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Then the world would be a better place. Although, I kinda like the idea of being a pirate. I've always wanted to sail the open seas, plundering vessels, going ashore and plundering the village's wenches. AARRGGG.
Bad article summary. It doesn't make you a "pirate" but it does make you a Special 301 Suspect who may have tendencies towards piracy (oh no). It's kinda similar to police profiling black drivers as potential criminals, except minus the racial overtones.
I wonder why Russia is not on this list? They encourage open source software as the preferred option for schools. Maybe we don't want to annoy our new ally.
Germany, too... in fact much of the EU.
The IP Police have gained control of the US Congress, so more of this stuff is likely.
Now please return to coding your brains out and publishing it. Patriots sometimes have to make the aristocracy look as stupid as they are.
... yea, because racial overtones are so much better than ideological ones. Joy. Why do these asshats find Open Source so undesirable? Are they still stuck on the hippie-factor?
No, they're stuck on the "Microsoft and other companies pay us a ton of money" factor.
I like MS as much as the next person (har) and I think that pay-for-play software has it's place. I like Photoshop, Final Cut, Oracle, etc. However it is really pretty stupid that people want to make consumption mandatory.
Only ignore the quacks if they lack influence. Otherwise, it's important to fight them.
Yes, ignoring the quacks with influence is just ducking the issue.
that's a good way to run afowl of the law.
That's a very mallardramatic thing to say.
No, pluck them.... then stuff them
After I searched the web, I crawled back into my nest and slept.
I was hoping that I would hatch an idea that would take wing and solve this problem.
But I just ended up with egg on my face.
Make an eggsample of them?
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"? Everyone knows it's "ARRRRR!" Other valid alternatives include: YARRRR, YUHARRR, or other variations therefore. A trailing G should only be used in cases of pain or discomfort. For example: "AAARG, I've been run through by ye blade!", or "ARRRG, I think that wench had ye crotch rot".
So you're saying the OP was run through while writing his post? Then he wouldn't have bothered to type "AARRRGH", he would have just said it!
Perhaps he was dictating?
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"?
A pirate who just had a cutlass jammed through his chest.
Your complete lack of perspective on a pirate's pain threshold identifies you clearly as a ninja sympathizer.
Dude... "arg"? What kind of pirate says "arg"?
obviously a C-faring pirate!
Remember though, its "rape, pillage, and burn" and not "pillage, burn, and rape".
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph [venganza.org] clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph [venganza.org] clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
Hmm, I was worried about this with "Global Warming" happening at the same time as all the Somali Pirates, but it's working out now. They've changed the term to "Climate Change" and it's been a lovely, cool Summer here in Melbourne. None of this 45 Celcius junk they were having before these pirates got going. May his noodly appendages continue to move in their mysterious ways.
what happens if you write/contribute to open source?
what happens if you write/contribute to open source?
As everyone else is pointing out, that makes you a Communist.
Having said that, I would love to see a world where all the OSS contributors gets added to the "watchlists" of the world and all hell break lose every time there's a geeky conference in California or Florida. A "geeks of the world" vs. homeland security grudge match would be a thing of beauty.
And here's an interesting point: DHS already uses Apache for dhs.gov, and I'm sure plenty of other government programs use and work on open source platforms, even if their main desktop deployments are Windows.
I am getting confused here. I thought pirates shuttled old men and their boy toys to Alderaan? But now you are saying we are like Che Guevara?
Either way, our chances of getting laid any time soon just sky-rocketed. We are now officially "bad boys". Rebel with a compile.
Canada's proposed legislation C-61 would have resulted in $20k fines for installing Linux since it would "circumvent" some DRM things.
Seriously though -- I use Linux, and I download music and movies, and sometimes I rip them from library-borrowed DVDs. At work, I do things to hurt actual, real life pirates, who are the scum of the earth, Johnny Depp's romanticized version aside. Some of the work I've done was breaking the communication pathway in a device in order to do a thing, and that end product is being used by people with guns who are engaged with real pirates. Apparently that makes ME the bad guy.
Big IP houses would love to find a model that's "pay per play, and a monthly fee, and we decide the prices, and anyone who breaks our rules should go to jail and be bankrupt" model. They are the ones that are as bad as real life pirates.
You mean scum of the earth as in people driven away from their fishing grounds by big multinationals fishing emptying their fish grounds and polluting their sea with poison waste? Yeah real scum!!
The problem is, there aren't many free marketers.
On one side of the aisle you have the scummy rent-seeking corporatists. And on the other side you have the anti-corporate socialist 'progressives.' Neither side of the political debate want a free market. Both sides want the government to set rules to benefit special interests. The only difference is which. And so the free market is strangled to death. Crushed under the weight of regulations, subsidies, fat government contracts and handouts.
The only times the free market has ever truly reigned is when it explodes and outpaces, for a short time, the long arm of political meddling.
Crushed under the weight of regulations,
The problem is that companies do unscrupulous things in the absence of regulation. Monsanto and PCPs for instance. Do we really want companies pumping toxic crap into our ground water? What about pumping black soot into the sky? How about using melamine in milk to maximize profits? What about all the snake oil stuff that got sold to the public in the 1920s? with the lack of regulation. back then people had all kinds of radioactive products [environmen...affiti.com] back then. No regulation. Look at china today. Look at Bejing. Where they had to take drastic measures to cut smog for the Olympics. The don't use catalytic converters over there. Look at all the companies that know they are selling unsafe products due to internal research yet still chose to sell the product because profits come first. I think its the sleazy players in the marketplace that forces regulators to step in. If the market players had any ethics there would be no need to regulate.
By their nature - a focus on increasing profits at all costs - the corporation is inherently amoral. Oh, they may choose to act in a moral or responsible manner for sure, but there is nothing inherent in the concept of a corporation that actually encourages that attitude.
If a company discovers its product is a health hazard, its in their best interest to cover it up, try to fix the problem as quietly and quickly as possible - and carry on, all the while hoping no one notices or sues them. Anything else will reduce sales, open them up to lawsuits and consequent penalties, and decrease profits.
As I see it (and IANAL), the chief problem is that we allow corporations to act as individuals. If the presidents & officers of corporations were personally (and financiallly) liable for the actions of a corporation, then we might get less objectionable actions from companies and more responsibilities. OTOH who would want to be a corporate head?
Currently a corporation has *more* rights than a private individual, and less liability in many ways (they can be fined etc, but don't go to jail).
I don't support Communism, it hasn't worked, but that fact doesn't mean that its opposite, Capitalism, is inherently perfect either.
The intellectual dishonesty is breathtaking.
Intellectual dishonesty is one of their primary forms of intellectual property!
Make no mistake: we're in a propaganda war. You might call it "marketing" or "public relations" or "lobbying" or whatever else you want to call it, but the intention is the same. Publishers of games, books, movies, music, and software are all trying to convince you of a particular view of "intellectual property". They're not trying to convince you through honest rational arguments, but rather through logical fallacies and mass brainwashing.
They're trying to convince us all that they are, as industries, entitled to exist, and entitled to a governmental guarantee of profitability. They're trying to convince us that copyright was always considered an inalienable human right, and that authors of creative works have always been entitled to absolute control of their creations in perpetuity. Further, they're trying to convince us that they, the publishers, are the true authors of these works. The guy who wrote the song or the novel, the band who performed the song, the developer who actually wrote the code-- these people are just employees. They're assistants in the process, but the company who funded the work is the true author, and the only one entitled to protection.
That's the propaganda being sold to the public. Don't think for a second that we're involved in an honest debate.
If you use open source [whitehouse.gov], then you're a pirate? Ok, slap him [barackobama.com] in prison. go on, I'd love to see them try
Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the development model, it encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations.
I think this is is seriously flawed logic. It appears to falsely equate "value" and "intellectual creation" with a proprietary, commercial development model. Proprietary IP rights are a way to exploit the value of intellectual creations. But proprietary rights are not the source of their value. We can give "due consideration to the value of intellectual creations" without discriminating against open source. Maybe buy the developer a beer or send them a thank you note, or better yet, a bug report or patch?
We used to laud those benevolent spirits who contributed to the public good with no thought of remuneration. Now it seems we try to outlaw them. There might be a movie idea here.... The Police unions get together and sue Batman for doing pro bono work...
It's only okay to give things away if you assign them to the public domain so that companies can take them and re-sell them with slight modifications for right and just capitalist profit.
I wondered when they'd get around to doing this. Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't try it sooner.
You can safely assume that if used clothing became fashionable amongst the moneyed classes, clothing manufacturers would try to force Goodwill and the Salvation Army out of business. Value is tied to scarcity, so trying to generate artificial scarcity is a pretty standard tactic. In a field like "intellectual property", where all scarcity is artificial, sharing is viewed as a sin.
