The Mile Square City shows what can be accomplished when a municipality really focuses on the zero of Vision Zero — it has recorded no traffic fatalities for three straight years.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/04/06/eyes-on-the-street-how-hoboken-has-eliminated-traffic-deaths
Governor Newsom signed A.B. 413 into law on Tuesday. As explained in the Tweet below from the advocates at Los Angeles-based Streets for All, A.B. 413 will, in theory, make it illegal in California to park “within twenty feet of the vehicle approach side of any marked or unmarked crosswalk or within fifteen feet of […]
This post is for everyone who makes things no matter what it is that you make. Clicking through my RSS feeds, I came across the story of Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida who once divided his class into two groups and got two very different outcomes from each (and no, this is …
In his talk, Ten Things I Have Learned , Milton Glaser hands down a list of axioms he earned through an amazing, life-long career in design. I recently rediscovered this document after it sat in a folder marked “save” for a few years. Instead of leaving it there I thought I’d share these “ten …
https://airbagindustries.com/blog/you-can-only-work-for-people-that-you-like
I used to dread setting up email automation and email campaigns.
We tested popular avocado-ripening methods to see which ways work and which ways don't.
Ohio lawmaker's rationale for voting against protecting victims of marital rape is more disgraceful, disrespectful and disgusting than it seems.
Preliminary analysis of key trends from May to August.
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level of its use in our organization, which is considerable, against the harms that we see perpetuated by the leadership of Basecamp’s parent … Continue reading Why We’re Dropping Basecamp →
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
Daylighting, or removing parking near intersections, is an often overlooked way to improve pedestrian safety.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/30/thursdays-headlines-see-daylight
The Irish singer-songwriter, whose hits include Fairytale of New York, was unwell for some time.
School treasurers are fielding a variety of questions regarding the impact of Geauga County’s full reappraisal of property taxes this year, and they include Chagrin Falls treasurer Ashley Brudno.
Steps are moving forward to establish regulations for short-term rental properties in the village, with the Planning and Zoning Commission’s review of a draft registration form last week.
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_30976fbe-8ee5-11ee-b00a-83038209fdd8.html
It was an unusual sound to be heard in the village on a quiet weekend night.
He was the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He also became the target of relentless critics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/
Big business has been going after plaintiff lawyers since the 1980s. Why? 90% of antitrust cases come from private attorneys, restructuring everything from real estate to college sports to big tech.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-ambulance-chasing-lawyers
Tickets for New Order's huge summer gig go on sale on Monday
What was once a fringe legal theory now stands a real chance of being adopted by the Supreme Court.
Music duo The KLF are moving into the care home business in a bid to look after their older fans.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12798029/music-duo-klf-care-business-older-fans.html
The westbound lane of Bell Road in downtown Chagrin Falls near Chuck's Beverage will be closed Thursday for the replacement of asphalt after a water main repair.
First of six parts This series is a collaboration between the Dallas Morning News and the San Antonio Express-News. Malik Tyler was bleeding to death.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/bleeding-out-top-cause-death-preventable-18494612.php
In Terminal on your Mac, use secure keyboard entry to prevent other apps from detecting and recording what you type in a Terminal window.
https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/use-secure-keyboard-entry-trml109/mac
Designers can either become drivers of business within their organizations, or they can create the businesses they want to drive. We’re entering an era of design entrepreneurship, in which some designers are realizing that they’re not just a designer employed by a business; they’re creative business people whose skill set is design. —The State of […]
In the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever. Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some color is jarring, but kind of interesting nonetheless. Or the way something gets set up seems a ...
https://world.hey.com/jason/live-with-it-for-a-while-a9191f5f
On 28th January 1896 Mr Walter Arnold of East Peckham became the first person to be caught speeding in a motorised vehicle. Mr Arnold was spotted doing a heady 8mph, four times the 2mph speed limit, and was pursued for 5 miles by a policeman on a bicycle...
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Walter-Arnold-Worlds-First-Speeding-Ticket/
How can we make the case for slowing down to speed up when we are already going slow, and when shutting things down and starting over is not an option?
