Night visibility is imperative to many people, either due to work conditions or visual impairment. Occasionally Tritium is not the answer and a fully lighted dial or read-out is required. The most popular solution is a fully lighted "push button" battery powered watch. Also featured here are some watches with lighted digital displays that augment the regular dials. There are even a few EXTREMELY POPULAR watches with Super-Luminova paint or dials, but be aware these will fade after a few ahours of darkness..


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UPDATE: BJCTA to hold public meeting on proposed new U.S. 280 commuter route
UPDATE: 9/23/2014, 4:15 p.m. – The original headline for this piece, and information contained within, was based information provided during and after the presentation suggesting it would take place on September 23. While preparing to re-share the piece this afternoon, we learned that it will instead be held on a new, yet to be confirmed date in the near future. It will be shared here once it is finalized.
### Birmingham area residents living along U.S. Highway 280 may soon have another option to consider during their morning and evening commutes. Members of the Birmingham City Council's Transportation and Communication committee heard from Henry Ikwut-Ukwa, manager of planning and development for the BJCTA, on Wednesday afternoon about proposed commuter route along the perpetually congested thoroughfare.
The proposed route, which would be known as Route 201, would run four times a day initially (two trips inbound at 5:45 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and two trips outbound at 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.). The buses would operate between the Walmart location along Highway 280 near Lake Purdy and State Highway 119 and the BJCTA's Central Station (soon to be replaced by the intermodal facility now under construction), stopping at The Summit, St. Vincent's Hospital UAB, the central business district, and the Social Security Building (located at the corner of 14th Street North and Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd). It was stressed that the route is only proposed at this point and is subject to changes.
It is one of three routes currently under consideration for pilot commuter service in the area. One of the other proposed routes would operate during peak morning and afternoon travel periods between downtown Bessemer and the Galleria in Hoover. A third route would serve as the long-talked about shuttle service between downtown Birmingham and Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
The seven new buses being used for the pilot effort were purchased using grant monies obtained with local matching funds provided by the city of Hoover originally intended to provide assistance for a city circulator. It was later changed to allow for the purchase. (It is one of several orders for new buses received in recent years by the BJCTA.) A restriction on the how the grant could be used prevents them from being added to the existing fixed routes. Ikwut-Ukwa placed the estimated cost to operate the service at $101,400 and that it could be accommodated in the current operations budget. He told the committee the authority was anticipating an estimated early usage of 25-35 riders; each bus can hold 26 people and are ADA accessible. He also informed them the authority's board was looking at the system's fare structure and that the cost for riding on this particular route had not been determined as of yet.
There will be a public notification meeting held on Tuesday, September 23, in the Arrington Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Birmingham Public Library's central branch from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the near future. It's hoped those in attendance will help them to refine and develop the pilot route and schedule.
Posted in transportation
Tagged BJCTA, bus, City Council, commuter, limited stop, presentation, proposal, proposed, service
BJCTA hosts public forum on proposed circulator, routes on June 10
This evening the BJCTA will be hosting a public meeting this evening from 5:30 – 7 p.m. downtown at the Alagasco Center for Energy Technology (20 20th Street South). The focus of the forum will be on taking a fresh look at the development of a downtown circulator route (similar to systems operating in cities like Washington, DC and Nashville, TN).
Odds are if you're reading this at home on Tuesday evening and not at your desk at work before heading out the door, you'll probably not be able to attend. (They were also originally asking folks to RSVP – as covered in this piece on AL.com last week – but the folks at Clarus Consulting Group will most likely not turn you away at the door.) If you find yourself still wanting to share your thoughts with our local transit officials, don't worry — there's an online survey available for you to use.
Posted in Transit
Tagged BJCTA, bus, circulator, options, route
Deadline for Transit Citizens Advisory Board applications is March 31
The Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority (also known as MAX), has a transit citizens advisory board, and they're looking for some committed individuals to apply.
While the application states the deadline would not be extended past its original deadline of January 16, the new cut-off is this coming Monday, March 31. The form is available via the authority's website and downtown at Central Station.
This new committee was established as part of the House Bill Governor Bentley signed into law at the end of the last legislative session. The statute, the first significant changes to the legislation establishing the BJCTA in nearly 40 years, states the appointments to the advisory board will be made by Jefferson County, the City of Birmingham, and other participating municipalities. A recap of a recent meeting of the committee held in December is available to read through via a blog titled Busrider's Diary. It is part of a growing national trend to include a more formal representation of voices in the process, including recent applications in southeastern Michigan.
Tagged application, BJCTA, deadline, Transit, transit advisory board
You didn't dump the pump today? Help catalog bus stops instead
Today is National Dump the Pump Day, an effort undertaken by the American Public Transportation Association since 2006 (when the national average price for gas reached $3) to encourage the use of public transportation instead of driving. A report conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute and cited locally on the CommuteSmart website points out the average Birmingham commuter wastes 35 hours a year in traffic and consumes an additional 18 gallons of fuel.
Locally, the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) is participating by making all rides on MAX buses in the system free. The agency has participated every year.
It's not the only changes currently taking place at metro Birmingham's regional transit agency. A new website greets visitors looking for information digitally as well as a more active fan page on Facebook. They also recently shared news of the passage and subsequent signing of House Bill 627, a transportation bill that passed on the last day of the legislative session that provided for the first major changes to the law governing the agency in more than 40 years. The law consolidates six laws governing the agency's existence into one in addition making several changes to fiscal policies. The BJCTA has also been invited back to Montgomery (in addition to Mayor Bell) by Governor Bentley to discuss further ways to support the system.
One effort currently underway in the private sector by VIPAAR co-founder Mark Dillavou (and one of the focuses of this month's Digital City column in B-Metro Magazine) is the BJCTA Stop Cataloguer. It's an attempt to map all of the transit system's bus stops in order help facilitate the system's addition to Google Maps's transit planning service. According to the site, several routes have been completed and added to a smartphone app and website, but there is still more to be done.
Tagged BJCTA, changes, dump the pump, law
Looks like we're getting new buses
Smoke bellowed from a MAX Dart shuttle bus during lunchtime in downtown Birmingham today, leading some to turn to Twitter (like this person) to find out what was happening. The fire is leading some to make snarky comments and varying opinions offered about the future of the region's transit authority, MAX, otherwise known as the BJCTA.
It's not the first time it's happened here in town (like this instance in 2010) and there are no reports of injuries at this time. It's also not as though it doesn't happen elsewhere with newer buses – like this incident in Seattle last month (video).
The Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham (RPCGB) had just shared on January 25 news the BJCTA had just signed a five-year contract with New Flyer of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, (with production facilities in the U.S.) for as many as 50 of their Xcelsior buses. The contract was probably finalized before January as it was included in the bus manufacturer's press release listing firm commitments for orders this year at the beginning of the month.
The purchase was funded by a $2.5 million grant BJCTA received from the Federal Clean Fuels Grant Program in mid-September 2012. It was the second time the transit authority had received been awarded funds from the program, the first time being in 2009 when they agreed to purchase buses from Anniston based NABI. They received the first of those buses in 2010 according to this account from The Birmingham News. BJCTA has been eligible for the grants because of the region's past non-attainment status as it relates to ozone.
The 40-foot buses they've agreed to purchase have been seen occasionally driving throughout the metro area in recent months and are also in use in larger service areas like New York City (as pictured above).
The authority has been fairly quiet publicly in recent months, including a reduction of activity on its own 4+ year old website. Its new director, Ann Dawson-August, has only been on the job for one month, replacing former director, Peter Behrman. He left the authority nearly a year ago this month (joining a long list of predecessors).
While we haven't heard directly from Dawson-August since her introductory press conference late last year, a review of a piece she wrote for Mass Transit Magazine in December 2008 about relations between an agency executive and the board and an interview conducted with her a little more than a year earlier should give you a better understanding of her style – and why we may not hear from her nearly as often as her predecessors.
Photo: courtesy of New Flyer.
Tagged BJCTA, contract, details, fire, MAX, new bus, new flyer, trolley
Another one gets (forced) off the BJCTA bus
The announcement that Peter Behrman will be leaving the BJCTA at the end of March was still a surprise to some despite the insane number of recent closed door meetings.
More disturbing is the number of people who've held the position. The transit authority has had 25 directors in 25 years.
We decided to take a quick look at the list of individuals who've served since 1994 – all nine of them. Why? Because the official National Transit Database website helped make it easy to do so…
The list is a pretty impressive one when you look at where some of them have ended up. Mr. Copling is currently a general manager for First Transit in Washington, DC, the folks responsible for the DC Circulator. Mark Stanley – he just became the executive officer for the Watershed Conservation Authority in California; he'd been serving as the director of planning for the Riverside Transit Authority since 2006. David Hill still serves as the deputy director for transit services for San Fransicso's Muni system – a position he returned to after serving as that organization's acting director of transit for just a little more than five months beginning in October 2009. If you want to visit Paul Ballard, just head up the road to Nashville. He's been RTA's CEO since January 2002. Looks like they like him a lot too.
Incidentally, you can also read one of Jerry Haight's short stories about his days as BJCTA general manager on his website or check out Jay Saxon's thesis (or maybe even this entire day of programming about transit) examining why he believes the system isn't functioning to its full potential. There are also fleeting references to Alfred Richards and Frank Martin online if you dig deep enough (including how the authority benefited from the 1982 beer tax).
Tagged BJCTA, former, general manager, list, Peter Behrman, Transit
Meetings to discuss BJCTA service changes continue
Approximately a dozen regular users of the BJCTA gathered in the transit authority's board room at Central Station on Friday evening to learn more about proposed service changes.
It was the second of four meetings scheduled through the middle of this week to go over the changes and to receive additional public input. The last two meetings will take place February 21 at the Hawkins Park Recreation Center (8920 Roebuck Blvd., Birmingham – map) from 5:30-7 p.m. and February 22 at the Bessemer Public Library (400 19th St., N., Bessemer – map) from 10-11:30 a.m. The changes will then be voted upon by the transit authority's board on the afternoon of the 22nd.
Proposed changes (PDF) include: the renumbering and combining of Route 1 (as Routes 10 and 11); the simplification of Route 20 (essentially creating an airport shuttle that runs hourly along Messer Airport Highway, including Saturdays); modifications to Routes 17, 25, 26, 28 44, and 45 that will enable them to stop directly in front of Walmarts located on their routes; and a change in DART service that will provide service up to Vulcan Park.
That abbreviated list of the proposed changes is probably making you want to read about the rest of them as described on the detailed attachment handed out at the meeting, isn't it? We've also got photos of the maps showing the proposed changes in the downtown, western, and eastern sections of the county.
Posted in Transit, transportation
Tagged 2012, BJCTA, changes, meetings, notification, public, route
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During this hot spell we're having, it pays to get on the water early and off before noon. Most anglers going out on New Melones Reservoir have shade tops on their boats.
Rainbow trout are still found by anglers trolling between the two bridges at 25 to 40 feet and deeper with Kokanee lures or dodger and worm combos.
The current hot spell will most likely drive the fish deeper in search of cooler water. Experimenting with different lures at different depths is the way to go.
Bass fishing remains good, especially in early morning or late evening. Fishing guide John Leichty recently came up with a huge largemouth bass over 10 pounds while fishing with Josh Parris, who also caught a big bass.
The Phil Johnson Memorial Kokanee Derby will take place tomorrow at Lake Don Pedro.
A few large Kokes have turned up there, but trout have been on a more consistent bite.
For more information and online registration go to kokaneepower.org.
At Camanche Reservoir, the trout are holding in deep water where trolling Speedy Shiners is producing. Active, retired, reserve and veteran military personnel receive a 20 percent discount on day use entry fees.
For more information call (209) 763-5166.
At New Hogan Reservoir, guide Monte Smith is scoring up to a dozen stripers per outing trolling shad or anchovies on a harness rig.
At Pinecrest Lake, some nice trout have been caught recently, including a few in the 2 to 3-pound class.
The Moccasin Creek hatchery is adding a few larger rainbows during their plants.
Plantings this week: Lyons Reservoir, Lyons canal, Powerhouse stream and Moccasin Creek.
In the Highway 4 area, plants will be made at Angels Creek, White Pines Lake and Lake Alpine.
Last week a couple of bills were on their way through the legislature favoring hunting and fishing, but now comes a bit of bad news.
Assembly Bill 986 was pulled from the assembly appropriations committee schedule on May 26. AB 986, sponsored by Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, would have recognized the sacrifices our veterans have made by reducing hunting and fishing license fees in recognition of their service.
With this postponement, the bill has been defeated for this year.


