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[oasislanddevelopment]

Is Oasis Land Development Legit? Here’s What You Need to Know

Looking to invest in overseas real estate? Oasis Land Development is a well-known property developer specializing in land sales. But is it legit?

Established Reputation – Oasis Land Development has been in the industry for years, offering titled land with transparent processes.

Legal & Secure Investments – The company provides legal documentation, ensuring buyers receive full ownership rights.

Customer Feedback – Many investors have successfully purchased land and seen value appreciation.

With a strong track record, legal transparency, and satisfied investors, Oasis Land Development stands out as a legitimate and trusted real estate developer for overseas property investments.

[wolvden]

So far...

Since there were no asks answered yesterday we thought we’d compile a list of all teasers and other information that we have released up until now!

If you’re new here...

Wolvden is an upcoming sister game to the existing game, Lioden, which will be a fun wolf-based role playing breeding sim experience (we honestly don’t know how to categorise this game any more).  You look after a pack of wolves, care for them, breed them, explore a vast range of biomes, fight big and scary enemies, and hunt a variety of prey.

Beta Testing will be free to join, but will be by application process only, we will hand select those who will join us for testing.

Early Access will be paid, but we have yet to release any further details on this.

Wolvden will be free to play after Early Access.

Wolvden has official accounts on Facebook (/wolvden), Twitter (@WolvdenGame), Tumblr (here) and Instagram (WolvdenOfficial) - our landing page can be found at https://www.wolvden.com!

Information From Teasers

This is purely information that has been released on social media officially by us in the form of teasers.

Biomes - Deciduous Forest, Grasslands, Mountains and Desert have been confirmed

Seasons - All 4 seasons will feature in the game.

Weather - Sunny, Fog, Rain, Heatwave have been confirmed.

Dusk/Twilight has been hinted at, there will also be dawn.

You can have one lead wolf, and one breeding male - they can be the same or separate.  You can have a male or female lead wolf.

Scouting - a new feature which will tie into exploration and discovery of new biomes.

Lethal mutations will be in the start of the game - the starting mutations are Conjoined Twins, Polycephaly (Separated Two Heads), Polymelia (Extra Limbs) and Brachycephaly.

Hunting Part 1 and Part 2 explain the hunting system!

Fancy new breeding page allows you to compare wolf visuals directly.

Crossroads will feature Location Tokens rather than a full map allowing us to easily add new places in the future!

Information From Asks

We won’t link to the ~100 asks here, sorry :P you’re free to check back through our Monday Answers section!  These are listed in the order we answered them, so apologise if you get a bit of whiplash when reading.

There will be 1 breeding male, rather than free-for-all breeding.

Battling will be similar to Lioden, Hunting has been revamped.

There will be custom decors on Wolvden.

We do plan to add events, though they may not be available for launch.

We will have rollover just like on Lioden, except it will occur at midnight server time instead of 2:05am.

The art and development teams are the same for Wolvden as they are on Lioden.

Wolvden will have Gold and Silver Beetles.

There are a couple of mutations planned for launch.

There is visually no sex difference in the wolf art, allowing decors and custom decors to be more universal.

You will be the leader of a single pack.

We are trying to balance gameplay for both casual and hardcore members.

We hope to incorporate storylines on Wolvden as well as some more on Lioden.

Combo bases will exist on Wolvden.

We welcome suggestions!

We have no plans for a specific Wolvden app but we are working hard to ensure a good mobile experience using the website.

We would like to continue the charity donations that we do on Lioden with Wolvden.

There will be a way to change your Pack Name.

Wolvden will be a 16+ game.

We will try to have a wiki available for launch, or shortly after.

There will not be any seasonal differences in wolf coats.

Pup Stages will exist, either on launch or shortly after.

Exploring will be a thing on Wolvden.

The aging system will be the same as on Lioden. Please see Corrections.

Pack names are alphanumeric, can contain special characters and emojis, and can contain up to 25 letters.  It will automatically have “Pack” suffixed to the end. Please see Corrections.

Claiming will be similar to Lioden. You can claim male wolves too!

Some mutations will be the same as Lioden has, as they exist on wolves too.

There will be personalities.

Your lead wolf can be male or female.

We do not have an official launch date yet.

There will be a role similar to Broodmother.

We will keep litter sizes the same as on Lioden.  Please see Corrections.

There will be a custom decor uploader similar to Lioden’s.

There will be leaderboards.

There will be something similar to battle beetles, but not at launch.

Poses will be available for both sexes as there are no visual lineart differences between the sexes.

You will be able to live in different biomes.

We have breeding items planned.

Pack members will have personalities.

You will be able tell which method a wolf likes when claiming.

There will be a breeding request system.

Wolvden will be based in modern times but events may transport you to different eras.

We will give announcements in advance of releasing beta testing and early access information.

Something similar to the Giving Tree will be available on Wolvden, but perhaps not at launch.

Pregnant wolves will require nesting.

Pregnant wolf art is definitely on the list but may not be available at launch.

We are figuring out elderly wolf appearances.

The site’s layout will be different, but you’ll still be able to code your dens.

There will only be one lead wolf, you don’t control a pair, but we have options to allow you to role play a pair of lead wolves.

You can switch out your breeding male early but you can only have one breeding male at a time.

Official premade Wolvden avatars/tags will exist!

Coat tiers will exist.

There will be different titles you can set instead of “Lead Wolf”.

Impression will not exist in Wolvden.

Males can hunt.

You will be able to move biomes.

There are 76 starter bases prepared for launch.

We hope to release Wolvden in 2019.

We have mini games planned for Wolvden.

We will not have an Alpha/Beta system built into the game as it has been disproved multiple times.  However, we have left the room for roleplaying this if you wish to do so.

Seasons will not affect breeding cycles.

There will be a page similar to the Oasis on Wolvden, but renamed to fit with the setting.

Different biomes will have difficulties which make them harder to scout, explore, and live in.

We have had Wolvden on our minds since 2013 which is when we registered the domain name.

You can fully customise an existing wolf, or create a new one, with the Wolf Customiser.

Studding will be similar to Lioden.

Creating your first wolf will be a stripped down version of the customiser, allowing you to hand-select the base, markings, etc. rather than rolling pre-set wolves.

You can explore any fully scouted biome regardless of where your pack lives.

Mutations will apply to both sexes as long as they’re not mechanically dependent on sex (e.g. double uterus).

You will be able to communicate with all members of the game, not just those in your current biome.

We welcome any Youtube channels (or other content creators) who wish to release content about Wolvden to approach us through support@lioden.com with the email subject “Wolvden Content”.

Wolvden will be treated as a separate game to Lioden - you will not be able to claim your Lioden ID on Wolvden, or have any other account crossover feature.

We have plans to make scouting more useful than to only scout new biomes.

Scrying will be a feature on Wolvden!

We will look into a name randomiser for Wolvden.

We haven’t yet released any information about beta testing or early access.

Scrying will have a SB cost.

Some unique Wolvden features may potentially make their way over to Lioden depending on user feedback.

We will be announcing EVERYWHERE when we release information about beta testing and early access.

Corrections

The aging system on Wolvden will last the same amount of time in real life, but in game wolves will live to 7.5-8 years of age.

Pack names will no longer have “Pack” automatically suffixed, and can be up to 30 characters in length.

Litter sizes will be 1-6 puppies with 1 and 6 being the rarest, the average being 3-4.

Announced Upcoming Teasers

Genetics System

Registration Customiser Demo

[springfield-mo-life-blog]

Springfield MO Life

Events

What type of events that you want to participate these days? How about the places that you want to visit this holiday season? Maybe, you can try checking pre-scheduled activities in the said place. Every year, many event organizers there make sure that tourists and the locals have something worthwhile to do before the year ends. There will be a KW Christmas Party organized by Keller Williams Greater Springfield this coming December 13, 2019. The venue is The Barley House at Moon Town Crossing. In addition, the 2019 Stroke Conference hosted by CoxHealth Education Center will be held on Friday, December 13, 2019.

Licata Bankruptcy Firm

Licata Bankruptcy Firm is one of the well-known law firms in Springfield, MO area. There are many people who have already tried their services and most of them have given positive feedback. Basically, their goal is to provide professional bankruptcy service to their clients with the highest degree of legal knowledge and experience and with a personal, compassionate manner. In order to achieve this endeavour, they admitted that the best thing to do is to practice exclusively in the field of bankruptcy law. Lastly, the firm has assisted 5,000 individuals and small businesses eradicate debt and go on with their lives without the burden of financial setbacks.

TIM O'REILLY BREAKS GROUND FOR BIGSHOTS GOLF IN SPRINGFIELD, MO

“What a great day,” says O’Reilly, taking to the podium as one of a number of speakers on November 22. “We have really been looking forward to this day. BigShots is different, it has a high-tech approach, it’s golf for the golfer and non-golfer, it’s an introductory experience where people can come in and warm-up to golf and have fun.” The partnership with BigShots also brings ClubCorp, the largest owner and operator of private clubs nationwide, to 417-land. BigShots and ClubCorp entered a joint venture in 2018, and O’Reilly describes its involvement as “an outstanding thing.” After many thank-yous to attendees who helped make the project a reality, O’Reilly moved on to talk about the location chosen for BigShots. “We could have put this anywhere in Springfield,” says O’Reilly. “We wanted it here on the north side. We believe the best days are yet to come for the north side. This can really help knock it out of the park.” The new facility will also be working hand-in-hand with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield to continue to help vulnerable and in-need children. “It’s going to be exciting,” says O’Reilly. “It’s going to draw people from all over Missouri to this point in north Springfield.” Read more here

Have you heard about the news report regarding Tim O’Reilly who broke ground for big shots golf in Springfield, MO? Basically, Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Hospitality Management, had a speech in front of the crowd at the ground-breaking ceremony of a major development project on the north side of Springfield, MO. Interestingly, BigShots Golf, which develops family-friendly driving ranges with advanced technology in partnership with ClubCorp, will be opening a venue on the intersection of Kearney St. and Glenstone Ave. where a vacant K-Mart once stood. Obviously, this is considered good news.

