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Grant has strings attached
$1.3 million for Fire Department covers hiring nine employees in village
February 16, 2013
The village of Fredonia has a decision to make about whether or not to accept $1.3 million in grant money, which will not come without a financial commitment from the village....
Yep, this will help the overall long term budget! I love how people seem to think that "grants" are free money. Stupid.
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How smart (or arrogant?) is it to use employees ever increasing time off to justify more staff!!!? Unbelievable!!
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Just when you thought you've heard it all...
Lt Butts must have some monster-size cojones to make this request. Good thing the # is 9 or nothing.
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the facts are,it harder and harder to to get and keep vol. firemen,its harder to be a vol. firemen.this grant might be a good thing to get.yes i am a vol. firefighter that geting to old to keep doing it!
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If Fredonia Trustees fall for this scam they will be headed down the same path as Dunkirk, The path of destruction. NO way No how. This is a BAD DEAL!!!!!
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Fredonia would still have less paid staff than Dunkirk and still handle about the same number of calls, by the way volunteers can work with paid and still charge for transport, the observer reporter was wrong about that!
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If Fredonia does charge for transports will that off set the cost, Fredonia is advanced life support, so they can make more than what Dunkirk does and the volunteers won't be run out of Town like they did in Dunkirk
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One of the more blatant, self serving departmental money grabs I've seen of late. Not the only one, but certainly one of the worst.
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Grants are often good ideas and can lead to more services for a municipality. I have seen them work well in the past. However, nine employees??? C'mon, that is ridiculous. For the village to go along with picking up nine employees is inconceivable. For this fellow to go to the board with that request in these times is beyond belief. He must be very confident or out of touch.
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Forget the grant. It ain't worth it.
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Grant money aside, wages & benefits for paid firemen comes directly from property taxes. To consider charging property owners an additional fee (like they do in Dunkirk) to pay for services that are already fully funded thru our taxes is clearly double billing (being charged twice for the same service). I truly don't understand why insurance companies haven't legally challenged it yet.
If village officials approve this unethical scheme, it's a blatant abuse against the very people who elected them, just like they do in Dunkirk.
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Looks like a Pie in the sky. Unfortunately a COW pie.
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I believe insurance companies get charged, with no co-pay. The insurance companies get charged anyhow by alstar ambulance and the people have to pay a co-pay and what insurance does not pay for alstar!
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The key difference is Alstar doesn't double-bill patients, while the DFD bills a property owner's insurance company, even though the DFD is already fully funded thru property taxes. Just b/c the DFD waives the deductible is irrelevant.
I predict a legal challenge to this double-billing scheme is coming, and I predict the DFD will lose.
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If firemen are called to put a fire out at your house, can they bill you for it? NO!...and the reason being you are already paying for their services thru your property taxes. How do you not comprehend this?
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What's next, charging property owners individual fees for municipal services involving snowplowing our streets, weekly rubbish collections, local police patrols, etc? These are all services that already paid for thru our property taxes.
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Don't grants have to be paid back? And if so, isn't there interest involved? What is the term? If that is the case (and really, even if it isn't), this is the FFD scamming people again.
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Commentor, some of the people on the board are buddy-buddy with the FFD, and more than they should be. Always watch the back entrance for the shadiest deals to happen.
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Grant money is granted to you. It does not have to be repaid and there is no interest.
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FYI Captain, if there is a fire at your house and fire dept. equipment is damaged, your home owners insurance can be billed for the damaged equipment
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Fred, thanks for straightening that out. What still is a mystery though, is why allofasudden the FFD needs 9 more people?...
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baseball; who said anything about damaged equipment? I find it amusing that you skirt the issue by saying Alstar charge homeowners (thru their insurance), hence it's OK for DFD to do the same using the same method? What you refuse to acknowledge is that municipal services provided to residents living within that community are already fully funded thru property taxes.
I suspect the only way this "double-dipping" scam will stop is when insurance companies seek restitution for all past payments after accusing the city & DFD of insurance fraud.
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The reason few object to being billed by the local FD for ambulatory care & transport is b/c homeowners' insurance is paying the tab. It's one of those: "who cares, as long as I'm not paying."
Will the same people keep quiet when/if Dunkirk decides to expand its billing authority and start charging residents for other municipal services that are already paid for with property taxes but AREN'T covered under homeowners' insurance, such as rubbish collection? Using the same logic to justify DFD charges, the city apparently has the legal right to start charging additional fees for weekly rubbish collections, among others.
Just think, the city now has the ability, and a great opportunity, to raise more revenue w/o raising taxes.
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Lets straighten a few thing out. First, we are in a time where it is more and more difficult to get people to volunteer. This is a problem both County wide as well as Nationwide. The Fredonia Fire Dept. has a serious manpower shortage attending calls. This is not a scam or "money grab"and is meant to adequately staff the Fire Department to meet NFPA absolute minimum standards. The grant was applied for under those requirements and (9) is the number needed to staff for (4) men around the clock. The SAFER grant has been applied for many years and this is the first time that the FD was successful in being awarded. This is a grant and fully funds wages and benefits for (2) years So after 24 months other sources of revenue would need to be found to retain as many of the hired staff as possible however, The Village Trustees, Fire Department administration and Current staff realize we must be fiscally responsible. Transporting is one way of increasing revenue to support staff
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The African Football Confederation (CAF), the governing body of African football, has announced its decision to ban Togo from the next two tournaments.
Togo pulled out of the competition following the horrific gun attack on the team bus as they travelled to their base camp in Angola. The team were officially disqualified from the tournament when they failed to show up for their opening game against Ghana, who play in Sunday's final.
CAF have made their decision on the basis that the players had said they wanted to participate in the tournament, but were ordered to withdraw by the Togolese government.
"The players publicly expressed their willingness to return to the Nations Cup to compete. But the Togo government decided to call back their national team," the statement by CAF reads.
"The decision by political authorities contravenes CAF and African Nations Cup regulations. The executive committee therefore has banned Togo from the next two African Nations Cup and fined the Togo FA 50,000 U.S. dollars."
Meanwhile, Issa Hayatou, president of the CAF elaborated: "The Executive Committee (CAF) has suspended Togo for two African Cup of Nations. It is a statutory sanction. There was an interference by the Togolese government, and that we cannot accept."
The first thing that strikes me about this announcement is the absolutely farcical logic behind it: "How dare you stop a team playing? We think that is wrong! So, we will do the same...only for two tournaments. After all, anything you can do..."
