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Post #222, an interesting number to finish (or to a new beginning?).
My new blog is online: http://acrossthe2nduniverse.blogspot.com/. Across The 2nd Universe, with the title is inspired on Beatles's song, except little details gonna keep the same style as In My Inventory. I was in the mood for some changes and I went wild for change the URL, but I hope the people who really like my looks and tips, keep on following me there.
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Another year, another health award.
Fayette made it two years in a row for health-related program recognition.
Through efforts coordinated by the Fulton County Health Department, the village earned a bronze award last year through the Healthy Ohioans Park and Recreation Community Awards program.
This year it's a gold award through the Healthy Community program of Healthy Ohio.
Gold awards were presented to 14 communities across the state. Two were presented to counties, 10 went to cities and only two were awarded to villages.
The Healthy Community Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of towns that implement health-related policies and activities, explained Audra Roesti of the Fulton County Health Department. The award program seeks to honor healthy community environments that encourage employees and residents to make healthy choices.
Healthy Ohio goals focus on increased physical activity, improved nutrition and the prevention of tobacco use.
Community activities are rated and points assigned. Communities scored at least 90 points earned gold awards.
Fayette's projects included the Movin' Mondays walking program, the Fayette Focus monthly brochure about health topics, the children's garden, a media campaign in which messages were presented on the Village Green, the GOLD Plate restaurant program (Greater Options in Low-Fay Dining) and the Fayette School Wellness Team.
In addition, two programs were used in area churches: "Go Red for Women," a national movement founded by the American Heart Association; and "Stroke Sunday," a stroke awareness month that uses the acronym FAST (Face—does the face look uneven? Arm—Ask them to raise there arms, do they drift back down?Speech—Does their speech sound strange? Time—act fast, every second brain cells die.


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Hollywood's hottest renaissance man is taking his act abroad.
"127 Hours" star and jack-of-all-trades James Franco is producing his first stand alone art gallery show in Germany, reports New York.
Franco had his art debut with "The Dangerous Book Four Boys," a multimedia experience that first showed at the Clocktower Gallery in New York's Tribeca neighborhood last summer. The new exhibit, which will be based at the Peres Projects galley in Berlin, will feature many of the same videos that were at the Clocktower show and will be supplemented with more drawings, photos and paintings.
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Gallery owner Javier Peres said that Franco's particular brand of professional curiosity will likely gain an interested audience overseas.
"An actor-artist like James is better received in Europe than in the U.S. He does other projects that people in the U.S. think are 'out there,' but in Europe avant-garde films are more mainstream," he said.
The show is set to open during the Berlin Film Festival, at which Franco will be screening a new movie, naturally.
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Years of honing my keyboard stabbing skills on auction sites, Chris. I'm hoping to keep in touch with progress on Ealdorlight but I have some crazy busy weeks ahead of me so the chances are my visits will be infrequent. With this lot giving you some great input in the way of suggestions etc. I'm sure you will find your follow up experience to be as exciting as Sol Trader...hopefully even more so.chrismdp wrote:Well done Victor - backer #1
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Uncertainty over whether U.S. lawmakers will strike a deal by an end-of-year deadline to avert a severe fiscal retrenchment undermined the yen and bolstered Japanese shares on Tuesday in low volume, with many participants away on Christmas holiday.
The dollar rose to a 20-month high of 84.965 yen early on Tuesday in Asia, as Japanese markets caught up with global investors who had reacted overnight to incoming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's weekend comments that raised the pressure on the Bank of Japan.
During a meeting on Tuesday with officials from Japan's major business lobby, Keidanren, Abe reiterated calls on the BOJ to conduct bold monetary easing to beat deflation by setting an inflation target of 2 percent.
The head of Abe's coalition partner said on Tuesday the coalition party and Abe had agreed to set a 2 percent inflation target and compile a large stimulus budget to help the economy return to growth and overcome deflation.
The yen has come under pressure as a result of expectations that the BOJ will be compelled to adopt more drastic monetary stimulus measures next year.
The dollar was expected to stay firm this week as investors repatriate dollars, and as the U.S. fiscal impasse is likely to continue to sap investor appetite for risky assets and raise the dollar's safe-haven appeal.
"The dollar is seen relatively well bid, with all focus on the fiscal cliff," said Yuji Saito, director of foreign exchange at Credit Agricole in Tokyo.
"Negotiations may be carried over the weekend, but markets still expect a deal to be struck by December 31. It is unthinkable that the U.S. will risk driving its economic growth sharply lower by not agreeing to avoid it."
U.S. lawmakers and President Barack Obama were on Christmas holiday and talks were unlikely to resume until later in the week.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner failed to gain support for a tax plan at the end of last week, raising fears that the United States may face the "fiscal cliff" of some $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to start on January 1.
Japan's Nikkei stock average <.n225> resumed trading after a three-day weekend with a 1.1 percent gain, recapturing the key 10,000 mark it ceded on Friday after Boehner's failure sparked a broad market sell-off and the Tokyo benchmark closed down 1 percent. The Nikkei was likely to be supported as long as the yen stayed weak. <.t/>
"Ongoing optimism about the weak yen is lifting hopes that exporters' earnings will be better than expected," said Hiroichi Nishi, general manager at SMBC Nikko Securities.
Analysts say a near-term correction may be possible as the index is now in "overbought" territory after gaining 16.2 percent over the last six weeks, hitting a nine-month high last Friday. Its 14-day relative strength index was at 72.34, above the 70 level that signals an overbought condition.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> nudged up 0.1 percent, driven higher by surging Shanghai shares, as most Asian bourses were shut for Christmas.
The Shanghai Composite Index <.ssec> soared over 2 percent to five-month highs as investors bought property stocks on mounting optimism about the sector. Taiwan shares <.twii> jumped 1.3 percent on gains in technology and financial shares.
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Goro Ohwada, president and CEO at Japan-based fund of hedge funds Aino Investment Corp, said investors were likely to focus on economic fundamentals and the United States for cues on investment direction in 2013.
"There is a feeling that an investment strategy based on economic fundamentals may finally work next year, with asset prices more closely reflecting fair value. The problem is, we don't know yet which asset is a better bet than others," Ohwada said, adding that oil and gold appeared to be near their highs.
Naohiro Niimura, a partner at research and consulting firm Market Risk Advisory, said commodities and energy prices will likely move in tight ranges in 2013, with investors eyeing political events, including the U.S. fiscal cliff outlook, Italian parliamentary election set for February 24-25, and Germany's elections in September.
"The macroeconomic policies taken this year around the world to support growth are expected to result in a moderate recovery in 2013 to reduce an excessive downside risk to prices. This will likely keep commodities, gold and energy prices near their highs," Niimura said.
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At least two students at Magruder High School in Rockville were treated for heat exhaustion Wednesday as temperatures soared to record highs, said Montgomery County Fire & Rescue officials.
Two 8th-grade girls passed out during a choral festival in the school, officials said.
After weeks of chilly weather that included snow during many area schools' spring breaks, the heat arrived so suddenly Wednesday that some public buildings -- including the Rockville school -- hadn't turned on their air-conditioning yet.
The D.C. area hit a record high temperature of 91 degrees in D.C., said Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Doug Kammerer.
The mercury rose steadily throughout the day, making it into 60s around dawn and hitting 86 degrees by noon.
The previous record temperature for April 10 was 89 degrees, set in 1922. The record high temperature for April is 95 degrees.
In the District, library officials decided to close nine of the city's 26 libraries "based on comfort levels for customers and staff," they said.
The shuttered libraries are: Deanwood, Juanita E. Thorton/Shepherd Park, Lamond-Riggs, Southeast, Southwest, Takoma Park, Watha T. Daniel/Shaw, West End and Woodridge.
The warm weather has led to high pollen counts in the region, particularly from maple, juniper and elm trees.
However, it has also caused the cherry trees that famously line D.C.'s Tidal Basin to bloom at last.
Just a week ago, temps were in the 30s and 40s, with tourists wrapped up in down jackets. On Wednesday, T-shirts and shorts were a far more common sight.
"I love it," said a man enjoying a run with three friends.
"Spring's out. We're going to enjoy the moment," said a woman visiting the Tidal Basin.
During the National Cherry Blossom Festival, as many as 1.2 million people are expected to check out the blossoms. The trees are considered to be in peak bloom now.
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If you consider performance important, you really should use one of the many caching plugins to do page caching. Some good candidates to complement Autoptimize that way are e.g. KeyCDN's Cache Enabler or WP Super Cache.
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Just install from your WordPress "Plugins > Add New" screen and all will be well. Manual installation is very straightforward as well:
- Upload the zip file and unzip it in the
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Go to
What does the plugin do to help speed up my site?
It concatenates all scripts and styles, minifies and compresses them, adds expires headers, caches them, and moves styles to the page head, and scripts (optionally) to the footer. It also minifies the HTML code itself, making your page really lightweight.
But I'm on HTTP/2, so I don't need Autoptimize?
