Decision 2010: Calgary Municipal Election - Page 35

Ramsayfarian · #**681** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 5:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by mr.steevo

Hi,

I heard he was just "done". He's been around for a while.

s.

I recently heard him speak, and it sounded like he was "done". He mentioned that he wanted to go back to doing social work.

He also mentioned that it would be a better idea to spend the money on the S-LRT rather than the airport tunnel.

wild wild west · #**682** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 1:47 PM**

All rumours I have heard indicate that Hodges is, indeed, running again.

Wooster · #**683** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 1:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by wild wild west

All rumours I have heard indicate that Hodges is, indeed, running again.

Bigtime · #**684** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 2:27 PM**

Haha!

wild wild west · #**685** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 2:30 PM**

@Wooster:Couldn't have said it better myself!

Still, just because he's running, doesn't mean he will win. Jennifer Banks gave him a bit of a run for his money last time.

Bigtime · #**686** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 2:49 PM**

Kind of related, Gian-Carlo Carra is hosting the Jane's Walk through Inglewood on Saturday. Since I know nothing of him it should be interesting to see what kind of a person he is, and perhaps get a sense for where he stands on the urban issues as we go through the walk and listen to him.

frinkprof · #**687** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 3:37 PM**

Nevermind.

wild wild west · #**688** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 7:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by frinkprof

Holy hell. Hodges has got to be damn near 75. He's been on City Council since the freaking Reagan Administration (#1).

Close, I think he's 71 or 72 (seem to recall him being 68 or 69 last election). He has been on Council since Ralph Klein was mayor. Surprisingly the comparatively spry, youthful-looking Gord Lowe is only about a year or so younger than him.

fusili · #**689** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 7:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by wild wild west

Close, I think he's 71 or 72 (seem to recall him being 68 or 69 last election). He has been on Council since Ralph Klein was mayor. Surprisingly the comparatively spry, youthful-looking Gord Lowe is only about a year or so younger than him.

That brings up the question if Lowe is going to run as well.

srperrycgy · #**690** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 8:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by frinkprof

Holy hell. Hodges has got to be damn near 75. He's been on City Council since the freaking Reagan Administration (#1).

His health must have improved enough that he thinks he can handle another term. At the Crowfoot LRT opening last June, he looked positively unwell.

frinkprof · #**691** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 9:23 PM**

Nevermind.

srperrycgy · #**692** Posted **Apr 27, 2010, 9:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by frinkprof

Either that or he's still under the delusion that he's somehow still relevant and a valuable part of City Council.

Being on Council that long would make me delusional.

Bigtime · #**693** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 4:24 PM**

So I just had a brief twitter conversation with Joe Connelly's account. My beef was that they send out way too many "auto-tweets" about the same 2 or 3 items every couple of hours, such as:

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Follow our campaign team on my facebook fan page http://tinyurl.com/y5qzd4c updates and news posted often! #yyc #yyccc

Alderman Joe Connelly, Ward Six invites you to his Fundraiser to meet Olympic and Paralympic Athlete. #yyccc http://tinyurl.com/27zy58n

Show joe your a fan! http://tinyurl.com/y5qzd4c Join us on Facebook as a fan of Joe for Mayor 2010 #yyc #yyccc

Their response was this:

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@BigtimeAA we have a blend of realtime tweets as well as auto, my vol team assists with this. We feel this is very cost effective

Cost effective? You have volunteers (that I assume are doing this for free) tweeting these for you, on a free service and you are talking about it being cost effective? It's free, of course it is cost effective. So why keep spamming messages, eventually a user will just gloss over his posts to read others, thinking it is more of the same spam (or stop following him).

God/Allah/Buddha/Spaghetti Monster help us if he somehow finds his way into the mayoral chair.

Meanwhile other city council twitter users or election candidates (Druh, Pincott, Hughes, Cara, Nenshi...) are using twitter to engage with the citizens of YYC and have some 140 character dialogue. Joe does this a little, but I think it is room for improvement. McIver does post the odd time, but it is barely anything, and I never see him really reply or have a conversation with anyone.

MalcolmTucker · #**694** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 4:41 PM**

To be honest, Mayoral candidates shouldn't be updating their own twitter, and citizens shouldn't really expect them to. Making all their activities known, and linking to interesting articles is different than the 'twitter' spam however.

As for the auto twitter thing, a much more effective thing rather than repeated messages would be an automatic follow and direct message asking for the facebook fan for every person that follows you.

frinkprof · #**695** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 5:11 PM**

Nevermind.

fusili · #**696** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by frinkprof

So you're on Twitter, and following a bunch of other people on Twitter and your annoyance is that you're getting bombarded with superfluous information?

Man I love going swimming, I just hate getting wet.

Oh, Bigtime, what you going to do about that? Frink just dropped some smack down, I think you need a round-house kick style comeback and soon!

Anyone else bored on this Friday afternoon?

freeweed · #**697** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 8:44 PM**

I can't fit a proper smackdown in 140 characters.

Bigtime · #**698** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 8:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by fusili

Oh, Bigtime, what you going to do about that? Frink just dropped some smack down, I think you need a round-house kick style comeback and soon!

Anyone else bored on this Friday afternoon?

Frink was just taking out his frustrations on me, I'm sure he was going crazy after the whole A/V cable discussion in the construction thread!

His response was pretty funny though, twitter is full of garbage information for the most part. I follow it for those nuggets of gold that you can get in all the crap.

fusili · #**699** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 8:53 PM**

Well, I feel we should actually talk about the election at some point: Anybody else think Hehr is going to run. If he does, he has my vote.

I am going to say it: McIver won't be that bad of a mayor (gasp!). Not saying he will be good, and he won't be as good as Bronconnier, but I think he will really push the SELRT, and he seems to be on board with things like TOD and the like. Much, much, much better than Connelly. What a sad city when I have to actually say that McIver won't be bad, but right now, there is nobody else.

agent_imperial · #**700** Posted **Apr 30, 2010, 8:54 PM**

Coudn't help but post this article as it relates to Mr. Blinky McIvor.

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Fluttering eyes filter data, fade focus: Canadian study
By Misty Harris, Canwest News ServiceApril 30, 2010

A team of Canadian neuroscientists has discovered that when people’s attention wanders, they blink more.Photograph by: Bruno Vincent, Getty ImagesSuspect people aren't listening when you talk? Get a good look at their eyes. If they're fluttering like a hummingbird on Red Bull, you've probably lost them.

A team of Canadian neuroscientists has discovered that when people's attention wanders, they blink more.

The researchers suggest that when the mind loses focus, information is gated at sensory endings — in this case, the eyelids — as a way of filtering the amount of data hurling at the brain.

Put simply, out of sight really is out of mind.

Read the full article here: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/F...data+fade+focus+Study/2971349/story.html