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The 4 Dumbest Video Game Publicity Stunts
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While video games are among the newest form of popular entertainment, good old marketing gimmicks and publicity stunts are classic and time tested. While there are occasionally a few clever publicity stunts for video games, there are a many others that quite often they end in sheer, unmitigated disaster. Here at WeirdWorm, we don't really care too much about when things go as planned, it's not nearly as funny as when stuff goes horribly, horribly wrong. And with that, we humbly present to you some of the dumbest video game publicity stunts.
Nothing like promoting a video game like decapitating some goats
The image above is from a 2007 Greek launch event for God of War 2, which from the looks of it, had all the necessary ingredients for a great launch party. Greek theme? Check. Scantily clad ladies? Double check. Decapitated goats? Chec- Wait, what?
In keeping with the slaughter and violence found in the wildly popular video game franchise, Sony thought it was appropriate to snag a dead goat, decapitate it, and stuff it with offal. Guests at the event were then offered to reach inside the dead animal, pull out some of the tasty meat treats inside the goat, and eat them. When at a party with half naked, body painted women, the last thing anyone wants to see is a butchered goat acting as a fondue pot- it's scientifically proven to be the ultimate buzzkill. Sony suffered quite a lot of fallout, and deservedly so, from everyone from animal rights activists to people with a little good taste. Sony had to recall almost 80,000 magazines which had document photos of the event, in order to try and brush the snafu under the carpet, but as anyone who has an embarrassing photo of them on the internet knows: what goes on the internet, stays on the internet.
Sega Saturn jumps the gun (and the shark)
In the middle of 1995, Sega was in a tough spot. They had to release their newest console, the Sega Saturn in North America that September, only a few days before Sony released their PlayStation. Sega knew that the PlayStation was the better machine by far, so at that year's E3 (the annual video game expo), they decided to pull a little PR magic.
During the Sega presentation, Tom Kalinske, the Sega America big wig, dropped the bomb: as he spoke, the Sega Saturn was available to purchase. Suddenly rescheduled a whole four months before its release, at $399, the publicity stunt seemed to be a premature success.
That is until the Sony press conference, only minutes later, where Sony bigwig Steve Race walked up to the microphone and calmly said just one word; "$299". Amidst the crowd suddenly declaring "OH SNAP!", a few Sega execs could be heard bitterly weeping, knowing their stunt just got royally pooched.
`The rest unfolded like a terrible disaster film- everything went down the drain. The sudden release of the Sega Saturn meant that there was hardly any marketing or public knowledge of the device, and worse yet, none of the game developers were told about the sudden date change, so the Saturn launched with many incomplete games- games which were supposed to be released in four months time, not two minutes. Add to that the fact that Walmart wasn't aware of its release, and Sega was in trouble. During the Saturn's four month head start, it sold 80,000 units. When the PlayStation was released, it sold 100,000. In one day.
Sega was undeniably destroyed, and in the end, they posted almost $300 million in losses and had to lay of almost a third of it's employees. Oh snap indeed.
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Report: Sens' Cowen eyeing Hamonic-like deal
Aug 6, 2013, 1:15 PM EDT
Contract talks between Ottawa and RFA defenseman Jared Cowen have stalled, and Cowen's asking price could be the reason why.
The 22-year-old rearguard is reportedly gunning for a similar deal to the one the New York Islanders gave Travis Hamonic — a seven-year, $27 million extension — according to Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun.
Garrioch reports that "some believe Cowen's camp would like something close" to Hamonic's deal, which raised a few eyebrows when it was signed on July 5.
The length of term and financial commitment were surprising, but the overall consensus was that GM Garth Snow made a shrewd salary cap maneuver, as Hamonic — who averaged nearly 23 minutes a night and led the Isles in hits in 2013 — now checks in annually with a tidy $3.85 million hit until 2020.
While Cowen might like a similar deal, he doesn't bring a similar resume to the table.
Hamonic has been a steady contributor since debuting in the 2010-11 season and, at 22, already has 183 regular season games under his belt.
Cowen has roughly half that (90 reg. season) after missing almost all of last year recovering from hip surgery.
The 6-foot-5, 230-pound rearguard did play all 82 games in 2011-12 — his rookie campaign — scoring 5G-12A-17PTS. He led all Sens defensemen in hits during the regular season, then upped the ante in a seven-game playoff loss to the Rangers, leading all skaters with 28 hits.
But is that enough to warrant a huge deal?
The X-factor in all of this will be Ottawa's financial situation. The Sens are not a spend-to-the-cap team and already have $14.5 million committed next season to defensemen Erik Karlsson, Chris Phillips, Marc Methot and Patrick Wiercioch.
Cody Ceci, the club's 2012 first-rounder, will be ready to make a push for a spot in a year or two while Eric Gryba impressed in his rookie campaign, appearing in 33 games while recording six points during 2013.
All of this will likely be taken into consideration with Cowen's new deal, which needs to be done before Sens training camp opens on Sept. 11.
- islesjb - Aug 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM
If the Hamonic signing raised some eye-brows, it shouldn't have. Hammer is already the cornerstone of our young defense, logs crazy minutes and goes out against the opposition's toughest offensive players night after night. Not to mention, he took a swing at Malkin at the end of game 4 in the playoffs, which was awesome. Love the signing, term and cap hit.
From what I know about Cowen, he doesn't deserve that kind of contract yet and probably won't get it.
- 19to77 - Aug 6, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Not with his resume. Bridge contract is more appropriate. One year, no more than $2.75m.
- spochiefsfan - Aug 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM
I was thinking similar. 2 years, $4.5.
- President Charles Logan - Aug 6, 2013 at 3:55 PM
who's jared cowen anyways? and what team does he play for again?
…… insignificant signing
- ctblue796 - Aug 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Coming from somebody who is insignificant to the world, the comment makes sense.
