Local, statewide observances held for Sept. 11

TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Public and private remembrances will be held Wednesday in East Texas to commemorate the twelfth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Governor Perry has asked state and local governments to observe Patriot Day with appropriate programs and activities.

All Texas and U.S. flags will be flown at half-staff Wednesday.

Governor Perry has asked everyone in Texas to observe a personal moment of silence to remember the terrorist attacks, honor the victims, and reflect upon the meaning of the day.

And for the first time since September 11, 2001, a new law passed by the Texas Legislature last spring will affect how Texas public schools will commemorate the 9/11 attacks.

House Bill 1501, introduced by Rep. Richard Peña Raymond, D-Laredo, says that when 9/11 falls on a regular school day, each public elementary and secondary school will observe a minute of silence at the beginning of first period class.

Immediately before the minute of silence, a class instructor will make a statement of reference to the memory of the people who died on September 11, 2001.

In Tyler Wednesday morning, a ceremony will be held to mark the twelfth anniversary of the attacks.

The ceremony will be conducted by Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass and honor guards from the police and fire departments.

The ceremony starts at 9 a.m. outside Tyler City Hall on North Bonner Avenue.

Also, the Kilgore Fire Academy will honor the memory of 9/11's fallen firefighters at its graduation ceremony Wednesday night.

The ceremony is set for 6:30 p.m. at the Bert E. Woodruff Adult Education Center in Kilgore.

Gregg County Judge Bill Stoudt and Texas Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner will be speaking.

Fifteen new firefighters will graduate Wednesday as they honor the 343 firefighters who gave their lives 12 years ago.

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Schmidt: Indian Web innovations will come from solving local problems

Summary: Google's executive chairman has urged the Indian government to focus on policies to improve and foster online businesses, rather than on censorship.

Indian Web entrepreneurs should not aim for foreign markets to be successful but instead solve local problems in a way that's globally applicable, according to Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

"We know that India's Internet infrastructure allows Indian engineers to solve the problems of small businesses in other countries. If India plays its cards right, we'll soon see Indian engineers and Indian small businesses tackling Indian problems first, then exporting the solutions that work best," he wrote last week in an opinion piece in The Times of India, ahead of his attendance at the Big Tent Activate Summit in New Delhi.

Eric Schmidt (right) in conversation with Alan Rusbridger at Big Tent Activate Summit 2013

During his trip, Schmidt met several Indian entrepreneurs and also wrote about successful online businesses in India like Kanaja, RedBus, and mDhil in his column.

While Schmidt was gung-ho about India’s online opportunities, he called on the Indian government to opt for an "open Internet that benefits all" instead of a "highly regulated one that inhibits innovation." He said that society flourishes when this is a free and open Web with unbridled technological progress that allows information to be disseminated and consumed freely.

He insisted that since one-fifth of the five billion people that will get online in the next decade will come from India, much of the country's cultural enrichment will come from Web startups and small businesses.

At the Big Tent Activate Summit, in a conversation with Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, Schmidt also expressed his disappointment with the Internet infrastructure in the country.

"The fact is that fiber solves every connectivity problem, but you (India) don't have enough of it. The telecom industry here is under-capitalized, and they don't have enough bandwidth. The Internet here feels like America in 1994, with tremendous upside," Schmidt said.

Topics: Tech Industry, Censorship, Google, India, SMBs

Abhishek Baxi is an independent digital consultant and a freelance technology columnist based in India. He writes on consumer technology and trends for several leading print and online publications.

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