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New Renaissance in Feminist Art
Two panel discussions on feminist activism and female leadership in visual arts
Presented by Polish Cultural Institute New York in collaboration with Residency Unlimited.
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 2 PM
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 5 PM
Hyperallergic announcement
In the midst of the cultural reckoning spurred by the #metoo movement and in the turmoil of infringement on women's civil rights both in Poland and the US resulting in new political and civil movements on the rise, women activists in the arts haved been continuing their mission while facing new challenges. In what was expected to be the renaissance in feminist movement in recent years, art institutions are still clashing with the old familiar predominant histories, stumbling over old traps of institutional patriarchy and systemic discrimination, thus going backwards to middle ages of the historic feminist waves.
As a response to recent events in both countries, and in honor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's unwavering voice in women's rights activism, the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Residency Unlimited have collaborated to present two panel discussions in March 2021 for Women's History Month. Titled New Renaissance in Feminist Art, this mini-series will examine the concept of the body as a political tool of oppression, as well as empowerment combating normative narratives, a point of resistance to systemic discrimination and violence.
In Plato's Cave, a shadow may seem more knowledgeable than its source. As witnessed in the current polarized socio-political and cultural discourses, the lurking Plato's Cave shadows still channel the perceptions of those who do not believe in empirical evidence as a validating point for knowledge. Sadly, what is perceived and accepted as truth is still merely a shadow of the truth. As a result, what was seen as dark ages, now comes forward into light, and enlightenment principles are pushed back into shadow.
Following the narrative in Plato's Cave, speaking out about fear of the darker undertones of the familiar predominant landscape and the mapping of the body within its coordinates, resistance and distrust in what one sees is still the only way to really see. The iconic work by Barbara Kruger's seminal 1989 silkscreen, (Untitled) Your Body is a Battleground still confronts the predominantly male gaze, which not only objectifies the body but also contextualizes it into a patriarchal socio-political hierarchy. In effect, the body is politicized, subjected to systemic violence, it becomes a vessel for ideology, a manifestation of political identity, a tool for liberation.
Whereas recent shifts in the US offer prospects for change, Poland and Israel face a new wave of political dissent, offering a fertile ground to move forward, to redefine institutional involvement in feminism of the past decades, and reflect on progression and challenges of women's activism and their role as institutional leaders in visual arts. In the search for a new renaissance, now its time to rethink how the body continues to channel liberation and resistance.
The 1st panel will be held on International Women's Day, Monday, March 8, 2021 at 2:00PM. It brings together women leaders of art institutions in Poland and US who will reflect on their ongoing activism and involvement with feminist narratives and its impact on institutional programming. Discussion will reflect on artists practices generationally spanning the 70s, the 90s through now. The body image will be framed as a space for cultural identification in terms of class and race in an institutional setting.
Speakers include Joan Snitzer, professor of Art History and Co-Chair Director of Visual Arts at Barnard College, Columbia University. Joan is also an artist painter represented by the A.I.R. gallery since the early beginnings of the gallery.
Agnieszka Rayzacher, founder and director of lokal_30 gallery, a Center for feminist art in Warsaw whose exhibitions and discursive programs promote artists of all generations, focuses mostly on women artists. Agnieszka is a lead activist for women's rights in Poland, organizer of SemFem, seminars on current issues in art and feminism.
The panel will be moderated by Jenée-Daria Strand, Curatorial Assistant for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at Brooklyn Museum where she supports the research and organization of numerous exhibitions as well as examines the performative practices within the museum setting.
The 2nd panel will be held on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 5:00PM. It will engage two female artists: Anna Orbaczewska, painter and multimedia artist based in Poland represented by lokal_30 gallery in Warsaw, and Rotem Reshef, action painter based in Tel Aviv and New York, currently artist in residence at RU. They will discuss their engagement with feminist activism as women and artists, and how it impacts their participation, position, and presentation of their work in Poland, Israel, the U.S. (respectively) and across borders. Whereas the idea of the body is manifested in their respective practices, they use contrasting methods, visual language, and mediums.
Orbaczewska renders the body through the subversive lens of baroque and rococo masters' painters aesthetic. The rapidly outlined female figure is often deformed, distorted, grotesque, evoking dense emotional states, physical abuse, trauma, and confronts perpetuating systemic violence of patriarchal hierarchy. The conventional European landscapes, depicted as beautiful and natural, are often imbued with darker undertones of cynical dark humor that lay bare, the still prevalent in our culture, schemes of convictions and social constructs of love, that often come at resignation from oneself, sometimes even rape.
Reshef reclaims a gestural painting method rooted in American abstract expressionism movement, a style primarily identified with white men in post–World War II. Reshef creates ghostly visual commentary via large-scale immersive painting installations and paintings that relate to the artist's method of process and action. Often reusing waste from the studio's activity, plastics, pieces of scrap wood, the paintings are embedded with traces of laborious actions, using natural and artificial materials as vegetation and items of clothing outlining the body and its position within its surroundings.
The panel will be moderated by Sheetal Prajapati, educator, artist and advisor working across the field of art and public engagement. Sheetal is Interim Managing Director of Common Field, founder of Lohar Projects, Faculty member at School of Visual Arts' MFA Fine Arts program, and the Board Chair (2021 -2023) of Art + Feminism.