- ctblue796 - Aug 6, 2013 at 4:15 PM
What i mean by this is that you president charles logan is as insignificant as jared cowen is. So thanks for posting such a useless comment. Go back to your mothers basement where you belong.
- President Charles Logan - Aug 7, 2013 at 4:16 PM
lol still bitter that i pointed out philly77 knows more about your own team in ottawa then you do ..lol alls you need to know is ….. ya'll stink and have no cups and never will win a cup .
- President Charles Logan - Aug 7, 2013 at 4:18 PM
oh and i seem to be significant enough that i got you to react with some anger here lol
- freewillig - Aug 6, 2013 at 8:30 PM
For the uneducated, he is a Dman every team would want to have
- President Charles Logan - Aug 8, 2013 at 1:54 AM
uh really?? considering that 90% of the NHL fan base has most likely never even heard of the guy before , i'm thinking you're sort of ………… wrong?
- canadianguest - Aug 6, 2013 at 9:31 PM
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Why Wait? Bowling Green pair create app that provides wait times at restaurants
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Eric Littleton and Jon Matar partnered on the creation of WhyWait, which people can download onto their smartphones beginning Dec. 21.
Operating out of an office at the Western Kentucky University Research and Development Center, Littleton and Matar have been reaching out to local restaurants about signing up for WhyWait.
Restaurants that are signed on to carry the app are able to offer up-to-the-minute wait times, nightly specials and other features to users.
"A lot of the restaurants we've talked to are very intrigued by the prospect of reaching their customers in real time," Littleton said.
Littleton got the idea for an app a couple of years ago after a night out that did not go according to plan.
"I was out on a date, we went to three different restaurants and they all had hour-and-a-half wait times," Littleton said.
He and Matar had discussed many other business concepts and ideas for startup companies, but when smartphone sales proliferated this year, they both felt the time was right to revisit Littleton's idea from earlier and develop WhyWait.
Matar left a job at Bank of Lexington around the end of last year, returned to Bowling Green to rejoin Littleton, who had been continuing his education at WKU, and the two went about writing a business plan and securing investors for their new venture.
In developing the app, Matar and Littleton looked to expand the scope of its capabilities beyond simply having restaurants give customers an idea of how long they would have to wait for a table.
"In the beginning it was about wait times, but then we decided to give restaurants something in return," Matar said. "We wanted to make this like a website where they could customize their profiles, sort of make it a Facebook for restaurants."
Under the concept, restaurants that sign up to be included in WhyWait receive a small tablet computer on which they can build their profile, with estimated wait times updated intermittently each day.
Profiles can also include a restaurant's online footprint, showing each time someone has posted about the restaurant on Twitter, checked in on Facebook or posted an online review.
Restaurants can reach out to customers on WhyWait by sending nightly or weekly specials to users via email and text message, as well as posting bar seating availability, happy hours and special events.
For customers, the app should have the effect of reducing the chance of being stuck with a lengthy wait for a table, Matar said, while restaurants have another outlet to promote their business in a unique way.
"Restaurants get marketing data that shows them how many people are checking out their profile, when they're looking at it and how many users we send to your restaurant," Matar said.
Working with Interapt, a Louisville company that develops mobile technologies for companies, Littleton and Matar have ambitious plans for expanding WhyWait's reach.
The two have hired mangers for operations and information technology, and are seeking people to fill marketing positions at their startup. Employees in Louisville and Lexington are reaching out to restaurants in those cities to get them signed on to WhyWait, and Littleton hopes to introduce the product to more nearby cities over the next several months.
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For 11 years, service at Landers Ford has been award-winning
When you buy a new car or truck at Landers Ford, 2082 W. Poplar Ave. in Collierville, you may be surprised — and very pleased — with all the high-tech equipment that comes with it.Your 2013 Ford Fusion or Explorer or F-150 is likely to include blue tooth calling, a touch screen and voice activation for all the operating systems.
Some people intuitively take to these innovations like a duck takes to water.
If you're not one of them, you'll be glad to know that Landers Ford offers follow-up training to its new-car buyers, much like Apple computer does for its customers.
Once a month, people who have bought new cars from Landers can return to the dealership, at the corner of Poplar and Houston Levee, and receive regularly scheduled instruction on how to get the most out of their vehicle's sophisticated electronics.
Don Kitchens, general manager and partner at Landers Ford, says this free program has been very popular.
Services like this have helped Landers Ford win the President's Award from Ford Motor Company annually since 2001. For 11 straight years, Landers Ford has been among the approximately 7 percent of all Ford dealerships in the nation to earn this honor.
The President's Award, Ford Motor Company's most prestigious award to its dealers, recognizes excellence in sales and customer satisfaction.
Kitchens says that only 26 dealers out of about 3,500 dealers overall nationwide have won this award 11 years consecutively, as Landers has.
Kitchens says Landers Ford is on track to win this coveted honor again in 2012. (Winners are set to be announced next spring.)
Behind this succession of national awards, Kitchens says, is an attitude that: "We don't think there's any reason we can't satisfy each and every single customer. That translates to treating people the way you'd want to be treated yourself."
Kitchens says Landers Ford has a set of step-by-step instructions for everything the dealership does.
For example, sales professionals are to know their products very well, he says, to find out what customers want, to help them find the vehicles they need and to be courteous and friendly.
Among the vehicles for sale at Landers Ford is the 2013 Ford Fusion, with strong fuel efficiency and a new body style. The gas-powered Fusion gets up to 37 mpg while the hybrid version rates at 47 mpg.
The No. 1 selling truck at Landers Ford continues to be the Ford F-150. The Ford Explorer and the all-new Ford Escape are big sellers, too.
Kitchens says Landers Ford has excellent employees, and their loyalty and teamwork have led to the dealership winning big awards.
Landers Ford seeks to be a neighborhood dealership and, as such, is very involved in the community. The dealership co-sponsors a car show to benefit the Collierville Education Foundation. It also helps sponsor the FedEx St. Jude Golf Classic, Race for the Cure and a long list of other charities.
