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|Jan 8, 2013, 03:06 AM
Parallels increases time machine backup size... ALOT?
I know this is sort of a 'known' issue that Parallels causes an unusual increase in backup size. What I mean is, if I don't use Parallels in between backups, I'll get a quick backup of a couple hundred megs. If I DO use parallels, my backup might be 40 or 50 GIGS!
So, the solution I read everywhere is to not backup parallels with Time Machine. Well, okay, I guess. Not the end of the world. But IS there a better way? Is there a way to reduce the size (anyone know WHY Parallels does this) or otherwise?
One of the allures of Time Machine is that I can be back to the way I was before, exactly, in the event of a Hard Disk failure. I'd like to do that, without having to re-install Parallels, Windows, Office, etc.
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|Jan 8, 2013, 03:11 AM
The reason that it happens is because Parallels has a single file containing your Windows virtual hard drive. As soon as you change anything in Windows, then by necessity that file has changed and Time Machine will therefore back it up again.
As for working around it, I'm not sure of any "elegant" way. VMware (and presumably Parallels) lets you use a separate partition for Windows, and therefore OS X will see and be able to back up individual files. The disadvantage is that you need to predict your space requirements and pre-allocate the partition space.
|Jan 8, 2013, 03:12 AM
That's why I think a better way is to use CCC and using scheduled backups, for instance, once every hour for your home folder without parallels and once a day or weekly to backup the whole disk.
There are plenty of options in Carbon Copy Cloner, another good thing about it is it is bootable.
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|Jan 8, 2013, 03:17 AM
Seperate partition is a no go, as I just hate dealing with partitions. I just need to decide if it's worth backing up at the cost of a ton of space on my Time Capsule (thus less backups stored at any time), and of course the time it takes to backup (though that's not much of an issue, it's not like you have to do anything, or that it slows you down or anything).
Hmmm... decisions decisions...
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|Jan 8, 2013, 03:29 AM
1. Create a new folder and call it VMs.
2. Shutdown all VMs and move them to the new VMs folder.
3. Tell TM, that it should not backup this VMs folder.
4. Create a manual backup of this VMs folder every week, or if necessary.
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|Jan 8, 2013, 07:01 AM
Parallels Desktop for Mac now has improved integration with Time Machine.
When backing up the virtual machine, it will only backup the recent changes (the latest snapshot), but not the whole virtual hard drive. Thus, the backup process will take less time and use less space on your Time Machine storage device.
To enable improved integration with Time Machine, go to Virtual Machine Configuration, choose Options and hit Backup.
Select "Optimize for Time Machine" in SmartGuard menu.
If you do not want your virtual machine to be backed up by Time Machine, you need go to Virtual Machine Configuration --> Options --> Backup and put a checkmark on "Do not back up with Time Machine".
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|Jan 8, 2013, 07:04 AM
That's because TM sees the parallel's VM as a single file object and backs the entire container object up when ever it notices a difference. So if you have a 40 gig VM, it will back that up continually as you use parallels.
I exclude my VMware virtual machine from Time Machine and manually copy it to my NAS. That keeps my backups small but I have a backup of my virtual machine
|Jan 8, 2013, 08:13 AM
What I do is use a TrueCrypt volume for the data that's shared between my Oracle VB VM and OS X (I only use my VM for Quicken so my TC volume is my financial stuff). I then use VB Add-ons to mount the TC volume in my VM. I exclude the VM from TM backups, but the TC volume IS backed up.
I'm not sure if Parallels has the same capability but this works well for me. I don't care about losing the VM, everything in it can be "recovered" by creating the new VM and reinstalling the OS in it.
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|Jan 8, 2013, 01:59 PM
Thanks guys
As I mentioned, I am aware I can disabled backups for Parallels, I just wanted to avoid that because I don't want to re-install it in the even of hardware failure.
I am going to try that 'optimize for time machine' option and see how that works out. Thanks!
Just in case anyone searches and stumbles on this thread, the suggestion from James Craner about the little hiding 'optimize for Time Machine' setting worked like a charm. Backups are still a smidge larger if Parallels is running or has run (even if I haven't actually DONE anything in parallels), to the degree of perhaps an 800mb backup instead of a 250mb backup, but that is substantially better than a nearly 50 GIGABYTE backup.
Works great, now I can conserve space on my time capsule whilst retaining a full and complete backup so if anything ever happens, I can be right back where I was!
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|Feb 25, 2013, 04:09 PM
Maybe this can help you out. I wrote an article how to backup Parallels VMs using rsync. I have multiple VMs (approx. 400GB in total) for which i keep an backup. Using rsync my backup time for VMs is now only a fraction of what is was before.
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|Feb 25, 2013, 05:31 PM
I skimmed the article (will sit down and read it this evening). However it appears that this is another manual backup solution right? I mean I could do something to make it operate automatically but it's still separate from time machine right? If that's the case, using Parallels built in snapshot feature seems like a better solution, as it centralizes my backups on my time capsule (with all important files being on my NAS and subsequently backed up to the cloud)
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|Feb 25, 2013, 05:45 PM
1)Skip the Parallels " Windows file" from the Mac back up.
2)Create a share folder between Mac and Parallel Windows. Store all your Windows created data in that share folder and let it be backed up along with Mac.
3)Back up the Parallel Windows file ONCE. Only consider backing it up again if there is a change such as an update or you added or removed software.
That is pretty much one of the simplest ways to handle this.
In short, your files created in Parallels gets backed up along with the rest of your Mac (Time Machine etc.) The Parallels virtual Windows is only backed up once and then again if changes occur to the virtual Windows such as updates and added software.
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|Feb 26, 2013, 12:26 AM
You can automate it using crontab (commandline) or calendar in combination with automator, etc. On the commandline enter crontab -e, this will open a vi editor. Add a line (details here;http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/06/...ntab-examples/) for example "00 08 * * * /Applications/Syncfolders/syncfolders.command" and close the editor with <ESC>wq. This will schedule the script to run every day at 08:00AM.
