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In a surprise to no one, Apple announced the iPad, their long rumored and hoped for tablet-style device. Despite being saddled with what in my opinion is the worst name for a new product since the Wii, it will surely be lapped up by Apple fans. Unlike the Wii, though, I don't think the name will eventually become catchy or memorable, particularly since a single letter separates it from Apple's own iPod. Basically an upsized iPhone and compatible with all existing apps for that platform, the major revelation thus far about the new device is the companion iBooks store, which I imagine would be a subset of iTunes. While iBooks is an important step for the eReader market and digital books in general - shockingly Apple is supporting the industry's ePub standard - it remains to be seen even with a no doubt beautiful 10inch color screen whether it will have any of the gentle-to-the-eye qualities of eInk displays. (Owners of recent gen eBook readers will know what I'm talking about, i.e., eInk is as paper like as we have at this point, and it's a huge distinction for electronic reading from traditional displays.)
As both an iPhone 3G owner and an enthusiast of and user of graphics tablets (a Gateway Tablet PC is my primary personal laptop these days), I'll be curious if there is any stylus support, as that would make this device much more useful for sketching and note taking than standard finger input. If it's missing that feature AND it has a high price tag, I fail to see the niche such a device could ultimately fill, particularly with netbooks being fully functional mini computers with keyboards and similar 10 hour battery life.
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Prices starting at $499 (on up) with optional 3G data plans from $14.99 a month all the way up to $29.99 a month, the latter of which includes unlimited data. Not as expensive as I thought, but I still fail to see the niche this will ultimately fill beyond early adopters and Apple lovers.
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I am all over this.
I was thinking they would have a crafty-looking eBook reader, but this is more of a tablet computer/oversized iPhone. I figured they would have some crazy price like $999 before they started the event. As time moved on, I thought they were crazy for all of the items they were putting in it. The price kept going up in my mind. After all the features, they gave the price and I was shocked. It was no longer if I would get one. It was how many would I buy.
I was recently just trying to consider what options are out there for a kitchen computer. Well...nevermind that DIY project. It would make more sense to develop a decent docking solution on the wall for the iPad. Meanwhile, the size and weight of it makes it perfect for wondering around the house checking e-mail/chatting/reading/etc. I was thinking about upgrading my laptop at one point, but this fits the bill. It does the simple things I want, it is light, and it weighs almost nothing.
The Wi-Fi and bluetooth capabilities are giving me ideas of home automation integration, and wiring up a house for audio while using this thing to control my music has my mind racing.
I wonder what apps on the iPhone will seem like a natural transfer to the iPad. Sword of Fargoal on a 9.7" screen sounds fun.
Perhaps my impressions will change when/if I hear some releases for the thing. Right now, it's just an upsized iPhone, which is not a bad thing, but I already have an iPhone. I was just expecting something with a few more unique features. It seems like it just has a bit more power under the hood than the best iPhone and a bigger screen. Nothing really I can get excited about at this point.
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Heh. I have to focus on one thing in particular - Armchair Arcade.
Yep. AA is something I like to casually browse/view/write on a regular basis. With the iPad, I can:
1: Read AA a lot easier than I could read it on my iPhone
2: Write a blog entry on AA. (I rarely if EVER try to write an entry on AA using my iPhone. I am just too much of an amplified writer)
3: Watch Matt Chat in HD
4: Watch any other AA videos on youtube. (too bad they still don't have flash)
You can do a lot of that on the iPhone & easily at that, but I tend to go chase down a laptop or sit at my desktop if I seriously want to do anything for more than a few seconds. Smart phones are great, but they are still small phones. Unless a dedicated app or mobile version of a website is written for a given site, zooming around gets to be a pain.
That said - I think your mobile computer status in your home is further down the road than mine, Bill. See that from my perspective, it makes a bit more sense to me that you would not be as excited as I am. I have no other touch screen devices other than my iPhone. In fact, I have a bunch of semi-old laptops that need new batteries, OS reinstalls and maybe some new parts to bring them up to speed. Even after that, they aren't the slickest bunch.
Essentially, I am jumping past a lot of this crud by considering and purchasing an iPad.
I haven't decided which one to get yet, though.
First of all, it looks great, and the iPhone interface on an eBook device is very cool.
It doesn't have a display that can be viewed well outdoors (as far as I can tell). Color and animation are great, and probably necessary to allow the flexibility of the device. But without an eInk display of some type, the usefulness of this device as an actual e-book reader diminishes drastically.
The iPhone is useful because, beneath all the glitz, it's still a cellphone, and EVERYONE needs a cell phone to carry around. With the iPhone, you get a cellphone, camera, music player, web browser, and etc. etc. all in a device that fits in your pocket. It's a cell phone! You can carry it anywhere!
The iPod is an advanced music player, with many cool features. You can listen to music while jogging, sitting on the train, or walking the beach. And... you can carry it anywhere!
For an ebook reader, if you're carrying it around with you, you're probably going to be carrying it outdoors. However, without a screen that can be easily viewed in sunlight, the practicality diminishes drastically. If I'm laying out at the beach, the iPad sounds like an expensive paperweight in those circumstances. If I have to read a book in ideal lighting conditions, I might as well buy a regular hardcover book and turn the bedroom light on. Much cheaper.
The presumed primary function of this device, an "ebook reader," is thus diminished.
For games: still no built-in controller.
Without a built-in cell phone, the iPad is in a weird position. The iPhone already apparently has much the same capabilities in portable form, albeit with a small screen. The iPad DOESN'T have a cell phone built-in. Will people outside of Apple loyalists be gung-ho about this thing? After all, reading is something most people can do without a high-tech device, and do it much cheaper. Figure in a worldwide recession, and it becomes hard for the average person to justify the price for a fancy "book."
Apple needs a true killer app for this thing to really catch fire. It could be VERY CHEAP newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Without cell phone or camera built-in, it doesn't sound much more practical than a tablet PC, as cool as it is as a toy.
I think that the iPad will be a reasonable success, only because Apple has developed a cult following. But this product looks VERY vulnerable to competition. ebook readers with Android OS and a color eInk display could be very dangerous to the iPad. The iPhone and iPod were (and still are) state-of-the-art products, but this thing seems more like an iPod with a big screen!
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Whoa! I'm impressed. I'll probably be getting one of these at some point, perhaps when my current tablet PC bites the dust. Assuming there will be some form of Microsoft Office I can install on it, it'd be a great replacement for my tablet. I mostly use my tablet for precisely for this stuff anyway, with the only "heavy lifting" being working on PowerPoints and the like. I'm sure that keyboard would be awful for typing long documents, but hopefully would suffice for taking notes and writing up blogs and so on (and I'm guessing serious users will get the dock keyboard thing they mention).
I'm assuming that people who get this will already have an iPhone. If I were Apple, I'd try to offer some advantages and "synergies" (gasp, did I use that word??) between the two devices. I can imagine all sorts of interesting possibilities there.
