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Apple recently removed a social media app which threatens the China-Democrat beliefs of pro-socialism American extreme radicals. This action came as they followed other morally corrupt big tech pro-communist companies.
Wanna-be oligarch Amazon, the (so far) legal cartel of American marketing, eliminated the exceedingly popular, successful, and quickly-growing Parler app from their selling platform. Both companies, along with the moral-lacking and communist Twitter, Facebook, and Google, cite lies about their censorship of the Parler app. All of these corrupt socialist companies are attempting to control the thoughts of Americans, and censor out any and all people and companies who disagree with their extreme radical evil. Twitter and Facebook have a tragic history of eliminating anyone and everyone who has an opinion with opposes their extreme leftists views. Both companies banned President Trump from tweeting and posting, with Twitter permanently banning President Trump. Twitter based their decision on lies that they created. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and others, continually do the same, and censor free thought by removing posts and/or their members from their blogs. |
BuzzFeed, a struggling blog site, creates and publishes lies. The blog is maliciously spreading fake news, division, hatred, and anti-patriotism.
The blogsite recently falsely indicates in a thankfully hardly-read blog, that Parler is a pro-Trump platform. In fact, Parler came together as an alternative to the China-controlled big tech communist highly-censored social media sites Twitter, Facebook, and other socialist extremist platforms. Buzzfeed further falsely claims that President Trump incited the violence of the recent mostly-peaceful protest at the nations' capital. Seemingly either by plagiarizing other uneducated media or by deliberately lying, the article can't reference anything that President Trump actually said or did, because he in fact did not incite anyone to do anything. Buzzfeed further tells lies by omission by stating that Parler has attracted "hate group members, conspiracy theorists, and right-wing extremists who openly advocate for violence", while it deliberately omitted mentioning that the vast majority of are law-abiding seekers of an actual freedom-of-speech platform. This irresponsible propaganda by Buzzfeed not only diminishes any legitamacy that Buzzfeed may have, it has a strong Russian ring to it. In a recent article, Adolfo Flores and John Paczkowski, Buzzfeed reporter and editor respectively, both signed off on an article which is ripe with left-leaning lies. |
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Responsibility, Accountability, Complacency
It seems that responsibility and accountability are extinct. Politicians say what they want, knowing that they can't deliver. Business leaders run their corporations to generate the fullest cash flow and disguise it as profit, as if they don’t feel the financialearth quaking under the stress. The gentleman doesn’t hold the door for the lady, who wouldn’t say ‘thank-you’ anyway. The list is endless. Where does it start? Well, at home, of course. When your child says, "I can't", or asks for you to get or do something, do you react subserviently? The "you can't so I will" and the "I'll do anything you ask" is only a temporary expression of love for the child. In the long run, the product of your actions maybe realized in a child who, unknowingly and unwillingly, is benefactor-dependent. The better approach is more like "find a way" or "you can do it yourself". That isn't to say that you wouldn't happily sacrifice everything, anything, for your child, but spoiling kids today leads to spoiled adults tomorrow. Parents also need to do their homework. That is that they need to do their own homework, not the child's homework. Too many times I've seen adults ask their kids leading questions or writing the answer on another piece of paper so the kid can copy it. Parents need to understand that homework is for the kids to do - every aspect ... the thinking, the reading, the writing, the reacting, the reciting, - all of it. Parents have the task oftraining their kids that homework needs to be done no later than right after supper. They also have to create homework for their kids when none is provided to the kids. That means that the adults have to be aware of much more of the curriculum than is typical. Kids need structure. While most parents tend to preach truth and honestly, they seldom practice it. Actions speak louder than words, and the resultant lesson to the kids is that it’s not okay to lie, except when it’s convenient and no one is watching. Honesty is highly under practiced, too. It’s not good enough to just be truthful, we must also tell the whole truth. Only then can we draw the line of appropriateness. If the lady looks fat in the red dress, it’s okay to teach kids not to point it out; there is a difference between complete honesty and keeping our thoughts to ourselves. Plus, let’s teach the kids to turn a negative into a positive; if the lady asks if the dress makes her look fat, our reaction could be something like, “I’m certainly not going to agree to that, but the dress sure makes you look pretty.” I’m not picking on parents or implying that we’re not