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The web is an amazing platform, it reaches users all around the world - on essentially any device. It's easy to use, and easy to share. There's nothing to install. But most importantly, it's an open-ecosystem that anyone can use or build on.
There are some apps that are not possible to build and deliver on the open web today. We call this, the app gap. The gap between what's possible on the web and what's possible on native. We want to close that gap. We believe web apps should be able to do anything native apps can.
Through our capabilities project, we want to make it possible for web apps to do anything native apps can, by exposing the capabilities of native platforms to the web platform, while maintaining user security, privacy, trust, and other core tenets of the web.
The new capabilities
You can see the full list of capabilities we're
considering on crbug.com and filtering issues with the
proj-fugu label.
Capabilities in flight
|Badging API
The Badging API is a new web platform API that allows installed web
apps to set an application-wide badge, shown in an
operating-system-specific place associated with the application, such
as the shelf or home screen. Badging makes it easy to subtly notify
the user that there is some new activity that might require their
attention, or it can be used to indicate a small amount of information,
such as an unread count.
Current Status: Available as an origin trial.
Last Updated: October 22nd, 2019
|Contact Picker API
The Contact Picker API is a new, on-demand picker that allows users to
select entries from their contact list and share limited details of
the selected entries with a website. It allows users to share only
what they want, when they want, and makes it easier for users to
reach and connect with their friends and family.
Current Status: Available as an origin trial.
Last Updated: January, 2020
|Get Installed Related Apps API
The Get Installed Related Apps API is a new web platform API
that allows your web app to check to see if your native app is
installed on the users device, and vice versa.
Current Status: Available as an origin trial.
Last Updated: October 22nd, 2019
|Native File System API
The Native File System API (formerly known as the Writable Files API)
enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files
on the users local device, like IDEs, photo and video editors, text
editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API
allows web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders
on the users device.
Current Status: Available as an origin trial.
Last Updated: October 22nd, 2019
|Shape Detection API
The Shape Detection API opens up native implementations of shape
detection services and exposes them through a set of JavaScript
interfaces. Currently, the supported features are face detection,
barcode detection, and text detection (Optical Character Recognition).
Current Status: Available behind a flag.
Last Updated: January, 2020
|Wake Lock API
To avoid draining the battery, most devices will quickly fall asleep
when left idle. While this is fine for most of the time, there are
some applications that need to keep the screen or the device awake in
order to complete some work. The Wake Lock API provides a way to
prevent the device from dimming or locking the screen or prevent
the device from going to sleep when an application needs to keep
Current Status: Origin Trial.
Last Updated: November, 2019
|Content Indexing API
Your PWA might cache articles and media files, but how will your users
know that your pages work while offline? The Content Indexing API is
one answer to this question currently in an origin trial. Once the
index is populated with content from your PWA, as well as any other
installed PWAs, it will show up in dedicated areas of supported browsers.
Current Status: Origin Trial.
Last Updated: December, 2019
|Periodic Background Sync API
Periodic Background Sync enables web applications to periodically
synchronize data in the background, bringing web apps closer to
the behavior of a native app.
Current Status: Origin Trial.
Last Updated: December, 2019
|SMS Receiver API
Finding, memorizing, and typing OTPs sent via SMS is cumbersome.
The SMS Receiver API simplifies the OTP workflow for users.
Current Status: Origin Trial.
Last Updated: October, 2019
Launched capabilities
|Async Clipboard API (images)
In Chrome 66, we shipped the Asynchronous Clipboard API with
support for reading and writing text. In Chrome 76, we added support
for reading and writing images to the clipboard.
Status: Launched in Chrome 76
Last Updated: October 22nd, 2019
|Web Share Target
The Web Share Target API allows installed web apps to register with
the underlying OS as a share target to receive shared content from
either the Web Share API or system events, like the OS-level share
Status: Launched in Chrome 71
Last Updated: November 8th, 2019
|Web Share
With the Web Share API, web apps are able to use the same
system-provided share capabilities as native apps. The Web Share API
makes it possible for web apps to share links, text, and files to other
apps installed on the device in the same way as native apps.
Status: Launched in Chrome 61
Last Updated: November 8th, 2019
How will we design & implement these new capabilities?
We developed this process to make it possible to design and develop new web platform capabilities that meet the needs of developers quickly, in the open, and most importantly, work within the existing standards process. It's no different than how we develop every other web platform feature, but it puts an emphasis on developer feedback.
Developer feedback is critical to help us ensure we're shipping the right features, but when it comes in late in the process, it can be hard to change course. That's why we're starting to ask for feedback earlier. When actionable technical and use-case feedback comes in early, it's easier to course correct or even stop development, without having shipped poorly thought out or badly implemented features. Features being developed at WICG are not set in stone, and your input can make a big difference in how they evolve.
It's worth noting that many ideas never make it past the explainer or origin trial stage. The goal of the process is to ship the right feature. That means we need to learn and iterate quickly. Not shipping a feature because it doesn't solve the developer need is OK. To enable this learning, we have come to employ the following process (although there is frequently some re-ordering of later steps due to feedback):
Identify the developer need
The first step is to identify and understand the developer need. What is the developer trying to accomplish? Who would use it? How are they doing it today? And what problems or frustrations are fixed by this new capability. Typically, these come in as feature request from developers, frequently through bugs filed on bugs.chromium.org.
Create an explainer
After identifying the need for a new capability, create an explainer, essentially a design doc that is meant to explain the problem, along with some sample code showing how the API might work. The explainer is a living design document that will go through heavy iteration as the new capability evolves.
Get feedback and iterate on the explainer
Once the explainer has a reasonable level of clarity, it's time to publicize it, to solicit feedback, and iterate on the design. This is an opportunity to verify the new capability meets the needs of developers and works in a way that they expect. This is also an opportunity to gather public support and verify that there really is a need for this capability.
Move the design to a specification & iterate
Once the explainer is in a good state, the design work transitions into a formal specification, working with developers and other browser vendors to iterate and improve on the design.
Then, once the design starts to stabilize, we typically use an origin trial to experiment with the implementation. Origin trials allow you to try new features with real users, and give feedback on the implementation. This real world feedback helps shape and validate the design, ensuring we get it right, before it becomes a standard.
Ship it
Finally, once the origin trial is complete, the spec has been finalized, and all of the other launch steps have been completed, it's time to ship it to stable.
