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Mahar's Public Bar
Ratings: 64 | Reviews: 64 | Display Reviews Only:
New York
3.53/5 rDev -18.7%
I've been to Mahar's a few times and I do enjoy it but heading into to look around to see what you want isn't really possible. Tap handles are normally dirty and tough to read and they get you a beer list for that day when you go in. When you decide what you want, you normally do have to wait some time before placing and receiving your order. It's a decent place to check out to do their beer list and if you're sold on the incentive to have your own glass and all that, but not really if you're looking to hang out or have something really good. Some of the cask stuff isn't bad but it's very pricey for the average joe going in to check out a few new beers. It can also get pretty annoying in there when it fills out. There's not a lot of seating and it's fairly narrow and tough to maneuver through when crowded.
10-08-2012 15:11:36 | More by stalker5
4.41/5 rDev +1.6%
Great place, wish I still lived in the area. As others mention you don't go to Mahars for music or for girls you go there for the beer. The main bartender Bill is a great guy who sometimes is misunderstood, when it is not packed he will get into an in-depth beer conversation with anyone interested.
A few points, make sure you sign up with an ID# so you can use the computer to track the beers you have had. They close at midnight and last call is usually well before that. The best time to go is a weeknight when it isn't packed.
08-23-2012 04:16:27 | More by BMC
New York
4.3/5 rDev -0.9%
I love mahar's.
Bill and all of the barmen are great. They've always been good to me even when they shouldn't have been.
The beer selection is not only more than most places but more exclusive than most places. They have a great cask collection and sometimes have pin kegs for a 1 night exclusive.
I go there mainly for the seasonal selections but they have a great selection of major styles.
Overall Its a great beer bar don't go there for anything but great beer and good conversation there is nothing else going on and I like it so much because of that.
05-23-2012 19:14:26 | More by Tesla518
New York
4.46/5 rDev +2.8%
I. love. Mahar's.
Bill, while a bit gruff, has always been cordial to me, and Murph (Chris), is fantastic. They don't put up with any shenanigans (and I can't blame them), so if you're looking for a place with loud music where you can slam Bud Lights and chow down on wings, this is not your place.
They have a "beer tour" system so you can track what beers you haven't have. While it seems intimidating at first, signing up is incredibly easy. Go to the back, hit enter on the computer and select a beer list based on country, style, or serving type (they have a draft-only list). Put your name and birthday at the top, go up to the bar, and proceed to order.
50 beers gets you a t-shirt, 125 beers gets you a mug and 20% off all draft purchases, 200 gets you a case of beer, and 500 beers gets you a spot on the plaque on the back wall. Until you hit 200 beers, you're limited to 4 beers/night.
Check out itsonlybeer.com
Go to Mahar's!
02-10-2012 06:01:16 | More by thehenbarris
3.89/5 rDev -10.4%
I've been a few times just never reviewed the place. I would say they have about 20 taps, which rotate frequently and showcase seasonal beers as well. The best is the beers on cask, I believe there are 4-5 cask beers at any one time. Every time I've gone these have been predominately Middle Ages beers. They also have an extensive bottle list as well.
The place can get crowded, it is not that large and seating can get scarce.
Service is well, notorious. Know what you want to order, order it, say please and thank you, leave the bar and go sit down/stand with your friends.
12-11-2011 17:57:15 | More by rlee1390
4.5/5 rDev +3.7%
Having attempted to visit Mahars for almost 20 years and for one reason or another never being able I finally made it. I was passing, had the time and found the Mahars open.
Put off a bit by it's (his) reputation for being a beer nazi I was pleasantly surprised. I was even offered free pizza!
It was slow- never attempt to visit when busy unless unavoidable- as this place is SMALL. The bartender (owner) was pleasant. The beer selection was not the greatest, but with rotating taps that happens- I imagine they get some great stuff in here most times.
Plenty of parking, but I imagine with all the restaurants and bars on the block that could change depending on the date and time of your visit. But with Albany PD across the street I don't imagine the neighborhood is unsafe to park on a side street.
I will go back and order beer, say please, pay and leave area
08-16-2011 13:39:25 | More by Flashy
New York
4.04/5 rDev -6.9%
Living in the area, I've been to Mahar's many times. It has a great beer selection and you're always sure to find a tasty version of the style you're looking to enjoy. That being said, figuring out what they actually have at any given time isn't easy. Beer menus are scare, so I find it's ask and hope -- and generally the hoping is rewarded. The place is small and crowded and on busy nights I could almost brew a beer as quickly as I can get served one. On less busy nights it's a great place for great beer and conversation. Plan on eating before you go or after you leave. I've never seen food at Mahars or anything resembling a food menu (like Bigfoot and their beer menu, it's elusive if it even exists). I assume the staff is knowledgeable about beer, but it's hard to tell as the only thing I've ever heard from any of them is "What do want?" and a repetition of my order to make sure that they got it right. Small, crowded and slow, but a great selection of beer.
10-13-2010 04:21:28 | More by FourQuarters
New York
4.38/5 rDev +0.9%
It's too small, the bartenders can be gruff, the hours are strange (and they're not open on Sundays), there's almost no seating, you often have to stand at the bar, there's virtually no food, and I think there's one small television. BUT I'D GO IN A MINUTE!!! And if you're a beer connoisseur, so should you!!!
This is consistently rated as one of the top twenty beer bars in America. I'm not sure why BECAUSE IT SHOULD BE # 1 - or at least in the top five. Seriously, I went to many of the other pubs/bars on Pubcrawler's list of the top 50, and they don't compare.
