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Posted on 04/27/2012 7:12:27 AM PDT by Mechanicos
Hot on the heels of President Subprime McDowngrades visit to Ohio during which he attempted to take credit for Gov. John Kasichs stunningly successful fiscal record comes the obvious question from a reporter. Obvious, that is, if youre a liberal Statist hack.
The governors reaction is priceless.
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Go, Kasich, go!!!
I always like to follow up a good belly laigh with, "I'm not laughing AT you, I'm laughing w...no, that's not true. I AM laughing at you."
LOL. You just gotta love Kasich. I would have laughed in that idiots face too.
For later. Thanks.
Sanity .. God bless this good govnah
Now, that was priceless! Got to love Governor Kasich!!!
I've been touting Kasich for the GOP VP slot for some time now. Not only is he now governor of an EC vote-rich swing state, but as a Congressman chaired the Budget Committee that managed a balanced budged for four consecutive years. Add in that he's young, well-spoken, attractive, family man, etc., what's not to like?
I've always liked him. Plain spoken, no nonsense .
Please let the good GOP governors and representatives do their jobs fully before touting them for higher office.
This guy should be where Rhomny is.
Never forget those tards disgracing the Wisconsin Capitol Building. If we lose in WI they will go after Ohio.
In normal times, I would favor Kasich or anyone else fulfilling the term of office to which s/he was elected before 'moving up,' if VP can be considered 'moving up.'
These are NOT normal times. More than anyone being touted for the GOP VP slot, Kasich has an actual track record with the nation's finances. If we don't get the economy straightened out really fast, we have a bigger problem than anyone realizes.
Unfortunately, even though he's doing a really good job, he's unpopular in Ohio and might hurt as much as he'd help.
"We need to ban guns!"
"Obamacare is constitutional!"
"No more big oil!"
You can't have him yet Ohio still needs hi to straightened out the mess left by the libs.
You can't have him yet Ohio still needs him to straightened out the mess left by the libs.
Ohio has no recall provision in it's constitution.
Brilliant! Way to go, Gov! Laugh in their faces ... it's exactly what they deserve.
Thank God, I am still optimistic about Wisconsin because the dirt bag students (many out of state students) will be home smoking bongs or out partying at some slum hotel in Mexico.
The question itself reveals all we need to know about the way the left and it's enabling media think. There is no recognition of the fact that "spending" originally comes from the private sector, and the cost comes in the form of reduced economic activity.
These people think government spending has no corresponding "cost". It's free. It doesn't have to come from anywhere. It can be extracted from the hands of investors and savers and spenders with no consequence at all to the overall health of the economy.
Sheesh. Liberals are just plain dumb.
I remember reading some months ago that losing the vote vs. his bill to restrict state employees' bargaining hurt Kasich's popularity. But, I thought that had abated.
You KNOW whoever is in this race, the unions and others on the left will be going for the jugular. In that sense, it doesn't matter who runs on the GOP side for any office.
Oh, I understand completely. When there was talk of Jindal as VP, I had the same sense .. let him clean up LA first. McDonnell should stay in VA, Scott in FK, Walker in WI.
I suppose if we have a few good R govs who are cleaning up their states, and we have a R POTUS whose fed govt will work with and emulate the successful states, it would accomplish the same thing. Kasich just happens to have that Budget Comm experience which would be invaluable.
Little Timmy Ryan is mulling a run against Kasich but only if Strickland doesn't decide to. Ryan won't blow his nose unless Pelosi tells him it's ok but HEY, the people here in Youngstown sure seem to love him (gag).
Progressive Mittens is not going to pick a conservative. He's going to pick a mini-me. The GOPe does not want the conservative vote. I can take a hint.
A longer excerpt would be really helpful if you want to tell folks what this thread is about.
As it is, I'm moving on....
Anybody from Ohio know what support the National GOP gave to issue 2? Any chance it will come back?
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Gov. Kasich: "No" on new spending (1 min.22 sec. youtube)
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Do you have a favorite writing place?
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What is your writing method, does the story come out as you write? Or do you do an outline and know the entire story before hand?
Before I sold BONDED, I hardly planned out anything. But now that I've sold and need to submit synopses for books I haven't written yet, I've learned to plan out the story in advance.
What advice do you have for writer's about writing or getting published?
Read a lot. While there are many great how-to books out there (I have a list of my favorites in the FAQ section on my website), in my opinion, there's no substitute for reading the kinds of books you want to write. Not old classics, but recently published books. You'll absorb how successful stories are paced and structured and what today's readers and publishers of that genre expect. If there's a book you don't like, try to determine why it didn't work for you (being in a book club or active on book blogs/forums can really help), then avoid doing the same thing in your own writing.
