It is a groundless opinion of some of the Jewish writers (who are usually free of their conjectures) that this psalm was penned and sung by Adam in innocency, on the first sabbath. It is inconsistent with the psalm itself, which speaks of the workers of iniquity, when as yet sin had not entered. It is probable that it was penned by David, and, being calculated for the sabbath day, I. Praise, the business of the sabbath, is here recommended (v. 1-3). II. God's works, which gave occasion for the sabbath, are here celebrated as great and unsearchable in general (v. 4-6). In particular, with reference to the works both of providence and redemption, the psalmist sings unto God both of mercy and judgment, the ruin of sinners and the joy of saints, three times counterchanged. 1. The wicked shall perish (v. 7), but God is eternal (v. 8). 2. God's enemies shall be cut off, but David shall be exalted (v. 9, 10). 3. David's enemies shall be confounded (v. 11), but all the righteous shall be fruitful and flourishing (v. 12–15). In singing this psalm we must take pleasure in giving to God the glory due to his name, and triumph in his works.
I. We are called upon and encouraged to praise God (v. 1-3): It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. Praising God is good work: it is good in itself and good for us. It is our duty, the rent, the tribute, we are to pay to our great Lord; we are unjust if we withhold it. It is our privilege that we are admitted to praise God, and have hope to be accepted in it. It is good, for it is pleasant and profitable, work that is its own wages; it is the work of angels, the work of heaven. It is good to give thanks for the mercies we have received, for that is the way of fetching in further mercy: it is fit to sing to his name who is Most High, exalted above all blessing and praise. Now observe here, 1. How we must praise God. We must do it by showing forth his lovingkindness and his faithfulness. Being convinced of his glorious attributes and perfections, we must show them forth, as those that are greatly affected with them ourselves and desire to affect others with them likewise. We must show forth, not only his greatness and majesty, his holiness and justice, which magnify him and strike an awe upon us, but his lovingkindness and his faithfulness; for his goodness is his glory (Ex. 33:18, 19), and by these he proclaims his name. His mercy and truth are the great supports of our faith and hope, and the great encouragements of our love and obedience; these therefore we must show forth as our pleas in prayer and the matter of our joy. This was then done, not only by singing, but by music joined with it, upon an instrument of ten strings (v. 3); but then it was to be with a solemn sound, not that which was gay, and apt to dissipate the spirits, but that which was grave, and apt to fix them. 2. When we must praise God—in the morning and every night, not only on sabbath days, but every day; it is that which the duty of every day requires. We must praise God, not only in public assemblies, but in secret, and in our families, showing forth, to ourselves and those about us, his lovingkindness and faithfulness. We must begin and end every day with praising God, must give him thanks every morning, when we are fresh and before the business of the day comes in upon us, and every night, when we are again composed and retired, and are recollecting ourselves; we must give him thanks every morning for the mercies of the night and every night for the mercies of the day; going out and coming in we must bless God.
II. We have an example set before us in the psalmist himself, both to move us to and to direct us in this work (v. 4): Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work. Note, 1. Those can best recommend to others the duty of praise who have themselves experienced the pleasantness of it. "God's works are to be praised, for they have many a time rejoiced my heart; and therefore, whatever others may think of them, I must think well and speak well of them.'' 2. If God has given us the joy of his works, there is all the reason in the world why we should give him the honour of them. Has he made our hearts glad? Let us then make his praises glorious. Has God made us glad through the works of his providence for us, and of his grace in us, and both through the great work of redemption? (1.) Let us thence fetch encouragement for our faith and hope; so the psalmist does: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. From a joyful remembrance of what God has done for us we may raise a joyful prospect of what he will do, and triumph in the assurance of it, triumph over all opposition, 2 Th. 2:13, 14. (2.) Let us thence fetch matter for holy adorings and admirings of God (v. 5): O Lord! how great are thy works—great beyond conception, beyond expression, the products of great power and wisdom, of great consequence and importance! men's works are nothing to them. We cannot comprehend the greatness of God's works, and therefore must reverently and awfully wonder at them, and even stand amazed at the magnificence of them. "Men's works are little and trifling, for their thoughts are shallow; but, Lord, thy works are great and such as cannot be measured; for thy thoughts are very deep and such as cannot be fathomed.'' God's counsels as much exceed the contrivances of our wisdom as his works do the efforts of our power. His thoughts are above our thoughts, as his ways are above our ways, Isa. 55:9. O the depth of God's designs! Rom. 11:33. The greatness of God's works should lead us to consider the depth of his thoughts, that counsel of his own will according to which he does all things—what a compass his thoughts fetch and to what a length they reach!
