Unfinished Business (1863–69)

2020 ◽  
pp. 476-528
Author(s):  
Richard Haw
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
New York ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
East River ◽  
Drawing Board ◽  
Cable Stays ◽  
To Receive

returned to Cincinnati in 1863 to find his two solitary bridge towers ready to receive the complex system of suspension cables, supporting beams, cable stays, and trusses he had designed. The work of completing the bridge took a further year and half, during which his wife Johanna passed away, a fact that led John to dabble for almost a year in séances. Fortunately, John’s triumph over the Ohio came just as New York was clamoring for someone to bridge the East River. It didn’t take long for the board of trustees to offer John a contract. Over the next two years, John worked feverishly at his drawing board. Unfortunately, the task would prove harder than even the most ardent sceptic had imagined, and John himself would not live to see it done. On June 28, 1869, John’s right foot was crushed by a ferry as he surveyed the Brooklyn waterfront, and he contracted lockjaw. He died in agony several weeks later.

Recent Developments in Health Law: Civil Rights: Prisoners’ Right to Treatment Information under Pabon v. Wright

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 831-832
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Wilansky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Treatment Information ◽  
Additional Testing ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Receive Treatment ◽  
To Receive

In Pabon v. Wright, the Second Circuit held that the Fourteenth Amendment right to refuse medical treatment contained a corollary right to the information necessary to make an informed decision. Plaintiff, William Pabon, was an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York (Green Haven). He named two groups of defendants: his doctors and nurses at Green Haven and his doctors at Dutchess Gastroenterologists, P.C. (Dutchess).In October 1996, a laboratory test indicated that Plaintiff may have contracted Hepatitis C. The Green Haven doctors referred Plaintiff to Dutchess for additional testing, where additional tests confirmed that Plaintiff had Hepatitis C. In July 1997, Plaintiff returned to Dutchess for additional evaluation, and the physicians told him that he must undergo a liver biopsy in order to receive treatment for his condition.

scholarly journals EAST RIVER BATTLE FOR SHEEN: SKIMMING AN OIL SHEEN IN A 3- TO 5-KNOT CURRENT

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 (2) ◽  
pp. 1431-1434
Author(s):  
Dennis E. Connelly ◽  
Dennis J. McCarthy ◽  
John E. Westerlind
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Current Flow ◽  
Discharge Rate ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
High Discharge ◽  
East River ◽  
Discharge Canal ◽  
High Discharge Rate ◽  
Set Up

ABSTRACT This paper explores the challenges involved with the recovery of oil from a discharge canal with limited access and high relative currents. In March 1999, a sheen was observed in the cooling water discharge canal of Consolidated Edison's 2.5-million kilowatt generating station in Queens (New York City), New York At the time the sheen was discovered, the entire station had been shut down for several months for a maintenance outage. As the tide rose and fell in the East River, into which the discharge canal emptied, the oil sheen moved in and out of a 1,000-foot long tunnel connecting the generating station to the canal. The major challenges to the recovery and removal of the oil sheen were: (1) the low over head of the discharge tunnel and canal support girders, which prevented getting a skimmer into the tunnel and canal; (2) the high discharge rate of the station's cooling water pump; and (3) skimming the sheen in a 3-to 5-knot current. Consolidated Edison is a member of Clean Harbors Cooperative, L.L.C, which was brought in to remove the sheen. This was accomplished utilizing two JBF Scientific DIP Belt Skimmers, which were set up parallel to the current flow, and deflection booming.

Hydra collecting for citizen scientists v2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Callen Hyland ◽  
Kimberly Sladek
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetics ◽  
Nuclear Dna ◽  
Model System ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Submission Form ◽  
The University ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Business Media ◽  
Simple Materials

The freshwater cnidarian Hydra has been a model system for regeneration and developmental biology for over 250 years, but much remains unknown about their biodiversity and global distribution. As a citizen scientist, you can contribute to our understanding of Hydra in the wild by becoming a "Hydra Hunter". All it takes is a few simple materials and a little patience. Collecting Hydra in the wild can be challenging. You will certainly not find them everywhere you look. Keep in mind that NOT finding Hydra is still useful information because this will help us understand the environmental factors that effect their distribution. Metadata submission form: https://forms.gle/cAZCiiRCyE922G5t5 Please contact [email protected] for more information or to receive a Hydra collecting kit. Hydra collecting kits were purchased with a grant to Kimberly Sladek from the University of San Diego Associated Students Government. Thank you to Rob Steele for helpful feedback on this protocol. References: Campbell, R. D. (1983). Hydra Collecting. In H. M. Lenhoff (Ed.). Hydra: Research Methods. New York: Springer Science + Business Media. Martínez, D. E., et al. (2010). Phylogeny and biogeography of Hydra (Cnidaria: Hydridae) using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57, 403-410. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.016

