#coding classes in frisco

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impersonation of a public official

could be either a Class A misdemeanor or third-degree felony.

FRISCO

FBI probing ‘fake’ social media posts

Experts say they appear designed to raise doubt about stabbing investigation

Frisco authorities investigating a fatal stabbing at a high school track meet are working with the FBI on a parallel inquiry into social media posts about the incident that falsely claim to be written by the city’s police chief, officials said Friday.

Experts who track online misinformation and disinformation said one post — apparently shared by a Facebook account using the name of Frisco police Chief David Shilson and displaying the department’s official logo — appeared designed to provoke readers on racial lines.

Police issued a statement Thursday afternoon saying investigators were aware of a “fake account” using Shilson’s name, advising the public to tune into official channels.

Officer Grant Cottingham, a police spokesperson, confirmed the post bearing the department’s logo was circulating online and said a concerned person flagged it to police.

“Criminal charges will be pursued,” the department’s statement read. Cottingham said those involved with drafting the post could be charged with online impersonation, which could be a Class A misdemeanor or a third-degree felony, depending on the case.

The investigation into the post comes after Frisco police say Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old Frisco Memorial High School student, was stabbed Wednesday. Officers arrested Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old Frisco Centennial High School student, in Metcalf’s death on one count of murder, a first-degree felony.

Anthony remained in Collin County jail Saturday in lieu of a $1 million bond, according to jail records.

He told police he was acting in self-defense, according to a police report obtained by The Dallas Morning News.

An attorney listed as representing him did not immediately return messages seeking comment Friday.

The case has drawn widespread attention on social media, with posts on Facebook and X drawing millions of views and comments.

The post claiming to be from Shilson, dated Thursday, appeared as online discussions about the case were high.

‘Muddy the waters’

Jeffrey Layne Blevins, a University of Cincinnati professor who studies the effects of misinformation and disinformation online, reviewed the post at the request of The News.

He pointed to several “red flags,” including its long length compared with typical police statements released in the early days of an investigation, and its use of inflammatory language and phrasing.

Blevins added that, in some ways, the post was more sophisticated than other attempts at disinformation he has seen.

The post, for example, included the actual tip line used by the Frisco Police Department for the case, though it omitted the short-code needed for contacting the agency through text message.

The motive for what Blevins called “imposter posts” can sometimes be evident, but he said the post about the track incident was not as clear.

The post, in part, states the case was not “racially motivated.”

While it identifies Metcalf by name, it does not do so for Anthony, identifying him only as “suspect” and “black teen.”

Frisco police have not indicated that race was a factor in the case, nor did the officers who submitted narratives included in the police report reviewed by The News.

Metcalf is white.

Anthony is Black.

“It seems like the goal might have been to get people to react to this and maybe give false accounts,” Blevins said in an interview about the post’s inclusion of the tip line.

“It can really muddy the waters of the investigation.”

Cottingham, the police spokesperson, said he was not aware of any tips Frisco police received that referenced the post.

Police are working with social media platforms to have the posts taken down, he said.

Unsophisticated

Janet Johnson, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas who studies social media’s influence on information, also reviewed the post.

She said she did not feel the post was as sophisticated, suggesting a wary reader would doubt a police chief would discuss an active investigation in such terms.

Johnson said the post uses odd language, including describing the incident as a “mutual combat brawl” and using the words like “bloggers” and “sucker punched” — all terms she said a department would not use in an official news release or in statement from the police chief.

She added that she thinks the author’s goal is to cause uncertainty and sow racial animus online.

“It’s about creating doubt,” Johnson said in a message to The News.

“That’s what propaganda, conspiracy theories are meant to do — create doubt. And if enough people read this and get mad, then they did their job.”

Blevins said the law enforcement investigation into the post was notable.

“You are taking a bit of a risk to impersonate police,” he said of the post.

“We’ll see how good their deception skills really are, depending on how far the police and the FBI take it in this case.”

No autopsy report

Another post circulating online Friday afternoon on X took a different approach, purporting to be a Collin County medical examiner report detailing autopsy results for Metcalf.

The false report was edited to be on Collin County letterhead, fit with phone numbers and the office address.

Metcalf’s autopsy report, in fact, had not been released as of Friday, Cottingham said.

A records request earlier in the day by The News for a copy was denied because the report “does not yet exist in this case.”

The police department put out a second statement late Friday, again advising the public be wary of information found online and outside of regular channels.

“At this time, the report has NOT been released,” the statement reads. “Therefore, any information currently found online is FALSE.” Katherine Chaumont, an FBI spokesperson, confirmed in a statement Friday that the federal agency was assisting Frisco police but said any updates on the investigation into the post posing as Shilson, the police chief, would come from local authorities.

The investigation was in its beginning stages. “It’s too early to say what the scope is,” Cottingham said.

-Chief Shilson, Frisco Police Department (April 3, 2025) Authorities are still investigating the recent stabbing of Austin Metcalf that happened at a track rally. However, it has come to our attention that a number of Far-Right bloggers have been spreading misinformation on social media about the incident or intentionally omitting the details and circumstances that resulted in the stabbing. We are also disturbed by the number of news articles that have been posting highly misleading and vague headlines falsely insinuating the victim was stabbed and killed at random. So just for clarification, We would like to reiterate yet again that This was NOT a random or unprovoked attack. Our department has made that clear numerous times in news Interviews and press conferences. It was also not racially motivated. The victim was stabbed during a mutual combat altercation that that the White teen initiated with the suspect. Austin started a confrontation with the suspect because by demanding a seat at the David Kuykendall Stadium that the black teen had first. When he refused to give them the seat an argument ensued and Austin then sucker punched him in the face and smashed his phone down onto one of the bleachers causing the screen to crack during. The track rally did NOT have any assigned seating at the stadium for this event and patrons and the suspect were free to sit wherever they wanted in the facility. Both teens then got into a mutual combat brawl after the white teen punched the suspect in the face and Austin got stabbed while that altercation was taking place. So the suspect did NOT randomly stab Austin in the heart after he was told he was sitting in the wrong spot as several bloggers online have inaccurately claimed. The suspect is claiming self-defense and a grand jury will determine if this was self- defense under Texas law. The suspect was charged with murder strictly as a preliminary measure before we knew any of the facts on what led to the stabbing. The charges could be reclassified, or downgraded as more evidence is reviewed. We will not allow bad actors try to create racial division in our community by spreading intentional misinformation. The exact same misinformation was also spread by the right-wing media in states outside our jurisdictions including the Kaylee Gain case, Ethan Liming case and Alabama Boat Brawl cases which

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You’re right. I do want in because there are so, so many — and a lot of mine don’t have clips, sadly.

-The Pink Lady with Hazel Dawn, a frothy little 1911 musical at the New Amsterdam Theater before Flo Ziegfeld moved the Follies in. (Though he was a producer of this.) Main reason? My mom bought the score for this at a flea market for a quarter, so I grew up hearing the music. At one point, Hazel Dawn played “The Pink Lady Waltz” on stage with a violin.

-The Ziegfeld Follies of almost any year, but if I had to pick one, it would be 1915. W.C. Fields, Bert Williams, Ina Claire, Mae Murray, Olive Thomas, Marion Davies, and Ann Pennington were in the cast and the song “Hello, Frisco!” was introduced.

-The original cast of A Chorus Line, which I missed on my senior class trip in ‘77, though I did get to see Annie with the original cast, including Dorothy Loudon. “What I Did for Love” was the unofficial song of the drama section of our graduating class, because even at that age, the question, “What would you do if you couldn’t dance any longer?” resonated strongly with us. (There is, btw, a not great version of a B&W video taking at the Public Theater before the show went to Broadway on YouTube. I listen more than I watch, but that moment is still heartbreaking.)

