text:
Biden Announces Pentagon Housing Assistance Program Expansion
By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 14, 2009 - Vice President Joe Biden today announced the Defense Department's plan to expand its housing assistance program with $555 million devoted to servicemembers forced to sell their homes at a loss due to the country's struggling housing market.
The financial support comes from President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to supplement the department's Homeowner's Assistance Program, Biden said aboard the USS Ronald Reagan during a visit with sailors and their families at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego.
The funds are allocated to provide benefits to military and civilian employees, according to a specific priority order, who suffered housing financial losses since 2006.
"The sacrifices military families make for our country, in terms of deployments but also moving several times in their career, are immense," he said. "They often don't get to choose when they move and may be forced to sell their homes when they don't want to."
Several times during the average military career, military members may be ordered to change duty stations to meet the mission requirements for their respective branch of service. Duty calls on servicemembers and their families to relocate and establish a new home as frequently as every two to three years. Many have moved because of base closures under the 2005 Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act.
Some families have been forced to sell their homes despite the possibility of losing thousands of dollars amid the country's struggling economy and housing market. Many military members can't afford to own a home near Fort Bragg, N.C., and rent or buy another near Scott Air Force Base, Ill., for example.
"We are in the middle of a credit and housing crises, and we recognize that military families cannot generally choose when to move," the vice president said, "so we've used the Recovery Act to dramatically expand what was once a fairly small program, assisting families forced to relocate due to base closures or normal assignment rotations."
The initiative isn't entirely new, however. The Pentagon has offered and provided similar financial assistance to military and civilian employees for more than 40 years, defense officials said. Until now, the program's primary support has focused on those who owned homes and lost money near closed or soon-to-be-closed down military installations under BRAC.
With the expansion, the Pentagon can now provide partial reimbursement for home-sale losses to other groups. The priority order for the benefits, according to Pentagon officials, are as followed:
-- Wounded servicemembers relocating for treatment or medical retirement, and for the surviving family members of those who have died while on deployment.
-- Military and Defense Department civilian employees affected by BRAC without the need to prove whether the base closure or the general housing market decline caused the loss.
-- Normal permanent change of station moves, but only on a retroactive basis that covers PCS moves between July 1, 2006, through Dec. 31, 2009.
All active and former members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard, as well as DoD civilians who have sold a home since 2006 may visit the Homeowners Assistance Program Website to learn specific program criteria and eligibility.
*Related Sites:*
Homeowners Assistance Program [ http://hap.usace.army.mil/ ]
Biden Announces Pentagon Housing Assistance Program Expansion [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54355 ]


text:
dommerby needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We would like to have a logo designed for the concept we call "outsourcing 2.0". We are an outsourcing company working with software development.
Some keywords we put on outsourcing 2.0:
agile development, small projects, people (not process), collaboration, value, scalability.
- logo could be in the same line as our company logo (http://www.conscensia.com) (but not necessarily).
- like web 2.0 designs - bright, clean colours on a white background
- Logo should include "outsourcing 2.0"
- Item 1...
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Cool Globes in Copenhagen
"Cool Globes: Hot
Ideas for a Cooler Planet" is a public art exhibit featuring over 25
large globes, each with a different message about climate change. The
exhibit was introduced to Copenhagen in November and will stay up while
the climate talks take place.
To view the photo essay, click here.


text:
apartment303, ayadec, bottecellie, brittaforthewin, butterbadger, _carly_, colonialburn, crittab, curlydots, firthgal, fluffyfrolicker, hematitebadger, htbthomas, krilymcc, lextersdab, malo_malo, ogwriter, palgrave_golden, piesek, rosepetal9, rowboatcop, supercapo, telm_393, virtual_toast
The first shot has been fired - the Fic Battle will now begin! Full rules and guidelines here (please note the sign-up addition and the last prompt deadline edit), but the quick version is here:
1) Author A replies to this entry with their writing preferences (from here) to start their thread. Minor changes are allowed to preferences, if needed.
2) Prompter 1 replies to Author A's thread with a prompt
3) Author A fills said prompt with at least 300 words of fic and posts it in a reply to Prompter 1's comment.
4) Author A moves on to Prompter 2.
5) Prompter 1 may now give Author A another prompt if they so choose, continuing on until prompts close on Thursday, June 21st at 10am EST (7am PST).
6) Authors have until Thursday, June 21st at 12pm EST (9am PST) to post their fills.
The author with the MOST fills will be the Winner! Any author who fills EVERY prompt they receive will be a Survivor!
A few additional notes:
** The length of the battle is for two reasons: A) varying free time for writing (a work-a-day writer or a weekender), and B) varying writing speeds (a tortoise or a hare).
** As the battle goes on, try to spread your prompts among the authors. If you see an author who has completed all their prompts and there's plenty of time to the end of the battle, help them out!
** No ideas for prompts? Use resources like unfilled prompts at various comment fic memes and fests (even other fandoms which could be adapted), or random story idea generators.
** Anonymous comments are screened for the duration of the battle. Please prompt logged in.
Questions? See the first comment thread below.


text:
Product Categories
XD wheels thrive on the dirt and chaos of extra-duty, off-road racing. They are built for those who need precise equipment for an imprecise environment. These wheels are actually put to the test by the XD Series race teams at some of the most demanding off-road events in the world including the SCORE Baja 1000 and the TORC Series. Light-weight and strong these wheels are always ready to take on the next challenge. . . are you?? The XD128 MACHETE is available in 15", 16", 17", 18" and 20" diameters. Finish available in Satin Black, Matte Gray with a black ring or Machined with a black ring. This wheel features a two piece cap system that is fully customizable! Not only can you paint the metal base any color you choose but also have the option to run it with or without hubs.
Select Finish: Matte Gray W/Black Ring | SATIN BLACK | SATIN BLACK MACHINED FACE
No reviews yet for this product.


text:
A Monad Transformer for explicitly typed checked exceptions.
The exceptions thrown by a computation are inferred by the typechecker and appear in the type signature of the computation as Throws constraints.
Exceptions are defined using the extensible exceptions framework of Marlow (documented in Control.Exception):
data DivideByZero = DivideByZero deriving (Show, Typeable) data SumOverflow = SumOverflow deriving (Show, Typeable)
instance Exception DivideByZero instance Exception SumOverflow
data Expr = Add Expr Expr | Div Expr Expr | Val Double
eval (Val x) = return x eval (Add a1 a2) = do v1 <- eval a1 v2 <- eval a2 let sum = v1 + v2 if sum < v1 || sum < v2 then throw SumOverflow else return sum eval (Div a1 a2) = do v1 <- eval a1 v2 <- eval a2 if v2 == 0 then throw DivideByZero else return (v1 / v2)
GHCi infers the following types
eval :: (Throws DivideByZero l, Throws SumOverflow l) => Expr -> EM l Double eval `catch` \ (e::DivideByZero) -> return (-1) :: Throws SumOverflow l => Expr -> EM l Double runEM(eval `catch` \ (e::SomeException) -> return (-1)) :: Expr -> Double
|Important trivia
|Hierarchies of Exceptions
If your sets of exceptions are hierarchical then you need to teach Throws about the hierarchy.
-- TopException -- | instance Throws MidException (Caught TopException l) -- | -- MidException instance Throws ChildException (Caught MidException l) -- | instance Throws ChildException (Caught TopException l) -- | -- ChildException
|Unchecked exceptions
|Unchecked exceptions
An exception E can be declared as unchecked by making E an instance of UncaughtException.
instance UncaughtException E
E will still appear in the list of exceptions thrown by a computation but runEMT will not complain if E escapes the computation being run.
Also, tryEMT allows you to run a computation regardless of the exceptions it throws.
|Stack Traces
Stack traces are provided via the MonadLoc package. All you need to do is add the following pragma at the top of your Haskell source files and use do-notation:
{ # OPTIONS_GHC -F -pgmF MonadLoc # }
Only statements in do blocks appear in the stack trace.
f () = do throw MyException g a = do f a main = runEMT $ do g () `catchWithSrcLoc` \loc (e::MyException) -> lift(putStrLn$ showExceptionWithTrace loc e)
-- Running main produces the output:
*Main> main MyException in f, Main(example.hs): (1,6) g, Main(example.hs): (2,6) main, Main(example.hs): (5,9) main, Main(example.hs): (4,16)
|Understanding GHC errors
A type error of the form:
No instance for (UncaughtException MyException) arising from a use of `g' at examples/docatch.hs:21:32-35 Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (UncaughtException MyException) In the expression: g ()
is the type checker saying:
"hey, you are trying to run a computation which throws a MyException without handling it, and I won't let you"
Either handle it or declare MyException as an UncaughtException.
A type error of the form:
Overlapping instances for Throws MyException (Caught e NoExceptions) arising from a use of `g' at docatch.hs:24:3-6 Matching instances: instance (Throws e l) => Throws e (Caught e' l) -- Defined at ../Control/Monad/Exception/Throws.hs:46:9-45 instance (Exception e) => Throws e (Caught e l) -- Defined at ../Control/Monad/Exception/Throws.hs:47:9-44 (The choice depends on the instantiation of `e' ...
is due to an exception handler for MyException missing a type annotation to pin down the type of the exception.
|The EM monad
|A monad of explicitly typed, checked exceptions
|Run a computation explicitly handling exceptions
|Run a safe computation
|Run a computation checking even unchecked (UncaughtExceptions) exceptions
|The EMT monad transformer
|Run a computation explicitly handling exceptions
|Run a safe computation
|Run a safe computation checking even unchecked (UncaughtException) exceptions
|The Throws type class
|Exception primitives
|The throw primitive
|Rethrow an exception keeping the call trace
|The catch primitive
|Like catch but makes the call trace available
|Sequence two computations discarding the result of the second one. If the first computation rises an exception, the second computation is run and then the exception is rethrown.
|Like finally, but performs the second computation only when the first one rises an exception
|Capture an exception e, wrap it, and rethrow. Keeps the original monadic call trace.
|This function may be used as a value for mplus in MonadPlus
withLocTH is a convenient TH macro which expands to withLoc <source location> It should only be used when the MonadLoc preprocessor is not available. Usage:f x = $withLocTH $ do $withLocTH $ something x < -$withLocTH $ something-else ...
NOTE: unfortunately type signatures are necessary when using withLocTH
|Produced by Haddock version 2.6.0


text:
|New Market, Md.
|High School:
2009-10 Indoor: Set the UMBC record and finished fourth in the 500-meter dash in 1:03.35 at the IC4A Championships… Earned bronze in the 500 in a then-school record 1:03.77 at the America East Championships… Won gold in the 500 at both the Bison Opener and the Gulden Relays… Took silver in the 500 at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational and in the 400-meter dash at the George Mason Patriot Games.
2009 Outdoor: Placed 11th in the 400-meter hurdles at America East Championships with a season-best time of 55.43… Member of the 4x400 relay that placed third at the conference meet… Also a member of the 4x200 relay which earned bronze at the IC4A Championships with a time of 1:25.06… Member of the 4x400 relay team that finished 21st at the IC4As.
2008-09 Indoor: Finished fifth in the 500-meter dash at the America East Championships with a season-best time of 1:04.79… Member of the 4x400 relay team that finished fourth at the conference meet in a season-best time of 3:19.69.
Background: Named Athlete of the Year in 2008 by the Frederick News Post… Named team MVP as a senior… Was a captain of his high school team as a senior… Won the 2008 regional championships at 300 and 500 meters.
Personal: Middle child of Mark and Jane Hewitson… Has five brothers and sisters, Michah, 12, Gideon, 14, Lydia, 16, Noah, 24, and Josiah, 26… Was born in Colorado… Born July 12, 1990.


