Published May 20, 2010
By the Tri-City Herald staff
Communicating Doors, a Columbia Basin College production, continues May 21-22 in the Theatre on CBC’s Pasco campus. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the door
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Published May 20, 2010
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[SPANISH] MESA Day se llevará a cabo en Microsoft
College representatives and students will be on hand to motivate middle and high school students to further their education beyond high school.
A free event for middle and high school students and families to sign up for the College Bound Scholarship, participate in college readiness workshops, and attend a youth services and college fair.
Students who already signed up for the College Bound Scholarship will have the opportunity to participate in other workshops and the college and youth services fair.
The College Bound Scholarship is a statewide program that offers the promise of a full tuition scholarship at a Washington public or private college and university, community college, or technical college for up to four years. This scholarship program offers hope and incentive for students and families who otherwise might not consider college as an option because of its cost.
Staff and volunteers from Washington State University, Tri-Cities, Columbia Basin College and the College Success Foundation will be available to help families with the application process.
WHO: College Bound Day is sponsored by the College Success Foundation, Columbia Basin College, and WSU Tri-Cities.
WHERE: Columbia Basin College
H Building/Gjerde Center, 2600 N. 20th Avenue, Pasco, WA 99301
WHEN: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
CONTACTS: Janie Morales-Castro at (509) 840-9202
[email protected]
Imelda Collop at (509) 372-7298
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For more information on the College Bound Scholarship program or eligibility, call 888.535.0747.
Families can also sign up online for the scholarship at www.hecb.wa.gov/collegebound.
Published May 20, 2010
By Loretto J. Hulse, Tri-City Herald staff writer
Learn how a history-making struggle between truth and justice changed the lives of dozens black soldiers at a free lecture tonight in Pasco.
Investigative journalist and author Jack Hamann of Seattle will present “Speaking Truth To Power: Modern Lessons from an Historic Injustice” at 7 p.m. on the HUB main stage at Columbia Basin College. His talk is part of the annual Mid-Columbia Literary Festival series.
Hamann will be talking about 43 soldiers, charged with rioting and the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at Washington’s Fort Lawton, who endured the largest and longest Army court-martial of World War II.
The case — which received worldwide attention in 1944 — was prosecuted by Leon Jaworski, later to gain fame as the Watergate special prosecutor.
More than six decades later, Hamann and his wife, Leslie, found the previously top secret court-martial documents in the National Archives.
Their research led to a reversal of the convictions and an apology from the U.S. government to the soldiers who still were alive and their relatives.
The story is told in Hamann’s book, On American Soil: How Justice Became a Tragedy of WWII.
“It’s a very intriguing story,” said Maria Allan with CBC. “It was actually his wife who found the report which was key to the book.”
Allan serves on the selection committee for the Inquiring Minds Program of Humanities Washington.
“He spoke to (the committee) for just 20 minutes, and he had me then. I wanted to know more, I had to hear the rest of the story,” she said.
Hamann was chosen to be a speaker for the Inquiring Minds Program but also is coming for LitFest.
“I was still so fired up over hearing Hamann speak they said they just had to have him come,” she said.
On American Soil was Investigative Reporters & Editors’ book of the year in 2005.
The final speakers in the Community Lecture series are Bruce and Susan Mattley, who live near Walla Walla.
“Cowboys and Cowgirls in Story and Song,” sponsored by the Three Rivers Folk Life Society, will be at 7 p.m. June 17 at Mid-Columbia Library, 1620 S. Union St., Kennewick. Admission is free.
For more information on the series, go to www.columbiabasin.edu/litfest.
For more information on Hamann, go to www.jackhamann.com/books.
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Published May 20, 2010
By the Tri-City Herald editorial staff
“Not only riveting, On American Soil is also essential reading for anyone concerned about the delicate balance between national security and individual rights.”
That’s what James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers, had to say about Seattle journalist Jack Hamann’s account of a little-known chapter in military history.
How we manage that balancing act in post-911 America will define us as a nation. Everyone ought to be concerned.