all good parents; I’m only observing that sometimes we don’t have the time to teach the bigger – or smaller – lessons. We’ve all got choices, and we must pick our battles carefully. We also can’t be individually all-knowing, or experts at everything. It’s easy to get caught up in the chaos of life and be blinded by the trees so that we can’t see the forest. At some point, we become complacent. We are becoming more and more reliant on the press to follow a story tojustice and – when the story becomes old news, we never give that justice another thought. We moan at the dinner table about the high taxes, but we never stop to wonder why the taxes increase with an increase in population. As the population increases, we need more resources; However, isn’t it also true that we need fewer resources per capita? Reprinted from http://www.provocativeintriguingthought.com/index.html with permission, Written by Vincent E. Martinelli 20100322 Business Couple Blames Residents, Not City, as Bad Elements
A former prominent couple - who owned a successful restaurant business in Waterbury and other cities for several decades, say that the retired to enjoy life, but now, they say, they things have changed in the City, and they want out. The couple, who frequents several City and State parks, said every park is now litered with bio-hazardous materials, occupied by prostitutes and their johns, and destroyed by "the druggies who don't pay taxes". They were astounded to find that, after several months, a safety hazard at Murray Park had been addressed and fixed. A large chunk of jagged-edged cement had been sticking out of the ground in a children's play area, had been buried in woodchips. At the time of their visit, Town Plot Neighborhood President Vincent E. Martinelli, had been inspecting the parks as part of a routine which he performs several times per week. He said that he had been working on this, and other, safety issue for several years, not months, and that he was very please that this one issue was finally resolved. Martinelli said that most of the concerns at this play area are now resolved, but in some areas another 4 inches of wood chips is needed. The couple pointed out to Martinelli that the workers had uprooted a 6" x 6" landscaping tie, and left it there, exposing 2 steel rods - spikes, actually - which are now potruding out of the ground, causing another safety issue. Tears came to the woman's eyes as she discussed "how aweful it is to see such pretty young girls in these parks go into the woods with so many guys and just have sex with them". She said that, in Murray Park, there are 2 types of people: the ones who like to enjoy the park for what it is, and the ones who "do their drugs, or their drug deals", and engage in sex. She noted "at least they go in the woods and not right out here in the open". Her husband, of noted New York City fame as a 3-start chef, said, "don't put any money into any of these parks ... all they do is destroy things". Referencing the pavilion which once stood at Murray Park, he said, "I'm glad it's gone, and I hope they never put it back. All it does is attract scumbags from all over the place, and they leave the parks a mess and they destroy everything." The couple also noted that Lakewood Park has been abused by "those thugs". "You got the blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the white trash", he said. Visibly discusted, upset, and angry, he continued, "They get their girlfriend or there prostitutes, and they have sex right there on the sand. They don't even go in the woods." He and his wife of 42 years, as if in planned unicin, said, "They even have sex in the water." "Right there, like dirty pigs, where other people bring their kids to go swimming", he added. "Thank God that the water is too dirty from the ducks", she said, eluding to the fact that the beach has been closed for much of the last 3 years due to the excessive bacteria which is a result of the Canada Gueese having made the Great Brook Reservoir a home. "I wanted to go to Fulton Park, but I just don't feel safe there anymore. One day, this big guy, twice as big as my husband, came at me. He chased me, and then I fell. He grabbed by arm and hurt it really bad. He let me go, but I couldn't even scream. Later on that day, I went to the hospital. Thank God it was just bruises and he didn't break anything." The couple also noted that the pavilion at Lakewood Park had never been replaces, the barbeque pits have never been maintained or resored in 30 years, the picnic tables are all plastic, burned, and useless, and "there's a whole in the gazaebo" (at Lakewood Park). The couple expressed their frustrations at the people who use the parks, including Hamilton Park, and "We don't even go to Hop Brook anymore". Argument for Aldermen by DistrictWith the recent change of rules having been approved by the Aldermen 9 to 6, 9 to 6, 9 to 6, and 9 to 6, now might be a good time to break the city up into districts for Aldermen. We can have the Republican district, which will represent anyone who wants to have a good idea turned down; the Independent district, which will represent all the people who complain about the rest of us having no common sense or accountability; and the Democratic district, which will represent the Mayor's political machine of tyranny and intimidation, but no actual people.