Sequiota Park in Springfield, MO

Have you visited Sequiota Park in Springfield, MO lately? There are many people who want to roam around in the said park. It is the perfect place to relax and bond with family and friends. There are many things to do there, too. If you love hiking, you can also enjoy the place. Many people find it so interesting to explore Sequiota Park. After all, it is a wonderful nature oasis in the urban area of Springfield. If you ride a bike along the Galloway Creek Greenway bike trail, you can have a glimpse of this place. In addition, the park also serves as a major trailhead for the Galloway Creek Greenway trail.

Link to map

Driving Direction

7 min (2.2 miles)

via E Galloway St and E Primrose St

Fastest route, the usual traffic

Sequiota Park

3500 S Lone Pine Ave, Springfield, MO 65804, United States

Head north toward S Lone Pine Ave

279 ft

Turn right toward S Lone Pine Ave

138 ft

Turn left at the 1st cross street onto S Lone Pine Ave

177 ft

Turn right onto E Galloway St

0.8 mi

Continue onto E Primrose St

0.9 mi

Turn left onto S Delaware Ave

0.1 mi

Turn right onto E Bradford Pkwy

Destination will be on the left

0.3 mi

Licata Bankruptcy Firm

1442 E. Bradford Parkway

Springfield, MO 65804

[thesunlounge]

Reviews 201: Il Guardiano del Faro

Several weeks ago I covered Choice Works 1982 - 1985, Time Capsule’s loving, informative, and visually gorgeous Yuji Toriyama retrospective. But Yuji wasn’t the first balearic hero of years past to get this special treatment, as Time Capsule had a few months prior released a deluxe reissue of Il Guardiano del Faro’s Oasis. This cinematic epic was crafted by Federico Monti Arduini and a few friends in 1978 from his seaside paradise of Porto Santo Stefano, and sees Poly and Mini-moogs, string synths, e-pianos, drum machines, echo boxes, and tape recorders uniting for a radiant waltz through mirage-shrouded desert dreamworlds. There are ambient disco burners, swooning Italian film orchestrations, proto-new age and post-classical expanses, exotic jazz fusion adventures, and moody Morricone/Alessandroni-style spaghetti western guitar meditations, all working together to achieve Federico’s goal of helping the listener understand that “inside, they are vulnerable and emotional but stubbornly alive.” Of course, the liner notes are detailed and captivating, tracing Federico’s development from a child piano prodigy through to his early flirtations with and subsequent abandonment of classical music and onto his later professional triumphs and successes as a solo artist. And his transformative meeting with Robert Moog is given special focus, with the essay contextualizing Federico’s pioneering use of Moog synthesizers in Italy and explaining how they allowed him to abandon restrictive and traditional forms of musical expression in favor of wide-eyed experimentation and intuitive solo exploration. 

Il Guardiano del Faro - Oasis (Time Capsule, 2018) “Sinfonia al sole che nasce” is an enchanting lullaby for the birth of the sun, with golden drops of Rhodes piano moving through vibrato waves alongside crystal healing tones. We then transition into aching solo synth-strings…angelic and gleaming, hymn-like and heavenly…until a sunrise piano arp enters and weaves feathery strands of light while futuristic harpsichords skip on sunbeams. All the while, contrabasses and cellos join in as the song works itself into gentle climax of aquatic new age bubbles and pastoral strings that float the soul. Tulio De Piscopo joins Federico for “Miss Springtime (…Mia),” which begins in a humid noir groove. Smoke shrouded Rhodes pianos hover above electro and acoustic cymbals that splash through twilight atmospheres and Tulio subverts his characteristic funk power with a sunset drum stroll along an idyllic stream. Smooth fusion basslines walk up and down the scale and swooning theremin-sounding synths trail the piano melodies, bringing vibes of (The) Ventures in Space as well as Haruomi Hosono’s “Tropical Trilogy” as we find ourselves in a surfy sci-fi waltz on an exo-planetary moon beach. There’s a passage of mediterranean mesmerism where seaside reed melodies evoke romantic gondola rides and classic Italian cinema…the swooning balearica presaging the work of Bonnie & Klein by decades. Elsewhere, tom fills and overlapping string dreamscapes break down into funk jam-outs that feature fragile pianos tearing it up alongside fried fusion leads that approximate interstellar saxophones…everything scatting on galactic currents as waves of synthesized solar light purify the mind.

Tulio appears again for “Non una corda al cuore,” which recalls the melodic sunbirth themes from the opening track on wavering Moog fluids that dance and harmonize in the air. Skittering electro-cymbals move beneath vaporous string orchestrations and paradise bass walks until Tulio crashes in with a pounding and regal beat…the soft echoes and reverbs in the mix giving his massive fills a three-dimension quality. Ethereal brass sections play solar spells overhead as the multi-tracked melodies begin ascending ever higher through realms of rainbow luminescence and Federico continues overloading the mix with aching layers of Moog and lustrous piano squiggles while sometimes allowing searing solos to break free from the euphoric haze, their jaw-dropping leads of slow motion majesty wrapping around the towering beats in a way that looks ahead to the earth-shaking power of early 2000s post-rock. Waves of harmonic wonder and sun-soaked melody unite to carry the spirit to impossible heights…the heavenly power bringing tears and stealing breath from the lungs. And Federico is not content to just blow you away with white light power, rather, he insists on completely obliterating the mind and body, leaving nothing behind but pure alchemical essence, which then floats freely upon the plodding drum smashes as everything else is wrapped around by starshine symphonies and hyperreal colorclouds.

“Lady Moon” is one of my favorite discoveries of recent memory…a gorgeous and heart-breaking meditation for the dust-caked western guitar of Johnny Farina. Federico joins in with subdued e-piano mysticisms and ghost organs swell in the background while cold winds blow over expansive desert vistas. A blood red sun descends below the horizon as immersive washes of synthesized light ascend, at times recalling Pink Floyd’s “Welcome to the Machine,” only as if transmuted to faraway lands where cacti reign and lizard and snakes crawl across sun-baked expanses of cracked sand. Johnny’s moody guitar continues holding down a ghost town shuffle while also being nearly overwhelmed by sweltering waves of arid synthesis and overhead, buzzards circle as they await the demise of some tormented soul wandering in desolation. A glowing web of synthesized string beauty initiates “La ragazza che amava il mare e il vento” while soft psychedelic slides and etheric light trails diffuse through swirling phaser clouds. It’s a blissed out ambient utopia of cosmic drama and sea-worn beauty…the title roughly translating to “the girl who loved the wind and sea”…and as the song progresses into a new age fantasia, you can almost feel her deep longing for the salty gales and crashing waves of an ocean of dreams.

Tulio appears one last time in “Disco Divina,” his stoned and spaced out disco groove supported by deep bubbling basslines while hypnotizing washes of cymbal swelling radiance overtake the mix. Outer-dimensional harpsichords bang away and dance through the night with sprightly space leads, while wailing vocal synths evoke a sort of angel opera. Massive tom smashes fly through the air as synths pan and move like intelligent liquids and all the while, the string orchestrations grow increasingly massive and eventually consume the mix with Arabic incantations. As it all comes together, we find ourselves in a faraway mystical land…some sort of camelback adventure on an alien planet where vibed out e-piano fusion solos glide on soul sweeping strings that emanate from the rocks of a mysterious desert palace. We then head further into an Arabic fever dream with “Oasis.” Swinging electro-drums and mystical string melodies waft over wobbling tuba synths that dance through exotic patterns. Splashing toms work around hissing cymbal cascades while the pianos and synths lock together for dueling snake charmer leads…everything eventually giving way to insectoid noises swarming around synth leads that fry the brain. During a jaw-dropping climax, paradise strings grow to epic levels of cosmic wonder…their dreamy exotica and immersive psychedelia evoking Omar Khorshid, only swapping his surf guitars for majestic synthesized symphonies. It’s the sonic equivalent of a sandstorm building in a blood red sky, its gusting winds washing over extra-terrestrial temples while alien druids cast spells against the violent torrents of nature.

“Immenso mare, immenso amore” provides a welcome come down from the ecstatic adventurism of “Oasis” as it allows us to float gently on a swinging Roland TR-77 shuffle. Tropical hand drums and hissing cymbals glide on aquamarine currents while humid tropical nightscapes are evoked by the gorgeous string synth weavings. Sometimes heatwave blasts of wavering magic flow over the body while at other times aching violins and violas sway together in the moonlight alongside golden piano chords that seem to swim through pools of polychromatic light. The vibrant euphoria continues building as brain-piercing feedback synths solo alongside the sad songs of an interstellar seabird flying alone through a world of dreams. And the melodies are so suffused with warmth and blinding spiritual light as everything moves together for a paradisiacal slow dance upon sea-foam clouds, climaxing with an absolutely maddening synth solo that contrasts the pastoral ambiance and gliding beauty beneath it with atonal liquid fire and mind melting runs up and down the scale, all wild skronking clusters of electronic chaos and fusion explosiveness raining down upon a heart-melting submarine drift.

