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This social plugin makes placing social share icons on your site REALLY easy.
This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video:
See all features of the Premium plugin.
Key features of the free plugin:
- Select from a wide range of social share platforms (see a list of them below)
- Pick from 16 stylish design styles for your social share buttons
- Place the social share buttons before or after posts, floating, via widget, via shortcode, or define the location on the page (top right, bottom left etc.)
- Give several actions to one social share button (e.g. your Facebook icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also show a Facebook button to share your page on social media)
- Give your social share buttons an animation (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects) to make your visitors aware of them, increasing the chance that they follow, like or share your site
- Add counts to your share buttons
- Display a pop-up (on all or only on selected pages) asking people to follow or share you
- Allow visitors to subscribe to your site and receive new posts automatically by email
- Select from many other customization features for your social share buttons
For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our Social Media GDPR Compliance page.
In case of issues or questions please ask in the [Support forum] (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-social-media-plus).
The plugin takes you through eight easy-to-answer questions so that configuring your social share icons becomes a no-brainer:
Question 1: Which social share buttons do you want to display?
You can select the following:
- Facebook share icon
- Twitter share icon
- Email icon
- RSS icon
- Instagram share icon
- Google plus share icon
- Youtube share icon
- Pinterest share icon
- LinkedIn share icon
- Houzz share icon
- Share icon (allows your visitors to share your site on over 200+ other social media sites; powered by addthis/sharethis)
You can also upload custom social share buttons of your choice.
The Premium Plugin offers many more social share icons and buttons. The premium share button set includes a…
- Snapchat share icon
- Yummly share icon
- Whatsapp share icon (and also "send me direct message" and other functions)
- Phone icon
- Yelp share icon
- Soundcloud share icon
- Skype icon
- Flickr share icon
- Blogger share icon
- Reddit share icon
- Vimeo share icon
- Tumblr share icon
- Xing share icon
- Vkontakte icon / VK icon
- Telegram icon
- Amazon icon
- Goodreads icon
- Angies list icon
- Steam icon
- Twitch icon
- Spotify icon
- Odnoklassniki icon / OK icon (ok.ru)
- Buffer icon
- Weibo icon
- Pocket icon
- Meneame icon
- Frype icon
- LiveJournal icon
- Patreon icon
- Dloky icon
- Discord icon
- Github icon
- WordPress icon
- Etsy icon
- Better Business Bureau icon
- Digg icon
- Delicious icon
- Print icon
If there are any important social share networks not covered yet, please let us know!
Question 2: What shall the social share buttons do?
Under this question you define what should happen if your visitors click on the social sharing icons.
The options are plenty, for example for the Facebook button you can allow users to:
- Visit your Facebook page
- Give your page a Facebook Like
- Share it with friends (on Facebook)
For the Twitter button you can allow users to:
* Visit you on Twitter
* Follow you on Twitter (without leaving your page)
* Tweet your page to the Twitter community
For the Youtube button you can allow users to:
* Visit you on Youtube
* Subscribe to you on Youtube (just by pressing the Youtube button, without leaving your page)
For the Pinterest button you can allow users to:
* Visit you on Pinterest
* Pin your site on Pinterest
For the LinkedIn button you can allow users to:
* Visit your LinkedIn page
* Follow you on LinkedIn (without leaving your website)
* Share your page on LinkedIn
* Recommend your business or product on LinkedIn
For the Google+ button you can allow users to:
- Visit your Google+ page
- Give your page a "Google+ like"
- Share it with friends (on Google+)
The other social share buttons provide similar functions. If you've given one social share icon several functions then users will see a little popup (tooltip) where they can select what they want to do, e.g. share it on social media, or just link to your social media profile, or follow you via social media with one click etc.
Question 3: Where shall the social sharing icons be displayed?
Now it's time to define where the social sharing icons should show up. You can select to show them:
- Via widget: In the widget are you'll see the social media widget where you can drag & drop it onto your sidebar or footer area.
- Float on the page: You can define the location of the social share buttons, e.g. top right, center left etc., and the margins from the top/bottom/left/right. The social share buttons will appear as flying buttons which move as the user scrolls down.
- Manually: Place the social share buttons via shortcode [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_PLUS] or insert a php string into your theme.
- Show the social sharing icons before or after posts: Here you can select the social sharing icons to show before or after posts. You can choose to show the social sharing icons you selected above (round/squared layout), or pick from a different (rectangle) set of social share icons. You can also define a text before the social share icons, e.g. "Please follow and share us!" and define the alignment of the social share icons (left/right/center).
The following questions are optional only, however most likely you will want to go through them to individualize the social share icon's appearance even more:
Question 4: What design & animation do you want to give your social share icons?
Here you can define how the social sharing buttons should look like. You can select from 16 social share design options (see screenshots).
You can also give any social share icon mouse-over effects, such as "fading effects" (sharing buttons fade in/out if moved over), "scale" (sharing buttons become larger if moved over) or "combo" (combination of the previous two).
If you want to give a subtle hint to your visitors to share, like or follow your site, then you can animate your social share buttons, for example you can let them shuffle automatically (e.g. when the site first loads, or after X seconds as defined by you).
Question 5: Do you want to display counts next to your social share icons?
Under this question you can decide to display counts next to your social share icons. All social share icons have the option to show manual counts, however for some social share icons automatic options are available.
For example, for your Facebook share button you can show the number of times the page got liked where the share icon is on (i.e. your site), or the number of likes count of your Facebook page.
For the Googleplus share button similar options are available. For the Twitter share button you can show the number of your followers on Twitter, which gets updated dynamically.
Question 6: Any other wishes for your main social share buttons?
Here you get many other options to tailor the social share buttons to your needs. For example, you can:
- Define the order of your social share buttons
- Define the size of your social share buttons
- Define the space between the social share buttons
- Define the alignment of social share buttons (with respect to each other)
- Decide how many social share buttons should be displayed per row
- Pick a language for your visit us / like / follow / social share buttons
- Decide to open windows in a new window (or same window) after user clicked on the social share buttons
- Make the social share buttons stick (if placed via widget, so still visible if user scrolls down)
- Disable float social share buttons on mobile devices
- Disable auto-scaling feature of the social share buttons for mobile devices ("viewport" meta tag)
- Give your social share buttons mouse-over texts
Question 7: Do you want to display a pop up?
