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Ah, Buddy Christ. I think this concept is from the movie "Dogma", which I actually never saw...but I have heard of Buddy Christ. From what I understand, in the movie, the church is trying to change their image, so they come up with Buddy Christ...a happier, cheerier "mascot" for the Christian faith. It's tongue and cheek of course...but as we were planning our themes and decorations for summer camp this year, I was asked to come up with several images of different ideas of who Jesus is (or who people think he is) and Buddy Christ seemed like a relevant option.
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The city of Homer has put out a request-for-proposals for a design and construction services team to perform and design a new Public Safety building in Homer. Using what's called the general contractor, construction manager, or GC/CM, concept, the city seeks proposals for architects and contractor...Fri, 01/10/2014 - 3:48pm
A Homer Electric Association lineman was medevaced to Seattle on Wednesday night following an electrical accident. Jacob Adams, 33, of Anchor Point, is being treated at Harborview Burn Center, Seattle. "Our prayers and thoughts are with the lineman and his family," HEA spokesperson Joe Gallagher...Thu, 01/09/2014 - 2:57pm
An Anchor Point man died on Sunday of injuries from a two-car collision near Mile 155 Sterling Highway in Anchor Point on Saturday. Dale Keefer, 53, succumbed to his injuries, Alaska State Troopers said in a press release. He had been transported to an Anchorage hospital after initially being treate...Mon, 01/06/2014 - 4:01pm
Alaska State Troopers last week arrested an Anchor Point man for second-degree arson and fifth-degree weapons misconduct after contacting him near the scene of a trailer fire in Anchor Point. Trevor Cole, 33, also was charged with sixth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance....Thu, 01/02/2014 - 11:38am
Investigation is continuing into the armed robbery last Thursday of the Grog Shop, a Pioneer Avenue liquor store. Citing the ongoing investigation, Homer Police Chief Mark Robl declined to say if any suspects had been identified. The owner of the Grog Shop, Mel Strydom, has put up a $3,000 reward fo...Tue, 12/31/2013 - 5:41pm
The owner of the Grog Shop, Mel Strydom, has put up a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who robbed at gunpoint the Pioneer Avenue liquor store last Thursday. CrimeStoppers also offers up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of ...Mon, 12/30/2013 - 1:44pm
A Ninilchik man died in a single-vehicle crash Christmas Day on the Sterling Highway near Happy Valley. Despite life-saving efforts of Ninilchik Emergency Medical Services, Denver Hammons, 65, died of his injuries. No one else was in the car....Thu, 12/26/2013 - 2:55pm
With Christmas and New Year's Day both happening on Wednesday and in the middle of the week, holiday plans might be a bit off-kilter. It will be hard for working-stiffs to take a long weekend off, but that won't stop Homer from celebrating the end of 2013....Thu, 12/26/2013 - 2:42pm
If the Homer Advisory Planning Commission ever chooses a motto, it might use baseball manager Yogi Berra's quote, "It's like déjà vu all over again." That's the way it seemed earlier in December when the planning commission considered a revised plat by developer Tony Neal for his 37-acre...Thu, 12/26/2013 - 2:11pm
After worries last week that there would be a shortfall of gift donations for Share the Spirit, Homer's elves came through. By Friday morning, all the "ornaments" — gift wish-lists for families hung on trees around town — had been picked up, said Share the Spirit co-coordinator Shari Daugh...Fri, 12/20/2013 - 1:11pm
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Step 1: What you'll need
Step 2: Cutting the shirt
Draw a line straight across the top, just under the neck. Cut through both layers.
Cut about 1 1/2" off the bottom. Shirts can vary, so alter this to meet your needs. You'll be adding about 3" back on later.
Step 3: Cutting the second fabric
Cut two pieces, each 1/2" longer than your shirt is wide (for my shirt it was 18") and 3 1/2" wide.
Step 4: Making the braid straps
Braid together, keeping the wrong side turned in, if you have one. Pin the finishing end with a safety pin so it doesn't come unbraided.
Step 5: Armholes and neck
Turn the upper edge at the neck under 1 1/4", then turn the raw edge in 1/4". Stitch with a narrow zigzag to form a casing. Make sure to stitch all the way to the armhole instead of stopping at the edge of the casing inside.


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HSBC "lift" by Grey London
Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0
By James Swift, campaignlive.co.uk, Friday, 14 February 2014 10:45AM
The ad, which was created by Leo Burnett London, first airs tonight on Channel 4 during an episode of 'Peter Kay: Live & Back on Nights!'. It will run on E4, More4 and Film 4 at the same time.
The campaign comes after a teaser for the ad was shown on Channel 4 on 10 February.
The teaser showed a cat stalking his way to a budgie's cage and opening its door, before it cut out. Viewers were then invited to go on Twitter and guess what would happen.
Freeview is giving away a 50-inch TV, as well as tickets to go see 'Chatty Man' and '8 Out of 10 Cats'.
The full ad shows the same build-up, but instead of trying to eat the bird, the cat starts singing 'You're All I Need To Get By', and the budgie completes the duet.
The pair move to the sofa and continue to serenade each other, as their owner looks on astonished. The voiceover then informs viewers that Freeview offers "95 per cent of the nation's top TV, no monthly cost".
The spot was written by Leo Burnett London's Phillip Meyler and Darren Keff, and directed by Ne-O through Stink. MEC handled the media planning and buying.
The ad builds on Freeview's existing proposition that entertainment is even better when it's free. A 2013 ad showed tadpoles dancing to The Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' as a young boy watches.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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Basic Goodness: The Origins and Development of Trust, Empathy, and AltruismThomas R. Verny, M.D., D.Psych. The starting state of every human being is one of love, compassion, and trust. This innate goodness is gradually corrupted by external biological and psychological factors. A few individuals survive these negative influences. Factors that enhance the development of healthy, caring, and empathic personality were explored. Of particular importance are the prenatal communications between mother-child, birthing practices, bonding opportunities, and the modeling of moral qualities by the parents.
Love and Healing: Birth and SoulBarbara Findeisen, MFCC Birth is both a physical and psychological event including both the mind and emotions. Birth is a symbol of awakening, emerging, changing, and new beginnings. Everyone sees birth as a physical event but few see birth as a psychological event. Birth symbols are found in all cultures, in art, myths, and fairy tales as well as in everyday language. Least understood in our society is birth as a spiritual event. Birth is often a transpersonal experience bringing opportunities for altered states of a spiritual nature. Women may describe birth in mystical terms. I believe the souls of infants before and after birth also have spiritual experiences. In over twenty years of regressing clients to pre- and perinatal memories, I have been present as many have touched inner levels of spirit which they had previously denied as a possibility. Not unlike a near-death experience (NDE) a during- birth experience (DBE) contains insights which can forever alter one's way of viewing life. In exploring the connections between spirituality and birth, we discover the healing power of love. With that understanding, we are even more aware of the importance of our work in transforming birth in our society.