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Because there was a glitch with our mailing list, it seems as though the messages have not been sent out for a long time. I had a hunch, but have been so focused on starting our plant-based farm this year it ended up on the back-burner a bit. So if you are on the mailing list and this is your first message: welcome! And sorry about that! This post is a wrap-up of some of our recent recipes released on this website during the fall and winter so far, and at the end of this article I provide an overview of a few recipes to expect in January. This overview is from a large list planned to support "Veganuary" - a bunch of easy and tasty recipes, and tips on how to cook and bake without using oil.
Veganuary is designed to inspire and support people to try a vegan diet during January. To read more about Veganuary, head to their website to learn more about the challenge. If you are not vegan yet, consider taking the pledge!
I was busy growing tomatoes (instead of tending to this site... eek) all summer long. And so that meant so many tomatoes to deal with in the fall. I made a ton of sauces and roasted and froze many others.
The tomatoes offer a rich and bright color, and this jam could work well in your next buddah bowl.
And this grape jam is as simple as can be. You don't even need to cook it! Just add some chia seeds and let it firm up in the fridge.
The chia seeds thicken up this jam, and is all that's used to create the thickened texture.
I was really excited to make this soup, and it took several tries to get it right! I was so used to using coconut milk, but no longer use it for the variety of health reasons attached to the ingredient. But this soup does not let you down, tasty despite the lack of coconut milk and super filling as a meal in its own right. Find the recipe here.
This Thai Peanut Noodle Soup is coconut milk free and peanut butter free!
And a staple, at least in my house. Mashed potatoes with a healthy and low-sodium gravy. Both of course oil and dairy free.
Low sodium but flavor rich gravy.
I have also worked throughout December completely updating the site. This included the overall theme, completely redoing our recipe database from the ground up, and also cleaning up a whole bunch of hard-to-use features and navigation. If you are reading this, you may have noticed a (hopefully positive) change! There are a few more improvements coming up, including new guides for topics (such as oil-free baking, sauces, easy breakfasts, and so on).
And more! So stay tuned, and reply to this email if you have any questions!
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SMF Development »
Feature Requests »
Topic: Image Handling Options in 2.1
Author Topic: Image Handling Options in 2.1 (Read 26491 times)
Irisado
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Re: Image Handling Options in 2.1
Quote from: Arantor on April 18, 2019, 05:48:26 AM
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence over a number of years both here and elsewhere to support the basis that it is *far* more than just ModelBoIyhem that wants a better user experience (fewer clicks/easier to use) and features like resizing etc. I vehemently dislike that you've reduced the argument from 'all the people on one site' to '1 person wants this' simply because you don't have the evidence at hand to realise it's the case. You really, really didn't need to labour the point, nor counter-argue for a position that is almost as fallacious as the one you claim in the start of your post. I also suspect that no amount of evidence would be sufficient for you either, having seen previous debates.
The reality is vastly more complicated than argument by reduction, and it's a weird day when I'm actually arguing in favour of adding core features to a platform that I've long argued has too many features and choices, so... yeah.
I'm sure that there are many who support that position and would be interested in this feature and I agree that others have made the request here. You will note that I did not say otherwise and nor did I dismiss the request. At no stage have I said that it's a bad idea or something that is not desired by users. I solely take issue with the idea that 'everyone wants'. In an era where so much misinformation and exaggerated claims are made every day it is very important to be as accurate as possible and making claims about what everyone wants does not help in this regard, so all I am asking is for members here to be more circumspect and/or precise in terms of who they are referring to and what they mean. To my mind, this is not an unreasonable request.
You misjudge me if you truly believe that evidence does not satisfy me. Evidence-based argument is an essential component of my job and it is what distinguishes high quality work from mediocre or poor work. Either way, it's not for me to convince you about what I think or how I think. There's only one person in this whole community who ever really knew how I thought and what I'm really like. Still, as Bucks Fizz once sang, now those days are gone.
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OK, so let's recap real quick on what was essentially requested.
Users have devices that produce by default enormous pictures. Your average phone will produce a multi-megabyte monster of a picture by default (4MB would be quite small; my phone from 6 years ago routinely produced 8MB plus files based on its 41MP sensor). This has two problems: it makes a huge-ass file that you as a forum owner have to store, and the picture is probably larger than most user's screens, so what's the point in storing it in full anyway?
So if you have a picture that's huge and unwieldy and annoying to work with in its raw format, why not provides options for automatically dealing with it in a more intelligent way - resize it downwards to a reasonable size, reduces space consumption, lets the user view it in a way that makes sense etc. and means that - crucially - the user doesn't have to bother with resizing an image.
I can resize an image with no trouble. I'm sure many people here can too. But many of our users can't. We live in a world where it is not 'odd' for users not to understand the mechanics of things, and when I ask the users of the clients I work for, for a screenshot, several things may or may not happen. I've had users take a screenshot, put it in a Word document. I've had users take a screenshot of their laptop with their phone and send me that. I've even had users screenshot, put it in a Word document, print it out, take a photo with their phone to put it in email. (These sound like urban legends. They absolutely are not.)
These people aren't idiots - we're talking people that are part-way through a multi-year degree programme (in some cases, from very prestigious schools that you don't get to unless you are legitimately capable, and in the case of the printing-it-out-to-take-a-photo, we're talking someone who is actually a college-level teacher). We're talking about people who aren't techie. These are all people who post on forums.
So, resizing down to an acceptable size should be an option provided by default. Fun fact, most of the gallery mods already do this on some level anyway. And there will be times you explicitly don't want it to do that for whatever reason (maybe you're uploading a massive PNG diagram and you'd rather not have it be downsized, or converted to JPEG, so these need to not be without some kinds of controls). Auto conversion to JPEG would be neat but may be awkward.
Limits per file type are a viable option - right up until we run into 'regular users' again. And ModelBoatMayhem is absolutely right: people expect this to be as simple as it is on their phones with the Facebook app and similar. I'd find it hard to provide suitable qualitative or quantitative data to support it but I have more than enough anecdata to support that position, and I know the paid platforms absolutely believe that's a thing, they have definitely made it simpler. You'll end up running into 'but Facebook doesn't make me resize it, it does it for me' - and while I would certainly have some words about entitlement (because why wouldn't I?), that doesn't change the fact that I would actually agree with that.
I don't *think* that the issue of uploading attachments per se is the problem; I think there is a lack of useful post-processing options, and I think the use case of somehow putting pictures in posts is a use case that is not well supported at this time but achievable, moreso in 2.1 than before. I think that it may be feasible to consider some methodology of making it more obvious of how to do it - as there are lots of different use cases for showcasing photos in a non-gallery style context but the options are difficult to balance without necessarily making it worse for a given subset of users.
Quote from: Irisado
You will note that I did not say otherwise and nor did I dismiss the request.
