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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
I'll never be accused of being a math whiz even though I can do simple multiplication in my head and I can make change for a dollar without a calculator. I've also learned to check my grocery receipt for errors before I leave the store. But when you start adding all those zeros that mean billions or trillions, I tend to get a little confused.
It seems to me that before all the discussion about an Affordable Healthcare Act we had a not-so-perfect, but reasonable opportunity, for some level of health coverage that suited an individual's needs and purse. (Who ever said "free" about the new plan?? That's what a lot of people heard.) Every person that worked in the medical field knew there were problems in the system, but the elephant in the room should have been eaten with a spoon to fix problems in increments. However, the POTUS and the career politicians decided to sweeten the political pot by making such sweeping changes to the system that no one can figure out what the future holds regarding medical care. If our legislators truly believed AHA was such a good plan, they would not have exempted themselves or granted even one single waiver; they would have been the first ones to step up and sign up. Yet they will spend exorbitant amounts of OUR money on their plan for enforcement and management that includes astronomical amounts of paperwork, fines, taxes, thousands of new Federal employees, IRS bully tactics, commercials and teaching moments. They will be a soliciting everyone from your favorite ball player, Hollywood stars, teachers, librarians and children that will attempt to convince us all what a great deal it is to pay more for getting less. And OMG, let's not forget about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars utilizing FaceBook to see how many people can "like" them. Has not anyone figured out that someone has to eventually pay all the bills? Does no one care that future generations will be swamped with the debt?
Wouldn't it have been much simpler to just take the funds being used for enforcement and used it to purchase a premium insurance policy for everyone in the country and forget all the other "stuff"?
Recently it was announced that a portion of the bill relating to businesses will be pushed off until 2015 because they have "heard the peoples' concerns". When in reality what they heard was their poll numbers hitting bottom. What lawmakers are counting on is voters having the usual short memories and not even thinking about the situation during the mid-term elections. But they will soon realize what happens in 2015 WILL impact the 2016 presidential elections.
Let the fun begin!! Maybe we'll get to watch as some life-long politicians come home and live in the world they created.
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Exersaucers are a safer alternative. I did not know this when I was a FTM, I did not buy a walker, but my aunt gave me hers and the lovely ladies of ODS's birth board let me know to avoid using it, I was downstairs today visiting with my neighbor and she had her 8 month old in one and it gave me the idea that a lot of other moms may not know. I believe babycenter itself has an article about it somewhere around here.
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SALEM — A medium used by many to vandalize has become the brush of choice for Salem area artists Brad Vingle and Rustin Rapp, who have skillfully used spray paint to create beauty on three downtown......
This building looks great but the one downtown looks like what this town has enough of; vandalism
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Nice !! Very impressive comment .
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These talented young guys are the future of Salem. You losers are the past. Wake up and smell the coffee. I am proud to have their artwork on my buildings. I am proud that they have committed themselves to helping to clean the graffiti from our buildings. I am hopeful that Salem is becoming an art center. We don't care about what you fools, hiding behind pretend names think. You are losers. These kids are winners.
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Maybe they should be referred to as building tattoos, instead of graffiti would that give them more dignity for you watchdog? : ) We will be the most up to minute town in the county. Is this what is called revitalization these days? As far as the pictures themselves go these guys are talented, I think we have to give them that.
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Legal Graffiti! L.M.A.O. I swear Salem is turning into a lost cause!
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It looks horrible. It makes the town look even more neglected. This is ridiculous.
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quote: Tell that to the uncompromising douchebags in the Senate/House.
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It's hard to get on a spinning bike or elliptical machine in many Western New fitness clubs on Saturdays in January. Come two minutes late to a Pilates or aerobics class and you'll likely be out of your own patch of floor space, too.
A half year later, in July, there's much more elbow room – and better weather is usually a small part of the reason.
More importantly, all those good intentions that came with New Year's resolutions long since vanished into the familiar forms of our lives.
"Everybody wants to set a New Year's resolution because we love the idea of change," says Jennifer Read, an associate professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo, former fitness trainer and avid runner. "It feels like we should change and it feels like we do want to change, but change is incredibly hard and it's not typical.
"What's typical is that we do what we've done before."
But not every Western New Yorker who set noble goals for themselves earlier this year surrendered them to the comforts they've long known. This is the story of three of those people, who all share their experiences with the knowledge that if they could change bad habits the rest of us can, too – no matter what time of year.
The next step: Pairing food and fitness
Nancy Tetro started 2013 exhausted.
She was putting in long hours at the gym, but felt "thick" body-wise, particularly around her midsection. She lacked energy. She wasn't sleeping well.
"I work out four to five days a week and I had it in my mind that I would work out so that I could eat whatever I wanted," she says.
Josh Stewart, one of her trainers at the Hive Lifespan Center in East Amherst, told her, "It's not going to happen"; that without a proper diet, her well-toned muscle would continue to hide under a layer of unhealthy fat.
So she decided a change was in order with the onset of the new year. Her goal: Lose 20 pounds and tune up her body.
Tetro, 46, of Williamsville, a married mother of four, is 5 feet 2. She weighed 132 pounds when she shifted gears. She worked with her fitness team to change up her workouts, keeping her twice a week spinning regimen but adding more strength training and a weekly Pilates class. She started training with others, instead of training alone. And she sought nutrition help from a friend, Karen Calandra, a registered nurse who recently became a holistic health coach.
She started reading food labels and controlling portion sizes. Away went the breakfast cereal and other starchy processed foods, in favor of an egg white scramble mixed with mushrooms, spinach and other greens, and a bit of feta cheese.
"I've taken the white out of my diet and all the fiber and the protein are coming from my fruits and vegetables," she said.
Instead of reaching for a muffin or sweets at snack time, she now carries a plastic pouch of snow peas and carrots in her purse, and keeps frozen grapes at the ready in her freezer. And she doesn't beat herself up if she occasionally slips and has some hard-to-resist red licorice. If she does the right thing 90 percent of the time, that's better than surrendering constantly.