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text: I am anxious to try some of the cool candies offered by a brand new online candy shop called Sugarfina. Their offerings are really original and would make for great favors at a wedding, shower, or other event. In honor of the latest addition to the National Zoo family, these chocolate licorice pandas would be particularly fun! Also fun is their cocktail party sampler which includes a tasting alcohol-inspired candies.


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'Castle' video: Is Beckett too busy for her own wedding?Add to Favorites | Castle
In the upcoming "Castle" episode, "Under Fire," the focus is on an arson/murder investigation and on the birth of Ryan's baby. But a preview clip from the episode indicates that there could be other concerns as well. For example: When will Castle and Beckett set a date?
If you believe Beckett in the video, Castle needs to land on one day soon. She will otherwise be too busy to attend. Is this going to turn into a big problem for the romantically entwined crime-fighters? Or will the birth of baby Not-Cosmo Ryan inspire some commitment from the engaged couple?
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Lehigh head baseball coach Sean Leary has announced the addition of Kyle Collina '06 to the Mountain Hawks staff. Collina is entering his second stint as a member of the Lehigh coaching staff after serving as an assistant coach during the 2008 season. Collina, a former pitcher for the Brown and White, rejoins the staff after playing professional baseball in Italy last year. He will serve as an assistant, helping John Bisco with the pitching staff.
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Few memorials to forgotten victim: Gunman's mother
NEWTOWN, Conn. When people here speak of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, they use the number 26: the ones killed after Adam Lanza stormed his way into the school.
When the bells of Newtown toll mournfully Friday morning to honor the victims of last week's shooting rampage, they'll do so 26 times, for each child and staff member killed.
Rarely do residents mention the first person police said Lanza killed that morning: his mother, Nancy, who was shot in the head four times while she lay in bed.
That makes 27.
A private funeral was held Thursday in New Hampshire for Nancy Lanza, according to Donald Briggs, the police chief in Kingston, N.H., where her funeral was held. About 25 family members attended the ceremony.
In Newtown, where makeshift memorials of stuffed animals, angels, candles, flowers and balloons have blossomed on patches of grass throughout town, there is only one noticeable tribute to Nancy Lanza. It's a letter written by a friend on yellow paper affixed, screwed and shellacked onto a red piece of wood.
"Others now share pain for choices you faced alone; May the blameless among us throw the first stone," it reads in part.
No one outwardly blames Nancy Lanza for the rampage. But authorities have said the gunman, her 20-year-old son Adam, used the guns she kept at their home to carry out a massacre that became the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history and has stirred lawmakers to call for gun control laws.
Nationwide, churches will ring their bells 26 times at 9:30 Friday morning - exactly a week after the shooting occurred - in memory of the victims. Two gold balloons, one a 2, the other a 6, are tied to a bridge. Handwritten tributes mention 26 snowflakes. "26 angels will guide us," reads one.
The dearth of tributes to Nancy Lanza underscores the complicated mix of emotions surrounding her after the shooting.
In a small town where multiple funerals are taking place each day, where black-clad mourners stand in lines waiting to say goodbye to another child, many are incredibly angry at Nancy Lanza for not keeping her guns away from her son.
Some view her as a victim, but one whose guns were used to kill first-graders. And others think Nancy Lanza was an innocent victim, one who should be counted and included at memorials.
"It's a loss of life and, yes, her life mattered," said Christine Lombardi. "Yes, I do believe she should be included."
Others in Newtown are weary of the crush of media and have become reluctant to answer questions after a difficult week. But the subject of marking Nancy Lanza's death, along with those of the children and teachers killed by her son, seemed mainly to surprise two moms who stopped to place flowers at the memorial at Main and Sugar streets with their two grammar-school aged girls.
They paused, appeared bewildered, and looked at each other for a moment. Then one quietly said, "No, no," and they each took a girl's hand and led them away.


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Students will learn what momentum is and how to calculate the momentum of objects. In addition, students will learn how to use conservation of momentum to solve basic problems.
Learn about the relationship between force, time, impulse and momentum in collisions.
Practice with the concepts of conservation of momentum and energy by analyzing a special case of the ballistic pendulum.
Explains the conservation of momentum and how it applies to collisions. Provides examples of inelastic and elastic collisions.
Calculations involving the equation p=mv or p = m1v1 + m^2v^2, attaining the momentum or velocity of a part of a system.
A list of student-submitted discussion questions for Momentum.
This study guide reviews momentum, law of conservation of momentum, impulse, and collisions (perfectly elastic and perfectly inelastic).


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To find out who your State Safe Routes to School Coordinator is, please visit our Find State Contacts page.
To find out who your State Safe Routes to School Coordinator is, please visit our Find State Contacts page.
While every community is unique, the basic steps to starting a Safe Routes to School program include:
Start by identifying people within your community who want to make walking and bicycling to school safe and appealing for children. Sharing concerns, interests and knowledge among a variety of community members with diverse expertise can enable groups to tackle many different issues. Bringing together the right people is the first step to changing a community's point of view.
This flier provides overview program information, including the definition of Safe Routes to School, the elements of Safe Routes to School programs, and why Safe Routes to School are important.
This booklet provides an overview of Walk to School programs, including reasons to hold an event and steps to making it a success.
The annual Walk to School report evaluates the progress of the Walk to School program in the US and across the globe, with highlights from the year's events.


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The remarkably expressive Mr. Siddig is sympathetic and true as the tortured father, communicating reams of emotion with his eyes, and Ms. Tomei is totally charismatic as his discarded lover who helps him out of a sense of humanity.
Inescapable is Nadda's first foray into thriller territory, and her inexperience shows in awkwardly mounted fight scenes and clumsy car chases, not to mention an almost fatally explanatory script.
The next time Siddig plays a man of intrigue, let's hope he's chasing something more interesting than a clueless kid.
To her credit, Nadda is a solid actors' director – the performances here are competent even when the writing isn't. The exception is South Africa which, although a logistically necessary shooting location, ain't much of a thespian.
Feb 19, 2013Inescapable isn't a terrible movie, but absent its ripped-from-the-headlines setting it's unremarkable.
The film spins its wheels for almost an hour until collapsing under the weight of exposition that renders the mystery nearly besides the point.
Muddled and inert despite the best intentions, this inescapably dull thriller plays like a Middle Eastern take on Liam Neeson's "Taken."
Waiting for Inescapable to finally reach its unearned, sentimental conclusion is a tiresome experience, but seeing Tomei submit to its badness is several measures worse.
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013, and he received a shout of encouragement from the mother-in-law of a man who was shot and killed while being...
Researchers say they have collected promising weather data by flying instrument-laden drones into big Western and Midwestern storms. Now, they want to expand the project in hopes of learning more about how tornadoes form.
Trustees of the Phelps County Regional Medical Center Wednesday night approved the proposed 2015 operating budget that included both a declining operating margin and an increase in prices.
