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State of the News Media 2013
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From bad to worse.
The Pew Research Center's 2013 report on the State of the News Media brings more sad tidings: a decade of newsroom cuts is being felt. But what did anyone expect? Nearly one-in-three Americans say they have stopped turning to a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the news they were accustomed to getting. Diminished newsroom staffing is having a noticeable effect. Moreover, politicians and corporate entities are better able to bypass traditional media and speak directly to the public, meaning no journalistic filter is in place. Content determined by algorithm, curtailed news coverage on cable, more layoffs (at Time magazine for instance) and continued economic struggles add to the bleak picture for journalism.
The effect on local TV news is profound: "In local TV, sports, weather and traffic now account on average for 40% of the content produced on the newscasts studied while story lengths shrink." Local TV audiences were down across every key time slot and across all networks in 2012. And items like weather, sports scores and traffic are ripe for picking off by new mobile apps.
For newspapers, the debate over pay walls may be ending with an answer in the affirmative: 450 of the nation's 1,380 dailies have started or announced plans for some kind of paid content subscription or pay wall plan. With digital advertising growing at an anemic pace, "digital subscriptions are seen as an increasingly vital component of any new business model for journalism," even though the digital dimes are not replacing the lost print dollars.
Start your week with this handy infographic before diving into the whole depressing report.


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25th annual Three Lakes Ice Fishing Contest starts Friday
Granby, CO Colorado
Fisherman are gassing up their ice augers and rigging rods and reels in preparation of the 25th annual Three Lakes Ice Fishing Contest set to take place Jan. 25-27.
The three-day contest will take place on Lake Granby, Shadow Mountain Reservoir, and Grand Lake with more than $6,000 in daily cash prizes being awarded to the winners. Contestants can enter any one, two, or all of the three days of the contest.
The contest is open to anglers of all ages who want to compete to see who can catch the largest fish. Anglers who are 17 years old and under can enter the competition for free, though youths must pay an entry fee to be eligible for the adult prizes.
Prizes will be doled out each day to the angler who brings in the largest fish of three species: rainbow trout, brown trout, and Mackinaw.
There is also a "grand slam" prize for fisherman who work to catch a fish of each species as well as a Kokanee salmon. The grand slam prize will be awarded to the individual who brings in the heaviest creel containing all four fish species.
There will also be a raffle this year with prizes ranging from a Clam Corp. gift pack worth $1,200, to a pair of binoculars worth $100. The raffle will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Granby Community Center, though you do not need to be present to win. Tickets for the raffle are $10 and can be bought with the entry fee.
Richard Crager, owner of Budget Tackle in Granby, said the low level of the lakes has concentrated fish in certain areas; however, fishing conditions remain fairly normal.
The ice on the lakes is "thick enough," according to Crager, and ranges from 6 inches to 15 inches thick.
Crager runs a retail marathon during the contest, staying open from 6 a.m. on Thursday until midnight Saturday.
While the bait the fish are biting varies from day to day, Crager reports that tube jigs have been working well, along with meal worms and wax worms, depending on what species of fish you are fishing for.
Crager reports seeing some early registrations being bought to his shop, though "Thursday is when we really get hit," he said.
Many of the details of the contest, which is hosted by the Greater Granby Area Chamber of Commerce, are similar to former years, according to the Chamber's Executive Director Laurie Findley. Call the chamber office for more information at 970-887-2311.
The contest will start 6:42 a.m. Friday and fish weigh-ins will take place everyday during the contest from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at the North Shore Resort, 928 County Road 64.
"People have come to this contest every year for 20 years," Findley said. "It's a great time."
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EVENT: Honda LA Marathon 2012
EVENT DATE: Mar 18, 2012
BEIT TSHUVAH wrote -
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Our Team:
Team Beit T'Shuvah is back for its 3rd year in a row as an official participating LA Marathon charity and could not be more pumped! We are welcoming both new and returning members to our team and looking forward to another successful year. It is our goal to help facilitate a positive, life-enhancing experience for every member on our team and are committed to doing all that we can to make that happen. By running with Team Beit T'Shuvah you will be raising funds to help people recover from addictive and behavioral disorders, recover their passion and discover their purpose. Join our team and help us Run to Save a Soul at the 2012 LA Marathon. For more information visit www.beittshuvah.org/marathon
Here's How it Works:
There is no Team Training registration fee! You will be provided with a Marathon Concierge- the wonderful Ali Ditlove who will be your constant contact with Marathon training schedule, helpful marathon tips, and running trails and events to check out. Train with our team every Sunday morning at various W.LA locations (26 week training program led by 4 experienced, hands-on Coaches) You're provided with a Fundraising Coach as well! Nina Haller, Director of Development at BT, provides tips and tactics for raising your desired $$! Raise $200 to get a Run to Save a Soul shirt. Raise $500 to get a seat at our Team Beit T'Shuvah dinner the night before the race. Raise $1000 to get your race registration paid and a spot in a Team Beit T'Shuvah hotel room the night before the race (2 runners per room.)
*Minimum fundraising requirement is $1000 and the fundraising deadline is March 1, 2012.
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Beit T'Shuvah is a unique healing spiritual community that assists individuals and families seeking recovery from and prevention of addictive and behavioral disorders. Our vision is to reduce the incidence of addiction and other harmful behaviors through individual and family education. The Beit T'Shuvah campus is located in West Los Angeles. The facility is a warm, comfortable setting where approximately 120 residents interact with clinical staff in a healing atmosphere that emphasizes faith-based recovery and the values of the Jewish community. We provide the tools to find a happier, more balanced life, including the following comprehensive integrated programs: 12 Step Program, Psychotherapy, Creative Arts Therapies, Meditation Practice, Mind-Body Fitness, Career Development, and Jewish Study. Beit T'Shuvah offers services to people regardless of their ability to pay. We have never turned anyone away due to lack of funds.For more information visit www.beittshuvah.org
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Sophomore Casey MacMaster continued to his stellar play with Alistair Felton winning a doubles match in day two of the tournament. (Gil Talbot)
CAMBRIDGE Mass. - Participants of the Harvard men's tennis team continued to dominate the field on day two of the Harvard Winter Invite, going 9-1 in singles action. The Crimson also posted an impressive 4-2 record in doubles competition.
The Crimson opened the day going 3-1 in the opening round of doubles with Andy and Denis Nguyen, Alex Steinroeder and Christo Schultz and Alistair Felton and Casey MacMaster all recording their second wins of the tournament. Harvard continued its dominance in singles play as well as Harvard nearly swept it's competition reeling off nine wins and only suffering one defeat on the afternoon. Through two days of tournament play all but one Harvard entrant in the tournament has recorded a perfect 2-0 record.
