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Date: 05 Sep 2007 21:11:46
From: samsloan
Subject: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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[quote="seki"][quote]What happened to the one million scholastic members he promised? [/quote] The current Maor of LA made an insane list of often contradictory campaign promises to get himself elected. At his first press conference as Mayor, he was asked when he would begin implementing his fantasy wish list. His reply? "I didn't promise to do them all in my first term" Sam didn't promise one million scholastic members in his first term. We lost a great opportunity by not giving him a second term. :D[/ quote] I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic members by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if I had been elected along with three others who share my vision. The basic steps of my plan are: 1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a discount of course). 2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for distribution to their student members. 3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments. 4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on youtube.com These steps, fairly easy to implement, would have brought us a million members over time in my opinion. I made the above proposals several times when I was on the board and they were voted down every time. Instead, the new board has suggested no new ideas. The only thing the new board had done in the one month that has passed since taking office is debate on how to bring about "civility" on the USCF Forums and how stop any criticism of them. Sam Sloan
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Date: 08 Sep 2007 02:12:34
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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On 8, 12:12 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid > wrote: > samsloan <samhsl...@gmail.com> writes: > > 1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a > > discount of course). > > > 2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for > > distribution to their student members. > > > 3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments. > > > 4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and > > send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on > > youtube.com > > This is a good plan except for step 1, where I think Sam imagines a > discount that is nowhere near deep enough, and step 2, which attempts > to propagate yet another of USCF's useless publishing ventures. For those readers who do not know Paul Rubin, I need to explain the above posting. Paul Rubin thinks that USCF membership should be free or at the most $5 per year. He wants to abolish Chess Life magazine or reduce it to an ezine. He believes that the USCF should get its computers by going dumpster diving. He has not been a USCF member for 15 years and his last rating was 1282. Fortunately, the USCF has never adopted his recommendations because, if we had, the USCF would have been out of business years ago. Sam Sloan
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Date: 08 Sep 2007 02:26:51
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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samsloan <samhsloan@gmail.com > writes: > Fortunately, the USCF has never adopted his recommendations because, > if we had, the USCF would have been out of business years ago. What is fortunate about the USCF still being in business?
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Date: 08 Sep 2007 08:39:17
From: Clarence Fugliosi
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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"Paul Rubin" < > What is fortunate about the USCF still being in business?> Why is Sloan still posting his moronic plans and ideas regarding the USCF?? When he was on the board, not a single one of his plans was ever approved because they all hated his guts. Now that he is a total nobody, what attention will anyone give to Sloan's ideas?? Why waste the bandwidth Sloan?? You are done.
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Date: 07 Sep 2007 21:12:22
From: Paul Rubin
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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samsloan <samhsloan@gmail.com > writes: > 1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a > discount of course). > > 2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for > distribution to their student members. > > 3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments. > > 4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and > send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on > youtube.com This is a good plan except for step 1, where I think Sam imagines a discount that is nowhere near deep enough, and step 2, which attempts to propagate yet another of USCF's useless publishing ventures.
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Date: 06 Sep 2007 08:18:42
From: Jackass Lafferty
Subject: Sam went down on a 12 year old Japanese girl
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No one hates his guts. They just think he's an asshole, a jerk and a dick head. You're welcome!
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Date: 06 Sep 2007 10:57:30
From: Ray Gordon, creator of the \pivot\
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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> The current Maor of LA made an insane list of often contradictory > campaign promises to get himself elected. At his first press > conference as Mayor, he was asked when he would begin implementing his > fantasy wish list. > > His reply? "I didn't promise to do them all in my first term" > > Sam didn't promise one million scholastic members in his first term. > We lost a great opportunity by not giving him a second term. :D[/ > quote] > > I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic members > by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if > I had been elected along with three others who share my vision. > > The basic steps of my plan are: > > 1. Get elementary schools to buy blocks of 100 memberships (at a > discount of course). > > 2. Send bundles of Chess Life for Kids magazines to the schools for > distribution to their student members. > > 3. Teach teachers how to run USCF rated tournaments. > > 4. Make videos and DVDs of our National Elementary Championships and > send them to the schools for promotional purposes and post them on > youtube.com > > These steps, fairly easy to implement, would have brought us a million > members over time in my opinion. I made the above proposals several > times when I was on the board and they were voted down every time. So 0.5 percent of the nation's TOTAL population would join USCF because we shoved propaganda down their throats? -- Ray Gordon, The ORIGINAL Lifestyle Seduction Guru http://www.cybersheet.com/seduction.html Limit of TEN students. Act now! For older free material that is now mainstream: http://www.cybersheet.com/library.html Includes 29 Reasons Not To Be A Nice Guy Don't rely on overexposed, mass-marketed commercial seduction methods which have been rendered worthless through mainstream media exposure. It really is game over for community material. http://moderncaveman.typepad.com The Official Ray Gordon Blog
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Date: 05 Sep 2007 19:11:52
From: Clarence Fugliosi
Subject: Re: Sam's Plan Down the Drain
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"samsloan" < > > I personally believe that I could get one million scholastic members > by 2009 (which was my campaign promise) and I would have done that if > I had been elected along with three others who share my vision. > The main problem with anything Sam plans is that everyone else on the Board hates his guts and nobody ever votes with anything Sam proposes. So every Sam idea went down to defeat 5-1.
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