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Despite the fact that gun debates within the US government basically don't happen while it took the Supreme Court to decide that the creation of video games is protected by the freedom of expression, the Entertainment Software Association managed to beat the National Rifle Association in lobbying bills last year, $4.8 million to $3 million, […]0
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CD Projekt Red is finally set to ravish one of its RPGs with multiplayer. Although it was recently hinted The Witcher 3 could include multiplayer elements, it seems Cyberpunk 2077 is all but confirmed to steal its thunder.6
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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Science has announced Gabe Newell will be the 17th inductee into the AIAS Hall of Fame. Valve's co-founder and president will also headline the D.I.C.E. 2013 Summit stage as Thursday conference keynote speaker.3
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With the worldwide release of L.A. Noire less than a week away, gamers are waiting with bated breath to see if Rockstar Games' new crime thriller can live up to the hype. Wait no longer, a UK paper has gone ahead and published its review of the game a little ahead of schedule.11
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Chemistry is developing, but Paul Pierce says Boston Celtics aren't where they want to be
Feel free to consider this overanalysis of a throwaway quote, but Paul Pierce says the Celtics haven't achieved the levels of chemistry they hope to achieve just yet.
Obviously, it's preseason and this is far from something to worry about. Teams get better and better the longer they play with each other and while the Celtics made a series of excellent additions during the offseason, those additions will need some time to adjust to each other. Still, it's certainly worth noting.
"I saw a lot of good things in the preseason that we can build upon," forward Paul Pierce said. "As far as being ready, we're going to continue to get better as the year goes on. We're not at where we want to be but that's going to come as we play more games, as the year goes along until we reach our peak. Chemistry sometimes doesn't happen overnight like it did in '08.''
Rondo has been quoted saying that this is the best team they've had since his arrival, implying that the '12-13 C's are better than the 2008 championship team. I find this difficult to believe, not from a personnel standpoint, but because of quotes like this from Pierce. The 2008 crew was an absolute juggernaut because they all bought into the team concept completely, and they did it immediately after that legendary trip to Rome. They were so infectious because the defense was frenzied, almost chaotic in its intensity, but also because the offense was good (10th in the NBA). They achieved levels of offensive acceptability (something we haven't seen since then, by the way) by working as a unit. Garnett, Pierce and Allen all gave up shot attempts and personal stats, and as a result, they were all rewarded with their first championship.
Team chemistry is one of the most tangible intangibles. A team that doesn't work well together, no matter how talented, probably won't win a championship (an obvious exception being the Shaq/Kobe Lakers). These players seem to be enjoying each other, which will go a long way toward establishing chemistry, but it seems difficult to believe that they will surpass 2008′s team. That's not a knock, it's a testament to that group.
What does this mean for this year? Remarkably little. We may see some growing pains at the beginning of the season (and yes, I'm looking at October 30 with some trepidation for this very reason), but it will be important not to panic. This team isn't built for October 30, it's built for May and (hopefully) June.
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Who cares what PP thinks? It's RR's team now and I believe we are much better than the 2008, talent and depth, and that will be proved out very quickly. I say we win at least 20 of the first 25 games to prove this point. Go Cs…hurry up Tuesday!!! And get the banner changed please or the C-Town Stike of 2012 will happen 10/30!!!
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Is the BlackBerry 9100 hiding around the corner?
According to Jibi, the BlackBerry 9100 might just hiding around the corner. With all the talks about the upcoming BlackBerry 9000, we are wondering if the 9100 might be the 3G front-facing camera model we talked about earlier in the week.
Anyways Jibi over at BGR found some mentions of the BlackBerry 9000 and 9100 in some new Blackberry software. There is also mentions of an "External Display" which sounds very hot.


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Mocking Mao
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Reader Nelson pimped his Mao. It's my favorite:
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Reader Liz sent this old but goodie photoshop. It's my second favorite:
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On the eve of the Brit Awards, blonde babes Rita Ora and Iggy Azalea stepped out in style to Nick Grimshaw's first annual award season dinner at Hix in London. The "R.I.P." singer rocked a fur shall, while the Australian rapper wowed in orange. The ladies dined with some of the U.K.'s biggest stars including Tinie Tempah, One Direction's Harry Styles, and Mark Ronson.
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This week, a bipartisan group of mayors in Indiana came together to launch Mayors for Freedom, a new effort that speaks out against HJR-6, a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to permanently ban all protections for same-sex couples and their families in Indiana.
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Mayors in Kansas and Arkansas speak out for the freedom to marry
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Mayors, Businesses, and State organizations urge Supreme Court to overturn DOMA
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Hawks request waivers on Salmons to clear cap room
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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks have requested waivers on forward John Salmons.
The move announced Friday was expected after the Hawks acquired Salmons from Toronto last week. Atlanta dealt away guard Lou Williams and the rights to Brazilian center Lucas Nogueira in a move to clear space under the salary cap.
By paying the $1 million buyout of Salmons' $7 million salary, the Hawks will have about $11.5 million for additional signings. They opened free agency by formally announcing a deal for Oklahoma swingman Thabo Sefolosha.
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Posted by Snakebucket on 1/18 at 11:25 pm to BreesusWow, 5 nominations. You hate me, you really hate me!!!
Now if I would only get off my lazy Arse and post more Stupid, Heat Seeking(and miserably failing) missives, I might lock up a few of these babies.
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Ill take that. He was fricking Alba for awile.
Just so you know I have both eyes. Just sayin....
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Posted by NS Who Dat Nation on 1/19 at 7:50 am to MeateyeDamn I started something.
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Posted by Patrick O Rly on 1/19 at 7:54 am to SnakebucketGuys, before this goes any further, I think we need to pause and remember what the Datty's are really about: a divisive popularity contest that helps bridge the gap between the end of the season and free agency and the draft.
Carry on.
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Posted by Servedinafghanistan on 1/19 at 8:17 am to Patrick O RlyDefinitely a popularity contest. Kafka was bullied his whole life and must redeem himself.
