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SRJC's student scorecard on par with state; remedial students trail
Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 6:42 a.m.
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New data suggests that Santa Rosa Junior College students complete degrees and certificates at roughly the same rate as their peers statewide, but the college's remedial students are less likely to ever complete a college-level math or English course.
Junior college officials expressed uncertainty Tuesday on whether California's new Student Success Scorecard had pinpointed an area of underachievement in Sonoma County or simply demonstrated the need for better data collection.
But they vowed to more closely examine the data for remedial students, even as they prepare to teach an increasing number of such students seeking admission.
College President Frank Chong noted that nearly half of the college's new students are Latino, an ethnic group that historically has experienced lower levels of achievement than white students. For example, only 16 percent of the county's Latino high school graduates last year completed all the courses needed to enter a four-year college — half the rate of white graduates.
"We do need to change as the community population changes," Chong said. He also cautioned that at times the scorecard is actually highlighting income disparities affecting student achievement without answering the more pressing question: "What do we do about it?"
The Student Success Scorecard was unveiled Tuesday on a state website that provides results for all 112 of California's community colleges. State officials called it a new accountability system that will provide the public a way to measure how well each campus is preparing students for four-year colleges or technical careers.
Unlike the accountability system for the state's public schools, the scorecard doesn't report school test scores. Instead, it measures milestones of progress leading up to the receipt of a degree or technical certificate.
As well, the scorecard tracks an entering class of freshmen for six years in order to see how many complete what traditionally has been considered a two-year degree. As such, the most recent data released Tuesday comes from students who began college in the fall of 2006.
The new scorecard allowed officials a way to measure the achievement gap between students who enter the system ready to do college-level work and those who first must take remedial courses.
Among those who entered a community college in 2006-07, 71.2 percent of the "prepared" students statewide had received a degree or certificate or were eligible to transfer to a four-year university within six years. In contrast, only 41.1 of the "unprepared" students achieved the same results.
The rates were nearly the same at Santa Rosa Junior College, which has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the top institutions in the state. The state reported that 70.1 percent of prepared students were deemed to have reached the level of completion, compared to 43.1 percent of the unprepared students.
However, the state reported that the junior college underperformed in the area of remedial students who advance to college-level math and English courses.
Only 29.3 percent of the college's remedial students went on to complete a college-level math course and only 26.6 percent finished a college-level English course. In comparison, the rate statewide was 37.1 percent and 38.1 percent respectively.
The difference was even greater for students who speak a language other than English and who went on to a college-level English course. Only 13.9 percent of the junior college's English learners completed the equivalent of College 1A, compared to 31.9 percent for the state.
In a teleconference with reporters, Community College Chancellor Brice W. Harris noted the remedial rates may be so low because the data includes many returning students who need to brush up on skills before advancing to college-level classes. Even so, he said of the statewide rates, "Clearly we're not succeeding with this group at an acceptable level."
Harris also noted that the completion rate statewide dipped slightly over the five entering classes between 2002 and 2006 whose performance was tracked for six years. He attributed some of that decline to a drop in classes and other resources related to state budget cuts.
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Boot.kernel.org: Linux Boots from Web
If it were to go by Project Boot.kernel.org, practially all distros in the foreseeable future would boot off the Internet.
The new BKO service accessible at boot.kernel.org allows booting and installing Linux distros over the network. Unlike the widely distributed PXE Boot, BKO is based on the newer gPXE that supports FTP and HTTP connections to load the necessary images off the Internet
The list of supported distros is currently:
- Debian 5.0 Live
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Damn Small Linux
- Knoppix 5.0.1
- Fedora 11 Live (in single-user mode)
The project recommends using a USB stick with BKO for booting in that it also provides file storage. The project is still in development, so testers should consult the Troubleshooting and FAQ webpages before starting.
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Tell us about yourself.
My name's Joe Wight. I'm a freelance writer and artist. I'm originally from California, but also grew up in Washington State. Now I live in Texas with my ex-es.
Who was your favorite comic book character as a kid?
Jeb Stuart, commander of the HAUNTED TANK!
DC, Marvel or Image?
None of the above. Warren Publishing (CREEPY, EERIE) and Heavy Metal Magazine.
Did you have a favorite Sunday Funnies comic strip?
Bloom County, hands down.
What theme song do you know all the words to?
Buck Rogers (unfortunately).
What was the strangest thing you have drawn?
Recently, a honey badger fighting Frank Miller's Wolverine ninjas.
What was your first job? Have you always wanted to be an artist?
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NEW YORK, May 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In a ceremony in New York's Times Square, Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) and DC Entertainment officially announced the launch of Superman Hall of Heroes (www.SupermanHallofHeroes.com), an online gift-giving portal that empowers consumers to honor their personal heroes – those who have made a positive impact on their lives or the lives of others. To mark the occasion, an inaugural class of notable heroes from diverse backgrounds was honored, among them, courageous military personnel, forward thinking educational leaders, heroes in public safety and inspirational athletes.
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Inspired by Superman and the character attributes that define the world's first and most recognized Super Hero -- an American icon who represents unwavering morals and an endless pursuit of truth and justice -- the Superman Hall of Heroes is a gift-giving program that offers a fun and inspirational way for fans to pay tribute to their heroes by submitting their photo and story online to www.SupermanHallofHeroes.com where it will be showcased in perpetuity. As part of their tribute, consumers can choose from multiple gift-giving options and levels. Through Father's Day, a portion of the proceeds from sales of Superman Hall of Heroes packages will go to The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
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I cover the business of sports for Forbes.
Well, this would seem to be a first. The four most influential athletes in America really don't play. At least not lately.
Idle NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has been back in the news, but not for any heroics: he was recently cut loose by the New York Jets after a one-year experiment as a part-time QB behind Mark Sanchez failed to yield results. The "Tebowmania" days in Denver are only 15 months old, but it seems like 15 years. And yet, when Americans are asked which pro athletes they believe carry the most influence with the public, Tebow's name tops the list.
A unique set of QB strengths and weaknesses and an affinity for wearing his Christian faith on his sleeve combine to make Tebow a compelling public figure, even as an NFL backup. Whether or not he's able to remain deeply ingrained in the public consciousness without eventually getting more time on the field remains to be seen. But for now, Tebow, he of 2.2 million Twitter followers, is still the man people talk about.
"For a backup quarterback to be talked about so much is incredible," says Stephen Master, senior vice president of Sports for Nielsen, which conducted the surveys over the past several months in partnership with E-Poll, a market research firm in Encino, Calif. "But it is the biggest market."
Tebow, judged to be "influential" by 29% of respondents, certainly felt the wrath of the New York market, where fans and press harped on his acquisition as an ill-fated experiment that helped lead the Jets downhill. That Tebow would be blamed for the Jets slide to a 6-10 record last year is puzzling — he didn't lose any of those games because, really, he didn't even play. But Sanchez' uneven performance naturally led to speculation of whether the backup should get a chance to start, a development that would naturally ignite the Tebow debate yet again.
Full List: America's Most Influential Athletes
The three athletes in line behind Tebow haven't seen much action over the past several months either: Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Derek Jeter. It's not surprising, though — Jeter is a Yankee legend whose rehab from an ankle injury gets more press than the performance of any Yankee on the field does.
And 2012 was an Olympic year. "You always get that pop," says Master of the afterglow enjoyed by Bolt and Phelps. Teen gymnastics sensation Gabby Douglas also makes the cut at No. 7. And Master points out that he 2012 Summer Games probably pushed soccer star David Beckham onto this year's list, thanks to his visible role in helping to deliver the torch at the opening ceremonies in his native London.