The tournament will resume tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. concluding with the final singles events. Full results can be found below:
Day 2
Steinroeder/Schultz (H) vs. Van Eck/Bishop (M) H 9-7
Felton/MacMaster (H) vs. Kowlaski/Alla (F) H 8-4
Chaudhuri/Seaver (H) vs. Resnick/Klassen (M) M 8-2
Dube/Guidici (M) vs. Peara/Tavil (F) M 9-8 (5)
D. Nguyen (H) vs. Van Eck (M) H 1-6, 6-0, 6-1
Pearlman (H) vs. Kowalski (F) H 6-2, 3-6, 7-5
Steinroeder (H) vs. Rossi (M) H 7-5, 6-3
Schultz (H) vs. Himmelsbach (M) H 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Nguyen, A (H) vs. Klassen (M) H 6-4, 6-0
Steer (H) vs. Dube (M) H 6-2, 6-1
Felton (H) vs. Resnick (M) H 6-2, 7-6
Chaudhuri (H) vs. Alla (F) H 6-2, 6-2
C. MacMaster (H) vs. Peara (F) H 6-2, 1-6, 6-0
Thornton (H) vs. Guidici (M) M 6-3, 6-3
Bishop (M) vs. Tavil (F) M 6-3, 6-1
Steinroeder/Steer (H) vs. Rossi-Himmelsbach (M) M 8-2
Pearlman/Chaudhuri (H) vs. Van Eck/Bishop (M) H 8-5
Resnick/Klassen (M) vs. Kowlaski/Alla (F) F 8-6


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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown is planning to mark one year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre with private memorial services and the ringing of bells for the victims.
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown is planning to mark one year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre with private memorial services and the ringing of bells for the victims.
Connecticut's governor has asked for houses of worship around the state Saturday to ring their bells 26 times — once for each of the 20 children and six educators gunned down inside the school on Dec. 14, 2012. Vigils were planned elsewhere in the country, and President Barack Obama and the first lady planned to observe a moment of silence at the White House.
Newtown officials have called for privacy and asked town residents to honor the victims through acts of service and kindness. At a joint appearance during the week in Newtown, some of the victims' families urged people to find ways to give back to their own communities.
"In this way, we hope that some small measure of good may be returned to the world," JoAnn Bacon, whose 6-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was killed at Sandy Hook.
The town had no formal events planned for Saturday, and officials have discouraged the news media from coming to Newtown.
"We are trying to respect the world's interest in us, but we also have a real need in our community to gain a foothold," First Selectman Pat Llodra said.
The gunman, Adam Lanza, killed his mother inside their Newtown home before driving to the school where he carried out his rampage. He killed himself as police arrived.
At Saint Rose of Lima, the Roman Catholic church that hosted the funerals of eight children, a service will include the dedication of a memorial arch and the ringing of peace bells that also were rung at Virginia Tech after the mass shooting there in 2007 and in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.


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The Seattle Seahawks came out of the 2013 offseason with the NFL's strongest roster, thanks to savvy drafting and the salary-cap freedom provided by Russell Wilson's meager contract.
The Seahawks will have yet another advantage entering the 2014 offseason. Coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider have a created a player-friendly environment and winning atmosphere that is attracting veteran free agents to a northwest corner of the country that was formerly an NFL outpost.
"When I first arrived, we never really got any respect over here, and we felt like people kind of ignored us," wide receiver Sidney Rice said this week, via NFL Media columnist Michael Silver. "As you see now, more and more people are coming in this direction. ... It's basically word of mouth. This is where you want to be. And when guys get here, they always end up asking, 'Why didn't I come here earlier?' And then they never want to leave."
That word of mouth not only lured Rice, but also defensive ends Michael Bennett and Cliff Avril to Seattle.
|Take a look at the best 49ers vs. Seahawks matchups throughout the years.
"People want to come here and play for Pete," Bennett said after last Saturday's victory. "He just lets you be yourself. And we're only gonna get better, too. We're so young, man. It's gonna be great to see us grow."
Defensive Player of the Year candidates Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas believe players across the league will choose to sign with the Seahawks because they want a chance to win.
"Guys who come to this team are in awe," Thomas told Silver. "It's a fun organization, a light atmosphere, and we work hard. ... We have genuine respect for one another. It's a great place to be."
The allure of Seattle is bad news for the rest of the league. Since Wilson's contract cannot be extended until 2015, the Seahawks will have a competitive edge in roster building for at least another calendar year.
As an astute Vernon Davis pointed out last June, Carroll and Schneider are constructing a dynasty in the Pacific Northwest.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" interviews Carolina Panthers star Greg Hardy and looks ahead to the conference title games.


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Not of This World
- Investigate the strange radio signal coming from the Wasteland.
- Stage a fight with Somah to draw the guards' attention.
- Defeat the alien guards.
- Continue to look for a way out of the holding cells.
- Release Sally from her holding cell.
- Reach the engineering core of the ship.
- Retrieve your equipment.
- Shock Baton (M)
- Enclave Officer Hat
- Enclave Officer Uniform
- Energy Cell (M)
- Plasma Grenade (x3)
- Plasma Mine (x2)
- Plasma Pistol
- Pulse Mine
- Bottle Cap (M)
- Lead Pipe
- Alien Disintegrator (M)
- Alien Power Module (M)
- Alien Squid Food (M)
- Alien Worm Food (M)
- Alien Atomizer (M)
- Large Alien Crystal (M)
- Small Alien Crystal (M)
- Alien Epoxy (M)
- lien Biogel (M)
- Alien Log #1
- Alien Log #3
- Alien Log #12
- Alien Log #14
- Alien Log #15
- Alien Log #22.
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After downloading the Mothership Zeta DLC to your machine and starting a new game with the DLC activated, simply walk around the Capital Wasteland for a while. It doesn't really matter where you walk -- just walk. After a minute or two, you'll receive a prompt. Aptly entitled Mothership Zeta, the prompt will let you know that an unintelligible, out-of-this-world radio signal has been received by your Pip-Boy. It appears all of the signatures of nuclear explosions, in addition to radio signals being sent out into space for god-knows-how-long, have finally tipped off the extraterrestrials in Earth's vicinity that we're here. And just like that, the first of three quests within the Mothership Zeta DLC, Not of This World, will begin in earnest.
