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An iOS app that lets you browse and maintain your GitHub Gists. Using Gistacular you can view Gist files, comments, and forks; browse source files with syntax highlighting; view rendered Markdown and HTML files; create, update, delete, comment, and star Gists; and explore public Gists. Gistacular is a free to download and available for iPhone and iPad.
A full featured git client and code editor for iPhone and iPad. Source combines a powerful code editor with syntax highlighting for over 100 languages with a git client so you can commit, pull, push, branch, and more, with specific integrations for GitHub, Bitbucket and Gitlab. It also includes a built in coding keyboard inspired by Swift Playgrounds with common programming characters that can be used across iOS as a 3rd party keyboard.
A tool that runs during your CI process and gives teams the chance to automate common code review chores. Danger can help lint your tasks in daily code review by leaving messages in your pull requests based on rules that you create with the Ruby. As rules are adhered to, the message is amended to reflect the current state of the code review. It runs a Dangerfile that you set up per-project with a collection of project specific rules. Danger currently supports Circle, Travis, Jenkins, Buildkite, Semaphore, TeamCity, Xcode Bots, Drone, and Surf and can easily be integrated with fastlane.
A Git client generating pretty diffs built right into Sketch. Git Sketch Plugin lets you follow a typical Git flow - after working normally on your designs, you can create a branch, commit the changes, push your changes to a remote and create a pull request to merge into master, all from a convenient menu right in Sketch. The plugin creates PNGs of each artboard in your Sketch file so you can easily view visual pretty diffs in your Git client of choice or GitHub, as you make changes.
An iOS app for managing issues for your GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket projects on iPhone and iPad. Branches offers a convenient way for you to navigate open or closed issues, create your own issue list filters, see all commits on all branches and view detailed pull requests including comments, commits and file diffs for free. You can also upgrade the app with in app purchase to unlock creating and editing issues and comments, assigning issues to collaborators, closing and reopening issues and more.
A new cross-platform Git client built on Electron, meaning it runs natively on Mac, Windows, and Linux. GitKraken is 100% standalone, so once it's installed, it will work directly with your repositories with no dependencies. You don't even need to have Git installed on your system. It has full integration with GitHub and Bitbucket allowing you to search for and interact with all your public and private repos, and it supports the Git Flow methodology, allowing you to initialise a workflow per repository and get to work on Feature, Release, and Hotfix branches. GitKraken has just entered public beta and is free to download.
A GitLab and GitHub client for iPhone. Trident makes it easy to keep track of all your repos by letting you browse project files and folders with full syntax highlighting from any branch or commit. You can easily create, edit, comment and close or reopen issues, and organise your issues with labels or track progress with milestones. It also overs loads of extra features specifically for GitLab, including notifications and merge requests, but more features for GitHub are in development.
An iOS app for managing your GitLab projects on iPhone or iPad. GitLab Control gives you full access to your GitLab projects with the built in code viewer and search tools. You can fully navigate your code tree, issues, milestones and code snippets or search for any filenames, IDs or labels. You can also capture, organise and prioritise your team's issues, and stay up-to-date using activity streams displaying commits, issues, and more across all repositories.
A collection of really useful additional utilities for git. Git Extras currently includes over 40 extra commands that add missing functionality and speed up using git. The list is long and constantly growing but some of my favourites include: 'git summary' that outputs a repo summary including age, file count, commit count and authors listed by contributions; 'git fork' that forks a repo on GitHub, clones the repo into the current directory and adds the original repo as a remote so can track upstream changes; and 'git changelog' for automatically generating a changelog from tags and commits.
A huge collection of useful hidden and not so hidden features of Git and GitHub. The GitHub Cheat Sheet was inspired by Zach Holman's Git and GitHub Secrets talk at Aloha Ruby Conference 2012 and his More Git and GitHub Secrets talk at WDCNZ 2013, and has go on to become an essential list of Git related tips. It covers everything including hidden URL parameters, Gists, keyboard shortcuts, markdown formatting and loads more. They are also accepting pull requests if you have any other tips that have been missed.
A searchable collection of the most frequently asked Git questions. First Aid Git lists all the topics for you to browse or search by keyword. Answers for the questions were collected from the authors personal experience, Stack Overflow, and the official Git documentation, but the site and list of answers is also open source so you can suggest your own on GitHub but submitting a pull request. First Aid Git is a handy alternative to digging through Stack Overflow or the Git documentation.
A GitHub alternative for private code hosting. Codebase plans include hosting for Git, Subversion, and Mercurial, but also include a full suite of integrated project management tools. The code hosting offers all the features you'd expect like source tree browsing, a blame view and syntax highlighting. But extends this with useful features like error and exception tracking, and TODO item tracking with Code Tasks. The project management tools include advanced ticket management, discussions, project notebooks and time tracking.
An iOS app to view and create GitHub and Bitbucket tasks on your iPhone or iPad. Quick filters let you instantly filter to show only the issues you're interested in, such as milestone, assignee or kind. All your accounts, issues, starred projects and credentials are synchronised across all your devices using iCloud and iCloud Keychain. It even synchronises drafts so you can finish composing issues and comments on another device.
A simple website for generating useful .gitignore files for any project. gitignore.io gives you a simple search box to enter any common operating system, IDE and programming language you are using including OS X, Xcode, Swift and Objective-C, and it will generate a .gitignore file ready for you to use in your repository. You can also use it from the command line by using a 'gi' alias that creates your .gitignore file directly in your git repository.
A free web app to help you organise your GitHub Gists. GistBox automatically pulls all your Gists from your GitHub account that you can view and edit, or you can create and save new ones using the text editor. All Gists are searchable by keyword or label or can be filtered by public, private or starred. There is also a companion Clipper Chrome Extension that adds a 'Save as Gist' button to any code block it can find on any webpage, making it really quick and easy to save code you find on sites like Stack Overflow or the Apple Dev Forums.
A complete Git client for iOS that lets you clone, edit, commit and push on the go. Unlike many other iOS Git apps, Working Copy allows you to work with any Git repo not just those hosted on popular services like GitHub and Bitbucket. Cloning repositories gets you a local copy on your iOS device with commits for all branches, just like on you desktop computer. You can then browse the content and make changes. Working Copy also allows other apps to access files using the iOS 8 document picker. Changes made can be committed and the commits can in turn be pushed back to the remote. Working Copy is free to download but there is an in app purchase to unlock the ability to push commits back to remote servers.
A free and open source alternative to paid git hosting services like GitHub and Bitbucket. GitLab is an incredibly powerful self-hosted code collaboration platform, git repository manager, issue tracker and code reviewer. It's available for several Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS and it integrates with third party issue trackers and continuous integration services. You can also get a subscription which gives you access to their support team and GitLab Enterprise Edition that contains extra features aimed at larger organisations. A great option if you want private repos without the cost.