For more information on Landers Ford, call 888-218-0535 or go to landersmemphis.com.
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That's like saying a sports car should have more luggage space for that price.
No... this would be like a sports car with the following ports:
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However, you can no longer open the hood, access the engine, replace/upgrade components. In fact, you cannot even change the tires yourself anymore. If you really need them changed you need to go back to the dealer but more than likely by the time your tires need replacing you should just be buying a new sports car anyway.
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Soil Being Removed As Cleanup Continues From Tanker Truck Accident on I-57The tanker trailer involved in a Thursday afternoon accident on Interstate 57 three miles north of the Kinmundy exit has now been removed, but additional cleanup will be required.
Marion County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency Coordinator Donnie Brooks says there apparently was some leakage of the chloride compound from the tanker that contaminated the ground. He reports a nuetralizer was used Tuesday. Work Wednesday will begin on removal of 25,000 square feet of dirt from the shoulder of the interstate into the ditch. It will be replaced with clean dirt.
Brooks says Interstate 57 traffic in the area of the accident will be reduced to one lane while the work is being completed. He's uncertain how long it will take. Brooks says water samples will also be taken from two nearby ponds to make sure they are not contaminated. Interstate 57 was closed between Kinmundy and Farina several times after the accident as a safety precaution.
The tanker truck was finally removed from the roadside ditch on Sunday and then lifted by a crane onto a new trailer to be removed from the area on Monday. The driver of the truck escaped injury when his rig left the west shoulder of the southbound lanes and ran into the roadside ditch. State Police have not released reports on the wreck.
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Well, I don't know what the laws are like abroad, or if they're even the same all over the US, but a person who is handicapped (and a dwarf/midget would certainly classify as such) wouldn't be stupid enough to live in a building that doesn't conform to the laws regarding the special needs of the handicapped. For example, all elevators have the buttons labeled with braille for the blind, and by law they have to have ramps to accommodate those in wheelchairs. One of the "little people" would most certainly have arranged with the building manager/owner to have either a stool permanently placed in the elevator or have the panel with the buttons lowered and placed within reach. I grew up with a friend who was confined to a wheelchair back in the 70s and she ran into this kind of problem everywhere. Everything has to be handicapped accessible nowadays. Although I have always wondered why they have braille drive-thru tellers. haha Just a joke.
Good logic puzzle, nonetheless.
I see what you are trying to say but I don't think that anyone can make a manager of a building install a permanent stool at the base of the buttons because that could be a hazard for the non-handicapped peops. In the case of the short persons I think that they are screwed as far as getting help in the elevators. I do sincerely believe that they should start carrying pens or pencils or dild*** with them for this specific purpose. HeHe
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Mostly, the man may be short and he could not press the keys above than for 7th floor.
In a rainy day, he can have an umbrella, which will be useful to press any key.
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I am sorry but lateral thinking puzzles should be based on some practical reality.
There is not a single midget in existence that wouldn't start carrying a freakin' pencil with him so that he can press that freakin' elevator button. That is BIG BS. I apologize for being rude. I am mostly just playing around, although, I belive that the point is valid.
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What are you trying to say here that Free Enterprise and Capitalism isn't acceptable any more?
I thought that Free Enterprise and Capitalisms sold what they could and if it wasn't useful it wouldn't sell.
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.....that you can't seem to muster up even one serious word (or a funny non-serious word). If you have nothing to say, here's a hint. Don't try to say it.
(Oh gee, I did it again.)
Max you are talking like a Commie.
However on a more serious note a while ago I believe it was possibly you who said something about voting for your preferred candidate. If it wasn't I apologize, but none the less it's really of no importance, as I replied that no you never get to vote for your Preferred Candidate the best you get to do is vote for the Parties Candidate.
So once you acknowledge that you are not voting for who you believe would be the best candidate but who the Party and here it doesn't matter which party you have to accept that the Candidate offered by that party is beholding to that Political Party and is effectively a Puppet of that Political Party.
So if they they do things like you have posted about here it's for their Political Party's Benefit not them self personally and they just are in a position of their Political Masters Say Jump and their only response possible is How High and for How Long.
Doesn't matter who they are when they are in office they are the slaves of their Political Parties always have been and always will be. About the only time that this may be not rammed down peoples necks ts is when the candidate is Senile and are incapable of understanding what they are being told to do.
But then again I think on that we can both agree that having a person like that in any Political Office anywhere in the world is most defiantly not in the best interests of the country/state that they are supposed to be representing as while they do not do as they are told directly by their very condition they are incapable of resisting their Political Masters at all and in a situation like that the Political Masters have free reign to do as they please without any possible hindrance or resistance.
The only way that you can vote for your preferred candidate is to be an active member of a Political Party and then you are part of the problem and not in any way connected with a possible solution to Political Parties running the show for their own benefit at the expense of the country/state that they are supposed to be representing.
That ANYONE can get access by paying a fee? If so, I'd agree it's a problem. If however, they are placing controls around who can actually get access, where's the problem.
Unless of course you think impressions matter more that reality.
Do you really think Abdab Achmaeil would be able to buy in without screening? It's a push to get a precious few who he wants support from. I don't think it's a "use PayPal to gain access" deal. IF so you are in a lot of trouble but, even in the US, I don't think the government would be THAT dumb, not would they allow a president to launch such a campaign, which I'm sure was pushed on him to begin with.
Presidents have always rooted around for money and have held fancy dinners or overnight stays at the White House for big donors. Always. Contributions have always bought access, even in simpler, more honest times (in case you choose to believe there ever was a simple and honest time in American politics.)