-The Bandwagon, 1931. Another musical review and another one at The New Amsterdam, though this one was produced after the the Follies had ended. It was the last Broadway show Fred Astaire did with his sister Adele before she retired from the stage to marry and English lord. (Yes, the film Royal Wedding is partially based on her.) Frank Morgan was also in the cast, and that would have been a treat.

-Anything Goes, 1934, with Ethel Merman creating the role of Reno Sweeney. She did the role for the movie version, but Merman and the movie camera never seemed to be a great fit because she was too big. Would have loved to see her fill the stage with her personality, hitting back of the balcony in those days before there microphones.

And it’s so hard to pick just five. I’d love to have seen Pacific Overtures, but there’s also recording shot for Japanese Television out there on YT with the original cast, including Mako (and better quality than the Chorus Line video) . https://youtu.be/MQ546PASgHI?si=X8vvHvsWDdlSFVi1

I’d put Dreamgirls on the list, but I did get to see it with Jennifer Holiday here in Los Angeles when it opened on tour. (And she was amazing.) A Day in Hollywood, A Night In the Ukraine was another premiere tour production, a show that does not get enough productions, because we all need a revue of great classic movie songs performed by the ushers at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, including a tap dance rendition of the Motion Picture Code, and a second act which is the “great play Chekov never wrote” starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont. But there’s also Chess, which I saw in London and just missed in New York. Probably should put Les Miz on the list since that is a show I have managed to miss in London, New York and Los Angeles.

One show I really wouldn’t want to see was a muscial originally called Odyssey when I saw it on pre-Broadway tour. Starring Yul Brynner and Joan Diener, it’s one of the more notorious flops on Broadway. When I saw it, the show clearly needed work, but had some funny bits, especially Yul Brynner, who was hysterical as Odysseus masquerading as the beggar when he arrives home. But the show was re-worked quite a bit more, and not to good advantage. By the time it hit Broadway, it was retitled Home, Sweet Homer, and had 11 previews and 1 performance. Some stories say the closing notice as up as soon as the opening (and only) performance was finished. Other stories say it was posted during the intermission.

You have 5 tickets and a time machine to see any Broadway shows in the past

Which 5 shows are you seeing? It could even be off Broadway, a show you’ve already seen, a show you’ll never get to see, ANYTHING. Put your 5 shows in the hashtags…

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iCode Like a Girl is a Dallas area computer science hackathon for Girls Grades 3-12. The Hackathon is broken up into three groups: Elementary, Middle School, High School. Each age group will have specific age appropriate challenge that encourage students to work collectively and creatively to solve problems

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San Francisco by Night... kinda sucks imo

[ID: dreamy enhanced photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge from the wharf, with foamy waters and a pink sunset over the hills]

“SF” or “the City”. “Frisco” is unacceptable. this is literally the first thing anyone here will say. i got made so much fun of when i moved, pls save yourself.

The racist overtones of the Middle Kingdom are well documented (but, if you wanna hear me rant, it’s under the read-more), so I’ll mainly complain about the obvious one to me.

Between the “Kindred of the East” city-book and the “Changling” book on SF, they still failed to get something right.

Sense of Scale

SF is a city of less than a million. It’s cramped. Shoved up against the water on all sides, there is literally no more room to build out (and don’t even think about trying to build up! i swear, there are some gnarly vampire politicians messing with building and zoning laws here). I came from a midwest city that’s larger than SF -- it’s not hard.

BUT

Bridge toll is reasonable-ish. Trains cross the Bay. There is no real hard line between San Francisco and South San Francisco (yes, different cities). In the East Bay, divides are even slimmer. Like, a couple of blocks-ish between Oakland and Berkeley. Maybe the county has the lines, but it really doesn’t matter.

It’s all just the Bay Area.

SF By Night doesn’t even think about this. As if, being on the peninsula, the City is entirely locked in. Gary is further from Chicago than Oakland is from SF. For gods sake, ppl live in Fairfield and commute into Palo Alto.

This is the Bay Area. 9 counties. 9 million people.

[ID: a detailed and colour-coded map of the Bay Area, including many cities, highways, bridges, and honestly it’s a crayon scribble of a mess]

Fairfield to San Jose is 1.5hrs, tops. It’s very crowded, densely urban with swathes of protected hills and redwoods, and yet compact?

It’s also very neatly divided into five : North Bay, East Bay, South Bay, SF, and the Peninsula. It’s almost as neatly squared off as New York City boroughs, in terms of splitting domain.

North Bay : rich. touristy. wine, fine dining, resorts. classy in a way your mom likes and your aging hipster friend thinks is innovative. (unless you’re in Solano County, which is very East Bay)

East Bay : poster child of the area. homelessness. violence. some gangs. faltering blue collar industry. broken hippies. chic hipster food. underground music (ppl who love or hate Green Day). craft beer. gentrification. also, “UC Berkeley” (University of California: Berkeley). (unless you’re east of the hills from concord south, in which case it’s WASP city)

South Bay : baby white collar tech grads. new developments. silicon valley. new wealth that thinks it “won’t be like THOSE rich people”. punished communities of chinese, vietnamese, and latino immigrants.

Peninsula : very much like the east bay -- grubby, industrial commercial areas spliced with Stanford and incredibly stupidly priced houses.

SF : new rich that thinks it’s old money. crime and locals fighting gentrification from “liberals”. hipsters and social vultures pretending to be rebels. everything is kinda dated, not cool, and clinging to relevance.

From politics and the upper crust, there’s a vibe of “we’re in a liberal paradise, we don’t need any more progress!” People crutch onto the identity of California Democrat, while being anti-Black, anti-Asian, against improvements for homelessness or public transit or the housing crisis.

It is violently hypocritical. People don’t live their values. Class divides started sharp and have only gotten sharper, and harder. There’s a feeling of desperation, of remembering when days were easier. At the same time, a lot of the “wealthy” are only “comfortable” and living tight.

Isn’t that a great setting for the World of Darkness?

god do I have to do everything myself?

[read more for middle kingdom complaining]

The Middle Kingdom / Keui-jin

does. not. work.

It doesn’t work to such a degree that V5 scrapped the “eastern vampires” entirely. The Camarilla now has footholds in Singapore and Tokyo.

Once, there was a pan-Asian race of vampire-like creatures. They’re similar enough that it kinda flies in the face of the Caine myth, but reading their mechanics and history is a bit of a Scrabble box of cultural words from... various Asian countries. Hun and po. Chi. Dharma. Karmic cycle. Ying and yang. A lot about tigers and dragons.

The name is a mash-up of Mandarin and Japanese, which is pretty on-point since the only two countries mentioned seem to be China and Japan.

The main mechanical improvement is the dharmas, which work (not as Hindu dharma) as paths to enlightenment. Like Humanity, a dharma functions a little like a morality scale, but is mainly a concept of spirituality in an attempt to break out of the undead state and earn the universe’s favour to escape reincarnation.

Like, a Buddhist or Hindu take on vampires would be very cool. Cursed to be ripped from the natural cycle of reincarnation? Trapped to wander the earth as an echo of your mortal self? Great. Make that a standard kindred and you got a very interesting character concept.

also this horrible theme...

All City books start out with some themes for the city. All cities in WOD become characters, so that’s always cool.

Uh.

[ID: title, “Colonialism”, text, “The Middle Kingdom suffered under more than a century of European colonialism, which forced alien laws, values and conditions on nations and cultures thousands of years old. Although many of Asia’s nations have reasserted their own cultural identities, the legacy born of European influence and rule remain like a bitter aftertaste. Now the Kuei-jin of the August Courts have turned the tables on the West, invading and occupying two of their cities and imposing their own rules and requirements.”]

Now, if any of the Kuei-Jin came from countries that suffered under western colonialism, that would be cool. But, as often in white media, the only countries that exist are China and Japan -- both with their own colonizing history.