To deconstruct the shadows of art history, major US art museums such as MoMA and Whitney Museum of American art, are clearly redefining their collections which involves including works by a higher number of women artists and establishing programs calibrating a new look on feminism then and now. Art institutions however are still disproportionately representing and favoring white men, in their curatorial programs, collections, and wages. Female body (women's labor) is invisible to the public eye in institutional hierarchies in Poland, Israel and the US in terms of social, class, and race structures, hiring strategies, work promotions, disparities in salaries among museum staff, etc. At the same time, feminist narratives populate the press in the arts and social media with trendy new terms like post-#metoo, post-#feminisms. Are they relevant to contemporary discourse in art institutions?
This program is initiated and funded by the Polish Cultural Institute New York, presented and co-organized in partnership with Residency Unlimited, in collaboration with lokal_30, the Brooklyn Museum, Barnard College at Columbia University, Lohar Projects, and A.I.R. gallery.
Polish Cultural Institute New York
Izabela Gola
Curator of Visual Arts and Design
Izabela.gola@instytutpolski.pl
Photo credits: © Anna Orbaczewska, "Untitled" [after Boucher], 170cm/150cm, oil on canvas, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and lokal_30
Eventbrite registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-renaissance-in-feminist-art-tickets-142776766151
PCINY website (landing page): https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/2021/02/10/new-renaissance-in-feminist-art/
Residency Unlimited website: TBA
Joan Snitzer https://barnard.edu/profiles/joan-snitzer
A.I.R. https://www.airgallery.org/
Agnieszka Rayzacher | Lokal 30 http://lokal30.pl/o-nas/
Jenée-Daria Strand https://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/jstrand
Anna Orbaczewska, http://www.orbaczewska.com/
Lokal_30 profil: http://lokal30.pl/artysci/anna-orbaczewska/
Rotem Reshef, https://www.rotemreshef.com/about
Sheetal Prajapati, https://sheetalprajapati.com/Biography
Lohar Projects https://loharprojects.com/
artandfeminism.org


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The Arab League must press Syria to allow entry for independent human rights monitors, Amnesty International said today, as killings and arrests continue in Syria in defiance of an agreement to end the violence.
Amnesty today wrote to the Arab League, formally requesting that it help secure access for human rights monitors including Amnesty and those of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Amnesty has also asked the Arab League to join the call for the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court, impose an arms embargo, and freeze the assets abroad of President Bashar al-Assad and his top associates.
More than 100 people are reported to have been killed since Syria announced last week that it would abide by the action plan agreed with the Arab League on 30 October. The majority of those killed appear to have been unarmed protesters and bystanders shot by the security forces and army. The Syrian military continue to be seen in the city of Homs, and, according to media reports, shelling of residential areas of the city has continued after the government signed up to the action plan.
"Killings and arrests of unarmed protesters and others continue to be reported on a daily basis, making a mockery of Syria's promises to the Arab League.
"The Arab League's action plan is a very positive step and, if implemented, could help bring an end to the relentless toll of unlawful killings and detentions we have been documenting in recent months.
Qatar has called for an emergency ministerial meeting on Syria this Saturday, to address what it has described as the Syrian authorities' failure to abide by its obligations under the plan. As part of the plan, Syria agreed to halt "all acts of violence from any source", release "all those who are detained because of the current events" and grant "field access" to the Arab League and "Arab and international media".
On 5 November, the Syrian government announced the release of 553 detainees "who were involved in the events but whose hands were not stained with blood". However, arrests of protesters and perceived supporters of the protests are continuing.
More than 3,000 people are reported to have been killed since March, many in and around protests and during security operations against residential areas. Amnesty believes that abuses committed in Syria in this period include crimes against humanity, as they appear to be part of a widespread, as well as systematic, attack on the civilian population.
Meanwhile, there have been increasing reports of deaths of members of the army and security forces in recent weeks. Many have allegedly been killed in clashes with the Free Syrian Army, formed in July and composed in part of defected army personnel, and others who have taken up arms with the stated intention of protecting their neighbourhoods.


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Car Driven by Teen Dragged by Semi-Truck Down Illinois Highway for More Than Half-Mile in Terrifying Video
December 3, 2021 By Inside Edition Staff
3:01 PM PST, December 3, 2021
It happened on Interstate 295 outside Chicago when the Honda Accord became wedged underneath the semi truck, whose driver apparently had no idea he was dragging the car sideways.
Terrifying video shows a car being dragged down the highway by a semi-truck in Illinois.
Behind the wheel was a frantic 19-year-old waving out the window to try to alert other motorists.
It happened on Interstate 295 outside Chicago when the Honda Accord became wedged underneath the semi-truck, whose driver apparently had no idea he was dragging the car sideways.
The driver of the Honda was identified as Laylisha Gardner of Evanston, Illinois.
The video ended before the truck came to a halt. The driver was rescued, and miraculously she was not injured.
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How to Play Beyond Compare
Shawn Hammond
If you spend any amount of time on a computer, mobile phone, or tablet thingy these days, chances are you're inundated with links to videos of someone doing something amazing or face-slappingly unexpected. As awesome as it can be to waste time on these things, in this ol' bastard's opinion there are also downsides.
Don't get me wrong—I'm not saying I don't dig a lot of the crap digital circuits enable us to do. But sometimes it's worth stopping to think a little deeper about how they affect us. To me, one of the biggest downsides of technology's instant gratification is that it exponentially increases our already unhealthy tendencies to see the "best" of what's out there in the world—whether it's music, sports, or whatever—and then immediately measure our own worth relative to it.
For instance, how many millions of people have seen a YouTube video of someone who's freakishly good at something—like a pre-teen shredding "Eruption," sinking 30 three-pointers in a row, or dancing better than Justin Timberlake—and then immediately thought, "There's no way I'm ever going to be that good, so why even try?"
This video of a 14-year-old girl playing "Eruption" went viral in May, causing widespread self-hatred
amongst older guitar players.