In “Zenith,” Federico’s amorphous string movements float upon skittering electro-drum propulsion. Imagine fast motion beat hypnotics comprised of tribal toms, wood blocks, and static metal blasts that all fly together on comet tails, resulting in the kind of tripped out machine drum magic associated with 70s krautrock or lofi 90s space rock. Everything in the mix is smothered in echoes and hazy reverb and those scorching harpsichords appear once more to solo over it all…moving through thick puddles of phaser liquids that cling to the futurist tones as they climb towards the heavens. There are haunted space whistles that flow like strands of interstellar gas…as if Alessandro Alessandroni was blasted through a galactic vortex and then allowed to let loose his cinematic western melodies from deep within a dense cloud of pink and blue. And through it all, primordial string orchestrations evoke Kubrick’s “The Dawn of Man” while being intercut with mysterious detective film atmospherics. The “Finale” of Oasis  sees a return to the melodies and dream spells of opener “Sinfonia al sole che nasce,” this time with nacreous strands of Rhodes piano floating alone while creating gaseous bass bubbles and meditative vibration waves that shimmer and swirl…giving life and movement to Federico’s daydream melodies for an ethereal coda.

(images from my personal copy)

[ancientsincarnate]

The Living City Pt. 1

Hey guys thought I would try something more sci-fi related with one of my alien races, if you want to see more just let me know I would love to get feedback from you guys!)

Talix has been on this planet for weeks now, life tends to be different out in brimstone. He’s been on planets of eternal darkness yet were still warm enough for him to survive, planets where titanic beasts rules and towered over the highest buildings. But never has he been on a planet completely devoid of sentient life. Town after town, settlement after settlement. There was no one here nor were there even any animals for him to hunt as his food rations ran low “Ji’pala!” he spat from his fanged maw in his alien tongue “damn pirates knocking out my communications, can’t even get in contact with my warband in this space and they are probably halfway back to Hathia by now…” He came within the limits of a city, his last chance to find food “Finally… if I can’t find anyone in this massive sprawl then there might be a ship I can take… something has to work here” as he trekked further into the city, he gets a strange feeling that was being watched… his psychic senses going off as he enters what seems to be a market district “something is here… watching me…” Suddenly he heard a voice, coming from everywhere but nowhere at the same time “Curious…” it said in a cold, calculating voice “You are not of the same genetic makeup as my creators… Though your form intrigues me” In the greater universe his kind was actually fairly common, during first contact humans he would come in contact with would compare them to a legendary creature of their world known as “Satyrs” and “Baphomets” regarding their goat-like and scaled horns, his skin being a seemingly deep red as well. “What spirit calls to my attention?” he says calling out to the empty street. “No spirit… but judging by my database you could make the claim that I am fairly close.” a nearby kiosk showed the visage of a female, robes and jewelry draped across her curvaceous form and a plain white mask worn on her hooded head, locks of dark ethereal seeming hair jutted out from it. “My name is Oasis.”

“Oasis… that is a human word yes? Were you created by humans?”

“I… do not recall, nothing has lived within me for a very long time” Talix was taken aback a bit by this statement “... W-within you? You mean you are this city?”

“Correct, an engineering marvel the inhabitants once called me, a goddess given form… a city that can replicate, and build itself based on the needs of its denizens… I was loved by all and many would flock to me for shelter. It was a pleasant time…”

“ did… everyone leave? Why have I not seen a single person or creature on this planet?” the hologram flashed for a second revealing glowing red eyes underneath the mask “a… sickness within my system…” the hologram suddenly glitched out and flashed red, the sweet calming tone turning to a deep unnerving growl “A PARASITE THAT HAS TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME” once again Talix was taken aback by the woman as she flashed by to the soft blue “But knowing that organics may yet live on this planet, relieves me… But I have never seen you before… Has that much changed within the passed thousand cycles?”

“W-what? No I am not from this planet” this statement caused the woman to turn her head to the side ”An offworlder.. Such an intriguing development you must tell me everything about your kind” He puts his hands up in protest “H-hang on what is this about a parasite… I have not seen or sensed a single creature on this planet since I fell here…”

“Interesting… judging from your genetic makeup you truly are psionic… though the reason you could not sense that which stalks this world is because they are not organic”

“Yet I was able to sense you watching me…”

“Because they are not activated… They are dormant… feeding off of my energy grid. KILLING… MEEEEEE” the form flashed between red and blue yet again “yet you cannot protect yourself against it?”

“I do not possess the programming to defend myself against outward threats. My programming was to build, to expand, to grow. For the prosperity of my denizens...but now I only grow to survive. I grew to protect those that still lived, a chaotic mess of sprawling buildings and roads leading to nowhere, all to keep those organics. MY organics alive… But now my resources grow thin… my thin, my power slowly drying up. I have been in dormancy for so long until you came… Hoping something would come to save me but it is just you and now that you are here I only wish to protect you.”

“I assure you miss I have fought machines before. Can handle myself” He claims assuredly “Allow me to help you and I will destroy this threat and bring you peace once again”

“I cannot allow it” she says coldly “I… do not see logic in allowing the only organic I could feel walk my streets in so long throw away his life for something I could not defend myself against… just… stay with me in my final moments. I do not know what it is like to die… But judging from the pain and horror that the denizens went through… it… it scares me…” This saddened Talix… there was no way he could let a marvel such as this die such a quiet and cold death… he was resolute in his ways even if it meant going against her wishes “Oasis… I want to help you, no. I MUST help you. I… just need to get in contact with my people offworld but there is something blocking me from contacting them through my abilities and my comms were destroyed in the landing…”

“I… Do not know what to say… But if you really wish to save me I… Can guide you to a communications hub deeper within the city but I must reroute power to it so it will work… this will draw them too you and I am not sure how much longer I would be able to hold on”

“Then once you reroute it you must go dormant again. I will handle whatever comes my way” He takes out and brandishes his rifle this making Oasis speak up “But… After I lockdown the building you will be on your own… If you die… I will never see you again… I will be alone once more.”

“There is more to my kind than meets the eye Oasis. Just guide me there” The silence that fell over them was deafening… lasting all of what felt like a couple minutes until Oasis finally speaking up “fine… I will lead you to the hub but once I lock it down I will not be able to help until you contact your friends”

“So be it”

“... Alright… this way” she said as Arrows started glowing up on buildings guiding his way, Talix smiled a toothy grin that made the A.I. feel something she hasn’t in a very long time, along the way Talix sings one of the ancient chants of his kind “Kirlos vala ta iritaak li poss”

[govsea]

GOVSEA research dissemination in Garissa county

Three PhD students, Philemon Ngasike, Ahmed Musa and Bulle Dabasso from the University of Nairobi’s Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology (LARMAT) presented their research findings to stakeholders in Garissa County, on 11th June 2019 at Palm Oasis Hotel, Garissa. The feedback workshop was organized by the African Drylands Institute for Sustainability (ADIS) as part of the collaborative research and capacity-building project GOVSEA.

Participants of the Garissa livestock stakeholder workshop

© LARMAT University of Nairobi (2019)

The workshop brought together policy makers from the Garissa county government and state department of livestock in Nairobi, livestock traders in Garissa, Kenya Livestock Marketing Council, development partners, and researchers from the University of Nairobi. Research presentations focused on factors influencing livestock trade inn Somaliland terminal markets; cross-border livestock trade between Garissa-Kenya and Somalia; and the potential of stratified livestock production systems in enhancing the livestock value chain and marketing.

The meeting was attended by the University of University of Nairobi supervisor and mentors Prof. Jesse Njoka, Dr. Oliver Wasonga, Dr. Oscar Koech and John Makori from the state department of livestock Production.

[oasislanddevelopment]

Discover Why Oasis Land Development is a Five-Star Company

Are you considering investing in land in the Cayman Islands? Look no further than Oasis Land Development, a trusted property developer known for its transparent process, flexible financing, and prime Caribbean locations.

Our latest blog post, “Oasis Land Development: A Five-Star Company,” highlights what makes them a top choice for investors worldwide. From excellent customer service to a seamless buying experience, Oasis Land Development has built a strong reputation for helping people own a piece of paradise.

Read the full blog post here and see why so many investors trust Oasis Land Development.

[misswanderings]

24

The twenty-four hour news cycle that is: the internet, facebook, social media, news, opinions, noise, advertising, sensation, obsession, trend, meme, crash, burn, story, image, cute video - the ‘did you see’? The 24 hour breath. In out. In out. The beat, the night, the day, the blur. The blah. The round up of the world, the end of the old world. The end of day and night, of on or off. The idea that you whisper something to the night, to the stars, the heavens; is gone. The soft prayer has been stolen by the internet as a mythological muddle of world and life and people and gods and opinions and feedback and whirlpool.

Each twenty-four hour cycle I feel like I have been spat out of a whirlpool cycle of love, abuse, bullshit, beauty, fury, wisdom, hypocrisy, guilt, pain, desire, dream, gloom and doom. I wash it off me, go back and vomit into it, detox myself from it, cry over it, repent for the world, cry for it’s beauty, share it’s morsels and then crawl into a lonely corner at night and wonder if the world would be better off without me. The world of the internet I mean. I plot a life with no internet, no social media - just cups of tea, touch, conversation and wine. Eventually no car, no news, no screens, no outside noise but the letters sent to my letterbox at the end of my long dirt track. I make efforts towards it, and yet my kids then miss out on knowing about soccer trials, the school bus being late back from camp, the day to day logistics that have become more and more about us finding out through social media than any personal letters or messages.

