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2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic Overhaul
Mitt Romney first gained national recognition for his role in turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics. With the 2002 Games mired in controversy and facing a financial crisis, Romney left behind a successful career as an entrepreneur to take over as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
Romney has said he felt compelled to assume the seemingly impossible task of rescuing the Games by both the urgings of his wife, Ann, and by the memory of his father, George Romney, who had been a successful businessman, three-term Governor of Michigan, and a tireless advocate of volunteerism in America.
In his three years at the helm in Salt Lake, Romney erased a $379 million operating deficit, organized 23,000 volunteers, galvanized community spirit and oversaw an unprecedented security mobilization just months after the September 11th attacks, leading to one of the most successful Olympics in our country's history.
Mitt Romney Rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics by turning a $379 million deficit into a $100 million profit as emergency C.E.O.
Supervised a multi-national security effort that allowed the 2002 Olympics to proceed without incident only a year after September 11th.
Governor Romney first attained national recognition for his role in turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics. With the 2002 Games mired in controversy and facing a financial crisis, Romney was asked to take over as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, leaving behind a successful career as an entrepreneur.
Governor Romney has said he felt compelled to assume the seemingly impossible task of rescuing the Games by both the urgings of his wife, Ann, and by the memory of his father, George Romney, who had been a successful businessman, three-term Governor of Michigan, and a tireless advocate of volunteerism in America.
In his three years at the helm in Salt Lake, Romney erased a $379 million operating deficit, organized 23,000 volunteers, galvanized community spirit, and oversaw an unprecedented security mobilization just months after the September 11th attacks, leading to one of the most successful Olympics in our country's history.
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Governor Romney has said he felt compelled to assume the seemingly impossible task of rescuing the Games by both the urgings of his wife, Ann, and by the memory of his father, George Romney, who had been a successful businessman, three-term Governor of Michigan, and a tireless advocate of volunteerism in America.
In his three years at the helm in Salt Lake, Romney erased a $379 million operating deficit, organized 23,000 volunteers, galvanized community spirit, and oversaw an unprecedented security mobilization just months after the September 11th attacks, leading to one of the most successful Olympics in our country's history.
Romney first obtained national attention when he served as CEO of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games held in Salt Lake City. In 1999 the event was $379 million short of its revenue goals, and there were damaging allegations of bribery involving top officials. In an effort to get the event back on track, Romney was asked to lead the organization of the Games. The Organizing Committee's leadership and policies were restructured, budgets were tightened and fundraising was placed back on track. Under his leadership, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games turned into a spectacular success, clearing a profit of $100 million. Romney himself contributed $1 million, and donated his three years of pay ($275,000 per annum) to charity.10 He wrote a book about his experience called Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games
I actually had the fun of applying those principals in the Olympics. When I went on that Olympic jog I had mentioned, I got out there and found out that we had a severe financial crisis. We had nowhere near as much money as was necessary to build our Olympic venues and hold our games. The first thing we had to do was to change some team members -- and we did that -- carry on a full audit of where we were -- that showed us we were three hundred and ninety million dollars in the hole -- and then we had to figure out what was important and focus on it.
One of my favorite stories was about our speed-skating oval. We had to build a speed-skating oval, and they're big. You see them on TV and these guys skate around on the speed-skating oval and you think, I wonder how big that is. You can fit four football fields inside that doorway. Four football fields and no posts. That's part of our contract because the TV cameras have to be able to race around and see no interference with the athletes. Japan built theirs, called the M-Wave -- beautiful building, a $300 million price tag. Our budget was $35 million; we had a problem. With the team we had assembled and with extraordinary focus, our team came up with some remarkable designs and built a building for $30 million dollars, and we built it with overhead cables. We built it in the structure, if you will, of a suspension bridge. We had piers outside of the building, we had stretched cables across, and held up a roof. And by virtue of building it that way -- I am not an engineer, and I apologize for engineering folks here -- but, instead of having to build a very tall building to hold the stress of a roof and the snow that we had on top of it, we were able to bring the roof down very close to the ice. That meant we had a lot less cubic space inside the building to heat and to cool and that meant we were able to control the climate a good deal better. By the way, not only did we save money by bringing the structure down -- we used one-third less steel in this building than in a conventional building -- but by controlling the climate we were able to affect the characteristics of the ice a great deal better. You may have noted during the winter Olympic games, that of the 8 events that were held in our speed-skating oval, 7 of the 8 broke new world records, and the reason was quiet simply because we had to innovate and had to focus on finding a way to save money. We had to bring our roof down to control the climate better, and by virtue of that created something known as 'fast ice' -- which is hard on the bottom and soft on top.
