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By SAMANTHA GROSS
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- It looks like something you'd see on a suburban cul-de-sac, not inching through Times Square.
A boxy minivan made by Nissan will be the next iconic yellow cab in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday.
The model, selected from among three finalists in a city competition, is designed so that it could eventually be updated with an electric engine. The city is exploring the possibility of ultimately replacing the city's entire fleet of more than 13,000 taxis with vehicles powered by electricity.
Bloomberg conceded at a City Hall news conference that the minivan -- which offers extra passenger legroom and enough trunk space for the luggage of four people -- might make some think of suburbia, but he said the distinctive yellow paint job will make them New York icons.
The minivan features a panoramic overhead window that will give tourists a view of the city's skyscrapers and onboard outlets and charging stations that will allow professionals to treat the cabs as mobile offices. With such amenities, city Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky said he believed the vehicles could become as beloved as the Checker cabs of yesteryear.
"Not a week goes by when somebody doesn't say to me, 'Why can't you bring back the Checker?'" he said. "The cars that are on the road today just have not generated the same type of affection and passenger loyalty."
The anchor of the city's current fleet of more than 13,200 taxis is Ford's Crown Victoria, which was recently discontinued.
The Nissan van, which beat out proposals from Ford Motor Co. and Turkey's Karsan, will be phased in as older taxis age out of service. All current taxis, including the city's hybrid cabs, will be off the streets by 2018.
Although the city was not legally allowed to make its decision based on fuel efficiency, Nissan's vehicles would double efficiency to 25 miles per gallon from the Crown Victoria's 12 to 13 miles per gallon, the mayor said. The Nissan was the most fuel efficient and the cheapest of the three finalists, and is expected to cost about $29,000.
The new models will be the first city taxicabs to offer passenger airbags and to go through crash testing with equipment such as the driver's partition already installed. Doors will slide open sideways, eliminating the possibility of opening a door into an oncoming bicyclist or automobile.
And passengers will no longer have to cope with drivers who say they don't know how to get to out-of-the-way destinations, since every car will be equipped with a GPS system, the mayor said.
Some local officials said they were unhappy with the final selection and questioned why the Karsan model wasn't chosen after the automaker pledged to build the vehicles in Brooklyn. Bloomberg said that getting approval for an automotive plant in the city and building such a facility within the two-year limit wasn't feasible.
Ford had planned to build its vehicles overseas, while Nissan plans to build them in Mexico then put final touches on them at a New York City-area facility. About 70 percent of Nissan vehicles sold in the U.S. are made in the U.S., according to the automaker.
Picking the Karsan model would have made all the city's taxis wheelchair accessible, and advocates for the disabled protested in front of City Hall on Tuesday. Bloomberg said that a new program would allow riders in wheelchairs to call for properly equipped taxicabs, and taxi owners could opt to pay extra to buy a wheelchair-accessible version of the Nissan vehicle.
City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio called for an investigation into the selection process, saying that a consultant hired by the city to help evaluate automakers' proposals had previously worked for Nissan and for Ford. The mayor denied there was any conflict of interest.
A Ford spokesman said the company would continue to work with New York. Karsan said it would work to bring its proposal to other cities.


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"GOP rejects rape exception in platform," blared a Politico headline yesterday. "Even as Mitt Romney sought to quash the furor surrounding Todd Akin's 'legitimate' rape comments, the Republican platform committee here approved an abortion plank that includes no exemptions for rape, incest or even to save the life of the mother," James Hohmann noted in the lead paragraph of his August 21 story.
"On Tuesday, not one of the 100-plus members on the GOP platform committee introduced amendments. They kept the identical language from 2004 and 2008," Hohmann groused, comporting to the media's quadrennial fixation on how the GOP is supposedly too extremely pro-life. By contrast, as I noted yesterday, the 15-person Democratic platform committee -- one member of which is NARAL Pro-Choice America's president -- earlier this month stubbornly refused to mildly soften their party's stringent pro-choice abortion plank. Politico, of course, failed to cover that controversy.
In July, Democrats for Life of America (DFLA) meekly requested that the Democratic Party Platform Committee add language to the party's abortion plank that resembles language from 1996 and 2000 platforms that holds that the party is welcoming to pro-life members:
"We respect the conscience of each American and recognize that members of our Party have deeply held and sometimes differing positions on issues of personal conscience, like abortion and the death penalty. We recognize the diversity of views as a source of strength and we welcome into our ranks all Americans who may hold differing positions on these and other issues.
However, we can find common ground. We believe that we can reduce the number of abortions because we are united in our support for policies that assist families who find themselves in crisis or unplanned pregnancies. We believe that women deserve to have a breadth of options available as they face pregnancy: including, among others, support and resources needed to handle the challenges of pregnancy, adoption, and parenthood; access to education, healthcare, childcare; and appropriate child support. We envision a new day without financial or societal barriers to bringing a planned or unplanned pregnancy to term."
That language was not approved, and it should be no surprise considering NARAL president Nancy Keenan was on the committee but no known pro-life Democrats were.
The 2012 Democratic Party platform is not formally approved yet, but if it's anything like the 2008 document, it will be staunchly pro-choice, including a statement that the Party "oppose[s] any and all efforts to weaken or undermine" the right to an abortion.
That's a rather inflexible, absolutist position that fails to account for the complex views most Americans hold on abortion. For instance, as Democrats for Life noted in a recent press release:
- 61% of Democrats support parental consent for minors seeking abortion (Gallup, 2011);
- 60% of Democrats support a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortion (Gallup, 2011);
- 84% of Democrats support informed consent (Gallup, 2011);
- 49% of Democrats support an ultrasound requirement (Gallup, 2011);
- 59% of Democrats support a ban on partial-birth abortions (Gallup, 2011).