III. We are admonished not to neglect the works of God, by the character of those who do so, v. 6. Those are fools, they are brutish, who do not know, who do not understand, how great God's works are, who will not acquaint themselves with them, nor give him the glory of them; they regard not the work of the Lord nor consider the operation of his hands (Ps. 28:5); particularly, they understand not the meaning of their own prosperity (which is spoken of v. 7); they take it as a pledge of their happiness, whereas it is a preparative for their ruin. If there are so many who know not the designs of Providence, nor care to know them, those who through grace are acquainted with them, and love to be so, have the more reason to be thankful.
The psalmist had said (v. 4) that from the works of God he would take occasion to triumph; and here he does so.
I. He triumphs over God's enemies (v. 7, 9, 11), triumphs in the foresight of their destruction, not as it would be the misery of his fellow-creatures, but as it would redound to the honour of God's justice and holiness. He is confident of the ruin of sinners, 1. Though they are flourishing (v. 7): When the wicked spring as the grass in spring (so numerous, so thickly sown, so green, and growing so fast), and all the workers of iniquity do flourish in pomp, and power, and all the instances of outward prosperity, are easy and many, and succeed in their enterprises, one would think that all this was in order to their being happy, that it was a certain evidence of God's favour and an earnest of something as good or better in reserve: but it is quite otherwise; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. The very prosperity of fools shall slay them, Prov. 1:32. The sheep that are designed for the slaughter are put into the fattest pasture. 2. Though they are daring, v. 9. They are thy enemies, and impudently avow themselves to be so. They are contrary to God, and they fight against God. They are in rebellion against his crown and dignity, and therefore it is easy to foresee that they shall perish; for who ever hardened his heart against God and prospered? Note, All the impenitent workers of iniquity shall be deemed and taken as God's enemies, and as such they shall perish and be scattered. Christ reckons those his enemies that will not have him to reign over them; and they shall be brought forth and slain before him. The workers of iniquity are now associated, and closely linked together, in a combination against God and religion; but they shall be scattered, and disabled to help one another against the just judgment of God. In the world to come they shall be separated from the congregation of the righteous; so the Chaldee, Ps. 1:5. 3. Though they had a particular malice against the psalmist, and, upon that account, he might be tempted to fear them, yet he triumphs over them (v. 11): "My eye shall see my desire on my enemies that rise up against me; I shall see them not only disabled from doing me any further mischief, but reckoned with for the mischief they have done me, and brought either to repentance or ruin:'' and this was his desire concerning them. In the Hebrew it is no more than thus, My eye shall look on my enemies, and my ear shall hear of the wicked. He does not say what he shall see or what he shall hear, but he shall see and hear that in which God will be glorified and in which he will therefore be satisfied. This perhaps has reference to Christ, to his victory over Satan, death, and hell, the destruction of those that persecuted and crucified him, and opposed his gospel, and to the final ruin of the impenitent at the last day. Those that rise up against Christ will fall before him and be made his footstool.
II. He triumphs in God, and his glory and grace. 1. In the glory of God (v. 8): "But thou, O Lord! art most high for evermore. The workers of iniquity who fight against us may be high for a time, and think to carry all before them with a high hand, but thou art high, most high, for evermore. Their height will be humbled and brought down, but thine is everlasting.'' Let us not therefore fear the pride and power of evil men, nor be discouraged by their impotent menaces, for the moth shall eat them up as a garment, but God's righteousness shall be for ever, Isa. 51:7, 8. 2. In the grace of God, his favour and the fruits of it, (1.) To himself (v. 10): "Thou, O Lord! that art thyself most high, shalt exalt my horn.'' The great God is the fountain of honour, and he, being high for evermore, himself will exalt his people for ever, for he is the praise of all his saints, Ps. 148:14. The wicked are forbidden to lift up the horn (Ps. 75:4, 5), but those that serve God and the interest of his kingdom with their honour or power, and commit it to him to keep it, to raise it, to use it, and to dispose of it, as he pleases, may hope that he will exalt their horn as the horn of a unicorn, to the greatest height, either in this world or the other: My horn shalt thou exalt, when thy enemies perish; for then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, when the wicked shall be doomed to shame and everlasting contempt. He adds, I shall be anointed with fresh oil, which denotes a fresh confirmation in his office to which he had been anointed, or abundance of plenty, so that he