December 2, 2013 by Old Enough to Remember Democracy With Your Help, We Can Be Great AgainWATERBURY:
Regardless of who wins the election for Mayor this year, he is an Honorable Mayor. We need to remember this as citizens, residents, taxpayers, and businesses. The Honorable Mayor truly deserves our respect, because he will have been elected as such by the people, of the people, and for the people - in what is clearly the best election process in the world. Let's also honor our elected Aldermen, and respect them for their dedication and loyalty in their honorable and selfless process to serve the City. Let's edify them and each other as often as we appropriately can. Let's also remember not to criticize unnecessarily. We have one of the best police forces, one of the best fire departments, and the cleanest water supply system in the country. Let's start being part of the solution, rather than being part of the problem. While we whine about high taxes, we reduce the pool of potential home buyers - that reduces home values, increases property vacancies, and, ultimately, puts more of the tax burdeon back on us. While we wine, businesses take notice; some of them move out, and others won't move in - this, ultimately, increases the tax burdon back on us as well. While we whine, we could be fixing things, making things better, developing innovative solutions, and solving problems of all magnitudes. Let's concentrate on all that we have here. Let's participate in our neighborhood associations, take the extra time to help a neighbor, and go the extra mile in making our properties the best they can be; all of these actions will increase property value, and that will attract more property buyers and businesses to our great City. Businesses will take note; they are attracted to communities, not merely to streets and buildings. Let's localize our spending as well. Let's support our neighborhood grocer, and restaurant, and any other local business we can. Let's keep our money in Waterbury; there's no reason to shop at malls which are miles away. Let's volunteer at local non-profit organizations. Let's support our local worthy charities. Let's donate as best we can. Let's get religion back in our lives. Let's build our relationships, fortify our moral strengths, utilize our skills and talents, expose our best characters, share the love and enthusiasm for our City of Neighborhoods, and let's show the rest of the world who we really are. Let's exemplify greatness in everything we do. If we all do this - act just a little bit better, a little bit more responsible, a little bit more giving - then we will fulfill our destiny of greatness, prosperity, and honor in ourselves, and the City. If we all help each other, then our Brass City will once again shine as the gem it really is. by Vincent E. Martinelli, November 4th, 2013 CAUGHT!Read more on how criminals are being CAUGHT by local, state, and federal law enforcement officials. Click here, or go to the town page for a specific town. Read more on Waterbury's CAUGHT here.
Don't even try it - at least not in Waterbury - or you, too, will get CAUGHT!