HTTP/2 is a great step forward for sure, reducing the impact of multiple requests from the same server significantly by using the same connection to perform several concurrent requests. That being said, concatenation of CSS/ JS can still make a lot of sense, as described in this css-tricks.com article and this blogpost from one of the Ebay engineers. The conclusion; configure, test, reconfigure, retest, tweak and look what works best in your context. Maybe it's just HTTP/2, maybe it's HTTP/2 + aggregation and minification, maybe it's HTTP/2 + minification (which AO can do as well, simply untick the "aggregate JS-files" and/ or "aggregate CSS-files" options). And Autoptimize can do a lot more then "just" optimizing your JS & CSS off course 😉
Will this work with my blog?
Although Autoptimize comes without any warranties, it will in general work flawlessly if you configure it correctly. See "Troubleshooting" below for info on how to configure in case of problems.
Why is jquery.js not optimized
Starting from AO 2.1 WordPress core's jquery.js is not optimized for the simple reason a lot of popular plugins inject inline JS that is not aggregated either (due to possible cache size issues with unique code in inline JS) which relies on jquery being available, so excluding jquery.js ensures that most sites will work out of the box. If you want optimize jquery as well, you can remove it from the JS optimization exclusion-list (you might have to enable "also aggregate inline JS" as well or switch to "force JS in head").
Why is Autoptimized JS render blocking?
If not "forced in head", Autoptimized JS is not render blocking as it has the "defer" flag added. It is however possible another plugin removes the "defer"-flag. Speed Booster Pack was reported doing this, but the behavior has not been confirmed yet.
Why is the autoptimized CSS still called out as render blocking?
With the default Autoptimize configuration the CSS is linked in the head, which is a safe default but has Google PageSpeed Insights complaining. You can look into "inline all CSS" (easy) or "inline and defer CSS" (better) which are explained in this FAQ as well.
What is the use of "inline and defer CSS"?
CSS in general should go in the head of the document. Recently a.o. Google started promoting deferring non-essential CSS, while inlining those styles needed to build the page above the fold. This is especially important to render pages as quickly as possible on mobile devices. As from Autoptimize 1.9.0 this is easy; select "inline and defer CSS", paste the block of "above the fold CSS" in the input field (text area) and you're good to go!
But how can one find out what the "above the fold CSS" is?
There's no easy solution for that as "above the fold" depends on where the fold is, which in turn depends on screensize. There are some tools available however, which try to identify just what is "above the fold". This list of tools is a great starting point. The Sitelocity critical CSS generator and Jonas Ohlsson's criticalpathcssgenerator are nice basic solutions and http://criticalcss.com/ is a premium solution by the same Jonas Ohlsson. Alternatively this bookmarklet (Chrome-only) can be helpful as well.
Or should you inline all CSS?
The short answer: probably not. Although inlining all CSS will make the CSS non-render blocking, it will result in your base HTML-page getting significantly bigger thus requiring more "roundtrip times". Moreover when considering multiple pages being requested in a browsing session the inline CSS is sent over each time, whereas when not inlined it would be served from cache. Finally the inlined CSS will push the meta-tags in the HTML down to a position where Facebook or Whatsapp might not look for it any more, breaking e.g. thumbnails when sharing on these platforms.
My cache is getting huge, doesn't Autoptimize purge the cache?
Autoptimize does not have its proper cache purging mechanism, as this could remove optimized CSS/JS which is still referred to in other caches, which would break your site. Moreover a fast growing cache is an indication of other problems you should avoid.
Instead you can keep the cache size at an acceptable level by either:
- disactivating the "aggregate inline JS" and/ or "aggregate inline CSS" options
- excluding JS-variables (or sometimes CSS-selectors) that change on a per page (or per pageload) basis. You can read how you can do that in this blogpost.
Despite above objections, there are 3rd party solutions to automatically purge the AO cache, e.g. using this code or this plugin, but for reasons above these are to be used only if you really know what you're doing.
"Clear cache" doesn't seem to work?
When clicking the "Delete Cache" link in the Autoptimize dropdown in the admin toolbar, you might to get a "Your cache might not have been purged successfully". In that case go to Autoptimizes setting page and click the "Save changes & clear cache"-button.
Moreover don't worry if your cache never is down to 0 files/ 0KB, as Autoptimize (as from version 2.2) will automatically preload the cache immediately after it has been cleared to speed further minification significantly up.
My site looks broken when I purge Autoptimize's cache!
When clearing AO's cache, no page cache should contain pages (HTML) that refers to the removed optimized CSS/ JS. Although for that purpose there is integration between Autoptimize and some page caches, this integration does not cover 100% of setups so you might need to purge your page cache manually.
Can I still use Cloudflare's Rocket Loader?
At the moment (June 2017) it seems RocketLoader might break AO's "inline & defer CSS", which is based on Filamentgroup's loadCSS, resulting in the deferred CSS not loading.
I tried Autoptimize but my Google Pagespeed Scored barely improved
Autoptimize is not a simple "fix my Pagespeed-problems" plugin; it "only" aggregates & minifies (local) JS & CSS and images and allows for some nice extra's as removing Google Fonts and deferring the loading of the CSS. As such Autoptimize will allow you to improve your performance (load time measured in seconds) and will probably also help you tackle some specific Pagespeed warnings. If you want to improve further, you will probably also have to look into e.g. page caching and your webserver configuration, which will improve real performance (again, load time as measured by e.g. https://webpagetest.org) and your "performance best practice" pagespeed ratings.
What can I do with the API?
A whole lot; there are filters you can use to conditionally disable Autoptimize per request, to change the CSS- and JS-excludes, to change the limit for CSS background-images to be inlined in the CSS, to define what JS-files are moved behind the aggregated one, to change the defer-attribute on the aggregated JS script-tag, … There are examples for some filters in autoptimize_helper.php_example and in this FAQ.
How does CDN work?
Starting from version 1.7.0, CDN is activated upon entering the CDN blog root directory (e.g. http://cdn.example.net/wordpress/). If that URL is present, it will used for all Autoptimize-generated files (i.e. aggregated CSS and JS), including background-images in the CSS (when not using data-uri's).
If you want your uploaded images to be on the CDN as well, you can change the upload_url_path in your WordPress configuration (/wp-admin/options.php) to the target CDN upload directory (e.g. http://cdn.example.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/). Do take into consideration this only works for images uploaded from that point onwards, not for images that already were uploaded. Thanks to BeautyPirate for the tip!
Why aren't my fonts put on the CDN as well?
Autoptimize supports this, but it is not enabled by default because non-local fonts might require some extra configuration. But if you have your cross-origin request policy in order, you can tell Autoptimize to put your fonts on the CDN by hooking into the API, setting
truethis way;
I'm using Cloudflare, what should I enter as CDN root directory
Nothing, when on Cloudflare your autoptimized CSS/ JS is on the Cloudflare's CDN automatically.
How can I force the aggregated files to be static CSS or JS instead of PHP?
If your webserver is properly configured to handle compression (gzip or deflate) and cache expiry (expires and cache-control with sufficient cacheability), you don't need Autoptimize to handle that for you. In that case you can check the "Save aggregated script/css as static files?"-option, which will force Autoptimize to save the aggregated files as .css and .js-files (meaning no PHP is needed to serve these files). This setting is default as of Autoptimize 1.8.
How does "exclude from optimizing" work?
Both CSS and JS optimization can skip code from being aggregated and minimized by adding "identifiers" to the comma-separated exclusion list. The exact identifier string to use can be determined this way:
- if you want to exclude a specific file, e.g. wp-content/plugins/funkyplugin/css/style.css, you could simply exclude "funkyplugin/css/style.css"
- if you want to exclude all files of a specific plugin, e.g. wp-content/plugins/funkyplugin/js/*, you can exclude for example "funkyplugin/js/" or "plugins/funkyplugin"
- if you want to exclude inline code, you'll have to find a specific, unique string in that block of code and add that to the exclusion list. Example: to exclude
<script>funky_data='Won\'t you take me to, Funky Town'</script>, the identifier is "funky_data".
Configuring & Troubleshooting Autoptimize
If your blog doesn't function normally after having turned on Autoptimize, here are some pointers to identify & solve such issues using "advanced settings":
- If all works but you notice your blog is slower, ensure you have a page caching plugin installed (WP Super Cache or similar) and check the info on cache size (the soution for that problem also impacts performance for uncached pages) in this FAQ as well.
- In case your blog looks weird, i.e. when the layout gets messed up, there is problem with CSS optimization. Try excluding one or more CSS-files from being optimized. You can also force CSS not to be aggregated by wrapping it in noptimize-tags in your theme or widget or by adding filename (for external stylesheets) or string (for inline styles) to the exclude-list.
- If your theme or plugin require jQuery, you can try either forcing all in head and/ or excluding jquery.js (and jQuery-plugins if needed).
- If you can't get either CSS or JS optimization working, you can off course always continue using the other two optimization-techniques.
- If you tried the troubleshooting tips above and you still can't get CSS and JS working at all, you can ask for support on the WordPress Autoptimize support forum. See below for a description of what information you should provide in your "trouble ticket"
I excluded files but they are still being autoptimized?
AO minifies excluded JS/ CSS if the filename indicates the file is not minified yet. As of AO 2.5 you can disable this on the "JS, CSS & HTML"-tab under misc. options by unticking "minify excluded files".