It's highly unlikely it will have a real version of Office any time soon, but I'm sure iWorks will suffice in that regard, and at $10, it's probably a no-brainer. I can't see this ever being a laptop replacement (too small of a screen and sporting an alternative OS), but assuming one can touch type on the touch screen as is implied, it could definitely replace a netbook. I haven't seen any dock options or support for a real keyboard and mouse announced myself, but that doesn't mean they won't eventually happen (or that they were in fact announced). Again, upsized iPhone from what I can tell, and that's not necessarily a bad thing for most, and it would certainly be a consideration for me (assuming I find the typing experience good) if I needed a netbook (which, luckily I don't. My wife has the Asus Eee 1000HE, which runs XP and works very well, with 8 hours+ of battery life.).
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They actually showed a docking station with a keyboard during Apple's event earlier today. http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apples-ipad-keyboard-dock-case-and-ot...
All this stuff adds up. Many people are pointing out its lack of ability to multitask. I hope I can safely *assume* that they will eventually add multitasking to the OS, and this device is in its infancy.
Many of the editorials are negative right now. Very interesting...
They actually showed a docking station with a keyboard during Apple's event earlier today. http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/apples-ipad-keyboard-dock-case-and-ot...
All this stuff adds up. Many people are pointing out its lack of ability to multitask. I hope I can safely *assume* that they will eventually add multitasking to the OS, and this device is in its infancy.
Many of the editorials are negative right now. Very interesting...
Interesting about the dock, I had not seen it until your link. At first I was like, "where's the mouse?", but I suppose you're still expected to touch the screen to serve the "pointing" function. That will also be something of an adjustment, and one I'm not sure is 100% effective since there's a certain efficiency with keeping your hands to the mouse/keyboard paradigm. I have a touch screen PC desktop as my main system at home and I only rarely touch it, sticking to the mouse and keyboard, though of course the OS is designed around the latter paradigm, not the former.
I'm trying very, very hard to like this iPad and see all the positives, particularly since I LOVE my iPhone, but I have to agree with the other pundits out there who are down on the device right now.
Multi-tasking is not a big deal on the iPhone, but indeed, something that's meant to be used as more of a computer, it is indeed an issue. The only multi-tasking I can do on the iPhone is is when I'm on a call I can open up one more app. There is NO REASON why the iPad, with its increased technical beef can't multi-task, it simply has to be a deficiency of the OS.
Also, there's one other thing that bugs me and perhaps I just don't see it at the moment... There's no ability to video conference on this thing, right? Even the humblest netbook has a Webcam built right in, and it's still cheaper than the iPad. Again, I'm trying to get on board with this iPad thing being the technical slave that I am, I but I'm really, really struggling here...
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Dont see this being anything but an Apple fan boys wet dream. As an Ex Iphone user (great gadget, crappy phone). The Iphone has wonderful apps, is a pretty neat gadget that is actually usefull at times as a portable tool. But the actual phone part is pretty poor. Average to poor voice quality and sound, AT&T is simply not a good provider (lowest customer satisfaction of all cell companies, poor coverage for anybody who travels alot, its just a fact. people who stay in one location where it works well may not see this, but us that have to travel alot know it). Slick interface that is easy for almost anybody to use. Most people overlook the average to poor phone ability becuase the rest of it is so good. I replaced mine with a DROID, and unfortnatly the phone part is pretty much the same, only average quailty. I ues my phone alot (business and i talk about 4-5 hours a day on it to many different people in many parts of the country, and get the same comments i did on my Iphone, "you sound like your in a tunnel" both phones :( My LG Env I used for about 3 months (crappy work phone for the email etc side) everybody loved the phone side of. Hard to have it both ways it seems :(
Ipad (agree, had heard all the tampex jokes a few weeks ago (before release, why didnt they change it?)) is just a giant Iphone really. Its treading in the laptop area but inst a laptop, its simpley to big to carry around with you (like a Iphone) if I'm going to carry something that big with me, may as well be a laptop that can do everything, not just "somethings". Right now I cant see a reason to have it instead of a laptop. Its light, has good battery life, but laptops are almost this light nowdays (1-2 pounds different) and while 10 hours of battery life is sweet, my dell is about 6 (with the 9 cell) and it cost about $700 so its not likethe Ipad is that much cheaper.
Its a neat gadget that will have a very limited "need" area, most purchasers will have to simpley "want" it (laptops are a need item for many, and yes a "want" item for many too). its an Apple product so it has the hardcore Apple people who will buy it reguardless.
To me its basicly a form of Ipod, a fun gadget and it looks like it will excel at that, but its size really is going tobe its hinderance IMHO.
But nowdays Im wrong more often then I'm right (and so far Apple has a great track record in the last few years) so maybe they know what they are doing with this too, only time will tell. We are a gadget socicity and even if we dont need it we buy it, it may just be the next "big thing".


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Austin Chittum took an official visit to Catawba College right before national signing day.
But the Bluffton High senior offensive tackle wasn't among the nine Bobcats who signed national letters of intent to play college football early this month. He had no offers on the table and was starting to wonder if his football career was over.
Chittum was relieved to pick up a late offer from Catawba on Feb. 14 and jumped at the chance to keep playing a sport he fell in love with in middle school. He may never walk away from the game, as he is thinking about becoming a high school football coach after he graduates from college.
Bluffton Today caught up with Chittum last week after he signed with Catawba for a short question and-answer session.
Bluffton Today: What did it mean to you to get that scholarship offer from Catawba?
Austin Chittum: It's really a blessing. I really wanted to play and I've been thinking hard about it. Things were falling through all over the place and I was thinking I wasn't going to get a scholarship. It came and I'm really excited.
BT: What was the highlight of your football career at Bluffton?
Chittum: I enjoyed it all. I love the people I played with, loved the coaches, loved the experience, loved being able to compete. Some of the highlights are the Hartsville game my sophomore year in the playoffs, the Berkeley game, the game against Myrtle Beach that we won. I like big games.
BT: What are you thinking of majoring in at Catawba?
Chittum: I've narrowed it down to two things. Catawba has a really good business program, so I'm really liking business. But I also was thinking about majoring in teaching. That way, I could coach. I'd like to be a high school coach.
BT: What's your favorite class in school?
Chittum: Definitely weightlifting - no homework and it's fun.
BT: What will you remember most about your time at Bluffton?
Chittum: Really just how close everybody is. It's a really tight-knit community. Everybody knows everybody. There's big family feel here.


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Biblical genealogies
Biblical genealogies are often cited as evidence for the reliability of the Bible. Some apologists claim that the genealogies in the Bible are supported by historical and archaeological evidence, yet the Bible includes a number of internal contradictions in these accounts which must call into question the reliability of these genealogies and of the Bible itself.
