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Sounds like she is looking for validation for her choices. I think many times when women "give up their careers to raise children" they want people to agree with their decision, so they feel "right" in having given something up. Here's the thing though, we all give things up when we have kids. Some do give up careers, some give up spending as much time with friends, some give up their hobbies, some give up getting their hair and nails done every week. We all make decisions about what we are willing to give up for the betterment of our children, and in turn ourselves. As far as reading at 4, big deal. My oldest dd read at 4, and she went to daycare for 13 months, and she went to preschool, even when I wasn't working. My 2 dd's who I was home with full time have actually taken longer to read. So basically, she was using her anecdotal evidence to support her decision to stay home.
I find it to be a real slap in the face though. I have worked full time, part time, out of the house, from home, what ever was needed to ensure that we were taken care of. I don't consider myself to have sacrificed my children in order to work. I work in order to take the best care of my children that I can. If you can do that and not work, then go for it. If you can do that and work, then go for it. I think it is such a ridiculous, petty pi$$ing match for women to say snarky things like that to one another.
Besides, I am better than all of you because I work PT and homeschool my children...oh, and I go to school, too! (end sarcasm!)
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Please keep in mind that all of the images in Developer's Logs are for "Wanderlust: Adventures", a new title being worked on by Yeti Trunk, and are a Work In Progress; most of them are mockups or early prototypes.
Hey guys! We spent the last few weeks working on several different things and have made a lot of progress!
First, Lauren finished the promotional art for Wanderlust: Adventures, and we couldn't be happier with how it came out! We plan to use this image to hopefully help market the game when it comes to that. We were really aiming to describe Wanderlust: Adventures with just a picture; explore the world and create your own adventures, and I think she nailed it!
I will likely make a few wallpaper variations once the website is launched, which should come relatively soon.
Matt spent this week coding and redesigning the server finder. We really wanted to refine how this menu was navigated, as well as display a bit more information. Now players can view the game name, difficulty the game is set to, players in the game, the day of the expedition, and where they are located on the world map.
Long gone are refreshing the server list with F4 and navigating the server pages with F keys!
Matt also spent a lot of time recoding how enemies spawn so enemies spawn right when the players enter the room, removing the slight delay that they used to have.
This week I managed to finish another enemy, leaving 10 more to create. Lauren will be joining me on finishing these last few enemies, leaving me more time for map creation. On that note, I have completed a total of 91 dungeon maps this week (172 total maps finished)! We are aiming for a total of 270+ swappable dungeon maps. This will hopefully leave plenty of variety, and if we feel we need more we can always add more!
Here goes an image of a few dungeon rooms with 2 different dungeon tilesets applied. The colorful rooms are how it looks when I create the rooms, and then the following images are what it looks like in game. Click to enlarge for the best detail.
This method allows us to quickly create vast dungeons, all with unique looks and feels!
Until next log!
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Is there single player mode?
Looks like a great game!
Unfortunately on Windows 7 x64, it is not working for me.
This might be because of Desura and the MFC errors i constantly get when i download games.
Anyone else with win 7 x64, got this game working?
No problem with Win 7 x64.
Try downloading it directly from our site. Also, if you're having trouble I would be happy to help you get it going. Send me a message and I'll get you on Skype so we can troubleshoot.
please add linux support!
Sadly Game Maker doesn't have linux support, and as far as I know, there are no plans to add it any time soon :(
They are just now adding in Mac support, so we should hopefully have a Mac version at some point.
Yay! Can't wait for new stuff!
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Finished reading Finally (thnx to my Internet service )
First when I started reading, I thought that characters are quite serious and loved their usual life. Geet going 4 social work made me think that she had lost someone to cancer (her childhood memory of hospitals) then Oh boy! what just happend to geet!
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Dev is Psycho Case (No doubt)
Geet's FB Email & password shows her obsession & what an email ID 4 MSPhurana
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Geet's pain was so acutely defined. (My Grandfather and Aunt also suffered from Cancer and died ) I understand, it is painful 4 patient.
I am Sorry 4 ur father but he must be very proud on a daughter like you who is bravely facing the world.
Maan's Proposal was DREAMY & here comes old geet
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Wedding was beautiful & geet's imagination
In the last chapter, I thought that she died. I literally cried at that
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Maan fainted
Phurana Family & their Vacuum Son
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... As part of the government's effort to increase land supply, the Planning Department has begun a two-month consultation on the extension of Tung Chung New Town. With the building of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, Tung Chung is attracting developers. The area's current infrastructure supports a population of about 108,000, but the plan is to increase that figure ...http://www.scmp.com/article/1004568/tung-chung-grow
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Briefs, March 9, 2013
Posted Mar 09th 2013, 12:00am by STAFF
... Official says scrap one-child policy Wu Shimin, vice chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, advocated ending the one-child policy as China faces an ageing population and many of these children are in "weak" physical health, the Economic Daily's affiliated news portal reported. He said in Shanghai there would be one person aged 60 or older for every three people ...http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1186651/briefs-march-9-2013
Bridge: ask the public?