If you want to ben notified when a backup completes download the latest version of terminal-notifier (https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier/downloads) and install it in your Applications folder and change the syncfolder function in the script to;
function syncfolder { sourcedir=$1 targetdir=$2 targetfolder=`echo $targetdir | sed "s#^.*\/\(.*\)#\1#"` echo Start RSync from "${sourcedir}" /usr/bin/rsync --archive --hard-links --one-file-system --compress --progress --exclude-from=syncfolders.exclude --log-file=${sourcedir}/rsync.log --rsync-path="/usr/bin/rsync" ${sourcedir} ${TUSER}@${TIP}:${targetdir} if [ $? == 0 ] ; then syncstatus="Synchronization of ${sourcedir} was successful!" else syncstatus="Synchronization of ${sourcedir} had some errors $!" fi echo scp ${sourcedir}/rsync.log ${TUSER}@${TIP}:${targetdir}/${targetfolder} /Applications/terminal-notifier_1.4.2/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -message "${syncstatus}" -group Syncfolders -title Syncfolders }
|Feb 26, 2013, 09:42 AM
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|Feb 26, 2013, 05:49 PM
The only thing I keep in a Windows VM is the OS and applications. I have a backup of the configuration. All my files are stored in the Mac environment. I exclude the Parallels VMs from being backed up by TM.
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|Feb 26, 2013, 06:42 PM
Again, I've long since found the solution. This was purely a convenience thing. Should my hard disk or otherwise fail, I can use time machine to go right back where I was- time machine and all-, and parallels built in snapshot feature mentioned a while back is the ticket.
I appreciate the input though! I mostly use time machine as a hope-I-never-need-it convenience. The ability to go right back to where I was. Everything of value, though, is kept on a NAS and mirrored to a cloud backup.
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The nights co-feature bout will be an explosive battle between 22 year old undefeated WBC Featherweight Champion Jorge Golden Boy Linares (24-0, 15 KOs) defending his title against Mexican WBC number one contender Gamaliel El Platano Diaz (22-6-2, 9 KOs). Linares, like Valero, is Venezuelan, lives in Tokyo and is promoted by Teiken. The quick boxer has fought in front of fans in South America, the Far East, and once in the U.S. That one bout was his most recent, where he knocked out Oscar Larios (59-6-1, 37 KOs) on July 21, 2007 in Las Vegas to claim the vacant WBC Featherweight title. A week earlier, Linares opponent in Cancun, Diaz, earned the title shot when he won a decision over Elio Rojas (19-1, 13 KOs) in a WBC eliminator in Mexico.
A loaded undercard is highlighted by Puerto Rican rising star Wilfredo Vasquez Jr. (9-0, 8 KOs). The undefeated featherweight is the talented son of super bantamweight boxing legend Wilfredo Vasquez (56-9-2, 41 KOs).
Also featured will be a WBC Featherweight Eliminator between Mexican Rudy Lopez (20-4-1, 14 KOs) and hard hitting Japanese veteran Naoki Matsuda (28-7-3, 11 KOs). This is a rematch of what was a sensational fight on March 31, 2007 in Cancun where Matsuda knocked out Lopez in the fifth round.
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The Washington state primary is over and we now know the November match-ups. In the first real poll of the election season, it looks like Republicans are making progress in some of the swing districts but will it be enough to rest control from the Democrats? \
Also a surprising new poll from KING 5/SurveyUSA shows Senate candidate Dino Rossi well ahead of Murray.
In this Up Front, local political veterans try to divine the future from the primary election returns. What do you think the primary results tell us?


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Budget battle guide: Skidding into a fiscal pileup
That's when the public could start seeing delays at airports, disruptions in meat inspection, fewer services at national parks and the like.
An impasse lasting into the fall would reach farther, probably shrinking Head Start slots, for example.
Much of the federal budget is off-limits to the automatic cuts. Among exempted programs: Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell Grants and veterans' programs.
Even so, officials warn of a hollowed-out military capability, compromised border security and spreading deterioration of public services if the sequester continues. It's "like a rolling ball," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "It keeps growing."
Maybe it's fiscal-crisis fatigue.
So far, Americans have yawned this one off. Only 27 percent of those surveyed for a Pew Research Center/USA Today poll last week said they had heard a lot about the looming automatic spending cuts.
Less than a third think the budget cuts would deeply affect their own financial situation, according to a Washington Post poll. Sixty percent, however, believe the cuts would have a major effect on the U.S. economy.
That's what economists and business people are nervous about.
The political standoff is the factor that economists blame most for the slowing economy, according to the latest Associated Press Economic Survey. The uncertainty about future government spending is causing businesses to hold back on investment and hiring, and it's making consumers less confident about their own spending, economists warn.
How did it come to this?
Obama and congressional Republicans have been deadlocked over spending since the GOP won control of the House in 2010, with a big boost from tea party activists who champion lower taxes and an end to red-ink budgets.
House Republicans refused to raise the nation's borrowing limit in 2011 without major deficit cuts. To resolve the stalemate, Congress passed and Obama signed the Budget Control Act, which temporarily allowed borrowing to resume, set new spending limits and created a bipartisan "supercommittee" to recommend at least $1.2 trillion more in deficit reduction over 10 years. Republicans and Democrats on the supercommittee failed to compromise, however.
That triggered the law's doomsday scenario - the so-called "fiscal cliff" package of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts.
In a New Year's Eve deal, Obama and Congress agreed to raise taxes on some of the nation's wealthiest earners. And they postponed the spending cuts for two months - until Friday.
That was supposed to buy time for a deal.
But there's still no deal.
Obama and congressional leaders have scheduled talks for Friday, the day the automatic cuts begin taking effect. Democrats and Republicans still look far apart, however.
Obama insists on blending spending cuts with targeted tax increases. Republican leaders reject any more tax increases and want to shear spending while protecting the military's budget.
While both sides talk about reducing the deficit, Obama and other Democrats say this must be done gradually, to avoid wounding an already weak economy.