I appreciate the emphasis on Asian (particularly east Asian) immigrants in the Bay Area, which has substantial Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese populations. But. This? This isn’t good. The racist “Uno reverse no you” horror plot is trying to sound progressive : “oh no, we invaded and colonized them, so now they treat us the way we treated them!”

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"An insurrection of upper-middle class white people | Will Bunch Newsletter

They flew from their affluent suburbs to the U.S. Capitol, ready to die for the cause of white privilege

The stunning pro-President-Trump insurrection that occurred at the U.S. Capitol less than a week ago must have been a carnival for one’s olfactory bulb, as the stinging aroma of tear gas blended with the pungent odors of the occasional joint, or maybe the piles of dung that some of the cruder mob members left in the hallways once graced by icons like Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and LBJ. The only thing that wasn’t in the air on Wednesday was the smell of what so many have falsely tied to Trump’s authoritarian movement — any whiff of “economic anxiety.”

When fascism finally came to America in the form of an attempted coup to halt our presidential election, it came from lush-green suburbs all across this land, flying business class on Delta or United and staying in four-star hotels with three-martini lobby bars — the better to keep warm after a long day of taking selfies with friendly cops or pummeling the unfriendly ones, chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” and generally standing athwart democracy yelling “Halt!”

Long ridiculed as deplorables rising up from the muck of Rust Belt trailer parks, the Donald Trump counter-revolution has finally revealed itself as an upper-middle-class affair.

What else can one think after seeing the photo of Jenna Ryan, real-estate broker from the upscale Dallas exurb of Frisco (also a “conservative” radio talker) posing in front of the private jet that whisked her to the Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally and subsequent storming of the Capitol, where she smiled in front of a window broken by other rioters and tweeted that “if the news doesn’t stop lying about us we’re going to come after their studios next”?

Maybe Ryan is an extreme example, but her compatriots in rushing Capitol Hill on Wednesday included a father of three from another upscale Dallas suburb named Larry Rendall Brock Jr., whose 1989 degree in international relations from the Air Force Academy apparently never taught him that it’s a bad idea to be photographed leaving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in a combat helmet, tactical gear, and holding zip-tie handcuffs.

One might also expect a criminal defense lawyer like McCall Calhoun of Americus, Ga., to know that it’s surely illegal to surge past a line of cops into the U.S. Capitol, even if, as you later told a newspaper, you believed your fellow rioters wer people who “don’t want to lose their democratic republic.” Or that it’s bad form to do this after tweeting about a looming civil war or the potential hanging of President-elect Joe Biden.

Political junkies like us remember 2000′s “Brooks Brothers riot” of well-heeled GOP activists and lobbyists that successfully halted Florida vote recounting in populous Dade County. Apparently what we witnessed Wednesday was the “Pottery Barn insurrection.” As key figures who invaded the Capitol have been steadily identified over the last five or six days, it’s remarkable how many alleged lawbreakers emerged from upscale zip codes.

The stay-at-home dad husband of a physician. The son of an elected judge in Brooklyn. The owners of numerous small businesses, as well as assorted state legislators. The New York Times spent four years looking for Trump voters in Ohio diners, but apparently that’s not where they would have found failed actor Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, the infamous shirtless rioter with the painted face and horns, who reportedly hasn’t eaten since his arrest because there’s no organic food in jail.

Yes, many of the 74 million citizens who voted for the guy who then incited an attempted coup do fit the stereotype of struggling or laid-off blue-collar worker in a rusted-out rural community. But those folks aren’t the ones who can take a Wednesday off and fly hundreds of miles, let alone plunk down hundreds of dollars, to get to the nation’s hub. While the Capitol mob was bulked up with other Trumpists — including an alarming number of off-duty police officers, as well as some neo-Nazi or KKK types who’ve been around forever — it was the 401(k) crowd that formed the front line of America’s first real putsch.

If that surprises you, then you weren’t really paying attention. For the last four years, political scientists have been trying to wrap their brains around Trump’s shocking 2016 victory in the Electoral College while trying to tell us that the 45th president’s true base is a lot of things — but it’s not poor. In fact, polling guru Nate Silver noted during 2016′s primaries that the average Trump voter had a median household income of $72,000, which was both higher than the national average and also higher than the numbers that year for supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Interestingly, Silver and other analysts have found that Trump performs particularly well with voters with high incomes yet often without college diplomas (although he also does better with degree holders than he gets credit for). A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, the political scientist Diana Mutz, found that Trump voters generally weren’t struggling economically yet did feel great anxiety about their status — whether the threat was the rise of a foreign power like China or the idea that America, and its government, was becoming increasingly nonwhite.

That explains a lot. It explains why the Republican Party, arguably in a long downward moral spiral, lost its mind when America elected its first Black president in Barack Obama. It explains why so many people with the luxuries of a laptop and free time (things that actual poor folks have in short supply) look for conspiracies like QAnon to explain a society that no longer makes sense for them, or why so much of the hatred on the right is expended not at the CEOs who outsourced American jobs but at the cap-and-gown-wearing eggheads like journalists or scientists they find intellectually arrogant.

The main reason that so many reasonably well-off folks tried to shut down American democracy wasn’t because they feared losing their paycheck, but because they feared losing their white privilege. Donald Trump had promised that “I alone can fix it” — that he’d protect them from a society where Black and brown essential workers could expect help from their government during a pandemic or ask the police to stop killing them, a world that where just being white no longer guaranteed the status they were promised as kids. They truly believed that Biden, Kamala Harris, and the 82 million were going to end their white power, and they saw Jan. 6 as their last chance to save it. The Capitol still stands, but the rest of us are going to be spending decades cleaning up their mess.

History lesson

Philadelphia Police carry a protester away from a July 4, 1966 anti-Vietnam War protest held at Independence Hall. A new study proves police are twice as likely to break up a left-wing demonstration than a right-wing one, like Wednesday's storming of the U.S. Capitol.

In the end, as the FBI and other agencies step up their investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection, there will likely be hundreds of arrests. But the now-under-fire Capitol Police arrested only 13 rioters while the attack was underway, and only a few dozen more were busted by cops for violating the 6 p.m. curfew. No one must have been more shocked by this than the survivors of the May 1971 anti-Vietnam War protests in Washington, one of the largest demonstrations in American history. In marked contrast to last week’s light police presence, the heavy-handed tactics from the administration of Richard Nixon included secretly canceling a national-park permit for the protests and then sending in a whopping 12,000 military troops to augment an already sizable police and National Guard presence. Over three days, an astonishing 12,614 people — many who were protesting peacefully and not violating any laws — were rounded up in the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. Authorities detained thousands at RFK Stadium because there was nowhere else to put them.

The shameful 1971 incident proved a point that seemed clear last Wednesday and has now been established with research: Police who are aggressive with leftist social-justice protesters treat right-wing disturbances with kid gloves. Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests as well as anti-lockdown rallies on the far right inspired the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project to dig deeper. It found police were twice as likely to break up the left-wing protests, and when they did disperse a gathering, cops used force against leftists more often (51% of the time) than against right-wingers (34%.) This unequal treatment under the law is one more way that American policing is broken."

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Have you gotten your tickets for the Friday Night Social yet? We will have pizza, prizes, and several activities centered around Game Development in celebration of National Video Game Day (observed September 12), on Friday, September 7th from 5:30pm-7pm! Make sure to RSVP and bring a friend! The event is totally FREE!

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Angular Vs React: Detailed Comparative Analysis!

Mobile app revenues were recorded to be 365 billion U.S. dollars in 2018 and they are expected to go beyond 935 billion U.S. dollars by the year 2023, as forecasted by Statista, a reputed portal for statistics. Looking at these figures, we can confidently say that the scope for app development has grown at an exponential rate. Millions of entrepreneurs across the globe are investing in mobile app development services like never before!