text:
Distance: 1.5K/ 42K/ 10K
When: June 12
Where: Knockburn Loch, Aberdeenshire
First man: Andrew Brierley 2:11:07
First woman: Rachel Boyd 2:23:45
Last finisher: 3:42:14
No of finishers: 107
As triathlon increases in popularity, event organisers need to find unique selling points to bring athletes to their race. A purpose-built loch is going to take some beating.
Organised by Fleet Feet triathlon club, this event gave athletes the choice of standard and sprint distances. The cloudy but warm conditions meant that most athletes felt comfortable racing in just their trisuit.
After just over two laps of the loch, competitors headed out on a 42K bike ride on open country roads. One or two short, sharp climbs and descents kept riders alert.
A single loop of road and forest trails made up the 10K run, which took participants to the finish line and the post-race barbecue.
In the men's race, Lewis Murchie had a clear lead exiting the water, but was chased down on the bike, with Andrew Brierley overtaking him on the run to claim first place in a time of 2:11:07.
Rachel Boyd's superb swim in the women's race (her time was 20:08) meant she was able to hold off a brave challenge from Isobel Joiner whose magnificent efforts in the run saw her close a gap of more than two minutes to just 25 seconds.


text:
Galatasaray AŞ 0-0 Arsenal FC (aet)
(Galatasaray win 4-1 on penalties)
Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
"In the past, Turkish players watched finals on television. Now they have the chance to play the starring role." Galatasaray AŞ coach Fatih Terim was in no doubt as to the significance of his team's achievements in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup. Turkish football's dream factories were in overtime when Galatasaray met Arsenal FC in Copenhagen as their country's first European finalist - and history was the end product. Like many great enterprises, though, this one also had humble beginnings.
Galatasaray entered the competition through the back door - as one of the third-placed teams in the first group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Even then they had to beat AC Milan in their last game to qualify. But win they did, and that victory was the start of a run which took the Cim Bom from the UEFA Cup third round, past Bologna FC, BV Borussia Dortmund, RCD Mallorca and Leeds United AFC, to the final at the Parken stadium.
The theme of antagonism ran into the football, with Galatasaray captain Gheorghe Hagi sent off in extra time for striking his Arsenal counterpart Tony Adams. Yet the Gunners – so impressive in beating FC Nantes Atlantique, RC Deportivo La Coruña, Werder Bremen and RC Lens after their UEFA Champions League exit – could not make their advantage tell. The match finished 0-0. In the ensuing penalty shoot-out, Patrick Vieira and Davor Šüker missed for Arsenal to hand Galatasaray the trophy their tough but tricky football deserved.


text:
Animated Metro Coming Soon – Metro8 – is a Responsive Coming Soon and Under Construction Special Page, built with some Fundation Grid elements!
- Slider
- Countdown
- Metro Style Animation
- Responsive Layout
- Fullscreen HD
- Mobile & Tablet Version (iPad, iPhone, Android Devices)
- Simple Modification
- 2 Photos Included (HD)
- Fontello WebFonts
- Just the way I like it – simple and clean. Great job, congrats and GLWS.. [RafalBorowski]
- Very beautiful work, congratulations. I have buy it without second thought. [Grphoto]
- A beautiful theme. Congratulations! [JOGJAfile]
- Nice work (...) [metrothemes]
- very creative [Gluckxxx]
And More…
Colors:Default is only one colour version because on every element you can change color from pallete of 32 colours. On click on every box you can add own text, image or app (eg. Maps)
Source & Credits:
- jQuery
- jQuery Easing
- jQuery Countdown
- Part of Grid of Foundation CSS
- Animation CSS Metro Style Tutorial by Sara Soueidan
- Supersized Slider
- Fontello WebFonts
Photos Credits:
2 Photos are included in ZIP file, rest of them from preview you can find here:
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/seyyed_mostafa_zamani/5743599496
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/velvettears/5982590252
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/josemanuelerre/4976537690/in/faves-pablogalavis/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/seyyed_mostafa_zamani/6966965057/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/d2k6/5047947055/
fixed background bug
fixed couter bug
new jquery version
new counter script version
updated app.css for mobile
added 1 photo for mobile
If you bought theme before 03 march and you have problems width mobile version, please redownload ZIP.


text:
County of Inyo
Board of Supervisors
April 24, 2007
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in special session at the hour of 1:00 a.m., on, in the Board of Supervisors Room, County Administrative Center, Independence, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Jim Bilyeu presiding, Linda Arcularius, Susan Cash, Beverly Brown, and Richard Cervantes.
Public Comment
The Chairperson announced the public comment period and there was no one from the public wishing to address the Board
Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed open session at 1:01 p.m., to convene in closed session, with all Board Members present, to discuss Agenda Item No. 2. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL EXISTING LITIGATION (Pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(a)– Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Inyo County Sheriff's Department – EEOC Charge No. 485-2007-00299.
Report on Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed closed session at 1:20 p.m. to reconvene in open session to receive a report on closed session. County Counsel reported that with regard to the above entitled case, which is an EEOC charge of sexual discrimination and retaliation by an employee of the Inyo County Sheriff's Department, the Board in a unanimous vote, with Supervisors Arcularius, Cash, Brown, Bilyeu and Cervantes, voting yes, authorized and directed the Office of County Counsel to represent and defend the County in this matter.
The Chairperson adjourned the special meeting at 1:21 p.m.
Chairperson, Inyo County Board of Supervisors
Attest: RONALD JULIFF
Clerk of the Board
by: ___________________________________
Patricia Gunsolley, Assistant
Disclaimer: The County of Inyo reserves the right to make changes and improvements to its Web site at any time and without
notice, and assumes no liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly as a result of errors, omissions or discrepancies.
Copyright © 2001 County of Inyo
Last Updated: May 11, 2007


text:
This Little Piggy Will Eat Your Soul
I thought most of the world had already seen the demon marzipan piggy that went viral Christmas week, but then again - judging by John's horrified screams of laughter when he spotted it on my screen last night - maybe not.
So, without further ado, lock up the children, grab your security blanket, and prepare to meet your newest nightmare:
Not kosher, man. NOT KOSHER.
Jonas L. made this for two little girls, if you can believe it, and there are multiple disturbing photos of said children gleefully dissecting zombie Wilbur over on his website. I think it goes without saying that hogging this cake may be a real boar, but it will definitely make you squeal.
And while it ill behooves me to butt in with gratuitous pork butt pictures, this one is sooieeet!
And by "sooieeet" I mean I just became a vegetarian.
Thanks, internet.
Q: Why do pigs hate magic?
A: Because Hogwarts make them itchy!


text:
How to Use the Images
Photo 1: Amputation being performed in a
hospital tent, Gettysburg, July 1863.
Savage Station, VA, 1862.
The Civil War was the first war in which the horror and death of the battlefield was extensively recorded by photographers. Even the gruesome scenes of field hospitals did not escape the camera's eye. Although there were no photographers traveling with Sherman's army at the time of the Battle of Bentonville, much can still be learned about field hospitals by examining photographs taken at other locations.
Questions for Photos 1 & 2
1. Write a separate description for each scene. Note things like the setting, the number of people, what they are doing, how they are dressed, and so on.
2. How do the differences of the two scenes indicate the changes made as a result of the Letterman plan?
3. How do the conditions exhibited in Photo 2 differ from modern operating theater? Would surgery during the Civil War have "done more harm than good?"
* The photos on this screen have a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Photo 1 and Photo 2, but be aware that each file will take as much as two minutes to load with a 28.8K modem.


text:
Click a button on the remote below to see its functions.
Log in to shop remotes.
Your remote may not be programmed to control functions on your TV. Check out these step-by-step instructions to pair your remote to your TV or another device.
Often, this problem is due to dead batteries, or a remote or receiver error. Follow these steps to resolve your remote control issue.
Your remote takes four AAA batteries.
Visit our remote control how-to pages for step-by-step instructions for programming your remote, tuning to the correct channel/input for watching DISH programming, and more!
Check out the 4.4 remote control setup guide for additional information on your remote.
Need assistance with your receiver? Look to the receiver support pages for helpful info.
Troubleshoot issues with your equipment online.


