The camera catches what might be called a cell phone suicide attempt. This took place in a Philadelphia subway station. Fortunately, the dopey guy shown here escaped serious injury from his fall onto the tracks. He scrambled out before a train came through.
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A story tonight in the Star by Daniel Dale says that there is a lot of support at City Hall for an electoral system of so-called Ranked Ballots for the municipal election of 2018 Briefly, this system permits voters to rank candidates by number, one through whatever, according to the number of candidates. In some Toronto wards there are frequently many candidates, leading to a victor who has only a plurality of the ballots. The Ranked Ballots would give voters a winner with a majority.. As explained by Dale, if there is no majority winner, the last place candidate is eliminated and his/her second place votes are distributed as marked to the remaining candidates. This continues until there is a majority winner. The South Bayview Bulldog finds it interesting to guess how this system would have effected the results of the 2010 municipal election in local wards here. In Ward 26, Councillor Parker was elected with a plurality of only 6,203 votes out of a total of 19,832. The field in Ward 26 contained seven candidates. Equally interesting is Ward 27 where Kristyn Wong-Tam was elected with a plurality of 7,527 out of 26,619 votes cast. The riding had an astounding 15 candidates. Story by Daniel Dale.
Reader Rudy L. has sent along this fascinating picture of Moore Ave in approximately 1912 looking east north east from the bridge which ran across Mud Creek and the Belt Line Railway. The house is long gone as is the road it was on known in a 1910 map at Owen Street. This map is a treasure of Moore Park history, showing many now bygone aspects of this area. Survey map dated 1910