Those Lululemon clothing are ugly. The only thing I like is the hockey helmet shaped toque. All of their clothes has giant Lululemon Fonts, so your basically a walking billboard. On top of that their clothes are also made in China. Support Roots(right to play) and HBC(atheletes).
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I have a few roots items that I love but they all have 'Roots' written across them in an even more obvious way than the LOGO of lululemon. And when you wear official Olympic clothing, you are also a walking billboard. Hmmm.. |
Well, Roots is nowhere near as popular, so you can still be less of a brand whore by wearing them. :haha:
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i like the cheekyness of the lululemon never stepped inside one of their stores probably never will
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Everything is made in China now. I went to one of those tourist gift shop once because I wanted to buy myself a nice little traveling bag with the Canadian flag on it. Of course, I noticed the bag is made in China... and is breaking apart on its own after a couple of months of minimal usage.
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I would rather be a walking billboard for Roots or HBC unless my money will be supporting the atheletes and the poor children. Plus no man will ever wear Lululemon.
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the line has generated talk and thats word of mouth advertising and its free smart move by them - i was on the canad aline the other day and i overheard someone talking about it - a dude he liked the hckey stuff
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Yeah, this is sexy? the girl is hot but will you wear this during the Olympic?
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I do like their hockey shape helmet toque plus it doesn't have that giant Lululemon written on the side of the Toque.
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VANOC opened their BS scalping website today. A quick browse sees tickets to the Gold Medal game going for $7,000
Wasn't this the Olympics where there was not going to be many scalpers due to their "security measures" :P I guess they just meant non-approved scalpers. |
The one thing I will say is there is knowing how the new ticket re-sell system works, I would be very concerned for anyone who purchases re-sell tickets in any other fashion . . . even handing cash to someone in exchange for the tickets.
Now that this system is in place, someone who purchased tickets originally could have those tickets in hand now (assuming they were part of the initial delivery), then go online and "re-sell" them via the ticket site. Then that same person could "sell" the tickets they possess. The tickets are inactivated as soon as they offer them for resell, but it's not like the ones they are holding disintegrate. Officially, the instructions released today indicate the original purchaser should destroy those original tickets. But what that means is that, if dealing with someone unscrupulous, a person could walk up to the gate with tickets that appear perfectly legitimate (because they once were). But at the gate they could find that those tickets were "inactivated" due to an official re-sell from an unscrupulous original owner. The person who actually has those seats would have their own legitimate tickets, freshly printed when they picked them up at the main ticket booth possibly weeks prior. Obviously in a case like that, the original buyer could be traced. But I'm not sure what good that would do for the scammed party, as they purchased the tickets in an unofficial manner. I'm not even sure they'd have a legitimate case. _____________________ Personally, I'm of mixed minds on the re-sell site. It seems kinda crummy to see official ticket scalping. But the reality is people are re-selling tickets anyhow. To my understanding, Canada law doesn't really prevent outright scalping effectively. At least by creating this system, they have created a means for folks to re-sell tickets officially. That means the purchaser who buys re-sold tickets on-line via the official site can be assured they are obtaining legitimate tickets. In fact, they can retrieve and have those tickets in their possession as soon as they go downtown and pick them up. That's a good peace of mind for the new purchaser. But it is far from peaceful for those who acquire the tickets in any other fashion. I have no doubt those stories will surface when the Games begin, just by the way this has all been rolled out . . . with tickets already delivered to thousands and thousands of people. For the people who really, really want to get a ticket, at least they've allowed an option, even if might prove an expensive one. And for those folks who weren't able to get any tickets in previous rounds but really wanted to attend at least a few sporting events just for the experience, it does look like there are some fairly good options for preliminary round events. It's the marquis events that are climbing to extreme levels, but that is how a market works . . . any market. |
Is there any way to see/track selling prices? Or can we only see asking prices?
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For the auctions I'm not sure . . . guessing probably not.
