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November 5, 2007
ULM retires baseball jerseys; Sheets and Finley reflect on honor
All a baseball player really wants is a number, said an emotional Ben Sheets, #15.
To have that jersey number retired is "something to be proud of," he said. "You come up here (then Northeast Louisiana University) and you don't expect anything. All you really want is a number." Tears welling up in his eyes and his voice full of emotion, he said, "Thanks, that all I can say."
Sheets, who played at the university from 1997-1999, and Chuck Finley, who played at the university from 1984-1985, were honored in a jersey retirement reception Saturday, Nov. 3 at the University of Louisiana at Monroe Anna Gray Noe Alumni Center on the ULM campus. The only other baseball jersey retired at ULM was #24, which belonged to Coach Lou St. Amant, who coached Finley while at the university.
Finley, #31, called his jersey retirement "an honor." "It's very special to me. Playing in the big league is very tough; it's a lot of hard work. You really don't think about the numbers until you're done playing. This makes you very proud. When I came out to Northeast and started playing here, I never thought that this would actually happen, but it did," he said. "This is what I tell people all the time: you can actually be from a small town and make it. You don't have to be from a big school. You can be from a smaller school and still make it. It's very important that you show yourself to kids, let them see your face, let them hear your stories, give them hope and tell them: it can happen to you."
ULM President James Cofer asked each of the baseball legends to sign baseballs for display in his office, and the audience erupted in applause. Of recognizing the two incredible athletes, Cofer said, "It's a great day for ULM."
Bobby Staub, ULM athletics director, thanked the baseball greats for returning to their alma matter. "It's phenomenal to have two players of this stature come from this school."
Both Sheets, who recently finished his seventh season with the Milwaukee Brewers, and Finley, who played for the California Angels, have represented ULM incredibly well, said Jeff Schexnaider, ULM head baseball coach.
"There is not a day that goes by that their names are not mentioned. Every recruit we talk to, their names come up. That lets them know that their dreams can come true, right here at ULM."
More about Finley:
A 1996 inductee into the ULM Hall of Fame, Finley was a two-year letter-winner at then-NLU, helping his teams to a combined 60-38 record in 1984 and 1985.
Finley was named Most Valuable Player of the Pelican Cup Series in 1984 before being drafted with the No. 4 pick overall in the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft.
A three-time American League All-Star on the mound, Finley holds the career records for the California Angels for victories and strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher.
More about Sheets:
A 2007 inductee into the ULM Hall of Fame, Sheets was a First Team All-American and the 10th overall pick in the Major League Baseball Draft in 1999.
Sheets was named a freshman All-American in 1997, and he set the ULM pitching record for single season victories after posting a 14-1 record in '99. Setting the school record with 20 strikeouts against Louisiana Tech, Sheets finished the season with 158 strikeouts, the most at ULM at the time. In his three-year career with ULM, Sheets was named Southland Conference Player and Pitcher of the Year in 1999.
In 2000 he pitched Team USA to an Olympic Gold Medal. Sheets just finished his seventh season as the ace of the Milwaukee Brewers. On six occasions Sheets has finished a major league season with 10 or more victories. He has 73 career victories and 1,048 career strikeouts.
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Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – have destroyed Craigslist with 1,000s of repetitive ads, many of them bait-and-switch come-ons and outright fraud.
Chicago landlords have long had a hate / fear relationship with these blood-sucking parasites. Hate, because the bedbugs raise the cost of doing business by charging a month's rent for introducing a tenant, and often waste a landlord's time by bringing in prospects who can't afford the rent or have been misinformed about the property. Fear, because the bedbugs collectively work with a large number of tenants and have been known to lie about and viciously attack landlords who offer to pay them less than a month's rent.
The current strength in the rental market has landlords planning to scale back their relationship with bedbugs, by limiting the number they deal with, and reducing their compensation. Those steps will starve a few of the bedbugs out of existence, but won't permanently eliminate the infestation. In the short run, it's likely to result in a feeding frenzy of fraud among starving bedbug swarms.
Craigslist is a fraud-friendly environment, and it's the primary place where tenants look for apartments. Landlords have long held out hope that Craigslist would begin charging for ads, making it possible for them to connect directly with tenants.
That's a false hope. Chicago bedbugs spent heavily to kill the effectiveness of the Reader classifieds years ago, and they're likely to do the same on Craigslist. Their existence is dependent on making it difficult for a large number of tenants to locate suitable apartments on their own.
So what can landlords do to eradicate bedbugs besides limiting their use and compensation on a building-by-building basis?
The Illinois Real Estate License Act (225 ILCS 454) gives landlords some powerful pest-elimination tools, if they're willing to use them.
The Act requires bedbugs to be licensed (Article 5) before aiding in the rental of real estate. Most of the bedbugs are licensed (although many of their agents aren't), making them subject to the Act's provisions. Section 20 (a) (26) of the Act prohibits a license from "advertising by any means that any property is for sale or for rent without the written consent of the owner or his or her authorized agent."
Violations of that provision can result in stiff penalties, including loss of license – which would be a death sentence for a bedbug. It's a provision that bedbugs and their agents routinely violate on Craigslist and other venues.
Landlords can make Craigslist an effective way for tenants to find them by a) advertising on Craigslist themselves, b) exercising their right to prohibit rental services from advertising their properties, and c) filing disciplinary complaints with the state against any bedbug who advertises their property. A few well-publicized license revocations of high-profile bedbugs would have an almost immediate and salutary effect.