But the entrepreneurs and business professionals looking for creating a lucrative mobile app might face some hurdles. So, this article talks about one such hurdle and that is technology selection. Narrowing down the topic furthermore, the article discusses Angular and React- the two JavaScript-based technologies, widely used for creating SPAs. This read will provide you a detailed report on these technologies and help you make an informed decision on which one can be a better fit for your app development needs.

A Detailed Comparative Analysis between Angular and React

Technology Developed by:

Angular: Google

React: Facebook 

Technology Type:

Angular: Written in JavaScript and is an MVC framework

React: A JavaScript library that has only view in MVC and needs Flux to employ architecture

Background and Reliability:

Angular:

Developed in 2016, Angular is maintained by Google’s team to date. It is a complete framework. Despite being a much younger technology in the market, it is widely used for diverse applications due to its reliability. In 2018, more than 600 apps were created in Google alone like Google Analytics, Google Cloud Platform, and many other apps for different business applications.

React:

React too belongs to a good family and is much older comparatively. It is being supported by Facebook. It was first used in 2012 by Facebook for its News Feed functionality and then made open-source in 2013. Today, React is extensively used in several applications and is considered a stable and reliable technology. React has more than 150,000 stars on GitHub.

Basic Concept:

Angular: Brings JavaScript into HTML, client-side rendering, works with real DOM

React: Brings HTML into JavaScript, server-side rendering, works with virtual DOM

Learning Curve:

Angular:

Learning Angular is quite challenging, especially for beginners, and requires rigorous training.

React

React is comparatively easier to learn and grasp, but when augmented with Redux, it can become difficult for learning.

Latest Version:

Angular: Angular 11, released on Nov 11, 2020

React: React 17.0.1, released on Oct 22, 2020

Installation Time:

Angular: Easy to set up, but at times, can require a longer time for coding which may lead to delayed project deliveries.

React: Though React takes longer to get installed, but once set up, it is considerably faster for delivering applications and other projects.

Features and Functionalities:

Angular:

Angular offers some of the outstanding features and functionalities such as:

dependency injection

class-based components that come with lifecycle hooks

routing using @angular/router

templates using HTML which is an extended version

XSS protection

code splitting options

Ajax requests

lazy loading

component CSS encapsulation

test runner, utilities, and framework for unit-testing

@angular/forms for creating forms

Some of the features like forms, HTTP client, etc. are optional in Angular, but some features like dependency injection are built into the framework’s core and Angular developers need to use them compulsorily.

React:

It comes with JSX instead of classic templates; JSX is an XML-like language developed on top of JavaScript

class-based components

state management functionality

code splitting

lazy loading

tools for unit-testing of components

XSS protection

error reporting and handling with error boundary

React doesn’t offer anything much for routing, dependency handling, advanced form calling, HTTP calls, etc. However, it leverages popular libraries like Fetch for HTTP requests, React-router for routing, React Testing or Enzyme Library for more unit-testing utilities, several techniques for CSS encapsulation, etc.

Significant Tools and Libraries:

Both, Angular and React, have a huge ecosystem of important tools and libraries associated with them to boost the performance of these frameworks.

Angular:

Angular CLI

Component Libraries like Material UI, PrimeNG, ng-bootstrap, NG-ZORRO, Onsen UI for Angular

Angular Universal

Ngx-admin

State Management Libraries such as NGXS, Akita, and NgRx.

Compodoc

Ionic Framework

Augury

Find a more detailed list of Angular tools in our blogs here.

React:                                                                                  

A CLI utility named Create React App

Component Libraries such as ant-design, react-bootstrap, Material UI, Semantic UI, Blueprint, Onsen UI, etc.

Styling Libraries like Emotion, CSS Modules, Styles components, etc.

State Management Libraries such as MobX and Redux

React Native

PropTypes feature

React Admin

Next.js

UI development environments like Storybook, MDX, React Styleguidist, etc.

Gatsby

React developer toolsReact 360

Testing Helpers like Enzyme, built-in TestBed, Testing Library, etc.

Applications Developed:

Angular: Google Analytics, Forbes, Mesh, Firebase Console, Wepay, VMWare, Google Cloud Platform, Auto Trader, Upwork, Google Express, Beam, etc.

React: Uber Technologies, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix, etc.

Wrap-up:

Our article ends with this and we have seen the good and bad of both technologies. There is no winner here, both- Angular and React are apt for certain requirements and business applications. It depends on aspects like features required in the app, app size, budget constraints, skills and size of the team, the platform that you are targeting, when it needs to be out in the market, and several other factors. So, you can decide the best-suited option accordingly.

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You know, we mostly all speak English but that's about all that actually culturally unites us. A lot of rattumblr types are from the Frisco area. I live 3 hours away but that's like a world of difference. I mean no one from Frisco calls it Frisco, I've been told. I'm from dead farmland and sprawling methlabs, I've never had to climb a hill to get anywhere in town, it's 85 degrees outside at 11:30 at night and everyone I know under 70 smokes weed, deals it, or has a job that makes them piss on cue and like I come from a firmly white trash kind of background.

So like my generalizations are coming from the world of Ken Park. Not a world where you actually know people who are smart enough to code anything more than hello world. I don't understand half the stuff coming out of the Bay area stemlord types.

I have the virtue of being dragged up to Willamette valley every year for a month at a time though to give me a small town perspective on things. But the stuff people suffer from here in methlab seem to affect smalltown worse to the point where the only differences are smalltown is like 90% white and more openly klanny. So the background is similar-ish.

But like there's culture shock going from here to the bay area, for sure. And I think that's relevant when talking about how people are treated by large.

Topping that off I've been increasingly under the impression that the East Coast is just... different. Like, different in every way. And so different that somehow the liberals are... rich???? over there??? when we're stereotyped as the people who can't feed ourselves over here. I mean I've met poor conservatives but I honestly can't think of a rich liberal I've personally known except like 2 of my grandma's crystal hippy friends in dubai who teach a tantric yoga they learned from a guru from the 5th dimension and i literally know no one else like them. Even the wiccans I know are mostly "working class women who liked Charmed too much" or "working class Mexican Catholic who is literally a stripper and posts gross porn to facebook for a laugh because she's kinda touched". I know enough Sikhs that I literally thought "Brahmin" meant "priestly caste" because brown-people hating Indo-European LARPers and not "upper class white liberals" because of the intellectual stereotype and it being an established term. 

And like I've been over east and have eaten enough times to know we have completely different ideas about Mexico. What  Mexican food is. What Mexican values are. What Mexican life is like. What Mexicans are like. And a good deal of that - don't get wrong - is because the feeder communities are totally different. There's a huge East-West divide in Mexico and my neck of the woods gets all the people from like Sonora, Colima, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Guerrero. At the same time because of where I live who I went to school with who was in charge of my school etc I osmiated enough Spanish to find out I basically already spoke enough of it to do things which was honestly surreal as hell. There are times I'm reading news from down south or something and I honestly feel more at home in Latino contexts, interpretations, perspectives than Anglo. I'm not Latino but between all that and demographic changes I don't know if it's fair to say that some parts of the country really are Latinized already. Like sometimes I feel like California has more common interest with Latin America than the Anglos.

Like that's just that.

There was a thing going around about how "'toxic masculinity is bad' is bad" because I'm talking about the kinds of shit guys do/are supposed to do here. Be loud, aggressive, hyper sexual, be stupid, be ugly, else you're a fag in need of a beating, keep your bitch in line cuz you provide for her, be strong because defending your honor means installing fear, and keep your money under the table because the taxman's a comin' kind of self-defeating garbage. Someone from the UK put down something about masculinity *in the UK* is understated and I was like... duh. Most people on this site are American so it should be assumed we're talking about things in an American context, right? Well, that's kind of shit of me and the more I thought about it the more I realized that.

