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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS, Government, Opinion, Politics, Politics & Government, 2023 elections, board of elections, ballots, paper ballots, new york state board of elections Keywords: CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS; Government; Opinion; Politics; Politics & Government; 2023 elections; ballots; board of elections; new york state board of elections; paper ballots EN CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS Government Opinion Politics Politics & Government 2023 elections ballots board of elections new york state board of elections paper ballots N.PAG N.PAG 1 11/10/23 20231107 NES 231107 I "At a time when Americans' faith in our government is at an all time low, outsourcing the functions of our democracy to a machine with a history of issues and little ability for verification is a risk that New York cannot afford." i Graph: Adi Talwar Eric Ramirez, 39, marking his ballot at a polling station in the Bronx during the June primary. VIVA guarantees that voters continue to control their own votes, allowing them to directly mark their ballots by hand, while ensuring that ballot marking machines are available to voters with disabilities or others who need or wish to use them. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines the administrative and accounting reforms coordinated by Herman A. Metz around the turn of the 20th century in New York City. Reform efforts were motivated by deficiencies in administering New York City's finances, including a lack of internal control over monetary resources and operational activities, and opaque financial reports. The activities of Comptroller Metz, who collaborated with institutions such as the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, were paramount in initiating and implementing the administrative and accounting reforms in the city, which contributed to reform efforts across the country. Metz promoted the adoption of functional cost classifications for city departments, developed flowcharts for improved transaction processing, strengthened internal controls, and published the 1909 Manual of Accounting and Business Procedure of the City of New York, which laid the groundwork for transparent financial reports capable of providing vital information about the city's activities and subsidiary units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plastic pollution has become a public health concern, with studies showing the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in our food, water, and bodies. Two bills introduced in the New York State legislature aim to address this issue. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act would ban the use of toxic chemicals in plastic production and mandate reductions in plastic packaging over the next 12 years. The Bigger, Better Bottle Bill would increase the container deposit fee and include more types of beverages in the deposit system. These bills would not only help reduce plastic pollution but also save taxpayers money and benefit marginalized individuals who collect and redeem beverage containers. Additionally, reducing plastic production is crucial for environmental and climate justice, as plastic production contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color. Legislation is needed to ensure a sustainable future. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords for this news article include: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America, Diet and Nutrition, Digestive System Diseases and Conditions, Gastroenterology, Health and Medicine, Hepatology, Liver Diseases and Conditions, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, Columbia University. Keywords: New York City; State:New York; United States; North and Central America; Diet and Nutrition; Digestive System Diseases and Conditions; Gastroenterology; Health and Medicine; Hepatology; Liver Diseases and Conditions; Pediatric Gastroenterology; Pediatrics EN New York City State:New York United States North and Central America Diet and Nutrition Digestive System Diseases and Conditions Gastroenterology Health and Medicine Hepatology Liver Diseases and Conditions Pediatric Gastroenterology Pediatrics 2023 FEB 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Gastroenterology Week -- Researchers detail new data in Gastroenterology. [Extracted from the article]

This article from Cobblestone magazine recounts the nerve-racking journey of Frederick Bailey, an enslaved person, as he attempted to escape to freedom in 1838. Frederick borrowed papers from a Black friend who was a sailor to pass as a free Black man. He traveled by train and steamboat, eventually reaching New York City, where he found help from the Underground Railroad. Frederick and his fiancée, Anna Murray, married and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with the help of Nathan and Polly Johnson. They changed their last name to Douglass and became active in the abolitionist movement. The article also discusses the Fugitive Slave Laws and the challenges faced by escaped enslaved people in the United States. [Extracted from the article]

Dormant locations in New York dominate a list of nearly 70 leases the co-working giant intends to terminate, court papers show. (Bloomberg) -- WeWork Inc., once the biggest private office tenant in Manhattan, moved to nix dozens of pricey leases in New York immediately after filing for bankruptcy. [Extracted from the article]

Legislation has been introduced in the New York City Council to prohibit government agencies from purchasing single-use plastic water bottles smaller than one gallon. The aim is to encourage the use of water coolers or water packaged in paper cartons and aluminum instead. The bill is part of a larger effort to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic in the city, which currently sees hundreds of millions of plastic bottles discarded each year. The legislation is motivated by concerns about the negative health effects of plastic consumption and the environmental impact of plastic production. While the bill only addresses government contracts, advocates argue that it is an important step in tackling the plastic pollution problem from multiple angles. [Extracted from the article]

