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Out with the rooster, in with the dog

During the war, many families in the north would call their noisy, unpleasant guard dog Nick. Short for Nixon, who naturally wasn’t held in great esteem, whack the dog and you were whacking Nixon.

The fact that dogs could be kicked, poked and shouted at, and the fact they could be given names like Nixon and even Johnson — yes, LBJ was also a popular figure of dog-naming hate — shows how low these animals were viewed in Vietnamese society.

These days it’s different. Dogs are increasingly seen as pets, especially among the nouveau riche, and growing numbers of Vietnamese are shying away from eating dog meat. Yet call someone a dog, or a cho in Vietnam, and you are asking for a fight. Even if the comment is made in jest.

Which brings us onto 2018 and the Year of the Dog, the 11th animal in the zodiac. Kicking off on Friday, Feb. 16, with all the negative connotations associated with canines and former American presidents, this year is going to be turbulent. Or at least, that’s what the pundits say.

A Man’s Best Friend?

Dogs are normally seen as a symbol of intelligence and protection, yet dog years can bring many changes, both good and bad. On the economic front they are growth years: although according to the pundit Daniel Hanna on the website fengshuiweb.co.uk, the next 12 months might just bring a “collapse of major institutions and large adjustments in the economy like stock markets and values of currency”. Which means, he says, you should take care with your investments. Which is exactly what we were told last year. And last year was the Year of the Rooster.

Daniel Hanna, however, is a 20-year veteran when it comes to writing about the Chinese zodiac. So, he should know what he’s on about. And one of his most important predictions for 2018 is that this will be a year of immense change, both on a personal and national level. Expect some turmoil.

On a personal front, he explains, we will “see changes in our view on diet, smoking, drinking and junk food”. This will be aided by the inception of new laws designed to let the general public know the true dangers associated with eating and drinking. Coca-Cola and McDonald’s? You’ve been warned.

On a national level, he continues, 2018 will be a “fragile year and we could see many uprisings throughout the world including countries in the Middle East and North Korea, with the demand for fairness and a better standard of living.”

He adds: “It is a year of less affluent areas of the world coming together and introducing new ways to help the less fortunate. Hopefully we will see more fair balance between the rich and poor.”

As for other signs of the zodiac, 2018 will be a difficult year for ‘conflict’ animals, those animals that don’t get along with dogs. So dragons, goats and roosters, beware.

Conversely, tigers, rabbits and horses could have a storming year. As for everyone else, all you buffaloes, monkeys, snakes, pigs and rats out there, not a clue.

All in a Name

Which all brings us back to the complicated business of naming dogs. Considering that 2018 is going to be a year of turbulence, best to name your newly acquired pet after one of the main arbiters of change on the world stage. Putin, Kim Jong Un or Trump anyone?

But as for calling your dog Nick, here at Word we think you should shy away from that one. Not only is the Nixon factor a thing of the past but name your dog Nick and you never know who you might offend.

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Chief editor and co-founder of Word Vietnam, Nick Ross was born in the humble city of London before moving to the less humble climes of Vietnam. His wanderings have taken him to definitely not enough corners of the globe, but being a constant optimist, he still has hopes.

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a new looking glass

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

–Lewis Carol “Through the Looking Glass”

This morning I spent a few hours imagining new possibilities with a group that included parents, school administrators, teachers and our interim Director of Education.  The “Building Relationships” event, co-hosted by the Ottawa Carleton Assembly of School Councils and Ottawa Carleton Immigration Services Organization, asked participants to focus their energy on identifying what is working really well to foster and recognize effective parent and community engagement in our public schools.  The approach, based on Appreciative Inquiry (AI), assumes that every organization holds within itself the kernel of potential for positive change.  David Cooperider explains the generative and constructive nature of Appreciative Inquiry:

In its broadest focus, it involves systematic discovery of what gives “life” to a living system when it is most alive, most effective, and most constructively capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential.

Appreciative Inquiry stands in stark contrast to traditional strategic planning where the focus is on the problem and the search for solutions.  Instead, with AI, the focus is on what is working really well and how we can create the conditions that will foster more of the positive.  AI asks us to leave behind our preoccupation with all that is wrong and bad within the organization and to direct our efforts towards recognizing the very best of our organization’s activities.

I first began to think through the AI lens when I was planning an event last spring.  The approach really appeals to me because I have witnessed and experienced the stress that comes with zooming in on the negative.  The typical problem-solving approach has, in the past, left me feeling powerless to change a situation because it feels too big, it seems to be external to me, or it doesn’t seem to have a solution.  Since shifting to an appreciative approach, I have seen how it opens space for new possibilities and I have felt empowered to make changes for the better, both in working with students, staff and parents.

The event this morning saw approximately 40 individuals “give up” their Saturday morning to be together to generate the beginning narrative of greater community and parent involvement in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board.  Participants were self-directed in leading, joining and leaving several conversations happening throughout the room.  As I moved from one conversation to another, I heard examples of projects and events happening throughout the District where parents and the community play an integral role and where the students benefit from the partnerships.  One of the sometimes overlooked perks of an AI approach is that once we begin discovering the best of what we are as an organization, the experience becomes truly productive and infectious:  We begin to imagine new possibilities that we might otherwise have missed or dismissed.  A few of the ideas shared during discussions included:

  • approaching the Ottawa Citizen about running a regular column dedicated to highlighting positive events and projects occurring throughout the District.
  • compiling a database of ideas and examples of partnerships between the school and the community
  • principals using synrevoice to send out weekly or monthly announcements of upcoming events and / or recent successes
  • opening schools in the evening to more community use
  • providing opportunities for students to teach technology skills to parents and community members
  • increasing the use of Multicultural Liaison Officers to help break down barriers to immigrant parents

As a wrap-up, our facilitator brought us back together as a whole group to share what we had taken away from the morning.  To me, the AI approach itself fosters greater engagement because it shifts from a view where we are looking externally at problems and searching for solutions to the recognition that we have within ourselves the ability to make a positive impact and bring about change for the better.  In short, it asks us to look into the looking glass first.  The seeds for several new partnerships were sown this morning and it will be interesting to witness the ripple effect as participants go back to their spheres of influence with a renewed commitment and a fresh perspective.

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Friday, January 13, 2012

I know I said in my last post that I didn’t have anything to talk about but when I put my thinker to work, I actually found that I had quite a few topics about which we should discuss here in these pages but first things first:

Despite the doubts of close friends and family, I AM a reasonable woman of sound mind, with buckets full of patience and an undeniable pure heart.  All that being said, I’m crazed with impatience over the security measures of which we much tolerate in our daily lives while living in the good ole US of A.

