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Help Decide the New Bike Rack Design for NYC
From the NYC Bicycle Rack Competition Blog:
Our jury will soon meet to determine the winner, but we’d love to give them as much public feedback as we can. Click on the Comment on the Finalists link at the top and see the proposals, find out where to view the racks on NYC streets and tell us what you think! If you want to see 9 out of the 10 entries all at once, just head over to Astor Place. The others will be installed at locations around the City starting around the weekend of October 11th. Keep in mind that we are installing them on the streets to test their street worthiness. If the racks are broken or missing this indicates the designs as submitted might not be tough enough for NYC. Vandals are lame, but it’s better to know the pitfalls before we start to mass produce new racks. (via Comment on the Finalists « CityRacks Design Competition
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All content above was posted on October 9, 2008
All content above was posted on October 8, 2008
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Ellie Rountree, 3rd Grader, circa 1992.
I sent this photo over to laserportraits, which was reccomended by Jamie Wilkinson. Yes, I begged my mother to spend the extra $5 on the Lifetouch “special” background, which went SO WELL with my flowered dress (one of the rooms in our house had the same wallpaper, I think).
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please, Ellie, wear that dress into work one day. PLEEEEASE!!! -kc.
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anti-dooring.org ↪
Dooring is when the driver or passenger of a car opens a car door into or in front of a cyclist. Cyclists can be seriously injured or killed, either by slamming into the door, by being thrown into passing traffic, or when they must swerve suddenly into passing traffic to avoid the door. Most commonly, this occurs when the driver of a car that is parallel parked suddenly opens a door, but can also occur when passengers in cars stopped in traffic open doors.
Dooring appears to be one of the more common types of car/bike collisions, ranging from the third most frequent to most frequent, (see this article for details), depending on the city studied. Statistics aside, nearly every cyclist has a “dooring” story, some more serious than others. Many cyclists are more afraid of dooring than any other type of collision, precisely because it is so unpredictable, and often unpreventable by the cyclist.
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FOXNews.com - Anger After Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution at Pep Rally ↪
In a video posted to Facebook, Nacogdoches cheerleaders are seen forcing the Roughriders to kneel before them and feign shooting the girls in the head. The mock killers then drag their prey into a pile and celebrate celebrate by raising their guns and tossing money into the air.
More than 120 students have signed a petition protesting “gun promotion” at pep rallies, but the school principal, Nathan Chaddick, called the skit “simple, innocent satire” to boost school spirit, according to the Sentinel.
After the incident the school newspaper published an editorial by a cheerleader in support of the skit in its entirety. Chaddick edited out criticism of the administration in an article opposing the performance, the Daily Sentinel said.
“They were calling the cheerleaders ‘fearleaders.’” Chaddick told the newspaper. “That’s just inappropriate.”