Mahar's has cask ales (hand pumped up from the basement), obscure microbrews, a draft selection surpassing anything I've ever seen (and I'm a draft beer whore), virtually every bottled beer in existence, and my undying loyalty and grateful patronage.
Seriously, this place makes it almost worth going to visit my mother-in-law in Albany (almost).
09-28-2010 22:20:41 | More by Edwinivich
3.95/5 rDev -9%
The atmosphere was exactly what I wanted in a bar. Free tables, light music and a tight space. The overall English pub feel is what I seek in a bar.
This was not your best kept bar by any stretch of the altered imagination. That said, this same quality is what lends it charm. Glasses were clean than the bartender if that is what you mean.
The service comes split. If you need advice/have questions, these will be provided in earnest. If you walk up, don't observe some unstated/unclear customs and order a beer, you get the feeling that you are a nuisance to the bartender and would be better of trying a new spot. If this was the place where I was working at the mug club, it would be superb but the impression I got is that the bar was very regular-centric to the casual visitor's lament.
The line-up of taps guarantees something for everyone and they are forever rotating so come every week and expect to try something new.
Overall, I would love this place if I was local and will continue to swing in when I am in town but wouldn't recommend it to someone timid for a bar visit.
09-27-2010 02:47:03 | More by Lazerlobe
South Carolina
4.85/5 rDev +11.8%
THIS IS BEER HEAVEN!!! If there were any way to have this place within walking distance for the rest of my life and not live in Albany, I would. That being said, here's my breakdown:
The place is very wooden, very small, no TV, no darts, very little besides beer. That being said, it is cozy and a great place to bring a few close friends (or make some new ones). Modeled after English-style pubs, though I've never actually been to one in England. Excellent that you can actually hear yourself speak and carry on a conversation. The hundreds of taphandles that line ceiling, awning, and the bar itself are just plain cool. There is also a wall of mugs behind the bar, as well as brass "service line only" rails. My only suggestion for improvement would be to turn up the speakers to a more audible (but not blaring) level.
There is simply no better place for beer on Earth, I'm convinced. If there is, then I will have truly died and gone to heaven. This place carries the finest beers, serves them in English/imperial pints, and the staff have incredible knowledge of beer in general.
Don't be an ass, and don't order a Heineken light, and you will find the service to be top-notch. Ask about any beer, and you will be given ample information before ordering. Step to one of the 3 brass "service line only" rails, and you will be promptly served a well-poured pint. The other day, a bartender spilled a bit off the top of my pint when he quickly placed it in front of me, and before I could blink he topped it off and replaced it - now that's service.
There are 4-6 casks at this place at all times, some imports/Belgians/1-time brews. Generally around 30 draft beers, constantly rotating, from around the country and around the world. If for some reason a draft doesn't catch your fancy for the day, there are literally hundreds of bottles available (cellared at the precise temperature for the style, of course).
Food, while scarce in selection, get the job done. Toasties are a great deal for 5-6 bucks, and the quality cheese runs from $4.50-9 per block, and comes with an entire roll of crackers on a cutting board. Some servers will even make an expert cheese-beer pairing selection, warming the cheese to the perfect temp if necessary.
Considering the pints are 1/3 larger than American pints and generally priced from 5-7 buck for drafts, it's not a bad deal. Belgians and imperials can run $8-12 per pint or more. The bottles, however, are generally at least twice the price as at the store. 1 nice option not advertised is that you can buy a 10 oz. (half) pint of any beer for half the price listed. You can also buy an American (14oz) pint for about 20% off the listed price.
The best value of this bar that keeps you coming back is the Mahar's Beer Tour. Free to sign up, you get a shirt, an engraved mug (with 20% discounts for life!), a case of beer, and your name immortalized on a wall plaque at 50, 125, 200, and 500 beers, respectively. However, you can only drink 4 beers a night (on the tour at least), until you reach 200 beers. However, 4 beers of larger size and ABV than the norm really equates to 6-8 standard 5% bottles, which should be more than enough.
09-04-2010 18:23:35 | More by pandashaver
Mahar's Public Bar in Albany, NY
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Lawrence O'Donnell: 'We Are All Socialists In This Country'
Last November, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell admitted on air to being a socialist.
In a segment on "The Last Word" Tuesday addressing how Cuba - a country nearing economic ruin - is moving towards capitalism, O'Donnell said, "We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security, classic socialistic programs that have sensibly found their way into the American economy" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: The Communist Party of Cuba continues its relentless march toward capitalism, of course. But the Castro brothers can never admit that their revolutionary ideal of a pure socialistic economy is impossible to maintain, and the more Cuba clings to it, the more Cuba suffers.
Fidel actually hinted at this as far back as the first party congress when, after the first 15 years of strict Cuban socialism, he said, on December 17th, 1975, "there is no doubt that in the organization of our economy we have erred on the side of idealism and sometimes even ignored the reality of the objective economic laws we should comply with."
Interesting that an avowed socialist understands that over 35 years ago even Fidel Castro realized his country's economic structure couldn't survive:
Yesterday, the Cuban government issued hundreds of new guidelines intended to open the Cuban economy to more capitalism. Of course, the word capitalism never appears in the guidelines and never appears in current Cuban President Raul Castro's official explanation of what the guidelines are intended to do.
In a speech about the new guidelines a few weeks ago, Raul Castro said, "I can assure you that the guidelines are an expression of our people's will contained in the policy of the party, the government and the state to update the economic and social model in order to secure the continuity and irreversibility of socialism, as well as the economic development of the country and the improvement of the living standard of our people."