Hamann talks about his book tonight at Columbia Basin College. The lecture, “Speaking Truth to Power: Modern Lessons from an Historic Injustice,” is at 7 p.m. on the HUB mainstage.
Herald reporter Loretto Hulse’s story inside today’s Mid-Columbia section provides more details about Hamann’s investigation into the court-martial of 43 African American soldiers at Seattle’s Fort Lewis during World War II.
Hamann’s book won critical acclaim. More importantly, it won a belated verdict reversal for a group of Americans charged with rioting and lynching an Italian prisoner of war.
Consider this a nudge toward the Pasco campus for tonight’s talk, part of the Mid-Columbia Literary Festival. Hamann’s impressive historical work offers important lessons for today.
Additional news stories can be accessed online at the Tri-City Herald.
The more humans you know, the harder it is to imagine that civilization can endure. Billions of consumers. Environmental collapse. Climate change. Peak Oil. China’s gender wars. The falling cost of havoc. The GOP. Skynet, sooner or later.
It looks hopeless, but on the other hand it’s been 58 years since the first fusion weapon was detonated – and we’re still here. That’s surprising.
It’s not just technology that we’ve survived. It seems impossible that democracies can manage their finances, but they do …
Adam Smith’s Money World – Onc is not Enough
… Greece has its debt bail-out, or appears to have, but there’s still that riot-inducing issue of government budget cuts. Is it even feasible for a government to cut its budget by as much as the International Monetary Fund has demanded of Greece? Yes it is very possible — all too possible, in fact — according to the IMF’s own study. In the past three decades there have been at least nine instances in which developed nations have cut their structural deficits by at least 10 percent of GDP…
It’s true that some nations do better than others, but it’s impressive that, faced with doom, even troubled nations like Greece and the US draw back. For example, to our great shame we reelected George W Bush and Richard Cheney. We did not, however, elect John McCain (now sadly demented) and Sarah Palin.
How does reason emerge from chaos?
We don’t know, but many suspect it has something to do with the properties of a complex adaptive system. In our case it’s a system built of economics and politics and the noise of the disconnected and, perhaps, the cumulative influence of the rational individual. It’s a system that is self-sustaining, a system that “wants to live”.
The system is hard to measure, but it’s strong. It’s also a fractal response — just as civilization is surprisingly robust, so too are its components. Consider the digital economy. Perfect, near zero cost replication was very disruptive — but the systems is responding. The iPad, the Flash wars, Google TV, “curated computing” — it’s all about the system responding to the disruption. It’s all about the Digital Rights Management (DRM). Of which I will say more …
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Até antes desse flagra, o modelo S7 não passava de rumor, mas agora dá pra ver que a Audi não está brincando em serviço e que modelo já está quase pronto.
O modelo foi flagrado fazendo testes no famoso circuito de Nurburgring, onde o modelo se encontrava fazendo testes de velocidade e equilíbrio.
O S7 deve ser apresentado no fim de 2010 e começo de 2011, e vem para bater de frente com a BMW M5 e a Mercedes E63 AMG.
Segundo fontes, o modelo será equipado com um motor de 4.2 litros V8 que rende 444 cavalos de potencia. Esse super sedan promete bastante, agora só nos resta esperar.
Fonte: Car Blog
Toyota and Tesla announced a new partnership at Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto today, the auto makers will collaborate on technology, the development of new electric vehicles and Toyota will purchase $50 million of Tesla’s common stock. The press conference featured the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO, Elon Musk and TMC President, Akio Toyoda.
Calling it an “explosion” for California (I think he meant this in the positive sense, not the Terminator sense) Schwarzenegger framed it as a victory for California’s environmental agenda and the economy. He predicts it will create 1,000 jobs for the state’s embattled economy.
Calvin Murphy just confirmed and proved that the rumor between Lebron James’ mother Gloria James and Deltone West affair is true. The story of Gloria James-Deltone West affair has been the talk of the town. The news has spread stating LeBron James’s mother is having a relationship with Deltone West. It has been speculated that this rumored affair has affected the performance of Lebron James’ in his games.