If you're confused, here's what you have to do once you've received the rogue radio signal. If you make the Not of This World quest your active quest on Pip-Boy, it will direct you to an unknown location in the northeastern quadrant of the Capital Wasteland map. If you're not in the vicinity of this location, there are a couple of places to teleport to that will make your life easier -- either MDPL-13 Power Station of Vault 92 will do. If you fast travel to the Power Station, you're going to have to travel due north to reach the predetermined start point of the mission. If you use Vault 92, travel in a southwesterly direction to reach your destination. And just what is your destination? Why, it's another crashed alien craft, identical to the one where you found the Alien Blaster in the main quest. You'll begin to feel the effects of radiation when you're near the craft, so you'll know you're in the right area. And when you approach the ship... well... you're going to be abducted by aliens. It's that simple.
The abduction is relatively painless for the Wastelander, though you should be aware that the experimentation they no doubt perform on you after your capture is a lot less fun than the trip up. You'll only catch a passing glimpse of the alien creatures as they torture you, and before you know it, you'll find yourself in some sort of holding cell. But you're not alone in there. A woman named Somah is there with you, and naturally, the two of you will get to talking. Pick Somah's brain however you want -- the outcome will be the same no matter what. Somah has been here for a while and knows a thing or two about what's going on. And she has a suggestion on how to break free and begin traversing the Mothership Zeta.
Somah informs you that you're being watched at all times by the aliens on the ship. She further informs you that you and her, and other captives, are extremely valuable commodities to the aliens, as you provide them a source of scientific research that isn't exactly easy to acquire from the ravaged Earth's surface. In other words, you're one of their precious specimens. Therefore, if you were to start fighting each other, the aliens would no doubt come in to break up the battle and ensure you don't injure each other. And that's when you can jump the alien guards and attempt to break out of the cell completely. So, begin punching each other. When enough damage is dealt, two alien guards will appear. Stick to assaulting one while Somah takes care of the other. When both are downed, search their corpses -- you should be able to garner a Shock Baton to equip yourself with, having been stripped of everything else in your inventory. Somah does the same.
Freed from your cell and scantly-armed, you are free to explore your surroundings. First things first -- explore each of the cells around you to find some interesting stuff. You can open each cell's barrier by using the control unit outside of said cell. Some of the cells in the corridor will be empty, but you'll find a downed alien with another Shock Baton on him, as well as a dead Enclave Officer, who you can strip completely. Equip the Enclave Officer Hat and Enclave Officer Uniform on yourself after looting his body for a defensive boost. And finally, you'll likely run into a still-living security guard from Rivet City. Kill her if you want to loot her body of more armor, but be aware that you'll receive negative karma for doing so.
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Now, if your back is facing the cell in which you came from, head left all the way down the corridor until you reach a vacated control station. Here, you'll find three items of particular interest, the first three of twenty-five total you should be seeking out if you want the only non-mission based Achievement/Trophy in the DLC pack. You'll see some interesting control panels that you'll be able to examine. They are shaped like circles with three smaller circles in the middle, with blue lights emanating from the center of each of the three circles. Examine each, and you'll garner for your inventory Alien Log #14, Alien Log #15, and Alien Log #22. These are important, so naturally, you're going to want to hold onto them. After grabbing them, backtrack to the opposite end of the pathway, where you'll go through a pink-colored device that will heal you moderately.
In this next room, you can quickly find three more recordings -- Alien Log #1, Alien Log #3, and Alien Log #12. All three are found on the circular devices identical to the ones the three earlier logs were found via. After exploring this room and finding little else of interest, you'll notice that there are two doors out of here. The door directly ahead is sealed shut, however, so you'll have no choice but to use the door on your left to proceed onward. Once you do, a little girl trapped in one of the cells on your right will plead for you to release her. To do so, you'll need to activate the foreign, alien machine at the top end of this corridor. Once you do that, examine the three cooling devices on three sides of the larger mechanism. Doing so will force it to explode, rendering it useless.
Once the device is destroyed, the three cells in this corridor, two of them completely vacant, will open up. Go back and meet up with the little girl named Sally, and she'll begin to talk to you. She'll even offer to help you get out of here. Accept her help, and she'll backtrack to the previous room, where the door we earlier said was sealed will now be completely bypassed by Sally. How the hell does she know so much? It's simple. Sally has been here for a while. A long, long while. In fact, she says she's been here since the bombs dropped. In case you're curious, that was about two-hundred years ago. Talk about time dilation!
On the other side of the door, you can move forward with little trouble. In front of you is another sealed door, and to your left is a small office-like compartment, complete with its own lone alien inhabitant. As you approach the door, chances are the alien would have already spotted you. He comes to greet you, so immediately begin attacking him with your Shock Baton to end his life quickly and cleanly. Once he's downed, you can then explore the room he was earlier occupying. Three alien containers are within, containing not only all of your previous equipment, but Plasma Grenades, Plasma Mines, a Pulse Mine, a Plasma Pistol, and more! Before leaving the room, be sure you hit the switch along the glass, which will open the locked door in the previous area. Don't neglect grabbing your equipment by the way. It remains to be seen what happens if you get to the end of the DLC and are beamed back without it... you might just lose everything completely!
Work your way through the unlocked door. The next door will open once examined, and will lead to the ship's steamworks area. Be certain you reequip yourself with your newfound gear, which will help you to survive future alien encounters with relative ease. It's at this early point in exploring the steamworks that Sally will offer to go ahead or stick with you. You can arm her with a grenade, or have her stick around. It doesn't really matter, because fact is, you're going to have your hands plenty full as you traverse the steamworks with her help or without it. For a while, the linear pathways will be quiet. Dead ends will make themselves pretty evident, so getting lost is nearly impossible. But when you begin running into large numbers of hostile aliens armed to the teeth with their specialized weapons, you know you're going to be in a considerable amount of trouble.
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The winding-yet-linear pathway will eventually open up into a long, long corridor stretching out as far as the eye can see. To the left of this corridor, if you're facing forward, will be a room that leads to a smaller, parallel corridor. Both pathways are lined with completely foreign computer terminals, input stations and the like. And unfortunately, with the exception of a random Large Alien Crystal, none of the alien items lining various shelves can be acquired. That is, of course, with the exception of their food, their ammunition, and of course, their weapons. And it's when you reach this elongated corridor that the crap hits the fan, because those very weapons will be turned on you in brutal fashion.
Expect to take a considerable amount of damage in the ensuing encounters with about a dozen aliens or so. Armed with two types of weapons, neither are as strong as the Alien Blaster, but both are stronger than just about any firearms you have in your inventory. Keep cranking on the Stimpaks as you fall back and let the aliens come to you, using explosives and mines to chip away at their damage. See if you can prioritize killing better-armed enemies before the ones equipped with, say, Shock Batons. And of course, scour their bodies for goods (as well as the lone container in the room leading to the parallel corridor). You can find all sorts of good stuff, including Alien Disintegrators and Alien Atomizers of your own, as well as Alien Squid Food, Alien Worm Food, Alien Power Modules, and even more Large Alien Crystals.