A new audit faults the Missouri Department of Agriculture for failing to complete some inspections and giving big pay raises to several employees, but Auditor Tom Schweich says those are "relatively small" concerns.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is planning to hold a summit to brainstorm ways to beef up the state's cattle industry.
The transfer of $342,000 from a reserve account to cover the combined deficit of The Centre and SplashZone was approved by the Rolla City Council Monday night.
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A bill filed this month would require pregnant women to get permission from the father before having an abortion except in cases of incest and what the Missouri Republican who sponsored the legislation called "legitimate rape."
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Cabinda — The secretary general of the ruling MPLA party's women wing (OMA), Luzia Inglês Van-dúnem, arrived Monday in northern Cabinda province for two-day working visit to the region.
Under the visiting agenda, the leader of the female organisation will hold ceremony of award in recognition of the commitment of the local organisation's secretariat to the special campaign of growing of structures, to mark the celebrations of 55th anniversary of the ruling MPLA party, on 10 December.
Luzia Inglês was received at the local airport by the provincial first secretary of MPLA, Matildes da Lomba, during which she was briefed on the current socio-economic and political reality of the region and the organisational state of the group in Cabinda.
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This is not a snapping issue. I have ALT clicked to no avail. Plus there is no vector data in the Zoom View window.
Basically when I try to add a GCP to the ZOOMED VIEW window the point is placed about 10 pixels away. There is no vector present. This is a raster image.
This is how I got to this point.
Loaded shape-files (lat/long).
Loaded a dumb TIF and choose to rectify it.
I used the shape-files to pick the GCPs.
Changed the projection to match the raster and saved PRJ file.
Selected triangulation as method.
Saved the GCP file (just in case).
Clicked OK in the Image Rectifier and viewed in the main window.
Saved the workspace (which I see saves the GCPs inside the GMW file).
Opened the GMW workspace next day.
Opened the Overlay Control Center and right-clicked on the TIF layer to Modify Layer Position/reprojection.
Added a few more GCPs. It was after a few iterations of this that I noticed that despite the triangulation method some GCPs seemed to be ignored as the raster and vector did not match at that point (PROBLEM 1). When I went back into the Rectifier Tool I had to UPDATE the points as they had moved off the GCPs slightly (PROBLEM 2). Also, when clicking in the Zoomed View (TIFF) the point would be offset about 10 pixels from the cursor axis (PROBLEM 3).
Note: I never exported the TIF to a file. I left it in its original form. Once I am happy with the rectification I will export it. But wondering if the constant "Modify Layer Position" is destructive or have I run into a limitation with the projection algorithm? It is Lambert Conic.
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Create a dramatic focal point.
Q. I have a large spare bedroom with the bed and two mission-style night tables centred on a long wall. The bed has a blue and white handmade quilt on it and the wall colour is ivory. I have 12 blue and white Royal Copenhagen Christmas plates from my grandmother, and I recently purchased 12 small handmade plate holders for mounting on a wall. What would be an attractive pattern in which to arrange the plates and plate holders over the spare bed?
A. When creating a grouping of art on a wall, always start with the arrangement on the floor first, so you can make changes without damaging the wall with too many nail holes. On the floor, arrange the plates in different patterns, and choose which one suits you best. Make sure to leave a good 5" to 8" around the edge of the grouping to ensure balance, as you don't want any arrangement to seem crunched up against a wall or ceiling. If your ceiling height permits, you can group the plates in a symmetrical display of rows or an asymmetrical, organic pattern as shown above. It seems that your room is more traditional, so try arranging the plates in an oval shape, for a little extra interest. Try to keep the plate grouping centred over the bed to create a focal point.
Once you've decided on a pattern, trace out the pattern on paper and mark the wall where you will hang the plate holders. If you don't want to bother with the paper, start from the middle and work out. Mark the spot where you will hang the plate that will be in the centre of the display. If you know you will be leaving 2" or 3" between plates, then just mark the others accordingly. Think about finishing off the room by placing a ceramic vase in a warm red, or a red pillow on an accent chair to bring in a contrasting colour to your blue and white room.
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Seated high in the Rocky Mountains west of Fort Collins, Zimmerman Lake was abuzz last week, and not just from the swarms of pesky mosquitos that had a heyday dive-bombing visitors.
Instead, scientists and students from the University of Colorado Boulder and fisheries biologists and managers from state and federal natural resource agencies were focused on the inhabitants of a water tank in the back of a Colorado Parks and Wildlife fish-stocking truck. Inside were hundreds of colorful trout known as greenback cutthroats, about to be released into their native river drainage after vanishing for decades.
As much as dog owners love their children, they tend to share more of themselves, at least in terms of bacteria, with their canine cohorts rather than their kids.
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Mongabay.com news articles on animals in blog format. Updated regularly.
Pictures of the day: sea turtle and whale shark release in China
(07/18/2012) Earlier this month, Sea Turtles 911, a conservation organization in China, released two green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and a juvenile whale shark (Rhincodon typus) back into the wild.
First snow leopards collared in Afghanistan as species faces rising threat from climate change
(07/18/2012) Scientists have captured and collared two snow leopards (Panthera uncia), arguably one of the world's most elusive predators, in Afghanistan for the first time. Undertaken by researchers with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Afghani vets, the successful operation was conducted as a new study finds that snow leopard habitat could shrink by nearly one-third due to anthropogenic climate change in the Himalayas.
First video footage of wild snow leopard cubs in their den in Mongolia
(07/18/2012) Panthera, a wild cat conservation group, and the Snow Leopard Trust have released the first footage of snow leopards with their mothers in their dens in Mongolia.
Animal picture of the day: flamingos take flight in the Bahamas
(07/17/2012) Scientists have banded nearly 200 American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) in the Inagua National Park in the Bahamas in order to monitor the long-term population.
Clever whale shark video goes viral
(07/17/2012) Researchers have a caught a juvenile—though still massive—whale shark on camera sucking fish out of a hole in an Indonesian fishing net. Posted on YouTube.com, the video has gone viral and has been viewed by 1.2 million people to date. The footage was captured during a program to tag 30 whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Indonesia's Cendrawasih Bay National Marine Park in order to learn more about the world's largest fish.
Innovative conservation: bandanas to promote new park in the Congo
(07/16/2012) American artist, Roger Peet—a member of the art cooperative, Justseeds, and known for his print images of vanishing species—is headed off to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help survey a new protected area, Lomami National Park. With him, he'll be bringing 400 bandanas sporting beautifully-crafted images of the park's endangered fauna. Peet hopes the bandanas, which he'll be handing out freely to locals, will not only create support and awareness for the fledgling park, but also help local people recognize threatened species.
Scientists propose a new way forward on orangutan conservation
(07/16/2012) Orangutans are in dire need of a revised conservation approach, according to a new study in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. While the plight of the species is widely recognized within the conservation community—receiving international attention in the form of scientific research, funding, and NGO efforts—the authors argue that "there has been frustratingly little progress."