O'Donnell chose to hide from his viewers the reason for these changes: the economy in Cuba continues to stagnate, and the government can't afford all the services it's providing. But I digress:
So when the Castro brothers are forced to accept the irreversibility of more capitalism in the Cuban economy, it must be described as in Raul's words, "securing the continuity and irreversibility of socialism."
Cuba is as hung up on refusing to admit that its economy includes some capitalism as the United States is hung up on the refusal to admit that our economy includes some socialism. No other countries in the world are so fixated on the refusal to acknowledge the inevitable mix of socialism and capitalism in their economies.
Under the new Cuban guidelines, Cubans will be allowed to legally buy and sell homes for the first time, as well as automobiles. Some private farming will be allowed. There will be an expansion of legally allowed self employment.
The new guidelines will, as if following Paul Ryan's lead, shrink the social safety net. The ration book which all Cubans get and provides them with government subsidized food and other items will be trimmed. Raul Castro sounded downright Republican in criticizing the ration system.
He said, "since the ration book is designed to provide equal coverage to 11 million Cubans, there are more than a few examples of absurdities, such as allocating a quota of coffee to the newborn."
You don't have to read between the lines to know that the ration book is on its way to becoming Cuba's version of our food stamp program. Instead of providing government subsidized food for everyone, Cuba will eventually be providing it for those only who need it, just like we do.
That's debatable. How many able-bodied people in our nation receive food stamps because they choose to and just know how to manipulate the system?
Raul Castro said, quote, "the social welfare system is being reorganized to ensure a rational and deferential support to those who really need it. Instead of massively subsidizing products as we do now, we shall gradually provide for those people lacking other support."
In other words, we have started the process of scaling back Cuban socialism to something much closer to American socialism.
Fascinating. So, an avowed American socialist recognizes that our socialist neighbor to the south is scaling back its own socialism in order to improve its economy and therefore standard of living for its people. Isn't this an indictment against socialism? Not to O'Donnell:
I have explained in this space before how "Newsweek" reached the logical conclusion, expressed on its February 16th, 2009 cover "We Are All Socialists Now." We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security, classic socialistic programs that have sensibly found their way into the American economy.
The truth is in this country, we're all socialists to varying degrees and we're all capitalists. If the Castro Brothers allowed "Newsweek" to publish a Cuban edition, which they never will, its cover this week would surely be "We're All Capitalists Now."
Indeed, but if socialism is failing so badly in Cuba that a brother of Fidel Castro's is beginning to dismantle it, why would an American be pushing for more socialism here?
The Soviet Union crumbled under the weight of socialism, European nations like Greece are beginning to do so, and the brother of Fidel Castro's is moving away from it to save his nation.
Yet, here in America, Lawrence O'Donnell along with vast numbers of other prominent media members go on television or write articles every day telling citizens that additional socialism will solve all our economic problems.
This is akin to a man with herpes surrounded by dying AIDS victims thinking he needs a little HIV to remove the painful blisters from his genitals.
The reality is for most Americans and all Cubans, socialism wasn't a choice. If you were born after 1965, virtually all of the social programs you've been forced to pay into were already in existence.
As the cost of such programs is what is indeed exploding our debt while causing massive deficits as far as the eye can see, the solution can't possibly be creating more social programs and/or expanding the ones that currently exist.
As amazing as it might seem, Fidel Castro's brother - whether he wants to admit it or not - gets this.
Even more amazing, people like O'Donnell - with all their schooling and accessibility to information - don't.
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There is no rational nor
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:23am.
There is no rational nor legitimate reason whatsoever to believe anything O'Donnell says.
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Submitted by GW on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:36am.
LO: "We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals,"
So if you go to a Catholic hospital and pay a co-pay, does that make you a Papist? (Disclosure: I am a Papist. I use the term with that same fervor as Thomas Peters, the "American Papist".)
"This is akin to a man with herpes surrounded by dying AIDS victims thinking he needs a little HIV to remove the painful blisters from his genitals."
- Wow. Didn't need the visual...
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Let us vote on it, Larry...
Submitted by Meredith1966 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:39am.
Larry says, "We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security...". Okay, let's debate the word 'support' in that quote. If by support you mean we bear the fiscal burden of funding them, then yes, I suppose that is a true statement. But, if by support you mean that all Americans are wholly in favor of such programs, I'd say the statement is an over-generalization that is open to debate. I'm guessing here, but I'd say that some of those programs were voted on by the public, mostly the state-funded universities, but certainly the other things (Medicare, Social Security, and government-run hospitals) were imposed upon us by an over-reaching federal government. I would support such programs more enthusiastically if I thought A) they were in any way constitutional, and B) if I had a choice in my participation in them. Government removes the money to fund them from my paycheck every two weeks and I have absolutely no say in it; call me kooky, but that kind of bothers me. I'd like to see some enterprising young Congressdude or Congresschick propose Constitutional Amendments authorizing the 'Social Safety Net' and then send them to us in the States to vote on. I'm sure they'd pass, but at least then they would be on the up and up Constitutionally and people would perhaps realize that sometimes Congress needs our approval before they spend our money on ponzi schemes like Social Security.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
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No, O'Donnell We Are Not All Socialists
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:49am.
It is the wishful thinking of socialists like you.
Your Laundry list of socialist programs, public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security, are exactly the ones in trouble and damaging the country.