The president has been taking his case to the people, blasting Republicans at campaign-style events. GOP leaders, just back from last week's congressional vacation, are grousing that Obama should be bargaining with them, not grandstanding.


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The Pasco County Sheriff's Office spokesman Douglas Tobin said a suspicious store clerk at the Dunkin' Donuts in New Port Richey alerted the office to a man who frequented the eatery and used a badge to support his claim of being a U.S. marshal to get discounts on doughnuts, ABC News reported Thursday.
"Yesterday, we had an undercover deputy in the store," Tobin said. "He usually comes in at the same time. This time, he didn't show his badge, but we had enough reason to arrest him."
The man, Charles Barry, 48, was found to have a .38-caliber revolver in his pocket Tuesday and ammunition in his vehicle, Tobin said.
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What's the best map projection?
Next term, I'll be teaching a course in general relativity, and while preparing my notes on the curvature of space, I was reminded of a really fun paper I worked on with Rich Gott a few years ago. As you probably know, the earth is roughly a sphere, and if you try to wrap a piece of flat paper around it to make a map, you're going to get a lot of crinkles and folds. In short, you can't make a perfect map of the whole earth.
There are some, like the Gall-Peters, that are area-preserving. In other words, equal areas on the map always represent equal areas of land.
Peters argued that the only way to properly appreciate the importance of places like Africa and South America in the world was to use the Gall-Peters projection. Other maps, like the well-known Mercator projection are not area preserving, and thus make North America and Europe look huge compared to more equatorial continents. The thinking is that if people constantly see South America and Africa as tiny and insignificant, they will think of them that way. This argument even found its way into the West Wing:
Area preserving maps are good in general, but obviously, if you're going to preserve area, you're going to sacrifice fidelity in another area: shape. The Gall-Peters (and other area-preserving maps including the Eckert IV, the Lambert, and the Sinusoidal) all grossly distort the shape of the continents. Here's the Gall-Peters shown another way:
Each of those blobby ellipsoids represent a perfect circle drawn on the earth with a radius of about 12 degrees (about 1300 km). They get very distorted on the map. It doesn't have to be so. There are maps that do a crappy job with area, but do a great job with shape. The Mercator, bad as it is with area, does shape very well:
So where does the general relativity come into it? Rich and I realized that classic measures of how maps of the whole world perform relied on what happened to small circles when you project them onto the map. This is the origin of the Tissot Indicatrix, and is basically the ellipses you saw in the maps above.
However, there are also huge large scale effects. The northern boundary between the continental United States and Canada at the 49th parallel of latitude is shown as a straight line in the Mercator Map, but really it is a small circle that is concave to the north. If one drove a truck down that border from west to east, one would have to turn the steering wheel slightly to the left so that one was continually changing direction. The great circle route (the straightest route) connecting the Washington State and Minnesota (both at the 49th parallel) is a straight line which goes entirely
through Canada. This straight line on the globe when extended, passes south of the northern part of Maine, so the continental United States is bend downward like a frown in the Mercator Map.
The tools of curved space — the calculation of geodesics — turn out to be invaluable. Graphically, the ellipses/ovals on the maps above represent, as I said, a perfect circle on the ground around 1300km in radius. However, there are also a cross-hair in the middle, representing a radius 1300km North, South, East, and West. Their projection onto the maps represent small sections of great circle routes. The "flexion" represents how much those lines get bent (on the map), and the "skewness" describes how off center the crosshairs are. The variation in sizes of the ovals tells you about area errors, and the variation in shape tells you about shape errors. A non-existent perfect map would have uniform, circular, even, straight crosshairs throughout.
We ultimately combined all 4 of these metrics: area, shape, flexion, and skewness, averaged over the entire map, to figure out the all-around best world map, the Winkel-Tripel:
Interestingly, even before we did this work, National Geographic used this map projection for their all-world maps. How does it do with our little indicatrices?
Very good indeed!
Curious about the other top performers? Check out the maps (with the indicatrices) and their overall scores below. Lower is better with details in our paper.
- Winkel-Tripel (4.5629) [map]
- Kavrayskiy VII (4.8390) [map]
- Gall Stereographic (5.7582)
- Hammer-Wagner (5.7847) [map]
- Eckert IV (5.8519, but the best area-preserving map) [map]
Incidentally, the Gall-Peters (also area preserving) gets a 7.0722. The Mollweide (also area-preserving and used for all-sky projections in astronomy), does a little better. It gets a 6.387. What does this mean? It means that even though you're probably used to seeing the cosmic microwave background like this:
You're probably better off seeing it like this:
(Eckert IV)
The advantage of the Eckert IV is that you don't get much distortion around the edges. Thanks to Wes Colley for producing both of those.
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Great information…any idea where one could obtain a Gall-Peters map poster? I know that the National Geographic provide maps in the Winkel Tripel projection but the Gall-Peters map really does bring an interesting perspective to the area of our planet.
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HELP please…
Which is the projection that creates a slightly curved north boundary while looking at the Lower 48?
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I thought you might like this
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First you said the circles were 1300 miles then you said they were 1300 kilometers. Which one are they?
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Dave, I'd like to ask a bit more detailed question than I can ask here, on the topic of map projections, and attach a file or two showing a map. I wasn't able to send an email the other way. Could you email me so I could contact you?
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You used root-mean-square to aggregate the value of a distortion at various places on the Earth. RMS, as you know, favors the reduction of very large errors, even when it increases a small error more than it decreases the large error. Even if it makes more small error than it reduces large error.
Ordinarily that's fine, but what if the super large error is in the polar regions, where no one lives, and practically no one goes? In any flat-polar map, of course the east-west scale is infinite at the poles, and increases to arbitrarily large values as you approach a pole. That majorlly distorts shape there of course.
So, if you start with the unexpanded averaging of Aitoff with square-grid Cylindrical-Equiditant (CE), and expand it vertically, that increase in vertical scale will reduce those super-large shape errors in polar regions–while making an equally large shape error at the equator, and a lot of it throughout most of the Earth.