Design for user security, privacy, and trust
Some of these features may seem scary at first, especially in light of how they're implemented on native. But the web is inherently safer than native, opening a web page shouldn't be scary.
Nothing should ever be granted access by default, but instead rely on a permission model that puts the user in total control, and is easily revoke-able. It needs to be crystal clear when, and how these APIs are being used. We've outlined some of our thought process in Controlling Access to Powerful Web Platform Features.


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When I worked part-time in an Emergency Department in Richmond, there was a young clerk who knew every rap song out there. However, when I sang, "Happy Talk" (even with choreography), she had no clue where the song came from. Her blank stare is permanently burned in my memory.
So being the Ira Gershwin that I am, I changed the lyrics to "Pappy Talk" as in PAP smears. "Pappy, pappy pappy pappy talk, talk about the smear you like to do..." The clerk's blank stare was then accompanied by a dropped jaw. Shouldn't PAP smears be a happy topic?
Papanicolaou smears (PAP) have reduced deaths by cervical cancer by 75 percent. PAP smears are for women within three years of starting sex or over the age of 21. The US Preventive Services Task Force concludes that PAP smears are beneficial and needed at least every three years in sexually active women who have a cervix.
Thirteen thousand new cases of cervical cancer and 4,100 cervical cancer deaths occur in the US each year. But because of awareness and compliance, the incidence continues to drop. One of the main causes of cervical cancer is the Human Papillomaviruses (HPV). (Papilloma and Papanicolaou should marry each other and hyphenate their names. "Introducing Peter and Pauline Papilloma-Papanicolaou!" What a tongue twister!)
There are over 80 different HPV, two of which are most associated with cervical cancer. HPV is sexually transmitted, which is why safe sex is so important whether you have one or multiple partners. Do I sound like the church-lady on Saturday Night Live?
HPV testing is available, but there is no universal consensus on routine screening. Perhaps women over the age of 30 should be simultaneously tested for PAP and HPV.
The Task Force hasn't determined yet if new PAP smear technology is more effective in detecting the onset of cervical cancer. Overall, a PAP smear is about 50-70 percent successful in detecting cancer development. That isn't so great, but yearly PAP smears are more likely to catch something going wrong.
When is it time to hang up the speculum? The Task Force recommends discontinuing PAP smears after the age of 65 in women who have had three consecutive normal PAP smears in the past 10 years, and if there is no change in sex partner. So if you're Cher and go after different men, you probably still need to keep doing your PAP.
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There wasn't much holiday cheer at the box office this weekend, as two big-budget sequels came in far below industry expectations.
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" was the No. 1 film with about $40 million in ticket sales, far short of the $62.9 million the first film raked in back in 2009 -- though the original did open over the busier Christmas weekend. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked," the third picture in the animated series, also fell short of its predecessors, with around $23.5 million. The previous two installments each collected more than $40 million on their first weekends in theaters.
One bright spot was the performance of "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," the fourth Tom Cruise action flick, which Paramount Pictures previewed on more than 400 Imax and large-format screens. In limited release, the film grossed $13 million -- a tally that may have been boosted by a six-minute prologue to next summer's "The Dark Knight Rises," which played in front of the movie in some locations.
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Former Squaw ambassador: Development plan 'just doesn't sit right'
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — A longtime representative and former employee at Squaw Valley is speaking out against the process the mountain's owners are taking to develop the famed Olympic ski resort.
"You can just tell when your intuition tells you that something just doesn't sit right," said Robb Gaffney, an avid skier and author of "Squallywood: A Guide to Squaw Valley's Most Exposed Lines." "I think when you allow yourself to trust that intuition, it gives you a lot of clarity, seeing the situation or the system for what it is."
In recent years, Gaffney said he's noticed "red flags" associated with the efforts by KSL Capital Partners and Squaw Valley Ski Holdings to expand the Village at Squaw Valley with more lodging and amenities.
"To me this is not an issue of pro-development or anti-development," Gaffney said. "This is really an issue of a group process and the community process, and it doesn't pass the sniff test for me."
Gaffney's comments come about a week after he announced through social media that he was resigning as a skiing ambassador of Squaw Valley.
When asked to comment on this story, Squaw's communications team sent the following statement from Dee Byrne, managing director of Snowsports Schools and Teams for Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows:
"Contrary to his letter, Mr. Gaffney actually did not serve as an ambassador to Squaw Valley this year, though he was employed as a part-time, seasonal ski instructor, hired to exclusively assist with our specialty camps. Though he has represented the resort in the past, we have not considered Mr. Gaffney as one of our ambassadors since last fall when it became clear he did not share our vision for the best possible future for this valley and our community. We wish Mr. Gaffney the best in his future."
In a recent opinion column in the Sierra Sun, several Olympic and regional athletes — including Squaw Valley's Julia Mancuso and Travis Ganong — came out in favor of a scaled-back version of the project, which reduced the proposed bedrooms from 2,184 to 1,493, lodging units from 1,093 to 750 and the overall footprint from 101.5 acres to 94 acres.
"… Now we have a viable, logical and thoughtful redevelopment plan for the base of the ski area," the column stated. "… We feel the leadership of the mountain is focused on the improvement of the mountain and that now, the redevelopment plans are very much in keeping with the soul and spirit of Squaw Valley."
But not everyone agrees. Recently submitted resident and organization concerns to Placer County include potential noise impacts during and after construction, available water supply, increased traffic into the valley and on nearby roads, and impacts to mountain views, among others.
That polarization among community members is a red flag for Gaffney.
"Right now I think there's a really big rift … At this point it's a battle.
"You've got a private equity company (KSL) who has come in here to make a profit, and you've got a community who has recreated here for decades because they love the place," Gaffney continued. "Two completely different points of view, and to merge those is a difficult thing. Both parties believe they're right."
As the process moves forward, Gaffney said he would like to see the various parties work together.
It's a sentiment echoed by Alice Calhoun, manager of Alice's Mountain Market, located in the Village at Squaw Valley.
"It's very important that both sides listen and hear," she said. "… This isn't just against KSL — KSL is getting the opinions from the public, but the public needs to also be open to the needs of the industry of the ski business."
Gaffney added that while he understands the need for development, he doesn't want the community's soul to be lost in the process.