Maybe those with fewer years on the planet and less context to generalize from are more prone to fatalist reactions like that, but I bet it still happens plenty with those of us who've been around for a few decades, too. I'm not saying we're all gullible, powerless, self-loathing idiots—I think most of us, young or old, get that viral videos are usually outside the norm.
But I also think it can be easy to maybe subconsciously let the daily deluge of sensationalized content streaming in from all over the planet permanently warp our perception of life and of ourselves—our conception of who we are, what we may become, and why our quirks shouldn't necessarily be ironed out. Even when we put things in proper context and don't let someone else's apparent badassness deter us, too many of us still see it as an impossibly high resetting of the bar for what's satisfactory or laudable in a given pursuit. Because let's face it, everything is being done faster, more precisely, and younger these days (we'll leave the soullessness of much of it for another discussion, though). In a word, this is all totally skewed—it's a bogus lens on life.
Now, before you accuse me of whining about the growing pains of cultural evolution like a dinosaur ignorant that the choking smoke and increasing temperatures aren't from a meager forest fire but are impending desolation from YouTube's Comet, let me remind you that when it comes to guitar and music, we're talking about Art. Yeah, that's a capital "A" there, my friend—and you best hearken, for it be Ye Olde English signifier of something special, hallowed, sacred, holy, etc. In other words—don't fuck with it!
Though some people seem perpetually hell-bent on making anything and everything competitive, the cynic in me believes that's usually somehow tied to monetary gain rather than love and concern for the arts and inner enlightenment. I mean, is there a subject that a TV exec, film studio, or click-hungry social-media entity hasn't tried to cravenly twist into a cash cow?
Obviously the web, mobile devices, and social-media networks didn't create humanity's greed, insecurities, or copycat tendencies. But I contend that, in a lot of ways, they act as a giant magnifying glass, amplifying the heat we already put on ourselves. At their core, these tendencies are actually a good thing. They're engraved on our DNA, a Darwinian key to our survival. They're integral to accomplishing things and adjusting and adapting to everything from how to act at a funeral to what sort of line to play over a funky vamp. But when fanned too much, these innate tendencies rage out of control and cause us to take something that should be inspiring and turn it into something either contrived or crippling.
So if you really want to play beyond compare—in the best, truest sense, in the way that will be infinitely more meaningful to you as an artist and to us, your fellow beings—then the answer is simple: Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop wondering whether your tone is as "good" as Bonamassa's or Eddie's or Joe Pass' or whoever's. Stop worrying about whether your licks are fast enough to impress or humble other players in the crowd. Stop caring about whether your pedalboard or amp or headstock logo pass muster with snobs in the room. Stop trying to make someone else's creations yours—make your own mark, dammit!
Plotting your playing around what someone else does or thinks is as fruitless, unfulfilling, and silly as deciding to wear your hair, clothes, and miscellaneous personal accoutrements the way someone else does. Just think what people would say if you went around wearing leather pants, sleeveless shirts, a nose ring, and a long, curly mop of hair with a conch-bedecked top hat. Chances are, your physique—your height, weight, body and head shape, etc.—is better suited to something you discover on your own than trying to conform to someone else's style.
So learn to freaking celebrate the fact that your freckles, wrinkles, nose, ears, and that weird cowlick you've got going on the back of your head are a combo that no one else has got. Same goes for your guitar playing. Learn to combat the downsides of the daily digital deluge and our built-in, self-preserving insecurities by taking inspiration from exceptional feats.
Just keep reminding yourself that players who've gone down in history took what came before and made it their own, while slavish copycats have always been forgotten.
shawn@premierguitar.com
Premier Guitar editorial director Shawn Hammond oversees planning, management, and execution of all PG articles, videos, audio, and social-media activity. He has a degree in journalism from Brigham Young University. Follow him at @feverloveband.
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Empire Blvd Safety Fixes Run Up Against Parking and Gentrification Politics
By David Meyer
A federally-funded redesign and reconstruction of two dangerous Empire Boulevard intersections is in jeopardy, running up against a combination of parking politics and gentrification fears.
A plan to convert a small slip lane into sidewalk space is being met with resistance at Community Board 9. Image: DOT/DDC/RBA Group
The plan would add sidewalk space by simplifying two complex intersections where several streets converge [PDF]. On the western end of Empire, a slip lane would be closed at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Franklin Avenue. To the east, pedestrian space would be claimed at the even more complicated tangle of streets where Empire meets Utica Avenue, East New York Avenue, and Remsen Avenue.
Empire Boulevard is one of the most dangerous streets in Brooklyn. At these two intersections alone, there were 490 injuries between 2009 and 2013. Removing slip lanes at both locations will eliminate shortcuts where drivers can cut quickly across pedestrians' paths, without fundamentally changing how traffic flows.
At Wednesday's CB 9 Transportation Committee meeting, neighborhood residents and community board members joined around 10 representatives from DOT, the Department of Design and Construction, and the RBA Group to discuss the proposal, which the committee approved in a unanimous 4-0 vote in September. Chair Tim Thomas said he invited city officials to come back and make the case after the proposal drew criticism at a meeting of the full community board in November.
Supporters of the proposal presented a petition with nearly 300 signatures Wednesday night. Daniel Kristjansson, who sits on the committee, said in an email to Streetsblog that the project is a small but necessary step to make Empire Boulevard safer. "Empire Boulevard is deadly, and even with these changes it will still kill and subject many more to a lifetime of pain and disability," he said. "But these improvements will make a noticeable dent in the casualty figures."