The rumor came out to be true as Calvin Murphy unfold the stories. Calvin Murphy is a reliable source! Calvin Murphy is a former American professional basketball player who played as a guard for the NBA’s Houston Rockets from 1970-1983. He has been nominated as Basketball Hall of Famer and a former member of the Rockets’ broadcast team. He is hosting ESPN Radio’s The Calvin Murphy Show.
Watch out for more updates on Gloria James-Deltone West affair. How this confirmation of Calvin Murphy will affect LeBron James’ game performance in the future? Let’s find out…
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The world market panicked today, as everyone scrambled for liquidity. That you know.
The question is: do we see a big disorderly crash from here? Clearly, a lot of folks right now think we do, and some have been saying so loudly.
The question is: why?
There’s no major discernible reversal in economic sentiment, and there’s no Lehman (yet).
Indeed, as Mike O’Rourke of BTIG notes, in an evening note on “echo bubbles” and “echo panics,” this is definitely not 2008:
The markets never cease to amaze. A large portion of the 83% rally from March 2009 through April 2010 was referred to as an “Echo Bubble.” An echo bubble is a smaller bubble that emerges during the bounce after a larger bubble has crashed. Investors are comfortable participating in such moves because they see familiar signposts within the prices, news and market developments. We have not been among those who believe the recovery rally was an echo bubble.
Quite the contrary, we believe the U.S. has had many of the same problems post-bust as we had pre-bust. Early on, the re-pricing merited taking the risk and finally acknowledging the problems placed us on a path to repairing them. The selling that is occurring in the equity market today is an “Echo Panic.” Investors see many of the familiar signposts of 2008, such as over-leveraged entities, only today they are governments as opposed to banks. Other occurrences are risk spreads widening, government bailouts, shorts being banned and anti-market political rhetoric. Deflation fears are re-emerging as commodities collapse. There is massive de-risking and a flight to quality. The list goes on, but despite the similarities, this is not Credit Crunch 2.0.
Well, at least none yet. On Wednesday afternoon, Cramer said we should wait for 48 hours to see if a Lehman occurs. If not, we’re in the clear.
By that measure, we’ve got about 15 hours to go…
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Pois é, ninguém sabe se o novo designer do modelo vai agradar como agradou, mas a nova aposta da Fiat é fazer um 500 com quatro portas.
Mas isso não passa de rumores, mas muitos já dizem que o modelo será chamado de Fiat 600 e é uma resposta da marca para o futuro Audi A1 Sportback.
Segundo fontes, dentro da fábrica o modelo é conhecido como Projeto LO, que é classificada como uma minivan na Europa e vai disputar mercado com a Opel Meriva.
O modelo será lançado em 2011, e espera-se que sua plataforma seja a mesma do 500 apenas com distancia maior entre eixos para mais conforto aos passageiros.
Fonte: Argentina Auto Blog
This video clip shows us what was going on about a day after a devastating explosion led to the Gulf oil leak. It’s absolutely terrifying. More »
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“What Americans want to know is you are doing your job.” That’s what Pontiac had to say to its plant workers with two videos made in the Seventies, when the brand that once built excitement was building up concern over foreign car sales. The message is a simple pep talk at the highest level, but with a riptide of martial tones: if Americans know “you’re fussy about installing wiring,” then they’ll keep buying Pontiacs and we can, essentially, repel the menace.
Obviously, it didn’t work. You can have a look at the failed (and at times, somewhat xenophobic) calls-to-action in the videos after the jump.
[Source: YouTube via Jalopnik]
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GenoLogics, the Victoria, BC-based developer of software for biologists and physicians, has raised another $1 million of equity financing out of a round that could be worth $1.5 million, according to a regulatory filing. GenoLogics previously raised $5 million in February 2009 from OVP Venture Partners, Yaletown Venture Partners, and GrowthWorks Capital. We profiled the company’s strategy, to better piece together genomic data with electronic health records, back in May 2009.
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A marca acaba de apresentar o modelo GranCabrio para o mercado brasileiro. Mas como todos que acompanham o mundo automobilístico, ter um Maserati na garagem não custa barato, ainda mais um GranCabrio.