A pop-up can make it more likely that your visitors share, follow or like your site (or connect with you). Therefore you can decide to show such a popup containing your social share buttons, and define…
* The layout of the pop up, i.e. displayed text, font type, font style, font color, background color, border color, border thickness, and border shadow.
* Where the pop-up shall be shown, i.e. on ever page, on blog posts only, or on selected pages only.
* When the pop-up shall be shown, i.e. once every X seconds after the user arrived on the site, or every time the user scrolls to the end of the page.
Question 8: Do you want to show a subscription form?
In addition to an email button you can also place a subscription form on your site, making it more likely that users subscribe and follow your site. It works in a similar way as a newsletter (using RSS technology, but not linked to your RSS button).
You can define the detailed layout of the subscription form, and have various options how to place it (via widget, shortcodes, or by copy/pasting HTML code on your site).
Premium Plugin
The free plugin already provides tons of options for social sharing (as outlined above). In our Premium Plugin, even more is possible. Some examples for additional features in the Premium Plugin:
- More social share buttons (the icon pack includes an Instagram button, Snapchat button, Yummly button, Print button, Whatsapp button, Yelp button, Soundcloud button, Skype button, Flickr button, Share button, Blogger button, Digg button, Reddit button, Vimeo button, Tumblr button, Xing button, vk button, Telegram button, Amazon button, Spotify button and many more badge, see list above)
- More (default) design styles for your social share icons
- Themed design styles for your social share buttons (e.g. if you have a site about cats, you can pick from cat-themed buttons etc.)
- Better sharing & following features (tailored tweet texts, allow people to follow you directly on your page etc.)
- Place the social share icons on specific pages
- Optimized for mobile sharing and buton display
- More functions for email icon to connect with you
- More lightbox / popup options (e.g. limit how often the popup is shown to the same user)
- (Friendly and fast) Support
- Many more settings & options
Note: this plugin uses the third party provider SpecificFeeds.com for the subscription feature, enabling you to allow your visitors to subscribe to your site and get new posts automatically by email. Upon installation of the plugin a feed will be set up on SpecificFeeds, transmitting your IP address. This is required for this feature to work.
See all features of the Premium Plugin.
In case of issues or questions please ask in the [Support forum] (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-social-media-plus).
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Μετά πηγαίνετε στη σελίδα ρυθμίσεων του πρόσθετου και απαντήστε στις 3 πρώτες ερωτήσεις. Αυτό ήταν.
Παρατήρηση: αυτό το plugin απαιτεί να είναι το CURL ενεργοποιημένο/εγκατεστημένο στο server σας (που συνήθως είναι). Αν δεν το έχετε, παρακαλώ επικοινωνήστε με τον πάροχο του hosting σας.
Συχνές Ερωτήσεις
- Παρακαλούμε ρίξτε μια ματιά και στις πιο αναλυτικές "Συνήθεις Ερωτήσεις" στο http://ultimatelysocial.com/faq
We will try to keep this FAQ section up-to-date, but please note that the latest version of the FAQ might be only available at http://ultimatelysocial.com/faq
- I face fundamental issues (the plugin doesn't load, social share buttons don't show etc.)
Παρακαλούμε βεβαιωθείτε ότι:
- You're using the latest version of the plugin(s)
- Your site is running on PHP 5.4 or above
- You have CURL activated (should be activated by default)
If you're not familiar with those please contact your hosting company or server admin.
Please check if you have browser extensions activated which may conflict with the social share buttons. Known culprits include:
- Open SEO Stats (Formerly: PageRank Status) in Chrome
- Adblock Plus in Chrome
- Vine in Chrome
Either de-activate those extensions or try it in a different browser.
If the plugin setting's area looks 'funny' after an upgrade then please clear your cache with String+F5 (PC) or Command+R (Mac).
If you get the error message "Are you sure you want to do this? / Please try again" when uploading the plugin: Some servers may have a low limits with respect to permitted upload times. Please set the values in the "php.ini" file to:
max_execution_time 90
post_max_size 48M
If you don't know how to do it, please contact your server support / hosting company for that. Tell them you need it for a sharing plugin on WordPress which may take longer to upload as many socialsharing buttons are included in it (larger file size).
If your issue is still not fixed after you've followed the steps above, we can provide support as part of our new share to social Premium Plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/.
- I get error messages 'Error : 7', 'Error : 56', 'Error : 6' etc.
Those point to a CURL-issue on your site. Please contact your server admin or your hosting company to resolve it.
The plugin requires CURL for the social share counts and other features.
- Social share buttons don't show
Please ensure you actually placed the social share buttons either as social widget (in your widget area) or as floating icons under question 5). The Premium Plugin makes placing sharing buttons especially easy and also allows you to place sticky buttons on your site, define the placement of the share buttons by margins and many other options, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/.
If only some social share buttons show, but not all, then please clear your cache, and check if you may have conflicting browser extensions (e.g. 'Disconnect'-app in Chrome). Also Ad-Blockers are known culprits, please switch them off temporarily to see if that is the reason.
If the social share buttons still don't show then there's an issue with your template. Please contact the creator of your template for that.
If you are referring to specific social share buttons not showing in the plugin itself (e.g. you're looking for a Whatsapp icon, but it doesnt exist) please note that our Premium Plugin has many more social media share buttons, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/
- Twitter share counters are not displaying (anymore)
Unfortunately, Twitter stopped providing any social share counter. God knows why.
- Changes don't get saved / Deleted plugin but sharing buttons still show
Most likely you have the WP Cache plugin installed. Please de-activate and then re-activate it.
- Links don't work
Please ensure you've entered the 'http://' at the beginning of the url (for all social networks). If the share buttons are not clickable at all there is most likely an issue with your template. This is especially the case if you've given your social share buttons several features, which should show a pop-up (tooltip) when you move over the share buttons.
- I cannot upload social custom buttons
Most likely that's because you've set 'allow_url_fopen' to 'off'. Please turn it to 'on' (or ask your server admin to do so, he'll know what to do. Tell them you need it to upload custom buttons for a social media buttons plugin which are not included yet).
- My Youtube button (direct follow) doesn't work
Please ensure that you've selected the radio button 'Username' when you enter a youtube username, or 'Channel ID' when you entered a channel ID.