Of course, DFLA wasn't even calling for the party to signal approval of those common-sense measures, it simply wanted the party to recognize that pro-lifers should be welcome in the party's ranks. Even that, however, was too much for the party's pro-choice extremists.
Yet a search on Politico's website finds no reporting on DFLA's request nor of the committee's refusal to adopt the language. It's not like Politico has completely ignored the drafting of the Democratic Party platform. Politico has, for example, reported on the platform committee's unanimous approval of a plank endorsing same-sex marriage and calling for repeal of the President Clinton-signed Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to be repealed.
On July 30, Politico reporters Reid Epstein and Byron Tau noted that some southern Democrats were worried about the gay marriage plank and noted that both White House and Democratic Party spokesmen refused to comment about such criticism.
Back to Hohmann's reporting, it's notable that the Politico writer failed to quote directly from the Republican platform, instead summarizing some of its points. Since the language is reportedly identical to the 2008 document, here's the actual language of the plank from '08:
Maintaining The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life.
We have made progress. The Supreme Court has upheld prohibitions against the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion. States are now permitted to extend health-care coverage to children before birth. And the Born Alive Infants Protection Act has become law; this law ensures that infants who are born alive during an abortion receive all treatment and care that is provided to all newborn infants and are not neglected and left to die. We must protect girls from exploitation and statutory rape through a parental notification requirement. We all have a moral obligation to assist, not to penalize, women struggling with the challenges of an unplanned pregnancy. At its core, abortion is a fundamental assault on the sanctity of innocent human life. Women deserve better than abortion. Every effort should be made to work with women considering abortion to enable and empower them to choose life. We salute those who provide them alternatives, including pregnancy care centers, and we take pride in the tremendous increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
Respect for life requires efforts to include persons with disabilities in education, employment, the justice system, and civic participation. In keeping with that commitment, we oppose the nonconsensual withholding of care or treatment from people with disabilities, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide, which endanger especially those on the margins of society. Because government should set a positive standard in hiring and contracting for the services of persons with disabilities, we need to update the statutory authority for the AbilityOne program, the main avenue by which those productive members of our society can offer high quality services at the best possible value.

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This questions started with a question I had about gravity. If two objects of different weights fall to the earth at the same rate of acceleration, then it seems to me that gravity is in some ways 'calculating' the weight of each item and applying the appropriate force to each item so as to have it fall at the same rate of acceleration. Is this true (or at least close to the truth)?
This got me think that perhaps this is what all of the mathematical equations of physics are really saying - namely that there are mathematical equations that are getting applied to the real world in one way or another.
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Moderators: Daniel Benson, Susan Westemeyer, Irondan
macbindle wrote:could you point me to your answer then, please? I've read the posting guidelines and the FAQs, and I can see you've answered some stuff above about private messaging but that isn't what I'm asking about.
Irondan wrote:Armchair cyclist wrote:The rule (http://forum.cyclingnews.com/viewtopic.php?p=2194117#p2194117) is about the intent: that is why it is a bad rule. You can post dozens of posts that make perfectly valid points, but your motive for so doing might be increasing the post count, not generating discussion or sharing insights.
You cannot legislate for intention. This was introduced as a hammer specifically to hit telencefalus with, but as phrased has other effects, unless of course the UCI approach to rule application is employed. Specific cases make for bad rules.
If admins want to simply admit that, despite the rule being written as an absolute, they will ignore it, that's fine: that is the sort of clarification I asked for months ago.
We like the rule and will not be changing it.
Go to any other forum on the internet and you'll see similar rules in place. We were just late to the dance with respect to cracking down on "post count" inflators. We also have live moderation that uses forum policy, logic and common sense. A person inflating their post count by 5 posts to be able to use the PM function is different from someone trying to inflate their posts by the 100's or 1000's, which we are able to differentiate and obviously would not consider sanctioning a new member that wants to join a game or chat with their buddy but would, however, enforce a sanction if we believe a new member trying to inflate their post count in order to spam the forum or other nefarious purposes.
As KB has already said, it's best if a new member finds a thread that interests them and posts some comments to get over the 5 post threshold in order to begin using the PM function of the forum.
python wrote:Reluctantly decided to post here about 2 recent acts of moderation i witnessed. Both in the same rarely attended by the mods thread. One - the real moderation - timely, measured, objective and most importantly effective. And another - untimely, overcooked and (based on the available evidence) biased and vengeful...
B/c it is about the mods, i wont mention the posters involved but will have to mention the mods...btw, i compared the 2 ACTS of moderation. NOT the mods per se.
anyways, a poster X (not myself) frequently posts his views in defense of a particular nation whose athletes are involved in numerous doping cases. One day recently a poster Y after several less offensive jabs, finally cross the line and called the poster X a paid agent, shill etc.
pay attention, very soon after the personal attack by a poster Y a mod appeared right on time and posted a public warning, that the paid troll/agent accusations must stop.
and they did. no one was banned, no posts were deleted ! But it did not end there...
poster Z came to the defense of the warned poster Y and posited a provocative lil question to the mod about trolls. reasonably, the mod did not take the bate. Then the poster Z (btw, he often posits those little Qs) baited the mod AGAIN and even answered his own question: 'should I take it for yes, poster X is trolling? (note the lil baiting Qs again !)
Poster Z did NOT get reprimanded for baiting a mod. he did not get punished for calling another poster a troll (which is strictly against the rules as recently reiterated). did not even have his offensive off-topic deleted !
likely encouraged by the mod he baited restarint and patience, he went into a direct personal attack on to the poster X over the same subject of doping by the said nation.