should have fresh oil as often as he pleased, or renewed comforts to revive him when his spirits drooped. Grace is the anointing of the Spirit; when this is given to help in the time of need, and is received, as there is occasion, from the fulness that is in Christ Jesus, we are then anointed with fresh oil. Some read it, When I grow old thou shalt anoint me with fresh oil. My old age shalt thou exalt with rich mercy; so the Septuagint. Compare v. 14, They shall bring forth fruit in old age. The comforts of God's Spirit, and the joys of his salvation, shall be a refreshing oil to the hoary heads that are found in the way of righteousness. (2.) To all the saints. They are here represented as trees of righteousness, Isa. 61:3; Ps. 1:3. Observe, [1.] The good place they are fixed in; they are planted in the house of the Lord, v. 13. The trees of righteousness do not grow of themselves; they are planted, not in common soil, but in paradise, in the house of the Lord. Trees are not usually planted in a house; but God's trees are said to be planted in his house because it is from his grace, by his word and Spirit, that they receive all the sap and virtue that keep them alive and make them fruitful. They fix themselves to holy ordinances, take root in them, abide by them, put themselves under the divine protection, and bring forth all their fruits to God's honour and glory. [2.] The good plight they shall be kept in. It is here promised, First, That they shall grow, v. 12. Where God gives true grace he will give more grace. God's trees shall grow higher, like the cedars, the tall cedars in Lebanon; they shall grow nearer heaven, and with a holy ambition shall aspire towards the upper world; they shall grow stronger, like the cedars, and fitter for use. He that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Secondly, That they shall flourish, both in the credit of their profession and in the comfort and joy of their own souls. They shall be cheerful themselves and respected by all about them. They shall flourish like the palm-tree, which has a stately body (Cant. 7:7), and large boughs, Lev. 23:40; Jdg. 4:5. Dates, the fruit of it, are very pleasant, but it is especially alluded to here as being ever green. The wicked flourish as the grass (v. 7), which is soon withered, but the righteous as the palm-tree, which is long-lived and which the winter does not change. It has been said of the palm-tree, Sub pondere crescit—The more it is pressed down the more it grows; so the righteous flourish under their burdens; the more they are afflicted the more they multiply. Being planted in the house of the Lord (there their root is), they flourish in the courts of our God—there their branches spread. Their life is hid with Christ in God. But their light also shines before men. It is desirable that those who have a place should have a name in God's house, and within his walls, Isa. 56:5. Let good Christians aim to excel, that they may be eminent and may flourish, and so may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour, as flourishing trees adorn the courts of a house. And let those who flourish in God's courts give him the glory of it; it is by virtue of this promise, They shall be fat and flourishing. Their flourishing without is from a fatness within, from the root and fatness of the good olive, Rom. 11:17. Without a living principle of grace in the heart the profession will not be long flourishing; but where that is the leaf also shall not wither, Ps. 1:3. The trees of the Lord are full of sap, Ps. 104:16. See Hos. 14:5, 6. Thirdly, That they shall be fruitful. Were there nothing but leaves upon them, they would not be trees of any value; but they shall still bring forth fruit. The products of sanctification, all the instances of a lively devotion and a useful conversation, good works, by which God is glorified and others are edified, these are the fruits of righteousness, in which it is the privilege, as well as the duty, of the righteous to abound; and their abounding in them is the matter of a promise as well as of a command. It is promised that they shall bring forth fruit in old age. Other trees, when they are old, leave off bearing, but in God's trees the strength of grace does not fail with the strength of nature. The last days of the saints are sometimes their best days, and their last work is their best work. This indeed shows that they are upright; perseverance is the surest evidence of sincerity. But it is here said to show that the Lord is upright (v. 15), that he is true to his promises and faithful to every word that he has spoken, and that he is constant to the work which he has begun. As it is by the promises that believers first partake of a divine nature, so it is by the promises that that divine nature is preserved and kept up; and therefore the power it exerts is an evidence that the Lord is upright, and so he will show himself with an upright man, Ps. 18:25. This the psalmist triumphs in: "He is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in him. I have chosen him for my rock on which to build, in the clefts of which to take shelter, on the top of which to set my feet. I have found him a rock, strong and stedfast, and his word as firm as a rock. I have found'' (and let every one speak as he finds) "that there is no unrighteousness in him.'' He is as able, and will be as kind, as his word makes him to be. All that ever trusted in God found him faithful and all-sufficient, and none were ever made ashamed of their hope in him.