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In the fall, the plant will have a 37 day outage where work will be completed on the boiler and they will change the method of collecting bottom ash to a drag chain system. There will be 300 contractors on the site during the time of these upgrades and maintenance work. The plant workers are currently preparing bid scopes which will be put out soon for these projects. The plant is working closely with the Huntington Canyon Restoration Projects which will help minimize flood affects from the Seeley Fire.
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In the long term the power plant may need to install selective catalytic reduction technology which would reduce nox emissions even more than now. If this state department of environmental quality regulation goes into effect for this requirement, the power plant would need to have this $200 million dollar's worth of equipment in place in five years. The equipment attaches to the boiler and is close to the same size as the boiler.
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Hunter receives 60-70 percent of its coal from SUFCO mine with a portion from Deer Creek, West Ridge and a small amount from Dugout. The majority of the coal for Huntington plant comes from Deer Creek with some from SUFCO.
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Facebook, Pandora and Twitter mobile ad sales soar, IDC says.
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Mobile site and app publishers including Facebook, Pandora and Twitter are rapidly taking over the mobile display advertising market in the U.S., according to new research from International Data Corp. In past years, ad networks including Google, Millennial Media and Apple received most of the spending on mobile display ads. Now publishers control the segment, thanks to very strong sales growth in the past year.
Facebook, Pandora, Twitter and The Weather Channel all registered strong mobile display ad sales in 2012 and all but Pandora popped onto the scene from zero sales in 2011, IDC says. As a result, publishers controlled 52% of U.S. mobile display ad spending in 2012, compared to the 39% they received in 2011, according to the IDC report, "2012 U.S. Mobile Advertising Market Sizing and Vendor Market Shares."
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Jon Slade is global online and strategic advertising sales director at FT.com, the digital arm of the Financial Times.
Jon Slade of the Financial Times describes the 123-year-old business publication's advanced approach to its online ad sales.
Interview conducted by Alan Morrison, Bo Parker, and Bud Mathaisel
PwC: What is your role at the FT [Financial Times], and how did you get into it?
JS: I'm the global advertising sales director for all our digital products. I've been in advertising sales and in publishing for about 15 years and at the FT for about 7 years. And about three and a half years ago I took this role—after a quick diversion into landscape gardening, which really gave me the idea that digging holes for a living was not what I wanted to do.
PwC: The media business has changed during that period of time. How has the business model at FT.com evolved over the years?
JS: From the user's perspective, FT.com is like a funnel, really, where you have free access at the outer edge of the funnel, free access for registration in the middle, and then the subscriber at the innermost part. The funnel is based on the volume of consumption.
From an ad sales perspective, targeting the most relevant person is essential. So the types of clients that we're talking about—companies like PwC, Rolex, or Audi—are not interested in a scatter graph approach to advertising. The advertising business thrives on targeting advertising very, very specifically.
On the one hand, we have an ad model that requires very precise, targeted information. And on the other hand, we have a metered model of access, which means we have lots of opportunity to collect information about our users.
PwC: How does a company like the FT sell digital advertising space?
JS: Every time you view a web page, you'll see an advert appear at the top or the side, and that one appearance of the ad is what we call an ad impression. We usually sell those in groups of 1,000 ad impressions.
Over a 12-month period, our total user base, including our 250,000 paying subscribers, generates about 6 billion advertising impressions across FT.com. That's the currency that is bought and sold around advertising in the online world.
In essence, my job is to look at those ad impressions and work out which one of those ad impressions is worth the most for any one particular client. And we have about 2,000 advertising campaigns a year that run across FT.com.
Impressions generated have different values to different advertisers. So we need to separate all the strands out of those 6 billion ad impressions and get as close a picture as we possibly can to generate the most revenue from those ad impressions.
PwC: It sounds like you have a lot of complexity on both the supply and the demand side. Is the supply side changing a lot?
JS: Sure. Mobile is changing things pretty dramatically, actually. About 20 percent of our page views on digital channels are now generated by a mobile device or by someone who's using a mobile device, which is up from maybe 1 percent or 2 percent just three years ago. So that's a radically changing picture that we now need to understand as well.
What are the consumption patterns around mobile? How many pages are people consuming? What type of content are they consuming? What content is more relevant to a chief executive versus a finance director versus somebody in Japan versus somebody in Dubai?
Mobile is a very substantial platform that we now must look at in much more detail and with much greater care than we ever did before.
PwC: Yes, and regarding the mobile picture, have you seen any successes in terms of trying to address that channel in a new and different way?
JS: Well, just with the FT, we have what we call the web app with FT.com. We're not available through the iTunes Store anymore. We use the technology called HTML5, which essentially allows us to have the same kind of touch screen interaction as an app would, but we serve it through a web page.
So a user points the browser on their iPad or other device to FT.com, and it takes you straight through to the app. There's no downloading of the app; there's no content update required. We can update the infrastructure of the app very, very easily. We don't need to push it out through any third party such as Apple. We can retain a direct relationship with our customer.