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Posted by goatmilker on 1/19 at 8:56 am to NS Who Dat Nation
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Posted by CptRusty on 1/19 at 10:19 am to goatmilkerwtf goat
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Posted by Patrick O Rly on 1/19 at 1:54 pm to goatmilkerShe's beautiful goats. You must be very proud.
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Posted by goatmilker on 1/19 at 2:42 pm to Patrick O RlyThanks man.
Not fast but makes up in style.
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Posted by goatmilker on 1/19 at 3:32 pm to Kafka
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To the Funniest Poster:
Seemingly strange choice here but as I cannot vote Blu for 'best pairs of pics' for 2012 I will do so here. Great Job all year Blue 'cheers'.
The Goodell
To the poster who maintains he's right in the face of overwhelming evidence against him
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To the Smartest Poster (in football; we don't care about GPAs):
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To the poster who had a few good moments, but everyone still wants gone anyway:
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Roger Goodell
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For the Best Thread of the Year:
Usually the ones started by Blueslover and chadboy504
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"Saints will be blown out"
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IceCold yea I know lol
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Posted by Hugo Stiglitz on 1/19 at 11:54 pm to goatmilkerFine show good sir... (golf clap)
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Posted by blueslover on 1/21 at 10:54 am to Hugo Stiglitzmy answer to the angelic goat
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Posted by chRxis on 1/21 at 10:55 am to Hugo Stiglitzi didn't get one nomination for comeback poster?? well, at least i'm not the most hated dude around the board anymore….
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did you post here this season?
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Posted by SEClint on 1/21 at 2:11 pm to goatmilkeri agree and 2nd all these votes with the exception of "The Drunken Bobby" going to breesus.
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And I know ChRxis posted some before the season and was reasonable, but I didn't see a lot of him during the season.
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Todd Starnes is rather angry about a book being made available in schools.
The book is Jodi Picoult's Ninteen Minutes and I am rather amused for the reason why. Let's first see what his arguments are. [Read more…]
Todd Starnes is rather angry about a book being made available in schools.
The book is Jodi Picoult's Ninteen Minutes and I am rather amused for the reason why. Let's first see what his arguments are. [Read more…]
This one's being doing the rounds.
It is rather weird to me to see people bully someone who is fighting cancer but apparently it happens. [Read more…]
So the results of the fundraiser.
We raised a lot of money. In fact a LOT more than we needed. Nearly 200 pounds between us.
We raised enough to get not one walker but TWO out there to Dave. The logic is this. For indoor use there is a walker (A zimmer frame with two wheels) which allows him to use it indoors and in closed spaces. This won't help him play around. When he is stronger there is a different type of walker that will let him move more surely while providing support (It's a rollator. A walker with wheels). This will allow him to walk longer distances unaided and indeed play since he can move faster.
To get one in his size was a big search. I must have called two or three different places and looked at medical supply shops. The thing is 5 year olds are so very rarely hurt in our society so they simply "don't make them that small".
Except these two devices.
These were designed for people his age. While the second is mainly for cerebral palsy children it will help strengthen his back and stop him from slouching about too while the first will build his upper arm strength (remember you have to lift it with each step).
So well done to all of you for making this possible. Dave should get his walkers by next weekend. Hopefully before he leaves the hospital.
And in return? Dave may have something special for you guys. They are planning to video him walking and I figure you guys need to see what you have done to realise how important this was to him. The remaining money is to go to Uttrakhand flood relief and will help house and feed dozens of people.
So if DuWayne has to put up with Dave getting up to mischief it is entirely our faults.
So… round of applause. Thank you for helping out.
Listen Very Carefully Because I will Say This Only Once (To any who get this line, you are either British or very very weird or possibly both).
If you are Ed Brayton? Fuck off! This post is not for you. Go away and get mad at conservatives. This is plotting. Secret Plotting. [Read more…]
People ask "why do you study and work in India" to which I respond "It's because of who I am". Because I had an opportunity to study Medicine and an opportunity to learn here and the experience is fantastic even if it is sometimes challenging and difficult.
The best things in life are hard. [Read more…]
There is nothing happy in this post. There is however something you can do to make others happy. Just writing this broke my heart and genuinely made me tear up. I couldn't continue writing what I had written without crying. The following post is just that sad. You can't make this kind of sadness go away. But remember no matter how sad you feel from reading about it, you can do something to help those who feel worse than this.
Now that I have your attention… This is a perfectly safe for work article. Except for the title. We all know why you clicked here. It's to satiate your sordid bee lust. And yes I am not above sinking to sexing up my boring articles with pictures of titilation. Want more? Well then you just have to click on the link… [Read more…]
Madeline Kara had diabetes. Childhood diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases of children with type 1 diabetes affecting around 1.7 per 1000 Americans and a varying amount for type 2 (because ethnicity and socio-economic status plays a role).
I said "had", because Madeline Kara passed away from a diabetic HONK coma. (Hyperglycaemic Hyperosmolar Nonketoic Coma – Uncontrolled diabetes is deadly.)
Because her parents would rather pray to god than let humans use their skill, ingenuity and knowledge to save their daughter's life.
To realise how dangerous religion can be, we must first understand what a Delusion is. You are delusional can mean "You have no grasp of what's going on". But in medicine? A delusion is a psychiatric disorder where the patient holds a firm belief in something that can be empirically proven to be false. However any proof provided will be rejected out of hand and any attempts to convince the patient that their delusion is incorrect will merely become part of the delusion.
Leilani and Dave Neumann were so deluded by their faith that even after their daughter died they insisted that she would come back to life…
If we ignore the faith aspect of things, Leilani and Dave would be sectioned. They are clearly delusional. No psychiatrist in the world would consider them to be responsible for their actions because they are genuinely not thinking using the same logic that we come to accept as normal. They don't believe in something we understand as real. However what complicates this is faith. Religion is the world's most acceptable delusion. The joke amongst psychiatrist is that "God" is the only acceptable voice in your head.