Nielsen and E-Poll surveyed 1,100 U.S. adults about dozens of well-known athletes to measure their likeability and whether they're considered "influential," an important quality for marketers. The term, among 40 characteristics that respondents could choose from (others: leader, approachable, handsome), can mean slightly different things to different people. Some may see an athlete as influential in his sport, while others see him as crossing over and being influential in society at large. Tebow is a perfect example: his clean living and public religious values make him a role model for many, even if they render him polarizing in some quarters.
Candidates were limited to pro athletes who score at least 20% "awareness" with the general public.
What, was this a straw poll conducted outside a suburban Denver mega-church?
the hard-core evangelicals who were into Tebow weren't influenced at all – they were already into his brand of self-centered religious show-off.
for the rest of the public, once he was benched, he was as relevant as last year's newspaper – good for lining the bottom of a birdcage, but not much else
Traveling to the Philippines and helping the poor there is "self-centered"? I wish many more NFL players were so "self-centered." Tebow seems among the least into himself, compared with the norm among pro athletes. Something else is bothering you . . .
We love Reverend Tebow
In the White Christian Nation
Reverend Tebow is Lawd and Master
And the Leader of the
White Christian Race
You will Obey Reverend Tebow
As Your Leader and Your Master
Reverend Tebow quarterbacks for your sins
And to put Obama in his right place
Wow…I urge you to continue taking the medication that your psychologist has prescribed.
Religion is the only mental illness here.
Tebow is a religious lunatic!
Well I hope you never get close to a "religious lunatic", because they probably would do harm to you or any other reasonable person that they disagreed with. Kind of like those two terrorists from Boston.
If Tim Tebow is a "religious lunatic," then we need more "religious lunatics" like Tim Tebow…and less atheist lunatics like Joe Biden.
I second that Chris!
….and a crappy wanna be NFL QB.
I don't understand how anyone who follows sports could actually believe this – another public opinion poll gone bad. The really scary part is that politicians use opinion polls to justify legislation and other governmental action.
you have to love this. All Tim Tebow has done in his life is to WIN. He was a winner in high school, a winner in college, Heisman, yup another win, & taking a dog team (Denver) to the playoffs, yup another win & taking this previously dog team to a win in the playoffs.
The NFL coaches want to play their type of football and thus loose (Rex Ryan). I would have loved to have seen Tebow play his type of football.
Let's look at this again Tebow wins games, fills the seats, sells the most team gear, wins Forbes "Most Influential Players" & leads a life that would make any parent proud.
NFL team managenent—perfect example of Jackasses.
Not to mention the children helped by Tim, the folks inspired to help others by Tim, and the many people who look up to him for who he is. Many don't really care about his religion, but rather that he is authentic in a world full of phony folks.
"Many don't really care about his religion," Please, the ONLY reason this guy has a cult following is BECAUSE he is religious, it certainly can not be for his QB play as he sucks.
Tebow is one of a few professional football players lefts that has morals and can be a mentor to kids these days. The rest of today's "professional" football players are gangsta thugs that are turning our kids into violent players, considering the one who punched a referee and killed him the other day, which is "cool" according to today's society and thug culture.
Sorry Forbes…train wrecks attract attention too but they don't influence many. The Tewbow sideshow gets the attention but it doesn't influence that many. Tiger Woods and Phil Michelson attract attention but they also get people to go out and buy $400 drivers…that's influence.
Its amazing how many people hate this guy just for being a Christian.
Soi Deo gloria to Tim Tebow!
Soli Deo Gloria to Tim Tebow!
Soli Deo Gloria, Tim Tebow!
The Jets are a fiasco. The NFL is purposefully freezing Tebow out. The bigwigs in the NFL think he conveys an image that they don't want to cultivate — wholesome, Christian. So they are sending on word not to hire Tebow. Too bad. All the kid does is win. He wins and wins and wins. Good on him! He's a good kid.
The only thing the NFL is concerned about winning gmaes, not "Cultivating" crappy Qb's.
All he does is win. He wins and wins and wins. How you get crappy from that is beyond me.
He actually lost 5 of the last 6 games he started. Only reason he was even in that playoff game against Pit was due to another team loosing, they backed into the playoffs. He could not even beat out Mark Sanchez for a job, now how good is he actually?
Some folks might not understand influence. It is not the ability to sell some stuff at least not in my opinion. It is the ability to get people to be better than they would be without your influence. In that reguard Tim is a genuine person who anybody would be proud to have in their family or as their friend.
I bet that few are as good of a person as he as and some of them are not that truthful. I admire him as a person, leader, and genuine person, also all the good that he has done and will do in this world. Simple!!
Tim Tebow has worked in the Developing World to make a difference. No matter whether you agree with his worldview or not, his life story is positive and a good role model.
I haven't read people criticizing Jason Collins for "wearing his gayness on his sleeve" — why this double standard for Tim Tebow?
Why are some people so threatened and enraged by him? It seems to say more about them than it does about him.
Yea, love it…. Here kid, read this bronze era fairy tale and I'll give you a sammich…. but first you have to look hungry for the cameras or this won't work…. this is a photo-op after all.
Randy, do you actually =know= with Tebow has done in the Philippines? Do you actually believe you know someone else's motives? Do you believe altruism can actually happen? Are you also so acidly cynical about someone like Tom Brady's foundation work? If not, why not? Though it might feel great at the moment to vent such assumptions, that acid mostly just hurts you yourself. Just sayin'.
No actually I'm good, I have a job….. But then again I'm never trying to pretend to be something I am not. In that aspect I'm one up on Rev Timmy.
Whatever happen to Tim Tebow, I'm sure GOD will have a hand in it. That is as long as Tim Rebow continues to be humble in his ways and not let the world change his first love, GOD
How are Usain Bolt and David Beckham even on a list of "America's Most Influential Athletes"? Also, this list lost all creditability by putting Derek Jeter 5th.
Tebow was never going to work well in NY because of cultural differences at odds with his personal beliefs.
all he had to do was complete passes and he would have received the keys to the city
but he's just not a good qb
He is hated for one reason…. his Love for Jesus Christ…many are jealous.. while he did nothing wrong.. The bible says you will be hated for my namesake… (matthew 10:22) bible speaks truth than is mocked by those that never opened it… I Pray for you brother Tebow…
I think it has more to do with this babble passage. Matthew 6:5-6 "5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." If he kept his bronze era fairy tales to himself and was actually a decent QB, this circus would have never came to town. Kurt Warner, very religious, don't hate 'em. RGIII, very religious, don't hate 'em. Reggie White, a freakin preacher for gawds sake, didn't hate 'em. Another thing these 3 had that Timmy doesn't is talent. I don't hate the kid because of his mental illness. I hate him because he is a crappy QB that gets treated like a rock star simply BECAUSE he is religious.
Come to St. Louis Tim! We can use you, and would enjoy watching you play!
No, they actually have a real QB and no need for the Sunshine Pumper circus that comes with Rev Timmy.
No Jason Collins?
I think the DOJ needs to investigate this attrocity!
Religion is a mental illness.
One of the most influential athletes in America….and who can't get a job, yet a dude who checks out the derriere of other men is celebrated as courageous and who will most likely get numerous offers and endorsements. Christians are the new Klansmen and homosexuals the new righteous. Welcome to 2013 America.
I love Forbes and have been reading it since long before the Internet, but I'm embarrassed by this. It's click-bait nothing more. There is no explanation of the survey underlying this headline…
who and how many people were surveyed?
were they random public, or industry insiders, or ONLINE public?
exactly when (not vaguely when) was it taken?
what was the survey question posed?
was "influence" defined or left up to each respondent?
what kind of analysis was done on the result/s?