Public education has become a propaganda machine for big government socialism
government-run hospitals(especially county hospitals) are bottom of the barrel
Medicare rations health care, pays fraudulent claims, is going broke
Social Security is nearly broke
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It would not surprise me in
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:51am.
It would not surprise me in the least if O'Donnell secretly wishes people would be forced (perhaps even by gunpoint) into socialism but hasn't gotten the nerve to actually say so publicly.
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I Agree
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:06pm.
Many on the left like O'Donnell have that strong totalitarian temptation. They secretly admire the power and authority of foreign dictators to impose social and economic structure on their citizens. Thomas Friedman of the NYT has point blank said so on occasion about the Chinese dictators. Obama has also let slip a few comments to that effect.
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Actually, every Ameriocan under the age of 75 was born . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 10:02am.
. . . in or immigrated to a nation with existing social programs. To say that we are all therefore socialists would be like saying that all Chinese are Communists.
The government takes wealth from us to fund programs, and many of the programs are certainly beneficial to citizens.
The issue now is that many citizens have gotten far more value out of social programs than they ever put into them, to the detriment of those of us who the actuaries warn will get far less out of the programs than we put into them. Bernie Maddoff rightfully went to jail for running this kind of game; liberals not only promote the game, they hold it up as one of our government's crowning accomplishments.
If O'Donnell wants to argue that any adult who opposes Big Government is free to leave, I would agree. But this is my country, I was privileged to have served in its armed forces for 24 years, and it's not in my nature to abandon it, especially as the waters of corruption and authoritarianism rise. Rather than leaving, I want to change the government through the means provided by our Constitution -- the document I took an oath to defend against enemies foreign and domestic for almost all of my adult life.
And to those like O'Donnell who offer that those of us who distrust Social Security or Medicare are free not to partake of its benefits, I say 'Fine. Let me opt out, and return all the money I've put into those ponzi schemes for the past 42 years.'
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LOL Noel!
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:59am.
Best analogy ever!
Yet, here in America, Lawrence O'Donnell along with vast numbers of other prominent media members go on television or write articles every day telling citizens that additional socialism will solve all our economic problems.
This is akin to a man with herpes surrounded by dying AIDS victims thinking he needs a little HIV to remove the painful blisters from his genitals.
No chalk board or big, fat crayons needed for that one. So clear a picture a 12 year old would get it.
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Well, you have to give Larry credit for one thing
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:03am.
At least he is willing to admit he is a freedom-hating commie, unlike most of his MSM peers who pretend otherwise.
Vote for the American in November
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We don't do socialism here, Larry.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:15am.
If you want socialism pick out another country to live in.
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We need to stop kidding ourselves. America is socialist
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:28am.
Which is why our total accumulated debt is now hovering around $113 trillion, and why we are on the very brink of tipping over financially as well as economically.
My fear is that socialism has become so ingrained into the American psyche that there will be no way to get it out other than watching the whole thing collapse under its own weight.
But if that is what it ultimately takes to rid ourselves of all this stupid freedom-destroying nonsense then so be it, because come to an end it soon will, one way or the other.
Vote for the American in November
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He's right. All four viewers
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:03pm.
He's right. All four viewers of his B.S. believe everything his little traitorous mouth spews out.
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Yep, you are right
Submitted by Patriot II on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:20pm.
One car wreck and his whole viewing audience would be gone!!!
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"Short Bus" Schultz IS a
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:59pm.
"Short Bus" Schultz IS a walking, talking car wreck.
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Not all of us Larry
Submitted by vyger on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:09pm.
Just ask me
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You know this segment could
Submitted by VBaxter on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:15pm.
You know this segment could have been done in 2 minutes. But Lawrence o'Donnell speaks slower than Eeyore on mushrooms.
Ron Paul 2012
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You sir!
Submitted by Patriot II on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:18pm.
Are a lying, ignorant, freaking moron! You have your head so far up your a s s, you can't see daylight...don't speak for others you pathetic embecile...you aren't even smart enough to speak for yourself...don't call me a socialist you pitIful A.H.!!!!!
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Who would have ever thought...
Submitted by OxyCon on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:34pm.
Who would have ever thought...that in the United States of America, an entity which bills itself as a "news organization" would be actively promoting Socialism with their marquee prime time show!
What a disgrace! It's unreal that we have sunk so low to the point where that is considered acceptable in this country.
Do the corporations which sponsor MessNBC realize that they are paying for attacks against capitalism when they sponsor MessNBC, and basically cutting their own throats (that is unless they are in the business of receiving tax dollars for services)?
Does it even register in Krazy Larry's ginormous head that America is at a catastrophic financial breaking point due to all the social programs he espouses?
Maybe instead of reading about and quoting Karl Marx and Fidel Castro, Krazy Larry should start learning about and quoting America's Founding Fathers for a change.
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mixed economy
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:58pm.
America's economy, like most economies, is a mixed one with aspects of socialism and capitalism. America made a big jump in the era encapsulating parts of the 1920-1940's toward socialism and then we went into a slow slide as repetitive Democrat Congresses with Republicans voting present (if they even bothered to show up) took us to the six years Republicans actually held Congress and the WH and still nothing but spending occurred. Now we have to sit back and find out if the Democrat Super Majority of the past two years puts us over the edge as we have taken another great leap toward socialism since 2008.
Still we are mixed economy just further towards the Draconian demands of socialism than ever. Larry, that doesn't mean we are socialist and it definitely doesn't mean we all support socialist programs in full. Econ101
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Sorry Larry but you can shove
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 3:35pm.