Tetro has met her weight loss goal since New Year's. Her finely chiseled body has emerged. She lost three dress sizes and now wears a size 2, she says, "and I sleep so much better."
"You have to eat the right foods," she advises, sharing an insight from Calandra, whose husband, Salvatore, is a cardiologist:
"No one has ever gotten fat eating vegetables."
Smoke-free and enjoying the savings
Wayne Kast will turn 50 next month, so he started a closer examination of his life last August, when he turned 49.
Kast, who works in purchasing at Iimak, a thermal printing and imaging company in Amherst, was overweight and he smoked.
As fortune would have it, his company decided last fall to offer a BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York weight management program, about the time Kast learned he had pre-diabetes, so he signed up. But his 30-year smoking habit seemed more daunting, so he put off quitting until this year, figuring he'd lose weight first, in case he packed some back on.
Kast tried to convince himself he was only a pack-a-day smoker, unlike others he knew who smoked two or three times that much. But in recent years he could feel the addiction grow stronger, including on his pocketbook. He was paying $78 a week – more than $4,000 a year – to buy cigarettes on Tuscarora Indian territory.
As the calendar year turned and his big birthday grew closer, he was ready to make a change.
Kast called the New York State Smokers' Quitline (866-697-8487), which turned him to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Inhale Life program (877-500-2393). He was provided free nicotine patches and weaned himself down from the 21 mg patches to the 7 mg patches, to no patches at all. He also participated in a BlueCross BlueShield smoking cessation program at work this spring, after Iimak made its plant and surrounding grounds smoke-free.
"I didn't think there was that much access (to services) for me" to quit, Kast said, or that it was free.
Not that it's been easy. He admits to still getting cravings, though they usually only last for a minute or two.
Kast, who has tried quitting before, is confident this time things will stick. He's banking his savings on cigarettes with plans for a nice birthday Aug. 26 and a two-week vacation in the coming months to North Carolina.
"Who would have thought a year ago I would have lost 60 pounds and quit smoking," he said. "It's all good."
Making the sacrifice for family's sake
Joe Biagiotti might be a native of Chicago, but he embraced the Buffalo lifestyle after moving to Western New York 15 years ago.
Chicken wings, pizza and beer.
It was a combination, over time, that pushed his weight to 365 pounds.
Biagiotti lived a good life along the way. After playing football at Division II Central Missouri State, he landed executive management jobs with Nationwide Insurance. He has run Biagiotti Nationwide Insurance in Amherst for most of his years in the region, and has been active in civic groups and at his church, St. Gregory the Great, helping manage Friday night Lenten fish fry fundraisers – and enjoying a good meal and some beers afterward.
As he pushed into his 50s, he knew his choices came with consequences. His father had died of a heart attack at age 51, and heart disease had claimed other male family members at ages even younger than that.
He decided early this year, at age 57, that he was living on borrowed time, and that time with wife, Belinda, and sons, ages 31, 26 and 24, were worth the sacrifices that would come with better health.
"It was more than a New Year's resolution for me," Biagiotti said. "It had to be."
He reached out to Dr. Robert Gatewood at Buffalo Cardiology and Pulmonary Associates in Williamsville, who put together a 12-week program that focused on better nutrition and exercise.
This year, the foods that once dominated Biagiotti's meal table have been replaced by vegetables, healthier proteins and plain Greek yogurt, with fresh fruit. Instead of sweating while getting dressed in the morning, or climbing the stairs, he sweats in the BCPA Fitness gym. Pop and two pots of coffee a day have been replaced by one cup of joe and lots of water.
"Cart and beer golf" has been replaced by walking 18 holes, just like the old days, and three weeks ago, Biagiotti beat all three of his sons in a family golf outing, for the first time in years.
He plans a camping trip on Labor Day weekend to celebrate the loss of "the first 100 pounds," and fully expects to lose 150 pounds by sometime next year.
"I will make that," he vows. Meanwhile, "I'm off all my meds and my blood pressure is great.
"Am I missing anything? I don't think so."
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Members of the Randolph County Board of Education had mixed reactions to the news that a petition has been filed to block the firing of former State Superintendent of Schools Jorea Marple.
Randolph County Schools were thrust into the middle of the debate over the legality of Marple's firing last week when state Board of Education President Wade Linger said he wanted Superintendent Dr. James Phares to be hired as her replacement.
Randolph BOE member Bruce Haddix questioned the legality of the state board's decision to fire Marple on Nov. 15.
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"Usually when you go into an executive session no decisions can be made," Haddix said Wednesday. "You come out and then a board member should have made a motion. It may have been a Sunshine Law violation."
State board members voted 5-2 last Thursday to fire Marple. After Linger's statement about hiring Phares for the state's top education position, Phares confirmed to The Inter-Mountain that if he was offered the job he would accept it.
Phares then announced he planned to resign from his post in Randolph County on Monday, but did not because the state board decided to wait until Nov. 29 to revisit Marple's firing.
"We have to wait and see what happens," Haddix said. "If they want to continue to invite Dr. Phares to be (state) superintendent, then we will have to make a decision."
Randolph BOE member Ed Tyre said he agreed with the decision to fire Marple, but not with the way it was done.
"I don't think Mrs. Marple was the best person for the job," Tyre said. "I don't agree with the way it was handled. They should have put out a notice and it should have been on the meeting agenda."
Tyre echoed Haddix in stating that the local board was in a "holding pattern" to see what happens with the position and Phares.
BOE member Harvey Taylor said he believes the dismissal was legal because Marple worked at will for the state board. He added that if he were Marple and the court granted the petition, he still would not go back.
"I don't know how far the petition will go," Taylor said. "If I was her, I would walk away and not go back."
Taylor said Randolph County Schools must wait and see who the state board hires to fill the position.
"I think Dr. Phares would make a great state superintendent," he said. "We've got to wait and see if they even hire him."
Phone calls to Phares were not returned by press time.


