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Patch readers in Connecticut participated in an live blog during the debate. Many commenters already had their decision on who to vote for already made, but others weren't so certain at the start. Here are some of the reactions.
Obama coming out swinging.
How can anyone actually watch this and think a straight answer is in the near future?
All Mitt needs to do now is stomp his foot LOL (like a 3 year old).
Paul Alexander:
This election is not about Obama/Biden or Romney/Ryan. This election is about US. What kind of people are the majority in this country? What kind of people have the majority become? What kind of people do the majority wish to be in the future?
Obama is so much better than Mitt, Mitt just can't loose the smirk.
You know it seems you all are looking for the best actor here. How about vote on substance and not fluff. Obama has crushed the US the past four years and time for him to leave.
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This election is a done deal. The Republican Party never had any intention of winning it, hence the comically inept candidates.
This election cycle was about "positioning"...for 2016. Nothing more...nothing less. America is fine. America is strong. Americans have persevered through ACTUAL hardship. How dare you cheapen our nation's struggles. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm beginning to think Obama took a dive in the first debate so he could deliver the knockout punch in this one.
If there was a problem, I would much prefer Obama at the helm
Will Wilkin:
As for this election: VOTE SCHMOTE. The 2 parties have only the tiniest differences, both are toxic to the nation, not only shipping our economy overseas but also bankrupting us on permanent multiple undeclared aggressive illegal unconstitutional wars, tearing up the Bill of Rights and Constitution to continue the attempted global military domination on borrowed money.
The Town Hall format is very different from the panel format. This interactive audience style will be harder for President Obama to attack Romney's talking points.
Klair Waters:
When the President speaks about "Green jobs" he is saying there will be more pay offs to his pals.
Romney is clearly a better orator and his responses are much better organized and conveyed.
Romney making up his facts up as he goes along and because all the facts he doesn't put on the table. He wants to win [but] doesn't want intelligent conversation.
If I was undecided before I no longer am. Give Obama another 4.

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— Your hair is golden waves of agreement when the weather's balmy, but once the cold, dry air starts blowing and the static electricity is flowing, your hair nightmare can turn into reality. Miranda Edwards-Sargent, stylist at Rootz Salon in Sophia, W. Va., says just because the weather outside is frightful, it doesn't mean your hair has to be. Sargent shares her secrets here to staying stylish in spite of the forecast.
1. Lay off the glycerin: While it has a reputation that makes it a staple in smoothing and de-frizzing products, glycerin can actually be detrimental to hair in colder weather. Glycerin works by pulling moisture from the air into your hair. Unfortunately, it can have the opposite effect in cold weather, pulling moisture from your hair instead. If you do use it, make sure to use it with water or in water-based products only.
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It looks like a 100. Can any confirm of deny?
The silver plate (serial numer is 3009 J
What type of Farmall is it ?? Serial Number 3009 J
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What type of Farmall is it ?? Serial Number 3009 J
It looks like a 100. Can any confirm of deny?
The silver plate (serial numer is 3009 J
From what I see, it could just as easily be a '57 130. Get some casting date codes off of it to get the answer.
Here you go...
There is a casting number on the hydralic (?) under the gas tank: 357657R5
There is another casting number Transmission 351687-R8
Kuda - those are part numbers. Casting codes will appear as 10*17*A which is the month, day and a year code for when the piece was cast.
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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
Those are part numbers. We need date codes. Follow this link http://www.tmtractor.com/id/id_004.htm to see what they look like. You may find them near the part numbers. The engine block may have one on the right side, low at the front. The final drives probably have them on the inner side.
Thank you. The tractor is at my brothers barn. I will have to go over again or call him. It does have the 100 emblem on one side (the other side which I took the picture does not have the emblem any more). That would lead us to beleive it is a 100 but they and adhered with screws that do not look stock so it may have been changed. I will get numbers.
That would be Feb 7, 1955, which makes it a 100 like Merlin said, not a 130. I like to see more than one code, to guard against getting the code from a part that was replaced. But transmission housings hardly ever get changed.
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In this article I hope to take you through the steps required to get a fully-functional (albeit feature-light) persistent blogging system running on top of node.
The technology stack that we'll be using will be node + express + mongoDB all of which are exciting, fast and highly scalable. You'll also get to use jade and stylus for driving the templated views and styling! We will be using npm to ease the package management and installation issues.
This article will be fairly in-depth so you may want to get yourself a rather large mug of whatever beverage you prefer before you settle down :)
Getting Started / Pre-Requisites
Before we start with the code it's important to make sure you have git installed, an up-to-date installation of node and a running mongodb server on your development environment.