At the far end of the long corridor, you can find a door leading rightward, but expect to be attacked by two Shock Baton-wielding aliens as soon as you go through. Thereafter, things will remain quiet for a while. Eventually, you'll reach a room that has two floors. The top floor is essentially a catwalk surrounding the left side of the room, with a staircase leading back down to the front floor on the north end of the area. The bottom floor is a steam-heavy location rife with enemies. In fact, both upstairs and downstairs seem to be equally rife with enemies, but you'll want to eliminate the contingent of foes on the catwalk above before even thinking about going anywhere on the bottom floor. That way, no one can talk potshots at you from above while you're walking around below, eliminating any advantage the enemy forces here might have had.
The enemies you encounter here are of a pretty standard fare. Many of the enemies you will fight are regular aliens, whether in their normal suits or spacesuits, equipped with three kinds of weapons. If you're lucky, you'll be fighting a lot of aliens wielding Shock Batons, but chances are, you're not going to be even remotely that lucky. Instead, expect to find plenty of alien foes wielding their normal firearm fare in the form of Alien Disintegrators and Alien Atomizers. You'll also run into a couple of new kinds of enemies here, one easy to defeat, the other not so much. The first kind of new enemy you'll defeat are the rudimentary alien-built machines roving about called Support Drones. These guys specialize in melee combat, but can be easily defeated with simple firearm rounds. The other kind of new enemy is a cloaked alien foe that is essentially a damage sponge. Expect to heal a lot as you whittle down this enemy's health, though you should only run into one of them... for now.
Otherwise, there are a few items you can grab on the upper floor, but nothing too remarkable. Some Alien Epoxy can be found on a shelf to your left, and another alien container holds more weapons and ammunition for you to grab -- same old stuff. Head back to the ground floor when you can, and continue into the next area (the doors on the right side of the bottom floor in the previous area contain nothing, so they can be ignored outright). The winding path you reach from here is of the linear variety. When you reach another healing station tucked into a nook on your left, you know you're headed in the right direction. Oh, and a word on "Alien Workers" you might encounter. These guys are non-hostile and will actively run away from you when they see you. If you decide to kill them, they're only worth one experience point each, and furthermore, you'll earn negative karma for each death inflicted. You've been warned.
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After the healing station, you'll reach a fork in the road, but this is actually misleading. Both paths lead to an identical location, though you'll need to deal with some more alien foes en route. The staircase the two paths lead to will bring you to a path on your right. Follow this linear pathway, opening up the container on your left en route for more alien-tastic items. The control panels on the far side of the raised metal bridge are protected by more alien enemies and pesky (yet weak) alien-built gun turrets. As usual, use VATS from afar when you don't know what you're getting into in order to reveal locations of enemies obscured for vision. This is especially useful here, where steam is pouring out of pipes all over the place, cloaking both your movements and, unfortunately, the movements of your enemies.
Beyond the control panels and gun turrets is a healing station, and then a staircase leading downward. Extending outward from the bottom of the staircase is yet another of Mothership Zeta's linear corridors. A large pipe dominates the left side of this pathway, so as you encounter enemies in the next area, try to lure them back into this corridor, where you can take them out like fish in a barrel, lining the pathway with explosives for massive damage on multiple enemies simultaneously. Head rightward, and you'll soon thereafter encounter another staircase leading back up. More foreign, alien control boards can be found all over the place. Before swinging around the corner to your left, be sure to explore the isolated room on your right, where another container full of alien items can be found and looted.
The long metal bridge extending forward from this area splits on the right, but first, go forward and examine the tables there to find some items you can take with you, including more Large Alien Crystals and Small Alien Crystals. Then, backtrack and head down the alternate route, ignoring the control area and continuing along a winding metal path. Ahead of you is the door you've been looking for, which leads to Mothership Zeta's engineering core. Before you head on through with Sally, however, be certain you didn't leave any aliens behind. They're worth valuable experience, have plenty of useful items on them, and will ensure that if you need to backtrack later, you will find no unexpected resistance. Oh, and if you missed a rather inconspicuous shelf with goods on it as you were going through the steamworks, be sure to find it. You can find ultra rare Alien Power Cells for the Alien Blaster you found back in the Capital Wasteland.
Once through the door and within the confines of the engineering deck, you have some options. Sally will run off to the right and up some stairs, and eventually summon you up to her. However, ignore her for now. If you head left, and then backtrack, you'll find a room with a sealed door and a force field that's stopping you from exploring further. You can convince her later to open this up, where more standard alien items can be garnered, but you have to have a few special perks to be able to do so. You can also head forward in the other direction down that corridor, where it seems the ship's gigantic power supply is located. There are no hostiles present, but there is a container on the far side of the room that holds Alien Biogel and Alien Power Modules if you're interested in grabbing those. Then, backtrack to the entrance to the engineering wing.
After doing some cursory exploring, you can then head up the stairs and follow after Sally. She'll quickly get your attention up here by letting you know that the teleportation device that she once used to reach the deck of the ship is no longer operational. You can see this for yourself by trying to use it. Thankfully, Sally has a couple hundred years of experience up here, and runs across to the far end of the engineering wing, where she has an idea of how to continue. You can explore all you want around here, but other than some Alien Epoxy, you won't find anything of use here. The four doors leading out, two on each side, are all locked for the time being, so exploring areas like the hangar, cargo hold, robot assembly room and the like will have to wait 'til later. When you finally find Sally on the other side, she'll have a plan. After presenting it to you, this introductory mission will conclude.
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This is a different view from the Ed Deir monastery I presented you. I found interesting to show it from below to enhance the amazing carving work in the white-yellow sandstone.
This Nabatean building is 43m high and 44m wide and it was built during the IInd century BC. It was not a Monastery originally but something like a tomb or a religious sanctuary even if scientists are not really sure yet. It did became a Monastery during the Byzantin era in the Vth century AD.
Not only the building offers a breathtaking present for those who are ready to climb the 850 steps to reach the building under the hot sun but another reward is waiting for them. Indeed, if you walk a bit away from the building, you will reach some amazing panorama spots on the Wadi Araba below, a beautiful desert which is spreading very far to the south.
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Sweet picture. I really love the color and the sharpnes. The details are awesome
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excelent motive and original view of this Petra architecture miracol.