"Personally, I would love to have experienced this valley at its pristine condition 100 years ago, but at this time in its history, I realize realistically, development is needed," he said.
Gaffney also said he supports the grassroots effort from residents to incorporate Olympic Valley into a California town.
"I believe when the decisions are being made by shareholders within a huge company that's not here, or Placer County, which is down the hill, that you lose power," he said. "You lose power in your own community, and your community becomes something you are not."
Yet, the idea spearheaded by the group Incorporate Olympic Valley has faced serious questioning in recent weeks.
In an April 7 letter to Placer County's Local Agency Formation Commission, Andy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, urged the agency to carefully review the proposal.
Concerns include economic viability of the proposed town, future impacts to the valley and Truckee/Tahoe region, and if such an effort is representative of the community. His letter also proposes an idea of alternate town boundaries that exclude Squaw Valley.
"There's been a really strong campaign by Squaw Valley Ski Holdings against the incorporation effort, and so for me, it's one of those red flags when you see the developer actually fighting the community," Gaffney said.
In an interview last week, Wirth said his letter represents a voice beyond just Squaw Valley.
"The voice is not ours — the voice is on behalf of the community," he said.
For these reasons, Gaffney no longer felt comfortable representing Squaw Valley and said he resigned as an ambassador on April 7, ending a nearly 20-year relationship.
"It allows me to speak without having to cross-check my own words," he said. "It allows me to represent the larger Tahoe, North Tahoe community."
Many residents are praising his decision.
"My respect for Robb is that he was a brave man to take a stand, and he's standing behind his words and his actions," Calhoun said. "He is to be respected for it."
Similar words of support and respect have been posted on Gaffney's Facebook page after he revealed his reasoning for resigning on April 10.
"It means a lot and it feels good, but what I think it indicates is that what I'm feeling, what I'm seeing, everybody's feeling and everybody's seeing," Gaffney said. "They know it just doesn't quite sit well with them either."


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In 2012, Diana Ross was the recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The odd part? Ross has never won a Grammy in regular competition, either solo, with the Supremes or in high-profile collaborations with such artists as Lionel Richie and Marvin Gaye. And she's not alone. Here are just some of the music legends who have garnered a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award but have never won a Grammy in regular competition. -- By Paul Grein, Yahoo! Music


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For the community of Makoko of Lagos, Nigeria life on the water is nothing new. Prone to flooding, residents have dealt with encroaching waters for generations by building houses on stilts and using canoes as their main source of transport. Now, with the threat of sea level rise from climate change, and developers who want to tear the community down, Makoko is in a state of uncertainty. Nigerian-born architect Kunle Adeyemi has a vision for the city of 250,000 people that involves constructing a group of floating structures that have better access to sanitation, fresh water, and waste disposal. His first endeavor would be to build a three-story school held afloat by plastic drums.
After a trip to Makoko in 2009, Adeyemi was inspired to improve upon the main primary school that served the waterside settlement. His design, which will accommodate 100 students, will use 256 plastic drums to keep it resting on top of the water, and the frame will be constructed with locally-sourced wood. Electricity would be provided by solar panels on the roof, and rainwater harvesting would help operate toilets. The school is nearly finished, and the entire cost should total around $6,250.
Projects like Adeyemi's could be the beginning of a trend followed throughout coastal Africa. "The building can be adapted for other uses, such as homes or hospitals. Ultimately, it's a vision that can be used to sustainably develop [African] coastal communities." said Adeyemi. While the government is reluctant to permanently establish the dozens of settlements in the city's waters, tentative backing has been given by local officials. In recent years, nearby cities in Lagos have been reclaiming the water using land pumped from the ocean floor. Adeyemi's strategy would work with the propensity for storms and rising tides to flood the area instead of fighting against them, setting a possible example for future developments in the country.
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VMware's Asian new biz Veep jumps to VCE
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Paul Harapin, VMware's vice president for business development and cloud across Asia Pacific and Japan, has left the company, The Reg can reveal.
His new post is heading up VCE, the private cloud joint venture formed by EMC, Cisco, Intel and VMware.
Harapin was VMware's first leader in Australia, having previously set up Tivoli's Asian presence prior to its acquisition by IBM. When he joined VMware Australia in 2005 it had just four staff.
Today that head count is now over 200 and VMware often points out that Australian and New Zealand customers are among its most advanced users. In 2011 those successes saw Harapin promoted from managing director of VMware Australia and New Zealand to the regional role mentioned above.
Harapin left VMware three weeks ago and is already touring the region in his new role.
Speaking to The Register from Japan, Harapin said that after seven years with VMware he was keen to move on to a new challenge. VCE, he said, has the feel of a startup, but rather more resources.
As such the new role means he can exercise his desire to grow early-stage businesses, while using the skills he gained piloting VMware to a commanding position in Australia and then the wider APAC region.
Harapin added his appointment is aimed at expanding the company's footprint, as it has been decided that VCE's North American and European operations are now doing well enough that the company can look to growth markets across Asia.
That will mean creating a presence in Japan and adding headcount quickly. The company currently has a dozen staff in the region and Harapin intends to double that quickly. He will also consolidate teams, as some VCE employees currently work from the offices of the company's parents.
VCE does not yet have concrete revenue expectations for the Asian region, but Harapin said he thinks current VMware users will be interested in its offering. "For me the interest is that there is still a lot of complexity in the remaining infrastructure," he said. "vBlocks take that away." ®
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repsole necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
repsole.com is a company selling telecoms and data products. We require an 8 sided (A4) Size Catalogue/Flyer to be designed and print ready art work produced.
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repsole.com is a company selling telecoms and data products. We require an 8 sided (A4) Size Catalogue/Flyer to be designed and print ready art work supplied.
We need this turned around within 14 days of the contest ending.It needs to be in the style of our website.
The content is already in a previous design which is avaliable here:Â FTP to 184.108.40.206Â Â log in with an anonymous connection from your FTP client
We had an 8 sided (A4) catalogue/flyer designed recently, but when it was sent to the printers it was not acceptable as the resolution on the pictures was not high enough and there was no edge bleed. We went back to the original designer, but he wanted a Porsche Turbo Cabriolet and a small island in the South Pacific to do the job properly.
We do not have the base Photoshop files - but we do have the high res PDF files of the original design.(See the FTP reference above). This will give the content of the Catalogue/Flyer.