Many people don't know this but you are legally obligated to pull in an ambulance if someone is in trouble. This case is remarkable in Wisconsin because it sets a precedence for parents being liable for their actions with regards to faith. In the USA a whole bunch of states (I tried researching and I got up to 12) have clauses for the protection of parents who use prayer rather than medicine.
When tried both were sentenced to 25 years in prison, except the judge reduced the sentence to a month in prison every year for six months and then 10 years of probation. But here is the thing.
Why? If the reason they did this was "Aliens" they would be sectioned under various mental health acts (Insanity isn't "getting off lightly". Insanity Pleas are often WORSE than prison since they can keep you forever because your condition may require permanent care and it's actually pretty hard to get it). But their sentence was reduced because they believed in a god. Wisconsin is one of those states with a law protecting faith healing. At best it can be tried as child abuse, not homicide.
It doesn't matter what the outcome of the case is. The parents are not "guilty" of anything. It's clearly a mental health issue and they are ill. They cannot be held responsible because they are clearly medically delusional about their actions. Punishing them will not make them understand. It won't bring back Madeline and it won't convince the faith healers to stop and take responsibility.
What matters is there is religion out there that CREATES these people. That feeds and creates this delusion.
I am a big fan of Russel Howard's Good News (It's a british comedy show) and every episode ends with something good. News generally is just horrible things. Good things rarely make the news. And for all my rants about various really sad issues and about idiots who think ignorance is an equal viewpoint to science there are beautiful things in the world done by real people. I wanted to start a series of posts on stuff that isn't bitterly sad and deeply disturbing.
So this week's story of amazing things is Rachel. Rachel tried to raise $300 to send to Africa for clean drinking water. She fell short with just $220. It was her birthday wish to give people in Africa water. A 9 year old refusing presents to send money to Africa to help create infrastructure is a good thing. A month later she passed away in an accident.
When people heard about her birthday wish they raised over a $1,000,000 for water infrastructure.
Clean drinking water is a necessity not a luxury. Show them some love too. Charity: Water still is out there building infrastructure. Give some money, if you cannot pass it on so someone else can.
|Ah! The simpler life of barn dances, buggy rides
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Erin Friar, thinks that religion makes a strong foundation for children.
I believe it makes one of the weakest of foundations, because it is a foundation built on the concept of culturally acceptable superstition. To put it into perspective, I had a couple of americans (online ones) get a bit angry when I pointed out that the Taliban's ethos are no different from the Amish. Both believe in a simpler life, it's just that the Amish don't believe in modern guns and forcing other people to do their bidding while the Taliban do. They are both luddite societies, it's just that we "like" the amish despite their insane sexism (the finest of the 17th century). Mainly because in the USA the amish are seen as harmless and quaint while the taliban are seen as backwards.
|Pictured! Someone whose
family believed in Mazda.
The person who wrote this doesn't care about structure in so much as the Christian ritual, the child is only considered to have a structured day if the child is doing a Christian structure.
|Pictured. The result of the Church's
measured stance of taboo on sex.
The Church plain lied about drugs, alcohol and sex. The marijuana advertisements of yesteryear are naive and the church doesn't spread the truth about it which results in more people of faith using and doing drugs simply because they don't hear the actual truth. Alcohol is fine in moderation, and treating it as a product of the devil makes people blame the devil for their weakness and addiction rather than working on fighting it themselves. Sex is great, the church's stance on sex actually causes greater amounts of underage sex because kids quickly figure out the church is lying and then spend all their time trying to get the "nice happy feeling" because obviously their adults are a bunch of tools who don't know what they are talking about. This is exacerbated by a combination of the anti-contraception and pro-life stance of the churches and by the anti-homosexual stance of it. Not all drugs are equal and many religious people treat marijuana like shooting up heroin from a needle used by a HIV patient when the only thing they have in common is that both are illegal to use.
A suicide is a person who needed help. I have read suicide notes, a few of my friends attempted it. My best friend was gay and wouldn't come out because I was a bully myself and both of us took pleasure in the usual "gay jokes". I found out when I found his suicide note, he hadn't acted on it yet. I lost a distant cousin to it when he failed an exam and the stress got to him. What saved him was the luck that I came across the note and the response of me and my friends to confront him that we knew and that we didn't care about his love of men that he was still our friend and that it was okay. That we would stop referring to things as gay or making jokes about others being gay. We basically grew up and realised how stupid we were.
To me that shows the vital difference, the note made me grow up and be responsible and sensible and good.
Having children behave around christmas is cute but eventually they are told Santa isn't real. Having adults behave the way they do around their myriad gods is just embarrassing.


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The 2014 annual meeting and dinner will be held at Bahrs Landing Restaurant on Wednesday, Jamuary 28th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Charles Ladoulis, President, and Board Members will briefly describe the 2014 activities and plans for 2015. More HERE
PAST EVENTS in 2014
NOVEMBER 5th - Public Presentation: A Voyage of Rediscovery: The Onrust in 2014
In June 2014 NMHA commemorated the 350th anniversary of the first voyage of English settlers from Gravesend to Monmouth County by organizing the reenactment of that voyage by a replica of an early 17th Century sailing ship - the Onrust.
NMHA will also celebrate 2014 for the founding of the first permanent home of NMHA at the historic Grover House, built circa 1730 by James Grover, grandson of one of the original twelve English settlers.
Event details HERE
October 12: Public Canoeing Day - the last in 2014!
All are welcome! Bring family and friends!
Public Presentation: In the Fall of 1664, just months after acquiring New Netherlands from the Dutch, the English Governor Richard Nicolls started an advertising campaign to attract settlers to New Jersey.
The proclamation "Conditions for New-planters in the Territories of his royal Highness, the Duke of York" laid out who could buy land and under what conditions.
More HERE.
For families, adults and youth, this is your opportunity to experience what RIVER RANGERS experience!