text:
A remorseful Andrew Hore says he let the nation down with his swinging arm challenge that knocked out Welsh lock Bradley Davies and that he deserves the five-week suspension with which he's been administered.
Hore pleaded guilty to the charge of striking Davies in the first minute of the All Blacks' 33-10 victory in Cardiff last Sunday and was handed an eight-week suspension that was reduced to five on the grounds he has shown genuine remorse by apologising to Davies and his previously clean record.
"I want to say how bad I feel and how embarrassed I am to be in this situation," said Hore. "It is not the All Black way and I have let myself down and the team and probably the whole country is pretty proud of what we do.
"I hope Bradley Davies does recover and get back up and running and play in the Heineken Cup as soon as he can. I have been on the phone and talked to him on Sunday about the incident and obviously the All Black management and the leader group that I am a part of has been pretty stern on me for getting us into this situation and I have to take what I have got and go back and start building a reputation as a good, clean, hard footy player and hopefully I can do that in the next Super Rugby competition when I get back playing."
The mood in the All Black camp in the aftermath of Hore's suspension was one of resigned acceptance and relief. The coaches and senior players have known since they first saw the video footage that Hore was going to be in trouble for his actions.
Despite the hysteria of some commentators who have even gone as far to call for Hore to be banned for life, the All Blacks have been willing to accept the 34-year-old was attempting to hook Davies out of the way rather than deliberately strike him from behind.
The judicial officer noted that Hore made contact with an open hand and that his intention was to reach around Davies' shoulders and try to move him out of the way.
The challenge ended up being horribly executed when Hore's arm came over the top of Davies' shoulders and cracked the lock on the jaw - knocking him unconscious.
It was ultimately both a bad decision and a bad execution rather than a malicious and deliberate assault.
"We haven't said anything on this issue before because there has been a hearing," said All Black assistant coach Ian Foster who attended the hearing in Bristol with Hore.
"It is nice to hear Andrew express remorse for Bradley. It was good to put some context around the situation. Andrew has been suspended at the high level but he's accepted responsibility, he (has) more than 300 first-class games, he's been a leader and his character over that time period has been exemplary.
"This one incident he has accepted, he has fronted up for it and he has been punished."
Five matches Hore will miss:
Test match - All Blacks v England, Dec 2
Pre-season - Highlanders v Chiefs, Taupo, Feb 2
Pre-season - Highlanders v Crusaders, Oamaru, Feb 8
Pre-season - Highlanders v Blues, Queenstown, Feb 15
Super 15 - Highlanders v Chiefs, Dunedin, Feb 22


text:
Our Story
A Desire to Serve
The idea for the Academy for College Excellence (ACE) was born in 1999 as founder Diego Navarro sought to leave the high-tech industry for a more personally rewarding career. He wanted to return to his roots as a community organizer, and help people transcend poverty through education.
The Beginning
In 2002, Diego interviewed 125 experts in the country who worked with young adults, and reviewed 36 curricula. He used research and process design methods he'd learned while a researcher at Hewlett-Packard labs to assess the needs of underprepared youth and to design a program that would transform them into successful community college students. He held five pilots with nine of the curricula to determine the elements that would make the program most effective. With each pilot the curricula was reviewed and improved based on student feedback. This research took over a year and a half. Each pilot included different elements of the two-week intensive that begins the ACE semester (the Foundation Course).
Working with an outstanding team of faculty including Sue Nerton, Marcy Alancraig, Deborah Shulman and Regina DeCosse, Diego refined and combined program elements to develop a specialized curriculum from which the first student cohort was taught in the fall of 2003 at the Cabrillo College center in Watsonville, California. At the time, Diego called it the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA), since the idea was to help students bridge the digital divide as a solution to poverty. The target student population was underprepared Latino students in a rural, agricultural community. Cabrillo College continued to run one cohort per semester at its Watsonville Center through spring 2008.
First Partnerships
In fall 2006, three other northern California community colleges ran student cohorts: Las Positas College (Livermore, CA), College of Alameda (Alameda, CA) and Merritt College (Oakland, CA). These partnerships proved that the program curriculum was effective with urban students from diverse backgrounds. Las Positas College continues to run one ACE cohort every fall semester, with a focus on learning disabled students.
In fall 2008, Cabrillo College increased the number of cohorts at its Watsonville Center to two, and expanded the program to its main campus in Aptos, California. During this same semester, Hartnell College (Salinas, CA) and Berkeley City College (Berkeley, CA) adopted the ACE program at their colleges. In 2010, Los Medanos College adopted the ACE program. As the vision of national expansion became a more concrete reality, the need for a name that better described our mission became strong. In the winter of 2010, we changed our name from the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA) to the Academy for College Excellence (ACE).
Since this time, ACE at Cabrillo College has grown to eight cohorts per year, which includes cohorts that focus on medical assisting, integrated science (IScS), and social justice academic acceleration. Hartnell College has also expanded, and now hosts seven cohorts per year, some of which focus on enhancing their Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, such as Sustainable Green Construction, Environmental Literacy, and Agricultural Machinery. Broward College in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, launched the ACE program at their college (BCAE) in the summer of 2012 with 10 cohorts (250 students) their very first semester. They aim to expand to 3,000 students per year over the next five years.
To date, seven partner colleges across the country are using the Academy for College Excellence model of student support and engagement, linking it to a variety of programs of study. Three of the Academy for College Excellence's partner colleges have recognized the power of the model to help CTE students navigate their first semester of college. In the last ten years we have served over 2,700 students and have trained over 650 faculty to use affective learning methods in their classrooms.
Strategic Plan
Learn more about ACE's 2010 strategic plan through this three-part video series, wherein Diego Navarro and Jim Knickerbocker speak about the development of ACE's strategic plan. The strategic plan is critically important to the entire ACE Community as it deals with the growth and maturation of ACE in the educational process.


text:
Kelly Osbourne's $250,000 Manicure Incites Outrage – Photo of the Day
Kelly Osbourne's black diamond Emmys manicure was worth a whopping $250,000. In other words, she had the cost of a pretty nice house in most areas on her fingertips.
And while she didn't pay for it out of her own pocket, she did she pay for it in flesh — because she took such a public beating for the frivolous extravagance that she's now issued a public apology for it.
You can read her stream of tweets yourself, but her two key points are below.
She tries to justify the polish (made by Azature of crushed black diamonds), but whatever. Wasting diamonds and bragging about it is poor form, but even worse is the fact that the mani looked sloppy and wasn't unlike any other sparkly black polish that you can pick up at a drugstore for 99 cents.
Textured nails are definitely huge this season, with velour and caviar manis seen on runways. Osbourne's mani should have been flawless, but instead it looks like she got cat hair stuck in wet lacquer.
We just wanna be there when she takes it off. It'll be the only polish-stained cotton ball in history worth a small fortune.
I see that my nail polish has offended some of you, however I see your point, butit was a once in a lifetime experience. #MyApologizes
— Kelly Osbourne (@MissKellyO) September 27, 2012
And please forgive me for not regretting it. it made me feel like a queen!
— Kelly Osbourne (@MissKellyO) September 27, 2012


text:
Joachim Baumeister and Dietmar Seipel, University Wuerzburg
In the last years, ontologies have played a major role for building large, distributed, and heterogeneous intelligent systems. E.g., ontologies are one key technique of the semantic web layer. The development process of an ontology heavily depends on its evaluation. In this paper, we introduce several measures for the evaluation of ontological knowledge. Besides standard methods like taxonomic errors we also present novel metrics focusing on design anomalies. For the implementation of these measures we propose a declarative approach using the logic-based language FNQuery.
This page is copyrighted by AAAI. All rights reserved. Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of all of AAAI's terms and conditions and privacy policy.


text:
Disk quota
From Wikipedia:
- "A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems. The function of setting quotas to disks is to allocate limited disk-space in a reasonable way."
This article covers the installation and setup of disk quota.
Disk quota only requires one package:
# pacman -S quota-tools
For journaled quota, see the notes in #Journaled quota.
1. First, edit
/etc/fstab to enable the quota mount option(s) on selected file systems:
/dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults 1 1
- edit it as follows;
/dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults,usrquota 1 1
- or aditionally enable the group quota mount option;
/dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
2. Create the quota files in the file system:
# touch /home/aquota.user # touch /home/aquota.group # For group quota
2. The next step is to remount:
# mount -vo remount /home
4. Create the quota index:
# quotacheck -vgum /home
- or for all partitions with the quota mount options in
# quotacheck -vguma
quotacheck: Cannot find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota option." and you are using a custom kernel, make sure quota support is enabled in your kernel.
5. Finally, enable quotas:
# quotaon -av
Consider adding this command to your start-up.
Journaled quota
Enabling journaling for disk quota adds the same benefits journaled file systems do for forced shutdowns, meaning that data is less likely to become corrupt.
Setting up journaled quota is the same as above, except for the mount options:
/dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0 1 1
or aditionally enable the group quota mount option;
/dev/sda1 /home ext4 defaults,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0 1 1
$USER as appropriate and edit the quota as root:
$ edquota $USER
Disk quotas for user $USER (uid 1000): Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard /dev/sda1 1944 0 0 120 0 0
edquota -g $GROUP.
- blocks
- Number of 1k blocks currently used by
- inodes
- Number of entries by
$USERin directory file
- soft
- Max number of blocks/inodes
$USERmay have on partition before warning is issued and grace period countdown begins. If set to "0" (zero) then no limit is enforced.
- hard
- Max number of blocks/inodes
$USERmay have on partition. If set to "0" (zero) then no limit is enforced.
Example configuration:
Disk quotas for user testuser (uid 1000): Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard /dev/sda1 695879 10000 15000 6741 0 0
soft limit means that once testuser uses over 10MB of space a warning email gets ensued, and after a period of time the soft limit gets enforced.
hard limit is stricter, so to speak; a user cannot go over this limit.
Next configure the
soft limit grace period:
# edquota -t
Checking for quota limits and advanced operations
Use this command to check for quotas on a specific partition:
# repquota /home
Use this command to check for all quotas that apply to a user:
# quota -u $USER
for groups;
# quota -g $GROUP
Copying quota settings
To copy quota from one user or group to the other, use this command:
# edquota -p user1 user2
User1 is the user you copy from, user2 is the user you copy quota to. Of course you can replace user with group, when necessary.
Multiple users
The idea is to make a temporary user acount, modify the quota settings for that user, and then copy the generated quota files for all users to use. After setting quota settings for quotauser, copy the settings:
# edquota -p quotauser `awk -F: '$3 > 999 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`
This applies the settings to users with a UID equal to or greater than 1000.
Other commands
There are several useful commands:
repquota -a # Shows the status on disk usage warnquota # Can be used to warn the users about their quota, configuration in /etc/warnquota.conf setquota # Non-interactive quota setting--useful for scripting
quotastats is used to give thorough information about the quota system:
$ quotastats
Number of dquot lookups: 101289 Number of dquot drops: 101271 Number of still active inodes with quota : 18 Number of dquot reads: 93 Number of dquot writes: 2077 Number of quotafile syncs: 134518740 Number of dquot cache hits: 7391 Number of allocated dquots: 90 Number of free dquots: 2036 Number of in use dquot entries (user/group): -1946