To state that because Tebows name appeared on the most # of responses (29%) means he is the "most influential" athlete is so meaningless. I'm sure the PR team is thrilled with the # of pickup this headline garnered but it won't be winning any plaudits from people who actually turn to Forbes for a meaningful contribution to the areas you usually cover with more authority and insights.
If by "most influential" you mean over-hyped and influences teams to make poor decisions by signing him? Then yes, he is influential.
Usain Bolt is not freaking american ,get your facts right he is a Jamaican athlete so he does not belong in this category .


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Uher put up big offensive numbers after returning to Spokane following captaining the Czech team at the World Junior Championships, but I think he projects as more of an energy guy at the AHL level. Theres a lot about his game that reminds me of Max Talbot.
Q: You really picked up your production after returning from World Juniors last year. What was the change?
A: At the start of the season, our team was struggling. We werent playing so well and the chemistry wasnt there. After world juniors, I think we started listening to our coach and we really got it all together. We had an unbelievable January and February. If the team is playing good, obviously the players are going to produce more points. I think thats the main reason. The whole season, we didnt have any stars on our team. We were kind of underdogs the whole season. I think it was a great season for us. We took the No. 1 team into Game 7. I think it was a great season for our team and me also.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Matt Boyd pitched a four-hitter and struck out 11, and Oregon State made a fourth-inning sacrifice fly stand for a 1-0 victory over Indiana in the College World Series on Wednesday night.
The Beavers (52-12) face Mississippi State on Friday needing to beat the Bulldogs twice to reach next week's finals.
Aaron Slegers allowed seven hits in his first career complete game for the Hoosiers (49-16).
The Beavers scored in the fourth when Kavin Keyes singled, went to third on Ryan Barnes' double and came home on Jake Rodriguez's sacrifice fly to right.
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North Carolina 4, LSU 2, LSU eliminated
UCLA 2, N.C. State 1
Oregon State 1, Indiana 0, Indiana eliminated
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If any of the above symptoms sound like what you're experiencing, follow along for a more detailed list of symptoms and how to correct the problem.
This week we're doing things a little differently and instead of giving you a new repair, we're going to take a look at some existing mods that should fix very common sound issues pertaining to both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4.
Disclaimer: As with any repair, iMore can not be held responsible for any damage you may do to your device. It's also worth considering that opening up your device to perform any repair or modification can and will void your Apple warranty. If you don't feel comfortable opening your device, don't. Use extreme care and caution when performing a repair on any device.
If you are comfortable with repairing your own device, put your ninja pants on and keep reading!
Sounds issues are a common problem we see with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Some users have been experiencing quite a few simliar issues lately that can be solved quite easily using repair guides we already have readily available to you. If you're experiencing any of the following symptom combinations, we would suggest trying the repair solutions linked below.
No system sounds
Your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S will ring when someone calls it or you can go into Settings and get sounds to play but system sounds don't work throughout iOS such as keyboard clicks, lock/unlock sounds, and certain system notifications.
No alert sounds
If you can go into Settings and hear system sound previews but no sound actually produces when an alert such as a phone call, text message, or email come in.
Combination of no alert and/or system sounds
If your sounds work sporadically or in any combination of the above symptoms.
How to fix sound issues
Try a DFU restore first
Before performing any kind of hardware repair, you should always try a restore first to rule out software issues. A DFU restore is the kind of restore we recommend for issues like this. If you aren't sure how to put your iPhone in DFU mode, you can follow our guide:
Replace the dock connector
Wait, what? You may be asking yourself why replacing the dock connector would fix sound issues. Actually, the dock connector component contains some wiring and components that delegate sound throughout your iPhone. In our experience, if you're experiencing the sound issues like we've described above, 9 times out of 10 a dock connector replacement fixes the issue.
Depending on whether you have an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, you can check out our guides and replace the dock connector on the device on your own. It'll cost you a lot less than a brand new iPhone and will only take about 30 minutes. The best part is, you should have sound again.
How to replace the dock connector in a Verizon or Sprint iPhone 4
Other sound issues
If you're experiencing no sound at all or it is heavily distorted, your issue may be the actual loud speaker itself or another component related to how sound is handled. We have many tutorials and guides for replacing other components related to sound in our DIY section that you can access via the links below.
Get more DIY help
If you're running into issues with a DIY repair or need some more answers, our DIY and mod forums are a great place to start. Still have questions? Feel free to email us.
Additional resources:
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Hey Allyson, love your helpful columns...but I'm not sure if anyone has experienced the issue that I am having. Not sure how to contact you personally, but I guess I will leave the question for all to see, maybe someone else is having issues as well. Since I've updated my iPod Touch 4th gen to iOS 6, I have experienced that I CANNOT lower the sound at all!! Like it'll be NO white squares and the sound coming from the other end is soooooo loud! Do you have any idea what may be the case? Should I reinstall it? (Ugh such a pain). My iPhone 4 (which I still love and adore even with all the newest bells n whistles the newer phones have, ha) does not have this issue even with iOS 6 installed. I am holding out on updating it because I want to jailbreak it (the least I can do to stay somewhat 'updated' ha) so that I can have better wifi, bluetooth toggle access (Hello Apple wake up!).
Any input would be appreciated. Also, I don't have warranty for my iPod or iPhone, but if I were to bring it into an Apple store, could they take a look at it for me? Neither have gone near water, I can assure you of that. What would they do, if anything? Thank you.
My old iPhone 4 was having the issue you detailed in the post. I was able to diagnose the issue as being to doc connector by
A) entering the multitask menu (double tap the home button)
B) swiping the multitasking tray to the right twice revealing the soft volume control and airplay/speaker choice icon
C) tapping on the airplay/speaker icon, if it shows "doc connector" instead of "iPhone" as an option in the drop down, then you know that it's your dock connector that's shot.
Hope that helps diagnose the problem, will potentially save time/effort of opening the phone knowing for sure what the problem is.
What if you do this and tap on the airplay/sound icon and nothing happens?
Thanks for the informative post
Fantastic article. Changing the dock removed the issues I was having (no system sound but ringing fine). It seemed too easy to be true but great result.
life saver!
Hi, i like to ask a question. My iPhone 4s doesn't have sound at all, no in and no out sounds. Don't work speakers and mics. Can anyone know what could happen? I really appreciate the help!! It's urgent!!!
Even doesn't vibrate!!!
I had the same exact problem. no sound in or out, didn't vibrate or anything. I just received my new 4S frame in the mail with a new loud speaker assembly installed and it still didn't work. I powered down and back up then played around with the rocker buttons (+-) and silent mode switch. it seems to work for awhile but it cuts out when I open other apps then have to reboot. hopefully I don't have to do that every time but it's working for me. I do my own repairs and trust myself to trouble shoot problems like this.
play around with the buttons a few times then lock and unlock to see if that helps. if not, close off any active apps and reboot. if there's a unlock click when it's done powering up, try your music app.
Simpler and worked for me: home, settings, sound, control with buttons, off. This stop the annoying habit of ios switching the function of the volume buttons arbitrarily.
Sometimes my iPhone 4s has sound and sometimes it don't but it's only on my texts and when I try and play music.the ringer and sound work when I get a phone call I'm just having trouble with my texting and music


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Project News
Project Status Report - November 2013
Project Status Report - November 2013
Progress on the South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan (MTP) is summarized in this, the fourth, Project Status Report. While work on the Plan started at the end of July, 2012 this report focuses on what the study team has been doing in the last three months from July through September.
Current Plans, Conditions and Factors
Safety and Security - Safety on the State Highway System is one of the top goals for SCDOT. A report on Safety and Security has been prepared and made available on the MTP website. The report discusses recent changes in Federal legislation and SCDOT's progress in updating the South Carolina Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The update of the SHSP is moving ahead using Strategic Highway Safety Plan MAP-21 Interim Guidance issued by the FHWA Office of Safety on April 5, 2013.