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bonjour Steven
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I can't remember whether it was Gore Vidal or Big Daddy Drew who first uttered the line, "it's not enough to succeed, others must fail." I can't even remember who he was referring to, but I like to imagine it was my Spurs friend Relegation Zone Mikey. Suffice it to say, RZM texted me last night to say that he had never been "at a lower point, footywise." Words cannot adequately express you how good it felt to revel in a week that saw Arsenal drink from the nectar of the soccer gods while Tottenham lay bleeding to relegation death on the floor of the Prem.
Seriously, life doesn't get much better than this. OK, maybe it does if you throw in a night in the crack den with Amy Ryan of Gone, Baby, Gone and matching broken metatarsals for Rooney and Tevez. But other than that...
And it didn't end there. After watching Arsenal put seven past Slavia Prague and Liverpool being ass-raped by Bestikas in mid-week Champions League qualifying, you can understand why I was in such a magnanimous mood yesterday at Kinsale.
"A round on Deadspin for my Liverpool brothers, " I said to Pauline behind the bar. "And an I.V. of lithium for Relegation Zone Mikey."
Could there have been a more pathetic looking figure among the Kinsale mob than RZM? Even the shmuck at the end of the bar in a throwback Csonka jersey who tried to watch that other football game in London yesterday could at least delude himself that his 0-8 team once had a proud history. Poor RZM had nothing other than his pint of Guinness and the look of a man who had endured a double colonoscopy.
"Get your filthy Gooner hands off me, " he hissed when I tried to put a comforting arm around him and offer my condolences for the last second Blackburn goal that condemned Tottenham to second from bottom. I didn't have the heart to ask him how he felt about the graceful way Spurs handled the mercy killing of their manager Martin Jol, or whether the Dutchman had donated his line of nylon leisurewear to his successor Juande Ramos, who, if nothing else, should give Benitez a run for the first Spanish Prem manager sacked in the new year.
Not surprisingly, when the Arsenal-Liverpool match kicked off, RZM sought kinship amid the Scouser faithful who stood three-deep at the bar and annoyed the shit out of me with their singing and chanting, until the 80th minute when Fabregas shut them up with his sublime toe-poke to tie it at 1-1 and keep the Gunners undefeated and tied with ManU at the top of the league.
Up to that point, Arsenal had seemingly reverted to last year's exasperating shenanigans, putting on their signature one-touch passing show at the edge of the box while Liverpool was perfectly content to sit back and wait for them to try to walk the ball into the goal. Then Carragher or Hypia would rudely intervene — a couple of more judo throws like the one you executed on Fabregas should get you your black belt, Jamie — and hoof the ball long in the direction of one of their three strikers (Veronin, Kuyt, and a clearly unfit Torres), who would run into a cul de sac of Arsenal defenders and be dispossessed. Except, that is, in the 7th minute when Liverpool was awarded a free kick about twenty yards out and Gerrard showed why, for all the talk about his recent dip in form, he is still da man on Merseyside. With Kuyt cleverly disrupting Arsenal's jerryrigged defensive wall, Gerrard found the seam and lashed a screamer into the net. "Sorry to ruin next week's Match of the Century," chortled Liverpool James, aka Lingering Bursitis, kitted out in his ridiculous red Carlsberg jersey. He was referring to next Saturday's epic clash at the Emirates between Arsenal's Invincibles and Manchester United's defending champions, which, I'm happy to report, will be graced by my presence. Trust me, Patriots-Colts looks like a Pop Warner game next to this.
"Fuck off, you limey bastard," I cooly replied to Lingering Bursitis, "there's still 83 minutes to play." And what a memorable 83 minutes they were, pulsating with full-blooded challenges (Gallas' sliding, last ditch tackle on Gerrard in the 89th minute saved the Gunners' arse), goalmouth clearances, shots off the post, acrobatic saves (Alumunia had three gems to push Lehmann closer to bidding Auf Wiedersehn to Wenger), missed open goals and the quicksilver interchanges between Hleb, Rosicky and Fabregas that is the closest thing to total football you'll ever see in England. "Ooh, what sexy football," mocked my Liverpool friend Gandhi (yes, that's his real name) after Arsenal sliced open the Reds' defense with five one-touch passes only for Adebayour, who had a woeful game, to fire directly into a diving Reina's arms. "Too bad you couldn't score in a brothel," he added, displaying that rapier Scouser wit.
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Two of their misses were almost comical if you weren't an Arsenal supporter. In the 53rd minute, Eboue thundered a shot off the post that caromed directly to Fabregas alone in front, the goal gaping at his mercy. The Spanish maestro had enough time to sift through his love letters from Barcelona's owners before rolling the ball into the net but instead chose to hastily pull the trigger and shanked his shot wide left. Then in the 85th minute, it was Nicolas Bendtner's turn to transform himself from little-used sub to Arsenal legend when Fabregas' shot rebounded off the post to the young Dane's feet. Smashing the ball into Row H at Anfield, I'm afraid, won't qualify him for a bronze statue.
Fortunately, only minutes before, there had been that moment of genius from Hleb who with a Bergkampesque flick of the ankle released Fabregas for his cooly taken goal that meant Arsenal was going into its showdown with ManU with the swagger of a team that had overcome its first real challenge of the season even as it saw its 12 game winning streak come to an end. Of course, next Saturday figures to be the ultimate test now that Tevez and Rooney are evolving into a scary-ass strike partnership — witness their three goals against Man City including Rooney's sick backheel assist — and Ronaldo and Nani are wreaking havoc on the flanks. But the young Gunners know no fear.
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Performing Animal Welfare Society's biennial Elephant Summit at the end of March 2012 brought together at the Oakland Zoo elephant lovers and leaders from all over the world. There were presentations both exciting and painful to see from cutting edge researchers and conservationists, in the field; from elephant activists and advocates working to improve the lot of captive elephants; government agents, lawyers, veterinarians, trainers and elephant welfare specialists, filmmakers, sanctuary starters and keepers, zookeepers, writers, photographers, and people who love and are involved with elephants in every imaginable way.
There were presenters and participants from Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Brussels, U.K., Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, as well as all over the USA.
It was a thrilling and exhausting three days of learning and interacting with like-minded people at the Zoo education center, followed by an optional trip to the PAWS Sanctuary in San Andreas on the fourth and very rainy day. Delicious vegetarian and vegan lunches were served, many prepared by Tanya Petrovna of the popular Native Foods restaurant chain. A tour of the zoo's elephant barns and exhibit by the Elephant Curator Colleen Kinzley, and a lovely welcoming reception delighted the participants.