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Q: Is the number of isomorphism classes of quotients of a finite dimensional commutative ring over a field finite? If $A$ is a finite dimensional unital and commutative algebra over some infinite field $k$, what is the number of isomophism classes of rings of the form $A/I$ where $I$ is a proper ideal of $A$? Is it finite?
Certainly, for dimensions 7 and below (by the results of this paper) the answer to the finite question will be yes, as the number of isomorphism classes of algebras of dimension $n \leq 6$ is finite. Is the number of isomorphism classes of such rings still finite if the dimension of $A$ is greater than 7?

A: The infinitely many $7$-dimensional algebras described in Poonen's paper are all quotients of the finite dimensional algebra $A=k[w,x,y,z]/\mathfrak{m}^3$ (where $\mathfrak{m}$ is the ideal $(w,x,y,z)$). So $A$ is a $15$-dimensional counterexample.

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        private static Settings defaultInstance = ((Settings)(global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.Synchronized(new Settings())));

        public static Settings Default {
            get {
                return defaultInstance;
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        [global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
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        [global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("37564")]
        public int LocalProxyPort {
            get {
                return ((int)(this["LocalProxyPort"]));
            }
        }

        [global::System.Configuration.ApplicationScopedSettingAttribute()]
        [global::System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCodeAttribute()]
        [global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("http://www.dmm.com/netgame/social/application/-/detail/=/app_id=854854/")]
        public global::System.Uri KanColleUrl {
            get {
                return ((global::System.Uri)(this["KanColleUrl"]));
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ArchiFM je CAFM (Computer Aided Facility Management) systém využívající BIM technologii.

Jeho první verze byla vytvořena v roce 1998 a postupným vývojem vznikla současná cloudová verze označována jako archifm.net.

Využití
Tento systém nachází uplatnění v oblasti Facility Managementu (FM), jelikož zajišťuje efektivní správu budov a firemního majetku včetně řízení údržby. Díky hluboké integraci s CAD/BIM systémem ArchiCAD společnosti Graphisoft umožňuje zobrazení budovy a objektů ve 2D i 3D modelu.

Přístup k archifm.net
Jak již název napovídá, je archifm.net aplikace běžící ve webovém prohlížeči, díky čemuž mají její uživatelé možnost přistupovat k datům nejen ze své kanceláře, ale prakticky odkudkoliv z počítače, tabletu i mobilního telefonu pomocí prohlížeče a připojení k internetu.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace Bivi.FrontOffice.Web.Models
{
    public class ImportanceModel
    {
        public long ID { get; set; }
        public string Libelle { get; set; }
        public string Color { get; set; }
        public string Picto { get; set; }
    }
}


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package aip0134

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/lint"
	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/locations"
	"github.com/googleapis/api-linter/rules/internal/utils"
	"github.com/jhump/protoreflect/desc"
)