But they have a "Fan to Fan" resell option which is where the original purchaser basically names a price. If you happen to be the person who clicks and buys at that price, that ticket (or those tickets) are yours at that price. So you can see exactly what various people are asking for similar tickets to the same event. But you cannot see what tickets have sold for in the past. Once the sale goes through, the tickets for those seats drop off the site (as you'd expect). I am also glad to see that tickets are resold using the re-sell mechanism are final sales, with the new purchaser picking up hard-copy tickets at the ticket office. So you won't have the same seats sold and resold multiple times. Or at least that is how it appears to work, from reading the instructions. Has anyone actually purchased tickets using the re-sell option? |
Canada police can do drug raids at Games villages-Pound
By Allan Dowd and Steve Keating VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada has all the legal power it needs to enforce anti-doping rules in athlete villages for next year's Winter Olympics, including authorizing police raids, Vancouver Olympics official Dick Pound said on Monday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been working with organizers of the 2010 Games and Canadian law enforcement officials on a protocol on sharing information to combat use of banned performance enhancing drugs. Canada does not have specific laws dealing with athletes' use of performance enhancing drugs, which has raised questions about police being able to conduct raids in athlete villages, such as those conducted by authorities at the 2006 Turin Games. ... http://ca.reuters.com/article/domest...5BL0ES20091222 |
Female ski jumpers lose final bid to compete at Vancouver 2010 Olympics
Looks like they're out of options...
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Torch relay in Mississauga (with Marilyn in the background)
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Looks like the huge mural on Beatty Street is coming down as it obviously conflicts with the 2010 Live venue site on Georgia street.
http://vancitybuzz.blogspot.com/2009...ty-street.html The readers of this blog aren't impressed. I kinda liked that but knew as soon as that site was selected that, that mural was coming down. Its a shame as it was really awesome :( |
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Chalk another one up for the sexist IOC ;) |
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Ever wondered about those crazy CoSport and Jet Set Sport "hospitality" packages?
I stumbled across an article from the Seattle Times on it, and the man behind them, earlier today. Quite the little operation including more than 60,000 customers for Vancouver2010, cash bribes, kickbacks, and $20-30M in profit from Beijing 2008 alone! Article posted here. |
Oh noes! SOMEONE IS PROFITING OFF OF THE OLYMPICS! This is MAJOR BREAKING NEWS!
They are even official Olympic "sponsors". So what can you do about it. VANOC doesn't like scalping unless it's them doing it. BTW, does Seattle have some jealousy issues regarding Vancouver and the Olympics and getting World attention? They have had a few pointless and little more than obvious articles. Inferiority complex much? |
^I've got no problem with profits. They make the world go round afterall.
What I find interesting is how they guy built a business from next to nothing to a pretty serious venture, with the majority of growth in the last 15 years, through not just "hard work". |
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50 days to go!!
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it will be weird weather for a winter games - no nice snow piles for the tV viewers
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This is probably what the look of the game will look like during the Olympic. It looks very nice. Check the begining and the end of video.