I realize that bedbugs are hardy creatures of the night, that almost all of them have a hearty and well-grounded contempt for legal requirements, and that this scenario can't and won't play out as simply as I've suggested – but that's a post for another day.
Let's all hope that the landlords who purport to be service-oriented will provide a valuable service to their prospective tenants by making it easier for their apartments to be found online.
In the meantime, we think that YoChicago rental guides help tenants shop more easily and intelligently for their next home or apartment, and invite you to check out our Near West, River North, South Loop, Loop / New East Side and Streeterville Guides.
The Guides are a work in progress. We're asking for your feedback to make them more useful, and we'lll be adding Guides to other neighborhoods on a weekly basis.


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Academic Catalog
Architectural education is transformative. Its goal is to build in students the consciousness of an architect. The core values of the Graduate Program in Architecture are based on a design-centered curriculum that promotes personal development, ethical imperatives, critical thinking, and ecologically sustainable practices. These values are expressed in an education that challenges students to expand their awareness, to become leaders, to master the discipline, and to engage real-world problems in their cultural and social contexts with the responsibility of stewardship for the built and natural environment. The program is committed to preparing students for leadership roles not only within the profession but also within the broader communities they join and influence.
In the United States, most state registration boards require a degree from an accredited professional degree program as a prerequisite for licensure. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), which is the sole agency authorized to accredit U.S. professional degree programs in architecture, recognizes three types of degrees: the Bachelor of Architecture, the Master of Architecture, and the Doctor of Architecture. A program may be granted a 6-year, 3-year, or 2-year term of accreditation, depending on the extent of its conformance with established educational standards. Master's degree programs may consist of a preprofessional undergraduate degree and a professional graduate degree, that when earned sequentially, constitute an accredited professional education. However, the preprofessional degree is not, by itself, recognized as an accredited degree.
The Master of Architecture program at the University of Tennessee received a full 6-year accreditation as a result of its last NAAB accreditation review.
The School of Architecture offers three tracks leading to the Master of Architecture degree:
Track 1 is a post-professional degree for students with an accredited professional degree in architecture who seek to develop an area of specialization.
Track 2 is a two-year path in the professional degree program for students with a 4-year pre-professional bachelor's degree in architecture from a NAAB accredited program or foreign equivalent.
Track 3 is a professional degree program for students who already hold a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree in another field.
Within the Master of Architecture degree, the College of Architecture and Design offers optional concentrations in Urban Design and in Sustainable Design.
A concentration in the MArch Track 2 and 3 requires a minimum of:
• One focus area studio and two directed elective courses, or
• Four directed elective courses
Requirements may vary by concentration area. Additionally, a concentration in the MArch Track 1 requires an approved thesis in the topic area.
Admission The following must be submitted by all applicants directly to the Office of Graduate Admissions: • A completed Graduate Application for Admission. Visit their website at http://graduateadmissions.utk.edu/req.shtml for the application process.
• The general portion scores of the Graduate Record Examination. Applicants should take the GRE at least six weeks in advance of application for admission.
• For applicants whose native language is not English, scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
In addition to meeting the Graduate School's minimum requirements, the following specific admission requirements must be submitted to the Graduate Program in Architecture:
For applicants to all Tracks: • An essay addressing the applicant's intent and expectations for study in the program.
• Three letters of recommendation.
• A required portfolio illustrating evidence of visual creativity and/or graphic capabilities.
• A personal on-site interview is desirable but not mandatory.
For Track 3 applicants, additionally: • A four-year Bachelor's degree with a 3.00 GPA from an accredited college or university, or international equivalent degree and equivalent grades, as determined by the Graduate Admissions Office. Candidates with a GPA less than 3.00 may be considered for conditional admission when evidence of exceptional promise is identified. Applicants in their senior year are eligible to apply.
• Undergraduate prerequisites are 1) 12 semester hours of humanities courses, 2) one course in physics, and 3) one pre-calculus math course including trigonometry and logarithms (or college calculus or equivalent). Completion of prerequisites is not required prior to application.
Preparatory courses recommended but not required include: 1) a second course in physics, 2) calculus, 3) freehand drawing (highly recommended).
For both Track 2 and 3 applicants, additionally: • A curriculum plan will be developed with each accepted applicant on a case-by-case basis, based on the applicant's prior education. Upon the applicant's acceptance of admission, applicants must provide comprehensive information documenting all professional courses for review of advanced standing or course waivers in the professional degree. This detailed information (syllabi, etc) is not reviewed during the application process.
For Track 2 applicants, additionally: • A four-year degree (typically, BS, BED, or BA) in architecture, with a 3.00 GPA, or international equivalent degree and equivalent grades, as determined by the Graduate Admissions Office. Placement in the 2-year Track 2 program requires a minimum of 24 semester hours of design studio. Applicants in their senior year are eligible to apply.
• A portfolio illustrating evidence of visual creativity and/or graphic capabilities, which must include prior academic and (if applicable) professional design work.
For Track 1 applicants: • A professional degree in architecture (5-yr Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture, or Doctor of Architecture) with a 3.00 GPA, from an NAAB accredited program or international equivalent degree and equivalent grades, as determined by the Graduate Admissions Office. Applicants in their final year of a professional program are eligible to apply.