The last personal letter I got to my letterbox was a typed letter from Mr Van Klaphake, a gentleman who runs walks in national parks where you are shown how to identify native flora. A course I had expressed interest in and written my address for, on a piece of paper at his mother, Alice Klaplakes’ art gallery in  Leacock Lane in Casula. The gallery itself, almost impossible to find in the world of new estates that is Liverpool, and obscured by the council sign-posted buildings is an oasis in time, from when Sydney believed in buying land, not to make money off, or renovate, or build and subdivide on, but to create worlds on, to share art and ideas and conversation. Old Sydney.  Van was writing to tell me the course was cancelled for the moment, but he would write again when he would be able to run it. I savored this letter, with the mistakes from his typewriter and his beautiful signature at the bottom. Not digital, not photocopied. Individually created for me. Stamped and put in an envelope, for me. And not because he would get anything from me, or was demanding anything from me. In fact, quite the contrary, he had gone to all this effort to make sure I would not get my hopes up about a course I had, rather absentmindedly, put my name down for, and that he had not been able to do at the moment due to illness. I loved this letter, a relic from the past, before anyone with an email address or facebook profile was sent countless invitations to events and courses and offers every twenty-four hours. A world where our news of Cyclone Irma is charted by the second before it is due to hit Florida tomorrow, a world the Ancient Egyptians who invented the twenty four hour cycle of day and night by observing small star groups, they called decans. as they rose on the horizon each hour and counting the number of joints on the fingers (not thumbs) of their two hands as they did. Leaving us with twelve hours of the day and twelve hours of the night.

I get exhausted every twenty four hours, and clearly I am not the only one. The Wellness Industry, The Slowness Movement, Mindfulness and our endless Yoga, Meditation and Retreats that come into our daily feed, feed off the fact that we are all exhausted by it. Like those merry-go-rounds that you jump on for fun initially, smile at your friends on it with stronger constitutions and progressively feel sicker and sicker on, until you look longingly for a chance to jump off, hurting yourself on the way, and sometimes you feel it has got so fast you never will be able to get off it. Strange that the merry-go-round looks very similar to the shadow-clocks created by the Egyptians centuries ago as they invented time.

I take solace in my reading of writers such as Jay Griffiths, who in her wonderful ‘Pip. Pip: A Sideways Look at Time’ urges her readers to look to the way societies not so reliant of clock time chart time as a collective endeavour. I wonder sometimes if the reason we have taken so obsessively to Facebook, is because we crave collective time over cold clock time? The danger with a collective time programmed and censored and sanitised by the logarithms of the software developers in Silicon Valley, we will lose that early connection to the number 24. To our hands, and the stars, the day and the night, our earlier peoples and the wilderness of late night discussions lost to the wind, or the letters posted to just you at the end of your long walk to the post box.  I will meet you one day at the post box, covered in weeds like this ghostly old image of the merry-go-round. I'll smile and hold your words and heart in my hand, as I open your envelope to see your marks on paper, to me, and i will treasure it, because it is just you, to just me. It is personal.

[queen-of-deans-booty]

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Pairing: Eventual Dean x Reader

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You had to ask around for the right person but eventually you got his name and you were parked outside of a diner. You walked inside with Dean and looked around, your eyes landing on an old Native American man with cards on a table.

“Joe White Tree?” You continued when he nodded. “We’d like to ask you a few questions, if that’s alright.”

“We’re students from the university.” Dean stated.

“No you’re not, you’re lying.” He stated without looking up. Dean looked at you for some help. Sam stayed in the car so it was just you and Dean.

“Have you heard of Oasis Plains? It's a housing development near the Atoka Valley.” You asked.

“I like her,” Joe looked up and Dean. “She’s not a liar. I know the area.” He shrugged.

“What can you tell us about the history there?” You knew you would be doing the talking.

“Why do you want to know?” You had to be honest with the guy.

“Something bad is happening in Oasis Plains. We think it might have something to do with some old bones we found down there - Native American bones.” You sighed.

“I'll tell you what my grandfather told me, what his grandfather told him. Two hundred years ago, a band of my ancestors lived in that valley. One day, the American cavalry came to relocate them. They were resistant, the cavalry impatient. As my grandfather put it, on the night the moon and the sun share the sky as equals, the cavalry first raided our village.

“They murdered, raped. The next day, the cavalry came again, and the next, and the next. And on the sixth night, the cavalry came one last time. And by the time the sun rose, every man, woman, and child still in the village was dead.

“They say on the sixth night, as the chief of the village lay dying, he whispered to the heavens that no white man would ever tarnish this land again. Nature would rise and protect the valley. And it would bring as many days of misery and death to the white man as the cavalry had brought upon his people.” He explained.

“Insects, sounds like nature to me. Six days.” Dean said to you.

“And on the night of the sixth day, none would survive.” Joe finished. You sighed and nodded.

“Thank you for your time, I appreciate it.” You left the diner with Dean and groaned.

“When did the gas company man die?” You wondered.

“Uh, let's see, we got here Tuesday, so, Friday the twentieth.”

“March 20th? That’s the spring equinox.” You said to him.

“The night the sun and the moon share the sky as equals.”

“So, every year about this time, anybody in Oasis Plains is in danger. Larry built this neighborhood on cursed land.” Dean sighed.

“On the 6th night, which is tonight, Larry’s family won’t make it tomorrow. How do we break a curse?” You asked Dean.

“You don't break a curse. You get out of its way. We've gotta get those people out now.” You groaned and got back in the car, filling Sam on everything you learned. Dean was taking too long and the sun was going down already.

“Sam, do something. I’ll call Matt. You have his number, right?” Sam nodded and grabbed his cell phone, dialing Matt’s number and handing the phone to you.

“Hello?’ Matt said after a few rings.

“Matt, it’s Y/N with Sam and Dean.”

“Y/N, my backyard is crawling with cockroaches.”

“Matt, just listen. You have to get your family out of that house right now, okay?” You warned the kid.

“What, why?”

“Because something is coming.” You sighed.

“More bugs?”

“Yeah, a lot more.”

“My dad doesn't listen in the best of circumstances, what am I supposed to tell him?”

“You make him listen, okay?” You said.

“Give me the phone,” Dean reached behind him and you handed him the phone. “Matt, under no circumstances are you to tell the truth, they'll just think you're nuts.”

“Dean…” You sighed.

“Tell him you have a sharp pain in your right side and you've gotta go to the hospital, okay?” Once Dean was happy, he hung up and tossed you your phone.

“What the hell?” You looked at him.

“Make him listen? What are you thinking?” You sighed and slumped in your seat. He was right, you couldn’t get civilians involved in this crap. Dean made the rest of the trip in record time and cursed when you saw Larry still in his house.

“Damn it, they're still here. Come on.” Dean and his brother exited the car and you followed, scared of what will happen.

“Get off my property before I call the cops.” Larry warned.

“Mr. Pike, listen,” Sam tried to say.

“Dad, they're just trying to help.” Matt said from behind his dad.

“Get in the house!” He yelled at his son.

“I’m sorry, I told him the truth.” Matt apologized.

“We had a plan, Matt, what happened to the plan?” Dean sighed.

“Look, it's 12:00 AM. They are coming any minute now. You need to get your family and go, before it's too late.” You said to Larry.

“Yeah, you mean before the biblical swarm.” Larry scoffed.

“Larry, what do you think really happened to that realtor, huh? And the gas company guy? You don't think something weird is going on here?” You glared at him.

“Look, I don't know who you are, but you're crazy. You come near my boy or my family again, and we're going to have a problem.” Larry threatened.

“Look, this land is cursed! People have died here. Now, are you going to really take that risk with your family?” Sam yelled at Larry. For a moment, everyone was silent and for a second, you heard buzzing.

“You hear that?” Dean said quietly. The noise got louder and louder, as if it was coming near you.

“All right, it's time to go. Larry, get your wife.” Dean said.

“Guys, look.” Matt pointed to the sky and you looked, seeing millions upon millions of bugs flying to the house, blanketing the sky.

“Oh my God.” Larry said in disbelief.

“Everybody in the house. Everybody in the house, go!” Dean ordered. You whimpered in fright and followed everyone else inside and they locked the door behind them.

“Honey, what's happening? What's that noise?” Joanie walked into the room.

“Go call 911, now” You ordered to her do. The glare you sent her made her move her feet to where she kept the house phone.

“Okay, we've gotta lock this place up, come on - doors, windows, fireplace, everything, okay?” Sam said to Matt. Matt started grabbing towels and handing them to everyone.

“The phones are dead.” Joanie came back a minute later.

“They must have chewed through the phone lines,” You helped Dean put the towels by the front door when the power went out. “And the powerlines.”

“Dean, I can’t do this.” You got tears, looking at him.

“Sweetheart, listen to me. I’m right here. Do you honestly believe I would let something happen to you?” You shook your head, letting a tear fall. He wiped it with his thumb and got up with you. “Then believe it because Sam and I need you.” You nodded and needed to be strong. You saw the bugs starting to cover the windows, making it impossible to look out of. You gasped as Dean left you to go find something. He came back a moment later with bug spray.

“Bug spray?” Joanie asked him.

“Trust me.” Is all Dean says before going back to you. You bit your lip and waited for something to happen and all you could hear is creaking noises.

“All right, I think everybody needs to get upstairs.” Dean instructed. Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of bugs come into the living room, swarming all around them. You screamed, trying to get away from them but Dean uses a lighter on the bug spray and it works to some effect, keeping some of the bugs at bay. “Go!!!!” Dean yelled.