ACM SIGIR 2021 conference was organized as a fully online event, with more than 1,000 attendees from dozens of countries, a large technical program, and several activities and initiatives not seen at SIGIR before. This conference report provides some of the important details of how the organizers navigated through changing environments - political, social, and public health - moving the conference from NYC to Montreal and then to online. In addition to that decision process, the report also highlights several new and renewed initiatives around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Written by the conference General Co-Chairs and the DEI Chairs, this report is meant to inform future conference organizers as well as the SIGIR community at large. Date: 15--21 July, 2021. Website: http://sigir.org/sigir2021/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "This paper also discusses the challenges and limitations of AI-based approaches for wound assessment and prediction of wound healing. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Emerging Technologies; Health and Medicine; Inflammation; Machine Learning EN Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technologies Health and Medicine Inflammation Machine Learning 4913 4913 1 09/19/23 20230922 NES 230922 2023 SEP 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Investigators publish new report on artificial intelligence. [Extracted from the article]

If residents add food scraps or food-soiled paper, it brings all the more energy-dense nutrients into the compost mix. New York City residents will be required to set out yard waste for collection if a proposed rule is signed into law, which would also allow for food scraps and food-soiled paper to be separated and set at curbside on a voluntary basis or be commingled with yard waste. [Extracted from the article]

New York City residents will be required to set out yard waste for collection if a proposed rule is signed into law, which would also allow for food scraps and food-soiled paper to be separated and set at curbside on a voluntary basis or be commingled with yard waste. If residents add food scraps or food-soiled paper, it brings all the more energy-dense nutrients into the compost mix. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: Housing and Homelessness; Immigration; Manhattan; 60-day shelter limit; adams administration; asylum seekers; Homelessness; immigrants; Legal Aid Society; nyc shelter system EN Housing and Homelessness Immigration Manhattan 60-day shelter limit adams administration asylum seekers Homelessness immigrants Legal Aid Society nyc shelter system N.PAG N.PAG 1 11/08/23 20231102 NES 231102 I A recently-opened facility dedicated to "reticketing" has sown confusion, emerging as one of the only options - along with new "waiting areas" - for recently-arrived immigrants forced to leave their shelter placements as the cold sets in. i Graph: Emma Whitford A group of friends from Mauritania show a piece of paper that directed them to the East Village reticketing center on Nov. 1. The St. Brigid reticketing center is meant to serve people after their time has expired, according to an Oct. 27 memo circulated by the Legal Aid Society, relaying information the organization had obtained from the Adams administration. [Extracted from the article]

This article from Architectural Digest features an interview with designer Kelly Behun about her sky-high apartment in New York City. Behun moved into the two-story space three years ago and focused on creating a neutral backdrop that allows the city views to take center stage. The article highlights various design elements in the apartment, including statement art pieces and custom furnishings. Behun describes her home as a laboratory for experimenting with ideas that she can use in future projects or collections. She expresses her ongoing awe and wonder at the beauty and enormity of the city. [Extracted from the article]

"Certainly housing court is a forum where most cases are resolved and we are grateful that Justice Lebovits wants to use those skills to try to see if this case can also be resolved." Keywords: Housing and Homelessness; Justice; adults in shelters; Coalition for the Homeless; Homelessness; housing; Immigration; Legal Aid Society; mayor eric adams; New York Supreme Court EN Housing and Homelessness Justice adults in shelters Coalition for the Homeless Homelessness housing Immigration Legal Aid Society mayor eric adams New York Supreme Court N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/25/23 20231019 NES 231019 I "The parties have agreed that for now there should not be a war of legal papers", New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Lebovits said Thursday. [Extracted from the article]

The City Council lawthat made composting mandatory requires that the Department of Sanitation do outreach about the program and teach residents how to separate organic waste. Keywords: Government; Health and Environment; Transportation; big resuse; climate change; composting; Department of Sanitation; DSNY; Food; food composting EN Government Health and Environment Transportation big resuse climate change composting Department of Sanitation DSNY Food food composting N.PAG N.PAG 1 10/16/23 20231011 NES 231011 I Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements - which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash - have failed to improve over the last decade. [Extracted from the article]