• An essay of intent identifying a specific area of study aligned with the general goals of the Architecture Graduate Program and the existing research / scholarship interests of the standing faculty in the College of Architecture and Design. Applicants may choose focus on either advanced design skills or research-oriented focus.
• Prior contact with individual faculty members in the applicants interest area and with the program's Director of Graduate Studies is highly recommended.
Requirements Track 1 requires a minimum of 36 semester hours of graduate course work, taking approximately three semesters of full-time study. A concentration area of study from among the currently available options must be selected. Self-designed concentrations will also be considered upon petition to the College's Director of Graduate Studies.
Track 1 requires 6 hours of Thesis 500 with a public presentation and oral defense of the thesis. For Tracks 2 and 3, the thesis is optional and requires a minimum design studio GPA of 3.5 in the three semesters preceding the thesis semester, as well as approval by the Director of Graduate Studies.
Track 2 requires a minimum of 60 semester hours of graduate course work, taking approximately two years of full-time study. A concentration within the program options is optional.
Track 3 normally requires 102 semester hours of graduate course work, taking approximately three and a half years of full-time study. Students with prior formal education in design may receive advanced placement upon admission. In such cases, Track 3 requires a minimum of 75 semester hours of graduate course work. A concentration within the program options is optional.


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The City's response to the COVID-19 public health emergency is impacting City staff workload, including project update timeliness. We appreciate your patience as we focus communication resources on the health and safety of the community
See the updated project status map showing the current access status of each block within the project.
***CONSTRUCTION ALERT***Beginning Wednesday June 17, Rucker will be closed southbound from Everett Avenue to California Street to replace a cracked concrete panel. If weather cooperates, the concrete will be poured Thursday, and a three-day curing period is required prior to opening to traffic. It is anticipated that this section of Rucker will reopen Monday, June 22.
Over the last month and a half, construction on the Rucker Renewal project has continued, and we are nearing the final weeks of the project. As a result of COVID-19, safety measures have limited the number of people working on a given task, and paving supplies have been hard to come by. Recently, local sourcing of concrete resumed; for many weeks, the closest concrete plant to be found was in King County. Asphalt production restarted just a few weeks ago, with construction projects throughout the region waiting their turn for a limited supply.
All streetlights work and are active now. All signals are installed and working, only awaiting inspection before being put in service. By the end of this week, nearly all concrete work will be complete, with only a couple of squares left to do. Parking is now available most of the way between Everett Avenue and Wall. Construction of permeable rubber surfacing in the center median islands is scheduled for the week of June 22, weather permitting.
Everett intersection- OPEN TO TRAFFIC
Everett to California - OPEN TO TRAFFIC
California to Hewitt - OPEN TO TRAFFIC
Hewitt intersection - OPEN TO TRAFFIC
Hewitt to Wall – LOCAL ACCESS ONLY
Wall to Pacific - FULLY CLOSED
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Rucker/Wall Street intersection
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Check out the photo gallery to see what's been found under the roadway.
Work-zone vandalism has occurred outside of construction hours. To report suspicious activity, please call Everett Police's non-emergency line: 425-407-3999.
The City's tourism channels (VisitEverett.com, facebook.com/visiteverett, instagram.com/visiteverett) are highlighting stakeholders impacted by the Rucker Renewal project, and yours could be next. If you're interested in your business being featured, please contact Julio Cortes at 425-257-7110.
The contract provides for an ADA compliant, 6-foot protected and lighted pedestrian path, and any pedestrian detours will be signed. Pedestrians are discouraged from traveling in the work zone, but when necessary, the contractor is required to provide escorts during work hours.
Business entrances will always be accessible either via an existing sidewalk or a temporary asphalt sidewalk, except during short periods of concrete placement and curing.
Project work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with possible evening work. Everett's noise ordinance prohibits work between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. during the week and between 10 p.m. and 9 a.m. on weekends, unless a variance has been issued. Please note that Everett's noise ordinance allows work until 10 p.m. on Saturdays.
See images of historical finds from the Rucker Renewal project in the photo gallery.


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Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan (385 pages)
"Wicked Saints", A Deep Dive into Fantasy
After reading a few lighthearted, realistic YA novels, I was excited to dive back into a fantasy. What I did not expect was to find a story that I would dive into so deeply. Emily A. Duncan's Wicked Saints begins with the story of Nadya, an orphan girl living in a monastery, who can speak to the gods. Nadya must use this connection to infiltrate the prince's palace in order to save her people from a bloody war waged by a king looking to conquer new lands. What Nadya did not expect was to find the Prince Serefin worth saving. With the help of her enemy-turned ally Malachiasz, Nadya must learn to embrace the darker features of her power in order to stop the king, a blood mage, from destroying all she holds dear.
A Refreshing Good Vs. Evil YA Fantasy
Let me be clear: this novel is dark. Duncan focuses heavily on the blood magic present in this world and the sacrifice needed for its invocation. That being said, I found this novel intoxicating. Duncan draws heavily from Russian and Polish folklore and faith to create this world which feels fully realized. The characters all seem to inhabit a morally gray area, something I find refreshing in a sea of good vs. evil YA fantasy. While Nadya starts the story completely disgusted by blood magic, she must ultimately use it herself to wage war against the monarchy. She worries that this blasphemy will sever her ties with her gods, the only protectors she's ever had.
The Bottom Line: 4/5 Brookie Stars
I would highly recommend curling up with this book on a cool fall night with a glass of red wine or spiced chai, preferable with your furry friend in your lap. It's a perfectly dark novel for the darker seasons.