Help, I have a blank page or an internal server error after enabling Autoptimize!!
Make sure you're not running other HTML, CSS or JS minification plugins (BWP minify, WP minify, …) simultaneously with Autoptimize or disable that functionality your page caching plugin (W3 Total Cache, WP Fastest Cache, …). Try enabling only CSS or only JS optimization to see which one causes the server error and follow the generic troubleshooting steps to find a workaround.
But I still have blank autoptimized CSS or JS-files!
If you are running Apache, the .htaccess file written by Autoptimize can in some cases conflict with the AllowOverrides settings of your Apache configuration (as is the case with the default configuration of some Ubuntu installations), which results in "internal server errors" on the autoptimize CSS- and JS-files. This can be solved by setting AllowOverrides to All.
Can't log in on domain mapped multisites
Domain mapped multisites require Autoptimize to be initialized at a different WordPress action, add this line of code to your wp-config.php to make it so to hook into
setup_themefor example:
define( 'AUTOPTIMIZE_SETUP_INITHOOK', 'setup_theme' );
I get no error, but my pages are not optimized at all?
Autoptimize does a number of checks before actually optimizing. When one of the following is true, your pages won't be optimized:
- when in the customizer
- if there is no opening
- if there is
<xsl:stylesheetin the response (indicating the output is not HTML but XML)
- if there is
<html ampin the response (as AMP-pages are optimized already)
- if the output is an RSS-feed (is_feed() function)
- if the output is a WordPress administration page (is_admin() function)
- if the page is requested with ?ao_noptimize=1 appended to the URL
- if code hooks into Autoptimize to disable optimization (see topic on Visual Composer)
- if other plugins use the output buffer in an incompatible manner (disable other plugins selectively to identify the culprit)
Visual Composer, Beaver Builder and similar page builder solutions are broken!!
Disable the option to have Autoptimize active for logged on users and go crazy dragging and dropping 😉
Help, my shop checkout/ payment don't work!!
Disable the option to optimize cart/ checkout pages (works for WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and WP eCommerce).
Revolution Slider is broken!
Make sure
js/jquery/jquery.jsis in the comma-separated list of JS optimization exclusions (this is excluded in the default configuration).
I'm getting "jQuery is not defined" errors
js/jquery/jquery.jsto the comma-separated list of JS optimization exclusions.
I use NextGen Galleries and a lot of JS is not aggregated/ minified?
add_filter( 'run_ngg_resource_manager', '__return_false' );or you can tell Autoptimize to initialize earlier, by adding this to your wp-config.php:
What is noptimize?
Starting with version 1.6.6 Autoptimize excludes everything inside noptimize tags, e.g.:
<!--noptimize--><script>alert('this will not get autoptimized');</script><!--/noptimize-->
You can do this in your page/ post content, in widgets and in your theme files (consider creating a child theme to avoid your work being overwritten by theme updates).
Can I change the directory & filename of cached autoptimize files?
Yes, if you want to serve files from e.g. /wp-content/resources/aggregated_12345.css instead of the default /wp-content/cache/autoptimize/autoptimize_12345.css, then add this to wp-config.php:
define('AUTOPTIMIZE_CACHE_CHILD_DIR','/resources/'); define('AUTOPTIMIZE_CACHEFILE_PREFIX','aggregated_');
Can the generated JS/ CSS be pre-gzipped?
Yes, but this is off by default. You can enable this by passing ´true´ to ´autoptimize_filter_cache_create_static_gzip´. You'll obviously still have to configure your webserver to use these files instead of the non-gzipped ones to avoid the overhead of on-the-fly compression.
What does "remove emojis" do?
This new option in Autoptimize 2.3 removes the inline CSS, inline JS and linked JS-file added by WordPress core. As such is can have a small positive impact on your site's performance.
Is "remove query strings" useful?
Although some online performance assessment tools will single out "query strings for static files" as an issue for performance, in general the impact of these is almost non-existant. As such Autoptimize, since version 2.3, allows you to have the query string (or more precisely the "ver"-parameter) removed, but ticking "remove query strings from static resources" will have little or no impact of on your site's performance as measured in (milli-)seconds.
(How) should I optimize Google Fonts?
Google Fonts are typically loaded by a "render blocking" linked CSS-file. If you have a theme and plugins that use Google Fonts, you might end up with multiple such CSS-files. Autoptimize (since version 2.3) now let's you lessen the impact of Google Fonts by either removing them alltogether or by optimizing the way they are loaded. There are two optimization-flavors; the first one is "combine and link", which replaces all requests for Google Fonts into one request, which will still be render-blocking but will allow the fonts to be loaded immediately (meaning you won't see fonts change while the page is loading). The alternative is "combine and load async" which uses JavaScript to load the fonts in a non-render blocking manner but which might cause a "flash of unstyled text".
Should I use "preconnect"
Preconnect is a somewhat advanced feature to instruct browsers (if they support it) to make a connection to specific domains even if the connection is not immediately needed. This can be used e.g. to lessen the impact of 3rd party resources on HTTPS (as DNS-request, TCP-connection and SSL/TLS negotiation are executed early). Use with care, as preconnecting to too many domains can be counter-productive.
When can('t) I async JS?
How does image optimization work?
When image optimization is on, Autoptimize will look for png, gif, jpeg (.jpg) files in image tags and in your CSS files that are loaded from your own domain and change the src (source) to the ShortPixel CDN for those. Important: this can only work for publicly available images, otherwise the image optimization proxy will not be able to get the image to optimize it, so firewalls or proxies or password protection or even hotlinking-prevention might break image optimization.
Can I use image optimization for my intranet/ protected site?
No; Image optimization depends on the ability of the external image optimization service to fetch the original image from your site, optimize it and save it on the CDN. If you images cannot be downloaded by anonymous visitors (due to firewall/ proxy/ password protection/ hotlinking-protection), image optimization will not work.
Where can I get more info on image optimization?
Have a look at Shortpixel's FAQ.
Can I disable AO listening to page cache purges?
As from AO 2.4 AO "listens" to page cache purges to clear its own cache. You can disable this behavior with this filter;
Some of the non-ASCII characters get lost after optimization
By default AO uses non multibyte-safe string methods, but if your PHP has the mbstring extension you can enable multibyte-safe string functions with this filter;
add_filter('autoptimize_filter_main_use_mbstring', '__return_true');
I can't get Critical CSS working
Check the FAQ on the (legacy) "power-up" here, this info will be integrated in this FAQ at a later date.
Do I still need the Critical CSS power-up when I have Autoptimize 2.7?
When both Autoptimize 2.7 and the separate Critical CSS power-up are installed and active, the power-up will handle the critical CSS part. When you disable the power-up, the integrated critical CSS code in Autoptimize 2.7 will take over.
What does "enable 404 fallbacks" do? Why would I need this?
Autoptimize caches aggregated & optimized CSS/ JS and links to those cached files are stored in the HTML, which will be stored in a page cache (which can be a plugin, can be at host level, can be at 3rd party, in the Google cache, in a browser). If there is HTML in a page cache that links to Autoptimized CSS/ JS that has been removed in the mean time (when the cache was cleared) then the page from cache will not look/ work as expected as the CSS or JS were not found (a 404 error).
This (new, experimental) setting aims to prevent things from breaking by serving "fallback" CSS or JS. The fallback-files are copies of the first Autoptimized CSS & JS files created after the cache was emptied and as such will based on the homepage. This means that the CSS/ JS migth not apply 100% on other pages, but at least the impact of missing CSS/ JS will be lessened (often significantly).
When the option is enabled, Autoptimize adds an
ErrorDocument 404to the .htaccess (as used by Apache) and will also hook into WordPress core
template_redirectto capture 404's handled by WordPress. When using NGINX something like below should work (I'm not an NGINX specialist, but it does work for me);
location ~* /wp-content/cache/autoptimize/.*\.(js|css)$ { try_files $uri $uri/ /wp-content/autoptimize_404_handler.php; }
Where can I get help?
You can get help on the wordpress.org support forum. If you are 100% sure this your problem cannot be solved using Autoptimize configuration and that you in fact discovered a bug in the code, you can create an issue on GitHub. If you're looking for premium support, check out our Autoptimize Pro Support and Web Performance Optimization services.
I want out, how should I remove Autoptimize?
- Disable the plugin (this will remove options and cache)
- Remove the plugin
- Clear any cache that might still have pages which reference Autoptimized CSS/JS (e.g. of a page caching plugin such as WP Super Cache)
How can I help/ contribute?
Just fork Autoptimize on Github and code away!
Contributors & Developers
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- Critical CSS: fix settings page issues with certain translation strings
- Critical CSS: fix "inline & defer" not being "seen" on multisite network settings
- Critical CSS: add links on path-based rules
- Critical CSS: fix for non-asci URL's not matching rules
- Improvement: auto-disable autoptimize on misc. page builder URL's
- Improvement: don't change non-aggregated CSS if it already has an onload attribute
- Image lazyload improvement: remove
"from around background images
- A couple of small bugfixes, see the GitHub commit log.