'...you are smarter than that ? why are you acting stupid ? '..how many here would doubt that the lil Q was a poorly disguised insult ? ...this was reported.
and here starts the poor moderation act. unlike the timely warning that stopped the personal attacks on the poster X by poster Y, the reported insult by poster Z on poster X was let stand for several days.
only at that point i decided to remind the poster Z that the INTENT in his lil baiting Qs can be questioned, that throwing stones while living in a glass house is not good etc.
suddenly king boonen appears in the thread which by his own admission he does not attend. oblivious to the tread nuances and pulse, oblivious to the previous moderating actions, without any warnings he deletes a bunch of posts, including the reported offense on poster X and bans only the poster who consistently criticized his actions in the past.
everything here is based on the still available evidence and the one deleted by king boonen.
Kokoso was banned for three days for insulting another user
King Boonen wrote:Kokoso was banned on the 27th for 3 days. I wasn't the one that banned them, the mod who did forgot to announce it. I did as we use that thread to track suspensions at times.
Irondan wrote:King Boonen wrote:Kokoso was banned on the 27th for 3 days. I wasn't the one that banned them, the mod who did forgot to announce it. I did as we use that thread to track suspensions at times.
I'm the mod that forgot to make the announcement. It was an honest mistake and KB's right, we can keep track of bans through the suspension thread so bans must be announced even if it's timestamped after the actual ban takes place.
python wrote:Irondan wrote:King Boonen wrote:Kokoso was banned on the 27th for 3 days. I wasn't the one that banned them, the mod who did forgot to announce it. I did as we use that thread to track suspensions at times.
I'm the mod that forgot to make the announcement. It was an honest mistake and KB's right, we can keep track of bans through the suspension thread so bans must be announced even if it's timestamped after the actual ban takes place.
something does not jive with the reality of the board...king boonen siad the dude is banned for 2 weeks afresh. not retrospectively, i guess
but remarkebly he just posted in the doping and seems in the same spirit.
either this dude has some magic or he enjoys the new years laxity that we ALL now experience..
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In short, no we won't.
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TPWD Historic Sites Receives Grant to Study Effects of Bastrop State Park Fire
National Park Service Awards $25,000 to Examine Damage to Historic CCC Structures
AUSTIN, TX – As one of only 11 recipients nationwide, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Historic Sites branch was recently awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Park Service to study the effects of the Bastrop fire on Bastrop State Park's historic structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corp.
Despite that almost all of the park's CCC-built structures, which date back to the 1930s, survived the worst fire in Texas history, the lethal flames and smoke came within feet of these invaluable buildings and may still have caused long-term or even unforeseen damage—hence the reason for the evaluative study.
"With the recent wildfires, I've learned to appreciate these historic structures even more," said State Parks Regional Director Todd McClanahan, who was also the Bastrop State Park Complex Superintendent at the time of the fire last Labor Day. "Knowing just how close we came to losing these buildings forever forces me to admire their beauty with a different perspective. They are so much more than historic buildings, they are historic treasures."
In addition to TPWD staff, Fran Gale, who teaches in the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Texas School of Architecture and is director of the UT Architectural Conservation Lab, and Casey Gallagher, who is a graduate of the UT program and is now an independent conservator, will help administer the program study.
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Steelers cornerback Cortez Allen was stepping into a bigger role this year, but he won't be stepping into it for a few weeks.
The Steelers released a statement from coach Mike Tomlin, saying Allen had "minor surgery on his right knee" today.
"We wanted him to get the surgery done now so he can begin rehabilitating immediately," the statement read. "This surgery was a minor procedure and will have no long-term effects on his return to the field. We look forward to his rehabilitation process and having him back on the field in a couple of weeks."
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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 12 of this article series on CUDA, I took a quick detour to discuss some of the paradigm changing features of the latest CUDA Toolkit 2.2 release. This article resumes the discussion of "texture memory" which I began in Part 11 of this series. In addition, this installment includes information on the new CUDA Toolkit 2.2 texture capability that allows some programs to eliminate extra copies by providing the ability to write to global memory on the GPU that has a 2D texture bound to it.
From a C-programmer's perspective, texture memory provides an unusual combination of cache memory (separate from register, global, and shared memory), local processing capability (separate from the scalar processors), and a way to interact with the display capabilities of the GPU. This article focuses on the cache and local processor capabilities of texture memory while the next column will discuss how to perform viewable graphic operations with the GPU.
Don't be put off from using texture memory because it is different and has many options. The use of texture memory can improve performance for both bandwidth and latency limited programs. For example, some programs can exceed the maximum theoretical memory bandwidth of the underlying global memory through judicious use of the texture memory cache. While the latency of texture cache reference is generally the same as DRAM, there are some special cases that can deliver data with slightly less than 100 cycles of latency. As usual in CUDA, the use of many threads can hide memory access latency regardless if texture cache or global memory is being accessed.
For CUDA programmers, the most salient points about using texture memory as a cache are: it is optimized for 2D spatial locality, very small (effectively about 8KB per multiprocessor), and can provide a performance benefit by having all the threads in a warp access nearby locations in the texture (as demonstrated in Cache-Efficient Numerical Algorithms using Graphics Hardware). Another tip from the forums is to pack data up if you can because a single
float4 texture read is faster than four separate
float texture reads.
One ingenious mapping of a random-access data structure to texture memory has been implemented by the CUDA-EC software. In the CUDA code, NVIDIA implements a Bloom filter to test for set membership. The CUDA-EC software is available for free download at http://cuda-ec.sourceforge.net/.