You didn't in so many words, no, but you *did* reduce it from '7000+' to '1' which in practical terms amounts to the same thing.
I solely take issue with the idea that 'everyone wants'.
Then perhaps it should have been phrased better because you gave me a strong impression of dismissing the entire suggestion on the basis of 'only 1 person wants this'.
You misjudge me if you truly believe that evidence does not satisfy me. Evidence-based argument is an essential component of my job and it is what distinguishes high quality work from mediocre or poor work.
Perhaps, but this is an essential angle of what we're discussing here - and an essential part of forum life. I don't know much about you, I can only respond to what I see. What I see is arguments that are torn apart by pedantry on rules-lawyering on a scale that even I'm shocked by (and as earlier in this thread, I'm professionally pedantic, it's essential to how I do my job). What I see is things deconstructed by the letter of the rules rather than the spirit.
I see someone who with the slightest provocation jumps in to moderate - further building the impression I have long had of a rules lawyer, someone who does everything by the letter of the law rather than its intent. All of the debates around the EU certainly reinforce that impression - e.g. in the Article 13/15/whatever it's numbered now debate, getting into nitty-gritty about which bodies do what and whose responsible for what... that's not especially relevant to the issue at hand, which was 'what are the consequences of these laws on us as forum owners', with a sideline into 'why these are so damnably flawed' and 'I could see an argument for this being a way to effectively curtail what could otherwise become competition for the established powers'.
So with that bias in mind, to me you've appeared to deconstruct the argument from 'a lot of people want this' to '1 person says a lot of people want this but only 1 person is saying this', which looks like a dismissal of the validity of the request. Yes, the claim is somewhat hyperbolic - anyone who is arguing from a position that can only be objectively described as inferior and not in a position to really influence change will try to make the problem seem more important than it actually is, objectively. And subjectively, it is an important problem for them. I suspect that while 7000+ people might be an exaggeration, it's very likely more than 1 person has actively outright asked for improvements, that many more have asked for help on how to do things, and that it could easily be perceived as that significant an issue.
so all I am asking is for members here to be more circumspect and/or precise in terms of who they are referring to and what they mean. To my mind, this is not an unreasonable request.
Unfortunately real life doesn't actually work like that. To me, that reads as if you're arguing that for any given feature, substantive evidence should be required to show that it is valuable, at which point you might as well pack up and go home now, hence my statement about how no level of evidence would actually satisfy you.
Doing such a thing is inherently dangerous with software, especially a platform that is already widely used in very varied ways. The problem is, if you start putting in something akin to 'burdens of proof of interest' for a feature, you then need to hold everything up to that standard. And what constitutes proof is highly subjective. I literally see this daily - there are features in the Moodle tracker that have been there for years, where they use JIRA which lets people vote on things. But guess what - there are issues with no votes that get vastly more developer attention than the ones that have dozens of votes, because that burden of proof of importance isn't rigorously and consistently applied.
Such matters are really better left to a lead developer who can look at the anecdata - because that is all you're going to have, and hopefully from more sources than just here - and make a judgement call based on things. This isn't some place where you can write user stories and have a business owner groom a backlog because there isn't one business owner for SMF. Everyone who's ever run a forum is a business owner - and for every one of those, the requirements are fundamentally and importantly different.
Moodle has exactly the same problem: they implement what they see as important, and don't really listen to what the community says because they also hide it behind burdens of proof. You sit in a room with these people, and literal hundreds of site admins (who have paid to be there, no less) discussing what they'd like to see in the next version. Almost nothing of last year's list made it into the platform, and half of this list's wishlist is actually retrofitting last year's, and some of those were items that were vocally outlined as important by the actual users, the people who use the platform.
Putting it behind burdens of proof also opens it up to rules lawyering, rather than trying to do what's best for the community. I still get the odd complaint about decisions I made for SMF's actual roadmap 5 years ago, done based on the anecdata available to me at the time. If I'd done what you were suggesting and held things to a burden of proof, 2.1 would have about half the features it currently does over 2.0, though it would have fewer support issues right now since if I'd actually done what you were suggesting, there wouldn't be an alerts system in 2.1 at all.
To your point about specificity... I'm pretty certain you have no idea how hard that actually is to do. I do this as part of my day job, where we charge people £1000 per day for this service to go to them, sit with them and work out what they actually want done. We have these sessions booked in *regularly*. It's not even figuring out edge cases, but simply going from the vagueness of what it should vaguely do and turn it into something actionable. And for these people, with money on the line both to figure it out and then to actually pay for it to be done, they have a pretty reasonable amount of incentive to figure this out, and they're engaged and involved in it. Now replicate this process with people who... aren't. People who aren't technical, aren't aware of what's possible, and are fundamentally not *invested* in the same way.
That's the reality of what software development looks like. Then you combine it with a comment that I heard many times around here - 'oh you're just a developer, what do you know' - and you're basically guaranteeing that what gets built doesn't actually meet needs properly because it carries inbuilt presumptions around usefulness and relevance.
Hint: this is why I quit the dev team 5 years ago. I was hopeful that things were better, but I'm beginning to have doubts again how ingrained this sort of mindset is now. Development is actually hard.
To you perhaps, but not to me, so for the avoidance of any doubt I reiterate that I am not dismissing the request.
You're conflating a range of separate issues here. First, none of that which you have outlined above refers to moderation, rather they are contributions that I have made to topics. Second, specifically regarding the EU, a small number of other contributors to that discussion (i.e. not you) were making points based on a misunderstanding of how the institutions work and so my comments were entirely valid and relevant on that basis.
I suspect that while 7000+ people might be an exaggeration, it's very likely more than 1 person has actively outright asked for improvements, that many more have asked for help on how to do things, and that it could easily be perceived as that significant an issue.
I agree. Indeed, had that been the argument articulated in the first instance in lieu of 'everyone wants', I would not have posted in this topic.
Then you combine it with a comment that I heard many times around here - 'oh you're just a developer, what do you know'
Funnily enough, this is how I feel, only not in relation to development.
Gwenwyfar
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Limits per file type are a viable option - right up until we run into 'regular users' again. And ModelBoIyhem is absolutely right: people expect this to be as simple as it is on their phones with the Facebook app and similar. I'd find it hard to provide suitable qualitative or quantitative data to support it but I have more than enough anecdata to support that position, and I know the paid platforms absolutely believe that's a thing, they have definitely made it simpler. You'll end up running into 'but Facebook doesn't make me resize it, it does it for me' - and while I would certainly have some words about entitlement (because why wouldn't I?), that doesn't change the fact that I would actually agree with that.
Yep. There also seems to be quite a few communities with a lot of senior users out there, where it might be even more difficult to teach how to do it.