- Aligning the social share buttons (centered, left- or right-aligned) doesn't work
The alignment options under question 5 align the sharing icons with respect to each other, not where they appear on the page. Our new Premium Plugin is the best social sharing plugin on the market, allowing you to define also many other button alignments (e.g. within a widget, within shortcode etc.).
- Clicking on the RSS button returns funny codes
That's normal. RSS users will know what to do with it (i.e. copy & paste the url into their RSS readers).
- Facebook 'like'-count isn't correct
When you 'like' something on your blog via facebook it likes the site you're currently on (e.g. your blog) and not your Facebook page.
The new Premium Plugin also allows to show the number of your Facebook page likes, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/.
- Sharing doesn't take the right text or picture
We use the codes from Facebook, Google+ etc. and therefore don't have any influence over which text & pic is used for sharing.
Note that you can define an image as 'Featured Image' which tells Facebok / Google etc. to share that one. You'll find this 'Featured Image' section in your blog's admin area where you can edit your blog post.
You can crosscheck which image Facebook will share by entring your url on https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/.
- The pop-up shows although I only gave my social share button one share function
The pop-up only disappears if you've given your sharing buttons only a 'visit us'-function, otherwise (e.g. if you gave it 'Like' (on facebook) or 'Tweet' functions or sharing functions) a pop-up is still needed because the share buttons for those are coming directly from the social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) and we don't have any influence over their design.
- I selected to display the social sharing buttons after every post but they don't show
The social sharing buttons usually do show, however not on your blog page, but on your single posts pages. The Premium plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/) also allows to display the share buttons on your homepage.
- Plugin decreases my site's loading speed
The plugin is one of the most optimized social media plugin in terms of impact on a site's loading speed (optimized code, compressed pictures etc.).
If you still experience loading speed issues, please note that:
The more social sharing bottons and invite features you place on your site, the more external codes you load (i.e. from the social media sites; we just use their code), therefore impacting loading speed. So to prevent this, give your sharing buttons only 'Visit us'-functionality rather than sharing functionalities.
We've programed it so that the code for the social media buttons is the one which loads lasts on your site, i.e. after all the other content has already been loaded. This means: even if there is a decrease in loading speed, it does not impact a user's experience because he sees your site as quickly as before, only the social media buttons take a bit longer to load.
There might be also other issues on your site which cause a high loading speed (e.g. conflicts with our plugins or template issues). Please ask your template creator about that.
Also, if you've uploaded social media sharing buttons not provided by the plugin itself (i.e. custom buttons) please ensure they are compressd as well.
- After moving from demo-server to live-server the follow or subscribe link doesn't work anymore
Please delete and install the plugin again.
If you already placed the code for a subscription form on your site, remove it again and take the new one from the new plugin installation.
- When I try to like or share via Facebook, I get error message 'App Not Setup: This app is still…'
If you get the error message…
'App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions.'
…then most likely you're curently logged in with a business account on Facebook. Please logout, or switch to your personal account.
- There are other issues when I activate the plugin or place the share buttons
Please check the following:
The plugin requires that CURL is instaled & activated on your server (which should be the standard case). If you don't have it, please contact your hosting provider.
Please ensure that you don't have any browser extension activated which may conflict with the plugin, esp. those which block certain content including the share buttons. Known culprits include the 'Disconnect' extension in Chrome or the 'Privacy Badger' extension in Firefox.
If issues persist most likely your theme has issues which makes it incompatible with our plugin. Please contact your template creator for that. As part of the Premium Plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/) we fix also theme issues, and provide support to ensure that your social media share buttons appear on your site (exactly where you want them).
- How can I see how many people share or like my posts?
You can see this by activating the sharnig 'counts' on the front end (under question 5 in the plugin). This will display the counters in little bubbles showing how often people share your posts.
We cannot provide you this data in other ways as it's coming directly from the social media sites. One exception: if you like to know when people start to follow you by email, then you can get email alerts. For that, please claim your feed.
- How can I change the 'Please follow & like us :)'?
You can change it in the Widget-area where you dropped the widget with the sharing buttons on the sidebar. Please click on it (on the sidebar), it will open the menu where you can change the text.
If you don't want to show any text, just enter a space (' ').
- How can I remove the credit-link ('Powered by Ultimatelysocial')?
Please note that we didn't place the credit link without your consent (you agreed to it when de-selecting the email button).
Open the first question in the plugin ('1. Which sharing buttons do you want to show on your site?'), on the level of the email button you see a link on the right hand side. Please click it to remove the credit link.
- Can I use a shortcode to place the share buttons?
Yes, it's [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS]. You can place it into any editor. If the sharing buttons still don't show, there might be an issue with your theme.
Alternatively, you can place the followin into your codes:
In some cases there might be issues to display social media sharing buttons which you uploaded as custom buttons. In this case, we provide support as part of our premium plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/
- Can I get more options for the social share buttons next to posts?
Please use this plugin for that: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/. This allows you to place more share buttons (e.g. including Linkedin) as well as giving you more configuration options.
- Can I also give the email button a 'mailto:' functionality?
Yes, that is possible in our new social share plugin, the Premium Plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/
To get the email button in the same design style you picked, activate it, then on the front-end, rightclick on the button, and save it as picture. Upload that picture as custom button.
- Can I also display the share buttons vertically?
Yes, that is possible in our new social sharing plugin, the Premium Plugn: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/.
- How can I change the text on the 'visit us'-buttons?
Use this plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/
- Can I deactivate the social sharing buttons on mobile?
Yes, there's an option for that under question 5. In our new Premium Plugin you can define different settings of the share buttons for mobile, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/. The best way to share social media! 🙂
- How can I use two instances of the plugin on my site?
You cannot use the same plugin twice, however you can install both the first USM plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons/) as well as the Premiuem plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/). We've developed the code so that there are no conflicts and they can be used in parallel.
- Where can I find icons for more social media platforms?
The premium plugin offrs many more social buttons from other social media platforms such as Snapchat, Whattsapp, Yelp, Sound cloud and many others. It's the best socialsharing plugin on the market 🙂 Check it out at https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/
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Σύνοψη αλλαγών
- Q3 auto opening and opening of Floating and 'before and after posts' open automatically for new installs
- Popup open error fixed
- Analyst 5.4
- Added the waiting imgage on contact
- Removed console.log
- Url encoded for location.href
- Restrucutre the section 8 options
- UI improvements
- Shortcode updated
- Update: Feedback system updated.
