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By Laura Keeney, The Denver Post

A screenshot from Laura Keeneys WordPress.com Reader of the design blog 'North Leads to Home' emphasizes the center stage images take in this latest design

A collective outcry arose across the Interweb-o-sphere Wednesday over the announcement of the untimely demise of Google Reader, the preferred tool of organization for bloggers, journalists, and other info junkies.

And thus, the race to find the next Google Reader has begun. And while many will vie for the top spot, if I was a bettin woman, Id put my money on WordPress.coms Reader.

Before we go much further -- and this is crucial -- WP.coms Reader supports XML format OPML. For you non-techies out there, this simply means you have the ability to easily transfer your Google Reader feed over to WordPress.coms Reader with a few simple steps. Google even provides a custom export path.

WordPress.com debuted Reader about 1.5 years ago. Its last big update came in January 2013 and it is being actively developed. The timing begs the question if the code wranglers at Automattic (the team behind the product) have a crystal ball that predicted Google Readers end, because their WordPress.com Reader is clean, easy to use, and -- dare I say it -- gorgeous.

If Google Reader had actually stayed in development, instead of halting upgrades in October 2011, its easy to imagine it might have evolved into something like the latest incarnation of WordPress.coms Reader.

First off, the user experience is a snap. The flow is much like Tumblr, with a simple, clean, bold and bright design. And WordPress.com also knows that visual content is key these days, so the photo display capabilities are integral to the product, with photos of 595px or wider featured in brilliant detail in full width above posts.

But lots of things look nice, but are horrid to use, right? Not this time. WP.coms Reader is simple to navigate, proving predefined topic lists of suggested blogs, and a phenomenal search capabilities within WordPress family of blogs.

Reader also supports RSS/Atom. Adding information sources outside of WordPress.com is literally one click away when using the handy Chrome or Firefox extension that installs a follow button. Theres social media integration, and a fully-supported mobile version through the WordPress.com app for iOS or Android.

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By CHILTON TIPPIN / chiltont@laramieboomerang.com Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Artist Kyle Durrie travels America to spread the press-printed word.

Durrie is scheduled to visit the University of Wyoming campus today and tomorrow.

She wont take a plane, train or car to get here. Rather, shell travel as she has been for the past two years in a mobile print shop.

She is scheduled to give a presentation on her travels and work at 6:30 tonight in the UW Visual Arts Building Room 111. On Thursday, she plans to park her print-shop truck in the Visual Arts Building parking lot in the morning and in front of the Wyoming Union in the afternoon.

Durries project is called Moveable Type, an homage to the technology she uses to create her art.

These days, letterpress printing is kind of the umbrella term, she said. Moveable type is basically the tool. Youve got the presses and then the stuff that you actually print from is the type. Usually its made of wood or lead.

Her process is the same that was used to print the Gutenberg Bible in the mid 1450s, and that longevity is one reason it appeals to her.

Its a process that remains unchanged for 500 years, she said. Its a bummer that these days our computers are out of date after five years; whereas, Im still printing on this press thats 140 years old. I like that a lot. I like things that are well-made, built to last.

Durrie also said she loved the work itself and wanted to share her passion with people across the country.

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COMMENT Doublespeak on Myanmar's Rohingya By Ramzy Baroud

''Transparency is the most important word,'' Myanmar Ministry of Energy official Aung Kyaw Htoo pledged on March 4 during a press conference in the former capital of Yangon. His assurance was aimed at wooing foreign companies to bid on 25 off-shore oil blocs.

Oil, gas and other resources in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, promise to reap huge profits for Western companies and

A governance whitewash has been underway for some time now in Myanmar. Perceptions of the former ruling military junta as an oppressive regime with a disconcerting human rights record have shifted favorably on its closely aligned quasi-civilian regime, which has been widely credited with managing a budding democracy. Reality, however, is much removed from the new regime's official newspeak.

While the regime speaks of recognizing ''international standards'' in its energy sector, international human rights standards have been completely ignored in its handling of the suffering and humiliation of the Rohingya people. According to the United Nations, the Rohingya are ''virtually friendless'' in the face of a relentless ethnic cleansing campaign that threatens their very existence in Myanmar. The UN has referred to the Rohingya as the world's ''most persecuted'' people.

On February 26, fishermen discovered a rickety wooden boat floating nearly 25 kilometers off the coast of Indonesia's northern province of Aceh. The Associated Press reported there were 121 people on board including children who were extremely weak, dehydrated and nearly starved. They were Rohingya refugees who preferred to take their chances at sea rather than stay in Myanmar.

Their plight is hardly an isolated event. Such deadly journeys, each with their own traumatic twist, have been reported with growing frequency in the regional media. Another large rescue took place off the coast of India's eastern Andaman archipelago, where 108 Rohingyas in dismal condition were rescued on February 28, the Andaman Sheekha website reported.

A week earlier, another group of Rohingya refugees were not so lucky. New York-based Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called on the Thai government to investigate an incident in which two people were reportedly killed after a group of refugees were forced onto a boat and sent back to sea from Phang Nga province in southwest Thailand, the Bangkok Post reported. "Our government has a policy to take care of the Rohingya on humanitarian grounds, so they won't be pushed back," Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatara told journalists on Monday. "We will investigate this," she said of the alleged deaths in Phang Nga, according to the report.

Driven by systematic persecution of the Rohingya inside Myanmar, the mounting incidents have so far been a mere irritant to the country's still highly touted democratic opening, a transformation that has been widely hailed as a success story by Western media, companies and political elites. Western governments have heaped rewards on the new regime, including a suspension of previous punitive economic and financial sanctions imposed over the junta's abysmal rights record, for its supposed newfound respect for rights and democracy.

Most Rohingya Muslims are native to the previous state of Rohang (originally a kingdom of its own), now officially known as Rakhine, in Myanmar's coastal southwest. Over the years, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the original inhabitants of Rakhine were joined by migrant or forced labor from Bengal and India, many of whom permanently settled there. For decades thereafter, tensions brewed between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas in the region.

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