text:
A child ticket covers visitors from 4 years through to 16 years. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult on tours and rides, children aged 3 years and under are free of charge. A family ticket includes 2 adults and 3 children. A senior ticket is available to any visitor with a valid Seniors Card.
Factory Tour
$9.90 – $51.30
Hear the story of how ginger is grown, harvested and turned into a delicious range of products.
Related products
Double the fun! The Ginger Factory Play Bundle includes access to the Overboard boat ride and the Ginger Train.
Experience it all! Enjoy the Factory Tour, Live Bee Show, Overboard boat ride and the Ginger Train all on one pass. Includes unlimited rides. SPECIAL ONLINE DISCOUNT OF 10% (automatically applied)
Ahoy there shipmates! Go 'Overboard' with the Gingerbread Man on a fantastic global voyage.
Enjoy 12 months of unlimited rides on Overboard Boat Ride + Moreton the Ginger Train. Terms and conditions apply. Children aged 3 years and under are free of charge. Get yours now!
Hop on board 'Moreton' for a fun and informative journey on our much loved historic train.
Experience the fascinating world of the honeybee as our beekeepers share the hidden secrets of the hive.
From Farmer to your PlateJoin us for a unique experience at the award winning tourist attraction, the Ginger Factory, as part of the Curated Plate Festival Destination Series. Discover the story of the Australian ginger industry from 3rd generation Ginger Farmer Shane Templeton, learn how ginger is harvested and processed at the world leading Buderim Ginger facility, and enjoy a two-course ginger-inspired lunch. $145 per person Friday 9th, August, 11am-2pm Includes informative talk from Shane Templeton, guided Factory viewing & tastings, two course lunch, glass of alcoholic ginger beer, and commemorative gift.
Enjoy all the flavours of the Ginger Factory! The Taste & Discover Bundle includes the Factory Tour and the Live Bee Show.


text:
Town expands ban on dawn/dusk activities
With Greenwich and Stamford at the epicenter of this year's West Nile virus outbreak, the Greenwich Department of Health has made a renewed call to residents to limit time outdoors in the evenings, and expanded its restriction on activities in public parks and restaurants to include the North Mianus area.
West Nile was recently confirmed in a third Stamford resident, and a group of mosquitoes collected from Mianus River Park on Sept. 5 tested positive for the virus. Residents of the two municipalities represent five of the state's nine confirmed human cases.
After the second human case in Greenwich was identified, the town health department asked all parks, playgrounds, golf courses and other areas that support public gatherings and public recreation activities to close a half-hour before dusk and reopen no earlier than a half-hour after sunrise to help reduce the public's exposure to West Nile. The department also asked all restaurants that offer outside dining to end it a half-hour before dusk. Sunset this week is around 7 p.m.
"Everybody has to take this very seriously," said Greenwich Health Director Caroline Calderone Baisley. "This is no joke."
Calderone Baisley said it will be difficult to make sure the restrictions are being followed in Mianus River Park, off Cognewaugh Road.
"It's easier in a facility like Greenwich Point where people are opening and closing the facility," Calderone Baisley said.
Despite the fact that it is up to coaches of teams that use parks and restaurant managers to comply with the health department's directive, those interviewed said they were following the rules.
Deelia Wadsworth, executive director of the Old Greenwich Riverside Community Center, said three of the organization's nearly two dozen travel soccer teams had practices at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center that ended at 7:30 p.m. Now, they're ending at 6:30 p.m.
"I think our groups of parents and our players are really accommodating to schedule changes," Wadsworth said. "No one wants to be at risk."
Eleven14 Kitchen, the restaurant at the new J House hotel, covered its popular outdoor patio with mosquito netting on Sept. 7, after the health department put out the directive.
John Sheedy, the restaurant's manager, said the outdoor area was a big part of their business.
"It's widely done in the South, so we looked to see if we could make it happen up here," Sheedy said.
Sheedy said the health department gave the restaurant temporary approval before coming by with the Greenwich fire marshal to sign off on the covering. He said they were happy to spend the money to protect their customers.
"In that regard, it's money well spent," Sheedy said.
Theodore Andreadis, director of the state's mosquito-trapping program and chief medical entomologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, said Connecticut has passed the mosquito season's peak, but the warm temperatures indicate the insect's activity will likely continue through the end of October and into early November.
"We've got fewer mosquitoes out there, but we're still finding West Nile in the Greenwich-Stamford area," he said. "We're not entirely out of the woods yet so people should still take precautions."
This year's mild winter, which was followed by a rainy spring and hot summer, created ideal breeding conditions for West Nile virus. Hot temperatures accelerate mosquitoes' development and allows them to transfer the virus more efficiently in a shorter period of time, Andreadis said.
"The most recent cases that have been reported were all acquired during the last week in August when it was really humid," he said. "We knew the risk was high and we've had clear indication for several months. We knew it was coming."
Calderone Baisley said the restrictions will be lifted when mosquitoes collected by the state no longer test positive for West Nile. The state collects the mosquitoes, then splits them into groups, or "pools," which are tested for the virus. This year, 2,335 mosquitoes were collected at the trapping site at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center, and 17 pools tested positive for West Nile. Only one pool of mosquitoes collected from Mianus River Park earlier this month tested positive, while 670 insects collected at the trapping site off Lake Avenue were negative for West Nile.
"My prediction is we'll have another week or two to go, and then we'll be safe," Calderone Baisley said.
-- Staff Writer Kate King contributed to this report.
firstname.lastname@example.com; 203-625-4439; http://twitter.com/lchamoff


text:
With Apple News, you can read interactive and engaging stories from a large variety of publications (or channels) across a broad range of topics such as Entertainment, Politics, Food, or Science. The more you read, the better Apple News gets at understanding your interests.
You can also subscribe to Apple News+ to get access to hundreds of magazines, popular newspapers, and premium digital publishers in the News app.
The News app is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Learn what's available in your country or region.
Explore the News app
Make sure to update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and update your Mac to get the latest version of the News app.
Then, on your iPhone and iPod touch, navigate the News app using the tabs at the bottom of the screen. On your iPad or Mac, navigate the app using the sidebar. If you don't see the sidebar, tap or click the Sidebar button in the upper-left corner of the app.
In this tab, you'll see a feed of top stories curated by editors and articles tailored to your interests. As you read more stories, Apple News will refine what you see in Today. You can also personalize News to follow or block channels and topics.
In the United States and Canada, you can subscribe to Apple News+ to get access to hundreds of magazines, popular newspapers, and premium digital publishers in the News app.
In Spotlight, Apple News editors go deep into a topic that's of interest at the moment, curating the best content from sources you can trust.
The Spotlight tab's name and icon might temporarily change to reflect the topic's theme.
Following and search
On your iPhone or iPod touch, tap the Following tab, then enter a channel, story, or topic in the search bar. If you want to follow a topic or channel, tap the Follow button .
On your iPad or Mac, you can find Following content in the sidebar. If you don't see the sidebar, tap or click the Sidebar button in the upper-left corner of the app.
In Following, you'll also see a list of the topics and channels that you're already following and suggestions from Siri or based on your reading behavior in the News app. Tap or click Saved Stories to view your saved stories, and tap or click History to see the stories that you previously read.
Read and save stories
Tap or click any story to read it. If you don't have time to read it now, you can save it for later:
- On your iOS device: Tap the Share button , then tap Save.
- On your Mac, choose File > Save Story from the menu bar at the top of your computer screen.
Tap or click Saved Stories in the Following tab or the sidebar to view your saved stories.
More ways to get the news
There are many ways to stay up to date with Apple News:
- Use the News app on your Apple Watch or the News widget on your iOS device to see the top headlines and save them for later to read on a different device.
- Read the latest business headlines in the Stocks app on your iOS device and Mac. (The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom only.)
- Get an email digest with stories tailored to your interests by opting in to Apple News Updates emails.
Personalize your News
As you read stories in the News app, love and dislike stories for Apple News to get to know your interests better.
Love and follow
You'll see the Love button in different places in News. Tap it to love a story or follow a channel or topic and to see more similar things in your feed. To follow a magazine, follow its channel. Learn more about reading magazines with Apple News+.
On your iPhone or iPod touch, you can also swipe left on a headline in Today to see the Love option.
Go to Following or the sidebar to search for channels and topics or see suggested ones. Tap or click the Follow button to follow a channel or topic. To unfollow a channel or topic, tap or click Edit in the upper-right corner, tap or click the Remove button , then tap or click Remove.
Dislike and block
Tap or click the Dislike button to dislike a story and see fewer things like it in your feed. On your iPhone or iPod touch, you can also swipe right on a headline in Today to see the Dislike option.
While reading a story, you can tap the Share button and then choose Block Channel or choose File > Block Channel or File > Block Topic to stop seeing stories from that news provider or topic. To view your blocked channels or topics or to unblock something, go to Following > Blocked Channels & Topics on your iPhone or iPod touch; scroll to the bottom of the sidebar and tap Blocked Channels & Topics on your iPad; or choose File > Manage Blocked Channels & Topics on your Mac.
If a story is in the wrong section, doesn't display correctly, or contains offensive language or content, you can report it. On your iOS device, while in the story, tap the Share button , swipe left on the bottom row, then tap "Report a Concern." On your Mac, choose News > "Report a Concern" from the menu at the top of your computer screen.
Change your settings
On your iOS device, go to Settings > News. From here, you can can change your settings, including these:
- Restrict stories: Tap "Restrict Stories in Today" to display only stories from channels that you follow in the Today feed and topic feeds. All other channels will be blocked.
- Find content in other apps: Tap Siri & Search, then tap "Find Content in Other Apps" to turn off Siri's ability to suggest news stories based on what you read in other apps.
On your Mac, choose News > Preferences from the menu at the top of your computer screen.
You can also choose which channels you get notifications for through the News app. On your iPhone or iPod touch, go to Following > Manage Notifications. On your iPad, scroll to the bottom of the sidebar and tap Manage Notifications. On your Mac, choose File > Manage Notifications.
Learn more
- Sign up for News Publisher to distribute content in the News app. Whether you're a blogger or part of a news organization, you can publish your content on Apple News.
- You can subscribe to Apple News+ to get access to hundreds of magazines, popular newspapers, and premium digital publishers in the News app.
- You can also subscribe to some publisher content on an individual basis. Learn more about individual channel subscriptions in Apple News.
- Set up notifications to get alerts from your favorite apps on your iOS device.