What book should we review next? Let us know by emailing us here!
Rachel Gomes is a 30-something high school English teacher who lives with her high school sweetheart-turned-husband and their son. Rachel is a voracious reader who loves to learn and has her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. She's happiest listening to podcasts and talking to friends about the latest news in nerd culture.
Favourite book: Don't make me choose between A Song of Ice and Fire and Harry Potter
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How to use a Moroccan tagine pot
Note: This is a guest post written by Barbara Fernandez
Traditional Moroccan tagine pots look beautiful.
And cooking in a tagine pot – even if you're not making tagine – is actually one of the healthiest ways to prepare food.
Tagine pots are perfect for cooking at low temperatures, which helps preserve nutrients that otherwise break down at high heat.
These Moroccan works of art are typically made of clay, and the colorful hand-painted tagine pots are usually only intended for serving up dishes.
Some of the more unadorned clay pots that are suitable for cooking typically require the use of a heat diffuser (a flat metal paddle) if you're cooking on a stove.
The heat diffuser will prevent clay pots from cracking as they heat up.
This guide will show you how you can have the beauty of a vegan tagine with all the convenience, by using a tagine pot that is not only beautiful but made of cast iron.
Cast iron pots last a lifetime and are suitable for all kinds of cooking: raw and vegan included!
The secret to having your tagine pot last you for many years is to know how to season and care for it, and that's what we'll look at here.
We'll also look at some suggestions for dishes that you can make in your tagine pot.
There are many other delicious options that you can create in addition to tagines.
How to season your tagine pot
It's essential to season – or cure – your tagine pot, in order to strengthen the material. Here's how to do it.
1. Let your tagine pot heat up slowly
First, you want to leave your tagine pot on the stove for about 5 minutes on a medium to low heat. Preheating your tagine pot will help ensure that the first foods you use don't stick to the bottom.
2. Use a bit extra oil for the first few dishes you prepare
You'll want to use a bit extra olive oil or coconut oil when first using your pot. The excess oil will soak gradually into the tagine pot and help to strengthen the seal.
3. Use dishes that cover the whole base of the pot
Finally, make sure that the first few dishes that you prepare will cover the whole surface of the pot.
Excellent dishes to start with are sautéed veggies. Be sure to stir your veggies from time to time, particularly if you are cooking them with the lid on.
Why tagine pots are also great for raw food dishes
Because tagine pots heat your food slowly and thoroughly, they are perfect for gently heating raw soups and stews.
These are great for colder climates or in the middle of winter when you're looking for a dish to warm you from the inside.
Heating with the lid on ensures that the moisture of the food stays inside the dish, and the result is food with lots of flavor.
A word on heat diffusers
A heat diffuser is round and fits over the ring on your stove. It helps prevent pots and pans from overheating.
If you need a heat diffuser, you can find a review of various brands here. Some are best with gas stoves, others with electric.
Note: Heat diffusers generally cannot be used on ceramic or glass cooktops.
Tips for cooking raw vegan dishes in a Moroccan tagine
Tagine pots are very versatile. Any dish that cooks slowly over low heat is suitable to make in a tagine pot.
And if you are making raw vegan entrees, you don't even have to cook them at all! You can just warm them gently.
Be sure to stir from time to time so that the food doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot.
Raw vegan dishes that work well in a tagine pot
- Raw 'rice' dishes with cauliflower, broccoli, sprouted buckwheat, or sprouted quinoa
- Soups and stews
- Fruit crumbles
- Salads
- Pasta dishes with spiralized zucchini or other veggies
Suggested ingredients for a raw vegan tagine
If you want to make a raw vegan tagine, you can easily do so: choose one of the 'rice' options mentioned above (cauliflower, broccoli, or sprouted buckwheat or sprouted quinoa).
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- Chopped raw sweet peppers
- Fermented or raw cabbage
- Sprouted lentils
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15 Best WordPress Menu Plugins to Enhance the Look & Navigation on Your Site
WordPress menu plugins are an incredibly easy way to improve the look of your site and enhance the user experience.
As you already know, WordPress is incredibly customizable. With a nice theme and a few carefully chosen plugins, you can quickly create a great website full of useful features that your site users will enjoy using.
Unfortunately, menus are one important element that often doesn't get enough attention when websites are being created. A good, clear menu structure is essential to help your users easily navigate around the site. So, it stands to reason if your menus aren't particularly good, users will have a harder time using your site. And as we all know, a poor user experience means users are less likely to visit again in the future.
WordPress Already Has Built-In Menus – Surely That Is Enough?
If you just want a basic website then sure, you can use the limited menus that WordPress already includes.
However, if you really want to make your site stand out, your menus will need significantly enhanced functionality and customizability. The simplest way to achieve that is to use plugins. Thankfully, there are a bunch of these available, both free and paid, so you don't have any excuses not to make your menus much cooler and more user-friendly.
What Can A Menu Plugin Do?
WordPress menu plugins allow you to tailor the look, feel, and functionality of your site's menus to your (and your site users') specific needs. Visitors to your site will really love you for that.
WordPress Menu Plugins To Take Your Menus To Another Level
Below we have selected fifteen of the most popular WordPress menu plugins currently available which you can add to your site to make it so much more attractive and functional.
This is a hugely popular WordPress menu plugin, with well over 80,000 sales from the CodeCanyon website and a user rating of 4.68/5.0.