Quem trouxe o modelo para o Brasil foi a Via Italia, responsável por também representar a Ferrari e a Lamborghini no mercado brasileiro.
O modelo é equipado com um motor de 4.7 litros V8 que rende 440 cavalos de potencia, que consegue fazer de 0 a 100 km/h em apenas 5,4 segundos, chegando a 283 km/h de velocidade final.
A representante da marca no Brasil, pretende vender cerca de 15 unidades do modelo ainda neste ano. E pra você que ta com um “dinheirinho” sobrando, pra ter um GranCabrio na garagem, você precisa desembolsar míseros R$ 880 mil.
Fonte: Blog Auto
Well, that answers that. At the Android Fireside chat at Google IO, the Android team says that Android 2.2 won’t be coming to the G1, simply because there’s not enough space for the OS to fit in the flash space. Of course, your friendly developer community will probably whip something up. More »
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Wondering if your new HTC Desire will be getting Android 2.2? Yeah, so are we! Well, according to HTC if your Android handset was made in 2010, it has a very good chance of seeing the Froyo upgrade (yay!). The Desire, Droid Incredible, My Touch Slide, HTC Legend, as well as future models are a definite. When this happens is anyone’s guess, but expect it to occur in the second half of 2010 at the earliest. For those who don’t want to wait you can always root!
Here is a portion of the official HTC statement regarding Froyo upgrades:
[…] if your phone was launched this year, we will most likely offer an upgrade for it to the Froyo version. This includes popular models like the Desire and Droid Incredible as well as hotly anticipated phones like the Evo 4G, MyTouch slide and upcoming models. We will announce a full list of phones and dates once we are closer to launching the upgrades. We are working closely with Google and our other partners to ensure we have the earliest access to everything we need to provide a complete and solid Sense experience on Froyo. We expect to release all updates in the second half of this year but can’t be more specific yet.
Source: Android Central
Earlier this morning at the Google I/O event, a major portion was dedicated to the announcement of Google TV. Google TV is basically a software layer that lets you find content to watch on your television. It’s build on Android, Chrome, and Flash, and lets you control things like live TV, as well as giving you the full power of the Internet. You can throw TV into a picture-in-picture box to fire up a web browser, search YouTube, pull up Hulu, or really just about anything else that you can do in a browser. Google Search sits on top of everything, and can be pulled up at any time. When you do a search, it will pull results from the web, as well as from TV listings, giving you the ability to find whatever you want to watch. If you like a show, channel, or search, you can save that as a bookmark for easy access later.
The interesting thing here is the integration with Android. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are mandatory in the Google TV hardware, which will be built by partners. That means that you can use an Android handheld device, pull up a website, and just beam it right over to Google TV. You can also perform a voice search on the device, and have that search carried out on the TV. Eliminating the frustrating tap-typing that we are all so tired of when it comes to searching on a big screen like a television? That is fairly awesome. Oh, and since Google TV runs Android, that also means that it runs apps as well. You get complete access to the Android market.
Take a look at the video above for a simple explanation of what Google TV is all about. You can expect to see devices shipping, like a Logitech set-top box, that will give you Google TV capabilities, later this year in the fall.
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2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
Joining the new CTS Coupe later this summer in dealerships will be the high-performance, neck-snapping 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe. Prices for the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe will start at $62,990 including destination charge.
The CTS-V Coupe is powered by the same supercharged 6.2L V8 that sits in the CTS-V sedan. The engine puts out 556-hp and a maximum torque of 551 lb-ft. Mated to either a Tremec TR6060 6-speed manual with a dual-disc clutch or a Hydra-Matic 6L90 6-speed automatic with paddle-shift control, the CTS-V Coupe can sprint from 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds. Braking power comes from Brembo brakes, 6-piston calipers in the front and 4-piston calipers in the rear.
The model also features Cadillac’s Magnetic Ride Control as standard. The system uses shocks controlled by magneto-rheological technology, rather than mechanical valves, to enhance response and assisting in maintaining luxury car driving conditions.
19-inch wheels with performance tires are standard with the CTS-V Coupe.
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