The expaned Winkel-Tripel (the National Geographic Society version), which I'll call NGS Winkel, thereby gets a good G&G RMS shape error rating…by helping polar shapes at the expense of shapes throughout most of the world.
Look at NGS Winkel: Notice how distorted Africa and South America are. And the U.S. too. They're all humungously east-west compressed. The U.S. goes up to lat 49. So it can be said that the Earth between lat 49 and lat -49 is drastically east-west compressed. Between lat 40 and lat -49 lies 3/4 of the Earth.
The Arctic and the Antarctic, together, cover only 1/12 of the Earth's surface. So you want to humungously distory 3/4 of the Earth, in order to improve 1/12 of the Earth?
Ordinarily what RMS does is a good thing. But not when the region helped is about 1/12 of the Earth, where no one lives, and few ever go, and it's helped at the expense of distorting, to a FUBAR degree, 3/4 of the Earth.
Winkel Tripel would be ok if it weren't expanded–if one merely used the averaging of Aitoff with unexpanded square-grid Cylindrical Equidistant (aspect-ratio 2:1).
NGS Winkel has a great portrayal of Antarctica, and some like it for its converging meridians. But those advantages can both be had with Hammer-Aitoff and Quartic Authalic–without the skinny Africa, and the huge N-S/E-W scale disparity throughout 3/4 of the Earth.
thank you,
Michael Ossipoff


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Cote and Noke agree there are no quitters on these teams
FEB 14, 2014 12:00p ET
Coach Kyle Noke is a very happy man right now after his team picked up a second win in a row this week following Richard Walsh's victory over Matthew Desroches on the latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter Nations.
You might not know it looking at Noke, who admits he's one of the most even tempered people you'd ever met and it's awfully hard to spark a reaction, whether good or bad. He will definitely take the momentum after his team dropped their first few fights, and now he's riding the wave of back-to-back wins as he picks the next fight pitting Dan Kelly against Sheldon Westcott.
Actually, as Noke explains on the latest episode of TUF Talk, Kelly didn't give him or the coaches much choice in the matter. He was going to fight next or things were going to get ugly.
So Noke decided to comply and give him the fight he wanted, while Cote had to deal with the reaction of one of the fighters on his team that's definitely not at 100-percent health getting selected next.
It was the worst case scenario for Cote, who not only didn't get the fight pick after Desroches lost the decision to Walsh, but his hope was to sit Westcott out until the final fight of the preliminary round to give his injury maximum time to heal. Instead he now has to put Westcott in against a four-time Olympian and one of the strongest members of Team Australia.
Even Cote had to compliment Kelly, however, as you'll hear in his latest interview with TUF Talk. The Canadian coach raves about the Olympian's amazing past in Judo and even gives us a little inside into his mangled feet from all the competitions he's done over the years. His never die attitude matched that of the Canadians, who were all chomping at the bit to get a fight inside the Octagon. As Cote says, at this point in the history of The Ultimate Fighter, there are no excuses for not being ready, not making weight or not wanting to fight.
Listen to what both Cote and Noke had to say about the most recent fight on the show as well as previewing the next bout pitting Dan Kelly against Sheldon Westcott.


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I loved how smooth and bright even the first application was and the color was amazing!! Great product that me and my daughter enjoy together!
I love each color and interchange them at least every 3 days! Yes, they don't last long as far as chipping but its still a nice product. The coral color and the cream are my go to colors. I almost want to buy another one to get for a friend.
These colors are so pretty and perfect for spring/summer. I love them. The polish seems to be chipping pretty quickly, though, which is a bummer.
I struggle to select nail colors. This pack has a nice variety to mix up my usual routine of pinks.
I liked the color and it lasted longer than I would have expected because I am very rough on my nails.
I was impressed with the opacity at first but honestly, it ended up being more streaky than I expected. Still, the bottle size is perfect - I never finish up regular size bottles of polish.


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KQED Science
Some of Us May Have a Genetic Predisposition to Disliking Exercise
About 90% of us over the age of 12 fail to get as much exercise as we should. This is almost certainly not because we don't believe in those benefits. Instead, it looks like at least part of the reason may be that some of us are genetically programmed to hate exercise.


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Tracy McGrady announcing he's retiring from the NBA. The seven-time all-star averaged 19.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game in his 16-year career.
A four-point-two magnitude earthquake shook northern Nevada on Monday. The quake left residents a bit rattled and caused some damage to property. Local researchers who study seismology say an earthquake this size happens in Nevada at least once a year.
The Syrian Foreign Minister is challenging world leaders to prove the Assad government used chemical weapons against its people. He held a press conference today, denying the allegations. The British Military, making plans for a strike on Syria, and President Obama will soon be given options to take action as well. Syria's foreign minister warned the U.S. against a potential strike saying it would serve the interests of Al Qaeda-linked groups.
Tuesday, secretary of homeland security Janet Napolitano, saying goodbye to her position in the department of homeland security. She is leaving her post to become president of the University of California system. Napolitano was confirmed as the nation's third homeland security secretary and was the first woman offered the position.
Federal agencies are scrambling for money to fight the devastating fires in northern California and elsewhere. Since last week, the forest service has been spending about 100 million dollars per week to fight fires at preparedness level 5, its highest state of alert, which it reached a week ago.


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The Sag Harbor School District announced late Wednesday, August 27, that its prekindergarten program, which has operated under SCOPE since its inception in 2010, would move under the full control and supervision of the district starting this year.
"Our board of education and administration believe this is a positive change for the district, and one that will enable us to provide a wonderful pre-k opportunity in Sag Harbor for years to come," Sag Harbor Elementary School Principal Matt Malone and Assistant Principal Donna Denon said in a letter to families that day.
For the past school year of 2013-14, the program had 30 students and the contractual expenses were $80,730. The projected expenses for 2014-15, which will see 25 students in the pre-k, under SCOPE would have been approximately $110,000. According to Sag Harbor School Board member Sandi Kruel under the district, the approximate cost to run the pre-k with one teacher and an aide would be approximately $115,000. However, Ms. Kruel said the district intends to move an existing aide from the elementary school into the pre-k and not replace that position meaning the district will see a potential savings of almost $40,000.