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UberMenu allows you to add some pretty cool features to your menu:
- Fully configurable, allowing things such as dropdown CSS3 transitions, 25 popular google fonts, vertical or horizontal menus
- Responsive layout that includes touch support for mobile devices
- Tabbed submenus which can be oriented in several ways
- Easy to customize colors, sizes, fonts, etc.
- Ability to include advanced content in your menus – images, descriptions, posts grid, widgets, google maps, and more
- Advanced submenu layouts such as responsive grids, the ability to set background images for each submenu, or create scrollable submenus
- Integrates automatically with many themes, and manually with most others
UberMenu costs $25 which includes future updates and six months of developer support. The support can be extended to twelve months for an additional $7.50.
Superfly Responsive Menu
Superfly Responsive Menu has over 9,000 sales from the CodeCanyon website and an impressive 4.81/5.0 user rating.
Offering a wide range of customization options, this plugin can significantly enhance your menus with features such as:
- Slide-in, static, compact icon navbar, skewed panel, or full-screen menu modes
- Compatible with different screen sizes, and the ability to show or hide the menus on different devices
- Option to hide default menu button (label) and toggle menu from any element like button, link, image, etc.
- Simple customization – fonts, colors, sizes, locations, button style, etc.
- Add rich elements and styles to your menus such as images, icons, animations, widgets, shortcodes or custom HTML, etc.
- Multi-level (up to 4 deep) menus on both desktop and mobile devices
- Smooth scroll feature for one-page websites
- Behavior options e.g. opening on hover or click, etc.
- Social media bar allowing access to all the familiar platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
- GDPR compliant, meaning the plugin does not store any site visitor data
Superfly Responsive Menu costs $29. This includes future updates and six months of developer support. For an additional $9, the support can be extended to twelve months.
Hero Menu
Hero Menu is an easy-to-use plugin that gives you the ability to quickly create menus that are as simple or as complex as you wish. The plugin has sold over 6,000 licenses through CodeCanyon, where it enjoys an excellent 4.48/5.0 user rating.
Key features of Hero Menu include:
- Drag and drop menu layout and navigation structure builders
- Eyebrow and sticky menu capability
- Adapt menus based on the roles assigned to logged-in site users
- Simple 3-step mega menu creation
- Mobile menus with touch support
- Generate dynamic content and add Shortcodes, HTML, and CSS
- Ability to add posts, pages, categories, custom links to your menu as well as Google Maps and contact forms
- WooCommerce enabled
- Wide range of customization options – colors, fonts, animation, layout, look, and more
- Over 60 free preset colors plus the ability to customize with your own
- Over 650 Google fonts available
- 270 free icons and all main social icons included
Hero Menu costs a very reasonable $20 which covers future updates and six months of developer support. The latter can be extended to a full twelve months for an additional $5.63.
WP Mega Menu Pro
WP Mega Menu Pro is a feature-rich plugin allowing you to create impressive menus and submenus all customized to your specific needs. With over 3,300 licenses sold through CodeCanyon and a 4.49/5.0 user rating, users of this plugin are clearly very happy with it.
Key features of WP Mega Menu Pro include:
- Flyout or mega menu submenu styles including templates
- Over 100 customization options including transitions effects, tab layouts, orientation, trigger, etc.
- Mega menus can be single or multiple groups, sticky, horizontal, or vertical
- Ability to add top and bottom mega menu section
- Built-in icons with the ability to upload custom ones
- Roles and restrictions
- Fully responsive and touch-friendly for mobile devices
- Custom widgets that can be added group-wise
- Custom CSS possible
- Active 'view more' button
- Menu replacement system – search type, popup login or register form, WooCommerce total cart
- 50+ Google fonts available
WP Mega Menu Pro is great value at $18 through CodeCanyon. That figure includes future updates. The included six months of developer support can be extended to a full year for an additional $4.88.
Groovy Mega Menu
Groovy Mega Menu is available as a basic free version which is perfectly adequate if you are on a tight budget. However, the Pro version unlocks considerably more features and functionality allowing you to adorn your website with impressive menus.
The free version includes the following:
- Various menu styles including mega, vertical, one-page, dropdown, submenu, toolbar, responsive
- Ajax Cart
- Compatible with DIVI, Avada Fusion Builder, Elementor
- WooCommerce mega menu capable
- Fullwidth mega menu
- Fully responsive and mobile device friendly
- RTL support and WPML ready
- Multi-level menu support, smooth scroll, 2 hover types
- 1 desktop logo + 1 mobile logo
- GDPR compliant
- Preview Mode
The Pro version adds:
- Megamenu with blocks. These allow rich content to be added to the mega menu
- A range of header layouts
- Online preset library with pre-made presets
- Vertical, icon, sticky, fixed, hamburger, and sidebar submenu types
- Off-canvas navigation
- Custom menu badges (icon, text, image)
- User roles with user role plugins
- Ability to set specific menu for the taxonomies
- Premium support
- Theme developer features
- Elementor, WPBakery, Visual Composer, Divi mega menus
Over 4,000 free licenses of Groovy Mega Menu have been downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory where it enjoys a star rating of 4.3/5.0. The Pro version is sold through CodeCanyon, with over 2,500 licenses sold and a 4.95/5.0 user rating which indicates users love it. The Pro versions cost $39, and if you want to extend the support from six months to a year, you need to add another $12.75.