One or two other publishers are starting to understand that this is a pretty good way to push content to mobile devices, and it's an approach that we've been very successful with. We've had more than 1.4 million users of our new web app since we launched it in June 2011.
It's a very fast-growing opportunity for us. We see both subscription and advertising revenue opportunities. And with FT.com we try to balance both of those, both subscription revenue and advertising revenue.
PwC: You chose the web app after having offered a native app, correct?
JS: That's right, yes.
PwC: Could you compare and contrast the two and what the pros and cons are?
JS: If we want to change how we display content in the web app, it's a lot easier for us not to need to go to a new version of the app and push that through into the native app via an approval process with a third party. We can just make any changes at our end straight away. And as users go to the web app, those implemented changes are there for them.
On the back end, it gives us a lot more agility to develop advertising opportunities. We can move faster to take advantage of a growing market, plus provide far better web-standard analytics around campaigns—something that native app providers struggle with.
One other benefit we've seen is that a far greater number of people use the web app than ever used the native app. So an advertiser is starting to get a bit more scale from the process, I guess. But it's just a quicker way to make changes to the application with the web app.
PwC: How about the demand side? How are things changing? You mentioned 6 billion annual impressions—or opportunities, we might phrase it.
JS: Advertising online falls into two distinct areas. There is the scatter graph type of advertising where size matters. There are networks that can give you billions and billions of ad impressions, and as an advertiser, you throw as many messages into that mix as you possibly can. And then you try and work out over time which ones stuck the best, and then you try and optimize to that. That is how a lot of mainstream or major networks run their businesses.
On the other side, there are very, very targeted websites that provide advertisers with real efficiency to reach only the type of demographic that they're interested in reaching, and that's very much the side that we fit into.
Over the last two years, there's been a shift to the extreme on both sides. We've seen advertisers go much more toward a very scattered environment, and equally other advertisers head much more toward investing more of their money into a very niche environment. And then some advertisers seem to try and play a little bit in the middle.
With the readers and users of FT.com, particularly in the last three years as the economic crisis has driven like a whirlwind around the globe, we've seen what we call a flight to quality. Users are aware—as are advertisers—that they could go to a thousand different places to get their news, but they don't really have the time to do that. They're going to fewer places and spending more time within them, and that's certainly the experience that we've had with the Financial Times.
PwC: To make a more targeted environment for advertising, you need to really learn more about the users themselves, yes?
JS: Yes. Most of the opt-in really occurs at the point of registration and subscription. This is when the user declares demographic information: this is who I am, this is the industry that I work for, and here's the ZIP code that I work from. Users who subscribe provide a little bit more.
Most of the work that we do around understanding our users better occurs at the back end. We examine user actions, and we note that people who demonstrate this type of behavior tend to go on and do this type of thing later in the month or the week or the session or whatever it might be.
Our back-end analytics allows us to extract certain groups who exhibit those behaviors. That's probably most of the work that we're focused on at the moment. And that applies not just to the advertising picture but to our content development and our site development, too.
If we know, for example, that people type A-1-7 tend to read companies' pages between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and they go on to personal finance at lunchtime, then we can start to examine those groups and drive the right type of content toward them more specifically. It's an ongoing piece of the content and advertising optimization.
PwC: Is this a test to tune and adjust the kind of environment that you've been able to create?
JS: Absolutely, both in terms of how our advertising campaigns display and also the type of content that we display. If you and I both looked at FT.com right now, we'd probably see the home page, and 90 percent of what you would see would be the same as what I would see. But about 10 percent of it would not be.
PwC: How does Metamarkets fit into this big picture? Could you shine some light on what you're doing with them and what the initial successes have been?
JS: Sure. We've been working with Metamarkets in earnest for more than a year. The real challenge that Metamarkets relieves for us is to understand those 6 billion ad impressions—who's generating them, how many I'm likely to have tomorrow of any given sort, and how much I should charge for them.
It gives me that single view in a single place in near real time what my exact supply and my exact demand are. And that is really critical information. I increasingly feel a little bit like I'm on a flight deck with the number of screens around me to understand. When I got into advertising straight after my landscape gardening days, I didn't even have a screen. I didn't have a computer when I started.
Previously, the way that data was held—the demographics data, the behavior data, the pricing, the available inventory—was across lots of different databases and spreadsheets. We needed an almost witchcraft-like algorithm to provide answers to "How many impressions do I have?" and "How much should I charge?" It was an extremely labor-intensive process.
And that approach just didn't really fit the need for the industry in which we work. Media advertising is purchased in real time now. The impression appears, and this process goes between three or four interested parties—one bid wins out, and the advert is served in the time it takes to open a web page.
Now if advertising has been purchased in real time, we really need to understand what we have on our supermarket shelves in real time, too. That's what Metamarkets does for us—help us visualize in one place our supply and demand.