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-257-how-to-make-case-for-slowing
Transform your handwriting and calligraphy into fully functional vector fonts with our web application. Creating your own font has never been easier.
People on bicycles and in wheelchairs use crosswalks, yet many laws explicitly protect only people on foot, not those getting around in other ways.
The National Building Museum in Washington D.C. is to host a new exhibition centered on miniature building souvenirs. ‘Mini Memories: Souvenir Buildings from the David Weingarten Collection’ sees 400 miniature buildings from around the world showcased, having been donated to the museum in...
He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or attitude — the one thing all inventors, both then and now, have in common — which had him viewing everything around him in terms of its capacity for betterment. The improving mentality was a reframing the status quo as a problem to solve. A habit of optimisation. A compulsion to perfect.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, was stabbed Friday in a federal prison in Arizona, the office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has confirmed.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/24/us/derek-chauvin-stabbed-prison-george-floyd/index.html
The mystery of why Daryl Hall obtained a restraining order against John Oates has been solved, at least in part, now that part of the case has been unsealed by a Tennessee judge who previously ordered all details to be kept under wraps. It's now been revealed that Hall is attempting to block his longtime musical partner from selling his share in their joint venture to Primary Wave Music.
A massive and forgotten migration reshaped the liberal approach to poverty and realigned America’s political parties.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/liberals-lost-white-working-class-voters/676012/
A new study suggests the rise in mental health disorders in children and teens is attributed to a decline over decades in opportunities for them to play, roam and engage in activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults. Although well intended, adults' drive to guide and protect children has deprived them of the independence they need for mental health, contributing to record levels of anxiety, depression, and suicide among young people.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230309101330.htm
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The newly elected House speaker has ties to the far-right New Apostolic Reformation — which is hell-bent on turning America into a religious state
Proceeds from the chance to win ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ are going to War Child
https://pitchfork.com/news/four-tet-donates-vinyl-copy-of-unreleased-album-for-charity-raffle
There can be a lot of psychological noise involved in teaching. But what if we replaced all that mental clutter...with a click? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode exploring an innovative idea about how we learn. It will take us from a dolphin exhibit in Hawaii to a top teaching hospital in New York. It's about a method to quiet the noise that can turn learning into a minefield of misery.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802422904/when-things-click-the-power-of-judgment-free-learning
Alvin Lucier’s 1981 work “I Am Sitting In A Room” is a classic of media art. Lucier recorded himself reading a text, then played it back and recorded it again. Then he played the recording of the recording and recorded it again. After a while, his words were almost indecipherable as the resonance of the room, multiplied again and again, took over.
In an uprising, a coalition of residents say the noise is unbearable. ‘PLEASE do something about these hideous machines.’
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/leaf-blowers-noise-greenwich-connecticut-lawns-3f78123c
Rivaling the Secret Service, the FBI and Military Intelligence, our country’s most discreet institution is the sagacious housekeeping staff at the White House. They, above all, know how serious is their vigilant watch over our president and his family. What goes on in the White House stays behind their sealed lips, always and forever. That […]
https://www.austindailyherald.com/2022/03/peggy-keener-the-curious-case-of-the-abominable-shower/
For almost 10 years, federal and local law enforcement agencies across the country have engaged in a massive and secretive telephone surveillance program known as “Hemisphere.” Publicly disclosed for the first time in September 2013 by the New York Times, the Hemisphere program provides police...
Humble Design Cleveland assists families transitioning from homeless shelters to permanent housing.
These ornate buildings pioneered high-density living for affluent Londoners in the Victorian and Edwardian eras — and their virtues are being rediscovered today.
Nick Antosca (“Candy,” “The Act”) is creating the show that is currently fielding offers from several potential buyers.
Donald Trump is the only U.S. president in history to be so damned by so many who were part of his inner circle. Here's an anti-Trumper cheat sheet.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-21/thanksgiving-donald-trump-anti-trump
The Prairie Village, Kansas City Council dismissed several ethics complaints made against the mayor and nearly half of the council members.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article282152618.html
Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-squirrels-remember-where-they-buried-their-nuts/
Chagrin Falls Village Council has voted to add a full-time school security officer at Chagrin Falls Intermediate School.