WP Floating Menu Pro
WP Floating Menu Pro allows you to add an easy one or multi-page scrolling navigator and sticky navigation menus to your site. It is simple to set up, just requiring you to define sections.
Key features of this plugin include:
- Ability to add multiple menus on a page
- 13 elegant template layouts
- Add unlimited menus to your site
- Menus configurable page-wise
- Configurable mobile screen menus
- Unlimited custom templates with a wide range of customization options
- Three menu icon sets to choose from – Dash, Font Awesome, and Gener
- Custom icons can also be uploaded
- Sortable menu option
- Inline navigation feature
- 7 menu bar positions
- Mobile ready menu template designs.
- Translation ready
WP Floating Menu Pro has over 2,000 licenses in operation and a star rating of 4.7/5.0 on CodeCanyon. It costs a competitive $24 which includes future updates and six months developer support. An extra $7.13 adds another six months of support.
Max Mega Menu
Max Mega Menu is a free plugin that is hugely popular. No fewer than 400,000 active downloads are in operation, and a 4.7/5.0 rating in the WordPress plugin directory gives plenty of reassurance that this could be a great addition to your site.
This plugin will automatically convert your existing menu into a mega menu to which you can WordPress widgets. You can restyle it, and even change its behavior.
Max Mega Menu's features include:
- Very mobile friendly with configurable options for mobile menus
- Enhances the standard WordPress menu system with a wide range of customization and styling options
- Multiple menu locations possible
- Off-canvas or standard dropdown mobile menu
- Submenus can be arranged in rows and columns
- Ability to add WordPress widgets to menus
- Flyout and mega menu submenu styles supported
- Different submenu open and transition options
- Add icons to menu items
- Menu item options including hide text, disable link, hide on mobile, etc.
- Various menu and submenu alignment possibilities
- Menus styled using a single, static CSS file
If you crave even more options, a Pro version is also available. Pricing starts from $29 for a single-site license. This adds:
- Tabbed mega, sticky, vertical & accordion menus
- Icons from FontAwesome 5, Genericon & Custom Icons plus Google fonts
- More customization options
- Menu logo and search box
- Support for WooCommerce and EDD
- Roles and restrictions
- Automatic updates
- Priority Support for 12 months
Admin Menu Editor
Admin Menu Editor is a free plugin that allows you to manually edit the WordPress dashboard menu. With over 300,000 active downloads and a WordPress plugin directory user rating of 4.7/5.0, it is immensely popular.
Key Features include:
- Manually reorder the menus, show/hide specific items, change permissions, etc.
- Change menu titles, URLs, icons, CSS classes, permissions, etc.
- Drag and drop reorganization of menu items
- Relocate menu items to a different submenu
- Create custom menus pointing to any part of the dashboard or external URL
A Pro version costing from $29 for a one-year license for two sites adds features such as per-role menu permissions, the ability to selectively hide menus, export the admin menu, drag and drop items between menu levels, and more. The Pro version also includes free updates for an entire year.
Nav Roles Menu
Unlike most of the other plugins discussed here, Nav Menu Roles is open-source software that simply allows you to choose which user roles can see your custom menu items. For example, you can restrict certain parts of your menu to logged in (or logged out) users, or even to certain types of users.
Features of Nav Menu Roles include
- Ability to add checkboxes with custom labels using the nav_menu_roles filter
- Filter using whatever criteria you need, such as user meta values or any custom attributes added by other plugins
Unfortunately, support is limited to the WordPress forums only. Don't let that deter you though – it has an excellent star rating of 4.9/5.0 and over 100,000 downloads in operation. One thing to note is this plugin does not restrict access to content, only menus. As such, it cannot be used on its own for, say, membership-type sites – you'd need a dedicated membership plugin to do that.
My Sticky Menu
We've all used sites where once you scroll down a page, the menu is nowhere to be seen. My Sticky Menu plugin overcomes this by making your menu float on the page and follows you around as you scroll. Cool, right?
This plugin is available in both free and paid versions. Key features you can expect with both versions are:
- Show sticky header on scroll down/up with a fade or slide effect
- Disable on small screens – essential for smaller mobile devices such as phones
- Choose when to make the menu visible on scroll
- Ability to change the font color when the menu is sticky, background color, opacity, sticky transition time
- Define the z-index of the sticky header
- Set an entrance effect for your sticky menu
The paid plans start from $19 (one website for one year) rising to $79 (for fifty websites) and add features like:
- Multi welcome bar for different pages using page targeting rules
- Option to display the floating bar at the bottom position, and to alter the height of the sticky notification bar
- Allow redirect links to be opened in a new tab
- Show the notification bar on scroll or after a few seconds, or show it just on mobile or desktop
- Set an expiry date for the welcome bar
- Set the floating notification bar to display only on specific pages
- The floating menu can be disabled on desktop/mobile, or on scroll down
- Ability to add CSS styles
My Sticky Menu could be a very worthwhile addition to your site, although don't overdo the sticky menus as some people do find them annoyingly obtrusive.
WP Sticky
Staying on the sticky menu theme, here we have WP Sticky. This plugin allows you not only to create floating menus, but also the header, navigation bar, widget, call-to-action, or any other element that can be quickly made sticky too.