A Git client for iPhone and iPad. With GitMongo you can perform most Git actions including: cloning a repo using git, http, https and ssh; making edits using the built in text editor with syntax highlighting for several languages (including Objective-C); committing, merging and pushing to remotes; managing branches and tags; and viewing diffs for all commits with highlighted changes. GitMongo has been tested to work with several popular Git hosting services including GitHub and BitBucket. Unfortunately, GitMongo is not updated that often but it is still a good tool for using Git on the move.
A fun iOS app for finding great open source projects on GitHub. RepoStumble works just like StumbleUpon but for GitHub. You provide it with some of your interests by keyword and programming language and it'll find new and interesting projects that you never knew existed. There is also a Trending tab where you can few popular repositories by language, and a Showcases tab that lists curated collections of interesting repositories such as software development tools, text editors and data visualisation.
An iPad app to keep track of all your pull requests on GitHub. CodeReview provides you with a unified inbox where you can swipe pull requests into the archive and out of your way or star them and make them easy to find later. You can also review, insert, and read comments in diffs. It fully supports GitHub flavoured markdown including usernames, ASCII art and animated GIFs.
An iOS app for keeping up to date with your GitHub repositories. CodeHub has GitHub.com and Enterprise support with multiple profiles for easy switching. As with its BitBucket sister app CodeBucket, CodeHub lets you view repository events, issues, and change sets, browse source directories and files, view file diffs from previous commits, view and comment on pull requests, and more. You can also explore other GitHub open source repositories and access your public, private, and starred gists.
An iOS app for browsing and maintaining your Bitbucket repositories. With CodeBucket you can view repository events, issues, and change sets, browse source directories and files, view file diffs from previous commits, view and comment on pull requests, and loads more. Bitbucket is a great alternative to BitBucket, and CodeBucket is a great way to keep up-to-date on iOS.
A fully featured GitHub client for iPhone. iOctocat gives you everything you need to stay up to date with your projects and to catch up with the open source community. Features include push notifications for GitHub notifications, managing issues and pull requests (including merging pull requests on the go), and complete access to your repos and commits. iOctocat is free to download with in app purchases for the certain features.
A free diff/merge client for Mac, Windows and Linux that lets you visualise the differences between file versions. P4Merge uses colour coding to make it easy to resolve conflicts and also allows comparison of several image formats with side-by-side display and highlighting differences on overlaid images. Not a very pretty app but works well.
A fully featured Git client for Mac that styles itself on Mail, giving a unique overview of all your repos, versions and changes at a glance. Top features include a very fast and powerful search of the entire repo history, submodule automation and automatic fetching of commits from the server to help avoid merge conflicts. Only thing it seems to be missing is a decent commit tree graph, but still worth a look.
A free Mercurial and Git client for Windows and Mac. It offers most of the features that all the best paid Git clients do but SourceTree is completely free. It's made by Atlassian so integrates nicely with Bitbucket as well.
Git and Mercurial repository hosting. Doesn't quite have the community of GitHub but as private repositories are free for up to 5 users, it is a great alternative for small teams. This website lives there!
A free diff/merge tool for Mac, Windows and Linux to visually compare and merge files. No frills, but does the job well.
A free git GUI made for Mac. No frills but a great free alternative to some of the more expensive git clients.
More than just your average diff/merge tool, Kaleidoscope is a really advanced comparison app that can spot the differences in text, images, and folders. You can also easily integrate it into your workflow as it supports Git, SVN, Mercurial, Bazaar, Perforce and more.
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Fitch Ratings downgraded some Chinese government debt, highlighting concerns about a credit buildup. The ratings firm's Andrew Colquhoun tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan why bad loans may be the biggest threat to China's growth.
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(CNN) -- Amid all the noise and chaos of a short-track speed skating final, there is one voice in the crowd Charles Hamelin can hear as clear as a bell.
It belongs to his girlfriend and fellow speed skater Marianne St.-Gelais, urging the Canadian on to the finishing line in a competition that is as thrilling as it is dangerous.
Hamelin likens his sport to walking on a wire in mid-air, but despite the precarious nature of his chosen discipline, he can always make out her voice above the din.
"She's the only person I can actually hear when I'm skating," the double Olympic champion told CNN's Human to Hero series.
"She's really loud in the stands but it's like her voice gives me energy. If I know she's there it gives me belief in myself."
They are both targeting next year's Sochi Olympics in Russia, with St.Gelais -- now 23 -- having won two silvers at Vancouver 2010 while Hamelin became a national hero with two golds on the same day.
"We live together and I know what she's doing and she knows what I'm doing, and it's a good thing to have someone to talk to about everything we love the most," Hamelin said.
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That reassuring presence is clearly key for the 29-year-old from Quebec, in a sport where the margins are miniscule.
With competitors haring around the ice at speeds that often near 40 mph, any involuntary nudge or bump can be fatal to their chances of glory.
But for Hamelin, who has successfully negotiated his way to eight World Championship titles as well as those two Olympic gold medals, that flavor of danger fuels the adrenaline that keeps him coming back to the rink.
"When we go at our fastest speed it's at the limit. You can't hold it but if you do, if you just let it go, you're going to fall," he explained.
"It's like you're walking on a wire in the air, and if you make a little step in the wrong direction, you're going to fall.
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"I think it's a thrill to be on every corner -- every two seconds we have a corner. It's a kind of a thrill doing a fast lap in short track and for us, that's what we love, and that's why we are great at it."
Strength is a prerequisite for any speed skater but Hamelin underlines the importance of being able to marry that power to shrewd in-race tactics.
Rules forbid speed skaters to intentionally bump their fellow competitors out of the way but contact is inevitable in the jostle to take each corner first.
Hamelin's ability to steer the right course and adopt the proper tactics has seen him consistently hit the line ahead of his rivals.
"In short track there's more strategy, there's passing, there's bumping, there's a lot of action in short track, and it's one of the reason why it's a popular sport in the Olympics," he said.
"You're not allowed to push anyone, you're not allowed to actually touch anyone, but for sure in a race you're going to have to pass inside or outside and are going to bump a little bit.
"It's not the strongest guy on the line who will win, it's the smartest; the guy who will do the best race, who will win the race, and it's a good thing."
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The risk of crashing is high, as is the risk of injury, so skaters learn from a young age how to survive the tumbles.
"When you know how to fall, the injuries are less and less, and you have a better chance to stay healthy," Hamelin said.
"If you get injured during the summer, and you miss two or three weeks of training, then the year will be tough for you and not because you're not a good skater.