But at the same time it's something I've been trying to tell my German friends for years. Germany's... different. Germany ain't perfect but racism's different there, the gun thing's different there, progressivism's different there, fuck you have a green party. Your small towns are never really far from a big city. You don't have our urban/rural divide. You don't have the same kinds of corruption at the local level because you don't usually do a lot of gerrymandering. You don't have the same cultural disposition towards mavericks we do. England is visibly more like US, but even it's different.

That's probably even more true of like, Russia. Australia's probably closer to US than most places in the world but not really.

I've been trying to say things like "this is my region and this is what I think about things". I'm not always good at that. But like when it comes to any kind of generalization, your sample matters, and if you're just in the blue patch in a sea of yellow, you're gonna get a different perspective than the person in the yellow patch in the sea of blue. Your generalizations are going to be about equally fair and valid. Like I live in a red enclave in a blue state. My dad moved to a blue enclave in a red state for his doctorate. Different but relatable worlds. Even worse probably are red regions of red states and so on. Especially when you're the loner - when you're the blue singleton in that red enclave or vice-versa.

But like you're never going to convince someone who's only ever seen yellow flowers than most flowers are blue. But you might get them to admit that most flowers in the blue field are blue.

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Frisco Roof Replacement - Guide

Unfortunately, at this point in the history of building construction we have yet to develop a roofing system that will last forever. Therefore, each of us will more than likely have to deal with a roof replacement.Have a look at Frisco Roof Replacement  for more info on this.

The roof, after all, happens to be most important structural component of any building. Without a quality, weather-tight roof, all other components of a building will be destroyed in short order. Paint, drywall, framing, and flooring materials are just not engineered to withstand Mother Nature. Interior spaces, and people, need protection from he elements.

Below are some roofing terms that may be helpful during the decision making process:

Square - A unit of measure commonly used in roofing and siding that equals 10 feet by 10 feet or 100 square feet (1 square equals 100 square feet). Most roofing material is sold per square, and roofers generally calculate costs and price based on the total number of squares.

Decking or Sheeting - The flat layer of material attached to the roof joists. Many older homes and buildings have wood plank decking. Most modern residential buildings have plywood or orient strand board (OSB) decking that is manufactured in 4 foot x 8 foot sheets (sometimes called sheeting). The most common thickness of roof decking used today is 7/16". Underlayment and shingles are attached to the roof decking.

Asphalt shingles - Organic based shingles that were discontinued in 2006 due to poor performance and many class-action lawsuits. The term asphalt shingle is often still used today as a misstatement. Many roofers refer to post 2006 shingles as asphalt shingles where the correct technical term is actually composition shingle.

Composition Shingle - Modern shingles manufactured with an asphalt/fiberglass mixture. The asphalt/fiberglass body of the shingle is covered with a protective granular wear-layer.

Granular Wear-Layer - The ceramic top coating of a composition shingle provides rigidity (protection from hail, debris, and punctures), UV protection, and also provides the color.

Architectural / Laminated / Dimensional Shingle - All terms refer to the modern popular shingle manufactured with several layers of asphalt/fiberglass material (laminated) that provide added strength, longevity, and a shake-like appearance.

Underlayment - The layer of material applied to the roof decking prior to installing shingles. The most common underlayment is felt (tar) paper in 15 or 30 pound options. There are many new synthetic products available that are made with waterproof/breathable material (similar to house wrap). Synthetic underlayment has been tested to have advantages in longevity and performance versus traditional roofing felt.

Ice and Water or Weather Barrier - Underlayment manufactured with adhesive on one side and is used to protect roof eaves and valleys from ice dams and water back-ups. Installing ice and water barrier is a critical step in preventing damage to roof decking by water and/or ice backing up from the gutters and going underneath the shingles. Most municipal building code requires a minimum of the first three feet of roof eaves to be covered by ice and water barrier.

Roof Exhaust Vent - The outflow space left open on the highest portion of roof to provide for proper ventilation and release of hot air. Roof vents can be the older style box type, power vents, or a modern ridge vent system. The structure and style of your roof will determine which style of vent will work best.

Roof Intake Vent - The inflow space left open on the lowest portion of roof to provide for proper ventilation and infusion of cool, exterior air. Intake vents can be gable vents or soffit vents. The structure and style of your roof will determine which style of vent will work best.

It is important do your homework prior to discussing your project with a roofer or roofing company. There are vast amounts of choices for shingles, underlayment, vents, and decking, and a huge variation in cost for each type of material. Each component of a roof is critical, as each piece should work together as a system once installed properly. A failure of one component could result in a failure of the whole system.

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Stars Unearth Your Fires (ch3/?)

Title:  Stars Unearth Your Fires (Ch 3/?)

Fandom: DCU, Teen Titans, Red Robin (preboot)     

Rating:  PG  | Words: 2320  | a03 link    

Summary: Tim Drake never thought of himself as a troublemaker as far as Robins go. But a passing accusation quickly escalates into a case of stolen memories, technologically backwards clues from his past self, interdimensional hijinks, reflections on the good old days, and possibly the rekindling of a foregone romance. Eventually Tim/??? Mystery ship!

A/N: Thanks to @kiragecko for being my lovely beta on this. And thanks to @komadoriwonder, and JLAGuyer and regulusmarkara on a03 for their thoughtful reviews. ^_^

“Dude. You know you just paid wicked money for good seats to the show right? So why are we not in those four front row seats with Wayne’s name on ‘em?”



“Because it doesn’t feel right, Kon.”



It did, but it didn’t. Fashion show. He had been so sure at the time that the term wasn’t code for anything. But as he watched the snappily-dressed crowd converge on the runway waiting for the lights to dim, he just got the feeling that actually attending the official show wasn’t quite what his younger self had in mind.



“So… what does feel right?” Bart asked, looking up from his e-reader. Cyborg had customized the processing power to keep up with Kid Flash’s speed, and so far, it was doing wonders for creating the public illusion that Bart was a patient person. So long as no one looked too closely at how quickly his finger tapped from page to page. 



Even if Bart had paused for half a second, Tim wouldn’t have been able to read it. Bart had studied Dutch last week, and was currently reading about some variety of European alternative rock in its native language.



“I don’t know,” Tim sighed, “Just… walk with me.”



They did. They were amazingly patient with him, dodging and weaving through the crowds. Kon and Bart chuckled at a cheesy poster for running shoes that seemed to appear after every third store.  Cassie allowed herself to admire a couple dresses in their respective windows—he had seen her in a dress exactly once but apparently she liked to look at them a lot? Unclear. She lingered longer over a pair of hot pink boxing gloves in a sportswear display. Future Christmas present. He made a note.



“So, not that this isn’t kind of a novelty for us,” Kon interjected, “Because you know we never do normal things, but… is there anything for us to check out here that we couldn’t have checked out in ‘Frisco? Or Gotham? Which would both be less crowded by now?”



Tim sighed.



There was something different about the Beverly Hills Mall’s ambience. He just couldn’t put his finger on it. The posters were the same stupid posters in shopping centers back in Gotham. The music was the same blaring music. The people… the people.



“The girls.”



“Hah, very funny.” Cassie rolled her eyes.



Bart chuckled.



“What about them?” Kon blurted, taking his statement seriously.



Tim’s gaze latched onto a circle of three girls—late teens to early twenties—chatting loudly with each other as they dug into their food court lunches.  He pulled out his phone and discreetly snapped a handful of pictures.



“Wait. You’re serious?” Cassie blinked.



“Bart, pick a topic and start talking. Low voice. We’ll take the open table close to them and keep it casual. I need audio.”



Cassie grimaced, “Oh my god, you are serious.”