As part of long range planning for all eventualities the MTP team has identified those areas of the transportation network that may be impacted by changes in sea level or under storm surge conditions. A report on this topic is under preparation.
Public and Partner Participation
The study team launched the South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan website in October, 2012 and it is available at www.scdot.org/multimodal.
The website is updated monthly and provides information on status, planned activities, and downloadable reports, as well as an opportunity to provide input. Please visit the website to read more about the progress on the plan as well as plan documents.
The study team continues to meet regularly with representatives and leadership of the South Carolina Department of Commerce and the S.C. Ports Authority to continue the collaborative planning effort. SCDOT is grateful for the full participation across partner agencies, from Councils of Government and Metropolitan Planning Organizations, to Counties, state agencies, and the Federal Highway Administration in the development of the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan.
Work is underway to prepare for a second series of stakeholder webinars in January. The first series were held in April. There is a link to the April webinars on the MTP website home page and can be viewed directly at:
By using the webinar format, SCDOT reaches as many stakeholders and interested parties as possible by reducing travel time and expense and bringing the meeting to you at your office, home or other place of business. EventBrite invitations will be emailed to the full stakeholder list once the January dates are set. The webinars are free for participants, online, accessible by toll free phone, and are open to the public. Three webinars are held in each series to focus on specific areas of interest, namely Freight and Rail, Interstate/ Strategic Corridors, and Transit/Bike and Pedestrian.
More information on the second series of webinars with specific instructions on how to participate will be forthcoming for the following areas of interest:
- Statewide Freight and Rail Plans
- Interstate and Strategic Corridor Plans
- Statewide Public Transportation Plan and bicycle/Pedestrian Considerations
Vision, Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures
The study team has been working with the Plan's executive leadership team from SCDOT, SC Department of Commerce, and the SC Ports Authority to finalize the South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan vision and goals. The vision and goals are aligned to the Department's Strategic Plan, as well as the 2030 Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan and MAP-21 national goals.
Safe, reliable surface transportation and infrastructure that effectively supports a healthy economy for South Carolina.
Mobility and System Reliability - Provide surface transportation infrastructure and services that will advance the efficient and reliable movement of people and goods throughout the state.
Safety - Improve the safety and security of the transportation system by implementing transportation improvements that reduce fatalities and serious injuries as well as enabling effective emergency management operations.
Infrastructure Condition - Maintain surface transportation infrastructure assets in a state of good repair.
Economic and Community Vitality - Provide an efficient and effective interconnected transportation system that is coordinated with state and local planning efforts to support thriving communities and South Carolina's economic competitiveness in global markets.
Environment - Partner to sustain South Carolina's natural and cultural resources by minimizing and mitigating the impacts of state transportation improvements.
Equity - Manage a transportation system that recognizes the diversity of the state and strives to accommodate the mobility needs of all of South Carolina's citizens.
A report has been prepared to describe the process used to develop the vision and goals that will guide and direct development of the 2040 South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan, as well as the Freight, Rail, Interstate, Strategic Corridor, and Transit Plans. The report, which has been posted on the MTP website, also identifies objectives and performance measures associated with the Plan's goals. Objectives define the outcomes that SCDOT intends to achieve related to each goal while Performance measures "operationalize" that objective and define how that outcome will be measured, monitored, and reported.
Existing Multimodal Conditions
As we look to the future it is important to have a thorough understanding of where we are now. Data have been gathered on all modes of transportation to assess the status of existing conditions and have been summarized in a Technical Memorandum, which is available on the website.
Multimodal Transportation Needs
Information on the costs to maintain and implement required improvements to the state's multimodal transportation system through the Plan's horizon year of 2040, for highways/bridges, aviation, rail, ports, and public transportation, as well as bicycle and pedestrian modes has been compiled and is being summarized in a report. Information on multimodal transportation needs will be provided during the December webinars. This information, combined with revenue forecasts, is being used in possible investment scenarios.
Revenue Forecasts
The study team worked closely with SCDOT to develop a forecast of baseline revenues to the Plan's horizon year of 2040. The forecast includes Federal and state road, bridge and transit revenues. It also includes additional revenue sources, which while out of SCDOT control will likely contribute to improvements on the state highway system, such as revenues from the State Infrastructure Bank, C Fund, and Special Purpose Local Option Sales Taxes. The baseline revenue forecast is the starting point for investment scenario planning. The team is also working on developing two additional revenue alternatives for informational purposes as well as identifying revenue enhancement options that may be worthy of consideration over the life of the Plan. The revenue baseline forecast and revenue alternatives will be documented in a technical memorandum, which is currently in progress.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Considerations
The study team has revised the bicycle needs technical memo estimating the costs for outstanding bicycle and pedestrian needs in the state. These needs were identified by utilizing the proposed bicycle and pedestrian plans collected from municipalities and MPOs for the SCDOT bicycle GIS database. The team has completed revisions to the DRAFT bicycle and pedestrian recommendations memo based on comments from SCDOT's Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator.
Interstate Plan
The study team has utilized INRIX - a commercial provider of historic and real-time speed information and SCDOT's automatic traffic recorder volume data covering the entire interstate system to develop level of service estimates for every segment of the interstate system. The most congested corridors in the state have been identified from this information. Additionally SCDOT's Interstate Interchange Management System (IIMS) is being used to determine a list of the most congested interchanges in the state. The Interstate Plan, which is under development, will document these findings.
Strategic Corridor Plan
As a part of the 2040 South Carolina Multimodal Transportation Plan, the existing Statewide Strategic Corridor Plan was updated. An objective, quantitative, and a tiered system approach for developing the Statewide Strategic Corridors was developed. Stakeholder input was solicited on the draft Statewide Strategic Corridors and the comments received from the representatives of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and Council of Governments (COGs) was addressed and a final version of the Statewide Strategic Corridor was developed.
In coordination with SCDOT, the study team conducted an environmental impact assessment of Statewide Strategic Corridor network to determine the potential impacts to cultural, natural, and social resources. Multi-modal needs for Statewide Strategic Corridor network was determined by analyzing input from MPOs and COGs. Local MPOs and COGs provided transportation needs and associated costs along the Statewide Strategic Corridor network within their jurisdictions. The transportation needs identified include intersection improvements, roadway widening, alternative transportation improvements, and other forms of enhancement projects.
Public Transit and Coordination Plan
The study team has been busy developing the regional transit plans for each of the ten transit regions in the state. These plans have been developed from the collection of existing data and future needs identified by the transit agencies and the local stakeholders within each community. The approximately 2,400 responses to the March public opinion survey were also incorporated into the regional transit plans and into the Statewide Public Transportation Plan. The draft regional transit plans and the Statewide Public Transportation Plan will be available for public comment in the New Year.
Further transit-related information can be found at the end of this report under the heading of Human Services Infrastructure Review.
Freight Plan
The study team continues through the development of the statewide freight plan. Working closely with our planning partners at the University of South Carolina and Clemson University, a range of analyses are incorporating the feedback from stakeholders received during the 6 months of stakeholder meetings and survey data collection. The freight team has developed a draft Strategic Freight System, consisting of active elements of the existing supply chain in South Carolina, which is currently under review. This planning effort is coordinated with the Strategic Corridor Plan to provide consistency in the implementation of the plan recommendations and streamline data collection efforts. The freight team continues to evaluate modal shift modeling, evaluating potential options for maximizing the use of freight infrastructure of all modes in the state. The freight team has also developed a set of Goals and Objective specific to the freight plan and the freight system in the state. This is designed to guide the continuing analysis of policy and infrastructure supporting goods movement.