It's a ludicrous decision, CAF may well have a point about government interference, but this isn't the solution. Banning a team because someone stopped them from playing is stupid. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The other stunningly stupid aspect of this announcement is the timing. Ghana and Egypt play in the final of the tournament tomorrow, why did CAF have to make to make this announcement now?
Surely the tournament should be about football, Africa and the world should be looking forward to a showpiece event tomorrow. Now we're being distracted by puerile squabbling, it's not about Togo's government, it's not about CAF, it should be about Egypt and Ghana.
It's also stupid that Togo's players are being punished for a decision by the Togolese government. A $50,000 fine is nothing compared to being denied an opportunity to play in the next two tournaments.
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The SCPO threat "came as a surprise," Manville Prosecutor Matthew Dorsi said today, Aug. 8. Dorsi is an associate in the Warren law firm of DiFrancesco, Bateman, Coley, Yospin, Kunzman, Davis & Lehrer, P.C. He's been municipal prosecutor in Manville for about four years, he said.
In a letter dated Aug. 5, First Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Chirichella Jr. ordered Dorsi to end the practice of "improperly downgrading statutory charges," such as simple assault, shoplifting and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, to violations of municipal ordinances.
"Continued disregard of the (1998) Attorney General Directive and case law may result in the filing of a Ethical Complaint and/or Supercession by this office," Chirichella writes.
Plea-bargaining some charges to violations of municipal crimes is common practice, according to Tewksbury attorney David Bunevich, who was municipal prosecutor for the 10 towns of the North Hunterdon Municipal Court for 17 years before retiring to become a private defense attorney in 2008.
But the state is getting tougher about taking away the discretion of municipal prosecutors and judges in addressing such violations, Bunevich said.
Defense lawyers want local prosecutors and judges to be able to offer first offenders the downgraded charges because such crimes don't leave people who "make a mistake" with a criminal record, said Bunevich.
"Do you seriously want to saddle a kid with a criminal record," that will take five years to expunge? he said. "If you have a drug charge or Disorderly Persons offense downgraded to a municipal ordinance it's a home run," he said.
According to the Libertarian Party's John Paff, Dorsi violated state plea agreement guidelines by downgrading statutory charges to violations of an "antiquated" 1971 Manville ordinance intended to prevent "vice, immorality, drunkenness and disorderly conduct." The Libertarian Party has been tracking the practice of downgrading statutory charges to municipal ordinances such as Manville's that are preempted by state statute.
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In his Aug. 3 complaint against Dorsi, Paff said that Dorsi had improperly downgraded statutory charges at least six instances after he would have received the April 2010 directive.
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Courtney R. Johnson and Nathan D. Shoemaker, both of Lycoming County, were united in marriage at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013.
John Caudle officiated at the ceremony held at the bride's family farm in Unityville.
The bride is the daughter of Laura and Chip Wertz, of Muncy, and Jane and Craig Johnson, of Unityville. She graduated from Muncy High School in 2007 and received an associate degree in paralegal from McCann School of Business, Sunbury, in 2009. She is employed by FCI Allenwood, White Deer, as a T and A clerk.
Shoemaker is the son of Carol Bryson and Steve Shoemaker, and Bonnie and Carl Jacobs. He graduated from Hughesville High School in 2009 and is employed by Keystone Filler, Muncy, as a laborer.
Maid of honor was Tiffany Long.
Bridesmaids were Madison Wertz, sister of the bride, and Rochelle Fisher.
Flower girls were Candyss and Skyla Shoemaker, daughters of the bridegroom.
Ring bearers were Aaden and Alex Confer, cousins of the bride, and Ethan Wertz, nephew of the bride.
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Groomsmen were Nathan Wertz, brother of the bride, and Jordan Probst, uncle of the bride.
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Im considering converting my VZ from auto to manual.
I have done this before with my old VP and a VN and just wondering if anyone knows if it would be much different in a VZ?
Would I need to get a different computer in the VZ or can Holden flash the old one? What other wiring would I need to change?
Also are the cross members different in VZ manual and autos?
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the vz's use a single pedal box for each pedal, so you will need the new brake and clutch pedal. there is also 2 wires with a connector around the area of where the clutch pedal goes so im assuming that will be the plug for the clutch switch.
they use a common bolt layout and crank bolt between the auto and manual
you will need the interior parts obviously
you will need to remove the transmission control module behind the passengers kick panel
im guessing you will need the manual tail shaft of the equivalent body style
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if you get it all together and it actually starts and runs, you will need to get it to holden and so the ecu/bcm/dash cluster and possibly abs module changed to a manual tune/settings
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Four NCAA Div. III championships
WAVERLY— It was an early start and a quick finish for the No. 6 Central College softball team Saturday, hammering Wartburg College 11-2 and 14-0 in a pair of five-inning games.
The contests started at 11 a.m. because of the threat of late-afternoon thunderstorms and by the scheduled start time of 2 p.m., the Dutch (25-5 overall, 6-2 Iowa Conference) had already wrapped up a pair of league victories. Wartburg dipped to 6-28 overall and 0-10 in the conference.
Central racked up 23 hits in scoring 25 runs. Freshman designated player Abbey Strajack (Davenport, Assumption HS) had four hits and scored four runs on the day while sophomore Jordan Overland (Madrid, Boone HS), making her first collegiate starts at first base, had three hits, a walk and scored five runs. Freshman third baseman Whitney Sowers (Marshalltown) had three hits and three RBIs. Shortstop Annie Sarcone (sophomore, Des Moines, Dowling Catholic HS) knocked in six runs and scored three while second baseman Angela Davis (senior, West Des Moines, Valley HS) had six RBIs, catcher Kyrie Hale (senior, Lee's Summit, Mo., West HS) had four RBIs and center fielder Holly Von Fumetti (senior, Johnston) scored three runs.
Pitcher Rhianna Fleetwood (junior, Sycamore, Ill.) gave up a pair of unearned runs and four hits with a walk and two strikeouts in five innings in the opener, improving to 9-2. Brie Haycraft (sophomore, Eldridge, North Scott HS) followed with a three-hit shutout in the nightcap. She had no walks and four strikeouts in five innings and faced only 17 batters, just two above the minimum as she upped her record to 8-3.
It was an unusual day, especially with the early morning departure, but coach George Wares liked his team's effort.
"In the past we've had a lot of teams that didn't play quite the way they need to in games like this," Wares said. "We had one five-out inning when we made two errors and they scored their two runs. That was a little disappointing, but other than that we were pretty solid all day."
The Dutch also had to adjust to being without standout catcher Caitlyn Meyer (junior, Newton), who was injured in Monday's wins over Dubuque and is sidelined indefinitely. Wares moved Hale from first base to fill Meyer's spot at catcher and inserted Overland, a shortstop/third baseman, at first.
"I thought Jordan looked good at first," Wares said. "She had good at-bats today, too. She'll be fine. And Kyrie did well behind the plate. The pitchers looked comfortable throwing to her."
Davis tied the school career triples mark with 16 on a two-run triple in the first inning of the opener. She now shares the record with Shannon Merkle (1992-95). Davis also ranks sixth in career hits with 175, moved into a tie for fourth in career runs with 118 and is up to eighth in career RBIs with 87.
Sarcone is now tied for seventh in season RBIs with 34. She leads the team with a .457 batting average.
Central, which has played just four of its 30 games in Pella, will be home for a pair of league doubleheaders this week. Cornell College visits Wednesday for a 3 p.m. twinbill and Simpson College is Saturday's 2 p.m. opponent on Alumni Day at the A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex field. Cornell gave Central a scare at Mount Vernon last year. The Dutch won the opener 10-2 in five innings, then escaped with a 4-3 victory in the nightcap. The Rams surprised Simpson College Saturday 2-0 before dropping the second game, 3-0. They stand at 17-11 overall and 4-4 in the league.