Bart shrugged and proceeded to perfunctorily lecture on Darwinian evolution as a growing topic for romanticization in symphonic metal music. It actually struck Tim as vaguely interesting, and he made a note to ask Bart to repeat his spiel when he was better able to pay attention.


For the moment, he leaned back and let the cadence of the girl’s voices wash over him. They were talking about the fashion show, its pluses and pretentiousness, because their friend Valerie was clearly more talented than those ‘professionals’ as she actually designed things that were fun to wear. That somehow evolved into a discussion on nail polish remover as a multi-purpose solution, and really—while the nail polish thing might prove useful—none of it really mattered.



There was a common speech pattern. Not accent so much as slight dialect. Word choice interspersed with the casual pop of Mindy’s bubblegum.  For the first time, it wasn’t something about the milieu that was the same; it was something about it that was familiar.



Yet Tim couldn’t remember for the life of him where he had heard it before.



“Go 2 fashion show @ Hollywood Mall. Compare/Contrast costume.”



West coast street fashion was inherently different. While not terribly fashion-conscious in his own right, Tim had been exposed to nearly all walks of life, and their clothes, in Gotham.  The destitute in patched up hoodies, the wealthy in designer suits, the middle-class in semi-ironic polo shirts. But it was all Gotham. Even the goths and hair-dyed punks had a certain aesthetic that fit to a mold.



The California mall had different molds. Mindy’s glittery tattoo-style tights under her faded denim skirt, and Raquel’s bangly earrings jangling against the careful color palette of the beads in her cornrows had a certain feeling to it that was more theatrical than anything Tim ran into outside of his costumed life.



And Sylvia’s bright yellow jacket demanded that he stare at it. He didn’t know why.



“… I love your fashion sense!”



Tim’s head snapped around, “What?”



“Is that what you were planning on saying to them?” Bart had an eyebrow raised, “‘Cause you’ve been kinda badly hiding that you’re looking at them for the last 43 seconds and even with me providing conversational cover, they were going to notice. Soon.”



While Bart appeared merely curious, Kon and Cassie had their patented looks of concern on their faces once more.



Tim tapped his phone to stop the audio recording.



“I’m done. I’m good. Let’s go.”



——



“So,” Bart called out while skateboarding into a loop in the gym-obstacle course hybrid of Titan’s Tower, “What do we do when we hit up Paris?”


“What?” Tim blinked, pulling out one earbud. 



He hadn’t been playing the audio clip of the girl’s voices on repeat very loudly, so he had heard the question just fine. He just wasn’t on the same page, exactly.



“It was in your notes,” Kon explained from the corner where he was spotting for Cassie’s weight-lifting. “Go to the most romantic city?”



Tim snorted, “Paris is NOT the most romantic city. Nowhere close.”


Cassie grunted from beneath her gym record of 74 tons—it was frustrating for her, he knew, because she’d stopped a passenger jet once. Theoretically, she should have been able to press twice that without shredding her muscles, but apparently even superheroes had a kick-in-the-pants relationship with adrenaline that wasn’t easily replicated with a machine.



“Nnhh… okay then—guh—We’ll bite. Why? Baguettes not on your diet?”



Tim lifted an eyebrow. 



“Paris is filled with street gangs who know my face, and there’s nothing wrong with my diet.”



He wasn’t an idiot. He wasn’t trying to lose muscle-mass. It was just an unfortunate side-effect of focusing his grocery list on immunity boosters instead of protein or comfort food. Mackerel and ginger and salads did good things for his lack of spleen, but didn’t help him look ripped. 



At once, Bart was in his face with a cold slice of leftover pizza.



“OkayTim. Every time you say something drenched in the waters of DeNile, youhavetotakeabite.”



He wasn’t in de—ooh anchovies on extra cheese. It wasn’t like he couldn’t use the protein. And cold or not, it smelled good. He took a bite.



“Good boy.”



“Screw you.”



Bart cackled and ate the rest of the slice himself. Jerk.



He zipped away and the clattering of pots and pans a level away signaled that Bart had started the process of cooking dinner for the evening. Tim mentally rescinded his jerk comment.



“So Rob,” Kon’s use of his old nick name snapped his attention back, “What is the most romantic city then?



Tim shrugged, “Not Paris.”



“Well, nnnngh, that’s helpful.” Cassie set down her weights, and reached out a hand. Kon wordlessly handed her a water bottle emblazoned with a W.



Kon tapped a finger against his chin.



“Is it Moscow?”



Tim frowned, “You think the most romantic city is Moscow?”



“Uh, no,” Kon scratched the back of his head, “I think you might think that Moscow is the most romantic city because you and Tam Fox had kind of a love nest going on there…? Didn’t you?” His eyes flashed quickly to Cassie, as though unsure if Tim would want to talk about it in front of her.  Tim rolled his eyes.



“We had adjoining hotel rooms that had good room service. Hardly the mark of ultimate romance, Kon.”



Cassie smirked, “The Tower is subscribed to the Gotham Gazette.”



Oh. Oooooh. Tim winced. Knowing his friends watched the news to keep an eye out for his exploits as Red Robin was one thing. Knowing that they were reading all the gossip columns on Timothy Drake-Wayne was another.



“This does not leave the Tower, but if you wanna know, I’ll tell you.”



“Please.” They chorused. And wow, but things must have been dull around San Fran if they were all that starved for proverbial bread from the rumor mill. Tim sighed.



“The only way in which we took advantage of those adjoining hotel rooms was by having breakfast together in our pajamas. Yes, I was flirting. And yeah, I really, really enjoyed it.”



Both Kon and Cassie had small, tight smiles on their faces. They were waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because, well, they knew him. Tim pretended that he didn’t see Kon reach behind his back, handing Cassie a twenty dollar bill. He was too tired to ask about the specifics of the bets anymore.



“But it’s all irrelevant now as I have since managed to royally piss off Tam, and have just barely earned enough forgiveness that we can work together in a civil manner. It’s over…”



Kon snatched the twenty back.



“… No matter what I want.”



Cassie reached behind her again, claiming final victory on the crumpled bill.



“Hera, that’s rough. Sorry, Tim.” 



At least Cassie sounded sincere. And at least the value of his personal woes had risen with inflation. Bets about his mask had only been worth ten bucks back in the day.



“Grub’s up!,” Bart’s shout came from the kitchen, “And Ikindabrokethemicrowave, so get it while it’s hot!”



———



Tim wasn’t sure why he had been so suspicious of ‘peppered lamb lasagna’. He should have learned to trust Bart by now. The sting of spice and rosemary with cheese lingered on his tongue as he slouched with the group—and their full stomaches—on the giant couch in front of the 70’’ TV.



They had it set to Gotham news. Which was boring, seeing as Tim helped make the news by putting Riddler back into Arkham, so he already knew it all. But apparently, boring news was the point, because boring news was easy to talk over. 



Kon was the first to breach the white noise.



“So you never did answer the question.”



“Ugh,”  Tim pinched the bridge of his nose.



“What question?” barked Gar from his basset hound form. He was snuggled up next to Raven, who had similarly snapped out of her private world to pay attention.



“For four hundred points,” Bart mock-intoned, “What is the most romantic city in the world. Andon’tsayParis. SayingParisstartsawholeTHING.”



“New York?” Gar mumbled, sliding back to his human self.



“Ain’t got nothing on Honolulu.” Kon rejoined.



“I’d say Themyscira,” Cassie enunciated around a last bite of lasagna, “But you can only take girlfriends there, not boyfriends. So…”



“Funny thing is, I know the absolutemostperfectcity,” Bart muttered, grabbing the remote and flipping through channels, “But it hasn’t been founded yet. Welcome to thespeedsterlife.”



Raven’s voice managed to seep through the white noise and the commentary, causing everything else to go silent.