Of course, the real irony here is that artificial scarcity itself is an attack on the capitalist free market. But the free market only appeals to the little guy. To established interests, the free market is a threat. Ergo, companies like Microsoft spend most of their time trying to suppress competition, which is almost guaranteed to work, as opposed to actually competing, which carries a much larger risk of failure.
Goodwill and Salvation Army have made serious efforts to put each other out of business. One of them (I forget which) sued the other, back in, oh, the late eighties, over the right to sell rags to China. If I recall correctly, I read this in the Wall Street Journal.
Several years ago, some of the second-hand stores here in Minneapolis/Saint Paul shut down. The way I heard it (anecdotal word-of-mouth), larger local business interests pressured the city to impose reporting requirements too burdensome for the second-hand places to bear. Similarly, years ago, you could volunteer at a food co-op and get a discount. Now there's not a single co-op left in the Twin Cities that accepts volunteers. Same (anecdotal) story: bigger business interests (Whole Foods?) pressured regulators to impose reporting requirements too burdensome for the co-ops to justify using volunteers (you had to treat "volunteers" as real employees and do all the paperwork that goes with it.)
It's not flawed logic.
It's flawed English, both semantically and syntactically ("does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations.")
The logic is faultless. What these vendors of proprietary software are saying is that open source competition will reduce the value the market assigns to their products.
The question is whether you share the unspoken assumptions: that this is a bad thing, and that the government should do something about it.
Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the development model, it encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations.
We can give "due consideration to the value of intellectual creations" without discriminating against open source. Maybe buy the developer a beer or send them a thank you note, or better yet, a bug report or patch?
More to the point, open-source licenses gi
The GPL is, arguably, the most popular and most well-known open source license. Without strong copyright law protecting the rights of creators, the GPL could not exist, depending as it does on copyright enforcement to effect its clauses. So I'm not sure what world this lobbying group lives in where FOSS is incompatible with copyright.
Well piracy wouldn't exist without copyright law either!
OS = Operating System, actually. You want OSS or FOSS, though the F is almost always redundant.
OSS != communism, certainly, but it is a form of socialism. It's like sharing, it's voluntary so it's not just no big deal, it's friggin awesome. It's the coersive forms of socialism that can be scary and nasty.
As for this IIPA group, they are either incredibly ignorant (possible, but if so it must be by choice), or they just want to manipulate the system to their advantage - which is probably the case.
OSS is free market enterprise and has nothing to do with socialism.
Socialism is when the government forcefully confiscates someones time, money or resources and gives it to someone else.
OSS is 100% voluntary and thus is free market enterprise. Voluntary associations are essential to any capitalist society because individuals and corporations can not fill the needs of everyone.
The kind of society we are living in now is Piracy, where large corporations can keep their profits and then plunder the public treasury when things go bad. Piracy is what this IIPA organization is advocating, not capitalism.
As funny as it may sound, when you freely give away your time and money to a cause, such as OSS you are being a capitalist and when you pay any non-voluntary taxes you are participating in socialism.
You know there is such a thing as market socialism [wikipedia.org], right?
People get the concepts of capitalism, free markets, socialism, and communism far too confused.
So if we presume that a hunk of information like software constitutes a form of capital, then open source of any variety most definitely is socialist (it's seeking to distribute said capital broadly instead of concentrating it in the hands of a few), and thus not capitalist in the loose sense, but most certainly not communist in the modern sense (its distribution is anything but centrally controlled), and thus it is most certainly compatible with three free-market.
Of course those like me who deny the legitimacy of copyright entirely (thus undermining the premise that something like software constitutes capital) would look like communists in the original sense to those who disagree, but we in turn see the very presumption of copyright to be contrary to the free market on scarce physical goods (by legislating what can and cannot be done with peoples' own equipment), which certainly takes precedent over the market on infinitely reproducible intangible goods.
OSS != communism
No, OSS is the Open Sound System, which is the standard way sound interface for UNIX-like operating systems. Not sure why you think that's relevant though...
What do you think the concept of IP is, except protectionism?
The NSA's SELinux, anybody? Obama administration Drupal sites? Forge.mil?
These morons can ask all they like but I don't think they're going to get anywhere.
Yes, because if you drink from the public fountain, you do not buy bottled water and the bottled water companies lose money.
The 'important' people in the US stopped caring about capitalism a long time ago. See, in capitalism, they would lose money if they fucked up. Fox et.al is too happy to go on with this new "corporatism", in which somebody gets a big powerful corporation and are tithed to, and people get awful militant (literally) if you suggest that maybe that's not the best thing in the world.
Not only did the British government changed the wording around its controversial 'three strikes' proposals,...
That's around the part of the article where I stopped reading it. If one can't bother to at least proofread their own drivel, then I'm certainly not going to bother reading it myself.
Looks like something screwy happened and turned all your number values into their ASCII characters.
I really doubt you're only the 78th person to have said that.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
A very romantic notion sure, but although it worked for Gandhi, 99 times out of 100 you will NOT win. It's not a rule that works in general, and it's extremely dangerous to become cocky that things will work out for you in the end.
Here is what that haven of piracy Canada has to say about it when they were put on the list: "Canada does not recognize the Special 301 process due to its lacking of reliable and objective analysis, and we have raised this issue regularly with the U.S. in our bilateral discussions." Even our mild mannered neighborino to the North told them to go suck an egg.
Well, actually, the first draft of the response went like this:
The editor of the document, however, was a Presbyterian second-son of the Empire, and translated it back into Ontarian for publication.
A few notes:
On the article, the main qualm for the author of the main article seems to be with Indonesia's inclusion into the Special 301 list. For those that didn't read the article but don't know what that list is, the Special 301 list monitors countries that are known for infringing IP rights on a wide-scale (or at least that's the jist I got from reading the articles).
If one reads at least the Executive Summary for Indonesia's report, it is made pretty clear that the analyzed paragraph is not the reason why Indonesia was included on that list. Their issues are, like many second- and third-world countries, much more far-reaching that.
Firstly, it is important to recognize that these are not governmental mandates. These are requests. While there is some legitimacy in claiming that the exclusive use of (free and) open-source software imbalances the playing field for companies looking to make a profit, it is very weak. Nobody complained when Germany or France switched over to OpenDocument format and Linux on government desktops, even though that both of those actions, according to the IIPA, would be guilty of the same thing. It should be a government's decision to determine whether they want to adopt a purely free and open-source computing environment; in fact, it is actually a pretty good decision for them since it would help them deter privacy at-home (which is ultimately what these folks want) while saving them massive dollars. I highly doubt that this will be followed through; too many questions would be raised.
Secondly, one the real reasons why Indonesia is on that list is clearly stated if one reads a bit further down into the report. They are reported as ranking in the world's top 12 countries for business software piracy. That more than likely means they get lots and lots of copies of Office from TPB or wherever. I'm not against piracy, but that would definitely be a legitimate cause for landing up on that list. They are also reported to have lots of other issues with illegal copying/selling/et al.
I am not against piracy (at least on a personal level), but I am against sensational journalism that only blows up a few pixels out of the bigger picture instead of looking at the whole image. This is hardly an attack on open-source; it's just a "thing they noticed."
What I believe the IIPA is saying that mandates to use open source without considering other alternatives is something they see as a barrier to market access and what they consider to be a non-illegal but misguided solution to the problem of piracy. They're not saying that using OSS users are pirates.
I wish i could open source some of these people's skulls with an axe.
You're right--no on can point that out to you...because it's not true. No claim has been made that open source users are pirates. The organization's complaint is exactly as you summarized--that policies requiring or expressly favoring open source solutions are trade barriers that IIPA members would like to see go away. They've asked the USTR to look at some trading partners with a frowny-face for a while in the hopes of shaming them to change their policy.
It's obviously advocacy, but it's not even particularly zealous advocacy. The same kinds of complaints are made by open source advocacy groups regarding corporate and government policies that prohibit open source consideration in bidding and/or deployment. I doubt IIPA is going to get much traction on their argument, and they shouldn't, because their members have benefited from agreements and policies going the other way for years. OSS trade groups complain, usually rightly so, about the "no open source" policies all the time.
It's certainly a far cry from the IIPA calling anyone pirates, and the telephone game of sensationalism starts in the article. The IIPA says that product evaluation should be based on the best solution, not the development model. That's a correct statement, and one used by both sides. Each issues that statement when they're on the losing end, and say nothing when they're benefiting. That's just politics.
It says that failure to do so "encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations." This doesn't mean piracy--it means that it removes from consideration a value argument. They're saying that commercial licensing can't compete with free unless they can make a better overall value proposition, something that they can't do if they're not allowed to bid on an equal basis.