// Update methods should use the resource as the response message
var responseMessageName = &lint.MethodRule{
	Name:   lint.NewRuleName(134, "response-message-name"),
	OnlyIf: isUpdateMethod,
	LintMethod: func(m *desc.MethodDescriptor) []lint.Problem {
		// Rule check: Establish that for methods such as `UpdateFoo`, the response
		// message is `Foo` or `google.longrunning.Operation`.
		want := strings.Replace(m.GetName(), "Update", "", 1)
		got := m.GetOutputType().GetName()

		// If the return type is an LRO, use the annotated response type instead.
		if m.GetOutputType().GetFullyQualifiedName() == "google.longrunning.Operation" {
			got = utils.GetOperationInfo(m).GetResponseType()
		}

		// Return a problem if we did not get the expected return name.
		//
		// Note: If `got` is empty string, this is an unannotated LRO.
		// The AIP-151 rule will whine about that, and this rule should not as it
		// would be confusing.
		if got != want && got != "" {
			return []lint.Problem{{
				Message: fmt.Sprintf(
					"Update RPCs should have response message type %q, not %q.",
					want,
					got,
				),
				Suggestion: want,
				Descriptor: m,
				Location:   locations.MethodResponseType(m),
			}}
		}
		return nil
	},
}


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As most people already know, the Chinese New Year is not on January 1, but they still celebrate old traditions to ring in their new start. Every front door is painted with a fresh coat of red paint, symbolizing good luck and happiness.
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» Programs » Global Health and Human Security
Global Governance Governance and Human Security Seminar
Lecture with Ambassador Yukio Takasu
On September 29, JCIE organized a lecture on "Global Governance and Human Security" with Ambassador Yukio Takasu, who most recently served as permanent representative of Japan to the UN (2007–2010). About 80 participants from domestic and international NGOs, academia, the media, and the public sector attended the lecture.
Ambassador Takasu spoke about the potential of human security as a guiding policy concept and the role of the UN in mainstreaming the human security framework throughout efforts to promote international cooperation and improve global governance. In addition, he discussed the state of multinational negotiations at the UN, especially the difficulties in achieving a shared acknowledgment of threats—such as the North Korean nuclear issue—among the member countries and in developing consensus on the definition and introduction of policy concepts such as human security in UN official documents. In order to better utilize the UN, Ambassador Takasu stressed the importance of reforming the UN Security Council. In conclusion, he suggested three strategies to further promote human security: first, apply human security not only to overseas aid policies but also to domestic issues such as health policy; second, create a global alliance of individuals and organizations to promote human security; and third, energize the nongovernmental sector, including nonprofit organizations and the corporate sector, to promote the global human security campaign.
Ambassador Takasu has served in Japan's diplomatic service since 1969 and was an instrumental force in supporting the early development of the concept of human security within the UN framework. In early 1997, he assumed the position of Japan's ambassador to the UN, and then, in 2000, he was posted in Tokyo as director-general for the Multilateral Cooperation Department. It was in this capacity that he assisted in hosting the G8 Okinawa Summit and was a key figure in promoting Japan's initiative for human security and launching the Commission on Human Security. Since 2005, he has served as ambassador in charge of human security, science, and technology cooperation, as well as special envoy for UN reform. He is credited with creating the Friends of Human Security, an informal forum to promote human security approaches in UN activities.
Ambassador Takasu's lecture was moderated by JCIE President Tadashi Yamamoto and featured comments by JCIE Senior Fellow Keizo Takemi.