With recent Supreme Court decisions, where corporations can now give unlimited money to election-influencing organizations, and where election-influencing organizations can relabel themselves as political and cultural education groups (so as to avoid the feeble attempts to regulate money in elections, and where even making public the names of donors to these groups is seen as an impingement upon free speech, well, then, the floodgates are pretty much open. Good ideas and virtuous men without money will lose elections. Money is the price of admission to a career in governance, and not just a little money, either. I predict you'll see a ten billion dollar election in the next cycle.
I hope Chuck Todd will learn to adjust his sensitivity to these sorts of shocks, and not waste anybody's further time with stories of his horror-stricken surprise. I hope nobody lets on to Chuck that other more seriously disturbing things are afoot in our culture, like, high school girls drink beer and get into sexual situations. The news might stop his heart.
The Beacon cannot find the story. I wonder if Obama got to it.
Maxwell's URL had some junk characters in it.
One silly, meaningless, and nonsensical (non American).
One ignorant (non American).
One both hypocritical and ignorant (non American).
One critical of the reporter for his reporting (American).
Unknown number who read, but decided (for their own reasons) to not comment.
I shake my head in disbelief.
That most people don't bother taking your bait? Or that some people bothered to bite, just to see if you had something worthwhile for a change?
Actually, I just answered my own question, I guess.
I'm one of those unknown number who originally decided to not comment. My reason? You take all the fun out of your discussions.
I don't know what your goal was in starting this topic. You expressed your outrage; were you looking for anything besides total agreement? If not, why do you expect opposing responses when you started name calling ("Kool Aide drinkers") before anyone replied?
You denigrate the few responses you've received to date ("ignorant", "hypocritical and ignorant"). You seem to think the nationality of the responders is important, although you're well aware this is an international forum. You toss out judgmental comments ("I shake my head in disbelief."); I doubt anyone expected to get 'scored'. As to "silly, meaningless, and nonsensical", this is the Water Cooler, remember?
What do you expect when you create such a hostile environment? Geez, it's an IT site; do you really expect effective, reasoned, researched political debate here?
While this is indeed an International forum, the issues I'm interested in discussing are not International issues. If you disagree, then we have a different "world view", in which case, that's where the discussion should go.
Moreover, while it may not be offensive to hear (read) opinions from non-Americans, It's extremely offensive to be bombarded with their obvious agenda for America. I don't have an agenda for Finland, for example, and I'll be damned if I'll let some jerk from Finland try to advance his agenda on me. Again, if you see it differently, it goes to that "world view" thing.
I'll also admit this: The time for playing nice-nice with those who are, in my opinion, advancing an agenda that will be destructive to my country and its future, is over. And I find it extremely disturbing that you choose to defend them, while you leave Lady Liberty defenseless (in these forums).
Am I abrasive at times? You're damned right I am. Do I know it? You're damned right I do. To paraphrase some guy in a movie, I'm mad as ****, and I'm not taking it anymore. And to paraphrase one of my favorite presidents, If you can't stand the heat, get the **** out of the kitchen!
More like jerk-wad. Wanna know why?
Because you're not on the field yourself. You attack others without true interaction, that's boring and (considering the futility of your attacks) stupid.
Your arguments only matter to the extent that you make people care about how you feel. And you can't make people care about that without engaging them, forming a mutual respect.
You don't get no respect because you haven't earned it.
What you used to have, you squandered over the last year or so (maybe more) of stand-offish negativity.
Don't be such a sourpuss. I've told you a billion times already, if the stuff you want to see here isn't here, make it yourself. That's a positive and respectable attitude.
That you get international responses? That so few people opt to enter your kitchen?
What did you expect when you started this discussion? What was your goal?
I guess I'm living in some la-la land where people can actually admit they were mistaken about something or someone. ****, I've done it. But I guess I give others too much credit.
As only one example (of many). Go back to my 2007 and 2008 discussions in which I predicted the Democratic Party nominee (HC or BO) WOULD NOT close Guantanamo Bay, even though that was a HUGE issue during the election, etc. Barack Obama PROMISED to close GB in his first year. I said, no he won't.
I have no need whatsoever for people to pat me on the back for being right, but for Petes sake. I was criticized THEN for taking the position I was taking, and Im being criticized now for simply pointing out I was not wrong.
Barack Obama IS NOT who people thought he was, and the idiots who would not listen to reasonable and rational arguments years ago, are in denial today.
But go ahead. I guess I deserve all the criticism you're handing me just for pointing out the obvious.
I'm criticizing your delivery of it, especially in conjunction with your disbelief in the responses you've received (or not received). You acknowledged that some readers have reasons they didn't respond; I offered mine.
Can you share that with your government too?
Why would you start a rant and then complain about the input and from whom?
To paraphrase one of your favorite presidents;
"If you can't stand the heat, get the **** out of the kitchen!"
Americans want to control the world around them.....as they feel unsafe of course, has nothing to do with perishing without the world around them.
Americans expect other nations to follow what THEY feel democracy should be.
Americans expect the world to cowtow to their political agenda and threaten war for opposers.
And yet, US politics is nobody's business but Americas?
When you (America) professed to be a global leader (of what I am still unsure), when American political moves effect the world around them, in a global economy, in 2013 where there are no borders, how can you possibly even hope that all you will see if Americans who agree with you, when posting in an international forum full of people who support different governmental systems?
Give your head a shake, Max! Get real, for once.
One, over the top, sensationalist who takes political commentary and focuses on it as fact without a slant (American)
A slolw news day?
From the nation that singlehandedly invented the modern political donation process?
( ... possibly by re-inventing a process tried and true for the last, what, many thousands of years across the entire world ?? )
Seriously, what is the issue?
Maybe this is how Washington has always operated, but didn't Obama campaign over and over again about how he was going to change the way things are done in Washington? That's the reason people elected him. Remember hope and change?
Clearly, at least to me, he broke his promise and proved he is just as bad as everyone he chastised during his campaign. No, maybe he's even worse because he told everyone what they wanted to hear just to get elected.