- Update: Banner text for responsive icons updated.
- Update: Css Validation issue corrected;
- Update: Fixed the text in theme banner.
- Update: Fixed follow icon and subscription box when Curl is disabled.
- Update: Fixed cURL errors.
- Update: Q4 missing images corrected.
- Update: Text changes.
- Update: Solved widget alignments.
- Update: Solved php errors.
- Update: Text changes.
- Update: Link for email and action for subscription when request fails.
- Update: Feedback system updated
- Update: Feedback system updated
- Update: SDK.
- Update: Grammer Errors.
- Update: Responsive icons options display logic corrected.
- Update: Twitter and other external js inclusion logic updated.
- Solved: Cancel button on banner reapplied.
- Solved: Validation for section 2 options while section 1 options are checked but not saved corrected.
- Update: Feedback system updated
- New Feature: Responsive icons in the plugin.
- Solved: Icons not rendering on woocomerce product page.
- Solved: Stop loading unused external library code for faster load.
- Solved: Updated feedback system to next version.
- Update: Feedback system added
- Update: Removed google icon.
- Update: Nonce error in Q6 preview language icons
- Update: Corrected typos
- Update: Updated theme suggestion data
- Update: Removed Curl error
- Update: Fixed Facebook and Twitter icons not working on some pages
- Update: Removed w3 validation errors
- Update: Removed googleplus icon
- Update: Solved the Undefined Notice messages.
- Update: Google plus like removed
- Update: Extra debug log removed
- Update: Screencast video removed
- Update: more icons included.
- Update: White background from icons removed.
- Update: updated the new added icons.
- Update: optimized the extraicons of premium shown to the plugin.
- Update: removed unwanted files.
- Update: included skins for wechat icons.
- Update: Custom skin for newly added icons.
- Update: Compatablity Errors corrected.
- New Feature: New icons Implemented.
- Update: Alert for checkbox conflict.
- Update: Cron implemented for rss count.
- Update: Custom icons not showing solved.
- Update: Woocommerce resolved conflict resulted in other conflicts – fixed.
- Update: Critical Security Patch.
- Update: Resolved Conflict with woocommerce auto update.
- Update: Security Patch.
- Update: security update.
- Update: save button not working.
- Update: Theme cheker dom error updated.
- Update: Deprecated Google plus
- Updated: css changes to make icons more symetric.
- Updated: Security patch in freemius.
- Update: solved Undefined constant notice resolved.
- Update: offline chat email validation added.
- Update: ROUND SHORTCODE sharing error solved.
- Update: curl errors in backend solved.
- Update: ajax_object conflict solved and updated sfsi_plus_ajax.
- Update: Conflict solved.
- Update: design changes in gutenberg.
- Update: Dashboard chat updated.
- Update: Security updates.
- Update: Updated gutenberg block to incorporate current changes. Added support for multiple controls on block inspector controls.
- update: In-admin-pannel chat updated for more user friendly features.
- Duplicate IDs removed from icon's link
- Facebook share counts (rectangle icons) do not show
- specificfeeds.com links changed to https
- Remove google like
- Click on G+ in firefox opens a new window
- Update: Display counts can't be manually updated
- New Feature: Direct chat added to the plugins settings page.
- Image not showing error fixed for banner in animation section in Question 4 added
- Lightbox removed after click on de-activation of plugin
- Banner for animation section in Question 4 added
- Different icon for mouseover section pointing in premium in Question 4 added
- Removed theme icon banner if no match
- Optimized footer
- Fixed Gutenberg issues which arose for old PHP versions
- Removed Addthis due to GDPR compliance issues
- Issue fixed that click on dismiss for banner didn't dismiss it permanently
- Gutenberg implemented
- Count Error for newer PHP version fixed
- Count Error shown for newer php versions fixed.
- Language in Question 6 not saving issue fixed
- Optimized code for setting value for "adding_plustags" which caused issues on some sites
- Various instructions optimized
- Cookies don't get set anymore if selected to show pop-up when user scrolls to end of page (relevant for GDPR compliance)
- Like count issue fixed
- Youtube subscribe issue fixed
- Instagram followers count issue fixed
- Twitter count issue fixed
- Facebook share count issue fixed
- Non-numeric value errors fixed
- Removed error log files
- Follow icon sometimes showed too large – fixed
- Linkedin-counter after posts corrected
- Text changes
- New question for referring added
- Saving links for custom icons sometimes didn't work. Fixed now.
- Links updated
- Themed icons notification optimized
- Important bug fixed (which caused fatal error on sites with PHP version below 5.5. and sensitive error reporting on server)
- Banners modified
- Spelling mistakes corrected
- Added more themed icons banners
- There were conflicts when both free USM plugins were installed at the same time, those are now resolved
- Notification for possibility to define sharing text and pic added
- Link to full list of premium icons added
- Info added that url shortener is available in premium plugin
- Non numeric value warning fixed
- Templates with no head issue fixed
- Incorrect error messages removed
- Better formatting of socialshare review bar
- Updated so that also widget data gets removed when you de-install the plugin, so now everything is completely removed
- New CURL error messages to point better to the specific issue
- Error message if user is using outdated PHP version
- "Mandatory" removed from email and rss icons
- Freemius Error (uninstall hook error) fixed
- Icons not underlined anymore (was a conflict with certain themes such as twentyseventeen)
- Js removed after de-activating the icons
- Freemius image added
- After activation of plugin you're directly taken to the plugin's settings page
- Fremius analytics implemented
- More strings made translation-ready
- Better claiming of feed enabled
- Issue with Instagram button counters fixed
- Issue fixed that sometimes incorrect error-messages showed on front-end
- Credit link updated
- More icons added for pro-version
- SpecificFeeds adjusted for paid option
- De-installation will now clear database entirely
- Upgrade to pro-link renamed
- New option for tailor-made icons
- Activation/de-activation links optimized
- Notifications activated
- Notifications revised
- Notification added
- Instructions for troubleshooting optimized
- Facebook icon leading to empty pages (in specific cases) fixed
- Twitter sharing text issues with forwarded slashes fixed
- Links to review sites adjusted following WordPress changes in review section
- Missing counts for email follow option fixed (when there are no subscribers yet)
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I wonder how they come up with the batting lineup in each match. Do they write down the number on small pieces of papers and ask the batsmen to pick one? If you get one or two you open, if you get three you go to one down, and so on and so forth?