Sorry Larry but you can shove your socialism up your syphillis infected, well worn rectum.
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Larry says we're Socialist, Don't Ya Know...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 4:21pm.
...The Bible tells him so...
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There is hope*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 5:57pm.
Even among our young people, they are true patriots and respect their country. They respect the freedom and liberty that is represented by our FLAG
Please take the time to watch this video. There are a number of them that has already hit the interwaves but this one is interesting. If the media dare cover this story they will say that a couple of hundred students showed up to counter protest. My contacts at LSU tell me that the crowd numbered around 2000. And for chuckles, make a note how the kids got real quiet when walking past the mounted campus police so as not to disturb the horses.
If you watch the video closly, you will see a very diverse crowd, all carrying flags. They were never unruly, violent and for college students, actually pretty well behaved. For some reason, these kids today gave me a bit of hope.
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Uh, you sure you want to use these examples?
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:08pm.
"We are all socialists in this country who support public education, state funded universities, government-run hospitals, Medicare, Social Security, classic socialistic programs that have sensibly found their way into the American economy"
Notice that every government-run institution and program he cites are disasters or heading for disaster.
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In Switzerland, the city of Bad Zurzach has withdrawn its building freeze of the Aargau biodiesel project currently under development. The project's promoters, Green Bio Fuel, have said the project will no longer process animal fats as a biodiesel feedstock.
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The 'Lorax' of Driver Distraction
Imagine the Truffula trees described in Dr. Seuss's famous children's book The Lorax as the automotive companies: taking the abuse of the ever-consumptive, amorphous population in order to feed their bottomless hunger for a useful, colorful product. The only differences from fiction to reality are the products in question are technology interfaces (e.g. high-resolution touchscreens, smartphones), and the corporations have a limited tongue. Yes, they have communications departments and the engineers may tell some of the tale, but internal constraints limit how much may be said. "We want to focus our external messages into consumable ideas centered on our core product, and not head into discussions fraught with risk."
"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
The Lorax
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Imagine the Truffula trees described in Dr. Seuss's famous children's book
The Lorax
as the automotive companies: taking the abuse of the ever-consumptive, amorphous population in order to feed their bottomless hunger for a useful, colorful product. The only differences from fiction to reality are the products in question are technology interfaces (e.g. high-resolution touchscreens, smartphones), and the corporations have a limited tongue. Yes, they have communications departments and the engineers may tell some of the tale, but internal constraints limit how much may be said. "We want to focus our external messages into consumable ideas centered on our core product, and not head into discussions fraught with risk."
But here I am: the Lorax, if you will. I have previously worked at two major automotive companies as a 'human factors' engineer and/or manager, and I am familiar with the story they don't get to tell. So while I will dance around revealing any specifics about either company, processes, or internal communications/opinions, I will tell you how to truly engineer a product with driver distraction in mind, and I will do so without the entourage a large corporation typically brings.
If I have enticed you to read on, I beseech you to investigate three areas about this ever-escalating discussion:
Engineering without Frog's DNA
The Distraction Regarding Distraction
The Deaf-inition of Distraction
Engineering Without Frog's DNA
For the enthusiasts of author Michael Crichton, you already know where I'm heading with this section. In the classic novel and associated movie,
Jurassic Park
, the scientists are unable to find all of the required DNA for the various dinosaurs they wish to resurrect after millions of years of extinction. So they devise a plan: insert frog's DNA into the missing pieces of the puzzle and that should be good enough. Without ruining the story for all of you who lived in a bubble in the early '90s, I will simply say that trying to replicate a real world without truly understanding it was the undoing of the scientists and their cohorts.
So how does this relate to driver distraction, and the multiple sources predicting our deluge of consumer electronics may cripple society as we know it? The answer: Many of the studies that are quoted frequently have come to a conclusion based upon underlying assumptions that are not based in reality.
For example: Imagine 'Joe Journalist' has eight hours to create an article for an editor's deadline, and he uses a search engine phrase of "driver distraction."
Voilà! One of the first hits is a Website, funded by the American people,
, which quotes: "Using a cellphone … while driving, whether it's handheld or hands-free, delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08%." But Joe doesn't have time to understand the referenced study was conducted using a driving simulator or test track, and the contrived tasks, situations, requirements, etc., are not correlated to real-world conditions or driving. As noted in the 2005 study "The Effects of Secondary Tasks on Naturalistic Driving Performance" by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, controlled studies cannot allow for a driver's choice or "risk perception" as happens thousands of times a day in real-world driving.
Therein, the ability to generalize some simulator findings outside the simulated environment is greatly limited. Hence the frog's DNA is the driving simulator; a powerful tool for directional engineering since it affords quicker evaluations at lower costs, but not a tool that automatically allows extrapolation to a different situation with a different population and set of consequences.
So, if the simulator studies are questionable, how can automotive companies understand real-world safety of products? Yes, they spend millions building, maintaining, and staffing driving simulators, but they also employ multiple universities to run eye-glance studies to confirm designs meet the guidelines set forth by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and they conceive and iterate quick prototypes within a modeling environment that permit eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.
And if you don't believe this whole section, I provide for you the litmus test: With the explosion of cellular handsets, texting, and other data services throughout the past decade, how significant has the increase in deaths per hundred million miles driven been? Has the increase in deaths been four times the sales of cellular phones as predicted by the simulator's frog DNA?
The answer: no. In fact, per the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Admin.) report, deaths on the highway have steadily declined and, in 2009, dropped to levels as low as 1954. Any layman—let alone scientist—should understand that a sustained, real-world trend in the opposite direction means the catalyst is likely not a catalyst and poor assumptions have been made during the study of the ergonomics.