INTRODUCTION By itself, any single paper item or book would seem easy to store and simple to preserve....
You start a new project. The pitch outlines the problem and boundaries of the solution. There's an appetite, like three weeks, that captures how much time it's worth investing. It's time to jump in. You add some to-dos. Have a kickoff call. Mock up a few approaches, throw together a dead simple UI, or spike a potential data model. All ...
https://world.hey.com/bbailey/make-room-for-ambition-2d1ed582
Today, @vickschutz and I learned a detail about “Star Wars” (1977); it’s totally right there but we never grasped it. — Todd Vaziri (...
http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-death-star-and-final-trench-run.html
I can guarantee that at some point in your career, you've experienced The Slide. Things stop making sense. Team confidence drops. It becomes hard to know what is going on objectively. Everyone has a pet explanation for what's causing The Slide, but no one is right. Or everyone is right, but no one is RIGHT. The team is in a funk and it it seems like you’re sliding down an endless slide.
The lawsuit alleged that real-estate software company RealPage illegally fixes rents at millions of apartments.
First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths.
The reality behind âno one wantâs to work anymore".
https://medium.com/@johnmoyle/no-one-wants-to-pay-any-more-cd96c58010b3
He was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved stars. Then his adopted country turned against him.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/charlie-chaplin-vs-america-scott-eyman-book-review
Illegal driving, reckless driving, and unsafe driving are three different things. Most drivers don’t intuit the difference, but our system and our traffic engineers should if they want to help prevent deadly outcomes.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/23/everyone-involved-was-following-the-law
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday announced the public release of more than 40,000 hours of Capitol security footage from Jan. 6, 2021.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/mike-johnson-capitol-jan-6-security-footage
Disney, Apple and Lionsgate halted marketing on X, formerly Twitter, as Elon Musk faced a furor over antisemitic abuse on his social media platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html
The number of annual average daily walking trips has dropped a whopping 36% since 2019.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/16/walking-americans-declines-map
After you read this, you'll never look at a "frunk" the same way again.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/17/how-skeuomorphism-is-making-u-s-roads-more-deadly
The House Ethics Committee released its long-awaited report into Rep. George Santos on Thursday, laying out a litany of evidence showing that the New York Republican deceived donors, stole from his campaign and then used that money for personal use.
IBM said it was immediately pulling advertising from Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, after a report found that ads for the tech giant had appeared next to posts supporting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ibm-pulls-advertising-x-twitter-pro-nazi-content-1235793261/
Matthew Loganbill, 56, of Versailles, was convicted Thursday of one felony and four misdemeanors in connection with the Capitol riot.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article281953678.html
It may be late July, but it's a good time to think about how snowy weather in Chicago will likely become a lot more manageable for many people with disabilities, seniors, and families with small children.
The 2023 Chagrin Boosters 5K fundraiser will take place on Thanksgiving Day.
Once a product category proves popular, it's common for more companies to enter the market. Eventually, many options appear that are essentially mostly the same. Now we've got something that quacks like a commodity. Once we've got a commodity, generics eventually follow. Devoid of fancy packaging, marketing, and advertising, prices fal...
https://world.hey.com/jason/commodities-generics-and-software-393ccf10
Shields and J Mascis reunited to sing their own songs and cover âJust Like Heavenâ in London
Despite the large-scale North Main Street bridge project that is on target to most likely begin next year, Blossom Time and Art by the Falls are still very much a
Read Ben Cardew’s review of the album.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/daft-punk-random-access-memories-drumless-edition/
Texas Republican Pete Sessions said 18F “misled and lied to the government” about the credentialing service’s capabilities .
Browning a little butter goes a long way to making a Thanksgiving staple all the better.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/dining/how-to-make-the-best-mashed-potatoes.html
U.S. transportation engineers tend to treat the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices like a bible. A new bill would encourage them to treat it more like a recipe book — and sub out deadly design ingredients when they aren't safe for vulnerable road users.
Oregon may soon allow cities more leeway to set lower speed limits on dangerous roads — rather than reserving that power for state transportation leaders whose primary interest, historically, has been moving cars as quickly as possible.
Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.