PwC: In general, it seems like Metamarkets is doing a whole piece of your workflow rather than you doing it. Is that a fair characterization?
JS: Yes. I'll give you an example. I was talking to our sales manager in Paris the other day. I said to him, "If you wanted to know how many adverts of a certain size that you have available to you in Paris next Tuesday that will be created by chief executives in France, how would you go about getting that answer?"
Before, the sales team would send an e-mail to ad operations in London for an inventory forecast, and it could take the ad operations team up to eight working hours to get back to them. It could even take as long as two business days to get an answer in times of high volume. Now, we've reduced that turnaround to about eight seconds of self-service, allowing our ad operations team time to focus on more strategic output. That's the sort of magnitude of workflow change that this creates for us—a two-day turnaround down to about eight seconds.
PwC: When you were looking to resolve this problem, were there a lot of different services that did this sort of thing?
JS: Not that we came across. I have to say our conversations with the Metamarkets team actually started about something not entirely different, but certainly not the product that we've come up with now. Originally we had a slightly different concept under discussion that didn't look at this part at all.
As a company, Metamarkets was really prepared to say, "We don't have something on the shelves. We have some great minds and some really good technology, so why don't we try to figure out with you what your problem is, and then we'll come up with an answer."
To be honest, we looked around a little bit at what else is out there, but I don't want to buy anything off the shelf.
I want to work with a company that can understand what I'm after, go away, and come back with the answer to that plus, plus, plus. And that seems to be the way Metamarkets has developed.
Other vendors clearly do something similar or close, but most of what I've seen comes off the shelf. And we are—we're quite annoying to work with, I would say. We're not really a cookie-cutter business. You can slice and dice those 6 billion ad impressions in thousands and thousands of ways, and you can't always predict how a client or a customer or a colleague is going to want to split up that data.
So rather than just say, "The only way you can do it is this way, and here's the off-the-shelf solution," we really wanted something that put the power in the hands of the user. And that seems to be what we've created here. The credit is entirely with Metamarkets, I have to say. We just said, "Help, we have a problem," and they said, "OK, here's a good answer." So the credit for all the clever stuff behind this should go with them.
PwC: So there continues to be a lot of back and forth between FT and Metamarkets as your needs change and the demand changes?
JS: Yes. We have at least a weekly call. The Metamarkets team visits us in London about once a month, or we meet in New York if I'm there. And there's a lot of back and forth. What seems to happen is that every time we give it to one of the ultimate end users—one of the sales managers around the world—you can see the lights on in their head about the potential for it.
And without fail they'll say, "That's brilliant, but how about this and this?" Or, "Could we use it for this?" Or, "How about this for an intervention?" It's great. It's really encouraging to see a product being taken up by internal customers with the enthusiasm that it is.
We very much see this as an iterative project. We don't see it as necessarily having a specific end in sight. We think there's always more that we can add into this. It's pretty close to a partnership really, a straight vendor and supplier relationship. It is a genuine partnership, I think.
PwC: How is this actually translated into the bottom line—yield and advertising dollars?
JS: It would be probably a little hard for me to share with you any percentages or specifics, but I can say that it is driving up the yields we achieve. It is double-digit growth on yield as a result of being able to understand our supply and demand better.
The degree of accuracy of supply that it provides for us is upward of 15 percent better than what we've seen before. I can't quantify the difference that it's made to workflows, but it's significant. To go to a two-day turnaround on a simple request to eight seconds is significant.
PwC: Given our research focus, we have lots of friends in the publishing business, and many of them talked to us about the decline in return from impression advertising. It's interesting. Your story seems to be pushing in the different direction.
JS: Yes. I've noticed that entirely. Whenever I talk to a buying customer, they always say, "Everybody else is getting cheaper, so how come you're getting more expensive?"
I completely hear that. What I would say is we are getting better at understanding the attribution model. Ultimately, what these impressions create for a client or a customer is not just how many visits will readers make to your website, but how much money will they spend when they get there.
Now that piece is still pretty much embryonic, but we're certainly making the right moves in that direction. We've found that putting a price up is accepted. Essentially what an increase in yield implies is that you put your price up.
It's been accepted because we've been able to offer a much tighter specific segmentation of that audience. Whereas, when people are buying on a spray basis across large networks, deservedly there is significant price pressure on that.
Equally, if we understand our supply and demand picture in a much more granular sense, we know when it's a good time to walk away from a deal or whether we're being too bullish in the deal. That pricing piece is critical, and we're looking to get to a real-time dynamic pricing model in 2012. And Metamarkets is certainly along the right lines to help us with that.
PwC: A lot of our clients are very conservative organizations, and they might be reluctant to subscribe to a cloud service like Metamarkets, offered by a company that has not been around for a long time. I'm assuming that the FT had to make the decision to go on this different route and that there was quite a bit of consideration of these factors.