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Evolution of Waterbury On-line Media
This is a brief outline of how a once great - and soon to be great again - city has a now-fulfilled need for a better forum to communicate and share information about the resources and efforts of the city government, individuals, businesses, and - most importantly - volunteers and philanthropic people and organizations. It's all about the process - a quiet teamwork born from necessity and endorsed by a sense of achievement. This brand new website - WaterburyLife.com - is now the home of free freedom. Finally, the entire City of Waterbury has a place to share and exchange ideas. Tax-paying residents now have a home and inside connection to government resources, politicians, civic leaders, community action groups, charity organizations, neighborhood associations, business icons, and more. WaterburyLife.com is free to users, and is designed to keep Waterbury up-to-date on events, in-the-loop with projects, and in-the-know about where all of the tax money really goes. WaterburyLife.com, however, can not, will not, and does not go it alone; other websites, including those of the local news print media, the Republican-American, and the Waterbury Observer, and several online informational website, compliment each other, and WaterburyLife.com, in reciprocity of usefulness. The bLogs here (and at some of the other websites) offer an opportunity for anyone and everyone to express an idea, share a concern, and field an inquiry. "Full, fair, and accurate" is now a revived previously extinct reporting concept. The unbiased transfer of information from source to public is truly unprecedented in Waterbury. WaterburyLife.com will also provide businesses with an ability to get their products and services out in the open to their end-users and consumers. Political candidates can introduce themselves in a way which has never been available before now. Non-profit and not-for-profit companies will now have a venue to communicate their services to the people who are genuinely in-need, on a scale which has never been accomplished prior to now. The advantages of this website - and the resultant totality of the others - are seemingly endless. Get involved, stay informed, and be aware! The great City of Waterbury, in New Haven County, Connecticut, has experienced a lot of success and many challenges since its beginning back in 1686. In the last century alone, the City has experienced the loss (1954) of one of the original amusement parks anywhere in the country, the rise and fall of a tremendous brass industry, the literal washing away of many residential homes and industrial fabricators (1955) and the emotional creation, subsequent decay, and recent efforts to rebuild, world-famed Holy Land USA. For years - in fact, since the invention of the world-wide-web - Waterbury (and certainly countless others) has lacked an appropriate, informative, and functional on-line presence. Several websites have endeavored to fill this gap, but each is lacking in one or more essential areas. Most of the related websites become out-dated in short order, and are not kept up to speed. Some of the websites concentrate on the history of the City or specific aspects of that history. Others are deliberately focused on a narrower scope - such as just sports, or just architecture. These websites have recently been updated and improved. Even the City's official website has been revamped significantly thanks mainly to the forward-thinking of the recently (2 years ago) elected administration (the Mayor and his close advisors) and subsequent significant funding. Even more recently, this new website - WaterburyLife.com - was created so that the people, businesses, and governments of Greater Waterbury can communicate in a centralized location. This online newspaper, and inadvertent listing place, may also be used as a social network site, via the bLog pages. Non-profit, not-for-profit, religious, and charity organizations can use the nascent site as an addendum to, or in place of, their own website or social page applications. This service is a great cost savings, and is vital to many do-good groups - particularly in these trying times of economic turmoil and uncertainty. Surrounding towns and each neighborhood within Waterbury may also have a dedicated page. Active cultures throughout the area will also have an outlet there. Now the City finally has a great group of resources. The official website for Waterbury - WaterburyCT.org - has successfully expanded the communication of most of the government departments and their meetings, and has served as a great portal for contact information. A history-based website - GreaterWaterbury.com - has enhanced versions of previous posts, and is updated seemingly regularly to include "new" finds. The illustrations and archives of another emotionally historic website seem to take one back in time - to the city's prosperous brass and copper empire. Another