The Distraction Regarding Distraction
Ok, so if we spent the time to sift through the best in the science, what are the greatest distractions for the driver? Few would argue with the results of a naturalistic study (using cameras inside vehicles for an extended period of time) conducted by VTTI (Virginia Tech Transportation Institute) and the subsequent conclusion that texting "… should be banned in moving vehicles for all drivers …" since the risk of getting in a crash or a near-crash is 23.2 times higher than nondistracted driving. And, in fact, at the time of publication the majority of states have enacted laws prohibiting such behavior. But how about the next few distractions? What are they? What have we done as a society to either outlaw them or ergonomically design away the distraction? The aforementioned VTTI output shows the next five actions as being the most distracting:
• Reading (3.4 times worse than undistracted driving)
• Applying make-up (3.1 times worse)
• Dialing a handheld device (2.8 times worse)
• Handling a CD (2.3 times worse)
• Eating (1.6 times worse)
In fact, the 2001 study by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center called "The Role of Driver Distraction in Traffic Crashes" studied the NASS (National Accident Sampling System) CDS (Crashworthiness Data System) data for the prevalence of reported "distractions" as reported by real-world drivers in accidents and also discovered some of these root causes among the 8.1% of accidents that reported distraction. For instance, "adjusting radio, cassette, CD" constituted 11.4% of those accidents; "other device/object brought into the vehicle" was 2.9% of those accidents; and eating or drinking was 1.7%.
So, if we as the ergonomists wish to take distraction engineering to the next level, where might we be able to employ the same rigor as the aforementioned automotive companies and find creative solutions to help the drivers of tomorrow? How about more driver-friendly fast-food packaging? With coffee causing more vehicular insurance claims than any other food or drink, according to
, maybe designing and/or mandating blow-molded cups with spill-proof tops instead of the insecure, inexpensive snap-ons would be a good start.
Minimally, we should be screaming from the mountaintops about outlawing the fast-food drive-thru—an estimated 50% of revenue from a $179 billion
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Just yards from beautiful Crescent Beach, our condo at Summerhouse 408 offers comfort, beauty, and ease for your St. Augustine vacation. Come stay here and enjoy free WiFi, HDTV, spacious and pleasant rooms, and all the conveniences of beachfront living!
Step indoors from the patio with its ocean views and find yourself in the open-plan living and dining area of Summerhouse 408. The floors are tiled, the walls painted a pleasing shade of yellow, and the furnishings very comfortable. A long couch and loveseat face the HDTV with DVD player and cable; in the corner next to the patio, a lounge chair awaits, sunshine spilling over its cushions. Plantation shutters across the sliding-glass doors can be accordioned open or closed, as you like, so flood the room with sun or darken it to enjoy a movie or game on TV.
The living area is spacious and cool, with room for everyone to spread out and get comfortable. Just beyond is the dining table, the ideal place to set up a laptop (you have free WiFi at Summerhouse 408), a puzzle, or a board game. Take your meals out to the patio and enjoy balmy sea breezes as you dine!
Whether you're cooking at home this vacation or dining out in St. Augustine's fabulous restaurants, you'll enjoy the kitchen at our condo. The cupboards are stocked with cookware, dishes, glassware, utensils -- everything you need to prepare just about anything, except the actual groceries! Even if you're just reheating takeout, making coffee, and mixing frosty drinks, the appliances will come in handy. The kitchen is such a cheerful place, with spotlighting and plenty of counter space.
The first floor of this townhouse-style condo also features a half-bath with a vessel sink and contemporary styling. So convenient to the living and dining area -- and it means that each bedroom upstairs has its own full bath!
Traveling upstairs, you leave the open structure of the entertainment area for quiet and relaxation in large, restful bedrooms. Summerhouse 408 sleeps 4 very comfortably, perfect for a family, two couples traveling together, or a group of friends.
The master suite offers a queen-sized bed, TV, and cushioned easy chair, not to mention a long window with plantation shutters to admit the brilliant sunrise or block it out. This room has an en-suite bath with both a shower and tub option. The washer and dryer are stacked just outside this bathroom as well, making laundry a snap!
The second bedroom contains two twin beds, and has a small office off to one side. There's a TV in here too, and a bright window. The bathroom connects -- so convenient! And both linens and towel sets are provided for every bed and bath at the condo, so you can pack light for this trip!
The condo is nicely furnished and very comfortable, but the best part is undoubtedly its location. Here you're right on Crescent Beach, with magnificent sunrises beginning every day, pelicans soaring overhead, balmy temperatures, and beautiful unspoiled sands. To the west is Matanzas Inlet, a fantastic place for nature watching, kayaking, canoeing, boating, and hiking. And you're just minutes from historic downtown St. Augustine, with world-class golf, spas, historic sites, restaurants, and shopping at your fingertips!
The Summerhouse condo complex offers every amenity you'd want for a full and fun vacation. Choose from 4 heated swimming pools, lighted tennis courts, racquetball courts, basketball courts, shuffleboard, and children's play areas. It's also got a private walkway down to the beach, and free convenient parking throughout your stay. Make Summerhouse 408 your home-away-from-home destination in St. Augustine!
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- 83 miles to Orlando, FL
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The press tends to focus on the Kickstarter campaigns that end with millions of dollars given to proven developers to make their respective dream games, but the majority of projects either barely scrape by or fail to make their funding goals. The industry favors success, and the bigger the success the more hype may begin to outshine the reality, but what about the projects that you rarely hear about? What happens to them?