Genealogy of Jesus in Luke[edit]
One notable aspect is the Luke genealogy being much longer that in Matthew, giving the impression of the writers having very different ideas of how long ago King David lived from Jesus's alleged time. One apologetic has been to claim the Luke genealogy refers to Mary, not Joseph, with spurious claims that adoption could pass one into the bloodline of David. This is necessary because the genealogy in Luke derives Nathan, son of David, instead of Solomon (he alone was to carry on the bloodline, which had to be physical, thus necessiting it be Mary, not Joseph). However, women could not pass on the bloodline. Moreover, the genealogy clearly lists Joseph, not Mary. Apologists seek to get around this by claiming that when a genealogy ends with a woman, her husband is listed instead, despite no evidence of this practice existing. If Joseph was son-in-law of Heli in the Luke genealogy, it would have been clearly listed, as other parts of the Bible show in-law relationships, but there is nothing, and this does not change the lack of inheritance through mothers. They attempt to get around that problem by claiming Joseph adopted Jesus, with no mention of this in the Bible. Adopting Jesus would have meant acknowledging Joseph had not fathered him, and he was thus a bastard, for all anyone could know, thus negating any possible claims to anything, besides putting Mary in danger of being stoned to death for adultery.
Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew[edit]
The Matthew genealogy has its own problem. It lists the cursed king Jechoniah, none of whose heirs God decreed would inherit as punishment, thus negating that whole line of descent. The writer of Matthew seems to have been unfamiliar with this, although where he got this genealogy in the beginning is thus anyone's guess (is there a chance it was originally meant to disprove Jesus' claim, regardless of whether he existed?) Aside from all this, why Jesus needed to be descended from David through Solomon and be the Messiah is hard to grasp, as being God's son is far greater, except the obvious conclusion that originally he was not believed to be divine in any way (a blasphemous idea to Jews, we might note). There were many claimants to being the Messiah and so proving this was important.
Virgin birth and gods fathering children were distinctly pagan things likely added later to widen its appeal, since pagans were preached to. Prior to Jesus, there is no precedent in the Bible even remotely similar. The genealogies, perhaps even more strongly most anything else, prove the New Testament is composed of many competing writings. For, if Jesus is the son of God, why bother with it? [1]
Two different genealogies are given for Jesus, in the first chapters of Matthew and Luke:
|Matthew 1:1-16
|Luke 3:23-38
In tracing the ancestry of Jesus, Luke goes back farther than Matthew. Matthew describes the lineage from Abraham onwards and between Abraham and David both Gospels are in agreement with each other, and also with 1 Chronicles. Luke, however, goes back all the way to Adam, and there an anomaly is found:
|1 Chronicles 1:1-27
|Luke 3:34-38
Apologist response[edit]
- "Origen [...] argued that these were hermeneutic trip wires deliberately inserted by the holy spirit to make the reader think that bit harder about the New Testament's other meanings – symbolic, ethical and allegorical – rather than the merely literal. [2]"


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It's been a while since I posted but I don't want you to think that I've been taking a vacation from my documentary because it's actually the opposite. I've been so busy with a hundred different things that I keep forgetting to post updates. So here's the scoop:
I have been planning a trip to Vancouver / Seattle to visit Leanne Prain and Mandy Moore, authors of the book Yarn Bombing, yarn graffiti scholar Jessica Glesby, and maybe the Seattle-based group Yarn Core (I'm still waiting for confirmation). John and I leave for this trip on Friday morning and come back on Labor Day. It's going to be really exciting. There are a lot of things to think about when planning a trip for a documentary. It's not just hotels and rental cards, I've been having to secure equipment, release forms, scout locations for places I've never been. I've been reading and reading about my interview subjects and writing question. I've even made a shot list of what I think we should shoot. So needless to say, it's a lot of work.
There's been a shift in my crew. I'm happy to announce that Taylor Hagan has joined the prestigious rank of producer along side Spencer Stoner. John is taking a hiatus from producing to work on his own project (check it out, it's pretty incredible, ONCE AGAIN). With Taylor and Spencer behind me, I know we're going to get more organized and get this thing made. Now none of my crew, Spencer, Taylor or John, can knit or crochet but they are all lovers of the craft. Hopefully by the end of this project I will teach them how to knit or crochet so that they can have some yarn cred* in the community.
Lots of other fun things going on with the documentary. More grant applications. We're currently looking into securing fiscal sponsorship. I've also been toying around with the idea of getting an intern to help me get my footage transcribed and organized.
One thing to know about documentary filmmaking, is that it's a lot of planning, a lot of quick thinking, and a lot of work in post-production to make everything come together. It's never ending as far as the workday goes. I dream about making my doc. I'm starting to realize that documentary filmmakers must be a little crazy because it's a very unpredictable life that is almost constant stress, but I love it.
Last night I was happy to attend a Documentary Filmmaker Panel sponsored by a group at the University of Texas at Austin, Women In Cinema. The panelists Laura Sobel, director of Cereal: History in a Bowl, Rakeda Lashae, documentary television director, and Mike Nicholson, producer of Better This World came together for an evening of shared non-fiction filmmaking secrets. I was really inspired by each of the panelists. As I heard them talk about their struggles, it gave me strength to persevere through this tough patch. I know that I'm on the right path.
* Yarn Cred is similar to Street Cred but it has to pertain to the world of crafts specifically the fibered arts. I don't think I came up with this on my own, I'm sure I've heard this or read this. Actually I think someone praised me and my documentary because I have yarn cred.
Yarn Cred - Commanding a level of respect in the craft world environment due to experience in or knowledge of issues affecting those environments.
I'm making a documentary about the yarn graffiti movement and I'm writing about it here.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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Renowned museums have enjoyed the support of Credit Suisse for several decades, allowing them to stage exhibitions of international importance.
At the international level, Credit Suisse supports the National Gallery in London as well as various other art museums at the national level. In Switzerland, the bank maintains long-term partnerships with many renowned art institutions such as the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Kunstmuseum Basel or the MASI Lugano.
National Gallery
The National Gallery is one of the greatest art galleries in the world. Founded by Parliament in 1824, the Gallery houses the nation's collection of Western European paintings, from the late thirteenth to the early twentieth century. No other collection possesses such consistent quality, nor better tells the story of Western European painting. The collection belongs to the nation and is open to all, attracting a diverse public from the UK and overseas. Between four and five million people visit the National Gallery each year.
Almost all of the 2300 paintings in the National Gallery's collection are on permanent display. The collection represents the greatest Western painters including van Eyck, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Turner, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Rubens, Velázquez, van Dyck, Titian, and Bellini. The Gallery's key objectives are to enhance the collection, care for the collection, and provide the best possible access to visitors. Credit Suisse has been a Partner of the National Gallery since 2008. Additionally, disadvantaged students from London and the East-midlands have the opportunity to enhance their creative skills during educational courses led by the Museum and supported through our Global Engagements with City Year UK.
Kunsthaus Zürich
Credit Suisse has worked with the Kunsthaus Zürich for many years, forging a relationship that culminated in official "partner" status at the beginning of 2005. This partnership manifests itself primarily in the role Credit Suisse plays as the main sponsor of the principal annual exhibition.
The Kunsthaus Zürich owns 17 paintings by Edvard Munch – the largest selection of works outside of Norway – as well as other significant collections. First and foremost among these are the collection from the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, which affords a comprehensive view of all major aspects of the artist's oeuvre, and the most famous works by Johann Heinrich Füssli. These were recently joined by the Bührle and Looser collections. The bank sponsors each year's main exhibition and various public relations and outreach projects, for example, an open house event.
