| Local volunteers honored for their service to the community
Director of RSVP Rachel Sanchez said that when it came time for the advisory council to recommend a recipient for the Hero award, the response was almost unanimous to give the award to Johnson. It seems like everybody knows him. Hes very well known in the community and hes very well loved, Sanchez said. Other winners included the Gallup Crisis Pregnancy Center for Outstanding Work Station, Mildred Holmes and John Sakasitz for Most Outstanding Hours and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for Newly Featured RSVP Worksite of the Year.
Dietzman, 94, won the Youngest Volunteer of the Year award, along with Octavia Fellin, 89. Dietzman, a former nurse, said she helps out at the Episcopal church and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
UW pitches; legislators listen politely
University of Washington emissaries got what might be the friendliest reception they can expect from the Legislature this session when they brought their request for $150 million for Husky Stadium to the Senate budget committee Tuesday. Hereafter, the reception promises to get chillier. Former Gov. Dan Evans, football coach Tyrone Willingham and interim UW athletic director Scott Woodward explained how they would use a batch of state-approved taxes if lawmakers agree to pay for half of a $300 million renovation to the 88-year-old stadium in Seattle. But much of the testimony in favor of Senate Bill 6848 came from the chairwoman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee herself. Sen. Margarita Prentice is the bill's prime sponsor and lead cheerleader, so the UW delegation had home-field advantage.
Wednesday football as it happened
2150: Middlesbrough have four minutes more to find a leveller. Boss Gareth Southgate is furious on the touchline and has thrown centre-back David Wheater into attack. 2149: Three minutes of added time at the Madejski Stadium. Standard fare 10 v 11. 2146: Chelsea look good for their win against 10-man Reading. If they maintain their advantage they will be four points ahead of Manchester United after just two games. 2145: You can catch all the Premier League action, plus the four goals from Everton's win over Tottenham on Tuesday, on Match of the Day on BBC One at 2240 BST. .
ECU bus passengers out of hospital
An East Carolina University bus with two student passengers aboard veered into oncoming traffic on 10th Street between Charles Boulevard and Evans Street on Thursday. The driver, Nathen James Rennels, who is also an ECU student, lost consciousness at the wheel and crashed into cars, a transformer and utility poles, Greenville police said. No one suffered life-threatening injuries in the wreck, an ECU official said. The bus driver suffered a medical episode that lead to his loss of consciousness, Greenville Police Cpl. Kip Gaskins said. Rennels and the two students on board were transported to Pitt County Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. The passengers were later released, university spokesman John Durhman said. "He piled into something like eight cars coming from the other direction," said ECU sophomore Lauren Veal, whose westbound car was stopped at 10th and Charles when the bus passed her.
Software Mac OS X Hits Record Marketshare, Continues to Chip at ...
I don't need menu/program items buried under a single cool looking icon for the sake of the way the OS looks.Same reason why I can't stand iPods. 1 F'ing button that does 10 different things and that you have to "slide accross" 12 times to get to where you want to go. Really? Can that actually be classified as a button anyway? Sounds more like a touch-sensitive dimmer control to me. No thanks I'll take something that has actual buttonsCome on now, that's one of the reasons XP is still more popular than Vista. Vista is too close to OSX in eyecandy, and too far away from XP in quickness and easy of use. Am I wrong here? I mean I've "downgraded" 6 Vista machines to XP for side clients in last 2 weeks...Sorry for the rant, but I'm just tired of people sacrificing ease of use (somtimes drastically) for the sake of design.
Bumping issues remain for COT
The bump-and-run has been a staple of passing in NASCAR short-track racing, but the Car of Tomorrow makes the maneuver more difficult. Jeff Gordon tried bumping teammate Jimmie Johnson out of the lead during the Martinsville race in April. Gordon's ploy didn't work. Johnson won and Gordon finished second. The series returns to Martinsville this weekend for the Subway 500. With one more Car of Tomorrow race left in the season after this week, the question is if drivers have learned a new way to nudge competitors out of the way. The difficulty is because the front and rear bumpers on the Car of Tomorrow are aligned so they hit head-on. Bumping someone only knocks them forward as Gordon did to Johnson this spring. With the older car, the nose sloped down, so the front bumper went under the rear bumper of another car and lifted the rear wheels.
Mix: Gameloft, Safari HD, iPhone, Poolga
During a recent speech, Gameloft founder Michel Guillemot featured an image of an iPhone running a Gameloft game in one of his slides. Pocket Gamer suggests that although the image may have been a mock-up, given Gameloft's past relationship with Apple on iPod games, it would not be surprising to see the company develop games for the iPhone. Safari HD, an unofficial hack for the Apple TV that allows users to browse the internet using the set-top box, has been released and updated for compatibility with Apple TV software 2.0. Safari HD uses the WebKit rendering engine, and supports web plugins such as Flash and any others supported by Safari. A panel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain last week praised the iPhone for its ease of use and interface.
Authorities ask public for help in investigation of iPhone seller
Police and consumer protection authorities are investigating Vancouver-based iPhoneNow.ca and are asking people who have paid hundreds of dollars for iPhones that were never delivered to step forward. The company is associated with Joshua Tristan Trousdale, a Port Coquitlam man who has been convicted of fraud relating to the sale of PlayStations over the Internet, and has successfully quelled complaints in the past with threats of costly lawsuits. But now, British Columbia's consumer watchdog is warning consumers to report such threats to the police. .
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