SCOPE partners with school districts across Long Island to provide educational services, such as SAT/PSAT/ACT preparatory courses, summer child care programs, school board training and professional development programs for teachers.
While operating the preschool in cooperation with SCOPE, the school district was required to assign a district liaison to SCOPE and provide space, custodial services and amenities like a photocopier to the program.
SCOPE was responsible for recruiting, screening, hiring and paying all teachers and teachers assistants, providing staff training, purchasing consumable materials for the program, conducting student evaluations, maintaining student performance and attendance records, providing children with a daily snack, providing program supervision and maintaining appropriate insurance coverage for the program.
The school district will now be solely responsible for its preschool, a decision that seems to be largely technical.
According to School Business Administrator Jennifer Buscemi, the school attorneys reviewed the current contract with SCOPE in July and recommended the district become a New York State-approved universal prekindergarten program in order to continue operating under a service contract arrangement with SCOPE.
"This designation would be the only way we could contract out a taxpayer funded prekindergarten program through SCOPE," Ms. Buscemi said in an email. "This recommendation was based on a shift by the state over time in its policy of contracting out core instruction to outside vendors."
The district applied for a portion of $340 million in competitive grant funding that became available for a statewide universal full-day prekindergarten program. In August, the New York State Department of Education informed Sag Harbor that it had not been awarded any of the grant money.
"Since Sag Harbor UFSD did not receive approval for New York State funding, our prekindergarten program could not be considered a universal prekindergarten program," Ms. Buscemi added.
The elementary school administrators said the district is "committed to maintaining this successful, tuition-free, early childhood learning experience in our district."
No longer in partnership with SCOPE services, the Sag Harbor pre-k program began the 2014-15 school year on Wednesday, September 3, with a "Meet and Greet" for students and parents in the pre-k classroom and the Pierson Middle School. The first full day for students is Thursday, September 4.
"It is with great enthusiasm that we begin the 2014-15 school year knowing the Sag Harbor School District is stronger with our own prekindergarten program adding to a high quality educational experience for all children," said Mr. Malone and Ms. Denon.


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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
CDC Director Gerberding Submits Resignation
The first woman to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has submitted her resignation, the Associated Press has learned.
The wire service reports it obtained a copy of Dr. Julie Gerberding's resignation e-mail to employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC's parent agency. William Gimson, the CDC's chief operating officer, will be interim director after Barack Obama becomes president, the AP reports, but no permanent successor has been announced.
Gerberding became CDC director in July 2002, after joining the agency in 1998 as an infectious disease specialist. There had been some speculation she would remain as the agency's director, the AP reports, but her resignation, effective Jan. 20, was accepted by the Obama transition team.
The CDC investigates disease outbreaks and is the official government record-keeper of U.S. health statistics.
Gerberding has been considered an effective communicator, the wire service reports, but a number of problems occurred during her time in office.
These included a shortage of flu vaccine in 2003 and 2004; the departure of a number of CDC scientists during a reorganization she ordered; the CDC's response time to complaints about formaldehyde levels in trailers being provided to Hurricane Katrina survivors, and what was explained as a "computer glitch" when Gerberding reported that obesity had surpassed smoking as the top cause of death in the United States.
FDA Delays Decision on Gardasil Approval for Older Women
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked drug maker Merck & Co. for more information before it decides whether to expand approval for Gardasil, a human papillomavirus vaccine, Merck said Friday.
Gardasil is currently approved for females ages 9 to 26. Merck has asked the FDA to widen approval for its use in women aged 27 to 45, the Associated Press reported. The drug is designed to guard against HPV, which is responsible for most cases of cervical cancer.
The FDA wants additional data from an ongoing 48-month study of Gardasil, the wire service said. The agency's action does not affect currently approved uses or Merck's application to approve the drug for use in males ages 9 to 26.
The vaccine costs about $360 for the three required doses, and some experts have said it's not cost-effective for older women, Dow Jones news service reported. A Harvard study funded by the U.S. government and published last year, found the vaccine was cost-effective for girls, but not for females in their 20s, the AP said.
Consumers Union Urges Expanded Testing of Infant Formula
Consumers Union urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday to expand testing of infant formula for melamine and related compounds, and to recall all contaminated products.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What seemed like a done deal earlier this year -- the Verizon iPhone -- now has the appearance of a deal undone.
Verizon (VZ - Get Report) may have taken another pass on the Apple (AAPL - Get Report) iPhone for the same reason it rejected the offer three years ago. Verizon is apparently still unwilling to relinquish control of its customers to Apple.
Apple's iconic iPhone has changed the smartphone industry, but Verizon hasn't changed its mind about Apple, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum.
"Interestingly enough, not because Apple isn't giving it to them but, for the most part, because Verizon doesn't want it," Gelblum said in a recent report citing conversations with phone companies and industry gearmakers.Apple declined to comment. Verizon wasn't immediately available. The problem for carriers like Verizon and AT&T (T - Get Report) is that while the iPhone brings scores of high-spending new subscribers, those subscribers become Apple customers, using iTunes and the App Store to make all their purchases. "The carrier is kind of shut out of the picture and relegated to being a dumb pipe," Gelblum says. Verizon got a glimpse of this Apple-controlled future a few years ago and fled. In 2006, when first approached by Apple to carry the iPhone, Verizon took one look at Apple's closed marketplace and said no thanks, according to people at Verizon. The iPhone then landed at AT&T. To counter the impact of the iPhone at AT&T, Verizon teamed with Google (GOOG - Get Report) and Motorola (MOT) on the Droid phone and tightened ties with Research In Motion (RIMM).
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PORTLAND -- Oregon winemakers and everyone involved with that industry in Portland are meeting at the Oregon Convention Center this week.
It's a yearly symposium to learn the latest in technology, farming techniques and what's on the horizon.