Posted Oct 01st 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Should the government consult the public on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge - for instance, whether there should be a road or rail link, a tunnel instead of reclamation on Lantau, and on the impact of the project on the environment and population? Share your views: write to us. ...http://www.scmp.com/article/429731/bridge-ask-public
News - Hong Kong - BUSINESS
Retirees to Guangdong are golden opportunity: John Tsang
Posted Apr 01st 2013, 12:00am by Danny Mok
... noted that this ageing population would require a whole host of services in their new location, creating fresh business opportunities. "Many retired colleagues in the civil services have ... to the retired population of Hong Kong, said Tsang. He believed such financial advantages would prompt more people to spend their retirement on the mainland, and advised Hong Kong businessmen to look ...http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1204177/retirees-guangdong-are-golden-opportunity-john-tsang
Business - Comment - LAI SEE
China is like the EU; provinces are its member states
Posted May 22nd 2013, 12:00am by Howard Winn
... not appreciating perhaps that it is not "one" but many different markets. Even taking on a province can be a daunting proposition. Five of the mainland's provinces have populations bigger than Germany's, the largest nation in Europe with 82 million individuals. Even people in Hong Kong forget how big neighbouring Guangdong is. With a population of 104 million it is bigger ...http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1243003/china-eu-provinces-are-its-member-states
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MENOMONIE (AP) -- A prosecutor says a former University of Wisconsin-Stout football player pleaded guilty today to two charges in a deal that calls for him to testify about how he obtained steroids.
Former senior linebacker Luke Steffen was charged in December with maintaining a drug trafficking place and three other drug crimes.
He pleaded guilty today to possession of a non-narcotic controlled substance, an anabolic steroid, and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
Dunn County District Attorney James Peterson says Steffen was sentenced to 10 days in jail, 100 hours of community service and one year of probation on the possession charge.
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Peterson says Steffen is expected to be a witness in cases against three other people charged in the undercover drug probe.
That group includes two other ex-football players.
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Cash Money Records' Birdman has opened up about signing rap veteran Busta Rhymes to his label and why critics do not have to worry if he will completely makeover the Flipmode Squad leader's signature sound.
According to Birdman, he allows his roster to have artistic freedom in their music.
"Whatever they bring to the table, whatever their vision is, [my role is] just to back it up and let them be the artist that they want to be and we support what they want to do," Birdman said in an interview. "We never was [the type] to try to tell no [artist] how to do music, that's not what we're about. We like to let an artist be an artist and we support what they want to do." (MTV)
Last week, Birdman hinted at what fans can expect from Busta with him now under his wing.
"Another day, another dollar," Birdman said in a video. "We just wanted to let y'all know he's the newest of the team. I really appreciate you f*cking with us like that — we looking for big things, he's got his first single coming out this week. YMCMB, the largest empire in the world. F*ck with us — I'm looking for big moves, big things, all the time, every time. I believe in the talent and we're gonna make it do what it f*cking do." (Derick G)
Busta also pointed out his relationship with Birdman goes back years.
"This whole experience that's getting ready to happen is probably going to be one of the most defining moments in hip-hop and probably in entertainment overall," said Busta. "This alliance with the Conglomerate and YMCMB and me and Bird and [Lil] Wayne, the whole family, it's something that's been a long time coming because we just always had a respect level and a genuine and organic friendship for a very long time. It goes back in the day because me and Bird used to spend a million dollars a year on cars alone just to compete at the Funk Flex car shows and talk sh*t to each other and live it up and have fun." (Derick G)
Although nearing his 40's, the rap veteran recently said he still feels at the prime of his career.
"I've been blessed to be in this shape for a long time, but from young. I'm still a 38, 39 year old n*gga. I have a lot of peers that are older than me. At the end of the day, I can only speak for me, I'm just finding a new fresh powers source that's gonna make things a lot more difficult for niggas if they wanna stand next to me and compete. I take great pleasure and great pride in respectfully competing. I don't know it no other way; as long as everybody keeps it respectful. … [Google Music,] it's displaying a new way of releasing music. It's gonna be a grand, festive moment for hip-hop overall. It's show people how greatly we can look forward to the growth of doing this shit the way it's supposed to be. I couldn't be more grateful for a better time in my career and evolution process at this point." (XXL Mag)
Check out Birdman and Busta Rhymes below:
BUSTA RHYMES SIGNS TO CAH MONEY RECORDS from DERICK G on Vimeo.


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Among the more notable and praiseworthy highlights of this past Saturday's Transportation Summit Community Forum was the commentary made by Mr. Adam Old.
A councilperson for the small Miami-Dade County municipality of the Village of El Portal, and an active member of the recently formed Transit Action Committee (TrAC), Mr. Old was perhaps the only municipal representative at the forum.
He was also one of only a handful of people who sought to redirect the focus of the meeting away from the relatively minor gripes of the transit-riding population regarding issues like rude bus drivers and poorly maintained bus interiors toward the more systemic issues plaguing our poorly coordinated mobility networks.
Some highlights from Mr. Old's comments:
"[What the public] is measuring [the Transportation Trust's] performance on is more mass transit lines. So, I applaud you on the airport link, but we have not seen nearly enough progress on rail. . . . Heavy rail, light rail. . . . Get it going. Get it going. Where are our commissioners? If there's not money in the plan, pull it from the municipalities."
[. . .]
"There should be a line to the beach 10 years ago. There should be a line to the beach 20 years ago."
[. . .]
"Nobody's saying 'Hey! Transit in Miami sucks! And we need it to be better!' That's what we want. We want more money, and we want you guys [the Transportation Trust] to hold our commissioners' feet to the fire for that [half-penny sales] tax. If you have to pull it from road widening projects, then pull it. That's what we want."
Well said, Mr. Old.
From the Miami-Dade County Transit Development Plan website:
A 10-Year Vision
The Transit Development Plan represents a 10-year strategic vision for Miami-Dade Transit to promote the operation of an efficient, responsive and financially sustainable transit system. Major components of the Transit Development Plan include:
- Annual Performance
- Service Operations
- Capital Program
- Funding
Transit Development Plan Facts at a Glance
The Transit Development Plan process provides an opportunity for Miami-Dade County citizens to identify mobility needs and transportation issues. Your input is valuable and needed to facilitate public concensus and provide direction for the development of the Transit Development Plan.