Stop Shuffling!
by Rubu Islam
Published: 5th November, 2004
I wonder how they come up with the batting lineup in each match. Do they write
down the number on small pieces of papers and ask the batsmen to pick one? If
you get one or two you open, if you get three you go to one down, and so on
and so forth?
For God?s sake, we need to come up with a stable opening pair and a fixed
batting order. In every match there is shuffling and for no obvious reasons.
Why did Aftab come in one down today when it is Bashar?s usual spot? Why
did Aftab open in Chittagong when Ashraful did it with better success than anyone
in previous matches? Why stop the experiment before it has given a clear result?
Why did Rana open in only two matches and was never given another chance even
though he had done a reasonable job? Too many questions and not enough good
We do have severe problems with our batting. Inability to play the new ball
and mental block are just a few to mention. This shuffling is, however, harming
us as much as anything else. Whatmore (Please do not take me wrong here; I still
believe he is the right guy for the job) has been talking about coming up with
a good team combination and I think he has got a pretty decent one. Every member
of the current team has shown that they have the right raw material. You might
even call it talent. With the exception Mashrafee after solid performances in
the domestic league or the CCL, or a fine-tuned Shahadat, we do not need any
change to this current team.
Moreover, most of the current team members are young enough to be trained and
built up. Then why don?t we stop here? Let?s come up with a fixed
lineup, decide on a fixed pair of openers and one down batsman and specifically
train them for the new ball. They do not need to take runs; all they need to
do is see the new ball through without losing any wickets.
The BCB has shown in many occasions that they do not have any problems spending
money for the team. Get what you need for making fast tracks or bowling machine.
It may even be possible to borrow a fast bowler from some other country who
does not have a chance in their national team and will be willing to spend a
month or two with BCB to continuously bowl at the nets.
Do whatever it takes, but stop loosing five wickets in the first ten overs.
My choice of openers at his stage would be Javed Omar and Nafis Iqbal. Please
persist with this pair. No one has done better than this two and no one is likely
to do so in the foreseeable future. Train them for what we need instead of expecting
it to come out automatically from someone.
Then comes the question of the one down batsman. With Bashar frequently injured,
this position is frequently open. Whoever takes this spot must also be trained
for it so that in case one of the openers fails, he can take over for the opener's
role of not loosing his wicket.
The next important thing is to remove this apparent mental block of our batsmen.
It is true that winning is a habit and does not necessarily come without winning.
But no, this is not a catch-22 situation. Here is why: everyone says that winning
is a habit. But no one has said that this habit has to be formed from winning
International matches. When was the last time any national team player won a
match? A few practice matches here and there are not enough.
It really does not matter what kind of match they win, but they do need to
play and win. This is where we need a stronger domestic league. We desperately
need it and more than anything else. While I am sure no BCB official will ever
read this article, but here is a small piece of advice for them. Create quality
wickets for the domestic league and then encourage clubs to fill up their foreign
players? quota with fast bowlers. We simply do not have enough domestic
fast bowlers and this will allow all teams to face quality pacers. This may
be too much to ask, but BCB could actually restrict the foreign player quota
to quickies only.
The way things are going now, nothing will happen. Blaming the players is a
good option from a fan?s perspective and more often than not they deserve
it. But, what is the point? Playing the blame game is not going to get us back
on track. We have to go with our current crop of players. In spite of all the
recent terrible performances, they are the best we got at this moment. It is
time for us to start fixing the problem proactively rather than reactively.
The problems won't fix themselves and the old methods aren't working.
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1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce agave nectar
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Garnish: small wedge of grilled pineapple
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SLS61185 wrote:Pretty horse! Now, how do you pronounce her (this whole time I've thought SHE was a HE, ) name?
iluvk9 wrote:What a great idea, to trade for awhile!! Cairo looks beautiful!
And when do I get to live with you and your horsey?
FAB dogs wrote:She's pretty. What breed of horse is she?
amalie79 wrote:Wait-- your roomies with the baby want a JACK RUSSEL? Wow. That sounds like a great move. I mean, why not? They're so easy and low-maintenance.
amalie79 wrote:Well, there are exceptions in every breed. But I cannot imagine trying to take care of a teething baby and a JRT. But that's just me.
On topic, however, your horse is beautiful!
plebayo wrote:There are definitely exceptions however these people are definitely not cut out for a terrier. At least a JRT can only kill small things...
furever_pit wrote:She is such a pretty horse!
They can be so funny when you start asking them to work more than they are used to. I could swear the horse I was working yesterday just kept rolling her eyes at me. When I got off of her she freaked out and was making all these noises like, "Thank God! We are done!"
PS - I love that your horse and my dog share a name. Everyone makes fun of me for naming my dog after Cairo, Egypt. Now I don't feel so stupid. haha. Although, when you think about it in the context of the current political environment...it's a freaking kickbutt name!
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If you're committed to shifting your curriculum to e-textbooks, consider trying free first. Here are the best sites for digital books that won't cost your students a dime.
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Battlefield 3 Beta Performance Guide
September 29, 2011
By James Wang
Today, the Battlefield 3 Beta will be released to gamers worldwide. For many gamers, the first question on their mind is: can I run this game? And if so, at what setting? This will be primary focus on this article. Along the way, we'll look at the graphics options offered in Battlefield 3, how they affect image quality, and the some upgrade options if you're looking to purchase a new graphics card.
A Quick Primer on the Battlefield 3 Graphics Engine
The last time a graphics engine or game generated this much discussion and anticipation was with the launch of the original Crysis. So let's take a moment to review why Battlefield 3 is such a milestone for 3D graphics on the PC.
Prior to Frostbite 2, DICE used two different graphics engines in its games.
The graphics engine behind Battlefield 3 is called Frostbite 2. Prior to Frostbite 2, DICE, the developer behind Battlefield 3, worked with two graphics engines. The first engine, the original Frostbite, was created for Battlefield Bad Company. Frostbite was powerful in handling dynamic destruction but lacked a detailed lighting model. The second was Unreal Engine 3, which DICE licensed from Epic for use in Mirror's Edge. Mirror's Edge was noted for its beautiful lighting which was created using offline global illumination software, but since everything was pre-computed, none of the levels were destructible. DICE's goal with Frostbite 2 was simple: to create a graphics engine that combined the rich, global illumination lighting of Mirror's Edge with the dynamic destructible environments of Battlefield Bad Company.