The pictures in the Orginal design - we can provide theses in high res once the contest winner has been decided.
Here is the spec of the artwork required by our printers.http://www.saxoprint.co.uk/Download/en/Druckdatenguide_A4.pdf Â
Gloss finish required.Â
For the purpose of entering the contest, we only require your entry to consist of a design for the the front cover page and any other internal page. Once the winner is decided the rest of the content would be required.Â
We will provide feedback every 24hrs sarting Monday as I am away this weekend.. We will provide feedback every 24hrs sarting Monday as I am away this weekend..
So to sumarise. We require the winner of the contest to:
1. Download our original Catalogue in PDF from the  FTP site above.
2. Use these files for the content and text.
3. Produce the design for the new Catalogue to the Saxoprint Spec above.
4. Request from us hi res pics as required.
5. Use Stock Photos where necesarry.(We will pay for these)
6. Send print ready artwork within 14 days of contest end.Â
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I'm sure almost all of you have seen the 1975 film based on a Great White shark known as Jaws. This tutorial goes out to all of you shark fans that love the classic movie directed by Steven Spielberg called 'Jaws'. Even though the film is old, I still love watching the movie. Each time I sit and watch Jaws, I still squirm in my chair. I love all the characters from Martin Brody the chief of police, to Quint the fisherman, and to Hooper the rich kid who is an oceanographer. Anyways, have fun with drawing Jaws folks and remember to keep those comments and requests coming in.
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Bosch GSB 18 V-85 C 18v Li-ion Professional Cordless Combi Drill 2 x 7.0Ah in L-BOXX - 06019G0380
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Hudson, who lives in Astoria, volunteered at summer camps for the last 20 years, since he was a teenager. He graduated with a Master's Degree in social work from New York University in 2000, and continues to work in that field today. When he met co-founder Jackie McGowan, his dream to open a summer camp for kids became a reality.
The camp is located just outside of Reading, Pennsylvania. It serves children aged eight to 15 in New York City, plus surrounding areas such as Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New Jersey.
"It's important because these are kids who may not necessarily identify as gay," Hudson said of the camp, but "they have been thrust into the gay movement."
The number one goal of the camp, he said, is for kids to learn that there are others out there with the same background. The second goal is for the parents to form a community with each other.
The camp is one week long, and along with arts, sports, nature education and other traditional summer camp activities, each day focuses on a different value, such as trust, acceptance or respect.
He said while there are numerous services for LGBT youth, the gay family is a fairly new concept in New York, and children who come out of them face a unique set of challenges.
For example, kids who come from an LGBT family are even more likely to face bullying than other kids, Hudson said.
"We want to make a fun space where these kids can relax," Hudson said.
"And they can talk about their parents and complain about their parents, like we all do, without having a press conference," he added, regarding how kids from LGBT families often have to explain why they have two moms or dads.
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Whether using moving companies or self moving, Penske Truck Rental offers a fleet of over 50,000 moving vans and trucks that will fit your needs. Customers will find the right light duty van, utility truck, moving truck, flatbed, refrigerated truck or trailer to suit their particular move. Each truck undergoes an intensive 100-point check before it leaves the facility. Once on the road, customers are provided with 24/7 emergency roadside assistance coverage. Customer satisfaction is their highest priority.
Let us not forget to mention the numerous discounts that Penske Truck Rental offers. AAA members receive a 20% discount on all one way truck rental reserved online as well as discounts on packing and moving supplies. Military personnel receive a 10% discount when reserving online and an additional 10% when picking up the truck at the facility and showing their military I.D. College students receive the same discount - 10% when reserving online and 10% when picking up and showing their student I.D. One cannot beat these savings.
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Sonics Owner Clay Bennett is a jowly-faced bastard. I'm doing him a favor by calling him that because that' s probably one of the kinder things he'll be called from now on by heartbroken Seattle residents, who after two years of thinking their beloved 41-year-old franchise would stick around if they lobbied hard enough, now get to watch Kevin Durant play in Oklahoma City next season, even though their town wasn't washed away by a hurricane. The WSJ Daily Fix blog , which did a brilliant round-up of the whole ordeal, floats this little life raft out there for the fans:
Former Sonics owner Howard Schultz, of Starbucks fame, is suing Mr. Bennett's group to strip them of ownership, arguing that Mr. Bennett reneged on a promise to negotiate in good faith for a new arena before trying to relocate. If Mr. Schultz prevails, the Sonics could potentially be forced to return to Seattle — Mr. Schultz and his lawyer aren't seeking an emergency injunction to stop the move in hopes of building a better case, and that case isn't expected to go to trial for nearly a year.
But most Seattle Sonics fans are probably too worn out from the last painful legal saga to even get worked up over this slim-to-none possibility. The Sonics story, if anything, should make all sports fans wary of what could happen to their own franchise once new ownership takes over. All of your hard-earned time and investment could be taken away from you with a quick handshake in the night, no matter how hard you root for them. Then you have to watch press conferences like this and just cringe:
"We made it," Bennett said after stepping to an Oklahoma City podium featuring the NBA logo and the letters OKC. "The NBA will be in Oklahoma City next season."
Seattle, Bennet Slam Door On Sonics [WSJ Daily Fix]
Basketball Still Has A Future In Seattle? Are You Kidding? [The Seattle Times]
A Shot To The Gut Of Seattle Fans [True Hoop]
The darkest hours in Seattle sports history [ESPN]


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If I want to buy some gear motors that have high torque and high speed to move a heavy (about 10-20 pounds) robot at about 5MPH, what gear motor specs should I look for?
you need to understand how torque works (it's measured in a variety of ways - generally ounce-inch/inch-ounces, pound-inches/inch-pounds, pound-feet/foot-pounds, gram-centimeters, kg-centimeters, etc).
For example, if a motor is rated with a torque of 20 inch-pounds, what that means is that the motor could lift (up-down) a weight of 20 pounds with a lever attached to the shaft that was one inch long - measured from the center of the shaft. Conversely, it also means that if the lever was 20 inches long, it could only lift 1 pound. If the lever was 10 inches long, it could move 10 pounds. See how that works?


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LiveAmmo Corporation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We need a WordPress blog header designed for our corporate blog located at http://blog.liveammo.com. It should reflect the style and theme from http://www.liveammo.com http://virtualization.liveammo.com and http://www.govirtual.tv.