Cute animal picture of the day: baby bamboo lemur
(07/16/2012) Greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) are one of over a hundred lemur species found only on the island of Madagascar. Listed as Critically Endangered, there are only around 500 individuals known in the wild, making them one of the world's most imperiled primate species. A new baby was recently born in captivity in the UK's Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.
Strangest island in the Caribbean may be a sanctuary for critically endangered coral
(07/16/2012) Don't feel bad if you've never heard of Navassa Island, even though it's actually part of the U.S. according to the Guano Islands Act of 1856. This uninhabited speck between Haiti and Jamaica, barely bigger than New York City's Central Park, has a bizarre and bloody history—and may be a crucial refuge for endangered coral in the Caribbean.
'Beautiful' new snake discovered in Cambodia (photo)
(07/16/2012) Scientists have discovered a new snake species in the biodiverse rainforests of the Cardamom Mountains, reports Fauna & Flora International (FFI). The new reddish-hued serpent has been named after its country of origin by native herpetologist Neang Thy: the Cambodian kukri (Oligodon kampucheaensis).
Cute animal picture of the day: spotted hyena cub
(07/15/2012) Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are found across sub-Saharan Africa. Adept hunters, hyenas can also survive by scavenging and opportunism. They form the largest packs of any carnivore, which are run by matriarchs. Although, they resemble dogs, the hyena is actually more closely related to cats and weasels.
Marijuana farms poisoning carnivorous fishers in California, finds study
(07/13/2012) An illegal pesticide used by marijuana growers to kill rodents is poisoning weasel-like fishers in California, reports a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
91% of Madagascar's lemurs threatened with extinction
(07/13/2012) 94 of the world's 103 lemur species are at risk of extinction according to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released by the group's Species Survival Commission during a workshop this week. Lemurs, a group of primates that is endemic to the island of Madagascar, are threatened by habitat destruction and poaching for the bushmeat trade.
Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon
(07/12/2012) Once habitat is lost or degraded, a species doesn't just wink out of existence: it takes time, often several generations, before a species vanishes for good. A new study in Science investigates this process, called "extinction debt", in the Brazilian Amazon and finds that 80-90 percent of the predicted extinctions of birds, amphibians, and mammals have not yet occurred. But, unless urgent action is taken, the debt will be collected, and these species will vanish for good in the next few decades.
Animal picture of the day: the greater roadrunner
(07/12/2012) Charging at speeds up to 26 miles an hour (42 kilometers), the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) chases down prey like lizards and snakes. It is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List, and is found across the Southwestern U.S. Although the greater roadrunner is capable of flight, it prefers racing along the ground.
Cute animal picture of the day: stranded sea lion finds new home
(07/11/2012) A young female California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) , who had stranded herself three times, has found a new home at the Bronx Zoo. After her most recent escapade of showing up at a beachside bar in California, experts decided she was too habituated to humans to re-release back into the ocean for a third time. She was transferred to the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo.
Wealthy consumption threatens species in developing countries
(07/11/2012) Consumption in wealthy nations is imperiling biodiversity abroad, according to a new study in Nature that investigates the link between international trade and biodiversity decline. The study shows how threats to biodiversity and ecosystems, located primarily in developing countries, can be connected to consumer demand for goods in wealthier nations. Some of the major commodities include coffee, cocoa, soy, beef and palm oil.
Pictures of the day: LEGO animals storm Bronx Zoo
(07/10/2012) LEGO animals are debuting next to the real things at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo this summer. LEGO artists have created a menagerie of animals including lemurs, a tiger, hornbills, rhinos, gorillas, flamingoes, a giraffe, and a zebra. The exhibition runs until September 3rd. "The safari brings to life the challenges faced by wildlife due to habitat loss and real threats to their survival. The goal of the program is to connect young minds to nature and inspire visitors to help build a future for wildlife," the Bronx Zoo says in a press release.
Meet the world's rarest snake: only 18 left
(07/10/2012) It's slithery, brown, and doesn't mind being picked up: meet the Saint Lucia racer (Liophis ornatus), which holds the dubious honor of being the world's most endangered snake. A five month extensive survey found just 18 animals on a small islet off of the Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia. The snake had once been abundant on Saint Lucia, as well, but was decimated by invasive mongooses. For nearly 40 years the snake was thought to be extinct until in 1973 a single snake was found on the Maria Major Island, a 12-hectare (30 acre) protected islet, a mile off the coast of Saint Lucia (see map below).
Google Earth used to discover unknown forest in Angola, scientists find it full of rare birds
(07/09/2012) An expedition, followed up by some computer hunting on Google Earth, has discovered large remnants of old growth forest, including thriving bird communities, in the mountains of Angola. The Namba Mountains in Angola were expected to contain around 100 hectares of forest, but an on-the-ground survey, coupled with online research, has discovered numerous forest fragments totaling around 590 hectares in the remote mountains, boosting the chances for many rare species.
Poaching results in elephant gender imbalance in Indian park
(07/09/2012) Scientists have undertaken a new census of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in India's Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve (BRT) following almost 30 years of sustained poaching. Estimating that the park contains four female elephants for every male, the scientists warn in a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science that this gender imbalance threatens the population. Poachers target male Asian elephants for their tusks, generally leaving females untouched.
Critically Endangered capuchins discovered in four new locations
(07/09/2012) The Ecuadorian capuchin, a Critically Endangered subspecies of the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons), has been discovered in four new locations according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Found only in Ecuador and northern Peru, the scientists say the monkey may be unique enough to warrant consideration as a distinct species.
Tracking elephants in Cameroon to mitigate conflict with locals
(07/09/2012) Elephant conservation is imperiled by poor spatial planning, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Tracking two elephant matriarchs in and around Bénoué National Park in Cameroon, scientists found that the herds spent over half their time outside of the park, highlighting the potential for human-wildlife conflict as elephants are known to raid fields.
Bad science journalism: articles spread misinformation about whale sharks
(07/09/2012) The death of one of the world's largest recorded whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Arabian Sea provoked a sudden global interest in these massive shark. Weighing 14.5 tons, the fish in question made 'whale shark 'whale shark' the number 3 top search in Google Trends on the day the news hit. But, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science, more than half the reports filed by journalists were "factually wrong."
Endangered fruit bats, and many other species, on the menu in the Philippines
(07/09/2012) Bushmeat hunting is well-known to be decimating animal populations in Africa, but has been little studied much of Southeast Asia. However, a new paper in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science shines light on the size and scale of bushmeat poaching in the Philippines. Studying an anonymous community near a national park on the island of Luzon, researchers found that poachers targeted 22 species, ten of which are considered either threatened or near threatened with extinction by the IUCN Red List.
Animal picture of the day: Sunda clouded leopard in Borneo
(07/09/2012) The Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) is the largest wild cat in Borneo and is classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red list of threatened species. Due to their nocturnal and cryptic habits they are seldom observed and very little is known of their basic ecology and distribution. This large Clouded leopard was photographed by remote camera trap in Malua BioBank as part of the Bornean Banteng Program which studies the rare banteng (Bos javanicus lowi).