Canoeing from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM. All are welcome to paddle the Swimming River in colorful River Rangers canoes. NMHA will supply canoes, life vests and paddles for all. YOU bring hat, sunscreen, bug spray, and water. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Enjoy a half day out on the Mariner fishing for fluke and help support Sea Scout Ship Navesink at the same time!
Depart from Atlantic Highlands. Fishing gear provided. Maximum 30 for uncrowded fun! Bring sun screen and lunch!
River Rangers is for kids age 10-15 who spend five mornings exploring the Navesink River area. Sign up before June 21st and save!
Learn more about River Rangers HERE.
NEW for 2014! - Exploring historic Sandy Hook by land and by sea.
To commemorate the 350th anniversary of the arrival for the first settlers in Monmouth County, the the ONRUST, a replica of 17th Century ship and typical of the ships that brought the first settlers to our area in 1664, will cruise to Highlands and into the Navesink.
PUBLIC ACCESS DAYS: Families! School students! Experience living history by visiting the ship. It's FREE!
More about the Cruise of the Onrust
See and Purchase Photos of the trip from NY to Bahrs
Wooden canoes to add to the River Rangers fleet were built in two days behind Fair Haven Fire House. The building teams were ready and eager to start.
River Rangers, Sea Scouts from two local ships, and others from the community helped refurbish and repaint existing canoes.
Come for a few hours or a whole day!
APRIL 23: Public Presentation: "The New Clearwater Garvey"
For over thirty years NJ Friends of Clearwater's the Adam Hyler has been the mainstay of the summer Environmental Sail Program jointly run with NMHA on the Navesink.
Tom Gibson, a long-time member of NJ Friends and NMHA and an Adam Hyler skipper, will describe the Environmental Sail Program, the Adam Hyler, and the design and build process for the new garvey. More information
MARCH 22: Public Presentation: "Iceboating on the Navesink and the Hudson"
NMHA, Monmouth Boat Club (MBC), and Norh Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club (NSIBYC) will combine to present an historic day of iceboating history to the current day.
Prominent iceboaters will present their experiences at MBC in the morning and NSIBYC will offer tours of their facility and incredible memorabilia in the afternoon. More information.
On March 1st, the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club took its rebuilt ice yacht ROCKET onto the thick ice on the Hudson near Albany to join the Hudson River Ice yacht Club's ice yacht JACK FROST and many other historic wooden ice boats. Read a report here.
Tom's new book: mostly photos, about an hours read, google drive pdf so you can read online. <<<== NEW 11/28
New Jersey Friends of Clearwater and NMHA have sailed the Adam Hyler Oyster Garvey every year since the early eighties.
The 2012 sailing season was uneventful and the 2013 season has not happened, and it has been decided that a NEW BOAT must be built as the existing hull is leaking and really difficult to fix. Discussions over designs will commence and you can visit this space for announcements.
CONSTRUCTION IS UNDER WAY. Visit here for details: Building a new Garvey.
Environmental Sail Program
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Upcoming NMHA Events
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Ship Wrecks off the NJ Coast
Monday, November 24, 2014
6:30 pm
Twin Lights Room, Warner Student Life Center, Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Middletown.
More information HERE
Film: Coastal Development vs. Severe Weather
September 20th at 7:00 PM,
Holy Cross School, 40 Rumson Road, Rumson.
This documentary, SHORED UP, examines the collision between coastal development and severe weather and focuses on New Jersey.
High Performance in Education:
How the maritime setting enables higher levels of training and learning.
Gayle Horvath, NMHA's Board Member and Treasurer, has had an article published on the prestigious SNAME (Society of Naval Architects and marine Engineers) website.
Click HERE to read.
The Onrust Adventure
For 3 1/2 days the graceful and historic 17th Century replica of the Dutch sailing ship Onrust sailed into Highlands and the Navesink, beguiling everyone who saw her. She hosted over 500 visitors during two public access days in Fair Haven and Red Bank.
3-gun salute MAH05948.MP4
Many videos and pictures were taken, and some links are below.
From Brooklyn to Highlands
See and purchase photos of the cruise from Brooklyn to Bahrs in Highlands
Maritime Salvage - an Important Service
Working Harbor held a meeting on salvage in New York, and local and international companies were represented. More HERE.
Rik van Hemmen, President of Red Bank based Martin Ottaway (and Vice President of NMHA) was a keynote speaker.
High Performance Education
Gayle Horvath, NMHA Treasurer and Board Member, has an article published by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) on the connection between maritime and education.
Read HERE
Iceboating on the Hudson, March 1, 2014
The ROCKET
Birds Eye View (by drone)
Historic Gathering (with brass band)
Ice Yachts on the Hudson
350th Anniversary of Monmouth County
Bringing the Onrust to the Navesink
Contaminated NJ Politics meets Contaminated Soil Disposal.
New Jersey plans to dump millions of tons of petroleum-contaminated soil onto a site near the Rahway River, and most of the decision makers seem to have conflicts of interest. Oh, and by the way, this area was totally immersed during super storm Sandy! Will it go ahead - you betcha! Read more
A Rare Meeting of the Giant Ice yachts on the Hudson last weekend
With 20 miles of ice at least one foot thick on the Hudson at Barrytown, The North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club took the Rocket to join many other antique ice yachts, including the only other giant, the Jack Frost. Read more.
17th Century Maritime Trading Map Uncovered
Mr. Seldon's map of China was probably drawn by a Chinese cartographer in Java around 1610, when China was still the world's biggest economy and Europeans longed to trade there. It views China from the South China Sea, not from the land, and is a trader's map showing merchants' routes though Asia. Read more.
Pete Seeger Tribute
Pete Seeger passed away on January 27th in New York City. He will be sadly missed.
Maple Cove UPDATE
As reported by the Asbury Park Press, RB Borough has agreed to keep Maple Cove parking lot on the open spaces list. A formal vote will likely take place at the next Borough Public Meeting on February 12th at 6:30 PM Borough hall.
