At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan wrote:
At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan
Personally, I blame the EB.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote:
At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan

Personally, I blame the EB.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

I do too, but you cannot blame me, even though I am on the board,
because the decisions that led to this situation were made before I was
on the board. I took office on August 12, 2006.

At the meeting on February 19, 2006 in Parsippany NJ, the board voted
to hire a guru and to pay him $50,000 to upgrade the magazine and the
website. The board also voted to hire and pay a web editor $40,000.

Look at what we have gotten for our $90,000.

Almost everyone agrees that the magazine is on balance worse than it
used to be before we hired this "expert".

The website was terrible, awful, horrible until a few weeks ago and it
was finally improved only because I kept complaining about it.

The content editor must have gone off to Uzbekistan because I am unable
to find any of this supposedly great content on the website.

They also blew $10,000 on a "retreat". What good did that do?

I think we should do to all of them what I hope that the voters will do
to George Bush in the coming election.

And, by the way, the USCF is suffering huge financial losses again.

Sam Sloan

samsloan wrote:

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote:
At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan

Personally, I blame the EB.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

I do too, but you cannot blame me, even though I am on the board,
because the decisions that led to this situation were made before I was
on the board. I took office on August 12, 2006.

At the meeting on February 19, 2006 in Parsippany NJ, the board voted
to hire a guru and to pay him $50,000 to upgrade the magazine and the
website. The board also voted to hire and pay a web editor $40,000.

Look at what we have gotten for our $90,000.

Almost everyone agrees that the magazine is on balance worse than it
used to be before we hired this "expert".

The website was terrible, awful, horrible until a few weeks ago and it
was finally improved only because I kept complaining about it.

The content editor must have gone off to Uzbekistan because I am unable
to find any of this supposedly great content on the website.

They also blew $10,000 on a "retreat". What good did that do?

I think we should do to all of them what I hope that the voters will do
to George Bush in the coming election.

And, by the way, the USCF is suffering huge financial losses again.

Sam Sloan

Who's in charge of the website? How much does this person get?

--
Money is not "game."
Looks are not "game."
Social status or value is not "game."
Those are the things that game makes unnecessary.


A seduction guru who teaches you that looks, money or status is game is
not
teaching you "game," but how to be an AFC. He uses his students' money
to
get women and laughs that "AFCs pay my rent."

Ray Gordon, creator of the pivot wrote:
samsloan wrote:

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote:
At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan

Personally, I blame the EB.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

I do too, but you cannot blame me, even though I am on the board,
because the decisions that led to this situation were made before I was
on the board. I took office on August 12, 2006.

At the meeting on February 19, 2006 in Parsippany NJ, the board voted
to hire a guru and to pay him $50,000 to upgrade the magazine and the
website. The board also voted to hire and pay a web editor $40,000.

Look at what we have gotten for our $90,000.

Almost everyone agrees that the magazine is on balance worse than it
used to be before we hired this "expert".

The website was terrible, awful, horrible until a few weeks ago and it
was finally improved only because I kept complaining about it.

The content editor must have gone off to Uzbekistan because I am unable
to find any of this supposedly great content on the website.

They also blew $10,000 on a "retreat". What good did that do?

I think we should do to all of them what I hope that the voters will do
to George Bush in the coming election.

And, by the way, the USCF is suffering huge financial losses again.

Sam Sloan

Who's in charge of the website? How much does this person get?

No, you can't have the job. And no, you couldn't do better.

"Matt Nemmers" No, you can't have the job. And no, you couldn't do
better.


Yeah, but he couldn't do it worse, either. Considering that $100,000.00 has
gotten nothing, anyone could do the same at half the price. Isn't that the
kind of bargain that the U.S. Chess Federation is famous for.

I put in the first bid: I promise to do the same crap job for only $45K. A
savings of $55K over the current crud.

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
Sam Sloan wrote:
At 02:53 PM 10/21/2006 EDT, wrote:
Do we have any information in the USCF website about the World Youth
Championships?

Good question !!!!

It has been pointed out by Beatriz that although the USCF has
sponsored a delegation to the World Youth Championships in Batumi,
Georgia, there is no information on the USCF website about this event.

What are we paying our webmaster for and why are we paying to send
these players to this event, if we are not publicizing their
achievements??

USCF again sleeps at the switch.

Sam Sloan
Personally, I blame the EB.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences +1-205-932-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX +1-205-934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

Ken,

I would agree that the current USCF Executive Board owns the
organizations issues and results be they operational, financial, legal
or ethical.

Regards,
Wayne Praeder
http://members.aol.com/wpraeder/account.htm

At 08:43 AM 10/24/2006 -0400, Joel Channing wrote:


Sam's recurrent public lashing out at staff and other Board members
indicates that he must think that he is above the rules. This latest
missive was posted to BINFO when it clearly should have been
CONFIDENTIAL. Furthermore, it is clearly in violation of Sections
(1c), (2e) and (3d) of the Standards of Conduct for the USCF Executive
Board. I hereby request that Bill Hall instruct Mike Nolan to
reclassify it as soon as possible. In the hope that we might be able
to work better together, I would ask Sam to acknowledge his mistakes
and pledge to try to do better in the future. However, in the event
that he is unwilling to do so before our upcoming meeting, I want this
matter placed on the agenda for discussion and a possible vote of
censure or referral to the Ethics Committee.

Joel Channing

Sorry, but this is not a confidential matter. The members have a right
to know why the website is not working.

Also, you have no right to order Bill Hall and Mike Nolan to do
anything.

I am however prepared to acknowledge and pledge to start informing the
membership about what until now has been going on behind closed doors.

Already the members are starting to complain that I have sold out and
have become part of your problem.

Sam Sloan

"samsloan" writes:

Also, you have no right to order Bill Hall and Mike Nolan to do
anything.

But you do?
--
Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan wrote:
"samsloan" writes:

Also, you have no right to order Bill Hall and Mike Nolan to do
anything.

But you do?
--
Mike Nolan

Of course not, but I have not ordered you to do anything.

By the way, it is time for the Credit where Credit is Due Department.

Mike Nolan did a much better job maintaining the website for free than
our highly paid webmasters are now doing for big money.

Sam Sloan