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Blake Shelton Dishes on Fame, Marriage and More
One blonde onlooker – the mother of another act, it turns out – giggles and swoons as he walks past, grabbing the door frame to steady herself. A few feet down the crowded hall, a pair of young women – relatives of another artist on the evening's bill – approach, hoping for a hug and a picture. Blake supplies both, calling out jovially, "Can you crop out my third chin?"
Before the photo's even snapped, an autograph-seeking circle forms around him.
Such is the stop-them-in-their-tracks star power the 36-year-old singer now wields, even in the hallways of the Opry, where country legends are commonplace.
With a wicked sense of humor, an equally white-hot wife in Miranda Lambert and a career that boasts 13 No. 1s, a mega-hit TV show and three nods at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year has risen to mainstream celebrity status as he releases his 10th studio album, Based on a True Story ... . But as an Okie whose idea of a good time is spending the morning clearing brush from his Tishomingo farm and the afternoon tending to a burn pile (vodka and Sprite Zero in hand), Shelton still has a hard time believing his own hype.
"I spent so many years wishing for these opportunities, you'll never see me running out of a restaurant with my sunglasses and a hoodie on 'cause I don't want to be noticed," he says. "I just don't take myself that seriously."
It's a sentiment that runs in the family. Take a recent night out in L.A. after taping The Voice when Lambert, Shelton and Shelton's mom went to dinner with fellow Voice coach Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend.
"I wish I could have videoed that night – my mom, who never leaves Tishomingo, and Christina Aguilera!" Shelton says. As they left the restaurant, paparazzi began snapping pictures, setting off a flare of flashes.
"We stepped out and couldn't even see. My mom loved it. She's waving, saying, 'I'm the mom!' It's like, how the hell did any of us get here? Me, much less my mom!"
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Did Geeks exist in the 19th Century? They sure did. Did they have Geek gadgets. Oh, yes they did!
Telephones, typewriters, calculators: all blossomed through the 19th Century.
The screen capture is of a unique device called a Curta Calculator. Invented by Curt Herzstark, a survivor of Buchenwald, it looks like a pepper-grinder but is in fact a small calculator.
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Dunnellon, Fla. – The Stetson University women's golf team, led by solid play from seniors Mallory Viera and Jenna Hoecker, are in eighth place after the second round of the MSU Ocala Spring Invitational.
The tournament, which will conclude on Tuesday, is being played at the Juliette Falls Golf Resort.
Viera (146) is tied for fourth place after the first two rounds. She has posted consecutive one-over par scores of 73 and is nine shots behind tournament leader Tiffany Chan (135) of Daytona State, and just three shots behind DSC's So Young Hwang (143) for second place.
In addition to having the top two individual players in the tournament, Daytona State (593) leads the team competition by three shots over Houston Baptist (596). North Florida (603) and Murray State (603) are tied for third place.
Stetson followed an opening round score of 305 with a 307 on Monday. The Hatters (612) are five shots behind Florida Gulf Coast (607) for seventh and are just eight shots behind Toledo (604) for fifth in the 16-team tournament.
In addition to Viera, Hoecker is also in position for a top 10 finish. She followed an opening round 75 with a 73 on Monday and is currently alone in 11th place overall. Her total of 148 is just one shot off a group of players who are tied for ninth.
Stetson's other three seniors are all grouped within one shot of each other. Sammi Smith and Claudia Redinger are tied for 56th with a score of 159 while Ryan Ashburn is tied for 63rd with a score of 160.
The Hatters' two freshmen, Alessandra Kutz and Giulia Vandenberg, are both competing as individuals in the tournament. Kutz is tied for 34th overall after posting a second round score of 75 to give her a two-day score of 154. Vandenberg is tied for 84th after posting matching scores of 84 in the first two rounds.
Tuesday's final round of play will begin at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start.


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The 7 Types of Holiday Fights You're About to Get In
#3. You Don't Have To Love Them As Much When They're Not YoursFor kids, Christmas is just fantastic, easily the best day of the year, if not their entire young lives. And this isn't youthful foolishness, kids getting excited for no reason -- they're right to be excited. It's an entire day dedicated to chocolate and toys and tipping over the brain's pleasure-bucket and letting the serotonin spill all over. That special joy that shows up in a child's eyes on Christmas is a thing to behold, and it's only natural that you'd get kind of jealous of it and snipe at it a bit. How This Might Go: Chris: "Well how was I supposed to know she still believed in Santa?" Sister-In-Law: "You should have assumed it!" Chris: "Assume? Assume? ASSUME just makes an ASS out of U and ME." Sister-In-Law: "Well then you could have kept your mouth shut and read the situation like a normal person." Chris: "I did read the situation! She's like 7 years old! Who believes in Santa when they're 7?" Sister-In-Law: "She's 4." Chris: "Really? Wow. And you let her dress like that?"
#2. Noggin ItEggnog's kind of a weird drink. It's got egg in it, for one. Not many other drinks feature eggs, really any that I can think of, aside from the one I invented back in college called the Eggshibitionist, which was basically straight gin served in a L'eggs pantyhose egg.
They don't make those egg containers any more, which means, logically, this Christmas you'll have to drink eggnog until you can see through walls. How This Might Go: Sister-In-Law: "You've had too much eggnog." Chris: "I have had not too much ... much too not ... eggnog." Sister-In-Law: "You're proving my point." Chris: "There's no such thing as too much eggnog. Scientists are studying this topic right now and have already made several surprising findings." Sister-In-Law: "You just called my daughter a slut." Chris: "I did not! I implied that you dress her like one. You need to take some listening comprehension classes. Science has also shown that words mean different things. It's ... it's amazing." Sister-In-Law: -sniffing- "What's in that eggnog? Don't say science." Chris: "But ... it is. Emulsifi ... fissifications and what not. What else can I say if I can't say the S-word? I feel like you've really set me up to fail here." Escort: "He's been topping it up from that box of wine." Chris: -hiccough- "I'll top you up." Sister-In-Law: "Ewugh." Escort: -simultaneously- "Ewugh."