Whilst not a mandatory requirement I will be using git to pull down code from various location. Sadly the installation, configuration and setup of git is way beyond the scope of this article and I recommend reading up on that before embarking on this article if you're not familiar with git!
Installation is as simple as downloading the installer from here. For this tutorial I've been using v1.8.2 on MacOSX but any recent version should work. Once installed you can just execute 'mongod' to have a local instance up and running.
I'll assume that you already have an installed version of node.js (why else would you be looking at a how-to?! ;) ) However as node is subject to a reasonably high rate of change for the purposes of this article everything has been written to run against the 'v0.4.10' tag.
The original version of this article required various dependencies to be installed by hand from github repositories, package management has moved on within node.js since that time and we will use this to our advantage by following the instructions on how to install the npm. Once npm is installed you should be able to execute:
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It should be noted that one oft-reported issue with mongoDB is the size of the data on the disk. As we're dealing with a document orientated database each and every record stores all the field-names with the data so there is no re-use. This means that it can often be more space-efficient to have properties such as 't', or 'b' rather than 'title' or 'body', however for fear of confusion I would avoid this unless truly required!
The operations
There is a discrete set of operations (or things we want to achieve) that fall within the scope of this article, they are (in the order that we will tackle them):
- Create a new article.
- Show the list of all the articles.
- Show an individual article and its comments.
- Comment on an article
Now that we know what we're trying to achieve lets try and achieve that goal in a step-by-step fashion.
From small acorns do giant oak trees grow
Well alright, fairly small blogging apps can grow!
In express a 'normal' application consists of a call to
configure, followed by a series of method calls that declare
routes and what happens to requests that match the route followed by a call to
Thus one of the simplest express applications could be written as follows:
// Module dependencies.
var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
// Configuration
app.configure( function() {
// Routes
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('Hello World');
The above code declares a single
route that operates on
GET requests to the address
/ from the browser and will just return a simple (non-HTML) text string and a response code of 200 to the client.
Now, this is one of the simplest bits of application code one can write but express is a framework which can automatically build out an application template for you including picking a styling and templating engine.
By executing the following commands:
mkdir blog
cd blog
express -c stylus
npm install -d
You will have:
- Made the blog directory for your project (might be a good idea to put this under source control)
- Asked express to generate an application using the jade template engine and the stylus css engine (jade is the default html template engine)
- Asked npm to download and locally install any dependencies required by this express application.
If you were to now take simple-express.js an put it into the blog folder as 'app.js' you should be able to execute it.
node app.js
When you browse to localhost:3000 you should see that old favourite 'Hello World!'. This file is the starting point of the blogging application and we shall build on it now :)
A chapter in which we build on our humble beginnings
Now that we have a fully working web server we should probably look at doing something with it. In this section we will learn how to use jade to render our data and create forms to post the data back to the server, initially we will store this in memory.
The layout of express applications is fairly familiar and is usually of the form:
express /* The top level folder containing our app */
|-- app.js /* The application code itself */
|-- lib /* Third-party dependencies */
|-- public /* Publicly accessible resources */
| |-- images
| `-- javascripts
`-- views /* The templates for the 'views' */
Of providers and data
Because the intention of this article is to show how one might use a persistent approach in node.js we shall start with an abstraction: provider. These 'providers' are going to responsible for returning and updating the data. Initially we'll create a dummy in-memory version just to bootstrap us up and running, but then we'll move over to using a real persistence layer without changing the calling code.
var articleCounter = 1;
ArticleProvider = function(){};
ArticleProvider.prototype.dummyData = [];
ArticleProvider.prototype.findAll = function(callback) {
callback( null, this.dummyData )
ArticleProvider.prototype.findById = function(id, callback) {
var result = null;
for(var i =0;i<this.dummyData.length;i++) {
if( this.dummyData[i]._id == id ) {
result = this.dummyData[i];
callback(null, result);
ArticleProvider.prototype.save = function(articles, callback) {
var article = null;
if( typeof(articles.length)=="undefined")
articles = [articles];
for( var i =0;i< articles.length;i++ ) {
article = articles[i];
article._id = articleCounter++;
article.created_at = new Date();
if( article.comments === undefined )
article.comments = [];
for(var j =0;j< article.comments.length; j++) {
article.comments[j].created_at = new Date();
this.dummyData[this.dummyData.length]= article;
callback(null, articles);
/* Lets bootstrap with dummy data */
new ArticleProvider().save([
{title: 'Post one', body: 'Body one', comments:[{author:'Bob', comment:'I love it'}, {author:'Dave', comment:'This is rubbish!'}]},
{title: 'Post two', body: 'Body two'},
{title: 'Post three', body: 'Body three'}
], function(error, articles){});
exports.ArticleProvider = ArticleProvider;
If the above code is saved to a file named
articleprovider-memory.js in the same folder as the
app.js we created earlier and
app.js is modified to look as follows:
var kiwi= require('kiwi')
var ArticleProvider = require('./articleprovider-memory').ArticleProvider;
set('root', __dirname);
var articleProvider= new ArticleProvider();
get('/', function(){
var self = this;
articleProvider.findAll(function(error, docs){
self.halt( 200, require('sys').inspect(docs) );
If the app is re-run and you browse to localhost:3000 you will see the object structure of 3 blog posts that the memory provider starts off with, magic!