"You have three weeks to catch up on everyone, so at our level it's really difficult to do that and we try to avoid any big injury, especially when it's an Olympic season."
Speed skating is a sport that runs in the blood of the Hamelin family.
Charles' brother Francois has also enjoyed success at the top level, as they formed one half of the Canadian relay team that secured gold in the 5,000 meters at the Vancouver Games in 2010.
Their father, Yves, is the program director for Canada's short skating stars, and led the team to five medals in Vancouver.
Francois started skating when he was five and Charles was soon hooked too. Their younger brother Mathieu also took up the sport and the family would spend hours on the ice honing their technique.
Charles says it was when he turned 17 and made the World Junior Championships that he dared to dream that his goal of making the Olympics could become a reality.
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It did at the Winter Games in Turin in 2006, and though his silver medal was an impressive return on debut, it only strengthened his resolve to hit the top of the podium four years later in front of a home crowd.
"It was my day," he recalls. "In the 500 meters I got the gold with a crazy race, a crazy finish, and 30 minutes after I came back on the top of the podium with all my teammates to win gold in the relay.
"Two golds in the one day, in 30 minutes, it was the best day of my life."
With a lifetime ambition fulfilled, some may have been forgiven for thinking Hamelin might take his foot off the gas but if anything, his Olympic success has only galvanized his love of competition.
"When you reach the top of Canada or the top of international competition and you touch the podium, you get the feel of it and you just want to repeat it," he said.
"I just want to stay there as long as possible and that's what keeps me wanting it more and more and more.
"Most people ask me why I continued after Vancouver because I won two gold medals, but I say, 'I love my sport and I love to win, so I want to keep doing it and be better at it.' "


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Our friends, Monique and Dan come to our house for dinner. I tell them I have "big news" and proceed to brag about the musty antique player piano that I proudly purchased from a local estate sale. Monique is impressed. Dan sits down at it and plays. They ask lots of questions about how I heard about the sale, how old the piano is, and are quite impressed to see that the "player" component is still intact and playing ragtime just as it did in 1926. They let me drone on and on about how awesome I think this piano is. After about 20 minutes of this, Monique informs that she, too, has big news. Hers is growing in her belly and set to debut in January 2012.
January 14, 2012
Monique is two days past her due date. Every day for the last 14 days, she gives me a morning update about how she is still with child and still feeling good. I applaud her but secretly believe she is either (A) lying or (B) superhuman. She proves the latter later in the evening.
A text came over at at around 5 pm this evening that says, "Linds, she's coming!" I go into anxious freak-out mode and practically forget I'm in the middle of preparing a meal for my mother-in-law and kids. The next two hours are a blur as I serve dinner, eat poorly, and jump in the car. I bring my Kindle and the intentions of camping out in the waiting room until baby cries for the first time.
I meet Monique, Dan and Helen Joy in the hospital waiting room. Monique beams her best "I'm anxious and stoked" smile, Dan is completely "in the zone", patting her belly and half-watching the 49ers/Saints game on TV. Helen Joy is a picture of pure peace and calm, smiling her warm HJ smile and clutching her camera bag in anticipation of photographing her friend's birth experience, start to finish. While we wait, she snaps a photo or two. Monique is still smiling and joking through her contractions.
A nurse fetches Monique, puts her in the hospital wheelchair, and gives her instruction while she wheels us down the hospital halls. The three of them walk together in a row, pushing Monique and chatting and I bring up the rear, taking in the whole experience. HJ and I stop at the maternity ward waiting room and watch a movie while the expectant parents get triaged and settled. The movie is Mrs. Doubtfire. HJ and I aren't really watching it, but rather talking about babies and sharing "war stories" about our two deliveries. HJ and I have always been friends through Monique. We hang out when Monique is involved. We have a lot in common with each other, have two boys, almost identical in age, and find out through our waiting room chats that while our experiences are quite different, our family dynamics are quite similar. I cherish the time we spent together, waiting to support our beautiful, mutual friend that we both love equally as much.
After the 49ers take a surprising win against the Saints, some waiting, a brief visit with the laboring (but still smiling) Mama, and a nap, we are invited back into the room by Dan. He asked if we'd like to come keep them company for a bit. Little did we know that we wouldn't be leaving again. It's about 11:30 at this point.
The next several hours are pretty much a blur. Monique was dilated to a six or seven and still joking, cracking an occasional smile, and remarking how the contractions are beginning to hurt. She stopped talking through them but still maintained 100% control over each and every one of them. I was amazed to watch her go into meditation mode as each one came, like ocean waves, and consumed her whole body. She would close her eyes, hold her enormous belly, and sway rhythmically in complete silence. Like a tidal wave, she let the contraction lead her, and went exactly where it went. She personified the term "go with the flow" and popped back into the moment at the exact instant the contraction relaxed. It was brilliant. I watched this for hours in complete amazement.
The room began getting tense as the contractions got stronger and closer together. HJ captured lots of powerful shots, offered support, and took over the nurse role while I sat still. It's not that I didn't have a strong urge to help somehow, but I had no idea how to offer comfort - I've never been in labor. Not the serious "my body is snapping in two" stage of labor anyhow. Completely unable to relate combined with being in complete awe of this woman kept me frozen. Frozen, and feeling awkwardly in the way. I think I stood in every corner and position of this particular birthing suite over the eightish hours I was in there.
I saw my best friend as the most beautiful woman in the world during this process. She was stripped, raw, and completely real during these moments. We've known each other for over half our lives and been through about everything friends can go through during that time, but I had never seen her the way I saw her tonight. My friend is the quintessential Libra. A balanced, controlled people-pleaser who is "on" all the time. The kind of girl who is always ready for the camera, smiling when the shot catches everyone else by surprise. The person everyone claims to be "best friends" with because she is just that relatable, no matter who her audience is. I watched her transform into a creature who was 100% invested in herself in those moments and to say it was a religious experience for me is an understatement.