In my userbase it mostly fell on "they know how, but it's easier to just upload what is allowed". I allowed 5mb attachments, so they just used that. They didn't have a problem resizing it before, though they seemed less keen to take on the work and thus used attachments less often.
I think resizing to same-format is preferrable. Many pngs absolutely should not become jpeg, but for photos jpeg saves much more space with no meaningful loss (granted the right compression is used). I recall this being an option for avatars, but I don't remember if it just turned everything into png or went for the same filetype as the original.
Limits per filetype in my case was meant for things other than images. The only reason I increased the limit was for mp3 files used in some contests, but I can think of similar situations where you want to make a higher limit just for N files. Even with an auto-resizing I can still see it being useful, but it might be more fit for mod material. In the case of resizing you might even want to leave gifs out of the equation and limit them separately, for example.
Indeed, had that been the argument articulated in the first instance in lieu of 'everyone wants', I would not have posted in this topic.
I don't think you're wrong on this point, but I think your response to that was more than necessary, even more so because it was likely an exaggeration of speech than a literal "fact" to begin with.
You're conflating a range of separate issues here.
To you, perhaps. To me, no, because each interaction with a person must necessarily bias how I perceive what they're writing. I can't entirely separate the contexts of what someone has said before/how they've acted before with what they're saying now. I try to do it, try to take each comment on its own merits and flaws but humanity is hard. So when I see posts reducing down '7000+ people' to '1 person', I can't quite escape what I've seen before and conclude it's the same style of behaviour at work, reducing an argument almost to its literal meaning, not necessarily the spirit of it. That is what I am railing against here. Just as you dislike people being unspecific and not circumspect, I dislike going too far the other way as well and I've seen how this ends in other arguments, which ultimately just annoys everyone and makes the original proponents feel like they're not being listened to. I suspect I've given that impression too, but I'm not doing it on the basis of reducing an argument out of some perception of its flaws.
I would even argue that contribution to a topic can be a form of moderation. A moderator is a position of power, with that comes an expectation that if they lead the discussion in a given direction, that is where the discussion should go. It doesn't require a moderation action to be moderation. Even politely asking a question in an otherwise angry debate can be a subtle form of moderation. Hence my comment about rules-lawyering: you're picking apart what I say on its exact words rather than its spirit.
Not everyone is as... articulate... as you might like. Being combative to people who aren't as articulate about things as you might like just annoys the people who try to discern the underlying meaning - you'll notice that I didn't challenge the 'everyone' part because I didn't have to. I was mostly trying to realign expectations between how important the issue is for the original poster and how important it is perceived or expected to be amongst the original intentions of the software and where its general direction tends to go.
But this, to my perspective, is precisely my point: "everyone knew" that the statement of "everyone wants" was inaccurate on some level. Not everyone is as rigorous as you expect or hope for - and unfortunately trying to project your normal standards from your work environment into a venue like this is only going to frustrate people on some level. Not everyone works like you do, not everyone will discourse on the same standards as you expect, and trying to drag people to your level can be pretty insulting.
It was, I thought, generally understood that "everyone wants" is code for "some people want" and the question is not about skewering the absoluteness of "everyone" because that's very easy to do logically. As to having sufficient support and to gauge how many "everyone" might actually be, it would not be difficult to find sufficient anecdata both here and elsewhere, including the other forums.
I would strongly suggest that people try out other forum software - not only to see if it is better/worse, but simply to understand what other people think is important, and to understand what other people value.
My field is a particularly interesting one; there are a couple of dozen or so forum packages, but in the corporate LMS world, there are literally hundreds of offerings. It's important to go see the competition as it were to see what other people do and what drives other people - and I assure you that looking outside rather than inward, it will be trivial to find more anecdata to support this basis. It's almost easier for me to argue (and feel justly righteous about it ) in favour of this situation than it ever would to argue against it, especially given the points made by the original poster about expectations looking at social media.
This is also one of the things I dislike. Don't hold back on my account, say exactly what you mean. I'm assuming this is some kind of thinly veiled attempt to snipe at me because I don't actively use SMF and don't actively contribute to its development any more, therefore somehow my opinion is less relevant or important. To which I'd note that it's *exactly* that attitude that drove me away from actively using SMF in the first place. That somehow my opinion is less valuable for a reason. And within some value of fairness, that's even appropriate; my opinion SHOULD be less important than someone who is actively running a busy SMF forum - but by the same token, someone running a busy SMF forum deserves to have their opinion be heard over someone who was only here for part of the journey.
It long irked me that various stages of developer here didn't run forums because it's hard to see the weak spots in things you don't really use. It long irked me that when the developers who were here were running forums, their opinion was somehow less valuable on some kind of weird assumption that they weren't running forums even if they were.
But that's an assumption built on several others, also on the assumption that it's going to be dissected, looking for logical or practical inconsistencies or held up to some higher standard. And to bring it back to the original point: it's very easy to believe the worst in someone if all your interactions with them leave you with bad feeling, and you have a kind of Pygmalion effect going on.
And none of this debate just leads us further and further away from what we were discussing originally. Isn't that a kind of moderation in its own right, to drown out legitimate issues with rules lawyering and unrelated pedantry? It feels like an exercise in arguing in bad faith.
I did the limits per type in LevGal, but broader than 'png vs jpg', as 'images vs audio vs documents'.
I can also see the convenience factor of the software doing things vs the users having to, and why not, if sanely configured?
Converting to same format is preferable indeed.
Not sure what avatars do, it's been tweaked many times over the years,
This is also one of the things I dislike. Don't hold back on my account, say exactly what you mean. I'm assuming this is some kind of thinly veiled attempt to snipe at me because I don't actively use SMF and don't actively contribute to its development any more, therefore somehow my opinion is less relevant or important.
Your assumption is, I'm pleased to say, completely wrong . The reason why I didn't elaborate is that it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, or indeed SMF software, so I'm just going to leave it at that.
That's unfortunate, I was looking forward to you telling me what you were thinking rather than making a vague passive-aggressive snipe, even if it turns out to not be in my direction.
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Re:Re: SMF 2.1 RC2 Released
Quote from: ModelBoatMayhem on April 18, 2019, 04:24:47 AM
Quote from: m4z on April 18, 2019, 03:26:41 AM
I actually haven't used such sites too much in the last 15 years, unless you count Github, bug trackers, mailing lists, and support forums of big corporations, which are mostly glorified text-only mailing-lists with a web UI (and always terrible to use).
That says a Lot!
I didn't say I don't use them at all, and I was mainly talking about forums and less about social media sites; the problem with forums (and social media sites to a lesser/less-annoying extent) is that mostly entry-level tech-savvy people dwell there, disregarding most Netiquette rules (like not using existing quote features and forcing excessive colors onto other users) and demanding free tech help, only to then not answer any follow-up questions that might lead to a solution, or to then not accept most of the solutions they're offered because they're unwilling to do any work on their part at all, or to change their behavior that is causing their problems in the first place.