They're certainly not saying that OSS products aren't intellectual creations or that the developers or users are pirates. The letter isn't even about the competitors. It's about bidding and implementation policies at the user/customer level, including local and national governments.
The Slashdot summary just amps up the Guardian's usual sensationalism by a factor of ten, trolling for incensed Slashdotters, page views, and pirate jokes.
For example, in March 2009, the Ministry of Administrative Reform (MenPAN) issued Circular Letter No. 1 of 2009 to all central and provincial government offices including State-owned enterprises, endorsing the use and adoption of open source software within government organizations. While the government issued this circular in part with the stated goal to "reduc[e] software copyright violation[s]," in fact, by denying technology choice, the measure will create additional trade barriers and deny fair and equitable market access to software companies.
There they go using backwards English again. They admit that Indonesia was trying to reduce copyright violations with this advice. Then they turn around and claim that adopting OSS solutions creates trade barriers that deny them fair and equitable market access. Whiskey Tango, Foxtrot? Did these guys go to a special school to learn how to talk like that?
If OSS is so hard to compete against maybe you should give some thought to your business model and realize that it needs some serious fixing. No, easier to get the government to take out the competition for you. Lazy Bastards.
The article summary (and the Guardian articles) mis-state that countries are being cited "because they encourage the use of open source software." In fact, in reading IIPA's Special 301 recommendations for Indonesia [iipa.com] and Brasil [iipa.com], those countries are being cited because they are trying to require by law the use of open source (in government usage). That's very different from simply encouraging FOSS use as the summary suggests.
What would one expect the position of an intellectual property trade organization to be regarding countries that are trying to outlaw the use of commercial intellectual property?
Further, as indicated in the linked briefs, the issue of open source treatment is only a small one in the context of much larger intellectual property issues. To suggest that countries would be put on a watchlist simply "because they encourage the use of open source software" is to ignore the many other and weightier intellectual property concerns that have nothing to do with open source software. (Just because we're an open source community doesn't mean everything is an open source issue.)
There's nothing significant here.
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Worrall, who was the club's player of the season last term, has again been a stand-out performer for the Shakers this campaign and his suitors have been keeping tabs on his progress.
News of Bury's financial problems after they had a transfer embargo placed on them has alerted a number of clubs to Worrall's possible availability in the January transfer window.
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The likes of Blackpool, Blackburn, Hull, Brighton and Preston are all thought to have watched Worrall in action this season as they monitor his situation.

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Of those Sprint postpaid respondents surveyed, 31 percent said they were looking to switch. That's down from 41.7 percent in the previous quarter.
The big two also improved, with only 11.1 percent of AT&T postpaid respondents looking to change carriers, down from 31.6 percent last quarter. Verizon saw the least amount of variance in the metric, rising to 17 percent from 15.7 percent last quarter.
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The signs mark the historic Lincoln Memorial Highway. Shelton, of DeKalb, is the national president of the Lincoln Memorial Highway Association, which has preserved the highway since it was formed more than 100 years ago.
When it opened in 1913, the Lincoln Memorial Highway was the nation's first transcontinental highway, running from Times Square in New York City to San Francisco. Originally covering 3,383 miles, it has since been realigned to cross 5,872 miles through 14 states.
Shelton said she began with the association as a volunteer and became national president in 2012.
Born in Plainfield, Ind., Shelton earned double bachelor's degrees in music and anthropology from DePauw University. She came to DeKalb in 1990 to study at Northern Illinois University, where she got a master's degree in anthropology.
Shelton teaches anthropology at Kishwaukee College and is the program administrative assistant for library administration at Founders Memorial Library at NIU. She also works part-time at Walmart.
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In her spare time, Shelton is president of the League of Women Voters of DeKalb County, a member of the Ney Grange, has served as secretary of the Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre, and is state director of the Illinois Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association.
Shelton talked about the highway and the association with MidWeek reporter Doug Oleson.
Oleson: What exactly is the Lincoln Highway Association?
Shelton: It's a group that is involved with the preservation of the Lincoln Highway, and promoting the history of the highway. We produce a quarterly magazine about the Lincoln Highway, including historical research articles and current events. It is called "The Forum." Many libraries have subscriptions to it and some of our members join, just so they can read the magazine. As president, I write a column for each issue. Sometimes, I write research articles; last year I co-wrote an article about the history of Mooseheart, which also celebrated its 100th anniversary last year.
The Lincoln Highway Association has over one thousand members from the United States and eight other countries, including Russia and Belgium.
Oleson: I'm curious why the national association building is in a little town like Franklin Grove.
Shelton: The building (we're in) was owned by a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, H.I. Lincoln. He (Abraham Lincoln) never visited there that we know of. The building was originally a dry goods store. A group, Farming Heritage, owns it, and we rent it from them. The center of the highway is in Nebraska. This is close to the center (of the highway), but also to a more populated area.
Oleson: Where did the idea for the highway come from?
Shelton: Carl Fisher was the originator of the idea. He wanted to call it the Coast to Coast Rock Highway. But his friend, Henry Joy, the president of the Packard Motor Company, got him to change it. It was his idea to name the highway after Lincoln because his dad, James, was Lincoln's boss as a young lawyer. He owned an Illinois railroad company.
The full name of the highway is the Lincoln Memorial Highway. It's the world's longest memorial to Abe Lincoln.
Oleson: Just how long is the highway?
Shelton: It runs from Times Square in New York City to San Francisco. When it was dedicated on Oct. 31, 1913, it was 3,383 miles. It has been realigned and is now over 5,000 miles. It runs through 14 states.
Oleson: Is it funded by the government?
Shelton: The association runs on private donations.
Oleson: Wasn't President Eisenhower involved?
Shelton: In 1919, Eisenhower, a lieutenant colonel at the time, went on an army convoy to test the mobility of the military during war time, and to test the road. The convoy got stuck in the mud, and some of the heavy vehicles broke the wooden bridges.
That was one of the reasons to have a (transcontinental) road and to improve it by paving it. They identified muddy places here in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska. They raised enough money to pave sections of it, which they called seedling miles. It showed people what improved roads could be like. The first seedling mile was in Malta in 1914. Its anniversary is coming up this fall.
Oleson: So is everything paved today?
Shelton: There are still some sections that are still gravel.
Illinois was the first state to have all of its roads paved. Illinois had a lot of people involved in the Good Road Movement.
Oleson: Who were some of the others involved in the early development of the highway?
Shelton: William G. Edens was a banker by profession and a member of the Lincoln Highway Association. He never drove a car, but he became involved with the Good Roads Movement, which brought public awareness of what improved roads could be like compared to mud.
There was also S.E. Bradt of DeKalb. He was the father of Charlie Bradt, who passed away in DeKalb in 2011 at the age of 108.
Oleson: How did you become involved with the association?
Shelton: I became involved in 2000 after the historical marker for the seedling mile got erected. It was something important in my back yard.
Oleson: How did you become a national president?
Shelton: I kind of worked myself up as a volunteer. I started out on the newsletter. I was elected to the Lincoln Highway Association Board of Directors as the Illinois State Director in 2006. In 2011, the board elected me as vice president. It is not automatic that the vice president becomes the president, but in 2012, the board elected me president and I served as the president during the 100th anniversary celebration in 2013. The board re-elected me as president in 2013.
Oleson: What are your duties as national president?
Shelton: I run the four quarterly meetings of the board of directors, and the annual membership meeting and board of directors meeting held at the annual conference. I appoint committees and serve on all of them. I also answer a lot of email questions and telephone calls.
This past Saturday, I helped with a little spring cleaning at the National Headquarters in Franklin Grove.
Oleson: Sounds like a lot of work.
Shelton: Yes, it is.
Oleson: Anything new coming up?
Shelton: There'll be a new program on Sept. 13 at the Egyptian Theatre, a documentary on Jens Jensen. He designed the concrete markers for the Lincoln Highway Association, one of which is at the Ellwood House. The Boy Scouts installed over 3,000 of them in 1928. The marker at the Ellwood House was originally along the Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. Jensen also designed an Ideal Section of the Lincoln Highway built just across the Illinois border in Indiana. The Ideal Section provided a park-like experience to early motorists. Jens Jensen also helped design what became Huntley Park in DeKalb.
We also have an annual yard sale in multiple states, from West Virginia to Iowa, Aug. 7-9.
We also have a new award this year called the Coast-to-Coast Award, and it is for anyone who drives the entire length of the Lincoln Highway, from New York to San Francisco. One does not need to be a member of the Lincoln Highway Association to apply for the award but there is an application available at www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/news/.
All the maps are available for free on Google or our website, www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org. That's something Route 66 doesn't have.