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why does it need to be removed because of the olympic live sites? because they'd have to pay royalties on the characters or something? otherwise i don't see why it'd possibly need to be removed. |
Latest removed mural example of "tragic sanitization" of Vancouver: advocacy group
VANCOUVER — A fresh coat of "Olympic blue" paint over a mural located in one of the city's Olympic venues for the 2010 Winter Games was deliberately done to cover-up a blemish before the Games, says one of the artists who worked on the design. A wall of murals, commissioned in 2007 by the Steve Nash Foundation, located on Beatty Street in downtown Vancouver was painted over in light blue on Wednesday. Milan Basic, of High Fi Murals, along with 15 other artists painted the mural for charity. In an interview on Christmas Eve from his home in Prince George, Basic, 39, said the city never informed him the art was getting a paint job. "It is a shame to delete that mural because someone thinks it's a blemish," said the father of two children. The news though didn't come as a complete shock. Basic said an unnamed friend on the city's graffiti management program told him several weeks ago that "they did not want to have that graffiti style for the Olympics," but that he did not know they were going to paint it blue. "I got it straight from the horse's mouth," he said. "I knew for a fact that it was deleted because of the Olympics. Painting it that blue colour was obviously a last minute decision." David McLellan, a spokesman for the city of Vancouver, said the mural was removed as part of regular maintenance in the area. "It was temporary in nature and it was just its time to go," said McLellan, adding that the city may fund a new project for the wall under the public art program in the new year. As for the colour, McLellan said he "had no idea why" that shade of blue was chosen by the city's anti-graffiti coordinator Daniel Paquin. A legal advocacy group called the move another example of the "tragic sanitization" of Vancouver in time for the Olympics. "It's totally linked to the Olympics," said David Eby, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. "They painted it over in Olympic blue. The only thing they didn't do was paint on the Olympic rings." Basic said the artists stuck loosely to a children's theme. On one part of the wall there was a painting called "Choir Piece" depicting dozens of small green figures which appear to be coming out of the Earth and singing. Now it is a solid blue. "The city is throwing light blue paint over everything, which is a real metaphor for what is happening right now," said Eby. In November, the city removed an anti-Olympic mural outside the Crying Room art gallery in the Downtown Eastside. "It's a shame those artists were allowed a voice and that was taken away because some grown-ups were scared of what some other grown-ups might think," said Basic. In 2007, Basic proposed that adorning the Beatty wall for charity should be an annual event, and that graffiti artists be allowed to paint over it every year with something new. "I wanted to make a cultural commitment to Vancouver. The city is starved for culture," said Basic. The artist anticipated a backlash from the Vancouver graffiti community after receiving dozens of e-mails expressing anger over the city's move. ... http://www.vancouversun.com/technolo...597/story.html |
Wow that was an ugly mural. All the characters were made by an American.
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I do like the green aliens choir mural. I wish they didn't cover that up. The Flinstone and the peanut gangs character looks horrible, I'm glad it's gone.
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those images belong to the world ;)
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Don't worry the wall will be cover with anti Olympic mural by February.
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its kinda sad that vanoc wants to present a generic bland image to the world
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Seemed like only yesterday NBC asked the city to remove the massive sulphur pile sitting on the North Shore beside Lions Gate... I guess they thought it didn't look pretty enough.
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^ nbc did that?? did vanoc convince north van or the ports people or whoever to comply?
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^wtf? Those sulphur piles are part of our economic heritage as a port city and region! They are also a reminder to the world that we are not a resort city, but a dynamic gateway to Asia and to the rest of Canada.
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And all of those flights from China aren't coming to admire our sulphur, either. |
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For reference, see: http://www.portmetrovancouver.com/Li...PORT.sflb.ashx |
^NBC was categorically denied any moving of the sulphur piles.
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lol, a bit of an overreaction here?
While visiting the convention centre plaza, one of the NBC officials asked "does that [sulphur pile] need to be there?" And a convention centre staff answered, "yes," and that was the end of it. |
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^and all the free shit you can steal!
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Ivan Doumenc: 2010 Winter Olympics will be Vancouver's demise
http://www.straight.com/files/imagec...ork%20Less.jpg The Olympic Games will leave Vancouver with poor financial, social, and environmental legacies, Ivan Doumenc writes. recently saw a map of Vancouver’s downtown core showing the restricted zones for the period of the 2010 Winter Olympics. It hit me that, for the duration of the Games, I was going to be under siege in my own neighbourhood. About a dozen streets and 20 city blocks will be closed or severely restricted to the public. A long list of venues, restaurants, shops, and public places will also be closed in order to accommodate a variety of corporate-sponsored private events. For all intents and purposes, the neighbourhood I live in will cease to support me during the Olympics. Like some obscure red- or blue-listed species I am about to lose my habitat, because people richer and more powerful than me are flying into town to enjoy endless parties behind highly guarded security gates. Talk about the enclosure of the commons. full/source: http://www.straight.com/article-2774...couvers-demise |
Well, he may as well just go and hang himself. We all might as well.
2 weeks is practically FOREVER! He sounds really unbiased ;), and pretty much all of his "facts" are wrong. |
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