GI, or Global Illumination, refers to lighting models that capture the complex interaction of light as it bounces around in an environment. The challenge with Battlefield 3 was to combine GI with destructible environments.
With Battlefield 3, DICE has fully achieved this goal. The engine makes use of such a dizzying amount of technologies that we will be devoting a whole article on the subject in the coming days. But for now, suffice is to say that Battlefield 3 is the first game that successfully combines full destruction with realtime radiosity lighting, deferred rendering with robust antialiasing, and richly lit indoor scenes with massively scaled outdoor levels. There are other games that make use of one or more of these technologies but none that use all of them. And no other game has that unique Battlefield 3 look.
Graphics Quality Options
That Battlefield 3 was built for the PC is clear the moment you open its video options menu. Eleven graphics quality settings can be individually adjusted and four presets are available: Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. We will be publishing a detailed tweak guide when the game launches to go through each of the individual options. For this article, we'll focus exclusively on the image quality and performance of the four presets.
|Graphics Quality (Preset)
|Texture Quality
|Shadow Quality
|Effects Quality
|Mesh Quality
|Terrain Quality
|Antialiasing Deferred
|4x MSAA
|Antialiasing Post
|Motion Blur
|Motion Blur Amount
|Anisotropic Filter
|Ambient Occlusion
The four graphics quality presets in Battlefield 3 and how they translate into individual settings.
How Battlefield 3 Looks At Different Quality Settings
Low Quality
Even at Low Quality, Battlefield 3 looks very decent. The game uses the same realtime radiosity lighting engine is used across all graphics presets so even at low, there are tons of dynamic lights, colors reflect and bleed, and high dynamic range (HDR) lighting is in full effect. But the picture, though realistic, is fairly coarse. Shadows are jagged and can look like saw teeth. Textures are blurry unless viewed up close (a higher resolution loads when things get too blurry). And trees and grass look very flat without the rich self-shadowing that's provided by ambient occlusion. Fence aliasing is also very distracting at Low Quality.
Medium Quality
At Medium Quality, the fidelity and detail is significantly improved. The most noticeable difference is that all shadows are now soft; there are no more chunky pixels to be found. Ambient occlusion is also now enabled in the form of SSAO or Screen Space Ambient Occlusion. This means trees and grass cast shadows on themselves, giving them a richer, lusher look. "Antialiasing Post", which refers to antialiasing done as a post process using shaders is now set to Low. This removes most of the jaggies in the scene, making the image much smoother.
High Quality
Now this is what Battlefield 3 is suppose to look like. High Quality adds an extra layer of architectural detail on the beautiful Parisian buildings in the Metro level. Windows and columns are rendered with real geometry which in turn cast shadows on themselves thanks to ambient occlusion. Overall, objects and structures look a lot more 3D. Textures are also much sharper thanks to 16x anisotropic filtering. The game is simply beautiful at this point.
Ultra Quality
At Ultra Quality, everything looks better but in a more subtle than dramatic way. The most obvious improvement comes from the 4x MSAA setting which gets enabled at Ultra Quality. Up until Ultra Quality, all antialiasing is handled by a post processing shader , which though powerful, can miss certain objects. For example, at High Quality, fences and thin lines form crawling patterns when you move pass them. At Ultra Quality, the addition of 4x MSAA removes most of the offensive crawlies and moiré patterns.
Quality Setting Comparisons
At Low Quality, shadows are not filtered, resulting in hard edges and saw tooth patterns. At Medium, shadow edges are smoothed out. At High or Ultra quality, the resolution of the shadow map is higher, resulting in detailed but smooth shadows.
These set of images show the benefit of high quality ambient occlusion. At the Low and Medium, the buildings lack proper self shadowing. High and Ultra settings enable HBAO, or Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion, a self shadowing technique developed by NVIDIA that's now used in various games. Note the detailed shadows under the windows and arches.
One of the most obvious differences between the quality levels is in texture detail. At Low Quality, the sign is barely readable. At Medium, the text becomes clear. At High, even fine details such as the bolts become razor sharp.
At Ultra Quality, 4x MSAA (Multisampling Antialiasing) is enabled. This cleans up distracting crawling artifacts in fencing and thin wires.
How Battlefield 3 Performs
In this section, we look at how Battlefield 3 performs from three different perspectives. First, we look at how a wide range of GeForce graphics cards perform in the game. Second, we determine what the optimal playable settings are for the most popular graphics cards based on the four quality presets. Third, we look into how Battlefield 3 scales in SLI.
How Different Cards Perform
How we tested: We tested on the Metro level using an internal version of the beta that supports timedemos, allowing us to perform repeatable benchmarks.
To keep testing to a manageable level, we picked one resolution and setting that gets us the bulk of the Battlefield 3 look without going overboard. 1920 x 1080 High Quality captured this fairly well. This also enabled us to test a large number of graphics cards to get a better sense of relative performance.
The first take away from the chart is that Battlefield 3 is a very scalable game. Higher performing GPUs have plenty of room to stretch their legs. At forty frames per second, the game plays very well and rarely dips below thirty. The first card that satisfies this level is the GeForce GTX 560. The GeForce GTX 570 and 580 progressively perform better. The GeForce GTX 590, based on two Fermi GPUs, take the crown at just over 100 frames per second.
It's interesting to note that those who invested in the flagship GeForce GTX 295 almost three years ago can still play Battlefield 3 at near peak settings, though without the benefit of DirectX 11 features such as tessellation.
Optimal Playable Settings For Popular Cards
GeForce.com publishes optimal playing settings for all major games after launch and will certainly do the same for Battlefield 3 when it launches in October. For now, we've kept things simple and focused on finding the optimal playable settings for popular GPUs based on the game's quality presets.