website, which, until recently, did not have a clear niche, has reformed into a great resource for technical and specific facts and knowledge. Even the bigger sources have stepped up their coverage of the City. The encyclopedia-like powerhouse Wiki has recently enriched content coverage of Waterbury, and serves as a great compliment to the aforementioned websites. The news coverage for the City has also improved. One newspaper has dramatically improved the functionality of their website, and another newspaper has significantly increased their participation in the more day-to-day life of the city and has become very active in social network outlets. The great Italian influx - mainly in the early 1900s - helped to establish many "Italian" neighborhoods. Reportedly 36% of Waterbury residents still brag to be descended of the boot-shaped Italy. The Irish influence is manifested in various "Irish" neighborhoods as well. Germany, Puerto Rico, Portugal, France, Poland, Jamaca, Dominican Republic, and most recently Albania (now boasting almost 6,000 inhabitants), and many other nations have a representation in this City of Neighborhoods. None of the above sources have attempted to provide coverage for the cultural riches which abound throughout the "City of Neighborhoods", with the rare exception of an occassional highlight. This newest website, WaterburyLife.com, is a much needed and very valuable resource for the City - a perfect match in the scheme of Waterbury evolution. As with many other greater municipality areas, the government, philanthropists, volunteers, non-profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, neighborhood associations, and religious entities are often unaware of the efforts, projects, and initiatives of the activities, resources, and research results of the other organizations, associations, and business efforts. This lacking causes both duplication of efforts, and lower participation. Now, WaterburyLife.com is here to facilitate the needed publicity and communication. Stories, pictures, announcements, events, news, and other pertinent information may be posted or reported by the people, businesses, and governments within the greater Waterbury coverage area; each website provides for some degree of service regarding these aspects. The more news and profit honed websites tend to be somewhat more interested in the actual news interests of their readers, the more historically orientated websites welcome the human interest slant, as they are more suited to static data, and the emotion-based websites offer archived classic photos and fact-verified lore. The youngest of the websites, WaterburyLife.com is not inclined to have detailed coverage of the latest news, but provides snippets of coverage on highlighted pieces. It is also a bridge between the editorial resources and the social resources. This combination of media types, forms, and concentrations is a very valuable asset to Waterbury and the ongoing history of life within the robust culture of the City. This newly-formed website, along with some specific social media groups, serve as conduits for communication between and among the important benefactor groups throughout the City and her suburbs. Several volunteers at each of the websites have put in great effort to develop their respective online information centers, and collectively embody the compassionate and philanthropic spirit of the residential and commercial entities of Greater Waterbury. The history and cultures of this great Brass City - also known as the City of Neighborhoods - from the brass industry, to the amusement park at Great Reservoir, to the infamous Holy Land USA, to the Flood of '55 - are that of a fantastic voyage. Then formation of the "International Block" neighborhood happened only by chance. Immigrants from England, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, France, Russia, and others, sat side-by-side, as neighbors, as Americans, and as Waterburyians. This hardly-remembered neighborhood was involuntarily destroyed by innovation and progress. The at-the-time largest and most complicated intersection in the world was assembled practically above the new heart of the City. (The original settlement - on the west side of the Naugatuck River - was re-established on the east side of the same river as a tactical measure.) This history is only a small representation of what could easily be lost to everyone except the deepest researchers and librarians if the accidentally complimentary group of websites had not been established. Whether you prefer the aboriginal "Metacoke", the Anglicized "Mattatuck", the dubbed "Brass City", the world-renowned "Brass Capitol", the affinitive "Big W", the official "Waterbury", or the affectionate "City of Neighborhoods", the rich and tried past of Waterbury is anything but mundane. The people of the City have endured great wars, political scandals, times of plenty, and natural disasters. For decades - since the establishment of the world-wide-web, there