Vertical Transport Business

1960 ◽  
Vol 64 (592) ◽  
pp. 199-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Vertical Transport ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Offset ◽  
First Time

SummaryTurbine-powered helicopters mark the most important step taken thus far in the transition from development to business for that segment of the transportation industry which utilises the capability for vertical flight.Completing more than a year ot detailed study and evaluation, New York Airways recently announced its commitment to purchase ten multi-turbine Vertol 107 aircraft designed to cruise in excess of 150 miles per hour with 25 passengers. They will be introduced into service in the spring of 1961. With these machines commercial revenues could, for the first time, offset all operating charges and produce a fair return on the capital investment—without government financial support. The availability of the Fairey Rotodyne in 1964 will place New York Airways in a position to offer the public a substantially enlarged and even more useful service operating on a business basis.

Melancholia's Meerkat: A Poetic Leap

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1719-1728
Author(s):  
Jody Greene
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Actual Change ◽  
First Time ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Math Problems ◽  
Rational Side

I think we learn to be worldly from grappling with, rather than generalizing from, the ordinary.—Donna HarawayThe question that preoccupies me in the light of recent global violence is, Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives? And, finally, What makes for a grievable life?—Judith ButlerIn a New York Times editorial piece published in May 2007 about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Nicholas Kristof lamented, not for the first time, that people “aren't moved by genocide.” “The human conscience just isn't pricked by mass suffering,” Kristof continues, and yet, as both anecdotal evidence and scientific research have repeatedly shown, “an individual child (or puppy) in distress causes our hearts to flutter.” He recounts a series of psychological and sociological experiments that have borne out what he calls “the limits of rationality,” including the fact that people who hear narratives or see images that “prime the emotions” by focusing on the plight of an individual suffering creature—say, a baby or “a soulful dog in peril”—respond more vigorously to that suffering than those who have had their “rational side” primed by performing math problems. Perhaps, Kristof proposes in disgust, what the Darfur situation needs in order to achieve the public recognition it deserves—let alone to effect actual change—is not statistics of mass genocide but a very photogenic, if appropriately sad-eyed, poster child, “a suffering puppy with big eyes and floppy ears.” “If President Bush and the global public alike are unmoved by the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of fellow humans,” he despairingly concludes, “maybe our last, best hope is that we can be galvanized by a puppy in distress.”

Transformations (1979–1984)

Wendy Carlos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Amanda Sewell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Symphony Orchestras ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital Synthesis ◽  
First Time

This chapter addresses the first few years after Carlos returned to the public eye, which included high-profile projects such as the soundtracks to the films The Shining and TRON. She also gave interviews to the New York Times and Keyboard magazine, the latter of which also installed her on its advisory board. This was a period of several changes in Carlos’s life. She and Rachel Elkind ended their personal and professional relationship, she began what would be a lifelong relationship with Annemarie Franklin, she began using digital synthesis instead of analog, and she worked with symphony orchestras for the first time.

scholarly journals Historic photographs of glaciers and glacial landforms from the Ralph Stockman Tarr collection at Cornell University

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 771-787
Author(s):  
Julie Elliott ◽  
Matthew E. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Volume Estimation ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Library ◽  
Glacial Landforms ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Historic photographs are useful for documenting glacier, environmental, and landscape change, and we have digitized a collection of about 1949 images collected during an 1896 expedition to Greenland and trips to Alaska in 1905, 1906, 1909, and 1911, led by Ralph Stockman Tarr and his students at Cornell University. These images are openly available in the public domain through Cornell University Library (http://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/tarr, last access: 15 March 2020; Tarr and Cornell University Library, 2014, https://doi.org/10.7298/X4M61H5R). The primary research targets of these expeditions were glaciers (there are about 990 photographs of at least 58 named glaciers), but there are also photographs of people, villages, and geomorphological features, including glacial features in the formally glaciated regions of New York state. Some of the glaciers featured in the photographs have retreated significantly in the last century or even completely vanished. The images document terminus positions and ice elevations for many of the glaciers and some glaciers have photographs from multiple viewpoints that may be suitable for ice volume estimation through photogrammetric methods. While some of these photographs have been used in publications in the early 20th century, most of the images are only now widely available for the first time. The digitized collection also includes about 300 lantern slides made from the expedition photographs and other related images and used in classes and public presentations for decades. The archive is searchable by a variety of terms including title, landform type, glacier name, location, and date. The images are of scientific interest for understanding glacier and ecological change; of public policy interest for documenting climate change; of historic and anthropological interest as local people, settlements, and gold-rush era paraphernalia are featured in the images; and of technological interest as the photographic techniques used were cutting edge for their time.