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Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel, one of Switzerland's oldest and most renowned art institutions, benefits particularly from its prime geographical location. The Kunstmuseum Basel collection focuses on paintings and drawings by artists from the Upper Rhine region between 1400 and 1600, as well as on artworks from the 19th to the 21st century.
The museum lays claim to the world's largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Among the periods represented is the German Renaissance, with major works by Witz, Cranach, and Grünewald. Highlights from the 19th century include paintings by Böcklin, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. In the 20th century, the emphasis is on Cubism, German Expressionism, and US art since 1950. Contemporary art is displayed at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Recently expanded, the Kunstmuseum Basel is now housed in three buildings (the main building, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, and the new building). The extension heralds the start of a new era. With its three buildings, the Kunstmuseum Basel now has a total exhibition space of about 10,000 m2 at its disposal. Credit Suisse has been supporting the Kunstmuseum Basel since 2012.
Kunstmuseum Bern
The Kunstmuseum Bern is the oldest art museum in Switzerland with a permanent collection that spans nine centuries and includes many masterpieces by nationally and internationally renowned artists. The museum enjoys international fame, thanks to works by Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand Hodler, and Meret Oppenheim.
The city of Bern founded a national art collection in 1809 and completed construction of the first museum in 1879. Classic and contemporary works are displayed alongside leading artists from Switzerland and Bern over 3500 square meters of exhibition space. Credit Suisse has been a partner of the Kunstmuseum Bern since 1996 and is main sponsor of several exhibitions each year. The Kunstmuseum and Credit Suisse established the "Credit Suisse Förderpreis Videokunst" in 2011, which was awarded for the first time in 2012.
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MASI Lugano/LAC
Credit Suisse has been supporting the Museo d'Arte Lugano since 1992; in 2008, it received the official status of partner. In 2015, the Museo d'Arte and the Museo Cantonale d'Arte merged into MASI Lugano – Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, in the new LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura cultural center. Since then, MASI Lugano has been attracting a varied audience to Lugano and the multidisciplinary LAC venue. Credit Suisse sponsors both MASI Lugano and the LAC.


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The award-winning Cadies & Witchery Tours invite you to join our fearless phantoms for a suspenseful and mirth-filled tour of Edinburgh's Old Town. Step back a few hundred years as Adam Lyal (deceased) and his spooky chums bring the Capital's grisly past vividly to life.
Established in 1984, with our Murder & Mystery Tour (the original Edinburgh ghost tour) debuting the following year, the Cadies have been scaring people from all over the world (and Kirkcaldy!) almost every single night since, and our walking tours have become one of Edinburgh's must-see attractions. Our multi-talented ghosts have also written and shot a number of books and films, to bring their humorous knowledge of Edinburgh and Scotland to those less keen on walking. You can find them, along with a collection of other fine freakish fare, in our online shop.
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It is hard to believe that we've now been haunting the wynds and closes of the Old Town for over three decades. You'd think at this stage the only 'WWW' around here would be 'world-weary whingers', but somehow we keep ever-fresh in spite of our advancing years. How is this possible?
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Are you possessed of an enquiring mind and a strong constitution? Then you have everything you need to join me on a Witchery Tour. (Apart from a warm raincoat and galoshes, that is.) I hope to see you up a close some dark night soon...
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The European Tour's Qualifying School, one of the toughest tests in golf, will return this September when eight stunning venues host more than 700 golfers hoping to fulfil their dreams of competing in The Race to Dubai.
The Qualifying School poses a gruelling examination for some of the world's most promising golfing talent as well as to those looking to return to former glories, with the ultimate prize at stake Membership to The European Tour.
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This year, First Stage returns to the eight venues which proved such a success in 2012.
The Roxburghe Hotel & Golf Course in Scotland will return to the schedule for the opening week of Qualifying School First Stage after a hugely successful debut last time around which saw it being warmly praised by many of the competitors. Once again, it will run concurrent with Golfclub Schloss Ebreichsdorf from September 10-13.
Wychwood Park in England and Golf & Country Club Fleesensee in Germany, a European Tour Destination, are next up from September 17-20, before Circolo Golf Bogogno in Italy and Ribagolfe in Portugal take on the honour from September 24-27.
Finally, Frilford Heath Golf Club in England, which will also host the English Amateur Championship in July, and French venue Golf d'Hardelot will host the last groups of hopefuls from October 1-4.
Mike Stewart, Qualifying School Director, is delighted to see the return of all eight venues for 2013 and believes they will provide an enjoyable, yet challenging, test for the players involved.
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Brussels, 19 May 2010
Digital Agenda for Europe: key initiatives
(see also IP/10/581 and MEMO/10/199)
Why a Digital Agenda for Europe?
Europe needs a new action plan for making the best use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to speed up economic recovery and lay the foundations of a sustainable digital future. The new action plan proposes to remove current obstacles to maximising the potential of ICTs, with long-term investments to minimise future problems.
30% of Europeans have never used the internet. There are four times as many music downloads in the US as in the EU because of the lack of legal offers and fragmented markets. Europe is also lagging behind its industrial partners such as the US and Japan on investment in ICT research and take-up of ultra high-speed networks. Only 1% of Europeans have access to fibre-based high-speed networks, as compared to 12% Japanese and 15% South Koreans. The EU is spending only 40% of US levels for ICT research and development.
Europe needs to tackle these challenges to create a virtuous cycle in which ICT stimulates the EU economy. This can happen when attractive services are made available in a borderless online environment and their availability and use creates demand for faster internet. This demand for faster internet, in turn, creates investment opportunities in faster networks. When put in place and widely used, the faster networks open the way for even more innovative services.
The Digital Agenda identifies where Europe needs to focus its efforts to put this virtuous cycle in motion.
What is the focus of the Digital Agenda?
The Agenda outlines seven priority areas for action:
What key actions does the European Commission propose?
Digital Single Market
It is time for a new Single Market to deliver the benefits of the digital era.
Europe is still a patchwork of national online markets, and Europeans are prevented from enjoying the benefits of a digital Single Market. Commercial and cultural content and services need to flow across borders; this should be achieved by eliminating regulatory barriers and facilitating electronic payments and invoicing, dispute resolution and customer trust. More can and must be done under the current regulatory framework to put in place a Single Market in the telecoms sector.
The Digital Agenda will for example:
The European Commission will also make sure consumers are protected in cyberspace by issuing a digital code that summarises the rights of citizens in the online world in a clear and accessible way. Currently many consumers find it difficult to know what their digital rights are, especially when these are scattered across various complex legal documents.
Other actions under the Digital Agenda will aim to give consumers the confidence that they can get a fair deal online. The Commission will pursue the idea of EU online trustmarks, notably for retail websites and will propose an EU-wide online dispute resolution system for eCommerce transactions, so that consumers know where to go when things go wrong.
Interoperability and standards
We need effective interoperability between IT products and services to build a truly digital society.