Joel Parrott, DVM, Executive Director of the Oakland Zoo and probably one of the most progressive Zoo director in the country, and Pat Derby and Ed Stewart, Founders of The Performing Animal Welfare Society opened the conference. Stewart was the Emcee for much of it, and a very humorous one he was, cracking jokes in between what were often grim facts that we were absorbing, sometimes with horrific video footage to boot.
Everyone at the Summit was in agreement about the wonder and majesty of elephants, and about the raw deal they are receiving around the globe at the hands of humans.
The first day focused mainly on the advocacy campaigns in the US and abroad that are very active and often very effective, although there is no end in sight to the need. The highlight of the community activism in the US today centers on the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (TEAPA), or HR 3359 which is making its way through Congress. This bill, sponsored by Animal Defenders International, the PAWS Sanctuary and Bob Barker, with the help of actress Jorja Fox, seeks to outlaw the mistreatment of wild animals in circuses, particularly when they are chained, caged and made to travel in small enclosures around the country to perform. Elephants are often chained up for 11 hours a day, when their wild behavior dictates they roam and forage for at least 16 hours and walk at least 6 miles a day.
ADI, brainchild of Jan Creamer, President and Founder, and her partner Tim Phillips have conducted undercover investigations and spearheaded cruelty prosecutions and legal cases in the UK, Europe and South America. These have led, so far to the halving of the number of animals in UK circuses in just 6 months, and an active role securing the recent bans on animal circuses in Peru, Bolivia, Portugal and Greece. Jan's motto is "We just keep going…we don't go away." Bolivia now has the most progressive law on animal circuses in the world. In California you can legally chain an elephant for 19 hours a day.
Kartick Satyanarayan and Geeta Seshamani, Founders of Wildlife SOS India discussed captive elephant issues in India. In India, elephants work and are utilized for making money. They have been used in battles, temples, processions, circuses, begging, zoos, timber logging. There are 3,500 of them on overpopulated city streets, so for most people they and their welfare are ignored. The Mahouts who take care of the elephants are not trained and mostly treat them in crude and inhumane methods as beating and chaining, administering drugs to the elephants in the mouth. Some recent laws have outlawed much of the cruelty but there is little enforcement, and no where for the abused elephants to go.
Kartick and Geeta, who have done much to shut down the dancing bear industry in India and have created one small sanctuary for elephants, are looking to open several more to hold the 140 of them now waiting to be sent to rescue centers. They hope to open a training center for mahouts and to eventually not have any more elephants on the streets.
Leonie Vesterling gave a report of the Dutch association against the use of wild animals in circuses. She would later announce with her partners in Elephant Haven Foundation, their intention to open an elephant sanctuary in France.
Catherine Doyle, head of elephant campaigns for In Defense of Animals (IDA) has initiated letter writing campaigns for abused elephants and reported on 37 US cities that have banned circuses so far.
Delcianna Winders, Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement at People For The Ethincal Treatment of Animals (PETA) worked on the case against Ringling Brothers' cruelty towards elephants. Evidence was gathered of baby elephants being beaten before going on stage, being prodded electrically, hit with bullhooks and chaining. They have ben forced to work with injuries, asphyxiated by holding the trunk. Court case did not go through, although some fines have been levied.
Ed Stewart lightened up the mood by telling us he didn't know the highlight of his life would be acting as a flight attendant for elephants. He accompanied Maggie the elephant from the Alaska zoo to PAWS sanctuary, and is looking forward to traveling with the three elephants who are set to be released from the Toronto zoo.
ADI's campaign director Matt Rossell briefed us on the TEAPA bill and the necessity for everyone to pitch it on a grass roots level.
Attorney Martha Golar of the Bar Association of the City of New York spoke about animal law. Reports issued by her animal law committee are very influential in the media. She recommends that people contact animal law schools to find other associations to back up issues that are in the law and need to be highlighted to the USDA and other entities.
After lunch there was a surprising talk by Denise M. Sofranko DVM, Field Specialist for Elephants with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)who gave us a perspective from the federal government and all the hoops she and others in her department must go through to take action. It was great to meet someone in her position who cares so deeply about elephant welfare.
Cindy Machado is a Humane officer from the Marine Humane Society who has worked on many anti-circus campaigns in California. She gives free four hour training nationally to animal control officers. She is just a phone call away. She advises we look at local ordinance laws. They often give local authority quite a bit of authority. When the local animal control gets training materials specific to elephants before the exhibitor come to town, they can recognize specific issues like excessive thirst, how to document problems of failing to provide bet care and the 112 different weapons that are used on elephants. More officers inspecting and knowing what to look for at circuses can lead, at least to slightly better care for the animals.
Local activists told about their work: Katie Maneeley, founder of the Animal Agency, She worked with Last Chance for Animals (LCA), IDA , ADI and Best Friends to get a ban on elephant rides at the Orange County Fair. She has also worked with PETA to replace free circus tickets from Ringling for disadvantaged children, with movie tickets. With a background in advertising, Katie wants to work on animal advocacy through messaging, to get the messages out to the unaware masses of people.
Anna Ware of the Atlanta Humane Society talked about her campaigns to ban bull hooks. Ringling Brothers is a large and powerful corporation that counters any attack with an equally strong one. She recommends working with a large organization like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Linda Faso of Las Vegas has been an animal advocate for years and recommends being well informed not only on the animal issues but on your local government heads and how they stand on the issues.
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Thirty-nine House Democrats on Friday broke ranks to support a Republican bill that would allow health insurers to continue selling plans canceled under Obamacare through 2014, the first test of support on Capitol Hill since the law's disastrous rollout.
The House voted , 261-157, to pass the bill by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.). It's a significant show of disloyalty to the White House, but House Democrats had expected the defections to be far higher before the Obama administration said Thursday that it would pursue an administrative fix to the cancellation problem.
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Obama's White House vowed to veto the bill, saying it "threatens the health security of hard working, middle class families." The bill is headed nowhere in the Democratic-led Senate, where a number of Senate Democrats have also proposed their own changes to the health care law.
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Four Republicans opposed the bill — Reps. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, Paul Broun of Georgia, Ralph Hall of Texas and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Some conservatives had feared the bill could be viewed as making Obamacare "better."
The Democratic defections largely came from members from the most moderate districts, including Reps. Bruce Braley of Iowa, Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Ami Bera of California, Nick Rahall of West Virginia. Also voting in support was Rep. Patrick Murphy of Florida, where the local Blue Cross plan got significant attention for sending out 300,000 cancellation notices.
But other Democrats voted for the bill, too, including Reps. Peter DeFazio of Oregon and John Garamendi of California.
Democrats had feared mass defections earlier in the week, but Obama's mea culpa speech on Thursday — along with persuasion from White House officials who came to the Hill to meet with House and Senate Democrats — stanched the blow somewhat.