When the Meek Began to Roar

2020 ◽  
pp. 120-143
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
York State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time ◽  
Prison Guards

During the 1960s, thousands of schoolteachers, nurses, sanitation workers, prison guards, firefighters, and police joined unions for the first time. Many of those workers defied the law by going on strike. This chapter explains how the Labor Board vets tried to mediate such strikes in New York City and then drafted new legislation for the public-sector employees in New York State. The Taylor Law enabled hundreds of thousands of public employees to unionize. But it did not stop strikes or slow wage and salary increases. On the contrary, relations between the public union employees, government agencies, and the public remained turbulent for years.

Taking the German Muse out of Music: The Chronicle and US Musical Opinion in World War I

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-175
Author(s):  
E. DOUGLAS BOMBERGER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War I ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Boston Symphony Orchestra ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe case of conductor Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra during World War I is notorious for its combination of nationalist patriotism and opposition to international influence on US concert organizations. Although it seemed on the surface to be a spontaneous uprising against a foreign musician who refused to play “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the public outcry against Muck was part of a larger campaign orchestrated by a shadowy propaganda magazine named The Chronicle, published in New York from March 1917 to November 1918. This journal was marketed to the United States’ wealthy elite and was available to subscribers by invitation only. By strategic publication of fake news stories and xenophobic opinion pieces, editor Richard Fletcher spread fear and suspicion through the most rarefied strata of US society. The journal was instrumental in blacklisting suspicious arts organizations and fomenting prejudice against enemy aliens. This article examines for the first time the role of this magazine in the banning of German-language operas at the Met, the internment of Muck, and the near-elimination of German repertoire from US orchestral programs.

Off Stage

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-237
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
York City ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
To Come ◽  
Panic Of 1837

Returning to New York City in 1836, Afong Moy’s sales functions fully ended and her manager, Henry Hannington, employed her solely as an oriental object in his New York diorama and panorama entertainments. After the Panic of 1837, Hannington’s operations collapsed. Those who brought her to America, Nathaniel and Francis Carnes and Captain Benjamin Obear, appear to have abandoned her despite their promise of returning her to China. In 1838, as Chapter 9 relates, Afong Moy, without resources or financial support, entered a poorhouse in Monmouth, New Jersey. Yet, the public did not forget her. Rallying to her defense, newspapers across the nation ran articles decrying her treatment. Citizens forced her guardians to come forward and contribute to her support.

scholarly journals Historic photographs of glaciers and glacial landforms from the R. S. Tarr collection at Cornell University

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Elliott ◽  
Matthew E. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Landscape Change ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
Glacial Landforms ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Historic photographs are useful for documenting glacier, environmental, and landscape change and we have digitized a collection of about 1949 images collected during an 1896 expedition to Greenland and trips to Alaska in 1905, 1906, 1909, and 1911, led by Ralph Stockman Tarr and his students at Cornell University. These images are openly available in the public domain through Cornell University Library (http://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/tarr). The primary research targets of these expeditions were glaciers (there are about 990 photographs of at least 58 named glaciers) but there are also photographs of people, villages, geologic features, and formerly glaciated regions, including glacial features near Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Some of the glaciers featured in the photographs have retreated significantly in the last century or even completely vanished. For many glaciers, multiple views are available, potentially allowing the use of photogrammetric techniques to generate three-dimensional models of the ice extent. While some of these photographs have been used in publications in the early 20th century, most of the images are only now widely available for the first time. The digitized collection also includes about 300 lantern slides made from the expedition photographs and other related images and used in classes and public presentations about glaciers and glaciations by several Cornell faculty over the decades. The images are of scientific interest for understanding glacier and ecological change, of public policy interest for documenting climate change, of historic and anthropological interest as local people, settlements, and gold-rush era paraphernalia are featured in the images, and of artistic and technological interest as the photographic techniques used were cutting-edge for their time.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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