The CUDA Toolkit 2.2 introduced the ability to write to 2D textures bound to pitch linear memory on the GPU that has a texture bound to it. In other words, the data within the texture can be updated within a kernel running on the GPU. This is a very nice feature because it allows many codes to better utilize the caching behavior of texture memory while also eliminating copies. One common example that immediately springs to mind are calculations that require two passes through the data: one to calculate a value (such as a mean or maximum) and a second pass to update the data in place. Such calculations are common when changing the data range or calculating probabilities. The use of an updatable texture can potentially speed these types of calculations.
The cuBLAS library uses texture memory for many of the single-pass calculations (
sdot, and etc). However, comments in the source code indicate that texture memory should not be used for vectors that are short or those that are aligned and have unit stride and thus have nicely coalesced behavior. (The source for cuBLAS library and cuFFT are available for those who have signed up as NVIDIA developers.)
Texture cache is part of each TPC, here short for "Thread Processing Cluster" since I am discussing operations in compute mode. (TPC stands for "Texture Processing Cluster" in graphics mode, which I don't address in this article.) Each TPC contains multiple streaming multiprocessors and a single texture cache. It is important to note that in the GTX 200 series, the texture cache supports three SM (Streaming Multiprocessors) per TPC while the G80/G92 architecture only supports two.
Figure 1 depicts a high-level view of the GeForce GTX 280 GPU in parallel computing mode: A hardware-based thread scheduler at the top manages scheduling threads across the TPCs, which includes the texture caches and memory interface units. The elements indicated as "atomic" refer to the ability to perform atomic read-modify-write operations to memory. For more information, please see GeForce GTX 200 GPU Technical Brief.
Figure 2 represents a lower-level view of a single TPC. Note that TF stands for "Texture Filtering" and IU is the abbreviation for "Instruction Unit".
Textures are bound to global memory and can provide both cache and some processing capabilities. How the global memory was created dictates some of the capabilities the texture can provide. For this reason, it is important to distinguish between three memory types that can be bound to a texture:


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EPA has recently awarded $295,398 to the Greater Harford Transit District (GHTD) to repower six diesel powered transit buses operating in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Diesel engines contribute significantly to air pollution, especially in urban areas. The fine particles in diesel exhaust pose serious health risks, including aggravated asthma and other respiratory symptoms. Children are especially vulnerable to these effects. The Northeast has some of the highest asthma rates in the nation, including a childhood asthma rate above 10 percent in all six New England states.
"Reducing diesel emissions is an effective way to improve air quality – one of the seven key priorities of Administrator Jackson," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England Office. "Fewer diesel emissions will help those who suffer from asthma and other respiratory problems. These projects will help bring cleaner air to the residents of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island."
This grant will cover up to 75% of the cost of the engine repowers and will allow GHTD, in partnership with Peter Pan Bus Lines, to repower 4 diesel transit buses. The project is expected to reduce annual nitrogen oxide and particulate matter emissions by 36 tons and 2.4 tons, respectively.
"The District is a great proponent of alternatives that help minimize the environmental impact of diesel powered vehicles and is extremely pleased and proud of this award," said Vicki L. Shotland, Executive Director of the Greater Hartford District. "This partnership with Peter Pan Bus Lines to replace older engines will result in reduction of toxic particles and greenhouses gases and will also reduce fuel costs during hard times."
The EPA has awarded $50 million for clean diesel projects as part of its ongoing campaign to reduce harmful emissions in the air and better protect people's health. These efforts will replace, retrofit or repower more than 8,000 older school buses, trucks, locomotives, vessels, and other diesel powered machines. Reducing emissions from existing diesels provides cost-effective public health and environmental benefits while supporting green jobs at manufacturers, dealerships and businesses across the country. This is the fourth year of the program.
Other New England entities receiving grants this year include the Massachusetts Port Authority, Chelsea Collaborative, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Conservation Law Foundation Ventures, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. In addition, under the state clean diesel grant program, EPA recently announced that it is awarding $1.3 million to the New England state environmental agencies for clean diesel projects in New England.
For more information:
Northeast Diesel Collaborative (www.northeastdiesel.org)
EPA's National Clean Diesel Campaign (www.epa.gov/diesel/)
For more on this story, visit: 11/07/2011: EPA Provides the Greater Hartford Transit District with $295,398 to Reduce Emissions with Transit Bus Engine Repowers.


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Jeff Dear Eclipse CommittersWe would like to encourage more participation in the creation of the packages created by the Eclipse Packaging Project. The goal is to 1) encourage more cross-project testing of the existing four packages, and 2) encourage the creation of packages in addition to the existing four that were created last year. A framework for doing this was discussed at a recent Planning Council meeting <http://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council_Minutes_2007.11.06#Packages> and this document is to provide addition details.
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To define a package the package maintainer will need to specify the package contents based on the EPP package configuration file format <http://wiki.eclipse.org/EPP/Configuration_File_Format>. The package maintainer will need to store this file in their cvs repository and then inform the EPP team, via a bugzilla entry, the location of the file. The EPP team will then begin to automatically build the package based on the config file.
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· Packages should attempt to include code from a variety of projects, while maintaining a coherent theme to the package, balanced with download and install size, fitting with the desires and suggestions of the community.
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4. Publishing of PackagesA new web site will be created to publish the different packages. This new web site will be directly accessible from the download page. The packaging page will show all the available packages and use social networking techniques to influence the order and display of the packages. For instance, the number of time a package is download will be visible, the names of the project maintainers and testers will be associated with the project or maybe individuals can vote/recommend a package. The Eclipse Foundation will also continue to list 4-5 packages directly on the download page.