We are in the process of launching our corporate weblog at http://blog.liveammo.com, and need a WordPress blog header designed for that site. Our theme is the same theme as what is installed at http://www.govirtual.tv, the only thing that will be different will be the blog header graphic. The blog header graphic should follow the general look and feel of http://www.liveammo.com and http://virtualization.liveammo.com, and should have some way (hotspot, image map etc) of allowing the user to click through to the following company assets:
http://www.liveammo.com (our main corporate website)
http://virtualization.liveammo.com (our website for our educational products and services, including our VMware training classes)
http://GoVirtual.tv (our videoblog that will have video tutorials related to VMware virtualization technology)
http://forums.liveammo.com (our user forums where people can ask questions about VMware virtualization technology)
http://blog.liveammo.com will contain articles and postings primarily about VMware virtualization, as well as corporate news and postings related to LiveAmmo Corporation.
- A unique and striking design that embodies the following concepts:- Virtualization technology (VMware, Xen etc)
- Education (we teach classes)
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This is important. A lot of clients give the SEO company a bad name, by refusing to follow the recommendations. Some of my lower budget clients are less than excited with their results (despite my setting proper expectataions) because the do not take the inititive. If you're going to spend less than $500/mo on SEO you should be prepared to create blog content, interact in social media etc. if you want to rank on even mildly competitive keywords.
Too many people are quick to jump all over an SEO for being a "rat" or a "scam" even when he's providing solid advice and a good value for on page optimization or link building. You must hold the business owner accountable, if they are refusing to invest sufficient funds in their long term success.


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Offshore Sailing Performance
J/122 is a 40' sloop conceived as a versatile, stable and simple-to-sail modern cruiser & racer. Achieving this elusive and sometimes conflicting design goal requires a combination of simple and efficient sail handling systems, balanced rig plan, high quality hardware, light but durable construction materials, a low VCG keel, versatile deck layout and a refined performance hull with enough volume for a comfortable interior arrangement.
J/122 is a light to moderate displacement yacht weighing in at 14,900 lbs with a displacement-length ratio of 161. The hull shape is fair without distortions and optimized to reduce wetted surface without sacrificing good directional stability that J/Boat owners appreciate. This hull shape, with relatively short overhangs, will provide for good performance upwind and minimized drag downwind. The J/122 hull is not extreme in any particular dimension and will have a forgiving and predictable motion in a wide variety of wind and seas conditions.
J/122 is built by J/Europe of Les Sables d'Olonne in France, an area rich with sailing history and experienced boat builders. She is CE certified category A, and hull & deck are SCRIMP molded with e-glass and vinylester resin with balsa and foam core materials respectively. An extensive SCRIMP molded structural grid supports the keel and mast loads as well as the interior components. This infusion molding process insures the lightest and strongest molded parts and is far superior to hand lay-up or chopper gun construction. All J/122 interior components are of high grade cold molded veneers and marine grade veneered plywood with varnished finish. Each new J/122 is delivered with a 5 year factory structural warranty and 10 year warranty against osmotic gelcoat blistering.
Interior Design
Priority in the interior design is given to creating adequate headroom, cabin functionality, storage, ventilation, as well as a large salon area, an efficient galley and a proper forward facing navigation station. The heaviest interior system components, like the engine, batteries, galley icebox, engine, fuel & water tanks, etc… are all centralized as much as possible in the boat in an effort to reduce pitching. The interior layout for the J/122 comes in two configurations. Standard is a three cabin single head layout and as an option there is a two cabin two head layout. In both cases the main salon, navigation, and galley areas remain unchanged.
For finish, mahogany woodwork and bulkheads are varnished and complimented by molded countertop patterns in both the galley and head(s). A molded headliner is the finishing touch in the cabins and molded white slat effect panels finish the hull surfaces. A synthetic cabin floor is chosen for durability, low maintenance and non-skid texture and is divided into several sections with flush fasteners. Cushions are custom fit for each boat and come in a variety of fabrics and patterns.
Rig & Stability
It is important that a "non-overlapping" rig configuration like the J/122 is designed with enough power and acceleration for decent performance in light conditions while not having so much power (or rig height) that the boat becomes easily overpowered in heavy conditions. It is a tight rope of compromises requiring a match of rig height, sail area, ballast, draft, form stability and overall vertical center of gravity (VCG).
J/122 combines modest 7.2' draft with a low VCG keel and 61.5' tall Hall Spars carbon mast. The balanced fractional rig configuration has a pair of swept spreaders with discontinuous shrouds terminating at the deck edge. This allows for a maximum 110% LP racing jib or 100% LP jib for all-purpose cruising and negates the need for running backstays or checkstays. The jib is set on a standard headsail furling system for easy handling with furling drum located below deck to allow maximum jib luff length. Each of these features help to simplify life for the crew and clean up the deck layout while maximizing performance.
Bow Sprit & Asymmetrics
The simplicity of sailing the J/122 is complimented by the standard asymmetrical spinnaker system and includes a retracting carbon fiber bowsprit contained in a watertight interior compartment draining overboard. The largest A-sail size recommended for the boat is 155 sqm or 1,668 sqft and is flown from the masthead mounted spinnaker halyard sheave. Two adults can easily jibe the full size spinnaker without leaving the cockpit and an added snuffer can help simplify and contain the douse when it becomes necessary. Set up the boat with a smaller cruising A-sail and it's nearly as effective and even easier to manage.
Deck Design
Priority is given on deck to a helm position that allows visibility of the headsail and forward beyond the bow in a comfortable as well as secure offshore cockpit. Highlights of the design include an open transom cockpit with two long cockpit seats each with a storage compartment and tall backrest. The floor mounted main traveler is intended to make traversing this cockpit easy while maintaining the essential mainsail controls near to the helm. All halyards lead from the mast to the cockpit as do the adjustable jib lead controls, furler and bowsprit controls etc... An efficient Harken hardware layout is an essential ingredient and has been carefully thought-out by many experienced sailors on the J/122. A hydraulic backstay adjuster panel is centrally mounted on the forward face of the steering pedestal for easy control of mast bend and mainsail shape.