text:
Like Free Stuff? So Do We!
We MommyBetas want to share some of favorite products with you – consider it a little reward for being such a great parent or soon-to-be great parent. We're lining up tons of terrific companies who want to share their products with you.
Just to be clear, the products we are giving away are ones that we have tried and love. Of course, we won't be giving away the used product, but a spankin' new one. You can count on each product giveaway to have a "MommyBeta Seal of Approval." If any products were given to us to sample, we'll let you know upfront. And, just because we received a product to sample doesn't mean it qualified for a giveaway. We only want the best for you guys and gals, and our approval can't be bought!


text: Spina bifida is a congenital disorder (birth defect) in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth. In severe cases, this can result in the spinal cord and its covering membranes protruding out of an affected infant's back. Spina bifida may also be nearly inconsequential, or may be reparable through surgery.


text:
Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. When they balk, she just eats more.
There are many things I think about when walking sullenly through my local Soviet-era grocery store, and not all of them involve pondering the 1980's music that seems to be the perpetual soundtrack in all American supermarkets.
Is Phil Collins supposed to inspire me to buy some stabilized salad dressing and Paul Newman popcorn? Or am I just supposed to start thinking hard about all those years I wasted smoking Virginia Slims on various porches throughout southwestern Michigan and working as a waitress at the Cheek to Cheek/Silver Bullet Saloon (it's For Sale, FYI) instead of wearing unattractive below-the-knee skirts and searching for sensible internships? (FYI # 2: If you Google "Cheek to Cheek", the search engine will serve up an ad for vibrators for women. Just sayin'.)
Just as often while shopping, as I wander, I wonder: If I buy my children their requested Cinnamon Toast Crunch, will that turn them off oatmeal and homemade pancakes? Or will it guarantee that they like me for, like, ever? Or maybe I should be like that mom at work who only allows desserts with bran?
Well, I could try, but then my kids would end up like flourchild, whose macrobiotic parents didn't appear to allow for a lot of smack talk about sugar cereals, but who then grew up into the sort of baker who offers the delightful treat Triple Chocolate Espresso Cookies. I made this cookie three times, and it is a real winner, but if I do so say myself, the best version was the one in which I made a boo-boo.
The author asks that you start these cookies off with a 12 ounce bag of chips, reserving half for the chocolate chunks to be added at the end. I forgot, and melted it all at once, yielding a supremely chocolate cookie, with a delightful espresso finish, kind of like the last sip of coffee you scarf before heading out the door for that long slog to the Metro.
This is your basic cookie recipe – you are doing the creaming thing, then the dry ingredients thing, and I chose to roll my dough into little balls and then watch them spread in the oven. A little soft in the middle, but cracked on the sides is how you want these mammas to come out. If you reserve your chips toward the end, you will have that chunky fun in almost every bite, but for my taste, the fat of the cookie was sort of overwhelming without that extra melted chocolate. What chocolate you use may matter in this case, though I made this once with Nestle chips to great results.
They freeze well too – a big priority for me and one you may hear more about in the coming months. If you've got a cookie (or other bite-sized confection) that well tolerates a few weeks in the freezer (I am mulling those cream cheese cookies from a while back that I Hoovered down by the dozen when my colleagues were not beating me to them) do let me know!
Triple Chocolate Espresso Cookies by flourchild
Serves 24
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips, divided 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter1 1/2 cup unbleached all purpose flour1/2 cup natural (non-alkalized) cocoa powder1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon baking powder1/4 teaspoon kosher or sea salt2 large eggs, at room temperature2/3 cups granulated sugar1/2 cup dark brown sugar, tightly packed1 tablespoon (or less, to taste) instant espresso powder (recommended: Medaglia d'Oro)1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract1 tablespoon dark rum (optional)
See the full recipe (and save it and print it) here.
Photo by James Ransom
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
See what other Food52 readers are saying.


text:
NW-Series Bonded Window Enclosures features include: meeting NEMA 250 Type: 1, 3R, 4X, and 12 standards, temperature range from -76°F to 266°F, a UL94-5V flammability rating plus, NFPA No. 101: Flame Spread Class A (1). In addition, the enclosure features the company's Patented SolarGuard Formulation. The bonded window design allows for larger viewing area and is constructed from Super Abrasion Resistant (SAR) acrylic, that has 45 times the abrasion resistance of uncoated acrylic. In addition, flush-mounted window design reduces risk of compromising internal components from corrosive environments.
Stahlin Non-Metallic Enclosures
Hide comments


text:
Song of Two Worlds by Alan Lightman as Illustrated by Derek Dominic D'Souza
An Interesting Model for Knowledge Preservation
Song of Two Worlds is a poetic work exploring the intersection of science, spirituality and meaning. The title refers to the world of questions which can be answered, and the world of those which cannot.
While I've only read this review (http://https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/10/song-of-two-worlds-alan-lightman-derek-dominic-dsouza/), I perk up at a possible approach to preserving The Knowledge.
To my mind, poetic renditions of anything 'travel better' through time, especially through Dark Ages where intermediate expertise is lost. Scriptures - whether or not they are theistic - are universally written or eventually rendered in poetic language, and whole tomes are commonly memorized.
Here's a sample:
Great Newton, you hid in your rooms,
Outcast like me,
Careless of meals, stockings untied,
Drinker of rosewater, olive oil, beeswax —
You found the force
Between planets and sun,
Pattern of cosmic attraction,
Heard clearly the music of spheres.
You gauged the distance to stars
And the vast rooms of space,
Which were naught to the space of your mind.
You struck the door of the universe.
What raging night seized you
And screamed that the world
Must be number and rule?
Like Feynman's Single Sentence, there is considerable information embedded, here. Unlike it, it would be memorable for its sheer, poetic pleasure. Salted with information useful to intermediate carriers at any level of intellectual engagement (e.g., germ theory and hygiene with how-tos for water filtration/sterilization, soap, antiseptics, anesthetics, etc), I believe such a text could be carried far down the road.
D'Souza's illustrations are likewise suitable to our needs... simple black and white with a human figure in recognizable, natural depictions which render the spirit of associated passages.
Neither text nor pictures are exactly what we'd be looking for, but I submit they comprise a format to consider.
The trick is, I think, to capture the heart as well as the mind.
Dave Z


text:
Emirates NBD, Dubai's largest lender, expects its retail lending to jump between 25 and 40 percent in 2013 as consumer confidence returns in the United Arab Emirates, its retail banking head said on Monday.
Cautioning that the numbers were coming off a low base after two years of weak growth, Suvo Sarkar said a rise in lending was occurring across all sectors - with mortgage lending forecast to double this year and credit card spending, the average amount spent on each transaction, expected to rise 20 percent.
ENBD presently generates around 95 percent of its revenue from its home market, although it is hoping to increase its international business to 15-20 percent in five years, helped by acquisitions such as of BNP Paribas' Egyptian assets, its chief executive told Reuters in November.
Dubai's economy boomed in the mid-2000s but suffered a major set-back in the last two years of the decade as a real estate bubble burst, sending prices down more than 50 percent. Defaults on personal lending shot up and government-related entities were forced to restructure billions of dollars of debt.
However, there have been signs of recovery since last year, with property prices rising again and the Dubai stock market hitting a 40-month high on Thursday.
Lessons have been learnt from the bad times, Sarkar said.
"All the banks are far more prudent than five years back - you won't see the madness we saw before," Sarkar said on the sidelines of a retail banking conference in Dubai.
The more careful approach to lending has also been forced upon banks by a more cautious regulatory regime, including the introduction of caps on personal lending.
New limits on mortgage lending in the United Arab Emirates, originally announced last December, caused a furore as bankers and property developers complained they would extinguish the real estate sector's recovery. The central bank cancelled its original plan and last month agreed to somewhat softer loan-to-value ratios proposed by the local bank industry body.
Sarkar said he expected the new mortgage rules to be in place by the end of this year, adding that the regulation would be positive for the banking sector as it would make customers more rational about how much debt they took on.
ENBD is due to report first-quarter earnings on April 25; the average forecast of three analysts is for the bank to post a 5.4 percent rise in net profit versus the same quarter last year.For all the latest banking and finance news from the UAE and Gulf countries, follow us on Twitter and Linkedin, like us on Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube page, which is updated daily.
Subscribe to Arabian Business' newsletter to receive the latest breaking news and business stories in Dubai,the UAE and the GCC straight to your inbox.


text:
THURSDAY, April 28, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Use of a costly breast cancer therapy called intensity-modulated radiation therapy is strongly influenced by what Medicare will pay for the treatment and where radiation oncologists practice, according to a new study.
Researchers analyzed Medicare data for 26,163 women with localized breast cancer who had surgery and radiation therapy between 2001 and 2005. During that time, Medicare billing for the treatment, called IMRT, increased more than 10-fold (from 0.9 percent to 11.2 percent of patients).
The average cost for radiation treatment within the first year after breast cancer diagnosis was $7,179 without IMRT and $15,230 with it.
Billing for IMRT was five times higher in regions of the country where the treatment was covered by local Medicare carriers than it was in areas where it was not covered, the researchers said. They also found that billing for IMRT was more common among patients treated in freestanding radiation treatment centers (7.6 percent) than among those treated in hospital-based outpatient clinics (5.4 percent).
The findings "suggest that with respect to breast radiation therapy, much of the variation in cost can be directly attributed to inconsistent treatment definitions and reimbursement rates authorized by Medicare and its intermediaries," concluded Dr. Benjamin D. Smith, of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and his colleagues.
The study is published in the April 29 online edition of in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The findings "confirm the suspicion of many, both within and outside of the health care industry, that medical decision making is too heavily influenced by reimbursement rather than medical necessity," Dr. Lisa A. Kachnic, of Boston University School of Medicine, and Dr. Simon N. Powell, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
More information
The American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America have more about IMRT.