You can participate by attending one of the many outreach forums throughout the community. Ideas, suggestions and comments related to the Transit Development Plan can also be submitted to Miami-Dade Transit at firstname.lastname@example.com
Ideas, suggestions and comments will be accepted through August 17, 2013.
Nearly six months ago, TransitMiami was proud to offer the broader public an exclusive first glimpse of the renderings for some of the potential designs for our new Metrorail train cars.
As we described back in December 2012, the three models are:
Each comes with its own distinctive livery. (Note that there's also a variant, predominantly yellow, livery for the "RING" model that can be seen in the original post.)
We also want to bring your attention to AnsaldoBredo's spiffy little 3-minute computer-animated video giving a cordial (albeit far from riveting) view of how these potential new train cars might look on the inside.
SHIELD is the train model featured in the video . . . Have a look! Share your thoughts!
Right when we needed it, the good folks at The Miami Foundation are sponsoring a "Pre-Summit Summit" titled Transit Talk in advance of the Miami-Dade County 2013 Transportation Summit.
Wednesday, May 29 — 6:00pm
Avenue D Jazz and Blues Lounge
8 S. Miami Avenue
[Avenue D is another relatively new downtown bar/lounge representing bar owners' understanding of TOD better than politicians. By far the best way to get there is via the Metromover. Just get off at the Miami Avenue station using the northwest stairway. Avenue D is immediately below the station.]
A panel of of transportation planners and advocates will be on-hand to moderate and stimulate the discussion, including Kelly Cooper, Strategic Planner at the Miami-Dade County Office of the Citizen's Independent Transportation Trust (CITT), the primary entity organizing the Summit. At least one official Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA) should be present too.
One can also expect to hear commentary from Marta Viciedo, primary organizer of the successful Purple Line | U + Transit pop-up transit station which recently attracted a lot of attention to our community's public transportation lacuna. A representative from the Move Miami-Dade transportation reform initiative, a project of TransitMiami alumnus Tony Garcia should also be present.
We confess that here at TransitMiami we very rarely provide reminders for the many events we post. Here's one posted a couple weeks back that especially warrants a reminder. Save the date: June 6!!!
To register for the event, please visit the registration website at:
The Summit is scheduled to take place at:
Miami-Dade College – Wolfson Campus
Chapman Conference Center 3210
300 NE 2 Ave
Miami FL 33132-2296
There are going to be four break-out sessions in total, with attendees having to choose between one of two topics for the morning and the afternoon sessions. The two morning topics participants have to choose from are as follows (taken directly from the registration website):
Morning Session Topics
Morning Session A: Innovative Financing Opportunities: Transportation projects utilize a wide variety of revenue and funding from federal, state, local, and private sources. With funding for planning and projects becoming increasingly tighter, transportation agencies are employing innovative strategies to finance capital costs.
Morning Session B: State-of-the-Art Transit Technologies and Mode Choice: A key transportation issue for our community is weighing the trade-offs among the various fixed route alternatives. Discover solutions that offer diverse ways to efficiently develop Miami-Dade's transportation network through ways including bus rapid transit, rail systems, system design, automated guide-ways, etc.
Afternoon Session Topics
Afternoon Session C: Establishing Public Private Partnerships: Understand the importance of new partnership efforts between the private sector and the various levels of government in the state. Also hear about innovative programs in several states and share your experiences.
Afternoon Session D: Corridor and Priorities Planning: The planning and development of multi-modal corridors — "the next big thing project" — starts with consensus among many stakeholders in a region, including the walking, riding, and driving public, private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations. Prioritization involves many considerations ranging from design and construction of infrastructure to community values in areas such as mobility needs and desired land uses. These themes cut across bus (bus rapid transit, exclusive bus lanes, etc.) and rail systems (underground, elevated, and surface alignments), as well as stations, etc.
Lastly, there will be a "Community Visioning Forum" from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
The County seems to be taking this event quite seriously too. This could be it, folks! This could be the year that we start to build a broad, diverse, determined coalition of the progressive to finally push for an environmentally sustainable, socially equitable, and economically vibrant set of mobility solutions. It's time we brought Miami into the 21st century. This Summit could be our chance!
Needless to say, then, our community needs your participation!
To register for the event, please visit the registration website at:
The Summit is scheduled to take place at:
Miami-Dade College – Wolfson Campus
Chapman Conference Center 3210
300 NE 2 Ave
Miami FL 33132-2296
For the future of Miami, let's make this event bigger and more momentous than any of us could hope . . .
Forty years since the publication of a visionary transportation planning document, the shortcomings of Miami-Dade County's transportation reality suggest that we lost our vision somewhere along the highway, literally.
TransitMiami invites you to take brief trip through time . . .
The year is 1973. The Dade County Public Works Department has just released its State Transportation Programs Proposal for Dade County 1973-74.
In it, a chapter titled Mass Transit (pp. 72-98) makes declarations of a new "beginning on development of a true multi-modal transportation system in Dade County", in which "non-highway elements" are stressed to be at least part of the solution to Dade County's burgeoning population and economy.
Indeed, there seems to be a fundamentally new consciousness — dare I say, a paradigm shift — reorienting the urban planning and public policy realms away from highways and toward mass transit.
The beginning of that Mass Transit chapter reads:
Metropolitan Dade County and the Florida Department of Transportation in recent years have become increasingly active in planning the improvement of mass transit facilities. With less emphasis on highways alone, programming efforts have been broadened to multi-modal transportation facilities, including airports, seaports, rapid transit, terminals for truck, rail and bus companies, as well as the highway and street system that serves them and provides local traffic needs.