- Integration of critical CSS power-up.
- New option to ensure missing autoptimized files are served with fallback JS/ CSS.
- Batch of misc. smaller improvements & fixes, more info in the GitHub commit log.
- auto-exclude images from lazyload when they have
- bugfix: don't take querystring into account when deciding as-value for preloaded resources.
- bugfix; ensure lqip images (used when both image optimization and lazyload are active) always work by normalizing the URL before sending it to shortpixel.
- minimum WordPress version bumped to 4.4.
- bugfixes for multiple lazyload bugs causing images not to load or load incorrectly
- bugfixes for multiple multisite bugs causing settings-screen to be unavailable
- bugfix re-added 3rd parameter to
autoptimize_filter_js_minify_excluded-filter to ensure backwards-compatibility and thus avoid breaking Smart Cookie Kit which expected that 3rd parameter.
- New: Autoptimize can be configured at network level or at individual site-level when on multisite.
- Extra: new option to specify what resources need to be preloaded.
- Extra: add
display=swapto Autoptimized (CSS-based) Google Fonts.
- Images: support for lazyloading of background-images when set in the inline style attribute of a div.
- Images: updated to lazysizes 5.2.
- CSS/ JS: no longer add type attributes to Autoptimized resources.
- Improvement: cache clearing now also integrates with Kinsta, WP-Optimize & Nginx helper.
- Added "Critical CSS" tab to highlight the criticalcss.com integration, which will be fully included in Autoptimize 2.7.
- Batch of misc. smaller improvements & fixes, more info in the GitHub commit log.
- Images: Also optimize & lazyload <picture><source>
- Images: Misc. improvements to lazyload
- Images: Updated to LazySizes 5.0.0
- CSS: improvements to the deferring logic for non-aggregated CSS resources.
- Settings-page: Show "JS, CSS & HTML" advanced options by default (many people did not see the button)
- moved image optimization to a separate tab and move all code to a separate file.
- added lazyloading (using lazysizes)
- added webp support (requires image optimization and lazyloading to be active)
- added option to enable/ disable the minification of excluded JS/ CSS files (on by default)
- misc. bugfixes and smaller improvements
- bugfix: safer way of removing extra cronjobs
- improved Google Fonts optimzation, praise to @nextendweb (of Smartslider3 fame)!
- improved deferring of non-aggregated CSS when "inline & defer" is active
- bugfix: extra ao_cachechecker scheduled jobs & improve scheduling logic
- bugfix: some extra checks on vars to avoid PHP notices
- misc. improvements to image optimization logic
- update PAnD framework to latest version to fix issues with notices not staying dismissed
- patched JS minifying component to not break template literals as reported by Alex Kozack
- bugfix for Google fonts subset concatenation by Rocco Aliberti, thanks!
- bugfix not to remove querystrings if that option is not on in "Extra", kudo's to Diego Versiani for pointing out the inconsistency
- tested and confirmed working with WordPress 5.0 (beta 5)
- bugfix for CSS minifier throwing a HTTP 500 error when a
}is missing.
- bugfix for slowness when iconv was used for multibyte string replacements (ditched iconv).
- bugfix for occasional issues with broken/ missing strings due to mbstring (also for multibyte string replacement) weirdness.
- bugfix for wrong sizes in image optimization.
- bugfix for Google Font subset getting lost in optimization.
- refactored significantly (no more "classlesses", all is OO), classes are autoloaded, tests added (travis-ci) by zytzagoo who deserves praise for his hard work!
- new: image optimization (see "Extra"-tab) using Shortpixel's smart image optimization proxy
- new: you can now disable JS/ CSS-files being aggregated, having them minified individually instead
- new: Google Fonts can now be "aggregated & preloaded", this uses CSS which is loaded non render-blocking
- new: Autoptimize "listens" to page caches being cleared, upon which it purges it's own cache as well. Support depends on known action hooks firing by the page cache, supported by Hyper Cache, WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, KeyCDN Cache Enabler, Swift, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache and Comet Cache.
- new: local JS/ CSS-files that are excluded from optimization are minified by default (can be overridden by filter)
- improvement: updated minifiers (with very significant improvements for YUI CSS compressor PHP port)
- improvement: "remove all Google Fonts" is now more careful (avoiding removing entire CSS blocks)
- misc. under the hood improvements (e.g. more robust cache clearing, better support for multibyte character sets, improved CDN rewrite logic, avoid PHP warnings when writing files to cache, …)
- bugfix: is_plugin_active causing errors in some cases as reported by @iluminancia and @lozula
- bugfix: added language domain to 4 __/_e functions, un grand merci à Guillaume Blet!
- improvement: updated to latest version of Filamentgroup's loadCSS
- improvement: by default exclude
wp-content/uploadsfrom CSS optimization (Divi, Avada & possibly others store page-specific CSS there)
- bugfix: stop double try/catch-blocks
- misc. bugfixes (see GitHub commit log)
- heads-up: this is (supposed to be) the last minor release of the 2.3 branch, 2.4 is a major change with some big under-the-hood and functional changes
- workaround for stale options-data in external object cache such as Redis, Memcached (core bug) resulting in Autoptimize continuously executing the upgrade-procedure including clearing the cache and trying to preload it with HTTP-requests with "cachebuster" in the query string, thanks to Haroon Q. Raja and Tomas Trkulja for their great assistance!
- fixes for "undefined index" notices on Extra settings page
- now removing respective dns-prefetch resource hints when "remove emojis" or when Google Fonts are optimized or removed.
- changed JS code to load webfont.js deferred instead of asynced to make sure the js-file or fonts are not consider render blocking.
- fix for issue with update-code in some circumstances, thanks to Rajendra Zore to report & help fix!
- new: optimize Google fonts with "combine & link" and "combine and load async" (with webload.js), intelligently preconnecting to Google's domains to limit performance impact even further
- new: Async JS, can be applied to local or 3rd party JS (if local it will be auto-excluded from autoptimization)
- new: support to tell browsers to preconnect (= dns lookup + tcp/ip connection + ssl negotiation) to 3rd party domains (depends on browser support, works in Chrome & Firefox)
- new: remove WordPress' core's emoji CSS & JS
- new: remove (version parameter from) Querystring
- new: support to clear cache through WP CLI thanks to junaidbhura
- lots of bugfixes and small improvements done by some seriously smart people via GitHub (thanks all!!), including a fix for AO 2.2 which saw the HTML minifier go PacMan on spaces in some circumstances.
- roll-back to previous battle-tested version of the CSS minifier
- tweaks to Autoptimize toolbar menu (visual + timeout of "delete cache" AJAX call)
- readme update
- fix for images being referenced in CSS not all being translated to correct path, leading to 404's as reported by Jeff Inho
- fix for "[] operator not supported for strings" error in PHP7.1 as reported by falk-wussow.de
- fix for security hash busting AO's cache in some cases (esp. in 2.1.1)
- new: Autoptimize minifies first (caching the individual snippets) and aggregrates the minified snippets, resulting in huge performance improvements for uncached JS/ CSS.
- new: option to enable/ disable AO for logged in users (on by default)
- new: option to enable/ disable AO on WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads or WP eCommerce cart/ checkout page (on by default)
- improvement: switched to rel=preload + Filamentgroup's loadCSS for CSS deferring
- improvement: switched to YUI CSS minifier PHP-port 2.8.4-p10 (so not to the 3.x branch yet)
- improvements to the logic of which JS/ CSS can be optimized (getPath function) increasing reliability of the aggregation process
- security: made placeholder replacement less naive to protect against XSS and LFI vulnerability as reported by Matthew Barry and fixed with great help from Matthew and Tomas Trkulja. Thanks guys!!
- API: Lots of extra filters, making AO (even) more flexible.
- Lots of bugfixes and smaller improvements (see GitHub commit log)
- tested and confirmed working in WordPress 4.8
- fix for security hash busting AO's cache in some cases (esp. in 2.1.1)
- identical to 2.1.0 except for the security fix backported from 2.2.0
- identical to 2.1.0 except for the security fix backported from 2.2.0
- new: Autoptimize now appears in admin-toolbar with an easy view on cache size and the possibility to purge the cache (pass
autoptimize_filter_toolbar_showfilter to disable), a big thanks to Pablo Custo for his hard work on this nice feature!
- new: An extra "More Optimization"-tab is shown (can be hidden with ´autoptimize_filter_show_partner_tabs´-filter) with information about related optimization tools- and services.
- new: If cache size becomes too big, a mail will be sent to the site admin (pass
autoptimize_filter_cachecheck_sendmailfilter to disable or pass alternative email to the
autoptimize_filter_cachecheck_mailtofilter to change email-address)
- new: power-users can enable Autoptimize to pre-gzip the autoptimized files by passing
autoptimize_filter_cache_create_static_gzip, kudo's to (Draikin)[https://github.com/Draikin] for this!