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In a further attempt to limit the Democratic support for a Republican bill, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) held two meetings with her caucus in recent days with top administration officials, including the president's chief of staff, Denis McDonough.
Still, the vote lured several politically vulnerable House Democrats over to the Republican side, as the health care law became a major focal point in their reelection campaigns next year. Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), a top target of House Republicans, said he supported the Upton bill because this part of the health law didn't "work."
"It's a huge bill, over 2,000 pages, there are going to be unintended consequences, there are going to be things that don't work," Barber said Friday of the health care law. "And I'm about fixing things that don't work. I don't want to see us throw the baby out with the bathwater, which is what some people recommend."
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Before the administrative repair was announced, upwards of 100 House Democrats had threatened to support the Upton bill because they were worried about campaign ads against them on the president's broken promise that consumers would be able to keep their insurance plans under Obamacare.
Upton, speaking on CNN Friday, said the thinks his bill — and the potential for Democratic support — spurred the White House's administrative fix.
"Until they saw that we were going to have some 300 votes a couple days ago, they were just going to sit on their hands," Upton told CNN on Friday. "That finally prompted the White House yesterday afternoon to announce this administrative change that they're trying to do."
"But until then, they were willing, ready and willing to let literally millions of folks who were going the lose their individual policies … go over the edge," he added.


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Daily Slice: Vincente's Gourmet Pizza, Portland, Oregon
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The unkempt hipster who waited on me at Vincente's offered a special which he referred to as the "daily slice", making the artichoke, bacon, and cheddar-topped pizza ($4.00) the obvious must-try choice. I noticed lots of young, hungry skate punks, a bucket full of ice-chilled 40's for sale, and indicators of the existence of a 'thai pizza', causing me to question my reliance upon the four Yelp stars that brought me in. When the pizza arrived at my table, the most important and final verdict was soon delivered.
The slice actually looked good... until I touched it. Immediately upon picking it up, I realized it was soft-to-the-touch and grease had totally soaked through its uber-thin body. The 'ABC' had a texture more closely resembling an open-faced quesadilla, which forced me to eat it folded in two. The two-tone cheese was flavorless and only partially melted. The bacon seemed of the sweeter, maple-y variety, which disrupted the harmony of this pizza. Briny artichoke hearts added character, but not enough, and the tomato element lacked seasoning and acidity. Flecks of dried herbs were present but bland. The crust was airy and brittle like an old newspaper, and seemed to contain a sweet spice element (nutmeg? cinnamon?) which further pushed this pizza into the 'do not want' pile. OK, I admit it. I was sucked in to the void of Yelp reviewers and luckily managed to escape; next time I'll just ask friends (or read Slice).
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It's really simple and a great product," Hague said. Other recent images he posted show him feeding sharks and heading into the pricey sushi restaurant Nobu.Hague said that one positive side effect from the case is the fact that "it has allowed me to spend more time recently with family and friends." He also said he's learned a lot about himself "from my mistake," and gotten healthier physically, acknowledging that the stress of running Centerplate "got to me." Hague's Twitter feed shows him looking relaxed, and trimmer than his days at Centerplate. Froozer, in a statement emailed to CNBC, said, "We are delighted to have someone of Mr."This mirrors our corporate philosophy and was an important consideration for bringing Des on board, as opposed to an isolated, out-of-character incidence from the past," Froozer said.The 48-year-old Hague, who pleaded guilty in connection to the incident, became an investor and chairman of the board several months ago of his new company Froozer. Colorado-based Froozer sells tubes of frozen fruit and vegetables, an official snack of the U. He also talked about his desire to do good on the heels of that, his charitable endeavors and his enthusiasm about working with Froozer."In my case, it was less than a minute in Vancouver two years ago," Hague said."I made a dreadful mistake one night, but I believe it has not defined me, and I think I have the potential to do good." Hague said he was excited to identify an opportunity to invest in Froozer."I came across this healthy food that's good for athletes, kids and more. Philanthropist," and an "imperfect human being working to better myself." This week, the Connecticut resident had updated his Twitter followers about a vacation in the Bahamas, where a photo Hague posted Thursday shows him swimming with pigs.That's what Trump wants us 2 do is leave/run away from USA & problems.
Hague's caliber lead our organization." "Our decision to engage Des was based on his experience, leadership qualities and prior business successes which speak for themselves," the company said."Over a twenty-five-year period of leading global public and private companies, he has established himself as an innovative thinker in the international business world." Froozer also cited the "significant amount of time and energy" Hague devotes to nonprofit charitable work and has helped raise more than 0 million over the past few years.I was here b 4 Trump was elected ima be here during & after his term is over. Says Melania Trump speaks 5 different languages fluently, English isn't indicated to be one of those languages. Fallen food executive Des Hague has been hired to run a frozen food company, two years after a viral video exposing him abusing a small dog led to his resignation as CEO of top food concessionaire Centerplate. newspaper in Stamford, Conn., In an interview with CNBC on Friday, Hague discussed his remorse over the incident with the dog, which he had kicked repeatedly and whose leash he had harshly yanked.
Luvs..heart(mi corazon)is still hurting on how Donald Trump won this election.
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Naturalism is the understanding that there is a single, natural world as shown by science, and that we are completely included in it. - Thomas W Clark
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I hear you. Knowledge of nature is not experience of nature. Regarding the experiential and existential aspect of naturalism— Ajita Kamal, the late founder of this Atheist Nexus Naturalism group, had this to say:
"It is a pleasant thought to know that we are not as divided it seems. It's this common story we share that brings us together to 'rejoice' at the idea of existence. This feeling is not new. I had always wondered at the natural universe and have never ceased to be humbled by it. But now, I am starting to actually feel something that I thought I had lost forever. I am starting to feel like I belong." —Ajita Kamal 1978-2011
As best I can describe, "it" would be our place within the natural world. We have traded a lot of time, energy, and in many ways sanity in order to obtain the knowledge of the outside looking in. We're beggining to come full circle (in my oppinion) to understanding and naming a way of life that, granted there are many ways to live that fit here, just was.
That's a great question, but what exactly do you mean by "it"? I think you mean the natural earth out of which our kind evolved.
Thanks for the response!
I agree Mike. Categorizing is what makes us what we are. There would be no reasoning if we didn't have mental files to group things in. There would be no understanding. Additionally, being social creatures, we thrive in the comfort of a group. While I'm at it, I may as well concede how much I enjoy our cultures current (and hopefully future) expanding knowledge of our natural world.
I believe you've helped to hone my actual question.