Without a big name attached or a known IP coming back from the dead, it can be hard to get the attention of the press, which in turn can make it hard to spread the word to the people you want to fund your game. Many of the developers working on Kickstarter projects don't have a background in marketing or PR, and this ignorance of what it takes to spread the word of their game or how to do so appropriately can lead to some shady offers to the press, spam campaigns, and in at least one case overzealous backers of a project have harassed individuals who refused to give a game publicity.
Crowd funding strategies are still being developed, and Kickstarter has barely been around long enough for there to be accepted best practices, so let's dig into what happens when promoting your project goes terribly wrong.
Bribes for coverage
While people often accuse the games press of accepting bribes for good scores or coverage, the reality is the story of a straight bribe being offered would be worth more to the writer than the money itself. That's why I was shocked when I, and other writers, received an email that offered us Kickstarter rewards in return for coverage of the Epic Skater campaign.
"We would like to offer you (2) $125 Kickstarter reward tiers (details below) in exchange for promotion on your website in the form of a Press Release, interview or article (see attached). Your reward will be delivered on the target release date of December 2012," the email stated. "Our developers have a long history of successful games including Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero and many more. Our team members are available to do interviews for your article covering Epic Skater."
I e-mailed Kurt Gutierrez, one of the game's developers and the source of the email, to ask about whether he felt that offer was ethical. "Of course I do or else I wouldn't have offered it. I look at it like paying for advertising. The rewards are worth our time, and in trade you take your time to write an article about us," he said. "A different approach would have been to send you a story about ourselves and have you write that. Obviously after hearing your response that might have been the better option, but I chose to go with this one. Thanks for the reply."
I'm often frustrated when covering games, and sometimes confused about why companies keep us from covering certain angles, but this was one of the rare times I became angry. Does he really think that what we do is advertising? "How is it not a form of advertising? People see it, read a good article, see a fun game and talk about it with their friends. How is that not advertising. This is your area of expertise I'm just a game designer, so maybe you know a little bit more about the subject then I do," he replied. He also apologized for any offense, and said he'd rethink his marketing strategies in the future.
The explicit offer of a reward in return for coverage goes a long way to making your game untouchable. Alex Rubens is a freelance writer for G4, and he also received the invitation to cover the game in exchange for the $250 worth of rewards. "It feels dirty. I felt like I was the wrong, even though I didn't do anything. It's a straight bribe, and that's not acceptable under any circumstances, whether you're a big publisher or a indie looking to fund your title on Kickstarter," he told the Penny Arcade Report. So the offer of rewards doesn't make him want to write about the project?
"Not at all. If anything, I didn't want anything to do with it at that point. Every time that I saw coverage of the project, I couldn't help but think that they got the same email I did. I didn't want someone to have any doubts about the work that I'm doing."
Another one of the developers behind the Epic Skater campaign emailed me to calm any ruffled feathers. "We could see how this could come off sketchy with dollar amounts next to them. We're using the '$125' to identify what you'd get via the reward tier on the Kickstarter page," he explained. "We thought you might enjoy having some swag to run a giveaway or enjoy for yourselves. Part of the tier includes access to an early build, and two release copies to give away once the game is out, so you and a friend could check out the game again on release." He described it as a "press kit with swag."
It may be that no one involved with the project saw how badly this would look, or the negative impact it would have on the press' perception of their Kickstarter, but it proves both how important marketing can be, and how you need to understand what is and isn't appropriate to offer when talking to the press. Even if it was unintentional, their opening email all but made their campaign untouchable.
Spamming sites for coverage
The flood of emails editors receive that promote specific Kickstarter campaigns can make you scratch your head. Most of these emails use the same wording, describe the same talking points, and are sometimes just word-for-word copies of each other, but sent from different accounts. This has happened with more than one Kickstarter campaign, and I was starting to wonder if there was an organized spam campaign to try to drum up support for these campaigns. It turns out, some Kickstarters simply ask fans to email publications about coverage. The Kickstarter campaign for The Other Brothers, for instance, directly called for those who backed the project to flood publications with requests for coverage.
"You guys and girls are the true believers, the early adopters, the real fans and at last check there are over 800 of you! Word of mouth is a fantastic thing but usually it's very diffuse sometimes, what we need to do is focus all of our efforts on a specific target - how can anyone ignore 800 passionate people!?" This call to action is from an email sent to backers of the project, and shared with the Penny Arcade Report. "So what we need to do is this: if every single one of you could take a couple of minutes to follow these steps, we can make the goal! Submit a tip to Kotaku, let them know how much you want The Other Brothers - link them to the campaign, to the update posts, to the website, to everything. Do the same thing with: [email protected] and [email protected]"
The email went on to warn backers not to "spam" these sites, but to make the emails personal and honest. "THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU LET THEM KNOW HOW URGENT IT IS, WE HAVE 5 DAYS! Make your emails honest and personal we aren't spamming - we're shouting from the rooftops!"
The Penny Arcade Report was lucky enough to be left off this list, but I've been on the receiving end of similar campaigns, and it's no fun to spend your morning clearing out email after email saying the same thing. There is nothing wrong with sending in a tip to a website to point out a Kickstarter you think looks good, but when you instruct 800 people to do the same thing, it's spam. There's no other word for it. It's also incredibly off-putting, and is unlikely to lead to coverage, positive or negative.