text:
Get all the major supplies needed to make this project with the Embossing sarapapers Bundle or you can order them separately.
Susan's Tip: Shake off the extra embossing powder onto a piece of folded scrap paper, then pour the excess powder back into the container.
Kiss me, I'm Irish!By Susan Cobb


text:
Undergraduate Degrees, Majors and Concentrations
Summer 2019
The Psychology of Human Sexuality course will enable students to expand their knowledge of human sexuality and expression, as well as gain awareness of their own values. Teaching methods will include interactive class work, lecture, video and reading assignments. The course will offer information on sex research; theories; anatomy and physiology; sexuality across the lifespan; sexual and reproductive health; sexual coercion, pornography, and prostitution; sexual dysfunctions; and the variety of ways people express themselves sexually.
Prerequisite: PSYC1010
3 Credits
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with PSYC3660
No Courses Found


text:
I'm travelling this week, so posting will be a little spotty. The upside is that I get to feature one of my favorite women of valor, Sara Barton, in a guest post today.
Sara teaches in the Religion Department at Rochester College in Michigan. She is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in Missional and Spiritual Formation at David Lipscomb University. Her book, A Woman Called, is one of my favorite books on women in the Church, and she blogs at SaraBarton.com. Sara and her family have stayed connected with Ugandans since serving as missionaries, and you can learn more about ongoing creative partnerships and sustainable solutions in East Africa at www.kibogroup.org.
Enjoy this fantastic reflection on Mary and Joanna--women of valor!
I did a double take as I passed the collection basket. Was that an egg I saw wobbling about among the coins? As a missionary in Uganda, there was little that surprised me after a while of living cross-culturally, but it took me a moment to realize that the fresh, brown egg (there are ways of deducing that an unwashed egg is fresh) was indeed a purposeful offering.
Later in the service, the worship leader held the egg high above his head, and it was sold to the highest bidder, bringing far more than an egg would cost at the local market. The egg-giver, a widow who sees less than $100 go in and out of her household in a year, had no coins for the collection, so she brought what God had given her that very morning. And instead of shaming her poverty, the church called attention to her generosity, and worship turned into a bidding war for her gift. All three of her teeth gleamed as she laughed and clapped over the hoopla her gift had created. Eventually, I would bid for eggs myself, and mangos, and papayas. Folks brought what they had – and God was glorified. I often heard Jesus whispering the words from Luke 21 in my ear:
"Truly I tell you," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on."
I wrote about the egg experience in our missionary newsletter, and the next time I was home on furlough, I was reminded that sometimes people actually read the newsletter. I was visiting a friend of mine, a well-to-do widow with a gorgeous home and a beautiful smile, and she told me that the story of the widow's egg had so deeply touched her that she used it as a daily reminder of the importance of generosity. In response to my egg story, she had purchased a beautiful decorative egg and placed it on her nightstand, right beside her Bible.
She rushed to her bedroom and came back to show me this thing, this elaborate egg with flowery golden designs perched upon a matching bejeweled stand. My first reaction was judgment, a sentiment that often flowed freely through my veins on furlough trips to opulent America. That egg probably cost as much as the real egg-giver saw in an entire year, said my inner voice, as I faked a smile.
Luke's Gospel backs me up here. With his theme of a great reversal, Luke teaches that "the rich" (1:53; 4:18; 6:20-24; 7:22, 14:13, 21; 16:19-31) already have their comfort, and because of it, they miss recognizing the Son of God when he's right there in front of them. So, with a reversal of what's expected in this world, the brightly-scrubbed and well-dressed are rejected. The poor, however, those who have no worldly comfort or prestige, accept Jesus and are accepted in return. Jesus explicitly teaches the great reversal when he says, "Blessed are you who are poor, and woe to you who are rich."
Mary perhaps best epitomizes this reversal. An adolescent from nowhere-Nazareth, with zero social capital in her patriarchal world, is lifted up to receive and proclaim the great reversal. The way of God, she sings, is to fill hungry people with good things while the rich are sent away empty. The way of God, she sings, is to dethrone powerful rulers and empower humble servants.
Luke parades great reversals through his Gospel and Acts, as those who are often in last place - the blind and deaf, the lame, the sexually mutilated, Samaritans, Gentiles, sinners, children, and women are given first-place status in Jesus' upside-down, reversed kingdom.
Luke's reversal is clear: God exalts the poor and humbles the rich.
But then, into Luke's story walks a rich woman and her symbolic fancy egg. Apparently, Luke likes this great reversal thing so much that just when we think we have it down, he forces our hearts to do it again.
Joanna, a woman mentioned in the Gospels, isn't one of those leading lady characters from Scripture, like Rachel or Sarah. Luke makes two short references to her in chapters 8 and 24, but both brief references notably place her square in the middle of Jesus' ministry.
I find Joanna terribly intriguing. Let's get her story straight (See Luke 8:1-4 and Luke 24):
Joanna, wife of Chuza, is healed of evil spirits and/or disease. Chuza is Herod's household manager (today we might call him a CFO), a position with high responsibility and good pay. This Herod may have been the same sly fox who ordered the death of John the Baptist. Managing his household would have been lucrative, so Joanna was a well-to-do woman who could have returned to a life of leisure after her healing.
Instead, she joined the ragtag group traveling with Jesus and the Twelve, witnessing first-hand his proclamation of the good news of the Kingdom of God. Not only did Joanna witness his ministry, she financially supported Jesus out of her own means. Eventually, courageously following Jesus out of Galilee to Jerusalem, Joanna was one of the first people entrusted with the message that Jesus was not dead but miraculously alive! And with the other witnesses to Jesus' resurrection, she waited in Jerusalem to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
It only takes a couple brief verses to determine that Joanna had chutzpah. She left a life of ease and generously gave her resources to an itinerant preacher who taught her about loving the poor and outcast. When Jesus was arrested, sentenced to death for treason, and killed through violent capital punishment, Joanna could have quietly slipped back home.
But she did not leave Jesus. She did not turn away. She prepared spices for his dead body instead, and she went to his tomb while his male followers were in hiding.
She was a woman of valor.
A rich woman of valor.
Luke and his great reversals: Jesus, Luke illustrates, makes it frustratingly difficult to label people. Just when you think you've determined who's in and who's out, Jesus calls a rich tax collector, Levi, to join his inner group, or he invites himself to dine at the home of Zachaeus, whose riches came through deceit and fraud.
As we deeply contemplate the great reversal in Luke, a rich woman, Joanna, forces us to widen our definition of Jesus' teaching about "the rich" and "the poor."
Jesus calls us to enter a topsy-turvy world in which the heart is examined for poverty and wealth, not just the pocketbook.
So, a proper understanding of Luke's great reversal condemns me for sitting on my missionary judgment seat about the golden egg. It chastises me for resting in the comfort of my missionary sacrifice when there's no doubt I'm a rich, privileged, educated American who must constantly allow God to take my comfort and redefine it.
May we simultaneously remember both Mary's poverty and Joanna's wealth. May we remain open to the surprise and newness that come when we redefine our preconceptions of people according to the topsy-turvy Kingdom of God.
Shareable Permalink
© 2013 All rights reserved.
Copying and republishing this article on other Web sites without written permission is prohibited.