During my silent observance, I thought about all the things we'd been though together over the years. We met in 7th grade gym class as two insecure, scrawny pre-teens that had our eccentricities as a common bond. We were a bizarre duo - always picked last for the team due to our un-athletic natures. Team captains would agree to take one of us if the opposite team would take the other. Our revenge was always teaming up regardless and playing for the wrong team. We brought barbies to school and played with them in class, from opposite ends of the room. We passed notes, wore the same clothes, and spent weeks on end at each others' houses over the summer. We cried on each others' shoulders when our boyfriends dumped us. She held my hand, figuratively and literally when my family moved, and continued spending summers and winters together, even though 800 miles separated us during the rest of the year. I went to her piano recitals. She came to my college graduation. We got excited and squealed for each other the summer we both got engaged and did the same thing on the day of each others' weddings the same year, one year later. Our experience was just a hair off from marrying twins and having a joint wedding the way we joked we would. Born as South Florida girls, in hospitals just miles down the road from each other, we found ourselves living across the street from each other, in a tiny town hundreds of miles away. A few years later she witnessed the birth of my second child through a plate-glass window. She saw Beckett James before I did. And also my spleen, uterus and God knows what other internal organs that were exposed during my c-section. And here we are again. Only the tables are now turned and I am witnessing her second daughter taking her very first breath, catching a glimpse of her ice-blue eyes, inherited from her Mama, before her Mama sees them. It was breath-taking. Aptly named, River Eisley is born, into a pool of water, with ice-blue eyes and a serenity and calmness about her that I have never seen in a newborn, ever.
I love my friend and will always cherish the moments she let me share with her on that January night. I've always loved her and stuck her up on an imaginary pedestal, thinking she was the coolest, all the way back to our 7th grade gym days. But today I love her just a little bit more and feel a renewed sense of sisterhood with her. She is even more of a rockstar today than she was last week, or in 1995 and I am infinitely excited for she and her beautiful little family. River Eisley is a sweet little burrito of joy in her hospital swaddle, and appears to already have the go-with-the-flow, fluid personality her Mama owns. They couldn't have picked a more appropriate name and River could not have picked a better set of parents. Congratulations, dear family. I love you all. Welcome to the world, Sweet River!
River Eisley
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While it's your typical Irish bar in attitude, the menu begs to differ. Alongside the Irish classics are Cajun and southern favorites, like jambalaya and more.Just like age ain't nothin' but a number (at least that's what Aaliyah taught us), Chinatown ain't nothin' but a name. Which might be why one of the city's best Irish pubs is located smack dab in the middle of it. Featuring a lot less Mandarin and a lot more Gaelic, the owners of this popular neighborhood restaurant are from Ireland, just like the general manager and several of the other staff. But just 'cause the attitude leans Emerald Isle, doesn't necessarily mean the whole menu does. "We have a bit of a Cajun twist," said Marcus, the manager, and a bit of a southern soul, meaning get a load of the jambalaya or the Shrimp Kenmare, which involves cheddar cheese, bacon, cabbage slaw and jalepenos. The real star on the menu, though, is the Channel Burger. Served on a croissant roll with all the fixin's you want, this juicy all-beef reinvented classic is also the most popular menu item. Pair it with Guinness or the more than two dozen other brews available, and be prepared to enjoy yourself and all your new friends. "Come back twice," said Marcus, "and I bet we'll remember your name."
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Shrimp Kenmare, $11.99
Channel Burger, $10.99
Jambalaya, $15.99
Shepherd's Pie, $13.99
Jameson Whiskey Steak, $21.99
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NovoEd's list of partners now includes Stanford, Princeton, University of Michigan, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Babson Global, among others.
"We are exploring new ways of offering Darden courses to the world in a way that more closely aligns with the Darden student experience we are known for," said Mike Lenox, professor of at the Darden School of Business and Associate Dean & Executive Director, Batten Institute, in a prepared statement. "From executive education to open courses, the social technology available on NovoEd allows us to thoughtfully scale our offerings at the highest quality and innovation."
NovoEd's focus remains on strategic collaboration with institutions and organizations in order to connect learners and executives with high-quality instructors in an environment that supports interaction and connectivity. Each NovoEd partner integrates its interactive learning model into the NovoEd online social learning environment. For example, the Carnegie Foundation is testing new approaches to blended learning using social technology, while the Stanford Graduate School of Business offered its first MOOC on retirement finance and public pensions last fall. The online course drew 44,000 users who accessed collaborative group work, online discussion, video graphics and faculty content. NovoEd also is used by Stanford Ignite certificate programs in Bangalore and Paris, which teach innovators, scientists and engineers to commercialize their ideas.
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Friday, May 4, 2012
The quilt has a new home!
We've created a new home on the web for the 350 Reasons quilt. You can read all about the quilt, and see the gallery of squares (in progress) here:
A few panels of the quilt are currently on display at the Seed Bank in Petaluma to raise awareness about the 350 Garden Challenge happening in Sonoma County May 12-13th. Daily Acts is registering 2012 actions to plant food, save water, and create community. Sign up your garden: http://www.dailyacts.org/350-challenge/
The quilt is also still growing! It has over 200 squares now, from all over the world. Please consider making one if you have already, and visit www.350.org for other actions to solve the climate crises.
If you'd like the quilt displayed in your community, please contact me. I also enjoy hearing about what you're doing in your communities and if the quilt has inspired you in some way.
America Worden
Monday, May 3, 2010
the names-- a bestiary for the oil spill
I meant to write something here for Earth day updating everyone about the quilt, but time seems to be escaping my life continuously. These last few weeks, I've been spending time with several peoples' uncontainable grief, breaking-- again-- my heart which was already always broken. I have been reading and thinking about grief... and loving. The way we love even though we know that everything dies.
Meanwhile it is Spring in California and everything is very much alive. All morning we've been watching a pair of tiny wrens bring straw from the garden into their birdhouse one piece at a time. The house finches have laid four blueish eggs in their nest over the kitchen window. The farm is covered with roses and irises and the bees are out in the warm air working at their continuous gathering. We've had an unusually rainy year this year, so all the wildflowers are banks of color on the hills. It is beautiful.
And my mind wanders. Because it is also Spring in the Gulf of Mexico. The brown pelicans have been building their nests in the wetlands of Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Five species of sea turtle are finishing their journey to sandy shores where they, too, will lay their precious eggs. Blue fin tuna are returning from the open ocean to spawn in the warm waters where the Mississippi river empties her giant body into the gulf. Songbirds- orioles, warblers, swallows-- are at the peak of their migration North over the blue circle of the Gulf on exhausted wings, waiting to reach land again. Spring brings new life. Fragile life. Everywhere.
This oil spill will wash up on the new life of nearly everything: grasses, sedges, birds, fish, people. The broken rig that continues to spill hundreds of thousand of gallons of crude oil into the gulf shows no sign of stopping-- or being contained. News outlets warn of the worst environmental disaster in the US in recent history. Recent must mean in the last few weeks, because these exact coastal communities and ecosystems were shattered by Katrina five years ago. And last month 31 miners were killed in Appalachian mines, a tiny fraction of the devastation caused by mining practices that have endangered local communities, filled in thousands of miles of streams and destroyed more than 450 mountains-- another area the size of Delaware. That seems like a pretty huge environmental disaster to me. Who gets to say which area the size of Delaware is bigger, land or sea?