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For most of my adult life I've made my living by writing, and in all of the writing I've done, my father was my biggest fan. He understood better than anyone I know that just because something is finished doesn't mean it can't be made better. A written work is "finished" only because the writer has run out of time. Given more time, a piece can be infinitely improved. I learned this by listening to my father and his father tell stories and improve on them with each telling. From them I inherited a love of language as a raw material for stories. The love of writing was and is in our blood. The only thing Pop liked more than writing was talking about writing, usually while sipping on some really good Scotch, and he could recall from memory long stretches of the American literary canon.
Writing, I tell my students, is a process, often an arduous one that requires one to constantly take bearings the way a ship's master looks for a lighthouse in the dark. Pop was my lighthouse, and not just when it came to writing. In the world of politics, faith, and human relationships, I knew the exact latitude and longitude of his light and could use that light to get myself back on course and into the sheltered bay. That light went out late on the night of Nov. 25, 2011. My world has been very dark since then and I have been adrift in a strange sea.
To be sure, there have been new joys in my life; my last grandchild was born a few months after Pop passed, and our other grandchildren are growing and thriving and thrilling us almost every day. But one joy simply disappeared after I wrote his eulogy; I lost the ability to enjoy writing. I posted on a couple of chat boards I frequent, but even that became laborious. My wife suggested I write about how I felt, but I was too loaded down with the feeling of it to write about it.
And then the Sandy Hook shooting happened, and something stirred. I couldn't not write about it. My fingers found the keyboard and before I was finished I'd contributed an op-ed piece to the local newspaper. Now the publisher has agreed to let me make regular contributions. For the first time in more than a year, I'm excited about writing.
It seems only right, my contributing to the local newspaper. Back in the 1990s I edited it, and for the five years before he died, Pop had a column in it. He would be proud to know that my byline is back on these pages. And that is reason enough to write again.
Jeff Rice is a former newspaper editor. You can read an expanded version of this piece at http://mostlypathos.blogspot.com.


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Battlefield 4 prides itself in its vehicle combat and variety of environments, letting you traverse land, sea, and air. A new trailer for the "Paracel Storm" map wages a fierce battle near the high seas, showing off the variety of craft and diverse combat types all in a single spot.
Paracel Storm is said to feature 64 players at once. That scale shows in the trailer, which features chaotic cuts of a multitude of play styles and strategies. We can only assume that the quick cuts are also because all of those players died shortly after getting a nice shot.


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LASALLE — Chronicling her spiritual journey is just a book away for Judy Sment of LaSalle.
Sment has published two books about her life and how faith in God has changed her. Two more books are on the way in her spiritual journey series.
In looking at her journey into becoming an author, Sment said God gave her a calling to write her first book in 1998, even giving her the title of "My Walk With God." Though she received her calling to write in 1998, Sment said life got in the way, and she didn't start writing her first book until 2000. The 448-page book was published in 2005.
She began writing her most recent book, "Humbled But By the Grace of God," in 2005, with that book published earlier this year by Publish America. As told by the title, this book tells of Sment's encounter with God's grace.
She is currently writing her third book, "On Bended Knee." The fourth book is titled, "I'm Somebody. I'm a Child of God."
Becoming a published author has been somewhat of a surprise for her, Sment said. She didn't even have a computer when she made that decision to write her first book, at God's direction. She learned a lot about writing from the book "1,880 Ways to Write and Get Published". A second book, which Sment said also had a profound impact on her life, was "How to Be the Wife of a Happy Husband."
The basic message of all her books will remain constant — that there is a God and that faith in God can change a person's life, she said.
Though she hopes her books will help to deepen people's faith in God, her books aren't targeted solely for Christians or church-goers, Sment said, adding her books are for seekers in any stage of their journey.
Locally, her books are available through the Brandy's Hallmark Store and the Perry Memorial Hospital gift shop, both in Princeton, and the Thompson Rexall Drugs in Spring Valley, as through her website, judithswalkingwithgod.com.
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For more than 30 years, "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening sketched the syndicated comic strip "Life in Hell," a long-time staple of alternative newsweeklies like LA Weekly and the Village Voice.
But, as the cartoon's revenue stream dried up in the wake of newspaper budget cuts, so too did Groening's ink. The final "Life in Hell" strip, the cartoonist's 1,669th, was published Friday (pictured).
"I've had great fun, in a Sisyphean kind of way, but the time has come to let Binky and Sheba and bongo and Akbar and Jeff take some time off," Groening told Poynter in an email Wednesday.
"Life in Hell" was known not just for its characters — including anthropromorphic rabbits and a pair of gay lovers — but for helping a whole new generation of cartoonists to break into larger markets by licensing to the popular and widely distributed newsweeklies in major cities.
Its quirky cast and offbeat jokes gave rise to cartoonists like Tom Tomorrow, Ruben Bolling, Ward Sutton, Keith Knight and Ted Rall.
Also read: Matt Groening Gives UCLA $500,000 for Animation
"Groening is modern cartooning's rock God, a Moses who came down from the mountain (or the East Village office of the Voice) and handed us the rules we followed," Rall told Poynter.
But as budget woes plague former syndicators like LA Weekly, which dropped the strip in 2009, the comic appears to have become more work than it was worth — it earned around $18 per publication.
"I was hoping that he would never end it, that he would keep up, but with the way the newspapers are in today's world, it just wasn't profitable," Sondra Gatewood, who managed the strip's syndication for more than two decades, told TheWrap. "It wasn't like back in the day."
Groening created the company Acme Features Syndicate, Gatewood's employer, to shop out the comic, which hit a peak of about 380 papers in the early 1990s. That number has fallen to a dismal double digit — less than 40 newspapers now carry it.
"With budget cuts, with drops in advertising due to Craigslist and with no more personals because of Match.com," said Gatewod, "alternative weeklies have had to really, really scramble to reinvent their budgets."
That has been a difficult fight.
Village Voice Media, the parent company of the namesake Manhattan weekly and various other alt-weeklies across the country, has come under intense pressure from protesters and the likes of New York Times columnist Nick Kristof to shutter Backpage.com, its cash-cow personal listings site often used to market prostitutes.


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UC Hastings is one of eleven UC campuses participating in UC SHIP. UC SHIP is a comprehensive major medical insurance plan, providing medical, counseling, prescription, vision and dental services. The year-round plan, which uses the Anthem Blue Cross PPO network, is tailored to meet the health and wellness needs of graduate students. Remember, all students can use Student Health Services, whether they have UC SHIP or not.
The UC SHIP plan start dates for Fall 2013:
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The end date for students only on SHIP for the the Fall 2013 semester is 1/8/14 at midnight.
Go here to learn more about UC SHIP. The UC SHIP 2012-2013 Student Medical Plan is now available. The UC Ship 2013-2014 student medical plan will be posted as soon as it is available.
Student Health Insurance is included in your tuition fees. The insurance premiums for the 2013-2014 school year are $1,437 for the Fall and $2,012 for the Spring/Summer, a total of $3,449.
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LILBURN, Ga. (AP) - A 68-year-old metro Atlanta woman is planning on starting a farm with the $1 million she recently won from the Georgia Lottery.
WAGA-TV reports (http://bit.ly/UmKVUa ) Penelope Henritze, of Lilburn, won the money playing the Georgia Millions game, and says she has always dreamed of owning a farm.
The television station reports Henritze picked up her oversized check Thursday at a Texaco station in Tucker, where she bought the winning ticket.
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Reviewed By richard n (Aliso Viejo, CA) Reviewed for a 2010 Ford Escape —3/13/2012 7:42 AM
Out of concern for hurting the truck's resale value, I took my time. Ordering samples was important as I ended up ordering a different finish after seeing the samples. I chose the carbon graphite finish with the thought that it not show wear. The kit arrived without instructions or the alcohol swabs that the on-line Sherwood video indicated. After reading other reviews, I found that Qtips really helped with applying the alcohol as well as spreading the too small packet of bonding agent. Dry fitting is really important. It seems like every piece of the kit has a critical point of attachment and by dry fitting, I could plan how to install each piece. I had to remove a factory emblem off the console and also remove a trim ring around the shifter so the kit piece fit properly. I used a putty knife to pop off the parts. Overall, the installed kit looks great. I think that Sherwood could do a better job of providing instructions and tips to help first time buyers.


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How Wii U hardware improves upon the original Wii beyond graphics
Many of the improvements made to the Wii U hardware over the original Wii are quite obvious. But ignoring the system's new HD graphics and snazzy GamePad tablet controller, what else has Nintendo done to enhance the user experience?
There are a number of minor details that Nintendo fans will certainly appreciate. For example, the cover for the expansion slot on the Wii U goes in, instead of out. The sync button is no longer a puzzle to figure out--it's right on the outside of the console, making it easier to connect peripherals to the console.
Wii U also has additional USB ports. Whereas the Wii only had the ports in the back, Nintendo's new console has them on both the front and back. (It's something we wish Sony would learn one of these days...)