A view to a kill
Now we have a way of reading and storing data (patience, memory is only the beginning!) we'll want a way of displaying and creating the data properly. Initially we'll start by just providing an index view of all the blog articles. To do this create the following two files in your views sub-directory (be very careful about the indentation, that first lines should be up against the left-hand margin!):
%title= title
!= body
%h1= title
- each article in articles
%div.created_at= article.created_at
%div.title= article.title
%div.body= article.body
Next change your
get('/') routing rule in your
app.js to be as follows:
get('/', function(){
var self = this;
articleProvider.findAll(function(error, docs){
self.render('blogs_index.html.haml', {
locals: {
title: 'Blog',
articles: docs
Now you should be able to restart the server and browser to localhost:3000. Et voila! We'll not win any design awards, but you should now see a list of 3 very 'functional' blog postings (don't worry we'll come back to the style in a moment).
There are two important things to note that we've just done;
The first is the change to our application's routing rules. What we've done is say that for any browser requests that come in to the route ('/') we should ask the data provider for all the articles it knows about (a future improvement might be 'the most recent 10 posts etc.') and to 'render' those returned articles using the jade template
The second is the usage of a 'layout' jade file
layout.html.haml. This file will be used whenever a call to 'render' is made (unless over-ridden in that particular call) and provides a simple mechanism for common style across all page requests.
If you're familiar with jade then you may want to skip this section, otherwise please read-on! jade is yet-another templating language, however this one is driven by the rule that 'Markup should be beautiful'. It provides a lightweight syntax for declaring markup with a bare minimum of typed characters.
Reading a jade template is simple. The hierarchy of elements is expressed as indentation on the left hand-side; that is, everything that starts in a given column shares the same parent. Each line of jade represents either a new element in the (eventual) HTML document or a function within jade (which offers conditions and loops etc). Effectively jade takes a JSON object and binds it to any
literaltext in the jade template, applies the rules that define jade and then processes the resulting bag of stuff to produce a well-formed and valid HTML document of the specified DOCTYPE. (Yay!)
As is probably obvious we need a little styling to be applied here, to do that we'll need to change our layout a little to request a stylesheet:
-# views/layout.html.haml
%title= title
%link{rel: 'stylesheet', href: '/style.css' }
!= body
Add a stylus template to the
views folder in order to generate the css:
:font-family "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", "Arial"
:font-size 13px
:text-align center
=text-stroke 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1)
:color #555
h1, h2
:margin 0
:font-size 22px
:color #343434
:text-shadow 1px 2px 2px #ddd
:font-size 60px
:text-align left
:margin-left auto
:margin-right auto
:width 320px
:margin 20px
:display none
:font-weight bold
:text-decoration underline
:background-color #eee
:background-color #ffa
And add a new route to app.js:
get('/*.css', function(file){
this.render(file + '.css.sass', { layout: false });
Again after restarting your app and browsing to localhost:3000 you should see the posts, with a little more style (admittedly not much more!).
A couple of things to notice here:
- We setup a route to handle the request for the css as a regular expression match. We then used the matched url segment to load a stylus file from the available views and
expressdynamically converts the stylus into CSS for us on the fly. In a production environment there are configuration options that can be passed to the
configuremethod to make sure these views are cached but during development its rather useful to be able to change your stylus on the fly :)
- As express is treating the stylus to CSS rendering in exactly the same manner as the jade to HTML rendering we need to suppress the default
layoutbehaviour as there is no meaningful layout here for our stylus.
Stylus is to CSS as jade is to HTML. However reading stylus can be a little more complex as the hierarchy that is being described is really individual selectors. Lines that start at the same column are rules. Rules are applied to the hierarchy that they're found under, for example in the above stylus example, the bottom most line of stylus
background-color #ffais equivalent to the CSS
#articles .article .body {background-color: #ffa;}this equivalence is due to the position of the start of this line relative to its parent lines :) (Easy really!)
Great, so how do I make my first post?