The project has become swept up in the debate over the rezoning of Empire Boulevard, a flashpoint in predominantly black neighborhoods experiencing a rapid influx of more affluent, white residents. "I've been living on Washington Avenue all my life and living there has been a great pleasure — until recently, when these changes [have] taken place," one resident, Felice Robertson, told the committee.
Other complaints were typical of street redesigns anywhere in the city. Robertson also said the neighborhood is "in dire need of parking spaces." Another resident suggested that instead of pedestrianizing a block of Franklin the city should install a neckdown, which could be done "without taking away 15 parking spaces, which is a critical part of what this community still needs." (The project would only remove seven spaces.)
About two-thirds of households in the area do not own cars, and those residents tend to have lower incomes than vehicle owners. If the project isn't built, it's the less affluent residents of the neighborhood who will remain most at risk of getting struck and injured at those intersections.
Brooklyn Deputy DOT Commissioner Claudette Workman said DOT would be willing to reconsider the plan, but that doing so would forfeit the $10 million that's been secured to build it — half from the Federal Transit Administration and half from the city's Department of Environmental Protection. "We're not coming and saying, 'This is what we're doing, it's concrete, that's it, case closed,'" she said. "We could have done that, to be honest with you. We didn't. We're here to work with the community. we're not here to make anyone's lives miserable."
The project will add pedestrian space on the eastern and western ends of Empire Boulevard. Image: DOT
Thomas, a major figure in neighborhood debates over zoning, said that changing neighborhood demographics have affected how neighbors view city proposals — regardless of any real connection between development and street safety projects like the Empire Boulevard reconstruction. "Any change is viewed with suspicion," he said after the meeting. "At this point, honestly, anything the city does [in the district] will get complaints."
Thomas said he hopes the proposal can overcome neighbors' concerns about changes in the area. He said it was "common sense" to make safety improvements at the intersection in question. "I would not want to have it on my conscience that god forbid a kid gets killed," he said today. "The primary number one thing is safety."
The full board has yet to vote on the proposal, but it has come up for discussion previously, and some board members have said they're concerned about the loss of parking and think it will lead to increased congestion. At last night's meeting, Board Chair Demetrius Lawrence said the full board will take up the proposal at its meeting next Tuesday.
Filed Under: Crown Heights, DDC, DOT, Pedestrian Infrastructure, Pedestrian safety, Prospect Lefferts Gardens
jooltman
The mayor could not have been clearer this week: "Community Boards don't get to decide." Don't these DOT representatives know that they now have a clear mandate to ignore parking protectionists who try to stymie safety improvements, especially ones who jeopardize 10 million dollars of federal funding?
kevd
As long as the NYPD gets to keep its easy money / quota filler of ticketing any vehicle turning right from Franklin onto Empire. That is non-negotiable. Without that they might have to ticket dangerous drivers to make the quotas, instead of camping out for 2 hours and nabbing everyone who misses the difficult to see no right turn sign.
Rob Shinider
Ever thought that the rise in pedestrian accidents has to do with pedestrians not crossing at the green and not the in between. Every intersection should have a sign notifying pedestrians of the law .Yes there are c any driv Sr. Who don't signal, tailgate and turn right or left from the middle lane cutt Ng off traffics and can't see pedestrians the n r path but, this "affluent " motorist nonsens is bs . 100% of the new motorist in the area want cars. The dot should be working to reduce traffic and yes the nyp needs to go after dangerous reckless drivers instead of trying to entrap unsuspected motorist
walknseason
There has to be a better way, between the DOT dunderheads and the vehement cross-fitters, to convey both an understanding of gentrification politics AND that traffic redesign benefits the vast majority of society.
What people express at these meetings is, simply, not *wrong*. They are experiencing a lot of pain, sometimes indirect, sometimes directly kicking them out of their apartments, etc.
We cannot just make fun of htem as dumb and parking-obsessed. They have more thoughts than that.
David Meyer wrote:
"About two-thirds of households in the area do not own cars, and those residents tend to have lower incomes than vehicle owners."
Kevin's comment:
David, on December 11 did you finish writing on the blackboard 100 times, "Bicycles are vehicles"? Perhaps you need to do it again.
http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/12/11/mujeres-en-movimiento-to-cb4-we-need-a-safer-111th-street/
BBnet3000
Brian Howald
No, I've never thought that.
That is because all the evidence suggests that most pedestrian crashes are largely the fault of drivers. The table on page 25 of the DOT's study on pedestrian safety (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc_ped_safety_study_action_plan_technical_supplement.pdf) makes it clear that pedestrian error or confusion was responsible for only 20.5% of crashes where pedestrians were killed or injured.
Every intersection should have a sign notifying drivers of the law: yield to pedestrians and exercise due care.
Toddster
This isn't a gentrification issue. While this area is undergoing changes, safe street projects are going on all over the city: flushing; the bronx; upper manhattan; staten island. Places that do not see the same influx of the most commonly identified gentrifiers are still undergoing street improvements. While gentrification is occurring in these areas its important to differentiate the two and not let issues of gentrification degrade issues of street safety.
FlatbushFred
If bicycles are vehicles, why do so many advocates say it is OK for them to ignore red lights, stop signs, one-way streets, sidewalks, etc? If they are vehicles, shouldn't they be subject to the same laws as other vehicles?
it's about safety – a 90,000lbs motor vehicle should obviously have a different set of safety rules than a 40lbs Human vehicle. motor vehicles kil 33,000 and maim 2,500,000 Americans a year. . Therefore, motor vehicles should naturally Have extreme restrictions on Their movement.
