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Apple already has three portable 12- to 13-inch laptop computers in its lineup.

Now, the iPad Pro makes four.

I write these thoughts on an iPad Air 2 — which, until the big-screen iPad Pro is released in November, is the current top-of-the-line tablet from Apple — on a plane. I’m using it instead of a laptop. I’m typing on the screen.

Why am I not using the 11-inch MacBook Air I have in the overhead bin, 10 feet from me? Because the iPad slides in my seat pocket. It’s my book; my movies; my games. And if I need it to be, my quick writing tool.

It’s not perfect. It’s

Article source: http://www.cnet.com/news/ipad-pro-vs-the-macbooks-parallel-evolution/

Today-Sept. 17

•Exhibit: South Mississippi Art Association’s Juried Exhibition of Watercolors, Oils and Acrylics, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday or by appointment by calling (801) 755-4052, Lucile Parker Gallery, 512 Tuscan Ave., adjacent to William Carey University campus.

Today-Sept. 18

•Event: Coat Drive, Mars Hill Baptist Church, 66 Mars Hill Road, Petal. Drop off at the collection box under the covered porch. Coats will be sold for $1 at Fall Community Clothes Closet on Sept. 19.

Today-Sept. 25

•Exhibit: International Posters for a Digital Age, Southern Miss’ Gallery of Art and Design, George Hurst Building.

Today-Sept. 27

•Exhibit: Escape to Tranquility: The New American Landscape, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. Forty-five paintings featuring landscapes without human interaction or presence.

Today-Sept. 29

•Event: Baby Story Time, 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, “Mother Goose on the Loose,” Hattiesburg Library. For babies birth to 2 years.

Today-Sept. 30

•Event: Fifth- and sixth-grade pottery classes, 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Carriage House Studio. Supplies included. To sign up or for details: (601) 649-6374, LRMA.org under “classes” or email mbuchanan@LRMA.org.

•Exhibit: “Integration: Reflections from the Sarah Gillespie Collection,” 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday or by appointment, William Carey University. Details: (601) 318-6561.

Today-Nov. 15

•Exhibit: “Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection,” Lauren Rogers Museum of

Article source: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/2015/09/12/community-calendar-september/72172384/

SPARTA, Ill. • The oddness wasn’t lost on any of them.

Some 175 heavily armed — at least by Old West standards — men and women gathered last month at the World Shooting and Recreation Complex in this small Southern Illinois town for three days of shooting, competition and companionship.

There were cowboy hats, spurs, leather chaps, tooled leather gun belts and lots of fringe. You could find soldiers, saloon girls, gunfighters and regular ol’ cowpunchers.

The odd part, however, was that they were there at all.

In Illinois, that is.

“It’s a curiosity that the country’s finest shooting range is in one of the least-friendly gun states,” said South Carolina’s E’Lane Tipton, who also goes by the name Scarlett Darlin’. “But it’s also a sign that the two can coexist.”

Maybe so.

But at least for now, there are concerns about the future of the $50 million complex that has struggled to meet the lofty expectations bestowed upon it by boosters when it was being built more than a decade ago.

Other than serving as home to the Amateur Trapshooting Association — which hosts a massive event every summer — the facility hasn’t had much success drawing large events to the region.

And now it’s slated to be shuttered on Sept. 30 as the state founders without a budget.

Whether the closing is permanent remains to be seen. But supporters are expecting nothing more than a temporary hiatus. Maybe 60 days, tops.

Corey Rheinecker is the city manager of Sparta, a

Article source: http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/mammoth-illinois-shooting-range-hopes-for-new-life/article_73550e6d-f2eb-5f8d-bfbd-ad03b19a2d3b.html

Khalil Rabah has founded a museum, an airline and a branding agency (PDF—Palestinian Design Force). Moreover, he is the initiator of the Riwaq Biennale, co-founder of the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, and decisively gets involved in projects for the preservation and restoration of Palestine’s cultural heritage. That the latter projects are real, while the former by contrast are artistic claims, pertains to one of the most important conceptual approaches in Khalil Rabah’s work. In a practical and ideal interaction of political involvement, cultural search for identity, and conceptual art, he develops a new and consistent space of action and thought.

Khalil Rabah was born in Jerusalem in 1961, and studied Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Texas, USA. With numerous solo exhibitions and Biennale contributions, the Ramallah-based artist was already internationally represented. In Europe, by contrast, there have not yet been many opportunities to become comprehensively acquainted with his work. Thus, the Kunsthaus Hamburg, with the exhibition Scale Models, is pleased to be able to display a representative institutional solo exhibition of the Palestinian artist in Germany. For the occasion, Rabah is developing a re-staging of three important groups of work from the past ten years for the rooms of the Kunsthaus.

In 2003, Khalil Rabah initiated the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind as an artistic concept. The departments of the museum comprise, among other things, Geology, Paleontology and Botany. With this project, Rabah coins the identity question of a “nation

Article source: http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/khalil-rabah/

Lyle Hefel wouldn’t be building his eighth airplane if it wasn’t for Richard “Van” VanGrunsven.

Hefel, 79, is a longtime member of the tri-state area’s Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 327, which — along with the Dubuque Regional Airport — will host the 26th annual DBQ Airport Open House/EAA Fly-in/Drive-in breakfast on Sunday.

VanGrunsven is the master of homebuilt airplane designs, which are used worldwide. He founded Van’s Aircraft Inc. in 1972 in Reedville, Ore., and began selling plans and a few parts for his RV-3 airplane. Today, more than 9,000 RV kits have been completed and flown.

“The performance was so outstanding, people flocked to it,” Hefel said. “They are so good, people are willing to build something this complicated because the end result is worth it.”

Hefel builds his RV planes inside a large shop on his property near Durango, Iowa. He often is assisted by

Article source: http://www.thonline.com/news/tri-state/article_61b6cc57-c04f-5f3f-8a90-5cf83363b838.html

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jet engine parts found on the Las Vegas runway where a British Airways flight aborted takeoff as the engine burst into flames indicate a rare catastrophic failure, experts said Thursday as investigators released preliminary findings and began analyzing flight data and cockpit recordings.

Early findings show the failure occurred where the engine was under the highest pressure, though there was no immediate indication of what caused it or the fire that forced 170 people to evacuate Tuesday at McCarran International Airport as smoke poured from the aircraft.

“You really don’t see catastrophic or uncontained engine failure like this very often,” said John Cox, an aviation safety consultant who spent 23 years as a U.S. Airways pilot. He said the failure indicates parts sliced through the engine casing.

The National Transportation Safety Board said there was damage to the armored shell around the left engine’s high-pressure compressor, and several 7- to 8-inch fragments of the compressor were found on the tarmac.

No

Article source: http://gazette.com/investigators-find-pieces-of-key-engine-part-after-jet-fire/article/feed/269876