JS: Endless legal diligence would be one way to put it—back and forth a lot. We have 2,000 employees worldwide, so we still have a fairly entrepreneurial attitude toward suppliers. Of course we do the legal diligence, and of course we do the contractual diligence, and of course we look around to see what else is available. But if you have a good instinct about working with somebody, then we're the size of organization where that instinct can still count for something.
And I think that was the case with Metamarkets. We felt that we were talking on the same page here. We almost could put words in one another's mouths and the sentence would still kind of form. So it felt very good from the beginning.
If we look at what's happening in the digital publishing world, some of the most exciting things are happening with very small startup businesses and all of the big web powers now were startups 8 or 10 years ago, such as Facebook and Amazon.
We believe in that mentality. We believe in a personality in business. Metamarkets represented that to us very well. And yes, there's a little bit of a risk, but it has paid off. So we're happy.


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By SUMIKO TADEHARAStudent Staff Writer
Imagine a system of trails where the rider can begin in the desert, stop in town for gas and grub; continue onto a mountain vista and never be in violation or leave the trail. The Arapeen OHV Trail may be having a growth spurt soon. At a recent Emery County Commission meeting, Mark H. Williams from the SouthEastern Utah OHV Club proposed a reworking of the Arapeen Trail and Bureau of Land Management's land to make a more community-based ATV trail system. In addition to outlining the boundaries of the existing trail and the proposed trail, Williams detailed the recreational, safety, and economic benefits of the proposed system.
The existing trails are currently owned and operated by two separate agencies, the forest service and the BLM. Williams' plan proposes a 620 mile trail that combines the San Rafael and Manti-LaSal areas to be maintained by an advisory council. The council will include, but not be limited to, the BLM, U.S. Forest Service, Utah State Parks and Recreation, Sanpete and Emery County Commissions, Emery County Public Lands Council, Castle Country Travel Region, Emery County Chamber of Commerce, Emery County Economic Development Council, city governments, search and rescue, local businessmen, SouthEastern Utah OHV Club and interested citizens.
The proposed system will have trailheads in towns, state parks, and some popular trails. The routes will be marked by "Fremont Indian Style" petroglyphs of desert bighorn sheep. Each type of trail will be designated by a different petroglyph and a trail number. City streets coinciding with the proposed trail will have a special sheep symbol to remind riders of city ordinances pertaining to ATVs. The trails will also be marked as to the level of difficulty with green circles for beginner, blue squares for intermediate, black diamonds for advanced, and double black diamonds for expert.
Citizens of Emery County could not only benefit from the trail for recreational purposes, but also the tourism industry the trail will bring in. Based on the average visitor's spending of $125 per day, it is calculated that the Paiute Trail System, which the Arapeen proposal is modeled after, has brought in $6 million to central Utah. Local RV parks, ATV rental and repair shops, motels, restaurants, gas stations, gift shops, and grocery stores will all benefit from the increased traffic that a larger, combined trail system will bring.
The county commissioners agreed to write a letter endorsing the proposed Arapeen Trail system if the access committee would look over the plans for the trail. The access committee is working on an ordinance for county roads that the ATVs would be using.
Williams met with the BLM on Jan. 7, and notes that they sound favorable to the expanded Arapeen Trail proposal. Williams will continue to work to make this trail connector system a reality. The proposal is now being considered by the BLM state officials.


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In the days following the Jay-Z/Solange elevator debacle, Beyonce and her hip-hop husband have released a couple more dates for their "On the Run" stadium tour.
Since last check, the wedded pair has added second nights in Pasadena, CA (8/2-8/3), and San Francisco, CA (8/5-8/6). The road trip gets underway June 25 in Miami Gardens, FL, ventures through 14 major markets before finishing up in San Francisco Aug. 6.
Earlier this week, the two released a trailer for a fake movie titled "Run." The nearly four-minute video features an array of special guests, including Don Cheadle, Blake Lively, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Penn, Emmy Rossum and Rashida Jones.
Beyonce unexpectedly dropped her eponymous fifth album last December. The audio/visual mix, which sold more than 825,000 copies worldwide in three days, became the fastest-selling album in iTunes history.
Jay Z's most recent collection, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," surfaced last July and marked his 12th studio release. The album, which features guest appearances by Frank Ocean, Nas, Justin Timberlake and Rick Ross, topped The Billboard 200, as well as the magazine's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums and Top Tastemaker Albums charts.