How to Get Started?If you would like to create a package, we ask that you open a bugzilla request for EPP, using the 'package content' component. In the bugzilla bug, please specify a description of the package you would like to create, including the intended targeted user and the feature set of the package. You will then need to create a package configuration file together with the EPP team and then specify the location of the file. You will then need to create an package configuration file and then specify the location of the file. Please add this location to the bugzilla request. EPP builds the packages on a nightly basis, so once your package is defined, we will start building it.
EPP is also releasing packages for each milestone and release candidate for Ganymede. If you would like your package to be built for M5, we ask that you please have it defined before February 11.
We are just starting this process so your feedback and support is welcome. It will take sometime to make it perfect but the intention is to have a number of packages available in time for the Ganymede release.
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In Ukraine, few think Crimea marks the end of Putin's expansion
With the Russian takeover of Crimea all but complete _ Russia's Senate is expected to give final approval to the Black Sea peninsula's annexation on Friday _ Ukrainians are waiting for the other shoe to drop. And expecting that it certainly will.
Indeed, many people here believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing a game that goes far beyond reclaiming a piece of land that first became part of the Russian Empire during the rule of Catherine the Great. What they see adds up to what in Kiev is now jokingly referred to as a "Russian Spring," a term usually meaning an uncomfortably cold season.
But while in the United States it's fashionable to cast Putin as playing chess, his approach seems closer to the American board game "Risk" _ a game of maps.
"All options remain on the table," said Bobo Lo, a Russia expert at the British think tank Chatham House.
What are those options? For those who wonder if Putin, who famously has said the collapse of the Soviet Union 23 years ago was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, might be intent on reassembling at least part of it, the next conquest could be southeastern Ukraine.
"Crimea is definitely not the end," said leading Ukrainian military analyst Oleksiy Melnyk, co-director of Razumkov Centre, a research center in Kiev. "He will not be satisfied."
Experts then wonder about Transnistria in Moldova, a breakaway region that has requested Russian annexation. That's just west of Ukraine. And just north is Belarus, also discussed by Putin as historically important to Russia.
Beyond that, experts wonder if he has designs on areas such as Georgia (from which Russia seized two breakaway republics in 2008, though it has yet to officially admit them to the Russian Federation), northern Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. All were part of the Soviet Union and have substantial populations of Russians and Russian speakers _ Kazakhstan, second only to Ukraine in the size of its Russian diaspora.
"Right now, I believe the weak sanctions from the West for Crimea have told him he has a relatively free hand," said Marcel de Haas, a security and Russia expert at the Dutch think tank Clingendael Institute. "There are some strong words, but the West has made it clear that NATO won't get involved. Right now, I'd say the red line for NATO is Poland."
Friday marks the end of the so-called "peace interval," which Russia declared as a sort of grace period after Sunday's referendum in Crimea. During the interval, Ukrainian troops would not face hostility from their Russian counterparts now in Crimea. Once the interval has expired, however, Ukrainian troops must have left Russian Crimean soil or signed up for Russian military service, or be seen as bandits.
A Ukrainian coast guard captain in Crimea warns that Crimea is more of a template for what is to come in the rest of his country than a completed act.
"We know we're going to continue to see 'hot spots' pop up in the coming months," said the captain, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. "The Russians will create them, then once again say they are protecting their people and exploit the situation."
A quick look at a map shows why. Crimea is a peninsula on the Black Sea, with land connections only to Ukraine. The Russian mainland is tantalizingly close, but separated from Crimea by water.
Melnyk, the military expert, said he expects that geographic disconnect will become a tool for Putin, who will use Crimea's isolation as a rationale for creating a Russian corridor to Crimea through Ukraine.
"There is no justification for such concerns, Ukraine would never cut off Crimea," Melnyk said. "But I would expect him to use it."
Or listen to Putin wax poetic about Ukraine.
During his speech to the Russian Parliament urging the annexation of Crimea, Putin called Ukraine's capital, Kiev, "the mother of all Russian cities." He noted that "we are not simply close neighbors but, as I have said many times already, we are one people."
Putin made clear in Tuesday's speech that he views Ukraine as a part of Russia and regrets their separation as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. "Ancient Rus is our common source," he said, referring to the state founded in Kiev in the 9th century, "and we cannot live without each other."
Putin's words were not a direct threat, but many people here interpreted them that way, as did Zbignew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. Speaking Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Brzezinski quoted several passages from Putin's speech, including one that said Russian communist revolutionaries _ "may God judge them," Putin said _ had "added large sections of the historical south of Russia to the republic of Ukraine . . . without consideration for the ethnic makeup of the population."
Those areas are the very ones that would be needed to establish a land corridor to Crimea from Russia.
The conclusion, Brzezinksi said, was that Putin was laying a possible historical rationale for grabbing more Ukrainian territory, particularly if the moment arises where Russian speakers and ethnic Russians are mistreated inside Ukraine. Later, Putin reinforced the idea, saying protecting the rights and interests of the "millions of Russians and Russian-speaking people" who live in Ukraine "is the guarantee of Ukraine's state stability and territorial integrity."
Or, consider Ukrainian member of Parliament Kseniya Lyapina's point: Putin had been struggling domestically. His approval rating had slipped to its lowest point in 13 years before the Winter Olympics and the invasion of Crimea. And while they were still a rather healthy 61 percent, those ratings are soaring right now. "When he no longer needs to distract people domestically, he'll stop his outside activities. That won't be soon."
Or, perhaps most ominously, there's the constant, though vastly overstated, theme from Moscow that fascists now control Kiev. In that view, Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine are in grave danger. Russia, numerous official statements remind the world, has a responsibility to protect these innocents. As Ukrainian Minister of Defense Ihor Tenyukh pointed out this week, Russia has 60,000 troops massing on the border near Donetsk, and at many levels it has been talking about the danger they face, and that Russia is considering their pleas for help.