text:
Snow, Balloons And More
Snowflakes falling down your blog! Inspired by the unforgettable xsnow. Install this and enjoy the snowfall! Great for times around christmas and christmas templates. The plugin comes with different snowflakes and a lot of possible settings. You should see the effect on this page.
Since version 0.8.0 the plugin includes balloons, and a new mode in which the images can float upwards. This makes this plugin a birthday plugin as well.
If this plugin doesn't work on your blog, please read the FAQ.
DownloadPlease go to the wordpress.org download page.
WordPress plugin demos are disabled as I don't use WordPress on this site any more.
246 comments
That's pretty cool watching snowflakes fall. :-)
Thanks! Actually, your comment just made me realize there's a bug in the javascript code... the snowflakes only fall down to the part of the page that's initially visible, scrolling down breaks that. Got to think about a fix...
Yes, really cool. It's snowing outside my window right now here in Monmouth, Wales. Great to know we can add snow to our blog. Will speak to our blogmaster. Excellent stuff Nicolas.
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome, at least not for me.
Hm, I'll look into that as well. I tested FF3, IE6+7, Opera and Safari. But chrome uses this new javascript engine... I would guess that it works in chrome if I removed the "fix" I included for IE :evil:
I would love to simply use mootools but that would be kind of bloated.
Ok, I just made the JavaScript do the right thing and added fixes for IE. Tested in chrome too now, and fixed the scrolling issue. Resizing the window is still an issue, and the plugin is kind of heavy on the CPU. I guess I'll add more configuration parameters in the future. New version uploaded to wp.org.
FYI, version 0.1.6 doesn't seem to work on WordPress 2.5 (and so probably won't work on anything earlier, either). Tested on WinXP, on latest IE and Firefox. I like it though, and will keep in in mind for whenever I upgrade WP.
This is fun. I will definitely be using this in the months ahead :)
Umm... I'm on IE6.0 and I see no snow falling. :(
This will be used when december arrives, tested it with 20 snowflakes and it worked. But when I tried to change to 0 it just popped back to 20 again.
Default template on site.
I use safari and leopard if that has anything to do with it. Before there was problem with safari and formatting in posts, so safari might be the crook here.
Thanks for plugin :)
Nice plugin, but an option to change the colour of the snowflakes would be kinda cool (would like to make em light-blue so theyd be more visible on my pag).
I can't see anything in Firefox 3.03. or IE 7.
Thanks everybody for your comments! I made a new release that comes with a higher contrast snowflake, you can see it on this page. Feel free to send me more snowflakes that I can include.
James, if you're referring to this page it's possible that I was just tweaking the plugin and broke it while you were looking.
Scratch that. It's working now (took a minute). Great plugin, I love it. This is going to look fantastic on a few of my blogs as the holiday season approaches. Thanks!
Its funny......  :D
I love this plugin. I was wondering if there was a way you could add things like leaves, rain drops, or other things so that I could use this plugin during other seasons besides winter?
Hi there,
with the latest version I've got a CPU load of 40%, way to much for a little script like this one.
Please fix that.
jackennils, I'm afraid it's not really a problem of the script. The problem is rather that the browser needs much CPU to display the updated positions of the snowflakes. Firefox seems to be particularly slow.
I'll see if there's a way to improve the performance, for now you can change the overall speed and reduce the number of flakes in the Pro Settings. That should make it less CPU-hungry. Maybe I should add a widget so that visitors can disable the snow...
Neat idea, but it doesn't seem to work on my blog www.zeveisenberg.com/blog. I was going to do a post in honor of the first frost of the year. I've activated it, and the code is being written to the page. Any ideas? Perhaps a plugin conflict? I'm using these plugins:
AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget (drop-down)
Akismet 2.2.1
Anarchy Media Player 2.0
BackUpWordPress 0.4.5
Email Users 3.1.5
Markdown 1.0.1m
Snow 0.2.1
Thumbnail Viewer 1.2
WordPress.com Stats 1.3.2
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.2
WP Ajax Edit Comments 18.104.22.168
WP Super Cache 0.8.3
WPtouch iPhone Theme 1.4
You're right, that was it. I also modified the plugin to include class=\"snow\" for the images so I could style them with no border, because I have css that puts borders most images. It might be useful to manually style them with no border, just in case. Great plugin!
Great! Adding a border:0 is also a good idea, time for a new release I guess, the changes are adding up.
I made a new release which should fix the css border issue and brings other small changes. Thanks for using the plugin and reporting problems!
You are a season too early, how about one with leaves falling? I'm tired of raking already!
Thanks for the flakes
Scott, I have added a few leaves. I also made it possible to select more than one object to fall down the page as you can probably see on this page (it's a random thing, so having only one kind of object is possible).
Please download the developer version from the download page and test it.
I have this plugin installed on my site but no snow. I really appreciate if you can come over there and advice.
Jimmy, I have to admit I have no idea what is happening at your blog. Did you make sure your template is correct as described in the faq? The wp_header() seems to present, some other plugins put stuff into your html. Are you sure you enabled the plugin? Mysterious... maybe you have some cache enabled?
it does not work for me... HELP....
i see plugin activated message upon activation but no other snow fall for me :(
Kym + Dave, I have to agree. That's why it's limited to this page on my blog :-D
Love this!
How can I add my own leaves with different colors? How can I make the falling leaves smaller, like they are here? (On my blog, they are much larger...is this a function of the number of falling items?)
Thank you for this awesome plugin.
best wishes,
Dr K, the easiest would be to send me your leaves so that I can include them in the next release. As for having smaller leaves, you can configure that on the settings page. It's independent from the number of objects that are falling down.
Hi, love this plug in, but cannot find any setting for making smaller leaves and flakes as you have here. (you can see it on my blog, that's the only size I can find.) Any idea what I'm missing?
Also in the plug in settings, the last two types of flakes are question mark icons. Any idea how to reset this so that I can see all my choices?
Thank you!
Hi Nicolas Kuttler,
It is difficulty for you to read my website, but could you please help to find down why my site can not use your plugin. Xmas is coming soon and i want it so much.
Hi Nicolas,
I've installed your plugin and it worked once, but after I de-actived and re-actived, it stops working now! Please kindly check it out... Thank you in advance!
I can't seem to work it in my site .... [removed]
tried everything that i found in the site as for the guides.. im using the newest version...
/wp-content/plugins/nksnow/snow.js doesn't exist on your server, I get a 404. This is kind of odd. Where's your plugin folder? Did you remove the file?
It looks like the PLUGINDIR constant is incorrect in your wordpress install. Did you move your blog to a new directory after the install? Do you have a shell access to your box and do you know the unix command line?
Check the instructions for moving wordpress if you did move it.
sorry forgot to activate it. can u check it again.. its now activated
You should try the updated 0.4.2 release. It contains a fix that might help you.
Your directory structure is no good in your latest install. Upgraded and lost it all. Your pointers in the php file do not point to the gif files correctly.
nksnow doesn't work on IE 6.0 built in WinXP+SP2
Thank you.
Using K2 1.0 RC-7 theme, WordPress 2.6.3, and current nksnow plugin v0.4.4.
Works fine on Firefox 3, but nothing shows up in Internet Explorer 7 at all. Help, please.
That's not where the  said it should be. You have deactivated the plugin, I can not help you then.
let snows fill in bottom of the page :) do I want so much :P
Please, read this.
Nice little plugin. Would love to have even more options for choosing rain, leaves and snowflakes (flakes are supposed to be one of a kind, afterall, and the fun of fall leaves is so many different types and colors) and the ability to use our own images. The motion of swirling snow is often more appealing and blowing/drifting snow, so that's an idea too. Thanks for going to the effort to create this.
Thank you for this gorgeous plugin! I have one question: is it possible to limit the time of snowing, let's say to only 20 seconds? If yes, where can I change it?
That´s great. I will use it after the first snow!
Thanks for sharing
Since 0.5.0, the plugin now no longer saves its settings. I've had to deactivate it for now, since I can't select '0' any more.
I'm basically waiting for December 1st before I set it going.
Thanks in advance for fixing this...
Hm, works fine for me, I can change settings. Where can't you select '0'?
Whenever I have upgraded, the plugin defaults to '10'. Since I don't want the snowflakes to appear until December, I have chosen '0' each time and then saved the changes.
This has worked fine before now. With version 0.5.0 it does not save any changes. If I deselect the snowflakes entirely to 'force' it to stop them from falling, and then choose Save, it ignores that change too.
After clicking Save, and the short delay whilst the browser refreshes, the plugin returns all settings to the defaults.
Thanks Nicolas - much appreciated.
Look out for our Xmas look and feel after December 1st, featuring your excellent plugin.
my theme header and footer are wp_head and wp_footer not wpfooter and wphead
Would this cause the plugin not to work?
Great plugin. I like it alot.
One feature I would really like to see is being able to speficy a particular page. Right now, if I specify ex: ?page_id=2, pages 2, 20, 21, 22, 23... all have your plugin on them. It wouldn't be hard to include a field to specify an exact match with it. I actually already added this to my copy but it would be nice to have this already in your version so I don't have to add my code in each of your updates.
It would also be great if you could upload your own images or specify the path of a specific image but I realize that could open up problems such as people specifying paths for too large of an image.
Keep up the great work.
Rob, I think I will implement this when I have the time to do so. Or maybe I'll simply enable regular expressions... If you have a patch it's welcome of course.
Adding own images should be easy to add and has already been requested, I guess I'll do that too. Or just submit your images to me for inclusion :-)
Hallo, bei mir gehts leider auch nicht! Hast du nen Tipp für mich? Gern auch per Mail!
I just downloaded the plugin and activated it, but the Snowflakes do not appear by themselves, did I miss something?
Thanks, works great! Now the only thing missing from my hack is a debugger that tells you what the server is returning as URI so you can copy/paste it in the text box. :)
I use my excellent theme switch plugin for such purposes :-) Simply add some var_dump(foo) somewhere on a copy of your main template.
You have some buggy JavaScript on your page. Using firebug I get things like Shadowbox is not defined. Because of those bugs the snow script isn't run. I'm afraid you're on your own fixing those issues.
Bei mir schneit es leider auch nicht.... Also soweit ich sehe, sind die wp_head und wp_footer Tags in meinem Template... Trotzdem will es nicht....
Maybe some hailstones that fall down really quickly then bounce around at the bottom of your screen and collect up in the corners? No, seriously, it's a great plugin... just need an occasional Santa...
In Firefox version 220.127.116.11 doesn't work.
Hi ! Thank you for your plugin.
But, i have a little problem : i can't see any snow on my blog.
And i have wp_footer and wp_header.
So, if you have any time, can you go to my website to find the problem please ?
Thank you very much and good winter !!! :D
Nicolas, ich hab mir auch grad mal den Quelltext angesehen. Mir fällt auf, dass gerade bei dem snowplugin "/wordpress" fehlt. Da sind alle Verlinkungen www.../wp-content/plugins/... Bei allen anderen ist www..../wordpres/wp-content/plugins. Meinst du das? Mein Wordpress liegt ja im Ordner wordpress...
Ja, ich hab mir das eben auch noch mal angeschaut. Kannst du mal versuchen in der Datei nksnow.php die drei get_bloginfo('url') in get_bloginfo('wpurl') zu ändern? Sag bitte bescheid falls es dann klappt (oder auch wenn nicht)
Hallo Nicolas,