“You know the answer, Timothy. You just need a moment to breathe and think.”



She stepped away from Gar to kneel in front of him, placing a hand at his temple. Tim shivered. 



He wasn’t inherently comfortable with magic, but he refused to shut it out the way Bruce did. Refused to let that twinge in his gut make him shut people in his life out. He might not ever be as relaxed in Raven’s presence as Dick could be—as Dick pretended to be?—but as much as he could consciously open himself up to someone who had fought and bled with him, he would.



So he leaned back, and breathed out…



“Venice.”



He came out of the meditative moment to find everyone staring at him. It was getting kind of old. His friends seriously needed some more hobbies. Kon finally restarted the discussion.



“Y’know? Not bad. Venice is… a good choice.”



“Shoddy infrastructure, though.” Bart sighed.



“Pretty sure that’s a huge part of the charm, kiddo.” Gar chuckled.



“Seriously. Why?” Bart tilted his head.



Tim shrugged, “Venice has gondolas.”



Cassie nodded, “That it does. Guess that’s pretty romantic.”



Tim continued, “Gondolas are the perfect date activity. Historical romantic tradition. Often a new experience for both parties. A mix of public space to create a feeling of safety, but enough privacy to… um. Make out. If you want to.”



How did he know that? That wasn’t… he couldn’t ever remember setting foot in Venice. Or a gondola. But now that he was stopping to breathe and think—thank you, Raven—it made perfect sense. Huh.



His hooded empath of a teammate gave him a gentle smile before returning to her corner of the couch once more.



“I’m just saying that Venice will have collapsed by the time I’m even born,” Bart objected.



“You are so missing the point, my man.” Kon retorted.



Tim let their squabbling wash over him like a blanket. The last several times he had come to the tower, he had simply fallen asleep on the couch. It was always warmer there than in his room, and it didn’t hurt that he was usually in someone’s company. He had every intention of sleeping there again. But until then… he rose and headed for the kitchen.

By his calculations, there was one piece of lasagna left.

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Best in the Bubble: Portland Timbers Win MLS Is Back Title

The Timbers edged Orlando City on goals by a pair of center backs, winning the return-to-play tournament and securing the Concacaf Champions League berth that goes along with it.

The Portland Timbers don't have far to go if they want to celebrate their latest trophy in traditional American sports style.

The Timbers claimed the MLS Is Back title on Disney World's sports complex ground Tuesday night, edging Orlando City 2-1 to cap MLS's return-to-play tournament. The win gives the Portland Timbers a unique trophy for their case at Providence Park, but more importantly, it seals a place in the 2021 Concacaf Champions League. The victory also comes with $300,000 of the league's

$1.1 million prize money pool, while Orlando City takes home $150,000 for reaching the final.

Portland went ahead in the 27th minute, when center back Larrys Mabiala bounced home a header off a pinpoint Diego Valeri free kick. Orlando City equalized in the 39th minute, when Nani crossed for Mauricio Pereyra, who bundled it home from close range.

Dario Zuparic's first goal for the Timbers wound up being the winner, though, with the center back being in the right place to redirect home a ball off another set piece in the 66th minute.

Here are three thoughts on the conclusion of the tournament and another title, of sorts, for the Timbers:

Set pieces set Timbers apart

Two set pieces. Two goals scored by center backs. Sometimes, it's that simple.

For all of Portland's attacking components, it was its central defensive duo that did the lifting in the final third. They had to, because Orlando otherwise controlled about two-thirds of the possession and neutralized the Timbers when they did manage to break forward.

It'll be awfully discouraging for Orlando City to swallow the defeat considering the manner in which it conceded. The opener came off a first-class ball from Valeri, whose free kick some 40-plus yards from goal bent perfectly to Mabiala. The defender just maintained his run, beat Joao Moutinho to the spot, outmuscled his mark and beat the otherwise stellar Pedro Gallese with his bouncing header.

The second was even more unforgivable, with Eryk Williamson given all sorts of time to settle a corner kick and fire into the danger zone, where Jeremy Ebobisse's deflection fell into Zuparic's path right in front of the goal.

Portland didn't overwhelm Orlando in any way, but it did what it's done all tournament: defend solidly, take away the opposition's strengths for the majority of the match and survive. Despite everything, Orlando could've tied it late, but substitute Kyle Smith fired wildly when given a clear look to volley on goal in the dying minutes.

The Timbers won four 2-1 matches in Orlando, arguably should've been taken to penalty kicks by Philadelphia in the semifinals and escaped FC Cincinnati in PKs in the round of 16. A team as tournament tested and veteran-laden as the Timbers–the 2015 MLS Cup winners and 2018 MLS Cup runners-up–found a way, though, and they're the ones taking all the momentum into the resumption of the season.

Orlando City becomes respectable

In its five years in MLS, Orlando City has not fared well on the field. Sure, it debuted with Kaká, and it built a fine, soccer-specific home venue. It's also had five head coaches (including Bobby Murphy's two brief interim stints) in that time and missed the playoffs every season of its existence. The way MLS incentivizes teams that don't succeed in an effort to maintain parity, being consistently bad takes some effort. 

This tournament was always going to mean different things to different teams. For a club like Orlando, the motivation to leave a mark–and prove to itself that success is, in fact, obtainable–was clear. Topping its group and reaching the final cements a job well done. There's now a foundation for positivity for the Lions. Nani looks rejuvenated and like a clear leader. Pereyra appears to have the makings of a midfield disruptor. Oscar Pareja's methods now have proof of practice, both at FC Dallas and Orlando City.

Ultimately, it's about what happens next. Orlando resumes MLS play with, in the regular-season standings that incorporated the group-stage results and the first two games before play was suspended, a modest eight points from five matches. It has 18 games left in the abbreviated campaign to cement a playoff place and prove that what happened in the bubble doesn't stay in the bubble. 

The bubble worked–now don't put that work to waste

Let's give credit where it's due. Entering the competition, this had the appearance of a train wreck happening in slow motion. First, there was the additional labor strife caused by the league and its players needing to come to an agreement to return to play. Then, FC Dallas and Nashville SC were both forced to withdraw due to a rash of positive tests. D.C. United and Sporting Kansas City both had to combat either positive or false-positive tests. Some players expressed trepidation and genuine worry. It looked, from the outside, like a matter of not if but when things would go belly up.

Yet the bubble held strong, the protocols worked and the individuals inside of it remained responsible. There was not a single positive test reported by the league since July 10, and after the initial fire drill that resulted in a 26-team competition becoming a 24-team one, two groups being altered and some early matches being rescheduled, everything held up and all 51 matches were played. The games were, considering the circumstances and fan-less setting, largely entertaining. The TV ratings were probably not what the league was hoping for, but the product churned out by the league's broadcast partners was–again, all things considered–tremendous. Everyone who had a hand in pulling this off–and the same goes for those who pulled off the NWSL Challenge Cup in Utah–deserves to be commended.

Now comes the next part: ensuring all of that goodwill is not undone instantly. Clubs will be resuming play in home markets as soon as Wednesday, when the two outliers, Dallas and Nashville, begin making up the regular-season games (i.e. group-stage games in Orlando) they missed against one another. Up to 5,110 fans are being allowed to attend in Frisco, Texas. On the surface, no matter the protocols in place for all involved, it all seems irresponsible, and opens up the honor system code that the players and league personnel abided by in Orlando to potentially thousands of unpredictable fans. Perhaps MLS deserves the benefit of the doubt after the month it just had, and perhaps the fans willing to attend do too, but given what we do and still don't know about this virus it sure seems like the safest thing to do would be to limit risk exposure and eliminate any potential variables. 