The free version gives you:
- Ability to make any element sticky
- Flexible positioning from the top so that the element is not always at the page ceiling
- Enable/disable for certain screen sizes or selected pages
- 'Push-up element' automatically moves the sticky element out of the way if necessary so that things are not obscured
- Z-index (used where other elements that obscure or peek through the sticky element)
- Will not obscure the admin bar if it is present
- Debug Mode to establish why elements are not sticking
The Pro version costs between $39 and $99 (one-time payment, not yearly) depending on the number of sites you require. It adds the following additional features:
- Visual elements picker
- Ability to make unlimited multiple elements sticky
- Select posts, pages, categories, tags, and CPTs where the element is not to stick
- Lifetime updates & support
Like My Sticky Menu, over 100,000 downloads of WP Sticky are in operation, and the user star rating is also identical at 4.8/5.0. However, the Pro version of WP Sticky is a lifetime license as opposed to an annual one, making it exceptional value if you are looking for a full-featured sticky menu plugin.
Responsive Menu
You have no excuse not to make your menus the coolest in town with this plugin – it offers more than 150 customizable elements, meaning you have a total of over 22,500 customization options at your disposal! It uses a simple interface allowing even beginners to create exactly the look they are after for their site.
The functionality of the free plugin is impressive and includes:
- Huge customization possibilities – text, background, and border colors, font sizes and colors, location, background image, etc.
- Ability to choose the screen size where the menu will be shown
- Selectable menu type
- Selectable animation types and speeds
- Customizable submenu depth
- Custom menu triggers
- Disable and re-order the different components
- Choice of CSS elements to hide when the menu is showing
- Upload logos, sub-arrow images, etc.
- Fully customizable integrated search
- Include Scripts externally, minified, and in the footer
- Add custom HTML components
- WPML/Polylang Support
- RTL Support
- Import and export options
Starting from $29.99 you can upgrade to the Pro version which adds:
- One year of updates and support for one site
- Integrated header bar
- Preview changes before implementing
- Menu item animation when a menu is opened
- FontIcon support for individual menu items
- Fifteen button animation effects
- Opacity for all colors, plus custom overlay color and opacity
If you have more than one website, upgrading to Pro will cost $69.99 for 2-5 sites, and $99.99 will cover you for up to 100 websites.
This is another hugely popular plugin, with over 100,000 downloads from the WordPress plugin directory alone. The developers claim over one million downloads exist overall – wow! It has a very respectable 4.5/5.0 star rating.
WP Mobile Menu
As the name suggests, WP Mobile Menu is a plugin specifically for creating enhanced menus on mobile devices. It promises to offer your mobile device users a better, more engaging experience, giving them easy access to your site content via any device (mobile or desktop).
Free and paid versions of this plugin are available. The free version has an impressive array of features, including:
- Overlay mask when the menu is opened
- Add your logo and text branding, as well as a background image behind the menus
- Hide specific elements on mobile devices
- Customize the styling of your mobile menus
- Selectable display type, either slide-out over content or slide-out push content
- Google fonts
Three paid plans are offered – Professional ($8.99 per month), Business (WooCommerce) ($12.99 per month), and Enterprise ($39.99 per month). These all include the following additional functionality:
- Menus up to 5 deep
- Footer menus
- Disable mobile menus on specific pages
- Option to have alternative menus per page
- Ability to show menus only to logged-in users
- Header banner and live search
- Sliding, overlay full width or slide out from top menu types
- Over 2000 Icons from FontAwesome, Fontelicon, Iconic, Entypo, and Typicons plus animated Icons
- Copyright section
- Import/export options
The Business (WooCommerce) plan is interesting as it offers WooCommerce specific options:
- Menu cart icon
- A sliding cart with checkout, view cart buttons as well as account links
- Mobile product filter
- Header products live search
This plugin has been downloaded over 80,000 times from the WordPress plugin directory alone, and the star rating of 4.7/5.0 means it is tremendously popular and well-liked.
The downside of this plugin is the pricing. Discounts are offered for annual and lifetime subscriptions, but either way, the paid versions of this plugin are the most expensive of the fifteen in this article. That said, it is unique, being specifically designed to enhance the browsing experience for mobile device users. The WooCommerce functionality would be particularly interesting for those of you with eCommerce stores.
With mobile browsing is increasing rapidly with no end in sight, price should not necessarily be the overriding factor in deciding on a menu plugin.
WP Mega Menu
Not to be confused with WP Mega Menu Pro which was developed by AccessKeys, this plugin by Themeum offers both free and paid versions.
Even using the free version, you can make attractive navigation menus for your website thanks to an extensive range of drag-and-drop customization options. The free version gets you:
- Multiple themes and skins including stretch menu
- Unlimited colors and options
- Ability to add widgets to the menu
- Theme export/import function
- Branding in logo and menu background image
- Add social icons or a search bar to the menu
- Menu labeling and badges, for example, 'hot', 'new', 'sale', etc.
- Icons (Dashicons, Font Awesome)
- Responsive and mobile menu support
- Google fonts
Paid plans add:
- Priority support and updates
- Grid post
- Call-to-action (CTA) button
- Vertical menu
- Feature box pro
- Center Logo
The annual paid plans are priced from $29 for a single site, $49 for 2-5 sites, and $70 for unlimited sites. Lifetime versions of the plans are available for $199, $299, and $499 respectively. We are not so sure lifetime subscriptions are worthwhile, as quite often even the most popular plugins eventually fall by the wayside and don't get updated.