Those words are virtual echoes of statements before Russian troops took control of Crimea. In fact, Vitali Klitschko, a Ukrainian member of Parliament and a former world heavyweight boxing champion, this week pointedly spoke about "when" and not "if" Russian troops invade the Donetsk district.
Thursday at the Ukrainian Rada, or Parliament, Ukrainian politicians made a point of saying that they don't need or expect direct U.S. or European military support. They don't think American troops on the ground to face off with Russia are a good idea. But they also say they would very much appreciate much harsher sanctions against Russia, sanctions tough enough to hit Putin's inner circle hard and make Putin pause.
Ukraine could use military advisers, technical help and weapons assistance, they said.
Olga Oliker, a Russia and security expert at the Washington office of the RAND Corp., a research organization, said there are reasons for the West not to file Putin's actions under "not our problem."
"On one level, this is very real, these are deeply held beliefs based on a lot of history," she said. "On another level, this is absolutely about the United States. It's almost nostalgic for the days when Russia was one of the world's two great powers, and the desire to return to those days."
Outside the Rada on Thursday, a collection of about 50 Ukrainian navy and paratroop veterans gathered to ask their politicians to act now to stop this game of maps from swallowing up more of their country.
But these retired veterans hadn't spent their entire careers in the Ukrainian military. They each began as Soviet sailors. One of those present helped create and commanded the first Ukrainian naval brigade. He said that he'd never imagined at that time that one day the organization he helped create would face off against the organization that helped create him as a sailor.
Like those around him, he wore Soviet military symbols and medals. Many wore the old Soviet Red Star, with hammer and sickle. Vladimir Voloshyn said he has many friends still active in both the Russian and Ukrainian navies. He said he cannot think of Russian sailors as enemies. But he said Putin is clearly an enemy of Ukraine and must be stopped sooner rather than later if Ukraine is to be saved.
"We're here to help, and if needed to actively help in saving our friends in Crimea," he said. "We're here because we are preparing for the worst."


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Amoeba has entered into a partnership with L.A.'s Moheak Radio to provide the Amoeba Song of the Week every week for a recorded segment to air on Moheak's online radio station.
This week it's "Stare at the Sun," from Eleanor Friedberger's new album, Personal Record. The onetime Fiery Furnace indulges in the kind of hyperliterate lyricism she's built a career upon here, but with a rhythmic pulse and rock abandon that makes its verbal assault merely one instrument in her arsenal. Friedberger, who works with John Wesley Harding on this album, through imagery both mundane and mythic details an attempted breakup through the mania that ensues of trying and failing to stay away. Fessing up to fried corneas never sounded so alluring.
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Her milieu is the Society Islands, including Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea, Raiatea and Taha'a. Her home port is Papeete, capital of Tahiti, and on her seven-day cruises the ship spends every day in port among these beautiful islands, only sailing at night.
If you act fast -- by October 8 -- you can book a seven-day Paul Gauguin cruise sailing in April 2012, including roundtrip airfare from Los Angeles, for just $3,647 per person. Or you can have twice the fun on a 14-day cruise for only $4,997 per person. This is a per person savings of $650 on the first and $1000 on the longer cruise over regular prices.
This longer cruise sails to the Marquesas, Tuamotus and the Society Islands - some of the South Pacific's most remote island paradises. The Tuamotu group is the largest chain of atoll islands in the world. If you don't already know, atolls are fascinating things. Darwin figured out their geologic significance during his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, 1831 to 1836. The atoll formation process begins with a sea-floor volcanic eruption large enough to form a new land mass; the Hawaiian Islands are a good example. The Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii still spews enough molten rock to pave almost 20 miles of two-lane road every day. But Hawaii is still a young island.
As these volcanic islands get older, they become surrounded by coral reefs that create a shallow lagoon teeming with sea life such as angel and piper fish, stingrays and even sharks. Eventually the sea bed settles and the original land mass retreats below the surface, but the shallow lagoon remains atop a mountain of coral rising up from the sea floor, partially ringed with tiny sand bars. Any land mass capable of supporting anything more than a few palm trees virtually disappears. "The instant this takes place, a perfect atoll is formed," Darwin wrote.
This itinerary, sailing from Papeete, Tahiti, calls first in Fakarava, one of the islands of the Tuamotus. The tiny island is a sanctuary for rare birds, tropical plants and a variety of crustaceans living in the pink coral sand. There is also a black pearl farm - an industry that originated in the Tuamotus.
The ship then visits a series of exotically beautiful and isolated islands, including Fatu Hiva, Hiva Oa, Ua Huka and Nuku Hiva. The last five days are spent back in the Society Islands of Huahine, Bora Bora, Taha'a and Tahiti (overnight).
The Paul Gauguin: Luxury in Paradise
There is no place in the world like the Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea cruising circuit. Picture Hawaii in its colonial days. In fact, the Hawaiian Islands are the most northerly Polynesian volcanic islands in the world and among the youngest.
Although the Society islands of Tahiti on the shorter, seven-day cruise are not pure atolls yet; they also have immense lagoons with aquarium-clear water, so clear you can watch tropical fish swim between your legs. Many beaches are black lava sand and the temperature remains in the 80s. Is there a better definition of paradise?
The Paul Gauguin cruise ship, named after the famous artist who made Tahiti his home, just received a $25-million interior upgrade. The ship is 513 feet long, 71 feet wide and holds 332 guests with a staff of 217. It has completed more than 570 South Pacific cruises and hosted more than 14,000 honeymooners since its inaugural sail there in 1998. Tahiti cruises are a honeymoon tradition in the cruise industry.