I’m all for homeland security.  I applaud it.  My lack of patience isn’t with what we must endure to ensure our citizens safety. It is with the practices put into place to secure our safety.  I don’t mind doing what needs to be done.  Without complaint I suffer through long lines and walking bare-footed (Ewwww!) through security booths designed to detect a lethal weapon in my bra.  My problem is with the naivety of the practices put into place.

Have you been to Disney World since 9/11?  First of all, it is absurd to conceive of a situation where anyone would dare to launch a terrorist attack at the most magical place on Earth!  Duh….

Anyway, once you’ve presented your ticket, been finger-printed, shown your pass-port and provided access to all of your banking information (I’m just kidding about that last part….sort of…), you then proceed to the security check stations.  There are several tents set up to accommodate the masses.  You choose your line and wait your turn to be inspected.  Once you arrive at the front of the line, a security guard has you open your hangbags, tote bags, diaper bags, etc.  With a flash light, they “inspect” your bag and then give you the go – ahead to proceed to Main Street USA in the House of Mouse where all-day suckers and ginormous turkey legs await.

Here’s my problem.  That inspection?  Yeah.  The light is flashed into your bag and the guard glances without moving a single thing.  Have you seen my bag?  Remember Mary Poppins’ carpet bag?  That’s me.  I have my whole life in there.  As previously mentioned, I’m a reasonably intelligent woman.  Do you really think that if I was carrying, say a gun, knife, or dare I say, at the risk of being banned from my favorite place for life…..a bomb, that I wouldn’t be smart enough to put it under my wallet, tissues and sunglasses?  Why are you wasting my time?  I could already be pinching Mickey’s cute little cheeks!  I don’t mind having my bag checked for security but for Heaven’s sake:  Check it!  If they are going to perform this security joke, they should at least make the security guards dress as Donald Duck or Goofy.

None of this diminishes my love for the place.  It truly is the happiest place on earth.  (I was corrected at the gate and told that it is NOT the happiest place on earth.  That is DisneyLand in California.  Disney World is “the most magical place on Earth!”  Well…….excuuuuuuuse me!  Whatever…  Somebody needs to sprinkle a little more pixie dust in their cereal.

My frustrations with security isn’t limited to Disney World.  Earlier this week I had to renew my drivers license.  The state of Florida required several documents be presented in order to renew my privilege to drive.  The one that frustrated me the most was my marriage license.  I’ve been married for over 31 years.  My married name has been on my license for that same amount of time.  In order to have my name changed to my married name on my drivers license, I had to present my marriage license.  Why now, after 31 years, are they suddenly questioning if my marriage is legitimate?  Once again, I presented the same license.  Again, I don’t mind going through these procedures but repeating the same ones seems a bit ridiculous and time consuming.   *Deep breath*  OK, I feel a little better having vented that.

And air travel!  Any post about security policies and procedures wouldn’t be complete without mentioning airport security.

My dad had a hip replacement a few years ago.  He gets stopped by security each and every time he travels.  They put him in the lucite box and wand, question and frisk him.  Every.single.time.  Meanwhile his daughter, who shall not be named, may or may not have had a mini box cutter and a small pair of scissors in her handbag and slid right through completely undetected.  In her defense, she was unaware of the forgotten security breach.  And she may or may not have committed that same breach of security on over a dozen flights undetected.

So what I’m saying is:  Security?  I’m all for it.  But if we are going to have to endure it, can we please UP OUR GAME to make it effective?

Hugs and Kisses,

Tessa said...

Nice to see you back, SMB! I might even be inspired to get back in the pool myself ...

I remember some years ago travelling to stay in a beach house in Turks and Caicos. Having been reliably informed that olive oil cost an arm and a leg there, I decided to take some with me, because I can't survive without homemade salad dressing. At the airport security check in Toronto, the bottle was removed from my check-on case, on the grounds that it was a flammable liquid. If you've ever tried setting fire to olive oil, you'll know that's nonsense. But what really pissed me right off was that we were allowed to sashay onto the same flight toting bottles of (highly flammable) whiskey and brandy from the duty-free store.

The problem with most security checks is that they're carried out by contract companies, who use badly-trained, minimum wage employees. All they care about is making a profit, while maintaining a smoke-screen to make those who are not as discerning as yourself feel secure.

injaynesworld said...

Did you hear about the TSA person who took away a woman's cupcake because their was too much frosting?

Good grief!

Brian Miller said...

we are going to disney next year so will begin preparing myself for the inspection....i hear you on if we have to endure it making it effective....

I'Mgoingtothemostmagicalplaceonearthwithyanextyear said...

My daughter has an electronic device implanted in her hip which is the size of a small bomb but she just tells them that's what it is and they are good with that. Hmmm..... Me on the other hand.....if I have more than an ounce of my trusty hand sanitizer I get the evil eye.
Glad to see you're back......and your front.

formerlyonlyamovie said...

Hey - you're back!!

I am the weird person who doesn't mind waiting for things. It's so cold here, I might not blink at waiting in line for ridiculousness just to glimpse Mickey Mouse.

So good to see you in google reader. xoxo


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PopUp Domination Review – Easy and Effective?

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When I buy a piece of software, I have two requirements.  I want it to work, and I’d like it to be easy to use.  I’m not afraid of a learning curve, but I’m busy, and I’d rather something just be easy to use and intuitive, right out of the box.  PopUp Domination promises both of those things in a package that they claim will allow you to increase your on-site conversions by up to 500% practically overnight.

 popup domination reviewPopUp Domination is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily configure popups that appear on your Website under conditions that you can define.  That makes it easy for you to decide which of your site visitors you want to reach, how you want to reach them, and what you’d like for them to do once you get their attention.  This sounds pretty promising, and their demos look pretty cool, so I thought I’d take a closer look to see how well PopUp Domination works.  Read on for my full PopUp Domination review.

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PopUp Domination is sold in three versions – one for use on a single site, one for use on up to three sites, and one for use on an unlimited number of sites.  The unlimited version costs roughly twice the price of the single-site version, making it a pretty good value, provided that you intend to use it on more than two sites.  If so, that’s probably your best bet.  There are a couple of upsells when you decide to purchase PopUp Domination; one is for additional themes to increase the variety of looks that you can give to your popups and another is an enticing offer to get the multisite version at a slightly lower price.