This is where you can literally find everything you need, except soil, to be apart of the wine industry. 170 companies from all over west coast are here to showcase their products and knowledge with winemakers.
But, the big buzz this year is the Oregon Wine Experience. It's an app for the iPad. It tells the story of the place, the people and Oregon wines.
The app was developed to sell Oregon wines not only here, but around the world.
It puts our story in an interactive, portable mobile format that makes it incredibility easy for them to build the platform that they can tell the story of their own wineries on, said Charles Humble, Director of Communications for the Oregon Wine Board.
The app was developed locally by Portland based Storycode. The app is available now and can be downloaded for free from the iTunes app store.


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lol just a heads up stray
lol just a heads up stray Richard Dawkins is a Agnostic he called himself one.
the Atheist community has a hard time excepting this figured i'd mention it in case you don't know.
1 Timothy 6:20
King James Version (KJV)
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
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So settles for draw vs Russian GM, bows out of World Cup
FILIPINO Grandmaster Wesley So found Russian GM Evgeny Tomashevsky tough to crack and settled for a draw in Game 2 of their second-round duel on Thursday (early Friday in Manila) that ended his stint in the 2013 World Chess Cup in Tromso, Norway.
With no potent attack in sight, So split the point with Tomashevsky after 23 moves of a Ruy Lopez (Marshall Attack), enabling the 2009 European champion to win their two-game standard play duel, 1.5-0.5, and advance to the third round of the biennial event.
So's compatriot GMs Oliver Barbosa and Mark Paragua were eliminated after the first round of the elite 128-player tournament.
So earlier bested world junior champion GM Alexander Ipatov of Turkey, 1.5-0.5, to forge the clash with Tomashevsky (Elo 2708).
The 19-year-old So, who picked up the $8,000 prize for second-round losers, thus matched his performance in the 2011 World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, where he lost to then top-ranked GM Sergey Karjakin.
In the 2009 edition, also held in Khanty-Mansiysk, So reached the fourth round, stunning former world title contenders Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Gata Kamsky of the United States along the way. Roy Luarca
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It truly is the low point of the off season. The Rangers are quiet, at least publicly, and attention around the league is primarily focussed on the CBA talks. There are still a few things we can talk about though so welcome to another musings. Jump on in. The Hockey News wrote an article recently on why the North West division is the league's worst. It got me thinking again about the Atlantic. It is comfortably the best in the league in my humble opinion. It's full of depth, big market teams and is stacked with superstar, marquee names including the division worst Islanders if you respect John Tavares' ability like I do. Given how tough the Atlantic is it really puts the Rangers' last season performance in greater context. Just to recap on the Anton Stralman contract; he recently signed a 2 year $3.4m contract. While I think he has a fair bit of room for improvement when you look at what other defensemen signed for this summer, its good value for a player that got better as the year...
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The Colors Of Fall
As we begin to feel the chill in the air, we know that fall is officially upon us. Along with the crisp morning air, we begin to see colors all around us begin to change from plush greens to muted yellows and oranges. I love the look of fall! It reminds me of jumping in piles of leaves as a kid and knowing that hot cider will be waiting for me at home. The smell of pumpkin spice fills the air, as baked goods begin to become more abundant as well.
Let's take a look at the beautiful changes in colors throughout the world.
This picture is of a fall in San Francisco, which allows us to see the beautiful red leaves in the Japanese Tea Garden.
Fall in New York City shows us a beautiful backdrop of the skyline against the various colors.
This picture from Central Park displays an amazingly perfect tri-color of leaves.
This photo from a fall in Chicago shows a crisp blue sky allowing the orange leaves to really pop out of the picture.
Paris is just lovely in the fall showing off the subtleties in the change of yellow, to orange, to reds on the trees.
The beautiful morning sun is reflecting on the canal in Amsterdam brightening up the city and giving a bright glow through the trees
Are you ready to start on your own project and infuse it with the colors of fall? Check out these do-it-yourself elements from Creative Market for backgrounds, graphics, and more.
Digital Papers by Kimla Designs
Blooms Digital Paper by 7th Avenue Designs
Fall Leaves Clip Art by Graphic Market
Fall Berry Vines by SonyaDeHart
Autumn Foliage by Kelly Jane Creative
We hope you've enjoyed these beautiful colors of fall and have found some awesome inspiration for your next project! What's your favorite fall activity?
Lovely Imperfections
Lucía Otero is a graphic designer, music lover, and bon vivant (aka a person who likes going to parties. I had to look that one up). Her fabulous designs include paisley patterns, to ink splatters, and subtle smoke graphics. She has a great collection of visually stunning designs.
These beautiful smoky backgrounds add that subtle hint of design to your background.
This textured background is perfect to give your project a grungy look to it.
This set of lovely imperfections include a set of 15 background textures. They can give any project a vintage yet trendy look. You'll find film ends, light leaks, scratches, noise, grain and all sorts of analog film related effects in them.
These ink splatters offer a soft gradient texture.
I love these plant and animal patterns. What a great collection of unique backgrounds!
This refreshing set of patterns have been described as 'visually intoxicating' and I couldn't agree more. They are a great addition to any collection.
This set of foliage patterns offers both vibrant and subtle colors to your collection.
Paisley patterns offers a feminine touch to your project. These designs are absolutely beautiful.
We hope you've found some inspiration here and are ready to add some awesomeness to your projects. I personally love the paisley patterns. Which one is your favorite?
Happy Halloween
Happy Halloween from your friends at COLOURlovers! To celebrate the holiday, we wanted to make sure you had the best collection of spooky, gory, and scary designs that any designer could hope for. So sit back and scroll through the awesomeness you are about to witness.
An awesomely ghoulish and rather pretty set!
All Monsters Family ~ Halloween! by TrueMitra Designs
A cute vector set that is great for Halloween or any other spooky project.
Happy Halloween by kostolom3ooo
Cute Halloween characters to add to any design, including invitations, scrapbooking, flyers, and more.
Halloween Collection by Darish
Many elements are included in this great collection of awesome Halloween illustrations.