- improvement: admin GUI updated (again; thanks Pablo!) with some responsiveness added in the mix (not showing the right hand column on smaller screen-sizes)
- improvement: settings-screen now accepts protocol-relative URL for CDN base URL
- improvement: new (smarter) defaults for JS (don't force in head + exclude jquery.js) and CSS optimization (include inline CSS)
- Misc. bugfixes & small improvements (see commit-log on GitHub)
- Minimal version updated from 2.7 (!) to 4.0
- Tested and confirmed working on WordPress 4.6
- bugfix: disallow moving non-aggregated JS by default (can be re-enabled by passing false to the
- bugfix: hook autoptimize_action_cachepurged into init to avoid ugly error-message for ZenCache (Comet Cache) users
- bugfix to allow for Autoptimize to work with PHP 5.2 (although you really should upgrade)
- Improvement: Autoptimize now also tries to purge WP Engine cache when AO's cache is cleared
- Improvement: for AMP pages (which are pretty optimized anyway) Autoptimize will not optimize to avoid issues with e.g. "inline & defer" and with AO adding attributes to link-tags that are not allowed in the subset of HTML that AMP is
- Improvement: refactored the page cache purging mechanism (removing duplicate code, now nicely hooking into AO's own
- Improvement: Re-enable functionality to move non-aggregated JS if "also aggregate inline JS" is active (can be disabled with
- Improvement: script tags with
data-noptimizeattribute will be excluded from optimization
- Bugfix: Better support for renamed wp-content directories
- Bugfix: Multiple fixes for late-injected CSS/ JS (changes in those files were not always picked up, fonts or background images were not being CDN'ed, …)
- Misc. other fixes & improvements, go read the commit-log on GitHub if you're that curious
- Tested & confirmed working with WordPress 4.5 (beta 3)
- On average 30% faster minification (more info in this blogpost)!
- New: Option to (de-)activate aggregation of inline JS and CSS.
- New: Option to remove Google Fonts.
- New: Cache-size will be checked daily and a notice will be shown on wp-admin if cache size goes over 512 MB (can be changed by filter).
- New: Small autoptimized CSS (less then 256 characters, can be changed by filter) will be inlined instead of linked.
- New in API: filters to declare a JS and CSS whitelist, where only files in that whitelist are autoptimized and all others are left untouched.
- New in API: filters to declare removable CSS and JS, upon which Autoptimize will simply delete that code (emoji CSS/JS for example, if you prefer not to dequeue them).
- New in API: filter to move fonts to CDN as well.
- lots of small and bigger bugfixes, I won't bother you with a full list but have a look at the commmit log on GitHub.
- tested and confirmed working with PHP7


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I am making multi-language site powered by WordPress.
WPML is not free and it makes too many extra sql queries to database so it is not good solution for my site.
qTranslate saves all languages in one database row and it is very complicated to move to another multi-language plugin later.
<?php _e( '<!--:en-->english text<!--:--><!--:de-->german text<!--:-->' ); ?>
xLanguage hasn't been updated in over 2 years.
Is there any other plugin to manage multi-language site?
I have an idea to install WordPress as multisite and each language will have its own site. Is it good practice?


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"The boy on the football turf is a feast for the eyes. I'd even go one step further: I'd rather see Raul on the pitch than Heidi Klum naked!"
Mario Basler
"After my first training session with Rangers, I went to shower, came back into the dressing room, and there was a foul smell in the room which was coming from my belongings. I took my boxer shorts out of my bag and saw that there was something heavy in them. Paul Gascoigne had c*****d in my underwear! Gazza is a madman who loves to make jokes. He's crazy. This is just the way he is, but I wasn't happy that I had to drive home without pants on!"
Gennaro Gattuso
"I have tried everything, but the best trick is to wear a surf suit. You pee in it with 15 minutes remaining and then go straight to the shower. Other keepers like Gregory Coupet do it too."
Jeremie Janot on how he wets himself to keep warm while playing in goal
"When I decide to score, I score. I think I am a genius. I believe I am more intelligent than the average person. If you find another guy like me, I'll buy you dinner. The talent God gave me is beautiful, magnificent, but it is difficult to deal with because people are always ready to judge you. Only a few people have such talent, so only a few people should be able to judge what I am doing."
Mario Balotelli
"If my name was Diamantinho or Diamantinic, my price tag would be €40m. In Italy, clubs have no problem splashing the cash on foreigners, but they are much tighter when it comes to signing Italian players. These jokes, which is exactly what these valuations of foreigners are, are unbelievable."
Alessandro Diamanti
"Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him."
Carlos Queiroz
"I love syrup. You know what is syrup? Strawberry syrup. Every day. I need [it]. Always when I drink water, I put syrup in it. It's something I can't live without. It's like an addiction, I swear. Every time my family come over, the first thing I ask them is to bring me syrup."
Demba Ba of Newcastle United, the Premier League's 15-goal second-top scorer, on the secret of his success
"Neymar is the kind of guy who could perform at the Bolshoi Theatre if he were a ballet dancer or could win an Oscar if he were an actor. I want Neymar to stay until he is 80 years old. I will even offer his son a contract. Barcelona's interest? They can go and harvest potatoes in Catalonia."
Luis Alvaro Ribeiro, Santos president
"Real Madrid? Barcelona would be a better fit for Balotelli – an average player joining an average team."
Zlatan Ibrahimovic on rumours linking his former Inter Milan team-mate Mario Balotelli with a move to the Bernabeu
"I never acted professionally. I was never an athlete. I did not sleep properly. I did not eat like a sportsman. I was always late to training. I didn't put in the effort in training sessions every day. But I still scored 1,002 goals. If I had not gone out so much [partying], I would have scored 2,000 goals. But 1,000 is still good, right?"
"The best player ever is without any doubt Pele. After that you have Alfredo [Di Stefano], [Johan] Cruyff, and Diego [Maradona]. In those times, Messi would have been a substitute rather than a star. All of these Barcelona players who say they play for the best team in the world would have been bench-warmers in the times of Maradona and Cruyff."
Hugo Gatti
"Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of calling me 'The Special One', people should start calling me 'The Only One'."
Jose Mourinho


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ChrisA+ necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Launching a disruptive online education portal called TraditionalEdu.org and need a smart logo to help build a memorable brand!! This portal is unique in that it will be made available exclusively to highly reputable non-profit colleges and universities that offer online course and degree programs. Think schools like Dartmouth, Georgetown, Cal, USC, Villanova, Notre Dame, etc.
We are looking to create an image that reflects the distinction of these schools in a new and fresh way, as they embrace technology to make curriculum more accessible online.
Bill Gates recently remarked that in 5 years, the best education will come from the web. We like to think we are at the cutting edge of this!!
Adult learners who are interested in continuing their education with top-tier academic institutions online. The logo will be important to establish credibility with prospective students, and to gain the confidence of universities that are very protective of their own brands.
Logo should consist of an icon and simple, yet striking typeface.
It should convey intelligence and distinction in a fresh way. Bold and authoritative, but not snobby or pretentious. Also nothing too corporate or futuristic.
A 2-3 color logo is preferred, with ideal primary colors being blue, followed by green and/or gray. Look at yale.edu and 2tor.com to get a sense of what shade of blue it should work with.
An example of a logo that I like is mint.com. One potential idea is to somehow incorporate a leaf in the icon as a veiled reference to the Ivy League. Also open to other ideas!
Also feel free to experiment with either TraditionalEdu.org or TraditionalEDU.org (Edu vs. EDU) for the typeface, depending on what looks best.
Looking forward to some great ideas!!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Faure • Massenet
Powerhouse chamber music playing that casts a more Germanic light on these works than one often finds. At times the approach, especially in the outer movements, is a bit too full-blooded for my taste, but Emanuel Ax in particular demonstrates some wonderfully delicate touches in the two scherzos.
Erik Levi


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Mascarpone Cheesecake with Chocolate Sauce
This is at least the third cheesecake I made in just a month (this was made a few weeks ago) and that surely is a lot of cream cheese. What I love about making cheesecake is that (given that you understand the basic method of making a good cheesecake), they're pretty straight forward, it is very versatile, you can modify it all you want and they will come out good, and it's always a crowd-pleaser. It takes longer for cheesecake to bake, and more time resting in the fridge, but technically, there's nothing you need to do really at those time, unlike the multi-component cakes which takes a few days to finish due to the many complicated components that go inside the cake.
Even though I made a lot of cheesecakes in my baking life, I don't normally use the same recipe each time. When I was in college, I used a lot of recipes from foodnetwork, and let me tell you, I made quite a number of cheesecake during that time, from regular dense NY cheesecake, cheesecake using whipped meringue, you name it. They were all very good and gone in a few minutes, but for some reason, nothing quite stick in my head.
This mascarpone cheesecake though, is based on just a very basic cheesecake, and substitute half the amount of cream cheese with mascarpone cheese. This is the only cheesecake recipe I stick to whenever I want a very good and creamy cheesecake, not too dense, which is the way I like it. I love mascarpone cheese so much that I'm trying so hard not to use mascarpone in all of my baking. The creamy sweet taste and texture just makes everything tastes better. I reduced the sugar from regular cheesecake because mascarpone is not as tangy as cream cheese, I'm still using the same basic almond crust that I'm always using.
So back to the cheesecake, I was keeping it simple with the decoration. Well, to be honest, I was trying to find the fastest decoration I can do since there was really no time to do anything else :).