has been a screaming need for a center of communication. The creation of these websites was an inevitable realization of the endeavors to record new triumphs, and to communicate to the diverse, resilient, patient, fortuitous, and loyal citizens of Waterbury, the return to greatness. Creators of all of these websites have put in great effort to develop forums which embody the whole of the soul of Greater Waterbury. Especially for those organizations which do not have a website, these long overdue web facilities are a great way to have an internet presence - a dedicated page or more at the website of their choice, typically at no cost - to help communicate the good that they do, and to help all peoples and groups cross-communicate and network. Neighborhood associations may have their information posted at one or more of the sites and in groups on social pages, listing basic details of events and meetings, and general issues - including problems, projects, and successes. Information must be conveyed to most of the websites electronically. Articles may be sent in as well; placement will be at the discretion of the individual websites, but it seems that all venues attempt to accommodate reasonable requests. The birth and growth of the unrelated "family" of websites is both a result of, and a catalyst to, the great, inevitable, and ongoing comeback to greatness which the City of Waterbury is destined to realize. Get involved, stay informed, and be aware! Reduced Police Force Attracts New Residents
Some residents say that they have noticed an increase in drug activity recently, in all parts of the City. Many people claim that the cutbacks in the City's Police personell, expecially the lack of visibility of uniformed Police Officers, has drawn in criminals from many surrounding towns. The main concern is that Waterbury is making it easier from crime to occur, because there just simply are not enough police officers. Many of the new faces in town are that of convicted and recently released drug dealers, drug traffickers, sexual predators, and rapists, according to many angry tax payers. They say that state-wide cuts over several years have made it easier to get out of jail more quickly, and now Waterbury welcomes them with the open arms of old-west-like free rein. Residents fear that the media is like an invitation - articles, stories, and exposes indicating Waterbury's lack of an appropriate-sized police force are published, broadcasted, and aired. When many criminals get out of prison, they often either have no place to go, or are not wanted, according to several typically quiet City dwellers. Many people who used to complain that all they see in the newspaper is crime and bad news. Now, instead of the newspapers being filled with articles on arrests of Waterbury residents, most of what they see are crimes which were committed by other city's "rejects and jailbirds", according to an on-edge elderly man. Mayor O'Leary and Police Chief Riddick, separately and in tandum, have addressed these, and related concerns, at various meetings, events, and functions, for the past several months. The Police Department is working to resolve the shortage of Police Officers, and to find ways to keep the Police Officers thay have. Waterbury is long been an inadvertent training ground for Police Officers, who then go on to other cities shortly after their training. Partly a matter of pay, and partly a matter of job difficulty and safety, "We train them, and other towns and cities hire them. They end their careers out of time. We trained them, and they're all pretty good (Police) Officers", the Mayor said at a recent neighborhood meeting. The Mayor said that there used to be an incentive for them to stay on, but there was a change in State law so "We just can't do it any more." He noted that "We're working on it. It's important. We just don't have the answer yet." Earlier this year, at a cost of some $189,000, the Downtown neighborhood was equipped with an array of high-quality surveillance cameras. In addition to help thwart crime, the cameras have been instrumental in solving crime as well. In some ways, their utilitarianism could not be matched in manpower, at any cost. Car Burglaries ContinueMIDDLEBURY, WATERBURY, WOLCOTT Waterbury was recently plagued with several car burglaries and a few auto thefts. This is not a strange or unusual occurrence, but the increase in frequency could be described as a rash. The City and her Police Department have, and continue to, urge everyone to lock their cars - and their houses - at all times, even when they feel that the time or place is safe.
Wolcott recently enjoyed a rash of their own, and her Mayor urged the same best practices. Middlebury had her own rash recently, and, like Waterbury and Wolcott, none of the robbed vehicles were locked. Hmm.Some guy on a TV show drills into an electrical wire and causes an apartment complex to catch fire. Hmm. A few days later, the same thing happens in Waterbury (except the fire).