At the beginning of the 1950s, an amateur cinema clubs network started developing in Yugoslavia. These cinema clubs soon became centres of experimental films production and development. In order to understand Yugoslav experimental film in a more comprehensive manner, the author of the paper analyses its institutional and production framework at the time and states a thesis about the organized cinema amateurism as an aspect of identity homogeniza- tion of the Yugoslav society. The paper also touches on the relationship between this branch of film making and professional cinema, the discourse presence of which formed the position and (self)awareness of amateur experimentalists to a large extent. The comparative model for the analysis of emancipation and market position of Yugoslav experimental film is the New York City based The Film-Maker’s Cooperative, serving as a model for the attempt to organize Yugoslav experimental film via the JUFIKO initiative (the Yugoslav Film Cooperative). Amateur experimental film is looked at through the optics of commercial activities in the socialist system, opening neo-avant-garde ideological questions and the questions about the discipline to which this film belongs – is it “art” or “film”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The US government is attempting to seize a luxury apartment in Manhattan that is allegedly linked to the daughter of the former President of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso. The apartment, located in the Trump International Hotel and Tower, was purchased in 2014 for $7.1 million and is believed to have been bought with funds stolen from the Congolese government. US prosecutors have outlined a complex network of banks, individuals, and shell companies that were allegedly used to launder hundreds of millions of dollars from Congo. The apartment, which offers stunning views of the city and Hudson River, has been unoccupied since its purchase. [Extracted from the article]

Moyne ruled the new law wouldn't go into effect until lawyers for New York City and the app-delivery firms file formal papers with their arguments. (Bloomberg) -- A New York state judge issued a temporary halt to a new city law scheduled to go into effect next week, which requires minimum wage payments for app-based food delivery workers. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted by the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital examined the prevalence of tobacco smoking among individuals with primary psychosis in the United States. The study found that individuals with psychotic disorders continue to smoke at higher rates than the general population, with no significant decrease in smoking prevalence observed. The research also identified geographical differences in smoking rates among this population. The study concludes that smoking interventions should be implemented nationwide to address this issue. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the life and art of Stéphane Mandelbaum, a Belgian artist who was murdered in 1986. Mandelbaum, who had connections to the criminal underworld, attempted to steal a painting but was killed when he discovered it was a fake. Despite his relatively unknown status during his lifetime, Mandelbaum's work has gained attention in recent years, with exhibitions in Paris and Frankfurt. Now, his art will be showcased at the Drawing Center in New York. The exhibition explores themes of history, memory, trauma, and identity, and highlights Mandelbaum's talent and his complex relationship with his Jewish heritage. [Extracted from the article]

As a result of the filing, the foreclosure auction will not take place until the bankruptcy is either concluded or the stay is lifted, he added. (Bloomberg) -- A sprawling Greenwich Village townhouse once rented by rapper Travis Scott - and now listed for $22.5 million - has entered bankruptcy ahead of a scheduled foreclosure auction. [Extracted from the article]

This article from Model Railroader discusses the process of adding a subway line to an HO scale layout of the New York Harbor. The author describes how they found and converted subway sets to accurately depict the Metropolitan Transit Authority's No. 2 and No. 5 trains. They also provide details on modeling the Grand Concourse Station, including creating a raised platform, adding tile walls, and incorporating various details such as benches and newsstands. The author shares their experience of running the subway on their layout and highlights the positive reception it has received. [Extracted from the article]

This article from Bicycling magazine examines the struggles of app-based delivery workers, known as deliveristas, in New York City and their fight for improved pay and working conditions. The deliveristas are part of a campaign called Los Deliveristas Unidos, which began in 2020. The article highlights the unique challenges faced by deliveristas in New York City, such as heavy traffic and narrow roads, which have made them the largest two-wheeled workforce in the country. While some reforms have been achieved, such as guaranteed bathroom access and minimum delivery fees, the implementation of a livable minimum wage has been delayed due to legal challenges from delivery apps. The article also explores the potential for unionization among deliveristas and similar organizing efforts worldwide. It features the experiences of Gustavo Ajche, an immigrant from Guatemala who works as a delivery worker in New York City, and discusses the difficulties he encounters in the evolving takeout industry. The rise of delivery apps has intensified competition and placed greater pressure on workers like Ajche, who face hazardous working conditions, low wages, and job insecurity. The article also emphasizes the impact of these changes on the city's infrastructure and the necessity for improved regulations to safeguard delivery workers. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers review on "Foldtogram" exhibition representing the art from Joy Episalla which will run through July 29, 2022 at Tibor De Nagy Gallery in New York City.