In addition to these elements of the freight plan, a series of freight based performance measures and policies to be presented to SCDOT for consideration in future freight planning in South Carolina.
All of these topics are expected to be included in the December 3 stakeholder webinar.
Rail Plan
The study team continued work on the preparation of a State Rail Plan consistent with the requirements of the 2008 Passenger and Rail Investment and Improvement Act (PRIIA), as well as guidelines for state rail plans issued by FRA. Preliminary guidelines were issued in August 2012, which were finalized in September 2013.
Statewide Travel Demand Model and Economic Analysis
Through the development of the MTP, SCDOT and the study team have been in the process of evaluating the current and potential prioritization of transportation projects. Through both technical analysis and feedback from our project stakeholders around the state, the role of economic development and economic sustainability in transportation policy making has become an essential piece of the eventual MTP.
SCDOT has decided to incorporate a detailed economic analysis tool into the evaluation of project prioritization and performance. To do this, the study team will be developing a statewide travel demand model as well as a customized economic modeling tool to facilitate a quantitative method for project evaluation. The statewide travel demand model will be developed with the help of SCDOT planning staff and will include a freight mode of transport model to support the statewide Freight Plan. This model will be applicable in economic modeling as well as many other transportation planning applications for SCDOT. To date, data inputs to the travel demand model have been compiled and are being processed for inclusion in this planning tool. The model design has been developed and is under review for finalization.
Upon completion in the spring, this model will produce valid forecast estimates of traffic volumes for the Strategic Corridor and Interstate Plans. This model will also be instrumental in estimating future levels of service and assist planners in the identification of transportation needs in the forecast years. With this in mind, the deliverables for those two plans will be delayed, pending results from the statewide model. Progress will continue to be made on those plans in the meantime, and interim plan documents will be made available on the project website.
Human Services Infrastructure Review
During the update of the transit agency and human services coordination (HSC) plans, SCDOT recognized the need for a review of current practices and evaluation of potential models for future coordination, with specific attention to the state's Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) infrastructure. The MTP study team will expand its current work on the transit and HSC plans to include this review of the existing statewide structure for coordinated transportation services and develop alternatives for future coordination.
What's Next?
Online and telephone based webinars will be scheduled for January, as noted previously - please be on the lookout to find out more about how to participate from your home, office or other place of business. Detailed information on how to participate will be coming via email as well as posted to the project website.
Project Status Report - June 2013
June 2013 Status Report - PDF
Project Status Report - March 2013
March 2013 Status Report - PDF
Project Status Report - December 2012
December 2012 Status Report - PDF
November 20, 2012
South Carolina Trucking Association - Board of Directors Meeting
SCDOT was invited to discuss the Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan to the South Carolina Trucking Association (SCTA) Board of Directors at their annual retreat. On October 3, 2012 Doug Frate of SCDOT and members of the statewide planning team gave an overview of the plan and engaged the board in a freight planning discussion.
This discussion was documented and will provide the planning team with invaluable input into the condition of the transportation system and the role it plays in their industry today as well as issues facing the transportation business in future years. This first of many such discussions with stakeholders around the state will continue to guide this multimodal planning effort.
Upcoming Freight Listening Sessions
As part of our continued effort to engage and hear from transportation stakeholders, a series of freight listening sessions will be held early next year.
With support from the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Council of New Carolina, the freight listening sessions are designed to engage transportation and freight oriented business representatives by facilitating a dialogue of transportation needs and concerns. These discussions are designed to gather information to further guide the SCDOT Statewide Freight Plan and support improvements that will improve freight efficiency.
Detailed information about the freight listening sessions will be included in emailed invitations and on this website. Specific times and locations will be announced soon.
Kick-Off Meeting - July 31, 2012
Project News:
Quotes from our stakeholders
"This will be a new and integrated plan for transportation in South Carolina with an emphasis on commerce and safety. The plan will help us manage the transportation system we have and help us decide how to spend scarce resources to improve the system."
Secretary Bobby Hitt - South Carolina Department of Commerce
"Ship sizes are increasing, and increasing exports are helping to create a balance with imports at the port. While these trends are good for South Carolina, they put pressure on the transportation infrastructure, and this study will help us address that pressure."
Jack Ellenberg - Vice President, South Carolina State Ports Authority
"This is the first time I have seen this level of cooperation at the state agency level. FHWA looks forward to working with you in this partnership to document the performance of the transportation system, to focus on freight efficiency, and to take advantage of the funding flexibility contained in recent federal programs."
Bob Lee - South Carolina Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration


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Transforming the "Other" to "Us": A Call for Faith Communities to Practice Mutuality
How do we fulfill the dream that was bequeathed to us? By practicing the joyful art of doing life together across racial categories without fear.
More than 50 years later communities of faith are still the most segregated major institutions in America. Why?
In the early 1960's, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was often asked if he didn't feel that integration could only be started and realized in the Christian churches, not in schools or in other organizations. This action of the churches would be a means of revealing just who were the true Christians. Dr. King always replied, "I would certainly have to agree with this. We must face the fact the church is still the most segregated major institution in America."
As a white male pastor, I grapple with the fact that in 2014, more than half a century later, there has been little change with less than 10 percent of all churches in the United States being racially integrated. Why? Because of the intentional pursuit of homogeneity for the sake of church growth for some and the desperate need for racial refuge for others. The tragedy of such polarities is the perpetuation of racial strife among people who aspire to be ambassadors of reconciliation.
After decades of dialogue and hundreds of books written about racial reconciliation, the question must be posed: Why can't more communities of faith break away from the homogeneity and refuge mindsets to be more integrated?
A convincing amount of research is telling us that religious institutional segregation stems not from music, clothing, food, and preaching preferences, or even theological convictions. Rather, it arises from a pervasive unwillingness of people to practice identification, reconciliation, and mutuality with those of other races. If churches (and all communities of faith for that matter) hope to write a different script for the next 50 years, there is much work to be done.
Identification is the starting point because it is impossible for people to integrate if they share little empathy and knowledge of one another's racial narratives. For instance, most Americans argued about the tragic death of Trayvon Martin in terms of the machinations of the justice system. The work of identification is more personal. It places proximity ahead of postulations. It asks everyone, regardless of skin color, to stand alongside African-American families with teenage boys and learn firsthand why they believe black men are being set up for failure in our culture. This response will involve listening to uncomfortable truths and reexamining assumptions about the role that race still plays in our society.
After identification comes reconciliation, or the practice of making things right between one another. This is best done one-on-one or in small groups where it is safe for people to be honest with one another. Prejudice is difficult to dismantle as a societal monolith but can be carefully disassembled when any two people are willing to process past grievances, build trust, and forge new futures together.
Identification and reconciliation are important, but the ultimate game changer is mutuality. Mutuality is the joyful art of doing life together across racial categories without fear.
American religious traditions as a whole have largely failed to model racial mutuality for broader society because they lack working philosophies and theologies of diverse community. It is hard to discern where philosophies end and theologies start, but one thing is clear: if communities of faith want to thrive in an increasingly globalized world, they will be wise to widen their horizons beyond the Western cultural definitions of community bred in the hierarchies of European colonialism and America's rugged individualism. Both have an innate propensity to eschew "the other."
Consider, for example, the African concept of Ubuntu. South African human rights activist Desmond Tutu once wrote:
"Ubuntu is the essence of being human. It speaks of how my humanity is caught up and bound up inextricably with yours. It says, not as Descartes did, 'I think, therefore I am' but rather 'I am because I belong.' We are created for a delicate network of relationships, of interdependence with our fellow human beings."