#1. Tallying Up the DamageEventually the festivities will be over, and you'll be driving home with your spouse or escort, and you'll get in an argument about how horrible your family is, and you'll be so angry that you'll fail to realize that no one's taking the side of your family and that you're not actually arguing with each other. How This Might Go: Chris: "You know, thanks. You were a total pro through all of this." Escort: "Happens every holiday. Better than my family." Chris: "Your family's worse than this?" Escort: "Well ..." Chris: "See?" Escort: "We don't have you in it." Chris: "That counts. I'm a part of my family. Our family's the worst. Checkmate!" -long silence while Escort parks my car in front of my apartment- Escort: "So." Chris: "So." Escort: "So." Chris: "Right. So here's the $800 for the day. And uh ..." Escort: "It's OK. You can ask." Chris: "Well, I was hoping to earn some of that back." -the sound of an enormous, totally professional slap, followed by a slamming car door, followed by wine-nog-vomit splashing over the dash and tear-choked laughter-
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How worried are you about trusted computing, DRM, and software patents?
How worried are you?
This one is fairly self explanatory... please let us know your thoughts by voting and by commenting below.
Clarity of thought
Trusted Computing, DRM and Software Patents, of themselves, are three different concepts. One can use trusted computing as part of a platform to enforce DRM, but equally one could use it as part of a platform that one controls oneself to run software that one signs oneself (my secure system approach). When trusted computing is under the control of someone else, and is used to enforce desiderata with which one disagrees, then there is a problem. In this sense there could be a strong link between trusted computing and DRM. (There is another debate as to whether DRM should be an enabler or a disabler of rights, and whose rights are to be managed. Historically discussion of DRM has been arguably rather one sided.)
Software patents, so called, go way beyond trusted computing and DRM. Patents have an economic value in generating more wealth for society than would otherwise be the case. The case for hard patents is much easier to argue than it is for soft patents, such as business processes or "software". One can go on to suggest that software patents inhibit innovation, because of the dangers of being caught infringing by some unreasonable party, or a so-called patent troll (keeping the argument very short).
Not sure
I'm not sure if my view is more 'A little concerned' or 'Very concerned'.
I think Treacherous Computing could be very damaging to free (as in freedom) software if it succeeds in a big way, though I'm not sure if it will. For example, it'll be hugely damaging if it becomes impossible to access most web sites or other people's documents if you're running GNU/Linux or another free operating system, or if it becomes impossible to install one on computers from all the major manufacturers. Projects such as Open OEM could be become very useful if the latter happens. DRM for music seems to have become generally unpopular (as their problems have been well publicised), which is likely to make Treacherous Computing less likely to become a big threat.
I'm not really sure about software idea patents. I think they could be very damaging if used to a large effect. Companies such as Microsoft have started using them as threats against free software, but they don't seem to have much evidence to back up their claims, so they probably don't have that much to actually go on. I'm quite optimistic that they won't be made legal in the EU (where I live), and I think if they start having a large impact in the US, then their problems will probably become quite obvious, and they might be abolished there.
I also expect the GPLv3 will be quite successful in dealing with some aspects of these threats.
GNU - free as in freedom
"I'm not really sure about
"I'm not really sure about software idea patents. I think they could be very damaging if used to a large effect."
They've already done plenty of damage. Patents by their very nature will cause damage and we'd just have to learn to live with software patents if they were fulfilling their overall purpose. Unsurprisingly however, they are not, and there isn't now and never has been any reason to expect they would.
"Companies such as Microsoft have started using them as threats against free software, but they don't seem to have much evidence to back up their claims, so they probably don't have that much to actually go on."
Take a look at some of the hundreds of thousands of software patents in the patent databases. Visit latestpatents.com. Can you name any medium to large free software projects which you think probably don't infringe any software patents?
"I'm quite optimistic that they won't be made legal in the EU (where I live)"
They are "legal" here in the EU. At least in the opinion of the EPO, which has already granted tens of thousands of them.
A Little Concerned
I vote "A little concerned".
These are huge issues. But I've come to see that they are also fairly simple issues. We, the geek community, often try to think of potentials, and hypotheticals and such, and our issues seem bigger than they are.
The average person doens't care about hypotheticals, they care about what they experience.
The good news, and why I say only a little concerned, is that once people see how DRM affects them, they dislike it. It's merely a matter of time in my mind before market forces make DRM, Treacherous computing and many other things non-issues.
What I see as a connected, but different issue is that those same people don't recognize why the Freedom is important. It might only be a matter of time before the next threat to Freedom emerges, and it will take the militant geeks to inform them then too.
Very concerned
I voted 'very concerned'. Let's take it step by step:
- Trusted Computing: now this is really scary. Once those restrictions are build in the hardware, it will be a lot harder to get around them. As far as I know, they have already started to build motherboards with TC-mudels build-in. If the pressure from some companies is beeing kept like that, it's a matter of time until more and more products of this sort appear on the market. I think, though, that there will always be non-TC hardware available, but much less than now. This may be a darker view of the future, but I had a look a while ago on http://www.againsttcpa.com/. It's interesting to see, that companies like IBM are members of the TCPA.
- DRM: fortunately, people (and governments!) see, how bad DRM is. This is where I don't fear that much, because all I have read and seen so far points to a more-or-less fast death of DRM. I asked myself "why did Microsoft implement an DRM system in their operating system? What does an operating system have to do with controlling, what media the users play? WHY?" I have read somewhere that the music and film industries put pressure on them. The probably put money on them! If Microsoft hadn't implemented DRM, the industries wouldn't have the market to promote DRM products and they would to sell them without. But is not much that money can't do. Because if it wasn't for money, why else would Microsoft do it?
- Software Patents: are bad! Look what they have done in the USA. Fortunately, here in the EU, people have realized this and big lobbyists like Microsoft don't stand a chance, although some try to bring them up. It has been written a lot about software patens and it is known why these are so bad.