Installing PopUp Domination is easy if you have any familiarity with WordPress, as it’s pretty much a standard plugin.  Just go to your plugins page in your WordPress installation, upload the zip file and activate it.  That’s pretty much it.  After that, you can get started configuring PopUp Domination to do whatever it is you want it to do.  And what it can do is pretty amazing.

 popup domination scamThe most common use for any popup tool is to build a mailing list, and PopUp Domination works with most popular autoresponders so you can put an opt-in form right in the popup.  You’ll have the option of adding some bullet points, a headline and an image, along with 36 different themes that allow you to choose the colors and overall look of the popup window.  You can also choose from several call to action buttons and you can test them to see which one works best for you.  PopUp Domination actually includes analytics, so if you’re testing several different popups, you can see which one is working the best for you.

Of course, a popup that shows up randomly isn’t going to do you much good.  What you want is control, so you can decide who sees it, when they see it and what it is they see.  That’s the nice thing about PopUp Domination – it’s very configurable in that regard.  You can show popups only on certain pages.  You can show them on certain posts.  You can show them on posts in particular categories.  You can also set a popup to appear when someone enters your site, or when they attempt to leave in order to entice them to sign up for your list or perhaps buy something before they go.

 popup domination sampleYou can select the frequency for when popups appear so that regular visitors to your site don’t see your popups every time they visit.  One of the most interesting features of PopUp Domination is that you can use it to “lock” content.  Got something really cool on your page that you only want to show to people after they sign up for your mailing list?  PopUp Domination will “lock” that content to effectively force them to sign up before they can see it.

PopUp Domination also works great for mobile; the popups are responsive.

I’ve used popup tools over the years and I kind of go back and forth on them.  Personally, I find them annoying, especially when they appear as soon as I visit a Website. I understand that site owners want to build their mailing lists, but I’d like the opportunity to decide if I like a site’s content before being asked to sign up for a mailing list that I may or may not be interested in joining.  That’s the good and the bad of popup tools.  They’re great, and very effective when it comes to building your mailing list.  But you have to use them carefully and with a bit of common sense, otherwise, you’re going to annoy the visitors to your site and send them away angry.

That’s perhaps the best part of PopUp Domination.  You have very fine control over when and where the popups appear.  You also have a lot of control over how they look, and that’s very important.  Lots of popups have a cheesy look to them, and if you’re trying to run a professional-looking Website, you don’t want a popup that looks like it was designed by a five year old.  The popups you can create with Pop Up Domination are nice looking and are configurable so that you can put in a headline, some descriptive text, an image, some bullet points, and any one of a number of calls to action.  You can control fonts, and colors and the overall look.  With the popups that you can create with PopUp Domination, you can increase the size of your mailing list dramatically.

PopUp Domination Summary

I’ve had several different popup software plugins over the years, and while they all have their pros and cons, none of them contained all of the features I’ve found in PopUp Domination.  It’s easy to use, it allows you to create an endless variety of attractive and effective popups, and it gives you exceptional control over where and when the popups appear, so you can use them effectively without driving your visitors away.   if you’re looking for a tool that works well and will definitely help you increase your sales conversions and help you build your mailing list, I recommend PopUp Domination.

PopUp Domination is highly recommended.

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Sneak peek of the in-development WordPress Dashboard redesign

The WordPress UI team and core developers have been hard at work recently working up a slight redesign of the WordPress Dashboard, seen in the video above. Progress has been made since the discussion started up on the Make WordPress UI blog, where a number of contributors had a say in the direction of the new design. If you would like to help out with the WordPress user interface, check that blog to find out more.

Keep in mind, the version of WordPress previewed in the video above, just like other alpha preview materials we post, should be viewed in that manner. What you see won’t necessarily end up in the next version of WordPress—it’s simply under development, and is being considered for it.

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  2. Redesign should be driven by faults/inconveniences/poor performance of the current version of dashboard, not the whimsy of the designers. Experience reveals none of the negatives that suggest a redesign of the dashboard is needed. (Maybe getting rid of the ugly green buttons and going back to red indicator circles since colors have accepted meanings).

    Design on whimsy leads to code bloat and performance degradation (think MSFT here).

    Why squander talent, time and energy on the unneeded?

    On the other hand, if more can be done with less code have at it. But this concept is never employed by any coders… outside of NASA.

    If “The Designers” want to keep tweaking:
    1. Get rid of media attachment pages, or at least offer an on/off selection.
    2. Have a global on/off for comments.
    3. Hide file structure (server level) for all those without admin privileges.
    4. Set-up WP’s multiple hosting to allow the owner to run multiple for profit blogs using only one (the main blog’s installation) shopping cart (to work around PayPal’s limitations).
    5. Give functionally easy control over which crawlers can access/scan the blog.
    6. Get involved with opposing the US federal government taxing/controlling the Internet and e-commerce. The current US federal government is a scourge on mankind. How long would WP last if it were taxed simply because it existed?

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    • @DoktorThomas If you have any suggestions regarding UI improvements for WordPress, do not hesitate to jump in the conversation and give your remarks on the UI dev blog or on trac by proposing patches. I personally believe these changes are for the benefit of WordPress in general: by refreshing the interface, you show to the world and to the end-users that the software they are using is evoluting, following trends, and “up-to-date”. That’s as important as the backend improvements in my opinion, since this is the “public face” of WordPress.

      Regarding your suggestions, most of them are not really related to UI changes, so I don’t think it is really the point of the conversation here.

      @wpcandy Nice walk-through. I am a big fan of the new interface, I think the UI team have done a great job refreshing the admin panel we see every day! I can’t wait for 3.2 to come out to show these new things to my clients!

    • Yikes man, you start off with a reasonable point but your list of ideas is so off-topic it belongs on a different planet. It’s like I just watched a troll being born.

  3. *evolving, not ‘evoluting’ (unless you meant ‘evaluating’) 😛 Anyway, I happen to like the new design. I’ve been using the Fluency admin plugin, which has elements very similar to this layout, t it’s been very buggy for me lately (not displaying right in chrome, not interacting with my iPad very well. Both seem to be issues with my devices, rather than the plugin, but still it’s nice that this is now available, at least if you run the nightlies on your site, which I do)

  4. Couldn’t agree more with Doktor Thomas. All ideas are solid and appealing.

    The excitement of a new design, a new “look,” for novelty’s sake has zero interest for me.
    But there are actual imperfections. I just had a huge problem setting an edited image as the Featured Image on a Page, apparently because the way in came into the Media Library “attached” it somewhere else. (If I could explain the problem, I could probably understand/solve it.) Bottom line for me: more than an hour of fiddling, seeing the edited image in my Media Library but being unable to see it in the list of choices for Featured Image. I don’t usually give up, but I gave up on this. Not interested in a “refresh” for a change of scenery. I want to be so comfortable with WordPress that the sight of it is as boring as a QWERTY keyboard.

