Calendar: What's happening this week?
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Thursday, October 13
Knitting workshop, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Suffolk County Recorded Society, 300 W. Main St., Riverhead, with Kathleen of Hampton Knitting Fish tale. Participants knit cowl of merino wool and cashmere. Fee: $45 all embracing; $40 bring your own size 10.5 (24” lengthy) circular needles. Optional follow-up conference: Thursday, Oct. 20, at 10:30 a.m. included in charge. Register: 727-2881, ext. 105.
Fingertip Luncheon, noon-3 p.m. at Front Suiting someone to a T Station in Greenport, hosted by ELIH Assisting. Tickets $15. All proceeds go to Eastern Extensive Island Hospital. 477-3670.
The Witch’s Face, 4 p.m. for grades 4-6 at Mattituck-Laurel Library, Major Road, Mattituck. Register: 298-4134.
Film Birthday features ‘As It Is In Heaven’ (Sweden, 2004) directed by Kay Pollak, 6 p.m. at Floyd Cenotaph Library, 539 First St., Greenport. Free. 477-0660.
Friday, October 14
Talking picture ‘Rebirth,’ 1:30 p.m. at Mattituck-Laurel Library, Absolute Road, Mattituck. Portrait of survival and aptitude of the human spirit from 9/11 survivors. Unloose. 298-4134.
Source: Riverhead News-Review
Apple fans reach for Jobs' devices to mourn him
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON and RACHEL METZ
Associated The media
He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to bewail Steve Jobs, the feeling was more than grief for an top banana or even an inventor. It was something closer to awe for a wizard.
On Thursday, the admirers who turned his technological marvels into diurnal tools used them as instruments of grief. People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, booted up their MacBook Pros to watch old Jobs presentations on YouTube, old their iPhones to sift through remembrances on Twitter.
They grieved his demise through devices that before his time, or without his vision, would have been considered beyond people's reach.
Ten years ago, the only people who carried their music around were tech geeks, music obsessives and those docile to tote a clunky CD player. Presto - the iPod, and everyone wanted one. And then another and another.
Source: WFMJ