The news measures time and size in peculiar ways. My friend Sarah who works as an eco chaplain in Appalachia, recently wrote about the cumulative loss of human life and health over time in her mountains-- how it far outstrips the death toll of miners last month. I remember my shock, cleaning up the Cosco-Busan spill in San Francisco Bay, at lifting, not oiled birds, but the stiff bodies of raccoons out of the grass and mud of the Berkeley Marina. They had come down to feast on small contaminated fish washed up on the shore. Like sludge from mines and all toxins, oil moves up the food chain, concentrating itself in larger animals. But we never see cancer declared an environmental disaster.
Appalachia and the Gulf Coast have a lot in common. They contain our poorest and sickest communities in the US, the roots of our deepest music, some of the greatest biodiversity we have, and they are continually being decimated by our collective inability to change our lifestyle.
This is not special calculus. It explains itself.
You can see it with your eyes, reach out and touch it. Except we don't. Its definitely easier not to. In my reading about grief, denial is the first stage. The one that allows us to continue living, just barely, doing what has to be done. It keeps us from really feeling and so it is useful temporarily, but dangerous in the long term. Adam swam in the Gulf of Mexico every summer of his life, on the beaches of Florida that are now state emergencies. He's been reading me the news this week, full of names he knows, full of sadness. And I haven't listened. Not really. Numbness has come, tinged with helplessness, blame, denial. But nothing else. Until this morning. We found two tiny unhatched eggs in an old nest and I thought, suddenly, of Hawksbill sea turtles, a species I love. How their eggs each contain something precious, one more body to add (the way we do with endangered species) to the life count: the ones still left. And I thought of Joanna Macy's Bestiary, which includes the Hawksbill. In grief, it is small details that move us out of denial: particular names, colors, what was heard, remembered. In the presence of these, denial breaks down into everything else: anger, despair, fear, sadness, breath, and, eventually, resilience.
The details are so important. To remember is not the opposite of to forget. It is the opposite of to dis-member. The opposite of undoing our membership in life. The opposite of not seeing, not touching the particulars of everything. I've heard a lot of people cursing our government, the conscience-less corporations, the people who created this disaster. I myself have spent all week responding to Adam's memories with educated venom and statistics. But this morning I remembered one name. I started to remember myself, and the tears came, and the real anger came, and words came, and movement. Here are some names to re-member that we can see and touch, can go on living with a broken heart. They begin to move beneath the news, the measurements, to the heart of everything: our life and resilience; our ability, when we are present in our senses, to respond.
The names*:
Hawksbill Turtle
Brown Pelican
Alligator Gar
Green Sea Turtle
Blackfin Snapper
Red Snapper
Cubera Snapper
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Blue Angelfish
Queen Angelfish
Black Driftfish
Mako-Shortfin Shark
Mako-Longfin Shark
Skipjack Tuna
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Seaside Sparrow
Clapper Rail
Mottled Duck
Bermuda Chub
Scrawled Cowfish
Smooth Puffer
Grey Snapper
Dog Snapper
migrating songbird families:
Mahogany Snapper
Lane Snapper
Silk Snapper
Blue Marlin
Sand Tilefish
Southern Kingfish
Gulf Kingfish
Atlantic Croaker
Planehead Filefish
Striped Bass
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Least Tern
Striped Mullet
White Mullet
Black Grouper
Yellow Mouth Grouper
Gag Grouper
Scamp Grouper
Comb Grouper
Tiger Grouper
Yellowfin Grouper
Lemon Shark
Spiney Cheek Scorpionfish
Yellowtail Snapper
Atlantic Thread Herring
Gulf Toadfish
Red Porgy
Gulf Flounder
Southern Flounder
Broad Flounder
Spinner Dolphin (Long-snouted)
Striped Dolphin
Creole Fish
Black Drum
French Angelfish
Blue Whale
Bottlenose Dolphin
Clymene Dolphin
Fin Whale
Bighead Sea Robin
Smalltooth Sawfish
Largetooth Sawfish
Laughing Gull
Reddish Egret
Rosegate Spoonbill
Jack Crevalle
Bar Jack
Horseeye Kack
Spinner Shark
Silky Shark
Bull Shark
Blacktip Shark
Oceanic Whitetip Shark
Dusky Shark
Carribbean Reef Shark
Sandbar Shark
White Shark
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Snowy Plover
Piping Plover
Wilson's Plover
American Oystercatcher
Swordspine Snook
Fat Snook
Tarpon Snook
Commen Snook
Bank Sea Bass
Rock Sea Bass
Black Sea Bass
Sowerby's Beaked Whale
Sperm Whale
Atlantic Spadefish
Melon-headed Whale
Striped Burrfish
Bay Wiff
Sand Seatrout
Spotted Seatrout
Siver Seatrout
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Blainville's Beaked Whale
Fraser's Dolphin
Gervais' Beaked Whale
Risso's Dolphin
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Sei Whale
Short-finned Pilot Whale
West Indian Manatee
Southern Stingray
Atlantic Stindray
Bluntnose Stingray
Black Crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Black Skimmer
Frigate Bird
Round Scad
Redtail Scad
Humpback Whale
Killer Whale
Minke Whale
Irish Pompano
Porcupine Fish
Sand Perch
Atlantic Sturgeon
Mountain Mullet
African Pompano
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Dwarf Sperm Whale
False Killer Whale
Thresher Shark
Alabama Shad
Bay Anchovy
America Eel
Northern Right Whale
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin
Bryde's Whale
Pygmy Sperm Whale
Red Head Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Snowy Egret
Black Margate
Cory's Shearwater
Pygmy Killer Whale
Northern Gannet
Neotropic Cormorant
Hardhead Catfish
Bullet Mackerel
Frigate Mackerel
Golden Crab
Double-crested Cormorant
Masked Booby
Eastern Oyster
Gafftopsail Catfish
Silver Perch
Grey Tigerfish
Queen Menhaden
Bearded Brotula
Longbilled Dowitcher
Western Sandpiper
Lightning Whelk
Blue Crab
Stone Crab
Fiddler Crab
American Alligator
Caspian Tern
Gull Billed Tern
American Woodcock
Grass Porgy
Jothead Porgy
Saucer-eye Porgy
Whitebone Porgy
Knobbed Porgy
Ocean Tigerfish
Yellow Jack
Atlantic Oyster
Apalachicola Oyster
Kumamoto Oyster
American Cupped Oyster
Breton Sound Oyster
Blue Runner
Spotted Pinfish
Fat Sleeper
Rainbow Runner
Rock Hind
Pomarine Jaeger
Boat-tailed Grackle
Virginia Rail
Speckled Hind
Yellowedge Grouper
Red Hind
White Shrimp
Brown Shrimp
Pink Shrimp
Glossy Ibis
Yellow-nosed Albatross
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Marbled Grouper
Goliath Grouper
Red Grouper
Misty Grouper
Warsaw Grouper
Snowy Grouper
Nassau Grouper
Queen Snapper
Silver Jenny
Little Tunny
Gulf Killfish
Tiger Shark
Yellowfin Mojarra
Nurse Shark
Green Moray Eel
Spotted Moray Eel
Blue Striped Grunt
French Grunt
White Grunt
Pudding Wife
Scaled Sardine
Bluntnose Jack
Clearnose Skate
Roundel Skate
Atlantic Sharpnose Shark
Vermillion Snapper
Atlantic Bonita
Spanish Sardine
Blue Parrotfish
Rainbow Parrotfish
Queen Parrotfish
Red Drum
Chub Mackerel
Kind Mackerel
Spanish Mackerel
Spotted Scorpionfish
Bigeye Scad
Greater Amberjack
Lesser Amberjack
Almaco Jack
Banded Rudderfish
Southern Puffer
Southern Sennet
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Great Hammerhead Shark
Bonnethead Shark
Great Barracuda
Atlantic Needlefish
White Marlin
Blackcheek tonguefish
Longbill Spearfish
Inshore Lizardfish
Albacore Tuna
Yellowfin Tuna
Blackfin Tuna
Bigeye Tuna
Florida Pompano
Atlantic Cutlassfish
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I saw a poster stapled to a telephone poll announcing the Middlesex County Fair the other day, and it instantly took me back to a time in my youth and a place where the air was thick with cotton candy and horse dung as prize pigs waddled through the crowd on their way to the judging pens.