I have been thinking a lot about Free- and Open Source Software lately and how a world dominated by it would look like :) Maybe it's a too ideal world to be real, but the main goal is to bring freedom to the users, freedom to chose what software they want, freedom to play their (bought) media on whatever devices they own without restriction etc. Freedom is a beautiful ideal and I have a great respect for people who fight for it, who take action and make it real... Some things I always wanted to say :)
I would say "extremely"
I am extremely concerned about these issues, but I didn't choose "they will eventually kill free software", because that presupposes defeat.
I believe DRM/patents/trusted computing won't kill free software, because we'll kill them first. Society needs free software and wants free culture very badly, so it's not going to tolerate the things that interfere with them.
I know the "bad guys" look big now, but honestly, we're the force to be reckoned with -- you just have to look at the growth pattern to see that. If I were entrenched in the business of selling proprietary software, I would be really worried right now.
I'm sure you've heard the comment that the internet 'interprets censorship as damage' and 'routes around it'. Well, that's happening. Eventually it makes the censor give up and find something more useful to do with their lives. This is going to be true of proprietary software and culture companies, too. It's just that they are very big and they're going to fall long and hard. It'll be years before they actually hit the ground.
But man oh man, are they going to make a crater.
To continue this sort of bloody metaphor, I mean. ;-)
What is DRM? Tushar
What is DRM?
Tushar Gokhale
DRM is a technology which restricts people from copying information. According to the companies that promote it, it stands for "Digital Rights Management", but a more accurate name is 'Digital Restrictions Management'. There's a Wikipedia article about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management, and a good website about the dangers of it at http://www.defectivebydesign.org .
GNU - free as in freedom
trusted computing, DRM, and software patents
Each of these initiatives have been established by and are maintained by big money and their associated lobbyists (ie, political power). There is NO way that this can ever be good for the society. There is too much danger that trusted computing and DRM can become means to stifle innovation and competition just as software patents do already.
My response is 'extremely worried' because it's clear that our society is already suffering from the destructive effects of greed and the desire for short-term profit. It's easy to see how these three concepts can be used to support that behavior. Big money interests already have enormous legal and political clout to protect themselves and extend their influence. They do not need any more protection.
We need to encourage and support the opportunity for innovation within our business environment, not discourage or limit it.
Thanks for explaining in
Thanks for explaining in detail the DRM concept. If that is the problem then why not comeup with open source formats and support it?
Tushar Gokhale
let them do what they want
The power has allways been the peoples no one is going to use java or microsofft in the future and as soon as they started to paten .gif .png came out. We will just make something better and never use them or there stuped little products agien
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Motorola kills the Etna DROID BIONIC, with the Targa to replace it?
0. phoneArena 15 Apr 2011, 22:41 posted on
We've recieved word from the depths of Motorola that the highly anticipate DROID BIONIC, which was slated to be their first 4G LTE smartphone for Verizon, has been canceled due to a variety of reasons. First off, we got a nice hands-on look at the DROID BIONIC earlier this year at CES, as the phone would be the first for Verizon to come with a NVidia Tegra2 dual-core 1GHz processor, 4.3" qHD display, and 4G LTE data capabilities.
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2. Thump3rDX17 (Posts: 2160; Member since: 10 May 2010)
that's sad, i liked the Bionic but at least there's finally some sense being made with what Verizon is doing for Q2-Q3, i'm sure this will mean that the Targa will be "leaked" more in the next few weeks to keep Moto's 4G hype up.
3. Tottenham (Posts: 86; Member since: 05 Jan 2011)
Quite a disappointment, as I have been holding out for the Bionic to upgrade. One more reason for me to give consideration to jump ship to Sprint, as the Evo 3D is looking like the baddest of the bad ass phones coming out in the near future. I do have to give Moto some credit for not launching another phone with major power management issues, and then trying to fix them after the fact.
4. PAJARA (unregistered)
Wow, I was waiting for this phone, if this is a fact for sure then I am one dissapointed customer. the Targa specs sound really good but I really wanted the bionic. Right now I have the HTC thunderbolt and will just have to use it until the Targa comes out.
50. gabe (unregistered)
You get the feeling that some people have no life other than their cell phone- Who would spend another $600 to upgrade from the Thunderbolt to the Bionic within 3 month time? The whole smart phone craze is just that Crazy!
Spending big $$$ every year or less (sic) to upgrade , paying $30 for a data plan limited or soon to be to 2 gig and getting a phone that has tons of bugs....and absolute within 2 month!?
This is true both for the I phone zombies and Android zombies- all a while the Telcos and the phone Manuf. rake it in.
54. iHateCrapple (Posts: 734; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
At least the iZombies get to save up for a year!
And thats capitalism for you...go to China if you don't like it.
85. Xan-Diesel (Posts: 7; Member since: 04 Feb 2010)
It's possible he works in the field, maybe as a technician. I work as an Equipment Technician for a rural carrier and I am always carrying around a device for a small period of time and then swapping it with something different (nature of the job). It's one of the best perks of the job!
56. queen (unregistered)
Dude, you're seriously sick in the head if you're going to jump from the Thunderbolt to the "Targa". Why did you even get the Thunderbolt in the first place? I would love to be the manufacturers who are literally raping you of money right now.
63. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
I'm going with the T-bolt simply because I don't want to re-up for another 2 year deal, and the 1 year deals are gone effective tomorrow. I waited as long as I could hoping for more 4G choices to drop, but Verizon is slowly removing all choice we have.
5. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
wow.. the bionic would have been a good device. But for all of you that were waitin for it and now bitching... did you not read the end of the article? The Targa will basically be the same thing but with a 13mpx camera instead of the 5mpx on the bionic. Am i the only one that caught that? DAYUM SON!! lol. That phone is gonna give everyone camera envy.
10. Tottenham (Posts: 86; Member since: 05 Jan 2011)
Yes, I think most caught that (at least I did). But I've had my phone for close to 3 years, and the Bionic was suppposed to release in this quarter. Q3 could be anywhere from the begining of July (not likely) till the end of Sept. I'm just not willing to wait that much longer.
20. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
it will be worth the wait. In Q3 the GalaxyS2 will launch as well as the Tegra3's might make an appearance by the end of it. They were supposed to anyways. Nvidia said Tegra4 should be out by xmas, so that doesnt give a large window for tegra3's if thats going to be right.
45. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I highly doubt they'll go through processor generations that quickly. Also, processor release date just means the date they ship to device manufacturers. The Tegra 2 "shipped" a year ago, but we're just now seeing devices come to market. Tegra 3 devices likely won't arrive until Q4 or early 2012.
57. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
while thats true about the differences between "shipping" and "in a phone to buy", you can easily find where nvidia said it will be shipping T3 and T4 by the end of this year with a search. The T2 was just to kind of work the kinks out from what they said. The T4 is supposed to be a massive boost in power. Thats the one they nicknamed superman or whatever.
6. Allday28 (Posts: 283; Member since: 19 Nov 2010)
Wow phonearena get youre crap together! This story has benn updated on all the other sites that this info is wrong and the Device is just being delayed not axed!
8. Allday28 (Posts: 283; Member since: 19 Nov 2010)
UPDATE: The folks at Droid-Life have also heard that the Bionic may be getting the axe. Another insider by the name of blackmanx is reporting that all of this cancellation news is nonsense and that the Bionic is, in fact, "well on track for the expected release date."
7. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
such a nice looking phone had to die :(
9. wooooooow (unregistered)
Well dip me in SH!T and bury me in bread krums!!!
FML!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've been waiting since November 2009 for something worth buying! and im damn sure not gonna wait an extra 3 mnths for the supposed "Targa" to come out only for them to cancel it. F*** YOU MOTO, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for FAILING US!!!! Thunderbolt, here I come!!!
23. Julio Rodriguez II (unregistered)
Blowing your money is going to make you feel even worse after the newness wears off. TB is already outdated and won't be getting Sense 3.0 so you better think hard before blowing your upgrade on it.
55. iHateCrapple (Posts: 734; Member since: 12 Feb 2010)
Thunderbolt is already outdated? Things aren;t moving that quickly dude.
11. fmlagain (unregistered)
Im with woooooow on this one. thunderbolt here i come as well. I need to replace my droid one that I had gotten on the release date of it lol. I really wanted the bionic.
41. testman22 (Posts: 338; Member since: 03 Nov 2009)
thunderbolt is garbage... enjoy
49. derp (unregistered)
lol thats an understatement.
12. guest (unregistered)
Now I'm even more glad I picked up a TB earlier this week. Haha.
14. w00tw00twhat? (unregistered)
Im very sad as i was looking to grab this phone the day it was released. But now with all this going on i dont know which to grab. Good thing is that i have two contracts coming to an end(my bro who used another family members upgrade to get a new phone) one in late april and one in oct. So i may grab the LG revolution or a Bolt until the bionic is either released or grab the targa cuz that thing seems like a beast and worth the wait. I just cant decide LG Revo or HTC Botl???
42. testman22 (Posts: 338; Member since: 03 Nov 2009)
i played with the revolution, and design wise, it is the ugliest, boxiest phone i've ever seen. don't know if looks matter to you
15. luis_lopez_351 (Posts: 951; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
Why are people sad? its been dead since its been announced in the first place. It died when it was a motorola idea running motorola blur.
29. cc (unregistered)
As I said above, I have the X and have had little to no issues. I don't know where all the Motorola / Blur hate is coming from.
16. ninjakamster (unregistered)
Nooo, I'm still really hoping the Droid 3 will have LTE! : (
19. CNachoZ (Posts: 6; Member since: 22 Mar 2011)
ok ok. i have to calm my nerves here in order to comprehend what going on. Well, im hoping this is just a stupid rumor started at HF. or Verizon's evil scheme of selling mor TBolts, only to say, "APRIL FOOLS! we do have the Bionic, but you're past your 30 day return, so you'd have to pay retail!". but i dont understand how the Atrix was released w/ no major issues, and yet the Bionic somehow cant make the cut. So, that being said, im hoping BlackmanX is right and all this chit-chat is nonsense. They still have the Bionic posted on the Moto website. there's hope yet!!! but if they did in fact scrap it, or even DELAY it...IM GONNA GO CRAZZZZZZZZY AND DESTROY EVERY MOTOROLA PHONE I SEE. EVEN THE ONE'S THAT AREN'T MINE. JUST WALK AROUND THE MALL AND START SLAPPING X's and D's and D2's OUT OF PEOPLES HANDS!!!!!!!! AND I BETTER NOT SEE AN ATRIX!!!!!!!
21. box (unregistered)
Do we need anymore proof that Verizon's multi-network setup is a massive fail? The HTC can't handle it, MOTO is killing a stupidly good phone over it, the Pantech 4G USB card keeps getting updates to try to fix it; obviously there's an issue here.
GSM/UMTS & later LTE-Advanced FTW!
22. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
CNacho. You should look it up. The atrix has had a myriad of different glitches and issues.. especially with 4g connectivity which was one of its selling points. Also, correct me if im wrong, but it wasnt able to record 1080p at launch either if i remember.. which every other dual core phone can do even in prelaunch status.
24. aztaxia12295 (Posts: 272; Member since: 22 Nov 2009)
the targa is quad core
46. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I doubt it, not if it's shipping Q3. I would guess OMAP4 dual core. Ditto the Droid 3.
27. 530gemini (Posts: 2198; Member since: 09 Sep 2010)
This is what motorola probably said, "The droid bionic is not working properly and is buggy. Maybe by changing the name from Bionic to Targa, it might fix the problems. So let's use the same phone and just change the name. Hopefully our fandroids would think that it's actually a new phone when it's actually the same. It will just buy us a little more time to fix the issues. And if it's still buggy, we'll just change the name again a week after to Supersonic or something."
40. celljrod (Posts: 82; Member since: 07 Apr 2011)
Do you ever actually check facts before you post? The Targa was leaked when the Bionic was still full on and looks nothing like it.
43. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
gemini gets high before entering phonearena expect no sense
31. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
I love when apple fanboys talk crap about android phones being the same when that's all their precious iphone is. iphone 1 and 2 were exactly the same except oh its glossy black and has 3g. 3gs was EXACTLY the same as the 3G just with a slightly faster processor.
Until I see this page come down, I won't believe it.
33. Cruiserdude (unregistered)
It's uh, its down...
67. TOdoubleD (Posts: 114; Member since: 28 Mar 2011)
That was a bad link. The Bionic is still listed on the Motorola website.
32. joey18 (Posts: 589; Member since: 20 Jul 2010)
Who. Cares ...another android phone with same ideas ....
34. LionStone (Posts: 743; Member since: 10 Dec 2010)
Daamn...and when those that said they weren't gonna get the T-Bolt because of the delays and may as well just wait and get the Bionic, I was thinking, Well, what if the Bionic has issues and delays also? Now we'll just have to see how long til they release it...
35. Psychic (unregistered)
I talked to my dog about this and he says he knows Bill Gates who told him Motorola was actually leaving the Android market and selling their device patents and plans to Hyundai who is surprisingly getting into the phone industry.
Oh wait, this is just a rumor and shouldn't be stated as fact...
36. Cruiserdude (unregistered)
Well the phone's page is not loading for me on MOTO's website. I either get empty templates or a cannot find message. And within the last 10 minutes, the Bionic has disappeared from Moto's list of devices under Mobile Phones... This is not good news at all.
68. TOdoubleD (Posts: 114; Member since: 28 Mar 2011)
I just looked at the phone 5 minutes ago on the Motorola site.
37. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3108; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
Yep looks like the DROID bionic is gone. What a shame, I was looking forward to it.
59. MpowerSkills (Posts: 41; Member since: 19 Feb 2011)
I was planning on getting it, but I can't say I was really looking forward to it. It just doesn't excite me. The Targa on the other hand does, it looks darn sexy! I know it sounds crazy but I actually like to hear that they aren't going to release the BIONIC.
38. noobs (unregistered)
come on, the page works just fine.
44. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
If true, this actually answers most of my questions about Verizon's upcoming offerings.
1. Why we haven't seen the Bionic on recent pricing/release schedules.
2. Droid Charge - Why would they bestow Droid status to a Samsung device when they've never done so before? And why would they offer two 4G Droids with the same size and shape? (Keep in mind the average buyer won't pay attention to single/dual cores or Quadrant scores, they just see 1 Ghz.) Chances are, VZW was aware of the problems with the Bionic and made Samsung's phone their contingency flagship device.
3. Droid X2 - this is the big one - Why would they release two 4.3" qHD, Tegra 2-powered phones, with the main difference being LTE? If Moto knew the Bionic was going to die, but they had already ordered thousands of qHD screens and Tegra processors, it may have made more sense to pop them in the Droid X body than to try to return them. This also explains why they didn't redesign the phone - it wasn't in the plans. As many of us have said, the Bionic was the rightful successor to the X. Now they need a stopgap successor while they finish developing and testing the Targa.
47. Rich (unregistered)
at least bionic sounded cool. etna? good luck with that one. ill stick to my TB.
48. roldefol (Posts: 4258; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
'Etna' was the codename for the Bionic. 'Targa' is the codename for whatever they end up calling its replacement.
51. Verizon Engineer II (unregistered)
These rumors are completely wrong. We have the phone is will be released soon. 30,000 units are being shipped soon. I can not tell you when, but in fact the BIONIC is coming out and all the issues have been fixed. I love how people who do not even work for these companies spread false rumors. More to come....
52. Verizon Engineer II (unregistered)
Fast fingers, slow computer. I meant to say that IT will be released soon. Just got out of my meeting with the final words, but I can not say anything. GOOD NEWS is all I can say.
53. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
I hope so (on the pending GOOD NEWS). Otherwise, Sprint and the EVO 3D was going to get a real hard look from me as my contract is up in July, 2011.
I may still take a real hard look at the EVO 3D, as it sounds like quite the compelling handset. Hopefully the Bionic will give the EVO 3D a run for its money. Nothing like competition....
69. TOdoubleD (Posts: 114; Member since: 28 Mar 2011)
I think the EVO 3D has better specs. I don't care that much about the 3D but you can simply turn that off. I just wish I could put that phone on the Verizon network with Lte 4g.
76. Ebiggz (unregistered)
How can we be sure you are who you say you are and you're not just some troll? Not trying to be ignorant but some people like saying that they are this and that person but yet they are just some douche sitting in his mothers basement eating donuts and drinking red-bull while typing idiotic posts to make people think they are reliable. I would love to believe what you said but not sure it's possible beings it is over the net. I do in-fact hope you are correct. I have been waiting for this phone since it was announced at the CES. I'm tired of this shitty BB storm 2 crap i have.
58. MpowerSkills (Posts: 41; Member since: 19 Feb 2011)
I was holding out for the BIONIC, but honestly I wasn't excited about it at all. It just doesn't look exciting. The Targa is different, I think I can get excited about it. It looks really cool. Hopefully my boss will let me wait until it comes out to upgrade.
The problem is, by the time the Targa comes out we will know more about iPhone 5, which will probably only make my decision harder.
I'm really struggling to decide what smart phone to get, I've only had dumb phones in the past.
60. T (unregistered)
Well, for those who waited for the phone to upgrade boo hoo there's always more phones that will come out. However, I choose not to wait and went with the thunderbolt.. This phone is awesome. And I agree to get the thunderbolt and 3 months later get a newer phone is crazy. You are giving them way to much money.. and I would really like to know where you work cause I would like a job there if you can buy two smartphones in less than 6 months. For those who can't wait I suggest the thunderbolt.. especially if you have a phone that's old.. I had a blackberry storm so I can not complain about anything on my new phone because the storm sucked big (you get my drift)...AND even if you did wait on the bionic there would have been a bigger and better phone 3-6 months later anyways..