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BROOKS, G. A. Intra- and extra-cellular lactate shuttles. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 790–799, 2000. The "lactate shuttle hypothesis" holds that lactate plays a key role in the distribution of carbohydrate potential energy that occurs among various tissue and cellular compartments such as between: cytosol and mitochondria, muscle and blood, blood and muscle, active and inactive muscles, white and red muscles, blood and heart, arterial blood and liver, liver and other tissues such as exercising muscle, intestine and portal blood, portal blood and liver, zones of the liver, and skin and blood. Studies on resting and exercising humans indicate that most lactate (75–80%) is disposed of through oxidation, with much of the remainder converted to glucose and glycogen. Lactate transport across cellular membranes occurs by means of facilitated exchange along pH and concentration gradients involving a family of lactate transport proteins, now called monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs). Current evidence is that muscle and other cell membrane lactate transporters are abundant with characteristics of high Km and Vmax. There appears to be long-term plasticity in the number of cell membrane transporters, but short-term regulation by allosteric modulation or phosphorylation is not known. In addition to cell membranes, mitochondria also contain monocarboxylate transporters (mMCT) and lactic dehydrogenase (mLDH). Therefore, mitochondrial monocarboxylate uptake and oxidation, rather than translocation of transporters to the cell surfaces, probably regulate lactate flux in vivo. Accordingly, the "lactate shuttle" hypothesis has been modified to include a new, intracellular component involving cytosolic to mitochondrial exchange. The intracellular lactate shuttle emphasizes the role of mitochondrial redox in the oxidation and disposal of lactate during exercise and other conditions.
The "lactate shuttle" hypothesis was introduced at the First International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry held at Liège, Belgium, August 1984. The subsequent paper appeared in congress proceedings published the following year (9), and a derivative of the idea appeared in a peer-reviewed paper (18). As well, two related papers appeared in 1986 (10,11). The initial hypothesis was developed based on results of isotope tracer studies conducted on laboratory rats (17,19,30), dogs (28,55,56), and humans (52,62,88). In our work, we compared glucose and lactate fluxes in rats during exercise and recovery (17,19,30,37). Subsequently, we also studied glucose and lactate fluxes in humans (15,16,20,82,83,93–95). Results consistently indicated that oxidation was the major route of lactate disposal (75%) during steady rate exercise and recovery from exercise, with conversion to glucose and glycogen accounting for most of the remainder during exercise and recovery, respectively. Further, results indicated that during exercise, lactate flux and oxidation could equal or exceed glucose flux and oxidation. Thus, the working hypothesis was developed that much of the glycolytic flux during exercise passed through lactate. Several discoveries contributed to development of the lactate shuttle hypothesis. Among these were long-standing knowledge that lactate is a gluconeogenic precursor, as well as the then new knowledge of a heterogeneity of skeletal muscle fiber types (5), and observations that white sections of working muscle beds contained more lactate than arterial blood, but that red sections of the same tissue beds contained less lactate than arterial blood (4). The hypothesis was constructed to allow that lactate flux among cells within and between tissues could serve as a vehicle to promote diverse functions.
The lactate shuttle hypothesis was defined as follows: "the shuttling of lactate through the interstitium and vasculature provides a significant carbon source for oxidation and gluconeogenesis during rest and exercise" (9). Subsequently, experiments conducted by us and others have confirmed important aspects of the hypothesis, and new and important facets of the hypothesis have been developed. Admittedly, when the hypothesis was introduced, the initial reaction was mixed. Retrospectively, part of the response was attributable to controversies surrounding interpretation of isotope tracer-derived data (9–11). In part also, the "lactate shuttle" hypothesis did not find wide acceptance because it made no sense to those accepting classic "O2 debt" and "anaerobic threshold" theories. Those theories held that lactate is produced in muscle because of O2 lack and that lactate produced during exercise was a dead-end metabolite that could only be removed during recovery (53). Concepts that lactate was produced all the time in fully oxygenated cells and tissues (24,25) and that lactate production, distribution, and removal could serve the organism well (9–11,35) were simply too radical for the early to mid-1980s. Obviously, today's views are very different.
Before delving into aspects of the current state of the hypothesis, it will be helpful for students of the subject to note several publications. At the 37th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine held in Salt Lake City, the symposium "Current Concepts In Lactate Exchange" was held. Proceedings were published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise the following year (1991) and contained papers on lactate production in skeletal muscle by Stainsby and associates (89), hepatic uptake and release by Wasserman and associates (100), the indirect pathway of hepatic glycogen formation by Magnusson and Shulman (70), the regulation of lactate metabolism in the heart by Stanley (92), the search for muscle membrane lactate transporters by Roth (85), and attempts to model lactate fluxes in vivo by Lehman (69). Additionally, this author contributed a paper on the lactate shuttle hypothesis (12). Moreover, in addition to the other papers associated with these proceedings of the 44th meeting of the ACSM, readers are referred to Gladden's paper that appeared in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews (43) as well as his most recent review: "Lactate transport and exchange during exercise," which appeared in the 1996 American Physiological Society Handbook of Physiology-Exercise: Regulation and Integration of Multiple Systems (44).
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KSQM station selects new management team for '12
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KSQM 91.5 FM, Sequim's community nonprofit radio station, will have a new management team for 2012.
Robert Spinks, Sequim's former police chief and interim city manager, became KSQM's executive director/general manager on Jan. 1, taking over for Jeff Bankston, the station's current general manager.
Lynda Perry, president of the board of directors for Sequim Community Broadcasting, KSQM's parent company, made the announcement.
Perry said, "This coming year will be a dynamic period full of projects, fundraising and expansion of service by KSQM. Bob has a dynamic management background, is in tune with the Sequim community and has been a key member of KSQM since the station's start."
"I'm thrilled to step into this new position and Jeff and I will lead the station forward as a team," Spinks said.
Perry said Spinks and his team will be gearing up for a major capital fund drive in 2012 to raise money for a new tower and more broadcast power.
Bankston will step into a newly created position as the director of underwriting. He will oversee underwriting (sales), legacy giving, grants, event sponsorships, merchandising and direct mail marketing.
Bankston also announced the station has more than 300 KSQM products now for sale, from coffee cups to T-shirts to recordings of special KSQM programs. To see what's available, drop by www.ksqmfm.com.
KSQM began broadcasting in December 2008 at 91.5 on the FM dial and can be heard on the Internet at www.ksqmfm.com.
KSQM, with its popular nostalgia music format, has a growing listenership in Western Washington and Victoria, British Columbia. KSQM also streams its broadcasts on the Internet to listeners in all 50 states and more than 120 foreign countries.
"That's proof that even a small radio station can have a big impact," Bankston said.
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Arizona Couple Accused Of Leaving Toddler Son To Play 'Pokemon Go'Their son has been turned over to the state's child-protection agency.
Father Arrested For Leaving His Baby In Unlocked Car With Engine Running While He Went To WorkThe dad is a personal trainer.
Woman Arrested For Leaving 4-Year-Old Daughter In Joshua Tree Gas Station BathroomA mother is in custody Wednesday and a warrant was issued for the arrest of her husband after the couple allegedly left their 4-year-old daughter in a gas station bathroom.
Woman Held After Infant Found Dead In Perris ApartmentThe Riverside County Sheriff's Department says an infant was found dead in a Perris apartment and a woman is in custody.
2-Year-Old Child Dead, 4 Injured In Single-Vehicle DUI Rollover Crash In HesperiaThe driver, the children's father, was arrested for suspicion of child endangerment and felony DUI.
Parents Arrested After 8-Week-Old Baby Found With Skull FractureDoctors also determined the baby was underweight for her age and severely malnourished.