The Gurney Elementary School Service Learning Club met with an Air Force veteran at Hamlet Senior Living Community to start a Wreaths Across America project.
A new set of principles for better workflows when making digital products
https://designsystems.international/ideas/the-gulf-between-design-and-engineering/
Comedy show Last Week Tonight has practical advice for Kiwis miffed at being left off countless maps.
Laura Hui and Danielle Sabo were elected to the Chagrin Falls School Board.
https://www.cleveland.com/community/2023/11/hui-and-sabo-elected-to-chagrin-falls-school-board.html
There is no timeline for when the freeway will be reopened, but officials say the work will not happen swiftly.
The US chat show host's support of the pūteketeke is creating an international PR battle.
A dramatic increase in crashes caused by right turns at red lights has many U.S. cities looking to make the move illegal.
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a45780897/its-time-to-ban-right-on-red/
There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction. This is the story of one such day.
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1211987812/israel-hamas-west-bank-gaza-war-conflict-idf
The court has been under pressure to act ever since a series of reports raised questions about whether justices were following ethics rules.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-code-of-conduct-rcna124951
Traditional capitalists are still flourishing, but according to Yanis Varoufakis they are not driving the economy like they used to.
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/technofeudalism-9781847927286
The colorful carport-equipped dingbat apartment buildings offered cheaper — and sometimes stylish — digs for generations of L.A. dreamers.
I only recently had a breakthrough about using web components, and now I quite like them. But not the shadow kind.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/11/01/blinded-by-the-light-dom/
Recent studies have shown tire emissions to be a larger threat to global health than anyone realized—and EVs could make the problem worse.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-dust-makes-up-the-majority-of-ocean-microplastics-study-finds
The claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who as a venture capitalist has had business ties to China in the past, has made policy concerns about China a focus of his campaign.
Amid a crisis in affordable housing, the century-old ideas of Henry George have gained a new currency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/business/georgism-land-tax-housing.html
Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) announced on Sunday he plans to resign in February after 19 years, citing frustrations in Congress during a particularly tumultuous year for the chamber.
Are you gaslighting yourself? Many of the dynamics we deal with at work are not overtly toxic or unhealthy. We know people mean well and do their best, even when nerves fray and things don't pan out. However, left unchecked, these situations (and how you respond to them) erode your sense of self-worth and sap your self-awareness. They can ultimately be
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-254-self-gaslighting-and-the
In the predawn hours of March 8, 1908, Niceâs famed Promenade des Anglais, bustling during the day, was quiet. So too were the corridors of the Hôtel...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/burglar-countess-riviera-crime
They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. In the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, that's definitely true.
A tool bag that gave astronauts the slip during a spacewalk at the International Space Station is surprisingly bright and can be seen with binoculars.
https://www.space.com/astronauts-international-space-station-tool-bag-visible
A Florida jury found Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg liable on all counts, including contributing to her mother’s suicide.
http://www.thecut.com/2023/11/take-care-of-maya-kowalski-verdict.html
The width of our streets can influence land use, safety, character, scale, and overall financial productivity. We shouldn't be fearful of building narrow when it makes sense.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/3/17/some-thoughts-on-narrow-streets
I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.
https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2023/removing-list-styles-without-affecting-semantics
With so many years of being remote, we’ve experimented with communication a lot. One conversation that often comes up for remote companies is asynchronous (async) communication. Async just means that a discussion happens when it is convenient for participants. For example,
Jury awards total of $261 million in damages for false imprisonment, battery and say hospital contributed to suicide of mother in case made famous by Netflix documentary âTake Care of Maya.â
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2023/11/09/all-childrens-st-petersburg-maya-netflix-damages/
A judge’s plea, Hillary Clinton invokes the H-word, and a shock poll in the Times.
New science uncovers the sleep practices that matter for a longer life
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/sleep-science-longevity-0f35a573
Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a soc...