The internet is the best example of the power of technical interoperability. Its open architecture has brought interoperable devices and applications to billions around the world. But to reap the full benefits of ICT deployment in Europe, it is essential to enhance the interoperability between devices, applications, data repositories, services and networks.
The framework conditions for interoperability can be improved in various ways. One important means to that end is to ensure that good ICT standards are available and used, notably in public procurement and legislation.
The Digital Agenda will for example:
But the Commission will also address situations in which standards do not help because significant market players do not support them. A further aim is better coordination between public administrations through a new European Interoperability Strategy and Framework to ensure interoperability between eGovernment and other public services across Europe.
Trust and security
Europeans will not embrace technology they do not trust - the digital age is neither "big brother" nor "cyber wild west".
Europeans will not engage in ever more sophisticated online activities unless they feel that they, and their children, can fully rely upon their networks. It is essential to address the rise of "cybercrime" - ranging from child abuse to identity theft and cyber-attacks, and develop responsive mechanisms.
In parallel, the multiplication of databases and new technologies raise new challenges. The right to privacy and to the protection of personal data are fundamental rights in the EU which must be effectively enforced online and offline.
The internet has now become such a critical information infrastructure, for both for individuals and for the European economy as a whole, that our IT systems and networks must be made resilient and secure to all sort of new threats.
The Digital Agenda will for example:
The European Commission will also support hotlines where children and parents could report illegal content online and work with EU countries to offer teaching online safety in schools.
Under the EU's updated telecoms rules, operators and service providers are obliged to notify breaches of personal data security (see MEMO/09/568). The ongoing review of the EU's general data protection framework will also explore a possible extension of the obligation to notify data security breaches.
Fast and ultra fast internet access
We need very fast internet for the economy to grow strongly and to create jobs and prosperity, and to ensure citizens can access the content and services they want.
Europe needs widely available and competitively-priced fast and ultra fast internet access. The EU aims to bring basic broadband to all Europeans by 2013 and to ensure that, by 2020, (i) all Europeans have access to much higher internet speeds of above 30 Mbps and (ii) 50% or more of European households subscribe to internet access above 100 Mbps.
To reach these ambitious targets it is necessary to develop a comprehensive policy, based on a mix of technologies, focusing on two parallel goals: on the one hand, to guarantee universal broadband coverage (combining fixed and wireless) with internet speeds gradually increasing up to 30 Mbps and above. On the other hand, the goal is, over time, to foster the deployment and take-up of next generation access networks (NGA) in a large part of the EU, allowing ultra fast internet connections above 100 Mbps.
The Digital Agenda will for example:
Research and innovation
Europe must invest more in R&D and ensure our best ideas reach the market.
Given that ICT contributes to the total value-added in European industrial strengths such as automobile (25%), consumer appliances (41%) or health and medical (33%), the lack of investment in ICT R&D threatens the entire EU manufacturing and service sectors.
The investment gap is related, firstly, to weak and dispersed public R&D effort. For instance, the EU public sector spends less than € 5.5 billion per year on ICT R&D, far below the levels of competing economies. Secondly, market fragmentation and widely dispersed research funding limit the growth and development of ICT innovative businesses, notably SMEs. Thirdly, Europe is slow in the uptake of ICT-based innovations. While social changes like an ageing population or environmental crisis are major drivers of innovation, Europe makes little use of procurement of innovation and R&D to improve quality and performance of its public services.
To tackle these problems, the Digital Agenda will for example:
The Commission will also develop 'light and fast' ways for SMEs and young researchers to access EU funding for ICT research. The Commission has also urged EU Member States to double annual public spending on ICT R&D from €5.5 billion to €11 billion (including EU programmes) in ways that will leverage an equivalent increase in private spending from €35 billion to €70 billion.
Digital skills, literacy and e-inclusion
The digital era should be about empowerment and emancipation; background or skills should not be a barrier to accessing this potential.
As more daily tasks are carried out online, from applying for a job to paying taxes or booking tickets, using the internet has become an integral part of daily life for many Europeans. Over half of Europeans (250 million) go online every day but 150 million Europeans – some 30% - have never used the internet. Often they say they have no need or that it is too expensive. This group is largely made up of people aged 65 to 74 years old, people on low incomes, the unemployed and the less educated.
In addition, Europe is suffering from a growing professional ICT skills shortage and could lack the competent practitioners to fill as many as 700,000 IT jobs by 2015.
These failings are excluding many citizens from the digital society and economy and are holding back the positive impact that ICT can have on productivity growth.
To tackle these problems, the Digital Agenda will for example:
The Commission, based on a review of options, will also make proposals by 2012 to ensure that websites providing public services are accessible to all citizens, including the elderly and persons with disabilities, by 2015.
ICT-enabled benefits for society
Smart use of technology and exploitation of information will help us to address the challenges facing society like climate change and the ageing population.
Using and applying ICTs is critical to help Europe face future challenges such as supporting an ageing society, climate change, reducing energy consumption, improving transportation efficiency and mobility, empowering patients and ensuring the inclusion of persons with disabilities.
To tackle these problems, the Digital Agenda will for example:
These and many more actions make the Digital Agenda an ambitious action plan for the coming years.
When will the Digital Agenda be put into practice?
The announcement today identifies a raft of measures that will be put into place or proposed over the next 2-3 years, leading to follow-up actions up to 2015. The initiative will then evolve and develop over the next 10 years, as a flagship of the Europe 2020 Strategy to reach the 2020 targets.
Will the European Commission implement the Digital Agenda alone? How can stakeholders help?
To turn this ambitious programme into reality the European Commission will work closely with the European Parliament (through regular dialogue) and Member States (through a group of high level representatives), and all interested stakeholders at all levels in all Member States. The Commission will organise action-oriented stakeholder platforms, as well as an annual Digital Assembly to assess progress and emerging challenges.
Annex 1: Key actions
Annex 2: Key Performance Targets
These indicators are mainly drawn from the Benchmarking framework 2011-20151 endorsed by the EU Member States in November 2009.
1. Broadband targets:
Basic broadband for all by 2013: basic broadband coverage for 100% of EU citizens. (Baseline: Total DSL coverage (as % of the total EU population) was at 93% in December 2008.)
Fast broadband by 2020: broadband coverage at 30 Mbps or more for 100% of EU citizens. (Baseline: 23% of broadband subscriptions were with at least 10 Mbps in January 2010.)
Ultra-fast broadband by 2020: 50% of European households should have subscriptions above 100Mbps. (No baseline)
2. Digital Single Market:
Promoting eCommerce: 50% of the population should be buying online by 2015. (Baseline: In 2009, 37 % of the individuals aged 16-74 ordered goods or services for private use in the last 12 months.)
Cross-border eCommerce: 20% of the population should buy cross border online by 2015. (Baseline: In 2009, 8 % of the individuals aged 16-74 ordered goods or services from sellers from other EU countries in the last 12 months.)
eCommerce for business: 33% of SMEs should conduct online purchases/sales by 2015. (Baseline: During 2008, 24% and 12% of enterprises was, respectively, purchasing/selling electronically, for an amount equal to or greater than 1% of the turnover/total purchases.