Now we can view a list of blog posts it would be nice to have a simple form for making new posts and being re-directed back to the new list. To achieve this we'll need a new view (to let us create a post) and two new routes (one to accept the post data, the other to return the form).
%h1= title
%form{ method: 'post' }
%span Title :
%input{ type: 'text', name: 'title', id: 'editArticleTitle' }
%span Body :
%textarea{ name: 'body', rows: 20, id: 'editArticleBody' }
%input{ type: 'submit', value: 'Send' }
Add two new routes to app.js
get('/blog/new', function(){
this.render('blog_new.html.haml', {
locals: {
title: 'New Post'
post('/blog/new', function(){
var self = this;
title: this.param('title'),
body: this.param('body')
}, function(error, docs) {
Upon restarting your app if you browse to new post you will be able to create new blog articles, awesome! Looking at the post route we can see that upon successfully saving we redirect back to the index page where all the articles are displayed.
If I've lost you along the way you can get a zip of this fully working (but non-persisting) blog here: Checkpoint 1. This patch should apply cleanly to the previously described SHA of express :)
Adding permanent persistence to the mix
I promised that by the end of this article we'd be persisting our data across restarts of node, I've not yet delivered on this promise but now I will ..hopefully ;)
To do this we need to install a dependency on node-mongodb-native, which will allow our burgeoning application to access mongoDB. Once again our friend npm comes to the rescue. If we open the console up and enter the
express directory we created earlier we will be able to type the following commands to install the driver.
npm install mongodb
Now we need to replace our old memory based data provider with one thats capable of using mongodb:
var Db= require('mongodb/db').Db,
ObjectID= require('mongodb/bson/bson').ObjectID,
Server= require('mongodb/connection').Server;
ArticleProvider = function(host, port) {
this.db= new Db('node-mongo-blog', new Server(host, port, {auto_reconnect: true}, {}));
ArticleProvider.prototype.getCollection= function(callback) {
this.db.collection('articles', function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error);
else callback(null, article_collection);
ArticleProvider.prototype.findAll = function(callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
article_collection.find(function(error, cursor) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
cursor.toArray(function(error, results) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else callback(null, results)
ArticleProvider.prototype.findById = function(id, callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
article_collection.findOne({_id: ObjectID.createFromHexString(id)}, function(error, result) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else callback(null, result)
ArticleProvider.prototype.save = function(articles, callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
if( typeof(articles.length)=="undefined")
articles = [articles];
for( var i =0;i< articles.length;i++ ) {
article = articles[i];
article.created_at = new Date();
if( article.comments === undefined ) article.comments = [];
for(var j =0;j< article.comments.length; j++) {
article.comments[j].created_at = new Date();
article_collection.insert(articles, function() {
callback(null, articles);
exports.ArticleProvider = ArticleProvider;
We will also require a minor change to
app.js to use this new replacement provider.
var kiwi= require('kiwi')
var ArticleProvider= require('./articleprovider-mongodb').ArticleProvider;
set('root', __dirname);
var articleProvider= new ArticleProvider('localhost', 27017);
get('/', function(){
var self = this;
articleProvider.findAll(function(error, docs){
self.render('blogs_index.html.haml', {
locals: {
title: 'Blog',
articles: docs
get('/*.css', function(file){
this.render(file + '.css.sass', { layout: false });
get('/blog/new', function(){
this.render('blog_new.html.haml', {
locals: {
title: 'New Post'
post('/blog/new', function(){
var self = this;
title: this.param('title'),
body: this.param('body')
}, function(error, docs) {
As you can see we had to make only the smallest of changes to move away from a temporary in-memory JSON store to the fully persistent and highly scalable mongoDB store.
Let us pause for a second to take a look at two of the methods we've just written to access mongoDB, it is perhaps not immediately obvious what is happening as there are a lot of different things going on:
ArticleProvider.prototype.getCollection= function(callback) {
this.db.collection('articles', function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error);
else callback(null, article_collection);
- Declares the
getCollectionmethod on the provider's
prototype. This method only accepts one mandatory argument, a function that will be called back with the the results upon completion (or error in the case of an error.) This approach is a common idiom in node but can be confusing to look at initially.
- In mongoDB there are no tables as such, (hence schema-less) but there are
collections. A
collectionis a logical grouping of similar documents, but there are very few constraints on what types of document is put in these
collections. For our purpose we will have a single
articles. By calling
collectionon the
dbobject and passing in our collection name
articlesand a callback to deal with the response mongoDb will quietly create the collection from scratch and return it if there wasn't a collection of that name already or it will just return a reference to an existing collection. (This behaviour can actually be controlled by configuring mongoDB to be
- If an error is passed back then we need to propagate it back to the previously passed callback.