    WordPress is a terrific way to get into blog design — quick start-up, ease into light coding, increasing sophistication with Plugins — the evolution takes place in the user: me. WordPress is not perfect, and Doktor Thomas’s suggestions are cogent, meaningful ideas for improvement, not for novelty’s sake, but to address needs.

    I’m still looking to understand the existing program. Much of the WordPress documentation consists of describing what a user sees when looking at screen. I can read a screen. This is a common mistake in software and technical documentation. Yes, I can see the product, too. I need more than that. I need to know things that aren’t obvious. Common misconceptions, common mistakes, hidden buttons. I have had to experiment to learn most of this on my own. I have posted some excruciatingly simple directions on my blog, because it’s what I needed, and still need. Perhaps I could help write the documentation, which has been compared to Wikipedia. My first step would be to delete much of what now appears in the Codex. It is well meaning but not helpful. By the way, the User Interface (UI) “walk through” appeared to be semi-random clicking, not focused on a presentation of specific meaningful changes. Appreciate the disclaimer, and hope changes are undertaken systematically and logically, not change for its own cool sake.

    The beauty of WordPress: you can be a DIY blogger in five minutes. The challenge of WordPress: the steps beyond basic blogging have a demanding learning curve. It was news to me that WordPress supports only one blog string. “Oh, everyone knows that.” Well, I didn’t. Now I know it doesn’t support multiple sites with one cash register.

    How to link my own pages and posts inside pages and posts? Not obvious. I had to look at the code and patch the “link” to one of my other articles with something that showed up on the screen (text or graphic). Not automatic, not obvious, not explained. But doable (apparently, unless I’ve violated some merchant code of banishment for internal linking).

    I disagree with the scope of Dr. Thomas’s suggestion that WordPress address the parasitism of governments, although I may share the fear of taxation of Amazon, Google’s ability to reconfigure its robot spiders, or the starving hordes of spammers, scammers, tag dumpers, vandals, and other unprincipled, semi-literate miscreants. Some of these are of concern for WordPress’s design; most aren’t.

    I am not a programmer, and don’t want to become one. Code is not poetry. Poetry is poetry. If I compare thee to a summer’s *MORN* instead of a summer’s *DAY* you are not going to die or throw up or go suddenly deaf and blind. But if I use the wrong code, my blog might. Code is ugly, strange, immensely powerful and demanding. Code is what kept regular people from coding websites before WordPress. It is not poetry.
    I am not a programmer and I want to see if it’s really possible to use content — and whatever else it takes — to monetize a site or two. So far I haven’t made dime one, but I hear it’s possible. I want to do that, and I want to do it with WordPress. I want to do it myself. I don’t want to lie, cheat or steal repackaged content. Unless that’s how it’s done. In which case, I can make money writing other things.

    Sorry. Not excited by the new writing interface, not excited by things fading away. What I see as a writer is secondary to what my site looks like, its functionality, and improving that with as little mystery or work as possible. I think of WordPress as a tool. Not fun, not flashy, not cool. Ask a blacksmith how much he wants you to mess with his anvil. Ummm, not at all, unless you are making it do something better, faster, or easier. When I hear “UI refresh” I think “eye surgery.”

    Doktor Thomas is right. Microsoft has added so many little programming projects – from the animated paperclip to a horrible, circular Help file that never gets better, to the “features” than justify an upgrade with bulk – that Word is a nearly useless maze of coolness and fonts no one would use except to advertise an amateur circus.

    I’ll be frank. When I click “install upgrade” I get cold. Quick story. I was forced to abandon Thunderbird, the Firefox mail program, following an “upgrade.” Thunderbird previously worked perfectly. Then it couldn’t find and open my existing files. Yes, I was TOO STUPID to fix it after hours of trying. So I went back to a Microsoft product. Sad and embarrassing.

    So when some bright-eyed engineer comes along and tells me he wants to borrow my perfectly balanced framing hammer to make it “nail better,” I’ll let the other carpenters hand over their prized tools for surgery.

    I want to be positive and encouraging. WordPress is a miracle. For me, a miracle. I am a writer who had a manufactured site that sat there for a year, costing me money. Now I am producing stuff and posting it, and learning how to get people to visit (with some success) and learning more every week. WordPress works and has stimulated me to produce. This is hackneyed and trite and obvious from the disclaimer: if WordPress ain’t broke, please don’t fix it. I know you won’t. WordPress programmers, for me, are the Prometheuses who stole fire from the website programming gods and gave it to ordinary man. That fire burns brightly on my little hearth and for that I am deeply grateful. Thank you for listening.

  5. Thanks for this. I’ve been trying to keep up with the upcoming UI changes on the devblog and trac, but clearly a couple things have escaped me. The only nit-pick of a feedback I can give you is that the video could probably have been cut down to less than 2 minutes if you had stuck to just the new features of the UI, excluding the bulk of the general experimenting.

  6. Not to belabor the point, but here’s an example of what I mean about WordPress documentation.

    Look at the article called “Using Permalinks” at

    The article contains a dire warning: “You never, ever put your site url in the permalinks slot. You must use one of the structure tags, or a combination of tags only.”
    Here is the problem: the phrase “structure tag” is not defined. I defy you to search the entire page using your browser’s “find” function set on “structure tag.” Go ahead, I can wait. You will find an entire section heading by that name, but “structure tag” is never, ever, defined.
    There is one clue and it is extensive:
    “Structure Tags
    You can use these tags to customize your “Pretty” or “Almost Pretty” permalinks. A few hints:

    * Make sure to end your structure with either %post_id% or %postname% (e.g. /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) so that each permalink points to an individual post.
    * For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. ”

    So, still curious about structure tags, we see the word “structure.” “End your structure.” Use structure tags “to end your structure.” What does this mean? Juggling the nearly empty phrases “pretty” or “almost pretty” appear to have distracted the author from explaining how to write a Permalink using structure tags. I want to know WHAT THE AUTHOR IS TALKING ABOUT. What is my “structure”? What is a “structure tag”? What might a complete and well formed example of “my structure” look like? You mentioned “fields”? Are those the same as structure tags or different?

    Mason’s Hod
    A breezy, conversational tone is soothing. But just talking about something very useful, like a mason’s hod, does not define terms. Just as partial examples of what I can use a structure tag for does not define the term. Tip: I can tell you to use a mason’s hod to help build a brick wall, never to use it to pick your teeth, and to make sure to use at least one and, if needed, more mason’s hods throughout the brick-wall-building process. But that does not define the term or provide an example of the proper usage of a mason’s hod.

    Above, I just wrote several sentences using the term “mason’s hod.” What is it? Do you know how to use a mason’s hod? Do you know its role in building a brick wall?