Single Market for telecoms services: the difference between roaming and national tariffs should approach zero by 2015. (Baseline: In 2009, the roaming average price per minute was 0.38 cents (call made) and the average price per minute for all calls in the EU was 0.13 cents (roaming included).
3. Digital inclusion:
Increase regular internet use from 60% to 75% by 2015 and from 41% to 60% for disadvantaged people. (Baseline figures are for 2009)
Halve the proportion of population that has never used the internet by 2015 (to 15%). (Baseline: In 2009, 30% of individuals aged 16-74 had never used the internet.)
4. Public services:
eGovernment by 2015: 50% of citizens using eGovernment, with more than half of them returning filled in forms. (Baseline: In 2009, 38% of individuals aged 16-74 had used eGovernment services in the last 12 months, and 47% of them used eGovernment services for sending filled forms.)
Cross-border public services: by 2015 online availability of all the key cross-border public services contained in the list to be agreed by Member States by 2011. (No baseline)
5. Research & innovation:
ICT R&D increase: Double public investment to €11 billion. (Baseline: ICT government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D (ICT GBAORD) was 5.7 billion nominal euros in 2007.)
6. Low Carbon Economy:
Promotion of low energy lighting: By 2020 at least 20% overall reduction in energy use on lighting. (No baseline.)
For more information see Benchmarking framework 2011-2015; This is a conceptual framework for collection of statistics on the information society as well as a list of core indicators for benchmarking.
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I had set up my Airport connections to use 220.127.116.11 and 184.108.40.206 as their DNS (those are Google's DNS IPs), however, I hadn't set my ethernet connections to use them. Somehow I managed to realize that it wasn't the router (after restoring to factory defaults), but that it was the DNS. I'm actually still impressed with myself for determining that and not getting carried away with my other possible solutions which included buying a new router and more drastically cancelling Comcast and switching to Verizon. But switching back and forth between Comcast's DNS and Google's DNS proved that for some reason Google's DNS was breaking Hulu for me.
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Developers have been busy creating Android Market applications to allow smartphone users to work with documents like PDFs, spreadsheets and presentations while away from the office, without losing too much functionality. While creating and editing business documents with a small screen and keyboard is not ideal, these tools make it bearable in a pinch. We've pulled together this list of favorites. A few have small charges for use, but several are free.
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7-13-2010: All-Star second-guessing, trade candidates
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Congrats to David Ortiz, who took the Home Run Derby crown last night. Too bad he can't face BP pitchers all the time. Heckuva time to ask for a contract extension, though I doubt this will factor too much into the calculation.
The All-Star rosters and starting lineups are out. Ubaldo Jimenez and David Price will get the ball first. Not terrible choices, but Jon Lester is more experienced, plays in a home park that inflates runs, and is just better. People point to the ERA gap, but our numbers suggest that Lester's ERA should be at 2.58 (2.21 FIP) in a "neutral" AL run environment. Price would be at 2.48 (3.40 FIP); the ERA is better, but not by much at all. Price would have 89 Ks and 41 walks, while Lester would have 119 Ks and 43 walks. Not much of a contest here.
In another ballpark-unadjusted injustice, Paul Konerko was selected over Kevin Youkilis because he had "better numbers". Not sure which numbers Joe Girardi is looking at, since Youk owns a .421 wOBA and Konerko is at .401. But if you mean the traditional stats, let's adjust those for home park and league:
Youkilis: .292/.411/.572 with 17 HR and 54 RBI
Konerko: .298/.380/.544 with 19 HR and 56 RBI


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Mary Hiebert
Mary Hiebert, 97, died Friday at Wheat State Manor in Whitewater. She was born July 21, 1915, in rural Marion County to Henry Bernard Sr. and Eva (Hiebert) Schmidt.
She attended Goessel schools. She married Jake Hiebert on April 13, 1937, at Tabor Mennonite Church. They farmed near Whitewater and owned a moving business.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jake Hiebert; two siblings, Rudy Schmidt and Olga Schmidt; and a granddaughter.
She is survived by two children, Willard Hiebert of Moorhead, Minn., and Gladys Walling of Winifred, Mont.; a sister, Elda Mellott of Peabody; and three grandchildren.
Visitation will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at Lamb Funeral Home in Whitewater. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Swiss Church, Whitewater. Interment will be in the Swiss Cemetery.
A memorial fund has been established for Ponca Bible Camp.
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In this two-part article, I use MonoTouch to build an application that has a browser you can use to browse the Internet, using UIWebView to display content that we've packaged in the application. In Part 1, I create the web browser and in Part 2 examine how to display the local content. (The complete source code accompanying this article is available here.) MonoTouch is a framework that lets you build iPhone and iPad applications using C#. This frees you from dealing with memory management, pointers, etc., and instead lets you focus on the application functionality. MonoTouch is a commercial product that is part of the larger, open source Mono project, Novell's open-source implementation of the .NET standard created by Microsoft and published as a set of international standards. For more on MonoTouch's capabilities, see my article MonoTouch and the iPhone: The GPS and Compass Functions.
The recently released MonoTouch 2.0 is focused specifically on application development for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch using the .NET Framework, including C# and other .NET programming languages. MonoTouch simplifies iPad and iPhone development by letting you use code and libraries written for .NET. While the iPad developer license restricts the distribution of scripting engines or Just-in-Time (JIT) compilers required by managed runtimes such as .NET for code execution, developers can use MonoTouch while fully complying with Apple license terms because MonoTouch delivers only native code.
So let's build an application....
Building the App
To start, open up MonoDevelop; it should look something like this:
Next, create a new iPhone MonoTouch project. To do this, select File/New/Solution:
Choose iPhone Window-based Project from the C#/ iPhone templates and name the solution "Example_UIWebView":
Click OK on the Project Features dialogue (they're not relevant to what we're doing right now):
The project should now look something like this:
The application is going to consist of three screens:
- A home screen with two buttons
- A web browser screen
- A local content browser.
I'll use a Navigation Controller to manage the screen navigation and the buttons on the home screen to push screens (views) onto the Navigation controller.
Let's add the main screen, which will hold the Navigation Controller and the buttons. Right-click on the project name and choose Add, and then New File:
On the next screen, choose iPhone from the left pane, and View Interface Definition with Controller on the right pane. Name it, "MainNavigationView," and click New:
Now let's open our MainNavigationView in Interface Builder by double-clicking on the MainNavigationView.xib file in MonoDevelop. Interface Builder will load and the Document Window of your view should look like this:
We want our Navigation Controller to be the top level View Controller, so delete the View item in the Document Window. Once you've done that, drag a "Navigation Controller" control from the Library Window onto the Document Window:
The Navigation Controller doesn't come with a view that we can put stuff in, so drag a View control onto it:
Your Document should now look like this:
Now that we have a View, we have a surface on which to put stuff, so let's drag a couple of Rounded Rect Buttons from the Library Window onto our newly created view. Resize them so that they look approximately like the following, and edit their text labels by double-clicking on them:
Set the text one of them to be "Web Browser," and the other to be "Local Content Browser." While we're here, change the text for the root navigation item from "Root View Controller," to "Browser Example." Do this as you did the buttons, simply double-click on the label and enter the new text:


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coltraning wrote:
we need an inside big, so "hey, I got an idea, let's trade our best 2-3 for a 33 year old PG with bad knees, even though we already have one of the best 5 PGs in the league"
actually the point was dumb ass that we shouldnt trade jrich for kidd...which i agree... that followed with why should not we trade jrich at all, which I don't agree... based on the fact that we need to upgrade inside..
by you trying to make me look stupid, you've done a good job of doing that to yourself..
thanks coltrain.
my idol
I....what?? I think I'll just leave this to coltraining, but daaaaamn.