There's a sense that perhaps the mid-20th century notion of highways being the transportation panacea has finally begun to lose potency. A more holistic, more enlightened view has apparently begun to gain traction, one which posits that transportation corridors and corresponding land-uses perform best when designed to serve the myriad means and purposes of mobility, as well as the urban environment's diversity of functions.
Here are some of the major mass transit proposals from the report:
- 53.7 miles of high-speed transit served by 54 stations,
- bus routes operating on expressways and arterial streets,
- feeder bus routes to complement other bus routes and rapid transit,
- mini-systems at selected transit terminals to provide local circulation and link traffic generating areas with rapid transit.
Fast-forward 40 years into the future. The year is 2013.
FDOT and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) — and the construction, automobile, and petroleum lobbies — actively and aggressively seek to expand highways.
Tax payers are being charged $560,000,000 (that's right: more than half a billion!) for the highway expansion mega-project at the SR 826 (Palmetto Expressway) and SR 836 (Dolphin Expressway) Interchange.
Real estate developers eager to cash-in on building single-family cookie-cutter homes along the urban periphery in the west and south of the County lobby to transgress the Urban Development Boundary (UDB). Residential sprawl continues to lower the quality of life on the edges of the city.
Eager to keep its agency coffers growing, MDX writes hyperbolic reports emphasizing inflated demographic growth projections on these suburban outskirts, thereby seeking to further justify its southwestward expansion of SR 836 (Dolphin Expressway). MDX advocates for expanding tolled highways in order to generate increased revenues aimed at the perpetual expansion of highways in greater Miami.
Those same city-destroying developers-of-sprawl back MDX — as do all others in the broader network of profiteers — because they perceive as far too lucrative to forego the opportunity to cash-in on pushing the boundary of Miami further into the Everglades and into our fresh water supplies.
Even on roads that have long exhausted their traditional function as "highways", MDX pursues measures to retrofit them so as to restore their obsolete highway-performing characteristics. This is epitomized by MDX's "US-1 Express Lanes", whereby the agency hopes to reduce the dedicated South Dade busways to accommodate new tolled arterial travel lanes for private motorists, as well as, most notoriously, create elevated overpasses (that is, create more "HIGH-ways").
FDOT, in collusion with MDX, actively seeks to expand the tolled Florida Turnpike in far south Miami-Dade County.
Meanwhile, our mere 23-station elevated heavy-rail Metrorail system traverses a very linear (and thus limited), virtually-non-networked 25 miles, including the recently added, yet long-overdue, Miami International Airport / Orange Line extension. This is literally less than half the of the 54 stations and 53.7 miles of rail network envisioned in the planning document from 40 years earlier.
Planned expansions to the Metrorail intended to create a true network have been scrapped due to a lack of political will to secure dedicated funding sources, along with an over-abundance of administrative incompetence and corruption.
After decades of false starts, broken promises, gross mismanagement of public funds, and outright political apathy, the time is now to regain the vision put forth four decades ago. The time is now to withdraw ourselves from our toxic addiction to the 20th century model of single-occupancy vehicles congested on highways. We must stop supporting those who seek to destroy our collective public spaces for personal gain through the incessant construction of highways.
The time of the highway is over. The time for "a true multi-modal transportation system in Dade County" is now.
Has Miami-Dade County lost its vision for public transit over the last 40 years? — most definitely. However, one can find solace in the fact that this is not the Miami of 1973, nor of '83, '93, or '03. We are no longer the Miami of the past.
This is the Miami of 2013. This is our time. It is up to us to set forward — and bring to fruition — the vision for the Miami of 2053 . . . and beyond.
A busy holiday weekend reminds me that Miami is trying to be a "real" city – but is it yet? I'm sure we all wish it could be as easy as a Pinocchio fairytale of making a wooden puppet into a "real" boy with just the touch of a wand. But in reality, our city needs a whole lot more than just some magic stick. We host all these weekend events – Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Miami Boat Show, and other President's Day weekend activities – to showcase our Magic City to our visitors. And yet what we end up with are packed busses with long headways; clogged highways; and other congestions making our city, well, far from magical to our visitors.
Its not the events, its the experience. Despite a little rain on Friday and Saturday, this weekend's events were a success – attracting people from all over the state and country. But how was their time actually in our city? Special events are a reason to come to the city, but the experience is what attracts people back. We need to offer reliable transportation options so they can really experience all of Miami.
Its not the funding amount, its the investment. We all know times are rough, and money is tight. But yet its obvious that we are still focusing our funds into tired highway transportation that literally gets us no where. Of course we don't have the funds to plop NYC subway system on Miami – but we can start our smart investments incrementally.
Its not the mode, its the freedom of choice. Transportation, transit, transport, or whatever you want to call it is a broad category – as are the choices it should provide. The priority shouldn't be on one particular mode of transportation, rather a priority to provide a wide variety of options. Its about the freedom of choosing bus, rail, bike, car, walk, skate, etc to get around.
Not that we need to put up a false front for our brave visitors on special weekends, nor care more for our tourism than our own livability – because we already know these are facts that we have been discussing for years. Its about revisiting our city from another viewpoint. Just think how many visitors we could transport between Miami Beach and downtown if Baylink existed; or the improved bus experience if we had shorter headways at least on event weekends; or the number of DecoBike rentals if the M-Path was cohesive; or the successful storefronts and valuable real estate if the streets were more pedestrian-friendly.
Is Miami ready to be a "real" city and cradle a wide-mix of diverse groups. If so, lets see the real investment in multiple transportation options – or where is that fairy with the magic wand when you need her?
TransitMiami is excited to share the latest images of the possible Metrorail train car fleet! We should be seeing one or more of these proposed machines in operation by the first quarter of 2015.
