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In Brooklyn?s Ocean Hill neighborhood, 50 seniors have formed an advocacy group to inspect unsafe road conditions.

Veronica Daniel, 63, is one of the group?s leaders, writing out safety issues in her notebook.

Daniel and other elderly members are on a road-condition-inspection mission, examining roads, taking notes on dangerous intersections in need of traffic lights, stop signs, and sidewalks in need of repair. Then, they report them to the Department of Transportation, according to MetroFocus.

Since 2010, East Harlem, Upper West Side and Bedford-Stuyvesant have become New York?s first Aging Improvement Districts, aimed to help older New Yorkers age better and more easily.

Ruth Finkelstein, senior vice president for policy and planning at the New York Academy of Medicine told MetroFocus: ?The core transportation in New York City is walking, and older adults are no different than anybody else.? Ms. Finklestein also said the city needs to give seniors more time to cross the street, to mark some of the crosswalks more clearly, and install countdowns and curb cuts.

Although Brooklyn seniors generally praise the city?s transit system, they bemoan the difficulty in walking to the closest bus or subway. The poor condition of the streets, dodging traffic, means its more likely they?ll stay at home and lose out on expeditions to see family, or go to entertaining outings.

Dwellers in Assisted Living and?Continuing?Care need assurance that travel is safe from their residences.

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In Road-Building, Black Soldiers Defied Prejudice

In 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers assigned more than 10,000 men to build the Alaska Canada Military Highway. About a third were black soldiers: members of three newly formed ?Negro regiments? the corps accepted for the job because it had no choice, other engineering units having been dispatched to the Pacific theater.

The black soldiers faced vicious cold, heat, mosquitoes and mud, like everyone else. But they also had to contend with relentless racism.

The Army was still segregated; black units were led by white officers. As late as 1936, a manpower assessment produced at the Army War College described black soldiers as shiftless, dishonest and lazy. ?Say what you will,? the report declared, ?the American Negro is still a primitive human being.?

It was a view the Army as a whole embraced. The officers in charge were usually Southerners who supposedly ?understood? blacks but in fact disparaged and despised them. Senior commanders of the road-building effort, one of them the son of a Confederate general, declared that blacks (often they called them something else) might be able to wield picks and shovels, but not the heavy equipment the job required.

So when they were issued heavy equipment, black units sometimes received vehicles otherwise headed for the scrapheap. And sometimes they lost even that to white units whose equipment was delayed or damaged.

Heath Twichell, a historian and retired Army colonel who wrote ?Northwest Epic? (St. Martin?s Press, 1992), a history of the highway, known as the Alcan, said in an interview that his father, Col. Heath Twichell Sr., was assigned to the roadwork and was ?heartsick? when he was given command of a black unit. He thought the assignment would kill his chances of a promotion.

But he soon realized that all his men needed was a hard job they could do well and get credit for. They found it at the Sikanni Chief, a fast-flowing river through a gorge 300 feet wide in the mountains of British Columbia.

In what the elder Mr. Twichell wrote later was ?72 hours of ceaseless effort,? at times by the light of their truck headlights, the men felled trees, squared timbers, assembled trestles and waded chest deep into the ice-cold river to float them into position. They cut and assembled wood to form the bridge?s decking, and built and installed heavy timber cribs to protect its footings from ice and driftwood.

A photograph of this bridge, with a caption saying who built it, appeared in Time magazine in August 1942. More important, the unit had won a reputation on the ground as fast workers who produced sturdy bridges under highly adverse conditions, and who could operate and maintain their heavy equipment in the Alcan?s cold, heat and mud.

As the elder Mr. Twichell wrote in a letter home, ?We hear less and less about the supposed deficiencies of Negro troops.?

In October, two crews, one moving north and one moving south, completed the road?s last link. Later, The New York Times reported what happened when they ?met head-on in the spruce forests of the Yukon Territory.?

?Corporal Refines Sims Jr., a Negro from Philadelphia, was driving south with a bulldozer when he saw trees starting to topple over on him,? the account said. ?Slamming his big vehicle into reverse, he backed out just as another bulldozer, driven by Private Alfred Jalufka of Kennedy, Texas, broke through the underbrush.?

It continued, ?Immediately after this Yukon version of driving the golden spike, Sims and Jalufka turned their bulldozers around and began widening the opening.?

The story captured the public?s imagination. The Engineering News Record called it ?two races, working together to build a lifeline to Alaska?s beleaguered defenders amidst the most spectacularly rugged terrain and horrendous weather conditions imaginable.? The Army even promoted the story in Yank, its magazine for the troops.

When the highway was officially dedicated, Corporal Sims, Private Jalufka and two other soldiers, one black and one white, were there to hold the ceremonial ribbon.

Six years later, President Harry S. Truman ordered the Army desegregated, and many historians cite the Alcan experience as helping make that possible. On its Web site, the Federal Highway Administration calls the Alcan ?the road to civil rights.?

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Sony Has Very High Hopes For The PS3's Sales Figures This Year

by admin on July 22, 2012

The shadow of next-gen may be looming over us and systems like the PS3 may be looking at their last or next to last fiscal year as the top of the retail heap. so Sony wants to unload as many as they can before the shiny models arrive on the showroom floor.

Sony Europe Chief Executive Officer Jim Ryan told Videogamer that the company has high hopes for the sales total they want to hit before the final second passes on the clock for 2012: 13 million units, to be exact.

It may sound like a slightly lofty goal for a system that hasn't been in first place but Sony seems very confident that the buzz generated from their press conference by games like The Last of Us and the stunning battleship scene for Assassin's Creed III on their hardware can bring them to that number.

"It's pretty demanding, but given the software that was on? display we've got a pretty good crack at that. I'm given demanding, aggressive numbers to meet, and that's what I'm focussed on right now. I think [SCE? Worldwide Studios president] Shuhei Yoshida's team has given me the tools to do? that. I'm going to go out there and nail it."

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Sony launches Android Walkman with FLAC

Sony has launched a new Walkman music player. The Sony F800 features Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and, for the first time in a Walkman, support for FLAC files.

FLAC is an ultra-high quality lossless format prized by audiophiles but available on only a handful of portable music players. Elsewhere the F800 features a 4-inch screen, Tegra 2 dual-core processor and support for all manner of apps via Google Play.

There?s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a built-in speaker, and 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models will be available. You?ll be able to expect around 20 hours of music playback (or 4.5 hours of video) from a single battery charge.

The F800 will launch in the US in August (we?d expect a European release to happen around the same time). It?ll be accompanied by other, non-Android Walkman models. We?ll post reviews when we get our hands on them.

[via CNET]

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