To me, it's hell on earth and a waste of my time.
Different platforms and target audience maybe .... but how did they get so big...... by making things SO EASY that it's actually intuitive.
Exactly. If you want image uploading, why not go to Instagram? (Wait, how many popular social media sites offer their software as open-source for self-hosting?)
But it's not just that, is it, It's the re sizing that SO MANY users seem to struggle with.
Note that I didn't comment at all about the validity of your resizing issue. I think that might be a useful feature (if you use images in forums, which basically I don't, and so I don't even know what SMF currently offers).
(I will now stop feeding and/or being the troll.)
Btw, what is causing the rewrite of (underscores added by me to avoid the issue) "Model_Boat_Mayhem" to "Model_BoI_yhem" in my posts?
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Are there many non-tech-savvy people on forums? Yes. Most forums are of interest to people who are not tech savvy.
Are all low tech savvy users just sucking up all the support and so on? I think the answer to that depends a lot on the kinds of communities you frequent, and what sort of imbalance and dynamic is there. Certainly in the places I hang out, this is a very different dynamic.
A lot of forums are not tech support forums, a lot are simply places to hang out, often run by not tech savvy people (after all, one click installation exists), and they just want a place they can call theirs.
Pictures depend a lot on the type and style of community, tech support often features screenshots, enthusiasts of vehicles will often have relevant pics (off-roaders usually have pictures of their vehicles navigating the most ridiculous terrain, vehicle models show off their creations) and I don't think the answer is "just use Instagram" unless you want to push all the conversations there (as happens a lot with Facebook Groups as a forum replacement of sorts)
For the record I see neither of these sets of opinions as trolling, just two narrow subsets of types of forums. Therein lies our challenge, support both of these!
Also to your last point, I assume some odd entry in the word censor maybe?
zappaDPJ
This thread is typical of what happens when a member suggests a feature request. The developers need a better method of gauging the desirability of such requests rather then falling back on their own limited experiences. This request is very much in-line with how other platforms handle images.
If you need to quantify the desirability of requests made here (which is how it should be) why not have a like/vote system whereby the SMF user community can vote for their favourite suggestions? I've seen too many good suggestions get instantly dismissed or even derided because the developers can see no use for them.
I'd suggest that voting in that matter would end up like it tends to do on xenforo.com.
Quote from: Arantor on April 18, 2019, 12:33:37 PM
Could you expand on that? I'm a very infrequent visitor there these days. The (likes) system they used in the early days seemed to work quite well.
Only in the very early days did I think it worked - it's long been the case that the likes didn't *really* correlate to what got built. Sure, it's a useful guide, but then again so is skim-reading to see what people are talking about; once upon a time, the original lead dev of SMF read *every topic* and would mark it unread until he was satisfied that it was either out of what he considered scope (having a unified vision that tries to cater to a broad spectrum of uses, without trying to cater to everything) or that it was the user running into something that was a bug that he had to fix. I've long campaigned for the team here to take on a role whereby support or similar collects common requests / common problems that aren't really bugs but frustrations into something actionable.
But I've long thought that K/M/C had a pretty good finger on the pulse about what works in a forum and what feels relevant. I've already expressed the notion that if I ever run a regular forum again, XF is probably my personal choice for anything that isn't super niche with masses of custom dev being needed, and that XF was essentially what I hoped SMF could be the open source competitor to, but I think the ship has sailed for the FOSS forum market to ever truly meaningfully catch up.
Completely non-sequiteur, please tell fixer that Pete says hi, and that I hope TAZ is a slightly less angry place now I'm not arguing with him.
@rjen
These are the kind of discussions that make me not reply to certain threads...
Image resizing is however one of the last missing functions that is stopping me from moving my 2.0.15 forum to 2.1: missing the ability to have the forum automatically resize image attachments. Not because the members are very 'image-oriented', but because we tend to support our discussions and contributions with image attachments every now and then...
So I do support this request, for now I hope that the Mod author will update this mod to 2.1 RC2 soon...
https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=4087
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Testing SMF 2.1 with Tinyportal 2.1.0 at test2.fjr-club.nl
GLWing is still very much around so I would be surprised if it does not get updated soonish, but the licence permits it to be updated without problem by someone else and taken over that way, if that makes sense.
I will, TAZ still has its moments!
landyvlad
Yes that mod is excellent and I am very confident it will be upgraded to 2.1 compatibility.
As for the OP...
I shouldn't comment
I'm going to comment ...
"In 2019, it is estimated that there will be around 2.77 billion social media users around the globe, up from 2.46 billion in 2017. Social network penetration worldwide is ever-increasing. In 2017, 71 percent of internet users were social network users and these figures are expected to grow."
Completely irrelevant. Forums != 'social media' such as facebook, twitter, Instagram
This has been discussed in a number of threads, each has advantages and disadvantages, but the comparison is unreasonable as an argument.
Please see statics above.
How did they get so big? A few reasons
- By generating HUGE amounts of revenue from advertising and selling user data; and investing some of that revenue into paying hiuge teams of developers, coders etc to work full time on such things. It's not conceivable let alone reasonable to expect a small, entirely volunteer group of people, working on their own time, to compete with that.
- Social media has been (and largely still is) unmoderated and an easy way of people being hateful toward others. In this day and age that seems to be a thing, but on a forum people like that generally get shut down pretty quickly.
- Forums are generally targeted at specific interests. Eg I run a forum for a specific motorbike model. While there is some general chat, the bulk of discussion is around the motorcycle. OTOH 'social media' (really anti-social media) is most often full of shallow rubbish and pictures of people's meals...
SMF has always been a friend to me, especially as it's "free"
SMF isn't "free", it's FREE.
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Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on April 02, 2019, 10:27:40 AM
No hack nor blackhats, just persistent asshats.
Quote from: ModelBoIyhem on April 18, 2019, 04:24:47 AM
And yet people still visit forums when they need real advice .
Wichtlmex
Re: Image Handling Options in 2.1 OMG
OMG.... ModelBoadMayhem made the best point ever when writing:
>NB: Incidentally, I'm currently using Chevereto... but after sales support can be .... temperamental!<
See? He/she said after sales support..."
Nothing else to be said. I am so grateful to you guys doing that! I am using Tinyportal also and already found two bugs.... but I am far from complaining!
Keep on coding! In my life I would not be able to do that!
varsdf
I run 3 smf forums since 2007, and the main reason people are leaving to other platforms/social networks is the horrible upload system.
People want to upload a bunch of pictures by selecting them on their phone, don't think about resizing and rotation, and be able to add comments to each photo and place it anywhere in the post in a wysiwyg manner. And to see upload progress as well.
When pictures are added in the upload queue, they start to upload immediately, and each successfully uploaded item appear in a kin of mini-gallery, where you can pick it and drag to your message in a form of thumbnail, or click it to insert to the last position of cursor in the message (for mobile users).