We were provided with exterior and interior renderings for three (3) fundamentally new Metrorail vehicle models:
Each of these models bears a distinctive livery (design scheme / insignia):
- SPOON – "Neon"
- RING – "Shark" & "Shark Y"
- SHIELD – "Status"
Metrorail System, Layout, Policies — Evolving for the Better
This won't come as news to many of you, but for several months now, the experience on Metrorail has been improved tremendously.
The transition from 6- to 4-car trains since the grand opening of the Orange Line to the brand new Miami International Airport Station (a.k.a., Central Station) in late July 2012 has certainly been a welcome change.
The trains now come much more frequently, reducing:
- 7-8-minute rush hour wait times to 5-6-minute rush hour wait times,
- 15-minute off-peak hour wait times to 7-8-minute off-peak hour wait times, and
- 30-minute weekend wait times to 15-20-minute weekend wait times.
Apart from that indispensable improvement to the system, you've almost certainly also noticed the improvements to the physical layouts to the inside of the train cars themselves. In nearly every Metrorail train car, one now finds that two sets of seats have been removed and, from the resultant additional space, there is now a much-needed area for standing passengers and bike and luggage storage.
Below are some pictures of the new Metrorail space in action. It's great to see people regularly using the space, especially during rush hour, when there simply aren't enough seats for everybody (not to mention that many people, myself included, actually prefer standing over sitting).
The additional standing room is an improvement of which I've personally been a long-time advocate. In November 2011, I presented a set of possible policy changes to the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee pertaining to the many issues surrounding the Metrorail Bike & Ride Policy. The removal of seats to create more standing and storage area was the primary proposal of the presentation. It's great to know that Miami-Dade Transit is listening to its riders! Now we just need more people speaking-up!
One of the overarching problems with the Bike & Ride policy (notwithstanding the utterly ineffective Bike & Ride permit system) has always been that bicycles were relegated to the back of the train. This created lots of confusion and often overcapacitated the rear train car with bikes.
The new Miami-Dade Transit Bike & Ride policy (last updated July 24, 2012) permits bikes in any train car containing the sign depicted above. That's a huge improvement! The only problem is that Miami-Dade Transit has yet to install signs on the exterior of the train cars so that riders can identify which cars are appropriate to enter with their bicycles.
Another positive change is that the new Bike & Ride policy doesn't explicitly specify a maximum number of bikes permitted in each train car. The previous number of bikes allowed on the train was a mere four. As you can imagine, that policy was ridiculously impossible to enforce, and completely undermined the point of having a policy in the first place. If you're going to make rules, make sure they make sense and can be enforced, otherwise the entire system is delegitimized. Fortunately for us, limits are no longer specified.
There are still problems, of course. Miami-Dade Transit still hasn't improved the system for distributing and enforcing its Bike & Ride permits — that's a whole other issue!
Still, it's undeniable that, with regard to the overall Metrorail system, layout, and policies, things are evolving for the better. Until the new Metrorail train cars are acquired in the last quarter of 2014 (for installation and usage estimated for the first quarter of 2015), we're going to have to appreciate what we've got and continue making our voices heard to make it better!
The signage at the stations and inside the train cars is now almost fully converted.
Airport link is coming . . .
Meet the Douglas Road Corridor MetroRail Line.This 4.5 mile project would connect the MIC to Douglas Road Station and US1, with stops at NW 7 Street, SW 8 Street, and Coral Way. The line would service areas, like downtown Coral Gables, where land use already supports a high level of pedestrian activity. This should be a high priority for our leaders, and some are very supportive. Check out the 5 and ten minute walk sheds – this line would run through some of the densest parts of Miami and Coral Gables – pluggining thousands of residents who have already chosen apartment living into the ultimate urban amenity – rapid transit. (Not to mention creating another connection to the airport for those traveling to/from points south.)
Miami-Dade Transit Bike and Ride: Challenges & Opportunities
The geography of Miami-Dade county has always been an Achilles heel in providing premium transit service to the far reaches of the county and will continue to be a challenge as we try to expand alternative modes of transportation – but connecting bikes and transit is one of the best ways to leverage our existing transit network. If you factor in a five minute bike ride - approximately one mile – you start to capture a larger population. Getting to stations is one of the biggest challenges, as our on-street bicycle network is still in its infancy. One saving grace is the hugely successful M-Path, which was the subject of a recent shoddy article in the New Times (where my quote was taken way out of context). Simple signage would help, as would prioritizing bicycle infrastructure investments around stations.
Once at the station, however, there are a host of other challenges that range from poor signage to conflicts with pedestrians. BPAC member Matthew Toro has been a frequent critic of MDT's bike and ride policy, and put together some pretty compelling arguments about why the current policy has to change. He writes that the current MDT policy toward bicyclist is "highly contradictory, ambiguous, [and] unenforceable. There are serious inconsistencies regarding the how many bikes are allowed on the train; where they're allowed on the train; plans to include vertical bike racks/hooks in future rail cars; bicyclists occupying multiple Metrorail seats, thereby denying non-bicyclist riders the chance to sit, especially during high-occupancy periods, etc."
He presented the following policy problems and potential solutions at the BPAC meeting on 11/14.
While I don't think that prohibiting bikes on MetroRail during rush hour is a good idea – especially as we try to strengthen bicycle and transit use – the other policy suggestions are right on. Great ideas Matthew.
I'll leave you with two other items on the subject of MDT's bike and ride. One is a powerpoint that Matthew Toro put together for BPAC that illustrates the many problems with bicyclists on the MetroRail and the other is a PSA about the MDT Bike and Ride program that gives more info about the current rules and how to use your bike on the system.