Full Speed to Olympic Debt
This cartoon warned of the impending cost overruns that the winter Olympics would bring to Salt Lake. After watching the Olympic committees in Atlanta and Nagano burn through millions, the illusion to the Titanic seemed particularly appropriate. Titanic was also the biggest movie of the year.
Einstein said, “You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” Similarly, we won’t improve our country until we improve our level of public debate. On these pages I outline how we can automate conflict resolution and cost-benefit analysis and solve our problems at a level higher than how they were caused.
To start, we will break our problems down into their sub-components, including beliefs, supporting, and weakening evidence, and arguments. This will allow thousands or millions of us to evaluate each part of an argument and evidence one at a time. We will group beliefs by topic and sort them by their positivity, strength, and level of specificity. This will prevent duplication and allow us to focus on one issue at a time.
The Idea Stock Exchange (ISE) proposes a groundbreaking framework for tackling complex issues, resolving conflicts, and fostering informed decision-making. Here's a detailed breakdown of its key features:
Evidence-driven: Prioritizes verifiable data and logical reasoning, ensuring well-informed conclusions.
Dynamic Ranking System: Inspired by Google's PageRank, it evaluates arguments based on the strength of their evidence, dynamically adjusting as new information emerges.
2. Multi-faceted Evaluation Metrics:
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Assesses proposed solutions by examining potential costs, benefits, likelihoods, and impact.
Argumentative Strength Assessment: Categorizes arguments based on logical consistency, evidence, relevance, and significance.
Maslow's Hierarchy Integration: Aligns the evaluation with fundamental human needs for a broader perspective.
3. Sophisticated Scoring and Ranking Protocols:
Precision Scoring Formula: Combines argument scores with evidence assessments to determine argument validity.
Evidence-Based Ranking System: Leverages algorithms to rank solutions based on predicted costs and benefits, with dynamic updates based on new information.
4. Uniqueness and Redundancy Scores:
Equivalency Score: Identifies similar arguments using semantic similarity metrics and machine learning, coupled with community feedback, to reduce redundancy and develop unique scores.
"Better Ways of Saying the Same Thing": Helps users find alternative expressions of the same idea, enhancing clarity and reducing duplication.
5. Logical Fallacy and Argument Evaluation:
Fallacy Detection: Implements algorithms to identify and flag potentially fallacious arguments, promoting rational discourse.
User-Contributed Evidence Assessment: Allows the community to contribute evidence supporting or weakening arguments for collaborative verification.
6. Technological Integration and User Interaction:
Database Tools: Proposes building tools to map conclusions, assumptions, and their relationships for deeper understanding.
Interactive Interface: Users can actively participate by submitting evidence, voting on argument strength, and suggesting alternative viewpoints.
7. Promoting Quality Debate:
Separating Argument Types: Distinguishes between truth, importance, and relevance arguments for a more nuanced debate structure.
Encouraging Constructive Dialogue: Aims to shift focus from emotional responses to evidence-based reasoning, fostering meaningful discourse over sensationalism.
8. Community-Driven Evolution:
Open-Source Development: Encourages community involvement in refining and evolving the platform, ensuring its adaptability and relevance.
Additional Considerations:
Data Quality and Bias: Implementing robust measures to ensure data accuracy and mitigate potential biases in algorithms and user contributions.
Transparency and Explainability: Providing clear explanations of scoring methods and decision-making processes to build trust and understanding.
User Engagement and Education: Fostering active participation and educating users on the platform's functionalities and responsible use.
We are a political party that organizes all the ideas and arguments by subject, and lets them battle in a survival of the fittest death-match.
We are a political party that supports candidates that promises to make their decisions based on online cost benefit and idea evaluation algorithms. They just have to use a forum that ties the strength of their conclusion to the strength of their assumption, so that when you strengthen or weaken an assumption you also strengthen or weaken conclusions based on the assumption.
We have had the technological ability to create a world based on logic for too long. It is about time we build a rational political party based on the assumption that we support plans, conclusions, activities, and policies that can gather evidence based support, and that we don't do things that don't stand up to analysis.
We will conduct open, online, cost/benefit analysis of each issue. It is about time.
Welcome to the website for the best political party of all time, and the future of reason based decisions making.
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Answer Blip said
at 3:31 pm on Feb 5, 2010
We just added a bunch of Olympics trivia to our site and need some help answering the questions. http://www.answerblip.com/faqabout/olympics-trivia
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