The sounds of an organ grinder met the squeals of children as the rides catapulted them into the humid night sky, making for perfect summer memories.
One memory from 1984 was not so perfect. I don't remember the circumstances that found me working the right to life booth at our church; it probably had something to do with me having to atone for the sin of bringing home bad grades from my first college semester.
To my left was one of the newer nuns that had transferred to my parish's grammar school, and to my right was Ed Daly, a man fiercely dedicated to the cause of saving an unborn life.
The whiteness of his hair was matched only by the paleness of his skin, which made his determined blue eyes more urgent. He had been arrested many times over the years, pulling stunts like chaining himself to the fence of a Planned Parenthood clinic in protest. I admired the man for his conviction, which made me feel more out of place than I already was.
Growing up, I never could imagine a circumstance where someone would knowingly terminate a pregnancy. That all changed when I hit college and had a few "birth control malfunctions" myself.
Thank God for the heavy prayers that brought on the late period. I would like to think I would have moved forward with an unplanned baby in that circumstance, but I would also be lying if the thought of an abortion didn't cross my mind at some level during the agonizing waiting game.
"I didn't ask you how you think about it, I need the help and you're going," my mom exclaimed through grit teeth.
"Sure, I'm not breaking my back waiting tables and shouldering the burden of a college education for you to be questioning your faith!"
I was mindlessly passing out pamphlets with pictures of aborted fetuses when I felt a hard slap on my wrist that sent the pamphlets flying.
"I want to know what right do you have to tell me what to do with my body," screeched a very large woman.
Her round, pimply face was framed by curly hair that was tortured over the years by bleached and permed processing. She had a tie-dyed tank top dress that swept the dirty fairgrounds as she waddled away from me.
"That's all right, Mike," Ed said in a reassuring tone from behind the booth. "People like that cannot keep us from getting our message out."
I bent down to pick up the pamphlets and found her face within inches of mine when I stood up.
"I mean, who do you think you are, anyway! It's my body!"
"It's actually God's body," I stammered. "He's just loaning it out to you, ma'am. I'm not sure he made you so that you could go around killing unborn children."
From the corner of my eye, I could see Ed nodding proudly.
"I'm just thankful for Michael Dukakis (the presidential candidate at the time) and the Democratic Party which is fighting hard to keep those laws off my body!" she screeched.
"Well, all I can say is that when yourself and Michael Dukakis meet your maker, you'll probably be in the same boat."
"Yesssss," whispered the nun behind me. I had an audience now as people gathered around us to see what the fuss was all about.
"Go to hell yourself," roared the woman, enjoying the attention as she brushed the limp hair from her face. "You're probably aren't man enough to knock someone up. That's why you're in here with the rest of these losers."
"Whooooooooooa!" came the collective gasp from the crowd as all eyes turned toward me.
I'm not particularly proud of this, but I do some of my best work in these situations. Being Irish, I must have the last word and love a good fight, and this victory is almost always achieved at the expense of common sense and decency.
"I'm not sure why you're getting so worked up about this whole abortion thing," I shouted. "I mean, who'd screw you with your lousy attitude? Look at that huge dumper on you. Shouldn't you be hanging around the pen with the rest of the prize pigs?"
Some tattooed biker high-fived me, and as I reached for his palm my eyes met the horrified gaze of Ed and the nun in the booth.
"I'm sorry, I'm just not cut out for this," I replied, shrugging my shoulders as I untied the strings of my apron. "I think this cause deserves more than what I can give."
News of what I had done would have reached my mother before I got home, and I was sure to be greeted with some speech about how she couldn't show her face in the church after that stunt. There would be a time and a place to deal with that.
At that moment, I just took in a big gulp of night air. Who knew victory smelled like cotton candy and horse dung?


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Online whiteboard using WebRTC - First stage
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We require online whiteboard using WebRTC in our e-learning website.
Through our website, students take private lessons from their tutors. The online whiteboard will be used when tutors teach their students.
The whole project scope is described like the below.
But I'd like to divide this project in several stages.
The first step is to design whiteboard screen, make camera communication working with people and desktop screen sharing feature.
Once it's done successfully, I will proceed the next stage and pay more.
The reason I am going to divide this project in several pieces is that I'd like to make sure if the freelancer is qualified for this WebRTC technology.
Apart from this bid on this project and write me an estimate for the all requirements of mine.
1. Make online whiteboard client program using Javascript, HTML
: see the attached descriptions.
If you have better functions, layouts or graphic design than ones of the whiteboard sketch, you can propose me.
2. Develop signaling server
- Develop the server using node.js or Java
- The sigaling server needs to communicate with the existing Tomcat server on which e-Learning website is running.(For example, getting participants information, getting lesson information, etc)
- The server needs to limit the number of users concurrently connecting based on the server configuration.
- Test this signaling server performance on our server, like maximum concurrent users of the online whiteboard
* There should be no license issue to run this service online.