61. Argh (unregistered)
I entirely agree, i Have a HTC TP2 and i dual boot to android because winmo 6.5 is pure garbage. I was holding out until my NE2 which dropped down on me next month and this would be out. Guess not. However its good they wouldn't release a phone that would be a POS and focus on making a phone work as it should. The best buy commercial puts the tech world in a reality, the min you think you got the hottest shit. A week later your neighbor has a better one. I might wait on the Targa but who know they may delay that too.
62. TheThree4 (Posts: 1; Member since: 19 Mar 2011)
So why is it still up on Motorola's site as one the marquee phones along with the Atrix if its not going to be released? I'm sure their marketers who run the website would have done something by now, especially if not beforehand, if the project was being killed.
64. POOPY MAGOO (unregistered)
Are you all raging morons? how about all the equipment flying around on amazon.com for the bionic? cases, charges, screen protectors. oh and here is a fun one... WHY THE HELL IS IT STILL ON MOTOROLAS WEBSITE?!


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Just wanted to call everyone's attention to this article real quick. Talking exclusively to Franzen about how the season ended, this little gem was the headliner
WeI need to have more fun out there, get some confidence back," Franzen said. WeI looked like a drained teampiece of garbage, kind of, in most of the games. Get some joy back, believing in ourselvesmyself, knowing that we'reI'm a good teamplayer, and play for each othermy teammates instead of myself."
Fixed it to be closer to the truth. Its like he is projecting his own problems onto the team in general. The article had a few decent points but for the most part the same tired "disappointed" crap. Just thought it was interesting that Franzen basically projected his own lack of interest, confidence, and ability to sell out for his club on everyone. Obviously he isn't the only problem, but he is a big chunk of it.
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Two people have been arrested after a brief police pursuit in Oklahoma City on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Officers started following a car they believed to be stolen at about 3:20 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The pursuit ended with a crash at about Northwest 36th Street and Classen Boulevard, police said.
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Calgary Flames winger Jiri Hudler had a close call playing for Trinec in the Czech League.
Play-by-play announcer Roman Jedlicka reports that Hudler was hospitalized after taking a skate to the neck Wednesday. Hudler needed stitches but avoided a major injury because the skate blade didn't cut an artery, according to Jedlicka.
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Rhode Island School of Design Technician Combats Illegal Union Boss Intimidation and Threats
Union officials refuse to follow Supreme Court precedents
Providence, RI (October 17, 2012) – With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, a Rhode Island School of Design technician has filed federal charges against a local union for violating his rights.
Robert Vennerbeck of Providence filed the federal charge against the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Technical Association union with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Boston.
Vennerbeck resigned formal union membership and exercised his right to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Foundation-won Communications Workers v. Beck case. Under Beck, workers have the right to opt out of paying for union activities unrelated to workplace bargaining, such as members-only events and political lobbying.


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Outbreak of Graffiti Defaces a Beauty Spot
For years, millions of visitors drawn to the peculiar beauty of Joshua Tree National Park have stayed on the straight and narrow while hiking the steep and twisty trails: picking up their trash and heeding authorities' pleas to leave the park's granite monoliths and blooming desert floor unmolested.
But in recent months the park has been hit with an unusual scourge of graffiti. This week, the escalating problem prompted park rangers to close a large area of the attraction because of widespread graffiti found in a popular canyon. That came on the heels of the closure of another part of the park after it also had been defaced. More than 300 acres are shut to visitors while officials investigate.
"People are appalled and people are wondering how it could happen here, in a national park," said Pat Pilcher, a ranger at Joshua Tree.
Most of the park, which sits 140 miles east of Los Angeles at the crossroads of the Mojave and Colorado deserts, is still open. But the closures come at the height of the park's busy season, and affect one of its most popular areas, Rattlesnake Canyon, which is rugged and remote, with large rock formations and water pools fed from a natural spring. The park attracts about 1.3 million visitors a year.
The closure also highlights the struggle of park rangers to welcome more visitors while minimizing their impact on delicate ecosystems and historic sites.
Earlier this year, graffiti carvings discovered at another of the park's historic locations, the Barker Dam, prompted officials to close it to visitors. The trail around the 100-year-old dam is still open, but an area around the dam itself is closed indefinitely, park officials said. Rattlesnake Canyon is scheduled to remain closed for the rest of the month.
The sites are closed while investigators try to track the vandals and assess and repair the damage, park officials said. In pictures released by the National Park Service, the words "oatmeal cookie" and "nature boy" appear to be painted or spray-painted on boulders in Rattlesnake Canyon.
Investigators with the National Park Service, which administers the park, believe that posts on social media played a role by sparking "numerous individuals' interest in adding to the vandalism," a National Park Service statement said.
Park officials declined to comment further on the investigation, or reveal which social-media outlets were used. Defacing National Park property carries a maximum sentence of 6 months in prison and a $5,000 fine, they said.
Some of the graffiti may have damaged ancient, Native American petroglyphs, Mr. Pilcher, the park ranger, said. Humans are believed to have settled in the area 5,000 years ago. The damaged rock art might be remnants of early settlements of the Serrano or Chemehuevi Indian tribes, Mr. Pilcher said.
Park officials said they are still determining how to remove the graffiti without doing more damage. It is also unclear how much those efforts might cost, they said.
Vandalism in the country's 401 national parks is rare, National Park Service officials said, but it still occurs. In 2003, the service saw 7.3 incidents of vandalism per park—which includes graffiti or any other kind of damage—according to federal records. That dropped to 4.8 incidents in 2012.
Some places have seen problems persist. Officials at the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona started a Graffiti Removal and Intervention Team, and this year are recruiting volunteers to scrub off graffiti with water and wire brushes, according to the Glen Canyon website.
In the 2012 fiscal year, 287 million people visited national parks, according to federal records.
Jeffrey Olson, a spokesman for the National Park Service, said that normally, if a visitor drops so much as a candy wrapper, he will pick it up immediately or be prodded by others to do so.
"People are protective of their parks," he said. "It makes it all the more shocking that somebody would defile our heritage."
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