Nintendo's Ko Shiota also notes that every system comes with an HDMI cable as a standard accessory. "We want as many people as possible to enjoy HD images," he said when asked by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.
"Not many devices out there come with an HDMI cable yet," Iwata points out. But if you don't have an HDTV yet, Iwata does point out that "you can use the cable that came with the original Wii, but that wouldn't make the most of the Wii U's capabilities."


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Lily likes to lay in my lap while I'm om my lap top. Lately, if I play a video, she watches intently, and her little head turns from side to side. Just now she discovered the arrow, she is following it all over he screen trying to catch the arrow, and biting at it. It is halarious. But she also likes to put her head on the key board to sleep while I'm trying to type, not so funny :swear: . I end up with a bunch of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcccccch and have to go back and retype everything :yikes. I can not make her move. What do your furbabies do while you are on the computer?


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By Jason Szep
MEIKHTILA, Myanmar, April 8 (Reuters) - The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck.
"If you follow us, I'll kill her," the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a Buddhist mob armed with machetes and swords chased nearly 100 Muslims in this city in central Myanmar.
It was Thursday, March 21. Within hours, up to 25 Muslims had been killed. The Buddhist mob dragged their bloodied bodies up a hill in a neighborhood called Mingalarzay Yone and set the corpses on fire. Some were found butchered in a reedy swamp. A Reuters cameraman saw the charred remains of two children, aged 10 or younger.
Ethnic hatred has been unleashed in Myanmar since 49 years of military rule ended in March 2011. And it is spreading, threatening the country's historic democratic transition. Signs have emerged of ethnic cleansing, and of impunity for those inciting it.
Over four days, at least 43 people were killed in this dusty city of 100,000, just 80 miles (130 km) north of the capital of Naypyitaw. Nearly 13,000 people, mostly Muslims, were driven from their homes and businesses. The bloodshed here was followed by Buddhist-led mob violence in at least 14 other villages in Myanmar's central heartlands and put the Muslim minority on edge across one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries.
An examination of the riots, based on interviews with more than 30 witnesses, reveals the dawn massacre of 25 Muslims in Meikhtila was led by Buddhist monks - often held up as icons of democracy in Myanmar. The killings took place in plain view of police, with no intervention by the local or central government. Graffiti scrawled on one wall called for a "Muslim extermination."
Unrest that ensued in other towns, just a few hours' drive from the commercial capital of Yangon, was well-organized, abetted at times by police turning a blind eye. Even after the March 21 killings, the chief minister for the region did little to stop rioting that raged three more days. He effectively ceded control of the city to radical Buddhist monks who blocked fire trucks, intimidated rescue workers and led rampages that gutted whole neighborhoods.
Not all of the culprits were Buddhists. They may have started the riots, but the first man to die was a monk slain by Muslims.
Still, the Meikhtila massacre fits a pattern of Buddhist-organized violence and government inaction detailed by Reuters in western Myanmar last year. This time, the bloodshed struck a strategic city in the very heart of the country, raising questions over whether reformist President Thein Sein has full control over security forces as Myanmar undergoes its most dramatic changes since a coup in 1962.
In a majority-Buddhist country known as the "Golden Land" for its glittering pagodas, the unrest lays bare an often hidden truth: Monks have played a central role in anti-Muslim unrest over the past decade. Although 42 people have been arrested in connection to the violence, monks continue to preach a fast-growing Buddhist nationalist movement known as "969" that is fueling much of the trouble.
The examination also suggests motives that are as much economic as religious. In one of Asia's poorest countries, the Muslims of Meikhtila and other parts of central Myanmar are generally more prosperous than their Buddhist neighbors. In Myanmar as a whole, Muslims account for 5 percent of the populace. In Meikhtila, they comprise a third. They own prime real estate, electronics shops, clothing outlets, restaurants and motorbike dealerships, earning conspicuously more than the city's Buddhist majority, who toil mostly as laborers and street vendors.
As Myanmar, also known as Burma, emerges from nearly half a century of isolation and military misrule, powerful business interests are jockeying for position in one of Asia's last frontier markets. The recent violence threatens to knock long-established Muslim communities out of that equation, stoking speculation the unrest is part of a bigger struggle for influence in reform-era Myanmar.
The failure of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, now opposition leader in parliament, to defuse the tension further undermines her image as a unifying moral force. Suu Kyi, a devout Buddhist, has said little, beyond warning that the violence could spread if not dealt with by rule of law.
Suu Kyi declined to be interviewed for this story.
The spark was simple enough.
Aye Aye Naing, a 45-year-old Buddhist woman, wanted to make an offering of food to local monks. But she needed money, she recalled, sitting in her home in Pyon Kout village. At about 9 a.m. on March 20, a day before the massacre, she brought a gold hair clip to town. She had it appraised at 140,000 kyat (${esc.dollar}160). With her husband and sister, she entered New Waint Sein, a Muslim-owned gold shop, which offered her 108,000 kyat. She wanted at least 110,000.
Shop workers studied the gold, but the clip came back damaged, she said. The shop owner, a young woman in her 20s, now offered just 50,000. The stout mother of five protested, calling the owner unreasonable. The owner slapped her, witnesses said. Aye Aye Naing's husband shouted and was pulled outside, held down and beaten by three of the store's staff, according to the couple and two witnesses.
Onlookers gathered. Police arrived, detaining Aye Aye Naing and the owner. The mostly Buddhist mob turned violent, hurling stones, shouting anti-Muslim slurs and breaking down the shop's doors, according to several witnesses. No one was killed or injured, but the Muslim-owned building housing the gold shop and several others were nearly destroyed.
"This shop has a bad reputation in the neighborhood," said Khin San, who says she watched the violence from her general store across the street. "They don't let people park their cars in front. They are quarrelsome. They have some hatred from the crowd."
That hatred had been further stoked by a leaflet signed by a group calling itself "Buddhists who feel helpless" and handed out a few weeks before. It suggested Muslims in Meikhtila were conspiring against Buddhists, assisted by money from Saudi Arabia, and holding shady meetings in mosques. It was addressed to the area's monks.
Tensions escalated. By about 5:30 p.m., four Muslim men were waiting at an intersection. As a monk passed on the back of a motorbike, they attacked. One hit the driver with a sword, causing him to crash, witnesses said. A second blow sliced the back of the monk's head. One of the men doused him in fuel and set him on fire, said Soe Thein, a mechanic who saw the attack. The monk died in hospital.
Soe Thein, a Buddhist, ran to the market. "A monk has been killed! A monk has been killed!" he cried. As he ran back, a mob followed and the riots began. Muslim homes and shops went up in flames.
Soe Thein identified the attackers by name and said he saw several in the village days after the monk was murdered. Police declined to say whether they were among 13 people arrested and under investigation related to the Meikhtila violence.
That evening, flames devoured much of Mingalarzay Yone, a mostly Muslim ward in east Meikhtila. The fire razed a mosque, an orphanage and several homes. Hundreds fled. Some hid in Buddhist friends' houses, witnesses said. About 100 packed into the thatched wooden home of Maung Maung, a Muslim elder.
As the mob swelled in size, Win Htein, a lawmaker in Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, tried to restrain the crowd but was held back. "Someone took my arm and said be careful or you will become a victim," he said.
About 200 police officers watched the riots in the neighborhood before leaving around midnight, he said.
By about 4 a.m., the Muslim men inside Maung Maung's house were braced for battle, chanting in Arabic and then shouting in Burmese, "We'll wash our feet in Burman blood." (The Burmans, or Bamah, are Myanmar's ethnic majority.) Nearly a thousand Buddhists were outside.
When dawn broke, at about 6 a.m., the only police presence in the area was a detail of about 10 officers. They slowly backed away, allowing the mob to attack, said Hla Thein, 48, a neighborhood Buddhist elder.
The Muslims fled through the side of the house, chased by men with swords, sticks, iron rods and machetes. Some were butchered in a nearby swamp, said Hla Thein, who recounted the events along with four other witnesses, both Buddhist and Muslim.
Others were cut down as they ran toward a hilltop road. "They chased them like they were hunting rabbits," said NLD lawmaker Win Htein.
Police saved 47 of the Muslims, mostly women and children, by encircling them with their shields and firing warning shots in the air, Hla Thein said. "We don't want to attack you," one monk shouted at the police, according to a policeman. "We just want the Muslims."
Ye Myint, the chief minister of Mandalay region that includes Meikhtila, told reporters later that day that the situation was "stabilizing." In fact, it was getting worse. Armed monks and Buddhist mobs terrorized the streets for the next three days, witnesses said.