Poacher known as 'Morgan' behind devastating massacre at Okapi Wildlife Reserve
(07/05/2012) Officials have pointed to an infamous elephant poacher known as 'Morgan' as the head of the murderous attack at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month. The attack by Morgan and his crew left seven people dead, including two wildlife rangers. The poachers also shot dead 13 captive okapis at the headquarters, which were considered ambassadors for the imperiled forest. One okapi remains alive, but injured and conservationists are not optimistic about its survival. UNESCO and the the NGO Fauna and Flora international have issued an emergency appeal to raise $120,000 dollars within two weeks for the victim's families as well as for rapidly rebuilding the station.
New colorful rainforest frog named after Prince Charles (PICTURES)
(07/04/2012) Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of frog and named it in honor of Price Charles, according to a paper published in the journal Zootaxa.
Animal picture of the day: rare image of Asiatic cheetah and cubs
(07/03/2012) The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus), also known as the Iranian cheetah, is one the world's rarest cat subspecies with somewhere between 70-110 individuals left. No surprisingly it is considered Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List.
Scientific expedition to survey species in China's Bigfoot territory
(07/02/2012) This month, nearly 40 scientists will enter a wild and remote region of western China, reports China's state media Xinhua. Spending several weeks in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, the researchers hope to study rare species like the golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), which is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. But the forest is also the source of China's 'wild man' sightings; known locally as the 'Yeren,' the unconfirmed primate has also been dubbed China's Bigfoot.
Cute animal picture of the day: dromedary camel baby
(07/02/2012) The dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) is the world's largest camel. It's easily recognizable by its single hump.
Gabon torches their ivory stock as poachers attack okapi reserve
(07/02/2012) Last week, the west African nation of Gabon committed over 1,200 ivory tusks and carvings to the fire. The act, which was meant to send a strong signal to illegal wildlife poachers across Africa, came only a few days after militia poachers stormed the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The assailants killed 13 okapis and six people, including two wildlife rangers, in retaliation for a crackdown against poaching and mining in the protected area. Poaching has reached epidemic levels in Africa due to increasing bushmeat consumption and a rise in East Asian demand for black-market ivory and rhino horns.
Forgotten species: the overlooked Sumatran striped rabbit
(06/28/2012) When you read the words 'Sumatra' and 'Endangered Species' in the same sentence there is a 99 percent chance that you will be reading about one of four animals: orangutans, tigers, elephants, or rhinos. These big four of Sumatra have become the rallying cry to save the island's ever-dwindling forests. This is not surprising, given that these species include some of the world's most publicly beloved animals and, in addition, they are all considered Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List. But by dominating the headlines in Sumatra's deforestation crisis, these four species often overshadow the thousands of other species found on the island, many of which also face extinction. In fact when you read the words 'Sumatra' and 'Endangered Species' you will almost certainly not be reading about the Sumatran striped rabbit.
96 percent of the world's species remain unevaluated by the Red List
(06/28/2012) Nearly 250 species have been added to the threatened categories—i.e. Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered—in this year's update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List. The 247 additions—including sixty bird species—pushes the number of threatened species globally perilously close to 20,000. However to date the Red List has only assessed 4 percent of the world's known species; for the other 96 percent, scientists simply don't know how they are faring.
Genetic analysis reveals 79 new species of sharks and rays, many likely endangered
(06/27/2012) Analyzing the DNA sequences of 4,383 specimens of sharks and rays, researchers have discovered 79 potentially new species, raising both the known diversity of this predacious family and concerns that many species are likely more imperiled than thought. Already 32 percent of open ocean sharks and rays are considered threatened with extinction by the IUCN Red List, due largely to overfishing, finning, bycatch, and prey depletion.
New Sumatran rhino mama filmed giving birth and nursing
(06/25/2012) On early Saturday morning, scientists were elated when first-time Sumatran rhino mother, Ratu, gave birth to a healthy male calf. The birth was filmed as well footage has been taken of the little tike—with massive eyes—nursing (see videos below). The new calf gives hope to a species on the very brink of extinction.
Cute animal picture of the day: moose twins
(06/25/2012) On May 21st, two Eurasian moose twins (Alces alces) were born at the Zoological Society of London's (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo. The twins were named Toffee and Caramel.
Lonesome George passes, taking unique subspecies with him
(06/25/2012) Lonesome George, the sole surviving member of the Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni), was found dead on Sunday by staff at the Galapagos National Park. With George's passing, the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies officially falls into extinction. First found in 1972, Lonesome George became famous for representing the last of his kind. He was believed to be around 100—middle-aged for a Galapagos tortoise which can live to 200 years old. Staff plan to do an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
'Time pollution': loss of predators pushes nocturnal fish to take advantage of the day
(06/25/2012) Nocturnal fish—which sport big eyes for improved night vision—are taking back the day in the coral reefs of the Tabuaeran Atoll, according to a new study in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Overfishing has plundered the Pacific atoll of many of its notable predators, including sharks and barracudas, causing ripple effects through the ecosystem. One of these emerging changes appears to be that with less fear of being eaten, nocturnal fish are increasingly venturing out during the day.
Historic birth for the Sumatran rhino
(06/24/2012) After two miscarriages and a pregnancy that lasted 15 months, Ratu, a female Sumatra rhino, has given birth to a healthy male calf, conservationists happily announced this weekend. The birth at a rhino sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra is the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and the best reproductive rhino science in the world. This is the first captive birth in Indonesia, and only the fourth captive birth for the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in the last hundred years. The successful birth brings new hope for one of the world's rarest mammals: less than 200 Sumatra rhinos are thought to survive in the world.
New tiny crustacean discovered in deep sea off Europe (photo)
(06/20/2012) Scientists have pulled up a tiny new species of 'squat lobster' from a deep sea mountain at 1,410 meters below sea level off the coast of Spain. Dubbed Uroptychus cartesi, this is only the fourth species in this genus from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, although there are over hundred unique species in the Pacific and Indian ocean. The new species measures just 5-7 centimeters.
Congolese experts needed to protect Congo Basin rainforests
(06/20/2012) This summer, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is expected to approve a new higher education strategy which the country has developed with the World Bank and other international donors. The shape of this educational reform initiative will be critical to Congo's future in many ways. It could finally offer Congo's long-suffering people a route into the 21st century. It will also help determine the future of the DRC's forests. Nearly half of the Congo Basin's remaining rainforest is in the DRC—yet the critical role of Congolese experts in forestry, agricultural science, wildlife management and other rural sciences in protecting this forest is not widely recognized.
Protecting jaguars a good business decision for ranchers
(06/20/2012) Live jaguars are worth considerably more for ecotourism than they livestock they kill, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Bonito, Brazil.