• Estimate link travel time with large-scale incomplete vehicle trip data. • Propose a path-recovery-based method to iteratively estimate link travel time. • Conduct extensive experiments on two public large-scale vehicle trip datasets. The widespread use of positioning devices has generated large-scale trip data, boosting the study of traffic modeling. For instance, New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission regularly releases over 165 million taxi trip records containing the end-point information of each trip every year. Such big datasets provide us potential new perspectives to tackle traditional issues in traffic modeling. In this paper, we propose to use such vehicle trip data, which do not contain information on the intermediate vehicle positions other than the end points, to study the link (road segment) travel time estimation problem. A method named PR-LTTE is developed to estimate the mean travel time for interested links in a road network based on path recovery, jointly modeling trip distance and trip travel time. The key idea is to iteratively alternate between 1) inferring the most likely path for a given trip by minimizing a loss function that considers both trip distance and trip travel time, and 2) computing the link travel time via the least-squares estimation with the inferred path. Our experiments on two large-scale trip datasets (including New York City taxi trip data and Chengdu DiDi trip data) show very promising results. PR-LTTE improves the accuracy of travel time estimation by more than 50% in most cases over state-of-the-art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A recent report from Columbia University discusses the application of an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Cascade of Care in a large public health system. The OUD Cascade of Care is a framework that helps health systems track patient health milestones and identify areas for intervention. The study found that out of 33,616 individuals diagnosed with OUD, only 10.7% initiated medication-based treatment in an outpatient setting, 6.7% had timely follow-up, and 3.5% were retained for a minimum of 6 months. The research suggests that tailoring the OUD Cascade of Care to local systems and focusing on early stages can improve substance use-related outcomes. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the art exhibition titled "Käthe Kollwitz" by Käthe Kollwitz at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York from March 31 to July 20, 2024.

Exploiting deep learning techniques for traffic flow prediction has become increasingly widespread. Most existing studies combine CNN or GCN with recurrent neural network to extract the spatio-temporal features in traffic networks. The traffic networks can be naturally modeled as graphs which are effective to capture the topology and spatial correlations among road links. The issue is that the traffic network is dynamic due to the continuous changing of the traffic environment. Compared with the static graph, the dynamic graph can better reflect the spatio-temporal features of the traffic network. However, in practical applications, due to the limited accuracy and timeliness of data, it is hard to generate graph structures through frequent statistical data. Therefore, it is necessary to design a method to overcome data defects in traffic flow prediction. In this paper, we propose a long-term traffic flow prediction method based on dynamic graphs. The traffic network is modeled by dynamic traffic flow probability graphs, and graph convolution is performed on the dynamic graphs to learn spatial features, which are then combined with LSTM units to learn temporal features. In particular, we further propose to use graph convolutional policy network based on reinforcement learning to generate dynamic graphs when the dynamic graphs are incomplete due to the data sparsity i sue. By testing our method on city-bike data in New York City, it demonstrates that our model can achieve stable and effective long-term predictions of traffic flow, and can reduce the impact of data defects on prediction results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a memoir of the author's experiences living in New York City, with a particular focus on their time spent riding the subway. It explores personal struggles, relationships, and evolving perceptions of the city. It provides a vivid portrayal of urban life, intertwined with reflections on art, architecture, and the human experience amidst the bustling underground world of New York's public transportation system.