As popular as Bike & Ride is – it has its challenges.
The recently released Miami-Dade Transit Development Plan 2011 Update, (along with the October 2010 MPO Near Term Plan) lays out a vision for the next few years of transit service and expansion. Unfortunately, this year's TDP (like many before it) still maintains a freeze on premium service expansion (generally described by mode as Bus Rapid Transit, Light Rail, or Heavy Rail).
This year's TDP is specific on the 'Plan B' for the Orange Line and other parts of the People's Transportation Plan that never materialized. The projects are described as 'enhanced bus service', which for now doesn't mean very much. The Near Term Plan described the ultimated goal as Bus Rapid Transit, but more on that later.
Phases 2 and 3 of the Orange Line will now become two separate projects. The Orange Line Phase 2 is now the NW 27 Avenue Max, a 13 mile enhanced bus service, to be implemented in two phases, and Orange Line Phase 3 is now the SR 836 Enhanced Bus. The SR836 Bus will be implemented in collaboration with the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (more on this project later).
The two phase approach for the NW 27 Avenue Max is a pragmatic solution to the transit needs of the area that enhances ridership and sets the stage for more intense transit later on. Phase one will use 5 new 40′ diesel-electric hybrid buses, with transit signal priority, on-board wi-fi , real time tracking information, and 12 minute peak/ 30 minute mid-day headways. This phase is fully funded and scheduled to be online in 2012.
Phase 2 will improve headways to 10 min peak/20 min mid-day by using 11 new 60'articulated diesel-electric buses, 'robust' stations, and branding of buses and stations. The current plan shows a 5 year horizon (2016) and $27 million dollar price-tag, of which $5 million is currently unfunded. This incremental investment in the corridor as it builds ridership is a responsible use of transit dollars, allowing infill development (and increased densities) to take root at important nodes to help ensure a successful route. Many critics of the MetroRail Orange Line North Corridor cited low population densities and poor land use along the corridor as reasons why MetroRail was an inappropriate facility choice for this location. The current proposal seeks measurable, yet incremental growth in ridership along the corridor at a modest expense.
According to the 2012-2015 MPO Near Term Transportation Plan, NW 27 Avenue is currently served by 2 bus routes.
At 9,500 average daily riders Route 27 is the fourth heaviest utilized route in the system. Route 97 performs well within the MAX and the KAT services, as well, at 1,300 boardings. Ridership in this corridor is surpassed by Miami Beach, Flagler, Biscayne, the South Dade Busway and NW 7th Avenue.
Comparatively, the MetroRail ridership projection was 19,000 initial daily rides (about double the current bus ridership) at a yearly expense of $70 million dollars (the Route 27 and 97 combined cost $8.1 million a year). In the case of the Orange Line, and indeed our entire mass transit network, the spending strategy should not be to stretch expensive premium transit facilities to every corner of the county, but to focus investments in those locations where the surrounding land use already supports transit ready development (also known as transit oriented development) AND where those investments will create a complete transit network.
While there are other better candidates for MetroRail funding (like Baylink or Douglas Road), NW 27 Avenue is still a worthy candidate for premium transit investment, as the Near Term Plan points out, few other lines are as utilized. The North Corridor did not happen because of bad land use patterns, but because Miami-Dade Transit has been chronically underfunded by county administrators.
The FTA New Start rankings showed that MDT had a committed source of revenue for the project, receiving a 'High' ranking for 'Committed funds' (FDOT and PTP dollars), but the overall MDT operating budget (funded by the County Commission) showed a ongoing deficit (in years 2004-2006), thus garnering a 'low' ranking for 'Agency Operational Condition.' The final nail in the coffin was a 'low' ranking in the 'Operating Cost Estimates and Planning Assumptions' category because, according to a November 2007 report, "Assumptions on the growth in fare revenues are optimistic compared to historic trends. The financial plan assumes significant, frequent fare increases. In addition, it assumes significant fare revenue increases resulting from installation of automated fare collection systems which reduce fare evasion."
In spite of the tumultuous history of this project, the Near Term Plan concludes that,
Although the County has decided to officially withdraw from the FTA New Starts Process, the County continues to work on the NW 27th Avenue Corridor. It has chosen to improve service incrementally until such time that the construction of heavy rail in the corridor is deemed feasible.
While it might not have seemed a good business deal to county leaders, this was a project in the PTP, which was overwhelmingly approved by voters – and is exactly what the surtax money was to be used for. Not to mention that transit infrastructure is an investment in our city that can result in clear increases in tax revenue and land value when coordinated with dense, pedestrian-oriented urban fabric and employment centers.
With the anticipated service improvements along NW 27 Avenue, it would seem that MDT's current service expansion strategy continues to be one of small scale improvements that bide the time waiting for leaders to deliver on premium transit.
Miami-Dade Transit will be taking comments on their annual recently released their Transit Development Plan 2011 update. You can find the document here. The Transit Development Plan is required by State Law to, "present the operational and capital improvement needs of Miami-Dade Transit (MDT) and also serve as a planning tool to project future MDT needs for the implementation and operation of transit service."
The Transit Development Plan is an important planning tool as it provides a complete picture of funding sources, revenues, and expenses (on the operations side), while also describing the existing transit network, demographics and planned service changes. It is the closest document we have to a 'People's Transportation Plan'.
In the years following the demise of the Orange Line MetroRail extension, the TDP has been focused on reducing the operating budget and squeezing efficiency from the existing system, while not really providing a clear framework for increases in ridership. The October 2009 update described its budgetary strategy as, "an avoidance of any major service expansion except for the MIC-Earlington Heights Metrorail connector service."