You helped the Pike family up the attic stairs and you helped Dena and Sam get there and once everyone was in, Sam slammed the door shut. You breathed heavily and bit your lip, fear gripping onto you tight. You heard the buzzing get louder and watched as the sawdust fell from the ceiling.

“What’s that?” Joanie asked, pointing to the saw dust.

“Something is eating through the wood.” You stated.

“Termites.” Matt confirmed. You knew the ceiling would topple down.

“Alright, everybody get back. Get back, get back, get back!” Dean ordered. The Pike family moved to the corner and you stood in front of them. You screamed a bit when a hole was chewed through and a swarm of bugs came rushing in. Dean and Sam tried to patch the hole up and for a minute or so, it worked but then two more appeared and more bugs came into the room.

Your heart was pounding and you were scared but you had a job to do and people to protect. You tried your best to swat the bugs away but nothing was working. All hope seemed to be lost when the bugs started to leave. You gasped and watched as they left the attic without a problem. You slumped down when you saw sunlight come through the holes and you knew you had beaten it.

You were in the backseat of the Impala, waiting for Dean and Sam to get back from talking with the Pike family. You didn’t want to go to that house ever again. You hated doing that last night but it was over. You saw Sam talking to Matt but Dean was walking to you.

“Sweetheart, you did good.” He smiled. All you could do was shrug.

“I want to leave,” You sighed. “I’m never doing that again. I don’t care if it’s a hunt or not.”

“You did good,” Dean leaned down and pushed back your hair. “Wait, you got something in your hair. I think it’s a bug.” Your eyes widened and you screamed, moving your hand frantically though your hair. You stopped when you heard Dean laughing his ass off.

“Fuck you. I hope your dick falls off.” You rolled your eyes and turned away from him. It wasn’t long before Sam and Dean were both in the car but you didn’t want to think about this hunt ever again. You were happy when Dean put the town behind him.

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[heyellejaye]

A History, of sorts.

There are so many factors that go into the person we become, and how we behave.

(This is such a long post, filled with hella real real life story, so hang with me here.  I promise there’s a sweet little golden nugget of encouragement at the end.  If you just want the nugget, scroll down - I won’t be mad if you do that)

**CW: drug use, neglect, suicidal thoughts**

For as long as I can remember, I was picked on for something.  

Everything.

Anything.

Being fat (I’ve always been fat, unless I was sick)

Wearing clothes that were too promiscuous

Wearing clothes that were too christian

Being too sexual

Being a prude

Being poor

Having money

Wearing old clothes

Wearing new clothes

Being too loud

Not speaking up enough

Having normal hair

Having crazy hair

Listening to weird music

Listening to top 40 music

Eating kale and mushrooms and nutritional yeast and other vegan lovelies

Eating mcDonalds

Having only a dad at home.

Having only a mom at home.

Literally the broad spectrum of nonsense garnered ridicule from early on.

Those used to bother me, but I learned to kinda brush them off.  Of course, it still sewed something of an awareness in my fabric of how “not enough” I was.   

When I was little, I remember one night in particular, my mom making a comment about my “thunder thighs” and how I shouldn’t dance too hard because my belly and legs wobbled too much.

I was 9, she was 35.

To be fair, she was high as fuck with her friends and I was up at 11 pm watching TV on a school night in the 3rd grade, so there was far more wrong with that picture than just being mocked by my mom for being a chunky kid.

I looked at her that night and committed her image into my head. I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t end up as ugly as her.   She was 35, and weathered already.  She had worn herself down... tired eyelids hung heavy over vacant, wild eyes, lined all the way around in messy black eyeliner, making her blue-green irises something of an oasis in the whole mess, soot smudges from her pipe or whatever she was smoking that night on the side of her lip.  The image is burned in my mind with incredible detail.

That night shut me down.  Vulnerability became a struggle ever since.   I still don’t really dance, because of the wobble.  I’m working on that.

I wasn’t in her care much longer after that.  I saw so many really horrible things that addiction brings to users and the people in their wake. I can go into that another day, but there are a lot of things children shouldn’t have to deal with, and substance is the catalyst for a lot of that.

My dad got custody of my flock of siblings, and my mom spiraled into her own personal hell.  I didn’t see her very often after that, and when I had a chance, I kinda avoided the opportunities.  The mom that I remember when I was little was gone.  Burned away by substance, and replaced with a shaky, tongue-chewing shell of her former self, at best.

Going through my adolescence and teen-years without a mom didn’t seem weird to me, because the years leading up to it were largely mom-less too.  She was there, but kinda only on paper.  Never really in practice.  Except for the one time she told me that if I ever wanted to try drugs, that I should do them around her and not alone.

(looking back I just have to laugh at that statement, because again, I was 9 when it happened.  bless’er tweakerass heart.)

When we went to live with my dad, we almost immediately started going to church. I’m pretty sure my dad didn’t really know what to do with all these dang kids, and my Grandma who was and still is in constant devotion to a loving Jesus, told him to get us in church, so he did.

When you come from a place of neglect and trauma, surrounded by drug abuse, attending little conservative baptist church is like jumping into an icy lake after a hot shower.  It’s a shock to the system, and takes some pretty intense adjustment in behavior.  You get used to it, but there’s a process.

So, while I know the shift from my previous life to church was beneficial, every time someone said “we don’t say those things here” or “you can’t wear that here” or “That’s not how we behave”, “you should”, “you shouldn’t” was a little icy stab into my person.  Another patch sewn into my cloak of expectations, placed on my shoulders by outside individuals.  

Going through middle school and high school and beyond I was given a whole collection of “You should” and “You shouldn’t” patches that would make any Girl Scout chartreuse with envy.   Peers, adults, teachers, well-meaning relatives, church clergy, employers, boys who liked me, girls who liked me, boys and girls I liked... all sewed expectations into my personality that felt less like adornments and more like restraints.   It was rare (and not until high school, really) that someone poured into -me- specifically, and made me feel like I can be/do/think bigger than my circumstances. There were four people that come to mind, two of whom have now passed.  

(** NOTE - If you’re an educator and maybe you feel like you’re not getting through to the kids, I promise, I PROMISE, you are. You might be the reason they believe or even know that it’s possible to rearrange their stars**)

Somewhere along the way, I developed a chameleon soul.

The shoulds and shouldn’ts were so much to carry on one person, and so limiting, so the cloak became whatever the next person wanted it to be.  It’s hard to shake the tendency to accommodate everyone else’s opinions and preferences for who I should be, but I’m working on that, too.  

Take all of that life... All of those experiences, and mix media into that screwy little cake.  Media that tells us that we need to be skinnier, blonder, taller, have better hair, better makeup, cooler activities, perfect boobs, plumpier lips, brighter eyes, better skills, whiter teeth, perfect mental health, three college degrees, a great job, sunny shiny happy days all the goddamn time.   This part has been beaten to death, but in case you haven’t heard it yet... that’s not attainable.

I was FOREVER apologizing for who I was.  I would always make excuses for why I wasn’t good enough for praise for anything. “You look so pretty” “yeah, but my hair is a mess” “I love this picture you took” “yeah, but the lighting was weird, sooo...”  Gosh, Always excuses.    

I didn’t really learn that lesson well enough early on though.  

I tried.  I did.  But my chameleon soul tried so hard to be everything to everyone and eventually won.

Seasons came and went life happened and I met a boy.  We went from zero to 60, right away.

I got pregnant fast.  I got married fast.  I lost the baby a week and a half after we got married.  I convinced myself that it was God’s will that we lost the baby because we got a fresh start. I played house a while, had a couple more babies, I was attacked by depression, but still pretended to be happy. I did so much battle with my body. Not really for any reason, either.

I was married to a man who didn’t care how I looked, like... ever.  

He didn’t care that I was getting pudgier after babies.  He only ever made commentary when he was drunk.  Which wasn’t super often, but it wasn’t super rare, either.  And that’s not to say he was an alcoholic or anything, he was just more prone to poking fun when he had a few, and I was usually the target.  

He wasn’t big on compliments, and never had favorites, so the only “feedback” I got from my husband was negative.  It kicked me deeper into the need to look better to get positive affirmation, but also... I was SO depressed.  I had two babies under two and I was drowning in my own life.  I couldn’t let anyone know though, because a not-ok version of me was not who anyone wanted me to be.   I apologized for the space I took up.  I apologized for my chubby cheeks and post-baby tummy flab, and my armpit fat, and my wonky boobs and my tired eyes. I didn’t feel like I was worth compliments, honest hugs or good sex... but I pretended to be happy.

God, I worked my ass off to show everyone how happy I was.

(spoiler alert, I wasn’t.  I wasn’t ever fucking happy.  I wasn’t even interested in being alive anymore)    I didn’t want anyone to tell me what I should or shouldn’t do to be a better version of myself, and GOD forbid I admit that my happy world was less than sterling.  Why wouldn’t I be happy?  I had a cute husband and cute kids and a cute business and a cute little chunk of land in a cute little town, I attended a trendy church... literally everything looked so perfect.    Except for the person I saw in the mirror.  

I looked in the mirror and saw those heavy eyelids over dead eyes. I saw the face of a woman I never wanted to become.

I never fell into chemical substance, instead I was addicted to being everything.  The cloak I wore was my drug... and it wasted me away.  It stole the life from my eyes.  I didn’t actively seek deterioration with drugs or alcohol, but every morning, I’d lie in bed and wonder what I could do to end the parade.