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Council Approves Changes, Will Have Experts Come Up with Design Proposal on Mace
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Proposed Changes For Mace
The Davis City Council passed two motions on Tuesday night with respect to Mace Boulevard – the first asking staff to immediately make changes to the Mace and San Marino intersection, along with the turn radiuses at Mace and Cowell. In addition, they directed the city manager to work with design firms to implement Staff Recommendation 2.
Unlike previous public outreach sessions, the public was actually fairly evenly split between sticking with the current changes now that traffic has settled down, and going back to a more original layout with four lanes and turn pockets.
Both Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida and Councilmember Lucas Frerichs were willing to take a pause to assess the road situation without the construction. However, Mayor Brett Lee pushed for changes which themselves would take a little bit of time to implement.
Mayor Lee explained, "I can tell you where the process went wrong before, I'll be candid… the process went wrong when we would have average designs put before us and when we have average designs put before us, average people are able to make suggestions to slightly improve the average design.
"This is good, but I believe there's better," he said.
What the mayor was looking to do is to utilize the expertise of design firms that are meant to be the experts, and give them a broader range to address the concerns on Mace.
"We give that to the professional designers and they can incorporate it," he said. "We don't have that expertise… I'm extremely reluctant to follow a process that didn't work before."
The mayor said he believed we should be able to both restore traffic capacity on Mace and have bicycle safety.
Councilmember Will Arnold said that traffic apps all do the same thing, which is time the traffic patterns and direct people to use the most efficient route.
"There may be ways to design our roads and our intersections to address that… but there's really not that much we can do about that," he said. "It is an issue in a lot of places. It just so happens that South Davis is right before a bridge which is a causeway which means there's no other way once you get to Mace, you have to get on the freeway soon."
He noted that CalTrans does have a project in the pipeline to add a vehicle lane in a couple of directions on I-80 from Kidwell to past Sacramento. "But that is years off," he said. "Their traffic projects indicate it's only going to get more impacted."
Councilmember Arnold explained, "This issue has caused for me probably more frustration then maybe any other issue that we've faced on city council in my tenure.
"This issue is and continues to be shrouded in a lack of clarity about what led us to where we are today," he said. "There were clearly some breakdowns in process here… I think we ought to look into where some of these breakdowns took place and how to avoid them in the future."
For Councilmember Dan Carson, he said that he was fine using the staff recommendation as the starting point.
"We want the win-win scenario," he explained. "Traffic handled better with fewer problems where bicyclists also feel safer."
He noted, like his colleagues, that he was uncomfortable bringing right turn lanes and right turn pockets back – and pointed out that many of the studies put forward by the public to support these lanes are 17 years old or older.
Lucas Frerichs said, "I'm fine with the design being in place for an amount of time to just see how folks are adjusting to it."
But he said he was worried about making changes in either the summer or the fall.
"I certainly am really supportive of the overall goals of the project," he said. "I think Mace previously was unsafe for all modes (of transportation)."
He gave the example of San Marino and argued that, before the project, "it was an unsafe intersection.
"I do think there are a variety of safety improvements that are needed as it exists today," he said.
He laid out some of them for San Marino, and he was concerned about fire engines being unable to enter the roadway due to traffic being backed up and believed, on that block, there needs to be two southbound lanes; he also cited the turn radiuses at Mace and Cowell.
"Overall I think there needs to be a little bit of a pause," he said. "Not a lengthy one… just to see the flows and how things are playing out.
"What's happening at ski season at peak capacity is not necessarily how things are now," he said, noting that they should look at things more holistically but at the same time he pushed for safety adjustments that staff can address immediately.
Gloria Partida said, "It makes a lot of sense to go slowly and to take our time, to make this as best as we can."
She was pleased to hear from parents, since she felt like many did not come out to express their concerns about the safety on the roadway previously, and their voices had been drowned out by the crowd pushing for complete restoration of the previous structure.
She said, "It is interesting that after the construction cleared out, we started hearing positive feedback." She said, "It is wise for us to step back and proceed thoughtfully."
Of the members of council, it was Mayor Lee who most forcefully pushed for changes to the current roadway over and above addressing safety concerns.