John Prine (1946 - 2020) was one of the great American poets, a songwriter who eloquently described the best (and, sometimes, the worst) of love and life in these United States. In collaboration with Prine’s record label, Oh Boy Records, we are honored and humbled to release a collection that celebrates the best of Pri
I'm creating a Liquid template where I look for documents within a collection where a given metadata tag is "valueA" OR "valueB". I've tried the following: {% assign item = site.rn | where: "type...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55660702/how-to-use-where-filters-with-an-or-operator
In order to meet the deadline for spending American Rescue Plan Act Funding and to manage a traffic plan, the roughly $4.6 million Maple Street improvement project will be broken
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_0e23b2b8-7e72-11ee-9c36-0f1d965c78ee.html
The Halloween experience in Chagrin Falls was less than ideal for a Stow boy.
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_ef5263ae-7e6f-11ee-9d1a-af96d59367ef.html
The history of the jungle gym, and its sibling the monkey bars, is full of weird and delightful twists and sub-plots that take us from Japan to suburban Chicago and delve into theoretical math.
One of the most common accessibility issues I find (and fix) on client projects is dynamically disabled form buttons when a form is being submitted. Today I want to talk about why developers do it, why it’s bad, and what you can do instead. Let’s dig in! Why developers disable buttons Typically, I see the pattern used to prevent a form from being submitted a second time while waiting for the form is processed.
Showtimes for the production will be 7 p.m. Friday night and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Chagrin Falls will hold its Veterans Day service at 11 a.m. Nov. 11.
Note about github, jekyll from _drafts, a blog of notes, solutions, and mini-workshops to get things started.
https://evanwill.github.io/_drafts/notes/github-actions3.html
This Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series lookalike is a no-frills, cost-reduced Hilux flatbed/pickup optimized for lower-GDP markets.
In Orlando, one woman is standing up for pedestrians — and sparking a conversation about who has the power to say who walks where.
“These apples were going to be soon lost if I didn’t get busy and try to save them,” said Tom Brown, who has located more than 1,200 varieties of apples.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/04/apple-hunter-tom-brown/
Start with this: You really have two noses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/humans-have-two-noses-really/675823/
Jersey City made headlines in 2022 when it accomplished what Vision Zero advocates have been championing for years: zero traffic deaths on city streets. Here are some lessons other communities can take from their efforts.
Cities in Massachusetts are among the most walkable in the U.S., so why is progress for safer streets there so maddeningly slow?
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum of Two Rivers, WI is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type.
George Michael was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nearly seven years after his death at age 53.
"These are good boys, please do not do this to them,” the mother pleaded in a text message to Judge Timothy Grendell’s associate. “Like I said, I will take their place!”
News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home â downplaying the danger to democracy.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html
Instead of addressing lax gun laws, Americans fixate on what the authorities might have done differently.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/lewiston-gun-laws-local-police/675903/
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
Last week, the United Auto Workers reached a deal with Stellantis to re-open an idled Belvidere Assembly Plant. "We made them invest," said transformational UAW President Shawn Fain.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/labor-unions-are-industrial-policy
The rapper and self-proclaimed biggest Kate Bush fan gave a speech shouting out both 50 Words for Snow and Keith Sweat
A nonprofit group is trying to stop a new state law requiring “the science of reading,” underscoring how money and ideology influence the national debate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/us/science-of-reading-phonics-dewine-ohio-reading-recovery.html
A San Diego Superior Court jury awarded damages in a lawsuit filed by Mike Dennis, 57, of Carlsbad. He was diagnosed in 2020 with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
This is a plugin to allow archives for multiple jekyll collections - GitHub - TravisBrace/jekyll-multiple-collection-archives: This is a plugin to allow archives for multiple jekyll collections
https://github.com/TravisBrace/jekyll-multiple-collection-archives
The massacre in Lewiston, Maine, last week was the seventh mass shooting of 2023. There were seven in total last year.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/01/how-many-mass-shootings-trends-gun-violence
Voting rights groups say move by Republican secretary of state lacked transparency and did not follow established practice
School Safety Forum May 22, 2023
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uUhu2zf1ZSlz9WN8DQqQYLsZube4cCsjeJzyRoK-G2A/edit#slide=id.p
In the recent decade, Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) has been introduced and widely installed across North America to improve pedestrians’ safety at crosswalks. While the treatment has been reported to be effective in improving safety, relatively few studies have been conducted to explore the factors associated with its effectiveness. This study investigates the effect of road characteristics, environmental factors, and device specification on vehicles’ yielding compliance, used as a surrogate measure of safety. Nineteen crosswalks within the City of Calgary were chosen for field study. An ordinary least squares regression model is applied to identify the factors that affect the compliance rate. It is found that type of road, daily traffic volume, posted speed limit, median, and rainy weather have significant impacts on the compliance rate. Besides, the result suggests using smaller size beacons and installing them above the pedestrian sign to improve safety to its fullest at RRFB-enhanced crosswalks.