I apologize for the poor shots, these were shot just before the cake was butchered by 20 people, talking about being under pressure.
I hope you're enjoying the last summer wherever you are, because if you're like me, who gets excited easily just by seeing assorted berries laying in front of you like jewels, or the smell of the air early in the morning at at night, or just the joy of wearing flip-flops, shorts, or pretty dresses, you'll be dreading waiting for the next summer to come. I hope all these projects (work and non work) scheduled around me for the next few months will keep be distracted from the weather, at least then I can start baking with salted caramel, banana, chocolate, citrus, back again. There's surely something special in every weather you got :)
9 comments:
- Sabeen said...
this is absolutely gorgeous! and looks delicious; definitely will try this out sometime :) i was wondering, though, how did you manage the [what looks like] cocoa powder decoration on top? it's just beautiful!
- September 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- . said...
love your stencil design for the cocoa! I have not tried making cakes or cheesecakes before, but now that I will be getting married, I will have someone to eat all of the desserts I make (so I don't get fat! ;P)
How did you like the flavors together? They sounded interesting. :)
- September 14, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- abraham said...
great stuff...
- September 15, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- The Urban Baker said...
you are one patient cook! simply gorgeous!
- September 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM
- Cherie said...
I love your blog and this post looks delicious! You should post the cheesecake recipe!
(love that we both are "cherie" and asian, haha, AND I go to SJSU!)
- September 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Bakericious said...
I love cheesecake, this is pretty!
- September 15, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- The Phenomenal Mama said...
I chanced upon your blog while surfing for nougatine recipes. I love what you are doing! Your creations show your passion for your craft.
- September 16, 2010 at 5:34 PM
- Bertha said...
Sabeen: the chocolate decoration on top is indeed cocoa powder, I used a stencil to create that pattern :)
The Corner Girl: Yes, that would be a nice trick, it's always pleasant to have someone else enjoy our cakes :). Which flavor are you talking about? cheesecake and chocolate? mascarpone and cream cheese? Either way, they're classic so it will never go wrong
Susan and Abraham + The Urban Baker: Thanks!
Sleepy Bear: I was going to post it but it will take me another week or so to post this. I will try to update this post with recipe or maybe in the next cheesecake post :)
Oh wow, what a coincidence! Cherie is my middle name, and I can't seem to find your real name anywhere :). SJSU is so close to where I live :)
- September 16, 2010 at 11:21 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm looking forward to your next post with the recipe for this, it looks amazing. Love the decoration :)
- September 20, 2010 at 2:25 AM


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At this site we maintain a list of the 5000 Largest Known Primes which is updated hourly. This list is the most important databases at The Prime Pages: a collection of research, records and results all about prime numbers. This page summarizes our information about one of these primes.
field (help)value
Description:1769 · 21494163 + 1
Verification status (*):Proven
Official Comment:
Proof-code(s): (*):L4805 : Lowder, PSieve, Srsieve, PrimeGrid, LLR
Decimal Digits:449792 (log10 is 449791.129139114)
Rank (*):5017 (digit rank is 1)
Entrance Rank (*):2888
Currently on list? (*):no
Submitted:6/14/2018 04:21:43 CDT
Last modified:6/14/2018 04:50:17 CDT
Removed (*):5/26/2020 21:10:25 CDT
Database id:125381
Status Flags:TrialDiv
Score (*):44.18 (normalized score 0.9979)
The Top 5000 Primes is a list for proven primes only. In order to maintain the
integrity of this list, we seek to verify the primality of all submissions.
We are currently unable to check all proofs (ECPP, KP, ...), but we will at least trial
divide and PRP
check every entry before it is included in the list.
machineUsing: Xeon (pool) 4c+4c 3.5GHz
notesCommand: /home/caldwell/clientpool/1/pfgw64 -t -q"1769*2^1494163+1" 2>&1PFGW Version 188.8.131.52BIT.20130722.x86_Dev [GWNUM 27.11]Primality testing 1769*2^1494163+1 [N-1, Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge]Running N-1 test using base 3Calling Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfridge with factored part 100.00% 1769*2^1494163+1 is prime! (1000.2288s+0.0003s)[Elapsed time: 16.67 minutes]
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LITTLE ROCK — Former Democratic Congressman Mike Ross filed for governor at the state Capitol on Wednesday.
LITTLE ROCK — Former Democratic Congressman Mike Ross filed for governor at the state Capitol on Wednesday.
Also filing Wednesday were Republican Tommy Moll of Hot Springs for the 4th District congressional seat, as well as two candidates for state treasurer, and one each for state auditor and lieutenant governor.
Wednesday was the third day of the filing period, which runs through Monday. There are 265 federal, state, district and nonpartisan judicial positions up for election this year, including each of the state's 100 House seats and 18 of the 35 Senate seats. The primary election is May 20 and the general election is Nov. 4.
Ross, who so far is the only Democrat to file for the seat now held by Democrat Mike Beebe, who is term limited, filed before noon Wednesday. No other Democrats have announced an intention to file.
Republicans Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman and undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland security, and Little Rock businessman Curtis Coleman have already filed for the office.
"I am a conservative Democrat," Ross told reporters after he filed. "But let me be clear, I am not running for governor for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, I am running for governor, to be governor, for all the people of Arkansas. I will work with everyone who will work with me to make this state a better place to live, work and raise a family."
Ross served in the U.S. House for seven terms and did not seek re-election in 2012.
In response to a question, Ross said he supports renewing funding for the private option and hopes the Legislature will do so.
Earlier this week, Hutchinson said he had "intentionally stayed out" of the private option debate going on in the Legislature because he doesn't have a vote on the issue and because "you only have one governor at a time."
Moll said, "Our country is on the wrong track under President Obama and I want to go to Washington and represent the 4th District and help get us back on the right track."
Moll touted his background in business and economics while talking with reporters after he filed Wednesday afternoon. He worked at the Jefferies investment banking firm, concentrating on the energy sector, and previously worked at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, has already filed for the 4th District, as has Democrat James Lee Witt, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and director of the state Department of Emergency Management.
Janis Percefull of Hot Springs, an historian and part-time history teacher at National Park Community College in Hot Springs, filed earlier this week for the seat as an independent.
In the state treasurer's race, Rep. Duncan Baird, R-Lowell, and Democrat Karen Sealy Garcia, city director of Hot Springs, filed Wednesday. Republican Dennis Milligan, the Saline County circuit clerk, filed for the constitutional office earlier this week.
Both Baird and Garcia said they have the business background needed to serve as state treasurer and they would focus on restoring trust to the office.
Former Treasurer Martha Shoffner resigned in May following her arrest on public corruption charges. She faces bribery and extortion counts in a federal indictment that accuses her of directing bond business to a broker in exchange for $36,000 in kickbacks.
A trial on those charges is scheduled for March 3.
Earlier this month, she was charged with 10 counts of mail fraud for allegedly using $9,800 of campaign funds from her re-election campaign for state treasurer for personal use. Shoffner allegedly mailed campaign checks for payments to a personal Wells Fargo credit card from Nov. 5, 2010, through Oct. 9, 2011.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday on the new charges.
Baird has a degree in finance and accounting from the University of Arkansas, and has worked in the brokerage division at Arvest Bank. He has served as co-chairman of the Budget Committee while in the Legislature.
"From everything I've heard on the campaign trail, people are looking for someone who is qualified and has the experience to run the office," he said.
Garcia, a CPA for 30 years, said she is "ready to use my skills to make sure our state saves money where it can and makes sound investments."
"With my business acumen, my years of experience in the private sector, and my fiscal conservatism, I know I can help make our state run more efficiently," she said. "This office needs a professional and I have been responsible for multimillion-dollar budgets for years and I am ready to stand up and serve the people of this great state."
Also filing Wednesday were Rep. Debra Hobbs, R-Rogers, for lieutenant governor, joining an already crowded field in the Republican Primary. U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, and Rep. Andy Mayberry, R-Hensley, filed for the seat earlier this week. Former Highway Commissioner John Burkhalter is the only Democrat in the race.
Also Wednesday, Rep. Andrea Lea, R-Russellville, filed for state auditor, and Rep. Fred Smith of Crawfordsville, the only Green Party member in the House, filed for re-election as a Democrat.
Smith said he appreciated the Green Party for letting him run as a candidate in 2012 but that the Democratic Party was his home.
Smith, was elected to the House in 2010 as a Democrat, but he resigned early in the 2011 session after being convicted on a felony theft charge. A judge later expunged the conviction, and Smith ran as a Green party candidate for the seat in 2012 winning with no opposition after Rep. Hudson Hallum, D-Marion, resigned after a federal voter fraud conviction.


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NORTHERN Ireland's record scorer David Healy claimed he would "die a happy man" after ending his long wait for another goal at Windsor Park.
The 33-year-old, whose goals engineered famous wins over the likes of England and Spain under Lawrie Sanchez, had not found the net for four years until last night's 1-1 draw with Azerbaijan.
The drought lasted for 24 matches, many of them from the bench, and it appeared as though he may never get the chance to celebrate in front of his own supporters again.