Not obvious at all. Did it occur to you that accidents can be caused by bicycles disobeying the rules of the road, e.g a car having to swerve to avoid a bike who just ran a red light, and possibly colliding with a pedestrian or other vehicle? If bikes and motor vehicles share the same road, safety dictates they should follow the same rules, for the safety of everyone.
coulda shoulda – funny. BTW speed Limit in city is now 25MPH. Try it sometime
I always find that when someone answers a serious post with a snarky comment, it means they have no real response. So I understand: you hate cars, you love bikes, and can't come up with reasoned responses defending your view. Don't worry, you're not alone.
Bernard Finucane
This is an incredibly hostile environment for pedestrians. Why do people living on Sterling have to walk all the way down to Franklin to get to the Western Beef Supermarket? Why is there a southbound left turn lane on Franklin? Why are there no crosswalks across Franklin at Sterling? Why are the lanes so wide everywhere?
Your post couldn't Have possibly been serious. It's a prepostoud scenario that you described – especially Since the speed Limit is 25 MPH
I'm trying to imagine a realistic scenario in which the drivers involved were all acting in accordance with the law yet one (a) had to swerve (rather than take another sort of evasive action, for instance, step on the brake) to avoid hitting the cyclist and (b) as a result collided with a pedestrian. And I have difficulty imagining it. (Which might explain why it almost never happens.)
Motorists kill multiple pedestrians and cyclists every week, and a significant majority of those are due to motorist error. If you're focusing your attention on a purely hypothetical situation in which the cyclist is to blame, you're diverting your attention away from the elephant in the room. His snarky comment was perfectly fitting.
Ever thought that the rise in pedestrian accidents has to do with pedestrians not crossing at the green and not the in between.
No, actually, I didn't.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc_ped_safety_study_action_plan.pdf#page=23
"In New York City, 74% of pedestrian KSI crashes occurred at intersections. … Nearly half (47%) of pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries occurred at signalized intersections; surprisingly, most (57%) of these crashes occurred while the pedestrian was crossing with the signal."
Every intersection should have a sign notifying pedestrians of the law .
Which law? You mean the law that, as long as they are crossing legally, motorists are obligated to yield to them? How about we notify motorists of that law – and penalize them when they choose to ignore it?
Yes there are c any driv Sr. Who don't signal, tailgate and turn right or left from the middle lane cutt Ng off traffics and can't see pedestrians the n r path but, this "affluent " motorist nonsens is bs .
Could you please try that again in English?
100% of the new motorist in the area want cars.
Pardon? Do you mean that 100% of motorists are motorists? Well, yes, that's true, but it isn't terribly interesting.
The dot should be working to reduce traffic
The best way to do that is to make it easier and safer for people to get around by means other than driving.
One of the areas in question is around the corner from a subway station. The other is a 7-minute walk from a subway station and is directly served by multiple bus lines, including one about to be upgraded to SBS.
and yes the nyp needs to go after dangerous reckless drivers instead of trying to entrap unsuspected motorist
Yes, the NYP[D] needs to go after motorists who speed, who run red lights, who fail to yield to pedestrians, who fail to exercise due care to avoid colliding with pedestrians. Your Disqus comment history suggests that you might fit into one or more of those categories, but go ahead and keep blaming pedestrians for killing themselves.
His scenario is already unrealistic at the point where he says "a car having to swerve to avoid a bike who ran a red light." First off, the car doesn't swerve, the driver controls it to. Second, cyclists who pass red lights aren't suicidal. Drivers don't have to swerve to avoid them because they don't pass red when something is coming. Basically, he's talking about something which at best is a 1 in 10,000 scenario where a cyclist either doesn't look before passing a red, or makes an error in judgement. For what it's worth I would have collided with cars several times already when I had the green if not for my habit of always looking for cross traffic, regardless of whether or not the signal is in my favor.
Bottom line, he's setting up a straw man by picking an extremely unlikely scenario to justify his opinion about the rules.
Have any of you people ever owned a car or ever driven one? If you did, you'd know that the example I gave is totally realistic. In fact, it happened to me: I was driving through an intersection when a bicycle ran the red light directly in front of me. Cars don't stop on a dime, even at 25 mph (you'd know that if you drove). So I had to swerve behind him to avoid hitting him. Luckily, no one was there, but it could have been a tragedy. I've seen that very scenario a number of times. But of course, if you ever drove a "hated" car, you'd know that.
And as it being OK for bikes to run red lights, ask the folks in Prospect Park who try to cross the road, even with a "WALK" sign.
Here's a real funny: "And I have difficulty imagining it. (Which might explain why it almost never happens.). Now that's funny.
Cars are here to stay. Instead of the holier than though attitude of "cars are evil," why not think about ways both motorists and bikes and pedestrians can be safe.
precislely at 25MPH driver simply Hits brakes Avoiding 'mad Dog crazed cyclist' and continues on his merry way.
no drama involved at 25 MPH
qrt145
Not all vehicles are subject to the same laws. There are already special laws for trucks, and special laws for motorcycles, and special laws for bicycles. What many advocates ask is that the laws for bicycles should make sense for bicycles. While a bicycle is a vehicle, it is not a car, so some of the laws that were created to deal with the physical characteristics of cars (mass, speed, size, blind spots, etc.) don't make any sense for bikes.
Please provide a link to an actual crash that happened in a way similar to the one you envision (yes, it is conceivable that such a crash could happen, but it is very unlikely).
(And yes, I drive too.)
cars kill and maim 50,000 New Yorkers every single year. You believe that's good or evil ? You Think that 50,000 Is normal ?