New species threatened by mining dubbed the 'Avatar moth'
(06/19/2012) A new species of moth has been named after one of the world's most popular movie blockbusters: Avatar. Discovered on New Zealand's Denniston Plateau during a biodiversity survey by local NGO Forest & Bird this March, the new moth species is imperiled by plans for a coal mine on the plateau. The name—Avatar moth (Arctesthes avatar)—was chosen by its discoverers from a list of almost 100 entries by the public.
Extinct toad rediscovered after hiding for 133 years in Sri Lanka
(06/18/2012) A small toad not seen since 1876, and considered by many to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a stream in Sri Lanka. First recorded in 1872, the Kandyan dwarf toad had (Adenomus kandianus) vanished for over a century before being found by scientists during a survey in 2009 in the Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, according to a new paper in Zootaxa.
Nearly 50 tigers die in India in last six months
(06/18/2012) Since January 1st, 48 Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) have been found dead in India, which has the world's largest population of tigers. According to India's National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), 19 of those deaths have been confirmed to be at the hands of poachers, but that number could become even higher. In order to combat a surge in tiger poaching, the Indian state of Maharashtra has recently granted legal immunity to any forest ranger who shoots a poacher.
World failing to meet promises on the oceans
(06/14/2012) Despite a slew of past pledges and agreements, the world's governments have made little to no progress on improving management and conservation in the oceans, according to a new paper in Science. The paper is released just as the world leaders are descending on Rio de Janeiro for Rio+20, or the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, where one of the most watched issues is expected to be ocean policy, in part because the summit is expected to make little headway on other global environmental issues such as climate change and deforestation. But the new Science paper warns that past pledges on marine conservation have moved too slowly or stagnated entirely.
Animal picture of the day: the beautiful black-necked swan (and babies)
(06/12/2012) The black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) is South America's largest waterfowl, but the smallest of the world's swans. When newborn, babies, who are called cygnets, often ride on their parents back for safety.
B95, the great survivor
(06/11/2012) He is so long-lived that he has surpassed all expectations, touching hearts throughout the American continent, bringing together scientists and schools, inspiring a play and now even his own biography. B95 is the name of a rufus red knot (Calidris canutus rufus), a migratory bird that in his annual journeys of 16,000 kilometers (9,940 miles) each way from the Canadian Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, in Argentina, has flown a distance bigger than the one between the Earth and Moon.
Should we devote 2014 to wilderness?
(06/11/2012) American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau once said, "In wilderness is the preservation of the world." Anyone who has spent time in vast untouched wild space likely understands Thoreau's comment. Yet wilderness everywhere—already vanishing—remains imperiled by a variety of threats. To draw attention to the importance of the keeping wilderness in the world, PAN Parks, an organization that works to protect wilderness in Europe, has proposed to make 2014 the International Year of Wilderness.
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I'll be live blogging my Lundum Dare progress from this blog post.
My inspiration for this Lundum Dare is work I did a few years ago that stirred the pot by connecting Websockets, WebGL and Node.js:
I'll be building as much of a sandbox MMO using similar technologies as I can this time around.
The tech stack I'll be using:
- Language -> Mostly Google's Dart (also compiling it to JS) … both client/server
- Drawing Tech -> WebGL
- Communication Tech -> Websockets/AJAX
- Host -> Digital Ocean
- Database -> Cassandra hopefully, otherwise MongoDB
#LD48 kicks off in about 2 hours, excited to see the theme, fingers crossed for "Control More Than One"
— Travis Glines (@travisglines) April 25, 2014
Pre-start work:
- Get familiar with Digital Ocean's API as I'll want to use it to start/stop servers
- Play around a bit with Dart server side and decide on libraries I want to use
- Decide on game server architecture
- Get domain name (will refer to below as DOMAIN.com until theme decided
Game server architecture:
- Serve web assets (aka client) html/css/js/dart from https://www.DOMAIN.com
- I'll initially just use one box for https stuff, but later on an nginx load balancer with multiple web boxes behind it and split out per subdomain
- Serve api from https://api.DOMAIN.com … handles logins/sessions and tells client which game servers to connect to
- Serve gameservers (boxes that keep entity positions/etc in memory) in a grid fashion. Something like 0-0-gameserver.DOMAIN.com … initially just one
- Both gameservers and api talk to same DB cluster, however to avoid race conditions all queries go through primary game server once connected
Game plan:
- As soon as the clock starts I'll provision one of api, web, database, and gameserver boxes on Ubuntu x64 14.04 LTS in Digital Ocean's San Francisco data center.
- Next up is to get the web server returning static html/css/dart/js assets, the api returning JSON and talking to the database server and the gameserver accepting websocket connections from authenticated clients.
- After which I'll get some WebGL polygons rendering and test out sending simple JSON messages between players.
- Then comes the actual work, designing the game … I'm thinking very basic assets voxel-ish graphics, procedural terrain
- Terrain and game rules dependent on the theme, I'm hoping its something conducive to a sandbox MMO
Go go go!
The Theme is Beneath the Surface
I think this works well for a sandbox MMO.
First Ideas:
- Ocean/underwater World
- Underground World
- Some sort of metaphorical interpretation of beneath the surface
The Idea I'll go with after some deliberation:
I'm very interested in automation and the things it will do to our world in the coming decades. I'll be building a world called Kohhd that takes place on Earth in the year 2100. AI has recently grown past the point of singularity where it's improving itself and parts of the human robot population rebelled killing a large portion of humanity and enslaving the rest. However, some humans went below ground, where they'd be hard to detect with robots still loyal to their creators. While the humans rebuild and cling to life underground, the all out war continues between the friendly robots and evil robots. It is your job to survive and thrive by programming the robots to be more intelligent in hopes of either regaining control of Earth for the humans or wiping out the human friendly robots to enslave the rest of humanity.
I've been wanting to create a game that combines the political/economic issues of automation with a tool that helps people learn to code for a while.
Realizing some more technical implications of this …
- Zone's/gameservers need to be partitioned in 3 dimensions so digging down is natural
- I don't exactly feel like doing polar coordinates etc, and I'd like the game to be voxel-esque so I'll need a strategy for digging down in terms of coordinates
- Initial gameplay will be focused underground, which could mean low polygon counts … so this is a plus
- Setting up a system where you can build your own underground facility could be really cool
Initial Server Set Provisioned:
Now I'll work on getting polygons on the screen for a bit locally before trying to do client/server stuff.
Git repo all setup, initial dart code showing text/css/html and interactive.
Initial infrastructure all set up. Game loop rendering using requestAnimationFrame etc … now for some polygons.
Basic application architecture looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Application |-> Game |-> Camera |-> Entities |-> Player |-> Input |-> Methods like draw loop etc
Stay tuned … more to come
During my high school years I played basketball. One thing that stuck with me more than anything from my experience was that the difference between teams that won and teams that lost was fundamentals. Coach Howard would tell us day in and day out that taking care of the ball, reducing turnovers, making free throws, getting the ball inside, playing solid defense and controlling the pace of the game were all essential. It finally paid off when we made it to the championship game in my senior year.