This philosophy is one that can help faith communities embody mutuality and transform "the other" to "us."
America is rapidly becoming a snapshot of our globalizing world, and dialogues about race are only going to intensify as we move toward a truly multiracial society. Communities of faith can play a more constructive role in bridging racial divisions in the next 50 years than they did in the last 50 if they consider identification, reconciliation, and — most importantly — mutuality.
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How is that possible when one
How is that possible when one of the major tenets taught in american christianity is that "i'm right, you're wrong" and let me tell you why in the name of 'saving you'?
this is a serious question. i avoid attending church, not because i don't respect the church members beliefs but because many feel THAT BY VIRTUE OF THOSE BELIEFS they are duty bound not to respect mine.
Lisa-I hear you...and get you
Lisa-I hear you...and get you! It is my conviction that Christianity, as the dominant religion in the West for centuries, co-opted the ethics and posture of "empire" rather than do what I believe is core to the Christian faith--embody the ethics and teachings of Jesus. And, while I believe that the ethics of "empire religion" has led to historically tragic outcomes in how Christian religion relates to the other religions and philosophies of the world, etc, the current decline of the Christian religion in the West is a remarkable opportunity to have the Church's ethos distilled down and refined to look more like the core principles and ethics of Jesus and not nationalism, imperialism, etc. Jesus led with compassion, mercy, justice, and love, and not the and exclusionary and vilifying sentiment that you feel so deeply. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing and perfect
Amazing and perfect-reconciliation after years of oppression the church needs to wake up and see it is mutual -many cultures one body.
I do always balk though at the word race
Aren't we one human race with diverse cultures?
Good point. And, I too
Good point. And, I too struggle with the sometime confusing nomenclature of the racial integration dialogue. "Multi-ethnic" or "ethnic" integration would probably be better than "multi-racial" or "racial" integration if we are one human race. And, "ethnocentrism" or "ethno-exclusivity" would probably be better than "racism." However, in my conversations with credible voices on the matter it seems that the inter-changeability (and perhaps ambiguity) between such terminology as "multi-racial," and "multi-ethnic" is likely something that we need to accept simply because of the ubiquitous usage of the words "race" and "racism" in our historic narrative of ethnic conflict and strife.
Dan, Thank you for a new
Dan, Thank you for a new definition of mutuality, "joyful art of doing life together." My experience of mutually transformative relationships is in a faith community, L'Arche (www.larche-gwdc.org). Our diversity seems to be leading us to be a place of belonging and refuge. Our hope is to be a place where security is offered to all those welcomed and willing. Our question then becomes, how do we honor and lift up difference/mutuality/ubuntu to the highest place of value?
Caitlin: Thank you for the
Caitlin: Thank you for the comment and the connection to L'Arche. In my mind. the L'Arche community embodies one of the clearest pictures of mutuality in the 21st century. I am often gripped by Jean Vanier's concept of shared "impuissance" (or touching our shared powerlessness) as a means to understanding our common human experience. It returns my imagination to the twenty years of my life (1978-1998) where I lived in holistic community with disabled adults in a few different settings. You give me/us a great question to hold!
Many of the private clubs and
Many of the private clubs and bars are more segregated. A lot depends on communities.


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Quebec and Ontario Explorer (NCQO)
From sugar shack maple syrup to Niagara vineyard wines of note, from French food to French fries, this 1-week trip serves up the best of central Canada. Get a hit of urban decadence in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa and a soothing wilderness stay in lakeside cottages in the Algonquin region. You'll travel in comfortable vehicles with a local CEO there to lead the way, so you're spending your time appreciating the magnificent sites instead of figuring out how to get to them.
Highlights: Embrace the ethnic diversity of Toronto and Montreal, witness how Canadian maple syrup gets from trees to your pancakes, appreciate the evening call of the loon beside a campfire at your lakeside cottages, visit Ontario's award-winning wine region for a taste.
- Travel Style:
- Comfort
- Trip Type:
- Small Group
- Service Level:
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Canadian Rockies Trail (NCRC)
Stunning scenery and wildlife abound in Western Canada. This 12-day trip offers fresh air in Jasper, Banff and Wells Gray, a whale-watching tour off Victoria and a river safari through Grizzly Bear Valley. Do the region justice with comfort level accommodation, including a guest ranch stay, and stunning drives—the Sea to Sky Highway and the Icefields Parkway. Whether you're enjoying an ice walk on a glacier or strolling down Victoria's charming downtown core, you're going to want to bring your camera.
Highlights: Cruise scenic roads from the Pacific Coast to Rocky Mountain heights, head out to sea to spot killer whales, search for grizzly and black bears at the Blue River, feel down home during a cowboy guest ranch stay, take an ice walk on an active glacier
Highlights of the Eastern US & Canada (NUYH)
This grand tour of the eastern US and Canada is a sensory overload of everything that makes North America great—skyscrapers, monuments, Niagara Falls, ice cream, canoeing, poutine, subways, whales, sunshine, designer boutiques and nature hikes. On this adventure, we'll ditch the big, clunky buses and pile small groups into private vans, clocking miles of smiles all over New York, Washington, Toronto, Montreal, Vermont and all points in between. Your friends are already jealous.
Highlights: Take a bite out of the Big Apple, embrace the diversity of Toronto and Montreal, hike through paradise in Algonquin Provincial Park, follow the Freedom Trail in Boston and the path to independence in Philadelphia, feel the spray of Niagara Falls.
Quebec and Ontario Explorer (NCQO)
Canadian Rockies Trail (NCRC)
Highlights of the Eastern US & Canada (NUYH)
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|Canadian Rockies Trail (NCRC)
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|Highlights of the Eastern US & Canada (NUYH)
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Welcome to "Hey, Mom and Dad"—a weekly feature in which we ask our Facebook fans to share their views on parenting. Every week, we get the conversation started by taking a look back at a question we asked parents the week before on Patch Facebook pages from around the area.
Many families have resolved to try to eat better in the new year. However, this can often be easier said than done, with picky kids prone to pushing vegetables around on their plate and each dinner turning into a battle of willpower between you and your child. That brings us to this week's question.
How do you deal with kids who are picky eaters and just don't want to follow the program?
Take a look at what people had to say and join the conversation in the comments section.
Dennis Wholey: Eliminate the normal goodies at home and buy only the good items you want them eating, we can't stop the snacking at friends homes but you can at your own, just as simple as taking my lunch to work instead of stopping at a fast food resturant has helped with my home. — Batavia Patch Facebook
Jenny Caliri: I used to chop up vegetables real small like carrots, green pepper, etc and put it in my hamburgers because my kids will not eat veggies. — Elmhurst Patch Facebook
Angel Bernahl: I didn't eat lettuce till I was 26 & am a life long picky eater. I tried things in my own time. I would just eat my veggies I did like all the time which consisted of corn, potatoes & broccoli. At least taste something before it's decided you don't like it. Try new veggies prepared different ways. My new favorites are parsnips & kale. — Geneva Patch Facebook
Jim Mcmahon Sales & Leasing: More greens veggies, no late night snacks. — Glen Ellyn Patch Facebook
Maria Chambers Barnes: They eat what's on the plate or don't eat at all. My rule is they have to at least try one bite of everything. They can't just say they don't like something without trying it. — Naperville Patch Facebook
Abby Elliott: Not following isn't a choice. You eat what I cook. If you don't, there is nothing else to eat. When they get hungry enough...they will give in. — St. Charles Patch Facebook
Tracy Colangelo: Our home isn't a restaurant, you eat what we serve with the family. — Wheaton Patch Facebook


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EOF - Markets in Three Dimensions
Old analog televisions had controls called horizontal and vertical. One kept the picture from falling over sideways, while the other kept the picture from sliding off the top or the bottom of the screen.