This plugin has been downloaded over 20,000 times from the WordPress plugin directory alone. Users seem to be generally happy with it, giving an average star rating of 4.5/5.0.
Wrapping It Up
So, there you are, fifteen menu plugins for you to choose from! Not only will these make your site look exceptionally good, but they will 'feel' good to use too, something your users will really love.
Best of all, there are plenty of free options you can try out first, so even if you are on a tight budget, there is no reason why you still cannot enhance your menus beyond the bog-standard WordPress offerings.
As with all plugins, we do advise that you check the compatibility with your website's theme, other plugins, and also the version of WordPress you are running. Compatibility notes can usually be found in either the WordPress or CodeCanyon plugin directories, or by approaching the developer directly. Checking user comments can also be a good place to look.
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text: If you like see a hot straight guy squirm in a sexual situation you need to watch this video. DJ is as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs as having sex on camera is going to be a brand new experience for him. He wants to get into porn because he needs the money and the girls he fucks tell him that he's the ''best they ever had'' and they just love his big 8 plus inches of uncut cock. He's here for his screentest today and Caruso asks him to strip down - DJ responds nervously ''you mean everything'' - yeah we mean everything. WOW - what a body! This dude looks like he has 2% body fat. He's just beautifully proportioned of all tight, sinewy muscle with a great butt, big cock, hot hairy legs, ripped chest and eight pack with just the right amount of hair all topped with a handsome face, dark wavy hair and sexy middle-eastern olive colored skin. We tell him he'll have to be able to get hard in front of other people and a camera before we can put him in on set with a girl for a real porn shoot. He's yanking on his big cock for a while, but can't seem to get much blood flowing and says ''by now I should be hard as a rock''. Caruso can see he's getting a bit embarrassed and asks him if he knows what a fluffer is - he doesn't - so Caruso explains and says he'll check to see if the studio fluffer is around. Of course the fluffer is in and we know it's not a girl. Today it's one of our favorite Bait boys, Steven Ponce, our red headed cutie who craves straight cock. When Caruso brings Steven onto the set D.J. shouted ''he's a guy'' and did everything but jump on the couch and scream eek! This hot straight boy quickly covered his dick with his hands and then reached for his pants saying he's not into guys - he's not gay. Caruso quickly calmed him down enough to explain that Steven was the only available fluffer. You need to see the rest to believe it. DJ is just as nervous as can be as Steven starts slowly with a handjob - if there was a hole we think DJ would've crawled into it. Steven gets aggressive and starts blowing this straight boy and he's really into sucking this big cock. He doesn't even dare take his own clothes off. The rest we can't really describe other than to say DJ appears to forget who's sucking his dick once he gets in the zone and shoots a huge load all over Steven's face with some into his mouth. If you're a straight guy fanatic - do not miss this one!


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I am in the church office today, doing the administrative assistant (church secretary) duties I normally do. I am not feeling well, though. Most of us in our house have fallen ill, actually. The tickle-in-the-throat has developed into other symptoms for many of us. Brian's parents were also staying with us for a long weekend. Instead of spending time with their grandchildren doing fun things outside the home, they were mostly at the house taking on much of the care-taker duties of the sick kids. I worked in the morning on Friday, and then came home and went straight to my room. I quarantined myself because I did not want to get anyone else sick. Brian, along with his parents, took care of pretty much everything else around the house, including the kids. All of that rest really helped me out. I was able to keep my commitments for both Saturday and Sunday, and I am at work today! I am definitely not yet healed, but I know that God will do that for me. Just writing this post, I am feeling better! I can now breathe out of one nostril when I could not breathe out of either just a few minutes ago. I believe most of us are getting over our illnesses now. I am concerned about the new people who I heard coughing this morning, though...
Brian has been asking all weekend, "Can you feel the prayers?" He has been asking everyone to pray for us. And, yes, I have been feeling them! I needed rest, but I also needed God's hand on me. Thank you, everyone, for all of the prayers and taking care of our family. We had some women of the church bring by some provisions, including chicken soup. Yes, we received chicken soup for our bodies, but also for our souls! Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to be in another community where people show us their love. People have gone out of their way for us this weekend, and have continued to offer help. My mom-in-law, Linda, is one of those people. She was supposed to have a chance to relax with us as a family, and instead she has done the dishes and the cooking, and taken care of the boys and men in the house. She has raised 5 children, and totally understands what it is to be the "mom" of the family. My father-in-law has also helped out, but his main focus has been keeping the sick kids comfortable and the healthy ones entertained. Most of my kids did not want to cuddle with me when I came into the room. They wanted to stay next to their grandpa on the couch. When my parents stayed with us last October, they ended up doing similar things. Some of the kids were sick, so they stayed home with them while Brian and I worked. They took others to practice and picked them up from school. We were very blessed then, as we are blessed now! Thank you, Lord, for blessing my children with great grandparents!
This was supposed to be a short blog. I wanted to focus on my misery of a stuffy nose. Thank you, Lord, for making me think of how I have been blessed by others through this! I have been praying all weekend for healing for all of us, but also my friends in faith who are dealing with more severe health issues. I have been encouraged by them. They have found time and strength to pray for my family even in their own circumstances. Thank you, Lord, for putting praying people in my life!
Psalm 20
Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! 2 May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! 3 May he remember all your offerings
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah 4 May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! 5 May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions! 6 Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 8 They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. 9 O Lord, save the king! May he answer us when we call.
English Standard Version (ESV)