Ich hatte das selbe Fehlerbild wie simanja. Nach der Änderung der get_bloginfo ('url') in ('wpurl') fallen die Flocken, aber sie haben jetzt eine Art Rahmen. Der sieht aus wie ein "L".
Ich hab eine Unverträglichkeit mit dem Plugin Shadowbox JS festgestellt. Wenn dieses Plugin aktiviert ist schneits einfach nicht!
To make nksnow xhtml compliant the following changes are necessary:
nksnow.php line 240:
echo "\n";
snow.js line 80/81:
document.getElementById("_" + i).style.top=posy[i] + "px";
document.getElementById("_" + i).style.left=posx[i] + "px";
Really? Can you point me to the specs that say that newlines are mandatory after an ? Renaming the  ids is probably a good idea, but again, what specs say that foo translates to _foo in JS? And why is being XHTML compliant related to the JS at all? (well, and I have no idea if the users who install the plugin use XHTML at all... my own blog isn't compliant either :-| )
And a merry christmas to you too! :) Thanks for the early plugin gift.
Hello, great plugin! But it doesn't work on my website. :(
Thanks for your help.
Add me to the group of users who can't use nksnow with shadowbox js installed. Not sure why, but the two don't play nice together :-(.
Does the Snow plugin works in combination with WP Popup Scheduler ?
Because it isnt working on my site or i am doing something wrong ?
The site is django-reviews.com.
There are minor bugs but its a very good plugin
nice work, im using it on my webblog..
visit my web to chect it..
Can I use this snowflakes for blogspot? If so, how can I use it?
Hello, I'm certainly not an expert at this but I'm stuck on #4 of your install directions.
how do I: "Configure as you like" because there seems to be no extra links/buttons upon activating this plugin?
Hey it worked! It's snowing now and I even through up a quickie snowball design of my own. If yu want it just holler and I'll send it to you.
Is there anyway to double the amount of snowflakes falling down?
Worked like a charm on my CuriosBlog and on my Corporate Blog, but not on this other blog I have.
Any idea?
wp_head and wp_footer calls seem to be there...
Thanks in advance for this wonderful plugin and... Merry Xmas!
For some reason I cant get this to work in IE but it works fine in firefox and netscape. Any reason why this wouldnt work in IE?
Does not work on my blog referenced above. I checked for the header and footer php codes you mentioned and they appear to be there. I usually use FF (they just did an update). I checked in IE7 to see if it worked there but it does not. I don't want to use the snowflakes, I want to use the teardrops on one particular post. Any help would be much appreciated.
It's not working on my blog. Could you please tell me what's wrong there?
You should add alt=\"snow\" on the 277th line in the nksnow.php. In this way you will make it valid.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/36/d210241611/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/nksnow/nksnow.php on line 280
Lol : nice update :D (i'm not angry but be careful beacause i think that i'm not alone ...)
Sorry for this "double-post". Not fixed with 0,7,5.
I looked the source code but i found nothing ...
Did you try to re-select which flakes you want? Incompatible with older versions of this plugin!
I guess you mean JavaScript? Sure, post a link.
thanks a lot for your plugin
we 'll use it all january month maybe february
good work !
How do you get the other things like leaves and stuff?
I'm having strange problems with the plugin in IE7. The snowflakes collect at some point in the middle of the page and throw the design out of alignment. Any idea why that could? Might be my theme...
I love the configuration for your nksnow plugin for wordpress. You get an A+ for being the kind of person that gives open source a superior reputation
I downloaded this to my wordpress plugins. I love the snow and everything, but it;s only showing the snow. I want the leaves thats all!
Nice plugin, thanks for share.
Not working for IE8
Your snow-plugin is great! It snows perfectly.
Great plugin Nicolas! I do have a question though:
I'm trying to use the "Show snowflakes only on pages whose URI contains" feature but only want the snowflakes on the homepage (where the url is only http://www.whatever.com/). How can I achieve this?
Many thanks,
Best. snowfall. plugin. EVER.
Not working for me. I can see the configuration page, but not snowing on my page...
my theme use wp_head, but don't use wp_footer
Another question, how do I not stop snowing. I increase the number of elements that fall into more than 20?
ok, thanks.
This is my favorite WP plugin. As a balloon twister I love the floating balloon mode. I am wondering would it be possible to add some balloon animals to the plugin?
Hi Carl, I'm glad you like it. You can add your own pictures to the plugin, it's documented on the settings page. However, they will be lost if you use automatic plugin upgrades. That's something I still have to work on. If you made the images yourself you could send them to me and I'll look if I include them.
Hey Nick!
Its a wonderful plugin!
However I have a query,is it possible to display this in the background only,like only in the the left side and right side not in the main content page...
It sounds confusing?Ok how about the snow flakes falling only on where it is marked red in the pic :http://bit.ly/6dOX6N
Hmmm, I think you should use CSS (z-index probably) to do that. I guess I could make the plugin to limit the snow to ONE side of the page but not two. Haven't looked at this part of the code in a long time.
great plugin but i cant change the size of the snowballs.I have tried to change the flakesize but nothing change.
Hi Nicolas,
This is great your pluIng.
I like it.
Thanks a lot :lol:
Ein schönes Schmankerl für meine Blogseite. Und gar nicht aufdringlich - einfach was fürs Auge :-)
LG Sylvi
Ein sehr gutes, unaufdringliches WP-Plugin. Danke.
Hello Nicolas,
Your Wordpress plugins are so neat! Thanks for sharing them. Happy Holidays to you.
Your new updated PlugIn is very beautiful.
Thanks a lot.
Mery Christmas and Hapy new Year 2010
Very special and nice design!
Thank you all! The new pictures have been contributed by Neko, make sure to check out her Wagashi Maniac blog!
nice and cute snowflake plugin for this christmas.
merry x' mas
It would be really nice if it was possible to turn on/off the effect at a date+time. Nice job and a Happy New Year!
Very beautiful..Could you can make other effect ?.. Like Cherry petals (sakura)fall ?..
HI Nicolas i love your plugin but i have a problem. Im useing Wordpress and all my pages have your snow and hearts but one of the pages the snow is not working. Is there a page limit for this to work? or is there something i can do to fix this.
you are great! i want to ask that how can i make turned on/off button. cas some people want to read articles so seriously. so i request that
thank you.
Hi nicolas, great plugin! greetings from indonesia. take a look your great arts in my blog :)
I love the snow flakes & leaves, is it possible to make one with hearts for use this coming Valentines Day?
Thank you,
Actually, I just found the heart image, AWESOME, thanks!!!
Iv tested this thing, and the plugin works great. But i wanted to know, is there a way you can get the snow/leafs to go under the text you have on your blog?
Ohhh ya a buttom to turn off/on the plugin would be a very nice detail.
Not sure how hard it is to fix, but would be a nice thing to have.
Regards Anders
I can only get one color of the balloons to go but still need to figure out what to edit to make the balloons float
thank you
That looks awesome! How ever: I got this error when trying to activate the plugin:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_uninstall_hook() in nksnow.php on line 38
(Older version of WP)
Any ideas or suggestions?
Very thankful for an fast answer - it would be nice to use it at Valentine... *crying*
Yes, I know. I will do that, but maybe not tomorrow :-)
Thanks x millions for the very fast answer - and it worked! Simply awesome!
I'll test it some more later and see what I think about it, looks very promising already though!
Can you do bumble bees, flower petals, or raindrops for other seasons.
Hi. It works fine in Firefox, but IE throws a javascript error:
"Object required"
It appears that there is a double "//" in the js reference. Firefox somehow gets around that, but IE just ignores it and doesn't show the snow.
Please investigate and see if a fix is needed.
Since I'm in the Rockies I need some snow :)
I am such a novice -- I installed the plug-in but have no settings option. I looked at the 'edit', but that goes into CSS and I'm terrified of blundering around that since I do not know what I am doing. Would you mind pointing me to where I would select settings? So many thanks. I am so looking forward to seasonally changing out things. :-)
Doh! I'm slow but I got there! Thanks anyway!
Thank you for a great plugin. I'm very appreciate it. Cheers!
Hey Nicolas, this is a great plugin - I have a science fiction themed site (http://www.jonathanrice.com) and I figured I might be able to do something fun - check out the result, it looks terrific! I recommend that anyone who's thinking of using this plugin use their imagination, now that the graphic can go up as well as down. A lot of fun with very little work... by me, anyway!
I just wanted to let you know the plug in works great, looks fantastic. I uploaded my own images and was amazed at all the different settings.
Great work!!!
I using Joomla , but now for my friend I making blog on WP. I has found your nice plugin and will install to friends blog. Plugin is very usefull , thanks.
hi there,
just like to ask why i couldnt see the "setting" button? all i see is activate and deactivate????
thanks :)
I have used your snowflakes plugin and your fireworks, both are outstanding. I would like to be able to have something different every month. You said there are many in the folder you get when you download, like balloons, falling leaves (I hope). I don't see a folder or anything that looks like I could change them. Am I missing something?
Works great - have rated - leaves will be falling on the blog of my son during September.
How about some pumpkins ;) ?
Very fantastic effect, thank you!
Will you be updating your plug-in for WP 3.0.1 any time soon? It looks like a great plug-in but I can't get it to work on 3.0.1.
Excellent script, I was looking for something like that in worpress but with the difference that i was looking to move from left to right to show those meadow hay balls blowing like in the western landscape do you know a script that do that? or have you consider something like that in a future version?
Thanks ;)
Really nice Plugins.i use this Plugins my blog...!!!
Yhe text for the setting say that "If you add your own images to the pics directory they will appear in the table above."
How can I add my own images? I have made some 3D GIFs for the seasons that I would like to try if they work but I cannot find a function to use or upload customs pics as the text above indicate that I can.
The text for the setting say that "If you add your own images to the pics directory they will appear in the table above."
How can I add my own images? I have made some 3D GIFs for the seasons that I would like to try if they work but I cannot find a function to use or upload customs pics as the text above indicate that I can.
Great plugin!
I have tried to find a small transparent image of a guitar. But no luck.
Do you happen to know a website where I might be lucky? Did you do your pictures yourself?
Best regards
Super Plugin, vielen Dank!!
Zwei Fragen:
- Ich bekomme das mit der Startseite nicht hin. Ich hab dir URL der Startseite eingegeben, aber dann sieht man gar nicht. Was muß ich da eintragen?
- Kann man die Objekte mit einem Link hinterlegen?
Schöne Grüße
nein, Links auf den Bildern ist nicht möglich. Um nur auf der Startseite angezeigt zu werden.. hmm.. ich vermute dass / das ermöglichen sollte.
Hello! amazing plugin! I love it! :D but I having problem making it work in Chrome. Works just a minute when is activated and then didn't show up anymore. In the others (at least in explorer) works fine.
What should I do? thank you so much!
Beautyfull plugin) For russian winter thats good_))
wo kann man denn bitte die Demo sehen?
I have just installed your plugin and just wanted to say thank-you so much it's just brilliant. I wasn't sure it would work on the latest version of wordpress but it works perfectly. As I do alot of graphic's I can make anything I want go up or down ( have just made spiders for halloween lol )in fact I have spent hours making all kinds of stuff all I wanted was some different balloons for New Year.
I just wanted to know is there a way to make it only appear on the front page and not the post pages.
Thank-you again
Hello, I'm using your plugin on my site, I have a question, as an achievement that only show up on the homepage if the blog is installed in a subdirectory?
What size do I make the graphics? I want to do easter eggs for March. Also, how do I download them into the plug-in?
looks like this is not working with the latest version of wordpress 3.7.1 any chance you will be updating it?