Two years later, the TDP doesn't paint a rosier picture for premium service expansions; none are envisioned in the near term. But what the document does reveal is a department that is trying to do more with its existing infrastructure, both through increased efficiencies in the network and improved passenger amenities.
Several new 'enhanced' bus routes are also discussed, including the North Corridor Enhanced Bus project, and the SR 836 Express Bus Project. We'll talk more about those later. What we can say now is that the service expansions envisioned by this latest TDP are very modest – and incremental – improvements to service around the county as an alternative to the ambitious and extensive PTP.
Aside from some new routes, MDT has been working on implementing improved passenger amenities, such as real-time bus tracking and WiFi access. MDT began rolling it its popular Wi-Fi service in 2010, and currently provides service in all Metro-Rail trains, and approximately 20% of the bus fleet. The coming year will see the program expanded to the entire fleet of MetroBuses and all station platform areas. Future service expansions, such as the NW 27 Enhanced route, will also come equipped with Wi-Fi as a standard feature.
MDT is also moving forward with implementing a new AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) software system that will replace the current system (which dates from the late 90's). The new system will provide for real-time tracking, and transit signal prioritization – elements that should help MDT make modest ridership gains using existing infrastructure. The real-time tracking will allow full integration with smart phones, and will also be a standard feature in future service expansions. This improvement will finally give the South Dade Busway the signal priority it was designed for, and shorten commute times along this heavily used transit corridor. MDT plans to issue an RFP for the system this year, with a launch scheduled for mid-2012.
Kudos to MDT for advancing these needed technological improvements – they will pay for themselves and then some. One need only look at the EasyCard system and Automatic Passenger Counters (APCs), implemented in 2009, which MDT has been using its to make targeted improvements to service schedules. The efficiencies created by using this data (adjusting/eliminating empty routes) has allowed MDT planners to use infrastructure more wisely.
This year's TDP includes numerous service changes that involve adjusting routes using the APC data, along with staff recommendations, according to MDT Planner Maria Battista. Among the data used to make service changes, Battista said, "administrators have held monthly meetings with the drivers and superintendents that let us know what is going on in their routes." The adjustments in service respond to the current ridership demands. Some routes are being reduced by 15-20 minutes at non-peak hours (prior to the morning rush, or during evening hours) based on data that showed no usage during these times. These surgical adjustments will help ensuring that MDT facilities are being used when and where they are needed most.
The TDP 2011 shows an agency working with what it has. No premium service expansions, but important improvements to existing service. This all comes against the backdrop of an agency – it would seem by the media- in disarray. No Director, serious FTA funding problems, a lackluster commission directive, and a newly installed Mayor whose commitment to transit involves converting a transit corridor into a highway. The changes proposed by the TDP 2011 set the stage for premium expansions sometime in the future. The incremental ramp-up of ridership in new enhanced bus routes, along with the improved passenger amenities, and GPS tracking abilities will allow our elected officials to take hold of the agency and provide the premium service expansion that this community demanded almost a decade ago.
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Anybody heard about Borgo Trattoria yet?
Very, very interesting:
I can't wait! Sounds like heaven!
re: cookerlady
And they posted a menu:
re: tortue
Oh great news. Thanks for posting.
I had a chance to try this trattoria on thursday night for a relatively casual dinner with my girlfriend before I had to endure 2.5 hours of the Cirque but that's another story haha.......
Started out with a prosecco cocktail that involved aperol and gassosa....a nice start.
We then ordered a few Items from the tasting menu where you can essentially order as many of an item as you want. Since they were out of the italian chicken wings we ordered:
A couple of polpetta (pork and fennel meatball): Good flavour and a zesty sauce, a little on the tough side.
A couple of Arancino: Again pretty good, served with the same sauce as the polpetta. If I were making rissotto specifically for Arancino balls, I'd cook the rice slightly less the first time through to prevent it from becoming really mushy and gummy after the second fry.
Sliced mushrooms in a creamy tuffle sauce: Typically I'm against the liberal dousing of a dish with truffle oil (real truffles another story entirely) but this little plate was delicious. We ordered some extra grilled focaccia to make sure not a drop was wasted.
For our main course I had a glass of Chianti which was perfectly decent and we shared an ensalada mixta, the papardelle with lamb and mint ragu, and one tiny piece of veal saltimboca.
The salad was a very nice (and small) mixture of micro greens that essentially comes undressed and with a little cart of oil/vinegar/salt/pepper. I kind of like this approach but not sure about the cost of this one considering what you get.
The Lamb papardelle was good and it came with a relatively healthy portion of tenter lamb chunks, however, I don't think the mint in the ragu did anything for the dish as a whole and it lacked a real depth and richness that an amazing slow cooked ragu should have. Not complaining at all.......just wasn't something to rave about.
The saltimbocca was great albeit VERY small which was fine because we were getting pretty full at this point.
We finished the meal with a little scoop of pistachio gellato and we were on our way out for a grand total of $80 plus tip.
I'll mention that I quite liked the new space. They've really put a lot of effort into creating a place that feels new with quite a few rustic Italian touches. There's an open kitchen in the back, huge bar in the middle and 2 story floor to ceiling windows in the front. Our server was great and she could actually speak italian which is good because there are plenty of menu items which will be confusing to those not well versed in this style of cuisine.
Although I wasn't blown away by the food I certainly enjoyed it and I'll be coming back for sure. There was good service, relatively reasonable prices, a really cool space and a ton of other items on the menu that I'd like to try. I don't think they accept reservations so get down there when you have the chance! I'd be interested to know what some of you guys think?
