch.
Anjuta asks to clean the teeth after the meal and wishes «Good morning». It likes when its hair is combed, so do it more often, please. It distinguishes all the things belonged to it and knows what clothes are on and when it`s on the pot. To make it fall asleep, you are to press its right hand for about 7 seconds.
— «Mom, I also like you.» and so on — 683 phrases in all.


1 available auction result for Klaus Peter SCHLANGE.
On Artprice.com's Standardized Marketplace, you can buy or sell artworks by Klaus Peter SCHLANGE.
Updated on 26 Apr 2019: Klaus Peter SCHLANGE (1955) is an artist born in 1955 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 2005, at Ketterer Kunst GmbH, and the most recent auction result is a painting sold in 2005. Artprice.com's price levels for this artist are based on 1 auction results. Especially: painting.


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package br.com.chicobentojr.minhaeiro.utils;

import android.widget.Spinner;

/**
 * Created by Francisco on 14/02/2016.
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public class SpinnerHelper {
    public static <T> int getSelectedItemPosition(Spinner spinner, T object) {
        int retorno = -1;
        for (int i = 0; i < spinner.getCount(); i++) {
            T temp = (T) spinner.getItemAtPosition(i);
            if (temp.equals(object)) {
                retorno = i;
                break;
            }
        }
        return retorno;
    }
}

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