- Otherwise pass the collection that came from mongoDB back to the previously passed callback.
ArticleProvider.prototype.findById = function(id, callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else {
article_collection.findOne({_id: ObjectID.createFromHexString(id)}, function(error, result) {
if( error ) callback(error)
else callback(null, result)
- Declares the
findByIdmethod on the provider's
prototype. This method is going to take in one argument the
idof the article we wish to retrieve and a callback that will receive the data.
- We call the previously defined method
getCollectionto retrieve our collection of records from the mongoDB server, this method is asynchronous so we have to pass in the callback that will be called when it completes.
- If there was an error we give up here and pass it back to the callback.
- An
elsekeyword, if I need to explain this I'm very impressed you've made it this far before falling asleep :)
- The
article_collectionthat is passed in the callback from the previous call to
FROM clause) exposes various methods for manipulating the data stored inside of the database. Here we've chosen to use
findOnewhich when given some criteria to search on will return the sole record that matches those criteria, but there are others such as
findwhich returns a
cursorthat can be iterated over etc. 5a. This line also contains the
specificationargument (think
WHERE clause) used by the
findOnemethod, here we're using the passed in
id(which is a hexadecimal string ultimately coming from the browser so needs to be converted to the real type that our
_idfields are being stored as.) It basically states 'Find me the document in the collection who has a property named
_idand a value equivalent to an
ObjectIdconstructed with the passed in hexadecimal string.
- If there was an error we give up here and pass it back to the callback.
- Now we have the record we searched for in the database we pass it back to the callback we originally passed into the (in our case this callback would do the page rendering.)
- ,9,10 & 11. Meh! some brackets and stuff :)
I hope this explains a little better what is now going on inside our new provider code.
Adding comments
We're about halfway through the set of (4) operations we defined earlier but you'll be pleased to know that we've completed the majority of the work, everything from here on in is just minor improvements :)
Just to re-cap over we've done so far:
- Create a new article.
- Show the list of all the articles.
and we still need to do:
- Show an individual article and its comments.
- Comment on an article.
So, lets crack on!
Showing an individual article and its comments
Displaying an individual article isn't much different to displaying one of the articles within the list of articles that we've already done, so we'll pinch some of that template. In addition to displaying the title and body though we will also want to render all the existing comments and provide a form for readers to add their own comment.
We'll also need a new route to allow the article to be referenced by a URL and we'll need to tweak the rendered list so our titles on the list can now be hyperlinks to the real article's own page.
One thing that we should touch on here is surrogate vs natural keys. It seems that with document orientated databases it is encouraged where possible to use natural keys however in this case we've not got any sensible one to use (unless you fancy title to be unique enough you crazy fool.)
Normally this wouldn't be that much of an issue as surrogate keys are usually fairly sane things like auto-incremented integers, unfortunately the default primary key provider that we're using generates universally unique (and universally opaque) binary objects / large numbers in byte arrays. These 'numbers' don't really translate well into HTML so we need to use some utility methods on the
ObjectIdclass to translate to and from a hex-string into the id that can located on the database.
We need to update the index page's view:
-# views/blogs_index.html.haml
%h1= title
- each article in articles
%div.created_at= article.created_at
%a{href:"/blog/"+article._id.toHexString()}= article.title
%div.body= article.body
The page that shows a single blog entry:
-# views/blog_show.html.haml
%h1= title
%div.created_at= article.created_at
%div.title= article.title
%div.body= article.body
- each comment in article.comments
%div.person= comment.person
%div.comment= comment.comment
%form{ method: 'post', action:"/blog/addComment" }
%input{ type: "hidden", name:"_id", value: article._id.toHexString()}
%span Author :
%input{ type: 'text', name: 'person', id: 'addCommentPerson' }
%span Comment :
%textarea{ name: 'comment', rows: 5, id: 'addCommentComment' }
%input{ type: 'submit', value: 'Send' }
The stylesheet that renders these pages:
-# views/style.css.sass
:font-family "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande", "Arial"
:font-size 13px
:text-align center
=text-stroke 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1)
:color #555
h1, h2
:margin 0
:font-size 22px
:color #343434
:text-shadow 1px 2px 2px #ddd
:font-size 60px
:text-align left
:margin-left auto
:margin-right auto
:width 320px
:margin 20px
:display none
:font-weight bold
:text-decoration underline
:background-color #eee
:background-color #ffa
:display none
input[type =text]
:width 490px
:margin-left 16px
input[type =button]
:text-align left
:margin-left 440px
:width 490px
:height 90px
We also need to add a new rule to
app.js for serving these view requests:
get('/blog/*', function(id){
var self = this;
articleProvider.findById(id, function(error, article) {
self.render('blog_show.html.haml', {
locals: {
title: article.title,
Now if you browse to localhost:3000 the previous articles you added (click new post to create a new one if you have none) should now be visible (apologies for the lack of style once again!) The titles of these articles are now hyperlinks to individual pages that display the article in all itself original glory, comments and all (but alas no comments have been added so far.)
