local news is preparing for the RNC
My work is going to be closed the week before and during the RNC, fun times.
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local news is preparing for the RNC
My work is going to be closed the week before and during the RNC, fun times.
What's an RNC ?
republican national convention.
You wouldn't believe the insane amount of money this city has dumped into the area surrounding where this thing is going to go down. Lining streets with $2500 palm trees, repaving roads that were paved last year, the security training and emergancy response training...it all seems so over the top. :bulb:
Craziest part is that the roads they fixed, and overfixed, all lead away from the downtown Tampa area, and even the Mayor has suggested that it would be a good time for locals to take a vacation up north. The "economic benefit" is going to fall flatter than when we hosted the superbowl.
Not that the security and emergency response training seems unneeded. The city will drown in protesters, and the ron paul supporters, and there are stories of the anarchists coming out (targeting the film crews), and then we have the entitled delegates driving all over the fucking place.
Library is going to fall into the expected no go zone around the convention, so we are closing. A completely empty building thats got more 2 story windows than brick walls... I'm half expecting the collection to not be here when we get back.
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It's the city footing the bill for this, not the 'Pubbies?
The convention party pays for most of the convention costs, and most of the local security man hours, but that doesn't include the upgrades the police needed to handle the volume, or the training, and it doesn't cover a lot of the temp facelift the area is seeing. The DoJ gave the city a grant for $50 million to cover technology and equipment for security, as well as for paying, feeding and housing the 3,000 law enforcement officials from around the state who will be working with the Tampa Police Department during the convention.
Last I read the city was tapping into federal funds to cover the insurance for the event.
Cities ask for the conventions to be there usually...I believe.
Yes, but often it's a mixed bag in terms of economic benefit. The Olympics are a good example of this - enormous expense that ends up shutting down most of the city's economy (ex-tourism) for the duration. The only real reason to host something big is to raise your city's public image.Quote:
Originally Posted by Veldan Rath
Amusingly, Chicago was 'awarded' the G8 and NATO summits, probably as a sop to Rahm Emanuel and Chicago's increasing desire to be seen as a global city. Instead, the protests shut down downtown for days. Amusingly, the protesters were upset that the cost of the preparations was so high that it crowded out other priorities (IIRC mental health treatment was one particular gripe)... when most of the security preparations could have been far cheaper had there not been protests. ;)
Tim - In recent years, party conventions in the US have been pretty tame affairs - designated 'protest zones' and a sanitized area where the actual convention takes place. But cities are still terrified of a repeat of the 1968 DNC, so they go overboard in preparations.
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I think there actually is a town called Tripoli in Lebanon too.
True. It's actually not too small, either. Metropolitan area of half a million or so IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
This is still the wrong one though! Makes it more understandable to make the mistake (while still stupid), but some of the other ones I cannot understand how you could screw that up. If you don't know it, look it up before putting it on tv!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
I feel like I saw somewhere that a lot of those are just photoshopped. Not that I'm really going to under (over?) estimate the TV news networks.
I Love that first pic! :haha: I saw there was a Walter one later too, if only that whole movie could be done Little Golden Book style!
EDIT: Actually the se7en one made me LOL too, even though I despise that movie.
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Having an umbrella in the rain is like looking at an explosion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
I noticed. :(
You're here?
Fella in the office was telling me that it's all due to a temporary shift in the jet stream which has moved it over Spain and the Pyrenees, giving us all the low pressure and crappy weather. Not sure if it's true but sounds plausible.
Yep. Always fun to check the weather forecast in the early afternoon, when the temperature in London (at noon) is 5-10C lower than it is in Illinois (at 6 AM).
In the... Met Office?Quote:
Fella in the office
no, silly
Don't complain. We're heading out in the field the next week, and have to stay put with a mix between thunder and rain storm. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
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Hajoa aamuihisi :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kazuha Vinland
I don't consider GLaDOS evil at the end, but its still an impressive chart like thingy.
This is bayshore, the main 4-5 lane road into and out of downtown. Connects directly with the convection center that is going to house the RNC. This is one of the roads they repaved, then repaved again, and where they are attempting to plant those $2500 trees. This is Bayshore, flooded after being skirted by tropical storm Debbie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Not shown, the insane amount of trash the bay spit back out, onto the sidewalk and street.
Fun fact, the RNC is being held within a week of the peak of hurricane season :bulb:
Pubbies are God's party, son, they ain't afraid of no hurricanes