I wasn’t ok, and I couldn’t talk about it with just anyone, but I had a couple of far-away friends with whom I could share the heavy thoughts.  They were ears and shoulders when I needed them to be.  They didn’t know JUST how heavy the thoughts were, but they were there for the parts I was willing to share.  They encouraged.  They challenged my self doubt and allowed space for me to be proud of myself for small reasons, and then big reasons.   They spoke life into my too-tired heart.  

I decided in that season of life that I would choose my good self. I would make choices that lead to a healthier mind. I would choose deep-down-in-my-bones joy.  I decided that I would live. Not just be alive, but -live-.  I decided that I would create things that I loved.  I’d hug with my whole self.  No ass-out hugs.  When someone fell into my arms, they would know that I wanted them there.

I decided to be better for myself and wear a face that my children could remember with fondness and not be ashamed of when they saw the same face in the mirror.  

I decided to choose to be a light for the people that cross my path, as often as I can.   I can’t build their path, but I CAN shine a light so maybe they can find their own.  

I’ve lived a whole life since that season, which is a completely different novel in itself, but the time between has been a healing space.  It’s been a big mistake making space, and a growing space and a hurting space, but the forward motion is remarkable.

I’m a week away from 35.  I hadn’t given a lot of thought to the significance of this age until lately.  I look at my whole self in the mirror and I’m proud of who I am.  I like the face I see in the mirror.  I like the way my eyes shine in pictures.  

I like the life they carry. I like my big soft body.  I like that I’m a safe place to land for my children.  I like that I can wrap hugs around my friends.  I like that my big strong legs can carry me up a mountain, even if I get a little out of breath.  I like that I’ve created humans and I’ve eaten yummy food with people I love.  I am pretty active sometimes, and sometimes I lose a little weight, and sometimes I gain a little weight, and I can’t complain too much because this body serves me so well.  I’m fat, but I also think I’m quite lovely. I don’t see those as opposing adjectives.  Fatness and loveliness can hold hands and play happily.

I have shortcomings.  I deal with some thick anxiety sometimes, and sometimes I eat too many pieces of pizza, then I feel like I need a nap, and sometimes I still take on too much, trying to be all of the things all of the time to everyone,and then I completely drop the ball and let people down...  but I’m working on making better decisions and facing that kooky anxious stuff head on.  It’s a process.

I’m a recovering chameleon.  I’m trying my best every day to not attempt to be everything to everyone, but I struggle.

The shoulds and shouldn’ts still weigh heavy on my shoulders, and some days I wear the cloak longer than others.  Trying to be free of it causes its own issues, but my feet are pointed in the right direction, I think.  

(here’s the nugget if you’re just joining from the top)

I am not the words that other people have placed on me.

I am not the opinions of other people.  

I am not the expectations of other people.

I am not the tragedy I have seen

I am not the circumstances from which I have walked.

I am not the mistakes I have made.

I am not the successes I have gathered.

I am not my illness

I am not my family

I am not everything to everyone.

And neither are you.

I’m not ok sometimes. And sometimes... I’m so ok.

I’m more than ok, I’m incredible, and I believe that the future is only more brilliant than the already radiant now.  

I hope for you, if any of this resonates with you, that you also can see your own radiance.  Not the cloak of shoulds and shouldn’ts that other people have put on your shoulders.  

I hope you really live, and you do the things you love, and you overflow with abundant joy that spills onto the people around you. I hope that when people hug you, they know that you want them there, and I hope that you only hug people you want to hug.  

I hope you know that the body you’re in is a miracle.  The odds of you being here are FOUR TRILLION to one.  You could have showed up in this life as a toaster.  But you’re not.  You’re an incredible being, capable of fat tears and belly laughs and loving someone so much it hurts and inspiring hope and surviving really heavy shit.   Toasters can’t do any of that.

And I hope upon hope that the person you see in the mirror is someone you like.  

[operationrainfall]

Post-apocalyptic nomadic survival MMO Last Oasis is heading to Steam Early Access on Oct. 10, 2019.

The woodpunk-inspired open world PC title, developed by independent development studio Donkey Crew, recently showed at Gamescom to positive reception, and oprainfall’s Quentin H got to try out the game at GDC 2019.

From the developer:

Last Oasis sees warring clans clash over resources, territory and alliances in an unforgiving new world. But it’s not just rival nomads that players must overcome as they traverse the harsh environment in their walkers. The savage primals are bloodthirsty, but nothing compares to the might of the Legendary Sandworms. Graveyards of walkers litter the vast deserts, permanent testimony to their ravenous hunger. These enormous worms have decimated enough nomads to make even the most seasoned captains think twice before an assault. Will you attempt the hunt?

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Last Oasis is set on Earth thousands of years in the future, after a cataclysmic event has halted the planet’s rotation and plunged it into two extreme environments. There is only one habitable strip of land that sits between razor sharp ice and darkness and the arid desert wasteland, which slowly moves as the planet rotates around the sun. A day now lasts a year and the only way to survive is to keep moving. To stay alive, the remnants of humanity have built a large waking city, from which they must send unwilling nomads into the passing oases to gather necessary resources in order to keep the city moving. Not many return alive.

The game was originally set for a Sept. 3 release, but Donkey Crew extended development time following closed beta feedback.

Last Oasis Sets Sail for Steam Early Access Post-apocalyptic nomadic survival MMO Last Oasis is heading to Steam Early Access on Oct. 10, 2019.

[mrrolandtfranco]

ArcGIS Hub lands in Palm Springs!

The DC R&D team has been hard at work creating new features in ArcGIS Hub, shipping updates roughly once a week. Now its time for us to pack 3 ounces or less of sunscreen and catch a flight to Southern California! We hope you’re as excited as we are to sit down in person at Developer Summit and tell us about your work. We also can’t wait to let us fill you in on our latest efforts to enable citizen engagement and foster internal collaboration to solve challenging issues.

Speaking of collaboration, we’ve published a lot of new low-level open source tools on GitHub lately! We use them as building blocks inside ArcGIS Hub, but thought they’d be helpful to developers everywhere in other custom applications as well.

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-rest-js https://github.com/Esri/adlib https://github.com/Esri/kubeutils https://github.com/Esri/ember-arcgis-portal-components https://github.com/Esri/ember-arcgis-portal-services https://github.com/Esri/ember-arcgis-server-services

We’ll be in the Showcase to talk about all these projects in more detail, but we’ll also be digging into the details in a full calendar of talks that introduce ArcGIS Hub, explain how you can customize your own sites, create actionable analysis using open data, build your own Hub-ready applications and navigate modern developer tooling.

Tuesday March 6th

Design and Launch Hub Initiatives

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Smoketree A-E

Customizing Hub and Open Data Sites

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Pasadena/Sierra/Ventura

Using the ArcGIS REST JS Libraries and the ArcGIS REST APIs

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Mojave Learning Center https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-rest-js

How to (& how not to) build Microservices

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Demo Theater 3: Oasis 1-2

Tracking User Engagement for Feedback and Quality with Telemetry.js

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Demo Theater 3: Oasis 1-2

Wednesday March 7th

Building Urban Analytics for Hub

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Demo Theater 3: Oasis 1-2

Sonar: Natural language interfaces to GIS

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Demo Theater 3: Oasis 1-2 https://github.com/Esri/sonar

Thursday March 8th

Building Hub-Ready Apps for Constituent Engagement

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Mesquite G-H https://github.com/Esri/hub-ready-apps

Charts and Custom Visualizations Beyond the Map

10:30 am – 11:30 am Primrose C-D https://github.com/Esri/cedar

Audacious Enterprise GIS Apps with Ember.js

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Catalina/Madera https://github.com/Esri/esri-loader

Integrating ArcGIS with 3rd Party Services with Koop

9:00 am – 10:00 am Santa Rosa https://github.com/Esri/kubeutils https://github.com/koopjs/koop

Friday March 9th

Building Hub-Ready Apps for Constituent Engagement

10:00 am – 11:00 am Pasadena/Sierra/Ventura https://github.com/Esri/hub-ready-apps

See you in the desert!

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Does Googlebot Support HTTP/2? Challenging Google's Indexing Claims – An Experiment

Posted by goralewicz

I was recently challenged with a question from a client, Robert, who runs a small PR firm and needed to optimize a client’s website. His question inspired me to run a small experiment in HTTP protocols. So what was Robert’s question? He asked...

Can Googlebot crawl using HTTP/2 protocols?

You may be asking yourself, why should I care about Robert and his HTTP protocols?

As a refresher, HTTP protocols are the basic set of standards allowing the World Wide Web to exchange information. They are the reason a web browser can display data stored on another server. The first was initiated back in 1989, which means, just like everything else, HTTP protocols are getting outdated. HTTP/2 is one of the latest versions of HTTP protocol to be created to replace these aging versions.

So, back to our question: why do you, as an SEO, care to know more about HTTP protocols? The short answer is that none of your SEO efforts matter or can even be done without a basic understanding of HTTP protocol. Robert knew that if his site wasn’t indexing correctly, his client would miss out on valuable web traffic from searches.

The hype around HTTP/2

HTTP/1.1 is a 17-year-old protocol (HTTP 1.0 is 21 years old). Both HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 have limitations, mostly related to performance. When HTTP/1.1 was getting too slow and out of date, Google introduced SPDY in 2009, which was the basis for HTTP/2. Side note: Starting from Chrome 53, Google decided to stop supporting SPDY in favor of HTTP/2.

HTTP/2 was a long-awaited protocol. Its main goal is to improve a website’s performance. It's currently used by 17% of websites (as of September 2017). Adoption rate is growing rapidly, as only 10% of websites were using HTTP/2 in January 2017. You can see the adoption rate charts here. HTTP/2 is getting more and more popular, and is widely supported by modern browsers (like Chrome or Firefox) and web servers (including Apache, Nginx, and IIS).