I've recently spent a few months in some of the more remote parts of Africas interior, and made what I thought to be an interesting comparison between our cultures. Granted, there are monumental differences in technology, and knowledge, and every culture I encountered had been influenced by colonialism. But, at no point did anyone feel the need to consider themselves anything but their tribe.
They live within the means that nature allows, sustainably (minus over-hunting in some areas thanks to shotguns), but far and away more natural than the "greenest" Americans. I guess after all that, my question would be better worded as: "Are we better off knowing it or living it?"
Hi Jeff and welcome. Names and categories (concepts) are essential to human cognition and language. We can't think, let alone speak without them. I agree that we humans have been loosing our connection to our natural earth which is a shame, but science (methodological naturalism) has in my opinion radically increased our understanding of nature.
Everyone has a top concept— a category that includes all one's categories. For some it is God, or Dharma, or the spirit world. My top concept is nature. But I don't worship it or pray to it or get angry at it. I just want to better understand it.
So long as I don't spam it, I don't think messaging about naturalism can make me what I oppose.
I have a question. Don't get me wrong; I have no intention of undermining anyones motivation for categorizing themselves into a group of like minded people. I too share the same ideals expressed in/through Naturalism. What really intrigues me is the need for a name, and a category. It's like the saying, "If sense was common, they wouldn't have a name for it." I realize for thousands of years, we've been evolving our culture towards our current way of thinking, all the while loosing our connection to, and understanding of, our world. I also understand how uncommon this way of thinking seems to be, but it seems like we are idolizing something that should just "be". How do you get a message or point across without becoming what you oppose?
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Hi Tabitha. Welcome to naturalism. In a nutshell, philosophical naturalism is the view that nature is probably the ultimate order of being, and that nature is enough to account for all of the order and complexity that we experience.
Hello, all! I'm new here :) I'm also new to the naturalist philosophy in general, growing up in a theistic household my whole life. I look forward to our conversations :) the vids were great! :D
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On a cool autumnal Saturday afternoon in Coney Island, a steady stream of revelers enter the grounds of MCU Park for the 30th annual Great Irish Fair last weekend. Young and old, couples, families and friends, they were all united in a shared appreciation of their Irish heritage.
The tradition began in 1982 when Monsignor Joseph Funaro of Catholic Charities and members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) coordinated the inaugural Great Irish Fair under the Brooklyn Bridge.
An ethnic festival showcasing the diversity of the immigrant neighborhood, its popularity and success meant it would soon become an annual event.
After a brief hiatus, the Irish American Building Society reestablished the three-day festival in 2007, and the event has continued to draw a strong crowd since. Keeping with tradition, all net proceeds are donated to a charitable fund for the benefit of Brooklyn Diocesan Catholic elementary schools.
Martin Cottingham, chairman of the Great Irish Fair was busy greeting the crowds on Saturday.
"What's up big guy, how are you doing? Thank you for coming down," he says to one passerby.
The award ceremony for the 2011 honorees is complete and now the swelling crowd seems absorbed by the music, food and fun on offer.
"Today is definitely a busy day," he says with a smile.
"We have been planning this for a full year in advance, a tremendous amount of logistics, preparation and co-ordination," he told the Irish Voice. "It's well worth it. We have an outstanding committee who are extremely dedicated."
Cottingham himself has vivid memories of attending the Great Irish Fair as a child.
"I remember staying late and having so much fun," he said.
Witnessing his own daughter participate in the fair is something very special he says.
"When you see them Irish dancing here in Coney Island you realize that is what it is all about. You need to pass these traditions on and pass the Irish culture forward and we like to think that in a small way we are doing our part," he reflected.
"It's a day for the community to gather together and see a lot of friends that you may only see this weekend. It's a great cause and really all you have to do is show up."
Dozens of stalls are dotted throughout the park as people wander around browsing. A couple is examining a Celtic chain at Stephanie's Silver, admiring the detail of the ornate cross.
"It's for me," Neil Nally tells me.
"I will get mine later on!" his girlfriend Valerie jokes.
Nally, who was born in the Bronx to Irish parents, says his father has been attending the Great Irish Fair for years. Curious, he finally decided to check it out.
"It's my first year and it's a great day out. There is good food, lots of beer. We are having a good time," he said.
His red hair is not the only indicator of his Irish lineage. Dressed in a green check shirt, he says he tries to get back to Ireland as often as he can.
"We used to live in Ireland, myself and the family, so the parents are here today. I am from a firehouse in Queens so I invited all the guys out here after they get off work," he said.
"It's a great day to come out and celebrate our heritage."
On the main stage, the Canny Brothers Band is entertaining a lively crowd. As the Brooklyn group pause between tracks, lead singer Keith Fallon addresses the audience.
"Good afternoon Coney Island!" The crowd cheers in response.
Weaving through the stalls, two young ladies are dressed in green from head-to-toe. Green sunglasses, green beaded "Irish" chains -- there is no way of missing their loyalty to the Emerald Isle.
After growing up in Windsor Terrace in Brooklyn, the ladies tell the Irish Voice, the annual Great Irish Fair is an event they seldom miss.
"Everybody comes. This is a big thing. I am in school in Philly and I came up especially for it," said Kelly O'Connell.
"There is a big group of us. I used to Irish dance here, so we used to come every year," she added.
"I even painted my nails green," she laughed, before showing perfectly lacquered nails.
The two friends are in agreement. "It's halfway to St. Patrick's Day so we have got to celebrate it!"
Eying Irish t-shirts and sweaters, the Barrere family are gathered around the Connolly Designs stall.
"Both my parents are from Belfast," Patricia Barrere (formally Molloy) told the Irish Voice.
Like most Irish American families, the annual outing is something they have been attending for years.
"I have been coming here forever," she said.
A family day out, Barrere says bringing her three children to the fair is important.
"I want them to remember their Irish heritage. Both my parents are deceased and I want them to know about Ireland," she said.
It's a family affair at the 2012 Brooklyn St. Patrick's Day Parade stall as Kathleen and John McDonagh and their son James are chatting to some customers.
Kathleen's sweater emblazoned with the words "God Bless America." It's clear to see how this Tipperary woman is a pillar of her local Park Slope community.
She talks of how she met her husband John on Donegal Hill in Prospect Park.
"He was playing hurling and I was playing camogie," she recalled.
Referring to the early years of the Great Irish Fair, she says it is an important date on their social calendar.
"I have come every year for the past 30 years," McDonagh says.
"We used to play camogie, hurling and Gaelic football when it first started down under the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn is really a fantastic place to have anything because there is a lot of history here.
"I am glad the younger people are getting more involved. We need to just look on now," she concluded.