    I want to know about Permalinks, because they are apparently important, so important that WordPress allows their customization using “structure taqs.” But this kind of not remotely pretty (NRP) writing merely alludes to their proper usage.

    In a comment above, there was mention of the User Interface (UI) as “the public face” of WordPress. The Documentation also is the public face, and is the public’s golden key to unlock WordPress. WordPress is allowing web coding by the masses. The Codex manual needs to be written for the masses. Without proper Documentation, WordPress falls into the hands of an exclusive, enlightened group, talking to itself in its own language. Exciting for some perhaps? For the rest of us, it’s using WordPress without a mason’s hod.

    Read the documentation through the eyes of the neophyte. That is who it’s for.

  7. Cheers Ryan
    Loved the music that went with the video.
    I could have used a commentary, would have been useful.
    Looking forward to all new features.
    Don’t you just love wordpress…..

    Thanks for posting., I’m still loving the music. LOL

  8. Soooo… where’s the redesign? It looks and functions the same as before except for the distraction free writing, and if you need to use that your are a moron!

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  10. Not a huge fan of the new dashboard. The menu looks funny with the arrow and the inner shadow on the right edge. Also not a fan of the new titles for the meta-boxes on the add/edit pages of the dashboard.

  11. I was hoping to read a handful of constructive views on this redesign but all I found was pretentious
    comments from designers with too many negative views and not enough credible opinions.

    The redesign is what it is unfortunately. It’s a refinement and not an outcome of problem solving. But that’s ok. You can refine without squeezing every inch out of UI.

    I’d suggest challeling your efforts into your own design, maybe you’d have a more impressive portfolio.

  12. Thanks for taking the time to produce this video, Ryan. You beat me to it!

    I’ve gotta admit, I’m not thrilled about spending another two weeks re-recording every video in my entire WP101 series just for a few minor UI changes. I would prefer to see UI overhauls reserved for the major upgrades (ie, 4.0), rather than with minor .x releases. But overall, I do like the changes.

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  14. I’m sure that everybody that is complaining put no effort forth whatsoever to contribute towards the WordPress OPEN SOURCE project to help out. It’s funny how they just like to create useless banter and comments while they are more than welcome, in fact encouraged, to add to and make WordPress what it is.

    Also I’d like to point out that this is a BETA version which means the entire UI could change (unlikely) before the actual stable version is released. There are still many changes that can be made if people were only willing to actually contribute instead of complain.

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October 3, 2009
8 years, 4 months and 16 days since
our Reunion.
White Plains High School ~ White Plains, New York
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Welcome to the Official 40th Reunion Website
 of WPHS Classes of '69 & '70!

To All Our Very Dear Classmates Wherever You Are,

It's difficult to believe our 40th reunion weekend has now come and gone, but the extraordinary experience and wonderful memories will live on in each heart always!

It was amazing!! Our 40th Reunion Weekend of October 2, 3 and 4, 2009 was a positively magical three days. Classmates traveled from all over the United States bringing their bright, friendly, positive spirits,  electrifying enthusiasm, open hearts, (and of course, dancin' shoes), creating what many have described as a kind of "love-fest," celebrating the people who comprised our childhood, in the place where our lives began.   In the spirit of WPHS Classes of 1969 & 1970, all three events were deemed by everyone we've heard from, to be one of the most non-stop fun, and  in many ways  one of the most meaningful weekends of their lives.

While the committee worked long and hard to create the reunion and we deeply appreciate the many, many warm expressions of appreciation for our efforts more than you will ever know,  that year-and-a-half of preparation would have all been for naught had not so many classmates interrupted their busy lives and traveled from near and far to gather once again. We are so deeply touched by every kind word from  every classmate...but it is we, who also want to thank You...for your joy and excitement, your generosity of spirit in so many ways, and for making our WPHS 40th reunion weekend an "effervescent" and awe-inspiring weekend of friendship and affection!

The reunion committee also wants to express our profound thanks to the following people, each of whom was a tremendous help in making this reunion the success that it was. We are delighted to enthusiastically recommend all their services without reservation:

- Ms. Elizabeth Guillet and Ms. Ronelle Carter and the staff of Marriott Renaissance Westchester Hotel for their gracious welcome and professional attention to every detail of our reunion from start to finish.
- Mr. Bob Lance for his fabulous music and professionalism as our DJ
- Mr. Jeff Meyerowitz of Graphic Management Partners for this skillful printing of all reunion related materials.
- Sam's of Gedney Way, who did a terrific job and everyone there agreed was the perfect place to kick off the reunion weekend.

Special thanks to our amazing support volunteers, Miss Kate Egan and Miss Emily Egan  (daughters of Tim Egan,'69 & Nancy Hart Egan'70,) and Miss Rebecca Hidalgo (daughter of Liz Fink Hidalgo, '70 and David Hidalgo,)  for their unwaveringly responsible and cordial assistance on every aspect of the Main Event.
To those of you who were unable to attend, you truly were missed and we offered a prayer for your well-being and happiness in your honor.  To those who were able to be there, Thank You!  We had a blast too... thanks to you!

Have Some Fun on These Pages: "So HOW WAS it?"  and... "Photos of the 40th"

 With so many fond memories and every good wish, as ever...
 Your WPHS 1969 & 1970 40th Reunion Committee
 Robert Tuck '69                                   Nick Wolff '69                  Tim Egan, '69
 John O'Donnell '70                             Liz Fink Hidalgo '70       Susie Mantell '69
 Patty Goldenberg Silverberg '69        June Gartner Lewis '69    Ellen London '69
 Laura Evans Havis '69                       Charles Morgan '69

(NOTE: We've contracted for this website to remain up for the foreseeable future.    Be Sure to Always Update Contact Information So That Others Can Find You in the Future! While we will not be actively updating it, PLEASE continue to sign in on the "Sign- In Classmates" page, update your bio, read others'.

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Why do Folded Horns sound so much better ?

1. The shape of the horn lines up the vibrations to make a more directed pattern.
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These add to make the horn more efficient or louder.
IE: Same Speaker, Same Power = MUCH LOUDER !
Do horns really sound louder at a distance ?
No. That is a myth. But they will project farther.
If you stand near a folded horn, the axis of the horn will likely be below your ears, so the sound will "blow past" you. As you move away from the stage, the coverage pattern will widen so you will experience more of the sound.
But believe me, sound does NOT gain energy at a greater distance.
That would be like water running uphill.
Outside or in large rooms, bass horns will so much outperform direct radiator or bandpass cabinets as to make them nearly useless.
Are 18's better than 12's or 15's in Folded Horns ?
"Better" is hard to say but 18's move more air, handle more power, are more efficient, and are more common in commercial folded horns.
I have seen some interesting designs using 12's, but they are more complicated designs / harder to build, just to equal the output of an 18.
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Do folded horns make the speaker handle more power ?
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You will find that you need to upgrade your mids and highs to large horns in order to keep up. Standard speakers will pale in comparison.
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Friday, August 8, 2014

The Road to Milwaukee

Antiques in Wapakoneta:

Who will buy this precious pup?