Comment on an article
Commenting on an article is a simple extension upon everything we've already gone through, the only minor complexity is in the style of 'update' we use on the back-end.
Transactions are largely non-existent in mongoDB but there are several approaches to achieving atomicity in certain scenarios. For comment addition we're going to use a
$push update that allows us to add an element to the end of an array property of an existing document atomically (which is absolutely perfect for our needs!)
All the views/stylesheet changes we need were made in the last set of changes but we need to add in a new route to handle the POST:
post('/blog/addComment', function() {
var self = this;
articleProvider.addCommentToArticle(this.param('_id'), {
person: self.param('person'),
comment: self.param('comment'),
created_at: new Date()
}, function(error, docs) {
self.redirect('/blog/' + self.param('_id'))
and a method to our provider to make the change on the persistent store:
ArticleProvider.prototype.addCommentToArticle = function(articleId, comment, callback) {
this.getCollection(function(error, article_collection) {
if( error ) callback( error );
else {
{_id: ObjectID.createFromHexString(articleId)},
{"$push": {comments: comment}},
function(error, article){
if( error ) callback(error);
else callback(null, article)
After restarting and browsing to a blog article (any one will do) you should now be able to add comments to your articles ad-infinitum. How easy was that?
If you've made it to this point without any issues then congratulations! Otherwise this Checkpoint 2 archive should contain all the code as I have it now!
Where next
Clearly this blogging application is very rough and ready (there is no style to speak of for starters) but there are several clear directions that it could take, depending on feedback I'll either leave these as exercises for the reader or provide additional tutorials over time:
- Markup language support (HTML, Markdown etc. in the posts and comments)
- Security, authentication etc.
- An administrative interface
- Multiple blog-support.
- Decent styling <g> (inc. themes)
I hope this helps at least someone out there get to grips with how you might start actually writing web apps with node, express and mongoDB.
Good luck! :)
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"When you get down six runs, it's tough," said NL manager Jack McKeon. "It's
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Playing in his third All-Star Game, Pujols is 3-for-6 (.500) with
three RBIs.
Rolen, also in his third game, is 2-for-6 (.333). Renteria, in his fourth
game, is 1-for-8 (.125).
Before the game, Pujols talked about how much being an All-Star meant to
"I remember in '97 watching the competition going on in the Home Run Derby,"
he said.
"Guys I always looked up to were guys that played hard all the time, like my
teammate Scott Rolen ... Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell with the Houston Astros. They're guys I looked up to and they respect the game ... Sammy [Sosa],
Moises Alou and all those guys. You learn a lot from those guys because they
opened up the game to a lot of young Latin players like myself. And
hopefully I can do this for a lot of the guys coming up."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Museum of International Folk Art was founded in 1953 with the extensive collection of Florence Bartlett as the basis for its collection. Bartlett survived both world wars and emerged with the conviction that "keeping traditional art alive would one day bring peace." Since its founding, MOIFA has come under the wing of the Museum of New Mexico and is now world-renowned for its comprehensive exhibitions of folk art from corners near and far.
What began with 5,000 artifacts has grown to a collection of more than 135,000—the single largest collection of international folk art in the world. SFR asked Museum Director Marsha Bol how the museum had become so special to both local and visiting constituents. "People enjoy folk art and, with the ongoing mission of peaceful bonds through art, along with the extensive programs partnered with education and after-school programming, and hands on exhibitions, it is nothing less than attractive," Bol says.
MOIFA now hosts the annual International Folk Art Market each July, which features 165 artists from around the globe. On Aug. 29, the museum will cap its Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia show with a live performance by an Indonesian puppeteer. (Casey Gallegos)
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Langford, Hoy, Wallace look to repeat at state tournaments
Tue. February 26, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. | By Brittany Jackson
North Henderson's Mitchel Langford wrestles his Pisgah opponent during a match at North earlier this season. Langford is the only No. 1 seed going into Thursday's state tournaments. (Photo by PATRICK SULLIVAN/ TIMES-NEWS)
Less than a week after nabbing top spots in their regional matches to earn state qualifier status, 13 area wrestlers are headed to compete at the state level on Thursday. Several of them — defending state champions — are no strangers to the bright lights, big mats and the nagging nerves those elements stir up.