Maple Cove, Red Bank
After public outcry at RB Borough plans to delist Maple Cove parking (and potentially restrict access to the water for kayaks canoes and paddle boards), the Two River Times reported on 1/31/14 that Mayor Menna met with the DEP to resolve the matter. If confirmed by the Borough, then Maple Cove is safe (for the moment).
Public opinion CAN make a difference!
Bahrs Landing & the Historic Model ship installed there are up and running after Sandy and all the ship models are safe!
CLICK for information Bahr's Restaurant and Museum
Copyright © 2014 Navesink Maritime Heritage Association
Navesink Maritime Heritage Association is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving knowledge and appreciation of Monmouth County's maritime heritage through programs that teach wooden boat building and boat handling skills; through preserving the history of Monmouth County's wooden boat builders and other maritime history; and through the experiental on-the-water programs of River Rangers for middle school children and Sea Scout Ship Navesink for co-ed youth age 14-21.


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TV star and chef Nigella Lawson was apparently choked by her husband, multimillionaire Charles Saatchi, during a fight at a London restaurant.
So reports the UK's Mirror, which seems from its lengthy photo slideshow rather pleased with the horrific images it scored when Saatchi grabbed his tearful wife around the neck, and also pushed her face.
The images are shocking and worrisome. We know celebrity fights sell papers, and splashy splitsville-style headlines can be some of the most compelling for some readers. But from where we sit, it looks like a woman was hurt by her husband in a public place and no one stepped in to help. (Aren't paparazzi also human beings after all?)
And then there's this: The Mirror ran with the clueless and deplorable headline "Arti-Choked." And we saw several outlets including the Guardian that couldn't resist appearing to make a play on words with headlines involving a "restaurant row."
Pardon us if we feel compelled to point out that domestic violence is not punny, and it's not cute or funny either. Not even the tiniest little bit. Not even to sell papers.
By way of explanation, Saatchi released a statement exclusively to the London Evening Standard that included such dubious explanations as, "There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella's tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt. We had made up by the time we were home."
We're not buying it, and -- thank heavens -- it appears neither is Lawson, who has left home with her children, People confirms. The 10-year marriage for Lawson and Saatchi is the third for him and second for her.
After this shocking public incident, we want to hear from you: Would you step in and intervene if you witnessed a similar situation?
Alesandra Dubin is a Los Angeles-based writer and the founder of home and travel blog Homebody in Motion. Follow her on Google+ and Twitter.


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Dust off your magnifying glass and get glitzy while making your own jewelry at this Junior Badge Workshop, hosted by the students of Phi Theta Kappa. Girls will earn both their Detective and Jeweler badges while having fun with other Girl Scout Juniors. Girls will complete the requirements to earn both badges, but the badge cost is not included in the fee.
$12 per girl, will earn both badges (badge cost not included in fee)
Deadline: Oct. 11
Contact: Katie Zufall, 314.592.2366, firstname.lastname@example.com
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri is a proud United Way member and is supported by the following United Way Agencies: United Way of Greater St. Louis, United Way of the Mark Twain Area, United Way of Adair County/Northeast Missouri, United Way of St. Francois County, Franklin County Area United Way.


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The San Diego Chargers have signed defensive end Lawrence Guy off waivers from the Indianapolis Colts.
The Chargers host the Colts on Monday night.
Guy was waived by Indianapolis on Monday. The Chargers released defensive end Jarius Wynn on Tuesday to make room for Guy.
Guy was a seventh-round draft pick of the Green Bay Packers in 2011 and spent his rookie season on injured reserve. The Colts signed him off Green Bay's practice squad in 2012 and he played in nine games that year and two games this season. Last Sunday, he blocked a field goal that was returned for a touchdown in a victory against Seattle.
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Posted: February 8, 2013
A report in The Smoking Gun about the hacking has led to a criminal investigation. The hacker reportedly got hold of photos, cellphone numbers and home addresses. Also, some "sensitive correspondence."
A Smoking Gun report about the hacking of several email accounts belonging to members of presidents George W. and George H.W. Bush's family and some family friends has prompted a criminal investigation.
The Houston Chronicle says that Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath confirmed an investigation is under way, but declined further comment.
As Smoking Gun wrote, "the apparent hack of several email accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents."
Smoking Gun says the hacker got hold of "home addresses, cell phone numbers, and e-mails for dozens of Bush family members, including both former presidents, their siblings, and their children."
The materials all came from emails sent between 2009 and 2012, according to Smoking Gun. That would be after the younger President Bush left office. Smoking Gun says the hacker got access to:
"The AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of George H.W. Bush and sister of George W. Bush. Other breached accounts belong to Willard Heminway, 79, an old friend of the 41st president who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut; CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz, a longtime Bush family friend; former first lady Barbara Bush's brother; and George H.W. Bush's sister-in-law."
The Chronicle says the photos include "at least one taken of the elder Bush during his recent hospital stay in Houston." And, the hacker "also acquired photographs sent by former President George W. Bush to his sister. The photos were of paintings Bush had been working on, including self-portraits, [Smoking Gun] reported."
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1/2 bag fresh Angel Hair Cole Slaw
1/3 c. thinly sliced H-E-B Sun-dried Tomatoes
1/2 c. chopped kalamata olives
1/2 c. thinly sliced cucumber
1/2 c. chopped red onion
1 Tbsp. Italian dressing or extra virgin olive oil
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4 large sun-dried tomato wraps
4 Tbsp. basil pesto
12 oz. cooked chicken or pork, thinly sliced (about 2 c.)
1/2 c. feta cheese crumbles
Place coleslaw in a mixing bowl with tomatoes, olives, cucumber and onion. Toss with dressing or oil; add salt and pepper, to taste. Set aside.
Heat wraps in a large skillet. Spread 1 Tablespoon of pesto over top of each wrap. Layer meat and coleslaw mixture down center of each wrap; top each with 2 Tablespoon feta cheese. Fold ends toward centers and roll up tightly to make a wrap. Cut wraps diagonally in the centers and serve at room temperature.