I finally got to try Borgo and I really liked it. The food is good and the place is very nice. It is very Italian I find and it almost felt like a short trip to Italy. My colleagues found the concept of small bites to share a bit weird and the portions small. Coming from Europe I must say it is quite typical to have smaller portions, especially for lunch. Also the desserts were less sweet than what you usually get here but again not surprising in true Italian cuisine.
We had the risotto balls, pork & fennel balls, calamari, focaccia with oil, beef skewers, cheese platter and the fennel salad, as well as clam linguini, some other pasta dish with porchetta and peas and for dessert pistacchio and vanilla ice cream and canoli plus a few illy coffees. I thought the food was excellent and the service great. A little pricier but totally worth it.
I will definitely be back and not only once. A heavenly piece of Italy in the middle of Calgary.... Just what I was looking for.
Borgo Trattoria
818 16 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0S9, CA
We went there over the weekend and I loved it. The concept of building your meal up is great, because you can eat as much or as little as you like. I knew about the concept from reading this board, but the servers explain it to you also so no one should be surprised about how the portions work. Everything is served 'family style.'
The food is superb. Flavourful, delicious, earthy. The arancino (risotto balls) are great - I could have eaten a whole bag of those! The bucatini was fabulous - gorgeous fresh basil with wonderful sauce. We were scraping the bowls. The mains (veal/steak) were great. Again, not large in and of themselves, but they go well when you build the rest of the meal around it.
The service was kind and efficient. The prices are good. We had a great meal for a very reasonable price, especially by Calgary standards. It is nice to see top quality food at fair prices.
This is a great addition to the city and I hope they keep up exactly what they are doing.
re: cookerlady
I was just there yesterday, and there was plenty of Cincheti (small bites) on the menu. However, I was there for dinner. Maybe it is different in the daytime between 2-5.
We've been a couple of times, once for the late-night menu, and once for lunch. Both times, the deep-fried eggplant was excellent. The charcuterie plate was good, but not inspired. For the late-night visit, we had the bruschetta, and it was quite possibly the worst version of this I have ever had. The bread had been grilled, but was cold and obviously had spent time in the fridge. It's not the best time of year for tomatoes, but they could have been jazzed up with some acid, etc., and weren't. We had ordered four, but left two uneaten. The arrancini were very good. The greens were definitely off in the spinach salad, and the lardon were disappointing. Loved the atmosphere, and service was great, but on both occasions we were underwhelmed by the food. Will try it one more time for dinner and some of the dishes other hounders have been raving about.
re: Albertagirl
I thought the eggplant fritta was the highlight too. Everything else was ok to good, not outstanding. But it was inexpensive so good value, we went for a late dinner we left full and satisfied for less $$ than some other new places nearby. I saw Capo hanging out behind the bar there when we went, I was wondering how he could be there instead of at his restaurant at the time, this was about a month ago.
We finally made it to Borgo. The place was hoppin' packed by 6pm. We started with an italian cocktail of negroni. I'd had that in Venice before so I knew what to expect.
We started appetizers with the 3 cheese/meat platter. I think it was a decent size for $15. It also came with what I thought he said was 'pickled eggplant'. I don't even like eggplant but this was delicious. We also tried the aranchino. They were hot and nice and crispy but basically they are just plain old risotto croquettes. I was expecting some ragu or cheese to be stuffed inside but nothing except a small amount of cheese sauce on top... The bruchetta was blah. I should know better than to order fresh tomatoes in December, in Calgary. For dinner, two of us shared the veal milanese. It was very plain - breaded and fried tender with a smoked cheese on top. No sauce of any kind. Very good but a fairly small portion served with zuchini salad. We also shared the porcini mushroom fetticini. The serving was huge! It was very tastey but I am pretty sure it was smothered in truffle oil, which seems unnecessary, to me, for a full on mushroom dish but hey, I still devoured my share! My friend had a pork shoulder dish with creamy polenta. It was braised to perfection and the portion size was adequate for one.
Unfortunately, there was a mix up with dessert. We had thought we orderd a 4-sampler of mixed desserts but it didn't get ordered. It didn't matter, we decided we were full by then anyway. We enjoyed a couple limoncellos instead.
The server was efficient and helpful and very Italian. We enjoyed a night out there, and will definately be back. When we left there was line up out the door. So obviously many others like it too.


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Australia, 2005 (MIFF 2006, Australian Showcase)
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Australian Premiere
Recently opening Berlin Film Festival's Kinderfest, Opal Dream plays to the inner child in all of us; an innocent look at an extraordinary event in the ordinary mining town of Coober Pedy.
Possessing an over-active imagination, young Kellyanne has conjured a couple of make-believe friends called Pobby and Dingan. Her insistence on their existence is enough to drive her parents and older brother around the bend but no one can pre-empt the effect on their family and, in fact, the whole town when Kellyanne's non-existent buddies mysteriously go missing.
Through misconstrued acts and mishaps, Opal Dream revisits the familiar 'interloper' conundrum, whereby unorthodoxy is seen as a threat. At the same time, it asks its audience to suspend any world-weary cynicism and accept that what could be dismissed as mere fantasy has very real ramifications. The film stars Jacqueline McKenzie and Vince Colosimo, as Kellyanne's parents, and is based on the acclaimed novella by Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan.
Actor Vince Colossimo will introduce the session on Saturday 5 August, 7pm at RMIT Capitol Theatre.
D Peter Cattaneo P Emile Sherman, Lizie Gower, Nick Morris S Peter Cattaneo, Ben Rice WS Nick Morris Productions L English TD 35mm/col/2005/85mins
Peter Cattaneo was born in London, England, in 1964. His films include Dear Rosie (1990), The Full Monty (1997) and Lucky Break (2001).


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