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The Scouting program snuck up on me a little as this week became a bit busier than usual. I guess I knew of everything that was coming up, but I was not really paying attention. Oh well, I can not think of many other programs I would rather spend my time on.
On Monday the patrol leader council of Troop 68 met at my house for their monthly planning meeting. It did not take them long to plan the three March meetings, the court of honor, and other things, plus review how things went in February. They began at 6:30 and were finished before 8:00. That included eating the meat and cheese tray I set out during the meeting.
On Tuesday I attended Cub Scout Pack 68's Pinewood Derby. Thirteen Scouts participated in this year's event. It was the first time I had seen a derby since the pack bought a new track with an electronic timer. I attended the activity to take some pictures. I ended up being the official photographer. I might have gone a little overboard. I ended up with over 100 pictures of the boys and their cars. I am going to burn the pictures to cd's and give one to each family who had a Scout participate in the derby.
On Friday the members of the Striking Cobra Patrol will be coming over for pizza, sodas, and a movie. They won the patrol flag competition in December. I am not sure what movie the Scouts will decide to watch but I have a feeling I better have at least two large pizzas ready for them. Boy Scouts always seem to be hungry, especially for pizza.
How has your Scouting week been going? Is it a busy one?


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The #1 Shaft On Tour, Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Now Available At Hireko Golf!
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First a sweep in Hawaii and now the first leg of the West Coast swing, for the first three weeks of the 2014 PGA Tour season, the winners has entrusted True Temper's Dynamic Gold iron shafts. That is not surprising as the Dynamic Gold golf shaft has to be by far and away the #1 played and winning iron and wedge shaft ever. As you get an opportunity to peruse our website and 2014 catalog, you will notice a new addition to the Dynamic Gold family called the Tour Issue.
Understanding manufacturing tolerances
Before we talk about the Dynamic Gold Tour Issue, we must first talk about a particular topic – manufacturing tolerances. These exist with any steel shaft, with weight being a very important factor. For instance, if you have two of the exact same steel golf shaft and measure the flex, the heavier one will almost always be the stiffer of the two. This is due to the walls being thicker along the entire length of the shaft and a providing a greater resistance to deflection or bending. The greater the difference between weight and it will exhibit a greater discrepancy in stiffness. Also, if the weights are all over the place, not only will this establish inconsistency throughout the set, but this can create flex overlap or a situation where stiff flex may be more flexible than regular flex.
In 1982, True Temper Golf decided to do something to improve the consistency of shafts and subsequently golf clubs being made. They decided to weight-sort their shafts to narrow ranges of weight. For example, there would be no single S-flex, but an S100, S200, S300, S400 and S500. The S300 sub-flex would be the middle of the road stiff flex. The S200 would be a little lighter than the S300 and the S100 even lighter and most flexible. On the other end of the spectrum, S400 was slightly heavier than the S300 and S500 the heaviest and stiffest of all. As manufacturing tolerances became better over the years, the S100 and S500 were all but eliminated.
When the customer purchased Dynamic Gold in the sub-flex of their choosing, this ensured the manufacturing tolerances would be much tighter. True Temper charged a premium for the service to the point the standard Dynamic shaft was phased out in 2008 as better golfers didn't bat an eye paying the small amount more for better quality shaft.
What is different about the Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Shafts?
To put this all in perspective, commercial grade steel shafts have tolerances no closer than a +/- 5 gram range. These are the least expensive steel shafts and ones you would see installed by volume clubmakers. The step up from that would be in +/- 3.5g range. These would be described as first quality or shafts that do not go through strict QC checks such as weight or frequency sorting like TT Lite or Multi-Step Lite. With Dynamic Gold, the weight tolerances are more like +/- 1.7g between sub-flexes. Now enter the Dynamic Gold Tour Issue. There are weight-sorted to an unbelievable +/- 0.5g tolerance or basically the absence of tolerance altogether where any tighter and there is no additional benefit.
During the 2012 Ryder Cup, Limited Edition versions of Dynamic Gold Tour Issue was released with the Team USA or Team Europe logo on the shafts. Today the general public will now be offered the same level of preciseness allocated for tour players. These will be available in S400 and X100 flexes in sets of 3-PW with extra 2-irons and wedge shafts in 0.355" taper tip.


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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and serves as a point to measure the indelible impact that day has had on the American people. In recent weeks, much has been written and broadcast about the shock and horror of that day and its lasting influence on public policy and even the national psyche.
Such a commemoration is only natural, given the gravity of that day. Perhaps, for some, there is a catharsis to be found in reliving those fateful hours when so many watched in disbelief as two passenger jets struck the World Trade Center buildings in New York, a third hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a rural Pennsylvania farm field. Certainly, it is a fitting time to remember those who died and give comfort to the families who lost so much.
But for those old enough to have witnessed those tragic events, the immediate aftermath remains still so deeply etched on the collective consciousness that no video replays or eyewitness interviews are required: The Twin Towers fell and nearly 3,000 people died, among them hundreds of New York City police officers and firefighters who rushed into the burning buildings despite the danger. The nation grieved, united, and then it sought justice, launching military action in Afghanistan against the rulingTaliban, which had supported and provided refuge to al-Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden, who had directed the hijackings.
That action would evolve into what then-President George W. Bush called a war on terror, a heightened concern for a foreign "axis of evil," and eventually the invasion of Iraq and considerable changes in U.S. national security and intelligence policies. It also set off any number of debates over how the U.S. should treat and interrogate prisoners linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations and how national security might be balanced against civil liberties.
Some of the responses that grew out of that event were reasonable and prudent. Some were regrettable. But even now, there is considerable disagreement among Americans over many of the issues that sprang from that day, from the prosecution of accused terrorists to how government should ensure our domestic security — and how much it should spend to do it.
But if the intervening years have provided some measure of historical perspective on Sept. 11, a more fundamental question is raised by this latest anniversary. What did al-Qaida and the 19 men who boarded those passenger jets on that fateful September morning ultimately gain for their cause? Did they, for the lack of a better word, "win"?
Exactly what motivated bin Laden and the terrorists is often in dispute, but, as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States reported, the stated goal of the extremist group was to inflict such horrific damage on the U.S. that it would withdraw its presence in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world. Bin Laden sought a global jihad, rallying Islamic extremists who believe themselves victims of Western oppression and colonialism.