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I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. It is a movie with a great cast, very good acting, and great story. The movie has a very interesting story. I thought it was very interesting to watch this movie because it is very different from other movies. It is not just about the revenge, it is about how different people and how different the world can be, and how you can have an important relationship with your neighbor and your family. The movie is really good. You can tell that they were really trying to make a good movie and they did it.
Kimberly Valdez
After reading a couple of reviews I was somewhat skeptical about this movie. I figured it would be a hit or miss. In my opinion it was a good movie. I was not expecting this from the first scene but I got a lot more than I expected. I am a little skeptical about reviewers that say this movie is bad because they did not like the first two. I actually thought the characters were pretty interesting. It's not a typical spy movie but it is a good action movie. It is funny in parts and a little creepy. It is also one of those movies that you can watch with your kids. It is a movie you can just have a good time with. If you are a fan of Bill Murray you will love this movie. It is a must see.
I really don't know what to say about this movie. There's so much potential here. The acting is really good, the characters are really funny, the script is great and the film moves along at a good pace. It has one of the best endings I've seen in a movie. The ending isn't as great as the original and I would have liked to see more from Ray Liotta, but it's still a great movie. I really didn't expect it to be this good but I can't help but be pleasantly surprised. I think everyone should see it. It's worth it. It's a really good movie and I'm glad I saw it.
I am an ardent fan of the sitcom, 'That 70's Show' and would have been disappointed if it had not been made into a movie. Even if it had been, I would have been disappointed, as the TV series, with its low budget and slow pace, was better than the movie which had the same aim. However, I am glad that it was made. The movie is not perfect, but it is better than the TV show. Not only is it a good movie, it is very entertaining and worth seeing. It has many plot holes, but it is not a big problem for the movie. The only reason it did not get a 10/10 is because it does not have many memorable lines and it has the same low budget of the TV show, but it still has a good plot and the acting is good, as the actors are very funny. Overall, it is a good movie. I recommend it to everyone, but I would not recommend it to anyone who has not seen the TV show.
The premise of this movie is pretty simple. A group of seven cops (all rookies) are sent into an island to find a missing chief. While they are there, they are manipulated by a local gangster. The main characters are called "The Bad Guys" and the cops are called "The Good Guys". There are a lot of different stories and ideas in the movie. I will not give any of them away. This movie is supposed to be a comedy, and it's funny. The acting is all great. The one guy who played the chief was hilarious. The big surprise was that the cops were actually good in this movie. They were all friends and they all had the same goals. They all really did what they were supposed to do. The problem is, they didn't do it as good as they could have. I think this movie is a classic. It's not an amazing movie, but it's still a classic. It's better than most movies that get huge box office numbers. It's very underrated and I have never seen a negative comment about it. I highly recommend this movie. If you haven't seen it, go see it. You won't regret it.
Melissa Mason
I saw this film recently at the NYC Film Festival, and I was impressed with the wit and the energy with which the writers and director team went about creating the film. The film seems to have taken on a life of its own as it has gone from a well-received show in Austin to a fine little film in New York City. The real gem in this film is the ability to break away from the cliches that so often come with a Seth Rogen film and try something new. The film really showcases the complexity of actors and how hard it is to put two disparate characters into one story. The actors don't shy away from the dramatic moments in the film, and the audience is left with a sense of real sadness, frustration, and frustration for the characters. It's also a story about life and how we get along with our neighbors and friends and how sometimes we don't always understand them, and it's very touching and very funny. My only question is why the hell did I pay to see this in a theater?! I hope the DVD release will be as good as the theaters. The film is definitely worth seeing in a theater, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again on DVD.