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Let's see what the very dead Andrew Breitbart was going to "expose" on President Barack Obama before his untimely death.
Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, and largely credited as the originator of Critical Race Theory. He was the former dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.
Education and early career
Born in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Bell received an A.B. from Duquesne University in 1952 and an LL.B. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1957. After graduation, and after a recommendation from then United States Associate Attorney General William Rogers, Bell took a position with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. He was the only Black person working for the Justice Department at the time. In 1959, the government asked him to resign his membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) because it was thought that his objectivity, and that of the department, might be compromised or called into question. Bell quit rather than giving up his NAACP membership.
Soon afterwards, Bell took a position as an assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), crafting legal strategies at the forefront of the battle to undo racist laws and segregation in schools. At the LDF, he worked alongside other prominent civil rights attorneys such as Thurgood Marshall, Robert L. Carter and Constance Baker Motley. Bell was assigned to Mississippi, the cradle of the deep South, where racism was at its most virulent and entrenched. While working at the LDF, Bell supervised more than 300 school desegregation cases and spearheaded the fight of James Meredith to secure admission to the University of Mississippi over the protests of Governor Ross Barnett.
"I learned a lot about evasiveness, and how racists could use a system to forestall equality," Bell was quoted as saying in The Boston Globe … "I also learned a lot riding those dusty roads and walking into those sullen hostile courts in Jackson, Mississippi. It just seems that unless something's pushed, unless you litigate, nothing happens."
Academic career
USC and Harvard
In the mid-1960s Bell was appointed to the law faculty of the University of Southern California as executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty. In 1969, with the help of protests from black Harvard Law School students for a minority faculty member, Bell was hired to teach there. At Harvard, Bell established a new course in civil rights law, published a celebrated case book, Race, Racism and American Law, and produced a steady stream of law review articles. As a teacher, Bell became a mentor and role model to a generation of students of color, but he played a delicate balancing act at the university. Bell became the first black tenured professor in Harvard Law School's history and called on the university to improve its minority hiring record. But shortly after his tenure in 1971, a white university vice-president tried to purchase a house that Bell had been previously offered through the university; Bell saw this as a case of discrimination. This was the first case in which Bell's charges of racism would mobilize his supporters, who championed his efforts to stand up for principle, and anger his detractors, who accused him of being too quick with his allegations of bigotry.
Protests over faculty diversity
In 1980 Bell became the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, becoming one of the first African-Americans to ever head a non-black law school. He resigned in 1985 over a dispute about faculty diversity. Bell then taught at Stanford University for a year.
Returning to Harvard in 1986, Bell staged a five-day sit-in in his office to protest the school's failure to grant tenure to two legal scholars on staff, both of whom adhered to a movement in legal philosophy that claims legal institutions play a role in the maintenance of the ruling class' position. The administration, not giving an inch, claimed substandard scholarship and teaching on the part of the professors as the reason for the denial of tenure, but Bell called it an unambiguous attack on ideology. Bell's sit-in galvanized student support but sharply divided the faculty.
Bell reentered the debate over hiring practices at Harvard in 1990, when he vowed to take an unpaid leave of absence until the school appointed a female of color to its tenured faculty. At the time, of the law school's 60 tenured professors, only three were black and five were women. The school had never had a black woman on the tenured staff.
Students held vigils and protests in solidarity with Bell with the support of some faculty. One of these students was future U.S. president Barack Obama, who spoke at a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Bell. Critics, including some faculty members, called Bell's methods counterproductive, and Harvard administration officials insisted they had already made enormous advances in hiring. The story of his protest is detailed in his book Confronting Authority.
To some observers, Bell's lament about Harvard amounted to a call for the school to lower its academic qualifications in the quest to mold a diversified faculty on the campus. But Bell argued that academically able faculty were being ignored and that critics of diversity invariably underplay the value of a faculty that is broadly reflective of society, and, more importantly, that the credentials demanded by institutions like Harvard perpetuate the domination of white, well-off, middle-aged men. As he commented in the Boston Globe, "Let's look at a few qualifications–say civil rights experience … that might allow [a chance at a tenured teaching position for] more folks here who, like me, maybe didn't go to the best law school but instead have made a real difference in the world."
Visiting professorship
In 1992, Bell, who had taken a visiting professorship at New York University, was formally removed from the Harvard faculty. In a speech to Harvard students quoted in the Boston Globe, Bell urged the future scholars and activists to continue the moral fights that he had championed, saying: "Your faith in what you believe must be a living, working faith that draws you away from comfort and security, and toward risk through confrontation."
Harvard ultimately hired civil rights attorney and U.S. Assistant Attorney General nominee Lani Guinier shortly after Bell left. After resigning from Harvard, Bell remained at NYU Law where he continued to write and lecture on issues of race and civil rights.
Academic contributions
Bell is arguably the most influential source of thought critical of traditional civil rights discourse. Bell's critique represented a challenge to the dominantliberal and conservative position on civil rights, race and the law. He employed three major arguments in his analyses of racial patterns in American law: constitutional contradiction, the interest convergence principle, and the price of racial remedies.
Bell continued writing about critical race theory after accepting a teaching position at Harvard University. Much of his legal scholarship was influenced by his experience both as a black man and as a civil rights attorney. Writing in a narrative style, Bell contributed to the intellectual discussions on race. According to Bell, his purpose in writing was to examine the racial issues within the context of their economic and social and political dimensions from a legal standpoint.
For instance, in The Constitutional Contradiction, Bell argued that the framers of the Constitution chose the rewards of property over justice. With regard to the interest convergence, he maintains that "whites will promote racial advances for blacks only when they also promote white self-interest." Finally, in The Price of Racial Remedies, Bell argues that whites will not support civil rights policies that may threaten white social status.