I've heard many campaign promises since I was old enough to pay attention to them. For me as someone within TV range of the US border, that would be from the 1976 campaign and Jimmy Carter.
Every presidential campaigner, Republican, Democrat and Independant, says they are going to clean up Washington, reform election finance, improve bipartisan co-operation, eliminate waste, improve education and on and on.
Of course their ability to do so is constrained by Congress. They campaign as if they can control congress, but rarely do they get so lucky. Its almost inevitable that the will not be able to control congress for more than a couple of years. And of course external events happen like ecomonic crises, wars and other events that take focus away from the agenda that is being propesed on the campaign trail. Many successful candidates get to Washington only to find out they can't do what they promised because the money simply isn't available.
As for donations for access, it has been happening for decades, with Republicans and Democrats. And sadly, it is probably less of an issue than with PACs, not to say one excuses the other. PACs have more clout than donors who get a dinner at the White House.
In Canada we have very strict rules about who can lobby and how. A member of the governing party was kicked out because their spouse broke the rules. In Canada only individuals can contribute to political parties or candidates, and the maxmimum is $1100 per year per party or candidate. All contributions over $200 are on the public record. Companies, action committees, or lobby groups are not allowed to contribute anything.
If you want to reform politics in the US, reforming campaign finances has to be holisitic. Pointing fingers at one area while ignoring another won't fix anything. If you stop white house dinners, you simply shift more money to PACs.
I've long thought the only people who should be allowed to contribute to a campaign are the registered voters of the district / state / region under contention. The laws you describe are close enough, though. If only it weren't so dang cold up there :-)
I have been out on the porch with a cold beer and steaks on the BBQ. A stunning sunset (as we often see on the West coast), while watching the news in America about massive snow storms, ice and hail, tornadoes you name it, YUCK!
The rest of Canada, as is to be expected, feet of snow, cold fronts blowing through etc. Central and Eastern Canada get weather extremes. Extremely hot and humind summer and extreme cold and snow in winter, not here. We dip below zero a few times in Winter (mainly at night) and it rains a lot on winter but we have it made for weather overall, wouldn't trade it for anything.
I wore a polo shirt on calls today, it's just short of 60F here today, should be over 62F on the weekend. Sun is blazing through the office windows now, I was on the porch watching windsurfers and sail boats in English Bay and was camping last weekend.
Sorry, had to do it.
but apparently there's a 30-day delay on the Internet :-)
Oh, and Max hasn't been seen since this discussion. Don't hold your breath waiting on him.
Unless underwater. I've been a sales rep for far too long to wait for people or expect them to be around, even when they absolutely promise they will be.
In my world, people can't be trusted at all, it's all taken with a grain of salt when someone says they'll get back to you, they'll be around at a certain time etc.
I don't expect anything from people any more. I think that mankind, in general, is a complete joke and becomes more and more irresponsible by the minute, as standards are lowered to the basement, I'd take a dog over people any day of the week.
Was one of the web cams showing an old image or something or was it an outdated weather report you were referring to?
This is today, not a cloud in the sky and too warm for a jacket.
My office is just across the other side of the vridge in the foreground, so I look at the mountains (behind the camera). Time is at a complete standstill on days like today, work is a 24 hour event...at least, and minutes are like hours as I wait, with my truck packed and ready downstairs. 4:30 is such a long way away, so I can head up the coast for some camping.
this discussion being almost a month old before you discovered it.
I don't TR like I used to. I just decided to check off topic discussions for something I hadn't seen and ran across this one. Oh well, I get to ***** and moan and nobody is there to argue with me, that works too.
But Obama takes the cake. His whole campaign was about hope and change and how he was going to change Washington. Sure, his predecessors all promised the same thing, but not to the same degree that Obama did. He was adamant about it. That was his appeal. To me, Hillary should have beaten him handily.
Our Congress is a total disgrace. Both sides work against each other and neither side seems to care how their dog and pony show affects the American people. I do understand the argument. We have to stop spending money we don't have, but Obama, the man who is supposed to lead, isn't doing anything to make things work. He is taking his argument to the people instead and making sure that any cuts will hurt, just to make his point. I can't believe we can't cut the size of government without compromising our security or laying of thousands of people. I think its grandstanding on Obama's part, just to make his point and defend his big government agenda.
Obama may not like what Republicans have to say but, the sequester was his idea to begin with and there are things that could be cut that wouldn't affect anything critical. Obama will not even consider trying to soften the ****, however. Its his way or the highway.
You have the right idea in Canada. Plain and simple. I don't understand why we can't do something like that here.
Canada has a commie socialist government that carries people from womb to tomb. Unlike free, democratic nations, such as the USA, we have problems with people unfairly collecting welfare!!! A portion of my taxes and medical premiums are given to OTHER PEOPLE, who didn't earn it themselves, just so they can get treatment!!! (I know, how dare they suggest I help countrymen with my tax dollars and premiums!).
Of course there's also the fact that it's really cold here, if it wasn't for the sunshine and cloudless skies this past weekend, people may have realized it was only 68F !! Brrrrrr, snowy Canada!
Then of course there are the people! People come here from all over (I am guessing because they want to make it to the USA, as per the general consensus that everyone wants to live there). When they are here, they aren't even expected to assimilate our culture and language!!!! THOSE people get to come here and not be shunned for their religious upbringing, their clothes, foods and society. Ghastly, truly ghastly.
And THEN there's the Canadian government. Like no other nation on Earth, our unique, soclialst government seems to have hidden agenda's (I KNOW!!) . They take tax money from people who work hard, and they use it for purposes of their own means, saying it in the public's best interests. Now I understand that is what the definition of government actually is but COME ON ALREADY!! Why can't I just keep my money and say screw it to everyone else who wants some. "I'm sick and I need help" oh WAAAAA, not my problem after all.