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This is a brief outline of how a once great - and soon to be great again - city has a now-fulfilled need for a better forum to communicate and share information about the resources and efforts of the city government, individuals, businesses, and - most importantly - volunteers and philanthropic people and organizations. It's all about the process - a quiet teamwork born from necessity and endorsed by a sense of achievement. This brand new website - WaterburyLife.com - is now the home of free freedom. Finally, the entire City of Waterbury has a place to share and exchange ideas. Tax-paying residents now have a home and inside connection to government resources, politicians, civic leaders, community action groups, charity organizations, neighborhood associations, business icons, and more. WaterburyLife.com is free to users, and is designed to keep Waterbury up-to-date on events, in-the-loop with projects, and in-the-know about where all of the tax money really goes. WaterburyLife.com, however, can not, will not, and does not go it alone; other websites, including those of the local news print media, the Republican-American, and the Waterbury Observer, and several online informational website, compliment each other, and WaterburyLife.com, in reciprocity of usefulness. The bLogs here (and at some of the other websites) offer an opportunity for anyone and everyone to express an idea, share a concern, and field an inquiry. "Full, fair, and accurate" is now a revived previously extinct reporting concept. The unbiased transfer of information from source to public is truly unprecedented in Waterbury. WaterburyLife.com will also provide businesses with an ability to get their products and services out in the open to their end-users and consumers. Political candidates can introduce themselves in a way which has never been available before now. Non-profit and not-for-profit companies will now have a venue to communicate their services to the people who are genuinely in-need, on a scale which has never been accomplished prior to now. The advantages of this website - and the resultant totality of the others - are seemingly endless. Get involved, stay informed, and be aware! The great City of Waterbury, in New Haven County, Connecticut, has experienced a lot of success and many challenges since its beginning back in 1686. In the last century alone, the City has experienced the loss (1954) of one of the original amusement parks anywhere in the country, the rise and fall of a tremendous brass industry, the literal washing away of many residential homes and industrial fabricators (1955) and the emotional creation, subsequent decay, and recent efforts to rebuild, world-famed Holy Land USA. For years - in fact, since the invention of the world-wide-web - Waterbury (and certainly countless others) has lacked an appropriate, informative, and functional on-line presence. Several websites have endeavored to fill this gap, but each is lacking in one or more essential areas. Most of the related websites become out-dated in short order, and are not kept up to speed. Some of the websites concentrate on the history of the City or specific aspects of that history. Others are deliberately focused on a narrower scope - such as just sports, or just architecture. These websites have recently been updated and improved. Even the City's official website has been revamped significantly thanks mainly to the forward-thinking of the recently (2 years ago) elected administration (the Mayor and his close advisors) and subsequent significant funding. Even more recently, this new website - WaterburyLife.com - was created so that the people, businesses, and governments of Greater Waterbury can communicate in a centralized location. This online newspaper, and inadvertent listing place, may also be used as a social network site, via the bLog pages. Non-profit, not-for-profit, religious, and charity organizations can use the nascent site as an addendum to, or in place of, their own website or social page applications. This service is a great cost savings, and is vital to many do-good groups - particularly in these trying times of economic turmoil and uncertainty. Surrounding towns and each neighborhood within Waterbury may also have a dedicated page. Active cultures throughout the area will also have an outlet there. Now the City finally has a great group of resources. The official website for Waterbury - WaterburyCT.org - has successfully expanded the communication of most of the government departments and their meetings, and has served as a great portal for contact information. A history-based website - GreaterWaterbury.com - has enhanced versions of previous posts, and is updated seemingly regularly to include "new" finds. The illustrations and archives of another emotionally historic website seem to take one back in time - to the city's prosperous brass and copper empire. Another website, which, until recently, did not have a clear niche, has reformed into a great resource for technical and specific facts and knowledge. Even the bigger sources have stepped up their coverage of the City. The encyclopedia-like powerhouse Wiki has recently enriched content coverage of Waterbury, and serves as a great compliment to the aforementioned websites. The news coverage for the City has also improved. One newspaper has dramatically improved the functionality of their website, and another newspaper has significantly increased their participation in the more day-to-day life of the city and has become very active in social network outlets. The great Italian influx - mainly in the early 1900s - helped to establish many "Italian" neighborhoods. Reportedly 36% of Waterbury