Steps in a Wapakoneta antique mall:

Courthouse in Wapakoneta:

Downtown Lima:

Robert Messenger, I thought of you when photographing this newspaper building:

Neat dealer sticker on a Blick case in Rich's collection:

... and a decal from Milwaukee:

A glimpse of the Mars Cheese Castle by the side of the Interstate at sunset tells me that I'm in Wisconsin:

Judith Jablonski and her husband Bob Wait with a Jackalope pad.

  1. It's like a breadcrumb trail in reverse. By the time you reach Chicago, you'll need a U-Haul van! Well, just reserve a a spot for the beauty from Southeastern Europe. (:

  2. That route (Wapa, Lima, etc.) is familiar to me. Yes, Wapakoneta has a charm of its own.

  3. What a beautiful report from the road. Made me feel like driving myself. I see a familiar nose in the last picture. Great this is happening

  4. Great road trip reporting - you drove through some gems of towns and demonstrated a typewriter magnate's typewriter magnetism! Looking forward to more from the meet.

  5. Oh, yes, thank you, the Toledo Blade, great name for a newspaper and a lovely building too.


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Previously, items that gave protection from damage had two relevant values: damage reduction (the amount by which it would reduce incoming damage) and defense (the item's "health"). As an item took damage, both its defense and damage reduction would lower in proportion to each other. After sustaining sufficient damage, it would provide no protection at all.

Enter the "Boolean Defense" system. Now, an item retains its full damage reduction until its defense is reduced to zero, at which point it is "broken" and no longer provides any protection. While I liked the complexity of the old, slow-deterioration system (which had been in place since the very first prototype!), I don't think it actually suited the game. The new system is much simpler and leads to quicker, smarter decisions. This is good.

These allow the player to tailor the game to their taste. Some are simply stat boosts, but others offer new mechanics or adjusted rules. At the outset, the player selects a few Traits that (hopefully) work well together and then begins the game.

Several traits were revised this week. Most of them were related to equipment and how it was used. There are quite a few of these and rather than go through them all, I'll just talk about one as an example. Ambidextrous used to allow you to equip two weapons instead of a weapon and a shield. It also granted you two attacks while wielding two weapons, effectively doubling your damage. Its utility has been expanded, allowing you to dual-wield shields as well as weapons. It still retains its two attack behavior, but the damage for each attack has been halved to prevent insane damage inflation; any "on attack" effects, however, still benefit from there being two attacks.

I also added 9 brand new traits this week, bringing the total up to 63. I don't expect all of them to make the final cut (and certainly many will need to be changed too), but I think it's good to work from a large pool and cull it as needed later. The new traits are a pretty random mix, but they do include 2 traits that build off of the recently implemented throwing weapons, which I really wanted to have.

Randomly generated names are used for enemies, items, locations, and some other things. These aren't critical, but they do add a bit of flavor and there's something fun about not seeing the same names every time you play.

The old name generator was perfectly adequate, but lacked variety, consistency, and, well, just created too much gobbledygook. So, it has been expanded from 3 "flavors" to 9, and uses a system that is more flexible, expandable, and produces more consistent results. The names are still gibberish, but it's largely pronounceable gibberish. Hopefully, this superficial change yields a more consistent and believable game world. ]]>
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Throwing A Fit http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/112
Throwing Weapons

While it has been possible to throw items via the Heave trait for a quite a while, I decided it would be worth adding a dedicated class of throwable weapons. Enter boomerangs. And shurikens. And, yes, even bombs. These fill the previous void of consumable, offensive items; consumable recovery (food) and utility (potions) items are already well established.

Because thrown weapons are generated (using materials and quality levels) like equipment, the way an item's throwing starts are calculated needed to be changed. This was a great opportunity to try a new approach to stat calculation that I've been wanting to use. So, the throwing stats were set up using the new system. It worked exactly as intended (yay!) and I went ahead and added it for equippable items as well.

Old Stat Approach -- Some lazy thing I did at a gamejam

Previously, items derived their stats by multiplying the different factors of their components (quality, material, etc) together to get a composite value. This works well enough for easily adding a lot of variety to items, but it also produced a lot of "underpowered" items. This is undesirable. Junk items should be bad because they don't fit a player's needs / build / playstyle, not because they are numerically inferior. So, rather than just adjusting the component values to create a glut of bland, "balanced" items, the entire system was rebuilt.

New Stat Approach -- Items as Unit Vectors (Sort of)

Individual components are now looked at as a whole and weighted according to what they provide. Then the component weights are combined to create a set of percentages that make up the item as a whole. These percentages are then multiplied by a stat-specific scale, yielding the final value.

The end result is that items of a given quality will always be on par with other items of the same quality (even if the specific distribution of values isn't useful to the player). In a game that revolves around maximizing the quality of items you receive, this consistency is crucial. Without it, the player's success is simply too random. ]]>
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Since then, I have been slowly improving on it and putting some meat on its bones. I even have proof! Here is a screen from the latest version:

While it looks largely the same, there's a quite a bit more going on there. Not exhaustively and in no particular order:
  • Quests
  • Traits
  • Time
  • Status Effects
  • Scenic Locations
  • More of.. everything!
There's still a lot of work yet to be done, but it's getting there. So let's touch briefly on the game itself and why I think it's interesting.

The Standard Stuff: You are a hero. You kill monsters. You collect items. The difficulty increases over the course of the game. The quality of items increases to compensate for the increasing difficulty.

Important Details: You have limited recovery options while out adventuring, but returning to town will completely restore your character and items to top condition. Inevitably, you must return to town to avoid death.

The Big Wrinkle: Returning to town also permanently lowers the quality of items that you find (by a small amount). Take too many trips to town and you will find the monsters are outpacing your equipment and you will die. This press-your-luck arrangement exploits your greed and forces you to play outside of your comfort zone. "Can you survive another battle? What if it's a werewolf? Or a dragon?" Also, there is permadeath.

So that's it in a nutshell. Future posts will address new additions, improvements, existing features that were un(der)explored in this post, and just be more detail-centric in general. ]]>
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In the Navy http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/110 Ben McGraw recently posted about reviving an old blog Pact. I have elected, against my better judgment, to participate in said Pact.