I think we need similar controls in our heads when we look at the product categories we call markets.
In the world of free software and open source, we mostly care about the horizontal: creating code, standards and other means for expanding markets sideways, toward the horizons. We work to keep both developers and users free from capture in the vertical markets we call silos, so they can do more stuff in more ways. We don't often ask "Where would we be without silos?" because we know. We would be free to build and use anything we want, out in the market's wide-open spaces.
Still, innovation happens in silos too. Many of the technical graces we take for granted would not have happened outside the walls of silos built by Apple, Canon, IBM, Intel, Sony and other large companies with ample and hardened intellectual property portfolios. Linux itself was developed originally (and still primarily) for Intel's x86 CPUs. Much of what we take for granted in chips from Intel and other makers is thick with intellectual property protections we would hate to see applied to our own software work. Every large maker of original electronic products (including all the companies listed above) produces between dozens and thousands of new patents every year, adding to portfolios that muscle licensing income and deals of many other kinds. Occasionally, companies do battle in court, but most of the time the dealing is quiet. If revealed, it is only through pro forma small-print disclosures in documentation.
What matters is that these portfolios give large makers the confidence and security they feel is required to produce original and appealing goods for which there is little or no competition. This is an ideal to which Apple, for example, constantly aspires. Back in 1997, not long after Steve Jobs returned to lead Apple after a long interregnum, he killed off cloners of the company's computers. Here's what I wrote about it at the time in an e-mail to Dave Winer (which Dave later published):
To Steve, clones are the drag of the ordinary on the innovative. All that crap about cloners not sharing the cost of R&D is just rationalization. Steve puts enormous value on the engines of innovation. Killing off the cloners just eliminates a drag on his own R&D, as well as a way to reposition Apple as something closer to what he would have made the company if he had been in charge through the intervening years....
Now Steve is back, and gradually renovating his old company. He'll do it his way, and it will once again express his Art.
These things I can guarantee about whatever Apple makes from this point forward:
It will be original.
It will be innovative.
It will be exclusive.
It will be expensive.
Its aesthetics will be impeccable.
The influence of developers, even influential developers like you, will be minimal. The influence of customers and users will be held in even higher contempt.
The iPod, iPhone and iPad each not only fulfilled all six of those requirements, but also redefined their market categories in the vertical dimension. That is, they grew the range of things that could be done with a given device, and the size of its marketplace. The iPhone in particular redefined the smartphone market and enlarged it far beyond the narrow range of possibilities allowed by combinations of mobile phone makers and mobile phone companies. New kinds of applications by the thousands burst out of the ground like a geyser. But all are contained inside Apple's silo, where they move only through the company's sphinctered approval and sales processes.
In fact, far more can be done on Linux (notably Android) and Symbian OSes than on iPhone's, just given the open nature of the former and the closed nature of the latter. But, thanks to Apple, there is much more to imagine doing outside that company's closed and private silo.
This is the point at which some suggest that open-source goods are derivative, rather than original. But that's not the case. We still happen to live in a time when investment in closed, and original stuff is greater than investment in the open and original kind. As long as that's still the case, we'll have the Apples of the world aiming for the heights while the rest of us build out the widths and the depths that characterize wide-open marketplaces.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal. He is also a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara.
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A 3-year-old Iowa girl has died nearly three months after she pulled a large television down upon herself.
Family friend Lena McElvogue told The Des Moines Register that Aleena Coe died Thursday at a hospice in Johnston.
She was injured Aug. 9 when the television fell onto her as she was watching a program with her sister in their Des Moines home.
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By Michael Kinney
The Moore American
MOORE — For a quarter, it looked like Norman High was in trouble. After the Tigers scored on a textbook opening drive, Moore responded with an 80-yard drive of its own to tie the ballgame.
For a moment, it looked as if the Tigers were in for a dogfight. But less than 5 minutes later, courtesy of three monster plays, NHS found itself up three scores and on track toward a 28-10 victory at Moore Stadium.
"We showed improvement," Moore coach Todd Watters said. "But still making too many mental errors in all three phases of the game and playing too high defensively. We are not playing as physical as we need to in every aspect of the game. Our effort was pretty good. There are positions that can improve in this area, but over all, we played hard."
Lion quarterback Colin Webb played well in his first start under center, running 29 times for 92 yards and passing for 24 more. He did, however, fumble the ball twice. As a team, the Lions put the ball on the ground three times.
"Turnovers always have a huge impact, but what hurt us most against Norman was our giving up big plays on defense and special teams, along with not being able to complete offensive drives," Watters said.
Despite the loss, the Lions sowed marked improvement from the week before when it lost to Westmoore.
"Moore made a statement right there with that first drive that they were in this game," Nation said. "I don't care what happened last week, they came out and got better this week," Nation said of Moore, which dropped a 62-14 decision to No. 8 Westmoore last week. "The flexbone option they run is hard to defend."
Even though Moore is off to an 0-2 start to the season, it has proven to be an effective in at least one area.
The Lions will pound the rock.
In two contests, MHS has accounted for 407 rushing yards. Under first year coach Todd Watters, it has dedicated itself to running the ball. The Lions have 93 carries compared to only 18 pass attempts.
Webb leads the ground charge for MHS. He's rushed for more than a 100 yards each game, despite not starting the opener against Westmoore.
"Colin has done a great job of making the correct reads on the option," Watters said. "Our line has improved, but we started or played three sophomores Thursday night on offense, and many upperclassmen that have no varsity game experience, so we still are not as consistent as we need to be."
The Lions return to action Friday when they face Southmoore in the Battle of the Big Cats. SMH has a chance to win the city championship while Moore is looking to just win its first game.
The SaberCats defeated MHS 28-12 last year and are coming off an emotional win over Westmoore.
"Southmoore is so explosive on offense that it will be very difficult to slow them down," Watters said. "We need Southmoore to turn the ball over and make mistakes, and we will have to play a flawless game."
Ward's status in limbo?:Southmoore senior D.J. Ward had expected to find out Wednesday if he would be eligible to play Friday in his first football game of the season. After transferring from Oklahoma City Douglass two weeks ago, the 6-3, 245 defensive end was waiting for the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association to clear his hardship waiver.
Yet, according to OSSAA staff member Ron Etheridge, Executive Director Ed Sheakley and the bulk of the staff have gone to a sectional meeting in Denver and will not return until Saturday. Even though Ward and the SaberCat coaches were expecting an answer this week, it doesn't look like that will happen before Friday's game against Moore.
Ward, who has committed to play football at Oklahoma, did not attend practice Wednesday and was unavailable for a response. But late Wednesday night, he sent out several tweets on his twitter account that may have answered all questions.
So.. I'm not playing football this year," Ward posted. "I'm thinking about college. I'm tired of this I didn't ask for it. "
Southmoore coach Jeff Brickman had no comment on the matter.
Injury doesn't slow Painter: Despite broken ribs, Southmoore's Tyler Painter made sure to have an impact in Friday's win over Westmoore.
He came up with the biggest play of the night when he blocked the Jaguars' extra point attempt at the end of the first overtime.
"I thought if they score, we need to use our timeout make sure our defense understands that the game is not over," Southmoore coach Jeff Brickman said. "If we block this extra point, we'll go into another overtime.
"We have a guy that's playing with a broken rib named Tyler Painter. He's playing through pain."
Painter broke his ribs during practice earlier in the week, but found a way to slip through the Westmoore linemen to get his hands on the ball. After kick failed the SaberCats went on to win in the second overtime 33-27.