The 200 Year Bridge - The New Goethals Bridge as a Roadmap

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Spoth ◽  
Seth Condell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Modal Flexibility ◽  
Steel Framing ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Truss Bridge ◽  
To Receive

<p>The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has completed the replacement of the congested and functionally obsolete Goethals Bridge, a circa 1928 steel cantilever truss bridge, with a dual-span modern cable-stayed bridge connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey and Staten Island, NY. Designed as a 150 year service life structure, the newly opened crossing paves the way towards achieving the possibility of a 200 year bridge, both in material durability, structural redundancy / resilience, and modal flexibility.</p><p>The new crossing features three eastbound and three westbound lanes plus a 3 m wide shared use path (SUP) for bicycles and pedestrians. To accommodate future expansion, the superstructure of the cable stayed spans is designed to receive steel framing to support a variety of possible transit options including light rail, while the substructure need not be strengthened for this future load. With a 274 m main span, the new crossing provides a significant maritime navigational improvement over the original 205 m steel truss span.</p><p>Herein we focus on the strategic application of corrosion protection strategies to achieve the long service life in a competitive bid environment, structural benefit of the design as relates to resiliency, modal flexibility, and operational redundancy to withstand extreme events.</p>

From the East River to the Sea

Arab New York ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 113-144
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Arab Americans ◽  
Muslim American ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
East River ◽  
Activist Groups

This chapter documents the diversity within Arab-led activism for Palestinians, through detailed case studies of two different activist groups, Adalah-NY and Al-Awda NY. While Al-Awda draws its membership and discourses from the recently-immigrated communities of New York and New Jersey, Adalah-NY is oriented towards international discourses of solidarity and social justice. The different ways that identities (such as Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, American, and Jewish) are used by these organizations represent different responses to the problems of political engagement that Arab Americans and their political allies face.

Hudson River Fishes and their Environment

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Long Island ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Long Island Sound ◽  
East River ◽  
Bay Anchovy ◽  
Eggs And Larvae ◽  
Island Sound

<em>Abstract.</em>—Our objectives were to examine the distribution and abundance of bay anchovy <em>Anchoa mitchilli </em>eggs and larvae in the Hudson River and nearby waterways and to determine if past conditional mortality rate (CMR) estimates for bay anchovy entrained at Hudson River power plants may be substantially biased because they were based solely on sampling in the Hudson River. We addressed these objectives by comparing ichthyoplankton samples collected in the Hudson River with those collected in New York Harbor, the East River, and Long Island Sound using the same gear during 2002. Bay anchovy eggs were collected from late April through the end of sampling in the Hudson River (early October) and through the end of sampling in nearby waterways (late July). Bay anchovy larvae were collected from early June through end of sampling in both the Hudson River and nearby waterways. The highest densities of bay anchovy eggs and larvae in nearby waterways were about 13 and 14 times greater, respectively, than the highest densities in the lower Hudson River. The peak standing crops of bay anchovy eggs and larvae in nearby waterways were about eight times larger than those in the Hudson River. Therefore, past CMR estimates for bay anchovy entrained at Hudson River power plants may be substantially biased if the bay anchovy eggs and larvae collected in the Hudson River and nearby waterways during 2002 belonged to one population, as it appears they did, and 2002 was representative of other years.

To Save the Union “in Behalf of Conservative Men”

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-90
Author(s):  
Jack Furniss
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
Race Prejudice ◽  
Swing Voters ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
To Receive

Horatio Seymour was the Civil War’s most successful Democrat, securing the governorship of New York in 1862. This chapter analyses his election as a means to reconsider the record of the Democratic Party during the Civil War. Republicans at the time constantly questioned the loyalty of their partisan opponents. Scholarly discussion ever since has tended to reflect this, with historians explaining Democratic victories as the result of people voting against Republicans rather than for Democrats, who supposedly relied on race prejudice and antiwar sentiment to secure votes. I argue that Seymour offered an alternative vision of the Union war that Democrats and many swing voters deliberately endorsed. Reevaluating Seymour’s campaign on its own terms provides a clearer explanation of what the Union war meant for Democrats and why their party continued to receive support from upwards of 45 percent of the northern electorate during the conflict.

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