* A freelancer is preferred who has experience of WebRTC or whiteboard program Please send me your portfolio if you have experience of the similar project
* Whiteboard should support Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera browsers and requires no installation like ActiveX
You can propose the first stage scope of this project if you want
For your information, the maximum budget for the whole requirements of the project is 800 USD.
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Sweet corn soup is one of our favorite soups to order at an Indian restaurant. Thick and creamy with a healthy dose of vegetables it is a great way to start a meal. It is an Indian Chinese soup recipe which can be easily made at home using fresh or canned corn and few other ingredients.
I decided to make this at home for an Indo Chinese style potluck dinner. I received guidance from her about the procedure and she suggested using cream style canned corn. Cream style corn has a good amount of crushed corn and it helped in bringing in the right taste and the desired creamy consistency.?
Just a quick note, since I had put in some soy sauce and ketchup the color has turned pale yellow otherwise it was white to begin with.
Adapted from: Show Me the Curry?
- 1 can cream style corn
- 1 can vegetable broth
- 1 tsp ginger (grated)
- 1 tsp garlic (minced)
- ? cup carrot (finely chopped)
- ? cup celery (finely chopped)
- 2 Tbsp onions (chopped)
- 1 Tbsp oil
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper powder (taste)
- 2 tsp corn starch (mixed with ? cup water)
- 2 green onions (chopped diagonally including the whites)?
- Heat oil in a medium saucepan (preferable non-stick) and then add the ginger and garlic and cook until it turns light brown.
- Add the chopped onion and cook until it turns translucent.
- Add the celery and carrots, little salt and sauté for 2 minutes until the carrot cooks a bit.
- Now open the cream style corn can and add this to the mixture. Mix and add salt and pepper.
- Note: Clean the can with little water and scrape any corn paste add the contents to this mixture.
- Add the vegetable stock, mix well and bring it to a boil.
- Meanwhile in a small cup make a paste of corn starch and water with no lumps.
- Add this to the soup and cook again.
- Garnish with spring onions (green part) and serve hot.?


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Everyone talks about natural linking, link bait etc. I think our page is an example of natural not being able to beat unnatural.
1. I know my competitor personally and I know he has used dodgy blogs, directories etc to create his links with targeted anchor text. Has virtually no inbound links that are natural and from quality sources.
2. Our page has numerous inbound links that are from the exact topic we are working with from within the industry, that were placed by these other websites with no input from us.
3. Our page has so many links from discussions on forums, naturally placed on topic.
The issue I believe with genuine, natural links is the anchor text is not targeted. There is no reason for the user to use keywords from the topic. It's simply not natural. They will use things like "click here" or "more info" or our company name.
I'd rather not post the page on the forum, but if anyone has an interest they can PM and I'll supply it.
I find it frustrating that we are on the second page for this phrase to websites using these techniques which are supposed to not work.


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Video games often use parallax scrolling technique to create an illusion of depth by moving multiple layers of images at different speed. This technique can also be applied in web design. This post consists a list of mind blowing parallax scrolling sites, design tips, and resource tutorials. If you are considering to start a parallax scrolling site, this is a must read post.
Nike Better World
Nike Better World is probably one of the early sites who started this parallax scrolling trend. Still looking good.
Smart USA
As you scroll down the Smart USA site, the elements zoom to you. What is really impressive is they managed to maintain the similar look and feel in their mobile version. Most parallax scrolling designs don't play well on mobile devices. Having a separate version is a smart idea.
Ben The Body Guard
Although the perspective seems very wrong (it doesn't feel like a bird's-eye view) on Ben The Body Guard, but having a character and trian runs across the scene is pretty cool.
I don't understand Dutch, but browsing on Laurentius site was very enjoyable. You can scroll through the slideshow with mouse scroll wheel, scrollbar, navigation buttons, or arrow keys. I particularly like the slide between 4 & 5 where the butterflies flew out the scene randomly.
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart site gives you the same kind of experience as if you were playing on the Wii. It is fun to see the carts move on the track. Notice when you try to scroll down on the last slide or scroll up on the first slide, the graphic elements shake to create the effect of braking.
Moods of Norway
Moods of Norway truely depicts the beauty of a city line in a parallax scrolling tour. It takes you from the country side to the urban city in different lighting and season. I thought it is a travel site, but it turns they are a product site (LOL). Don't forget to check the site on your iPhone. It displays a sweet message when you are viewing in portrait mode. You can swipe through the scenes in landscape view.
Art of Flight
Like the Mario Kart site, Art of Flight provides the same experience as if you were flying in a helicopter. It gave me a headache (in a positive way) from watching the elements flying around the scene. Very well done!
Smokey Bones
Beside the parallax scrolling on Smokey Bones, I like the bottom of the site where you can break the balls and play pool (well, sort of).
BeerCamp doesn't have the stunning images like most of the parallax scrolling sites, but it is very well executed. Everything is laid on the screen. As you scroll, the design zoom in layer by layer.
Make sure you are on high speed connection to check the Beetle site because it is very graphic instense. The scrolling at the beginning is put together with image by image like keyframe animation.
New Zealand
The scene design on the New Zealand site is breath taking — beautiful and high resolution imagery. However, this beauty costs some load time and graphic resources.
Activate Drinks
Among all the sites on this list, I think Activate Drinks has the best pre-load idea. First it shows you a nice loading animation and then the cap on the bottle starts turning as you scroll.
Gidsy – Making the Perfect Listing
This "Making the Perfect Listing" page is nicely put together with just basic color and shapes. Scroll and watch the shapes merge together.
Things to Consider
If you are thinking to design a parallax scrolling site, here are some factors you should consider:
- Preload the graphics: if your design is very graphic instense, preload the graphics before loading the site. This will give the user more seamless experience.
- Mobile devices: pay extra attention to mobile devices because users might not get the same experience as the desktop browsers.
- Viewport sizes: be sure your scene works on various viewport sizes (small, medium, large).
Here are some tutorials that you might find useful:
- Recreate NikeBetterWorld Parallax
- Behind the Scenes of NikeBetterWorld
- Building Parallax Scrolling Storytelling Framework
- Parallax Scrolling jQuery Plugin
- jParallax Plugin
Thanks to Twitter Followers
Lastly, I would like to say thanks to all my followers @nickla who tweeted me some of the parallax scrolling sites.
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Parallax Technology
Check out this great parallax scrolling page:
This one is using a parallax effect with an animation indexed on the Y position :
Nice collection, I may add some of them to WDIT collection. Everyone have a look at WDIT collection for Parallax Web Design Inspiration (http://webdesigninspirationtoday.com/design/style/parallax)
Great Innovations!