New York State has awarded nearly $500,000 to the city of Albany to install 14 EV charging stations, including 28 charging ports, according to news10.com report. The state's department of conservation awarded a $499,769.60 grant to the city under the... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Because there's no responsive papers, these are cases where a tenant never went to court to put in a defense", said Justin La Mort, a supervising attorney at Mobilization for Justice who represents tenants in housing court. Courts Dismissed 121K "Dead" Eviction Cases in NYC. Meanwhile, tenant advocates continue urging the court to slow down dockets so that eviction cases do not move ahead without a tenant first being assigned to a lawyer. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the cultural renaissance of 1970s New York City, beyond icons such as Andy Warhol, highlighting lesser-known figures such as Robert Mapplethorpe's mentor Sam Wagstaff and others. Topics include the city's financial crisis, societal challenges, and the vibrant artistic scene amidst economic decline and social upheaval, as portrayed in Guy Trebay's memoir "Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York."

The article reviews the exhibition "Drawings by Sculptors," which features works of artists including Arlene Shechet, Josh Kline, and Wells Chandler at the Helena Anrather gallery in New York City through February 4, 2023.

New York City is seeking over $2.1 million in back taxes from Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed last year. The city has filed a complaint against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the receiver for the failed bank, citing tax deficiencies from 2017 to 2021. The FDIC denied the city's request to be paid from the remaining bank assets. Silicon Valley Bank's Cayman Islands branch has also filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in New York. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was the largest US bank failure in over a decade and foreshadowed a wider banking crisis. [Extracted from the article]

New York City is seeking over $2.1 million in back taxes from Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed last year. The city has filed a complaint against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the receiver for the failed bank, citing tax deficiencies for the years 2017 through 2021. The city argues that it has a legitimate tax claim and is entitled to collect the taxes owed. The FDIC had previously denied the city's request to be paid from the remaining bank assets. Silicon Valley Bank's parent company recently announced a deal with key creditors to resolve its bankruptcy case. [Extracted from the article]

Image: Kiosk Information Systems Kiosk Information Systems will demonstrate several self-service technologies at the NRF '24, Jan. 14-16 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City, according to a news release. Solutions to be demonstrated at booth 4247 include: buy online/pickup in-store, retail safety cabinets and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A man in Iowa has set a new world record for the largest collection of pencils, with a total of 69,255. Aaron Bartholmey has been collecting pencils for over 30 years, starting in first grade. The American Museum of Natural History in New York City has decorated their holiday tree with over 2,000 origami animals, including a garland of 400 elephants. Additionally, a rare stamp known as the Inverted Jenny, which was printed upside down by mistake in 1918, recently sold for $2 million at auction. [Extracted from the article]

A recent study conducted at John Jay College of Criminal Justice examined harm reduction strategies in buyer feedback for Oxycodone and Adderall purchased on the darknet marketplace AlphaBay. The study found that harm reduction strategies were present in buyer feedback, but the marketplace's harm reduction policy had little impact on this communication. The findings highlight the need for harm reduction programs to extend their services to online environments in order to assist buyers in making safe and informed decisions when purchasing drugs online. This research has been peer-reviewed and provides valuable insights into the experiences of drug buyers in anonymous settings. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the challenge of understanding and appreciating the numbers and statistics related to climate change. It highlights how these numbers, which represent the impact of climate change on various aspects of life, can be difficult to comprehend for those who are not familiar with the field. The author uses the example of water data in New York City to illustrate the potential consequences of climate change. The article emphasizes the need to develop new intuitions and perspectives to grasp the magnitude of the challenges posed by climate change, particularly in relation to the growing global population. [Extracted from the article]

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The article reviews the exhibition "Alex Katz: Gathering" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, held from October 21, 2022 to February 20, 2023, emphasizing the artist's stylistic evolution, thematic elements, and impact of light.

This article from Architectural Digest discusses the transformation of a family home in Aspen by designer Shawn Henderson. The Zilkha family, who had recently moved from New York City, fell in love with Aspen and decided to make it their permanent home. Henderson worked with the family to lighten up the house and create a comfortable and cosmopolitan atmosphere. The result is a permanent residence that blends rustic elements with contemporary design and offers spaces suitable for all ages. [Extracted from the article]

This storm may break Hurricane Ida's record rainfall if New York City gets more than 7.13 inches of rain over the 24-hour period on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Gagosian art gallery has announced the transfer of "Denominator," a cuboid digital artwork by visual artist Urs Fischer, from a New York City branch to a location in Beverly Hills, California, according to a press release. "This collective human... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]