North Henderson sophomore Mitchel Langford was the only local winner last weekend as he took home the 2-A West Regional title at 106 to remain undefeated (48-0) this season. The defending 2-A state champion at 106 will look to defend his title Thursday in Greensboro.
Big brother Colby Langford, a senior at North and two-time defending state champion (at 103 and 113), failed to make weight by one-tenth of a pound last weekend at the 2-A West Regional weigh-ins and will not have the option to try to make it a three-peat this year.
According to wrestling coaches at the 1-A Regional tournament at Hendersonville last weekend, the scales that North carried with them to West Lincoln were off by a few tenths of a pound and Colby and the rest of the Knights were under the impression that they would make weight until getting to official weigh-ins.
Joining Mitchel Langford in the state champion category will be 1-A defending state champions from Hendersonville, Rhett Hoy and Bryan Wallace. Wallace (160) was runner-up at regionals and Hoy finished in third place in the 220 bracket.
Matthew Parce, who was seeded third going into regionals, finished runner-up at 182 to make the trip to Greensboro on Friday.
Rosman's Breyer Owen is the only other 1-A state qualifier after his runner-up finish last weekend at 126.
Other North state qualifiers were Zach Houston at 138 and Clifford Braly at 113. Both finished in third place at regionals.
Also in 2-A, Polk County senior and Spartanburg Methodist commit Juan Vera, despite aggravating his preexisting ankle injury Friday at regionals, made sure he qualified for State with a fourth-place finish at 113.
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Happy Birthday, David Crosby!!
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Happy Birthday to David Crosby, who turns 71 today (August 14th). Crosby, whose father was Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, grew up in affluent towns in and around Los Angeles, and later Santa Barbara, California. He first attained fame as part of the Byrds, which he co-founded with Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke in 1964. The next year, the Byrds went on to score two Number Ones with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and an electric beat arrangement of Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn."
By 1967, Crosby, who was always an excellent harmonist, had developed a unique modular guitar tuning style, and began submitting seminal '60s work to the band's sessions, including "What's Happening?!?!," "Everybody Has Been Burned," "Draft Morning," and the 1967 psychedelic classic "Lady Friend." Most notably, Crosby co-wrote the band's groundbreaking 1966 single "Eight Mile High." Due to the growing mature nature of his songs and differing musical attitudes with McGuinn and Hillman, Crosby was fired from the Byrds.
In his 1988 autobiography, Long Time Gone, Crosby recalled being dumped by the band, remembering that, "(They said), 'You're real difficult to work with. We don't dig your songs and we think we'll do better without you.'"
In 1968, Crosby joined forces with the Buffalo Springfield's Stephen Stills and the Hollies' Graham Nash to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. It was on their self-titled 1969 debut that Crosby was finally able to shine on Woodstock-era anthems such as "Long Time Gone," "Wooden Ships," and "Guinevere."
The group's 1970 follow up album, Deja Vu, added Neil Young to the lineup and included such Crosby classics as the album's title track and "Almost Cut My Hair." During the group's frequent sabbaticals, Crosby and Nash continued to work together, most often working as a duo.
Crosby says that his bond with Nash goes way beyond just music: "There's a kinship there. I have tremendous respect and love for him, and he must love me, otherwise he would've tossed me aside long ago. And you can hear it in how we work with each other, what we do with our voices. It's sort of like a pair of aerobatic, y'know stunt flyers, flying formation and doing stunts together."
Art Garfunkel, who enlisted Crosby and Nash's help for his 1975 album Breakaway says that Crosby's vocal talent is unparalleled: "David Crosby can be very breathy and velvety, and like Brazilian. Perfect pitch, no vibrato. David Crosby, in his heyday, was one of the great baritones."
By the early '80s, Crosby had hit rock bottom due to cocaine and heroin addictions. In 1985 he served nine months in Texas State Prison for weapons and drug charge violations, and finally became sober.
In late 1994, on the eve of undergoing a liver transplant operation, he learned that his 30-year-old biological son, keyboardist James Raymond, who was given up for adoption at birth, had tried to make contact with him. The father and son met the next year, and eventually formed a trio with guitarist Jeff Pevar, called CPR.
Crosby has been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame twice, with the Byrds in 1991, and with Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997.
In 2000, Crosby revealed that he was the sperm donor for rocker Melissa Etheridge and then-partner Julie Cypher's child.
In 2004, Crosby was arrested in New York City for weapons, and marijuana possession. Later that year, he plead guilty and paid a $5,000 fine. Although Crosby had been thought to be completely clean after sobering up in the mid-'80s, he admitted that he sometimes used marijuana to curb the constant pain that resulted from his liver transplant.