They threatened Thein Zaw, a fireman trying to douse a burning mosque. "How dare you extinguish this fire," he recalls one monk shouting. "We are going to kill you." A group of about 30 monks smashed the sign hanging outside his fire station and tried to block his truck. He drove through a hail of stones, one striking below his eye, and crashed, he said, showing his wound.
"A monk with a knife at one point swung at me," said Kyaw Ye Aung, a junior firefighter who, like Thein Zaw, is Buddhist.
Three days later, on the hill where Muslim bodies were burned, this reporter found the remains of a mix of adults and children: pieces of human skull, vertebrae and other bones, and a singed child's backpack.
Nearby, municipal trucks dumped bodies in a field next to a crematorium in Meikhtila's outskirts. They were burned with old tires.
Knife-wielding monks jar with Buddhism's better-known image of meditative pacifism.
Grounded in a philosophy of enlightenment, nonviolence, rebirth and the vanquishing of human desires, Buddhism eschews crusades or jihads. It traditionally embraces peace, clarity and wisdom - attributes of the Buddha who lived some 2,500 years ago.
About 90 percent of Myanmar's 60 million people are practicing Buddhists, among the world's largest proportion. Sheathed in iconic burgundy robes, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of Myanmar's struggle for democracy and, before that, independence.
Many Burmese find it easier to assume a cherished institution has been infiltrated by thugs and provocateurs than to admit the monkhood's central role in anti-Muslim violence in recent years.
On the streets of Meikhtila, witnesses saw monks from well-known local monasteries. They also saw monks from Mandalay, the country's second-largest city and a center of Burmese culture about 100 miles (160 km) to the north. One such visitor was the nationalistic monk Wirathu.
Wirathu was freed last year from nine years in jail during an amnesty for hundreds of political prisoners, among the most celebrated reforms of Myanmar's post-military rule. He had been locked up for helping to incite deadly anti-Muslim riots in 2003.
Today, the charismatic 45-year-old with a boyish smile is an abbot in Mandalay's Masoeyein Monastery, a sprawling complex where he leads about 60 monks and has influence over more than 2,500 residing there. From that power base, he is leading a fast-growing movement known as "969," which encourages Buddhists to shun Muslim businesses and communities.
The three numbers refer to various attributes of the Buddha, his teachings and the monkhood. In practice, the numbers have become the brand of a radical form of anti-Islamic nationalism that seeks to transform Myanmar into an apartheid-like state.
"We have a slogan: When you eat, eat 969; when you go, go 969; when you buy, buy 969," Wirathu said in an interview at his monastery in Mandalay. Translation: If you're eating, traveling or buying anything, do it with a Buddhist. Relishing his extremist reputation, Wirathu describes himself as the "Burmese bin Laden."
He began giving a series of controversial 969 speeches about four months ago. "My duty is to spread this mission," he said. It's working: 969 stickers and signs are proliferating - often accompanied by violence.
Rioters spray-painted "969" on destroyed businesses in Meikhtila. Anti-Muslim mobs in Bago Region, close to Yangon, erupted after traveling monks preached about the 969 movement. Stickers bearing pastel hues overlaid with the numerals 969 are appearing on street stalls, motorbikes, posters and cars across the central heartlands.
In Minhla, a town of about 100,000 people a few hours' drive from Yangon, 2,000 Buddhists crammed into a community center on February 26 and 27 to listen to Wimalar Biwuntha, an abbot from Mon State. He explained how monks in his state began using 969 to boycott a popular Muslim-owned bus company, according to Win Myint, 59, chairman of the center that hosted the abbot.
After the speeches, the mood in Minhla turned ugly, said Tun Tun, 26, a Muslim tea-shop owner. Muslims were jeered, he said. A month later, about 800 Buddhists armed with metal pipes and hammers destroyed three mosques and 17 Muslim homes and businesses, according to police. No one was killed, but two-thirds of Minhla's Muslims fled and haven't returned, police said.
"Since that speech, people in our village became more aggressive. They would swear at us. We lost customers," said Tun Tun, whose tea shop and home were nearly destroyed by Buddhists on March 27. One attacker was armed with a chainsaw, he said.
A local police official made a deal with the mob: Rioters were allowed 30 minutes to ransack a mosque before police would disperse the crowd, according to two witnesses. They tore it apart for the next half hour, the witnesses said. A hollowed-out structure remains. Local police denied having made any such an agreement when asked by Reuters.
Two days earlier in Gyobingauk, a town of 110,000 people just north of Minhla, a mob destroyed a mosque and 23 houses after three days of speeches by a monk preaching 969. Witnesses said they appeared well organized, razing some buildings with a bulldozer.
Wirathu denied directing the monks in Meikhtila and elsewhere.
"You have the right to defend yourselves. But you don't have the right to kill or destroy," he said in the interview.
Wirathu said he was in Meikhtila to persuade monks not to fight. At one point, he delivered a speech on a car roof. A first-hand account of what he said was not available.
He acknowledged spreading 969 and warned that Muslims were diluting the country's Buddhist identity. That is a comment he has made repeatedly in speeches and social media and by telephone in recent weeks to a large and growing following.
"With money, they become rich and marry Buddhist Burmese woman who convert to Islam, spreading their religion. Their businesses become bigger and they buy more land and houses, and that means fewer Buddhist shrines," he said.
"And when they become rich, they build more mosques which, unlike our pagodas and monasteries, are not transparent," he added. "They're like enemy base stations for us. More mosques mean more enemy bases, so that is why we must prevent this."
Wirathu fears Myanmar will follow the path of Indonesia after Islam entered the archipelago in the 13th century. By the end of the 16th century, Islam had replaced Hinduism and Buddhism as the dominant religion on Indonesia's main islands.
Wirathu began preaching the apartheid-like 969 creed himself in 2001, when the U.S. State Department reported "a sharp increase in anti-Muslim violence" in Myanmar. Anti-Muslim sentiment was fueled in March that year by the Taliban's destruction of Buddhist images in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and in September by al Qaeda's attacks in the United States.
The monk continued until he was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 25 years in prison for distributing anti-Muslim pamphlets that incited communal riots in his birthplace of Kyaukse, a town near Meikhtila. At least 10 Muslims were killed in Kyaukse by a Buddhist mob, according to a U.S. State Department report.
Wirathu has a quick answer to the question of who caused Meikhtila's unrest: the Buddhist woman who tried to sell the hair clip. "She shouldn't have done business with Muslims."
Wirathu should be arrested, said Nyi Nyi Lwin, a former monk better known by his holy name U Gambira who led the "Saffron Revolution" democracy uprising in 2007 that was crushed by the military. "What he preaches deviates from Buddha's teachings," he said. "He is a monk. He is an abbot. And he is dangerous. He is becoming very scary and pitiful."
But Gambira said only the government can stop the anti-Muslim mood.
"In the past, they prevented monks from giving speeches about democracy and politics. This time they don't stop these incendiary speeches. They are supporting them," he said. "Because Wirathu is an abbot at a big monastery of about 2,500 monks, no one dares to speak back to him. The government needs to take action against him."
Hla Thein, a witness to the massacre in Meikhtila, said authorities did surprisingly little to stop the violence. "It was like they were waiting for an order that never came," he said.
One senior policeman told Reuters he expected to be ordered to forcibly restrain the riotous mob, but was told not even to use truncheons.
That pattern echoes what Reuters reporters found last year in an examination of October's anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine State. There, a wave of deadly attacks was organized, according to central-government military sources. They were led by Rakhine Buddhist nationalists tied to a powerful political party in the state, incited by Buddhist monks, and, some witnesses said, abetted at times by local security forces.
The latest bloodshed could have been nipped in the bud, said NLD lawmaker Win Htein, a former army captain who spent 20 years as a political prisoner. He said the region's military commander, Aung Kyaw Moe, could have stopped the riots with a few stern orders - especially given that thousands of soldiers are permanently stationed in Meikhtila and nearby.
Aung Kyaw Moe insisted authorities did their job. "It is like a battle. When it first starts you can't really guess the manpower needed or how big it is going to be. But there was protection."
Min Ko Naing, a former political prisoner revered by Burmese nearly as much as Suu Kyi, was in Meikhtila as the violence began. After the massacre, he said, the mob looked well organized. Cell phones in hand, monks inspected cars leaving town, he said. A bulldozer was used to destroy some buildings. "The ordinary public doesn't know how to use a bulldozer," he said.
The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar said he had received reports of "state involvement" in the violence. Soldiers and police sometimes stood by "while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs," said the rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana. "This may indicate direct involvement by some sections of the state or implicit collusion and support for such actions."
Ye Htut, a presidential spokesman and deputy minister of information, called those accusations groundless. "In fact, the military and the government could not be concerned more about this situation," he said.