(and yes I Drive too)
Of course, that assumes that each of those accidents are the fault of the driver. Couldn't be a bike running a STOP sign or a red light or going the wrong way on a one-way street or wearing headphones and not hearing a horn. No, it must always be the motorist's fault.
Don't get me wrong. Motorists in this city need to be summonsed more. Every day I see cars running lights and STOP signs, failing to yield to pedestrians, speeding, etc. We need a certainty of punishment for these drivers. or such behavior will continue. But the same rules apply to the other users of NYC streets.
Unfortunately, the bike "advocates" aren't advocates – they are zealots, incapable or unwilling to see any other side of an issue than their own. That's unfortunate. Some of the posts on this issue prove that.
Have any of you people ever owned a car or ever driven one? If you did, you'd know that the example I gave is totally realistic.
I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles and somehow it's never happened to me.
In fact, it happened to me: I was driving through an intersection when a bicycle ran the red light directly in front of me. Cars don't stop on a dime, even at 25 mph (you'd know that if you drove). So I had to swerve behind him to avoid hitting him.
Were you actually driving within the speed limit, or was that just a hypothetical? Were you and your follower maintaining safe separation from the vehicle in front? Were you continually scanning the entire roadway, so that you'd have an idea of traffic on the other lanes and you might have a fee seconds of advance warning of a pedestrian or cyclist waiting to cross?
Luckily, no one was there, but it could have been a tragedy. I've seen that very scenario a number of times.
I'm glad you were lucky. I prefer to not rely on luck to keep me and others safe when I drive.
But of course, if you ever drove a "hated" car, you'd know that.
I don't hate cars. I just hate how some people use them and how much infrastructure we devote to them.
And as it bein g OK for bikes to run red lights, ask the folks in Prospect Park who try to cross the road, even with a "WALK" sign.
I don't think it's OK for cyclists to run red lights when pedestrians are crossing. But I also recognize that bicycles and motor vehicles are fundamentally different things, and the laws that make sense for one don't necessarily make sense for the other. I further recognize that a 1% drop in motorist-on-ped fatalities would save far more lives than a complete elimination of cyclist-on-ped fatalities. As a pragmatist, I realize that any enforcement resources focused on improving cyclist compliance are enforcement resources not spent on improving motorist compliance – and are therefore counterproductive to safety.
Sorry, I don't laugh about safety issues. But if you think this is all a big joke, then go right ahead.
Telling cyclists not to be suicidal isn't going to do a damned thing. Penalizing motorists for endangering others, and (to get back to the focus of this article) redesigning streets to improve motorist compliance and to make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists, is actually a productive approach.
Cars, when used right, aren't evil, but cars can certainly be used for evil.
Every study concludss that 90-95% of traffic Iviolence s caused by driver error & negligencce.
Of course, that assumes that each of those accidents are the fault of the driver.
Most are.
AlexWithAK
If you can't understand that bikes and cars are completely different modes of transportation that pose wildly different levels of danger to others and that each should be treated differently based on their unique qualities and threats, I just don't know what else to say to you. Suggesting that 30 lb bikes must obey all the same rules as 3000 lb cars and 30,000 lb trucks because "it's only fair" is absolutely absurd and helps no one.
I have a car. Sure, there are some cyclists that do dumb things but I've never encountered a situations like you're describing. At worst, I've had to hit the brakes to avoid someone.
I can say with absolute confidence is that it's the other drivers on the road that scare me far, far more than any cyclist. Without question, I've had to take evasive maneuvers due to the actions of other drivers many more times than due to cyclists. Anecdotally, drivers are much more likely to break the rules of the road than cyclists as far as I'm concerned. And I'd say that the statistics in terms of how many crashes and injuries there are back my view pretty strongly.
So no, I do not think cars are evil. But, as someone who regularly drives, I also think they're given far too much deference and too much space. To me, this isn't about punishing drivers but rather taking space back for the other ways of getting around while reigning in the significant danger that cars pose. For environmental, economic, safety, and practical reasons, private cars need to be given the lowest priority in the hierarchy of mobility. I would be very happy to drive mine less.
Just because someone "wants" something doesn't mean the government has to give it to them. Given we're in a crowded city with little space to spare and a significant problem with people being injured by careless driving, there is significant reason for the city to NOT enable more people to own cars just because they want too (which in itself is highly debatable).
Secondly, the notion that pedestrians are being injured and killed because of their own actions is straight up baseless victim blaming. There are numerous situations where crossing AGAINST the light is actually safer due to turning cars not yielding. Stats clearly show that the vast majority of pedestrians injuries are the fault of the driver.
"Couldn't be a bike running a STOP sign or a red light or going the wrong way on a one-way street or wearing headphones and not hearing a horn"
Could be, but very, very rarely is.
"If they are vehicles, shouldn't they be subject to the same laws as other vehicles?"
They are.
"100% of the new motorist in the area want cars"
Kind of a tautology that..
Sure and 100% of the new cyclists in the area want bikes.
And 100% of the new pedestrians in the area want shoes
Neither 100% of the old residents nor 100% of the new residents want cars, though. The vast majority of both, do not.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ped-safety-action-plan-manhattan.pdf
The city says 43% of pedestrian fatalities 2011-2013 in Manhattan were due to dangerous pedestrian choices. 13% due to dangerous pedestrian and driver choices. 43% due to dangerous driver choices. Citywide those numbers are 31% ped alone, 16% ped and driver, 53% driver alone. Far from the 90-95% you claim.
Those stats only cover 1/10 of the 50,000 New Yorkers killed and maimed Every year by drivers, nice try. Use the full Stats and you'll also conclude drivers are responsible for 90-95% of traffic violence
So why don't you? Use a bike? Take a train or a bus? Walk?