"I don't even know if he took any pain medicine," Brickman said. "He blocked that PAT against Carl Albert last week. So we told him to block another one for us."
Jags face No. 7 North: Westmoore looks to get back on the winning track when it faces Norman North (2-0) at 7 p.m. Thursday at Moore Stadium. The Timberwolves are coming off a convincing but costly win over Del City last week.
During the NNH victory, the team suffered injuries to lineman Josh Been, who was caught in a pile-up on a rush down the middle. He went down hard and lay prone on the ground for several minutes. He will have surgery Thursday.
The Jaguars haven o major injuries, but they have to find a way to get past the crushing loss to Southmoore and prepare for one of the top teams in the state.
"The loss sticks with you until Friday," Westmoore's Jhames West said. "You are thinking about it until you get to beat somebody else. Once that happens, it will be all out of your system."


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Dealing with failure is one thing; dealing with success quite another.
West Virginia University, which plays a crucial three-game baseball series this weekend in Charleston against coach Randy Mazey's former TCU team with first place at stake, has seen both sides of that story.
When the season started, the Mountaineers were picked last out of the nine-team Big 12, and it didn't help that they were shut out in their first game, and after having lost two of three in their first conference series and being shut out by Marshall, they were 8-12.
That was the bottom, the time when they had to deal with their failure, follow the guidance the coaching staff had given them.
They split their next two games before running off an eight-game winning streak, which allowed them to believe in themselves enough that even a brief losing streak didn't overwhelm them. They put things back together and rushed into contention in the conference, sweeping Kansas.
Pittsburgh was next, and Mazey remembers what transpired well.
"We had to flip from how to handle adversity to how to handle success. That's a whole different ball game when you do that," he said.
Suddenly, they were looking at being able to accomplish more than anyone had ever imagined, but the obstacles in the way were different from those they faced when they were operating in obscurity.
"You start winning, we talked to them then — I think it was before the Pitt game after we swept Kansas and put ourselves in position to do some things in this conference — we said, 'All credit goes to you about the way you handled the adversity we talked about. You did a great job doing that. Now the trick is to handle the success you're having,'" Mazey said.
That often can be harder than handling losing.
"I gave them four examples of programs around the country that as soon as they jumped into the top 25 or top 30 they immediately followed it up where they lost two out of three games to a bad team or that type of thing."
What happens when a losing team becomes a winning team? What are the land mines?
Cockiness comes first, especially in this "me-first" day and age. But there is also dealing with new-found celebrity, of having people know who you are and what you do and telling you how great you are at doing it.
"If you start having success and start listening to everyone who tells you how great you are and saying you guys are wonderful ... if you get caught up in that, then that's how you have a bad weekend and lose some games," Mazey told his team.
"You have to continue to do what you did to put yourself in the position you are in, which is play the game from pitch to pitch without distractions and grinding out at bats and executing pitches," he continued. "If you continue to do what you did on the way up, you have a chance to continue moving up or at least staying where you are. If you relax at all you won't be able to do that."
Sometimes, though, kids don't listen. It's nice to be a star and to be noticed on campus and to have people who ignored you before now pay attention.
You lose sight on your goals, so Mazey brought it all back into perspective with an eye-opening approach as to what he wanted.
"I told them about some other professions that if you look at you see based on those professions they can't afford to take a day off. Imagine if a heart surgeon doesn't give 100 percent at work or if a pilot doesn't give his all one day. What's the result of that?
"My main example is as a father. As a father, you don't have the luxury to take a day off. You're a father all the time. If you're a winning baseball program or a championship team and put yourself in that position, you can't take time off. Every day, every practice you have to try to get better. Every game you can't give away an at bat; you can't lose focus pitching to a No. 9 hitter.
"If you've proven to be a winner, that's how you stay there."
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Product DescriptionHit the trails or own the streets on a bike that's meant for you. Front suspension, knobby tires… the trail awaits.
- Frame: Alpha White Aluminum w/externally relieved head tube, bi-axial down tube, disc compatible dropouts
- Front suspension: SR Suntour M-2025 w/coil spring, 63mm travel
- Wheels: Formula alloy FM21 front hub, FM31 rear hub; Bontrager 550 36-hole rims w/brushed sidewalls
- Shifters: Shimano EF51, 7 speed
- Brakeset: Tektro linear pull brakes w/Shimano EF51 levers
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Date Reviewed: August 7, 2013
Strengths: It is smooth, rolls out fast and has a sweet feel. I have pleasure-riding bikes for more than seventy years. I bought this bike in a flea market for a friend, but sorry Tom, it is now my off-road ride, replacing another high-end mark which shall remain unnamed. My Trek.
Weaknesses: None observed.
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Date Reviewed: September 8, 2012
Strengths: Low price, RUGGED entry level bike. I have beaten this poor bike. I have been sent flying over the handlebars, and dumped this machine over logs. Absolutely nothing has failed. I asked for a good road and trail bike when I bought it, and that is exactly what I got. This bike has caused an addiction to trail riding.
Weaknesses: Lack of Disc Brakes, and ground clearance. I also switched out the rear gears. The difference between 1 granny gear and 2 was just too far for me. This wasn't a problem at first. I was only looking for a bike to hit the trails with a few times a year, and ended up doing it a few times a week. Shifting was also a bit clunky if shifting under power on steep climbs, but I learned when to do it to make things go more smoothly. Time to upgrade. Bike is great, I am just ready for more.
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Date Reviewed: March 18, 2012
Strengths: This bike is great. I was nervous at first. I have a family with two small boys and did not or could not spend $1000 bucks on a bike I new nothing about. I did my homework online and hit some local shops. I was not having any luck until I went to Great Escape. I am pretty heavy was 230lbs when I got the bike and wanted to get back in shape . The trek 3500 is great I have lost 15lbs and I am now starting to hit some pretty big trails . I love this bike it has really change everything about me. If u are trying to get back in shap adn want a bike that will hold your eight this is the one and it want break your bank!!! Highly recomended !!!!!
Weaknesses: None
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $419.00
Purchased At: great escape spartan
Similar Products Used: None
Bike Setup: Great escape set it up for me
Date Reviewed: October 5, 2010
Strengths: Well built and stiff with a good suspension up front. Handles just fine and the fit is perfect for the average riders build. price is unbeatable at 395 list.
Weaknesses: Lack of fenders.
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $250.00
Purchased At: used
Similar Products Used: trek 7500, 7.5FX.
Bike Setup: Butterfly handlebars added for comfort and varied hand positions.
Date Reviewed: September 7, 2009
Strengths: Durable, sleek, easy brakes, nice handlebars
Weaknesses: Shifting is SLIGHTLY rough
Bottom Line:
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Price Paid: $360.00
Purchased At: Landry's Bicycles
Date Reviewed: December 25, 2007
Strengths: Good strong entry level bike for the smaller kids, but I wouldn't recommend it to serious riders or people wanting to get into the sport. Good quality for everyone who's not into hard mountain biking but is willing to go off of the pavement.
Weaknesses: My freehub/cassette broke after a few months of using it, but I ended up getting a HiFi for my next bike. It shows you the step that I needed to take between bikes in the caliber of riding that I was doing.
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Purchased At: (Zanes) Holiday Inn reward points
Bike Setup: Stock
Date Reviewed: May 19, 2007
Strengths: got me off the couch and on the trails
Weaknesses: seat post, tires, weighs a ton, rear derailler
Bottom Line:
Town Run Trail is like a race track -- mostly smooth -- but the bumps on this thing are killer. I've rode my friend's Trek 3700 and if you're going to hit any bumps, I'd recommend spending a bit more for a front suspension bike.
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $250.00
Purchased At: free via a work promotion deal
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