I recently came across this website for a web development company, it had some pretty awsome scrolling effects too http://unicod4.com
I guess Javascript is finally providing better animations then flash now.
Another one: http://wakeman.whitecircleepub.com
One of the best lists so far. This sites are inspiring! Here another nice example with a great smooth scrolling interaction: http://www.drugtreatment.com
We created a SEO parallax scrolling site. We are an SEO Agency in Argentina. The site is here
Our goal with this project was to do a
Responsive Web Design
Parallax Scrolling
SEO (Onsite optimization site)
Wordpress site.
We think we did a pretty good job. Its not perfect but most parallax scrolling site do not have SEO. And very few SEO Agencies have parallax scrolling sites. We have yet to find one. Let me know if you do.
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I am speechless after watching the parallax scrolling sites. These are no doubt simply mind blowing. Specially Mario kart is awesome to scroll down.
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Yes! I do remember that Nike Ad scrolling type! Like some kind of videogame in the 80's! LOL!


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On Friday, April 4, a car flipped into Steinway Creek in Astoria and killed four young Queens residents, all between the ages of 19 and 21. Only the driver, 20 year-old Andrew Gramm, survived.
Around 10:30 p.m. on a rainy night, the car of five friends was traveling on 19th Avenue when Gramm tried to make a U-turn and park at the end of the street. Steinway Creek runs along the edge of the dead-end road, and Gramm lost control of the car, which jumped a curb and flipped into the water.
Gramm was able to escape the sinking vehicle and called 911, but his friends — Jada Monique Butts, Darius Fletcher, Jaleel Furtado and Crystal Gravely — were all dead by the time they were extricated from the car and taken to area hospitals.
Since the crash, friends, family and community members have mourned the loss of the four young friends, and Gianaris wonders what could have been done to prevent the accident.
Leading up to the road there are "Dead End" signs, but a sign that marks the end of 19th Ave. where the road meets the creek was apparently missing when the crash occurred.
Questions have also arisen regarding the strength of the chain-link fence that was serving as a barrier between the road and the creek at the time of the accident. DOT has since secured the area with jersey barriers and barrels.
"As our community deals with this tragic accident, we must work together to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future," Gianaris said. "DOT must make our streets safer by reviewing all roads leading to waterways, as there may be similar dangers in other neighborhoods throughout our city. This accident was avoidable, and something must be done to keep people safe as they drive, walk or cycle on our roadways."
A DOT spokesperson said that an "End" sign had been installed at the intersection of 19th Ave. and the creek in October of last year, but a review of the history of the area does not indicate there were any recent requests for traffic controls or additional signage.
The spokesperson also said that "DOT is also reviewing Senator Gianaris' request and will review conditions at streets ending near water or other similar locations."


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As the Obama administration continues to weigh its options in Syria after last week's alleged chemical weapons attack, the conversation has stayed away from one of the murkier issues of war: its moral implications.
A majority of Americans don't support military intervention in the Syrian conflict; a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken the same week as the attack shows just 9 percent of U.S. citizens support an armed response to the Syrian regime's alleged use of chemical weapons. President Barack Obama said Wednesday that diplomacy is still the ideal solution and that the U.S. is willing to work with whomever necessary to find a peaceful resolution.
But much of the public debate about using military force in Syria has revolved around the practical justifications for and against armed involvement in the embattled Middle East nation. But unlike past conflicts, this debate has largely lacked a moral discussion over peaceful vs. lethal options.
"Particularly in the U.S., the practical angle always comes first in the picture. This is about how much it's going to cost . . . and so on and so forth," said Francesco Mancini, senior director of research at the International Peace Institute.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, pushed a moral agenda on Wednesday morning at the Peace Palace in The Hague. "Earlier today, right here in Peace Palace, I said give peace a chance," he said. "Give diplomacy a chance. Stop fighting and start talking."
But his plea was easily drowned out when, hours later, Britain courted the U.N. Security Council for approval on its draft Syria resolution. Although the council failed to reach an agreement on the resolution, it could still be put to a vote.
A smattering of moral and religious leaders have blasted Western calls for armed responses, urging caution and patience in the aftermath of the purported chemical attack.
Britain's archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, warned Parliament members against what he called "rushing to judgment" in Syria. In an interview with the country's Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, he said a simple solution "doesn't exist," but he cautioned against a quick reaction from Parliament as members returned to London for an emergency vote on the issue Thursday. Parliament rejected military action in Syria, and Prime Minister David Cameron said he would not override the vote in the House of Commons.
Back in the states, the Rev. Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Cathedral, echoed Welby's cautious position, saying the situation leaves him with a mixed response. "I'm really ambivalent and confused at this point. I tend with most Americans to not want us to get involved in another war in the Middle East. On the other hand, the human rights disaster in Syria is really troubling," he said. "So I'm not really at this moment prepared to assign a statement opposing whatever the president is planning without understanding it more."
On Tuesday, the Vatican's newsletter leveled harsh criticism on Western nations' plans for military intervention, saying the move was premature given the U.N.'s continuing investigation into the attacks. The U.N., it said, was caught in a crossfire as it weighed a continuing investigation against calls for authorization of armed responses.
"Various international actors appear no longer to consider the investigation a determining factor," the newsletter said. Pope Francis has consistently called for peaceful approaches to Syria, and most recently he addressed the conflict in Sunday's prayers. "With great suffering and concern I continue to follow the situation in Syria," he said, according to a Vatican Radio translation. "It is not confrontation that offers hope to resolve problems, but rather the ability to meet and dialogue."
But some experts said a moral stance, at this point, is severely diluted by two years of inaction on the administration's part.
"The U.S. administration has cornered itself a little bit with this idea of the red line. . . . There is now a huge pressure on the administration to do something. And this something, at this stage, it's about signaling," said Mancini. "It is about punishing, and signaling to Assad that chemical weapons are not an option."
But that signal in itself could carry mixed messages. The death toll in Syria has been steadily climbing since the civil war began more than two years ago. By only taking action after a chemical attack, experts said, the administration could seem passive on the myriad of other means by which Syrians have been killed.
"If you've seen any of the pictures, it's definitely heart wrenching," said Matthew Baum, a professor and expert on foreign policy and international politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "You know, death by sarin is, I'm sure, horrific. But death by shrapnel is not a good thing, either."
Mancini echoed Baum's observation, saying an airstrike, at this point, implies that targeting civilians is only unacceptable when the method is a chemical attack.
"Chemical weapons are wrong, but traditional weapons (are OK). . . . As long as you don't use chemical weapons, we're fine," Mancini said, when explaining the convoluted message an airstrike could send. "It's a big dilemma, I think."


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