To find the optimal playable setting, we toggled resolution and graphics quality until the framerate fell between the 40-60 fps range. We aimed for a minimum framerate of no less than 30 fps.
|Graphics Card
|Graphics Quality
|GeForce 8800/9800 GT
|1280 x 1024
|Average: 40-60 fps
Minimum: >30 fps
|GeForce GTX 260
|1680 x 1050
|GeForce GTX 460
|1680 x 1050
|GeForce GTX 560/570
|1920 x 1080
|GeForce GTX 580
|1920 x 1080
|GeForce GTX 590/580 SLI
|2560 x 1600
GeForce 8800/9800 GT
We start the performance evaluation with the GeForce 8800/9800 GT—the most popular graphics card according to the Steam Hardware Survey and the GPU that is listed in the minimum system requirements of Battlefield 3. True to DICE's word, the GeForce 8800 GT does indeed play Battlefield 3, though at a humble resolution of 1280 x 1024 and at Low Quality settings. Needless to say, this is not how Battlefield 3 looks in the trailers, but the game does run, as promised.
GeForce GTX 260
The GeForce GTX 260 is the fourth most popular graphics card on Steam, used by 4.19% of gamers on the service as of August 2011. Though three years old, the card puts up a respectable performance. You can play the game at 1680 x 1050 at Medium Quality. As noted in the graphics quality section, at Medium, the game looks quite a bit better than Low but doesn't have the polish of higher quality settings.
GeForce GTX 460
The GeForce GTX 460 is the first card that gives you that unique Battlefield 3 "look" while maintaining solid framerates. At 1680 x 1050, the card lets you play at High Quality settings, which gives you most of the graphical bells and whistles, including antialiasing, ambient occlusion, detailed geometry, and detailed textures. The GeForce GTX 460 performs very well at this setting.
GeForce GTX 560/560Ti/570
With any of these three graphics cards, you are getting a full Battlefield 3 experience. Simply put, this is 1080p at High Quality at 40 fps or more. With the GTX 570, you can bump individual settings a little higher (for example, Ultra quality Textures or Effects) or you can opt to play at higher framerates on the same preset. If your budget is more limited, the GTX 560 is a perfectly sound option.
GeForce GTX 580
For those who are lucky enough to own a GeForce GTX 580, expect a near-perfect experience. We're talking about 1080p at fully maxed out settings (Ultra). You have to hand it over to DICE for their lighting engine; at Ultra quality, the radiosity lighting, soft shadows, and ambient occlusion come together and play off each other to produce scenes so rich and nuanced that they look like they had been art directed. At this quality, the game plays like a trailer.
GeForce GTX 580 SLI / GTX 590
With two Fermi GPUs, the game plays at maximum quality but at the expanded resolution of 2560 x 1600. Needless to say, the game is startlingly beautiful. Do not show this to your console friends. They will hate you.
SLI Performance
As you probably guessed from the performance of the GeForce GTX 590, Battlefield 3 scales exceptionally well in SLI. Scaling refers to the performance benefit that results from adding an additional GPU to the system. On the GeForce GTX 560, Battlefield 3 scaled just shy of 90% with the addition of a second graphics card. Two GeForce GTX 580 GPUs in SLI exceeds over 100 fps at 1920 x 1080 High Quality settings. Both setups can play Battlefield 3 at Ultra Quality without breaking a sweat.
Upgrade Recommendations
Performance and image quality are very personal preferences and only you know if an upgrade is needed for your PC. That said, if you are looking to upgrade, here are a few basic recommendations.
If your budget is under $200, the best upgrade is to a GeForce GTX 560. The GeForce GTX 560 lets you play Battlefield 3 at 1920 x 1080 at High Quality settings which delivers the bulk of the game's graphics fidelity without being too taxing on the hardware. The GTX 560 is essentially the modern incarnation of the GeForce 8800 GT—it's fast and affordable. Don't be surprised if three years for now, it replaces the GeForce 8800 GT as the most popular GPU on Steam.
If you want a bit more performance, for $249, the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a solid offering. For a bigger boost in performance, consider the GeForce GTX 570; it gives you an 18% performance boost over the GTX 560 and is available for under $349.
If you want to play Battlefield 3 with everything maxed out at 1080p, the GeForce GTX 580 is the one to get. You can find it for less than $499 on Newegg.
Finally, those who want simply the best performance and image quality will want to take advantage of SLI. DICE has gone to great lengths to make the game scale well with SLI and the performance results reflect this. If you own a GeForce GTX 460 or higher, adding a second GPU is probably the easiest and most economical way to improve your Battlefield 3 performance.
In the history of PC gaming, only a handful of games have had a truly profound impact on 3D graphics. Wolfenstein 3D ignited the genre of the first person shooter. Quake introduced fully polygonal game characters. Unreal pushed the limits of lighting and high resolution textures. FarCry liberated shooters from the constraints of dark corridors and introduced lush, open ended worlds. And finally, Crysis came along in 2007 and put everything together to create a near perfect first-person shooter. Each of these games left a lasting impression on the genre and the games that followed.
Since then, many of the same pioneers of 3D graphics have shifted their focus to consoles. But DICE decided to do the opposite. In an interview with GeForce.com in April, Patrick Bach, the Executive Producer of Battlefield 3 stated emphatically that the goal of Battlefield 3 was to create the most advanced shooter possible given the power available on modern PCs. Looking at the Beta today, it's clear that DICE has succeeded at just that.
Frostbite 2 is not about this effect or that effect. It's not a lighting engine nor a destruction engine. It's all of the above. Like Crysis, it synthesized all the knowledge that had been built up over the years into a single, pristine package. And years from now, when we look back, it will be Battlefield 3 that will be remembered as the game that defined the look for a whole generation.


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We know that we need more slaves but we also know that our masters are hitting edge cases and not being optimal. We now believe that bug 592244 is behind to some chunk of the wasted CPU by running some jobs twice. The problem comes that we have several masters that query a scheduling master and sometimes two jobs are run in two different masters. catlee has done a great job on chasing this and we hope that fixing this issue will improve significantly the wait times (it would have been hard for us without his help to narrow down this issue). If it does not help us enough to get by we will have to go back and chase other edge cases in our masters. Meanwhile IT and releng is still working on getting the next pool of test slaves.
And now back to the load (link to page with raw data):
- on the 11th we handled 138 pushes across all branches (the day before the aurora merge)
- try server had a 47.5%, mozilla-central 16.9% and cedar 11.2% (/me looks at ehsan) of the whole load
- even though we had the trip to Las Vegas, the all-hands and platform's work week we have had a very high load since we shipped Firefox 4
For the next post I should only grab weekdays and interpose them to see how things look from week to week.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/23/another-peek-at-time-and-eternitys-battle-system/Another trailer. This time focusing on Toki's abilities.