25 - Miami Gardens, FL - Sun Life Stadium
28 - Cincinnati, OH - Great American Ballpark
July 2014
1 - Foxboro, MA - Gillette Stadium
5 - Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Park
7 - Baltimore, MD - M&T Bank Stadium
9 - Toronto, Ontario - Rogers Centre
11 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
15 - Atlanta, GA - Georgia Dome
18 - Houston, TX - Minute Maid Park
20 - New Orleans, LA - Mercedes-Benz Superdome
22 - Arlington, TX - AT&T Stadium
24 - Chicago, IL - Soldier Field
27 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - Investors Group Field
30 - Seattle, WA - Safeco Field
August 2014
2, 3 - Pasadena, CA - Rose Bowl
5, 6 - San Francisco, CA - AT&T Park


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Skip to comments.GALLUP/USA TODAY POLL: Obama's Gay Marriage Endorsement Is Turning More Voters Away
Posted on 05/11/2012 2:20:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here's the first poll, from Gallup/USA Today, measuring the effect of Barack Obama's gay marriage endorsement on voters.
It has to be a little troubling that a quarter of Independents say they are less likely to vote for him now. It's also rather strange, considering this Gallup poll from this week that found that 57 percent of Independents think gay marriage should be legal.
Also, the endorsement does not appear, at least yet, to have had an overly energizing effect on Obama's Democratic base, with only 24 percent more likely to vote for him. Republicans showed a more passionate response, with 52 percent saying they would be less likely to vote for him.
Overall, though, gay marriage does not figure to be a major issue in the election, with 60 percent of those polled saying it would have no effect on their vote.
The poll does show, however, that 51 percent overall do approve of his endorsement. That runs in line with the 50 percent that said they supported it in the Gallup poll this week.
Obama's endorsement did not come without political risk, especially in key swing states and key demographics that propelled him to win the 2008 election.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Today a lib told me he's sitting out this election.
Isn't if funny how the homo-Nazis always scream at us that their "civil rights" should never be put up for a vote, and yet they and their compliant media are constantly taking and pointing to votes (polls) on their "civil rights?"
"Today a lib told me hes sitting out this election."
Buy him a lawn chair and wish him well.
Not to worry. The typical Obama voter will forget all about this before November, unless it is something they want. If not, they will forget about it when offered the cigarettes to hop on the voting bus.
Maybe it has something to do with the political pandering and the idea that the guy is a prostitute who will say or do anything to get himself elected.
I told him I think he's doing the right thing. He looked at me and smiled.
The results of the California ballot initiative should have been his first clue.
Obama is vapid, ill-educated, and couldn't pass McDonald's entrance test.
Of course, this might make one wonder just how he got all those (toy) degrees.
Hmmmm, thinking, thinking.......
Of course. Gays and their enablers are already liberal. He certainly wasn't going to gain votes.
Anecdotal, I know, but he definitely lost the vote of both of my parents over it. We can't discuss politics in our house, as we are on opposite sides, so it's better just to avoid discussing politics specifically than getting into fights about it. I've found it best to just keep it in the realm of "they all suck, we should vote them all out." That's the tact I've been taking for a couple of months, thinking if I could just get them to leave the presidential part blank, rather than voting for 0bama again, at least that would be some progress. However, last night, when she was watching the news, my mom volunteered that "He my vote with that, Dad's too". I gave my usual "politicians are terrible, etc." and she volunteered looking at voting for Ron Paul. Baby steps, I guess.
Of course. Gays and their enablers are already liberal. He certainly wasnt going to gain votes.
Yesterday a lesbien called Mark Levin and say she's voting for Romney.
i just find it hard to believe 51% of americans approve of sodomy.
But yet, in 30-plus states the "gay marriage" proposal has been defeated handily! Somehow, somewhere, and by somebody, it Does make a difference.
My guess: Another instance where people don't want to look like bigots. And if truth be told...people are also lying when they say they are not impacted by the vote.
Now I get why he did this now. He gets the $$$...but this issue will be forgotten by election time. Romney certainly won't bring it up...and the sheeple have very short memories.
"based on telephone interviews conducted May 10, 2012, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,013 adults, aged 18 and older"
This is a useless poll as far as the election is concerned. Just adults. I bet the results would be a lot different with likely voters, or even registered voters.
Sympathy for the gay agenda is highly exaggerated. Let the liberals get dragged into the homosexual nonsense. Republicans have nothing to gain from it, and a lot to lose.
Right now the Obama crowd are frantically rushing to shore up the far-Left base as they know they are rapidly hemorrhaging the independents. They are going to need every work-shy, shiftless, no-account, socialist bum this November.
"The internal polls Obama's campaign are seeing must be even worse than what is being published today by Rasmussen"
You can only come to that conclusion after looking at the splinter groups he has been trying target. Single women, students, environmental groups and the gay vote.
A sure sign of weakness. They are scared in the White House.
"That is the only explanation for the calculated flip-flop on this issue by Obama"
Obama has nothing to gain from this. He is either a dumbass or he already concluded that he'll lose the election and wants to go down in flames making a statement.