Authorities imposed martial law on the afternoon of March 22, the third day of violence. By then, only three people had been arrested, all of them for carrying weapons, a police official said. As they began to make more arrests, the unrest ended the next day. A total of 1,594 buildings were destroyed, the regional government said.
It started up a day later in Tatkon on the outskirts of the capital Naypyitaw. The riots then swept south to Bago Region, erupting along a highway just north of Yangon. By March 29, at least 15 towns and villages in central Myanmar had suffered anti-Muslims riots. In Yangon, some Muslims prepared for violence by Buddhists, shuttering shops and leaving to stay with relatives elsewhere.
On April 2, 13 Muslim boys died in a fire at a Yangon religious school. Many grieving relatives say they believe the blaze was deliberately set. The floors were surprisingly slick with oil during the blaze, they said. Yangon officials say it was caused by an electrical short circuit.
Some speculate the violence may be orchestrated by conservative forces pushing back at reformers. Or that crony businessmen linked to the former junta hope to knock Muslims out of business and create an economic vacuum in the heartlands that only they can fill. This last theory resonated with some Muslim businessmen such as Ohn Thwin, 67.
"This is both religious anger and economics," he said, surveying the remnants of his 30-year-old metalworking shop at a popular corner of Meikhtila, a strategic city where three highways intersect. Like many Muslims, he can trace his ancestry back several generations. And like many, he runs a profitable business and has dozens of Buddhist friends, including one who helped him escape the violence.
Across town, about 2,000 people cram into a two-story high school, one of several makeshift refugee camps housing about 11,000 of the town's Muslims, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Many more squeezed into a nearby stadium.
It's unclear if the Muslims whose businesses were destroyed will be able to reclaim their prime real estate. Ye Myint, the region's chief, said they may be moved to new areas - a policy that backfired in Rakhine State, where segregation has only led to further communal violence.
"Once we have achieved a time when there is peace, stability and the rule of law, then we look into resettlement," said Ye Myint.
The high school feels like a jail. Muslims inside cannot leave at will. Friends and relatives are kept waiting outside. Police block journalists from speaking with Muslims - even through a gate.
"I can't sleep at night. I keep thinking there will be another attack," said Kyaw Soe Myint, 40, who was waiting to see his 10 cousins inside before a guard shooed him away. "We're living with fear."
The identity of those arrested is unclear. But according to police, among those detained was the gold shop owner.
Aye Aye Naing, owner of the hair clip, remained shocked by the violence. "I feel sad for the Muslims who have been killed," she said. "All humans are the same; it's just the skin color that is different. We have friends who are Muslims." She said she doesn't know what became of her hair clip.
(Additional reporting by Min Zayer Oo.; Editing by Andrew R.C. Marshall, Michael Williams and Bill Tarrant.)


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Is that the sound it makes when a Hrung collapses?
Turns out it was Mostly Harmless.
Seriously - If it goes supernova we should be a bit worried because it's close enough to drown us with radiation.
If that happens all our petty bickering on this planet will seem insignificant.
Of course - it's not certain that the radiation will be strong enough to kill off all life, but things will probably change a lot.
It's probably gonna blow the next time Lydia yells Betelgeuse 3 times.
Global warming.
... new here.
In Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of sharks with frikken lasor beams on their heads scientology's Roland!
I think the editors or owners of Slashdot are either 1) Trying to increase viewership by appealing to a lowest denominator (Star go boom! Big word scary! Chemicals are mean! Vroom vroom car!) or 2) Trying to deliberately weaken the readership for purposes I can only speculate that. That second theory is bolstered by the clumsy rolling out of 'features' during the past few weeks - breaking things that once worked, adding new features that don't, and in general doing their best to make the site almost more tr
I have no inside information, but it's apparent to me that Slsahdot is trying to be the new 'Facebook' or 'MySpace' for geeks. Or something. I'm expecting any day now the ability to add tacky photos, weird fonts and poor layouts to your journal pages.
Furthermore, I think that much of the original geek crowd is gone or mostly in lurk mode. So they are doing their best to attract a younger audience.
Furthermore, I think that much of the original geek crowd is gone or mostly in lurk mode.
How true. Not that it was ever Shangri-La, but Slashdot did once have some interesting and informative discussions on, you know, technical matters.
So they are doing their best to attract a younger audience.
And making it another pile of useless shit like Digg or Reddit is precisely the wrong way to do that. A younger audience can be intelligent too, dontchaknow. Competing for the large but well-served market (if you can call it that) of the sort of drooling morons who argue in YouTube comments is ultimately futile.
Shorter: we can has good geek site again?
Furthermore, I think that much of the original geek crowd is gone or mostly in lurk mode. So they are doing their best to attract a younger audience.
I don't think they're gone, and lurk mode depends on your definition of it. If I'm sitting around with a bunch of geeks talking about non-technical stuff, I don't think that makes it lurk mode so much as everyday conversation. When we have technical discussions on here, the level of discussion isn't the same as a professional journal but it's very impressive for a public forum filled with a diverse technical audience. It's still a common occurrence where I see posts on here that give me insight on an issue that I may never have otherwise come across; there are even fairly profound anecdotes.
I also tend to guess that people remember the olden days as being better than they were. I think the signal to noise in replies has gone up, but moderation takes care of that. The stories, well, frankly I've been here ten years now and I don't remember a time where people weren't groaning at a lot of the stories. I wasn't as regular of a reader back then, but I certainly remember vitriolic replies to every Katz story I saw.
A lot of times I see people whine about stories on here, it's seems to be myopic assholes who expect slashdot to cater to exactly their tastes to the detriment of everyone else -- and expect top shelf journalism despite it being free and them making little to no contribution of any type at all. I've seen complaints about technical stories, hard science stories, what I would call soft science interest stories, stories about new products, lots of the stories about nerd or geek culture. There's really very few types of stories that seem to be without complaint; if slashdot went the blameless route, it might have three stories a week and it'd miss a shitload of stuff that's quite interesting if you're a person who's actually curious about the world. If you want to complain about the quality of the actual writing, then I suggest you submit more stories with high quality writing -- this is a user-driven site after all.
Journal pages, friends/foes + geeks =
OMG! Slashdot is the first antisocial networking site.
tacky photos, weird fonts and poor layouts
Don't worry, they're currently hard at work on it.
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~jlg95/stuff/shittycode.png [drexel.edu]
The new Slashdot. News for nerds with girlfriends.
"Show us your Warcraft main".
Your case is proven.
"Show us your Warcraft main".
Your case is proven.
Your point being?
- Nefarious Wheel, 40 years an IT geek, also PVP Geared 80 Mage, 80 Hunter
Continuing to be OT, why did the scrolling through comments become so horribly slow?
Star go boom! Big word scary! Chemicals are mean! Vroom vroom car!
Yes? Yes? Go on.
That is one heck of a summary. I really like how a line and a half of text is qualifying as a story these days. Is it THAT slow of a news day, or could no one else possibly outdo this clown of a submitter?
or you could just lighten up.
In 800 pixels wide it's 7 lines of text.
Not that it makes it any longer. And on a 30" it must be like half a line. Just saying...
That is one heck of a summary. I really like how a line and a half of text is qualifying as a story these days.
That's what you call your executive summary.
The anonymous reader is wrong. A supernova would be accompanied by a large amount of shockwaves through the star, and a large amount of pressure waves. There would be no sound, in the sense that there would be no neurological interpretations of these phenomena, but they would still happen.
As compared to, it would be called noise if it created a meme.
Won't matter much.
First up, let me preface this by saying a supernova happening at six hundred light years is probably no big deal. Probably. However, there is some evidence that gamma ray bursts might be the product of a sufficiently massive star dying and producing a black hole, in which case we could be in trouble if we were struck be such an event at close range.
But having the bulk of the earth between yourself and such an event would not save you. Remember that we're talking about enough energy here to be detected over intergalactic distances using fairly rudimentary instruments. That much ionizing radiation will cause sufficient damage to the world's surface on the facing side to ensure the deaths of everyone globally.
However, this presumes that A) GRBs are in fact supernovae emanations, B) Betelgeuse will produce such an event if (when) it dies and C) the energy will be directed at us. There is some support for the idea that long GRBs occur as "jet" effects in two polar opposite directions, which would explain why we don't see them every time a star goes kaput. We need to be in the line of sight. If this were a common occurrence for the earth, it is very likely we would not be here at all.
That and the ionizing radiation would destroy the ozone layer for a time. I have heard estimates that it would take a decade to 1000 years to fully regenerate. In that time, the sun would really harm life on earth. (How much harm depends on who you ask.)
It's likely that sound can be detected in space with the use of laser microphones. The sound won't be conducted through space, but that doesn't mean the ejecta isn't quivering, or that the quivering can't be neurologically assimilated.
Would the neutrinos affect us at all? Is this another doomsday scenario?