For cruising, the J/122 deck also offers some unique features. The removable "dock box" option is designed to fit securely in place behind the helm to effectively close off the cockpit aft to the sea. This feature has proven very popular with the J/109 and provides extra security and cockpit storage for cruising trips and more casual outings with family and friends. For race mode, two can lift it out and leave it on the dock storing the heavy cruising gear inside. Other J/122 cruising features include a standard anchor and rode locker forward on deck, an optional windlass with bow roller combination, several standard opening ports and hatches for important below-decks ventilation, a swim ladder and a clean cockpit dodger solution.
Auxiliary Power
The Volvo D2 40hp fresh water cooled diesel engine with saildrive is standard with a folding geared propeller. This motor powers the J/122 between 7.0 – 7.5 knots and features a keyless start switch, 70amp AGM glass mat start battery, and a 115 amp alternator. A 35 gallon fuel tank is standard. Two additional 80amp house batteries are AGM Glass Mat type and divided through the DC electrical system.


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Spa Valley Railway
Group Bookings - for 20 or more persons when booked in advance only.
For those contacting us regarding Group Bookings, the Spa Valley Railway offers the following discounts on Green, Yellow or Purple Timetable Days only.
If you are making an enquiry for a group booking we need to know the following information to quote accurately: Date you wish to travel, the time of train you wish to travel on, the number of persons you wish to book for.
Fundraising/Raffle Prizes
Due to the high volume of fundraising requests that we receive, and the fact that we are a registered charity ourselves, the Spa Valley Railway is unable to support raffles or assist with fundraising requests. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you luck with all your fundraising events. We politely request that persons do not send enquiries regarding fundraising or raffle prizes.
Dining trains
Due to a current shortage of volunteers we are unable to offer dining trains outside of those in our 2019 calendar, to see what dates we are operating dining trains please visit our dedicated webpage here.
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Midsommar Services – Auto Shipping Services From Clifton, TX (76634)
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Driver will call you before pick up and will come to your place as per your convince. Before pickup driver will do the quick inspection of the vehicle and will complete all the paper work. You don't need to deposit anything before completion of paper work.
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Creating a relaxing atmosphere in your bedroom depends on two key elements: the use of pleasant furniture and adorable colors. Wooden furniture, especially in bedrooms, can create a wonderful natural style, which, when combined with subtle colors, creates an ambiance that fits your brain and your eyes. The white walls are perfect for decorating the bedroom, because it's calming color, which gives a clean and sophisticated look, that can easily fit in with the colors of the remaining furniture. In these delightful designs, you should stay away from creating a contrast, because they are not sufficiently delicate, subtle, sophisticated and luxurious. Precious wood furniture combined with soft colors and white walls creates for you an oasis of luxury and refinement, where you can relax after a hard working day. If you are one of those who think outside the box, we present you one little more challenging idea. It is about luxury round bed for your master bedroom. Check out below, and see how beautiful can be your master bedroom. Lighting in every part of the house should be adjusted to the activities taking place in it. Therefore, every room should have adequate strength lighting. The bedroom should have lighting that will allow a relaxed atmosphere and at the same time will enable in the individual parts to read or run another activity. This best combination is a mainly down lighting and string lights that will enable the light to be able to adapt to current activities and mood. For reading in bed are suitable lamps with built–in projector, which allow you to read without lighting the whole room, ie without disturbing your partner.
Today, we made one collection of extraordinary bedroom designs, that surely will leave you speechless. It is about fascinating yacht bedrooms, which are glamorous and functional. No matter that they are yacht bedroom, they can always serve you as an inspiration, if you are designing your new bedroom, or you are remodeling your old bedroom. The traditional bedroom interior design is a very well known and widely used design when it comes to bedrooms. You are probably familiar with it because there is a very high chance that your very own bedroom has been designed in this style, with slight variations according to the traditional design in your area. The bedroom is a place to relax after a hard day and fully charge the batteries for some new challenges. Therefore the bedroom, regardless of its small size, needs to be comfortable, functional and good-looking. Take plenty of time to study each individual photo from the gallery, and analyze the details, which will help you slowly to manage your ideal bedroom. Note that bright colors can more effectively increase the sense of space than the dark shades. Although is attractive, great big bed will waste a lot of space, so it's a good plan to reduce the size of the bed and fill the space obtained with practical pieces of furniture. It is good to find some functional space–saving bed design, that will be practical and amazing solution.
The contemporary bedroom interior design is certainly a design style that will turn your bedroom into your own little private paradise where you can isolate yourself from the outer world and take some time off for relaxation. This inspirational post is for everyone who works from home and everyone who lives in a small house or apartment. If are lucky enough to work from home, you need to find suitable corner that will be your workspace. It need to provide you pleasant stay and productive work. Also, it need to be located in some bright place and peaceful atmosphere. If you don't have enough space for separate home office, don't worry, we will show you some creative solutions how to make practical bedroom workspace. For this project you don't need a lot of money, you just need to invest into desk and comfortable chair. See some creative solutions, and find idea for your bedroom workspace! We all know how big and important role plays the bedroom in our lives, and that's why it should be always decorated according to the norms and rules. Well decorated bedroom mean that you will have perfectly place for sleeping and relaxation, in any time of the day. When decorating a bedroom, first you need to take care for the quality, and after that for the price.
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Schools across Calderdale have been singing their hearts out in this year's Halifax Courier Song for Christmas competition.
Here are the children at St John's CE Primary School in Rishworth performing.
Videos from schools around the borough will be featured on our website throughout December.
In January, readers will be able to vote for their favourite performance via a coupon printed in the Courier.


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Captain America: The First Avenger
Chris Evans stars as the chemically-enhanced super solider created by a team of scientists to defeat the Red Skull, Hydra and the Nazis. Co-stars Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci and Hayley Atwell. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
Attack the Block
A bunch of London street thugs take up arms against aliens invaders in one of the best loved movies of the year. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
Winnie the Pooh
Your favorite honey-loving bear and his friends are back at Hundred Acre Wood in this beautifully hand-drawn cartoon adventure that was totally abandoned by the studio despite being fantastic. Read our theatrical review and watch the trailer
A Little Help
"Office" star Jenna Fischer stars as a single mom struggling to provide for herself and her 12-year-old son in this indie comedy. Watch the trailer
City of Life and Death
The 2009 epic about the Rape of Nanking and its aftermath finally reaches America. Watch the trailer
Faces in the Crowd
Milla Jovovich stars a woman who barely survives an attack from a serial killer and awakens to find she's suffering from face blindness, making it impossible for her to recognize her attacker or anyone else, even her friends and family--this one is going straight-to-video. Watch the trailer
Father of Invention
Kevin Spacey plays a man sent to jail for an invention that accidentally chopped the fingers off people. When he's freed eight years later, he finds himself out of touch with the modern world, technology, his ex-wife and his young daughter, with whom he moves in. Yes, this is the same movie that was released in theaters 11 days ago. Watch the trailer
Pearl Jam Twenty
Director Cameron Crowe looks back at the 20-year history of one of the biggest and influential bands of a generation. Watch the trailer
The People vs. George Lucas
A documentary focusing on the legions of fans whose lives were changed by the original "Star Wars" trilogy and feel betrayed by just about every thing their creator has done since. Watch the trailer


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Mix Tennis Social
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Fitness & Racquet
Sunday tennis social is back and is open to all levels and non- members as well.