The vast majority of teams are not allowing fans into their stadiums for the next phase of the season, and it's still yet to be announced what will happen to the Canadian teams, who can't host U.S.-based competition right now per government mandate. Time–and actions–will tell whether the following phase is able to remain on schedule and keep MLS's bizarre 25th season on track as this hellscape of a year continues.

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What to Look For in a Web Design Program

You've decided that Web design is the career for you. You're ready to jump into the game, but you're going to need some education on how to design Web sites first. However, with literally hundreds of schools offering courses in every possible permutation - Web site design or graphic design with a focus on Web sites; certificates or full degrees - how do you decide which program meets your needs?

Skills taught in a Web Design program

Web site designers require a vast array of skills, not all of which are (or can be!) taught in the classroom. However, there are certain skills that all Web designers should know. First among these is HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code, which comprises the building blocks of the Web. All Web sites, no matter how fancy or how focused on Flash animation, consist of HTML at their core.

Although most designers now use Web editing programs such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver to design Web sites, in order to understand what is actually happening when the Web site loads, you need to know HTML. For entry-level positions, this markup language can be enough, but for more advanced positions, you should learn one or more other markup languages, such as XML (eXtended Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), as well as one or more scripting languages, such as JavaScriptand ActiveX.

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Hey, is anypawdy out there? It’s me, RaenaBelle. Kittens!!! has it ever turned cold. It’s okay tho’, we’ve got our toasty warm ‘lectric blanky, and mommy. We do luvs to cuddle. 

                    Raena, quit ramblin’ on. We’re gonna share our Christmas Gift Guide today. Ya’ know, time’s runnin’ out and we’ve got some great gift suggestions fur peeps and furs alike. And we’ve tried to pick items from just ‘bout every purrice range, so there’s somethin’ fur everypawdy.

    You’re so right sissy. I’s so x’cited. Can I’s go furst? (Dezi rolls her eyes but nods yes) 

HexBug for Cats

Photo courtesy of Hexbug

      Let me tell ya’, these things are sooooooo much fun. We got one of these buggers in our Hooligan in a Can purrize pack from Cat Scouts. As soon as mommy turned him on, we were off and running. I’s will say, he works bestest on non carpeted floors. But, kitty HexBugs are great fur hours of fun and a great source of some pawsum action shots fur all you fotographers out there. There are several places to get your HexBug from the creators website to amazon. They run anywhere from $4.99 to $19.99. They don’t specifically make a HexBug fur doggies, but there are some bigger bugs that we think any woofie would enjoy as well.

              Great choice Raena.

Kitty Kick Stix

                  Me’s furst pick is those pawsum Kitty Kick Stix we just reviewed (see our review here). They’ve got a kicker fur every kitty. They range in size from 6” to 15” and they’ve even innerduced some new refillable kinds. And, ifin you use our special code DWORLD, you can save 15% off their sale purrices of $3.95 to $26.95.

  That’s a good one sissy.

  Frisco 33.5” Scratching Post

      Mine’s next pick is the Frisco 33.5” Scratching Post from Chewy.com. We not only reviewed this pawsum scratcher, we liked it enuff to ask if we could give one away (see our review here). This scratcher is tall enuff fur even the larger housecat breeds. And it’s purrlenty sturdy, so it’s sure to be liked by the kitties on your list. You can find it on Chewy fur $32.99. And, it comes in brown and cream.

            And, we know every kitty needs a good scratcher, don’t we Raena?.

  Garfield Cat Litter

                Speakin’ of a kitty’s needs Raena, every kitty needs a good litterbox filled with a great litter. One of our top choices fur the latter is the Garfield Cat Litter. There’s still time to get in on our current give away too. Just click here to check it out. It comes in a 3 pack of 5 lb bags or 1) 10 lb bag and is available in 2 different sizes, tiny grains and small grains. The cost runs $14.90 to $22.90 at Chewy. Ifin ya’ sign up fur autoship, you can save even more.

  And, ya’ gotta have somethin’ to put that litter in sissy.

  Litter Robot Open Air III

      When it comes to automated litterboxes, our choice is the Litter Robot Open Air III. Stay tuned fur our review. We’ve haven’t decided ifin it’s a toy or a litterbox. Hey, maybe, it’s both!!! MOL Like I’s said, you’ll have to wait fur the review. But, we do luv it. Now, we realize this is purretty ‘spensive. But, when ya’ think ‘bout the fact that you’ve gotta have a litterbox, and somepawdy’s gotta do the scoopin’, then we think this makes perfect sense. It’s got features out the wazoo to make the peeps happy and functions purrfectly fur a kitty’s needs. It runs $449.00 and comes ready to go outta the box…just add litter and kitty.

            Raena, you’re gonna have to learn to let the scoops go. It really isn’t a toy.

  Yeowww Nip Nanner

                Anyways, what kind of kitties would we be ifin we didn’t list the famous Yeowww nip nanner? At only $5.99 at Chewy, ya’ can’t go wrong. It’s full of purremium grade catnip to delight every kitty. Okay, maybe not every kitty, but most.

  Hey sissy, we purromissed items fur the peeps too.

  Just Kitten Around Coffee Mug

      I’s would like to suggest that huge coffee mug Chewy sent mommy a while back. She says it’s purrfect and adorably cute. And at $9.99 every kitty luvver will have a big smile with their coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

            That’s fur sure a good one, Raena.

  Cat Shelf

This is great mommy. Ya’ gotta hang it up? I’s couldn’t wait.

                Ya’ know, we haven’t listed any purrches fur us kitties. We received a great Cat shelf from the wonderful cats at Art of Paws. It’s a family run business, 1 purrson and 4 cats. Now that’s me’s kind of business. MOL Anyways, the shelf we received if just purrrrrrrrfect. Very well made and it looks just bootyful. It has 2 removable washable covers, soft wool or a ridged fibre type. And, it’ll hold up to 33 pounds. That means it’s purrfect fur us. It comes with everythin’ you need to get it up on the wall includin’ the wall anchors. Ifin ya’ live in a small space like we do, you know you have to take advantage of the vertical space. ‘Course, anypawdy who knows cats, knows, we like the high places anyways. This shelf is only $39.95 and worth every penny. So, mommy, when are we gonna have a whole wall covered in these purrches? MOL 

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      I’s luvs the purrch sissy.

  Pawsitively Beautiful Tote Bag

      A lot of ya’ may ‘member the pawsum tote bag mommy got fur her birthday. She still luvs it and so it has to be a pick on our gift list. It’s roomy enuff fur a blogger to carry their laptop or tablet in as well as all the things a lady might need in her purrse. And, buyin’ it means 71 anipals get fed. That’s a great deal. You can check it out here. It’s currently on sale fur $34.99 and comes in 3 different colors.

            And ifin mommy doesn’t fill it too full, there’s even room fur one of us, huh Raena? Well, that’s a lot of shoppin’. As purromissed, there’s a little somethin’ fur everypawdy/kitty.

  We haven’t finished sissy. We have one last gift to list. This gift is considered purriceless to the recipient and everypawdy can afford it. We know money’s tight fur everyone, so we fur sure wanted to list what mommy’ll be getting’ us fur Christmas…

  Love and Hugs

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            There ya’ have it. The greatest gift of all. And now we wanna list our next Blessin’ fur the Blessin’ Train. Love!!! We have the love of God and our mommy. With that Love, there’s nuffin’ we can’t overcome. We do hope ya’ll will jump on the Blessin’ Train, it’s headin’ your way.

      Till the next time………………………………..Be Blest!!! 

  Raena: Navy Blue 

Dezi: Vibrant Blue

      Luvs and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

  RaenaBelle and Deztinee

Chatting Cats: Holiday Gift Guide 2017 Hey, is anypawdy out there? It’s me, RaenaBelle. Kittens!!! has it ever turned cold. It’s okay tho’, we’ve got our toasty warm ‘lectric blanky, and mommy.