Bell is also the author of a number of books and short stories, including "Ethical Ambition" and "The Space Traders," a fictional story in which white Americans sell black Americans to space aliens in order to pay off the national debt. Bell also wrote the book, The Faces at the Bottom of the Well, which allegorically tells the story of people who are disenfranchised.
Derrick Bell was a supporter of animal rights.
On October 5, 2011, Bell died from carcinoid cancer at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, at the age of 80.
In popular media
His short story "The Space Traders" was adapted in 1994 by director Reginald Hudlin and writer Trey Ellis. It aired as the leading segment of a three-part television anthology entitled Cosmic Slop, which focused on minority centric Science Fiction.
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Philosopher's Index now hosted by EBSCOFriday, December 19th, 2008 by Kevin Gunn
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The Philosopher's Index database is now hosted by EBSCO. The advantages of this are:
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Social media is still in its infancy and already we're sharing pictures, videos, links, music and more - with just a few clicks. Increasingly, the ability to use these tools and platforms will be regarded as a type of literacy - not unlike the ability to read, write and perform numerical calculations.
If you haven't yet delved into the world of social media, drop into your local library and check out books about smartphones and tablets, blogging, podcasting, and lots more. If you're downtown, stop by Central Library's 3rd floor Learning Lab and learn about LinkedIn, twitter, facebook, Google Reader and other such sites. We'll even spend time with you one-on-one, to make sure that you're up and running.
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Do you have a LinkedIn profile, yet? I'll admit that when I received my first invitation to join this social networking site, I rolled my eyes. I was already on facebook, so why did I need another profile elsewhere? But LinkedIn is definitely not another facebook. It's a social networking site that allows you to post your professional credentials, search for jobs, network through contacts and club memberships, and expand your ability to secure employment. Learn who works where, get updates about industries you're involved with and find college alumni, too. There'll be no pictures from your most recent drunken escapade – LinkedIn is for professional purposes!
The Calgary Public Library regularly works with career coaches and counselors. The feedback we've been receiving is that LinkedIn is an essential tool for job hunters, and that its importance will only continue to grow as companies and recruiters use it to find new employees.
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Group retracing trek of wandering Oregon wolf OR-7
Mar 19, 2014
By JEFF BARNARD
Of the Associated Press
GRANTS PASS — Wildlife advocates are preparing to retrace the 1,200-mile path of a wandering wolf whose trek in 2011 across Oregon and California attracted worldwide attention, hoping their upcoming journey will help build greater acceptance of wolves as they reclaim lost territories across the West.
The wolf, dubbed OR-7 and wearing a GPS-equipped collar, became a celebrity at 2-years-old after leaving a pack in northeastern Oregon in September 2011, just days after the state issued a kill order for his father and a sibling for preying on livestock.
"It is only through walking it that anyone can truly understand that journey," said Jay Simpson, who plans daily blog posts of panoramic photos and interviews with people the Wolf OR-7 Expedition contacts along the way. "It's not a thing you can understand on Google Earth."
Using traditional storytelling, real-time multimedia blogging, time-lapse photography and a documentary film, they hope to offer new insights into what the spread of wolves across the West means for the people who live here, inspire new attitudes that ease conflicts in ranch country and recognize conservationists working to protect wolves.
On his route, OR-7 passed through where the last Oregon wolf was killed by a bounty hunter in 1946, and where the last known California wolf was killed in 1924.
OR-7's trek is standard procedure for young wolves trying to establish new territories. That's how wolves came to Oregon in the late 1990s from Idaho, where they were re-established as part of a federal endangered species program.
"OR-7 is really a pioneer," said David Moskowitz, a wildlife biologist, tracker and photographer. "He is offering a first glimpse of the new story unfolding about what it is going to be like for wolves returning" to a changed landscape.
Unlike five Oregon wolves that migrated east to Idaho, OR-7 has not been shot, noted Amaroq Weiss of the conservation group Center for Biological Diversity. Idaho has allowed wolf hunting since Endangered Species Act protection was lifted in 2011.
The expedition was the brainchild of Portland storyteller Rachael Pecore-Valdez. She was in Berlin, where her husband was studying renewable energy, when she talked to a South African friend, Galeo Saintz, about a trek he had done to raise awareness for endangered rhinos. She decided to do something similar for OR-7.
"For me the expedition is really about learning by talking to other people and asking questions and less about my opinions and thoughts about wolves," Pecore-Valdez said.
Saintz is founder of the Wild Peace Alliance, which uses expedition adventure to ease conflicts between people and wildlife and celebrate successful work by conservationists.
"Wolf OR-7 inspires me, because he highlights that the ordinary is often remarkable if we just give it the right attention and appreciate what it means," he said in an email. "He is the ultimate lone wolf on an unknown quest to make the most of his one precious life, and I just love that."
Pecore-Valdez contacted Moskowitz, whose wildlife tracking class she had taken, and they were rolling.
Filmmaker Daniel Byers is shooting a documentary along the way.
The core of the expedition — 300 miles of hiking and 900 miles of biking in 40 days — is sponsored by a $5,700 grant from Sculpt the Future Foundation. It was matched by Xplore, which funds projects that exhibit passion with aspects of play. The expedition launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $21,000 for a documentary and multimedia.
They plan to start at a spot overlooking Hells Canyon in Northeastern Oregon in mid-May, and follow OR-7's general route, biking where they can, hiking where they have to, taking note of landmarks, such as where the wolf crossed Interstate 5 north of Yreka, Calif.
None of them wants to actually stumble across OR-7, who now resides in Southern Oregon, for fear of putting more stress in his life.
"These creatures are living very close to the bone," Moskowitz said. "As humans add more challenges to the landscape, it makes that proposition even more amazing."
On the Web: Wolf Or-7 Expedition: http://or7expedition.org
Where-Wolf (Willamette University): http://bit.ly/1idOk5F
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Travel and tourism marketing isn't as one-sided as it used to be. Forget Frommer's travel guides and glossy brochures. Today's travelers are relying more than ever on word of mouth.
Just as more people turn to Facebook and text messages to communicate with friends and family, they're turning to social media to help them plan vacations.