Posting will commence with a brief summary of my current project, Roguelite, and continue with weekly updates on its progress until release. ]]>
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Blueberry Intervention http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/109

I would've spent even more had it not be for Overkill. He helped me figure out what needed fixing (the lighting) and how to do it. There just wasn't a lot of room to put in a specular highlight and a crown on each while having them in different orientations so they didn't look like a bunch of clones. I am mostly pleased with the results.

Overkill was also helpful in another way: He told me to knock it off and stop wasting time on something so trivial. He is cool like that. Anyhow, there are more little fruits, but those will be showcased along with (and in) proper screenshots once I have these implemented in the game. With any luck I won't miss the next Gruedorf deadline. ]]>
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Name Shame http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/108 Wed, 04 May 2011 16:28:12 +0000 GMT http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/108 On Pain of Death http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/107 Grue has very politely pointed out that I haven't been updating as much as I should. In light of this, I have been coerced encouraged to add a new post. So here it is!

I recently set out to start tinkering with Flash and make a game. This was all pretty new to me, but was easy to get into. I went with FlashPunk as the buzz suggested it was a better general game library than Flixel. The way it handles clipping regions and primitive drawing is a bit annoying, but otherwise it has treated me pretty well so far. I wanted to do something simple as a first project, naturally. While I have a nifty plan for a platformer, I decided it was a little too ambitious for a learn-as-you-go project. Instead I opted to make a puzzle game. In hindsight, the platformer probably would have been quicker and easier. Le sigh.

True to my history, when making a "sequel" to a game, it has turned into something else entirely, albeit with some common bits and pieces between them. What started as Prismatic Arrows 2 has evolved into Juice Game. It's catchy, I know. But clever names come after clever games. So, without further ado, I present a slightly outdated screenshot from when it didn't work quite right:

Shabby Screenshot

Yes, it looks a great deal like Pipe Dream. Yes, they do have a bit in common. No, I assure you they are different games. Pipes are a natural evolution of the old arrow model. Arrows only point to the next piece instead of visually connecting to it, making it harder for the player to parse. They also behave somewhat differently in that they have 3 optional inputs and 1 output. Pipes, by comparison, have 1 input and 1 output and they are reversible. Other fundamental behaviors that needed to be banished:

* The ability to inject colors at any point in a sequence.
* The presence of a full spectrum of colors.
* Blending and matching of those colors.

The whole thing was a little too clumsy, but it was built around the notion of "Can I make a game using VERGE's MixColor()?" and in that I feel like I succeeded. Juice Game takes the core of Prismatic Arrows (create long chains of interconnecting pieces filled with different colors) and streamlines the experience, making a much more playable game. This is, of course, still a work in progress, but here are some screenshots of it as it stands right this very moment:

Gameplay Screenshot

Another Gameplay Screenshot

Everything is functional. There are a few mechanics I'm still trying to decide which way to go (for now, playtesting will no doubt reveal me for the fool I am). I also need to slap on a fresh coat of sexy as it's pretty rough looking at the moment. Look forward to more details and more screens in a future update. ]]>
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Slippery Stones http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/106
In more substantial news, I've been looking at ways to improve Slippity Slabs. One of the things I would like to do (and was actually meant to be the original mode of play) is to assign unique physics to each block type.

While each concept comes with it's own headaches, none has been more frustrating than the "slippery" block. The idea is that it will slide until it hits something or falls. Alternatively, another block moving across the top of it will slide onto the next block (continuing to do so if there is a row of slippery blocks) or fall. Since the Gruedorf community is largely unresponsive to text-only posts, the problem is summed up with the following:

Slippery Block Problem

And that's where I am. I've got a sense of which way to go here, and I might have to try them all out to be sure, but it definitely seems like none of these is particularly good. I don't want to cut it, because I'm fond of the idea, but if it doesn't feel "right" then it'll have to go. I am completely open to suggestions and opinions on this one; it's impossible to be inside another player's head. ]]>
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Validation http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/105 Gruedorf improvements by getting it to pass W3C Validation. This was a simple task, but it did take a little time and I'm glad to have done it. Check it out for yourself: valid HTML and CSS! Hooray!

Now that I'm back on the horse with a few timely, successive updates, it's getting to be time to tackle more impressive feats. What exactly that means and where it leads, I do not yet know. Tune in next week to discover the answer to this and more! ]]>
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Gruedorf Tweaks http://www.wundermint.com/posts/view/104 Gruedorf Scoreboard after my tinkering last week (thanks for the heads up Kildorf), so I set out to fix it. It turns out that in updating the library I use to sort the tables I killed off some unofficial changes I had made to it when originally adding the sort feature. Oops.

So, I did the only sensible thing and hacked my changes back in and presto! We were back in business. After a short while this solution stopped sitting so well with me, though. Indeed, it relied on hacking up someone else's library and then using invalid HTML attributes; surely there must be a better way!

Of course there is. The trouble was that this sort library can't handle unconventionally formatted data properly, which is what I wanted to populate the table cells with. Something like, say, the Gruedorf time remaining is beyond its capabilities. So I had added support for a custom value to sort by elements by. The new solution is simply to put the sort value inside of a comment prepended to the contents of the table cell. No more broken libraries. No more bad HTML. Why I didn't think of this before is beyond me, but it is fixed now.

Then I got to thinking about the format that the time is presented in and how awkward it can look. After a bit of fiddling it now shows a much more human friendly "English" format for the times. This came at the cost of some precision for larger values, but it has it where it counts: in the final hours of your countdown to inevitable failure.

This all got me to thinking: "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if the times were updated in real time?"

Yes. Yes it would.

And now they do. It seemed a simple task. And it was. Yet it caused me immense grief over a period of several hours. But here we are and it is done. With all of the huge failures clogging the scoreboard, it's not all that impactful right now. Hopefully, one day, when you're checking in to see just how much time you have left and the seconds are ticking away before your very eyes it will motivate you to get that much more done. Or get it done sooner. Or do something. Anything. Please.

So there you have it. A whole mess of extra meta-gruedorf work for some very minor improvements. Let me know what you think of the changes and if you find anything broken. ]]>
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Dozens of dairy farmers across Wisconsin are happier Monday than they expected to be. Up until just a few days ago, May 1 was the day a number of farmers thought they would go out of business. The processor they sell their milk to, Grassland Dairy Products, lost its contract with Canada, because that country changed its pricing structure to favor its own farmers.

But late last week, dozens of farmers, including Jennifer and Shane Sauer, got the news they’d been hoping for. They own Sauer Dairy Farm in Waterloo.