But although last night's result was hugely disappointing, Healy's late appearance off the bench and his 95th-minute free-kick gave the home support something to cheer.
Speaking after his 36th international strike, the Bury striker said: "If I die tomorrow, I'd die a happy man.
"I love playing for my country and I love scoring goals.
"I didn't play here in the last few games but I always had that thought, or dream, in my head that I would love to score at least one more goal in front of the Kop at Windsor Park.
"Everyone probably knows the last time I scored a goal and I had it in my head if I could score at least one more goal at Windsor I'd be a happy man. I can go home now and be happy."
Northern Ireland should have been home and dry well before Healy's introduction and missed a handful of simple chances as the likes of Craig Cathcart, Chris Baird and Kyle Lafferty all squandered straight forward openings.
Cathcart admitted the hosts left frustrated.
"We had enough chances to win three or four games," said the Blackpool defender.
"I had chances myself but we just couldn't seem to hit the target even though we had opportunities close in around the goal.
"A few of the lads had chances but it just wasn't to be."


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Geraldo Rivera is the gift that keeps on giving — stupor-inducing commentary on a national platform.
During a segment of "Fox and Friends," Rivera waded into the issue of a top aide to Secretary Janet Napolitano taking leave amid charges of sexual harassment and anti-male discrimination.
"I have a question, is this subtext of the Department of Homeland Security scandal — that there is some kind of lesbian cabal, that it's a same-sex takeover of the big agencies?" Geraldo offered, as the hosts looked at each other and laughed nervously.
"What do you think?" the hosts asked him.
"I don't know, it seems like everyone is talking around it," Geraldo said, as he picked up steam. "Is that really what people are saying? That men are disadvantaged because women and specifically lesbians are ruling the roost there?"
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"I don't know about that last part," said lone female host, Gretchen Carlson.
"I mean it just seems like everyone is dancing around and kind of making these inferences," Geraldo added.
At that point, Rivera found an ally in co-host Brian Kilmeade.
"We don't know for sure, but it's easy to come to that conclusion that there's some different type of glass ceiling separating the Homeland Security Department in this case," he said.
Opinion: I Lied About My Sexual Orientation so I Could be a Boy Scout Leader
Interestingly, Rivera began the top of the segment by remarking that he hadn't been with the "Fox and Friends" crew all summer. Geraldo previously struck the match that ignited a firestorm after controversial comments about the Trayvon Martin tragic shooting.
"I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters, particularly, to not let their children go out wearing hoodies," Rivera said. "I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was."
His hoodie killed Trayvon Martin as surely as George Zimmerman.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) March 23, 2012
Rivera concluded that series of comments by saying, "Unless it's raining out or you're at a track meet – leave the hoodie at home."
Of course, according to Zimmerman's 911 call, it was raining when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.
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The BBC has asked the poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, to write a poem to commemorate the passing of two of the last WW1 veterans, Henry Allingham (who's funeral, with full military honours is today), and Harry Patch, who's funeral is scheduled for next week.
The poem is vivid, powerful and moving, I have transcribed it in full here (hope there is no copywright infringements by doing this!) alternatively you can see it (and hear the poem being read) on the BBC website
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If poetry could tell it backwards, true, begin
that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud…
but you get up, amazed, watch bled bad blood
run upwards from the slime into its wounds;
see lines and lines of British boys rewind
back to their trenches, kiss the photographs from home-
mothers, sweethearts, sisters, younger brothers
not entering the story now
to die and die and die.
Dulce- No- Decorum- No- Pro patria mori.
You walk away.
You walk away; drop your gun (fixed bayonet)
like all your mates do too-
Harry, Tommy, Wilfred, Edward, Bert-
and light a cigarette.
There's coffee in the square,
warm French bread
and all those thousands dead
are shaking dried mud from their hair
and queuing up for home. Freshly alive,
a lad plays Tipperary to the crowd, released
from History; the glistening, healthy horses fit for heroes, kings.
You lean against a wall,
your several million lives still possible
and crammed with love, work, children, talent, English beer, good food.
You see the poet tuck away his pocket-book and smile.
If poetry could truly tell it backwards,
then it would.


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Creditors Rights in Bankruptcy (LAW-627-001)
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In April 2010, the Arizona State Legislature approved Senate Bill 1070, ("Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act"), an anti-immigrant measure that a federal judge later ruled encourages racial profiling and violates federal law (the ruling remains under appeal and is likely headed for the U.S. Supreme Court), and the legislature approved House Bill 2281, a ban on ethnic studies (read, Mexican American studies) in public schools, on the grounds that such classes "promote resentment toward a race or class of people" and "promote the overthrow of the United States government." Recently, the state ruled that the Tucson public school ethnic studies programs are illegal under the 2010 law. ASA continues to oppose this legislation, please see the statement below.
American Sociological Association
Council Resolution on State of Arizona Anti-Ethnic Studies Law
Whereas the membership of the American Sociological Association (ASA) represents nearly 15,000 scientific, academic, government, and professional sociologists throughout the United States, including many in the State of Arizona;
Whereas the ASA has a tradition of vigorous support for the principles of academic freedom that help to ensure that those with specific knowledge and expertise can guide curriculum development at all levels of education;
Whereas ethnic studies K-12 curricula draw upon research and scholarship from established fields of the social sciences and humanities such as sociology, history, economics, literature and philosophy, as well as from the knowledge developed in interdisciplinary ethnic studies departments in the nation's foremost universities and colleges;
Whereas the aim of teaching and learning in ethnic studies is to expose students to the rich array of experiences and the complex interrelations among individuals and groups that has a long history of scholarship that includes the development of individual, ethnic and national identities so that students have a deeper, more accurate, and more comprehensive understanding of American society and its history and culture;
Whereas ethnic studies is an enriching aspect of the American educational experience of most public and private school students throughout the United States and is an area of scholarship and doctoral preparation at our leading universities;
Whereas HB 2281 makes possible, and potentially encourages, the persecution of teachers and school administrators in Arizona solely on the basis of presenting material in their classrooms that comes from a recognized body of scholarship that has produced an extensive and useful body of knowledge;
Whereas our Association's members, as well as those of other scholarly societies, have a growing concern that similar legislation could outlaw or significantly limit the teaching of ethnic studies courses and programs at Arizona's outstanding public colleges and universities;
Whereas it will be a great disservice to the youth of Arizona to be deprived of access to this rich body of important knowledge that has contributed to the well-being of the United States, a nation that is envied across the democratic world for its successful diversity;
Therefore be it resolved that the Council of the American Sociological Association issues this public condemnation of the legislature of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer for enacting HB 2281 and calls for its repeal.
Be it further resolved that the Council of the American Sociological Association calls on the people of Arizona to recognize that the United States is, and has always been, a country composed of people from many different backgrounds whose diverse experiences and cultures have contributed to the nation's dynamism and progress.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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Swarms of low-cost, autonomous robots can potentially be used to collectively perform tasks over large domains and long time scales. The design of decentralized, scalable swarm control strategies will enable the development of robotic systems that can execute such tasks with a high degree of parallelism and redundancy, enabling effective operation even in the presence of unknown environmental factors and individual robot failures. Social insect colonies provide a rich source of inspiration for these types of control approaches, since they can perform complex collective tasks under a range of conditions. To validate swarm robotic control strategies, experimental testbeds with large …
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MONTREAL — In a world where fractional reserve banking has ceded to credit based banking, what comes after growth falters? How come half the world starves while the other half wastes enough food to feed the first half?
Answers to those questions and many more are discussed in Charles Eisenstein's book Sacred Economics.
Yale graduate, professor, speaker and author, remove the letters "se" from his surname and you have an idea just how brilliant a thinker Eisenstein is considered to be.
The premise of his book is that we are moving from the Age of Separation to the Age of Reunion.
Eisenstein, who was once so down and out that he and his children slept on a friends' living room floor, describes the Age of Separation as man separate from nature, from spirit, from community and from others.
The Age of Reunion describes "a system that rewards flow and not accumulation, creating and not owning, giving and not having." Right now, according to Eisenstein, we are in the Age of Transition. As institutions crumble, nowhere will this change be more profound than in the role of money in society.
Greed is a symptom of the perception of scarcity, Eisenstein says; it is not innate to human beings.
He writes of the "progressive commodification" of services that used to be gifted. "When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including human happiness."
Sacred Economics looks to redefine the role of money as something sacred — unique but also interconnected to all that is.
In the first half of its 458 pages, Eisenstein traces money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism. In the second half, he discusses debt, degrowth economics, reverse interest money and relearning the gift culture, among other topics.
For entrepreneurs, there is opportunity in crisis. A crisis is a paradigm shift and this shift is already upon us.
Patagonia's Common Threads Initiative is an example of applying gift culture to business. With their four-point pledge and a campaign that encourages people to not consume, they are tapping in to what matters to today's consumer. This pull strategy is working and their sales are actually up.
Eisenstein cites numerous examples of companies successfully implementing gifting principles to elaborate his gift business model.
In short, Eisenstein is telling us that after growth comes degrowth, and it can be marvelous. We've just got to grow up.