From his perspective, the council lacked expertise to present staff with design items. Instead, he felt they were giving staff "a rough idea about how to address these challenges" and he wanted design experts to come back and present the council with concrete proposals.
City Manager Mike Webb explained, "We would want to seek that professional design input. That may result in some different ideas."
Will Arnold said, "We want a design that's one that's going to work for the folks that travel this corridor everyday. We want that design to last and be future proof as best as possible. We're not the right folks to be taking pen to paper right now to do that."
Gloria Partida pointed out that "when you get that input (from expert designers) you have to take into account our community." She said that some things make sense from a professional standpoint, "but I think that is sort of part of the problem here."
She explained that the road design was supposed to make the roadway better for bicyclists, but, in so doing, "other problems were created."
Public Works Director Bob Clarke explained that such an approach is not going to take weeks or a month, but "it's going to be months." Then he clarified, saying, "I'm saying June to July, not May," while at the same time not talking about August or September for the new designs and plans to be implemented.
Council was agreeable to that approach and put out a formal motion to address immediate concerns like San Marino and the turn radiuses, while allowing design firms to work out the overall details of the project within the parameters already laid out by council – partial return to four lanes, but not right turn pockets.
Tags:Brett LeeDan CarsonGloria PartidaLucas FrerichsMace BlvdMike WebbTrafficTransportationWill Arnold
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8 thoughts on "Council Approves Changes, Will Have Experts Come Up with Design Proposal on Mace"
Alan Miller April 24, 2019 at 7:51 am
"he wanted design experts to come back and present the council with concrete proposals."
I believe concrete has been a big part of the problem.
Bill Marshall April 24, 2019 at 10:34 am
Yes… and some improvements could cause 'mortar danger', particularly to bicycle riders… but in aggregate, 'sands' evidence to the contrary, methinks we should collectively resolve that future designs not be governed by multiple committees/commissions, and/or vox populi… something about camels/giraffes being horses designed by those entity types… know that will be 'hard' for some to accept.
Perhaps we should 'curb' some of the prevalent approaches to design currently in employ… people of all 'stripes', may want to put aside the 'legends' of public input, and pay attention to the 'signs' that those complicate user input at intersections, and make them less safe, not more…
Dave Hart April 24, 2019 at 10:58 am
The change in temperature in the city council chambers was remarkable. I wanted to jump up and give a big hug to about five or six individuals who supported the Mace Blvd improvements. It was like a cool breeze coming through on a hot and humid day. These folks were also not doctrinaire about their support, recognizing there may need to be some tweaks, but appreciative of the attempt to bridge the Mace Moat.
I think there is one thing the city should reconsider when they conduct public meetings: asking those in attendance to "vote" with the sticky dots on proposals. Why is it a bad idea? Because those who attend such meetings are not a statistically valid sampling of our citizens. Once we gather up our torches and pitchforks and descend on the public meeting, our sticky dot "votes" soothes our righteous indignation and leaves us with the impression we are in the majority. Sticky dot voting is best used where more than a majority of a given community participates, e.g.: everyone in the family votes on where to go for vacation, or every person on a street votes on what day to have a block party and close off the street.
Second paragraph, in particular, raises many valid points… let those who have ears, hear… let those who have eyes, see…
The danger of a purported 'democracy', is it can devolve into a 'mob'… particularly a 'lynch mob'…
Even "republics" can so devolve.
Legend, which may well be true, is that Lincoln polled his cabinet about the Emancipation Proclamation issuance… all Cabinet members said, 'no way'… Lincoln reportedly said, "eight nays, one aye… the ayes have it"… so much for democracy/republic… was it "right"? Hell yes, in my opinion…
James Richie April 24, 2019 at 8:59 pm
Is this the first time the Bike Capital of America has made a route less bike-friendly in deference to automobiles? That is the most interesting thing I've watched out of this process, but also haven't heard talked about as much as I would expect.
Bill Marshall April 24, 2019 at 10:24 pm
Do you mean the old status quo, or the current design/alts, when you say/write,
And, how long and how are you associated with Davis?
I'm a newbie… only been here 45+ years… biked most of those… some by choice, some by economic necessity…
Your "creds"?
Rik Keller April 24, 2019 at 10:49 pm
Bill Marshall: with all of your "creds" surely you could provide a straightforward answer to James' question?
Dave Hart April 25, 2019 at 8:38 am
Even with the changes Mace Blvd. will be more bike friendly. It's hard to be less bike friendly than it was before the improvements. That said, I do believe this is the first time since I've lived here since 1977 that I've seen bike friendly improvements scaled back.
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