I have mixed feelings about the 24/7 MSN coverage of Obama's gay moment. On one hand, there are real issues like the size of government, over-regulation, the deficit, etc. that should be news. On the other hand, everyone knows Barry's on the dark side which is driving his poll numbers down.
>>Obama has nothing to gain from this. He is either a dumbass or he already concluded that hell lose the election and wants to go down in flames making a statement.<<
Obama doesn't care about votes because he is expecting that either
1. he will cheat to a win
2. he will buy a win
The announcement was made to get more cash from the Hollywood fundraiser and it worked. Obama, his communist friends, his Muslim pals, George Soros and his Chicago ilk are playing chess.
In the meantime, we are wondering which checker to move.
It's CASH. He is going to buy the election. From The Blaze
Under the comments.
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 6:09pm
1- Obama was planning this announcement for weeks, how else would he already have these items to go on the web.
2 The reporter for the interview was chosen because she was black and gay.
3 The Hollywood fundraiser jumped from $10 million to $15 million in the last two days before the party, same day as the announcement.
4 Obama campaign had fundraising e-mails ready to go out, one per day since then.
I have a feeling a lot of people are afraid to state their true opinions these days for fear of being label "homophobic".
These numbers seem queer to me...?
Thye best and most accurate poll of all is the ballot box. Gay marriage loses almost every time (AZ being the sole exception, but it was subsequently reversed.)
I have to agree, over the past few weeks he's done a number of apparently stupid things, guaranteed to lose votes, yet he just keeps on keepin' on. In a way, it might be a good thing for us since a winning vote count from his Spanish company that is completely out of sync with what polls have indicated might finally shine some light on him that even the most liberal democrat couldn't ignore.
More and more, I hear the refrain: 'We won't be able to vote ourselves out of this mess.' Now that DHS has ordered 450 million rounds of .40 cal. JHP and all those bulletproof guard shacks I think even the government agrees and expects some push-back.
I don't know whether to be glad or sad that I'm too old to be of any use in the upcoming festivities. I worry about my grandchildren though.
I sure hope the filthy lucre of a million bucks was worth it, Barry.
2.) "Does President Obamas support for same-sex marriage make you more likely to vote for him, less likely to vote for him, or doesnt it make any difference?"
The Gallup poll data for this poll:
From the Gallup Poll, May 10, 2012 PDF file.
The below table which was derived via Excel Solver, and when the data is rounded to plus or minus 0.49% to a simple two digit number, it matches the above published Gallup poll data.
which yields a solution set for the absent Gallup poll political ID breakdown, now shown for Republican, Democrat and Independents as follows:
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WOW. Great analysis on this pollaganda!
25% GOP and 36% Dem is a sample that is 10% skewed for Obama, and it is also an 'Adult' not 'likely voter' poll. This poll is biased towards making it look better for Obama than it really is.
I dont believe for a second the GOP "less likely" number, this is from people who were not going to vote for him anyway, but it is probable this will solidify GOP opposition. Likewise, the Democrat "more likely" is probably votes he would get any way.
The real clue is that the independent numbers are 2X in the less likely than more likely. 23% vs 10%.
Obama has lost independent voters and solidified GOP opposition, all so he could pander to the left wing social liberals he already has in his pocket. Wow, does any of us want that strategic brilliant mind (sarc alert) as our CinC???!?
"Right now the Obama crowd are frantically rushing to shore up the far-Left base as they know they are rapidly hemorrhaging the independents. They are going to need every work-shy, shiftless, no-account, socialist bum this November. "
Yeah, that's what I think too. Total desperation to bring in Hollweird/homo money since no one else is donating, and he's also trying to solidify his rapidly shrinking lib base too. I think he's hemorrhaging blue collar voters (even some union ones), Jewish voters, and probably now quite a few Hispanic voters, which I was never convinced were that much in his corner to begin with. Plus, he's got to be losing some Af-Am voters over the gay issue now. They might not vote Romney but some may sit out the election all together instead. And that could be a good thing for non-Presidential contests if a lot of dispirited former-Obama lovers just stay home altogether.
Why is the Democrat Party so obsessed with social issues?
Because they can't run on economics now, can they?
Why is the Democrat Party so obsessed with social issues?
Because they can't run on economics now, can they?
Polls reflect a growing awareness of Mr. Obama's incompetence and falsity.
Oh no. That was just a mistake. California still lets stupid people vote. Once the electorate has been properly screened things will be much better. /sarcasm>
I agree, but it isn't unusual on these touchy subjects that people tell a live pollster the PC answer, but then act/vote differently.
Great job and typical of these polls. Only likely voters count and then only when they become actual voters.
This is for certain a calculated move by Obama who was hemorrhaging wealthy homosexual donors who aren't afraid of a Romney Presidency. He'll at least be better on their pocketbook.
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Contrary to regular polls of whether people in the US are accepting of homo-marriage or not, here is a better poll. And dvwjr analyzed it and it's even more damning when you see the details.