It's hard to prove this is happening with a campaign without backing it yourself and waiting for an email, so for now we have this one confirmed case and others that may be using the same strategy. My advice is simple: Stop it. You are pissing off the people you're trying to interest in your game or product.
Don't speak out against a campaign, or we'll get you
Eli Hodapp is the editor in chief of Touch Arcade, and he expressed skepticism of the viability of the Republique Kickstarter. This turned into a Twitter conversation with some heated arguments on both sides, and some rather snide comments from everyone involved, which led to a thread being opened on the NeoGAF gaming forum. Soon, things began to get ugly.
The thread continued for pages and, according to Hodapp, it began to get personal. "They got my phone number, started calling me, calling my parents', all sorts of crazy shit. It was seriously insane," Hodapp told the Penny Arcade Report. They found an image from a years-old Something Awful thread where Hodapp claimed to have bought a number of Nintendo Wii's to sell on eBay for profit, and used that as evidence that Hodapp was immoral. In the Something Awful thread, Hodapp also posted that he had told a clerk the system were for a children's charity.
"Something Awful is a comedy forum filled with trolls trolling other trolls, a friend let me borrow a display box from EB Games when Wiis were impossible to get and I photoshopped like a dozen photos together of me moving the box around," Hodapp said when I asked about the thread. "And then made up a story about how I was getting Craigslist rich." It was, he noted, a successful troll. The forum goers simply saw the stunt as proof of Hodapp's awfulness.
He claimed his personal information was shared on the site, and the harassment began in earnest. He said that his parents would come home to threatening messages on their voice mail. "Just calling to let you know your son is a fucking faggot," one particularly pleasant message stated. There was an organized attempt to have him fired from TouchArcade.
"This guy better watch himself - he is starting to piss some people off that actually post here & enjoy NeoGaf whom are a part of the development community - myself included," one poster stated. "That is not a professional way to demonstrate your thoughts on a project and dismiss readers publicly on twitter of the website. Might want to watch out for some people here that know who really control Touch Arcade's fate and advertising revenue…. "
Others simply stated their intention to call him.
"It was a pretty crazy experience overall, I mean I'm used to internet comments and am fully aware that someone out there basically hates everything we do for whatever weird reason, but I've never experienced such direct personal harassment over video games before," he said. "And it snowballed to the point that the truth in the whole situation in the eyes of the hive mind was just whatever the worst things people could come up with was. I mean it's the same phenomenon that you see on Reddit when people get all worked up over something insignificant. The anonymity of the internet and the personal investment of Kickstarter combine into this weird soup that takes 'I don't agree with this person' to 'I hate this guy and will do anything I can to ruin him.'"
The moral of these stories
People are still learning how to run a successful Kickstarter campaign and it seems, at least superficially, that anyone with a good game idea and some industry experience will be able to have their project funded. That's often not the case, and developers are beginning to try desperate things to earn media attention. Gamers also become invested in the projects they back, especially if they're fans of the developers' past work, and this can lead to some very nasty things when others in the media speak out against the project or Kickstarter in general.
"I've seen the dozens of emails that other members of the press get that all beg them to cover a title in the same basic wording," Rubens told the Penny Arcade Report. "That's gross. When people back something on Kickstarter, they feel a sense of pride, almost that they need to protect it and ensure it's success. The leaders of these projects take advantage of their backers and use them to get more press coverage."
Or, in the case of Eli Hodapp and NeoGAF, love and support for a project can turn a normally sane community into a mob.
Offering material goods, or even virtual goods, in exchange for coverage is not okay. Asking hundreds of people to spam the tip lines of gaming blogs and news outlets is not okay. Harassing people who don't write about certain projects is not okay. These things aren't forgivable just because you're a small developer or simply invested in a game; these rules apply whether you're a part of an indie team or a major publisher.
If you're thinking about launching a Kickstarter, or are in the process of raising money via crowd-funding, read the stories above. As we've said before, your game is the story, not your funding method. Act accordingly.


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Veteran NBA player Jason Collins becomes the first active male athlete to openly come out in a major United States sport. In a Sports Illustrated article released Monday, Collins simply states "I'm a 34-year old center. I'm black. And I'm gay."
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SINCE it began more than 50 years ago, hundreds of hopefuls have taken part in the Miss Oxfordshire competition.
But now it has been postponed because not enough women have put themselves forward to take part.
Miss Oxfordshire is held every year to find a woman aged between 17 and 24 who can represent the county both at the Miss England competition and at various local events over the course of the year.
After only nine people entered the 2013 competition, the grand final, which was set to take place on December 5, was put back to drum up more interest.
David Douglass, who has been organising the Miss Oxfordshire competition for two years, said: "Postponing the competition is not the end of the world.
"We just didn't have enough entries. I don't know why – maybe it was too early.
"We like to get about 15 to 20 people taking part in the final but it is not a big deal that it has been postponed."
Mr Douglass did not know when the Miss Oxfordshire competition had last been delayed.
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Natalie Brook of Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre said: "I think competitions like Miss Oxfordshire are representative of a society in which we objectify women. Their bodies are seen as commodities. Obviously each individual has to make their own decision about whether to take part or not.
"But this is about a wider societal attitude where young women feel that they are affirmed in some way on the basis of their looks."
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"They are bright, academic and well-rounded people. We have had lawyers and soldiers taking part before."
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Since the competition's final was postponed, more women have come forward and the total number of entries stands at about 20.
Once all the entries are in a shortlist will be drawn up and the girls on it will take part in the final, which is now taking place on Wednesday, February 13, at The Living Room in Oxford.
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