Police: Mother Arrested After 5 Children Are Left Inside Hot Car In PlacentiaA 36-year-old mother of five was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after she left her children inside of a hot vehicle, police said on Monday.
Loma Linda Mother Arrested After She Allegedly Left 4-Year-Old Home Alone A Loma Linda mother was arrested Wednesday for allegedly leaving her 4-year-old child home alone.
San Bernardino Mother Arrested After Girl, 3, Points Deputy's Stolen Gun At DetectivesA woman faces charges of child endangerment after police say her daughter walked out of a bedroom and pointed a black semi-automatic with a tactical light at detectives who were tracking down a deputy's stolen weapons.
Man, 25, Arrested For Riding Dirt Bike While Holding 13-Month-Old Son Without Proper HelmetPolice also said Joshua Parkinson, a Simi Valley resident, does not possess a valid motorcycle license.
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SUNDERLAND, Vt. – A missing 12-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert Monday night after he was reportedly taken by his non-custodial mother was found alive and well at a hotel in Lyme, N.H., state police said.
The boy's mother, Patricia Kane, taken into custody without incident for questioning and may face charges, state police said in a release.
The boy, Zachary Lee, was originally reported missing from his foster home at 2327 North Rd. in Sunderland, Vt. late Monday afternoon when he did not arrive home from school after being dropped off by the bus.
State police, at approximately 10:30 p.m., received reports that Lee was seen in the company of his mother and his 17-year-old sister, Martha Lee, at a restaurant in Hanover, N.H. Law enforcement personnel ultimately found the three at the hotel in Lyme.
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Attorney's victims and their animals evicted from Whidbey home
A Central Whidbey couple who say they were swindled out of tens of thousands of dollars by a Freeland attorney was evicted from their home last Friday, along with six dogs and a small herd of horses.
They are now turning to the community for help so they can continue to care for their family of misfit, aging and disabled animals.
Cari Hawkins-Williams and Darren Williams packed up what possessions they could grab, loaded their dogs into an old school bus and drove off after a deputy, a locksmith and a real estate agent showed up at their Kempton Place home to evict them.
"I can't believe this is happening," Hawkins-Williams said repeatedly as she scrambled to get her things. "This makes no sense."
Jessica Drain stood by in the cold to support the couple. She is the lead victim advocate for Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims in Skagit and Island counties.
"It's so sad because it's just the perfect place for them," she said, referring to the couple and their menagerie of creatures. The home was purchased unfinished, which the couple doesn't mind, and has fenced-in acreage for the dogs and horses to roam.
There's a long and complicated history that led to the eviction, but it began with former Freeland attorney Peter Moote. He resigned in lieu of disbarment last year after he was accused of stealing from his clients. A detective estimated that Moote stole millions of dollars. The case was turned over to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office, but no charges have been filed.
Moote represented Hawkins-Williams after she was injured at her work when she was a trucker. She was disabled after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning, which caused her to fall and injure her back.
Moote settled two lawsuits for more than $200,000, but then pocketed almost all of the money, she claimed.
The couple fell behind in their mortgage payments. Hawkins-Williams felt she could no longer work, while her husband continued trucking. They are animals lovers and have taken in 13 unwanted horses and seven dogs. Some of the horses are over 30 years old. Several of the dogs are disabled.
The cost of keeping the animals contributed to the couple's financial problems, but they are very reluctant to give them up for fear they will be put down. Three of the horses are still rideable and they're willing to sell them. The horses are currently at a neighbor's, but the couple must pay to feed them.
Hawkins-Williams said she and her husband are currently sleeping on the floor of his parents' home in Marysville, while the dogs are outside. It's an untenable situation that can't last. The solution, she believes, is to find a place to rent with 10 acres of pasture.
Anyone willing to help can contact Hawkins-Williams at 360-632-6438 or through the Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims at 360-982-2829.
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Europe is a continent apparently distinct and precise on its western boundaries, but less well-defined in the east (see Map 3.1). Europe stretches from tundra in the north to Mediterranean and desert climes in the south. It abuts Asia in the east, shares the Atlantic with the Americas, and the Mediterranean with Africa and the Middle East. The air it shares with the globe.
The exact boundaries of what constitutes Europe is a controversial matter. It is neither well defined, nor the subject of common agreement. Particularly difficult to decide whether or not they are part of Europe are outlying islands and countries such as Greenland, the arctic islands, Turkey and the trans-Caucasian republics. In the main, this report uses the common geographical definition which excludes the trans-Caucasian republics, Greenland and Anatolia. The border with Asia is taken to follow the Ural mountains, the river Ural to the Caspian Sea, the Manych valley to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, and the Bosporus. Being an environmental report, however, it focuses on environmentally significant geographical units which may straddle the often artificial borders created by this definition, for example when considering river catchments or sea areas.
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This specification describes a method of combining multiple DOM trees into one hierarchy and how these trees interact with each other within a document, thus enabling better composition of the DOM.
Shadow DOM specification is being upstreamed to DOM Standard [[WHATWG-DOM]], HTML Standard [[HTML]], CSS Scoping Module Level 1 [[css-scoping-1]], UI Events specification [[uievents]], and other relevant specifications. This specification may not accurately reflect the latest conclusion. See Issue #377 for details.
All diagrams, examples, notes, are non-normative, as well as sections explicitly marked as non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in the normative parts of this document are to be interpreted as described in [[!RFC2119]]. For readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
To help with layering and to avoid circular dependencies between various parts of specification, this document consists of three consecutive narratives:
In a sense, these parts can be viewed as math, which sets up the reasoning environment, physics, which is the theoretical reasoning about the concept, and mechanics, which is the practical application of this reasoning.
Any point, at which a conforming UA must make decisions about the state or reaction to the state of the conceptual model, is captured as algorithm. The algorithms are defined in terms of processing equivalence. The processing equivalence is a constraint imposed on the algorithm implementors, requiring the output of the both UA-implemented and the specified algorithm to be exactly the same for all inputs.
This section has been upstremed into DOM Standard [[WHATWG-DOM]]. This section may not accurately reflect the latest conclusion.
An element A is a shadow host if A is a host that is associated with a shadow root B. In this case, A hosts a shadow tree whose root is B.
A node A is called a shadow-including child of a node B, if A is a child of B, or A is a shadow root and B is the host of A.
A node A is called a shadow-including parent of a node B, if B is a shadow-including child of A.
A node A is called a shadow-including ancestor of a node B if B is a shadow-including descendant of A.
An shadow-including inclusive ancestor is a node or one of its shadow-including ancestors.
A node A is an unclosed node of a node B, if A's root is a shadow-including inclusive ancestor of B, or A's root is a shadow root whose associated mode is "open" and the root's host is an unclosed node of B.
Window object named properties [[!HTML]] must access the nodes in the document tree.
The specification no longer uses the concept of a composed tree of node trees in normative sections.
A composed tree of node trees is a tree of node trees.
Just like a node tree is defined as a set of relationships between nodes, a composed tree of node trees is similarly defined as a set of relationships between node trees:
A composed document is a composed tree of node trees whose root tree is a document tree.
In the figure, there are six node trees, named
E and
The shadow trees,
C and
D, are hosted by elements which participate in the document tree
The shadow trees,
E and
F, are hosted by elements which participates in the shadow tree
The following set of relationships holds in the figure:
A's child trees is [
B's child trees is [].
C's child trees is [].
D's child trees is [
E's child trees is [].
F's child trees is [].
A, is the root tree of the composed tree of node trees.