residents still brag to be descended of the boot-shaped Italy. The Irish influence is manifested in various "Irish" neighborhoods as well. Germany, Puerto Rico, Portugal, France, Poland, Jamaca, Dominican Republic, and most recently Albania (now boasting almost 6,000 inhabitants), and many other nations have a representation in this City of Neighborhoods. None of the above sources have attempted to provide coverage for the cultural riches which abound throughout the "City of Neighborhoods", with the rare exception of an occassional highlight. This newest website, WaterburyLife.com, is a much needed and very valuable resource for the City - a perfect match in the scheme of Waterbury evolution. As with many other greater municipality areas, the government, philanthropists, volunteers, non-profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, neighborhood associations, and religious entities are often unaware of the efforts, projects, and initiatives of the activities, resources, and research results of the other organizations, associations, and business efforts. This lacking causes both duplication of efforts, and lower participation. Now, WaterburyLife.com is here to facilitate the needed publicity and communication. Stories, pictures, announcements, events, news, and other pertinent information may be posted or reported by the people, businesses, and governments within the greater Waterbury coverage area; each website provides for some degree of service regarding these aspects. The more news and profit honed websites tend to be somewhat more interested in the actual news interests of their readers, the more historically orientated websites welcome the human interest slant, as they are more suited to static data, and the emotion-based websites offer archived classic photos and fact-verified lore. The youngest of the websites, WaterburyLife.com is not inclined to have detailed coverage of the latest news, but provides snippets of coverage on highlighted pieces. It is also a bridge between the editorial resources and the social resources. This combination of media types, forms, and concentrations is a very valuable asset to Waterbury and the ongoing history of life within the robust culture of the City. This newly-formed website, along with some specific social media groups, serve as conduits for communication between and among the important benefactor groups throughout the City and her suburbs. Several volunteers at each of the websites have put in great effort to develop their respective online information centers, and collectively embody the compassionate and philanthropic spirit of the residential and commercial entities of Greater Waterbury. The history and cultures of this great Brass City - also known as the City of Neighborhoods - from the brass industry, to the amusement park at Great Reservoir, to the infamous Holy Land USA, to the Flood of '55 - are that of a fantastic voyage. Then formation of the "International Block" neighborhood happened only by chance. Immigrants from England, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, France, Russia, and others, sat side-by-side, as neighbors, as Americans, and as Waterburyians. This hardly-remembered neighborhood was involuntarily destroyed by innovation and progress. The at-the-time largest and most complicated intersection in the world was assembled practically above the new heart of the City. (The original settlement - on the west side of the Naugatuck River - was re-established on the east side of the same river as a tactical measure.) This history is only a small representation of what could easily be lost to everyone except the deepest researchers and librarians if the accidentally complimentary group of websites had not been established. Whether you prefer the aboriginal "Metacoke", the Anglicized "Mattatuck", the dubbed "Brass City", the world-renowned "Brass Capitol", the affinitive "Big W", the official "Waterbury", or the affectionate "City of Neighborhoods", the rich and tried past of Waterbury is anything but mundane. The people of the City have endured great wars, political scandals, times of plenty, and natural disasters. For decades - since the establishment of the world-wide-web, there has been a screaming need for a center of communication. The creation of these websites was an inevitable realization of the endeavors to record new triumphs, and to communicate to the diverse, resilient, patient, fortuitous, and loyal citizens of Waterbury, the return to greatness. Creators of all of these websites have put in great effort to develop forums which embody the whole of the soul of Greater Waterbury. Especially for those organizations which do not have a website, these long overdue web facilities are a great way to have an internet presence - a dedicated page or more at the website of their choice, typically at no cost - to help communicate the good that they do, and to help all peoples and groups cross-communicate and network. Neighborhood associations may have their information posted at one or more of the sites and in groups on social pages, listing basic details of events and meetings, and general issues - including problems, projects, and successes. Information must be conveyed to most of the websites electronically. Articles may be sent in as well; placement will be at the discretion of the individual websites, but it seems that all venues attempt to accommodate reasonable requests. The birth and growth of the unrelated "family" of websites is both a result of, and a catalyst to, the great, inevitable, and ongoing comeback to greatness which the City of Waterbury is destined to realize. Get involved, stay informed, and be aware! Really?
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