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package com.skyrocketgwt.demo.client.widgets;

import com.google.gwt.dom.client.Style;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.ImageResource;
import com.google.gwt.resources.client.TextResource;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Button;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.HTML;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.SimplePanel;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Widget;
import com.skyrocketgwt.core.client.layouts.layoutpanel.SkyVerticalPanel;
import com.skyrocketgwt.core.client.widgets.SkyButton;
import com.skyrocketgwt.core.client.widgets.appearance.DefaultSkyButtonAppearance;
import com.skyrocketgwt.demo.client.resources.code.CodeResources;
import com.skyrocketgwt.demo.client.widgets.images.ImageResources;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by v on 07/04/2015.
 */
public class SkyButtonDemo extends AbstractWidget {

    private final boolean isSky;

    public SkyButtonDemo(boolean isSky) {
        this.isSky = isSky;
    }

    @Override
    public Widget getWidgetDemo() {
        return isSky ? createSky() : createGwt();
    }

    private Widget createGwt() {
        SimplePanel panel = new SimplePanel();

        Button button = new Button(getWidgetDescription());
        panel.add(button);

        return panel;
    }

    private Widget createSky() {
        SimplePanel panel = new SimplePanel();
        SkyVerticalPanel vpanel = new SkyVerticalPanel();
        panel.add(vpanel);

        panel.getElement().getStyle().setPadding(6, Style.Unit.PX);

        SkyButton button = new SkyButton();
        button.setHTML(getWidgetDescription());

        SkyButton disabled = new SkyButton();
        disabled.setEnabled(false);
        disabled.setHTML("Disabled");

        vpanel.add(button);
        vpanel.add(new HTML("<br/>"));
        vpanel.add(disabled);

        return panel;
    }

    @Override
    public List<TextResource> getSourceList(CodeResources resources) {
        List<TextResource> sourceList = new ArrayList<TextResource>();
        sourceList.add(resources.skyButtonDemo_java());
        return sourceList;
    }

    @Override
    public String getWidgetDescription() {
        return isSky ? "SkyButton" : "GWT Button";
    }

    @Override
    public String getSourceCode() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public String getCSS() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public ImageResource getImageResource(ImageResources resources) {
        return resources.skyButton();
    }

    @Override
    public ImageResource getInactiveImageResource(ImageResources resources) {
        return resources.skyButtonBW();
    }
}

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THE AVENUE | FOOD
Vegan students plan for Turkey Day without the turkey
By Michelle Holder
November 23, 2020 | 9:45am EST
Traditionally a meat- and dairy-heavy holiday dinner, Thanksgiving is handled differently by students with vegan and vegetarian diets.
Photo by Aubrey Bocalan | The Independent Florida Alligator
After a semester of ramen noodle packages and Chipotle runs, a home-cooked meal is sometimes all college students look forward to.
But for vegans and vegetarians, Thanksgiving looks a little different: Turkeys are traded for tofu, mac and cheese is replaced with vegan alternatives and mashed potatoes are made with plant-based milk.
Vegans and vegetarians often encounter dinner-time challenges when home for the holidays, as their families whip up the traditional Thanksgiving dishes full of butter, meat and cheese. The plant-based lifestyle may often leave vegans feeling teased, awkward and hungry.
For Christina Speros, a 19-year-old nutritional sciences sophomore at UF, being vegan means dealing with teasing from her family and navigating family meals. As a nutrition major, she feels passionate about veganism, fitness and living a healthy lifestyle.
She has been vegan for over a year and a half, but with an Italian mom and a Greek dad, her family's Mediterranean background means their diets heavily consist of meat and cheese.
Speros' cousin is also vegan, so they plan their meals for Thanksgiving together, she said. This year, she is hoping to make vegan candied yams and a pumpkin cheesecake, along with other dishes.
As much as she faces a hard time from her family for being vegan, Speros' family always ends up fighting over her vegan chocolate chips cookies.
"I say it's always in the desserts that get them," she said.
Marlee Anctil, a 19-year-old political science sophomore, is planning for her first Thanksgiving as a vegan, which she said will consist of a lot of the food she eats on a regular day.
"It's going to probably be like a normal dinner and not really Thanksgiving just because it's kind of hard."
Anctil has been vegetarian for five years but made the transition to veganism in March. When she first transitioned into becoming a vegetarian, her family, especially her grandparents, who are from Mexico, didn't react well to the news.
"They were upset," she said. "They didn't want to have to accommodate special meals for me."
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This Thanksgiving, she said her family has accommodated some of their recipes so she can share some of the same dishes with everyone else.
"I am afraid that it's not going to be as good as Thanksgivings prior, especially because my parents make some really amazing non-vegan meals," Anctil said.
Rain Meekins, a 19-year-old UF construction management sophomore, said his transition to becoming a vegan was gradual. He said he became a vegan due to his environmental and animal agriculture concerns.
Meekins said his family is supportive of his diet but has faced criticism from his brother.
"My brother always nags," Meekins said. "They were just concerned if I am getting my nutritional needs."
For Thanksgiving, he makes a lentil-based meatloaf and sticks to eating a lot of vegetables. He also says his family substitutes non-vegan items for vegan alternatives for him.
"For mashed potatoes, a lot of the time they'll use dairy-based butter," he said. "I'll be like, 'Hey, I can have some too as long as you use this vegan butter that tastes the same.'"
He said sticking to small changes and making dairy-and meat-free swaps in the kitchen can help.
"You can still enjoy Thanksgiving just as much," he said. "You can still be vegan and enjoy the same types of foods in the same way. Thanksgiving is still Thanksgiving."
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Origin to Power the mindful MATERIALS Library
December 1, 2016 – Chicago, USA
mindful MATERIALS is a free, industry initiative that empowers Manufacturers to share key green building and transparency product achievements with the A+D community. Initially founded by HKS the program is advised by industry leading firms and professionals. Over 140 A+D and consulting firms across North America and Europe as well as over 175 Manufacturers have engaged to provide their product information. mindful MATERIAL collaboratives have launched in over 70 cities as the initiative continues to gain traction.
GIGA and mindful MATERIALS have signed an MOU and agree to collaborate to bring the mindful MATERIALS program to the cloud. Thru this partnership, GIGA will provide a free cloud-based library to display all products that have been submitted to the mindful MATERIALS program. The Library will be released in February 2017 and will be powered by Origin's data exchange platform. Manufacturers will be able to freely provide their products to the mindful MATERIALS Library and manage their content directly in the cloud. Architects, designers and specifiers will all have free access to search and view product data through the mindful MATERIALS lens.
"Since learning about "The Big Ask" we have worked with the mindful MATERIALS movement to support its transition to the cloud. GIGA and mindful MATERIALS share a fundamental goal of publishing open data to guide more informed material selections, working together has been a natural fit. We're excited to merge technology with product information to make data easier to manage, access, and to ultimately make it more useful in day to day design flows."
Ryan Dick, GIGA
Manufacturers can expect to streamline the time required to manage their product information as Origin, the cloud power behind the mindful MATERIALS Portal will allow an option for the same information to be shared with multiple endpoints. Efficiency will increase as additional endpoints are supported by Origin.
"The mindful MATERIALS Library makes it possible for our designers to easily access critical product information. By linking multiple types of transparency and optimization information to specific building products, furnishings and textiles, product research is simplified for our designers, making it easier to select preferred products for people and planet."
Nancy Hulsey, HKS
"When designers collaborate on a program to meet their own information needs, we want to support it. By partnering with Origin on an open data platform, mindful MATERIALS is taking an important next step toward providing more accessible and up-to-date product information to designers while reducing the burden on manufacturers of maintaining the same information on a multitude of systems."
Jennifer Atlee, Sustainable Materials Consultant, PROSOCO
Participation in mindful MATERIALS is free and open to all Manufacturers. To get involved in time for the launch of the mindful MATERIALS portal, contact the mindful MATERIALS Working Group (mMworkingGroup@gmail.com).
About mindful MATERIALS
mindful MATERIALS is a design industry initiative that provides a common platform for manufacturers to clearly communicate transparency and optimization information for their building products.
About GIGA
GIGA is an independent third party that combines the development of building standards with cloud software. GIGA's platform, Origin Data Hub, provides free access to transparent, connected data to support performance-driven, regenerative buildings. Origin integrates with certification bodies, 3rd party databases and auditors, allowing Manufacturers to manage product information in a single location, while making all data easily accessible to Architects, Designers and Specifiers.
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Q: All the plugins appear twice on the "Maven" panel in IntelliJ for Vaadin 14 project I have been surprised to find all the items in Plugins section of the Maven panel in IntelliJ 2019.3.2 to be repeated, two items for each plugin appears redundantly.
Yesterday, I replaced my entire project with a new fresh project from the "Plain Java Servlet" flavor of the Vaadin starter site. I copied over all the relevant files. Things went well for some hours. Now, again, the double listing has appeared. A mystery me to me, I did not notice when it happened. Perhaps related to changing my POM to using a slightly later updated version of Vaadin, and re-imported the POM. I have done so many times on many projects, but this problem seems to have appeared only this week.
See this screenshot. Notice clean followed by clean, compiler followed by compiler, deploy followed by deploy, and so on.