Three rounds of play with different partners with balls are provided.
Social will continue through April.
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Ruby On Rails Beginners Online Course
Ruby On Rails for Beginners Online Courses in Namibia
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What Is Ruby
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Ruby on Rails allows developers to create fully interactive and completely flawless web applications in record time. It's the framework of choice for all of those household name tech companies because it is both complex and simple, and can be applied to a range of applications. In fact, if you ask anyone who works at those giant tech companies what technology you should learn to build custom web applications, Rails will be their answer. If you love solving problems and want to up the ante on your next job application, this course is for you.
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This course is specifically designed for those who want to get started with Ruby on Rails. If you want to get a solid footing needed to build and develop rails applications and create interactive, database driven websites, this course is for you. While you don't need to have any Rails experience, a web programming background or knowledge of HTML and CSS will help.
During 38 lectures and 5 hours of content, you'll get to grips with the basics of Rails, learn how to develop Rails applications, and work towards completing a challenging final project that will set you up for using Rails in real life situations. Essentially, you'll go from zero to accomplished Rails developer.
The first two sections cover requirements, installation and the basic setup and features of rails, as well as introducing you the very first app you'll build. The next section delves deeper and will improve your understanding of how Rails works and what it can do. Section 4 and 5 are dedicated to developing your practical skills, building an interactive website and completing your course project.
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Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. It is optimised for simple, efficient programming and sustainable coding. It is used to provide default structures for databases, web services and web pages and facilitates the use of web standards in JSON, XML, HTML, and JavaScript among others.
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Ruby on Rails
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Styled Website
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Building An Interactive Website
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Working With Databases
Database Interaction Through The Rails Console
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Warner Brothers Distributes "The Cartel"
Early this year, when I heard that Paramount had picked up the education documentary "Waiting for Superman" after its award winning appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, I was honestly surprised. The film is not kind to the status quo education monopoly in this country, and Hollywood does not have a history of indicting that system as a whole. But its director was an Obama‐supporting, "Inconvenient Truth" shooting Democrat who perhaps, I thought, had made the message palatable to the Left Coast establishment. It didn't necessarily portend a fundamental change in Hollywood's tastes.
But that was months ago. Times change. Yesterday I learned from Bob Bowdon, director of the brutally candid education expose "The Cartel" that his film has been picked up for distribution by Warner Brothers Studios. It's now available not just for sale but instant viewing on Amazon.com.
Remember 2010. It's the year Americans finally started to tear down education's Berlin Wall.


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Nuclear share of electricity predicted to fall
New nuclear power stations are being built in Asia and Eastern Europe but hardly anywhere else, according to a new global analysis by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Twenty-seven reactors are under construction in 10 countries, led by eight in India, four in Ukraine and three in Russia. However none are being built in any of the other 22 countries with nuclear power, including the US, Canada and all of Western Europe.
At the moment 442 reactors in 32 countries generate 16 per cent of the world's electricity. On current trends, the IAEA predicts that this will shrink to between 11 and 12 per cent by 2030, in part due to the predicted increases in electricity generated by other methods.
But the IAEA argues that an expansion to 27 per cent is needed to raise living standards and combat climate change. The agency, based in Vienna, Austria, is charged by the United Nations with both promoting and regulating nuclear power.
"The more we look to the future, the more we can expect countries to be considering the potential benefits that expanding nuclear power has to offer for the global environment and for economic growth," says IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei.
Wind energy
However, this argument is rejected by Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Maryland, US. He argues that using nuclear power to tackle climate change would cost 40 per cent more than using wind energy and improved energy efficiency.
To make a significant dent in emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, Makhijani says 2000 large nuclear stations would have to be built worldwide over 40 years. "This would be a huge proliferation, safety and economic issue," he warns. "Nuclear power is the wrong approach to addressing global warming."
Two of the reactors currently under construction are in Iran, and one is in North Korea – both countries suspected by the IAEA of using civil nuclear technology to develop nuclear weapons. Elsewhere, China, Taiwan and Japan are each building two reactors, with South Korea, Romania and Argentina building one each.
The IAEA accepts that new nuclear plants are expensive and time-consuming to build. But in the future, says the agency's deputy director general for nuclear energy, Yuri Sokolov, "new innovative designs, with shorter construction times and significantly lower capital costs could help promote a new era of nuclear power".
The IAEA analysis is being unveiled in Moscow on Saturday on the eve of an international conference to mark 50 years of nuclear power. The first nuclear electricity was delivered to consumers by a plant in Obninsk, near Moscow, on 26 June 1954.


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Sony has sent word on UK pricing plans for PlayStation Move, which has a UK release date of 17 September.
The PlayStation Move Pack – which includes a PlayStation Move controller, the PlayStation Eye camera and the starter disk which includes the games Beat the Sketcher, Blocks and echochrome 2 will set you back £49.99.
Multiplayer Move party
The PlayStation Move controller on its own will cost £34.99, which you are going to need to invest in if you want to take part in multiplayer Move fun this coming autumn.
The PlayStation Eye camera on its own costs £24.99 and the PlayStation sub-controller on its own will cost £24.99.
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Awake Romania - 1989
In recent years Timisoara (Temesvar in Hungarian) has begun to experience an economic boom. An historic city, Timisoara likes to boast that it was the first city in Europe to be lit by electric street lamps in 1867. Historically it has always been a very mixed town with large proportions of its population consisting of Hungarians, Germans, Serbs and Jews. Thanks to history and emigration it is far less mixed now. In 1930, Romanians constituted about one quarter of the city's population and Germans and Hungarians about one third each. Today the Germans make up only 2% and Hungarians about 7.5%.