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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Bloomberg cursed out Smith over National Guard help
When Queens state Sen. Malcolm Smith asked the mayor to send the National Guard to patrol the Rockaways a day after Superstorm Sandy hit, Hizzoner said, "F--k you,'' a source told The Post.
Smith confirmed that he called the mayor to request the Guard after looting broke out in the area, which is part of his district.
"We exchanged aggressive words about the use of the National Guard," Smith said when asked about the spat.
"I saw the devastation. I saw the looting going on. People were all over the street. Things were out of control. Someone even tried to break into my car with me in it. The mayor felt the resources we had were fine," Smith recalled.
"In the end, I was correct and the National Guard got involved."
Bloomberg had initially said, "The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns."
But spokesman Marc LaVorgna said the mayor never dropped the F-bomb and welcomed the Guard's help in search-and-rescue missions — but thought the NYPD could handle security.
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[Nasally.] Carajo Malcolm, hijo de puta! No me chingues. Vete a tomar por el culo. Vayase en el infiermo, idiota.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Of course Emperor Bonaparte Bloomberg didn't want to look like he'd lost control of his campaign against New York.
Ray Kelly's NYPD forces are his forces, but calling in the National Guard would look like the emperor was hiring Prussian mercenaries.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Bloomtard used the "F" word?
He's looking more and more like a cold hearted ass as each day passes.
Der Bloomie has thrown another one of his hissy fits.
And, of course, he's not going to watse resources on a "minority " Rockaway nabe.
What....take away police from the upper east side?
Bloom-Hitler's program of ethnic cleansing...
the hollowing out of neighborhoods...continues with this latest of social engineering moves.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
"F--k you" too, your honor!
You can't always have your bratty way!
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Bloomberg's F*ck you to Smith was more of a F*ck you to the whole of Queens County.
Let's face it, the mayor doesn't give a sh*t anout Queens.After all it's just one of the areas that usurps resources from his Manhattan.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
"Amigos...fuck you...por favor"!
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
This establishes protocol for the lame duck midget's future appearances.Imagine chants of F- you, asshole at all his events. What a sendoff! Couldn't happen to a "NICER" GUY!
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
It would be in everyone's best interest if the looters from Hammels and other Rockaway housing NYCHA projects and any other government subsided housing in Rockaway, section 8, choice advantage, blah-blah be put up in mobile homes right next door to where Bloomberg resides. Mike wouldn't have to go too far for his photo opportunities and press conferences. As our dear mayor does not reside in Gracie Mansion, only uses it for dog and pony shows, that space could be made available to people displaced by Hurricane Sandy from the Rockaways. My suggestion is that the Hammels residents be placed there immediately. Young men from age 11 to age 27, throw in a few young women & lets see how much looting they can accomplish on East End & York Avenues.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Malcolm's running for Mayor??!! You heard it here first
- Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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Twitter Signs Its Second Big Ad Deal, This Time With WPP
In April, Twitter linked up with ad giant Starcom in a deal worth "hundreds of millions" over a few years. Now it has another one, with Starcom's rival WPP.
WPP's press release doesn't mention a dollar value, but the broad strokes sound similar to the earlier pact: A "global strategic partnership" that will "see the launch of new data products and services, the integration of Twitter data into key WPP media and analytics platforms, training for staff in the application of these new capabilities and a partnership approach to key clients and markets."
In English: Twitter will try to make it very easy for WPP to spend a bunch of money on the service, and WPP has likely committed to spending a bunch of money on the service.
Note that we've seen similar pacts with new media companies and ad giants before, notably Google.
And, again, this is the kind of pact that's very nice to have as you prepare to go public. Not that Dick Costolo says he spends any time thinking about that. Here's the Twitter CEO insisting that's the case at the D: All Things Digital conference last month.


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Barbara Ehrenreich Award Statement
Barbara Ehrenreich, ASA's 2009 recipient of the Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Award, is a renowned author and activist who has consistently pushed for social change throughout the second half of the 20th century. This award recognizes the contributions of an individual who has been especially effective in disseminating sociological perspectives and research, a description that perfectly suits the work of Barbara Ehrenreich. She has dedicated her life to informing the general public of social injustices and has consequently furthered sociology as a discipline tremendously.
After receiving her PhD in cell biology, Ehrenreich opted for a career path of exposing societal inequalities, ranging from sexism in health care to economic justice for all Americans. She published two books in 1969, a scientific monograph and a commentary on the student movement. Luckily for us, she followed political activism rather than a scientific career.
She has written 18 books over four decades, including Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1972), a concise booklet detailing a history of women's suppression and the underlying causes of poor health care. This book began Ehrenreich's transformation into an investigative journalist and sociologist, sparking her crusade for better health care for women as well as greater access to information about health.
After tackling the issue of health care, Ehrenreich gained further momentum to highlight other social injustices. Her work has been remarkably influential in sociology, including The Hearts of Men (1987), which illustrates how gender roles have impacted men as well as women and have prevented America from realizing its full potential. Ehrenreich demonstrates that it's not simply women who are negatively affected by gender roles, but that members of both sexes follow their specific roles, hindering the entire American population.
One of her most notable books, Nickel and Dimed (2001), a first-hand account of living on minimum wage, opened the eyes of the public to the American working-class struggles. It dramatically changed the misguided assumptions that average people had about white collar workers, and continues to be used as a teaching resource in classrooms across the country.
Ehrenreich has succeeded in various areas such as think pieces and investigative journalism, always bringing a new sociological approach to the table. Aside from her numerous published books, her accomplishments have reached a variety of media. She was a regular columnist for Time magazine and contributes frequently to The Progressive. She has written for the New York Times, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Ms, among other publications. Today, she continues to write opinion pieces and essays, which are routinely featured on her blog. Her dedication to social activism on issues such as health care, women's rights, and class equality remains strong; she founded the group United Professionals in 2006, advocating health reform and equal benefits for white collar professionals.
Barbara Ehrenreich's contributions to the sociological field have become immeasurable. Over time, she has brought sociology and injustice to the forefront of the minds of the public. Her name is synonymous with social change, and her body of work repeatedly challenges sociological theory and pushes us to delve deeper into the reporting of social issues.


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Legislative Costs and 2-Year Budgets
Governor Branstad was elected by an overwhelming majority of Iowans last year. He is sticking to a key component of his campaign, a two-year state budget. Many "experts" point out both pros and cons to a 2-year process and they are neither strongly for, or against it. Yet, Senator Gronstal and his followers are determined to oppose it. They say Branstad is making it all about power. Hmm, sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
The legislature doesn't receive reimbursement for expenses when session goes past their deadline, but what about costs to tax payers that could have been avoided if they had finished early?
Here's comments from Senator Kent Sorenson in early April! "While sitting at my desk in the Iowa Senate, I find myself wishing, for lack of something better to do, for some wet paint to be on one of the walls here in the chamber so that I could watch it dry. . . It's such a waste . . . Fifty Senators and their clerks ALONE have a daily cost of roughly $21,000. . . multiply it by 2 for the House of Representatives. It seems Iowa taxpayers are footing a bill of roughly $63,000 a day. This doesn't include: 1)The LSA that helps draft legislation, bills and amendments, 2)Caucus staff and Pages, 3)Secretary of the Senate and House and administrative staff, 4) Cafeteria staff 5) Building maintenance staff . . . and the list goes on! I don't have the exact numbers, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if we spend over $200,000 a day at the Capitol."
As the Senate holds the legislature in a stalemate, they may well be making the best argument FOR a 2-year budget process. If they could only have the budget battle every other year (with adjustments made in the off years), consider the possible savings to tax payers and the important issues that could be addressed in a timely matter!
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pedala robinho wrote:No problem, mate ...
TBH, the talent of this guy is sooooo high, I think his Agility could be even 80 ...
metronomo wrote:i think his passing abilities should be improved.....most of the times he gave direct passes to his team mates....
Short Pass Accuracy: 72 ---> 74
Short Pass Speed: 70 ---> 75
Long Pass Acc.: 71 --->73
Long Pass Speed: 74 --->74
pedala robinho wrote:Well, I really think he can deserves great numbers for Defence, even better than 85, but until he proves that in Serie A, I'd increase just by one point, so 84. Well, some suggestions:
Defence: 84 - Will be even better. But for now, I think it's enough.
Stamina: 84 - He runs all match, goes to forward, back to defence, and don't gets tired. Surely 84 at least.
Top Speed: 83~84 - He is simply the fastest CB on Brazillian League, without doubts.
Acceleration: 85 - Like said brazillianpesfan, he makes a lot of amazing and explosive runs.
Response: 85 - One of fastest CB to react that I've ever seen.
Agility: 81 - What can I say? He simply have an unbelieveable agility for a CB.
Short Pass Accuracy: 74 - Great short pass, really is difficult to see he missing balls with his passes.
Short Pass Speed: 75 - Fast short passes.
Long Pass Accuracy: 73 - He make some nice crosses from the defence.
Technique: 75 - One of the most technical CB that I've ever seen, without doubts.
master smurf wrote:DS must be at least green - all other suggestions seem fine
Once again no hurry - just saying
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