➥ What is causing this double listing of "Plugins" items?
➥ How can I fix it?

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HomeNew BikesBike NewsMavox Helmet Range Launched In India
Mavox Helmet Range Launched In India
Published On Mar 29, 2019 By Praveen M.
The helmets are available in four sizes and are priced from Rs 1485
All helmets come with a two-year warranty.
The entire range is compliant with the recently revised ISI norms.
The range-topping Mavox FX with graphics costs Rs 3,000.
Helmet standards in India recently witnessed quite a few changes with the mandate to make them safer and lighter at the same time. This has created a ripple effect of sorts with many new brands entering the market with diverse offerings. One such new entrant is an Indian startup, called Sandhar Amkin Industries which has now launched its "Mavox" range of helmets in the country. Two ranges of helmets have been launched and their prices are as follows:
Mavox OX 10 (with single visor): Rs 1,485
Mavox OX 11 (with dual visors): Rs 1,650
Mavox FX Max with solid colours: Rs 2,400
Mavox FX Max with graphics: Rs 3,000
The open face OX 10 and 11 weigh around 1000 grams, while the FX range is about 100-200 grams heavier. These helmets are available in 560mm, 570mm, 580mm and 600mm sizes, and come with a 2-year warranty as well. The helmets will be available pan-India and will also be sold via the company's official website. Here's the brand's official statement for more details:
Sandhar Amkin Industries Pvt. Ltd. launches its flagship product - MAVOX Helmets
Mavox, the latest entrant in headgear sector focused on delivering the desired satisfaction to the consumer's expectations for safe & accessible riding accessories
27th March, 2019, New Delhi: Sandhar Amkin Industries Pvt. Ltd, a technology-driven and quality-oriented startup unveiled its flagship product of Motorcycle and Scooter Helmets under the brand name of 'MAVOX,' with the brand tagline 'Nayi Soch Nayi Raftaar.' The company is also planning to introduce a range of functional, safety and lifestyle riding accessories.
The brand name is derived from the word MAVERICK meaning unique, youthful and a trendsetter and it is combined with the strength of 'OX' representing power, stability, and energy. Deploying the latest technology and equipment to ensure each product goes through extensive safety procedures and no details miss the eye, Mavox helmets have been tested and constructed keeping in mind the everyday use of a rider. The story does not culminate here, the company aims to manufacture and market products that are truly best-in-class in safety, affordability and style.
The 3 exclusive products in the range are OX10, OX11, and FX Max which come with features like UV resistant paint that maintains the premium finish; water tight interface visor for wet and rainy conditions, and a compact design structure for better stability of helmets, to name a few. This new range is focused on delivering the desired satisfaction to the consumer's expectations for safe, thoughtfully designed yet accessible helmets. The two-wheeler helmet industry is an important growth opportunity as Indians are expecting products that are made with the newly revised ISI standard, and also deliver in terms of safety, style and most importantly value for money. The company has set up its pilot Manesar plant which has the capacity to manufacture over 2 million helmets per annum and will be adding capacity as required. The initial investment incurred by the project is INR 250 million.
Commenting on the announcement, Mr. Ayyushman Mehta, Managing Director, Sandhar Amkin Industries Pvt. Ltd. said, "While efforts are being made for the enforcement of certified two-wheeler helmets in India, we still have a way to go. Not surprisingly, most two-wheeler accidents in India result in head injuries. In such a situation, helmets that are not just accessible but highly protective and aesthetically designed at the same time are the need of the hour, and with Mavox we strive to deliver on that demand."
Mr. Sanjeev Mehta, Director & Co-founder, Autofit Pvt Ltd. said, "India is the largest two-wheeler market in the world, with millions of people using motorcycles and scooters every day, as a result, the helmet segment is experiencing massive growth. Considering the same, it was a natural transition for us to enter this segment to provide the best-in-class products to the customers. After Sandhar-Amkin's entry in the segment, the consumers will no longer have to choose between a safe or an affordable helmet."
In addition to this, Mr. Jayant Davar, Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Sandhar Technologies Ltd. said, "Leveraging the latest tech to build quality products is at the heart of 'Mavox,' and we strive to provide the best build to Indian customers. We will continue to innovate in our journey to manufacture products that are the best combination of style, safety, and accessibility."
Praveen M.
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Need studio at 571 Stinchcomb Dr. taken off my hands for Summer 2018! I will not be in Columbus during this time. The studio is FRESHLY REMODELED (only lived in for about a week) and while current rent is $725/mo, I'd be willing to front the subleaser $300 over the summer to knock the effective rental price down to $625! Once again, FRESHLY REMODELED studio available for Summer 2018!


This Sao Miguel Azores Map gives a good view of the largest island in the Azores Archipelago.
This is an island that you can't possibly see in one day. For example, a city at the eastern end of the island, called Nordeste, is often referred to as the tenth island of Sao Miguel. This is because it takes so long to get there due to the winding roads. Years ago it was faster to go to one end of the island to the other by boat. Slowly, over centuries and decades of progress, roads have made their way across the island. Now it is much easier to get there. But all the same, this island has lots to offer and I suggest staying for at least a week.
This Sao Miguel Azores Map is easy to use so you can explore the island. Simply use the tools on the upper left corner of the map to zoom in or out and to move up, down, left or right.
Read more about Sao Miguel Azores or go to the Magical Azores Islands home page for lots of information about all of the Azores Islands.


Binocular Coordination in Reading When Changing Background Brightness : Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.
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