This Halloween set by Ceebee includes fun and friendly characters.
This Halloween Witch is suitable for any Halloween project, such as poster, icon, invitation, or post card.
Halloween Paper Pack by Craftastrophic
This is an awesome Halloween paper pack and offers a grungy feeling to go along with it.
These stunning Halloween designs will be sure to brighten up this normally dark holiday.
Halloween Spooktacular Digital Paper by Confetti Graphics
This set of backgrounds features witch elements, candy corn, stars, argyle, chevron, candy and polka dots. What fun!
Dance of Death Font by GLC Foundry
I Know of Ghost by Dismantle Destroy
This would look great on any Halloween poster!
Trick or Treat Dingbats by Comicraft Fonts
Bats, Cats, Ghosts and Ghouls, Zombies, Witches and Spiders galore.
Monsters is a broken style font face. Its somewhat-scary style is perfect for book covers, album designs, or movie posters.
Hopefully this collection of awesomely spooky Halloween designs has been helpful. Happy Halloween everyone!
Add A Touch Of Elegance
Adding a delicate touch to your project can simply be done by adding elegant flowers. This can be used to emphasize the beauty of your design and give it that warm feeling you need. Whenever I see the delicate petals and soft colors, the first thing I think of is unique ways they can be used in a wedding. Flowers add the classic warmth needed to bring the event or design all together.
These flowers are exquisitely displayed centerpieces.
These flowers have been unique placed in mason jars, which give them a vintage feel. They are elegant and simple at the same time.
Here you can see the same use of a mason jar, but the flowers are decorating the lawn. They don't always have to be used for weddings. You can easily add this delicacy to your everyday life.
I love this idea! What a cute summer decoration to use fruit, combined with flowers as a centerpiece. This would look fabulous at any picnic or BBQ.
You can add the same delicate effect to digital projects as well. Take a look at some of the creativity you will find with these patterns and illustrations.
Seamless Pattern With Fuchsia Flower by Astromonkey
This set of golden flowers in a branch is perfect to use as a tileable design.
Watercolor Flowers by Angie Makes
These vibrant flowers will make you smile. Use the loose leaf, flower, and ferns to make your own floral combination.
This is by far some of my favorite flower illustrations. Use this to in your project to add simple elegance.
Mason Jars Clipart by GraphicMarket
Unique clip art blooms and mason jars are perfect for modern wedding invitations, baby showers, announcements, or scrap booking.
Peony Bouquet in Mason Jar by Dot and Dash Creative
This rustic, romantic and colorful hand-drawn clip art mason jar bouquet is perfect to use to create cards, wedding or shower invitations, website designs, or party decorations.
Mason Jar Flower and Clipart by Angie Makes
Are you ready to add some beautiful flowers to your next project? Show us your completed project! We would love to hear about it.
Vintage Art by Summit Avenue
Joell Norberg of Summit Avenue is an artist, vintage junk collector & designer of templates & graphics for creative people. You can find her eclectic mix of work on Creative Market, where you'll find gorgeous designs, such as vintage flowers, ribbons, beautiful backgrounds and more. Be sure to check out the vintage holiday digital papers. They are fabulous!
This pretty set of laurel branches, wreaths & divider designs are perfect for using in scrapbooking, invitations, websites/blogs, logo design and lots of other creative applications.
Here you'll find some pretty lace borders to decorate your favorite projects. These are perfect for blog dividers & decorations, page layouts, crafts, albums and photo frames!
This fresh set of organic, hand drawn designs & word art will have you feeling happy spring time thoughts in no time!
A delightful set of hand drawn frames are perfect for any picture.
Chalkboard Facebook Tabs and Web Icons
Make your Timeline stand out and look more professional with custom App Buttons! These are also great to use as social icons on your blog or website.
Vintage Typewriter Key Social Icons
Add some stylish Social Media to your blog or website with these vintage Typewriter Key design icon buttons.
Vintage Holiday Digital Papers
This pretty set of vintage holiday patterned papers are wonderful for all your holiday photo & craft projects!
I hope you have found these design as inspirational as I have. Let us know what you think.
10 Must-Have Tools for Design Inspiration ~ Guest Post
This guest post was written by Elizabeth Phillips. She is a former web designer who is currently freelance writing. She enjoys reading and writing articles that have anything and everything to do with design. She can be found typing away on her laptop in Philadelphia, PA.
Web design is constantly changing as technology grows. Developments like fiber optics have dramatically improved Internet speeds - and faster speeds have opened up the possibility for high-tech innovations like parallax and 3D animation.
No matter how tech-savvy web design gets, some things never change. Even the most advanced designs still need to wow with the basics - colors, fonts and images. Here are a few tools that will help you balance high-tech with aesthetic and keep your design inspiration fresh.
Color Hunter
Have a photograph you want to turn into a color palette - or just need to browse for some creative inspiration? Color Hunter can help you do both. Upload images to create custom color palettes, or search existing palettes by shade and theme. Save the ones you like to your Favorites.
There are tons of font databases that allow you to search for fonts and even find the closest match to an unknown style. But FontStruct allows you to create your own fonts - for free. Use geometrically shaped "bricks" to build your own font in a grid interface. Once you're done, share your font in the gallery, where you can also see and download others' creations.
Adobe Kuler
Adobe Kuler is a free web tool that allows you to create your own palettes using a vibrant color wheel. Choose up to five shades on the wheel, and adjust hues on a slider. You can also explore existing color themes, including the most popular and most used. Even cooler? You can use the Adobe Kuler app and your iPhone camera to extract color palettes from your surroundings on the go.
If you have designer's block and need to check out some finished products to get inspired, try StyleVault. The site showcases web designs from a variety of sources. You can search mobile, commercial, animated and CSS designs. You can also follow the portfolios of individual designers.
SwatchSpot is another great site for color inspiration. It has an incredibly simple interface - all you do is hit "Shuffle Colors" to come up with random palettes of six hues. You can lock in the shades you like and shuffle again until you find the perfect combination. Save your favorite palettes, download them to your computer or grab the color codes.