Rectangular Rapid-Flash Beacons (RRFBs) are safety measures that have become popular in recent years in the USA. Such equipment has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing vehicle speed and conflicts among road users, and increasing drivers'
I have a theory. One of the reasons companies have a hard time moving forward is because they've tangled themselves in the near past. Eyes aimed backwards rather than ahead, staring at the dark, feet in their own concrete. They've trapped themselves looking for certainty where there isn't any. Searching for actionable advice where ther...
A shocking $1.8 billion antitrust decision by a jury against the National Association of Realtors for price-fixing could rearrange housing markets.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-middleman-economy-why-realtors
It started with just three skeletons posed on the lawn. Then the Marc’s store in Solon had a sale, and Karen Kasper bought two more.
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_c909c20c-78c8-11ee-9606-c790a4defa07.html
A short clip from Gary Hustwitâs documentary "Rams"
I've often wondered why some companies can develop strong habits around introspection, weekly goals, weekly reviews, progress logs, and regular updates. Meanwhile, other companies never stick to those habits or do some sort of performative version of the habits without any real value.
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-252-how-to-troubleshoot-status
Press freedom advocates are raising the alarm that the arrests of the Atmore News’s publisher and reporter are unconstitutional
Businessman Bernie Moreno and other Republican politicians in Ohio have tried to turn public support away from the Issue 1 ballot measure facing voters Tuesday.
Pepper Pike Mayor Richard Bain leads residents down the road in last Saturday’s “Pepper Pike for Walkability Issue 65 YES March/Parade.” Residents Vera and Gerard Bartasavich formed the Pepper Pike
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_9d9c1c8a-78d9-11ee-8df2-ff18bce5c0c7.html
It was good news for the Village of Chagrin Falls Monday. One complete bid was received for the long-anticipated roughly $8 million North Main Street bridge project — and from
With a goal to make it more accessible, the location of a new shelter in Riverside Park was explored during a special Parks Commission meeting at the park last week.
http://www.chagrinvalleytoday.com/communities/article_1d0c0fee-78d9-11ee-a6bb-5f6e849e0ded.html
Chagrin Falls Village has approved a proposal for installation of underground drainage for the long-anticipated and discussed Riverside Park playground, planned for construction next spring.
Many live venues take percentages of performers’ merch sales. It’s an increasingly common practice being called into question by touring artists who are just trying to break even.
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/artist-merch-cuts-venues
A mismanaged training system has artificially depressed the supply of medics
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/10/31/why-doctors-in-america-earn-so-much
In The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein notes: “Until a half century after Copernicus’ death, no potentially revolutionary changes occurred in the data available to astron...
Parents, already shaken by the fatal incident at Oxford High School, lost confidence in the school district when it hesitated to find and acknowledge accountability for the 2021 shooting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-oxford-high-school-shooting-report-guidepost
Halloween traffic fatalities are a tragic annual reminder of routine gaps in traffic safety. On Halloween and throughout the year, most childhood pedestrian deaths occur within residential neighborhoods.5 Such events highlight deficiencies of the built environment (eg, lack of sidewalks, unsafe street crossings), shortcomings in public policy (eg, insufficient space for play), and failures in traffic control (eg, excessive speed). Event-specific interventions that may prevent Halloween child pedestrian fatalities include traffic calming and automated speed enforcement in residential neighborhoods. Pedestrian visibility could be improved by limiting on-street parking and incorporating reflective patches into clothing. But restricting these interventions to 1 night per year misses the point, since year-round application of effective traffic safety interventions will foster much greater progress toward eliminating pedestrian fatalities altogether.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2711459