“Tuesday night, a company called Rolling Hills Dairy Farm from Monroe, Wisconsin called us. They had seen us on T.V. in all the other interviews and they actually had a dairy sell out the previous week,” Sauer says.

Because one of their farms sold their cows, Rolling Hills had an opening. Sauer says ,“They wanted to know if we would sign up with them.”

They met last Wednesday and after, she cried tears of joy. Sauer says that before agreeing to sale their milk to Rolling Hills, she and her family had begun the countdown.

“Every baby calf that was born, every cow that you milked, every time that you switched the lights on or off in the barn, was that going to be the last time in seven days?” she says. The reality was real…too real and there was nothing they could do.

One of the factors making it difficult for dairy farmers to find a new processor right now is the fact that there’s a glut of milk on the market.

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Adam Levine is shirtless (and dead?) in Maroon 5's new music video that dropped today.

The video opens with a shirtless Adam Levine emerging from a casket to visit the casket of his lover. The video takes quite a few twists and turns from that point as we see the lovers quarrel and make up.

Levine's lover was played by Baywatch (2017) actress Alexandra Daddario. Let's just say the pair appear to be acting out a VERY toxic relationship.

"Wait, can you turn around, can you turn around? / Just wait, can we work this out, can we work this out? / Just wait, can you come here please? 'Cause I wanna be with you," Levine sings for the song's chorus.

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Fantasizing About Self-Driving Cars, Sunnyvale Opposes El Camino Bus Lanes

By Andrew Boone, March 10, 2015

 Between Palo Alto and San Jose, traffic congestion delays trips on VTA’s “Rapid 522″ skip-stop express up to 30 minutes, making bus trips twice as long as driving during rush hour.

The Sunnyvale City Council voted 4-3 last month to oppose dedicated bus lanes that could cut transit riders’ trips nearly in half along the length of El Camino Real, making bus trips almost as quick as driving. More than one council member said the city shouldn’t invest in transit because self-driving cars are going to make it irrelevant.

The city’s “officially preferred alternative” for the Valley Transportation Authority’s future El Camino Real bus service would include new bus stations on sidewalk bulb-outs, but not bus lanes anywhere between Palo Alto and San Jose.

This “mixed flow” option, which would leave buses stuck in traffic, would shave just 4 to 5 minutes off the current 70- to 85-minute bus trip during morning and evening rush hours. By comparison, bus-only lanes on El Camino Real would slash rush-hour trip times by 25 to 35 minutes, according to the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR).

Converting two of the street’s six traffic lanes to exclusive bus lanes would bring 6,000 new weekday passengers to VTA’s El Camino Real buses in 2018, and another 12,000 on top of that by 2040. The Bus Rapid Transit project is the longest of three BRT lines planned by VTA to span Santa Clara County, converging in downtown San Jose.

“The travel time savings from a bus today to a dedicated lane bus would be so significant that it would make it an alternative for people who don’t see it as an alternative today,” Sunnyvale Public Works Director Manuel Pineta testified at the City Council meeting.

VTA expects weekday traffic volumes on El Camino Real to drop by up to 4,500 vehicles in Sunnyvale and 5,600 vehicles in Mountain View if the dedicated bus lanes are built, as some drivers shift to transit, bicycling, or walking, and others choose different routes. Car congestion on the redesigned El Camino would increase only slightly, with rush-hour driving trips from Palo Alto to San Jose taking 37 to 44 minutes instead of today’s 36 to 40 minutes.

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Sunnyvale’s City Council voted 4-3 to adopt the “Mixed Flow” alternative to dedicated bus lanes that would leave VTA buses 22 and 522 stuck in rush-hour traffic in El Camino Real.

But after hearing two hours of public comment, with 30 speakers in support of the proposed bus lanes and 20 speakers opposed, City Council members David Whittum, Glenn Hendricks, Jim Davis, and Pat Meyering dismissed VTA’s analysis. Speeding up El Camino Real buses through Sunnyvale, they said, isn’t worth the “broader impacts” on the city.

“Let’s make improvements to public transit, let’s give improvements to the current and future riders of the service, but not going the step to dedicated lanes,” said Hendricks, who along with Meyering argued that the “mixed flow” improvements proposed by VTA are good enough.

Bus lane opponents placed an ad in the February 22 San Jose Mercury News attacking the BRT project, which stated that bus lanes would “not materially reduce vehicle traffic on El Camino or anywhere else,” would “only marginally reduce average bus rider transit time on El Camino,” and would “forever compound traffic congestion.”

Some council members dismissed better bus service entirely as impractical and outdated, despite the repeated success of dozens of rapid bus projects worldwide, and pointed to self-driving vehicles as a more appropriate transit solution for Silicon Valley.

“Instead of getting involved in Bus Rapid Transit, let’s start thinking of new and innovative ways that make travel better for everyone,” said Davis. “I’m not against smart transportation, but smart transportation is not increased numbers of buses. World class transportation systems are not those that rely on traffic lights and roadways.”

“When cars are actually autonomous and speak to each other, they will be packed more densely on
the roads, and they won’t be creating that congestion,” said Whittum. ”So the idea of spending huge amounts of money on concrete to do this, it’s not a futuristic 21st century idea, it’s actually a very 20th century idea.”

Not only are self-driving vehicles many years away from hitting the market, let alone saturating it, but even in a hypothetical future with autonomous vehicles, the geometric reality is that cars take up far more roadway space than buses, and the financial reality is that many people won’t use them.

Faster bus service would provide access to mixed-used development “nodes” along El Camino Real in Sunnyvale without worsening traffic. BRT stations are planned to be located at these nodes. Image: City of Sunnyvale

Not every official wanted to leave buses stuck in rush-hour traffic. A project without bus lanes “doesn’t give people any option that approaches automobiles’ usefulness,” said Vice Mayor Tara Martin-Milius, who voted against declaring a preference for the “mixed flow” option, along with Mayor Jim Griffith and Council member Larssen. ”The transit dependent are not going to do any better than what we’ve got right now, and I don’t think that’s good enough,” she said.

In early January, Palo Alto’s City Council also recommended against dedicated bus lanes for El Camino Real, but Mountain View and Santa Clara haven’t taken a position on the project’s design. Later in March VTA staff will choose whether or not to recommend pursuing bus lanes — and for which sections of the street — to the agency’s Board of Directors, which is expected to review the BRT project in April and select a design alternative in June.


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BBC TV is making a drama about Boy George. According to the BBC web site...

"The 90-minute drama will focus on how the star went from a cloakroom attendant to a cultural icon... Marc Warren, best known for Hustle, and Mark Gatiss, from The League Of Gentlemen, will also appear alongside newcomer Douglas Booth, who has landed the role of the pop star himself."

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