In addition to airfare from Los Angeles (about a 7-1/2-hour flight), your cruise fare includes all beverages, including wine with dinner and a bar setup in your stateroom with the refrigerator replenished daily. Staff gratuities are also pre-paid.
Every cruise includes a stop at the line's private beach on Bora Bora and its private islet, Motu Mahana, off the coast of Taha'a for snorkeling, water sports and a barbecue with full bar service. Go to the Paul Gauguin Cruises web site for more information.


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John Carrell placed 20th among the men and Grace Gonzales was 24th for the women as Cal State Fullerton's men's and women's teams finished seventh and eighth, respectively, Saturday at the UC Riverside Cross Country Invitational.
Carrell ran the 8K in 24:33.6 while Gonzales covered her 6K in 21:24.9.
There were 25 men's teams and 20 women's teams. Team titles went Southern Utah over runnerup UCR for the men and Loyola Marymount (65 points) nipped UC Santa Barbara (69 points) for the women's crown.
Trailing Carrell for the Titan men were Tyler Reed in 24th (24:43.6), Marco Zaragoza in 36th (25:07.7), Anthony Castellon in 54th (25:27.2) and Brian Aleman in 96th (25:51.9).
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Eight Players Contribute At Least Six Points
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale ran its offense to near perfection Saturday against Columbia. The result was a surprisingly easy 75-56 victory over the Lions before 1,426 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
The Bulldogs (10-15, 4-4 Ivy) shot 62 percent from the field and dominated on the boards, outrebounding Columbia 33-20.
"It seemed whatever we ran, we got a good look," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "In our half-court offense we took advantage of their smaller lineups, and we were able to get the ball to the basket off dribble penetration."
Justin Sears and Brandon Sherrod led a balanced Yale attack with 10 points apiece. Six other players contributed at least six points: Matt Townsend and Javier Duren each had eight, Armani Cotton scored seven and Austin Morgan and Nick Victor both had six.
"Everybody brought positive energy," said Morgan, who extended his consecutive made free throw streak to 29 by going 3-for-3 from the line. "It's tough to stop 12 people. That's the fantastic quality about our team."
A night after starting slowly in Friday's game with Cornell, the Bulldogs were on their game from the start. Yale scored the first nine points of the game and never trailed.
The Lions (10-12, 2-6 Ivy) pulled to within three midway through the first half, but Yale answered with a 20-6 run and was never threatened again.
"Our starting group has a lot of pride. They felt bad last night," said Jones, who watched his team fall behind 11-2 against the Big Red. "We certainly had much more energy at the start tonight."
Steve Frankoski led Columbia with 16 points and Brad Gilson added 11.
The first half was a clinic on offense for the Bulldogs, who were 18-of-27 (66.7 percent) from the field in building a commanding 43-21 lead. Sears made all four of his field goals and had nine points to lead the way.
Yale cooled off a bit in the second half (56.5 percent) but still cruised to the victory.
Columbia, which has wins over Villanova and Harvard on its resume, shot just 31.8 percent in the first half and committed 19 turnovers in the game.
Yale, which has won three of its last four games, bounced back well from Friday's disappointing 68-61 loss to Cornell.
"We feel we are a better team than our record shows," said Duren, who was 4-of-5 from the field. "We have to work on being consistent, and execute what we do in practice."
NOTES: Yale has now won eight games in a row against Columbia… Sherrod, who is still working his way back from an injury that forced him to miss seven games, was 5-of-7 from the field. His 10 points were a season high… The Bulldogs attempted just 10 three-pointers and made three… The Newtown, Conn., Youth Basketball program played a short halftime game and then visited with the Bulldogs in the locker room following the game… The Bulldogs are back at home next weekend, hosting Dartmouth on Friday at 7 p.m. and Harvard on Saturday at 8 p.m. The game with Harvard will be televised on the CBS College Sports Network.
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An all-accessible county park; a hands-free, voice-controlled computer desktop; a "freedom" kayak; an assistive chair that takes the rider to the driver's seat and stores itself in the back of the SUV; and a multi-system, tongue-operated control unit for a wide variety of devices are a handful of the 17 innovations selected as 2010 da Vinci Awards finalists.
Benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society's Michigan Chapter, the da Vinci Awards is a prestigious international forum recognizing the latest developments and research in adaptive and assistive technologies that enable equal access and opportunity for all people, regardless of ability.
Nominations were received this year from across the U.S, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Denmark. U.S. entries from 17 states and the District of Columbia included six from Michigan.
Video submissions for each finalist are featured at www.youtube.com/davinciawards and a special "Leo" award will be presented to the finalist receiving the highest number of "thumbs up" votes.
Finalists and their innovative technologies will be honored September 30 at a special awards event at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., with the 2010 da Vinci Award winners announced live that evening.
The finalists in each of five categories are:
Communication/Educational Aids
- Sue Center (Santa Cruz, California) — free software — a communication environment specifically designed for people who cannot use a keyboard or mouse. Enables a user to independently communicate via email, text message, and the telephone, control music and TV, play games, and much more; thus improving the life of a person who is otherwise very dependent on others.
- VoicePower Ultimate (Daily City, California) — an application that makes speech recognition significantly more productive for all users, especially those with limited hand function, making the efficient use of speech recognition on the job a reality. VoicePower lets users take hands-free control of their computers with a voice desktop, a voice files and folders application, a voice mouse application, and thousands of productivity commands integrated into a unique speech interface that enables users to be highly effective by letting them ask for and receive help, training and Internet content as they perform their work.