What does this have to do with web startups you ask? Well, since that time in pretty much any competitive game, I've noticed that there are a few key focus areas that separate winning teams from loosing teams. You can grade a team based on these things and predict very well how they would do. After spending the last few months working on a web startup, I'd like to share the things I learned first hand and the fundamentals that governed the game. Please excuse my naivety if this post seems obvious, or overgeneralizing to you as I sure didn't know these things well enough going into the process and had I read this post I may have been that little bit more effective. Hopefully it'll help someone else out there trying to do the same.
The three fundamentals I found were the Idea, Traction and Technical Execution. Each of these has equal weight. Now let me go much deeper into each of these to explain why they're important, what I really mean by each and more specific details.
The idea is essential to the business, however commonly too heavily relied upon as someone thinking they can have a great product. The idea for me, is more encompassing than the typical "I have a business idea!" with no more further thought. It includes things that people like Paul Graham would ask you: "How big is the possible addressable market? Who are your competitors? How will you make money? Does it fix a need or problem people have? What's new about your idea?" This is where the Lean Startup movement really shines because basically you quickly pivot until you find an idea that works. You define an idea that works by one that finds traction readily available. The better the idea the easier the traction will be to aquire.
Technical Execution
Can your team sustainably put together a solid product and iterate? If you're going to compete in a red hot market like web startups you need to have the chops to code a product quickly and iterate on it to improve it. In some rare cases technical execution can be nearly all you need; These are typically areas that are on the edge of what is possible technically, where the idea is more obvious and can provide first mover advantage if executed.
Technical execution is everything from design to site speed. Its the quality of the product you have produced. If you're Zappos its customer service, if you're Netflix its streaming bandwidth and if you're TechCrunch its the quality and relevance of your posts. I say sustainably because writing good code is only a small piece of pulling a product off. You need to be able to have a nice work environment and work together as a team. Politics and disgruntled team members will distract you into ruins unless you're vigilant.
More precisely the ability to gain traction. This was one of the realizations that hit home the hardest: you can build the best product in the world, that everyone wants and still fail. Relevant people need to hear about it. Good startups will have a plan (not "Well, we'll just post it on HackerNews") for getting people to actually start using and continue using their product. I feel like most web startups these days fail, not because the idea sucked or the team made a bad product … but because no one ever heard about it.
Some Examples:
Google stole market share from Lycos, Yahoo!, Excite, AskJeeves and the like through having better search results. Their superior PageRank algorithim drove traction through an established business/product model.
Facebook seems like traction wizardry to me. It came into a market already dominated my MySpace. However going after college students first and starting in the best place to do that (Boston, MA is probably the best/largest college "town" in the world) was a brilliant circumstance that I think led to its success over MySpace. College students share things … fast, and have enough time/willingness to try them out.
Startups need to focus on one question: Are you building something well, that people want, will pay for and will somehow hear about?
Lacking in any one of these areas can kill off your startup entirely. Most startups need to beat their competition in all three fundamentals and blow them away in one.
Discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530902
Over the past few months a few things have become extremely clear to me: web technologies are exploding and the capabilities for software on the web is soon to meet that of desktop software if innovation continues along this path.
The web technologies I'm talking about are webGL, websockets and node.js. WebGL enables web developers to utilize many of OpenGL's features inside a web browser and bring 3D applications to the web. Websockets allow a client to communicate with a server with significantly less overhead than ajax, making real time applications on the web much more doable. Node.js allows the server to salably handle all these websocket connections. The real kicker is that they're all coming to maturity at the same time and cater to each other in a huge way.
When you think of 3D on the web, you typically think of games first. Games in 3D are fun, but what if you could do multiplayer gaming inside a web browser, with a server that could scale? This is a reality that I think is now upon us and on a night before YCombinator starts announcing who gets into their summer program and developers are showing off their apps, I'd like to share with you a simple app I made to demonstrate what I mean. I made a simple chat application using the above technology stack (and others: socket.io, now.js, three.js). Keep in mind its mostly just a proof of concept, I wrote it in a few hours and is very primitive.
Demo: http://labs.travisglines.com
You can move around with the arrow keys and hit enter to send the text you have written. Its extremely simple and there are plenty of bugs/errors/vulnerabilities I'm sure, but it gets the point across.
I personally can't wait for 3D to come to the web (hopefully its in the form of WebGL instead of Adobe's Molehill) and think its just a matter of time until it happens. One of the things that people are instantly going to want to do is interact. In 3 dimensions that means sharing 3 position variables, chat and actions all in real time. Luckily enough node.js came along just in time to make the process nearly trivial and in 57 lines of server side code I can share 3 position variables and let users chat with each other. The individual pieces are themselves very cool, but with all of these technologies coming to maturity at roughly the same time the opportunities and possibilities are huge. Things like a web based MMO game, 3D shopping with friends in realtime (something I'd like to pursue here soon if we don't get accepted to YC) and more are all possible at this point.
Whenever new technologies or server stacks come out, it seems there is always a company that succeeds and champions the tech. I look forward to what comes out of these technologies in the next few years and am excited for the company that gets it right.
Dear Google Chrome Team,
I'm a huge fan of your browser, Chrome OS and your efforts to bring applications to the web. However I find that one thing missing would help me greatly: an SSH client built into Chrome.
I've even found more people looking for the same:
Like said in those threads it could be extremely simple … type "ssh://email@example.com:port_number". You could even bookmark it and simply click it to go to the server, it would ask you for a password and bingo you'd be in. Heres a screenshot:
If you wanted to get real fancy with it you could do some theme overriding, ssh key stuff and scp file upload/download tool.
I use windows as my main operating system (software availability/drivers being the main motivation for this) and typically ssh into linux servers from there. This means that I have to use Putty or another SSH client to navigate to them. One main problem is if I'm on a friends/family member/library's computer it probably has Google Chrome but no SSH client. This means I have to go out and download Putty onto their system if I can at all. (
Administrator privileges required) An SSH client built in would solve that in one fell swoop.
I would love to use just one application to communicate with outside servers (and have applications live on the web, not on my desktop) some day and think that integrating an SSH client could be a huge step forward in this goal.
During last few weeks I've promised many (mostly from HackerNews) that I would publish and open source an example application in Node.js using some of the techniques I've talked about. While in need of a little intellectual diversity from my normal role working 24/7 on my startup (http://www.exipe.com) I decided that making a twitter clone would be cool.
This morning I purchased the domain name nodrr.com (instead of tweet you nod … if that makes any sense … kind of a play on node.js + twitter + some physical action) for this purpose. It's currently just after 4:15 PM on Saturday afternoon the East Coast of the US, I just went out Thursday night for a bit with friends so I'm not feeling all socially isolated by this, I just watched The Social Network (inspiration) and I'm feeling the need to code … lets make a Twitter clone in node.