As for a relationship between nodes, it's worth mentioning that there is no ancestor/descendant relationships between two nodes if they participate in different node trees.
A shadow root is not a child node of the shadow host. The parent node of a shadow root doesn't exist.
Because of this nature, most of existing APIs are scoped and don't affect other node trees, even though they are forming one composed tree of node trees.
For example,
document.getElementById(elementId) never returns an element in a shadow tree,
even when the element has the given
The same thing also applies to CSS Selectors matching. For example, a descendant combinator never descends into a node in a child shadow tree because a shadow root is not a child node of the shadow host. Unless a special CSS Selector for Shadow DOM, which is mentioned later, is used, a CSS Selector never matches an element in a different node tree.
ShadowRoot inherits
DocumentFragment, as specified later,
you can use
ShadowRoot.getElementByID(elementId) to get a node in the shadow tree.
DocumentFragment, but which is not a shadow root, is the root tree of a composed tree of node trees.
A flat tree is a node tree which is constructed out of nodes that share the same shadow-including root. The exact algorithm of constructing a flat tree is specified later.
A document flat tree is a flat tree whose root node is a document
A node is in a document flat tree if it participates in a document flat tree.
Unless an element is in a document flat tree, the element must not create any CSS box.
In resolving CSS inheritance, an element must inherit from the parent node in the flat tree, if applicable.
User agents must use the document flat tree in the visual formatting model, instead of the document tree.
The editor's draft of CSS Scoping specification [[css-scoping-1]] defines the selectors which are related to Shadow DOM. Specifically, it defines the following selectors related to Shadow DOM:
::shadow pseudo element
/deep/ combinator, which was replaced with a
>>> combinator (or shadow piercing descendant combinator)
::content pseudo-element
:host pseudo-class and
:host() functional pseudo-class
:host-context() functional pseudo-class
This section has been upstremed into DOM Standard [[WHATWG-DOM]] and HTML Standard [[HTML]]. This section may not accurately reflect the latest conclusion.
The slot element represents an instruction element, called slot.
User agents must have the following rule in their user agent style sheets:
slot { display: contents; }
A node can be assigned to a slot, called an assigned slot. The exact algorithm of determining the assigned slot for a node is specified later.
A node is called slot assignable if it is either
Text or
A distribution is the mechanism that determines which nodes appear as child nodes of a slot in a flat tree. The exact algorithm of a distribution is specified later.
The figure should be updated so that the flat tree should includes a slot.
A slot name is the name of a slot.
A default slot is the first slot element, in tree order, in a node tree, whose slot name is the empty string or missing.
The slotting algorithm must be used to determine the assigned slot of each node and must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
The get assigned nodes algorithm must be used to determine the assigned nodes of a slot and must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
The get distributed nodes algorithm must be used to determine the distributed nodes of a slot and must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
This section has been upstremed into CSS Scoping Module Level 1 [[css-scoping-1]]. This section may not accurately reflect the latest conclusion.
The flat tree constructed from the nodes who share the same shadow-including root ROOT must be equivalent to the following tree:
The flat tree children calculation algorithm must be used to determine the child nodes of a node in the flat tree and must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
This non-normative section should be updated so that a flat tree should includes slots.
Suppose that we have the following composed tree of node trees:
This composed tree of node trees is composed of the following 3 node trees, one document tree and two shadow trees:
|node tree
|Root node is:
|Hosted by:
|Composed of: (in tree order)
|document tree 1
|shadow tree 1
|shadow tree 2
Suppose that an assigned slot of each node, if it exists, is:
Then, the assigned nodes and the distributed nodes of each slot will be:
|node tree
|Root node is:
|Hosted by:
|Composed of: (in tree order)
|Assigned slot of each node
|Assigned nodes of each slot
|Distributed nodes of each slot
|document tree 1
|shadow tree 1
|shadow tree 2
The document flat tree will be:
body element because a document flat tree is used in rendering.
This section has been upstremed into DOM Standard [[WHATWG-DOM]], UI Events specification [[uievents]], and other relevant specifications. This section may not accurately reflect the latest conclusion.
In each algorithm in this section, the Window must be considered as if it were the parent node of the Document so that the Window also receives an event.
This section assumes that an event target is a
Node object.
This section is not applied for an event whose event target is not a
Node object, such as IndexedDB, XHR and so on.
See Issue #61 for details.
Eventually, DOM Standard should clarify this.
A trusted event's
scoped flag must be initialized to true
if the event is one of the following events:
scroll and
The get the parent algorithm associated with
Node must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
relatedTarget property whose value is non-null
relatedTarget's root is a shadow root
relatedTarget as input
The definitions of retargeting algorithm is specified later.
This non-normative section should be updated so that a flat tree would include slots.
Let's re-use the same composed tree of node trees used in the flattening example section. Suppose that an event is dispatched on node
I. The event path will be:
[I, H, O, T, S, R, N, J, C, A] (For the purpose of the explanation, Window is not shown here. The actual event path contains Window.)
It's worth pointing out that if we exclude all nodes which don't participate in the flat tree from the event path,
the result would be equivalent to the inclusive ancestors of the node
I in the flat tree.
Note that the get the parent algorithm associated with
Node is designed to achieve the following goals:
A local event path for each node tree would be seen as:
|node tree
|Local Event Path
|document tree 1
|shadow tree 1
|shadow tree 2
That means, if your concern is only one node tree, you can forget all other node trees. The event path would be seen as if the event happened only on the node tree you are focusing on. This is an important aspect in a sense that hosting a shadow tree doesn't have any effect to the local event path as long as the event is not stopped somewhere in the descendant trees.
If you are a web author and your concern is only a document tree, this might be a good news because an event listener that is registered somewhere on the document tree would continue to work even when you attach a shadow root to an element in the document tree to enhance the element. At the same time, an author of a shadow tree also can receive an event which will happen on a node in the document tree, if the node, or its ancestor, is assigned to a slot in the shadow tree.
target Retargeting
The value of the
Event object's
target attribute must be the result of the retargeting algorithm with the event's
currentTarget and original
target value, before adjusted, as input. The result is called a relative target.
The retargeting algorithm must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
Event retargeting is a process of computing relative targets for each ancestor of the node at which the event is dispatched. The event target retargeting process must occur prior to dispatch of an event. In other words, any DOM mutation occurred in an event listener does not have any affect on the result of retargeting process.
The motivation of retargeting is to maintain an encapsulation in the cases where event path is across multiple node trees.
The event's
target might not be an unclosed node at some of nodes in the event path without retargeting.
A relative target is a unclosed node that most accurately represents the target of a dispatched event at each node in the event path.
relatedTarget Retargeting
Some events have a
relatedTarget property, which holds a node that's not the event's target, but is related to the event.
The value of the
Event object's
relatedTarget attribute must be the result of the retargeting algorithm with the event's
currentTarget and
relatedTarget as input.
The result is called a relative related target.
The event relatedTarget retargeting process must occur prior to dispatch of an event.
target [[!TOUCH-EVENTS]] attribute must be adjusted in the same way as an event with a
relatedTarget. Each
target in the
TouchList returned from
changedTouches() and
targetTouches() must be the result of the retargeting algorithm with a current target and
target as input.
Suppose we have a user interface for a media controller, represented by this tree, composed of both document tree and the shadow trees. In this example, we will assume that selectors are allowed to cross the shadow boundaries and we will use these selectors to identify the elements. Also, we will invent a fictional
shadow-root element to demarcate the shadow boundaries and represent shadow roots:

 <shadow-root id="player-shadow-root">
 <button id="play-button">PLAY</button> <input type="range" id="timeline"> <shadow-root id="timeline-shadow-root">

 </shadow-root> </input>
 <input type="range" id="volume-slider"> <shadow-root id="volume-shadow-root">

 </shadow-root> </input>

 </shadow-root>

Let's have a user position their pointing device over the volume slider's thumb (
#volume-slider-thumb), thus triggering a
mouseover event on that node. For this event, let's pretend it has no associated
Per the retargeting algorithm, we should have the following set of ancestors and relative targets:
|Relative Target
After we dispatch the
mouseover event using these newly computed relative targets, the user decides to move their pointing device over the thumb of the timeline
#timeline-slider-thumb). This triggers both a
mouseout event for the volume slider thumb and the
mouseover event for the timeline thumb.
Let's see how the
relatedTarget value of the volume thumb's
mouseout event is affected. For this event, the
relatedTarget is the timeline thumb (
#timeline-slider-thumb). Per the relatedTarget retargeting, we should have the following set of ancestors and adjusted related targets:
|Relative Target
|Relative Related Target
The node,
#player, has both
target and
relatedTarget being the same value (
#player), which means that we do not dispatch the event on this node and its ancestors.
At the time of event dispatch:
offsetX and
offsetY attributes must return the coordinates relative to the origin of the padding edge of the relative target
Event eventPhase attribute must return AT_TARGET if the relative target is same as the node on which event listeners are invoked
bubbles attribute value is false, run these substeps:
eventPhase attribute to
Upon completion of the event dispatch, the
Event object's
target and
relatedTarget must be to the highest ancestor's relative target and relative related target, respectively. Since it is possible for a script to hold on to the
Event object past the scope of event dispatch, this step is necessary to avoid revealing the nodes in shadow trees.
The mutation event types must never be dispatched in a shadow tree.
Selection [[!EDITING]] is not defined. Implementation should do their best to do what's best for them. Here's one possible, admittedly naive way:
Since nodes which are in the different node trees never have the same root, there may never exist a valid DOM range that spans multiple node trees.
Accordingly, selections may only exist within one node tree, because they are defined by a single range. The selection, returned by the
window.getSelection() method never returns a selection within a shadow tree.
getSelection() method of the shadow root object returns the current selection in this shadow tree.
A shadow host can delegate focus to its shadow root by assigning a boolean delegatesFocus flag to be true in ShadowRootInit dictionary. If omitted, a shadow host does not delegate focus to its shadow root, and the shadow host itself can be focusable.
When a shadow host HOST delegates focus, user agent must behave as follows.
focus() method or
autofocus attribute: The first focusable area in focus navigation order of HOST's shadow root's focus navigation scope gets focus. See the next section for the formal definition of the ordering.
:focus pseudo-class applies to HOST in addition to the focused element itself.
:focus pseudo-class applies to HOST, and HOST is in a shadow root of another shadow host HOST2 which also delegates focus,
:focus pseudo-class applies to HOST2 as well.
focus navigation scope is a set of elements in a shadow-including document. An element belongs to at most one focus navigation scope.
focus navigation scope owner is a node that owns a focus navigation scope. A document, a shadow root, or a slot element can be a focus navigation scope owner.
document sequential focus navigation order is an order of all of the focusable areas in a shadow-including document, reachable by sequential focus navigation.
When a shadow-including document is given, the document sequential focus navigation order is determined by the following steps:
Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 3.
Step 4.
Apply the following focus navigation order merging algorithm with document's focus navigation order as input. The result is the document sequential focus navigation order.
For directional focus navigation [[!CSS3-UI]], it is up to the user agent to integrate the shadow trees into the document's directional focus navigation.
DocumentOrShadowRoot object's activeElement must be the result of the retargeting algorithm with the context object and the focused element as input, if the result and the context object are in the same tree. Otherwise, null.
The value of the
contenteditable attribute must not propagate from shadow host to its shadow trees.
User agents with assistive technology traverse the flat tree, and thus enable full use of WAI-ARIA [[!WAI-ARIA]] semantics in the shadow trees.
When a text node is a child node of a shadow root, a hit testing must target the shadow host if the text node is the result of the hit testing.
User-agent mouse events must be targeted to the parent node in the flat tree of a text node if the topmost event target is the text node.
This section eventually needs to be part of some general hit testing specification.
Comparatively, a shadow tree can be seen as somewhere between just part of a document and itself being a document fragment. Since it is rendered, a shadow tree aims to retain the traits of a typical tree in a document. At the same time, it is an encapsulation abstraction, so it has to avoid affecting the document tree. Thus, the HTML elements must behave as specified [[!HTML]] in the shadow trees, with a few exceptions.
According to the [[!HTML]], some HTML Elements would have different behavior if they participate in a shadow tree, instead of a document tree, because their definitions require the elements to be in a document as a necessary condition for them to work. In other words, they shouldn't work if they participate in a shadow tree, even when they are in a shadow-including document. We must fill this gap because we expect that most of HTML Elements behave in the same way as in a document, as long as they are in a shadow-including document. See W3C Bug 26365 and Bug 27406 for the details. The following is the tentative summary of the discussions in the W3C bugs. We, however, haven't covered all HTML Elements and their behaviors here yet. For HTML Elements which are not explicitly stated here, they should be considered as active in a shadow tree. We are trying to update [[!HTML]] itself, instead of having monkey patches here.
HTML Elements are classified into the following categories:
Active in a shadow tree
A subset of HTML elements which must behave as if they were in the document tree, even when they participate in a shadow tree, as long as they are in a shadow-including document.
The following HTML elements must be classified to this category:
Inert in a shadow tree:
A subset of HTML elements which must behave as inert, or not part of the document tree, if they participate in a shadow tree. This is consistent how the HTML elements would behave in a document fragment.
The following HTML elements must be classified to this category:
Inert unless being rendered:
A subset of HTML elements which must behave as inert, or not part of the document tree, unless they are being rendered. In other words, if they don't particitpate in a document flat tree, they must behave as inert.
The following HTML elements must be classified to this category:
For example, suppose that an
object element is a child node of a shadow host, but the
object element is not assigned to a slot.
In this case, according to the flat tree children calculation algorithm,
this element never participate in a document flat tree.
Therefore, this element is inert because this element is not being rendered. .
When [[!HTML]] defines the processing algorithms to traverse trees for the following attributes, they must use the flat tree.
lang and
This list does not include attributes that are defined elsewhere in this specification. Such attributes include:
tabindex is defined in Focus Navigation.
role and
ARIA are defined in Assistive Technology.
This section is used to state what needs to be clarified. Each clarification will be upstreamed to the HTML Standard or other specifications, eventually, if required.
Document.currentScript must return null if the
script element is in a shadow tree.
See Issue #477.
Style elements inside a shadow tree must not be able to set the preferred style sheet set for the document tree.
Style elements inside a shadow tree should still be applied if it has a
title attribute not matching the preferred style sheet set
of the document tree.
See Issue #391.
An iframe in a shadow tree must not have any effect on
window.history neither
See Issue #184.
:root pseudo class does not match any element if the rule is used in a shadow tree.
DocumentOrShadowRoot Mixin
partial interface DocumentOrShadowRoot { Selection? getSelection (); Element? elementFromPoint(double x, double y); sequence<Element> elementsFromPoint(double x, double y); CaretPosition? caretPositionFromPoint(double x, double y); readonly attribute Element? activeElement; readonly attribute StyleSheetList styleSheets; };
activeElement, these methods and attributes are defined in the similar way as currently defined in Document,
considering only the current node tree.
elementFromPoint and
elementsFromPoints, they should return the result of running the retargeting algorithm with context object and the original result as input.
styleSheets, it should return an empty StyleSheetList if the context object is not in a shadow-including document.
ShadowRoot interface
ShadowRoot interface represents the shadow root.
Represents the shadow host which hosts the context object.
On getting, the attribute must return the shadow host which hosts the context object.
DocumentFragment does not always have a host,
innerHTML can not be defined in
nodeType attribute of a
ShadowRoot instance must return
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE. Accordingly, the
nodeName attribute of a
ShadowRoot instance must return
Element Interface
NotSupportedError exception.
This list is possible to change. See Issue #110.
InvalidStateError exception.
ShadowRoot object.
shadowRootInitDict argument allows for setting the mode.
ShadowRoot object.
ShadowRoot object.
Represents the assigned slot of the context object.
On getting, the attribute must return the assigned slot of the context object,
if there is, and the assigned slot's root's mode is "open".
Otherwise must return
Reflects the
slot attribute. The
slot attribute represents the slot name of a slot to where this element is assigned.
Represents the shadow root that context object hosts.
On getting, the attribute must return the shadow root that context object hosts if there is and its mode is "open". Otherwise must return
ShadowRootInit dictionary
ShadowRootMode enum
Text Interface
Represents the assigned slot of the context object.
On getting, the attribute must return the assigned slot of the context object, if there is, and the assigned slot participates in an open shadow tree.
Otherwise must return
slot element
The slot element is used to define a location of a slot.
name, the slot name
flatten is true, the distributed nodes must be returned.
Otherwise, the assigned nodes must be returned.
AssignedNodesOptions dictionary
Specifies whether
assignedNodes() returns assigned nodes or distributed nodes
EventInit Dictionary
Specifies the scoped flag of
Event Interface
When invoked, it must return return a sequence consisting of event targets, that must be equivalent to processing the following steps:
The find the node algorithm given a EVENT-TARGET and PATH are as follows:
Returns the scoped flag.
Bob was asked to turn a simple list of links into a News Widget, which has links organized into two categories: breaking news and just news. The current document markup for the stories looks like this:

A story

Another story

Also a story

Yet another story

Awesome story

Horrible story

It's weird that there are slot attributes in this markup because Bob has not decided to use Shadow DOM yet.
To organize the stories, Bob decides to use shadow DOM. Doing so will allow Bob to keep the document markup uncluttered, and harnessing the power of insertion point makes sorting stories by class name a very simple task. After getting another cup of Green Eye, he quickly mocks up the following shadow tree, to be hosted by the
ul element:

 <slot name="breaking"></slot>

 <slot></slot>

Bob then styles the newborn widget according to comps from the designer by adding this to the shadow tree mockup:

While pondering if his company should start looking for a new designer, Bob converts the mockup to code:
function createStoryGroup(className, slotName) { var group = document.createElement('div'); group.className = className; // Empty string in slot name attribute or absence thereof work the same, so no need for special handling. group.innerHTML = '
<slot name="' + slotName + '"></slot>
'; return group; } function createStyle() { var style = document.createElement('style'); style.textContent = 'div.breaking { color: Red;font-size: 20px; border: 1px dashed Purple; }' + 'div.other { padding: 2px 0 0 0; border: 1px solid Cyan; }'; return style; } function makeShadowTree(storyList) { var root = storyList.attachShadow({mode: 'open'}); root.appendChild(createStyle()); root.appendChild(createStoryGroup('breaking', 'breaking')); root.appendChild(createStoryGroup('other', '')); } document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { document.querySelectorAll('ul.stories').forEach(makeShadowTree); });
Well done, Bob! With the cup of coffee still half-full, the work is complete. Recognizing his awesomeness, Bob returns to teaching n00bs the ways of Splatoon.
David Hyatt developed XBL 1.0, and Ian Hickson co-wrote XBL 2.0. These documents provided tremendous insight into the problem of functional encapsulation and greatly influenced this specification.
Alex Russell and his considerable forethought triggered a new wave of enthusiasm around the subject of shadow DOM and how it can be applied practically on the Web.
Dominic Cooney, Hajime Morrita, and Roland Steiner worked tirelessly to scope the problem of functional encapsulation within the confines of the Web platform and provided a solid foundation for this document.
The editor would also like to thank Alex Komoroske, Anne van Kesteren, Brandon Payton, Brian Kardell, Darin Fisher, Eric Bidelman, Deepak Sherveghar, Edward O'Connor, Elisée Maurer, Elliott Sprehn, Erik Arvidsson, Glenn Adams, Jonas Sicking, Koji Ishii, Malte Ubl, Mike Taylor, Oliver Nightingale, Olli Pettay, Rafael Weinstein, Richard Bradshaw, Ruud Steltenpool, Sam Dutton, Sergey G. Grekhov, Shinya Kawanaka, Tab Atkins, Takashi Sakamoto, and Yoshinori Sano for their comments and contributions to this specification.
This list is too short. There's a lot of work left to do. Please contribute by reviewing and filing bugs—and don't forget to ask the editor to add your name into this section.