No, you don't want America to run like Canada. We are far too sated and reserved in our ways. We spend way too much time ignoring the government's every move and getting on with our lives as if government didn't exist. We don't even FEAR other Canadians here. We don't carry guns to protect innocent people who may be accosted, we don't have a personal arsenal for protecting our families (that's right we don't even prepare to protect our FAMILIES here. ) we can't play John Wayne in the mall with our CCW permits, NOTHING I TELL YOU!
We don't even fear our government, can you believe such idiocy?!
When it comes to other nations around the globe, nobody can be bothered with us. They just think we are a happy, passive nation. We've been paramount in protecting allied forces for many decades, we have soldiers at war and have successfully completed missions that have saved thousands of allied lives, why don't the bad countries see US as a target, see US as warriors, it's just not FAIR!!! Nobody wants to kills us, why not? what haven't we done to deserve being left alone?
Nah, you don' t want to live like we do, and please pass the word around, DON'T GO TO CANADA. "There's nothing to see here folks, just keep moving along"
Of course they do, that's the definition of politician.
Obama's promise to change the way things were done in Washington, probably wasn't focused too much on the specifics behind campaign fundraising, more than just the political system itself.
http :// www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-white-house-reporting-price-politics-2013-2
Just because he's half of Woodstein and he's been in a movie played by Robert Redford doesn't mean he doesn't talk crap, sometimes.
I thought you wanted your government to stop wasting money so what's wrong with NOT deploying aircraft carriers? And, as for "Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'", what was ever wrong with George W saying "You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because it has sod-all to do with 911 and it would be stupid and a waste of money and it will take us years to get out.",
Edited to add: And the follow up seems to sort of put this (non-)story away. http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-gene-sperling-white-house-obama-threat-sequester-2013-2
You see anything else.
Nixonian behavior is unacceptable - end of story.
Why because that is YOUR belief and others are not allowed ot feel differently?
For someone who spends all his time spouting the base premise of Liberty and freedom, something nobody living outside of America could possibly conceive, you certainly take the stand of a dictator a lot.
Saying "you will regret this", is not a threat at all. If a kid wants an extra scoop of ice cream and his mom knows it will make him sick, is she "threatening him" by saying he's regret eating another bowl? No, not by any stretch of the imagination.
If you want to buy a new car and it will clean out your account, are you being threatened when your friend says "don't buy it, you will regret it!"
But when a newsie shoots his mouth off, then takes a single sentence from an emailed reply and focuses on it, almost surely out of context too, it is now a threat.
God man, get a grip already! When people focused on single comments, taken out of context, toward the great George W. Bush , you instantly dismissed it as typical left leaning BS. However when the same is done toward a NEWSIE, of all people, it's a call to arms. Americans should stand up and not take such slanderous threats lightly. They should feel bad for exercising their freedom to vote for whom they believe in and for making such choices based on their personal feelings. They were wrong and you were right and they should feel ashamed for not following your lead or seeing the same side of the campaign that you supported.
Get real. You ever so proudly live in America, what you actually believe to be the mightiest and greatest nation on the planet. You will fight to your death to support the right for YOUR freedom to make your own choices, it's the cornerstone of American society after all.
However, you are so quick to condemn others for exercising their freedom to make THEIR choices.
How much ACCESS to controlling the USA do you feel they would actually get?
You can contact your local MLA for free, so a President uses a "backstage meet and greet opportunity" to raise funds, I'm sure there have been worse fund raising scenarios over the years from both sides too.
US presidents charge for public appearances, don't they? I know they sure cash in that way after their term.
TR sometimes invites a select few to chime in on site changes, gather ideas etc. That doesn't mean that those users then have ANY control ,in any sense of the word, over what TR does. Are you not just pissed that it wasn't a Republican president and you could afford to chime in with him?
What issue does it raise with you?
Security hole?
Poor fundraising methods?
Control of the president's decisions?
Sorry, I just don't get what the issue is.


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Jets dominate Casper Prep in doubleheader
Date posted: June 12, 2014
SHERIDAN—It was a great evening of baseball for the Sheridan Jets, stringing together two dominating performances in their doubleheader against Casper Prep on Wednesday at Thorne-Rider Stadium.
The Jets jumped out to a 7-4 lead in game one before an 11-run third inning put Casper away for good.
"We came out ready to play tonight," Jets coach Ryan Murner said. "I thought we attacked good pitches and didn't get ourselves out at the plate."
After winning game one 18-4, the Jets didn't cool down in game two. Every player that came to the plate recorded at least one hit, totaling 23 hits for the game.
It was the Jets' pitching, though, that stood out to Murner.
"It was nice to see our pitchers finish those innings by attacking their hitters in the strike zone," Murner said.
The Jets only gave up three runs in game two, which didn't come until the final inning. The Jets finished the game with a 13-3 victory.
The Jets will play another doubleheader at home tonight against Cody at 3 and 5 p.m.