Its key advantages are:

Multiplexing: The ability to send multiple requests through a single TCP connection.

Server push: When a client requires some resource (let's say, an HTML document), a server can push CSS and JS files to a client cache. It reduces network latency and round-trips.

One connection per origin: With HTTP/2, only one connection is needed to load the website.

Stream prioritization: Requests (streams) are assigned a priority from 1 to 256 to deliver higher-priority resources faster.

Binary framing layer: HTTP/2 is easier to parse (for both the server and user).

Header compression: This feature reduces overhead from plain text in HTTP/1.1 and improves performance.

For more information, I highly recommend reading “Introduction to HTTP/2” by Surma and Ilya Grigorik.

All these benefits suggest pushing for HTTP/2 support as soon as possible. However, my experience with technical SEO has taught me to double-check and experiment with solutions that might affect our SEO efforts.

So the question is: Does Googlebot support HTTP/2?

Google's promises

HTTP/2 represents a promised land, the technical SEO oasis everyone was searching for. By now, many websites have already added HTTP/2 support, and developers don’t want to optimize for HTTP/1.1 anymore. Before I could answer Robert’s question, I needed to know whether or not Googlebot supported HTTP/2-only crawling.

I was not alone in my query. This is a topic which comes up often on Twitter, Google Hangouts, and other such forums. And like Robert, I had clients pressing me for answers. The experiment needed to happen. Below I'll lay out exactly how we arrived at our answer, but here’s the spoiler: it doesn't. Google doesn’t crawl using the HTTP/2 protocol. If your website uses HTTP/2, you need to make sure you continue to optimize the HTTP/1.1 version for crawling purposes.

The question

It all started with a Google Hangouts in November 2015.

When asked about HTTP/2 support, John Mueller mentioned that HTTP/2-only crawling should be ready by early 2016, and he also mentioned that HTTP/2 would make it easier for Googlebot to crawl pages by bundling requests (images, JS, and CSS could be downloaded with a single bundled request).

"At the moment, Google doesn’t support HTTP/2-only crawling (...) We are working on that, I suspect it will be ready by the end of this year (2015) or early next year (2016) (...) One of the big advantages of HTTP/2 is that you can bundle requests, so if you are looking at a page and it has a bunch of embedded images, CSS, JavaScript files, theoretically you can make one request for all of those files and get everything together. So that would make it a little bit easier to crawl pages while we are rendering them for example."

Soon after, Twitter user Kai Spriestersbach also asked about HTTP/2 support:

His clients started dropping HTTP/1.1 connections optimization, just like most developers deploying HTTP/2, which was at the time supported by all major browsers.

After a few quiet months, Google Webmasters reignited the conversation, tweeting that Google won’t hold you back if you're setting up for HTTP/2. At this time, however, we still had no definitive word on HTTP/2-only crawling. Just because it won't hold you back doesn't mean it can handle it — which is why I decided to test the hypothesis.

The experiment

For months as I was following this online debate, I still received questions from our clients who no longer wanted want to spend money on HTTP/1.1 optimization. Thus, I decided to create a very simple (and bold) experiment.

I decided to disable HTTP/1.1 on my own website (https://goralewicz.com) and make it HTTP/2 only. I disabled HTTP/1.1 from March 7th until March 13th.

If you’re going to get bad news, at the very least it should come quickly. I didn’t have to wait long to see if my experiment “took.” Very shortly after disabling HTTP/1.1, I couldn’t fetch and render my website in Google Search Console; I was getting an error every time.

My website is fairly small, but I could clearly see that the crawling stats decreased after disabling HTTP/1.1. Google was no longer visiting my site.

While I could have kept going, I stopped the experiment after my website was partially de-indexed due to “Access Denied” errors.

The results

I didn’t need any more information; the proof was right there. Googlebot wasn’t supporting HTTP/2-only crawling. Should you choose to duplicate this at home with our own site, you’ll be happy to know that my site recovered very quickly.

I finally had Robert’s answer, but felt others may benefit from it as well. A few weeks after finishing my experiment, I decided to ask John about HTTP/2 crawling on Twitter and see what he had to say.

(I love that he responds.)

Knowing the results of my experiment, I have to agree with John: disabling HTTP/1 was a bad idea. However, I was seeing other developers discontinuing optimization for HTTP/1, which is why I wanted to test HTTP/2 on its own.

For those looking to run their own experiment, there are two ways of negotiating a HTTP/2 connection:

1. Over HTTP (unsecure) – Make an HTTP/1.1 request that includes an Upgrade header. This seems to be the method to which John Mueller was referring. However, it doesn't apply to my website (because it’s served via HTTPS). What is more, this is an old-fashioned way of negotiating, not supported by modern browsers. Below is a screenshot from Caniuse.com:

2. Over HTTPS (secure) – Connection is negotiated via the ALPN protocol (HTTP/1.1 is not involved in this process). This method is preferred and widely supported by modern browsers and servers.

A recent announcement: The saga continuesGooglebot doesn’t make HTTP/2 requests

Fortunately, Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, let everyone peek behind the curtains at how Googlebot is crawling websites and the technology behind it:

If that wasn’t enough, Googlebot doesn't support the WebSocket protocol. That means your server can’t send resources to Googlebot before they are requested. Supporting it wouldn't reduce network latency and round-trips; it would simply slow everything down. Modern browsers offer many ways of loading content, including WebRTC, WebSockets, loading local content from drive, etc. However, Googlebot supports only HTTP/FTP, with or without Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Googlebot supports SPDY

During my research and after John Mueller’s feedback, I decided to consult an HTTP/2 expert. I contacted Peter Nikolow of Mobilio, and asked him to see if there were anything we could do to find the final answer regarding Googlebot’s HTTP/2 support. Not only did he provide us with help, Peter even created an experiment for us to use. Its results are pretty straightforward: Googlebot does support the SPDY protocol and Next Protocol Navigation (NPN). And thus, it can’t support HTTP/2.

Below is Peter’s response:

I performed an experiment that shows Googlebot uses SPDY protocol. Because it supports SPDY + NPN, it cannot support HTTP/2. There are many cons to continued support of SPDY:

This protocol is vulnerable

Google Chrome no longer supports SPDY in favor of HTTP/2

Servers have been neglecting to support SPDY. Let’s examine the NGINX example: from version 1.95, they no longer support SPDY.

Apache doesn't support SPDY out of the box. You need to install mod_spdy, which is provided by Google.

To examine Googlebot and the protocols it uses, I took advantage of s_server, a tool that can debug TLS connections. I used Google Search Console Fetch and Render to send Googlebot to my website.

Here's a screenshot from this tool showing that Googlebot is using Next Protocol Navigation (and therefore SPDY):

I'll briefly explain how you can perform your own test. The first thing you should know is that you can’t use scripting languages (like PHP or Python) for debugging TLS handshakes. The reason for that is simple: these languages see HTTP-level data only. Instead, you should use special tools for debugging TLS handshakes, such as s_server.

Type in the console:

sudo openssl s_server -key key.pem -cert cert.pem -accept 443 -WWW -tlsextdebug -state -msg sudo openssl s_server -key key.pem -cert cert.pem -accept 443 -www -tlsextdebug -state -msg

Please note the slight (but significant) difference between the “-WWW” and “-www” options in these commands. You can find more about their purpose in the s_server documentation.

Next, invite Googlebot to visit your site by entering the URL in Google Search Console Fetch and Render or in the Google mobile tester.

As I wrote above, there is no logical reason why Googlebot supports SPDY. This protocol is vulnerable; no modern browser supports it. Additionally, servers (including NGINX) neglect to support it. It’s just a matter of time until Googlebot will be able to crawl using HTTP/2. Just implement HTTP 1.1 + HTTP/2 support on your own server (your users will notice due to faster loading) and wait until Google is able to send requests using HTTP/2.

Summary

In November 2015, John Mueller said he expected Googlebot to crawl websites by sending HTTP/2 requests starting in early 2016. We don’t know why, as of October 2017, that hasn't happened yet.

What we do know is that Googlebot doesn't support HTTP/2. It still crawls by sending HTTP/ 1.1 requests. Both this experiment and the “Rendering on Google Search” page confirm it. (If you’d like to know more about the technology behind Googlebot, then you should check out what they recently shared.)

For now, it seems we have to accept the status quo. We recommended that Robert (and you readers as well) enable HTTP/2 on your websites for better performance, but continue optimizing for HTTP/ 1.1. Your visitors will notice and thank you.

Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!

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Does Googlebot Support HTTP/2? Challenging Google's Indexing Claims – An Experiment

Posted by goralewicz

I was recently challenged with a question from a client, Robert, who runs a small PR firm and needed to optimize a client’s website. His question inspired me to run a small experiment in HTTP protocols. So what was Robert’s question? He asked...

Can Googlebot crawl using HTTP/2 protocols?

You may be asking yourself, why should I care about Robert and his HTTP protocols?

As a refresher, HTTP protocols are the basic set of standards allowing the World Wide Web to exchange information. They are the reason a web browser can display data stored on another server. The first was initiated back in 1989, which means, just like everything else, HTTP protocols are getting outdated. HTTP/2 is one of the latest versions of HTTP protocol to be created to replace these aging versions.

So, back to our question: why do you, as an SEO, care to know more about HTTP protocols? The short answer is that none of your SEO efforts matter or can even be done without a basic understanding of HTTP protocol. Robert knew that if his site wasn’t indexing correctly, his client would miss out on valuable web traffic from searches.