Crosby, a father of six who has cheated death on numerous occasions, said that he's grown to enjoy every day he's still alive: "It's a funny thing happens. When you come close to dying, and you don't, each day becomes this precious jewel, this commodity that it's so valuable to you. And you wind up really being excited with it, and really wantin' to do something with every minute of every day. You have what the French call a 'raison d'etre,' a reason for being."
Crosby, Stills, & Nash perform tonight (August 14th) in Grand Prairie, Texas at Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie.
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LONDON — Increasing or decreasing intake of sugar is associated with changes in body weight, a commonly held view confirmed by the first systematic review of available evidence commissioned by the World Health Organization.
Increased consumption of so-called free sugars, including additives to foods and those naturally present in honey, syrups and fruit juices, led to an average gain of 0.8 kilograms (1.8 pounds) in body weight in adults, researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand found in a review of 71 studies. Limiting the analysis to studies lasting longer than eight weeks, weight gain was 2.7 kilograms, they said.
The WHO commissioned the review in preparation for updating its 2003 recommendation that free sugar be limited to less than 10 percent of energy intake. The study adds to a debate over public policy aimed at curbing the obesity epidemic and related diseases, including New York City's decision to restrict sales of large-sized sugary soft drinks.
"When considering the rapid weight gain that occurs after an increased intake of sugars, it seems reasonable to conclude that advice relating to sugars intake is a relevant component of a strategy to reduce the high risk of overweight and obesity in most countries," the authors said in a paper published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal.
Cutting consumption of sugars led to an average 0.8 kilogram reduction in weight in adults, according to five studies that ranged from 10 weeks to eight months, the authors said. Among studies in children, comparison of varying levels of consumption suggested a "significantly increased risk" of being overweight associated with higher intakes, they said.
"This review clearly indicates the positive association, which I think is quite striking, given that no such systematic reviews have been conducted so far," Chizuru Nishida, a coordinator in the WHO's Department of Nutrition for Health and Development in Geneva, said in an interview. The study defends the current WHO guidelines that have been criticized as having no scientific basis, she said.


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200 Points Giveaway!Hello everyone! I'm going to be starting my senior year of high school tomorrow And a little while ago I also hit 2k watchers, so thanks once again for that! I appreciate all the support I've been able to receive Because of that I would like to give back to the community a little, so I'm hosting a giveaway!200 points to one lucky winner!In a sense, it's a back to school giveaway xDJust a way to cheer everyone up in the face of impending doom OTLHow To Enter: Anyone can enter! You don't have to be a watcher. But I would greatly appreciate it if you checked out my gallery Favorite this journal! (mandatory)
OK, this is getting really irritating rantI dont rant publicy very often but now I am putting my foot down.Stop.Using.Me.Every week I have to deal with some stranger I havent talked to trying to use me for all the watchers that have come to my account. Let me just make one thing straight, this is not an account to feature, help spread stuff and all that, this is my gallery. IF that makes you mad or upset then go be friggin mad and upset I dont give a flappityhockeypuck. I dont care if you think I have an ego for not wanting to feature you, and help out. Jesus grow up there are hundreds of ways to feature yourself if you got of your lazy asses.STOP ASKING ME. Stop trying to GUILT trip me by using your sick pets or sick family memebers. Dont come to me if all you care about is views.What pisses me of the most is that 99% of the time I get asked some kind of version of this are from people who BARELY talk to me or have never talked to me at all.yeah this is a big pet peeve of mine, so if you do not want to
500 Watcher Raffle! Reached 100 entries! Fourth prize added <33Ahh thank you so much everyone ; v ; <33 I just reached 500 watchers >//v//< Thank you for all the support!To celebrate I decided to host an art raffle! It seemed like it was the most popular from the poll <3How to enter: be a watcher (new watchers are welcome!) fav this journal comment on this journal so I can give you your entry number! (optional) make a journal or a poll linking back to get an extra entryPrizes: 1st winner gets a full body drawing like this:2nd winner gets a half body/waist up like this:3rd winner gets a chibi with a background like this: 4th winner gets a chibi like this: Raffle ends on August 29, I'll be using
2nd yearToday is my DA birthday.So I am 2 DA years old.I the past 2 years I met so awesome artists and friends and some of them become my friends.I love you all guys so so much!What I expect from my 3rd DA year: less thieves, less fights between members, lots of new friends and more good times with my old one, my arts to improve.Today I'll upload a summary of art for 2012, so it's time to look in my gallery and to chose.Lots of hugs,Andreea
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