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?post_key=233654&photo_key=233201Suddenly i feel dirty for voicing my interest in this game, localization in danger too.
Quote from: Kratoscar2008 on August 23, 2012, 12:59:18 PMhttp://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?post_key=233654&photo_key=233201Suddenly i feel dirty for voicing my interest in this game, localization in danger too.Agreed. I thought this game was of higher caliber than resorting to that.
Wait, people thought this game was high caliber? It's from Imageepoch.
I never got the thing with the tentacles...
The only time tentacles where "well used" in animu was in this scene of The Tower of Druaga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4Lc2m8tZ0
Quote from: Kevadu on August 23, 2012, 10:44:29 PMWait, people thought this game was high caliber? It's from Imageepoch.This could have been their first high tittle.Think of Ninja Theory, before that name they were known as "Just add monsters" and made the horrible XBOX game "Kung Fu Chaos" then their next project would be my favorite PS3 game so far Heavenly Swordand now they are doing the DMC game. my point is that this game could be the developers first hit tittle.Didnt the Luminous Arc games were quite good? (I remember how Nintendo Power praised it, as biased as they are)
Well apparently namco bandai is the publisher so I seriously doubt they'd bring it over anyway since they suck


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Here is a very interesting video on You Tube about a man that purchased a car that had, at some point, been completely submerged under water. Something of a sales arbitration horror story.
There are lessons to be learned from this event.
- Do NOT take delivery of a car you are buying where work is orally "promised". Even if the promise of repairs is in writing, it is best to leave the car at the dealership (do NOT even drive it home overnight) but let the dealer fix it first. Then only AFTER the dealer has attempted the promised repairs do your further inspect it before deciding whether you still want to complete the deal.
- Car faxes are highly overrated. They do not replace a careful inspection by a qualified mechanic. Car faxes seldom provide sufficient information about a vehicle's history of accidents, past repairs, mechanical condition, out of state salvage title etc.to be of much use in learning much about the real history of a car.
- Never sign a contract that has an arbitration provision in it, giving up your right to a trial by jury. Demand that the dealer use a different form contract (yes they have them) or go shopping for a car at another dealership that does not use contracts with arbitration clauses. Yes people, this requires that you READ the contract. Try calling a dealership first before you go there and ask them if they use contracts without arbitration clauses. Then verify it when you first arrive and again before signing the actual contract.


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The Board of Regents approved regulations establishing multiple, comparably rigorous assessment pathways to graduation for all students. The recently approved regulations recognize the importance of engaging students' interests in rigorous and relevant academic programs in the Arts; Languages other than English (LOTE)/Biliteracy; Career and Technical Education (CTE); Humanities; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM); and Career Developmental Occupational Studies (CDOS). The revised regulation allows students to use a passing score on an approved pathway assessment or successful completion of program requirements for the CDOS credential toward meeting the assessment requirements for graduation.
Complete information on the types of diploma credentials which can be earned and the criteria for each.
Additional information on Graduation Pathways can be found on the Curriculum and Instruction site.
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Grilled Shrimp with Watermelon Corn Salsa Recipe
Tasty Grilled Shrimp with Watermelon, Basil, Corn Salsa Plus Fresh MozzarellaNothing says summer like grilled shrimp or as that Aussie Tourism Commission commercial back in the 1980's called them, "shrimp on the barbie".
I adapted this recipe from an article I read in the New York Times featuring Joseph Lenn's version which featured farm fresh corn and burrata cheese neither of which I had in my refrigerator. I did have frozen corn and fresh mozzarella along with the rest of the ingredients required to make this dish.
In the article, Chef Lenn suggests using the recipe as a guideline and introduce your own favorite ingredients. For example, he says, You can substitute honeydew or a great cantaloupe for the watermelon, if you like."
He also suggests grilling the the shrimp on skewers and serving them on top of the salad or grill them and add them to the salad like I did. I'm sure he wouldn't mind my other substitutions either. This is a quick & easy recipe so it's perfect for a weeknight when time is valuable.
Some More To Know About Cooking With Shrimp
How do you know when shrimp are done cooking?
1 pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil and a little extra for drizzling
1 tablespoon minced garlic
6 tablespoons fresh basil, finely sliced
Salt & pepper, to taste
3 cups of frozen corn or 4 ears of fresh corn (about 3200 individual kernels)
1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (white balsamic if you have it)
3 cups watermelon cubed
2 balls fresh mozzarella, halved
How To Prepare At Home
Preheat your grill whether you are using a gas grill or charcoal grill. While the grill is getting hot, combine 2 tablespoons of olive oil, garlic and 1 tablespoon of the sliced basil in a small bowl. Add the shrimp and toss about until well coated. Season with salt and pepper.
In another bowl, toss the corn with the balsamic vinegar and the rest of the basil and olive oil. Add the watermelon and toss.
?When the grill is hot, cook the shrimp on direct heat for about 1 to 2 minutes per side. Shrimp cook quickly and you don't want to overcook them. Watch for them to turn just pink and for the ends to curl. If you overcook them, they get dry and too firm.
Plate - Divide the mozzarella cheese and corn watermelon salsa among the four plates and top each with equal number of shrimp. Drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil over the mozzarella along with a little salt and pepper, to taste and serve.
This is a delicious meal especially in hot weather although we haven't seen too much of that around here this summer.
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Map 2 was taken from a military map of the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The map was drawn by Charles E. Swann, Asst. Engr. Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., Lithographers, Engraphers [sic] and Printers, Cincinnati, O. Published by Cincinnati, Ohio, Office of Chief Engineer, Department of the Ohio, 1863.
When the Union army left Nashville for Murfreesboro on December 26, 1862, the army, divided into three corps, traveled along a number of routes. Portions of the army passed through these towns: Brentwood, Triune, Nolensville, Mechanicsville, La Vergne, and Stewartsburg.
1. Examine Map 2 closely. Plot out the various routes the three corps must have taken. Why do you think the army marched in three groups rather than as one massive army?
2. What is the most direct route to Murfreesboro?
3. What form of transportation generally follows the most direct route to Murfreesboro?
4. Why would the railroad have been an important link to Nashville for the Union army?
* The map on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Map 2, but be aware that the file may take as much as 70 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.