What are the special laws for trucks and motorcycles that are relevant to this issue?
"What many advocates ask is that the laws for bicycles should make sense for bicycles." This is precisely the problem…sure, it may make sense from a bicyclist's perspective that they don't have to stop at a STOP sign, but what about the car (or other bike) that maybe they didn't see? Such moves are unsafe, both for the bicyclist and the others sharing the road. The inconvenience of stopping for a moment and starting again should not trump safety.
Nice try. The bicycle who ran the light while I had the green light had his headphones on (I see this all the time), never looked anywhere but straight ahead, and passed directly in front of me while I was driving about 10 mph passing through the intersection. If I had jammed on the brake, I would have hit him.I have seen this many times. I recently saw a bike with a chlld riding in the back to do same thing. There is NO reason why bikes shouldn't obey the same laws as cars. None.
at 10 MPH stopping distance Is like Inches, are you suggesting that the Mother and child 'darted' in Front of your 10MPH Car close enough to reach out and touch your Bumper ?
you were traveling more than 35MPH for sure, most drivers Have no Idea how fast They Drive. Like I said, try driving 25MPH; you will Find It Illuminating.
So it happened to you-once. Nobody else here who drives mentions the same thing happening to them. Based on what I see, this is an exceedingly rare occurrence. Also, I doubt you were going 10 mph unless the intersection was gridlocked. Most of the time when drivers have the green light they're going about 55 mph, not 10 mph.
There is NO reason why bikes shouldn't obey the same laws as cars.
As already mentioned by others, larger vehicles like trucks often have more restrictive laws than cars, such as lower speed limits or roads where they're prohibited. The converse of that is much smaller vehicles such as bikes should have less restrictive laws than cars. Nobody here is asking for the right to go through an intersection while other users have the green light. All we want is to be able to legally pass a red light when nothing is coming. In other words, to do exactly the same thing pedestrians do when they cross on red. Or do you have a problem with pedestrians crossing on red as well?
Funny how motorists think bikes aren't vehicles when they want them off the roads but are vehicles when they want them to obey the same laws.
What about the driver who does stop, misses seeing an oncoming car, and goes? Or the driver who doesn't notice a red light? Humans occasionally make mistakes. To some extent you can design streets to be forgiving of those mistakes. The best way is to drive slower so when you encounter the rare cyclist who misjudges the situation, or perhaps the driver who didn't notice a red light, the consequences aren't fatal.
For what it's worth I've had close encounters with cars passing red lights several times. If not for my habit of looking even when I have a green light, I may have collided with them.
The inconvenience of stopping for a moment and starting again should not trump safety.
Much more than an inconvenience:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fajans/pub/pdffiles/StopSignsAccess.pdf
Also, in NYC you have lots of traffic signals. They not timed for bike speeds, if they're even timed at all. You're stopping for a lot more than "a moment". If motorists got stuck at red lights every block or two most would be doing exactly what cyclists do—going through them whenever they safely could. Motorists also have the luxury of non-stop highways to avoid traffic lights. Outside of parts of a few greenways, cyclists don't. There's a difference between slight inconvenience, where stopping reduces your average speed 10% or 15%, versus gross inconvenience, where you average one third or one half of your riding speed. Then there's also the fact it's a lot safer for cyclists to get out in front of the pack of cars before they start moving. The danger of being in the pack far outweighs any minor danger a cyclist might "miss" an oncoming car. I haven't missed one yet in over 37 years of riding.
Go to any of those places and you'll find people concerned about gentrification.
Getting rid of a dangerous slip lane is not, in any direct sense, going to force people out of their homes. But I don't think you can blame people for being afraid of displacement when they see the city coming in and trying to change their neighborhood. And regardless of whether or not fears are justified, it is the city's job to convince residents that these safety improvements are A) going to make everyone safer and B) not contribute to gentrification. DOT needs to do the groundwork to convince these communities that everyone is on the same team.
I guess just keep making up numbers then since facts don't matter to you.
amylynn
then they should pay "bike insurance"!!!
you hit it on the nose! bike people hate cars and doesnt think anyone else should be allowed to have them!
What are "bike people"?
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The NLRB's charge was one of two setbacks that the Coop suffered in its conflict with the local over the drive of the union to enlist the Coop's employees. The store also lost a dispute with the union over which of the Coop's employees may cast ballots in the January 25 unionization vote.
The NLRB's complaint resulted from three charges made against the store by the union. The NLRB investigated and found evidence to support two of the accusations -- that the Coop maintained surveillance over union activity in the more and unlawfully reprimanded an employee for participating in it. The third charge, that the Coop fired an employee for his union activities, was not substantiated by the board.
As a result of the NLRB complaint a hearing has been set for December 20 in Boston. Warren H. Pyle, the union's attorney, said yesterday that an administrative judge from Washington D.C. will preside at the hearing and the NLRB's general conduce will prosecute.
If the Coop is found guilty, the judge will order the store to "cease and desist and to post a notice on the premises to that effect" Pyle said.
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The NLRB conducted hearings in November on which jobs the unit would include, and in the first hearings, compromise between the union and the Coop looked impossible. A binding decision by the NLRB seemed inevitable.
During the third hearing, on November 24, the Coop suddenly gave in, and the union and store reached a settlement strongly favoring the union. The memorandum Monday of the NLRB regional director stated that compromise.
Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Coop, said yesterday that he did not believe that the charges in the complaint are justified.
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According to Davis, the Coop gave in to the union's definition of the unit because a protracted dispute over it "was not in the interests of our employees." "It is not up to me to tell them to vote. I would hope that they would have confidence in our leadership."