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A section of a temporary bridge over the Saugus River in Lynn buckled after a series of loud noises on Monday.
The span of the Western Avenue bridge sustained structural damage, according to the Daily Item.
A witnesses heard "bangs" coming from the bridge at about 9:30 a.m.
According to MassDOT, a part malfunctioned that shifted the moveable portion of the bridge out of its proper position. MassDOT personnel are investigating the problem.
The temporary bridge was not open at the time and has never been used by motor vehicles to cross the Saugus River.
There were no injuries reported.


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A Queens County athlete has shot up the ranks for the junior shot-put in Canada.
Sarah Mitton stands on the podium after the Athletics Canada Indoor Open. Although she had the highest throw in the competition, she was not able to claim the medal as she is not from Ontario. Her fellow competitors insisted she stand on the podium with the medal regardless. Mitton's throw gave her the second highest ranking in Canadian junior shot put this season.
Seventeen year old Sarah Mitton received a ranking of 2nd in Canada for junior shot-put while scoping out a university.
Mitton was checking out universities in Ontario on the March 1 weekend when she was asked to participate in a shot-put competition at York University.
Although she couldn't win a medal, she competed in the competition, which earned her the ranking of 2nd in junior shot-put this season. Her throw was 13 metres and 52 cm. The throw was also the best at the competition.
"Anyone is allowed to throw, it's just I wasn't allowed to officially win," says Mitton.
Only competitors from Ontario could compete for medals in this particular competition but anyone could throw shot put to receive an official ranking. The competition was the Athletics Canada Indoor Open.
Mitton has done track around seven years and has been focusing on shot put for a while.
She competes for Liverpool Regional High School in their track season and also competes all winter out of Bluenose Athletics in Bridgewater.
Her goal this year is to get to the World Junior Championships in Oregon, USA. She needs to throw around 70 cm more than she's thrown so far to qualify for the competition.
Mitton plans on taking Medical Sciences in university and although sport isn't her main priority in choosing a school, she would like to continue her sport and become a varsity athlete.
"It definitely plays a big factor in which (university) I'm going to choose," says Mitton.


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False or real?
In 2001 Sotheby's Amsterdam had 16 paintings and drawings of Zandleven in its auction, all being from the estate of Miss Daendels. Not sold was a.o. JAZ-1909-053:
In june 2003 the Notarishuis te Arnhem had in its auction: Withered sunflowers, Drawing, ..
The Dordrechts Museum organized in 1962 an overview-exhibition of Zandlevens oeuvre. Catalogue number 33 mentioned: Block of houses with yellow blossoming bushes in the foreground. Canvas, 34.5 x 49.8 cm, coll. N.N. The work was not signed or dated.
At Ebay we found this painting (October 2003):
Is this a real Zandleven?
The contributor on this painting asks himself: "a joke? A bet with another artist?".
Oil on canvas
25 x 35,5 cm.
Signed b.l.
Auctioneer Notarishuis Arnhem B.V. sold this painting in 2001:
Dimensions unknownSigned bottom-right.
This is not a real Zandleven.We have two strong arguments for this:


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In case you haven't heard by now, Monday night there was a ferocious fire in a multi-family apartment building at the corner of Sumner and Orleans streets. Flames were shooting through the roof, much of the second and third floors were charred, and the rest of the building sustained water damage. Worst of all, 21 of our neighbors are now homeless.
After speaking with the Mayor's interim neighborhood liaison, Danielle, it appears the best way we can serve those who have been affected by the fire is to provide them with gift cards to Target. That way they'll be able to stock up on the necessities, including blankets, food and clothes in their own size.
Our neighbor, Billy Perry, has set up a page over at Eastie Now where we can make donations. He has created a PayPal account, where you can either use your own PayPal login or pay by credit card. (Simply up the "quantity" on the payment page to increase the default $5 donation) You may also drop cash donations by the ZUMIX front desk. Billy, JPNA board member Renee Scalfani, and I will be collecting money donated there and taking it to Target to get the cards, probably sometime next week. The affected families will be able to pick up their gift cards at ZUMIX on their own time. Again, here's the link where you can donate:
We're hoping to raise $500 per family that was displaced. (21 people were displaced in total) If you are able to donate, please do so by Sunday night so we can know where we stand on Monday. Please forward this to friends / family and post it to your social networks.
There may be more ways to help down the road, but this is the most immediate.
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Of the ways sound is improved over earlier Earbuds models is the noise reduction feature, or isolation feature. Outside noise is reduced and is generally applauded as a fine enhancement.
Too much noise reduction can be a downside in the wrong situation. This Earbud set provides the right balance for all situations where outside noise is minimized but not so much that you are not aware of your surroundings.
These work for all users. But for the very serious music listener, Earbuds with intense noise isolation is a better choice. The more the noise isolation you have the better so as to minimize any interference to music clarity. Examples of situations are if you are listening to your Earphones and there is a lot of outside noise, for example a busy household with TV's glaring, or the radio on, conversations, etc.
Here you want as much noise isolation as possible. But where it can be a problem is the when in the ear headphone users listen to music in the wrong environment.
Another example is when driving; you must be able to hear other cars, honking, sirens, etc. It's outlawed in most states. Or walking on the street where one must be cautious to their surroundings.
Jogging is another. It's perfect where there are lots of people, the public area is full of people and safety is not a problem.
To summarize, while noise isolation features work well to bring out rich, full stereo sound it's wise to use them in the proper environment.
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This tutorial will examine using Vectorian Giotto and FlashDevelop as an alternative to using Adobe Flash. Adobe Flash is a great tool but not everyone can afford it! Even if you can you may wish to use this alternative tool chain as you may find you like the tools better. I like video tutorials for some things but I believe I would lack the ability to create a good one. If anyone wants to have a go at making a video tutorial based on these steps then they have my encouragement and permission.
We will be using a method where we create our content in Vectorian Giotto (creating a "dummy" swf) and then injecting our AS2 code into this swf file using FlashDevelop (which uses MTASC or Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler. This compiler is very stable and actually much faster then the compiler used by Flash itself! So this toolchain can actually have some advantages.).
Step 1: Install Vectorian Giotto.
The first step is to download and install Vectorian Giotto. This tool will be used to create our graphical content (actionscript will not be done through this program). You can download Vectorian Giotto from here: http://vectorian.com/giotto/
Step 2: Install FlashDevelop.
The second step is to download and install FlashDevelop. You can download FlashDevelop from here: http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs...itle=Main_Page.
Since the current release of Scaleform (at the time of this writing) does not support AS3, there is no need to download the Flex SDK but since AS3 support could be added to Scaleform rather soon it may be a good idea to go ahead and let the FlashDevelop installer download/configure that for you.
Step 3: Create GUI in Vectorian Giotto
The next step is to begin to create your desired UI in Vectorian Giotto. This is very similar to how you would create a GUI in Flash, but it can be a bit new so I will go into detail about the steps. Keep in mind this: SAVE OFTEN! This program is not the most stable in the world but it is free. If you hate losing work then you will want to hit save often so if the program DOES crash you can simply reload your file.
Step 3.1: Configure Document Properties
Now for the fun part! Open up Vectorian Giotto. You should see a screen that looks like this:
The first thing that you need to do is to edit the document properties. Go to Modify->Document. You will then see the Document Properties dialog. You can enter the desired dimensions, frames per second, and background color using this dialog. I will choose to use a width of 1280, a height of 720, and an fps of 30 as that is similar to the settings of the UDK front end. You can use alternative dimensions if you would like.
Step 3.2: Create background layer
Now in this current layer we will want to create a simple backdrop. Leaving the stage visible will be interpreted by UDK as transparent areas. If you are making a HUD then you would want your stage to be visible in any area that you want to see the game content.
We can simply use the Rectangle tool in the toolbar and change the brush color to whatever color we want. I think for this tutorial I am going to make my background a nice dark blue color. NOTE: You can change the zoom level using the scroll wheel.
Fantastic! We now have a background. We can edit the layer name towards the top left of the screen and I would suggest calling this layer "Background". We at this point probably also want to lock this layer to prevent accidental modification. You can simply Double click the layer name to edit the name of the layer. Then to lock the layer click the lock icon.
Step 3.3: Save progress in UDKGame\Flash\somenamehere directory
Now is a great time to save! Let's save this project somewhere so we don't lose all of our work. I recommend saving to your own folder inside of the UDKGame\Flash directory. For this tutorial I am going to call it VectorMenuTut so my path will be UDKGame\Flash\VectorMenuTut . I am going to name my project VectorMainMenu.
Now we will want to hit save very often so that if Vectorian Giotto crashes we do not lose a good deal of work!
Sidebar: About CLIK Components
We are now going to start creating a button. Now some at this point might be wondering about the CLIK components. Now the problem is that while a lot of the code that makes these widgets work is in .AS files which we could use no problem with FlashDevelop, the FLA files we cannot use. If some industrious person (and probably not me) were to make ports of the components that work with this tool chain (Basically this would involve creating usable swf files from the fla files, seperating the AS code from the components (so we have dummy swf files), and then configuring a FlashDevelop project that injected these swf files with the action script code... It is possible but probably a good deal of work... I might do it if I get really bored one day...).