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Romanticism and Colonialism
edited by Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson
by Tim Fulford
Other texts had a similar educative role, not least Romantic discussions of Ireland. Closer to home than the new colonies in India, Africa and the West Indies, the anxiety Ireland caused in Britain was more familiar, the authoritarian response longer tried. The leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion, Robert Emmet, was executed in 1803, arousing Coleridge's regret at Britain's harsh treatment of its oldest colony.[6] But after the Act of Union (1800), which gave the Irish seats at Westminster, regret turned to fear of Catholic influence on the state. In essays of 1809, 1812 and 1828 Southey played on the
traditional British distrust of Irish Catholicism as he argued against Catholic emancipation. 'Religious madness is infectious', he wrote, and the revival of monasteries allowed the Catholic clergy to 'communicate the contagion'. This contagion would be made political, as well as religious, by emancipation, and would 'introduce Irish priests into our army and navy; men acting under orders from a church which Buonaparte has ostentatiously restored'.[7] Equating
religious enthusiasm with Jacobinism, Southey demonized the latter as a disease to which the uneducated were prone, just as credulous, Irish peasants were prone to the superstitions peddled by Catholic priests. This demonization was ultimately reassuring, however, since it allowed him to suggest that the removal of the priesthood's influence (by the refusal of emancipation, by the Protestant education of the populace, by the suppression of popular ceremonies and by the prevention of travel to Britain) would stop the spread of revolutionary politics, just as it would that of Catholicism - as if that politics was a foreign infection rather than a product of domestic radicalism. The familiar authoritarianism used to suppress insurrection in Ireland since Spenser's time was, thus, in Southey's colonized version of domestic politics, a prophylactic against the political infection of Britain itself. And, lest his readers quail at his draconian proposals, Southey compared the Irish to African kings notorious for their savagery and likened Catholic processions to the Hindu custom of sati. Ireland became Africanized and Indianized in his account, as he sought to portray the military government he thought necessary to prevent Irish infections as a civilizing paternalism that, as in the newer colonies, would save heathens from themselves. In this racist solution, those Irish too intransigent to accept military rule became 'refractory savages' to be shipped off to the colonies. Having proved themselves 'savages' by resisting British authority, any difference between them and the Africans, Indians and aborigines who inhabited the newer colonies (also 'savage climes' [8]) could be disregarded. In the East Indies, Africa and Australia, the Irish, now identified with the dangerous natives of
Britain's remoter territories, would, at least, be at a safe distance. Here Southey's writing exhibits a process of import/export in which one imagined colony is shaped by (and in turn reshapes) the writer's interpretation (from reading and direct contact) of others. In this process, it is not simply the imagined colony's otherness, but its uncanny combination of similarity and difference from its fellows and from the home culture, that is most notable.
Coleridge also referred to India, and to The Curse of Kehama, when writing of Ireland. In 1814, he published in The Courier a series of open letters to Mr Justice Fletcher. These alarmist letters feared a Catholic rebellion and defended 'the name of Orange dear and religious in the heart of every patriotic and loyal Irish Protestant'.[9] The causes for alarm included the persistence of Jacobinism which 'still walks in Great Britain and Ireland . . . like the Kehama of our laurel-honouring laureat, one and the same, yet many and multiform and dividuous, assaulting with combined attack all the gates and portals of law and usage'.[10] It was a 'contagion most widely dispersed' by 'Priests and Prophets' exploiting 'Irish superstition, and the barbarism and virulence of Irish clanship'.[11]
At the root of Coleridge's alarm was an interpretation of Catholicism and Hinduism as forms of idolatry. Reverence for 'supernatural power transferred to objects of the senses' encouraged 'blind submission to remorseless leaders'.[12] Ireland merged into India in Coleridge's account, because its Catholicism made it fanatical. Or rather,
it merged with the Orientalist and Protestant suspicion of Hinduism that Coleridge had adopted from Southey's poem. In the Romantic conservatism of the Lake Poets, then, Ireland was the victim of religious and political prejudice which Britain's exposure to Eastern beliefs only deepened. The more favourable (yet still ambivalent) portraits presented by Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies (1808-13) and the Edgeworths' Essay on Irish Bulls (1802) were exceptions to Romanticism's reinforcement of English stereotypes about the Irish.
Southey's idea of shipping Irish Catholics to the colonies became reality as the politics of landownership forced the poor to emigrate. But it depended on the rapid growth of new colonies in the period. In 1815, Cape Colony was confirmed under British rule after being twice taken from the Dutch in 1795 and 1806. Despite the fact that ninety per cent of the colony was Dutch, it became the focus for British territorial expansion. In 1809, the legal status of the indigenous population was defined in such a way as to oblige them to work for the Europeans, and in 1812 they were virtually enslaved by the Boers. In 1820, British settlement of the Cape began in earnest when 5,000 emigrants arrived, bringing with them the London Missionary Society.[13] British law was imposed in their wake and English became the colony's official language in 1822. The native Khoikhoi ('Hottentot') were given legal protection and slavery was abolished in 1833, leading to the Great Trek of the Boers, in which thousands moved Northward, establishing the Orange Free State and the Transvaal republics. Although the Cape did not catch the attention of Romantic writers to the extent of other geo-political regions, it was a source for the popular tale by Mary Butt Sherwood which Moira Ferguson analyses in this volume. It was the subject for the work of the Scottish poet, Thomas Pringle. Pringle emigrated there in 1820 as part of the British drive to colonize the Cape. His collections of verse and prose, Ephemerides (1828) and African Sketches (1834), applied the rhetoric of the picturesque to the South African landscape. J. M. Coetzee argues that the intractability of the South African landscape to European notions of the sublime may have been linked to the absence of an aggressive politics of expansion in the area, which lacked the great American frontiers.[14] Pringle also adapts the typical Romantic ballad to subjects native to South Africa in poems such as 'The Bechuana Boy', 'Song of the Wild Bushman', and his sonnets on the three tribal groups of the Cape, 'The Hottentot', 'The Caffer' and 'The Bushmen'. 15