- ReSound Alera (Denmark) — the smallest receiver-in-the-ear hearing instrument available in the market. Delivers outstanding sound quality, speech understanding and perception to identify where sounds are coming from. Provides a unique combination of functionality and aesthetics for hearing impaired persons.
Environmental Adaptation/Daily Living or Work Aids
- ZoomText Magnifier/Reader (Manchester Center, Vermont) — a fully integrated magnification and screen reading computer program that enables users with vision impairments to use computers more effectively and efficiently. Available in more than 20 languages and sold in 45 countries.
- Great Grips Doorknob Twisters (Colorado Springs, Colorado) — soft silicon sleeve that stretches over a wide range of doorknob shapes, bathroom faucets and shower knobs. Provides a cushioned surface that enables people with arthritis or declining hand strength to open doors with their elbows, forearms and a "closed fist."
- IntradoTXT29-1-1 (Longmont, Colorado) — A lifesaving technology that allows people to send a short messaging service (SMS) text message directly to 9-1-1 to get help even when verbal communication is not possible. Millions of U.S. residents with speech and hearing impairments rely on text messaging as a primary means of communication.
- Francis Motz County Park (St. Johns, Michicgan) — A 42-acre regional outdoor recreational area with a user-friendly design that serves all visitors equally and pleasantly without regard to visitors' physical abilities. Wheelchair accessible picnic tables, food service areas, barbeque grills and barrier-free bathrooms are among the many design elements that make this park safe for all visitors.
- Compas (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) — measures, documents, and automatically adjusts the alignment of prosthetic limbs, helping ensure amputees have a high quality fit. The Compas saves time during initial alignment, decreases the need for later adjustments, and helps prevent the long- and short-term physical damage associated with a misaligned prosthesis.
- Tongue Drive System (Atlanta, Georgia) — A wireless and wearable tongue-operated assistive technology for people with severe disabilities. Utilizing a small magnet attached to the tongue, the Tongue Drive System provides end users control functions over a wide variety of devices including computers, wheelchairs, cell phones, home appliances and prosthetics, thereby improving their quality of life.
- RGO: Reciprocating Gait Orthosis (Chattanooga, Tennessee) — Full leg supports or custom made braces that allow a paralyzed person to stand and walk more normally using reciprocating gait. RGOs allow the patient to stand equal to others and walk with a normal step over step gait increasing a user's confidence, social acceptance and, more importantly, allowing the wearer to stand and look peers eye to eye.
Transportation and Mobility
- Toyota Sienna Auto Access Seat (Torrance, California) &mdash The industry's first factory-installed power, rotating lift-up seat. The seat can move a passenger in and out of the vehicle, providing access to the passenger side of the Toyota Sienna's second row seat. It pivots and then lowers itself and the passenger out of the vehicle. Toyota is the first OEM to offer this factory-installed mobility feature directly to consumers.
- Sure Foot, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) — Seven products utilizing the "Sure Foot," which provides stability acting as a foot and ankle. Products: the Sure Foot, Sure Step canes and the revolutionary Sure Foot Strutters support walker's weight under their arms without nerve injury, allowing those with severe lower-limb functions, and limited arm use to walk. This technology enables individuals with a wide range of physical and neurological disabilities to "go anywhere it is safe to walk" (MS, CP, Spina-Bifida, Arthritis, Amputees, Rehabilitation, etc.). These products, including Strutters, provide secure support on gravel, grass, beaches, hiking trails and ramps, enabling walking with optimum gait, balance and posture.
- MV-1 (Miami, Florida) — The only purpose-built vehicle designed from the ground up for wheelchair accessibility. The MV-1 is also the only vehicle in its class with an available Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) engineered and assembled Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling system option, reducing dependence on traditional gasoline while improving fuel efficiency.
- Freedom Sciences ATRS — Automated Transport and Retrieval System (Green Lane, Pennsylvania) — Designed to provide those with limited mobility an independent means of transportation without structurally modifying a motor vehicle. ATRS enables a wheelchair user to transfer from the wheelchair to the Freedom Seat and then remotely direct the wheelchair to autonomously dock the platform lift at the rear of the vehicle, and vice versa. Provides a lifestyle choice in vehicle purchasing, as ATRS can be used in a wide variety of vehicles, not just vans.
Recreation and Leisure
- VI FIT (Reno, Nevada) — A research project exploring how video exercise games (exergames) like Wii Fit can be accessible to users with visual impairments as lack of physical activity is a serious health concern for visually impaired individuals. Currently three exergames — VI Tennis, VI Bowling and Pet-n-Punch — have been developed that can be played using a low cost motion-sensing controller capable of providing vibrotactile and audio cues, instead of the traditional visual cues.
- VMI: Virtual Music Instrument (Toronto, Canada) — Numerous research studies have shown the positive impact music has on creating new opportunities for children with disabilities. VMI is a computer vision-based "augmented environment" that facilitates access to music-making for a wide-range of users. VMI can be used alone, as in music education or music therapy, or in groups, as in classroom settings, summer camps and group therapy. The device has been used in rehabilitation centers in more than eight countries to achieve various therapy goals with diverse clients ranging from young children to the elderly.
- Freedom Kayak (Harsens Island, Michigan) — Adaptive kayaks with the look, function and performance of just another kayak in the water. Freedom Kayak's unique design allows an individual, challenged or not, to re-enter/exit one's kayak independently. Freedom's design focuses on the individual's abilities, not their disabilities, and offers the opportunity of independence that may have kept individuals from this sport.
Tickets and additional information about the September 30 da Vinci Awards gala are available here. Proceeds from the da Vinci Awards benefit the National MS Society's Michigan Chapter. Michigan has one of the highest incident rates of MS in the U.S., with more than 18,000 residents living with MS.