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If you don't get health insurance, you get fined. What's next? Maybe they will want to fine you if your house isn't painted "blue." Sounds like a "dictatorship" to me. (With plenty of "Socialism" thrown in!)
It's really quite simple. Everyone, without exception, uses or will use the health care system. Why shouldn't everyone pay for it? It's actually a conservative/Republican idea.
So what are you going to do about this "dictatoship" besides complain about it to a bunch of fake IDs?
someone Increased the # from .13 to .87 60 days ago, I think they did so ,,, so that SIGA would not meet street expectations and stock would drop. jmo, gallen
Makes me feel better to complain. Of course, if the Republicans had been smart enough to run Rubio as the VP instead of Ryan, I believe Romney would be President. The Hispanic vote has never been represented on a Presidential ticket, and in the last election it was the deciding factor. Too bad the Republicans couldn't see the "writing on the wall."


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It wasn't the total consumption one sometimes gets when a Division I-A team invites a Division I-AA team for dinner, and fully expects the latter to occupy the role of main course on the menu.
Tulane lifted the cover on its dish and found Southeastern Louisiana still wriggling Thursday night in the Superdome. The Lions were unwilling to roll over and play their part in the season opener for both teams.
But the Lions didn't get away.
Tulane beat Southeastern 27-21, and although it was nowhere near a thing a beauty, there's no inclination here to quibble over style points. Tulane was 9-27 in its previous 36 games. The Green Wave just hasn't won enough games lately for any of us to bother with something as trivial as picking over how it wins.
So all one really needs to know is that Tulane won its season opener for the first time since 2002, that Coach Bob Toledo's freshman class already has had an impact, and that it will sound a lot more pleasant for Tulane's coaches to talk about improvements that need to be made after a victory than it ever could after a defeat.
Actually, a game that had the markings of a blowout became several degrees more intense because, depending on the point of view, Tulane couldn't put away the Lions, or the Lions refused to bow.
Tulane took the opening drive and imposed its will on Southeastern with the kind of possession that breaks opponents. After 15 plays produced 72 yards, freshman running back Orleans Darkwa scored a touchdown from 3 yards out on the 16th play, capping a possession that lasted 8:35.
Southeastern responded as if totally unaffected.
The Lions put together an eight-play, 57-yard drive that lasted 3:42 and ended on a 23-yard touchdown pass from Tyler Beatty to Kory Theodore with 2:43 left in the first quarter. And the Lions kept responding that way to any attempt Tulane made to pull away.
Southeastern fumbled away a golden opportunity to score on its first drive of the third quarter, moving from its 17-yard line to the Tulane 1 before Zeke Jones fumbled into the end zone.
Southeastern's defense responded on Tulane's next possession, when a pass by Green Wave quarterback Ryan Griffin was intercepted by Re'Keem Wilson at the Tulane 31 on first-and-20.
The Wave pushed its advantage to 17-7 in the second quarter on an 8-yard run by Darkwa and a 29-yard field goal by freshman kicker Cairo Santos.
The Lions bounced back with a 29-yard pass from Beatty to Simmie Yarborough in the third quarter, on the second play after Wilson's interception, to pull to 17-14.
Tulane bumped its advantage to a seemingly comfortable 27-14 in the fourth quarter when Darkwa scored his third touchdown, a 6-yard run with 11:16 left, after the defense forced and recovered a fumble at the Southeastern 7.
The Lions snapped back, driving 77 yards on five plays and burning just 1:46 off the clock, pulling to 27-21 on Beatty's 41-yard touchdown pass to Theodore with 9:29 left.
From there, Tulane managed to hang on, unable to move into scoring position but unwilling to allow Southeastern to do so, either.
But hanging on is better than what Tulane too often has done in its previous three seasons under Toledo. Dating back to the Chris Scelfo regime, the Wave hadn't won a season opener in eight years.
There's no assurance it would've won Thursday, either, if not for Darkwa and Santos, who accounted for all of Tulane's points (Santos also had a 27-yard field goal) and helped keep Wave afloat in a game it was outgained in total yards (266-252), passing yards (202-129) and first downs (17-15).
If not for four forced turnovers and two sacks by the defense, the Green Wave very well could be spending the day, weekend and next week trying to explain why it was bitten by its meal.
Instead, at least Tulane began its season with a win for the first time since most of its players were in grammar or middle school. Given that, let's concern ourselves with how the Wave won on another day, after we've been spoiled by a few more wins.


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I have been receiving The Skeptical Review for the last year. Please continue my subscription. Also send back issues from 1990 through and including Summer 1994. My check is enclosed. If there is an error, I will adjust accordingly.
I was a totally sold-out fundamentalist Christian for the past 15 years. I was not a hypocrite. I totally believed and put into practice the precepts of the Bible. I was honest, never cheated, faithful, forgave my neighbors, prayed unceasingly, attended church several times a week, tithed. I've read at least ten versions of the bible and spent much more time in intense study. I read only Christian books, listened only to Christian music, and spent much time evangelizing.
The problem was that the precepts of the Bible weren't panning out. There were troublesome spots that were hard to ignore, since I spent so much time in the bible. The preaching I heard didn't work in real life. Explanations I heard for the "hard" things in the Bible didn't always sit well, especially the genocide. I did a report in college on the genocide in Cambodia committed by the Khmer Rouge, and it made me sick to realize all the atrocities that occurred. I could see no reason why any humane god would ever allow any such occurrences. Neither could I see a whole lot of difference between the genocides of the 20th century and those of biblical times.
My own life was difficult. I came to Christianity with a lot of hard life behind me. I was sexually abused and raped as a child. I became involved in habitual drug use for ten years, and I became a teenage, unwed mother, among other things. Now I had five children I was trying to raise and rather than helping me to keep my family together, the church always seemed to find ways to take away our time from each other. Added to that, I am manic-depressive, which in fundamentalist eyes is akin to demon oppression, but when I became a Christian, supposedly all these things were done away, and I was now a "new" creature in Christ. In other words, bury it, push it under the rug, it never happened, it isn't happening. I tried to live for Jesus, to be like Jesus, but Jesus was never satisfied, and Jesus never really satisfied.
So one day, as I sat by the railroad tracks, having taken an overdose of drugs, thinking about throwing myself in front of the next train, because after all I was really a demon in need of going back to hell--as I waited for the train, crying out to God, I suddenly realized that he wasn't there. I couldn't depend on him, I couldn't trust him, I couldn't "give it all to Jesus," because there was no one there.
Things have changed since then. I started to think for myself. It was scary at first. Would God send me to hell for daring to question his wisdom? Sometimes I'm still not sure of so many things, but I am sure that the Bible is not the word of any god; it is full of myths and superstitions. Jesus is not the son of god. I tried him; it isn't true. Christianity is not the way of God, if there be a god.
I am thankful for the energies you expend in debunking the myths of the bible and Christianity. Your articles are very well researched and an encouragement to me. Someday I hope I might be able to discuss some of these topics with my Christian friends and family. Right now, they don't know what to make of me (of course, they expect that soon I will be back in the fold, despite my assertions to the contrary), and it makes our relationships difficult.
Fifteen years believing a lie. Pretty sad, isn't it?
If you wish to use my letter, you may do so, but because of its personal nature, please do not use my real name. Thanks.
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