A further colony of settlement was added to the British Empire when James Cook charted the coast of Australia in 1770, on his first voyage of exploration. In 1788, a colony was established in what Cook had named New South Wales when a fleet of eleven vessels containing 736 convicted criminals, a Governor and some officials arrived there. Transportation was an important part of the British penal system and, after the revolution of 1776 prevented any further convict settlements in North America, an alternative destination needed to be found. By 1852, some 160,000 convicts were transported to the new colony which became a major supplier of wool for the British textile industry.[16] Not surprisingly, it is the penal aspect of the colony's character which features in writing of the period. Up until 1820, views of Australian nature were largely created by the experience of the colonists who settled around Sydney Harbour and Cumberland Plain. For the colonists, Australian scenery appeared visually monotonous and led to feelings of melancholy in those who surveyed it.[17] Southey's 'Botany Bay Eclogues' (1794) use 'this savage shore' at the 'farthest limits of the world' as a background for an indictment of social injustice and penal severity, yet also depict a land of potential opportunity, uncorrupted by European civilization. Southey's 'Eclogues' gloss over the real hardship endured by the colony:
Ironically, it was to a 'moral' Botany Bay that Byron, perhaps with the 'Eclogues' in mind, was to sentence Southey, Wordsworth and Coleridge for their 'apostacy' in Don Juan (Canto iii, stanza xciv).[19] Byron may have been alluding to the Crown's 1790s practice of transporting reformers to Botany Bay under legislation against sedition. Transportation was one of the fates that Coleridge's radical friend, John Thelwall, would have had in mind as an alternative destiny to being hanged for treason when he penned his sonnet 'On the Report of the Death of Thomas Muir, on Board the Surprise, in his Passage to Botany Bay'.[20] But, by and large, the colony is simply represented as a land unwounded by plough or spade and suitable for the erasure of either the individual's guilt or society's iniquities. From the start, Australian nature was, as Bernard Smith puts it, seen as 'something to be worked upon and made congenial for human occupation'.[21] This was the tenor of the medallion Josiah Wedgwood fashioned out of clay which had been sent from New South Wales. On it was stamped the legend, 'Hope encouraging Art and Labour, under the Influence of Peace, to pursue the employment necessary to give security and happiness to an infant settlement.' The medallion was accompanied with a dedicatory poem by Erasmus Darwin, The Visit of Hope to Botany Bay, which envisaged a municipal and agricultural future for the colony. Australia provided a congenial space for Darwin's 'progressive and evolutionary speculations in natural philosophy'.[22] The aborigines, although a frequent subject in the colony's visual art, scarcely feature in the poetry of the time. Despite an initial attempt to idealize the inhabitants of New Holland as noble savages, it was the aborigines who were to rival the 'Hottentot' for the distinction of being, in European eyes, the lowest link in nature's chain between man and animal.[23]
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Medals of WWII (2006)
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THE COMMON AIR Closes 2/26 At 45 Bleecker St. Theatre Following Extension
The Common AIR, written by Lyras and McCaskill, has been extended through February 26th. The comedy, directed by Mr. McCaskill, features Alex Lyras portraying 6 diverse characters caught in an airport delay. It opened November 6th at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre and plays every Friday at 8 pm.
The Common AIR ran for six months in Los Angeles in 2008 where it was nominated for Best Original Play and Best Acting by the L.A. Ovation Awards and won for Best Original Score. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "Lyras, a muscular and compact steel spring of a performer who coils himself around his characters with tensile energy and unflagging skill in this well-crafted, must-see show". And Daily Variety called it "An emotionally involving, finely detailed performance. A tour de force exhibit of verbal and physical dexterity."
The play links six characters during the mother of all delays at JFK airport. The reason is unknown and a spiraling game of "telephone" ensues in an effort to uncover the truth. Characters include an Iraqi Cab Driver with a winning Reality show idea, an Art Gallery Owner seduced by ancient Greek cave art, a Corporate Attorney imparting rapid fire, ethically gray advice, a sample stealing DJ named PJ, a sinister Philosophy Professor mixing logic and irrationality in a west Texas accent, and an Iraqi-American just returned from civil war in Baghdad.
Lyras & McCaskill have been collaborating in the theater for the past 11 years. Their first play, Desperelics, was produced in New York and Los Angeles. Warren Littlefield and NBC commissioned the play for a comedy pilot based on the characters. Their second effort, Unequalibrium, also ran on both coasts, and was published in Best Plays of 2002 and Best Men's Monologues for the Twenty First Century. Their work has received raves from THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, LA WEEKLY, VARIETY, (available at http://www.unequalibrium.com/reviews.html). They have sold drama pilots to FOX, Brillstein Grey, and Dawn Parouse Productions (Prison Break). In 2007, they produced their first feature film, Mona, written by McCaskill, starring Lyras and produced by both. Mona won Best Picture at Malibu Film Festival in 2008 and received distribution from John Sloss and Cinetic Media. Heterosexuals, their second feature project, written and directed by McCaskill, produced by and staring Lyras, just completed post-production.
ALEX LYRAS has performed on New York stages for the past fifteen years. Most recently, he appeared in Showtime's Californication. On screen, he starred in Mike Nichols' What Planet Are You From? and S.W.A.T. Lyras' screenplay ALVA, a drama about Thomas Edison, recently won the Alfred P. Sloan Grant from the Tribeca Film Institute. He is a member of The Classical Theater Lab and The Writer's Guild west. He lives part-time in Los Angeles.
Director/co-author ROBERT McCASKILL is an acting coach and writer, living in New York City. As a coach, he has worked with Bernadette Peters, Montel Williams, Michelle Rodriguez and hundreds of other actors. As a sketch writer, he worked at the West Bank Café Downstairs Theater Bar with comedian Lewis Black and screenwriter Lisa Loomer (Girl Interrupted). He was an improvisation actor with the professional company Chicago City Limits and directed the company for four years. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
Tickets for The Common AIR at $35 are available through TeleCharge.com or (212) 239-6200. For additional info go to www.thecommonair.com.
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ROAN MOUNTAIN, Tennessee — Police say an early-morning fire that destroyed a Roan Mountain business also killed the 79-year-old man who lived in the apartment above it.
The Johnson City Press reports (http://bit.ly/1FEj7BX ) Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford says officials found the body of Jerry Hopson inside the building after receiving an emergency call about a building on fire Sunday at Roan Mountain Lawn and Garden.
Lunceford says he wasn't sure how long firefighters worked to put the fire out. Lunceford says the cause of death isn't known yet, as the sheriff's department and State Fire Marshal's Office are working together to continue the investigation.
Lunceford says the preliminary investigation revealed a hot spot. Lunceford says that investigators don't suspect foul play about the start of the fire.