That has not happened. Yes, the threat posed by al-Qaida and similarly motivated extremist organizations remains — in fact, officials reported late this week that they were concerned about a credible but unsubstantiated tip that another attack might be imminent, timed to today's anniversary. But as a whole, the threat appears diminished, and the majority of those living in the Middle East today have not embraced bin Laden's world outlook. If anything, the region has become somewhat more democratic than before, with several of its oppressive leaders swept away in the Arab Spring — not by terrorism but through civil uprising, rallying not over U.S. actions but more fundamental problems of poverty, food prices and lack of democratic institutions. Some of the region's dictators, whose allegiances to the West so outraged bin Laden and his followers, have been deposed, but they have been replaced by fledgling democratic movements, not a new incarnation of the Taliban.
Bin Laden himself is dead, killed in a late-night attack in May on his compound in Pakistan by a U.S. Navy SEAL team, his body buried at sea. Yet even that surprising event failed to put the U.S. in the cross-hairs of terrorists from a region of the world now caught up in a whirlwind of government reform and conciliation.
Americans were shocked and saddened by the tremendous loss of life on Sept. 11, and by the unimaginable cruelty of those who planned and executed the attacks. But the more primal response was that of fear: fear that this assault on our basic sense of safety and security was just the beginning, that we would face more and deadlier attacks in the days and years to come. It came on the heels of the assaults on the U.S.S. Cole and on two American embassies in Africa, and it spoke to an escalation in a conflict we did not understand and did not know how to deal with.
Al-Qaida has managed other significant operations since Sept. 11 — in particular, its bombings in London and Spain — and the U.S. has suffered other attacks inspired by Islamic extremism, such as the shootings at Fort Hood. But the group has not managed anything on the order of Sept. 11 again, and for most, the terror of that day has faded. Fear plays in the background of American life in a way it did not before Sept. 11. It underlies the debates over closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and how fast to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, but it has lost the immediate, palpable quality it had in the weeks and months that followed the attack. In that sense, the perpetrators have also failed.
The greatest lament about what has happened during the last 10 years, inevitably, will be that we lost the sense of unity we had in the fall of 2001. It is an appealing sentiment to think that we might have used that spirit to place ourselves on a better path, or that we might now be able to rekindle it to achieve some great national purpose. But the question is, what purpose, and with whose idea about how to achieve it? Unity of opinion has never been a hallmark of this nation founded by revolutionaries. Even in times of shared purpose — the Depression, World War II, the Cold War — we have always had robust debates about what path to take. It is the nature of our national character, and any attempt to use the memory of an event like Sept. 11 to quash political dissent only cheapens the losses we suffered that day.
Better, instead, to take a moment today for meditation or prayer, to search for true empathy for the families of those who were killed 10 years ago, and to be thankful for all that we still have. As a nation, we have made mistakes and suffered setbacks since Sept. 11, 2001. We may never again be able to consider ourselves truly safe no matter how strong our military or steadfast our resolve. But we have done the only thing that the 2,977 victims of the attacks were trying to do that day, and that is to live our lives. A decade after Sept. 11, that may be the best legacy we can achieve.


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Lancaster attorney Elizabeth Robinson came from a family of teachers.
She majored in special education and later attended law school at the University of South Carolina with the hopes of becoming an advocate for children with special needs.
But when she finished law school, Robinson couldn't find a job in the specialty she wanted.
She began researching and found that only two law firms represent parents of children with disabilities in due-process actions.
Bo Thai Cuisine had its regular, devoted customers.
But the exotic eatery, known for its fresh stir fry dishes and flavorful curries, recently closed its doors on S.C. 9 Bypass after almost three years of business.
A "Sorry, we're closed" sign hangs in one window, a "For sale" sign in another.
Those may be signs of the times.
Another restaurant on the S.C. 9 Bypass with a more familiar name, Dairy Queen, announced its closing with a sign, too.
For the second time in a year, the administration at the Lancaster County Airport is changing.
Sandy Laubscher, a county employee who took over as airport supervisor in December, is stepping down from the post today to accept a management position at a Rock Hill company.
Laubscher took over at the airport after Lancaster Aviation, a private business that oversaw the day-to-day operations at the airport for more than six years, shut down its operations there at the end of 2009.
KERSHAW – Tattoo enthusiasts may soon be able to get their ink in Kershaw.
Kershaw Town Council passed first reading of an ordinance Aug. 16 to allow tattoo facilities in its general commercial zoning district.
C.J. Brower, 23, wants to open a tattoo shop and rented a store next to Town Hall before council passed the ordinance to allow tattoo facilities. However, the zoning district where that building is situated in a more restrictive zoning district.
Mayor Wayne Rhodes expressed concern about the shop being right next to Town Hall last month.
INDIAN LAND – Margaret Barfield carefully scanned the shelves for deals as she pushed her cart through the new ALDI food market in Indian Land.
Barfield, who lives just miles from the store, was one of many shoppers swarming the aisles of the store during its grand opening Thursday morning.
She has been traveling to the Rock Hill ALDI for years to take advantage of the chain's unique discounts and brands, and couldn't wait for her favorite store to open near her home. The new store is at the intersection of Marvin Road and U.S. 521.
Customers of Verizon Wireless will soon have much spacier confines to browse products and take care of other cell phone-related business.
Verizon Wireless in Lancaster is having a new office built on S.C. 9 Bypass near the Founders Federal Credit Union headquarters. It will replace the space it's been using across from Walmart since it took the place of Alltel last year.
Louis Streater, code enforcer for the city of Lancaster, said a building permit was granted May 4 to WT DuBois Construction Inc. of Tennessee, the contractor for the project.
Retirement Strategy is the roadmap that shows us where to go, provides signposts along the way and gets us back on track if we make a wrong turn. With a Retirement Strategy in hand, you have a better chance of getting where you want to be. Without it, you may flounder or even remain stuck in the same place you are today.
Today most of us expect to live longer, healthier and more active lives. How are you going to spend your time in retirement? Will you visit family? Travel? Volunteer?
Selena Catoe wanted a change.
Despite the poor economy and the fact that she already had a stable nursing job at Springs Memorial Hospital, the lifelong Lancaster resident was looking for a new profession. Catoe, 38, said she loves nursing but wanted to express herself in a "happier setting."
"Event planning has always been something I wanted to do, but going into nursing was a career I could depend on," she said.
VAN WYCK – It's taken him more than 20 years, but Steven Muratore is ready to make his and several aspiring truck drivers' dreams come true.
Muratore opened the KDS Commercial Driver Training Institute in Van Wyck on June 25 with the hope that he could help reduce the county's high unemployment numbers.
Through extensive classroom and on-the-road training, Muratore said students will be able to earn their Commercial Drivers License, Class A, allowing them to drive tractor-trailer trucks.
KERSHAW – Haile Gold Mine employees, county officials and media representatives entered an air-conditioned tent at the mine on June 29, not knowing why they had been called there.
Diane Garrett, chief executive officer of Romarco Minerals, which owns about 4,000 acres of land at the mine, soon made an announcement to the curious crowd.
The company was celebrating five years with no reportable injuries, Garrett said. She thanked the employees for helping achieve the safety record.
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