Please, please tell me this was a joke. Please tell me you actually understood what a neutrino is, and were intentionally posting something absurd.
In the off-chance you were serious, a neutrino doesn't interact with matter enough to do any damage. This is not a matter of any uncertainty. A single neutrino would have a chance of passing through several light years of solid lead without interacting with a single atom. Neutrinos are sleeting through your body right now from the centre of the sun; they pass through the suns outer layers unimpeded, and if the sun isn't overhead wherever you are right now, then they've also passed through the innards of the earth.
Neutrinos can't affect us. Or the earth, or much of anything, really.
The neutrinos from a core collapse supernova would be lethal to humans at the distance of Jupiter. Any given neutrino has very little chance of hitting interacting with normal density matter it passes through, but there are a LOT of neutrinos: about 0.05 solar masses of them.
Furthermore, they are the first things that escape from the core (apart from gravitational waves) since they move at near-lightspeed and have very little chance of interacting with the envelope of the star. The big flashy special effects are driven by the shockwave from the core reaching the surface, and that takes hours. So if you were at the distance of Jupiter, you would have time to die from neutrino effects before the blast hit you.
Admittedly, Betelgeuse is somewhat further away than Jupiter, and the only neutrino effects are likely to be a lot of very excited astrophysicists. But both Jupiter and Betelgeuse are much closer than 99.9999999999999999999% of the Universe, and much further away than everyone you've ever met, so the distance scales aren't that different.
The neutrinos from a core collapse supernova would be lethal to humans at the distance of Jupiter
I'm not going to put an obnoxious citation needed tag here, but damned if I wasn't tempted. That's the first I've ever heard of neutrinos being deadly to anything at all. I'm understandably sceptical.
I don't suppose you remember the source for that? I'd be curious to see the details.
That being said, the distance between the sun and Jupiter is on the order of tens of light minutes, whereas here to Betelgeuse is hundreds of light years. They may both be, as you say, close to us in astronomical terms, but
That's the first I've ever heard of neutrinos being deadly to anything at all. I'm understandably sceptical.
The neutrino emissions from a supernova would be lethal to humans out to a light year or so. Really. Cross-section is ~10e-40 cm^2, average energy is 1 MeV-ish. You work it out.
I was going to reply with "work it out", but I see someone beat me to it. He even provided the necessary numbers, available on wikipedia.
Of course, if you're far enough away to survive all the other particles, the neutrinos aren't going to bother you, but you're right, it's interesting to know that neutrinos could kill you. It gives you something of sense of the scale of a supernova. It's even more satisfying to be able to work it out.
The neutrinos from a core collapse supernova would be lethal to humans at the distance of Jupiter.
I think if you're that close to a supernova, you've got much, much bigger problems than neutrinos.
More of note.
If it's 640 light years away, then it probably went boom 640 years ago.
Which only makes sense, since after all, 640 years should be enough for anyone.
640 light years? That ought to be enough for anybody.
Betelgeuse is a very young star. It's only a handful of millions of years old. It is extremely unlikely for there to be any simple life around it, and no chance of any civilizations that didn't have the ability to travel interstellar distances on their own - as if they are there, they had to come from somewhere else.
TFA states that theory predicts that it may be potato shaped. I don't think its actual shape is known.
Potatoes come in many different shapes.
That's not a supernova, you see, Betlegeuse was just in the way of an interstellar expressway.
...rippling bands across the ground from atmospheric turbulence, razor-sharp shadows everywhere, with prominent diffraction rings around the ones from faraway objects. And a flaming rainbow streak, blue at the top, shading down through green to red, as it rises or sets in a clear sky.
If my calculations are right, it won't burn your eyes; it would be roughly equivalent to looking into a 4-microwatt laser, not nearly strong enough to be dangerous. A 10-inch telescope could collimate it into a 5-mW beam, bright enough to see passing through the air, if only it were dark outside. The Palomar reflector would collect closer to 2 watts, enough to start fires and such.
If it happened this month, most everybody north of the Antarctic Circle would be cruelly cheated. Any time from August through April, though, it should be visible in the night sky from just about anywhere but that same Antarctic. And yes, I'd be willing to drag myself out of bed pre-dawn for this.
In your calculations you forgot the small factoid that it may be another thousand years before it goes supernova. It has brightened considerably in the past only to dim back down. It was Fox news (fair and balanced) that mentions it going supernova, not the paper presented at the meeting that merely states a 15% shrinkage and nothing else.
So,you might would have to drag/dig yourself out of the ground to see the Betelgeuse supernova. And most zombies I know about are more interested in brains than astronomy.
Let's hope Zaphod or Ford weren't visiting relatives at the time.
Astronomer's have confirmed it wasn't actually a supernova it was just Disaster Area tuning up for their gig tonight 600 years ago.
it was just Disaster Area tuning up for their gig tonight 600 years ago
Please consult Dr. Streetmentioner's reference for the proper use of the Relativistic Simul-Past-Present tense.
So is that "Disaster Area wioll onhaven be tuning up" or "Disaster Area weres beening tuning up"?
Join the fight against time-machines. Crush the time-traveling grammar nazis.
I hope this doesn't interfere with the Green Orion Women Slave Trade from Star Trek...
...are candidates
You get a lot of talk about how spectacular Eta Carinae would be if it went up. There's already been a Supernova "imposter" event...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae [wikipedia.org]
http://stupendous.rit.edu/richmond/answers/snrisks.txt [rit.edu]
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/246576/files/th-6805-93.ps.gz [cdsweb.cern.ch]
There are some jokes in the Hitchhiker's trilogy that are hard to get, but this one from the Restaurant took me the longest:
"Did you know," interrupting the ghostly figure, fixing Zaphod with a stern look, "that Betelgeuse Five has developed a very slight eccentricy in its orbit?"
So DNA was just joking about the impeding nova, giving a clue in the disturbances it would cause in its planets' orbits.
Shit, I feel dumb.
Betelgeuse is awesome and very, very pretty - I'd hate for it to turn into another colour or vanish altogether. Isn't there someone we could petition to stop this?
The ancient Egyptians revered Sirius much more than Betelgeuse.
Douglas Adams recorded a brief history of this catastrophe... It is only now in the near future that the light will reach Earth and that we may observe with our antiquated electromagnetic telescopes.
However, it might go supernova in the near future, if it hasn't already
It hasn't already, because we haven't seen it go boom yet. Even if it is half a millennium away in terms of light travel time, from our frame of reference it will only go boom when we observe it to.
OK, I read the article. It says that the star has been shrinking and mentions a few hypothesis.
None of them say anything about nova - super or otherwise.
Some of the comments on the article do.
Could we fire the editor? Please?
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Name: Hayden Moss
Age: 24
Current Residence: Tempe, Ariz.
Occupation: College Student
Three adjectives that describe you: Outgoing, athletic and charming
Favorite activities: Snowboarding, weightlifting, working out, going to the beach and hanging out with friends
What do you think will be the most difficult part about living inside the Big Brother house: Being around people that I don't agree with for 24/7
What types of people would you NOT choose to live with you in the house: Messy people or people who just don't pull their own weight
A recurring theme on Big Brother is "expect the unexpected." How would you handle "the unexpected:" It would be hard if my alliances get voted off.
What are you afraid of: I'm afraid to fly
What is the accomplishment you are most proud of: Being a part of Arizona State University Baseball, the best program in the country
Finish this sentence: "My life's motto is:" Hang Loose. I like to have fun and just do my thing no matter what people think of me
Is there anything else you want the fans to know about yourself: I grew up in the country and from an early age I was taught to be tough and face your problems head on. I'm not afraid of conflict.
You Ask, They Tell
courtesy of CBS
I get the feeling that he's going to end up an early boot. He seems like he could become an abrasive and confrontational person in the house.
--- Quote from: RHR on July 02, 2010, 04:53:40 PM ---I get the feeling that he's going to end up an early boot. He seems like he could become an abrasive and confrontational person in the house.
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I agree, with this attitude he won't be around long. You don't care what we think? You'll find out that it does matter. :flirt:
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Paul MacLean has been rewarded for his Jack Adams Trophy. The Senators confirmed Thursday they've signed their head coach to a three-year contract extension after helped lead the club to the playoffs despite a rash of injuries. "In two years, Paul has made a significant impact on the entire franchise, both on and off the ice," said Senators general manager Bryan Murray. "We feel that under Paul's direction we have been able to develop into a team that is competitive each and every night and we are confident that he is the person we want behind the bench to lead us to our goal of being a championship level team." Owner Eugene Melnyk is thrilled. "Paul represents what we want to become as both a hockey club and as a franchise," said Melnyk. "He is a hard-working coach and an outstanding teacher and mentor of the game. Paul's ability to communicate openly and honestly with our players and prospects has been key to our on-ice success.
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