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Q: Multiple Asynchronous SqlClient Operations - Looking for a good example I have been using Asynchronous operations in my WinForms client since the beginning, but only for some operations.  When the ExecuteReader or the ExecuteNonQuery completes, the callback delegate fires and everything works just fine.
I've basically got two issues:
1) What is the best structure for dealing with this in a real-life system?  All the examples I have seen are toy examples where the form handles the operation completion and then opening a datareader on the EndExecuteReader.  Of course, this means that the form is more tightly coupled to the database than you would normally like.  And, of course, the form can always easily call .Invoke on itself.  I've set up all my async objects to inherit from a AsyncCtrlBlock<T> class and have the form and all the callback delegates provided to the constructor of the async objects in my DAL.
2) I am going to re-visit a portion of the program that currently is not async.  It makes two calls in series.  When the first is complete, part of the model can be populated.  When the second is complete, the remaining part of the model can be completed - but only if the first part is already done.  What is the best way to structure this?  It would be great if the first read can be done and the processing due to the first read be underway while the second is launched, but I don't want the processing of the second read to be started until I know that the processing of the first read's data has been completed.

A: regarding 2)
make the first phase of your model populating asynchronous.
you will have something like that

FisrtCall();
AsyncResult arPh1 = BeginPhaseOne(); //use results from first call
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EndPhaseOne(arPh1); //wait until phase one is finished
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A: If you are on .Net 4, this would be an ideal application of TPL! You could factor your code into tasks like this:
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Task<SqlDataReader> query1 = Task<SqlDataReader>.Factory.FromAsync(command1.BeginExecuteReader, command1.EndExecuteReader, null);
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Cord International is a mailorder service that carries dozens of hard-to-find classic Hawaiian albums, and also has its own label, Hana Ola Records, that has several Island-oriented albums. Nice resource!
Mele.Com has an even wider range of albums available, stretching into the modern era, and also carries songbooks and instructional videos for folks looking to learn the slack-key guitar style. This Kauai-based outfit also has links to numerous cultural groups and Island artists on their website. Great resource!
Here's an excellent article on Hawaiian music on the Surfing For Life website... a very cogent essay about the history and growth of the various island styles. Check it out!
Dancing Cat Records also has a great essay explaining the slack-key guitar style... plus their records (see above) are all pretty sweet.
The Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame is a nonprofit group which honors various Island musicians... Their website has some nice content, but it's a little hard to find the artist info (look under "honorees") amid all the intra-organizational clutter. Cool resource, though!


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Viera Voice /
May 2017 /
Connectivity is another conservation key
By Linda Wiggins
Charlie Award recipients were Justin Cole, Anne Birch, Dave Breininger, Jim Waymer, Carl Andron accepting for Diane Barile, Sammy McGee and Delaney Farrell.
photo by marc rhodes
Youth and working together emerged as keys to conservation of wild lands and their inhabitants at the fourth annual Charlie Corbeil Conservation Awards April 13 at Heritage Isle ballroom. The locale is adjacent to the favorite place of the Master Florida Naturalist and world renowned nature photographer for whom the awards are named, the Viera Wetlands.
The awards are given by previous winners of The Charlies — as they are affectionately known in conservation circles. The same year as an official Youth Division was added, awardees touched on how they became inspired in youth to make a difference in the environment.
"We are now seeing folks who worked as interns and youth volunteers 20 and 30 years ago now being nominated by their mentors who themselves have received a Charlie," said event emcee Vince Lamb, close Corbeil friend and co-founder of Preserve Brevard, which partners with Viera Voice to host the awards dinner.
Charlie winner Anne Birch worked for the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands program and called out a number of names in the capacity crowd she'd worked for, and worked with. She now is the Marine Conservation director of The Nature Conservancy.
"We all need to work together to come up with and implement solutions," Birch said. "Experts, agencies, community leaders, a great thing about this event is that you have so many of them under one roof."
Birch was nominated and presented with her award by Dr. Leesa Souto of the Marine Resources Council. A Charlie winner last year, Souto formerly was with the EELs program and also commented how current Charlie winner Diane Barile, Council founder, inspired and mentored her.
Awardee Sammy Lee McGee, park biologist at St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, said she stepped off a bus at Yellowstone National Park and knew she'd never be happy working in a traditional office.
"Kids today have a lot less free time to explore the outdoors, with so much scheduled activity," said McGee, who was nominated for and presented with her award by previous winner Nichole Perna of the EELs program.
Recognizing beauty and being thankful for it is key to preserving nature at any age, she added.
Awardee Dr. Dave Breininger, lead wildlife biologist of NASA's ecological program at Kennedy Space Center, used the spotlight to forward action on the EELs program, which was established by voters in 1990 and now manages more than 20 large preserves.
"We need to work together to establish a long-range financial plan for the management of these lands and to ensure ongoing biodiversity of species and habitat."
While recent environmental incidents underscored the severity of the need for conservation, so too did hope shine through, as voters responded to the need for a clean up of the Indian River Lagoon with a half-cent sales tax last fall.
"We've turned a corner in this region and there is a lot of political support to help the Lagoon," said awardee Jim Waymer, environmental reporter for Florida Today since 2000. He was presented his award by 2014 Charlie winner Dr. Duane De Freese, who since was named executive director of the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program.
"But what you do in your own backyard is critical," he added, such as properly maintaining a septic tank, minimizing fertilizer and pesticide use and in all other ways reducing what can wind up in the water. VV
For more information or to see videos and photos from the event, go to VieraVoice.com/CharlieCorbeil.
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