And yet, it was an incident involving a troublesome Hungarian priest in Timisoara, which was to change the history of Romania. When the communist authorities attempted to evict Laszlo Tokes and his family from his flat just before Christmas in 1989, first his own Hungarian congregation and then Romanians too started to gather to prevent this from happening. It was the spark that lit the fire of the Romanian revolution. In this extract Tokes recalls how the exasperated mayor of Timisoara, sensing that the situation was running out of control, told Tokes and the crowd on December 16 that he would not be evicted, a promise the crowd demanded in writing. "In one hour," the mayor promised, "I will have the document in an hour."
It was a crucial mistake. An hour later the excuses began to arrive. It was Saturday; the offices in Bucharest were closed; nobody was available in the legal department. He might as well have poured petrol on fire. The crowd began booing and I was not able to calm them.
At about two o'clock the deputy mayor arrived. He was a tall man in his forties with a courteous expression that very quickly altered when he saw the mood of the crowd. "This situation is intolerable," he said decisively, "and extremely dangerous. For everybody." He paused. "You have one hour to get rid of these people. If you do not, we will not allow the situation to continue." He stared at me coldly. "The matter is well understood, Mr Tokes," His voice began to rise in volume. "You do not want to get rid of them. You organised them. You organised this demonstration. You were warned what would happen. You are responsible for everything that is happening here." His voice returned to normal. "So you will send the people away. Do you understand me?"
He sat down and waited, arrogant in his expensive suit.
The crowd continued to grow all day and then, at half past seven some in the crowd began to sing a long prohibited song: "Awake Romania!"
I looked out of the window and was moved by the sight and sound of Romanians singing. It was a striking token that this was a demonstration not just by our minority church, but by the whole population of Timisoara.
In fact it was the beginning of the Romanian revolution. Nine days later, on Christmas Day, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were summarily executed after their flight from Bucharest. Seventeen years and one week later, on January 1, 2007 Romania joined the European Union.
With God, For the People. Laszlo Tokes, as told to David Porter. Laszlo Tokes. 1990.
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Surprises from the Sky
Bad Kae.
Well, this morning I got the proverbial kick-start, in the form of an unguilded death knight dropping down on my head in the far corner of the world.
"Kae! :D "
I was out in Silithus at the time, having just finished collecting a survey node out in those horrible ruins full of poor, tormented druid NPCs, during my seemingly never-ending quest to make Tyrande's doll. I tilt my head slightly at the new arrival, mousing over her (female character), guessing that she must be one of my guildies' alts. Especially when she announces she has gifts for me. I have guildies drop me basilisk livers and potions at unexpected times. And an unguilded alt may just be passing me herbs or something to dump in the guild bank. All reasonable guesses, right?
I was wrong in my guess. He was Sakaki of Azgalor, author of Tree Sproutling, come along with some shiny gifts just because he felt like saying hi to me.
Stalker. *heart*
This was probably the best possible incentive to get me to sign into blogger and make a post. Thank you, Sakaki, for the minipet, for the dress, and for the motivation, even if it was unintentional! Was great to meet you :D
7 comments:
- Sakaki said...
hehe, I'm quite crazy aren't I. I thought I might inspire a post about this XD Now I have to go spruce up my site some. Though currently I'm working on the guild's website and my druid's UI, so it'll have to wait till later ><
I hope I can inspire some more posts later :D
- January 30, 2011 at 8:29 PM
i like your druids screenshot, what dress/skirt is she wearing?
- January 30, 2011 at 10:10 PM
Welcome back! I always look forward to what you have to say (if that is any extra incentive)
- January 31, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Sakaki said...
That is the Formal Dangui from moonglade ;)
- January 31, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Glowberry said...
Oh my - that dress is closest to the rarest thing in the game. It spawns about once every two months on the vendor in Moonglade. I have one sitting on a mule on another server, and I wistfully think of transferring it over sometimes... is that too vain?
It's a gorgeous dress! You have classy stalkers! =D
- January 31, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Hi Kae, thank you for your blog and posts. These are what kept me healing in a difficult time (even if my main became a Troll in the meanwhile) :P just wanted to say thank you for your work (and done in a such nice, clear and gentle way)
(Sorry, english is not my main language :P)
Fnar-Hakkar EU
- February 4, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- Draccus said...
I absolutely love how we enjoy all of our characters and the dynamics behind them.
Personally on my server of Kael'thas I still have the dream of forming up purely druid teams and taking stuff on for the experience of it. Just imagine 40 Druids of all 3 specs grouped up to down Onxi or 25maning LK only to see a shapeshifting victory lap afterwards.
Oh well, just thought I would swift flight form in to say hi and thanks. Keep up the great work, and maybe we will que up in the great cross realm wonder some day.
- February 6, 2011 at 5:17 AM


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Master of Arts in Education
Reading and Literacy Education
Overview of the Program
The School of Education offers three graduate programs in Reading and Language—an M.A. degree and two programs leading to state licensure:
- Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Reading and Language
- Reading and Literacy Added Authorization
- Reading and Literacy Leadership Specialist Credential This program is on hiatus as of Fall 2018. For questions, please contact Dr. Rhianna Casesa at firstname.lastname@example.com
All courses in the two state-approved licensure programs may be applied to the MA degree.
Program Description:
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Reading and Language Masters Degree
This program is designed to prepare teachers for specialized teaching of reading and language arts to diverse populations of students and for curriculum and instructional leadership in the field of language and literacy. Required coursework focuses on the nature of literacy development at all levels, research and theory in teaching reading and writing, and the improvement of classroom curriculum and methods that emphasize the relationship of literacy to language and concept learning.
NOTE: Students who wish to pursue an MA degree AND a Reading Certificate and/or a Reading and Language Arts Specialist Credential may complete programs concurrently.
Program Concentration Coursework – 30-36 Units
Reading/Language Core (9 units in EDRL courses)
521A Language Development in First and Second Languages (3)
522 Assessment & Teaching in Reading (3)
524 Literature and Literacy (3)
Electives (9 units)
Supportive coursework may include Reading Certificate courses or study in other approved areas such as English as a second language, curriculum, early childhood education, the arts.