They don't. Even in California the homo-marriage referendum lost.
I suspect that many in that number (assuming it's accurate) are also in the "I personally oppose abortion, but what other people do is none of my business" camp.
most of ths corrupt media will try and tell us that most of the younger people accept it and the same for the mostly older people and yet all my kids and friends who have two of their friends sleeping over right now have all said they do not support it and neither do their pals.
the likes of Megyn Kelly and others on FOX will try and tell us that cross dressing and being a queer is normal and they should have marriage equality and yet most of us are waking up that they are nothing but liars including on FOX.
LJ am surprised that even today there are still one or two out there which refuse to think that Kelly on FOX is not pro homo, it really does amaze me.
Hope i can get back to you soon , hopefully I'll have my own computer soon and not have to one borrow from time to time
"Today a lib told me hes sitting out this election."
How didja do that ?
All I get is being called a "Nazi Zionist" (Yeah, I know.) for my troubles.
+1 !!
"Today a lib told me hes sitting out this election."
How didja do that ?
All I get is being called a "Nazi Zionist" (Yeah, I know.) for my troubles.
+1 !!
I know a gay guy that's against gay marriage but afraid to admit it. Weird, I know. But he says the gay lifestyle has nothing to do with traditional marriage. At least he's honest. We got to know each other when people at work were talking about abortion a few years back and I said it was horrible. He backed me up and agreed. We were accused of being the gay guy and woman against women's rights! I'm glad I don't work there anymore! He also showed me his Republican registration card. I was kind of shocked. He said he's not a âgay rightsâ voter but a fiscal conservative. What can I say? At least it's one less Obama vote.
just talkin to the misses and she has been reading some threads on here and we're convinced we have some idiots who seem to see some airhead on Tv, shiny legs and just sit there and drool due to them never having a decent looking woman in their life and while they drool they seem to not grasp what is being said to them
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Cryptic's Andy Velasquez has published the latest Neverwinter State of the Game letter on the official site. In it, Andy discusses some of the most recent activities on which the team has been working, including a new dedicated "bug squashing/exploits" team that has been formed and how excited everyone is for the imminent release of Module 1: Fury of the Feywild.
Lastly, Andy discusses the addition of new Paragon paths and a new class:
Finally, I know two things are on people's minds that are worth bringing up at this point: when are we going to see new classes and Paragon Paths! Our goal is to have another class and more Paragon Paths for all classes by the end of the year. I played the new class myself in an internal playtest last week, and it's amazing. Similarly, Paragon Paths have had their first development pass, and we're now working on them further and making them feel polished before introducing them to NeverwinterPreview. Our feelings about classes and powers are similar to those about balance — we're making sure that we take the time to make them amazing and iterate on them correctly.
Read the full letter on the Neverwinter site.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
Today it went live.
They just took the server down for emergency maintenance.
The Admin spam is constant and an unending multilingual babble. You can't read the chat window, your view is obscured due to the big yellow notifications that are in the middle of your window. You can't make them go away, so you're stuck with them. They annoy the ()()()() out of me.
Hopefully they fix that real soon.
And yes, the 2 new profession skills are there, but I didn't get to check anything out before they shut it down. I don't know if the shutdown at this point was intentional or not, but it's not like you could read any messages that matter with the thousands of so-an-so has a nightmare message spam in multiple langauges.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Lost my mind, now trying to lose yours...
Originally posted by Mange1
Not really excited for the module, but if you say everyone is excited it must be true.
Well, "everyone," when it comes to their playerbase, is like 10 people so...
Until you cancel your subscription, you are only helping to continue the cycle of mediocrity.
This have been a good conversation
Originally posted by Skuall
tlooks like hey have to do a rollback, because every1 was getting inferno mounts from the lockboxes......lol
They are letting everyone keep the mounts even tho it was a glitch.
Free to play = content updates for the cash shop. Buy to play = content updates for the cash shop.
Subscription = Actual content updates!
This game is a joke. I almost NEVER "bash" on a game, but these guys deserve no respect from any community. They talk about new class and stuff, but this game came out with 5 class.. its ridiculous! The DnD universe has dosen of class, why wouldnt they pick one of them and make?! They,ve focus SOOO much on their stupid cash shop with overpriced item that they never develop new class and race. What really pissed me is that they are saying that they are working on new stuff atm... Why now?? They had 6 month to make something? And only 1?? Wow.
Perfect world or wtv the name of that compagny is doesnt deserve our attention!
I hate to say it, but this game honestly did a better job encouraging my mates and I to go back to DDO than any of the numerous emails and advertisements from Turbine ever did. I'm sure that Cryptic will eventually have a much better product on their hands given time. They have proven that after ~2 years they can complete these games and have a pretty good product (with CO and STO that is).
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