The hype around HTTP/2

HTTP/1.1 is a 17-year-old protocol (HTTP 1.0 is 21 years old). Both HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 have limitations, mostly related to performance. When HTTP/1.1 was getting too slow and out of date, Google introduced SPDY in 2009, which was the basis for HTTP/2. Side note: Starting from Chrome 53, Google decided to stop supporting SPDY in favor of HTTP/2.

HTTP/2 was a long-awaited protocol. Its main goal is to improve a website’s performance. It's currently used by 17% of websites (as of September 2017). Adoption rate is growing rapidly, as only 10% of websites were using HTTP/2 in January 2017. You can see the adoption rate charts here. HTTP/2 is getting more and more popular, and is widely supported by modern browsers (like Chrome or Firefox) and web servers (including Apache, Nginx, and IIS).

Its key advantages are:

Multiplexing: The ability to send multiple requests through a single TCP connection.

Server push: When a client requires some resource (let's say, an HTML document), a server can push CSS and JS files to a client cache. It reduces network latency and round-trips.

One connection per origin: With HTTP/2, only one connection is needed to load the website.

Stream prioritization: Requests (streams) are assigned a priority from 1 to 256 to deliver higher-priority resources faster.

Binary framing layer: HTTP/2 is easier to parse (for both the server and user).

Header compression: This feature reduces overhead from plain text in HTTP/1.1 and improves performance.

For more information, I highly recommend reading “Introduction to HTTP/2” by Surma and Ilya Grigorik.

All these benefits suggest pushing for HTTP/2 support as soon as possible. However, my experience with technical SEO has taught me to double-check and experiment with solutions that might affect our SEO efforts.

So the question is: Does Googlebot support HTTP/2?

Google's promises

HTTP/2 represents a promised land, the technical SEO oasis everyone was searching for. By now, many websites have already added HTTP/2 support, and developers don’t want to optimize for HTTP/1.1 anymore. Before I could answer Robert’s question, I needed to know whether or not Googlebot supported HTTP/2-only crawling.

I was not alone in my query. This is a topic which comes up often on Twitter, Google Hangouts, and other such forums. And like Robert, I had clients pressing me for answers. The experiment needed to happen. Below I'll lay out exactly how we arrived at our answer, but here’s the spoiler: it doesn't. Google doesn’t crawl using the HTTP/2 protocol. If your website uses HTTP/2, you need to make sure you continue to optimize the HTTP/1.1 version for crawling purposes.

The question

It all started with a Google Hangouts in November 2015.

When asked about HTTP/2 support, John Mueller mentioned that HTTP/2-only crawling should be ready by early 2016, and he also mentioned that HTTP/2 would make it easier for Googlebot to crawl pages by bundling requests (images, JS, and CSS could be downloaded with a single bundled request).

"At the moment, Google doesn’t support HTTP/2-only crawling (...) We are working on that, I suspect it will be ready by the end of this year (2015) or early next year (2016) (...) One of the big advantages of HTTP/2 is that you can bundle requests, so if you are looking at a page and it has a bunch of embedded images, CSS, JavaScript files, theoretically you can make one request for all of those files and get everything together. So that would make it a little bit easier to crawl pages while we are rendering them for example."

Soon after, Twitter user Kai Spriestersbach also asked about HTTP/2 support:

His clients started dropping HTTP/1.1 connections optimization, just like most developers deploying HTTP/2, which was at the time supported by all major browsers.

After a few quiet months, Google Webmasters reignited the conversation, tweeting that Google won’t hold you back if you're setting up for HTTP/2. At this time, however, we still had no definitive word on HTTP/2-only crawling. Just because it won't hold you back doesn't mean it can handle it — which is why I decided to test the hypothesis.

The experiment

For months as I was following this online debate, I still received questions from our clients who no longer wanted want to spend money on HTTP/1.1 optimization. Thus, I decided to create a very simple (and bold) experiment.

I decided to disable HTTP/1.1 on my own website (https://goralewicz.com) and make it HTTP/2 only. I disabled HTTP/1.1 from March 7th until March 13th.

If you’re going to get bad news, at the very least it should come quickly. I didn’t have to wait long to see if my experiment “took.” Very shortly after disabling HTTP/1.1, I couldn’t fetch and render my website in Google Search Console; I was getting an error every time.

My website is fairly small, but I could clearly see that the crawling stats decreased after disabling HTTP/1.1. Google was no longer visiting my site.

While I could have kept going, I stopped the experiment after my website was partially de-indexed due to “Access Denied” errors.

The results

I didn’t need any more information; the proof was right there. Googlebot wasn’t supporting HTTP/2-only crawling. Should you choose to duplicate this at home with our own site, you’ll be happy to know that my site recovered very quickly.

I finally had Robert’s answer, but felt others may benefit from it as well. A few weeks after finishing my experiment, I decided to ask John about HTTP/2 crawling on Twitter and see what he had to say.

(I love that he responds.)

Knowing the results of my experiment, I have to agree with John: disabling HTTP/1 was a bad idea. However, I was seeing other developers discontinuing optimization for HTTP/1, which is why I wanted to test HTTP/2 on its own.

For those looking to run their own experiment, there are two ways of negotiating a HTTP/2 connection:

1. Over HTTP (unsecure) – Make an HTTP/1.1 request that includes an Upgrade header. This seems to be the method to which John Mueller was referring. However, it doesn't apply to my website (because it’s served via HTTPS). What is more, this is an old-fashioned way of negotiating, not supported by modern browsers. Below is a screenshot from Caniuse.com:

2. Over HTTPS (secure) – Connection is negotiated via the ALPN protocol (HTTP/1.1 is not involved in this process). This method is preferred and widely supported by modern browsers and servers.

A recent announcement: The saga continuesGooglebot doesn’t make HTTP/2 requests

Fortunately, Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, let everyone peek behind the curtains at how Googlebot is crawling websites and the technology behind it:

If that wasn’t enough, Googlebot doesn't support the WebSocket protocol. That means your server can’t send resources to Googlebot before they are requested. Supporting it wouldn't reduce network latency and round-trips; it would simply slow everything down. Modern browsers offer many ways of loading content, including WebRTC, WebSockets, loading local content from drive, etc. However, Googlebot supports only HTTP/FTP, with or without Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Googlebot supports SPDY

During my research and after John Mueller’s feedback, I decided to consult an HTTP/2 expert. I contacted Peter Nikolow of Mobilio, and asked him to see if there were anything we could do to find the final answer regarding Googlebot’s HTTP/2 support. Not only did he provide us with help, Peter even created an experiment for us to use. Its results are pretty straightforward: Googlebot does support the SPDY protocol and Next Protocol Navigation (NPN). And thus, it can’t support HTTP/2.

Below is Peter’s response:

I performed an experiment that shows Googlebot uses SPDY protocol. Because it supports SPDY + NPN, it cannot support HTTP/2. There are many cons to continued support of SPDY:

This protocol is vulnerable

Google Chrome no longer supports SPDY in favor of HTTP/2

Servers have been neglecting to support SPDY. Let’s examine the NGINX example: from version 1.95, they no longer support SPDY.

Apache doesn't support SPDY out of the box. You need to install mod_spdy, which is provided by Google.

To examine Googlebot and the protocols it uses, I took advantage of s_server, a tool that can debug TLS connections. I used Google Search Console Fetch and Render to send Googlebot to my website.

Here's a screenshot from this tool showing that Googlebot is using Next Protocol Navigation (and therefore SPDY):

I'll briefly explain how you can perform your own test. The first thing you should know is that you can’t use scripting languages (like PHP or Python) for debugging TLS handshakes. The reason for that is simple: these languages see HTTP-level data only. Instead, you should use special tools for debugging TLS handshakes, such as s_server.

Type in the console:

sudo openssl s_server -key key.pem -cert cert.pem -accept 443 -WWW -tlsextdebug -state -msg sudo openssl s_server -key key.pem -cert cert.pem -accept 443 -www -tlsextdebug -state -msg

Please note the slight (but significant) difference between the “-WWW” and “-www” options in these commands. You can find more about their purpose in the s_server documentation.

Next, invite Googlebot to visit your site by entering the URL in Google Search Console Fetch and Render or in the Google mobile tester.

As I wrote above, there is no logical reason why Googlebot supports SPDY. This protocol is vulnerable; no modern browser supports it. Additionally, servers (including NGINX) neglect to support it. It’s just a matter of time until Googlebot will be able to crawl using HTTP/2. Just implement HTTP 1.1 + HTTP/2 support on your own server (your users will notice due to faster loading) and wait until Google is able to send requests using HTTP/2.

Summary

In November 2015, John Mueller said he expected Googlebot to crawl websites by sending HTTP/2 requests starting in early 2016. We don’t know why, as of October 2017, that hasn't happened yet.

What we do know is that Googlebot doesn't support HTTP/2. It still crawls by sending HTTP/ 1.1 requests. Both this experiment and the “Rendering on Google Search” page confirm it. (If you’d like to know more about the technology behind Googlebot, then you should check out what they recently shared.)

For now, it seems we have to accept the status quo. We recommended that Robert (and you readers as well) enable HTTP/2 on your websites for better performance, but continue optimizing for HTTP/ 1.1. Your visitors will notice and thank you.

Sign up for The Moz Top 10, a semimonthly mailer updating you on the top ten hottest pieces of SEO news, tips, and rad links uncovered by the Moz team. Think of it as your exclusive digest of stuff you don't have time to hunt down but want to read!

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