Some won't even consider a hotel unless it gets mostly favorable ratings by reviewers on Hotels or TripAdvisor websites. Others use the Foursquare app on their smartphones to choose where to eat dinner or hang out for après-ski drinks.
Technology has changed the way tourism-related businesses, from four-season resorts to small bed-and-breakfasts, compete for customers.
In response, the tourism and hospitality industry is turning to social media to promote its services and to engage customers in a more personal way.
Next year, almost two-thirds of travel companies plan to increase their social media marketing budgets, according to a Travel and Leisure poll conducted this year.
Stowe businesses have been quick to grab hold of the trend and use it to promote their brands where traditional media would be impractical or too expensive.
Most monitor online reviews and feedback on social media websites and many have found that good online ratings can translate into strong bookings.
Reviewers on TripAdvisor give the Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa in Stowe an average of four stars out of a possible five-star rating. Kim Dixon, the resort's director of marketing, says it's a "powerful tool" in directing first-time visitors to the resort.
"The endorsement of travelers who have visited Stoweflake telling other visitors of their good experience is a boost in business by all means," Dixon said. "I'm pleased to say that most of our reviews are very positive. But, should there ever be an interruption in service, we want to know that so we can address the issue and also contact the customer if possible and make things right."
Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe worked with a social media consultant to establish its Facebook and Twitter pages. A staff member at the resort spends much of her time updating social media sites with photos, videos and information about upcoming events.
"We recognize that we have amazing experiences with nature and we were trying to figure out how to share that with people," said Sam von Trapp, vice president of special projects for the resort. "Through social media, we can release photos to show trail conditions, and share stories when something great happens to one of us out in the woods."
Social media also provide ways for guests to let the resort know when they're satisfied, and when they'd like to see improvements.
"One of the neat things with social media is that it makes it easier to communicate both ways," Von Trapp said. "We can actually carry on a dialogue. It means a lot when people feel that they've been heard."
Officials at Stowe Mountain Resort say social media are an important part of their overall marketing plan.
Two years ago, they launched a strong social media platform, primarily through Facebook and Twitter. They also offer special promotions through Foursquare and Scavenger.
For instance, one day last winter, they posted a code that skiers and riders could use to skip the lift line. Dozens of guests used it and shared it with their friends.
The resort's marketing team updates its social media sites several times each day.
"We like that voice to be a consistent one," said Jeff Wise, director of communications for the resort. "We work closely together and meet on a daily basis to discuss what the social media strategy will be for that day, or week or weekend."
The resort also monitors travel websites to view feedback of its guests' experiences.
"What gives social media great relevance with our dedicated Stowe tribe is that it's an ongoing dialogue with people who are passionate about what's going on at the resort, or just looking for information," Wise said. "We've leveraged that platform by offering people a free Stowe Card as an incentive to join us on Facebook and Twitter."
The card, valued at $75, offers discounts and reward points when card-holders shop at the resort and other businesses in Stowe.
"It builds our following and brings people to the resort to use the card," Wise said.
The resort uses contests and promotions to encourage Facebook visits.
Last week, for instance, Wise took a photo of his coworkers enjoying lunch at the Cottage Club. He downloaded it onto the resort's Facebook page and asked followers to guess where it was taken. In exchange, one person's name would be drawn to win a gift certificate for free lunch for two.
Within a few hours, more than 50 people had responded and the gift certificate had been awarded.
"Fun stuff like that keeps people interested in what we want to say and keeps them engaged," Wise said.
The texting generation
Unlike travel brochures and other traditional marketing materials, the conversational tone of social media strikes a chord with young travelers who are more comfortable with word-of-mouth referrals.
Von Trapp appreciates the way social media allow him to share his day-to-day experiences. For instance, when he posted a message about how an owl swooped down and swatted him after he got too close to its nest, a few resort guests posted messages about their own owl encounters at the resort.
"For me, being able to go out and ski and e-mail images from my smartphone directly to my marketing team, who can immediately post them online, provides a way for us to do what we love and share it with people in a positive way," Von Trapp said.
"Social media is more about talking to people about what's happening at the resort and having it be less of a marketing message," Wise said. "We post photos and snow reports to give people a feeling of what's going on at the resort and to keep them engaged."
Social media also allow resorts and other travel-related businesses to share their messages in real time, an important asset to a generation used to checking the latest news, weather, and traffic reports by pressing a few buttons on their phones or keys on their computers.
"Now that the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center is opening, we're talking about what's going on," Wise said. "It has its own Facebook page so people who are passionate about arts can follow that entity specifically. We've seen good results so far."
Tweeting Vermont
The Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing started using social media two years ago to broaden its reach.
Tourism is one of the state's largest revenue generators. In 2009, 13.7 million visitors spent an estimated $1.4 billion in Vermont.
In addition to its interactive Web site, Vermontvacations.com, the tourism agency uses Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr to post information, photos and videos about Vermont attractions and events.
The agency monitors and updates its social media sites daily. Especially popular are the daily "foliage reports" every fall.
"We've received a really good response," said Erica Houskeeper, domestic and international tourism specialist for the agency. "It's a great opportunity to listen to what people are saying about Vermont and to provide travel information. It's been a great service and a great opportunity."
The agency's Facebook page contains information geared toward tourists of all ages and interests.
"Right now, we're talking about holiday events and what to do during the winter season, whether snowshoeing, skiing or shopping," Houskeeper said. "And, we help people who have questions such as what to do on New Year's Eve."
Other state tourism agencies have discovered two advantages to social media. One, it's the quickest way to announce special events and promotions; two, it saves money when budgets are stretched thin.
Florida used it to combat bad publicity after the Horizon BP oil spill dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico last April.
Indiana's tourism agency, with a dwindling budget, is offering winter travel deals — but only to those who follow the agency through e-mail newsletters and on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The promotion came after lawmakers last year slashed the state's contribution to the agency from $4.8 million to $2.4 million.
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