I'll be live blogging the whole time with edits, updates and battleplans. Please forgive my lack of attention to grammar/spelling/common sense English writing skills as I'll be focusing on coding, not so much whether that use of ellipsis was correct. Watch my coding progress on github as well if you'd like: https://github.com/tglines/nodrr
4:25PM – First things first:
- Set up EC2 Micro Instance with Ubuntu 64-bit
- Set up git/github link on the EC2 instance
- Download and install Node.js, npm and some of the libraries I'll be using
- Provision an AWS elastic IP and point nodrr.com at my EC2 instance
4:40PM – Box is up:
- EC2 is up, dns records are pointed to the elastic IP and we're SSH'ed In
- Compiling node
5:10PM – Git project initialized, node built, npm installed.
- Grabbed express, connect-auth, mongoose, jade for now from npm
- Now installing mongodb packages
- Cue the Daft Punk
- Vote for the news item on HackerNews
5:35PM – Project directories setup, main script started … getting an unexpected error
- Grabbed a few more npm libs – connect-mongodb and connect-force-domain
- Getting and error with express.bodyDecoder() … hmmm
5:50 PM – Theres the bug … connect renamed bodydecoder to bodyparser
- Gotta keep up on this stuff – https://github.com/senchalabs/connect
- Back on track here
6:05 PM – Facebook Connect Setup
- Got oauth through npm
- Set up the app on facebook
- Jade template isn't getting the title ….
6:10 PM – Battling a new one
6:23 PM – Hello World
- Got a hello world up (taking down now so dont check yet)
- Fixed the express.js local variable passing change … see my error above about the title
- Lets start putting in some real stuff here … auth/login … forms … all the good stufff
6:40 PM – Some Frontend
- Added a reset style sheet from yahoo and included style.css
- Included jquery from google's cdn and a template main.js
6:55 PM – Dinner Break
- Be back in a bit
7:10 – Back @ it
- The buffalo chicken/cuscus was very tasty.
- Lets do a color scheme like: http://nodejs.org/
- Working on facebook login auth … we'll later add more providers like twitter/github/google etc
7:30 PM – Once More Into the Breach
- Now Getting this error on redirect attempts: Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.
- hmm…
8:10 PM – Redirect Problem = Solved For Now
- The redirect problem with facebook connect has now been solved
- After initial login with connect throwing the user to a make a username page.
8:45 PM – We Have Nods!
- The first nods are going in the database now, some serious securing to do
- Heres a screenshot:
9:05 PM – Stylin
- A little more style:
11:22 – Another Screenshot
- User Pages Much Better
- Need Pagination and character limits
- Screenshot:
12:18 – Check it Out: http://www.nodrr.com
- It works pretty decently but needs a lot of features to be more usable
- Please keep in mind that this was just a demo and proof of concept
- Check out my real startup @ www.exipe.com
- Time for bed.


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Fring received a minor update today, which should address many user reported issues, but it appears the feud with Skype is still going strong. Some of the updates include:
- "Significant" audio improvements
- The echoing is fixed (fixed, fixed)
- Supports new Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S using the front camera
- Many more bugs fixes
Seeing support for new devices is great, and we always love to see bug fixes and better quality, but please Fring and Skype, bury the hatchet and work together, video calling is so much more viable when it can be used with a cross-platform desktop program.
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Your smartphone just went for a swim in the toilet smart guy. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? These quick action saves may or may not work, but you'll have fun trying them.
1. Microwave
Does it work? Hell no.
2. Blow Dryer
Does it Work? Maybe. It depends on your heat settings and your sense of timing.
3. Fan
Does it Work? Yup. But you have to get it in front of the fan with the quickness, and let it completely dry out.
4. Sucking
Does it work? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. And no.
5. Blowing
Does it work? Unless your phone was cobbled together from old Nintendo games, this will probably not work.
6. Towel
Does it work? Taking the phone apart and giving it the what for with some absorbent cloth-type object may be your first step towards salvation. Then again, did you buy the cheap paper towels this week?
7. Vacuum
Does it work? No. Then again, is your vacuum a Dyson? Then you can probably afford a new phone.
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Known for laid-back living, the Caribbean isles stand in stark contrast to the cultural hustle and bustle of Europe. Flight search activity to these regions was neck-and-neck, with Europe narrowly edging out the Caribbean as the most popular regional destination for American travelers. Of the top 20 most-searched international destinations, eight European cities and seven Caribbean islands made the list. Winning cities were located in England, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece (for Europe), and the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Aruba and the U.S. Virgin Islands (for the Caribbean). The remainder of the top 20 was comprised of destinations in Asia, Central America and South America.
"Today is the first official day of summer, which means America is ready to jet off on vacation," said Warren H. Chang, vice president and general manager, Fly.com. "When it comes to international travel, this year's airfare search data shows that we are a divided nation of sun seekers and history buffs."
Fly.com's latest analysis indicates a growing popularity for Caribbean destinations. Late last year a surveyof 875 U.S. travelers revealed Europe as the most-desired destination for 2013, with European destinations representing 40 percent of all responses. The Caribbean only garnered 7 percent of responses.
The Fly.com summer study used data from more than 2.28 million user searches with travel dates between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2013. Searches were conducted between Jan. 1 and May 31, 2013.
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text: The Curse of the Crescent Isle wiki last edited by Balrog on 04/12/15 07:21PM View full history Overview The curse is explained.Curse of the Crescent Isle is an 8-bit style action platformer, incredibly similar to such games as DuckTales and Super Mario Bros. 2. The game was released on December 5, 2010 for the Xbox Live Indie Game marketplace for 80 Microsoft points (the equivalent of $1.00) by its sole developer, AdamTheOtaku (or Adam Mowrey). Upon its initial release, the game was panned for its many bugs and poor control, but after a patch it was more well-received.The plot of the game naturally revolves around a curse on one Crescent Isle. The player takes control of the king of Crescent Isle, and must break the four curses before freeing his island from its curse.Gameplay Enemies' abilities can be used to player advantage.Curse of the Crescent Isle is a traditional side-scrolling platformer. The player can jump, run, and pick up enemies. While the ability to run and jump allows the player character to jump farther, it is only used occasionally throughout the entirety of the game. Conversely, the ability to pick up enemies is used extensively.Picking up an enemy allows the player to then use that enemy's ability. For example, an enemy shaped like a screw, when picked up, allows the player to jump on breakable blocks with the screw. Some enemies have no abilities, and can merely be used as a thrown projectile, while other enemies have entire levels or sections of levels surrounding their abilities (one of the later levels revolves around an antigravity enemy). The game's first level.At the end of each level, the player faces a boss, typically requiring the usage of a certain enemy's ability. After defeating a boss, the player removes one of the four curses, which must be removed in order to reach the final boss. After completion of a level, the player is dumped back into the hub world. Here, the player can talk with non-player characters living in the town. Entering the same door that the player exited from will take them to the next level.With the release of the first patch, a password system was implemented into the game. Through this system, four letter passwords can be used to load any portion of any level. In 2015, a new version titled "Curse of the Crescent Isle DX" was put on Steam Greenlight. Another version for the PS Vita is also in the works as of April of 2015.