Web Creme
Like StyleVault, Web Creme features hundreds of pages of web design ideas. The only difference? Web Creme's examples are organized by upload date, and there's no real way to search through them. To make the most of this site, you have to be willing to sift through tons of examples to find your inspiration.
LogoPond is the mecca for designers looking for logo ideas. The site contains thousands of logos for a wide variety of brands and themes. You can browse featured, popular and recent logos. Filter results by designer, status and date of upload. LogoPond also features a forum for design discussion, questions and critiques.
Shutterstock Spectrum
Shutterstock is every designer's best friend, with more than 30 million stock photos, illustrations and videos. But the site got even better in early 2013 when it released Shutterstock Spectrum. The tool allows designers to search stock imagery by color. Just choose your shade on a gradient scale, and refine by theme - like "forest" or "home."
Designspiration is my favorite site to visit when I need a little creative stimulation. The site houses thousands of images, searchable by tags, categories and colors. Browse images of art, books, fashion, illustration, typography and more. Choose up to 5 colors and find images that incorporate them all. Save your favorites into collections.
TinEye Labs Multicolr Search
TinEye Labs Multicolr Search extracts color from more than 10 million Creative Commons images on Flickr, allowing you to search images by shade. Select up to 5 colors, and then adjust the hues using a color wheel. Easily change the color composition of your search by clicking and dragging.
What are your favorite online tools for design inspiration?
Elizabeth welcomes your feedback at [email protected].
Meet Prixel Creative
Prixel Creative is comprised of a husband and wife team (Kendra and Justin Skinner) located in Springfield, MO. Together they share a passion for great design and premium photography. They have a collection of great Lightroom presets to enhance your photos and beautiful hand drawn graphics to add to any design project. All can be found at Creative Market.
These beautiful Lightroom presets help you to add some unique color and highlights to your photographs.
This set of Lightroom presets help add a touch of nature and natural color to any number of photos.
This set of presets offers your photos a sweet finish and a subtle touch of color.
Take your photos back a few years and move your skills forward with this set of vintage Lightroom presets.
This set of doily graphics allows you to mix and match to make lovely shapes and custom combinations.
These gorgeous hand drawn paisleys are great for organic patterns and backgrounds. You can find them both in PSD and Vector formate on Creative Market.
Below you can see a beautiful set of hand drawn and very unique arrows in vector format. The set comes with 30 different styles.
An assortment of machine and clock gear shapes in vector format, which include 35 total gear shapes.
Hand drawn speech bubbles for are great for multiple uses.
So much thought and love went into these beautifully hand drawn borders and frames.
Ornate lines are ideal for bordering or highlighting hand written text.
What do you think of these beautiful creations? You can check them all out (and see more) at Creative Market.
The Idealized Beauty Of The Victorian Era
The Victorian era was a time of love for ornate complexity. This is evident in the architecture, furniture, fashion, as well as typography that we see. Many designers today replicate the sentimentality, and idealized beauty of this era and we can find many of them here:
Victorian Borders and Flourishes
Victorian Ornamental Flourishes by BioWorkz
Vector Hand-Sketched Flourishes by Nicky Laatz
Victorian Fonts
Aestique Font by Decade Type Foundry
Epique Typeface by AlterDeco Type Foundry
Albert Typeface by BayleyDesign
Bruce Flourished by Intellecta Design
Backgrounds and Patterns
Seamless Baroque Pattern by Depiano
Vintage Wallpapers by Evgeniya Ivanova
Leafy Vines Pattern Tile by Penina
Victorian Wallpaper Set by Pelican graphics
Aren't these designs just lovely? Please feel free to share your thoughts of the beauty of this era. We would love to hear what you have to say!
Amazing Patterns From Rule By Art
RuleByArt provides designers with some of the highest quality digital art resources. As designers, they hold themselves to very high standards in creating their work both by hand and on the computer. Check out some of their creative patterns, graphics, and textures all right here!
We hope you've enjoyed all of these completely awesome designs by RuleByArt. Which one is your favorite?
8 Great Examples Of The Parallax Effect
With Apple incorporating the parallax effect into its new iPhone design, it has become increasingly popular to use everywhere. The idea behind it, is that it tricks the brain into perceiving the screen differently than what it actually is. Because of HTML5 and CSS3, developers can use different angles and 3D effects that can create a pleasing user experience if done correctly.
Many websites now use parallax scrolling, which shows the background moving at a slower rate than the foreground, sometimes creating an illusion that the content is 'popping' out of the screen.
We've put together a collection of fantastic templates that you can use to get this cool effect for your website now. Let us know what you think!
Parallaxer Bootstrap Responsive by Bootstraper
This is a Bootstrap responsive parallax template, which provides a good starting point to develop and run responsive parallax sites. It's easy to customize the backgrounds and scrolling effects.
Manly is a sport-themed, Responsive one page template with parallax effct. It will be a great fit for sports clubs and events, but don't let the name "Manly" fool you to think that it should be used by man only. Take it and do something fabulous with it ladies!
White Wizzard by Pixar WordPress Themes
White Wizzard is a creative, one page template. It is great for photography and portfolio sites.
Here is an easy to use one-page template. It has a modern, and minimalist style design and was built with the Bootstrap 2.3.0 framework, so that you can easily setup and edit this theme.
REVA Retro is similar to the one above, but with a classic, retro style design.
Snow Mountains by Graphics for Games
This design gives you a beautiful mountain background and has separate elements, so you can easily cut and manage however you like.
SM Parallax Slider by MagenTech
The SM Parallax Slider Module has been built for Magento 220.127.116.11. The module is great way to display your specific products with responsive layout. The content slider encourages customer engagement with animations and background parallax effect.
Here is a fully responsive one page Wordpress theme that comes with a nice, smooth parallax effect. It was built with the Twitter Bootstrap framework and is easily customizable.
We hope you've enjoyed the selection of templates and don't be afraid to let us know what you think of the new parallax effect!
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